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be wes thrust to do the seise fe Ion; but as I had forma
ranted at the moment. I net say exactly hate he Mask
Crosavessinined by Mr. Ilamfued.—l oecaskinally saw Mr.
Nadu, at the police office, and [44 *emends of paten=
nee. GOO MIN. it was wet he whe communicated t
intentime a rattle( Mr. Hest to pieces. I wrote easiminslat
nicated with Mr. Milne, bet I have with Mr. CAlig.per. the
accomptiat, sometimes at his own liaise, and seertinies it;
the street. fleiwcen the time of the saerling and the night,
I elimmunicats it with a number of OOP. Otjf, whom I dim%
stow recollect.
Q From your appearaitee, I abmild regime you Lave
the honour and 11121111•811 of a gentiesnan, why nut then have
eitinmanicalcil to Mr. Hunt the inieulloo to cut !dm to
pieces!—A. I did not hear it tient after the meeting, and of
course could not bay. made a previous einuninnicallun.
Cross-examtited by Mr. Serum —I kutor pm, though I
did not see you until the meeting at M itichester. I refer
these words to you as having uttered them en your *perils
(anent few senteucca recommending peace sod tinier). Yitoi
*peg& wan, I think, applamdek "lad su waa that of emery
body we who spoke.
Reettesaiweil by Mr. SCARLETT,..i do nut know of any
indietimen/mcsitist thoirtior her a publication to twee any
body to assaminate Air. Hoot ; bat I do know there is a
charge of libel for something like calling him "a coward ;"
it relate* to aurae eccurrmsce at the Westionnater Election.
between Mr. Mailbag sod Mr. Hunt on the homilies,
There is nethiti,v, I desk. in that article, iociting any body to
assassinate Mr Hunt. I have on recollection of hearing Mr.
&Men address the meeting, bat I occasiolially left the fled. I
was not.near Hot hustings Ilia whole lime. There might have
hem others speaking,. i Intuit I did out hear ahem. A. 'inlet's
I could I sent a faithful relation of chat I saw, awl w hat was
fold me by utterer. I never used the expression " I'd do for
Mr. Hunt," nr that I. I had a moldable's staff on that day,"
either to Mr. 'ryas or Mr. Eitspattielt, which protected me
frost tier yeomen's sabre Mown.

James Plait examined-1 have been ■ police officer, and
WWI situated, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, is Si. Peter.
area, on the 111th Angnmi Abi,u twelve, 1 saw nr. HrilYs
whom I hid kintivn for 110 ram, WHIM up a number of pro.
pie to the cart, afterwards the hustings. Wilness then 'les
scribed the format ion iiribe people around the blasting., mid
identified Healy sod Bamford as ►ring there.
Nothing materill t.ccurre.l in this witnesa's crom.exasai-
tiation, except that the shout which bailed Mr. Hiont's me.
rival on the ground, appeared to him to be one of defiance
Allier than joy. lie could not well diatiagnish between owe
Ilona and another, hot this meeting was the largest !server
saw. He said be was fired 111 the fu•tisu trade sitar tHilham.
After that he went to Lona ttttt and lived as a gentleman's
'vivant with Coitus dr Brutal, the Solon Minister, and in
other services. He had keen at the Bank of England with
information* respecting forgeries, but he was Inver 'ceased
of paseing any.

In his cross-examination by Mr. Hunt—Q. Whit is the
price of a Amity (we presume a flash phrase fur a forged
) now ?—A. if you want them in the flash—why ten
bobs The prices vary a little according to the
eseentioti. The way I know forgeries WON that my father
had forge d It. notes paid him for fustian ; he offered one at"
a grocer's ahoy in Middleton, which subsequently proved
m be had, and they were retail* ; the Rye pound notes
Trcre returned by his father to where he got them, and in re.
titer he gist six or *even fings,d notes for IL or V. This SO
aggravated witness that he determined to probe the teethe
to the bottom. and iletivt the passers. " I went to the
people (rotsiiiseed the witness), and by inveiglement
I got into the s. era, and obtained from them a 51. and
a 21. note, upon which I gave information to Ibe Bark
of Englawl. I subserviently detected the parties, and
would du so again; Is. was the price of a Amity then ; fur
the 51. I gave V. 18s. ; the man who gave them to me is
now at large in Manchester; be was committed, but nut
tried; it was this CIrC1111)0,111/Ce that introduced me to Mr.
Nadal, who acted under the direction of the Bask; by 1.-
velylemed I detected others since, and one of them was by
my et/Wester, - and that of others, banged.
Q What mice did you receive for that?—A. I decline
' answering !bat question. I gave false evidence, I have
prosecuted many, and wryer appeared against one that was
nut nailed; I gave no evidence fur forgeries at the last Lan-
caster assmes. Betides, Healy mid Stamford, I saw you,
Johnson, Simon, Jones, and Moorbouse ea the Magnum; I
say at what tiiue I brat fumed Saxton there; nobody
assaulted or bisultedme un the field, ear dig I see any belly
else uffiArd s. hers 1 stow!, though I am said to be a dia.
In *IWO.
Here the defendant, Hasty, exeMieued with great wernsth,
that the num.'s said one thing here today sad another at
the Nets Bailey. This the witness denial. lo answer to
further questions,he said be knew Jones and Sexton, and he-
litved they ware employed in Manchester. He would not
any whether hr swore ur not at the New Bailey that be saw
Saxton use the borings betters the times of twelve and
half-past one o'clock. There were out one hundred per.
sous ust the busting, while Mr. Haut and Saxton wire
there; he did not know them ; but he had Irina slice that
gentleniro limn the Newspapers were Harrel; he did out,
however, reculkct to see them.
R.•-i.xinusued.—He certainly *bought the meeting of the
18th of Angus' most seriously calcutittil to iuspire terror.
I have seen many crowds Itritire at M inebesier and tither
plan.-u, but lover felt such terror as I did at this. The
people ut Lees, Saddlewurth, and Middleton' would have
to pass through the town in going to Petenvfield. There
was a score of regular constables, and 200 or 300 special
cuesiables out that day.
ISeveial usher witnesses were examined, whose eviiii.ocie
did not materially Oilier fro* the perming. Want of
time awl room obliges us to skier its 'emotion until to-
morrow.)
Ai tight o'clock the Court adjourned until nine o'clock
oa Monday morning.
The trial is out expected to terminate before Thursday
night neat.

