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man (Bruce) is innocent. I never spoke to the imam before I
shot at Birch. Aud though I did shoot at hien, and 1 bad
many resents ref doing go, every man who swore spited
as swore falsely. Birch 'Waft falsely, Pearson swore faletig•
No limn living knew a word about it but Nayarit. I shot et
him; this man is innocent."
Braces—" An innocent Mom has nothing to fear. I am sat
afraid le face my God; I call do so with a clear compcierce;
I am ready and williiig Si die, but I die ininseently, meal ran
answer to my fiord with composure; I am not afraid to die;
I know steeordinglolaw I toast siebasit ; my tentisneuts are
now the same lathe, have bee% and they re 1110 found un-
shaken if I must die."
Mr. Justice Minitam permeethal S. Peg 0.1.1.001 es" the
prisoners, and 'Brat addreimpsl Sitlemip.:•:-.4 Yon. hods
flPlanis, have hero cossitittcd an horrible clime, anden's
clear evidence la rime was pies he • Court of Justice, aril
though yon say thine who appeared against you swore falsely,
after your cowvictioss, you memoir declared your
,gniti. If
Ilitte were any pes:etry,yam,ggleitaterily heard it frets those
whont,yea yisermettliwesmimfierstard, get yes suffered them
to perjure themselves in the face of Gust and thee commtry.
An iiiroemit roan who hail nut giver you offence, a diligest
Ogee, exercising his duly, and who hail given yell sin prawn.
cation, was the Olin pis actistowkilze hi have shot et.
That ackeowledgment was trot made from stag feeling of
remorse, or of repentarce for your crime, but with s bald-
ness of avowal, as if you felt satisfies' with so making it.
Pearson swore you said you were the man who shot at
Birch, and that Ise should have its 'lndents, though you came
from America to do it. A more ago-armed caw thaw yours
has never occurred, and the Judges feel year enormity to be
male more so by perjury, to be more so by the threats yen
offered against whoever would give informatiou against yen,
and, if possible, to be heightened by the simmer is which
you have avowed your crime. Attempts at assassination are
circumstances little known within this realm; they are cir.
rumstatices against which all British &thugs revolt, and it
is therefore liar firm iletermimatiou of this C4lllll to mark
their scare of the aggravated emotivity of your crime, by
ordering you fur execution at an earlier day than they would
otherwise have dune. You are to he notated om hiaturday
nest.

" James George Bruce, you have oleo been convicted of
aiding the prisoner in a crime at which oar feel-
ings revolt. You have staled jii your petiliati, as you ha►s
douse in your address la the Court, that you are an iinsoceat
iii4n, but the evidence against ON boa been sash as la sa-
tisfy a Jury of your guilt. You hive said you are an iirstrua.
for of youth, •ud if we are to jridgit of your by what has
transpired upon this trial,aasassiastinu is tulip by you as a
doctrine in be followed, and your seholus are trained up in
those ways that will lead to their punishaseat both Isere and
beresfurs

" Yuo have neither of you lung to live, and I would en-
treat of you to pats the few resnainiug days of• your exist-
ence in humble eddies,' to the Great Disposer of all human
events, op whom alone you can now call fur mercy. In this
would all hopes of life are cloord upon you, agd it sow only
remains fur me to di.charge my duty by ordering yon to be
taken to the place from whence you came. from thence to
the place of execution, and there to hang by the neck until
you are dra.l, and the Lurd have mercy en your sunk."
kl'lnnis--" Thank you, my LOW, it'd a good cure or a
spin of the bead."

We ristleestatial that this unhappy snag refuses all the eau-
sulatious of religion, that he meets his fate with the nest
.obsitwile indife►encr, awl what gives bin fate a deadly hue
Is, Illai he disbelierrs the exiateuee of s God!
An the amine of Ur. Pearson. who wore evi-
dence au Saturday agsiust is is, was discharged by pre-
clanatiuu.

SEDITION.

THE NINO V. SIR CHARLIV WOLSELEY, BART. AND

JOSEPH HAMMON.
About ',or pest nine this morning, Sir Charles Wolseley,
accompanied by his brother•inJaw, Sir Thomas Clifton, sod
two other gentlemen of the name of Eyre, entered she
Court, and took their places near the table; mad at ten, two
other causes baying been disposed of, it was called on. A
Special Jury was called over, of whom the following answered
and were sworn c

James Wylrle, Esq.
Routh Grey, Esq.
James /hamlet', Esq. i Talesman.
IY. Waihington, H.q. James Allen
Ed ward Jour., Esq. Richard Woodla.
W. H. %Valium:km, Esq. George Romer.
James Bayley, Esq. John Hawks.

George Eaion, Esq.

Mr. LLovis stated the iadietiment to be against Mr Charles
Wulseley, Hart., and Joseph Harrison, schoolmaster, on two
grounds. The Ant rimed charged that they bad excited to
tumult and insnrrection„ by holding a numerous meeting on
the ROth of July, and addressing seditious words to these,
calculated to bring the Government Wt., hatred and con-
'tempt. The second event charged that they hail agreed to.
grater to stir up the'pesple to tuuttilt and insurrection, cad
to excite hatred and contempt against the Government.
Mr. BENTON (Attorney General of Chester) staled the cage
to the Jory.—. 4 Geniis ilea of Ilse Jury, you have heard the
indictment against the Defendants read. in which the two
Defendants, Si, Charles %Volseley and Joseph Harrison. are
charged with hilendiug to excite commotion at Stockport on
the 38th of June last, with nulawfolly assembling to disturb
the public peace, and by seditious speeches to stir up the
people of ibis realm to Indeed out contempt of the Govern-
ment and Constitution, as by law eamblished. This second
cuuut iu the indictment charges the same uffeace, lint is
somewhat varied in the expression, Gentlemen, you are, no
doubt, well aware, at least most of you must have heard that
this prosecution springs out of uncut the numerous meetings
which were held last summer. These meeting were eminent.
ly calculated to alarm all the peacealrle sntjects of the realm."
meetings convened and presided ewer by strangers and iti-
nerant orators, whit come front their dill...rent occupations to
harangue the otrthetailes they were enabled to assemble.
Hut, Gentlemen, whatever you may have known or heard
upon that subject, I entreat of you to banish it eidirely from
your recollection. Indeed, Gentlemen, I do lint know if
might uot to apologise to you fur making such a request ;
for from soy own know/edge of the high respectability sail
character of many of you, I am satisfied you will come per-
fectly unharmed to try the present question between the
Crown and the Driv1141:1111S. I am paliCily•Vre you will give
your decision nut on what I may say, not oar say Odor you
have heard before, but simply and as the evidence
shall adduce. The two defendants, Sir Charles Wulseley and
Mr. Harrison, are person. who are well known. Sir Olean
Wulseley is a gentleman who has a considerate estate in
Staffordshire, and be inherits a property and the dignity of a
barimetage through neatly geuerstions, from the lime of
Charles the First. Harrison until 1 tidy was a stranger in
the county of Cheater, and is described iu the indictment as
a schoolmaster.; he fornurrly settled in Derbyshire, but was
• resident at Stockport at the lime he committed the offence
charged/with* imlectinent. On thrift of June last a public
meeting was asnowineril to be held at Stockport, under the
real ur pretended preterit of petitioning fur a Itefortn iu Pat.
liswient. The numbers assembled cm disc occasion were Muted.
smoo. Sad according to oat of Ibe dassarlants exceeded 110011,0
Previously te.ehis meeting you w4l find Sir Chub., had bee*
itirqsaknand, That they had been in correspondence on the deli'
of meeting—tbai they bail been in conversation will, esiebi
ollser7.4hst they were nut stranger, either to each at lorr
Itilended utg.css of the meeting, front which circa motanco,
5 u Amps* to Ase, they, assist WIT gums upon WNW greet
concerted zebrine. The inactiag was at it felt At, Mee; yen,
owe acme) with blodgeoas, ant merely mamas fur Shea, wt
grOffiltorelligal for iststonishatisakbat r wed us stamilip SO jai
a toesslabia to ofemtli. .Could oasis 111,11119; bg matrd,
' fit" t Cotild it bd caUct raccablit an;

