The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-03-25 00:00:00

pees
werka were going on, and the people were look..
log out for the procession, rather with the 41111t4T.111ft
of cheerfulness than of alarm. Witness wilt ;wel% ergs
at the meeting, which he drier:l;M 54 twin,: tut the
iss;sst peaceithir description. 1n the streets b•• saw mme
respectable ladies, like those. in Coart. walkis( the
streets, free (runs alarm and sn4u:t. In lee.' as lie imi.ed
along High-street, he felt arystslse•l at the in tifer,.twe
of the people. The first time he
saw the yeinii.i!tr.
they were drawn in line bri.?re Mr. 11111,4011.$ 1•3114.
brandishing their swords. tt fitness seas from a doten to
twenty Yards before the biennia's: .4 V ille yetolumre
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• Toad. ; they went quite 'lose to him.
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no opposition whatever to them, or he ti!,„,r,,t Le
most have seen the missiles, fur he saw the iciioie 5..3,..
made by the cavalry to the basting.. awl sac
jointing. lie watchei tient the way they wen:; ke
ant look whether the crowd closed in behind thew.—
' When the cavalry rause throngb, every body moron,
Imake the best °ilk way.
Mary Jones was the wife of a fustian-cutter. resi,llag
in Windinill.street. near St. Prier's.lield. Slw nal
home on toe 16th of Ausntst last, aml woolsl re•ree for.
get t hat shy. Her house was atom Mt yards distant from
the hustings. She then desrriisell the arrival of the
fernst parties of the crowd, and also of ill • yeomanry ca.
fairy. She saw no tiersun whatever iesaltrii he, er
lalarmed at the crowd. She saw the whole of die ap.
prisach of the revelry to the hustings, and nu opposition
was made to them by any of the crowd; if it had bee%
I made in any manner, she
I pie AM alien the yeomanry came up to :he huitinp;
a great litany rota not get away ; many near her dew
were so pressed as to throw down au iron railing, nal a
woman was there killed.

John lares lived at (*mouton; was a issasteramnn•
fainting% and went to See the nweting. IN SAW the
eru ;yds ad vanei ng to Manchester —they ciiiisisteal of tam
women, and children. .1 few had calki,!l•ricks, bu:
no other weapons. He then descrihad that he fav the
people afterwards on the field, Irons the frauc win.lneruf
the Windmill public-house, almost immediately k• the
hark of the hustings. The meeting la as Isso,:l „.,..
able; they flrJ when the yeomanry caner, And made no;
the smallest res:stanre, or lir mist have siren it. !lessor
Kadin on the day walking up and down in the line of
the hustings. Heard nolmilv call oat and make sic to
have a warrant executed. lie did not hear the smallest
notice given to thr reoplr of the annual-Is of tiecmairv,
nor of anv warrant bring. almost to be serveil.

..Jr. Ssitat.El r observed, that many of Mr. Valet
questions to-day were founded un a nassapprehensisa of
Mr. linhon s testimony.
Mr. IIt:NT denied this, and said hr wafted to show
Oast neither Na:lin nor any other person bpd atteaipteal
to execute a warrant ; if this hatl,t herr would Lase kers
no rcsistance. tie was nn.ier no mistapinvisen.dian
Tertian/. Mr. littlton's evidence. That gentler's:as hal
reptesen:e.lNrdin's telling him he I-amid is execree the
warrant without military aid, and he (lir. lhoopriaket
to show that there was no foundation for the sweriT
of such assistance.

Mr. Justice in tYLICT.-1 tiltlSt nhignatelf tell thrloy
that there is no evidence from Nadirs to purify thee♦
ploynicut of the yeomanry to support the civil merit
the rceention of a warrant.

