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I warsavered. and their shouts of applause were most atirsmoditig. Several hundreds of men marched past the barracks, their band playing " Joheitie ('ape are ye leaking yet?" Those who belonged to the country. marched through the town without halting, witl at night the streets were never quieter. The Shields Ro.fortners were accompanied t.y about 300 sailors, and the whole halted in the suburb., when, after Liking a refreshment of bread and water, they proceeded quietly home. .ly live days notice were give for this meeting, unJ relit. exertions *ere made to deter workmen f-rn attending. Can such a people be safely treat rJ contempt ? We (ergot to observe that the Mayor did not agree with the Requisition, II gli he expressed the most complete reliance upon the good sense rod prudence NI the people, pee full permission for holding the ...nut,* end promised that he would not molest them either with military or constables. Great I:nalbers of the reformers present came f out Sunderland, North and South Shields, Win 1..t0n, Beuwtll, and places in the neighbourhood of the town. Every thing was conducted in the most orderly TIIIVITMV, and they returned to their homes with Gt ergulatiun laud disposition with which they came. . ---s COUNTY OF YORK MEETING. YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14. The greatest bustle prevailed throughout this ('sty yesterday, in consequence of the arrival of some f the most distinguished personages of the county to attend the meeting this da'y. At eleven o'clock, Furl Forellhaut and Lord Milton arrived, and were r. ce tera at Etteridge's by a number of the Most re •nectable gentlemen of the county, who had also ar tived to attend the meeting. At. two o'clock, his Grace the Duke of Norfolk, accompanied by the FAO of Surrey, reached Town. Many other distin guished Noblemen allo arrived in the course of the evening. Before nine o'clock this morning, the sound cf drums and trumpets announced the approach of the different Union Societies from Leeds, Dewsbury, and the adjacent towns. They march ed itt close divisions, mostly arm-in-arm, and many of them carrying the sticks (chiefly small) which the working classes and peasantry of this part of the country are in the habit of walking with. They entered York soon after nine o'clock, preceded by bands of music, playing popular and loyal airs. Rale Britannia and God save de King were played among others, and loud bursts followed each tune. In the group., which consisted of about 5,000, there were several females and boys, and about fifteen silk flags of different colours, borne by respectable looking persons; they were all bound with crape, and nearly the same mottos inscribed II von them as those displayed at the other meetings the Northern counties, viz, allusions to the melon ( huly proceedings at Manchester. the distresses of the times, and the unalienable right of the people to constitutional redress. It was a remarkable and a singular fact, that not a single flag among them all contained an inscription that had the slightest allu sion to the doctrine of Annuli! Parliaments or Vol versul Suffrage. On the approach of this multi tude, all the shops in York were closed. but the people paraded the streets peaceably until the hour of meeting called them to the Castle yard, into which they marched with drums beat ing and colours flying. At this period (a quarter hefore twelve o'clock) . the lorincipal Noblemen and Gentlemen who had signed the Requisition entered toe Caktle-yard, accompanied by the High Sheriff, end ascended a large and commodious hustings, rucked for them opposite the central building in the surd, which is a space considerably larger than Somerset House. At this time there were about in,ooo persons assembled in the great arena in front. Us, the hustings we obeerved his Grace the Duke of Norfolk. the venerable and patriotic Earl F i tzwilliam, the Earl of Egvemont. Lord Dundee. Lord Mason, Sir George Tooke, Sir George Crary, the Honourable Mr. Pelee, Mr. Walter Fawkes. Mr. Stuart Wortley. M. P. ; Mr. Fountsyne NVilwirs, Mr. Murmaduke Lawson. M.P.; Mr. Wharton. M.P. ; Mr. Ramsdell, M.P. ; Mr. Strickland, and a number of other distinguished