The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1821-05-16 00:00:00

_ • 'r :~ ; I" ~~ S . 'MO dB! Now, lAA* - tte stateliesa pit ler* h the Pe lages amid have say oilier object thaa Ass of loleatisi sad twit as on the petite sled. If the to smack its ladituatiets et Mee; ~eon& sod emit sopandeso ele the character. of the arsenide person at . forded is oar Coq% of Jessie*; be ebostill k ibekeibft. ',mthe mods. Sir* il MIL retitle. befog leb esile ATTORNIMGENBILAL Wipes* surp,pd *do . bassi mire 16, risfee. ell Judges why were la Owed what sad awned that the tildes et ..'lt ' , l .• .5 AT. suit Lift osioradeßh t.wtlht=4 , l 2 l . , I.6 4lialits r ales .1 41 1 741t 14 111 , . theetti o r/s - e - M to ~.. irmis b=sd a rreodelikiald Wm 'emislied , willimmello thole, *ad *high they . . • ,mg* ei Mr sulky. ',-, ' bevisialiiiiilli,Millehil. if the Peiiii•• bad 'lowa fast* heillidold have felt it so be theaduty of .• w illititt adrikiiire into the truth of obi Ale. '.•• theyirefeehld It ; but es It was Illkd with Hoe' .• . . Me Petilionri, that the Jokes knew. she poi to . imilmlNiteedthod it, yrbereas it was proved that it was go. ' oi ot ==thltid is have bees well-repolsoird. is his opicion •iitt allowed to . tie opus the table. Five week. blelebpaisedathre• the Resolsitios of the House for as iegoiry . . Of the gaol on the "Iloilo, of his Hun. Friend, Ilishalter fur the City of Loath:so, slid nothing hid so yet Ei'mbeter ti by Ministers I. the Mullane. nt 111111041101.1C1 TO R. 6 EN Eli A L said, the Commisaion wee '=6,4llive Sr eht days after the Resoledwoof the House edopeed, esti he believed so .emu awry delay bad •seellethill • to DAddIISHINSTITti 4141 d, the Commiasiosere were set vigle Nwewallowa. V , , o ; MlabllgLeCl FOR-ON/ARAL said. they were not gone, • . eerteisip him Mtge dr t i N waa ereeswary to appoint them, • Jitheldell wilemsolo their w goers to nodertake the Alley. oni 411011: Wit.it)N mid,. the Irlioe of the Hoe., seemed % iiidlediwAloitim the P.iitiok he was +ahem to withdraw it...- . eirrearaj% 14, ate.") , a . ✓- *We ammitios was the ,pits that it du lie opus the table, billebasentiveld Mitoses a ifieuntivirt vide,. is * Aro HONK then 'leavened Gee Petitions from penman . •vemosided es the 15.1. of Atigint, 1819: The widow of Artois. -111FtNeelr, whose beshawir iiii•il • short lime after of his foossibie; Mary Anne hi‘,Kenosa, who ass knocked down .. raid tetropled um, and evalfried six weeks in the hospital is allesoleopmeiee; Juan Ceisiolvell, wounded with a sabre is webaushodldre I Jibs Thliespeo, eat with a sabre across the .. but I, hod weather, whose name we could not eottrrt. •' t i •101111101111111NOTON 'presented • similar Petition from a .211lieweseioNiese nom. widid out hear. He thought him very vilbeettleste, dm *bones Dawes had hero muttered, be had ..1111111ildwil 4sio aboadrier tot • r t Moue' ; sod while others had Weifirewmils hero imprisoned, by. itelhowowlived et large, he olirayeat,dsswevae, Cie jmolier pa thrrowelmes and perpetrators rot the owlesie. It Irmo Me dimly to No•ehrosp thalamus of - ,preesh9iMe the Pelitioo. bart.ho hod molt the smoked' Imp yvif kierpsfickati any effect, bearer Ihriftwitimm petesited itiffileleiMeor rerlimmest os the esumwsbort, hot lemilliet" I ffee.4o/Miefer. had hero treated with oroiliery, sod bad hero r-900111111101 with derbies. 4 I. .. Thsoforegotise PeMliqnse Were oreedbily ordered to he primed. Mr. bidIIBTON preasold a Petitiodilhemermsel Jails. , 7.90, who oda Shot. Iv omeasepsesco alfeselinit , received in the knee, be has bees rendered onside les work Aare, e sii•Pße*allaNka **ger Petitiss from JeAtillimbew, whose adodiholidlootirsroe leredmia ; soother roma. Sob* Smith, whose 10406 9 1 1 1 ,1 1/91 WIN by • esiwe • sad anseher frees Oweu Ma .l•o44%.artayard Him hiessimi woes/meetly embed and all •••-• „iota sibs is esseepepeeof *bids he has beer smile ' 1 4,1f cent Ihitiedsintod,„ led will remain es to the cad of his life. v. Th•T-votaA4ll ordered tube printed. , Me. WHARTON presented a similar Petition dreg, Mk . other salon.—Orden e d le he printed. , 4... 4 , . Ma W. QE CIILSPIONY preeested similar FaliNemse ~ lists toot ma'am ow that ilisastriss occasion Chidtehiems sl lom,pit Brace, who woe stabbed with a sabre is the hod*, "Rind barely sowed hits life by' kepis( into a cellar. The ..,;weber. "gest/9qm fiermaa of the names of Brine James toe • c iaipd Joky. Resedis, whit all received seem woos:I& .. 