Current:

Northern Star (1837-1852), 30th September 1848, Edition 3 of 4, Page 7, A Dumfries paper describes an .extraordi...

Page 7
Page 7
7 of 8

On this page

  • Text (4)
  • Transcript

    • Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

      Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.

      The Powell Plot. Trials At The Old Baile...

      ik in C * in court , bnt not by the name of AntiU . I don't _mlletholleet asking him if he had seen the NoBnamr MB . _aiis . and I will not swear I did set _aay to him , that ( ConnConnorwasa— - — - — coward , for he recommended laeeabaeeable measures and that the National Assem -j shiy should be postponed . I swear I never aaid , bim . bim . that he ought to get . arms , and that , if 11 woil _werkiag men were prepared as I was , thev ¦ oald toald soon upset the —— government ; or that I Eferedfered _togtvehim gunpowder , and thathe refused ub _svijhsveit , m _**** that he waa a peaceable man . this * JhU mu did , upon one occasion , intrude himself ¦ ' ¦ to tito the meeting of the secret committee at Cartirrigh _' fright ' s , and was expelled . I swear I did not draw ibe _plfie plan now produced , bat I did apon one occasion craw _iraw another plan , which was afterwards torn np . iho' iho wed my plan to two or three people at _Cartirigktrighf s _, in order to ascertain what tne views of the

      • thersiers were upon the subject of a proposed _assassina-[ i [ on o [ on of the police in tke night and a sham demonttratitration at Banner * a-fields . I once had a pair of pisjoh , _afe , and I exchanged them for another pistol . I ibowbdw a man now in court , but do not know his lameame . I never offered to sell him the pistols . I _i-on't-on't swear I did not offer to sell them to him for iix six shillings , bat lam sore I did not do so on the _iStb < Sfh of _Anguss . I swear I did not say that if he _rroulvonld bny the pistols , I would give hira half a pound i > f _g-- >> f _g-- > np 8 *« der into the bargain . 1 don't know a work-[ Bg ' nng " nr . B named Henry Green , at least by name . I [ i [ on _' c [ on ' i think I ever said that a man named Douaine -rat rat a government spy . I don't believe I ever [ lied lied such wards . I don't believe I ever used such [ _rordrordsM that Douaine was a milk-and-water moral ( brcebree- — -. and ought to be kicked , ont . I won ' t _reswear I did not make nse of suoh an expression .

      Bj Baron Piatt . —Why _wen'tyon swear yoa never _EBiecjied such words ? W Witness . — -Why , my lord , because men may be _imt > nt into this box to swear that I did say it , and my iaeraernory may hare deceived me . Ther e are strange : ; ha « hmotersthatgo to Cartwright ' s , who would as-[ Eontonish any moral man . R Mr Bsllantine . —Yeu are a moral man , are yoa motnot ? V Witness . —I am . I know a man named _Westimomoreland , bat not by name . The parson brought iinttnto court is that man . I once sketched a plan in I sis his presence . I mean the one I formerly referred to . I [ t ft was not tbe aame plan as that now produced . 'ThThe plan I sketched was a circle , with dots ia it to

      ireirepreient men ; not particularly Chartists or _police-I-gonen , but merely people in a circle . ' My memory is _ibobo bad that I cannot give any explanation of the plplan I drew out . Mr Ballantine . —Yoa do yourself injustice '; your _tffltnemory is really very good when yon choose . Witness . —I know a person named Collins . He is » ft very noisy desperate charaoter in th - locality . He d ) dees not want any urging on . He is ready enough . 11 dont remember telling him that there was going tctobea grand meeting , and that none would beadin Bitted but those prepared to fight for their rights . JI don't recollect saying so . I may have said such a tl thing and forgotten it I do not remember that he b told- me in reply that he did not know what I rx mean * . I never told him that I had a very

      bandft some dagger whieh I would give him to keep against tl the time he required it . I am sore I never told him _tlthat the time would come soon when we should 0 overthrow the —— government . I remember seeing fc him ai Cartwright ' s on the 16 th of August , bat I Hid t not tell hia not to be in a harry to go away that _1 night . I know that on that night every delegate 1 was te assemble his men at Cartwright ' s boose , l end that they were to march thence to C / erken-1 well . 1 know the man now shown to me . I did 1 not know his name was Medlock . I don't recollect l saying to him on the 14 th of August that I would l serve out those moral force—— . I won't swear I _< did sot say ao . I may hara said it and forgottenifc . ; I now remember that on this night I was at

      Cartwright ' s , and I was accused of being a spy on account of my not going by my right name of Powell . I denied that I was a spy , and accounted for , using the same of Johnson , by saying that I did not wish my friends to know I had anything to do with the Chartist * . I know a man named Bryant . On the _lSthof August , in the early part of the evening , 1 _tjraa standing outside Cartwright ' s with a crowd , bnt I don ' t recollect that he 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 remember _siying , on being pressed for an explanation , that there was intended to be a torn ont that night , and that _ai signal rocket was to be fired between nine and ten , ssd tbe people were to tarn ont . I don'trecollect

      it , bnt I won't swear I did not . It is not likely tbat I aaid , * These —— milk-and-water chaps have sold the job , . and the ddegates most have been nailed in Orange-street' I may have said all this and forgotten it . I remember on this night walking np _Chiswell street with the aame man . I showed him sixty eight Kill cartridges . This was between ten and eleven o ' clock at night . lam sural did not tell him that I had got 200 fire balls to throw into people ' s houses . I think I did poll ont a pistol asd also a tin box full of percussion caps . I had a sword in my coat pocket I showed him the handle . I might hive said * , 'Yoa see I am prepared for them ; re you ? * I don't believe I did say it The same man wanted to hare them from me . I had th ~* ei

      things with me for my own safety , and to protect myself in ease I should be attacked , as I suspected that I was foand oat I showed the handle of the sword to hia in pastime . I knew the men were _ttebayedat this time . I asked him to go to the Orange Tree . He would not go to the Orange Tree . I gave him the orders of the previous night . I know Daniel Born . I suppose he is a working man . I bave heard he is something in tbe coach way , I did not show him my pistols on the 10 th of ApriL _lswtar I did not do so before I went to the Kenningten eoramon meeting . I don't think I showed bim a pistol at any time . I swear that I never said to Born that I wished the people wonld assassinate the police and fire the howee . I don't believe I said so te any one , but 1 wont swear that 1 did not

      say so . By tha Court—Imight bare said it my lord , bat I don't think I did . I wm always rather a friend to the police , and tbat was well known , I won't be sure I did not make nse of such an expression , hut I don't think it was likely . By Mr Ballantine . —I don't believe I ever said to Bora that looped to see the police assassinated , and rsomegood fires in London . _aBrnhatatthesame time I shewed a pistol , and said that was the thing to do for them ; hot I wont swear to sneh an . occurrence _nsver taking place . I believe I did say to a man roamed Carter that I wanted four desperate men who wonld do any kind ef work . I said tbis in _conseqoence of instructions I had received at the Orange Tree . - On the Monday night , when I was suspected

      • and charged with being a spy , I referred to the order given at the Orange Tree . 1 might have said I was to get four men . I don't recollect Carter saving , f Then yon won't haveme / I dare say I showed him the plan I had made . I do not know Goodfeilow { who was pointed oat tothe witness ) . I never saw the man in my life . I never aaid I waa going to Australia , and wanted an outfit I swear I never asked that man to-go to the Orange Tree on tbe Bightof the 16 th of August . { MrBallantine _^ here handed a small iron instrument , with a spike' m it , Calculated to lame a horse if thrown on tbe read or pavement , and he asked the witness if he had ever seen such an one . and be admitted he had , and that be had made it ] There were meetings at Cartwright ' s on toe 30 th- of July and the ith of August Brewster showed two artides ef this description , bat

      twice as long , at one of these meetings , and I , _suspoetiBg mrh artides were made at Cartwright ' s , made one or two : Brewster tdd me they were for the purpose of crippling the cavalry . I asked him to show me the action of them at the meeting in Cartwright's on the 4 th of August . It is thrown on tne ground , when it always turns the point upwards , the article being loaded with lead . I have a similar thing io my pocket . That produced was lent by me to a Mr Hayne , who never returned it . Here is smother made on atmsuar plan , expecting _thiaj-ronld bo produced . These are the only two I made . I made them to ascertain that they were making those things at _Cartwrwhfa , I threw it down on tbe gnund and the fable . I expected that some would be produced at _Caitwrightfe like tins . Mr Ballantine . —Yoa did itfor a trap ?—I did itto detect the parties .

