The National Register.
London, England, 1819-09-05 00:00:00

TuE NATIONAL REGISTER.

one end of the country to the other, the people should come
forward, and with one voice Cocur fur a ehanite of Ade) li ll is-
tratiun.— (A It would have this eflhet —it would
slew the ):real precedent and etemple to the people of Lisz-
t out of a disgraced and turned Ma l'u
intrituous applause.) Their antes nod stupiely t ied to
e lir out ground., to jostify the al rest of Mr. II ont. That
warrant of arrest was illegal. The arrest was juatifted on
oath. too. These very wise defenders of Government have
found out, that an oath I -what oath I—nn oath to a fact,
to something that a man can swear to 1 No ! liw what did
Cory think of all to u in ill's opinion 1 (Much litueliter.)
Did any holy before ever hear of such an oath ? At that
very mieueut. for any thing lie knew, some wiseacre might
he reeking the same oath regarding him berme a perienage
joie no a Ise as the Manchester Nlagistrates—Lord Sidruouth,
the third Secretary of State, as lie was called, but, in fact,
according te the it'd regret-, the Lieutenant of Police
(leinehter and applause.) 5 nn. hod v, for ought he turn,
ati.ht he sees., ring out his 011i,,1t011, I his uu ci ing w i l hr thin e,
end in time conflagration of Westminster.—{Laughter.)—lcy
possibility a most respectable witness might he swearing a similar
oath before another sapient authority, a Citizen elezted no doubt
for his wisdom. to fill the Civic Chair of loolon. (Laughter. If
arrests were to follow opinions which find a place in other men's
heeds, there was an end to liberty. Some wicked and foolish
scribe in the Courier has insinuated as mach as that it was the
int:titian of the military to assassinate Mr. Hunt at the Meeting
in Manchester. (Cries of" Shame !") The Yeomanry of Man.
cheater ought to wipe offend' an imputation from their character;
:above all, let Englishmen bear in mind, that no real English
soldier was implicated in these traneaetions, these cowardly pro-
ceedings (Continued shouts of applause.) Let them have the
honour arm it he their • • •• •
l.no...march*
'ellrettig or due liana men and women. He trusted these alan-
chester yeomanry would throw the foul libel back in the teeth of
tie' Courier scribe. Whatever he the glory of the day let the
yeomanry have it—it did not belong to the English soldier. who
maintained his country's honour throughout the world—whose
name all over Europe was synonimous with an unconquerable
spirit of valour, and who was not more spoken of in his own
country than in foreign climes foe his valour, his huntenity,
generosity, and forbearance, when the foe no longer resisted.—
(Lied shouts of applause.) He then proceeded to state that he
thought Mr. Hunt on that trying occasion conducted himself
with great propriety, he had battled and defeated, and eypesetl
the alanchester Magistrates, and conducted hintse'l with wisdom
and propriety. and lie was glad to give hint the tribute of applause
foe the conduct he pursued.
Mt. Richter then stepped forward and reed the Resotutions.
Sir FRANCIS BURDE IT. Bert. M. P. in th.r. Chair.
It ass resolved, 1. That by law and custom the People of this
country have a right publicly to assemble. to petition the King
*wieldier llouae of Parliament, or to discuss any public !salter,
to tomtit:tin of any grievances. and to propose such lawful reme-
dies as to them may scent necessary.
11. That the late Meeting of the People at Manche ter, called
to consider the propriety of adopting the most legal and efTee-
'Mal means of attaining a Reform in the Commons House of Par •
liament." was a lawful meeting.
3. That it appears to iv, that when the People were thus law-
fully assenibled, and peaceably performing a public duty, they
were attacked by Yeomanry cavalry, Jailer the direction of local
magistrate., and that some of them were killed. others were mu-
tilate!, and a still larger number miserably wounded and trampled
upon.
4. That this outrage on the defenceless and peaceable people,
against all law, met in deliance ofjinaice, is an attempt to destroy
all the yet remaining I.iberties of Englishmen.
5. That this new mode (the only 011.1 of late resorted to) of'
answering the well-grounded Complaints and Petitions of the
People, is one of the many lamentable consequences of the
'louse of Commons being every thing but what it ought to be, a
real Representation of the People.
6. That the liberties we still possess can only be preserved-
those we have lust restored-the peace, the conafort, the happiness
of the People be ptinnoted and their property protected by
making the Elective Franchise so equal, lillextencive, and so
secure that it shall be impossible to corrupt the Electors ; and
the duration of l'arliament so short, that it shall be the interest
of the Represeritatiies to stet faithfully toward, his constituents.
7. That an Address to Royal Highness !tread Prince Regent,
founded on the foregoing Resolutions, be now .
Mr. Hohliotiar then read the followine Addrees:—
.. To lets ROYAL HIOLINESS THE PIIINC,E RC.OEXT.
The humble and dutiful Address of the Electors of West-
minster. assembled in New Palace-yard, oa 'Thursday, the
day of September, 1819-
.. We, the Electors of Wertminstsr, assembled in Palace-yard,
in pursuance of public advertisement for that purpose duly made,
beg leave to address your Royal Ilighness in language, such as
we lioee it may become the citizens of a free state to seeeek, and
the Chief alagisuate of a powerful, though oppressed people, to
hear.
We humbly represent to your Royal Highness, that the ac-
counts which we have received of the recent outrage at Manches-
ter, have impressed us, in common, we believe, with the great
majority of our fellow countrymen, with feelings of shame, grief,
and indignation ; and that we esteem it the more our duty to
express those feelings on this mormattous occasion, because the
approbation which the Ministers of your Royal Highness have
bestowed on the same events, which have caused our regret and
a,ann, has alluriled us an additional proof of a settled design and
constant effort, not only to reject the petitions, but to silence the
complaints of the people; unit either by better mit, or open vio-
lence, to contrive teat the voice of truth shall never reach the

