The National Register. — London, England, 1819-09-05 00:00:00

IP ES TMINST ER M EET I VG. -DP This ineitiog, the expectation of which had so mach et tiled the hopes, the fe %Maud the curiosity of the metropolis, for the last few dos, was heal ua rituo,day at New 1..41aCe. yard. With the prep:v.o ions on ilia pail of the civil aud military ate lootties we a ill out fatigue our readers: they were oil tae usual scale—troops of llorse Guards paraded shout near St. Gene: s ea-fields and the neighbouring roads; crowds of constables wire, wale , stood, in attendance at convenient p acts; and all the inhabitants were on the alert to preserve gam, order. This was the usual course ; but their was one thing which we were pleas.ii to observe oat of the tau ii maw which has been lately fol'owed at public meetings—there was no parade and.ver of the cis il or military power m the immediate vicinity of the itasenthaid wiltituile. The result instilled the conlitlenie hick teemed tea have been ieposed in the in:cations of those alai were to assemble. From the coin nencement to the conclusion, not the 'habitat breach of the public peace was indicated in an% way which we euuld obiervr. The 111e;.Mmag was annomeed Inc 14, the chair to be taken at one; but as early as half past 10 the crowd begun to assemble. At It o'clock the tarnhers in attendance were very considerable. and they continued to tocrease till three. At a liute after our, Sir grads Burdett. together with .Jr. Clubhouse, Mr. Clarke, la Middlesex), Major Cartwright, and a washer of marts Came upon the hustings, which views erected to Irma of the King's Anna-hotel. 0,1 the subject ,if the owithersassetahled the opinions were uumernue. Some said they caold tan he less than 30,000; othets reduced them to half tam ainuunt ; and °flaws na.iln calculated them as low as from 13 to twin Nolte iliblattaing lois vast atultituie, it. wall most graifyg sight to perceive the good order which no. ob• served throughost. As soon us Sir Francis Burdett made hit appearance, he was hailed with lie most enthusiastic plaudits. Similar marks of popular favour were also Itestowed upon Mr. Itohtouse, Major Cartwright, and Mr. Clark. Alter wait ing for a few minutes, until the tumult of applause had subsided, Sir Francis Burdett proceeded to adducts the Porting., Ile coinnicticed with ithsers ill:, that the High Bailin of Westmii star not having tionigia tit ta comp y it ith a requisition to cooveite this meeting, %hien a its 'Assented to hen, signed by II large witawr of it spectable householders of Westminster. and a itisout assigning any reason to du that which the Boa. Bartmet thought it was his that; to der, namely, to call, and preside at, tli is Sleetiug, he had; at the rerpoWition of 111 number of the Elect, , rs, c ollie forward 011 Sills most important, as well as ',armsful aid nielnochwly occasion, to 611 that situation..—( A pplause. ) ile hoped that he should perform the duty, so Miro. mat to the titulary at this tram int, i i a nuomer tt inch %meld entitle it to con sideration, and induce it to he followed all ova ri the United Kingdom, mo iv sliew those practically, who wish to sup press by stationer the VACS . of Englishmen, what are the real feelines of the country 0:1 the cause for a hitch they have so 1111 't , as well as their feel miss of intimation and abhorrence at those proceedings which have recently occurred at Man chester.—(lmmense applause.)—The difficulty ahirb he felt on this important °erosion was how to express himself here, and so mitigate nail subdue his own sentiments, a- to beep w itlimn due builley a bee ram i king of tab in trausactaats sal which th-v had m t tit express their feelings.— (Great applause.) The Boa. Baronet was about to proceed, a hen an interruption adore in consequence of the appear ance of some of the Smithfield Committee with wands in their hands, mid with them time of the Smithfield banners, nom ie, a ewe with. the mottos of " Peace aud Will." and " V a iversal Suffrage." They acre lire ceded by some music, and the crowd made way for the party. whirl, slat moiled itself nearly Mop scone lathe Hittainat. Tile lion. Baronet mice re resumed, and praceette , with out further iiiterroption, except what arose from the ap plause,' of the multitude. lie said the qmation was not now, whether this or that measure—ibis or that pi ineiple, be proper for consideration or adoption; the question was nut how. whether this or lb it part) he in power—it was, on the contrary, the great paramount basis on which all political questions must rest—the question front which no limiest Man of any political party can dissent, and a high, iudeeil, most unite all, a hawser be Bit it political bias, for it related to on other than this—namely, the great, paramount, and ini prescriptable right of the people of Englund to meet and express t heir opinions upon t lie political Slate of the countr). (Tremendous applause.)