The Sun.
London, England, 1819-08-19 00:00:00

As there has been a good deal of misunder-

standing among the Papers respecting the rea
state of things at Manche,t r on Monday, we as,
sure the Public that they may depend on the fol

lowing facts :—lt has been supposed that TH
111tutARY advanced by the order of the Magistrates

to disperse the Meeting ; but this is erroneous.--
The Magistrates, who sat in a house overlooking

St. Peter's Field, which was the place of Assembly,

received Depositions that the several Bodies of
Reformers (as they call themselves) were march,
ing in military order into the Town, with

drurn6, bugles, flags, and other military in-
and finally, that HUNT'S Party, more
numerous than any other, were marching in,
under the culunianti of HUNT, KNIGHT, JOHN-

soN, and M'oartuousE, who were seated in an

open carriage, with Britannia on the Dickey. Upon
his information they issued their Warrant against
tiw four Ringticiders, and delivered it to NADIN,
the Constable, to he executed. NADIN was, Of

course, linable to execute his Warrant by means of
the Civil. Poly@R, and therefore applied for n►ili.
tary assistance. The body selected for this set.,

vice were not regular troy ts but YEISMANIIY CA-
VALRY, who were headed by Mr. TRAFFORD, a
Justice of the Peace. Atter the Riot Act had

teen read, this body advanced to enable NAnts
to execute his Warrant. The guilty consciences

of the Reformers naturally led them to suppose,

hat the object was to disperse the Meeting.

The

timid part of them fled with precipitation. The

more resolute rernaiued, and assailed the Con-

stables and Military 'vitt) brickbatq, and other

missile weapons, and a few fired at them from

windows, and the tops of houses. Not a single
shot was fired by the military, until long after•

%raids, when it became necessary for tlieirpersonni

safety.

No Paris Papers arrived this morning, none
having been publithed on Monday.

If Tha Morning Chronicle were not distinguished
for a systematic condemnation of the measures of
Government, the Public might be surprised at the
manner in which it speaks this day of the pro-
ceedings of Menday last at Manchester. It is ad-
mitted that 70,000 men attended this Meeting,
yet The Chronicle says, that " the assembly of
Radical Reformers" ought to have been " per-
mitted to expend itself in vapour, as it would assur-
edly have done." This is a bold as well as silly asser-
tion. Was not this Assembly to be addressed by the
infamous HUNT, and perhaps many other inflam-
matory Orators, and who can presume to say,
that the Meeting would have " expended itself in
vapour ?" It is well known, that a large body
of these Radical Reformers were in military
training, and though no arms had hitherto been
discovered, who can conceive that they were
merely learning the motions without intending to
practically exert them with arms. What would
have been thought of Government and the Magis-
tracy, as well as of all the men of property in the
neighbourhood, if, while there was a probability
that so large a multitude would assemble, and the
previous estimate of the expected number was
hardly less than to such an amoun', no pre-
paration had been wade t guard against