The Sun.
London, England, 1831-02-09 00:00:00

CANINE MADNESS.

Mr. Alderman WOOD moved for leave to bring in a
Bill for the more summary prevention of the spreading
of canine madness.
Mr. LAMB did not think this measure could be in-
troduced to the extent to which the Honourable
Alderman seemed to suppose, without great vexation
to those who kept dogs. He thought it would render
the conviction of dog-stealers very difficult. In his
opinion the best remedy that could be suggested was that
Which had been put into execution in the metropolis,
namely, an unsparing reduction of the dogs found in the
streets. While he thought some measure was desirable on
the subject, he wished to guard himself against its being
understood that he sanctioned the present Bill in all its
principles.
Bill ordered to be brought in and printed.
AGED, HELPLESS, ANI) INFIRM OF IRELAND.
Mr. O'BRIEN moved for leave to bring in a Bill for
the protection of the aged, helpless, and infirm poor of
Ireland, but reserved his observations upon the measure
until a future period.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER thought
the difficulty of bringing in such a Bill would be so great,
that it would be hardly possible for the Hon. Mover to
carry the Bill through its diff,:rentstages ; but with this
intimation he had at present no objection to the measure.
Leave granted.
FLOGGING OF SOLDIERS.

Sir FRANCIS BURDETT stated that there were so
many notices at present before the House he knew not
when he should be able to find a vacant day, but that on
no very distant day he should bring in a Bill on the sub-
ject of flogging soldiers.
ADDRESS TO HIS MAJESTY ON EXTENSION
OF THE ROYAL CLEMENCY TO THE CON-
DEMNED RIOTERS.

Mr. HUNT rose to bring forward the important mea-
sure of which he bad given riotieu, and felt se-
verely the difficult task he had undertaken. If gentlemen
pr, sent endowed with every eloquence and talent, bad here-
tofore thought it necessary
to feel it absolutely nece-Aary to
rra y
ch
cmhilaooiurmeseadoinsdimbiritilanbrgeircilnog forward important
There was no Member of
that House who could be unaware of the distressed situation
of the disturbed parts of this country. It was impossible
for any man of feeling to have reflected calmly on the trans-
actions that had been passing, and which he in the course of
his address should give a humble detail of. He stood not
forward to defend any violations of the law that had been
committed throughout the country, but as the honest ad-
unfortunate men who had been led into the
cvhooanclietilexi
esosrlit'oen thosein if:sreiltfnien
aunderiioti, e pr ecul
quarteriar circumstances. tna nrceel
ief, and
toi his Majesty's pardon for certain of those indivi-
duals,Ppkarretieularly the two men who were left for execution
in the city of Salisbury; sad it was incumbent on him to
return, both for himself and on the part of every honest
man and woman throughout the county of Wilts, thanks
for the attention he hail suet with from Lord Melbourne
and the rest of his Majesty's Government; and ffir their
affording hies prompt attention and assistance, by
which the country had been saved from the
s.td spectacle of the execution. He had showed what
he called the good fortune (though some would not view
it as such) of being present at the first riot that took
place in the county of Hants, the circumstances of which
lie would detail in furtherance of his object, to get the
House of Commons to interfere to address his most gra-
cious Majesty fur an extension of his Royal clemency to-
wards a great body of persons, the best labourers in Eng-
lsnd, who were either at this time imprisoned in his
islajesty's gaols, or on board the hulks, for having been
drawn into the commission of certainly a great crime,
but, in his opinion, under circumstances which he should
endeavour to prove to the House entitling them to the
considerate reflection of the House and of his Majesty.
The House would recollect that the first that was heard
of incendiarism was in Normandy, opposite the coast of
Kent. He would not go into any description of the sys-
tem of terrorism and incendiarism which had there been
established. It must be recollected, however, that during
the last Session of Parliament a great many petitions
were presented from the agricultural parts of the popula-
tion, including Kent. Day after day these petitions were
forwarded to the House, complaining of the distress and
misery which they were enduring. The allegations of
those petitions, if not altogether contradicted it, Parlia-
ment, were nearly so. In another House the Noble Lord
then at the head of his Majesty's Government, asserted
that, although there might be distress in some quarter,
there was no such thing as general distress. Instead 01
meeting with commiseration and pity, and promises of re
lief, the petitioners were taught to believe that there was
no chance for them but the continuance of that species of
half starvation which they had long endured, To that

neglect of his Majesty's late Government, he could not
avoid attributing the desperate disposition that soon after
manifested itself in Kent. The labourers there met in tu-
multuous bodies, and began breaking thrashing-machines.
He did not for a single moment contend that in so doing
they bad not been guilty of a breach of the peace and a
violation of the law. But it should be remembered that
they were men driven to despair ; that they were men
who had no hope of relief. What were they to do ? The
first thing that occurred to them was to wreak their yen-
geance on the thrashing-machines, which had deprived
them of so great a part of their labour. That those ma-
chines had deprived the agricultural labourers of r.
great part of their labour he could 'show. Wherever
those machines bad been fully destroyed, there the whole
of the labourers were now employed, and were insuffi-
cient to thrash the corn that ought to be sent to market.
Instead, in such districts, of seeing fifty or sixty men em-
ployed in mending the roads, or working in other ways, at
small wages, they were now all fully occupied, and the
farmers were complaining that they could not get hands
enough to thresh the corn with which to supply the mar-
ket. He stated this to shew that it was on good grounds
that these unfortunate men believed that the threshing-
machines deprived them of that labour which was neces-
sary for their own support and that of their wives and fa-
milies. No sooner had the violences to which he had ad-
verted taken place, than the Magistrates of Kent felt the
necessity of endeavouring to put an end to them. The
question was by what means to effect the object. The
wages of labour were only eight or nine shillings a week
on which the labourer could not live. It was proposed to
raise those wages to ten or twelve shillings. That propo-
sition was made, and where the farmers yielded to the just
demand, no more violence, no more breaking of machines
took place. Where the farmers did not yield, the violence
continued ; and the Magistrates thought it their duty to
take up and bring to justice the violators of the law.
What was the result ? The Hon. Member, the Chairman
of the Quarter Sessions for the county of Kent—and here
lie begged to say that he wished to speak with the respect
which was due to that Hon. Member, and to all other
Hon. Members, hoping and trusting that none would
suppose be was disposed to give them the slightest offence
--(Hear)—the Hon. Chairman of the Quarter Sessions,
when the convicted persons were brought up for sentence,
did that of which he (Mr. Hunt) was not about to com-
plain ; for he should be ashamed of himself, if, when he was
endeavouring to palliate severity, be were to complain of
lan act of mercy; but the Hon. Chairman sentenced the
convicted persons to imprisonment for only a few days.
Now what he (Mr. Hunt) complained of was, either that
the leniency which had been shown in the first instance
had not been continued throughout, or that in the first
instance an example had not been made for the purpose of
preventing others from following in the same steps, by
showing them not only that they were violating a great
moral principle, but that they were committing felonies
which they might be required to atone with their lives.—
(Hear, hear.)—lnstead, however, of making such an
example, this lenient sentence was passed, and to that he
greatly attributed—without, however, imputing any
blame whatever—a great part of what followed. He must
say that he thought it a great mistake to place the admi-
nistration of the law in the hands of a county Member, to
make a political Judge sit to determine any cases. Man
could not be made different from what he was. Human
nature would be human nature. If he himself were a
candidate for the representation of a county, and the
plaintiff in a case were his fkiend, and the defendant an
opponent, however much he might wish to restrain his
feelings, he was persuaded that he could not be entirely un-
biassed. Proofs of such an impossibility had been brought
within his knowledge, for he had much experience on such
subject. To go on. The acts of violence in Kent pro-
ceeded to the utmost limits of terrorism; but the
farmers would not raise the wages of the labourers.
What was the result ? Incendiarism of the worst descrip-
tion ; conflagrations ; secret burnings. lie denied that
foreigners were concerned in the outrages which had af-
flicted the country. He remarked, that if foreigners had,
as was stated, originally brought the people into the scrape,
they must be excessively adroit, as they always contrived to
escape. There was no prosecution—there was no con-
viction recorded against them. They were told that an
incendiary had been taken up with money in his pockets;
but what did that prove, except that an enthusiastic man
had been betrayed into evil courses, and was engaged in
scattering fire-balls about the country. He acknowledged
it was well for Government to endeavour to find out the
men ; but then he contended that it was likewise their
duty to see who were the persons that would be benefitted
by the commission of these; outrages. The fact was,
the agricultural labourers were reduced to a state of desti-
tution and despair, and they were therefore induced to turn
ruffian incendiaries, that they might make the misery of
all men around them equal to their own. But yet the la-
bourers were not the persons truly interested in a thing of
this sort ; for what was the result of a rise in the price of
corn ? Was it beneficial to these poor people ? No : but
there were a set of persons, who, in anticipation of abed
harvest, purchased up large stacks of corn—.purchased even
to double the amount of their capital ; and these were the
persons who would have gained by an advance of prices.
He did not mean to accuse them of being accessary to the
calamities which the country had to bewail ; but this he
must say, that he knew no other class of people who could
be so benefitted, excepting only these men.—( Hear, hear,
and laughter.) Fortunate it was that he, as an old farmer
and observing farmer, could declare that there was a good
crop, and a better crop than could have been anticipated.
Unfortunately, however, the conflagrations were begun in
Kent, and then they went on to Hants, where, in fact,
the first riot took place. He was then engaged in making
the usual journey his business required through this county,
when approaching Overton he was met by a crowd of wo-
men, who told him that he would lose his life if he ven-
tured to go into the town. They told him that there was
a mob of 700 or 800 mem assembled, and that they would
certainly kill him and take his horse and gig, and his
property from him._(Hear, hear, and laughter.) His
reply was, they could not eat him up.—(Laughter,)
No, Sir, rejoined the women, but they will certainly kill
you, and take your horse and gig and property from you.
--(Hear, and laughter.). He, however, went on, and
in the town he found seven or eight hundred persons
collected, all armed with the usual weapons of the pea-
santry--large sticks. Through this throng, with great
difficulty, he made his way to the inn, and leaving his
horse and gig in the yard, he escaped to his bed-room.
He had not been there many minutes when the landlord
came up to him, and told him that seven or eight farmers,l
who fancied they were in danger of being torn to pieces
by the mob, wanted to see him, and wished that he would
assist them in quelling the mob. He at first refused to
see theirs, declaring it was a dangerous task they desired
to impose upon him. Shortly after, however, a message
came from the lebouiers, begging that he would inter-
fere or their behalf; and he confessed it was highly gra-
tifying to him that these poor people, who had known
him as a farmer in the neighbouring, village, should have
been willing, frenn what they had observed of his conduct
towards his own men, to refer the matters they had in
dsspute with their masters to his arbitration. He then
saw the farmers, and they told him that all their men had
struck for higher wages on the previous Saturday ; and
that they had since come into the town, and having
received motley from the inhabitants, were now flue-
vied with liquor, so that they (the farmers) feared
they should be torn in pieces. The men, it appeared,
wanted an increase in their wages—they wanted 12s.
instead of 10s. a week--and the farmers were quite
ready to give it to them ;—they had before agreed
to do so, but then one or two of them did not
keep faith ; they refused to pay their iabenrers at the in-
creased rate, and threatened to bring them before a Ma-
gistrate, and get them punished. Upon this the labourers
rushed into the town inn a body, and collected upwards on
10/. It was by means of this they had got flushed with
liquor, and undoubtedly the farmers were inn great danger.
He asked where were the Magistrates of the neighbourhood?
The answer was, they were all at home. They would not
stir out—they would not even address the men from the
wiedow ; but told the farmers they must do the best they
could for themselves. They were determined to leave the
matter to the farmers and their men. The next question he
asked was " are there any strangers among them ?" The
unanimous reply was "no, not one—we know theen all—
they are all our own men." He then said, let three of the
labourers be sent here. They came, and he asked then,
what they wanted, and they replied, that they only wanted
enough to keep life and soul together; but now, when Sa-
turday came, they had their children crying before their
eyes for want of that meal which they could not give them.
--(Hear, hear. )_.The farmers were 3 illing to accede to

