The National Register.
London, England, 1820-01-23 00:00:00

SALFORD QUARTER SESSIO.VS.

The Salford Quarter-Session, so pregnant, as it .Itoold
stern' With important issues, Ittgaii on aSI.
41 know not, however, Mat there will be •it nl
them to satisfy curiosity. Mr. It I ; and
it is beater perhaps, as the poet Gray says, that •I high
belleS'S Should Le performed by gratitude man by exp,e-

The Chairman, in addressing the Grand Jury. stated,
they had been aware that Varliaittein had been calico
together at an earlier period than war usual to time of
peace. Tins Was itodenwind to 1143VC IleCil necessary in
cons.quence of the many thsorderly.and dangeme. acts
toad taken place sit sea eral parts of the cattiiiry,
and the result of the early meeting of Parliament teas,
mat rlil'4llllltl4 were passed to prevent such 111.4d11041t
ofaCilCi:h. 0131.'1114131 lament That such a nrcessitj shoti:
nave eats eat bat .Lll.ll it 111 d CXI3I 3V41, well known m
all those what) 113Vli la the h•autttlaeattritt4 t 1131114.43 r.
E.l laud and Seoitaisil. Parl,smetit :;ad passed a
Iltl 411 acts, which, It was hoped, .4 oul,l lie effectual to:
oasis M3101'4:11%1: amt prr.viit (umber 111 Ct
4.141,•i11:r 1/C41C4..4114:t lilt Milj,Ct.y./3 3114j4.,13
I ,1 .1 pr - • trectual for those purpose-.
ii• load reset-art: U 'hall the Power o, al.rr"
1. tar as attain Lt.; necessary during the preset..
.

[Mr. Hay here enumerated the six new AcU. and
stated the mature of theiti.l
By the present age, which had been hurried along by
tire ttttt statics, all these measures were vieorrias pee.-
ventatives of future evils: to. the historian they would
J pprar. Chigai4lo; as they did the stattite• book-, a memorial
of the depravity of the const.ey,entl of the diligence with
which Parliament did its duty. Parliament had indeed
done its duty with firmness and discretion. To thent.
(the Bench and Jute) it belonged to. give t fleet to.
the measures which Parliament had provided.. Udine.
acts did out prevent the evils to which they referred, it
was 'Kit the duty of Magistrates in he ready with the
application of the laws. Grand Juries were the most
tileetual means of applying the laws properly._ They
consisted of gentlemen who came from various parta of
;be country, and who 1111151 be intirrineil whether il-
legal practices existed. Ott them therefore (the
Gland Jury), it was his duty to call to exercise die
functions which belonged to them. lie knew, from
their rank in ,ociety, that they possessed firmness and
discretion, If,-then, such practices as had been alluded
to exieteil, or might lierea:ter exist, they worild do their
utmost to bring them before the country for- trial.
There was one other tope to.grhich he would advert;
He alluded to the Vittlence and Italia cot tttt itivd aaginst-
benefit cmivtios by. peorms who, on pretence of alarm,
which had not the slightest ground, that their funds
• were to be seized fur the use of the Ereeherper, had con-
trived to get societies broken up in order to divide the
funds attiring them. This plan. hash. been acted on in
violation of tne law, and to the fraud of the old sub-
scribers. The subject had been. inctitioniml in Parlia-
ment,and was, as might hate been expected, regarded
as incredible. The Citancellorof the Exchequer then
disclaimed any such intention as that of interfering
with those funds. He now mentioned the subject, lest
any future attempt, so wicked and frandelant, sboul.l
be made.- He hoped the Grand Jury would find talls•
as quickly as possible. The calendar was very heavy.
containing not fewer tnan '215 felonies, and 88 inisd.e-
meantiurs, besides 63 tract ; it was therefore of
importance that no time should be lost."
Of 88 mistlemeatiours,9 are traversed, from the last
&worts. in which sureties tsars not been found.

John Heves, aged 45, and committed by .1.. Ridgway,
Esq., is charged, (MI the oath of Thonsas Barrett, with
having, on the Vt:al d,y of November, 1819, gone about
the streets at Great Bolton, shouting and crying out to
the following effect?rite friends 'of civi,
anal parliainewary rearm are informed, that Mr. Cot).
heti is arras ed at Liverpool, and in good health ; those
friends who have not signed the address, are desired to •
avail themselves of the. earliest opportunity, as •ihe
sheets will be closed this day to be forwarded to Liver.
pool."' That the said John Heyes had a bell, which he
•

tised before his so cryin►; ; that a crowd ot persons, to
the uttnn.cr of 50 or MO. followed the said John limey,
and shouted and mat, a great noise; and the said
I leyes did incite the crowd to shout and make a noise,
to the great disitirliane ot the public peace.
The trial al Mr. 1.17r0e, lie several libels in " The
Nlanchester (limner," will not take place at these.
Essions. ind:etnienis againat his family, and ae.•
several tsf hia agents, which were traversed at the
sessions, still remain here, and will bt' tried. The de-
fy:dims hive entered their traverses in the paper. There
are also about a dozen caws of illegal drilling or riots en-
tered in the traverse paper.
• It may he desirable that one renders should he apprised

that the It ev. China am w ism hominy a liarrot r, but 'hen);
w hat is genera:l* termed a " br4l t• 1119 1111 l ," Wined
nua became a t !erg, man, An old joke sat -, that a gentle-
man conoadming his t mood how be dioulat devote of has dar-
fermi( sous, hay's)* lay his is ten's advaer devoted nil het one
to 'dilemma professamias, canton eat o oat he ,atiould dam wilt
the remaining one, he, being almaed a famt—•• .tta lie a pannam
of hum." way the a rut), - but a e are sure the Rec. I .intirin:%mk,
who is now the incumbent of mite V scaragc or Rochdale, 1.. y
the reccnt git t of lit. (grown, wdl neser be taken fom as
Fuot.l!!

The business of these sessions is much more extensive
than that of niJny county assizes, avui often inure lin-
porwit cases of Iti4liw:ty robbery are intitietnly tried at
the. sessions, course us•felonies at cum law. Sell-

tences of transportation lat 14 year, occasionally occur,
and soincti,Ars even of iraiisitorialion lir life, and many
important questions upon avraldi, highways, and nut-
saiises, often collie briotiOthe court.