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      breeder . William , Barj-streefc , Saifcrd . I * ovatt . Richard , tobacconist . Market-street . I « ees , George , printworks . Strangeways . Iiess , , Cio-wn and Thistle , HaJf-street . Long , James , nMrilpi-, Market-street . Moon , James , cotton-dealer . Milne , , liquour merchant , Apple-market . Heagher , Edward , tailor , Trumpeter . ' . Oilier , — , ( son of Da Ollieri . Oliver , Alexander , ( son of the publican on SHude-hiil ) . Pollard , Jonathan , Jan ., cotton-spinner , Ancoats . Piston , William , Jan .. batcher , Stretford . : Pickering , Thomas , late coacbmsn to Mr . Kay . Payant , William , -wine merchant , Fountain-street Pitt , J . M-, dancing master , 12 , Bridge-street . Rogers , BeDJarnin , conimissien agent , Oxford-street . .-BtTsJ , John Globe , Gartside-street Kaingill , Pirter , butcher , Stretford . - . . " .

      Savage , , Slreuoid , quvsk-doctor . Sh&wcoss , James , near Fiixton . SifclirM-iine , Thomas , ( for John Colljer , dyer , Springfield-lane , Salford ) . Sharp , K ., iron-dealer , Market-street , Samith , John . Sha'w * £ -bro-w . Salford . ( son of the landlord <•! the York Minster , Daansjate ) . Stott , William , 9 , Parsonage , stable-keeper . Simpson , Richard , cotton-spinner , Hiller ' s-lane . Street , Samuel , surveyor , Bridge-street Sjkcs , ( eon of five landlord , Tib-street ) . Soawcross , William , labourer , Sheffield . Tebbut , Edward , manufacturer , Peel-streti .

      Ti-TieV , John 69 , Bridge-street . Tiiorpe , K-jbtrt , surgeon . Taylor , Robert , sadler , Stretford ( substitute for Peter Bums ) . Turner , William , for Smaith and Ingle . paper-makers . ¦ Wi * -hingtoa . Robeit , Taroert Lane , Peadleton , ¦ warehouse , Bict-square . Wilde , James , surgeon , Eecles . " Wilson , Kichard , Albion Hotel , ( son of the landlord ) . Wfcitlsw , Jleadowcroffc , Richard , attorney ^ Ward , William , piumber and glazier . Daansgate . Whitworth , James , Back Bridge-street , ( for Cheahyre , Attorney . }

      The accompanying Engraving represents the horrible scene , just when the " heroes" vreie hard at work- Let the "heroes" look upon it , and refresh their memories respecting their courageous " deeds in arms'

      It is a reduced copy of a large Engraving issued soon after the dreadful massacre ; and an enlarged copy of 3 "Vignette on the title-page of Hxhsh ' s Life of Heket Hust . : Sir . Hr . vr , as will be seen from the Mercury ' s account , vi-as arrested . Indeed , his arrest was made the pretext for the butchery and massacreing indulged in by the "heroes . " After he bad surrendered himself to Mr . aNadin , the civil officer and as he passed along in the custody of the policecfiscrs , he was assailed by the sabres of-the snd the truneheons of the

      cavalry specials . He was -rounded in the hand . Indeed a plot had been formed amongst the constables to . have him murdered . They were to press m upon him and the cficers Trho had him in charge ; detach him-trom tficm ; }\ aDIS was to have cried " an escape" ! and then the Yeomcnry were to have used their newly , sharpened swords 12 He defealed . this hellish f chf me by mere presence of mind . He was a strong powerful man . He seized hold of ^ Nadijj , and , as it were , kept him in custody , as an hostage for his own safety .

      He was remanded , at first , on a charge of High Treason . This , however , was soon given up , and be ¦ was indicted for conspiracy , sedition , and riot . On this indictment he was tried , at York , along with eight others , an the 22 ad of March , 1820 . Mr . Hot defended himself ; and a glorious defence it was . The trial lasted ten days ; and the Jury returned a verdiet that the defendants were * guilty of assembling , and attending , an unlawful meeting . " As he afterwards lumourously declared , they ¦ would have found him " guilty of sheep-stealing , "

      on the same evidence , had his persecutors puf the charge ag : u £ ist him in that shape . He was an offender of class prrjadices . Class prejudices , therefore , had to lay him by the heel ? . It did so . It returned a verdict of " guilty i and in pursuance of tha : verdict he wjs sentenced to two-and-a-half years imprisonment in llchester Gaol , and to find security for i > is good behaviour for five years , himself in £ \ , 000 , and two Fureties in £ 500 each . That impriiouaent he served . —every day of it t The savage inhuman sentence was exacted to the letter !

      Acd who were the abettors and shieldeks of the perpetrators of these deeds of blood ? TkeRiGENi and the -Misistees ! The Regert , through Su > - mocth , txpressed his "GREAT SATISFACTION" I !! a : ihe measures of the Magistrates on the bloody day ; and he tendered his "HIGH APPROBATION" !!!! to the Yeomanry for their cmtings and slashings ; sabrings and trampling down of Ms people" when pea&efnlly assembled 1 He thsrJsed them for KILLING FIFTEEN PERSONS 1 and for wounding four hundred and tvrentyfonr others ! FIFTEEN WERE KILLED ! Here are their names I When are we tc have a Monument erected to iheir memory ; and in execration of the men who killed them 1

      1 Taomas Ash worth , Bull ' s Head , Manchester . Special constable . - 2 J-: hn Aehton , Cowhill , near Oldham . 3 Thomas Bait by , Birt trees , Chadderton . A Jaires Cnunpfcon , Barton-upon-SowelL 5 William Damson , Saddlcworth . . . ¦ 6 John Lte , Olobam . - T Arthur O Neill , Pidgeon-street , Manchester . S Jobn Rhodes , Pitts , Hopwood . - = 9 Joseph Whitworth , Hyde . 10 William Bradshaw , Lilly Hill , near Bury .

      W 03 IE ^ . - 1 Mary Hers , Ra-wEnson ' s Buildings , Oxf crd Road , Manchester . 2 Sarah Jonea , Silt-street , Manchester . 3 3 Isrtha P-irtnijtcn , Uccles . 4 Mariaret Downes . conc&led by her friends . -

      I 5 FAM . 2 raaes , KenEedy-street , llascliestET . 25 KOlfcd . Into the transactions of thst day , no enquiry has ever yet been had ! Punishment of no sort , nor even censare , has ever been inflicted upon any of the parties who ordered , or those who executed , this horrible assault ! Parliamentary majorities sti / ied inquiry there ! The Grand Jury at Lancaster stifled inquiry there !

      Aad has bo punishment of any sort been inflicted upon the authors and abettors of those dreadfal deeds ! O ! yes ! We were wrong in saying , *• punishment of no sort" had fallen upon these parties . Punishment the most signal ! judgments the most marked ! have fallen upon them ; and especially upon those who interposed parliamentary majorities to stay the course of human justice ! God Ikls visited them ! The ENDS of some of them were remarkable indeed ! particularly the horrid end of CLlstlereagh ! In tbs month of Angust ' three years aiterwards , and within four days of the anr . iverssry of the t ; Massacre , " he cut his own THB 9 A . T I Appropriate judgment I Signal ecd 1 How jass are the dealings and dispensations of God I !