their demand; but from what hail already taken place,
the men could not take their word. They said their em-
ployers had broken their words yesterday. He addressed
this multitude, however, from the window, and after
little time he got it into good humour. He then
obtained a guarantee from the farmers that they would
not again permit any breach of faith with the men. To
the people
of thelaw hine ttlalekn said, "
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from
mhae co
the
imzitbitted a breachnnt.:,fti,e
town ;
you may say that this money was geven to you,.
but the fact is, it was drawn forth by toeintimidation of
numbers."—(Hear, hear.)—He knew that he had been ac-
cused of exciting the bad feelings of the multitude, but he
denied that he had ever flattered its vanity or vices. From
the labourers then he required a pledge that they would
at once returnniear the to
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nruks, a
,for °
with
tcollected in their pockets, they would infallibly get intoxi-
cated,.t
and, therefore, although a good part of the day had
gone by, he, in the anxiety to get them out of the town,
elllis'idMO reniely if
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riaintll
undertook to contract with them on the part ref the
farmers, that they would pay them for a full day's
work if they would at once set out fur their several destina-
tions. What was the result ? In less than three minutes
the town was cleared. The farmers rendered thanks to
him to him for what he had done. Nay, mere, the Ma-
gistrates, who had not come out of their houses for the
two days past, returned him thanks. lie could mention all
their names if necessary. Throe were the two Mr. Por-
tails, respectable gentlemen, whom he well knew, having
met them at county meetings and elsewhere, and a number
of others; but they all came forward, saying they were
ashamed to remain longer without thanking him, and de-
claring that he had accomplished more in half an hour
than they had thought it possible to etfe,,ct. Even the
clergyman of the parish came forward and returned hint
thanks for the good advice he (Mr. 11.) lied given his
parishioners upon the subject of drunkenness and idle.
ness. Then he, taking off his hat, observed, that lee had a
little advice to offer the Magistrate., ire their turn, and
which, perhaps, they would not scorn to receive from an
old man. lie said to Mr. Porten and the others, whom
he had seen at county meetings, " I long ego told you the
line of conduct you leave been pursuing must have led to
this. You have been suppotting the Government, al-
though the Government has screwed you (that was the
word I used )—has screwed you for taxes ; and you were
thus led to turn the screw upon the farmers, who, with a
double and treble force, screwed the unfortunate labourers,
and so screwed on, till, having given one turn too much,
the force of the screw turned upwards, like that of a patent
cork-screw ; and I can tell you, that as sure as there is a
God in Heaven, so surely will the labourers and farmers,
who have lost and suffered, screw it back again out of you."
—Thus he had succeeded in restoring quiet at Overton ;
and had the great satisfaction to state, that when he lately
visited it, the two ladies who keep the principal inn in the
town, came down to offer him their thanks and say what
had transpired in his absence.—(Loud and continued
laughter.)—lt might he very laughable to this Hon.
House, but it was most highly gratifying to him to learn
from those ladies—to hear them say, " Since your depar-
ture we have had Magistrates, farmers, and labourers
here—(Laughter)—and we are thankful to God because
you interfered formerly ; we are convinced that had it not
been for your interference, violence and blodshed would
have ensued."—((fear, hear, and continued laughter.)—
There was one fact which, in confirmation of this, he
was happy and proud to state : it was, that since his visit
no breach of the peace had been committed within the
parish ; for no man, woman, or child, had been brought
before the Magistrates for any crime.—( Hear, and laugh-
ter.)—Although this might be a laughable matter to the
Hon. House, it was a great gratification to him.—(No,
no? Hear, hear.)—lie then pissed on to Andover : there,
too, he found a mob; but as it was evening, and the
mob infuriated, he positively declined attempting
to reason with them : be left the quelling of the
disturbance to corporate influence, Well, towards
night the mob dispersed, with the exception of ten
or twelve persons, who remained talking ha the market-
place; but they committed no violence. Then, however,
the valiant constables, who had not appeared during the
day, attacked this handful of men, and beat them with
bludgeons till the blood ran down their shoulders and
almost to their heels. The men, in flying from the town,
were heard to vow vengeance; and it was well to remark,
that the first fire (that on the property of Sir Henry Wit-
son) took place within two miles of this town. It was
Ithe duty of every man to resist a tumult, but to heat tin-
offending persons was very cowarilly.—(Heara hear, hear.)
—He next went to Salisbury. He was told there was a
mob there, and that a riot would ensue. He said it was
no such thing, and that there would be no riot unless they
talked the people into a riot: thus it turned out. There
was nothing on Saturday. He left on Sunday ; but on the
following Tuesday—the next market-day—the threshing-
machines were broken. The farmers themselves excited
and induced the labourers to break the machines, one of
the principal of them said..--" Now, my lads, I have
given you a sovereign—you have broken machines; go,
and do the same by the others break the rest that we
may be all on an equality." And that to encourage them
to the performance of this service, they had collected
money for them to the amount of 9/., and desired them
to go to Salisbury and spend it. And from this arose
the famous battle of Salisbury. The mob assembled
in the town, and Here guilty of acts which lee would
not attempt to justify or palliate. The constables at-
tacked them—the yeomanry attacked them ; but they
failed ; and the only result of their glorious exertion was,
that one yeoman was shot by another in the confusion_
(Cheers and laughter)—another of those valiant yeomen
jumped into the Member for Salisbury's garden, and there
changed his clothes to get home in safety—(Cheers and
laughter)—but next day this gallant troop went to the
homes of these people and took them in detail, and at the
moment he was speaking, many of them were under sen-
tence of transportation. He denied that he was the man
who would head a mob, or who had done so, although
such an opinion, he believed, prevailed even amongst cer-
tain Hon. Members of that House. But he appealed to
the Hon. Secretary for the Home Department to say, if
he had been instrumental in fomenting discord and vio-
knee. He unhesitatingly declared that the greatest incen-
diaries were the farmers. They incited the wretched pea-
santry to violate the law, and then, influenced by the Ala-
stracy, turned round in an evil hour upon those they have
misled, and caused them to be transported. He next pro-
ceeded on his journey towards Taunton, and on approach-
ing the place, he asked the first intelligent woman he met,
what were the yeomanry (who, he had understood, were
called out then) :parading about ? "To keep the men
from looking for higher wages," was the reply. And in-
deed, he had always observed, that wherever the yeo-
manry were out, wages were down. The same was
true respecting special constables.—(" No, no, no.")—
There were exceptions—it was not so in every instance.
But he had remarked that, for instance, the rate of wages
were higher in Hampshire, being 10e. a week, than in
Wiltshire, where it amounted only to 7s. Me next pro-
ceeded to state that, in Somersetshire, there was an as.
semblage as a parish for the purpose simply of appoint-
ing special constables, but farmers and labourers and all
refused to be sworn, unless the clergyman, whose tithes
amount. I to 1,600/. a year, consented to take off 1,000/.
The Reverend Gentleman, however, refused, although
his predecessor had enjoyed only 4001. a year. The con-
sequence was, that not a single special constable was
sworn. In Doulton, at a similar meeting, a similar de-
mand was made upon the clergyman—the same reply was
given, and the same refusal upon the part of the people
followed. Here the clergyman addressed them, and ad-
dressed them in the language of remonstrance. He told
them in the favourite epithet applied to the ballot by its
enemies abroad, and on more than one occasion by an
Hon. Member of that house, that it was run-. English to
refuse to he sworn in a special constable. But a tall raw-
boned young man of about 30—(Laughter)—got up and
said, " I agree with the clergyman that it is un-English,
but I have for the last two years had a wife and.
five children, and all I can earn is 75. a week.
Out of thin I have 41. a year to pay for rent; and
then 1 can only have a scanty meal at night my-.
self, while my children are crying about me with
(Mr. Benett) might
hunger—and this, Sir, is very un-I-.:nglish." Such was
his answer, and the parson was completely dumb-
statement that was
foundered. He next adverted to the attack upon the
lion. Member for Wiltshire, and observed, he had told
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who instigated the men to break the inachins. flies, gave
them cider and liquors to break all the machines iii the
parish; and at the last they certainly broke that of the
Hon. Member for Wiltshire; and as he was informed, the
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lion. Member, in remonstrating with the men, made use
Hon. Member, as he was a man of honour, and honesty,
and feeling, to say if he had not made such use of his (V.r,
hunt's) name. He had asked the Hon. Member before
if he had done so ? and he told him that he had used his
name, but not in that way, and he knew not how. Ile
conduct of the persons engaged in the outrage.; but
he appealed to the Honourable Gentlernantrikada aiimkana
did not for a moment attempt to justify or palliate tine
of feeling, honesty, and honour, itnA e

