The Sun. — London, England, 1820-03-23 00:00:00

10 1 ...•• lig .•••' 4.14. rgb.,ol re, " 0 AS L. die i 011 a Cis y e grn.2lP 11 , 8 0 2 e beg r " so dr o l bole xrd' cal"" p 0 r e. r dol ,t SHIP NEWS. The Elizabeth, .Ostler, from Madras for Lon don, put into Vigo the Ist inst. with damage to her rudder and sails ; she sailed on the 10th Oct., and has on board a Lieutenant and 34 soldiers of the 40th India regiment, five female and two male passengers. PLYMOUTH, Aram.' 21.—Sailed his Majesty's ship Spartan for Ireland and Lisbon. FALMOUTH, MARCH 20.—Arrived off the Li zard the Georgiana, Warren, from Berbice for London. On the 21st ult., in lat. 38. 40. N., long. 38. 3. W. she was struck by lightning, which splintered her main-mast. The Master, late, and three men were also struck by it, but slid not receive any injury. PENZANCE, MARCH 20.—Arrived the Ann Eli zabeth, Owen, From Newry for Poole, with loss of bowsprit, having been run foul of off the Li zdrd by . a large ship, 'supposed to be an India :natl. Oevroeto.— The Oratorios at Drury-Lane Theatre concluded for the season last night. They were under the conduct of Sir GEORGE SMART, and were characterized by that lodgment in selec tion, and correctness in performance, which might be expected from so skilful and experienced a Musician. The vocal and instrumental Perfor mers were of the best kind, and the whole was warmly patronized. The House was crowded last night, and the applause abundant. ACIELPHI TnsATee.—The entertaining drama entitled Rochester, originally brought forward by ttle• ILLLISTON at the Olympic Theatre, was re• presented on Monday at the Adelphi Theatre, for the benefit of Mr. Leg, the Stage Manager. The parts were well assigned altogether, and as well supported by Messrs. Cowerd., Reeves, and Wu, xxsisoN, particularly that of tire Mayor of New port by Lae, the original representative. Miss 1. STavessost, in the Countess of Luvelaugh, was much applauded. This .spirited young actress, • who belongs to the English Opera House, would do credit to any Theatre. THEATRICAL FUND.—The Covent-Garden The atrical Food Animal Dinner was given yesterday at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen-street. The Duke of YORK was in the Chair, and the Duke of SUSSEX was the Vice-President. The latter Royal Duke, after dinner, addressed the company in a very appropriate speech, in which be took an historical view of the Institution, and descanted upon its merits.—When in the course of the toasts Mr. FAWCETT'S health was drank, that. Gentleman, in returning thanks, took occa sion to revert to the early state of the Institu tion, and the difficulty io which it was involved, from the want of means to meet the claims upon • it. In this situation he found it. He made his appeal to the Illustrious Duke, who now honoured the meeting wi , h his presence in the Chair, and be condescended to yield to his request. The In stitution had prospered antler the auspices of his Royal Highness. This was the fifth anniversary at which he had presided, and it was now only necessary to make a pull, a strong pull, and a pull altogether, to render the fund adequate to its liberal and beneficent purpose. The company amounted to about 300, and the subscription exceeded 10001., including 100). from Mr. COUTTS, being his sixth donation, altogether 9001. a.sr INDIA House.—Yesterday a Quarterly General Court was held at the East India House After tire usual forms,L--the CHAIRMAN (C. MAR. JORIBANKS) rose and proposed the confirmation of the Resolution of the General Court of Proprie tors of the 2211 December last, granting to Sir George Hilaro Barlow, Bart. a pension of 1,5001. per annum —Me. R. JACKSON opposed the grant, and moved an amendment, which after a consider able debate was negatived, when the original mo tion was put and carried in the affirmative—the CHAIRMAN then submitted to the consideration of the Court of Proprietors, an unanimous Resolution of the Court of Directors of the 22d December last, recommending the Court of Proprietors to authOrize the Directors to offer to his Majesty to raise and maintain, at the expense of the Com, pray, a Corps of Volunteer Infantry from amongst the men in the employ of the Company ; and if such offer should be accepted, to defray the ex pense out of the hinds of the Company. After some discussion, the Resolution was put and car ried in the affirmative.—The Court then adjourned size die The Sh..rifrof Forfar, we understand, is in Bre chin, taking a precognition regarding the dia. torbauces there ; and 'we are glad to learn that 110 farther rioting has taken place since Monday night. On Tuesday the military left the (Own.— (Edinburgh Evening Courant, March 20.) The late Duke of HAMILTON having, by his Will, given all the deer in Ashton Park to his eatigker, the Duchess of SOMP.RSBT, the keepers &no assistants Were employed on the lit inst., in chasing and taking them, amounting to about one liundied and twenty head ; one fine buck Was impaled and killed in attempting to leap a Pabtig, which separated the park from an enclo stoe• No less than 26 bead died, in consequence of bek g chased. The deer are to be conveyed in covered carts to the Honourable F. WEST'S park to Denbighshire.