Star.
London, England, 1820-03-29 00:00:00

`1"11:32; VEN J.

STA 11.

LONDON.

Our Correspondents, Arratn, Juatincus; and B. must be
, PW:ill! that want of room, caused by the length and importance
of tha laie Lials, has thrown LS iit arruer with many of our
enrrespund:its, and also with matters of a public nature, to
we must yet devote attention. There is, therefore, but lied•:
CLAMe of their communiceions finding a place in our columns
beibre lia meets—and then we fear it will be. impossthle.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1820.
FuNi)s.

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The prociedings at York are novr finishel The
verdict riads Hunt, Johnson, Knight, Maley, and
Bamford, Guilty on the fourth count of the Indict-
ment, namely—that the Meeting of the 16th of
August was illegal. O all the other counts they
were accil:ltted. The parties wtre 'ordered to enter
into their own recognizances to keep the peace and
good behaviour for Six Months; Mr. Hunt in the
sum of £2OO, Mr. Johnson of £lOOO, 11arn:ord and
llealy £5OO each. •
It is cut ious enough to observe how, in the. course
of this trial, the various atrocities and enormities,
attributed to the parties, and which roany expected
would be established on the clearest proof, were
gradually annihilated by the evidence ; and the

strong points given up even by the Counsel for the
• Prosecution. On the seventh day of the 1': ial, Mr. •
SCARLETT allowed, " that Mr. Hunt did not mean
to offer resistance ;' " that the word 'enemies' did not
apply to the Military ;" and that " Mr. Hunt did not
mean to excite disturbance on the 13th." And the
J..idge on the Bench, Lang before his summing up,
" that it would be his duty to inform the Jury,
that though Nadiu have been called, there
was no evidence before the Court that he•was unable
to serve the warrant upon Mr. Hunt without the aid
of the Military." •
As to the conduct of these who dispersed the
Meeting, it yet remains to be seen whether any of
them will ever be brought to trial ?—Whether cri-

minality attached to any person for the sabre wounds
and blows inflicted on unoffending individuals, who
attended that Meeting out of mere curiosity ?

What 11111 H Lord CASTLEREAGH himself now
thiLic of the credit due to statements on which he
ventured to make such allegations as the following,
in his speech on moving the Address?—

" The truth was, that the Magistrates did not determine upon
dispersing the lleeting until it hadoun mai the character of tumid'
and
had d.:.:lared i:sey, the Magistrates put the warrants into the
hands of the constables; and it was not until tby hid declared
their inability to execute them, that a military force walemployed
at all."

" The Magistrates determined to disperse the Meeting, and
to disperse it in the most mild and gentle and temperate man-
ner. At the time the Itts.! Ad was first read, it was read from
the window of the house in which the Magistrates were assem-
bled; it was suggested, that this method of reading it was not
s.:ch as was contemplated by the Act; another Magistrate was,
therefore, sent into the crowd, and, wbilit attemptitz to read it,
was trampled under foot; they then sent a rzird Magistrate, to
read it al the lin:tints, in order that no man might remain in
ignorance of the fact of its bring read—(Cries rf " Hear" from
el parts of the House). Why was it not read there? Wl•y, be-
cause after the caption of Hunt was effected, those troc-,:s who
effected it were violently assaulted by what the Right Honour-
able Gentleman (Mr. Tierney) had called an unarmed mob—
(Cheers). This un..imed multitude, though the place had only
the day before been cleered of all tile stones that were calculated
to hurt a human being, assailed the Military with so many, that
the next day two cart loads were found upon the ground—(Hear,
hoar); ao that it was clear that the parties had come with stores
in their pocket: : it was also evident, that there Were men among
them wrine.l with pistol.; : fur, front the house behind tlw
pt3:els were fired upon the treogs—(Hear.)••• ......

That his Lordship gave credit to these particulars
rt the time we must believe. Eut has there been
noon this trial even an attempt to prove that the
Riot Act was read ? Was there any evidence offered
to support the testimony of the only Magistrate who
was examined, respecting the turbulence of the People
and their assault of the Yeomanry ? None. Though
all the other I'dirgistrates were at York, not one of
them was called to corroborate the fact. The peace-
able demeanour of the Meeting was fully proved
during the trial, and is established by the admis,ion
of Mr. SCAtLZTT, and the verdict of the Jury. Has
anything been elicited by this trial to justify the
advice given to the Crown to thank the Magi-
rarate.., for their conduct on the 16th of August ?
What has come of the four-feet bludgeons—the cart-
'cads of stones—the trampling down of a Magistrate
--the resistance to the execution of a warrant?
What has come of the tea thousand tics that were
c,i:culated from one end of the Kingdom to the other,
respecting the intended burning of Manchester, with
11. e massacre of its inhabitants? But we foibear,
in the hope that the legal investigation which we
Lave so often been told was in train, and ought not
to be anticipated or prejudged, respecting the mode
?a which the Meeting was dispersed, will yet be in-
stituted, in • spite of eveiy impediment that may be
°probed to it.

Sir F. BwrinErr, in alluding, at the close of the
Llecticn for Westminster, to Lis tr::4l at Leicester,