The Sun. — London, England, 1819-08-19 00:00:00

,••• .g to in(Teasd them, Ire feit cli'naincea at ttre imposvibility ref getting into any posi tion is which he could hear the proceedings of the day, unless he received some personal accommodation from Mr. Hunt hiintelf. He had never previously spoken to that individual, nor woaldbe have thought of addressing hint upon this occasion, had he not known that every gentle man connected with the London Press hail gladly availed himself of similar assistance at the Smith field Meeting. As to espousing the political prin riplas, nr a deoc a tieg the wild doctrines of Radical - .Reform, supported by Mr. Ha at, it is the very last thing, if he knows himself, that be should ever be induced to do; he holls theni in as liner abhorrence as the most loyal subject of his Majesty po4sibly can hold them, and wi;i always be ready to express that disgust in the mat-meet and most indignant terms. Mr. Bunt, on this individuals's asking to be admitted, if possible, on the hustings, immediately acceded to his request, lie desired him to stand as close as possible to the landau in which he Was riding, And "promised to take care that every accommoda tion - in his power should be paid to his conve nience. He followed in the train of the Orator till ha arrived in the fi,ld of !retool The cut husiasm excited among the crowd by tie presence of tire Orator was certainly beyond pity tfin , g, Which we ever before witnessed; and the cheers with which he was hailed ivere loud nod lastiog. When he had taken his stand upon the hustings, which Were formed of two carts lashed together, and hoards spread over theM, he expressed considerable disapprobation of the man ner in which they were formed, and of the place in which they %acre situated. This tail! not excite eurprise, when we state, that it was to arranged that the speaker had to talk against the wind ; end also, that on Mr. Hant's last appearance at Manchester, the hustings were so slightly built es to yield to the pressure of the superincumbent crowd, tl ought fortunately no accident happened from their giving away. After the different per sons who intended to address the multitude had taken their position upon then, and silence had been obtained, Johnson came forward, and pro posed that Henry Hunt be appointed their Chair roan. Here a stunt pause ensued, as if Johnson had expected that some person would have come forward to second his proposition. No person, however, doing so, Johnson proceeded to call upon theta to carry the question by acclatnation. The meeting did so, and Henry Hunt was declar ed Chairman, amid cheers of 3 times 3. The noise 'continuing longer than usual, Hunt found it requisite_ to entreat his friends to preserve tran quillity. tie commenced his address by calling the rissembly " Gentlemen," but afterwards changed the term to " fellow countrymen." He had occasion, he said, to entreat their indulgence. es--(Noise continued.)—Every man wishing to Spear, must himself keep silence.—(Laughter, but no silence.)—" Will you," trait! he, address ing himself to the mob, " be so obliging as not to call silence while the business of the day is proceeding ?"—(Silence was then obtained.)—He hoped that they would now exercise the all-power ful right of the people ; and if any person would not be quiet, that they would put him down and keep him quiet.—(We will.)—For the honour which they had just conferred upon hiM, he return ed them his most sincere thanks: and for any ser aires which he either had or might rendea them, till that he asked was, that they would indulge him with a calm and patient attention. It was impossible for him to think that with the utmost ; silence he could make himself heard by every mem ber of the numerous and treMendotis meeting which he saw assembled before hint. If those, however, who were near him were not silent, how could it he expected that those who were at a dis tance could hear what he should say ?—(A dead si lence now pervaded the multitude.)—lt was useless ;for him to rccaf in their recollection the proceedings . of the last 10 days in their town ; they were all of them acquainted.w jib the cause of the late meeting being postponed; and it would be therefore super iitiotts in him' to say any thing about it, except, in deed, it were this—that those who had attempted to put them down by the must malignant exertions .had occasioned them to meet that Play in more than twofold numbers.—(Hear !)