The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-08-05 00:00:00

be I siuialirot of that solemn trusty to which every Maw.of t he le ? Mature was plcklg , d . 1: 3y consequence the yd Warily abdicated, end formality parted with his err Pe of Inc: .eisltig the nietelier. of t r presentative legim power Oleo restvkl only it. the three branches together. kolennstilni;osk,:i el tee !mils iit IL :k i lshiture Bo le ech fur the (aeries 01 tbe conspirers ; but ag ciavirney used, tw the means which were used to eov e ll— gout (Oiler ts . 'situ elect. It lead always been lotd.ed sib f rirst 11:arly odious and jwalotis rye by the law t I jo l o se, Weed, that ecru where VI:. purposes %ere pKd.:tlertiastinitic.a bath ever net its tare Rimiest cola. %ot i o se Oat how emelt easiare obnoxious must they be. mo s net only viers. tbyir uteMets illegal. but the means e an iag thew i.sto opect•tiou so very nnetieetiteliu l ial (his fps out the place to go into tiny idle discussions r o es:vie:vary IleSorne. Whether it would be ad. I s , Melo estenkl the eieetive franchise mote idely. or to sae s• e same tolerations wind; time and eireeinetahces had . M• id d i, C o n4ltlntioll• was not maw the queetiiiii. 'rase rals rtasiderttion was, ;shelter the defendants had taken s , pr oper tarps to acroniplisn these ohject4. It bed b erm aoti o wen Inst !Mtn a y o u rr was vested only in the three briv bss of the Legislature. and it (Ahmed. the more each im i s iessal signalized Liao:A.lf is mem:ding to !timedl titat ie e4 e, the greater uas his guilt in the rye of the tau L s ii4 w oo k hese ere;e:nry itissers Stites, the Learned serirtalsold he was now cutak• to the tarts of the ease. and ~,s e a e isdeas rto stetr them simply, and as they applied. et the defendants. 11 ens ktl.Al n w every gentle.. i , • • ~. Jury, that uh , rut the time io question. end fur a s F irend pc , eetling. great distress was felt in the R ea,. • • .-.•3-ing di st ri c t s . 'Lary Were, parlor, 11 44 0 a ware. I , i! t sp./ distresses were Whited and fomented by toeing of riti"c seeliort• an I by the efforts of scone disaffected meth staie are It was to infuse idto the minds of the pub itic.tio % Asa that all their teisfortenes were OA in; to the ir t om p l e of the goveraers, and the base corruptions of tit Howl Commons. Oe all sides me pales erre spared 10 Wok" I Ilse, fitltadl6bJs. and cositlinted nets of the r upee wend to show at whose doors they laid the blame of d io re ssaa, which were entirely the offeprine of eirehess'etiere. Action is sot far removed from coavietion. and the gr..at ° time vu to make them show by overt arts o' outrage seese which the peoele had of the purl v of the Cumulous Neese of Parliament. Like some more its wealthy ud aeseess neighbotors. Inrush% :tient had the misfortune t bevislted by such men as he hot described. In rver reef that opuleat town there were persons to be (fined time business it wen In revile the Coust;tutiul. an ! more partietlarly the House of Commone. From su •,1 beginnings arose the meeting, fur assisting at which the defendants err now to answer. It was on the 3.i of July that the reit of the Peace had ;wile,: of the meeting. and almost immediately after a secret Meeting u 34 held. where t:te re solutions to be proposed were digeited soil a:ranged., and to tibial the defendants now ou the record were the uttly personi privy. It woehl be foetid in the es:deuce. that Major Cartwright arrived at Rinnlaghate un ter Itels. and &smut day took lodgings. lie was inl , tlett:ittelV waited open by the defendants. who tiled tag! day. Saturilay . and again on Sunday—the meet* was fixed for 11enday. Es cry thing had been arranged between these p:•r6on , t verse day previous to the meeting. It was, of room.. impossible to let the jury foto the Cabinet secrets of them' then. but their Glee subsequent acts furnished a strong probability that she resolutions which were proposed neat day were all arranged aeddignsted that day at the Major's. T ley were therefore &meted together, and acting together before the electing : and what en. more, the; had two thugs. the inscriptions on • which would be found entirely in unison with their avowed ' polities! feelings. They were neresserliy quell as steered ' most likely to excite disalfeetiitn and discontent towards the Government; on one was " Major Cartwright anti the Bill of Rights, and