The Sun.
London, England, 1819-09-03 00:00:00

THE %V ESTAI Mt Al EL I'ING.

[FULL PARTICULARS.]
Par.,Acx-YARD.—The Magistrates and different
Civil Officers throughout London and Weattnin-
ster were in early attendance yesterday mornin4,
and active in their preparations to maintain the
peace of the Metropolis. Pub:ic Companies, such
as the India-110(18e, had been requested to de-

Hitt the labourers in , their wat elptuses alter

the usual time of quitting. The Constables and
Bemiles in the ti,tf,-reot !wishes )had orders
to be in attendance in the watch-houses of
their thilereut wnrds from twelve o'clock, and to
remain there till tour. About twelve o'clock the

I?fil'orming Committee of Two Ilundied proceeded
aloog the streets reithsothe iostrtimeots of tottiic,
which, troittgled with the cktmoors of the eeriest
rubble that ever mustered from the purlieus of the

meironolis, pro,luccd a most discordant din , ilie
It drum thing the only sound dist ly au iitrlr.—
Among Lem kvere Watson, Pre ion .11(1 0111er of
(lie most notorious leaders; 11,11. y nt then) had long

whittt sirtvcs ; they were preceded by two flags, one
white, with the toil " rt-ticeatid tiuo►i will;"

the nitivr a led ground, " liniversal Sntfrage," in
alit letters; apparently the one user{ by the great
Oracle Of ttetoini (ilur►l), when Lie tr ed thepo-

,
pularity of its device at the Westminster Eke-
lion. On their arrival at Palace-yard the bearers

of the flags +mole their wty through the inu;ti-
ttile, which was by this time n”emblerl, and
which was soon alter one o'clock greall)),icreas-

ed by the Influx of the working clasts. The mints
of a few bickoey•coaches, %%11h:it remained ,oit

he stand in front of Wil3 cover-

rd with people, among whim, were observed
,everal females. The holitities were erected in

the usual place, beto►e the King,'s Aims Tavern.
Sou►►► itt'er one o'clock, Sir Fiancis Burdett made

his dpvenrabcr o the buslib:s, occompaided by
11t. Hnbh~~use, Nlajur Gat wrior, Chi) kr, of

Middlesex, aid tinmber ot other Gentlem,n, who
usually take a lidi I to the business ot the Westmitt-
ster M,etings. The Baronet, the. , Mr.
Ilohhoilse, &c. &c. were in succession loudly
cheered by the immense cto,sd wleidi filled the
area of I'dl4er-yilin.-7-As soon as tile shouts of
avidhuse subsided—

Sir FRANCIS BLIROHTT Ole Chairman) opened
the bwines, of the 4.1,15 r in the following

11(1.

tientlemen—The High nAwir kVestminster
not having thon4ht fir to comply with a Requisi-
sition to enliven.. this :leering, which was pre-
sented to him, signed by a large !lumber of ie-
spectable householders of IVertniuster—not hav-
ing, I say, thought fit, and without assigning,-
any reason to do that which I think it was kit
duty to do, namely, to call, and reside at this
Meeting, I have, at the requisition of a number
of Electors, come torwar'l on this most import-
ant, as well as soriowild and melancholy occa-
sion, to fill that sHiAtiou, which, as I think, it
was the ditty of the liaihri to have filled ;
and 1 trust and hope that I shall perform this
thi!y, so important to the cottony at this moment,
• in a manner which will entitle it to consideration,
land induce it to be tolliuwed, as I hope it will be
followed, all over the United Kingdom, so as to
skew those practically, who wish to suppress by
*violence the voice of Englishmen, what are their
real feelings at this attempt to suppress the ex-
pression of the • country assembled to state its
grievances, as as well as their sense of indigos-
tion and abhorrence at those proceedings which
,have recently occurred at Manchester. The dif-
ficulty that I feel on this important occasion is,
how, with regard to the public peace of this im-
mense assemblage, and under the influence of those
feelings which such transactions have excited, so
to express myself, as to respect that preservation
of the public tranquillity which is so congenial to
the support of public freedom, and so far mitigate
and subdue my own sentimews, as to keep with-
in due bounds when I deliver my judgment upon
those transactions on which we have this day met

to express our opinions.
[Here there was considerable noise and up-
roar on the skirts of the immense crowd, which
was at length discovered to arise from the view
of the hustings befog obstructed by the line of
hackney coaches on the stand, which were, as we
have already observed, covered with people. The
difficulty was hardly started when it was remov-
ed : the people on the coaches were obliged in-
stantly to dismount, and with some difficulty the
coaches were removed to the edge of the crowd.
A small party of individuals with white wands,
preceded by a hand of mosic and two flags, one
inscribed " Universal Suffrage," the other
" Peace and Good %VIII," took the opportnuity
of the interruption, and advanced to the front of
the hustitigs. Their intrusion was more the sub-
ject of animadversion than approval.]
Sir Faawors resumed —l'lle question is not now,'
whether this or that measure—this or that prin-
ciple—he proper for consideration or adoption :
the question is nut now, whether this or that
party be in power ; it is sclarcely (at least in one
point of view) a political question—it is, on the
contrary, the great paramout basis on which all
lolitical qaestions must rest—the question fro:a
which no honest man of any political party can
dissent, and which, indeed, must unite all, what-
ever be their particular political bias, for it re-1
lates to no other than this—namely, the great,
paramount and imprescriptible tight of the pea.
ple of England to meet and express their opi-
nions opon the political state of their coun-
try. This, I trust, at,d hope, is a question, in
their view of which Whigs and Tories, as well as
Reformers, must all unite and support by one
common consent. Every true Englishman must
now take his stand, and assert his undoubted
right. We are not now met to consider under
what political modification the liberties of tfie
country are to be enjoyed, nor on what funda-
mental laws they- are to be the best secured and
protected ; hot it is whether that great essential
principle of all liberty is to be any longer suffered
to exist—whether the people are any longer to
have the right of discussing, as their ancestms
have done, publ c qoestiotts. This is the great
principle we have met to assert, and 1 trust it is
one on which Englishmen of every party will be
ready to go hand in hand, even to death. I hold
that to be a right net only of &oglbilitoco, but one

