The National Register.
London, England, 1819-08-22 00:00:00

Or TO It

MANCHESTER MEETING

ON MONDAY LAST.

flip perturbed spirit of the Radical Reformers has
at laq been ;ratified. The Manchester meeting hits
eti,led in 1400thilea. •

Soon offer twelve o'clock, the MagTstrates and a body
of cow-tables repaired to the grossia to which the Itii-
gadeil P.M...liners had marched, and in 1.011•1191tqwe of
elepositions made before Fe% crut of his M.0.-ety* Jostic.s
of the l'e;ice, by matey of the most respectable inhabitants
of the town:. of Manchester anti Salford, is which they
stated their AllerelleMillll of I iot and tumult Its the probable
consequence of such no assemblage of persons t dis-
tant townships, mare hod thither under banner* so t
of rebellions intentions, thee Riot Act was read, but it did
not appear to be match attended to by the infatuated
c^owd, who continued to scowl and at the consta-
bles, akr. in attendance.

In hoer having expired, after the reading of the Riot
:lel, the warrants of the Magistrates wire (-Anil 11 intot
effect. 'Flit yeomanry cavalry, in support of the Police
Officers, anneal with warrants from the Magistrates,
al 'shed ihron;li the crowd, bin minded the bustrii4o, and
ni rested Ileniy Hunt, Joseph Johnson, shim Tyas,George
Swift, Jolia Thicker Swami, Roliert Wild, Thos. Taylor,
Mary Waterwerth, Saerh Hargreaves, and Eliza Grant,
is 'to ace earl ied off the field, and sent immediately tinder
vsenit, to th, New Bailey prison, whilst Caps of Liberty
mid the limners of Rebellion, ware destroyed and tram-
► led in the dui. While the seizure was making by the
Yeomanry, the 15th Iltissats, and the 31s1 and eSiti Regi-
ments of ['riot, a brigade of :Witte', , and :he Cheshire
Yeomanry, made their appeal ante ()tithe ground. At the
moment of ti round.og the hustings, a shower of Mick
bats mid rasing stouts were hurled at the Yeomanry,
39‘1•1111 of whom were struck, one of them so si setely,
tl at lie dropped the reins, mid his horse fell, by which he
ads piiclied off, riot his skit:l was fractured. He was
Cm lied to !be Infirmary, and at folic o'clock all hopo of
rem ery was fled. Besides this gent lemau, six oilier
prisons were min of whom was Mr. Asliwroth, of
the market-place, who was on duty es a spec tat constable.
In the course of the afternoon toe follow log persons
were taken into clistoily, in addition to thos-e takess no in
the field, viz.—Valentine Faulkner, James Johnson, WOl.
Billinge, Win. Bolton, Edward Perrino, Thomas Kestigh,
Tames Meolhouse, Julio Knight, Isaac Marelly, Thigna3
Ashton, Thomas Worthington, Abraham Whittaker, Win,
Ashworth, Moses O'Hara, IMPS MI kin, Thomas John,
aim, John Wild, Anthony Jeff-room Ac. putt were
est-oiled in the evening by the cavalry ,to the New Bay ley.
The town is now in race and quietness fur the too-
tomtit, but thre: Is of ven;eassel: are predominant in a very

great degas e.
The number of worts/led men may be stated, at a moth-
rate calculation, at EiGturv. Oat Margit tamale siclial is a
gentleman of the name of };aline, who is a re .ide:st of the
town of Nianeliester, and an iii.lis:dual of great property,
as w us respectahility, and has only been a few months
married. He %%a.: in the charge ;bat surrounded the kits-
tins, and s:wne miscreant aimed a blaw at him with a
1;6(4,01141.h had effect, and levelled him with the ground,
and in the fall he fract ill ed his skall, Mhicb Will ultimately
he Isis death ; lie lingers at present in peat agony.
persons are already dead.