Liberty." Tals was a bill which was a fa vourite with those who celled themselves ; the other side had the remarkable words " The Sovereignty of the People," Indeed it was no maltreat surprise that they should base waisted ander such a ha ohm for they were abort to ex. ereise an act of the Vgltest sot ereigree —erne weich the Con siltation denied to the King himself- —nothin h.. than to eller the Ceesatation of the Merlin. and give assn new Moues. of Cematims. The language they used war eniirei:. of the same eberader • the despot is liajes:y of the pe)yle was asserted : the Ma me of Consmens was painted as having hetrnyed its 1110:11111fles people tit Whew eNntle It - Vas r.oitrnfkl. were esiledipea %exercise their sovereignty will tut reserve.— As te Ms other gag, the inscription was. Sir Omelet Witheley end no Corti Laws." Ile did meat; to nay nay Wag of Sir Charles Wolseley. who w et a flaronet of good fatally In Staffordshire ; with him a: pre+ "it he had nothing to do • bat if necessary, he couldeonnee: him with the meet lag. This was the gentleman whom they eteett fur their Le gislatorial Attorney. On anottior side of tine nog gee Jo maths' Thomas Wooler, and the liberty of the Press."— There was so greater Wessell or rime in a free country than a free press. Let it Laep within botinds, and it wed the best safeguard of our lihertlea ; but to what purpose 11311 it cot been prostitoted in the preiseat Throttle' it disaffec tion, rebellion, and discontent spread abroad the poison of their influence it was the vehicle for irreligion, the literati of private malice, end the engine in the bandit of the Dem erit. Long 'night the liberty of the press he preserved. and hr hoped never to see it shackled; bet every good man should deplore the uses white, h. .d lately, in some hands, been made of it. With such an instrument did the defendants go to their bad work, audit was therefore natural that they should ntag airy Its importance by deifying its lieeutieusness. Mating the. arranged their flags. tike principal actors met at the Major's lodging, and they deterntitted to go in procession to the place of meeting, in order to give some crlat to their movements. All the other defendants would be found att empt eying the Major. Tne set out fur toe meeting, with made to a pilaw culled Newell Mill, near Illemingham. and in the same parish, where the ground funned a kind of Am phitheatre, very proper for their purpose. le a little time, so less than sixty thousand persons were gathered. as Edmonds one of the defendants himself confessed is a report in his paper. The greater part. of course. went on foot, but Major Cartwright. also was very infirm, and is stilt so, 11"3. lifted out of a blanche. and placed eke a rallying point open the hustings. Len is. Edmonds, mid Wooler had come to the spot in the carriage with him, all of whom. together with Aladdi.x. attended a meeting at his lodgings in the morning. and were alike involved in the aalaplthey, and had given their assent to the Resolutions %Met were afterwards adopted. Rut having now mine to the ground, it was Wiwi necessary that some one should pre side, and that .• fearle a champion of their liberties. and *Wanted assertor of their rights." as hr called himself, George Edmonds, modestly put himself forward, and erne called to the chair. There was more in this meeting thou first meets the et e. for a great deal was calculated upon the good example it would set to the rest of the country. And, indeed. if one were to consider the great nomher of meet lags which were held at the SUMP time, and fur the same purpnse, in Manchester. Stockport, and other places. each an expectation would not appear very t isionary. These simnltaneons meetings argued a Jeep laid nett extensive conspiracy to overturn, or at least to remodel the Hoven,- went and Censtitetion of this country. Edmonds being roes Chairman, bespoise silence fur those uho were to speak, in the usual way, and Vestals he would not disgust the Jury by reading this person's speech. as it ent re ported its his own paper, yet he could not help calling their attention to certaia passages its it. He began by expressing a hope. that the benefits of this Meeting would not he confined to this place alone. but extended to the empire at large. It was Impossible to read this speech. and mot see how it bore out the charge in the indictment of