The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-03-18 00:00:00

►r n '~, N I - --- • - - '7,' Titreva fi' Nt , Par-want an a rran glortent made tevenlas.. the I v n ailenditi:: to repo: t the proceedings or the Trial of Ilunt, aim the er defendant*, charged with a eon si 'cicy . were admitted at a quarter brims. sev en This by the 1: r• den item-, near the toy-e-hridge. .tr. Stave's- obligingly conducted them into ( mart. and ai I o4teal florin uitl*tlie front seats of the Atm.- ‘• End waiting-Luxes. Shortly alter teveral p..varois here admitted into the gallery. and a few indi vialoals, principally Solicitors arid conductors of provin g nal jenroals, found seats in Hi.. Juries' waiting-hox, and lase"( six ladies took possession of a small box at the ~ r itel of the I ot.rt„ on the right of the Bench. At oncbt o'cleck a more general admission of strangers took place, anal tho front seats iu the two galleries were in stantly oreupied.•A writ notatiorr of persons immediately follon .d, till not one inch (groom in either gallery was unoccupied. The box, which on IVeditestlat was I—t•rved for the attorneys, anal which is tailed Ibr .1,- I..rotovs• box, was, on this occasion. appropriated to tier rcception of lie Magis!rates, wills the exception of the front seat. which wag orcnpieal, as above stated, lay the London Reporters. In the rush, however. it oils in vaded by malty who had ma claim to sit there. 'flo•st utcr fortliwi:h informed by the officers of the Court Mar they mind retire. The mandate was reluctantly a lb e ed by some, hot others obstinately retained Neil' sears. Sc ‘eral of these were finally expelled by the order of the Alagistrates on their arrival. number of a itneises put down for the preseen tion exceeded eighty r for the defence one hundred anal three. It was understood to be the expectation of those comet-reed in the case• that the evidence for the Cron might close by three o'clock, if the cross-examinations di not extent' to an nrinsual length. At all events, it was istended that the prosecution should close in tine day; anti it was rorjectured that the whole proceedings might heiwoughr to a termination in the course of Sa %ureic. Tim; defendants' witnesses. in two bodies, ming to one hundred and forty men, marched from itoclolaie 11;y the way of Huddersfield and Halifax. They joined tit Leetl+, where they slept. They carried two banners, inscribed • The Truth, the whole Truth, and nothing bin the Truth. - They were well entertained uti the road gratuitously by the Reformers, and supplied with /nonce to maintain them in York. and billets are pros ided fir them on their return. At a quarter before nine, Messrs. Hunt, 3100rhoutt% Saxton, Jones, Wilde, anti Healey entered the Court, and took their seats at the table. They were afterwards ~.fined by all the other defendants included in the in cicttnent, with the exception of Knight, who is in cun t rement at Lancaster. At nine o'clock, the Judge (Mr. Justire BAYLEY) took has sent ou the Bench, and immediately the cause of the king r. Henry Hunt, Joseph Johnson, John Knight, James Muurimuse, Joseph Healey, John Thacker Sax ton, Robert Jones, Samuel Bamford, lietarge Swift, and Hobert Itilde, was called on. The names of the Special Jurors were then called over bs the proper officer—ten only aosnered, a tides ass den prayed, and the following lientlemen were sworn: Wm. Hull, or Horne. Esq. Fran is Robson. Esq. Win. Cheater, Esq. Timothy Hutton, 1:14. James Barker, Esq. George Barwick, Lay. John Hutton. Erti. John (*hada it*. Esq. pro. Atkinson. juu. F.sq. tll illiana Selby, lay. T•LtS LION. Senpaus Bromley Warne Addy. ' The Jo.on tsarinp been 'wows— La consequence of the extremely crowded state of the Court, thtJudge found it necessary to direct some of die defendants, also dial not conduct their own cases, to retire from the table. This *as accomplished with great difficulty. Mr. Hunt having declared, that lie and his fellow defendauts were ready to acquiesce in any ar rangements that the Court night suggest. Mr. Hove informed the Court, that he was retained fur John Thacker Saxton alone: and Mr. BAIIIAiID an nounced himself to be retained for the defence of Moor tome and Jones. Mr. Lirri.coaut opened the pleadings by reading the iedictenent. The crowded state of the Court having drain created some difficulty, Mr. LIVNT said, lie hail to suggest that which would rake sonic room. He had to request that all the wit nesses forth, Crown then in Court might be ordered to withdraw. The witnesses on both sides were imniediately ordered to leave the Court, and