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London, England, 1832-01-05 00:00:00

drink. He threw his coat on the settle, and was for fight-
ing. Witness thought it high time to go home.
Cross-examined—Clarke was not so drunk that he could
not fight. He was in high spirits and quarrelsome ; he
staggered, but not a great deal.
Daniel Peters examined—ls a woollen-draper, in High-
street. He neither knew Clarke nor his person. He did
not identify him in the gaol.
William White examined—Knows a witness of the name
of Moss, who has been examined to-day. Witness saw
him on Sunday, the 30th of October, at the gaol. He told
witness that he had got some bottles, and in answer to a
question from witness, he said he had got them from the
prison. He took the bottles from his pocket, and asked
witness to drink with him.
Cross-examined—Witness saw Clarke at the prison.
He had known him for three or four years. He had not
a bar in his hand when witness saw him. Witness saw
him there about four or five o'clock. Did not see him
come there. He was, when witness saw him, standing
looking on as a spectator. He appeared to be intoxicated.
After a lapse of three quarters of an hour, witness went
home. Witness knew the witness Moss before that day.
He is a gardener. He offered witness some cider. Wit-
ness did not take it. Clarke was at the time inside the
prison. Moss made the offer outside, and then went in.
Witness went away with Moss. A man asked Moss for
one of the bottles he had. He told him to go and get
one, for he had work enough to get them.
Isaac Cox examined—Keeps a public-house. He was
at the gaol on the Sunday of the riots. He saw a flag on
that occasion put on the top of the staff. He saw the staff
taken down. He knows Clarke, and it was not he that
put up the flag, neither was he the person who took it
down. Witness was about SO or 100 yards from the pri-
son when the flag was taken down. He was certain it was
not Clarke who took it down.
Cross-examined—Witness was there from three to four
o'clock. Witness was on the opposite side of the river.
Sophia Reynolds examined—Was near the gaol about
three o'clock on the Sunday that it was burnt. Knows
the prisoner Clarke well. Witness saw the staff-flag taken
down, and the flag hoisted. Witness was within about
fifteen yards of the place. Clarke neither put it up nor
, took it down.

Cross-examined--The man who took the flag-staff down
was dressed in a sleeve waistcoat. When witness saw
Clarke on that day, he was dressed in a fustian jacket.
Witness lives in the village of Bedminster. Witness saw
the flag thrown down amongst the mob, and chucked into
the river. The fire in the gaol was rising at the time
witness was there, and the mob was so thick that the
witness could not get in. Witness saw the van thrown
into the river. There was a little shouting then.
George Cann examined—ls a butcher, and lives in Bed-
minster. Knows Clarke well, nearly eighteen years.
Knows his person perfectly, as well as his own mother.
He was at the New Gaol on the day of the riots. Witness
saw a flag on the flag-staff. It was not Clarke that put
it up.

Wm. Clissold examined—Remembers when the prison
was burned. There was something flying like a flag in
the prison. He knows Clarke well, The man who took
the flag down was not Clarke. Witness could swear posi-
tively it was not Clarke.
Cross-examined—Where witness was, was on the other
side of the water, and perhaps about 300 or 400 yards
from the gaol.
James Hamilton examined—Keeps a public-house.
Knows Clarke for four or five months. He has been often
in witness's house; when in liquor he was very obstre-
perous indeed ; when sober he was very quiet.
James Cheese examined—ls a gardener, and lives in
Bedminster, about a mile from Clarke's place. He has
known him from his childhood, and has never heard any
thing against him. He has always received the greatest
civility from him.
William Trott examined—Lives in Bedminster, and is
a grocer. Has known Clarke about six years. He has
been generally a sober man. He is different from other
men when he is drunk, and witness supposes that it must
arise from something which is the matter in his head.
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Thomas Trott examined—Lives in Bedminster, and is
a grocer. Has known Clarke for about eight years. His
general character has been that of a hard-working honest
man. When he takes a drop of drink, he is generally
flighty, more so than men generally are.
Thomas Pratton examined—Lives in Bedminster, and
is a carpenter. Has known Clarke seven or eight years.
His general character has been that of an upright and in•
dustrious man. When he -drinks he is generally out-
rageous ; snore so than men generally are by drink.
Henry Morgan examined—ls a hog-butcher, and lives
in Bedminster. Has known Clarke from his youth up-
wards. His general character was that of a hard -working
industrious man. When he drinks he is in what witness
would call a frenzied state, ever since he met with a fall
of timber on his head.
Nancy Carroll examined—Has lived in the same
lodging-house with Courtney. Recollects the day that
the fires took place. Witness met Courtney on that day
about half-past one o'clock, in the New Globe public-
house. He and the witness remained is that public-house
till near five o'clock, when they parted. She saw him
again about eight o'clock on that evening.
Cross-examined—The landlord of the New Globe and
his wife, and others, were present when witness and the
prisoner Courtney were there.
Dennis Lynch—Knows Courtney ; lodges in the same
house with him. On the Sunday the fires happened he
saw Courtney coming out of the Globe public- house in
Christmas-street, about five o'clock. Witness took him
into Mr. Smith's, the Full Moon. They stopped there
till eight o'clock, and then went together straight home.
Witness left him at his lodgings and came away. Witness

