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THE BRIT 151

LONDON,
TUESDAY, SF.rrestaca 7, ivi9.

The proceeding. which have hitherto taken place
at the Lancaster Assizes are extremely ioterroting,
and merit the deepest attention of every thinking
man in the country. The latest advice, from
Lancaster are of Saturday evening, at which
tiwe the Grand Jury had returned true hills
against IlusT, JontesoN, Moonstouse, SAXTON,
BAMFORD, and others, fora couspiracy " to excite
tumult and insurrection within this realm, and by
force and violence to alter the Government and
Constitution thereof, us by law established." On
the tame day BARTON, BAMFORD, JONEs, HEALEY,
and some others charged in this indictment, and
confined f r default of hail, were b ght up, and
severally pleaded Not Guilty. They have all
traversed the indictments, but very heavy brit is
required for them ; indeed so bestir that it is pro-
bable some of them, being very poor men, will he
compelled to lie its gaol until the next Assizes.
It is remarkable that on the preceding day
a bill of indictment was, after a very long
investigation, found by the Grand Jury mg-inst
Richard Mena, a prwsibroker of Manchester, for
corrupt mod wilful perjury committed by him ist
' the evidence winch lie gave at the New Bailey of
Manchester, against Messrs. HUNT, ItiOORDIOUSE,
JOHNSON, and others'. This fellow was the prin-
cipal evidence against ildo'r and his companinnot
and was the mate ;you stliorre oath the Magistrates
Conceived theroselvese:rimilorised to command she
yeomanry of Manchester on Monday the so
charge the peaceable Mod unoffesiding multitude
who were assembled is l'eter'o-place. A Judge's
warrant has been issued for the arrest of Owxs.
• Several bills had been preferred against member. of
the Manchester yeomanry cavalry, under Lord
ELLENDOROUGII'S Act, for malicious cutting and
maiming. alleged to laser been committed on Nlon-
day the 16th, in the memorable charge of the. Mall..
cheater heroes: bard appears by the latest accouests,
r.
that four of these bill!. were thrown out. We refer
our readers to Sir CHARLES WOLSEI.RT'S letter
fur a specimen of the-charges preferred against
some of these genticrang. The Grand Jury, how-
ever, did nut conceive the evidence isi support of
these allegations satisfactory, and the bills were le-
jetted. A different fate, however, attended a bill
of indictment 'deferred against JAMES WROE,
Editor of the Manehester Obserber, for a libel ;
which was, of course, well supported by evidence,
for it was returned as true.
The result of throe proceedings on the part of the
r Graud hairy of Lancaster gives occasion to touch
serious reflection. That every point submitted to

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the Grand !ugliest has bean n't`sely and ha4stir
considered, it is our dray to presume. ■nd we trust
that the same confidence is Mt throughout tiw

country in general. It is of paramount import-
ance at the present moment of agitation and
alarm, that the character of public justice should
remain free from the possibility of taint. Con-
fidence iu the power of the law to redress indi-
vidual wrongs', no matter whence arisiag or on
whom inflicted, is essentially regnisiie to the well-
being of Nociety ; it is the strongest link of the
chain that binds the Sovereign and the subject, and
it is no leas the interest of the one than of the
other that its force should he unimpaired. This

principle it was that indocerl mir present venerable
Sovereign to recommend of his own gracious will
from the Throne, that the Jodges (honk, he wholly

independent of the Crown. '6 looking uplii the
iodependence and uprightness or the J Iblge%"
(and a fortiori of Grand Jar,,r.), us he s'ss
pleased to declare. " a. essential to the impartial
administration of justice, one of the hest
rities of the rights and libetti.s of

and as met rotaltocire to the honour n j t;t:! Crown."
nut valuable bt yowl all power of 1.'411114(1011
the immaculate purity of jit-tice must ever be,
vet if the peculiar circuinoalices of one moment
could render the difihrittii of the fullest coati knee

0 niong the people in the wisdom and integrity r.l
those who are to adrniui.ter the law• a 'natter or
more than ordinary interest, we would wit hesitate

