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FIF11! DAY.
(RY OU I:IP(tCSS) •
• THE KING k. 1112 NT AND °THEM.. •
As it w,l, knows, that .1l r. Hoot was to open his
defence this day, ilut.Comt was crowded to excel*
at Is very emly hon.. At ten o'clorit NIT. Justice
BAY LEY tonic Its seat on the Bench, and Mr.
to.e.:,ntl addres.ell the Court nearly us 101..
Iteg• 7
w My Lord. and Gentlemen of Hie Jury... Rising. as l do,
ender rely pecashar and multifarious* ditlicelties, I !Mae to
entreat your cadisigeome while I lay Illy cite before you, in
sewer in the a emus charge attempted on the part of the
pruwtntimn in sahsiassilited against in,. I bate in the ,
hest place to nitwits you. Sisal l arrived at l'ook 'abutting
tinder a heavy coed, which has snore teems theremed. bf the
draft nf the stone me, and by my anxiety and aline- •
P00.4.wh11l it has place.{ me in n eltuatiait, to paint of
health, of great otinktooloy •..4 It was so
liwestaint I made that sold-mailing fur 11,e Coma nut to
all unlit to Oclock this lking—an application which wee
unfeelingly oppowil by the I A' MIMI eIIMN.CI
Mr. Prey,'Mr. Hunt, shan't use the '
onfccling Ist us rs•frain hulls permilialities."
Mr. II uoii--`. I was iu hopes that I 'Mould have heen able,
step by vier, to read the evidence theunch iwfore I came
to my &Irmo.; lost when I left this Comt last evening, I
was a indisposed as to he obliged to Call in an rmineut
medical snail, who recommended inc by alt means to abstain
(ruin any business which might cause aa%lety or irritation,
anti to keep myself as quiet us pusodble. This, Gentlemen,
prevroled Inc Rom reading neer the evidence with that care
which I 1111 l 00l otherwise linVe devoted to it. If railer such
discouraging riocuinstance• I shall be nailer the urressity
of taking tip mooch of your tame, I hope the delay will mut
create is. your minds soy prejudice i.:Moist me, but be at-
uibned the real mid only cause. When I put in
this eltim, I du ass oil the score ; I claim nut,
I want not In eatale improper ayinpalliy. A conscious
feeling of rectitude Suss always oloctateol my motives
and governed my actions and intelosium, and will now,
I feel eournleut, enable me to bear up •glinst multiplied
olialcultieda wads boolour to myself, moil, I host, wills autis-
tic to you. Wheat lon beard, Genileilicir, the opening
speech of the Learned Cuoinsel, I am sure pm muss have
felt thus you were about to icy& eery it event quelllollrroln
that which has since been detailed to you. lam sure you
ti „tit you were atrial to try some minister in human shape,
who, d. rwJ of feeling, of integrity, soil of cioaramer,sought
the overthrow of all good goveruinent, mud of all list most
sacred institutions Su the country. You have heard thetvi-
desce which followed the speech fur the Prosecution,
end 1 now ask you where are the proofs that any
noun hese is such a muitster ? To your oaths and your
consciences I calmly leave that appeal. 'lle Learned
Gcsoileinuis set oat with expressing to you 'congratulations
at the removal of thus trial to your county front the neigh-
bouring one, and at the pleasure it gave him to find it
about to ha tried in a place where local prejudices were nut
fable lu have particular operation. He nude this Com
gratulation, as he amid, on the part tat the cause of jastier,
as melt us in behalf of the Defendants. nut with what sin-
cerity, Gentlemen, Can you receive that congratulations,
when I tell you teat that Leui tied Commiel him telf, with the
Aikpthey and holieitur.Generals, Mr. liaise, and the whole
away "f the Crown Lawyers, employed all their combined
talents and legal munien to deprive you of luting the per.
formauceof that July on which be now eoistratulates you„
and to prevent my baying this opportunity of obtaining an
unbiassed jug of the county of York. Has it also come to
his knowledge that unfair means has been resorted to even
wills a jury here? This jury he knows were struck with the
Sheriff at 'he side of the selector. Does he betitve that au
Improper memos fusee been resorted to? Does he be-
fit est I hut ou improper meatts have been used by the
Umkr-
Shersff, or glut too hirer has been written to an individnal
milled nos the Jury bail who has not encoded ?"--
Me. Jostice llaltt.tv—'t Mr. float, I most interfere. This
is quite citirsiticutip matter. If any stick interference were
lewd, there is noollier way of ioirmitiptinx it. The party
snaking that inierfrscalcr is suswerable Cur it, but it is fo-
reign to our regent la,..istes.s."

