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MR. HUNT'S TRIAL.

We received last night, BY EXPRESS, from
York. a report of the proceedings on the Trial
of Nlr. HUNT ■nd others, on Thor:Any, in that
city. This is the first legal inquiry into the
merits of the Manchester business, which has ex.-
cited so much public ipterest. The trial will
probably occupy 164.1111. days. Our report of the
busistro on Thursday is given in our preceding
• columns.

Paris Papers of Tuesday last have arrived at our
office. The Itloniieur of that day contains an Or-
dinance addreeved by the King of SPAIN to the
Duke de SAN FEN/UNDO, Otte of the Extreorthisary
Council of State, which, under the present circum-
stances of Spain, may be regarded as the Manifesto
of that ',Monarch, explaining the motives of his past
conduct, and the objects of his future government.
In this Manifesto FERDINAND, like every other
King since the days of Doti l'Et.4oo, sistires his
!using cousin that his *hide heart and mind hsve
never entertained a thought which lie dill not cols-
scientiouely believe was calculated to promote the
lispinitess of his people ; that to this end the ener-
gies of his grovermutist have beets uniformly de-
voted, and that to secure it is still the ot4 object
of his solicitude. Ili* first care was to tesestalaltsh
order iu the several branches of the ad tra%iou,
and to heal the wounds of the late war ; hut how
well this patriot Monarch less succeeded let hint-
self declare. Disorder, lie acicisowledges, stilt flue-
miles iii every departuseut of the State; the flounces
are is tonfusiou; justice is delayed; coinntermr,
dustry, and agriculture, " the three soutree," us
he rightly admits, " of public wealll46.' !Ms., de-
clined ; and the people, with dinsisdalsed power to
encounter the burdens of the bier, are !I °Veil Well
with, taxes." During five years thst Spain hay had
the misfortune of feeling the weight of his sceptre,
his anxious cares have been most unprofitably-Fee
erted ; no abuse has beets remedied, no evil averted.
The Colonies hare been rdpidly improving their
strength, wail they have at length aysismed • port
• and vigour that bid defiance to •the collected power
of the mother country ; the finenees-insve rapidly
deteriorated ; "-the sources of public wealth" have
been dissipated, and their reproductive energieis
discouraged; the splendour of the Crown has
been tarnished by a violated promise ; and, to
complete the picture, a betrayed and indignant
people have at length obeyed the diebstes of nature
and of patriotism, and impatiently demand the re-
generation of their conntry. 'flue cominencemeut
Of the revolution in Spain resew 4 the very singular
spectacle of a Ding, iu his publie Manifesto, justify-
ing the tardy oliituintiun of bleasuisjeetv. The Cesii-
rtitutionalista require no excuse beyestel that which
is here given. If ever a revolution in the frame of
government were necessary, the KINd shews that
it was required in Spain,
.and uever, we believe,
with the exception of the resolution is this country
• of ifititl, were moderatiow mid temper displayed in
a manner swore exemplary upon 'an occasion of such
appalling magnitude, than have !khaki appeared
iu the conduct of those who Wave iu Spent uuder-

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taken the great task at *for tui g the ?nor; iu i e
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State.

