Star. — London, England, 1819-08-24 00:00:00

P t i :*a . THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. TOESDAY. AUGUST 24, 1419. ST. BAlngotourtwo.—lioliday at the Bank, Exchequer, and South-Sea Muse. An account, which may be considered as Official' , ofi,he proceedings at Manchester, on Monday, has at length appeared in a Manchester Paper—Wheeler's Chronicle. It is the only statement that has yet ap peared, which, from beginning to end, has been ma nifestly written for the purpose of vindicating the conduct of the Magistrates and Yeomanry. We do not like to trespass on the patience of our Readers by any new narrative of circumstances with which they are already so well acquainted ; but in justice to the Civil Authorities and Yeomanry, we think it right to subjoin such passages of the present statement in their behalf, as it may reasonably be supposed they would choose most to rely upon for their• defence : " The whole assemblage had every appearance of military array; and was quite unlike thitt of a body of people met for deliberation." " Several persons addressed the assemblage, at different times, desiring them to form in close order round the hustings, and to lock their arms fast• toge ther, in order to prevent their enemies from-penetrat ing among them." " The cheers (of Hunt and his party) were instantly returned by the Cavalry, and the whole of the Peace Officers, the former brandishing their sabres whilst,' huzzaiag." " The rebellious nature of the Meeting ; its numbers and threatening aspect; the warlike insignia displayed; the order of march and military arrangement, many of the Reformers having shouldered large sticks and bludgeons, as representatives o . f' muskets ; coupled with the depositions on oath of very many respecta ble inhabitants, as to the consequences that must, in their opinion, unavoidably Bow ro Lives and property from such an immense - Meeting, assembled under such influences; and the Magistrates' own view of the whole of this tremendous scene—rendered it im peratire to interfere." " The Riot Act had been twice read, once by the Rev. Mr. Ethelston, and once ly John Sylvester, Esq." " The Cavalry had not advanced many yards be fore they were assailed with heavy volleys of stones, shouts of defiance, and the most coarse and insulting language. Till thus' assailed, no Yeomanry-man used his sword. Each man ha% ing confined himself to waving it acse - his head. Novi the duty of self presemation obliged them to strike. but in very few . instances to cut." " On every side the soldiery were attaaial with the most determined resolution ; many of the Ca valry were struck to the ground ; and the Reformers attempted to k‘nock.out their brains with large stones, (previously provided), and sticks, whilst lying on the fp aunt!: " Near the Quaker's Meeting-house afiriatts batik sage!. In the burying-ground many persons com mitted murderous work from the enclosed walls, till the gates were burst open by a private soldier, With the butt end of his musket. Many innocent specta tors had also been there, during the whole of the day, at's plats e securit s .. At length it was, necessarily, cleared by force." • " Not a sine, shot was fired by any of the Mili tary, although they were fired upon, mired times, by the Reformers and their abettors." " It was scarcely to be anttipated that great num bers of the Reformers would come to the Meeting prepared with offensive weapons ; but it was the case. A class of them were dressed as brewers' servants usually are, with long brats that contain, pockets.— These pockets were all filled with stones. Therefore, it is manifest, that if the Law found occasion to in terpose, a regular system of prevention had been ar ranged to defeat its object." They (the multitude) were from all quarters, and from considerable distances, and must, in many instances, have sacrificed three whole days in expenses in coming to, being at, and returning from this, the last Meeting before a Revolution was to break out, aqua! etty were to divide the property of the Country among them I" ‘‘ They were all elated at their numbers, which svmed to make them feel conscious of strength.