The National Register. — London, England, 1819-08-22 00:00:00

274 DREADFUL EFFECTS Or TO It MANCHESTER MEETING ON MONDAY LAST. flip perturbed spirit of the Radical Reformers has at laq been ;ratified. The Manchester meeting hits eti,led in 1400thilea. • Soon offer twelve o'clock, the MagTstrates and a body of cow-tables repaired to the grossia to which the Itii gadeil P.M . ..liners had marched, and in 1 . 011•1191tqwe of elepositions made before Fe% crut of his M.0.-ety* Jostic.s of the l'e;ice, by matey of the most respectable inhabitants of the town:. of Manchester anti Salford, is which they stated their AllerelleMillll of I iot and tumult Its the probable consequence of such no assemblage of persons t dis tant townships, mare hod thither under banner* so t of rebellions intentions, thee Riot Act was read, but it did not appear to be match attended to by the infatuated c^owd, who continued to scowl and at the consta bles, akr. in attendance. In hoer having expired, after the reading of the Riot :lel, the warrants of the Magistrates wire (-Anil 11 intot effect. 'Flit yeomanry cavalry, in support of the Police Officers, anneal with warrants from the Magistrates, al 'shed ihron;li the crowd, bin minded the bustrii4o, and ni rested Ileniy Hunt, Joseph Johnson, shim Tyas,George Swift, Jolia Thicker Swami, Roliert Wild, Thos. Taylor, Mary Waterwerth, Saerh Hargreaves, and Eliza Grant, is 'to ace earl ied off the field, and sent immediately tinder vsenit, to th, New Bailey prison, whilst Caps of Liberty mid the limners of Rebellion, ware destroyed and tram ► led in the dui. While the seizure was making by the Yeomanry, the 15th Iltissats, and the 31s1 and eSiti Regi ments of ['riot, a brigade of :Witte', , and :he Cheshire Yeomanry, made their appeal ante ()tithe ground. At the moment of ti round.og the hustings, a shower of Mick bats mid rasing stouts were hurled at the Yeomanry, 39‘1•1111 of whom were struck, one of them so si setely, tl at lie dropped the reins, mid his horse fell, by which he ads piiclied off, riot his skit:l was fractured. He was Cm lied to !be Infirmary, and at folic o'clock all hopo of rem ery was fled. Besides this gent lemau, six oilier prisons were min of whom was Mr. Asliwroth, of the market-place, who was on duty es a spec tat constable. In the course of the afternoon toe follow log persons were taken into clistoily, in addition to thos-e takess no in the field, viz.—Valentine Faulkner, James Johnson, WOl. Billinge, Win. Bolton, Edward Perrino, Thomas Kestigh, Tames Meolhouse, Julio Knight, Isaac Marelly, Thigna3 Ashton, Thomas Worthington, Abraham Whittaker, Win, Ashworth, Moses O'Hara, IMPS MI kin, Thomas John , aim, John Wild, Anthony Jeff-room Ac. putt were est-oiled in the evening by the cavalry ,to the New Bay ley. The town is now in race and quietness fur the too tomtit, but thre: Is of ven;eassel: are predominant in a very great degas e. The number of worts/led men may be stated, at a moth rate calculation, at EiGturv. Oat Margit tamale siclial is a gentleman of the name of };aline, who is a re .ide:st of the town of Nianeliester, and an iii.lis:dual of great property, as w us respectahility, and has only been a few months married. He %%a.: in the charge ;bat surrounded the kits tins, and s:wne miscreant aimed a blaw at him with a 1;6(4,01141.h had effect, and levelled him with the ground, and in the fall he fract ill ed his skall, Mhicb Will ultimately he Isis death ; lie lingers at present in peat agony. persons are already dead. After the alerting the populace asseinhled•in went mobs •t New Crms, a place which is inhabited by the Irieti, of desperate character ; their euudurt was such 11.4 to require the Mirr F. truce agaiu of :he %Mae proorcre pro ving ineffectual they were compelled to have recourse to coercive measuica, awl filed on the delude) multitude; the consequence Mar, that cg:e person was shot through the back part o. the s.ull, the a ound of which is mortal ; another is this 'aquaria undergoi anipetati. , n of !Le 117: and several other pereons are tarried to the Infirmary dreadfully wounded. It is really . distressing to be w ;mess of thi, awful arces•it, ; but the only cir. utast:awe tint ran reconcile our Itsviiii;• to it that it till ohne:arty he attended a ith ht netieial effects. 'nie m pb in New Cross proeeelei length!, and mina:ly broke open a shop in the nrighbourhnnd. and every reF.pectabie person s.ho happelnd to be passing was sinned. In midi:ion to the above, we have been favoured with the tight of a kilts float a gr atlrman iu Nlanclie.ter, of a Bich the bolo in; is the mh7tance •. MY Tir.