The National Register.
London, England, 1819-09-06 00:00:00

THE NA tIORAI litGlSltft,

one rod of the country to the tither, the people should come
forward, and without voice ta I for a tirade of Ad s.
tratiolo.— (.%pplause.)-- It would have this este. I —ll untold
shr'Q the i,reat iireeedent tam* lit the people of Ea:.
I Ind of a disgo aced stool turned out Adtai•oistrationo.—( fa
ntaltioos applause.) Their *taros haft totototoit.: t tell to.
eke trot round,. to justify the amid of qr. Dont. rhos
natl.:nit of arrest was illegal. The arrest oa, jont•fied ou
truth. too. Those very wise defender- of Goverionsein halo
foutul out. that ao oath I-what oath i—nn oath to in fact.
to something that n man root swear to ? Nu! riot w bra di
they Mink of an Mltih to n m on's opinion I (ttnewliwAhter.)
Did any body before ever hem id such All shill)? At that
very moment. It any thing he knew, 5415110 WisrArre tniAbt
be making WC souse IEIIII re43r,,i11.4 811,11 I I.•forre a round
jlnit HI wise rut the Ntatieliester Ild;atrates— Lord Sidthout Is,
the Voted Secretary of State, to he vim, called. bit', on fact,
necoirdin% to the oi'd regfase, the Lieutenant of Police
(Lan:Mier and :toplame.) Sionebody, for aught he knew,
rni :In be sweari a iut his 'minion. this meeting wi I h• think.
end in the conflagration of Woarhinster.—(Eattgliter.s-11y
pussibtEty sanest respectable witness might he swearing a bionilar
oath before another sapient authority. a ellipyti dialed no doubt
for his wisdom. to di: the Civic Chair of Loudon. (Laughter. If
arrests: were to follow opinions which Bad a place in other men's
" heads, there was an end to liberty. Some wicked and foolish
4erihe in Me Courier hits insinuated as much as drat it was the
intention of the military to asawsitiate Mr. blunt at the Meeting
in MancheAL•r. (Cris]: of" Shame !") The Yeomanry of Man-
chester ought to wipe of such an imputation from their character;
abase all, let Englishmen bear in mind, that no real English
soldier was implitaol in these transactions, these cowardly pro-
ceedings. (Continued Shillliti of applztue.) Let them have the
'..issue who worn it by theisgoillunt attack upon a defenceless
throng of tmod'ontling men caul women. lie misted tlie,e Man-
chester yeomanry would throw the fiat libel hick in the teeth of
the ('oe.rec scribe. Whatever be toes -ghwy of the slay let the
yeomisitry have it—it did not belong to iite English soklier, who
maintained hid country's honour thioughnut the worlol—wlarse
name all over Europe WiL4 synottimous with an omanmoterable
• spirit of valour, and who 111:1.4 not more spoken of in his own
country than in foreign clinics fur his valootr, his humanity,
~,amodusity, and forbearance, when the foe no longer resisted.—
, •r6t4i thous of applaoase.) Ile then vrneeeded to state that he
• thonght Mr. Donn on that trying ocat•ton conoluctiol himself
with great propriety, lie hail baffled and defeatist., and evpoted
the Nlanchester MagCdrates, amdacted himself with wisdom
and propriety, and he was glad td give Min tile tribute orappladie
for the coradurt he pursued.
Mr. Richter Mom 'moped forward and read the floatation-or.
Sir FRANCIS llt DE cr. Dart. \I. P. in this Chair,

It want re olval, I. That by lair Tad custom the Rtople of this
enantry have a right publicly to assemble. to petition the King
and either flowed Parliamcnt, or to discus any public matter,
to complain of any grievances, and to propose such lawful roue-
dies as tit them may &wormer:es-wry.
tt. That the late Meeting of the People at Manche:ter, called
" to consid..s. the propriety of athniting the most legal and effec-
tual means of attaining a Ilefium iu die Commons llotac of Par.
liament," wus Ala:krill meeting.

5. That it appears tout, that when the People were thus law-
fully assembled, and woead:sly perfitrming a public duty, they
were attacked by Yeomanry cavalry, under the direction of local
magistrates. and that some of them were killed, others were mu-
tilated, and a still Jaeger number miserably wounded and oaamitel
upon.
4. 'flint this octrage on the defenceless and peaceable people.
against all law, and in delianccatfittstiez, is an attempt to dusuoy
all the yet remaining Libertiesat
5.. 'feat thi:. new mode (the only one of late resorted to) of
answering the well-grounded Complaints and Petitions of the
People, Is one of the many lamentable conseqttenees of the
house of Commons being every thing but what it ought to be, a
real Itepnrsentation of the People.
6. That the liberties we still possess can only he prem-ves.l.
tho.e we have lost restored—the peace, the comfort, the happiness
of the People be promoted and their property protected by
making the Elective Franchise so equal, so extensive, and so
secure that it shall be impossible to corrupt the Electors ; and
the duration of Parliament so short, that it shall be the interest
of the Representative to act faithfully towards his constituents.
7. That an Address to bit Royal Highness the Prince Regent,
founded ou the foregoing Resolutions, be now read.
kir. Iltilbluishe then read the following Address
"To tits ROYAL HIOUNESS VIC PAINCE IIF.GENT.