inherent in man—one antecnlcnt to all political
institutions, 611(1 of which no political institution

can justly deprive mankind. It is to be discussed
by us here to-day, whether Englishmen are any
longer to meet according to la,v—wheiher the hw
protect them in the exercise of dill liudoubted
right, against the madness and violence of their
enemie,—whether we are to submit lightly or

arbitrarily to a military systemor whether ours
i 4 in future to be a Government of law, as it

ought, or a Giver nment of discretio.nary, an al hi-
traty, and military violence. I trust your feelings
thia day will shew that abhorrence of the late pro-
ceedings at Manchester, which will seta 'proper
example ;o the country—which will ensure the
support and co-operation of every man in the
country, of every limiest Englishman, who pie-
fers a Government of law to a Government of the
sword=--of every man who abhors a cruel and on-

necesKAry shcattilig of blood, ati,l %vim pi eters a
rational I that cosure, kip liberty, to one which,

by the applicalion of violence and bloodmlitd, Gun
wily end in witaielly and (I,sporisni. Every MAP
whu thus prefers fhe dominion of English kW,
PMSt express Ilk detestation of the late proceed-
ings at 'Manelies'et—every titan who ret:ards his
Own interest and honour, must shtink from ap-

proving measures of such a nature as those lately
resorted to by the Magi\tratts of Manchester, and
must step forward and vindicate the outraged liber-
ties of his country from the act that has been com-
mitted against them. It these things can be cone
with impunity, why, we shall have then to ask
our masters, ►whether we are allowed to breathe
the air, whether we are to be shot out from the

tree use *if our own limbs, whether we are to con-
sider the noses on our laces to be our own, and
whether we, the people of EnglAnd, ate to be
allowed to shew hem where we ple4se, without

the pi evions permission Mf his Aidjest y's Go-
vernment. -I knoll there ttre men who think

our Meeting premature—vho think there
is not evidence enough yet before the cotio-
try, with due deliberation, to enable it to
judge of those sot rowful proceedings.. I say
there is evidence enough before us. Ate not the
facts before its—the tic:sod:dons, the shameful,
the undeniable facts, ondenied even by the Party
in Administration, which is at the bottom of
all those proceedinas, and which has, since their
occurrence, had the folly as well as the wicked•
tress, to take the (enjoin ott their own shoulders
1 say, that oiler toese atrocious transactions, 1,
who never in my life have been a great advocate
for a change of Administration, consider now the
time to have arrived, when, tram one end of the
country to the other, the people should come for
ward, and, with a firm voice, demand the dis-
missal of a Ministry, on whose heads tests the ap-
palling charge of Navin„ wantonly and cruelly
first encooraged, and subsequently applauded the
shedding of the blood of the English
It would have this beneficial effect. It would
place the rights and Micelles of the people on
rock of edam tot, by exhibiting to future time-.`
the imposing and instruct ire example of a base,
coiropt,and sauguinary Administration being turn-
ed out•trom the offices which they disgraced, for
a daring violation of the liberties, and a flagitious
sacrifice of the lives of British subjects.—Can
any matt read the defence of these Ministers--tile
defence set up by their own venal scribes—can
any man read this and not have, if there were no-
thing else before him, ample evidence to
,lustily
his condemnation of their proceedings ? These
writers have as stupidly ns wickedly'tried to eke
out grounds to justify the indefeasible arrest of
Mr. Hoot, That warrant of arrest is illegal, and
it is to be hoped, itt the end, these Magistrates—
these pre-eminently distinguished Alialichester
Magistrates—will at length be taught to know the
law. This arrest is justified on oath, too. These
very wise defenders of Government have found
out that an oath !—what oath ?—an oath to a
fact, to something that a man can swear to ?
No; but what think you to an Oath of a matt's
opinion ? Did any body before ever hear of such
an oath ? At this vet y moment, for any thing I
know, some wiseacre may be making the same
oath regarding us before a personage just as wise,
I think, as the Manchester Magistrates. I mean
Lord Sidmouth, the 3d Secretary of State as he la
called, but, who in tact and in spirit, exercised the
functions of the Lieut•anant of Police under the old
regime of France—a Noble Lord, 1 believe, quite
on a par in point of wisdom and feeling,' with the
Manchester Magistrates.—(True, true !)—Some-
body, for aught I know, may be now sweating
on his opinion, that our Meeting will, he thinks,
end in the conflagration of Westminster.—By
possibility, a most respectable witness may be
swearing a similar oath before another sapient
authority, a citizen, elevated, no doubt, for his
wisdom sand feeling, to till the Civic Chair of
London. Such events may now be passing be-
fore those wise men, and we may be the victims.
If arrests are to follow opinions which find a place
in other men's heads, there is an end to liberty—
but there can be no end to the commission of in-
famous and illegal proceedings. Some foolish and
wicked Scribe has had the' boldness to declare,.
that it was the pre-determination of the Military
to assassinate Mr. Hunt at the Meeting at Man-
cheater. I trust and hope, that even the Man-
chester Yeomanry will wipe away this most fool
imputation on the character even of bad
above all, let Englishmen bear in mind that no
real English soldier is implicated in this atrocious
and cowardly accusation. Let the merit rest with
tho,se who evinced the spirit in their gallant at-
tack upon a defenceless throng of unobleudiog
men, women, and children ! But, as 1 before ob-
served, I hope for the character of man, that the
Yeomanry of Manchester, if it be untrue, will no,t
allow this font and cowardly imputation to be
palmed upon them, but iostitute a prosecution
against the writer who bad exhibited them to the
world as premeditated assassins. There is some-
thiug so diabolical in the, very idea of contem-
plating the assassination of an unarmed man, that
the human heart shrinks from the belief of such
an avowal, and leads one to hope th,c even the
Manchester Yeomen will clear themselves from so
fool an imputation, Whatever be the spirit of
those transactions, again I say, in God's name,
let these Gallant Yeomen possess it whole and un
divided. It does not, think Heaven, belong to
that high-spirited soldiery, who, throughout the
WOW, hate borne the honour and na4intaincd