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mos were carried, baring on them the usual cant Inter'''.
tions. 'Nu Corn lAws," Annual Parliament.. Unities's!
Saffroge. Year by Ballot: Bludgeons were to he found almost
its rv,y hand; the crowd ens snore tomorrows then on 0"Y
forme, measliest ; nail after could it hr fairly comiderrd
a• a driilterative amesolily met together liar • peaceable and
coissiiiusioual purpose? A stage or platform.' wa• erected,
in which the .lerdres mounted, two of the principal of
tolatian were the present Drfendasits. It was previosialy
.agineel, perhaps, that Sir Charles should take on him the
sect of Chnirsams. and be was clam ormisly called I. it.
He gesisigramil took IM Chair, sod kissing taken it,
pine pill heir .nthat passed; yob will hear the seditious words
trail to liner been spoken by him for the propose of
tinging the fiaterrentral into hatred and coateient. Gen-
lion* is Olen a great difficelty in bringing.
mama toll a!1 the words tottered 11/1, arch tot occasion.
100 strudral man world trentore to mix in each a crowd, hitt
Ispripsity in pm.* itvrreame their prudence, and Rowse did
gp there, fees rims you shall hoar die Milistatire of what
*se sit dby tbppppe befendatits. I shalt eat here Matte
rsl,ll for vont, ,Mt *heir testimony will be, I merely gener-
ally advert ne Its charm-ler, on ',bleb it will he for you
e•Mitaally so deridr. After the tumult of the meeting bail
subsided, Sir Charles Wulseley
,Mf .41)."Allf0.11 Lorda, the wilnews adusofd In sent ont
before the Learned Counsel enters immediately on his case.
•Mr. ficejesett Ceome—Yes, the witnesses on both sides.
The Comm Hier ordered the witnesses oat, and after a
parse of some minutes,
lbargatt ressigherl.-" Having, Gentlemen, already
stated to you the meth's) of a platform or beatings, the
numbers amenshled, the Itlesilstroos with whirl, they rear
armed, the pramnierns part taken by the defendants, mei
Sir Charles Illfoloeh, hosing in the Chair, I 'hall new
state to you, what he said on that °mai tttt . lie said be
was the lint who made a kirk at the Ilswile in retiree,
aril he hoped he should be resent at the destruction of
others flamiles is Egiglaiiil; lie declared his hatred ors*,
and IM it employers, Castlereagh and Sidmontla, and added
that as lung as the people were unrepresented. fatalist'.
was tyranny, and resialance was justifiable. I hire hem
out, pointed generally to the words he said, and if yak
believe be actually made use of them, I can make nee of oe.
language, any imagination can frame sour, mere calculated
to disturb the public peace, and Wing the Government
of the country tote hatred mid contempt. Harrison, the
ether liefrealtst. followed Sir Charles 11'olowley,and declared
against petitioning the Legislature, as degrading and humi-
liating. He said • meeting should he held at Oldham,.
enagingated so as to form a National Union, from whence
,_lll 'me and enlarged repreacriation emanate.e—
-r1111•I the two Hefeadaids were well acquainted, I shall skew
that two days after the meeting a letter was written by.
C. W.lseley to the Postmaster at Stockport, complaining
el MIPS delay that took place in the delivery of a letter ad-
dressed to Harriers ; nod though this he loot necessary S.
prove the fact of such acquaintance, I think, fur the sake of .
the ends of public justice, I may as well read it to yon.—)-
[Here the !tarred Cognise' read she letter.3-7To this the
Footslogger replied, no letter was stopped, and generally re-
pelled the charge wade epeeist him by the defeudant. This,
Gentlenter, skews a cairrespundctice between the defendants;

