dreth resorted, and there he was: he sat, as I will prove to you beyond all doubt, to receive the conspirators and insurgents with his maps and his plans before him; he detailed to them the course and plan of operations, he pointed out to them, not in one moment, but from time to time as they had access to him, and came into the room where he sat ; not merely the course of their proceedings from Pentridge to their rendezvous to get to Nottingham with his hostile force, but he was pointing out to them, by a map and plan of the kingdom at large, the different towns and places at which he expected there would be simultaneous risings, risings at the same time on that Monday night, and from which other conspirators and rebels were to come for the purpose of joining them, when they should reach Nottingham to make their grand army, which was to be formed. Now, Gentlemen, whether this man and his co-conspirators had conceived that they should have assistance and force beyond that on which they or any mischievous men could calculate, which I most conscientiously believe they had misconceived. I care not, I care not whether there was a word of truth in that stated by Brandreth, that the people of Sheffield would rise and come southward to Nottingham to join them I care not whether there was a word of truth in that he stated that the people of Wakefield and Leeds were to come southward to join them in Nottingham; it matters not to you or to me, when a man is conjuring up his fellow-citizens to war, whether he tells them truth if he states certain matters as facts to them, and states to them that which is the object, and thereby induces them to join him in his nefarious purposes; his guilt is as great, I was almost going to say greater, than if there were truth in the statement: for, he is stirring up evil spirits to acts of rebellion, and his guilt is as great whether the means he states he has are true, or whether the statement of such means be false-what matters it if a man gets an army of rebels in the field; what matters it, as far as relates to his guilt, whether he has another army to join him from the east, from the west, from the north, or from

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the south, his guilt is precisely the same if he has broken out into open acts of rebellion and insurrection, and induced others, by his false representations, to join him in such nefarious purpose.

Gentlemen, I shall prove to you that this man, presiding and stating to person after person coming into that public house; for, though this had been previously to bursting out into riot, had been before the explosion planning and smothering in the dark; yet, when once it has been resolved upon that the explosion shall take place when men approach that period for the purpose of getting proselytes, they talk more publicly when they think that they are ripe for the explosion. On Sunday the 8th of June this man, who had come over from Nottingham to Derby to lead the Derby men; who did lead them, not to Nottingham, for they were dispersed before they arrived there, but towards it: this man sat as the leader and director, as the generalissimo of this hostile force, pointing out with his maps and his plans as though he were the regular general of an army, who was projecting an hostile invasion of a kingdom with which he was at war. There he sat, explaining to them what was the plan, and was the object of the plan; and on the next night, on the 9th, he performed it exactly as he had stated it on the 8th. The plan was this, there were several villages in the neighbourhood of Pentridge, Southwingfield, a village of the name of Alfreton, Swanwick, Crich, and Heanor; these are all villages each in the neighbourhood of the other, and the plan was that at a certain hour on the Monday night the different persons who were joining in this conspiracy from these places were to rendezvous together at a certain place, Brandreth the present prisoner, and another man of the name of George Weightman, were both at Pentridge: from what country Brandreth came I know not, but, having come to Pentridge, he staid at the White Horse. Brandreth and Weightman were to go from Pentridge over to Southwingfield, and they were to be at a place called Hunts Barn. At Hunts Barn they expected to find some

of the Wingfield conspirators ready for the purpose of joining them. To Hunts Barn George Weightman, and Brandreth, and another man went, and at Hunts Barn they found the Wingfield men; they found them with arms, with pikes, with bullets, with those sort of weapons which men, engaged in these nefarious purposes, collect together; and, as I believe it will appear to you with some of those pikes prepared by some of the persons accused, for the express purpose. At Hunts Barn there were not only the persons there who were armed with these things, but there was a supply of pikes in order that, as they were joined by persons who were in their conspiracy and part of their forces, they might there be furnished with arms when they got to this place.