      Baron Piatt—Did yoa do it for a trap , to discover the partiea who were making them?—I did so , my Lord ; that is the solemn position 1 am placed in . { Aliugb . ) I did not » y _, 'These are the things to _ithrow among the troops of the bloody government . ' I do not Believe I ased the word ' bloody . ' I might have said they were good to throw among the troops I said at the same time that I had a Urge quantity at home . Mr Ballantine . —Was that true or false . ' —False . Mr Ballantine . —Yon seem proud of it?—I wish to speak the truth and say what I hare done . ' Mr Ballantine . — 'And that was another falsehood ! —Iiwas .

      Mr _BaUantiaej—Have yoa formed an idea of the number of falsehoods yon have told in the course of these proceedings!—I dare say I have told several . I know Gurney . I went to bim in his cell . I beliere I said to him that if he would confess it would be better for his wife and children . Baron _Piatt—Dontyon know ? Why _doyon say Ibdiere V Why _donftyeu say ' I know _!'—I be Gere I did nse those words . I don ' t know whether ft policeman was standing outside the cell . I did not tay to the policeman on going out * It is no go . ' I believe I said to Gurney that he and his family would be made comfortable for their lives if he confessed . I had no authority for saying so .

      Mr Ballantine . —Bid yoa tell ban a falsehood , and endeavour to get him to say something ? Did you mean to betray him toe ! -He was betrayed , I wanted bim to tell all about it He would then have been telling the troth , and getting ont of a scrape . I was not requested to go in at all to see him . He was placed in a cell by himself ,, bat I don't know that this was done in order that I might have him to myself . I hare been in England all my life except tee months , when I went about thirteen years ago

      The Powell Plot. Trials At The Old Baile...

      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 to that I did not take my wife or family . I told only a few friends that I was going . I drew oat 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 ' _Reexamined . —When I was at Cartwright ' s on the evening of the 16 th of August , I knew that the people had been apprehended at the Orange Tree ; itwas pretty generally known at that time , and everybody was talking abont it . Carter is a Chartist , and I should iay not a moral force Chartist . The witness was nnder examination nearly eight hours .

      Jemima Heath , the wife of a _cbfae-ahop keeper in Suffolk-street , Soathwark . —Knew Lacey , who had come with some other persons to her husband ' s house shortly before itwas searched by the police : They bad four cops of coffee , and r emained about half an hoar . That was on a Tuesday . She did not give Lacey any pistols the following morning , nor bad she pnt any pistolB for bim into a basket . There were three pistols in the house , whioh belonged to her sister-in-law , to whom she had taken them before Lacey came' with his parry . There was one

      powderflask . She had said her sister-in-law wonld sell the pistols , buttbey were not Bold . A great many people saw them . There were also three or fonr constables' itaresin the house . These were for speoial conitables ,. and had been painted by a yoang man who lodged in the house . Her sister-in-law bad been a widow for two years . Her sister-in-law ' s husband used to go on board ship as a sailor , but for several years latterly bad ' - ' worked in the docks . He used to have the pistols when he was on board

      Superintendent Pearee proved that , on the evening of the 16 th of August , he went with a body of _constables to the Orange Tree public-bouse ; Red Lionsquare . He piooeeded to a first-floor room , where were eleven persens , Ritchie , Gurney , Shepherd , Able , Richardson , Greenslade , Bum , Scadding , Snowball , Martin , and Small . On searching the room be foand thi _*^ fireballs made of ra g and tow , and one of them had printing type tied np in it , and . they all appeared , to have been saturated with turpentine . Ritohie was sitting close to the place where hefound the fireballs , and upon searching his person he _fonad two knives . Ritchie ' s bat and coat also smelted of turpentine . Inspector Marsh asked Ritchie where he lived , bnt he refused to tell him , and he afterwards said that he had just come from Franco . The door of the room was unlocked , and

      when the police went'in all the men appeared to be _conversiaj * together . ' James Thompson , a sergeant of polioe , had searched the Icdeing of Ritchie in Cross-court , Russell-court , _Drery-Iane , after Ritchie's arrest on the evening of 16 _th ' ef August . He foand 117 ball _cartridges , four bullet-moulds , four ballets , three combustible balls made of brown paper and pitch , with a fusee running into the centre ; a powder-horn , and eome 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 of shot and percussion caps ; also a piece of paper with some pencil writing on it , and two printed books on the Charter . _Crosrcxsmined —He searched Cafiay ' s garret , but he did not produce , when he was before examined , some papers which he foand there . Mr Ballantine requested that they might be

      produced . , ' . The Attorney General said they . should all be handed over to the learned connsel in the coarse of a short time . Mr Henry Bowline , undertaker , had been pnt in possesaiea on Tuesday , August 15 , of tbe Orange Tree Tavern , in Orange-street , Red Lien-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 five o ' clock .. The person engaeed the first floor front room . Two people came at a quarter before five . Abont a quarter or twenty minutes after fire tbey were all assembled upstairs

      There were eleven of them . They asked for a bagatelle board . When it was brought they atked for the balls . One of the men then took a piece ot chalk , and _straok it into the fire hole , and then said , * That is ten—the red ball—nre _. ly God , to-night ? j The police camein abont twenty minutes after . The people in the room were in ft state of quietness , whispering together . . : He found a card the next day nnder one of the benches , —a card of the admission of Henry Small as a member of the William Tell _. brigadeof the Chartist Association . A paper was also foand denoting that Greenslade and Burn had been appointed ddegates from the Thomas Paine brigade . The court adjourned at seven o ' clock .

      - _WxB-osDir . —The trial of Cuffay , Lacey , and Fay was resumed thismoreing . Superintendent Rutt , of the L division of police _^ deposed that on the evening of . the 10 th of August he went accompanied & a . body of bis men , tothe Angd _pnblic-bowefWebber-stroet , BIar * _kfriars-Itwas about five . o ' clock . They were all armed ; In one of the rooms they found several men assembled . They _weTOrittmginasortoftapjoora . The names of the men were _Winspere , ' Irons , Prout , Conway ; A . Corby , Taylor , Cox , Poole , Gibbs , Herbert , Morten , Samuel Corby , and Samuel Morgan . Mr Bodkin then proposed to show wbat wasfound in- the . room in Webber-street . when these persons ' ' _..--.. — _,

      were apprehended . : Mr Ballantine objected to the reception of thia evidence , oa the ground that none of the prisoners had been shown in any part of the case to have had any connexion with the persona whose names had just been mentioned . None of these men found in _Webber-Btreet were shown to have attended any of . tiie meetings spoke to by the ' approver Powell . Mr Parry and Mr Parnell were also beard in support of the objection .. " .... ' ,. Mr Metcalfe also contended that the evidence ' ought not to be received . With regard to the Orange Tree apprehensions , he said that there Kitdue and Gurney who were proved to have been present at former meetings , wereactually present among the persons so assembled * fee , _-fitmregjad to the Angel , there was no rmoh evidence .