to point to the present criais na partictilarly requir-
ing the most unbending disregard of all private
and personal considerations, and the most exalted
exercise of an unltiassed understanding. The
public min I is strongly excited, but the fer-
vour of that excitement seeks to watts itself in
an Hopesl to law, and to the honest opinions
of Juries. No desire of vengearice is entertain-
ed beyond that which the law wit; grant, and
those who are most aggrieved are willing to re-
sign the right of punishment to the ordinary means
of leg-il ietribution. Should political animosities,
however, he seen to mingle in the minds of the
Gram! Juries with the great dittiea they have to
perform—should private sentiments of hatred to
one party, or of affection to another, overbear the
sense of that obligation by which they have so so-
letanly pledged themselves to do impartial justice,
it is dreadful to contemplate what must be the
consequences. It is well known that a strong
prejudice exists iu the minds of that class of the
gentry of Lancashire and Cheshire, of whom the
Grand Juries are composed, against Mr. HUNT and
those with whom he has associated himself. No-
tions of political expediency may seem to justify
acts not perfectly in unison with law, and those who
have in their capacity of Magistrates and master-
manufacturers praised and thaiiked the yeomanry
for their exertions on a particular occasion, may not
think it quite consistent to find bills of indictment
agailist. individual yeomen for acts of unnecessary
violence and bloodshed in the performance of the
ditty which had been the object of gratitude and
praise ; these yeomen, too, may bear some near
and dear relation to the Jurors appoiuted to inves-
tigate their case, and conscience, thus doubly as-
sailed, may s, swing from its moorings." The
Grand Jury of Lancashire began well by finding
"s a true bill" against OWEN, and from this we
augured favourably of what might be expected to
follow. It is true, although we have read a very
minute report of the filial examination, as it is
called. of Mr. HUNT and his fellow-prisoners, at
the New Bailey of Manchester, and much of
the evidence that was marshalled against them, we
yet may not he acquainted with all the evidence
produced before the Grand Jury; but we do know
that. on the occasion we allude to, the principal
witness was this Owen, the pawnbroker, and it does
not seem very consistent in the same Grand Jury to
find a true bill" against OwEN for wilful and
corrupt perjury, on Friday, and on Saturday,
the following day, to return s' a true bill"
against Mr. HUNT and others fur a corpiracy,
supported, in great measure, by the tatimony
of this tonne witness.
At the Cheshire Assizes, Sawed Hardens and
Ralph Wright were tried and found Guilty for being
engaged in the riots which took place at Macclesfield
on the 17th of August. They were not prosecuted
capitally. although they are charged in the itulict-
nteut with having remained its the crowd riot.
ously and unlawfully for the space of one -hour after
proclamation made in pursuance of the provisions
contained in the Riot Act. They have been sen-
tenced, Hardens to 18 months' imprisonment in
the County Gaol, and Wright to six mouths' im-
prisonment.

IiARRISON, the reforming preacher, who, it was
understood, would have put off his trial for sedi.
lion until the 'text Assizes. has somewhat untie.
pectedly expressed his readiness to meet the
charge at the present. The witneises for the Crown
had, on the former understanding. been excused
from their attendance. but the Counsel for the
prosecution expressed a hope that they might be
ready to go to trial either on Monday or Tuesday.
It is said that HARRISON will plead his own cause.
Sir CHARLES WOLIRLEV'S trial will come on,
rise mid. rotund. at linutsford Quarter Sessions, its
the third week of October treat.

The Paris Papers of Frifisy_liFtived last night.

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They rf fusels no intereot.. ,The ...ing.4e rt.
tracts

•-; • tritis. sarrixtvrt
The King yesterday' haled alias. in the Cagle
Clispel, previous to which he 'rrc.ivad M. de
Bourck, the Dauish Ambassador to ti►e Clint cf
England.

Hir Majesty wag • long time engaged in
With M. Bunn Porto!. He has nostie
motions in the navy, including that of .1,
Mack**, an facer of high riii.tinetion, l;

the reuk nt l'o•t Capt•un fur his INIP.1;111t •4,11, ;4
and expedition to 'Madagascar and the 1•1 c .;.f
Bourbon.

At three o'clock the Kiog took an sikiatisais
open carriage, in the direction of Chink:F. • '
A great many foreigners arrive in this 1.41,•0,0,
attracted by its marakent collection
of art and industry. Tex receipt at the Tikeatre
Francaive on the 31st last was 3,900 francs awl
111. kt of the Opera still greater, to wino' tie
ituctlier of foreigners now in Paris his not imle
contributed.

The Ftve per Cent. Consols are 7! 4.10
Bank Actions, 1,4.321.

By the Marron frigate, :wrists' on Sriaitsi‘
evettiog at Portsmouth Irnm the; Eitsi tit
have ricrivell Calculus Papers to the tills of 111sre.
They coolant the details of the estsszilt.hmetit dr
port at sineNvore, the siwirot tws, Amite
the 'Malays, in the Straits of %kers, Ise
Sir Ttso,t.ts Svasroao RAFFLE. ; and also sot
account of the state of the Goveroment Achim,
with whirl' that officer hoped to form arrsiiixe•ni-nts
of a•perm meta naterr, for the security of our matt
tnerce, soil the mutual advantage of the •ii4jee's
of bolls States. It W• 11 on the 3104 Jaistilry
the British flag was hoisted ea the lehinti
pore, from which he took his departure for
on the 14th or February, havior I-ft Nl.jor
QVHAR at Sinclipore as Rt-hilleitt. It was stair., is
Tim BRITISH PRESS of the 4541 of August timite
bad sailed again ou the Ist of 1.11(.11 for Aclireti.

