The Sun.
London, England, 1820-04-08 00:00:00

CHESHIIIL SPRING ASSIZES, .

Before CHARLES WARREN, Esq. and SAMUEL MAR.

SHALL, Esq., his Majesty's Justices.

The Judges were escorted into town about 10
►'clock this morning by the High Shdiff's Guard
of Pikemen, dressed in new clothes purposely for
the occasion. After attending Divine Service at
ti►e Church of St. Mary on the Hill, they pro-
ceeded to Court, and opened the Commission.•--
The fbllowing are the names of the Grand Jury :

Lord Vis. Belgrsiive, Foreman
Sir Rickard Brooke, Bart.
Biehard Congrere, Esq.
Edwin Corbett, Esq.
W.,Wilson Currey. Esq.
•
George Heaton, Esq.
John Fielding, Esq.
John Ford, Esq.
Booth Gray, Esq.
Birlihead GI egg,F.:sq.

Jas. H. Harper, Esq.
Bell Ince, Esq.
John Marshall, Esq.
Thomas Parker, Esq.
Trafford Trafford, Esq.
E. V. Townshentl, Esq.
Thomas Tattoo, Esq.
Randle Wilbraham, Esq.
James Wild, Esq.
John B. Glegg, Esq.

Joseph Greeii, Esq.
-.Mr. Justice Mausnain addressed the Grand Jury after the
usual forms of the Court had been gone through. He began by
lamenting the extremely crowded state of the calendar, which
contained the names of no less than 97 prisoners; and. this
influx of crime he attributed to the consequences arising from
the system of delusion which bad been so long practised over
the country by mob orators and itinerant iagabonds. A num-
ber of desperate adventurers, sacrificing the pursuits of ho-
nest industry, had suddeoly started from obscurity to subvert
the institutions of this mighty empire ; and at a period, too,
when its career of glory bad attained its highest splendour.
.They supposed, in the depraved vanity of their hearts, that
they could substitute a better form of Government t bats at pre-
sent existed; and this delusion they practised on the unthink-
ing and unwary. Tl.elr design, it sets clear, was to effect a san-
gniaary Revolution,and write the new Constitution in charac-
ters of blued.. Reform in Parliament was their watch-word—
it Was their magical nostrum fur curing all the diseases
of the State-to convert thieves into honourable men—to
malie the rich poor, and, of course, the poor rich. It
could not he denied lint what, some degree of irregularity
,bad crept into the system of our Representation ; but theu
the very prieeiple., of the Constitution were, such, that they
purged away their own impurities ;:and at sus period whatever
in our national annals did there exist more rational freedom in
this country than it could boast at present. Our Constitution
HO4 she envy of Europe, as it was the pride and glory of Great
.Britala t and let it be oiiderstood, that if once impaired—if
once gone—it is gun, r ever! and, aft!r our best blood had
been shed in its defence, it smolt; be succeeded by a reign of
democratic:al tyrant' sine military despotism. A Court of
Justice, perhaps, was or tt., best place for political subjects;
but he Might be permined to say, that from the first dawn of
our Parliamentary pried...zes, in the reign of Henry ill., or
rather an that of his son, it.,; w,rd 1., the constitutionaljights
of the people hail been gradually improving, in proportion to
the extension of in:effectual knowledge; and saute of the
wisest .anil best men that ever adorned the country were of
opinion , that the Cc ostitution at present in existence wa3 suffi-
ciently demouratical. The Learned Judge then took an do-
queut survey of the tri 'miis achieved by our invincible fleets
and armies, and adverted to toe right which the people pas-,
sessed to meet. and petition their Representatives: they were
expressly supported in it ' y die law of the land ; hut how.
was this right used, or rather abased ? Why, the dissatisfied
and discontented beg ni to organize the crieseds they collected
to their own file purposes, and speedily their real objects'
were developed, which were to overthrow the Government,
and rout up all that was good and venerable. in the country.
Such meetings, there•ore, were incompatible with the safety
of the country and the well-bein.; of the commonity„ Such
meetings were nut like those which the law protected.; they
were in terrcrem pupal:, and therefore illegal On ;in occa-
sion Which occurred some time agi . the Magistrates of a
neighoottring county (we understood the allusion to he to
Lancashire) executed a painful duty wrtit a promptitude which
does them ionnite credit, characterised by temper and mode-
ratioa. His Lordship part a high .contplitnent to the Magis-
trates and Gentlemen of Claisi.ire for the patriotism and pub-
lic spirit they had evinced n le' sling corps of yeomanry to
meet the axigeories of Lire ,iT•ie,; a ~1 slightly adverted to
the charges aeaitea Winois an. Abets fix scooting at Birch,
and the ;Linda:rot agalost Harrison and Sir C. Wolseley, for
sedition, sating the law as it affeced tlieir respective cases. •
• - Several wer. enovered aritist the hundred, by per-.,
sons resiontz ;7 :tin', the iojui y they sustained in
their proper y ark it.„ •,• _t. seditious excesses iii that town.
Jane Hesketh was cus:'"Cted for oaring in her possession
.forged. Bank•of England notes, and sentenced. to 14 years'
.transportetion.,

CFIESTER CITY SESSIONS.

Before Jowl WILL.rAnfIoN, Esq., Mayor, and D. F. JONES,

Esq., Recurder.

tr Sessions commenced on Tnesday last, at
Q'eloc:, in the morning. The usual routine
huskies:, be:iig goi:e through, 11,e following Gen-,
tlemen_ were sw,vii on the Grmid Jury