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• wellt•-041. • - t , . hope that he might hate some communicant-tit ith the Lys Officers of the Curren, ur *time of hi. N , ujesty's Ministers, on the hest mode of carrying matter into execution. The ATTORNEY-CW(6RM., in rising to oppose :Ins motion, did not mean to discuss all the argu ..titeeta !HO -bribe 7Hers. Mover: He expected to iiilliseerd some specific measure of redress sop g ggpd v o "wet the era, and *then submitted to die AlLheal"'""4+Ban lbe -I.mishittire. So fie rak hieing doile, The mode nominee(' suggests a greuritoratiini in the existing plan ot ofintirtiniting wohhe justice. 'There was no einftlit.thst tIW Crown 'haul the ;sweet cif issuing special ettenehisliotss, meal Iserhaps some Annie arrangement for the dispatch 4,f• business in the northern centilitre moy be tultoPt. eel ; but it was rplitft iinposallile, be lyiprilterwied, to tolerate such-a *titers! proposition es this, tinh orn the greatest presitset &It beratibis end consider... tiuu. Some ariengeneent lair be iiereisiry, but it -could not be effiteled by this afieriden +Mention eh -the constitution of the judicial &tun of the colts. try. He would. Illetefore, Move the preiritfut gains. -tinn, as the Hon. Gent. had mot "hint! •grnonds for the milieu he thought ptoper lb tutrke. Sir C. Moat - % expressed gnat 'unwise et thb coarse taken by the Hight Hon. and Learned Cleo. 'Unman oppoine. He engin rather to here atevid .tstal amendment thou *et th► question in this 'use, by a eminter-inotka. The Hight His. Oms ',mid. that his Hoe. Friend had side *it lib thesen _ fem. • Had he net nrasits•ty sheiks li=2: — .of aureate Siul crying "ohm the ed •tires eE pumice was deloyell Until often its decisions some •seadered nomailiasg to the claimant' , treason. was foetid why the ntrthern etilinties shonlll sot have justice administered to them in the um, portion it was desk wet to ether' parts' of the NW& -try. Cernwell has m dislidt as Cdneherland, and yet it had two As.isee in a year. 'Bristol certaisq .had only sew, bat by • particular rotate, a genteu chimed with capital offence could have his rinse shortly mord for trial into aoe of the adjoining counties. It waseureh! no tenurial departure Amu the established practice, as had been mid, to hive*/ Spring Assizes extended to the notthern counties, which were now confined to the counties of York and Lauce.ter. The additional expense would be comparatively nailing. What signined two or three thensassd pounds a yesr, to have equal justice done to all at home, when the country Sherwin int little • if Kiting 400,000/. to Spain, far a preemie& et tais years distance of abolishing the Sieve Irrade (Herre.)—The evils wove peat in private interests+ in the Northers counties, owing to the delays that; took place in the adasiaietration ofiustice. It was well said in the ohloherieransiitieus naafi wendertrws, wwJJi darerenis, and this woe complete infraction of those wholesome ;Smithies. Lord CASTLMAIIII raid, that hie Right Hem Friend. in moving the previous questiere, mealy mesas to say that the House was net prepared to see its we, through the course recommended by the Hon. Gentleman. which was in fact a re-ma drlting of tame of the Courts in Westminster flail. It was quite impossible to adopt the major proposition of the Hon. Member without admitting a variety of others which branched from it. He by no means meant to say that some arrangement in the Northern counties might not be necessary, bet this should be done by an inquiry, which the Hen. • Gentleniau should have moved for in the first in tance, instead of adopting his present coarse. • This was the meaner in which the resestion was darted for an inquiry into the advainistvation of justice in Wale". The proper course would be to begin with au inquiry, and not at the outset to .tart with a leading arrangement, which could osdy Le met by the previous question. Mr. M. A. TAW LOIL said, that he ires not tied to any particular course, all he wanted was to have a great evil redressed, and it mattered little to him in what manner it was done so the evil was re- moved. Mr. IhouGustr was glad that it ease of this im portance, where the delay in administering justice amounted in effect to ■ denial of it, *as -met by a ;general desire, at least for an inquiry into the•geiew auce. He therefore recommended WI Hon. Friend to withdraw his present motion, and immediately sulwititte in its plies. one for au inqairy. Mr. W. SMITM held a letter in his hand point. ing out the extent of the existing evil. Mr. W•aan was glad that an inquiry em about to be made into so extensive an evil. The exteti .ioes of the machinery of the law wool& without any innovotion in its constitution. remove the dor iculties at present experienced in the northern counties. • Sir M. W. limey cordially ■pprored of en in. . quirrinto the mutter complained 4. ilir. WTNN complimented the Moo. Never on his application to the lament subject. He differed .rich him is to the fortu of is motion, es it went to make a material change in the plan of administering the and just on the rye of the Spring Amines. An inquiry would certainly facilisoks She attain. went of the overmany redrew.. Mr. M. A. T•vt.ott then withdrew Ms motion. anti gare notice. that be would more fir se jir gutty to.fanrrow. ARBITRARY !IMPRISON MEW. Sir FRAIICIS Bunotre presented a Petition tram James I,reelo. of the county of Lancaster. The Petitioner complained of being arrested tatty in April last and thrown into a tiongettet. where be had euthing toile in hat filthy straw. Ott the erns. in g of the 7th 01 April he was brought up to Len. • oi h ten others, and corned before the Seem. hay t.l S otr, on a charge of tremon. He can. .I.IAIIIO, as they were seadiug him •op from the foundry, of Ilan trans that were put on him, and the gooier otonrerellt ea Donut your prated limbo, if you do one behove yourself I'll gat tom art iron collar." When brought before Lord Skimped*. the Noble Lord told hien that the charge spinet Imo come from a respect:Ma sester, and that he would be brought to trial, and weir* due notice. 4,, May-hut the Petitioner woe removed to Chelsea. where lie was handcuffed, mil his clothes taken from 1 every night and restored to him every tuuuninK On the I.4th November lost. he th.elitirged without trial, and bound over to .attend in the Coon of King's Broth on the first ,t.tv of the lost 'term. Tile Petition watt laid ea the told., mad ordered 1,. lw Mr. Baut (.:tAm had to present a Petition entitled Sidisouth, sod wariest from Wakefield,. Arlene :there was a secure House of Correction, 'to the astle at Catribridge, where he - Wnsiletaine'd until list Inman-, and then discharged without trial, `with as little reason assigned for his Marini's!' as there lied been originally for his imprisonment. *le complained that during his imprisimmenfhis busis tress became rotted, his lionise - broken 'up, and hie health.materially rojnred. tie (Mr. Broughams) held itchis hand • certificate to the hat fact from member of the Royal College of Physicians in Landon,land'attributing the Petitioner's indispnsi tion to his confinement. Thus injured in health, and ruined hi cirrnmstances, he was thrown again upon the world. The only reason the *Petitioner could assign for s the treatment be Jnaa experienced was, dust he lied beep acquainted with two persons, named Oliver ail Bradley—(Hear)-i-who were concerned in coisteuiag meetings to be held at hi, house, iss Wakefield. 'tie first knew Oliver, who had been introduced to him as a delegate sent down by the Society in Loodon,lssid repreoented as under the netroitii‘se of Sir F. Biteshltt and Lord Cochrane. in the course of this proceedingpliver manifested the greatest atixiety to get the 'Petitioner to take such active and prominent steps as he should re 'etionstentl—he said it wet in vain soy longer to pe thin% end that they must resort to physical force tb obtain redress. The Petitioner's rely to this reronuntinlation was a refusal of the proposition, and A threat of denouncing Oliver and his project to a beirtbotaing Margistrate. Henceraine the Petition. Ws ailed, fur no sooner had he inti meted his intention of bringing a (glare against Oliver, than the latter, Anitliup himself in jeopardy, determined on 'remov ing the person whom he feared—he accordingly, Vithont tlielcomledge or consent of the Petitioner, 'wrote circulars • to different persons, calling a meet ing it •Scholes's house. This meeting was not, however, held, halite Petitioner refused In allow it, or have any'thieig to do in the matter. This state angst of the 'Petitioner:was confirmed by informa tion which hisiton. Frieed (Mr. Bennett) had col lected on a recent occasion, for by that it appear ed Oliver hod beeaeomptaining to a number of persons of Scholes being entirely too lukewarm in the cause, and his refuel to have the meet nn g at his house.