Star.
London, England, 1820-03-23 00:00:00

TRIAL OF MR. HT:NT AND OTHERS.

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FIPTII DAY.
YORE, TUESDAY
The Court assembled at ten o'clock. The crowd
was fully as great as on any former day. At a quarter
past ten Mr. Hunt entered, attended by Mr. Pearson.
Mr. 'HUNT then proceeded to address the Jury.—
He commenced with, brief description of the diffi-
culties under which he laboured. When he came to
York he had been labouring under indisposition
arising from cold, which had been increased by sit-
' ting in that Court, exposed to the air coming from I
one or two doors. On the preceding night, when he
solicited one additional hour to prepare for his de-
fence, be had hoped that he should be able to go
through the whole of the evidence, but this had not
been in his power. From increasing indisposition
he had been obliged to put himself under the care of
an eminent medical man, who has told him that rest
was absolutely necessary. " It was on this account,
(said Mr. Hunt) that I made an application for the
Court not to sit until ten o'clock this morning—an ap-
plication which was to:feeling/4/ opposed by the
Learned Counsel opposite."
I'lr.Justice BAYLEY—.I4 Prav, Mr. Hunt, don't use
the word unfeeling—let us refrain from personalities."
Mr. HUNT proceeded—lf then, in referring to
the evidence, some little inaccuracy should occur,
he hoped that it would not be supposed to make an
improper impression on the minds of the Jury. The
case was a very different one from that which they
:had supposed they would be called upon to try.—
They might have understood that they had a mon-
ster in human nature to try, but the .evidence must
have satisfied them that they had a very different duty
to perform. He commented on the inconsistency of
Mr. Scarlett, in expressing satisfaction at the case
being referred to a Yorkshire Jury, which, in the first
instance, the Counsel for the prosecution had la-
boured with all their might to oppose. The cod-
duct of those connected with one Morning Paper he
next censured, the writersfor which, while these pro-
ceedings were going on, had accused him of a design
to subvert the Throne, and overthrow the sacred
altar of Religion, with which even the indictment
had not charged him. Where was the proof of this?
There was no proof. It had been attempted to hitch
the name of Carlisle with the case against him, but
without success. What he had professed he would
avow before GOD and man. He was a Reformer but
no leveller —he was the friend of lovely Liberty, but
he was not the friend of licentiousness, which dif-
fered as much front true liberty, as truth did from
the black and premeditated falsehoods which lie
would prove to have been delivered from the wit-
ness box. The Learned Couirsel, in his speech, had
charged him with what he had not dared to prove.
Mr.Jutice BAYLEY.—Thb Jury cannot, with pro-
priety, hear such a remark. •
Mr. Hunt thinight he was justified in what he had
said. Where was the bloody dagger, where the flags,
the banners, sticks, the bludgeons, the bricks, and the
stones, which had been said to have been used? One
witness had said that they were in York. Why then
were they not produced against him? He still con-
tended, that the Counsel knew that could not be
proved which had been asserted. He• commented
on the evidence of Mr. Hulton, and remarked, that
it was wholly unsustained by other testimony. If
the question to be tried turned wholly on the moral
guilt or moral rectitude of his own character, he de-
clared to Goo that he would let the case go to the
Jury on the evidence brought forward by his ac-
cusers, with the certainty of receiving an honourable
acquittal. But after the misrepresentations which
had gone abroad, he felt it to be his duty to rebut them
by calling evidence. He was proceeding to eulogize
the conduct and character of the Judge, but desisted
on receiving a hint from the Bench, that the course
he was pursuing was unpleasant to him (Mr. Justice
Barley). He then proceeded to take a review of the
evidence. Ile described Caadwick, who had been
almost everywhere, to be a " witness of all work."
What his conduct had been at Stockport, or at Man-
chester, he would prove by evidence. He happened
to have had a servant with him, a simple lad, who
had been in his service for seven years, and who had
accompanied him to every Meeting that he (Mr.
Hunt) had attended during that period. This ser-
vant be would place in the box, and the Counsel for
the Crown, if he pleased to descend so low (and he
knew that he would descend to anything to carry his
point), might enter his stable if he pleased—nay, he
might penetrate even into the inmost recesses of his
bed-chamber. This youth would prove what his con-
duct had been on every public occasion, and shew,
that if ever there had been a disposition to tumult, he
had met it by calling on the People to cheer and con-
duct themselves peaceably, and with good humour.
He then shewed that the Meeting at Manchester,
which had so frequently been called Mr. Hunt's
Meeting, had been called, not by him, but by seven-
teen hundred resident inhabitants of Manchester.—.1
Vain and ambitious he might be called. Grant that
he was ambitious ; he would confess that he was
so. But he was not ambitious of doing evil—No, he
was only ambitious of doing that, which his liekt
told him would be doing good. He had never en-
deavoured to inflame the lower orders to commit
acts of outrage , he had never taught them to look
for anything, but what they might gain as the re-
ward of honest industry. The numerous Reporters,
with the exception of one (Mr. Roger Entwistle) bad
not deposed to his using any very inflammatory lan-
guage. Mr. Orton had spoken of his using the
words—" pot diem down and keep them down r
had said this called forth the remark—,, why that is
I killing them ;" but, asked if he understood him (Mr.
Hunt) to have intended anything
_of the kind ? his
answer was, " Certainly not." Mr. Roger Entwistle
had said these words had been applied to the Mili-
tary. He (Mr. Hunt) would prove, that at that
time the Military were not in his sight; and that the
words were spoken with reference to some idle boys,
or drunken fellows, who were making a noise be-
hind the hustings. He then proceeded to shew from
the evidence, that no outrage had been committed
on the morning of the 16th. From Mr. Walker,
evidence had been obtained which threw a new light
on the subject. He chewed that a meeting to form
a deposition to enable the Magistrates to disperse the
Meeting, without reading the Riot Act, had taken
place on the Sunday, but they could not agree about,
it then, and a new 'meting was called on the folk
lowing morning, at which ate famous Affidavit was1

