The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-04-06 00:00:00

had beard, that the toptemnitudires of the
Oranspound. whidelsod meanly .bits .ffiht
•a aeeouat of its sonenalto oorraptlos. whom
tonsil to Peerliatecal, wombs mach the rein
tires of the whole Miriam ~Thew of the corny/ he
'Ala bad returned tbna. anformaste
sons, hevin felt that such a sfechm of rep'
tion did lot afford snidest promotion to .
tunes, for their liberties. called .tegether the .
ottheir vicinity to see whether soother species
pneentation might not he devised, better CI
to meet their -wishes sod to defeat! their
Accordingly. oil thciltitts of August, 1819,
of them collected together. not merely from Mao,
ter. but front all the sorrouedier townships. They eau
to Manchester in hematitel order, in the utmost trim-
nwillity and without committing say one sot of via-
lents or affersaion they ranged themselves as
they arrived noted a bondage, erected on a waggon
in the field, mid there remised till they were forci-
bly dispersed by the irruption of an armed force
They come with Immerse for the purpose of keeping
the inhabitants of the different townships together.,
sad they tame whipsaws for no other purpose. .Nuw.
is considering whether the Meeting was legal or sou
the first point to be considered was the intention of
the parties who sailed it. Now, what was their is-,
toutiota—that any illegal act should be committed
at it? They had dieters by their previous conduct that.
such, at least. was sot their intention; for when they
discovered that their first requisisioo contained matter
which-was calculated to reader their meeting illegal,,
they abandoned It altogether, and requested their fel-
low•towasmen to meet without, authority. No; but,
by the authority of the huroughreares end constables.
If, then. their intentions did net render the meeting
illegal, what did render it so? Not their batmen, if
they were brought for the innocent purpose which he
bad just described. The banners. if brought for dial
purpose 'of p tint; the inhabitants of different
townships from straggling from each other,
could sender the.merting illegal. Was it, then. the
beautiful ceder its which they marched to the field at
Manchester? Surely the orderly conduct of the people
never-could be proof of the illegality of their conduct.
What. then, was it that was to characterise the meeting
of the Ifith as an illegal meeting? He must con•
fess that he hid net yet heard what circumstance it
was that had converted a meeting perfectly legal its
its origin into an illegal assembly. It had been slid
that it.wao the words " Equal representation or death."
and 0 Liberty or death," inscribed on the banners,
along with the oppearance of rcrersl caps of liberty at,
the meeting, which had siren to it its character of ille-
galitt.. , Up to that day, however, the cap of liberty.
bad ;weer btee considered an illegal emblem in this
country. but,. on the contrary, lad been borne aloft in
many of its moss ancient and bosiourable proemial's.
The words. " Liberty or death," inscribed on Alpe,
banners, were the words with which anent of our
most-favourite popular sung* concluded. What, thon,
was rho objection to their being inscribed on
nen; ? Was it meant to be contended that, in a cons-
try libel England, which called itself free. and which,
was perpetually blasting of its freedom. it was en la-
admissible principle to say that it was better to die a
free man than to lives slave ? He knew of no process
by which words perfectly justifiable and legal in them,
selves, became illegal and najustiAable when inscribed
open banners. The people barite( thus been assets
bled; witbcut any circumstance having occurred to
render their assembly illegal, Hunt came about
o'clock to the place of meeting, attended by a very
corsirleeable natt:er nf people. On his arrival, look
besets. were raised by the multitude--,,-three times
Ore/retirees were liven in his honour—and be was
el .cted chairman of the meeting. He began to ad-
dress the people on the business of the slay, and in
conampenee numbers of them pressed round the
bostises in order to bear bins better. lie ought to
state, however, that before that tittle, a number of spe-
cial constables had formed themselves into a line, ex-
tentiing from Mr. &VOWS house, in which the ma-
gistrates went assembled, directly up to the hustings,
and•-that' they. had: also partially surrounded the
'listings. An open-space was left is the middle of
this line, and room was thus mule for the purpose of
pst.ing to and from the hosting,. with monotonic*•
tints to the magistracy. The constables were left in
this situation till the Manchester Yeomanry were sent
for r and now he had arrived at that point in his case,
when' It became necessary for bins to inform .the jury
who were the defendants is the presentrimtion. One
of them was called !Easy, and was-cite captain of
the troop; another of thed was esiled Whithington,
end was also an- officer in it ; a third *tie a person of
the name of Meagher, the trumpeter to the corps ;
and:the fourth stras•hlettentier w private in it.
