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Sidisouth, sod wariest from Wakefield,. Arlene
:there was a secure House of Correction, 'to the
astle at Catribridge, where he -Wnsiletaine'd until
list Inman-, and then discharged without trial,
`with as little reason assigned for his Marini's!' as
there lied been originally for his imprisonment. *le
complained that during his imprisimmenfhis busis
tress became rotted, his lionise- broken 'up, and
hie health.materially rojnred. tie (Mr. Broughams)
held itchis hand • certificate to the hat fact from
member of the Royal College of Physicians in
Landon,land'attributing the Petitioner's indispnsi-
tion to his confinement. Thus injured in health,
and ruined hi cirrnmstances, he was thrown again
upon the world. The only reason the *Petitioner
could assign fors the treatment be Jnaa experienced
was, dust he lied beep acquainted with two persons,
named Oliver ail Bradley—(Hear)-i-who were
concerned in coisteuiag meetings to be held at hi,
house, iss Wakefield. 'tie first knew Oliver, who
had been introduced to him as a delegate sent down
by the Society in Loodon,lssid repreoented as under
the netroitii‘se of Sir F. Biteshltt and Lord Cochrane.
in the course of this proceedingpliver manifested
the greatest atixiety to get the 'Petitioner to take
such active and prominent steps as he should re-
'etionstentl—he said it wet in vain soy longer to pe-
thin% end that they must resort to physical force
tb obtain redress. The Petitioner's rely to this
reronuntinlation was a refusal of the proposition, and
A threat of denouncing Oliver and his project to a
beirtbotaing Margistrate. Henceraine the Petition.
Ws ailed, fur no sooner had he inti meted his intention
of bringing a (glare against Oliver, than the latter,
Anitliup himself in jeopardy, determined on 'remov-
ing the person whom he feared—he accordingly,
Vithont tlielcomledge or consent of the Petitioner,
'wrote circulars • to different persons, calling a meet-
ing it •Scholes's house. This meeting was not,
however, held, halite Petitioner refused In allow it,
or have any'thieig to do in the matter. This state-
angst of the 'Petitioner:was confirmed by informa-
tion which hisiton. Frieed (Mr. Bennett) had col-
lected on a recent occasion, for by that it appear-
ed Oliver hod beeaeomptaining to a number of
persons of Scholes being entirely too lukewarm
in the cause, and his refuel to have the meet-
nn g at his house.—(Hale, Aetrr, Alan)—'fbe
• PlMtioner distinctly denied that he had ever
sow present at more than mie meeting, and that
141 fora Petition in favour -of Reform, which had
Iliftwerienis Lem presented to the House. The re-
soli of every inquiry relative to the character of
the Petitioner was most favourable. He had been
'for three years a deputy constable over a large and
populous divtrict in the neighbourhood of Wake-
field. Luddism had, daring this time. either mild*
its appearance in, or bed approached mar. that
part of the country; but, by his exertions, had
been effectually suppressed, and peace entirety
- preserved; so that the Watch and Ward Act
was not applied, as it had been in other places.-
- For these services he had received the warm appro.
tuition, nay even the thanks, of the Deputy-Lieu-
tenant of the district; he had been also (which
eta be a recommendation to Gentlemen opposite) a
- of die assessed taxes for the space of three
spume. A Isighlyaespectuble Magistrate and Lawyer.
▪ whirled of the Noble Member for Yorkshire (Lord
1:111111•0). and of his venerable and distinguished fa-
I, thee (Sal Fitawilliam), had inquired hunt the Pe-
' titioner's distracter and statements, and wrote the
following letter on the subject :
" I have token same pains to inquire into his
i case, as I ma at first prepossessed against him."
—(flits, said Mr. Brougham. is really the con-
' sequeute of those oppressive eisactments, which
- mod for months to prison a man on so serious a
charge as that of high treason, and thereby create
a general 'impression unfavourable to his diameter)
—The letter proceeds—" tut I am now thorough-
ly convinced i.e has been most unjustly dealt with.
and that he lied no more to do with treasonable
designs than Mr. Wilberforce—( laigh)--or the
most innocent mint its the kingdom ; and this will
no doubt appear if a full investigation can be had
into his case.'--The name of Ins Hon. Friend (Mr.
