The Sun.
London, England, 1820-04-12 00:00:00

25th Sone, at Sandy. Brow. There might be 4or
5000 people present. They were quiet when he
first saw them. Most of them Gad sticks in their
• hands. They
.looked like aticia• newly got from
hedges, and not like walking atlas. The-popu-
lation of Stockport is about 20,009 persons.—
. 'There- was a scaffold of - hustings.' - Sir• Charles
Wolseley was pointed out to him on the hustings,
and be saw Harrison there. Did not know that
Sir Charles Wolseley bad-any property in that
neighbourhood, or any connexion with the place.
The first thing witness observed was a hissing op
the part of the whole multitude. • He did not
then know what it was about. Sir Chatles Wol-
seley acted As Chairman at that meeting. In
Stockport there ate people of common wore, ca-
pable of taking the chair at a public meeting.—
Did not know that it was necessary to send for
aity person from a distance. %Votress was distant
from the hustings about 100 yards ; he could hear
hot iedistinctly what passed ; he heard Sir C.
Wolseley proeonnee the word " unanimous ;"
when the resolution aces carried lie saw hands held
up as if voting, and after Wards he Saw sticks held
.up ott an organ bring played its the room where
witness was. Witness was tbere, not to partici-
pate in the deliberetions of the meeting;, btu to
see them ; lie saw tone of the respectable inhabi-
ttilllS takina a part in the proceedings ; lit felt his
property to be secure at the time, but thought if
the crowd were kgrt together till night it might
be dangerous ; heard Harlieon say " That the
House of Commons were the people's servants;
that it was as absurd to petition them, as it would
be for a master to petition his groom or his horse :
:hat there was a barrier between the throne and
the people which must be remaved, tither by
force trout Heaven or hell, in order that they
might see whether a man or a pig was upon the
Throoe." '1 his produced laughter, anti general
derision. He {Harrison) said, " "lite united will
of the people was sure to prevail ; thii Was dk,
axiom that could not be confuted. It might be
necessary, in some cases, to petition the House
to Lords, who were by the Coustitutiou placed
ill a Eildeient situation limn that of the Honse of
Commons. but in the present corrupt state of
Illiogs it was Useless, and he would not recom-
mend it." •This discourse was received with ap-
,plauee. Sir Charles Wolseley was there at that
-time, about two yards from Mr. Harrison, near
enough td hear the whole of what was said ; he
obseried no particular movement on the part of
Sir Charles Wolseley.
CrossHexamined by Mr. PEARSON—Was a loin-
dred yards from the hustings. There were 'vo-
wels t here—perhaps one or *two hundred.. Nut
so many as four or five hundred. Did not re-
inembr seeing any children playing about the
out-skirts. Would not swear there were notre•
The observatiorie lie had Made on the sticks, ep-
plied to the multitude gene; ally. Only saw them
held up at one particular
_period. Looking at a
meeting of 5000 persons, thought he could speak
to the proportion that held op sticks. Vas 1101
alarmed bituself, and heard of none. • Did not hear
of the shops beiog shut up on the occasion. Heard
indistinctly. Did not know that any Chaitonto
was sent for from a _distant place. Heard Mr,
Harrison more disiiitetly than any
,outer person.
Was certain that he had heard w hat be had re-
ported.—The Learned Gentleman then read part.
of the report of a speech made at the meeting, and
called on the witeess to repeat it after hint.
This pleStioll was objected to by Mr. Serjeaot
Cross,•but allowed to .be put by the Court.
Witness could not repeat tvkat bad just been
read. There was nothing in the laugh that
lol-
lowed Mr. Harrison's speech to distinguish it
from the laugh commonly raised when something
absurd was read. Did trot hear Sir C. Wolseley.
Thought he heard Harrison say something about
petitioning the House of Lords,-it they petitioned
at All. D.d not hear hint say that the Constitu-
tiou would redress all the evils complained of:
By Me: Harrison—Witness n as an attorney.--
He took notes of what Mr% Harriatm•lted arid;
had not got
,the notes with him ; heard the whole
husinesa indistinctly, but Mr. Harrison more dis-
titictly than any body else ; was not in a situation
to hear Mr. Lewis so well; did not listen much
to any body else ; bad no directions troth anyone
to attend particularly to him ;'soopoies when Mr.
firris!,n talked of inquiring whether a pig or a
man was oe the Throne, that his object teas to.
• bring the Thr one into contempt with the people;
thought the laugh which followed the speech was
•a laugh .of derision directed against the Throne.
Re-examined by, Mr. Serjeaut CROSS—Willan,
Knight, end Fitton, it'lnerant orators, were all
there ;- they were strangers ; the only inhlabitant
of Stockport that he saw there was the defendant
Harrison.
Thomas Bolton', examined by Mr. ASHWORTH
—Saw numbers of people passing to the Meeting
on the2Bth of June. They might be about two
hours passing ; saw nothing unusual in their. ap-
pearance ; some of them, had walking
.IstiCks,
which they were in the...act of walking. With; saw
Sir C. Wolseley going up John-street, the (attic!
road to the meeting. Mr. Lewis was with him.
At the meeting be,saw-a flag;. on one side there
was, " No Corn Lawea" on the other, " Par-
liamentary Reform, Universal Suffrage, • and. Vote
by Ballot." He saw a cap of liberty put above it
afterwards. Was.atfirSt about 30 yards from the
hustings, afterwards got witeio ten of
He saw Sir C.' Wolseley, Harrison, Willett, Fitton.
and others. Harrison was the ooly inhabitaot.ot
Stockport -that he •saw among them. Sir C.
Wolseley Was close to Mr. Harrison ; saw a con-
versation appareetly raking place, which he could
hot heat, ie which-Sir C. Wolseley and M r.. Harr-
ison took a part. • Sir Charles on his -arrival was
received with ,very loud. huzzas. Great numbers,
of the people round le. knew to be townsmen ;
saw no sticks of unusual appearance. The sticks
were not more numerous than he shOOld have ex-
pected to see there. He would not have so good
ao opportunity of seeing as a person above the
crowd would have. Sir Charles was the first person •
he heard. [Here he read from a minute what he
- had heard from Sir. Charles.]—Sir Charles said,
" he Was happyie adiressing the people of Stock-
port from that place, Sandy Brow. It was a
place conseetated to the.cause of liberty, by the -
absence of friends he should have been happy to
meet ; and he trusted that Sandy Brow would be
more tamed in history than thy field of Waterloo,