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did not believe it wis done by the Cheshire Yeo-
manry. Witness came from Stockport ; he didnot
kaow at what hour be left Stockport; it might' be
seven or eight. Between eight and one or two, he,
with others of the Yeomen, were .led through dif-
ferent parts of the zintntry. He saw nothing parti•
culat. uilless the people running away, and the Stock-
port Troop had nothing to do with them. He saw
Rio banners till he saw them in the hands of the Ca-

,;alry ; some of the banners were in the hands of the

Stockport Troop : lie did•not know how they got
:hem. o.le of the young men of the Troop got one
in the crowd some way, and they took it back to
Stockport. Nearly all the people were gone before.
the ti.ockport Troop came on the ground : they were
ordered to draw their swords before they came there.
ile 0, people going to the Meeting, but none
Mary array. He only observed two or three pass by
a tine.

Cross-examined by Mr. Serjeant Cnoss.—Witness
vas not stationed with his Troop in sight of the 'lust-
in :;s ; his Corps were not so stationed that they could

set. them.

Bcntly, being sworn, said, be lived at
Eaton Norris, near Stockport. He saw Mr. Johnson
on the afternoon of the Bth of August ; be was then
on foot. hut lie afterwards saw him in a gig with Mr.
hunt ; th- y were going towards Stockport ; he did
not see where they went, but they turned off towards
a place called the Union Room ; he saw them the

next day, with Sir Charles Wolseley, going in the di•
rcction of Manchester.

Cress-examined by Mr. Hunt.—Witness was a
clerk in a counting-house; fit went in a coach' to
Manchester an the 16th, but saw no person cut ; he
was at the back of the hustings, and saw no act of
violence till the Cavalry came ; he saw one or two
men very insolent, they would break through the
7 t.lks of the Constables ; it struck him that there
•,:reflity or sixty thousand persons present ; he went
t.,ere merely from curiosity; he was not alarmed till
aiter the Cavalry came on the ground ; he was then
rather aii aid ; there were two or three who would
go the the crowd whether or not .;* he saw' no
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hers. n cut ; there was one Constable pressed down
h) the crowd when the Cavalry came ; witness took
refuge ainong the Constables, among whom he had
some relations ; he saw a double low of Constables
from the house where the Magistrates were, up to_
the hustings ; Mr. Nadin was on the ground, close
to the Magistrates' house ; witness saw -no person in-
sult him ; he heard hint (Hunt) requesting the peo-
ple to be quiet and peaceable ; the relation whom be
had amongst the Constables was Thomas.
Examined by Mr. liartnow.=Witness said, he
knew Mr. Moorbouse; he saw him in the carriage,
but could not sav he was upon the hustings.
Examined by Mr. HoLtocK.He saw Moorhouse,
Hunt, Johnson, and a Lady, in the carriage ; it was
attended by a crowd, and there was plenty of flags ;
h did not recollect that there were any banners
among those who surrounded the carriage; he saw
Hunt leave the carriage to get upon the hustings;
he passed the Stockport people that morning; they
were upwards of a thousand ; he recollected Hunt's
saying, " if any people broke the peace, they must
get them down, keep them down, and make them
be quiet ;" he recollected no other word.
To a question from the JUDGE, he said, he could
not tell how many might be able to hear Hunt when
he spoke. _ _ _

Mary Cadman being sworn, said she was servant
to Moorhouse, but had left his service ; she knew Mr.
Hunt ; there was a bed made up for him at Moor-
house's.

