words passed; Richard Walker said he wondered I should deviate from my former principles, what he had taken me to be. 2. Was there only Thomas Walker there, and Richard Walker, and Twiss? 4. I do not recollect any more. There were some words in the indictment, he said, that were not right, and I corrected them the next day. 2. You mean the information, I suppose. Mr. Serjeant Cockell. What has Richard Walker to do with Mr. Thomas Walker? Mr. Wood. Was Mr. Thomas Walker there? A. He was. Mr. Erskine. I have no objection to your asking him any thing about Richard Walker. 2. Did you never go by the name of Litchfield? A. No, never. Q. Where were these arms placed ? A. In the warehouse. Mr. Wood. How high was the warehouse? A. Three or four stories high. Q. At a considerable height? A. Yes. Q. Could they shoulder their arms in it? Mr. Erskine. Pretty near as high as this place? Thomas Kinnaston (sworn). Examined by Mr. Topping. Q. You are, I believe, the deputy-constable of Salford? A. Yes. 2. And have been so some time? A. Some years. Q. Do you remember at any time in the months of January and February last, watching about the house of Mr. Thomas Walker? A. Yes, in the months of January and February 1793, did. I 2. You watched as a constable, for the purpose of seeing who went in and out there? A. I did, Q. At what time of the night have you used to watch there? A. I went a little after six, and generally stayed till nine. 2. Did you watch repeatedly during these months? E A. Yes, A. Yes, I went frequently, once or twice a week. 2. Upon the nights that you have used to watch there, once or twice a week, who have you seen go into Mr. Walker's house? A. I saw a great number that I did not know. I saw the late witness, Dunn, go in. Q. Have you seen Mc Callum go in ? A. Yes. A. Yes, I did not know him at that time; I have since known his name. 2. Benjamin Booth ? A. Yes. 2. Did know you A. No. Henry Yorke ? 2. Do you know Dr. Collier? A. He lives next door to Mr. Walker. 2. You don't recollect whether you have seen him or not? · A. No. 2. Have you seen these people repeatedly go into Mr. Walker's upon the nights you have been watching? A. I have, some of them many times. 2. Which door had they used to go in at? A. At the front door. 2. Have you seen them come out? A. Yes, I have seen them come out. 2. How had they used to come out? A. At the same door. 2. How were they admitted? A. A very gentle tap at the door; there appeared to me to be a servant attending at the door, who seemed to know their faces perfectly well. 2. How long had they used to remain there? A. From the time I saw them go in, to the time of their coming out, has been more than two hours; they sometimes came out and went in again. 2. And sometimes stayed a longer, sometimes a shorter time, I suppose ? A. Yes. A. Yes. 2. Have you seen various other persons besides the per sons you mentioned, go there? A. I saw a great number of persons whom I did not know. in of an evening? in number do you think you have seen go A. I believe I have seen more than fifty. 2. Were these tradesmen of the town that you were acquainted with, or of the lower class of people? A. A great majority seemed to be of the lower class of people; they appeared to me a great majority to be mechanics of the lower order. 2. Did you never see them come in or go out at any door but at the front door? A. I have seen people come out, but they might be his servants out of the warehouse, come out of the back door. 2. You have seen people come out at the back door? A. I have, but they might be Mr. Walker's servants for aught I know. Did Thomas Kinnaston. Cross-examined by Mr. Serjeant Cockell. you ever knock at the door? A. I never did. 2. Where might you stand at this time-you are rather hard of hearing? A. I am. 2. How did you hear this very gentle tap? A. I was not deaf then. 2. Was you close to the door? A. There was a wall close to the door; I leaned against that wall frequently. Q. Did you know the persons of these men—had you seen them before? A. Yes many times. Q. Where had you seen them before? A. Frequently in the streets. Q. Don't you know they had their clubs at public-houses, and till they got a room, it was held at Mr. Walker's? A. I never saw them at the public-houses; I believe I should not have been admitted. Q. Were those persons that you saw go into Mr. Walker's house, members of the club? A. I believe they were. Q. They were prevented holding the clubs at the publichouses? A. I do not know that. Q. You must know that. A. No, I was not present. Q. Have not you seen the public advertisements appearing in the papers? A. I have. Q. Do not you know that these clubs were transferred to Mr. Walker's house, till they could find some place at which to meet ? A. I do not upon my word; I know the landlords signed their names in the public papers, that they would not admit such clubs, but I know nothing of the adjourn ments. 2. Do not you know, that after the landlords had so refused to receive them, at the desire of the magistrates, that they met at a private house, which was attacked by a mob and in a great measure destroyed? A. No, I do not. Thomas Kinnaston. Re-examined by Mr. Topping. 2. You had not an opportunity, from the situation in which you was out of doors, of observing any thing that was going on above stairs? A. No; Mr. Walker's warehouse windows are in the yard at the back part of the house. End of the Evidence for the Crown. Mr. Mr. Erskine. Gentlemen of the Jury, I listened with the greatest attention (and in honour of my learned friend I must say with the greatest approbation) to much of his address to you in the opening of this Cause: it was candid and manly, and contained many truths which I have no interest to deny; one in particular which involves in it indeed the very principle of the defence, the value of that happy constitution of government which has so long existed in this island: I hope in God that none of us will ever forget the gratitude which we owe to the Divine Providence, and, under its blessing, to the wisdom of our forefathers, for the happy establishment of law and justice under which we live; and under which, thank God, my clients are this day to be judged: great indeed will be the condemnation of any man who does not feel and act as he ought to do upon this subject; for surely if there be one privilege greater than another which the be-. nevolent Author of our beings has been pleased to dispense to his creatures since the existence of the earth which we inhabit, it is to have cast our lots in such a country. and in such an age as that in which we live: for myself, I would in spirit prostrate myself daily and hourly before heaven to acknowledge it, and instead of coming from the house of Mr. Walker, and accompanying him at Preston, (the only truths which the witness has uttered since he came into court) if I believed him capable of committing the crimes he is charged with, I would rather have gone into my grave than have been found as a friend under his roof. Gentlemen, the crime imputed to the defendant is a serious one indeed:-Mr. Law has told you, and told you truly, that this indictment has not at all for its object to condemn or to question the particular opinions which Mr. Walker and the other defendants may entertain concerning the principles of this government or the reforms which the wisest governments may from time to time require: he is indeed a man of too enlarged a mind to think for a moment that his country can be served by interrupting the current of liberal opinion, or overawing the legal freedom of English sentiment by the terrors of criminal prosecution he openly disavows such a system, and has, I think, even more than hinted to us that there may be seasons when an attention to reform may be salutary, and that |