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who were present, to prove the reading of any Riot Arll not have been ;ti I.liniton, marl, less in Corti when Carliles
Tiles ken w .bat Mr. Ballow had swum, why out these have trill w•tv prodlii..... 1 here further declares to the flee of hem-
tome forward, either to corroborate hos teelowany ur sop. vets, that a ...; the Iteforiners. rich OP plow. 1
ply his delicienoies? Mr. Hay, hole, il, did not watt; he ' heel to have seen one hue of the Theological tYmks of Thom**
put himself into a coach, and drove uff from York instantly; I Isuior. So notch fur the ReTormers. Why then identify them
we wise, 1 seppore, expected to follow him with a rubor/en*. • oo grouuttlessly,sith such derbies:B?-1a nut sedition bad
1 'Mt too old a-setdier tote taught by such a manoeuvre. ' ennagh, withipt blasphemy 'being tacked toil? Where is the
!Veto!. has
.011011 use common understanding, awl 1 have , p fof our being such cluiracters? Was it from Mr. Mar-
ston A great deal 'ton much of the couserpsencea of 1 house's woe:nil, when proved him guilty of the treason of gier.
briegiars hoetikwiterev note the box fur irn exvitaissaiieu tag 'fleabite to his housr„end who atlttrt‘that his toaster was
in chief. Bat if they hail put him rip at the tither Mite, , in the constant habit of reading the Scriptures to his str-
ewth', meet liatelot Art hiletaited by bringing him here, omits? Is Hist li proof of bhuoilievity ? Good Gust! was it
then, isdee.l, 1 phontd bare rival' a Ater eye for Itia crises` : out eisongls to choice Ile will, Clllllll ligltillai the King and
ettroimitirdi. • This was the Mr. Hay who grit a loving their fellow.own, but that also we must be designated as
.0 7.,5001. a year fur his conduct to this lwsioria.—sa infidels against our religion soil our Grad ! ftrerrtiox to the
4151 r. Hhibun gets hi* reward fur his share in the service, .Corii lAwa 1 must tell you my opinion as the siiliect has
there is no gift the Crown can bestow too great for" is hstroliced. 1. ma a farmer, opposed them with all my
his deserts Mr. Halloo Is truly a Gentleman; the boldest- ' Ist, fret, '
principle as well as policy. They were sneer
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sumo I ever saw. I know and feel that when a Malt a M leaded to protect us, but they were palmed to ',wade Mi-
ran* and character speaks before a jury of Gentlemen tie i Iljfll aIP Id *crew taxes out of the pockets of the prople---"
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frets, his evidence is necessarily calCulateet to make •
'bower impression on their minds than oleo the same
Oif rotation is derived from perilous of meaner consideration.
floe, the rich and the poor man are equal in the eye of
the Vita j but still I ran see the different inspreselou which
will be mode by the same circumstances reaching your
Vaal through • different chanuel. It is, perhaps, 'Moral
and proper that more weight should, in such a case, &t-
-eeth to what falls from • man of rank and property.—
"Pie cu (retina of mu nature, in • certain 'talkers
SOCIPty, induce us to cite a prepondet min weight to she
testimony of tote 'lolls, in prefereece to others, and
• makes us re-fleet that a person so placed has • great slake
in maim:oiling his integrity, and that if be fo.cets what he
• moo' to his own constience and his God, he must expect,
as the consequence, to 'forfeit the rank aud consideration he
holds in society, and that when-ouch a mall, he his rank what
it mar, bee•••enes perjured, he falls to the earth. I shall bring
Ike itio•t sits. quivural teeliniony before you that
Is s— man. That he has told you that as a truth
has not die bast shadow of probability. 1 know
you silt sins take Ibis from my mouth. 1 am aware you will
rig ore the strongest evideoce to convince you that a man
of his station could be guilty of that which 1 charge him
with. But if 1 do not prove what 1 now say, let me be
the villeiu that 1 am not, and hr the innocent man. To
prove what 1 say, I shall put in the box, nut men of humble
slat i ...., lout men in thelhielier ranks of life—men totally un-
room reed with the NI attchester meeting—men of equal rank,
and character, and education with himself, nod of tea times
his property—men who cannot in any manner be pointed
out as isarsirativof the people, assembled ou the 16th An-
go•t. hey will prove that they bad every means and oppor-
tunity of watching that meeting, and that they saw no bran-
dishing of cudgels, no Ranging of brickbats, ou facing about
upon the military, nu coining off the yeomanry. Nut
cane of these acts did they see—nut one of them, if they
had beta, committed, could have escaped their attention.