gentlemen of the county. When they had taken their stations in front of the hosting, the multitude awwinbled in the yard greeted them with three cheers, end the Leeds Union hoisted their board, on which taus inscribed the wad " Order," and their several !mods of music struck up the airs of God save the King, and Rule Britannia, while the Gentlemen on the hustings, in obedience to the call of the people, stood uncovered. A 4 soon as silen ce: could be obtained— Tile HIGH Sagas?, addressed the Meeting as ful lows " Gentlemen—ln complianee with the request of a number of must respectable personages--men Atstanguished not only in all the relations of private life. but also in their steadfast and devoted attach ment to the beet principles of the Constitution, I base called this Meeting. I have, in obedience to their Requisition, called a Meeting of the Noble men and Gentlemen of this great county. I have done it with the greater pleasure, because, at every period of my life, I have been uniformly the advo cate of popular and county tneetinp.-:-(Greot op pfintre.)—l have always held, that it es to the union, hot the separation of the higher and lower classes of society, we must always look for the peace, happi nese, and comfort of the community at large, and the ;:rosperity of the country.—/Applause./—For Grin-sake the Requisition would stow be mod." The UNDrft-Snsairr then read the Requisitioo, ▪ already given in this Paper. The Duke of NORFOLK tame forward. and was ricer•ed with loud and reiterated cheers. ass (;race addressed the Meeting as fellows:— " Mr. High Sheriff. acrd Gentlemen—l san twlly unaccustomed to speak in public. and cer tainly this is the first time In my life I ever had the honour to address an numerous and so respectable o Meeting. I have made an effort, Gentlemen, to overcome my embarrassment. in order to have ea Opportunity, coder the present extraordinary cit. etionstaateee, to impress toy einem and wales* eit. taclionent to the legal and teastitutioaol rights of Englisbusea.—cad slot truly to *sprees my attach. meat. hat -ay seediaeso, so give theta envy belesero obi. Pad legal sapped in asy . powee. 6. neetleessit—The Used. ..sated orearreeess e vio. at Mase.boster, so fresh in your meMory. lated these rightr—the power of the sword has iv. substituted for the power of the law—end the p e e_ ple have been driven. by o military force. from their undoubted right to assemble and poi• Lion for a redress of grievances. In these dis graceful scenes the most shocking outrages have been committed, end unotrending persons wounded and trampled under foot. But. Gentlemen. what followed these events ? Scarcely had the afflict ing news reached the inetropolts, before measures pursued with such viole t ree received the sanction and approbation of the Ministers or the Crowa. lo the history of .this country "ince the Resole. lion. no parallel, I believe. is to be found of so gross a vicilaboo. This, Gentlemen, is the mo tuent for the exercise of our legal and comfit*. tional rights. It is most gratifying to witeeu es immense a concourse of the fieeholdets of this great. this opulent, this respectable county. ed together fir such a purpose. and I sincerely hope that your example may be followed by every county in the kingthim."—( Lord applause. ) Ills Grace concluded by moving the following Re soluti _ 1. That it is the undoubted right of the subjects of this realm to hold meetings fur ilw purpose of considering say matters of pillOic interest, and of adopting such Resolutions and proceedings thereon, a. are conformable to law, and may appear to them necessary fur the maintenance of theft constitutional privileges and the general welfare. 2. That it M a direct violation of law. and as alarming in vasion of the rights of the people, to disperse by violence, and still more by the employment of a military force, • Meeting, legally assembled and Tartishly held for inch per poses. 3. That we have learned with unfeigned cowers, that a {feeling, held at Manchester on the 16th of Animal last, avowedly fur such purposes, at which it has Out hitherto ap peared that any illegal act had been committed, or that pre vious proclamation to disperse had been made according to law, was suddenly attacked and dispersed by a military force, n berth, the lives of • great number of his Majesty's subjects weir tudangertd, many of them wounded, aid souse killed. 