Star.
London, England, 1817-07-29 00:00:00

N lIIMATR. JULY i 3.

Sa•T:rdAy a number of the Gen•lemen 043 cotti•
pose the holy e f Tie..ters fur Rartisgate Ilarbnur,
:,rrived here in the Trinity yacht, and they trete:on.)
after j,,ined by their 14c, ti,,or ChAirm:in, Sir WILLI:it
,CeItTIS, who, as a Commander-in-Chief ought, at.
'dived in hit own vessel.

T...day is grand gala. The yachts are decorated
with their colours ;figs arc displayed in varirus ruts
of the harbour ; and all the cvoks, havink been p.::
under requisition. are now bull' preparing for the
grand banquet. to which twiny of our resrevable
inhabitants and visitors have been invited.

Thursday a grand entertainment and ball wal
given on hoard the !sten trigate, Captain FonttesT,
Ituads, to a great number of Ladies and
of he first fashion in Edirthtlrgh. The
day being very fine, added greatly to the gratifica,
don of the company.

Sunday evening as Lord CASTIARSACII was plays
ing with a favourite dog of his Lady's, at their seat
at Footscray, in Kent, the animal bit his hand, v.hich
yesterday became so much inflamed, that his l'hy_
sician was sent for. The Doctor left London with
all possible speed yesterday morning to &tend his
Lordship.

The Count whom we stated yeterday to have beets
killed in a duel at Paris was the Count de Sr. NIORYS,
a Lieutenant in the Garde: du Corks. He was a long
time resident in England. On his return to France,
he collected the wreck of his fortune, which amoun-
ted originally to 100,0(N) livres a-year, and built a
castle on his estate at Houdginville, near Clerniont
sur POise, near the old mansion, destroyed during
the Revolution. His antagonist was a half.pay Co-
lonel, who had purchased great part of his estate as
emigrant property.
LADY ANN! MURRAY.—This benevolent character
rewarded the fidelity of htr servants in the most 1;-
beral manner, as the following statement of bequests
will shew :—To her housekeeper, who had been nearly
thirty-three years in her servic,!, she has given rt 3,500
and her wardrobe; to her bu•h:r, who had been
twenty-four years, 5e1,200 ; to her cook, who had
been nineteen years, £700; to her laundress, who
had been eleven years, tat(); to her two houtem.tids,
one of whom had been eighteen, and the other nine
years, £6OO each; and to her footman, who had
beer. nine years, aE6"O. The residue of her I,a 2T-
ship's property will dett,,lve on Gs:onoe Fincit HAT-
TON, Esq. of Eastv!ell Park, in Kent, who married
her niece, and who is appointed sole executor.
The trial of Red, the other master chimney.sweep, r
concerned with Rae in the culpable homicide, at Edin-
burgh, of which the latter has been found guilty, s
related in the STAR of yesterday, is put off till Sep-
tember.

