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That did not negative the fact. The Learn:3 Judge
then read, from the evidence of Thomas Welsh, the
words used by Mr. Harrison—" Rebellion became
almost a ditty: Mr. Harrison had said; in his de-
fence, that he did not know what the word " sedi-
tion" meant. 'The expression just read afforded, he
(the Learned Judge) thought, the best interpretation
of the meaning of that word. That expression, it
was proved, had been employed by Mr. Harrison ;
and Sir Charles Wolseley, who was present, heard it
without contradiction or disapprobation.
Sir Charles Wolseley.—My Lord, I did not hear
them ; and it is in evidence that I*Was not present.
The Cater-Ammo begged pardon : Sir Charles
Wolseley was correct; he had not arrived at the
Meeting until after those words had been spoken.—
His Lordship then proceeded to observe upon the
Resolutions -of the Meeting. It had been resolved,
that Lord Sidmouth was. guilty of high treason.--
Lord Sidmouth was holding a high and responsible
situation in the country ; and it had been stated to
five thousand men, with sticks in their hands, that
Lord Sidmouth was guilty of high treason: and that'
statement had been received with shouts of applause.'
These Resolutions had been read upon the hustings,
in the presence of Sir Charles Wolseley and of Mr..
Harrison ; and had been put by Sir Charles Wolse-
ley himself—the leading person in the transaction.
A sailor had then spoken, and that man had said,
that there had been a panic at Manchester ; but that
that would not do at Oldham. Those words were
mysterious ; the Learned Judge did not understand'
what was meant by them. The last Resolution had
been—and it was worthy the attention of the/Jury—
that, as Ministers had obtained Bills of Indemnity to
cover their acts, so the Meeting should indemnify
the speakers, if anything seditious had been spoken.
And Mr. Harrison did not know what sedition meant!
Here was a bounty upon crime—reward and pro-
tection held out to those who might be called upon
Ito answer for their conduct to the laws of their coun-
try. His Ldrdship read on—" The sticks were held
up in defiance.' If the Jury, gave credit to these
words, and there' had been nothing to contradict
them, they would see the use which was intended for
thine sticks. As won at they thought the Military
were coming, the sticks were held up in defiance.—
His Lordship read on :—John Barrett had said in
' his evidence, When they heard that the military
were coming. Sir Charles Wolseley called to the
people
,to stand firm." So-then he looked upon him-
self in the character of leader of the Meeting.—
" They wished the cavalry would come; they were
prepared for them." Prepared for what ? To co,)-
pose them, cf course. How prepared ? With the
large sticks. Prepared to resist the legal force of the
country if it should, in consequence of their unlaw-
ful conduct, be employed egaiest them. Did they
not know that their Meeting was illegal ? Did they
not know that the cavalry could only appear if they
sere directed to do so by the Magistrates? Were
they not conscious that what they were doing ex
posed them to the in:erference of those Magistrates?
The Jury had heard from the witness the language
of these men assembled in the public-house. He
granted that Sir Charles Wolseley was not present
in the public-house; but both he and Harrison were
afterwards engaged, and acting with them in the
