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in support of the said indictinent, in the judgment of this dapts-1
nent, with correctness or impartiality : on the amenity, depurierit •
faith that the said George Chetwyal either did not take correct
notes of all the evidence given upon the said halal, or if he did.
then he the said George Chetwynd did not read the whole of his'
notes of the evidence to the Jury, inasmuch as the said George
Chetwynd made important omissions in summing up each evidence
or parts of the evidence which were most material in favour of this
deponent and to the justice of the ease, particulsrldy the discrepancy
in the evidence of die two constables, the principal hr the !'
prosecution, directly and most importantly affecting the cat* as to !
this deponent, until his attention was called to such omissions by 1,
the Counsel for this deponent, and then leaving such facts to the
Jury without any observation, although the said George Clietwynd
had thought proper to make very strung remarks on the evidence as
it appeared to bear against this deponent and the other defendants ;
and this deponent further saith, that the said George Chetwynd, in
stating the law as applicable to the said came, only stated the law
relating to unlawful assemblies, without in any manner stating, as
this deponent believes, the distinctions between assemblies merely
unlawful, and riotous assemblies, and riotous assemblies with an in-
tent to hinder, obstruct, and oppose constables in the execution of
their office, or actually hindering, obstructing, and opposing
them, Sce."
Mr. SCART.F.TT observed, that this statement was important,
because if 51r. Flint was not convicted of a riot he could not be sen-
tenced to hard labour. Even by the recent statute, the 3d of Geo.
IV., passed perhaps rather hastily, 51r. Flint could not have been
sentenced to hard labour unless he was convicted of riotously ob-
structing the constable in the discharge of his duty. " And took
the verdict of the Jury generally, which this deponent believes was
manifestly unfair and unjust, and greatly to the preiudice of thin
deponent, inasmuch as deponent ssi:h, that upon the general ver-
dict so obtained the said George Chetwynd passed sentence upon
this deponent, not for being present at an unlawful assembly (the
only law which he stated to the Jury), but for a riot, and for as-
vaulting the constables in the execution of their duty; for which
last offence neither this deponent nor the said other defendants were
indicted, nor was any evidence thereof given upon the said trial.
And this deponent further imith that the sentence passed upon this
deponent upon the verdict so obtained as aforesaid was unjust and
oppressive, particularly as the same affected this deponent; for, al-
though the said George Clietwynd himself stated that there were
circumstances of mitigation in favour of this deponent, yet he, this
deponent, wait sentenced to the same degree of punishment as the
other defendants, and to hard labour, as this deponent submits,
under the statute of 3d George IV. chap. IN, and not under the
Statute commonly called the Vagrant Act.
31r. SVAMI.ETT—On passing sentence. it WAR stated by Mr.
Chetwynd that he would deal with the defendants equally ; but
surely the difference of their conditions rendered that the severest
injustice,which was Imposed upon them under the colour of impar-
tiality. The observation by 31r. l'hetwynd proved either the
cutest weakness of judgment, the want of all ability in the exer-
cise of his important office as Chairman of the Quarter Sessions, or
a vindictive feeling towards slr. Flint. " And this deponent I
further saith, that, to the best of the knowledge and belief of
this deponent, it is the constant practice of the said George Chet-
wynd, as such Chairman of the Quarter Sessions, to preside
oft the Crown side; but this deponent saith, that on Thursday,
the Itith day of October, for which day this traverse stood for trial,
he the said George Chetwynd nevertheless took the chair; but
the said trial having been postponed, upon an application made for
that purpose until the following morning, Friday, on which day the
said (I. Chetwynd again took the chair, and presided on the trial at
the said traverse. And this depo tent math, that although he, this
deponew, hath regularly attended the said Stafford Sessions for
the last seven years, he doth not recollect or believe that the said
George Chetwynd hath, except as aforesaid, upon any occasion
presided in the Traverse Court, but, on the contrary, hath V!FU.
