were coming, fomething had been faid about the Bow-ftreet officers being there. There was a fort of noise or buzz in Court; and fomebody faid, I don't know who, that the Bowftreet officers were making a noife. In confequence of that it was that I obferved one of the officers, I think Rivett-it was either Fugion or Rivett; I am not quite fure that I recollect the perfon of one from the other

2. You had feen them and heard them give evidence?

A. I had, and I rather think it was Rivett, who I obferved ftanding at the corner of the bar; and they were defired to be quiet-not particularly the Bow-ftreet officers, but the Court defired that every body would be quiet; and they were quiet; and the Jury then brought in their verdict. When the Jury pronounced their verdict of Not Guilty upon Mr. O'Connor, fome perfon, but whom I don't recollect, faid, "Then they are discharged;" other perfons fitting round the table faid, "No, they are not discharged;" and at that time Mr. O'Connor, I think, had raised his knee to the bar, as if to get over : whether he was pushed back, or pulled back, I don't know; but he was restored to his former pofition behind the bar. queftion was put to the Court, by fomebody-whether by the prifoners, or the counfel for the prifoners, or by-ftanders, I cannot tell-but fome one faid, "Are they not discharged, my Lord" or, "Have they not a right to be difcharged?" or fome fuch terms. Mr. Juftice Buller, I think, faid, "No, they are not to be difcharged yet; put the other prifoners back, and let O'Coigly ftand forward:" I don't pledge myself for the exact words, but certainly to that effect.

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your A. Put the other prifoners back, and let O'Coigly (who was the convicted prifoner) ftand forward." I fhould have told your Lordship, that when it was afked, "whether they were not to be discharged," before the riot, if I may so speak, began, one of the Bow-ftreet officers, I think, got up upon the bench, or form I should rather fay, and said, No, my Lord, I have a warrant against Mr. O'Connor;" whether he added for Treafon, or for High Treason, I do not recollect. It was immediately upon the officer's faying that, that Mr. Juftice Buller faid, "They are not difcharged:" I don't mean, in answer to that; but he said as a direction of the Court," They are not difcharged; put the others back, and let O'Coigly stand forward."

2. I would afk you, whether that form upon which the officer raifed himself to addrefs the Court, was near the place where, as you before described, the Bow-ftreet officers were, before the bar, and near Lord Thanet?

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A. Yes; he faid, "No, my Lord, they are not to be dif charged; I have a warrant against Mr. O'Connor;" and he certainly extended his hand with a paper in it.

2. After that direction had been given by the Court which you have ftated, what then paffed?

A. Mr. Juftice Buller proceeded to pronounce fentence upon the prifoner O'Coigly. During the firft part of the time that he was pronouncing fentence, my attention was particularly attracted to O'Coigly the prifoner-I was looking at him, and attending to him.

2. The form of the fentence was introduced by a prefatory addrefs?

A. Yes. During the former part of it, my attention was directed to him. Towards the conclufion of the sentence, I think just as Mr. Juftice Buller came to that part of the fentence which pronounces the fpecific punishment, I obferved Lord Thanet and Mr. O'Brien ftanding in the fame pofition as they had ftood before, and I obferved Mr. O'Brien turn round, and look up at Mr. O'Connor-I wish, my Lord, here only to ftate what I faw, and not what my conjecture or conftruction was upon it.

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2. I may take the liberty, however, of afking you, whether what you faw made an impreffion upon your mind? that impreffion was, I fhall not afk.

A. It did he looked up at Mr. O'Connor, and then looked down to the place before him, which cannot be fo well expreffed in words as by an imitation of the manner; he looked down with a very flight motion, certainly an inclination of his head. Lord Thanet was ftanding with his back against the bar, behind which Mr. O'Connor ftood. I can defcribe it no other way than ftanding fquare as I do now. I did not fee Lord Thanet make ufe of any motion or gefture, at that time, certainly. The moment the laft word of the fentence had been pronounced by Mr. Juftice Buller, the inftant he had finished, Mr. O'Connor raifed himself upon the bar: he jumped with his left foot upon the bar; he put his hand upon the fhoulder of Mr. O'Brien, and, I think, his right upon Lord Thanet's fhoulder, jumped over the bar between Lord Thanet and Mr. O'Brien, paffed Mr. O'Brien towards the door of the Court, which was on that fide next the small street of Maidstone 2. That is, from the Bow-ftreet officers ?

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A. Yes then I loft fight of Mr. O'Connor. Whilft Mr. O'Connor was getting over the bar, which, though it takes fome space to defcribe, was done almost in an instant, the Bowftreet officers were preffing, endeavouring to get towards him, for the purpose of stopping him, I suppose.

2. That is, in the narrow pafs between the back of the feat for the counfel for the prifoners, and the bench that was made for the accommodation of their folicitors?

