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• * - t ' • Ck A „ • 4116 • • • • - • . - • r r (t, - - • n k••• - 1 a 4 . . , LONDON, TiI e URSbAY, AUGUST IT, 1820. No. 4796. " The Cowie for which 11.4MPDEN in the Field, and SYDARY died on the Scaffold!" PIMP. SEVEN PENCR- SANT IN1)1.4 HOUSE. Att,-irl 10, 1e9.0. 4IHE Cour/ of three/or* of the United rum pew y o f Verrkontt of Ettglan:l. batting to lot Eta! Indies itriby Orr \dire. MI a QUARTER LYOIO4FRAL Cavil'r of the said Company eiUbeheki et their Ilona', Ito Leselenhall:street. on W Fa ',yam-, the 27th September nett, M II o'clock in the Nee l:Qom Just published. price R.:. in hoards. SrtINENS oP SYSTEMAnt . 31ISRULE: or. 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CIARROLL, Contrnetur for the L e tter)' just ended. ‘J hr.singfalfilled his duty Waving a fulls:id undiseetead "tement of the Scheme before the Public. will tom content himself w ith presenting a brief Epitome of the present Lot leg, which the Contractor says " for novelty and fairness steads mariralled."—The Public will reed and judge themaelies. Ottt of Alt 6i600 Tickets Now op mile. there are MAY alt by which the purche.ers eon tet their money book ; by . SW retitleina 6.338 Tiekels the Public must lose the wholeee pert of their mosey !!! The Tickets of the present Contract %yew pearbsled , of Government for eenrl) NINF.TSRN • TOOL:SAAR POUNDS less than the last, and yet the Cosystvrrp . s CSARGIS A winneit PRIOR. —The Publte mill perhaps Rap to reeirecile this eonduct with the present' Contrail. rue's assertion that Ise has •• public suivaistage as well u lae uiyidual interest most sincerely at heart." Tickets and *hares ere selling at Cut n 0.1.4; when Offices. 19. Caftlitilt and la. otfoat.stfeet. where he sold. is the lain latter/. No. IN. 73. a Prize or tlft.llloGoti4ol 4 , 11 other Capitals, bring a greater cument.than any other Office. NIGH THE: TEAL OF JOll [Ritter the conclusion of the litai Report of the proatedings has been eat but as the public interest on Ilse ed h the delay. see content ourselves dress of :lir. Jefree to the Jnry the first prisoner who wink tried. Mr. Jaren ET said, that the Jury, wereltulleil urn to deeii privoler was preyed to be gni hot is he gollty of flit spePir , high- weaver - A mein onsunpisocy war is raised for titissipisrixne constitution, deposing the King. life, is net treason, and has nel, Tfie gne•tion then *imply comes sorter been guil►y of waging WAY purposes? The learned counsel :wiled, that an action which ,how of rouipassitig the Kinfr's dean. iy .(ty 'trued into an orert-art ; but this is alt.igether erro aeons the act must n.rt only be a mere evidence of the existence of this criminal intention. but it must be a more ur attetnpt towards the accomplishment or elle ention of that intention. All urert arts must be means towards the completion of the end or pnrposo of the existence of which they are the proof. There caw be no proof or intention so clear as that furnished by words deliberately uttered bnt •tot only must words he indicative of a treasonable intention, but they most be intimately cOnnected with the deeds which zre either dune or to be done. He was not in 'hi, declaration resting upon his own authority, fur Jridge Porheeteye4 expressly. that words cannot he held as evidence -a guilt, unless they are the means to effect the crimitud intention. There must he a positive proof that there was a purpose to overturn the flosernment. There is a didinerion in this respect betn ern the crime of trea son and all other crimes. In the comntission of others felonies the prisoner is proved to be Guilty if there is eridettre of the set, unless he cats ad , ince a proof of a . contrary intention. But in treason the whole ones prisa.