      This man had been the chief agent in all the measures against the Reformers . He hid brought in the GAGGING and DUNGEONING bills of 1817 ; he had-passed through " the House" the measures by virtue of which scores of petitioners for Kadical Reform , were , under the bayonet , marched into the yard of the Manchester New Bailey prison ; marched there as MAXEPAcroas j asd kept thebe , ¦ under the rain , toe a WHOLE DAY AM ) SIGHT IS ihe DEPTH of wtsteh !! He it was , Castlueagh , who had passed measures to enable himself and

      colleagues to do this ; and he it was who defended aad JO 5 HFIED the perpetrators of the bloody deeds of I ' ticrioo . Ah ! * nd he it was who cnt bis own Ihroaj I Bat we mast hare the whole tale out respecting thiB throat-cuiting . The young men of this 4 &y ought to know of it , as well £ b know of the sufferings and persecutions inflicted on the Reformers of % former generation , by those whos * ENDS were so remarkably striking . They ought to know of these things ; and it shall be no fault of i cars if they do not learn them j The following , tbea , is a full account of this throa ! -1 cotfin ; affair , it h { torn As pen of * master hand i —¦ Cobbjt : — j

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      INQUEST HELD AT NORTH CRAY , TUESDAY , 13 TH AUGUST , 1822 . This day , at a few minutes before three o ' clock , a Jury of the most respectable inhabitants in the -vicinity of the estate of the late Marquis of Londonderry tras empannelled , to inquire into the cause of the death of the above Noble Lord . The Coroner was Mr . Joseph Carttar , of Deptford . The inquest was held at the house of ths deceased Lord , and to the credit of the individuals who were appointed to superintend the arrangements attendant upon this melancholy occasion , not the slightest attempt was madd to keep the proceedings secret . Directions were given to the domestics to admit every person who desired to be present at the inquest . The Jury having been sworn ,

      The Coroner addressed them in nearly the following terms : —Upon no former occasion in the performance of his duty had Ms feelings been bo excited as by the pre-S 3 nt unfortunate event He was indeed so much affected that they must perceive he could hardly express himself as he ironed Upon this account be trusted they would excuse any trifling eriors which he might commit in the exercise of his duty . The gentlemen of the Jury were summoned and « worn to Inquire into tbe causes of tbe death of a nobleman , who stood perhaps aa high in the publio estimation as any man in the country . That his Lordship had met his death under particular circumstances , they doubtless must have learned . But it was his duty to inform them that they must remove from their mindB all impressions which

      should not be borne oat by the evidence . The gentlemen whom he addressed , being neighbours of the deceased , -were better able to form a just estimate of bis character than he was . As a public man , it was impossible for him to weigh his character in any scales that he could hold . In private Ufa he believed the world would admit that a more amiable man could not be found . Whether tee important duties of the great office which he held pressed upon his mind , and conduced to the melancholy event which they bad assembled to investigate , was a circumstance which in all probability never could be discovered . He understood that hia Xerdzhip had far some time past been so unwell as to require tbe assistance of a medical attendant . This gentleman would be examined on the inquest , and

      would doubtless be competent to describe the disease and affliction under which his Lordship laboured . That the dreadful blow which deprived the Noble Lord of life was itft . cted by his own hand , he believed the Jury , when they came to hear the evidence , could not doubt He understood it would be proved that ho person in tbe house , except his Lordship , could have committfed the act . When the Jury should examine the situation ef the body , and hear the evidence that would be submitted to them , he -was convinced that they would be perfectly unanimeus in that part of their verdict which went to declare the manner in which the deceued met Mb death . He felt that it was a matter of delicacy to allude to tbe other part of the verdict , and he would not presume to anticipate what

      it might be ; but he trusted the result would be that which all geod men desired . If the facta which he had heard were proved in evidence , he thought no could doubt that at the time he committed tbe rash act Ms Lordship was labouring under a mental delusion . If , however , it should unfortunately appear that there was not sufficient evidence to prove what were generally considered the indications of a disordered mind , he trusted that the Jury would pay some attention to his { the Coroner ' s ) humble opinion , which was , that so man could be in his proper senses at the moment he committed so rash an act as self-murder . Hia opinion was in consonance -with every moral sentiment , and of the information waieh the wisest of men had given to the world . The Bible declared that a man clung to

      nothing so strongly as his own life . He therefore viewed it as an axiom , and an abstract principle , that a man must necessarily be out of Ms mind at tbe moment of destroying Mmself . The Jury , of course , would not adopt his opinion upon tMs point , unless it ware in nnison with their own . He would not longer occupy the time and attention of the Jury than to express his pleasure at seeing ao respectable a body of gentlemen , and to add a hope that they would acquit themselTes o their important duty to the satisfaction of the public , as . well aa of their own consciences . He must apologise for saylEg a few words more . The body -was lying up stairs , and in the room adjoining ta that In which it lay , the Marchioness at present naa , and from thence it had been found impossible to remove her . To picture te the imagination anything like the state ot that noble lady * mind-was altogether impossible . The partition which divided the room in which the body lay from

      that which the Marchioness at present occupied was so thin , that tbs least noise being made in the former could n « t fail to be heard in the latter . The forms of law , however , required , that the Jury BaouldVview the body , and judge from tbe external marks which it might exhibit , of tbecauscB wMch bad produced death : he , therefore , bad only to request that the gentlemen would be aa silent as possible . He was almost afraid that the creaking of their shoes might be the means of exciting ideas which would wound ihe feelings of the ^ unhappy Marchioness . He was sure , nndar these circumstances , the Jury would do every thing In their pewer to prevent the least noise ; and he might observe , that it would be desirable to abstain , from talking in tbe room where the body lay , because any conversation mast certainly be heard through the almost , he might aay , paper partition . After the Jury had satisfied them-8 * ives by viewing the body , they-wouldretarn to « recute the remaining part of their duty .

      During this address of the Coroner , ths d omestics of tfceTinfertunata Marquia , who were in the room , for the most part , shed tears - , indeed , the love Which tbe servants of Ma Lordship bore to wards him -kom we -will n « t say surprising , ( for kind and honourable te ' eatment from a gentleman to those persons -who are dependent upon him , must ever procare such a result , ) bat highly creditable both to him and the individuals who composed Ms household . / ^ t 3 rfcro tbejvrr left the room , for tbe pnrpose of seeing the body , ° » ottbem suggested that bb colleague * . as well as Mnuelf , ahould take off thei * shoes , towier to prevent , aa far as possible , any noi * e that might be occasioned by them in walking . TMs bint was ixamedlaiely acted npon , and the jury left the room .

      After what bad fallen from the coroner , a feeling Of delicacy prevented u from accompanying the jury up stain , although we were given to understand that no objection -would have been made to each a proceeding Infect , as-we hare before hinted * - -no attempt at concealment was manifested on the part ot the household , but on toe contrary , a desire was shown to afford the publio an opportunity of ascertaining the parUculara of aa event respecting which much interest must oeoee * sarily be excited . The following description of the situation of the body at the time the jury viewed it , we believe to be eoi-Tect : — - - - .