" The humble and dutiful Address of the Elt.mas of ‘s.-t-

minster, assembled in New Palace-yard, on Thursday, the 2tl
day of September, ISI9-
.• ete Eleetorsof Westminztsr. assembled in Palace-yard,
in pursuance of public advertisement for that purpose duly male.
beg lcavc to address your hayed Highness in language., such as
we hope it may become the eitisens of a free stnte to s,:attr, and
the Chiel)lagistrate de powerful, though oppressed people, to
hear. _

We homily rrpresstit to pit,: Highness, that the ac-
mums we have received of the realm onauge lanclies-
tee, have impressed u'e believe. with the great
majority of our fellow. countaymen, with feelings di:lame. :d; ri
and intripatrou ; and that we esteem it the more our duty to
expre.,s those feelings on this wornentOus oteasion, bocause the
approbation which the Ministers of your Royal Highness have
bestowed ou the .4111 C events, which have eauaud our regret and
alarm, has ati;nd,d us an additional proof of a. settled design and
uurisLirit etrurt. not only to reject the petitions, but to silence the
complaints of the pc9pl,-; and either by secret art, or open vio•
lence, to contrive that the vei:e of truth shall never reach the

" To defeat etis unlawful project we inform your Royal
:It''', that in the open day, in the face and by the CatilMarl,l of
those appointed t;; preserve tae peve, blood has been 60i—that
the. inhocent hnvc been cuddeamed to solitary confinement, and
the laws of England thu ; notoriously inftinget by a magistracy
either ignorant of those lima, or agitated by false alarms, and
inflain,al by willal joilonsies to a t:uhttion of their own duty,
and the rights of their fellow suOjcetss
" We humbly re :went to yonr Royal Iligham, that an long
at the COMPIOII4 llta,e of Parliament shall not speak the tan-
fplage of the Canniou..s, the wis..es and wants of the people of
mese realms cat: only he ocpre.ate., in their petitions and reinon-
strances adopted at Ilia it pte.liz meetings.
•• That such assemblies of the people for the representation of
ptMlie grievances, and Mr the diaelloitoa of subjects countxted
wit.' the good gust:lament roil well-being of toe state, have at
all times been u part of the practice of the 1,-ngl.sh nation, and
have been mteemed not may legal and constitutional, but übso-
lately riceewairy to the pre,,:rration of puulic liberty, and to that
due interroume between the Clown mid the ?topic upon which
the ..ceurity of the one, and the protection of tie miler, smut
equally depend.
" That upon such right of assemblage and interference on the
pan pithy people, was formed and mutated the title of yota
Royal iligimeas's illustrious house to the throne of these
realms, and upon such right only.
" lout. notwithstanding the pmzress of corruption and the
inert:a*: at V inisicrial 11UOtet, tla right of assenibling has been,
ip tot.tis VOW. resiocteti, and, together whit trial by jury, has
maven() iireventitl u e toga/ extineutm tit liberty.
C:.: cv..tat iii.;alay elude has been ego:get! a,;ainar
:lit 1..0 Iw:ca.; at Manc“ester, inasmuch u, t .e _aid
43‘, to discus the most legal and inetllctual UltaOLs Of
rif ir.n in the CaLOMOOS I lotss::. of Parimment, is
utte.t; w.,hout foundUicou, caner ip loiana or pr:set!ce; ::tat

