The National Register.
London, England, 1821-05-20 00:00:00

had bees made to the home by miehten of the crown.—
They had sot bees supported by any evidence that had beers
adduced either at York or before the Oldham Jury ; the
wart leads if stews, and the trampling ender foot of magis-
trates, appeared to have lied no foeadatiee io truth. He
hoped they were nut made with a view of &lodise that
bees,. Be that fact, however es it might, the elect bad
bees that the most piteous timed' were made apes the
essmitetion. By tbesit acts, a new coestisstrea was Is.
posed epee the country r—is 1819 that was nodose that
had bees ellseied W INC—Darter all these eiremmtasees,
be maiellined, that If the home kidney regard fee (bander,
if they dee& any thing of self estimation, or et the god-
dee of the world, they at lees* would demiand that bigwig
should be lastitsted kite the deeds of the 16th et Anwar-
The registry could never be satisfied till such inquiry was
instituted ; till it tout place be men madder the admisim
'ration as stained with the transaction ottbst day, an which
there were twice as many killed aid wounded as there were
Weer fret, when Admiral Jervis (new Lord St. Vincent)
heat the French. These were upwards .1900 killed and
worraded, evadable of men, weave, sod children; and
secovdieg to the law of Gad, ea which law of man was
founded, the spilling of balsas blood nest he accounted for.
He trussed that the home would see that its character re-
quired that inquiry should be instituted; and he therefore
concluded (amidst loud cheers) that the house resolve itself
into a committee of Inquiry into the conduct of the yeo.
vinery and might racy at Manchester on August 16, 1819.
Mr. HOBHOUSE seconded the motion.
Mr. B. WILBRAHAM rose to oppose the motion as en-
sect:teary. The hoe. member entered into an extended view
of the transactions which took place at Manchester on the
day la question.aad read a member of depositions made by
latividuals to 'hew that the state of the town and neighbour-
hood was such as justified the magistrates in the line of con-
duet they had adopted. These depositions described the
fears of the deponents, on account of the condor t of the
radicals, their training, exerehing, dm. as so great, that they
could not rest in their beds. The conduct of the mob was
itch as fully justified the magistrates in calling in the aid of
the military, who were grossly insulted by them. The riot.
act be said, was read by a magistrate from the window—by
•Mr. Ecelesione ; but this not being deemed milkiest, another
magistrate, Mr. Slimier, read it in the street.
Mr. BENNETT —Has be made an allidamt to this efect ?
(Cries of "Order I")
By a somber.—Has he sworn it ?—(Order, order I)
Mr. WI L BRAH AM resumed, and proceeded to read warl-
ess depositions, stating that moues and ether missiles were
thrown at the soldiers; but the meeting was not skimately
dispersed because it was riotous, but because it was decidedly
an illegal assemblage. Mr. Helm was kaocked of higher,*
sad 'early killed. Hs might be asked why this evidence
was sot brought forward daring the trial at York the
reams was that the learned judge narrowed the questlea.
and very properly, to the coaardevatitin ef the legality or
illegality of the meeting, and the limy, after the fullest cow
sidemtioa. found a verdict ofguilty.
Lord MILTON next addressed the house. His boa.
friend had spoken of the testimony of some of the wit-
' names at Hones trial, and stated that one of them Barlow,
bad spoken in his affidavit before the magistrates of thr:
quantity of stones and brickbat,. which were on the grossed.
Now it was siegelar that this penes had sever unendorsed
a weed of Ibis in his evidence at York. How could his
amount en both occasions have beam so diferest Who bad
spoken the truth in either t How could such feed as were
said to have been ewers to before the magistrates by this
witness have escaped the sagacity of his hon. and learned
friend (Mr.licarlett) who had conducted the case ? There
was moonier witness (Dunthorpe) who had in his deposi.
ties, said that he heard one of the persons going to the
triweetiag declare that they would come in such force as to
overcome all the civil and military authorities : but the
person who it was sworn had said this was Wilde, one of
the acsnsed. At the trial in York the learaeJ judge--a
judge, of wheal he never thought or spoke, but with love
sad veneration (loud cheers), from what be knew of him
both is a public and private character—had said that
there was no evidence *eldest Wild. Would there have
been no evidence if Duntliorpe had been examined 1.-
(Haar. bear.) Would there have beau none if Miller and
*Wan had there swore what the houourable gentleman
bad row referred to as their testimony ? But if those per-
sons bad been called, their cross-examination might have
gone to negative the facts which they were now cited to
prove. All be cared lot was that no erecedent should be
established by the non-interference of parliament to lead
to military Instead of civil authority being retorted to in
this country.
Mr. WILMOT spoke in justification of the Manchester
magistrates, and concluded by saying, that the blood that
was shed en that occasion, if it was shed by the magistrates
in the exercise of a sound discretion, was nothing more than
the exercise of justice on an extended scale. (Loud cries
of “ Hear," from the opposition, and repeated by the mi.
sigerial benches.)
Mr. DENMAN should be well content to leave the quern
Doom stated by the hun. member for Wow:taster, and by
bis noble friend the member for Yorkshire; for outstations&
let what bad fallen from the ether two gentlemeti who had
taken part in the debate, he could not conceive that the
home did not feel &Wahl's:out at the silence preserved by
kis Majesty's wielders. against whom each grave charges had
berm brought, ad had been allowed to remain unrefined.—
The boa. member for Dover had stated that it might be pos-
sible that in the alarm of the element the magistrates ,had
eneimitted certain arts which required meekly. To that
plea be should bare had no oldectioal but It was not au*
a question of apology, bit of praise—ant a "esti°s of in.
diligence, bid of reward. Assam losossesbis issitsaboo
had said that the isnlivisleals who had ssillersd so the Mb of
August were to be oeusidered as having mitred Wier the
sword of justice. (Hear, hear.) Innehdeetreues were net
immediately reprobated. all the inagistestes who were
warmed and encouraged by his 1= would go into the
country with that sword la their sod !kWh it in the
bosom of their countrymen 'however a questioeshle meeting
nab in their neighbourhood, ad they had a military force
to buck their iaterfereuce. (Cheer.) With regard to the
Manche-ter massacre, be considered it to be an event whi,

war more deserving of compaudon thou of beiag held up to
tbeCOUrts as on example worthy of Imitation. ne offered
the magiwtriites who *cull on that occasion his compassion
for having be. n mode tb. itudrunieuts for the slaughter of
their fellow country mei', but withheld from thew his praise.
—He cared little whether the depositiour which the bon.
member had rend were made at the time w hen they were
said to bare been made, or whether the tint Oct had been
Had to the multitude, because they had not been put iu
trvideuce sit the trial at York. It 0:6 govvis::t.inl could
hull proved there citcmiustuuctv, be hod au doubt they