— They declared on the ground, thatthis was the proudest' day England ever saw, and that it would live in Me pages of history to the latest generi. ;ions." Such are the points on which the justification' of the Magistrates and of the Yeomanry at Manchester are made to rest, in. a long article published in the ft - - , CII/ r Chronicle. We have neither room nor lyse at present the gratuitous as- colouring attempted to be ire /31311c. We content ourselves with 'don on this singular production, and iewed as the Manifesto of those who 1 (how truly time will anew) with 'their authority—namely that, had enemy to draw up their culogium, more effectually endeavoured to Laded the charges are which have them—,and we remark in the advocate has put into the mouths 'ould calumniate, that the sky will liaory to the kited generations !' TO THE EDITOR OF TILE STIR. SOUTHAMPTON READING ROOM. . . AUGUST 23, 1839. Stn—You will oblige 39 out of 42 of your constant Readers by inserting in the next STAR the subjoined Letter to the Editor of the Conrier.. I.avail myself with pleasure of tl.is opportunity to express out un qualified approbation of the rnanner in which you have spoken of the disgraceful weir that was exhi bited at Manchester on Monday last. Your sentiments are those of every person who has not only . the welfare but the honour of the country at heart. remain, Sir, with unfeigned respect, -your's, truly, RICHARD DAVIS, Secretary to the Reading Room. 4, TO THE EDITOR OF THE COURIER. Sin—l have been commissioned, by 39 out of 42 Subscribers to out Reading Room, to apprize you, through the medium of the STAR, of our unqualified disapprobation of your justificatory comments on the atrocious conduct of the Military at Manchester, on Monday last—and also to acquaint you with an oc- currenoe that took place in consequence of that dis approbation. What! not only justify but eulogize a conduct, that every humane person and well-wisher to his country will consider as one of the foulest blots in our historic page and an indelible stain on our national character ! Would you wish that the ener getic line of Loons, in sue rictrici conversa viscera dextra,' should be England's fatal motto. at this por tentous crisis ? To the honour of your Brether4our ua'ists, be it spoken, they have, almost to a man, reprobated, in the strongest terms, the atrocities of that disgraceful day. Their language bespeaks real patrichism a:ld genuine British feeling—it vibrates in unison with the chords of sensibility from one extre mity of the realm to the other. Let not the Editor' of the Courier suppose that myself and co-subscribers are Jacobins or Radicals :—No V we admire the ve nerable fabric of the British Constitution as much as he does—and because we prize the rights that we enjoy under its.protection, thrrefora are we the more indignant at their violation. We. want no vigour 'beyond the law. " As my feeble powers are inadequate to the task: of depicting, in their true colours, our indignant feelings, I leave you to writhe under the tontaltisrks and scalping-knives of your cotemporaries, as you Messrs. Journalists, term each oti.er. I do not mean, by the bye, to insinuate that the persons into wl.ose hands I have put those Indian weapons are by any means barbarians; so far from it, that here the terse and classical language of the Star, the Times, and 111 o? ming Chronid is considered such as would do ho nour to the best pet iods of English litcrtture.—Now, Sir, I crave your attention a minute or, two longer, I state the consequence of our disapprcbation cf your sentimerts on the Manchester massacre. We, i. e. the Members of our Reading-room, after rzcovt ring from I dle consternation into which the appalling itaeli igence from Manchester had thrown us, burst cflzt into in ' eectives against the Courier, as an abettor of these atrocities. We waited two or three days to see if the. Editor would either retract or qualify his approba tion. No such thing—the more we saw to coirdemn in this sanguinary proceeding, the more clamorous were you, Sir, to justify it, as a vigorous effort of pa triotic heroism ! Finding that you still persisted in justifying a line of ccnduct which the friends of hu manity mu- t reprobate, we convened a Me•aing of the Subscribers, and came to the following Resolutions. there being only three dissentient voices out of 42 :. " Ist, Resolved, That the Cviirier, in consequence of its reite rated attempts to justify shedding the innecent blood of our countrymen, be discontinued—to mark, In u forcible a manner as possible, our utter abhorrence of these disgraceful attempts on the part of the Courier ! " Resolved, 2dly, That the tour )lumbers of the Cberier, con taining the accounts from ninchester of the transactions of Monday lau, and subsequent accounts from the same quarter, togither with • tbe Editor's execrable remarks thereon, be made up into a packet and kicked, by the S►bscribers present, out of this Ronea.". The Paris Papers of Saturday arrived this fore noon. We are again, obliged, by the pressure of do mestic matter, to defer availing ourselves of their contents. Count ADISDAL has been replaced in the command of the remnant of the troops at Cadiz, by General Don FELIX CALLEJA, Count De CALDERON, who was Vice-Ili yof Mexico, in 11113.