      The body was enveloped in a dressing . gown and the head wao covered with a handkercMef . The feet were towards the window . The blood wMch proceeded from the wound was still upoa tie ground .

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      After being absent about' ten minutes , the jury returned , evidently much aflfected by the melancholy spectacle which they had jost beheld , The first witness called wsa Anne Robinson , who being sworn , deposed as follows ;— "I wait upoa the Marchioness of Londonderry : I knew the Marquis of Londonderry : his body now lies up stairs . In my opinion he has been ill during the last fortnight , but particularly so since Monday week . On Monday morning he rang the bell ; I answered it : he inquired why my lady had not been to see him . : Her Ladyship had been with him all night , and I told him so . Her Ladyship at this time was not in the room . I then went away . The bell Tang again . When I answered it , he asked if » r . Sa&khead has been to see him ? I told

      him that Dr . Bankheai had been with him about two hours and a half in the evening . It was about ' ¦ . four in the morning when he asked me this question . When I told Mm that Dr . Bankhead had been with him , he asked what he had said to the Doctor—whether he had talked any nonsense to him , or any thing particular , aa he had no recollection on the subject I replied , that I was not in the room daring the time that he bad talked with the Doctor . I then left the room . He rang again about seven o ' clock . I went to him . He then asked me what I wanted there . My Lady was with him at the time . She had been with him since four o ' clock , and she answered , ' that my Lard wanted his breakfast . ' Mj Lord and La-Hy were in bed at the time . I left the room , and brought the breakfast up . He sat

      up in the bed and tasted part of ic He found fault with it , and said , ' it was not a breakfast for him . ' He said there was no butter there : the butter , however was on the tray , as usual , and I pointed it out to him . The manner in which he spoke struck me as being uncommon ; it was in a scarp tone , which was unusual with him . I left the room after this . The bell tang again in about half an hour ; that was about . half-past seven . My Lady was in the room at this time , and I cannot tell who rang the bell . When I entered the room , he asked me , whether Dr . Bankhead had come from town . I told him that Dr . Bankhead bad slept in the house . He then said that he wished to see him . My Lady then got up , and came to me at the door , and said something to me . I went to Dr . Bankhead , and I gave him my

      Lord ' s message . I went back to my Lord , and told him that Dr . Bankhead would be with hint In two minutes . When my Lord saw me speaking to my Lady , before I left the room to go to Dr . Bankhead , he said there was a conspiracy against him . My Lady at that time desired me to tell Dr . Bankhead that he was wanted as soon as be could come . When I returned , and told my Lady that Dr . Bankhead would come , my Lady got out of bed , and retired to her dressing-room At this moment my Lord also got out of bed , and turned to the * ight into hia own dressing-room . [ Several questions were here put to the . witness . to ascertain the precise situation of these rooms . From the answers which she returned , it appeared that the common sleeping room opened into a passage , on either

      side of which was a dressing-room . Lady Londonderry's on the left , his Lordship's on the right . At the extremity of the passage was another door , behind which Dr . Bankhead was waiting ! I had just opened the door of my Lady ' s dressing-room , into which she had entered , when my Lord rushed past me into his own room . I opened the outside door , and told the circumstance to Dr . Bankhead , who immediately followed my Lord Into his dressing-room . I cannot tell what passed there , but I heard my Lord open his window before the doctor entered bis room . Immediately when the doctor entered the room he ( the decter ) exclaimed , * Oh , my Lord , ' or ' Oh , my God , ' I cannot recollect which . I heard no reply to this from my Lord . I instantly rushed into ths room , and saw the doctor with my Lord

      in his arms . I remained in tbe room till I saw the doctor lay him with Ma face upon the ground . I saw the blood running from him while Dr . Bankhead held him . I saw a knife . I heard my Lord say nothing . I was certainly much alarmed . The knife was in his right hand . [ A penknife with an ivory handle , and upon which there was no appearance of blood , was here shown to the witness . ] I believe that to be the penknife wMch I saw in my Lord ' s hands . After staying a few minutes in my Lord ' s dressing room , I followed Dr . Bankhead to my Lady . I bad previously raised an alarm , and it was now general throughout the house . To the best of my belief , my Lord did not live four minutes after I saw Mm . I did not percievc any wound norany blood while he was in Ms bed-room . No person was with him in the interval between his leaving his dre&sing'ioom and Ms death but Br . Bankbead . His state of mind appeared to be very incorrect for the last three or four days « Jf his life . He appeared to be very

      wild in every thing he said or did . He wanted from me a box which he said Lord Clanwllliam had given to me . Hia Lordship , however , had never given me any . He also asked me tor his keys , when he had them about him . Daring the last fortnight he was accustomed to say that everybody had conspired against him . He was very severe In Ms manner of speaking , wheh I never noticed before , he being in general mild and kind . When he saw two people speaking together , he always said , < There is a conspiracy laid against me . ' A . great many circumstances induce me to believe that be was oat of Ms mind a fortnight before his death . He scolded my Lady on Sunday afternoon , because , as he Bald , 8 he had not been near him all day , she had en . tirely forsaken Mm , Her Ladyship , however , had been sitting with Mm all the morning . ' The witness , in conclusion , repeated ber belief that his Lordship bad been in a state of mental delusion for some weeks previous to his death .

      The second witness examined was Charles Bankhead , M . D ., of Lower Brook-street , Grosvenorrsquare . —On last Friday afternoon , at five o ' clock , I received a note from Lady Londonderry , desiriDg me to come as soon as I could to Bee the Marquis of Londonderry , at his house in St . Jamea ' s-square . Her note stated that the was very anxious about his Lordship , as she thought he was very ill and very nervous ; that they were to leave town for North Cray at seven o ' clock in the evening , and that she hoped I would come before that hour . I arrived in St . Jamea ' s-square « t six o ' clock , and found my Lord and my Lady alone in the drawing-room . Upon feeling Ms pulse I conceived him to be exceedingly ilL He complained of a severe headache , and of a confusion of recollection . He looked pale ,

      and was very much distressed in his manner . I told Mm that I thought it was necessary that he shonld be cupped , and that I would stay and dine with his lady and himself whilst the cupper came . The cupper soon arrived , and took seven ounces of blood frcm the nape of his Lordship ' s neck . After the operation was performed , he stated that he was very much relieved , and I advised Mm to lay himself quietly down on the sofa fox half an hour ; and , as he had scarely eaten 'the whole day , to take a cup of tea before he got into the carnage to return to North Cray . He followed my advice , and laid Mmself down on the couch , where he remained very tranquil . After this he drank two cups of tea . I waited until I saw my Lady and himself get into the Carriage in order to return to North Cray .

