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_ owinWurt , bntnotbjthonamoofADtilL I don't _jgoollect asking him if be bad seen the Nobthkb * Sun . and I wfll not swear I did not say to bim , that O'Connor was * — - — -coward , for he recommended psaeeable measures and tbat the National _Assemjjy ehould be postponed . I swear I never said to him . that be ought to get . arms , and that , if _iH working men were prepared as I was , thev _-wild soon npset the , — government ; or that I offered togrvehlm gunpowder , and thathe refused to have it , _ J Z _« - _* be was a peaceable man . __ ii m « J did , upon one occasion , intrude himself _ioto the meeting of the secret committee at _Carturight'i _? . and was expelled . I swear I did not draw the plan now produced _, bat I did upon one occasion dra w another plan , which was afterwards torn np . I showed my plan to two or three people at _Cartrmghfs _, in order to ascertain what tne views of the
Others were npon the subject of a proposed assassination of the police in the night and a sham demonstration at Bonner ' _s-fidds . I once had & pair of pistols _, and I exchanged them for another pistol . I know a man now in court , but do not know his same . I nerer offered to sell him the pistols . I wont swear I did not offer to sell them to bim for six shillings , but lam sure I did not do so on the ISth of AngnBt . I swear I did sot say that if he wonld bny the pistols , I would give bim half a pound of gunpowder into the bargain . 1 don't know a working _^ nrcB named Henry Green , at least by name . I don ' t think I ever aaid that a man named Douaine was a gorernment spy . I don't belieTe I erer used such wards . I don't believe I ever used such words as that Douaine was a milk-and-water moral force- — -, and ought to ba kicked ont . I won ' t swear I did not make use of snob , an expression .
Baron Piatt . —Why won't yoa swear yoa nerer Hied such words ? Witness . — "Wby , my lord , because men may be pnt into tins box to swear that I did say it , and my memory may hare deceived me . There are strange characters that go to Cartwright ' s , who would astonieb any moral man . Mr Ballantine . —Tea are a moral man , are yoa not ? Witness . —I am . I know a man named Westmoreland , bat not by name . The person brought into court is that man . I once sketched s plan in Ids presence . I mean the osel formerly referred to . It was not the same plan as that now produced . The plan 1 sketched waa a circle , with dots in it to represent men ; not particularly Chartists or police-Ben , bnt merely people in a circle . ' My memory is bo bad that I cannot give any explanation of the plan I drew eat . Mr Ballsntine . —Yoa do yourself injustice ; your memory is really rery good when yon choose .
Witness . —I know a person named Collins . He is » rery noisy desperate character in tb j locality . He dees not want any urging on . He is ready enough . I dent remember telling him that there was going fo be s grand meeting , and that cone would be admitted but those prepared fo fight for their rights . 13 o _* treoo _^ eet saying so . I may have s _« d such a thing and forgotten it . I do not remember tbat . be told-me in reply that he did not know what I meant . I nerer told bun that I had a rery handsome dagger which I wonld give him to keep against the timehe required it . I aa sure I nerer told him that ths time would come soon when we shonld _OTeTthrowthe— - —government . I remember seeing liim at Cartwright ' s on the 16 th of Augustbnt I did
, not tell him not tobe in a hurry to go away that night . I know that on that night every delegate was to assemble his men at Cartwrighf a house , snd that they were to march thence to Clerkenwell . 1 know the man now shown to me , I did not know his name waa Medlock . I don ' t recollect saying to him on the 14 th of August that I wonld serve out those moral force- — . I won't swear I did not say so . I may bare said it and forgottenit . I no w remember that on this night I was at _Cart-1 Wright ' s , and I was accrued of being a spy oa account of my not going by my right name of Powell . I denied that I was a spy , and accounted for using the name of Johnson , by saying that I did not wish I my friends to know I bad anything to do with tiie
Chartists . I know a man named Bryant . Onthe 16 tbof August , in the early part ofthe evening , I was standing outside Cartwright ' s with a crowd , but I don ' t recollect thst be asked me what was the matter , and that I told him I thought it was a botched job by these milk-and-water- — . I ' don't remem-Iw saying , on being pressed for an explanation , that there was intended to be a tnro ont that night , and that a ; signal rocket was to be fired between nine and ten , and the people were to turn out . I don'trecollect it , bnt I won't swear I did not It is not likely that I aid , ' These — milk-and-water chaps bare sold the job , . and the delegates mast hare been nailed in Orange-street . ' I may bave said all this and forgotten it . I remember on this nisrht wallrine no
Chiswell street with the same man . I showed bim sixty eight ball _earbridges . This was between ten snd eleven o ' olock at night . lam sure I did not tell him thai Iiad got 200 fire balls to throw into people ' s houses . I think I did pull oat a pistol and slso a tin box full of _pereossioa caps . I had a sword amy coat pocket . I showed him the handle . I Eight hire said , 'Ton see I am prepared for them ; are you ? ' I don't believe I . did say it . The same man wanted to have thera from me . I had _thse things with me for my own safety , and fo protect myself in ease I shonld be attacked , as I suspected j thatl was found out I showed the handle of the
¦ word to him in pastime . I knew the men were betrayed at this time . I asked bim to . go to the Orange Tree . He would not go to the Orange Tree . I gave him the orders ofthe previous night . I know Daniel Barn . I suppose he is a working man . I hare beard be is something io tbe 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 _Kenningteneommon . meeting . I don't think I showed him a pistol at any time . I swear that I nerer said fo Burn that I wished the people would assassinate tbe polioe and fire tbe houses . I don't believe I said so to any one , but 1 wont swear that 1 did not
say so . Bj the Court—I might hare said it my lord , but I don't think I did . I wm always rather a friendto the police , and tbat wss well known . I won't be Bun I did not make use of such an expression , bnt I don't think it wss likely . By Mr Ballantine . —I don't believe I erer said to Born that I hoped to see the police assassinated , and Boms good fires in London , _andTnatatthe same time I shewed a pistol , and said that was the thing to do for them ; bat I wont swear to sueh an occurrence never taking place . I believe I did say to a man earned Carter that I wanted four desperate men who would do any kind ef work . I said this in consequence of instructions I had receired at the Orange Tree . On the Monday night when I was suspected
and charged with being s spy , I referred to thei order given at the Orange Tree , i might bare said I was to get four men . I don't recollect Carter saying , I Then yon won't haveme . ' I dare say I showed him fhe plan I had made . I do not know Goodfellow ( who was pointed out fo ths witness ) . I never saw the man in my life . I never said I was going to Australia , and wanted an outfit I swear I nerer asked that man to-go to the Orange Tree on the _fttght of tiie 16 th of August . [ . Mr _Baflsntum here handed a small iron instrument , with a spike' in it , Calculated to lame a horse if thrown on tbe road or pavement , and be asked the witness if he bad erer seen such ss one . and he admitted be bad , and that he bad made it } There were meetings at Cartwright's on the 30 th of July and the 4 th of August Brewster showed two articles of this description , bnt
twice as long , at one of these meetings , and I , _suspsetiBg _tn-m articles were made at Cartwright ' s , mads one or two : Brewster told me they were for the purpose of crippling tbe cavalry . I asked him to show me ths action of them at the meeting in Cartwrightre on tbe 4 th of August . It is thrown on ths ground , -when it always turns the point upwards , the article being feuded with lead . I hare a similar _Siing in my pocket . That produced waa lent by me to a Mr Mayne , who nerer returned it Here ia another made on a similar plan , expecting _thisjwoold he produced . Tbeu ore the only two I made . I made them to ascertain that they were making those things at _Cariwrightfi . I threw it down on tiie ground and the table .-1 expected that some would be _pr-aducedatCartwrighFsliksthis . Mr Ballantine , —loo did itfor a trap ?—I did it to detect the parties .
