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

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nu hour sifter Hoe alarm Kaden &reined. and wet voted to big of peristd9ti imbibe,' sieloof de •IdeZ!A• 44 b jilej •
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ill*. Chair, when • cap 11( hiStrlV WAR placed on his bead, and oorrsme,.; se their ',pito !AA 'by Ise .. ' :,....
he toddro-sard shesasenekly. He dwelt It good deal oo the • The Dereesgasim,are,e pew. so call tirltiewelt.rt• hew
laws, and larrieweit that so many person were leaned op Jo bug i51i,i,00,4„ ••••• illio port
', tier easpoessifd LAI,
fur for rill, ; After whirkehe geld die relonstueso, and they mete . Mose" emesiei; as
swear e''el..en„' • t :
*perused by the swot hog. %Vilma' • iool4 ups memekes nee soh., : . • -
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state're of them. Wiete this was wail saw, there the • record ' LAsseamefi -r-- g
la tin .....5.0 ski. mmeriebbst tf Ike seete...). t.
alarm that . the vol•lser. wire coming," when morral of the ' ship of Iliaiselemier, IN or .4.11 i Voistoly of Lettemisi, M AEI :
people again pulled out their' ;Akre and pistula, but this Also : ii,.. ops.,kgs of ie., "pa i,
. ,r Laa".4.........•j4e said („eesie4;' • '
Invited cut to lie • filer •lerne, abets they agate tom-fated : Lancamil.• ' : .- "*l':..j
thee,. This ahem reload limey peoples° roe, when Knight ! Hereritli ere seed you the6ll4re aflame. firiske,,Destesj.
and the nther people on the holdouts caned to them to lie lion,.WilliMoGreeishalgt, Robert H.,o4a,'lteulemes, ON: •
firm, and ens to ran. After Knight left the chair Deerhoost ' Moro Hull, Leterroto lko lo okes.dot f;eeenheigo,.Ki•hipall
took it, awl proposed a resolttis•m, * that if Parliament : Montt., mud J,....aes tskirrln•b. sae. eras ;4,a .lay be„ajilij.
slwohl pats any gaggle: bills the reformers should rise arid ' before era his Slatiebies Jun( Itgi "of the peace in as 4 e„,..
meet its. wie day." Ile said if they did not *he should • the said toupee, 4:eargeit, men' the oath of ltrelsoot Ph,- ' •
call them the greatest *lame omen earth." ' Cher and Julorpa leintei• with 'fitting. mo Hoot, in the said
Cruss.traeruisnol by Mr. Cwt./lame ..
—He stated that be rtimut) „r LaoasiersaittMurnfay, the I 3.. b dAy t.f IJ.c•seete.,..i -
hail applied to different movie to purchase pikrif fur the : I•tstaut, tons tied, enema. ed, etinfederaftsl, tool agoras! fogy '
Buruley meellig. He admitted that he had a postul. which i liter, an I est s 'dive••• site:o prisms., to do.soila Na posid.r,"
lor had shown to 41•fferret peroins, awl hod boast. d that be . peace of this krugdins, and to Write awl stir ap, 1,.. lon4a•
wet well arm. d; said *outdoes SII,VIN Shut he hail toot 41...4 ! la act. of open oisarrycliess 5.541 winllton agaiuSt the Cu.
the thorectooneel, mad.wishad the Reformers were . all as well ; mriourot stood Coati il Wises, thrreof. .i be taw • 4:slab's-bed ,
armed as be was • 1 end the said pasties elm pad being f, to . rirdi be Assei ollitli.l..
W•lliana Wants oriel that. he-Wu' a rcedonalte.r,:and lived •' In he bound yolk skein by re. visolg "'co., f. 4 Awl, appear.