• further sia-

with salt, and some warm meal and Valet tie? day: anti that, trmn I
that time to about the 12th day of December he, this deponent,
having been, as he believes, reported dl by the said sergeon, was
allowed one pint of milk per day, in the stead of the meal and we.
ter f and wnen his, this deponent's. ill health increased, he was la
subsequently, that is to say, deft he had suffered about two months
of his sentence, furnished, as deponent behaves by direction of the I
said surgeon, with about two ounces of tea and one pound of sugar,
and no mere, and allowed a small portion of animal food, for the I
space of three weeks, which indulgence !if such it is to be deemed I
under the circumstances) was withdrawn on Or about the Ist day of
January, from which period to the expiration of his imprisonment,
he, this deponent, was restricted to the aforesaid gaol diet, except-
ing only that deponent was allowed milk instead of meal and
water ; and this deponent further with, that the potatoes and salt, I
which formed one meal of the aforesaid gaol allowance, were
always brought into the work-room of the prisoners of the last
elms, in which this deponent was associated for near the last tell
weeks of this deponent's imprisonment, in nets, and deposited on
die floor, anal there divided by the prisoners among themselves,
there being neither tables nor other convenience for that purpose,
and when so divided such pristine's were in the practice and under
the necessity, as thin deponent submits, of taking their potatoes in
one hand and the milt in the other, neither trenchers, knives, fork.,
or any other utensil whatever being furnished them therewith ; and
deponent saith that during the period of four weeks and upwards.
when he was as aforesaid restricted to the gaol allowance, and had
no other means of subsistence of which lie could partake, but the few
potatoes allowed as aforesaid, and bread and water, his stomach
refusing the meal and water ; anal during great part of his said
sentence, excepting the three weeks when he was ill, as aforesaid,
he, deponent, was unable to bring himself to eat the potatoes in the
filthy and bestial mode in which alone he could partake of that
meal, independently of the quality thereof, whirl' this deponent
denies to have been uniformly good, for on the contrary this depo-
nent eaith, that such potatoes were frequently very bad, and
even unwholesome, inasmuch, that on several occasions the pri-
soners found it impossible to eat them, and they were actually
sent back, but the prisoners did not receive either better or
other potatoes or any other food or allowance in lieu thereof; depo-
nent further saith, that he repeatedly applied to the surgeon of the
said prison, and also applied to the said George Chetwynd himself,
as hereinafter stated, for permission to procure some additional
food for himself at his own expense, or that his friends might be
allowed to send him some portion of wholesome and nutritious food,
urging the plea of this deponent's ill state of health as a ground for
such indulgence; butdeposent distinctly saith, that he was refund
any such permission or indulgence, and peremptorily restricted to
the aforesaid allowances ; and further, that upon one or more occa.
shins, when food had been sent to him, this deponent, by his
friends, it was sent back again, the gaoler refusing to allow such
food to be delivered to him. this deponent ; anti this deponent fur.
then saith, that after he had been in confinement, in pursuance of
theaforesaid sentence, for about the period of fifteen or sixteen t'sys,
finding the severity with which he was treated, and the degradation
to which he was subjected Insupportable, this deponent drew up a
written statement thereof, and caused the same to be laid before
the visiting Justices of the said gaol, of whom the said George
Chetwynd was and is one; and he, this deponent, was afterwards,
that is to say, on Saturday, the Bth day of November, brought
before the said Justices, anal was heard thereon ; and deponent
with, that upon that occasion the Magistrates present were the said
George Chetwynd, Levet*, sod William I)yott, Esq. ;
and when he, this deponent, began to state his complaint, he, de-
ponent, was told by the said William Dyott to addresa himself to
the said George Chetwynd, who had this deponent's said state.
ment before him ; and deponent saith, that having respectfully re.
presented in the sid statement to the said .Magistrates, or to Mr.
Chetwynd, so acting tor them, the nature of the diet to which he,
deponent, was confined, and the w,vere treatment to which he
was subjected, and urged his infirm state of health, and

inability to perform severe labour, and observed upon the
gaol allowance, and the cruelty of requiring him to exist
thereon, and requested permission to furnish himself with some
additional food, and to be put to labour more suitable to
his ability and condition in life; the said George Chetwynd him-
self refused to grant deponent any such permission to procure food,
or to direct him, this deponent, to be put to any other description
of labour, declaring that the tread-mill was the only species of
labour they then had in the gaol, and that no distinction with respect
to food or diet could be made between deponent and the other pri-
soners, or words to that purport or effect ; whereas this deponent po-
elderly saith, that there was at that time several persons in the said
gaol under sentence of hard labour, and also others fur non-clergy-
able offences, who were placed to work of a much more easy and
light nature, and were not during the time of deponent's imprison.