could not stand up and make some allowance
for desperate men ? As a proof that the object of
these poor people was only to destroy the machinery,
which they believed devoted them to starvation, he stated,
that when they went to break one of the thrashing ma-
chines of the lion. Member for Wiltshire, which W3'
worked by the same stream which worked his mill, they
did not—after they had destroyed the obnoxious machine
—they did not touch the mill or the water-wheel. There-
fore, he repeated, i r, was perfectly evident that their object
was not indiscriminate mischief; their hostility was merely
against those machines which took labour from than:.
Never, he observed, would he call a peaceable multitude a
snob; hut an assemblage, he ;Mowed, there had been ;it
Salisbury, and they were guilty of illegal acts. The ob-
ject they had in view, however, they had accompiished,
and were going home—this was alter all violence had
ceased--when, as they were passing through a narrow
!me, this Hindon troop of yeomanry attacked them on
either side, in two divisions, and cut them to pieces in the
most horrible manner, They drove them through the
fields, and there one man was shot by them. The con-
duct of the labourers, be again said, was net to be justi-
fied; he was anxious to impress this his feeling upon the
House; but he submitted that those men had been hardly
dealt with, After the affray, many were seized upon,
faint and wounded; they were pot into a waggon, and
diiven on a cold night to tAisbury, a distance of
yeomen!. however, refreshed them-
seventeen miles. The
selves on the route, but no a, neseenwas paid to their un-
fortunate prisoners. No M•.,C-7:4 of lint was given them to
etaunch their wounds, no drop of water to moisten their
parched lips. They art iveti in town in the middle of the
t • two hours pasted before the gaolers and officers
could be roused from sleep ; three hours before surgical
assistance could be procured. He thought these circum-
stances ought to be laid before the House. Now it was
curious to add, that very few of them were prosecuted. A
Mill was shot by the yeomen, and an inquest was held
upon the body. The verdict might be guessed from the
fact that the fireman of the Jury was father of one of the
cavalry. The verdict was justifiable homicide.—(Cries of
" Oil, oh, oh !")—There was one other circumstance to
which he wished to reer. A tenant of the Hon. Member
for Westminster (Sir F. Burdett) in Wiltshire, was placed
the most awful circumstances. A person who ought
to have known better, a young man, was foolish enough
to write a threatening letter to the person who was pro-
secuting his cousins. It was done in secret, and there-
fore the act was not justifiable ; for he said that the man
who could deliberately sit down and write a threatening
letter, or even an anonymous letter, was a coward.—
(Hear, hear.)—Every day he received anonymous letters,
threatening him with assassination on his way home over
Westminster Bridge, for his attack upon the Pension List,
but he treated them with the contempt they deserved. If
they came post-paid, he threw them into the tire, if not, lie
returned them to Sir F. Freeling, for the amusement of his
clerks. He wished Government had treated such letters with
the same contempt. The threatening letter thus written was
preyed by a Bow-street officer to have been taken from a
desk in the house of a man called Looker—the quality of
the paper and the jagged edges of the sheet according per-
fectly with the paper which remained. Several farmers
swore to Looker's writing, but acknowledged they had not
seen him write for years: while, again, others, such as
the schoolmaster and exciseman, who saw him frequently
write on matters of business, swore the hand-writing was
not his, nor like it ; and it was proved that his three sons
sad other people had free access to the disk. Upon this,
as iespectable and as well-dressed an old gentleman (for
such i e might call him) as any in that House, was taken
to Devizes gaol, and thence to Salisbury, where for nine
nights he 1 ty in a cold damp room, with nothing for a co-
vering but cold damp straw. At last he was brought to
his trial ; the Crown was the prosecutor ; and upon the
evidenee ab eve stated, he was convicted, and sentenced
to transportation for life, and the Judge, in passing
sentence upon hie!, seemed to express regret that
the altsraton in the law had prevented him from
condemning him to the higher punishment. It was
then that the Counsel for the defence stepped for-
ward, and produced the younger Looker in Court, who,
as nearly as might be, wrote a similar letter, as regarded
the expressions, in Court, and in a hand which was a

once recognised to be the same. The father was acquit-
ted, and the son, on his own confession, on the exhibition
of his own hand-wr;ting, was tried, condemned, and con-
victed to be transported for seven years. He saw the lad
in gaol. He felt proud of having saved his venerable
father; he had hoped that he would not be punished, but

rather would he be banished for the seven years than pass
one in the horrid gaol of Salisbury. He then asked what
would be the consequence if, from fear, this boy had held
back—or from a ssrdi4 wish to have his father sent out
of the way that he might enjoy his property? How
great would not have been the calamity ? As for the
young man, he admitted his crime, but his subsequent
conduct was glorious. He was doubtless guilty, but in
pwient days, in Rome or Greece, or Sparta—(Loud
laughter)—in Greece or in Athens—(Continued laughter)
would have monuments erected to his memory
and been crowned with evergreens—(Peals oflaughter)--
The House laughed ; but be attributed their laughter not

to want of feeling, but to his own bad description.
When the verdict had been given, the son at once came

forward to sacrifice hi►nself in order to save his father.—

He repeated that this was a subject for the historian, the
poet, and the dramatic author.—(A laugh.)—He was
sure that if the subject were well dramatised, and the

escape of the father through the son's self-devotion were
exhibited on the stage, they would produce a powerful
tffect. Where was the heart that would not beat with

sympathy for the pangs both must have suffered at such a
moment? He appealed to that Hon. House whether that
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would not be the effect? He admitted that the people hai

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assembled for the purposes of riot, and that one of them

had struck a heavy blow with a hammer, but that blow

was struck in retaliation. The man who struck it had
been first struck with an iron-headed whip on the head,

and, when pressed into a corner, and the blow from the
whip was repeated, he turned on his pursuer, and struck
a blow with a hammer which he held in his hand.—
Unfortunately that blow took effect—it was a severe
blow, and it knocked the person from his horse. He re-
peated that it was a dreadful blow, and was much to be de-
plored ; but he appealed to the House whether it was in
the nature of an Englishman to suffer from the attack of
another without retaliating ? It was impossible that any
man should resist such an impulse. Indeed that had been
the feeling of the prosecutors, for they never thought of corn-
:flitting the man for the assault, and therefore they com-
mitted him for the riot only; but the Attorney-General,
in the exercise of his discretion, thought it was of a very

serious nature, and recommended that the man should be

prosecuted criminally. He was so prosecuted—the man
was called on hastily fir his defence, and his Counsel came

to the trial of the proseeuti,,u quite unprepred for the

defence. The man was found guilty, and actually left for

execution.

Tile case of I.thlt- wa very similar to tha,

which he bad just noticed• That man Wa3 very poor, am

had not the means of preparing a regular defence. When
He was at Salisbury, he sent for the attorney, and when

that person came, he received a paper from the poor man,
who said, " that is my case." That paper contained,
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in fact, a confession of the whole circumstances.