--Fize per Cents. Friday, 71 fr. 40 c. We have this d.&y received Philadelphia Papers to the 24th ultimo, but their contents are not of a na ture to call for our sacrificing any of the room occu pied by our ow•n domestic affairs, to make room for them. The Duke of DEVONSHIRE gave a grand Dinner, yesterday, to Lady MORPETU, Lady GRANVILLE, and a Select Party, at Devonshire House. The Duke of NORFOLK and a Select Party of Dix : . Unction dined yesterday with Lady PE T RE, at her house, Grosvenor-square. The Duke of PORTLAND, the Earl of FIFE, and Lord ANCRAIII were among the 'numerous persons of Rank who passed through Durham, in the course of last week. The Duke and Duchess of Nc KTHUMBERLA ND ar rived in Newcastle on Monday se'nnight They ho noured the Assembly with their presence in the even ing—it was most brilhantly attended ; upwards of five hundred Ladies and Gentlemen, comprising the Beauty and Fashion of the neighbourhood, bbing present.. Their Graces patronised the performances at the Theatre on Tuesday evening—the House was crowded in every part. Duar,ix, Attu 18.—Monday evening Mr. GRANT, .the Chief Secretary for Ireland, landed at Howth. He came over in the Talbot Eteam-Paoid. MANCIIW3TLIt. PR IV ITE I.IMTER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. 46 MA NCIIISTE!t, AbaVIT " Sin-1 am obliged by your favt,ur of the 20th, and am amply repaid for the liberty I took in ad- Jressing you, by the assurance that my communica tions have been of value. I shall indeed be happy if they conduce to promckte a knowledge of the real character of events which are, and I mist will long remain, without a parallel, in modern British or ra ther English History. My letters shall be occa sionally continued as any thing of ioterest occurs. " r think it might be well to challenge the. Courier to publish the statement of its own Reporter. It is a fact, which has scarcely yet been noticed by the London Papers, that he was very seriously wounded by salve.cuts in two places, and by some severe con tusions, and, unless I am egregiously misitafornted and deceived, his opinion has been most decidedly expressed-here both as to the peaceable character of the Meeting and to the wanton violence by which he (as well as others) was himself a sufferer. The 14iburier of Friday quibbles about the number which the Rots bad mentioned as being sabred, forgetting, or rather feigning to forget, that apse who are tram plea to death are' equally the victims of military violence as if they were cot to pieces; but the ac counts I hear from all parts of the neighbourhood convince me that 200 will be an understatement of the wounded, and nearly all of them are sabred..., You will, no doubt see, in Wheeler's Manche:lt? l , Chronicle, what may be considered the Magistratts' official statement, argi their thanks and compliments m the various bodies cf . military for their humane conduct on Monday. The county; will not be jug gled into appaation of it by seeing that those who got up the dreadful tragedy should praise those who performed it ; and the truth of the question, as to the humanity or inhumanity of the mode in which the dispersion was effected, may be estimated and con clusively settled by the fact,. that the Blanket Meet ing in nisch, 1817, was nearly as numerous as this (at least it was thought to consist of more than 40,000 people)--ghat the Speakers on the Lostings were then also taken into cu.stody—that the Meeting was then also di•persed from the very same place by military force, but with very different results: One' w , c.nian was trampled to death at some distance from the scene of action ; but as br as I knew, or have ever heard, and hvhieve, act oat sabre wound was given. Then, as well as now, it was quite problematical w]te ther tl.c Rict Act was alai I am told ~v friend, who took some pains in time inquiry, that t!