      The Court ruled that the evidence was admissi ble , because , according to the evidence of the aooom « plice , this meeting _waim furtherance of the original design of the conspirators ... The witoess then said that npon the place and the prisoners being -searched , heeawone _^ pike bead taken from under _: Conway ' s seat . vIt wu produced ; and appeared , to be about eighteen inches long , very sharp pointed , and a most formidable weapon . William Cottrdl , police constable , - ; proved thathe searched . Conway , and took two pike heads from

      -Some other constables - proved : that they found in tbe same room seventy-five rounds of ball cartridges . Upon Winspere's person was a piece of iron , forming a sort of breastplate , and also a pike-bead ; behind the door tbere was a sword ; npon _Preut there were found a dagger and a pike-head , and also ft : screw wrench and not for the purpose of fixing , the pikeheads on to tbe handles . Upon Cox there was found a card denoting tbat be was a member of the- _Chartist Association .: Morgan also had a pike-bead in h « lefscrrtt |) ocketMd fifteen ball , _cartndgse . Mr Rogers , aa inspector of police , proved that after his apprehension he searched Morgan ' s lodging in York-street Market-street , Soathwark . Mr Parry objected to the reception of evidence of

      _an-rtbing foand at Morgan ' s lodging . Mr . Baron Piatt said the Court entertained some doubt upoa the point , and the Attorney General said he wonld not press its production , at the same time stating that he believed it was admissible evidence , but be shonld not press the point . — : Inspector _Heynea proved that he searched the Charter ( _Mee-bouae kept by tke prisoner Lacey about nine o ' clock at night sn the 16 th of-August The ' prisonerwas at home .. Upon searching the dob-room be found a book purporting to be a list of names ,, addresses , and subscriptions , but for what object did . not appear . He alio found . tome cards denoting tbat tbe Wallace Brieade of Chartists held _their-meetiaes , at _Lacsv ' aCeffee-hou _**' , and there

      _wasalsoai"Uafof Bubscrip _^ _qristo _the'Wgsde , ' which appeared to baye ' . been first established onlhe 7 tb of Marchinthe present year . He _likewise found a list of Bab 8 _criptions ( to tbe' Victim' Fond , amounting in the , whole to , 3 s . Id . Varioas other Chartist papers were also , found , and in one of them the balance in tbe treasnrer ' fl bands was stated to be' eigbtpenee . ' _. The inspector also deposed that Jones , who waa one of the class leaders . forthe Strettbn ground distriot , was token into custody in the coffee-room of Licey ' a bouse , and ,. upon his king searched , two loaded _piatolacontainingpowder and ball and primed , a soldier ' s bayonet , twenty-nine pistol cartridges , and in bis hat a pound . canister of gunpowder were foand . Tbe bayonet wai bidden nnder Jones's coat . '

      Crt _^ _examined—Hefsund ali ; the books aad papers in a baxin the clab . room . Edward Kendall , a police sergeant , proved tbat he searched Jones ' s lodgings at N 6 ., 20 , Grey Coat-street Westminater , and found , some Jead , ' some Chartist cards , part of . a broken bayonet fastened on a stick , and in a cup . tbere were sixty nine pistol ballets . Four ball cartridges were also found in a cupboard in the priionert room ,. Sergeant Thompson proved that _besesrched Rose ' s honse on tbe llth of August , and'tbat he found , among other papers a plan of a portion of the metro _, polis with marks where barricades were to be ereoted _,

      which had beea spoken to by Powell as having been produced by Rose at one of the meetings . ' Mr Eagle deposed that a paper npon which the names ef different streets were written , with marks for barricades , was proved to be in the handwriting of Mullins . The otber papers found at _Rose ' a were _hIbo pnt in . They appeared to be phns of different parts of the metropolis , ' some of them incomplete , and also a list of the members'from different localities . The total number of figures appeared to be about 1 , 200 , apparentlrintended to be gathered from different Char tist brigades and localities , Threei-ecripteformaking seme explosive balls were also produced . Sergeant Thompson , at the request of Mr Parry

      The Powell Plot. Trials At The Old Baile...

      produced some other papers that were found at the lodgingofthepriaoner Cuffay . _*__ . _% . Thomas Barrett , a Bhoemaker , deposed that Be was a Chartist , and belonged to the Robert Emmett Brigade . They held their meetings at _» b ««" _hoP in Praed-street i Paddington , and another in Should * barn-street , Edgeware-road . He knew Mullins , aad bad heard him addresB them at meetings of tteir district , whan both Chartist and Confederates were present On Sunday ,. _Adjust 13 tb , he heard him make a ' speech , during whioh he told the mea tbey-must prepare for the rising that was _eomiag , and that it was necessary for each man to make a small sacrifice to aid the committee of progress , ahd the committee wonld judge by what they

      did how they ware to aot in the ' crisis that was coming . Oa Tuesday , the 16 th , there waB another meeting in _Shonldham-atreet , at whioh about twenty persons were present , Chartists and Confederates . A bout twenty ' other persens also assembled on the same evening at the beer shop in Praed-street . . T hey , were all waiting for delegates to give in their returns-and to receive their instructions how to act . The delegates did not come white he . waited . On Wednesday , the l (* th of AnguBt , witness attended a Chartist meeting in Praed-street , aboat 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 come and give their instructions , The subject was not openly statedbnt it was

      gene-, rally understood that an ' oat-break' was intended to take place . ' About a quarter before nice , he went to the other meetine place , and found about thirty persons assembled for the same purpose , and MulnnB oame in after witness arrived , and a man named Smith tapped him on the shoulder , and said , 'My boy , I am glad too are come . I was afraid yoa were taken . ' MaUioa replied , 'They shall only take me with my life / and then went away , and soon afterwards a man came into the room and laid amus < et 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 ' clook that night , and their leaders would , he said- meet them there . Some one asked how their

      arms were to be taken , and the reply was—as well aa 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 jnat before all thia was said . The party then all left the house in parties of { we , three / and four , at intervals between . _Witness went to Crown-street with one or two more , but he did rot know their names , and wben thev arrived at the _afreet in question , he saw a number of the men who had formed the meetings the same night . Cross-examined by Mr Parry—Witness was first called npon to give evidence at tbe committal of Mullins . . He joined the Emmett brigadeion Whit Sunday , and before , and since that period he had

      worked at his trade as a Bhoemaker . . He did bo as a sincere moral force Chartist , and he only agreed . to betray them when be ascertained the villanous 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 had net communicated with the police before the 16 th .- He came forward as a volunteer to give evidenoe for the good of society . ( A laugh . ) Would Bwear he had no other motive , and he bad not received ; any money except for hia loss of time . He might bave received as muoh as two pounds since last Tuesday , week . Be did not know _Powell , asd sever saw , him until last Tuesday week , wben Mullins waa examined at Bow-street , bat he had no _conversation

      with bim . . About four years ago he . was tried for taking ' some , bread out of a baker ' s shop , which was done on a'drunken _spree / _vand . was sentenced to be imprisoned for four months . Before that he had been committed in Berkshire for a month for poaching . He was never oharged before with having committed any other fdony . < Since the oharge about the bread be bad been accused of having a pint pot unlawfully in his possession , and he was committed for a month . He might have been twentyyears old

      tben . He is _twenty-eightnow . 'He knew a person named Robert Russell ; he never' charged him with stealing a coat , a eoatcape , cr a cape of a dress . He once sold a cape for sixpence ; be did net 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 charged him with stealing the cape . They never spoke to him about it . He knew a Charles Jones * Jones never found a handkerchief of his in his _poseessien . He bad not been often takes to station nouses . The bread stealing took place _-aYWilledden . He was sot ; whilst living there / charged with , being in a ' wine cellar for an ' unlawful ' purpose . He coold not remember how long be had been out