John Fell, a grocer! in Maneheeter.-1 saw the pee.
pie ramie np to the field on the Ifith August ; they were
as peaceable as this Court. Some bad a few roe:um
walking•sticks, but no staves• lie ea:Tuba-mei all
its parts the evidence ahlready given of the spirt de-
l:teat 1111 l r of the meeting. front beginning to vei—
l!: saw many Magieteates in the first akar of Mr.
liatatun's house, when the carairy aivaiced; a:Lentz
them were Mr. Hay, 3lr. Fletcher, and Mr. IVrigle,
anal he saw then; in York sittee this :rim' .senniencei.
He saw a tall gentleman call from tits eauslaw
the Inaroiaehreeve, an:l soon after ha me A:. !:adia
called. Tile latter went to the range of con.iables.
—The yeomanry came np just as they were rheerri
by the popnlace, and returned that cheer; witness: heard
the word " forward," given from l:IP wit low, or the
• sallieer at their head, he caul.' not say aviscli. Thee
, then advances' sword in hand, though ten the slightest
opposition was offered to these, and the p•oisie were
us:thing sway as last as they could. The crowd did eat
clavie in upsna the cavalry as they advanced, aorta-mash
sticks, nor hoot, nor any thine. of the kind. lie bed ao
apprehensions of the town when be heard of the ewe.
ing and saw it. The yeomanry could not have la n
closed in upon, fur they were supported by the reeniar
cavalry, then by the Cheshire, and last by two pieces of
tlyiug artillery.
litry Knout examinetl.—Resisted at Maachester, is
Ladd-lane, an I was at the tneetieg of the 16th of .to ;
else remained on the lield until Mr. Hunt was talon from
the hutting.. She stood 'limn a rising atrounsl, near the
paildiedionee. Sims saw all the isrocessiest
come upon time field with slags an.l tunic; and felt se
alarm at all for the safety of herself or of the town. She
also saw the cavalry come upon the grottos!, end alranre
towards tl.' hustings. The special constabiee fell hark
to admit them in. I heard the penis* cheer the sol-
diers, lint I did not hear tbe.soldiers return it. laid
not hear the people hiss or groan at the soldiers. I saw
no 'wick.; or .:ours thrown, ur sticks held a? at they'd-
dire.. Some few old people had walking snare. lal
not see any one offend the solml:ers in any way; I sre
the people meninx away from the soldiers.
This witness was not cross-examined.
Joseph Watson, examined by Mr. Ht'T.—l rejile at
Oldham. I overtook and passed the Oldham party as
they were going to :Manchester on the lails Almost
They were going along euietiv. I saw no acts of ;W-
-hence. I maw a few walkini-sticks; there were let
many who had them. None of them had long dam
101 l Idurecl like musheta. I observes' Hr. Healey antelf:
them. I walked with him. lie and two oth.raanlMl
a little before the rest. I wanted near tv—s assiltserbh
him. The whole party esteemed in the heat h
The party halted near New Cross for a time. Thermal"
room on the road fur horses and gigs, ea they 3;01a
sa
the road. They were walking in prozession, by wb4
means they were better enabled w wake roans 'far pa''
sengers than if they had been walking indiscriminuele
There were many fen.ales will' the party. They did lost
look like an arrow going to invade a town. The pre'
cession to:ached in time same order as Benefit sea Ober
Societies do, I did not go to the meeting until thrill,
persion had commenced. I was not undo,. any &peer
heitsion for the safety of the town, nor did I coaceite
there was any danger.
Cross-examined by Mr. fierjeent Ilet.t.orx.-14111 awl
intend to speak at the meeting. M never pretended Si
be a maker of speeches t. properly speakitee I never
dreamed the people. 1 might have read somethlell
to them, bat I never made all extempore speech.
ir
haps read it string of reeolutiona. I septum ._I waif/ 041
the Chairman on that occasion. It was near Rechdle
on the 16th of August, laid. It was the first sod lea
time I was phased in saris a situation. There were Ilew
one thousand persons present. Ido nut recalkal wee!
dissentient voices to the resolutions.
Mr. Justice Bs(
BATLEY objected to this •mode
nation. They hall a right to ask %sitars. a• to every ensue
of his life connected with the proceedings before the
Court, but no ether.
Examination continued—l know Mr. Knight. I V
at a meeting where he will present. It wag is the
Its
end of Jahr, between the tOth and Nth t I Ihinit
the ?6th. 'Knight was not the Ceiinase 4uyM.
ing. I beard him speak at it. I de eel legli"rv"