The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-10-27 00:00:00

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- TRIAL OF MR. HUNT. )
eel note, persons in the place. Mr. Hunt immek.
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Yesterday the Middlesex &salons COrtntioncta at ditty sdtifessed eitness, and said, -6 Well, Illr.Spec.
Ilieks's•hall, before F. tritest, Eaq. (Ope Chairman), lade So, are you dolotsell to finish the horsewhip.
awl a full Bench of Magisteates. 2 • •
-a.• ping you commenced its Covens-garden ?" Witness
Tbe lies* case Was the lard of Mr. Heim 111.91440 f simmered, " I wish to hare no altercatiesn with
an assault titian Mr. Vincent. George Devlin, On you," and their turned round to leave the shop. when
.the Bth of Sept. in St. Clement's Chutch.yard, Mr. Hunt repeated his offortfire espresssions, anEi
. };..pure the trial came on, Mr. Hunt, who sat at asked him if he was dispos.d to show himself a man
the Barristers' table, race audetddlelled the Court in and go out to tight him in the-street; witttesareplied
the following terms I— 641 he was unaccustomed to such eshibitioas; and
Mr. Chairman, I am here as.. wet Engliebetan to. certainly would not ;* he also said that he woe not
day to earn] sty trial for en assault, and I have an deserving the false imputatious which Mr. Huntehad
application to make to the Cited for my •own proles. applied to him. Mr H. then charged him with pub-
tion. A person who sits,opposite me, in the garb of lishingsome false statements respecting. public trivato
a Gentleman, has just linage use of the fellmseing es. Stripe in whicit.he had been engaged—witness deflect!,
preosion :—..66 i see the deensgogoes. Hunt, is first on this charge, arid Mr. ['dot retorted upon hies, tbeb,
.the list ; I hope he'll bat transported." I therefore if be had not dove it' himself he had employed soil,
apply to the Court, whether such language is to be other person to do it. Witnessdeitied this also, indent)
olerated, when applied to a niatt-who its here brought withdrawing froth the shop, when Mr. Hunt said Mel
before a Jery.of his eonntsy. I understand the per.. Week, find an opportunity of thrashing him. • Wit.i
Soo is a liareister. I do set know whether be I; or heat' srlid be was there then, but would not settle tire
.nott for tsthink I newer saw him before; butt sp. matter in the manner pointed out by Mr. Haut.— I
al* twsthe floert whether I am sot to tie Protected The latter then ftillowed him out 'to the' door, nod
- Ihmiliiiciittatkeege ? .. struck witness a blow in the face, and said, 66 Wlif
' Ail. 4gitik:Ocifsi counsel for Mr. Dowling, eh** resent that ?" Witness replied, " Certsiely
tigtegidi. thstneo ezpre9ion which might hot in'the way you *teem to wish ; for I should feld
VII Iffitt •* Leotard Friend, who was a myself -ditgraced by noticing any thing said or doss*
- 1 parriellts; otoeld us* have been intended for Mr. by *lrian who his disgraced himself as you have."—n-
' ,butt'. Par. .' Several persons. were outside the shop-door at the
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Mr. Jessup, who Was the Gentleinan alluded to, time, and Mr. Hunt 'introduced him to 'thertt as
and *
_hp sat at the table, .but eras not dressed in his " Dowlingi the Gorerunient Spy." Witnass4ave
w gown, se* that he did not mean to ha over- no provocation whatever to Mr. Hoof for this treat-
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sifirrk Mr. Hunt.ie any thing be might have said; - Neill.' He only received one blow. He had defied
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.101.4iwer shad 'been his couversation, it was not, he Mr. 11. to prove in any degree the imputations he bad
• elpied the Court, intended for Mr. Hunt's ear. cast upon him.
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Mr. Hunt--I think you did address your language I Mr. Hunt then proceeded to crass-examine Mr.
tip the. It
.certainly was uttered loud enough to be Dowling.
•Tward by all round here. Mr. Hunt—Did I not invl.e you out t 6 proveyourself
! Mr. ALLEY interposed, and desired that Mr. Hunt * man, and when you said you were unaccustomed
.should not interrupt the proceedings of the Court by t• this mode of proceeding, did I not observe DIM
complaints of this kind. that was eattaordinary, for you were active enough
Mr. Hunt—l am addressing the Chairman, and at Covent-garden when you were surrounded by your
eat you, Sir ; and it is to his instructions, not to constables, and what made you so cool then ?
your's, that I shall pay deference. Mr. Do selir,g—l recollect your saying something
The CnAtitmArt—Mr. Hoot, you must be aware about constables, but what were the precise ex-
Thai nothing can arise in your particular case which pressions I cannot now recollect. I had heard that
could justify the slightest indecorums towards.you, you and your brother meant to assault mein the street.