Throne.
To defeat this unlawful project we inform your Royal High-
ness, that in the open day, in the face and by the command of
throe appointed to presets. the puce, blood has been spilt—that
the innocent have been condemned to solitary confinement, and
the laws of England taus notoriously. infringed by a magistracy
either ignorant of those laws, or agitated by false alarms, and
inflamed by wilful ,tealcousies to a violation of their own duty,
and the rights of their fellow subjects.
We humbly represent to your Royal ugliness, that so long
at the Commons liouse of Parliament shall nut speak the lan-
guage of the Commoas. the wishes and wants of the people of
these rzalms can only be expressel in their peutions and temon-
strances adopted at their public meetings.
• That such assemblies of the people for the representation of
public grievances, and for the discussion of subjects connected
with the good government and wellbeing of the state, have at
all times been a part of the practice of the English nation, and
have been esteemed not only legal and constitutional, but abso-
lately necessary to the preservation of public liberty, and to that
due intercourse between the Crown and the people upon which
the security of the one, and the protection of the outer, must
equally depend.
** That upon such right of assemblage and interfarence on the
part of the people, was formed and founded the title of your
Royal Highness's illustrious house to the throne of these
realms, and upon such right only.
• Tout, notwithstanding the progress of corruption and the
increase of Ministerial power, this right of assembling has been,
up to this time, respected, and, together with trial by jury, bas
hitherto prevented the total extinction of liberty.
Taut the pretest of ill lathy which has been charged against
the I .te mftering at !Slaneitester, insionuch as the said meeting
. • . ,•,• s ti:p sneer I^tai and iflef:ClUill means of