      Before his departure Ms Lordship said , that as I was sure he must be very ill , he expected I would come to North Cray and stay all Saturday night , and If possible , all Snnday . I sent with him some opening medicines , which he was to take early on Saturday , in order that I might know the effect they had produced on . my arrival . I know that he took these powders en Saturday . I arrived at North Cray about seven o ' clock on Saturday afternoon . I understood that his Lordship had not been out of bed all 'day , ' and : Ivimmediately proceeded to his bed-room . On entering his bed-room , I ohserved that his manner of looking at me expressed suspicion and alarm . He said it was very odd that Z should come into his bed-room first , before going into the dining-room below . I answered that I

      had dined in town , and knowing that the family were at dinner down stairs , I had come to visit him . Upon this he made a reply wMch surprised me exceedingly . It was to thiB effect—that I seemed particularly grave in my manner , and that something must have happened amiss . He then asked me abruptly whether I had anything unpleasant to toll him ? I answered , ' No j that I was surprised , at hia question , and the manner in wMch it was proposed . ' He then said , / the truth was , that he had reasons to be suspicions in some degree , but that he hoped that I would be the last person who would engage in anything that would be irjurious to him . * His manner of saying this was bo unusual and so disturbed , as to satisfy me that he waa at the moment labouring under mental delusion . I

      entreated Mm to be very tranquil , and prescribed for him some more cooling and aperient medicines , confined him to barley water , and allowed him slops only . I remained with him during Saturday night and until one o ' clock on Sunday morning . Though his fever was not very high during any part of this time , yet the incoherence of Ms speech and the uncomfottableness of his manner continued unaltered . Daring Sunday I visited Mm frequently , and continued with him in the evening till half-paat twelve o ' clock . I advised Mm to be as tranquil as possible , and told him that I would endeavour to persuade my Lady to come to bed . I slept in a room very near his LordsMp . On Monday morning , about seven o ' clock , Mrs . Robinson , my Lady Londonderry ' s maid , came to my room ^ door , and asked

      if I wasdreased , telling me , 'My Lord wished to see me by-and-by . ' I answered that I was ready to come that monent ; bat Mrs . Robinson said , ' that she did not wish me to come then , because her LadysMp had not left the bed-room . " In about half an hour , she returned again , and said , that his Lordship would be glad to we me inaaediately , as ber Ladyship waa patting on her gown , in order to go into hex own dress ing-room . On walking from my own room to Lord Londonderry ' g Iwd-roov * I ebterved that the door of tbe latter was open , and could perceive that his LordsMp was not in it . In at instant Mm . Bbbinson said to me , ' Hi * Lordship baa geoe Into Wa dressing-room * I stepped into his dresaiBg-toomr and saw Mm in Ms dressinggown , standing w ! U » hi ? front towards tine

      window , which was opposite to tap door at wMchl entered . Hia face wm directed toirarda the celllDg Without taming hb head , ; on the imtant he heard my step , he exclaimed , ' Bankhead , let l"oe fall upon year arm— 'feis all over . * Ab quickly as po ttible I ran to him , thtnlripg he was fainting -and gc'ip g to fall . I caught him In my arma as he was falVg , and perceived that be had a knife in hU right' hand , -very firmly cUnched and all over blood . ' I did l wt we him ns&-it ; be -mnst have-nsed -Jt' berorel - « anKv ' - 'Jnto ttJeroom . In Calling he declined upon one side , * and the blood burst from Mm like a torrent from a watering pot I was unable to support him , and be fe . ' l olat 9 ' my arms . I think the wound must have been in dieted as soon as I pat my foot on the threshold of the - Z °° '

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      aa its natnre was such that the extinction of life must have followed it In the twinkling of an eye . I think that no less than two quarts of blood flowed from him in one minute . I am satisfied that a minute did not elapse from the moment of my entering the room until be died , and daring that time be said not a word except that which I have already mentioned . It was impossible that any human being could have inflicted the wound bat himself . Having known him Intimately for the last thirty years , I have no hesitation in saying that be was perfectly insane when he committed this act . I had noticed a great decline in the general habit of his health for some weeks prior to his death -but I was not aware of the mental delusion under which he was labouring till withlu three or four days of his decease . ¦ .- . ¦' : '¦¦ ¦'•; ::- .- ¦' . ¦¦ ' : " " v " ^ ' -:- '¦ ¦ -i " ¦ ' ¦ ¦

      After Dr . Bankhead had finished Ms testimony , the Coroner inquired whether there were any more witnesses who could speak to the nature of this transaction . He was informed that there were several ; but a doubt being thrown out as to necessity of calling them after the evidence whieh had already been adduced , he said that he BEould consult the Jury upon the point , and in consequence ordered the room to be cleared of aU spectators , o ' :. •¦ : r ¦ ' ¦] - '¦'¦ -: ' ¦ - ¦ ¦ : : ' i :- ' '; ; - After the Coroner and Jury bad been left to themselves for half an hour , notice was given that strangers were again permitted to enter the room in which they

      were sitting . On reaching it -we found the Jury ranged round the Coroner ' s table , slid giving their assent to a verdict which he read to them . . The verdict stated " That on Monday . August 12 , and for some time previously , the Most Noble Robert , Marquis of Londonderry , under a grievous disorderdid labour and languish , and became in consequence delirious and of insane mind ; and that , whilst in that state , -with a knife of iron and steel , he did inflict on himself on tile left side of bis neck , and ef the carotid artery , a wound of one inch in length ,: and half an inch in depth , of which he instantly died ; and that no other person except himself was thei cause of bis death . ''

      If coincident dates were of any importance , I might observe , that Castlereagh cut his throat oa the King ' s Birthday . A thing more necessary to be observed , is , that he is here called the Marquis of Londonderry which was bis title ; but , I have always , continued to call him 'CasUereagh , ' that being the title which he bore during the time that he so largely participated in those numerous deeds , by whloh tee have se long and so well known him . His name was / Robert Stewart ; but , by that « f Casllereagh be was known jo Vie nation , and by that name I Shall always speak of him .

      The first thing that strikes our attention here la the weeping of the servants , set forth in so pompous and prominent a manner . ThlBils very likely to have been true and Caatlereagh is likely enough to have been a gentle and liberal ' master . But while we can discover no very great or rare merit in tkis on his part , seeing the loads of public money ; which , for so many years , be had been receiving , we see a good deal to dwell upon , if I bad time for it , in the conduct of these servants , whose attachment and gratitude were so feelingly expressed- upon this ' occasion .. These persons , be it remembered , belonged to those " lower orders , " of which he had always spoken with so much contempt and disdain ^ and whom he insulted with the uame of latest : popitlace , when they stoodf forward in defence of the persecuted Caroline . Those tears should have been hidden by bis euoleglst : for , in thoBe tears of the servants , we read the / severest satire oh the former conduct of the master . . :: ; ! :