--'1 his was a question, in their view of which ak hogs and Tories, ns well as Itefoimers, mutt all unite and suppurt by one COIIIOIOII cumsrnt. Larry true Englishman mast now take his riana, and assert his iiidoubted right. alley were nit met to consider under what political 'mollification the liberties of the ((wary were to be secured amt protected; but it was whether that great essential principle °fell liberty was to be any longer satfeted to exist —a hetner the penile are any tango to have the might of disrussing ;what questions--that was the great principle they had met to a-sort, and it is one on a Melt Englishmen of very party a ill be ready to go bawl in hand, even to death, (Loud and confirmed npolause.) ti right nut only of Log bshineu, hut one inherent in loan —one antecedeht to all po instants n, and wh a h on political institution could justly deprive mankind. It atm to he discussed isbeiher Englishmen are any longer to meet according to law—whether the law than protect them in the exercise of Ibis undoubted right, against toe madness and violence of toeir enemies; %briber we are to submit lightly or arbi trarily to such a system —a system of law, or discretionary and arbitrary vialetice.—(Hear, Lear, and applause ).-- Ahliorrenee of the late pooeeeritol, ,, at Manchester would set a proper clamp e to the cuuatrc, and ensure true support aud co-operatioa ur every mail in toe country, of every honest Englishinan aka prefers a rutimial law that MUrrs his liberty.—(Loud shorts.)—Ever) luau who petters the dons'. Mon of law, MOM express his &halation of the priweeding at Manchester— man alio regards his own interest and brmur, must shrink from approt ing measiires of such a *attire, and must step furs ard and vindicate the lit.. rites of bis coaatry. If these things were done w ith impunity, they' would base to ask to breathe the as , to use our owl, l i mb.;, in consider the noses on outfaces to be our own, an 1 a twitter the people of England were tube allowed im she* them a sib out .he previous pesmimina of his 311 ( j. By 's Government 1 aLnitd laughter lied immense applause.) There were men a in thought the alectmes premature— w h i think there was not card. nee yet 'edam the eternity to enable it to judge of these prociechnp g there *as evidence enough : were hot the facts before theta 1.--( Loud cries of Yu 1) The facts a 'denied ev b: tae pat lit is arlininistratinn, a hicks, since inia are e• 14r... had tar bills to take me no their y~a.r .1.-. 4 TuE NATIONAL REGISTER. one end of the country to the other, the people should come forward, and with o ne voice Cocur fur a ehanite of Ade) li ll is tratiun.— (A It would have this eflhet —it would slew the ):real precedent and etemple to the people of Lisz t out of a disgraced and turned Ma l'u intrituous applause.) Their antes nod stupiely t ied to e lir out ground. , to jostify the al rest of Mr. II ont. That warrant of arrest was illegal. The arrest was juatifted on oath. too. These very wise defenders of Government have found out, that an oath I -what oath I—nn oath to a fact, to something that a man can swear to 1 No ! liw what did Cory think of all to u in ill's opinion 1 (Much litueliter.) Did any holy before ever hear of such an oath ? At that very mieueut. for any thing lie knew, some wiseacre might he reeking the same oath regarding him berme a perienage joie no a Ise as the Manchester Nlagistrates—Lord Sidruouth, the third Secretary of State, as lie was called, but, in fact, according te the it'd regret-, the Lieutenant of Police (leinehter and applause.) 5 nn. hod v, for ought he turn, ati.ht he sees., ring out his 011i , ,1t011, I his uu ci ing w i l h r thi n e, end in time conflagration of Westminster.—{Laughter.)—lcy possibility a most respectable witness might he swearing a similar oath before another sapient authority, a Citizen elezted no doubt for his wisdom. to fill the Civic Chair of loolon. (Laughter. If arrests were to follow opinions which find a place in other men's heeds, there was an end to liberty. Some wicked and foolish scribe in the Courier has insinuated as mach as that it was the int:titian of the military to assassinate Mr. Hunt at the Meeting in Manchester. (Cries of" Shame !") The Yeomanry of Man. cheater ought to wipe offend' an imputation from their character; :above all, let Englishmen bear in mind, that no real English soldier was implicated in these traneaetions, these cowardly pro ceedings (Continued shouts of applause.) Let them have the honour arm it he their • • •• • l .no...march* 'ellrettig or due liana men and women. He trusted these alan chester yeomanry would throw the foul libel back in the teeth of tie' Courier scribe. Whatever he the glory of the day let the yeomanry have it—it did not belong to the English soldier. who maintained his country's honour throughout the world—whose name all over Europe was synonimous with an unconquerable spirit of valour, and who was not more spoken of in his own country than in foreign climes foe his valour, his huntenity, generosity, and forbearance, when the foe no longer resisted.