The National Register. — London, England, 1819-09-05 00:00:00

V F r 4 o' ti~ 4:4.0 M ANC HESTER. We subjoin the particulars of the lost examination of Mr. Hunt and his fellow prisoners, with the deti sion of the Magistrates, which we have extracted from Irhteler's Manchester Cluonick, It paper which, as most of our readers know, is devoted to the ruling party. NEW BAILEY COURT:IIOI.74E, 'Atm. 27. Mr, Hatt and hit fellow pritottetm, it war tio•kr.tuntl, Weir to he ht mogul it v tot a Baal examittati4lll emiserinertre hoar waa great oitxi..ty in the. pnlatie to he pre•rul. A et overt gullet iI shout the gattai of llie prison, and a heearie.geeesaaiv to it bi solo a sudden rn.6 into the (;,oirt. Cusitkrthlv and tit; it.uy were aethely eitifitayed far the purpose. At length Oce toe, ttrt , rtned theno.,t'es on7"l , orEvro h, dud Mr. Mai holt dicrctrd tie gates to be 'Apt Coort.vtat imasediateirelied to te‘ress and awlhe,proeteedingsetereepseaklsetvum four and ti • e h.:ars, the Ityatkeef-mile alaitorh isholerais:e. - The deco rum of the C,.,w1.,e4g3. well poems:toil by iliose prcacni, although it wirs.aracOessit a erent thibuyrof Dlr. Hoeft prows s were U•aVir• lit our isaslmaare tiliat.iutraas departed freta,and Mr. Nus I is, the presiding Magistrate!, is:lei - feted. Indeed, to hoc tieswilile,imlieitios tut iittiost.otwiosieil row duet, toil smut a roail,.saaviti cannot ar IMid.mosel the firim gran obit'. he evinced bad its peculiar sisr ; it v% ter, Purl as 1.1,1'. UMW,' enlist reels' M iies ever Hi-formers Make tutu appearanee, the nem al ssiav hies of peesonal estnmauiratitln err (your illy deoieal. Is WMM MO on she present occasion. Air. Hissirs feelings mud style of argot. tog hurried him on by times to a mode of ei.fareing hta reneleisloos, SCOUCIAIIMI COnilitsy to else Charm - teri•tie waterway of a Court of LIN. In *eves al Ift•laaa ,,, b• two psi to the dieebion of Mr. Nuts is, and in one ter 1%4 :: he 11 0 010 1 iTril for hit Ala/uptown Ibe g mb csiee from the Bench, the examination of w it pellet by M e . Ham, h ut ob•ei %al ions, and the repli: s to chute Jac I various, whi r l, hi-corn-4 during the proceed trus, went to ago eat lenutlf. They would, if folly repart cd, f i ll a gr eat pi open tion of a Nr% apnprr. We rim only attempt, from :tie pie:As:he Of time, linen a sketch as would pre out temleas some view of the e ireiessisiatiees. Of lime e•idessee, tor obvious seasons, we shall say nothing. Mr. Hunt aa su iscseatpsory and enforcing to them, that M r. Nora is had recipe:Mt) to iiiterles et ; wad Htiors %%bole de mem 1111 l r was hold to all calls nee. He instated on hemm ing the n4ese., charaelera,sit 'testi 111 l s in lite, and residence of the a itilessra, lent in oeveral or those rp.•cts I.e was not allowed be hilly gratified. Ile was allow, el to know 'very thing, pevrillav!ra., %luck in the remotest duster belated to MX OVCCISoIIy condi' as api bemire. Pi esent —James Nut ri., iii the Chair ; k Wright, Win. Hutton, Wm. Marriott, W. 'lams), Eofs•.; C. W. IF.thelston, Clef ; Sir. Bout bier, the Solieatoi to she 'F, ea tat andel toe Beneli. The prisouerv, Hem y Hunt, Joseph Johnson, J. has bon, John KiIight,JAISIOI MOW - 11011bV,NAO8114.1 haiesturd, Jobe 11: they, taco. Swift, Thole. Ta)loi , Rubes t Wilde, and Elizabeth Gmsed, is ere brought Op touellier. Elisabeth Gaunt was much agitated, and not alai« to stand at the 11.1 r ; she was plaited ia a etair be,hise.l. Mous house kiased bib hated to the people behind, kept his vi bile hat on, and fur a short timer. fused to take it ott. A meat confusion prevailed for some dine in the Court. Mr. Nutria was comnictiriug to addiess the pri amers• : Hunt bald, iia a pet eliaptory lone, I eau's hear, the re %fa ulufe under 111 the Alseliii i ; the. uthcr d,y than here. ' - - Silence being at length. obtained, Mi. Norris add r d the pi.s .sera to the inMiami ref. ci : Henry taunt. and all you ieverally, you have been remanded on a charge of High Treason; and you were informed that the whole of ths evidence had been sent rip to London, to be laid beton the Law Ofticers of the Crown. and in the mean time you Mere to be detained. It was not until this morning that a corn• munication was made from Government; not to tire, but there is a gentleman pi Cael3t k Mr. 