      We ! seja , that , if the Report speaks truth , J'iscqunt Sidmouth was in attendance . What could that be far ? Probably to give that evidence of which the Coroner spoke as being at hand , but wMch be regarded as unnecessary , seeing that he hod the Letter of the Duke of Wellington , of which letter I shall speak by and by . , ¦ We next ; cometo the Speechof the Coroner , which , as far as my observation has gone , was something wholly new . He began , it ; appears from the Report , by pronouncing a lofty eulogium upon the person whe had cut his throat , as well In his private as his public capacity . I shall diepote the assertions of the Coroner as to the latter of these ; but , I shall first proceed with that part of the speech which related to the buslnesa

      before the Jury ; - ; ; ^ 'V ' ' : '¦¦ ; . ¦ . ¦ _ ¦ , ¦ . : . ; : V ; ' , ^ The Coroner here spoke alter the manner of a lawyer opening Ato ' '« iw . ' \ ..: Ha \ toId ' tbe . ; .. Jury . ' ' - that he shonld produce such and such evidence ; and that that evidence would , if produced , lead to such and such conelusions . He told them that , iif what he bad heard were proven , there could be no doubt that the person who bad cut his throat was , at the time , labouring under mriitxl delusioit . But ; , and now niark , be ia reported to have said , "If It should unfortunately appear there was viol : sufficient evidence to prove the insanity , he trusted the Jury would pay some attention to bis humble opinion , wMeb ; was , that no man could be in his proper senses at the moment he committed so rash an act as Belf-murder "¦ " I ¦ r :

      This was no very humble opinion . It was a very bold one ; and a very daring one ; seeing that it was In direct opposition to the tato of the land , which , 66 far from saying that self-murder must proceed from insanity , provides a degradation to be inflicted on the bodies of self-murderers , and also the confiscation of their property to the King . Mr . Coroner told ; his Jury , that , his opinion was in consonance with every moral sentiment , and with the inforniatlon which the wisest of men had given to the world . I do not know that he said this , to be sure ; but such is the Report that has been published in the Courier and other papers . He quoted the Bible to show how strongly manSwas attachedto life ; but he forgot to say how the Bible reprobates self-destTUction . He repeated his opinion in these words-r" He therefore viewed it as an axiom , that 3 man must neoeisarily be out Of his mind at the moment of destroying himself . " : ,

      Now , if thta Coroner did say this , for wMch we have no more than newspaper authority , mind , I say that he delivered a doctrine completely at variance with the law of the land , and that he was guilty of a breach of his duty . The law adopts no such , axiom . Blacketone , in his Fourth Book , and 14 th Chapter , after calling suicide pretended heroism , but real cowardice , proceeds to say , that the law of England has ranked this amoh ( i 8 t the highest crimes , making it a peculiar species of felony . Then he goes on thus : V Thei party most be in Ms senses , else it is no crima But this excuse

      ought not to be strained to that length to which our Coroners' Juries are apt to carry it ; namely , " that the very act of suicide is an evidence of insanity ; as if every man who acts contrary to ^ reason had no reason at all ' : ;'• ' for the same argument would prove every other criminal insane as well as the self-murderer . The law very rationally judges that every melancholy fit does hot deprive a man of the capacity of discerning right from wrong ; and , therefore , if a real lunatic kill himself in a lncld ' interval * - ' he ; "is < a self-murderer as much as another man . / - . - ¦¦' - ¦¦ -:. ¦ " . ¦ -.. ¦ ' ¦' , ¦¦¦ ' ¦ r - / '' -: ¦ ¦ . '¦" ¦ : of In

      Let the public judge , then ^ m anoer which this Coroner performed his duty upon the occasion . You see , even if a notorious lunatic , a than who has been a lunatic for years , kill himself in a lacid interval , the law sends his body to be buried in the highway with a stake driven through it , and makes bis goodsand chattels forfeit to the ( King ; «' hoplng , * rsays Blackstoue , " tiiat his care for either . his own reputation , or the welfare of hia family , "would be some motive to restrain him from so desperate and wicked an act" But what is there to restrain any man , if Juries act uponlthe opinion of this Coroner , who sets the law totally aside , and conjures up in ita stead what be calls moral sentiment and the information of the wisesl

      of men . What had be to do with metal Bentimeht ? what had he to do with Information of the Wisest of men f What had he to do , in short , with anything bat the law ; and , bad he not that law in Blackstone , in Hawkins , and in all the authorities to which they refer ? Besides , if this Coronor be right , what enormous wrong has been ; committed on seU'inurderera and their families ? How many bodies of poor men have been buried in the highway 1 Wai not Smith at Manchester , who banged himself on being discarded by his sweetheart ? Was not Sellis ? Was not the unfortunate Spanish General , the itarquis de < Castro I Were hot these burled in the highway ? And , if this Coroner was right , again I say , what wrong has been done !

      Blackatone ia very particular in observing , that , a mere fit of ruelaticholy la not to form i legal excuse Look well at the evidence , and see if you can discover proof of anything like < settled insanity ; But this is not all ; for if even a real lunoWc kill himself in a lucid interval , ; he is a self-marderer . Now , If you look at the evidence of Dr . Bankhead ; you will Had that , wheii the Doctor went into the dressing-room , he found Caatlereagh in it ; and the Doctor says , " his face was in an elevated position , directed towards the ceiling . Without turning bis bead , on the instant he heard my step , he exclaimed , * Bankhead , let me fall upon pour arm- 'tis all over . He never spoken agaiiu" Was there ever any tiling in the world mure rational than this ? Must not the mind have been perfectly sane ; that could have distinguished the Doctor ' s step without seeing the Doctor ; that could have , not only anticipated the fall , bat have provided

      against itV ' aad ; Uwt could hav * stated , In . -wotds «» appropriate , the effect which the knife had ensured ? Here then was the lucid interval , at any rate s and Biackstone saya , that if even a real Innatio kill himself in a lucid interval he ia a self-murderer as much as another man . ; It ia easy to conceive how anxious the family of Castlereagh must have been to prevent the consequences of a verdict of / e ^ o-de-se . Besides the burying in the highway , there was property to toe amount of perhaps two or three or four hundred thousand pounds . On what ground the Jury did decide to favourof existing insanity it is not far » e to say ; bat if their dedaion was founded on the axiom laid down by the Ctoroner , their decision was clearly contrary to law . However , as I find the evidence given in the newspapers , so I give It to you ; take it , and all the flirenmstancea belonging to it into view , and come to that decision wMch reason and justice dictate .

      . Now let us take another view of the matter . According to one of these Wltnesse * , he he bad been Insane for tk fortnight According ' 'to the other , he had been insane tor a shorter space of time . But , ^ it unfortunately happened that he wag present , and formed - one in Covaoilwth the King , on ttB Friday ftdiiQm toJhd Monday on which he cut his throat I According to the lady ' s ^ maid ' s accounts he wa » insane * some ^ days while he was appearing and speaking in Parliament . These witnesses do , indeed , ohii illness , and mental delusion , and nervousness , and headach , and menial delirium ; but , it will be evident to everyone , that its proper name was insanity , or madness ; tor , if it did UOt