      . of prison-when be joined the Emmett-Brigade . He did net remember ever beingi . induced to urge persons to procure arms and join the physical force movement of the Chartiste , He never did so to a man ' iiamed Garrett , or any _. _ohedsai ' He did not show a pistol to a man' named Garrett on the 15 th of August . Witness , waa a moral toiee man . Did hoi . consider a pistol moral force . He had two pistols with him , and be ' wished to explain that be met a man who bad a handkerchief with ' tw > pistola bit , and three _groesrof ball cartridges ,, as be stated , and he asked _nimjp take them to his house , aaha was afraid the police had found oat that they

      Ead been making cartridges . He accordingly took them to his _honsa , _' and left _jone pistol and the ' cartridges there , and hroughVthe other ,: pistol ont with bim In bis pocket and . he saw Garrett and showed hinvtae pistol ' . If he told Garrett that he _iiade the cartridge * , it waa a ! lie . He could not say that he did not tell bim . He told him that a break bat was _expected .. He will not 8 * ear that he did not toll him , that be had been ' making ball cartridges , If he old , that , too , was a lie . He did not ask Garretfto go to the Seven Dials . He asked him . _itbe would be there . Mr Parry . —Where . ,.

      Witness . —I do sot know where . He knew a person named William New . V He gave him a note on Monday last , when" he and aboat twenty others were laying their , heads together and shaking their fists at me . [ The note was read . It . cautioned New to abstain ; from . putting himself forward , 'as he waa marked and looked after . 'There would a thing appear after he ( Barrett ) had got his liberty that would astonish the country ;* - He owned that be was a coward , and was seeking bis own ; safety . ] Witness continued ' : be _dieVnot think himself at liberty when he wrote that note . He ( Barrett ) is guarded by the police , and accompanied by one officer at a time . He did not tell New that be was going to Southampton _, and was to have £ 1 * week sa lone as he

      Jived . He did Bay 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 that ha never told New that he did not intend to go to work again , and that Mb uncle had sent bim some money . . _Re-exarnined—He . returned tbe pistols and cartridges the aame night to the person who gave them to Him . He was well known by the names of Hell-fire Jack of , Ybnng Bombabelt ... . George Davis deposed tbat he was a member of the Wat Tyler brigade " Of . Chartlata at Greenwich , and be was accepted as a delegate . He attended a' committee meeting held at the George , Old Bailey . This committee was formed on the day of the trial of Ernest' Jones inthis court , end be was present at

      that meeting . . Mnllins { Rose ,, Payne , and others were _piresent . ; Mullins inquired first , whether any members , of the old _' committee ; appointed on Whit Monday werepresent . ; . Witness being one answered * Yes' / and Mullins then directed the . _delegates to go on one aide bf the room and . the oommittee on the other , and after a abort eonBultatiop they assembled together , again , and Mullinsjthen said it was _aabame the prisoners should go to prison without one struggle to rescue tbem , and heiaid that as the _Chartist prisoners were takeh to Cdldbath-fields they would have to pass through _Cow-erosi ,, whena friend ; wbomhe considered to be Daly , would be ready , to lead out the troops to rescue them . . ' ' - ¦ Mr Parry put it to the Court whether this ,

      evidence , whion was quite new , _wasreaiiy r elevant _rotne present crime . ¦ ' : _^ BarpnPlatt . —Why did _jjou riot _^ object before !' Mr'Tarry _!—We * knew . nothing of the nature of the evidence . We , _were-tjuite taken by _snrpriae . / ' ¦ Cros 8 ; examination continued—I attended several meetings , from thiB time up tothe 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 _rhy statement was taken down in writing , and I signed it . I attended one meeting entiie 15 th , and tbe particulars were taken down'in writing . < - ¦ ¦ -. ••' ¦ Inspector Marks , inspector of the Greenwich division of police , ' deposed that he was in communication with the last witness , and he made a report of wbat occurred at the meetings , and witness took it

      down ia writing , and Davis signed it He identified the reports produced as those so taken ; Davis was tben recalled , and the Attorney Generalproposed to pnt the papers into hia hand to refresh hia memory . Mr Ballantine objected , and the witness was ex amined . npon bis recollection of the circumstances only . . : ¦ ;; The _witneiSBaid be was present at the meeting at the Lord Denman , in _Suffolk-atreet , on the night before . the intended rising ; and he proved tbat Mullins , Cuffay , Lacey , Payne , Fay , Allnutt _, and Brewster , - were present at that meeting . The Attorney General then aaid that as the witness had omitttd the names of some persons who were present , therefore he proposed to pat the paper into his hand to refresh his memory .

      Mr Ballantine objected to this course , and argued that the witness ought not to be allowed to see tbe paper for the object suggested by the Attorney General . - After some discussion , the Court deoided that thia witness might look at the statement taken down by toe inspector , in order to refresh bis memory

      The Powell Plot. Trials At The Old Baile...

      bat that he must speak from his memory , and not * from what was contained in the paper . lne examination of the witness was then resumed . He _said-I recollect being at the Lord Denman the day before the intenoed . rising . Twenty-eight or thirty persons were _pre-eoti - Ritchie was among them , and a _peraon named Johnson ( _Powall , the ap-D ww WM _* _feewisB ' pre 8 ent . Mullins waB chairman at that meeting , and he and Brewster , Cuffay , _fayoe and Lacey went out as a sub-committee . Tbey all returned in about three quarteraef an hour except Lacey , and Mmlins said ; they had come to tbe cincluaion to bave an 6 utbreak on the following evening , and that be bimaelf would take the Seven Dials

      distriot , 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 give a detail of what occurred at this meeting , corroborating the evidence of the approver . He deposed that Ritohie , was to command'the 'Luminaries , ' as the firemen were termed , wbo were to meet at the Orange Tree , on the 16 th , aud that ,- the password , by which he was to know them was 'Justice . ' He also aaid that a peraon who waa one of the ; bail of _** r Ernest Jones was also present at the meeting on the 15 th . He was Jikewiae present at a _previous meeting , when Mu'lins proposed that each delegate should provide fonr men who were ., willing to ! fire houses , and dp anything of that kind that might be required of them , and Cuffay at the same meeting remarked tnat it was no _ueo now mincing the matter

      r «« nil * t ,.:- - — -. _ . _. - - - ** for aU their neoks were mdanger , and tbey might as well speak out plainly . He only knew Johnson "• by that name , and he had no , idea that he _iwas comma ' nicatmg with'the police until he read an acoount of hisoxaminatipnattbe polioe court He had , no dea , beforethenthathewasaB » y , and-he was tbe last man he should have , suspected . He said ithat at another meeting some person , who was a stranger to him , represented that the Irish Brigade had all provided themselves with muskets and several roundsof ball cartridges , and they were ready to aot in any manner in co-operation with the Chartists . The Visionary President , " referred to by the _witnesa Powell , he said he _nnderstood _^ was , in reality , intended to be a person named Churchill ,, then- residing in France ; and aU the Chartists in eaoh locality were to pay a farthing a week each for his ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦

      support . , -. ' . r < .,. ¦' . 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 I Mr Ballantine objected : to the question . Itwas like asking tbi _. witness whether the prisoners were guilty of high , treason . Mr Parry . —It was a scandalous _queatien . ¦ >¦ ¦¦ The Attorney General said , the : learned counsel had no right to make suoh an observation . In tho course of a long examination like the present it was impossible always to keep within the strict rales of evidenoe . . ¦ * - .. , , , _% : .. The witnessthen prooeeded to state / that Mullins told him tbey intended to erect barricades from the

      Seven Dials down _Drary-lane . toSt Mary ' s Churoh in the Strand , and he showed bim a plan with the _barricades ereoted upon it . He also , said that Temple Bar would mako a good barridade i and then they were to go down to the waterside , and make sure of Chaplin and Home ' s premises . . Another party * aa to co into tbe City asd 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 an that capacity . _< He said tbat he knew Dowling as the secretary of the Davis Club , and he knew that he was a'Confederate , and . Payne , Mullins , and Brewster were specially appointed to draw up plana for attacking the polioe and the soldiers .