40 be eik. tiaLleeselelded a ITatilitee of the same doserip. C . OW * . egveja. telliellhallinei be Paid cot k•/w, wad is 4110 1 . _ . 41111A,011.1opeartemity of saying, that he, fully s ome 11044 km people bo,olesusesisatios the pnseeeldiags ..00 MsteetteekevA,lemermere. The Home was, therefore, called loom fur !hi sok* or Imiessoity. hog still move fur the sake or .40.1ka. loOmetitola so imosidiese ionoiry. He presented & 4, - .ollndiar PAikiim km James Oak. who Mated. that hs was •,Jp.rweedby the,panassory, soil harlot; jumped from a wall, litscip,,,soidibed on the (mood is the eye by the sabre of a pciaiss.—Ordered to be printed. oT • - Sielffasitut•ts Butwere then role. He said, that 7airfier •efie ierioes - Petitions which had been present "*d to that House, amongst which he had intended resealed one himself which he had left be fid,,werter the incontrovertible statements they ,r e uesetoissad t sad. the nnuffected but affecting manner !lOW goileasees of the people were laid before them, .tiniedifflidietihey lied been to discuss what he he. Zildeveff,gise a mutter of the first importance to the ,1 1 4101 Art. difinwlY, the necereity of a iteform in that Alouse, sad toile was still et a-loos to know to *horn 4 to impute the blame of the transactions that then hecuifed, he then rose is propose as inquiry. Whether the Ministers, or the Megietratee, or the so ry who so dist iogniabed themselves ou that .Jultiortemite occasion, were culpable, or whether all Mire tiVbfeme, end god knows there was sufficient t >Fde all, ttelreustitt ft a lose to •know, but he be. eved, least the 'House would num with him hat aqmeAqquiry was wocessery. The question mhatreor way it was regovited, whether as eSilldetiage hoppineas and severity of the people, the •dirsisy, and he would say the security of the 'Kllik or constitution of the country, wes s gfri agree of *pas:tepee Oat made him feel te should ohi'ain much more credit fur his seal .• •shea hi* ability in conducting s case of swell msg . anemic file should, however, do all that he could 'w•ur ludweethe' House to institute an inquiry, Which - itiials"disvlice to the country hod never as yet . "niati,pluce. is doing this he should feel it neves . A mity to refer to whet occurred ow former-occasions, 1 , -,smd to viesodvertasts whet had fallen from various elMessistri,' Mid some that there was no I,3ll6dritT of "I•hisiPlaiiit—othi rv. that the complaints ~,Ind'ititereeeta were wholly without fooodation— of.4.cnisers. although they admitted their eiustenee, yetjoetified ilsese by the eitigeocies at the eircum. , • talseee. •He -remembered that a Noble Lord, the AftdisbeiVfor Latteaahire (Lord Steriley), said, that the soldime were first attacked, and that it was not i mage! after Shay bed, been ear..ikd by 'brick-ha -to, —ldeal obey tamed rowed (that was the erpreimorr). * late eft. , erieustlit levee inflicted. The respect he - "ftlVfiletteitt Mibte Lord Made him hope that he s '7llitiiif4 be glad of the opportunity that was then or !: ipreied . •bius of .contradicting. tits atetemeote which Ale thee meek, but which-hid boa *nor proved • lope to be' hooded its feet. - .'He.:oles teelmencing • itthe present qtreetion•under eireamitasieti fat tensely '!delicate and txtraordonery, and be begged to guard *emelt against the suppositioe that he meant any *theme pisemed •in the elseenatioiss w shoed Rel 7eatled -epos it pier • tud "log the . be ibealCbtfs2Likitte d n , irtebe meant the i te>ll Ml=sded _in ' $ 91 I , E. 7 , ( , be ii l f i • • • r •;; •• . •K ,tot V .••a.r rd., ...A .144.40.4, ~' !~ 4 ki . r~ • ‘ 4.4 • f. .ti I .. '!`~'~q were the soldiers attacked, but actually unlioree& He begged to say that he did not meets to impute to him any disposition wilfully to mislead the • Haase by stating falsehoods—he should be the store anxious to abstain from any harsh observe-' tin" in consequence of certain eircethstanees, which, perhaps, he (the Solicitor-General) might not recollect, bat which he (Sir F. Borden) never should forget ; but he belonged to a profession who were in the habit of tusking the_most of their case. " Da us a Viruses" was their peculiar motto. — Having thus stated, in the order they occurred, the different statements u they were Heide, he next came, in .the due course of the climax ' to the Noble Lord opposite (the Marquis of