gal if any doubt realities Upon this iubject, I shall read you
another knee, addressed by Harrison to a mail iu Chester
Guile, of the uauwly of Beetlely, which was opened by the di.
idgebre of the 31agiitrstes, in easequeseceof he prisoner's im-
Vire hammier. This letter I shall read to you: it states the
,stagers of the seemly& the mathers ameinbled, the
timed, sad the Presidium of SW C. Wolssfey. If Then.tairgletlen, you mosaider the words of Sir Charles to be Asa.
tines, it is We vain that we may hear it said Harrison does not
participate in Sir Charles tfolseley's guilt. So far, Gentle-
mew. I have given you see outlive of the rvidneee I Mimed
producing, and here let us pause and see Wit will !Hingham*
to the deftwitude the charge agaiu.t them it the Maio finest.
They are charged with haling attended • tumultuous meet.
leg, with unlawfully assemblies to dieter's the public peace,.
seed anvil in; by seditious specchee to excite the people to
• hatred of the Guerrieri/cut and Constitutims as by law
establethed. From what 1 have already said, you will see
that seditious language mss piled; but you are not to build
ell thing' on what i say, nohow et. is substantially gives to
you oe incontrovertible evidence. With respect to the as.
lure of the meeting, Mal it was a legal, quiet, constitutional
meeting, fOr the purpose of petitioning for a Reform in
Parliament, la wholly disavowed by Harris**, fur he says
the period fur petitioning is at au end. It was not then for
Reform they were essenabled; his teller disavows it. New
can the Whet: &feeder', if I prove the use of seditious words
against him, creep out of this prosecatiou by allegieg he
hod isotoncett add no participation with may guilty act or
acts of Rarrisod. If even he did tent use seditious worsle, he
vas Chairman lame and where they were used, and so lee
itisebes Ib himself whatever criminality they naturally bring
with then,. Ido nut say it i; improper In one* tin order to
petition for Reform in Parliament—to •et for the purpose
of addressing the Legislature to obtain redress Gum actual or
supposed grievances. Heaven (mind I should tell you,
itandiog iv this place, that such ineetitigs are nut proper,
or tint legal. No, Gemtielen, the right or petition has been
beaded to eta ao • Celestite legacy from our forefathers. and
I lasi we shill oerseleraliatid it down unimpaired to our
posterity. Withsrmpeet to the banner having im one side of
it the motto of " No Corit Laws," I say, if thtmeet log had
assembled for the parpose of di.cussiug that question, it
wuald certainly be uaohjectionahle. Still petitions of that
kind should be COMISC,CiI with quiet and decency, and not
in such a manner as to threaten and intimidate and endanger
the public fraogiiillity.
John Kenyon Wititerbottoui examined by Serjeant Clitoes
—I saw a public
,meeting at Stockport on the IStli June, it
was between one and two o'clock ; I attended near it, at •
place celled Sagely Brow; I thoik tor 5,000 people were
assembled; I was oat near enough to observe if they were a
the town or out. They were very quiet when I bred saw
them ; most of them link mirk., apparently got from
hedges, newly gut, and nut like walking slicks; they acre
generally pretty straight. The impulariou of Rockport is
eleout 10,11e9 persons. 'there was a isaatialas or a icaffuld;
1 saw several persons their; Sr Chattes was preiated out to
me as being oat the watfuld ; His risible I knew; he is a
achoolinsster; be hied then at Stockpoet. The first thing
observed was a bessiog, by the wkole multitude; l was Not
aware of what toceasitmeil it.
The pest Hillis I oleic, veil, W 34 the passing some resoio-
tinns ; the Claiirneau wa. Sir C. Wokeley ,• I did out perceive
howln got iglu that situation; tie teas there idea I reached.
1. was stpvt oue hundred yawls from the scaffold, mod I could
todiseilici Ix liar all that was said. I only heard Sir Charles
say emenaineoes." I did not vote. I saw prisons vote by
holding tip of hands and sticks, but tere the OtC3:1011 of piss.
kg a resulueirea,l saw no diseenting woks h. I% up. 1 yew
ten respectable inlothithut take any part in the ii.oceedinV;
felt perfectly secure at the time 1 saw the 14;e1""l,"`"1
coestiusted to feel that coatiJenee till the night ; bet if they
Weil kept till owlet, throe 1 canaside,cd it wolehl he dancer.
max; I eselebeard Sir C. Wulseley say the er teal " istranimuus."
1"1411 ljainmy" 11,41. "the House of CLLIIIIII.IOBI were the.!
people's wevirette, that it Vfall as absurd petitioe flow a
et would he (wilt master to petition lies vision for his hone ;w
lie jua d, " tkere wm a hairier het weeee the throne and the
tgetaple, must be removed, either by force rime.
ire" or, 10,14. te order that they might me *hedges os,
1911111 9e 4 1011.990 ,upon the throne." 11e said. " the
w Iles vat sarc to pr* vaila it pas an oil tin 110114
MIA ; it. 'Might be .ueeessary so MOM 41111111114
tees Ape sr., of Pardo. Who were by therlibMil4='
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baps there were Athlete there; 1 doss% know on the sate
mat myself. hot children were playing. .
. Emnsined by Mr. Harrison.-1 lire is Strieltirot at the
Church gale; 1 am an attorney ; I took rotes of litipt,
heard; I hare not pot them; I heard .you desolateg, and
when I said" I beard Indistirctly," I applied it seosealttle
nit the speakers ; I posed eivough.iii what !us, isid.
Thomas ittotauctiscassiiwi/ fry Mr. AStiwinsgps—rttlyt-F.at
Stockport; • ihruneetine us the 28th of Jews .ltio
aosabers of conistry people corning tato town by dice rut
roads; was at the meeting; saw Sir Charles going op tm 4 ;
observed a deg ; on one Ode was " N., Coro Laws, op tfr•
other " Annual Parliasiseels;riliveritill S•frragr, and V.stg iry
Ballot;" it was furled; afterwards saw it lowereot. for ibe
purpose of putties or it • red cap of liberty ; not urar
the hosting. as to be within ten yards; asp Sr. Char',
Wolseley ow the bootlegs; the glortreteml Nr. Ilarsosski
you three; Harriette was us lhe left of air lunges; there
was spcakiwg; observed e *maim f ..n Al.,
stage; Air Cheri. is bore • part in It; 11“toisom appargotly
joined it; pal 101 l whet was woad; don't ro-eoilect way -
Aim( particularly being done; Sir Charles s as receskral by
Mid h . did mot observe a Chairman ; she first attar..
lion he paid was to Sir Charlet ; took a minute of what be
said within an hoar after it was spoken; CAS pro.loo.• it if
necessary. Here lb* witness pr./doted it, a .dread from 1; as
follows
" Sir Charles was happy a' addressiqg the people of
Stockport troll the present place, Saw!, liouw: It SS44 •
place consecrated to the cause of liberty toy the absence yf
friends he should have been !Lapp; to me.' these, alp/ he
trended Sandy Brow would he more fanned ns loost,ory Ilsan
the field of Waterloo. %Vas there a p • dlker ioresowt.he
trusted they caste to keep the pence, anti SO 11/ Ifrfssis y.
Bat was Owre any of your spies, your note-tookine. oor lama
book gently, tell your enployero, Ilse took of a Cs-lereag)s
and a Sidniuuth, that I lisle them, that I &Ira them, teat
eternally execrate them. Ile iltir C.) war proud I.) say hif
was at the taking of the Seattle in Framer, atol i.e shou'd
be happy to be at the taking of • Bashi' in E.M(larool : and
were all hearts but us Arm in the cause as his ewes, Ilwoo
should soon pat ass end to the present lyrailay and caffein-
thow." That was all witness took motes of.
Cross-exemitteil by Mr. MCI[IEIIOIII—I am a rottori.beq-
ker at Stockport ; I have only a small patriot' Sir C.'s rpctcir ;
it was not 'Muttered at a lime; be called upon the peace
°Omni to keep the peace; his address was generally to be
peaceable. At the time of the cap !king put can, Ste Charing
turned round, and there wars demur; OS: oqp was throe put
ow Sell afterwards the flag was twirled, I .1..1 nut hear Mr.
Wilton object to it, he might bare done so fur any thing I
know. Upon Sir Charles turning rotiod, there was a stop
a demur, it might have been in consequence of his brio.;
displeased ; it was put on and hoists''', mid the tweeting Con-
tensed; it 1/41, ignite peaceable.
John Johnson exsoninowl Isy Mr. Wcht.wes.—Witoes. is a
land surveyor at Stockport ; was at the meeting ; saw Sir
Charles ma Ike Itarlisig• ; was within six pools ul horn be
said he was the first at the taking of the flasdale in frame,
mid he hoped he should soots he al the demolishing of tl ;-
hostiles in this country. 11:_lseo be said thus, tie pro:w-
ed north-west. 1k told the people to be liens sod
waited, for in • few weeks the great 111111j:le Wllle
be made and ended, He said the grmousl whereon they
were was sacred to the cause of liberty, as they hdot
there once defeated their enemies. He said mine. hot I .!Le
mot recollect it. Mr. Flarrisna Muted next Of him ; he •:,.
"pair. lie said they wanted to get to the thrioie, it
there was apig or • wait oa it, and if there were 10,000 ira:lo
Jemmy them !beg would blow them air cittov to twavris
well. %The,. be used the words" a mom Or • pie," 'bey were
received with serialisations.

Thomas Walsh, examined by Mr. Drietelf —I ant a clerk
at Manchester. I was at the Stockport merling oil the 2Sth
June. I stood shoot twenty yards from the husLugs. I
heard Mr. Harrison reading a letter to the multitude.