srrr. !s

meetings of the people for the above purpose have been MOO I
ruendeu and publicly approved bi more than one Minister of
England, when tit tile head of his present Majesty's Councils.
•• That we, thereto: e• can lead: upon the lateirilitary dispersion
of, and military execution done upon, an aseetubly of the pouple
at &lain:heater, called and met toi;ctiaer under the safeguard of
known law, and established usage, in no other light than as a
violation of the right and hinnies of a free people, which we
submit to your "loyal Highness it would have wetter
be-
rume your Royal Highness's Ministers to censure than to
approve: and we moreoser state our sincere belief, that if such
violation of law be suffered to pas into 4 precedent, the limited
monarchy. which is time constitutional governnwttt of these
realms, will be hereafter converted into a despotism, founded on
We power, and maintained only by the power, of the sword.
•• 'Chat we. therefore, esteem it our imperious duly, and that
of all Englishmen, to remonstrate solamnlyagainst the establiati-
I intuit of such a precedent; and we are willing to hope, that this.
our Remonstrance, backed, as we trust it be, by the expressed
sentimenu of oar countrymen in other pate of. Great Britain.
will be a sufficient resistance to, and prevent the repetition of,
the saiil wicked attempts to destroy the free constitution of these
kingelemi. And we do also humbly recommend to. and entreat.
your Boys! Highness to direcchis Majesty's Law Officers to pro-
secute the authors, actors, and abettors, of the late murders and

cruel as auks committed at Manchester, that his Mkjesty's sub-
jects may, to their great satisfaction and the allaying of discon-
tents, find they are governed by a Prince who syanpathises with
the feelings of his people, and considers their injuries his own.
•We venture humbly to a.aure your !royal Highness, that
although evil counsellors turd false friends map propose to your
Royal ighness to coulile not in o:erifflctions of the people, but
in that large army, now, as we think. unconstitutionally arrayed
in time or vca;*; yet we, his Majesty's affl-ctionate but free-burn

It; roman to apprehend, any more
we sitOulti have patience to bear, the accession of a milker/
despot to the English throne; and we are confident that your
Royal Highness would prefer the lawful and smile, though
li-
utittd, dominion, over freemen, to the usurped and precanocs.
though absolute, control of slaves.
•• We size the occasion of the resent dutiful address, to con-
vey to your Ito, al flight:ads our sincere conviction, that no mili-
tary force will, filially. prevail over the people, or stifle their
intreaties fur that due share in the control owes their own affeitu
of which they have been gradually robbed by the borotigh-huld-
eri; and that a continued refusal on the part of these shameless
usurpers .o grant any reform whatever, can end only in anarchy
and blowdslied, and in a total destruction of the present RWllOl'l6Ol
of these realms. We presume, then. being no less attached to
your Royal Highness's illustrious house and person, than to the
preservation of internal peace, and the recovery of our just rights
and liberties, humbly and dutifully to entreat your Royal High-
ness, to take into your consideration the best means by which the
Commons House may be so radically and effectually reformed,
as totspeak toe true sense oldie people in Parliaments of a short
dur:aion. and thereby to secure fur tuition, in perpetuity, that
contented tranquillity at home, and that importance abroad.
which can be obtained in no other war than by the full. free, and
fair exercise of the acknowledged right of Englishmen to frames
eider in their own person, or by their representatives. those
laws winch are to dispose of their properties and regulate their
lives."
The Rth resolution was then read, " That this address be pre-
sented to the Prince Regent by Sir F. Burdett. Ma,ior Cartwright,
and John Cam Hobliouse, Kam."
Air. Thelwall rose, amid spoke in his accustomed strain,
fur a considerable pea iod of time.
After the Resolution lead been put by the Chairman, it
was caiiirti iinsi.imously in tlsesttirmaiite.
The following Kt solutions- were then also put lad car-
' ried : _ _ _ . . .