Now-it was indifferent to, him which of-these parties
bad struck the blow ; for, in . point of law, the
assault of one of them was .the. assault of all..
If they bad ~gone op to the• bastions- illegally.
the commander of the corps was-equally guilty with
the individual who had struck the blow. if one man
in it assaulted the plaintiff without jest and legal
caste, every member of the corps that acted with Lim
warier:ally amenshle far the vinliitioal of the law.—
That such was the law of England,- no man would.
dispute; and sore he was at least thst none of his
learned friends would deny that all the parties
concerned in an illegal action were equally amenable
for all its consequences. To return, however, to the
point from which he bad digressed. The people
being thus assembled, and Hunt having taken the
chair, the Manchester Yeomanry Cavalry came to the
ground. at a quick trot front Pickfurd's yard. where
they had been formed. They came along Portland-
street, down Cooper-street: and pert of Dean-street,
and passing by the garden wall of Cooper's cottage.,
f mord in line before the house in which the Magis-
trAtes were assembled. They had come with consi-
derable speed, and their ranks were in consequeoce
in some disorder. They ~area, therefore, to form their
Erie again, and hawing formed it. shortly afterwards
set off against the people.
Air. Justice Hitters's') here interrupted the Learned
Counsel, and atkeil him whether he could furnish him
with a plan of the ground on whist; the trausaLtiou
took pLice.

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Mr. Ilt.scnnunNe, ■n we understood him, replied
th.t he had no other plan than that which he then
held in his hand. A plan was, •however, handed to
hlr Lordship by the Counsel for the defence.
Mr. lhat.unuaars resumed.—l was stating to you,

the Magistrates of Manenester woe., --- ,
fore, demolish the people not to attend,—lint. above
all. entelidieg in the laws ortitelr country, with the
eikeisusness that they were estreising a constita-
armal right, that great multitude were at the moment
Peaceably and calmly engageri in the business of the
tweeting. I told yen before, that the Yeomanry cavalry
advanced to Peter's-field with . considerable speed. It
hoe, I know, been said that stones were thrown, and
kfrialgeons raised against them, by the immense mold-
Aide there assembled ; you, Hentfeinen, will hear, from
witnesses of noimpeachable testimony, that it was ph)...
Acidly impossible that a multitude so completely closed,
—indeed, so closely jammed, mould throw a stone, or
raise an arm for the perpose of striking a blow. How
were they WO these stones ? They could not stoop,
even if there were stones on the ground where they,
*Nod- As to bludgeons. even ifit were true that they
bad them, it was impossible that such a maltitudinous
body thus deissely formed could ate them. These fads
1 shall establish by witnesses of unimpeachable vera-
city, free from the keener of any undue prepossession
.-either Maclattales nor Reformers—men who took'
art interest in the proceedings of that day. and who..a.
they were not parties, were most likely to be the most
impartiatobservers. 1 shall prove it most indisputably.
by one witness of as high alai respectable a character we.
any either In this county or this kingdom, by a willies*
who watched with careful attention every proceeding
that took place, who pill first tell you that he, from the
place where he was, could see almost every occurrence,
but who also will tell you that he saw no stones throin
—no bludgeons raised—no interruption given even We
the advance of the cavalry to the Hastings, other thee
that lateeruption which must unavoidably occur,
wherever such an immense multitude was assembled.