—(rbid•) A most impressive and novel sight was witness ed at Brunswick Chapel, Livet pool, last week, by the introduction of two learned Heathens, high Yytests of the Budhu religion, from the Island of Ceylon, , to the rights and privileges of the C hristian Church. They were baptized agreeably to the form and ritual of the . Established Chula, 1 1 the Rev. Dr. ADAM CLARKE, before a nume rous, respectable, and deeply interested congre gation. • Be early in the field, said FREDERICK of Prussia to his Generals,—you have the choice of ground, which often leads to victory. The same may be s'i (0 Adventurers in the Lottery, for the Scheme Is so advantageously arranged for early Purchasers, that whoever now buys a Ticket or Share may n'" only secure a part of the 60,000/. to be di v,"l'll 0o the ll t h A pr i l, hut he certainly num ""t a greater choice of Numbers from which to "lee( Cl! her of the 4 Prizes of 30,0001. or any other of the 102 Capitals which are iu the Scheme., The Court assembled at ten o'clock. The crowd was fully as great as on any former day_ At a quarter past ten Mr. Muni- commenced his address to the Jury. He first entered into a brief description of the difficulties under which he laboured. When he came to York he had been labouring under in disposition arising front a cold, which had been increased by sitting in that Court, exposed to the air coining from one or two doors. On the pre ceding night, when he solicited an additional hour to prepare for his defence, be had hoped that be should be able to go through the whole of the evidence, but this had not been in his power. From increasing indisposition he had been obliged to put himself under the care of an eminent medical man, who had told him that rest was absolutely necessary. If then, in referring to the evidence, some little inaccuracy should oc cur, he hoped that it would not be suffered to make an improper impression on the minds of the Jury. • The case was a very different one from that *lnch they bad supposed they would be call. ed upon to try. They might have understood that they had a monster its human nature to try, but the evidence must have satisfied them that they had a very different duty to perform. He commented on the inconsistency of Mr. Scarlett, in expressing satisfaction at the case being re ferred to a Yorkshire Jury, which in the first in stance the Counsel for the Crown had laboured with all their might to oppose. The conduct of those connected with certain London Papers lie next censured, the writers for which, while these proceedings were going on, had accused him of a design to subvert the Throne, and overthrow the sacred Altar of Religion, with which even the in dictment had not charged him. Where was the proof of this ? There was no proof. It had been attempted to hitch the name of Carlile into the case against him, but without success. What he had professed he would avow before God and man. He was a Reformer, but no Leveller—he was the fliend of lovely liberty, but be was not the friend of licentiousness, which differed as much front true liberty as truth did from the black and premeditated falsehoods which he would prove to have been u:tered from the witness's box. The Learned Counsel, in his Speech, had charg ed him with what he had not dared to prove. The JUDGE objected to this language. Mr. HUNT thought he was justified in what he had said. Where was the bloody-dagger, where the flags, the banners, sticks, the bludgeons, the bricks, and the stones, which had been said to have been used ? One witness bad said that they were in York. Why then were they not produc ed against hint ? He still contended that the Coun sel knew that that could not be proved which bad been asserted. He commented on the evidence of Mr. Hutton., and remarked, that it was wholly tinsestained by other testimony. If the question to be tried turned wholly on the moral guilt or moral rectitude of his own character, he declared to God that he would let the case go to the Jury ou the evidence brought forward by his accusers, with the certainty of receiving an honourable acquittal. But after the misrepresentations which had gone abroad, he telt it to be his duty to rebut them by calling evidence. He was proceeding to eulogize the conduct and character of the Judge, but de sisted on receiving a hint from the Bench, that the course he was pursuing was unpleasant to him (Mr. Justice Bailey.) He then proceeded to take a review of the evidence. He described Chad wick, who had been almost every where, to be a " witness of all work." What his conduct had been at Stockport, or at Manchester, he would prove by evidence. He happened to have bad a servant with him, a simple lad, who had been in his service for seven years, and who had accom panied him to every Meeting that he (Hunt) had attended during that period. This servant he would place in the box, and the Counsel for the Crown, if he pleased to descend so low, (and he knew that he would descend to any thing to carry hia point), might enter