The National Register. — London, England, 1819-09-13 00:00:00

~~~ COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. Thursday a Meeting of this Conn was held at the Guildhall, iu conserpience of a Re irtoisition addressed to the Lord Mayor by several mem borallligf the Court, Mr the puroise of taking into consideration the proceedings of the Mancitcsier Ma ristrates, and the leornanry Cavalry, on the memorable occasion of the 16th of August. The deep interest which the anticipated ditetission had excited was evin ced by the unusually great number of pewit's who pressed for admission at a very early hour. The meet ing of the Court was fo:. Ig o'clock, but long bethre that tour the avenues to the Council-room were completely blocked up, mid when the doom opened t tit one•fourth of those in attendance could find room below the bar.— The reporters from the several Papers were, through the cit tiny of some of the officers, and the polite aural tion of a few of the members of the Court, admitted through a private door, and took their places in a part of the hall, which, thomth extremely unpleasant for see ing or hearing with advantage, was, under circum stances, the best that could be afforded. The Lord Mayor, Who came in his private carriage, entered the Cumicil-rnout a little after IV, and w a !hint time after, a nurntoer of Aldermen and Common ers, sufficient to form a Court wen. assembled. Tile LORD MAYOR' (alter the proceeduip of the last eriArt had been read, opened the inismesb of the day.— kin sitd, " Geniktuen, I bate called this Court ton. ther on the present °memo', in consequence of a Re quisition addressed to me by several members of the Cinirt. At the some time, Gentlemen, I must sat - , thit I have done so with onnsidorablereliactance, because I think, that where crimes, or alleged entries, have been• committed iii any part. of the country, Where they arc likely to he ititettigaied by a proper tribunal s before whom full evidence will be given, it would be prema ture and unnecessary to attempt to discuss them else. where. Iluwever, I have consented tirsaidllhe Court, lice:lose 1 ant eltt nays ready to bow to the call of its members, and I trust the Court wad consider it with t,mperance and mode-ration." The Requisition was then read by the proper officer, awer which, Mr. Alderman WAITHMAII rose, and proceeded to address the Court. Ile premised with reg retting that She question about to be brought before th e Court was to originate with him; it• might have been safely IA in other hands; hut as he had been desired by .chess, as competent as-himself, he should ended% our to ' Agouti his duty. Previously, however, to proceeding to the main question, he could coe course that hit been pursued by the Lord Mayor, End nn what had ;fallen Irons his Lordship as their Chairman. Instead of preceding the townies,: of the ti iy with comments of his own, his Lordship's duty was :a state what was the business fur which the Court hail been cons cued, and to abstain most carefully trout tak. .tig part in the discussion. ‘,llear/4—During the t knee or. lutit.rand-twenty years' political experience which he had had in that Court, he had never before seen the Cleo Magistrate presiding in. that Court, and whose duty was I , .erely that of a. Chairman, address the Xleetiiitt, coin. iiL imicating his decided opinion upon the subject about to be debated, previous to the discussion of it.—(Nlitch citecring.)—But he trusted that the Cots t would nut he it:rued aside Irmo its duty by any improper efforts, that it would maintain its own snailly.senuments, and that it would Dot permit itaiUdgeintnt to be warped by any in fluence whatever. He could not avoid thus fur adverting to what had fallen from the Chair; he would miss pro. eeed to the question befuse the Court--a , question on which there was a powerful. sympathy amongst all ranks of the people.. Aw it was a question of great lin partatice, it was necessary to discuss it under such a check as would prevent ill etnperance, which it world be bast to avoid upon all occashans. It was slot to ad vocate any 'testicular muse he come leeward. It was from Isis having joined - in the powerful sympathy that prevailed, anti in which those who signed the Heqiiisi- Sion agreed; wsympathy which sprung front a heeling tleata wound had , been iiiflicted on the Constitution.