Wilberforce) was Isere merely introduced, as being
one syanitiosous with innocence, to represent in a
'hang light the impression of the waiter es to
the innocence of the men. The Petitioner further
prayed, that his ease should be taken into the con-
sideration of this House, and that they would tie
pleased- to afford him such redress as their mercy
and cinemas, might suggest, and that the Secretary
of State:kir the HOOK Department would return
1, certain papers atiklaid memorandum books, which
had been tokeu from his Ismer, which contain-
ed the only vouchers for a debt of fifteen
pounds doe to a poor widow-4A
He did nut look at this part of the case with the
levity that (feminism on the opposite vide did.
These fisperefornied the only evideure and security
• the.poor womais's sale property. This •Petitioner
toads • plain. uncoloured statement ; he did not
coil down vengeance on the molests of his stafiltr-
ings---hut Ise trusted this would be no reason with
the House for withholding their most serious atten-
tions from sac+ strong appeals to their humanity sod
jastices.
The Petition was then brought up, read. ordered
to tie on the table, and be printed.
Lard FOCESTONe moved, that the Petitions of
Messrs. Ward, Bamboo, Evans, and or • number
of other itemise, lamented et various times to the
finale, be entered as read.

'Phi; was accordingly rhome—owthen
Lord FOLKITONK said, that when he had pre-
sensed the Petition of Francis Wand, ois Turossiay
kat, he then stated that he would call the attention
of the .14onse to it welenately ; he now, however,
referred in refer all the Petitions lie had enume-
rated together to nu colintlerattore. %Vireos they
weighed all the facts stated, hot was confident they
would rounder that ionic provisiott for redress was
dose to the grievances of the Petitiosters, lie felt
ma' to introduce tins stayer. at au early period
Of tlw Sessomo, because the Noble Lottl (Castle-
rragio) had sonol a 'till of Indemnity 14113 due as •
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, and that it was not to be fonsuled on
Report of the Secret Cenitnittee. On tine he
I obibref44.4llo Rita House might certainly to
anxious foe the liberty of the people, as well as •
security of Ministers, and before a Bill of
• would be granted, ought to examine if
had inn-boot►d rrrsrilird. To attain this
was the ground of proposing the intend-
. The Habeas Owings Act had hero sus-
. uitttrr ten times within a period of messy
Aria After -all these suspensions, lie wished
Hill& to mark, there hail been hot one Sill of
.ndeinisity, and this at a time when almost the very
same persona composed the Executive Government
as do et preer!it.; so the present Ministers found
the necessity of a Bill of Indemnity on a single
precedent established by themselves. There was
tio 'either example of it to be found on the Statute
Book. filinisters thawed no desire to prevent dis..
affection; in the exercise of the powers iiitrwted
to them. they bad far exceeded their legal extent,
The very fact of asking indemnity was au admis-
sion of having broken the law—it was very ultra-
ordinary to come to ask such a thing. The sus.
pension conferred no new powers of commitment,
or release from imprisonment. The only new
power it bestowed was thdt elf detaining,
yond the bounds initublished by law to ordi-
nary cases, of preventing persons confined from re-
sorting to their -right of trial withiu the periods
axed; no authority flowed from it for apprehend-
ing or releasing by new sorts of worried., ; there
Were regular stated forms, according to which peo-
ple were to be apprehended and imprisoned. Au
inferior officer was not in my to a man, I have an
order agaii.st you from the Secretary of State--you
must be thrown into gaol—you mutt stay there us
long is the Habeas Corpus Act continues suspend-
ed." But in the apprehension of the'Petiti n nn ere. lint
one of the usual'fortnt had been observed. He would
net dispute the authority of the Secretary of State
to issue a warraut, though undobbtedly it was ass
anomaly, an usurpation ; and it was only in the
time of William 111, it had been confirmed. On
the question being then argued, one of the Judges
Bald, in opposition to the authority of Sir B. Shower,
that a Secretary of State had power to ash • •ster
oaths, as well us to commit. It would have been
more reasonable in him to say, that he had 'not the
power to commit, any more than, to udiniiii-
stereo oath. Lord Camden, in deciding in favour
of the power of commitment, founded his opi-
nion principally on the case referred to, declaring
'that if it did not exist, he should be inclined to
pronounce against the power. It was a power new
to the common law, and if it was to be eontinued,
it would be advisable to add to it that of admini-
stering en oath, and to take away the anomaly.