his stable if he pleased— nay, he might penetrate even into the inmost re cesses of his bedchamber. This youth would prove what his conduct bad been on every public occasion, and shrew that if ever there had beets a disposition to tumult, he bad met it by calling on the people to cheer and conduct themselves peace ably and with good humour. He then shewed that the Meeting at Manchester, which had so frequently been called Mr. Hunt's Meeting, had been called not by him, but by 1700 resident in habitants of Manchester. Vain and ambitious he might be called. Grant that be was ambitious— he would confess that he was so. But he was not ambitious of doing evil—No, he was only ambi tious of doing that which his heart told him would he doing good. He bad never endeavoured to inflame the lower orders to commit acts of out rage be had never taught them to look for any thing but what they might gain as the reward of honest industry. The numerous reporters, with the exception of one (Mr. Roger Entwistle), had not deposed to his using any very inflammatory language. Mr. Orton had spoken of his using the words, " put them down and keep them down 3" bad said this called forth the remark— " why that is killing them ;" but asked, if he understood him (Mr. H.) to have intended any thing of the kind, his answer was, " Certainly not." Mr. It. Entwistle bad said these words had been applied to the military. He (Mr. H.) would prove, that at that time the military was not in his sight ; and that the words were spoken with reference to some idle boys or drunken fellows who were making a noise behind the hustings. He then proceeded to chew from the evidence that no outrage had been committed on the morning of the lfith. From Mr. %Volker evidence had beet, obtained which threw a new light on the subject. He showed that a meeting to form a deposition to enable the Maistrates io disperse the meeting without reading the Riot Act, bad taken place on the btsnday ; but they could not agree about it then, and a new meeting was called on the follow ing morning, at which the famous affidavit was determined on, and the parties approving of it went different ways to see what was going on. Bat for this evidence it Wight have been sup. posed that that which had actually taken place had laid. This had been proved by a female relation, who had seen him preparing for bed on the pre ceding night, and could speak to the time of his rising on the following morning. For the '' wit ness of all-work," who bad spoken of the leader of the Middleton division as being concerned in the affair at White Moss,.--that witness, it could be shown, was unworthy of belief : he had within the last month declared to his fellow shopmen, that " he would swear against any one it he could get paid for it." This was known, and per,ona had been sent for to prove the tact. The evidence of Murray, which would be opposed by other evidence, did not prove that be bad been guilty of 11 at tyl` G POD' i TRIAL OF AIR. lIUNT AND OTHERS. FIFTH DAY. YORK, TUESDAY NIGHT. caused the dispersion of the meeting. But why, he asked, bad they not proved the reading of the Riot Act ? He had witnesses from the same house in which the Magistrates had been, to prove that it never was read. If it were read, why was it not proved ? Why did not Mr. Ethelston, who sent word to the Oldham Inquest (not daring to go himself), that it had been read, why did he not prove the reading on the present occasion ? He (111.. H.) bad not put the question to him. That would not do for him, for he knew that Mr. Ethelvo', would have said " yes," bang ; but in directly he had got him to swear that it was not, for he had made him admit that the crowd bat received no warning of that which the Magic►. trates intended to do. This was swearing that it had not been read ; for what was the Riot Act bet a 'warning ? Where were Mr. Trafford, Mr. Norris, the Rev. Mr. Hay, and the other Magis trates, who might have pro'Ved the reading it it had taken place ? Mr. Hay was a bold man. Why had he not been put in the witness box He (Mr. Hunt) had too much experience to put a Magistrate in the box for examination in chief, who had received a living of 2,5001. per annum for what he did on that occasion ; hut could he have had him there to cross-examine him, be would have given a Jew's eye for him. It was his intention to put witnesses of high respectabi lity in the box to meet the evidence of Mr. Elul ton. The question which the Jury had now to try was, not whether or not be (Mr. Hunt) was guilty, but whether or not the last spark of liberty shoohl be extinguished in England —and whether the Jury, their wives and children, in common with all others, should be left exposed to be as sailed by a drunken infuriated soldiery, at the will of any young hoe-headed Magistrate, who might think it proper to order the military to act. vance to disperse a popular assembly. He com mented on various parts of the evidence in which he t'+ covered contradictory allegations. He re minded them of the evidence of the Mushroom► Seijeant, who bad represented Bamford as ad dressing the party at Middleton, and telling them that there would be no disturbance till they came hack. It would be proved that no such words were used, and that the sole object of Baruford's address was to preserve peace and good order. The Boroughreeves had called a meeting inl 812,tocon tither how far they should congratulate ti►e Prince Regent on the prosperous state of the country, when 9-tenths of the population of those parts were in extreme distress. 