ment compelled to undergo the labour of the tread-mill; and others
who were also allowed both to receive food front their friends and
procure it for themselves, and other indulgencies; and among them
one Garrett, who was sentenced to seine months' imprisonment for
manslaughter, who was rut only allowed such last-mentioned in-
dulgencies, but was not divested of his own dress or clothed with
the prison dress, not did he during the time this deponent was also
in confinement wear any part of such prison dress. And this de..
ponent further saith, that it sou on the Monday, namely the lads
November, after his being so heard b_ ore the visiting Magistrate,
that h:, this depo• est, was again taken to the tread-mill yard and
ordered to ascend the %heel, to which degrading punishment this
deponent verily believ a he would also have been again subjected,
had It not been for the refusal and remonstrances of this deponent,
on account of his 11l he Mb as aforesaid and the report of the SUN
gems as hereinbefore mentione d. And this deponent further saitb,
that his flisnds having obtainsd information of the very ill state of
health to which he, this dsponent, had been reduced by the operas
don of the said pan'affinent and the mode of its indiction, as well
upon his meow as his bodily powers, increased by a liver conk
plaint to which he, this deponent, has been long subject, they ap-
plied to their family surgeon and medical adviser, Mr. Hawthorn,
of Intoxeter, and requested hint to sec this deponent professionally),
and advise as to the state of his ill health. And this deponent sai
that on the said Mr. Hawthorn visiting this deponent in the •
gaol, although deponent told the said Mr. flawthosa that he was
then and bad been for sonic time unwell, the said Mr. Hawthorn
did not, nor would when requested by deponent, examine him as to
the state of his health, or preterite for or advise deponent profession-
ally thereon; but said Mr. Haw thorn informed this deponent that he,
the said Mr. Hawthorn, had been peremptorily refused permission
so to do, and had only been permitted to visit deponent at all in the
said gaol, on pledging himself that, he would hot consider such visit
professional, and would neither prescribe for nor advise deponent
as to the state of his health, nor examine hint professionally as to
his alleged complaint ; and the said Mr. Hawthorn wholly ab.
stained from so doing."
Mr. SCARLETT—Yit dis gaoler and Mr. Hughes have sworn
that Mr. Flint was treated with every care and attention, and al-
lowed to be visited by the members of his own family.
The Loan Cuter JUSTICE—I. there an affidavit of Haw-
thorn ?
Mr. ScsasErr.—Yes, my Lord. "And this deponent further
saith, that upon several occasions, when the friends of this de-
ponent applied to see him, they were, as deponent lath been in-
formed and believes, refused admittance, although they had pro-
cured orders of admission for the purpose. And this deponent fur-
ther saith, that oh Saturday the pith, and Sunday the 7th day of
December last, he, this deponent, reported himself ill to the sur-
geon of the said goal, who, nevertheless, did not afterwards attend
deponent, or prescribe fur or send hint any medicine in pursuance
of such, this deponent's report. And this deponent with, that he
was at the time, from the effect of his imprisonment operating as
aforesaid, very unwell in health, and very weak besides, having
taken a severe cold. And this deponent pinkie* denies that
he did then, or at any time, feign himself ill, or pretend to be
or misrepresent the state of his health to the said surgeon, or any
other person whomsoever; on the contrary, deponent with, that
during the wester part of the period when he was so under sentence,
as aforesaid, be, this deponent was, from the bad state of his
health, under the necessity of taking medicine daily, and on se-
veral occasions, when deponent was much worse, he was obliged,
under the direction of the gaol surgeon, to take medicine three or
four times a-day, and yet he, this deponent, was nevertheless kept
to labour, AP hereinbefore mentioned.
Mr. SC•iILETT observed, that the affidavit of the taskmaster
represented the illness of Mr. Flint as a matter of fraud, feigned to
avoid the hard labour to which lie was sentenced. " And this de-
ponent further smith, that on the morning of the following Monday
the Mb day of December, he, this deponent, instead of having his
cell unlocked, and being let out therefrom as usual, was left lucked

hour as aforesaid. And this (lemnen! ratites saith, that, (luring •
the whole of such his imprisonment. lie was treated with the great-
est rigour and severity, and was made to undergo the ignominious '
sentence inflicted upon him, with ehery unfeeling accompaniment of
disgrace and privation that email exasperate its severity ; that he
was comp:lied to wear a prison drew, restr;cted perettptorily to the I,
prison allowances a. aforesaid, and prohibited, the Ugh In ill health,
from purchasing or procuring anything beyond it, though he had j'
absolutely fasted forty hours front an inability to eat the prison food I.
put on the ground for him by the turnkey, and that while he was I
extremely unwell, and had so reported 'Unwell to the doctor, no
notice having been taken of such report of his dines to this depo- I
nut's knowledge, or any medicine supplied in consequence thereof.