►di Lies sport the Crown. They must nit only prove against the prisoner. the fact op which the charge is grotanded, but they mast also prove the treasonable intend's t sod if they' cannot do that, though the act he made out, ye: the prisoner must be ac- quitted without any eicelpa•orr proof on his part. Here a certain act has been committed. but the question is. net, was that act legally er illeoally dose? tut,'lyas it done treasonably? This i• wise yursooo -aserf['llrls+.pleflAs• ••• made out, It meters mitt what tither crime is--whether pillage, plunder, or resistance to the King's troops: the prisoner must be acquitted: for to , say that, be cause the act involves criminality, you *ill attach to it the specific name of treason, is contrary to reason and common sense. He would nut deny lint that the prisoner attacked the King't forces in an illegal man ner; and he thon. f ht it rather ridiculous that about It) witnesses should be brought, one after another, to prove the very same identical facts—facts whirls he never meant to timiy, and which it was well known he did not mean to deny. It seemed as if the only de sign was, to horrify the hearers with the bloody net retire of men pushing, driving, and rhruatine at each other with deadly itrapons--sotnetimec carrying pikes. Sometimes guns. abed at other tint , pistols—outliner else in fact hot a continued chorus repeated over and over again—an exhibition of English law, stretched out to the greatest possible length ; whereas, if he is asked if this formidable and ties,erate attack is treason, he will answer no. The mere ve , liiiig and thrusting at the King's forces i.• not treason : she'll a neigh bourhood rite, eurautl, and drive out the military from among them, this is nut treason' ; it a band of smugglers are attacked by th. King's forces, and make resistance, it is net treason ; indeed, nothing is mare CODIMOII than occnrrences of this latter description. In the same manner, if a person com mitted of felony, and the military are sent to take him into custody, although they should be as-' 'milted in the execution of their duty, such an attack' will not constitute treason. Suppose that a case of the latter description had just now happened, and themi- Mary were to come into Court and give a frightfnl de scription, similar to what has been given to-day, of their faring pushed, aimed, anti thrusted at, which wits a grievous crime, as they mete the King's forces, and the others who opposed them were not; might nut the Jury, after they had heard time whole story, in justice ask, where is your pcoof of there being high treason in all,this ? The burden of this proof is not to be shifted over to us, but rests with the public prosecutor. And when inquiry is mmie, where are the grounds on j which this proof is rested, it is found to rest on nothing l it else but a handbill, with which they have connected this unfortunate man at the bar; which connexion is founded upon thin prineipl•—that he must stand re sponsible nor the conduct of another. Ile must admit the handbill in yiestion was a and if an individual had been proved to have composed and circulated it, and to have gone and fought after wards, his case would no doubt be a very perilous one; hut there is not a tittle of evidence to connect Hardie with tile prisoner at the bar previous to the discovery of his interference with these handbills. He reqtild sulk, if, because this handbill had been given up by an' individual with whom this person came after *anis to be connected, be must 05 that account ' _aunty of knowing the contents of this hand- Isllt..anil'of approving of them. Is it a construe: ve guilt which is to he tried, or is it actual guilt ?- le I' ll c le a perversion of law and evidence to he feistel on a Jury as proof? 'I bey possessed wore candsur and hu ..areity than to sutf ' r themselves to be sii!apd, hi o, sti.:h a shadow of evidence. The case of ths.illeer ilsand•lliili is mach worm. It has been taken fee gramln* that birmilse Hardie resisted the blagistristimille Wm,. posed mike reading of this hand-billi ilk. millirilikilf ...../ 415211 IP i Val ipproCed of its contents ; but who would not have been incliaed, in the same situatio,p, to hare acted in a • manner ? This is Hardie's own ease ; but it is long process of derivation that this guilt is the prisoner. Because Hardie would not suff bill to be torn down till his curiosity was ;gratified, therefore the prisoner must have known of the contents. approved of them, and perhaps circulated because forsooth he and harder were seen toge• . days after. This a supposition of a won description, and which no Jury would dare to won a• a grcntud lb, touching a hair of the pri head. He had always looked upon the act at as the least material part of the evidence. there is nothing but this act and the yin-um :its