endeavocring to bring the Cloverameat, and snore particu larly the House of Commons, into contempt. The Learned Retreat then described the mischievous tendency of the whole of the speeches delivered on the oerasion, and which era duly noticed at the tiwie. Merced the several resolutions passed at the Meeting, and commented upon each of them. showing thinnest. defendants had arrogated to themselves 'Power which the Constitution refused to the King. They claimed the right; bet with what materials did they go to than Was a trial with 00.000 men the proper weyto decide it. They would Indeed sett their Alember to the House ; hat was that a legitimate or constitutional trial The Meet's/ at Nirollilthans eonetettlid by 'Mk thanks to Major Cart "right, for invite. at Ms adwastesolige,.nnttertaken so great %journey to forward dieters**. a eltovr proof that his befog there was not entirely the erred of leeliient. Tomas were then Toted to the l'hairmad. .4r. W.folet. ant the principal actors, sal the Meeting was adjefertel. back to the %Woes ttTr_ l AItAMAN. orsee. whither the erns- ter part of them aeecompanledltim in '• e bartmeile. Tilley returned in the saute motor in which they art out. Dere ended the atee•intr. col the neat oia,) • deputation waited upon Sir U. 14 okelev to inform him of the oessolt. and inauee bin, to uneertuar the office of Legislatorial Attorney. Torte pompom. would have been then completed. Tar Learned Cuunsel rouses:mai to I Norm:sing a hope of being able to prove every stateleant as lath hr iota made. sod then he tild not entertain a tioroin ut the result. The Leerneri Seeley's( then proceeded to call witnesses, ado clearly proved all the alleged feels. Mr. DENMAN theft rocs to, address the Jury on Iwbalf tit Alesars. Ed is wool Maoloiste. This was a ruse which called on the Jury, as men exercising• a great pishiii• fluty—the greatest next to that of a representa tive or the people—to hood to, the eircithistances of it their most enlist and inthinesed consideration. Ile could have wished that hie learned friend had alootaitio•ol from the prelituinary observatiossa in which he had indulged. Ile (3lr. Detwomo) was hot ow are how the observation's of the Learned ti. rjeantovitll respect to what had pus, • in the former p sr! of the day with reference to the Spe cial , 1 :11 7 . C oli t is! he alluded to in couneetian with the merit, of tire present rase. except Anne ft.r the purpose of raising' a prejeoliee in the minds of the Jere, and di verting then, from the sassoLisleration tit the tto•rits theist selves. Hut he would tahr it sioosti him to say, that the oh. Ousts of the LeArsseil Serje.snt were nut either reasonable or conformal& to the ends of impartial jus tice. What ! to : ,!li of j olestiltory warfare carried on against the roma toy th.• olefe:.-arois —notloina that had passed warranted the Le reed I fentleitean in his remarks. On the contrary. he (Ut. D.) would ever us: i i ;;; Mu, that if the manors a tibias secitroel to defendants, in eases of indictment an impartial trial ohne to he held as sacred, au coarse which a Coolissel rould take was snore aosalo l insts to their spirit. or Inure calculated to Ciye Odell to the intentions in which they origianteol, than a s rim. jealous, senttinizing attention to the conduct of the Muter of the King's Wesel,. the Sheriffs of the counts.. and all Ilse other officers ItliVill4 any influence in the no unitarians of Sp e .a a l Juries. 11'ilA it not competent,' therefore, to the dere:Ascots or any of than to urge, in ' the beat Milliner they were able, the belief winds thew entertained Oast they wools' not • stain a fair trial in esmaeoptetice of the remitter in which the Join' had brew assembled ? and when rimy had sn ureesi their justi'.ble apprelsetssiome, were the Jury to he told by the Learned Serjeant or matters that occurred a year ago?—where they to Lace pretttiel ,Winn their attention the imputation against the siefets.!an!f, that .a cos tact made necessary by what the:. considered their duty to themselves, was only a desultory oyarfare against the Court ? lint be should maintaiii that the Court would have been guilty of a olerehe , ion of its daft.