The National Register.
London, England, 1819-08-23 00:00:00

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DREADFUL EFFECTS

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MA NC EST Elt MEETING

ON MONDAY LAST.

The perturbed spirit of the Radical Reformers has
at last been gratified. The Manche: ter iueetiug baa
coded iu bloodshed.

Soon after twelve o'clock, the Maui'irate/ and a hotly
of constabire repaired to the ground. to which the Rsi-
gaded Rribriners had marched, and in. tense/peace of
depositions mode before several of his Majesty's Janices
of the Yeace,by many °flint most respectable Inlithitants
of the towns of Manchester and Salford, in which they
stated their•apprehrasion ado* and tumult as the probable
cosiseqnence of such an assemblage of persons from dis-
tant townships, marched• thither under banners so explicit
of rehel!ioui intentions, the Riot Act was lead, but it did
not appear to be ranch attended to by the iiirntuated
who continued to scowl Mud la It at the comae-

Irles,ac. in attemilrnee.
An hone lurviss:t espired, after the reading of the Riot
Aet,, the warrants of the Magistrates were carried intut
effect. The yeonsaury cavalry, in support of the Police
Officers, armed with warrants from the Magistrates,
dashed through the el owd, surrounded the brislings, and
arrested I ferny Host, Joseph Johnson. John Tyas, George
Swift, John Thaclusr Salton, Robert Wild, Thos. Taylor,
Nary Waterworth, Sands liargreavert, ;rod Eliza Grant,
who we. e carried off the field, and sent inunadiately under
escorr„to the New Bailey prison, whilst Caps of Liberty
nod the &rimers of Rebellion, were destroyed and tram
pled in the Jut. While the seizure WAS making by the
yeomanry, the 13th Missals, mud the alst and 148th Regi-
ments of [toot, a brigade of Artillery, and the Cheshire
Yeomanry, tirade their appearance on the ground. At the
anuimeat of surrounding the busting% a shower of brick
bats voti pas hug stones were 'Waled at the Yeomanry,
several of sham were struck, one of them so severely,
That he di tipped the reins, mud his horse till, by which he
was !titan, I off, rod WS skull was fractured.. Us was
carried to the Infirmary, and at four o'clock all hope of
Lis recovery was tied. lir +itir4 this gentleman, six other
persons were killed, our of whom was Mr. Ashworth, of
Are market-plsce, who was on duty as a special constable.
to the mime of the afternoon the fulloning persons
were taken lam onstady, in addition to !hose taken up in
the field, viz.—ValatazineVaulkore, James Johnson, Wm.
Iltillatw, Wm. Bolton, Edward Perth's, 'flionour Kesugh,
James Mnmbousr, John Knight, Isaac Murray, Thomas
Ashton, Thomrs Worthington, Abraham Whittaker, Wm.
A.:Mworth, Muses O'Mara, James MiLin, 'Thomas John-
son, John Wild, Anthony irtivrson. &e. tie. and were
escorted in the evening by the cavalry,lo the New Bayley.

Tiic tgon new in brace and ,iiiietn:tis for the mo-
ment, bat tbraikte of rcageaucc are preilotuittant in a very

great degree.
The number of Knikrafehl mt inze; be Mated, at a modes
Este calculation, al Ftf:llTV. One Maori anaia victim it a
gt idleman of the saute of. Hahne, uho is a rssitleut of the
sown of Manellestee, mail au individual of great property,
as well as respectability, and hasonly been a few months
starried.. He %%•35 in the churje that marroundedthe bus-
sings, and sine miscreant aimed a Wow at him with a
brick, a I.lcli hail effect, and levelled Idol with the ground,
end In the fondle fractured his &lull, which will ultimately
he his death k he lingers at present io great.agany. Three
petal:MS ate 4:41.1.ity dead.
After the meeting the populace assembled in great mobs
al Neu Cross, a place which is inhabited by the Irish, of
desperate character t. their conduct wns such as to require

iiiterimence again of the 0 hose presence 'no-
sh& ineffectual they were compelled to have recourse to

c o:et ive mensal es, and fired on the deluded

o,:iequence via-, hat oar persau ts as Awl throngll tire back

part of the the wowed of which is mortal ; another is

tiadergo.ug asiput.tti.•u of the leg: and ,everal
tither pefaUlli ace carried to the Laftreaary dreadfully
It is really distressing to hr wit lies. of this awful

essit ; tint the only circumstance That can reconcile

our frrline to it is, that ill will ultimately be attended with
betwfieial effects.

Toe in su New Croas proceeded to great length', and

actually br•lke aiwn a a hop in the nciAhhouchund, and

veers reveetoble person who happened to be posting was

mutied,

In ud ti inn to the above, we have been fn%oured- with the
tight of u letter frivol a gentleman in Manclieitre, of w Inch
late lotion ii: the tulortunne :

•• My xv,:Att DMOTHER.

ss The day of our much.drealed Nfeetinj is arrived, and I ar-
dently hope the occurrences that have taken place will prevent a
TTetition of such Meetings. During the whole of the morning,
large rinks. each headed by a flag and a eap of liberty, had been
snatching to the usual place of Meeting from every town and vil-
lk.,te wiutia twenty miles of this place. The ft ,s and caps of
berty were planted a., near to the hustings as the bearers could
gu2t,rlvc to plr.ce themsdree. .)Ir. Hunt dil Lot make In;,- entre