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thought this
they would
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..... . .. deser_iiii. it was
their boutiden duty. to sod, hia.lty:- The
Learned Judge .then. read and .Comeseuted on the
publication, anl stated that he hod no besitaiois in
declaring his opinion that it was a libel. or tit*,
quettimi ofalrubliaition there .could be no doubt,
'ilauitbstartifieg the obloquy attempted to be cast,
co. t he- whims's". , . . •
f' The Jury conadhed together for a short period,
when they asked leaietoretire, and when they had
beets out shout so hour, a written communication
,A.ts banded up to, 'the Bench front the Foreman,
saild his Lordship ordered that they should come
into Court; Whip the were alt in the box, the
-1141"nialt ittriemed 114"1,,,Wrip they could Dot
agree. . •
Mr. Justice BesT.e."l am very sorry fur it,
oyntlemen—l cannot-help.' pm."
. ~; One of the Jury-'' My_, I think our Fore_
ie.
',man was premature -in tans tug your Lordship :
•vith a little more discussion we might have agreed."
....n Another of the Jury said—" There was obi&
scy," and they were proceeding to argument,
het.
Mr. Justice BEST observed—'! Gentlemen, you
cannot but see the impropriety of this public dis-
cussion ; you had better retire cud endeavour to
come to a verdict."
They accordingly again refired, and about eight
o'clock they communicated their wishes to the
Officer that their families should be informed that
there was no probability of their returning tiff to.
morrow morning.
. No verdict had been delivered when our Reporter
left the Court.
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OLD BdILLY, TUESDAY, JULY U.
•

'RIOT 111

Soon after 10 o'clock, Junes M'Cortiy
drummer), Ifiehard Roebottome, James Jones,
honest lee, and William Hardy, soldiers of the
Guard., were put to the bar charged with mi.
lowlsilly and riotously assembling on the 18th
June last in die Almoisry at Westminster. and
beating several of his Msje.ty's subjects. There
was a second rount, charging theist nn the Coroner's
I ugliest with the wilful murder of William Cogle
un the same evening.
Mr. A t.i.e.Y stated the case for the prosecution
in a very lorcilde manner, and called the fallowing
witnesses in support of his ett.e :
Mrs. Mary Cogle, an infirm old woman, the wife
of tic deceased. stated, that on the lith June last
she and her husband were sitting in the front par.
lots, of their house, No. 65, Orchard-street, her
husband was reading to her the Death of dhel;
hearing a noise in Inc street, she we'd to shot
the street door, when she met one of her lodgers,
named Patterson, coming in at the time dread-
fully beat, and followed by the soldiers; she was
pushed down. mud on recovering herself found her
I:usband in the opposite enrol lying on the IlOor,
with a dreadful wound on his head ; he was covered
in blond mist speechless, and remained SO until he
died, four (Ins after.
Ann Hinton deposed es to the riotous proceed-
-I,•gs of the soldiers, and the attar k on Patterson.
Si•e recognised &Worthy Ha bring active 111 the
riot, and saw Into nest Cogle's honse.

George Wells, a soldier in the 18th hussars,
corri.borated the last witness's testimony, and swore
t seeing Nl•Carthy in the front of the rioters.
'Thomas Ashton deposed, that he lodged at the
!miss of the deceased Mr. Cogle. On the evening
of the 18th of June, there was a disturbance, and
several soldiers entered the house. A man, in the
rhos* of • drummer. made • cot at him with his
sword. which missed him, but struck the deceased,
and felled Mtn to the round. Witness escaped
through the bark way, over some gardens. He
could not *weir to the persona of the Pnooner•;
the drummer.. M•Catthy, was in the house. The
witness, on being queslinned as to his calling the
drummer by name, said he was called "M'Cariliy"
at the time. Writitess could not swear it was the
same drummei that 'struck at him. He did not
see any persons in the crowd except soldiers.
Thomas Chapman, a private in the West Mid.
((leave mil.tia, stated, that he lodged at the house
wf tlii deceased, and on the evening in question was
stsodhg at the door. and 113 M a great mob come up
Or street (Orchard-street) from the New Way.
Roebottoin and M'Carthy were in the mob. The
soldiers came up to the house, and one of them
said, s' These are the b--y we'll let them
' km.w it's Waterloo day." He knew Roebottom
and M•Carthy by sight before. Witness did not
• attend the Coroner's Inquest. lioebuttom entered
Mr. Cegle's hawse list, and three or four followed.
MiCarthy was there; Knebottom had a piece of
pilling in his hand; M`Carthy had • sword; most
•of the soldsericsticks. He could not speak posi-
• lively to the other three prisoners. Al‘Carthy en-
tered the house with his naked sword, sod stood in
the passage; he made a cut at Ashton (the last wit.
item). but missed him, and cut ('ogle's head.
Ashton escaped, and M.Carthy made another cot
at Cogle. but he could unt tell whether it cut him.
• Tlit• first blow (riled the deceased to the ground,
end the blood issued front the wound. Other
soldiers rushed in, Lied %sinless ran up stairs and
fainted on the bed. from the effects of the besting
lie had received on his head, and saw nothing more.
truss-examined.—Wanes,' hail net been out after
eta that evening. He did not state every tialiticolar
to the Magistrate,. Hurl/cutout had a black eye
and scratched face.
Elizabeth Irving was the next witness, bet her
evidence was the same as that adduced on the
Inquest. •
Jertkin+detteeed. that on the evening of the
11th he slaw the soldiers lighting in the Almonry ;
Usti afterwards cameo'. the Nei: 11'57 iutu Orchard.

ntenieg to forthese last two hours, the
ou prosecution et all for libeh of 11
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..1 bomb peetood Gentleman
. thilteot trio et irtelpites of antiquityl
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illuaße./ distiiietioi
k I awl, foie ilk-moon was this-.the
•aypeel 'to the andrrotonduig. the oft
dress t* the passions. If the Joey th
writing was of the former description, .t
the Defendeut ; but if,. in
mpti, it was of the letter 'desert*