—it would not he fit to be trusted with the atiministratio s of.jtistiee. if it did not skew that willingness to attend to the observations of the defendants, which his lainielolp on the -Bench had manifested that day. Ile owned candidly that he had witnessed in Nee various proseentione rerently set on foot by Dovernmant, an oinbeomming anxiety to procure a Yerofivt sof estillty :leanest the defendants. After the speech of his Learned Friend (Alr. Vaughan), and the evidence which had heel' toenailt forward to support its allegations, the Jars' would be, no doubt, surprised to I hear, that the indictment was of such magnititde ' as that the reading of it wouhl °croupy as much time as the reading of the 'fele of the evidence which they had heard that day. It comprised asinitifari tttt s matter, IltlentllleCted with the subj.-et of the immediate charge aeainst the defendants; it ...ordained the greatest variety of ellarges, atoll teas urn in the greatest variety of answers—but defying in :demo every line, the human understanding to coaropreloom I its import. There were tint less than nine coital. —fist eao•li of which the defer'. davits plea.leti nut guilty. The principal charge, how -1 ever, was that of a conspirary 'floe Lesroied Serjeaut had laid down as a prineiple, wills great propriety and troole, bon subject fos some lilic eion —that in a rase I of conspiracy. the Suet of all the defendant: was to be received in evidence against each. 11 0 smelt a charge should lie bromeist forward at all, with full infor. ta 'lion of thr so One.• of the ea a,luet of the defendants, before the Learn. i Prasecoeor, was a siihjeet of sleep complaint, lowans.. it osilst lee,hewn float the sofe:l4, with which eatas individual respeetively stoma ela i rge.l, might he committed by rich ilsolividnally. without la vulrine the guilt of any general concert between tht•as. The charge was, that the Defendants had done soo and so, fur the purpose of o•steiting olisatfertion to the lluvern oven and si t the Constitolion of the Comissuis !louse of Parli.msent. Was nut this going far onotigh? Why erect it into conspiracy ? Ile did not mean to say that the charge of a conspiroey elsortiol nut be brought forward, when a clear and intik / listable aeries of fouls suggested the propriety of prootacing such a charge. lint be would ask, was not every art of the individuals charged with ronspir.try as proved in evidence, totally inconsistent with any surto view - The trails wee, that the acrusation was extendtel Ist a conspiracy for the bare rapine or giving to the prosecutor that great but s ins, streams advent:see aver the olefenolants—yrovoled itresl ' by the lair, contrary as it wee iii must instances practi-1 rally to the spirit u( lair: namely, of being able to pro. duce the evidence of the a stilt of •everal . persons to sup- port a charge against "41'1," sa id one. "41'1, LOlti the lwarned I kerjeant, " the act of one is the at t of all." Yes, sit it i was, IMO not until the coarpirley, the general cotio•ert between the parties, was tiro saii•loctorily eattololished. Now, be words' entrrat of the .1 tory to examine moore minutely this position of his ',earnest Friend. Im..hily during the present proweeoli ut s • it was in their power to observe a practical illustration or the falsrlitstod of this principle, fur upon the present accasinn, there was be' (Mr. I).) reprearating two defendants; his Learned I Friend, .Hr. 11111 for another ; and the rest of the olefen tient* all engaged in a co ttttttt ni object, namely, to obtain a verdis•t of Not Gotilty. Ver the Jury would see, in the 1 course of the prerreilitsgs, that Ilse mete and sentiments of one part or the Defend:soots were totally at varlets* with those of another part; No that here was an instanda directly in point, sliming that a common object being in the contemplation of a her of persons did not necessarily ensure the rertainty of a community of sen timent and art., in the exertition of their general design. Bat where wds the eistionon &slot which was charged upon the derrnitAnts: ilk learned Friend hail triumphant ly told the Jury. that they would tint! 110 difficulty in sa tisfying themselves as to a comemou oleNign being cuter-, tabled by the !Mend:tuts. " 11l prove (ash' he) that they had met to ether, and l*!1 slum. put they had a estionion design; anal next I'll slimy t h st they had Canis a part in also active exeroition at' this I'lltllition design." Mut where had he shown this ? Where bad be dwell this sort of design ? Where were his proofs of a secret, Clark, and litrkina confederacy ? _Where