A Ilamberrgh Mail and two Dutch Nt.iils bare
arrived, hut they bring no inte:ligenee of uitrrr•t.

A letter from Inverness, dated Sept. 1, for.
" His Royal Highness Prince Lhortil.ll at,tl suite
arrived here about half-i,ast six n'clock vestorday
excising. limn Moyliall, the seat of Sir A. E. ii tt.F.-
INTOSH, of 3flacktitthalt, Bart. where
Flightless held a Levee yesterday afternoon.
Most Noble the Marquis of H.LNTLY was seated in
the carriage with his Royal Highness, ohalt w.s
immediately followed by those of his own
the equipages of several of the neighbourik.g Gfo-
tlemeit taking up the . rear. His Royal Flightiest
was fondly greeted in his prdgrera through the
town by the iultabitatitc Having aliith'rd at Mr.
CART'S 800, he inituttliately re;sairetl to oar if
the windows, and with the utmost condeseetision
acknowledged the gratulation* of the Inubitutl..,
of all ranks, who thronged the streets in front of !!,::
Hotel, notwithstanding the unfuvoura isle state of ti.e
weather, it having rained incessantly thino4 the
afternoon. His Royal Highness fir quently ;c-
-lamed to the windows bowing, while a sathe of
benevolence brightened his countenance. H 4
Royal Highness and Suite dined and slept at Mi.
CANT% and set out this morning, after hreakf.co,
to view the Caledonian Canal; having ex:1111MA
the Muirtowu chain of locks, milking the tniot
minute inquiries of Mr. JAMES Daviosox, the
resident Engineer, who attended him, his voltage
drove to Dockfour, where his Royal Highness still
obtain a view of Lochness, and make a fotenosas
call upon Mr. BAILLIE. of Dockfour. ills Ray:l
Highness appears to-day in excellent heal.lt tool
spirits; he looked rather pale last slight, prot,,ltk•
in consequence of the fatigues of his tourney. His
Royal Highness will breakfast to-morrow morning,
with Governor MUIR, at Fort George, whence he
is to proceed to Gordon Castle."
The Madras Gasetie, of the 4th of March, ass
flounces the death of Mrs, E1.1.10T, wile of the
Governor of that Presidency.

A young man, named EDMUND DAWSON, of
the age of nineteen, who came out of Sold;vomits,
died on Tuesday : he had received a sabre eel ;or
the head on the 16th ult., near St. Peter's Chnerh.
An inquest was held npnn him before .Inrisr
Cotuner. on Wednesday last, which win. ail.
jeururit to tine priel.esst Saturday .—(;)/aNchi stir
Express:4—.4...We hope, from this delay in boding
u verdict, that the Jury will be more precive in their
account of the cattle or thin unfietunate yowlers;
mans death than • those Jiffies were who ittefedril
them in a similar duty. Nothing can be snore in.
definite than the phrase of Accidental Death a•,,ti.
plied to sods a case.
Out of about WO weavers its the town of I.3stail,
there are ut present no lest than 150 idle. life un.
derstastil that the 31agiviratev, following slur !WAD
pie of the gentlemen ni Pollock•liaw:, hove Ilse
post active in getting the usieniplo ..l err isr *:s.
of, the new road between G1a.g...4, ti• at Ca loth .
When they conimencid, cacti terror. d a •iital: .0.4
to supply trumethate wants.- The sa
are iislornied, intend cultivating pail of 1. &if 1.1..4
MOW, a waste of several square tittles. .11. lit.
lsuting to each burcems, who may roust it. is
portion on a SO year.' lease, many fassishes tusgtt
be comfortably provided for. Wth.t a pity ir r I t
ers snarly wastes its that part of the cou..try *l4ll
so many hands are at prevent idle !—(C'ortial; Jam.;
tuthi
A few days ago, Mrs. BEI.L, a widow in .
went into a meadow to milk her cow, when ernerS •
cow, with horns, which way grosirg in the •.4, •
meadow, ran at her, threw her down, sod
the act of goring her, wisest her owls row. t
was at a distance, came ru tttt ie ig np, atlas krd I
horned cow with great fury, sod effectually
corded not only in relieving, but is all probability
of baring the life of her innate's.