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      autooHt to this * tt was notitfng In exculpation . Here then we have the proof ; piroof sufficient to satisfy a Jury , that - ¦ we' had a mad - •* . leader" ot the House of Commons j and a inad Minister sitlinffin Council teith the King ! ' V v- - \ : r -: ¦ ;[ : ] :: \ - w ^ -- ' . - ' : ¦ ¦ ¦ . The Letter of the Duke of Wellington is a very curious affair , especially if we take it into view along with other circamatances . The letter ia written by the Doke to Castlereagh's Doctor . A very extraordinary thing in itself . It la very extraordinary that one of the King ' s ministers should write a letter to a doctor ; should put it down in Hack and white , that another of the King ' B ministers laboared under "mental delirium . " And then it cornea inlso pretty a way , / ' I beg you will

      never mention to any one what I have communicated to you respecting his Lordship . " This is so very pretty—80 extremely likely , that we cannot help believing Ibis to be authentic 1 It is ao perfect in character , as coming from a Privy Councillor ; and the thing winds up so well by the newspapera telling us j that "immediately on their announcement of the verdict , a despatch was forwarded to the Duke of Wellington , and the messencer was ordered to proceed with the utmost possible expedition" 1 Well might he go with the utmost possible expedition to tell the Duke that the Doctor had already told his secret , and that too without any necessity for it , seeing that the verdict was recorded before the letter was produced ! V ¦ " : ¦" ¦ '

      The Duke would not be a little flurpriBed at the news I dare Bay , bat certainly his surprise would not be greater than that of the whole of this nation , at the various parts of tbla wondbtfal proceeding . We mast now take a little look at the extra-judicial assertions connected with this affair . . The Courier of Wednesday tells us , that the insanity under which the act was committed is proved by many circumstances not notified at the time , " Had it beeii possible or decorous to have demanded His Majesty's testimony , we are informed that his evidence could have been had ;" and then the Courier proceedsi to say , that the King observed It on the Friday . So tbatj if tbis varlet of a Courier ¦ were to be J > elieved , which he is not , observe , the King : went off to Scotland with a firm belief in his mind , that he left the oftice of Foreign Affairs in the hands of a madman ! The Courier farther tells us in the same paper , that there had been " mental alienation" in some of the

      branches of Castlereagh's / dmiYy . ¦ So that here we have it running in the blood -and now , perhaps , we may account for thoBe expressions at which I used to laugh , about " sudden transitions from war to peace ; " about capital finding Its way'into new chaniiels ; about digging holes one day and filling Ihenyup the next '; .. about leaving things io Nature ; about the general working of events ; in ^ short , we may account for all those wild things that I used to say , as plainly as I dared , were never before uttered by any Gentleman out of Bedlam . The Courier , in the same paper , tells us positively , that the King , before his departnre , sent for Lord Liverpool to tell him that he thought Castlereagh "a intellects were impaired . And yet this very same paper of only one day before told ua , that thia very Castlereagh waa preparing , the very day before he cut bis throat , to go to the continent , w the King ' s representative , h . % a Congress , white the affairs ' . « f Europe were to undergo diacussion ! , ' . ' ¦ . ' , : ' ;/ . ' ¦ ¦•' ¦ ¦ ¦ •¦ ' ;; v .: . ' .. • . '¦ ' : ' . ' . ' :- : ' ¦" /¦ '¦¦ ¦ ¦' . ¦ - '•

      If all tills were true , which , observe , I by no means either assert or believe , what a pretty situation this nation would be in ! It would indeed be the envy of surrounding nations and admiration of the world . Men would no longer wonder at the miserable state in which they are ; no longer wonder that famine and over-productfon of food should at once oppress the land . Here weull be a solution of the whole of the wonder : a mad Secretary of State , and a mad Leader of the House of Commons . ¦¦ ,, V-, ;' . ' . ' : . ; ¦ ; " . ¦ . ¦¦ " - - ' - - . ¦; " : ¦ ¦ r '"' ' y \ Fou will observe the pitiful pretences that have been batched up as the cause of this insanity . In the letter of the Duke of Wellington , the harrassing and fatigue and overworking during the last Ssaslon of Parliament are stated as the cause . The Courier comes with an

      a nplification of this , and says ; that people who " did not sufficientlyv calculate / the effect of constant application , unrelieved 6 y any recreation or leisure—of nights passed in harrassing debates , and of days devoted to equally harrassing diplomatic discussions—they did hot reflect how few hours could be passed in bed and fewer still be passed in sleep . " What impudence as well as nonsense l What diplomatic discussions had he to worry him , when he bad two under Secretaries of State , two or three dozen of clerks and messengers ; somebody to make even hb pens for him , add ten or a dozen bands to write as many lines of writing ; and this too when for seven long years ' the King baa been

      incessantly telling us , twice a year , that he continues to receive nothing bat assurances of peaee and friendship from all foreign powers ! What diplomatic discussions bad he , then ? And aa to the " harrassing debates ; " what harrassing bad he , when every motion that he made was sure to be carried , and nine times out of ten without an attempt at a division 1 If talking nonsense , indeed , proved him to be insane , insane he has been ever since I knew any thing of him ; and ccrtalaly , the question that he put to the witness ; Anne Rob'naon , whether he bad talked any ^^ nonsense : to Dr , Baiikhead , proved any thing but ) his insanity ; for it proved that be had formed a tolerably correct estimate of his calloquial endowmenta . \ ¦

      To talk of Ms mind having sank under the load of his bu 8 inass is quite monstrpus . The whole that he bad to do , even if he bad done it well , did not amount to a tenth of the labour that I have been coneUntly performinggfor these twenty years ; and if hia mind sunk under hie business , what is to become of ttie mind of a lawyer in extensive practice ; of a ; Lord Chancellor , or of a ; Judge ? The Chief Justice lias more to do in a month than he had to do in seven years . Why , at this rate , no Lawyer , or Chancellor , or Judge ought to be suffered to move about without a keeper . Only think of a trial of considerable leHojth , proceeding out of a complicated declaration and pleadings of length enormous ; only think of sitting and hearing the statements of the lawyers on both sides !; of

      hearing the evidence of twenty or thirty Witnesses , swearing to differenk points of the qaeation , irregularly as possible in point of order ; enly think of making notes of all this , and then , when all this mass of confusion is over , taking it and laying the merits of the case , the pro and tbe con , and nicely balancing One part against another ; drawing , at last , the con-. cluBlou on which the mind of the jaiy ought to * e >^ ; only think of all this ; consider , that it is what every one of the Judges has to perform almost every day of his life ; and consider , too , that the Judge is bound by Jaw ; that every opinion he gives , every statement that

      he makes , every colouring that be communicates to any circumstances are narrowly watched by men as ekilf ol and as able as Mmself , who have a . right to call him to account , who do call him to account , upon the spot , if he fall Into error ; ^ and who can ^ U for a revision of hia decisions and bring against Mm any Word that be may otter , and that , too , before a tribunal where hia rivals sit in judment with himself . Only think of this - f and recollect , that the Judges never go mad ; and bo thoroughly are they imbued with a sense of obedience to the laws , that , however the cutting ef throats may be in fasMon , they take special good care never to cut theirs . ' ' . ¦ -:-.:. - ; - ¦'¦' - ¦ : ¦ ¦' .:,. '¦ ' , . ¦ . ' .. :: ¦ - ' - ¦ ¦ ¦ ' •" - , ' - ' : - - / "'

      It is beastly nonsense , therefore ; U Is nonsense such as scarcely Caatlereagh himself ever Uttered , to talk of his having been driven out of his sensea by his load of business . Deep thinking , some people say , will drive a man mad . This Is a very foolish notion ; but , at any nteipow deeply Castlereagh thought , may be judged of by bis speeches and the result of hia measures . It is not now that I say it for the first time or for the thousandth time , for I have always sild , that it was one of the most empty-headed creatures that ever existed ; and that it was sheer impadence and the Imbecility of its opponents , that carried it through with a sort of eclat , Such as a mountebank obtains amongst clowns .

