The Sun.
London, England, 1820-04-13 00:00:00

AwnsTs' General BENEVOLENT FUND.

The Annual Dinner in aid of this excellent
Associate nt t,:ok place yesterday, hi 3 Royal High-
ness the Duke of Sus Six in the Chair.
When the 'inal loyal toas!s had been given and
drubli with an enthusiasm tvii;;ll showed how st
sibly the company felt the coon enanee bestowed.
upon the. Arts by the ding and Ruyai Faintly, 111r,'
Douglas Kinnaird, aver a suitable enlogium, in
which he adVerted to the loss which every bene-
volent Institution :Ltd sustained in the Duke of
Kent, proposed the health of tl, President, which
was received with acclamations.

His- Royal ifighnesi rose to return thanks„ !nit
was so overpowered by his feelioes (rernembetiog.
that his brother had sat in the same chair at the
first Meeting, and taken so ralr►us a concerts in'
the welfare of the Charity), that his voice failed,
and he was compelled to relinquish his porpose 'of
addressing the assembly.
",God save the King" was played, to aIIOW his
Royal Highness time to recover from his
and we may say that the best seeech he ever
made never ►lid him so much honour in the eyes
of thoSe who beard him, as this unaffected and
manly tribute of fraternal affection. " Success
to the Benevolent Fund" was the neat toast,
and his Royal Highness took occaSion to presS
its merits upon consideration ; d 'elt upon the
causes end nature of the distresses peculiar to Ar-
tists, and concluded with a forcible appeal to the
feelings of those friendly to the object for which
they had met, by saying, that while they indulged
in the delight of relieving distress, they might also
reflect that it would be the finest memorial they
could raise to his departed brother.
" The Royal Academy" was toasted, and due
acknowledgMent made by Mr. Phillips. The like
compliment to the British Institution called up
Sir T. Baring, one of its Directors, who, in an
able speech pointed out the national value of the
Ails, and insisted upon the purity of the British
School, which lent not itself to the corruption of
the Country, but contributed largely to the moral
improvement, as well as the refinement of the
people.
The Secretary., Mr. YOUNG, read a Report of
the cases which had received relief. They were
all cases of aggravated distress. The sufferers
from which were chiefly artists of respectability,
or their widows, of very advanced years. The
relief 'afforded was in moat cases only 101 —The
case was that of an historical painter, advanced
in life, and afflicted with a complaint of the eyes,
who bail derived the chief part of a miserable sub-
sistence front► the grati' ode of a poor female whom
he had formerly supported as au orphan child.
Mr. A. ROBERTSON, the Deputy .Chairman,
spoke of the beneficial effects which had been pro-
- in the instance just mentioned by the relief
afforded by the Society, on the health as well as
the temporary comfort of the sufferer, and men-
tioned facts to prove the advantage which result-
' ed from the practice of the Institution in conceal-
ing the names of those whose poverty obliged theirs
to apply for assistance.
'" The City of London" being drunk, Sir T.
Bell returned thanks, and enumerated the parii-
cular instances in which the Corporation had pa-
tronized the tine Arts. Many other' patriotic and
convivial toasts followed, and the ple.rst►res of the
evening were heightened by charming glees and
songs, in the latter of which Bto,►dhnrs: got im•
(prim applause fur his " Scots whit bee wi'
lirallare bled," " Greet► grow the rushes," and
" John Anderson my Joe." Mr. Arnold also
sang, en amateur song, in as perfect and empsisite
a style as perhaps was ever heard.
The Collection amounted to between 3 and 4001•

About ten o'clock his Royal Highness retired,
and the company soon after separated, gratified
with an entertainment which did great credit to
the Tavern and to the Stewards, while tended
sck largely to the support of a Charily,• (judging
flom six or eight cases stated to the Meeting),
most deeply required and calculated to confer the
dearest of blessings upon objects the most de-
serving.

