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aow in court , but not by the name of AntilL I don't I leoolleet asking him if he had seen the NoBmBar Sub , and I will not swear I did net say to him , tbat O'Connor was a—— coward , for he recommended peaceable measures and that the National Assembly should be postponed . I swear I never said to him . that he ought to get arms , and that , if all werkiag men were prepared as I was , the ? trould soon upset the — government ; or that I offered ttgivehim gunpowder , and that he refused to have it , saying that he was a peaceable man . This msn did , upon one occasion , intrude himself into the meeting of the secret committee at Cart-« rig fcV « , and was expelled . I swear I did not draw the plan now prcdueeAbut I did apon one occasion draw another plan , which was afterwards torn up . I showed my plan to two or three people at Cartmight's , in order to ascertain what the views of the
Others were npon the subject of a proposed assassination of the poiice in the night aud a sham demonstration at Bonner / s-fields . I once had a pairof pistols , and I exchanged them for another pistol . I foaow a man now in court , but do not know his same . I never offered to sell him the pistols . I Won't swear I did not offer to sell them to him for gix shillings , but lam sure I did not do so on the 13 th of Au / nst . I swear I did not say tbat if he would buy the pistols , I would give him half a pound of gospovder into the bargain . 1 don ' t know a workjngjnia named Henry Green , at least by name . I don ' t think I ever eaid that a man named Douaine was a government spy . I don ' t believe I ever Qsed suchwerds . I don ' t believe I ever need such word = as that Douaine was a milk-and-water moral force , and ought to be kicked out . I won't swear I did not make use of such an expression .
Baron Piatt . —Why won't you swear you never Used such words ? Witnea—Why , my lord , because men may be put into this box to swear that I did say it , and my memory may have deceived me . There are strange characters that go to Cartwright ' s , who would astonish any moral man . Mr Ballantine . —Yea are a moral man , are yoa not ? Witness . —I am . Fknow a man named Westmoreland , but sot by name . The person brought into court is that man . I once sketched a plan in his presence . I mean the one I formerly referred to . It was . not tha same plan as that now produced . The plan I sketched was s circle , with dots in it to represent men ; not particularly Chartists or police
Ben , but merely people in a circle . My memory is bo bad that I cannot give any explanation of the plan I drew out . Mr Ballantine . —Yon do yourself injustice ; yonr memory is really very good when yon choose . Witness . —I know a person named Collins . He is very noisy desperate character in the locality . He does not want any urging on . He is ready enough . I don't remember telling him that there was going to be a grand meeting , and that none would be admitted but those prepared to fight for their rights . I don't recollect saying so . I may have said such a thing and forgotten it . I do not remember that he told me in reply that he did not know what I meant . I never told him tbat I had a very
handtome dagger which I would give him to keep against the time he required it . I am snrelnever told him that the time wonld come soon when we should overthrow the—— government . I remember seeing him at CartwrigbVi on the 16 th of August , but I did not tell him not to be in a hurry to go away that sight . I know that on that night every delegate Was ts assemble his men at Cartwrighfa house , and that they were to march thence to Clerken-Tell- I know the man now shown to me . I did cot know his name was Medlock . I don't recollect Baying to him on the 14 th of August that I would serveoat those moral / ores—— . I won't swear I did not say so . I may have said it and forgotten it . I now remember that on this night I was at
Cartwright's , and I was accused of being a spy on account of my not going by my right name of Powell . I denied tbat 1 was a spy , and accounted for using tha naae of Johnson , by saying that I did not wish my friends to know I had anything to do with the Chartists . I know a man named Bryant . On the 16 th of August , in the early part of the evening , 1 was standing outside Cartwrighf s with a crowd , bnt I don ' t recollect that he asked me what was the matter , and that I toH him I thought it was a botched job by these milk-and-water . I don't remember saying , on being pressed for an explanation , that there was intended to be a turn ont that night , and that a signal rocket was to be fired between nine and ten , and the people were to torn out . I don'trecollect
it , but I won't swear I did not . It is not likely tbat I said . ' These — milk-and-water chaps hare sold the job , and the delegates must have been nailed in Orange-street' I may have eaid all this and for-Sitten it . I remember on this night walking np hawell-street with the same sua . I showed him sixty-eight ball cartridges . This was between ten and eleven o ' clock at night . lam sure I did not tell him that I had got 200 fire balls to throw into people's houses . I think I did pull ont a pistol and also a tin box full of pereussion caps . I had a sword in my coat pocket , I showed him the handle . I wagat hare said , 'Top are I am prepared for then ; are yon ? ' I don'l believe I did say it . The earns Bin wanted to have thera from me . I had flute
things with me for my own safety , and to protect myself in case I should be attacked , as I suspected that I was found out . I showed the handle of ths sword to hira in pastime . I knew the men were befeajed at this time . I asked bim to go to the Orange Tree . He wonld not go to the Orange Tree . I gave him the orders of the previous night . I know Daniel Burn . I suppose he is a working man . I have heard he is something in the coach way . I did not show bim my pistols on the 10 th of ApriL 1 swear I did not do so before I went to tbe Kensington common meeting . I don't think 1 showed fuiit a pistol at any time . I swear that I never said to Born that I wished tha people wonld assassinate the police and fire the houses . I don't believe I eaid so te any one , but 1 won ' t swear that 1 did not
say so . By the Court—I might have eaid it my Lord , but I don't think I did . I was always rather & friend to the poMee , and tbat was well known . I won't be sure I did not make use of such an expression , but I don ' t think it was likely . By Mr Ballantine . —I don't believe I ever said to Bum that I hoped to see the police assassinated , and some good fires in London , and that at the same time I showed a pistol , and said that was the thing to do for them ; bnt I won't swear to sueh an occurrence sever taking place . I believe I did say to a man named Carter thatl wastedthardejrperateinen who wonld do any kind ef work . I said this in consequence of instructions I had received at the Orange Tree . On the Monday night , when I was suspected
and charged with being a spy , I referred to the order given at the Orange Tree . 1 might have said I was to get four men . I don't recollect Carter saying , 5 Then you won't have me . ' I o ^ say I showed him the plan I had made- I do not know Goodfellow ( who was pointed out to the witness ) . I never saw { he man in my life . I never said I was going to Australia , and wanted an outfit . I swear I never asked that man to so to the Orange Tree on the night of the 16 th of August . [ MrBalbntine here sanded a small iron instrument , with a spike in it , calculated to lame a horse if thrown on the road or pavement , and he asked the witness if he had ever seen such an one . and he admitted he had , and that he had made it ] There were meetings at Cart--Wright's on the 30 th of July and the 4 th of August . Brewster showed two articles of this description , but
twice as long , at one of these meetings , and I , suspecting inoh articles were made at Cartwright ' s . mads one or two ; Brewster told me they were for the purpose of crippling the cavalry . I asked him to show me the action of them at the meeting in Cartwright ' s on the 4 th of August . It is thrown on the ground , when it always turns the point upwards , the article being kuded with lead . I have a similar thing in my pocket . That produced was lent by me to a Mr Majne , who never returned it . Here is another made on a similar plan , expecting this , wonld be produced . These are the only two I made . I made them to ascertain that they were making those things at Cartwright ' s . I threw it down on tbe ground and the table . I expected that some wonld be produced at Caitwrighfa like this . Mr Ballantine . —Yon did it for a trap ?—I did it ( o detect tbe parties .