't'h'en it was legal to call a meeting, to which those who inhabited the neigh bouring townships were invited. No objection was then started to the legality of such a meet ing. He took occasion to advert to what bad been said of him. He bad been described as an illiterate, vulgar, ragamuffin, without means.— What was the fact ? He was a Lord of the Manor in Glastonbury, in Somersetshire, where his property lay. He had been, perhaps, one of the greatest farmers in England ; pro perty had descended to him by inheritance ; on that account be was less proud of it than if he had acquired it by his own exertions ; but such was the fact. He had ever lived as a Gentleman, and in every village Where he had resided he had been delighted to associate with the Clergyman. He never read any part of the works of Thomas Paine till be attended in the Court of King's Bench on the occasion of Carlile's trial. In con sequence of this he had been described as the as sociate of Cathie. Of that person's opinions, as he was now suffering the punishment of the law, he would not say what he might ot'berwise be disposed to express. He must, however, be al lowed to assert, that he had never participated in them. The Learned Counsel knew that his in dictment of Dr. Stoddart stood for trial the next to the case of Carlile. Had he been absent but for a few minutes the Learned Counsel knew that if Carl ile's trial had gone off, in his (Hunt's) ab. settee, a verdict of acquittal might have been en tered for the defendant in the other case to which he had . alluded. This was the cause of his (Hunt's) being in the Court on the occasion of Carlile's trial. On such grounds it was too much to im pute blasphemy to him (Hunt) as well as sedition. Adverting to the allusion of Mr. Scarlett to Ho garth's representation of a mob, demanding that eleven days, added to the Calendar when the change of style took place, should be given back, he remarked, it would have been more to the pur pose had he spoken of the poor people confined at Manchester on a groundless charge ; he might with reason have supposed them to cry out— " Give us back our eleven days of sweet liberty !" He remarked on the absence of the Attorney-Ge neral on this occasion. It was thought that his presence was unnecessary, and that without him they could dispose of a poor country 'squire.— Had the Attorney-General been here, he would have put the book into his band, and proved from his own mouth that the meetings at Smith field and Manchester (tor be was consulted on them) were legal. . The JUDGE said, that bad the Attorney-Gene ral been present he might have said what he thought proper on that subject, but he (Nlr. Hunt) must have taken the law front hint (the Judge.) Mr. HUNT replied, he should have made the ex periment, though his Lordship might have stopped him. He then noticed what bad occurred at White Moss, and contended, that though the Learned Counsel had expected to prove him (Mr. Hunt) deeply and criminally connected witl► those transactions, this had not been done. It would be proved by witnesses for the defence, that Bamford (whose wife, child, and cousin bad gone to Manchester in the terrible military array), was at home when the proceedings took place at White Moss, on which so much stress had been what was imputed to him. The Jury would re member, that when the question was closely put to that witness, he had said he would not posi tively swear, that he never declared he would rather " be rowed to his own house in the blood of the Reformers than walk to it on !he pave., meat. " He at first lenied this, but did not choose to swear that be had not used the words in clues lion, because be recollected that those were in at tendance who could contradict hint. 'l'l►at witness' then described him to have proceeded to the Star, where the Magistrates were assembled. He com plained of the description given of his conduct on that occasion, and of the inference drawn front it by the Learned Counsel, and declared that when conducted to the Star, he could no more tell that it was the Star than he could the names of all the stars in the firmament. Enlarging on this point, he, in the most solemn mariner, conjured the Gentlemen of the Jury to dismiss from their minds the prejudices that might grow on the misrepre sentations which that man (qr. Scarlett) had endeavoured to instil into them. The JUDGE iotertered, and objected to such language. Mr. HUNT apologised, and hoped allowance would be made for his feelings. He proceeded to contend that misrepresentations had bet ti address ed to them, and noticed the evidence of three of the witnesses : one had been a lunatic, the second had been a deserter, and the third