That

confession was taken to the gaoler, who said that it was
too long for him to read that day ; but he must keep
it for that day or the next, and would then return it;

he kept it for three days. Now he (Mr. Hunt) would
ask the Attorney-General, who knew the laws, and the

practice of the law, as well as any man, and was in-
clined to exercise them with humanity, what the gaoler
could want with that confession, and to what use he could

put it except to betray the prisoner ? He had stated that
case in the proper quarter, to the Secretary of State for the
Home Department, and that humane man, Viscount Mel-
bourne, had (as he believed) at once put a step to such a
practice. If the prisoner had been put on his trial for
high treason, the highest crime in the state, he could not
have been treated in a severer manner; but he believed

that practice wouH exist no longer, for no man of hums-
pity would longer sanction such a proceeding. When the
Government became acquainted with these facts, lie be-
lieved they had had great wei7l4t in inducing the Minis-
ters to advise his M.ijesty to spare the lives of these men.
The man who made the confession did not know the use

to which it would be applied. In Spain, when a man
made a confession to the Inquisition, he knew what would
be its result ; but hure the man had made it under very
different circumstances. The confession was, in fact,
a statement of the case made in the most unfavourable
manner for the prisoner, for that was the sort of state-
ment which Counsel, who were to defend them, always
required, in order to be prepared worst pats of
the case. He did not mean to sav thate Attorney-
Generalobtained ;
bad made use of the confession tlthe
but for what put pose did the gaoler obtain this statement
but to betray the man who made it ? However,
tire was now put an end to, and he thanked th thjoPrae-
anent fur it. It would be his business on a future davern-
bring these proceedings befOre the House. The moymetnot
it was made known to the Secretary of State, he de-
nounced it ; and he did the Government the justice to be..
lieve that the practice never had the sanction of their au-
thority. In asking that Honourable House to address his
Majesty for a general amnesty and pardon for those men
who were now about to be transported, he proposed to do
it unequivocally and for the whole. He would not say
that the Governmet were not justified in inking iA-

quiries, when any circumstances came to their knowledge,
respecting any particular man, but he wished to put them
on their guard against the means by which they came to
the knowledge of these circumstances. There were many
instances to show that the men selected for prosecution
were men whose characters were obnoxious to the loyal
Magistracy, not those who were thought to have had
the most concern in the riots. There was a poor youth,
with one leg, who had worked on his (Mr. Hones)
farm, and who was among the men taken up. The
tlenily of the poor youth applied to him to interfere,
and from what be saw on that occasion, he was con-
vinced that men who were obnoxious from other cir-
eumstances where chiefly the accused on this occa.
sion. There were seven men take❑ up at Hendon.—
When he was told of this, and asked to interfere for them,
the question he put was, whether any of the men were
men of bad character ? One had been before a Ma-
gistrate, and all had been before Magistrates fin• poach-
ing. There were great game preserves in that neigh-
bourhood ; and such was the distress existing there,
that no !man who was in a starving state could resist the
temptatio❑ of becoming- a poacher. The wives of these
inn assured him that their husbands had not been the
leading men in the riots ; but they were selected as
poachers. When he heard this he told them that if that
was the case, there was no chance for them. He found
that throughout the whole of the country these proceed-
logs had been instigated by the farmers. He believed
that he himself had been accused to the Government of
being an incendiary. He believed that an inquiry had
been made, as it was the duty of the Government to make
it, into the accusation, and he was exonerated from the ac-
cusation. Now he would tell the Government who were
the greatest incendiaries in the country—the most deter-
mined, the most ruthless, were the broken• up farmers.
One of these farmers came to him one day, and said Ire was
going to Ilchester to be sworn in a special constable. That
farmer said that he had rented a farm at 4001. a year, for
three years together ; his stock failed. The landlord said
he should not be pressed for his rent under such unfortu-
nate circumstances, and he was then induced to go on
a little longer, and to borrow money from his friends,
in order to get fresh stock—he purchased them, and
went on with his farm, when, just as his harvest was
getting in, the landlord came o❑ him for all the rent due,
and forced him and his family out of the farm. That
man spoke in contempt of being sworn in as a special con-
stable, and used the most violent language. That was the
sort of man who was capable of any act of violence—he
was driven to despair—he was worse than a common pau-
per, for he was suddenly reduced from a state of compara-
tive comfort to actual poverty. He (Mr. H.) found many
of that sort of men in the country ; sad the general opi-
nion was—and Ire was most sorry to hear it—that nine-
tenths of the farmers were in a state of insolvency. Here
was a state of the country for his Majesty's Ministers to
contemplate ! Relief must he afforded ;it was impos-
sible that things could go on in this way. It was impos-
sible but a convulsion must ensue, if the people were driven
to despair and left without the hope of redress. Every
act of his life had been directed to prevent convulsion.
Pie was not such a fool as not to know that he was so
marked a man, that, if a convulsion took place, he could
not hope to live over the first day.—(A laugh.) He was
personally, therefore, as well as morally, interested in pre-
serving tranquiility.—(Hear.) He would tell the Govern-
ment, that if they granted the boon be now asked, or any
portion of it, they would be conferring a great benefit on
the country. The men now about to he removed were la-
bourers, and most of them among the best labourers in the
country ; and when he told them that there was a scarcity
of really good labourers in the country, Le thought
they would be convinced that in recommending a pardon to
these men, they would be doing an act that would hand
down their names to posterity as benefactors of the country.
He knew what obstacles the Ministers would have to con-
tend with in doing this. They would have to contend with
rapacious landlords, who, in order that their high rents
might not go down, would not suffer the farmers to raise
the labourers' wages. He know this, and he was sorry for
it ; but he feared also that there were others who were
worse than these landlords. He was sorry to see, by the
papers, that some of the Clergy were said to have com-
plained of the mercy shown to some of these men. He
hoped that was not so. He hoped that in this country,
where the beneficence of dispensing mercy was left to the
Sovereign—(Hear, hear, hear,)—he knew it was left to
the Sovereign, but then the Sovereign only exercised that
prerogative by the advice of the Privy Council and the
Ministers—he said that he hoped in this country there were
no clergymen whatever who would dare to disapprove of
an act of tnercy recommended by his Majesty'. Ministers,
and he could assure those Ministers that if they did re-
commend that act of mercy, they would be honoured to
the latest posterity. It was said that some of these men
were not in extreme want.—(hear, hear.)—On that sub-
ject he would just mention what was the state of their
wages ist the disturbed districts. He would state what were
the allowances made by the overseers of the parish of Til-
bury. The allowance he should refer to was made on Nov.
I, 1830, the last week before the riots began. J. Barrett,
his wife and child, were allowed ss. a week. W. Sanger,
who was prosecuted and acquitted, was allowed for himse

and his wife Is. Gd. a week. The greatest misfortune that
had ever happened to this country was the way in which
the labourers were thus paid,—(Hear, hear, hear.) He
had heard an Hon. Member eay yesterday, that the landed
interest of the country paid all the poor rates. How could
that be true ? The Hon. Gentleman who had settled the
allowance he had just referred to, might himself give to his
labourers a higher rate of wages, but the rate was settled
by that Hon. Gentleman as Chairman of the Quarter
Sessions for the county. These men were in work, ipit
how did the parish make up the wages ? Why by the
allowance of 21d. per day per head. In some eases they
allowed less, not more than and in some only 2d.
half a farthing a head. He appealed to the House and to
the landed interest, to take some measure to remedy these
dreadful evils, so that men might no longer be paid out of
the poor rates, and thus be morally and politically de-
graded. Such a system drove men, who worked hard
during the week, into despair and crime, and placed them
in a situation more degrading, in some respects, that that
of the unhappy slaves in the West Indies. When he

(Mr. H.) had a farm, be never would employ any men
who could not ear❑ enough to support their wives and
families. His farm had been in the very next parish to
that in which these riots took place, and he never paid
any man less than 2s. 6d. a day. He asserted, that under
the present system, the poor rates were ❑ot paid by the
landed interest, but out of the wages of the labourer.—
(Hear.) For proof that the land did not pay all the poor
rates, he called on them to look at the parish in which he
lived, the neighbouring parish of Christchurch. Let them
see what were the rates in that parish, where there was not
more land than was covered NVith houses. In many towns
these rates were enormous, and were levied exclusively en
houses and other property independent of the land. He
urged the Alims,frs to aid him in attaining the object of
his motion; for he repeated, that many of the best la-
bourers in the country were among the persons convicted,

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and that in most of these cases there was no imputation
on the character of the prisoners, except that they had
been peachers. He believed th it the accursed Came Laws

had been the great cause of the conviction of these men.
If his motion were acceded to, it wou!d redound to
the honour of that House, and would go far to secure the

peaee of the country. He was sure it must be carried is
his Majesty's Ministers concurred with him, for, notwith.

standing- what some people were inclined to say out o!
doors, the present Government had a majority in that
House, and in this instance the Government and the ma-

jority would be supported by the people. He hoped that
they would think seriously of his proposition, and some
of these men might yet be saved. He believed that there
were numbers of these men who might be restored to
society with the ututo,t confidence as to their future
conduct, and that he might himself safely become
bail for most of them. He knew that the Govern-

ment would have a difficult part to play to satisfy the
minds of all men. He knew that there were some who,
for the purpose of keeping up their rents, would not con-
sent that the wages of the labourer should be permitted to
rise. He knew that such persons would advise the Go-
vernment not to listen to proposals of mercy. He would
describe one of these men.—(" No, no.")—He would al-
lude to no one personally, so that there would be nothing
but his description. There was a man who was for hang-
ing all the prisoners without distinction. That man was
a farmer, aye, and a large and wealthy farmer ; he vas
most violently disposed towards these poor men—but it
was to be hoped that the Government would not listen to
such a person. Twelve months ago lie called on a man
i❑ Wiltshire, or perhaps it might he longer than that, it
was just after the Catholic Relief Bill had passed. That

person, who mixed Nvith the first society in Wiltshire, and
who, by the bye, was always preaching up moderation to
him, was at that moment just going out with his gun, and

and he said, " If I could meet the Duke of Wellington or
Peel, and my gun was loaded at the time, nothing should

prevent me fro.n blowing out the brains of one with one
barrel, and the brains of the other with the second."—
(Hear.)—That was the sort of men whom the Government
had to deal with. They would hang all because they would
not allow wages to be raised. It had been said that there
was a deficiency of corn in the country. Ile denied it.
lie never saw, at this time of the year, such a quan-
tity of corn as was now in the stack yards. Now that
the thrashing machines had been put down, but smaller