Baron Piatt—Did you do it for a trap , to discover the parties who were ttaking them?—I did eo , my Lord ; that is the solemn position lam placed in . ( A laugh . ) I did not ray , ' These are tbe things to throw among the troops of the bloody government . ' I do not believe I used the word bloody . ' I might have said they were good to throw among the troops . I said at the same time that I had a large quantity at home . Mr Ballantine . —Was that true or false ?—False . Mr Ballantine . —Ton seem proud of it ?—I wish is speak the troth and say what I have done . Mr Ballantine . —And that was another falsehood ? —It was .
Mr Bal ' antise . —Havo yon formed an idea of the cumber of falsehoods yoa have told in the course of these proceedings f—I dare say I have told several . I know Gurney . I weat to him in his cell . I believe I said to him that if he wonld confess it would be better for his wife and childien . Baron Piatt—Don't yon know ? Why do you say ? Ibdieve ? Why dontftyeu say 'Iknow *'—I be lieve I did use taoee words . I don ' t know whether a policeman was standing outside the cell . I did not say to the policeman on going out , * It is no go . ' I believe I aid to Gurney that he and his family would be made comfortable fortheir lives if he confessed . I had no authority for saying so .
Mr Ballantine —Did you tell him a falsehood , and endeavour to get him tosayiomething ? Did yon mean to betray him too ? -He was betrayed . I wasted bim to tell all about it . He would then have been telling the truth , and getting ont of a scrape . I was not requested to go in at all to see bim . He wis placed in a cell by himself , bat I don't know that this was done in order that I might have him to myself . I have been in England all my life except tee months , when I went about thirteen years ago
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with a friend to New Tort . I did not know my father had money in the Savings-bank . There was so charge against me with respect te that . I did not take my wife or family * I told only a few friends that I was going . I drew ont some money from the funds before I started . I swear it was only my own mosey that I drew ; it was in my own name . I used my own name to get it ont . I signed only my own name , 'ThomasPowell' . Re-examined ;—When I was at Cartwright's on the evening of the 16 th of August , I knew that the people had been apprehended at the Orange Tree ; it was pretty generally known at that time , and everybody was talking about it . Carter is a Chartist , and I I should say not a moral force Chartist .
The witness was under examination nearly eight hours . Jemima Heath , the wife of a coffee-shop keeper in Suffolk-street , Sonthwark . —Knew Lacey , who bad come with some other persons to her husband's house shortly before it was searched , by thauoAice ; They had four cups of coffee , and remained about half an hour . That was on a Tuesday . She did not give Laoey any pistols the following morning , nor had she pnt any pistols for him into a basket . There were three pistols in the house , which belonged to her sister-in-law , to whom she had taken them before
Lacey came with his party . There was one powderflask . She had said her sister-in-law would sell the pistols , but they were not sold . A great many people saw them . There were also three or four constables' staves in the house . These were for special constables , and had been painted by a young man who lodged in the house . Her sister-in-law had been a widow for two years . Her sister-in-law ' s husband used to go on board ship as a sailor , but for several years latterly had worked in the docks . He used to have the pistols when he was on board « b > . . . . _ '
Superintendent Pearee proved that , on the evening Of the 16 ih of August , he went with a body of constables to the Orange Tree public-house , Red Lionsquare . He piooeeded to a first-floor room , where were eleven persons , Ritchie , ' Gurney , Shepherd , Able . Richardson , Greenilade , Barn , Scadding , Snowball , Martin , and Small . On searching ' the room he found threefireballsmadeof rag and tow , and one of them bad printing type tied up in it , and they all appeared to nave been saturated with turpentine . Ritchie was sitting close to the place where he found the fireballs , and npon searching his person hefound two knives . Ritchie's hat and coat also smelled of turpentine . Inspector Marsh asked Ritchie where he lived , bat he refused to tell him , and he afterwards said that he had just come from France . The door of the room was unlocked , and when the police went in all'the men appeared to be conversing together . .
James Thompson ; a sergeant of police , had searched the ledting of Ritchie in CrosE-oourt , Russell-court , Drury-lane , after Ritchie's arrest en the evening of 16 th ef August . He found 117 ball cartridges , four ballet-moulds , four ballets , three combustible balls made of brown paper and pitch , with a fusee running into the centre ; a powder-horn , and some gunpowder in a quart wine bottle . He found also a bayonet , a ladle for melting lead ; apiece of lead , a quantity of tow , a small quantity of shot and percussion caps ; also a piece of paper with some pencil writing on it , and two prmted bookson the Charter . Cross-examined . —He searched Cuffay ' s garret , bnt he did not produce , when he was before examined , some papers which he found there . Mr Ballantine requested that they might be produced .
The Attorney General said they should all be handed over to the learned counselin the coarse of a shorttime . Mr Henry Bowline , undertaker , had been pat in rjossessien on Tuesday , August 15 , of the Orange Tree Tavern , in Orange-street , Red ' lion-aquare . On Wednesday the 16 th , about a quarter to three o ' clock , a person come to engage a private room for the same evening at a quarter before five o ' clock . The person engaged the first floor front room . Two people came at a quarter before fire . About a quarter or twenty minutes after five tbey were all assembled upstairs There were eleven of them . - They asked for a
bagatelle board .. When it was brought they a * kedfor the balls . ' One of the men then took a piece of chalk ; and struck it into the five hole , and then said , ' That is ten—the red bail—fire . 'S y God , to-night / The poliwcamein about twenty minutes after ; Thepeople in tbe room were ih a state of quietness , whispering together .. He found a card the next day nnder one of the benches . —a card of the admission of Henry Small as a member of the William Tell brigade of the Chartist Association ; A paper was also found denoting that Greenilade and Bnrnhad been appointed delegates from the Thomas Paine brigade . Tbe court adjourned at seven o ' clock .
