The National Register.
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SUNDAY, MARCH 19, 1820.

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Chambers...l told you before thkt I wirer was at the
Dog. I was at a public•house in Gray's Inn Lane. I told you
I did not know the siirn. I saw Mi. Thistlewood there.
Magistrate... And Brunt in the chair ?
Chambers...No, I did not see Brunt there. I know Brunt
well ; he is the same trade as myself. I have known bins for
years ; but never knew him to interfere with politics.
Magistrate... Did yon speak to Thistlewood on that night?
Chauibers...no I did not; we were not good friends at that
time, in consequence of Edwards coming up with him and some
drunken men to my house.
Magistrate. We know all about that. We will speak of that
afterwards. Mr. Birnie here turned round to Ruthven and said
" Edwards I believe is not is custody !" Ruthven replied,
" No Sir, I believe not," and walked to the other end of the
room.

Alai.,rktrate. Do you know Cook ?
Chambers. You asked sae that question before, and I told
you I did not know him.
Rutliven, who aalkud up to the witness, said—" You know
Cooke was in your house on Christmas-eve with eight others.
(This Rutliven swore on the Coroner's Jury that he had followed
Thistlewood about for days and nightt; together.)
Chambers. You asaert a falsehood, there never were eight
men in my house slitior time.
Magistrate—Was ever Brunt in your house ?
Chambers—Brunt has been there.
Magistrate—Brunt was in your house with a man named
Hay, was he not ?
Chambers—l do not know a man named Hay.
Magistrate. Do you know Bradbum ?
Chambers I know him by sight, I have seen him at public
meetings.
Magistrate. How many men were in your room on Christmas
Eve.

Chambers. I remember Edwards coming with Thisdewood to
my place, bringing two Irishmen that were drunk.
Magistrate. Do you recollect any thing about a sword being
in your room on that night ?
Chambers. Idu not remember seeing a sword that night.
Magistrate. Do you not remember a brandishing a sword in
jn ,our room on that night ?
Chambers. 1 don't recollect that ; I do remember Edwards
produced a thick suck with a blade in it.
Magistrate. If there was a sword in your room you must re-
collect it ?
Chambers. I saw no sword, except the tbing in the hands of
Edwards, who pulled it out of the suck and flourished it about.
Magistrate. Was it not l'histlewood who flourished the
sword?

Chambers. No. it was Edwards.
Magistrate. Did you ever hiss Thistlewood express any thing
against his Majesty's Mini,ters
Chambers. Never in my iire ; I have heerd him say the
country would never be worth living in till there was a Hetiarm
in the House of Commons.
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Magistrate. And how did he say you would get that Reform ?
Chambers. By holding public meetings and petioning.
mean meetings in the open air. I like fair and and open pro-
ceedings; for play and bp secret work 13r me. lam a Radical
Reformer.
Magistrate. What do you mean by Radical Reformer?
Chambers. Why, that I and every honest neat should have
a vote in electing those who make the laws affecting liberty, lite
and property.
Magistrate. Nonsense; it is all from this stuff being propa
gated, that has caused all this disturbance in the country. l)o
you nut think that things of this sort had better be left to men
of property and talent who have the administration of State
affairs; for if they ruin the State they ruin themselves.
Chambers. In somllleases they might; but every man ought
to have a vote. _ _

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Magistrate.—
Do you know a person named Hall ?
Chambers. I said before that I did not.
Magistrate. Do you net recollect giving •Haa five pounds of
bill earirid;• e in your room ?
Chambers. No, I did not.
Mig,ris4rate. Not know' You must remember that on Christ •
mas-eve stooping down and picking up something which you gave
to Han? _ _ .