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it Dumber; mid after steno( OW eircumstauera &d laes, by 1 sore at the neat ,geoscral Stildrila a A...it a, ru be held le,
site laic witiiroclup scut 05. a to give a more woailett servos', Comelier aforesaid, lei nod /of ihe said cu”itlly, to ltr•re
it 'woe. speech. euy ~..pre,".."mrst wee mi. smite yaw. Ash.r the. Said r•luorge, /weratrieratarj, Iseall•do. owe es,fa se, IR tag:
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11. the alanehroter Magistralrs wese not herneght to jollities.. Inch 4441'44i...
there wad as. cod of all good goverausesal,. mid the people I 'Those are, thereto?, in his M4rstyi Name, to empire -
had • right to destroy such • gum ressent. or make a mew 1 end 'command yon, the said cootai•t.lo., irril,..tili Si esst••
one, or Si. return to a state of nature, and liie Wilhoosit Ittle i try the "1J Part,'" charged W the sa"I•V0al lc of L'lllccal. r.
End be proposed a PIM:OI4W 111 opplrllr Ilie weestires of ill- i and lit' 414 ji. re safely dcitcer 1 ' the g"'l' r 11"""fi un4 11,4
nietela. if they brovight into Perliammet any bill. to aortal' : Its :oil': e.uie's ass her. by onoited and ea.rnmeilded or re.
the liberty of seeming to di.eiste itolitieal-seenirets. I c• ie. Ile *API parties charged use yell! oat., g.... 1. awl theta
Croososamierd.....The witittos elated that he had been In 1 thele rap. f keep, "Wit they "ball d'"l "eh "true* at
the habit of atiewiing many mtetittga, end Sad give'. imf..r. . aforesoni, or be atthereeise dis Charge.; ILy due sower or 1...
motion to the Magiattairs r• spert•rie the Blank,' i )leoolii•g. Hesein fill nut. Give" under Lauda a.. 1 Kali" the.lBals uoy
That he had never teetered any money fur list services, hill 1 of Dectusher, 1819. -
had captooled a %well deal of moon leo employing other per- ;
suns to gt routed the country to untaiu iuforressiiee. 1 ilea o
was now due to bon 341 fur actual aelmwera. That he him. I
self had been tried it that Court for • capital offence in the
year IWII or 1810. H.' had !trete so account of tl:e pro. '
reeding% and on the seat day a more leoginetted detail, but
neither of which wire produced.
Mr. Sam. Howerth, a surgeon, residing pt Fernley, Meted t
tbst be weal to the meeting, and was there when en alarm I
was vivo 'shout the soldi•rm•ted thew saw out pistol, loot
nu pikes. He did not ult.crve any thing pasticolar iii the
spesch of Knight ; and all that 11e could my is, revert to I
Deletion' wait, that Ire ree:Uorocodeil a sabteriptiett to he I
entered into to pore-hew newspapers, and that she proceed.
legs in Partialness. ohould be clueely watched. He hail some 1
recollection that it was proposed, that, if Pat limpet-tit "lot nut 1
rcdcenan their wrougs, there should he a general tieing i
throughout the kingdom; but this he could out state with I
certainty. That newsy of them had slicks, such as they inteht
have picked up ou their way. There was nothing in the :
sppearaure of the people, or in the proreediage of the d.ty,
that struck him with any apprelsensious of inensediate deo.
ger, although he considered it might afterwards lead to i
serious consenutures.
Ileury Bury and John Walton corroborated the evidence
of Fletcher and Wilson am to she pikes amid pike stases ; and
Her; sailed, that a party of Reformer., on their retsou '
home, discharged is tummy as 100 pistols; he could not say
what number of pistol., but he beard that austilier of shots
in different directions.
Christopher Edenniolson stated, that he maw Colonel Har-
greaves sett* a risk heftier-membered:rated at that moment
saw one of the'grformers, with a pistol in his band, look.
lag at the Colonel, sad asked one of his compsitiout,
*Shall I shout r His companion answered * Nut you
salon not ;" when he returned the pistol Into his pocket.
Several tither witneeses were then exastiaed. corroborating
the testimony of the former witnesses as to the character of
the meeting, after whirls,
Mary Hoyle was called, who posilletly swore that Wade
was the mast who piloted the pistols at Colonel Ilsegreavtt,
as described by the «tsars* Ednionikuo.