multitude." Other Gentlemen would turn to the same
side?" To what side? to excite rebellion in the minds
oi the people, because it had become a duty to remove
the barrieis between that reople and the throne, in
order to satisfy their curiosity to know whether upon
that throne there sat a pig or a man ? His Lordship
proceeded to the evidence of Thomas Cartwright.
" Sir Charles Wolseley called for three hisses for the
prosecutors of Sagueicn Drummond, and Johnson :**
these men were than 11 ins in prison for the offences
they had committed, and Sir Wolseley called
upon 5,000 'men. with bludgeons in their hands, to
ive three hisses for their prosecutors: The Learned
Judge then took up the evidence of Mr. Ralph Old
ham (the Post master at 'Stockport), commenting
upon the letter written by Sir Om les Wolseley to
that Gentleman on' the 30th of June.. That letter
prove f that acquaintance had existed between the
is o defendants, that correspondence had taken place
between them previous to the Meeting of the 28th
of June. -Sir Charles Wolseley in that letter speaks.
of a letter written by Mr. Harrison to him upon the
2ttli of June, four days previous to the Meeting.
Tile defendants had met at this illegal assembly; a
communication had passed from one to the other
immediately before. Was it not reascnah!e to infer
that somcconnmion existed between them ? Was
it not reasonable to suppose that that communication
had reference to the subject of the Meeting ? When
they me: they shook hands. Were they strangers to
each other? His Lordship then read and commented
upon the letter dated the 30th of June, from Har-
rison to Bagueley. " Upon the flag the.** was the
cap of liberty." These words were actually inter-
lined. They had been left out originally, and Mr.
Harrison had thought them of so much' importance
that they had been put in subsequently. " We had
200 sat doWn to a good dinner at the Union-room :1
Sir Charles Wolseley honoured us with his company."
This dinner was, in point of fact, a continuation of I
the Meeting. In that letter no, Sir C. Wolseley was
named as the person presiding at that Meeting ; anj
the tenour of the letter shewed intimacy, to a consi-
derable degree, between Sir Charles Wolseley and
the writer. The Learned Judge then proceeded to
the evidence of Aaron Caliper. The Jury would re-
member what had been said by Sir Charles Wolseley
at the Meeting, Upon the subject of spies; the en-
couragement that had been given to the multitude to
maltreat such persons. It appeared that the direc-
tions so given had been very faithfully fulfilled ; the
witness (Ceilyer) had been taken for a spy, and he
was instantlyaknocked down. The man was stunned
by the blow, and carried senseleis from the place.
Spies! Why were those persons so averse to spiei
Men were not afraid of spies when they were doing
an honest or a legal act. But at this Meeting there
seemed to have been the utmost horror of spies. If
they had met for a legal purpose, and if they were
discussing an honourable purpose, what could a spy
tell? But if they were conscious that they had met
for a purpose contrary to the law of the land, then
their fear of a spy is accounted for ; and the readiest
way to get rid of such an intruder would be to insti-
ggate the multitude to acts -of violence against him.
-Ihe Jury had only one instance before them of a
person having been taken to be a spy, and they had
in evidence before them the treatment to which that

