The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-15 00:00:00

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CHARGE OF SHOOTING NEAR YORK.--A
case has jest occurred in York which has excited much
interest. The facts of the ease, so far as we can collect
them, are as follow :---On Monday night,. about eleven
o'clock, a person named James Hallett, a labourer, and
seven or eight other persons, were going tom York to
Fulford, rather in liquor and enjoying a spree on the road.
The former had a rail in his hand. When they had pro-
ceeded as far as Fulford Church-lane, they met a young
man named John Moor, an articled clerk to Messrs.
Sharp, architects. Hallett went up to him and shouted
" Boh I" On this Moor said, " Stand back, or I'll blow
your brains out ?" at the same time drawing a pistol
from his pocket. Hallett not doing so, be fired and
lodged the ball with which the pistol was loaded in
the left side of the head, near the temples. The poor
man fell as though he were dead. Mr. Hope, a surgeon,
was immediately brought to the place by one of Hallett's
comrades, and Moor was detained. The ball was ex-
tracted, but he still lingers in great danger. An examina-
tion took place at Mr. Wilkinson's, the Bay Horse Inn,
..Fulford, before Lord Wenlock and the Hon. B. R. Law-
leg, East Riding Magistrates, before whom the above
facts Were detailed. In defence, Moor stated that he was
,ficst.,sty,uck at by the rail, and that he fired in self defence,
but ihe comrades 'of Haiku give a different version of the
story. He also stated that he had taken the pistol With
him because he had bCfore been" annoyed on the road.
After,a', long investigation he was committed To York
.alt.let to take his trial on the capital charge at the nest
orlcshiVe assizes, but bail was taken for his appearance,
hip:self id2ool, and two sureties of 20/. each.—Lieds

CHARTIST MEETING AT B

TO 771 P 'EDITOR TEE SUN
account from a Cerrespondenc of the Cha-
ritT Meeting at Bath, is so gross a mis-statement,tharit
is impossible for any one'having a regard for- truth to
suffer it to pass without correction. That the Mayor
took the chair upon -that -occasion,a-that most of the
Clergy were present, and that the:authtory were' com-
posed of e. large' proportion of the t4ortkieg Closes; is
just all that is correct in • the ciarriniunicaticin of your
Correspondent. Forinitan*lie'statei, that •tlie-speak-
ers instead of being met with chcera;' were tissailcd with
vociferations from hundred's of-voiceta " We won't jni-
tiee; and not 'charity." Instead of this ttere 'was not it
speakeri'frona the opening address of the Mayor torhe
last step of the meeting (his returning thanks), that was.
not heard attentively, and with marks of the most un-.
equivocal satisfaction. One attempt there was at inter-.
ruption ; it was by a woman—but She was immediately
called to order, -not by the chair,'hut by. the people.
Your Correspondent also states that the proceedings
were for the most 'part --dumb i'shoW; and were hurried
through antidSt much visible' fear. I have sboan you
already how attentively the speakers acre listened to,
therefore you will regard that 'statement of." your Cor-
respondent" as one of those contradictions inevitabk to
the exercise of mendacity.
But then, says your Correspondent, the Mayor quitted
the chair when. Mr. Philp rose to move a resolution
On the contrary, the Mayor vacated the- chair to re-
ceive the thanks of the meeting, which Were cordial:,
voted to him, and which he rose to at:lane-fledge; when
Mr. Philp got up to speak upon the Charter ; for' tfo
sooner had this meeting (called for by the inclemency
of the season and the pressing necessities of the podr)
been advertised, than the ChartiSts issued a placard inti-
mating their intention to pervert the meeting into at,
occasion for insisting upon the Charter. Now the inha-
bitants of this city felt such a design to be nothing
less than an outrageous attack upoa their consti-
tutional right' of 'meeting upon any giver. chjeait,
and therefore it was the determination of every
one,' except the -Chartist:3, that no such aggres-
sion should be submitted to. But the truth
is the proceedings of the Chartists in. this case were
Most unusually out of order. The business of the day
Was concluded, the Mayor had left the chair, and re-
..eci-vad the thanks of the meeting, when the Chartists
commenced their interruption. In demanding, there-
fore, to be heard at that time, they asked for nothing
less than a re-commencement of the morning's business,
a course-that never would have been attempted but by
a party that seem bent on prejudicing their cause by
outraging every established rule of order and decorum.
The business of the day being done, the Mayor, there-
fore, 'left the room.

I cannot conclude without again correcting your
Correspondent. lie says the police were" exceedingly
active in pushing the people out of the room." There
was not a policeman present, and the Chartists them-
selves soon left when they found there was none but
.their own party to give them audience. In corrobora-
tion of my statement, 1 have sent you one of our local
Journals ; and to satisfy, you that there is nothing of
party representation in the matter, I will send you
another in the course of the week.

I have been the more concerned to correct this
statement in your Paper, becnuse of the Liberal charac•
ter it has attained. It is deplorable indeed to see a
print like yours lending itself to the errors of the Chart-
ists, and pandering (not designedly) to the meanest rice
of our nature, misrepresentation. I am no enemy to
the Chartists conbidered as men, much less as English-
men ; but I am, and always hope to be, an enemy to
their errors. It is in your power to do much to cor-
rect these errors, so obstinate at present to the progress
of improvement, and so hostile to the principless-and
very name of liberty.—l am, Sir, your obedient,
Jan. 13, 1841. VIGIL.
[We haVe inserted the letter of " Vigil" entire, al.
though it makes unjust reflections on the line adopted
by this Journal. We must, at the same time. for his
information, state that while " Vigil" writes anony-
mously, the Correspondent of whom he complains, gave
his name.]