—(Knight here whis pered something into Mr. Hunt's ear, ts hick caused to turn round with some degree of asperity to Knight, and to say, " Sir, I will not be inter rupted : when you speak yourself, you will not like to experience such interruption.'' They would have perceived, that since the old meeting had been put off, and the present one had been ,called —though their enemies flattered themselves *hit having obtained a victory, they showed by ;their conduct that they had sustained a defeat.— cLong and loud applause.)—ln the interval be ,, tween the two meetings, two placards had been circulated, to which the names of two obscure in dividuals were attached : the first was signed by Torn Long or Jack Short, a printer its the town, whom nobody knew. At this stage of the business the Yeomanry Ca valry were seen advancing in a rapid trot to the area : their ranks were in disorder, and on arriv ing within it, they halted to breathe their horses, and to recover their ranks. A panic seemed to strike the persons at the outskirts of the meeting, who immediately began to scamper in every di rection. After a moment's pause, the cavalry drew their swords, and brandished them fiercely i n t h e a i r upon which Hunt and Johnson desir ed the multitude to give three cheers, to show the military that they were not to be daunted its the discharge of their duty by their unwelcome pre sence. This they did ; upon which Mr. Hunt again proceeded. This was a mere trick to in terrupt the proceedings of the Meeting ; but lie trusted that they would all stand firm. He bad scarcely said these words, before the Man chester Yeomanry cavalry rode into, the mob, 'which gave way before them, and directed their course to the cart from which Hunt was speaking. Nut a brickbat was thrown at them—not a pistol Was fired during this period : all was quiet and or derly, as if the cavalry had been the friends of the Multitude, and had marched as such into the midst of them. A bugle-man went at their head, then 4in officer, and then came the whole troop. They wheeled round the waggons till they came in front of them, the people drawing back in every CICCOOII on their . approach, After they had intr.. rOntiota them io sttan a 111 , - ,OUT praveot escape, the officer who commanded the detach ment went up to Mr. Hunt, and said, brandish ing his sword, " Sir, 1 have 'a warrant against you, and arrest you - es my priiOner." Hunt, aft ter exhorting the people to tranquillity in a few''' . wiirds, turned round to the officer, and said, " willingly surrender myself to any civil officer who will show me his warrant," Mr. •Nadin, the chief police officer at Manchester, then came for ward and said, " I will arrest you ; have got informations upon oath against you," or some thing to that eff,ct. The military officer then pro ceeded. to say, that he had 3 warrant against John son. ,:iohnSam also asked for a civil-officer, upon which a Mr. Andrew came forward, and 'Hont and J tahnsoo then leaped from off the waggon, and stir- rendered themselves to the civil rower. Search was then made for Moorhouse aml Knight, against whdin warrants .had also been issued. In die hurry of this transaction, they had by some Means or other contrived to make their escape. As soon as Hem and Johnson had jumped front the wag gon, a cry was made by the cavalry, " Have at their flags." In consequence, they imtnediately d3shed not only at the 'flags which were in the waggon, bet those which were posted among the crowd, cutting most indiscriminately to the tight and to the left in order to get at theni. This set the people running in all directions, and it was not till this act had been committed that ally brick-bats were hurled at the military. From that moment the Manchester Yeomanry Cavalry lost ail commend of temper. A person of the name of Saxton, Who is, we believe, the editor of the Manchester Obserrer, was standing in the cart. Two privalcs rode up to I inn : " There," said one of them, " is that villain Saxton ; do you run him through the body."