But allowing the Secretary of State's power to
commit, it most be by stated form—there was no
peculiar privilege, uo exception from general rule
in his case; neither could it be supposed, that these
'forms were unnecessary in cases of treason. The
limn was directed by *smote ; the Magistrate was to
takedown the deposition. on oath, of the accuser;
this was to be transmitted to the proper autho-
rities, so as to be produced in Court en the trial.
It was tint reasonable that this should he required
in cases of felony and misdemeanor, and not in
high treason. The plain construction of the eta-
lute is, that the same rule should be followed in
treason es in lighter offences. But near of theft
forms had been observed in the case of the peti-
tioner Ward. The proceedings against him com-
menced with the Magistrates of Nottingham, and
when he was detained under the warrant of the
Secretary of State,, he could not obtain e copy
of it. and he was never brought to trial.—
The House had been told of exaggerations in the
statements of the Petitioners: it was possible men
who hail suffered such severe treatment as they had,
might let their feelings rise beyond the strict letter
of truth. He happened to see the orders sent from
the Secretary of Stoles Office to the gaoler. who
lied the custody of persons imprisoned under the
suspension, and it was certainly ordered that irons
should not be pit on, except in cases of necessity ;
but then the Nuhle Viscount had done all he could
to prevent those who ought to look to their treat-
ment from visiting them, so that he was responsible
for any unjust treatment the Prisoners had received.
Exaggerations were to be expected ; but there was
one grievance stated that was not an exaggeration—
that of solitary confinement—a calamity. in the
opinion of many who hail studied the subject, not
- lighter than death itself. He occasionally looked
over the Journals. and would read from them an
extract, t 3 drew the sense the House had formerly
entertained of this. The case was that of Lord
Ciuitlemaine, who, in 1089, was colifitied in the
' Tower, on a charge of high treason, out a warrant
from the Secretary of State. After his examina-
tion, and being remanded, he solicited perints-
sinus to he brought again to the bow, and there
stated that he had been shut up alone, and de-
sired to have the liberty of the Tower. On hit
withdrawing, a Bill was directed to be framed to
'einem solitary imprisonment. and to retirees the
abuses of iniolerse and, at the same time, the
Attorney-General was ordered to prosecute the
Officer of the Tower for his improper conduct.—
Thet case was similar to the present one, amid if
that did, so did this call for the consideration of the
House.—(Hear,lsear.)—The proceeding in its he-
ginning and end was contrary to express statute,
and to the spirit of the law. Men were committed
without charge, and released without trial—the
release wee as illegal as the commitment ; lie would
like to risk the Attorney-General, by what au-
thority men imprisoned on a legal charge could
be discharged except after acquittal. or trial,
or panful' The mode of discharge was on their
own recognizance,. Supposing these men had
been committed on bone Ode charges of treason,
such a discharge was clearly illegal—it was con-
trary to all the statutes en the atibject, from the
Sil'Ed. I. to the statute or• Philip and Mary. All
these in spirit refused persons charged with trea-
son from going out on bail. How much less then
• should three people, being committed under the
. last statute, lie liberated even witiiion bail But
even if the offence was bailable, it discharge by one
Magistrate is illegal. two are required for this pur-
ware by the statute. If some redress was not provided,
whet would happen to people in remote parts of
the country? Westmoreland, for niobium, a
' man might ne kept in prison 12 or 13 months, and
then tensed out und told he should silty no longer
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the authors of his wrongs, lie issivdtVgaisi nailing,
and obliged to pay colds. h might seem extra-
ordinary that he should complain of the relief of-
forded to these people—it was the `work or the
relief lie objected to, it was injurious to all the pro-
late of Englasul, mud lie hasped the House would nest
tom over such mouton sporting with the bursa the
land. An I lon. Gentleman had stated is few Hight,
ago, thet roll the severities hail been pot in practice
against poor people, and not atonal.' people.of for.;
tusie. Supposing such were implicated, the rea-
son was, Ministers wanted victims ; they chose poor
people, as bring ignorant of the lows, and glad to
• obtain 'doily on any terms ; they knew that ref-
orms who understthal the law, would oat submit to
be tented oat in dent Manlier. He had beets told
of the bad diameter of Ward, and thet all his ell le-
options should he discredited. He desired to know
on what ground he had been charged—had he ever
been convicted ? The old mount), best en no-
convicted man should be held innocent, seemed
to be discarded from one side of that House. As
this Petitioner was a trident at Nottingham, the
very focus of discontent, and not taken up till after
the disturbances hod broken out, he lied the se-
thority of flovernment to say he was not a deo-
gerotta men—this they most admit, or confess lie
hod beets left at large for the purpose of fomenting
discontent.—(llear.;-;-Itivestigation was not a mut-
ter or favour. lost of justice. He had presented
a testimonial of character with the Petition, signed
by some residents of Nottingham. He was strong-
ly of °pieties tbitt *the House might to institute an
inquiry, not so much from the nature of one in-
divides' case, es the general mode resorted to of
appretiestditig and releasing.