Landes derry), who in the regions of fancy and insagivation soared far above his compeers. Nut only had his statements been since proved unfoundre in fact, but so far from being even exaggerations they were total and entire fabrications. Hr staled that .there was gm interference on the start of the ,geilintry; that 'the people awned the yeomanry synth stones and sticks, and even fire-arms. bat Viet none were used by the military against the ple. The Noble Lord had said that the great est caution bad been taken the day previous to the meeting, to remove from the place all the stones sad other things that could do mischief, yet notwith. ittiseding all this attention, ■ shower of stones was *wet] upon the ueoffending heads of the military, pad the day after a waggon load of stones was fisund.—(Hear, Attar./—The Noble Lord stated that the people brought the doors in their pocket', but even if they had done so, the multitude wits wedged in so closets that it was quite impossible they could have used their hands. There was a net of philosophers who thought the moon was full Alf stases ; this he thought quite as possible as that telgeir should be found in the pockets of the people hear)—But the Noble Lord going one Ole!) higher, stated, that so eidisposed were the Magistrates to interfere, that one read the Rint Act, another rushed like a second Decino to save his country amongst the populace, and was trampled to the ground.—(Hear, hear, hear.) — Hut the Noble Lord's Magistrates grow like Fal stajf's buckram-men ; a third, he said, actually gut to the hating's. and there he read the Riot Act in a tone of voice that must have been audible to every man at the meeting. All these statements had since been proved to be false. Courts of J ea lice, which are nut in the habit of receiving us gospel the assertions of Minis era, which that House was too much disposed to do, arid, therefore. not so easily misled from the paths of truth, land since proved these i statsineuta to be unfounded. They were provali.At t hia ifelse by the inset dis interested witnesses—patens who had no cons feelings with ally of the parties-.witnesses, libel, as unobjectionable es ever yet had beeM produced. If any man were to reed the evi. deuce produced on the trial at York, there is not olio single individual, except Mr. Honor, that does am speak of the peaceable demeanour of the people. Oh ! indeed he believed there were two more, there *es a Mr. Twyell, end acme other, ell Gentlemen, too. But even Mr. Hutton, the Chair man of the Magistrates, beanuie no one else would take the office, bad eat stated whether it was by his command the attack was commenced, and to this day the public 'vete ignorant whether this brutal attack of the yeomaury was the effect of their own animosity, heated by drink, or whether they acted under some higher authority. It is circumstance as notorious as the sun at noon day not one of his brother Magistrates, not even Mr. Nadi'', nor the Rev. Mr. Hay. who had been in constant communication with the King's Ministers before as well as after the meeting, supported the statement, and the only conclusion they could draw was, that Mr. Hultou's senses were formed i.nielferensly frame the rest of mankind. Whether that -Meeting were legal or not, and he contended it was, there could oat be the slightest justification fur ',its violent dispersion.—/Heur, hear.)—He there- Tore hoped the House would go along with him .is demanding an inquiry, that they might ascertain .rolsere the blame should be laid. It was well known to the Ministers a long time previous to the meet ing, that certain) proceedings were going forward, they were acquainted with the banners, they were aware of the drilling and training, yet they never gave the slightest hint fur interference.—(Hear.) — it appeared from a paper on the table, on the statement of an officer well known u oder the old Government of France, and lately under the new Government of England, the " Lieutenant of Po kes" (for the Magistrates have been always in illiss habit of presuming ugaiiist the people)—that they saw the prospect of disturbance—that they mere in fact alarmed—yet sieve, attempted to niter- Tere. The next authority on this subject was Mr. Spooner of Birmingham', who stared,that Ike meeting •ito elect •legislatorial attorney was illegal. It might be extremely ridiculous, but he saw no more berm in electing a legislatorial attorney than a Mayor of Garratt.