ihe character of their country—whose name all

over lioropu i 3 sytiooiwoui ‘virti au unconquer-
able and an unsubduable feeling of 'Orr, rod
w'uo arB not more spoken of in their o‘t o land ;or
their heroism. than they are, as 1 lOWA, iu t(

reign Nations for their humanity, torbearan,u,
and geoetosity, when the conflict has ended, tnl
the enemy to whom they were opposett hail ee,is-
ed to retiiis.—No ; let those rr ho pluck/Al t
bloody honours by the locks—let those tonertli
Flotspurs of the North, in their lust of siriugh-
ter, bear the insignia of their ttiumph ‘vi.linut
rival.—Befoie I proceed to other parts of the siib-
ject, I assist say, that I think M. Hunt, on that
trying occasion, conduct, d himself with great,

propriety. I 31141 neither look backwaril or lot.
wiml, to the right or to the lett, 1 aver

found to praise the' E,iglisliniait iliac doe.; his
duty--1 thi,k Hoot baffled and defear,l,
exposed the Alancheiter -.ll4gisisates. 1 think he
coodocted himself will) wisdom ;Ind prop lei y ,
mil glml to give bin the tribute ot my applause

for ;he Conduct he pursued on the occayim% to
‘tri:ich I allude. Hot there is ;lowlier citemil-

stance Which I am sorry I caNnot etpr4lly expt ess
pleastire at, I mean the vetrlict of the I‘-
quests at 'Aianchester ; I! rivals in spirit runt Va l
lour the acts of the Manchester Yeomanry A, fl

agistra:es. What a verdict of Accident
Death ' tor men killed as the people were, ,11
that crowd ? Surely any verdict than :hat
would accord with common seuge *nd jos( ice•--:

Gentlemen, let it not he stipposcit ilia( I woulik
he content iii 6 no verdict but oto of Miii.
der ! No ! S ippose the Jury hail brought it iu
homicide—iiistifirble homicide it you will--L
could comprehend that ? But, in this case,
cannot comprehend a verdict of Acridetral 'Jeatk.
I coniess I do not uoderstand a twili's 1osO4:

nose ace•deotally by the cut of a sabre ! I cart
comprehend that there are citcimsteocei, where
iudivideals might deem a resort to military voes
knee necessary-1 can conceive a plea being of..
tered, that rrsi'tauce was made, which onliged
persons tool, r aritts'to rut do,vo those whO oirt e
opposed to theta—hot I cannot compithend loror
such a proceeding coo!d be denominated accitt en.
tal.—(Shouts of '' no one else !")—But,
Gentlemen, whle we feel and express the neces-
sity Of viielicatine the .grtnely violated laws of
Elie h ile we are anxious that meas►ttes
should be adopted to protect Our pet-Solis—While,
1 say, we consider these points, I propose, at the
sante time,. that means st,ould be taken to enable
tottividuels to apply to those violated laws tor jus-
tice and rethess, and that something should also
be done to afford consofat ion to those women, and
others, who have suffered by the infamous con-
duct of the Yeomaot y of Manchester ! Gentle-
men, it is no longer a question ',whether their's
was or was not an illegal act, for on their te.en
statement—on their owl) shewing—on their ovti,
defence—the act was illegal. Au aitrinp
b-en ma,:e to defend it, gtototoed on the Riot
Act, lint the Riot Act, which is it; its: It a men-
strous innovation on the Cotnotoo Law o:
rte
Lend,' was not read, or, it read, was read in a
corner, so that its conditions avcre not complied
witii.—(>hame, Shaine !I—But even if it writ;
reed, the Act itself gives no 'towel' or Satiel.oo
any sense whatever 10 military exec,' ion. A sol-
dier, as toy venerable F'ne iii !neat' tne
Ca,ttWt iglu) obsaves, is not mentioned at allutl—
ed to, in the Act. A soldier was, i!t the day• iu
which that Act was passed, unknown to the Cons
stitutiOu of England. Ile is not tecogutz,d' he
is not speken of in the Act But it ,he were
mentioned, no necessity existrd for inalsiug use of
him in the manner which the sapient Magistrates
of Manchester seem to have coutemplated.
Riot Act says, after an hour's notice has been
given, and a tumultuous (not an orderly) meeting
cootitmes, then the Magistrate is to read aee Aet,
to warn them of the penalties to which thty ten-
der themselves liable by remaining together atter.
wards. lint even the new Irws of Litglatol, not
to spe..k.ot the old, do not travel ainie so list as
the Yeomen Cavalry of M tnchester ! Even f
the people do not disperse, they are not to here
their throats cut immediately. No, hull it a Meet-
ing he riotous and tumultuous, it is directed that
the ringleaders shall be—what Not knocked on
the head !—no such thing—they shall be appre-
hended and puniiited according to due course of
law.- Why, then, •Geotlemen, under this very
Act, all the Magistrates could have legally done,
supposing the Meeting to have been disorderly
and tumultuous, was to have taken the ringleaders
into custody atter an hour's warning—lo have
brought them to trial, and, it coevicted, they
would have been subject to punishment for a ca-
pitel felony. Bitt, whatever betore heard of sach
a circumstance, as that of peaceable enoffeading
individuals being cut and trodden down by their
fellowecountrymeu 1 I therefore say, on their ow
*hewing, without straining Any po:ot, that the
whole of these proceedings were as unconstitu-
tional, as strictly illegal, as they were con wally
and cruel. I beg leave to say, then, that in the
same manner as 1 am anxious to separate the
btave English soldier trout the heroes who com•
pose the Manchester Yeomanry, so MEI I
t.'4trosiS
to shew, as tar as 1 eel), my reverence for the Letw
and the Coostitution—and actuated by 'n.at.
feeling, 1 ardently wish to screen the ua:ae ttf
the first Magistrate of the Country front the infinity)
which cannot tail to cover every individual im-
plicated in this infamous transaction. I bring it
as a charge amohglit many others (for We canuot
forget that great one of refosing to present the
petitions of the people to the Sovereign) against
the present Minister,, that they have, in a most
wicked and cowardly Manlier, to answer their own
base purposes, made use of the named the Prince
• Regent on this occasion. They have ()Otte so,
Gentlemen, evidently to cover and screeu th,ie
own responsibility for so base an oo;rage on
ho-
tnanit y, for so dreadful a violation of the Laws
and Constitution of the country. Gentlemen, I
am nursuaded that the Prince Regent beats too
noble, too generous, too manly a 'mind to retort'
thanks for such an act, it a, moment had been.
allowed him for consideration—a cry from one of
the 'crowd, " That's true—he's not a bad tetlow,
hat lie's humbugged." lf, Gentlemen, you recol-
lect where he . was when the rragn.al event took
place—it you consider by whom tilt leprtsenta-
ttun of the business was made—Pnt, fitteliy, the
time at which the answer was returned—you will

