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tachment did not fire as soon as they came into Ox-
ford-street. .1 did observe the detachment which I
first saw mix occasionally with the others. The de-
tachment I saw halting under the gate (for I should
correct my.elf) came through, and the hearse after
it. After the hearse came some other soldiers ; but
the detachment which headed the hearse, did not
mix with any other troops afterwards. I did not see
any Officer with the detachment in the real of the
hearse. In point of fact, I did not see the detach-
ment in thi rear Conte' through; I only saw just the
head of it., There was no firing till. after the hearse
had paised through the gate. I don't know what
detachment it was that commenced firing ; for I saw
none. Between the pistol that I heard first fired,
and the other irregular firing, there might be the in-
terval of a few seconds. I saw the body of a man
that I supposed to be shot. I haie not said, and I
don't know that it was Honey. The firing had ceased
at that time. As I came up, walking out of the
coffee-house, I saw the first detachment I had seen
drawn up and formed near Cumberland-gate, with
their horses heads towards Cumberland-street.
By the Foreman.—l saw a great number of bricks
thrown from the Park wall. I should think there were
about 20 flying—if I could count them— round the
Officer's head at one time; bricks and stones.
_ The Foreman.—You speak of both ?—I speak of

bricks only.
Witness.—l did not count them ; but I saw both
• bricks and stones, I believe, thrown from and from
under the Park wall. I did believe the soldiers to
be in great danger. I saw none of them cut or
wounded ; but I did see many of them struck with
stones and bricks. I saw an Officer a good deal
struck. He had no cloak. I have seen Trim since,
but I should not be able to swear to him. I don't
knoiv whether he was cut or wounded. I saw an
Officer with the detachment at the gate. I have
beard his name was Gore, but I did not know him
then'. I slid see the Officer struck. I don't know
whether he was cut or wounded. I saw a trumpeter
with the Officer. I saw him strike a man who was
throwing stones from the wall. He might have cut'
at him with the point of his sword and killed him if
he wished, but I can swear he only struck him with li
the flat. I don't think I should know that trum-
peter again.
By Mr. Blakie.—l should think he was a young
man, not a boy. The soldiers were pelted with
stones and mud : they then drew their swords. I did
not see what took place in the Park. The man whom
the trumpeter struck at was sitting astride on the
wall, pulling the bricks off and throwing them at
the soldiers. At this time the soldiers were passing
close to him. They were as near as the curb-stone
would allow them to go. Only one struck him. I
saw another soldier attempting to make his horse go
upon the foot pavement, but he did not succeed,
the stones, &c. flew so thick about him. At the time
I saw this I was in the coffee-room of the Hyde-pack
I was there during the whole of the time I
am speaking of. The windows were shut. I bad
not a good view of Cumberland-gate : I had a side
view. I saw stones thrown from other places besides
Park-lane : some from immediately under the win-
dow where I was standing. The soldiers were riding
up and down there. I saw some stones thrown two
or three seconds before the firing. I did not see the
firing ; I only heard the report. I cannot say where
the hearse was then : it had got out of my sight.—
The firing commenced two or three minutes after
this. I cannot tell whether the Al hole of the Pro-
cession had passed at that time. I did not go from
the window. 1 was drawn to the spot on that day
by t-iriosity. I came from a house on the Edge-
ware-road. I saw a body borne away. I say most
decidedly that there was sufficient time for that per-
son to have gone away between the passing of the
hearse from my view and the commencement of the
firing. I have not undergone any examination on
this subject before this morning. I made a similar
representation to this to Mr. Hanson. Having seen
by the Papers that some persons had sworn that no
stones were thrown till after the fiting, I felt it to be
my duty to Mr. Stirling, the Coroner.
By Mr. Brown.-1 was sitt;ng reading a News-
paper before the noise outside attracted my atten-
tion. On this I came to the window, and saw a
great crowd of people on horseback and on foot
coming up Park-lane. I saw the soldiers at the Park-
gate at the same time.
Mr. Brown.—Mr. Coroner, that's all I shall ask. I
contend that this witness does not know what provo-
cations the people had received at first, or whether
the soldiers attacked them before they were struck
with the stones. Mr. Adolphus has told us that he
would call only a few witnesses, whose evidence
would shorten our time, and clear up the matter, but
the evidence of this witness does not do either.