Here Mr. Hunt rose, and admitted that he slept
there; it was not, therefore, necessary to examine
her further on that point.
Cross-examined by Mr. BARROW.—Witness said,
Moorhouse was in the habit of frequently reading the
Bible; she went to the Meeting for curiosity ; there
was a vast number of women and children there;
Moorhouse took his wife there ; she was in the family
way ; she saw none of the children of Moorhouse there.
Samuel Morton said he lived near the St. Michael's
Church public-house, at Mandlester ; he saw persons
assemble near his house on the 9th : there was a great
noise that Johnson, Hunt, and Moorhouse were corn-
ing ; there Were three or four in a- chaise ; there was
a large collection of people round them ; the g:g
stopped opposite the church, when Mr. Hunt got on
l.is legs and began to speak; he began by making
allusions to the Manchester Magistrates, he compared
them to nine tailors on a shop boaro. ; witness thought
his reason for saying so was, because the Meeting
was forbidden ; encouraged the people to be firm,
and no doubt they would prosper ; the Meeting to
v.ilich he alluded was :los Meeting of that day ; wit-
ross did not know it was for 14idden.— :Here the
placard forbidding the Meeting was sliewn, and wit-
ness said he saw many such posted on the walls.]
There was a great noise among thc people ; previous
to the last placard witness saw another of the same
tendency ; Hunt told the people to meet again on
the Kith, which was received with loud cheers, and
cries of " We will, we will :" Hunt they waved his
h:tt, and laughed quite heartily ; Johnson sat by
;unt's side ; they continued from hail an hour to
three ouarters before they moved off, and then drove
Mr. Johnson's house. On the ;following Mon-
day he saer many thousands moving •about. lie saw
Mr. Johnson come with his retinue ; Mr, Hunt was
present v..ith Johnson in a carriage; the people were
niter :hero five or six abreast ; fhey stepped like sol-
ders ; he could not say how Many there were, but
411 an hour elapsed before *they all passed; they
came either from the Oldham or Rochdale road ;1
!ais he concluded from seeing them come down the
he heard a bugle, aficl they halted .niote than
once witness stood-looking on ; he heard a
'7.°"'- from a man, end- believed it was the Word
halt there was- a black flag; with." Liberty Of
Death;," or something • similar-;:" No Corn Laos,"
as on another banner ; there were several other Rags,
Caps of Liberty at the top ; one was " Hunt
lr,d Libatty ;"
_tie recollected nothing about 'miser.
eat:tion; witness followed theM till, they got tolls
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lu rray's house,. who was, a constable at the time ate
Ik.a-sin his room very ill ; when the mob tgovaPP°'
his door, they hissed achis• family, who-,ivere at
the windows, and cried out, ‘-! that-they w4nted senile
White Moss humbugs the carriage at this,tinse had
'One on, and was no longerin. his sight; the Amalfi
not quiet ; it was very tumultuous, and for him-
s7ll, witness was alarnied i he had hued in the to*n
4') ;ear.,, and never saw anything so tumultuous be-

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fore ; neither public nor private business went on me
the usual way; witness is a manufacturer, and ccitild
not attend to his business, there were so *any people
running up and down.
To a question from Mr. BARROW, witness said he
did not see Mr. Moorhouse in the carriage; he did
not know Sixton, one of the defendants; he did not
know such a person. •
Cross•examined by Mr. Hunt.—Witness said he
was a fustian-manufaidturer. There was a great deal
of confusion. The business of witness was carried on

in Bessen-row, No. 5 ; not in theroad where the pro-
cession passed. Withy Grove was not near his resit
dencc ; he stopped there to seethe people pass, and
Was alarmed. Witness did not return home ;mile-
diately ; he stopped at the corner of Flanging Ditch ;
he was alarmed at the black Rag, and thought they
were going to level something. Witness is a married
man; his wife and chP„, -en were at home; he took
care that none of them were at Peterloo; he. was cet-

tain they were not there. Witness did -not go to the
Meeting ; he never attended anything of the kind.—
Ile saw the black flag pass Withy Grove, with the
inscription, " Liberty or Death." He thought there
would be a disturbance and a fight ; there was no
fighting while he was present, but there was some-
thing lie did not like—a trumpet blowing—people
generally fought idler, and not before trumpets were
blown. He saw the weavers, run up to Mr. Hunt,
many without coats ; there were numbers of women,
as well as girls and boys, all mixed together. What
witness alluded to was on the 9th, -not the 16th ; he
could not say whether the women marched or not,.
or whether they
-were alarmed. He saw some ac-
quaintances from Oldham there, and many of his
own townsmen. W itnesswent home about one o'clock
to his dinner; he went to no Magistrate to express
bis fears ; none of the processions passed his house.
Witness was in York since Sunday night last ; he,
saw flags and people marching in York, but was not
alarmed. The Meeting there and at Manchester had'
a different appe trance, and were different things:—
one was like war or disturbance, and the other like
merriment or rejoicing.
[Here some slight manifestation of approval took
place in the gallery, and Mt. Justice BAYLEY re-
marked on the impropriety of such conduct, request-
ing that it might not ipe repeated.]
There was a report of large numbers to come to
Manchester, and coining in that way with Caps of
Liberty, and banners -with -44 Liberty or Death," he
was vetv much :alarmed ; witness saw none of those
at the Manchester. Meeting drank ; he. saw one rather
intoxicated.at York ; but it was the sober procession
that appeared to him like war, and not the -drunken
one at York. .