And this deponent further saith, that he himself submits, that such I
harshness, rigour, and severity with aihich he, this deponent, was to
treated, was not called for by the nature of the sentence, or need-
' @wily attendant open the due execution thereof ar occasion by
treating him, this d t, in the manner required by the rules and
discipline of the • prison, as deposed to in the respective affoia.
vita of the said George (hetwynd, Thomas Itrotton, and William
Palmer, sworn on the 29th and Ptth days uf January last, and tiled
in support of this application."
Mr. St ARIA:TT—your Lordship' will observe, that all these
persons, in sit caring as to the mode of treatment pursued towards
'Sly. Flint, qualify their oaths by this statement, namely, that lie
was not treated with more set erity or rigour than, in their judgment,
was consistent with the rules of the prison and necessary •
to its discipline `, Nor can such s:verity, this dYponent
submits, be palliated by any circumstances attending the I
unintentional columbutien of the offence of which he VIM so
es aforesaid found guilty. and for which he wassentenccd, but on the
contrary, the severity of such sentence was greatly aggravated in the
mode in which it was carried into execution, especially with refer- !
ence to the prelim's habits, and circumstances, and condition in life ;
of this deponent. And this deponent further saith, that the *eve-
ml and respective allegations in this behalf contained in the said
newspaper, called the Beffiail e the Soli day of January
last, to the purport and effect last liereinbefore-mentioned and art
forth, in the judgment and belief of this deponent, are true and cor-
rect In substance and in fact. And this deponent further saith,
that having, in consequence ofauch treatment, prepared a draft state-
merit, which this deponent intended as instructions for his brothr,
Mn( Abraham Flint, to prepare and transmit a petition ot state.
meet to he tramotitted to the Secretary of State, when, in the ab-
settee of this deponent at chapel, such statement was taken from
among the deponent's other papers in his cell (by the task-matter
of the said goal), es appears by the affidavit of the said Thomas
Crutton, and by him delivered to the gaoler, who delivered it to j
Mr. Inetwynd, as the said guilty afterwards informed this depo.
nent ; and deponent saith, that hp repeatedly, both by himself and
friends, and particularly by his brother, demanded such statement
of and from the said gaoler, and insisted upon his right to make his
grievance known; but the only answer which this deponent could
obtain Imm the said gaoler was, that the said statement was with
the said Ctsarge Chetwynd, and Ruth statement or draft was never
returned to this deponent, or delivered to his said brother, or any
other of this deponent's friends. And this deponent further saith,'
that when, or shortly after, such draft or statement war so ab-
stracted from the cell of this deponent, her this deponent, was de-
privet! of pen, ink, and paper, which, deponent saith, might belong
to the said task-master, by whom he believes they had been fur-
nished to deponent on his application to him, as an officer of the
god, for such materials, and which, deponent saith, were the only
writing materials with which he, this deponent, had had beta
then supplied ; and deponent south, he very believes he was de-
, prised thereof fur the purpose of precluding any second attempt to
make his case known. And deponent saith, that his, deponent's,
friends, having subsequently delivered other writing materials at
the said gaol, they were withheld from him, this deponent, until
! near the close of his confinement; and three sheets only of tho
I quantity of paper. provided by the friends of deponent at their own

rly presided on the Crown side. And this deponent ._ saith,
that he is informed and believes that on the said Friday the 17th
day of Oetober, there wan also tried in the said Traverse Court,
before the said George Chetwynd, • certain other indictment for a
riot, assault, and rescue, a short report whereof is contained in the
said British Peers newspaper of the 11th day of January 1824, im-
mediately fhllowing the report o' the trial of this deponent and the
said other defendants, in which it was proved, that a most vi. lent
assault had been made upon the constables, and the place where
certain prisoners were put for safe custody broken open, and the
prisoners actually rescued out of custody, fur which said offence the
prisoners were sentenced, one to inmnsonment for three months,
two others to imprisonment for two months, and two others to im-