Baron Piatt—Did yon do it for a trap , to discover the parties wbo were making tbem?—I did so , my Lord ; that is the solemn position 1 am placed in . { A laugh . ) I did not fay , * These are the things to throw among the troops of the bloody gorernment ' I do not believe I used the word ' bloody . ' I might hare said they were good to throw among fhe troops , I said at the same time that I had a large quantity at home . Hr Ballantine . —Was that trae or false . ' —False . Mr Ballantine . —You seem proud of it?—I wish fo speak the truth and say what I bare done . ' Mr Ballantine . —And that was another falsehood ? —It waa .
Mr _BaUa-tine . —Hare yon formed an idea ofthe Bomber of falsehoods yoa bare told in the course of _tbtso proceedings ?—I dare say I bare told several . IknowGuraey . I went to him in his cell . I believe I said to him that if he would confess it would be better for bis wife and children . _. Baron Piatt—Dont yoa know ? Why do yoa say _IbeBere V Wby _donftyeu say ' I know _?'—I be Here I did nse those words . I don ' t know whether _ policeman was standing outside the cell . I did not say to the policeman on going ont , * It is no go . ' I belieTe I said to Gurney that he and hia family would be made comfortable fer their tires if he confessed . I had no authority for saying so .
Mr BaUannne . —Did you tell bim a falsehood , and endeavour to get bim to say something ? Did you mean to betray bim toe ' -He was betrayed . I wanted bim to tell all about it He wonld then bare beeu telling the truth , and getting out of a scrape . I wis not requested to ge in at all to see hun . He was placed in a cell by himself , but I don't know that this was done in order that I might have him to orjself . I hare 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 York . I did not know my father had money in the Savings-bank . There was no charge against me with respect te that I did not take my wife or family . I told only a few friends that I waa going . I drew ont some money from the funds before I started . I swear it was only my own money that I drew ; it was in my own name . I used my own name to get it out I signed only my own name , * Thomas PowelL * Re-examined .- " -When I was at Cartwright ' s onthe evening of the 16 th of August , I knew thatthe people had been apprehended at the Orange Tree ; itwas pretty generally known at that time , and ererybody was talking about it . Carter is a Chartist , and I should say not a moral force Chartist . The witness was under examination nearly eight hours .
Jemima Heath , the wife ofa coffee-ahop keeper in Suffolk-street , Southwark . —Knew Lacey , who bad come with some other persons ' to' her husband ' s house shortly before itwas _searched by the police : They had four cops of coffee , and remained about half an hour . That was on a Tuesday . She did not giro Lacey any pistols the following morning , nor had Bhe put any pistolB for bim into a basket . There were three pistols in the hoase , which belonged to ber sister-in-law , to whom she bad taken them before Lacey came with his party . There was one
powderflask . She had said her sister-in-law wonld sell the pistols , _buttbey were not sold . A great many people saw them . There were also three or four constables' stares in the house . These were for special conatables ,. and had been painted by a young man who lodged in fhe house . Her sister-in-law had been a widow for two years . Her sister-in-law ' s hnsbandasedtogoonboardabipaaa sailor , but for several years latterly had ' - ' worked in the docks . He used to have the pistols when he was on board ab > _ - - - -
_Superintendent _Pearse proved that on the evening Ofthe 16 th of August , be went with a body of constables to the Orange Tree public-house ; Bed Lionsquare . He piooeeded to a first-floor room , where were eleven persons , Ritchie , Gurney , Shepherd , Able , Richardson , Greenslade , Burn , Scadding , Snowball , Martin , and Small . On searching the room he found three fireballs made of rag and tow , and one of them had printing type tied up in it , and . they a 11 appeared to hare been saturated with turpentine . Ritohie was sitting close to tbe place where hejfonnd the fireballs , and upon searching his person he found two knives . Ritchie ' s bat and coat also _smellsd of turpentine . Inspector Marsh asked Ritohie where he lived , but be refused to tell him , and he afterwards said that hehad just come from France . The door of the room was unlocked , and when the police went in all tbe men appeared to be _conversis * together .
' James Thompson , a sergeant of police , bad searched the _leading of Ritchie in Cross-court . Russell-court , Drury-lane , after Ritchie ' s arrest on the evening of 16 thef August He found 117 ball cartridges , four bullet-moulds , four bullets , three combustible balls made of brows paper and bitch , 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 , a piece of lead , " a quantity of tow , a small quantity ef shot and percussion caps ; also a piece of paper with some pencil writing on it , and two printed books on the Charter . Cross-examined —He searched Cuffay ' s garret , bat he did sot produce , when he was before examined , some papers which he fonnd there . Mr Ballantine requested that they might be produced . , .
The Attorney General said they . should all be handed orer to the learned counsel in the course of a short time . Mr Henry Bowline , undertaker , had been put iu posiesaioa on Tuesday , August 15 , of the Orange Tree Tavern , in Orange-street , Red - Lion-square . On Wednesday the 16 th , about a quarter to three o ' olock , a person come to engage a private room for the same evening at a quarter before fire 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 fire lhey were all assembled upstairs There were eleven of them . They asked for a
bagatelle board . When it was brought they a * ked for the balls . One of the men then took a piece of ohalk , and struok it into tbe fire hole , and then said , * That is ten—the red ball—fire _. fy God , to-night ! j The police eamein about twenty minutes after ; The people in the room were in a state of quietness , whispering together .. ; He found a card the next day nnder one oftbe 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 Greenslade and Burn had been appointed delegates from the Thomas Paine brigade . The court adjourned at seven o ' clock .
- WxBxrsniT . —The trial of Cuffay , Lacey , and Fay was resumed thismorning . Superintendent Rutt , ofthe _Ldirision of police j deposed that on the evening of the 10 th of August he went -ceompanjed hy a body of his men , to the Angel _public-boute 7 Webber ; street , Blackfriars-road . It was about five _. o ' eloek . ; They were all armed : In one ofthe rooms they found several men assembled . _Ther were sitting in a sort of tap . room . The names of uie men" were Winspere , ' irons , Prout Conway , A . Corby , Taylor , Cox , Poole , Gibbs , Herbert Morton , Samuel Corby , and Samuel Morgan . Mr Bodkin then-proposed to show what wasfound in the . room in Webber-street . when these persons were apprehended . " '"]'" : Mr Ballantine objected to the reception of tins
evidence , oh ' the ground that none ofthe prisoners had been shown in any part of the case to have had any connexion with the persons ' whose names had jast been mentioned . None of these men found ih ' _Webber-Btreetweresho ' wn to bare , attended any of . tiie meetings spoke fo by . the ' approver Powell . Mr Parry and Mr ParneU were also heard in support of the objection .. _-..,, . Ms Metcalfe also , contended that the evidence ' ought not to be received . With regard to the Orange -Tree apprehensions , he said thai there Ritchie and Gurney who were proved to hare been present at former meetings , we _« actually present among the persons so assemble . ; _!¦<** , _vftkregad to the Angel , there was no such evidence .