A. Yes. Lord Thanet certainly ftood in the position in which I had obferved him. There was a great noise, of course, took place at that time, at the moment that Mr. O'Connor was getting over the bar; and fome people calling to stop him, there was a great noife certainly. Lord Thanet ftood, in the way that I have described to your Lordship, in the pass: the officers were endeavouring to press by him; and he stood till, I think, in a very short space of time, he held up his stick with both his hands over his head. There was then a great deal of confufion: perfons got upon the table; and there was a prefs, in the narrow pafs, of officers and perfons from that fide of the Court, attempting to prefs towards the door to which O'Connor had rushed; and other perfons, whom I cannot fay, appearing to me to push the other way, as if to prevent them from paffing. I faw fticks raised, and fifts raifed, by individuals; but who did fo, I cannot speak to. There became

then a general confufion in that part of the Court, fo that I loft fight of particular individuals: the candles were fome of them thrown down; they were upon the table; and there was a general riot and confufion, certainly, in that part of the Court, and in most other parts of the Court: at that time a great number of perfons had got upon the table, and there was certainly a great deal of confufion. In a very short time, fomebody called out, "O'Connor is ftopped;" and he was brought back again to the bar. I fhould ftate to your Lordship, that, juft at the time that I loft fight of Lord Thanet, and of the particular individuals, a perfon had got upon the table, which drew off my attention from what was going on at the bar, and had drawn a fabre which was lying there.

2. That was part of the baggage of Mr. O'Connor, which had been produced upon the triai?

A. It was. He drew that fabre, and placed himself between the Judges and the part of the Court where the confufion was, obviously to prevent any perfons from advancing towards the Judges if I may ufe the phrafe, to defend the Judges. I did not at that time fee the face of the perfon who had it; and therefore I had fome apprehenfion it might be in the hands of fome imprudent man, who might do mifchief: if I had known who it was, I should have known that he had difcretion enough not to misuse it.

of many perfons who were in Court-to reftore order, in fact; I should, perhaps, ufe that phrafe. The particular conversations and expreffions that were used by any of those perfons upon the table, I cannot pledge myself to recollect.

2. I will take the liberty of afking you, I believe you was at a distance from the learned Judge, Mr. Juftice Lawrence? A. I was Mr. Juftice Heath and Mr. Juftice Buller both fat between me and Mr. Justice Lawrence?

2. Therefore I would ask you, whether you had an oppor tunity of hearing any particular converfation addreffed to the learned Judge who is now prefent?

A. No: I think I remember Mr, Sheridan fpeaking to Mr. Juftice Buller, or Mr. Juftice Heath, or both; and I remember Lord Thanet being upon the table after Mr. O'Connor was brought back, apparently to me converfing with the learned Judge, Mr. Juftice Lawrence.

2. What he faid, you did not hear?

A. I did not; for at that time there was a great deal of noife in the Court,

2. Was it after that, that you obferved Mr. Sheridan talk. ing with the learned Judge?

A. I think it was: the object of Mr. Sheridan seemed to be to allay the tumult; and then he croffed the table, and converfed with the learned Judges,

2. After the direction which you have stated to have been given by the Court, and after the fentence of death had been paffed, was any order given by the Court for the discharge of Mr. O'Connor, or any intimation that he was to be dif charged?

A. Certainly not; but it was broadly expreffed by the Court that he was not to be difcharged.

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2. I have very few questions indeed to put to you. ftate, that when the verdict of Not Guilty had been pronounced, fome perfons, but whom you do not know, feemed to inquire, as if for information, whether the prisoners were to be dif charged or not?

A. Not quite fo-not to inquire; but some persons exclaimed, "Then they are difcharged."

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2. Who thofe perfons were, you do not know? A. I do not.

2. You fay that you obferved Lord Thanet ftanding fronting the Court, as I am now fronting the Court?

A. Yes, certainly.

2. With his back to the prifoner ?

A. Certainly fo.

2. He was in that pofition when the Jury came in with their verdict?

A. I think so.

2. You have observed that Mr. O'Brien looked round to Mr. O'Connor, and then looked down as you have described it: Did Lord Thanet continue all that time in the fame pofition ?

A. The time when Mr. O'Brien looked round, was a very fhort time before Mr. O'Connor jumped over the bar: from that time, certainly, Lord Thanet had continued in the fame pofition, standing as I defcribed.

2. While the learned Judge was paffing fentence of death upon O'Coigly, did Lord Thanet ftill continue in the fame pofition?

A. Certainly he did.

2. He was ftanding, as you obferved, not looking this way towards the jury-box, or that way towards the narrow street, but he was looking towards the Court?

A. Certainly; he had his back against the bar, and looking directly towards the Court.

2. You then describe, that upon the officers coming in, and preffing through this narrow place, the next that you saw of Lord Thanet was with a stick with both his hands up?

A. Yes I did not mean that the officers came in then, but that they had come in fome time before having declared that they had a warrant; but, certainly, upon Mr. O'Connor jumping over the bar, the officers rufhed forward to follow him; after they had made feveral pushes it was that I faw Lord Thanet in that position.

Q. Did you ever obferve any change in the pofition of Lord Thanet, from the time you first saw him, till you saw him in the fituation you have now defcribed to the Court?

A. I did not observe any change.

Q. But a stick over his head?

A. Yes; and, perhaps, I should say this-it feemed to me, when he held it in that way, that it was to defend his head.

Rev. William Huffey fworn, examined by Mr. Adam.

2. I believe you are a clergyman of the Church of England ? A. 1 am.

2. Were