—(4 haugh.)--its a letter from that gesitle- Man to Lord Sidinouth, it appeared that the coo -1 duet of the people was peaceable sod orderly, ul though lie entertathed souse epprelieuriuns respect lag the meeting. But this ineeliog was considered 'the amet objectionable of all those that were held throughout the country, although it took place after various others that occurred in the metropolis, under the eye of the Minister.. When the Smithfield meeting was held, the then Lord Mayor of London entertained similar fills* ea the Birmiugluito trates s ind applied tothe mine nuthurity soothe " Lieu tosusaimiPoirear bat Lord Sid mon t h, who consulted thrlAvr eaves if the efeaterl. did not thiok it right teriatattme; but nothing could mark more strongly thitAlittelition of the people. than when Mr. Har. MOM Was trims away by a warrant. and Mr. Hunt at hiaside, nut our even doubted the authority by which it was dime—so that if it were the inteutiois of Ministers to irritate the good feelings of the people, they were theu disappointed. sod in his mill he believed it was their iuteatiou. Emis saries were sent onsorsgst the peOple. fisurl. bills were circulates', , "one in patikolar. " Go it, Iv says I" atai • Oat lufamous ihirecter, . r Fs. •,„ • sou to have gone 'appeared In Nadin was walking ; yet the whole transaction wee:41111111i11C — OPen this, that Nadin could not serve a eramiot without the assist ance of the military; yet not even this had he dared to swear on the trial at York. There was the evidence or Mr. Saxton, who stated that one of the yeomanry said, " There is that villain, Saxton, run hint through."—" No," replied the other, " I should rather leave that to you;" and ac cordingly he dad make a throat at him—(Heor)— and yet this man was suffered to escape.—(Hear.) What does the law of England say on this subject ? It says, that even in taking a delinquent you are not to use violence that would endanger his life, unless there was no other mode left, and this, too, in a case where, if taken, his life would he the for feit of the crime. Such is the law of England, founded on the law of God, handed down to us in that sacred book which we profess to believe. One of the first precepts given by God after the de struction of the world, to the only surviving man, the common ancestor of all mankind, was, s Whoso sheddeth mati's b'ood, by man shall his blood be shed." And even in the case of occi dental murder lie was supposed not free from guilt, because he ems ordered to go to the city for refuge, and there remain until purified by the high priest. —( Hear, hear.)—The law of England, founded on this law, recognises but one case in which the shedding of blood can be justified, aid that is in self-defence, and in the shedding of blood by accident, more or less guilt will attach, aa there appears more or less carelessness in she person so shedding it. Lt no instance is a man per fectly harmless ; even in a ease when attacked by another, he is not to attempt to destroy him, until " driven to the wall," and that there remains no other mode of protecting himself, although great encroachments have been made upon the laws, and the laws of public riot are rendered much more severe, and the greatest of all severi ties are introduced into that which was intended as a precoation. the Riot Act, but which, like all other abuses of the Constitution has now become permanent. But severe as is that Act, it does not justify violence, but mudi less such deeds of vio lence as were perpetrated upon that occasion. It states, that those who remain on the ground an hour slier it has been read are liable to be indicted and convicted of felony, and this surely is severe enough, Ind in some instances it is carried into effect. Ile heard that some time since, a lad of sixteen years of age was convicted under this Act, at Shrewsbury, and was sentenced to execu tion. But was it ever heard that it was jus tifiable to attack men unarmed, to cut &mu the old and young indiscriminately, without dis tinction of age or sex ?—(Hear, hear. hear.)—So anxious were the Manchester heroes to obtain these laurels, which in no country have been considered an honour, that in rasping to make their attack on the multitude. they knocked down a woman with a child in her arms, which he thought world at all times have been her protection ull over the world against any thing human; and then, indeed, the statement was, that the child fell out of the mother's arms !