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op.nrd in the titeblished manner erithin the torrn Hall. The High-Bailiff, at a quarter-past one o'clock, quitted the Hall, and ascended the hustings amid the acclamations of an immense multitude-, whith filled the open space in front of the 11.11. 11e was accompanied by the principal Gentlemen of this ancient etid iAePendent kris - ring them we obnerited Messrs. Cooper, Lee, Putley, !lack, Ault, Spring, and many other public-4)4'sta Gentlemen. Sir Robert Wiliam arrived a few minutes before one o'clock, accompanied by the Geriilemen that conducted his election, and wa, received with the warmest acclamations by his constituents, aim thus testified the high sense they entertained of a manly and independent representative. The HIGH BAILIFF, who was loudly greeted for several 000 ioo utes after he took the Chair ou the hustings, opened the business of the day by reading the Requisition. and by rittreatitig silence and im partiality from the immense assemblage present. He begged permission to Wellr his hat, owing to the debility lie laboured under front long iiidisposititei, a permission which was granted, a itli the (-villein expression of regret for the cause, f all who were present, and who observed the impartiality ar.tl independence of this upright public officer. Mr. HALL came forward, and said, that he had been honoured with the task of explaining the ob ject of the meeting, and proposing the Resolutions tirat had been framed by the Gentlemen who hail promoted it. The object of the meeting was set forth in their Requisition, end lad been read to them by their revered and much-respected Chair man. Their object was not to claim any new po laical right, hut to as-eat a very ancient and un doubted one, lung established by their ancestors, ai.d the existence of which, even the hireling part of the Press, under the immediate control of Go vernier:to, did not dare to deny—lie meant the right of the people to meet and discuss their grievances. A meeting for that purpose, and such a meeting was this, was both legal and constitia tioual—(Appluese)—the moment it ceased to be so, there was an end to English freedom—English- Weil must then become slaves and not freemen.— dpplonse, sand cries of " We never will.")— Ti,ey were not assembled this day to discuss •b -street topics respecting the particular improve meta' which time might have, in the opinion of many. rendered Deere:try it, the form and struc ture of the laws. They were not met to promote or discuss the plan of annual parliament:: and uni versal suffrage, nor was he himself our of those men who would adopt it plan of besieging Govern ment, for the purpose of comprllitig it to adopt imperatively one system to the exclusion of all others —he was not, he repeated. one of those persons oho would insist upon the unqualified adoption of their own plan, and the undeviating rejection of every other—but he freely avowed himself to be one of those who insisted upon the necessity of some reform in the representation of the people in Parliament, to the extent at least of a recurrence to triennial parliaments, and to an extension of the elective franchise. at least to houseliolders.—(Ap. plause.)-11e hoped and trusted the necessity of sto ne re form to this rxteat, would be felt in the proper quarter. Ile also hoped that the people would !sever cease to press it upon the attention of Gt.vernment, until they succeeded in their attempt. Ile sincerely trusted that the progress of public opinion would lead to a favourable result, and en sure for the people some attention to their griev ant e.. Late event* had, in the eyes of every man, accelerated rather than retarded the cause of reform. 1 t res thought that such measures as those pur sued at Manchester, and the conduct of such agents, were calculated to put down the constitutional ex pression of popular feeling, the result would remove such an impression from their minds. The people were not to be put down in the assertion of their rightr.--(App/ause.)-1 le hoped they would shew this feeling, by deinatithug a ith energy the rights *Lich had been transmitted to them by their lances tors, for which their ancestors hail fought and bled, blood which, indeed, would have been uselessly spilt, if no raJae were to accrue to their posterity, from their noble and independent sacrifices.—(4p plmuse)--Where was the boasted pre-eminence which the Constitution of England conferred above tit others, if the right of petition, and the ne cessery right of meeting to consider of grievauces, were tom from the people ? Ministers had long trenched upon dial right--they had been fur come time employed i:k feeling the pulse of the 'People, how far they could restrict it, mod how far he sense of English liberty could be made to bend to military despotism.