Wjsdsisdat . —The trial of Cuffay , Lacey , and Fay was resumed thismoming . Superintendent Rutt ; ofthe L division of police ; deposed that on the evening of the 10 th of August he went , accompanied by a body of his men , to the Angel pnblic-houte , Webber-street , Blackfriars-road . It was about five o ' clock . They were all armed . In one of the rooms they found several men assembled . TheyweTesittrnginajortoftap . rooni . The names of the menwero Wiuspere , Irons , Front , Conway , A . Corby ; Taylor , Cox , Poole , Gibbs , Her * bert , Morten , Samuel Corby , and Samuel Morgan . ; Mr Bodkin then proposed toshow what was found in tbe room in Webber-street when these persons were apprehended . - < \
Mr Ballantine objected to the reception of this evidence , on the ground that none of the prisoners had been shown is any put oi the case to nave had any connexion' with the persons whose names had just been mentioned . - None of these men found in Webber-street were shown to have attended any of the meetings spoke to by the approver Powell ; Mr Parry and Mr Pamell were also heard in support of theobjection . Mr Metcalfe also contended -that the evidence ought not to be received . With regard to the Orange Tree apprehensions , he said that there Bit chieand Gurney who were proved to have been
present at former meetings , wereactually present among the persons so assembled ; but , wife regard to . the Angel , there was no such evidence . * - " ¦ ' : > The Court ruled tbat the evidence was admissible , because , according to the evidence of the accomplice , this meeting wasin furtherance of the original design of the conspirators . The witness then said that npon the place and the prisoners being searched , he saw one pike head taken from under Conway ' s seat . -It was produced , and appeared to be about eighteen inches long , very sharp pointed , and a most formidable weapon . William Coitrell , police constable , ' proved that he searched Conway , and took two pike heads from
Some other constables proved that they found in the same room seventy-five rounds of ball cartridges . Upon Winspere ' s person was a piece of iron , forming a sort of breast-plate , and also a pike-head ; behind the door there was a sword ; upon Prout there were found a dagger and a pike-bead , snd also a screw trench and nut for the purpose of fixing the pikeheads on to the handles . Upon Cox there was found a card denoting that he was a member of the Chartist Association . Morgan also had a pike-head ih his left coat pocket and fifteen ball cartridges . Mr Rogers , aa inspector of police , proved that after his apprehension he searched Morgan ' s lodging in York-street , Market street , Sonthwark . Mr Parry objected to the reception of evidence of
anything found at Morgan s lodging . Mr Baron Piatt said the Court entertained some doubt npon the point , and the Attorney General said he wonld not press its production , at the same time stating that he believed it was admissible evidence , but he should not press the point . Inspector . Heynesproved that he searched the Charter Coffee-house kept by the prisoner Lacey about nine o ' clock at night on the 16 th of August . The prisoner was at home . Upon searching the dab-room he fonnd a book purporting to be a list of names , addresses , and subscriptions , bat for what objeot did not appear . He also fonnd some cards denoting tbat the Wallace Brigade of Chartists held their meetings at Laafa Ceffee-honso , and there was also a list of subscriptions to tbe' brigade , ' which appeared to have been first established on the 7 th of March in the present year . He likewise found a list of subscriptions to the' Victim'Fond , amounting in
the whole to 3 s . Id . Various other Chartist papers were also found , and in one of them the balance in tbe treasurer ' s bands was stated tobe « eightpence / The inspector also deposed that Jenes , who was one of the class leaders for the Stretton ground district , was taken into custody in the coffee-room of Lacey's house , and , npon his being searched , two loaded pistols containing powder and ball and primed , a soldier's bayonet , twenty-nine pistol cartridges , and in his hat a pound canister of gunpowder were fonnd . The biyonet was hidden under Jones ' s coat . Crf ss-fxamined—Hefennd al ); the . books and papers in a baxin the dab room . Edward Kendall , a police sergeant , proved tbat he searched Jones's lodgings at No . 20 , Grey Coat-street , Westminster , and found some lead , some Chartist cards , part of a broken bayonet fastened on a stick , and in a cup there were sixty nine pistol bullets . Four ball cartridges were also found in a cupboard in the prisoner's rcoro .
Sergeant Thompson proved that he searched Rose s house on the 11 th of August , and that he fonnd , among other papers a plan of a portion of the metropolis with marks where barricades were to be erected , which bad been spoken to by Powell as having been produced by Rose at one of the meetings . Mr Eagle deposed that a paper upon which the names ef different streets were written , with marks for barricades , was proved to be in the handwriting of Mullins . The other papers fonnd at Rose ' s were also pnt in . Tbey appeared to be plans of different parts ofthe metropolis , some of them incomplete , and alto a list ofthe members from different localities . Tbe total number of figures appeared to be about 1 , 200 , apparently intended to be gathered from different Chartist brigades and localities . Three receipts for making tome explosive balls were also produced . Sergeant Thompson , at the request of Mr Parry
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produced some other papers that were found at the lodging ofthe prisoner Cuffay . ' . Thomas Barratt , a shoemaker , deposed that ne was a Chartist , and belonged to the Robert Emmett Brigade . They . held their meetings at a beer shop in Praed-street , Paddingion , and another in Shouio . ham-street , Edgewaw-rbad . He knew MuUrns > and had heard him address them at meetings of their district / when both Chartist and Confederates were present . On Sunday , August 13 tb , he heard him make a speech , during which he told the men they must prepare for the rising that was coming , and that it was necessary for each man to make a small sacrifice to aid the committee of procress , and the committee would indee by what they
did how they were to aot in the crisis that was coming . On Tuesday , the 15 th , there was another meeting in Shouldharn-gtreet , at which about twenty persons were present ; Chartists and Confederates . About twenty other persons also assembled on the same evening at the beer shop In Praed-street . They were all waiting for delegates to give in their returns , and to receive their instructions how to act . The delegates did not come while he waited . On Wednesday , the 16 th of August , witness attended a Chartist meeting in Praed-street , about eight o ' clock in the evening , and at that time between 20 and 30 ofthe brigade were present , and they were assembled for the delegates to cwne and give their instructions . The subject was not openly stated ' but it was
gene-, rally understood that an ' out-break' was intended to take place . About a quarter before nine , be went to the other meetine place , and found about thirty persons assembled for the same purpose , and Mullins came in after witness arrived , and a man named Smith tapped him on the shoulder , and said , My boy , I am glad you are come . I was afraid yoa were taken . ' Mullins replied , ' They shall only take me with my life , ' and then went away , and soon afterwards a man came into the room and laid a musket oa the table , arid he also saw two pike-beads and a pistol produced , and Smith gave an order that they should go to Crown-street , Soho , and Seven-dials , at ten o ' clock that night , and their leaders wonld , he said , meet them there . Some one asked how their