ESCAPE OF CAPTAIN DAYlS.—Yesterday Mr.
John Teague, keeper of the Giltspur-street
Compter, accompanied by one of the MArshal-
men, waited on the Sitting Magistrate at Hatton
Garden, and requested a warrant, in order to
search a house in Lamb's Conduit-street, where it
was stated a trunk belon.ging to Captain Davis
was to be found, as a lady, having three children
by the Captain, resided there. Wain right and
Edwards both accompanied Mr. Teague to the
premises in question. They ascertained that their
information with-
`:regard -to the afotesaid trunk
was correct , but. what route the Captain bad
taken Wfl4 kept secret by them. However, the
belief was, that he had not quitted the country,
in opposition to the story of his getting off via
Brighton, upon alleet horse, in waiting for him
in Smithfield.

ExECUTioN.—Yesterday morning. at a quarter
after eight o'clock, the five following delinquents
forfeited Omit liver in the Old Bailey :—John
Bird, aged 21„ and George Bird, 20 (brothers),
for a burglary in the house of Mr. .J. Wiley, of
Fulham, and stealhig therein a variety of articles
of plate ; Henry Wicks, John Smith, and Charles
Harris, for uttering a great number of forged notes.
They were ell flue young men. The two Birds
had, for a considerable time, marshalled a gang of
desperate fellows who infested , Hammersmith,
Fulham, and their eicinities. The malefactors
were introduced to the Hall a little before eight
o'clock. The two brothers embraced each other
most affectionately. They were soon ushered to
the scaffold, and after a few minutes devoted to
prayer, the fatal signal was given, and they were
launched into eternity. G. Bird by some watts
got one foot upon the scaffold, by rehonuding
after he was turned off, and, the consequences
might have been dreadful, had not the executioner
pulled him down by the legs. lire clowd was
very great.

Monday morning a young girl fell from a win-
dow, cat six straits height, into the Corenaut
Close, High-stiect, Editiburgh,,und was killed
on the 6pot.

cliEsrEß. ASSIZES.

TRIAL OF Slrt. CITARLF,S WOLSELF,Y, HART. AND OF
JOSEPii FIARItISON, I,oli SLDI FION.

(CONCLUSION OF TICS FIRST DAY'S PROCEEDINGS,)

MONDAY, APRIL 10.
Our laic Report lett liartison hbout to com-
ttienee t►,e reading of Bentham Rernalks.

At.

'ter he had gone through several pages be was
persuaded by some gentlemen who stood near him
not to proceed further in • their .perusal; but he
observed, '' 1 like these remarks, they are free,
and 1 like freedom; 1 look upon them as a help
sent -nie by Providence. I shall now come to a

close ; ray cruse, Gentlemen, is in your hands.
I had a great deal to say, but to accommodate
friends I shall not ssay what I intended. My cause
is in your hands ; there maybe some doubts in
your minds, and by the law of the land you will
'give the benefit of them to the defendants.
cuts ine to the heart to think upon the conduct
of some Julies in this part of the countty. It lihs
struck me, that they take too little time to coosi-
der of the fate -to which their verdict may con-
sign a ratty ; even six months' imprisonment
would be a serious loss to me ; hitt you cannot
e'onviet me with oil tot felting your oaths. 1 ask
no favour ; '1 only want justice, and I demand it.
But what if the July have beforehand made up
their minds ? Why, rather had 1 bear what I
must sulf,4 on account of their errors, than st.e
the i,-,7lorious tight of Trial by .J ry done away. If
you find me guilty, look at what will be my tate ;
taken tt om my tamily, without the comforts of a
letter, unless to be opened, as you have seen
done this day, without my leave ; not that it con-
tallied any thing wrong, but let it be on ever such
secret business, it would be the same. What I
have said has never been fairly reported ; that is,
no reporter ever wholly followed me throughout
any one of my speeches. Ido not know if the
Learned Counsel for the lion. Baronet iii ends
to bring forward evidence against evidence ; but
for myself 1 would do so. It Ido not bring for-
ward evidence, my enemies will say I had none ;
and, not producing it, may perhaps tell their
Lordships it is enough to make me guilry.
shall leave the case where it is; 1 know thete wiil
be a verdict, and I hardly know that it will con-
cern. me much whether it be one of Gtol.y or
Not Guilty. Ido not despair ; my heart knows
not despair ; and whether the verdict be tor we
or against me, I say, the will of the Lord be:
done."

