The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
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makes statements which are proved to be of King's Bench homed alit whet be (S;r Francs
false, that amounts to a confession of guilt; and Borden) undermost' was net the pretties* MI,
this is precisely the condition in which the Mi., where; namely. theft the Coroner and Jury should
testers of England stand before the Perliament and inspect the body, tied invert it at the same tinee.
the country.-(Hear, hear.)-We have the outlet). 1 Here the Jury and COMOT had both seta tae
arty of one of first Judges set the Bench (Judge ! body, but not ettliV•eafse'ilieie. Pied**. tsellerf
Bayley), that none of the circumstances previous to 1 usidersitiort; was generally conoidered a fair ex.
the meeting amount to guilt ; that it is not the tweeto pounder of law, but here the letter of the law must
Mg., no matter how nueseroos-it is Hot thetesii. he thibittriftie intl. eccoielieg to these Mee teetota-
llers, she drlllisig or Ira' ' g, but it is the inteolims. i lade', it meth! appeal that fete legal impeets had
and when you come to examine Ilse intention, taken place. This Ceeener having so 'weekend his
then the numbers become important. Judge Bayley 1 I duty, remained still in his Fettled's.; nobody footed
is a very old lawyer, and he supposed well acquaint- I fault with his. and she Coen of king's Bench;
ed with the old books. He felt the force of the i which was the brad Coroner of the emotry, wide
maxim-that I no inquiry into it. tifotinetions had beeu shoved
e toluenes et proposition distiagueat maladies?' for and refused by the Comet; as they pretend, the
The people met numerously, in order that their I Grand Jury having thrown out the hills, dere Mu;
prayers might be heard, because they knew it was 1 out want an itifeweintion ; some C*1144 three were tie
• the only way to make the reluctant ears of that 1 which none of the /4•01013. even applied, but kill all
House attend to them ; and on that occasion they the applicatinits were refused ;so that every weft
weed wisely, temperately, aged resolutely. They justice had been dreier!, mill it was the propel
well knew their enemies viewed nothing better than province and bushiest, of thee Home so inquire intee
a cause for snicking them. Why, to speak of the the isijory which the Constituterie had experienced i
people attacking the soldiery was ridiculous, the Ministers having refund ou false putteuces te
they might as well speak of a flock of sheep do so, and not only related to iiisptere. bat had
attacking a parcel of wolves. They thought end grounded on those very proceedings the ass Act
felt they had no protection but the law, but unfor- which were the greatest volition, of liberi• that
ornately on this occasion she law had slot bete their hid occurred since the Revolution of 1688.-..
protection. They had heard a great deal of the This might Feely be called the revolution of
formidable intentions of the persons that assembled 1819: and as the one esteblisherl, so the other
I there. It was send they intended to divide the destroyed, public liberty. When the injuries whiclr
individurls had suffered, and the injury to the
country ; that some expected to become Dukes,
Merquises, Earls, &c. But surely there ciiiinot be coostitution, and that no person bud been punished
any honest 11100 so simple as to entertain such sp- for those acts, lie could not but consider as a piece
prehension.. It would be just as rubellal to suppose of good fortune, what at the time he had thought •
that Atlas would grow tired of his hurtles resign misfortune, tamely, the unavoidable delay white,
his rued, and that she world would fall to pieces. had taken place. They were now able to borne*
The Magistrates never belted to Mr. Hunt that just estimate of the Interaction. Tense had rem the
the meeting was illegal or improper, and therefore veil which had been emanated to be thrown over it.
he would effirm that 'netting to !we tak,en place and presented to the rye 0i the conutry this pi/f-
-onder the .ruction of those very Magistrates olio tentons event in all its deformity-
afterwards dispersed it. A Humeral.* meeting af. " Nilel seetestius, nihil persiciosus, pile' good ide dee
termer& took place at Weenie and there the day has moles plurare pusses."