Mr. ADOLPHUS.—I am quite prepared to expect
Inch observations as those I have now heard upon
whatever witnesses I may call. I maintain that this
Gentleman's evidence does prove provocation by the
people. He states that the soldiers were attacked by
them, and that their lives were in imminent danger.
'This proves the provocation.
Mr. Brown.—l deny it.
Mr. ADOLNIUS.--I dare say you do, and that you
will deny it by your verdict.
This expression seemed to have a very strong ef-
fect on the Jury, several of whom cried out at the
same moment, " Shame, shame !"
The Foreman.—lt is most scandalous, most infa-
mous, in any man to presume to anticipate our verdict.
A Juror (Nlr. Brown).—Mr. Adolphus, you ought
to be ashamed of yourself—you should remember
that you have been already turned out of society for
your ill manners.
Another Juror.—How dare you, Sir, presume to
anticipate what our verdict may be*-
(We cannot say whether Mr. Adolphus made any
reply to those remarks. At least if he spoke, what
Le said did not reach us).
Another Juror.—lt is highly improper for any one
to act thus in the Jury-room.
Mr. Blakie.—Brother Jurymen, I am sorry that
you should take any notice of-lanything that falls
from Mr. Adolphus. I thought we had seen enough
of the nature of the beast to let him take his own way.
Mr. ADOLPIILI4.—I shall not answer any of those
remarks. They who make them are Gentlemen—
of the Jury here—what they are elsewhere I will net
now say.

Tht.Fureman.—.We are not Jew-gentleraeni-at all

'events, Mr. Adolphus ; we were never sent to Co- '
ventry, as you were.
A Juror.—Our pedigree Is at least as good as Mr.
Adolphus's.
The Congsraa.—Dob Gentlemen, let us go on with
the business of the Inquest, or perhaps it would be
better that we should adjourn awhile in order to
get cool.
Mr. Blakie.:—Mr. Coroner, it is natural that such
'conduct should make ns warm ; and I am certain that
if any person but Mr. Adolphus had presumed in
this place to anticipate our verdict, you would order
your constable to turn him out of the room.
Mr. Spicer.—l hope, Gentlemen, you will let the
matter drop now, and let us go on.
The Foreman.—Yes, Mr. Spicer, but we are not to
allow ourselves to be insulted by a browbeating, bul-
lying Old Bailey Counsel here.
CORONER.—I think we had better adjourn a little
till we cool.
Mr. Brown.—He comes here because he is paid.
It is his profes3ion, but we are not paid.
The examination of the witness was now resumed.

By the Foreman.—l saw a bariner, but did not see
the man that carried it at the time the hearse came
through. There was an Officer along
.with the de-
tachment at the gate. I have seen him since. He has
been pointed out to me. I believe him to be Lieute-
nant Gore, but I don't know it of my own knowledge.
The Foreman.—lt is rather extraordinary, that
you should observe so particularly his dress and his
want of a cloak, and not have noticed the main,
thing, his countenance ?—Because he was the only Of-
ficer who was without a cloak. In answer to another
question witness said, When I saw the body of the
man borne by, I said to the waiter, there is a dead man.
He seems as if he had been shot through the heart.
By Mr. Gall.—l saw the soldiers riding up and
down past the Hyde Park Hotel several times. I did
not see the carbines in their hands. If they had had
them, I should have observed them.
By another Juror.—l Gould not see the people at
the end of. Cumberland-street from where I stood.

By Mr. Brown.—l don't know what passed he-
tween the people and the soldiers before the time I
saw the soldiers draw their swords.