'touchier). and he attends with orders to proceed upon a lens charge. The charge el' Treason is not to be gone into at present hunt—ls die clurge of munler then abandoned? I stood I was ronsuided ontd tie Coroner's Inquest had sat; and a Nl. , gistrate told we I was to Le tried for mutter as well as trea son. Mr. Hulton, from the Bench said, I did not tel' you en; but that before the charge against you could be ultiniawly shaped, the t:oroner's verdicts must be known. Poorhouse— fhis then turns ont to be a farce. Mr. Norrts—Alouri.uuse 1 aball reel it my duty to remand you unless you conduct yourse lf properly. Mr. Milne called over the Allies of the witnesses. whose writ ten depositions he held. On putting the book into the hand of else first, Hunt di:sir:ll lie might he examined alone. and the rest ordered to leave the Court. Mr. !touchier said he should not object w this. Many questions were put by Hunt to another of the witnesses, several id wilich the Court, overruled. On one being objected to. Him: said. in a loud energetic voice. I demand it as an act of justice.—M:. Norris: When you make a requeet, we understand that you make it as a demand, and as a British subject. The same attemiim will be paid to you 114 to any other. it you treat the Court vita respket.—llutit: I have been told I Lace treated the Cohrt with disrespect: 1 du nut Rial it r It would nut become me. _ . runt was examining one of the witnesses and Mr. Oswald Maw put a question to him at the same time. Hunt was very passionate with r. Jfilneat the interruption. Mr. Norris stopped him, and altid he would allow no intimidation. a question Which Hunt put to the same witness. the witness said he did not eiionse to ammer. Hunt to the Bench : Here's a witness (has not ehofte w unalser: what will youdo'r—Mr. Nutria: /I e is not obcged to answer it.—Hunt: How are you to get at the truth Norris: lie has ingle oath to it already.— Hunt put one other que.tium to the witness, to one of which Norris obwerve.., you tit put that on your trial, not now, — Hunt: Theta you are duttrmined to stud we to trial, whatever the evidence sort of conduct he fell into frequently. As the ectf.:hee of one of the witner;stt related to Elisabeth Gaunt only, she was brought to the front of the Jock. After it was read, she slumd that she was amongst the crowd at the meet ing ; that in the confloion voine one had put her into Hunt's vartiege, but did not know who put her their. She had no tight to be in the coach, but was put to by two persons [trout nf humanity, it &mitred] for safety i—stie fainted away, and • hen site came to herself she found she had got a blow ;—she threw iteratit afttrward, into a private Luse, and remained there for wont time, and nagit have gut away. litmehitt acre requt.ted alie might be ditgharged, as the evidence was so slight; arid the Butch oidered her to be dib. thayed.—The Chairman, Mr. Norris, addressed her with gnat humanity. Hunt—This, after twelv! days' aolitary confinement! A,ter the wi.ole of the evidence had been lead, Hunt said to the Brach; May Ibe permitted to ask who is the prosecutor ? Mr. Norris : Tire Crown. Hunt ; Ica person ?—Mr. Nortis: The ri" A I *Y. THE NATIONAL ItEGIgTEIL Solicitor of the Treasury is here.—Aunts nine name.—Ste. ikinchier t I mast know the name of the prosecutor. as I linty have °cession to biting an action I Afr. Norris: Mr. Botschier bats been went by the Crown.— Hunt : I wish to know who is the responsible person, in order ! that if it should turn out that after being eleven days confined) I have committed no oKnce, some one may be mode fee ponsib:e. Mr. Norris I take it, that those who have !loom to the parti culJr facts are ib the present instance responsible. H ant t Nut brit not neces:ary that there shook be a prosecutor? Mr. Nutria. Ire Crown pros.outes :if du:cellar any particular frostoutor. it must be the Aitoniey General. Mr.. 14 un • then addressed the Bench to the following effect : " I know that I em now addressing the sante magistrates who took the find depositions agi.inst me: but tiller that evidence, and the amend:el evidence. has been read. is it for them, sitting as his alajosty's Judices, to adminiaterjustice.—l hope, and do not doubt, they will dismiss from node minds all pre,mitce, and and act upon the evidence. Some witnesses say that those bodies %%MA came from the country came in military array, but they could not explain what they meant by military array. Some say they cause with sticks. One says, they were so far in • Lary array as to have dabs at their left breasts, similar to mus kets. But they all agree that hone of them dill any act to inti midate. Can the magistrates say we should be committed on such eviilencelor a inisoerneatiour.after eleven dayecontionnent? Is not this a sufficient punishment for any offence that we have COMITIII TlO ? The eyes of all'England are fiver, upon this matter. I stand here with a conviction that I have acted rightly ; but it is doubtful whether those who beer me have that conviction. The Country is