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MONDAY, AUGUST SO, 1819.
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How must the People of England, and those who
venerate its Constitution, be amazed at the result of
the many .deliberatiops that have been held respect-
ing Mr. Hun', and the otber3fanchester prisoners!
We were assured by those base outcasts of the Press
" who live," like Mr. Snake," by the badness of their
character," that HUNT, and his associates, had been
guilty of High Treason. They " had it from the
best authority !"—" The evidence given was upon
oath ; had been submitted to the Law Officers of the
Crown ; and they had given their decided opinion on
the case." Could such statements, pretended to be
given on Official Authority, be 9uestioned by any ?
Those who audaciously promulgated them hoped
they would not ; but they gained no credit, and the
result has shewn that they were mere fiction. But
enough of such men, who are, in truth, the most
deadly enemies of ourPovernment and Constitution—
though they would pass for the only " sound men.,
and true."—We have not room for even the shorter
co.nment on the facts which we are about to submit
to our Readers ; but they are of such a nature that
no person, in his right Mind, can possibly draw from
them a wrong inference.

The charge of High Treason is abandoned—Mr
HUNT is now charged with "having conspired to alter
the law by force and threats!"

Te poor woman, Elizabeth Gaunt, it now ap-
pears, was put into the cart in which she was found,
by nobody knovls who, and was found in a fainting
state. No evidence against her; yet she has been
confined for 12 days!

Assuredly the Riot Act was not read, or if read,
the law was violated ; for, it now appears, that the
warrant to apprehend Mr. HuNt (resistance to which,
was charged as the act of riot) was not issued till a
quarter of an hour past one o'clock, and all the world
knows that the military made their charge, dispersed
the assemblage, and actually cleared the ground, be-
fore two o'clock !

If individuals are killed by the military, even when
acting under the Civil Magistrate, before an hour
has passed after reading the Riot Act, we ask, What
term does the Law of England apply to such an
gent?

The Manchester Observer states a fact to which we'
cannot give credit, and which we earnestly call upon
the Magistrates to contradict. "It cannot fail," says
the Paper alluded to, " to strike our Readers with
horror, when we inform them, that every patient in
the Infirmary was literally turned out, which could
possibly be done, PREPARATORY to the horrible
butchery which took place on the 16th instant, in
order to prepare for the wounded which might be
brought there for surgical aid."—lmpossible ! Impos-
seble 11 IMPOSSIBLE! ! !

In our preceding columns will be found accurate
details of every thing that took place at the exami-
nation of the prisoners on Friday ; and we here sub•
join some important documents necessary to the more
complete elucidation of the facts:

LEI4TER FROM MR. lIUNT TO LORD VISCOUNT