The unbalance of the letter was, that the Deity had created
man for happiness, •usd a unifaciency of WI gannl Chirp to rens
der hint happy ; but as the majority of that meeting were
extremely unhappy and miserable, and rendered so by their
rider', the nitrations of the Deity had beer frustrated, and
rebellion against that Goverameat !Hearne almost us
duty. Sir Charles was net present at this time. This was the
general text upon which Harrison went. Sir Charles ardfireil
I while Mr. Harrison was reading. He was proposed as
' Chairman, I think, by Mr. Harries*. They shook hands.
Sir Charles next spoke. He thanked them for Ilse huuunr
they had dune him it apppoiating him Chairman. He said
hr was no orator, het a determined Mewl of the treir?..e,
mad a friend to Animal Parliaments and Univiesal Suffrage.
and if any @incisor informers were about hint, let lan us
tell the Csolereaghs awl Sidtwortha who rinployerl th,
that be abhorred and execrated them and their proccerlitiz,
was received with mock applause. U, was then sib ',I.
.and the business of the day was proceeded in. Several re.
',dation' were proposed by differeat persons. They were re ril
by Sir Charles. One of them was, that Lord sidannoth was
guilty of high treason. 1 cannot say that Sir roadies pot ties
resolntiou. There sew no upps )) i ) inu to any of the ressilutim:-.
Another resolution was, that there should Ise a genes
meet iug of delegates at Oldham, or some nth, r plate age, end
upon, to consider the best means of 01)14jOing their
Another resolution was, that a sub6.eription slionld IX 41414 s -
el! into to proserate his Majesty'a Ministers. Thcreoriatiot a
were read separately. Ido not recollect tar ho 'CO the rt..-
lotions. They were read by some one on the !taxiing*. He
was near Sir Charles. Several persons apulie on varine• sob..
jeers; 1 think Sir Charles put the question inn our renr5...,,,,s
to the meeting. Several had fall sated walk ing.sr kg
They occasionally brandished their stir ks as they Cite.
Mr. Milan, of Dewsbury, awl Mr. Fitton, of Boylan, a r .
spoke. Sir Charles a;o.ke again : he sail in. was a ,t-tai
mined frivol of the people, soil should reanaiorianlarle the
last drop of blond remained it his heart. lie 0144 As* SOIL
ties) carter commenced iii Frolic*, and Ise amw out et thew;
who tenanted the ramparts at the destruction af the Raised,
in that country, 21b41 he would not shriek (sum atachiau
the Bastilea ire is a own country. This was spoke's wills
much warmth. J.utinsou read a very dull .iirt penult.
it sailor's dress, in 1111111,11115 to the palliC w hill. pretr3llkdat
former meeting ru Manchester, said that sorts rondui t strysid
not do at Oldham, they roust boldly lay lu al tlezoirrs
and they would soon capsize Commodore S.druanolt ao4
crew. This was anis: in the heat i 11.% Of Sir tharchx. There
were *nine dap, one wan 11111210411114 4 by n rap uf hkeity.
The motturs were, " Nu Curn Laws," and "Annual Pa, It
merits." Harrison spoke after Sir Charles. He amid tin it a.
eleputatina from the delegates should preen al their petition.
in person, and to remove all obstacles is the waiV,ur be art
not know whether there was a mans or a pig rherc. He
as Ministers hail procured a Bill of Indemnity to 'water t
themselves, this tneeting isidemnify all Inn speakers. if any
thing seditious be said. This resolution WAS passed with
cries of 6' we do, we do!'
Cross-examined by Ilr. PrAABON —The puhliq 406sless"a
quietly about four o'clock. No mischief W 24 41One.
Be-examined—Hearing sir alarm that the military were
comiii%, I saw a great number of sticks held up, as 1 thought
in iletlance.
Shswcross, •ssaiiistel by Mr. J. Llsolt4—l was
at the Stockport meeting. As WOO to I arrived tilt the tit Id,
• man Darned Collier, from the police Other, was kinesk
down by a •umber of people. They said he was a spy, •"61
they would do all the rest at,. Sir Charles was not there az.
the time.
Jobe Stovely Barrett eitunsisod.— I ant a cormialale al Stock-
inet ; 1 was at the ateeitag of the SSth June, a hill? bet .re
12; 1 weat as ayptcgotee„ bet,* WeLfe IL known as • eurista,
Irk. j aaw Sir Charles lo ciumpaqrsarilli.r.arsetultarstaori
t they • was siamilici,LoviOr. a. f t,A ifer• k•uf 16-6
I esWII other ; they siuml 040111 ir.*ff
"Ai* 61WISI,Yiesitiffs• .41e, soli.
j 14C9 tidier infialine. fily
tat la Pre get, had he hoped • asoo au isiNj comeary.
There was areport MO* capaltpwcuailse *Park*

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mkt the peoplr to Owed, he waved lie tat, sad the people
• ilyoUtrj. luw some MIS aloft sticks, Wier than walking
• ;irk.* lkliey I.loked ire if they were cut out of Kidd W
ie from 'kw telt* of oak WWI. I 83.• v•Ttral prople at a
tit.;•tentee, wham I afterwards sew at the rot Mika ; they
iked *taint Fa Charles Wolsrley. 7 hey were wust.ing Ott
MY e4V a!, y would come, fur 'bey wire prepared far ila m oil
rt illy Th., hail v..sy fires sticks. They said that Sir
f'...h3f11,11 eze a peal hired of their', terdthet many other
•glifffiernets • stsortly tarn kr their side. I did nut take
...ante of a a:ut ihrrilon said.
t:sees•eitlitu'iiiett-1 k ft tie omretius brifare before it sun.
e-Arti. 14. ono emu with e roftti in hie reivt.
Artte.lirti by %Ir. liareisen.-1 Met the bawdl Or she pie-
eas Not the heidio of a limit... 1 • t.utd losalpoe II
•••• .101 the handle as tint s pivot
Mr.Sri.t.aist be wanted to strike a lickt.
i'vre •••

t hona• Cartwright examined by otos, —I was
"I.9asehmiler is Storkport in Jane last. lUM r sad
I • rger. I Paw many persons coming into town from the
_steam tilde on that thy. I saw all, or malty of them, Car.
Arci 90111% Love sticks; many of them appeared In hire
I,9eu fresh rut from the trees, the bruit was recently pet led
MOW of them had large heads. I fit an apprehenstun
• f fliai at eeriag suet) large weapon.. Th.- built of she noir I.
44 was riaistnnsed of men; l did nut see a child or female,
le.-pt tin the outskirts. I heard Sir Charles say, •• Three
halls to the Prosecutors of Beguely, Drinnnomil, and Jidin-
0M.... knew that three person, had been pros. ruled fur a
ntsisir icy. I think there were 5,00) per-tnis iu the crowd.
I tea* afraid that if the Wilds of the multitude were Maimed
I y ate ay. dart UMW 011 those oecassous, the tuns. ti truces
a.rght be serious._

4:ruawritantaneil—The people were so fornished wilt wen-
j•u-:a that it indicated to me • pater apprehension' id &init.r
than uaird. The slicks were I.irKe hough% of irreg. All the
pcoole had not sticks, but some thonvauds had them The
pet:rt. give three hisses. The Gentleman renuted ont to me
as 5.r Charles came forward and hissed. The same person di-
/:seed the peorie to hiva. The woman and children were so
-ylace'd that, in a conflict between the Iwo* and the cavalry,
'the♦ meet bare beim destroyed ; but there were not many
women ur children.

kr-munisine4--The women and children could go away if
h•ry pleased.
Oldhsen, postmaster, t Stockport, produced • letter
•rliicb reached him on the 3d of June. 311. Lloyd Fort dit
'tt, be 'tie writing. 11,re the too lelirrs alluded
to is the opening speech 'were put cud read.
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Aaron Collier examined-1 am a constable. 1 was sent to
watch the meetiur on Sanity Brow. I got there betwixt 12
and one o'clock, 1 saw the hustings ercetid. 1 dill not Set
Woleelry arrive. Ido not know II orri,uo. 1 was
-61aldlitt2 in the crowd. Smile Our said. poiolioc; at me,
" that is !Catlin.' runner fr M 1 walked on
without taking any entire. When 1 had rot shout 10 yard.
1 was struck with something. I !ward some attic ,ay that I
..was a spy. Not half a minute afire 'hi, I was hit oil the
I.earl and knocked dowo 5C11614(.51. on rrlNMCfille I baud
!nosed In a house, sod a woman was na.ltinj my head.
Here the case for the prosecution closed.