Mr. Brown.—That is again exactly what I said :
the. Gentleman does not know how the first provoca-
tion was given.
Mr. ADOLPIIUS.—When I hear such observations
as this made, observations which ought rather to be
left for the Juror to make when he comes to consider
of his verdict—l must say that it is directly antici-
patory of the verdict he means to give.
The Foreman.—We shall not notice what Mr.
Adolphus says.
Mr. Brown.—We shall chew you, Sir, that we have
some Spartan blood in us, and starve you out. (We
could not guess to whoin this remark was directed).
Witness re-examined by Mr. ADOLPIIUS.—When I
first saw the soldiers, before I went to read the News-
paper, they were sitting quietly on their horses, with
their swords in their scabbards. When I saw them
again, they were in the act of drawing their swords :
the people were then throwing stones at them.
By Mr. Gall.—When I first came up the Edge-
ware-road to go to the Hotel, I did not sec the end
of it blocked up. It was not blocked up.
The evidence of the witness was now read over to
him. In the course of it he observed, that to his be-
lief, Lieutenant Gore was the Officer who was at the
bead of the de:achment at Cumberland-gate.
Mr. ADOLPIIUS.—There can be no doubt that Lieu-
tenant Gore was at the head of these twelve men.

A Juror.—What do you mean by such imperti-
nence ? Why should you say " these twelve men? "
Mr. ADOLPIIUS.-1 really do not understand such
language. I say these twelve men, and I repeat it.
I am at a loss to guess where is the impropriety
of the Tema' k.

Mr. Spicer suggested, that by " these twelve men"
Mr. Adolphus meant the men who were with Lieu-
tenant Gore, and not the Jury; as the other Juror
seemed to think.

The Juror begged pardon for the mistake.
Mr. ADOLPIIU said, that the mistake did not war- I
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rant the use of the word " impertinence."
The Juror.—Yes, but we have had so much of
it already.—The witness now signed his deposition,
and with dre w.

Richard Buckle Teed examined by Mr. ArooLimus.
lamof no profession. lam living on my property.
I reside at present at the Hyde Park Hotel. My pro-
perty is in Bristol. On the day of the Queen's funeral
I was in the Hyde Park Coffee-house, in the third
story window fronting Oxford-street. I saw part of
the hearse over the trees coming along towards Cum-
berland-gate. When the Procession was advancing
the gates were closed by persons who surrounded
them. The soldiers endeavoured to open them. They
partly succeeded in effecting their object. The gates
were closed again by the persons who surrounded
them. The soldiers were pelted at the gates while
they attempted to open them. That was the begin-
ning of the fray. The gates were opened, after a
cons►derable resistance. When they were opened,
another body of the Life Guards passed through.—
Some carriages followed, and then the hearse. The
hearse first came into the middle of Oxford-street,
opposite Cumberland-street. The horses' heads were
then seized by some persons and partially turned to-
wards St. Giles's. The soldiers then drove the people
from the horses' heads ; and, while .they were turning
the hearse the other way, the hearse and soldiers
were attacked by a shower of stones and brickbats.
I saw the soldiers repeatedly hit. I cannot speak to
any particular man as being active in the mob, it is
so long since. The hearse then moved nearly oppo-
site N 0.248, in Oxford-street, on the left hand side—
on the side nearest the Park, and almost opposite 248.
The soldiers then formed themselves into a body
nearly opposite No. 247. The firing immediately
commenced. That was about ten minutes after I had
first seen stones thrown. There was a continuation
of the stone-throwing from the commencement of the
dispute until the firing began ; not from one quarter,
but from different bodies.