—(Hear, hear.--And when they arrived on the field of slaughter, and the people were anxious to get away, the only one passage left open was obstructed by the arms of the military. The un armed crowds were turned buck by the bayonets of the infantry, and the sabres of the yeomanry. lie recollected reading an account of those melancholy transactions in some of the paper. of that day, par ticularly the New Times, which spoke in • tone of exultation of the occurrences that took place. It described the countless multitudes rushing to the only avenue that was open, and in their impe tuosity sweepiog down buildings before them. Why, it was more like taking a town by storm, where the officeis bad lost all command of the soldiers. Well -might he ask, is this a Christian land—a land of libeity ? But although he should ' ►eceive no answer but fine and imprisonment, he alioaldanswer—this rs a Christiau land, this is a .land of liberty, and we shall let men in power know, that at least the blood, whatever may be come of the money of Englishmen, must be accounted for its this House.—( Loud cheers.)— ,It had been said that the soldiers were intoxicated . when they performed these deed.. He should ra ther it wee so, and that they acted under the influ ence ofa temporary• insanity, than performed a cool deliberate act. There was a person examined on that trial, who, being asked how he knew the peace officers, ►uid that he saw them knock down the peo ple with bludgeon.. and then he immediately knew they were peace officers.—( Hear, hear, and laugh ter.)—The Hon. Baronet then adverts(' to the un fortunate man that had been killed. It was said that this merely occurred by accident; but they had the evidence of the woman who lint him out, stud she said she never saw such a mangled corpse, Ile was scarred from the simulder to the hip ; in fact, she used a comparison which he was ■lmost ashamed to mention—he hail the appearance of a soldier that had beets flogged. But they had a still stronger di.closure in the evidence of Mr. hilly, • who stated, "that the Magistrates were to meet to-morrow to consider the crime." That is, in fact, after sll the outrages that had beets committed, they were to meet and consider with whet crime they should charge the person they bud taken. Ministers had then supposed that the people would hare been terrified from meeting about Reform. Rut this is not the ease—they do meet; but the Moistens, unlike Macbeth, having gone so fur, do not choose to go farther, but prefer going bock. As Large • meeting as the Manchester meeting took place in Westminster, at which he (Sir Francis Burdett) was present. A sub scriptlon was entered into to relieve the tufferers there, and above six hundred persons were actually relieved, including tame special constables, and one person who was suspected of having been a spy at Manchester. There were also ISO women who received assistance.—(Hear, hoar.)—You have the evidence of Mr. Hutton, that he saw a woman fainting with her breast cut open. You have the confession of the Ministers themselves of the guilt of these transactions ; for if a man is chars. - • feet. We nest ante to the Hon. Member for r which very hansl.bille had been distinctly traced to Dover (Mr. Wilbraham), what stated that is was not these spies who'hed hod sedoced the unwary into %anti' after the soldiers had been assailed with sticks, practice. which led them to a fatal end. The next and stones, and missiles of various descriptions, paper was that of the Rev. Mr. Hay, from which that the their arm; after him followed, in it appeared that there was a fine of constables from proper order, se ascending the climes, his Ma- the Magistrates down to the hustings; so that no- jesty's Solicitor!Generol. *ha, not satisfied with thiag c•old be.. beets noomeasy then for • per- going the lengths of others, stated, that not only sou to have gone there. Indeed it appeared that : . ' a --; - , re ' e • eons e re e s\ ...e. e 1 with an act, and that is justideatios he inisgined 1w had peittismi leis Jot, ; hot the Court makes statements which are proved to be of King's Bench homed alit whet be (S;r Francs false, that amounts to a confession of guilt; and Borden) undermost' was net the pretties* MI, this is precisely the condition in which the Mi. , where; namely. theft the Coroner and Jury should testers of England stand before the Perliament and inspect the body, tied invert it at the same tine e . the country.