9. That it is the duty of every friend to Ida country to in
rut-ming mime for those persons who have been illegallynraim-
cd, wounded, and imprisoned, in consequence of the meeting
held on the 16th of last mcnth at Manchester. to afford such re-
lief as may be necessary to the sufferers and t.teir families, and to
bring to
That
the perpetrators of the outrage.
to. That a subscription be opened for the above purposes, and
that a committee be appointe,l,.with power to add to their num-
bers. to carry the intentions of this meeting into effect.
That Mr. Henry Brooks be the Treasurer.
it. That the iiinduct of Henry Hans, Esq. in the recent stand
he has made against the violation of the law in his own persori„
and co the behalf of his fellow su&rers, is such as commands the
respect, and ought to receive the support of his countrymen.
Mr. Hobhouse then addrewed the Meeting—he lauded the
efforts recently made by the free part of the Press towards pro.
curing general execration of the Manchester mirages, and
proceeded by saying, year after year we have seen inroads made
on the liberties of Englishimm. Innovation constantly takes
place against the will of the people.—We cannot now say with
the Poet—
Will is the pride of England, in which 1 was born."

. - .
Laws are altered contrary to the will of the people, and no
man, even at my age, can -ny he finds England as he knew
R. Year after year you hive s iineihiniz done agenda tee
rights of the people. The village reading room is even pro-
hibited, and nu opportuaity has beeu spared to bring dorm
to mere clods the form and free intuits of En„disLimen—to
confound the once free landlords and tenants of the soil with
the live stuck upon the soil, making them steasigeis in their
us n laud. (Laud arlauve.) All this h.. been dine In the
fnee of an Esit,lis'i Parliament. The Seditious Meetings
Bill at il the Reading Rooms Rill. gross attacks un English.
L betty, were passed by 6.10 Eiro,latimesi, appointed to take
care of the Rights of the People, and only 14 opposed it.
At last the attempt has been made to destroy by a single
blow the Ulll rrumining liberty of the pe.ple, namely, the
right of titeetiii,; to dhieuss public matters, without se hirh
right no countrs eau be free ! The most own:iota of the
Roman tyrants was persuaded hr could um be safe uutil he
abolished the meetings of the people. 'Tiberius abolished
those meetings, and the II liiiirlatlS scy the pcople only mut-
muted against the Patrichnts, a ho received base bribes to
connive at the violation of that most ancient liberty—The
people here will nut suffer themselves to be deprived of that
right !—( A loud cry of no, nn.) They a ill not bear oppres-
sant a Roma a murmur, and if your patricians, fotgetting
tic it ancient and honourable tonnes, should Dot come for-
ward, still we or .11 hope you yourselves will do what En-
glishmen did before you.—(Loud applause nod cry of Ura-
lvo ) Come forward peaceably insisting un your rights, and
the (I.id of Liberty w ill not give victory to the strong hut to
the just. Ministeis have overlooked the llenrys of France
and Edwards of Lit,:dietttl. They have forgot that a French
monarch was an eitemy to the law regarding High 'icemen.
(Loud applause.) We will hope our petition may reach the
Royal ear, and that the stutiments it contains null not be
lost. his Royal lliAtitiess the Pt iocis Regent will feel tlat
it comes Rum his best friends and subjects; that it is Mantle
advice from those who have nu interest in deceiving hire--
from those a ho wish to have a gaud government, and to
obey it. Who will resist when it corm s in the shape of
drawn sabres and Iciyoueis.—(Applante.) It has been said
we are disposed for bloodshed. Why we comic to exprtsa
hot roe against the shedding of blood, and to cast odium en
those who ate the au hots Of it. To mark the proceetlirg
tnni only to state, that the name of no illosieious
I •••• • • • ... , ~ I' r I l 11.111 (111 the twills tin. lilt Ito,-