Thomas Garnett was some time ago a Reporter
to the Manchester Chronicle. It is generally called
a Ministerial Paper ; L attended the Meeting at
Stockport to report the proceedings ; I have no
doubt there were 5000 persons present ; one cit.,
cumstance rather alarmed me, it AV 3S a pet7soli
in
the employment of Nadin, who was employed be-
tore Sir Chalks Wolseley came there ; if Sir
Charles. Wolsrley had told the people to be patient:
for a little time and that all would then be well,
be must have heard it.
. Cross•examioed by Mr: BEtsvoN—The paper lie
reported tor is of Ministerial politics ; he was
within three yards of the hustings, and went to
take an account of the proceedings.
Robert Thomas }Upson attended the Meeting
at Stockport tot the, Manchester Obser er—l kit
no terror at any thing I saw ; the shops were
open ; all that 1 saw were ; I heard Sir Charles
address the police officers to keep the peace, and
then the people to do so ; he said be often tound
peace officers break the peace, and he now
begged them to keep it ; if he said in a few weeks
the great struggle would be made and ended, he
must have beard it ; he heard no such thing.
Cross-examined by Mr. LLOYD Remembered
Harrison saying " it was as fOOliSh to petition the
House of C,ommons as if a master were to go
down upon his knees to entreat his Inertial servant
to, do that duty for which he is engaged and
paid ; remembered his saying, "to petit ion them
as they now are, is absolote Folly ;" he said, it
is a grand principle that a whole nation cannot
err, and if there be a thousand walls between us
and our Pi ince, we shall blow them all down either
to heaven or hell, but we will hive them down,"
Those are not exactly Harrison's words, hut tips
effect is substantially this same ; he remembers
Sir Chalks Wolseley's saying something about
the Bastile, but Witt-less could not exactly mention
what he said.

Re-examined by Mr. PARK—Hareison said, it
was useless to have petitions addressed to the
as Lord Sidmoullt refused to present
them; it was with reference to Lord Sidmouti►
that he used the expression of " ten thousan,i
walls ;" he does not recollect Harrisor.'s having
objected to petition the House of Lords.
James Swinden examined by M. PasasoN—l
am a draper in the town of Stockport ; I felt n(►
alarm that day ; toy shop was not shut, and busi.
ness was going on that day as usual.
Here the case for the defendants closed ; and
the Court adjourned at a quarter after eight till to-
morrow morning at nine o'clock.

SECOND DAY.—TuEsnmr, APRIL 11.

A few moments after the arrival of the Learned
Judges this mottling,
Mr. BENYON (Attorney-General for Chester)
commenced his reply.—" Gentlemen of the Jury,
I now beg leave to entreat your attention while
I reply to the observations made by the defen-
dants, and offer such comments on the. evidence
as the nature of my case demands. We must
first, Gentlemen, recur to the charge made
against the defendants, for it has been en-
deavoured to put a different intepretation
"on it from that which it requires ; and sve
shall also have to corv.ider the legality of one
of the counts of the indictment, to which souse
objections have been taken; by the Learned Coun-
sel for Sir Charles Wolseley. We have alleged,
first, that these parties assembled an t
assembly, an assembly calculated to disturb ihe
pnisli-c peace, and by different means to excite in
the minds of the people a con•empt and hatred of
the Government and Constitntion of the realm as
by la IV established. This general allegation stp..
peals to me to contain two uffeuces—First, that