The Noble Lord then moved, " That a Select
Committee be appointed, to examine the truth ol
the allegations in the several Petitious read, and to
report thereou to the House."
Lord CASTLEREAGH observed, that the. Noble
Loral had widely deviated from the tenor of has
notice; he did distinctly understand that lie had
given notice of the appointment of u Committee Nl-
intepoigate Ward's separate case ; but though the
Noble Lord hurl pursued misrli a devious course, he
would not, but confine Isis remarks to the cousi-
rleration of Ward's case only. The Noble Lord
had not been very accurate in his researches, when
he stated that there was hut one instance of u Bill
of Indemnity since the Revolution--tau the t•mitrary,
the Noble Lord could not sheer one case of suspen-
sion unattended by such a measure. One iudem-
nity, certainly, that of 1801, had teen of o peculiar
nature—it hail • retrospect to• till the supensions
since the year 1793. In Ist William Hl. there had
been one; its 1715, another; iu 1745, a third : fan
in short, followed in all cases where
impending dangers 'hail rendered a saispeasion
necessary. AVith respect to the charge of mammal
commitment, he denied that buy one individuall
had been committed without outing apparent
grounds of suspicion, sustained by the oath* of
credible witnesses, quite different from the person
principally alluded to in the House—he meant Oli-
ver—and without the advice of the Lao Officers of
the Crown. The measure of suspetwien lied been
founded ON the °pinkie of large majorities of that
House, and the Report's of tso Committees, in
which Committees there was not a single dissentient
voice ma the main fact of their Reports, the exist-
ence of an organised conspiracy, working on the
discometst produced by disireos, to of the over-
throw of all 0411' ioatitinions ami eatubliolionetits. All
the subsrasitial forms its tomtit 'mut were observed.
The Noble Lord emote. say that the eviffstice ill
these cases ought to be p;ossed as it is in ordinary
cases. Ism outlawry case,, the Judge ought to call
(woo the Magistrate to give up the eviblence oil
which he issued the warrant ; hut if. after the
extraordinary powers catiferred on fileasistere by a
Suspension, the Secretary of State wet hi be lifter.
wards called upon to give lip all that evidence
on which he acted, in shut a situat• would
all those be who bad given it, and given it 1011
the terms that it should never be mode perish z• ?
The indemnity is not • Bill to cover Minister., taut
those loyal people all through the commie, who !rad
placed it reliance on the good faith of Ministers a—
With respect to the hardships suffered in prison,.
there was melting to preclude any itolivialtiol s.:on-
ceiving himself aggrieved from bringing his ac :Wu
and gaining redress ; iu this view the motiou Was
totally eitmecesaary—the Courts of Law were qsaile
open. He believed these Petitions had beets brought
tip as mutter of inflammation, mid to put tlie
House into the situation of negativing an inquiry
into them. and refusing that consideration to them
which belonged to another part of our 'yawn,. A
Committee of that House was peculiarly unfit ted for
furnishing redress to the alleged grievailtes—it
could only advise trdress, if it saw redress doe in
another place. There sweet was a snore flegrant
instance of misrepresentation thus Ward's Petition
in every part. The second article of his complaint
was. that he was confined with felons, but at was to
be considered he was these looked on as a felon
himself, having been apprehended on that charge.
The Noble Lord then read eta affidavit of Intilip
Bailey, gaoler of Nottingham, :he substance of
which was, that Ward was taken up on a charge
of felony—that he had a condos-bible heal allow-
ed him—that the floor of his cell was of stone,
but quite dry—that his cell was the heat of those
allotted to felons—that any had smell proceeded
from fumigation—that lie had never made airy
complaint himself of his cell, or the state of his
health—and that fin irons had been put on him.