in a very agitated state, and will boin more agitated state till this question is settled. Are you-non this evidence to send us back tasolitary confinement? (Mr. Morris: No.) One of the magistrates whom I do not now see told merdi the blood that had been shed must be set to my account. After having been remanded for tieason—after having been held up to the country He it traitor—and after haring been committed on that charge. and now there being no evidence offned to support it, I appeal to you to lay aside all ptivate feelings. (Here there was applause in Court.) Mr. Nonis: No tumult shall be made ; if there is I shall commit thefiarties guilty of it. Hunt : There is no attempt on my part to make tumult ; the man who makea any disturbance is my personal enemy. Hunt resumed. I expected to have stood here tin a much greater charge—on a charge of high treason; and I have also been chargell with murder. I submit to you there has not been one particle of evidence of these. Many of these prisoners I never saw till they came into the box. i admit that I did attend the meeting for the purpose of addressing it, conai • dering the laws of the country allowed me. I did not consider it as a matter of pleasure, but on the contrary, a painful duty. .Having had the honour to )-resent to the Secretary of State, Remonstrances from other meetings, thro' him to be laid before the Prince Regent, it was intended a Remonstrance of a similar nature should be sent font this meeting. It was the unanimous opinion of those concerned in this meeting, that we should nut imitate Birroito s hant. The proclamation bad pronounced that object illegal ; and though I did not think it at fi rst illegal, yet I in m 7 opinion it was foolish. Without three months' notice given to all the inhabitants. I. as Chairman, would not have put such a question ; and it was entirely given up, even if the meeting on the 9th had been held; and we hare most respectable evidence of it, from men of as much property and respect. bility as any in this Court. The resolutions intendeddo have been propo -cd were lost in the late bustle. Hut it still be proved it was unsoiled to convey, certainly, a strong vote of censure on Lord Sidnieuth for refusing to pre sent peudons from Manchester and Stockport; and then a solemn appeal to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, to take into consideration the distressed state of the country, and renew the connection between the people and the throne. I shall not stust to my feelings as to what took place on dis persing the meeting ; it would be much better if regent portion of that were buried in oblivion. Upon this evidence, I beg that you will not commit. Will you throw down the apple of discord for perpetual contention, and conunue the people in agitation ? (here the Bench inte.trohted hint). Mr. Norris: your language is now improper.—What account of this you may have to Haiku must be conveyed to Powers higher than ourselves. If the Country were in tenfold the agitation you speak of. I and my Brethren should do our duty. Hunt resumed : I did not meaty° throw out any imputation, nor ask airy thing 44 a boon. but I dema n d named ; jeer will I accept any favour. I autainly did ask ;he Governor whether I might be permitted to walk in the garden. but the moment I knew Mr. Johnson hatl been refusedby the Magiattates, I would have sawed off my right hand before I would bare gone into it! . . Mr. Norris—liire4".rins were given to a surgeon, a most re. trsctable man, to see.Nl r• delinson ; and it' necessary for him to walk aut, that he should 116. e permission to do ao.—lJdonsuri +sal witted this.) Hoot resumed—l must say I suffered much bodily pain from the Wows of the constables and from sabres. They are visible. I scorned to tell tl.e Docuvr Of it. My health certainly has. by my apprehension and confinement, been preserved • the exertions I should have made to keep that fleeting quiet, would have affec ted or. for years. I have slept on a bed such as I would not have put my servants : en ; but. thank God, I have slept well and have suffered nothing, bot from the recollection of my felkiw psi. soners, and the mangled creatures cut to death. 1 have no cow • plaint to make against the jailor, aior of the air of the jail. Moorhonse---As the law presumes persona innocent until con victed. I beg to say we ought to w+ used as well w possible, while we are kept in prison. Mr. Norris: You may all of you have Ind. Nloorliouse: When . biought up here before, I was warm, and cordocted tnysell in a way for which I am lather sorry. The Magistrates then withdrew. On their resort. Mr. Norris aie : d Henry Hoot, and you all: we sent for 3I r. Boychier in order that We might akain care fully peruse the depositions.