The Sun.
London, England, 1818-06-30 00:00:00

'toldtim that I was a catididate, and had a right to he there,
as I had to pay ashore of the expence of erecting the hustings.
He replied,
I don't care a curse who you are—l. know you,
and if you don't cttne 01% I will wring the nose front your
face:* I told him, that if he dared wily to a finger dm me,
that I wool(' heat his head from his body."
Nlr. West, wirt-worher, W‘cli-street, being sworn, said,
"T saw Mr. Lee. the i rich Constable of Westminster, acting
most outrageously on Saturday evening: it was between six
and seven o'clock. 1 think the poll had closed about two
hours. Mr. Lee shook his fist in a menacing attitude in Mr.
Hunt's face. I heard some words used by both Nir. Hunt
and Mr. Lee, but could not, at all distinguish what they said."
Mr. Dohijie, stationer, 31, Wardour-street, sworn :—" I
was upon the Hustings in Covent-garden, on Saturday night,
about six o'clock, and saw Mr. Lee acting very disorderly:
he had a staff in his hand, which he brandished in the faceof
\I r. Hunt. I heard him say a short time afterwards to Mr.
Hunt's son, " The conduct of your father is so outrageous,
aat. if no one else will fight him, I will fight him myself ;"
and shook his staff in the boy's face as he S,tike the words.—
One of the constables he saw with a white feather, and the
greater part of the riot he was sure was caused by the conduct
of the constabias:'

Writ--" One of the const4bles was detected in Making
a riot, and he svas takes" heft ire Mr. Lee, and his conduct re-
presented to hint, but he sent Ike man about his business."
Mr. Lee—" Yon do not speak the tenth, Mr. West. The
than WnF. hi-Ought 'before roe—l heard his name, and as the
loan was not under my authority, 1 could not do any thing
else than represent his conduct to those under whose antho-
fity he was placed there ; he is an extra constalde of 136w-
street, and I represented his conduct last week to Mr. Staf-
ford, the Chief Clerk." _

NATHAN' EL—" The man will be punished, no doubt, if
he acted improperly."
Mr. Hunt—', We do not wish to punish that man; he is
an inferior officer; hut Mr. Lee is at the head of the consta-
bles, and I thought his conduct ought to be canvassed before
the Magistrates of this Office."

Mr. Dolhie—" I -saw a constable in this Office holding
Hp a white feather in his hand, and that it him, (pointing- to
a man named Smith.) I think he acted Very improperly in a
Court of Jusi ice, for altlion h the feather, could do no harm
•
yet yon may Judge what he meant."
Sir NATHANIEL—" That is riot t'oall noticing."
Constahle—" I picked the feat her up at the door, your
worship.,'

Sir NATHANIEL—" Say no more about it. is there any
more evidence ?"

11Ir. Hunt—" That is all."

Sir NATIIANIEL—" It has been declared before me that
your conduct has been intemperate at the head of the con-
stables. Your task upon such an occasion is no easy one. I
cannot try the cause between you ; it had better go before a
jury, and they will judge of the credit due to the testimony
of the witnesses, and decide accordingly. I think it better,
for public justice. that the case should go before a jury; hut
you may, Mr. Lee, if you think proper, state to me your
grounds of provocation, which caused you to act as it has
been stated before me."

Mr. Lee—" I deny most positively that I acted to the extent
which the witnesses have stated. Mr. Hunt endeavoured to
excite the mob against we, and beckoned to his dumb brother
to come down and heat ; and I told him, if he dared to
come down," that l'would chastise him."
Sir NATHANIEL said—Mr. Lee had better reserve the re-
mainsier of his defence far the trial, and required him to
enter into recognizances, himself in 1001. and two house-
keepers in 501. each, for his appearance at the SessiOn3.
Some Gentlemen then became Mr. Lee's bail. The Office
was crowded with Gentlemen belonging to the Committees
of the different Candidates; and on the outside of the Office
vast numbers were collected, front a report that Mr. Hunt
had been taken into custody.

George Bosman, who was committed on Saturday night, on
a charge of assault at the Covent-Garden Hustings, was
brought up, when Mr. West, a wire-worker, of Wych-street,
and another friend of Mr. Hunt's, agreed to bail Mr. Bos-
man, which was accepted.—Several (;entlemen who had
seen the man who struck Sir Murray Maxwell the violent
blow on Tuesday evening on his head, just before he reached
Richardson's Hotel, attended to view the prisoner's person,
but they could nut identify him.