On rresmeesminstion, she stated that she was distantly
related to Wade's wife, and that he (tVacle) was not laving
with her at he ought to du; and without waiting for the
qmestion to be pet to her she added, " I have bad no foul
or angry language with him."
John Carter proved that be raw the men draw the pistol
and look at the Colonel, hot neither of the P•iwantrs vois
the man; that be knew Wade before the 15th November,
sod if he lead been the man be most have {mews him.
A woman, unused Hauson, proved that she saw the re.
formers after the meeting was over, several of them beating
pike-roses like umbrella.: the elms stated that she saw its
public house • pike-staff, half • yard long. which a man
carried in • leather sheath; it was sharp em both aides like a
. rotor ' • the screw was four inches hdlg.
The Protecators now produced the Smooth which an.
Pounced the meeting, and alter the staff seised by Colonel
Harr •
Here the case fur the prosetation clotted.
Shortly after four o'clock Mr. Witd.tass rose sad address-
ed the Jury for the Defendants, in as adroirabie and impres.
ties speech, which (weepiest upwards of two hours in the de.
beery. The Learned Counsel observed, that by the custom
and law, of this realm, delivered to its be our ancestors, it
was the midoutbted right and privilege of Englishmen to as.
✓enible together furthe purpose of paitioniog Parlitionerst fur
• redress of grievances. Ihe law had tattooed On limit in re-
spell of numbers, and no amenshly of the people, however its.
nitrous, could be-pronounced illegal on tbst accunitt. Ilk iii.
tensible object for which the 'meting in qfirilillsl was con.
veued was clearly a legal use; and if the Jury shooM• he
convinced, from the evidence, that some individuals "Welt
hive come to the meeting sweetly armed, yet, unless
that ri•cometance could be bright Inoue to time know-
ledge of the Defendants; they cuntd nut he effected by '
such a eiresaastance. It formed no part of the original
design of the perilous who assershled on Otte oces
that any part of them should come termed; and therefore
the isolated fee, that a Dumber of peewees monist to the
meeting with arms, to he used, at appeared, moldy for their
owe defeuee, could nut reader the met nog II:egal. Mr. Wil.
hams dwelt with great force on the circumstance that not one
of the Definsdarts bad been brought istoforee with so; of the
• premodify's", werosmord, nor was there as. tividener to prove
that any ore of the Defeudeots was acquainted with the cir-
cumstance of there being asy arms whatever at the meeting.
With respect to the charge of the conspiracy, the Learned
Compel observed, there had not appeared a single iota of evi-
dence to prove its existence. The pevercettie bad nut even
'hewn that silt 'not the Defendants had ever Seen each other
before the 15th Nov., *be* they MCI on tie bootlegs. Great
toren had berm laid us the fart that some looms' had gone to
the meting with arms : admitting shalt(' tic the feet, he male.
• tallied that it was the undoubted tight of Emilislassien to
earn/ arms in ettlfolefistel. It wad so toil down by 111 r. Justice
Blacksiusee (a pansy from whew COPllllneldfirieethe Learned
Cosner! read.) It was evident, from the whole cuudeet of
the persona is armed, that their only object was seltatis-
fenee, which was exemplified by thelr futtscaranee tier the
staff wan seised by Colonel Williams, and also by the feet
that they °sly sitempted preparation at those moments when
the alarm was gives that the soldiers were coming to titlark
them; and could it he wundend that three pereune shard
1 have prepared themselves aide tiresome of self-tlefesice,
j recollecting the trammtiona of din. Idth doted, and the
forcible dispetroion of the wettest me that melancholy
aserastint-sm etrewmaisiseo which Pletsunded from owe
end of Ike Megaton he the obis , He asintadverted
afros* on the messily sod lejnotice which thf liefeteataits
had anstalsod ow being tootssittoden steharge of high tier
mesh fee wbioll ibe pesommlom, hp their conduct, confessed
there was u dismialies; sod emehoild so a whine appeal
le {be JIM 4 1,4411 be mitiored dint kr toy ast“ alt•Cret-

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