quantities of corn could get out at a time; but it would
come gradually to market just as the demand for it arose,
and in June or July, when corn generally rose, the rise
would not he so great as it hal been heretofore. He stated
this fact of the abundance of corn with much pleasure. It
was true, perhaps, that the stacks made a finer appearance
than was warranted by their real condition—that, in fact,
there was a great deal of straw ; but still he believed that
there was more good corn in the country now, than there
had been at the same period during the list ten years. Ile
thanked the House kindly for the full opportunity they
had thus afforded him of expressing his opinion, and he
should now conclude by moving, " That an humble Ad-
dress be presented to his Majesty, the King, from that
Honourable House, prayin!, that he would be pleased to
grant a general pardon and' amnesty to the unfortunate
agriculturists, and other labourers, who had been tried and
convicted before the late Special Commission." He asked
the whole boon. It would he humane to grant it, and in
speaking of the administration of justice, anti of the laws,
he was sure that there would be no true peace in the
country, unless the poor and the people at large were con-
vinced that the laws were administered in justice and mercy.
Mr. HUME seconded the motion.
Mr. G. LAMB and several other Hon. Members rose
at the same moment, but they gave way, and the Hon.
Gentleman then said, that on rising to answer the obser,
vations the House had just heard, he should feel obliged
to make some comments on the very circumstantial speech
which the Hon. Member had just delivered. He was
bound in the first instance to say, that that Hon. Member
Lad in his speech fulfilled the declaration made at its com-
mencement, that he should respect that assembly in general,
and treat all its Members with deference. He would,
however, have the House consider that misrepresentations
might not be less exaggerated, nor infianunatory state-
ments the less injurious, on account of the candid tone and
the manner in which they were made. The Hon. Mem-
ber had professed his intention of avoiding everything per.
sonal, but in one respect he had performed his promise,
for from beginning to end, the speech, instead of beiog, an
allusion to the nature of the subject, was nothing else but
a relation of his own adventures in travelling through the
country.—( Hear and laughter.)—The Hon. Member had
appealed to him (Mr. Lamb) to know whether informa-
tion had not been given at the Home Office, accusing
Mr. Hunt of being an incendiary ? He would answer
that question by saying, that as far as his recollec-
tion went, no such direct information had been
given, but there was little doubt, even from the sus-
picious of the Honourable Member himself, that rumours
to that effect must have been in every body's mouth.
The Honourable Member had said that he went into
these disturbed districts for the purpose of his trade.
He (Mr. L. ) was bound to believe the Hon. Member,
though he displayed so much knowledge on the subject—
knowledge which, if the Hon. Member possessed it before
these occurrences, ought surely to have been communi-
cated to the Magistrates.—(Hear.)—However the Hon.
Member had stated that his object in visiting that part of
the country was peaceful, and he was bound to believe the
Hon. Member. The only remark he would make was,
that the Hon. Member was the most unlucky peaceful
traveller that had ever travelled, for he blundered upon
the successive tumults of three different counties.---(llear.)
He would do what the lion. Member, in the pruriency of
his description of the evils, had forgotten to do, namely to
call the attention of the House to the nature of the mo-
tion—a motion that that House should address his Ma-
jesty on behalf of those who had been engaged in riot
and tumult for the last three months. The Hon. Member
called on that House to interfere with the prerogative of
the Crown, vested in the Crown alone for the wisest pur-
poses, and always exercised with the happiest results.—
(Hear.)—He did not mean to say that that House Lad
not a right to address hls Majesty on such a subject—
indeed he knew no case where that House Lad not the
right to present an Address to the King ; but he thought.
they would not resolve on exercising their right till a
strong case of necessity was made out.—(Hear, hear.)
Wtiat would be the situation in which they should place
his Majesty—(Hear, hear)—if they went to the foot of
the Throne with an Address of this kind, and thus pro-
claimed to the people that tkey had advised the King not
to let these people suffer? 'They would by such an act take
away the advantage of his Majesty's highest prerogative,
and wrest from him the merit of that mercy which it was
his highest pleasure to exerrise.—(Hear.) He asserted that
the bare statement of the nature of the motion was suf-
ficient to induce the House not to listen to it. The
Hon. Member had himself told them that the lenity with
which a Magistrate of Kent had treated the first of these
offenders had!,seen productive of much evil re,ult.—(Hear)
It was to be feared that the lenity now requited by, the
Hon. Member might, if conceded, operate with the same
disadvantage, only to a greater extent. This was the fits

time that they had had to regret a general spirit of dis-
affection among the agricultural labourers ; and were they
then, after the offenders had been selected, and tried and
convicted before the Judges of the land—tried, too,
under circumstances of much lenity—to interfere in order
to procure for them an extension of mercy? Were they
to say to these people, "We began to treat you with
lenity—we treat you so still ; and that is your encourage-
ment to future tumults and machine breaking." He
wished to treat the Hon. Member with the respect which his
conduct in that House deserved ; hut there was in his
speech a tone of justification, not merely for machine
breaking, but for the vengeance these people had taken,
that was hardly prudent or proper; Le seemed, too, to
think that these persons deserved applause, because, in the
act of gratifying their vengeance, they had spared a mill
and a water-wheel. Was that to be considered a state of
things that required the House to address his Majesty call-
ing on him to grant a large, a general, and an unex-
ampled pardon to men who had acted in this manner?
The conciliatory part the Hon. Member had taken in theme
tumults was so general and extensive, that he could not
wonder his conduct had been the subject of some misre-
presentations. What was the state of Overton when the
lion. Member was there? The farmers came out to him,
and said, "We are in such a state, that we are ready to
do anything—do you go to the people and do what you
like on our behalf." The Hon. Member, on this, be-
came the mediator, and afterwards the guarantee of what
he (Mr. L.) must call an illegal compact. The lion.
Member tell the farmers to raise the wages, while he "
cautioned the people at the same time not to commit an
illegal act. Surely the becoming the guarantee for a com-
pact of any kind thus entered into, was contrary to the
letter and to the policy of the law, and the Iron. Member
had been mistaken in the course he then adopted. He
(Mr. L.) now came to another point, which was of more
serious importance. The Hon. Member, in the miscel.
laneous oration which he had addressed to the House had
chosen to attack the conduct of the Judges of the land._
Before he replied to that part of the Honourable Msm-

bet's speech, he must protest almost as much against that
House being made a Court of Appeal from the decisions
of the Judges, as with respect to the prerogative of the
Crown.---(Hear, hear, bear.)—He declared that if he
was not convinced the Learned Judge in question tv.auld
feel disappointed if he refused to answer that part of the
Honourable Member's speech, he would not say one word
about it. It was only in deference to what he believed to
be the wish of that Learned Judge, that he now con-

seated to refer to the case of Looker. That person was
tried before Mr. Justice Alderson. The proof given was
not of one letter, as the Honourable Member suppo,ed,
but of three threatening letters, sent, as it wtta supposed,
by Looker, to three persons of his neighbourhood, to pre-:
vent them from prosecuting two of his nephews, who
were indicted for machine-breaking. Four witnesses

gave evidence that these letters were in the band-writing
of the prisoner, and nine gave evidence that th,y were not.
—( Hear, hear.)—The Judge, in summing up, took care
to particularise the evidence of each witness, and the
means he possessed of forming an opinion as to the
prisoner's writing. Ile pointed out to them, that among
the four, only one had seen the prisoner write once in ten

years, and that another of them had been on bad terms
with him. The Learned Judge then went to the other

witnesses, tome of whom did not write at all, anYtWOof
whom had acquired their knowledge of his writing by
peeping over his shoulder. One or two others had not

seen him write for years, and they gave contradictory tes-
timony ; but whit did the Judge tell the Jury? He said,
that the evidence:to prove the letters were in the prisoner's
hand-writing was so weak, that even if uncontradicteel,
they could not rely.-on it ; but that, contradicted as it

was, they must put it out of their minds altogether. But
there was another circumstance which ha 4 not been ex-
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plained. The three letters had been made out of one
sheet of fisper—thc three pieces of paper exactly fitted
each other, and tiitre was no proof that any one else had
access to the desk whence it was taken. That circum-
stance was left to their consideration, and they, thinking it
unexplained, were satisfied that it proved the guilt of the
prisoner. He was of opinion that the verdict en the evi-
dence before the jury was right. After that verdict, the
young man came forward—that young man for whom
they were to erect statues, and crown hint with wreaths
of evergreen. It was, indeed, a remarkable instance of
filial gratitude. The Government, on being informed of
the circumstances, at once sent down a pardon to the elder
Looker. Then came the case of the younger Looker, who
was convicted, and who, they were now told, was en-
titled to the mercy of the Crown. He would read one of
the three letters whirls that young man had written
Mr. Woodbine.•-If you goes to swear.ageinet any of the