aims were ' te be taken , andthe reply was—as well as they could . Something was then said about' toothpicks , ' meaning pikes , and there was an inquiry whether they had got them ready . Mullins had looked into the room just before ail this was said . The party then all left the hoase in parties of two , three ! and four , at intervals between . Witness went to Crown-street with one or two more , but he did cot know their names , and when they arrived at tho street in question , he saw a number ofthe men who had formed the meetings the same night . Crosl-examined by Mr Parry—Witness was first called upon to give evidence at the committal of Mullins . He joined the Emmett brigade on Whit Sunday , and before and since that period he had
worked at his trade as a shoemaker . He did eo as a sincere moral force Chartist , and he only agreed to betray them when he ascertained the yillanous pact they were acting . He first began tb betray them about a month ago . On the 16 th of August he did not ' intend to . betray them , and he would swear he had hot communicated with the police before the 16 : b . Hecameforward as a volunteer to give evidence for the good of society . ( A laugh . ) Would swear he had . no other motive , and he had not received any money except for his loss of time . He might have received a * much as two pounds since last Tuesday week . He did Sot know Powell , and never saw him until last Tuesday week , when Mullins was examined at Bow-street , bat he had no conversation
with bim . About four years ago he was tried for taking some bread ont of a baker ' s shop , which was done on a 'drunken spree , ' and was sentenced , to be imprisoned for fonr months . Before thai he had been committed in Berkshire for a month for poaching . He was never charged before with having committed any other felony . Since the charge about the bread he bad bean accused of having a pint pot unlawfully in his possession , and he was committed for a month . He might have been twenty years old then . He is twenty-eight now . He knew a person named Robert Russell ; he never charged him with stealing a coat , a coat-cape , cr a cape of a dress . He onoe . sold a cape for sixpence ; he did not know whose it was—he did not inquire . ( Laughter . ) He found
it on the stairs , at the Princess' Theatre . Neither Mr Russell , nor Mrs Russell , nor Miss Russell , ever charged him with stealing the cape . They never spoke to bim about it . He knew a Charles Jones ; Jones sever found a handkerchief of his in his possession . He had not been often taken to station houses . The . bread stealing took place at Willeaden . He was sot , whilst living there , charged with being in a wine cellar for an unlawful purpose . He could not remember how long he had been out of prison when he joined the Emmett Brigade . He did net / remember ever being induced to urge persons to procure arms and join the physical force movement of the Chartists . He never did so to a man named Garrett , or any one else . He did sot show a pistol to a man named Garrett on the 15 th of August .. . Witness was a moral force man . Did not consider-a , pistol moral force . He had ; two
pistolSi with him , and he wished to explain that lie met a man who had a handkerchief with two pistols in iV and three gross of ball cartridges , as he stated ,: and he asked him to take them to his house , as he was afraid the police had fonnd ont tbat they bad been making cartridges . He accordingly took them . to . his house ,-and left , one pistol and the cartridges there , and brought the other pistol out with , bim in bis pocket , and he saw Garrett and showed him the pistol . If he told Garrett that he made the cartridges , it was a lie . He could not say that he did not tell him . He told him that a breakout was expected . He will not swear that he did not tell bim that he . had been making ball cartridges . II be did , that , too , was a lie . He did not ask Garrett to go to the Seven Dials . He asked him if he would be there . - Mr Parry . —Where .
.. Witness . —I do not know where . He knew a person named William New . He gave him a note on Monday last , when he and about twenty others were laying their heads together and shaking their fists at me . { The note was read . It cautioned New to abstain from patting himself forward , as he was marked and looked after . There would a thing ap . pear after he ( Barrett ) had got his liberty that would astonish the country . He owned that he was a coward , and was seeking his own safety j Witness continued : ha did not think himself at liberty when he wrote that note . He ( Barrett ) is guarded by the police , and accompanied by one officer at a time . He did not tell New that be was going to Southampton , and was to have £ 1 a week as lone as he
lived . He did say that he was going to Southampton . Would swear he did not do this in order to induce New sot to come forward and contradict him . Would swear that he never told New that he did not intend to go to work again , and that his unclehadsent bim some money . Re-examined—He retained the pistols and cartridges the same night to the person who gave them to bio . He was well known by the names of HeU . fire Jack or Young Bombshell . George Davis deposed that he was a ' member of the Wat Tyler brigade of Chartists at ; Greenwich , and he was accepted as a delegate .. He attended a com . mittee meeting held at the George , Old Bailey . Tnis committee was formed on tbe day of the trial of Ernest Jones in this court , and he was present at that meeting . Mullins , Rose , Payre , and others
were present . Mullins inquired first whether any members of the old committee appointed on Whit Monday were present . Witness being one answered ' Tel , ' and Mullins then directed the delegates to go on one side of the room and the committee on the other , and after a short consultation they assembled together again , and Mullins then saidit was a shame the prisoners should go to prison without one struggle to rescue them , and he raid that as the Chartist prisoners were taken to Coldbatb-fields they wonld have to pass through Cow-cross , when a friend , whom he considered to be Daly , weuld be ready , to lead out the troops to rescue them . Mr Parry pnt it to the Court whether this evidence , which was quite new , wasreally . relevanttothe present crime . Baron Piatt . —Why did you not object before ?
Mr Parry . —We knew nothing of the nature of tbe evidence . We were quite taken by surprise . CroBsexamination \ Continued—I attended several meetings , from this time up to the 16 : h of August , at the George in the Old Bailey , and I reported within two hours all that had occurred at each meeting to the inspector of police , and my statement was taken down in writing , and I signed it . I attended one meeting en the 15 . b , and the particulars were taken down in writing . Inspector Marks , inspector of the Greenwich division of police , deposed ( hat he was in communication with the last witness , and he made a report of what occurred at the meetings , and witness took it down in writing , and Davis signed it . He identified
the reports produced as those so taken . Davis was then recalled , and the Attorney General proposed to pnt the papers into his hand to refresh his memory . Mr Ballantine objected , and the witness was ex amined npon his recollection of the circumstances The witness said he was present at the meeting at the Lord Denman , in Suffolk-street , on the night before the intended rising , and he proved " that Mullins , Cuffay , Lacey , Payre , Fay , Allnutt , and Brewster , were present at that meeting . The Attorney General then said that as the witsess bad omitttd tbe names of some persons who were present , therefore he proposed to put the paper into his hand to refresh his memory .