—( Hale, Aetrr, Alan)—'fbe • PlMtioner distinctly denied that he had ever sow present at more than mie meeting, and that 141 fora Petition in favour -of Reform, which had Iliftwerienis Lem presented to the House. The re soli of every inquiry relative to the character of the Petitioner was most favourable. He had been 'for three years a deputy constable over a large and populous divtrict in the neighbourhood of Wake field. Luddism had, daring this time. either mild* its appearance in, or bed approached mar. that part of the country; but, by his exertions, had been effectually suppressed, and peace entirety - preserved; so that the Watch and Ward Act was not applied, as it had been in other places.- - For these services he had received the warm appro. tuition, nay even the thanks, of the Deputy-Lieu tenant of the district; he had been also (which eta be a recommendation to Gentlemen opposite) a - of die assessed taxes for the space of three spume. A Isighlyaespectuble Magistrate and Lawyer. ▪ whirled of the Noble Member for Yorkshire (Lord 1:111111•0). and of his venerable and distinguished fa- I, thee (Sal Fitawilliam), had inquired hunt the Pe ' titioner's distracter and statements, and wrote the following letter on the subject : " I have token same pains to inquire into his i case, as I ma at first prepossessed against him." —(flits, said Mr. Brougham. is really the con ' sequeute of those oppressive eisactments, which - mod for months to prison a man on so serious a charge as that of high treason, and thereby create a general 'impression unfavourable to his diameter) —The letter proceeds—" tut I am now thorough ly convinced i.e has been most unjustly dealt with. and that he lied no more to do with treasonable designs than Mr. Wilberforce—( laigh)--or the most innocent mint its the kingdom ; and this will no doubt appear if a full investigation can be had into his case.'--The name of Ins Hon. Friend (Mr. Wilberforce) was Isere merely introduced, as being one syanitiosous with innocence, to represent in a 'hang light the impression of the waiter es to the innocence of the men. The Petitioner further prayed, that his ease should be taken into the con sideration of this House, and that they would tie pleased- to afford him such redress as their mercy and cinemas, might suggest, and that the Secretary of State : kir the HOOK Department would return 1 , certain papers atiklaid memorandum books, which had been tokeu from his Ismer, which contain ed the only vouchers for a debt of fifteen pounds doe to a poor widow-4A He did nut look at this part of the case with the levity that (feminism on the opposite vide did. These fisperefornied t h e only evideure and security • the.poor womais's sale property. This •Petitioner toads • plain. uncoloured statement ; he did not coil down vengeance on the molests of his stafiltr ings---hut Ise trusted this would be no reason with the House for withholding their most serious atten tions from sac+ strong appeals to their humanity sod jastices. The Petition was then brought up, read. ordered to tie on the table, and be printed. Lard FOCESTONe moved, that the Petitions of Messrs. Ward, Bamboo, Evans, and or • number of other itemise, lamented et various times to the finale, be entered as read. 'Phi; was accordingly rhome—owthen Lord FOLKITONK said, that when he had pre sensed the Petition of Francis Wand, ois Turossiay kat, he then stated that he would call the attention of the .14onse to it welenately ; he now, however, referred in refer all the Petitions lie had enume rated together to nu colintlerattore. %Vireos they weighed all the facts stated, hot was confident they would rounder that ionic provisiott for redress was dose to the grievances of the Petitiosters, lie f e lt ma' to introduce tins stayer. at au early period Of tlw Sessomo, because the Noble Lottl (Castle rragio) had sonol a 'till of Indemnity 14113 due as • matter of course, from Parliament to lits liojesty's 1. ♦ lk' f 4. .