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MR. HUNT'S TRIAL. YORK 4SSIZES. • (RY OUR EXPRESS.) FPfcre Mr. Justice BAYLEY and a Special Jury. THE KING V. HUNT ♦ND OTHERS. Ai l'hursday rimming the long-expected trial of 1 .1 . Ilunt and the nr!tee Defendants indicted for a , oiespiracy on the 16.11 A taguset last at Nlanchester„ eaeolisenced at York. At a very early hour in the. ecerning some persmas of the first respectability in roe county were admitted. By : au, arrangement I:lab/anal considerately made by .the High Sheriff aid his Deputy, with the aid of .Mesars.• Brook and Bulnier. and .the attention of Mt. Suavely, the Go ve,uor of York Castle, the Reporters for the Lon. d.el press were admitted through a private entrance xt a quarter before seven in the morning. The box to the Jury is waiting, and the treats usually occu pied by attorneys, were reserved for the Magistrates of the county', their own box being insufficient to uffurd them accommodation, the attendance being so full. The ladies, who in general grace country Courts with' their presence Ito fascinating grouper, ware not detemed by the impeltdiug risk attendant upon the terrible pressuremf • owd, and many of them had obtained admission . ore the Castle rates were thrown open to the pu lie. Long be fore the Court sat, the prelude to theaf t e li serious business of the day was fi lled up by • of liu aaorous incidents which occurred among the persons wh , ' were so fortunate as to obtain early admission. The galleries were kept locked until the hour of public admission; but many who had got access to the body of the Court, and who were there prevented from occupying sesta otherwise appropriated fur visdors, adopted the expedient of ascending the galleries, without putting themselves to the inter. int-diate trouble of mounting a flight of stairs. They scaled the walls, and helped themselves to the trout rests without ceremony. At ten minutes past right o'clock the Court was thrown open, and the rush into every part of it was tremendous. lo less than a rui tttt le every corner was crowded almost to suffocation, and the assemblage that then tilled toe Court presented a most singular spectacle. Ludier, apparently of rank, were hustled about by the yeomen of the county, and for a moment the usual courtesy which all men wish to pay the fair sex was suspended ; the general decorum was only forgotten for a moment, for owing to the excellent e; - iangenients made by the official persons who had the superietrudance of the Court, no more were admitted in the first rush than could obtain accom modation without any greater inconvenience thou rl at usually ericouniered in crowded ineetinge„ I:arnedinu ly before the Judge entered, Mr. Ifunt, Air. Moor house, and the other Defendants, 10 in smother, with Mr. Frierson as their Solicitor, took their seats at the Barrister's table. The Rev. Mr. Ethelstrine, the Rev. Mr. Hay. Mr. Sylvester, Mr. LI u I toil, Colonel L' Estrange, Colonel Fletcher, teal the test of the Manchester Magistrates, were also in the throng ; but such as were subpoenaed as wittierans were ordered out of Court, until they erre called upon fur examination. Witnesses at tenth I.ido , withdrew by order of the Court. Lord powdea was also present. At once u'cluck the Defendants were arraigned, and they severally pleaded Not Guilty. When the bills were found against them its Lancashire we published • copy of the indictment—it charged •Hrury Hunt, J. Saxton, J. Morehouse, S. Bom bed, R. Jones, George Swift, Robert Wild, J. liti . q;lii, J. Healy, and Johnson, with a conspi racy to alter the legal frame of the government and constitution of these realms, and with meeting tu multuously at Manchester, on the 16th August last, with tlo,oollpersons, many armed with sticks, which they carried on their shoulders like fire-arms, and with bearing tags 01111 banners, on which were in ecriptious and devices calculated to inflame' the minds of Lis Majesty's subjects against the consti tuted authorities of the State. There were several counts, varying the form of the indictment, but in substance implicating the accused in a conspiracy egsoirt the State. . The filtiowillt: Jury were sworn to try the case : Wm. Halt, Esq. Foreman I Timothy Nuncio, of Clifton, Wm. Chaytur, Esq. Esq. Thus Felker, EN. of Layton Get), gc Beau irk, Esq. Jobs Holton, F.sq. of stank I John Chadwick, Esq. Gen. At Minim, Jun. Esq. ifin. Seib,, Esq. Thutaaa Rotuma, Esq. A tf:.'t was prayed, and the following names added tit the special list :—Septimus Bromley, of Scutt:naffs, near Hull, and George Addy, listi. last