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' COMMEMORATION- OF Til AT GLORIOUS LESSON TO TYRANTS , THE DESTRUCTION OF THE FRENCH BASTILE BY THE BRAVE PARISIANS . JULY THE Hth , 1789 . AnniTeraaireduMJuillet , 1789 , en commemoration de la prise de ia Bastille , Par le Peuple dc Paris . The French Democratic Society celebrated the abote [ important event by a public sapper , at the White Hart Tavern , Drnrj-lane , on Tuesday evening , July the Uth , 1846 . About two hundred " citizens" sat down to supper , comprising Democrats
of all nations , amongst whom we noticed , Dr BerryerFonntaine , M . Michelot , Ernest Jones , Co lonel Oboreki , Carl Snhapper , H . Baner , J . Moll , Julian Barney , and T . Clark . , „ Amongst the decorations of the Hall , J » » ? " length stktue of "Justice . " Several of the fair sex graced the meeting by their presence , and appeared deeplyinterestedinthe proceedings of the evemag . The supper was well got up , and reflected great -credit on the worthy host , Mr . Roger * . After the removal of the doth , , . , ., ,. Dr . Bebbxbb Forai ^ . . who occupied the chair , rose to give the first sentiment , — Hie Iraternity « f all Nations . " . . ' ¦ , . ., . address in
The Chairman delivered an eloquent the French language , which was enthusiasticall > applauded . We regret that we have not received a - - np-rt of Ms speech . . . j Casl Scbawbr said , Citiiens and Brothers , allow me to support , with a few words , the toast given by our worthy chairman— " To the Fraternity of all . Nations . " * Citizens , the old national hatred and jealousies begin to disappear and make room to the fraternal sentiments ; the best proof of it is the Banquet this evening , for here we are united in friendship and brotherly love , men of nearly all European nations . ( Cheers . ) Many of our fathers fought against the French republicans who proclaimed the fraternity ef all nations , but we , their children , have other sentiments , and if ever France should raise
again the banner of liberty and equality , instead ot marching against her we shall go with her . ( Loud cheers . ) Our enemies are not the nations which fight for liberty and equality , our enemies are the oppressors of mankind , wherever they may be . ( Applause . ) A great sign ofonr time is also the fact , that politi cal parties disappear , and there are now in every country only tiro parties , Firstly , the party which believes in the progress of humanity , the party which has recognised the necessity of a social regeneration , -which desires it , and works for it . And . secondly , the party which wishes to maintain the statu quo , or to speak more properly , which wish to . retrogade ;
for mankind never can stop in ita march , it either mu 3 t advance orretrogade . ( Hear , hear . ) It is not doubtful which party wiU be victorious—for in our ranks , in the ranks of social and political progress , we count the nias 3 of the people ; enlightened by the Press , , we count the elite of savants and artists ; on our sideis-truth and justice , and these have always oeenvictoiious . ( Cheers . ) Onward then , brothers , let us hare faith in the progress of humanity , and tiie day will not be far distant when national wars will be unknown , when all nations on earth , united as sisters , will form one great and happy family , the family of the human race . ( Great cheering . )
Mr . Ebsest Jones rose to respond to the sentiment , and said , Citizen Chairman and Brother Democrats , —There has been an old fraternity reigning over th » earth—the fraternity of tyrants—the . fraternity of priests and their yeunger brethren , kings and conquerors . It was raised by fraud , it was supported by violence : nevertheless , it has clothed itself with glory , honour , and fame . But its glory , was the glory qt war—its honour , the honour of servitude—its fame , the fame of evil doing . ( Cheers . ) It was reserved for the present age to produce a . far nobler fraternity— the fraternity of nations . ( Cheers . ) This feeling is a glorious guarantee for the realisation of those words , which were once heard in an English Bouse of Commons , but never found an echo witliin
that house—" civil and religious , liberty all over the "world . " This fraternity , also , has its glory , itshonour , and its fame . Its glory—is the glory of peace ! Its honour—the honour of equality ! ( And , indeed , I scarcely known which is the most debasing , to be a tyrant or a slave;)—its fame is a Roman fame , that of deserving well at the hands of the coming republic . ( Applause . ) It has been tie game of tyrants to prevent this spirit of fraternity . They have , therefore , been the fosterers of cruelty and bloodshed . They have led nations to battle-fields , like herds to the slaughter . They have clothed thesescenes of murder , . with a false glory—and made the names of past massacres , the watchword of future fights . ( Hear , hear . ) This is a proud moment , my French , German and
English brethren ,-in which we will recall tho > e names , without one thriJl of anger or revenge ! In wMcu we can say : there our fat hew' contended—but they were the tools ef tyrants ! There great battles were fought , but they were the battles of tyranny ! ( Renewed applause . ) We will have no more such battles—and if king 3 , ( should such yet be ) are determined to quarrel , let them fight their battles out themselves , while we look on and laugh at their folly . They shall not have the strength of our arms , the blood of our hearts , and the freedom of our spirits ! ( Great cheering . ) Well may their robes be edged of the purple colour of blood . For bloodshed they raised their slaves' From bloodshed sprung nobility . Eyen now , in Germany , the
Schwerdtadel , or sword-created aristocracy , ranks above the Patrician . Their mottoes sound of the battlefield . Their blazons reek of the slaughter ! The aristocracies of Europe are the remaining type of the royal foundry , from which issued the statutes of our slavery . - ( Great applause . ) The Preach revolution has taught-kings a lesson , though as well as nations , they now know , that the old game of war will do ao longer . They know , that if they once raise the nations up In arms , those arms will not be weilded as of old . The people will use them in their own defence , not in that of their tyrants—for their own rights , not torn themsuicidically against their own hearts . Tlienre , governments study peace . Thence Monarchs intermarry their families . Tsar of Russia
weds a Prussian Princess , and allies his children with German houses , that there may be peace ! Peace will be , —because the nations will have peace—not because their rulers intermarry , and grow must plentiful in their generation ! ( Cheers . ) Government would make every man look on his neighbour as a foe—we teach him to look on every stranger as a brother ! Oh ! those tyrants are but short-sighted fools ! Can they stop the progress of enlightment ? Arrest the invisible mind ? or place barriers across the road before the march of intellect ? ( Renewed cheering . ) Finally , they called Religion to their aid . That , which ought to unite mankind , they n « . ed to sever them . They fostered especially religious wars , because they knew them to be the most
implacable . They have made State-reli » ions , Actof-Parliament religions , the more to estrange natiuni from each other . And even now , -when we see through , their hearts like glass , there actually are people , who say , the feeling for that , which they call religion , jk on the . increase ! Because , forsooth , lieu men build churches ! Piles of stone , to cover the absence of a God ! Altars , on which there reigns no deity ! External dieplay , to hide internal weakness ! ( Loud cheers . ) Thus have uur rulers sought to beguile us . We thank them , nevertheless . They have taught us the measures ~ we must adopt to secure our rights ; not the intermarriage of crowned heads , but the interunion of nations . Not battles , but meetings . . Not ambassadorial notes , but fraternal addresses ! ( Applause . ) The people of earth ar& stirring . They must be stirring , or tyrants would not have been forced to abandon their old game of war . ( Applause . ) Yes !
