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• , • A f• .444, • 1 . .1% - u - ttP riattonat Likrto _AP _ ._ /z L , --' _ * • as r, Ititt, r iJ oitattutt• No. 232.—V0L. XII.] SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1819. itetrospect. that it is a sore suYect, about which the less that is said the better. This silence might also be meant as a significant intimation to the Ministerial party, that it was a topic to be kept oul, of sight of Par. Bement, and that no investigation, which it was possible to ward off, should be admitted. This, however, was a hopelest view. The Blood of Eng lishraten rant even yet be spilt without enquiry. It was said by the friends of Government, that they possessed information which it would, till Parliament met, be premature to disclose, and that the magistrates of Manchester were equally ready to prove their justification. Now what has been really done towards this? Why, his Majesty's Ministers have protested in the first As the Legislature is now assembled, and assent tied upon a crisis so extraordinary sad important, it is natural that the eyes and intention of the coun try should be directed to their proceedings with no ordinary degree of earnestness and anxiety. The Speech upon the opening of the Session was filled with nothing but tepicsof lamentation and mourn ing and wee. Discontent and Sedition. and Bias phemy, and fluctuation in the Revenue, formed the grand czpote prepared and submitted to Parliament by the Ministers of the Crown of the actual state of the.eountry. Now we can only observe upon such astatement in liming, that if there be any one means of ; government more unexceptionable and in. telligiblethan another, it is that " Every administra tion or .set •of rulers, be (hey who they may, are answerable, strictly and unqualifiedly answerable . for the con/Lion both external and internal of the country they presume to govern." You may say -this measure is good, and that is bad, but if the ge. ncral result of the whole body of our national counsels be productive only of national calamity -and universal suffering, where is the man that can be so wanting to common sense and to . public justice as not declare the Government, we mean that ad ministration, to be a bad one. A large part of the community are equally unfitted and indisposed to trouble themselves with questions of public policy, and an implicit belief in the authority of those to whom the management of our public interests is . -committed, is thought to be, by many more, the sole and great criterion of English loyalty. But we may now appeal even to Ministers themselves for a judgment on the fruits of their own adminis tration. All charges of calumny and detraction and Callous opposition are now at once wiped away. Those who were attached to Ministers and unwil ling to believes single wort of the evilsilfat exist amongst us may now refer, not to Lord Grey and Mr. Tierney, Io Mr. Brougham and Mr. Waith man, but to those unquestionable sources of truth and veracity, to Lord Liverpool and Mr. Vansittart, sto Lord Castlereagh and Mr. Canning It was loudly ohjected to the Whigs that in one short year of power, with a war, which they had -uniformly op posed, raging, with a weight of taxation which they had never acquiesced in imposing, but now become indispensably necessary to meet the common expen diture with obligations left by their predecessors, which the public faith pledged and compelled them -to discharge ; they had done but little for the pub- . Ire goad. What have those men done -in the same cause during a course of so many years as they have been now in power, and with every opportunity, every facility, every enjoyment of Parliamentary support which the most meritorious could claim, or the mostimbecile pray fur? If these men can 34-t retain the reins of that .power which they have thus used, and the guidance of that chariot which. Upon their own chewing, is every moment in peril of being dashed to atoms, at least let us hear no more of the daager of unsettling the public mind. and loosening the bonds of obedience due to rulers. But what *tikes us as the most extraordinary part of the open lug of the present Session is, that the Parliament, las been expressly and notoriously convened in con sequence of the Manchester transactions ; yet that 'this great, and we may safely assert, sole cause of its assembling is not even once mentioned as a subject ed . consideration, or even hinted ut in the Speech of the Prince Begent. The comment can be but this, place against all enquiry by Parliament—in the next place they have in lieu of it printed and dis- tributed to the .Mlewbera• of the Magistrates, both previous to and soon after the IGth of August, but without any instructions, and without one single donee on the other aide, and without oporturiityorits being offered,. Lord has made his own statements to the _.-' • • pr o _'NW • ' r 7 , U. 11.<.:, :4.Y , • 4nret, , [PRICE Sid.. ranged together on a political question, voted tisr enquiry, and amongst those who did not, there were several who merely abstained, from the motive that other opportunities woul.l arise of chewing their sense upon it, without mixing it with oppposition to the Address. A motion has „ken made in each. 