— it Loraine the duty of the People to make an appeal to the justieeof the country,. and to petition that an eloptiry should be made into thosr unequalled atrocities which hid taken place in :Manchester. It appeared from the accounts which had arrived, even to the Nlittisterial or gans, that the Meeting. had. been peaceably assembled sold conducted, that those thus assembled were dispersed ky the military, trampled upoo s .and that meh, women, and children, suffered from such promedings—pmeeed- Inas that were without parallel in our htstory.—(liear worieti, and children . , unable to eserape front those who attacked their hxL been destmyed. and were they not innocent of any offence,. Was there any pre. cedent for such a proceethogf he knew of. none, It was not necessary to give any opirhou. on the. necessity of calling hose meetings together, or enter into a &- r-owing of the objects they had in clew. His sentiments isti tins subject were well known. He hud deliterill il—m on many public occasions, sad had. always held that the cony gof them was not sounded in wisdom or policy, and NNW es he had differed front the object which was sought to be attained by them. but It was cwt rwerawy to go iato this. It was evident that when , the people were billeted, they had a tight to judge as to the waits of redress--ithit if they 'nought themselves astineved. they were aitinerised, unties the Constitu tion. of t h e comary, to Meet and discuss the nature of -those ini.araiicec, and to des lee the licit weans of reuse dypis War 1)--;Chis privileLe was enjoyed, inn owlet the li. h of iiLkis (which wily coutitiorti our lan varge to ~ , cuss a•ievalfees). Wig thither 11U: twin lie of toe (awl. It sea, um for any Nlagastrate, stanibua however luau, to dictate so the people how and n here they wrehr w liters. It weosullicietit tar hliU n, ac quialtul himself wt Js the tact that me people possaot.etl the right, and were 4;01 luxrsy to exerslbe if tie thought it necessary ,to put down those individuals. if lie Coll• aeited allow Auctmoga to be atteuded with great deo- THE NATIONAL REGISTER. per, there was a CoiliStitunelial modes)! atoning that oh yeett Why did not the Magistrates stand forward—why did not the people of rank turd property in the couturt sh p forth, and yolut out to a b use wdathlualstheir errors) Wity did nut they make 11>enlseltea acquaiiited with the nature of their complaints—why did they not point out to tritise who complained the right and proper re. niediet fur their evils, and the rational mode by which those remedies were IV he secured?—(Mitch citeeinig ) 11'the Nlanchester Meeting had been &Herein to w liar lie had described u—it it were illegally come-mi.—it it ' mid been turbo/tut/oily conducted—it violence and dis order had brew exhibited at it—even in that case, he contended, the conduct ill the Magistrates and soldiers was improper and - uueuitstitutional—t,Cont rimed cheers) lire b e was aweey ileVere Act on this subject—he meant the Riot Act—which allixed•the penalty . of death to in dividuals who Met twitter illegally, riotously, or tu multuously, and who, of due notice being totem, did not comply with die pros isions of that Act, and disperse. to their respective houses. Aftrr , a certain notice had been guru, they were liable to thepetialty of death tI if they -did uut separate. But no set iii men had it right to interfere wills, much less to disperse, those iisdividu els, until the WIWI of the law had been strictly attended to—(Hear,.bear, hear.) Tory ought to recollect a little, tile circumstance-a tinder which the Riot Act was passed to 171 a ; at shot owe, or immediately after, a rebellion winch had raged in Use country was-put down. Thal rebellion was not excited tor tite purpose of recovering lust rights; hut was occasioned by alb endeavour to place another Sovereign on tile throne, in the room of num who had been recognised ray tile great body of the people. Then, when there was a rettelltUis w the Colllttry—when were wa a Pretender to tile LlllollC—the Riot Act was passed, for the additional protection of itie existing Go,- vernitscist. That Act had, however, been considered by some of the best men In this cottony as a great stretch of authority, as au undue