—" No," replied die other, " I had rather nut—l leave it to you." the man immediately made a lunge at Saxton, and it was only by slip ping aside that the blow missed his life. As it was, it cut his coat and waistcoat, but fortanately did Min no other injury. A man within five yards of us, in another direction, had his nose completely taken off by a blow of a sabre ; whilst another was laid prostrate, but whether he was dead, or had mere ly thrown himself down to obtain protection, we cannot say. Seeing all this hideous wot k going on, we felt an Alarm which any man may be for given for feeling in a similar situation looking around us, we saw a constable at no great dis tance, and thinking that our only chance of safety tested in placing ourselves under his protection, we appealed to him for assistance. He immedi ately took us into custody, and on our saying that we merely attended to report the proceedings of the day, he replied, " Oh I oh ! You theta are . one of their writers—you must go before the Ma gistrates." To this we made no objection ; in consequence be took us to the house where they were sitting, anti in our road thither we saw a wo m on the ground, insensible; to all outward • appearance, and with two large gouts of Hood on her left breast. Just as aye came to the house the constables were conducting Hunt into it, and were treating him in a manner in which they were neither justified bylaw nor humanity, strik him with their staves on the head. After he had been taken into the house, we were admitted also; 'nod it is only justice to the man who apprehended us to state, that he did every timing in his power to protect us front all ill-usage, and showed us every civility consistent with his duty. In the room into which we were put, we found the Ora tor, Johnson, Saxton, and some other individuals. of minor note, among whom was another woman in a fainting condition. Nadia the constable was also there. Hunt and Johnson both asked . him to show them the warrants on which they• had been apprehended. 1 1:hislie refused to do, saying that he had information upon oath against them, Which was quite sufficient for him. Hunt then called upon the persons present to mark Na-i din's refusal. Shortly after this transaction, Mr.! [lay, the Chairman of the Magistrates, came into the apartment, And asked Hunt if he was afraid to go down to the New Bailey ; if he was, he bins self would accompany hint, and look after his! safety. Hunt, who we forgot to mention had ie..; ceived a slight sabre wound on one of his hands,i said, that he should have no objection ,to the Ma l gistrate's company; lie certainly did not like ei-j titer a cut from a sabre. or a , blow from a staff,. both of which bad been dealt out to hint in no; small quantity. 'Mr, Hay shortly afters ards Went' out, havieg first made a reply to Mr. [Junta which some riot out of doors prevented us front hearing. On casting our eyes at the place where: the immense multitude had lately beer) assembled, l . we were surprised in the short space of ten nutes to see it cleared of all its fdrinar tieduiiitrs,l and,filled by various troops of -military, both hearse! and foot. Shortly after this had. occurred, a Ma gistrate came into the room, .and bade the pti sutlers prepare to mareli off i the New Bailey. Hunt was consigned to the custody of Colonel ('Estrange, of the 31st Foot, an 4 a detachment of the 15th Hussars; and under his care, he and all the other prisoners, who were each placed between two constables, reached the New Bailey in perfect safety. The staffs of two of Hunt's banners were carried in mock procession before hint. After these individuals had been comtnitted to the custody of the Governor, they were turned into one colonic - in yard, where the events of the clay formed the subject of conversation. Knight and Moorhouse, who had been taken a short time after them, were afterwards added to their com pany. About five o'clock the Magistrates directed the Governor of the prison to lock each of them up in a solitary cell, and to see that they had no communication with each other, This was ac cordingly done. The writer of this article was one of the parties thus imprisoned. Except that it was imprison ment, he had no reason to complain of the treat ment which he received. He was in custody from two o'clock on Monday till twelve o'clock on Tuesday. As soon as the Magistrates were acquainted with the circumstances under which his apprehension hall taken place, they imme diately ordered his release, and expressed in very polite terms their regret for e inconvenience to which he had been subjected. When we %veva once more allowed to enjoy that freedom of %attic!) we had been for a moment deprived, we took a walk through most of the principal streets of , • 7si'aueacster, and litund gnat they sire ai that tuna (i ? 