The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-03-23 00:00:00

" TA* Cause for which HAMPDEN fell in the Field, and SYDNEY died on the Scaffold!"

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miDni.gsEK ELECTION.
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11% order of the enmesittee.
CII4ELES SHAW LEFEVRE. Jun. Chairman.
isegthe-romn. Freentanuns'-seven. Nlarch
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my. Ws"-trea I. end solicited for their support. The
„mime :wee to plead the shortness of the time. rind the
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yam, Cum clurlactlyiiii be providad- .• . •
.i;oseese..o.oo esenereshse of teetiohlera hp the Interest
'4r. Whltbroad are stationed at the following places :
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sitter T.i..n. Poplar.
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Mr. Winch's--Stinbury, Hammersmith, Chiswick, Turn-
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Mr. Taptia. Twickenham.
Mr. knight's--High-strvot. Kensington: Knightsbridge,
teusai-greet. Kilburn, AVnlhnua-green, Brumptun.
td at the Freemasou's Tavern, Queen-street. Lincoln's-
orioles.

het FREEHOLDERS of the COUNTY of RI:V.IND.
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as. The cireustanees seder which you have teen pleased
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consequent prosperity of the mates.
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TRIAL OF MR. HUNT,

AND OTFIERS.

FIFTH D.Y.-YORK, TUESDAY EVENING.

The ourt assembled at ten o'clock. The crowd was
fully a. great as on any former dad•. At a quarter past
ten

Mr. Ht•NT commenced his address to the Jury. PS
first roirred into a brief description of the difficulttes
under which lie laboured. When he cattle to York he
hail been labouring under indisposition arising from a
cold, wisich hail been increased by sitting in that Court,
exposed to the air coming from one or two doors. (In
the preceding night, when he solicited an additional
hoer to prepare for his defence, he hail hoped that lie
slioulit he able to go through the whole of the evidence,
hut this hail not liven in his power. Prom increasing in-
disposition lie had been obliged to put himself under the
care of au eminent medical man, who had told him that
rest was absolutely necessary. If then, in referring to
the evidence, some little inaccuracy should occur, he
hoped that it would not he suffered to make an improper
iwprrssiou on the minds of the Jury. The case was a
very different one from that which they hail supposed
they would he called upon to try. They might have tin-
, derstmel that they hail hail a monster in human nature
to try, lint the evidence must have satisfied them that
they had a vety different minty to perform. Ile com-
mented on the inconsistency of Mr. Scarlett, in express-
ing satisfaction at the case being referred to a Yorkshire
Jury, trhich in the first instance the Counsel for the
frown had laboured with all their 'nicht to oppose. The
conduct of those connected with certain London Papers
be nest censured, the writers for which, while these pro
ceediugs were going on, had accused him of a design to
subvert the Throne, aud overthrow the sacred altar of
Religion, with which ecru the indictment had not
charged him. Whore was the proof of this? Tb
was wt proof. It lied bean a plaid lo lilte* the mos.
ofrarliTe into Me case against im, hut without suety's.
What he had professed be would avow before God sOd
man. Ile was a Reformer, but no leveller—he was the
friend of lovely liberty, but he was not the friend of ll-
centionsness, which differed as much from true liberty
as truth did from the black and premeditated falsehoods
which lie would prove to have been uttered from the wit-
ness's box. Th. Learned Counsel, in his speech, bad
charged him with what be bad not dared to prove.