The Court ruled that the evidence was admissible , because , according to the evidence of the aooom plice , this meeting wasin furtherance ofthe original design of the conspirators . The witeesj then said that npon the place and the prisoners being -searched , _heaawono'ipike head taken from nnder -Conway's seat . It w « produced ; and appeared , to be abont eighteen inches long , very sharp pointed , and a most formidable weapon . WiUiam _Cottrell , police constable , ! proved that he searched . Conway , and took two pike heads from
-Some other constables proved that they found in tiie same room seventy-five rounds of ball cartridges . Upon Winspere's person was a piece of iron , _fonrang 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-head , and also _av screw wrench and sat for the purpose of fixing tbe pikeheads on to the handles . Upon Cox there was found a card denoting that he waa a member of the Chartist Association ..- Morgan also had a pike-head in his left coat _jwket and fifteen baBcairtridgss . * Mr Rogers , an inspector of polios , proved that after his apprehension he searched Morgan's lodging in York-street Market-street Sonthwark . Mr Fan ? objected to the reception of evidence of
anything found at Morgan ' s lodging . Mr _. Baron Piatt said the -Court entertained some doubt upoa the point and the Attorney General said he wonld sot press its production , at tbe tame time stating thathe _beUered it was _aamiiaible eridenoe , bnt he should not press the point . ¦ ¦ - . Inspector _Heynes proved tbat be searched tiie Cbarter Coffee-house kept by tke prisoner Lacey about nme . o ' cloek at night on tiie 16 th of August The prisoner was at home . Upon searching tbe dub-room be found a book purporting to be a list of names ,, addresses , and subscriptions , but for what object did . not appear . He also found . some cards denoting that the _Wallace-Brigade of Chartists held their . meetisea _. at Lacev ' _s _Ceffee-hoose , and there to
wu _ajsoa list o _^ Bubscriptions the' brigade / which appeared ' to haye . been first established onthe 7 th of Mareh in the present year . He _likewise fonnd a list of _subseriptionsjto' the Victim' Fund , amounting in the , / wbple'to' 3 s . Id . Variousother Chartist papers were also . found , and in one oTthem'the balance in the treasurer's bands was stated tobe ' eightpence . ' The inspector also _deposed that Jenes , who was one of tiie class leaders for the ' Stretfon ground distriot was fekep into custody in the _cofiee-room of Lacey ' i boose , and ,, upon his beibf searched , two loaded _pistoheontainingpowder andbal ) and primed , a soldier ' s bayonet , twenty-nine pistol cartridges , and in his hat a pound . canister of gunpowder were found . The bayonet was hidden under Jones ' s coat . ' ud
( _htiss-examined—He found _^ the books papers m a baxu the clab . rqom . Edward Kendall , a police sergeant , proved tbat be searched Jones ' s _lodgmgsatN 6 , 20 , Grey Coat-street Westminster , andfound . some . lead , some Chartist cards , part of . a broken bayonet fastened on a stick , and in a cup . there were sixty sine pistol bullets . Four ball cartridges were also found in . a cupboard in the prisoner ' s room . . Sergeant Thompson proved that he searched Rose ' s house on the 11 th of August aid'that he fonnd , among other papers a plan of a portion ofthe metro _, polls with marks where barricades were tobe ereoted ,
which had beea spoken to by Powell as haring 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 prored to be in the handwriting of Mullins . The other papers found at Rose ' s were also put in . They appeared to ba plans of different parts ofthe metropolis , ' some of them incomplete , and also a list of the members ' _-from different localities . Tbe total number of figures appeared tobe about 1 , 200 , apparently intended to be gathered from different Chartist brigades and localities . Threereceiptaformaking same explosive balls were also produced . Sergeant Thompson , at the request of Mr Parry
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_produoed some other papers that were found at the lodging of tte prisoner Cuffay . .... Thomas Barrett , a shoemaker , deposed-that he was a Chartist , and belonged to the Robert , Emmett Brigade . They held their meetings at a beer shop in _Praed-street Paddington , and another in , S _» 0 , ? barn-street , _Edgeware-road . He knew Mullins , aud bad beard him address them at meetings of tbeir district when both Chartist and Confederates were present On Sunday ,. _August 13 th , be heard him make a speech , during whioh he told the men they-must prepare forthe rising that was coming , and that it was necessary for each man to make a small sacrifice to aid the committee of progress , and the committea wonld judge by what they
did how thoy were to aot in the ' crisis that waB coming . Oa Toesday , the 15 th , there wsb another meeting in _Shonldham-street , at whioh about twenty persons were present , Chartists and Confederates . About twenty ' other persons also assembled on the same evening at tbe beer shop in Praed-street . . They , were all waiting for delegates to give in their returns , and to _reoeire their instructions how to act . The delegates did not come while he waited . On Wednesday , thel _& h of AugUBt , witness attended a Chartist meeting io Praed-street , about eight o clook in the evening , and at that time between 20 and SO of the brigade were present , and they were assembled for the delegates to oome and give their instructions . The subject was not _onenlv stated , bnt it was
generally 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 _msn named Smith tapped him on the shoulder , and Baid , My boy , I am glad you are come . I was afraid you were taken . ' Mullins replied , "They shall only takeme with my life , ' and then went away , andsoon afterwards a man came into the room and laid _amustet os the table , and he also saw two pike-heads 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 would , he said- meet them there . Some one asked how their
arms were tobe taken , snd the 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 all this was said . The party then all left the house in parties of fwe , three / and feur , at intervals between . ' _Witness went to Crown-street with one or two more , but he did cot know tbeir names , and when they arrived at tbe street in question , he saw a number ofthe men who had formed the meetings the same night . Cross-examined by Mr Parry—Witness was first called upon to giro eridenoe at the committal of _MullinB . He joined the Emmett brigadeion Whit Sunday , and before-and since tbat period hehad
worked at bis trade as a shoemaker . He did so as a sincere moral force Chartist , andhe only agreed . to betray them wben he ascertained the rillanous part they were acting . He first began to betray them about a month ago . On the 16 th of August he did not intend to betray tbem , and he weuld swear'he bad net communicated with the police before the 16 th .- He came forward as a volunteer to give evidence for the . good of society . ( Alaugh . ) Wonld swear : he had no other motive , and he had not received-any money except for his loss of time . He might bare receired as much as two pounds since last Tuesday , week . Be did not , know _Powell , and never saw . him until last Tuesday week , when Mullins was examined at Bow-street , but he had no _conversation
With bim . . About four years ago he . was tried for taking som ' ebreadout of a baker ' _a shop , which was done on a drunken _spree , ' and was sentenced to be imprisoned for four months . Before that he had been committed in Berkshire for a month for poaching . He was never charged before with baring committed any other felony . < Since the oharge about the bread he had bean accused of having a pint pot unlawfully ih bis 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 bim with stealing a coat , a coat-cape , et a cape of a dress . He once sold a cape for sixpence ; he did not know whose ' itwas—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 oharged him with stealing the cape . They nerer spoke to him about it . He knew a Charles Jones ; Jones never found a handkerchief of'his in bis possession . He had not been often taken to station houses . The bread stealing took place atWilles _- den . He was not ; whilst living there , charged with , being fa a ' wine ' cellar for an ' unlawful ' purpose . He could not remember how long fie had been out of prison'when be joined the Emmett Brigade . He did net remember ever being ; , induced lo urge persons to procure arms and join the physical force movement of the Chartists . Be nerer did so to a man ' named Garrett , or _anyoneelsel * He did not