Jti"• r expressed a desire to betatonerat ed tram attending on this Jury, but as he had no petsional objection, the Court declined excusing him, and the above-named gentlemen constituted the Jury. Defendants conducting* their own defence were permitted to 'eminent. at the Counsel table, where Mr. Hint took Ins station. M. • iiilinoir''wppeaved as Counsel for Mr. idourhonae. and Mt. HOLT for Mr. Saxton. Mr. Latitibate'rpeeted the pleadings, and at hatf.tinst nine o'clock Mt.SCAIeiLTT addressed the Jory for the prose. eutieni, in r llifectli'arlitch occupied wit hour and 35 iniireitesAW dElifery. He commenced by stating, that the case which he was under the ne er.sity of opening to thesis arose out of circuit'. stances *Lids hot obtuiued much importance, mud which had je seititteit t the public mind, that lie was persitaded - the Jury 'bid often heard the subject c iniaised throughont'jihe country. He merely at lidded' to tkinattilloitiqy fur the purpose of entreat. jog therh, so-fit isitit'ons possible, -tor their own sakes as weil,Us fit that of justice, to bluish froni 111eir 'Mud .*Wateter Impressions • they 'had sufferelf it-44 touching the transactions out tof7litO,cle this arose, mod solely to bring' tlifir vetitiO:npinnilstrfacts which the* should hear supported in .etridpince before them - in that Centre. MAU its hosing this trial Beard bleftwei ItiletistJury of the County of Yotk. Compised. • is' it'llltsys wee, ;of Gentle. • . seer, of se . siliKt intlifigluee *eel hstetrity-e Jury that could' Wt to° " rVereir be supposed at.. •""fectlid h i " SOY" %eel •.'tirisprbery prejudice, which mew peolospe fin* rwisseluee in the par. tacutur ewe elsewhere. The Defendants were i . charged with tilting a part in concerting , meeting at Manchester on the 16th of AugustAht, tilt object of which was to inspire terror iuto the minds of his Majesty's subjects, and endeavour to effect a change in the form of government by tins hiwfht means. Much hail been said respecting this subject olio.' the right of the people to assemble in large bodies, and upon what constituted a legal Meeting. The people of Englsnd had an un doubted right to meet for the purpose of consider ing public. grievances, and seeking lawful redress for any evils they endured. It had long.biren the Oractice for cities, counties, towns, corporations, districts, and trades, to meet to consider matters relating to their affairs; it had long been the practice of the Constitution to bold such meet ings, cud to receive petitions from then, on the Ttironte, on in either House of Parliament.— Ile never beard a lawyer arraign the legality of such meetings ; be hoped he would never hear a de cision pronounced which would militate ageism their continuance. But when lie declared this to he the right of Englishmen, he also denied the eight ofl all the people to collect en mesas, and by the threat or terror of their physical strength overawe the constituted authorities, and declare, in such a man ner, their will soil pleasure to be the law and con stitution of the hind. Such an assertion of popular right, used by the mere weight and capricious in fluence of popular strength, never was, never could be the law of any country. • Those who con tended for such a right, and asserted that it lees consonant with the early periods of the British eonetitution to exercise it on any vast plaits on which the people may choose to congregate, mit took both the law and inistated the fact. Could tiny man maintain that the people might in this manner recur to first principles, slid state at the end of a day's meeting, that the power of the state had again devolved upon them, and that the origi nal muss, us in a state of nature, were alone the pos sessors of power and law, that the people resumed their functions, and that the existing government was altogether destroyed ? This was the absurdity which followed from the assertion of such idle theo ries, which legalized self-constituted meetings, and placed the supreme will in the hands of any dema gogue who may obtain temporary ascendancy over the people, and assemble them any where he pleusrd—not accord.ng to the old and lawful prac tice of assembling them in their own towns, coun ties, cities, corporations,or trades, but merely bring ing the people f all quarters to coy place lie may point out, mid then calling tlw►•meetiog the ()rpm of the w•tll of the inhabitantav permanently fixed on the skt. Alodern - (Imes• furnished nu example of the exercise of such a power as vested in the people. In the republic of Athens there w a s . certainly a wide democracy ; 30,000 citizens