4. That we have seen w:tli surprise and regret, that his Royal Highness the Prince Regent bas been advised by liga Ministers to give the ' , auction of his royal approbation t• 09 interference of the military, attended with such fatal temp. tiorncer ; whereby they have prejudged a most impeding subject of judicial investigation, and have proclaiming a proceeding to be meritorious which has the oppressing, being illegal end highly criminal—a measure lull of denim to the unbiassed and equal administration of justice. 6. That whilst we strongly deprecate every tendency to a breath of the peace, we feel it our especial duty to mist, by all lawful means, any attempt to infringe the rights which the Constitution has solemnly sanctioned fot the proteetioe of our common liberty, and which it is equally necessary, for the security of the Crown, and the safety of every rank in the State, firmly to maintain. 8. that Without adverting to the objects to which the Meeting of the 16th of August last was directed, we are a opinion that the circumstances connected with its dispersion, call for a full investigation, in order that aseastrer, which, unexplained, trod to establish a precedent of the utmost danger to the liberties of the country, may be cowatitutiets ally vindicated, if found to admit of a satisfactory jeatifies tion, or, if not, that they may be authoritatively marked with due censure and condemnation. 7. That an humble Address be therefore presented to his Royal H ghee.' the Prince Regent, imploring him to seam ble Parliament, with as little delay as pastille; and to re commend to their immediate care, • solemn 'work" isle there trausectious. 8. That the Petition to bia Royal Highness the Prince Regent, now read, be adopted by this Nesting. 'fits Hon. L. DUltbAg, M.P. seconded thin mo. tion as follows:—" Gentlemen. in coming for. ward to second the Resolutions of my Noble Friend, I shall not feel it necessary to take up Much of your titne; for though it is a subject on which a man could for hours dilate, yet it is at the same time one on which it is unnecessary to say much, for the feelings of every British subject speak the language of truth and nature on the oceasorn. The question is really one of the shortest that can be put to an Englishman, fur it is simply this— Are we. Englishmen, to live under the enjoyment of the Constitution of our ancestors, or are we tamely and basely to sacrifice it, and live under a military despotism ?—(Shoats of 6 We never will!') —Some ground, indeed, it is supposed, will be furnished by the Magistrates at Manchester justifi catory of their conduct. Wily was it not sliewn at the time ?—(/tear.)—They had, it was saitl, some ground. to warrant them iu apprehending sonic in dividuals on a charge of high treason. and tiny did so apprehend them on that charge. How then did the result bear them out in that act ? Why. the men they arrested and threw into dutigeons on charges of high treason, they themselves bailed for misdemeatior.—( Cries of Hear. hear.)-- So much for the validity of the information on which these Magistrates acted, even upon their own ,hewing.—(Hear.)—lf legal meetings, Gentle men, are to be dispersed by violence, what be comes of that great bulwark of our Constitution, the Bill of Rights ?—(Hear.)—The Bill of Rights says, the people shall have a right to petition the King for a redress of grievances. What say the Manchester Magistrates ? That the people shall, on no occasion whatever, meet to consider of their grievances. Excellent exposition of the Bill of Rights! Excellent privilege of the people! They have, forsooth, the right to petition the King, but they dare not meet for thst purpose ! Thus, their right is rendered nugatory by the acts of the very persons who are by law bound to protect them in the exercise of it. He regretted much to end, from circumstances that had rinse transpired, that the persons who did the work of execution at Man cheeter, had shewn no reluctance in the perfteren ance of the ungracious office assigned them. They went with swords sharpened for the occasion.