. _! . . .. „„» n 1 Sa a — .. r . ' _m-m . _aA _fi ..- — . lt _. — il— 1 bt 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 bad two pistols with him , and he _wished to explain that he met a man who had a handkerchief with two pistols in it and three gross of ball cartridges ,. as he stated , and he asked bim to takp them- _^ . _bis hpnse , as he was afraid the police had found out thatthey bad been making cartridges . He accordingly . took them to his house . ' and left one pistol and the
cartridges there , . and brought the . otb , er , pistol out with him In his pocket , and he saw Garrett and showed Mmthe _pistpt . -If he told Garrett that he niade the cartridge * , it was a ! lie . Be conld not ray that hedid not tell him . He told him that a break : but was _expected . . He will not swear that he did not tell him . that hehad been making ball cartridges , If he did , that , too , was a lie . He did not ask Garrettto go to the Seven Dials . He asked himifhe would be there . Mr Parry . —Where . -
¦ Witness . —! do not know where . He knew a person named 'William New . '; He gare him a note on Monday last when he and abont twenty others were laying their , heads together and shaking their fists at me . . { The note was read . It . _cautioned New to abstain ; from putting _Wmself forward , as he was marked and looked after . There -would a thing appear after be ( Barrett ) had got bis liberty that would astonish the country ; * He owned that be was a coward , and was seeking his own ; safety . ] Witness continued " : he _didihot think himself at liberty wben he wrote tbat note . He ( Barrett ) is guarded by the police , and accompanied by one officer at i time . He did not tell New that he was going to Southampton _, and was to have £ 1 a week aa lone . ' as he
lived . He did say thathe was going to Southampton . Would swear he-did not de this in order to induce New not to come forward and contradict him . Would swear tbat be never told New that he did not intend to go to work again , and that hU uncle had sent him some money . . Re-examined—He . returned the pistols and cartridges the same night to the person who gare them to bim . He was well known by the names of Hell-fire Jack of ToMg Bombshell . . George Daris _depossd that he was a member of the Wat Tylerbrigade " of . Chartists at Greenwich , and he was accepted as a delegate . He attended a com . mittee meeting held at the George , Old Bailey . This committee was formed on the day of the trial of Ernest Jones inthis conrt , and he was present at
that meeting . MnllinS _j Rose ,, Payne , and others were present ; Mullins inquired first whether any members , of . the old committee _^ appointed on Whit Monday were present . . Witness being one answered ' Yes , ' and , Mullins then directed the . _delegstes to go on one side of the room and the . committee onthe other , and after a short eonsultatiop they assembled together again , and WuUinsjth ' en _saidit was _asbame the prisoners should go to prison without one struggle to rescue them , and hesaid that as the Chartist prisoners were taken to Coldbath-fielda they would have to pass through Cow-cross ,, when a friend ; whom he considered tobe Daly , would be ready , to lead out the troops to rescue them . _c "' ¦ _'* ' ¦ - Mr Parry put it . to the Court whether this , evidence , wbich was quite new , waa really relevant to the ¦
urescu * nuns , Baron Watt . —Why did you not object before ?' _MyParryl—We * knew nothing of the nature of the evidence . We were _finite taken by surprise . ; : _Cross-examinMibn _continued-i-I _attended several meetings / from this timeup to ' tbe 16 th of'August , at the Georgein 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 token down in writing , and I signed it I attended one meeting on the 15 th , and the particulars were taken down'in writing . ' J .... Inspector Marks , inspector ofthe Greenwich division of police , deposed that he wis in communication with the last witness , and he made a report of what occurred at the meetings , and witness took it downin writing , and Daris signed it He identified
the reports produced as those so token ; Daris was then recalled , and the Attorney Generalproposed to put the papers into his hand to refresh his memory . Mr Ballantine objected , and tbe witness was ex amined npon his recollection of the circumstances only . : ;•' ;; The _witneiBBsid he was present at the meeting at the Lord Denman , in Suffolk-street , on the night before . the intended rising , and he prored tbat _Mullki , _Cnffay , Laoey , Payne , Fay , Allnctt _, and Brewster , - were present at that meeting . The Attorney General then said that as the witness had omitttd the names of some persona who were present , therefore he proposed to put the paper into his hand to refresh bis memory .
Mr Ballantine objected to this course , and argued that the witness ought not fo be allowed to see the paper for the object suggested by the Attorney General . After some discussion , the Court deoided that this witness might look at the statement taken down by the inspector , in order to refresh his memory
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bat that he must speak from his memory , aud not fwm what was contained in the paper . Ihe examination of the witness was then resumed . He aaid-I recollect being at the Lord Denman tbe day before the intended . rising . Twenty-eight or thirty persons were present - Ritohie _wob _nmong them , and a person named Johnson ( Powell , the approver ) was likewise present . Mullins was chairman at that meeting , and he and Brewster , Cuffay , fayne and _Lsoey went out as a sub-committee . Tbey all returned in about three quarters ef an hour except Lacey , and Mullins said ; they had come to tbe _conclusion to bare an 6 utbreak on the following evening , and that he himself would take the Seven Dials district , and Payne , Brewster , and Baisett were to lead
those other divisions . Tricoloured bands were distributed for the leaders , and witness had two given to him , one for himself , and another for a delegate who could not attend . The . witness then proceeded to giro a detail of what occurred at this mee ting , corroborating the evidence of the approver . He deposed that Ritohie , was to command-the _'Lumina" ?!{ . as the firemen were termed , who were to meet at the Orange Tree , on the 16 th , and that ,-the password , by which he was to know them was 'Justice . ' ae _ajss said that a person who was one of the bail 0 « 5 iS ?* _Tt WM al 8 ° Present at the meeting on the l « h . He _was ; likewiae present at a previous meeting , when _Mu'lbs proposed that each delegate should provide four men who ware , willing to ! fire _hooses , and do anything of that kind that might be r I _i ° _^' andCDffa - r at the same meeting remarked that it was no _ueq now mincing the matter for all their neoks were mdanger , and they migbt as well speak out plainly . HeoHlv knew _JohnsK
that name , and he had no , idea that he -was communicating with'the police until he read an account of hisexammatipnattfae police court He bad . no deabeforetbent hathewasaspy , and . he was the last man he should have , suspected . He said 'that at another meeting some person , who was a stranger to hiro , represented that the Irish Brigade had all provided themselves with muskets and several _roundsof ball cartridges , and they were ready to act in any manner in co-operation with the Chartists . The Visionary President , ! referred to by the _jwitnose Powell , he said he understood , was , - in reality , intended to be a person named Churchill , , them residing in France ; and ali tbe Chartists in eaoh locality were to pay a farthing a week each for his support . , . — . ' . _'••< .,, ¦ ¦ _¦¦ ¦'• l The Attorney General here asked the witness whether at any of tbe meetings it was proposed that men should go round tbe town at night and see what force the government had at its disposal f
Mr Ballantine objeoted : to the question , Itwas like asking thiwitneas 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 suoh an observation . In the course of a long examination like the present it was impossible always to keep within the _atriot rules of evidence . ¦; - ... ,- _.-. ¦¦• ¦ . ¦ . . ¦ ,:,. -The witness then , proceeded to state ,-that Mullins told him tbey intended to erect barricades from the Seven Dials down _Drury-lane . toSt Mary's Churoh in the Strand , andhe showed him a plan with the
barricadeB erected upon it He also , said that Temple Bar would make a good barricade , and then tbey were to go down to the waterside , and make sure of Chaplin and Home ' s premises . . Another party ! fas to eo into the City and to take possession of St Paul ' s Chnroh . ( A laugh . ) The witness said that he attended the meetings as a delegate from Greenwich ; and was acknowledged in that capacity . _< He said tbat be knew Dowling as the secretary of the Davis Club , end he knew that he waB a'Confederate , and Payne , Mullins , and Brewster were specially appointed to draw up plans for attacking the polioe and the soldiers .