-(Hear, hear.) -We have the outlet). 1 Here the Jury and COMOT had both seta tae arty of one of first Judges set the Bench (Judge ! body, but not ettliV•eafse'ilieie. Pied**. tsellerf Bayley), that none of the circumstances previous to 1 usidersitiort; was generally conoidered a fair ex. the meeting amount to guilt ; that it is not the tweeto pounder of law, but here the letter of the law must Mg., no matter how nueseroos-it is Hot thetesii. he thibittriftie intl. eccoielieg to these Mee teetota llers, she drlllisig or Ira' ' g, but it is the inteolims. i lade', it meth! appeal that fete legal impeets had and when you come to examine Ilse intention, taken place. This Ceeener having so 'weekend his then the numbers become important . Judge Bayley 1 I duty, remained still in his Fettled's.; nobody footed is a very old lawyer, and he supposed well acquaint- I fault with his. and she Coen of king's Bench; ed with the old books. He felt the force of the i which was the brad Coroner of the emotry, wide maxim-that I no inquiry into it. tifotinetions had beeu shoved e toluenes et proposition distiagueat maladies?' for and refused by the Comet ; as they pretend, the The people met numerously, in order that their I Grand Jury having thrown out the hills, dere Mu; prayers might be heard, because they knew it was 1 out want an itifeweintion ; some C*1144 three were tie • the only way to make the reluctant ears of that 1 which none of the /4•01013. even applied, but kill all House attend to them ; and on that occasion they the applicatinits were refused ;so that every weft weed wisely, temperately, aged resolutely. They justice had been dreier!, mill it was the propel well knew their enemies viewed nothing better than province and bushiest, of thee Home so inquire intee a cause for snicking them. Why, to speak of the the isijory which the Constituterie had experienced i people attacking the soldiery was ridiculous, the Ministers having refund ou false putteuces te they might as well speak of a flock of sheep do so, and not only related to iiisptere. bat had attacking a parcel of wolves. They thought end grounded on those very proceedings the ass Act felt they had no protection but the law, but unfor- which were the greatest volition, of liberi• that ornately on this occasion she law had slot bete their hid occurred since the Revolution of 1688.-.. protection. They had heard a great deal of the This might Feely be called the revolution of formidable intentions of the persons that assembled 1819: and as the one esteblisherl, so the other I there. It was send they intended to divide the destroyed, public liberty. When the injuries whiclr individurls had suffered, and the injury to the country ; that some expected to become Dukes, Merquises, Earls, &c. But surely there ciiiinot be coostitution, and that no person bud been punished any honest 11100 so simple as to entertain such sp- for those acts, lie could not but consider as a piece prehension.. It would be just as rubellal to suppose of good fortune, what at the time he had thought • that Atlas would grow tired of his hurtles resign misfortune, tamely, the unavoidable delay white, his rued, and that she world would fall to pieces. had taken place. They were now able to borne* The Magistrates never belted to Mr. Hunt that just estimate of the Interaction. Tense had rem the the meeting was illegal or improper, and therefore veil which had been emanated to be thrown over it. he would effirm that 'netting to !w e tak,en place and presented to the rye 0i the conutry this pi/f -onder the .ruction of those very Magistrates olio tentons event in all its deformity afterwards dispersed it. A Humeral.