Star. — London, England, 1819-09-10 00:00:00

-, llr ..-- - r 409. a Br% 10,153. OFFICE OF °RDA:INCE, Amine SS, 1819. H E pRINCII',II, OFFICERS ?f his MA JEST)" 'N 0 R ON. I YCE do hereby Ore Notice, . 15privp4 „,!,v•ill risceived At their Office in l'311•141411 on I t•FIiNESD.I V, the 15th day of September next, la sec t , r ••7so. to uneertake the supply of ,1^36'..1.•:- the Orin :ace I:orses stationi.d at Woolwich and the expense of the Contractor, for Sit rtnm the ISt October next. • cis to be siifivt, di , and clean, without any mix ;ear rmy or i‘itite'iuri.t tats, and must not wei;th less thati r.ds per it, !..'5l , r Bushel ; the hay to be sweet mid rie iieii%rred in 1 .4 Z 6 his. weight. jtrsn to be good, ckpii, and dry Wheat or Rye Straw, i.avereci in Trurve of 3 6 lbs. weight. Priv! , to be p.tai for the respective Quantities of each 7 , ; :er.l . ,ich may 10 diiiDned, to be at the following rates, viz . !it Gas at per linndred pounds, Avoidupois weight. le Hay at rr hundred and twelve pounds. per hundred and twelve pounds. _ _ to he rt r t.t S:rtvi A .s es; ..e:•24 that the Contractor AA receive the Stable ,wsli 4.;rtro , riod of his Contract, may terms*- . ,-,n4.^.-c for the same after the rate of lirs may he known upon application to the c the Royal Artillery at 'Woolwich and in * A..., also ;.t the S..orctary's Mace in Pall Mall aforesaid, .w«11 ttu: of Ten and Four o'clock, where the . *. ticlive7ed, waled up, and endorsed " Props. • .17r but no Proposal can be admitted after the said . 1:0•1", at tw,..lva o'clock at noon of the b-unc day, t,aidcr be noticed unless the party making it, or . as b, lab'. shall attend. ~.•? ' 30,2 X. CREW, Seereterey. ATN.INS, MAYOR. COUNCIL, holden in the Chamber . of the City of Landon, on TIICILIMAY, the '4.ttirber, 1919 ; „ T`. , a; under the free principles of the British ....Jur, it is the undoubted Right of Englishmen -to as •o,_t:se purpose of deliberating upon Public .TS, as w•:1 as on the Legal and Constitutional Means , • 7... s r he escrcise of this night, a Meeting was held at ..• theirith of August last, and, without entering • : pradtoce of convening such Assembly, it J7.. 1 41 tqat i. , n which has transpired, that the 31. r assembled—that its proceedings were c,:c!,•.:y and peaceable manner—and that the g it u...r • therefore acting under the sanction Of ::::dtr.ti:l;d t, :he proteetibn of the 3lagistrates. • we h..7t, r..r..erdivh... , , learnt with grief and astonish tht v. , -.'. the 'ieeting was so assembled, and when no •ne sr th:rult had taken place, the Magistrates issued wuriats ire the apprehension of certain persons then pre f. :the eucution of which, akhough no resistance was r. :he par: of the People, or those aiminat whom the war -1 :e i".ivi, they immeetately resorted to the aid of the ~ when, wi:liout any previous warning of their intention, I.l.:l,t;ttr Yornaney Cavalry suddenly rushing forward, ;?...5.1,7.: throurh the multitude, furiously attacking, by .:: Inns, p•-icetble and unoffending Citizens, whereby :...hcri of e!tn, women, arid children, and even Peace ..i, s, re indii , :ri:.iirately and wantonly' rode over, and many ilv s. bud ..nd killed. iL f ottrb.lres c,dl.d ton to express our strongest u::ptovoiced and intemperate proceedings. z b,:t vicw as highly disgraceful to the character • la .'..zing violation cf the British Constitution. xm th ar.d declared attachment of his Royal [ mts the Pratte !:-,cnt to the Constitution and the Laws, the most t'....altd Conviction that his Royal Highness tosid have LAT t..Ouced to express his approval of the . .of the abett o ., ..ad perpetrators of these atrocities, had myilcontidence been abused by interested misrepresentc of these i110g.,1 and fatal transactions. us time when the grezt body of his Majesty's Sub . j ects tertia: tinder the severest privations, however erroneous te :kir ideas n to the means of redress, a kind and concili- lczeztion to their complaints is equally culled for by policy 7:tcy and that depriving them of the means of expressing i'.it•:antes, by cruelty and despotism, can only tend to in. It prcsent discontents, destroy public confidence in the ktLegtd admininration of justice, excite disaffecdon, and Ten violence or secret revenge. L. _ . to avert these ealamities—to maintain the .4 . te Law —and to pr otect t h e Lives and Liberties of `7- . --:: ' . ...r0b1e and dutiful Address be presented by this 0 1;:- 14 , 7;1 Highness the Prince Regent, praying his N1L, 1 ,,, , 41 he graciously pleased to institute an iin l!'4::.:••.fiett..!al Enquiry into the outrages that have been . `O, zr.d *.o tallse the guilty perpetrators thereof to be It. •f. i'.e-2I and cerel‘n punishment. WOODTHORPE LN! 4411:7;,'aT TATTET 1 1„it • •%eS..r \V,'.n 'TELLIGENCE. fISALL' YESTERDAY. .2GER. 12 to 1 apt Apkola :4 to 1 agst The Laird 14 to 1 apt Archibald PERFORMANCE. e:te• let. xeen :•.1 - I.,w^ mire btioniingto a %Ir. Tt*Act, ,•,;4?"' of Mr. Msaristau s, for 200 guineas, excited mach sporting interest, took plate yes g road. Tile match was to do 60 milts, each. Tise animals kept together the v . •..ch . .v.ts performed within an hour. At .N. was halted to wash her mouth, and •t , ac. about a mile. At the and of forty ,e .train, and bits were drawn, after ps•r is` two hours and thirteen minutes. 