As Mr. Menzies, a manufacturer in CatFsle, was
travelling towards Dumfries in a gig, a few nights
since, he was overturned, by A110%4 ing his hoes in ihe
dark, t go too near the side of the road, :s he was
descending the hill, on the other ,ile of the a k Toll
Bar. Early the next morning he WAS discovered by
the guard of the mail coach, and t Ikea up without
any signs of life, the horse and gig having lain all
night on his body.
Mentnett.— Our Readers will probably recoil' ct the
case of a most inhuman murder committed upan a
person of the name of John Payne, a sack carrier, of
Billington, in 13ediordshire, sonic time since io H t-
fordshire. The deceased was in the habit of regu-
larly attending Bernet Hempstead market, to which
he carried the farmers' corn, and sold it, bringing
back the sacks to them, ard accounting to them for
the money he received as the produce of their grain.
On the Ist of May last, on his way home firms the
market, he was found murdered in his cat t, his
throat being cut from ear to ear, and two consider-
able bruises on his head ; one of his breast pockets.
in which be usually carried in a pocket-book the
notes he received at market, was cut from his coat,
and with the pocket-book gone. It happened how-
ever rather remarkably, that on that day the deceased
had. contrary to his usual custom, placed his rules
in his breeches pocket, where they were found safe.
The next morning the deceased's pscket.beok and
pocket were accidentally found in the barn of Daniel
Munn, a small farmer resid,ng at Dagnal, wi him
the boundaries of Bucks, who was well acquainted
with the deceased. This led to the discovery nt
a variety of suspicious circumstances respecting
Munn. blood being traced upon his clothes, and
his being seen in the way to the place where the
murder was committed, although he had stated, that
at the time specified he went a different road, which
was also negatived by the most direct evidence urn
the trial, in consequence of which he was committed
to the County Gaol of Hertford, charged with tf:e
murder. At the Assizes at Hertford. on Friday, ke
was brought up for trial, when the circumstances
above mentioned were distinctly proved, together
with other particulars, amongst which was Iris bor-
rowing a hammer, the morning of the murder; tar-sr
of the wounds in the head of the deceased appearin;;
to have been inflicted with such an instrument, ant
the hammer never having been found since. Th..
whole case left no doubt whatever on the minds ..1.
the Judge or Jury; and the latter, after five minutes'
deliberation, having Icund him Guilty, the Judge
(Mr. Justice I)Au.As) passed sr ntence of deat'l
upon him in a very impressive manner, and erdercil
him for execution on the 7sh of August. 'D as
prisoner, who was 45 years of age, was a min of 4
forbidding aspect, and through the whole of the trial,
and even at the tragical conclusion of it, he nevi"
evinced the slightest emotion of feeling, but to the last
maintained a malignant sullenness. On the evening
of Friday he was visited by a Gentleman, in c ()mi.! it!
with the Chaplain, both of whom seriously admot,eh-
ed him on the Pray of persevering in the denial ot. a
crime of which there was no doubt he was guilty.
Their admonitions, however, made no impression on
him, and he remained in the same temrer. He was
again visited on Saturday morning by the same per-
sons, who, with the utmost humanity, paid him every
attention; and the Chaplain then asked if he wowd
permit them to join in prayer ? The unhappy man
instantly burst into tears, and expressed his grautu.!e
for their attention. And after prayers el:CW[ll4:2y
" I am indeed guilty, tor I murdered the man with a
hammer, which I borrowed for the puipase from n'y
brother." After some f urther conversation, the Cbal's
lain and his friend retired, leaving the prisoLer it a
comparatively tranquil sr.a!e.-.-There was $ gte t
.ruwd e'n to 11.0.1- cuil&timird

I

LAW Tr.

COM • JIILY 2t. '
Si • E. t' . • i.tt.:13211.
In this ease t' ~ r • Lott gave his ),tag-
-:c.f. He v - :r ~ .1 from a decree of
:.lister nt t' • , ::: ch Sir E. Knaielb.sll

. -
rns plaintiff. tid defendant ; and #he
i„,,yed , at ti be compelleJ
ec tic .14 to pet. rrt -erect be was alleged to

.entered intn ..•!;•• •.• • ;., and that an ac-
,...itc • mild be • dcrn. der of the Court. n 1 the
t • t ae.ainst the defendant.
:tt Oc • ' '•!;•• propel:ad tn sell an
in t.. •; • .• nne part of which WAS
NA! •-rt ;••• 1:7 Stone Stile, and the
:he NlArb! lri the ',articular of the
.ilt• l'•ey were t! •,.. -•;•••-c;:i-..ly described. On the
ni Oct in, !.• vi:4 enterer'. into he-
ti, r are r 'ifi'.l.4l (11, that the estate should
sold to •'••••• !-Intraet ; hut
•1! :. at tie desire of Sir L.
•, •tr.ction with an
in fnr the defendant.
met! 5!.4•.• (Irtlt) r was to putechage
refi.!.t.t,t• fcor.Tis:;tl2 oh 1011 acres};