passed away orderly and in triiiiquillity; mil the If the House had not lost not only all regard fur
same afterwards at much more nineteenth; meetings. public liberty and justice, but for their own chile
At York, and indeed at every place where the racters and the estimates.t of mankind, they would
peace officers did not interfere with their blvd- go into this inquiry, which he how emended ou the
gems, she result was the saute. Wherever the pert of the people of England. It was imposible
law was violated, et was by those whose duty it that a subject of ibis kind could remain in ite pee-
wee to preserve it. Ile hardly knew any thing tent state-it was tontiostible that an Adminiesra-
more calamitous than the interactions at Mass- eon. Alined with the blond of the people-efor:
cheater- so they might be said to be until it MIS 111-•
" Mud futile Imbues et nunquarn tanabile yelps:* quire(' into and atoned for- it was impossible
When he saw that the conduct of the Magi- the Administration could stand, or the House re-
stnites on that occasion had never been inquired siat the inquiry. lie hoped she House wool d use
into. he demanded an inveatigation of the whole justify the ill estimation which some persons tow
Niel transaction. A report of the killed and tertaiseed of them by refusing to etitertain heti me-
',Deeded lied been published, which was double tien. He called eon those Genilemeu teheee
the number shot Sir John Jerre, lied, when, wide mistateineets had so misled the House to state
15 sail of the line, he attacked and defeated g 7 what it was that had so impoaed on their wider-
sail of the line, and brought (rue unusual trophy) standings. He hoped they would shew the
two sail of the line into port. For this gallant ac- grounds of their cot 0000 Mine and that some o r the
lion he (the Admiral) was created Earl of St. Vie- numerous army of spies would be dragged rata
cent. His return on that occe ' was only be- the light, and no longer be allowed to a vette
toren two mid three hundred killed and wounded; themselves, as they were in the papers on their
and here was a return of between 500 and 600 table, under all the letters dike alphabet, his t that
men, women, and children, killed and wounded, lie House may know who A. B. C. and D. are.
I Inquiry into these horrors must take place in., For himself be could only say, sleet he &mold
the House of Commons-it could not be lime- ' fee; satisfied with having done has duty in ateempt-
toted in tiny other place. The Noble Lord ing to obtan; :twice for the people, and at the some
might talk of the Courts of Law being open, time given his Majesty 'is Minister, an opportunity
but he knew very well that this was a subject too to do justice to themselves. The Noble Lord oltPce
large for LI Court of Law. A Court of Law might -.site would. lie hoped, therefore c,'ocur with the
very well inquire into the damage which C. or D. motion which he now meant to melte,..-'
bad sustained, but they could not inquire into the "Teat a Committee be appointed to inquire tr.:: the
injuries which the Constitution of England hod combed of the Magistrates, the military, tad yeomanry,
at Sfatiebesier, ea die Mils August 1810."
sustained. He had forgotten to notice one import-
ant document. It could not be said to be long, The Hon. Baronet eat down, amid loud cheers.
since nothing could be abstracted from it without in. Mr. HORHOUBR seconded the motion.
jury to the composition :he meant Lord Sidmoutli's Mr. IL WILBRAHAM said, he felt glad that the
letter. Scarcely had au account of the trans. question was at last body brought to issue; but
action reached town, whets that letter was written ; lee must complain a little of the Hon. Baronet,
a letter in which leis Majesty is made to return after having put off his motion in April last year,
dislike to the Magistrates; a letter in which there without assigning any adequate reason, and lettiog
was no language proper for a Kit% of England to it sleep it whole twelvemonth. He thought it was
hold :it pretended that Isis Majesty had " great ea- not quite fair to those whom he now wished to
tisfection." If the Noble Lord bad ransacked all bring to she bar of the flout,. To the statement
the dictionaries of the Eirglish language, be could of the Hoe. Baronet he would oppose a plain
not have picked out any word which he ought to statement of flues ; he must beg the indulgence of
have shunned like a rot more than a word expres- the Howe whilst he read that statement signed by
wive of setisfaction.-//fear.)-And yet diet letter respectable mines. Lest the House and the coun.