are only to he found
Colonel and his solitary
had no other existence.
r. Hutton much letter than I do. I done soy and
lieT
lettereoss
I give him joy of his acquaintance. Mr. Hultosi,mm about
II or 400 yards faun she hustings. He is yet the only man
who 'lure, to swear to the Ilingiug of Noses and brandishing
of sticks, to the face about of the people against the military,
their being attacked, and, as it were, cat off. He only
speaks to the hissing and hooting. I shall contradict that
man. Why was be not corroborated by his brother Magis-
trates, Nine of whom were with him in the room when he saw
all these iudications of violence ? Why should testimony
important waist the couirmation of his brother hiegis-
trates, who could, if the story he tree, have corrobo-
rated every word of it? We know that the whole of the
nine other Magistrates were here on the first morning of
the trial ; we know that Mr. Hay was here and Mr. Morris;
we know that when witnesses wire all ordered out or Court
they wrist out armr, the rest, from that box where they had
taken their places. All went out—for what ?to enable them
to be called as evidences ; and yet not one was brought to
•corroborate the most strong of all. All Lancashire did not
furnish a brother Magistrate to corroborate Mr. Hutton ; of
the whole Pollee, whir take oaths by the hundred every year,
Mere was wit woe to prop up such an assertion of ear gritty
acts—no, out one soul could be found to swear after Mr.
Ilultuu! Gentlemen, if ibis question were merely the simple
one of my guilt or innocence—my moral Nadi or moral M.
noeeoce—l declare to God, that, knowing Its I do, the Judge
who tries this cause, his high character, his peat 'integrity,
I would let the evidence go to yon as It stands, and demand
upon it your verdict of au honourable acquittal. To that
Judge whose Character.—"
Mr. Justice BALIILET—" Let me beg of you not to allude
to it in this manner."
Mr. Hout—.4 Well then, Gentlemen, I cannot give vent
to those feelings which it would gratify me to utter. I khall
wily say, that out of all the evidence bronchi forth on the
part of the Crown, there has not hetet a single one whose

cromexamisatios did not elicit a contradiction of the charge
brought against us. I have said that it my private Interest
were alone concerned, I should leave the evideucerto you'
as the Prosecution left it with yam. But there are great na.
dont' interests involver! in it, and which meat byre
be decided. I feet, then, 1 must combat the tissue of
nilsrepreseutstions that have been sent forth against us ,•
I feel that I must undo the criminal force of the Learned ,
Counsel's Itemisation, which has now gone far and wide
throughout the country. Wises lore therefore the absolute
necesatty of calling evidence to rebut such groas and en•
founded imputations, 1 must crave your indulgence In Mh,
me the opportunity. it is, Gentlemen, so part of any chit.
reeler to be the flatterer of any man, or to fawn before soy
personage. To such language, or such sycophancy, I am
an utter stranger. If I then approach the Learned Jodie
With the bumble tribute of my praise—" •
Mr. Justice BATL/Clf—" Mr.H eta, you must sot, I caallol
hear it. Prey forbear."
Hunt—" Gentlemen, I said I could not bee asilemes
but I meant to speak the honest lauguage of truth, sell n(
adulation. If I said else, I know it would hare only the
rffrct of exciting in your minds a prejudice against me.
During the whole course of this trial, the Learned Judge
(and I hope 1 may he permitted to say it) La exercised a
patience, bee sheers a temper often tried, and I wilf admit,
perhaps!, not a little by myself, as well a• by uthera-.--"
Mr. Justice BATLEY—A We must nut suffer those a 11,,.
snout to be made ; I thank you to say nothing about it. Go
ins to what is material fur yuur defence."
Mr. Hest..." Well, Gentlemen, I noted desist from grati.
fying my feelings; his Lordship'. hint of tligappruhation
shall ever induce me to desist from punting' any course licit
may be disagreeable to him. After those pielienttniry sner.
Tattoos I ask your patient', Geodesic's while I go through,
as well as 1 east, the principal parts of the veldt sire fur lie
prosecution. But first 1 must call your 'ideation to the
nature of the indiensieut. It is for a conspiracy; a very
fashionable and cementite* mode auw.a.days of pruceedig
by indictounits ; for by so proceeding there is uo limit to
inquiry,cvery action of a man's life may be scauued to 'hew
his character; his whole career may be raked up.—
Every possible degree of criminality may be left to be in.