retire out of sight and out of heariug. They basing withdrawn, the suggestion of Mr. Hunt, it was ordered by the Judge, that all witnesses found in Court, after the esWce now publicly given by the Crier, should be pre 'Laded from offering evidence on either side. Pram. firer and PCARaON said they wished no ex ception to he made. t was inquired if there were any objections on the pert of the defendants to Mr. Maule, the Solicitor fur Nee Treasury, being present? hoar said, certainly not and lie apprehended that on the other side there could be uo objection to n!r. Pearson's remaining in Court. The JUDOS remarked, that those professionally con corned in the proceedings might remain. Mr. ScsaLsrr said, it could hardly be hoped that any one of the Jury was wholly unacquainted with souse of the principal features of that case which became his July to bring under their consideration. Various re ports of the cimuoistaoces had been circulated all over the country, and it was not to he supposed that some of these find not fallen into their bands. The la this might be a subject of regret, he bad the' confidence that the Jury be had now to address, as wet as from a Correct understandissic of the important duty which they had to discharge, In deciding betwein the defendants anti the Crown, throw all that they had pre viously beard wholly oust of their thoughts, lie con jered them to dismiss from their minds all prejudices, favourable or unfavourable, that they might have con ceived, and, as far as was in their power, to forget any such previous conception, and treat the whole case ac cording to its merits, whatever these might appear to be, from the evidence that would be brought before them. For himself, he was glad that this question was at length to be tried before a Special Jury of Yorkshire men. He rejoiced in this circumstance, because the Jury before whom it was brought could hardly by pos siLlity be influenced by any local or personal consider ations that might elsewhere have interfered pith the due administration of justice. Had the choice been left to him, he knew not t al r s r et of men to whom he would ve more cheerfully ha ed the case than to a Jury of that county. ON the poet of the country,therefore, he, for one, feltrfectl3r satiafied with the result of the dell s;on whic h had been; come to on this subject: and it afforded him sloe*, gratification to have the honour of addressing a body omen who could not in any way be •led aside from their duty, by local fears, prejudices, or rosineetions. They must all be aware that the chargh preferred against the present defendants grew out of a Prelim, which took place in the county of hancaster, in the month of August last. The defendants were charged with holding anti assisting at an illegal meeting—a meet isqr, the object of which was to inspire alarm and terror in the minds of their fellow-subjects. It was necessary to detail certain circumstances which had for hilt' THE SI TRIAL OF MR. lICNT I I preceded Go-meeting al!udelyo, and three woola for-1 themsees. maw:- et cicharge against the ,teried- AND OTHERS. lv [int,. and. it/ the same time, reflect light tou other parts ; lof their .'we.!uct. '11‘ . .. di fen:lams rile proved to hate! ; planned assent*. of puldie meetiegs: if it should be! : shorn that to change the law of the land by foice had been in contemplatiou r either in the beginning or in the progress of these meetings, they would lie responsible , to their country. It was undoubtedly the right of the ; • people of England. in any particular place, to hold . public meetings for the purpose of taking into their consideration alleged grievances, and to ask for the re-: dress of them. The right to bold such local alerting. was among the most valued privileges of British inb jects. But those meetings were unknown to the Consti tution—unknown to the practice of former times, and 1 unknown to.the 14w of England, which were called for the purpose of un:ting for one r object all parts of the nation. and which, antler pretence of seeking for relief from alleged grievances, went to inspire terr.w and alarm. If the Inhabitants of any county should consider that they were aggrieved by evils that were peculiar to their district, they had a right to meet for the purpose of petitioning the Throne, or one or both of the Houses of Parliament. for their repeal. But it was not a part of the law and the Constitution of the land; it never had been, and he trusted that it never would be a part of them, that 'the inhabitants of any particular place sl Id pours. the right of calling