Mr. realm' Horn addres..ed the Jury on belillf of Sir
Y;. Wokeley. The Learned Counsel contended that the
meeting was a legal one, and that there wss no evidence of
st conspiracy, there bring no proof of a previous acquaint.
ranee between the psrties, but a casts:ll cuurersation in the
'street iataiediately prior to the meeting.

, .
Mr. Ilarrisou commenced with stone olewervatione on the
epaech of M.. Manahan, one of the Judges on the bench.
Aster whirls he proceeded nearly as follows If it were not
Ile Ibis speech Idu not know, Gentlemen' flirt I would have
eddrersaeil you ; and not haring money to fee a Counsel I was
obliged to defend myself. But if I fall the earth shall quake
as I do; I shall not fall without violence—that is, the vio-
l-rce of my prosecutors. If in the heat of a discourse my
Pores may hove been too strong, what public speaker can
'nape Did I stand before sou conscious of crime, my con.
'menet would feel it. H tai I any intention of producing a
meeigainnry Revolution, I would take the bar mid plead guilty.
woen I considered the sham indictmeut —wheel I considered
1 -as bound hand avid foot with the lion. B .1 I looked
to lee where I was to be plungeri,aye, even auto hull. l'or the
indictment, it is net worth reading. Had I been unjust
fields in my concluet,l should not object to being tried, but
mar conscions of no crime. I love my country; and if I
Oro asked what is shy country to me, I say I lose it, and It
is necessary fur me to vindicate my character to you
bud In my toOntry. If lam turn from the partner of my
bed, my country will succour her ; if I sin banished from
cloy lovely babes, my country will maintain them, and
instead of one bolter they will find ten. With the strength
cf Heaven I shall sow improve the opportunity afford -
I'd me, and vindicate my character I wish not foe re-
tire, I wish not for plnneler ; and however Reform may Ise
balled " a noatenni," I say that whatever makes knaves
and had men good, must prove a sees-ice to the
community. Reform world, I know, In a peat measure,
. fleet these desirable objects. I du nut Wald the riches
ell others, nor do I think Parliamentary Reform would make
poor men rich, or rich men poor. Jf I give a wrung th rev.
ton to my Lord's speech, I hope he'll rectify it. Once the
Constitution is gime, it is foist for ever : so say 1 ; and "
mi-
litary despotism will ensue •" thefts what the Reformers leave
all along dreaded. I take it fur granted, Gentlemen, ilea
read the newspapers—that you read whot is dour in
the Rouge of Commons ; and you can judge of the propriety
of what is said of it by the Learned !osier. I sake it atm
fur granted that you have read the Chester Chronicle, in which
eha. gr. is enionieled, and it is roe that account I dwell so
Much neon it. That the Constitution of Great Britain is
. weelient, none of us 0.110111)t, but not that as established by
law, or else it would be • most Bortusting Constit n iota ; and
ef any laws be Ratted tee it, it cannot the Comsat-
totion, but most change, and sometime-a lie better and
enenetinies worse. " Vagabond orators," says the speech,
were to effect improper things—blush espressiou in any
eerier, but more so as applied t* me. I hare endeavour.
ed to stop the progress of vice and irreligion, which are
allionsiding in the present day. The cheeting doctrines
of redemption have been my cowl:lnt theme, and air still
ti,u di light or my foul. If it be blarplitney to gluey in the
troths of the Gospel; lobe grateful that our DIVIPt.S3WiOUr
came down from heaven, and woken his the nature of mum,
tor Ihit purpose of sectliring us a victory over Sin, Hell, and
the Grave—then indeed halo.] hers a" Vagabond Orator"—
then have I been a blasphemer. Pamphlets, containing
impiaper things have been circulated ; but I cm:shier
it an Enolishmnies right to read
tOteli of it as be f..•la protect. The leaders of Reform
are charged with senctioning military is:einem/ • 1 km.w of
nho du ses; and if smelt practices were now followed,
It would be against the : thet I know ; but theta it is
because of a recent enactment that makes it illegal. But
the Reformers are charged with every thong to bring them
into disrepute. What is said of lenge meetiogs of the people,
equally applies to election and oilier county meeting,. Mt.
Harrison procee•ded in • long series of 'Assert:shoos upon
reform, an the course of which, reverting to the Judge's
•preels, he said, I cannot suppose my dilating on his
speech will offeud the Learned Judge, fur he looked upon
eras while I ass doing so with a very 'lemma counts.
nance.--(Lood errti editinvel laughter through the Court/
Gentlemen of the Jury, I hold in my baud souther help, mi.
oosaguld, and unexpected, as if that Pro-
eioatier Lisese • v renditiwa had given me a help when
moss Ime de.: it. '1 help is, " A few Ilrief Rsersarks,"
by Jeremy Beiethant—'.l fairoA)*-a great lawyer, one sdr
11t ablest tie Zeeland, perhaps I might say its the world,
mot 1 dare say, if their Lordships spoke tithing they would
say Me same. Dal, Gentlemen, I have not yet read over
the indictment, .and I shall proceed to read it —fLooglifer >
lle here read it—it recited the cuietioued risibility of the
..nerds who Arnett bins He 'vulgate:need at a quarter lo
b. v-n o'cluek reading Bentbam's rental ks, said concluded by
declifing, that whether the verdict should be guilty or met
Knell Ii would be nearly the same in Mien. In either ease
hr should be equally well disposed to say, " ail is well—tbe
will of the Lord be Mine."

wu he had 6u:olzed the fullowin vitae/see wets
called •

J,eresish Garnrtt exemiued.—Hr ear s reloirter fur
Whetter INffnek•sler OArestele The dandester Vitro-
Wile wait • Mori.eerie' Paper. He hid me doubt that there
wire SAO perms' press.. et the getteliel. 11* eau?.
ilou of the sessun int the crierstable, be see meshing 10 ca.
cite slats. He HA set bear Sit C. IVeleetry say say thing

like tl in sf..W. wtoti.s ihe g.eit fifftiggle will tr.. Itta
v0..1ef1." Such s remark could net have escaped hint had it
b. en made.
Crows-Examined by the Arronmtv low
ertirblyeil far the Weff CAranklit, rioted at Wake.

It. T. Hampton examined —He was a reporter fur War-
Mancheder ()Metre, : be ntleuded to report the Pro-
ceedings. He felt no terror or •lann, and hoard sone ea-
presKed by others ; Sr C. Wolseley request the people
e• nerally to he peaceable ; but find he addressed himself to
the peace-officers, of ilium, be was sorry to say, that they
wgre the first In break the peace. He heard nothing of the
" great struggle," and thought he must have heard it had it
hero, mentioned.