“.• mystery was never solved ; nor will it bL nov., un less at, piasv, et- is for , ed frotn the Magistrates by t! voice (..f the country.. o We still ccntinue appr.-4...nt1y tranquil, and I fit. vently lic,me we may remaia so, but it is quite impu:;- sible to say. A dreadful • bitterness of feeling has been created by the events of Monday. If we lead been dogs,' said a poor man to a friend of mine, in speal.lng of the subject, 4 If we had been dogs they would not hare used us so ills they Might have driven us away, but they would not have taken swords to us.' And this is the general feeling. The people think they have not been treated as fellow-creatures ought to be, and it is innossible that any feelings of disaf fection can be rooted out, or of reliance upon the equality and protection of the laws encouraged, by 'the treatment they have experienced. t. In the notice they circulated before the :Meeting, (but whether for that of the 9th, or this of the 16th, I will not be quite surejs the Reformers invited the presence of the• Municipal Officers and Magis trates upon the hustings, and assured them of respect ful treatment, that they might preserve the peace ; but although the Magistrates might have thought it, and, judging from their conduct, did think it, beneath their dignity sa to prevent the utterance of seditious language or the adoption of violent Resolutions, I cannot but think, and the Country will agree in the opinion, that it would been much more to their credit, than the means which they took for dispers ing the Aleeting, " Of the rower the Boroughreere and Constables are assuming, you may judge by the following, in some of its parts, infamous hand-bill, which they call a' Friendly Catiticn:—EThe Circular alluded to ap peared in the Sri\ R of yesterday, and therefore need not be given here.j " I have given a harciname to some parts of this placard, because its evident purpose is nothing but punishment aad revenge: for the founer I an nut recognize the military as legal instruments; and about the impropriety of their being allowed to dis• play any thing like the latter passion, there can be but one opinion. In plain terms, if I attempt to preserve the life of a fellow-creature, who as far as I may know is guiltless, or at least who has com mitted no capital crime, I am to be snor in ,4 own house, and not only myself, but pet haps 'all my fa may, for my house " NEAT BE FIRED INTO." Or if some wretch, unknown to me, should take post on . my roof, and throw a stone fi tun thence upon the mi litary, I am, if it seem meet to tlia said military, to be MURDERED; for I kns)w not what other :mailing is to be attached to the phrase " responsible for al the consequences." Fortunately for myself, where 1 live there •is little danger of any thing of this sort ; but I protest against our Municipal Officers, who 'have uo jurisdiction or authority above that of petty I , ' I ! i .. ~iii . 114 -1" ' ii) k 4. ,4tk i k ,'ll ''''. 4:i Ilia Itches: er Ch rome( .' .1 , A+ , inclination to analy .:.1 . sumptions and false f , ./ • • 1‘ ) posed upon the Pith , * i tl f 1 sample observation irbigs may Se viewe have been charged I p cruel exercise of ti they employed an er be could Lot have i stew how well grow befit alleged against words which their ad of those whom he woi 1 4 44 lire ix the pages VA constables, thus making themselves, cr the military, the arbiters of life and dcith, As I should presume there can ;10 the affair will come Mine l'..rha highly to be desired that some and independent Members of the lit woe (.1 would visit us, and take the trouble of it, sonal inquiries upon the Tot, respecting th, the case. Your Reports, and the Account by the Times Reporter, do you both in 6,;,, and, as far as I saw, are quite accurate. I, maim of the existence of that feeling be attributed the mischief caused by ill,: s the Rags by the Yeomanry, I may stat^, an eye and ear-witness to an agreement n about half a dozen of the corps, when 1, was here last January, to the the tap then, as it passed the Exchange. L ,pc, this would cause a riot, in Jvhich I had u be involved, I took another situation; but ; fort as believe, for themselves, ssho were cher. they did not make the attempt. To ent,ll. an intention, without any pretence of sanctic, rwoccedings, spews a disposition which wa s rd to be distinguished by moderation, .A.hen