The JUDGE objected to this languare.
Mr. HI:NT thought be was justified in what he hail
said. Where was the bloody-dagger, where the flags,
the banners, sticks, the bludgeons, the bricks, and the
stones, which had been said to have been used One
witness had said that they were in York. Why then
were they not produced against him ? He still contend-
ed, that the Counsel knew that that could not be proved
which had been asserted. He commented on the evi-
dence Of Mr. Holton, and remarked, that it was wholly
unsnstained by other testimony. If the question to be
tried turned wholly on the moral guilt or moral reed-
tude of his own character, he declared to God that be
would let the case go to the Jury on the evidence
brought forward by his accusers, with the certainty of
receiving an honourable acquittal. But after the mis-
representations which had gone abroad, he felt it to be
his duty to rebut them by calling evidence. He was
proceeding' to eulogise the conduct and character of the
.lodge, but desisted on receiving a hint from the Bench,
that the course he was pursuing was unpleasant to hint
(Mr. Justice Bayley). He then proceeded to take a re-
view of the evidence. He described Chadwick, who had
heen almost every where, to be " a witness of all-work."
What his conduct had been at Stockport, or at Mae-
chester, he would prose by evidence. He happened to
have had a servant with him, a simple lad, who had
been in his service for seven years, and who had accom-
panied him to every meeting that he (Hunt) had at-
tended 'luring that period. This servant he would place
in the boy, and the Counsel for the Crown, if he
pleased to descend so low (and he knew that he would
descend to any thing to carry his point), might enter
his stable if he pleased—nay,. he might penetrate even
into the inmost recesses of his bed-chamber. This youth
would prove what his conduct had been on every pnb-
lie occasion, and show that if ever there had heen a
disposition to tumult, he had seat it, by calling on the peo-
ple to cheer and conduct themselves peaceably and with
good humour. H. then showed that the meeting at
Manchester, which had so frequently been called Mr.
Hunt's meeting, had been called not by him, but by
1700 resident inhabitants of Manchester. Vain and
ambitious lie might be called. Brant that be was am-
bitious—he would confess that he was so. But he was
not ambitions of doing evil—no, he was only ambitious
of doing that which his heart told him would be doing
good. He had never endeavoured to inflame the lower
orders to commit acts of outrage; he had never taught
them to look for any thing but what they might gain
as the reward of honest industry. The numerous re-
porters, with the exception of one (Mr. Roger Ent-
wistle), had not deposed to his using any very inflam-
matory language. Mr. Orton had spoken of his using
the words, " put them down, and keep them ilown;" had
; said this called forth the remark—" why that is killing
them :" but asked, if he understood him (Mr. H.) to
have intended any thing of the kind ; his answer was,
" Certainly not." Mr. R. Entwistle bad said these
woods had been applied to the military. He (Mr. H.)
would prove that at that time the military was not in his
• sight : and that the words were spoken with reference to
' some idle boys or drunken fellows who were making a
noise behind the hustings. He then proceeded to show
from the evidence, that no outrage bad been committed
on the morning of the 10th. From Mr. Welker
, deuce been übtaitsed which threw a new light on
the subject. He showed that a meeting to form a de-