on all the people of England, to meet at one given time, and at one particular place, for discussing the grievances of which they might complain, and of coming to resolu tions on th e remedy which they, in their wisdom, might think ought to he' adopted. such, be would repeat it, never hail been the law, amt such. he would comma, never could be the law, and be would tell the Jury why it could not. No man could deny that the physical power of a country rested with thi people, awl those who, like sante of" the present defendants, contended, that all ri,zlit and all power came originally from the re solutions of the people ;—they who, referring bark to a very early period of our history, found in such resolu tions the grounds of our Constitution--they. eoutending that the people hail thence a right to inert too mew. proved that susli meetings must be contrary to laws — they, if they could suppose all the people in England assembled on some important occasion, on one great plain, to pat forth their claims, must, in recognizing such an assembly, a dmit a s a c o n s e q u e nc e , th a t in suck a Case all Constitutional power, and all the functions of the State would return to the original mass. It fol lowed then that if so vast an assembly—an assembly possessed of such mighty powers were convened ti adopt measures for the general good, that it would re% the functions of the constituted authorities, and the whole form of the tiovernment would be dissolved. Ileiwe, then, it followed. that the people meeting of their own free rill, or obedient to the call of some aspiring demagogue. to suite for any general purpose, and not for the remedy of any local or peculiar evil—it followed, he would maintain, that such a meeting, absorbing all law, never could be a legal assembly. If a ease were supposed of which modern times 'Worded no example, like that of Athens, where thirty thousand citizens form ed the State, and where it was theit established rule to meet occasionally for the purpose of re-modelling their lasts. then the powers of the Government being con stantly with the people themselves, such a proceeding sn'orhi not be at variance with the Constitution under which they lived. lint even at Athens, though inch extensive powers were exereked by the citizens, the greawr part of the population was doomed to unre lenting slavery, and were allowed no voice in the public debates. The character of the meeting from which the present cliatge had sprig he would now invihteilso. Jury to investigate. The right of the people of England to meet and discuss their peculiar grievances lie had al ready admitted. This was a privilege which from an cient usage they had a right to claim, and he trusted that no factious disturber—that no sanguine ilemagogne, and no piddle alarmest would ever be able to shake that right fur which our ancestors had fought and bled, and which lie hoped we should know how to preserve and to hand down to our posterity. The Jury would pre sently see low far these wholesome principles of liberty had been acted upon by the defendants. Of the course which Mr. Ilnnt hail taken we need not say much, for the notoriety be had gained left little doubt as to the very prominent part which he had acted. The others were more obscure, and lie would therefore tell the Jury who they were. He then read over a description of the several callings of the defendants, and proceeded to show that they were all connected, in some sort of way, In a general scheme for altering the Laws and I 'ffiistitation of the country. To commence with Mr. Hunt, it ap peared that fie had, some time in the th of July, isle, assisted at a meeting held in Smithfield, by whom assembled it was not now their business to inquire. At thud meeting certain resolutions were passed, the object of which was to inculcate on the people of England that the time was mow come when some extraordinary and efficient measures should be taken to remedy the tails 14 hich were then the subject of complaint ; when, in fact, something like a Provisional Government should be es tablished, to annul those laps which were passed with the concurrence of that boil at present called the Home of Commons. It appeared that Mr. Hunt and the party with him proposed resolutions that came to that in sub stance. Among them were two that went to assert that the people were not bound to obey the liws framed Parhaimmt, as at present constituted. The rub/floe body assembled at Smithfield proceeded to declare the people of England were not bound to pay the to imposed, nor obey tbe laws at present in force, trs such a Parliament should be procured as met with approbation of those by whom the resolutions just meg tioned had been framed. He alluded to the proesedift in Smithfield for no other purpose than to thew Ohs of Mr. Hunt's Wog ,7:17:77. 