great spirits have been abroad—the apostles of liberty Eave gone from land to land , and ' the seeds the ; Lave sown , are fast ripening to the harvest—a harvest we yet shall live to reap . ( Applause . Can the French be slaves , while the accents of Voltaire and Mirabeau , yet vibrate on the ear of time ? Can ths Germans be serfs , while the songs of Heine and Ruckert , of Freiligrath and Herwegh , are ringing from the Rhine and the Vistula ? Can the £ nglish be tame and survile , while an echo Urea for the words of a Paine , and a Howitt is yet writing for the people . ( Great cheering . ) No ! my friends We , here assembled , we Fraternal Democrats , few though we may be , we are the advanced guard of an army- —the great army of the nations , that shall march over the earth from all its breadths and ends , destroying the strongholds of despotism , the temples f fraud , and the palaces of corruption , and silencing the vioceof discord in the grave of tyranny . ( Pro - longed applause . ) _
" The Marseillaise Hymn was then sung by Joseph -Molt , with great effect , and excited thunders of applause . " J . A . Michelot rose to propose the next sentiment , and said—Brother citizens , I propose this : toast , " To the Conquerors of the BastiJe ; to these generous patriots who , on the 14 th of July , 1789 , ; opened the career of progress . " To understand the immense services which they have rendered to us , we must glance at ihe picture of that time . Thou France , as other countries ot Europe , was over-ruled by the princes , the nuhks and the priests ; these three classes possessed to themselves three quarters of the soil , ind were exempted frum all taxes and all public charges . The people , who only held onefourth of the soil , were obliged to pay all the expence for the keeping of the king ' s court , the armies and
, tha defeuce of the kingdom ; they paid also heavy rents in the noblemen and to the priests , so that - hundreds of poor people died of misery . The public debt [ was a milliard aud CG 9 millions of francs . They could not find any money anywhere-: all the resources were exhaust&l . They thea assembled the Stats Generaux , to save the kingdom : these Stats Oenereaux were composed of deputies of the people , and of deputies « f the nobility and clergy ; these deputies of nobiiitv and c ) t-rgy , wnu !< i not admit in their deliberations f he deputies of the people , they would have each order deliberating separately , as a means of perpi-tuatiug the almse ; so that , when the deputies of tie people proposed to remedy the public evils , to abolish ail privileges , and to make * new constitution doable of preserving the rights of the citizens , and of preventing the encroachments
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Hment of national guards . . The king refused , and he and his courtiers decided to massacre all the deputies of the people , but the democrats of Paris ran to arms , and besieged the Bastile , and after five hours of hard fighting , they took the place . ( Cheers . ) The court would not at first believe that the people could have taken a fortress which the Great Conde had uselessly besieged for twenty-three days ; but the court did not know that nothing can stop
those _ who fight for their liberty . ( Great applause . ) When we remember tbe works performed by the French in a single year , we might imagine that everywhere humanity ia emancipated , but alas ! it is not the case . For instance , in 1789 , all the French domiciled , and taxed , were electors and . eligibles , however small the sum paid to the Government ; which then gave France more than 5 , 000 . 000 of electors and eligibles ; and yet at this day , Franco has not 300 , 000 electors and eligibles . In 1830 , we created a revolution to expel a ruinous Government , an enemy to our liberty ; bnt ths succeeding Government has augmented the public debt of taxes . In 1789 , Paris had but one Bastile ; now , the new
Government has built more than twenty around Paris . If ever it was necessary to recall to the French the example of their fathers , it is certainly necessary at the present moment . Should they not Boon divest themselves of their lethargy , they will perish . ( Gheere . ) Julian Har-Net said , Citizen Chairman—With pleasure I respond to the noble sentiment offered by Citizen Michelot . " The Conquerors of the Bastile , " victors , who , unlike others that have bore the name , did not achieve their glory by trampling on the necks of prostrate nations , but on the contrary , by battling with oppressors , and vanquishing the minions of tyranny . ( Cheers . ) The conquerors of the Bastile claim the gratitude not only of Frenchmen but of men of every land . . They taught kings
"The might that slumbers in a peasant ' s arm . " a lesson which through ages of rampant despotism earth ' s rulers had forgotten . ' But "for the victors of the Bastile , the French Revolution would have been stifled in its birth . A nation awakened from the sleep of ages asserted its vitality by demanding light and liberty , the demand was at first resisted and answered only with threats and scorn , but subsequently a cowardly king and Bankrupt Court conceded to fear what they had refused to reason . But their concessions were but partial , and the royal , aristocratical and priestly conspirators Bought to stay the march of young liberty by compromise ,
corruption , intrigue , and force . An arm ]? menaced the patriots from without and within the city , the hellish dungeons ' of the Bastile yawned for them—a few hours of temporising would have smothered the revolution in the blood of its advocates . But Toung France though but an infant was an infant Hercules —( cheers)—and quite capable of strangling tbfiser-: pents of force and fraud . ( Renewed cheering . ) The people of Paris rose , they marched— " To the Bastile" was their cry—like C » sar , yet how much greater , " they came , they saw , they , conquered . " ( Great applause . ) They fought , many fell , but" Glorious in name tbeir children ' s children live , .
In all the feme posterity can give , Por though above them close the silent grave , A deathlesi glory crowns the roartyr'd brave . " Yes , some of the patriots fell , but the Bastile fell also ; giant despair ' s grim castle was trampled in the dust ; the accursed incarnation of tyranny disappeared from the earth and went down into the " blackness of darkness" for ever . ( Great cheering . ) " The Bastile is down ! " rang through Europe , and was echoed round the globe . Tyrants heard it and trembled on their thrones , purple-clad ruffians turned pale aa the cry smo te upon their ears . Nations leaped up at the sound for it roused them as the battle cry ot liberty . . That liberty is not yet , but it is coming-Wait a little longer .
