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Crime Against The State

****** BY EDGAR

BY EDGAR LUSTGARTEN

A piece of paper sets London ablaze

THR

HROUGHOUT a week of mounting fear, the riots wrought havoc

London. upon Notabilities were brutal- ly attacked, great man- sions were pitilessly plundered, and the red glare encircling the sky had not been matched since the days of the Great Fire and was not to be matched again until the German Blitz.

It had all begun-as appeared, al any rate, on the surface within perfectly lawful petition addressed to Parliament.

Outraged

In 1780 religious differences all roused high passions among many Engilsimen, and a recent Act lightening the burdens upon Catholles:

had outraged and uffronted fervent Protestants.

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purpose

pretext

under petitioning Parliament?

of

Houses of Catholic clilzens— whom he had gathered for that and Catholic foreign envoys were demolished, and their con-

und

tents looted or destroyed. New-

A man's thoughts must be te jell was stormed

docds and horde of desperate felons read through bis relensext to swell the ranks of their despoiling rescuers,

Many died

words. But even the deliberate

summoning of so huge a crowd does not, of itself, establish Lord Gordon's guill; who can altogether discount his explarin- tion that

signatures uport petitions are generally suspect, and that physical presence best confrms their authenticity?

Finally, wholesale Incendiu Ism supervened; the fire engines were swamped, obstructed, Bo the issue bolls down to sometimes set on fire them what Lord George Gordon Holborn, saldand to the bona fides of relves; Bloomsbury, Firet

Blackfriars at those who swear he sold it. Street,

flumes point after point the

the shot up unhindered, and wild prevalling crica "No Popery Repeal!**

When at lost a dilatory and enfeebled government succeeded in suppressing tumult and res- toring order, the toll of death run

into many hundreds and the wreck of property split over many miles.

A strong association of those Protestants

formed; was strong plea for repeal of that Act was drafted and subscribed; later hardly required

The jury called to the Court of King's Bench a fow

months forma

Zanatical young Scotsman, proof of these enormities, They Lord George Gordon, a leader were ail inhabitants of London; of the former was entrusted they had heard with their own vars, seen with their own eyes,

with the alter; and on the up- pointed day, necompanied by adherents, he delivered I per- sonally to the House of Com-

mons.

*Med event would have been for less sensational had not Lont George Gordon's accom- panying adherents numbered approximately 00,000 men, dis- posed in vast groups resembling military tormotions, and all wearing the same distinguishing cockade.

The Commons' refusal to deal with the petition there and then acted like a lighted match on a stick of dynamite. For six suc- cessive days London lay at the mercy of a mub continuouely whetting Its taste for violence with its own exceses,

Of course everyone knew there had been on insurrection; the entire city could have testl- Hed to that. But was the insur rection prompted by the man accused?

Suspect

They took another long, hard look at Lord George Gordon, now standing trial before them for high treason, charged with levying war against the King.

Had his own intentions been legitimate and peaceable-05 defending counsel so strenuous- the ly naitilained-and were

crimes really committed by an extraneous rabble exploiting the situation for their wicked ends?

Or had his

intentions own

The Crown is more willing to cross, swords upon this basla For they have an ace of trumps to play, and immediately after Mr Attorney's opening speech, they play it. As their first and star witness they put up William Hay Hay has in him material for half a dozen trials, every one of then resulting in convice tion.

At meetings

of Lord George

terested

spectator,

For six successiva days London lay of the mercy of the mob continuously whatting its taste for violence with its Own Excesses.

No. 8: Lord George Gordon

"I think I saw him there," "Be on your guard," mys counsel. "Did you see him there or not?"

Hay hesitates again, "I could speak with more certainty. he says, "If I might look at my notes."

Turning point

A harmless-sounding, ordinary remark-but actually the turn- ing point of Lord George Gor- don's case. It furnishes occasion for a line of questioning that ends in both Hay and his notes being blown sky-high,

re-

"Notes?" Mr Kenyon Dents Incredulously "Notes? How came you to take notes?"

Not only did he attend most Gordon's meetings during the weeka im-

"I will tell you very freely." mediately prior to the riots; not only did he stand by, an In- Hay suddenly feels uncomfort-

his oble. when lordship gave verbal orders for the mass assembly; not only did he spend three hours in the parliamentary lobby and hear his lordship's speeches to the mass when they assembled,

More Important be preserves detailed recollection of phrases and expressions that his lordblp used. "The King has broken his coronation cath": "By assenting to the Act for tolerating Catholics, the King hos brought himself to the same pass as James II after his abdication"; "Stick plead- fastly to your good and glorious cause." In conjunction, their lone is sinister,

Hay remains unchaken, the prisoner will already be inore

on

Members of Parliament were seized in the streets or front their carriages, threatened, in- Gulbed, manhandled, beaten up. been culpable and bellicose-as than half-way to the gallows- The Parliament building wùs

us nobody appreciates better prosecuting counel so strenuous- besieged and the nation's repre- ly allegand were the crimes than Mr Kennyon when, sentatives helplessty imprisoned committed under his Influence Lord George Gordon's behalf. within its hallowed walls, and manngement by followers he starts to cross-examine.

