The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-03-29 00:00:00

TRF SIATESMAS.

while, Hugn• has been bound °vise in %,0001.
to keep the peace to our Lord the King for six
months ; Joiineors and }lanai' in 1,0001. each ;
and Basteonn in 8001. for a similar time. The rest
of the acctued were found Not Guilty, though they
consisted of the very men against whom the most
violent spirit of hostility had been displayed at the
time of their arrest. Amongst these were Mooa-
novae and SAXTON, who had been nude the ob-
jects of the most unrelenting persecution, dragged
from their homes, and forced to give enormous
bail on a variety or kivolous charge's, now proved,
by the solemn verdict of a Jury, to have been
entirely untimnded! Thus has terminated this
legal investigation, which the country was told
would amply justify the proceedings of the Magis-
trate. and Yeomanry on the 10th of August. The
country can now judge for itscif, without incur-
ring the charge of precipitation or partiality. Nay,
the country h(m judged. The cotuitry sees that it
has been deceived; that all the charges made
against the conduct of the people assembled at Man-
chester were false; and that although the meeting
alight be illegal, and therefore liable to be dis-
persed, its peaceable character, and the total ab-
sence of res'Atance, even at the hour of attack, ren-
dered the means employed for its dispersion both
on met-x*ol.y unit improper. We shall probably
have more occasions than one to revert to this im-
portant, and. even with the present verdict, highly
satisfactory trial: and lest our opinion should be
thought the result of a natural attachment te.
former impressions, we shall extract and collect
into one body the sentiments expressed by the
upright Judge, on every particular ',Milt,
his charge to the Jury, to show that the view
w /deli we took originally of the subject was the
same as that adopted by his Lordship, after the
most minute and laborious examination of evi-
dence:—

'• It was observed, that if the object of the meeting
legal. and its rondnct praerable, numbers would not
to.ike it illegal. Is this he r..wrrrr►d. Xnmte►s did
tH.! ►eaks e meeting illrgal, uulrss they w, re such as to
excite terror in the minds of others, or to be a probable
cause of terror."

" It was true, as had been stated by one of the de-
fendants, that where there was no law there could he no
transgressi and if the Jury found ,hat, at thv time of
this meeting, there was no law against it, they wouid
ri've the defendants the iwtietit or it. l'ertititily the rorr-
rsing• sticks or tankers in the prottrziou was pi. I jai
itlrral, and roeld Not be so, unless rallied or
!war citA q &Ed iateation:'

" Ile would now proceed to the very voluminous
es Writer idered for th. drANdouts : hat, as he said to
the Jury on Saturday, he nunld pnt it to the parties,
whether it W 23 neressary to go through Ilse evidence
acacia witness. Me 4161 not think that the Jury would
fd it neressury and the less so, as it nas prolish:e
that, by-and-by, they would be of opinion Au/ the filter
to rhieh than trilsonxes acre called were satisfactorily
established."

" To him ii appeared. it the evidence of the %ever :1
witio-,ses were to he believed, that thr cond,e,
!neeting tens peaceable rind f those who attenatql it
ere re ialueent in their intentions in goinz to the meet-
thry, emnosilted No rflOrm,t- he so doing. It ap-
peared front the evidence of a number of oittiess4s
(whom his Lordship enninerated) that the people went
peaceably along—that there were women and children
mixed np nit!, them--and it would he for the Jury to con-
sider how far their intentions must have been peaceable
when many of them thus brought their wives and
daiightersw ith them. As to tio•ir haring cheered on
the fiel.l• or at the appearance of the ioldiers. they had
a perfect right to do so; and, unless the cheers were
thins of defiance, they were quite innocent. Several of
the witnesses (for the defence), indeed all of them
spoke of those cheers, looked upon them nut as
cheer: of defiance, hut as proceeding from a conscloas-
lies, ut holm...nee. Many of the persons, even the
%%amen, when they sow the !.uldiers, looked omen their
approach as in no manner hostile to their meeting."
Ills Lordship again called the attention of the Jury
to thee peaceable comfort of the 31erting on the 16th ;
and the fact that no person had Leen called lb prove
that any act of pearlier had been committed szroKE Tog
CAVALRY CAME."

" They would recollect that there trot no interruption
of business on that day, and this wouhl materially in-
fillellre than in the judgment they should form, whether
immediate or remote danger was to be feared.-

" He would now come to another part of the evidence
—tu the training and drilling; and he should tell them,
that if the object of both was to produce treater order
sad regttlarlty in those who attended the meeting of the
Nth, it teas perfectly harmless."

THE LATE ilk WEST.

The feinting of Mr. *eat were removed yesterday
'resit* from his hooey, in Newman-street. to the Life
&heal of the Royal Academy. le Somerset Heim
Upoti the Occasion the room was hung with black. and
illuminated by numerous wax candles, Sled on sconce.
to this wall. 'None het friends of the derived were ad-
mitted to view this scene of mortality. Three attend-
ants tilt up with the corpse during the eight. It being
rectally understood that the funeral procession would
be extremely grand, a great crowd of spectators were
collected together early this snort:rug in sad about Semer-
set House. The carriages of the Nobility and Gentry,
friends or admirers of the deceased, also a,setnhkd in
great numbers, and, in a abort time, completely emu-
pied the square in the court-card of Somerset House.
About one o'clock the airangements for the proces-
sion were completed, and the-whole moved forward in
the following order :—'l'hirern mates on horseback led
the way in pairs, and were followed by the hearse,
which was drawn by six horse... The hearse was lot-
!overtl by tire roadies and four, in which were con-
tained the relations and irotoediate friends of the de-
ceased. Intutedia:ely after these succeeded upwards of
thirty roaches and pairr, carrving the Academicians,
.‘rrnciater, and St tt dents of the Royal Academy. About
sixty private carriages concluder! the procession. The
line tli is forme.] stio..c.l slowly forward, and so great
war its extent, that it reached from Somerset House to
Bridge-street. Upon its arrisa! at tit. Paul's, the re-
tnains of the vetterJlole President were deposited near
to there of `'ir Reynold.. who had been his pre-
decesror in the Academical ''hair.

Throw:Ow-It the whole lE.twin% the streets went
crowded with •peetatotN, oho inrarial. v p ed the
uoulkt 4rr;,*"2 anti resperiftti Upon the plate of
the e..paiti is the iillowi•or itto•rilition
Wett.
Pregittent
ur the
Aeadrrnl of %rt..
Mod tint Nieto,. it.o.r,
rn the tmital ',eta of Li.; age.