Chambers. I do not. I never had a ball cartridge in my
house in my life to my knowledge.
Magistrate. You must remember if you had. Our intelli
correct.
Chambers. If I had had such things I would have said so
candidly. I came here to speak the touch, anti nothing but the
truth.
Magistrate. Yon certainly must have recollected if you had.
You have given your evidence very fairly. Do you not remem-
ber Bradbury being in your house on Christmas Eve ?
Chambers. I can't peak positively. Ile might have been
there. I was at my work. I perfectly recollect Edwards being
there from the exprons he used, which were. (The Magis-
trate here stopped the witness !)
Magistrate. l)o you recollect Brunt's being at your house ?
Chambers. He might have been there ; but Edwards bring.
ing two drunken men, so disturbed nu:, that I do not positivtiy
reutetnber who was at my house; there were fluff or five persons
there.
Magistrate. Do you recollect any particular expression that
Thistlewood used that night ?
Chambers. I do not recollect his using any particular expres-
sion at any time.
Magistrate. Not about his Majesty's Ministers.
Chanibers. No, none whatever. I have heard him say that
Lord had robbed him of some property, and drat he never
should get it back, till a Radical Reform took place in the
House of Commons.
Magistrate Did you not hear him say something else ?
Chamlrs. No, except that a Radical Retinal most be had.
and woullihe had , and I have heardhundreds say so besides him,
and which I verily believe myself.
Magistrate. Do you not recollect H all and thetball cartridges ?
Chambers No, I positively asserted before, that I basin ball
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cartridges.
Magistrate. If we should Ming Hall to your face, would you
still persist in what you have said ?
Chambers. Yes, I should like nothing better than being corr.
fronted with a coati that dared assert such an infamous lie.
Mat,i.trate It Mae had bean any thing of the kind you
would have recollected it, I am sure. ?
Chrinihers. Certainly, 1 should have remembered it. I do
recollect that Edward,—
Lifers the worthy Magistrate again stopped the witness, when

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going to speak of Edwards, and said, Do you know a public..
house in Round court, Strand, called the Scotch Arms ?j
Chamber,. Yes I do.
Magistrate. Were you ever at a private meeting there ?
Chambers. I have been there three tiwes. but never as I told
you before, wan I at a private meeting.
Magistrate Did you ever see Thistlewoed there ?
Chambers. No never in my life.
Magistrate. Do you key the landlord ?
Chambers. Ido not kills whether I know the present gag
or not. I soled and heeled a pair of boats for the landlord via
kept the house three or four months ago. I went for them and
I carried them back to hint, and I went afterwards for :another
pair to mend ; these are the only three times I was ever in the
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Magistrate. Do you recollect any of the company that were
in the house either of the time, you were there ?
Chambers. I never saw any body there but thieves and whores.
I came away without the job, and never went there afterwards.
Magistrate. You said von were at the Black Dog when
Thistlewood was there.
Cliambets. I said no such thing. I said I was at a public
house in Gray's Inn Lane, on the left hand side.
Magistrate. Who was there with Thistlewood ?
Chambers. Thistlewood did not speak to me, nor Ito mix:.
I told you before we were not friends, in consequence of his
bringing Edwards and the drunken Irishmen to my huose, and
in consequence of the horrible language that Edwards made use
of. I never 'liked Edward,, lie was a had character. 1 saw •
Thisdewood on Christmas Day. and told him I would not suffer
such persons as Edwards and the drunken men to be brought to
my house. Thistlewood said that Edwards brought the drunken
men. I told Thistlewood that I was sure Edwards was nothing
but a spy. The dreadful language he used at my house, con-
vinced me he was a spy. Thistlewood told me I was mistaken
in the person. for he was an honest man. I told Thistlewood
that it would be well if be was not deceived in him.
Magistrate. You never was at any private meetings
Chambers. No, I never was. I never kept any secrets, and
if they had any, they never trusted nie with them. Whew I
told Thistlevood that Edwards was a spy, lie said, he thought so
once, but he was satisfied to the contrary.
Magistrate. You may retire.
Chambers then withdrex.