By the Foreman.—l will not swear that there was
an incessant throwing of stones. There might have
been some intermission. It is a difficult thing to de-
scribe stone-throwing under such circumstances.—
Great quantities of stones were thrown.
By Mr. ADoLPHus.--The first seven or eight shots,
as far as I could judge, were fired in the air. About
half a minute after the firing began, a man was on
the ground. I mean a private individual' sot a sol-

diet. Ire was within about three paces of No. 241
The persons around him cried—" Murder ! a man is
shot!" After that I retired from the window. I
saw several of the Guards hit by stones. One man
was very severely struck on the back. That whs
when the soldiers were trying to open the gates.. At
the time the throwing commenced, the soldiers had
not, as far as I saw, done any one thing to provoke
the mob, except attempting to force the gates; they
desisted from firing for ten minutes after the throw-
ing of stones bad begun. Just before the commence-
ment of the firing, part of the Park railing had been
pulled down, or had fallen down.
By Mr. Gall.—l came up to the Jury-room on a
former occasion to be examined, not knowing that it
was directed that all witnesses should remain out of
the room except the person under examination, but I
did not stay more than half a moment. I could not
distinguish peace-officers at the gates from other per-
sons. I did not observe their truncheons. I stated
that the gates were twice closed, once partially opened,
and once entirely opened. I remarked to a person
who stood with me at the window when the fray oc-
curred, " that, from what I saw, if I were placed in
the situation of the soldiers, I would have done more
mischief than they did." I did not say-that I would
kill 500 of the people.
By Mr. Blakie.—l said before that I saw a part of
the hearse over the trees. I cannot state at what
pace the hearse was going. I am not certain who
opened the gates. I saw the soldiers engaged in
opening them. The soldiers were endeavouring to
open the gates both times. When the first shot was
fired, the hearse was nearly opposite to N 0.248,
and rather nearer to Tyburn-gate than otherwise. I
believe the whole of the Procession had not then
passed through Cumberland-gate. To the best of
my belief the man was on the ground before the
whole of the Procession had passed through Cum-
berland-gate. The man fell at No. 245, on that side
of Cumberland-street next the hotel. Had I been i
placed in the man's situation, I am certain that there
would have been sufficient time, between the passing
of the hearse and the beginning of the firing, for me
to have got away. I withdrew myself from the win- '
dew when the man fell. I certainly did not with-
draw myself from the window the moment the hearse
passed through Cumberland-gate.
If; unfortunately, you had been wounded after the
hearse had passed, would you have attributed it to
your having no right to be there?
Mr. ADOLPIIVS objected to this question, as in-
volving a mere matter of opinion.
Mr. Blakie persisted in pressing it.
The Conomat held she objection to be good.
Mr. Blakie.—Then, I a,k, if you had been stand-
ing at No. 245, when the hearse passed, would you
have considered that you had a right to be there?
Mr. ADOLPHE'S opposed this question, and the Coro.
ner ruled that it was not regular.
Mr. Blakie.—lf you had heard the Riot Act read,
would you have removed from the window ?
This question was also rejected.
Mr. Blakie.—Was the Riot Act read at all ?—I
did not hear it.

By Mr. Brown.—The firing did not commence
until the last detachment of the Life Guards came
through. I cannot positively say that I saw an Officer
come through with the last detachment. I did not
notice any one in particular. I merely saw a body
of soldiers. The soldiers were all in a body when
they fired below 247. I did not observe an. Officer,
lor any one person in particular, firing. I. know
Captain Oakes by sight; I do not know him person-
ally. I did not see him with that detachment. If I
had seen him I should have known him. I do not
know Lieutenants Story, Hall, or Terry. I know
Lieutenant Gore, but I cannot say that he fired on
that day.
By the Foretnan.—l saw a trumpeter riding about
behind Lieutenant Gore. The trumpeter appeared
to be a young man, from 18 to W. I should know
him again. I don't recollect seeing Lieutenant Gore
in conversation with a trumpeter on that day. I was
in a front window three stories high. I saw a man
with a banner ;he was on the ground. I did not see
him struck down. I think I saw him Fet up and run
away with the banner in his hand. There were so
many things to recollect at once, that I cannot posi.
tively say. To the best of my remembrance he got
up and ran away ; but I can't say so wilh any cer-
tainty, for the crowd was very great at the time. I
saw a shower of stones and brickbats thrown for
about ten minutes. I saw none of the multitude cut
or wounded by them ; though 1 saw some struck by
them, as well as the soldiers were.

