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:defead themselves when they were attacked. as well
tosicitizesso 10" lie would answer, " Yes, to be sere.
bet in -the ease in rinesti,ni they were not attacked."
hear.)—lie would defy the Learned
Gentleman, with the assistance of all bib friends
around him, above him, and beneath him, to pro-
duce any one tittle of plain and explicit evidence to
prove that the yeomanry were attacked in ally way
whatever, before they advanced ito u hostile manner
upon the nonrated people.—(Load cheering.)--,A
mouse would bite the hand that touched
and would they have the people of England pas-
sively and unresistingly anbmit to he cut down and
trampled on by an armed yeomanry ? Were the
people 110 t to attack when they were themselves as-
sailed ? That they had dome so previously, there
was not the smallest tittle of evidence to prove. To
go back to the evidence no the trial—the Learned
Gentleman quoted Mr. Hutton as proving that
stones sod missiles were made use of by the people;
but the Loomed Member for Peterborough, in his

reply on the trial, Teemed to have felt that the
pressure of the evidence was against Mr. Hal-
ton, and that his testimony was so completely
shaken, it not overthrown, that some upelogy was
necessary to bolster up the weakness of that
witnesses credit, who was held forth as a hest
in himself, and as the most convincing and satis-
factory of witnesses. The Learned Member for
Peterborough on that occasion said, that the
evidence of Mr. Hutton might very naturally have
proceeded from the situation in which he stood,
for he was elevated considerably above the meeting;
and he further remarked, that Mr. Holton hod not
said that atones were thrown, or that the sticks
were made use of to strike with, bot only that he
saw them lifted op.—(Hear / hear!)—To Mr.
Hulton's evidence, however, he would wino', that
of Mr. Stanly a Clergyman, who stated that lie•
looked steadily on the people as the yeomanry ad.
sluiced, and he paw nothing thrown, and he
was so near that lie thought if any thing larger
than a small pebble had been thrown, he
must have seen it. The Learned Gentleman
said, that if the evidence which way stopped had
been allowed to go on, it would have turned out
wholly unfavourable to the rioters. He (Mr. IL)
most firmly believed it would—it would have turned
out most unfavourable to the yeomanry, whom he
called, and believed, to be the only rioters on that
occasion. Had the evidence proceeded, it would
have proved more and more against them. fir
Lad not yet found that Ins Honourable Friend'a
wishes had been verified; he bad not yet found
that those Gentlemen who on the former occa-
sion, when the six Acts were under considera-
tion, hurried down to the House and made the
most aggravated end alarming statements, bad the
candour to come forward now to acknowledge that
they had been mistaken. They seemed, on the
contrary, to persevere in error with the greater
confidence as they grew older. It was necethaty
to skew what was the origin of those statemeto,.
The Learned Chief Justice of Chester, in descrih-

ing the meeting, ..tated, among the flags which ht
represented to have been displayed, that " there
was one bearing what appeared to be the figure of a
woman holding in her hand a bloody dagger. '—Tbe
lion. Member was here interrupted by

Mr. Serjrant ONSLOW, who rose to speak to
order, the Hon. Member was, he said, out of order
iu referring to what had been said la a former debate.
Mr. HOBNOUSE begged the Learned Gentlemau's
pardon, he was alluding to a former Pediment.—
(Much laughter)—lt was not his wish to state in-
vidiously what had been said, but it had become
necessary to refer to the origin of those statements.
The Noble Secretary of State for the Home De-
partment stated, in the other House, that the flags
were inscribed with seditious and treasonable

mottoes, and surmounted with pikes which seemed
to ha►e been steeped in blood ; he also affirmed that
I not a single life was lost in consequence of the as-
sault by the cavalry, and that the wounds given

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