a , confessed thief; as the last bad admitted that he hod robbed his master 14 years ago, and had only paid the money he had token since the commencement of this prosecution. Cowper, it had been stated, went to the hustings as a reporter, and Mr. Or ton, another reporter, gave evidence that he had said, " if any one creates a disturbance, put hint down and keep him down," and both contradicted what had been sworn to by Mr. Entwistle. Platt, who was so well acquainted with the flimsies, came next, and swore that Bamford and Mo.ar house were on the hustings. This would be dis proved in both cases by evidence ; Moorhouse in particular, had no more to do with the Manches ter meeting than the Gentlemen of the Jury had to do with it. He remitukd the Jury of Piatt's connexion with the flimsies, and he further com mented on the alacrity which Platt had manifest ed on the succeeding day of the trial to swear to the conduct of a person who Wns committed for interrupting the Court. He had first sworn that he saw the man jumping up and down—then that he saw him moving his hands up and down—and at last (on the words being unintentionally put into his month by Mr. Scarlet t), that he saw him clapping them ; and he added, another person in the gallery could swear to the same thing. Who was this person in the gallery ? It was the wit ness, Murray ! He felt that it would be improper to detain the Jury longer by continents on such testimony. After noticing tile evidence given by the witnesses, Orton, ,Green, and Ellis, be coin plained that the Learned Counsel, who had with propriety treated lightly the case of Jones, ought to have taken with that of Moorhouse a course somewhat different from that which be bad pursued. The JUDGE reminded Mr. Hunt that it was to his own defence that he should confine himself. Mr. HUNT submitted, that if the defence made for Moorhouse bad a tendency to acquit Moor house by convincing bin: (Hunt), that then be had a right to touch on this subject. The JUDGE acquiesced. Mr. Hu NT now applied himself to show, that having arrived at Manchester on the 9th, on ac count of his private affairs, be thought of return ing immediately,- and had no intention of remain ing till the 16th. His servant would prove that he had not made tip his mind to stay till the Wed nesday after the 9th. Several Gentlemen would also prove the efforts which they bad made to pre. vail on him to stay. Notwithstanding all his sufferings, (which he minutely described,) he re joiced ; he was delighted that •he had been pre vailed upon to stay ; that lie had been numbered among the Defendants, and had now to make that defence which he was then addressing to the Court. Fortunately for hint, while he remained near Manchester, be had never gone more than two miles from Johnson's house. Though in vited to the houses of several Gentlemen, he had not attended to them. It so fell out, and he was glad that in had happened so, that he had not gone where he was invited ; had he done so, then, what a tale would have been got up on the subject of his conspirings ? From his conduct in calling at the Police Office at Manchester, on the Saturday previous to the 16th, as well as from the placard which he had issued, calling on the people to re. pair to Peter's-field armed only with a blameless conscience, anti inviting the Magistrates to come among them, he maintained that it were to be in ferred that be was prepared to yield ready sub mission to the Constituted Authorities of the town. He then noticed the testimony of several witnesses, and, in particular, that of Andres s, on the subject of the sticks said to be carried by those who attended die meeting. This he showed was not confirmed by other witnesses, and he pro. mised to repel it by the testimony of persons whom he proposed to put in the witnesses' box. After noticing what had been stated by one of the wit nesses, who, as a reporter to a London Paper, had attended many meetings without seeing him (Mr. Hunt) urge the people to violence ; he animated on the levity and malice evinced by another witness,, and the manner in which re ports were in some instances got up for News papers. He went on to explain the " locking of arms," respecting which so much bad beet) said, to be merely a measure of precaution adopted to guard against the recurrence of an accident, which had on a former occasion forced down the hustings, on which occasion those who were on them only escaped with their lives by a miracle. He would prove that a constable might have got to the hustings without being molested. He could have received any communication that they might have been inclined to send to them, and proving this, he could also prove that he, in such case, would at once have advised the people to yield obedience, and thus dispersed the meeting without the loss of a single life. He should prove, ,that what had been stated by Mr. Hutton, on the subject of the danger to which the sok diers were exposed, was unfounded ; that not a bludgeon had been raised, that not a stone or a ..... ..•• J~ ...+ • ••... ••• ' . ••••• ••••• •••• , br .61 f 14) .00 SL i ;:d • el i r OOP