The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-10-22 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER SESSIONS.

• RIOTING AT HONEY AND FRANCIS.B FUNERAL.
On Saturday at four o'clock, the regular business
of the Sessions having been brought to a close,
Mr. WALFORD addressed the Chairman, and said,
tat he had yesterday applied to the Court to have the
recognizances of two men, named John Fly and WU-
liatn Uriffiths, estreated, they not having appeared, as
tliey were bound to do by their recugnizances entered
into on the 28th of August last, to answer a charge
of riot at Knightsbridge on the 26th of that month,
cl.d for which a bill of indictment had been foumd

against them. He now understood that one of the
parties was forthcoming, and he should therefore con-
tout himself with applying to have the recognizances
of the other (John Fly) estreated. The prosecutor%
Kere ready to. go to trial on the iudictu►eut against

Griffiths,. who was now in Court.
Wm. Griffilhe was then put to the bar, and pleaded
Nzit Guilty to the indictuteut, for riotously assembling
at Knightsbridge on the 26th August last.
IVALVORD, in stating the case against him, en-
treated the Jury to discharge from their minds alto-
&ether the previous accounts which they hail heard of
!rtain tumultuous transactions which hail occurred at
il.:iightsbridge during the funeral of two men named
Francis and Honey, who had been killed on the der
ci the late Queen's funeral. He said it was tlwir i:uty
eloue to collect the facts from the evidence which
would be laid before them, and not in any degree to t:tifirr
11:eir minds to receive any bias from previous state-
t.ents. A considerable assemblage of the lower tidbit s
tf the people ha l mct ou the evening of the 26th, of
faueral in question, at Knightsbridge, in front of
C.:e barracks of the regiment of Life Guirds, against
whom a good deal of irritation was said at that time
to have been excited in the minds of the populace.

Tile rioters kept booting and insulting the soldiers
f:ittu without, and also throwing stones in a iiolent
daugerous manner over the barrack walls. At
length the constables, who were stationed within the
barracks, were directed, after the Riot Act had been
read, to go forth among the mob, and spew them that
warning had been given, by placards and whatever
other means they could, to induce theta to desist anti
retire home ; while so doing, the prisotter was °bites ved
to be particularly active ; he was am; and heard boot-
itg, and the constables would prove, that while they
mere endeavouring to clear the road, be. called out to
ihe people u siind, you coward', stand;" for so do-
ing they took him into custody, and be ' was now to
stand his trial for his part in the riot of that day.—
The Learned Counsel then laid down the law of the
C3te as applicable to riots, and pointed out that any
elan waiting on the spot, and particularly it' he be
exciting rioters to prolong tumult, after due no-
' Cce of the Riot Act, had incnrret the penalties of
the lew. lie would mast call his witnesses.—The first
'was 'Geo. Ed. Brane.—He slid he was a constable
stationed on the day in question at the barracks,
Kasightsbridge. Conant, the Magistrate, was
thew. 'A large mob were outside, hooting very ranch,
and throwing stones over the barrack gates. The
Magistrate then read the Riot Act, and witness gave
xotice, by holding up a placard to the mob. They
still continued throwing stones, and witness and other
Roust:titles were ordered out to disperse. them. He said
. that if they did not go away, the military would
• tatrired out. Witness believed be might have struck
the prisoner, for be did strike or push with his.statf
those who kept on the spot. Witness heat.: the pri-
soner. exclaim, " stand, you cowards, stand.;" and he
believed the Words were addressed to the mob, though
the Man said afterwards he meant them for the sol-

Biers or the.ooostables, to keep them at their duty.—
He refused to go home whey required, and said he
Eyed at his mother's, just ou tbaL.spot. lle ana.ie uu
- rttsistance whatever to his captiews.
William Creagh, jewel:sr, said he was a sreial
constable stationed at the liatradis: He saw the peo:.
pie riotous and hooting.: the, li
pkisoner was ontisiq..
Witness ordered hini.to op; he said he wittla
be was tear his owu howl: ostd he calledols *O4

cowards, stand." He went on very quietly.. wbeo
taken, nor did he make any resistance. He uid he
lived close by at his mother's, and did not mean the
expressions be usedforthe mob.

Mr. Wa&roan said that that was his case.
Mr. Batas said, that be was Counsel for the pri-
soner; bet that really he saw nothing in the case to
render it necessary for him to address the Jury. There
was no proof of the prisoner being riotous : be had
denied at the time the application to the mob of the
expressions be had used ; be made no resistance; and
was actually carried away a prisoner because he would
not quit his mother's door, where be lived.
The Jury here interrupted Mr. Barry, and said they
were quite satisfied.
A verdict of Not Guilty was immediately recorded,
and the prisoner was discharged.
Mislay came on to be braid an appeal of... Messrs,
Combe'and Delafield, against a conviction under Mr.
M. A. Taylor's Act, on the information of the Con-
tractors•for Dust in St. Marlin's Parish, for removing
the ashes made in one part of their brewery, which is
situated in that parish, to their cooperage, which is in
the parish of St. George's, Bloomsbury. Mr. Alley
was heard in support of the conviction, and Mr. Car-
wood and Mr. Adolphus for the appellants. The Court
being of opinion that it could not be the intention of
the Legislature to prevent individuals from nsing their
own ashes, for any purpose they choose, on their own
premises, ordered the conviction to be clashed.
At these Sessions Mr. E. Allen, of Carlisle-s'rect,
Sobo-square, succeeded the late Mr. Stable 4s Deputy
Clerk of the Peace, upon the appointment of Thomas
Wright Vaughan, Esq., with the general apprt;bation
of the Magistrates.