— (Lied shouts of applause.) He then proceeded to state that he thought Mr. Hunt on that trying occasion conducted himself with great propriety, he had battled and defeated, and eypesetl the alanchester Magistrates, and conducted hintse'l with wisdom and propriety. and lie was glad to give hint the tribute of applause foe the conduct he pursued. Mt. Richter then stepped forward and reed the Resotutions. Sir FRANCIS BURDE IT. Bert. M. P. in th.r. Chair. It ass resolved, 1. That by law and custom the People of this country have a right publicly to assemble. to petition the King *wieldier llouae of Parliament, or to discuss any public !salter, to tomtit:tin of any grievances. and to propose such lawful reme dies as to them may scent necessary. 11. That the late Meeting of the People at Manche ter, called to consider the propriety of adopting the most legal and efTee 'Mal means of attaining a Reform in the Commons House of Par • liament." was a lawful meeting. 3. That it appears to iv, that when the People were thus law fully assenibled, and peaceably performing a public duty, they were attacked by Yeomanry cavalry, Jailer the direction of local magistrate., and that some of them were killed. others were mu tilate!, and a still larger number miserably wounded and trampled upon. 4. That this outrage on the defenceless and peaceable people, against all law, met in deliance ofjinaice, is an attempt to destroy all the yet remaining I.iberties of Englishmen. 5. That this new mode (the only 011.1 of late resorted to) of' answering the well-grounded Complaints and Petitions of the People, is one of the many lamentable consequences of the 'louse of Commons being every thing but what it ought to be, a real Representation of the People. 6. That the liberties we still possess can only be preserved those we have lust restored-the peace, the conafort, the happiness of the People be ptinnoted and their property protected by making the Elective Franchise so equal, lillextencive, and so secure that it shall be impossible to corrupt the Electors ; and the duration of l'arliament so short, that it shall be the interest of the Represeritatiies to stet faithfully toward, his constituents. 7. That an Address to Royal Highness !tread Prince Regent, founded on the foregoing Resolutions, be now . Mr. Hohliotiar then read the followine Addrees:— .. To lets ROYAL HIOLINESS THE PIIINC,E RC.OEXT. The humble and dutiful Address of the Electors of West minster. assembled in New Palace-yard, oa 'Thursday, the day of September, 1819- .. We, the Electors of Wertminstsr, assembled in Palace-yard, in pursuance of public advertisement for that purpose duly made, beg leave to address your Royal Ilighness in language, such as we lioee it may become the citizens of a free state to seeeek, and the Chief alagisuate of a powerful, though oppressed people, to hear. We humbly represent to your Royal Highness, that the ac counts which we have received of the recent outrage at Manches ter, have impressed us, in common, we believe, with the great majority of our fellow countrymen, with feelings of shame, grief, and indignation ; and that we esteem it the more our duty to express those feelings on this mormattous occasion, because the approbation which the Ministers of your Royal Highness have bestowed on the same events, which have caused our regret and a , ann, has alluriled us an additional proof of a settled design and constant effort, not only to reject the petitions, but to silence the complaints of the people; unit either by better mit, or open vio lence, to contrive teat the voice of truth shall never reach the Throne. To defeat this unlawful project we inform your Royal High ness, that in the open day, in the face and by the command of throe appointed to presets. the puce, blood has been spilt—that the innocent have been condemned to solitary confinement, and the laws of England taus notoriously . infringed by a magistracy either ignorant of those laws, or agitated by false alarms, and inflamed by wilful ,tealcousies to a violation of their own duty, and the rights of their fellow subjects. We humbly represent to your Royal ugliness, that so long at the Commons liouse of Parliament shall nut speak the lan guage of the Commoas. the