It might be supposed Ayr s c r appare,•l •
ly su humiliating as 110 KING ha. sii.ll.• in hi. NI
nifesto—arter so forcil):y k.iihrying hi. tootjetin!
that his system of government Ist. nut {peen
!coded with tie good runs:ego. tics, that 'night thUr
instill %Visited,' iscri 111.1 t 6.• was petlecily roir:.•••
of 11,e fallrti coadirirov M trii• iwnir;e—it mi... •
in such a cote lre that
Lss leers he would, hate • rtil +to uncoil,.-
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tionel (ntillatent of the promise made no WI & 141
11111 people, when 010 it titisslnton: dreetietas 4•4••••
interests, and their usirtsittror walosir.• Garet-eelsa
in ripeiiing the doors of his piston). Hut mil • 4,141
of the constituting' does his Illisoifesto contain.. lit
takes up cosicetsions, but slat tasty 'clarinet.. has
wiedom can deviNe to revstore two* to ',e'er
aitsd confidence, is the km.ittimhetiere of • Dietate-
fist Junta, divided into seven sectiutia, which air iu
assist the Ministers otcaoionally with their adtite,
and to receive plans end smageeti .... 1r for oorrecitog
Anises sod senors, not only fewm-all the Tribe nil..
Universities, and Corporations,letil even from e'Ver y
iudividoollu the -country. Stich a sclieni-, it is
.evitlent, hill sleeve satisfy Colivtitutious!i.i..
Time Kama will, for+oolh. t e 'plans anti pit..
posids—.wili boleti to suggestions avid advice—but
who wdl ladoce him in fus"egields arbitrary pore',
tti consult the wants ur wishes of the people; or fa
adopt such scliesces as nosy aloft coutribute to the
general welfare ? Nor is it the mere cemation
tyranny that gives spirit eisal'energy to the •poninit•
of isidastry : it. is the colticiivirvcrts of being 'se-
cured in the !enjoyment of liheity and proprity
against the occasional caprice of thus, iu
that diffuses cotilidatoste and imitates activity.—
The Estrasietfiiitiiii Cootied would' hot ill topply
the place of a !fee 1441f46, clinise.n by the pruplo•••
and led by a ftellll4.of C 01110149 interest to
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mote die giweral welfare. The Council can ova ly
anggest and recommend ; and eeititing, as it souse
do, at the piersone of 'she Kis°. would the mere-
berg presu?te to ofTer advice which they might know
wastlaspleeritig to their Stavereigu ? The Pstliaments
of Fratice, roperielly that of Palis, were, in point of
authority. far, sopetiorto Oast:owned; and yet ever.
thrjr ;privileges could nut arches dietiertons of the
isteishers fions,injurfetsd insult whenever they vete.
lured to questton acts of royalty. Tile up-
lionitinent of such a Coisacil es • means of isn't:-
ing the voice of the people, is nothing short of s.
absprdity, but there is something ludicroa. isi t 1 .•
scheme of receiving general iostroctious from ail
climes of llutSitite. and in setiontly propounding
it as • monis of toned Mg the errors of Government.

The Frei ch Chiniber of Deputies mos occupied
on Monday in eh:coning the 3d article of the
indi:iidusi hlirriy. The Climber seposaird
without deciding upon it.
The Five per Cents. 7i r. 60 c.— Blink Art .

A Fkliders Alai' anti a patch Alail kiss
*nisei,. with Papery' f 13111P.V14 to the 15-la
instant. The late winleilt Amin+ Inive 410110 ITIsl
damage on the Dutch The isl Awl of Wal-
cheren hair *offered gre.,ily. The cruel and un-
manly practice of wounding females iis the stre.t
oitli a sharp instrument, is thus coticed in three
Papers Papers :

AtT:•l3 MARCH 4.

Our police has arrested severtl !tycoons, bulb in 11w bler•
and in tbeir busses, who are nape eted of hsviug attsrkedsn.i
wouadcd women in tlw street•, uoiwitlixtabdiag the prsula-
marina aal the prtesulions Iskeu, the plguer►a conlinit.4l
these eeatdaloua protruding' for three soceessive
but fur some days pax* tin Innen Its been attarkrit.
Hirsh) 11l re are very drecit'lli opinions respecting th► a:L-
ibor% of these excesses, but there are said to he very strong
presumptions against one of the persona arrested.

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MIDDLESEX ELECTION.