Cromaexiimineil Ly Mr. LLOYD.—Heard Mr. Harrison
say, it its. ally to petition the Muse of Commons; fur a
man might as welt goo on his knee. to his menial servant,
whom be paid for sluing hit ditty. It was s grand principle
that-ri whole nation could toot err; and if there were a thou-
sand walls between them and their Prince, they would blow
them down either to Heaves. ur Hell! NWe will have them
ii.iwn (be continued), soil see what sort of an animal he is."
He recollected Sir Wolsetey speaking of the !Hostile, and
•ayin±, H knew how heartily lie...wild assist in blow-
ing down the walls of the &aides here. He- would n
desist till be witnessed tits uverlhruw of the English
! Hain Iles.

ite.examiaell by Mr. Cr-swim—Sir Charles Wohadel said
it was useless to petition the Throne, because-14rd Sid.
mouth had refused to receive their petitions.
Julies Swindells examined by Mr. Psiettott —He was at
the meeting from fifteen to twenty minutes ; but was out
near enough to hear what was said. He frit no alarm. He
was a draper is. Stockport. lie had a wife and family, but
still he felt ion alarm.

The JUDGE inquired of Harrison if be bad any witnessea
to produce
Mr. Harrison,• after a abort consideration, said be believ-
ed that he should not cxlt nay.
The Jury were then can tttttt ed from She Bench not to have
any cuniniiinicatiou with persons out of doom on the subject
of the trim'.

The Court a eight o'clock wax then adjourned till nine
o'clock MI 'loci:day mos mug.
much wan the public interest excited by this trial, that
rexpecialile personnel. were reeking admittance through
the Gorrrnor'e home, anon after aix o'clock ibis morning.
The Court has been laxly crowded all day.

FOREIGN 111TELLIGENCE.

PARIS PAPRRS.

PARIS, APRIL 9.

Events begin In assume in Spam s more serious
turn. The Priors-is, brothers, of the King. have
been obliged to sake the name of Citizens. Some
provinces still refuse to acknowledge the new Con-
stitution. The finances are in We most deplorable
state ; the Government has procured some money
by confi.cating the p►operty of some members of
the Inquisition; but this rrsourse is precarious, and
the poverty of the treasury will resider general mea-
sures necessary, of whirl► it is impossible W see the
resielta.—(Giszefie de Framee.)
The liddiothegne Ilistorique has ceased to ap-
pear.. . . . .

The Astronomers are occupied in calculating the
eclip,e of the suit, which will take place on the 7th
of November next. Tins eclipse will be visible
over so extent of 'true than four millions of square
leagues, a surfers. nearly equal to a sixth part of
the earth, and resembling a kind of oval of about
7,500 leagues in circumference, comprising all Eu-
rope, the western part, of Asia, all Africa as far as
to Nionooloputa, and a purt of North America.—
The eclipse will last three hours.
A man, whose state of mind approaches very close
to idiutcy, was tried before the Court of Assizes, for
having, on the day of the Duke of Berry's funeral,
uttered cries of " Vice le Petit 'Fonda !" (a name
by which Bonaparte is desi,liateft), mixed with grois
insults to the King and Royal Family. In collie-
quence of his menial imbecility. the Jury acquit.
ted I • .

t;F.NEIiAL O'DONNEL.
From the following narrative an opinion may be
formed of the Clout de l'Alviabsl. who has occupied
the most importont military posts since the return
of Ferdinand VII. to Spain. It is an extract from
Ins Mailifesto, addrenved in the form of a letter to
one of his friend.. Citizen Lopez Golo, dated from
Valdepenat. in 1-sr Aluileha, the snd of March.
" Being one of the Regents in the yeariSl2, 1 swore the
holy Coo•iitution given to the nation by its representatives;
the army in the Isla de Leon to take the same
oath, and I firmly believed that it would secure the happi-
ness of my country.
" When the King entered Spain, 1 commanded the army
cantoned in Navarre and L's Itioja. Rettig incorrectly in-
formed of the orders given by the Cortes not to obey the
King until he should Were conformed to the Cunstitonon, I
was firmly persuaded that the diversity of opinions in the
national reprcantiai ion would occasion a civil war. 1 placed
my army at the disposal of the King, recognising in his Ma.
jeaty the chief of the curative power nominated by the
Constitistiou; and not imagining that a King schooled iu
adversity, who received from the Spanish nation the crown
Mach he lad abandoned, could have been capable of tramp.
ling wider his feet the legitimate represeutanou of a people
so peat and so generous.
" Fixed in my resolution of contributing to destrny des-
potism, and of establishing the sovereignty of the laws, I
was with my head quarters at Vittoria, when the glorious
movement, directed by the heroic nod unfortunate Pot-
tier, broke out in Gallicia. As soon as 1 learned it,
collected all my army in the environs of Vittoria, resolved
to mirth upon Gallicia if the revolution should exteud it-
self its that province. The sad result of the enterprise of
the brave garrison and generous inhabitauts or Cotonou, put
as end to my hopes.
" After the dissoliition of the army which I bad com•
, mended, I remained six months in Madrid without being
employed. I solicited the runimand of the expedition des.
titled for Smith America, in accord with many excellent
patriots in Madrid, and principally General Lucy, bring
persuaded that the command of a considerable army can.
toned in the environs of Cadiz, would favour my intentions
of contributing to the re-esiablistiment of the colistitutional
government.
" It was out until the beginning of the year 1819, that
this army was placed upon a respectable footing. I sought
by every means to exalt the mods of the soldiers with the
love of their country, but the experience of the unhappy
Pottier, Mina, Vidal, and others, forced me to act with the
greatest circumspection, sod nut to harslet my confidence to
tiny bit a very few well-known patriots.
" When 1 desired further to communicate my patriotic
aeutimenni, without employing means which might weaken
Lieutenant-Colonel of Artillery, Don Bar.
thelenty Gnitierrs presented himself In me, with a billet
from my worthy companion and friend Dun im CF.Donnj•.
He proposed to me to employ the forces uuder my orders
for the political liberty of the country, and amused me of
the good-will of a great number of officers for *0 holy as
enterprise.
" I proposed to Unite the army, and the greatest possible
number of troops that were in Andalusia, in the strong po.
sitton of the Isle, and to act in concurrence with a great
number of enlightened patriots, who were in the city of
Castes, and to invite the army, the municipality of Cadiz, '
that of the Isle, arid that of Puerto Santa Oland. to sipp
an Address to the Ling, rivalries him to assemble the die.
solved Gurnee, and se accept the Cunstitutiou of the N..
marshy steers in she year iSIS. This Address, signed by
myself, by the said saandeiliallnits, and by depatallens from

LON DON.
THURSDAY, ArRU. 13, 1410.