      Yet , that he was not in that state of disgust ana despair which might have impaiied bis faculties , such as they were , I do not pretend to say . He must have been an idiot not to perceive that his career was drawing to a close . I do not know that he did perceive It ; but h « must have been little short of an idiot not to have perceived it ; and it is likely enough , that he did feel a great deal of alanm at eventa that he saw approaching . He well knew that he was moat cordial 1 ? detested by the Reformers at any rate ; and impudent as he was , he bad lived to see the day , when sheer impadence was not likely to carry Mm through . He bad got through the last session of Parliament with some difBculty ; but he saw another approaching which he could not hope to get through , / without tbe sysiom ' receiving a terrible shock of some sort or another .

      Under floch circumstances he might be in a state approaching Insanity . What makes the bankers , moneyjobbers , and merchants , cut their throats ao gallantly ? Tbe dread of humiliation . False pride . BJsckst&ne calls it cowardice , which induces men to destroy them * setveg , t . j avoid those ills which ^^ they baveiiot the fortitude to endure . Instead of going to America to avoid the blessings of 8 ldmoath ' s Bill , which CasUereagh brought into the House of Commons , I xnighthsvtQ ca . t my throat ; but I did not like the idea of being buried in the highway with a atake driven through me . I pr eferred enduring the ills of a voyage to America , aad living to have the chance of seeing my foes cut their own throats . This cutting of throats , therefore , has its foundation in false pride ; in the dread of being

      humbled ; in the dread of being brought to sweep those streets through which the throat-cutters have rolled with such Insolence in their carriages . They retain all their inaolensetltXft . \ , else they would see that they are abont to come into their proper place ; and to be in that ttate of life where they ought always to have been . As to compassion ; as to sorrow , upon this occasion , how base a hypocrite I must be to a&otjt ! nay , how base a hypocrite to dlagolse , or to attempt to dJjgnise my satisfaction 1 Dan I forget Ireland ? can I forget Mr . Fumerty ? can : I forget Napoleon ? Marshal Key ? can ;! forget the Qaeen , who , though she Buffexed so can I torget tne yaeen , wno , tnouga sne Bnnexed . so

      much , though she suffered to ttxe breaking of ber heart , never thought of the dastardly act of putting ao end to her existence ? The ruffians who continae to praise this man , tell ua that the hiatory of his life is found in the measures of the Ck > vernment for the last twenty * seven years ; and that is trae enough ; it Is foaad In ali the variqdi acts ti ^ t have been passed to ^ up in their houses from sunset ' to " sunrise , and to tansport them without trial by jury . It ia found in the Power-oMinprisonment Bill of 1817 . It is found in those terrible Six Acts , one of which prescribes that the printer of a newspaper shall enter into bail even before he begins t © print : which prescribes that this very pamphlet in Which I am now art-

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      dressing you , shall be so loaded with paper and with price , as to make it difficult to effect its drcu-Iatioii . It is found" far another of ^^ those Acts ; which was Intended to transport men / and which ? does banish man for life , for a second time uttering that which has a ^^ tendency to bring into eentempt those who pass snch a law . His history Is in the : figure of eight and eight dpherl , wMch represent the amount of tke National Debt . It Is written fa those measures which

      have reduced the most industrious and enterprising farmers in the world to a state of beggary ^ and have plunged no small number of them into despair , real insanity , and self-destruction . It is written in a mass of pauperigm , hitherto wholly unknown to England , and it is written in starvation to Ireland amidst oyer-production . As to Ms family and connexions , look at the immense sums whfeb they are now receiving out of the fruit of the people's labour . And a * to any eompajgalon that we are to feel for them , we will feel it when an

      end to the auffenngs of the Reformers and their families will leave us a particte of « sompa 9 S 8 ion to betow on any body else . The mention of tbe angulflh of lady Castlereagh only reminds me of the anguish of poor Mrs Johnson , who , brought to a death-bed by long and racking anxiety on account of her husband , harrassed , persecuted , thrown into a dungeon at a hundred miles from her , merely for having been present tA a meeting never before deemed unlawful ; . when I bear . Lady Castiereagh ' s anguish mentioned I forgot , for tbe time .

      the enormous sinecure of her father , bat I remember that exemplary and affectionate wife , Mrs . Johnson , who , brought to her : death-bed by the meansjuat mentioned , earnestly prayed that she might see her husband before she closed her « yer for ever j and ;! remember , that that prayer was rejected by CasUereagh and his colleagues , though the husband tendered bail to any amount and offered to submit to any length of imprisonment as the price of permission to receive the last Sigh bt bis dying wife J ; : ¦ ,

      I have now performed my duty ; a duty towarda the public ; towards the Reformers more especially ; and , Joseph Swann , particularly towards you . I anxiously hope that yon may come alive , and in health , out of your dungeon . I admired your conduct at the tune when the sentence was passed upoB you . You did not talk of cutting your throat ; but , darting a look at those who passed the sentence , youexclaimed V «« js that all ? I thought yon had a bit of rope in your pockets for me !•• Your cliildren are in misery now ; but . be of good cheer ; they may live to see the day when they will not have to mourn over a father in a dungeon , ; : " . '¦ . "¦¦; . ¦ : ' ' ¦¦¦ ¦ . " : '¦"¦ iam , : . . ?¦ ¦¦' . ' " ; . '¦¦' ¦¦ V- : - .. ' . ' ; ' /¦ ¦¦ ¦ ¦ ^ . v ' -: ' . . \ - ' : ' : ' ' ? . vYox » r . faltb ? oifriendi . and---- - . : ' " / -: ' ; : ' " - . ' ; ¦ ;¦ . ,: '' . Moat obedjlent servant , . ' .. ¦'¦' . ¦ ¦'¦/" : ¦ ¦ ' . ¦• ¦ ¦ ^ : \ :- '¦' - " / ' - '' . Wm . CObbett . " . '

      Oar space ia uow exhaused ; We have occupied more than we intended , and almost more than w , e should have done , under the peculiar circumstances of the timeg . We have not , however , exhausted our materials . We have only seen the END : of one of the Ministers who screened the Manchester butchers from justice , and thanked them for their bloody work . There were others of them , whos 'i ENDS were truly remarkable ! ? f he Premier sud into " o state of menial incapacity" / Canning wea off , at least , in a marked way ; and the burial-day of the Reoeht himself ( at the time of his death a SOVEREIGN ) was & coniplete day QrholHday keeping--a day of pleasure . These events we cannot detail at present . We shall , however , return to them . They shall not be lott sight of ; nor shall the call for JUSTICE on the perpetrators of the massacre yet b © given up .