We will do our part towards completing the good work began by the Conquerors of the Bastile . ( Great applause . ) I said the Bastile was destroyed for ever , I fear I have said too much . Would to Heaven that I could point to Paris and say , " Where despotism had her stronghold , that has Liberty her glorious and happy home . " But , alas ! instead of one , Paris has now twenty Bastiles . Who is to blame for this ? Why principally the men who assume to be the leaders of European progress—the Republican party . But for that insane , anti-English , and wicked war spirit , principally excited by the National and the party represented by that journal , Thiers and Louis Philippe could never have accomplished their great object—the muzzling of Paris . " One would think that
after such a result , these anti-English madmen would have been ashamed of their folly , but not so , witness that recent exhibition of absurdity when all the Paris Liberal editors went into convulsions , because the Duke of Wellington gave a private dinner on the anniversary of Waterloo . This , forsooth , is represented as an English insult to the misfortunes of France . Why the English peeple have nothing to do with the duke ' s dinner —( cheers)—except the very questionable pleasure of having to pay for it . ( Laughter . ) The English people care no more for Waterloo , than they do for the landing of Julius Caesar . ( Cheers . ) Think of the matchless folly of the Reforms working itself into a patriotic fit of indignation , because " God save the Queen" was played
in a French provincial town , on the 18 th of June Think of the insanityot the trench opposition , making their electral cry , " Down with the Pritchardists I " Instead of demanding "Democratic Suffrage , " the " Liberty of the Press , " the " Right of Public Association , " or any similar objeet worthy of national agitation , they demand the expulsion of Guizot and his band of Janissaries , because they "voted a few francs to Mister Methodist Missionary Pritcnard ! If on this 14 th of July , 1816 . the men of the 14 th of Ju ! y , 1789 , had no better representatives than these miserable " Liberals , " then I would say—O ! shame to the Land of the Gaul ! I should despair of France was it not for the Communists . To them I turnand 1 implore of them to
, play a manlier and a nobler part . The truly noble Frenchmen whom 1 have the honour to address , I know are superior to these miserable prejudices . ( Cheers . ) They must see with me , thatit ill-becomes the nation who first inscribed "Fraternity" on her banner , to exclude from her paternal sympathies this great country , which may be her greatest friend , or must be ( if France will have it so ) her greatest enemy . If England and France are enemies , then woe to liberty . If Englishmen and Frenchmen march shoulder to shoulder , then Europe is saved ; united we may free the world . ( Great applause . ) Let us
then forgive and forget all the crimes and follies of the past and boast no more of this sa * vage victory , or that blood-stained triumph . ( Cheers . ) Do you forget Fontenoy , we will forget Waterloo . ( Cheers . ) Let our cry then be , " Down with the Bastile of National Bigotry . " ( Cheers . ) Let us organise the Holy Alliance of Nations . ( Cheers . ) Let us be true FraternaHsts , and declare that when one people is wronged , all are wronged—and that he who ojtpressesone nation , is the declared enemy of all . ( Cheers . ) Let us have no rivalsliip , but that of doing the greatest good , our one aim being to hasten the happy time when
Man to man the world o ' er Shall brothers be and a' that ! ( Prolonged cheering . ) Song— " The Victors of the Bastile . " The third toast was the " Emancipation of the Working Classes , " Spoken toby M . Nieolini , ( Italian ) , H . Baner , ( German ) , M . Thierry , ( Frenchman ) , Sievers , ( German ) , aud the President . The "ChauntdeDSpart" was then sung in admirable style . [ This song was sung by the levies en masse in the time of the French Republic when marching against the enemy . ] The fourth toast was "Poland , " which was eloquently spoken to by Carl Scfaapper , and Julian Uariiey . " La Cracovienne" was then sung .
Colonel Oboiiski ( a Pole ) , said—Dear brothers ! in the name of all my countrymen , . who like ine wish for the complete abolition of all privileges , receive the expression of my deeply-felt gratitude for the sympathy which you havejust now expressed for my unhappy country . This manifestation , dictated by truly fraternal sentiments , is a thousand times dearer to me than that nauseous " sympathy " which Frenchmen of the " privileged order , " every year 8 tammer from the tribune of their parliament , and at which our enemies only laugh . ( Hear , hear . ) Your manifestation of sympathy in so much the dearer tome , because offered on that glorious anniversary on which the French people showed themselves truly people , by destroying the monument of national shame which had endured for so many centuries . ( Cheers . ) Alas I whilst we celebrate here in the land of Cromwell . the destruction ef'the ancient
bastile of France , other and more formidable bastiles have been erected by the enemies of the human kind , and are still erecting round Paris , Warsaw . Poaen , and Cracow ; but in spite of this , everywhere the people have given proofs of their real force ; everywhere they have felt their dignity , tbeir duty and their grandeur . ( Applause . ) Let us hope , dear friends , that the time will cotue when the new bastiles shall fall , and perhaps that time is already so near us , that many among us will assist in the destruction of these modem monuments of the shame « f mankind in general , for we arc marching at double quick time on the road of progress . ( Applause . ) Animate *! with this hope , allow me , dear brothers , in repeating my gratitude , to propose the following toast : — "Glory to the French destroyers of the ancient bastile ; glory to the destroyers , to whatever nation they may belong , of all' present and i ' u . ure bastiles . " ( Great cheering . )
The health of the Chairman was then drank with all the honours ; a like compliment was paid to the worthy host and concluded the proceedings ,
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royal " pietist" will not even allow his Polish subjecti the solace of religious converse in the midst of their Sffliotionsi On the 27 th of June there was a numerous meeting of the inhabitants of Fosen to put up prayers at the column of Nepomuck , near the cathedral . The meeting was dispersed by tlie police , and several persons were arreBted . On the following day the crowd was greater still , and great excitement prevailed . Oneoftheprisonew , 6 , in Russia being watched by a soldier with a loaded pistol in his hand , and fearing that he might be given up to the Russian Government , wrested the pistol out of the soldier * hand , and shot him-• elf . He was buried , and almost all the inhabitants accompanied his remains to the burial ground . Amongst whom were the local magistrate , the tribunal of movratslar in gremhtmand all the Germans .
, One ray of light illumines this dark picture Of wrong and suffering . A few of oar unfortunate brothers have contrived to escape from the clutches of their jailora . Thirteen prisoners lately made their escape from the citadel of Neisse ( Prussia ) . Besides these , Dembrowski , one of the chiefs of the late insurrection , has also escaped . On the other hand , Tyssofslii , the head of the insurrtc tionary government at Cracow , has been arrested by the authorities of Saxony , and is , we fear , in danger of falling into the hands of the Russian tyrant . Should any of the escaped patriots seek refuge iu this country , it is to be hoped that they will find in British hospitality balm for their sorrows , and protection against the ilia which too often wait upon the homeless exile .