'House ifi.c an inquiry into the Manchester business, and into the present state of the nation. It would natu rally enough be thought by the small number of those that place any reliance whatever in the pro testations of Ministers, that this was what they wished, but it is no such thing--they everted them selves to the utmost (and, we regret to say, suers's fully) 6, obtain oblivion for the past—they have introdattail several Bills for the purpose of puttiv, down Itlifitribey call sedition, but which is, in fact, only a spirit of discontent arising from their mal- The only one part of these Bills tax upon atougii , ot: s to tg mono, and 'Lord Sidi:moth to the House of ' but it is quite clear, as Lord Nugent Ws. j observed, with what degree of regard staritAtvidenoa as this is to be received, which in only hear-say and not evidence in nest, comes from persons actually ton and participators in the guilt, the statement of Lord Stanley, who, the grand-jury at Lancaster, and Lieutenant of the County might pied to give an accurate and impartial His Lordship in a speech ofgreat-tandour sense, did indeed exert every sentiment friendship could dictate, and every could su ,, *reet, that the case had been both against soldiers land magistrates, atcount he had himself received of But with a •cnse of justice paramoui consideration he voted fur an enqi foreman of that grand-jury which at Lancaster, now votes for Parliament gation, in the House of Commons, - _ respect to his statement of the occurrences, which Lord Castlereagh had greeted as a final-and completo triumph, he avowed that it was a statement fur nished by the Yeomanry themselves. If we had now time for the discussion, we could show from the letters even of the magistrates of Manchester, that it was both their previous intention to arrest Mr- Huntin the very midst of the meeting, and is em ploy, in the first instance, the military for that pur pose. On these points, then at least, every Irian must allow the first to be highly imprudent as well as unnecessary, and the second a direct vidittirea of the law and constitution, as nothing buisTiositive resistance could ever render suc h a meaauea j ust ir ia . blc. Englishmen may do wrong, but the sword it' ucitherthe remedy, nor the punishment siriiuted for their mistloings. Mr. Hay admits Vat the Riot Act was only read " in the mean time," whilst the military were arresting Hunt and iris associates on the husting,s. The House of Commons has, however, voted in a very considerable majority against Mr. Tierney's amendment, but the Question will not rust there. Other means of yet eliciting investigation .are not thereby excluded. One hen• tired and fifty of those, whose names and characters a re nual, if not superior . , to any similar number ever •• ; • . men might thew-lett empetvene disprit,44, et thisr sigensblea, sad of lavisk 1 "lhe corps of the Mancbeste , Yeomanry, together with the regiment of Cheshire Yeomanry, sod a hod of die 15:h Hussars, botlrof which kid by this tint: contention the 4 cid, did then charge npun the people in all din Mien., and to * pia* * " leering great destance4notathe "leeng in consequence of which-sight persons have nom and not less Owns 400 oe-400 'or Mb litsuostyllt 000 selfering object* including aft ages, from OS men and women of TS to young heiyinad girt of id, were gricvusily crushed, tram pledapnw, bruised, maimed. or sabred. " That your petitioners widerstand and believe, and, in. deed sulik) of them arc, by personal observation, enabled Natively to mart, that no act whatever, giving to incarnating the chlracter of a hinuanuons and pintoes awn. isly, bad, at ibeireerodofthis violent incursion Oftire cavalry. been committed. . " -That *Miffing Me right of the Magistrates, in Mit ezereise of their hest ifisrortluss, to make pruchnoutitut, corrootanding ithelltortiog to 41Opei.o, your petiliourrs are induce be believe, that at the tarring of the 16 it it August, an such pm, I .nintiun was made ; because they staderstasid„ that at none of the inquests held an the bodies of the pennon 'oke lest their lives upon the 0CC1411114 wan any pied of di being made given, and because Deither themselves nur hay potion antis wheat they have coaversed again the sattlete ever heard it.' Oa the arrival of the Cashmere goata at Mar. eines, in April last, these annuals avers afflicted with a disease which carried oft ten or a Fortunately,at this moment, our eyer-to countryman, the lute Loud Somerville, - - - the Board of Agriculture, passed through partmeut of the Mouths of the Rhone; Litt, surgeon, Mr. Timewell, staid parpowly thr sad had interviews with the Prefect, and used a plan of treatment which e&ctii:* the diswse, or this inuneuse aptmdatiott ultimately gia.a. a:.a..5..~r 74 • • 'AA. , , .1 am o f d ir k own that is tolerable is that which imposes a tax upon Oe atom of eri- the publicogons Which *axe been properly enougk out affording any termed y Traits r this is what ought to Lcwti Castlereagh 'have . eleug it io is a rrachely 4to wlsa th t e ast ßi ch il m ith udna en i migh 'g t le House of Com- P ublic al. ~ House e t Lords ; ,he ex originate. If any strangerto theperish : in justly be in such.. ' tin , . a magistrate will he empensenil .. t. igent moss warder hint l) depart, and t in half an hour &VMS. and stach*videnee the fil. owe i s greeti n g . Ii easy wdlk - en'jklend one ef tWre chief, in tte awn mY j ~ s •• ' into the timid se assembled, and , . . ' ,on stint a charged at obey: ' MOll 4 lA rsee i• •. • 8" IMVII II But thee coma Inertihat mai take 1 as • ' ho, as fora min a( eomillaints that:would otherwile be made of Luria d son to the Lord .. expentTrture aid improvident extravagance. %V* course shall pursue this s subject hereafter ; ix the meantime* p- of be su we should lx very glad to see a Call of the partial statement. tandour and good house. An arakerrenee that is new fearfedry sentiment which anticipated would sender a new ek•ctioo newsier? ; and the people oft ?to know these who are traitors hope tha t ch a rit y to their trust, , these who honestly digAterge been exaggerated their duty ao ' tstuents. am, and gave the 1 the transactions. , • ~: NCIIESTER. • . ~ ..r: • 1 punt to every other '.... k o • 7..- an extract from the petition of inquiry ; yes, the ~ ~. • • ~ , ufacturcts, and otbess, Tuba. i ignored the Bills bi ( gf ' .. the House of Commons, go ; ' shed in t i Goose wt . Saturday. amentary investi- After describing t of litqw t it thus pro- , and with respect ceeds : ______ dozen dolly. be-larnettted President of , 4 4.; h the de.l, a • ) 4 ; hint and ltia r three day. .•:‘• and they de A tally stnri,, . hay I • NaP Via, Ck die -47,64 • . 44 . 0 . •. • • • •