Not one linger did they see raised aphist the yeomanry whets
they natranred to arrest the persons on the hustinp.—
'Mega 1 more all this, and not until then. bat then 1 shall
call Num you to dismiss froth your mind the whole of Mr.
H11:14.41.% .1 .lance topunlhis point. 1 repeat, that if the case
1111.111) coin-crowd mytelf individually, I should have this
eradiatee rest open its own improbability; I'd let it mud as
at doe., totally uncorroborated by the whole weight of a
T•easory prosecution. Rut she question involves more than
individual fate; it comprehencis more than a verdict
of guilty or toot guilty upon the Defendants now on trial:
it will deride nu Irma • question than this-,whether, here-
after, there shall be a particle of rade/raid liberty left in
ttie country ? You will decide whether she meetitigs of the
people, or of Gentlemen like yourselves, shall in 'atria meet
wider any other better security, that you shall not be eat
•d awn by sallies, than the discretion of any hot-headed young
Magistrate. You will have to say whether in future it shall
be lawful fir any such piason to send among • mixed meet-.
leg amen, women, and children. a set of drunken, infu-
riated yeomany, to inflict upon them, while peaceably as-
sembled, matilary execotion. I am charged with being
guilty of the entrant misrepreseetations upon this subject.
You h..ve now to ascertains at which side the grossest
esentations bear been given.
" I shall now call your attention to the main riders urged
by the si itnebes fur the prosecution. Lomas, the Cheshire
yeoman, who was actively rope. (Wise between Stockport
sod !dam:heater, from seven o'clock on the morning of the
16th August until two o'clock, had nut had his attention, he
says, diawsi to any particular act throughout the wbok of
that time. He appears to have been merely called to thew.
that the Cheshire yeomanry, though they bore off the spoils
foam the tiel4, had taken 110 part in the homear of the battle. -
The people were tied when Ise entered SL-Peter'r-area 3 and
yet, nceurilnic so Mr. Holton, the people were on the pot
•t the tan., anal encircling Ilse yeomanry cavalry, when the
lath hussars any the Cheshire yeomanry were, according
In Mr. Dolton, 4.111 in their rebate. Next came the evidence
arf the ,Ifushroorat Serjeant, who heard Mr. Bamford address
the Middleton division of the profile, and tell them that be
es pealed no doduthance, at least moil their return. Now
it will be .......d that no such words were ever uttered by
Bamford; that he never said " the day is our own;" and
Dint the explanation he cave of the banners was the real
tact namely, to prevent the people from straggling about
riming other divisions., and straying behind in public-
-11.10 Sta, or idling insteid of coining home. Theo cruse
the oildiocht di dime—yet, except in the case of the
polies: !IMHOF% account, this waa done, not at miclaight,
lust in broad It was said, " Whir call in the adjoin-
ing people to • Mancha•ster meeting?' To this he would
a.k. why had the Borough's-eves and Magistrates, in 1812,
in the mane manner convened the twroty.four townships
and people of the neighboorieg counties, to congratulate
tars /loyal Highness the Princedtegeut on the prosperous and
happy state 'of the country, at a time whets they knew the
labouring classes in that very district were sufferstic, from the
premiere's( the times, the greatest 'rakers? That advertised
meeting in 1812 dol out take place, because the
kloroughrerve 134.111.1'05t stone independent man meant to
elopes* the *ltalic, and the authors of such a delusion upon
the public. If so convoke such a meeting ass not • con-
spiracy in the Horougbrerve, how could it be io the people-
last year? They had heard what the Learned Counsel said
en allusion to the Corn Hill, and the banner, " Nu Cora
11.11." He well knew Cart you were country Gentleanco,
who might perhaps have certain strung impressions upon
that subject; hr well knew how to make use of this Mimes.
man, though he was himself an opponent of the Corn Bill.
3 have myself, tittetlemen, been at one time one of the
!artist farmers in Enzland. 1 nen • landed propractur,
though I have been total op as a roggatnotSai, as • man
without any means of existeuce, except that which I can
snow from the pockets of the people. 1 tell those ealituanla.