(erred from *beam:taus with which he transacted any affair
of his life. Now, Gentlemen, is this indicinseist they bad
this wide scope. 1 ask you, then, what proof of evil totes.
don have they adduced against us? !None—none whatever.
I was, yon have heard, at Stockport, where I received the
Wad and hospitable treatment of Mr. Aloorlioute; I went
from Stockport to Manchester on the Monday, and yet
Chadwick, Ithacas the whale sank watching from Manches-
ter to Stockport, and from Stockport to White Mum, can
only bring out this material fact that has been or much
dwelt upoe,namely,that.a. 1 passed along the road I said,
' Let us give one shout, lads.' Is this a conspiracy ? No.

11UNT—" I -elate, toy Lord, what I am informed 1
eats prove. I am well advneel Noon it, and 1 it., not hest.
tabs to say, that il.mould form a genial and valid ground of
olejeetiou to any vs Witt tediaird by suck means. Batt I here
CIROICCIIII I have au smell recluse. If any such attempt has been
made npon any lualivialual in your boa, Geollrmeti of the
Jury, I sin noir, that instead of creating an mediae impres.
Moil *tzarist me, it will operate its my favour—sand that you
will flo I no le:lonic towards the man who ha, dared to do it,
noel who shal hereafter, fare to face, answer for his conduct.
I must, hose yrs., say, that mach prejudice lass necessarily
been inabihed 14gAillgi Ili. The opetaitig speech of the
Learned Counsel has gone forth through the !amino Pa-
pers to the world, a hile we are yet opus onr trial. They
Wive been b re (Ovulated in a publiccoffee-room by
'nave of the witnesses convened (..r the prom ention ; a false
Impression has beets Huts created, and nineteen out of
Sweaty of the prolate of England have ere now been exposed
W illiopetat lOU. I ion not unit' charged in this opcuing speech,
seitieL has been "1“.1111:131M througlaaut the world, with
helag a maw on lies trial fur an atltmapt to overthrow the
twist t sited Rilltll. 99 i 9 i 4 'SO( toy country, hilt also to extinguish
in the Some of Whit My the altar of our hOly religion. It
Las !wen ineleistrimisly promulgates! that I was connected
with Mr. Carl, le ; it has hems prupacated that I am a man of
Ins prouriples—w lir re sa the penal', Without it why shonht the
imputation have been cast I shalt not advert to the conduct
of Cackle, because the law has imposed its punishment upon
him, and be is now eueluithe the reward of Lis temerity.
It would hr thert fore improper, and imprudent, amt is njOrt
Sir toe in town Court hi touch upon sue Ii a subject; hut
Why was the topic initorineed ? i will tell you, Gentlemen
connect our cause with that of 'religion, and to idea.
lily that of the rt formers with Mr. Cathie's. lam not bare,
I openly avow. either Ly CVIIICOICIT or my speech, to convey
in the slightest degree, any intention of disavowing the ap.
lialatioti of laying a reformer. I ern not a nun to hold one
opinion in private, aced another la pohlle, with regard to my
political ...Omens,. I have an ermiked expediency. I
profess to los a reformer, but not a leveller. I prof... to be
a lover !away, but not of lieentiommt.s. Swett, lovely
lilocty, Gent kihen, is pule and amiable as stscied truth.
I..ceoliosi.as•ss is as disgraceful as ,:ark liens unit talseliontl•
Liberty is no contrasted with crime, 114 troth Is with some
of that evadmice which has heirs gives) its that box sin the
part of sh • I.robretst• . Who that read the Learned Cotta-
gers spretti, null heard hie allusi.m to a lelnody stagger, en-
compasses' nisei sun ttttt Med lay the people of the Mauchester
elaggry too shuts loss now been seen through
the meant vitas by 19.2thh, of the papire--who, I ay,
but shout slot think, that the'vile Minims' sit impugned, is •
mousier, a lost.tited, vulgar a desprra.lo of ley life,
plodding violence and rapine,' treemois and der—iusti.
g sting hes feluir creator.% to hurry on with hill its his career
of desperate and strociama criminality ! What proof is diem
io evidence to entitle the Learned COMOIRPI to draw this t air.
drown dagger,' save indeed:thee evideace of OSA SlSlCOrfilba.
