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i;ples of the ConitiWinn, we the isudeiiigned,"
Mere nothing is prejudged—no opinion is express•
ed upon the conduct or motives of the Manchester
lagistrates, but n events having occurred" which
" appear to affect tfie rigid' of the people," and
may be " drawn into a dangerous precedent," end
these events " not being hitherto su'lficiently ea•
plained," the Requisitionists, on behalf of them-
selves, their children, end their coantry, DEMAND
so inquiry into circumstances so fatal in their pro-
gress, and pernicious in their resUlti.
These Noblemen and Gentlernin are not de-
ceived by the senseless 'clismoOr of the Treasury
hacks, who would confound every opinion opposed
to their masters' will with an appro'val of the wildest
schemes of Reform. We have frequently urged
the distinction that should be taken between the

outrage of at Manchester to the most important
privileges of the people, and the speculative purposes
for which the meeting of the Ifith was assembled.
Who that knows any 'Wog of the opinions uniformly
expressed in Parliament by Lord FITZWILLIAII
and Lord 5111.T0N, will expect to find in these
Noblemen advocates of universal suffrage and an-
nual Parliaments ? The moderate tone in which
Lord FITZWILLIAM ever exp r I his political
opinions, renders his sanction to the proposed
intetilig of inestimable importance. His situation
as a Lord Lieutenant gives him the fullest means
of obt • • g an adequate knowledge of the gemeral
character and sentiments of the people that sur-
round him; he must also its common with sill those
whose names are annexed with his to the Requisition,
have great local advantages in forming a correct
intim-pet ~,, respecting the proceedings at Manchester;
his high moral character is an assurance to the
public, that he now calls for additiotial iliforniation
upon the dreadful events of the 16th of August,
because lie conscientiously feels that the expl ma-
tions already given of the motives that induced
the Magistrates to exeicise such unusual violence,
are not sufficient to justify their proceedings.
It is now a matter of interesting speculation
whether the Ministers were possessed of roller in-
formation, or better means of estimating the con-
duct of the 31agistrates ; if they were, we sincerely
advise them to give publicity to such valuable
iu-
; nothing else will correct the impres-
sions now very generally einem:wed respecting
their conduct; and as they value their seats on the
Treasury Bench, fOr which they have already made
each dreadful sacrifices as no former Ministers
ever thought could be submitted to with honour,
they must by such means turn back the stream of
public opinion, which in its lirestut state seems to
menace their political existence. It is not even yet
too late fur them to come forward and honestly
avow to the station that they had been deceived by
the ex-parte returretitatiosis of the Manchester Magi-
watt-a—that they had hoped, from the well-known
affection borne by the people in general to the
illustrious individual now at the head of the Go-
vernment, and the general detestation in which the
principles of reform advocated by HUNT and
his party were held by every thinking man
in the kingdom, that no person would have
directed an anxious eye to any violence offer-
ed to such persons—that they were mistaken
jut the nature of the transaction, and now are
fully aware that if the people slid not, in the
words of the York Requisition, " DEMAND au inquiry
into those transactions," they would hare abeam
themselves ignorant of the nature of liberty, and
unworthy the possession of their free constitution.
What are the few Magistrates of Manchester to them,
that they should purchase imhunity for their crimes
at the sacrifice of the public confidence ? Let
them suffer the laws to take their course—no
public injury cast be sustained, confidence anal
tranquillity will be restored, and no room will he
left fin desist • g and wicked men to represent
the Government as esideavouring to pr iiiii ote a
selfish object, in securing the guilty from punish-
ment.

Quebec Papers to the 7th of September have
arrived. They contain an account of the funeral of
the Duke of Itscumoutt.

A letter from Dover. dated October /. saysa.
14 Sailed this day. for Calais, his Maksoy's packet.
Captain HAMILTON, with the Ems, of WHITWORTH
sod her Grace the Duchess oi DURSET.--The
number of passengers of all descriptions proceeding
to and from the Continent continue' yet uudi•
miuisheil, eithntsgli there has been ►attly much
boisteroas weather."

The Preface to a new edition or Lord F.1111E114
Pamphlet, entitled Itefehees of the 1,10. con.
bins the following ortilimeitts 011 the subject of
Parliamentary Reform :
" I consist but think, that if the elective frsochipe weir
wow fairly and judiciously enteaded, without altering the
character of the Hum., of Conensnws, or viulatleg any prin-
ciple of She anciewl Cusnlitutiois„ tuvaultt could set cosily
be rained : the orators of sedition would be silent, whets
their topics of invective were destroyed.
" I consider the protest time also as • crisis is hoodwr
regent—Representative Goverumesda, though v 1.046411
wither coutemplated *or wished fur by those who first its-
larfered with the Frisch Ilevultatiame, already begie to be
looked for throughout Europe—Frame, at our very doors,
hos obtained oat, sad F.ogliord, by ton rigid an Whereat* to
the teems of the feudal world, should sot retsina as tzar-
floe herself is the prioeiples she hos taught the world.
" When the circussiolmeme which 1 have hens Wined /0
diva upon are emotively cosesidmed, she dusty of the Arisio-
awn wens losable. Placed as they are hewers, the
Crows awl the Mbsp i, they ought at this esoosetit to exert the
{rwsnaesol,Rand peaty, which, whew wisely, Istiorstly,
and ornewaskly are of iwrolculshle value in every
Sale. 1 lee! teemed, *mime, with a stream ielereol to the
molt of ismlJulis somorirs roopoishoo ess this useuseuteus
eesibeel M Wig _Jug amine of Fairlissonit. His rant sod
eisseesereeslimille morpred as securities by Governmem,
awdritheorchielples of his family are a saffsciust pledge for
the si