.staudieg as jots do. The Court is always most aux. Mr. Hunt—Was that the only reason ; did not
ions to accommodate every defrodant, as far as it your conscience tell you that you deserved it ?
_tan be done with propriety ; but, on the other hand, Mr. Dowling—When I say 1 expected to hear from you. 1
it cannot well take notice ofrivate conversations, mean that I thought I should bear Irma you in a dite!ent moo-
pr. I expected to have been called upon as our tscademaa
whatever they may happen to be ; and lam sorry would call on :mother.
that the seat in which you sit had placed you near Mr. Hoot—flow do you areas?
Mr. Dowling—Does not your cow-tiente tell you ?
„nolo to overhear any thing which mot have been
Mr. Hunt appealed to the Court, whether a dirt answer
.said by the Gentleman opposite to you. It is true ought not to be given to his question. -'
that the Court generally allows a defendant to sit at tore (;)otilAtiti MA!threpliel. inthatheiglinaZivie.taic
insult
he
a.
red
tiro table, either for the purpose of being near his to air▪ ..
Iluwat 'all ICoveen. "lati-iardent.uheer certP
aiinly etpected I°o bare
Counsel, or any particular friend *hose assistance he , heard from him in the only coarse that a Gentleman ought to
you must be of I bate married to.
may want. I think, on reflection,
• lam-- YoU mean 10 light a duel ?
opinion, that sock expressions as those you have al- air. 'towhee—must certainly.
Wed to could not, by. possibility, have been meant Mr. Ilona—Then the provocation you gave meat teletreet-
eerrdteariintwas with the view of getting me to Mk a deal ?—.416.
.for the public ear. The Gentleman to whom you !C.
*scribe them could not possibly have publicly battled- , Mr. Hunt—Theo when I called you out, you say, to kW its
0(1 them on the eve of a Defendant ;s trial. .I can give Mr Clement's shop, did you hear me say I wanted to box you p
Mr. Dowling-1 inferred so certainly; for when you invitee
you an assistence•ander the circumstances that you me nut to tight, 1 could not imagine you meant to fight a d
say have occurred. in the middle of the day in St. Octanes Church-yard.
Mr. Damian; -bets admitted,. that he had said he should feet'
Mr. At.s.si,--Mr. Hunt, us you have thought
.-bittoielf disgraced by taking *once of a man so degraded m Mr.
proper to overbears private conversariew, and then Mot. and that the biers he received was a very slight one,
:ink, it the ground of a poblic curnpleist, yew *twat t wilitkagerati knotted of his spectacles—it did out Tze him
mow trait your seat and stand at the bar, as all atilt'', • hileleil4,l cii, ionesi triZiesa. hill that if if he tat
so recollect
Flibbehatnt itra.bitienti 11.4
defendants usually do, I to um to resew alidow, it would be cruel to repeat it—im surfs
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,The Ctbstamste--L. aro very sorry that any thing telizrhetariorreultia, at.,
tot:crawls:lts !curio inite
ridler.reitrna tteidi:tismadminnitrliilrll::
ehaielti have occurred to have made Mr. Marl's ap. soctin -n which he thought would induce him to resent It bystv
vacation, or your's, Mr. Alley, 'necessary- sor:ing to a dwel
wentunt to the
ill% At.LaY—Mr. Hunt, you must go to the bar. ini6silir.
nit? deerol i nrteei:lskiiiiigtge.rosseßapairiovolictnti.ol'anifdr:smthafillbre
Mr. Hunt.- I again tell you,. that I shall attend NOotkir witnesses tteiag called—
to the Chairmaa,.aod net to yea. Mr. Ham theutssidressed !be Jury. He contended that, as
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l:r Englishman,ube uhb: hadd now,e rightrabre iii tot
taedudi
irvesse twelveinth e
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Mr. ALIA-re—Then,- if-you choose to be insolent,
I must muse the Court that you be placed at the tier or)humabity. He stood at that bar charged with a snort
bar. The Court will exercise its jurisdiction towards heinous utiesire, via. that of *Machin one of his Majeuy's liege
subjects, nod gtoe.ly assaulting him. That he had attacked tr.
you as it would to any other defendant. Misting he would not deny, but had the attack been toepro.
Mr. hunt-1 neither give nor take insolence; I wok• d, he would aevertheless have felt that be could have had
.no favour from the Court or Jury, as all that he expected from
am addressing the Court. them was impartial justice. He now stood before twelve honest
Mr. Slit:TCll cm/ (see of the Magistrates on the and unbiassed Englittmen. and it was tar tlsess to my whether air
Bench)—( think Mr. Haut ought to he put to the nor he had been ;tinny of what was alleged agniier him by the
l'ar. It is en indulgence to allow a defendant to sit 1117.tosraciletnori.auF,70himbsneLhehewaspbeersr
awiteldd. thbalivi have eniadrblerideDo:p.-
st here he does,and after what Ills just passed, I i pearance ilia, duy. but some persons themselvet wile Ihri fallen
think he bad better change his place. into thsgracr, wished him to be, if possible, the compauton of ,
that dingniCo.
