The National Register.
London, England, 1809-04-09 00:00:00

THE KING, V. HANSOM.

This important trial came on before Sir Simon Le Blanc and
a. special Jury, on Wednesday se'nnight. The Defendant
Joseph Hanson, Esq. was indicted for having uulawt'ully en-
couraged a number of persons to riot.
Sergeant Pocket addressed the Jury on the part of the Crown.
It appeared the weavers assembled in great numbers on the 2ith
of May, near Manchester; that the next morning they again
assembled. much increased in numbers ; that Mr, Stark ie, the
gorough-Reeve, strove to persuade them to disperse, but in '
vain. In the afternoon they were increased to about 10,000;
and the Magistrates, preceded by a party of the •lth dragoons,
came to the ground, and the riot act was read. About this time,
the Defendant arrived on horse-back, attended by his groom:
be went up to Captain Trafford (who commanded the dragoons)
and asked, might he speak to the people ? Captain T. said not
unless he could persuade them to depart peaceably ; hut he
thonght his (the Defendant's) presence would irritate them ; and
he told him, that he would oblige him if he would leave the field.
This he did not immediately ; but as he rode along the people
huzza'd, and he pulled off his hat, and spoke to them. The
witnesses for the prosecution swore, that they heard him use ex-
pressions to the following effect :—" My lads, your cause is
good—he firm, and you will succeed."—" I will support you as
far as three thousand pounds will go, and if that will not do, I
will go further."—" Nadin and his faction shall not drive you
from the field this day."—" I am sorry your bill is lost—my
father was a ‘64.4-ier, I am a weaver, and have got my money by
your industry, and lam the weaver's friend." He afterwards
left the field, and rode towards his own house,
To prove this., a serjeant and two corporals, of the 9th dra-
pot's, and two constables, were called.
Mr. Kahle made a most eloquent speech for the Defendant,
and said, he should call many respectable witnesses to prove
that he, on that day, was constantly advising the people to be
peaceable, and to retire to their homes.. The groom who at-
tended the Defendant the whole of the time, said he never heard
his master make qse of the expressions sworn to by the other
witnesses ; that when the dragoons drew their sword, his mas-
ter's horse becoming restive, he slipped off, walked a little way,
and then moented the groom's horse and rode off. Mr. Stennett,
Illr. Norris, Mr. C. Satterthwaite, Dtr. Brierley, and a number
of others, deposed $o the Defendant's exhorting the people to
refrain from mischief. None of these witnesses heard him make
use of the expressions ascribed to him.
The Jury., after a few minutes consideration, returned a ver-
dict of Guilty.
The Defendant will receive hissentence in the Court efliieg's
Beach, uext term.

The wonderful mare belonging to Mr. Wilson, the liveryman,
performed a task unprecedented in the sporting calendar. The
owner of the mare hacked her on the 28111 olt. for a wager of
1)00 guineas, to go 50 miles in three hours and a half, this being
at the rate of nearly 15 miles an hour. The animal went off in
high condition on Thursday, on the Woodford Road, nod went
above 15 miles within an hour at a steady trot! and continued to
do the same in the next two hours: the difficulty in the per-
formance was the last five miles in the half hour, which was
nevertheless done in four minutes less than the given time; betting
was seven tq four and two to one against the mare.
NEWS FOR VENISON EATERS.-,--FrOM the severity of the
late winter, the mortality among the deer throughout the coun-
try has been greater than was ever known. it is supposed tbat
no less than from between four to five hundred have died in Sal-
cey forest! in the County of Northampton since NoveMber last.
HORRID MuanEß.—Thursday morning, 'at ten o'clock,----
Richards, Esq. Coroner for the County of Berks, held an inquest '
at the Jolly Gardeners! Windsor, in the Parish of Cluver, on
the body of Sarah Newton, a woman of the town, who was
found dead lying on her bed, with her cloaths on, between five
!Ind six o'clock on Wednesday' morning, by her son, a youth
about fifteen years of age, who was going to his daily employ-
ment as a bricklayer's labourer ; he, not being well, called on
his mother for some halfpence to get him some peppermint
drops. When be came to her apartment, he found the front
an l back door open, sh' liv in. on the ground floor in Cluver-
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