prisonment for one month, and to be kept to hard labour. And
this deponent further saith, that after such sentence was passed
'upon him, this deponent, and the said other defendants as aforesaid,
he, this deponent, together with the said other defendants, were
immediately committed to the custody of Thomas Mutton, the
gaoler, in whose custody this deponent and the said other persons
were removed from Clain and carried to the gaol of the said county,
situate in Stafford aforesaid. And this deponent saith, that on the
same day, being Friday the 17th October, he this deponent was
stripped of his own apparel, and clothed in a gaol dress, consisting
of • coarse stuff short jacket, waistcoat, and trousers of a dark co-
lour, coarse worsted party-coloured stockings, heavy wooden clogs,
and a cap, being deprived of his money and other articles in his
pockets. And this deponent further saith. that on the next following
morning, being Saturday the 18th. after deponent was unlocked front
the cell in which he had been confined upwards of 12 hours, he, this
deponent, together with the said other defendants, were conducted by
one of the turnkeys of the said prison to the tread-mill yard, in the
said prison, and forthwith placed upon the wheel, and compelled
to work the same with vagrants, rogues, and vagabonds from the
time they were PO placed thereon. during the day. And deponent
with that he was kept in the said tread-mill class the whole of the
next day, Sunday, on which day deponent admits he was not com-
pelled to go to the wheel; but that on the Monday morning, being
the 28th October, deponent was again, together with the said other
defendants, placed upon the said wheel, and compelled to work
I thereon for some time, when he was removed, together with the
other delendacts, into another yard and class, called the Weaver's
Yard and Spinner's elms. And deponent ith, that in the yard
and class to which he, this deponent, was so as aforesaid removed,
he was associated with felons, and the worst and most depraved de-
scription of offenders and others convicted of capital off,mena,
whose sentences had been commuted. as evidence whereof deponent
instances the following persons.—(The deponent then stares several
instances in which the prisoners were confined for offences too
shocking to be named.).—Deponent, as well as the said other de-
fendants, after being so classed and associated with persons
of the herein last-mentioord description, was compelled to'
turn and work • large fulling mill, which required four
persons at a time to work the same, and which deponent found
to be not only a very laborious, but also a most disgusting
description of labour, and at which he, deponent, alternately'
with the said other defendants, was compelled to labour during
the first and part of the second week of his said imprison-
ment, under such sentence as aforesaid, under the order and direc-
tion of the task-master of the House of Correction, although during
that period none of the prisoners above-mentioned were ordered to
work at the said fulling mill, the said other prisoners hereinbefore
mentioned being employed in weaving and spinning wool ; and this
deponent further with, that daring • part of the tune he, this de-
' ponent, and the said other defendants, were compelled to labour at
the said fulling.mill as aforesaid ; such mill wu employed for the
purpose of cleansing rani scouring foul clothes, and infectious or
contagious bed clothes from the hospital, attended with circum-
stances too offensive to be mentioned ; and this deponent further
smith. that while he was so compelled to labour at the said fulling-
mill, he wee informed by Bellew Cox, the Monitor or Superin-
tendent thereof, under the aforesaid taskmaster, that it was not
usual to work the said follinganill more than one or two days in a
month, although this deponent and said other defendants were so
kept to labour at the same as aforesaid, and this deponent further
saith that he continued in the aforesaid class (if clam it can be
called) for a period of three weeks, during the remainder of which
time he was kept to the wearisome, though less disgusting labour
of carding and spinning wool, from the tine he was unlocked or
let nut of his cell in the morning, until the time he was again
locked up therein in the evening, with the exception of die time
allowed for eating the gaol diet, and excepting the occasions far
going to chapel, and when he, this deponent, was in mockery as
deronent believes and submits, regularly taken with the other
prisoners to school to learn to spell, and actually made to spell
words of two syllables ; this deponent having had •the berfait of a
liberal education."