TILE FUNDS.

[Prom a Sunday Paper.]

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WESTMINSTER ELECrIOI4
1411rT12 DAT% Pol.l..llsivolior, Maass I.lh
.
• AT the close of the poll the numbers were—
tar ?nutria Bunkfl 3,320

Mr. Mob'Haase
Mr. Lamb ....
Mr. JONS4 UURDRTT. on the numbers being an-
nounced, tame forwird flautist considerable up-
planse. Ile offered them his warmest congratula-
tions cm the ►tatr of this day's pall ; the friends of
reform.- „r that great cau,e which they were advo-
cluing. bad indeed every reason to be satisfied
.I r. lialdiouve's npvaiient lisd told them
every day, for Pottle time past, that his friends had
cuuuurui•rd their efhwts, and he would chew them
the ben. las he Awaid derive from •1 heir exertions.

"Elseatete of the poll showed the trifling ativaritege
which all the efforts of his friends had been able to
give • ;.and Although Friday mid Saturday were
the two worst dupe fur Mr. Huhhouse's voter., yet
he *as still 56.3 ahead on the poll. Mr. Lamb
had rojoyeal, during the election, all the pleasure*
of a vivid ititagnistion; and that, indeed, was all
the dijoyment he was likely to possess, for he had
no pruNrect of ultimate success, except what Icy
in his own imagitiation: He was Safe (hat the
electors of Westurrinter, ferinig so strongly as they
did in the cause of reform, would place Mr.
.ts se lii the I louse of Commons, for writing that
which Mr. Limb bed called a gross inealt and
libel on that House, but which they (the elector.)
silly considered the troth. Mr. Hobliouse had
been peinisheil by that House fur lasiguage uot
needy so %trail es that which had been used by
Mr. Pitt, when advocating the cause of Reform in
1782 ; curnpsicd to the language used by that
ssoiesusan, that of Mr. Hohlionse was weakness it-
self. For lets own part, he would hot shirr to re-
peat the wards in which Mr. Pitt exposed the col..
ruptiou of tie I-louse of Curnmotis ; fur, if lie did,
lie should Hut oily be imprisoned for a libel, but
run the risk of being !merged. He had said that
70 Members were roomed by the Administration,
end right by the Nabob of Arcot. His whole
speech, udeed, was calculated to excite the hatred
and cuuterupt of the people against the House of
CURUUOUS. Sir C. Turner had also said of the
House, that he 'considered them as a parcel of
thieves who had stolen an estate, it'd would not
suffer airy oue to look into the title deeds for fear
of loving it. These were Member. of the House,
and their 'speeches were in every newspaper of the
day, and, no doubt. heard in every alehouse, yet
they were not imprisoned. But Mr. Hobhouse,
because he would not rank in the regiment of cor-
ruption, had been sent to• Newgate. To enume-
rate all the atrocities committed by the (louse of
Commons would take tip too such of their time.
It had even defended Lord. Castlereagh against a
charge of holing and selling seats in it, on the
ground of the practice being as notorious as the
sun at hoots day. As well might a thief escape
the gallows, on the plea that robberies were noto-
riously committed every day and every night. Hit
would nut denim them looter, as he saw that Mr.
Lamb was eager to boast of his transient success.
Mr. LAMB next came forward, but amidst SO
much insist., it was souse time before he could obtain
a hearing. He assured them he was not tiuxious to
address them. but if it was their pleasure to hear
him, he would proinise that he would hardly occupy
their attention five minutes. ft was some satislhrol
turn to lam to speak Wier a !gentleman who was 06
touch hi sigreemeist with Irvin, that lie had furnished
him with exactly that begi tttt nig to hie speech which
he waisted, fur he also had to cosigiutulate them es '
the state oldie poll; and if that ice-rifleman and him-
self were eatistiesl with it, he saw im fervors why they
should he dissatisfied. lie was 118 at the head of
this day's poll, which destroyed Mr. Iloblioust's
calculations of yesterday, that if he polled only
eighty-nine a head on each day's poll, he would
louse his election. New, though the rules of
Cocker were inunistalsle, and the same to all men,
yet he would leave to Mr. Ifoliliouse, who was a
bar better calctslator than himself, the rules of di-
vion and subtraction, as he meant to deal only
in those of addition and multiplication. He re-
gretted the loos of a facetious person, who load
amused ohm for the last two days; mid he was
sorry to hear that some indiscreet Isiend of his
had destroyed the sheep's head which lie car-
ried. Ho could assure them, that it he had all
the votes, he was content that they should have
all the jokes sod humour. If !het person should
dress up his sheep's head, and bring it there again,
he hoped he would not forget soother past of the
annual. 'windy, the ramp (alluding to Sir Frauds
Burdett', Rump Committee, as Hunt called it),
fur he could assure Ii i ttt , that if he brought it there
a meaning would he boots found for it, and he
would also find that even so harmless an animal as a
sheep might yet curry a sting in his tail. lie would
keep hie promise with them, arid not detain them
longer. Ile could assure them lie was its better
spirit» than ever, rind lie was glad Ware them in
atill higher good humour.
Mr. Huoitousx last addressed then), amidst un-
bounded applause. lie hoped that. Mr. Lamb
would not think he meant personal disrespect
to lulu, if he did not attempt to reply to hie jokes;
for whether there was a sting its the head or the
: tail of Mr. Lainb'e speech, lie would leave to their
• good arose to determine. But ors oppoueut had
•rourritsl to an old and stale joke 'purist a large
and respectable body of that electors of Westmin-
sad, which did not curve from the very purest
source. 11'heriever Mr. Lamb chose to take a leaf
from a book, it should at least be iselean ruse, such
ies any honest man would wish to deal
Whatever utsjec Mr. Lamb might Isaac to that
rump, he (Mr. IL) was cuuteisted to ride un it. and
he was sure it would be hound tilUir a, good us Mr.
Lamb's night-nettled racer. lie conjured them to
cuirassier whether they would return two thorough
Returisisaa, or only our, mud 11 person whose views
of relorsii nobody lamer; and entreated' them to
;come briskly to the poll, in order to secure their
own triampli,.aa well as that of the 'vest cause of
.litrutou

