The National Register. — London, England, 1819-11-15 00:00:00

'.., C- litir Anti° at 2; toitittre 4 No. 229.—V0L. XII.] Voliticat Llettoopel THE late County Meetings, Tortance of their object, from the attendance, unequalled in sump talent, and in respectability by dents, constitute .an seta too suffered to pass hastily into Ali, whilst not only the causes from are in full operation, but also intended to counteract their benefit whilstlxlrruption is at work with energies, anti influence is coot where it cannot enforce conviction, up more of those notable doct. Declarations. Yes, the loyal invited to declare that acts of questionable, if we may not be the most atrocious kind, ought vestigated or punished ; and above the face of truth, a direct, palpable, falsehood, viz. "That the conduct Magistrates and Military of M. -to undergo an investigation before rals of the land," an assertion groundless, though we hope the • of England will yet male it fact the shameless character of meats of declaration constitut features of the times we live days, a plain, open, and manly opinion, alike suited to the and honour, was the grand feature fercoces and discussion, and the .• itself outnumbered in support ; argument, retired from the coal 4 the propriety of submitting weight of opinion arrayed against :l , eir individual sentiments might But now, with equal disregard ' those ancient rules of honour, Ilamlet of the country is ransacked signatures, " per fa: atone . against decisions fairly and publicly , and even thoac Whom any honourable formerly have:thought-scarcely such an imputation until cleared, we mean the very persons moving earth and heaven, and declarations against all enquiry Duke of Wellington and Lord . had the assurance to attach their extraordinary . productions, thotigh thesc.two gentlemen is not onl cabinet, necesssarily an object liamentary enquiry would most but reported and.believed to be at whose prosiing•instigation the the citizen soldiers of Manchester Ties was addressed, .with the Regent attached to IL A brother , untwists stipendiary magistrate, Mr. Hay, whose nanasulinks foremost In the list of that anomalous corps.:if the New Bayley at Manchester, whose suroniarrosethod of quelling tumult bef o re it has b een . b e g un , is the -direct object of investigation, stands also pensoiseot amidst the wise and lantortrable names done of the declarations We have often attended the House of Commons, where subjects of enquiry affecting the character or conduct of members has amen brought forward, and to the honour and credit enquiry upon the subject. And yet this amiable own, so disproesting all prejudication, has just before simply given to the public his wise ea grave decision, to w:iieli he boldly .ehallenges contradiction, that the " military were first assailed by the people, before any egort of,self.preservatisw was made on their part, said that the said military Cee were justided in .acting as they did." Wi t h t to the ehollenge of contradictiou wecan only ye .that toa reamer at Oldham sat till by was sicit of t _ fever, masa„ wr . nattily, has hitherto suffered only from the minis evils ore suspension of trade, the desertion of the . • upper etera, and the terrors inspired by the evil 5:,,tt 1 ....... r /,•‘••,, ladming Agit them and laying waste their vicinity ; ' ~,,.. , to their corujileative security the Agonies precatiti- ,j: • • ?" ens adopted seem I. have chiefly conduced . Cubes of 4..... ~•,..., fewer had rzeurted in great neither:, but they halt e-. N J , - , r latterly been watched with so math care, and the ,fi l r , - 1 -- f • .i. remeilica ao promptly applied. *lug very il:w teriai. . A t ie A.:l totted ffotalibi: 'The eaawmaigeatiewwith the neigh- • .v.. ),..... ./-. .. hot** towns was gaits mat alt .and ite eamlY:r ,; i.r_.,..4, v s .: of ini:gratitnu was abtissated at taw thitcl of the nNIC. '. ( 4 ........ porulstion. '•• . Our iling, fromititution attli it ab)4- 'N . _. _ MONDAY, hitiltEMBER 11, 1819. [Pews 94d. . _ . - roopect.. .of that body we - it, never we recollect en hearing evidence directly in the teeth of such a instance where the individual whose character or statement, and that the Jury themselves declared t, from the high ins- conduct was thus at stake, did not either feel it his their unanimous conviction that the meeting was the character of their bounden duty to s w, or at least forbear to " peaceable and tranquil until the military attacked -umbers, in rank, in vote upon such an o n . There is a fine and it." We beg pardon of our readers for noticing this by any former precc- chivalrous rpirit in te° memorable to be be lost, for it is the • • of society,whilst the oppo- versy, and throw some light upon the signatures of blivion, and especially site conduct, how it may be greeted as the re- the Norfolk Declaration, of which Me. E. Newton ox um which they arose solute attachment pasty in one, and an amiable is one. Our greatest sebject of sorrow and unfeigned to whilst the engines tribute to fraternal in the other, yet, in the regret is to ace the number of Clergymen whose snefits are in full play, old and honest 1 of Englishmen, would be smite names are appended to these Infamous and inhuman with all its arts and denominated nothi ,le ss than a gross and indecent documents. In times like these, when the interest ommanding obedience violation both of psi and private honour. 