of assembling, an unlawful assembly ; and, se-
condly, by seditious wortls and other
reran; iucit-
ing the people to contempt and hatred of the
Constitution as by law established My Learned
Frieloi has, Genth.ornot, endeavoured to imptess
it on your minds, that the assttmltly teas not un
lawful, because not so stated on ti,e record, be-
cause it did not iipoear that it was in terror of the
people, foot that it was not proved in evidence to
have any tendency of that nature. I; it it is not
because people of nerve were nut alarmed that it
may thetefure be prouounced not unlawful. it'
the number of people was so guest—ir they had
weapons in their ha-lids—if they were attended hy
such banners and insignia, as Must naturally pro•
+ice terror--if ail this he proved in evidence, then
the meeting at Stockpot was tiala'fid. If ever
there was a tumultuous -assembly, it is that to
which our attention has bet!, attracted yesterday
and thin day. The Learned Counsel for the de-
fend:tors made ;everal allusions to the trial of
Mr. Hunt, at York, and I did 11,11 attempt to stop
But whatever ryas done at York, the Juries
of ( 'tester have nothing whatever to do with it.
I am obliged to the Leaned Counsel for hie men-
tion of case of the King aid Mot, and I Say,
if that wets a .case for convic fiop, the itne hetore
us is teu times stronger. Httut was tak-en from
the tier ing at 11ancliester before he spuke—here
sedit ions ot ds have been used ; this meeting !tad
considerably more or terror in ii, anti, in short,
i• be, every coocomitant eieetmistatice, with Doe
excer• ion, namely, that here seditious words were
acouaily used. If, then, we ate to call to mind
what was done by others at that meeting, we find
the case ten times stronger as to this. Hawkins,
and other learned authorities, have been cited as
to the legality of one of the acts charged in
the indictment—with that you have nothing to
do. There scents to me no necessity for divid-
ing the case, the facts of it are pet feet ly clear before
you. With respect to rite legality of the meeting,
tme may say it was' assembled wirier the specious
pretext of petitiouing for Parliamentary Reform,
Parliamentary Reform ! I check myself ; for rho'
mhoy of these unhappy meetings were assernhled
tinder such apparent motives, the mask was here
completely thrown off, and there was no man who
heard tot the meeting of the 2811 of Jane but most
know that it had do more to do with petitioning
for Reform than it had with any other purpose that
the imagination of nian could suggest. In this
case the defendants stood together its the hustings
—they were each participators in the whole (if the
proceedings, and it )tny thing onpleasaot to Sir C.
Wolteley had oreurTed, if he found he was not in
good company would he not have left thent He
gave his complete assent, to whatever was said by
Harrison; and if the language used by hint was
seditious in its nattoe,'Sir Charles Wolseley was,
in point of law, equally guilty with 'the person
who uttered it. !she meeting was also attended

wit flags."
Mr. PARK here observed, that there was no
cvi‘lence of more than one ii to having been used.
Mr. BEN yoN
.proce.eded—.4 Well; one flag is as
good as one handfed. 'l'l►e iosci iptions upon it suf.
fleic fitly prove the objects of the meeting. Crowds
nut used from distant places, and even from dif-
ti:rent counties, armed with sticks and other of-
fensive weapons. And then cats it be gravely
contended, that such an assembly wete met to-
gether for the purpose only of obtaini,% Parlia-
mentary Reform ? It has been set up, as a- justi-
ficatiou of this meeting, that every man has a right
to meet for the purpose of petitioning. It has
even been said that people may proceed
to such meetings with flags and other in-
signia. provided their object be petition. But
Gentlemen of the ' Jury, will you believe
that this is the way to obtain a
.Repeal of the
Corn Laws, if they be objectionable ) And as
to all the farago of Annual Pat liansents, Univer-
sal Suffrage, and Vote by Ballot, if any man, or
set of men, were gravely and quietly to petition
for their adoption, I should lament their folly,
while I pitied their judgments, and should think
they meant not a reform, but a complete over-
throw and revolution. For depend' upon it, if
ever these things are.granted this will no lOnger
remain a happy country, with u mixed and
Constitution, but will become a wild and
dangerous Republic. If, however, there are per-
sons who think that these things will prove of
service, I should find uo fault with their quietly
assembling to procure them, but I do find fault
with those who attend such meetings With in-
signia only calcula►erl for the purposes of intimi-
dation. Harrison said, "We don't come here to
petition the Ilouse of Commons," and 'Sir C.-
Wolseley assented to it. '' We won't," said Har-,
rison, " petition the Sovereign, nor the House of
Lords, in its present corrupt state."

