belt; he had a white apron twisted round and tied round his body, which operated in the same way as a leathern belt would have done, and this he stuck in his belt. From Mr. Walker's, Gentlemen, they marched on, and they came next, I think, to the house of a Mr. Bestwick; what passed there I will not immediately detail; to the house of a Mr. Samuel Hunt, who is not on his trial now, but is one of the persons charged in conspiracy with them, At Mr. Hunt's house, it will not be material in the course of the present trial, though it may become material hereafter, to detail what passed; because, whenever he shall be upon his trial, it will be very important as far as relates to him; but as far as relates to the present prisoner, it is important only as shewing that they were going on on the plan of collecting men and arms, either by force, or by receiving them if voluntarily given.

Gentlemen, from Mr. Hunts they came to the house of a person of the name of Hepworth, at that house a most unfortunate event certainly took place, took place from the hand of the present defendant who stands at the bar; but when I make that observation, I desire on the other hand, to put you in this trial upon your guard against any prejudice arising from that circumstance as making out a case of Treason. Now I think I am stating this case as fairly as I can, when I desire you not to find this man guilty of High Treason merely because in the progress of the transaction I shall be under the painful necessity of shewing you that he was guilty of murder. Gentlemen, I am one of those, and I solemnly protést it, who have that regard for the law and for the distinctions of law in this country, that I am particularly anxious that you should try this man for Treason, in the same unbiassed way as if it did not appear in the course of the trial that he had been guilty of murder; except thus far, that if he was guilty of Treason it shews to what dreadful extremes that crime or the attempt to commit it will bring men, who in order to perpetrate one crime frequently fall, as this man did, into the commission of others, in point of moral guilt equally atrocious; though in civil guilt a

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Gentlemen, upon their demanding entrance and demanding arms, they were refused admittance. Mrs. Hepworth, with that degree of courage not always belonging to females, refused them admittance; when they found they could not gain admittance, Brandreth proposed going round to the kitchen-window, the entrance was still refused; at last the servants were called, a servant of Mrs. Hepworth was sitting down drawing on his halfboots, Brandreth broke the window, the most ferocious oaths accompanying what passed, he fired into the kitchen where this man was and shot him in the shoulder, and the man unfortunately immediately died: they got from Mrs. Hepworth these guns and these arms. Now, Gentlemen, that this was done for the purpose of effectuating the object that they had in view of collecting men and arms will be most palpably and obviously proved, because this man after he had committed this act which was an act of design and of intention, when he found other persons to whose houses they came that were unwilling to join with him, that remonstrated, that refused, that resisted, and manfully too, overpowered as they were by numbers, held up the act, the ferocious act, that he had committed at Mrs. Hepworth's, in terrorem to the others" I have shot one man already, and I will shoot you you will not join us." Gentlemen, this therefore was no act of sudden ebullition of passion provoked by quarrel, for after he had committed the act he gloried in it, using it as one of the arguments to compel persons to join them at subsequeut times.

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Gentlemen, having done this at Mrs. Hepworth's, they marched on and came next to the house of a Mr. Fletcher, where pretty much the same scene passed as at Mrs. Hepworths (I mean short of death); from that they went to the house of Mr. Storer, then they were joined by Weightman's party who had gone to the Wire-mill for the purpose of picking up the Pentridge men; they then proceeded to the village of Pentridge where they attacked