bad there the power of debating and deciding upon, whenever they pleased, the aliens of the State. But even there it was a remarkable fact, that though the citizens asserted and maititaiiiid their own free dom, the greatest part of the iiiliabitants were nevertheless consigned to unrelenting slavery, and excluded from the enjoyment of any thing like civil rights. Lm modern tones, he repeated, uo such assertion of power was to be found, and its existence in the manner in which it was by some claimed was incompatible with the well-being of any state of civil society. Ile would now aril their attention more immediately 'to the Defendants .of the principal of them, Mr. Hunt, it was mine emery for lion to say airy thing—that geutleinam bad coutrivrd to make himself pretty generally known throughout the country. There were others connected with him in this transsction, who were, however, a little more obscure, and of whom it may be necessary to say soinethilig. Kitiglit had formerly been in trade, but of late au itinerant ora tor, without any fixed station or occupation. Jolla. son was a brush-maker, living near Manchester, and also a frequent orator at public nierlings,— Sexton wascomiected in some way with the Munches ter Observer. Moorhouse was a coach-proprietor at Stockport ; Healy we; an apothecary ; Bamford, Swift, and Wild, were residents in the seine ileigh bourhood. Some time in the month of June last year, a meeting was held in Smithfield, which in fused tin small portion of alarm into the minds of many persons in the metropolis. The ohjt ct of the meeting, so far as their resolutions, which oeid still cautiously worded, expressed it, was to inti mate to the people thit the time was at hand when some extraordinary step would be taken for the recovery, as it was termed, of their liberties. The right of the people to establish a Provisional Government was more than hinted at, as well as their power to disfranchise the consti tuted authorities then dispensing the affairs of the state. Mr. Hunt, who attended this meeting by invitation, as it appeared, proposed Resolutions which disclaimed the principle of paying obedience to the existing Parliament, and recoil:mewled them to obey no law, to pay no taxes, until they obtained that species of returns which they were then engaged in seeking. A meeting weir at or about the same time advertised to he held at Manchester, on the 9111 August, to consider of Parliamentary Reform, and also to elect Representatives to serve for that town in Parliament—tile latter step in itself a high misdemeanor, and severely pu :wishable by law. Mr. Hunt was also to figure sway at this alerting, which however was very pro perty prevented by the Magistrates of Mauchrster, 'Who prohibited Iles illegal by public advertisement. To connect Mr. Hunt with the introtiuti of calling flit meeting of the 9th of August at Manchester, he would show I to have been at Bullock's Smithey, nine miles from Manchester, and three . from Stockport, on the evening of the Bth, and in company with Sir Charles IVolseley, Mr. Jolmson, and Mr. Moothuuse—it would appear that ' he expressed . disappointment at the fate of the intended meeting, and his unwillingness to concur with those who were weak enough to abeam, it. He harangued the people against the Megistrate% as I►e paired through Manchester, and ridiculed their proclawietion, signed • by• nitre, of Omni whom he compared to wine tailors seated . II oa a ektipstromed. He repioaclied the people for . not .heidteig the meeting they bad intended to hold, and asserted it was porfectly •legal, sad that they ought not to lame. yielded. He lustiest them shawls meet him is Manchester • on the 16th of •Atignst ; mid after hie speech he proceeded to Mr. %Ishmael -plea, is nailed Salad• ley Cottage ;• there he remained on the ph, sad was visited by Knight and abets of the I.)e unusual indication• of popular commotion..... there were meetings in large Ladies ut 'night, and movements which reseed that a system of training and military discipline had been introduced into that part of the country.