tors, that 1 never got one halipesany from the pockets of the
pcopte—l never gut One shilling except what I have honour-
'stay caroled, and my own patrimony. 1 am Lurd of she
Manor of Glassouhury, in Sumersetithire. That is nu eirdit
to sue; it came to use as patrimony ; I should lusher have
acquired it by my own l-1,11101111. 1 ',mold then lime been
snore proud of it. An attrorpt, Gleistleinen, has also been
blade to charge irreligion to my mammas. Now 1 have:
in the course of my life, lased io risen or eight dithers*
• irdleges, end in every one of 1;.. 111 the clergyman id the
neighbourhood was of my ...remittance. J Isaac had
the liosour of knowing, mid foluetitly the pleasure and de--
light of cuirversing with such characters. V. here is °lie of
them to impale an irreligious notion to me? 1 mention this
so you as a duty I owe myself, to shake such au opprobiu
from off toy shoulders--/uu see it has been mterupted to
in thrown- upon me. You have heard the misesable at-
tempt to fix upon me an irreligion* COnliennin Wilk Cathie,
know the man, and if 1 du not say what 1 think of him,
it is because he is mow sufferi•g the sentence of dee law,
and therefore not • fit subject fur any body's
Of him 1 shall say sought now ; but I shall say, Ilia(
none of the principles, professions, or doctrines he is said
to have espoused, were ever, at any memeht of my life,
imbibed or believed by as.. In the face of God and HI
country I moot solemnly declare, that 1 never read ease
hue of the Theological Works Cathie published, until
Doctor Iltodelsel'e libel upon me Srst -pet threw into my
dads, is the fellowiag manner :—Mr: ticarlett was diem
employed, as be is now, against we, is the Court of King's
Beach ; Corlate's trial was goitsyseso, mine was the very next.
cad I see bowed to watch it, se else expose myself by woe
moment's absence when it miscalled on, to • veriliel fur the
lltfaldast. Such was my unfortunate case, ear else 1 slisitilJ

Mr. Justice BAS Tu impede an isumnper motive
to the Legislature in passing An Act le not lawful."
Me. Haut P'snmed, and combined thus I know the
effect of the Colo laws has been to ramble a purlieu uf the
Ministers to collect taxes from the pocket of the farmer
to pay some extravagant salute., so es, au.l groat., all
of which I bent lily coudemn, but *lnch I
by force—."
Justice BAYLEY-4' It may be u well to abstain from
that,"
Mr. Hunt—" flowerer wrong I may have thought upon
the •oliiect, however wrong 1 may eunsider caul sets of the
Government, where is the proof that I ever urged %Motn to
get rid of them but by loyal means ? 1 have joined in peti-
tions and prayers of the people, we have prayed, and preyed
Iw vain ; our petitions were not merely Ilarowu wider the
table, but they were kicked from out the
Mr. Justice Bevbre—Pray do out enter uti such a sub-
ject : it has nothing to du with this trial.
His blunt it no crime, uu r,,nepiracy
they in prayer, or, if it be, it would leas snitch • crime fur
you to go to church and offer up your prayers lei the Su.
pre.oe Being whom we all adore. We are, indeed, allow.
ed to do this ; we are allowed to offer uprose prayers ; sod
are we to be accused of trustful, and sedition, and blasphe-
my, bemire we prey relief from those afflieturs whom we
feel to injure us? This is the height of our offending. The
Learned Comma for the Prose* salon his., told you', Gentle-
min, that it would he illegal to assemble veal numbers
of people together to one great plain. Why perbape it
would be illegal, but it is certain it would be absnrd—our
sense—an utter impossibility. Why whet would they do
there? 'Ti. all but a hobgoblin story, and never was
inteuded that they should be so assembled. If •Il the
men, women, and children is England were to get together
in our great plain, I should be glad to know what would
become of the Learned Counsel-1 should like to see
what a pretty figure be would rut. Well, "ben he tells you
a story from n picture of llogardes. He was nut satin.
fled with any !blue he could Mod in print ; and be tells
you, that we ask fur things of whose nature or whose
uses we knuw nothing. I know nut where lie has made
this discovery, lout most likely it was at some etectionering
borough town, where I could wish Hugarth had het u, fur lie
was so clever, that he would have very ably described Lewis
shoat two years ago, when the Learned Counsel met so pro-
mineut a defeat. if the Learned Coeur! had finished his
chaise about the picture and the eleven dam be would
base thought something of Hunt and his eumpueione,
who were confined for eleven days and nights; mud if
they were, in a moment of desperation, to ring in his ears,
"Give us back our eleven days of sweet liberty," Hose
would have been some in his making restitution for
the loss, mid compensating us fee being robbed of our li-
berty on the most groundhr.• and false pretences. Nothieg
Witold haveheen more applicable to our car, than the Wm.
duetion of mouse of the Mersa Days, d'r uf
• County Itlection• Theis, from this we are carried to
Smithfield, and there I mu.t .ay a word or two. How comes
'it that Her .Counsel fur the prosecution is placed iii
tide sitnatiuu, when sow of the i important ipiertious
fete agitated in a Court of dumber, or enbauitted to the cm.-
sideration of a Ju.y, is brought forward ? How comes it
that neither the A t iorney •G 4 it. ra I nur die Solicitor-General
are here? Perhaps you will lee i.. 1.1 because the Lh-feuilant
if little better than a country bumpkin, not worth while to
combat, or some mere country sonii•e; and their say, "01,,
we cap manage I. this the case?—N.. —lf the Atillf.
litY-Graelal \Ver! litre, 1.11 Call him, place lion in that box,
and make hint prime he was consulted by the Lord Mayor
and Whereas to the !reality of the Smithfield inectiog ; that
he declared it was legal ; and that between the 9th and the
16th of August Mr. lb.), of Nlauchester, also commit...l
his." as to the 'fleeting of kat. 16th.