* meeting af. " Nilel seetestius, nihil persiciosus, pile' good ide dee termer& took place at Weenie and there the day has mo l es plurare pusses." passed away orderly and in triiiiquillity; mil the If the House had not lost not only all regard fur same afterwards at much more nineteenth; meetings. public liberty and justice, but for their own chile At York, and indeed at every place where the racters and the estimates.t of mankind, they would peace officers did not interfere with their blvd- go into this inquiry, which he how emended ou the gems, she result was the saute. Wherever the pert of the people of England. It was imposible law was violated, et was by those whose duty it that a subject of ibis kind could remain in ite pee wee to preserve it. Ile hardly knew any thing tent state-it was tontiostible that an Adminiesra more calamitous than the interactions at Mass- eon. Alined with the blond of the people-efor: cheater- so they might be said to be until it MIS 111-• " Mud futile Imbues et nunquarn tanabile yelps:* quire(' into and atoned for- it was impossible When he saw that the conduct of the Magi- the Administration could stand, or the House re stnites on that occasion had never been inquired siat the inquiry. lie hoped she House wool d use into. he demanded an inveatigation of the whole justify the ill estimation which some persons tow Niel transaction. A report of the killed and tertaiseed of them by refusing to etitertain heti me ',Deeded lied been published, which was double tien. He called eon those Genilemeu teheee the number shot Sir John Jerre, lied, when, wide mistateineets had so misled the House to state 15 sail of the line, he attacked and defeated g 7 what it was that had so impoaed on their wider- sail of the line, and brought (rue unusual trophy) standings. He hoped they would shew the two sail of the line into port. For this gallant ac- grounds of their cot 0000 Mine and that some o r the lion he (the Admiral) was created Earl of St. Vie- numerous army of spies would be dragged rata cent. His return on that occe ' was only be- the light, and no longer be allowed to a vette toren two mid three hundred killed and wounded; themselves, as they were in the papers on their and here was a return of between 500 and 600 table, under all the letters dike alphabet, his t that men, women, and children, killed and wounded, lie House may know who A. B. C. and D. are. I Inquiry into these horrors must take place in., For himself be could only say, sleet he &mold the House of Commons-it could not be lime- ' fee; satisfied with having done has duty in ateempt toted in tiny other place. The Noble Lord ing to obtan; :twice for the people, and at the some might talk of the Courts of Law being open, tim e g i v en his Majesty 'is Minister , an opportunity but he knew very well that this was a subject too to do justice to themselves. The Noble Lord oltPce large for LI Court of Law. A Court of Law might -. site would. lie hoped, therefore c,'ocur with the very well inquire into the damage which C. or D. motion which he now meant to melte,..-' bad sustained, but they could not inquire into the "Teat a Committee be appointed to inquire tr.:: the injuries which the Constitution of England hod combed of the Magistrates, the military, tad yeomanry, at Sfatiebesier, ea die Mils August 1810." sustained. He had forgotten to notice one import ant document. It could not be said to be long, The Hon. Baronet eat down, amid loud cheers. since nothing could be abstracted from it without in. Mr. HORHOUBR seconded the motion. jury to the composition :he meant Lord Sidmoutli's Mr. IL WILBRAHAM said, he felt glad that the letter. Scarcely had au account of the t rans . question was at last body brought to issue; but action reached town, whets that letter was written ; lee must complain a little of the Hon. Baronet, a letter in which leis Majesty is made to return after having put off his motion in April last year, dislike to the Magistrates; a letter in which there without assigning any adequate reason, and lettiog was no language proper for a Kit% of England to it sleep it whole twelvemonth. He thought it was hold :it pretended that Isis Majesty had " great ea- not quite fair to those whom he now wished to tisfection." If the Noble Lord bad ransacked all bring to she bar of the flout,. To the statement the dictionaries of the Eirglish language, be could of the Hoe. Baronet he would op p ose a plain not have picked out any word which he ought to statement of flues ; he must beg the indulgence of have shunned like a rot more than a word expres- the Howe whilst he read that statement signed by wive of setisfaction.-//fear.)