We publish with Whigs or sineere regret the
following account of • serious riot in Greeuock, in
which several persons are said to have been killed
anal wounded by the fire of the military. For the
present we ran only express a hope that the cir-
Cllnisiancea of the case are exaggerated. We take
the statement from an evening Treasury Paper, no-
torious for the ficility with which it (batons occur-
rences that heir in any reaped a political character.
It is certainly a suspicions channel of intelligence,
upon which it is now impossible to rest with any
feeling of confidence.
" It was understood in Greenock, on Saturday
morning, that five of the Radicals, taken in Pdis-
ley, were to be sent to Greenock gaol, for safe cus-
tody, there being no room in the prison at Paisley.
These five Radicals accordingly arrived, about
lialf.past four in the afternoon, escorted by eighty
or a hundred of the Port Glasgow armed associa-
tion. A large concourse of people gathered loge.
titer to witness the sight, and when the escort was
about to return home, after having lodged their
prisoners in gaol, stones were thrown at them by
the isuptilace, who also used very irritating lan-
guage. Unfortunately, the Port Glasgow associa-
tion troops became incensed, and fired among the
mob, killing and wounding several. It was report.
ed, at the nine when the letter It ft Greenock, that
five or six persons were killed, and ten or twelve
badly wounded. We trust, however, that this will
prose an exaggerated statement. lil'e have con-
fined ourselves strictly to the facts of the letter.
Other circumstances, of a still snore painful cha-
racter, are started, which we abstain from mention.
irg till we have more detailed particulars. The
writer observes, that the with wus wrought up to
a pitch of fury, and that serious apprehensions were
entertained as to what might take piece during the

night.
" Since writing the above we hove received the
following extract of • letter, dated Glasgow, Sou-
cloy, three o'clock t--
" I bows just tints to nicotine accounts or • very
strives riot in Greenock, which took place lam

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nigh" 11 party of the Purt Glasgow volunteers
were escorting some prisoners from Paisley to the
gaol at Greenock ; when they entered. the town they
were Worked with stones, and pelted severely ;
they succeeded, kowever, in lodging their prisoners
safe in gaol, when on returning to Port Glasgow
they were attacked by the mob (portly Greenock
and partly from the eirighbourbood), and were
obliged to fire in their own defence. They effected
their retreat. There are already nine of the mob
dead, and nine more dangerously wounded—there
are Iwo of the volunteers also wounded.

" the mean time, after the military bid retired,
they broke apew the gaol, and liberates' the Radi-
cals who bad been lodged there from Paisley.
Troops have been sent from this place, and every
thing now is again quiet."

The latest accounts from Glasgow represent the
tranquillity of that town and its vicinity as being
perfectly re-established. The alarm undoubtedly
was very great, and the danger was generally
thought to be of the most serious nature; but if
the strength of the supposed rebels about Glasgow
be considered in relation to the military force col-
lected in that part of the kingdom, far greater
danger must have threatened the unfortunate
wretches who should be ad mad as to disturb the
public peace, than could have befallen any tither
class of the community. It is asserted, however,
that the Magistrates hate collected Sufficient evi-
•denve to *hew that the Radicals had resolved
'spots a general insurrection on Wednesday last.
It is more probable that the Magistrates have been
deceived by knaves who sought to take advantage
of the general alarm by mysterious denunciations
of danger. There are many who believe that the
Ist of April rebellion, with the treasonable address,
was the wicked device of some alarmist, fur the
purpose of giving an apparent consistency to his
previous ►tories.

We have received Paris Papers of Sunday last.
One of them contains some extracts from the Ma-
nifesto published in Madrid by the Count de
I'Artsust., explanatory of his conduct since the re-
turn of FERDINAND from captivity. O'DON NEL
MI one of the Council of Regency in the year
1812, and as such swore to the observance of the
constitution of the Cortes. When the KING en-
tered Spain, O'DONN EL commanded the army
which was cantoned iu Navarre and La Rioja, rood
not being correctly apprised of the orders given
by the Cortes slot to obey the KING until his MA-
JESTY had conformed to the constitution, lie caus-
ed his army to acknotv ledge obedience to the KING.
He says, by way of justification, that he could not
believe that a King, schooled in adversity, and re-
ceiving from the Spanish nation the throne which
he had abandoned, would have been capable of
trampling under his feet the legitimate representa-
tion of a people, so great and so generous.
Taught, however, by fatal experience, O'Dost-
Net, was resolved to correct the error which he
had committed, and when the gallant but unhappy
Pour t ER took up Brine in O'Donaser. ool-
leeted his troops tat Vittoria, with the intention of
noising with the Patriots, boot the sudden failure of
PORLIER'S enterprise baffled his hopii.
0'1)0N N army was Noon afterwards disband-
ed, sod the General remained in Madrid fur six
moonlit unemployed ; but still looping for sonic
opportunity of destroying the despotism of the Go-
vernment, he sought the command of the expedi-
tionary army, for the purpose of snaking it the
instrument of his &sip's. To this command lie
was appointed, and concurring with O'Do.NOJU,
GurriEllES, QUI ROG A. sod others, he endeavoured
by every ntesois to inspire his soldiers witl► a love of
their country; and ►o ardent were the troops to
second his projects, that their zeal and indiscretion
more than once threatened even his personal safety.
Nothing but the certainty of a civil war between
the several divisions of his army prevented O'DON.
EL from placing himself at the head of tl►e Con.
►titutionelists in July last, and seizing a strong po-
sition in the Islas de Leon, which was since ►o
happily reserved for the enterprising QUI ROGA.
O'DONNEVA subsequent movement upon °cane Is
too recent to be here repeated, his object there
was to unite with Hisao, owl second the efforts of
the army of the Isla.
Such is the substance of O'DoNNEL's Manifesto.
%{'r present it to our readers without c ttttt went.

The French Chentber of Deputies is still Occu-
pied with the accounts of 1819.

The feuds have ri*ens little. The Five per
Crittv are 74 f.; Blink Actions 1,460

Yesterday • Court of Directors was held at the
East India House, when the than ks of the Court were
toted unanimously to CAMPBELL NIARJOBIBANKS
and (GEORGEABLBCROMBIE ROBINSON. Elwin,.
Chairman and Deputy Chairman, for their z- al
and attention to the Company's tuterest during the
last year.
Yesterday a ballot was held at the East India
House for the election of six Directors, in the
room of

The Hon. William F. Elphiamone, John Inglis; John
Behb, James Paulson, James Daniell, and Solea B. Taylor,
Emirs. who go out by roomier,.
At six o'clock the glows were closed and delivered
to the -scrutineers, who reported that the election
had fallen on
Jacob Bosanquet, Joseph Colton, Edward Parry, Thomas
t Reid, William wigmos, and William T. Morey, Emirs.
A letter from Lisbon, dated March fig. ails—
eg The Sparta' arrived here on the it3th inst. from
England, and it is said will sail ea Monday neat for
itia Janeiro with Lord BILISIOSID."

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A fiM Tr
GRA-VIAL BENRVOLENP INSTITUTION.

Yesterday the sixth anniversary fettival of the
subscribers and friends to the Artists' General Be.
nevolent Institution took place in Freeinsanote
Hall. It was attended by a numerous and distin-
guished company, consisting of the chief pitroota of
the arts rind the most eminent artists in the metro-
polis. We observed at the principal table, beside,'
his Royal nighties' the Doke of Sussex (die
Chairman). Sir Thomas Baring. Bart., Sir Thom
Bell, the Hon. Douglas Ki 6666 air(' ; Mr. Tome'.
; Mr. Phillips, R.A.; Mr. Wilkie, R.A. ;
Mr. Chantry, N.A.; Mr. Collins, R.A.; Mi.
Ackermann, and a number of other Gentletn..,,
who take an active interest in the promotion of the
Fine Arts.