      Crou-examined by Mr _Ballastine . —I was not a Chartist , but merely joined them for the 1 purpose of obtaining information . I _wiihe'd : to ingratiate my-i self withthese people '; _onf purpose- that I might ; betray them . I was not employed as a spy by anyone , bat I created myself a spy . I bad no objeot of etaolument , but merely "desired to pr otect _liftj 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 ex ' neotto be p / rid any more ' remuneration thah will make np for' the loss of trade Ibate sustained . The government have not made me any promise of remuneration . ' For Ithe last few weeks , the people , of Greenwich have suspected me of being a spy , and I have lost my trade

      in consequence of it . I was not examined before a magistrate , and I am euro the prisoners would have no means of knowing what I was going _^ topay . ' I camehere today aa a voluntary witnear . ' Iapplied to be examined , and I waV not summoned or _sbb-Eoenaed . I'have , been asked to appear as a witness ; iit I refused . I came forward in consequence of what I read in the newspaper of the _oross-eXsmina _* tion of - Powell / and _Beeing'that he made ' rather ' a bad figure , and knowing that _iuca charges' ' could not be brought against me ; I thought I ' would Vorn . e forward and'give evidence of the troth ' . ' I ' thoUBntthe jury wonld not believe him on his oath ; ' '• - _" : * ' •• F * * _Mr'Balla'htiiWH-PerbapB ; after readin ' g ' wbai yon '

      dm of him , you would _not-yonrself believe him oh " _biapath ? _•; . ' _, ' ' ' u . - ' ' ¦ ' ¦ - : " ¦'¦ { _:- \ / Witrie ' ss-1-should' in this matter , beoause I know _beepoketheftruth . ¦ ¦ _¦ ¦ _•* - ¦ ¦ ¦ * ¦ ¦¦ T , . _Crdss _' _-examination continued—I used to carry loaded pistols for my own protection ; I _nevergoiop any meeting myself . J communicated . with' _theliri _apector of police _this _' _morningj . and asked bis advice whether I should come up or not , and by bis advice Ididso ' . ' ¦ _'• ¦ " " ' " ' ¦ ' ¦¦ •¦' " ' _*' ¦>¦¦ ¦ _'• j ™ By the Attorney Geherjd _^ The paper I Saw Was the _MoRNrao _AnvsarisBR . - I read the ' _crpsi ' -examinationof Powell , and I immediately ' communicated with tbop ' oliw . ' Before I read the'paper I had , no intention to _giyaovidence . . ,- _° . •' ' ' 1 „; i Charles _Baldwinsondefiosed that he was a ola _^ a leader of the Lambeth Chartist ' locality , ' whioh held : i . _^ . i :... . « - 'tv _; ilKn . _i'of'it-. ii TOuiiU— _jiJIIl ! _--

      He deposed that he was preient atthe ' meetingj on the I 5 th , find that tbe proposition waa made for . _'th ' e ; rising to take place on the following Joy . ' and witness and tbe other ' olas ' _a leaders : wesjs ' told , 'ib ' ey weire to bring their men armed the following night , _andthoaei who had not got arms were to be ' told' where they would gat _arafs . . They woald meet firsjl at the Peacock , and then they would _gojto the Broadwayi West _rninster , ' where they were to meet thy Dean-street ' locality . ; He was also told that there , were to be three other _diyisioha assembled at different parte of the town . Af eight , o ' clock on the evening , of ithe 16 th he went . to the ! Peaoook , and found / Morgan , Conwsy , Pedler , Winspere , and Chester there , and Pedlar produced some coloured ribbons for the

      delegates to wear on their arms , so that' their men might know them . " ' He : also * Jrodaoed some' ' gdhp ' owilerj : and made cartridges vdth it . WitDB- _' _a had a , pistol with him _. and ' Pedler gave' him a cartridge to oharge it with . Inconsequence of _sometbing the landlady aaid they left the Peacriokj and _proceeded tq _. theApgel in _Webber-streeli , and aheut thiree minutes ' after they got there , the _policecamejn , ' and _^ appr ehended t hem ! He added ,, . that he had given information to the ? _olice about three o ' clock in the afternoon of the 6 * . ' ' . i _; ' ¦' -: ;• " : "; . ' „ _;¦ ; _Orou-examined , —He gave no informatioh . to _jhe polio * until that time . ' He , was jtakeh into custody with tbe others , and had a loaded pistol in hie pocket tb _kiic time iit

      < , xvo aau a ( . Q UOHU a Muon time _DBfore ,, but he gave it , to Conway -to takejoare of , and it was found upon him when he waa taken . He brought the pike head , and' carried it about with bim , in order that he might not be _suapeoted by his ' _companiona . Witness ' was not examined before the Grand . Jary ,. and the prisoners bad _ito . _weans of knowing what evidence joe was to give . '" _, 'i . Henry Jones , * police constable , deposed that about bait-past four . o ' clock on the' morningof . the 17 th of _Aueust . he made a search in Clerkenwell churchyard , and found a basket containing 280 ' perfect ball cartridges , and about fifty in an unfinished state . > ' _- ; _Crosaexamined . —He did not expect to find this basket when he , commenced , the search . It was quite by accident .

      : Evidence was then adduced to show , that about ; eight o ' cleok'on the _evening of ithe loth . _ofApgnst a number of , _penons were / _asen to leavethe . _beer | sbpp in _Shouldham-street _, some of tbem being armed , apd some were heard to tell others to [ come . them 8 dvea , and to bring as many of their friends with them as they could . . ¦ .. _-. ' , /¦ . . ¦; :. : , - . Thomas Hoyle , a police oenatable , deposed -that , on the night of the 16 th of _AugUBt , a great number ef persons , having ' the appearance' of Irish labourers aad engineers , who were strangers to the _beigbbonrhood , assembled in the Seven Dials , ' ano' _/ in cense-: _quenee of their proceedings , he gave information at the polioe station . ' _< ¦ ' ;

      he went with a body of thepolico to the Seven Dials , ff . £ . about a _hundred and . fifty persons _aasemfr _& ¦ _IPV' * _. * _. _!" _*® _etrangert to' the neighbourhoOd . Withes */ _disperaed them , and remained upon the spot with hia men nntilone o ' clock the next morning . ¦/ : • • V Mr Warrington , an operative ohemist _.-exrjlainfd ' _tw _-jatow of the _recipea found at Rgae ' a lodgings , and hei described one bf them aa ) being caloulited to ignite spontMeously after a short time , and according _tothequant-ty . pf water Usedinita . composition , and another was a very powerful ; combustible , but which would require to be _ignited be _$ _ri it wiSuld act . ' . .. Mr _S ! nd I' * theitgave evidence _as ! to the composition of the fire balls , and this dosed the case for the _proaecution . ! ,

      Mr Ballantine then addressed the , Court , and said he should have been prepared to go on witbthe defence : upon the original facts , but , after theaddltional evidence tbat bad been adduced , '/ he felt that he must ask the indulgence oi the Court to allow time to consider the faot ef that additional testimony . ,.,. ¦ . ' _., ' :. j Mr Baron Piatt acceded to the application , and at a quarter to aix o ' clook the trial waa again ad . _journed . . > { Continued to the Eighth Page , )

      September 30^ 1648. .;' The Llmffrthern ...