- , and that it was not to be fonsuled on Report of the Secret Cenitnittee. On tine he I obibref44 . 4llo Rita House might certainly to anxious foe the liberty of the people, as well as • security of Ministers, and before a Bill o f • would be granted, ought to examine if had inn-boot►d rrrsrilird. To attain t his was the ground of proposing the intend . The Habeas Owings Act had hero sus . uitttrr ten times within a period of messy Aria After -all these suspensions, lie wished Hill& to mark, there hail been hot one Sill of .ndeinisity, and this at a time when almost the very same persona composed the Executive Government as do et preer!it.; so the present Ministers found the necessity of a Bill of Indemnity on a single precedent established by themselves. There was tio 'either example of it to be found on the Statute Book. filinisters thawed no desire to prevent dis.. affection; in the exercise of the powers iiitrwted to them. they bad far exceeded their legal extent, The very fact of asking indemnity was au admis sion of having broken the law—it was very ultra ordinary to come to ask such a thing. The sus. pension conferred no new powers of commitment, or release from imprisonment. The only new power it bestowed was thdt elf detaining , yond the bounds initublished by law to ordi nary cases, of preventing persons confined from re sorting to their - right of trial withiu the periods axed; no authority flowed from it for apprehend ing or releasing by new sorts of worried., ; there Were regular stated forms, according to which peo ple were to be apprehended and imprisoned. Au inferior officer was not in my to a man, I have an order agaii.st you from the Secretary of State--you must be thrown into gaol—you mutt stay there us long is the Habeas Corpus Act continues suspend ed." But in the apprehension of the'Petiti n nn ere. lint one of the usual'fortnt had been observed. He would net dispute the authority of the Secretary of State to issue a warraut, though undobbtedly it was ass anomaly, an usurpation ; and it was only in the time of William 111, it had been confirmed. On the question being then argued, one of the Judges Bald, in opposition to the authority of Sir B. Shower, that a Secretary of State had power to ash • •ster oaths, as well us to commit. It would have been more reasonable in him to say, that he had 'not the power to commit, any more than, to udiniiii stereo oath. Lord Camden, in deciding in favour of the power of commitment, founded his opi nion principally on the case referred to, declaring 'that if it did not exist, he should be inclined to pronounce against the power. It was a power new to the common law, and if it was to be eontinued, it would be advisable to add to it that of admini stering en oath, and to take away the anomaly. But allowing the Secretary of State's power to commit, it most be by stated form—there was no peculiar privilege, uo exception from general rule in his case; neither could it be supposed, that these 'forms were unnecessary in cases of treason. The limn was directed by *smote ; the Magistrate was to takedown the deposition. on oath, of the accuser; this was to be transmitted to the proper autho rities, so as to be produced in Court en the trial. It was tint reasonable that this should he required in cases of felony and misdemeanor, and not in high treason. The plain construction of the eta lute is, that the same rule should be followed in treason es in lighter offences. But near of theft forms had been observed in the case of the peti tioner Ward. The proceedings against him com menced with the Magistrates of Nottingham, and when he was detained under the warrant of the Secretary of State,, he could not obtain e copy of it. and he was never brought to trial.