— They found that a plan was maturing among them likely to effect the pease of society. difficult to be proved. and dangerous to be approached. The. Magistrate., as became them, made due precuts tions—in the interim the arrangements for the . . meeting of the Iftlt of August wrist on, and on the alight of the 15th, two persons who *prude!). ed one of the nightly meetings then held in that part of the country, at White Moss, and which was going through its evolutions with the exactness of military discipline, were discovered, beset by the parties assembled, tend one of them, Murray, a constable, so beat as to have been seriously iejured, and compelled to Nave his life by going upon his , knees and abjuring his allegiance to the Kiug. Mr. Mist here interposed, and appealed to the I Judge, whether the ullusion to this circumstance, to which his case had taut the remotest application, could be intended for any thing else than to excite an unfair prejudice against him ? Mr. Justice _ltairLET--" If it shall appear un connected with any teausacti JJJJ s in which, accord ing to the evidence, you may appear to have been engaged, then I shall take and remove any preju dice in the minds of the Jury which it may appear calculatt d to excite." Mr. Lunt—" I feel perfectly happy in your Lordship's hands." . Mr. ScARLETT resumed, and said he was too old in his profession to be set astray by any . terrup -4„ lions, whether accidental or designed alt he would inform the Defendant, if he wish to know it—(Mr. Hunt exclaimed " Yes,")—what use lie meant to make of it. He informed him then, that he meant to connect him deeply and critnitially iii the transactions that took place at Manchester and its vicinity pervious to the 16th of August.—(Mr. Hula, 6 , l'ory well, do so if you con.")—He meant to co let wei hin t with men who were engaged in those secret and obscure movements. 'I lie Magis trates at Matechester, on finding that a geeitlemau from Lemke,. who had no connexion with their own neighbourhood whenever, was come down to preach to the people, at another great meet ing. .4Ail the Kith of August, determined to take such seeps as would as far as possible secure the pu b lic peace. In coming to that meeting of the 16th of August he would open a scene to the Jury. which lie ventured to say had no example in the whole system.of public meetings of any coun try. IVhat was that meeting to have been ? Wes it to represent the feeling of the people of Man. chester ? No, but to congregate in that town, to the interruption of all public rod private business, [ and to the disquietude of all who had property there, the people front not only the sarrouteditig parts, but from places at a considerable distance. [Here the Learned Counsel put in a map of Man- cheater and the surrounding townships, and ex plained, which cannot here be done if it were ma terial, the local position of the surrounding country.] Early on the morning of the 16th he said the people were observed moving in large bodies upon Manchester, as a common centre. They were regularly formed ; they advanced with ban ner* and music, anti with all the appearance and form of all invading army, es eept only the want of cannon. They advanced upon the town in divi sions from Rochdale, Sadtileworth, Leeds, Old ham, Middleton, and many other places in the ad joining counties. The Defendant, Bamford, was seen at Middleton, arranging a body of 2,000 men; he regularly dressed them, to use a military phrase, formed into a hollow-square, put laurels into their hats, to distinguish officers from privates, nod marched them on and united them with 2,000 more men flout Rochdale. Healy was at Oldham simi larly occupied with his detachment, and singing on the way a song of triumph, in auticipution of the exploits of the day. The town of Manchester was. thus every way enclosed by large bodies of people, marching to it on the 16ih. In the first body that moved on the high road, were some of the melt who hail beaten the constable the presious..eight at White Moss, and who, as they were this day pass im; his house, halted and made a loud noise, whe ther of congratulatien at the ahjuration of his alle giance, or of defiance, he could not say. The parties lied banners and.titesic. About eleven o'clock Mr. Hunt set out from Mr. Juletesole's, to take his part in the business of the day. He came iii vu open hackney chariot. accompanied by Knight and John son, and escorted by the Middleton and Rochdale divisions. which amounted to four or 5,000 men. They performed the same ceremuny of hissing and shouting as they pulsed the constable's house which marked the passitig of the previous division. Mr. Hunt and his party Leek their way to St. Peter's area, where whets were engaged in erecting a bus. ling.. The Magistrates, fur the better preservation of the public peace, had planted a fine of consta bles front the house in which they took their sta. lion to the hustings. When, the builders of the hustings observen this, they moved it about fifteen yards further away. The populace had by this time assembled in large numbers, and were form. el% a thick gamie