—lt is a most painful duty to me to commit you for I:onspiracy. We can. however, lay our hands on our hearts and say, "we have done our duty." As to the charge of l'onspiracy, though you might not have been altoge ther presiou.•ly to the Meeting. yet in the eye of the law all those who commit separate acts, tending to one illegal objectofre guilty of that crime. Coupling the too Nleetin,s, together, taking tino consideration the manner in which the last was fie-ciao:ad, with such insignia, find under such demonst►ations, with the black sl4g. the bloody dagger, the words equal representation, or deaths—the Loosing in a threatening manlier under these harmers —these were a direct shewing that the merthrow of the Govern ment was unasealaWy contemplated. No discussion could be had, where that flag was; intimidation was its direct object. The charge now i 3, ••that of having conspned to alter the law by force and threats." It is an illegal procedure sufficiently made put; and calls upon its imperatisely to commit you fur trial be fore a proper tribnnal. It is now my painful duty to commit you to Lancs.ter Castle. last night buil nut bring produced, Henry Hunt, Rolm Jones Joseph ( n r . Ilealey.G t orge Salta, J. 'l'. Saxton. Sam. Bamford Robert Wild, mid Jcian Knight, were sent off 'o Lancaster Castle committed to take their trial at the eurning Assizes. Joseph Johnson was admitted to. bail. himself in WIWI. and two total , s in snot. each. The tame bad was demanded for Hunt ; half that amount for the others. Johnson was home home on men's shout• ders, followed by a rabble of women and boys. l'ttoorhouse is alit) balled. The lower elaakes had dot hold of tome very curious notions about Hunt, and expected not only that be would be homed'. dietcly liberated, but that the Magntiates were anxitun to induce I#\ 411• Still'. 5. him to walk nut 6f the prison. So far did lids view prevail, that many said he would not leave its walls without a premium of thirty thousand pounds I Others said the Duke of York VidS coining down to set him free. So little right apprehension, had the populace of Hunt's actual condition, and what a sober-minded tenacious uir.K the law of the land is. They could not undetstand that the crime of Conspiracy has any tenors in it. Extrayt of a letter dated Manchester, Aug. 28:—. •' Yin, nave no doubt received an accomo of the mutat. t i at the New Dailey yesteriky, which termi nated in the committal of limit and his hustings-com panions for a misdemeanor. Tn., then, as was said by one of the prisoners at the bar, with more truth than decorum. em's the Manchester farce of high treason, whi h, to complete the parallel, was unhappily prece ded by a tragroy. Tue afterpiece was no doubt gut up to suit the maul exhibition, and the same actors perform ed ii) both; tint the public will Hot allow tar t welves, like the spectators of a play, to forget the oriental scene of blood its the diverting 11111111111CFICS WIIICII owe sUe• ceeded it. In relation to the proceedings at the New Bailey yesterday, I shall metely observe, that if Elizalictii G.l:itit, instead of being at the bar, had been placed out use bench, and by this change of position had been Cflll. %cried from satadical &Midler into a loyal old woman, she would,l ant convinced, has.: conducted the prlcer thugs of the Court Wial as 111001 decorum, temper, and legal knowledge. ,It would be needless fur me to guard myself from being considered as a friend of the prisoners, or of the wild and mischievous schemes woich they are • 'accused -of supportitig ; but I 3111 110111111 ill CllllllOlll to admitohat Hunt, who-was their protector as well as his own, ekinced so great acuteness, legal solidity, presence of mind, and readiness of elocution, that he would have 'dizzied greater wits than the authors of the late %ratio. citrons. The special constable witnesses, with their dressedcleati. written depositions, deflected before a clerk and a magistrate, only without any cross-questioning, could no. snore stand before hint than the moo before the Yeomanry on the fatal Ibdh. With a single thrust of his lance he shivered their affidavits in pieces, and scatter ed them to such a d s ance,that it is feareti it may notnow be possible to collect and make them ready fur a Jury. tows last night is as quite tranquil, after the mob had conducted some of their favournes to their houses, and seen 011Ita stilt to Lancaster. The patty of Hus• sars winch accompanied the carriage in which Mr. Hunt, Iltii3l4, and a few of their companions, were dispatched to