The National Register.
London, England, 1819-11-15 00:00:00

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No. 229.—V0L. XII.]

Voliticat Llettoopel

THE late County Meetings,
Tortance of their object, from the
attendance, unequalled in sump
talent, and in respectability by
dents, constitute .an seta too
suffered to pass hastily into Ali,
whilst not only the causes from
are in full operation, but also
intended to counteract their benefit
whilstlxlrruption is at work with
energies, anti influence is coot
where it cannot enforce conviction,
up more of those notable doct.
Declarations. Yes, the loyal
invited to declare that acts of
questionable, if we may not be
the most atrocious kind, ought
vestigated or punished ; and above
the face of truth, a direct, palpable,
falsehood, viz. "That the conduct
Magistrates and Military of M.
-to undergo an investigation before
rals of the land," an assertion
groundless, though we hope the •
of England will yet male it
fact the shameless character of
meats of declaration constitut
features of the times we live
days, a plain, open, and manly
opinion, alike suited to the
and honour, was the grand feature
fercoces and discussion, and the .•
itself outnumbered in support;
argument, retired from the coal
4 the propriety of submitting
weight of opinion arrayed against
:l,eir individual sentiments might
But now, with equal disregard '
those ancient rules of honour,
Ilamlet of the country is ransacked
signatures, " per fa: atone .
against decisions fairly and publicly ,
and even thoac Whom any honourable
formerly have:thought-scarcely
such an imputation until
cleared, we mean the very persons
moving earth and heaven, and
declarations against all enquiry
Duke of Wellington and Lord .
had the assurance to attach their
extraordinary
.productions, thotigh
thesc.two gentlemen is not onl
cabinet, necesssarily an object
liamentary enquiry would most
but reported and.believed to be
at whose prosiing•instigation the
the citizen soldiers of Manchester
Ties was addressed, .with the
Regent attached to IL A brother , untwists
stipendiary magistrate, Mr. Hay, whose nanasulinks
foremost In the list of that anomalous corps.:if the
New Bayley at Manchester, whose suroniarrosethod
of quelling tumult before it has been. begun, is the
-direct object of investigation, stands also pensoiseot
amidst the wise and lantortrable names done of
the declarations We have often attended the
House of Commons, where subjects of enquiry
affecting the character or conduct of members has
amen brought forward, and to the honour and credit

enquiry upon the subject. And yet this amiable
own, so disproesting all prejudication, has just before
simply given to the public his wise ea
grave decision, to w:iieli he boldly .ehallenges
contradiction, that the " military were first assailed
by the people, before any egort of,self.preservatisw
was made on their part, said that the said military
Cee
were justided in .acting as they did." With t
to the ehollenge of contradictiou wecan only ye
.that toa reamer at Oldham sat till by was sicit of