hand-bill. Ile would call their alma the situation and circumstances of these hey afford the most natural explanation of let. A great many of the inhabitants of the time the act took place, were engaged 'awful practices, and the evil of disaffection was spreading far and wide. In this state, when the reformers were gaining strength, and saw that the respectable part of the community were uniting against them, was any thing more natural than that they should carry arms in their hands, in order to guard themselves from the hand of justice, and de fend themselves against the soldiers, when pillaging their more wealthy neighbours ? Is not this a much more natural construction to put upon their conduct, than to suppose that they rose in arms to subvert the l l laws and constitution. It might have been their de.; sign to furnish themselves as troops to the stand•rd of reform; but this reform was not treason or rebellion : and did not their condtect favour one or other of these, or a similar construction ? They did nit urge any one to join their standard, though they might easily have dune so ; not even the soldier whom they met upon the road, and whom it was natural to suppose they would have compelled to go tilting with them if they hld had a treasonable intention. They seemed anxious to avoid the military, else they would hate 'kept the high road, wiwre they might hate met a party: but, on the contrary, they skulked secretly along the hanks of the Canal, climbed to the top of a hill and lay down, that they might keep themselves hid fill it grew dark, and then return privately home spin: In this situation the tro ,, p‘ came to leek them —be would nut say how far they were authorised so to du t but granting they were authorised, rot single step 'was taken towards a treasonable objerct. , oot attack till they were euoPtraitteil to Vs attached ; h was a mockery of the phrase k— riging war to apply it to these meti. A parrot of poor radicals, who hid been plundering and drinking A little, and who were desirous of joining their bro ther reformers, but not being so fortunate, they re tired to conceal themselves out of view till it grew dark, that they might sneak away Inoue again. In this state they were attacked by the military, and they, as was natural, resisted. It was no doubt a violent resistance, but it wa: a re:.i.,tanse to an arrest, and this is the whole matter. To what did the equip ment of this formidaii!e army amount who are charged with levying war To 16 pikes, a shaft without a head, a gun or two, and two pistuls—such arms, such discipline, such a levying war' It is said that they could easily have escaped ; out it is nut very probable that men on foot could have es :aped by running from a purr::l of cavalry on horseback, and armed to a fur-, riiiiialile extent; aud, upon the encounter connitencior-, they cried out they would treat with them ; that is, that they would retire peaceably if they were vittfercd; aud on this offer being reftssed, they naturally de fended themselves from fear of punishment. Every part of their conduct is perfectly explicable, and only explicable by the snppositims of the skirmish having originated in the fear of a gang of delinquents from the a; prehension of a milita.v force, and perfectly sta. accountable upon any other constrortiosi; and, above all, the monstrods one of their having a design to forerun-TS the constitution. '1 he learned gentleman concluded a defence, which for eloquence and inge nuity of argument is almost unrivalled, by the best specimens that leave ever been exhibited at the bar, by a most impressive mid pathetic arpeal to tbe mercy :Ind candour of the Jury in behalf of the unfortunate E .; *moiler at the bar. [The learned counsel's s p eech ,se.upied the Court fur about three hours.) A NEW SUBSCRIPTION FOR MR. Hu sr. [Prom a Morning Paper.] Yesterday was the anniversary of the unA•rtnuate Manchester affair, and the vigilance of the !Joliee was quite alive to the circumstance; Mr. Hunt having ex horted hi 4 partisans to observe it as a solemn fast, &c. ; and its having been ge • Tally reported that the )letropulitan fiddled* intended so to do. About one o'clock in the day, the Sitting blagis taste at Bow-street received a communication fr.on Sir Robert Baker, informing him that symptone