Mr. lianatsoN-1 hope, my Lord, you will
keep the Leat tied Gentleman to the troth.
Mr. BENYON—" I wish you, Gentlemen of the
Jury, to take nothing from me. If T inadvert-
eotly state any thing inconsistent with my notes
of the evidence, it will be in the power of Their
Lordships and yourselves to correct it. It will
,be, however, in your recollection, that Harrison
did not advise the petition to the House of Lords
or Commons. Then add to that the barriers and
the " ten thousand walls," and ask yourselves if
I am wrung in stating, that it was no more a
meeting -for the purpose of petision than any
thing that the imagination of man can suggest.
Now we conic to the seditious expressions. I
shall not draw your attention to them hither
than this :—You recollect the expressions used
by Sir Charles %Volseley relative to the Has-
tiles, as well as those of Harrison about his igno,
ranee whether a man or a pig filled the Throne, as
well as the other expressions of contempt of the
Sovereign, and it will be for you, as men of edu-
cation and as men of sense, to say whether these
expressions were not seditious, and were not used
as the language itsdrimports, for the purpose of
bringing the Royal Authority into contempt.—
The second count charges the defendants with a
conspiracy, and I shall convince you that it is not
vulnerable either in law or fact, but made out
in many eiffetent ways by the evidence by•what
occurred here and at the meeting, as well as by
xvhat was awkipated from the contemplated meet-
ing at Oldham to he ifeld on a future day. If the
witnesses a: e to be believed, 1 shall demonstrate
a conspiracy. All this, Gentlemen, is to de-
ptud—must depend co the evidence you Love

