The Sun.
London, England, 1819-09-07 00:00:00

AIR. HUNT.

LETTER from 211). HUNT to a FRIEND TOWN.

" Lancaster, Saturday, Sept. 4.
" MY DEAR Sra—Last night the Grand Jury
here returned a true bill, in an indictment against
the famous Mr. Richard OWen for perjury, hle
having falsely sworn, on his examination before
the quorum of Manchester Magiitratei, at the
New Bailey, that Mr. Monrhouse, of StoCkport,
was on the hustings on the l6th of August, on
Sr. Peter's-plain. This Morning bills of indict-
ment for perjury were also preferred against Platt
and Derbyshire, for having, on the same ()ma.
sion, falsely sworn to the some fact, which was
colitradicteol by he same nine witnesses who gave
evidence before the same Grand Jury on the for-
mer indictment, on which they returned a true
bill. Thus have this Grand Jury at all events
found a hill against themselves : for if it was right
to return a true bill against Owen, why Grow.Oirt
the bills against the others, there being no differ=
ence in the facts sworn to by Hatt and Derby-
shire, any other than that of the two latter hav-
ing stated they were well acquainted with Moor-
house, and therefore could not have sworn to him
by accident ? Bills of indictment were also pre-
ferred against severA persons for capital felony,
for cutting and thaiming with sabres, with intent
to kill, tinder Lot d Ellenborottelva Act these
were delivered into the Grand Jury by Messrs
Pearson and Harmer last night, and this morning
the Solicitor for the Treasury delivered in a hilt
against myself and the other persons for a conspi-
racy to alter the Govetnment by force and threats ;
and as we were waiting to be called in as witnesses
on the former bills, Mr. E.B.Wilbrahrtm, who had
hitherto been sitting upon the Grand Jury, rerifed,
and informed us that be did so in consequence
of the bill preferred against us by the Crown be-
ing then about to be investigated by the Grand
Jury ; upon which I wrote and sent in to Lord
Stanley a Protest against the proceedings, as be-
ing not only irregular, hut Unjust towairtli us, by
giving the precedence to the hearing of the bill
against us, before they investigated thoSe which
we had presented the day before. But this was
over-ruled, and Nadin, Platt, and Derbyshire are
now examining before the Grand, Jury, who, I
have not the least doubt, will 'find a true bill
against us, upon the evidence of such men as the
above, all belonging to the Police, even if we
should be charged with sheep-stealing. twb of
the bills that we have sent in arc for dreadfully
cutting two women, one of them a very interest-
ing imaried young i.voinan, of about 3 years of
age, with a fine child in her arms of five months
old, who had its brains neatly dashed out by the
fall its mother received, when she was cut down
with the sabre of one of the Yeomanry, by in-
flicting a wound of four inches long on her skull,
and the wretch rode back, and had another cot at
her as she and her child lay weltering in their
blood. There are now hall a score persons here
dreadfully cut and maimed, waiting to prefer bills.
We shall do every thing we can to Wing these
men to justice ; but, aki:Mgt) we have the
strongest and best proof, yet I have no hopes of
ahy real justice being done to bring the Grand
Jurymen, brother Magistrates, and relations., to
trial here. We are anxious to know what was
done at the Westminster Meeting. Remember
toe to all friends, and say that 1 am in good
health and spirits. Recollect that Oven, Platt,
and Derbyshire, were the only material witnesses
againit us. Justice Ilulton, known here by the
name of Miss Hutton; being a great tiaraly, is sit-
ting On the bench with the Judge.
" Your's sincerely,
" H. HUNT,"

1-1 VNT'S PROTEST.

ADDRESSED TO LORD STANLEY, FOREMAN OF THS

GRAND JURY.