assisaimion w potter. It ceitainly gave power to Magistrates Willett it was UnSale to lodge ah RICO hands—a 'sulker so liable to Ana', that• howeter necessary it align& hate been when it•oreas enacted, or however necessary at a subsequent period— it was treated by mail of the best and wisest hien 111 the country as a nowt dangerous instrument. lie ilopte/Ate should not be cousidered as trespassing on the tune of the Court, it he referred Olean tot - tile directions laid down is. the Act. because theii:itidgeinents would be more properly guided by an appeal 141 theACI uarh, than. by any repieseimmon of his. Fur the tantalisation of the Magistrate , tins Act was printed at large amongst those statutes which weir tuteudsd fur the diem tom u 1 tae Corporation. ‘5 he timothy Alderman Lieu ream from the Rost sate, %Lich, 111 subsmoce, die urtd, that, w here an illegal, a tallith, and tumultuous iissernhly , Cons 4, Yr ta else or saute p. rams, Mel legelllei, use .stagistfati • were to go mimosas. the note 11, al as near to liteni ea possible, and pew icon statute, its Asa attitude tune, wail procliesiatiou was made to them to ilope.se—a Mt out hit -they ds sot comply witnia an huar, hal were to be taken Into custody, sad subject to punishment lac a capital teroify.) tie then proceeded to argue, tout it was c vidriit that hue intennuif of this Act was nut to 1111eritipt a.rdntJuaio w the eserci-e of any lemown Yr Cliablitatithint I iglit, but applied to inertlngs tit a tsrilisial ihatliption, via. Meetings ulrgalq 4:witched, ail %lieu called lupines', attialg riotuml) nod tumultuous's.— Ise this Act there vises 'mama sou made cat t lie w W tap y. ever neceinaly It Might b.., 111 souse Cases, a heir tile 11%es of the Ulagistrates were sit datager, to hoar wetting.. to line mi litary power, thcie was nut, tbraugliout the Act the slightest Janice of biome. Lt was tote cnrl mthurn), and goal Moot, that mint att. Ile neat mous:Adverted ma the charge wad: by the )ftifilatify totally at ine very nutmeat tom the Infs. Miss were on rutimaled, mid the prista.a slandlog its them had attriendertd, WM w thell was extolled by the Cieslotes tit the Munster, us a gnat atmleVeineut; and it wits tattiftinity Observed, that toe people were daintiest, because these one no Alderman Wallsitil4a present to Ilispise the people with contempt for tile Magna hwy. (fte..r, hear I) flee *unity Alderman then Amami to toe namtinsts at biulthbriti, w hien was suilefeu to twassouir and to separate w.t.nuut Molestation. —lf that were legal (.ad it bad been declared so by lie first law assimilative in trlr email)), 10.4 it Web asbeitibled at Alarichestsr, Ise contemn st, was emaaily so. Was their fit) the only use ahem toe people were suffered to meet to express astir grievances, sod acre tut 'tropic or alasiclitster tektite to be refused tow ps mire, to wisps they bud tau 11111:0111bled right, iu cummou won the 'eta en um Majesty ' s sistOrcie I.osS of them Could ...somber lit Cunitertiatenti winch prevailed, and tar impostame that was attached to Slut effeallislance ill a bliv,it ma" ring Sailed in a alai to St George's Fields; Abe) tenths an smut ,alit r the its sato engulf) Set afloat by thus great city warts a lilt w..• lust at tile Mae hi r /ranch, Bartlett was ctitiuubted tileuser. I fide. d tot all uccasioussit am. well MIMI pi Opely • nudism-red that the l i Loitotitutioli Calm , be as ',monist. w ammei, oar usagi ine ups lareaaluss tar injury as a blllll4ie oy the laws of outliners, however CSIIISIOVISiIIe I slnlt eSteal. he w ished that the itt•opie a mad Meet moder ine aeheral a agi.rat. - ) of the Country—wiser manta rtes Wet tan taiatral Is AlSealogiiit) had littpoillant alo I.wie d..litlet mimeo hag pearl'. 44 1.00 doll, for immure. could meet Ira t 000000 um, hail trotter tom 01011 Curpuraten, ter capers., hien tip 00000 MI L T some ugiiter at the NIALMOII his ear rood MR, ass's rcluml lit 11; oil it Laraaaas 11.010— UM was II 100 l lint shut ramp I lac peOpie,wisti.htld not Ille old at tine* mere consitlei ea tarsi superior., w tin lit Mg turintilutaa and lush its meeting In public, utter tar, had to vat.. ap l aied to toe ma s tic toes to cosiVelle assruu.l.rs hl the 11141..1 manlier, and had, alltiost as atom as they so arplitd,lllel Nita wrin6ag bbl abrupt 10 . 