— The House had been told of exaggerations in the statements of the Petitioners: it was possible men who hail suffered such severe treatment as they had, might let their feelings rise beyond the strict letter of truth. He happened to see the orders sent from the Secretary of Stoles Office to the gaoler. who lied the custody of persons imprisoned under the suspension, and it was certainly ordered that irons should not be pit on, except in cases of necessity ; but then the Nuhle Viscount had done all he could to prevent those who ought to look to their treat ment from visiting them, so that he was responsible for any unjust treatment the Prisoners had received. Exaggerations were to be expected ; but there was one grievance stated that was not an exaggeration— that of solitary confinement—a calamity. in the opinion of many who hail studied the subject, not - lighter than death itself. He occasionally looked over the Journals. and would read from them an extract, t 3 drew the sense the House had formerly entertained of this. The case was that of Lord Ciuitlemaine, who, in 1089, was colifitied in the ' Tower, on a charge of high treason, out a warrant from the Secretary of State. After his examina tion, and being remanded, he solicited perints sinus to he brought again to the bow, and there stated that he had been shut up alone, and de sired to have the liberty of the Tower. On hit withdrawing, a Bill was directed to be framed to 'einem solitary imprisonment. and to retirees the abuses of iniolerse and, at the same time, the Attorney-General was ordered to prosecute the Officer of the Tower for his improper conduct.— Thet case was similar to the present one, amid if that did, so did this call for the consideration of the House.—(Hear,lsear.)—The proceeding in its he ginning and end was contrary to express statute, and to the spirit of the law. Men were committed without charge, and released without trial—the release wee as illegal as the commitment ; lie would like to risk the Attorney-General, by what au thority men imprisoned on a legal charge could be discharged except after acquittal. or trial, or panful' The mode of discharge was on their own recognizance,. Supposing these men had been committed on bone Ode charges of treason, such a discharge was clearly illegal—it was con trary to all the statutes en the atibject, from the Sil'Ed. I. to the statute or• Philip and Mary. All these in spirit refused persons charged with trea son from going out on bail. How much less then • should three people, being committed under the . last statute, lie liberated even witiiion bail But even if the offence was bailable, it discharge by one Magistrate is illegal. two are required for this pur ware by the statute. If some redress was not provided, whet would happen to people in remote parts of the country? Westmoreland, for niobium, a ' man might ne kept in prison 12 or 13 months, and then tensed out und told he should silty no longer ' there. if he attempted to bring an action against ~~\ *.s% >4 3 ~~ .• • . the authors of his wrongs, lie issivdtVgaisi nailing, and obliged to pay colds. h might seem extra ordinary that he should complain of the relief of forded to these people—it was the `work or the relief lie objected to, it was injurious to all the pro late of Englasul, mud lie hasped the House would nest tom over such mouton sporting with the bursa the land. An I lon. Gentleman had stated is few Hight, ago, thet roll the severities hail been pot in practice against poor people, and not atonal.' people.of for. ; tusie. Supposing such were implicated, the rea son was, Ministers wanted victims ; they chose poor people, as bring ignorant of the lows, and glad to • obtain 'doily on any terms ; they knew that ref orms who understthal the law, would oat submit to be tented oat in dent Manlier. He had beets told of the bad diameter of Ward, and thet all his ell le options should he discredited. He desired to know on what ground he had been charged—had he ever been convicted ? The old mount), best en no convicted man should be held innocent, seemed to be discarded from one side of that House. As this Petitioner was a trident at Nottingham, the very focus of discontent, and not taken up till after the disturbances hod broken out, he lied the se thority of flovernment to say he was not a deo gerotta men—this they most admit, or confess lie hod beets left at large for the purpose of fomenting discontent.