The National Register.
London, England, 1820-03-20 00:00:00

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No. 1,228 —Vol.. XIII. ]

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We copy the following curious statement from a paper of
Thursday night, which introduces it by saying—
The following is the Report of a man who has been privately
examined, and of which he informs ui he is ready tosmuke
affidavit :
Oa Monday Ia t, Mr. Chambers, a shoe-maker, residing
Nu. 3. licathcock Court,Sinuid, received a!,unimons •

well ,
years

next Amy, before the M 'grotto it Bow Street.
if e accordingly .and was taken into
terr likstliven the Aker, before Mr. Bind°, when
allikation took place:
Mr. !Bettie-a- What is your name and residence
Chambers—My name u'llanuas Chamber.
HeaCicock Court, Strand.
Magistrate—Yon know l'itiatlettoutl ?
•(:hambees—aYee, very well.
Magistrate—You know 1)r. Watson?
Chambers—Ve.. I know his person by seeing him at public,
meetings; I uiti't suppose the Dock r knows um.
Mag•str: •e 190 you know Cooke?
Chamber--No I du no know a person of that name.
. Magi sume-1.)4 you know Preston ?
.Chambers—Yes, 1 know Tommy Preston very well.
MagisteLe—Do vuu know 1101?
Chambers—l do not know him.
Nlnsistrate—How did you first become acquainted with Arthur
Tiliulewooe
Chatithera...ln consequence of the flags used at • Mr. Hunt's
parrenatost being taken to my house.
.Maiptarete... How came they to be taken to your house, an .1
by what otters were the, taken.
Chanl'uers...By the orders of no one. They were removed
to the IVllite Lion, It ye). ;'.diet. from the Crown and Anchor,
by use and others; and Baldric, the landlord of the White
Lion, refused to take them in; he said he should lose his limes I
Wile did. I told him 1 would take fiscal wmy bowie for 'bey
could not take my license from ine.
314:trate—Alt ! pour Bahltie, he has lost his liecire though.
and lam sorry for it But when do you say that 'Lltistlewuod
cattle es you. house?
•Cluanboes...Three or four days after the dinner c;iven to
Hunt, at the Crown and Anchor, with several other iterating. I
been) mate that I carried one of the dugs. ". Trial by Jury," at
the procession.
Morprr.rate ..Who were the persons who came to your house
with Tblstlewood ?
Chembers--.4 Juliet kopw them all; lima not been in iheir
dill\ agf stat..Dithyou dine at the. Crown and Anchor ?
Chambers—Yes I did?
Magistrate—A ho dined there besides ?
Chambers—A great number of persons ; I did not know them
all..
Magistrate—Who took the flags front your house?
Cliambers....Thefiags were distributed tit my house to those
persons who carried them at the next public meting after the
dinner at the Crown and Anchor. I carried one myite.f, which
bad .• Manchester Nlassaere" upon it. It was either to the
Illinsbury or the Smithfield Meeting the flags were carried ; I do
not recollect which, but I tun sure it was the first meeting after
Mr. Hunt's entry into London pablicly. I went to all the pair
lie meetings, and generally stood in the waggon.
Magistrate—So you lust your time by going to the processitit ?
Chant's:Fs—l ant an Huntite , I thought Hunt an hmest ntan,
std 1 think so still. 'I went to the pr cession ; 1 thought him
entitled to a triumph inconsequence of his manly conduct in
,Lancashire.
Magistrate—Were you Vet at the Black Dog in Gray's Inn
Lane, when Brunt was in we chulr ?
Chambers—Never. to my knots ledge; I never was at a private
meeting.
Magistrate--(Rather doubting the truth of Chambers's laser.
tion)—Don't you say what is not true; our information is very
virrect.
Chambers-1 recollect a person nar.ted Brian asking me to take
a pint of beer at a public-Iwuse on the left-hand side in 'Gray's
Inn-lane, out of Holborn, I do not know the sign. Brian and
MOW of his friends were going to the Cape of Good Hope; it
mu a pardng pinlot.
Magiatr..te—fo long have you known Brian ?
Chambersa—From the tinie your Worship ordered me to be
locked up behind this office, and as I consider, very unjustly, as
your v. orship did not hear what I had to say in my defence.
Magistrate—What was that you were locked tip for: do I
know any thing about it?
Cbatuhers—Yes • I was coming out of my house to get some
beer, and heard a Sisturbance with the watchmen and two men;
I went up to the row, and found that two persons were charged
with filing a pistol. One of the watchmen wok me into custody.
and conveyed me to the watch-house. I made no resistance 1
knew myself innocent. On my aerial at the watch-house, with
Brian and anot-er man named Ileartly, the watchman had no
charge against Inc whatever, and the night constable desired
one to go about my business, which I did. I came to Bow-street
next morning and I was taken into custody, and the watchman,
who had no charge avant mean the over-aught, swore positively
was the one who thed the pool, anti your Worship ordered me
to find ball. and it was when was locked up that 1 became ac-
quainied with Brian and fleanley.
Mai,istr you ever see Thiatlewood and Ileartley walk-
ing toi.,t ther?
Chambers—l never knew the man ttll I was locked up. and
I never saw Thiatlewood and Headley or Brian walking together
ih my la.
blagistr-ie—Do you know where Heartley lives, and what
trade he la
Chan.hers—l tip not know where he lives, nor do I know his
business. 11. his called frequently upon me since 1 and he
were in custo y together.
Ma gist.: te...Waa ever Bentley in your house when Thistle-
wood was ?
Chainlv.r
111agist, at • e you sure of that?
Chaleta.•...l out sue
Magisti te... m you know a person named Matthews ?
Chanih, do pot.
Magisti. t ...Ait. you certain ?
: sit pi sitive I do not know a man of that name.
Magistrate... Was Ti ,dewool, a: the Black Dog, Gzay's ion
Lane, when yo.i sod • an were there ?