      September 30 _^ 1648 . . ; ' THE _llMffRTHERN 1 "STAR . 5 7

      - Democratic Banqvet In Paris. Impobiant...

      - DEMOCRATIC _BANQVET IN PARIS . IMPOBIANT SPEECH OF _LEDBO B 0 IXIN , ' '¦ , 0 a _Iflday _^ the 2 Zad . inst ., a dinner was held in we-thalet , Champs _Elysbes , in _commemoration of tbe Republio founded the 22 ad _Seplember . 1702 . The guests numbered five hundred , including one hundred ot the ' Mountain' members of the National Assembly . , ! _,- .- _; . _^ . _^ _P f _^ _iDBSifM . _AunET M PuriuvBAu ) said—. wwa m . B ! The greatest honour that cm be done to an m ReP _^ 'wan is to be _caljed on in bis old Bge to pre-* _- __?\ ? ban ° . uet of Democratio Republicans , as * Bembled for the celebration of the anniversary of tbe R _* pub ic which oiir fathers founded'in 1792 . In 1790 I assisted atthb federation ' wbibb took place in commemoration of the taking of the _Battile . It was a

      federation which filled all French hearts with a love of liberty and with a bitter hate _againsta _murderou _? tyranny , I waa an aotive witne 83 of that unparalleled revolution of whioh . fanoy , itself cannot now reproduce : the image . It ' regenerated , our country ; it raised mankind from that slough of shame in' wnich they had Iain prostrate ) weltering , ever since ' men congregated , in _sobiety ; and ' it broke the fetters of that slavery _^ whioh bad oppressed tbem for many centuries . Citizens ! This revolution was not made for us alone . To free ' the world was its destiny ; and it is . now accomplishing this neblemisBion . A oune on those who cannot recognise that great truth . But no—let us ratber pity tbem , for , they are struck with blindness , and tbat very blindness will prevent

      them from arresting the progress of humanity , marked 'but by the finger of God . whom tbey misapprehend . The Democratic Republic , that grand social truth , founded by the revolution of the 24 th of February and based oh the viotory of the people , on the sovereignty -of all , and en the _Baored'dogmaoi liberty , equality . and fraternity—that Republic wili'be eternal ; it will outlast humanitv—it-will not perish as long as one of I us shall live to defend it . ( Cheers . ) . CitizenB , let ns swear it ; I am the first to swear it , and I take , tbat 1 oath in the presence of this assembly , in the presence of men wbb are voted _tothep ' _ubJic welfare . I ' am sure they ' will not put me to the blush . God blees the Democratic Republic ! At the close of the banquet M . Ledbu . Rouin 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 thei Convention proolaimed the Republio in the very palace in _whiop onthe previous night it' abolished Royalty ! _Test's , blessing oh the R _^ gublic which bur fathers decreed ; ahd whioh we hav _? the vocation 'to make everlasting , by establishing it oh the indeatrnetible basis of BOcial _inBtitutiona ; i ( 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 tbe outcaBts . of the great Human family who , like ourselves , raise the democratic banner in opposition te the last representatives df tb ' e eld aristocracies . ( Cheers . ) Citizens 11 say a bletsing . on

      the Republic 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 bave : the name . without the . thing itself ; ( Cheers . ) In that case we shall be quite _asiunfortu nate . ' _as our , fathers , who were but the prophets , and who never taw , the " land of promise which they pointed' out to ' . ' us . ' ( Cheers . ) I kaew people will s ay , _fotir silly faopea-are but a socialist phantom . It is but _thePold'qfuarrel which wai made with bar pre _deoesson _^ _and to wbioh they retaliated by gifts which _iwe _Chjoy 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 _appJyinB the levelling power of the law to the inequality of _aucces-. sibn—tell m ' _ei waa ' that _Sociatisni'Or was _it'ppfioy ? ( Cheers . ) : When , in spite ef the opposition from the clergy and nobility -the''equality -of- 'public " imposts was _introduoed-4-was that _Soeiaiism or was it policy ? In freeing _industryifrom its former bondage by break- ' ing the fetters of the old _corporations-rdid they act likeJSooi _f _slistaorpoMcijans ? . ( Cheers . ) _. _. _And . when tpey _. _decjeea ah infinite' division of , _clerical , ; communal , apd noble prdpertiea—when they parcelled them out . to , ' make them so . many . instruments of liberty under the » 66 t bf _man—wasit Socialism ? It was _Repnblioarfism ! ( Cheers . ) What must be the

      madness ' of a'legislator who would establish _apoli-, _tical principle without givipg it a firm baBis in aocial institutions ? ,: la _itindeedSooialismwhep we _. eay—-no , _republio-yith 9 pt a right to labour ? . ( or there oan _, be no sovereign p ' aopfe where sobietv is not bound to tender assistance ... ( Cbe _' _era . ) No ! it iB no _^ 'Social - ism—it _ia'Repulilicamam ! 'Mi when we , say there _mnst'be' piibiio institations of credit , for without tbem _uieleBB credit will eat up the' earnings ef the labourer—is it Socialism ? No , ' it is Republicaniim 1 ( Cheers ) _i . Yes ; itis _Republicamam , > andthe , . adversaries . of the _jkrueRepublic aro , ftware that that Republioi ifienoe . ropted _, in , thp , m , oralB oLth fi _popntry . _can _* 4 _flfcb _9-ftS « # _TOWn _^;; _- M ** Jfcf _SWSN & - _^ _** _* deavour , to puzzle the pubho . by a sleight of hand , and

      to act upon thei * ' , feara ' 'by confounding two perfeotly distinct _things—SbciaUsm and the practical Republic ( _laRepubliqdeapplioyiey . ( Cfieerai ) We khow their old tricks . Did ' not _the' Jesuits at one ' time raise a cry against _Atheismji and-the Monarchiits of I 790 _,, did they not bellow . against the , agrarian law ? ( Cheers , ) , ' I feel -a certain _pleapure i _& exposing this _syaJflmaMo _^ onfanqn : _libei _^ en ,, Sc _^ iam :. & Bd . the Republic , w _^ ich the enemies qf . _^ ie latte _^ are attempting io mi _^ e .. ; . Thij _* clBnHn" _* ' almisapplication of terms proves'their impotence' ahd the ' _necesaity to whWh they ' are redlioedto l » w their heads before the will ef the _peopWi and to _reapect'the ' very word with i whioh it saluted its victory of the 24 th of _February . is io