11,111 (Alm It - cheering W %ureter the people had met, they elm ditelt d themselves pe..Crolil., tinsts„,b la general a Runup the atteudence anti mamma of mow et ha lotuses ly attended timer inecliao.—(tasalaiied Chitsuy , ) delicate Nile Irillile pet Nita 111 YllmNlng lilt people la judge for Ihentativrs, total ail w subject Lei %shwa laity ought to he peculiar') :Vile W jung , namely, , tat made la aril II it new tat %mild :direct I tieus,llle) w. le null tientiAlit lo) their Libel bingisissites naveto sefar or illsteeillbl; to Consider sods a isohjeci, it eveu cultist. Is at lit git r tarn La lows la shelf I/1.11 Irpre selliallArS. it even tau au, tit - cation dial arise* r slut Nauss) ought I.fe Hsi %Milli) of such to la:.: l On chum eat hut twist %um salon tiff. latioyle 011 their oats nom ors fur Ihe cziavamont • thcir srwv.iifces ? Oa tat iiiishistrates, wla, oal J son, as lar) 011,M, legally 10 Cointehe the people tithrtilri, add tor toe Caleetilniellt, who appeared to encuarage tome inagisirai.s to Maw dating/Les sa toe way of die peoplc it hue earn'. SEPT. 15. mou ut their grievanves • —(t.rirsot • Hear%) 1., the rem,- lutinne which he had prepareu for li d s en'easlon, lie hai takettr he tinht anatomy. care Its avoid every thing ex trallelluS t.• the ;wee be quebriun, ev. ry Mug %shah could in the slightest degree. tem.' to create a violent or ibbassituatory lenliilg i.• the bream ut' any huurbt mho, whatever might be the Loboo m losopartsruhir palatial uptown... (ileofj titer') If gr.. Valle. i Jul es ~.l an••• 14 the people, nod if tor peuplo to their tootle ut *crime, ft•till'aii, 11/11•Loi/k tbe•puper be soloinittea to tue aria*. anti • aidaur ••1 . :or) holiest Mae. whether it would out be much ballet to t.wara, wailers by the operation ut tone, mid Int start veal tonal tUoeslo ttttt y conduct.—haven if Ike opinion of aura, let of bos set) aas that WWI of those griev.AnCl'S w ere lalagloieiry, and that ft: , such as were seal the people •had mistaken tile rented uevcribele•b it a u••ld better heroine ta• b a• in p„„„ t„ Laid tis people %Isom they thought were delu , eil, to utter their opiuiuusAs niilaur.v and romideraie 641) , r/wither. thaa to rbabperate the.. pubaints and outiage their G 4 .1111,7.7, b, °heeling limn with h,uth ity, and dispel:gni:, by violence. hat-Call I:lgen:base Slit etlet t tot hrtiagio n about the work ~ 1 pra.x., it 'liner could eller( good. Toe worthy. Aldei loan haring lead thewtisnY readutious which hr prop bed t•• co .elude with ttttt mpg, oho:reed, that he lath touitted to allude to the period w lien the Riot Act had bean read ;:t 31anchm-trr. Ile thought that of very little comparative intim' ranee at I his via lit ; for the intelnig, so far us it had guile, oppeatied by every ac•ouot to have been coliducted peace lily, Si) !bet torte appeared nu justiliration it all for readisig,that Act. It, however, tile hint At ta as lead at all, It niUst have been read lry tile Alagisletie at or near his own • dour; su that it man Mantling by could not hear a hat the Magistrate nag reams% ['rum his paper. but even if it had hero read us it ough , so as to have made the inert in„; sensible of a hut a as-coming on,,taill, hr cuoten•leti, there could be 110 justafiration fin what ills mriertmen Iy adopted tooards ll !rarely* toultitude.—(leaid and coot ao-d ciwerlng fol lowed the•conclusion of the Flom dleintacei rperch.)—lle than loosed tile folloss log Itysolultoits Rt:soLeED, 1. That, untie; the free principle* of the Oritish Constitunen, it is the unuoubted right:an Englishmen to assemble together for the purpose tit deliberating upon public grievanetw, as well as on the legal and constitutional ineansor obtaining redress. 2. feat, tut the tacit:nit tit this rigt.t, a Meeting was held at Manc:iester on the trim tit August last, and. witimusentering tufa the piracy or prudence et consening such assembly, it appears tO Us, prong the IL110f111:1116/11 has transpired, mat the said 31ee,ing was assembled; that its proceedings were con ducted in an orderly and peace:tide mariner ; and that the people composing it were taerctOre acting under the sanctioti at die lawn, anti entitled to ule.piotection tit t..e Magistrates. 