wishes and wants of the people of these rzalms can only be expressel in their peutions and temon strances adopted at their public meetings. • That such assemblies of the people for the representation of public grievances, and for the discussion of subjects connected with the good government and wellbeing of the state, have at all times been a part of the practice of the English nation, and have been esteemed not only legal and constitutional, but abso lately necessary to the preservation of public liberty, and to that due intercourse between the Crown and the people upon which the security of the one, and the protection of the outer, must equally depend. ** That upon such right of assemblage and interfarence on the part of the people, was formed and founded the title of your Royal Highness's illustrious house to the throne of these realms, and upon such right only. • Tout, notwithstanding the progress of corruption and the increase of Ministerial power, this right of assembling has been, up to this time, respected, and, together with trial by jury, bas hitherto prevented the total extinction of liberty. Taut the pretest of ill lathy which has been charged against the I .te mftering at !Slaneitester, insionuch as the said meeting . • . ,•,• s ti:p sneer I^tai and iflef:ClUill means of srrr. !s meetings of the people for the above purpose have been MOO I ruendeu and publicly approved bi more than one Minister of England, when tit tile head of his present Majesty's Councils. •• That we, thereto: e• can lead: upon the lateirilitary dispersion of, and military execution done upon, an aseetubly of the pouple at &lain:heater, called and met toi;ctiaer under the safeguard of known law, and established usage, in no other light than as a violation of the right and hinnies of a free people, which we submit to your "loyal Highness it would have wetter be rume your Royal Highness's Ministers to censure than to approve: and we moreoser state our sincere belief, that if such violation of law be suffered to pas into 4 precedent, the limited monarchy. which is time constitutional governnwttt of these realms, will be hereafter converted into a despotism, founded on We power, and maintained only by the power, of the sword. •• 'Chat we. therefore, esteem it our imperious duly, and that of all Englishmen, to remonstrate solamnlyagainst the establiati- I intuit of such a precedent; and we are willing to hope, that this. our Remonstrance, backed, as we trust it be, by the expressed sentimenu of oar countrymen in other pate of. Great Britain. will be a sufficient resistance to, and prevent the repetition of, the saiil wicked attempts to destroy the free constitution of these kingelemi. And we do also humbly recommend to. and entreat. your Boys! Highness to direcchis Majesty's Law Officers to pro secute the authors, actors, and abettors, of the late murders and cruel as auks committed at Manchester, that his Mkjesty's sub jects may, to their great satisfaction and the allaying of discon tents, find they are governed by a Prince who syanpathises with the feelings of his people, and considers their injuries his own. •We venture humbly to a.aure your !royal Highness, that although evil counsellors turd false friends map propose to your Royal ighness to coulile not in o:erifflctions of the people, but in that large army, now, as we think. unconstitutionally arrayed in time or vca;*; yet we, his Majesty's affl-ctionate but free-burn It; roman to apprehend, any more we sitOulti have patience to bear, the accession of a milker/ despot to the English throne; and we are confident that your Royal Highness would prefer the lawful and smile, though li utittd, dominion, over freemen, to the usurped and precanocs. though absolute, control of slaves. •• We size the occasion of the resent dutiful address, to con vey to your Ito, al flight:ads our sincere conviction, that no mili tary force will, filially. prevail over the people, or stifle their intreaties fur that due share in the control owes their own affeitu of which they have been gradually robbed by the borotigh-huld eri; and that a continued refusal on the part of these shameless usurpers .o grant any reform whatever, can end only in anarchy and blowdslied, and in a total destruction of the present RWllOl'l6Ol of these realms. We presume, then. being no less attached to your Royal Highness's illustrious house and person, than to the preservation of internal peace, and the recovery of our just rights and liberties, humbly and dutifully to entreat your Royal High ness, to take into your consideration the best means by which the Commons House may be so radically and effectually reformed, as totspeak toe true sense oldie people in Parliaments of a short dur:aion. and thereby