around the hurting., and spe. vial care was taken to form iti close ranks, cud admit " only friends." The country parties ad. winced in regular step, took up their position, and shouldered and brandished their slicks, they received and obeyed orders, wheeled with exec. titude, and the whole arratigemeut of the force denoted previous habit and discipline. On one of the banners was inscribed " Equal Represents , hair or Death." What, he would ask, could be the object of such a meeting, unless to use physical ,I force fur the accomplishment of the objects it had jilyievi ? Was it to procure fairly and properly a . Reform in Parliament ? Surely whatever opinions preriled upon that queetiosi, there could be none assasig good and wise meu, as to the effect which • aged attend city alteration obtaiued by any other . dna legal wens. Who would wish to see any wverthiowu by the agency of madness and 1 1 Were the people to be told that equal sairasaiagass was so inalienable and it,pro . scnptive. It 11101116 that they ought not to relinquish it execs 0 : •'a ' "'"*"'"110 - 4 , - ` , ll • ; •,- • ; . • •4- h .r* • I • % 11114 • - ''•• •, • .. i Godards. Hunt was then 'at Nao4lllater the by their death ? Was that to be the shse . qua Rom hero of the populace, an elevation whicliany man .of their existence. and without it were they to rush may hold who would preach *lip to them doctrines on to death ? "No Corn bawl," too, were inscribed impregnated with *edition and disaffection. Ma- upon their banners, as if they had pot had enough oistrute* ut this time became shirmad at the iii- to inflame the impulse mind without that addition. formation which reached them of strange and Onwoetlrer homier was inscribed " Annual Podia- ?ants, Universal Soffrage,and Election by Ballot." Now lie knew that there were very many well-nseano -litisten who advocated the first of these measu 'bet was it right that such a principle should be artfully held tip to the people as an itnprescriptive right, which they ought to put forth as an imperils. Live demand, jtsal as they were desired by any unprincipled demagogue ? It was melancholy that the populace could be so worked upon, often 1 to their own destruction. In vain were their eyes opened by ridicule—he recollected Hogarth's tine print of the change in the calendar. Many years ago an alteration was made in the calendar for the computation of time, when it became ne cessary to strike out eleven days to make the divi sioua answer to the best received calculation.. Mobs were then fou n d to protest against this alteration, and heroes were also found to work on their folly and passions. I'eople were found preaching about the absurd notinu that they lost eleven days of their existence by the change, and great efforts were made to adhere in preference to the old plan..'. It was finely ridiculed in Ilogarth's print, its which the mob were repiesetitt d throwing up their hats in great commotion, and exclaiming "Give us back our eleven Jays—why are they to be taken from us?" —(Laughter)—The same absurdity was always to be practised upon the credulity of the multitude. He next proceeded to advert to the banner with the inscription, " Let us die like men, and not be sold like slaves." Gracious God ! exclaimed the Learned Comisel, what meanitiNhad such an inscription as float ? who was going sell the 'people —who was bargaining for the good peopleof Oldham, Royton; of Leeds, Rochdale, Middleton, and the adjauting nieces ? If nobody was then employed in selling these people, what was the object of the inscription ? another flag was a painted dagger alone; what could be the meaning of such a de vice as that ? was it meant to convey to the people that through the operation of such an instroment, they were alone to carry their point ? Ile knew not what could be said to justify such proceedings: he retired there were those in society, who, though they had not the coinage and audacity to proclaim base opinions front their mouth'', were yet ready to in sinuate them in any other less direct chanuel.— The Learned Counsel then, after some further remarks iii reprobation of such devices, asked whether it were possible for society to exist if it were competent to any mast to carry the people about after him in 'Heeling% like these ?-- If 'they were tolerated, the civil power would be obviously found inadequate to the preser vation of the public peace, and a large military force must always be imposed upon the people to ensure the public tranquillity. If the facts com municated to him were supported in evidence, lie apprehended the Jury would, by the conviction of .the Defendants, put an end to these threatening dangers which menaced the public tranquillity. He left the whole case to their consideration, and requested them to form their conclusions alone on the evidence submitted to them. The first wittiest called was Thomas Tiddler examined by lifr.Segjesnt HurrOce.