made his Majesty return Okuda to the persons who try might race an inference unfavourable to the
Magistrates of Manchester, from their silence under
lend perpetrated those deeds, and express his high Pi..
direction with their conduct. There was in the his- the charges which had beeu lavished upon them,
tory of the world hardly any parallel to this trans- it was proper lie should adorn' them that they
action. He did call to mind something like it: from the first wished to go before a competent
when it was decided by the debased Romans to tribunal, and they had expected to be brought
destroy the Goths in the /Walk provinces, having before the Courts of Law.-(Hear, hear, hoar./—
obtained a decree of' the Senate, the General assesti. they therefore thought it more suitable to their in-
bled the iinfortunete people in a square, used hay. uocence to wait till they could manifeet it on the
ing blocked up all the avenues, and suirounded proper occasion. In considering the question ge.
the place with troops to Present escape, he fell 'wildly, he was relieved from one pond by the
upon them with his soldiers and destroyed them all. (termitiu of a Jury, who had decided that the-
This letter he held to be a more pure minieteri..l meeting Was inert, and that verdict had since
act than ever was befote put into the mouth of the hens confirmed by the Court of King's Bench.
King. The atrocious nets:mere he had alluded to That tried was conducted with the greatest fair-
was without a parallel till the 16th of August, nese and impartiality, it was led for the prose-
-1819 ; it wits thus described :- cution by the Honourable and Learned Member
~ Effica„. „„„,,„ Julie„4„ et "in,„i,.. 1 fur Peterborough, and was tried before a Learned
Whether the Noble Lord had his classical recol- Judge, who could not be accused of hearing lewdly
lections at the moment, or whether some devil 00 the prisoner. whe,liad the misfortune to be
prompted men to praise such deeds in similar brought before Item. The cause, too, was tried
language, it was extraordinary that at such 2 die- at York-a county which had twee the first to
trace of time the approbation should be expressed declare in favour of the legality of the Manchester
in similar words. Thin this transaction should ex•
cite unalloyed setiefaction in the breast of the King, meeting... View, he-He mentioned this, to
was what no man on eart skew the different impiessions which were made,
Hell should make him believe.
when nett' acted under the *amnion of an oath, and
Had these horrors been meted in the necessary execue oil mature deliberation. The House would r.-
non of the law, the King of England could not, member, that, in 1819, die temper of the
in common decency, in continuer sense, have made
country was so obvionaly storming, that the
use of so disgusting an expression as unalloyed suds-
Cheshire Magistrates publicly expressed their de-
fection. The deed was a disgrace to the notion, tertninution to do every thing in their power to
and to the age in which we live, and if not inquired maintain the laws of the country. The Salford
into by the House of Commons. they would sink Grated Jury followed the same course. At that
to a depth of disgrace that would make it impossi- time political meetings had greatly increased; they
ble for them to sink lower in degradation. The were always attended, if not called together, by the
artifice and chicanery which had been displayed to same itinerants, and met in such latge bodies, that
defeat the ends ofjustice, was of such a nature as had deliberation was impossible. At the meeting which
never before been witnessed since England was Eng- took place at Oldham they expressly declared their
land. The Coroner who sat upon the body of John object was to promote a union and consistency of
Lees, after haviiig neglected and refused to do his Denote between all the reformers of Entailed. At
duty, finally broke up the inquest altogether. When that meeting thanks were voted to Hunt, Wooler.
application was made to the Court of King's Bench,
the Judges discovered that there was ate utter im- and others. Under these circumstances, the Ma-
gistrates had a meeting, and appointed Mr. Hutton
possibility that the inquest should be renewed. It the Chairman, than whom • more able and upright
appeared that the Coroner did upon that occasion man did not exist. The symptoms ef diastlection
what he always had done : he sent his clerk to increasing, the Magistrates directed a amber of
swear the Jury and take the inquest, and then he epeeist constables to be sworn in ; but Bamford

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