Mr. Hunt—l shall bow with peat submission to The Def•ndant then, at great length, entered into what the
the decision of the Chairman ; and as Mr. Alley has Public might (rave thought of his eindivet had be coosensed to
sfitgrohtn
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abwieitslitalslter..einftniwnilialf.d—erTeihcee.Defendant then made a
wade this application, I, in my turu, ask of the
Court to be permitted to remain where I am, as an The Chairman summed up the evidence in a very impartial
indulgence, and hot to be put to the bar, where I sneas:re3 RIO the Jury funnel Mr. Hoot "wilY.
041rEhar
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itehne.noilidtadkrte•snscidia tlri.tslicaosroit.idaeurdatimm:ol,lwthiamtet.hie.
could have no convenience of taking notes of the
evidence. nos provocation he received, and all the circumstances a.f the
The CHAIRMAN interposed, and directed the Clerk case, which, however, afforded no adequ.oe ja,tiricatioe of the
tv.sault. The sentence, therefore was, that he pay a tine of
of At miens to read over the iudictutent, and proceed Five Pound,, and be awn disclaim' ed.
with the tii2l. ** Mr. Slum wired in the Chairesisa, paid the Lae at the table,
The indictment was accordingly reed,which charged and withdrew from Court.
Mr. Hunt with assaulting Mr. Dowling, on the Bth
September.—Mr. hunt pleaded Not Guilty. •
. Mr. ALLAN' then rose, and in form repeated bis
motion, that Mr. hunt-be put to the bar.
The CuAiamAK—Theil, as the motion hes been
made, Mr. Hunt must quit his seat ; but I do not
think it right he should be put to the bar, as lie says
be w lilies to take notes—let him, therefore, remove
to the end of the table.
Mr. Hunt bowed to the Court, and took his seat
at the end of the table, adjoining the Jury-box.
Mr. Cu &moots then opened the pleadings.
Mr. ALLEY stated the Plaintiff's case to the Jury.
In allusion to what had just occurred in C,urts he
observed that he never should have thought of refus-
ing to Mr. Hunt that courtesy which was sometimes
extended to defendants, had it rerst been for the use
stitich was in the present isstan* made of it. The
offence with which the Defendant was chargtd, was
for 4:nanitting an assault of a very aggravated chit.
racier. The Counsel Said, that although he had a
volume of instructions in his brief, showing. the otter
falsehood of Mr. hunt's imputations upou Mr. D.'s
character, and explaining very "fully, and he thought
satisfactorily, a number of transactions not of very
recent date,-yet he thought it more decorous to eh-
stairs altogether from matter which was net directly
connected with the time and circumttances of the as.
:molt. The Learned Counsel then detailed the facts,
; recisely hi the manner they have been already stated
t., the Public.
Mr. V. G. Dowling was called to prove the assault.
11, - 'samitted by Mr. CtlitWooD. lie Valet!,
t• of Sept. he tent to the shop qt Mf.

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The consomption of sheep and lambs in London,
during the lan twelve months, amounted in number
.1p one million, sixty-two thoessnd,seren hendrul.-4
The utmber of horned cattle-slaughtered, wares.'
hundred cod siatpfour thousand ; and by the la.
specter's return, it appears that the number of hone
hides produced at beatlenhallAnarket, amounted to
twelve thouund nine hundred.
It is a consolation to the indostrious mechanirt
and persons of moderate income, who are attlinte4l,•
to know, they may here the best advice, erativ, if
they attend at certain hoots, namely. Tuesday,
.Tbirrsthry, and Sunday mornings, until one o'clock,
'at the Medical Board, Great Charlotte-street, Black-

friarte-road. That thousands suffer from improper
treatrfient is a bet— the latent stied of • dreadful
disease lark♦ io the systeni, destroys domestic Imps
pinftft, and entails debility on the rising generations
--The Medics) Board chins the attention of those
afflicted with Strictures, Fistulas, Cancers, Set °pito-
les, Nervous Debilities, Eropiinits, ulcerated Throat,
Pains in the head and limbs, freqoently mistaken flirt
Itheurnatism, Nodes on the shin bones, Etc. —Meese*.
Coon** and CO. after forty years practice interim*,
Hospitals abroad and in this Metropolis, are eoesslt.
et; at Woodstock-street, Oxford•rtreet, dolly, fro*
eight till eight; and at the bledkal Board, Char.
lette•hnase, Great Charlotte-street, Rischfriets'•
road, precisely (rem twette until eight In the hen.
ing.—Ruptured Patients, whose tumours exceeded
,•24 inches,, have had them returned. to the surprise
`of the Medical Profeniatu.—A side do9ttacd imitate
I mows fcr fetaalrs.
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