‘R Ultri TRIER, " The day of our much-dreaded Meming is arrived, and I ar dently hope the occurrences that have taken place will prevent a rvetition of emelt , icetitigt. During the whole of tl:e moruPig, kirge utrtivs, each it: &tied by a flag arida cap of liberty, had been matching to ti.e usual place of Meeting from every tea n and rd. , dage sitnin twenty miles of this place. The rags and caps of liberty were planted as near to the hustings as the hearers could - VOMfive to piece themselves. Mr. Hunt did not make his mire Cir • 'yTIV. NATIONAL REGNTER. till nearly one o'clock. and after having waved his hat two cr three times to elide applause. he proceeded to the business of the day. He had, I believe, pooposeel two or three Resolutions, which were of course passed with acclamation, when the hustings wee,: surrounded by the soldiery, horse and Lot—the standard► torn down, and those on the bustim_s taken into custody. The former were immediately d.ttroyed—the - haft wen: safely lodged in the New Miley prison.—The mob was quite OA Retire in its retreat as it had been in its assembling, and the scene was dreadful. One of car special constables i• killed, having been trampled to death ; and one of our yeomanry (the son of Mr. 0. !Winn) was struck by a brisk-bat, and is, I fear in a .!anger ous sate. About So have been taken to the infirmary, but all the injury yet done has been by ti empling ; neither musket, pistol, or sabre, having been hitherto used. Newton's Lane is a very rough neighbourhood, and the soltliers are this moment gone there in consequence of turnohnt proccoeings, with their pistols in their hands. I fear much toiseltief, but hope to write you better news to-merro•►._l ant, &c. &c. One of the Repo, tees of File Totes, silo seas at Man ch...de r, was among those who Mete mkt u into custody. Gr his account of the psoceeliiigs, atter de.t•ribing the asst . :rib:Mg of the 11‘11101111!P, Hunt's brio.; called to the ch.tir, and the cerniu.iicsitie tit of die pi oceedings, lie .ass, At this *age of the bus:mess the Yeomanry Cavalry were seen advancing in a rapid trot to the area ; the it ranks were in disorder, and on writing within it, they halted to breathe their horses, and to recover their reran. A panic seemed to strike the persons at the outskirts of the meeting, who immediately began to scamper is evert direction. Atter a moment's pialse, the tawdry drew their swords, and brandished them fiercely in the air: neon which Hunt and Johnson desired the multitede to give three cheers, to show the military that they were nut to be daunted in the discharge of their duty ley their unwelcome presence. 'lbis they did, upon which -Mr. Hunt again proeeedeth This was a mere trick to interrupt the proceedings of the meeting ; but he trusted they would all gaud firm. He hail scarcely said these words, before the Manchester Yeomanry Cat :ley axle into the the veer, which gave way before them, and directed their course to the cart from which Hunt was topaaking. Not a brick-bat was thrown at them—not a pistol was fired during this period ; all was quiet and orderly, as if the cavalry had been friends of the multitude, and Intl marched as such in the midst of them. A bogie .aan went at their head, then an officer, and then came the whole troop. They wheeled round the waggons till they came in front of them, the people drawing back in every direc tion on their approach. After they had surto ended them in much a warmer *to prevent all escape, the rupee who commanded the detachment went up to Mr. Hem, and said, brandioliing his swop], " Sir, I have a warrant against you, and arrest you us my prisoner." Hunt, after exhorting the people to tratuptillity in a ices words, turned round to the officer and said, " I willingly surrender myself to any civil officer who will show me his war rant." Mr. Nadir., the chief police officer at Manchester, then came forward and said, " I will arrest you ; I here got infor mason upon oath against you,' or something to that effect.-- The military officer then proceeded to say, that he hail a warrant against Julinscia. Johr.son also inked for a civil officer, upon which a Mr. Andrew came fermud, and Hunt and Johnson then leaped from off. the waggen, and surrendered themselves to the civil power. Search was then made for Itlorehoum and Knight. against when maniac; hail also been issued. In the hurry of this trarmiction, they had by soma rinses or other contr i ve d to make their escape. tom as Float and Johnson lied jumped front the waggon, a cry was made by the cavalry, " have et their lime." In coracqueneo, they immediately dashed not only at the 11 egi which were in the weitya, bat those which were Nord among the crowd, cutting most helimrimiautely to the right and to the left in order to get at them. This set the people running in all directions, and it was not till this act had been committed that any brick bats were hulled at the military.