—(Applause, oud a cry among the crowd, cf " /lye, Algerine despotism, where we went, as 3iimitters said, tt, set the people free !" )—When the people of this country were called to make every exertion against the Govern ment of France, in the revolutionary war, were they hot told by Ministers that their exertions were necessary for the preservation of their own liberties? —acre they not ut that time told that revolutionary 'France tnenaced all the regular Governments of Europe? —wise they not told of the daring strides of a religion, blasphemy, end anarchy.?—were they riot told that to preserve their own liberties and happy Constitution they had no alternative but to wage war against France? The great majority of the country it, that day favoured the war, and ad. nutted its necessity tsar the p rrr ttell .1 their own liberties awl property. He would now ask in what stale hod the war left the litsyrty and property of the country ? In what state hod they beet, Ileft alter the immense sacrifices of blood arid treasure enrolled upon them by a war of twenty-fire years ? They knew too well the state in which that war had left tnem, amid felt too sensietAy its effects to render any commentary their necetwary from him—(Cries of s. We do, we do!"/ —Soheavy were the effects of that war, that in all proloihility half s century of the 'cry purest rod hest admististration or Goveriament would be hardly adequate to recover the tone of the country. What theu was to be the reward of the people for such au age of suffering ?_Was it to be the entailment upon theinselves of that despotism against which they 'had been told they were so long contending ; or were Ministers prepared ssublusit- Ingly to avers t h at they had deceived the people as to the real object of the war, amid that. they were nu louger to depend on the institutions of their ancestors fur the preservation of their rights and haerties--that they were no loupe to look upon themselves as iu the eiljoyineut of the right to as , aAg.llg.o.'• ternble lo consider of grievances, and the right of end petition—Orders 'ressserted sod spin , win ed. of for them by the Bill of Rights. withoist exposing. ihemselvev to the intereent . of military ostrsge, bud to the violence of being trampled upon lsy yeomanry cavalry ?—(Loud cheering.)—He would ask Ministers, whether this was to be the fate of the people or• this country sifter they were told they. - hail secured the liberties of Europe? Was thie w the ind sty for the plot and security for the ruttier," which was ta have " crowned all their • energies? Wss this the return they were to meet from the Ministers of the Crown for the patient' endurance of such unexampled burdens ?-- (Cries of " It is—see Icon': bear it.")—lt, gave him, and he was sure it would give thetas pleasure, to be this day favoured with the presence of one of their distinguished Representativev.-.. They had Sir Robert Wilson among ,hem.—(Load cheering, and a cry of " Where is Calvert 9")—. It was to him (Nlr. Hall) a subject of regret, in common with them all, that Nlr. Calvert was not this day among them. Had he been present, per haps. some person would have felt it his duty to have asked Mr. Calvert the cause of his absence from the House of Commons on the night when the question of Reform Lad been brought under the discussion of t h at hotly. He hoped that their :Member would have been furnished with a uroper answer to such a question. The worthy Gentle man then alluded in complimentary terms to the powerful aid which the cause of the people hail re ceived from the independent port of the public Press, and which ass on ample consolation for theni amid the shuse au:) calumny that had been heaped upon the people by the Government hire lings. lie should like to ask the Editors who lent themselves to Nlinisters, what had the people done to deserve the outrages that had been committed upon them ? Ile should also like to know from them whether the real cause of all those esils was ' not in the present stale of the representation of the people in the Commons House of Parliament, which fanned an adequate constitutional check upon the Executive Government? By law . the Xing had vested in him the power of making war and peace. the ahuse of which power was however guarded against by the Representatives of the people, being solely intrusted with the care of the purse through which the King was to derive the means of supporting the war lie hail under taken. But, unhappily, such was the present state of the representation of the people, that the Commons had ceased to furnish the check which the Constitution intended it should, otherwise how could the last Parliament have adopted the plan of imposing fresh taxes upon all exhausted people ; or how could an Administration lie kept iii its place, which could, against the voice of the country, have countenanced the recent outrages at Manches ter ? The Magistrates there were only meting under the orders of their