Three Accounts of Peterloo by Eyewitnesses: Bishop Stanley, Lord Hylton, John Benjamin Smith; with Bishop Stanley's Evidence at the TrialStanley, Edward
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Three Accounts of Peterloo by Eyewitnesses: Bishop Stanley, Lord Hylton, John Benjamin Smith; with Bishop Stanley's Evidence at the Trial
Stanley, Edward
Manchester (England) -- History; Peterloo Massacre, Manchester, England, 1819
Do you know the Quakers' meeting-house?--I have heard where it is since;
then I did not know.
Was it that way that they went?--If you could point out, in a plan, the
Quakers' meeting-house, I could tell you if they went that road.
There is the Quakers' meeting-house, you will see written on the
plan?--Some went that way.
Some of the people, too, dispersed in that direction, did they?--The
people dispersed in every direction.
I am not sure whether I asked you before, whether from your situation in
this window, if any stones, or brickbats, or sticks, had been raised
against the cavalry, on their way to the hustings, you must have seen
it?--I think I must have seen it.
Cross-examined by Mr. SERJEANT HULLOCK:
Will you venture to swear, Mr. Stanley, that no stones nor brickbats would
be thrown during the advance of the cavalry towards the hustings, without
your perceiving it?--I can only venture to say that I saw none.
I believe you have favoured the public with an account of this
transaction?--No, I have not.
You printed or wrote something?--It was in circulation among my friends. I
wrote something which was never published.
There was a document, written by you, circulated among your
friends?--Among my friends.
Before that time, had you seen yourself and read any publication, either
in manuscript or print, on this subject?--I had read the reports in some
papers, naturally, after that time, and I might have seen a pamphlet
printed at Manchester.
Then you had seen several accounts which had been given to the world
before you wrote?--Yes, I saw the reports of the papers immediately after
the meeting.
Whose account did you see, besides the reports in the paper?--A Mr.
Phillips's.
You, it seemed, entertained a different view of the transactions that had
taken place upon this day from those which had been given to the world
before that time?--I do not know; I should say a different view from some,
perhaps, and coinciding with the views of others.
Coinciding with the views of some, and differing from the views of
others?--Respecting stones.
No matter what. You are a magistrate, I understand?--I am not.
Of neither Cheshire nor Lancashire?--No.
I beg your pardon. You, however, were in the magistrates' room, I think
you said, at Mr. Buxton's?--I was.
Of course you had an acquaintance with the gentlemen who were there
assembled, as acting magistrates of the committee for the counties of
Chester and Lancaster?--With two or three I had.
Probably upon terms of intimacy with one of them?--Certainly.
Was that gentleman there at that time?--He was.
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