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meetings of the people for the above purpose bare be n resole-
inead,sl and pa/4cl Improved by more Ciao on: Alonstcr of
Engiand, ahea at the head of his predent hsje.ty's vjanet,..
" 'roe. we. 'iterate C. can kook upon the fate m Mary dispersion
of, and mi ,wary esecutiutt done upon, an a. caib:y of the people
at Maaca,"ster. called and usest togAllet under Vic safe:tunl of
known Lw.atos estabildied asao, in no other ligitt than as a
violation of tile tigat anJ lth:ities of a free people. which we
submit to your 'loyal highness it would have Letter be•
come your Royal iliguness's Minister, to censure dean ter
aiii,rneal and ite moreovet state ow sincere belief; that if surly
viutatinn of law be sattlred to pea into a precedent. the limited
wainarchy, which is tic co,htiattional government or thaw
rc.dol3. trtlt be hereafter convened into a despotism. founded on
tic power. and inuintuinei only ly tite pnvicr, of tae sword.
" that we. thrnitne, /sunlit it oar imp:•rioas 41,1. y, arid dusk
of all i:Mglidimcia.to JelLlollSrriire 04.11:1111111 against the establials-
ment of such u prxed.ut; and we are willing to hope. that this.
our Remonstrance. bake..., as we trust it aitl be, by the expressed
sentiments of our countrymen in other puts of Great itritair.
will be a sufficient re.istance to, and the repetition of,
' the said wicked attempts to thaaroy the free CUU4fillltloll the,e
kingdom . And we do also humbly recommend to, and entreat.
your floral Iliglinnis to diem his Majesty's Law Officeis to pro-
s:a:lite the authors. actors, and abettors, of the late minders awed
cruel as nults committed at NlL:riches:ler, that his Nlajcsty's
jects may, to their great satisfacticto and the allaying of distion-
tents, find they are goveinvsl by a Prince who sympathises with
I •
the feelings of his people, and considers their injuries his ov.u.
"We venture humbly to assure your Royal llighntss, that
!.altimagli evil counsellors and false foetid. may propose to your
Royal highness to confide not in the aff:eo:us of the people. but
in that large anny, now, as we think, unconstitutionally arrayed
in time uttitace ; yet we,llis I:ijesty's affectionete but free-buna
subjects' fe...1 that we have no Hasson to apprehend, any inure
that we should have patience to bear, the tier:Mien of a tuilvt4ry
despot to the English throne; and. we arc confab:sit that your
Royal Highness would prefer the lawful and smile though
li-
mited, dutoitdon, treetnen, ni the usurped and precanunea
though absolute. 000trol of slaves.

•• IVe seize th., occasion of the present dutiful aildr. •ss, to row-
vey to your Ito, al Highness our tuncere conviction, that no mili-
tary force will, finally, prevail over the people, or stifle their
intreaties for that due share in the runt, of over their own affair.
or which they have bcen ;.,,ratlually rubbed by the borough-hold-
ers; and that a continued refusal on the pan of thew sha:tel.•xa
usurpers to grant any term's) wbauver, can end only in inanity
and bloodslied„.and in a total ilestrucica of the present audio/kit
of tli;se realms, We presume, then. being no less at.taeve,l to
your Royal lliglinest.% illustrious house and person, than to the
pre,ervaoluit of interred peace, and the recovery of our just right,
and liberties, humbly amp dutifully to entreat your Royal High.
ness, to take into your consideration the hest 111 eilthi by which the
Commons /louse may be so radically and effectually reforms %,
as to speak the true sense of the people in Parliaments of a short
duration, and thereby to secure for thi • nation, in perpetuity, that
contented tranquillity at home, and that importance abroad,•
,which can be obtained in no other way than by the full, free, and
fair exercise of the acknowledged right of Englishmen to frau:r.
either in their own person, or by their representatives, ti.a•c
laws %lea& ere to dispose of their properties and reipiLitz their
lives."

The nth mention was then read. That this address be pr.
seated to the Prince Regent by Fir I.Burdca. lajorCatiwright,
and John Cam Hobhouse, Esq.*"
Mr. Vietminh io,e, anti spoke in his accustomed strain,
for a considerable period of time.
After the Resolution hail here pot by the Chairman, it
was carried the affirmative.

The following ttrsuiutiosii, west then etilia pot and car-
ried :--

That it is the duty of every friend to His country fatalist in
procuring redress for those persons who have been illegally maim-
ed, wountlul, and imprisoned, in consequence of the meeting;
held on the With of last month at Manehe,ter, to afford such ra...
lief IL4 may be necessary to the sufferers and their families, and to
bring to puni-hmer.t the perpetrators of the outrage.
W. That a subscription be opened for the above purponi, and
that a committee be apoointed, with pinvcr to add to their num-
bers, to carry the intentions of this meeting into efftct.
It. That Mr. Henry Brooks be the 'Treasurer.
12. That the conduct of Ileury Hunt, Esq. in the recant stand
he has made againat the %iulation of the law in his own peace,
and on the behalf of his fellow sufferers, is such as commands the
respec,. and ought to receive the support of his countrymen.
hir. Ilubliouse then addre*ed the Alerting—he lauded the
effhrts recently made by the free part of the Press towards pro.
curing general execration of the Manchester outrages, and
proceeded by saying, year after year we have seen inroads made
on the liberties of Knglishmen. Innovation constantly takes
place against the will of the people.—We cannot now soy with
the l'oet--