2*o'clock) completely tinder military disposal— soldieas were posted at all the commanding 'psi tionseof the tusvu, and were to be seen . extended at -fall length on the flags in various directions.— At three o'clfsels, they had, however, all of them returned to their qu ar ters, and the towu was, to all outrnard appearance, once more in a state of tranquillity. At seven o'clock, when we'ititted Manchester, all was quiet its the town. A report had, how ever, reached it, that there was a serious riot at Oldham, and in consequence sorn' troops of the Chester Yeomanry were sent to quell ;t. In our road to Stockport, our attention was forcibly struck by the numerous groupe's Of idle tnen, who were congregated togel her along it. They 'appeared ready for any w irked or desperate eurpfse; and we have reason to believe that be fore the evening was concluded they were en gaged in an attack upon the ,Magistracy of Stock port. About a mile front that place souse hail dreds of their) were assembled near a retry public house. A new hat, a tea-kettle, and some other articles of little value, were displayed at the win dow, as is customary to display the prizes given at wakes or feasts in this pact of the country.— This was to ,serve as a pretext for their rueetine l together; but that it was only a pretext we (canted to a certainty, during our stay at Mac clesfield. Ott our entry into that town about ten at ti*.ght, we Were met by several women, who flung them selves in the way of our chaise, and entreated us for God's sake not to enter it, as muttlerotts work Was going on within it. This was not, to he sure, pleasing information ; but on consulting with our driver, he said there could be no harm in our proceeding on as far as the Royal Hotel, which lies nearly at the entrance of the town as you come front Manchester. On arriving there, our horses were seized by some special constables, and eye were advised not to proceed further up the town, if we had any regard whatsoever for our lives, Of course we took their advice, and ttirrned our horses into a yard, as they desired us. On inquiring into the cause of the anxiety which was depicted in all their faces, they informed us that the Reformers in their neighbourhood, irri tated by the defeat Which they had sustained at Manchester the day before, had assembled in a body of 2or 3000 men, and had been committing the most abominable acts of violence in diffet eat Tier ters of the town. Its the market-place they had ! broken every window which locked into it, and in various othef places had done similar acts of atro city. They were emboldened in their will sins by the k now l e d ge t h a t there were only a few military men in the town, rind that in the custody of these men, were 300 stand of arms, and several thou sand rounds of ball cartridge. The circumstance of these arms being so looSely guarded, filled the minds of the peaceable inhabitants with the ut most dread, especially when they found, on going to the guard-house, that out of the six soldiers stationed in the town, two were dead drank, and one of then the serjeant at the head of the detachment. They wete all, however, per- sodded to stand to their arms, and being aided by several respectable inhabitants of the town, at stned so formidable an appeatance, thdt the rioters thought it unwise to attack them. This disinclination on their part gave tresh coltrage to the friends of order and tranquillity ; and in con sequence they made an attack of the rioter s , anti took several of thens prisoners. In the meau while, an express was sent off to Stockport, de siring that one of the three companies of the 31st, Mlle!) had marched front their quarters at Mac clesfield to Stockport, might be sent back to the former place, or else a company Of the Che shire Yeomanry Cavalry, many of whom are inhabitants of the place, might be dispatched to the assistance of their tawnsinen. Whilst t hi s scene was transacting in Macclesfield, it was said that bonfires had been lighted on all the 'hills which surrou n d it, and it was surmised that these served as signals to the disaffected. The first lighted was on Blakeney-bill ; this was an swered by similar fires on all the hills, from thence up to Northern Laney there it stopped ; hot at another signal, fire-rockets were thrown up from is. Whether there was any meaning in these fires or not we are unable to say ; but short ly after they appeared, the rioters resumed their attacks, having first taken the precantoin to extinguish all the gas-lights in the totvo.