pierce with me that the Prince 'Regent roar not
alowca a moment for consideration, when his
Ministers thought 'fit-to make hint a party to this:
tact of blood-an act. tvhich they well knew would
not bear •the test of examination. I therefore
contend for it, that among other offences the
Ministers are ril& to the charge of attempting to
bring into contempt -the name', person, and Go-
vermnent of the King- know, Gentlemen, that
are are ailli'able lEI the-attacks of power; but if
thc people coot hint. In act with the same temper
stid r,thearance'hy Which they have Wen hitherto
; it they continue to givetio groom) -
(If alarm to the timid, and 'no handle to the mali-
; if they continue tlnietly and' eonstitutionally
ro espres their ~sentiments, vvery-honest man in
the (-wintry will he disposed at least to pay atten•
(ion to their represrittations.. 1 ton-not now giving
my onioion of any particular measnre; 'but
this I do contend' for, that Whatever any of us
think for the go(idolthe'country,-ere have a right to.
pro'pose. We do not ergo otia. at ;.!Iltliefl(filil secret-;'
we invite our enemies' to discussion we call npon
the sons and' danghtt-rs of coraliptiOn to state their
ease. 'Let thinwprove, that-what they'do is the
hest that can` be thole for the countty, and 1 will
become a conv'ert to their opinions s but if their
Arguments are not strong enough to convert me,
I do 'not 'Wish to -have my throat cut because I
am not 'convinced. I knosv' it is' ofteut epresent-
ed by some persons as dangerous and unnecessary
_to call Meetings on the subject of grievances
which cannot be redressed. But the 'fad( with
respect -to our grievances is this--that they have
been so long endured, the great 'balk of the peo-
ple begin to open their'eyes, and to-see the cause
from Whence they spring. It is not that • t eon -
blesonte'and dangerous men -express- strong opi-
nions of 'their own ; hut that what all filets think,
sortie men are bold enough to speak plainly.
Such men, I hope, Will a)w-ays be fonnd in this
country, England, I trust, is-never devioed to
see the day wh h ets se shall want a man to speak
the truth in defiance of ail power, and even at
the peril or his head. Popularity, Gentlemen;
is nine!, decried "woof. times. 1 am willing to
admit that 'nothing can be more wicked than to
pursue popularity ivith'a view -to advance our
own personal interests at the expcuce of the com-
lmn good. He who does so is a villain. lam
willing to allow, that to pursue popularity merely
from the love of praiie, and without any endea-
vour to turn it* to 'the advantage' of the com-
munity, is the act of a fool. l'ttpularity, in
that sense, may be justly compared to the bell
which jingles in the cap of folly But when,
on the contrary, it is made use of- to benefit
the' people froth When's* it is derived, it be-
comes the freshest. leaf in the laurel of patriotisin
anti virtue.; For myself, 1 will say,' that it
thought you were wrong; 1 hope, and rtbink,
that I am capkible of declaring •my opinion.
But that is not the case ; I feel that you, are
sight, and the idea of acting with you in 'the
course which yOur humanity and zeal for the Con-
stitution dictates, is One of the highest giaiifica-
lions my heart can enjoy. To deserve,•l
say to obtain, for delusion may'obtain the name
of an honest EngliShman, and a friend to free-
-
dorsi, is in my estimation an higher title titan any
person, however exalted his situation in the Go-
vernment, can have it in his power to bestow.
TO Meet utiiin any public occasion the concur-
rent sentiments of my countrymen at large,*upon
any great and useful object is, and has always
been, considered by me the iiest reward for public
services : it is only second - to, that which de-
pethls upon Myself, the 'consciousness of having
deserved it.—[l'he Hon. Baronet concluded his
speech amidst a volley of cheers '-froth the
crowd.] • •
Mr. litctrra then read the following Risolo-
tioits,, anti concluded 'by informing the Meeting,
that should they be adopted; Mr. flobliouse'woold
read an Address founded' thereon
t. That by law and • custom, the people of this country
have a right publicly to assemble, to petition the King and
either House of Parliament; or to discuss any public matter,
to complain of any grievance, and to propose such lawful
rerhedies as to-them may seem necessary. • . .
2. That the late Meeting of the people
.at Manchester,
called'" To consider the proprietg qt. itdouting the most legal
and effectual mecths of attaining a Riform ire the Commons
lionse.of Parliament," .win.it lawful-Meeting.. . ,• .
That it appears to us, that when -the people were thus
lawfully assembled, and peaceably performing a.public, duty,
they were wantonly, wickedly, and cruelly attacked by Yeo-
men Cavalry, under the direction of local Magistrates, and
that some of thenr werei-billed;
.others mutilated, and a. still
larger number miserably wounded and trampled upon.
4. That the atrocious outrage on the defenceless and peace,
able people, against alt law,-and in,detiance of justices is an
.attempt to destroy by the sword all the yet. remaining Liber-
ties of Englishmen.
5. That this new mode (the only one of late resorted to) of
answering the well-grounded complaints and Petitions of the
People, is one of the :many lamentable consequences of the
Mouse of Commons being, every thing but what it ought to he
real Representation of the People.
• 6. That the libel ties we still possess can only, be. preserved
....those we have lost restored—the .peace, the .couifort,, the
happiness of the People be promoted and their property pro-
tected, bymaking the Elective Franchise so equal, so exten-
sive, and so secure, that it shall be impossible to corrupt the
, Electors ; and the duration of Parliament so short, that it
*hall be the interest of the Representative to act faithfully
towards his Constituents. _ _ _