were there or . , of their -scent m r eetings None had been brought forward. Ile begged here ts, reoroest the at 11111dOU of the Jury to the condition in which Isis clients alluire. Maddox and Edmonds, hail been placed by the Illralle of the evidence. The proof against the heat peatiusted to this—that he paid a visit to Major Cart ght in the morning after his arrival at Birmingham, that be rem:time{ with the Slajor full two minutes. th respect to Palutionols, he, too was proved to he with r jor artoright but a few initiates. Such thrit was Ike fall velar of the evidence by which the Learned ker tet promised he 410041 slaw the elosetting of the psr s. Os Moisilar the I - 2th, it was not proved that glad aolt was at the house where the Major resides at 111-4114. landlord expressly will he had not the iesat,reeeneation of Nlatlolnx tieing there at all—he was not seen at New Uall Miil—he WAS not wren in the bgrotielie. In ikon, for a strange and Int Herons exhibition. Was the &ee l• of a Slaver of Unmet a ceremony that was . a inn ally performed, and which, by the way, was install:eel its order to respite S;r J. Dunstan for the pie Ige watch he had given to the inhabitants, that he would l ro tare them a manufacture for asparagus—was this rlecttun calculated to subvert the kingly dignity, or intege.ty of Parliament F Wei+ the annual elections of two Af.:ei. hers to serve for Eye, in Devonshire the mole of which hr could not then rcolain—was this an infringen e ,t on the Constitution of the realm, or an overt act of ilk affection ? Nobody would ever think of takiog riovs notice of such things; and why then should ti e ludi crous farce at Ilirtninghtun be excepted, and st a r flee unworthy object of grave denu nc i a ti o n ? lie then made some alliisions to the state of the Ilonse moos, by whirls the Bill of Pains and Penalti .s cum before the House of Lords would be decided ; an I ear - chided by observing that he had spoken aerortlin;:•. ; his feelings and lila conscience, and if he had surrey .ed in iuipartiag the convictions with which his mind nk, tided, he could not doubt fur a moment of the arquitt.:l of his clients. there was not a tittle of evidence affecting this person at all. The accusation of a conspiracy might, with some propriety, he enraged against persons who employed theism-11es in deliberating together for a length of time. and from whom sonic act had emanated proving to any reasonphle mind the existence of a conspiracy amongst Nem. But where was the apclogv for pressing such a charge against the leaders of a Political meeting, con ducted in the manner in which that at Birmingham had been carried on ? The leaders, six dass before the meeting. snit a proper notice to the Clerls of the Peace, in which they stated the ohject of the meeting. Was this like a conspiracy ? The worths of the letter weer, that a meeting it as intended to be held at the place mentioned fur the purpose of tatting into consideration the best means of bringing about a Reform of the Commons Rouse of Parliament. The object us thus set forth, was perfectly keel. The letter ~aid not a word about the election of a Member of ('arliamiit, or that of a Legislatorial Attorney. Then-foie, to Ins mind, these circumstances Earned the conviction that no conspiracy was eteertaiutal by the parties from whom it emanated. The Jury would hear 111 illitlit that thee were to dis charge from their consideration every thing that had been dame after the Hirt-tint!. lie wished to press upon their attention that the charge of conspiracy Kase to the pr isectiturs the advantage of fixing the cri- • usinaitty of the dhfendant s on each of theism ; anal hence it was an evreeilingly pretlent ins. ie of pro reeding. although it eas any thing• het Car sir con fornial.!e to justice. Ili-, le,rnesl Friemi had said. that the Defendants, at the meeting., n•:stoned, and exceeded ludeed. the Royal nothoritv. There he %%fluid beg leave to state, in answer to the Learned Ss•rjeant's re mark. that, after looking into the Act of Union, he • could Ii nil nothing in it it hide restr:.ined the liing• from sending Iris writ to whatever place be wished to return ilesitlsers, or a Member to serve in Portia swot. The indictment further charged the Defen- dants with a wish to bring :shout slisaffeetion, and I an unlawful change its the C iiiiiiiiiii Louse of Par- ; !lament. Ins Learned Friend