beard, and not upon what learned men have
saiq. Mr. Bentham, every one admits, is a
clever man, bat he might as well talk of what
occurred in China, as of what was going on
in this Court. He might certainly write or
comment upon the nature of an indictment, but
he could net know the !smote of the facts to be
proved, and not knowing this, he was totally in-
competent to fortis a jest opinion of the case. It
was urged that Sir C. ‘Volseley could not be made
reci`nisilde for what seas said or done by any
o her persons at the meeting ; but let me ask
yin', Gentlemen, vs het he might not, if he-dis-
approved of what was said, have retired ; and
whether his remaining was not an approval of the
observations used :by Harrison ? I give Sir C.
Wolseley credit for wishing to preserve peace in
;he meeting. A regard for their own safety would
have prevented them from meeting the constables
face to face. As to the expressions relative to the
Bastile in France, had Sir Charles gone no further
than expressing his satisfaction at its destruction,
I should not have objected to it, but I object
..tes
his instituting a comparison between that and any
gaol in this country. At that time a man could
he immured in a prison by a Mitre de cachet,
‘ithout any opportunity or means of inquiring
into or vindicating himself from the chat ge
against him ; but here it was not in the power
•
even of the King to commit a man to gaol
without leaving him his right of Habeas Corpus—
of demanding his trial, or his immediate discharge.
Where, then, is there any similitude between
either the prisons or Constitution of the two
countries ? But I will tell you what was meant
by the mention of the Bastile. One of the first
steps to the French Revolution was the destruc•
rims of that estaislishment. I may be deceived—
I tnay be warped in my opinions, but I cannot
help urging. I cannot conceive but that he meant
a simildr step should take place here. Great as
was the evA of Harrison's language, it was light
in the scale compared with that of Sir C. Wolse-
ley. The language of Mr. Burke on the French
Revolution, was (motet! to chew the innocence of.
the expressions of Sir C. Wolseley ; but was there,
any similitude, any tesemblance between the oc-
casions or the manner in which the different ex-
pressiOns- were used ? Every man is accountable
for his words, and if the words of Sir C. Wolse-
ley can bear an innocent interpretation, let the
defendants have all the advantage of it in a cri-
minal prosecution. I think them highly crimi-
nal. The evidence on the part of the prosecu-
tion has been corroborated by that for the defend-
ants; and under all the circumstances of the ease, I
cannon but feel satisfied that we have demonetrat-
ed the meeting to have been unlawfully assembled,
and that such seditious expressions were made
use of to bear on the first count of the indict-
ment. With regard to that for conspiracy, I think
we ,have satisfaCtorily proved it. We "save given
in evidence a letter of Sir C. Wolseley, where he
complains of a letter to Harrison having beets tie
!eyed in its progress. We have shewn them to
have beets together before the meeting, to have
been together on the hustings—Sir Charles Wol-
seley, as Chairman, taking a leading part, assent,:
ing to all that was said by
.Harrison ; and we have
given you beside, a letter from Harrison to Ba-
pieley, who is confined in Chester Castle, in
.which he details the numbers who attended,
and the general circumstances of the meet-
ing. Could Sir Charles Wulseley have come
to that meeting and be called by acclamations
to the Chair, without a previous knowledge
of what was to be done ? ,But even though be
had bad no such knowledge, I say,thata
at that
meeting they conspired to lAing the Government
end Constitution of the country into hatred and
c arnempt. This of itself, I allege, constitutes a
conspiracy. Gentlemen, I need not labour the,
question further. I think it 'is as, clear a case as
ever was submitted to a Jury. I beg pardon for
detaining yoU so long. I leave it wholly in your
hands, knowing you will shew no, favour to the
Government on one side, or to the 4efecdants on
the other. If .yisu have any reasonable donbt on
your minds, give the benefit of it to the defend-
ants. Justice must be done, without any consi-
deration as to the parties immediately interested
and I hope you will give such a verdict as will
prove satisfactory to the County of Chester, as.
well as to your own consciences and to the king-
dom at large."

The
,Chief Justice (Mr. WARREN), in recapitu-
hating the evidence to the Jury, said, tlsat any
meeting of great numbers of people assembled to
getter, armed in a warlike manner, was illegal;
for no one could foresee what might be the effect
of such assemblies. This was laid down by Haw.'
kins, and with it he concurred. In reatliug' tho
evidence of Winterbotham, his Lordship said, it
would be useless • it would he an idle waste of
time to say that fiarriaon's expressions were not
seditious. Their natural import was of that cha-
racter. It was forcibly said by the Attorney-
General, commenting on the use of the word Has-
tile by Sir Charles Wolseley, that there were no
Bastiles in England. And coming from such a
man as Sir Charles Wolseley, it would be for
the Jury to decide ;slim construction should be
put on them. The Jury would see there was an
evident allusion to there -•being some prison in
England, where men were treated as if in a Bas-
tile.
. And taking all his words, it was contended
they were not seditious ; but if they considered
the effect such words as his must have had upon
an assembly of 5000 people, how could they, even
in the largest charity, be otherwise estimated than
as seditious ? They had only a part of the speech
spoken offered in the evidence of Bowerman, and
if there were any thing else said, some one on the
part of the defendants would certainly have been
produced. Although Sir Charles IVolseley did
not himself Put the cap of Liberty on the flag, he
yet suffered it to be done; be assented to it, and
doing so, was answerable for any criminality at-
tached to such an act. It would be absurd to
suppose that Sir Charles Wolseley, a man of for-
tune, rank, and family, would have mounted a
scaffold by some. accident. It would be trifling
with ONi most ordinary understanding to think he.
there met Harrison and Fitton, without some
previous understanding that be shouhl have lane so.
Harrison here said, it was not given in evidvnce
that any previous meeting had taken place be•
tweets him and Sir Charles Wolstdey.
CHIEF JUSTICE...4IC would leave it to the