efollll6. ....41Ctl w itllo4ll
disgust. The people . ..anise King James
would not give skein a free Part lumen. , and were the people
not tube allowed to meet In peace to consider the question of
Reform ? The Revolution was mole to procure a free Par-
liament. The people did not wish fur Revolution, but to
meet and ask for a free Parliament. In that effort they were
opposed by force, and the answer they reefiVeli was a charge
et dragoons. The lawyers were then prepared to support the
attacks, by saying Reform Meetings were unlawful, but the peo-
ple would prove in this instance the best lawyers. The I.IIW Au-
thorities only endeavoured to prove they were right, and the peo-
ple wrong. There was a prestriptiblo right which could nut be
denied the people, and that right they ought to exercise-It had been
said the excesses of the Reformers justified Ministers in what they
had done. He did not know of any excesses. No excesses had
taken place.-lCriiai of No, no.) Major Cartwright had brought a
million of signatures to Petitions calling for Reform. These
were deseribeil to he the result of a conspiracy, and when they
held public meetings to petition conAitutionally, they were to be
dispersed with 6A:l.s. Out of 13s Acts of Parliament, passed
last Session, there was not one that had the effect of enlarging the
privileges of the People.—Ninety were called Private Acts, mid
they were so private that the Country would never hear of any be-
nefit arising from them. The misapplicatioa of the public mo •
ney during the proceedings is Parliament was too obvious. Five
hundred thousand pounds had been taken from the public to go
to the Torrid Zone—to fight with jackalle and tigers, and with
the Caffres. slaves and savages of the Fish River. (Loud ap-
plause.) Mr. Hobliouse concluded by saying, it was the duty
of the Meeting to petition the Priam Regent. and say they were
not satisfied with his Ministers, who had wade deep inroads in
the liberties of the people, wise were resulted, by paper and legal
proceedings, to obtain free F.eprerentation ia the Commons Houle
of Pe..liament.—The Address, he said, he should have tile lie.
your to read. (Loud applause.)
Sir Francis Burdett then put the Resolutions, which were se-
verally carried by shew of hands.
Mr. Ilubhonse then read the Address, which was agreed to
with loud applause.
The Meeting was afterwards addressed by Mr. Thclwall sr.d
Mr. Peter Walker, after which thanks were votA to Sir Freicis
Burdett and Mr. llobliouse, each of whom tilanked the Meeting
for the honour, and the business of tire Meeting having thus sa-
tisfarorily and peaceably concludedoSir Francis Boehm and Mr.
llobhouse mounted their home and rode off with speed, as seve-
ral of the peop!ri had proposal to carry theist on their shoulders
to the house orSir Francis Burdett.

RETURN OF THE KILLED AND WOUNDED
AT MANCHESTER.

LETTER FRONI MR. PEARSON.
Manchester, Tuesday Afternoon.
Stn,--I have jost 'twitted that et Idler ham beets mars-led
In the (rpier. pot polite,: to base been signed by a Mr.
Hullsen,slating the a:nu:shut cal the persons wounded by the
Cavalry on Ilse 11(011 ult. Having myself coNcesed die
4'4,e1l of persons who were injured on that occasion, I tic g
obses ye, that Ills y base all been authenticated by the
best authatity, and I r•an hear 4... Hammy to the truth of a
great smasher of them. ()11 Sunday I attended at a sur-
geon's iu tls a brickbat's hood, and althongb there were cot
above fifty rottages in the tillage, I Saw ten persons who
Lad been wounded by the sabres °IOU' easily, who were
these to be (trussed. The carnago upon the occasion
hafß s dc•csiptiou. I ant confident that the moodier of
wounded is not less than bOO. 'the enclosed list was made
up last night, and numbets cat rams hare brut ever since
coining in. I ts:e man died last night, and another this
snot Icing, ill Use 1A.14111141 y.— I am, yollr'S, eke.
(h AS. PEARSON.
Men, by sabre or shot wounds. Those marked thus (h) are Se-
verely or badly wounded.
P. !Woo° Ilickron T. Settle 6
J. bl•Cabe b P. Blair W. Bradshaw
J. Preswick 6 S. Little b T. Lodge 6 J. Falmouth
C. Harper J. Taylor P. Clack J. Sandford'
.1. Hurst b E. Davison b John Allen 6 W. Bradshaw
R. Stattert b W. Leigh b .1. Willington tS. Jackson