By Mr. Spicer.—l saw the troops firing in one body
as it were, without distinction. If there had been a
single shot fired, either by an Officer or private,
among the people resisting, I think I should have
seen it. The man with the banner I did not see car-
ried away; I cannot positively say how he got off;
but the impression on my mind is, that he was not
carried away.
By a Juror.—l saw some stones thrown from the
corner of Cumberlancl-street. They came rather from
up the street, and on both sides. Certainly, I saw no
stones thrown from the spot where the deceased fell.
I should say they came from rather above that spot.
I don't know whether they were throwing from the
corner of Cumberland-street exactly at the time the
firing commenced. At that time they were being
thrown rather more from the Park.
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'By a Juror.—l don't call Hyde Park Hotel my re-
sidence ; but I have been there, off and on, somewhere'
about two years. I have no regular residence in the
,country. My property lies in the City and County
of Bristol. I am well known there. The present
Mayor of Bristol rents £BOO a-year of me. I believe
I should call him the late Mayor, for the Mayoralty
expires in that city on the Ist of September.
Mr. Brown. —I am going to ask you a downright
Radical question, such a one as I was severely repri-
manded before for asking, Mr. Coroner ; but one which,
nevertheless, with your leave, I will ask again. And
this it is—lf the people chose to shut the gates, don't
you think that they had a right to do so ?
Witness.—l don't know: how should I?

Several Jurors observed that this was merely matter
of opinion.
Mr. Brown.—The fact is, the Park. is held by the
tenant for the benefit of the people.
Mr: ADOLPHUS.--Is it, indeed ?

Mr. Brown.—You know it is, and so do I.
Mr. ADOLPHUS.:e4 dun% know that at all : I rather
believe not.

Mr. Brom—Ay, very well. There must be op,
position of opinion here, a; elsewhere. There 'nut
be opposition even in a bowl of punch, to make it
good; so I say nothing to Mr. Ad.,lphus's ohjectiot.
Mr. ADOLPHUS.-.-It is quite clear, that if one bob
of the King's subjects is coming through the Sate
no other body of subjects, on your own shewing, h.ts
any right to shut it against them ; and Ido repot
again, that I think there is something quite ropm
hensible and shocking in starting such questions:3
these upon such an occasion.
Mr. Brown.—l do not see anything shocking to it
at all; not at all : there is nothing seditious,
cious, or flagitious, that I see in my question:
that I know is, that Government cannot shlit tip
the Park.

Witness.—l heard no peace-officer, or othe,
son, remonstrating or expostulating with the pecr:.
I did observe that the shutting et the gates was the
commencement of the fray. The Guards who xent
to open the gate, and were endeavouring and strtt,-
gling to do so, were pelted; and then the other s da.
diers, who were behind them, rode among the rmple.
By Mr. ADOLPH us.--11 hen they turned their backs
upon the people, the soldieis were again pelted.
By Mr. HAYWARD.--I did not observe the man
whom I saw fall, or shot. throw stones or do any
thing improper. The time that elapsed between the
turning of the hearse bosses' head% towards Tyburn.
gate by the soldiers, and the moment at which ti,,
matt fell, was, I believe, about a mnute, or a tai.
nute and a half. I think not more.

By Mr. Gall.—The hearse was nearly op?..73ite
No. 248, when I saw the first shot fired.—(Here the
witness's evidence was read over to him, orric doubt
arising as to the fact that the witness had previously
deposed to this circumstance. It appeared by the Co.
roner's notes, that he had done so in the precise terms
stated by Mr. Gall in putting his question).—rrom
the time that I saw the first shot fired, till I saw the
man upon the ground, might be about half a minute
The Foreman here requested that the Jury might
be allowed to retire for the purpose of dining, snd
solicited the honour of the Coroner's company.
The CORONER gave his permission, but declined
the invitation.

