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riot visittgo op.the forehead of any man-r
wq,l. until it is legibly p.ifittrit theve—r Ann
inlitht to he depri.sciiu !i plirtictpututu ih ,those •
rights which Work to sill.—(,Lord
,eheeriag.)-71
Will. go on and fallow that Course, for which
1 this day received the highest object 0r so
!mimeo amtipian, toe grateful thanks of my fellow.
counirymen.7.(Cheerimx.)—,lt .la, Gentlemen. tow.:
necisosrf to repeat the words of the Nigh
Or of Sir H. WIIIOII, with respect to your peace.
• isble depo 1111 l ent. You come here to do your duty, •
moil you will, 1 know, depart peaceably. I would
not, by guy observation, throw the suspicion on
your character, that you meant nut to ll:overte
quietly. There never was an instance where the
people met that they did not depart peaceably, ex•
cept they were interrupted by the tools of power.
I retina you my sincere thanks, soil hope, nutwitli.
standing the little difference which hiss taken place,
that you will depart without harbouring an un-
pleasant feeling against any Gentleman, and that
no individual will cherish any hostility to me."—
(Ale. Hunt left ihe hnoings amidst she looniest
cheering, )
9rl r.ll' A DDI NGTON (the acquitted placard bearer)
next addressed the meeting. Ile argued that the
people had a right to wear swords, since the High
.I B•rilitlappeared with one at the meeting. Beside',
if the Nlarichester yeomanry were allowed to carry
weapons to cut the ptople downs, the people were
justified in procuring arena to defend thetnstlvep.
The meeting then digitised quietly.
At an early hour of the day a division of tile 3d
regiment of Guards were stationed in a repository
near St. George'. church, and other precautionary
measures taken by the Police for the preservation
of the peace, which, however, was undisturbed.

WARD OF BISHOPSGATE WITHOUT.

Yesterday • remarkably numerous and respects-
hle Ileetitig of the 1111*dbitems of sloe Ward of
Bishopes;ate IVitlintit, was held in the parish
church of Sr. Botolph, in pursuance of a requisi•
bon addresled to Sir Itichurd Carr Glyn, the Al-
derman of the Ward or Ms Deputseo, for the pur-
pose of tasking into their consideration the conduct
of the Magistrate's and yeomanry of the town of
Manchester on the 16th day of August last, and
the measures riper to be pursued thereon. To
this requisition, its the absence if the worthy Alder-
man of the ‘V;lrd, the deputies, Sir William Raw.
lists and ?Jr. tttttt as Greettawty, consented, and
they yesterday presided at the meeting together.
The requivittun bring read, the proceedings, were
opened by Mr. CoItDELL. who, in a speech of con-
siderable energy. deocanted upon the proceed-
ings of the Magistrates and yeomanry at Manches-
ter. and characterised theta a. a wanton outrage,
affecting not merely the beet and limbs of his Ma.
jesty's subject., but one of the most valued and in.
defeasible rights of the people. The worthy Gen-
tleman then enlarged upon the nature of the Re-
solutions *licit it was his intention to submit to
the meeting, and concluded by reading them as
follows :-
1. That it is the bounden duly of a free people to Board
with jealousy and vigilance the rights and liberties for
which their ancestors struggled, sad which are recogoited
by the Laws and Constitutio• of their (wispy.
S. That one of the most valuable and sacred of those pri-
vileges is the indisputable right of the subject to petition
the Throne and either House of Parliament un all subjects
of real or supposed grievance; a right inherent in the peo-
ple, founded on reason, sauctioned by the common law of
the land, and establishe.l by the Bill of Rights, which enacts,
" That it is the right of the subject to petition the Yin,
and all coninsitoccuts and prosecutions for such petitioaing
are illegal."
3. That the Meeting emmesed at Manchester on the leih
of August, " To consider the propriety of adopting them's,*
legal and constitutional mesas of obtaining a Reform in the
Commenis House of Parliameat," was a strictly legal mett-
le& and the deportment of the people them assembled peace. '
able and orderly.
4. That the dispersion of the multitude thee lawfully -
enabled, by the yeomanry cavalry, acting under the direct.
tion of the local Magistrates, whereby some persons were
killed, and many men, women, sad children, wantonly
trodden down and inhumanly woonded, wee ass IldratiOell
outrage upon as uaarnted and ataresisting people, contrary
to law and justice, and a daring attempt to destroy by the
swiped the unalienable rights of British subjects, sad to is.
traduce io their stead a military despotism.
b. That the subequent conduct of the Magistrates al
Coroners, in re:hails' to greet warrants apt 'l
accused of startler, in abstaining from takiee
and from proceeding to hold intimate oft the totliLstr:::
stair, aerosol, in the opirsiew .1 this Meeting, to as actual
dread of justice, and an tivWeet refusal of the truly kind
mesas of ohtaisiag redress possesurd by the people.
IL That we forbear to espress say opinioa epos the coos
duct of the Greed Jury in Himeji,' out bills, which appear
Ss have bees supported by the strongest depositions; we
IWO and venerate, and would cherish, abode all things, the
iWobliabinesit of the Trial by Jury mem grand safeguard in
Ruse perilous times, and we contemplate this etioduct in
Allot anguish.
.•411111es Li :MAITRE seconded the Resolutions, which
1041eciared had his esitile concurrence. He ob-
served, that lie had lied the honour frequently of
addressing a meeting oldie Ward of Bishopsgate,
but Dever before presented himself to one so unmet.
toes or on respectable.a.(Hear, hear.)
The Resolutions were read by the clerk, and
adopted by she meeting unanimously and with loud
applause.
Mr. LEMAITRE then addressed the meetings and
after some introductory observations, proposed the
following Reaoluti tttt
That with sincere atlacieserst to the principles of oat
Geettraisseat, with as melees dreamt* elliailllasifeettua for
the Peen", of has Royal Higbee's, use Chief Magistrate, we
; will yet moans that we twee ear evaslry above an Mugs,
suit wltl rioted. tow liberties at the Mesa of our lives. We
deeply deplore those treertaitrows camels whit\ have induced
the Mcleod " highly to apses," of the laserreetimary
lesmeaseets of she Maathester yeamaary. We will remind
his Royal nig:hens oho is better limes George Prince of
Wales &tiered " he hoped his Family would wirer target
that ihry held their exalted similes* in trust Ale the bettelit
of the people." Auld le the spirit of tree lordly we impluie
our Prince to avoid the adoption of desseroets doctrines,
arbereesixe ossr rights, lavotiriag else oatural (tenses of
reletialtow, and this placing the security of the Throne
aim, ilia peace of die weary opera the Isaac of • saagaiaary
Metter.
This Resolution was unanimously adopted.
Mr. Pkriasur then preseuted himself to the
meeting, ht loud spittoon,. This Gentleman
is the Solicitor who has.ab honourably distinguished
I self by the prompt ant elficecias• mcittarre
which lie uffomed to times iisilmiduale lobo bed
been imprisoned, ernirsteea'awareemary and ,
lil
isevaity, by the Magistrates of 14erclitclee, rook
,who has by Isis letters to the ptolgie, dere moth
tasassit cruice, br.bringisog •°!3 e--
of extreme cruelty or the peel of lion 410-