'luno- and prosperity of that establishment to which we tion, in order to trump cence never seeks went , to evade a charge belong, and in which is centered our hope and our :uments called Loyal ; }tit instead of meets he attribute of guilt and greatest glory, are so deeply staked , it grieves us , yal good people are shame. The pl teal understanding can compre- sincerely grieves us, to see the way ministers of bee of at least the most !tend this, that t •• , who.runs away, furnishes I gentle and peaceful,altars, the advocates of bloodshed e allowed to call them by the very set of gso a reason why we should and the enemies ofintpartial ju' • *They that t not to be either ia- p ursue hi m . The ... ! , - of England can read no take the swo rd shall - p erish by I .."," is a text shove all to declare in stronger argume • • fill propriety and necessity of we would gravely rectottunend to their sober ccani. demtion. We would implore them to•consider the pable, andunblushing that investi • -!. we seek and pray fur, , : duct of the Manchester than the means, dishonourable and di/graceful oecas on and the circumstances on which these words Manchester are about means , resor t e d t o ..„. . s c:it. It is, we are s wage were-uttered. To the magistrates also who have signed that document, we beg to prelim-the guess efore the legal tribe- pretended, that • 1 ° will necessarily , be held, tlon whether the rule and principle of justice they rtion as vet ilerfectly whenever Mr• sad his associates ore brought have thus sanctioned is that by which in their own be voice of the peOple to trial. •But it - no small share of effrontery sphere anti jurisdiction they mean themselves to 1 true hereafter. In in those, who •T • , ft loudly of the lineny td fuisloe? if it be, there is a crisis, an overused f these modern instru- justice, to pro.. i s Case w h ere i n the minis-. Indeed, anived. There is resolution already ist-all the paws-Inns of fin and•the berated !tee one of the worst ters o f the -C • in the first -place, upon the iiswarte of Englishmen, oral law, -vanished. BA i in. In our better stro - ngeit growl , - , ptive evidence. suspected Am mai still-hope and behests Indus things. Wa d .. nly eonflict.of honest of unconstit , • -4 s not to my criminal conduct, juive talked and conversed with PlauY of slime, and 4 4 that saintenance of freedom where the M -., .. Of him:Wow are inibaisaas r 4 14 11 rn 1 skager. gatisfastie. 44 1' 1461 g Arm bon led from party motives or (seas Feature of political ail- place liable to •- e charge, ,an t lady the Yen. t L imoca • a tsons.of worldly views and woe y the party which found manly, as ill- • ittg illegal 1111 , 60—ihat in is isei g . li e in an evil hour, their hands to t, and outreasoned by s case like tbk, ! ant shill not sok tallow ingda a ion, yet that their conseisnees neither .nor the struggle to made atest with &conviction for his own , • • hemade also the viteniesk 4 111r 1 " mseutry* . t they are quite as sensible m tee to the majority and victim of Lbw , fivesesity. Mr. Hunt may le ac i, to i v i si w al dell adecemia dastiliaaSks .. inst them, even though a fool and retie, vagabond, and his followers of those .0181 Oisciromejs_9ol repot ght remain unchanged. as silly and • , . you please, hut the trial of and that . ~ Pt 001 1 1 4011 115 10112 lir ruling compass ottleis Aselest 4 lbws, would the I b ot h of d ecency an d Mr. Hunt eat ne in any degree whatever settle world be c 1! I every corner, every the question of • ! persons being killed, wounded ......................... eked to get names and and trampled sabres and horses of the Alan- FEVER IN SPAIN. The arrinil4 if Friday from the South of Spain 'reps," to proclaim chester ear*. i gentleman °signing himself repeat, with few variations, thetuune meluucholy 'to. iblicly tried and made, Edmund Norton, no doubt a descendant of Sir counts we have latterly been secustotued to receive mourable man would Isaac, has in4oed, 4 a strain of admirable nonsense, from that qtwrter. It has been stated that the fever had appeared an board the Spanish Patriots * fit for society under Assured us t the hole question must hang upon one of the transports, whenlying -in the harbour of the trial of t. This absurd reasoning, was C a di z, an d that two of her seamen •bad died of it. honourably met and • „crocus implicated, are most sadden/6y mmed upat the Norfolk meeting That vessel is arrived in the Dowel, and advice!' id themselves* in a few .w . Harbord, viz. that " whether have been r caved (ruin on board which state, that ng signi Mr. Have ins . Wad us. condemned, the record the master, . tain Duren, fell a victim to the ma- y. .Foriestanee, I, klie lady on (he - iburtL day after leaving Cadiz. The uittal convistion could not even be ' --• ' • Palmerston haul bollv .411441eq nuniber of leek peons so Cadiz, awarding to the nee as.evid •• .upon any trial &she -questi on , o ffi c i a l returns. j ade on the 19th ult-,she date of the their names 0 those which we insist tto be the subject of enquiry." letters from thence, is 13,000. The deaths on the tough the inner of But it may gi epa .j apan of ;the s hif ts to 16th were 98 ;ea the 1'411,18 ; -on the 18th, 9/i; ly as a -member of,the which the d rtisaus of those hertrid trans- and on the 19th, 106. The setting iu of the rainy season was most anxiously looked for, as the only whose conduct a par- actions are seaucetir to 0 , blerve tlio great math of effectuel check to the disorder. The letters from at materially concern. reason, *is secant biewton, gravely asatteing his Seville are dated ou the 20th ; and though they de le the very individual readers that if.aggrliamentary enquiry be instku- , not present the Mille picture of devastation us the c T the letter of thanks to toted and-the aseeVng should he found riotous, that i Cadiz &woones, are sushi iently alarming. he , population of Selville is nearly double that of Cadia, ster fur their batches issaay psejudion tills public mind againsi Mr. Mini, crowded ni, en d is into a space name of the Prises andahat dignifies:this sprig of Patriotism thinks it ' the tiwer, therefore, if once diffused throughout the alter of that nongieue premature wad impteper to hold any meeting or any mass. would prove still more fatal. Seville, fortes. . - - • A nateiv. tint hithartn mifildaprl maw tom ti... ....:........ J • . iri • P A P°.° 9'7