The Sun.
London, England, 1821-08-24 00:00:00

[MORNING CIIRONICLq

Mr. Hanson has hitherto been very.unfortunate
•in his witnesses, for . most of them have.taken
from the soldiers the only justifiable groUra.
for firing on the pe*Ople.-- our Report
yesterday's Proceedings at. the Adjourned
Inquest on George Princis,:JOhn Lloyd will be
found fo have expressly stated,.:" about ten
nutes elapsed between the throwing of the. stones
and the firing.; between five and ten infnutes;but. I
cannot speak precisely to the time."' Mr. Henry
Charles. Elsgood, surgeon, of Park-street, Gros-
venor-square, stated, the mob seemed very. quiet
for two or three minutes, which le.d me to oliserve
to a person near me that they were:reading the
Riot Act, but in a minute or.twol heard firing ;
the first shot I heard was below the Tyburn-gate,
and appeared to be directed towards the Park, as
the people there were rtinnin? away
. I can't sayisaw any cause for the firing;
I think it might have. been done without;_ there
was a cessation before the firing for two or three
minutes; the soldiers had gained their point; and I
saw nothing to justify the firing. . The.shots.l
saw fired could not be directed against- any per-
sons who offered" obstruction 'in the Edgeware-
road." A number of witnesses have distinctly
stated, that no stones were thrown till the sol-
diers had struck several people with their swords".
SOme of Mr. Hanson's witnesses haVe also. sworn
that they saw individuals-struck before the throw-

ing commenced. 13ut supposing even it were other-
wise, if an interval, such as that above described,
took place between the throwing or stones (4141 the
firing, the firing could not possibly' be. in 'Self-de-
fence. The soldier who presumes .fire, except
in self-defehce, is guilty 'of murder, .in the eye of

the law, if he happen to kill any one. 7The
reading of the Riot Act, and the requisition of
the 'Magistrate, can alone authorise him to 'fire,
except on such an occasion as would justify any
other individual in firing. • B.ut.no Riot Act. was
read' at Ciimberland7.gate, and the •officers and
soldiers who fired orf. the . people' are bound to
prove 'that they were .compelled to do so in
self-defence, to.free themselveS•from the charge
of murder. Some of 'the Ministerial Journals
are quite enraged at .the idea -of so fe* orthe
people having been killed, and. they take every
opportunity of venting' their spleen against Sir
Robert Baker, because he" was. not sknguinary.
enough to wade to the accomplishment of the
object of Ministers through the blood of his .fel-
fow4-citizerts; In noticing, an intention said to be
eatertained by some;''persons,". of .Having pub-lic
funerals for the bodies.of Honey and. Francis, ,11.
Morning Paper ohservei, ."--861day...Ft,6a. is tlft
day-lixed upon fnr _this atrocious 'scheme"; .but
.we hope the. Pofice will befolly:prepared on the:.
occaSion, though
.tee do not think it trill
cqlarly necessary to trouble Sir" Itcbert:Paker;"—:'
We know not how Sir .R.obert may feel under
these remarks, bat certain We are, that on hii

death-bed it will be a consolation to him to re-
flect that he did not add to the:folly:of Ministers
the guilt of..sacriflcing -the lives' of numbers of
his fellow-Cittzens, fOr an ohwct.which many of
the supporters -0t Administration.cannot think of
without grief and shame.

NEW SOUTH WALES.—In the sale of 'the.
cent importation of the wools' from this fine. and
Tnteresting Colony, it affords us great pleasure'
to state that the'superior kinds•readlied. the 'enor-;
i'nousprice of 105.:4d. per lb., avid that:the infer
rior sorts,•although. badly assorted and paCked,
averaged nearly 2s. 6d-per lb. Capital, and eX,-
perienced attention:afone, are wanting to render
this import a source, not only of fortune to the
owner of. the flocks, but also of incalculable im-
portance, at :all (lines, to the Mother country:
the 'wobls from these Colonies possess qualities
which are foatod-to be very valuable 'in the rna-
npfacture, and -produce cloths not only finer in.
quality but of longer duration- in wear.

