The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-04-06 00:00:00

LA NCASTE it ;ISSUES.

Tituasoai, waaco SO.
CROWN SIDE.

CHARGE OF MANUFACIURING PIRE.HEADS.
John Ertotriel was vat to the bar, charged with harlot
manufactured pike-head., with ittlent that the Pattie should
bodied at serried, unload it, foul iterbotioim meetings
It bewailed frum the evidence of George Pocketing and
/antra Mows, that, in conaroptetice of suspicions excited
against the prisoner, they bad bees, sent by a magistrate tu
los %faith', awl, under preintee of having Oftll.tall to use
them, salted lon. if he Wit soy pikes In sell? the Prisoner re.
phi d, that hr had only one then with him, which was in a
rough state ; he would, hoverer r, get biro two or three Where.
With then Info his house, audio the course of • short lime
three pikes were brought to a neighbouring public boner,
wbere the wit 'serape...l to purchase Neat fur about 35. each.
In paying the motley they were short a-few lialfpenee. The
Prisoner replied, that would make too difference between Re.
formers. In the course of the purchase it was oMetvrd, in
Pr,sonce• hearnoz, by our of the witnesses, that he wanted
the pike to attend at the Burnley angling fill the 15th No.
*ember (the day preceding this irattaiction). Witnesses int.
mediate! gave ififorrnat 1111 l 10 WM. Chaffer, a constable of
!Sneaky, who pros ...led the next morning at three o'clock
with some soldiers, and arrested the Prisoner, and .upois
searching his pelisses finned another rite-bead concealed
in a rioptorial (I, and on searching his box found a paper in-
scribed " Hmsl and liberty."
. The Prisoner 161 his el. knee artnsillted.thnt he had sida.the
that b. waio.sloort of wink at the time, awl would hove
made pikes for any person who employed bias;. but be de.
pied having airy bad intention.
Mr. insure flAvt.v.r summed up the evidence, sad the
Jury immediately returned a verdict of—Guiftp.
James Morris was neat pot to the bur, charged with a
similar off: nee. he wit maws were the same as ia, sad the
rireititosoloro • neat ly alike to, the former case. He was
slot enarietad. Sentenee has out yet been pasted un either
of thrm.
Several other rases occurred In the course of the day, bat
noise of ahem of any importance. The Court did not rise
till niue o'clock.

S4TURDAT. •PRIL I.
RI/FINLEY MEETING.

Tilt KINO ♦. KNIUOT, DeWIRMIST, ♦7ID PZZ OTTICIII.

The Curet met tki• morning at nine o'clock. soon after
which John Knight, George Deirkurst, Nathan Broad.
hurt?, John Adqmisen, Walla's Fletcher, John arra, Joke
Asiin, amt./ macs Wad*, were pot to the and the in-
dictment being read to them, they severally pleaded—Nut
Guilty.
Mr. LITTLEDUA stated the nature of the indictment to
the Jury, which contained .21 counts; the substaree of
whirl, was, that the Prisoners bad Coll,Pift II 10 Marti reuse
others of the liege subjects of the late King to go, armed t.) a
meeting for the purpose of hindering amt obstracting the
Magistrates* and Peace Officer:, in lake min-olio% of their du-
lies. It also charged 'been with assembling an unlawful
meeting, armed with swords, pikes, Waves. flre.s►ms. Ste.
and of attending at the same, to the terror of the liege sub-
jects of the late King, on tae 151 h November last, at Usher-
gan Eaves, in the county of Lsocaster.
Mr. SCArtLrIT stated the case to the Jory. He said he
should um enter jobs any ►xtraneous matter to ■hew that
the °lkon of those whn conresiml the meeting were unlaw-
ful, or that th►y intended to adopt proceediage different from
what they professed. It would be quite snakiest for his
purpose to rely nu the circumstance that the people west to
this meeting armed. That eiresimstauce alone was quite
sufficient to constitute it an unlawful meeting, whatever
might be its avowed or intended object. He then proceeded
to state the evidesser he adduce to is the several filer.
feminists with the conspiracy charged in the indictment.

'fba first witness called was •
W. Chaffer, examined by Mr. Nstdr--Ne slated that he
was a constable of Burnley; that a notice of meeting had
teen placarded for the Bth of November. but It was Sher-
a arils advertised for the 18th; that in the foremost of that
day large parties arrived at Noraley, preceded by amine willa
banners and pruceriled through the town, to the place of
nterting, whirr hosting* were erected fur the speakers; that
as they were passing through the town, Colonel Hargreaves,
who wit,. u.s honchoed, da-tied among the CrOW.I;'11114 wired
a. 1.11. which appeared to hive been prepared for a pike-
bundle, and brought it away without iipposisioa. He sop- •
posed the numbers assembled to MOWISIII to 3,000 or 4,11:10.
Tlwre were 18 toga and three caps of liberty.
Cron-examined by Mr.Wthhtittim—Hc noticed reversal of
the inscriptions sin the flags: we one was " Keep within
compass ;" another was " Order, order!" Nome of them ap-
peared to be religious motto% such m * A Woe balance N
an abomination to the Lunt. hut a•jast weight is his de-
light."
Richard Fletcher stated. that Its was in company with a
man ;tamed! Wilms* ; lie sow several of the people yids slaves,
and on their arriving at the pruned they picked oat the dirt
from the holes .whirls were made to reeeiee the pike-heads.
He 11111111 several immune with pike-heads snorted ruder their
coal-sleeves, and us their breasts. We haniediately MA the
field to inform the Magistrates. He returned aims Am, and
heard' ery," the eirldiere *recessing," silsermi pea • number
of people pulled ant their pike-beads. sad wing of theme
Gerd them in the moles. He saw sixty premiss pall oat
their pikes, bat only Hiroo .w Ma is them. He alms
eaw tirmity ober mums draw Out their pietist.: thane per.
was who so conducted thrisseelree weer war hi the heritage,
When the alarm lied autssidet‘ they replaced Hoek wforesp,
it tbeielormer aremalearat. The slam lagwril nut to bit
false. Igoisbt woe ow; at ibis time wind. ito almost In%