7. That an Address to his Royal Highness the Prince Re•
gent, founded on the. foregoing Resolutions, uon, be read.

Sir FRANCIS. 13UUDETT proceeded to put the
Resolutions seriatim.' Having proposed the first,
HOBHOUSB presented himself : he said he
bad been requested by many of the respectable
citizens of ‘Vestminster to appear before them,
and in acceding to that request lie was well per."
suaded, that the 'observations be- should have to
offer, would not be the sentiments of those, indi-
!Moats only, but the sentiments AO those also he
had the honour to address. He Was • aware that
some apology might he due from-him for assuming
the position in-which he stood—(cries of No, no l)
because he well knew, that others much more coifs:.
petent to the task might have undertaken-it, %visage
importance might have contributed to the success
of their object. It was not, however, front those
who were present;that an -excuse should be de-
manded, but from those who were absent, not
trom those who appeared in the face-of power .10
express their abhorrence at the recent atrdciousoutr
t ages that had been committed against Englishmen,
bin flout those' who were out present—to enrol
their flames among the friends of freedom. • It
did not, however, follow because some were
absent whose presence might have been expected,
that they were to be condemnedno ; he hoped,
that although they had not attended the citizens of
IVestminster, they would seize the earliest oppor•

t Milt)? Of expresSicg the►r`optnii`r to iiretonntlee
which they resided. The City of West miustee bad
ever been foremost in cases of enterprise, and ho-
nourable would it be for. those Who imitated her •
example., The expression of •pnisllc opinion had
been called forth in consequence of the late vio-
lation of the laws. of justice and humanity. Thank
God, however, Englishmen were not so far de-.
based as to view or tolerate Chose violations in
silent despsir. The sentiments of Englishmen
were well known,; they had been promulgated,.
through the medium of the independent 'part of
the press ; and -those who had conducted it, de-,
served their thanks for haying employed it in the
interest of those whom alone they ought to serve
—the p-eopie—the pensioned part of the Press,
who had taken their place under the satellites of
curruption, had also done their duty. It was well
known, that where one scoundrel court be found
t 0, commit- a wicked action, another would not be
wanting to applaud it ; but, in the present instance,
those who were employed to defend, had not only
supported,. but they had appkiefed ; they, Imad
dwelt•upon the theme with delight and extOtation;
they bad viewed the mangled and mutilated car-
cesei with -satisfectiou ; they had held them up ,
a'spect Ade, as a triumphant memento of what
they had .done, and what they would, do,avio--
They had employed the langu.ge and adopted. the
principles of the Jesuits of former ages,; yet they
who pretended to be the supporters of tittles had
*wed upon those measures by which one halt of
the. monarchs in former times had beeo destroyed;
indeed,' their conduct remiudrd him of the
scene in Sieskspeere, whete Wender says, " 1
broke your head—what's the matter of that.'.' Just
%Itch. Was the CW:thlot Of. the present .4Vloministra-
tient ; just such wits their answer. Bat would the
eittzens of Westminster suffer that Constitution.,
(hat oitv d by time -wisdom of so many ages, to be
thus. destroyed. Year after year something had
been torn from the tights of English Men ; vain
in-
deed was it for any man to search for that free
' England, in which be was said to have been burn ;
it was not as it bad been forme' ly. Meetings .and
associations at which the respectable gent ry of the
country used to assemble, for even the.viliage
reading-rooms were now eubmitted to Ministerial
inspection. It was wished that,linglishmen should
he redoced to the station of mere clods, that they
should 'he considered as mere live stock, some-
times profitable, sometimes superfluous, yet no-
thing but live stock. It was a fact that the Sedi-
tious Meetings Bill bad been passed in the House
over the way (House of Commons) 10 the presence
of 628 Gentlemen, who were said to he the pro-.
tectors of their interests, and yet 14 only bad op-
posed it. After that, one effort only was neces-
sary, and that was at one blow to overthrow the
liberty of the people by preventing Public Meet!-
ings ;• and should they be abolished, farewell to
freedom, for without them no country had long.
continued to be tree. it would be recollected,
that among the Roman Emperors one had been
found who had suppressed Public Meetings. Ti-
berius had prevented the meeting of the people,