— I keep the Red Lion, three miles from Slot kpori, where Mr. Hunt came with a servant on the afternoon of the 9th of August last ; he baited his horse, and third at my house. I know the Defendant, Mr. Bloorhanse, who was • coach proprietor and auctioneer at Stockport. Mourhouse came immediately after in a post-chaise with his brother, and in quired for Mr Hunt, whip had just left my house. After stopping five or ten minutes, he went off in the direction Mr. Hunt went on towards Stockport. When Moorhouse first came in the neighbosirhood of my house, Mt. Iluut was at my hotter, but she former did slut the', eater. Mr. Haut stopped four hours. Cross.examiiitd.—lt was not true that Mr. Hunt was met by Nutritious(' at Bullock'. Smithey, and conducted on to Stockport. All I know is, that Mr. Hunt hail gone from my house !afore Mouthonie tame there. I know Mr. Moor house intimately shear Armco years; •nd he is in Ilse habit of stopping at my house when he musts that way. I have heard he attrinnd piddle meetings since the Mb August ; but I cannot state it as a fact. Before first time I never heard that he did. Cross-examined by !!Ir. HunT.—Mine is the principal inn at Bullock's Smithey; Monthouse stopped opposite my house in the amain, and did nut call ; he did at his second visit wheo Mr. Hunt was guise; it was • matter of public notoriety that Mr. Hoot was there; Mr. Hon, stopped four hours at toy house; Mr, Johnscro, of Manchester did not call there; one Jump did, stud irked to see Mr. aunt, into whose room be was admitted; I know cone of She other Defendant.; all I know is, that, by Mr. Hunt's permimitin I conducted three successive parties of two each int• his room; the dour was nut locked, any body who inquired was admitted; I know of no olut carried on there. Re-examined by Mr. Iterjeaut Ilitet.oca.—The parties ad. mined to Mr. H uut were strangers to him. Henry Loins., rambled by Mr. Caoss —I kept the White Lion, at Stockport, on the Bth of August Isle on that night Mr. Moorhouse suit Mr. Johnson came to Mr. Hunt at my house; and also early ou the following morning,. whets they acre joined by • stranger and a crowd of persons. I raw the Crotteman whirwas called Sir Charles Wolseley, and at • late period of the osoniiiig of the eth of Augno, Parana Harrisou joined them. Such crowds were not customary al Stockport, except when Mr. Hoist was making his speeches; They wrut (or some of them) into Mr. Mworhunse's house, where chaises were getting ready in the yard. Due gig wall also there into which Mr. Hunt and Sir Charles Wolselry cos teed, cm! Moorhouse and Johnson went into a chaise, and went off all together towards Manchester. Cross-examincd —I know Slooresouse perfectly well, and that he worked stages uu that line of road. I don't lino* that he takes its other hones than his own to bait. He toot its Mr. Hoes certainly at this time. I can't say that Mr. Moorhouse has been in the habit of addressing public meetings, bat he certainly had two, three, or four crowds about this time, when he used to be speaking to large meet lags ou thermal!. Cross-examined by Mr. Huirr.—My buoiaess is • publis tan, I keep a chaise, and so does Hr. alloarbouse, liut I am not a rival of his. I have known public reeetiageat Study. brow, and attended theta, but I StVerillM Mr. Illeashatess there; if he bad, I should have recolkeohld it; I am sae of the yetresaury, and was called upon in that way to attend the meetings; the sarue cause led sue to Manchester on the Nth August. 1 have said that crowds were there to hair Hunt'. and Moorhouse's speeches. I never saw new& shoot the Duke of Wellington nor sreuud Mr. Cross, the Learned Counsel, after the Derby trials. I was at it. Peteetolield, Mauthes:er, en she lith. Here the winces smiled, mad fits being salmi she cause ma, I could not help laughing., fur we had no right to becalled there. I was its the Cheshire the dispersion the Manchester Mettles on A f, ~ o'clock, sad Illikidged perhaps ab hour, or an !mut and a half. I saw nothimg particular bat the people ruotiiitg nee way or another ; the Cheshire paosnaury remained mull—they cut nobody, though I saw some peoplerlown l it did out at tract my particular attention. T cannot my oho tut the pro. ple. I do nut know at what lime I left Stuckpiirl ; it might be Tor 6 o'clock; ketwecu that Ind Piles *as %bent-Cap . lain Newton rhootrol to late mr the neighbouring nowt,. The Stockport troop had nothing to du with the running away of the people. I saw some Hags which the e 'rah, / had is their betide; how the, calor ion their ham?, I c4itnot asp. Some culottes got into our hand% two, I heliese, but -how I don't know- We took back one ot the gags to littoritport. I upon the ground, by order of nor uffieets. A. we g o t t,„ the ground, the people were all rtliaussig . xerpt f. Ire •t the litigant mild despers.