to secure fur tuition, in perpetuity, that contented tranquillity at home, and that importance abroad. which can be obtained in no other war than by the full. free, and fair exercise of the acknowledged right of Englishmen to frame s eider in their own person, or by their representatives. those laws winch are to dispose of their properties and regulate their lives." The Rth resolution was then read, " That this address be pre sented to the Prince Regent by Sir F. Burdett. Ma,ior Cartwright, and John Cam Hobliouse, Kam." Air. Thelwall rose, amid spoke in his accustomed strain, fur a considerable pea iod of time. After the Resolution lead been put by the Chairman, it was caiiirti iinsi.imously in tlse sttirmaiite. The following Kt solutions- were then also put lad car ' ried : _ _ _ . . . 9. That it is the duty of every friend to Ida country to in rut-ming mime for those persons who have been illegallynraim cd, wounded, and imprisoned, in consequence of the meeting held on the 16th of last mcnth at Manchester. to afford such re lief as may be necessary to the sufferers and t.teir families, and to bring to That the perpetrators of the outrage. to. That a subscription be opened for the above purposes, and that a committee be appointe,l,.with power to add to their num bers. to carry the intentions of this meeting into effect. That Mr. Henry Brooks be the Treasurer. it. That the iiinduct of Henry Hans, Esq. in the recent stand he has made against the violation of the law in his own persori„ and co the behalf of his fellow su&rers, is such as commands the respect, and ought to receive the support of his countrymen. Mr. Hobhouse then addrewed the Meeting—he lauded the efforts recently made by the free part of the Press towards pro. curing general execration of the Manchester mirages, and proceeded by saying, year after year we have seen inroads made on the liberties of Englishimm. Innovation constantly takes place against the will of the people.—We cannot now say with the Poet— Will is the pride of England, in which 1 was born." . - . Laws are altered contrary to the will of the people, and no man, even at my age, can -ny he finds England as he knew R. Year after year you hive s iineihiniz done agenda tee rights of the people. The village reading room is even pro hibited, and nu opportuaity has beeu spared to bring dorm to mere clods the form and free intuits of En„disLimen—to confound the once free landlords and tenants of the soil with the live stuck upon the soil, making them steasigeis in their us n laud. (Laud arlauve.) All this h.. been dine In the fnee of an Esit,lis'i Parliament. The Seditious Meetings Bill at il the Reading Rooms Rill. gross attacks un English. L betty, w ere passed by 6.10 Eiro,latimesi, appointed to take care of the Rights of the People, and only 14 opposed it. At last the attempt has been made to destroy by a single blow the Ulll rrumining liberty of the pe.ple, namely, the right of titeetiii,; to dhieuss public matters, without se hirh right no countrs eau be free ! The most own:iota of the Roman tyrants was persuaded hr could um be safe uutil he abolished the meetings of the people. 'Tiberius abolished those meetings, and the II liiiirlatlS scy the pcople only mut muted against the Patrichnts, a ho received base bribes to connive at the violation of that most ancient liberty—The people here will nut suffer themselves to be deprived of that right !—( A loud cry of no, nn.) They a ill not bear oppres sant a Roma a murmur, and if your patricians, fotgetting tic it ancient and honourable tonnes, should Dot come for ward, still we or .11 hope you yourselves will do what En glishmen did before you.—(Loud applause nod cry of Ura lvo ) Come forward peaceably insisting un your rights, and the (I.id of Liberty w ill not give victory to the strong hut to the just. Ministeis have overlooked the llenrys of France and Edwards of Lit,:dietttl. They have forgot that a French monarch was an eitemy to the law regarding High 'icemen. (Loud applause.) We will hope our petition may reach the Royal ear, and that the stutiments it contains null not be lost. his Royal lliAtitiess the Pt iocis Regent will feel tlat it comes Rum his best friends and subjects; that it is Mantle advice from those who have nu interest in deceiving hire-- from those a ho wish to have a gaud government, and to obey it. Who will resist when it corm s in the shape of drawn sabres and Iciyoueis.—(Applante.) It has been said we are disposed for bloodshed. Why we comic to exprtsa hot roe against the shedding of blood, and to cast odium en those who ate the au hots Of it. To mark the proceetlirg tnni only to state, that the name of no i llosieious I •••• • • • ... , ~ I' r I l 11.111 (111 the twills tin. lilt Ito,- -;\