— From that moment the Manchester Yeomanry Cavalry last all cumulate' of iititpor. A person of the name of Saxton, who is, we believe, else editor of the lifanz•lizrter Observer, was standing the cart. Two privates rode up to hint. " There," said one of them, " is that villain, Saxton ; do tou run him through the body." " No," replied the other, " I he.' rather not—l leave it to you." The man inunediately made a lunge at Saxton. and it war only by slipping aside that the blow missed his life.— As it was, it cut his met and waistcoat, but fortunately (lid him mother injury. A roan within five yards of us in another direc tion hail his note completeiy taken off by mblow of a sabre; whilst another was laid prostrate, but whether he was dead or had randy thrown himself down to obtain protection we cannot say. Seeing all this hideous work going on, we felt an alarm which any man may be forgiven for feeling in a similar situation : looking around us, we saw a constable at no great dimence, and thinking that our only chence of iafety rested in placing ourselves under Lis proteetiva, we eepeakel to hint fur insistence. lie inunediately took us into custody, and on our saying that we merely attended to report the proceedings of the day, lie replied, " Oh ! oh ! You then are one of their writers—you must go bethre the Magistrates." To this we made no objection ;in consequence he took us to the house where they were bitting, and in our rued thither, we saw a woman en the ground, insensible, and to all outward appearance, with two large gouts of blool on her left breast. Just as we came to the house, the constables were con ducting Hunt into it, end were treating him in a manner in which they were neither justified by law nor humanity, striking him with their staves on the bead. After he had been taken into th e home, we were admitted also ; and it io wily justice to the moan who apprehended us to state, that he did every thing in his power to protect us from ell ill usage, and showed us every i buy consistent with his duty. In the room into which we were put, we found the Orator, Johnson, Saxton, and some other individuals of minor wee, among whom was another airman in a fainting condition. Nadia the constable was also there. Hunt and Johnson Seth awed him to chew them the warrants on which they had been apprehended. This he refused to do, saying that he had information upon oath against them, which was quite suffijent for him. Hum then iedled upon time persons rteocut to ~ N, 1 ATIGIIST mark Nadin's refuel S!,ortly after ti.is transaction, Mr. Bay, the chairraso of the nirgi.dmta, came into the ape: tment, and asked Bunt if he was Si:di' to go down to the New Bailey; it' he was he himself would accompany him, and ha•lc after lino wkly. Bust, who we forgot to mention had received a slight Fula' e wound on one of his hands, said, that lie should have no objection to the Ma,;ittrete's company; he certainly did not like either a rut from a sabre or a blow from a star, hod] cf , whieit had been dealt out to him in no small quantity. Mr. Hay shortly aftorwords went out, having tint mode a reply to Mr. Bunt, which some riot out of doors prevented us from hearing.— On casting our eyes at the place where the immesse multitude Lad lately been assembled, we were .:iwprised in the short space of ten minutes to see it cleared of all it.rionner occupiers, atd filled by various troops of military, both harm and foot. Shortly after this had occurred, a Magistrate crone into the mom, and bade the prisoners prepare to march off to the New Hunt was consiqncJ to the cusic4y of Cul. l'Esintrige, of theFtst foot, and a detachment of the ISili Hussars ; and tinder his care, he ar.d all the other prisoneis wl.o were each placed between voy, constables, reached the New Bailey in yettict safety. l I.e stafik of two of llunis banners were carried in mock procession before Mira . After these individuals had been committed to the custody of the Goveenor, they were turned into one common yard, where the event; of the day formed the sus jest of conversation. Knight and norchourte, elm had beets taken a short time after them, were afterwards added to their company. About S o'clock the Magistrates directed the Governor of the prison to lock each of them up in u solitary cell, and to me that they had no coustitu r.itestion with each other. This was accordingly done. The writer of this article was one of the parties thus intpri soncel. Except that it was Leprisonmeht, he has no reason to complain of the treetruent which he received. lie was in custody front 2 o'clock on Monday till 12 o'clock on Tuesday. As soon as the Magistrates were acquainted with the circumstances under which his