I daresay it is a good guess, too; how do you think they would carry the resolutions at the outside, at the right flank, the left flank, and beyond the ten yards, upon the propositions made by this orator?—I have no opinion to give about that.
It certainly is a difficult point. It appeared to you that Hunt, as far as his voice could reach, had a pretty absolute control over his friends; they shouted as he spoke; it appeared that he was commander-in-chief?—The thing never occurred to me; I cannot speak positively.
Have not you an opinion that he was head and leader of the party?—My opinion certainly is, that he was.
And now, I will ask you this question, as a clergyman, and as a man of character, which I believe you to be—I ask you, upon your oath, whether, in your judgment, the public tranquillity and the peace of Manchester were not endangered by a mob of that description, composed in that manner, and having such a man as Hunt at its head—Hunt and Carlile, for instance?—Hunt and Carlile are dangerous people, and any mob under their control must be dangerous.
Re-examined by Mr. Serjeant Blackburne:
Do you know, Mr. Stanley, whether this meeting was under the command of either Hunt or Carlile?—No.
When you say there was a shout given on the Manchester Yeomanry coming into the field, was there any other shout besides that given by the multitude?—There was.
Whose shout was that?—The Manchester Yeomanry, the special constables, and the people round the pavement in front of our house.
May I ask you whether you were terrified by those shouts?—Personally, certainly not.
Mr. Justice Holroyd: Explain what you mean by that?—I myself was not alarmed about them.