His Lordship theta *toted. that after three or four
days confinement itt Nottingham, he had been re-
noised to Oxford gaol—from the Resler of which
place he hail another affidavit, contradicting in us
stroug a manner Ward's allegations. Ward himself
had written to Lord Sathisouth, desiring dianges in his
situation—they were alwaywisuitle--sod lie had lastly
written a letter of thanks to that Nobleman for his
humane attentions. Lord Sidenouth found, midi.
dentolly, its a letter of his to his wife, passiuF through
the Secretary of State's office. a complaint of not
being able to ettemi divider service. He immediately
wrote to Mr. Hobliosise, the gaoler, on the subject.
His reply was, that he had never spoken to I
about it, that he would permit the state prisoners to
sit iis Isis own pew, and that they might attend pub-
lic worship on Wednesday coil Priday mo 11l l tgs, and
on Sundays, morning and eveniug. The King'soffi-
• cars, and among them Lavender, examined the Mate
of the prisoners at Oxford—there was sio complaint,
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' there sometimes smoked from a linrtienbir direction
of the wind ; any alteration he tissus Ott Wiper ltsos
offered in the chi ,,tire ; t, to tnittaß eitinitson-
ment, lie complained of it, 1411(1 wt.% titt.ll Itllo.eed to
mix with the other state pri,ftliets, am! to Like exer-
cise in the yard. He left the island Its health.
The prison was exceediustly clowned in °September,
and he was thee' reu►oveJ to iiiriilher
Ht should mow advert se little to the individual vice-
; reeler of Mr. W01,41-444.001:4,•14.“ lee tweet alma+,
said animated to him to be aufficient to .hew
• spirit in which those charges Wri.• lack,r,-(1,
the manner in which the tune of the
trifled wish, doe after day, in II teneliog is) 'Min.—
( Ilear, how. from site t/vpueition.)-1 le would eteiet
state to.the House the itsformstion Government histol
received aleanat Mord mud other persons, Dial ta
consequence of which they were rerresteel, bee miser
he could not bring it forward e; te hoot fatting ak
that altered trust which they loved to those sou,
Udder the ittfluence of comminution awl ..1.04.t,
had communicated it. Tbe•wish of those pencils was,
to avert the evil, but rot to prosecute, and,. there-
fore, it was meat that the it names shoo Id be disclosed.
Hut lee would thew, by other docomeists, tiwet
Ward's description of himself in this Petition was
very little coiner:ant with the fact—that it was 111.
deed entirely at variance with the statement of those
who knew htieu, and had muted with le. . Ile de-
scribed himself as is Most Mogul send ttlignots pet-.
." It is," said lies "considered tiler using that
1 did not resist the' constables. But the .goon who
pursues Ilse doctrine; of ,lesies elitist, mud endea-
vours to do unto others a. he would qlstet
should (la unto hire, would not 'r•-rest stash aercit
Mewls. I leave always fotheweil that sunsets, anti,
• therefore,was Hot afraid quietly to /ace lialf-s-
-deeztie of ...Nue,. But let. inutgann eta. figs:-e
the unhappy titillation of a 'IIIIIW, tell., Iv7.N.Vver
'NO • ly ragagrol for the sorption Id Is !iuuiip«
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Hml whit, vonstanitv worked 11. h 4, lii
hours a them, draggall to a ptiestii. A but whet,
added to this, poroeterel ;ill the titter le rcaito that
adorn hempen itature—(ll hag --fet-1111, r 4 that IA
been stretched on the rack, when torn anew
fr all that was near sued dear tee him. l'he recol-
lection of those individuals, which ouce wv 0,5.0 south-
ing to his td, became, neither these tire t:oistAnet.,
st iodate! to Piing. Was it jet.:t to lc htisli set t 1
u mat), who had never, in Isis life, done any thing
that deserves! re 'orison ?' Flom reedit, 1 this, ITSI',
would be led to/mullion:it that 1l r. ‘Varel
VirlUutka Mum LINO, to place ate masse riu its true
huh!. he would read the confessions jo,ppm,
Mete! ell and Teetnis,Somoge, alt., were I otivietttt
and executed at Leicester and Nottin /Imo', !II
1 8 16. Those persons were connected with dist
plan, its which astonsioution wits stinted site a re-
gular system of plunder mish devastation, when the
operation at the law was supeiseded by I he autho-
rity of the Luddites. The two perton, tt e olitnis ha
referred, on the eve of their execution, r t tile those
confessions, the only atonemeut they caul, d offer for
their crimes, to the Alogistrates, awl they' • .sere im-
mediately transmitted to Goveriement. The first
was the confession of Joseph Alitchell, who was
executed at Leicester for the Omani'," outrage
committed at Lough,* o gli, where a Wat
burned, awl several la-rNima were mottle id. He
would not meotion any of the nausea of pis-
tire concerned, except that of Ward, IF r
fest reasons. Mitchell said. in huts Cut Orestommi,
that, " At the destruction of the multi [try at
Loughborough, he was in the top shop, with a
gun mu his hated. He committed nil viede ice—he
Duly threatened. C. B. tiest told hien of ti p pint.