1 n 7tVoin g ie Bth of August a meeting. was called of the : pelt , Manchester, for the purpose of taking into coos thou certain public grievances—to discuss the best lied, of obtaining a Parliamentary Reform, and to cheese a representative to be returned by that meeting to sltAn the House of COOIIIIOIII as their Legislatorial Attorney. This, he thought, lutist strike every one, as a measure that did not fall any thing short of the highest nide meanour. Acting thus, they at once renounced all bro, and set the authority of the King himself at noughtr.by which alone, in the early periods of our Constitutioh. all Parliaments were called together. It was keeiri that in other time% Parliaments were wholly regal.* by the will of the Crown. It was only after the of of many ages, and favoured by a variety of happylit dents, that England became possessed of that ps deliberative assembly now seen in the House of - mons. On the Bth of August, it appeared then that r. Hunt made his appearance in the neighbourhoothilof Manchester. He was met at a place nine miles di t from that town, and conducted by Johnson, anoth of the defendants, to Stockport. Ou the morning of 9th, it will be found that they were together proirress towards Manchester, with, as i r ben Wolselev in their company. He coOld prom, words used by Hunt himself, as well as from bill about the town of Manchester, that the mee • for the purposes before specified had been prohl the Magietes as illegal, and the people were' . I hidden to attewl it. It appearsethat Mr. Hord wog disappointed, and displeased at the conduct of the people on that occasion. They had offended him in some sits- lar bi •• • ,•.. ,TEsAt.kN t sere by the disposition which they . hail vaniirsted 'So sled obedience to stye milers of the ir Maestrates. He made a speech on that IN couched in very inde recrous language, in whirl, he spoke of the blagistratss, nine in number, as being nine tailors, at the same time reproaching the people with hieing . yielded a too ready acquiescence with their pruhibitiom Ile found them disposed to obey those who might he called their 110- vernors, (as there were MO Corporaeitoe or tither public body regularly constituted at Nlanelet ster.) be found them ready to yield obedience to those entrusted with the administration of the laws, and such conduct he re prehended as unbecoming and pusillanimous. Ile con sidered the time to have arrived when a different course ought to be pursued, and he consequently gave notice that he would hold a meeting in Nlatechester on the following Monday, August 16. and invited them to at tend him on that day. This notice given, Hunt went to the residence of Johnson, near Manchester, a place called Smedley Cottage. There lot remained some days, and while there, lie should be able to show that he was visited by Knight, and another of the defendants. In the mean time he (Hunt) had gained a sort of popular reputation in Nlanchestrr, which ally man might obtain with little difficulty who could descend to go about, making seditiolis speeches, and littering the passions of the mob. Apparently in connexion with the proposed meetings, certain secret drillings at the dead hour of the night were known to take place at various places within the distance of live, FiN, sewn, or eight miles round Manchester. These elrillino, though decidedly unlawful, were holdly carried ols, and were dangerous to approach. 1/n the morning of the 15th of August, a party of men were seen at a place called White-moss, ' practising military evolutions, in a way that could leave no person who had ever seen troops exercised in doubt that some ulterior object was in view. Attracted by curiosity, those who saw the party at White-moss, ven tured to approach, when they weir pursued, beaten, and treated with great cruelty. thee of the too persons who thus found demise's es in the power of the drillers, being recognized as a special constable of Manchester, to save his life he was oblige.l to fall on his kern and recant the allegiance which he had sworn to his Sovereign. Mr. NcvT heree4l to ask if the Learned Gentleman meant to connect these proceedings uith the matter at issue ? The Jtoue apprelienoled that .Ir. Searlett would pro ceed to connect these with the mailer before the Court by evidence. If he (lid not do so, lie should certainly caution the