I will prove-to .you, that it was, under all the cit.-
annstancie, impossible for that multitude. to sera-
mute sooner than it actually did. 1 will prove to roe I.ri
*intents, whose testimony cannot be questioned. that
'n point of fact, the multitude, after the 'widen irrup-
tion of the -cavalry, got away more quickly than could
be thought possible—that they dispersed on that 'reap-
lion, ss it were, by a magic wand, where say avenue of
escape peesented itself. When the cavalry wade that
h"Plicro—wheu they rode up to the hustings. for per-
haps it will be endeavoured to 'hew you that it was for
She purpose of arresting some of air' parties on the hus-
tings, that they made the advance—it will be proved to
Goorthit there ins with the military no civil (acre.
eotlemen, I have told you before that the constables
farmed a Ilne from the pare where the Alagistrates were.
'and from which the cavalry advanced to the hustings., So
*pen w,as the space, that the very man oho was at Slip
bead of the police at Manchester, was walking fr ' y
and uninterruptedly up loil, down that space. T, ~
could be no interruption to any,ciril officer proc i •
to thihostimits to snake as driest; an 514.17.7 .
there ought to have been for such i pit .7. e 6,
law ,erf•diis land, every process of the.law, must it '
rised hy a lawful power. No man or hotly of 111* 11 a
right, under the pretext of a lawful power, to u it ra-
hence that is unnecessary, or to raise a des. , Se
weapon on the arrest even of - a person accused' • the
highest offence which the law recognizes. It• fiLonly
when all the other modes of executing the peep's- ef
the law have failed, and when resistance has bees tac-
tually made, that such an enforcement can be legol.
Here there was the fullest power to execute any proms.
of law,if such ',teethe object. No resistance w s made
or iatended; but yet the execution was attended death
to many, and 'sounding and maiming to thous IL tilt
the Manclieetir Yeomanry having rode up to . 'st-
ings, and keying taken Bust and others away prisoners.
did they rest satitdell? ' Having fillffiled their o*ct, did
they desiit from eh:di:Pee?: No such thing. Tley rode
after the diimersing people, whii were flying in /terry di-
rection by tie Quakers' Meeting, and other plates, mid
who Mete ifetaaily prevented from escaping by the two
great outlets from Petersfield, whibli were shot up by two
regiments of the line. The ronititade naturally hurried
to escape by these outlets, from the swords of the cavalry,
dial escape was denied. One would have thought that
frailog ted the parties—having next dispersed the
Meeting, the Yeomanry would have meddled no-owe—
tbs. they would have desisted'from the pursuit Of on en- i
Mak end Brink multitude; that they ifonifi have.
*lra to iffaxfort:s house, from whence• tifey ad-
ed. DM they do so?" No. They continued the
pp-aariyit of the assembled multitude, amidst the shrieks of
libriffending *omen and helpless children (for at thehneet-
de there were numbers of this deseription),throngh the
Mt one, passages through which they were endeavonr-
, to escape. Vie Quakers' meeting-ground wee one
1 seerre of these satiguintrif outrages. Here it was
the plaintiff, a hatter at Middleton, sustaitied,that
iv iy, for which he nowseelts reparation. ' That iajnry
inflicted by the defendant, named Oliver, with a
4. In consequence of that wound, the plaintiff has
• rtrelered- incapable of attending to that Vastness,
he bich he has to depend fur support; inde f, am
t
rth
to understand that even now he is but hien),
erred. It will be proved to you in evidence, st at
A, ' lite& the alarmed multitude endearpored to hide
i 1
$l4 'selves under logs of wood and trees, some scaled
Ilwalls in order to avoid the fan of the military. A
iikpiher of persons got into Mosely-street, bat through
idsatever street time people flew, they were rode AO by
do cavalry. What could be the motive? Viet the
pelliation of these outrageous excesses? Why wire they
istir satisfied' with the capture of the parties on the Bust-
'fats ? Why were they not satisfied with Hat dispersion
'of the meeting? If the object was to disperse the meet-
jag, why were the outlets of retreat shut hp? IVlty
were the people rode after, in every street through which
they. were escaping? If neither the arrest nor ilis.