!)tw iUnq, Concititutfon anti gat ad.

MONDAY, .N!AItCH 20, 1820.

that I

before,
you I did not Inititv him.
Rittisvcn, who walked up to tie witness. said—" You know
Cook,: war. in your house on ClirVnii is-eve with eight others.
(This ituthveu salmon the Contnee. Jury that he had followed
Thistlewood about 10f days and night. together.)
Chambers. You assert a I.dsebood, there never were eight
men in my house at ore time.
Itlagistiate—Was ever Brunt in your house'?
Ctsmticrs—Brunt brlbeen
111,:gibtrate—Brunt was in your house. with a man named
Hay. was he not
Cliamb,..s-1 tit not know a man r...:neti 4ay.
Ntagistrare. Do you know Lrattburn ? I
Chambers I know him by sight, I havs peen him at public
meetimp.
Magistrate. How many men were in your rort on Christmas
Eve. • .
Clambers. I remember Edward, caning with Thisulewood to
my 'lase, bringing two Irishmen that were drunk.
Aiagistrate. Do you recollect any thing about a sword being
In your mom en that night ?
Clmbers. Idu nor renumber seeing a sword that ii
Magistrate. Do yes not :ellianbet •Ma • a
sue id loin your rose on that nigi.t
Chambers. I tlan't tscollem that; I do remember Halyards
produced a thick saga with shin:le in it.
Magistrate. UMW was a sword in your room you mutt re-
collect it ?
Chambers. I saw we swerit.execpt therislng in the hands or
Edwards. who pulled it ea ta(t3ie stick and flourished it about.
Alagistrate. Was it not Whistlawood who flourished the
sword ? • ,
Climakisbimillllllllllllilkiligie .
3lagiArate. Did you ever hear 'rhistkwood express any thing
against Ills Majesty's %l ; P
Chamber.. Never is my life; I hate heard him say the
country would never be worth living in till there was a Reform
in the 'rouse of Commons.
Magistrate. And how did he say you would get that Reform ?
Chambers. By holding public meetings and petitioning. I
mean mutitinr in the open air. I like fair and and open on.
cealings ; fah. May and no secret work far me. lam a Radical
Reformer.
Magistratt. What do you mean by Radical Reformer P
Chambers. Why, that I and every honest man should have
a vote in electing those rho make the laws affecting liberty, life"
and property.
Magistrate. Noosense •it kali frem this stuff being propa
gated, that has mused alfthis disturbance io the country. Do
you not think that things of this sort had better be left to men
of property and talent who have the administration of State
affairs; tor if they ruin the State they ruin themselves.
Chamber.. In some ease they might ; but every man ought
to have a vote. -