Jury agaist , t suffer:Nl a pre•joilier to he ex cited against the defendant by ;lie intruuuction of col lateral matter. Mr. 111 - NT remarked, that lr:s faittlibip must iw aware that nothing but suds a remark from the Bench would be likely to do away the impression that might thus be created 'by matters not to be proved in evidence. The Junue certainly thought that Mr. Scarlett would not introduce such topics, if it a ere not his conscientious belief that he should be able to establish by evidence their connexion with the errs , . It lie did not do so, the course he was pursuing would be beneficial to the de fendants rather than to the prosecution. Mr. SC %KLETT assured the Jury, that be would urge nothing to the prejudice of the defendants that he did not mean to establish by evidence. He expected to prove that Mr. Hunt was m u tt deeply and crimi nally connected with the proceedings at White Moss. 'I brew who were clothed with authority in Manchester, having thought it their duty to forbid the meeting called for the :nit. and 31r. Hunt having taken upon hinr4elf to preside another, called for the 16th of August, the Magistrates found it necessary to have re course to that'll...loos which may 4; lawfully ap plied to all large pe e meetings. They accordingly made those preparations which the nature of the case seemed to demand ; and now he had to open to the Jury a scene, which, among all those which had been wit neseed in this our native land, had hail no example. He then proceeded to describe the meeting of the 16th of August, and from a large county may be pointed out to the .Inry t h e situations of the villages in the neighbour hood of Manchester, from which the Reformers marched on that morning, to assemble in the area near St. Peter's church. The majority of the population of Man cheater he described to consist of a poor laborious peo ple. Their numbers and their conditions would alone Mere justified the Magistrates in adopting some extra ordinary precautions to preserve the public peace, bad the meeting been confined to the inhabitants of Mam chewer alone, when called at a time of such general die tress. Ile then showed, that from such being the case, bodies amen were seen, on the 16th of August, making from all points of the compass towards Manchester. At Middleton, the defendant Bamford would be shown to have been busy in arranging, in military order, a body of three thousand men. Though they were not in um- form, they had made considerable progress in their mi litary exercises. Under Bamford's directions, they dressed, and formed a hollow square with great regu larity, and they put laurel leaves in their hats, that they might be distinguished from others. This party was Dined by another two thousand strong, from - Rot:Wale. ront I ildharo a body of men had marched, with which it would be proved that the defendant, Ilealev, was connect ed. In the first instance, it did not appear that he assumed the command of those with whom he marched ; but in their progress towards Manchester, he would be proved to have expressed a strong opinion on the probable effect of the meeting, and to have declared that he looked forward to a glorious result from the proceedings of that day. From other parts in the vicinity of Manches ter, bodies of men were advancing, and lie believed that cps 'wry Is'gh road leading to the town a similar specta elowas to be seen. Things were in this state up to eleven o'clock on the morning of the ltith, when that testy was seen approaching Manchester, which had been observed on the preceding day training at White Moss. Murray, the man whom they had so cruelly beaten, was thee lying in bed, nimble to move from the bruises which he had received. When the party from White Mom came opsosite his home, they made loud hums, halted, and by their whole conduct proved that they exulted in the recollection of the proceedings of the anterior day, and hailed the sufferer to confirm him in the oath they had forced him to take, or to give him a warn ing of what might result from his pursuing a different course from that which it was their pleasure to enjoin. It was about eleven o'clock that Mr. Hunt and his party were seen entering the town. He clime in an open car riage, and Johnson, Moorlionse, and Wright, accompa nied him on his approach. The Middleton and Roch dale parties had united, and Mr. Hunt entered therefore as at the head of an army of 8080 men. But the num bers that accompanied him were greater than the amount be had stated, as such an army is usually much increased by the stragglers picked up on the