It is stated in some of the French journals that in September next there will he a meeting of the three sovereigns of Rassia , Prussia , and Austria , at Vienna . Of course , the object of the meeting will be to devise means to keep the Polish nation in bondage , and to stay the march of democratic principles ; the friends of liberty throughout Europe should , therefore , br on the altrt to defeat the machinations of these royal conspirators . Ernest Jones , Chairman , G . Julian IIaenet . Hon . Sec .
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• We have not room for the " Address" this week , it shall appear in next Saturday's Star . Ed . N . S .
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A BRITISH SOLDIER FLOGGED TO DEATH . HOUNBLOW , WEDNESDAY NIGHT . During the last two days an extraordinary feeling of excitement has been created in this town and the surrounding neighbourhood , in consequence . of a . report getting afloat that one of the privates of the 7 th Royal Hussars , at present quartered at Hounslow Barracks , had died in consequence of the severity of a flogging he received shortly before by order of a court-martial . From the great secrecy which is always maintained on the part of the military authorities respecting occurrences within the banacks , the actual particulars of the affair have not been allowed to transpire beyond the barrack walls , and consequently all that is at present known is rumour and report .
From the inquiries instituted , it appears that the first knowledge of anyof the privates of the 7 th Royal Hussars hftvlog been subject to corporal punishment , BhicVtlie arrival of the regiment at Hounslow from IpBivicii , ' about two months since , was on Monday evening , when it began to be whispered about that several soldiers had been flogged , and that one of them had died the next morning . No flredence was , however , at the time placed upon the statement , and all who heard it considered it unfounded . On Tuesday morning the report was revived with greater confidence , with the addition that the body of the deceased soldier was to be buried without any inquest on Wednesday ( this d-J ^) afternoon , at : 3 o ' clock , in Heston churchyard , in which parish the barracks is situated . - Tn th (> course of the forenoon the reports having
reached the ears of the local magistrates and the parochial authorities , official inquiries were instituted by Inspector Lawrence , T division , and Mr . Brent , butcher , of Heston , who is the coroner's summoning officer for Heston , the result of which was that , communications from both were , in the course of the atternoon , forwarded to Mr . . Wa * ley , M . P ., coroner for Middlesex , who immediately issued his warrant for holding an inquest on the body . The news tnat there w& 8 16 be & public inquiry into thematter , flew like wildfire through the town , and completely silenced those who disbelieved the truth of the reports . To-day the forthcoming inquiry is the all-absorbing topic of conversation , and it is looked forward to with the greatest anxiety by all well-informed persons as the stepping-stone to the total abolition of the obnoxious system of corporal punishment in the army ,
Persons whose business takes them frequently to tbe barracks , state to-day that the deceased soldier whose name has even not transpired , was flogged about five weeks since ; that after the infliction of the lash he wa » immediately removed to the barrack hospital , whore he remained until his death , which took place on Saturday last ; and that subsequent to his death two military surgeons had been sent down from town by order of the Horse Guards , and had opened the boflj , and found the cause of death to be osBificttion of the heart , which had burst . Others as confidently assert that the flogging was more recently inflicted than five weeks since , that the offence that the deceased , who was a recruit whe had
only joined the regiment about three months , had committed was striking his Serjeant violently across the breast with a poker ; that he was tried by court martial , and ordered to receive 150 lashes ; that the punishment was , as is customary , inflicted in the presence of the surgeon of the regiment , and the commanding officer ( Colonel AVhyte ) ; that after about 79 or 80 lashes had been received , the surgeon declared that any further punishment would he dangerous , but that the commanding officer directed that it should be continued . ; and that the surgeon upon finding that retired from the scene and interfered no further . It is also stated confidently that the deceased shortly before ho expired , exclaimed "I am a murdered man . "
There is also a report that there are two other of the privates of the same regiment at present in the hospital / or cure from floggings , one of wliom of the name of Matbewton is not expected to recover .
THE INQ 0 EST . This evening , at 8 o ' clock , a highly respectable jury of 13 inhabitants of the parish of He » ton » ere empaneled before Mr . Wakley , Al . P ., coroner for Middlesex , in one of the parlours of the George IV . Inn , Hounslow Heath , to inquire into the circumstances attendant upon the death of Frederick White , aged 26 years , the private of the 7 th Hoynl Hussars , whose death is alleged to have been caused by the effects of the corporal punishment he had received under an order of court-martial . The room was crowded to excess by the respectable inhabitants of the neighbourhood , and the officers of the regiment , anxious to witnsss the proceedings . Near the coroner wero Mr . G . Bailey , of Hanwell , chairman of the Brentford bench of magistrates , and the Rev , H . S , Trimmer , another magistrate , and rector of Heston . Inspector Lawrence , T division , was also in attendance to assist the civil authorities in their inquiry .
The Coroner , —Previous to the jury being sworn , inquired if any of the gentlemen whore names have been called are in any way connected with the barracks , as they had better not form part of the jurj . Several gentlemen replied that they wero , and were
excused . Thirteen jurors having been sworn , and Mr . J . Bird appoin ed foreman , the coroner accompanied them to the barracks , which was about half a milu distant , to view the body of the unfortunate deceased . It was in the coffin , and on being turned round on its face , the back , from the nnpe of the neck down to the loins , presented a deep purple appearance , In the middle of the back , between the shoulders where the greatest inflammation had evidently been , a great piece of skip , nine inches one way , and eight inches the other , had been cut away . The Coroner inquired where the skin was , and by whom it had been cut off , and was told it had been cut off by Dr . Head , who had been sent down by the Horse Guards to perform the post mortem examination of the body , and it should be looked for . Much deliiy was occasiGiied by the search , aud eventually a piece of skin was brought , which , however , was not a fifth part of the whole . .
After an absence of nearly an hour , the coroner and jury returned to the inquest room , and their names having boen called over , The Coroner inquired if any of the relatives of the deceased were present in the room , or had been informed of the inquiry t The Adjutant of the regiment replied that they were not , neither had he informed them on the subject . The Cororior inquired if any one had written to them ? The Adjutant said he believed not , as they only knew from the deceased ' s attestation where they were to be found .
The Coroner then addressed the jury and said i t must t > e apparent to them from the number of witiiesses that must necessarily be examined , that it would be impossible to finish the inquiry that night , however late they might sit ; aud , therefore , in his opinion , it would be better at once to adjourn , so that they inighthave all the Witnesses in attendance , and finish ftt Otte sitting . By doing so the relations of the unfortunate man would also have an opportunity to be present , as he doubted not the publicity which would be given to the inquiry in the nen'spauers . would cituse them to ba made acquainted with it . It would be also necessary to summon several witnesses from London , viz . Dr . Head and Mr . Hull .
