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

Cr Sticks were flung up in the air storing die day. nor
hooting, awl hissing. at the cavalry. The Leatneal judge
then rnuineratcal the nit .., who spoke to the rare-
lard.• character of the meeting. As to the drilling, if it
krre only i.atenaled to promote regaihrtitv anal r i.
en, •at Ilse meeting, then it was not illegal. He thongert
:hey might past of ?hoar asinsideration, that the wards
" these are your rilemira,•• were addressed by Mr. Hams
iu the soldiers In Diekia.son.rireet, tor that statist
I ave been .; mistake ; sas h rts espression could not
Pave occurred, accoroine 10 the witnesses for the air-
f we. or they most ha vs. heard it. This was the
•evaroary of the et Orrice for Mr. Moo.- (Mr. hont
• .ggest;.J. !het when he saw the black flag, lie
etpressed his iipi ll ill n to those around him, that it
was very foolish. 'I he Learned Jatalge assentell. that it
e-as jo esidence Mr. Hunt male that reetark.)—The
I earned .nudge !hen proceeded to tiotiee the erosa-r5•
:insi nation 01.111 C 0 itnessrs for the defence. With revere
to 111 e allllo.olVer4oo east 'Tim the use which Mr. Selll,
tett made of Ca ride's nen" on his roamine speech. it wan
in evidence that l'arlile was ire the heoine'. the siln-
leabla to Iglus was therefore justifiable, and not. as Mi.
isontitad said, au unsarratuablecalumnr. It happened.
as it often did, that the ',relay *Perch sisal coulgill "as-
ter, which. thong!, laisiitiablY introdeced, was not subs.-
vuently planed in evidence. WI es the Learned Jnalge
:molted sips.. she evidence given by the Dissenting Minis-
,. r., be applatidtJ the observations made by them, that
they abstained Win any interference in party polities. Its
their millistirs " charity thlifileth no ill, and as teachers
as( tbs.: lisliapectlt Frestese Iremain aloof lime the
*het y politics of the slay. With it h u
regret to Sloorlumse,
it wad iv a-via:core trees the witnesses called in his ale-
,.. eivle, ILO ha did net tmorad the hustings—that lie 11.311
1.011 .11 :Ise rare sear tonsil after the lassinr took place al the
Stair Inn anti I i. retire-other. and Cher. fore not Festoon-
sibte for thirst. acts of rositempt towards the Magistracy.
it !hey were intend...l as stork; and it ought also to Cr
Morsels mind.. that one witiwss heal an indistinct recol-
lection that :Otiose,' attempted In stop these expres • s
an impeder alispleastere, by a motion of his hand. The
evidence of Mr. Tyr, was very important to show the
a laparesnly piailie demeanour of 3lr. thins, fur he deposed
t.i his repeated ansl continued e.:lnoriations to pearl..
n hen the catalrY cone on the ground. and while they
were allyanrine to the hiwingq ; this: hr used the wods
•• By 1111 ilWalla he wino: don't resist. If they W3/11 use
hi mar gu at once.- Then as to the ramie, it -1...i1d
seem that in so popnlons a place an Manchester, if that
lank at the congrecation of *nth a meeting teas any
way1,......1w11t. a 01111111101 e of witnesses (model be brought
!.. szatir Ilie heel, and that it would not be left on the part
•••• tbr pro,rcntion tualepenti upon the el Spence n Lids had
Nees produced Ire HO*. however, the Jnry were alone
the competent jndges. Of the ,renersl character 01 Mr.
Mimes life, be mast also eyeshot them, they had the
',dimity ut one of his domestic., who proved that his
raaster was always in the habit of visitinc the elm:man
n'td the 'wain- of bin nelghbotohnod : that lie has seen
tan couipaapy often, and netw remembers any man riot-
ous or intaavieated in his house ; but, am the contrary.
!he utmost regularity and sobriety. He :Odell, that lie
..1.1 inlets beard his master's doa irines. but never any
whirls I the smallest tendency to enoottrage the work-
, ;toe cl.l ot to look (sir Nippon to ant other means than
rimless sof their oit n industry : lie had heard hint say.
?I aOse thought the sober roil inditistrions man, who
oaleltell foams 31.oulay warning to Satanism night. tourist
Na lie aide to earn a livelihood for himself and fondly.