— This was attended by twofold advantage, in asmuch as it did not leave t h em so „ pen to detection, and therefore gave th'em a bet ter opportunity of continuing their devastations. Still, with.all these advantages, they never durst meet the small but resolute band of special con-, stables, who, under the command of the Mayor,' were everywhere ready to resist them. Some eight or nine gentlemen who had mounted themselves! on horseback and armed themselves with swords, were of great utility in scouring the streets and bringing its prisoners, who were immediately placed, in the custody of the soldiers of the 31st. We are happy to say, that its the struggles be tweet) the two parties, ito serious personal injury was done to either of them. Some of the rioters got heavy blows from the staffs of the constables, and some of the constables auk ward c ontusions from the brick-bats hulled at them by their oppo petits ; but no lives were either lost or endanger ed. _When we left the tom), which was at four o'clock in the morning, trantpiillify was perfectly re-established ; 30 or 40 rioters were in car ody, and the. Gentlemau who had gone with the ex press to Stockport had returned with the intelli gence, that, though a battle between the military and the rioters was momentarily expected, a troop of infantry bad started frotu Stockport, anti were, whets he left them within an hour's match of Macclesfield. At Stockport the Magistrates were assembled at the kVarreo Paulkeley Arms, before which the soldiery were drawn out, as that was the first point against which the rioters had de dared their intention of making an attack. Simi lar riots were expected it other places ; almost all the military being stationed at Manchester., [New Times.] We are happy to say that advices from - Man• cheater to eight o'clock on Tuesday morning, st3te the town to hive been at that time perfectly • e ly.- (ia, nor wa3 any se',.iwis taine,l, that the fugitives of the (IB Y would return, es sortie of them had ;owl ! ) . threatto. ed to take vengeance on the inhabit 3 li ts. 'CAUTION AGAINST HUNT , placard wal posted in the 5 bo c of IN.L.mche;_ll'er l'Ol.vard the end of lus t %vet.'" soon font down by some who did not wish 11 01 ' character to be very closely scrutinized :-"'" " TO THE FRIENDS OF REFORM. " There are diversity of opinions, as to the means of 4.41 ; 'rig a Reform, and it behoves you to pause btfore You 4°P t the proposition of any one, Kest that person should hBPlg° be A Tub to amuse a Whale and by directing Put' to his ideas, pi erent the exercise of your 01C11. " I was led to this reflectiou lit; the regularity which ;t 1 sr; your conduct, which has furnished your opponents 'c'',;lo.it guments against the wisdom :nnd justice of your c ause ' it e say, you embrace the cause of Popular and Vnirtlsi4 presentation, and yet you pin your faith on the oltinwll-1,0 a pers'un of whom you know little or nutting but wll3t chooses to say of himself.' " I do nit s\ ish to . insinuate any thing aCai" st the e' racter of your intended Omit man ; but, c ertainlYi t here, soic.ie suspicious circumstances attached to his CO !ll''''l°P u with your Cause. I would not by any means havei,:j. treat . hint unkindly, but I would put you on your eabt: aso s to induce you to satisfy yourselves that all is 404 before you implicitly confide is him. In giving P u : caution, I do not advert to his private character, for it r' thing to tis wh . zilier he is a good husband or a bad (Inc' ther he does or does not live in open Adultery w it't ia wife of another person;--though, to be sure, i t ',.: 1 1 1 4 strengthen your Cause, if you could with truth boast 0' , o Virtues of your Leaders. It is nothing to you if lie *lid ° '• Oath that lie used nothing but Malt acid flops in j ' cr ; ' ,l hodse, or that, almost on the eve of the 00th, lie 91)°Ll stand convicted of using Unwholesome Drags in the fahti"..