Mr Ballantine objected to this course , and argued that the witness ought not to be allowed to see tbe paper for tbe object suggested by the Attorney General . After some discussion , the Court decided that this witness might look at the statement taken down by the inspector , in order to refresh his memory
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but that he must speak from his memory , and sot , from what was contained in the paper . Ihe examination of the witness was then resumed , lie said-I recollect being at the Lord Denman tbe day before the intenoed rising . Twenty-sight or thirty persoas were present- Ritchie was among them , and a person named Johnson ( Powall , the approver ) was likewise present . Mullins was chairman at that meeting , and he and Brewster , Cuff * y , Payne and Lacey went out as a sub-committee . Tbey all returned in about three qaatters ef an hour except Lacey , and Mullins saidlthey had come to the conclusion to have an eutbreak on the following evening , and that he himself would take the Seven Dials district , and Payne , Brewster , and Bassett were to lead
those other divisions . Tricoloured bands were distributed for the leaders , and witness had two given tohim , one for himself , and another for a delegate who could not attend . The witness then proceeded te give a detail of what occurred at this meeting , corroborating the evidence of the approver . He deposed that Ritchie was to command the Laminanes , as the firemen were termed , who were to meet at the Orange Two , on the I 6 ih , and that the password , by which he was to know them was 'Justice . ' tie also said that a person who was one of tho bail » . i «? T ° T ffas also present at the meeting on the 115 th . He was likewise present at a previous meeting , when Mu'lws proposed that each delegate should provide four men who were willing to fire houses , and do anything of tbat kind that might be required of them , and Cuffay at the same meeting remarked that it was no use now mincing the matter
for all their necks were in danger , and they might as well speak out plainly . He only knew . Johnson by that name , and he had no idea that he was communicating with the police until he read ah account of his examination at the police court . He had no dea before then that he was * spy , and he was the last man he should have suspected . He said that at another meeting some person , who was a stranger to him , represented that the Irish Brigade had all provided themselves with muskets and several rounds of ball cartridges , and they were ready to act in any manner in oo-eperation with the Chartists . The' Visionary President , ' referred to by the witness Powell , he said he understood was , in reality , intended to be a person named Churchill , then residing in France ; and all the Chartists in each locality were to pay a farthing a week each for his support .
The Attorney General Mre ^ , asked the witness whether at any of th ' e ' meet ings ' it was proposed that men should go round the town at night and see what force the government had at its disposal ? Mr Ballantine . objected to the question . It was like asking the witness whether the prisoners were guilty of high treason . , Mr Parry . —It was a scandalous question . The Attorney General said ; the learned counsel had no right to make such an observation . In the course of a long examination like the present it was impossible always to keep within the strict rules of evidence .
The witnessthen proceeded to state , that Mullins told him tbey intended to erect barricades from the Seven Dials down Drury-lane to St Marj ' s Church in the Strand , and he showed him a plan with the barricades erected upon it . He also said that Temple Bar would , make a good barricade , and then they were to go driwn to the waterside ; and make sure of Chaplin and Home ' s premises . Another party' was to eo into the City and to take possession of St Paul ' s Cbnrcb . ( A laugh . ) The witness said that he attended the meetings as a delegate' from Greenwich , and was acknowledged in tbat capacity ' . He said that he knew Dowling as the secretary of the Davis Club , and he knew tbat he Was a Confederate , and Payne , Mullins , and Brewster were specially ap . pointed to draw np plans for attacking the police
and the soldiers . Cross-examined by Mr Ballantine . —I was not a Chartist , but merely joined them for the purpose of obtaining information . I wished to ingratiate myself with these people on purpose that I might betray them . I was not employed as a spy by anyone , bnt' I created myself a spy . I had no object ot emolument , but merely desired to protect life and property . I wished to retire from the business several times ? but the superintendent and inspector of police would not let me . I do not expect to be paid any more remuneration than will make up for the loss of trade I have sustained . The government have not made me any promise of remuneration . For the
last fe ^ r weeks , the people of Greenwich have suspected me of being a spy , and I have lost my trade in consequence of it . I was not examined before a magistrate ! and I am sure tbe prisoners would Lave no means of knowing what I was going to say . I came here to-day as a voluntary witness . I applied to be examined , and I was not summoned or subpoenaed . I have been asked to appear as a witness , but I refused . I came forward in censequenee of what ; I read in the newspaper of the cross-examination of Powell , and seeing that he made rather a bad'figure , and knowing that such charges could not be brought against me , I thought I would come for * ward and give evidence of the truth . I thought the jury wonld hot believe bim . oil hid oath .
Mr Ballantine—Perhaps , after reading what yon did of him ; you would not yourself believe him on bis oath ? WitnesB-I should in this matter , because I know be spoke ths troth . Cross-examination continned—I used to carry loaded pistols for my own protection . I never got up any meeting myself . I communicated with the inspector of police this morning , and asked his advice whether I should come up or not , and by bis advice I did so .
' By the Attorney General—The paper I saw was tbe . MoRMKG AnvBRtiSBR , Iread the cross-examination ' of Powell ,, and I immediately communicated with the police . Before I read the paper I had no intention to give evidence . Charles Baldwinsdn deposed that he was a class leader of the ' Lambeth Chartist locality , which held its meetings at the Chartist Hall , Webber-street . He deposed that he was present at the meeting on the" 15 th , and that the proposition wag made for the rising to take place on tbe following day , and witness and the other class leaders were told they hereto bring their men armed the following night , and those who bad not got arms were to be told where they would get arms . Tbey would meet first at the Peacock , and then they would goto the Broadway , Westminster , where they were to meet the Dean-street locality . He was also told that there were to be
three other divisions assembled at different parts of the town . At eight o ' clock on the evening of the 16 th he went to the Peacock ; and found Morgan , Conwgy , Pedler , Winspere , and Chester there , and Pedlar . produced some coloured ribbons for the delegates to wear on their arms , so that their men might know them . He ' also produced some gunpowder , and made cartridges with' it . Witness had a pistol with bim ; and Pedlergave him a cartridge to charge it with . Inconsequence oi something the landlady said they left the Peacock , and proceeded to the Angel in Webber-street , and about three minutes after they fotthere , the . policecamein . and apprehended them , [ e added , that he had given information to the police about three o ' clock in the afternoon of the 16 : h . '
Cross-examined . —He gave no information to tbe police until that time . He was taken into custody with the others , and hadaloaded pistol in his pocket at the time . He had a pike head a shorttime before , but he gave it to Conway to take care of , and it was found npon him when he was taken . He brought the pike head , and carried it about with him , in order that he might not be suspected by his companions . Witness was not examined before the Grand Jnry , and the prisoners had no means of knowing what evidence he was te give . Henry Jones , a police constable , deposed that about halt-past four o ' clock , oa tbe morning ofthe 17 th of August he made a search in Clerkeriwell churohyatd , and found a basket containing 280 perfect ball cartridges , and about fifty in an unfinished state . Cross examined . —He did not expect to find this basket when he commenced the search . It was quite by accident .