7'l' ..;
t• t•i,t n•

an ;r 'hr.? • •wt- ,irr.”,-.hate possession;
• '2 • 111 tl t..r',•;r money of dt.5000
if t...• • '- ••• dnt his agreement.
At' Nis:: (.‘ sir: w. s i i :scree of ground,
caw w• ,c 1) !!.1,1 hest. :::irchased by the
late I!. 177,1, !imperfect title;
an,: r eurch.r, d it ; but he did
rot taiiC•• (tilis7S•;,••i ••i• with, accordO.e to the agree-
mew. E: nt S'.l• :I,d been purchased for al 4009,
by A Mr. .t: •he desire of the dAtudant, as
it had been :alleged; lee the latter, answer to
the bill, denied that. Tl,:. hill stated, that Gruber had
treated these estates as his own; and : hat the mansion-
house and ••rounds were still in his possession; that he
had advertised part of the premises for sale, as hi own
estate; anti that the plaintiff had offered to give him
a pied tide, or to take back Cole Nash.
Gruber, in his answer, said, tie resisted the prayer
of tbe bill because the plain iff lid not been aloe to
give him a good title to Cole 'Nash. He besides
complane..l. that he had been obliged, at an expense
of £55(4) ie purchase the stock of Nash Cutlet from
one the occupying tenant of it, which had
since been all driven away, by order of the plaintiff.
The opinion of Mr. Preston, the Conveyancer, was,
that the plaintiff's title. to Cole Nash was irreniedia-
ably bad ; and tie therefore recommended that the
plaintiff should giv- the defendant an indemnifica.
tion for it, if he chose to keep it,- or take it hack
from him, if he would have nothing to do with it.
His (the Lord Chancellor's) opinion was, that where
a man purchased an estate from a person who told
him he could give him a good title to it, the pur-
chase!, if be found the ilex bad, might insist on
having it silted to the bottom, or else not pay his
purchase money, or not have the property at all. It
was also said, that Sir J. Collett, to whom this estate
formerly belonged, had two sisters, and that it was
not known whether they had kit issue or not; there-
fore, n period of 52 years peaceable possession was
the best title that could be conveyed with this estate.
At last the plaintiff offered to hive up the 85000
deposit, if Gruber would give up to him the poises-
aion of the estate. But the stock bought by Gruber
from Rutter had beeh driven off the premises, by'
order of the plaintiff; how then could he call on Gru.
bet to perform a contract, after depriving him of the
benefit which that contract was intended to give
him ? At all events, he ought, at least, to be re-
stored to the situation lie was in when the contract
was made. In his opinion, nothing had been done
by Gruber, the purchaser, to warrant his being turned
out of possession of the estate ; and therefore the de-
cree of the Master of the Rolls must be affirmed,
VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, JULY 23.
311EICALST V. Tiromson-
'The plaintiff and defendant are brush-makers, and
the iormer professes to be the inventor of an inge-
niously constructed instrument for brushing the head,
in which the bristles are place 4 in opposite directions,
pointing upwards and downwards, so that while by
its actin in one way it clears the hair, and throws it
into grA.-elul order, it produces in the other a gentle'
and agreeable friction of the pericranism. He con).
plains that the defendant has pirated his invention ;
and Mr. Titesenee now applied for an injunction to
restrain the defendant from making and vending
brushes similar to the plaintiff's. The Learned
Counsel read two affidavits, one by the plaintiff, arm.
thea by a person who had gone to the defendant's
sbcp in Gray's Inn-lane to purchase some of the
brushes. The latter deposed that the patent brushes
shewn to bim by Mr. H. 'l'homson's shopman were
similar to those made by the plaintiff. He asked the
shopman whether Lis master sold many of these
brushes and he answered a great many.
The Iftce-CnaNcettou granted the injunction.
MISUNDERSTANDING AT THE BAR.

