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and Stockport; and then to make a solemn Appeal
to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent on the dig
tressed state of the country, and on the necessity of
immediately reviving the connexion between the
People and the Throne. I cannot trust my feelings
with the description of what occurred afterwards in
the dispersion of the Meeting : it would be much
better if the transactions of that day were for eves
buried in oblivion, and blotted from the history of
our country. But I ask you. will you commit ogo
such evidence as that which you have heard?
country is at present in a state of great agitation ;
and will you, by protracting this prosecution, throw
down the apple of continual discoid ?
Here the Court interrupted Mr. Hunt, anti the
,Chairman addressing him said, " Your language is
now improper. No threat or intimidation ought to
,be held out. We have only to attend to our duty,
and leave the care of the country to Higher Orders.
If the country were in tenfold the agitation which
you have described, I and my brethren on the Bench
would do our duty."
Mr. HUNT, itccontinuation—e This intimation shall
not he thrown away upon me; I did not mean to in-
timidate you; I did not mean to ask for any thing as
a boon; I demand only justice, and would not accept
a favour. I certainly did ask the Governor, as I had
been accustomed all my life to fresh air and ezeicise,
that f might be permitted to take a walk in the gar-
den? but the moment he told me that Mr. Johnson
had asked this favour of the Magistrates, and had
been refused, I refrained from any further applica-
tion. I would have sawed off my right hand sooner
than have gone Red done it."
Here the.. Chairman,explained the circumstances
.under which the refusal to Johnson had taken place.
Johnson had certainly made an application to be per-
mitted to walk out ; and he would have obtained per-
mission, if a respectable Surgeon, who was applied
to, had thought it necessary for his health.
Mr. HUNT resumed.—" I must say, I suffered much
bodily pain from the blows from the batous of the
Constables and the sabres of the Yeomanry. They
are visible. I scorned to tell the Doctor of it. My
health certainly has been preserved, instead of being
injured, by my apprehension and confinement: the
exertions I should have made, and the anxiety I
should have felt, to conduct the proceedings, and to
preserve the order of that Meeting, would have af-
fected me tor years. Since my confinement I have
slept on a bed which I would not have put under my
servants! but I thank Gon," (said Mr. Hunt, with
great fervour,) " that I have slept soundly; and if I
have suffered any thing, it has been from commise-
rating the state of my fellow-prisoners, and from the
recollection of those poor mangled creatures who
have been cut to'deatli. When I mention the accom-
modation, I have nothing to say against the jailer."
Moorhouse—As the law presumes persons innocent
until convicted, I beg to say, we ought to be used as
well as possible, whilst we are kept here.
Chairman—You may all of you have bail.
Moorhouse—When brought up here before, I was
warm, and conducted myself in a way for which I
am rather sorry.
The Magistrates then withdrew. Mr. Bouchier
was shortly afterwards going towards the Magistrates
mom. Mr. Hunt said to him, " I hope you are cot
going to the Magistrates unless on, solicitor goes?"
lire solicitor said, " No." e Ah," rejoined Mr. Hunt,
significantly, " you have been there already."
.On their return, Mr. Norris said, Henry Hunt,
and you all—we sent for Mr. Bouchier, in order that
we might again carefully peruse the depositions. It
,is a most painful duty to me to commit you for a,
conspiracy. We 'can, however, lay our hands on our'
hearts, and say, IWe have done our duty.' As to
she charge of conspiracy, though you might not all
have been together, previous to the Meeting, yet, in
the, eye of the law, all those who commit separate
acts, tending to one illegal object, are guilty of,
that crime, Coupling the two Meetings together,
taking into consideration the manner in which
the last was assembled, with such insignia,the
bloody
in such a manaer,• with the black Jite,
dagger,. with ~„Equal Representation or death.' "-
-:-(Mr. Hunt.---" No one has said the black flag had
bloody daggerl—They came in a threatening
Manner—they came under the banners of death,
thereby shewing they meant to overturn the Govern-
ment,. There could be no free discussion where that
gag was unfurled. The charge now is, that of
having conspired to alter the Law by force and threats.'
It is an illegal matter and sufficiently made out, and
calls upon us imperatively to commit you for trial
by a proper Jury. It is now our painful duty to
commit you to Lancaster Castle. On account of the
seriousness of the charge, we shall require you, Henry
Hunt and Joseph Johnson, to give bail yourselves in
£l,OOO, and two sureties in £5OO each ; and all the
others, themselves is £5OO, and two sureties in
£250 each.
The prisoners then left the Bar. Johnson and
Moorhouse immediately procured bail, and were li-
berated. Johnson was attended towards Shude-hill
by an immense multitude, shouting and applauding.
.He passed Deansgate supported on the shoulders of
the mob. Moorhouse was equally the object of
popular favoue:, he was accompanied likewise by hisi
mob through the Market-place. We understood that,
notices of bail were given for Hunt and Knight.
Hunt complained when he was asked by the,
Magistrate in Court, whether he had provided baiM,
that he was not allowed to be visited by a respectablic
Solicitor. in town whom lie bad sent for some dap
ago. The Chairman mentioned that he would now
he sent for,.if he desired it. " No, no," said Mr.
Hunt pointing to Mr. Pearson, " here is now my
Selicitor. Fromthis circumstance, and from know-
ing that two individualsiwhose securities were unim-
,peachable, bad offered to become his bail, we con-
cluded that we should see bite immediately out.
Afker consulting, however, with, his Solicitor, he
bad taken a different view of the matter, and we
'were told that he said to the Magistrates that he
Would not give bail, even though no more than a
farthing. were required. In consequence of this de-,
esiosposs, ansi,the near approach of the Assizes at
14opestsr,. he was sent off to the Castle at that place,
at six o'cloc)c in the evening, in a coach, guarded by
o troop of 30 of the isth Hussars. Knight, Saxton,
Illatniord, Wytde, Swift; and Healey, were dispatched
in the same carriage (a stage coach), and under the
same escort. The shouts and huazas of the people
Tete eura greater than when he entered on Monday
‘,9tit.of August. Thus the charge of High Trea-