The object of this patriotic and truly benevoleid
Institution is to afford relief to all decayed A coos
of the United Kingdom, without exchision or ills-
tinctiou, whose works have been known and .4e-
nerally esteemed by the public, and to give as.i•t.
once to their widows and orphans. The cheering
itolace furnished by this Institution ought rather be
cdnsidered o tribute paid to genius, than an Mier.
log to charity, for it is odmintatered to those whose
productions the public have contemplated with de-
light, whose Inborn,* have directed the public taste
and refined the national character, but, as we too
often find among the wayward NMI of genius, left
the individuals, whose studies have led to such re-
sults, no other reward than the consciousness of
boviog a claim upon the liberality and protection
of the nublic—s claim which, under the auspic-s
Of this Institution, continues to be acknowledged in
a trimmer which does equal credit to the artist and
bis benefactor.

At six o'clock the company est down to an ele-
gant thinner. After the cloth was removed, the
health* of the King and Royal Family were drunk
with great applauar.
Mr. I)oug:m*3 KINMAIRD. in rising to propose
the health of their Royal Chairman, rrgrettrd that
in performing this duty. soil only on such an occa-
sion, he was under the necessity of lamenting the
preionice of so distinguished a personage. for it pre-
vented lime from giving vent to those terlin.s winch
it would have gratified him so much to indulge, in
describing the character of a mai, to whose phi-
lanthropic exertions society owed an much. The
Ron s! Chrirmint and his illustrious brother (the
Duke of Ketity. now unhappily no more, were as
remarkable in their career of benevolence as they
were in their anxiety to promote the growth of the
Fine Arts. from a wise prescience of their value to
the con►sierce end manufactures of this country.
The iiiirogiage of their Royal Chsitman was now
donbly dear to them. ms they were bereft by the
dirpensatioos of Providence of that aid which his
illustrious brother, had he lived, would have conti-
nued to their Institution. The Hon. Gentleman
concluded by proposing the health of his Royal
Highness the Duke of Sussex, which, was drunk
with greet enthusiasm.

The Rovst; CHAIRMAN rose, with feelings
evidently overpowered by the allusion inside to the
Imnented drills of his ilturtriuus brother. It re-
called to his otind, as it did to that of every hid'.
vidusl present, the bitter lass which he bad in cata-
comb with the country at large endured, in the
death of a personage whose life had been devoted
to pursuits of philanthropy and benevolence. His
Royal Highness, in rising to retu►n thanks, wars
merely nide to articulate a few words expressive of
the interest he felt in the promotion of this liarititu-
tin, whets, as he said, the allusion to the melsn-
clioly death of his illustrious brother so overpowered
his feelings, that he must sit down and claim the
considerate indulgence of the company.
The company sympathised in his Royal High-
ness's feelings—the hand struck up God save Me
King. and the musical Gentlemen present sung
that fine anthem in exquisite style.
His Royal Highness beco eee lig somewhat more
able to express his sentiments, rem•irked, that the
introdoctiois of his lamented brother's usiine by thr.
Him. Geoidlemon was as natural a► his own sishdoerl
feelings 011 hearing it, fur the Duke of Kent had
been the first Chairman of this Societe, mud had,
with the zeal sod activity so ',scatted v belmighig fir
him, used his utmost to give tit-et to its Liu-
&able and benevolent objects.—/Loud applause. J--
The Royal Chairman then made ass eloquent amid
feeling appeal to the meeting in behalf of this Ili-
stit orlon, and alluded (without di.paragement) to
another fund formed for the relief of Artist., hut the
!present, he said, had the decided advantage, front the
wider sphere sod grester universality of its applica-
tion, us it embraced all Artists, while the fund to
which he alluded only assisted those Artists who had
been subscribers to it. He assured them that he
should ever feel a deep interest iii the success of
this lostitotion, and he trusted they would on the
present occasion *hew by their Putneriptions, not
only their reword to the Society, but their affection
and reverence to his lamented brother, who took se
deep an interest in its original formatioti.—iGreat
ripplawsP.)
Mr. Yours°, the Hon. Secretary, then read a
Report, coistaming a number of most interesting
and affecting instances of the timely aid afforded
by this excellent Society, to distressed Artists.
Mr. Iltsisearsots, who was one of the Stewards.
bore testimony in a case within his own knowledge,
to the proper manner in which the funds are applied.
and the admirable effect they had already pro-
duced.

The ROYAL CHAIRMAN, in proposing the health
of Sir Thomas Lawrence, the newly-elected Presi-
dent. and the other Members of the Royal Aca-
demy, took occasion to pronounce an elegant *MI
well-merited enloginin upon the character of the
late venerable President. Mr. West.
Mr. PHILLIPS, SS a Member of the Royal Aca-
demy, returned thanks for the honour conferred
upon that Corporation by the toast. and assured
the company of the interest they took iu the pros-
perity or this Institution.
Ois the healths of the Marcisia of Stafford, end
the other Members of the British Institutier, being
drunk—

Sir THOMAS &tango, as one of the Directors or
that putnotic Institution. returned thanks. and ex-
pressed the gratification he felt at this tribute to
au ebtablislituent which he hoped had answer-
ed all the purposes for which it *us formed.--
As a lover of the Arts, he thanked theta is►

the presmt oceasian, he should indeed be un-
grateful if he did not thank those whose Is.
I r% administered to him so high a degree of
pleasure and enjoyment. As a merchant also he
Will not unmindful of the benefits which they con-
ferred apron the commerce and manufactures of his
country. He bad also the high gratification of
tiuding, that British Artists, fully impressed with
the importance of the high engine they wielded,
directed it for every moral purpose, and did not de-
grade themselves by abusing their pencil for the
encouragement of immoral ifeligna..--(Greif
Owe 1-11 e highly applauded the object of the
firesent lostitotion, and knew full well that in
wavy instances so Artist's fame alone descended
to his family, while the fortune which his works
ultimately realized, was too often found the reward
uof other nlividoals than those who had the best
title to the ausoaut.—( ArePlusse.)
The ROY A I.,CIIIIIIIISAK then propbeed the health
of the Society for the Promotion of Arts. Com-
merce, and blanefacteres. It was irosopmed, as
his !Royal Highness said, of a set oT iudependeut
gentlemen, who amused themselves with the brie
arts. Of one of the members, and that was the
President, he could say .1444 bring that officer
Inoterll.—(Load laughter ..d applause.)
The health of the Ceepoeatottli of the City of
Loudon, mud prosperity to its Trade and Com-
merce, was next drunk with great applause.
Sir T. BLI.L returned thanks in as uppropriate
speech.
In the course of the evening the It oYAI. CHAIR-
NAN torsitioned, that, by an arratigement lust year,
it was agreed, when 2,000/. were funded. half the
interest and half the tumult I subscriptions should lie
appropriated fir the relief of meritorious objects.
It Wa. 1.1.0 decided, that when the funded property
of the Society should amount to 5.0001. the whole
of the interest, and the whole of the annual SU iM
M*61)6011,, should be made directly available.
A large sub.cription was entered into in the
room. and the company sat until a late hour in the
enjoyment of the most agreeable and convivial
sin arty. _ _