position to enable. the Magistrates to disperse the meet-
ing without reading the Riot Act, had taken place on
the Sunday; but they could not agree about it then,
and a new meeting was called on the following morning,
at which the famous affidavit was determined on, and
the parties approving of it went different ways to
see what was going on. But for this evidence it might,
have been supposed that that which had actually taken'
place had caused the dispersion of the meeting.—
But why, he asked, had they not proved the read-,
ing of the Riot Act ? Ile had witnesses from the
same house in which the Magistrates had been, to prove
that it was never read. If it were read, why was it not
proved ? Why did not 3lr. Ethelston, who sent word ta
the Oldham Inquest (not daring to go himself), that
it hail been read—why did lie not prove the readiness
the present occasion? Ile (Mr. II.) had not put the
question to him. That would not do for him, for he
knew that Mr. Ethelston would have said " yes," hang;
but indirectly he had got him to swear that it was not,
ler he had made him admit that the crowd had received
ito warning of that which the Magistrates intended to
do. This was swearing that it had not been read ; fur
what was the Riot Act but a warning? Where were
Mr. Trafford, Mr. Norris, the Rev. Mr. Hay, and the
other Magistrates, who might have proved the reading,
if it had taken place? Mr. Hay was a hold man. Why
hail lie not been put in the witness box? He (Mr. Hunt)
hail too much experience to put a Magistraie in the box
for examination in chief, who lied received a living of
2,500/. per annum for what he did on that occasion: but
could he have had him there to cross-examine him, lie
would have given a Jew's eye fur him. It was his inten-
tion to put witnesses of high respectability in the box to
meet the evidence of Mr. Hultim. The question which
the Jury had now to try was, not whether or not he
(Mr. Hunt) was guilty, but whether or not the last
spark of liberty should be extinguished in England,—
and whether the Jury, their wives and children, in
'common with all others, should be left exposed to be
'assailed by a drunken infuriated soldiery, at the will of
any young hot-headed Magistrate, who might think it
proper to order the military to advance to disperse 0
popular assembly. He commented on various parts a
the evidence in which lie discovered contradictory all*.
gations. lie reminded them of the evidence of the
Mushroom Serjeant, who had represented Bamford as I
addressing the party at Middletou, and telling them that
there would be no disturbance till they came back. h
would be proved that no such words were used, and that
the sole object or ford's address was to preserve peace
and good order. The boronglireeves had called a meeting
In lOU, to consider how far they should congratulate
the Prince Regent on the prosperous state of the country,
when nine-tenths of the population of those parts were in
treme distress. Then it was legal to call a rneeting,to
which those who inhabited the neighbouring townships
were invited. No objection was then started to the lega-
lity of such a meeting. He took occasion to advert to
what had been said of him. He had been describedlas as
illiterate vulgar ragatindfiu, without means. What was
the fact? Ile was a Lord of the Manor of Glastonbury,
io Soosereetshire, where his.property bait bocce,,
*haps, one of the greatest farmers in England ; his
property had descended to him by inheritance ; on that
account he was less proud of it than if he had acquired
it by his own exertions ; but such was the fact. He had
ever lived as a gentleman, and in every village where be
had resided he had been delighted to associate with the
Clergyman. lie never read any part of the works of
Thomas Paine, till he attended in the Court of King's
Bench on the occasion of Carlile's trial. In conse-
quence of this, be hail been described as the ass°•
elate of Cariile. Of that person's opinions, as he
was now suffering the punishment of the law, he would
nut say what lie might otherwise be disposed to ex•
press. lie must, however, be allowed to assert, that
he had never participated iu them. The Learned
Counsel knew that his indictment of Hr. Studded stood
for trial the next to the case of Carlile. Had he been
absent but for a few minutes the Learned Counsel knew
that if Carlile's trial hail gone off, in his (Mr. Hunt's)
absence, a verdict of acquittal might have been entered
for the defendant in the other case to which he had al-
luded. This was the cause of his (Hunt's) being in the
Court ots• the occasion of Carlile's trial. On such
grounds It *as too lunch to impute blasphemy to him
(Mr. Hunt) as well as sedition. Adverting to the allu-
sion of Mr. Scarlett to Hogarth's representation of a
mob, demanding that eleven days, added to the calendar
when the change of style took place, should be given
back, he remarked, it would have been more to the pur-
pose had he spoken of the poor people confined at Man-
chester on a groundless charge; he might with reason
have supposed them to cry out, " dive us back our
eleven days of sweet liberty!" He remarked on the
absence of the Attorney-General on this occasion. It
was thought that his presence was unnecessary, and that
without him they could dispose of a poor country 'squire.
Had the Attorney-General been here, he would have put
the book into his hand, and proved from his own mouth
that the meetings at Smithfield and Manchester (fur lie
was consulted on them) were legal.

The Juno* said. that had the AttorneyMeneral been
present he might hare said what he thought proper on
that subject, but lie (Mr. Hunt) must hare taken the
law from him (the Jn ge.)
Mr. HUNT replied, he should have made the experi-
ment, though his Lordship might have stopped him.
lie then noticed what had occurred at White-moss, and
contended, that though the Learned Counsel had ea-
pected to prove him (Mr. Hunt) deeply and criminally
connected with thoar transactions, this had not been
done. It would be proved by witnesses for the defence,
that Bamford (whose wife, child, and cousin, had gone
to Manchester in the terrible military array), was at
home when the proceedings took place at White-moss,
on which so much stress had been laid. This had been
proved by a female relation, who had seen hies preparing.
for bed on the preceding nicht, and could speak to the
time of his rising on the following morning. For the,
" witness of all-work," who had spoken of the leadecof
the Middleton division as beiac concerned in the air
at White-moss,—that witness, it could be skews, wts
unworthy of belief; be had, within the last month,
elared to his fellow-shopmen that " he would swear
against any one if he could get paid for it." This was
known, and persons had been sent for to prove the fact.
The evidence of Murray, which would be opposed by
other evidence, did not prove that he bad base Olt of
what was imputed to him. The Jury would
that when the question was closely put to that witness,
be had said he would not positively swear that he never
declared be would rather " be rowed to his QWII home
in the blood of the Reformers than walk to it on the
pavement." He at first denied this, but did sot choose
to swear that he bad not used the wards in (anties ;
because he recollected that those were in atteedasee
who could contradict him. That witness then deseribed
him to have proceeded to the Star, where the Magis-