—(llear.;-;-Itivestigation was not a mut ter or favour. lost of justice. He had presented a testimonial of character with the Petition, signed by some residents of Nottingham. He was strong ly of °pieties tbitt *the House might to institute an inquiry, not so much from the nature of one in divides' case, es the general mode resorted to of appretiestditig and releasing. The Noble Lord then moved, " That a Select Committee be appointed, to examine the truth ol the allegations in the several Petitious read, and to report thereou to the House." Lord CASTLEREAGH observed, that the. Noble Loral had widely deviated from the tenor of has notice; he did distinctly understand that lie had given notice of the appointment of u Committee Nl intepoigate Ward's separate case ; but though the Noble Lord hurl pursued misrli a devious course, he would not, but confine Isis remarks to the cousi rleration of Ward's case only. The Noble Lord had not been very accurate in his researches, when he stated that there was hut one instance of u Bill of Indemnity since the Revolution--tau the t•mitrary, the Noble Lord could not sheer one case of suspen sion unattended by such a measure. One iudem nity, certainly, that of 1801, had teen of o peculiar nature—it hail • retrospect to• till the supensions since the year 1793. In Ist William Hl. there had been one; its 1715, another; iu 1745, a third : fan in short, followed in all cases where impending dangers 'hail rendered a saispeasion necessary. AVith respect to the charge of mammal commitment, he denied that buy one individuall had been committed without outing apparent grounds of suspicion, sustained by the oath* of credible witnesses, quite different from the person principally alluded to in the House—he meant Oli ver—and without the advice of the Lao Officers of the Crown. The measure of suspetwien lied been founded ON the °pinkie of large majorities of that House, and the Report's of tso Committees, in which Committees there was not a single dissentient voice ma the main fact of their Reports, the exist ence of an organised conspiracy, working on the discometst produced by disireos, to of the over throw of all 0411' ioatitinions ami eatubliolionetits. All the subsrasitial forms its tomtit 'mut were observed. The Noble Lord emote. say that the eviffstice ill these cases ought to be p;ossed as it is in ordinary cases. Ism outlawry case,, the Judge ought to call (woo the Magistrate to give up the eviblence oil which he issued the warrant ; hut if. after the extraordinary powers catiferred on fileasistere by a Suspension, the Secretary of State wet hi be lifter. wards called upon to give lip all that evidence on which he acted, in shut a situat• would all those be who bad given it, and given it 1011 the terms that it should never be mode perish z• ? The indemnity is not • Bill to cover Minister., taut those loyal people all through the commie, who !rad placed it reliance on the good faith of Ministers a— With respect to the hardships suffered in prison,. there was melting to preclude any itolivialtiol s.:on ceiving himself aggrieved from bringing his ac :Wu and gaining redress ; iu this view the motiou Was totally eitmecesaary—the Courts of Law were qsaile open. He believed these Petitions had beets brought tip as mutter of inflammation, mid to put tlie House into the situation of negativing an inquiry into them. and refusing that consideration to them which belonged to another part of our 'yawn,. A Committee of that House was peculiarly unfit ted for furnishing redress to the alleged grievailtes—it could only advise trdress, if it saw redress doe in another place. There sweet was a snore flegrant instance of misrepresentation thus Ward's Petition in every part. The second article of his complaint was. that he was confined with felons, but at was to be considered he was these looked on as a felon himself, having been apprehended on that charge. The Noble Lord then read eta affidavit of Intilip Bailey, gaoler of Nottingham, :he substance of which was, that Ward was taken up on a charge of felony—that he had a condos-bible heal allow ed him—that the floor of his cell was of stone, but quite dry—that his cell was the heat of those allotted to felons—that any had smell proceeded from fumigation—that lie had never made airy complaint himself of his cell, or the state of his health—and that fin irons had been put on him. His Lordship theta *toted. that after three or four days confinement itt Nottingham, he