Cross-examined by Mr Ballantine . —I was sot a Chartist , but merely joined them for the- purpose of obtaining information . I wished- to ingratiate my-i self with : these people * on : purpose- that I might ; betray tbem . I was not employed as a spy by anyone , but I created myself a spy . I had no object of etao-Inment , but merely desired to protect _lifp 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 exneotto be piid any more remuneration than _willmake np for ' the loss of trade I have sustained . The government have not made me any promise of remuneration . ' For Ithe last few weeks ,. the people , of Greenwich have suspected the of , being a spy , and I hare lost my trade in consequence of it . I was not _examined befofe a magistrate , and lam eure the prisoners would ' bare no means of knowing what I was _eoinff to _aav . ' f
came here today as a voluntary _witnesi . 'I applied to be examined , audi was not summoned _orsub-Ecenaed . I'have , been asked _toappearas a witness ; ut I refused . I came * forward in' consequence of what I read in the newspaper ofthe _oross-exsminatio - 'of Powell / and seeing 'that he made ' rather ' a bad figure , and knowing that Such charges ' could not be brought against me , I tbougbt _* I ' won ! d Vorue forward and give evidence oftbe truth '; _Tthoughtithe jury wbnldnot believe him on his oath : ' ¦ - » _: _' ¦ ' _*• F ' Mr _^ Balla ' ntine _^ _-Perhaps ; after reading : what yoti did of him , you would not ' -yohrself believe bim ; 6 b _hisoath ? : . " _, ¦ : _¦" _, . ?¦ _•• • . _- ' . . " _¦' - .. _¦ - / Witness- * , should in this matter , because I know be spoke the * trhth . ' ¦ ' ¦ - - - * ; ¦¦ T ¦ . •' . _Ctostf-examihatipn continued—I used to carry
loaded pistols for my own protection ; T .-herer got * up any meeting myself . _| communicated with'thejirispecter of police this ' morning ; , and asked bis adfice whether I should como up or not ; and by bis advice Ididso' / •'•¦; : ; ' " " ' * •¦ ¦ ¦ _** ! - " - ¦ • ' _- By the . Attorney _Geherfl—The paper ! : iaw _Jvas the _MoRNraa _AnvsniisBR . ' I read the ' _crosi ' -exam jnation of Powell , and I immediately _communicated with the'pblice _/ Before I read the " paper I had , no intention togivoeridence , ; . _-,- c . •' ' ' j _,, ; , Charles Baldwinso ' ii deposed that he was a class leader of the Lambeth Chartist locality , ' whioh held ite meetings at tha Chartist Hall , . _Wobber-street _' . He deposed thathe ; was present at the " meeting ; on tbe 15 th , and that the proposition was made for ; tn 6 ' rising to take place on the following day , and witness
and tbe other : _olasa leaders : were told , 'they were to bring their ' men armed tbe following night , and , those who had hoi got arms were to be ' told' where titey would gat arms . They would meet first at the Peacock , and then they would go Jo the Broadway " , _Wjest-. rninster , ' where ihey _weri to meet the' De _^ _n-street locality . ; He was also told tbat there / were to be three othjer _diviBiohs assembled at different parts of the town- Af eight , o ' clock on the _ereniu ' g of ( tbe 16 th he' went ; to the ! Peaoock _, and found , Morgan , Conway , Pedler , Winspere , and Chester there , and Pedlar produced some coloured ribbons for tbe delegates to wear on their arms , so that' their men might : know them . ' ' . He also p _" roduoed _somegjibpowier ; and made cartridges with it . Witness had a . Bistoi
with him , and'Pedler gave' him a cartridge to oharge it with . Inconsequence of something the landlady said they left the _Peacookjand _p-rwegded to _. theApgel in Webber-street and _abeu ' t three minutes ' after they got there , the policecamejn _. _^ acd appr _^ hecded them ! He added , that he . had" given information to' the ? olice about three o ' olock in the afternoon of the 6 th . ' ' ¦ . _i . " .. " "• : _;• " : ' ' ¦ , ; , : ¦ ; Cross-examined , —He gave no information . to jibe polio _? until that time . ' He was . taken into . custody with the others , and had a loaded pistol in his pocket at the time . He had a pike head a short time before ,, but he gare it . to Conway to takeeare of , and
it was found . upon him when he was taken . ! He brought the pike head , and' carried it about with bim , in order that he might not _besu ' _speotedby his companions . Witness wasnot examined before the Grand . Jury ,, and . the prisoners had ho .. means of knowing what evidence be wss to give . _,. . Henry Jones , . a police constable , deposed , that shout halt-past fonro ! olock on the' morning , of . the 17 th of August . he made a search in . Clerkenwell ohorohyard , and found a basket containing 280 ' perfect bail cartridges , and about . fifty in an unfinished state . > ' " _Crojs examined . —He did not expect to find this basket when he . commenced , the search . It wis quite by accident
Evidence was then adduoed to ; show , that about eight o ' cleok' on the evening of ithe 16 th of c Apgust a number _ofpersona were _tseen to leavethe _^ beeriBhop in Shonldham-street , somo of them being armed , and some i were beard to tell otherB to [ come _themBelres , and to bring as many of their friends with them as theycould . _-,, „ . _ .,..,,. ¦ . . , . Thomas Hoyle , a police oenstable , deposed _ithat , on the night of the 16 th of August * , a great number ef persons , having * the appearance'of Irish labourers and engineers , who were strangers to the beigubourhood , assembled in the * Seven Dials ; _anoVin cense-: quenoe of their proceedings , he gave information at the polioe station . ' > . ' ¦
Inspector Black . deposed . that about ten o ? clook he went with a body of thepolWe _' to the _Seren Dials , ?? V ° HS sbont a h - dtei aiid . fiftyper 8 onsassem-? . _te we . _™ _^ _Grangers to' the _/ aeighbourhood . Witness : dupene'A them , and remained upon the spot with his men untilone o ' clock the next mommg . ' _i" •/ Mr Warrington , an operatire chemist / _iexpilamfd ' t _^ , _^™« _^ . ttie recipes _^ found at Rose ' s lodgings , andhe described one of them as ) being calculatod io igmte _spontaneoussy after a short time , and acoording to the qnan _^ ty _. pf water Used iuits ' . composition , and another was a Tery powerful ; combustible , but whioh . would requireto beIgnited before it wduldact . ' : Mr Kendellthen . gave evidence as to the composition of the fire balls , and this closed the case for the prosecution , _i .