Mr. LEACH was about to make a motion, upon
which the VICtt.CNANCELLOR observed, that as he had
begun with the Gentlemen behind the bar, he thought
it right to go through with them before he heard the
ItiaA's Counsel. This arrangement was objected to
by Mr. LEACH and Mr. AGAR, and the VIce•CHAW
culoa intimated that he would confer with the Chan-
cellor, in order to have the point settled.

Friday sight the stables of DANIEL MILFORD, Esq.
of Woodford, were robbed of several valuable horses,
one of them a fine hunter.

A singular occurrence took place at the Custom-
how* yesterday morning, by a partial explosion of
the pas at the toot of one of the staircases. Part of
the pipes only being laid down, and the several pre-
parations being otherwise inconiplete, the reservoirs
containing the syphons for preventing communica•
tion were not filled with water as intended, and in
this situation some gas had escaped which had been
turned on in the main pipes. An accumulation was
thus formed in the cavities ender the landing of the
stairs, and mixed with such a portion of atmospheric
air as to render it explosive. A person (without
being directed) officiously opened a reservoir to exa-
mine it, with a lighted candle, and ignited the va-
pour, which exploded with much force. Several
Jarge stones, forming the landing places, and scow
step: were rent and forced out, but without doing
any materi.'l damage ; and the person who occa.
tinned the accident, together with mural Others who
happened to be near, received no injury.

,scarp.