had been re noised to Oxford gaol—from the Resler of which place he hail another affidavit, contradicting in us stroug a manner Ward's allegations. Ward himself had written to Lord Sathisouth, desiring dianges in his situation—they were alwaywisuitle--sod lie had lastly written a letter of thanks to that Nobleman for his humane attentions. Lord Sidenouth found, midi. dentolly, its a letter of his to his wife, passiuF through the Secretary of State's office. a complaint of not being able to ettemi divider service. He immediately wrote to Mr. Hobliosise, the gaoler, on the subject. His reply was, that he had never spoken to I about it, that he would permit the state prisoners to sit iis Isis own pew, and that they might attend pub lic worship on Wednesday coil Priday mo 11l l tgs, and on Sundays, morning and eveniug. The King'soffi • cars, and among them Lavender, examined the Mate of the prisoners at Oxford—there was sio complaint, bat strong expressions' of gratitude. His room j~~ ' ' there sometimes smoked from a linrtienbir direction of the wind ; any alteration h e ti ss us O t t W ip er ltsos offered in the chi ,,tire ; t, to tnittaß eitinitson ment, lie complained of it, 1411(1 wt.% titt.ll Itllo.e ed to mix with the other state pri , ftliets, am! to Like exer cise in the yard. He left the island Its health. The prison was exceediustly clowned in °September, and he was thee' reu►oveJ to iiiriilher Ht should mow advert se little to the individual vice ; reeler of Mr. W01,41-444.001:4 , •14.“ lee tweet alma + , said animated to him to be aufficient to .hew • spirit in which those charges Wri.• lack,r,-(1, the manner in which the tune of the trifled wish, doe after day, in II teneliog is) 'Min.— ( Ilear, how. from site t/vpueition.)-1 le would et eie t state to.the House the itsformstion Government h i sto l received aleanat Mord mud other persons, Dial ta consequence of which they were rerresteel, bee miser he could not bring it forward e; te hoot fatting a k that altered trust which they loved to thos e so u , Udder the ittfluence of comminution awl .. 1 . 04 .t, had communicated it. Tbe•wish of those pencils was, to avert the evil, but rot to prosecute, and,. there fore, it was meat that the it names shoo Id be disclosed. Hut lee would thew, by other docomeists, tiwet Ward's description of himself in this Petition was very little coiner:ant with the fact—that it was 111. deed entirely at variance with the statement of those who knew htieu, and had muted with le . . Ile de scribed himself as is Most Mogul send ttlignots pet-. ." It is," said lie s "considered tiler using that 1 did not resist the' constables. But the .goon who pursues Ilse doctrine; of ,lesies elitist, mud endea vours to do unto others a. he would qlstet should (la unto hire, would not 'r•-rest stash aercit Mewls. I leave always fotheweil that sunsets, anti, • therefore,was Hot afraid quietly to /ace lialf-s -deeztie of ...Nue,. But let. inutgann eta. figs:-e the unhappy titillation of a 'IIIIIW, tell., Iv7.N . Vver 'NO • ly ragagrol for the so r ption Id Is !iuuiip « - Hml whit, vonstanitv worked 11. h 4, lii hours a them, draggall to a ptiestii. A but whet, added to this, poroeterel ;ill the titter le rcaito that adorn hempen itature—(ll hag --fet-1111, r 4 that IA been stretched on the rack, when torn anew fr all that was near sued dear tee him. l'he recol lection of those individuals, which ouce wv 0 , 5.0 south ing to his td, became, neither these tire t:oistAnet., st iodate! to Piing. Was it jet.:t to lc htisli set t 1 u mat), who had never, in Isis life, done any thing that deserves! re 'orison ?' Flom reedit , 1 this, ITSI', would be led to/mullion:it that 1l r. ‘Varel VirlUutka Mum LINO, to place ate masse riu its true huh!. he would read the confessions j o ,ppm, Mete! ell and Teetnis,Somoge, alt., were I otivietttt and executed at Leicester and Nottin /Imo', !II 1 8 16. Those persons were connected with dist plan, its which astonsioution wits stinted site a re gular system of plunder mish devastation, when the operation at the law was supeiseded by I he autho rity of the Luddites. The two perton, tt e olitnis ha referred, on the eve of their execution, r t tile those confessions, the only atonemeut they caul, d offer