prototype, Lord liiilinouth, whom Mr. Hunt justly called the general gaoler of the kingdom, and who, to use a common phrase. was " its deep in the mud as they were in the mire." These Magistrates would never have dared to com mit the outrage they had committed upon defence less men, women. and children, were they not as sured of the countenance and support of Ministers, and of a House of Commons that would indemnify them fur their conduct. The worthy Gentlemaii concluded by proposing the following Resolutions, which he read seriatim to the Meeting:- 1. That it is the impreseriptible right of freemen to meet sail discuss their grievances, and that it is their dety to maintain these rights, to avoid becoming slaves, and has render themselves unworthy of the privileges derived from their ancestors. 2. That it appears to this meeting, a criminal, creel, and cowardly outrage has been committed by the Magistrates and yeomanry cavalry of Alaischester, on the 16th of An. gust, against an unoffeading similitude, constitutionally ■std legally sisenibleti. 3. That this outrage appears to have been premeditated by the Magistrates, and by clandestine arrangrineets so con. ducted, as to prevent the unfortunate victims from avuidimg the ferociows malice and uensenly cruelty of the yeomanry cavalry, charged with the execatiou of an unlawful order. 4. That the blood shed upon this MC*/ NM defeatists that justice which Trial by Jury affords, and those who oppose arch justice being granted, render themselves confederates of the original guilty parties. IS. That this Meeting seam with indignation the advisers of the Crown have, without isvestigvition. approved these criminal proceeding., and that they have moreover insi diously opposed impediments N the prosecution of the of. fenders, by • refusal to rase° as immediate and effectual inquiry into the outrages 61011 have bees committed, and to cause the guilty perpetrellogolherienlio be brought to signal and condign punishment et As& Alit they lave thereby af. forded another proof of their dlepeeition to establish a mili tary despotism. 6. That it appears to this Meeting the Ministers have by such conduct proved themselves unworthy of the confidence of the Regent, and that the costinsamce in office of the pro. teased supporters of a system of military guverniocat, cru elty, and injustice, is fatal to the libecties of the country and safety of be people. 7. That it is the opinion of this Meeting, since the Minis ters of the Crown have iiientilled themselves with she trans. actions on the fatal 16th of August, at Manchester, by ail. wising the Prince Regent to approve the residue pursued ow that menials by the Magistrates and yeomanry, and sines they have moreover advised his Royal Highness, in answer in the Common Council of the City of Lou don, to refine their prayer fur au immediate soil effectual inquiry; that under such circumstances it would be useless and inexpedient again to petition the Executive Authority whilst hie Councils are directed by the present official advisers. 6. That helot reduced to this silvans's, this Alerting does recommend to all counties, cities, boroughs. sail parishes, throughout the Veiled Kingdom, to•ssemble forthwith, sad call aloud fur the trial and punishment of those who shall be proved to have iuhunianly violated the law., to raise at the same time their exited noises in favour of an immediate reform in the Representative System, and to sustain " Trial by Jury," as the uuly security left fur their lives sad pro perties. 9. That it appears to this Meeting that an onion amongst all the friends of British Liberty, sod of a just sail mild Government, is more them ever necessary ; sail that it is the duty of every mats who is actuated by these principles and feelings to promote such concert. 10. That a anheeription be opened, and that Geo►ge We. liberaliser, Esq. he Treasurer, mud that when the same is chews!, the &mutest be paid over to Sir Hobert Wilson, who is ismer-sled to aimed to the proper distributiou thereof, in cotijmiction with the Westminster Committee, red that Sir Ruben Wilson, Messrs. Wedisersione, Dallier, Lee, Cooper, Black, Gillies, and Ault, be a Committee, to carry this Ms. botulism into effect, and that they have power to add to their numbers. Mr. WLTIMISTONIZ role to second the Reseda. (wits. He &morticed by illgtfiug r in term! of great severity, to the Woody witsaseoCommitted at hlastchrater—outrages which begime all descrip tion—which tot-litrud Hood. 4 1 1 11, motive., he' raid, of die ftrforitt`ers iroaly because 4cy stunt ieli*tt !COI' . if any thingtonlil more strongly convince him the necessity of a total Change in the system, he would refer to the'esamination of Mr.. Hunt before the Magistrates, and also to the proceedings on the Cormier's Inquest on the body of Lees. Never was there a more flagrant violation of law, and jou. rice, and decency—(Appiasse)--ih.n was call'. hired iq the proceeding. to which he alluded.