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rise lea
men now in prison, you shall have your farm burnt ; and
look out for yourself, or else your --- head and guts shall
be cut out." Was that a man to whom the Government
ought to show peculiar lenity ; or if an amnesty was to
be granted, was not that the man who should be exempted
from it ? The Hon. Member had related a story of a
confession of one of the prisoners, and seemed to think that
what he had done in that me had obtained for the prisoner
the mercy of the Crown. He (Mr. L.) was sorry
to say that the Hon. Member's communication had not
had the effect he imagined. The snan experienced the
mercy of the Crown, because he appeared to have inter-
fered, on several occasions, to prevent violence to persons
and injury to property. That fact appeared to the Go-
vernment subsequent to his conviction, and the conse-
quence was that a mitigation of the sentence was awarded.
He called on the House to defeat this motion, and be thought
they would feel it was their duty to do so. The punish-
ment of transportation was a very mitigated punishment
for the offences of these prisoners, Were these persons
men who were to be called back into those scenes where
they might see the devastation they had committed, and
where, if they still entertained the same feelings as before,
they would wander in a sense of triumphant impunity,
after all their offences ? These turbulent spirits would
take the vote of the House as a general amnesty—would
go back in triumph to their companions, and sew fresh
seeds of tumult and discontent. The Hon. Member for
Preston had said that he had got into a mob, to which he
was not accustomed ; but he afterwards corrected his
phrase, and explained that by a mob be did not mean a
peaceable assembly. He (Mr. G. Lamb) could, however,
remind the Hon. Member of a time when they had stood
on as open busting. together; when an Hon. Friend of
his (now no more) had inadvertently termed the people
there assembled a mob. He (Mr. G. Lamb) hoped, that
as the Hon. Member had now found his way into the
House he would keep away from mobs—as he had at
length got into good company, that he would avoid bad :
whether he represented Preston, or any other place, be
would find that the House of Commons was a preferable
place for delivering his opinions, and he for one should
always be quite as ready to listen to the Hon. Member as
any mob he had ever addressed.—(Hear.)
Mr. BENETT would treat the Hou. Member for
Preston with the respect due to every Hun. Gentleman in
the House, but he could not help regretting that the Hon.
gentleman bad not stated in his place what, according to
the statements in the newspapers, he had said out of doors,
in order that he (Mr. Benett) might have an opportunity
of contradicting him. On his late triumphant entry into
Loudon, the Hon. Member was reported to have said, that
Mr. Benett, of Wiltshire, as Foreman of the Grand Jury,
had acted as judge, jury, and witness, in his own cause,
and that he had done all he could to hang the unfortunate
men who had been goaded to excesses. Such was the
assertion in the Times newspaper; and it was added, that
the multitude had cried " shame !" as well they might, if
he (Mr. Benett) had been guilty of such proceedings. He
would now take leave to reply to these charges ; but, in
the first place, he would remark, that the Hon. Mem-
ber for Preston had not quite fairly stated what had
passed between them last night. When the question
was put, he (Mr. Benett) had stated at once, and
without hesitation, that the snob had been ex-
cited by the writings of Mr. Cobbett, and by the
speeches of Mr. Hunt. He had said so last night,
when appealed to by the Hon. Member, and he repeated
it to-night, for it was his belief and conviction that the
people had been so excited to commit the excesses, the con-
sequences of which they were now suffering.—(klear,
hear.)—He feared he should be somewhat tedious, but he
would do his best to bring a statement of the facts of the
case into as short a compass as possible. The necessity of
the case must be his excuse for the trouble he should give.
Ele had received information from his bailiff, that great
excitement prevailed in the part of the country in which
he resided, and that nightly meetings, with drums, horns,
and banners, were held within five miles of his dwelling.
In consequence of these tidings he (Mr. Benett) had
obtained leave of absence for three weeks, and within
two hours after his arrival at his house is Wiltshire,
at half-past seven in the morning he was awoke by
his bailiff, who told him that there was a great riot
at the other end of the parish—that the mob was
about to attack a factory at Fonthill—that they were
determined to destroy all threshing-machines, and
among them those belonging to him (Mr. Benett). By
about ten o'clock, after snaking some preliminary arrange-
ments, he reached the scene of action, and found that the
threatened factory had been saved by the interference of a
man belonging to it, and the aid of a fanner who rode at
the bead of the mob, and had since absconded. Several
threshing-machines had, however, been broken ; and
when he stated to some persons that he would go to the
mob, they warned him that he would most likely be mur-
dered. Nevertheless he was resolved to do his duty, and
when he came up to the mob they might amount to about
500 or 600, led by two men with clubs, sticks, and
sashes. Its knew one of those men, and they avowed
that they meant to break all threshing-machines, and to
raise wages to 2s. per day. He (Mr. Benett) had told
the man whom he knew that he had already been in many
scrapes, but that this was the worst affair in which he had
ever been engaged. They refused to hear the King's Pro-
clamation, but nevertheless he (Mr. B.) explained it to
diem, mentioning the reward of 50/. He had told them
farther, that he would make no promises to men with arms
in their hands—(Hear, hear)—but one—that one was,
that if they would return to their homes and save that
part of the country from the terror and disgrace of a riot,
if anything were gained elsewhere by tumult, he would do
his best to secure for them whatever was obtained in any
other part of the kingdom. The mob abused him, and
told him that he had come down from London to put them
down, but that they were before•band with him. The
fact was, that the overseer of his parish had betrayed a
letter, mentioning on what day he (Mr. Benett) was
to arrive in Wiltshire. That mob immediately went off,
and others, perhaps a dozen parties in the whole, came
by, whom he addressed, and should have persuaded
about a hundred to quit the rioters, had they not been
driven forward by others, and not allowed to follow the
dictates of their own better judgments. When he threat-
ened to knock a man off his horse, some of the mob re-
plied, " We are not your men, we are Mr. Hunt's men

—He then asked them if they had any hostility to bins,
and they answered that they would not hurt a hair of his
head ; but that they would break his machines, as well as
those of his neighbours. He followed them to the next
village, and saw them break two machines; fur remon-
strances were vain. He afterwards witnessed the destruc-
tion of a very large machine ; but he denisd that he fol-
lowed them, as had been imputed, for the purpose of ob-
taining evidence; his object was to save both the men
and the machinery from destruction. At last the mob
hid declared that they would proceed to his (Mr. Be.
nett's) house, and one moan had then threatened to have
his blood. He was satisfied that his barns might
have been defended by twenty or thirty men, armed
with good sticks : he had upwards of fifty man in his
pay, and on the day of the riot only two were away,
and they were drunk in a public-house. He had ridden at
once to the mob, and said he should offer no forcible op-
position ; that he should resist singly ; that no•trick
should be played ; and that not a single gun or pistol
should be discharged at the assailants. He went away,
and the rioters began breaking his machines. lie set
spurs to his horse, but he was pursued by a shower of

stones, and one struck him senseless. When he partially
recovered, he found that he was on the ground, and
wounded in the head : and, as his assailants were still
around him, be drew a pistol from his pocket (the first
time he had ever exhibited it), and threatened to shoot
the first man who approached hire. He feared that
his skull was fractured, and fancied that he put his
fingers through the bone into his head. Ail soon as he
could, he went to his house, and, with the assistance
of four or five men, barricadoed it as well as lie
could ; while the mob, by the toss of a halfpenny,
decided that they would go on with the attack upon
his machinery, instead of assaulting his house.—lie
had had no time to send to Salisbury for assistance, and
could do nothing but depend upon himself. After the rioters
had departed, the Hon. Member for Salisbury (Mr. Wynd-
ham) had ridden up to his (Mr. Benett's) house, and
asked him to tell him if he was dead.—(Hear, and laugh.
ter.)—The lion. Member had inquired if he was alive ;
and he (Mr. Benett) had replied in the affirmative.—
(Hear, bear, and laughter.)—Mr. Wyndham informed
him that the Mutton troop was near the spot, and what
had subsequently occurred was nothing like the represen-
tation made by the Hon. Member for Preston. That lion.
Gentleman had said, that having got the mob into a nar-
row lane, the troops had surrounded them, rind attacked
them with the utmost violence and without mercy.
The fact was, that the rioters had just finished breaking
machine, and it was certainly necessary that they
should go through a lane; but they had taken up
their post in a large plantation, and he (Mr. Benett)
had observed to Captain Wyndham, who commanded
the troop, that they could not fight the mob, unless
the mob chose to come out and fight them. It was then
determined to divide the troop, sad the loters, as they,
ought not in prudence to have done, quitted the wood,
where horseaaen could not act, and from whence every
man might have escaped, because be (Mr. Benett) could
not find a single man on foot who had courage enough to
accompany him into the plantation. There was an im-
mense multitude of men, armed with hatchets., sledge.