upon which ,occasion- a slight murmur fined been
excited among time people ; the Nobles had some
been bribed, and others influenced by sordid entrea-
ties not to resent time gross violation ; but would the
people of present day bear such an outrage se:ith
tm slight murmur ?—(No, we won't, we won't)e---
if the Nobles of time present day should neglect
their dusty, and refuse the people that assistance to
which they were entitled, he trusted that the• Peo-
pie themselves would do :that which Englishmen
had done beim a- them s. he. hoped. they would
be triumphant, and that the God of Liberty wouid
give victory, not, to the strongest. but to the just.
Yet such was the model that had been marked out
for the Prince Regent of .Englaod. The Henrys
of France and the Edwards of England bad heels
overlooked, and that monster whose, conduct had
been a disgrace to the imperial purple: had been
selected for his imitation. ,One thing„howiever,
they -might hope, that: the voice of Troth would
not only reach the,Ear of the Prince Regent, bet
that he would know and feel that it came from
his best .friends, who had no .interest in de-
teivingirim ; frdm those who sought.. for , .11 Go-
a-eminent founded upon justice, .and resisted that
'which- was supported by the ba,yonet, by the
sword•and by blood•hed, and who ,held in abhor•
rence those who first planned and atttrwatds
'ariplautied*.such atrocities. -Those men west ha eti
,surely forgotten whom they•wereaddressiag, they
insist have imagined them, to be as.little English.
,men 115;•thrmielves, -Every eye was . directed. at
tile- present moment towards the seat of
•but what: had they seen Redress for injuries
sustained—punishments .for the atrocities and
batbarity that "bad been. committed. No ; but to
render the atrocities still more infamous, time
-Dame of the Prince .of a tree People- had been
-affixed to .an instrument which. Oriental despotism
itself must have contemplated with horror,artd dis-
gusteconveying- thanks to those persons who had
committed the late wanton outrages-on the .people.
It should be recollected, that William.the Bastard,
had been told that be. had not conquered Eeglaed
-for himself alone ; and .so might the Pt itice.itegent
• be reminded that the Act, of Settlement had, not
been' agreed to for the exclusive advantage of
the House of Brunswick, but. for 'the benefit and
prosperity of the whole English nation,WbeimJaMes
was -expelled,- his successor was.informed that the
people did not want a change of Masters. .but of
Government ; the Prince of Orange the!) declared
Ile came there to give..them a, free Government.
•If, then, in the time-of James, the. people had
demanded a free Government, had not the. people
of this day a right to: ask for Varliamentat y Res
loins But in doing so, what was their answer i
Why, a,charge of dragoons. The lawyers,saiel,
no it is illegal ; ,and. :this. they, would wish to
shew you by fdree. The people must let.them
see they know the law..as well as,theruselves., and
if not, tleie there is animpreseriptible ,right which
cannot he- denied them. That state of things
which can be altered at the will or caprice of others
'cannot be called•liberty ; it would assimilate to the
condition 'Of the. Grecians,: who
,fancied thems.
selves • free -became they sere told so. It the
present Government bad the..power, they Would
not scant.•au excuse..to oppress : the purple
mast, therefore, deprive theta of the power ;
and if ever public meetings should be destroyed, a
military despotism would be immediately establish-
ed. Jot Cartwright lt, d ebtaiue.l ti.e iiines;ute

to ri:titions of perstThS eat/1
t'h'ese were treated with contempt : wellohen the
people lissernblect at public meetings ; .these were
instantly to be suppressed. What, then, was the
duty of the • people ? Why, to persevere, and to.
shew that they possessed the right, and were de-
termined to exercise it. Out of 138 Public Bills
that had been passed, not one was there for aug-
menting the liberty of the subject; there were',
138 of what were called Public Private Bills, in
none of which had he been able to find any thing
applying to the Public, except that of preventing
a goose frorn feeding► on a common. Out of
the money that had ,been granted by the COM-
MOns, none had been applied in relief of the
People except 50,0001. to enable a part Of their
countrymen to dwell under the torrid zone, to
frighten the tigers and jackals. Under these cir-
cumstances, it became their ditty to address his
Royal Highness the Princeliegent,,to .assure him
that the people were now as much as ever re-
solved to obtain their indubitable right, a Re-
forM*in the Representation of the: People its Par-
liament.