PROVINCIAL JOURNALS.

[From " The Leeds Intelligencer," Aug. 20.]
(Continued from yesterday's Sues) •
We now come to the atrocious proceedings of Tuesday last.
And here we would observe, that let the dame pursued by
Ministers hav'e been ever so impolitic, (which we do not
admit,) yet that it was strictly legal ; and that the oppo-
sition made to it constitutes a high inisdetneanoiu.; and
involVes• the utniosi contempt for his Majesty's ge:vern-
rnent. We, however, contend,, that the measures pursued were
nbi only eustifred by the law.; which places the ordering of the
'Queen's funeral in. the hands of the. liing,eleut that they
were such as a deference to eif. the late Queen, as far.
-as those wisheS seeri"inOwhe folly Warranted. Every diposi
don was made to shew respect to the royal remains ; every
'desire was evinced to in the grave all feelings of animo-
sity and of party zeal. In her
:will, the Queen desired her
body to be removed in threedays ; and in herprevious conver-
sations, we 'can collect, that she was desirous her funeral
should be conducted as privately as possible. Against lying in
state she particularly Objected.: She wished not to be made a
shew of after' death;
:there had, she emphatically observed,
" been enough of that in her life time." The time that elapsed
between the royal demise, and the removal of the corpse from
Brandenhurgh,housea was: amply sufficient for every prepa-
ration ; indeed, we haVe as 'Yet heard no.complaints of any
thing being wanted : and all the inconvenience which await-
ed the mourners on the evening of the first- day, their fa-
tigue, &c. was owing to the disgraceful conduct of the
mob, and their abettors': As to , the route which had been
marked out by- government, if the pretended friends of the un-
fortunate Queen, (unfortunate in being made the tool of such a
desperate faction,) had really wished for nothing else but to
shew their respect for her memory, it afforded ample scope for
that purpose. A procession on the largest scale might have
followed the funeral cavalcade ; and eveey" public testimonial
of respect" might have been paid. There was no wish to pre-
vent . this, there was no wish to ".outrage deeency,"-•--or to
" endanger the peace",—on the part of gneernment—all this,
however,, his been done by the Queen's friends. They have
been the cause of the blood that. was spilled—they haveheen
the sole authors Orthose deeply to be lamented and atrocious
proceedings, which, disgraced the funeral other Majesty—and
violated the solemn order that ought to have:been preserved on
that occasion: •
" No insult to the Queen's remains was either offered or in-
tendedly Ministers ; but deeply have they been insulted by
the,conduct of the faction which degraded her before her death ;
and whith,' by at length making her sensible of that degrade.-
tion, Initiledher to the'grave ! The spirit that would not bend
to-the. wishis- of the King—that braved the proceedings of his
Ministers-that refused to accept the mediation of, the House
of Commoris, was' broke by the painful conviction that public
opinion,' upon which she had leaned, was a broken reed ;'
and had only hurried her to her destruction. Not content with
this, the selfish partizans of this abused and deceived lady—
fixed on the day of her funeral—on that day when the enmity
of her most bitter opponents would have been hushed ; on
that day when a decent respect would have been shewn to her
memory, by those who were compelled by public duty, and
public principle, to be her adveiiiiies when alive-:--that (hy was
fixed-on-to consummate their guilt, by a violent and determined
opposition to the constituted authorities of the country; and by
substituting scenes -of riot and outrage, for that respectful so-
lemnity which would have been preseired, if. the measures of
Government had not been interfered with by:it set of unautho-
rized and desTaning individuals. •
" The result of this conduct has been the shedding of
blood And on their 'heads who promoted arid directed the
outrages of the mob, will this blood rest. .As was the case at
Manchester, an attempt (lease enough jai's, and desperate we
hope it will be) is making to direct the indignation of the peo-
ple from the instigators of the 'outrages, 6 the noble and distin-
guished -men who acted in pursuance of the commands of their
Sovereign, and in furtherance of the wish to exezute the will. of
the late Queen; and to the soldiers, whO; when in performance
of their duty, were pelted and insulted by a set of vile raffienS,
and who took no measures of' retaliation till these insults and
outtages .had`• reached
:a height, beyond human forhearance.-a
The same factious press; which so industriously circulated ea-
luniny and falsehood at the former period, is again at work," the
same nefarious practices- are resorted to, and we hope it will be,
with the same result.
" Deeply dc we lenient thi fate of the unhappy men wild lost
their lives on this melancholy occasion ; we pity the misguided
populace, who were made the active agents in theae atrocious
outrages ; but, we can scarcely command our feelings, when, we
contemplate the consummate hardiho4 and the deep 'designing
villainy of the men, who instigated the populace to canduCt so
disgraceful ;• or the cool,calailating malignity -of those who czn
defend it. If Ministers do not strain every nerve to bring these
men to justice, itthey do not use every endeavour tnintliet on
them an exemplary punishment, ,they will be lost to what is
dtie to therpselv:.l; and_ to what is due to the county. The
tine is come when they rgustte.firrn. Unless they Wish to see
the horrora of the French Revolution.re..sed in England ; un-
less they wish to sea-(he laws and constitution of our country
prostrate at the:fact of, mob, they.: most be firm in Oielr
solves, decided in their. execution. Every eloyal man zril b2'
with them—the rank, the wealth, and the respectability of the
country will supple-et, them." • -