'the ' • •:‘,.• mile, after a sharp race of six • ' r:7th mile she was pulled up, the • n t 7 t - hcacl. The horse did the grolind, • tat,en minutes. •- • 7 ' • e lir•i;11: Cricket Match on the Vine, the Ep,om Club against the ,Ictided on Tuesday in favour . i, 1 r or?. ..... 134 First Tuning s ... .. ...... l4B • ''•'• &toad ditto --.... .....—. f=7l: SU .'OII ' 7O O y 44 Runs. 1 c:. 2 :- 'attn., fOS it . 4 ) • mt.*, OIL FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1819. mistaken the remedy ; nevertheless, he thought it would better become those in power to be kind to people whom they thought were deluded, to alter their opinions with mildness and considerate for bearance, than to exasperate their passions, and out rage their feelings, by meeting them with •open etvekvred hostility, and dispersing them by violence and bloodshed. That could never have the effect cf biingiag about the work of peace ; it must create evil, it never could effect good—(Hear, hear.) The worthy Alderman then read the Resolutions which he was about to submit to the Court.--See Advertisement. As soon as he had finished the reading of the Re solutions, he added, that he had neglected to allude to the period when the Riot Act had been read at Manchester ; he thought that of very little compara tive importance at this moment; for the Meeting, so far as it had gone, appeared by every account to have been conducted peaceably, so that there appeared no justification at all for reading that Act. If, however, the Riot Act was read at all, it must have been read by the Magistrate at or near his own door ; so that, according to every account, a man standing by could not hear what the Magistrate was reading from his paper. But even if it had been read as it ought, so as to have made the Meeting sensible of what was going on, still there could be no justification for the military execution that was subsequently done upon an unarmed and defenceless multitude. If the Riot Act had been read in the most open manner, these atrocities would not change their character ; they would be still fillet al, and revolting to humanity and justice.—(Cheers.) Mr. HURCOMBS said, he rose to second the Reso lutions. At this moment Mr. EICKIE rose, supposing that Mr. flurcombe had finished, but on finding his mis take, he immediately gave way to the seconder. Mr. HURCOMBE said, that he had little to add to the energetic and effective manner in which the wor thy Alderman (Waithman) had proposed the Resolu tions, who had done his duty this day, as he had on all former occasions, with honour to himself, and fidelity to his constituents. Though he could add nothing to the able manner in which the Resolutions had been proposed, yet he could not satisfy his feel ings by giving a silent vote—(Hear, hear.) He la mented to see a smile on the faces of the Gentlemen opposite (Messrs. Dixon, Jacks, and Browne.) He was shocked at observing on the face of any Gentle man any expression which indicated levity, on an oc casion so serious and important to humanity and law. (Mr. Dixon—" lam not smiling.") If ever one ques tion could be more serious than another, it was that where an unoffending people had fallen under military execution by the order of a Magistracy, who were sworn to protect them.—(Hear, Hear.) He hoped that all who heard him, would concur in expressing their abhorrence at the commission of unnecessary violence upon a mingled multitude publicly assem bled, as was usual on occasions of this kind. He hoped that all would concur in the necessity of in quiring into the transactions of the 16th of August, of which Manchester was the bloody scene. He hoped that the majority of that Court would as strongly express their abhorrence at this outrage, as they would their readiness to support law, reason, and humanity. The worthy Gentleman then advert ed to Mr. Pearson's letter, which described the evi dence given before the Grand Jury at Manchester, and said, that unless it were true, he did not think any respectable profess'onal man would have affixed his name to it. With such information, then, before the Grand Jury, he was utterly at a loss to know how they could have ignored the hills against the Yeo manry ; he might be wrong in his opinion, but he' thought, so placed, he should have pursued a dif ferent course of conduct. (A voice said, " They ad ed so, because they did not believe Me inibmation.")' Mr. Hurcombe, on hearing this, seemed to address himself to Mr. Dixon, and said, "What ! do you call this information not to be believed ?" (*lr. Dixon— " I did not say any such thing.") Mr. Hurcombu concluded, by expressing