      ( _Uneen ;) ' _inis vpraotioai _nepuowi wmen penetrate into our laws iand morals , ! land _'whiobis to proda , ceIorea ! Qbofus ,. a just equilibrium of _^ _ignity andp . Qivf (> i . tr-thia > Rep 5 | blio how can it , be obtained ? To . wrest it from bur enemies we _,, want _flnity _, bold- ' ness , indomitable _rosblntioh . '" We . want devbtion'tbat . shrinks not from any iaorjfice whioh _' we may be called ' en to'inake ( oheeri ); _and-hOthing in the'world can prereht bur obtaining it in reality , 'Binoer in spite _of-ttieduplicitiesiof _theooHoptions , tl _tbeaccumu . lated pbwera _. of . the _monarohJuwe have _obtained its name ; : They must , indeed ,, be mad who , . would . wish tp ; oppose , ns _. j they _jCannot , have seen the admjrable drama , of tha , 24 tb _, bf ;| ' _yeb ' rnary ,. _; when ' th _^ . _iPro- j _viaibnal'Govefn ' mjent was but ' the interpreter of the

      immense vbice of the people in arms . ' Tb those who appeared to hesitate it was Baid , We : want the proolamation of the democratic , ene and indivisible Republic . We want neither more nor less ; any other word might tend to Bnrround it with monarc aical- inBtitutionB , and we are sick of being doped . " t Cheers . ) Now , what we want is to be mindful of the people ' s will , of the 24 th of February , and to be united , ' bold , ' and devoted ! By these means the country will be great and the Republio _invinoibh . ( Cheers . ) Yes _. my brethren , we want union . Alar ! so did our fathers sometimes . Let us beware of that danger to our prosperity . _^ I am aware there are laggards on the rpaff of progress—men flto confide at all risks , ' and who are less : afraid of'the whims and

      deviations of power than'Of the chanceB of ita being _ehahep _. _i Their cohviotionB are reap ' eotoble , fortheir patriotism cannot be doubted , and I know their eyes Trill one day be opened ; ' As for us , ' who . are more resolute , let us not Blacken bur steps ; they will soon mend their pace in . order to come up with us . Let us have patience with them , for if they hesitate , it is beoause people frighten them by directing their attention to the _dangers tbat surround us . Dangers ! And what areour dangers ? ' . The Pretenders ? The Royalists ? They raay be very dangerous to a Republic _^ that stands on a rotten , ' on ah insinoere foundation ; but they will , disappear before tbe breath of the people ' s will whenever the people wills it . The Pretendersindeed ! what can they possibly say ?

      , That they want a monarchy ? Whyi- 'do yon think the } . ; would dare- to " say that tea people who in eighteen years have twipe overthrown the monarchy ? who , in 1830 hurled down two ' generations of Pretenders , and two more / generations in 1848 ? Ha 3 not this people Btill the same hearts , the same arms , the aame weapons ? No ! . they cannot say that , but they will talk to trie ' people' of interests sacrificed and of rig hts _misunderstood ., But if , after aU , those rightB are ; . sanotiohea \ if those interests are guaranteed by a sincere and , truly _„ _domestio'Republio , what can the Pretender say , thep ? ' . What ground has he . _ta stand ' on ? He caimot _| but become a simple citizen , and he will be forced , tomix with " ' and be loat in tbe great win _lesSnsiuereuiiiim ior

      orowa . . , e . pe j Oo _- uwera , hewillha _, ye done less _service than _otEera . ( _Cheeia . ) - _, _lhave now proved to ' , ' you ; that there can . be no possible danger if _firraand steady hands plant tbe Re ? public But if"the' groutid ia merely touched with what tbey pall _tepderbelaand care ,, tbere can be , hb spreading of roots , end _. certafoly in snoh a case there is an imminent danger . Weill then , citizens ! the question which naturally pwsents'itselfjs , ; what Bas beei » . done for the people Bihce th _^ _ith of February ? What haB' been done * . It -was at firat thought that the abpljtion of the tax upon salt was a satisfaction due to public , opinion , wbioh had been on the point _, ofbbtmning it evea from Royalty . It wai but a vain illusion , for that tax ia now being _re-impoBed . An endeavour ' was next made of conferring an incal-. _„ inhlA h _^ nnfit uDo ' n ' -nublic ' health , by _abolishirie '

      altogether the dut y on meat and on drinks . ' both of L whioh weigh so heavily upon _Ibe poor . They are [ now _re-intrpduce ' d . ( _Voicev 'True ! Very true !') 1 the labourer , the man whose life passes between like" cruel _exigendes of the soil and the Btilljaore ' orud on ' ea of capital-he whose only . _connexion with , the . Btate and . its policy is carried on by the taxsatherer—what _iabe to think of a Ropubho . whiob , in the very midst of peace , desires to add to his burden ? ( Voices : ' That's the thing ! Y _« , yes ! Very good indeed . ' ) This , 'tben , is what has been done for tbe people sinoe the 24 th of February . I am weir aware that the people \ have at _timpabeen relieved , that aome millions have b _? en tossedJo . ite misery , and that such things were called _assiBtanoe ; bu t _^ 'how'petty dbes such relief appear if compared to the grand _institutions of credit and of assooiation _. of _miitualiaiiiatanoe as an inBtrument of labour , _, which ought to bave been founded ! ( Cheers . )

      - Democratic Banqvet In Paris. Impobiant...

      But , no ! , There / isnotinng _gracd ; _tker _^ is _luih ' xg fruitful ; tbfer 6 ' is nothing truly Republican it is always the old -luavinss of the paBt . ( Voices : ' True , true . ' ) . And what _u the answer , citizens ! The aoswer it , that the btate ib poof . ' The Repubiie oannot _afford to make such found'tions , for _thereis no money . I am free to _corlfesa that I oould ntver _undeiBtacd this objection in so fertile _^ so : powerful a country as ours is . I ; pay- that « iir _resourefs of wealth are innumerable , and that nothing is wanted buttbeBkillto dig ohanndsforthemin order to direct them to the Treasury , ' and thence to pour them out to the poor . Was not the oo ' uptry ruined by the follies of Louis ' XIV . and Louis XVI . ? ., And yet , was the first rovoiation stopped in the accomplishment of ita 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 defence of the territory , in some manner exhausted tbe resources of the country . , We thought so , at least ; and yet , when the Restoration came on , France found 1 , 500 , 000 , 000 to ransom . herself from the foreigner * , 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 . ) Wo ; , it is net possible ! Money creeps into corners , apd hides itself ; but , it is not wanting —( tiue)—it oannot be wanting ,:

      Consider that we have bad thirty-two years of peace , and , in spite of the losses sicce the 24 th of February , money must be somewhere . ('' Yes , yes !'} There must , therefore , be some finanolal possibility of discovering the place where it bides , when' it shuts itself up like a miser . ( 'Yes , jes !') How now , citizens ! Should not France bave the same resources which England found to carry on . war against the blockade of the . continent , and . to nphold her cammerce ? England could afford to array six coalitions againat lis and to pay tbeir wages ; she raised _muttons of men from the earth ; she was able to Bubdue the genius of Napoleon , and to _draio the last drop from I our vefcs in 1815 ; and France , ao abounding in real property , should fail in finding money for her people I of labourers ! Impossible , and those who say so

      calumniate tbeir country . ( Violent-cheers ) Believe me , . citizens , distress of the people Ib - our , only real danger ; . and tha danger is want oi labour , tbe atrophy of trade , and the-want of new and bold enterprises , in _shortj the old haoknied _icbool of . finances . Thatib the weak- point of ' the question . O ! course ic may change its face ; it may turn out poison , if- France , sincerely republican , wants the genius by some grand measure to escape from thk fatal whirlpool , A bank for deposits , anticipated _icuposti ; , iu faot , there are , a hundred _woys _. i Bit tbe thing is to find out the tenet that , the Republio makes the people happy , and the nation great ; that _net . onlyit meets _domestic ; d » comfort , but has also resources to ' defend its principles Of _fraternity asd tim ' aneipatibri abroad . If this be not , every shadow