Jury to see what Sir Charles Wol•seley meant by
the " great struggle." With whom was it .to be ?
With tyranny and corruption ; and who were the
tyrants ? Wily, the rulers of the land. What is
the great struggle ? Are these words of peace or
consolation, or have they any possible bearing
on the question of Reform ? If for Reform they
substituted violence and revolution, then they
would come more nearly to the real character of
the meaning of the words. In his view, that was
the only meaning that could be put upon them.—
Sandy Brow was, it appeared, sanctified by Bague-
ley, a. man who was uow imprisoned for his crime;
it was consecrated to the cause of liberty by John-
son, also imprisoned—and it was to become greater
in their annals than the glorious plain of -Wa-
terloo. Couple this with the contemptuous deri-
sion which Harrison expressed towards the per Son
of a Sovereign to be respected by every good and
loyal subject.
Mr. E-L Lord, the witness first said
laughter, another said the allusion was received
with acclamation, and there is a difference be-
tween them, and another said it was meant in
derision.

CHIEF JUSTICE—Let him, Gentlemen, have
the benefit of thii differepce ; one witness said,
his allusion to the Sovereign, as not knowing it
a man or a pig were on the throne, was received
with derision, another with acclamation. But it
was trifling with the Court thus to interrupt a
summing up.
Mr. Peare—l am sorry, my Lord, to interrupt
your Lordship, but there certainly appeared to
me to be this difference in the evidence as to the
manner in which These expressions of Harrison
were received. Sir C. Wolseley was not pleseut
when they were used.
CHIEF JUSTICE—WeII, let me pursue the evi-
dence, the contradiction as to these words, could
scarcely be called so ; whatever was said shall not
be forgotten I wish to act fairly by all parties.
Harrison said he did not know what sedition
Weant, but his words were evidently seditions.—
Sir Charles Wolseley heard all this—
Sir C. Wolseley—No, my Lord; 1 did not hear
this, I was not there.
CHIEF JILCTICE—Yon are righL Gentlemen,
Sir C. Wolseley was not there when Harrison said
it was almost a duty to resist the Government of
the country ; but Sir CharleS put the Resolutions
to the meeting, one of which said that Lord Sid-
mouth was guilty of high treason; another was,
that a general meeting of delegates should
take place at Oldham,' to consider the best means,
of 'obtaining their rights : another was, to make
a collection for the purpose of defraying the ex-
pellees of a prosecution against his Alajesty's Mi-
nisters, and all this to an assembly of five thou-
sand people, many of them armed with sticks,
which they brandished in approbation of them.
He would leave it to the Jury to decide the mean- 1
ing of the sailor's phrase; " that they must all pull
the rope together, and thereby capsize COMMO-
doze .Sidinouth." It appeared that the meeting
at Stockport was not ouly.a meeting for what
went forward at it, but for money, for the en-
couragement, for the protection of those who
might engage in similar pursuits, or be prose-
cuted for their sedition. The moment the peo-
ple heard the soldiers were coming, they held up
their sticks, which shewed the use for which they I
brought them. They knocked clown a Police officer
in proof'of what they would have done, and could
that :be a peaceable meeting when such deeds were
' done? Sir Charles told them to stand firm when
the military were reported to be cowing, so that he
assumed to himself to be their leader. if they were
afraid of the cavalry coming, their meeting they
must have.sopposed to be illegal ; and, when they
said they were prepared for them, what did they
mean but that their stickS should be used to meet
them ? " Rebellion is almost a duty," was the
sign to which Gentlemen were invited by Sir
Charles Wolseley and Mr. .Harrison. " Give
three hisses for the prosecutors of Bagueley,John-
mon, and Drummond," said Sir Charles, and thus
marked out persons who had done their duty to
the vengeance of five thousand people. Letters
passed between the two defendants, one four
days before the meeting, which fixes them in
correspondence ; and a second addressed to
Bagueley from Harrison, giving an account of
the Stockport Meeting on the .28th of June,
which evidently spews acquaintance between
Harrison and Sir Charles Wolseley. A police
officer, sent to watch their proceedings, was
knocked down and bruised, as a spy. But, if
the object of the meeting were peaceable, if. it
were constitutional, why should those assembled
have had any terror of a spy ? From the necessity
of the case, the Learned Counsel for the defend-
ants kept out of sight the main objects that pressed
against Sir Charles. He confined hitneit to the
mottos on the flag, be endeavoured to spew the
meeting was not to the tenor of the people ; but
it was the duty of the Jury to look at the num-
bers assembled, the weapons they bad, and,
under all the circumstances, see it it was calcu•
lated to excite terror in the mind of any rea-
sonable man. The Jury .would recollect, many
at the meeting were strangers, and it was not
left in doubt that they said they were prepared
to meet the cavalry on that day with bludgeons,
which were by several Acts of Parliament consider-
ed most offensive weapons. The number of people,
the place whence they came, their object, their
conduct, their arming, would be all considered
by the Jury. So far as to its illegality, the first
question they would have to try;- and secondly,
if any seditious speeches had been tittered, tied
uttered by the defendants. Mr. Harrison, in his
defence, commented on what he called an impro-
per speech of the Learned Judge (Marshall), but
which he (the Chief Justice) considered as very
proper, and made quotations from Jeremy Ben
them,- which he called a help from Heaven. Ben-
tham, doubtless, was a clever man, but it was la-
mentable to see so silly a book come from-so able
•11 man. It was unpleasant to see a man like Sir
Charles Wolseley"-^a man of fortune, family,
arid private virtue—it was lamentable to see
such a man as the companion of Harrison ;
but all that should not prejudice the course
of Justice. If they believed ehe evidence,
they were bound to convict the defendants,
and not let the generosity of the heart and
the feelings of the wind have any influence upon
their deliberation. The .scCollti count in the in.