his cordial support of the Resolutions he seconded, and his hope that they would meet the approbation of the great majority of the Court—(Hear.) The COMMON SERJEANT then read the Resolutions, and was about to put them, when Mr. BUMSTEAD addressed the Court. The subject before the Court, wa's, in his opinion, one of the most important which had ever engaged its attention. Scenes had taken place which it was almost impos:.i. ble to think of, much more to describe, without feel ings of horror. Those acts of cruelty had been per petrated on the people by the authority of those, to whom, of all others, they should look for pro. tectiun—by the authority of the Civil Magistrates— (Hear, hear.) To their Magistrates and Judges, the people of this country had, on all occasions, looked for protection, and a due administration of the laws; but he regretted to find, that a great deal of the peo ple's respect for those Authorities was lost by the rip pointment of Stipendiary and Police Magistrates. It was most certainly contrary to the ancient spirit of our Constitution, and its effects were every day becoming more and more apparent. How was it possible for the great body of persons assembled on such occasions as' the Public Meeting alluded to, to respect those Ma gistrates, some of whom they saw interrupting them by most sanguinary means, in the exercise of a pub lic right? When the Magistrates attack an unof fending crowd, what security was there that they would not by the adoption of similar arbitrary pro ceedings attack and disperse pr ivate Clubs and Asso N ciations? They might disperse Societies of Free ' masons, and even the workmen enjoying their bean feasts, on the same alleged grounds ; for certainly there was as little of riot and tomult at the recent Meeting as might often be found on some of the oe-i casions he had mentioned. 1f 'this arbitrary system , were suffered to pass without notice, or without an L effort to arrest its progress, the right of Petition, that - PRICE SEVEN-PENCF. great privilege which vas secured to Englishrntsn by the Bill of Rights, might indeed be spoken of as a thing which once existed, or might, perhaps, be pre served in the dw tv Records of the Tower, but it would be lost hi eifect to those whose ancestors had so bravely exerted themselves to maintain it. It was from a conviction that such would be the effect of passing the late scenes at Manchester unnoticed, that he gave his hearty assent to the Resolutions. Mr. Alderman ROTHWELL said, he • would follow the example of the Gentleman who last spoke, and he as brief as possible in the delivery of his senti. meats. He admitted with him that the question was one of the greatest importance, and he therefore thought it ought to be weighed maturely and cau tiously. The Gentlemen who preceded him had ex pressed their hopes that the Resolutions would meet general concurrence—he, on the contrary, hoped they would meet with quite a different reception-- (Hear, hear).—On what were the Resolutions ground ed?—on what intelligence was the Court called to act ? He knew of no intelligence which could jus tify the Court 'to proceed, but that disclosed in the judicial proceedings which had occurred ; and how the Magistrates could be 'exposed to censure upon the information that had in this manner transpired, he was totally at a loss to guess—(Hear, hear). — The. NewspaFers, so far from affording authentic facts on which right conclusions could be drawn, were not at all agreed . among theniselves as to the occurrences—they detailed them in different forms and shapes. How then, he would ask, was that Court, upon such vague and contradictory informa tion, to found a vote of censure upon Magistrates, and that, too, conveyed in terms so strong as the Re• solutions contained—a length of invective which, he thought, might on this occasion have been spared by the worthy Mover ?—( Cries of " No, no !")—lf he were called upon to decide on the evidence before him, he certainly could by no means bring his mind to a sentence of condemnation on the Magistrates; as an honest man, he could not, and he should ra ther, were he empannelled to decide, withdraw from the Jury box, than pronounce a hasty opinion affect ing the characters of men upon imperfect informa tion. Situated in this manner, he thought the better course would be to get rid of the Resolutions alto gether, without entering upon a subject unaided by clear and satisfactory jnformation, on which they would be justified in coming to proper and right conclusions; he hoped some Member of the Court would adopt a course calculated to get rid of the Resolutions in this manner, without prejudging or pronouncing upon the question--(Hear, hear).