hammers, stieka, and stones, and they commenced the
attack upon the Hindon troop. He (Mr. Denett) had
in vain attempted to read the Riot Act, and one half
of the troop drove the mob back upon the other half
who took them in rear, and dispersed them. The
rioters again retreated into the wood, and the troop was
withdrawn more than a hundred yards from it. Again
the rioters might have escaped, fbr that part of the
country was full of wood to afford them shelter ; how-
ever, they formed, and once more issued forth from the
covert with an imposing front rank. He had ridden stp to
them, and told them, that if they advanced or threw stones,
the troops would be ordered to fire. Captain Wyndham
appealed to him whether the ►men ought to fire? and he
had replied, " For God's sake, do not fire, but at all
events we must not let them conquer us." He was sure
the House would believe him when he said—(Hear hear)—
that the furious crowd advanced, armed with hatchets,
hammers, bludgeons, and stones, and presented so formidable
an appearance that he had told Captain Wyndham it was
necessary to charge : a charge was made, and the contest
lasted for about half an hour ; nothing but the coolness
and conduct of the troops could have enabled forty-four
men to defeat between five and six hundred rioters. He
lamented as much as the Honourable Member for Pres-
ton that any man should have been injured ; one of the
mob was killed by an individual belonging to the troop,
who was surrounded by six or seven adversaries, and
who did not draw his pistol until the last necessity. An
inquest had been held upon the body ; but personally,
he (Mr. Benett) knew nothing of the proceedings, farther
than that the Coroner had asked him to show him some
of the cartridges used by the yeomanry, in order that be
might know the size of the balls. He had accordingly
taken the Coroner into a room, and had shown him seve-
ral, from which it appeared that the belle were of various
sizes, the men Laving been obliged to make their own
cartridges at Salisbury. The Coroner had told him
(Mr. I3enett) that the day after the verdict was
given, three men had offered to perjure themselves
upon the subject, by searing that the man was shot
in one field, when, in fact, he was killed in another.
The Honourable Member for Preston had complained
that the men had been conveyed to Salisbury at night :
they were sent off in two waggons, twenty-nine in
number, and it was certainly dark before everything was
over. The Hindon troop had received information that a
rescue was to be attempted at a particular point, which
rendered the utmost caution necessary. As to the hard-
ships the prisoners endured, he (Mr. Benett) could only
say that if the commanding officer had had time to take
refreshment, he would have taken care that the prisoners
did not go without it. None of the men had once com-
plained of ill-treatment. He would now answer the
charge—that he had been the Magistrate to commit the
offenders. The fact was that no commitment was made
out, and the prisoners were carried to Salisbury gaol for
safe custody. In the whole there were 34 prisoners from
this part of the country ; and as soon as he was able—
that is to say, in four or five days—he had attended at
Salisbury. In this interval he had obtained the characters
of all the offenders, and he had entreated Lord Radnor,
who presided, and the Magistrates, to discharge no lees
than 21 men on their own bail. Previous good conduct
was the only thing that had weighed with him in their
favour. The next point of the Hon. Member for Preston
was, that he (Mr. Benett) had sat a foreman of the Grand
Jury. He had asked the Court to allow him to decline
the office, as he was prosecutor in several cases ; but the
answer was, that when his own cases came before the
Grand Jury, he would know what course it became him
to pursue. He had not presided, nor even been present
in the room when his own cases were brought before the
Grand Jury, and they occupied the first two days.—
(Hear, beer.) It was impossible for him to contradict
all that the Hon. Member for Preston had said against
him, and through the Hon. Member all the newspapers
in England during the last twenty-five years. His rea-
sons were best known to the Hon. Member himself; but
he was happy that some charges carried with them their
own refutation. One of these was the accusation that he
(Mr. Benett) had given evidence to hang the culprits.—
He had given no evidence on a capital charge; he was as
anxious as the Hon. Member for Preston to alter the seve-
rity of our Criminal Law; and he felt so much repug-
nance on the point, that when he was required to prose-
cute two men who had assailed him with stones, and was
told that the result of conviction might be the loss of
life, he had refused, and the Attorney-General had allowed
him to retire from a task so painful. No man had suf.
fered death in consequence of any evidence he had given:
he had identified only two nien, and they had been
concerned only in a riot. The Hon. Gentleman had
farther asserted, that he (Mr. Benett,) as Chairman of the
Quarter Sessions, bad established some objectionable regu-
lation regarding the poor. The fact was, that he was not
Chairman of the Quarter Sessions, and the regulation had
been in force for the last 25 years. He bad been an acting
Magistrate for the last two-and-thirty years, but during
that whole psi iod he had not had more than five pauper
complaints brought before him—neither had lie heard one
word of complaint againt the regulation until the disturb-
ances began. He liked to speak what he thought to
people's faces, and he had told the overseer, whom he had
before mentioned, that he thought he and his uncle (who
rented a large farm and had absconded) were the instigators
of the whole riot. True it was that he could not bring
home to them any facts to affect him seriouslr, but he was
satisfied that the overseer and two or three others had been
the originators of the disturbances. Those disturbances
had had no connection with the state of the country, for
when appealed to by him (Mr. Benett), the overseer

had himself admitted, that for the lasi six years the
peasantry had not been so well off as just before they
committed the excesses. tie charged the overseer with
being the instigator of the mob, because he had given no-
tice in church, that on the Thursday following a Vestry
would be held for the purpose of raising parochial relief,
and procuring an advance of wages. After this notice, he
had sent men round the parish, telling the labourers that
they were not to work on the Thursday, hut to attend the
Vestry, and it was to this overseer that his (Mr. Benett's)
bailiff had incautiously shown his letter. He had required
the attendance of all men at the Vestry, that they might
stand up for their rights, using the phrase, " Boys, it

. .
will be all your own way to-morrow." To tell the men
to go to the Vestry, was only, in other wards telling them
to go to the riot, and it was well known on the Tuesday
before they broke out that disturbances were intended. So
well was it understood that his bailiff had written to him
on the subject, and his (Mr. Betaett's) family had received
warning to quit his house if they wished to be safe. It was
a curious fact, that nine-tenths of the riots in Wiltshire
occurred on the same day, viz., the 25th of November.
To show how inaccurately the Hon. Member for Preston
was informed, be would refer to what he had said about
.having gone to Hindon, when ail the wives of the men
came round him and moved him to compassion.

Mr. HUNT observed that he bad spoken of Aylesbury.
Mr. BENETT continued—Of what occurred at Ayles-
bury be did not pretend to know anything—he only spoke
of Hindon. As to the general character of the rioters, the
Hon. Member had daVelt upon two cases, to show that the
unhappy men were driven to despair by extreme necessity.
It was undoubtedly true that selection had been used in the
prosecutions : he (Mr. Benett) might have proceeded
against forty others, but that he was influenced by the pre-
vious good characters of the men, and that the worst cha-
racters only were convicted. The two men pointed out
by the Honourable Member were J. Barrett and W.
Sanger ; and out of IS men prosecuted, only two were
working for the parish. What were their characters? If the
overseer had been asked, he knew what he would have said ;
for he had sworn on oath that J. Barrett was a man of good
character and an honest man ; and he persevered in this
assertion on his cross-examination by Mr. Serjeant Wilde,
although he well knew that he had been tried at Salisbury
for housebreaking, when his own brother was transported;
and that only a week before the disturbance he had been
convicted in a penalty of ss. and 2s. expences for cut-
ting off the head of a tree. W. Sanger had been
brought up at his (Mr. penett's) place, and had worked
for him some years, until he had committed an act of
extreme dishonesty ; nevertheless, he had procured another
place for him as gardener. Again he committed a felony,
but still he (Mr. Bennett) recommended him to another
situation.-,-(Cleeers and laughter.) After again offending.
h
To show that the
offenderse was
pu
v pennyueep()n n
he alight mention the case of a
person of the name of Molehatch, who was a farmer,
everyr ; thethat
poor, roads,
i e
and was paid at least a shilling
for
earned.
grocer, and cattle dealer, and sometimes paid sums cf
2001. or :3001. at a time in the course of his business. A
wan who was a mason, with wages of JSs. per week, and
1757. in the Shaftesbury Savings' Bank, was another of
the disturbers of the peace, and he had drawn out 25/. to
pay fees to Counsel. In fact, in the wl,nle list of persons
prosecuted, with the two exceptions he bad made, there
was not one who at the time of committing the crime was
not earning
for his father, and he had been very busy in destroying
large wages. One was a blacksmith, working
iron work : he had broken a roller, which cost him (Mr.
13 nett)
16/, an iron bridge, waggon-wheels, and, in
short, every thing that looked like improvement had been
the object of attack. This blacksmith was the only man
of goon' character who had been prosecuted. Only a
few days before the 25th of November be had pre•
rented a loyal petition from many of the parties engaged
in the riots, and how it happened that they so soon be-
came offenders he could not explain, He did not think