It was essentially necessary that Dr . Read should be present , as be was the person who had removed the skin from the back of the deceased , not a fifth part of which had been found , and what was found would not fit the back . It wu » also necessary that a medical man , who was totally unconnected witti the army ,, should immediately see and exiiuiinu the body , and he would leave it to the jury to determine who time surgeon should be a gentleman on whose opinion the jury felt they could place confidence , who was quite unconnected with the cuse aud who would give an impartial and unbiassed judgment on what he saw . The military authorities might also appoint one who would Imve every facility afforded
to dn the same . After consideraMo discussion the jury unanimously fixed on Mr . Horaiio Day . surgeon of Isleworth , who was appointeO , s TIiu Coroner then , addressing Sfr . Warren , Oi © surgeon of the regiment , said , Sir , I shall vely upon your vcudering my constable and police-inspector every assistance in the-summoning of the necessary witnesses at the barracks , in order to show what tlio real cause , ot death may be . Dr . Warren promised to do so .
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Factories ... ... ,,. 248 Private subscriptions at Tillicoultty Factories , per Jas . Mouluth ... ... ... 3 2 10 } J . Itoss ... 0 10 N , U . Bridgend . ; .,. ¦¦ ¦ ... 0 10 K . D . Oarnetdale . ... 0 1 0 Small sums under 1 b . ... 0 2 3 10 9 10 J Book No . 2 , per Mr . Moir James Moir 10 0 Mrs . Smith 0 10 Wm . Inglia 0 1 0 A Friend 0 10 Robert Fealt 0 1 0 John Me Naught 0 10 Bobert Lawrie 0 10 Allan Me Tadyer 0 10 ThomusPelair ... ... 0 1 0
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THE CHAR ! 1 ST CO-OPERATIVE LAND SOCIETY . Meetings for the purpose of enrolling members , and transacting other business connected therewith are held every week on the following days and places : —• TUESDAY . EVENING , Greenwich : at Mr . Paris's , Cold Bath , at eight o ' clock . Newcastle-upori-Tyne : This branch of the Chartist Co-operative Land Society meet in the house of Martin Jude , Sun Inn , Side , every Sunday eveni / ig , from seven until nine o clock , for the purpose of receiving subscriptions and enrolling members .
Leicester : The members and committee of the Cooperative Land Society meet at 87 , Church-gate , every Sunday night , at six o ' clock . Armley : The mem bers of the Chartist Co-operative Land Society meet at the house of Mr . WiJJiam Oates , boot and shoemaker , Armley Town-gate , every Monday evening , at eight o clock .
MONDAY EVENING . Kensington— At eight o ' clock , at the Duke of Sussex . P 11 OV 1 NCIAL MEETINGS OF TH 1 CHARTIST CO-OPEKATIVB
I , SOCIETF , Leicester , every Monday evening , at No . 17 , Archdeden Lane , at seven o'clock . GkejjstQW , every Monday evening , at the Temperance , Hotel , Bank Avenue , at eight o ' clock . Aberdeen . The office-bearers meet every Wednesday evening at halt-past seven , at No . 1 , Flour Mill Lane Hall . Pfi&sro . v . —A general meeting of the members of the Preston branch of the Land Society , will be held on Monday evening next , the 20 th instant , at Mr . Poole ' j Temperance Coffee-house , Lune-street , to take into consideration the propositions of the directors , respecting appropriating the proceeds of thesale of Carpender ' s estate . The quarterly accounts will be laid before the meeting . —A public meeting will be held on Monday evening next , July 20 , at Mr . Pool ' s , Lune-street , Preston , to elect a delegate to the forthcoming Leeds Conference .
Abkkdeen . —The members of the Land Society meet every Friday evening at the Union Hall , Bkckfriare-street , from hall-past eight to half-past nineo ' clock , to enrol member * . Hvng . —The members of the Land Society will meet at the bow 6 e of Mr . Thomas Britain , Johnstreet , at six o ' clock on Sunday evening nest , for the purpose of transacting general business . Bradford . —The members of the National Charter Association will meet at the large room of the VVoolcomber ' s Amis Inn , Hope street , on Sunday next , at 5 o ' clock in the afternoon , and will continue to meet at the same hour . The members of the Chartist Co-operative Land Society meeting at the Woolcombcra' Arms Inn , Hope street , and all who think proper to join the society , will assemble at the above place on Sunday at one o ' clock .
Darlington . —The members of the Chartist Cooperative Land Society meet every Monday night at John Moss ' s , No . 24 , Union Street , at hali-past seven o ' clock , for the purpose of enrolling members and receiving contributions . Tower Hamlets—Mr . David Ross , of Leeds , will lecture at the YYhittington and Cat , Church Row , Betlinal Green , on Sunday evening at eight o ' clock precisely . Bacup . —A meeting of the members of the Chartist Laud Society will be held in the Chartist room , Rochdale road , on Sunday next , July 19 th , when all members having paid up their shares are requested to produce their certificates , and to- pay all arrears due to entitle them to the ballot . Chair to be taken at half-past ten o ' clock in the morning .