persion satisfied them, for what other purpose was this
qapageous assault committed? Was it resolved on that
day to tell the people of England that they must never
"via assemble to discuss the question of Parliamentary
I Worm; that they most never again Petition the Legis-
'l4lnre ; that they must never again express the opinions i
ili
'which they entertained relative to the griev ces under
which they suffered ? Ido not pretest,' to sa ; that the
people who assembled at Manchester fin .1 g. 16, met
there for the purpose of deliberation. 'fit met there
'adecide on that which they bad before deli and upon.
They met there to make 'a public express* of those
rievances under which they so severely stiffrred, and to
declare those i emedies which they considered necessary.
Haying deseribed the progress and result of these pro-
ceedings, it will now be necessary for Mr to State some
little respect lug the witness's, by whose testimony Isbell
be enabled to support the plaintiff's case. In the first
1 piece 1 shall skew that the object, the phalli 'sndenied
object of that Meeting was to Petition for a radiomen,-
ary Reform. That and that alone was the .object. It

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.a topped 4 this
.t and respectability
-Astons, if he had nay.
~,Mies; a pesos who had
.event them, sad who, 1 essay
,o 1 upinion of the parties who cow
~. This tiontleman happened, by
or at Mr. Bezton's hose we the day
.g. Ile stayed a few missies in the room
..seistratm, he then went up to an apartment
Aory higher than that in which the Magistrates
Thence he was enabled to discern terry. thing
,O :ook place. With a mind onclouded by prejudice;
with no concern either for the iseue or the prerentioe of
that Meeting; with no feeling% either of feat or ore:pot-
ation ; this winos.'" of it nq entioneil and enquestiotsablei se
tegri ty observed every occurrence as it took place. anti he
will describe to you that which I have already stated. He
will tell you that when the Cavalry advanced to the
hustings. no oppositionmade to their approach
that there were neither stones throwo nor bledgeose
raised. These facts, I shall also, by witnesses take"'
from other quarters of the field, some who attended the
Meeting through Cariosity, others who were in the houses
on each silt. and who having no tonnectioa either with
the calling or objects of the Meeting, will give you the
reasons why they all were enabled so minutely oil ac-
curately to observe what they have to describe. It is
now 18±2, and this trees-act:en took place in 1819. It is
natural to ask why such a length of time has been al-
lowed to elapse between the commission et' this outrage.
and the present action for rempesisation ? It is to be
recollected, as 1 before observed, that this was maiden
ed a case of criminal rather than of civil justice. That
consideration, coupled with other eircumejaares. pre-
vented the plaintiff. Ile is a hatter, residing at Middle-
ton. To a man in his cireueolances it reclaim:lw some
time to get together the means of seeking obese. He
might, it was true, roe in forma puupwrie, bat then.he
must incur the expense of bringing his witnesses toge-
ther. That has been in this case another cause for de-
lay, although this action was brought so early as late.
her last. I had omitted to state, that among those wheel
I shall produce as wherries, there are individuals who,
from their immediate employment, are the most opals.*
of telliagyou what actually 4liil take place. I mean Res
porters who attend for the public Journals—individanin
experienced as to the character of all such Assemblisal
to whom it is of importance not to omit • single lot i
who are attentive to every object as it roots itself, in
order to impart a correct account. Having gives you
this outline of my case, I commit my client with eoefi-
dence to your protection. He is a poor man, but he
seeks justice;—with the rovrerful he has to contend :
it is by the rich he has been assailed: but it Is in a Bri-
tish Jury he reposer that eontidenve that they will not I
allow a violation, even in his person, of those principles
of justice, which have long been, and will, I hope, hog
continue to be, the boast of the British Constitution. I
well know, that in all ordinary cases the pare &shad—
s:ration of British justice has never been sullied. But
unhappily there are also cases in which prejndiesse
against persons of the condition of the plaintiff have
operated to Isis diode tntage. Ido anticipate from you
a far different feeling;-1 know that you will simply at-
tend to the evidence, divesting yourselves of every ins-
presslott that Isar prerionsly reached you as to this trans-
n i—justire requires this of you, and your sense of
that obligation. expressed io your verdict, will make the
laws of this country to be considered as they were once
wont to he considered—the desire and envy of surrotiod-
-11 * . Otiose called 'vas Alexander Anderson.