"My Loin,-=-I beg leave respectfully to remind your Lord-
ship, that there were s'Jveral bills of indictment submitted
vett erday afternoon to the judr,ment of the Grand Jury by
myself and sever:-.1 ether persons, who received 110 ry by the
events of the 16th ultimo. I find that a bill has been sent in.
to the Grand JUry this morning, in Which the conUderation
Of the same events is invtilted and have learnt that the
witnesses upon the latter bill are intended to be called and,
examined before those which preceded it. 1 feel convinced
duet 'so irregular a proceeding must have been adopted with-
out salicietit consideration. It cannot be necessary to re-
mind your Lordship and the Gentlemen of the Grand Jury,
that the bills in question are presented to the judgment of
au Inquest, and not of a Jury to try the cause I and that as
their deposition Is retptired to be made out upon the evideoce
produced on each bill, 1 am hilt discharging, a duty to my
country, in respectfully requesting that the bills should lie
beard in the Order in which they ate printed.
" To Lord Stanley, Foreman, Grand Jury,

Laucaster:'

We understand that a Meeting was hell at thii
CrOwn-andAnchor Tavern last night, for the
purpose of making arrangements for the triumphal
entry of Ho Ni' into London, on his retcYn trout
:Manchester. The demagogue is to be attended by
his old coulpailions of Smithfield and Spafiehts,
bearing banners with such, inscriptions as they
way deem appropriate. One Wat.Kgit was in the
Chair list night, and GALE JONES %A 3 the lead-
ing otatur.—(New Times )

14.41 P,

?he -DISTU RM.) &Id- MAN UFACTURING

Dis Tit C'l's.

MANCHESTER, 'SRFT. 'ten o'clock in
the evening of this day another of those horrid bar-
lraritips .-occurred which have of late shown the
(mill of Radical Refoun tenets. Thomas Now-
one of the pensioners who is acting as-a
Constable Attached to the Police, was attacked
near New Town by a set of men %Alto designated
Lim ay " a Nadin's man," and treated him
so ibburnanly, ;thlt he was conveyed to the
Infirmary in .a shocking state, much injured on
the bead. The men tvho .borehim thither said
theyy-should probably shat e, the same fate for
doing that humane office. The constable, whom
we mentioned a fortnight ago as having been so
Crivelly 'handled tit the New Cross-, Campbell,
is dead of his woutuls'at tire Infirinary. This fe-
spectable mairflrad served his King and country in
the army for twenty years, and at last fell a vic-
tim to the fury of the times. Too men connec'ted
with thisctithe are in the New Bailey, awaiting
the issue of the Coroner's Jury, which has entered
opQn the intiniry ; but it bat been:Postponed for
a fi:tv days on, account of the absence of some
material witnesses at the Assizes. Private threats
and ir,timi iatinns are held- out against those who
do the important ditty of the civil office.

The calumnious violence with which circum-
stances relating to the meeting at St. Peter's* on
the 16th ult. are treated by the public press, is
muds to bc regretted. MisgistrateS, men of the
most pure minds, 311(1 certain portions of the mi-
li,:ary who acted on the above day, and acted only
bs,nefit their country, are dealt with the most
slanderous manner. The Manchester Yeomanry
come in for more than an ordinary proportion of
every kind of insinuation, and diret cli*orge also,
that can tend fla degrade men its the eyes of
as Englishman. That they' have received the
Vigil sanction of the Prince Regent, who has de-
clared that they haie done their duty to His sa-
tisfaction, mid with humanity, is at present at-
teMpted to be held as .nOthiog. Certain of his
Royal Highness's subjects contend that they can
form a more correct conclusion. LI ence,lbe most
painful suggestions are thrown out.; and the per-
sonal friends of Hunt have gone the length of
having posted on the walls of the town, iniarge
tharacterS, language of a terrible description
against the Yeomanry, for having performed a
painful yet important duty. The object of 'these
endeavours is too obvious to require explana-
tion.' That assertions are made without a due
regard to truth cannot be doubted, and this is
even scarcely denied by those very prints which
have been toast icalous in propagating the slanders.
The conduct of these persons has not been con-
fined to endeavouring to traduce so loyal and con-
stitutional a force as the Yeomanry. They have
attempted to " damn with false praise " the rept':
lar troops stationed -there, thereby wishing to
create *a belief asnotigit their own vitiated Ad.
tnirers, and ro extend the belief to the country in