way. He (Mr. Hunt) first approached Murray's house. Here he stood up in the carriage, and seemed to assume the tone of a cont outlier ; the word to " halt" was given, and the same Mum (whether it weli to be taken is good or in bad part It bas for the Jury to consider) of a knowledge of what Wowed on the proceeding day at White Moss, w a s even, that had bees gives by the party from White ose. Thence passing on, Hunt and his party arrived ie. lie Star Inn, where the Magistrates were then en , Mid in the discharge of a most arduous duty. They Iteml greeted with hisses and groans, and various expires oboe of contempt. They next passed the Police Oace, where the constables were in the same way saluted with boots, hisses, and groans ; and thence the party pro- • ') • I jlO, • -% • r 1 'l / 4 1 14 eeriest to the intended place of meeting. awaked for their reception by Bassoord„ house, and Knight. Saxton noel Knight were mispl a y e d in arranging the mob to receive Hunt. It wouldbei • - that the Magistrates having taken their station i 4 a house on the ground, had cstablishesl a li ne o f ess „,. - hies extending nearly to the hustings. Th e mo b , 1 " -- this, dosed so as to form a thick body of men eo aad the hustings, so as to truant against any attempt s " . proach. It was then toneeinesel that the Couaitt es 4 . sired certain bodies of men forming the Noe to tut their places at certain distances, and when fir . 16.. arrives!, to open, that lie might pass, a n d t h ee .--"'" diatelv close their rants again. Utley w e r e tant e , i. monished . to " take especial care to admit m as h it their friends, as their enemies were known to be am* hand." These arrangements were made with mit form and regularity; and when the body, at the h a l o which was Sir. Hunt, approached, it would be that he was escorted by men bearing large sti c k,, their shoulders. They came four and six a -b reast, be „ I ing banners with sliffsrent inscri p tions , and moved', .. troops well sliscipiirial to march. then they dye: near they were ordered to wheel off, which ther ad s i lk the pre. ision of regular troops: atil. naked; all dot motions indicates{ a considerable :-rne.-;essee i n m itn in . exercises. Mr. Hunt, at the lie.:•1 ~• t:le holy se se '. 1 which be had been de'scribe'd as Ii- t.htte, d am m . • ceeded to take his plaee on t!..- laatin g ., or c l o ,, to them. One banner tans ia•er:lo.d—`• Eunal Yr. ! presentation or Heath." Ile I.:A &it to Jan—, Inalect what was meant by chi.. It was it fotf,a, then to ! PO into the question of Parliamentare le. farm. tin that in hiPet Irally lionistsrahle to il .. Itriotic on differed from Barb other. R ut e l: a l neon ever varieties of opinion nught exist on this 'di r e, I there a-as no Lemma: us sti who would not resist tom,. iunity rather than countestance arty atteuyt to aket tie I Constitution by force. Hut did test the motto, e E qu i ~ . nepresetitation or Death,' go to intimate that the F a . t i es com p os i te the mesemg were deferiained to obeit equal representation, or death it ottlsi ensue? bid it to in effect 'Sr. flea' those who displayed the banner es.. sislered e ithal represantation to hr with them so f ar , ?lot .c o s a-a. that they were determined to nhtais it Lc fore. or perish. Aii.ith..r bawler Mit inscribed, s a:, Corn Laws. - lie coma , anted o:, this, and &hewed tla extreme danger sit exhibiting' such a motto hel m , lumaitside like that assembled at Manehestet of lON 1 moons at least ; hut, according to 90111 C Statrlllerl4tilit I meeting consisted of hat fewer than I.lo,ltimp onest . Ought the people. at a period of esieb severe dien s% t ., he thus inflamed ? Let them meet to call fora lefen e if they would; but was it to be endured that threshes!: assemble in such immense multitasks, to dictate ee , 1 measures which they wished to see adopted, mil !Jo. dare thee it tl:at which they demanded were ed tot ! ceded, ttiey would accept of nothing else. lit kist 1 : touched on the three items of Parliamentary iteitatie versa' Suffrage, Animal Parliaments, and tattle bile. . I . : To the Jnry he subiuitted, that the weavers, shied" land cotton•spinners, by whom these sondes site . i agitated, were not the most competent judges of thee: frets of those changes which they wished to istrosaar, , I into the Clinetinttion. He showed . that the people. ma made dissatisfied on these subjects, ascribed to the yak 1 of the recommended changes all the cells with which Providence might afflict thew, till they supposed the measure which they called for, and that alone, the paw cea for