After the alerting the populace asseinhled•in went mobs
•t New Crms, a place which is inhabited by the Irieti, of
desperate character ; their euudurt was such 11.4 to require
the Mirr F. truce agaiu of :he %Mae proorcre pro-
ving ineffectual they were compelled to have recourse to
coercive measuica, awl filed on the delude) multitude; the
consequence Mar, that cg:e person was shot through the back
part o. the s.ull, the a ound of which is mortal ; another is
this 'aquaria undergoi anipetati.,n of !Le 117: and several
other pereons are tarried to the Infirmary dreadfully
wounded. It is really. distressing to be w ;mess of thi, awful
arces•it, ; but the only cir. utast:awe tint ran reconcile
our Itsviiii;• to it that it till ohne:arty he attended a ith
ht netieial effects.

'nie m pb in New Cross proeeelei length!, and
mina:ly broke open a shop in the nrighbourhnnd. and
every reF.pectabie person s.ho happelnd to be passing was
sinned.

In midi:ion to the above, we have been favoured with the
tight of a kilts float a gratlrman iu Nlanclie.ter, of a Bich
the bolo in; is the mh7tance

•. MY Tir.‘R UltriTRIER,

" The day of our much-dreaded Meming is arrived, and I ar-
dently hope the occurrences that have taken place will prevent a
rvetition of emelt ,icetitigt. During the whole of tl:e moruPig,
kirge utrtivs, each it: &tied by a flag arida cap of liberty, had been
matching to ti.e usual place of Meeting from every tea n and rd.
,dage sitnin twenty miles of this place. The rags and caps of
liberty were planted as near to the hustings as the hearers could
-VOMfive to piece themselves. Mr. Hunt did not make his mire

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till nearly one o'clock. and after having waved his hat two cr
three times to elide applause. he proceeded to the business of the
day. He had, I believe, pooposeel two or three Resolutions,
which were of course passed with acclamation, when the hustings
wee,: surrounded by the soldiery, horse and Lot—the standard►
torn down, and those on the bustim_s taken into custody. The
former were immediately d.ttroyed—the- haft wen: safely
lodged in the New Miley prison.—The mob was quite OA Retire
in its retreat as it had been in its assembling, and the scene was
dreadful. One of car special constables i• killed, having been
trampled to death ; and one of our yeomanry (the son of Mr.
0. !Winn) was struck by a brisk-bat, and is, I fear in a .!anger-
ous sate. About So have been taken to the infirmary, but all
the injury yet done has been by ti empling ; neither musket,
pistol, or sabre, having been hitherto used. Newton's Lane is a
very rough neighbourhood, and the soltliers are this moment
gone there in consequence of turnohnt proccoeings, with their
pistols in their hands. I fear much toiseltief, but hope to write
you better news to-merro•►._l ant, &c. &c.
One of the Repo, tees of File Totes, silo seas at Man-
ch...de r, was among those who Mete mkt u into custody.
Gr his account of the psoceeliiigs, atter de.t•ribing the
asst.:rib:Mg of the 11‘11101111!P, Hunt's brio.; called to the
ch.tir, and the cerniu.iicsitie tit of die pi oceedings, lie
.ass,