— (Hear, hear.) —Those who *ere armed to pre serve the peace had thought lit to send townsman against townsman, to send neighbour against neigh. boar, in hostile array; and this too, at • moment when. if they pleased, they might have employed for the 'tarpon the regular military force sta tioned in the vicinity.—( Hear, hear, hear.)— Sac* was the fact. Let us at least in c harity hope. that out of this scene of mischief same goad may arise. You have before you iu the • post these hustings , one heneficial result fro m ; P i7. ll You are the most distinguished tneu iu the land coming forward to protect your rights, and identify them selves with your best interests.—( Lead elseers.)— Let us hope that this dreadful event will unite all classes together by the closest ties, and bind them together maids the strongest sffection.—(lieue!) - - It will chew us the necessity of peaceably, yet fi rm ly s tepping leeward to maintain sag Nippon the rights stud privileges of the awakening of Reflood —a Constitation which it must be the intineue hope of we all to hand down to oar chil dren's child:so. and their latest posterity, is that firm ana clioriCtir it% Which it arts trans mitted to as by oar aIKOAINOT, MIR fought sad bled for its establishoweet. Let us there strew ourselves worthy of oar descent. rind not kw , susceptible of the value, or worthy of the privileges than our pro genitors, who won them by their valour and stern potriatiaa.--(Laud cheers. )—I cordially second the Retaliations winch have been proposed by my Noble Friend."—(Appliarrerl On the systestien being pat front the Chair— Mr. STUART WORTLLT, M. P. came forward, hot the uproar which his appearance created r ... greet, that his voice was drowned in the general opposition. Mr. WALTRR FAWIERS and other Gen•lemen at length succeeded in obtaining for him a hearing. Mr. STUART WORTLICY proceeded. s. Mr. I-ITh Sheriff and Gentlemen, I entreat you to listen pa tiently to what 1 shill hate to say you. lam quite sure that there is nobody in the county, much less among my own constituents. will refuse a hearing to the person whom they have rleputed by their std. frages to represent them in Parliament;'—(Cries of " No, no. you do not represent as !" 'The uproar was here so great. dug she Hon. Gentlemen vainly tried to be heard.) Lord MILTON, who was loudly applauded, ear. nestle entreated a hearing for Mr. Wortley. Mr. WILLAN (of Dewsbury. one of the Society of Friends.) here came to the front of the hustings. and sand, 46 My brethren, I hope you will hear every one who chooses to address you. Act importially, and you will act justly—( Hear. hear,)—otherwise your enemies will triumph.—(Hew.)—Act justly, 1 entreat of you ; you can only do so by hearing all sides."—( Heir, hear.) . . Mr. S. Wom:es.tir ;gain stood forward. sod pr« reeded as follows: I here tot honk the Gentlemen who have stood forward to obtain for tow a hearing. I had begun, Gentlemen, by repressing my cou. victim that my constituents would nut at least re fuse me a hearing. I think I have a right, at least, to est you to listen to me.—(llear.)—l may per haps differ from many of you upon 110111 e public topic.. but it is always soy practice. when 1 110 bO. to state my opinions to you boldly face to lace; and I tell you, that I have the some right to deliver my aeon- Ments that you have to deliver yours. I have my own feelings; they are, I trust. manly ones; and I will not be put duwei.—(bisopprobssi;ow).— What will be said of you if you cossvehe a ourrtiug. and at that meeting put down all discuseion?—(l/eor, hear.) —I throw myself upon you for a hearing; an :appeal which cannot, I trust, he refused me by any think- iug mind.—( Hear, Aear —Nu* , thee, tee the point of the business of the clay. 1 tl .;lit it, Gentlemen. to be my duty to come fUrwiril at • meeting of this kind, even though it should he my miafortuste to differ from you. and to state in what that differeuce comiated. If 1 differed from you ten times more than 1 really du upon this occaoitm. I should still not olirisek from bodily avowing the sentiments 1 entartaitted. I ant heir to do *hat I conceive to be my duty-1 am here almost alone to perform it. My friends, alto think with nip, have declined attending, and published their reasons (.etirfactorr to theia.elves). for tak. log that course. I, however, thought it right to attend among you. i came with plesaure, and expect to be heard with patience.. 