of hhra radiralistn, and a disposition to celebrate the day by a breach of the peace—had began to manifest them. selves in the neighbourhood of Seven Blain. In eon seqnenee of this information, a detachment of 61111114.11 or fifteen of the patrole was instantly daspetched to that populous district, with orders to apprehend any disorderly persons they might find there. On repairing thither, however, they foaled a written placard nailed against the half-rotten shutters of a wretched little shop lately used as a magazine of ra dital.brealdast powder at the corner of West-street. This Pliiird was one whole . sheet of foolscap paper ; aroan4 it was a bordee•of block es'ape, curiously dis pram; In feahrtins and other . fapcifal ievh4es: and on it was itraerTd with a pen in . fialoing rod letten— ,'The r.a or ntoo'itlooso- •• . • " Apaiversmy Anew! tge lOth, WO," re . Beneath this was hudg a little box - , - idmetntng lily s4c4ars, with Alt (mein it largo enough'io admit ja penny ; and at the door of the shop . stastd-,a : stsmly • .'. , 150.V. , Mirrored of inelited, it firesante. JCLY 14 similar min FIN R.%IRD. th e t ia rough a I tate Trials bi tieollaod o . • attached tu i era permitted tu be the ocessi u u has . staff... the bi Air es with insrti . dc- gratified, th It at gliTling• In of the contents Julio "aird'i diem, becau questioft cMA they, the t h ee a f ew i i ide was not t 4ti t Hurl w o e s des ar linty of a • k upon • r taunt libettmi s - : ::naniiifY. ;an t e s h eat Abbet to irvOrar. PAW% illthoymuir 3‘e. of orprthrowint de yet the/ 411 F, i.t tal`ing awlq * stature of chi user berth cods " the rues tu he, has . ii, as the 3 war for these I , it cuutlue [eel for the crowd 110 ' j litasgow, at shows only the inten . flags in unlawful .ath mar be fairly eon- tr ,„ .„„,,,i; elderly dirty sort of man, with a short pipe in his mouth, and a snuff-box in his hand, " which ever and anon hr gave his nose," in very liberal quantities.— Around the knees of this personage were assembled some thirty or forty ragged little boys, apparently much amused with the following exhortation which he addressed in rather a hasty tone to every person cn• rims enough to read. his placard--" Come, my good friends, r',►t you valk in here and gi►e a kw pine. to Ike valisat pittiiinet Henry Hpat, Esquire ? Not that he is in any wen's of the mosey von know, but only fur the honour of the thing like; valk valL• in ! For ht certainly was the aunt oridiaAtud pattrihot AS ever was known in this here country. i. — linzra : cried the boys, and now awl then chink !Ass a halfpenny into the slit, and probably tLe wr:ito: might base accumulated by nightfall the matte ut Italia gallon of /ivory, bad not the police come to spoil his spurt ; but they ruthlessly tore drawn Lis placard, and scared him out of his oratory. Su there was an end of the " Fast of Blood-gush," Mt. Hunt's sub , cription, and the cares of the Illa,ristrate, at once. TAIAL AND ENECUIVON OF QUM I 4NNE BULEEN. [FROM THE. lIARLUAN at•sit•ac.ntre.] • " On the 15th flay of May, in the 2Sth yeare of the raigne of Hinge Henry the Eighth, was arraigned ih the Tower of London, in a scaffold for that p0rp0..., made in the Kink's-hall, Queen Anne Boleyn. the Duke of-Norfolk sittinge under the 'loth of State, tit. Lord Chancellor on his righlet hand, and the Duke tit Suffolk. on his lefte, the Earle of Surrey, Swine of the Duke of Norfolk, sittinge directly before his Father, a degree lower, as Earle Marshall of England, to whom were adjorned twentr-six other Yeeres, and allitind them the Querne's Father, by whom she was to he tried The Kinge's commission being made, tle• Accusers gave in theire etidence, and the Witnetn.e, were produced, the Queene sictinge it her eliaire, made for her (whether iu regard of any infirmity, or out of honour to the wife of the Sovereigns) having an excellent quick Witt, and beinge a ready speaker, did so awsvery to all objections, that ha'i the Peeve. givini in their verdict accordinge to the expectacio of the Assembly, she had he.•u acquitted ; the: (auiong•whotu the Duke of Suirolkr,4ite hiug's lira ther-iu-law, was chiefe, and wholly applyinge himselfe to the King's Ituurir) prouounced her guil!y, u here upon th.