rated witness—a man, ton, bearing the rank of high life, $
Gentleman, and a Magistrate ; be, of all, only derail* atm
this breath of *bawler, arid to implicate am, or say part of Ns
meeting, in any acts of tarsaft or Vieltikfi 'Phis hey*/
Rees door, it is inessoilsent *pion as herr to repel by tori-
%Knee this talteatol Wampum calumny which the Lesseed
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apereltes • I trait to the feelings sod
4, which are 'foreign to ♦inlroee; 61114 •t
speak .el. I uk, thee, on what meeting it. tee-
whole course of my life di.l I, by even any single casual
expression dropped iu the heat of the mono m, stew too-
tle& word that laud a tendency to excite the propie
against their Constitution and the Authorities of ttre
Mate? If I had attempted an bad a course, Ido voi
believe the people world, iu any instant*, have f0110w...
my example. I sever cutertained smith sentiments. It ha.
ever heen my desire to induce 'be people to ophold
busiest, noble, dignified, free-horn character of Engliet.
men; to make them lovers of their free Conatientiun, t,.
Anthorities, and Ile tows ; and perhaps in only *so ur One-
individual instances have I ever seen a single being who wA
&stoma of ihrieg nal:Awful acts. I never wieltrel to retool,:
ally imaginary or real esiil by any whet than
means—. the most Segal and inns& effectual sue ins; as a. •
specified i■ Ibis reqeisition, always constituted the
worts I sought. You have beard of burning so il.. Vt
mills did I ever point oat for conflagration! %t hat bon..
did I point out fur partition? What butcher's or hiikeii
Antos dud I ever elesigeate for plunder ! Nolte If I ev• •
had all miscordr• led myself, do you 411... k. Orullertm.-
of the Jury, you +could out have hewed of it
this trial ? Uco poi not think that the prosecutors.
the whole T v of England ■1 their bei-k, *unlit ha.
found it out, and made sue answerable for it this dye '
I lever In the whole eourse of my life used a stogie •%-
presaiuti that bad a tendency to induce the hitruhier oulks
of life, or the lower orders as they ■re denomiunted,
ohotin a single farthing, except from the fruits of thew owe
honest industry. The Reporters who have been examined.
all prove that I sever used a single phrese lint what Wan a-,
exhort•itinu for peace and order. fluter Eutoialle s'one
says, I pointed to the soldiers and sxiil, n there are
e.0.m...., gel them (limn, and whirs you have them
keit* ellen, damn.' Mr. Morton any., this was not
&wood tai the soldiers, unit I will prove In you 6a' I
could nut, from position, have seen the 'oldies, at ,'•.-

tour. S.. much Cue Roger Fmtaistle's feet. Neat .came
;kr charge of martial array sad womieu muskets—tar
aympiome of violence and ihreeder. Not a single
is modured—tut a single individual in di d immense 4.11.0*
offers an insult to any one. Mr. Green, Mr. Phillips, and
Mr. Dar/lunar come here and declare their dread of th,
meet beg, without bearing a single, expression used en just'. v
their alarm. In this immeese popitlation, cousistme ut 1;4
or 70,0011 people, you have only spoken of in evident? 1n,,.
or five verbal insults, and the principal of Iligae too used
before the people entered Manchester. Doe mess 521,1,
Manchester would be made that night a serawi
Mu:-
tow; and yet see the impression this awful
eistion made ost the witness whim heard it, a man isioa
load at the time his wife and children the very too.;
that wan so sooty to be i., a slate of coußegrationy and yid
what 44. et did it produce upon him! %Vit I.e remad,ed
pursuing his mafioso, occupation imi the factor., white t..
was at work; be felt that it was an idle mad s ridicilloei
phrase, and heist woke no alarm /ire his family, be Li tie
eared ',hind returning to Manchester moil his t.g.ilaeAonr
at night. Do you think, if the man thought She oho re..ti.
any ilsingdint a vain boast, he could not. owlets be 1"1.
minder, have refrained from flying hi fore that populace.
and rescuing his wife and children from the impesdireg dun.
ger ? Then conies Mr. French. Phillip... Ile rode odd
Stockport, and eyeing a man very elide, gut a stroke vi •
club w returw, and therefore J. uouheed the marling as .Le-
gal. 'I hie was the author of the celebrated pamphiet.a
14140 Soul dune more to circulate the grve•est ma:represent a.
lions respecting the Matichester business than any sol,e,
man in time conutiry —"
Mr. Justice BAYLEY...." Take care, and do tot go 0..5 of
the way to east asp. 'Mots."
