For the rest, it seems better to leave Stanley's extremely lucid account to speak for itself. To annotate it in detail would be to spoil its completeness. As has been stated above, each observer witnessed the scene from his own stand-point. A complete picture can only be obtained by forming a mosaic of the various reports. Stanley's narrative is that of an outsider, who came upon the scene unexpectedly, and watched the whole with the eye of a statesman and a statistician. Lieutenant Jolliffe's account gives the view of a young soldier, a stranger to Manchester, who rode in the charge of the Hussars, and afterwards took part with them in the patrol of the town. Mr. J. B. Smith speaks from the point of view of a Manchester business man, familiar with the civic and economic conditions that led to the catastrophe, and his narrative reaches a few days beyond the tragedy itself. Samuel Bamford's account--too well-known to need repetition here--was written from the stand-point of a local weaver, who had already suffered for his outspoken advocacy of Parliamentary Reform, had a large share in organising the Peterloo meeting, and served a term of imprisonment for his share in the proceedings. An attempt to dovetail these and other Reports into a continuous narrative has already been made in _The Story of Peterloo_ (Rylands Library Lectures, 1919.). 3. Stanley's Evidence at the Trial, which is here printed immediately after his connected narrative, has been taken from McDonnell's _State Trials_, supplemented--where passages are omitted by McDonnell--by Farquharson's verbatim report, issued by the Defence after the Trial. As a matter of fact McDonnell made use of Farquharson's version. * * * * * The portrait of Bishop Stanley which appears here is from a print kindly lent for the purpose by Lord Sheffield. Stanley's Notes attached to his Plan Never having seen St. Peter's fields before or since, I cannot pretend to speak accurately as to distance, etc. I should, at a guess, state the distance from the hustings to Mr. Buxton's house to be about a hundred yards, which may serve as a general scale to the rest of the plan. KEY TO STANLEY'S PLAN. 1. The hustings. The arrow shows the direction in which the orators addressed the mob, the great majority being in front: F, F, F. 2. The Barouche in which Hunt arrived, the line from it showing its entrance and approach. 3. The spot on which the Manchester Yeomanry Cavalry halted previous to their charge; the dotted lines in front showing the direction of their charge on attacking the hustings. [Illustration: Stanley's Plan] 4. On this spot the woman alluded to in the account (p. 15) was wounded and remained apparently dead, till removed at the conclusion of the business. 5. Here the 15th Dragoons paused for a few moments before they proceeded in the direction marked by the dotted line.