Sir FRANCIS BURDETT then put the remaining
Itc!oktions, which were carried with acehAin.s-
tion,

Mr. Hottrotist then read the:. follonrinvAd-
dre..s, Whittlt was unaniqtenslY tit:teed I° :
'Po 1-1-N ROYAL HIGHNESS TIE: PRIN:A', REGENT..
The Humble and Dutiful Address of the Liectmus of ‘Vest-
ntiost ere, assembled in New Pei:tee-yard, on Thursday,'
the 3d 'dny of Septenilmer, I i; ify. •
We, the Electors of Westminster', assembled in Palace-
yard, '.
in pursuance of public Ad yertieerneo t for that purpose
duly made, Peg leave to rehicess your Royal Highness, in lan-
cusp-, such its we hope it may heceme the Citizens of a free
Siete to speak, and the Chief Magistrate of a powerful-,
I hodgh oppressed, People to hear. •
We !ninthly represent to emir Bevel Highness, that the lie.-
cutiots which we have reeeil-ed of the'recent outrage at Man-
chester, here impressed us in- common; We believe, willtt be
great majority of 'our fellow-countrymen, with feelings of
shame,
,grief, and. indignation ; awl that we' esteem it the
time our duty to express thoSe feelings on tit is momeinune
occasion, because the attprohation which the Ministers of your
Royal Highness have Li-stowed on the same events which have
caused our regret and alarm, has airmaded us an additional
proof of a settled design add constant edort, not only to re-
ject the Petitions, hitt to silence the Complaints of the Peo-
ple ; and either by secret art, or open violence, to contrive
that the voice of truth shall never reach the Threw..
To defeat this unlawful `project, we inform your Royal
Highness, that in the open day, in the face and by the com-
mand of these appointed to preserve the peace, blood has been
spilt—that the innocent have been condemned to solitary
confinement, and the laws 'of • Engraft(' thus r notoriously in-
fringed, by a Magistracy either ignorant of those laws, or
aeitated by false alarms, and inflamed by local jealousies to re
wilful violation of their own. duty, amid the rights of their fel.
low-subjects, •
We humbly represent to your Royal Highness, that so long
as the Commons [louse of Paehaament shall not 'speak the
language of the COllllllOll3, 'the 'wishes and wants of the -Peo-
ple of these realms can only he expressed in their r'etitions
and Remonstrances adopted at their public Meetings.
That such .assemblies of the Peciele for the reprrientation
of public grierances, and for'the 'discussion' of Subjects 'con-
nected with the good 'government and well-being of the State,
have at all tittles been a. pair of the practice of the English
cation, and have been esteemed not only legal and coostito-
tional, bat abst.ilutely essential to the preservation of Public
Liberty, and to that due intercourse between the Crown and
the People, upon i-vhich the security of the one, and the pro-,
tectiote of the of her,. must enually. depend. ss
That Optin such right of aesedifilage and interference on the
part of the People, was formed rind founded the title of pate
Royal Highness's Illusttioes House to the Throne of these
realms—and upon such right only. .
That,notO7ithstaieding the progress of cotruption, and the
increase of NI inisterial power, this right of assembling has
bean, up to this time, respected,'and together oith Trial by
du., bias hitherto presented the total extinction of liberty. ..
'That the pretext of illegalitywhichhasbeen charged Migeitist
the late Meeting at Mentehester,ltt as much as the. said Meet-
ing was. assembled , to discuss the must legal and effectual
means of obtaining a Reform iii the Commons 'l-IMmUSe of Par-
liament, is ttiliely• Withoiit foundation, either in. reason 'or
practice; antUthat'Meetings of the people for the above pile-
pose have been recommended and publicly approved. by more
than one Minister of England, when at the head of his pre-
sent Majesty's Councils.
'Pliat ave 'therefore; can look upon the late-military disper-
sion of, and military execution done upon, an assembly of the
People at Manchester, called and met together under the safe-
guard of knoWnlaW and :establithettusage, in nu:other light
than as a direct violation of the 'rights-and lihertiee of a fete
People, which we submit to your Royal Highnessr it would
hare better become your Royal Highness's Ministers to cen-
sure than to approve; and we moreover state our Sincere be-
lief that ifittch violation'of law be suffered to pass into a pre-
cedent; .the limited Monarchy, which is the (tonsil' utional
Government of these realms, will be hereafter converted into
a despotism, founded on the piewer, and ntaintainedntly' by
the terror, Of the sword'.' • :‘ ' ' . •
That we, therefore„ esteem it our imperious duty, and that
of all Englishmen,. to remonstrate solemnly against the'esta-
hlisinent of such a 'precedent; 'and We are willing to lurk,
that this, our Rettioristkance, backed, as we trust it wig be,
by the expressed sentiments of our countrymen in other parts
of Great Reitain, - will he a sufficient resistance to, and pre-
sent the 'repetition of, 'the sand attcnipt to detroy the
free Constitution of these Kingdoms.. And we do also hum-
bly recommend to, anti eutreat your Royal Highness,to direct
his Majesty's Law Officers to prosecute the authors, actors,
and abettors of the late minders and cruel assault's coin-
milted at' Manchester, that his Majesty's subjects may, to
their great satisfaction and the allaying of discontents, field
t hey. are governed byes Pance who sympathizq with the feel-
ings of his People,sand considers their injuries his °W m'
We venture Inutility. to assure your Royal Iliglinees, that
although evil Couneellnrs'and false friends may propose to
your Royal Highness to confide not in the affections of the I
People, ha in that large Army, now, as we think, uncoil- 1
stitutionally arrayed iii time of peace; yet we, his Majesty's
affectionate, but tree-burn subjects, feel that we hive no rea-
son to apprehend, any more than we should have patience to
bear, tlie succession of a military despot tothe English Throne;
timid we are confident that your Royal Highness would prefer
the lawfwl and secure, though limited, dominion over free-
mmt, to the usurped and precarious, thought alysulute, con-
' trout of slaves. . • -•
We seize the occasion of the present dutiful Address, to
- convey to your Royal Highness our sincere conyietiOrr, that.
no military force will, filially, pre.vail out!' the People, or stifle
their incessant entreaties fur that due share in the cunt nail
over their own atrairs,-of which they have been gradually
robbed by time Botough-holders; and that a continued rm fusel
.9[ll he part of thee shameless usurpers to giant any 'Reform
'whatever, can endouly itt anarchy amid bloodshed', and in a
'total desfruction'of all the present authorities of these realms.
We peeSume then' being viii less attaebed in your Royal High-
imess's,lllustrieus House and Persou, than to the preservat lon
of internal 'peace, and the recovery of our just eights and li-
berties, humbly and dutifullylo 'entreat your Roval Highness
to take into your consideration the best no ails lie which the
Comment House maybe so radically and effectually Erfurt).-
rd, as to speak the true'sense of the People in' Proliaments of
a short duration, and thereby to secure 'for this nation,- in
perpetnily, that contented tranynillity, at home, and that 'w-
pm-lance abroad, which can he obtained in e,m other way than
by the' fell, free, and fait exercise of the acknowledged right
Oi.Englishinen to frame,' either in' their own person, or by
their Representatives, those laws which are to dispose 'o."-
their properties and regulate their lives.
The St h Resolution was then- read, That this Address be
presented to the Prime 'Regent by Sir F..litatiett, Nlejor
Cartwright,, -laid .login Cant,Hubhouee„Esa. ..
.. . ,
Mr., Tuctowar.L. remarked,
.that no man, of ra-
' • • -
ttional faculties could have supposed that the. Meet.
_ .
. lug of that. day had not been increased by the re-
- cent occurrence that bad engaged the pnblic atten-
tion, such hat.their courage would not be increased
in prop t.tion to their oppression. Ilie, hoped that
nothing extraneous .woold be introduced in the
1 present proceedings, but that they would keep the
1 point distinctly - before I hVill, that of asserting
' their right to hold public meetings to express
their opinions.
Mr. P. WALKER contended, that from time emu se
pursued by the Magistrates WI the late tlatuina•