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_ fever,
masa„ wr .
nattily, has hitherto suffered only from the minis
evils ore suspension of trade, the desertion of the . •
upper etera, and the terrors inspired by the evil 5:,,tt1.......r /,•‘••,,
ladming Agit them and laying waste their vicinity ; ' ~,,.. ,
to their corujileative security the Agonies precatiti-
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ens adopted seem I. have chiefly conduced. Cubes of 4.....
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fewer had rzeurted in great neither:, but they halt e-. NJ, -
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latterly been watched with so math care, and the ,filr ,-1--f •
.i.
remeilica ao promptly applied. *lug very il:w teriai. . Atie A.:l
totted ffotalibi: 'The eaawmaigeatiewwith the neigh- • .v..),....../-. ..
hot** towns was gaits mat alt .and ite eamlY:r ,; i.r_.,..4, vs.:
of ini:gratitnu was abtissated at taw thitcl of the nNIC. '.
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Our iling, fromititution attli it ab)4-
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MONDAY, hitiltEMBER 11, 1819. [Pews 94d.
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roopect.. .of that body we - it, never we recollect en hearing evidence directly in the teeth of such a
instance where the individual whose character or statement, and that the Jury themselves declared
t, from the high ins- conduct was thus at stake, did not either feel it his their unanimous conviction that the meeting was
the character of their bounden duty to sw, or at least forbear to " peaceable and tranquil until the military attacked
-umbers, in rank, in vote upon such an on. There is a fine and it." We beg pardon of our readers for noticing this
by any former precc- chivalrous rpirit in
te° memorable to be be lost, for it is the • • of society,whilst the oppo- versy, and throw some light upon the signatures of
blivion, and especially site conduct, how it may be greeted as the re- the Norfolk Declaration, of which Me. E. Newton
ox
um which they arose solute attachment pasty in one, and an amiable is one. Our greatest sebject of sorrow and unfeigned
to whilst the engines tribute to fraternal in the other, yet, in the regret is to ace the number of Clergymen whose
snefits are in full play, old and honest 1 of Englishmen, would be smite names are appended to these Infamous and inhuman
with all its arts and denominated nothi ,less than a gross and indecent documents. In times like these, when the interest
ommanding obedience violation both of psi and private honour. 'luno- and prosperity of that establishment to which we
tion, in order to trump cence never seeks went, to evade a charge belong, and in which is centered our hope and our
:uments called Loyal ; }tit instead of meets he attribute of guilt and greatest glory, are so deeply staked, it grieves us,
yal good people are shame. The pl
teal
understanding can compre-
sincerely grieves us, to see the way ministers of bee
of at least the most !tend this, that t •• , who.runs away, furnishes I gentle and peaceful,altars, the advocates of bloodshed
e allowed to call them by the very set of gso a reason why we should and the enemies ofintpartial ju' • *They that
t not to be either ia- pursue him. The
... ! , - of England can read no take the sword shall -perish by I .."," is a text
shove all to declare in stronger argume • • fill propriety and necessity of we would gravely rectottunend to their sober ccani.
demtion. We would implore them to•consider the
pable, andunblushing that investi • -!. we seek and pray fur,
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duct of the Manchester than the means, dishonourable and di/graceful oecas on and the circumstances on which these words
Manchester are about means, resorted to
..„. . s c:it. It is, we are swage were-uttered. To the magistrates also who have
signed that document, we beg to prelim-the guess
efore the legal tribe- pretended, that • 1° will necessarily ,be held,
tlon whether the rule and principle of justice they
rtion as vet ilerfectly whenever Mr• sad his associates ore brought have thus sanctioned is that by which in their own
be voice of the peOple to trial. •But it - no small share of effrontery sphere anti jurisdiction they mean themselves to
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true hereafter. In in those, who •T • , ft loudly of the lineny td fuisloe? if it be, there is a crisis, an overused
f these modern instru-
justice, to pro.. is Case wherein the minis-. Indeed, anived. There is resolution already
ist-all the paws-Inns of fin and•the berated
!tee one of the worst ters of the -C • in the first -place, upon the iiswarte of Englishmen, oral law, -vanished. BA
i in. In our better stro-ngeit growl, - , ptive evidence. suspected Am mai still-hope and behests Indus things. Wad..
nly eonflict.of honest of unconstit , • -4 s not to my criminal conduct, juive talked and conversed with PlauY of slime, and
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saintenance of freedom where the M -., .. Of him:Wow are inibaisaas r 41411rn1skager. gatisfastie.44 1'1461g
Arm bon led from party motives or (seas
Feature of political ail- place liable to •- e charge, ,ant lady the Yen. t Limoca •
a tsons.of worldly views and woe y
the party which found manly, as ill- • ittg illegal 1111,60—ihat in isiseig. lie in an evil hour, their hands to
t, and outreasoned by s case like tbk, ! ant shill not sok tallow ingda a ion, yet that their conseisnees neither
.nor the struggle to made
atest with &conviction for his own , • • hemade also the viteniesk 4111r1"
mseutry* . t they are quite as sensible m tee
to the majority and victim of Lbw , fivesesity. Mr. Hunt may le aci,toi visiwal dell adecemia dastiliaaSks
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inst them, even though a fool and retie, vagabond, and his followers of those .0181 Oisciromejs_9ol repot
ght remain unchanged. as silly and • , . you please, hut the trial of and that .
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ruling compass ottleis Aselest4 lbws, would the
I both of decency and Mr. Hunt eat ne in any degree whatever settle
world be c 1! I
every corner, every the question of • ! persons being killed, wounded .........................
eked to get names and and trampled sabres and horses of the Alan- FEVER IN SPAIN.
The arrinil4 if Friday from the South of Spain
'reps," to proclaim chester ear*. i gentleman °signing himself repeat, with few variations, thetuune meluucholy 'to.
iblicly tried and made, Edmund Norton, no doubt a descendant of Sir counts we have latterly been secustotued to receive
mourable man would Isaac, has in4oed, 4 a strain of admirable nonsense, from that qtwrter. It has been stated that the
fever had appeared an board the Spanish Patriots
* fit for society under Assured us t the hole question must hang upon
one of the transports, whenlying -in the harbour of
the trial of t. This absurd reasoning, was Cadiz, and that two of her seamen •bad died of it.
honourably met and
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„crocus implicated, are most sadden/6y mmed upat the Norfolk meeting That vessel is arrived in the Dowel, and advice!'
id themselves*
in a few .w . Harbord, viz. that " whether have been r caved (ruin on board which state, that
ng signi
Mr. Have ins . Wad us. condemned, the record the master, . tain Duren, fell a victim to the ma-
y. .Foriestanee, I,klie lady on (he-iburtL day after leaving Cadiz. The
uittal convistion could not even be ' --• ' •
Palmerston haul bollv .411441eq nuniber of leek peons so Cadiz, awarding to the
nee as.evid •• .upon any trial &she -question, official returns. jade on the 19th ult-,she date of the
their names 0 those
which we insist tto be the subject of enquiry." letters from thence, is 13,000. The deaths on the
tough the inner of But it may gi epa.japan of ;the shifts to 16th were 98 ;ea the 1'411,18 ; -on the 18th, 9/i;
ly as a -member of,the which the d rtisaus of those hertrid trans- and on the 19th, 106. The setting iu of the rainy
season was most anxiously looked for, as the only
whose conduct a par- actions are seaucetir to 0
, blerve tlio great math of effectuel check to the disorder. The letters from
at materially concern. reason, *is secant biewton, gravely asatteing his Seville are dated ou the 20th ; and though they de
le the very individual readers that if.aggrliamentary enquiry be instku- , not present the Mille picture of devastation us the
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the letter of thanks to toted and-the aseeVng should he found riotous, that i Cadiz &woones, are sushi iently alarming. he
, population of Selville is nearly double that of Cadia,
ster fur their batches issaay psejudion tills public mind againsi Mr. Mini, crowded ni, end is into a space
name of the Prises andahat dignifies:this sprig of Patriotism thinks it ' the tiwer, therefore, if once diffused throughout the
alter of that nongieue premature wad impteper to hold any meeting or any mass. would prove still more fatal. Seville, fortes.
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