general, that whilst the Volunteer Cavalry ex-
ceeded their duty, the regular troops did less than
theirs. Let such men neither deceive themselves,
nor mislead those whose credulity they would
turn to the worst and most interested of purposes.
It would be as impossible to draw a Britiih sol-
dier, conscious of the honourable situation he
holds, full of loyalty to his Sovereign, and love
of his country, into the schemes of such despica-
ble men as are now striving to overthrow all that
is valuable and venerable on their native soil, a
it would be impracticable to intimidate a British
Yeoman from exerting himself in the, cause of
social and civil order. Truth is a very sober-
minded quality, and must ultimately prevail. In.:
vestigations are to ensue which will draw out
complete evidence. By that men must stand or
fall. In the mean time, it is not quite consistent
with the true notions of British justice to con-
demn parties who cannot yet have an opportu-
nity of being fully beard. Clamour, in such a
case, can only be characterized as vulgar abuse.
One of the Bills which is alluded to as having
been posted on 'the walls of the. town, was an
Vitation to an Hussar, who was stated to have ex-
claimed to a Yeomanry Officer, " You rascal,
that's murder'," t 9 come forward and make his de-
position before Mr. Pearson.
In consequence of the appearance of so scan•
dalous a publication, every individoal soldier of
the 15th Light Dyagoons .was ordered out on
parade by their Commander, Lieutenant-Colonel
Dalrymple, and the-Bill was read to them. Any
one of 'them' wh• might have used the 'above ex-
pressions was desired to stand forward, and" ex-
plain the circumstances stated'in it. A sufficient
,pause of time was then, allowed for the'Porpose,
but no one did step forward ; and there 'cannot
be a doubt of the whole being a false statement..
This place and neighbourhood enjoy, at pre-
sent, a perfect state of order and tranquillity, and
if the incendiary promoters of Revolution will
profit by the lesson they have received, and totally
abandon their lawless and mischievous -schemes
'(hut which we are afraid will not accord With
their wicked and mercenary views), there is every
probability of their long remaining so uninter-
rupted. We lament to state, that, since our
last, two patients in the Infirmary have yielded up
-their spirits to their Almighty Parent. Mr. CaMp-
'bell, who was a Special Constable on the day of
the tumultuous assembly heie, expired on Monday
last. He was attacked by a brutal party of
the rabble in Newton-lane (in Which neighbour-
loci!, be resided), the day after the meeting, and
-was abused with a ferocity that would haveStiam-
ed the wildest savage. A publican and his ser-
vant are accused of some share in the barbarous

transaction ; but as the Ingitest, which com-
menced on Wednesday, has been adjourned to the-
16th inst. purposely to have the best information
upon the subject, we shall forbear from inserting
their names, as it is possible they may he able to
show that the charge cannot be maintaineti they
hay* however, been apprehended, anti confined
in the New Bailey prison.
FUNERAL OF CAMPBELL.

The last remains of this unfortunate constable
and old soldier 'were deposited in the earth on
Thnrsday, in St. John's Church•yard. Colonel
L'IL-n range, the Commander of the Garrison, hav-
ing been applied to in the most respectful manner

by Mr. Lnaiban Anatttv,"one Of (helteati Chn-
stables at Manchester, stating that it was the
particular 'request of the. late Mr. 'Campbell's
friends that be should he -interred with military
honours, t-he'Colonel politely consented to it. A
yumerous,.hody• of mourners attended the funeral
on the awful occasion, and as the deceased had
frequently met in' the field ot- battle the foreign
enemies of his King and Countiy, a•selected de-
.tachment of the 31st regiment of foot fired three
volleys over his grave; in testimony that be was a
man w!:o had merited a less severe late, and that
he had done his duty.

CORONER'S INQUEST.
A young; man named, Edmund Dawson, of the
age of 19, who came out of Sai,dleworth, died
►►n Tuesday : lie bad received
.a sabre cut in the
head on the 16th ult. near St. Peter's Church.--,
An Inquest was held upon him, before John Milne,
Esq. Coroner, on Wednesday last, which was ad-
journed to this present Saturday.
After consulting about half an hour, the Jury
retur►►ed the following verdict, viz.-4' That the
deeeaied died in consequence of a wound received
on the head on the 16th inst. in the Parish of
Manchester, inflicted by the Cut of,a Sabre or
other sharp instrument."