(Cowhate fro% our ftrat pew )

liaraeut, I can feel undoing but satisfaction and
coutialeuee.—/applause.)—As a private man, no-
thiog can be more gratifying to me than to pay •
tribute of respect to the merits of Mr. Whitbread ;
lola public man, nothing can give slie greater sane-
faction than to invoke the nausea his father, • name
consecrated to the liberties •of his cot/softy.—
(opptaisse.l-11essas a man who constantly labour.
rd to proni.te the freedom and provenly of Elig%.
load—every measure that could injure you he
opposed with ability asao with zeal ; and if he did
not alvra)s overcome ext,ruption, at least he always
detected uud expisied. it.—/E:reet applausel—
(.entlemen, of all the privilege, of Englishmen,
none is of unite importance than the right of ret urn-
ing Members in Parliament ; and I am happy to
say, that oq tint occesum you have • fortunate op-
portunity of eggicisilig that right. Gentlemen, it
is usual, before the dissolution of . Parliament, to
have what is cal!eil • preparatory Session—a Session
during which nothing that (amours of Government
h.fluence is proposed by County - Members—the
Borough Members, at each -a period, do the busi-
tame of Ministers, and County Members in support
of Government atealways hippy to keep out of the
wry.—(4 Li laugh.) . this occasion no prep.-
laugh.)
ratery Sri.) has en place, and you find the
" House of Col in the fact of forging chains
for their eountryosen.—f Great uppluase.)—Gen-
timers, 1 hope 1 shall not take up too much of
your time. If I go over some of the measures of
the last %bolt Parliansent.—(Cries el " foms.")—
One of iii. 'first measures of that Parliament was
a grant of 10,(00f. a year to the Duke of York.—
/ Applatio.)--4t may be said. Gentlemen, that
10,0001. is a small 'urn out of the revenue of a
great country ; it is too much to take out of the
revenue of a country groaning under the weight of
excessive taxation. and whether great or small, this
grant of 10,0001. gave a sufficient specimen of the
disposition of the Parliament—(Grem upplause)—
sA &accordingly, Gentlemen. we And that every
stieasure tending to restrain the unnecessary repro.
it it nre of the Government met with the most decid.
ed opposition of the House of Commonc—lifp-
phicre.)—Gesttlemen. one of the next measures
nrought before the House was, au inquiry into the
olfairs of the Bank. You know, Gentlemen. that
riaring the war the country had depreciated am.
hey ; is species of false prosperity was created—false
.. ith respect to the people—real only as it regarded
the Barsk.—(ripplowse.)—Gentletnen, it was found
Lecessary, after a five years' peace, to bring beck
the currency of the country to the old standard.
'the attempt to bring about that desirable object
bus been marked, as you all know. by the meat
afflicting and unexampled distress—and what did
the Ministers do? At that very moment the Ms-
'niters proposed to load the country with three mil.
lions of new taxes—(Lord raiirmars)—which I be.
lave in my conscience were most unnecessary, as
they most have been must oppressive.—(Applaese.)
They did ['titbit% but aggravate the distress of the
people, to whose interests Ilse House of Commons
were humid to attend.— ( Applustse.)—Gentleineui,
in the course of the last summer a most melancholy
Find disgraceful transaction occurred ,
.• a mixed
crowd, composed to a great extent of idle specta-