— The I;eformers were deruoitinated traitors. He denied that they Mere so; they only sought for h. bertt• ; they would pursue their course. and would d.sinse those vile hirelings. The Courier and !Vero Times, who, instead of soothing the people. wanted to gond them to acts of madness, that they might he gratifi-il with the slaughter of their fellow.conntry• mess. For his own part, he never heard of a revolution iu any country that was not brought shout by the wickedoets of the Goveroment ; and if a r e volution should occur in England (which God forbid !) be hsd no doubt but it would he brought shout by the same means. He twat alluded to the letter of Mr. Pearsim to his constituents. the Bishops : vale Ward—he recommended the people to read it. ...... . . Never were such outrages committed in the memory of matt as it details. Sir ROBERT WIL9ON rose next to address the meeting. He was received with the boldest awl the most enthusiastic expresrimes of applause; the cheers of the people were Co great as In inertia hint for a coosiderable time from proceeditig. When silence was somewhat restored, he siiid, that were it possible that they could think iif the circumstances which occasioned the asrembly without having; their feelings excited, they would not he deserving of the name of Englishmen, and Britirlt blood would not have flowed in their veins. Under similar CM:111110 stances of national calamity, the people of either countries would have appeared ile mounting. but &ogle.lonen carried mourning in their hearts which parseth all show ; but whilst they felt, as they ought to feel on the prevent soil occasion, they yet respected too highly the principles of justice to wish that he al lel wide-say them in the lan guage of passion ; they could only wish to iitform their judgments, and to come to such a decision as its their calmer moments, and to the last hours of their lives, they would epprove. They were a branch of the national tribunal —they did not assemble to pas+ judgment, loot to inquire—to demand justice on the guilty, at the same tune leaving it to the laws to reelrees the politic wrongs. He wool,' to God that the Ministers of the Prince Regent had pursued the same course ! limit they haul taken a different line, awl they pre-bred forward to use or to abuse the name of the Regent, hoping that that name would give weight and authority to their nw,i proceedings, steel that it would stifle or influence the voice of justice. The very same men who granted Special Coins missions on the slightest occasions, would slow confine the frightful scene of Winchester to the Coroner's Inquest, which did not respect law, mud to the Lancashire Joy, who refused to lint' hills of indictment poem evidence against the cavalry. Ali nisterii now v dirret the remonstrating pasty to apply for redress to the ordinary tribunal* of the country, and they disclaim as unjust on the part of the pen ple what they are pleased to call an extra judicial inquiry. It was greatly to Ise Fomented that the Prince Regent could wit consistelitly exercise his own judgment on the late alarming proceedings ; his character mid lass principles t indeed have uoilergone a fees ful change if lie could come to any decision which would throw reason, eqitity, and humanity abide, nod which could depart from good feeling and good taste. At all eyeing, the people had a great duty to perform—they were bound by what they owed to their oo.ti rights—to the wrongs of the sufferers—to the memory of their uncertutt, and to the belies of their childreti, to persevere. 74, they relaxed in their efforts. they would betray their country.—(Cries of " Never! never !"/—To advance a n d to recede would only afford a triumph to their enemies, and expose them to the scorn and contempt of the world. British blood had stained the soil ; the question was, did it flow by a sad acid inevitable necessity, or was it wantonly and ille gully shed by the orders and authority of Magi.- trates, and executed by their agents with malignant cruelty ? The question wee, was ass effence coin witted on the (tort of the sufferers, which could justify the visitation of so awful a chastisement—or were the people engaged in a roustitutioual nod rightful act, when thy suffered this inhuman out rage ? and whether this outrage war committedlby the comment& or the Magistrates, or by the orders of the Government, the crime of the merciless agents was not the less detestable. This, he was going to say, was a Government of law--and every law, even martial law itself, eiijoilee obedience only to lawful orders. This was a principle out OM.. lintel to this free country alone—at wee a principle which was acted on even in etirlaved coolitriee, where the will of a despot is the law of the land, but where that will is subject to reason and to hu manity. A Icing of France (Clcules IX.) when he gave orders fur the murder of all his Protestant subjects, received this memorable +mower from the Governor of one of his cities :—" Sire, I commit snorted your orders to the giirri 1111 l and to the in habitant.; I rattail only loyal citizens mid brave peddlers, and not one executioner or one assassin amongst them."