YORI, SATURDAY, JULY 46
CROWS 31DC.
be:jam:in Leawood, of S 41f ord, in Lockwood, in the
West Riling of this come y, cloth-dresser; George
rreifindte, of the same place, cloth-dresser; John
rvileon, of the same place and profession; and Joeeith
lysoft, of the same place and profession, were in-
dicted for a capital offence, in aiding and abetting,
with many others, composing a tumultuous assem-
bly, a prrson unknown, who fi:ed at David Alexan-
der, on the nizlit of the Bth of June last, at a place
called Falty-hall 'midge, near Huddersfield, with
the intent of murdering the said David Alexander.—
There were two other counts in the indictment, one
charging the prisoners with aiding and abetting the
unknown individual in attempting to disable the said
Alexander, and another in aiJing the same person
to do the prosecutor some great bodily harm.
Mr. Toreteo, who, together with Mr. ScAttearr
and Mr. ItIeIIARDIPN, was retained for the prosecu-
tion, addressed the Jury, explaining the nature of
the charge, and detailing the circumstances of the of-
fence. The prisoners were not themselves indicted
for firing at the prosecutor, nor was it. necessary to
'constitute the crime that the hand of any on: of them
shculd have held ihe gun, or that any one of them
should have given the order to fire—if it could be es-
tablished in evidence that they were present when
the guilty transaction took place, and that they were
aiding and abetting the individual who was the agent,
their conduct would bring them within the penalties
of the law, as much as if they had been principals.—
He would satisfy the minds of the Jury that, what-
ever decision they should ultimately come to on the
testimony that should be submitted to their conside-
tiou, such offences as those with which the prisoners
were charged ought not to pass without an endea-
vour to bring them to justice. It would be deeply
disgraceful to the laws, and highly detrimental to
the peace of the country, to let such crimes pass
without jud cial examination and public discussion.
Some of those gentlemen who now sat on the pre-
sent Jury might have composed a part of the Jury
of yesterday, when some prisoners were tried for
committing a burglary to obtain arms. With the
verdict of that Jury he was disposed to find no
fault, as he was convi,iced that they conscientiously
decided according to the evidence laid before them.
The prisoners of yesterday were accused of felo-
niously taking away arms ; and the evidence that
could be given against these now at the bar, would
prove in what unlawful uses of violence and public
disorder those arms were to have been employed.—
Great numbers of persons had tumultuously assem-
bled at Huddersfield on the same night when the out-
rages which came under the view of the Jury yes-
terday had happened, although it was difficult to
guess the object of their assemblage. One of them
had fired a pistol at David Alexander, one of the
cavalry yeomanry who went to disperse them, and
the prisoners would be proved to have been aiding
and abetting the felony. The Learned Counsel then
stated the nature of the evidence he meant to bring
fornfaid. One Taylor had been called out of his bed
by the rioters, and compelled to go to a field with
them, where he saw thirty or forty persons assembled
for the purpose of outrage—some armed with guns,
some with scythes, some with hay-forka, and ether
weapons. Another witness, Armitage, who was
likewise compelled to join this unlawful assembly,
would describe what he sew of its proceedings, and
would tell the Jury that lie saw ball cartridges 3:esti'
out to men in arms—Abet he saw them ranged under
a leader—that he heard them desired to tall into
ranks, and to march in regular order, to the engine-
bridge, near Huddersfield—that he beard those who
had guns desired to kneel, and those who had pistols,
scythes, or other weapons, to fall into the rear. Why
this great preparation, this regular discipline, ur thes
military array took place, the Learned Counsel would
not take upon himself to sat ; but. he left an account
of the reasons of them to be given, it any could at all
be given, by his Learned }fiends who were to con-
duct the defence of the prisoners. Such an outrage
however was not to be committed on the peace of the
neighbourhood without any exertion by the civil
Power to prevent it—and accordingly a constable,
Whitehead, of Huddersfield, having heard of the
unlawful assemblage, took means to disperse it. Here.
the Learned Counsel detailed the transactions which
will be found in the testimony of the three fit st witnesses.
Lockwood, and the three other prisoners, would be
proved to have borne arms On she occasion t and
though, when a number of persons were assembled
for an unlawful object, and one individual committed
the act of outrage indicted, it might be impossible to
point oot that individual, yet it was not necessary for
the purposes of law, as the deed of one person, in a
multitude acting in concert, was considered in law
and justice as the act of all. It would be (Mite im.
possible to punish crimes, or to protect the public
peace, upon any other principle; and the justice of
the country might be made a laughing-stock, it' none
could be prosecuted who joined in the perpetration of
the most atrocious acts except the very individual
could be pointed out who might be the agent of the
rest, and who, as fulfilling their purposes, would
generally be protected by the concealment of. his
crimes against the consequences of his conduct. If
the prisoners, therefore, could be proved to be present,
aiding and abetting the hand that tired the pistol at
Alexander, they were equally guilty as if they had
any, or all of them, drawn the trigger. The Learned
Counsel said, he should have to prove some of the
material facts by means of a witness who, in some
respects, bore the character of an accomplice, as, be
was present on the occasion, but who in other respects,
was perfectly unexceptionable, as his apparent concert
was not a matter of choice, but of compulsion.
some cases accomplices gave the only testimony that
could be obtained ; and though he allowed it ought
always to be received with suspicion, and canvassed'
with care, yet be did not think that when confirmed
by other evidence it ought to be rejected or disregard.
ed. Here the witness was not an accomplice in reality,
as his joining the mob did not depend on his own
choice. The Learned Counsel proceeded to call
evidence.

Captain Armitage was the first witness examined.
He, deposed that he commanded the Yeomanry Ca-
•alry of the district of Huddersfield, and that he was
called up on the night of Sunday, the Bth of June,
upon information that a tumultuary assemblage of
persons bad collected at or Engine-bridge,