M-. Sc.+. Lord,

expense, were 'delitiered to this deponent, and 'all further supply
was refused him until he had accounted for the three sheets first de-
livered, excepting one sheet, which was of to this deponent
under the restrictions aforesaid, and, therefore, not accepted by
him, although deponent repeatedly demanded the sane for the pun.
pose of drawing a statement of his grievances. And this deponent
further saith, that the aforesaid county goal, and the principal offi-
cers thereof, are, as this deponent verily believes, and has no doubt
whatever under the control and influence of the said Geo. Chet-
wynd, andi particul trly the Governor thereof, who, as deponent be-
lieves, dare not art without, or contrary to, the will and desire of
he, the said ()to-ge L'hswynal, who takes upon himself the active
administration th rsof. Aid this deponentfurther positively saith,
that he is utterly unable to account for the extraordinary severity,
as well of the said sentence, as of the mode in which it was carried
into ex:colon ; both, as this deponent has reason to believe, under
the influe ce of the said George Chetwynd, the Chairman of the
Court of Quarter S usions, and one of the Visiting Magistrates of
the said gaol, otherwise than front motives of personal resentment,
entertained by the said George Chetwynd against the family of this
deponent, arising out of the cause stated in the affidavit of the
said Abraham Flint, and the feeling frequently evinced by the
said George Chetwynd„ on the subject of the claim of the said
Richard Stafford Cooke, in which he is, as deponent believes,
materially interested, and with which he improperly, as deponent
submits, on the said trial, onnuected the case of this deponent ; and
also to feelings of political hostility, this deponent's said beetling
being professorially retained for • body of Burgesses in the said
borough of Stafford, for which he, the said George Chetwynd, is
Member, who have, by the paid Abraham Flint, instituted mo.
ceedi:tgs for the purpose of disfranchising certain honorary bur.
seises of the said borough, of whom the said George Chetwynd
is one, and which, should the same be successful, would, as this
deponent believes, render the said George Chetwynd ineligible at
the corning election of Members to serve for the said borough
in Parliament. And this deponent further positively axith he
denies that no inquiry into the subject of his, this deponent's,
case war directed by Mr. l'eel, the, on the contrary, this deponent
saith, that after such petition of this deponent had been presented
through 31r. Tooke, of Gray's Inn-square, the town agent of
this deponent's said brother, the said Mr. Tooke received a
communiestirn front Mr. nobly:mite, the Under Secretary of
State, stating, that he was directed by Mr. Peel to acquaint the
said 31r. 'Tooke that he had the petition under his consideration,
and was making an inquiry into the circumstances. Arid this
deponent further saith, that although it may be true that no
official meeting of the Magistrates was called fur the express
purpose, or under the direction of .lr. Peel, yet nevertheless
a meeting of the said County Magistrates did, within a few days
of the date of the said letter, take place, at the gaol, at whidi
the subject, as this deponent bath been informed, was dis-
cussed.'
3lr. SCARI.rTT...--Your Lordships will recollect that it is
sworn by Mr. Chetwynd that no inquiry was directed by Mr.
Peel, hut that an investigation did take place, which ended in an
approbation of his conduct. I will venture to say that this result
would have been more satisfactory to others, and gratifying to
Mr. Chctsynd himself, if it had been founded on an inquiry into
the facts, and this unfortunate man, whose affidavit I am now
reading, had been present to state his complaints.—" He,
this deponent, not having been called upon or examined upon
that occasion, and no communication upon the subject having
been made to any of the friends of this deponent, lie, this de.
poncnt, doth not know to what resolution the said Magistrates
came at the said Meeting, nor whether the said Magistrates did
at that meeting, or at any other meeting, pass a vote of appeal*.
tion of the e,mdttet of the said George Chetwynd, which, if passed,
hath been obtained without this deponent having had any oppoe.
tunny whatever of being heard upon the subject of his complaints.
or any inquiry being made into the nature of his case, or the eir-
cumatances hereinhefore set forth relative to his treatment while in-
carcerated in the said gaol, under the atiiresaid sentence.
" CHARLES FLINT.
" Sworn at the Borough of Stafford, in the County of Stafford,
the 27th day of April. 11121, before me,
"C. 11. PASS3IAN, a Commissioner, Re."