then gave what he considered a proper idea of the nature ut the alleges' offence—he avoided the sinestion of reform. but substi tuted A panegyric sin the British Constitution. lie (Mr. D.) fully subseribeil to all that had fallen frosts the Learned Serjeaut its praise of that high Constitution. am! believed. that with all I Ile abuses Whirls gene upon it. it was superior to all other Con , :itutions in the world. Its great practical blessing however was a po pular representation, and this film efore was the suestion, upon which the min Is of the people were most disposed to he ardently interested. Mit were we to be told that the Constitution had undergone no other detriment than those slight alterations which the lapse of time brings about in all huniais inyentioars. Were we to he told, as a matter of doubt. that it might have experienced wine little declension from is theore!ical perfection ? Was stick the state of the British louse of Commons, and was the cloud which we saw. nothing more than the countryman's hand held up before ns ? No, if moll were the case, the best men of oar ronntry—then isest of our Judges —our Patriots anti fleroes, and Philomplsers lalisistreil in vaiii, and libelled the Constitution. by pre tending that it has crept over by abuses. And if the people were not permitted the liberty of meeting peace ably to protest anti petition against the torritption which threatened to overpower them, be knew nettling of the practical history of the Constitution. and the history of i ilse last rentury wan a fallacy. Let the Jure cons o ler I SECOND DAV—Frtinay. AUG. 4. the motives of the Septennial Act, enacted in 1715—that rsefourt met this morning pursuant to adjournme•it at tea o'clock. The defendants did nut, ever. anise until usurping Act of Parliament, for be would nu! hesitate to call it so. In I ;39-11 a motion was Made for its ff. half-pest : bait Major Cartwright eta not them. Ina ptnal, butt it was rejected by 240 to }s9 ; of the majority, were am of the gen:lemen who yesterday accoutpustiest however, it teetotal out that t I l M iem h ee , steer in th • en-. The Nlijor, however. very soon entered. joy anent of places and pion.inna. They had hear.l some- The Jury belog called over. thing of pensions to-day. Was it a !.rilue to say that r. w semen rose and said, it mteht seem rather sing.e.as the permission to sit in 'Parliament allowed to penrioners piriceineo was bail? 11 so, he wished ho be put b rat forhiet to assiert that the real features of the case AI ere not an l in t h e list of veinal.) Os. It was a crime that ought to before the Conr.. T:te real gmestion to try arts that of priu ea.• elpie. and nut individuals. The neigh) of this proseentim Is • avneral. Year after year Rills were brought in, eluding such persons from Parr:amen% vet after an they was to be traced to a period long antecedent to the time kept their seats, although the Act of Settlement ex- when it took place. The principles of Reform bare bet-:r l'"" 1 ) . Prohibits their admission into that Imeolhi!"- advoested for several years, and to put those "prlee;pleit motion for repeal, in 1133, was made by Mr. Blinn , down by force which they could not e.oupter by reason. hes I•• v.°"lwr. 11' was happy to day , for this county o fi been the industrious endeavour of Government for wits, Warwick, and 4,...0ndet1 by Sir Joins St. Albans. The time pest. lie commented on the general elm-at-ter - r.,•* former cowhide:l Isis regrcb upon that ,occasion in the meetinifs for reform which bad liners allou e t! to he h:-td. If follqtring words :--" this, Sir, I hope I shall he j nit iiipd, that no pr i va t e cons ideration has iodoessl I the proper authorities did not interfere with Vie es:-a *:;•C , 01 her to make my proposition.—but the happiness of Notch meetings, they were privy to their criminality, ii I the nation at large. and Iterative I know sip- it were so, and ought not to entrap, as it were, itioiti,tosis ported iu it by the voice of the I"Pirs by a '''''i"r' t Y into the commission °filets, of which they afterwards to.,k ail of my Constituents, and by the particular eecommetida- waning... Ile challenged the Leerned Gentleness% oppoSih• ti..; of the people of Coveutry, whom I greatly respect, p ot any Stallite that by the most nicecondruetion or later althongh I cannot coats them amongst the number of . tity Constiteents." Such were the sentiments whirls pren:' um :amid induce the great hods of Englishmen to ima m yntcytainyd at that day and since too. I t h a d b e a n j gine that these meetings vrrr illrLnl. llt romensiedthat he Ind tlionght that all our political evils were to he trarrd to a right to maintain the tree rxercho. of an:, political cpiol. n the alums which prevailed In the Representation. Nor I lie might think proper to adopt. aml •iiii.o.t being obd..ed to Was this the language of ignorant fanatics. No--it was answe- to any one his reason for entertaining snrh rn • re.eclionl by Chatham, Cam lee, and Pitt. 