' near Huddersfield. Ere proteeded to the bridge with
six patrole. and the constable Whitehead, about ten
o'clock. The prosecutor, David Alexander, was one
of the patrole. He went in advance before the test
about 50 yards, till he came near the Engine-bridge,
which WAS about a quarter of a mile from Hudders-,
field. The horse t,f Alexander was grey. Shires,
another of the patrt.le, Alexander, and the constable
Whitehead, proceeded as an advanced guard to know
what the assemhlage wanted, and to command them
to disperse. Witness had almost lost sight of Alex-
ander when he arrived near the buidge, as he and the
remaining four of the patrole were a little in the rear..
He heard then somebody sin, that they were halting.
He rode up to Alexander and ShireN, A ho had actu
hah.cl within a kw yards of the bridge. Witness
adud why 111.1 had don? so? and Alessndtr soil

here they are. Witness then loek .d, and saw an as-
semblage of men on the bridge, hut from the dark-
ness of the night could not p.m ive whether they had
AIMS or not. He then called out to the constable to
come up and speak to them. The constable obeyed
the summons, and as st;on as he had conic up wi:ncss
observed tire flash in the pan of one of the guns or
pistols bornu by the rioters. The constable, Alex-
ender, and Shires, were before witness. The consta-
ble sail something, but witness coold not tell what.
He was certain ill it the 11 ash proceeded from the party
on the bridge. Almost instantaneously a gi.n was
Bred irom the same party; and soon afterwards seve-
ral others, not in the ntanner of a volley, but irregu-
larly. All the show fired might be about 20. Wit
ness remained till about ten shots were fired, and
looked forward to examine the torce of the party by
the light of their fire. They were assembled on the
centre, and on the slope of the bridge farthest firms
witness ; and he, judging that sonic on the slope were
concealed fro n his view, while he saw a moviug body
beyond the centre of the bridge, at about 40 or 10
yards' distance, concluded that all the intervening
space was occupied by the party, and that conse-
quently their numbers were considerable. Having
formed this opinion, and considering that his party
only consisted of six to oppose them, he thought it
prudent to retreg to Huddersfield for an increase of
lorce. He accordingly did so; and returning after-
wards, when he had gained an accession of numbers,
found that the rioters were dispersed.
George Whitehead, a constable at Huddersfield,
who accompanied the patrole, confirmed the testi-
mony of the preceding witness, in so far as he spoke
to facts that came under their mutual observation.
When the pktrole arrived at the bridge the last wit-
ness desiredm to go into the front, and demand of
the mob what they wanted ? He accordingly went
within a few yards of them. He saw a number of
men armed, one of them pointed his piece at him,
and fired, but the fire flashed in the pan. One of the
mob plied out, 0 Who comes here ? ' Witness an-
swered the question by demanding who they were,
and what they were doing ? Nothing else was sa'd,
when the firing commenced. The firing came from
the mob, but how it was directed, witness, from tine
darkness of the night, could not say. Witness be.
lieved five shots were fired before he turned round
his horse's head from the bridge and retreated. Alter
he began his retreat other shots were fired. Witness
could not judge of the number of the mob accu-
rately, but believed they might amount to about 400.
'There is a house some yards from the bridge on the
road side, an. witness saw on the wall of that house
on the following day the marks of a ball. Alexan-
der was nearer the wall than him.
Cross-examined for the prisoners by Mr. Wieetests
The witness said, that tit) or 40 had absconded from
fear of prosecution since the riot. from his active
search of those who were concerned in it. Witness's

