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nineteen Persons, " on behi-,lf i44ublic M e'eting
'ialichester, on the 13th day '1319 ;
" an'l
• .o‘," r purporting to be a 4' Petit'Ori,if 'the Inhabithnts
4.1,01 e Tfmn and Neighbourhood Of Strickiiiht; as agreed tirby
fv,.
,annittee appointed by afltesnluOon of a Public Meeting,
lrewtng np and agreeing. to the iimel"
I am, Sir; ynurtuostiottedieut bunt bit Servant,
• lie H. HORHOUSE."
Hunt; -Rig: Nb: g; Norfolk-Street, Strada."
C;p,
• OF THE prntrEE•aSENT BY MR. HUNT TO
• LORD SIDMOUTH.
ci. • '"
8, Norfolk-street., Strand. May 29, 1819.
L°Rrb-4011iledetivered the Manchester Remon-
,l
~ rice and I fie Stnelsoort Petition into your Lordship's bands,
ti~yiril Highness the Prince Regent, you,
your aceusttw.4
ti pOliteeess, assured me that you would
.1v:7;11 over, aiif-4 r.rdessit,ctitatained any thing imro pper. you
• deliver Mister. When I delivered a
Remonstrance passed at a Public !sleeting in Palace-
;erd in Septiraher last to your Lordship for the same purpose,
"J, a.ith,all the urbanity of a finished Courtier, gave me
✓ e 'q'tlY the sam,,answer, although you ultimately declined
l
i''pr,sf,nt it, a4signing no other reason than that of its bar-
r'r been onlyAigned by myself, as the Chairman of that
lleeling.' I have now received a letter signed Hohhouse,
me that your Lordship declines presenting to his
Vi°)."l P-ighness the Prince Regent the Remonstrance and the
of the People of Manchester and Stocliport, without
taped any reason whatever. When the persons who first
erred the distressed inhabitants of the City of London toge-
2in Spa-fields and proposed to carry their Memorial in a
th:to Carltnn House, to demand and enforce admission into
Royal Presence. our Lordship inveighed in strong terms
Zra.:llsl the illegalityyof such a proceeding, and with great
P"inied out to me the impolicy as well as injustice of
v,„„, faking coirrse, while the usual means of eininnunica-
- with the Throne, through the Secretary of State, were
saw, .
that
V!, open even to the meanest subject, in which sentiment at
‘,41. "me, your Lordship will not fail to recollect, I heartily
trarrsd. When the tlistressed inhabitants of Lancashire and
tes.,s,"es the'hlanketeers, assembled together, with the in-
lb I,'" of marching up to London to lay their complaints
person before his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, they
wereu.attacled and dispersed by a military force, and many
ih:aredi of them were dragged away and crowded into
most loathsome dungeons, and there made to endure
rt Most cruel and horrid sufferings ; and now, when these
'4:7 Persons send up their Petitions and- Complaints' to
xt Presented to the Throne, they are coolly told by the
loyal of State that he declines to lay them beCore his
%,11Master thus' at once mocking the misery of the people,
violating' that great constitutional law, the , Bill of,
AiAi~hts,'tbe provisions of which excluded the I-loose of Stuart
gat he Throne of Eng,lantl, and which placed the present
N
' Family thereon, where's it is declared, that one of the
‘,Alsts flensanded and insisted on by the people of England
Ii the tight to netition the Throne or tither House of Par-
tLe „• "t• Your Lordship will, therefore, please to return toe
Petition and Remonstrance, that I nosy endeavour to find
r,n e other means of Making the prayers and complains of
ii: Royal Highness
people of Lancashire and Cheshire known to
Highness the Prince Regent.
" I am, my Lord,
" Your Lordship's most obedient,
L ""Most humble Servant,
°NI Viscount Sidmoutb , Sec. ‘‘c " H. HUNT.