Endencewas then adduced to show , that about eight o deck on the evening of the 16 th of August a number of persons were seen to leave the beer shop m Shouldham-street , some of them being armed , and some were heard to tell others to come themselves , and to bring as many of their friends with them as they could . Thomas Hoyle , a police constable , deposed that , on the night of the 16 th of August , a great number ef persons , having the appearance of Irish labourers and engineers , who were sf rangers to the neighbour , hood , assembled in the Seven Dials , and , in cense-Rolicl &^
Inspector Black-deposed that about ten o ' clock Srfftir *!^ PK oi tt » P ^» to the Seven Dials , and found about a hundred and fifty persons assembled , ihey were mostly strangers to the neighbourrtf . „ J ™ n ? £ a d . P Brflad toem , and remained upon the spot with his men until one o ' clock the next morning . Mr Warrington ; an operative chemist , explained the nature ofthe recipes found at Rose ' s lodgings , and he described one of them as being calculated to i ^ tl pODt f- ? i ? y ? fter a 8 hott "o « j > and according to the quantity of water used in its composition , and another was a very powerful combustible , but which would require to be ignited before it would act . Mr Kendell then gave evidence as to the composition of the fire balls , and this closed the case for the prosecution .
Mr Ballantine then addressed the Court , and said he should have been prepared to go on with the defence upon the original facts , but , after the additional evidence that had been adduced , he felt tbat he must ask the indulgence ol the Court to allow time to consider the faet ef that additional testimony . Mr Baron Piatt acceded to the application , and at a quarter to six o'clock the trial was again ad-) oumeo . ( . Continued to the Eighth Page ,
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Democratic Banquet In Paris. ' Important...
DEMOCRATIC BANQUET IN PARIS . ' IMPORTANT fJBECH OF LllDRTJ ROILIN , ' OnFriday , the 22 nd inst ., a dinner was held in the Chalet , Champs Elvsees , in cpramenwration of tbe Republic founded tho 22 ad Sep : ember , 1792 . The guests numbered five hundred , including one hundred of tbo 'Mountain' members of tbe National Assembly . _ T he Prudent ( M . Audky db PuynAVUAu ) said—Cit'z 'ns ! The greatest honour that ? in fee done to an old Republican is to bo called on in his old ago ii preside at a banquet of Democratic Republicans , asssmWed for the celebration of the ai niverearv of the R , pubic wiicb our fathers founded in 1792 . ' in 1790 I assisted at the federation which took place in commemoration of tbe taking of the Battila . It was a
federation which filled all French hearts with a love of liberty and with a bitter hate against a murderous tyranny . I was an active witness of that unparalleled revolution of which fanoy itself cannot now reproduce the image . It regenerated our country ; it raised mankind from that slough of shame in which they had Jain prostrate , weltering , ever since men congregated in society ; and it broke tbe fetters of that slavery which bai oppressed them for many centuries , rite-ms ! This revolution was net made for us alone . To free the world was its destiny ; and it i * now accomplishing this noble mission . A curee on those who cannot recognise that ' great truth . But no—let us rather pity thenvfor'they are struck with blindness , and that very blindness ' will prevent themfrsm arresting tbo progress of humanity , marked
out by the fioger of God , whom they misapprehend . The Democratic Republic , that utaud social truth . ' founded by the revolution of the 24 th of February and based on . the victory of the people , on the sovereignty of all , and en the sacred dogma of liberty , equality , and fraternity—that Republic will be eternal ; it will outlast humanity—it will not perish as long as one of us shall live to defend it . ( Cheers ) Citizens , le * us swear it ; I am the first to swear it , and I take tbat oath in the presence of this assembly , in the presence of men who ara voted to tbe public welfare . I am sure they , will not put me to the blush . Gjd bless the Democratic Republic 1 At tbe close of the banquet M . Ledru Rollin rose and addressed tbe assembly as Mlows ' : — Citizeas , — The anniversary of the 22 nd of September , 1792 . Let
us drink to that memorable day in which the Convention proclaimed the Republic in the very palace in which on the previous night it abolished Royalty . ' Yes , '' a . blessing on the Renublic which our fathers decreed , and which we have the vocation to make everlasting , by establishing it on the indestructible basis of social institutions . ( Cheers . ) A blessing on the Republic , the tutelary genius of the peoples that are groaning for liberty like ourselves . ( Cheers . ) A blessing on the Republic , the avenger of the outcasts ! of the great human family who , like ourselves , raise the democratic banner in opposition te the last representatives of the eld aristocracies .:, ( Cheers . ) Citizens ! I say-a blessing on the Republic consolidated by social institutions ; for all of us that are here assembled feel' that unless tbe
laws ' are strongly imbued with that spirit we shall again ' have the' name without the' thing itself . ( Cheers . ) In that case we shall be quite as nnfortunate ' asour fathers , who were but the prophets , and who never saw the land of promise which tbey pointed . out tons . ( Cheers . ) I ka » w people will say „ your silly hopes are but a socialist phantom . It is but the old quarrel which was made with our pre deoessors , and to which they retaliated by gifts which we enjoy to this very day . Socialism ! Was it Sobialicm or was impolicy , when in order to restore to msnkind the noble exercise of all their faculties they thought of abolishing monastic vows?—when they brought law in harmony with nature by abolishing the privileges of , primogeniture and applying the levelling power ofthe law to the inequality of
succession—tell me . was that Socialism or was it policy ? ( Chests . ) When , in spite ef the opposition from the clergy and nobility the equality of publio imposts was introduced—was that Sociidiam or was it policy ? In freeing industry from its former bondage by breaking tke fetters of the old corporations—did they act like Socialists or politicians ? ( Cheers . ) -And when they decreed an infinite division of clerical , communal , and noble properties—when they parcelled them out to make them so many instruments of liberty under the t obt of man—was it Socialism ? It was Republicanism ! ( Cheers . ) What must bo the madness of a legislator who would establish apolitical principle without giving it a firm basis in social institutions ? Is it indeed Socialism when we sayno republic without a right to labour ? for there can
be no sovereign people where society is not bound to tender assistance . ( Cheers . ) Nol it is not Socialism—it is . Republicanism ! And -when we say there must be publio institutions of credit , for without them useless credit will eat up the earnings ef the labourers-is it Socialism ? No ; it is Republican , ism ! ( Cheers ) Yes ; it is Republicanism , andthe , adversaries of the true Republic are aware that that Republic , if once rooted in the morals of the country cannot ba overthrown , . It is for this reason they eadeaxour to ppzzte the public by a sleight of hand , and to aot upon their fears by confounding two perfectly distinct things—Socialism and the practical Republic ( la Kepublique appliquee ) . ( Cheers . ) We know their old tricks . Did not the Jesuits at one time raise a cry against Atheism ; and the Monarchists of