:.
tot by Mr. Evars.-1 am aw • at Man-
chester, end n:LS part et the time at the Manchester
Meeting on the ltith of Ailment. 1819 ; I was one- of
those witty signed my flame to the requisition. • • .
Mr. EVANS—What was your object in calling the
Meeting? s.
Mr. Serjeant kreI.L3CIE —The requisition will tell that.
The Wiles's' resineted-I.attendeil between elerenand
twelve o'clock on that day, where I saw old nod young.
men, wonwo; and children ; 1 stopped till Mr. Hunt
passed sue by in sante sort of carriage, to the. hustings ;
I left it soon after. before the Meeting was dispersed, be-
cause I i'elt very poorly. and went home to my dinner
I had no object in attending beyond that stated in the
requisition. ..
Crass-examined by Mr. Serjeaut Hothoce..-1 was at
many other meetings. but never out of Manchester to
one; 1 can't say what was Jane; 1 heard speaking. and
no more ; I was not at the meeting of the ninth of Au-,
gnat, because it was said to be illegal; that was my rea-
son for not going. There were many persons with Mr.
Hunt, hut I did not know the gentlesneu's names ; I.
cannot say that I saw file. Johnsoo, of Smedley Cottage;
there were more than one of two woolen in the carriage.
I but I cannot say if they held bangers: 1 do not Opow
Catlike; I saw some few hitching in heandinl-ottilnrs
going down the street where I lived, and *trend snug
gulag about ; the people did not march like soldienelor
snotty of them were very ragged, amid had nothing in
their hands; 1 sever saw Isliers march without fire-
locks, that is the difference between the one and the other.
Some odd ones had a small rod or switch in their bands,
I would not wish to swear that either more or lass
than four thousand persoorepassed the street in which I
resided; but 1 never saw so great a number before.
They had music, something they blower'; not begpipes,
but what they sound era horning, perhaps trumpets.
I heard so drums. as 1 recollect. I can't say what num-
ber of banners I saw, but there might be three or four ;
I read souse of the inscriptions, but it is a great while
back; e.. Equal Representation or Death" might have,
been on one of them, as! have heard, but I do not re-
coilect batiste Pod it motel!; I sa.v a black flag ; 1 saw
another also, bearing '. het us die like men. and not be
sold like slaves." 1 have seen the caps of liberty, but I
can't tell the number, nor do I recollect if there were
one on the' black flag ; 1 never was at, or saw a drilling
in say life ; I saw souse of the people halt. I caunot say
whether iey did so by word of command, or by the
10U11+1 of the bugle; 1 was bore in Ireland, and have re-
sided at Manchester tur '..'.3 years.
Win. 3lackilney examined by Mr. EVANS—I sin a
weaver, residing 10 Silk-street, 'Manchester, No. 62. 1
was at the meeting of the 16th of August. I put my
name to the requisition, but who called the meeting 1
1 don't know; I had no other object in signing it than
that expressed by its words; I went there between ten
and eleven o'clock, and stopped till the cavalry charged,
when I made the best of my way home; I was within
some yards of the hustings, near the head of the line of
constables close by; the line reached along the wall over
the brow or bill uear the hustings; I think they were
close up to the palings as far as 1 could see at one end ;
L I think Mr. Buxton's house lies on the hill—so the peu-
'pie told me: the meeting cousistett of old and young,
men, women, and children ; some of the countrymen had
bits of rods, seine crooked and some straight, they were .