State, Home Department."
this
were the contents of what_bad passed on
occasion, and while Lord Sidnioull) bad tie,
ellttetl the'presenting of the first Remonstrance,
eanse ate tl)onght the meeting in Palace-yard
tax not composed of
Ina( r
• estminster, he had declined. presenting the
Without giving a teason, because be knew

kt [At this moment Mr. BroWn,- one of the, City
ctarshals, with it body of officers, came on the
wg"n, and in the most polite terms infortned
Harrison that be had a warrant against him,
rile!' he was under the necessity of putting into
tmediate execution. Mr. Harrison at this m0'414"
'414"- w-as standing near Mr. Runt, and asked his
Z.!,lice how to act when the latter advised him
Y. 11 means to surrender to the law, as by acting
'his manner they would justify their candnct
70nre effeCtually in'the eyes of an honest and
dis-
public.]
11 MT': Howl- proceeded.--The Meeting must now
told that a wart ant had beett sent to apprehend
Harrison. Perhaps 'they might come and
it7prehenditim now, as be was in that place ; but
thn came, he hoped the Meeting would allow
ini to go away quietly.. He had no.doubt there
tareti spies abroad, for the purpose of throwing
th"' :all into confusion ; but- if they had, and if
tY Clime. to arrest him,, he was more than con-
t/11ln the Meeting would come to- defend him.—
hail enough to justify him, and though the
wiclt itghmongers nii;ght let villains enough to
4tar any. thing, he was confident they would have
Lent yof law, for were only 30 from this crowd
attend every day, it would continue a trial for
,Veast-three. years to come. Let that trial come
en it might, he would not employ Counsellor
'‘f Oss or
-the
to betray their cause. I.lc' had no doubt
e (lentiqrtirn who were here for the public press
'feted. from the most honourable motives, and
'tko so:ch a trial take place, he would call on
"4 Gentlemen to come and shcw what he had

1‘11'• Writ.Kr.tt then rena the following Remon-
r4"ce, Whit:lt be moved should he adopted
To His RoYAt. HIGHNESS GEORGE PRINCE OF
WALES, IC,GENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OE
4/1"T BEITAIN AND IRELAND.
"CI it--We, the Inhabitants of the Cities of London, West-
Itinster, and the parts adjacent, in the name and on the be-
-1" (4 ourselves and of our oppressed and enslaved fellow-
"ntrya,Qo thitughout this United Kingdom), beg leave to ap_
IPrga.eli yi,mr presence with a declaration of the manifold
Vcvan!'es, and a remonstrance against the ezuel, illegal, and
114,unstititti,nal acts of the eutrupt and wicked Adininistra-
tluhs that have been so long-imposed upon your Royal High-
11,Q!' th, great and overwhelming Borough Proprietors of
t' n 3 Country.
We have seen with mingled sorrow, surprise, and in.
?h.:nation, that these Ministers, whom your Royal Highness
hate had imposed upon you as your secret advisers, and in
Yon appear to have placed implicit and mistaken con-
"dence, hare for a lung series of years continued to abuse the
11;,,41) authority with which they have been entrusted, for the
Pnrpuse of harassing, per,eeuting, and oppressing the people;
that they have multiplied to a wide and alarming extent use-
le") unn,eessarv, and enormous burthens ; that they hare,
Niel* the pretence of preserving social order and onr holy
celiginn, plunged us into expensive, unjust, unnecessary, :mil
ttayagant wars on the Continent, contrary to the Act of
Settlement, which expressly declares, that this country shall
tlut be involved it) war on account of any foreign objects,
..tr any of the King's Continental dominions; that they have
:heated the people with every Vile indignity and insult which
want-in nediiinity er overbearing insolence could
ilumgest th thFy have refused to listen er attend
1:: any of their prayers or petitions; that they have suffered
the to r tperivrice every species of distress and calamity that
f:tijected to
.(''''aingue cif human misery can contain ;—that they have
-ex ft/ici.eitifurinations and ruinous prosecutions
crr:,
offences, and have loaded with fetters and
rooe,tlY-ju'Prisoneil solitary dungeons some of the best and
entiraeters in the country. 'That they have ar•
in.'arny seized and held to imprisoned and punished,
rititv" itidividuals without trial or examination, and after