kit';). 'Mr. Mellish had rouseu nis zitglisn DlOOO, nine me nustivga. ray -
and he cared for no man. If the Election continued the evidence, that no outrage had been committed at
White Moss—that witness, it could be snewn, was untounded ; that not.
brick had been hurled ;that nc
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after to-morrow, he hoped it would finish peaceably on the morning of the 16th. From Mr. Walker, unworthy of belief: he had, within the last month, that not a stone or a
and according to the peoples' wishes. evidence had been obtained which threw a new light declared to his fellow•shopmen, that 44 he would a finger bad been pointed ; th3t, in hne, no resistanc
OR the subject.
He shewed that a meeting to form swear against any one if he could get paid for it."— whatever was offered. He was proceeding to dl
Tuesday evitning, a% a youth, of the name of Goocher, was
driving out of the Islewortb into the Bath road, with two a deposition to enable the Magistrates to disperse the This was known, and persons had been sent for to scribe, in strong language, the conduct ot the m
Prnales in a one-horse chaise, they were owned by a landau, Meeting, without reading the Riot Act, had taken prove the fact. The evidence of Murray, which litary, when
finest with voters, and overturned. The youth had his arm place on the Sunday, but they could not agree about, would be opposed by other evidence, did not prove The Junes remarked, that this could not be got
broken in two places, and the wheel of the landau went over •
it then, and a new meeting was called on the folk that he (Mr. Hunt) had been guilty of what was im- into. He might prove the peaceable conduct ot tl
the chest of one of the females, Wile was carried away senseless,
lowing morning, at which ale famous Affidavit was puled to him. The Jwy wool' tometabcr, thitt whim
people, but he could not be allowed to take tl
and thc uthex female was severely hurt.
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