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bad on all former occasions, with honour to himself
and fidelity to Ins constituents. Though he could
add nothing to the able manner in whirls the Re-
solutions had been propmed, yet he could not
satisfy his feelings by giving a silent vote.—( Hear,
hear.)_Fle lamented to see a smile oil the f►ces i
Gentlemen opposite (Messrs. Dixon, Jacks, soil
Browne). He was shocked at observing on the face
of any Gentleman any expression which indicated
levity on an occasion so serious and important
to humanity and law.—/ Hear, Lear, hear.)—
(Mr. Dixox —" I am oot sinilisig.")—lf ever one
question could he more serious than another, it was
that where im unotlending people had fallen under
military execution by the order of a Miigistracy
who were sworn to have protected them.—(!leas.)
He hoped that all who heard Min won!" morns in
expressing abhorrence at the commission of unne-
cessary violence upon a mingled multitude publicly
assembled, as was usual on occasions of this kind.
Ile hoped that all would concur in the nectos.ty
of inquiring into the tramaciions of the Ibtli of
August, of which Manchester was the bloody scene.
He hoped that the majiirity of that Court would as
strongly express then abhorrence at this oetrai4e, as
they would their readiness to support law, learun,
and humanity. The worthy Gent:email then adverted
to Mr. Pearson', letter, which described the evt-
deuce given before the Gram! Jory at NI
cheater, and said, that, unless it were true, he did
not think any respectable professional min would
have affixed his signature to it. With such
nt-
fonnation then before the Grand Jury, he was iii-

lerly at a lova to know hoar they could have ignored
the hills against the yromatiry—he may be wrong
in his opinion, out lie thought, so placed, he should
have pursued n different course of condoct.—(4
voice said. " They acted so, because they did nut
believe the iVormation.")
Mr. Huscumnst, on hearing this, seemed to ad-
dress himself to Mr. Dixosi, and said, "What!
do you call Otis information not to be believed ?"
(Mr. DIXON, " I did not say any such thing.")
Mr. IItiaCOMBE concluded by expressing Ids cor-
dial support of the Resolutions lie seconded, svai
his hope that they would meet the approbation
of the great majority of the Court.—(!fear.)
Mr. Bt.:awns]) stud, that in rising to MN, liiS
impression in favour of the Resolutions which had
been proposed, he was aware he could add nothing
to what had been already said, to induce the Court
to adopt them. Ile merely rose to reconcile his
duty to his feelings, and to express his oi.inion
without actually giving a silent vote on so im-
portant and extraordinary an occasion. The
Court would do him the justice to recollect, that it
was not his practice to intrude himself upon their
attention—(Hear}—and on this occasion, when he
felt himself called upon to do so, he should com-
press what he had to say in a very narrow compayi.
Ile thought this busieess was of the most vial im-
portsisce to the community—it awfully effecter: the
rights and privileges of every man iu the empire—
it was a question before which every other sunk in
attentioa and interest, and before which every erec-
tion that had previously occupied that Court ap-
peared like " trifles light as air."—( I fear, hear.)—
The outrage was of the most bitter nature—it was
inflicted upon a defenceless people, by those to
whom that people were entitled to look for protec.
Lion from outrage, come from what quarter it in ty.
It was an outrage not only affecting the Magistracy
of the country, but the system of its jurisprudence,
and that noble and independelit incorruptibility of
its judgments which had so long ensured for the
administration of justice in this country the grati-
tude of the people, and made it the ohject of eitel-
one comparison among the other nations of Ettrotse.
—(hear, hear.)—lie lamented that any occur-
twice should have taken place to tarnish so fair a
system—(hear, hear,)—and lie could not help
thinking, that the confidence of the people in the
integrity of the law had not improved since the in-
troduction of Stipendiary or Police Magistrates, a
name not known to the constitution, not Em;ligh,
it was borrowed from the French, and was, in his
opinion, one of those mischiesous innovations upon
the constitutional administration or the law witch
had tended to shake the confidence of the people in
its purity and equal protection.--(Hear.)—He
feared that the introduction of the practice to which
he had alluded had impaired that confidence uidm
which the people ought always be inspired for the
judicature that governed them, and he still mote
apprehended the effect of the late proceeding. sit
Manchester. If the meetings of the people, puhy
tidy and legally convened, exposed the persons
attending them to military execution, he would
exclaim, " Good God ! what security had they
for the preservation of their right's, or the en-
joyment of their liberties ?" If the people could,
while peaceably assembled, be dispersed in this
I Manner, what private club could inert without
running the hazard of being dispersed at the point
of the sword ? What masonic lodge could escape
the same penalty—what set of journeymen could
have what they called their bean-feast, except at
the same risk ? At such places he had often seen
more cotsfusion, and perhaps riot, than, from every
account, was manifested tit the Manchester Meet.
ing. On the ultimate fate of this question he
thought the preservation of the liberties of the peo-
ple mainly hinged ; on it must depend whether the
people were to consider they still enjoyed the right
of petition or the Bill of Rights. The one and
the other might still live on parchment on the re-
cords in the Tower—bat they would, if the Man-
chester proceedings were justified under forms of
law, for ever remain a dead letter to the people.—
(Bear, hear.)
Mr. Alderman ROTHWILL said, he would follow
the example of the Gentleman who last spoke, and
be as brief as possible in the delivery of his senti-
ments. Ile admitted wills him that the question
was one of the gravest importance, and he there.
fore thought it ought to be weighed maturely and
cautiously. The Gentlemen who preceded him had
expressed their hopes that the Resolutions would
meet general concurrence—he, on the contrary,
hoped they would meet with quite a different re-
ception.—(Hear, hear.)—Ou what were the Reso-
lutions grounded ?--on what intelligence was the
Court called to act ? He knew of no intelligence
which could justify the Court to proceed, but that
disclosed in the judicial proceedings which had oc-
curred, and how the Magistrates could be exposed
to censure upon the information that had in this
manner transpired, lie was totally at a loss to guess.
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