Star.
London, England, 1817-08-04 00:00:00

DOVER,AUCLIST
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Sailed this day the Chichester packet, Captain Rut-
TER. and Defence, Captain Ana ms, for Calais, with
passengers; also the Lord Duncan packet, Captain:
PAscoE, with a Mail and passenger, for Ostend. Ar-
rived a French packet from Calais with A Mail.
Auovst 3.—Sailed this morning the Industry, Cap-
tain Ancurn, for Calais, with passengers.

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TXa lIMAINIIII trim TRIALS.

(free the Leed• Potereeep)

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or the four.andltisenty persons against whom the
Government Solicits* was instruct-1J of institute pro-
seeuli-mo till have been prottounced N t Guilty ; '
against eleven others no Bills were found, and one
has been liberated on bail; leaving only two of the
whole number in continemAnt, and those two unfor-
tunate men have been detained, witt.out trial, by a
Secretary of-State's warrant, tinder the suspension of
thefiabeas Corpus Act.—Thus ends the Plot I
The failure of these prosecutions has not been
owing to arty want of val. or an deficiency of
reans, nn the part of the Governmc f..;' 'Some time
beret* the. trials came on, the Solicitil Tor tie• Crown
i
sriA'selit down 'um the neigT,bottikpid. id lltidders-
ficP, to collect evidence against Or rilsOtiers. In
support of this evidence, a large
.portio'n Of the
Weight and talent of the' Bar, on the Northern Cir-
tolt, ems ranged on the Side of the prosecution.l
Tire odds woe terriEc; but with the seal and inielli-
genet of their professional advisers and advocates,
and the presiding presence of a righteous Judge, who
knows no distinction between the lofty and the hum.
ble. in the administration of Justice, the trial by Jury
obtained another distinguished triumph, and the pri-
soners, alter a period of deep anxiety, were restored
to their liberty and to their friends.
While we speak of the zeal manifested by the
persons ntfieially engaged in the trials of the pri-
soners, we cannot hut regret that the Judge should
have had occasion to complain, in the presence of
Mr. Allen and Mr. Haigh, the committing Magi).
trates, that the deisositions of the witnesses had not
been returned to him, as the duty of the Magisl
irate: replied, till he bad made particular inquiry
for them. The upright mind of Baron Wood, it
was evident, felt wounded by this proceeding,'
and any thing like reluctance to give to the ac..'
clued all the advantages of any discrepancy be-
teen the original examination of a witness and his
evid.uce before the Court, will always be viewed with
suspicion by a people jedous of their privileges, and
noxious, in the highest degree, to preserve the stream
of public justice her from contamination. The apo-
logy m.cle for this suspicious omission was that some
of. the examinations were not taken on oath ; but that
surely is no reason why the others 'should be with-
h I.—.and why, we should be glad to: kkew, were
esannewstions, involving the liberty And lives of many
otinirl.countrymen, nut taken in the VRI4I and autho-
rised way ? ,,..