—(App/asite.)-1 wish, said he, that all cities, in the year 1619, could make the same boast ; indeed, as fur as the military were concerned, he might say, and he could say it with peculiar pride, that the regular military did nut sully the 'angels they had genteel over foreign furs by bathing them in the blood of their countrymen. He was proud to be able to say tine, because lie was, he might soy, educated m that corps which was stationed at Manchester. and which, think God ! did nut Polly its own Inmost or the honour of the peoftwtion of a soldier, but left the work of carnage and cowardice to oilier hands. lie was glad to think that the British army deserved the esteem and gratitude which the ieeeple were willing to bestow.—((:rigs o f •' They are, they are; they will apt blacker as like the yeomen; !" p-W hat was the Wester. might he ask. snick the people. at Manchester committed ? It was said that they did lint turet with the approbation of the Magistrates. I Now he would not hesitate to say, tlipt if the I lig6 flailiff had refused to call the present Mertiug he (Sir Robert), as the R e presentetige of the (*utile, sod is art E n glislsemen, stook! haste performed his ditty ; sod he accordingly wrote to this ceettlitry, -mottos. dint in the event of she High Bailiff *kis. iiis to ell! theMeetios frhieli frost the hoots' emio 1.. - r, t;•`• of that .• r M inc a l g p i l s es tra a te n , d htlern3didialogtrittYhiqk prOns arthelPP;::::::::ll)6luellieldwpohuavlde t h a a k v e e n p t r e fpciehnaiarm ife t i! o ppo the in ter s i n t would have taken all the responsibility of the Meeting on liimself.—(Loadapplause.)-41e would have done so, beciose he felt that he would have been authorised to do so under the Bill of Rights. They were told that the people of Manchester, as• sembled on the 16th cf August, were guilty of the crime of assembling for the purpose of petitioning fora Reform of Parliament, for the reform of abuses jn the representative system. to which the people a ri tr g l h i t ha ,o le c t o iwlr grievances nipiaino ftilis : s ag e t . h,esopehoepi tae m God!" said he, " I do believe in my soul that these abuses are the primary source and permanent cause of all the evil* which alli:ct this country." Was this, he asked, the language of a Revolu• tionist ? No—it was the language of the most virtuous and most eminent patriots that England could boast of—it an, the Isnot .ge recently held by the head of the illustrious House of Russell. The Duke of Bedford, in his letter to the Coiteehiric Society at Liverpool. said that it had hero his opinion for the last 30 years, that nothing but a fell, free, and fair Reform in Perlis. ment could remedy the public grievances, or se. core the country from danger. But it hied been also said, that the people who composed the Meet log at !Manchester hail a plan of Reform of their 11%111.mm. , 1 plats founded on the principle of Universal Suffrage, Annual Parliantents. and Vote by lot. This plan, it was true, was against the wishes of men of property, because they thought it went too tar, and was leaving property at the discretion ouitiliers, In his mind, if the plan were less ob jectionable than it seemed to be, yet it was urged ha its advocates with a reprehensible intolerance. Bit .liet her the plan was wise or impracticable, was sale or was dangerous, still he asked. might not an honest men embrace it ? Were those who supported if guilty of a crime—e crime ton that deserved to he visited sudden death—s crime that admit trot of tin explanation—a crime in be runished with death to this Iwo, of liberty, without affording to the siitierer opportuoity of defence—a c r to be so punished in this land of charity. without affording the consolations of exercising religions or sone! du ties ? If such crime (as it was termed by modern lawgivers) deserved the punishment of death, what punishment, he asked, was due to those who attempted to violate the representative system it. self, by pollitting the whole stream of its action ? But, say the Magistrates, the people of Mooches ter hail sticks. He believed, if this was more strictly inquired into, it would turn out that these sticks were like the sticks, staves, clubs. and so forth, siiread out in indictstents.—t Laeghter.)— These sticks soil clubs appeared to the yeomen like Muebeth's dagger : it was the bloody business that informed thus to their minds.—(Apploxse.)