yeomanry, and thereby slimitosti.4 the rleiosion
which was attempted loy the Treasury Pritata. ,The
details winch we have already publiahed -in this
Gentlemait's letters from Mancheater, rod his re.
cent letter to his fellow-citizens of the Wiled of
861101)st/1de, render it now unnecessary to give his
',wed: of yesterday, as it was for the most pert coo.
Attest to the *tome points. It was received t%t6a
great applause.
Mr. l'Eaitiox then rose and read the followinz
Petition to Ina Kurd Highness the Pt Int ,!
Aeon!:—
To his Royal 11l iyhaese the Prince of Wales. Regent of !he
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Irrlaisil
The humble Address and Petition of the noileiczni
of the War, of Rishopmeste :
MAY IT rt.rass voila ROYAL. HIGIMAS.
We. his Majesty's moat dutiful and loyal sulikets, ov•ei
humbly approach your Royal Highoess, to lay a stateur.iit
of our grievances at the foot of the Throne.
We lake leave MIA respectfully in assure your Royal
Highness, that we fully concur in the whole of the .roil-
:needs expressed by the humble Address and Petitions of
the bard Mayor, Alderniesi, and Commons of She city if
Lawton. ink-aeuted to your Royal Highness upon the mourn.
ful subject of calamitous proceedings which took pt.r.
at Manchester its the 16th of Augnet last, and it i. i•ls
frelioge of the deepest sorrow we hare It *yard that your
Royal Highnesi was prevailed upon by evil Couneelliii. 1.,
rijeet the prayer of the Petition, and to treat your 1:..e
Highness's must dutiful Petitiouers will' cordons. iv