1 sh a ll he. gin by asserting, that there is not one of you who hears me —no, nor one mats in the empire, who honours, who venerates, or who has a greater lose or warmer attachment for the liberties of the peo ple—aye, for their liberties in the most extended SCUM than 1 have. We may differ u•t certain minor points—we may have our shades of ilt.tinc. lion in our respective viral; of political question.; but on the great and mighty point of the liberties of the people--ott their paramount right to meet and discuss their grievauces„ to petition for at repeal of obnoxious measurer, or a change of laws. or au assertion of privative which did not go to subvert the Constitution-1 say, fur these I yield to no mate— lot these rights I stand firmly up—these rights are mine, they are yours, sisal with my blow! I wen ready to defend them !—[flie powerful emphasis with which the last words were uttered. reuder. ed them audible in the most ili.taset corners of the meeting. and they were loudly clierred.)-.. But in agrersi.g with you. as I heartily do. in them promi..ent points of which two of your ltesolistiona are declaratory, I cannot yet extend my concuss renter to tile others which are annexed to thrm— (A voice cried out 4 ' Why?")—liove patience and you shall beer. Let me first entreat you to believe that 1 do not stand here as the etiologist of coy set of into, whether they be Ministers or Magistrates. Of the acts of the latter sit blanchester, I know nothing, except from the public prints, but it is my firm persuasion. that in • Court of Law, and there atom. can these acts be suitably inquired into. Of all other places, that is the best that can be de vised for the purpose. You want Partials rut to lw called together to discuss this matter.—/Hear.)-1 should be glad to know what it is Parliament is to do respecting it ?—(Cries of To polish the guilty, to punish murder; what remedy i 4 a Court of Lair, are Not the hills Armes owe r)--I repeat that in a Court of Law-alone, be the parties ever so culpable. 1 stand not here as their defender. can real justice be attained. Where can the guilty be more oret. dily or effectually punished, thou in a Court olio.- tic', by the verdict of twelve holiest men ?"—(Cries ti Pocked Juries IV (At this moment a coneiderahle sensation of uterus woe manifested in the crowd. end many rushed towards the gates of the Castle yard—some said the military were coming]. The Mau &ARNIM, to remove the apprelien sion, addressed the Meeting its the following terms :—" I can assure you, Gentlemen, that your omprehessions are groundless. I shall take care ..11411 as istestyption shall be uffeued so you here, orinthinv km happened elsewhere. I'll lake care dist gtwAbrll be all *are frotn danger ; lie snit, • elsrused, but remain quietly where you —.(Load applause. sad order was insimally reseated., Mr. STUART WORTLEY again endeavoured to resume his speech. but be met with considerable interruption. Mr. LitullUAS sod Mr. W•LXIEII IrAwass io min tried to obtain for lines a hearing. The Dicke et Nontoas—“ Gentlemen. let we mum you to be led to hear with silence— otherwise, he assured yea will injure the cause to promote whisk yew have assembled."—(Haar. hem.) The drew WU motioning. Mr. WiLLan twist dopalea t. the Meeling id 'the fellatio/ ' 6 Reother Keroessemif you & n ye h oer * simony individual, you socrilies your own chasoreltr.—• firker)—and your owe owdoebSed cltlirtt for equal justice. Hear all, and hear every thing in fair and impartial *deuce. if you do not. I twain tell you you artifice your character. snj.re year cause, and g ive our common enemies a great advantage over toe, which otherviiite they eats 'lever attain." Mr. STUART WORTLIM rtsuittod..." The Clew firma', who spoke last has told you. with perfect truth. that she canoe of Reform. for which tinny of you seem anxious, cannot be advanced by con duct like this. But% rlo not mean to say a word about Reform; it is not the subject of this day's tweeting; if it were, be assured I should not shrink from delivering