— Though the subject was too melancholy to admit of any thing hut serious remark, he yet could not help telling an anecdote which lately occurred in Paris, and which went to shew the sense entertained of those proceedings by the people of France : A French Gentleman, who had resided for a consi derable time in London, speaking to him (Sir Robert) on the subject. directed his attention to a stick he held in his hand. " Look at this stick," said lie, " I never thought that this stick would re• mind me of a British !Magistrate." The stick had a pi.ce of iron somewhat like a hammer at its {wad, and is sold in all the shops in Paris. "If." said the French Gentleman, " you wish to purchase one you must ask for a Juge de la Puir"—(that is a Justice of the Peace.)—(A laugh.)—ht 1 will tell volt," said the Frenchman, " why it is so called. Before the Revolution we had Justices of the Peace, hat rongly resembling in character and conduct your Manchester Magistrates, who, instead of giving the people redress, knocked them down with a blow of a Jugs de /a Pair, and, instead of being peace. makers, were really peace-breakers."—(A laugh.) —Again, said the Her. Gentleman, we are told that the people came with flags to the Meeting of the 16th of August. With flags!—why we have seen Isere at Southwark 150 flags flying together, and we hope to see them here agaitt.—(4pplanse.)— hut on the Manchester flags there were written the word " Liberty or Dead* I" What ! and are trot the words Liberty or Death the rallying words of every Englishman--are they not the words, at the sound of which the air rings with our applause ? !fit be traitorous to utter these words, then I thank Goii lam that traitor—and I hope—l am sure I shall die so.-.lApplarse.)—Tiwy were next told, that the people came to the Meeting with military movements. Who, lie asked, was the judge of that ? Was it the Reverend Representative of the C'burch Militant, who improved on his ministry, mid for the benefit of the Coostitution read the funeral service over the living I He (Sir Robert) kid no doubt but that his poor countrymen at Nlancloster appeared rather au awkward squad.— These paltry and pitiful falsehoods only went to shew how anxious their enemies were to encroach on the liberties of the people. Mr. Hunt, a gen. theme., with whom lie never had ally connexion, bot whose conduct, ability, presence of mind, and all the qualities which lie evinced at the meeting and at the subsequent proceedings. commanded his syspeet—that gentleman, so closely connected with those proceedings, after bring arrested, was liberated ou a charge of high treason. and held to bail for an offence out punishable with life or limb. —(Applause.)—Why. tlwri, lie would ask, were the people to be pot out of the protectiou of civil and social law ? Why, then, he would ask, were the people mimed to the sauguinary violence of merciless cavalry. to lie maltreated, maimed, and cut down ? But see the conduct of the Magi*• testes—and suppose, that even they wire justified in reedit% the Riot Act, which. said the Hoe. Geutleman, I deny, yet suppose they were justified in reading the Riot Act. where did they read it. and how ? If read at all, was it read to be heawd by any itidividnal in the meeting ? If the inters. tots of the Magistrates were bossism or honest, would they not have given notice to the persons on the hustings that the Riot Act was Mid ? This would have Vara Mr. Hoot au epporteasity of no. commeurliii3 the people to disperse, •nisl.to haw brought the guesting to a legal deadest. Hat s cour se which wisdopt tend hotpot ily notalti sit a h liem was far fume alas aqthipjliso or. . single hint as i1aa11..111111.01111.11.4.1011 the pospla-Abit-s feratiscas blot ql eaveley. mai , '`‘ sent in amongst them, and without discrimination and without mercy, proceeded on the bloody work of military execution !—j Lord cries of" Slime!" " Murder P')—He would not trust his but he would say. that even it the meeting had b een Illegal, which it was not, yet that the acts of the cavalry amounted to wilful murder. Hr would tat dwell on the fatal tragedy which followed —the people were already in possession of them ; he did not wish, by the description of the foul, and odious, and bloody proceedings of that day, to agitate the minds of the pimple, to turn the very atones into mutiny.—hiippiairse.)