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MONDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1819.
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We give in our columns of this day the conclusion
of the proceedings of the Inquest at Oldham, on
Wednesday ; and, in continuation, the proceedings
on Saturday. Other Inquests are coming on in that
neighbourhood.
On Thursday a Jury was summoned to hold an
Inquest, touching the death of GEORGE BARRATT,
the poor old brewer, whom Prinnott, the Police-
officer, was accused of having assaulted some days
ago. This accusation, our Readers may recollect to
have been preferred, at the New Bailey, before the
ltev. Mr. ET4ELSTONE, who said the weight of tes-
timony was in favour of the Policeman. Further
proceedings upon the Inquest, were, after the swear-
ing of the Jury, postponed till the 7th inst. for what
reason we have not been able to ascertain.
_ _

The Inquest upon WILLIAM DALTON, V4lO is said
to have met his death through the violence of a
Special Constable and a Serjeant of Infantry, was ex-
pected to take place last Friday, according to ad-
journment, from the Friday preceding. This is the
Inquest at which Mr. Maltz, the Coroner, told Mr.
Haassza that he would not allow him, or any other
person, to be present, excepting the witnesses. The
Inquest was, at the adjournment, fixed for ten o'clock
but it was intimated by Mr. INlztaa, to a Gentleman
of the Press, who called about nine o'clock to inquire
upon the subject, that the Court would not sit until
twelve o'clock. Soon after, however, Mr. HARMER
received a note from Mr. 3ltum, of which the fol-
lowing is a copy :
" TO MR. HARMER.

" &a—l am unavoidably called from town this day, and
shall proceed in the inquiry on Monday, at twelve o'clock,
touching the death of William Dalton. Yours,
" Friday morning. " JOIIN MILNE"
It would appear, however, from the subjoined let-
ter, that Mr.MILNE, the Coroner, had not left Man-
chester at one o'clock ; and the notion of law which
he had before maintained (on the Inquest respecting
CAMPBELL) has been abandoned as erroneous :
" TO MR. HARMER.

" Sm—About half-past rue o'clock this afternoon, Mr. Mims,
the Coroner, called at my house, to request I would inform you
that the Inquest upon the body of WILLItX DaLvos was ad-
journed from the George and Dragon public-house, in Oak-etreet„
to the Coach and Horses Inn, in Deansgate, where it will be
held at twelve o'clock on Monday next, Mr. Music observing,
that the room in which the Inquest had been opened would be
found too small for the purpose. He stated that he had applied
akthe landlord of the George and Dragon for a larger room,
and being Mformed that be bad none, therefore thought pro.
per to adjourn to a place where better accommodation might
be bad for the Coon, as well as for such persons as might
wish to be present, even if they amounted to one hundred.
He added, that if the proceedings at Oldham were not con-
cluded before Monday, and Mr. FESILAXD should on that day
continue the Inquest, he, Mr. Mum, would, on an intim-
do. from you, on Saturday, further adjourn this Inquest for
ten days or a fortnight, in order to suit your convenience.—
He farther said, that he bad sent a note to you this forenoon,
apprising you of the adjournment, and stating, that be expected
to be out of town the whole of the day. He then *saved, that
he had taken the opinion of an eminent Counsel impseeing the
tight of any person to be present at an Inquest; and deo as to
the right to take notes; according so which opinion all loisest*
are to be considered as open Courts, to which any person of ba.
coating demeanour has a right of access, but that no peso
legally authorised to take notes withotit the express consent of
the Coroner. He said, that he should, therefore, poeitively pro-,
Mit- any pandit from taking notes at the Inquest on Monday
next. and that, if -any one should persist in so doing, he would
command such person to be turned out of the room; and the
any legal mesas which the .party thought proper might then be
adopted, and he would meet the missequences. I observed, that
kr. • • , whom you know to be one of the most
eminent Counsel in London, bad also been consulted on this
subject, and that be had given a decidedly different opinion, de-
claring that a fair, tall, and impartial publicatixt of the Pro•