horse was of a bay colour, and Alexander's grey.
The grey he allowed, after some discussion, could
be more easily seen in the dirk than a black or a bay,
and Alexander's horse was the most likely object in
the party to be observed by the people on the bridge.
Being asked, if he thought it a bad military practice
to fire at the horse, and to bring down both the horse
and thd rider at the same time, he thought that that
was just as it happened. Being asked, if in his part
of. the country people generally shot at what they
saw or what they did not see ? he replied at what they
saw. If it was so dark that he could not observe
whether the fire was pointed in one direction or ano-
ther, could the party on the bridge see Alexander
Witness did not know. Being asked if he was pro-
secutor of the prisoners in a bill of indictment that
the Grand Jury threw out fur firing at himself, he
confessed that he was.
David Alexander was one of the yeomanry cavalry
of Huddersfield, and was on duty on the Bth of
June last. He wore a uniform of blue turned up
with buff. He went to the Engine-bridge to disperse
the rioters : he was a little in advance of the rest of
the patrole s he halted at the end of the bridge, where
lie saw men, but could not tell how many they were:
they appeared to amount to sixty or seventy. Before
the 'cirnstable spoke, the mob called out, " Who
comes there ?" Immediately a gun flashed in the
pan, 'another piece was fired, and soon after several
more ; at the third shot his horse reeled and staggered
back*ards : the party retreated after several other
shots were fired. About an hour and a half after-
wards he examined his horse's head, and took out of
it a pistol ball, which he produced in Court. He
saw the mark of a shot in the wall of the house near
the bridge, but there was no appearance of lead on
the stone.
This witness was cross-examined by MIATARKEY,
the other Counsel for the prisoners, for the purpose
of throwing a doubt on the accuracy of his conjec-
ture, with regard to the mark on the wall being made
by a bullet, and for proving that the shot in tl.e fore-
head of his horse, as it was not observed till ton len
afterwards, might have been.got in some other way,
than from the party on the bridge, if not occasioned
by the firing of his own pistol at that party. He.
chewed that neither of these latter suppositions could
be admitted.

Nathan Taylor deposed, that he lives a mile and a
half from Huddersfield; that on the Bth of June last
he went to bed about ten o'clock ; that he was called
up shout midnight by persons knocking at his door,
arid threatening that if not opened it would be burst
open. Upon going to the door he found two men
there, who. desired him . to dress himself and accom
pany them. Each of these two men.had a gun. They
insisted on his going with them, but they would not
tell where they would conduct him. He cheesed
himself and went with them, very much against his

will. He had no gun. He thought Benjamin Lt k.
wood, the prisoner, one of those /terser's, but, en
cross-examination, would not swear that he was so.
He went with the men for about three quarters of a
mile, till they joined a party at Knowleeill, when he
ran away. The purpose fur which this wimess was
caned was to speak to the identity of Leckasend,
which, on cross-examination. lie retested cep es 'etch 'o
do; though he had known the prisoner b fere, and
had walked with him, by his own acceuet, three
quarters of a mile on the night in question.
George Armitage was the nest witness. lb stated
that on the night of the Bth of June he was at Lock-
wood, a short distance Isom Hodder field. He had
been courting there, and was returning about feels,:
o'clock, as i.e thought, to Haddersfield, along with
All aequeintance of the none of Charles Eernshay.-.
Two persees with goes stopped them, and said eh, y
moat go along with them to a tield close to Engine-
bridge, as it had b en leselved to try how malty
could be mustered. Eembaw turned round to ti .e
witness and said,“ Shall we go, Armitage ?" One
those who stopped them said, " You must. gn, or pet
hall be shut." The witness and his companion then
went along with them to the field near the Engine-
bridge. A considerable norther of people, from
to 70, were assembled there. The witness saw two
handkerchiefs on the wall of the field, with some-
thing in each of them rather larger than a mast's
hand. He heard sonic one say, " 'Those who have
arms may Come hither." He saw one with a gun
go to the place : something was piven him: he dad
net know what : but the man having come fr. mehe
wall, and stood near him, he hard him say that he
had got twelve rounds. He saw others wlt ) )14d arms
ads ancing to the wall, but did not attend to them :0
as to observe them get any thing.
The Counsel for the prisoners t.bserved that all this
was de km tire; for that it had tint been proved that
any one of the prisoners was present at this nuctine.
George Armitage (examination cantintied).— He
saw none of the prisoners in the field except Wilson.
They received orders to advance to the bridge, these
who had arms having been previously desired to jars
the rest of the body of men assembled. They came
to the bridge, where several other. e ere A..S':rnbled.
Two men with scythes, stretched out, stood on the
crown of the bridge, mid prevented any one front
passing, in case any one had attempted to get away.
At the bridge he saw Benjamin Leckeiood and
George Woffenden, who had guns. He sow the pre
toner Jysop there also, with a scythe. A man of the
name of Croft appeared to have the et matand on the
bridge, and he heard Croft order those who 11:4.1 mono
to arrange themselves on each side of the road, weile
those who had not arms stood in the middle. Croft,
soon after the witness came to the bridge, erjelcd
those with arms to kneel. He heard the trampling
of the horse,' feet when the cavalry were advancing;
and then he heard Creft cell out, three times, " Who
comes there ?" He did not hear *what answer w..s
made to that ; but Croft ordered those why had awes
to fire. The witness immediately ran back weal&
Leckwood ; but, while running away, he heard the
report of several pieces. As he was running. Wilson,
along with several others,outreni and passed him. l'es
then saw something in Wilson's teetd, but did not at
the moment know what it was. .1
he party that raa
off in this direction halted between the %south. A
piece was tired at some distance, which was uncle:-
stood as a signal to show where eclectics imtLy wee.
Some on4e said, " His nobody le re any thing to ae-
swer it ?" and then the prisoner Wilson tamed leis
hand, and fired a pistol. The party 5,1,11 atter dis-
persed. The witness did Got cheese to go t Hud-
dersfield thee, ;led therefore rc:urned to Lockwood,
and knocked et t!.e Jo r t f the house where his sweet-
heart lived, but she e (mid not let him in.
Cros exatnined.—lle said that he was forced to go
to the field ; that lie had no gun in his head ; that
there was a sufficient number assembled to have vim.
pelled any two, or three, or even four, to have gone
to the meeting ; that f r any thing he knew the pri-
soners might have been so fenced. Being asked whe-
ther they might not have been foreed to take arms in
their hands ? he answered that he rid not know as to
that. Being asked whether, it a piety of aimed men
had threatened with the most dteadfel oaths to short
him immediately if he did me take a gun in his hand,
he would have taken it in his hall re- not ? he sated