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STATE PittgoNEßS.--The arrangements deter-
mined upon for the trial of the State Prisoners are
as follow :—The Grand Jury for the county of
Middlesex will be summoned to Hicks's Hall on
Monday the 27th instant. Two of the Judges (we
believe Chief Justices Abbott and Dallas) will be
present, when the Special Commission will Le
opened, and the Charge delivered to the Grand
Jury; after which the Judges will adjpurn the
Commission to Monday, the 10th April. The
Grand Jury will proceed immediately with the exa-
mination of the numerous witnesses, and as soon as
the Bills are found, notices of trial will be served on
the different prisoners, with printed lists of the
witnesses to be produced against them, according to
the provisions of the Act of Parliament.—The Spe-
cial• Commission will be re-opened, pro fin- nut, at
the Old Bailey, on Monday, the 10th of April, but,
as the common Sessions of Gaol Delivery commence
on the 12th, is is supposed that the Commission will
again be adjourned over the Sessions, so that the
State Trials, in all probability, will not take place
bcliire the 20th of April.
On Saturday William Greathead Lewis, the late
proprietor of The Coventry N.. corder, was taken into
custody by the principal tipstaff of the Court of
king's Bench, in consequence of another criminal
intbrmation filed against hint by his Majesty's
Attorney General. lie wits at the house of Major
Cartwright. iu company with Mr. Wooller; at the
time the officer arrested him. Mr. Lewis was ac-
companied by Major Cartwright and Mr. Wooller
to the house of Chief Justice Abbott, and tendered
themselves as his bail, which being acceptbd, Mr.
Lewis was act at liberty. There are not lees than
four informations now pending against this indi-
vidual.
Extract of a Letter from Dornoch, dated gth March
1820 :—" You have doubtless heard of the celebrated
Capt. Barclay's wager to beg through Scotland 101 six
weeks, and to live upon his earnings iltniug that time.
lii pissing vesterdav through this town, he was arrested
and carried before haillie Nickol, who committed him
to prison as a vagrant, for a week. during which time
lie is to be kept at hard labour., When Capt. B. was
tarred before the Baillie, he spied to him who he was.
and the reason he had for travelling in the way ha was
doing, but he waN lint belleVed. I'lolll the remoteness
of this place from Kincardineshire, it is likely that the
worthy Baillic had never heard of the Captain's former
singular arnet etlings."
Mem: DOT s.—The late Mr. West Awl to rely , that
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being one day in the presence of our rale ,Mon his
Majesty faindiarly asked him how old he was, a "Mr.
West having stated the number of his ',vars. the it
rejoined, "'Then when I die, West, you will shape 10.
your shoes." The near periods of the deer:ova the.,"
Painter and his Royal Patron may well remind the
classical reader of those of Horace and Mamas,:
about 1811 i years ago. .. .
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CITY ELECTION.