      ot a danger may grow'lh size , and jeopardise the Republic . ) Bat itis ridiculous . to say . that it is ; money that ib wanting ; believe me , the one thing . _wsTntiag for _findieg the , mbne ** iB an enterprising apd resolute man . Oar fathers , indeed , lived ., on , expedients ** but such is the lite of revolutions , and what after aH does it matter , if tbey but live and save ,, humanity . ( Cheers . )! What a number of honest financiers wa hive bad from Necker to Cambon , bnt tbey all trod the beaten path of the past , and thus they straggled in vain to confront the necessities of the revoldtien . Cambon came ; waa he , indeed , a financier ef great reputation ? Nol but he was a great citizen . ; Ee kept his eye en \ he end , and , haying the _audaoiby which the ciroumstancea required , he saved the . Republic la there no . other Cambon ? ( Cheers , ) I

      have said that France' wants' resources to uphold rahoDgst her foreign allieB her principles of liberty arid _emanbipation . Do not your hearts bleed ! like mine when looking at Italy given over to , the bands of her oppressors , and left alone in herbelplessnessf Oh , how slow is the progress of humanity , and bow greatly we might contribute , to quicken it ! _Ab-m three centuries have , gone by since . Maohiayelfi , moaning over the wretchedness of hia , country , spoke _ofheraa yearning for ' the advent of a liberator Wbb would stop the'devastations in Lombardy , Toocany and Kaplts . He prayed to Heaven _'Jor-the arm of an avenger to free her from the humiliating and hated yoke of the _Btranger . ! France , might have been that avenger . Italy had a right to rely _, pp . her and France has cot moved her hand to assist Italyl

      ( Cheers . ) , Yea , Italy had , a right to r , dy upon , onr help ; for Milan once taken , our troops ought _fo have crossed the Alps . Milan is taken , bat , our _musketa _Sre at rest and French vessels are impassible spectators of the sacking of Messina . Is thisaliepub-Hcan policy , or are we perhaps wrong in our dates ? ( Cheers . ) As for Germany _^ I cannetunderstand tha line of conduot bf our government ., It is evident , that government doeB not _nnderstaiid the movement , now going on oa the other side , of tha Rhine , ; or . ifit understands , it , it . misobneeives the . 'interests ot France . _,, The _Tuturebf _(^ _rmahy isrepresented by » yeung , ardent , and bold ' . ' democracy that . seer ! ib' the unity of the country , the promise _oHibartyt _^ Tha unity bf Germany meanB the democracy of Germany , and democraoj means an acquired ejmpathy _^ for

      France .. Ask those who are well informed whether tbis definition is not true ? I am a tare . of tbat democracy being acoused of plans of invabion . _againat ub ' ,: this , ia but a ; trick of the old _arutocrats to ruin her fair ' fame ' ib our eye . England , espe * ohlly , takes a leading part in this , and yon see ' tbe consequence . . Affairs ih'Geraany are now going on in such a manner . ' that for tbit fnture . we . shall be placed there in the aame situation as we are jn Italy . We shall aot under the influence ot England . I _oosrfew my deep grief at _thejeorea of . onr internal _^ ate . The miseries that surround us op . all aides find _wofsd echoes ininy bou ) ,. but , these are but domestic _gris _* _vances after all ; we _aufier , so to' aay enfamille ; but abroad we , see bur gtery falling a prey ; to _England ; abroad we arethreatened by the teagaeoftbishostik aristsoraby ;' abroad we are burdened with an > alliancewith that very government which' for eighteen

      years has oo fatally , weighed down upon our interest * This is too much for me , ; ( Cheers . ) , _AUtniamuat be remedied _jmoatofuaarepldch'mipiqnapf _^ berty ; moat of us have gene through severe , trials . Terr well , then , let us double eiir efforts ; let ub cbnfpnna the _deeper and ligb _^ rt ' mtB of RepubboaniBrh ., ' Let us have but one objeot , namdy ; glory , and 'tbe _iatereat of the country . Let ua have but one sentiment , namely , no rest , no tracquillity ' until the Republic though-thrown but of its course for a moment , shall havo returned to ita true . road . ,. ( . Qhee ? a . } , :, _^ o , no rest until , calling upon the memory of our faibeia , w . e ean-aay , 'flail to you , whoonthroeed the Republic !' ., Take care ; if we do not follow their ' example , if , like tbem , we _^ ra hot ardent , in '' devotion , and of an _ii-on will , _thenbei sure our sens' Will curse our memory , and' they , indeed , 'will not say , ' Hail to tha men of the 24 th of February ! ' ( Cheers , and cries of Vive la Ripublique Demotratiqm !) _¦•;'> -j , _-, .-. a

      At the _conoluBion of ithe banquet M . de Coripenba and M . Germain , made a collection for the wiyea and children of the transported insurgents , and obtained nearly 8000 f .

      The Fraternal Democrats. The. 22nd Of Se...

      THE 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 cele- brated by a public festival . Thia year the impossi- bility of obtaining a public room suitable . for tbe ; occasion , together with other unfavourable _cijrcum- stances , induced an abandonment of the usual course e _pf operations . Instead , a few members and friends a of the society sat down to supper , in . the sanctum ¦ sanetorum of' L'Ami du Peuple . ' The place af i festivity was not inappropriately chosen , it being g decorated with the portraits of the martyrs and _i heroes of Equality , who during the last Bixty yeas 3 have headed the struggles of the suffering milliena a againat their oppressors .

      Julian _Hxeney presided , and after , the plain ia but substantial supper had been done justice to , o _, gave the first toast : —¦• The { Sovereignty , of the bt People . ' Responded to in au . able address bf bf Samuel Kydd . The following toasts were then-en given :- * ....,., The day we celebrate—the institution of the French neb Repubiie . Vive laRcpubliqw ; dcmocratique et tooiale ! Voltaire and RouB _»» _an ; tbe immortal precursors _ofs ot ! the French -Revolution . . They prepared the way tor for ' mankind's mental rreedem , asd tbo . reign of _pohtio-Htioall and social Justice , . . _ThevlotoriofthoHth of July , the 10 th of ADgast _^ _a-*; _, the ' three _dsjs , of July , ' and the ' three days ' of _Fabr-febta _* _. ary . May . _iheprlneiplesofEquaKty , Liberty , ahd Fr a _* Fra » te ' _rnlty for whioh they conKnded , _beconie _cstahlisbtlshsil throughout the'world : ' ¦ _••'<» ¦ ¦ •¦; _.-.-., _a 0

      The mernorles of the _martjrs who , _Joavo yieldedupidup their lives for the _regeneration of _njankind ; _ipcladliafidiisf _f the heroic victims of Ahe _^ oar _daja _. of June . - _Rsspsll . the people ' s choice ; and honour to the _ttna true _, democrat * who voted for _B-spatl , Tboie ,, ana , Oabet : : Louis _BlanoandOauMli-iwe , tlie _gueitk bt the _EngtfahglUi ) people . May the ' eilles be speedUy" restored _^ to th-feth etu coHntry to build np the Democratic _andSoeial Republhyblh _; Brnest Jones and trie imprisoned and expatriated d » d da * aocrats of Great Britain and Ireland . i The editors of the : Nsw _Rbemish GAntta _, end suel soni esl to the . democrats of German / .

      Onr betrayed brethren of Poland and _Italj—vlcter / _lcterj shall yet he theirs . The Agrarian Reformers of America . Other _seuUmenta were given , and the whole _werj werr responded to in able and interesting speeches . Th Ths songs ot the evening inqhided ' the Reveil du PsvnVevnV & na Mourir pour la Fatrie .

      A Dumfries Paper Describes An .Extraordi...

      A Dumfries paper describes an . extraordinary potol pototl weighing a pound and a half , which is so shaped as < ed as < < represent with _ezaclnets tbe form of a cat bra croud crouo'd lag posture . - ' . ' .. , _; ;" ....

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 30, 1848, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_30091848/page/7/