tors, who might hove been easily dispersed by legal
• proclamiltiou, was dispersed by military farce, with
-, - • the loss of the lives of many, and with a great num-
.• - ' her wouroled, _on the part of the people. Gentle-
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itren, into that melancholy transaction the PAM-
: knerit refused to inquire—(Continued murmurs.)—
. *Tut what did they do?—how did they answer the
• call of the country ? They enacted laws contrary
to she ancient principles of the constitution—laws
which materially affect the eight of petition, and
- tend to restrain Ilse freedom of the Imes. They took
ad VIII li age of disorders which occurred in some of the
miiiinfactnring districts. to propagate calumnies
against 11. e whole of the people of England. Gentle-
men, it Lisa been said by Mr. Canning in one of his
*perches at Liverpool. that those laws were sin ca-
lumny against the people—that the law against
inurder--stay the Commandments themselves,
might as well be taken as calumnies against the
people. Gentlemen, the Ten Commandment.,
slur the law against murder. do nut confound the
guilty with the innocent. Gentlemen, of that ar-
gument you must we the falsity. What were
those Iv*s intended to prevent ?—agaiust what
horrid crimes were they directed ? they were direct-
ed ageism. the meetings of the people out of their
own parishes, arid against the sale of weekly
pamphlets under the price of sixpence. What I
Gentlemen, do we live in time, when a Minister of
the Crown confounds the ancient right of the
people to petition for redress of grievances and
the existence of • free press with the c) . a
of murder and burglary ?—(Loud uppluase.)—
This, Gentlemen, is not your sentiment.—(Cries
of “ Au, no.")—You will not yield to the ergs'.
meats of Mr. Canning ; the crime he denounce* is
the exercise of one of the most valuable rights of
the people—those rights which were asserted at the
Revulutiosi. Gentlemen. the rights of English-
men erre not created at the Reeplution ; they were
only revived ; they rose with the fall of that tyranny
which depressed, but could stet destroy them—
they were revived to ttruind the successors of
William of the true nature of the kingly office,
pr.,d to remind them too that the Stuarts were
driven from the throne of Evglarol whim they at.
templed to subvert the larrrtirr of Englishmen.—
Gentlersieu, every effort has been lately made to
alarm the public mind. Ministers very lately, in
the Speech from the Throne, attempted to create
alarm •through the country. It has been said that
the late conspiracy ahrwed the wisdom of die mea-
sures to which Parliament resorted—one would be
inclined to suppose from this, that the laws which
they enacted were intended to put down conspiracy
and assassination. %Vas that the object of the laws ?
--no such thisr--tlwy were directed spiest public
loser i i ogs—(Lood applimsef—they were directed
against the freedom of the press--mpplauso—
tile, have beet) directed against rights which, est a
free country, hove been ever exercised with advan-
tage to the people, and with safety to the Govern-
ment. -bit not, therefore, abstryd to say that laws
intended to prevent one thing have been proved to
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be right. sad used merely because something else of
a very diffentut nature has occurred ?—(Appluose.)