between sticks and rods; 1 saw none armed wish bled-
grout of any size, and no disturbance till the rush of the
cavalry cause among the people ; the cavalry cause round
the corner of the wall near Cooper's cottage, Peter-
street, to the end of the line of constables; the cavalry
formed in front of the wall, one end of them next the
lineot constables; theystaid there a very sheet time, and
made a second move down time field • they formed three
deep.. It gentleniun in coloured clothes, whom I slisf
ribt Mewl seemed to read something, sod I took hiln.for

elsedaosimaidleelf.lll4 bieelaitt Vilna lho sanely! ems
thechese bed, of the esestatig Law many fell. wises
-It IP fettle Abe bones or the tavaley_ I reshot say; I did
met sea the lease attack markt Milo Yeomaawy ea Step
advaaced.bertinir Mae cheers; the doers tieb place s
the -cavalry advaimed ; I saw se atoms !blotto is thy
tight, owl I stood on a height where I (veld ae‘if ate
were thrown ; I could point oat the spot 1 it West be
ten ee tweire yards from the Inman's; I ate posidee
(me *track at the Yentwasry ill we seeing, or as Wog e
I thirst steed where I was ;I had tar apprebeiesies fleey
world cat the people till one of the cesstables cried fell
" hold fast number 'One." and se the lain. time began to
Lay es with their ttuncheons or stars I ran away whet
the Yeomanry canoe within thirty pants of the huiaisg,
I cannot say exactly, for I was in a bustle to get offi
then made 'sty swipe Ilium and saw no More.
Crowexantined be Serjeant soi as Irish:
vaan..sed hare livedin this cannery far thirty wears I
hare attended stetting* like others; l'aigsed the
shims for a pnblic meeting, which wps addressed to Hi(
Megistrates fur that purpose ; I did IV_ attend snf
meeting. on the this of August, as i• waresald dot to he
b•gal ; I saw the people come en the 'airflow!, they took
ground very tegularly, and as etch corp. took he
station. the banners were marched up to the cart at
hustings and planted there; 94111110 had drums and fikk
and others only tiles; !Isere might be bugles, bet I deal
know; they Walked as a sick clash or a satiety. hot sot
a$ regulars; by sick clubs, I mean bodies pf wen with.
.oat dreiock ; I have never been a regular soldier, thotlet
It have served in a volunteer corps; between we and goy
sanestabies there might hare been y e-•t., occasionally I
senegeile near them ; I cannot say iftheconrahlos Pm.
mmasied the hosting, or not: there-was• nobody with
sp*that I knew ; country people is general have rode,
110111 Me at.liie Mattis% bad the same—sorb as a man
tads to his hand when walking; I saw no stirts that
dlsresilil call bludgeons, for l call Widgeons ;nlr whit
sessid knock a wan down—they are Siiiiiciall. in Ire,
lead e the gentleman in coloured clothes Was not briar.
the cavalry:
It. examined by Mr. 111.4mm:exit —I have seen many
processions of slat clubs awl societies, end these peoole,
in respect of order and step. resembled thew. The
sticks l saw could pot cope with a sword. I raw tit(
roil behind we (the Sheriff's wand), some were thicket
and roam rather smaller.
Other witnesses were examined for the palpate a
showing the thotteamsur of the weetinz. They were of
the same etas. of persons as the preceding wittwarst
had attended the Manchester meeting from the net2lr
hearing towns; and described what occurred nearly in
down* tertut.
It is expected that some of the reporters will be eel.
mimed to-morrow ; and that the 01111611's edit will close
lee Saturday.