ms Tussle/ay. Os Weriavadwy PrUtIC4S
Word spoke to mid wanted him to go, us there
would be a great deal of money. Mr. Httittlicette
was to he shunt or his machinery destr.
(Cries rf Hear, hear.)—F. Want observed, the
Loughborough oxen would give lOa for having the.
business effected—lost, set present, their loom It wt.e•
awl they could not muster metre than 40/._
but he did out doubt, ley exerting himself, that he
could procure snore. Ile also said that men won't!
be weeded in the manufactory. awl some of the
Lads might get in. On the day of the Lo aglthr -
rough business, NtArtil of them met set the instiga-
tion Inn, in Nottingham. Itepoirent there reeti‘-
ed Ins. from C. 13. who told hien lie had got tire
money from Francis Ward. Depotieeit nett to
Loughborough, and received, in the first a tistai.ce,
betweten 3/. void 41.--aftstroartla he got 305..0r
inure. Money was raised ia Nottingham to carryou
these trausuctions. Alany were active in furthering
teens. Ward was peculiarly so. Deponent assisted
it; destroying machinery. iu %Vastly/irk-lane. He re.
criers' motet• for his exertions. He understood it
came from Ward—hut Ire did not get it from him.
He assisted iu destroying frames at New Reclined
_tend attended meetings at several places, on the
, subject of Ineaking frames. Ward plotted the
business that took place at Cootie Desuoingtoet,
While it was pending, they held their *meting,' at
the Duke of York public-house, in Nottiogettien.
%%rind w s a member of the Comnii.ne that met
there. R. Ward ass &misty ; F. Word 14 is
Treasurer. Deponent attended a mertitsg in Chrtet-
met week. H. Waal acted as Secuetary. Their
Met to devise meaus for raising mousy to defray
the law eXpewatal of the approsciling trials. It Will
decided. that it should be given to F. Ward.
would apportion it. R. Ward said. be had pro.
cured II person to shoot out of Wright's wets, who
would nut tarn out. One. was to be .slat us in
example. Deponent was offered 4/. to shoot a
filtlll, but tieclined."—(ntor, hear,
"The House," sold Lord Castlereagh, " may this(:'
that the idea of bargains being mode fur !lie nos
siltation of infinities's§ is quite fabulous : but secte
traniaietions did rerdly take place, as uppeone,
the trials. The parties met and settled the price of
murder as. uncosiceruedly us if they ware
the price of stockings. or any oilier article." fur
Deponent contioned :—" lle did not know the
man, and asked who he was ? M. said, it wht
one of Mr. Kendall's melt. Deponent persuade)!
diem not to do it. &lettings carte ha'penny held
st the Colonel IYardle troth j—la
Nottingham. Francis Ward mice offered Deponent,
when there, 101. If lie would shoot S. weer-instill-
torturer in Nutsitiglism—acrd 4/. more to shoot his
formic. Knight. I)epoteeeit refused. A I'l'4
was laid by Ward to asunder the Judge at the 114
Leicester Assizes. Ile promised IU man IUI.
piece to proceed from Nottingham to Leicester
ilk:a purpose. Deponent refuse" to have any
to do in it, but received IQs. fur his trouble. 11

to the 'attention of the Hons^, front teed dupe Ministers;
skims< sslorkuJiseeu itteasprited dug the Sus- the Report
1 in union Af 'she illt.byes Corpus Ail. 'fie •tewtoted would oboe
that thit•Heise wield do him the forest to attend be noxious
to the imireitint (Alinement of the Petitiotter. fin' the see
His name was Benjamin Schnles, of iViitteSeld, Indemnity
in the county of York, where he had been it the people
virti i
oiller awl ale-house keeper until last July. tnowledge
He then was arrested under a warrant fro% Lord ed motion.
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