J. 11od4ins 6 E. Conw; 6 T. Barlow
B. Bandylur 6 J. Cream 0 S..luckboli 6 P. Walker 5
J. Rigby 0 .1. Smithery 6 .1. Elliott 6 J. Lancaster
R. Whitaker T. Buckley 6 %V. Thornley bT. Hilton
.I..lacksun b .1. Killary 6 J. Thompson T. Boukerb
E. I)royer b Jua. Don 6 J. Bruce 6 W. Taylor 6
J. C:mpbell 6 P. \(•(.[;Jade bS. Alward 6 W. Ogden 6
Lancaster b W. Taymt L It. Wood b 11. Lappan 6
J. Berwick 0 S. Alleard J. Brooks b T. Brent 6
J. CI; Oman h D. Wood H. Froggatt G. Scriollield
W. Stewart 6 D. Miller T. Glut c b W Butteraorthb
W. Broadhurst S. Pollett b J. Ogden 6 W. Home
W. Burnley John Shields bJ. I 10,r,g \V. beismore
J. Harrison b T. Wilford 6 J. Entioale b W. Booth
P. Warburton LG. T.l) hie .1. Collier J. Boles
John Travis M. .'lahor M. Collins 6 T. Billington b
S. Poa•lett 6 J. Rhodes b W. Cheethiun 6J. Thoimon 6
.1. Bottomley 6 J.W inn,7syrs,bl Jones b J. Barka
S. Whalley 6 J. Kershaw, 6
Wemen, by sabre or shot wounds.
S. Green h E. Porpar b S. Greaves b M. llowarth b
A. lit ny on .5 Al. Nlart:a b R. Neale b M. Harlington b
M. Har.ly b 11. Hamilton b NI. Jordan Al. Doyley 6
.1. Dodd b S. Kenown b Jane Hogg 6 B. ?Arty b
F. Newby b A. Hun! b E. Waring b E. Adshead
oinsn wounded by the trampling of the cavalry.
E..lanies El :c. Haney b NI. Smith W oftall
A. Taylor h Ellen Harvey bM. A. Monk bE. M•Cullom
A. lianiels b Isa. Harvey .6 E. Ileynoida b M. J Ines b '
N. liti.ner E. Kcaling M. Betty b N. Jackson 6
M. Whisker H Bowtyß S. %Vilmore b A. Gill
E. Evans b

Wout nuWouncled by the truncheons of the special constables, or
eruchtsi by the nitiltitudu.
A. Wallworth bA. Al• Garth b M. Crosi. u S. M•Grath
C. Pen'''. Wood b C. Coleman b 14. Coekshnt
M. Ashcroft 6S. Golding 6 E. Picrop b S. Ctiesworth
S. horp b H. Rryitultas b 11. M— S. Marion
A. Roberts h M. Jarvis b E. Croft A. Wall

Men wounded by the trampling of the cavalry.
K. Cunlifte b \V Ora n G J. Smith F. Clark

Li;;;;;I J. Bell b F. Te;;;dale b ire 5
D. Coyle b P. Martin b J. Cathy D. NPCulluin
J. Weir b Petty b J. Grubb b J. Prince b
.1. 'rliornbury R. Walton b J. Psrr b G. Fula b
A. Brufuld b P. Alorandb E Clanophy h .1. Cook
F. flarkm b J. Grier W. Robinson 6 T. *raylor 6
Slen sounded by the truncheons of the +tad colistalm, or
crushed by the multitude.
N. Harrison b C. Washington G. Croft b W. Renshaw /5
S. Walker J. Leadbenter P. Mole 6 D. Webster 6
R. Steel A Campbell P. Reynolds J. Bell b
.1. steel F. Blunsion 5, T. Haywood b .1. Jones 6
J. Butter aged 74. J. Hargrave 6 J. Cook
J. Al•Cor.nellb A. W bite 6 J.. F oar.:

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