LEEDS, FRIDAY, ONE O'CLoCli AFTERNOON.
Bills have been sent before the Grand Jury
against the following persons, in reference to the
late di'sturbances at Alanchester :—Mr. Edward
Tehhutt, Mr. Thos. Platt, and Mr. Robert Derby-
shire, members of the Manchester Corps of Yen-
nianry Cavalry, for maliciously cutting and stab-
Under Lord Ellenborough's Act ; and against
Mr. Richard Owen, a pawnbroker of Manchester,
for perjury, committed by .him in some deposi-
lions sworn by !link:before the Magistrates', 'you
which they were supposed to have acted in the
late dispersion of the Reform Meeting at that
place, by military fuTe.
Two. o'Clock, p: in.—An application has just
been made to the Court to' allow Samuel Bram-
fOrd, one" of three persons committed from
Manchester, to go before the Grand Jetty to give
evidence on a bill preferred. for perjury, against
Mr. Owed.—The Coto granted the application.
Five o'Clock, p. Grand Jut y•bave. not
yet come into Court. 111neh anxiety is felt as to
the result ofibe..bills preferred by Mr. Hunt. Sir
C. Wolseley has been in Court tbis.afteinoon.'

NOTTINGHAM FRAMEWORK KNITTERS.
The two-needle branch in Nottingham and its
neighbourhood are
.still suffering extreme priva-
tions, in their efforts to obtain a regulation of the
pier's, of the trade. On Tuesday morning they
began to bring their frames in belonging to those
hosiers who had not agreed to the " statement"
price. Tl►e frames were principally 'from the
country, and were drawn in waggons and carts,
to which long ropes were affixed, and the work-
men themselves pulled them along. They• bad
labels in their hats, on which was written, in
large characters, " We keep the peace." Frames
have continued to be brought in►o town the whole
of the week, and rte .have not heard of the slight-
est breach of the public peace. In -consequence
of the letters which had been addressed, to the
Doke of Newcastle, the Lord Lieutenant o 1 the
county, his Greee arrived at Nottiwgham on Mon-
day, and took up his 'abode at the Blackusoor's
head inn. Ilere he had interviews, as we un-
derstand, will) both the Town and Country 1%1 a -
gist rates, a .number of respectable hosiers, and
the Committee of Framework Knitters. 0.1 the
conversations which took place we have not heard
the particulars. On his departure from the town,
he lett the following letter for the Committee :
" The Duke of Newcastle cannot heAre'Nottingliapi with-
out expressing his great regret at being unable to devise any
legal means of adjusting the differences now existing between
the woi kmen and their employers, in the hosiery business;
but having received applications, which make it appear, that
Colonization at the Cape of Good. Flope would prove a-de-
sirable object to many, the Duke wishes to acquaint the
workmen that he wi4 afford the measure every facility in his
power, either by giving them personal inlormation, or by
convening the Count y,to take the subject into. considtn•ation,
upon receiving a proper .application fur that purpose.
" To Messrs. Miller, Sands, and Rot herford, .Nuttingham.

'Nottingham, August 30, 1619."
It is with unfeigned satisfaction, that we an-
nounce that many of the most respectable manu-
facturers have »beady seut'in their names to the
Committee, with a pledge to give the -statement
price, and their men, are now returned to their
'employment ; and we haVe some grounds for hop-
ing that by our mkt publication a thorough un-
derstanding will have taken 'place between the
masters and the worktnen. We have further the
pleasure to say, that the-subscriptions in behalf of
the distressed framework knitters ate neither few
nor small, Our Worthy Representative in Parlia.
ment, Joseph Birch, Esq. has in the most noble
manner sent them in a letter a bank-note for one
hundred potinds. We are also requested by a
Correspondent lo say, that the Members of the
Union Society, held at the New Methodist School
Room,'East-street, in this town, have, with that
liberality' and humanity, which characterise the
whole of their proceedings, made a donation of
201. to support the families of that part, of the
Framework Knitters who are now contending
with their employers for a regulation in the prices
of labour ; a measure which is admitted to be ab-
solutely necessary by almost every individual con-
nected with the trade.---(Nottingham Review)

LOUGHBOROUGH, SEPT. 2.
The arrangenieots between the Hosiers and
Stocking-makers, respecting an advance of wages,
were happily confirmed the latter end of last
week, so far as' regards the worsted hands and
the Angola hands; and once more the smile of
joy beams in• the countenance of these poor men.
Hitt as to the cotton hands, the dispute. remains
unsettled, and the frames continue to stand.
still in our town, where we have about fifty, and
at Sheepshead, where there are nearly tour hun-
dred. In this branch too, the men are yet out of
work at Whit wick, Thringstone, Diseyvorih,
Long Whalton,Kegworth, Hathern, Sutton Bon-
ington, and Wimeiwould at several of which
places many of the jaCkwires have been removed
to prevent their working at under prices.