I it
.
t aunt *as §ent trio" f
it, (1
the witnesses would now have an op poll"
giving the most studied answers to thoe
tvlt,T,
tions which he would have to put, and
elicit truth, ought to have been auswere(l-o'erna
moment. He condemned the IliCitslite9 0' „ u°V
ment, and complimented Major Cartwligla
as
servin to wear the lame( of Rorm.
Theg follw,ving Resolutionsef were then "I°l°l
anti agreed to togs.
9. That it is the duty of every friend to his counal if.,
silt in procuring redress for tliff.te persons woo hate licelo of
legally maimed, wounded, and imprisoned, i3coWeVeilo•ote
the Meeting- held, on the 16th of last month, at MOO- oil
to afford such relief-as may be necessary to the sofrecer.ator4
their families, and to bring to punishaient the Per Pe"
of the outrage. „raciest.
10. That a Subset-4)ton he opened for. the abort P"•iii to
and that a Committee be appointed, with power ";04
their numbers, to carry the intentions of this Me'li"2 •
effect.
12. That the conduct ot'lle Y enr Hennit
That major cartwri,lit b th T•easl'i:isrier.in
the recchtit o
stand he has made against the rioiatio'll of tlie to
own person, and of) the behalf of his felloW-suffererSfiS 'orif
as commands the tespect, and ought to receive On'
suY
of his countrymen. • •
13. 'I hat the Thanks of this Mectino• be 'gii'en to j•ttili'Di
C am Hid:house, Esq. for his ahle exertions in behalf oh to
people, and tar his prompt atteddarite to thin wishes 09
tresent occasion. • to thela. That the Thanks of this Meeting; tic xiven
Champion of the People's Ri4lits and Liberties, our
lent Representative, Sir.Fraficis Burdett, for P"bli;;(;
;„bilS,
duct on this, as on every othet occasion' when those! 7
and Liberties have heel) assailed. v„,Ef
Of) several of these Resolutions Mr. G.- J"..,„e
offered to speak, but cOtthl not get to the ~le,
of the Hostags. He called to Sir Francis,
mantling to be heard, but was resisted by ti,,
within the.bar, and was not beard by the Cti.s"-.
man.
,rnea
Mr. IJOrRIIOUSE and Sir F. BURDETT rel.— •
L tq'
thanks for those (hey 11;111 received and Sir .12.1:4
cis, before dissolving 'the Meeting, again "I•bla
on them never to give up their itripreScriptl
right of assembling to discuss public affairs' e
; rtl
Sir F Burdett and Mr. Hobboose, accord d
y : %-Psi'
by the Committee, then retired from the busliti'
and the crowd dispersed.
Soon titter they had retired, Air; Wiillai"t6fl:
%vb() was acquirted at the Surrey Sessions Tul.
clay for pubistling the hand-bill at Lambeth'
dressed the reSidne of the Meeting front rile
lI
in s, and told them that he Mc happy in 118
c°
the opinion of a 'free Jury pronounced "On et.:4
duct, and that he was not afraid of a sheep`
ina balm's shop, by which he meant a coug:s4

a big wig.
The Persian Ambassador' atte'nded at °eq."
senibly in his cm riage during the time when `,,P
Walker was addressing the Meeting. I.lii 14%%jc•%.:
leery seemed much pleased at the sight, 5136,eie
pressed his good will .to‘vards the people bY ;
quell! nods and bows. Atter a delay of Ab°,ll
quarter of an hour, the carriage of his Excel°
was drawn before the hUstiirgi. Pic
_A great portion.'of the people followed the big
and their supporters, accompanied by th Adis,
rirutwand some musical instt unients,
ment-street and Whitehall. When they
opposite each of the Public Oakes, three
were given. They afterwards continued I
march through iioous parts of the City•