several houses and took arms, and then one party of them went one way out of Pentridge towards the Butterley Iron-works, and the other the other way. Gentlemen, it was a grand object, if they could have effected it, to have got the men of the Butterley Iron-works to join them, for if they could have succeeded in the plan of taking Nottingham, as they called it, of establishing themselves in hostile force, the possession of such works as the Butterley Iron-works belonging to Messrs. Jessop was considerable, as it would have furnished them with the means of making arms, pikes, and other weapons at those works; they went to the gates of the Iron-works, there they found a gentleman of the name of Goodwin, who had, I believe, his people very faithful and steady to him-he remonstrated with them, he talked to them on the impropriety of their measures, they did not think fit to make any attack on the Butterley Iron-works, but away they marched on; when they quitted the Butterley Iron-works, the one party having gone round the one way and the other another, they came to a place called Greenwich, which was still in the progress towards Nottingham, and there the two parties formed one again; before they went to the Butterley Iron-works, some of them not finding themselves met by so many persons as they expected, for they expected to have received communications from Nottingham and other places, began to doubt whether every thing was so ripe for the effectuating their project as Brandreth and others of their advisers had told them; upon which they said it would be better to send George Weightman towards Nottingham for the purpose of seeing whether the Nottingham people were coming towards Pentridge, or whether they were in Nottingham forest, or, in fact, how things were going on in Nottingham. George Weightman and another person took a horse out of the stable of a Mr. William Booth who lives there, and George Weightman set off on this horse for Nottingham. Gentlemen, they proceeded, with Brandreth at their head, from Greenwich to Codnor, before they got to Codnor they were met by other persons,

some of them from Swanwick, they came then to Ripley, and thence to Codnor; having collected the persons from Pentridge, from Wingfield, from Codnor, from Swanwick, and from Ripley, Brandreth formed them, he had formed them before, but it was necessary to form them again as others came in; Brandreth assuming to be the leader, and some other persons, not now on their trials, acting as inferior officers by keeping up the stragglers, by being in the rear to prevent people escaping, and so on; for many of those persons who had been forced to join would have been extremely glad to have gone home, and you will find that when one or two men were endeavouring to get away, Brandreth, as well as others, immediately addressed themselves to them, pushed them back into the ranks, and told them that if they attempted to escape they would certainly shoot them. They went to the house of Mr. Raynor, at Langley Mill. I should state to you, by the way, that when they were at Codnor, where there are three public-houses, they went in different parties to those public-houses, the Glass-house Inn, the New Inn, and the French Horn; at one of these houses they had considerable refreshment, and Brandreth called for the bill. The landlord brought him the bill, (no matter the amount-one pound, and something more) and expected to be paid. Brandreth said " You will not be paid now-you will be paid as soon as we have effected our purpose: we are going on for the purpose of Revolution." I merely state that for the purpose of shewing that his declaration was-" Here we are, assembling from place to place and here we are armed, and marching for the purpose of producing insurrection and rebellion."

Gentlemen, they then proceeded to Langley Mill. At Langley Mill, George Weightman, who had proposed to go on Mr. William Booth's horse, to see how they were going on there, returned on this horse, when George Weightman advanced Brandreth and he had a private conversation; what passed, of course, between those two I cannot tell you. Whether it was agreed between them that

George Weightman should make the representation which he did make I cannot tell, which induced them to march on; but undoubtedly it was not a true representation. Weightman rode up to the party, said all was going on well at Nottingham-that the soldiers would not stir from their barracks to act against them-that Nottingham, in fact, was taken-and that they must make haste to Nottingham. Gentlemen, in consequence of this, the party. did march on; but there were many of them who began to suspect, by not seeing so many join them as they expected, that the time was not come, if ever it should come, to give success to such a scheme as this, and they began to fall off. A great many exertions were made to keep them together, but still their numbers began to dwindle. They proceeded, however, many of them towards Eastwood, which is all in the road to Nottingham. When they got to Eastwood, a report was made that the military or the yeomanry were coming, and then they began, the whole body of them, to disperse.

Gentlemen, whilst these proceedings were going on; for, as you may suppose, this line of march must have taken a considerable time, which it did-till the Tuesday morning, between 9 and 10 o'clock, allowing for the time they stopped to take their refreshment-whilst these proceedings were going on, notice had been given by some per-. sons to the magistrates in the neighbourhood of Nottingham, and between Pentridge and Nottingham, that this party was advancing. At Nottingham also (for I shall prove that circumstance) considerable emotion had been observed to be taking place. There were in Nottingham Forest parties of men assembling together in a way which gave great cause for suspicion; and, no doubt, they were assembled for the purpose of being joined by these persons from Pentridge and Derby. The magistrates took the alarm, and went out. News was brought to these insurgents: they found that in all probability they should be taken in the very act of marching towards Nottingham and they began to disperse; but it was late before that determination to disperse was taken by all of them; for a