-And yet diet letter respectable mines. Lest the House and the coun. made his Majesty return Okuda to the persons who try might race an inference unfavourable to the Magistrates of Manchester, from their silence under lend perpetrated those deeds, and express his high Pi.. direction with their conduct. There was in the his- the charges which had beeu lavished upon them, tory of the world hardly any parallel to this trans- it was proper lie should adorn' them that they action. He did call to mind something like it: from the first wished to go before a competent when it was decided by the debased Romans to tribunal, and they had expected to be brought destroy the Goths in the /Walk provinces, having before the Courts of Law.-(Hear, hear, hoar./ — obtained a decree of' the Senate, the General assesti. they therefore thought it more suitable to their in bled the iinfortunete people in a square, used hay. uocence to wait till they could manifeet it on the ing blocked up all the avenues, and suirounded proper occasion. In considering the question ge. the place with troops to Present escape, he fell 'wildly, he was relieved from one pond by the upon them with his soldiers and destroyed them all. (termitiu of a Jury, who had decided that the- This letter he held to be a more pure minieteri..l meeting Was inert, and that verdict had since act than ever was befote put into the mouth of the hens confirmed by the Court of King's Bench. King. The atrocious nets:mere he had alluded to That tried was conducted with the greatest fair was without a parallel till the 16th of August, nese and impartiality, it was led for the prose -1819 ; it wits thus described :- cution by the Honourable and Learned Member ~ Effi ca „. „„„,,„ Julie„4„ et "i n ,„i,.. 1 fur Peterborough, and was tried before a Learned Whether the Noble Lord had his classical recol- Judge, who could not be accused of hearing lewdly lections at the moment, or whether some devil 00 the prisoner. whe,liad the misfortune to be prompted men to praise such deeds in similar brought before Item. The cause, too, was tried language, it was extraordinary that at such 2 die- at York-a county which had twee the first to trace of time the approbation should be expressed declare in favour of the legality of the Manchester in similar words. Thin this transaction should ex• cite unalloyed setiefaction in the breast of the King, meeting... View, he -He mentioned this, to was what no man on eart skew the different impiessions which were made, Hell should make him believe. when nett' acted under the *amnion of an oath, and Had these horrors been meted in the necessary execue oil mature deliberation. The House would r.- non of the law, the King of England could not, member, that, in 1819, die temper of the in common decency, in continuer sense, have made country was so obvionaly storming, that the use of so disgusting an expression as unalloyed suds- Cheshire Magistrates publicly expressed their de fection. The deed was a disgrace to the notion, tertninution to do every thing in their power to and to the age in which we live, and if not inquired maintain the laws of the country. The Salford into by the House of Commons. they would sink Grated Jury followed the same course. At that to a depth of disgrace that would make it impossi- time political meetings had greatly increased; they ble for them to sink lower in degradation. The were always attended, if not called together, by the artifice and chicanery which had been displayed to same itinerants, and met in such latge bodies, that defeat the ends ofjustice, was of such a nature as had deliberation was impossible. At the meeting which never before been witnessed since England was Eng- took place at Oldham they expressly declared their land. The Coroner who sat upon the body of John object was to promote a union and consistency of Lees, after haviiig neglected and refused to do his Denote between all the reformers of Entailed. At duty, finally broke up the inquest altogether. When that meeting thanks were voted to Hunt, Wooler. application was made to the Court of King's Bench, the Judges discovered that there was ate utter im- and others. Under these circumstances, the Ma gistrates had a meeting, and appointed Mr. Hutton possibility that the inquest should be renewed. It the Chairman, than whom • more able and upright appeared that the Coroner did upon that occasion man did not exist. The symptoms ef diastlection what he always had done : he sent his clerk to increasing, the Magistrates directed a amber of swear the Jury and take the inquest, and then he epeeist constables to be sworn in ; but Bamford - i r 1