' dictment charged the defendants with conspiracy.
It was urged that previous communication wag
necessary to be established before that charge
could be made out ; .but .a conspiracy sufficient. :10
support the indictment was made out in this case,;
from the whole tenor of the proceedingaSir Chailee
was the man who took the leading part, and' 4'
cited ,the' people to tumult and the overthrow Cf
the: Government. Was the coalescence of the
actions and opinions of defendants a matter bf
'mere accident ? or will it not appear they acted
in concert, and, therefore, conspired to effect the
most dangeroui objects ? .In his view the,secotri
count of the indictment was sufficiently 'sup-
ported. The evidence. for the detendanta dtd
not at all shake the testimonygiven on theparCiA
the prosecution ; for, although.the.Reporlers id
not hear certain words, it might so happen to
them from the place in which they were situated
or from the lapse of memory ; but the .use, of
ditious expressions was positively sworn to 14
two witnesses for the Crown. They were pow
called upon, first, to con Sider if the meeting Were
an unlawful assembly, and then, if- seditious
speeches .were uttered to,exciteeo,oteropt.
case thesJury should- find a verdict of guilty againit
both the defendants. And if they concerted a
scheme and nsed seditious expressions after, the/
should also find them kuihy. Genttlenien„Yee
will consider of your verdict.
During the progress of the Learned Judge's
charge he was occasionally reminded of some va-
riations between his Lordship,'s notes of the
evidence and that taken by the defendants,. anti
suffered some other interruption, of which he
complained.

The Jury, on retiring, wished for a copy nf the
indictment which was handed to them; and after
remaining in consultation for nearly three var•
ters of an hour, returned with a:Verdict of
GUILTY AGAINST BOTH THE DEFENDANTS.
They were immediately called upon to give bait
for their appearance in the next Term, which was
immediately complied with on the part of•Sir,C.
Wolseley, and Mr. Harrison was' allowed to leave
the Court, in order to procure his; the Attorney..
General intimating to him, that be bad no doubt
of bis speedy return.