my sentiments upon it, es I mean to do on that which is the real question of I hope I shall never be deterred, hers or any where from delivering my conorientioos opinion upon public affairs. I again say, that I COD see DO good is. the way of inquiry. which cam result from call ing Parliament together on this particular business. I see 110 course half an good es that which can be conducted in a Court of Justice. Let it be exa mined before the grave, and learned, and sworn au thority of a Judge of the land. upon the oath of witnesses at their peril stating only facts, and in the presence and before the tribunal of twelve ho nest Jurors. Before that tribunal. 1 say. let the legality or illegality of the question be tried, and the parties punished or jurtified, according to the issue. Let no man misrepresent me by saying. that I am an enmity to the real inquiry you seek.— God forbid that such a transaction as that at Manchester Should take place in England, and en Englishman not know where to have a legal judg. mrut pronounced upon it !—(Hear. hear.)—lt is inquiry l want, and the most effective inquiry —on that ground alone I put the question. The only difference between us is us to the form of that inquiry. IVith respect to your Resolution, which has reference to the approbation of his Royal High. mils the Prince Regeut. all I shall say is this—the time is Heady at hand when Moisten, in their places in Parliament, must answer for that on their own constitutional responsibility—and state to the people the reasons which influence , ' them in tasking that step. That branch of the affair is also, I admit, a tit subject of inquiry ; and God forbid, 1 again say, that the people should in that instance, as well as in every other, want the means of kisow. lug where to ask and obtain every necessary ample. manna ! There are men it, Parliament who will not fail to require from Ministers all that is now upon this load desired by the most sanguine amongst you.—( A cry of '• Will you help then ?")—I will, if I think them right—( Disopprolsalioni—in such a case they shall have my support—if wrong they shall not have it. I repeat, if I shall be convinced they are right they shall have my support. At Kest sat I mean to promise nothing more ex plicit.—/ Mork disapproloslion.)—l have at this monireat, 1 declare, harmed no opinion on the Man chester huriness—nay, my friends have not, they also want inquiry, and wily differ with you as I do, as to the proper coarse to be taken oo the oc casion. I sty toot one word as to the legality or il legality of the meeting at Manchester; outwit& strolling all my reading on the point, I am still in ignorance upon the legal part of the question.— (t.reut mproar and a cry "Is it not legal to Wei fur a redress of grieraoces rv- Yes, I say it is right to inert for a redress of grievances. I 'mow it to be an unalienable right of the people so to meet, if they conduct themselves legally and tweet. ably. But the question here is, was the meeting at Nlanchester a legal and peaceable one ? That is a que,ticni of law, to lw decided upon sworn facts. Awl these again. I say a Court of Justice is the ob. grams place in which to coodurt so grave on inquiry. To the laws leave it." lucre the Host. Gentleman again exiwrienced the must violent opporitiou. and Mr. W all 411 was usisuccessful in obtaining sikisce fur hina.] Mr. BAINES (nf Leeds) stepped forward, and addressed the Meeting. s' Gentlemen, I claim the right, as an humble Free-Isider of this County, to address you. I tell you that you lose • great and valuable opportunity tear full discussion, by refuse ' lug to hear Mr. Stuart IVortley. He has asked you, Who can say that the 111anclwster meeting was legally and peaceably assembled ?' There is a Gentleman here can salve that qoestion.—he can tell you that the lUrrlubg WHA legally assembled, and that it was peaceebly conducted up to the moment of its dispersion.—(Hear, bear.)—Pray, therefore, hear the Hon. Gentleman; the more par ticularly when such an answer can be given to his doubts. There are wally present who eats speak of the peaceable demeanour of that meeting, and tent one who cats contradict that fact. Why. then. I repeat, do you object to hear the Hon. Gentle. man, when you • • dersve so great an advantage from the reply which you have it in year power to give ?