individual had been subjected that, the Learned
Judge said, hid been the substance of the evidence
on the part of the prosecution. A Learned Gentle-
man had, on the part of one of the defendants, ad-
dressed a speech to the Jury, remarkable for its
ability and for its propriety. To go Ituo the detail
of that speech had been rather the business of the
Attorney-General (Mr. Benyon) than of the Judge
and to what the Attorney-General had said in an-1
swer to that very able address he would refer the
Jury. It had, however, appeared to him (his Lord-
ship), that the defendant's Counsel had not touched
on the main points of the proceeding against his client.
—His arguments had been ingenious, elegant, and
well put; but they had not shaken the case of the
prosecution. That Learned Gentleman had applied
himself to the circumstances of the Meeting of the
28th July, separately and distinctly, forgetting that
each of these circumstances formed but a part of one
great whole, the general riaciple of which must go-
vern the case as it came before the Jury. There
certainlycould be no doubt, as far as they had gone,
that seditious language had been used; but the evi-
dence for the defence was still to be considered. Pre-
vious, however, to going into that evidence, he •sould
say something upon the address sshich had been
made by Mr. Harrison. That individual had occu-
pied a great deal of time in commenting upon the
vety proper address of the Learned Judge 'vho was
sitting by his side. That Learned Judge had had no
individual in his view; he had desCribed a species,
and of that species Mr. Harrison had fancied himself
one—he had put the cap upon his own head. Mr.
arrison had brought before the Jury a work from
the pen of Mr. Jeremy Bentham. Mr. Bentham, no
doubt, was a man of ability. In his earlier life, he
had produced works abounding with talent, and it
was lamentable that, in his later years, he should
have allowed such a production to have escaped him
as that which Mr. Harrison had relied upon, a mere
series of quibbles. Many solemn invocations of
HEAVEN had the Jury heard from Mr. Harrison—
many assurances of the sanctity of his own character,
and of the purity of the doctrine which he preached;
and )et this great master of religion—this instructor
of those numerous bodies that hung upon his lips to
catch the inspiration of piety, and hear inculcated
the doctrines of morality, what had been his con-
duct? PreaChing rebellion to those who would lis-
ten to him. All his professions were at variance with
'that which was proved to have been his conduct on
this occasion. It was painful to see a man like Sir
Charles Wolseley—a man of family, of fortune, and
rank—the associate. of such a man as Harrison. It
was painful to see him in his present situation ; but
feeling must give way to public justice. In the
breasts of the Jury, that, the Learned Judge was
confident, would be the case. The second count in
the indictment avaethe charge of conspiracy ; and it
had been said by the Counsel for the defence, that,
in order to "make out that charge, there must be
shewn an union of design previous to the time of the
Meeting. How long previous, he (the Learned Judge)
wished to know?-- Was not conspiracy frequently
the subject matter which grew immediately out of a
meeting between parties? But here there was ample
proof of the parties having met "beforehand. Did all
those five thousand persons come together by chance?
Did Sir Charles Wolseley, and Harrison, and Saxton,
and Fitton, all come together by chance? Did they
all speak by chance? The previous concert seemed
to him (the Learned Judge) to be proved beyond all
doubt. His Lordship then went through the evidence
for the defence. The witnesses who-had been called
for the defence, he thought, had proved nothing: all
that they had been able to say, bad bean, that they
were present du? ing the Meeting, and that they had
not heard (that was to say, some of them had not
heard) certain expressions used by the defendants,
which, by the witnesses for the prosecution, it had
been proved those defendants did employ. This
might well be true: two persons might be present at.
such a Meeting, and one might hear what had not
been heard by the other : the attention of either might,
for the time, be called off. The Jury had now before
them the whole evidence in the case; and he would
briray, he said, bring to their recollection the principal
points upon which their verdict must depend.—
If they thought the assembly unlawful, and that
speeches were made by the defendants, tending to ex-
cite hatred and contempt of the Government, they
would find the defendants guilty of the two charges
in the first eount. Haley thought that, in pursuance
.of a connected scheme, the defendants acted and
spoke, and that the tendency of their conduct was id/
stir up hatred and contempt of the Government, and
that speeches had been made by them with that in-
tent, then they would find them guilty of the two
charges in the second count. If they thought them
guilty of all the charges in the two counts, they would
kind a general verdict of Guilty.
The Jury consulted for about two minutes, when
they desired to retire. The indictment was handed
Ito them. They retired at one o'clock, and returned
in three quarters of an hour with a verdict of—
Guilty. against Sir Charles Wolseley and Joseph Har-
rison. The Court was very crowded, and all seemed
to feel the greatest interest, but no expression of feel-
ing accompanied the verdict.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, the defendants
' would enter into the same recognizances as befote, to
appear for judgment in the King's Bench.
Mr. Chief .;ustice Wan:mt.—Yes: what are they?
Mr. BENYON.—Very small, 1225 ; but I am satis-
fied with them.