Mr. SCARLETT continued—The next affidavit vas another of
Mr. Abraham Flint, relating to the case of his brother, to whom
he ae'ud as attorney :
" Abraham Flint, of l'ttox:ter, in the county of Stafford, gen-
tleman, attorney at law, maketh oath and saith that he this depo-
nent bath read in the newspaper, called the British Press, of the
sth day of January last, a report of • certain trial or indictment
against Charles Flint and others, contained in the columns of the
said newspaper, being the newspaper mentioned and alleged in the
affidavit of George Chetwynd, sworn in this matter on the 31st day
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the treatment to which a

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gentleman was condemned, who had received a liberal education.
arid was known in society as a member of the profession of the law.
•• And this deponent *lath, that on the Monday after the capita-
tien or the first three weeks of his, this deponent's, imprisonment,
under the aforesaid sentence, being the 111th day of Nov. he, this de-
pots, nt, together with four of the said other defendants, was
again taken to the tread-mill and by the said task-master, and
ordered on Me wheei,against which he, this deponent, remonstrated,
aasigning as his reason tor declining or objecting to such species of
labour, that he was then ill from the effects of his confinement,
and the restrictions and hardships to which he had been subjected,
and requested that he might be examined by the surgeon; but de-
ponent was nevertheless again ordered to the wheel, and upon de-
ponent's repeating his objections to such labour, on account of the
state of his health, and appealing to the surgeon thereon, the
Ramer of the said gaol came up to this deponent, and notwithstand-
ing he, this deponent, remonstrated as aforesaid against such treat-
ment, and claimed the attendance of the surgeon, he, this depo-
nent, was by such gaoler ordered to ascend the said wheel : And
this deponent further smith, that he, this deponent, persisting in

up therein, without any cause or reason being then ur previously
assigned."
Mr. Sca*LETT---This cell, your lawdships will observe, was
10 feet lung, by B or 7 feet wide. " And that he, this deponent,
repeatedly during the day demanded to see the Governor, and to
be informed thereof, and heard thereon. And deponent %soh, that
in course of this day the said Governor MIK to deponent's cell, and
stated, as in his said affidavit is allayed, that he, this deponent,
was so locked up for improper behaviour at chapel on the preceding
day : whereupon he, this deponent, demanded to be taken out of
his tell, and to be heard upon any alleged charges of misbe-
haviour, and to have an opportunity of examining witnesses, and
to be heard in his defence, before punishment was inflicted, by
putting deponent into close confinement ; but the said Governor'
refused so to do, which conduct of the said Governor, he, this de-
ponent, believes to have been illegal, and contrary to the rules and
regulations of the said gaol, whit h he, this deponent, demanded to
see, without being enabled to see the same. And this deponent fur-
ther with, that he being ill at the time of his having been so locked
up in his cell, as aforesaid, anti having 50 reported himself to the
he - absolutely unable_ to eat the gaol diet or al.

of January last, as containing certain alleged or supposed lib.
upon him the said George Chetwynd. And this deponent further
Ninth that the same is, in substance, • true and correct copy of the
report of the aforesaid trial contained in a certain other newspaper.
called the Lichfield Aferruip, of the 3lst day of October, 18a.
And this deponent further with that he was present in Court on the!
trial of the aforesaid indictment, on the 17th day of October last
past, and this deponent took full, and. to the best of his power, ac-
curate, notes thereof and deponent saith, that the said report of
the said trial, so contained in the said newspaper called the Britialt
Press, of the sth day of January last, is, to the best of the judg-
ment and belief of this deponent, a true and correct report thereof.
And he, this deponent. saith, that he oath further compared this
report with the notes of the evidence in the hand-writing of Coun-
sel on the back of the briefs, and has found the same t' be a.nect.'
And this deponent further saith. that he, this deponent, as the at-,
totney for his said brother, had, upon the occasion of the said trtid,
upwards of fifteen witnesses in attendance, ready to have been called
and examined on behalf of the said Charles Flint, if it bad been
thought n...cesfary by the ( :ounsel en iployed Sy this deponent; but dr.