'Elie Ties- t Moe. Islith these few remaas he Should prorreti to the cont. tion itself had bran advocated strenuously by the latter, 14lerni on o f th ee pn r - neuter e ore t era ie aml it was to that advocacy this: he owes" M., iriptilAcitV e; known as th e son Ire or any one else Mitt received of the Litpeii ly „c in early life. as well as to Isis b.tin Lord I.shathatu. His (Mr. We.) venerable friend attend• uuseetin . us as those mintplained of, ass; the proel-nhation cal the meeting, where that Statesman was familiarly of the King, published shout ems nest ago, ile then known. Illeetissgs were hehl different parts of the aent into thehistory of the ease. -.which he &acted WihrOP conestry clubs, societies, and correspontioneies were shlerable ability, and contuse's:ea in *trims twins ass fon Cu' .baectouing and unfair manner In which the ease had, "row ir4 established, and eli delegates Were appointed to meat in convention. The word might be alariiitty. Bait . he aossmeneetnent, been so enbbishilvfl persevered in by the was prepared Si. •:a% that ti m e people, if they torment toe. preseentont. Ile alluded par:loll:iffy to his favourite topic. evil was to he combated -was one of great magniorle, the striking of Special Juries, and said, that a more Week Wers• right to sits as they haul finite. Tint ipte:.tiou on all sod' occasions was this--iiiii lie fabricate the ahoses of r 3,- ant-ailiuinblingion of i"tire- tin hi the mat l't°` - which he comisl sSited, or in making an abuse the sishject Wilted rountry,•had never rimeerred. Ills great objeet.on of popular dist. did he only 'spree' to the proper s slrenstal to lie with Rieman number of individuals alto were tribunal for a ies.staly. If the elitism existed, he did on the Jury list of the comity, the greater park of warm, see r:glit. becalm minting cossitt overcome it hot public F i.l . were Mahe Commission of the Pear., and wend had opinion. When the •incitiee relative to tile ;thulium, of ti..en on the Grand Jury . 116 alluded to time Case ves:taut.s; the Slave Trask was its agitation, there mentioned, in the person of Mr. limit; he thought the Lis,- mei petitions in f.o. um* of the abolition trots. every guar ter. Why were not the :tor lane; of these inee l ini!ii and proper esssidtlet of the smintioniug (Aker had berm elt•arly petitions itecused ag ,,i !is t th e f o r n proved to any unprejudiced mind. Ili; Lordship slid not they declared war Against a sys!eut whirls sv a proteletell certainly any the pamtel was %Mated ; but his tihsen ed. that by the Statute laws,. and proclamation opal prorluma- • it was not a question upon which hr was equiperent to dee:•:e. tints ? Was this a vrinie? It 1 , 314 .1 glary and ac hotionr— • flow Cordial might beJust its law he knew not ; but the Learnt it wee the glory of the sassintry, and Cootigh a morni of Judie must be aware that It afforded R drong•reaaPo toe orposition, that great MeaS:tte of two,,okoos and fl-11- • roaden , utiu that witesu which admitted that error 10 our Bonn was e ff ected. Vol never Wsssil I hat tratfr have been • pin-e could not be corrected intioother. ne had b«ns ilit.aliAlte.l, had tit politic opinion loudly declared against l with an intention to degrade the House of Commons. b it first. If a set sit Mese thought and said, that a cettain branch of the Legislature war grossly anal no,orittos:y would niter the Jury to every article which hehad written no' corrupt, where was the remedy for it, pnlslir opiiii oft : various subjects; and he would !iffy the Learned tiarkest. The indictment in the pressent case was reinstri,ably fr" to prove in any of them the remotest ales at any tiling rof liter from any charge, even by insinuation, of a riotou s 1 position in the meeting :— that which formed th e elm!. sort. :;yen