MANSFIELD, SEPT. 2.
A very liberal subscription tor the unem-
ployed Frame-work Knitters has been entered
nil° at Mansfield, which at this time Mounts to
neatly three hundred pounds, and is not yet finish-
ed. Tl:e wen have once passed thiou4h the'

'town -Failks, iu conj.hction it)e ~ift"tOn
fonds, and have condticted tllenaselves.with such
propriety, as 'it is hoped will gain thein many
friend's in these ncrdful times.

PQLICE INTELLIGENCE.

SEQUEL TO THE DISTURBANCE IN ST. ANDREW'S

CH9{CH-Y ARE!.

GuILbitALL.--•Our •Readers will remember
disgraceful .distnrbance in the Church-yard
Andrew's, Holborn, in the early part of June
last, in consequence Of the refusal of the parish
officers (there ibeing no Rector at that• time) to
permit.the body of a Mrs. Gilbert to be interred..
-on account of its being inclosed in an iron coffin.
The question on the propriety of the refusal has
since been. before the 'Court of King's Bench, on
a motion for a mandamus to.compel the Church-
wardens to permit the interment ; but the Court
refused the rule, upon the ground that the sub-
ject was wholly within the jurisdiction of the
.Erclesiastical.Court ; the cause is. still pending in
that Court. The corpse, we understand, is..still
unburied, and remaius in.. St. Andrew's butte•
house.

A; soon as the list of prisoners had been gone
through yesterday, Mr. Bridgeman, the parent e:
of the bon coffins, inadebis appr•arence in the front
of the table, and addressing the Magistrate, Mr.
Alderman J.J.Smith; stated that he had an appli-
cation to make of a peculiar nature ; he then:
proceeded to say, that be-had been taken into
custody at the. instance of Mr. Briztaid, the
Church-warden, and other parish officers in Sr.
Andrew's Church-yard,- for no other reason that
he was aware of, but that of his refusing to cause
the coffin with the corpse in it to he removed front
the Church-yard ; that he_was conveyed to the
Comp, er, where Ite remained ail- night, and.
brought _up to this Justice-room in the runt niug
that when :he was brought up, tile•-onlv charge
against him was for being disorderly. ivhich- waS
set against his name. after he was taken. to the
Croupier, that no evidence was adduced to prove
Hoe such offence, and the Alderman would have
discharged him, but that another charge was pre-
ferred against • him fur assaulting Frewia, the
parish beadle, by striking-him in his .tvly to the
Cotrrpter, subsequently to his having been taken
into c”Stody by the direction of, the Church war.,
dens. For this offence he had given bail, and the
cause was likely,...ro be tried at • the ensuing Ses:
sinus. In the interim, it :was- iris intention to
bring his action for the false imprisonment in the
first instance, when, us it clearly appeared, there
was no ground of charge against him. He had
already commenced his action against Jones Wil-
kinson, the constable who took him into custody,
but there were other officers aiding and assist-
ing ; and he .(Wilkinson) :refused to give their
names; or say- who they were. His application
to the Alderman therefore was, that as they %erre
all City Officers,, he would be blessed to direct
that tire names of the parties should be furnished
to him (Bridgeman) for the furtherance of public
justice.
Mr. Alderman SMITH said, if be understood the
matter rightly, be (the applicant) had already
brought his action against Wilkinson, and now
wished hint to furnish evidence against himself.
He could not • interfere in such a business, and
even were be to give any such•direcr ion, the man
might very properly refuse...to, _comply, and the
Magistrate had no power
~.to:eoropel his obe--
thence.

Mr. Bridgeman then asked, would the Magis-
trate have the goodnessto recommend.a compli-
ance .with his tegurst
The Magistrate -said, Certainly not ; he might
then indict all the harries, and deprive the man of'
the benefit of the-evidence of either of them. He
could not interfere..—Mr; Bridgenian thewwith-
drew.