apprehension had taken piece, they immediately ordered his release, and expressed in very polite terms their re. grct for the imenvenienee to which imbed been subjected. Whew we were once more allowed to enjoy that freedom of which We had been for a moment deprived, we took a walk through most of the principal streets of Manchester, and found that they were at that time (12 o'clock) completely under military disposal. Soldiers were posted. at .all the commanding positions of the own, and were to be seen exteaded stetted length on the flags in varioua directions. At three o'clock, they had, however, all rf them returned to their quarters, and the tows was wall outward appearanee.once more in estate of tranerull:ty. At wren Aback, when we cptitted Manchester, all was quiet in the town. A report had. however, reached it, that there was a serious riot at Oldham, and in consequence soave troops of the Chester lieornenty were sent to quell it. In our raid to Stockport, our atteteion was forearly strnek by the numerous grouper of idle men, cho were congegated toge • theralong it. They appeared ready fit any wicked or deeperata purp,rie, and we have reason to believe that fro the evening was concluded, they were cngaz, , cil in an attack upon the magis tracy of Stockport. About a mile from that place some hun dreds of them were assembled near a petty public house. A new hat, a tea kettle, and some other articles of little valite, were diip!aycd at the window, as is custinuary to display the prince given at wakes or feasts in this part of the country. This we.; to•ser.e as a pretext for flier meetim; takanhert but this was only a pretext we :earned to a certainty during our stay at Macclesfield. On our entry into that town about 10 at night, we were met by several women, who flung themselves in the way of our chaise, and entreated us for Go i'c sake not to enter it, as murderous work was going on within it. This was not, to be cute, pleasing information; bet on consulting v:ith our driver, he said there could be no harm in our proeceding on as far as the Royal Hotel, which lies nearly at the entrance of the toan as you cone front Manchester. On arriving there, our horses were seized by some special constables, anal we were advised not to proceed further up the town, if we had any regerd whatsoever flu our lives. Of course we took thcir advice, and turned our horses into a yard, as they desired us. On inquiring into the cause of the anxiety whirls was depicted Maid their Cams, they :nformed us :lit the Refor mers in their neighbourhood, irritated by the defeat which they :tad sustained at Manchester the day before, Lad assembled in a body of 2 or 5,1 to men, and bail been committing the most abominable acts of violence in different quarters of the town. In the market place they had broken every window which looked into it. and in various other places had done similar acts of atro city. They were emboldened in their villainy by the knowledin: that there were only a few military men in the town, and that in the custody of these men were 300 stand of anns, and several thousand round of ball cartridge. The circiimstanee of these arms being so loosely guarded filled the minds of the peaceablo inhabitants with the utmost dread, especially when they found, on going to the guard-house, that out of the six soldiers stationed in the town, two were dead drunk. anal one of than the sergeant at the head of the detachment. They were all, however, per waded to stand to their arras, and being aided by several 'esp.::: table inhabitants of the town, assumed so formidable an appearance that the rioters thought it unwise to attack them. This dis inclination on their pact gave fresh courage to the friends (denier and tranquillity; and in consequence they ma& an ani.ek on the rioters, and took several of them prisoners. In the meanwhile, an express was sent off to Stockport, desiring that one of the three companies Lithe 3tst, which had marched ilori their quar ters at Macclesfield to Stockport, might be sent back to the former place, or else a company of the Cheshire Yeomanry Cavalry. many of whom are inhabitants of the place, might be dispatched to the assistance of their townsmen. Whilst this scene WAS transacting it. Macclesfield, it was said that bonfires had bee, lighted on ell that hills which surround it, and it was surmise I that these served as signals to the disaffected. he fast lighted was on Blakeney-hill; this was answered by similar fres on ail the hills, from thence op to Northern Laney, there it stooped ; but at another signal, fire-rockets were thrown up from it. Whe cher there was any meaning in these fires or not we are unable to, MY i but shortly after they appeared, the rioters rc.umed their P -