insult.
With "the eiremostances that preceded the late meeting
at Manchester," are not only your Petitioners hut the so s•ls
of the haywire acusiainted—a grievons national .1. ht so.
curred in she prosecution of isnjuat foreign wars—s. n... 1.
less hat of sinecure plates and pensions created—a load
taxation, which drives the capital and rnsuisfacsurr is of the
country to wok protection in foreign Slates—a p. artful sod
industrious people reduced to dialer's by the coosserosost
want of trade, soil drives. to despair by ilseir
tieing unnoticed, and their prayer. for relief ocihrtole t.
We humbly sheer to your Royal Highness this tl.s u were
" the circumstances that preceded" the meeting in /moo too.
We further humbly represent to your Royal Hight...v. that
we are correctly informed that the cirenuostances %%krt. At-
tesded the meeting were peace and order un the pars of the
assembled multionde,lnterrupted only by the wanton and
outrageous inroads of an armed forte, cutting wills their
sabres, and tramplieg ander foot his Majesty's peaceable.
an-
offending, and defenceless subjects, met to exercise a sarsel
right enjoyed immemorially by their ancestors, and gstarso-
teed to them by the same law which recognizes the title of
your Royal Family to the Crown of these realms.
We take leave respectfully to call your R. 1,1 II ;L-
-oess's attention to the Petitions of the people—nut as your
Royal Highness seems to suppose, to institute au xsis-
jnolicial inquiry into those dreadful proceedings; hut IhAt,
while the Royal Treasury and legal Advisers of the Crown
are always ready to inquire ludo and punish pretroultal ire:-
son, and constructive breaches of the peace, that your Roy,'
Highness will direct a strictly legal inquiry into the conduct
of those who have levied war against the people, and com-
mitted treason against the Laws and Constitution of tips
realm.
dye do, Therefore, most humbly entreat your Royal
tlizh-
mess to re-consider your decision, and to dismiss from ”titr
Counsels those wicked Ministers who can have advisi al their
Royal Master to resist inquiry, anal thereby tended is. de-
stroy the confidence of a loyal people, the best wifegost it of
• Monarels's Throne.
The Meeting testified their approbation of this
Petition by loud and repeated bursts of applause,
Mr. Ps:Mason then suggested that this Peitli•iti.
instead of being sent, as was custotnary, to Lor,l
Sidmouth, to be perhaps thrust behind the lire,
or if read, read only for the purposes of ridicule,
should be intrusted to some Gentleman of their
own Ward, who should be instructed to attend at
the 'text levee with Sir Francis Burdett, the Meyrir
of Norwich, nod other Gentlemen who were to pre.
sent the sentiments of large portions of the pentil7!
to the Prince Regent on the sante subject, awl
there oiler it to the p irticular attention of his
Royal Highnees.--(Great app arse.)--It may
be well to remark, that any person mice iti•
troduced at a lever, has a right to introduce nos
other, and thus Sir Francis Bartlett may intro 111,•e,
for instasice, Major Cartwright, Mijor Calla riz,lit
may introduce another, who in his turn sissy intro.
duce a fourth, nod so on ratitstbly. It nook!
be well if something like this continuity of i :aro.
duction were practised on the occasion of preen?.
ing to the Prince Regent the petitions of the
people. Let the petitioners pan before Isis nffiight.
ed SCOOP, like iiarequo's issue in the mystic glass.
and us they succeeded to each other in lengtiwnett
order, their 'bombers inight suggest to his Royal
Highness that possibly it was he, and lint the
Common Council of London, who hid beets
misinformed of the dreadful events *loch have
given to Manchester so shocking a cel.hrity.
--(Loyd apjaarse.)---Some sittireliensiosis for
, the moral characters of their fellow-citizens might
possibly excite an unwillingness to intrust any
of them within the demoralizing influence of a
Court, but he doubted not that some tacit of steady
integrity might he found among them to venture
with impunity within the scope of its blandish-
ments.—( Lang/tier )
The Petition was adopted unanimously.
The following Resolutions were proposed by
Mr. Cottner.t., end unanimously adopted :-
8. That we feel it an imperative duty to sympathise with.
stud to soften by every means in our power the sit dr. hogs isf
our 'rounded and mutilated Countrymen, and to sand con-
solation and relief, as far as they can be affordid, to Ilse
afflicted Widows and Fatherless Children of those who wa re
the victinsa of the barbarous proceedings of that mournful
day. _ _ _

9. That • Subscription be entered into for the above par..
pare, and that a Committee of Twenty GeI.iiIMVII he all.
pointed to wait upon the Inhabitants of the Ward, to solicit
their routributions. And to carry the Resolutions of slum day
tato effect, and that the folkway' Galilee's.. Lr the Cum.
*Wee :-
91r. Deputy Greenawsy,Sie WOOL Rawlins, Messrs Cortlrli,
Lesseitre, Buwerbank. Peacock, Jadkina, Nash, Prarsou,
R. WhitiN Burnstrad, Downs, Synalf.4ll, Day, Radford, Stirtia
W•wts Reaasett, Stevens, Barker, and Glovrr.
Mr. CORDELL proposed • Petition to the Lord
Mayor. Aldermen. and Commons of the City of
Louden. in Common Council assembled, prin,iiie
that, some portion of the City funds unity lir granted
to relieve the sufferings of those who experienced
the fatal effects of the military outrage conimi.ted
at Manchester. The City of L lon had, no many
atxa siosta. extended the hand of charity to alleviate
the woes of suffering kumaaity. mid Russel Ger.
titanoossitl,Portegotrea had alike axper:ei cod she f-
fycta of vach generosity. But what claim twois their
,upppathies was ever so powerful as oar that !poke
et the distresses of their *ea countiy inn Fiom
iha voila emialuct ideet panned by the Court uf
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