—His wish was, that the Resolutions should be done away - with altogether. Mr. BRQWNE felt as seriously as any Member could the great importance of the subject before the Court s It was, he admitted, as worthy of deep consideratiOn as any which could occupy their attention ; and though some Gentlemen had accused him and his friends of treating the matter with levity, he could assure them, that Weir fine-drawn humanity could not teach them to look at the subject with more seri ousness than he did. He had been accused of smiling; but when he heard of all this sympathy for those persons, most of whom had brought the calamity, in some degree, upon themselves—(Cries of .No, no); when he found such sympathy on this and other oc casions, and when he saw that no sympathy was ex cited for the unfortunate men who, having gone to look at the nine:) , drilling of large bodies of men, et-ere so dreadfully abused as to be left almost dead on the field ; when he found that no feeling of com miseration was expressed for the individual Whose life was attempted for the active discharge of his dray ; when he found that the Gentlemen on the other side expressed no pity on these occasions, he !cuuls! not repress a smile at that ingenuity by which • their sympathies were so very confined—(Hear, hear). .He hoped the Court would not be led away by the ati t descriptions whic h they had heard, but would p ic discharge their duty as became men who wished to view matters on both sides before they gave their de cision —( Hear, hear).—He would most freely avow his opinion, that if the Magistrates of Manchester, or the Yeomanry Cavalry, had acted in the manner which had been described, they ought to be punished for it in the most exemplary manner ; but then, on what authority did those accounts rest i On the au thority of Newspapers; no two of which agrfed as to the circumstances which they detailed—( Hear, hear).—Would the Court then, upon such conflict ing evidence, sit in judgment over men, and con demn them unheard ? Would they judge his Ma jesty's Ministers, and pass a censure on.all, from the evidence which was before them ? It should also be observed, that from all the evidence which could yet be collected, a conclusion might be drawn quite the reverse of that which the Resolutions had adopted. A Grand Jury of a County had ignored Bills pre ferred against some of the Yeomanry Cavalry, for some of the acts for which they were here condemn ed ; and however respectable the individual whose letter was alluded to (Mr. Pearson) might be, he could not let it outweigh in his mind the credit which was due to a Grand Jury on their Oaths.— Was it to be suppo td that chat individual could know with accuracy what passed before a tribunal where no audience was admitted ? He could only depend on the words of others that they had sworn to such and such facts; but he could not know all that had taken place. His authority then, was not, he conceived, entitled to that weight which same wished to attach to it. Even if all the witnesses ho had been examined before the Grand Jury ' were to be brought to the bar of the Court and exa mined, and to state the same facts, he should still -be bound to believe that a large and most respectable body of Gentlemen, acting on their oaths, had dis. charged their duty correctly. It was astonishing to observe how Gentlemen turned round in their opi nions when circumstances changed. If a Juty of the country were to acquit a popular man, they are then extolled as most intelligent and upright; but, if i I, it ~v F N `1 • Ter Celli. - : • . - • • .. 24 • • • l e4 l. • /-- 1. ) ; l -:. ` I ' , I, [t 1 't , ) , ; i 11 , 1 ' i I s 1 ' ' tti 1 , 'I • ,' ' l ,l 1' t 1 ‘, "c, • t tt .. II i t 1 - t. tier I t' 1. 1 ... . 4 1 • ' [''' i 1 . i ... i • , [ 1 , / • t ~,, • 1 . i i ' 1 1 .1 MEETING OF TEE COMMON COUNCIL. Mr.lfiratvwcAn..—Vis continuation, from the __TARO' yesterday.)--It had been urged by the supporters and defenders of the Manchester Magistrates, that strong symptoms of tumult and disaffection were manifested by the flags and the mottoes which they bore along with them. Why, if the bearing of flags was a crime, was not a troop of Dragoons sent into the City of London, during the last Election, who might have swept away him (Mr. Waithman) and the flags which were borne before him on that occasion ? Why," continued the. Worthy Alderman, addressing him self particularly to the Chair, , g Why, my Lord Mayor, did they not at that period sweep myself and my flags from the City, and place your Lord s hip in the seat wh i ch I have now the honou r to hold r— (llis seat as a Member for the City which the Lord Mayor lost in the Election alluded to.) Why, he would ask, were not the. Dragoons sent to the Smith field Meeting, where there was nearly an equal num ber of flags, and many of them with similar inscrip tions to those used at Manchester ?' But the Court were well aware of the cause of this forbearance. The Law O ffi cers of the City had given it as their opinion that it would be improper. His Majesty's Secretary of State, and, indeed, nearly all the Autho rities who were consulted, had given it as their opi nion, that the Smithfield Meeting was not