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      BUNDERLAND . —At the weekly meeting of the Conncil , held on Sunday morning , the surplus proceeds of the late steam-boat trip were divided aa Follows , namely—10 * to be devoted to the parchase ; of cards , and 53 . to be given to the Executive Committee of the National Charter Association . An im portant letter from Wednesbnry , to a friend ia Suhderiand , ' relative to the strike of the colliers , was read to the meeting ; and , after a discussion upon the subject , it was resolved to make its ;

      contents known to the pitmen ' s meeting , which will be held this day ( Saturday ) , at Mr . Hines ' s , South . Shields . The propriety of having another steamboat excursion ,: for the purpose of spreading bur principles , and raising fnnds for the cause , was then taken into consideration , when it was unanimously determined to have an excursion to Stockton aaa Middle 8 borough , on Sahday , the 28 th instant , provided the friends at Stockton can make arraugemeata for a camp meeting on that day . / : ' . ' . , ;

      Pboposbjb Camp Meewng at o ^ a neap ; SxocKTOtf . — The friends at Suuderlaud respeotfully deaire to call the attention of the Stockton , Mlddlesborough Stokesley , Hartlepdolj and Darlington friends to the great good that may be effected at the present time , by a Central Chartist Camp Meeting . - The season when such assemblies can be held with advantage is now fast spending , and there never was a time when the necessity of bringing the scattered and divided forces of freedom together was so evidently

      important aa the present . Tne good that may result front the proposed meeting , if supported by the friends in the places named , is incalculable . The Sfoderlwid friends , therefore , hope that the propo « ed » meeting may be carried into effect in such amanner asto stimulate the dormant energies , and cement together the Chartists of ' tfee northern and southern divisions of the county . It ia also hoped that the Stookton Middlesborough , and Hartlepool friends will endear vour to get up a similar trip , for a meeting to be held at . Sttnderiand .-v . ¦'• • ¦ " : ' ¦¦¦ : ¦ -K : - ; : ¦ . ^ - --: ^

      CROrDEN . —On Monday evening the » Chatlwts of this town assembled at the Bald Paced Stag . The . «> oin , was completely full , and Mr . Segrave was called to the chair , when the following resolutfoff wasjpropoBed by Mr . T . Bennett , secoiided by ifr . 1 > . Tnling , and carried unanimously , "That ibis " fneetjng having taken into consideration thealawtr ! , * L unparalleled distresseii state of tnet cottntry , do firmly believe ^ haf all the suffering is caused bf ? " »' unjust system which allows iffindioff capitalist

      to reduce , at their will and pleasure r the , wag « a f f . Wjealth producing millions , /^ e also as firmly beiieye that if the people ' s Charter was made the jaw of the lahdj the people wouli ose the power tMs given them to the putting an end to this dfc g faoeful state of things , " foarlreshmemberfl weifl enr olled . A long debate ibllowedjin ; which severs * P * fche members took part . A vote of thanks wa given to the chairma' ' , when tho meeting separated at eleveiio ' clock , highly delighteaV

      BRIGHTjjc . —The ^ Oiartists of Bri ^ oa ; lava been honoured with the presence of that ( riend of democraoy Mr ; Clancy ^ and much pwni | iB Swl him for his labours doriria five daysVfc-aii ^ w ^ to reconcUeiihe difl ^ aVwictidns 6 t * M ^ ft ^ i town . On Wednesday ^ a very erowded mefw * ° l the Chartists and ^ friends wj ^ heitf at thyc ^ w Liberty , specially convened , whenT ffie ^ W * ? deolarationwas agreed to . — ¦ :: ?¦ ' : * ' . "'; ' ^' . \;; ; DfiCLARATION OF TftB CHARTISTS O ? "BB IQ ^ TO ^ 'T In order to show to the world that wearesibcere in

      dnr professions of those hallowed principlesi that ff « advocate , and to prevent , so far as ppssiblej the en * gendering of disunion in oitf ranfcsy we determine nenceforward to fling to the winds all personal bickerings about names , believing that the motto of every true democrat ought to be measures , not men ; ** pledge ourselves , therefore , neither to turn - 'toj « w right or the left in our course to the goal of freedom , as pointed out by the veritable Executive « the people , in the glorious organization of the _ NationaJ Charter Association . Signed , an behalf of too meeting , John Page , chairman . ¦ : ^

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      CASTLEREAGH'S HORRID END . TO JOSEPH SWANN , W 7 io was sentenced by the Magistrates of Cheshire to four years and a half imprisonment in Chester Gaol , for selling Pamphlets and being present at a Meeting for Parliamentary Reform ; who was imprisoned many weeks , for want of bail , before his Trial ; who has now two years of his imprisonment tmexpired ; and who , when imprisoned , had e Wife and four helpless Children . Kensington , 15 th August , 1822 . MB , SWANJf . —CASTXEREAGH HAS CUT HIS OWN THROAT , AND IS DEAD . ' let that aouud reach you in the depth of your dungeon ; and let it carry consolation to your Buffering soul ! Of all the victims , you have suffered most We are told of the poignant grief of Lady CasUereagh ; and , while he must be a brute indeed who does not feel for her , what must he be who does not feel for your wife and your four helpless children , actually torn from you when you were first thrown into the diMflal cells ?

      However , we shall have time to say more of your case hereafter . Let me , at present , address you on tbe subject of CafiHereagb . I am about to insert the Report of the Inquest on his body ; but , I will first state to you certain matters , which ought to be remembered , and which will pass away , unless we , at once , put them on record . The mover of Six-Acts cut his throat last Monday morning about seven o ' clock . The Courier of that night gave au account of his death ; but Btated it to have arisen from goui in ihe stomach . Now , mind , the writer must have told this lie wilfully , or he must purposely have been misinfonned . A design , therefore , must , at one time , have existed somewhere to smother the truth .

      A cut throat is however , no such easy thing to smother , and especially , where there ia a house full of servants , all with tongues in their mouths . Therefere , the Courier ' s lie was , the next d ? y , abandoned ; and the trutn , as to the deed itself , came out Before , however , we quit this lie of the Courier , let us again remark that it must have been intentional . North Cray , a little village in Kent , where ths throat was cut , is only abeul two hour ' s ride from Xoiidon . A King ' s messenger was in the house at tbe time , as is , I believe , the case constantly , with the Ministers who are Secretaries of State . At any rate there were stables full of horns ; and you mutt know , that , at thB office of Castlereagh . at Whitehall , the Courier would have some account , true or false . If , therefore , he got the trua account , the lie was his own ; and yet , seeing what risk be ran ef almost instant detection , it appears rather strange that he should have hatched the lie .

      I shall now , before I offer you further remarks upon the subject , iiiEert the report of tbe proceedings at the inquest , requesting you and all tae Reformers w read them with scrupulous attention . You will find ( a thing quite neve ) the Coroner ( if the report be true ) laying down the doctrine , that self-murder must of necessity imply irisanily in him who commits it : yeu will find many other things worthy of strict attention ; and . therefore , if , only for thia once , you can but get light sufficient to read by , and obtain the favour of being permitted to read , pray read this report attentively , and then have the goodness to listen to the remarks that I shall TixtXe .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 20, 1842, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct902/page/2/