'MOH Allith, itwas the decided opinSin of such Counsel, in which he,

hi. aforesaid remonstrances, there was brought into the said tread. surgeon, . _ was
mill yard, a stone block end iron.handled hammer, and a quantity lowance furnished to him, and placed by the turnkey on the this deponent, fully agreed, that it was wholly unnecessary and use-
of stones, which twit... entß deponent was informed by the afore- floor of his cell, there being no other place tin that purpose, less to call any such witnnises, inasmuch as in the juigmert and
said taakmaster were brought for him ; and he, deponent, was nor did this deponent for upwards of rimy hours, from he. opinion of the said Counsel, as declared and expressed to this .le-
thereupon ordered out of the sheltered pan of such yard into the twecn four and live o'clock in the afternoon of Sunday, until be. punent, and likewise in the judgment and opinion of this deponent,
open air, to labour at breaking stones, it being a cold, wet day, in tweet. 7 and 8 o'clock of the morning of Tuesday, during which he an case was upon such trial made by the witnesses for the proseeii.
the nionth of November; and deponent having reported himself was so kept in close eontinemenr, as aforesaid, either cat such don against the said Charles Flint, nor even evidence to go to the
ill, and required the attendance of the doctor, for which reason the allowance or even partake thereof, nor was he, this deponent. due. Jury ; and this deponent via therefore strongly advised by the said
deponent objected to such last-mentioned labour until he had been ing the whole of such period, visited by the said surgeon, nor did Counsel to call no witnesses, snit no witnesses were called by this
attended by the surgeon, and examined as to the state of his health, he, deponent, receive anything front him, although deponent had, d. Moment on the part of the said Charles Flint except this deponent.
and hie then capability to perform such labour. And this depo- in his short interview with the tiovemur, expressly stated his ill- aced also witnesses to character and respectability, who were clad
nest saith, that he was Bluffly afterwards attended by 31r. Hughes, non, and the feet of his having reported it, as aloresaiti. to the sur- after the verdict had been re.unted : and this deponent further
the surgeon ; and after he, this deponent, had been examined by germ. And deponent saith, that he several times, while so under smith, that in his judgment and belief, such trial was not a fair
the said surgeon, deponent was removed from the Raid tread-mill- close confinement, requested to be supplied with a little water, and impartial trial, our did the said George Chetwynd take down
yard, to an adjoining yard, to card and spin. And this deponent which was not supplied to this deponent. And this deponent far- in wrinng the evidence thereon with correetnessand impartiality ;
further smith, that dining the remainder of the said term for which they Keith, that the cell he, this deponent, was In confined in, front or, if the said lieorge Chetwynd did take down such evidence with
he, this deponent, was so imprisoned its aforesaid, he, this depo. Sunday afternoon until Tuesday morning, was about ten feet long cornctness and without partiality, then he, this deponent, saith, that
rent, was kept to the said last description of labour, namely, card- by six or seven feet wide. And deponent saith, that It may be the said Ileorge Chetwynd did not read the whole of hit notes of the
hag and spinning wools excepting only a period of about three true, and, as this deponent believes, is die fact, that he, this depo- evidence su take:- as mint-said, to the said Jury, inasmuch as he,
weeks, front the (sth day of Ikeember, until the Ist day of .la. nett, did, during a considerable part of the Monday, keep the this deponent saidi, that the said George Chetwynd omitted same
'trey, timing which tiine he, this deponent, was so ill, that he window of his cell open, fur the purpose of ventilating the said important parts of the aforesaid evidence, until his attention was
was exempt front labour, the said Francis flinches having informed cell, which he, this deponent, was under the necessity of submit. called thereto, and such omissions pointed out to him by l'onnsel,'
this deponent that he had reported hint unfit for the same. And ting to the usual mode of ventilatingsuth cells, being by leaving as will appear by the said report, anti which evidence ao omitted,
this deponent further smith, that front the day of his commitment open the doors and windows of the cells when the prisoners were I appeared to this deponent to be important to the ease of the said
to custody, tinder the aforesaid sentence, namely, the 17th day of removed therefrom in the day-time, although he, this deponent, Charles Flint ; and this deponent further saith that the said tieorge
thloner,until the 17th day of November, tieing a period of upwards was then sufferiag under a severe cold, and was otherwise very taut_ i Chetwynd, in stating the law. read to the said Jury. the law only of
of tour weeks, he, this deponent, was whollyi and absolutely refused well. And deponent width, that in consequence thereof, he, this unlawful assemblies, not proeetsling to read to or itifonn the Jury
permission to provide Itinnedf, or to have any other fond than the, deponent was, within a fear days, taken much worse, and during the law as to routs and riots, and pointing out to the said Jury the
prison diet and allowance, consisting of breail•and water, potatoes, which time was that he, this deponent, Wll not compelled to distinction therein ; and this deponent further saith, that the said