The Sun.
London, England, 1820-03-22 00:00:00

;nurse of my life, previous to our confinement in the
,esv Bailer. Now, Gentlemen, with respect to Mr. Hunt, it
,3 necessary in this stage of the business to inform you, I am
what is commonly called a coach proprietor, that is, I employ
c(,adlcS to travel between the torus of Stockport and Man-
chester; and it sometimes happens, though not otter, that a
Passenger may want a bed, who, from a variety of eircum-
llanvoss May prefer a private house to a ',oldie one. I was
'"Bolted to by some one to inform them where a bed could
' had; to which I replied, I have a good bed, provided the
'inout will be approv.d of, it tieing small. The room was seen
411,1 approved of, and on the evening of the sth of August,
lir. Hunt slept at my house, atid left on the 9th for Manches-
tel, in company with Sir C. Wolseley. From that day until
the H ith of August, I never either saw or heard any thing
from Hunt. On the 16th, in the morning, 4 little after ten
'o'clock, I left Stockport wnh one of my coaches, and near the
second mile stone I passed theTrocession from Stockport, con-
,
listing .1 nearly one thousand men and buys, and nearly one
hundred women and younq girls, several of them being the
Wives and daughters of the Olen ; their conduct was perfectly
praceAle. At the mid-way, while watering my horses, the
ilr,teessimi passed again, and we did nut overtake them until
ae gut into Lung Sight, a little on the Manchester side of
which we left them, and got into Manchester ten minutes
before them. While the procession was passing the White
bear, Piccadilly, it was proposed by some of the passengers
that the coach should he taken on to the ground fur their ac-
eummodation, to which I consented, provided they would
Ogre,: to pay we one shilling each, fur the accommodation of
standing on the roof. But this WAS dune at the suggestion of
Isay son, who said, otherwise there would be so many crowd-
ing on, that the roof would be broken in, and I should have
101. damage done to the coach, though I might not make one
14)' upon this it was given up; I went to the ground a lit-
tle after twelve o'clock, where I saw an immense coucour:e of
People assembled ; after I had been there some time iu con-
versation with various persons,
, • who all appeared to be de_
sighted with the orderly moaner in which the various proces-
14ms came upon the ground, with joy beaming on every
tountenaoce, and several I heard declare it the most gratify-
ing sight they ever beheld io the whole course of their life.-
3unte one pointed out the constables, formed in two lines,
space betwixt them, from the hustings to the house
Where I was informed the 'Magistrates were sitting; and cre-
rdat teas given to the Magistrates fur the judicious plan they
InKl adopted to bring before them any one who might he
gouty of disturbing the peace of the meeting. This WitS ac-
tually the opinion I had formed of the purpose for which the
unstables were thus placed... After listening for some time
to the music, which was playing a variety of nations' airs,
4"ds amongst the rest, " God save the King," I went into
beausgate, to get a little
,refreshment, where I had not
l'eeu long before Mr. Ilunt was announced ; and on going
the street, near the Dog Tavern, on the carriage passing
where I stood, Mr. Hunt perceived me in the crowd ; he
"lied out to me, "Mnorhoose, will you get into the carriage,
we will make room for you." In an instant the door was
IP'"ed; I was seized by the arm John Collier, and shoved
into the carriage, but before I had time to take away my
land...the door was hastily shut, and three of my fingers were
taught at;d must severely trappeil, so as to give me very great
Dais, and immediately on the carriage arriving at the trust-
ing*, I got out and went to the public-house, to get some
brandy to allay the pain; I remained in the public-house
LI the dispersion had in a great measure taken place, and on
tolng down stairs to leave the house, I found Mr. Trentlow
at the first door, fur the put pose, as I supposed, of prevent-
ing any ono from going out that way; he directed me to the
back doors and I left the house in search of my wife, who was
at that time six months advanced in her pregnancy. I was
titarlY two hours before I met with her, during which I was
several times informed she was thrown into a cellar-hole, and
crushed to death, but, thank God, it was not so; we met at
the Flying Horse, and while drinking a glass of wine and
waters and returning God thanks for delivering her from the
Perilous situation in which she was in, being betwixt the
coostahlcs and the carriage at the tine the cavalry sue-
tounded the hustings, two police-officers, Platt and another,
%lie into the room, and told me I was their prisoner. I de-
their authority; they produced their staffs. I ob-
served, that is no authority, you must produce a warrant, and
:II go with you, to which Platt replied, " If I did not
Rho
to go without a warrant, he would fetch some soldiers
who would not be trifled with ;" I then ruse up and went
4:4 with them to prison. This took place betwixt four
ill! five o'clock in the afternoon on Monday. I remained
v/.he New Bailey from that day until the 27th August, on
n'elt day I was admitted to hail."
trl2his was the simple statement of Mr. Moor-
., "se, and it was now for the Jury to determine
the merits of the case.
tfl‘,,,lr. HOLT then addressed the Court on behalf
thi".ll% Saxton. It was not till the third day of
ttiai, and at noon, that the name of Saxton
tel_sotentioned ; it was then mentioned by a Po-
:‘,.,fficcer; bait the charge made out in evidence, as
thain: led him (Saxton), was so extremely
00_ 11,e thought the Counsel for the Crown would
L...,al.tave exercised a laudable scretion if they
bstained from calling on hid, for his defence.
ii',,ittiroceeded to show that his case was distinct
state
!hat of the other defendants, included in the
4_44,t.nrlietnient. It did not appear that Saxton was
hcue
..tnted with any of t hose with whom he had been
o(11114'd in this supposed conspiracy. Saxton had
tvhe'istny to do with the Smithfield Meeting; and
th__e Mr. Hunt went to Bullock `Smithy, he was not
Iris From the Ist July to the 9th
August
ite(!ble. slid not occnr. Saxton was not con-
Le".
,4l %stilt the proceedings at White 'Sloss, and
th: not Seen 11141chiog in any of the columns
161, Came into Alanctiester or, the morning of the
there of August. Till the pasting of the late Acts
1417tetvw„a.seinocslegal check nn popular meetings like
rhadttt Learned -Friend had supposed, or
e.those meetings which rook 'dace in
14„..ne ar tli.e Metropolis been put down, and the
I;e4 s punished by whom they had been called ?
kh; nit Was not prover' that the meeting Was tile-
Inxt;
r) and all that bad been proved against him,
i • 'was 'his—that lie had been on the bust-
. bur
ttl4 o 3be WaS not Shots•O to have committed
'oll' excess• The
e bee meeting was not proved to
gnid if n a seditious meeting by its numbers,
not by its numbers, he wished to
Wr'l:,twt
nv:bat else there was ro make it so.—
anti there in their marching it) an orderly
triode'. ‘r ,
yio. but aY. r ts hartbeencalled " military
called t was there in it, that it should
tletit 1 'tray ? Some indeed were said to have
hinted with sticks, but none bud bit n pru-
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