Gentlemen, from Hunts Barn it was intended that when they had got the Southwingfield people together they were to proceed from Southwingfield towards a place called Topham's Close; and they expected that some of the Pentridge people would come over and join them, either at Hunts Barn, or in their progress towards Topham's Close. They proceeded, with Brandreth at their head, towards Topham's Close, but in making that progress they effected that which was another object they had in view; their object was, of course, to collect as many persons together as they could as part of their forces, their object was, of course, to get as great a supply of arms as they could, for the purpose of arming all who should act with them, and they proceeded in their progress from house to house wherever they knew there was a gun which was in the possession of the owner of that house; there did they make what I will call their attack, for the purpose of compelling the owner of that gun, who had it for his own defence, and not for the purpose of raising it against the Government of the country, to deliver it. One of the rights of Englishmen, as settled by the glorious constitution as established in 1668, and which I hope these men will never break down, was that an Englisman might have arms for his defence; little did those who established that right as against arbi

trary power, imagine that they were putting into the hands, of such men as Brandreth and his conspirators an opportunity of taking from the honest English farmer the gun he had for his defence, and converting it into an instrument for the destruction of his fellow subjects, and the destruction of the government and constitution of their country. Gentlemen, they took the arms, but that was not enough; you and every man knows what additional terror arises from multitude and numbers, and that those who meet large numbers together in hostile force have no means of distinguishing between the willing and the unwilling when they see them, and therefore the object of this man and his conspirators was not only to take the arms from those who would have scorned to use them, many of them at least, for such purposes, but to press them into the service, and to compel them to join; if a man did not choose to go himself, if he had a son, the son was to be pressed into the service; if he had no son, but a servant, this servant was to be pressed into the service; the object was a man and a gun from every house into which we go, the man not to be left in possession of his own gun, but a gun for some one who was perfectly a willing attendant, and a pike to be put into the hands of an impressed man, if unwilling to join. In the way to Topham's Close, they called at the house of Mr. Hardwick. I will not take up your time and his Lordship's time in detailing the transactions which took place at every house, for you must hear them from the witnesses, but when they arrived at Topham's Close, they found themselves not joined as they expected by some of the men who were to come from Pentridge; the persons at this place were commanded and headed particularly by Brandreth and a person of the name of George Weightman; they halted at Topham's Close; having been at Mr. Hardwick's, and not being joined by the Pentridge men, they thought it right to dispatch some part of their party for the purpose of going towards Pentridge to see whether the Pentridge men were any of them coming that way, and to meet them. George Weightman, therefore, and a certain number of these persons proceeded by a place

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called Coburn Quarry, and so by the Wire-mill, bringing them to a place between Topham's Close and the town of Pentridge, Brandreth and a great party remained there for some time afterwards, and marched on till they came to the house of a Mr. Elijah Hall, who is a farmer in that neighbourhood; at his house they made the same sort of attack that they had made at Mr. Hardwick's; they demanded his gun; they insisted upon having it; they took it in fact by force; and having done that, they then in sisted upon having one of his sons; the son of Mr. Hall, young Mr. Elijah Hall, was extremely reluctant to accompany them; he refused, in fact, but he was obliged, and I do not wonder that he accompanied them so far as he did; he left them as soon as he could, and returned to his own home. I am glad, for the purposes of justice, that Mr. Elijah Hall had not the means of escaping sooner than he had, for he was obliged to proceed with them a considerable way, and I have, through his means, the testimony of part of their proceedings from as honest and as unquestionable evidence as can be presented in a Court of Justice.

Gentlemen, Mr. Elijah Hall was forced to accompany them; he did accompany them, and in the course of that progress which was made by Brandreth and his company, they went, after he had been obliged to join them, next to the house of a Mr. Walker. Gentlemen, it will be convenient to attend a little to that which passed at Mr. Walker's for the purpose of particularly marking the prisoner at the bar; they demanded Mr. Walker's gun; Mr. Walker was equally reluctant to give them his gun, as Mr. Elijah Hall and Mr. Hardwick had been, but the gun was taken from him, and he was obliged to submit; some of the party knew that Mr. Walker was also in possession of a pistol, and as they were going away they returned and demanded his pistol, he denied that he had a pistol, but the Nottingham Captain and the leader insisted upon having this pistol; Mr. Walker, who set some store by it, remonstrated, and said you have my gun but his pistol they would have, and it was taken by the Nottingham Captain, and stuck in his