Newcastle-ittvw- 'J ' rws . — Tie members of this branch of ' . the Chartist Cooperative Land Society are tequested to attend a general meeting of the members on Sunday evening , July 19 th , 1846 , in the house of Martin Jude , Side , Newcastle-upon-Tyne , at 8 ix o'clock in the evening , to audit the accounts , and also for the disposal ot other important business . The members who do not attend and pay their arrears of local and general expeneeswill be debarred irom tke approaching ballot fOJf allocation . Tike Chartists- © f NewCabtis and Gatebhkab aio hereby respectfully informed that John HamWin and James Forrest have been duly authorised by the Gfneval Council to receive donations toward * defraying the expanses of the Cbavention of tha National Charter Association . Jambs Nisbbtt , Sub *
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CHAltGE OF MBRDEll . At th 8 Clare ( Ireland ) Assizes Patrick O'Briea itood indicted for throwing Johanna O'Brien into the sea at Kilkoe , on the 24 th of July last , and causing her death . Mv . Bennett , Q . C , stated tha circumstances of the case , as they atterwurd 6 appeared in evidence . Michael Furtil , examined by Mr . Huuu , Q . C . ; Had a , daughter named Johanna , she is dead ; knows the prisoner , he was married to her in December , 1841 ; they lived with witnesB ; Bhe teas pregnant previous to marriage , and tbe child
was born about Patrick's day . Thsve was a sum . of £ lft given as a portion , half of it was paid on the wedding night , and the balance previous to ihe ensuing May ; the child was a tvmale ; prisoner never came to the house . ot witness after he got the monev > and he did not leave bit wife a meal of victuals ; the wife and child remained with witness ; the last time he saw her alive was on the 24 tb of July last , it was on a Wednesday morning he saw her drowned next day at Kilkee ; did uot see the child for a fortnight after ; the deceased was waked at the house of witaess ; the prisoner did not come to the Wake or iu
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quest prould not rbe . able . to recojf . nUe the child 'irfaea-h ) ¦ aw it dead , thrown in by the tide . A good deal Of clricumstantial evidence , brought the crime i . ome to , the pri , loner , and the jury returned a verdict of Gutity . Xh » judge was proceeding to address the prisoner , when Couq , aellor Coppinger said he intended to move for an arreat of judgement . On Thursday Mr . Coppinger meved for aa ' arrest of judgment on the general verdict of "Guilty " being found upon th « . indictment , containing several counts charging the murder as committed in three va « riouB way * as bad in law , and that the verdict should bi confined to some particu lar count .: The learned judgj said , that as the objection appeared on the record , it would be informal for him to reserve the sama for th « consideration of the judgsi in chamber , and that the pri . soner could have the full benefit thereof by bringing a writ ef error . Sentence of death was reoordtd , and timd given to take ulterior proceeding ! .
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1 RIAL FOR MURDER , At the Ojuobd Asbizeb . — On Monday , Jamei Biddle , 28 , and Isbec Sherriff , 40 , were placed at the bar on an indictment , charging them with the wilful murder of George Mobbs , at North Asbton , on the 28 th of Sep . tember , 1842 . v Biddle asked the Court to allow him counsel , 19 ha had no money , or he should have got one before . Mr . Pigott suggested to Mr . J . J . Williams to under , take tbe defence , and tbe learned counsel having kindl y consented to do so , was assigned by tbe Court as advocate for both prisoners on their request . The prisonere pleaded Not Guilty in a firm voice , and Sherriff was allowed a seat , he being lame . Mr . Carringtoo , with Pigott , conducted the prosecu . tion .
Mr . Carrington stated the case . Mr . Mobbs , thede . ceased , was a farmer , s . nd on tbe day in question bad received a sum of money , after which he rode to Steeple Aehton , where he attended a lecture on astronomy , at the conclusion of which , in company with a Mr . Goodman , he proceeded towards home as far as a publichouse called the Fox , where , after staying some time , they separated , their routes lying in opposite directions , nothing more was heard of the unfortunate deceased until the following- morning , vrlien his dead body was found on a heap of stones in a lane , not in the direct road to bis house . There being no suspicion attached to any one , an inqsest was held on the body , and the matter thus rmalned until March last , when a man named Skerry was taken into custody for stealing fowls in Warwickshire , when , in consequence of a statement madeby him ; the two prisoners were apprehended , and ultim atelj committed on the charge of murder .
George Mobbs deposed . —I am the son of the deceased , who lived at Dean-hill . I last saw him alive when ws went out on a dark grey horse , about five o ' clock on the 28 th September , 1842 , I saw him dead next morning . I saw the horse in the dairy ground next day , with saddle and bridle on it . William Goodman . —I reside at North Ashton , and am a malster . I saw Mr . MobbB at Steeple Ashton on the 28 th Spetember , 1842 . We proceeded on our horses together as far as the Fox inn . I stayed there a few moments after him , and heard him on the road for his house . It was about half-past eleven , I never saw him after .
— Turner . —I have bten in practice as a surgeon twenty years .. On the 1 st of October , 1842 , I . made a post mortem examination of tbe body of the deceased Mr . Mobbs . I found the upper part of the spine forced into a hole at the base of the skull , A fracture was produced on the right and Mt . sid * ot the occipital bone . The upper portion was forced in , and the lower forced out , There was laceration of the brain . Those injuries were the cause of death . No external blow could cause them . If a person were violently pulled from his horse , and fell over on his head , it would cause such injuries , Jacob Skerry was then called . —( His appearance in tha box caused a great sensation ) . He deposed—I am a tinker . ; I have known the two prisoners four or five years , I remember lodging in a barn at Deddington on tha night before Michaelmas three years ago last year . The prisoners came to me , and aft « r some conversation they went away . I followed them to HUbay , and to other
places ( which he enumerated ) , They went along the tumpike-road , and down towards the Fox . It was then about half-past eleven at night . The moon was up at the time . They pointed down towards Deddington , and then towards Dunn Stew . I followed them . There was a hollow in tbe road . A person on horseback passed me before he came to the prisoners . They then pulled him off his horse , and he fell on his head on the stones . I heard the sound of another blow . They were pulling him about three or four minutes after . They heard me coming down the road , and they then got over the hedge , and went into the fields . I followed them a mile and a quarter , and found them near a stile . Biddle collared me . About eight the next morning the prisoners came , and Biddle said , " I thought I finished you last night . " He threw down five shillings and said , " If you had not sueaked behind us kst night , but come and helped ui like a man , you should have had your part , "
Mr . George Moore acted as clerk to the Diagistrate 0 on the 27 th of March . The prisoners were not cautioned . Their statements were . tuken down correctly , as also one of Biddle , on the l- ' th of April . The statements were then put in and wad by 11 * . Bellamy , jun . Both prisoners denied all knowledge of the robbery , or ever having seen Mr . Mobbs , or struck any man that night . Biddle said it was all out of spite , because he lived with Skerry ' s cousin , but was uot married to her . Mr . Field acted as clerk to the magistrates on the 15 th of April , when the prisoners were again examined , and made other statements , which were also put in and read . Biddle said he was going along the lane , when he saw Jacob Skerry and two other men pulling a man off his horse , and beating him . He ran away , and tbe inea overtook ; him , Skerry struck him a blow on the head , which rendered kin * insensible . When Skerry saw him next morning , he said , " I thought I finished you last night .
The statement went on to give exactly the same account as the accomplice Skerry , reversing the position of the parties , and attaching the greater degree ef violence to Skerry , placing him in the culpable character Skerry had , by his evidence given to Biddle , The second statement of Snerrift ' was of a similar cua ractcr , exculpating himself from the more serious crime .
Mr . Williams made an appeal on behalf of the pri , soners At the conclusion of the Counsel ' s address , Mr . Justice Maule summed up , aud the Jury in a fenr minutes returned a verdict of Guilty against both pri soners . His Lordship assumed the black enp , and having briefly addressed the prisoners , sentenced them to death , holding out no hope of mercy .