Lancaster-castle, went only as far as Hol ton; it was there relined lay another uctacinnent ttf Dragoons, and returned here at Ili-o'clock at nightie "As a proof ul the temper with which Mr Hans, and all who hate to do with him, hate been treated, it may he ounce& that his solicitor was on the clay of examina tion refused admittance to him for at least an hour and a half. lie stood upon the steps of the prison, exposed to the grossest insults and abuse. One brute said to Mr. Pearson, "B--t your eyes, if nay duty permitted me, I should like to bury a bayonet in yourgnisl" This con duct was so often repeated, that Mr.Peasson at test sent a note to the magistrates. saying he. considered Isis life hi danger. and as he-should nut expose htiostif .to the the treatment lie had reeeived,. he AVOILILI (I.lllife In he summoned when the exAntinattuto commenced. This had the desired effect; Mr. Pearson at levitth got ad nussion ;o see the prisoner, and assisted him with great ability during Ills CXJllllllation. .The tutru is most per fectly quiet ; as much so as tsji,re the magistrates. and tar y e.storteittlsenmtiths •• prCst'i CC tranvia V.v..' EsiaacT .07 A LETTER (FROM TIIE STAR) FROM MAN CHESTER. When the hearing had concluded, the magistrates left the beech to consult ammo theirszlves, and .Ir. !touchier quitted the Court; presently he returned, when Mr. Hunt address. d saying he leattll he hail been out with the tuagistraus, and itc.is tett upon his remaining in Court, unless his our. solicitor ('dr. l'earaon. of London) was permitted aloe to be present. Mr. Ilouchier then resumed Ins place in Court. Mr. Hunt's bail was fixed by the magistrates at Wool. for hirnstif, and two sure. till at 5001. each, and the magistrates stated that they should be willing to take it at any reasonable time in the course of the even ing. It was understood that notice of bail was: iscinediately gi ven, but this was not true, respecting Mr. Hunt. Same 6 o'clock, Mr. Hunt and some of toe ptieutiers were on the road to Lancaster, under an escort in Dragoons. 'flint measure excited great surprise, and was considered by the populace (who knew not that Mr. Hunt had refused to give bail) as exhibiting an ap pearance of being founded on p..r,onal dislike. When the magistrate were w-ited upon in the course of { ' { the evening with bail, they excused themselves on tome ground cr other hour attending to business that night, and fixed 32 o'clock this day fur receiving the bath. Accordingly, about that time, Mr. Euniund Grundy of l'ilsworth, and Mr. Thomas Chapman, a Manchester, were received as his sureties, with the approba tion of 11r. liouclier. When that gentle'. an had quitted the Coutt, I understand Mr. Hunt's faientis applied for an order for his discharge. *Loch the magistrates reload, under the pretext they could nut grant it without the sanction of the Solicitor to the Treasury, who had then quitted the Court. Mr. Pearson wits therefore under the necessity of going in quest of him, and having obtained his cur:sent tier .Nlr. Ilunt's discharge, the ma tes acceded to it, and Mr. Chapman, I hear, set Whim MLaster with the.order at two o'clock this afternoon. lire iollowiti,.; lb ail extract irons a pris Letter : " Bolton, Sunday Evening. Aug. IS. STR—Where, in the name of wonder, will these things end? Mr. hunt, who, on Friday evening, was escorted through this town by a troop of cavalry, on his way to Lancaster Castle, where it was hoped his restless spirit would have bet-n confined, if not allayed, for a note at least. is again returned and actually arri ved here. Oil his reselling the Bridge lain, he alighted ; but timings being there in a deranged cost, he could nut meet with suitable accommodation. •• Ou his returning to his carriage the street was crowded as far as the eye could reach, and on his dererminitr to proceed to the Swan Inn, the popul a ce resolved to take the ian,es nom the carriage, an d draw Imun themselves to the Inn. On his ar• riving there he stepped out of the carriage; a way was imtantly made for him through the crowd to the said inn, which he enter ed. Ile went into an upper room, and after resting himself for a few minutes, the crowd continuing rapidly to increase, so as to completely block up the street, though spacious. it was det mod adviseshie for him to speak to them, which he did from the win dow. He informed them that through the good offices of the Magistrates at lisriehmter he had luta a ride to time tounty own had had a peep into tae Castle at Lancaster, where lie had met with any thaig but kind treatment—and bail having been sent after him, which Lad indeed been offered before be left Mancha. "94