The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-08-18 00:00:00

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Alter some questions from iiiiter. est Junes, trup .
seas in explariatinn added as fisllows:'--
The soldiers bad succeeded in dispersing the people,
ted rode towards the Edgware-road, where I first
eard the report of a pistol; the soldiers then all drew
set kbeir pistols. and there were no brickbats dying
4 the time. The impreesien oti the hinds of the
and I believe theDuardi wimp the procession
*t Perk-lane, was, that itintelo pets through
Wm. Sprott, resides -at 0, Little Russell-street,
)Iteruisbury, sod is by trade a shoe•tnaker ; saw the
tlssalon first at Knightsbridge barracks. Did not
lt tags into the park; was down at Park-lane ; un-
MO that the body was gone thveugh the gate, and
Ned back again; saw nothing take place in the
'tither an the part of the soldiers or the peo-
/se soldiers were through Cumberland-gate
veil came up ; saw the bustle of the soldiers
people doitn Oxford-street. They trete
people; did not see them strike any body
i . 600 withtheir swords ; raw them strike
*eel them cease and struck him. Saw nobody
.1111$11. After the soldiers drove the people, stones
e *Own. Witness did not throw any. After the
flit were driven away they returned and threw
sec Witness was standing against the Park-gate,4
Aid a soldier drove at him and cutt his nuibrella,
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ytopposite his neck, where he held it to defend him-
&. (The witness produced the umbrella, which was
eeat rouud towards the bottom.) The soldier
ver} violently, so as to knock the umbrella
essilut-Isis head with great force. tVitness ran to get
[way, *ben the soldier sheathed his sword and fired
pistol after him, but did not hit him. Witness
was running away, and looking round to see if the sol-
lOW stilt pdrsued him, when the pistol was fired, for be
ihe riding after bins. It was a private soldier. Wittiest
bad thrown ale stones. When the pistol was discharged
We soldiers dud
_not pursue witness any farther ; woe
Kies running across the road, and saw a young Officer
Pt4rair a pistol front his bolster and deliberately shoot a
Moan opposite to him. 'the Officer stood about seven
or eight yirds from the deceased, and two yards cram
the witness. 'NVituess was running away, and turned
round and saw the Officer deliberate!y shout the man.
Witness saw the 1114•1 stagger back, hut never saw him
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afterwards; the wan was standing near the door of
the first house ft Lan the corner of Cuinherland.street; is
quitepositive he should know the officer if he sawhitn ain
to regimentals; lie wore a red coat, and appeared about
#ighteen ; the man who was shot was in te front of the
Crowd, which was very great at that part ;h h e frti bark
into the peJple ; lie stood opposite the rarer when he
fired, and to his right.—(The witness here explained
the position in which the deceased and the officer were
itettlaing.)—Does not know what dress the luau had on ;
L'sse out at he was alarmed, but not so alarmed as to be
- in the positions; his eye sight was good, and
inite clear ; when the officer shot the inan, he
.„...ao--wheb he saw him stagger, he laughed ; when
She soldier fired at witness he was coming Park-lase
away ; 'he was not se situated that the ball which missed
H. might- have kilted the deceped; some part of the
Gproirsisieu had passed through the gate when witness
came op—the. hearse was not through ; two of the
horses beloni;i fig to the hearse were through the gate. the
others were not; saw no civil authorities endeavouring
to testrain the people from acts of violence. S:IW some-
body, whom he was told was Sir Robert Baker, urge
the soldiers on. He was dressed in a brown great coat,
*ml Ailing upon one of the soldiers' hones. Was only
iota that it was Sir R. Baker ; does not know him.
William Alexander lives at No. 4, Tower-street,
;Soho. Is a dyer, apprenticed to Mr. Briggs, of Brewer-
itreitt. Saw the procession at Braodenburgh-house ; went
. quietly to Kensington where he saw the people draw a
,ibingavaggon across the road, and next a waggon with
fieme soltiiers ; they were placed across the lane leading
Vop by Kensington church ; some blows passed on botk
suletibetwsen the constables and people; saw no sticks;
nothing bat the constables staffs; the soldiers waggon
then went away, and another was drawn into its place.
so that nothing could pass.
A Jurymaa interfered, and said that he considered
any examination as to the facts that occurred before the'
death of the deceased was irrelevant.
The Coroner considered that the matter embraced
the whole proceedings previous to the death of the un• '
ruminate man. It was very essential to ascertail whe-
ther the soldiers had received any provocation at Ken-
singten by the same persons who attended them on to
Cumberland gate, where ►the unfortunate affair took

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place.
The Foreman of the Jury could not consider than
what took place at Kensington hail any thing to do with
thf proceedings at Cumberland-gate.
After some further conversation the exainnation was
re:timed.
At the Kensington Park Gate, witness heard a gentle-
man. on horseback say, "it is altered." Saw nothing
more until they arrived in Piccadilly, the soldiers there
termed their backs upon the procession,and their horses
!wade s tli. people upon the pavement, with their pis-
tols out ; witness heard the Gentleman in the brown
cost say that the procession should go through the
City; the Gentleman was upon a horse like the soldiers.
with the wool upon it; an officer came up to him .and
' they went back together; in five minutes time there was
et! that the hearse was gone up the Park i the peop*
..:reent op a street behind Park-lane, becalm it was stopped
op i. witness ran to the top as fast as he could to see the
hearse come out of the Park ; when he got there, saw
the toldiers driving the people, and striking them with
their (words; three or four soldiers gallopel to Park-
lane, where witness was, and he ran down the lane, and
up the first turning; here lie found no outlet and waited
until the soldiers returned, when he went out by the
.same way he entered, and the soldiers came galloping'
back; witness gut under a coach; be then crossed over
between Cumberland-street and Quebec-street; there
were no stones thrown on that side cf the war ; they
were all thrown from the corner of Park-Isne, Wien:
the snifflers tried to ride over the people ; witness was
standing close behind the curb-stone, against a stable-
yard. when a young officer whom witness should know
again, came ridins.up Oxford-street; he did not turn
his horse, bnt turned Nis bead towards Quebec-street, and
took a pistol in his baud; the horse's heal was then
turned towards Tyburn turnpike; the Officer Wks close
to the corner of Park-lane, and he pointed his pistol ;
already the pistol was fired a man fell down ; saw.his
after he was down ;_the pistol was pointed towards hi-
witness saw it go off ; the thanstood near to the core
of Cumberland--street; witness was within three y.
14 the span; the officer stood to the right of witness .
the road. The man was token to Mr. Lightfoot's ; di
111ctly he was takes up, witness followed' hint to thel
ioetor's ; does set knowAr R. Bakers knell ssobodyl
rsttasis, the people persnisK tannelteees cur
.; ocen ineos4 tidiest about instead of heir
the ma ; there 'wire' stone* and bricks dm,
. . the corner of Pariteline before the Meg; n•
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• tisreira f where the Man Wu standing; S
lieited ties
cry " city." is that side. Site
lib* Inc the sitwatiee of himself, • he
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