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KINGSTON ASSJZFA .4Part, 4. • •
—a.—
nem'
amen C. THE SOUTH LONDON .waten-wons:4 c•col:pinr,
This was an action on the ease to ree.,:er a comm.
satiun Tor an Injury stistateed- by the ptaiiitiff io
rnasa
germ* of the negligence of the defendants. The de,
claration stated, that the plaintiff was the striver of the
Godalcoing stage coach, mamas driving the same in the
public highway, in the parish of St. 31arv, Laushetio, and •
that the defendants, by their servants,lul escaratel
a part of such highway for the purpose of tateouotke
of the Company, and that it was the defendants duty to
itnard such excavations, so that the public might sited*
travel along the said road with their carriages; but that
the drt admits, neglecting their duty, so imp
6Ued op such excavations, that the road became ito=.
and dangeroui, and to consequence, on the 15th of hoe,
Risk the wheels of the coach which the plaintiff drove
sank into each excavatiolis,*attatborehrtnuplaiqtifTwas
thrown Trim the goachaud had one of-bisAbiltto broken. • -
/Übe damages. wets Laid at lopot. The defendants
pleaded Nut Ouilty.
The plaintiff:a case was cat:ducted-by Mr. Mtattsti,
Mr. ennwboo, and Mr. Cairn; and the defeadaate
by 31r. punter, lie. NoLAN. and Mr. ABRAHAM.
This was the second trial of the same cause of action.
At dieing* Assizes the plaintiff was nonsuited, is come-
quenee offs mistake in the parish in which the osiafortame
happened. bat ha had been let into a second trial on pays
' meat of costs.
The cause of the accident was clearly proved to bate
arisen from the carelessness of the defendants serum
in not taking precaution to ell up with hard material*
the excavation which had been Made, wbereby.the miss
fortune happened.
Mr. GcONET addressed the Jury in mitigation of da
maces.
Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 500 f.
CROWN Bibs.
J. Dorey was istlicted for the wilful murder of Jemet
Harris, ow the Sal of Sept. last, by driving over him
' with a stage coach.—Mr. LAW, who was fur the prese-
cutionodsandoned the charge of murder, and cooline4
his case to that of manslaughter.
it appeared in evidence, that the prisoner was the Jri.
vet of the Parts Min coach, sod On the Sth of Septew
herlasf, in the eveniag, was driving through Lombard'
Vreet, at the rate of about eight miles an hour. Wise -
the decased WRA knocked down by the horses, and bleb ,
leis legsgot ander the wheels of the c ariage and were
'fractured. ile was taken to Hue's Hospital, where he
died in a few days afterwards of a mortification. Mr,
'tarot, WOOD left it to the Jury to say, whetter the
win-
", fortune hash occurred from mere accident, or gross mis-
conduct on the part of the prisoner and the Jury fount •
the prisoner Not Catty.
Wm. Sit! »on was indicted for feloniously tilling John
toe, on the titli of Feb., by driving a cart against the
'ladder, on which the deceased was standing, in the ps.
rich ot Christchurch. The Jnry found the prisoner tiniltv.
and he was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment in the
House of Correction.
newels Bircla alias Mri, was indicted fur stabbing
Hannah Roberts, at..Parehitin, on the 9:11 of Sent. las!,
with intent to murder, or do her somel harm
ilia
The deed was done in consequence of a .31 and
prisoner said in his defence, that he did not ken:
what be was about, and expressed gr•at contrition tur
What had happened. The Jury, un.ler the leaved
Judges directions, found the prisoner tini!te, but moan'
wended Lim to merry, which recommendation was
conded by the Rro;ecutrix.
Thirteen capital convict, rev' ive I sentence of Pot% to.
day.—The further business of the Assizes o a.ijoarniti
until Saturday morning.

SVOCKISO 011SSNT.—Wednes lay afterrPon, a
carpenter employed at the Kines Th7itre, while er
deavouring to secure a trapdoor, slipped the hold he
had of the beam, and fell through the ttaze and th-
zarine floor, a distutee of 37 fret, an unto:meat/I::
falling on hi% head, fractured his s:•ull in • dr.aditt!
manner. Le was instantly taken up h several of the
performers, and prompt meilieal assistance watanats reite
;tiered hint, bat without any avail, as the ,unfor
man died coos

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