Mr Ballantine then addressed the . Court , and said he should have been prepared to go on _withithe defence : upon the originalfaots , but , after _theaddii tional evidence tbat bad been adduced , '/ he felt that he must ask the indulgence oi the Oourt to allow time to consider the fact of that additional testimony . _.- ,. , ¦ _., _- :. _; -Mr Baron Piatt acoedsd to the application , and at a quarter to six o'clock the trial was again ad . joumed . . ¦ "> { Continued to the Eighth Page , )
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, , ' DEMOCRATIC BANQUET IN PARIS . ¦ _ _- . " iMpoBMNr sp sscn of _iebb _*; whin . ' ° _n _|« day , the 22 nd , inst ., a dinner was held in the Chalet , Champs _Elysoes , in _ceramemoration of tbe Republic founded the 22 _sd September . 1 * 702 . The guests numbered five hundred , _inoluding one hundred of the ' Mountain' members of the National Assembly . " , , ' ,- ¦ .- ; . -, _^ . _hePfKS «> B » l ( M . AunETDE _PoVBAVBAU ) _Said—Mtis ms I The greatest honour that on be doae to an 9 K : _R , _ePftwWM » is to be called on in hia old age to pre-8 J " , f ban _^ of Democratic RepubiicariB , _sb-Bembled for the celebration of the anniversary of tbe R pub ic which oiir fathers foundedin 1792 . In 1790 _I'assiBted atthb federation ' which took place in commemoration of the taking of the B _^ tile . It wsb a _ m
federation which filled all French hearts with a love of liberty and with a bitter bate _againsta _murderou ? tyranny , I was an active witness of that unparalleled revolution of whioh . fancy , itself cannot now reproduce : the image . It regenerated , our country ; it raised mankind from that slough of shame in wnich they had lain p ' _rostratej weltering , over 8 iuce'inen congregated , in _sobiety ; and ' it broke the fetters of that slavery whioh * _ba-i oppressed them for many centuries . Citizens 1 This revolution was not made _forus alone . To free * the world was its destiny ; and it is . now accomplishing thiB neble mission . A _ource on those who cannot recognise that great truth . -But no—let ub rather pity them , for , they are struck with blindness , and that very blindness will prevent them frem arresting the . ' progress of humanity , marked
but by the finger of God . whom they misapprehend _. The Democratic Republic , that Brand social truth , founded by the revelation of the 24 th of February and based on the viotory oftbe people , on tbe sovereignty of all , and en the _saored'doguiaiof liberty , equality _, and fraternity—thatRepublic willbe eternal ; it will outlast human ! tj—it will not perish as long as one of ub shall live to defend it . ( CheW ) . Citizens , let ns swear it ; I am the first to swear it , and I take , that oath in the presence of this assembly , in the presence of men whb are voted _tothep ' ublie welfare . I ' am sure they ' Will not put me to the blush . God bless the Democratic Republio ! At the close of the banquet M . Lkoru Rollik rose and addressed tbe assembly as follows - —Citizens , — The anniversary of the 22 nd of September , 1792 . Let us drink-to that memorable day in which the
Convention proolaimed the Republio in tbe very palace in ' whiejp oh-the previous night it' abolished Royalty ! TesJ ' ablessing onthe R _^ nblio which our fathers decreed ; and which we hav ? the vocation 'to make everlasting , ' by establishing it oh the indestructible basis of social institutions ; - > ( Cheers . ) A _blessing ' on tbe Republio , the tutelary genius of the peoples that are groaning for liberty like ourselves . { Cheer ? . ) 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 toe * eld aristocracies . ( Cheers . ) Citizens ! I say a _bleising . on the Republio consolidated 'by social institutions ; for all of us that are here assembled feel that unless the laws are strongly imbued with that spirit we ) shall
again bare : the name . without the . thing itself . ( Cheers . ) In that case we shall be quite aB , unforto > nato . ' _as our fathers , who were but the prophets , and who never saw , the " land of promise which they pointed out to ' ns . ' ( Cheers . ) I knew people will say , y oiir silly hopes-are but a socialist phantom . It -is bnt tHe _^ _old'bJuarrel which wai made with bur pre decessers ; l and to whioh they retaliated by gifts which ¦ we enjoy to this very day . Socialism ! Was it Socialism or was it policy , when in order to restore to mankind ; 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 appjying the levelling power of the law to the inequality qf _succes-. _sibh-tellmej was that Socialism ' Oi was' if _' pQlioy ?
( Cheers . ) ' When , in spite ef the opposition from tbe clerg _^ and nobility the ' equality -of publio imposts was introduced—was that _Sooialisra or was it policy ? In freeing _industryiflrom its former bondage by breaking the fetters of the old corporations _^ -did they aot likeSopialistsorp , _oWio ' _iana ? . ( Cheers . ) _. _.. _And _^ hen tpey _. _decj-eed an infinite' divjflioh of _clerical , , communal , _apd noble properties—when they parcelled . them out to , ' make them' so . many , instruments of liberty under the tbot bf man—was it Socialism * ? It was Republicanism ! ( Cheers . ) What must be tbe madness ' of a'legislator who would establish- apolitical priqciple ; without givipg it a firm baBis in social institutions ? ,-Is it . indeedSocialismwhep we _. sayno republio-without a right to labour ? for there oan bono sovereign people where society is not boned to
tender assistance .. ( Cheers . ) Wo ! it is not _Socialis ra—it _is'Repnblioarji'jm ! 'Aad when we , say there _must ' -be' pubiio institutions of credit , for without them _useUas ' credit will eat up'the ' earnings ef the labourer—ia it Socialism f N 6 , ' it is Republicanaim ! ( Cheers ) _. YeB ; itis Republicanism _^ andthe , . adversaries . of the _jkrueRepnblio _arOiawarei that that Republio , ifiQnoe . _rootedtit _ythe _. _morals oLthe , country ' . can . nflt . b 9 < ffiVer _^ town »); It is for Ms , reason they _eaj _deat our , to puzzle the pubheby a Sleight of band ,, and to aot upon t _^ _eWearB'Jby C j Ohfou ' _nding't'iyo perfeotly distinct things—Socialism and the _jiracticai Republic { la _Bepubliqiit appliquity . ( Cheers ;) 'We know their old _-trioks . -Did not the Jesuits at one 'time raise a cry against Atheism _j- and-the Monarchists of _< 1790 . < did they not bellow . against the , agrarian law ?