v nicd by power and arms. They were, beside , corps : it was the first time they had been ca: actual service, except a march to Burnley of them could not manage their hot es, %%hi, not fully trained, and all their operations u r, order. GC]) knows I am no friend to rcob ments, but hew a longer period, like the military despotism which we have had, cat, be tolerable, except by those whose ro c r ., s are composed in great part of the poxer dom. and abusing others, I am qn to at. a :,ass to con PRIVATE LETITR. U AN.:"HESTEP., .A-GE' g , The con3nct of the Yeomanry is the t universal execration. Men of all parties, much under the influence of ultra alai m.) vinced that the Magistrates here ltay. euici vigour beyond the law ; and, I am boU t o a • had the same prudent forbearance been here which has marked the conduct of the traL,:s of London, Leeds, and several other where there have been - .. - hat ate called Refon ings, every thkg would have gone off peace: "Mr. HUNT, after he was taken p:isoner, w shamefully treat xi. The valiant Spccial and the Detachment appointed to gwird 11 the plate of meetin", assaulted him in the m fiat ily manner : he was literally bruised from foot, ahliongit neither himself r.Jr 114 par the le.tst tance. " WC a!4 at resent tranquil; Lta their sureness in the pnblic mind, c n account of zageous conduct, GI l'OliCe and YCollt.lkry matters will Cl.d, it is iturcssi'ole From the angry in taur reeling That now i anticipate the worst con...A:villein:es." MANC)-lESTER, AL:6I (From Tte Talus) " I Mentioned yesterday, that the r: I riot oar the previous eveni gat New (.1, : the late hour at which I heard the acr..l time to inquire into its truth, or to I went afterwards to the spot, and saw the against whom the attack t f the mob was c!' It will be recollected, that the house of T grocer, whose windows were broken on night, and before whose door a man was 11 the house of FLETCHER, whore windows men on Thursday night by a gre.'t mob, en .w Hussars were obliged to fire, are both at thi The district consists off ur great screetc . , street, Great Ancot-street, Great Newton-sr Swan-street, from which innumerable narrux or lanes branch off, which accomin. date the facturing labourers collected in the vicinity of the largest:actories of the town. It h created by the success of the cotton tra. swarms with inhabitants, who share ail its tudes. It is occupied chiefly by Spinners, NI and Irish of the lowest description, and may s:‘ the St. Giles's of Manchester. Indeed ito Ear Metropolis presents scenes of more squalid wi ness, or of more repulsive depravity, its nattr comitant, than this. What it was in tlte tint orates of tt Ade, I lenm not ; bat its present I is truly hez rt-rendins:s and overpowering. Th arc consnerl and d:rty ; the houses neglect the windows often without glass.. Out or tht . dows, or in the most airy situation, th e m) rags of the family, I cannot say linen !it bf turday) were hung up tc dry ; the start fri consisted of a species of sackcloth; the ht furniture, the bedding, the clothes of the and the husband, were seer. at the pat The consequence is, that in many streets 4 tract, every second or third house is a raw; shop, with scarcely any other articles t'tan perty thus wrung froin distress and mis,try. off famine. The wretched cr.i-inets are then to take up their lodgings in cellars, withoia any accommodation, in onP of which, fie , from ten to twenty people. of both sexes s ages, assemble for the night. " In the ireanvvhile the eclncation ani the of their children are neglected, attil the roc!' are turned adrift during the day, wit:lo 2 : ! vigilance or a parent's care, to lint how .to be contaminated by a 4; bad example'. °' gage in any sort of deprax ity. l a-x• t-ruing on the gat ba l. .;e. aid ieLl. , e tL others wandering about in rags, emaciated, as in a state rt sta. sleeping on the paverneot, or bo!•Lirg 11 ' a most cornple:e nudity. glen .11.: set! and desperate, tire tit for have nothiag to lose by a changc. Ae . t , ti.:s quarter We nod tioe must tuih: wmclieduess sr.:ma to nraddeu IE-3' Ste( „, !!!!, tr. in ;;•.!) :at I rLaLle 1 !. 11; 4 ts t:;!12"el sr.c t In ta, tl e r,t 2 • lick r t. • gover • tir.o.:l: cr pprcs , ir, oz sc. eaeme (lot to art c:::. ci.td 1. Cr, : 1 .1 CRY • e Cr m Mee cably. WAF him fro u bC.d :y I y. C to • ;UST tt j . ' !‘: AT :r • t Ito:. 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