-.1 saw , resistance made to the Stockport :loop; I . is p•Netreg••tog ' to the meeting, but not in hitile array. I sari Italiala; to call for the interfeieitte of our troop. Kt...examined —We acre formed to Ilse left or the (Otto, but not in sight of the hustnigs, our could I site ahat • issf going au in the t sirnpike road. Mr. ScAstI.ETT lore objected to the relevancy of this coarse of examination. Mr. Justice B•Vt.tY explained to Mr. Hunt 1141 what tailored the meeting of the 16th August 'mild not alterd his case. The charge against him wan for a con•piracy entered il l e til im e i prev eht, i j o u r ... a T n e d r. u t r e n m t w h , a , t i ty w , briars. i,u . 1 1 7 1 (!• . :p 0 e 1 r 11 . or the strict (tae, if he meant to impeach 1.":1C Mr. Hunt thanked his liardeltip, mid se.:.! that was his object. Slither! Bentley examined —1 live at Newton Norri.. near Stockport, and was there on the Silt August 14.1, suit saw Mr. Julansoot !here to the uf iiirt day in a g:g with Mr. limit, going towards Slottpot t. I saw Mr. Ila.rt with the Gentleseau they esikd Sir Chattels Wotselt y ou the fol. • luwiug day. Crtinag xamitied.—l know Ile. Johnson; CM not a ye°. mau ; have beets a del k in a coutiliug house, but mu now out o f employ. I was at Meaclesitr, on St 'Nigel-held, the 16th August, inertly from ruriusity, anal was at the back of the hosting. • I saw no act of varleacc au.trog logo budy of people until the military crone. I .an uue 0r too men very insisting, and trantaig to break through the rains of the constables. I think there were 50 or 6 , 1,1100 pennies there, and I ouly saw one or Iwo rough. Either on the way or on the spot I saw nothing' that alarmed Inc until the cavalry came. 1 was then, indeed, afraid.—(3lr. Hunt— " It was quite tune then to look tir yourself.'l-• I saw 00 mats artiallgilte people; I tree at Stockpot; saw nobody cut, hut a countable pressed down by tbe'prOpto ; I don't know whether be bad a limb. broke; I don't hoop , whether he was fly tog from the caeah ; I elitok it ass as the people were dying fium the comdry. I saw the cavalry come moue; the people, arid I, who was for a moment alavia••• ed, gut among the comsablte, whin termed two et es-from - the house sheet else 31.igistrate• sal up to the hitt:togs. I saw Nadia nu ilia groom!, but 1 *ay . : tiotioey imotit him heard Mr. Hoot address the people, sod retuntateud thega to be peat-cable, and they remained su instil the cavalry charged, with the exception of one or too who wanted to press roughly through the constables I knew uric of floret, • Thumnsou. Ettantineil by 3Tr. ((ARROW —I know Mr. Montrlstarie, but I did out ace tun uu the liii.tinga; .he was o. the mar riage going there Ito-exaniineil by Mr. Serjenial HULLOCK—Cut nothiug of any isle real !motional in this re-exousivationi, except his stating he saw the flags with inscriptions among the people, and the coach brie[ up Mr. flout and Mr. Johoseili to the hustings, and that be beard Mr. Hunt say tots th• , " If any people break the pea. e, put them down, kerpilsetti down, nod make then, quiet." He could limn ins j ui!g meat bow many of the (turd 'Dub! hear Mr. Hunt. Mary Cadman examined-1 was a servant *ills Mr, Moorlionse teat August. (ha the Bth August, !title ass a bed made up for him there. Mr. Hunt—. I admit I slept there on that night." Mr- Motwhouse was (she added) a eery religious mait,and used often to read his Bible, sod to the servants. Site ex pdlMlearritt a n s e e Nl l , l ,o ail , h s lri u ou o l t s i tellU t had i d d ie e b t a b li o v i r c h . i i i : r Aug u st. eh t look his Mr . A wife with m. " I SiMild ‘lortnn CXIIIIIIIIC4I..A lived on the 911. of Anglin near St. Michaels Church, Manchester. 