3. That we hate, neveitheiess, lea tied wit.. grief and astonish. menu, that %hat tile Jleethig was so assembled, and wool no. act ul nut or tumult had taken place. the ,slagistrutel issued their warran ► IUI the apprehension ofcertam peranois then present, for the execution of widen, although no reu.tan.e was matte on the part of the ',fo r k. or thtsc againat wmui the Uitaitlit3 were name. they isediately resorted to the .aal •uf the Alll,tary; when. witiwut any previous warning of own intention. tile Man. cheater YlVlll7finfy Cavalry. suddenly rushing tor ward, opened a passage through the IllUilltUlit, ltuwualy a. t2CLIng, by force of arab., peaceabie and unutlentung CIUTVIIO, whereby great number; tat own, *omen s and Cllll4llllO, and even peace (dicers, were in illetifilhillately and wantonly lode over. Mid many inhumanly sillacti and billed. 4. That we ctrl ourselves called upon to express our tirongest indignation at these unprovoked and intemperate proceedings, white we cannot but view as highly ilisgraxtut to tne character of lingliainatii, and a daring vitilanuo ot tat liritult oonsutution. 5. Trott trout we known and uCCIATINI auacament ot uu Royal Highness the ennui: iteljelll to the communion Iwo the laws, we Jeer the most tiendetl couviction, that his Royal ilttimcus never could have Leto ILIOUCOU to tapreas hit appovat of the euiatuct of the abettors acrd perpetrator. tit those atrocities, had not his Royal curindence been abwied by interested ad,repreatiited state ments ot these ilieoal and fatal tranbactioni. 6. 'llan at a hone alien the gicat body of his Majesty's sub jects arc buffering under tile itvere.% privations, howevu el tuneuus way be their ideas as to we means of retlrtsa, a Lino and conti liaung attention to their complaint it equally called for by policy and justice; and that deprtting. them ot the weans ut expressing then grievances. by cruelty and despotism, can only tend to niertrebe the preatut thiamin:ma, destroy public confidence in the pure and equal atlininibt.tion ut justice. elute ditadection, and laid to BC4b tit open violence or secret revenge. 7. an order to avert these calairinies—to maintain the authwity ut the law—and to protect the lives and liberties of the subject—an humble and uutdul Address be presented by this Court to his Itutal highness the Prince Regent, praying his Ittqal Iliglincas will be graciously pleased to institute en ninne• diate and efltetual inquiry into time outrages that have been corn ' witted, and to cause the guilty perpetratotn thereof to be brought to signal and condign punishment. .11 tie resolutions vi vie seconded by Mr. lithermilie, and weue supported by Messrs. Buiiiste•ti, Patten, Southgate, Crooke, Taylor, &c. err. Aldermen- Sir W. Cnrlis,• Stholey, and Rothwell, Mesa's. Brown, Jacky,* Btauub• &c. uppubeil the rebolu liana. • - • Mr. Alderman Warll.man made a most animated reply, when a division took place, and there oppemerl—Eur the resulietions-- Aldermen, ; Commune. A, h 9-7 I. A gadi.t I hem —Aldr. ; Currinaurre r 39-IJ. 01 i I ID favour of the semlimons,26. • Each having, or having had. Govemincut Contractt.! MANCHESTER. THE FOLLOWING LETTER From a respectable gentleman in Manchester, to his friend in London, giving an account of what he saw of the proteedings of the 16th ult., is valuable both as continuing the accounts already published, and stating some particulars which we do not recollect to have before heard. 114.1111 K fir SEPTEMBER R. I WWI WWII Slur gloom, at slue Meeting, duos .rood oes the "Awes( pound us Wlll/1M111 1 . 11 1 .1 r 1 , a bulk 111 apt rear of th• hicausg., *hest I ruahl hi - as all lilt *raker., end ore toe WWI WI. swag vit. 1 is so Ili true lu are many of the pal - Ili I 5,,... Illy rnllll. It al nay ; Ihr, I rule in regular • r, aim 'mime, a, etse. nP• 1114%, MeV (WWI il/Cll, •od saleoc. When he a illslC ul ikr t••l4cla.l pastis• Warn the 1 . 1/111111) Nen souse ul, 111. it-414 , 411%r Min& acre colleried for Ilser. slllli 1.1..6•11 hate' all kiliC " Whirl' Was I vrel•ad welt t•cs• 1111 l hos•lsoss ul lauiu . s . l. hOUSNUdS • 11 Malik aria' U 5.140 ott. wartises ilso•re was a ulalr Is .1 W. V/011... 1w40.114. • Itlllr 11.1141.1110 " wad 41,0 1514)ra1, Ilk OW • 4 '11.••.e Ma. fitinn.t d.oul uummi, , I $.l the i.1u%%51 %t torn Hllllll 1.41• t) "'IV • • •.• •, a CIA •. - d.. ' The 1 1 11 . 1 aWin 551. . t,.i.,)N a. ; rally & pans' duo •