• Dike of Salivate, Lord High Steward of KagLott, Wasik* proceed tier:online—toe the verdict of the Peere,;contle !!!!!rd her to death, either by twine turned in the Toner lireeue, or beheaded. :is his Ala, jestie iu his pleawre shoulithinke Litt. . 4 sentence bring &winner& the Court arose, and sloe wns.clenveyed hack again to the e lo mu be r . the Lady Boleyn, her aunt, and the Lady Kingston, w.fr to the Constable of the Toner, only attending her. And on - the 19th of May the Queeue was brought to the place of execution, in the Green, within the Tower, some of the Nobility and Company of the Cittie being admitted tither to be witnesses than spectators of her death. to, whom the Queen (having ascended the scaffold) spike on this manner:— •• • Friruds and Christian People: I am here in yintr presence to suffer death, whereto I acknowledge my.. self adjudged by the fare, how justly I will nut say; I intend not an accusation of any one. I bese.sche the Almighty to preserve his Alajemie lunge to rainy over vuu ; a !mire gentle or mild a Prince never swayed sceptre; his bounty and clemency towards wee I aw sure bath been especial!. If any our intend an info: , . lithe survey of my actions, I intreate him to judge favourably of me, and nut ra.kly t • :main :111V yen. serious, conceit. And so I iiisl toe world las est ell, be seeching you to commend me in your i .rarers to tied.' " This speech she uttered with a smylinge counto-• nonce, Owls kneeling down, with a fervent spirit sail,. "lo Jesus Christ I connuen I my' s uk; ls,rd jelill receive ley sunk: . anal, repenting these words very . .often, sud.senly th.e stro!‘e of t h e Word sealed the debt . .that she owed into' justice. . " Nowe the Court of England was like a stage. • .whereon are represented the vicissitudes of ever easi ests fort sine ; far, within one and the :ante 1111 l nth, ILO saw Qneene Anna Boleyn fsouthisinge, accused, c Y. detailed, executed, and another a..intued into her place; ii-1 both of bed and homier. 'l he first of May (yt went.: eth) she was info.used against, the second inaprisioned,4..t the fifteenth condemned, the • seventeenth 'littler': a • ... her brother and frienils, who suffered lu her.eitose,i and the nyneteentle executed. On the twentyeth the .. hiug merriest :hose Seinen:ly, who, on the. nyee on.t , :. twentyeth was puhlignely shewed Qncenc." •., •.• • LI/PO/ii . ./.7/' SKia l— P.4l' ER. . • i • --ta---- - • The Baron - de Iturstett, Minister of Foreign Airrirs for Baden, adireesesl on the part of his Royal nigh- . nets the Elector, a not. to Prince Metterniels, itneer.. diately after the close of the confere ices at riettna,•jis. . order to Belie it irons that Minister an explination,pf. the opinion of the Attst•rian Cabinet, with respect to, the line of funds': t which the other States of (Wry. many ghoul I pursue towards their tierusan sithjessts. , , , The answer of the Prince cosiiaies a full ejtpusicion . of the views of the Emperor, of which the folliffi o ng is given, in a private letter, as the enrect ph-, stance:— . After rendering justice to the Joyal ind efligNe...a Intentions of the Elector, de itritice i l l epatiates IT tis e . prodigious advantages which have,routlted,Wlß ..._!tr .fir, -from the Congress of Cori:Sad, and from the x , li., ferene r es held at 'neaps. The latter, though .not so, iasis::lzlicitfgircaml)airwessidliales.7eioseilvhPeasr isebra.Lrirescs.britmhilarvi:encis:74seti4llhems.:#spirarnepsutuilartsi‘.... kieni4 which could tort otkepri,se„ perlnsps have, item • rimrained. But the Minister wore partienlarly.,insists, Akron the whole tenor of the consassnicatio . b i% this edict), that the Sovereigns ut Germany 4b0n1.1. • I • ry i , ( la) ware p•Pblished. handioniely printed In quarto. price I/. 3,-". in board.. iSTRUMI /US MITERS /font v...ridtta vele std v.", : addre.aed to Franciv ('olman. and George coolly the Chin ; with Annotation. and Orenaional Re marks Ili ! I'ORGE COIAIAN the Younger. Evritt'i“, of :lte I•ellern...sre an Expligstion or the Mo d...llolllnm Pilltrite) (afterward,' Earl of Rath) fur hi< worn of a Peerage : and Paper.; tendintt to elucidate v4 C , th , relative to the proportionate sharev of tu t ts be attrltinted to the elder Colman and Garrick, tow st*The i*lnntleitine ‘fAtriege. DiatrilibiT. Cadet! and W. Davies, Strand ; and W. R h id i g gse. Dashingly. I