SEVENTH AND LIST DAY OF THE POLL.
During the whole of Tuesday the contest was carried
on with spirit, and from the close run of some of the can-
didates the crowd bustle, anxiety and tumult, were
greater, than on any, former day. At half-past three the
numbers at the final close of the poll were declared,
amidst loud shouts, to he, for
Wilson 5370 Lord Mayor.... 4250
Wood
Curtis
Mr. Wilson first came forward amidst loud shoots of
applause and disapprobation. He assured the Meettne,
that lie felt as much as any man the extent of the honour
conleired upon him ; the highest that could Lela' a mer-
chant of this great metropolis. When he considered the
great exertions used by the friends of all the Candidates,
and the continued increase of the votes in his favour, the
obligations imposed upon kiln were redoubled, and the
only return sable' he could make was, to assure them
that he should discharge to the utmost of his power the
duties imposed 1111011 him.--(Applause.) He could not
conclude will t returning thanks to the two must excel-
lent Sheriffs for the oilier and ins artiality with which
they had conducted the Eletaion.
iso crtiimi Wood WAY received w loud and continued
acclamations of applause. He said lie could not express
the gratiiiide which he telt for the distinguished honour
as hich they had imposed upon him in placing hint in a
situation so high alum the poll, and this too withont any
management of himself or of his friends. All who had
aired fur him hail come up spontaneously, withont solici-
tation, or constraint. He could not retire without hear-
ing testimony to the conduct of his late worthy Colleagues,
who had always been attentive to the discharge of their
duties, late anti early. (applause)—They had never
blinked the question, but had always voted in unison
with the great body of the Livery. He assured the Li-
very, that lie should himself always give a conscientons
vote, audolitaild he ever have the misfortune to differ
with them upon any political subject, let them call a
Common Halt, and lie would freely resign to them the
trust reposed in him. He conclude" with say lug, that he
should always attend to their interests, and that his only
wleh was to stand well with his fellow citizens, iii whose
esteem he wished to live. (Loud applause).
Mr. Timothy Curtis next came forward to return thanks
in behalf of his father, lint was received with such a
tremendous storm of disapprobation, that he was obliged
to desist.
The Lord Mayor next came forward, but so great was
the mixture of applause and disapprobation that we could
scarce collect a word which lie uttered. He returned
thanks iii a speech, anti promised a faithful discharge of
his duties. He also spoke on the necessity of having great
commercial men as their Representatives.
Alderman Weidman next presented himself, and was
received with hmd and reiterated shouts of applause.
He said, that if he thought lie had been defeated through
any folly or tniscouilitet on his part, or that his want of 1
snccess had nisei' front Isis beano' lost the good opinion
of any one of his Constituents, it would have affected him
in a manner that lie should not easily have got over; but
feeling that this was not the case, his mind was as trail-
quil as it ever was at any pram' of his lite. If lie had
any fault to find, it was with those who had not the cou-
rage to come forward and vote according to their senti•
melds. He would say, that those who had suffered them-
selves le be so deteried deserved all which they suffered,
or would have to sutler from their timidity. (Cries of
" True, true," from the crowd.) During the whole of
this contest he hued out put pen to paper, to write any
thing of private detraction, nor calumniated any one;
neither had any of his friends, to his knowledge. (Ap-
plause.) If ever he bad any thing to advance against an
individual, he allays did it face to face. The worthy
Alderman then entered into a long defence against some
calumnies of his opponents, and concluded with au avowal
of his public principles, which want of room will not 1
permit us to give. He said, that if the Livery were all
assembled in the Hall, even those who had voted for his
opponents would hold up their hands in his favour. It
was not in his nature to despair, and although it was not
in mortals to command success, yet they would do more,
they would deserve it! (Applause.) He returned thanks
to his friends, and to those who had called Into forward,
and them deserted him, he bade a long farewell, for lie
owed them nothing.
Alderman Thorpe returned thanks in a speech, and re.
grettt d that the cause should have suffered through the
jealousy of its friends, and congratulated himself with
baying done his ditty to his Fellow-cittzens. lie returned
thanks to iiis supporters.
The H.ll was then dismissed, and the several Candi-
dates returned to then respective Committee Rooms with
their hi tends.

MIDDLESEX ELECTIO.V.

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On Friday the road between Brentford and Hyde-
Path C eller unusual and increasing bustle
from as early an tour as seven o'clock in the morning.
Many vehicles besides the coaches generally travelling
that road, ware in requ.sition, tiled inside and out with
the friends of the candidates. Those in the interest of
Mr. Whitbread wore favours of true blue and pink ,
Mr. Byog's coiours were light blue and orange; Mr.
Mellish's light blue Fingly.—The town of Brentford was,
of course, uncurnuinny busy. Very spacious and well
accomnio.lared hustings s tire erecied in lirentfortl Brits,
where the town population were ea;erly waiting for the
arrival of the Candidates from belore !dire o'clock.
About that time the friends of the several Candidates
left their different places id rendezvous, and marched iu
prixession to tl.c hustings with music and banners.
At nal fired ten o'clock the parties arrived before the'
hustings. A considerable cavalcade of slr. Whit-
bread's friends let the way, and thew up in line, while
Mr. Whitbread passed up to the entrance of die hustings,
drawn by the people ia an open carriage, and cheered
by all the persims present. Mr. 13)ng and his friends
followcil next, and was equally will received. Mr.
Mtllish followed, and. some groans and hisses were
mingled with the applause.
Tue gentlemen alighted and took their stations on
the busrings, the band playing " St. Patrick's Day in
the Morning."—The whole space within and without
.tie hustings was by this time filled. The sheriffs and