1790 , did they not bellow against the agrarian law ? ( Cheers . ) I feel a certain pleasure in exposing this systematic confusion u between Socialism and the Republic , which the enemies of the latter are attempting to make . This continual misapplication of terms proves their impotence and the necessity , to which they are reduced to bow their heads before the will ef the people , and to respect the very word with which it Saluted its victory of the 24 th of February . ( Cheers ) This praotioil Republic , which is to penetrate into our laws ' and morals , and which is to produce tor each of us . a just equilibrium of dignity and co i fort—this Republic how can it be obtained ? To wrest it from our enemies we want unity , boldness , indomitable resolution . We want devotion that shrinks not'from ahytacrifice which we may be called
en to make ( cheers ); and nothing in the world can prevent our obtaining it in reality , since , in spite of the duplicities , of the corruptions , of tbe accumulated powers ofthe monarch ; , we have obtained its name . They must , indeed , be mad who would wish to oppose us ; they . cannot have seen the admirable drama of the 24 th of February , when the ; Provisional Government was but the interpreter of the immense voice of the people in arms . To those who appeared to hesitate it was said , ' We want the proclamation of the democratic , ene and indivisible Republic . We want neither more nor less ; any other word might-tend to surround it with monarchical institutions , and we are sick of being duped . ' ( Cheers . ) Now , what we want is to be mindful of the people ' s will of the 21 th of February ,
and to be united , bold , and devoted . By these mean * the country will be great and the Republic invinoibl » . ( Cheers . ) Yes , my brethren , we want union . Ala *! so did bur fathers sometimes . Let ns beware of that danger to our prosperity . I am aware there are laggards on the road of progress—men who confide at all risks , and who are less afraid of the whims and deviations of power thah'of the chances of its being shaken , Their convictions are respectable , for their patriotism cannot be doubted , and I know their eyes will one day be opened . \ As for us , who are more resolute , let us not slacken our steps ; they will soon mend their pace in order to come up with us . Let us have patience with them , for if they hesitate , it is because people frighten them by directing their attention to the dangers that surround us . Dangers )
And what are our dangers ? The Pretenders ? ihe Royalists ? They may be very dangerous to a Re publio that stands on a rotten , on aa insincere foundation ; but they will disappear before tbe , breath of the people ' s will whenever the people wills it . The Pretenders , indeed . ' what can they psssibly say ? That they want a monarchy 1 Why—do you , think the ; would dare to say that te a people who in eighteen years have twice overthrown the monarchy ? who in 1830 buried down two generations of Pre tenders , and two more generations in 1818 ? Has not this people still the same hearts , the tame arms , the same weapons ? . No ! they cannot say that , but they will talk to the people of interests' sacrificed and of rights misunderstood . ' But if , after all , those rights are sanctioned , if those interests are guaranteed by a sincere and truly domestic Republic , what can tbe
Pretender say then ? What ground has he to stand on ? He cannot but become a simple cittean , and he will be forced to mix with and be lost in the great crowd . He will be less considered than others , for he will have done less service than others . ( Cheers ) I have now proved to you that there can be no possible danger if firm and steady hands plant the Republic . But if the ground is merely touched with what they call tenderness and care , there can be no spreading of roots , and certainly in such a case there is an imminent danger . Well . then . citizens ! the question which naturally presents itself ,. is , what has been done for thepeople since the 2 i : h of February 1 What has been done ? . It was at first thought that the abolition of the tax upon salt was a B & tisiaotion due to public opinion , which had been on the point of obtaining it even from Royalty . It was but a vain illusion , for that tax is now being re-imposed . An endeavour was next made of conferring an
incalculable benefit upon publio health , by abolishing altogether the duty on meat and on drinks , both of which weigh so heavily upon the poor . Tbey are now re-introduced . ( Voice : 'True ! Very true !') And the labourer , the man whose life passes between the cruel exigencies of the soil and the still more cruel ones of capital—he whose only connexion with the state and its policy is carried on by the taxgatherer—what is he to think of a Republic which , in the very midst of peace , desires to add to his burden ? ( Voices ; ' That ' s the thing ! Yes , yes ! Very good indeed . ' ) This , then , is what has been done for the people since the 21 th of February . I am well aware that the people have at times been relieved , that some millions have b .-on tossed to its misery , and that such things were called assistance ; but how petty does such relief appear if compared to the grand institutions of credit and of association , of mutual assistance as an instrument of labour , which ought to have bees founded ! ( Cheer * . )
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But , no !• There is nothing grand ; there is nothing fruitful ; there is nothing truly Republican it is alwnys the old leavings of the past . ( Voices : ' True , true . ' ) And what ia the answer , titizsns ? The answer i ? , that the state is poor . The Republic cannot afford to make such found > iions , for there is nomonev , I am treo to confess thatl could never understand this objection in so fertile , so powerful a country as ours is . I say tbat < ur resources of wealth are innumerable , and that nothing is wanted bufclherfiill to dig cbaonelslbr them in order to direct them to the Treasury , and thence to pour them out * n the poor . Was not the country ruined by the follies of l-, tl XIV . and Louis XVI . ? And yet , was the first revolution s ^ " ?? " , n , he ace ? f plisbment of its great work bv monetary rwii ^ -5 "
rations ? After the enormous sacrifices of our revolutionary wars , we had the Empire , which , by its forced requisitions , by its extraordinary impost * for the delenceof the territory , in some manner exhausted the resources of the country . Wo thought so , at least ; and yet , when the Restoration came on , France found 1 , 600 , 000 , 000 to ransom , herself from the foreigners , and shortly afterwards another milliard was wrung from France for tbe especial benefit of the aristocracy . And skull it be said that France could find sums to an incredible amount to pay for her defeat , to pay for the emigrants—shall it be said that this same Franco cannot find money to sustain labour ? ( Cheers . ) No ; it is not possible ! Money creeps into corners , and hides itself ; but , it is not wanting— ( true)—it cannot be wanting .