On being cross-exathint d by. Mi...ClWee. witness
said, he kept his family at home, the streets were so
tumultuous ; he thought it dangerous for them to go
into the streets. .

To a question from Mr. Hunt, witness said; he did
not know why the Magistrates were compared to
nine tailors.

Johnson asked, whether there was any man a
greater leveller than himself? Witness said he had
paid many of the debts for, which he was committed
to Lancaster; he was discharged under the Insolvent
Debtors' Act; he never fought with any person in
High-street.
Johnson here wished to know whether he might
put questions relative to the conduct of witness's
family ? Being answered in the negative. he asked
whether the witness paid his debts? He did not pay
any of the money since leaving Lancaster jail ; he
was unfortunate in business, lost all he had, and was
not now in a capacity to pay ; he had a wife and seven
or eight children to support.
James Standrick was the next witness. He saw
Mr. Hunt on the 9th of August, in Manchester. He
got up to address the people horn a gig. Witness
was at his work. There were about 1000 people
assembled. Mr. Hunt said, the first he heard of the

Meeting being postponed, was when he got to Bul-
lock-smithy, and saw the nine Magistrates' names
subscribed to it, and it reminded him of the old pro- ,
verb—" It took nine tailors to make a man." He then
said, that he knew the Meeting was a legal one, and
that another was to be held on the following Mon-
day. Witness did not hear him say whether he should
attend or not.
Cross-examined by Mr. Hunt—Witness said he
was a timber-merchant ; he took no notes, but wrote
down what he saw for a person whom he thought to
be employed by the PolicA Witness did not state that
Mr. Hunt mcntioned his having important business
to attend, and could not be at the Meeting, nor his
alludin:,, to a blunder of the Magistrates in the Bill.
John Chadwick being sworn, said he lived at Mus-
chester, and was a shoemaker; he went to meet Mr.
Hunt on the 9th of August; he did meet him in a
gig with
.Johnson. Sir Charles Wolseley, Mir Moor-
! house, and Parson Harrison, were in a carriage; they
passed through various parts of the town, accompa-
nied by about 300 people; the crowd increased; he
heard Mr. Hunt asking those round the gig to shout,
which they did, and it was repeated till he got to the
05serter Office, where they halted; Hunt then got
up and twirled his hat, on which the people shouted;
he made no speech till he got to Dier's Crop; they,
stopped at Johnson's, and shouted three times three,
Mr. Hunt having previously twirled his hat; when
they itnived at the St. Michael's public-house, he
told them he was invited to manufacture the Man-
chester Committee of Reform ; be then stated, that
he saw a proclamation of the Mayor—that it took
nine tailors' to make a man, and that it took nine
Mayors to put out that proclamation. Such a procla-
mation never ease from a shop full of tailors ; bnd,
alter turning round to the Stockport people; said he
hoped he should see them oft the 16th, at Manchester.
They then passed on toJohnson's house, and Mr. Hunt
told them to disperse, butadvised the Stockport peo-
pk.to bririgns many of theirceighbours as they could
on the /6th : witness knee a place called White
Moss:; is _was about- five miles front Manchester, on
theßistekney. road -witness was at White MOss on
thelAth•Angtist ; he get there before daylight ; there
seerelmstny people there; witness was • attended by
another young man from curiosity, because they heard '
there were some men to be drilled ; there were about
300 at first, bur kept in-creasing. They heard a horn
btrwingg~ and fell into ranks like soldiers.; different
L people :commanded ; when the horn blew they fell
• httrrrank like soldiers, acid marched about; they made
the- whitest fall -into aank ; 'all tell into their re-
• spective places, and formed different companies, from