—He solemnly declared, timt Ile brought to the consideration of this subject rip party feeling whatever ; he would indeed be 'maw. thy of their confidence, if, upon so melancholy occasion, lie could let any gross feeling mix the solemn investigation. Ile was sure that if were possible to acquit the Nlagistrates of M c , * cheater of the heavy charge that now hangs tort them, the people would rejoice at it—they snow rejoice at it for the sake of human nature, and f,,, the vindication of she honour of their country. .1), :t of the Resolutions which had beau read fro" , chair strongly expressed the opinion of the m:ez. jug with regard to the Manchester proceeding.. When lie first read the accounts of those procrea. ing, he said he did not think it possible that Mum', tern could have given them their countenance at sanction—poorly as be thought of them, he thought that even they would have discharged them duty as Nlinisters—iliat they would have treat. ed this melancholy business with due consi. deratiois ; but he was disappointed. Without any inquiry, on a mere ex-parte statement, the Ministers approved of all that was done the yeomen and the Magistrate. ; and. of course, by approving of those proceedings they recoin. mended similar proceedings under similar circum stances. Will you, Gentlemen. said he, salmi: that the Government of this country should be under iot: who could approve of such diirscefui and sangsiniary proceedings ? Was it to be ea. doted that the live., liberty, and property of it, millions of persons should he placed under then. rection of such metal ?—(Cries of " A°, weeer.")— W Iva has been the effect of their conduct ? hasiug failed in the wild scheme of transporting &gbh. men to the sandy wilds of Africa, they think that there i 4 slow no other remedy than to put to the sword those who remain at home, and who dare to complain of their wrongs. Gentlemen. said be, L said in my place in Parliameist, that I believed it was the serious determination of Government to have recourse to force. I said so on the occasion of their putting three millions of additioual taxes ou the people, which I said could alit be levied without military execution ; bet though, Gen tlemen, that system may prevail among slave.. was it. he asked, hying that they, the people of England, should hold their lives and liberties on such a precarious tenure ? Did they believe, if the Reform of Parliament was granted, which it was considered high treason sit Manchester to ask for—did they, he demanded, believe, that • peace able meeting world be dispersed by military force ? —(Ao, wo !)-I\o ! in that case responsibility would not be a nugatory term ; on the contrary. it would be • true security—it would be the great support of the people—it would be the real protector of the Crown! A reform that would produce such benefits, they had a right to demand—atid he trusted the people would never relinquish their determination to obtain it !—(Skowis of " We never !")—When he looked round that as sembly--when he marked so much respectabi lity—when he saw the windows crowded with opulent spectators—it led him to hope, that the less fortunate class of the consuausity would be ,hewn, that those who belonged to the higher ranks, were anxious that their poorer neighbours should enjoy that security, which was but a tnfiing reward. when compared with the privations which they were obliged to endure.—(Cheering.)--.That portion of the community who had never aided the encroach ments of corrupt Ministers—who had never ap plauded that base policy, which had made the came of England hateful to the 'wham of the earth—would, it was to be hoped, come forward with spirit on this occasion. lf, however, they did not shrew themselves, the people, be was convinced, would not the lees receive with gmtulstions those more humble individuals, who displayed so muds benevolence, so much virtue, and so much firm ness, in support of the great veuseo—( Cheeriag.)— The present was not • time for criusioation or re crimination. The watch.word ought to be " obli vion of the past, and union for the future !"—(" .S 0 it shall," was echoed by e voices. Me Gentlemen, mills a pot of porter in his hated, ex. deigned, " We'll have indemnity for the putt, tad security for the friars !")-it WWI frouttiosed err Robert) impossible for the country to go so its po sent situation.—(" 7'rue! True !") —lt was mow the most afflicted and degraded country iu the us". terse, comparing its focuser state of happiness :11111 its former state of liberty, with its existing situa tion ! Let them look at America—were not all t, r laws calculated to procure public liberty and unit,' happiness? Let them look at Fumes—that country f which lie bail just returned—that which, under the moot untoward circutnotapces, loot gone a great way iu forming a free Constitution ! 'Dot country, which was yesterday trodden ruder foot by bigotry. by feudal tyranny, by the wand super aistion—she had now advanced so tar iu the con traltos, of social liberty. as to leave Esigiand at great distance! and, unfortunately, ibis coulito• was hourly snore and more crippled--renderid more and more unable to join its the march of fist. dram!—[At this moment Mr. HU44 was discover.. • adveucing towards the waggon its which O r speakers were assembled. He was received »ors the loudest accbunattons, which lasted for &vital minutes. He was accommodated with • place in the waggon, and returned his thanks by bowing r.- peatedly to the people.]--Peace being with thili• culty mooed. 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