Mr. Justice BAYLL%—ThaI!, Mr. Hunt, could not lie al-
lowed in evidence.
Mr. Hunt—My Lord, I would hare tried the experiinent.
Mr. Serjeent HuLtateg—Nu .:uuld of that.
Mr. Justice flavbes— If the A ttoruea Greeral had been
brae, wheliver his opiniun might be, be 61.0,314 take the
law from me.
Mr. Hunt —We should have asked him many questions,
wed from Mr. Hay also.
Mr. Justice IiATLLY—This 40/.11 not bear upon the pre-
sent ease. 1 would 'tut allot, eve:cure to be brought to
that, and then. Core it •hutild mit be stated.
Mr Ilunt—lt is my imperious duty to remove those im-
pressions which have been so I TCOUCUagIy made Di the oh-
servatiuns that have fall, a I the bruin d Colima I in the
opening part uf his speech, mid which have not beets pruned
uu oath: I know he is lord of Ilic aseeielaul lin this fir.
cult, and as any thing he says must hare great weight, I am
doubly called umiak to guard the Jury "alpine( taking his
essertioits or faits which have nut been proved. If I 'mike
any improper complaint on this had, I sin sure I shab he
exessee, when die euseht in whirl, lam placed is take',
into consideretion. I applied eery strew ly to the Court of
King's Bench uu the subject of this trial, pet hum i: was an
iuipeoper complaint, hut un that OeC•111011 be was
tel with Other Leached Gentlemen against usy application
Mr. FICADII.VIT.—" If it is Deemer!, I tree nu objectiou
loicive Mr Heim en upportouity of explaining that trans..
▪ if I had been applied to as Coveted, I would mt►
trimly hare accepted the application."
Mr. Multi—.' We know there are two great Polities, par-
ties in this country, oho hare g;rirot their opinion um this
subject ; and as it to well known that' the Learned Counsel
is attached to one of tiorsr parties, was he out selected in
ease of any bit te leeniag—litde lemming, I say, being found
Is anyul'the jiff) oho were at the mine side Inwards tat, ko
ilea front we the benefit of their good opinions ? lam sure,
arothrmen, it could out have escaped your ober:ration, Heat
stripriotipai part id the rare law Site side of the prosecution
huteeen to connect the persons she met at Manehester,
with the atrocities, the oreadbil atrocities eummitted 4
White Mow I know if it could be proved that such • con-
nexion existed, we weight he leerily and rightly tesponsible
. for the conduct pu.saii d their. fur this purpuse,Chadu tek, the
witness adult bull', is brought before yam ; and he sweats
he sayer kurw the solieiturallw the prosecution until shoal
tern de/sago, until within ten days of this girl; but what
ruts he pirate •ffeetieg se? Why, hectare the Learrwil
Counsel, in Iris opening, said something had lwen at the
eked hour of the night, and something must be dome; and eu
he sate uti by night from Manchester, sod ar,ived by
light at 'White Moss. Well, he he/felled et all events
at the deed of night. He swear* that what occurred
there could be sera by all who passed, and that there
were from Iwo to three hundred spectators pereeer.—
Then • second witness—is he there at the dead of Melia ?
no; but be sets off from Manchester shoat twelve e'clawk
at night, end arrives at White Mum between two and this,
rex:luck i• the moruing; but lie arrives the other side
of the Mass, and nut at that side where the (frillier wet go.
lug forward. Motocross, surlier witness, starts .aff about
site sane time; bet it mimes out, in his fross.esmosua.
lion, that he did nut arrive at the place of 44 Moog until
four o'clock is the morning. 'hey all travelled in the dud
4wur of the night, amid staid there till about IN vi
Nett Mines Maywood. who rows lertefeen Six and ar-
ms ',clock; but neither of tiou saw what Chadwick
sow ; they hoard Ls grin obalotoorr.; "bey may sew mute.
dog and training. Ste. We4l, how is all this In rustnset
who are the Defesedmits,,with time drilling al %%holm !Isms ?
Oh ! says oho Lesrmadrmisaml, Iblinfurns Mt. 'Nur, and
shall tell lam bow grossly and crienivally I Egli eve-
ned him with it. Hut is it attoe, however ?