•-. a plaearel land been put in which was reptesen fed a,
being alma of tharie. in pm suaner of which the neeetilea
a t the Itltla of _lngram 0 a, convened ; it represented the
;. mosslint so he coiled ..t to emi,ider the uses: lawful means
a a pro. using a neisons in tear Cornrows House of Par-
iliament." 50111 a meeting, for such a purpose, had
I area:tali rethiele illegal in Its male of eonvoratioss, am :
IN, 1.41. iti its accompanying girctinionores, it a•stnised a '
o.tferetil character, and dill eittur acteally excite terror.
o- I.e. :1111? nihilist...l, hy its appear:awe. to inspit• such
c set 'Aim, its the mind of a rational person. 1 lie spars.
t +n, then. in the lira place, wan, was this 'tortilla, or ,
l' 44 If /104 }really mavens-I? Seeten.lly„ was it. Ili aas
i• nut, praresh!.• ? if it were 51st .41, a third rim...tient 1
I -vac as to the persons silts Imicame criminal hr their i
s• unitict. The meeting may be inegal in the first in-;
s'snce; eircuulgtances may mal:e it so in its sil•seline..t :
• u.nhirt • but i•• either rase, there saucy he a Ilmesber at-
t oiling it it hose intentions were perfectly innocent. It '
v as the province of the Jury to 3,a-retain anal arranze 1,
t • es 'Hll6'4'lol4 if die evidenee bore thrust wit in forming
a:: anti by the etillesscr cantid they only ascertain and !
ft that point. .1 reseetisag to recount:cm! a 'Latino in I
11-stlianevet was rirarll leral. roles.. 1410111 its heathers
a-d the rahsetpteat nuniirecting of tiaras, it assemil a I
d iferent character. If the manner suede the turetimr i
t real, theft those only n lass cittintenattemi that steamier, '
1.7 J wf o went to pr..mote it, inettrrr,l the displeasure al,
t! e law. %With a S i•le to consider that point, they must
si au the midteree minntely as it afroetrd earla of Hie de- '
I T.li.iiits. It most he clear Post the manner, the new-
Len, the lesenteN. the apparent military step, had an I i
, violent tendeory to praetor" terror, and then the iesoli- ,
% !duals who ha( an yr.rlitee.l the terror, or who, knew- i
I -ii it, attended to 3Ad to its effect 11.7 the demonstration .
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of their number*, Dm*: be . Hirai!). designated just as
t..e evi,b•tiee. meal milling at the evidence. shall war-
rant their ale,: onstion. If I is terror Ise in this parties-
cr
ler case racitri!, its existence or effeet must be made oat ,
rretrious tat this dispersion of the snob. It was seggestral 1
or. the part of the L'rown. that It was not Intended to !
; rodnce the mischief .1: tine exact time the meeting as-
...u:bled : perhaps no on that day, lam to have * pro-
P lveire operatiot. : that the pithlie pulse was only to he ;
!At on that day, an.l the fall parsc stilly prepared for a i
future. 'l-.).judge of Ilse leszality of Ils.e motives which
a: lusted the principal pers.,nagcs on that day, was the
arduous task entrained tia the Jury, anal they were to
I eel their opinion upon the impres •• 8 which the evi• .
dlmce produced upo a their minds. Wills reaped to the !
i.iimbers composing the meeting, they were so great as'
to warrant any body in ralioually cuncludinr, that de- !
Elwrinun was not their object -that was actually no. i
laissili.e. One of the counts in this indictment charged
an defendants with cainspiring to laritit noirelher a meet-
i.,g to raise disalfectiun and discontent in the minds of ,
iris Iltilmly's subjects, and to incite a hatred and con-1
t ma:n of the has, and constitnted authorities of the
realm, as ha' law established. In the first place, for .
I, hat was this meeting called ... They had heard that it
i. AS by 700 of the respectable hottsrlisolilers of Manche'. I
ter, and fur the_purpose set forth in the plaearJ, namely.;
Parliamentary Reform. What was intended ha be pro. I
loosed at that meeting': Where are the Resolutions?!
laic): of the 7th) respectable inhabitants was called to ;
bill'e the precise object of the meriting -.. Thry were there- !
fore left so far in the dark as to the pnrposes of the meet- i
its=. It was no evidence before them. that 1111 the 211 July
A.l r. Hunt attended a niertist; at Smitlitielal,nliereeertain.
a -striations were IlflllllPl4'd 31111 adopted, which they ha ..
bear 1 read in et Mester. It was for the Jury to say, 1
whether such resolutions were or were not calculated to
caries- disaffection. Did Mr. Hunt mean to tender resat- t
booms of •the lame import at Manchester, lie must, one'
.vistilel imagine, have conversed upon the resolutions in-
isn.lird to be proposed there; he has brought no cvi.
deuce to rebut the presumption, if the Jury thought It
faidi to arise, that he meant to pursue the same cosine i
at anchester whirls he had just before puriurd liti
Smithfield. If they thought that were his object, and
that the Smithfield resolations were to be repeated at
ilimichester, then, fro ed, Mr. Hunt's attendance at the