The payments on the last loan were all completed on Fri-
day last ; and it is a curious coincidence that the current
prices of stuck no the first and the last day of the contract
have been, as nearly as possible, the same, .o that any sub-
sesibet who et-taints' his Onsinism to the last, wools, have
lent hts money to Govirisenent, thologh without actual luso,
without receivinw" may benefit from the one of it. When ors-
givally wills the Government, public opinion ran
very strongly against it, and the terms were blamed as dis-
advantageous to the subset ibeis. Hied it soot been, however,
fur those unforeseen event*, the internal trouble* and the
consequent increase in the army, it would have barn ex-
tremely profitable. Wish retry disadvatiirze, indeed,
there have been aloondant opportunities of rt ;denote with
profit, as Orsariities, thistle!. ORO) at a discount ul 5 per
cent. has been at a primulas of more than 6, slid re-
mained for a lung period considerably above par. tiltuald
a new loan be required by the Government to au *Anal
amount, the quantity of onenoplu) ed capital in the
inetroomlisi is so great at the polaris' moment, that the
monied interest would eagerly conlead far a share iu the
rust red, and the bargain wuald probably be trunk on ex.
evilest' Serials fur the public, though the first intimation
might canoe a material depression Su the funds. Speen-
lators stow watch auntiuusly the awe of the revenue as
the roiliest test by waste). the wails of the Governnwut
Can be aticertlined. We apprelseud that the quarter, us
the whole, will out he so productive as has been antici-
pated. the falling off in the early part of January has
been admitted to the full extent ; rt appeals to have
been succeeded by several weeks of prospeions returns;
but in the latter end of Frbrsary a deficwssey was again pee-
ceived.' Within she last fortnight, we umteratisod, owing In
the meat consumption of exciseable artielev, caused by the
general election, the equilibrium has hems nearly restored;
but taken collectively, the quarter. will pridsahly not exeertl
the corresponding one fur 11410, whitish produced 9,106,0001. I The nephew of Prince Poet ATOMiI, who threw
to the revenue. Sbnald ilu• he "le iirw tax" will , him/faint's, liver at the batik of I.rspsit., at Ike
lisve pruved, for the third quarter snore they were suipused.
it UP r the tot I anti t I f
wholly unproductive, or what is nearly the saute 'Mug, will l•-• • it E.e, "VI
not hive tested to the general increase of the revenue.— Oil a !Mat to •Onforili iiiversitys end hos van.
Consols fur the accusal left uhf yesterday st Set 1 -nsrosie at the slllitre limn, '
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