Mr. PA own.—Perhaps Mr. Adolphus will eat some►
thing with us ?
Mr. ADOLPHUS al SO declined.

The Foreman said, they would not exceed ratan,
and the Jury retired at three o'clock.
On the return of the Jury, at a few minutes pa/
four o'clock, _

John Llog4 was called, and examined by Mr.
ADOLPHUS.-1 live at No. 12, Great Cumberland.
street. lam no profession. I look after a house be.
longing to Lord Bapot. Oa the day of the Queen's
funeral I saw what passed at Cumberland-gate. I
was at the window of Lord 13agot's house, nearly
facing Cumberland-gate. I saw twelve of the Litt
Guards on horseback fcr about an hour before the
funeral came up. During part of that hour then
was a great deal of hissing, and groaning, and yaws.
ing at them. A little before the Procession'came up,
there came up Park-lane, and that way, a great mob
of people, and closed the gates. The hearse was then
approaching the gates. The soldiers then rushed up
to the gates to open them, and a most furicus attack
commenced upon the soldiers, with stones and such
sort of things, from ail directions. After a gist
struggle the soldiers-got the gates open, but they
were shut again once or twice, and the stones kept
flying in all directions. In all this time I did net
perceive that the soldiers used more strength than
was necessary to open the gates.
Mr. Blakie submitted that this was not evidence.
The Coroner had befose objected to evidence of this
description.
Mr. ADOLPHUS said, that what the witness ow
' was matter of evidence.

Mr. Blakie thought, that the quantum of force
which might be sufficient to open the gates, must be
a matter of the opinion of the witness.
The CORONER thought there was nothing unrea-
sonable in the question, and it was allowed to stand.
Witness continued.-1 saw some persons, whom I
thought to be police officers, assisting the soldiers to
open the gates. They had short sticks, and I took
them to be police officers. Some of them might have
been the undertakers' men, but I cannot say. I saw
several of the soldiers struck with large stones, bricks,
and brickbats. I saw one or two of them that were
quite doubled up upon their horses. There was rico
of them with his cap (helmet) knocked off. Upon
this the soldiers endeavoured, when the mob got
near them, to intimidate them—to drive them back,
by flourishing their swords. When they rode to-
wards them the mob would fall back, and whim
they (the soldiers) retired, the people would throw
again. I saw the hearse come through, and the mob
got hold of the horses beads and turned them to
St. Giles's. The heads of the leaders were
turned down. I mean to say, by the snob. The
Life Guards, when they saw that, turned back, and
turned the horses heads towards Tyburn-turnpike.
After the hearse got through, there was not so much
throwing of stones and brickbats, but still there was
some. The principal part of the soldiers had gene
on before the hearse. From what I saw, up to this
time, I really considered the lives of the military
quite in danger. Up to the time of which I have
now been speaking, I had heard no report of fire'
arms. I heard some soon afterwards. I heard the
report of fire-arms. It might be five, six, or seven
minutes afterwards; I can't say how many exactly.
,
I did not see who discharged them. I only heard
the reports. I really cant say how many pieces
were discharged. There might be fifteen or twat).-
-The discharge was nearer to Tyburn-turnpike
than to Lord Bagot's. I saw a man carried P 261
Lord Bagot's window from towards Tyburn-tual-
pike, but I saw no other. I saw the soldiers who
they were returning from Cumberland-gate. Solo
of them, two or three, had their faces running dove
with blood. Their lothes were all over mud and
dirt. That's all I saw.
' By Mr. Gall.—l was at the window from before
the gates were shut till they had passed Lord &gots'
a good while.
By Mr. Blakie.—l have been examined before ef
this subject by Mr. Hanson. The 'mune of that el"
minatiun was, if not the same words, at least L.:
same substance as what I said here. I hold a plac.,
tinder Government. I am one of the IlouselieP
Trufapeters.
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Mr. Mall,—Wly witness ha: .. tQ.