—(llear, heur.l—You lose a gulden oppor• %unity by the interrupt• you give. If no other Genilenian shall come forward and reply to him, I Ids dge myself to do so. and. I trust, satisfactorily..— (Hear, /war )—For God's sake. tlwreforr, hear him ! he will do taw cause of inquiry snore good by Isis opposition this day. if you hear hint out, than can be effected by any Gentleman who supports your best interests."— (Applause.) Mr. STUART WORTLEY resumed- 44 Will you hear me ?—(Cries if 1. Yes. yes.")—..The worthy Gridirons's who has just addressed you. says, that the meeting was pe..crable. theirfore the better for the legality of your point its a Court of Law. Ido taut say that the meeting was utlwrwise than legal, but I re-assert that to he a questeon which can titter be settled by the Judges of Ike l a mb. o n the kgslity or illegality of the ustetiog must de pend the locolinstion or eaculpotiou of the Magi. stracy. I will not take the loose statements molested at either side, to lead nay mind to a con clusion. In a Court of Law, accoiding to the coo. stitutional forms provided its such cases. cats the swatter be 'satisfactorily concluded. Again sod again, I say, this is the auly way to sift the whole matter at wear ; and if Parlianwut met less times over, they would do nos 'ling."— (Load Idaghter. said cries of .‘ Vex are si.hr I" resuaisdesl throssighaot the Afeeting.)—lt was its vain that the Hon. Gets. denten tried to finish his sentence. Lord MILTON Gentleuseo. I only entreat per kind couauleration for one monsetst. and for a ssgi purpose : have the fairness to hear my Hsu. Colleague conclude the matelot* which hr was terrupted in the act of iiiiirling,"-1( riet r i i Hew I owl No I) Mi STUART WORTLET" I was shoot rn sae, that if Parliament assembled ten times over, , c y could do nothing, in my opinion, half so 04,14. factory as to send the case for inquiry into a Cern: of Justice. I have now. Gentlemen, performed the duty I imposed upon myself—fA twice from Ik e crowd, " For Ministers !" j—l my. No claimed Mr. W. with great warmth, '• 1 am not herr the advocate of Ministers, or of any other in dividuals—they must defend themselves. to soy. that I yield to no man in an ardent desire es preserve the liberties of you all ; I repro 1t..,, .n R i I have discharged the duty for which I ca:ne, Bed 14 66 1 din • s :A w e e a sioi arduouso t , a i ii r o. . it i n s. l d, e tio r wa ai h s. : dh i b i;e e o liffr w imkor n;: awvese ubci y pe vinreafberys r to: f e i om i s tra r i fi l os :n i ai l iti e ,,,, l 4 :ti: :: yi l i l i .pcm ' a i l i.;,ft.i ' yt l l lii, ' ol, : :k: . :: venens poi rsinP tl m ar e e: w w t h l i so no l w icit s e t d and y , ou i r my opinions before you ; I told you so at t h, L ist election.—(" Yes." ercloimied somelmmly is Me crowd, " wheys you keno there was so apportion.") —I am quite sure that you would prefer ,our her in PSlllllllSeilt (Cry Of " You are sat !")--t., deliver openly his sentiments, when It itthrtil from you, rather than silently Stand by awl fir! dissent which he had not the candour and nese to express."—(fleue, hear .'/ Mr.FuusTAtrwß WILSON. came forward cal that be knew it was not likely they would tn.ii express sentiments similar to those of their l able Member whom they professed such an unsil. I l in am gneee not. to con i l 4 ;u t— ed ( N e l f r i . es lV of ilson B , • Con a i: d her i e ttu tu r :I'u—s lily the Magistrates of Manchester.— (disuppri,63. tion)—The circumstances of the case are lilt all before us to enable us to come to a fair col:du-am. I applaud the manly conduct of your Hun. Muss. her,__ as much as I approve of his address to you. Mr. W•LTLR FAWIIIIS then cause forward, and was received with the moat enthusiastic expressions •f attachment. He spoke as follows :-6. Gentle.