for their crimes, to the Alogistrates, awl th e y' • .sere im mediately transmitted to Goveriement. The first was the confession of Joseph Alitchell, who was executed at Leicester for the Omani'," outrage committed at Lough,* o gli, where a Wat burned, awl several la-rNima were mottle id. He would not meotion any of the nausea of pis tire concerned, except that of Ward, IF r fest reasons. Mitchell said. in huts Cut O r estommi, that, " At the destruction of the multi [try at Loughborough, he was in the top shop, with a gun mu his hated. He committed nil viede ice —he Duly threatened. C. B. tiest told hien of ti p pint. ms Tussle/ay. Os Weriavadwy PrUtIC4S Word spoke to mid wanted him to go, us there would be a great deal of money. Mr. Httittlicette was to he shunt or his machinery destr. (Cries rf Hear, hear.) —F. Want observed, the Loughborough oxen would give lOa for having the. business effected—lost, set present, their loom It wt.e• awl they could not muster metre than 40/._ but he did out doubt, ley exerting himself, that he could procure snore. Ile also said that men won't! be weeded in the manufactory. awl some of the Lads might get in. On the day of the Lo aglthr - rough business, NtArtil of them met set the instiga tion Inn, in Nottingham. Itepoirent there reeti‘- ed Ins. from C. 13. who told hien lie had got tire money from Francis Ward. Depotieeit nett to Loughborough, and received, in the first a tistai.ce, betweten 3/. void 41.--aftstroartla he got 305..0r inure. Money was raised ia Nottingham to carryou these trausuctions. Alany were active in furthering teens. Ward was peculiarly so. Deponent assisted it; destroying machinery. iu %Vastly/irk-lane. He re. criers' motet• for his exertions. He understood it came from Ward—hut Ire did not get it from him. He assisted iu destroying frames at New Reclined _tend attended meetings at several places, on the , subject of Ineaking frames. Ward plotted the business that took place at Cootie Desuoingtoet, While it was pending, they held their *meting,' at the Duke of York public-house, in Nottiogettien. %%rind w s a member of the Comnii.ne that met there. R. Ward ass &misty ; F. Word 14 is Treasurer. Deponent attended a mertitsg in Chrtet met week. H. Waal acted as Secuetary. Their Met to devise meaus for raising mousy to defray the law eXpewatal of the approsciling trials. It Will decided. that it should be given to F. Ward. would apportion it. R. Ward said. be had pro. cured II person to shoot out of Wright's wets, who would nut tarn out. One. was to be .slat us in example. Deponent was offered 4/. to shoot a filtlll, but tieclined."—(ntor, hear, "The House," sold Lord Castlereagh, " may this(:' that the idea of bargains being mode fur !lie nos siltation of infinities's§ is quite fabulous : but secte traniaietions did rerdly take place, as uppeone, the trials. The parties met and settled the price of murder as. uncosiceruedly us if they ware the price of stockings. or any oilier article." fur Deponent contioned :—" lle did not know the man, and asked who he was ? M. said, it wht one of Mr. Kendall's melt. Deponent persuade)! diem not to do it. &lettings carte ha'penny held st the Colonel IYardle troth j—la Nottingham. Francis Ward mice offered Deponent, when there, 1 01. If lie would shoot S. weer-instill torturer in Nutsitiglism—acrd 4/. more to shoot his formic. Knight. I)epoteeeit refused. A I' l ' 4 was laid by Ward to asunder the Judge at the 114 Leicester Assizes. Ile promised IU man IUI. piece to proceed from Nottingham to Leicester ilk:a purpose. Deponent refuse" to have any to do in it, but received IQs. fur his trouble. 11 to the 'attention of the Hons^, front teed dupe Ministers; skims< sslorkuJiseeu itteasprited dug the Sus- the Report 1 in union Af 'she illt.byes Corpus Ail. 'fie •tewtoted would oboe that thit•Heise wield do him the forest to attend be noxious to the imireitint (Alinement of the Petitiotter. fin' the see His name was Benjamin Schnles, of iViitteSeld, Indemnity in the county of York, where he had been it th e people virti i oiller awl ale-house keeper until last July. tnowledge He then was arrested under a warrant fro% Lord ed motion. .0 , • 2_____.l_ i • --2 r___ 1...4:- IA 21•21,12.21 main NI PP .01/11 ■ e.- I :‘ MO I