( Cheers , ) . : I ; feel a certain pleasure in . exposing this _syajflmafio ( _xonfusiQn 1 ; be , t , tTJeen ,, _Soeialism , and . the Republio , whioli the enemies of . ' the latter , are _attempting to make . ,, _Thiscprifinualmisapplication of terms prom' their impbtenCe "'' a ' nd ' the '' necewity to whioh they are' reduoed to bow th ' eirheada before the will ef the p ' eopleli and to reap _^ ot ' the ' _TCrf word- with which it saluted its victory of the 24 th of February . ( Cheera ;) ! -Thi > . p ' _raotidalRepubliOj which is to penetrate into our _lawSiand morals , ! land 'which is to produce _^ or each of us , a just equilibrium _oftdigoity _andfiOi'for . _tr-this _. Rep _^ blio howcanit . be obtained ? _TOjWreat H from our enemies we _, want unity , bold- ' ness , ihdomjitableresolntfoh . ' '' We . ' wabt devption'that shrinks ' hot from any laorifioe _^ hioh _' we _mly be called 1
' ento ' fflake li ( oheeri ) : i and _hOthing in the world can prevent bur obtaining * Hitt realUyr _Binoerin spite of Jthe duplicities ; of the corruptions , of the accumulated powers _. of . the monarchy , _; we have -obtained its name ; They must , indeed ,, be mad who . . would . wish to , oppose , ub , j they ; cannot have seen the _admjirable drama , of the , 24 th fit _^ February ,, ythf _/ n ' tb _^ . _iProrisional _'Gorern ' men | i _-wasbiit ' the _interpreted of the immehBe vbicoof the ' people in aims . ' Tbthoie who appeared to hesitate it was said , We want the pro ; clamation 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 diip ' ed . '"( Cheers . ) Now ' . - ' what we want is to be mindful of the people ' s will , of the 24 th of February ;
and to be united , 'bqld _. ahd devoted ; By these means the country will be ' greatand the Republic _invinoieb . ( Cheers . ) Yes , my brethren , we want union . Alas ! so did our fathers , sometimes . Let us beware of that danger to jour prosperity . * 'I am aware there are laggards on the road of progress—men _rsTro confide at all risks , and , wbp are less ; afraid ofthe whims and deviations of power than'bf the chanceB of Us being _ehalssp , _; TheircohviotionB are resp ' eotable , fortheir patriotism cannot be doubted , and I know their eyes will one day be ' opened . As for us ; who . are more resolute , let _usnotsla _' cken our _Bteps ; they will Boon 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 i . U _„» _i : _»» _fnlka _Jiinnavafhaf . Mimiinnnfl nil . TYnmadrat UJVIV ¦ - _—*
_nijUQUVJJUU _VW _. _UMO _.. _............ .. — . —__ ,, _„ . And what ere our dangers ? The Pretenders ? The Royalists ? They . _iqay be very dangerous tea Re public ' that Btands ' on a rotten , ' on ah _insinoere foundation ; but they will disappear before the breath of the people ' s will whenever the people wills it . The Pretenders , indeed ! what can they possibly say ? Thatthey want a monarchy f Whyr- 'doyon _think they , would dare to _^'" say that tea people who in eighteen years hare tw , ipeovertbrown tbe _monsrohy ? who j in 1830 hurled -down two ' generations of Pretenders , and two more generations in 18 i 8 ? _Hasnot this people still the same hearts , the same arms , the same weapons ? No ! they cannot say that , bnt they will talk to the people of interests sacrificed and of riahts misunderstood . But if . after all , those _riahtB
are . sanotiojiea _, if those interests are guaranteed by , a sincere and , _ttulyiomestic' Republio , what can the Pretender say , thep ? ' What ground has he ta stand on ? Hecanhot t but becomes simple citizen , and he will be forced ' _to-rxiix . _^ rlih _^ and be lost in the great crowd , . j _^' e will , be less > onsidered-than others , for hewlllhaye done _lessf-w-ryfce than _othera . ( Cheers , ) _jlhave now proved to'jou that there can . be no pos-Bible danger if Bern , and steady hands plant the Rer publio . But if the' ground is merely touched with what tbey call tenderness and care ,. there ' , bah be . no spreading of roots , and certainly ih such a case there iB an imminent danger . Well ; then , citizens ! the question which naturally _presentB'itself ,. is ,. what has been ! done for the people since the 24 th of February ?
What haB been done ? It -was at hrst _tnpugnt that the _abpljtion ofthe tax upon salt was a satisfaction due to public . opinion , whioh had been oh the point , of obtaining it . _ere ' s irom Royalty . It was but a vain illusion , for that tax is now being re-imposed . An endeavour was next made bf conferring an inoal-( Oalable benefit upon ' public ' health , by abolishing altogether the dut y on meat and on drinks , both of which weigh so heavily upon the poor . They are _K _re-introducea . ( Voicei True ! Very true !') And ttelaboiirer . the _. _ttian whose life _paaseB between the cruel exigencies of the soil and the Bhll . aore I cruel on ' es of capital-he whose only . _connexion with is ob i
the _. _state and . its poney oarneu _» w » wv gatberer-what is he to think of a Republio , whioh _,, ln ' tbe ' very midBt of peace , desires to add , to his burden ? ( Voices : 'That ' s the thins ! Y » s , yes ! Very good indeed . ' ) ThhVthen , is what has been done for the people Since the 24 th of February . I am well aware ' that the people ; have at _timps . been relieved , that some millions hare _bsen toBBed to . _its misery , and tbat such , things _; were calledI _assistanpe ; but _f'bow petty dies suoh relief appear if compared to . the grand institutions of credit and of assooiaition , of mutual _asBistanoe as " an instrument of , labour , iwhich ought to have been founded : ( Cheers . )
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But , no , ! There / is nothing « _ratd ; _ther _^ is _luihitB fruitful ; there' is' nothing truly _Repnblican it is always the old -luavinss of the paBt . ( Voiccb : 1 True , true . ' ) . And what is the answer , citizens ! The aoftwer i _; , that the state is poor ' . ' The Republic cannot _sffrd to make such found 'tions , for there is no money . I am free to ' confess thatl oould never _undeistatd this objection in so fertile , so : powerful a country as . ours is . I : say tbat _tjir _resourefs of wealth are innumerable , and that nothing is wanted but the skill to dig ohannelsfor them in order to direct them to the Treasury , ' arid thence to pour them out to the poor . Was not the country ruined by the follies of ' Louis ' XIV . and Louie XVI . ? , And yet , waB the first revolution stopped in the accomplishment of its great work by monetary
considerations ? After the enormous sacrifices of our revolutionary wars , we had the Empire , which , by ita forced - requisitions , by its extraordinary imposts for the detence of the territory , in some manner exhausted the resources of tbe country . We thought so , at least ; and yet , when the Restoration came on , France found 1 , 500 , 000 , 000 to ransom herself from the foreigners , and shortly afterwards another milliard was wrung from France for the especial benefit of the aristocracy . And shall 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 France cannot find money to sustain labour ? ( Cheers . ) No ; , it is net possible ! Money creeps into corners , and hides itself ; but , it is not wanting —( tiue)—it cannot be wanting ,:
Consider that we havehad thirty-two years of peace , and , in spite of the _losaes since the 24 th of February , money miiatbe somewhere . ('' Yes , yes !') There must , therefore , be some financial possibility of discovering the place where it hides , when' it shuts itself up like a miser . (' Yes , yes !') 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 ber cammerce ? , England could afford to array six coalitions against lis and to pay their wages ; she raised m _^ liona of men from the earth ; she was able to ' Bubdue ths genius of Napoleon , and to _draio the last ; drop from our vehs in 1815 ; and France , so abounding in real property , should fail in finding money for her people of labourers ' .. Impossible , and those who say ao
