There was some cheering given?—There was a very loud cheer.
From the hustings?—From all the mob.
You say when he was addressing the mob, you did not hear his words, “but I think, whatever his words were, they excited a shout from those immediately about him, which was re-echoed with fearful animation by the rest of the multitude”?—Certainly, that is the impression on my mind; those were my own words.
It was tremendous—the shout?—It was not so tremendous as the shout with which Hunt was received on the ground; the first was the loudest shout.
And the most appalling?—The first, when Hunt was received on the ground; I never heard so loud a shout.
“Terrific,” was your word?—I should say terrific.
You say that the people who were immediately contiguous to the hustings heard what Hunt said?—I cannot say.
You inferred that from their shouting?—Certainly.
Then that shout was re-echoed by the mob at a distance?—I conceived so.
What proportion, do you think, of the mass of the people, with their eyes up, and mouths open, looking at that man during the time, could hear one word he said?—I should think no one beyond ten yards from the hustings, in the bustle of such a day—that is guess.