"Pray, Mr Hay, what are you?" he aske simply.

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17 118

ACROSS

1 Untidy bed. (8)

4 Particle of dust. (3)

7 Wisdom ut # Conqueror's

man? (0)

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halting-places?

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in Johannesburg

especially, (4)

17 Fall to include. (4)

13 To

which thickens come home? (5)

20 Annoyed at being stung

perhaps (7)

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2 Tips for cooking! (8)

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gallery? (0)

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some masonry, (8)

with

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"You have been 11 bank-

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on,

"When did you first resort to these Protestant meetings?”

"On the 10th of the Decem- ber before the riots," says Huy precisely.

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"And then others, at some of which Lord George was present, at some of which he was not?"

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or not?"

Hay hesitated.

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example?

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for this pudding. (4)

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"Originally, my curiosity led

time I came to dread and fore- see the consequences of them."

"When did you first foresee

the consequences?"

Hay plunges.

"At a meeting on the 20th of February," he says,

"If that was the first time you were moved to take notes," says Mr Kennyon, "how would your notes help you with the 21st of Jamury?"

In trouble

Hay, fully realises the trouble he is in and the sweat begins to run down his face as he tries to extricate himself,

"I took notes at all the meet- Ings," he says, "right from the 10th of December."

"Why did you take notes be- fore you foresaw the

CONEC- quences?"

"Because I always take notes," me to those meetings, but in says Hay in desperation "When-

T

ever I go to publie meeting,

take notes."!

"Give me an instance, other than there," says Mr Kennyon, "Tell ine where and when you have taken notes before."

Seconda pass while he stands in gloomy śllence,

"Tell me where and when.” More seconds go by.

"Tell me whero and when." At Hay's belated answer, there is a wave of mirth that might be held to symbolise the lifting of a shadow.

"At the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland," he says wretchedly. "When I was much younger twenty-two ogo."

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by Beachcomber

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tween Austria and Switzerland, RAMPFYLDE challenged this. reminded me of a day some simple fatty acids are

long ago. The esters of

much

years

I ogo.

was walking morn conductive than any through Vaduz, the capital, when others, for the simple reason that I saw a coachload of people in only partial lonisation is pos- the main street. A very large elble if they are chlorinated, As woman was addressing a guide for Numb's explanation of the who, us she advanced slowly, re- thermal temperature theory, It treated before her. She cried in is dieproved by Cutpurse's ex- a ringing voler, "You tell periment with stationary weldoch nothing! We never know where cater fitted with false gear- we are We have to look at the aignposts," Whatever reply the (guide made was drowned in the lova murmurs of approval from the large woman's supporters.

Suct's scheme to be tried.

teeth,

Short story

AMANDA

CARLYON fung upen her lattice window and Inhaled the woft, spring air. From the walled garden came a sound she had been longing to TULANATOS, the car manufac- hear the first cuckoo! She at turers, tave designo a once sat down to write a letter small car which can be taken to her morning paper, announc- to ploces when parked, In order ing the glad news. As she wrolo packed Into a large box, which thing rather wild in the bird's to save space. The bits aro.she thought she detected some-

will be lifted by crano into one note. Peering out of her window under her breath. of the 20-storey car parks. Each she cursed parking building will contain a What she had mistaken for the reassembly roon where the cuckoo was Fred the gardener in Owners can put their · Cara the throes of hiccups. together again before driving off.

-(London Express Service). Motorists complain that this will waste men-hours, but the saving of space will make it possible for many more police cars to be parked in the streets, in real- ness to haul away any car which has not been taken to pieces.

Old song re-aung

re-

NOTICE hints tint a year's almost unbearable prosperity has made any possiblity Lord Georgo Gordon was lef from penál taxation unlikely. acquittext, There were other As one thinker put it "The William taxpayer cannot expect to have witnesses to follow Hay, but their effect had been both prosperity and tax relicts. advance. Brilish Apart from the question of meet- Blunted In Jurles seldom look with favouring Increased expenditure, there on a prosecution whose uce of is always the menace of inflation trumps turns out to be a spy. to fall back on."

NEXT WEEK:

Mary Queen of Scots

-(London Express Service),

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The esters of chlorinated fatty acids arc much more costly

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