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Allow me now,' Gentlemen, to tell yaw the state
of the emmory, io ceoneequesice of those measures.
nod the wally other acts of misgovernment. Gen-
tlemen. nut only the rights of the people hove been
mooch abridged, bin the manufacturing and ago.
cultural interest. have suffered in a material de-
gree.—(apptiorse ).:-Gesitlenseas, if you want to see
the inoperable • fleaas of a system of misgovernment,
look to the state of Ireland. Gentlemen. I lately
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WI account of the disturbances in an Irish
newspaper. wheel) concludes thus The troops
are Dow quartered Di every village. and by this .
memos peace, order, and confidence. have beets
restored:— (Cries 1,/* ' Shame .I)—Peace. by mean.
of soldiers armed against their countrymen !—order,
by means of military discipline t—rod confidence
to he inspired by :terror !—(upplaase.) —Gentle.
men, if you wish to re-establish cosilidesice, law,
and eider. you must remove the blight which
hangs over the fair face of your country—(appierise)
—you must exert with independence the elective
franchitie—(apploesse)—you must return such men
as Samuel Charles W Isitbreed, (Great applawse.)—
Gentlemen, I need not remind you of the eminent
services of his father; they must be present to all
your minds; they are engraved on the memory of
his country and of the world. He was the person
who exposed the delinquency of a great Minister of
State, the colleague of Mr. Pitt—he was the person
who was always reedy to bring the complaints of the
people before the tribunal of Ins country.—(ap-
plause.)--Gentlemen, the chief use of the House of
Commons is this—that as long as one independent
Member can be found there. every Englislitnan
may have hi. case breiught before Parliament. and
may obtain a fair hearing.—(appluese.)—Gentle-
oleo, no man ever possessed the confidence of his
country in a higher degree thau the late Mr. Whit.
bread ; he was the sentinel of the constiteffion—(op-
plague, wed cries of •• He was iordeed")--he exerted
Isis best abilities in the public service ; he detect-
ed and exposed to the people the inroads that were
mule on their rights.—(dippluese.)—When a wrong
was done. no matter how high the person who iu-
flicted it, or how low the sufferer. Mr. Whitbread
was always found ready to plead the cause of the
oppressed before the House of Cosiinsons...-(4p-
pleass.)—Gentlemen, 1 am sure Ins son is anxiow:
to follow in the amine course. Gentlemen, I will
not attempt to say numb about his cause in the way
of panegyric ; I will only way. that his cause is the
cause of the people.--(.4pplorne.)—lf you re-
turn him to Parliament, the credit of every thing
he may do to serve his country from the very begin-
ning of his political life will be entirely yours.—
(epplanse.)—Gentleasen, est. to his political opi-
nions, I will leave them to be explained by hint-
self.—(opplanse.)—l shall only say, that whatever
he says he will maintain.—(applause.)-1f Samuel
Whitbread shall be found *meting in sincerity. in
constancy, in honour, in public virtue—then I will
say that he is the greatest cheat that ever imposed
upon mankind."—(Greet applause.)
Mr. Alderman Worm regretted that tfie second.
ing of the Noble Lord's nomination had not fallen
into abler hands ; in fact, lie had no intimation.
that such • duty would fall to I • before he en-
tered the hosting*. lie was relieved. however,
from a great part of the responsibility by the ex-
cellent speech of the Noble Lord. which was so
perfectly suited to the overstate. that he was likely
to injure the effect of it if lie should attempt to
follow the Noble Lord in his obsenrat• . The
candidate now recommended to Owen was not much
known among them personally, and it had been
objected to him that lie was too young. But then.
what county WOO so proper for him to represent as
that, the inhabitants of which were on the spot..
nod could watch his progress in public life at every
step. He would begin in solicitisig their suffrages
with the young freeholder. Let law come forward
and give Mr. Whitbread his maiden vote, and he
would most probably live to bless the day in which
lee had given such a vote, Ile (Mr. Wood) lied
been witness to the wen mid via tuous exertions
of the father of the Gentleunin in the House of
Commons. his great efforts ill support of public
schools, his exertions in defending injured into.
cence. He had seen him enter the flouve ally
and leave it late. night slier night, he might say.
without the interims of a single evening. He
was one of the first present at the beginning. end
staid among the latest, watching every movement.
and alveoli% the utmost jealousy on every vole of
public money, however small. What more could
be said. what other pledge could they have front
the Candidate, than to know that lie followed the
principles and conduct of his father, and that, like
him, lie was likely to prove the strenuous friend of
civil and religions liberty ? He entreated the free-
holders to come up promptly and poll for him,
without fear or delay.—(Lood applause.)
Mr. BeNG then came forward. and was received
with loud cheers. lie said that it consisted with
the principles which he had always pursued, and
Isis love for the people, which he hail always felt,
that he experienced the utmost saii-factiou in up.
Peariug before them. which he did with that con-
' lideitce that an honest servant had a right to feel in
having faithfully &whinged his duty. Though he
bad not 'rived then. with as much ability as he
could wish to possess, he had exercised his utmost
zeal and lidelt9, In consequence of the steady
course ofliireseliticul career, he had met with the
kiudest reception we his canvass every where; he
wished there bad been time enough to have allowed
i him to visit each of them. The friends of freedom
had first brought him forward, in hopes that lie
would tread in the steps of u revered father, who
hied never, in the whole course of Ma political life,
betrayed, or in any way ieijured the cause of public
freedom. Supposing him to be attached to the
principles which had thus distinguished In* father.
lie was chosen no successor to the honourable and
confidential station which-had been previously fill.
ed by his parent. He had always berg convinced
that the rights of the people were else best teecurity
fur the throne, and that while the people were
wisely and equitably governed. whatever sacrifices
I it might cost them to support the honour and peace
of the country, they would rema,ii heapi,i, loyal.
and contented. Such were lue pricciples. stn whico,
if lie ever could turn his back, lie should expect
them to treat him with as touch scorn and abhor-
rence as he now experienced of kindness mid coo-
tidence.—( Loud applause.)
Mr. MiLLlali c..ose forward amidst much dis-
order. He promised to epnik but a very words.
if they would give him a patient heatitig.—(7'e

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