that he would soontr have peen shot than h.ve taken
it on such an occasion, and that he is:eant to sae,:r 14)
that. He would not :mear that he itad Rev: r sanders
one William Stan:ey that he was nit at the hridre,
or in the field, on the night of the Bth of June, Cut
he would' swear that he had no recolfectiosica h.eiss
had any communication with Wiliam Stanley on the
subject on the following d. y, or at any time. He
had never said to 'William Stai.lvy, .6 By I WA)
not there," as far as be recollect. d. He, t,ad idosmed
James Geis,: of his being there at a secret. lie might
have said that he did not know aha ssere there, 35 :se
was afraid of bring shot. liter tithaw's sweetheart
told him that they would thwt him it he att,ont d
about the meeting.
Re-examisied.—He said, that after havirg het n
examined before a Magistrate, he had consented to
be detained in custo.ly, because he was alr.td ef
being shot.
The prisoners said nothing in their defence, but
several witnesses were called its their behalf.
William S anley deposed, that on the 9.ti of June,
being near the market-place in Huddersfield, ne had
gone into a passage to avoid the rain. That a tenor
of the name of Blades, and George Armitage, had
come into the same passage. That dity'were talku.g
of .the Dragoons who had come into HuddetsEtal
that day, and of the assemblage of the night beture.
That George Armitage then said, tl at his father's
field, in the neighbourhood of the bridle, had been, so
trodden, that there was hardly a blade of grass stew-
ing, and that there must have been from three to tour
hundred at the meeting. 'rhe witness said,' George,
were you there?" No answer was made to the ques-
tion, and the witness then talked to some ether Per-
sons, and said nothing taore to Armitage.
John Blades, a tailor at Hudderst!eld, who wets
present at this conversation, deposed to it in the same
manner. Armitage said, that his father's :'tell hod
been trodden in such a manner that it was a sharie
to see

James Greig.—The witness, Ge3rge Armitage, had
informed him that he was pit scut at meeting ;
and knew some of tke men
Cross-examined for the prowrutlrm.-7-7e said !hi!'
Armitage had mentiotted it it a sectet, but

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