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DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE FOR POLAND'S : : REGENERATION . The monthly meeting of this Committee took place on Wednesday evening , July 8 th , At No . 20 , Great Windmill-street , Mr . Peter Holm in the chair . The Committee rcBolved that the Secretary should prepare an Address to the French electors in behalf of the Polish Cause . . . The following resolution proposed by Mr . Julian Harney , ( seconded by Mr . Ernest Jones , was unanimously adopted : — "That persona residing in any part of Great Britain or Ireland desirous of aiding the cause of
Poland ' s Regeneration , may become honorary members of this Committee , by the vote of » majority of the members at any of the monthly meetings . The honorary members will be expected to correspond with the Committee , to aBsist the publication of all documents issued by the Committee , and to give their cooperation in collecting monies for the Polish cause , when the Committee may see the . propriety of appeal-, ing to the public for pecuniary assistance . " The Committee then adjourned . An adjourned meeting of the Committee was holden at the above place on Thursday evening , July 16 th . At eight o ' clock Mr . Ernest Jones was called to thecbair .
Mr . Julian Harney laid before the Committee the " Monthly Report of Occurrences in Poland , and Facts connected with the cause of Poland's Regeneration , " On the motion of Messrs . Wheeler and Clark the Report was unanimously adopted . Mr . Julian Harney brought up the "Addressto the French Electors , " which on the motion of Messrs . Clark and Moll was unanimously adopted . * On the motion of Messrs . Clark and Harney itwas resolved , that a permanent Chairman of the Committee be appointed . ¦ ¦ ., . .
On the motion of Messrs . Clark and Wheeler , sapported by Mr . Barney , Mr . Ernest Jones was appointed permanent Chairman . On the motion of Messrs . Clark and Wheeler , it was resolved , that the " Report" and the " AddreaB to the French Electors" be published in the Northern Star , and also in the shape of a pamphlet . Mr Julian Harney having reported that himself and several other members of the committee would be absent from London ( attending the Chartist Convention , ) on the first Wednesday in August , itwas Unanimously resolved , that thenext meeting be holden on Wednesday the 12 th of August . This terminated the proceedings . ¦ ¦ ¦
MONTHLY REPORT I OCCURRENCES IN POIiAJJlVAND FACTS CONNECTED WITH THE CAUSE OF POLAND'S REGENERATION . No . I . i Amongst the leading facts of the past month connected with the Polish question , we must notice the fresh confirmation « nd proofs ot the infamous part performed by the Austrian : Government , in exciting the late horrible massacres in the circle of Tarnow . We particularly direct attention to the important evidence of an cye < witness John Podolecki published in the Reforms of the 27 tb of May , and the Northern Star of June , which shows that the massacre on the part of the Austrian government began on theWthot February , three days before the Cracovian outbreak , which
took place only on the twenty-first . Additional evidence has been supplied by a correspondent of the SatioTud , who ( in that journal of June 7 th ) says : — "Ia the circle of Tarnow , 1 , 458 persons were murdered ; in tbe town of Tarnow 200 dead bodies were brought in , and each body was regularly paid for , at first 10 florins , and subsequently 5 . When , in consequence of the glut of this species of merchandise , the price fell to I florin a piece , tbe peasants decided on carrying the bodies into other circles in search of more liberal purchasers . From 700 to 800 prisoners were brought into Tarnow ; all were more or less seriously wounded , and it is said that 200 did not survive their wounds ; but this amount is perhaps not correct , because the police buried the dead during the night . Herewith I hand you an alphabetical list of the names of 140 murdered persons , who have all bfetn buM 6 d
in the cemetery of Tarnow . These are the only names I have been able to collect . The other victims consisted of servants of all descriptions to tbe country houses « f the nobility . Thtre were also many priests killed . In the ttreets of Tarnow a parcel of little half naked children are to be teen whose parents are unknown . Widows are in the greatest state of misery . At Tienna , as you know , it is asserted that no premium was given to the assassins . Well , the whole of Tarnow would , however , prove tha fact . If the peasants were not paid , let them tell us then why the peasants brought the dead bodies from such distances into tbe towns of this circle . Question the bystanders who witnessed these funeral arrivals—who saw the dead bodies counted , and then money paid to tlio peasants . Let the Austrian Government guarantee against persecution those who will give evidence of the truth , and Europe will then soon know which of us has lied . " On tbe second day oQhe present month , this subject was brought before the French Chamber of Peers
by the Count de Montalembert . We believe the Couut stated the number of victims to have been 1 , 178 ; whatever may have been the exact number , there can be no doubt that nearly 1 , 500 persons have fallen victims to the murderous policy of the ever to bo execrated Metternich . The Countstateds > lso , thatin Tarnow there are 800 orphans , whose parents have fallen ; 300 of whom are too young to know who those parents were . The Times , in its impression of the 10 th inst ., contained a lone editorial article charging the Austrian Government with these crimes . It will be remembered that the Earl of Aberdeen , the late Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs , when questioned ou this subject , solemnly assured the Brit . 6 h nation that there was no truth in the charge that these massacres were encouraged by the Austrian governmeut , and the British daily press affected to believe this denial , yet now tbe Times proclaims that this charge is supported by "irrefragable proofs , " corroborated by information . col-Wttdbj the Tims itself . ¦
The Russian autocrat has been exhibiting himself in Warsaw , and tbe enslaved Russian and German journal * have endeavoured to show that the tyrant was received with every mark of popularity and affection by the inhabitants ot the Polish capital . Of course , no oue believes this monstrous fabrication , which is indeed sufficiently disproved by the announcements iu the sama journals of the rewards given to the Warsaw police , the intended enlargement of the citadel , and the vast increase of political prisoners , plainly proving that the tyrant depends for his safety upon fraud and force , having no confidence in the alleged " affection" of his Polish subjects .
I t is , now ascertained that Dobriez , who was condemued to receive iive hundred lashes with the knout and Kubsc-quentbani . shmentto Siberia , has been relieved from the last portion of his punishment by the friendly hand of death , he having expired uuder the torture of the lash . Potockiwho was hanged at Siedlic , it is now known wiis made to witness the previous execution of his brother martyrs , Kozieckzowski and Zarski , hanged at Warsaw , Alter having been kept some hours near the gallows , in momentary expectation of being executed , he wns placed in a post-carriage and hurried off to Siedlic , where he was
hanged the next day . These cruel deeds are the acts ot that imperial miscreant whom the German newspapers represent tbe people of Wanaw to be so fond of ! The Warsaw journal ! of the 28 th ult . contain the list of those persons whose goods have baen confiscated , for taking part in the lute insurrection , besides which they have been sentenced by a council of war , the judgment of which has been approved of by Prince Paskewitch , to work in the mines of the Ural mouutains , and of Siberia . They are mostly young men , from twenty to thirty-five years of ace .