Sir CHA at-Es WOLSELEY, on l'eaving the Court, was
followed by a great crowd of people to his lodgings.
The Court proceeded with the trial of felonies.
Allnnis, whose shocking levity on receiving sen-
tence of Death, it was yesterday our painful duty to
notice, returned to prison in the same hardened way
in which he left the dock. But it appears that in
the course of Monday a most extraordinary change
took place. The admonitions which he received
from Mr. KEELING, a benevolent Gentleman who
visited him ill his cell, made a strong impression on
the wretched man, and penetrated with the deepest
horror on reviewing the crime of which he stands
convicted, and with the sincerest sorrow for the har-
dihood which he had so wantonly displayed, he now
applies himself with the most unceasing anxiety to
make his peace with Got►, by endeavouring to atone,
as far as May be, for the past, and he awaits the exe-
cution of his awful sentence with humble resigna-
tion, and late, bat it is to be hoped, not availing con-
trition.--Bruse will not be executed oa Saturday.

THE EVENING STAIt,

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DISTRESSING AFFAIR AT GREENOCK.
We have the painful duty to communicate, tkis
morning, an account of the rash and- unfortuna
affair at Greenock. Without questioning any of ti;e
facts stated in the Letters which v subjoin, it is
manifest that on the part of the populace ther._ was
something rather of a local than a politicar
and we trust that the Volunteers c,id actually r.:ceive
serious provocation, and even injury, be...ore they
thought it necessary to make use of their arms. 0.. e
thing, however, is consolatory, the conduct of the
Civil Magistrates, in this case, is not implicatA.—
The question at issue is altogeth:r between the Port-
Glasgow Volunteers and the populace of Greenock;
and it will, no doubt, be speedily ascertained, whe-
ther the behaviour of the la:ter was merely Croton:,
or such a clear and evident-insurrection, as to justify
the Commanding Officer to attack the people with-
out reading the Riot Act.

In one of the letters from Greenock to Glasgow,
it is insinuated that the mob were instigated by
strangers, and also that the lower ors ale disaf-
fected. To the first of these statements we give no
credit, and the Magistrates having been so satisfied
with the loyalty of the town, as to think it unneces-
sary, in these times of panic, to form any Volunteer
Corps, contradicts the imprudent assertion of the latter.

No class cf people are so little likely to be in-
fected with Radical principles as the lower orders
of the sea-ports. Sa'.lors, shipwrights, and per-
sons of all descriptions who labour in the open
air, have generally the least disposition in their
leisure moments to discuss speculative doctrines: we
therefore trust and hope, indeed we are confident,
that the whole affair will turn out a mere burst of
popular indignation, excited perhaps by some feel:ng
of local rivalry ; and we cannot too strongly repro-
bate the malice, in the first instance, of attempting
to give it, without one spark of evidence, a political
character. But the very same peculiarity which
secures out-door labourers from the taint of specu-
lative opinions, renders them the more resolute and
determined in their actions.

The same generosity of character which makes
them so courageous and self-devoted in the support
of their friends and cause, makes them also most im-
placable enemies, and until atonement is made by
the Volunteers for the blood that has been shed, it is
absurd to suppose that the affair is settled at Greenock.
One thing we are utterly at a loss to account for ir,
that none of the offenders on either side arc arrested:
for as riotous offenders we are disposed to regard
them both
.at present ; and without some strong
grounds indeed, we again repeat, that we shall not
believe that Radicalism had any thing to do with
this matter.

We have, since writing the above, seen letters frank
Greenock, which confirm entirely the view which v:e
have taken. in fact, the affair began by the hissing
and shouts of mere children.

FROM THE GLASGOW HERALD OF MONDAY.

Perhaps there is not a more loyal town in Br:-
tain than Greenock ; and so well-established is this
character, that very seldom are any military quar-
tered there. It was with the utmost astonishment,
therefore, that yesterday morning we received the
accounts that a mob in Greenock had made a wanton
attack upon the Pbrt-Glasgow Volunteers, and after-
wards broke open the jail and liberated some Radical
prisoners. The fatal consequences of this attack
have been the death of nine men by the fire of the
Volunteers, and fifteen weunded. The particulars
:ire amply detailed in the following letters received
in Glasgow last night and this morning. These let-
ters all agree in representing that the outrage did not
originate in political feeling, in so far, at least, as re-
spected the inhabitants of Greenock. •

" We have got no account of this business from
Port-Glasgow ; but we have heard that the 'Volun-
teers acted with the greatest forbearance, so long as
the treatment they met with was endurable; and that
the Officers were all in the rear of the party, endea-
vouring, by every means in their power, to make the
mob desist :

4, Greenock, Sunday morning, eight o'clock.
0 I wrote you a few hurried lines last night, mentioning the
dreadful riot which occurred here yesterday afternoon. I sha2‘
now endeavour to give a more particular account of it. A
rumour had gone abroad in the morning, that a party of Itadi+
cal prisoners were to be brought to our prison in the course of
the afternoon, and about (ow• o'clock great crowds began to
Collect in the streets leading towards BridewelL About fivs
o'clock the prisoners arrived, escorted by the Port-Glasgow
Volunteers, with a drum and fife playing. I saw them pass,
and every person appeared quiet, and merely collected front
curiosity ; however, after safely lodging their prisoners, the
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