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We readily admit that the °fencerPy proved
to have been co i•initted in the neighbourhood of
Huddlisfiew, on the night of the Bth of June, called
for lewd investigation : but while we deprecate po.
pubis tumult and violence, in every shape, and call
tor putd,liment upon the lawless, we shall always,
its.the benign spirit of the English law, claim for the
accused candour and fair dealing on the part of the!
public prosecutor. Alike, rather than ii,stividion,
ooght to be the object of the Government, and of all
the persons acting under their directions and autho-
rity. We have been led into these t•bservations by a
circumstance of a very extraordinary nature, limbos
Come to our knowledge.
But before we proceed to state the facts to which
we allude, it may be proper, for the perfect under-
standing of the subject, to quote the words of Baron
Wood, in his charge to the Jury, on the trial of B.
Lockwood and others, for maliciously shooting at
Mr. David. Alexander, one of the Huddersfield
yeomanry cavalry, on the night of the Bth of
June. Aftrr adverting to the testimony of George',
Armytage, one of the witnesses for the Crown, who
had sworn that he and a person of the name of
Earnshaw, or Hearnshaw, had been forced to join
the rioters at Fully-hall Bridge, his Lordship said,
" There is another circumstance deserving the se-
rious consideration of the Jury—the non-production
of Hearnshaw as a witness. He has been in the cus•
tody of the prosecutors; he is now at York; he was
stated by the witness to have been present, and to
have seen all the circumstances that Armytage
.has
asserted in evidence; and yet he is not produced !
The Jury will draw their own inferences from this
strong fact. It was the duty of the prosecutors, and
due to the justice of the case, to have broukt,forward
this witness." • : • •
Upon this text of Mr. 13.rron Wood.l.4ho,follii4r ing
detlisration of Charles Hearnshaw, theuwitnestfefer-
red Td;" furnishes the alai ming commeni : we publish
the-d:icumeut, verbatim, as it has been sent to us
(with the exception of one word used sportively by
the Grand Jury), choosing rather to retain even the
grammatical inaccuracies, than to make any altera-
tions in the paper itself :
DECLARATION OP CHARLES HEARNSHAW,

TIANSPUTTLID 808 PUBLICATION illoll woorasasirtaLo, Os
TiIUBYDAT, TUB Xiti or Jute, 1017.
14 I was examined, an the Inn of June, by Mr. B. Hales
Allen, Magistrate, concerning the Foil,/ Hall fight s—Hs &eked
roe if I could tell him who- fired first t I told him the cavalry
first, at the runty flail Bridge, on-the 6th of June. Mr. Allen '
told me I was mistaken, it was a gen in Manchester-street that
I beard. I told him it was not a gun in Manchester-street, it
was the Gesitlemen Cavalry; I was c.nain of it; but they would
no' put that in my examination. When I was going to be exa-
=hied by tie Grand Jury at York, Mr. 'lliontu Atkiasou came
to me, and asked sue if I would do him a favour? I asked him
what it was? He said, tie could wish me to say the mob
fired first; and be buoght me a shilling's worth of oranges;
cad lie told nit if I did not say the mob flied first, I should have
four or five evidences against me, nante4, Mr. Thomas At-
thaw, Mr. David Alexander, Mr. Allen the hlagietrate, and
George Whitehead, -the consable. I told the Grand Jury the II
truth; I told them the cavalry fired- Ent, and I told them I,
the ball oiled close by Dy head.—l hey asked me if I was not
afraid t I told them 1 was not. l told them, then there was
about eight or nine of else mob Bled, and Immediately the cu-
valry gailopped od The Grand Jury said, they
mid laughed- Saturday, the 26th, a Gentleman from London
sent for me, Mr. Lagar, Solicitor tut the Crown, I thick
they call'd him, and he asked ore what 1 meant to say when I
got into the Coon? I told him I meant to speak the truth;
I told biin I nwatl to say that the cavalry fled first. He
told Me I was a d-.-4 Wog wing, and bald I bad bad con-
Vertatios: with Buckley, and he had persuaded nr.,to ray an
He Antrim if I coohl not as well say the mob IWd liniloas say
the cileibifited Ant ? Mr. /salmon likewise-BM me Ruck-
ley tied beeirtitiktng to me, and had penuaded rile tout the.ca-
valeyiliertlistr and because 1 wi.uld not say istbey'stranied, I
was 'lever brought op to give my evidence in Colitt6. and when
1 illasiiiiiiitcaton to Mr. Allinson, the attorney; f *thing
to carry rue bust he said lie had orders to gore me nothing;
and Mathew iisatiley, clerk to Mr. Alien, said 1 should be pillo-
Mad Before the three months' end, if I did not mind what I was
about. And this is the real truth. lam ready to attest it before
My man in Englwd. (011gUltd) " CHAS. HtARNSUAII."
It the Assertions of this witness for the Crown are
to be relied upon, he was first tampered with, then
insulteJ, and lastly, withheld from the witness' bog,
because he did not cbeow.ti, fashion his evidence ac-
cording to the Manion of thy: hostcutors.