The Sun.
London, England, 1819-11-25 00:00:00

ed to be carried into execution, would be had no
doobt, end in despotism.
Mr. BacTea WILBRAHAM entered into some ex-
planations, in the course of which he mentioned
that most of the statements which he had given
yeverday were derived front information on oath,
and the rest on the word of Gentlemen of the
highest character and respectability.
Mr. EGFRToN BRYDGEs WaS understood to ad-
mit the necessity of inquiry, but at the same time
to consider that the House of Commons was not
the place where it conk! be carried on effectually.
The Magistrates felt as anxious as the House
cold he to have the case fully investigated.
Sir Wm. DE CHEsPIGNY contended, that the
Riot Act was an Act of warning, which, in the
11Ianchester case, bad not been given, and con-
ferred do power to disperse the people till an hour
after it had been read. lie wished to state an
important fact. He knew a venerable Clergy-
Matt, a man of piety and character, who, impelled
by curiosity to see Mr. Hunt, had waded through
the crowd assembled at Manchester as far as the
bustings. Having sati4ed his curiosity, he was
returning as fast as his age and the multitude
would perenit, when he heard the yeomanry gallop
with great velocity. They stopped, and formed in
line opposite the house in which the Maeistrates
were sitting. He then saw some person come out
of that house, and make a short address ao the
soldiers. They then clashed their sword's toge-
ther, dashed forwards, and forged their *ay into
the crowd. He saw Hutt seized, and the flags
torn ; after which the cavalry turned round. and
commenced the work of destruction and death.—
He then endeavoured to escape through a street
opposite the hustings, but when he came there he
found soldiers placed across the street. Lle en-
treated them to let hiin pass, but no ; they would
not allow him, and forced him back into the scene
of action. He then ,xperted to he cut down,
when lie recollected that a friend of ois Lad
house in the place; he hurried towards it, his
friend saw and admitted hitt, and oece in safety he
repaired to the window ; he then saw a poor titan
take Shelter under the same door, pursued by that
sante trumpeter, who cut repeatedly at him, and
even triedoo force his horse up the stepsof tl edoer,
to tench him more effectually ; the man ultimately
Leapt! into the area for safety. %Viten such facts
as this were toored on such respectable authority,
he trusted that nobody would be hatdv enough in
the Eloise to vote against an Amendment, insist-
jog on the necessity of inquiry.
Lord NuaetaT complained that Ministers were
not contented with assuming the fact of the
ille-
gality of the Matichet,ter Meeting, •bto pretended
that it had haen admitted to he so by his Right.
Ikon. Ft land last night. This lie denied. It was
from the fact of that admission that depended the.
life of the cot-pity now called for. The evidence
given by the Nuhle Lord (Castlereagh) was inad-
missible; because it was no evidence in chief, but
ott suppositions, and because he had made himself -
a party to those transactions, by advising the
Royal Thanks to be expressed on the subject.--
The decision of the Grand Jai y at Laticasttr lead
been adverted to,. as if it had tiled the legality at
the meeting ; but it was no such thing. The
qatotion was merely, whether certain individuals
shoold be put upon their trials under Lord Ellen-
hotongh's Act, alai had nothing to do with lega-
lity. Eve;, had the Lancaster Grand Jury pro-
nounced the Mat,che,ter meeting illegal, the
country had the unanimous declaration:of another
J,lty, the Coroner's Jury at Oldham, that the
ante thug was perfectly legal. Granting all that his
Mal -sty's \hoisters supposed, it would not pro-
ceed one bugle step towards vindicating their
coo-11,i fur having advi,ed so precipitate a letter
of thauks. It it were even right to employ any
military force, he conceived that it ooglit sot to
have beau the Yeomanry, as many of them were
the masters of the poor wretches who were cry-
ing for wages. An important fact had been stated
to him, out authority which pettedly satisfied him
of its truth, and which he was ready to bring to"
the B,r of the [loose. It was, that issues of wine
and braroly had been served out to the Yeomanry
before the charge. He had also been informed,
by the same authority, that some days after the
Pith of August a number of Constables had met
in one otethe public streets, broken their staves
and burnt them, and said they would no longer
setae under the orders of the Magistrates. An
Hon. Gentleman opposite had told the House
that the Courts of Law were ripen. XVII() was
this confider in the Oltima ratio of Juries ? The
very authmities, who, two years ago, had sup-
ported the Indemnity Bill.—(Hear, hear, hear !)
What had the House been told, when actions had
been brought against Lord Sidutouth for an un-
due exercise of power ? That Jades were not a fit
tribunal to decide on such cases. And now it
was Parliament that was represented as the unfit
trihainal—(l-lear, hear !)—Was there to be one
law for the Radicals, mad another for the People ?
lisrhat was the 11 'use to lie called upon to dos?
Were they to limit the liberty of the Press ? to.
pass a Bill of Indemnity ? or to suspend the Ha-

;heal Corpus ! It was only to misgovernment
Ow the great diseases of na!ions were to be at-
tributed. Toe people of England were naturally
loYal, peaceable, and religious. What had alf
t•red their character, if it was altered ? lie was
grievud when he heard the Hon. Member for

Brainbef'_speak last night of the prevalence .pt
/111p!;luty, and he trusted that the love for lic•
of that Honourable and distinguished indi-
vidual had led him into an exaggerated belief on

that point. What effect had the trial of that poor
t wretch Carlile produced ? Had not h s hdretaced
attempts to degrade Religion excited a thrill of
horror tloough the whole Court, and produced a
Verdict of condemnation ? It u spirit of blasphemy
,edition existed, it was not to by met by
ditugeonsand chains. But let the people be etn-

ployed. Let trade and manufactures revive. Open
a commercial treaty with South America ;
!kat cannot be done, let our faithful Ally Ferdi-
nand be prevailed upon to-open some of hi, ports
to our merchandize. Those were the means of
changing the spirit of the peOple. He then re.
probated the removal of .Lord Fitzwilliatn from Ilks.
post. IJet the Ministers beware lest, whilst they
attempted to-degrade such a man for having shown
Wpa.ermil feeling. to the people• and the Coustitu-
-1,,nal jealousy of Englishmen, they degraded their
own bovereign.—(Llear, hear.)---If the House