calumniate their country . ( Violent-cheers ) Believe me , citizens , distress ofthe people _ib- onr . only real danger ; and tha danger is want oi labour , the atrophy of trade , and the ; want of new and bold _enterpriies , in shortj the old hacknied school of . finances . That is the weak-point of ' the question . Of course ic may change its face ; it may turn out poison , if- Franoe , sincerely republican , wants the genius by some grand measure to escape from this fatal whirlpool . A bank for deposits , anticipated imposts ; , in faot , there are , a hundred ways _. i Bsi tbe thing is to find out the tenet that , the Republio makes the people happy , and the nation peat ; that net only it meets domestic discomfort , but baa also resources to defend its principles ef fr & terniiy and _emancipation ' abroad . If this be not , every shadow
ot a danger may grow Ih size , and jeopardise the Republic i Bat itis _ridibulonB . toaay tbat it is , money that iB wanting ; believe me , the one thing wantmg for finding the , money , _is _. an enterprising apd resolute man . Our fathers , indeed , lived -on , expedients ; but such is the life of revolutions , and what after aH dota . it matter , if tbey bnt live and save humanity ( Cheers . ) What a namber of honest financiers ws have had from Necker"to _Cambon , bnt tbey all trod the beaten path of the past ; and thus they struggled in rain . to confront the necessities of tbe revolution . Cambon came ; was he , indeed , a financier ef great reputation ? No ! but he was a great citizen .. He kept his eye on the end , and , baying the _audaoiff which the _ciroumstances required , he saved the . Republic Is there no , other Cambon ? ( Cheers , ) I
hare 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 . tbe bands of her oppressors , and left alone in her helplessness * Oh _> how slow is the progress of humanity , and how greatly we might contribute , to quicken it ! Abire three centuries bare , gone by since , Maohiayeli , moaning oyer the wretchedness ot bis , country , _spokaj of ber as yearning for' the advent 'of a liberator Who would stop the'devastations in Lombardy , _Toscany and Naples . He prayed to Heaven . for-tia arm of an avenger to free her from the humiliating and hated yoke of the stranger .: Frftncemightbare been that avenger . Italy had a right to reJy , pp har and France has not moved her hand to assist Italy *
( Cheers . ) , Yes , Ilialyhad , a ngbt to rely upon , onr help * , for Milan once taken , our troops ought to havs crossed the Alps . Milan i ' b taken , hut eur muskets ire at ' rest and French vessels are impassible spectators of the sacking of Messina . Is _thisa Kepublican policy , or are we perhaps wrong in our dates ? ( Cheers ;) As for Germany _^ I cannetunderstand ths line of conduct of our government ., It is evident , that gorernment does not understand the _movement , now going on on the other side , of tha Rhine , * dr „ if it _upderstands , ; it , it misoonceivei the - interests oi France _.,, The , future of Germany isrepresehtedbya yeuh ' g , ardent ; , and' bold democracy that sees ib tbo unity of the country : the _promisa of liberty . ''Ths unity of Germany means the democracy cf Germany , and _demoCraoy means an acquired sympathy , for
France _.. Ask those who are well informed whether tbis definition ia not true ? I am a tare of that ; democracy being accused of pbuis of _invMJpn _, against us ; tbis j ' s . but a _; iriok of the old aristocrats te ruin her fair fame iu our eye . England , espochlly , _takes . a leading part in this , andybn ' ees _' ths consequence . Affairs in"Geirmany erenow gome on in such a manner' that for the fature . we . shall bs placed there in the same situation as we arein Italy . We shall aot under the influence of England . I _ooafess my , deep grief at the _;^ sores of . em * interna _^ _ftotsv The miseries that surround ua on all sides find wofd echoes inmy Boul ,: _but , these are but _domesticgrisrancea after all * , we _sufieri so to say cnfaniillt ; but abroad we , see our glery falling a prey ; to England ; abroad ' we are , threatened by the leaguoof tbishostils _aristBOracy ; abroad we are burdened with _» n > allianoewith that rery government which ' fori eighteen
years hasoo fatally » weighed down upon _eqr _jotereste . This ib too . much for me , i ( Cheers . ) , All this must be remedied ; most qf u ? are _oldchttmpiqna of j _^ berty ; _moBtpf us have gene through severe , trials , jexy wel _< , _theO i let us double eur efforts ; let us confpnnd the deeper _andlighter tihte ofRepub _' _bcaniBm _;; Let us hare but one objeot , namely ; glory , and'the _iaterest ofthe country . Let ua hare but one _sentiment namely , no rest , no tranquillity ' until the Republic though-thrown but of its course for a moment , shaR have returned to its true road . . . ( . Cheers . ) , :, _^ o , no rest until , calling upon the memory of our fathers , we can say , , 'flail to you , whp . _enthroned theBlepablic ' . ' .. Take care ; if we dp not follow their example , if , like thera , we are hot ardent , _in'devbtibn , and ef an iron will , then be , ' sure our _seBS will ciifse oar memory , and' tbey , indeed , 'will not say , * Hail to tha men of the 24 th of February ! ' ( Cheers , and cries of Vive laRtpvbliqueDemotralique !) •>"> _-. n- _: ¦ :-, ' ,
At the conclusion of ; the banquet M . de _. Cormenin and M . Germain , made a collection for the wi _, ves and children of the transported insurgents , and obtained nearly 8000 f .
Thb Fraternal Democrats. The. 22nd Of Se...
THB FRATERNAL DEMOCRATS . The . 22 nd of September , the anniversary of the foundation of the French Republic , 1792 , being also this society ' s anniversary , has hitherto been celebrated by a public festival . This year the imposability of obtaining a public room suitable . for the occasion , together with other unfavourable _cijrcumstances , induced an abandonment ofthe usual course qf operations . Instead , afew members and friends of the society sat down to supper , in the sanctum sanetorum of ' L'Ami du Peuple . ' The place oi festivity was not inappropriately chosen , it being decorated with the portraits of the martyrs and heroes of Equality , who ' during the last Bixty years have headed the struggles of the suffering millions
against their oppressors . Julian Hakney presided , and after , the plain but substantial supper had been done justice to , gave the first toast : — Thc Sovereignty , of tte People . ' Responded to in an able address bf Samuel Kydd . The following toasts were then given : — .... t ., The day we celebrate—the Institution of the French Republio . Vive _hReptAlique ; demo _^ ratiquestsookile I Toltalre and * _-RouBSsauj the Immortal precursors ol the French-Revolution . ,, They prepired tbe way for mankind _^ mental fVesdcm , and the , . relgu of poHMoal and social justice . . _Theyloto . r . _i . 9 _fI _tboXlt-. of July , tbe 10 th of _AogBSt _, the * three iajs , of July , ' aad the' thW days' of February . _Kay . the principles of Equality , Wberty , and _Fraietnlty for whioh they contenaea _, become cstablishtt ' throughout the world ; ¦ ¦ ; " ¦ ¦ ¦ _¦•> ¦ , . , m-
The memories of the mart | r » who , havo yielded up their lives for tbe regeneration otinDnkunii lpcladlsi the _herolo victims of _* he four _dejs of June . . _Rsspsll , the people ' s choice ; aod honour to the trae democrats who voted for Bsspali , TboiS , _M Oabet : Louis Blano and , _CaassMUre , the _guesta 6 f the EnalUi people . May the ' ealles ' be speedUy ' re _» _toredito their cbHutry to build up the Democratic _andSosial _Republtv Ernest Jones and the imprisoned and expatriated da . _aocrats ol Great Britain and Ireland _, i The editors of the ; Niw Rbsmish Oaseiti , and _sno-• ess to the democrats of _Garmsny . Onr _feetrsyed brethren of Poland and Italj—victery shall yet ba theirs . The Agrarian Reformers of America .
Other sentiments were given , and the whole wera responded to in able and interesting speeches . The songs ot the evening included the Reveil du P « H _^ h j and Mourirpour la Patrie .
A Dumfries Paper Describes An.Exteaomjna...
A Dumfries paper describes an . exteaoMjnary potato * * weighing a pound and a half , whieh is so shaped as to represent with exactness the form of a cat in * a crow-b lag posture . - ' . ' .. , !; : ' ....
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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/ns4_30091848/page/7/
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