shat any agitators could hate excited them
fence. The reason why he accused Mr.
ing beeneat the bottom of the commotions
one occasion, when he (Mr. Benett) had
peaceable conduct of the agriculturists of
Cobbett had said, in his Register, " Ah,
know little what you are talking about : yul
they are peaceable many days hence." So
out, for their tranquillity continued only I
days or a fortnight afterwards. He had,
the lion. Member for Preston that he attri
conduct of the labourers to his speeches al
bett's writings. He was glad to meet tit,
man (Mr. Hunt) in this place; lie had great
good or evil, and great talents to direct
trusted, therefore, that he would exert his
good and permanent happiness of his counts
Mr. Hunt went the riots began. Mr. Hie
a place, and, of course, disturbances were
was at such another place, and there distill
panied him. The news was instantly r
Hunt had come down by the mail, and was
particular gentleman's house, and every body
what would be the consequence. At
he had never told the mob that their illegr
were instigated by Mr. Cobbett and the Ho;
Preston. He should not have spoken of
Yeomanry if be had not held the rank
corps ; they bad behaved with the utmos
courage against a mob armed with hetet
sticks, and
indeednd had run
stones, andh
awayadall, butantlyhe had
dispersedyon
bravery in that act than all his comrad,
tsinly was not an experiment that lie (Mr.
willingly have tried.—(Hear, hear.)—Thi
man had said something about the ill-treatm,
in gaol, but independent of the visiting Mag;
Radnor, as humane a man as ever existed, •
visitors, and he and Mr. Estcourt, the Char
Quarter Sessions, had gone to the gaol en Sr
to see that proper attention was paid to
There had, therefore, been no want of yin
Magistracy. It was asserted that proper att
paid to the wounds received by the prisoners
unfortunate affair ; for most unfortunate he
eider it. Many unquestionably were wou
for the conduct and presence of mind of Cat
many lives would have been sacrificed.
ordered not to fire until the list extremity,
than nine had discharged their pieces. Cap'
told his men to cut only at the hands of the .
the consequence was, that ten or twelve had
wounded. They rapidly recovered—not the
shot dead—(Hear, and laughter)—but the
surgeon had assured him that he never knew
so speedily. The labourers had been ilia
who suggested to them that the time was ri
tion—that it was time for them to strike the
was the language of those who put themeel
of the mobs, and who urged on the mobs.
it an unfair charge against the farmers that
couragement to the violence of the rioter
that in whatever instance they had been ins
ply with the labourers, they were actuated
of them took down their threshing-machine
apprehension that, if they attempted to keep
ing, their houses and farming stock would
the incendiaries. But lie (Mr. Benett) ht
to those apprehensions. He did not take (In
machinery ; but neither did he allow any ni
scented for the breaking of a machine whi
had previously taken clown, because he
the farmer himself had tacitly implied his cm
struction.—(Hear.)—With respect to what
of the conduct of the yeomanry, it should
that they were all the eons of farmers, and in;
have been unwilling that the work of destrn
be allowed. The spirit in which the riote,
expressed in language of this sort—" You
permost logg enough—we shall be uppermone
the labourers had now returned to peaceful
they should again be excited by others.
longer any outrage to be apprehended in his
hood. He should go amongst the people
dread of violence. He did not apprehend
would again be flung at his head. Should
burned, be had no feats that it would be
people in his neighbourhood. When the
place there, the riotous labourers themselves
were no burners ; that the burnings were
strangers. Persons were known to have travel
the country in gigs, distributing inflammator
his neighbourhood, two men of respectabl
armed with pistols, mounted on fine horses—,
black the other on a sorrel—being observed
them, as they went along, what are called
ters," were pursued and traced to Dorchester.
Y, Q Li
were not the only facts which proved that the s
tbryi., 's klt tiros r
were not perpetrated by the labourers. Whenever
tennpted to burn, they always bungled the matter•vorf'irinsiettelerrine_l
had not the skill of the other incendiaries, and tkessile,ssii3Nlesot,
they were detected. But in the western parts of t"j tYrJNP
toe 11:1
try, the men had now all returned to their work, arld(o0/!thtk4 tot
was no longer any rioting there. The labourerah!ose;otsfr !rtnsrt
that they could get nothing by the riots but exPer;t Sestatint4h't% pothersthe.
(Hear, hear.) He trusted that they would nev„.'la tats
be influenced by the incitements of men who e°eosio attsih
have their own bad purposes in view.—(Hear, "etsolotiterritttssetiona
He would repeat, that Le had not prosecuted aeYseesli ,Itikte)'' 14
411
the destruction of hie property. In any Pr°o4 0:/.1itsoi,. 54 441
which lie had promoted, he had not been influee ttrt`k that
el
feeling of revenge or hostility to the people.---( vote
jork'thosam riter,
He had always, on the contrary, felt the deck Net,
the necessity of severe measures towards anY ° its " ;14Y.5.,
bourers. He had now as much confidence as ever Ora'll, el'e4ri4faite,s
class of his neighbours ; and he was sure that theiroshr:,, Vsss4l4lli
protect him and hie property from the violence °
He now felt that he lived in a peaceable neighteln
Nothing could be done to disturb the peace w-joetit;reb 4fttis "light
prevailed there, unless by the most artful naananseo,oo", 0)4 4,'tte),. with
(Hear, hear.)—He wished the lion. Member wstaic•ti'lt, lia ,
stand that he !Mr. Benett) had no personal I°l s'itt3l tI.Op
him.—(Hear.)—It was not in his nature to earloserfAtssi:' the
vengeful feeling towards any man for any act--redir,Pbsol,sTitio:a to
' nor did he mean to offer a personal offence in on bet; :01 tu, t,_'l')4l,-;;°f q,
the statement of the lion. Gentleman—but vicrsr,e 14,1 th,
gentleman brought forward in that House acilsr's,- pelt btu
him, which lie had supported by no proofs, it Wt vire/ te!terti. oes
nary for him to meet that change by a statennen r ,4e et.
facts.—[The Hon. Gentleman sat down, id:tee is tt to
words, which, from the noise of persons leaving
taiatih
the House, we could not hear.] eof rit'ttts,":4,l of
Mr. J. SMITH thought it material that solt 0011,1 rdest. rotas
allegations of the Hon. Member for Preston nuag sti,,
pass without contradiction. As respected S oshtia, .40/s
was sorry to say, that in the part of that county ssefer sit:!ttiri;stiona,
he lived, the sentiment which for a time pre" there ell stl'it.s4l44 it
a revolutionary nature. Although charity via! the oe kr,„4 ri
ptelenndteicflutlomtahnenedri,starnedssetdhepahrutmoafritihtey lotifbotuhreegreenTrytietl,oAo: 111/4 t,rssd hetlettipel
where else more extended, yet those labourheor:tireettoe?eiri it:drit,op:r4rte!;t4e,i
in large bodies, demanding money in a
from every person from whom they could exPect l'orP'ts
proept
it. A mob of one hundred and eighty persona r 1)1? fi
at his (Mr. Smith's) house, demanding " bread °bee I,lte sale lea,
The •
said
rtgleal:aest:tiet)ruhetpyoafartnmdilf
gt hgteiheierrnis cflriwiolemdrreent
enwte°rxeicasttaecti'; °Sol °lel" '4:sktsitc)::blv°lllertlr'lle
laboularger part of that mob consisted, not Of iges riStr;
w 9t
the coast of Sussex, whom the vigilance of v:hj _6(51:1$ (rot') .141k1:
latent prevented from carrying on their trade• l:essocre tne.; sod the
Now, of all those persons, one alone had been actiostso.oo IN,sttery
punishment. He was a man in good circa to tol ".„! attr'at_kl
but of a very bad character. Ile was sentencersoitio
(it,rpt,
portation for 14 years, and there was not one per fro' rest tt!its 4 drive
neighbourhood that was not rejoiced at his renes;iaeredtfive :4 I Cr'l
A Noble Duke, residing near Chichester, had r bad 004 e't,' tlts
assistance in the suppression of these riots, ar',leas fe_aV sti(iN7INY 0,1)It
pains (as we understood the Hon. 'Member) 1,i.0r rtio4/ tit
only °lithe worst description should be selectel:e odr th 7. del
ment. Lie could assure his Hon. Friend (t" r, ol'ose ireaAtt,,; Pr,
for Wiltshire), that the condnct of the labeLiore sore.oefb reiitechil
' bad in some other parts of the country. ne, "1„ h'tki
the clemency of some Magistrates was at les-sreedf ear
and that severity was necessary. He quite gtbe Pli, it sonl
ever, with the Hon. Member for Preston, t iorsbu le 4:414,1'4104 to
the western parts of the kingdom were in "el:iotialsjitior: 4: or tt°
condition. That he knew from his own 01-4 bat eoo3esee moor
he trusted that the Government would takedr vi,iog tb,ft (1:41 41 of t;
into their consideration, for the purpose of eves
/t
to improve it. Although he did na:diagerotef;iessoi:iie.sc:: :t4,tt,:l;ieft:
plans of an Hon. Friend (Mr. W. 1101t°fltltry sh° tonere ejaa t LI
the House, he (Mr. Smith) was sorry that
,39reeelited tej Nlcati 'Nel
hoave his
andsassstance upon that subject,
inted to tant government. esithoug'
,et he PiioP
many important points in Mr. Horton's phan,,,Juntry, Intotan
that in part it was calculated to relieve the °p Mead, t.:ym'ltifled
regretted that that gentleman should not I,,ar' sorsropisio oti-tati..ns
laity of again bringing it forward. Tney.s, sao e, , _
parts of Kent and S'ussex, in which there v otareitr,osehp yor ,
the tai
• " elj r
nnent to be found for the population.
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w beeall'e 14,1-94 was I
a talked of,t,httuintte,
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, Mr. Delpe(;;for: I,tf the p(
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the 11°''' ,to ',lll aide a
treat eve" forPe'ad re'
t his powere rk,er Pa.
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body a0';,14,-etoem w
t the sattl,diokti, ‘tpatt then
!legal proc`'f,inti c.qtweran
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of lkitPr Ott. 4.l4qaer in
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versed theaPportsw,re,ton
had 911003 yrthtt h,itslva,h
des, and ,'oooll44,.t'ere woo
nenett,/
tolittb' Would
he Ho°' oetite Whether (
meat of pli'apitt bther
or
lagistrate* jilhit4,et made d.
1, was °lie,f th destroy
Chairman "" ale men
Sunda'', it_jotit„ not mu_
01
to the Prla'bq they the ly
vigilance I,o"htN at le
attention fEO tell A,
ers taken ' Presto]
e must take
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;apt. Wi 0,10 st,„ oc
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tptain 1,Y0,94 q A whi
ssailluA-ill 414,4 Way
had their easq the' 're
the one wl3:jilis Cdrested
t a Rtf 'to
the rest as the
evv men gefs'°' er•ln
cited by P:0:0,.-(4k,i'ght u,
ripe for 19",te ielhter.).
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the IA: ct;;I:141:1111, qualairti
elves at 0'40,11601v,, 80
s.
at they groril,:ke the
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induce n '4 k'qes-4
by fear cr,4 k4t:e knew'
hies an"eolYe hi 00t a }
!ep rpt7t4 Iva: that
Ed be bu'EeloVpli sure
had not /Ele( hati4lent in
down hitE,:prk„Nl tome ho
man tO'i,74,;llking
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at
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I must 11$t
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a have be,, Plit4k of n atte,
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habith
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his neigh„ts4ia,4ttkel)'°ceedeE
pie withovitore 404 hutoan
nd that ilititt ths 6ed
y cYs
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be doo VO 't
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s said ,4 k, —0
e the Iri,-reoc,:`111) Lie,„ 'ate
avellea Wit]
y paper!" Ittql of 04,1 Ron
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,--the ,91v Lilt; he
Ato len' 14,' atilt''e (I
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ter. nu ide of fun
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