Mr. Ilunt—" Then Mr. Phillips tells you he meanie.% ut.4
made certain depositions b. fore Magrstrati a. flat yet s!,•
what had fallen from the other stints,. e, it outdo appeur,
that so far from the danger arising on the morning id Mon
day, in the eyes of the Magistrates, they had atoiraliy tn. t
on the Sunday, to try and frame elepoeitionit upon the set,-
ject ; host not being able to agree spun the poises, had ilefer,el
she matter until the following day. And yet they orb you
they never felt alarm until the morning of 31ousliy.
that their alarm appeared in the result to bey hot eeddeu
and imminent, but the counsel of two daye. The g.eiat
disco/mon—the great arrangement was how to break
up the nitetieg without reading I/11 Riot Act—the faterians
Rod Act. The Casionel for the piissereinms did not tome a
single • dors. to prove that it dad been read—they knew v... 7
well that if they lu do so :he evidence of the to.
dorichial wouW have tsten kicked out of (:curl. Tar, se •
it %as never read. l nail Dot pat the question to Berlina, hr
c.iuse I knew his answer would Bove been ' Yes,' bangsai—r.. •
11r.1 ost ice You Canoes know what Its All. AV'
would he, Mr. Hunt.")

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wh,d, garev k is Ewa amp? Why for this pomposes or Bel 111011E11i did not put the epses•ion, I got foil ettenr
excite a rebstase 11/Mmet me, by attribistiog to my pe from him is the cross-thaininstion, that aro sock thing haw
polarity thermillsellids K ibis great tweeting. I will Wig been dune. I made hint to oil intents sod purposes stem:
a trams* to rove -lb. circumstances stleuding this ; that nu lust Act was trod. I sakrit him, • Did mitres
about. 1 will put into that him a lad who has beets in or soy of yyl,lr brother SI s istratro co forth sod wetter
my service for wee* years—a simple country bid. who r the people lust their meettug was i:legal Dol you ruse
has attended me at all pohlic tomtinea for ths last semis them any notice before -you .I.,terised them 1./ed !ow.
years. Get oat of bim, if you con, tiny act of erimiashty. i try to preened, the,.l from what you thouch‘ was
Ilse learned Cosiest', who will, I boos, courlescesil to any ; their uhrect, or woke therm in az.y way believe that
thing here, ems eater th• recesses of my *table and nig I isiteuilisl to drive them away by force No; mid M..
private chamber; let • him, through my serves., mass I Ilule..ii„ I, continued Me. Heist. knew that the Itist
every event is my house. The fact of that shoat this Att was • nutice—dial it era a proclamation to ire
1 am, as it is kuown, big accustomed In meet crowds of peoph. I put my question, therefore, an as to get ILA
people, sod wheoever I saw Om (Mat disposition is the ami. I answer without bionics, to th• witness, she fact i-wctit•
Wade to him, sod give offence of soy kiud to any leJ to extract from *Min. I knew that nu Riot A.
deal, it hes always been my practise to draw their atteutiou ; had been front brit to last road. Mr. Searles, buss 41..4,
from the object of their dislike by proposing three cheers, us sod IM did sot venture to ash shequestioa. He kw« iM. in-
s shoot of some hied to divert their anemias sad exhilarate I pores lee prosiste.sl io ills Cummoos t,y shot cites', •
their minds. If Logs wish to hurt the freiings of any lusty, stance, lad how it nee-they:test throngbost tire Miami
I algal, say, ' Nub es; give Ohms three Maws" What a I Why was eaM the Rev. Mr FAlrtistope ? Old sue Mee loarse.t
eantenststibie ma" am I sot charged with! To excite • Meinikome Meow that %lr. Etiolation' seed ip a reessisers
shoot from sate pegoltdoovitiet did 1 wars of it! I Atilt 41 the I.4otheme legooms, that he maid prove he bed reo.l it r
so moth oti Mem if I sere week euesigi to morn Rios Awe? •He seat le the melymoge, but be ea,ul4 ems ,i,.4
Sous* seettellt eheeyo gem ism essogrle of otootitre pv home. Jog and swear to taw (set.. IS hese "me
whets t • them, sittoot osier say &Moo Vlr. Trafford, Mr. Tam" Mr. Hay, • Mr. •Nsesitia Colour,
.Owes • Wtes .1 fee to 1141/..mit's eirtetar, Grimed • L'Essii engsomi eV the eke geotirs r •
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