lives in the next room to him.
Cross-examined--What became of Courtney after
eight o'clock that evening witness does not know. Wit-
ness has known him three years. He is a labourer, and
so is witness.
Henry Dwyer examined—Resides in the same house
with Courtney and Lynch. Saw Courtney the day that
the gaol was burned at eight o'clock in the evening. Wit-
ness remained with him about an hour. Witness went
away about nine o'clock ; he left Courtney there.
Elizabeth Grant examined—The house in which the
prisoner Courtney lodges is her house. On the day of
the fires he came in early in the evening, and did not
Q'o out till next morning at seven o'clock, when he went
to his work. He could not go out without her knowing it.
Cross-examined—There are between twenty and thirty
lodgers in her house. On this particular night she took
particular observation of all who went out, and Courtney
could not go out from eight o'clock its the evening until
seven o'clock in the morning, when he did go out, without
her knowing it.
George Bailey examined—Lives in the parish of Keyns-
ham. The prisoner Williams lives in the same parish.
Witness went in with him on the day of the fires into Bris-
tol. That was about three o'clock in the afternoon. They
stopped on their way at a public-house, and had a pint of
beer. Keynshatn is about five miles from Bristol. When
they came to the turnpike near Bristol, it was twenty
minutes after four o'clock. On getting to the bridge they
heard the people say that the prison was on fire, and seeing
a great many go there, they went also. When they got
there it was all on fire. The prisoner and witness went
into the prison. They saw the Governor's house on fire.
Wil!iams was with witness all'the time. He did not commit
any act of violence there. Witness saw Deyrick flinging
blankets into the fire. He also saw bun come out of the
gaol in company with a strange man who had an iron bar
in his hand. He threw it down, and Deyrick took it up.

Deyrick said he would make Ss. of it. The prisoner said,
he should have nothing to elo with it, and Deyrick then
flung it down. Witness and the prisoner then went down
to a beer-shop. Deyrick came in there after them, and also
took beer. When he came out he was tipsy. While Wil-
liams was in witness's company he did not commit any act
of violence, and he could not have done so without his see-
ing it. The prisoner picked up a blanket, with something
rolled up in it, on the Bedminster-bridge, in his way home
with witness, and carries it home.
Joshua Andrews--Knows the prisoner Williams. Went
with his wife to Bristol on the day that the fires hap..
pened. The prisoner passed them on the road, about a
mile out of Keynsham. That was about three o'clock.
They stopped at the King's Arms on their way ; and
they saw the prisoner there. They left him there whe❑
they departed.
Nancy Dagg examined—Is the landlady of the King's
Arms. She knows the prisoner James Williams. He
came into her house about half-pist three o'clock on the
Sunday of the fires. He remained from about twenty
minutes to half an hour, and left about four o'clock.
Christopher Wiggins examined—ls the son of an auc-
tioneer, in Keynsham. Knows Williams. Was on Bed-
minster-bridge, in Bristol, on the day of the fire. He
saw the prisoners let out about a quarter after four o'clock.
Witness then returned to Keynsham ; and in his way
about a mile from Bristol met Williams at Arnas_v,i,
going to Bristol. That was about half-past four o'clock
in the afternoon.
Cross.examined—He knew the hour at Arnos-vale, be-
cause many people said it was half-past four. Some being
asked the question, pointed at the church where the clock
was, and witness, amongst others, thus knew what the
hour was. He knew it from the people stating it, and
afterwards from looking at the clock.
James Evans examined—ls foreman to the surveyor of