The National Register.
London, England, 1819-11-14 00:00:00

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1819•

of that boly we state it, never we recollect an
instance where the individual whose character or
conduct was thus at stake, did not either feel it his
Lounden duty to withdraw, or at least forbear to
vote upon such all occasion. There is a fine and
diivalrous spirit is Lis, which we hope never will
lw lost, fur it is the pride of seciet7,whilst the oppo-
site conduct, however it may be greeted as the re-
solute attachment to.party us one, and an amiable
tribute to fraternal affection in the other, yet, in the
old and honest language of Englishmen, would be
denominated nothing less than a gross and indecent

violation both of public and private liouour. Inno-

cence never 'eels concealment, to evade a charge
instead of meeting it is the attribute of guilt and
shame. The plainest understanding can compre-
' hend this. that the man who runs away, furnishes
by the very act of doing so a reason why we should
pursue him. The people of England can read no
stronger argument of the propriety and necessity of
that investigation which we seek and pray fur,
than the means, the dishonourable and disgraceful
mean resorted to, to evade:it. It is, we are aware
pretended, that an enquiry will necessarily be held,
whenever Mr. Hunt and his associates are brought
to trial. But it requires no small share of effrontery
in those, who yet talk so loudly of the theory of
justice, to propose that in a case wherein the minis-
tens of the Crown are in the first place, upon the
strongest grounds of presumptive evidence, suspected
of unconstitutional, not to say criminal conduct,
where the Magistrates of Manchester are in the next
place liable to the same charge, and lastly the Yeo-
manry, as illegally obeying illegal orders—that in
a case like this, Mr. Hera shall not only be tried
for his own offence, but be made also the vicarious
victim of the whole fraternity. Mr. Hunt may be
a fool and rogue, and vagabond, and his followers
as silly and absurd as you please, but the trial of
Mr. Hunt can never in any degree whatever settle
the question of 500 persons being killed, wounded
and trampled by the sabres and horses of the Man-
chester cavalry. A gentleman signing himself
Edmund Newton, no doubt a descendant of Sir
Isaac, has indeed, in a strain of admirable nonsense,
assured us that the whole question must hang upon
the trial of Mr. Hunt. This absurd reasoning, was
most *mishit:44)6ly summed up at the Nortia meeting
in a few words by Mr. flarbord, viz, that " whether
Mr. Hunt was acquitted or condemned, the record
of such acquittal or conviction could not even be
received as evidence upon any trial of the question,
which we insist ought to be the subject of enquiry."
But it may give some specimen of the shifts to
which the degraded partizans of these horrid trans-
actions are reduced to observe this great master of
reason, this secead Newton, gravely availing his
readers that if a parliamentary enquiry be institu-
tuted and the tneetiag should be round riotous, that
it may prejudice the public mied against Mr. Hunt,
and that therefore this sprig of patriotism thinks it
premature and improper to hold any meeting or any
enquiry upon the subject. And yet this amiable
man, so deprecating all prejudication, has,iust before
salensnly given to the public his wise and
graveetlechtioa, to which he boldly cia.;:snees
contradiction, that the " military were first assailed
by the people, before any eflbr t et' self-preservation
was made on their part,.and th.A.tlic said ani;itsre
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hearing evidence directly in the teeth of such a
statement, and that the Jury themselves declared
their unanimous conviction that the meeting was
" peaceable and tranquil until the military attacked
it." We beg pardon of our readers fur noticing this
miserable trash, but it may show the state of contro-
versy, and throw some light upon the signatures of
the Norfolk Declaration, of which Mr. E. Newton
is one. Our greatest subject of sorrow and unfeigned
regret is to see the number of Clergymen whose
names are appended to these infamous and inhuman
documents. In times like these, when the interest
and prosperity of that establishment to which we
belong, and in which is mitered our hope and our
greatest glory, are so deeply staked, it grieves us,
sincerely grieves us, to see the very ministers of her
gentle and peaceful altars, the advocates of bloodshed
and the enemies of impartial justice. " They that
tale the sword shall perish by the sword," is a test
we would gravely recommend to their sober consi-
deration. We would implore them to consider the
occasion and the circumstances on which these words
were uttered. To the magistrates also who have •
signed that document, we beg to propose the ques-
tion whether the rule and principle of justice they
have thus sanctioned is that by which in their own
sphere and jurisdiction they mean themselves to
act in fame? if it be, there is a crisis, an eventful
crisis indeed, arrived. There is resolazion already
raging in all the paroxysms of fury and the Lasted
blessing of Englishmen, equal law, vanished. But
we tviil still hope and believe better things. We
have talked and conversed with many of them, awl
we feel sincere satisfaction in believing that though
they have been led from party motives or from the
various ramifications of worldly views and worldly
interest to attach, in an evil hour, their hands to
such a declaration, yet that their consciences neither
approve the massacres, nor the struggle to evade
enquiry, and that they are quite as sensible as we
are to the total absew.eof all adequate justificatint
of those proceedings. Oh ! that men's own reason
and the pure dictates of conscience were but the
ruling couipa,s of th‘.ir cenduct, how Ivo:1M the
wurld be chang;:d 1! !

TEVEII IN SPAIN:
The arrivals o. Monday from the South of `pain
repeat, with tiny variations, thesame melancholy ac-
counts we have latterly been accustomed to receive
from that quvrter. It has been stated that the
fever had appeared 'on board the Spanish Patriots
one of the transports, when lying in the harbour of
Cadiz, and that two of her seamen had died of it.
That vessel is arrived in the Downs, and advices
have been received from on hoard which state, that
the master, Captain Durell, fidl a victim to the ma-
lady on the tburth day after leaving Cadiz. The
number of sick perions in Cadiz, according to the
official returns made on the 19th ult., the date of the
letters from thence, is 13,000. The deaths on the
16th -were 98 ;on the 17th, 88 ;on the 18th, 96 ; :` • • 1.;
and on the 19th, 10ti• The setting in of the rainy ; ..i*—_,b, xt.)
woos: was most anxiously baked our, as the only
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effiectual cheek to the disorder. The letter" font S r....1r,
Vir.
' Seville are dated on the 20th ; and though they d '9`..,
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not present the same picture of devastation as th .4.1,,f7r, .
Cadiz accounts, are sufficiently alarming. Th 4&-.. ~• ~.
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population ofSelvilie is nearly double that of Callao '.;.,..4ttiii:'')
and is crowded into a space eotnparatively small k ~ "..i,,,,,e,vit;,
the fever, therefore, Vence diffused throughout the 4`
ma..s, would prove still more fatal. Seville, forte- „I„ ,
nately, has hitherto suffered only from the minor
evils of a suspension of trad:, the deseeh;on of the
upper eltuises, and the terrors inspired by the .evil
hanging over theni and laying waste their vicinity ;
to their comparative security the rigorous precausi.
ons adopted seem .$q have chiefly couduced. Cases of
fever had occurrdd in 'great numbers, but they had c
latterly been watched with so much care,. and :the
remedies so rouvaly uplied, that very few wean.
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