Consider that we have bad thirty-two years of peace , and , in spite of the losses since the 24 th of February , money must bo somewhere . ( ' Yes , yea ! ' I Tuete . must , therefore , be some financial possibility of discovering tho place where it hides , when it abuts itself up like a miser . ( 'Tes , jes !') How now , citizens ! Should not France have the same resources which England found to carry on war against the blockade of the continent , and to uphold her cemmerce ? England could afford to array six oalitions against us and to pay their wages ; she raised millions of men from the earth ; she was able to subdue the genius of Napoleon , and to drain the last drop from our veiss in 1815 ; and France , so abounding in real property , should fail in finding money for her people of labourers I Impossible , and those who say so
calumniate their country . ( Violent cheers ) Believe me , citizens , distress ofthe people is our only real danger ; and tha danger is want of labour , the atrophy of trade , and tbe want of new and bo'd eaterprites , in short , the old haoknied school of finances . That is the weak point of the question . Of course it may change its face ; it may turn out a poison , if France , sincerely republican , wants the genius by some grand measure to escape from this fatal whirlpool . A bank for deposits , anticipated imposts ; in fact , there are a hundred ways . Bat the thing is to find out the fecret that the Republic makes the people bappy , and the nation great ; tbat net only it meets domestic discomfort , but has also resources to defend its principles ef fraternity and emancipation abroad . If this be not , every shadow
of a danger may grow in size , and jeopardise the Republic . , But it is ridiculous to say that it is money that is wanting ; believe me , the one thing wanting for finding the money is an enterprising and resolute man . Our fathers , indeed , lived ¦ on expedients ; but such is the life of revolutions , and what after aQ does it matter , if they but live and save humanity ( Cheers . ) What a number of honest financiers we have had from Nt-cker to Catnbon , but they all trod tho beaten path ofthe past , and thus tbey straggled ih vain to confront the necessities of the revolution . Cambon came ; was he , indeed , a financier of great reputation ? No ! but he was a great citizen . Ho kept his eve on the end , and , having the audacity which the circumstances required , he saved the Republic . Is there no other Cambon ? ( CheersJ I
have said that France wants resources to uphold amongst her foreign allies her principles of liberty and emancipation . Do not your hearts bleed like mine when looking at Italy given over to the bands of her oppressors , and left alone ia her helplessness ? Oh , how slow is tbe progress of humanity , and how greatly we might contribute to quicken it 1 Abna three centuries have gone by since MaohiavelS , moaning over the wretchedness oi his country , spoke of her as yearning for the advent of a liberator who would stop the devastations in Lombardy . Tus cany and Naples . He prayed to Heaven for tha arm of an avenger to free her from the humiliating and hated yoke ofthe stranger . France might have been that avenger . Italy bad a right to rely on her and France has not moved her hand to assist Italy !
( Cheers . ) Yes , Italy had a right to rely upon oar help ; for Milan once taken , our troops ought to bars crossed the Alps . Milan is taken , but our muskets are at rest and French vessels are impassible spectators of the sacking of Messina . Is this a Republican policy , or are we perhaps wrong in our dates ? ( Cheer * . ) As for Germany , I cannot understand the line of conduct of our government . It is evident that government does not understand the movement now going on on the other side of tha Rhine ; or if it understands , it , it misconceives the interests ol France . The future of Germany isrepresented by » young , ardent , and bold democracy that sees in tbe unity of the country the promise of liberty . Tha unity of Germany means tnedemocracy of Germany , and democracy means an acquired sympathy f «
France . Ask those who are well informed whether this definition is not true ? I am a rare of that democracy being accused of plans of invasion against us ; this is but a . trick of the old aristocrats to ruin her fair fame in onr eye . England , especially , takes a leading part in this , and you see the consequence . Affairs in Germany are now going on in such a manner that for tho future we shallha placed there in the same situation aa we are in I « Iy . We shall aot under the influence of England . I confess my deep grief at the sores of onr internal state . The miseries that surround us on all sides find wofal echoes in my soul , but these are but domestic grievances after all ; we suffer , so to say tnfamille ; bnt abroad we see our glety falling a prey to England ; abroad we are threatened by the league of this hostile aristocracy ; abroad we are burdened with an alliance with that very government which for eighteen years has so fatally weighed down upon our interests . This is too much for me . ( Cheers . ) All this must
be remedied ; most of us are old champions of liberty ; moat of us have gene through severe trials . Very wel ' , then , let us double eur efforts ; let ns confound the deeper and lighter tints of Republicanism . Let us have but one objeot , namely , glory ,. and tbe interest of the country . Let ns have but one sentiment , namely , no rest , no tranquillity until the Republic , though thrown out of its course for a moment , shall have returned to its true road . ( Cheers . ) No , no rest until , calling npon the memory of onr fathers , we can say , ' Hail to you , who enthroned the Republic ! ' Take care ; if we do notfollow their example , if , like them , we are not ardent in devotion , and of an iron will , then be , sure onr sens will curse oar memory , and they , indeed , will not say , ' Hail to tbe men of the 24 th of February ! ' ( Cheers , and cries of Vive la Rtpublique Democratique !) At tbe conclusion of the banquet M . de Cormenm . and M . Germain made a collection for the wives aad I children of the transported insurgents , and obtained I nearly 8000 f .
The Fraternal Democrats.. The 22nd Of Se...
THE FRATERNAL DEMOCRATS . . The 22 nd of September , the anniversary of the e foundation of the French Republic , 1792 , being also o this society ' s anniversary , has hitherto been cele- : brated by a public festival . This year the impossi- ibility of obtaining a public room suitable for the te occasion , together with other unfavourable circum- istances , induced an abandonment ofthe usual course se of operations . Instead , a few members and friends Is of the society sat down to supper in the sanctum m ganctonim of ' L'Ami du Peuple . ' The place of of festivity was not inappropriately chosen , it being Jg decorated with the portraits of the martyrs and ii heroes of Equality , who during the last sixty yean us have headed the struggles of the suffering millions ins against their oppressors .
Julian Harney presided , and after the plaiuauti but substantial supper had been done justice tQjtq ,, gave the first toast : — 'The Sovereignty of thethes People . ' Responded to in an able address by bjj Samuel Kydd . The following toasts were thenheni given : — The da ; we celebrate—the institution of the Frenctenctt Republic . VivelaBeptM > que , demoefatiqtieetsocia \ e ! i Voltaire and Roubmu , the immortal precursor * t ( r * x » i tbe French Involution . Tiiey prepared tbe way fa ? toss mankind ' s mental freedom , ana tho reign of polirloiirloii and social justice .
TheTlotorjofthelltU of JTniy , tbe 10 th of AogusJgasJi the * threedajs of July , ' and tbe * threo days' of Febrttbrai arj . May the principle of Equality , Liberty , and *»**« ternity for which they contended , become c « tabUsne « sneiii throughout the world . iu * -, * -,. The memorlea ot the martjr » « ho have yieldtdt * do » tholr Urea for tho « generation of mankind ; xncluaUBauqj the herolo victim * of tbe four dftje of Juno . RMpsil , the people'a choice ; and honour to the tro trot democrat ! who voted for Raspstl , Thoie , and Caber : r : Louis Blano and Cauuidiere , the guests of ihe EDgliaaglias people . May tbe exiles be ipeedily restored to thd tfieH country to build up the Democratic and Social Repnblbublfab Ernest Jones and the imprisoned aud expitiiated died dil mccrato of Groat Britain and Ireland .
The editors of the New Rbehisii Gazette , and fluid atra cess to the democrats cf Qernnny , Our betrayed brethren of Poland and Italy—vlcteivlcte !}! shall yet be theirs . The Agrarian Reformers of America . Other sentiments were given , and the whole wee wee responded to in able songs ot the evening and Mourirpeur
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 30, 1848, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_30091848/page/7/
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