0.. that day there was a great noise that Johnson, Hunt, nod Mourbouse were coming They soou after appeared, the two frontier in a !it, there was a chaise hehird them; they came opposite the SAII.i Michael's Church public.huuse, with Sir Charles Wolselry. Mr. Haut gut tot his legs. and bezau speakang from the lie. He said, among other things, in allu sion to the Manchester Magistrates, and compared them to nine tailors being nn • shup.board, fur forbidding the nutt ing that was to be on the 9th, and 'shirk he said w is a I. gal ',Strang. He encouraged than to lie firm sled come ter. ward, and no doubt they would 111114111 Cf. &fare this took place, I had area the placards from the Slagistratra posted on the wells of the town, forbidding the inert ng of the o.h. The nine persons who signed Os placard were all Magis trates. There was a great crowd niu.enabledlo •ee Mr Hunt. In the course a-that day Mr. Hunt rseemmeirded theta to come forward on the Ifith ; the call wait miser' .11 by loud cheer* and cites of tent!;' Mr. Hunt lawn waved his white but; lir. Johnson was with Hunt, whose ete , celi con tinued about leaf an hour or three quarters; they then drove off to Mr. Julansoit'a house to dimmer, as I support ; about nous, the following Monday, I pirteived in my thou sands olio uple in motion ; I saw Mr. Johnson coining with his throng near Willow Grove; Haut and Juhnsuu were carriage with a greet comber of people, 5 or ti marching to breadth; and I thought they kept step very well, like soldiers ; the body was half au hour moving by where I stood. There was some music., tor I ['record a hugle blow. They Imbed at Moiety the constable's dour, and hissed him : n men gins: the signal by a shout.—(lle then dascribrd the banners.) Mr. !ivy, said, Mat as it was in evidimee two of the Alga were io pomessims of the Stockport 'mop of rum iury, tio.y ought to be produced its Court, instead of being alluded to by oral etrileare: Mr. Justice DAWLIM said, that only two of them were said to hare bees too disposed of The witness, in his resumed examination, said--lo Murray'stag the molt shouted Dist they waisted come %%ride Mesa humbug. The tows was at this lime very tumul tuous, and 1 felt veep' meek alarmed. I have lived in Man chester forty year., and 1 saw nothing so tomultiome there before. Public sod private business wad at a %trial l'eople were afraid. lam a mauufecturer, and could nut cettaiuly attend to my own Wainer'''. Chusa•exaatiurd by Mr. HOLT.I 110 not know Saxton, nor col I speak lu ht. person; lie isa stranger to rue. Cross.examiaril by Mr. Hung• am a lostisminantifae turer, and 1 could not cal ry on my loy,ioraa that day frogs the people goitre backwards and tor•warAds. 11•I'rn the pro. " crimes was gore there was a gnarl deal r iu lu tug u p and dowu. I live in I.:mica-row, No. Cr, sail that is out near the road taken by the parties. I 11'44 al 11'ithe~ tiro% **lull I met the people eimaiug ; I stepped until they passed, but 4114 nut go Wine afterwards to my business ; went on to the pottier of Haitgingrldels, Oriel' is abwil atone's theow from Wilkey Grove; 1 witr slavered at the lute. Is flag, ■.. d 1 thought they *err going to kiwi sometbiug. 1 are a married man; and have had ttu rhil.lrrn ; seven are 11.'4 lIVIWN Wet of them were at Peterloo, o u r did Igo to place. Other people were at walk, thimelr I was in. Notwitbatandiug ray alarm at the black Org. I did go bona to mind toy bestows& and wire ar✓t retail', weed , se with She crowd a abort way. 1 thougist tb..• mulaadd Ira a dialstehare sod a fight. I heard trump! , oblemiegs people gesterslly fight after they are done b10w'..,; sr. 1 custard.' a seemorg tuniolimper whets there leer ty aseireely._ 1 saw wale of the weavers come up with Mr. Hut. Pleat, eV boya,ctrfa. sad women were is the crowd. 1 casmot secure whisker they topaclard iu step with them. I cannot tell obeaber dap sonars deli as Memel is - Lwow to - • wham yeomanry at (be dispersiou or the 111auebester Meetirg un I did; I ran wily apprab for soirodil ilia*. many *bum 1 the Pith August. • ;. knew •ssessse Abe al.rin did um tabs airmpeogap- Crues.enansisred,..l bagbad itseauie it was a tiredly, and t pettily: furl wad MOWN di INDIA.. ail . M Sif. " envisioned di 1 wait called's' as I shall ewer be read, to be, in defence of •, 1 witsweit • if 'slotted 'Psis I. 1,0641 1 4 4 there Ylas and country, I aair so particular transaction diet' it world has* loon asolooft Arm" -4 aolt,hts choir's( et lb* day. I was in say asiihrsa, sad bad sWorti sad pistol's. 1 Ariastialteboosbar dap.bullirosowlialow.rdefor lissioroo• Ito saw an nuirtillog is snwy, eicept talons Oft porsoartry tadi•lilweitaseog Ibis wares Ines ovalbogoopsootkoasit s hit itisad asidkew—a• kingdom, at Illandwatoto but y saw lags mad a Ow woos applettl~ll,ll4ilw I.l * bassets. 1 was at 51. Petees•heid betwixt see aid Ism differcloCr was, that woo larked arawilWeg late war aid thS. •~ .. ~ ~ _;: • . J / .. . •