illegal, and, as . their advice, that it should net be disturbed, unless i t became tumultuous, and that the peace was broken. But would it be said that the Manchester Meeting was not a legal one? Ile contended, with out meaning to enter into the opinions of those who promoted it. that it was as legal a Meeting as that at Smithfield (which was admitted to be so by some of the highest Authorities in the land). And taking it for granted that the Meeting at Manchester was legal, why, he asked, wete the inhabitants to be pre vented from expressing their sentiments ? Were the inhabitants of London the only persons to whom this privilege was to be granted ? Were they to be the only persons allowed to meet to declare their senti ments, while their fellow subjects in Manchester (who, it should be borne in mind, were not directly repre sented in Parliament) were to be debarred the ex ercise of a:right to which they had equal cairn with every class of Englishmen? Were they alone to be slaughtered and sabred for doing that which else where could be done in peace and security ? And was the fact of their having been so sabred to pass, not only with impunityi but without inquiry, or with out having the voices of their fellow-subjects lifted sp against so flagrant a violation of their common rights? Some of them could remember the mister nation which prevailed, and the importance that was attached to the circumstance of a single man being killed in a riot in St. George's-fields; they could all remember the serious inquiry set afloat by this great City when a life was lost at the time Sir Francis Burdett was committed to the Tower. Indeed, on all occasions it was well and properly considered, that the Constitution could be as seriously wounded through the oppression or injury of a single indivi dual, as by the loss of numbers, however considera ble their extent. He should as much wish as any man that the people could meet under the general Magistracy of tke,country, under the Authorities best calculated to give dignity and importance to their deliberations. The people of London, for instance, can meet, or rather he should say, could meet in Common Hall, under their own Corporation, to ex press their opinions--(App/ause, and some laughter at the allusion to the Lord Mayor's refusal to call a Com mon Hall.) But was it not too much to charge the people, who had not the aid of those who were con sidered their superiors, with being tumultuous and rash in meeting in public, after they had in vain ap plied to the Magistrates to convene Assemblies in the usual manner, and had almost as often as they so applied met with nothing but abrupt refusals?— (Hear.) Wherever the people had met, they had conducted themselves peaceably, though (hear) in general without the attendance and support of those who formerly attended their Meetings. So delicate were some persons of allowing the people to judge for themselves, that on a subject upon which they ought to be peculiarly able to judge, namely, the mode in which a new tax would affect them, they were not thought by their Chief Magistrate to have sense or discretion enough to consider such a subject, or even competent to give instructions to their own' Representatives. If ever mischief on any occasion did arise from popular Meetings, on whom, might he ask, ought the responsibility of such mischief to f.. 11? On whom else but those who threw the people on their own resources for the expression of their grievances? On the Magistrates, who would not, as' they ought, legally convene the people together ; and on the-Government, who seemed to encourage those Magistrates to throw every difficulty in the way of the people in the expression of their grievances— (Hear). In the Resolutions which he had prepared for this occasion, he had taken the most studious, pains, the utmost care, to avoid every thing extra neous to the precise question, every thing w h i ch could in the slightest degree tend to create a violent or inflammatory feeling in the breast of any honest, man, whatever might be the bias of his particular political opinions —(Hear, hear). if grievances did exist among the people, and if the people, in their mode of seeking redress, mistook the proper means, he would submit to the sense and candour of any honest man, whether it would not be much better to allay those grievances by the operation of time, and the intervention of conciliato: y conduct , by the aid of good feeling towards the people of the country, so far as it could and ought to be given by the Govern ment, the Magistracy, and the persons of rank and property who wished well to the country, and who had it in their power to lend ass istance, in a p eriod of general distress. Even if the opinion of this class of society was, that many of the gr ievances were ima ginary, and that for such as were real the people bad .~ 0 !i' 'l , , , li f . ' 4 .1 . . i ft . i t yy if .) 1 tt i l i t i • • • ! • ! , 1 41.'11 1 trd