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dering you to be taker kto the ptace Tram whence
you came,. from* thence to the dace of execution,
and akere to hang by the 'legit until you are dead;
and the Lord have mercy on your souls."
Tbank you, my lord, it's a good
cure for a spin of the head."
It is said, that this unhappy man refuses all the
consolations of religion that he meets his Cite
with the most obstinate indifference, and what
gives his fate a deadly hue is, that he disbelieves
the existence of a God

-•On the motion of Mr. BtiblYoN, Pe,arson,.who
gave evi.lenee on Saturday against M'innis, Wes
discharged by Proclamation.

TRIAL OF SIR CHARLES WOLSELEY, BART. AND OF
JOSEPH HARRISON, FOR SEDITION.

About half-past nine this morning, Sir Charles
%Volseley, accompanied by his brother•in•law, Sir
Thomas Clifton, and twe other Gentlemen of the

name of Eyre; entered the Court, and took their
places near the table; and at ten, two other
causes baying been disposed of, it wlls called on
A Special Jury was called over, of whom the fol-
lowing answered and were sworn :

George Eatoß, E.
TALFSMEN.
Jame.; Alko,
Ric•laid
George liantyrt
acid
John liana.
,eeil, and tile indictment

janjtr, kVylde, Earl.
Itaurti Grey, Es('
James Stanton, Esq.
W.Wathiogurn, F,sq.
Edward Jones, Esq.
Wathington, Esq.
James Bayley, Esq.
The pleadings were op
read ro the following effect :
" Oman ee.—The Jurors of our L(Crd the King upon their
oath, present, that Sir C. Wolseley, hie of Stockport, in the
`..` [County] of Chester, natl. and J. Harrison late of
the same place schoolmaster,beiog p r''ns of a torholent and
seditious dispOsition, and wickedly and maliciously devising,
and intending to excite tumult and insurrection, Loth io this
realm, od the 2511 f day of June,: in the year if the reign
oh Gcori;e in. of the United Kin:zdems of Great Britain and
Ireland, King, at Stockport aforesaid in the said Count)-, to-
gether with divers other persons to the Jurors aforesaid un-
known, to the number of 500 anti npwards, with fore, mud
arms, unlawfully did asset/)1e and gather together tridisturb•
the public:vet-tee, m 3.1 tug so assembled together„did, by se-
ditious speeches ani discourses, and by other I,lTiinWfu I and
dishonest means, then and there endeavour to " invite" [in-
cite) and stir tip the people of this realm to hatred arid con-
tempt of the Government and Constitutimitherruf as by law
estal•lished, in contempt of our said Lord. the King and his
Laws, to the evil example of all others in the like case
offending, and against the peace of our said Lord the king,
his Crown and Dignity," &c. &e.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Mr: BBNYON) open-
ed the case to the. Jury. Having described
the counts contained in the indictment, be re-
marked, that the Jury must have heard much ol
die public meetings held in the last summer,.
principally at the instance of itinerant orators,
who presided at or took any part iu [kern, on the
subject of Parliamentary. Reform and Universal
Suffrage. He, ' however, called upon them to
banish from their minds all that they had heard on
the subject out of doors, and decide not from
what he might say to them, but from the evi..
dence that would be given. Sir C. Wolseley was
a Gentleman of considerable property in the
county of Stafford. He was a Baronet, that Ito-
nour having been conferred on his ancestor, he
believid, in the reign of Charles I. Mr. Harri-
son had till lately been a stranger in the county
of Chester ; he was a dissenting preacher end
schoolmaster. He then - described a meeting
which the two defendants had attended ou the
28th June, 1819. At that meeting Sir C. ‘Volse-
ley was called to the Chair, and it 'would be
proved that seditious language had there been used.
The defendants appeared to have been previous-
ly arqoainted.--The Learned Chntleman was pro-
ceeding to describe the language held by
Wolseley, when
Mr. PBARSON'(COIIOseI for the defendants) sag-
:gested that the witnesses should be ordered to go
out of Court. -
The Court immediately directed the witnesses
on both sides to retire.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL proceeded. An im-
mense crowd atrended on the occasion to which
'lre had referred, many of them being armed witb
bludgeons. Sir C. Wolseley said, he had been
in' Paris at the time of the French Revolution, and
had been one of the fist to attack the Bastile,
and be hoped to be engaged soon in pulling down
other Bastiles. He further stated, that while on
represented, they owed no allegiance, and that
resistance would be
,justified.. Mr. Harrison con-
...tended, that further .petitioning „would be degrad-
ing,- and said a meeting. was In take place at Old-
ham to consider of establisiring7aNhotoaal.Dele-
gation, and of :extending -the :plan all over the
country. 'Frnm•the Intimacy. Which- appeared to
subsist betWeen-iiiiif and Mr. Harrison, it was to.
be assumed that what one advanced.had been as-
t•ented to by the other. In proof of the intimacy'
subsisting between theta, he could read a letter from
Sir C. Wolseley addressed to the PoslMaster of.
Stockport, dated the SOth'June (two days after
the meeting), complaining that a letter, dated the
24111 June, four days before the meeting, from
him, addressed to the 'Rev. Mr. Harrison, had been
corruptly deleyed, as he suppoSed. He also read.
a letter from Harrison to a person of the name of
Bagnely, now• under confinement, avowing his
participation in the proceedings of the 28th June.
After this they could not now be.told'that be was
not at the meeting,- as his participation in the
guilt or innocence of Sir C. Wolseley was here
distinctly avowed. He then went on to argue
that it was clear that the defendants had conspir-
ed to bring into hatred and contempt the Govein-
ment of the country. Mr. Harrison appeared to
have declared that the time for petitioning was
gone by, and therefore he couldnot now attempt
to show that the meeting bad been called for the
purpose of petitioning in a peaceable and orderly
manner. Nor did he imagine that such a defoice
could be set up by Sir C. Wolseley, 'lt was the
birthright of Englishmen to meet to petition for
the redress of grievances. God forbid that he
should raise his voice against that right, which he
sincerely hoped would be handed down, unirn,
paired; as we had received it, to our remotest
posterity. He,,however, contended, that meet-
ings like that to which he now (In:eater' 'their at-,
aention, where many.of. the.parties were armed
with bludgeons, where one constable wes Severely
iojnred, and where hostile banners were carried,
wet e not of that character whielt the low ss ould
protect. Time ineetin4 in question, he was de-
cidedly of opinion, was illegal.
John Kenyon ‘Vinterbottorn was an inhabitant
of Stockport. He attended the Meeting of the