oeedingt of any Court •f Justice or inqutry was perfectly Us.
gal—, I know that,' did Mr. Milne, but I shall still adhere
Counsel, and proceed accordingly:—
to the opinion of my
I said it would have been Much better if he had, in the first in-
stance, sonsulted the Law Olken of the Crown, who, Do doubt,
would have pointed out to him the alone he ought to pursue,
a the Representative of the King. He observed, that he had
written to Lord firossorri for instructions, and had received for
answer, that it was not within the province of that Minister's
Ace to interfere; and be also said that he had subsequently
written to the Chief Justice of the King's Bench, who was the
person to whom all Coroners were amenable, for kis opinion ;
but that he did not think his Lordship would give an opinion,
in a case on which proceedings might come before him as a Judge.
Ile then spoke of the proceedings at Oldham, and expressed his
wonder why they were so long pending? I observed, that I
had no opinion to offer on that point, as, in consequence of being
summoned as a witness myself, I had not, of course, been pre-
sent at the examination, and was therefore ignorant of the cause
of the delay. He concluded with expressing his apprehension,
that Mr. AIIIWONTN, the Barrister, was so much indisposed as
not likely to be able to attend to-morrow at Oldham.
" I am, Sir, yours, &c. ' "J. EDWARDS.
'To ;ernes Harmer, Esq. Albion Hotel."
. Holding it to be the indispensable duty of an im-
partial Journalist to correct, as early as possible, any
inaccuracy into which he may be led by wrong in-
formation, we have to state, that having heard that
there were strong reasons for suspecting the veracity
of the,boy HALL (who was brought to our Office by
Mr. Wasr, en whom the urchin had fastened himself
as a sufferer from Manchester), we wrote to a frierd
in Manchester to make inquiries respecting that and
some other facts that had not come to us direct from
that place. We are persuaded that nothing can con-
duce more to defeat the ends of justice than exagge-
rations of any kind—even in favour of the injured,
and therefore we hasten to lay the subjoined letter
from our Correspondent before our Readers:

si MANCHESTER, OCTOBER 2.

14 In answer to your letter I have to inform you,
that after the most minute inquiry, I have reason to
believe, that the statement of young HALL is entirely
false. A man of the name of BENJAMIN HALL was
admitted into the Infirmary, not on the 16th of Au-
gust, but early in June, and died on the 23d of Au-
gust, whether this boy's father or not I have no
means of ascertaining. An Inquest was held on the
body before this man was buried.
a The boy was not dismissed from Mr. POLLARD'S
Manufactory, but took himself away ; nor can I learn
that the workmen of that factory sent the boy to Lon-
don to'Mr. HUNT. The Radicals here maintain that
the whole story is a fiction, contrived by the enemies
of investigation to discredit statements of enormities
which, alas ! are but too well founded.*
14 Respecting the Lancashire Magistracy—l know
that many of them, as individuals, highly disapprove
of the proceedings of our Magistrates and Yeomanry
on the 16th of August ; but I may assure you that, as
dtody, they have had no ?fleeting as yet to express
their disapprobation.
a I have also made inquiries respecting the truth
of a statement, made by Mr. HUNT, at one of your
Public Meetings, of a father having missed his boy
after the 16th of August, and having subsequently
found his clothes at the Infirmary, but without being
able to gain any information respecting the body.—
This tale, I am convinced, after a most diligent en-
quiry, has no foundation whatever.
44 Another statement, made by Mr. Hun?, de-
serves to be noticed, namely, that every individual of
the Manchester Yeomanry had two half-pints of
rum before going to the ground. This is certainly
false. It has been stated, and there is strong circum-
stantial evidence to prove, that a small body of them,
perhaps a dozen, had each of them one half-pint of ram
at the house of a publican, who is a Member of the
Corps ; and also that another party or two had liquor
given to them by some of their Officers ; but no di-
rect evidence having been obtained, Messrs. HARMER
' and DENISON have properly abstained from stating
what they could not clearly prove. I wish that some
other persons concerned, would follow their good
example.
44 In no case can either exaggeration or a wilful
suppression of the truth be excusable; and in a case
such as the present, every feature of which is distin-
guished by such great atrocity, the slightest attempt
to pass the limits of truth, is not only foolish but cri-
minal. The object overleaps itself, and falls on
t'other side.' It is impossible to describe the pain
with which every mis-statement is viewed here, by
those who have been most active and sincere in their
endeavours to have the real merits of the transactions
of the 16th of August brought before the Public."
• We have already stated, and we beg it to be distinctly un-
derstood, that the whole of this fabrication was taken down from
the mouth of the boy Hsu himself, in our oSce ; and was not
the contrivance of any person•or persons seeking to overcharge
facts with the view of having the statements brought into dis-
credit. This yountimpostor (for so we must at present consider
bun) had, by his pitiful tale, obtained an asylum in the house of
Wr. Guas, of Wych-street, where, for any thing we know to
the contrary, any person may still have an opportunity of
seeing him.

The Declaration by the Meeting of Merchants,
Bankers, and others, held at the London Tavern, on
the lit instant—(see Advertisensext)—has had a great
accession of most respectable signatures. It con-
tains truths which will be controverted by none who
pay attention to the assiduity with which blasphe-
mous and inflamatory publications are circulated by
bad men, and the active dissemination afforded to
the pernicious principles they contain, by -certain
Newspapers, which would exclusively be considered
Loyal, ender • the pretext of shtwing their wicked