At this *age of the bus:mess the Yeomanry Cavalry were seen
advancing in a rapid trot to the area ; the it ranks were in disorder,
and on writing within it, they halted to breathe their horses, and
to recover their reran. A panic seemed to strike the persons at
the outskirts of the meeting, who immediately began to scamper
is evert direction. Atter a moment's pialse, the tawdry drew
their swords, and brandished them fiercely in the air: neon
which Hunt and Johnson desired the multitede to give three
cheers, to show the military that they were nut to be daunted in
the discharge of their duty ley their unwelcome presence. 'lbis
they did, upon which -Mr. Hunt again proeeedeth This was a
mere trick to interrupt the proceedings of the meeting ; but he
trusted they would all gaud firm. He hail scarcely said these
words, before the Manchester Yeomanry Cat :ley axle into the
the veer, which gave way before them, and directed their course
to the cart from which Hunt was topaaking. Not a brick-bat was
thrown at them—not a pistol was fired during this period ; all
was quiet and orderly, as if the cavalry had been friends of the
multitude, and Intl marched as such in the midst of them. A
bogie .aan went at their head, then an officer, and then came
the whole troop. They wheeled round the waggons till they
came in front of them, the people drawing back in every direc-
tion on their approach. After they had surto ended them in much
a warmer *to prevent all escape, the rupee who commanded the
detachment went up to Mr. Hem, and said, brandioliing his
swop], " Sir, I have a warrant against you, and arrest you us
my prisoner." Hunt, after exhorting the people to tratuptillity in
a ices words, turned round to the officer and said, " I willingly
surrender myself to any civil officer who will show me his war-
rant." Mr. Nadir., the chief police officer at Manchester, then
came forward and said, " I will arrest you ; I here got infor
mason upon oath against you,' or something to that effect.--
The military officer then proceeded to say, that he hail a warrant
against Julinscia. Johr.son also inked for a civil officer, upon
which a Mr. Andrew came fermud, and Hunt and Johnson then
leaped from off. the waggen, and surrendered themselves to the
civil power. Search was then made for Itlorehoum and Knight.
against when maniac; hail also been issued. In the hurry of
this trarmiction, they had by soma rinses or other contrived to
make their escape. tom as Float and Johnson lied jumped
front the waggon, a cry was made by the cavalry, " have et
their lime." In coracqueneo, they immediately dashed not only
at the 11 egi which were in the weitya, bat those which were
Nord among the crowd, cutting most helimrimiautely to the
right and to the left in order to get at them. This set the people
running in all directions, and it was not till this act had been
committed that any brick bats were hulled at the military.—
From that moment the Manchester Yeomanry Cavalry last all
cumulate' of iititpor. A person of the name of Saxton, who is,
we believe, else editor of the lifanz•lizrter Observer, was standing
the cart. Two privates rode up to hint. " There," said one
of them, " is that villain, Saxton ; do tou run him through the
body." " No," replied the other, " I he.' rather not—l leave
it to you." The man inunediately made a lunge at Saxton.
and it war only by slipping aside that the blow missed his life.—
As it was, it cut his met and waistcoat, but fortunately (lid him
mother injury. A roan within five yards of us in another direc-
tion hail his note completeiy taken off by mblow of a sabre;
whilst another was laid prostrate, but whether he was dead or
had randy thrown himself down to obtain protection we cannot
say. Seeing all this hideous work going on, we felt an alarm
which any man may be forgiven for feeling in a similar situation :
looking around us, we saw a constable at no great dimence, and
thinking that our only chence of iafety rested in placing ourselves
under Lis proteetiva, we eepeakel to hint fur insistence. lie
inunediately took us into custody, and on our saying that we
merely attended to report the proceedings of the day, lie replied,
" Oh ! oh ! You then are one of their writers—you must go bethre
the Magistrates." To this we made no objection ;in consequence
he took us to the house where they were bitting, and in our rued
thither, we saw a woman en the ground, insensible, and to all
outward appearance, with two large gouts of blool on her left
breast. Just as we came to the house, the constables were con-
ducting Hunt into it, end were treating him in a manner in
which they were neither justified by law nor humanity, striking
him with their staves on the bead. After he had been taken into
the home, we were admitted also ; and it io wily justice to the
moan who apprehended us to state, that he did every thing in his
power to protect us from ell ill usage, and showed us every i-
buy consistent with his duty. In the room into which we were
put, we found the Orator, Johnson, Saxton, and some other
individuals of minor wee, among whom was another airman in
a fainting condition. Nadia the constable was also there. Hunt
and Johnson Seth awed him to chew them the warrants on which
they had been apprehended. This he refused to do, saying that
he had information upon oath against them, which was quite
suffijent for him. Hum then iedled upon time persons rteocut to