Star.
London, England, 1819-08-30 00:00:00

son, and the. toliy.of the Magi trxes, have confer rd
additiohal popularity on Mr. Hunt and his followers.
The examination commenced about half-past one,
and ended about half-past four.

MANCHESTER, AUGUST O.
(From The Tinics.)
Ila 11/brd, who was taken up at Middleton, on
Thursday morning, on a charge of MaircheAer I
Treason, underwent his final examination along with
the other State Prisoners yesterday. The party that
arrested him consisted of a troop of horse, a di tacit-
ment of infantry, and a posse of constables. To such
a formidable force, no resistance was offere,l, nor swat

there any apparent inclination to re%ist The alleged

:raitor was culled up from his bed, about four o'cioc.
in the mowing, when he lit le expected to be ho-

loured by suchlvisitors ; but he manifested no symp-

:oms of conftiLion, displeasme, or alarm. He was

even good•hurnuilred :tad jocose with the officers,
inspiring them, at the same time, with a very high
idea of his talents, coolnes, and presence of mind.

" Ile first asked, why he had been sae waited upon lb
and was told by Nadia, that he had a warrant US
arrest him. On whit charge?' he rejoined. rOn
charge of having connteitted a capital felony.' Ali,'
he replied, you will never convict me; my blood •
would poison you, man ; it is as bllck as a bullock's.'
Seeing the officers searclethe house for pikes or pike-
heads, he remarked upon their suspicious simplicity,
saying, 4 And do you think I would keep them hare?'
The officers, not being so quicksighted as the inven:
tive genius of the Courier, could not find a single
pike-head to fit the old broken Boroughreeve's stay
in the Reform depot of arms at the Infix mary. They,
however, found a collection (a' Black Dwarfs, and
other seditious publications, which they carried off in
triumph, to be inspected by the sagacious Bench of
Manchester Magistrates. They are probably by this
time oh their way to Lord Sidmouth.
" The prisoner was taken to the New Bailey with-
out exciting any apparent irritation among his towns 6
men, over whom he is said to exercise a great ;Diaz,
ence. He is the same person who attended the Meeting
of Reform Delegates in London before the Suspension
Act, and who was in consequence imprisoned under
that Act. Of this he reminded Nadia on Thursday
morning, saying—' I am nut afraid of you ; we are
old friends.' It I remember right, he is celebrated
by Cobbett, as having first convinced him of the prat
ticability and expediency of Universal Suffrage, that
polit:cal P, ote is, before this conversion, professing ast
inclination to be satisfied with a less extensive Reform.
You have no doubt received an account of the tram-
actions at the New Bailey yesterday, which termi-
nated in the committal of Hunt and his hustitlg.-
c mpanions for a mist meancur. Thus, h!o, It was
said by one of the fn isoners at the bar, ith more
truth than decorum, ends the Manchester farce of
high treason, which, to rcmplete the parallel, was
unhappily preceded by a tragedy. The afterpiect
was no doubt got up to suit the main exhibition,
and the same actors performed in both ; but the Pub 4
lic will not allow themselvie, like the spectators of a
play, to forget the original scene of blood, in the dis
verting mummeries which have succeeded it.
In.relation to the. proceedings at the New Balky
yesterday, I shall merely observe, that if Elisabeth
Gaunt, instead of being at the bar, had b en placed
on the bench, and by this change of position, had
been converted from a Radical Reformer into a loyal
old woman, she would, I am convinced, have con-
ducted the proceedings of the Court with as much
decorum, temper, and legal knowledge. It would
be needless for me to guard myself from being
considered as a friend of the prisoners, or of the
wild and mischievous schemes which they are accused
of supporting ; hut I am bound in candour to admit,
that Hunt, who was their protector as well as his own,
evinced so great acuteness, legal subtilty, presence of
mind, and readiness of elocution, that he would have
puzzled greater wits than the authors of the late trans-
actions. The special constable witnesses, with their
dressed clean-written depositions, delivered before a
clerk and a Magistrate only, without any cro;s-ques-
timing could no more stand beforehim than the mob
before the Yeomanry on the fatal 16th. With a single
thrust of his lance he shivered their affidavits in
pieces, and scattered them to such a distance, that it
is feared it may not be possible to collect and make
them ready for a Jury.

MANSION House.—Saturday, the publisher of a
Weekly Paper applied to the LORD MAYOR for
restitution of a board, which had been seized by an
officer from,, man employed to carry about puffing
placards upon.it, in order to attract customers to the
Paper. The placard on the, board, when it was
' seized, was headed Manchester Massacre ; Tears
of BloOd." The applicant demanded restitution, be-
cause it had been, he said, unwarrantably seized, and
because it was essential to the interests of the Riper
that it be employe.? again yesterday.
The LCRD MAYOR onlered the board to be re.
stored to him -; but first directed an offitier to strip
off it the obnoxious placard, and to see the applicant
out of the Mansion ilo-Ise.with it.
As the LORD M AT(:R was about to retire from the
Justice-room, a huge butcher rushed before him, and
said he had just conic from the market, where a party
of butchers had been de,canting upon existing po-
, Mos, and they had almost unanimously declared.—
nay. some of &CM swore, that his Lordship was a
" I)—n met" said he, I could nqt stand
,his, and I told one ant all Of therm (here the fellow
spoke with a voice like thunder) that you, were no
fool, but a d—d clover fellow, and that you knew
what was what r
The Loan MAYOR thanked him for his warm and
untolicited support of his character, but trusted that,
if he was in earnest, he would not suffer his zeal:to
carry him to a violation of the peace. The butcher
swore a dreadful oath that there was no putting up
with the vl,gabonds ; they had not only called his
Lordship a (col, but a * • • • • • • ; and he, in re.
turn, had not only given a fellow a good whopping,
but called them all a pack of infamous ilaiiicah; and
, declared that the Lord Mayor was no mole a fool
than he was himself!—The Loan ikisYou iecom.
, mended him to be cs 01, and repeating his obligations
for his defence of his public conduct, requested him
not to mjx with the market politicians again. The
butcher left the room, evidently chagrined, and rotr-
r ing out; .‘ I suppose if I had kicked the likefcnmers
-to the d—l, I should have get the same thanks J"