- men. when we consider the county of York iii all its different bearings, its great territorial extent, the uniform respectability and importance of its ens. racier, its nonsense and hiveslike populJhou, its great opulent*, its various and extended (Annum. vial relations, its uniform industry, and Its ac koowledged ingenuity, it is not surprising tie 4 the country at large, and particularly the seat lit Ciu. vernment (the metropolis), should look with .is much anxiety. and attach so much interest, to your proceedings this day. Let the county of York once stir, was the old and common saying in times of peril, and all other and smaller bodies will watch and follow the motions of the Leviathan of tEe North, and give a tone and consistency to the ge neral voice of the country.—(Hear.)—Since, then, iyour ititerfereuce has always made such sn impression upon the country, I do think that the nine has now arrived when it became absolutely necessary to publish to the country your opirrioar upon the events which have lately occurred so near you—to express your feelings upon the most bloody and most mysterious transactions at Manchester—trail. sections which have ' frightened the whole Islam] from her propriety,' and from which the people of England will not turn, without receiving a distinct, effective. and immediate inquiry. —(Hear. hear.) — Never were you resembled upon a wove extrier. dinary occasion—never did you meet to discuss so awful and so serious an occurrence. You hare often assembled on great political occasions—your meetings oft have been to frighten we turu out a corrupt Minister, to devise the beet means of em bodying and vivifying the energies you possess In defence of your country. to defend your liberties, to end a war, and put a stop to bloodshed—you have often met to oppose and prevent an ui just and unequal s)stem of taxation—but all these etc anions wok into nothing, they vanish like • the ebadows in the air,' whets compared with the ino. mentous question which the late affair at Man chester has so terribly provoked.--(theeling ) The opinion which you are called' upon this day to pronounce, is no less than this, 11'hether Eug lishmen are any longer to retain that great privilege which slime and at once marks the broad Minim:- tion between she freeman and the slave ?—((:reat app/oast.)—That inestimable right which we de rive cua f t r b ei e ns u o ie u e r .u ni f i e ce s s o t f ors ou , r ti G s il fe ee r t n a m t e a l l i l t, ti t m o rr st l a o te di; discussion what we think, to pronounce our opi. Mous upon them, and in manly and orderly I JII. game, to seek and demand such reparation and redress, es iu our judgment the state of the coun try shall render necessary. That this great right of the people has been invaded by the Magistrates at Manchester, I do solemnly believe, notwithstand ing all I hate heard to the contrary, mid neither the law or necessity in justification of their conduct will ever be made evident to me. without some or all of the eight following Propositious can be satis factorily established :- 1. That the saretieg was illegal. t. That the parties eensesieg it lad bad due notice of arch illegality. 3. That she Riot Ad had heat 'read is s proper time and Veer, as required by law. 4. Thai the lime reqeired by law had been allowed to in 411erreser between she mediae of it sad the viuleut dispersion afillie maniac. I. That it bad bees reed at all. S. That Mr. Heat mum sot have been takes, as Mr. Har rison was in S.ithsehl, by the civil pewee. 7. That the civil power did make say serious attempt w act stall; mod, S. Thai a Mow had been struck Were the military cow • wand she dispersions of she people. I my all these propositions must be established be fore the justification of the Magistracy can be met dered complete. But what has happened solve the Manchester meeting ? Mr. limit and others vier.+ seat to prison ou a charge of High Treason ; snione them wee a pone intim warms; they were kept eleven days reparately Foulard its solitary cells, and after that some of them butted liar a in:s demseauor, and others diet-barged from their dun. gams witlusot any charge st Look at the wlnde other from begn. g to col. What are we to my to the coasted' inter, options of Mr, Hoist its the cowrie or hi* examinations ?-- (Hesse. hear!) —What can Ise say to the Sho trate, refusing In immix erotism, ow ioformanuit wpmt oath, merely because t h e. Grand Jury hail already thrown out belle its dm woe cases ? Wefts there Mask/oleo so ignoras us Not to know that Jades Ofttn recoolypelid this ye ectie,o of b, li