every cal:unity. The folly of the mob, is teat respects, he instanced, by referring to the metiers which took place, and the complaints which were raised. when it teas foned nec ess ar y to alter ow calmly.. Be cause eleven days were added to the dale of the day on which the change took place, many had tbsmakans to Irepine, as if they had been actually- robbed ti Attu r days. lingarth, in allusion to this suhjed, had set i felicitously pictured the absurdities of the mob, by o presenting them in one of his pictures, as throeine it their hats, and franticly calling out, " (jive askant. ' eleven days." There was about the same degree arra I son in this cry, as there was in that of " Annual Parte went% Universal Suffrage, and Vote by Ballot' In he had not yet done pith the banners. Anotherdins was inscribed, " Let us die like men, and set be odd like slaves." Who, he wished to know, had betoulin or attempting to sell the people of Royston, aim Middleton, and the other places which that day peered their thousands into Manchester. lie, fur his part, had heard of no selling for slaves, or any thing of the kis/ What, then, was the object of exhibiting such sham! One flag was surmounted, by a pike, and another pre the representation of a dagger. What did these stns hot this (though no man liad the courage sad asdatin to say it with his lips), that such instruments 'eighth useful—height procure the Reform wanted to beach& people? but our laws did not teach that any tech timid he need to reform the English Constitution. Whim this meeting of the 16th August? Was it a atedisc . d the town of Manchester? of the county of Lancaster:l any particular trade? No; Was it rallied by saynernd connected with the town ? No; What, then, eat tk object—what, then, was the purpose, for which it meeting was called ? These were questioae m whirl the Jury would have to dire -t their swat It i ous consideration. He must submit, that it edit only he for the purpose of inspiring terror sal dew and he would put it to them, if any man if rpmq could without alarm behold such bodies if 11,11111% shoemakers, cotton spinners, and other mecheMilli labourers, as moved on Manchester on the lab di* gust, with all the threatening characteristics of ss i* eliding army. Could such assemblies be lurid ba, country where laws were framed for the protedisa • property? If they could, it might he well that ifr should dispense with the laws altogther. It was Met Mille for such meetings to be tolerated. WetelbclS7 continued, they would compel the Oovernmestlsew tail a larger military force, than any friend tehilltrt try could ever desire to see in England. WM?: the civil power do in such cases, without the aid military ? What could the 2011 constables of Itrui7 l ter do against a mob of Aft-Pitt men? Ti,. tilS finding the mob increase, as it did on the 1 6 t knew not how far its ramifications might Hued• could they be certain that the people of Binsisg.• Coventry, and Preston, were not coining dews 11 0' I them, as well as the Reformers of Rochdale, MirlattiA and Oldhain ? The Magistratel in consequeecebr: alarmed, and properly alarmed, for the safety L.. propertyantl lives of their fellow-townsmen. tad ""; sequence they were induced to issue a Itatrasi v l, apprehension of the leader of the us tillitude. .._ declared, that meetings called to insp ire alarm roe, were illegal. The meeting of l i ke lath ed . % if such were the Haw, must evidently be aelawdli • it would, he doubted not, he made , out awl sfreat.. evidence than it bad been stated by him. Is 1 7.1.,.. sion, he called on the Jury to pay all sweeties might be urged by the defendant, and to gifr. 11 '. was sure they would, a conscientious rennet, ape Al . vs' their belief of the nature of the case, arni the foster of the meeting. ?Maas Fidler was the ant witness called. 0 , ' O . : >V Lion publie.hooso. three miles from litiderpt.. 111•16 de the Bth August; saw Mr. float. win es ~, Ida a derma ; &sod then, and remained about two!''" Whams Moire Mss defeadeet bloothouse. he Is' _....,, prtatfar sad asetkismor. at Ilateipett. MiNdk.gliMpr that day ; be emme after Mr. Runt. atteesPl iPitbr " er tier; be Inquired if Heat was there, kg • It ilri 4;1 4 1 a ~ Thisbe ; Wal e; N I ...- Hal►_, ei r* I 7. 1 ak wn aid p• rl en' run! .sr a pert So in Clie! A not I Ije awl wI .411 ;MICI to di wan ohs/ 'tali vieri moo' tem tow theT U. Cc I Itith engs M* the 1 MA be II bet Wou do; trm (Rh eon E Ma het Joh crui The iret4 •hh yeti 4:141. he, 7 bow II lie/cm •» poit liou %Pr of Eitl chit (ha Lk doh aw l Pep aNIN Pa tom *cm losi dot