Al— .
agistrate. Do you know a prison named Hall ?
Chambers. I said before that I did not.
Magistrate. De you not reaollect girici Jiall fire pounds of
hall csirtricke is your room ?
Chambers. No, I did not.
Magistrate. Not !mow ! You mu stremember that on Christ.
mu-ere stoopiaj down and pickingup something which you pre
to Hall 1 .

Chambers Ido not. I never had a ball cartridge in my
house in my life to my knowledge.
Magistrate. Yeu must remember if you had. Our intelli-
gence to correct.
Chambers. if I had had such things I would have said so.
candidly. I came here to speak the truth, and nothing brat the
truth.
Magistrate. You certainly must have recollected if you had.
You have given your evidence very fairly. Do you not remem-
ber Bmdburn being in your house on Christmas Eve ?
Chanfaers. I can't Teak positively. He might have been
there. I was Amy work. 1 perfectly recollect Edwards being
there from the expressions he used, which were. (The
trate here stopped the witness !)
Magistrate. you recollect Brunt's being at your house ?
Chaun'oers. He might have been there ; but Edwards bring-
ing two drunken men. so disturbed me. that I-do not posinveiy
remember who was at my house; there were four Ur five persons
ther e.
Magistrate. Ho you recollect any particular expression that
Thialewootl used that night ?
Chambers. Ido not recollect his using any particular exprer-

Ilion at any time. _
Magistrate. Not about his Majesty's Ministers.
I )•

Chambers. No, none whatever. have heard him say that
Lord - had robbed him of some property, and that be never
should get it back, till a Radical Reform took place is the
House of Commons.
Magistrate Did you not hear him say something else ?
Chamberr. No, except that a Radical Reform must be had,
and wouldbc had , and I have heard hundreds say so besides him,
and which I verily believe myself.
Magistrate. Do you not recollect Hall and thejball cartridges ?
Chambers No, I positively asserted before, that I had nu ball
cartridges.
Magistrate. If we should bug Hall to your face, would you
still persist in what you have said ?
(73.flibere. yes. I should like nothing better than being con.
froott,l with a man that dared assert :melt an infamous lie.
Ma:,istrate If th,ic 134 been any thing of the kind you
would ay.: recc!l.ected lam sure. ?
Ctriainly, i should have remembered it- Ido
recollect tit. 4 Edwards--
Vitra tee worthy Magistrate again stopped the witness, when

'!RACY. Chambers...l told eon before that I never was at the Black
I)og. I was at a public-honse in Gray's Inn Lane. I told you
I did nut know the sign. I saw Mr. Thistlewood there.
Magistrate... And Brunt in the chair ?
from a paper of Chambers—No, I did not see Brunt there. I know Brunt
tg— well ; lie is the mune trade as myself. I have known him for
Las been privately years; but never knew him to in• rfere wi,h politics.
is ready tissmake Magi:trate—Did yen speak 'to Thieticwood on that night?
Cliantbers...No I did net; we were not t.ood friends at that
miler, residing at time. in cons‘quenee of lids arils Limnos tap with him and some
unenons to attend, drunken men to my I•oive.
t.
aillirritAtrato. ItosPolltikki,olllo. litilWo6 of that
a private NOM by shim her/ tujllei Nubia to odiOan and said
ilie soololPlng cl- •• Ed war • believe is not its cstenxly I" Uuthven replied,
" Nu Sir, I believe not," and walkul to the other and of the
ice? row].
I live at No. 3, 111.-4,-is trate. Po you know Cooks?
Chanitiers. You asked me that question before, and I told