he had not door so in that charsetor whim, he had thei opportunity of flinch* his seakiweots, it would rr ground of accusatinn in the great ease tried at York, of which they must have all heard. Flags sysre introduced Oa oar* to sa l , in the evidence, and a mast tineharitable inferen r e was ovular men** he hati aviactat that slider.""F lt a " " i " k that by any pankstiar ect.er on any per drawa from the inscriptions which they hum If they, Caine very badly from the Learned Sairjealt.il Was isw were of such value to the cane of the Prosecution, why; by this very act, which wad complained of,, t bessing i , *v. net introduce them into the indictment. On one sit' the House to recur to its privileges, and upbn them to ae• i s flags appeared the words, the " Bill of Rights." W bat', They merely ei h e d fortht. rei theadoe of the nuts- orep4l. were we gone so far, indeed, that to speak of -the Hill, ... au ia the peaty wombed? 60k...id that A tm& mamas • of Rights Was a critne—that Rill, without which the go obeolkowloted , ioilset.likiegoand devolution would tint bare been conclusive ?' The w "`" I la r ; be * 144444 _._ e I. artier liewthriaan then as Thvn,as toShis rtghti procee d e d to foomeo t ws. a . petition root 40.• abloom lA. coast :atliser ipseriptiosis. &feuding the propriety Unction of ahem. After all the emseideratiee *hick ion of repreituttafthu , thaP 4 altta be . * bad asinder'enh s od rot ,. gidered a eiime, and pas*ed. 'alai give to this subject, he really cosslil Doc aye bob 11400. 1 0 rilreftl it.tkil " ; oaf14111"b" of e°"%% the twurth%sitiletoproceedagainstthepresentdefenda n tsl kingdom. If the real antes, eltarged by this indictment Mr. HILL then a 'dressed the .ittry on behalf of Major Carte rielit. He inf .r.-e.I with much ability the argninen's of Mr. Denman, The mein part of time charge was atietnr.si to be supported by sentences bout speeches of several m.f the defendants. Now, tie wo u ld show. from • variety 6t works. whet several great thoneld and said upon ' subject matter. chrreed as crimes in their speeches. H • then read extracts from set prat works in sopperr of Li, positions. Ile would not remark upon the evidence—tot had been selliciently disposed of by his Learned Friend. Coming to the Immediate subject under considoration, he would refer to (trey's debates upon the subject of the Horongh of N.iwark, and there It would be seen, that it w•t. a matter of argument at least, if it was nothing more..than the election of a Member iif Parliamell: was a sueti" tciticit In process of time, and by the ginnee of at re. became e privilege. If this were the case, looking at it with a legal rye. where was the harm of anv sot of men performing this service voluntarily ? Tue Learned Gentleman pursued tit!: subject with a long cud elaborate argument. Hut in paint of fact, the election here executed was an election of a per son to carry a letter—it was the election of a rvo —and not • heather of Parliament. If even this point fulled. the fact of Sir Charles I n ning conilLionaliy elected. undid maul his election void. The meeting so far from wishing to iosis* upon the election, did actually- give a petition to this gentle man to be presented by him if he shorld be admitted. and in ease he should not, to be presented by some Member a (fiend of his. Were then was the shirking of of allegiance: where was the disposition to excite disaffection I lie to g. eluded by paying a complimeel to the unlike ation of Niej‘n- Cartwright, who had never before been brought into a Court of Justice, The Learned fientletnan having concluded. stated to t?r Judge that he was requested by Slisjor Cartwright to resi defence written by hiniseif. and which he thought necrvvary to the vindication of his ehark-ter and repnizqi.in. The ewer BARON said, it was contrary to all nile mallow Its being read. Ilad the Learned neetlenian introduced It as part of his speeeh. he might have read It: but it was too nice:, to expect of the Court to allow n Counsel, after wakkg OUR speech, to get up and make another. It being now near ten o'clock. Mr. Wader. who was pert to address the Court. said he would have to (Acuity several hours of the time of the room and if it was the ' , lessor'. of Ids Lordship to adjourn the Court, he would prefer his address to-morrow. After a short conversation, the Court atVourned o'clock tu•uturrow. ~; 1 . 41 ►l .t