In tbe kingdom of Poland nearly 2 , 000 are arrested , of whom very few had any connexion with the late rio ' . s . But the Russian Government wants to clear the country , and imprison even on suspicion . At present they do not hang with noise as they did with Zarski , Koirszerski , ( Kochishevski ) and Potoski ; but incognito , as was the Case with two individuals given up by the Prussian authorities to the Russians , whom they huiij > a quai'te ? Of an hour after having got them , in the first village tliey came te , , The tortures in the "kingdom" are so'frightful , that ladies moved by pity , have been known to send knives in loaves of bread to the prisoners , in order that they might cut their throats . It is just now more Hum at any previous time , that the " kingdom" sees that the persecutions after 1831 were mere trifles in comparison with what they are at this moment ,
Madame Kosnoweka , a lady well known for her extraordinary beauty , was brutally flogged at Warsaw with rods . The pruteuuo for which the Priuee Paskiewich , ( tovernor of the kingdom , ordered her to be flogged , was , that she smuggled a suspicious letter from a foreign country ; but the real eause und fact was that she repulsed Ms brutal proposals , She is still in prison , but as she is a widow of & Prussian magistrate , and a landowner iu West Prussia , aud therefore a Prussian subject , the Pj UHsian Government has claimed her liberation . The accounts are conflicting as to the decision of the three robber-powers with respect to the "Republic of Cracow . " Some accounts represent tbat the three powers are resolved to suppress even the name of " independence " and that the town is to bu incorporated with
A ue triu , Other accounts state that the "independence " of the " republic" is still to be nominally acknowledged , but that the sole ruling power is to be a " director , " vr dictator , appointed yearly by eschofthe " three powers " in succession . The continued occupation of the " republic" by Austrian and Russian forces , and the avowed subversion of the state of things established by the Congress ui Vienna , —these groes violations of the treaties of 1815 , are permitted , unopposed and unpunished by the Governments ol France jtnd England . True , the French Government Inn offered a pretended and hypocritical protest against the " occupation of Cracow , " but , ns far as we know , the English Government has not made the ¦ Ugliest demonstration of hostility to an act which ie equally villainous towards tbe people of Cracow and in . tuliinrf to the British nation .
In Pusen many hundreds of further avmts have tnkeu placo . i > nd the Polish patriots ytt linger in tbe dungeons of the 1 ' russ . ian tyrant . Frederick Wiliiaui IV . continues to luiiour diligently in hia iuiuniuuB ' uffiuc of " Juilor and Jackal to the Tsar . " Letters from Ci-hcow of the 25 th of June •• tate that a Polish patriot , a landed proprietor , named Weuda , whom the Prussian authorities had delivered iuto the hands ol'Bufsia , for having during the late inbumction discharged the functions <» f lieutenant of the ' rebel 8 , "had been exposed during two houi-n iu the pilloi-j at Kttdan , aud . afterwards transported to Siberia , The
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HIGHWAY ROBBERY . At the Northampton Assizes oh Tuesday , David Hales was charged with assaulting Robert Bramstone , and robbing him of a watch and six sovereigns . Mr . Adams conducted the prosecution ; the prisoner was undefended . It . Bramstone said—He lives at Staverton . On the 2 Gth of June , 1845 , he came to Northampton , to sell his pony . Sold him l ' or £ 4 . 10 s . After he sold him went on to Broughiton-green , and afterwards returned to Northampton , intending to go home to Staverton by a carrier . Being too late for a carrier , he walked on towards Weedon * Near Upton he saw two soldiers and a civilian . Hastened to them for company . Walked with them to Floore , where the two soldiers remained behind . The prosecutor aud the third man went oh to Weedon , and went into the Queen ' s Head , a little beyond the barracks . Stayed there about ten minutes , and left a little after eight o ' clock . It was quite light . At the tell-gate , just out of Weedon , the gate-kettpcr snid , "Master Iiramstone , I see you have sold your pony . " Prosecutor said , "Yes , I wish I had bought another , for I am scarcely able to wait home . " Prisoner heard the conversation . Prisoner soon afterwards wnnted him to ge & shorter way through the fields to Staverton . Prosecutor objected oiv account of tfie approaching darkness . They then proceeded on the high road to > Dnventrv , A short distance further on prisoner loosed his f tick from Ms bundle , » nd suddenly eouiing in front of prosecutor , held up his stick , and said "Sow , old gentleman , give me yeur money , or you ar « a dead man . " Protecutor said , "Don ' t frighten me ; 1 ' am an old man ; lets go on to Daventry and have ano « ther balfpiut . " Prisoner said , " No , I'll have it . " Pro . secutor shouted "Murder , " and prisoner instantly struir him ,, and he fell senseless to il ) e ground . When he eame to himself , he missed his- watch and his money , w « ^ 4 r * #% *•*** a « #% •* . wB . «* a " h * . * - TT _ 1 . 1 ~ yuaonci i \
** ^ ^** *^^* uuu . mo . was £ ime . s nau never seen the prisoner since , until his apprehension in Londoa , but h » d no doubt he was tbe m an . Paosecutor was . sober . John Gabriel ,. a gunner in the Royal Artillery , wa » quartered at Weedon , in June , 1845 . Remembered Boughton-green Fair . Was returning from the Fair to Weedon on the night in question with a comrade- Fell in witU the prisoner bttweea Northampton and Ploore , who accompanied them pa * t of the way . Prosecutor overtook them , and walked with them to Floore , whets he went on . with the prisoner , and \ Vitasss and his comrade were left behind , Jlad no doubt ihe prisoner w 4 * the man . The comrade of th » last witness gavs similar testimony " James-Black—Livesau Lambeth . Knows the prison * " ' They both worked at Morris ' s cork factory . Was witb him at the Harsh-gaSe . publiu house , and he was . talking about bis brother -nixo was transported . Ho- said hi * brother was a good man , and he wag a good man also , for h& would do anything , vheu he wus l > avd up . H « said be had been down to Nortlmuiptoa haymaking and had met with an old gsntlemeu , whew he 1 ' ^ knocked down , and had his . money and his watch . Other witnesses were called , who confmued the yrf vious evidence . The Juiy found the prisoner Guilty , and ho was sentraced ta be transported for fiftettv yews .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), July 18, 1846, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1375/page/8/
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