% lion of the Beer which lie sold to the inhabitants of Bristel' fur though he might be a little careless in what he swore' 1 n:ay be very conscientious in ‘s hat he says to you; a i ' d ' ) :3 know, vort did not drink the beer which the law pronottil'i pernicious. You must Ma therefore suspect him, because Private Life is said to have been a little incorrect. ifs " But I must say, it behoves you to consider ()tie thin? ' his Public Character. Ile has repeatedlY told yo u, ti f rtrl will devote his Fortune and his Life to the Cause of Re f`' is and yet has he not given you to understand, that lie to be reimbursed for the expense of attending your M`' t.L ic Really this makes his Character doubtful ; for the °P' : 9 can he of little importance to him, if he is what he cl e .l r :i • himself to be—an Independent Man of Property ari d ' s . st to However, we should nut judge hint too harshly on th at 3cc°u•n:ii for as we hare been given to understand, he has not beelj for• maculate in his private life ; he may have injured bise‘, tune by irregularities, and it may be necessary for have recourse to your generous credulity. But there i 6 ther point worthy of cool consideration. In ati sel'` %iii writes boldly, and urges you to actin and resistance; yet when he speaks in public, he advocates peaceable 01 meanour and ()Led:chive to the laws. This loots line P erl i iic Fear, if it is not Double Dealing. Is this the result ° f ! feather ?--Jr, rather, has he nut some secret understalw.l;c Is it not, moreover, strange that Sir Charles WE' isete). : i Rev. Mr. .Harrison, Mr. Tilton, and Mr. Knight — to s'L jl x thing of Messrs. Baguley, Drummond, Johnson, ea. s°° t' ist apprehended for words spoken at Public Meetings; ail"4pao• Mr. 'Hunt, who, at the late Meeting in Sm i ci ithfiti‘--,i,, intended you to resist the Payment of Taxes, should esc3lto4 He may he a very honourable man but on the face of Truths, which arc so well known to be correct, the" is) ground for hesitation ; at least, so it appears to Mancliestor, Aug. 14, 1819." A PAT IU- The result of the M2nchester Meeting I*'ll,l doubtless be fete next week in the vicinity of ( se , metropolis. We have been threatenzd with 0 0 1 fr ditinus mob at Kennington Common. (. 7 cited President, however, will not oom be attend ; and it has been said that his Pla ce .5 0 1 be supplied by Pieston the cobbler. o;te some importance, however, we have ascert6ly,,, and that is, that the " Managing Con-twilit:clef some half dozen of Preston's ragged associis-ea' heave changed their resolution of mee ting al tungtoll Common, and propose to come ner' l ,,at s the heart of the Metropolis. Their Inovili,•e4 however are watched ; and ,they rosy be '' s'i f iot l that the " persons charged with the preservir of public order" will take care to prevem t meeting any where " unlawfully, riotoosiYuiblic• multuously, or to the disturbance of the IL peace." THU RADICAL REFORMERS. (From 77:e Manchester Mercury, g • 17 . ) r c About half-past one, they arrived at tae s h'g appointed for their performances, and LIICI°1('-0' characters ascended the husting " s ; liunt '° it" posed and accepted as Chairman, ? I t 'd s oine minsry business had been entered ti 31(')1.110 (her occupying about twenty I " Ile() t I mnluf bugle sound NI ti • sounded, and the e '' s A lfo r ' ac h este r ant , COP Yeomanry Ctsvalty, hn, pursuant to instrucl Llft haul heels in attendance „pout tea tnioutes, vanced in full charge throti ; ..ll the V 14411 10' anti surrounded the Orators (limn the ir Lir , w stage, who ere all taken into co9f-ifef and consigned forthwith to the Nov 1 , 5 1 4 u) prison. Hunt deitititred, and said he stirreittler to any one hot a :11a 4 i,irate ; 3 g t t lie an in the commission then appeared, . ( 4 ' w 'hole were given up to the special pro,,cot:rce 11r.Nadin.—The 15uit litissai3, and th e 1 rl'ogt Regent's Regiment of Yeomanry CavAirYi 'it' ,ipprotached, Altd routed the throng, with ayp tl most distnay iii all directions. The con sttt 1 ` ) of the meeting were tornic.,l of six eAcli of which was attached a reil'cai of and no leJs than fifteen 114%, w an a vsrte l Y '1(1 „, scriptions, were exhibited. 1 , WO Now ensues a most paitiful and melanche'f of our recital; the necessary ardour of the (17-lic in the discharge of their duty hat led, %le liti)1;i• to say, to senile fatal and many very Ose't°lllAolli idents. A respectable innkeep er, l ni * if ) g ce ta worth, of the Bull's Head) who was As a Special Constable, Whi rode over and iL tally wounded ; another youtor matt, ' ll° . l iVin present unknown, experienced the same lot ° 1 11 ` 1 A. 'Nit, , innkeeper, has been molt iltio4er`l46,l t ; another nuf or num e sufferer It iii :he Itiio urar y STVCI'dt arc 11 E (COO t t . h e , tt ' il tt gtt ble ert /14t ii\ A „ t r , ." t), E , 'fid e I At 'w ere i tript Of th Th ~..r , ) , , Tat,' Iron; ala rß .are Pr:li s Ei 11 ; t o ,4 _~ ft" ) ,‘Serti 11 Intl P I a nti G 4 (1 t eat Ltit Po rt ()tie j ` tilt Vat fey ) t ag %NI lu i4 l bpi ii t t i , 'lt Ni l lt,