Mr: FLAANY.N, the sculptor; figs arrived in
Edinburgh, in. order to select a prop.er situation
for the staru of P.URNS, which 'he is about to
exotpte. trk

vy .~.

A fte-r -fulfil-Eby, his engagements at Nottingtmrn
and Derby, MACREADY has agreed to return to
Birminyhain, for-. one .night .more, when he. wi!l
appear • for- the first time in Cvriolanus.—,Mlis
DANCE and M. An'aorr last night commenced an.
etigagement fOt six nights at the Newcastle
Theatre : the former in the character of Belvidere,
'the latter in- that of Pierre. •.

, MELANCHOLY SuicroE.--Yesterday morning a
most distressing- occurrence took place' at -the
_ _ _ _

house of ..grocer,,.Orawford-street
Montague-square : Mrs. Jane Wigfold, who oc-:
cupied .an apartment in the above house, .acid
-whose hnsband, is. in the -service. of. Sir-Roger
`GrkleY, went to three different. shops .in tile
Ueighbourhood,,and.purchased at each shop half:
.an ounce of oxalic acid.,.for the purpose, as She
said, of .cleaning• boot-tops, the whole, of :which
she swallowed,. and soon after die& A note,
written in penci4 was, found lying near the de-
ceased, addressed to' Mr. Mills, the landlord, to
the following effect :--L" My dear mr. Mils,- for
God's sake, don't let my property and papers be
ransacked after :1 am dead, but write to my dear
husband, who.will come to London immediately.;
.Direct tO_W-Wigrold.,- at Sir Roger Grisley's;
Lawley Pan, near•Burtou-upon-Trent, Derby-
shire."

THE ASSIZES.

LEWES=, Au G. 21:

,
CIVIL SlDE.—Before Mr. Justice BURROUGH and Special
. Juries:
THE KIN-43 V. HAISELLAND ANOTHER. . .
This was an. information filed by the ATTO'RNEY-6ENE-
RAL4ainst two Custom-honse Officers named flaisell and
Gurr, for a conspiracy to aid, assist, and ;bet certain smugglers'
in the landing of unaccustomed gaods at :Guildfbrd, near 14e,
in this County, on the 4th of September, 1819. . .
The witnesses for the prosecution were all nottorioits'srimg-
glers,.with the exception of one, a Custom-house officer, and
tliesubstance of their statement was 'this :-4n the evening of.
the 4th of September list, a large qiiantityof smuggled spirits
and foreign silks were landed at 'a place called Jew's Gut, near
Rye. Whilst the smugglers were landing the cargo .thetwo
defendants and anothecofficer; named Chapman, came up, and
it was sworn that the defendant QUIT, in the -presence of.
others, said to one of the smugglers, - named Hersfield; " We
must have some of the tubs." The-smugglers said, that if they
did not-make any-alarm they should have. soppe. °tar. then
said, " We must have 39 of them."' The smugglers ,answered
that they could not let them have so many, as it was but-a small
crop. The defendants- then agreed to .take 22. or 25 tubS, the
witness could not say which, as their share, and prinised, not
to give any alarm. The goods were accordingly ..landed,, and
the defenclants.received as their share 22 tuba, which- they car,
tied off, and took them to the Custom-house, but suffered the
smugglers to take away the remainder of the cargo. Under these
circumstances the prosecution was instituted against.; the de-
fendants. In opening the case, the Counsel for the prosecution
gave.the defendants:the benefit cf having been active, merito-
polls 'officers previous to this transaction. -
On the cross-examination of the witnesses-for. the Crown,
great pains were taken to shake their testimony. It appeare4
that the information which led to this. rosecution had not been
gives bythem until a. year and a 'half after • the alleged trans-
action.. One of them admitted that he had been ruined by the
defendants and other. Custom-house 'officers in his--trade of a
smuggler. The witnesses, however, four in number, acknow-
ledged themselves to be notorious smugglers, and hid support,
ed themsel;,es ail their lives. by -such illicit means. They were
examined separately, and all gave an unvaried aceoptit of the
transaction, and were consistent in their story. 'Their testimony
was corroborated by that of -Mr. Chapman, the officer above
mentioned: • •

Mr. Serjeant TAPDY remarked upon the novelty of. this.sin-
, gular coalition of the Board of Revenue, with notorious smug-
glers, against their own officers. The• defence he had to.set up
was, that the evidence of the smugglers was founded in vindic-
tive motives towards the defendants; in consequence, -al one of
them admitted, of the activity which they, had shewn in- the
suppression of smuggling.. Be particularly .dwelt upon the
stelenecs of that infoimatren neon whirl} tins prosecution was
founded —a year and a half having t-lapSed before the slightest
hint was given of any thing of kind having taken place. It
was manifest from this that some malicious feelings had influ-
enced the witnesses; .and the Jury therefore ought to watch
their testimony with' the greatest jealousy.
The Mayor of Rye, the. Town Cierk„ Mr. Watson,- a collec-
tor of customs, and several other respectable persons, gave the
defendants a most unexceptionable character for being very
active and zealous officers.

The case went to the Jury, under the Learned Judges direc-
tions' and after retiring for three quarters of an hour, found the
defendants—Ou ILT Y.

• • LEWES; .AtTo. 22.
THE ICING V%—BAIIIIOW•AND ANOTHXR.
This was an •information against- the Defendants, charging
them with offering. a bribe to John Burn, an Admiralty
Midshipman, employed in the Pre'ventive Service, to induce
him to permit the Defendants and;others to land a cargo of
Smugglett spirits.
The ease was opened by Mr. Sojeant ONsLow, from whose
statement it appeared; that the 'Defendants, &arrow; and Hen-
bery, hiving obtained an introduction to Mr.' Burn, darkly
hinted to him, that, by means which they could point out, he
might get a little money for himself. They lamented that he
was employed on so fatiguing service, and hinted- at his al-
lowing them to land a cargo of. etnALtraband, goodi on his sta-
don; by which he might get 401:' 501..;• and ultimately they
agreed to give hiM 1001. The time arrived when this landing
was to take place, and a part of the clew of the Severn frigate
were concealed around the intended landing place, and the above
named DefeudantS were apprehended in the fact. _
Mr. Burn- was called; and proved tae above circumstances;-
that he had communicated the'reallt of the different interviews
he had with the. Defendants to his sopenor Officer, Lieutenant
Chappel, who was afterwards callad, and confirmed his state-
ment ; on which

ADOL,nws.tternowlaiged he had
ing the strength of this case, otnil the Defendants wt re found
A Jtfryman, Mr. Charles Forster -nring, said, " My Lori,
it strikes ul that the Gentlemen of the Severn have been
trernely a:',siduousin their .duty, and that they ought to hare
the thanks of their country for it."