HON. GEORGE GORDON, Commonly called LORD GEORGE GORDON, FOR HIGH-T R E A SON, A T THE BAR of the COURT of KING'S BENCH, BEFORE THE RIGHT HON. EARL MANSFIELD, CONTAINING, Not only the Evidence on both Sides, but an Account of the THE SPEECH OF THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL; Mr. KENYON TAKEN IN SHORT-HAND By WILLIAM VINCENT, Efq; of GRAY'S-INNI LONDON: PRINTED FOR FIELDING AND WALKER, M DCC LXXXI. [PRICE ONE SHILLING and SIX-PENCE.] [Entered at Stationers.hall.] 1781 ADVERTISEMENT. T HE dreadful events, which seemed to be the confequence of affembling so vaft a multitude in St. George's-fields, to attend Lord George Gordon, on the day he prefented the petition to the Houfe of Commons, are, it is prefumed, fufficiently known to every man in the kingdom, otherwife it would have been thought neceffary to have given a detail of those unhappy disturbances, previous to the following account of Lord Gordon's trial, that the reader might have the fubject entire before him, and perceive on what motives government have acted. Should any perfon, however, wish to have the whole in review, a circumftantial narration of the devastations committed in the cities of London and Weftminster, from the 2d to the 10th of June last, together with fome Anecdotes of the Life of Lord George Gordon, may be seen in "VINCENT'S Plain and Succinct Narrative of the late Riots;" in which the Proteftant Petition, the Thunderer, and other inflammatory and curious hand-bills, are contained. |