Star.
London, England, 1819-09-18 00:00:00

CITY A DI) [JESS.

The following is a copy of the Address presented
to the Pnisez Itrocisr yesterday, by the Loan
/4/I.von, Aldermen, and Commons, of London :
4. TO HIS LOYAL ItlOliNuss THE PRINCE OF WALLS, ItEGENT OT MR,
elan ED vlNtw:4 ISV GREAT BRITAIN AND ISALAND. •
" The humble Am!. sass and Perertos of the Loan Maros, Al-
dermtn, and Commons of the City of London, in Common
Council assembled.
" MAY IT PLEAsr YOUR ROYAL MIGHNSIIR-r-We, his 'Majesty's
most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen,
and Commons of the City of andon, in Common Council as-
sembled, humbly approach your Royal Highness wilt feelings
of the most serious alarm and regret, at the extraordinary and
calamitous proceedings which have recently taken place at Man.
Chester. We humbly represent to your Royal Highness, that
under the free principles of the British Constitution, it is the
undoubted right of Englishmen to assemble together for the pur-
pose of deliberating upon public grievances, as well as on the le-
gal and constitutional means of obtaining redress. 'flat for the
exercise of this righCa Meeting was held at Manchester on the
16:h of August last, and without entering into the policy or
prudence of convening such Assembly, it appears to us, from
the information which has transpired, that the said Meeting was
legally assembled, that its proceedings were conducted in an or-
derly and peaceable manner, and that the people composing it
were therefore, acting under the sanction of the laws, and en-
titled' to the protection of the Magistrates. We have never-
theless learnt, with grief and astonishnumt, that while the
Meeting was so assembled, and when no act of riot or tumult
had taken place, the Magistrates issued their warrants for the
apprehension of certain persons then present ; for the execution
of which, although no resistance'was made on the part of the
People, or those against whom the warrants were issued, they
immediately resorted to the aid of the Military ; when, without
any previous warning of their intention, the Manchester Yeo-
manry Cavalry suddenly rushing forward, opened a passage
through the multitude, furiously attacking, by force of arms,
peaceable and unoffending citizens, whereby great numbers of
men women, and children, and even Peace-officers, were indis-
criminately and wantonly rode over, and many inhumanly
wiled and killed. We feel ourselves called upon to express to
your Royal Highness our strongest indignation at these unpro-
voked and intemperate proceedings, which we cannot view but
as highly disgraceful to the character of Englishmen, and a
daring violation of the British Constitution. That from your
Royal Highness's known and des: red attachment to the Con-
st:tetion and the Laws, we feel the most decided conviction
• that your hoyal Highness never could have been induced to CR-
pri..as your approval of the conduct of the abettors and perpetra-
tors of these atrocities, had not your Royal co ffidence been
abused by interested And misrepresented stattme is of these il-
legal and fatal transactions. We humbly subn • to your Royal
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Highness, that at a time when the great body f his Majesty's
subjects are suffering under the severest privati however er-
roneous may be their ideas as to the means of redress, a kind
and conciliating attention to their complaints is equally called
for by policy and justice; and that depriving them of the means
of expressing their grievances, by cruelty and despotism, can
only tend to increase the preient discontents, destroy public eon-
Science in the pure and equal administration of justice, excite
disaffection, and lead to acts of open violence or secret revenge.
We therefore humbly pray, that in order to avert these calami-
ties, to maintain the authority of the law and to protect the
lives and liberties of the subject, your Royal Highness will be
graciously pleased to institute an immediate and effectual inquiry
into the outrages that have been committed, and cause the guilty
perpetrators thereof to be brought to signal and condign punish-
ment. " Signed by order of the Court,
• " HENRY WOODTHORPE."
. ',For the Answer to the above see Tux Sias of yesterday.]
Whilst the .crowd, in front of the Palace, was wait-
ing the return of the Procession, little WADDINOTON,
the Radical of placardic memory, he who boasted
from the Hustings in Palace-yard, the other day, that
at the Surrey Sessions he bad " bothered a whole
Bench of Magistrates, and a sheep's head in a baker's
shop to boot" (lawyer), was amusing. himself and a
select knot of listeners with a political disquisition
ertempore. His pericranium was surmounted by a
spick and span chapeau Mane, completely a la Radical;
end folding his arms, and giving himself all the ele-
vation of which his little frame is capable, he said,
as the carriages,passed him, " Aye—there goes the
Recorder, with flour enough in his wig to make a
poor man a pudding !" This created a laugh among
those about him; and he directly became the centre
of attraction to a considerable posse ; upon which. he
" seized the instant by the forward top." and launch-
ed forth at great length, though somewhat disjoint-
edly, on the signs of the times ; the miseries of the
poor, and the luxuries of the great ; advising the
latter to " expose themselves to feel what wretches
feel," that they might " shake the superfiux to them,
and thew the Heavens more just !"—" Now, I dare say,"
Said a tall jolly-faced man, with a Constable's staff in
his hand, interrupting him, " I dare say you, my fine
little fellow, with all your bother, would have no ob-
jection just now, to 'a roasted fowl and a bottle of
wine r - Why, I like fowls as well as another man,"
replied the tiny orator, "but 1 should think myself a.
gitat beast to swallow some dozens of 'em at a meal,
whilst millions of my countrymen could not even get
one of their drumsticks once in seven years, but were
starving on potatoes and water." The Constable
seemed rather midifled with this answer, and walked
away ; whilst the' crowd encouraged Mr. Wadding-
ton to proceed, by tapping him on the back, and
telling him never to mind what a trap could say.
Mr. Waddington took their advice, and resumed—
" Fouls, indeed !" said he, " Can any body tell
me what is the reason tee can't eat a fowl now and
then, as well as the men who are clothed in pur-
ple and fine linen? Englishmen had used to have
a few of the comforts of life, even the poorest man,
if 11;.. —mild work ; and what is the reason, I say,
that it is not so now ?" He paused for a reply, and
nobody giving him one, (probably because they
thought h' Iva, ready to burst with one of his own);
Le added-- It is because we are no longer paid for
our labour ; our work is not wanted ; they have laid
house to house, and land to land, till there is no place
left I,r the poor !" This was received with loud ap-
plause; and the Orator was proceeding to prove that
the Bible itself was more strongly in favour of Re-
form than any twopenny trash could possibly be,
v.hen the gate:, of the Palace opened, and the City
l'rocession appeared on its return.
The Lord Mayor was now received by a very ge-
neral burst of groans and hisses, and great crowds
surrounded and followed his carriage all the way to
the Atansiui House, hooting and yelling almost in-
cessantly. " Make haste home, Sir John ;—your
Louse is on fire, and the City burnt to the ground r
cried one fellow, close to the carriage window, whilst
another added, "and.you have another mare brought
to bed." " Hunt's coming I" cried a third, " and
he will tie a kettle to your tail." But the great bur-
cl•.-n of this bespattering was, " Fire ! fire ! fire ! Oh
Luirible ! most horrible !"--for with this almost
every y:11 was began and ended. His Lordship,
Lower r, seemed yell-pro y; for he was evidently
more amused than afarsned.by it ; and he merely
str.iled and bowed whenever the uproar was at its
• I...fight. Before he bad reached the Mansion House,
all the other carriages, except those of the Sheriffs,
Lad turned off from. the procession, and his Lordship
coached home almost unattended.

RIGHT OF THE LIVERY TO MEET IN
COMMON- 1-1 A L L.
(Vrons the /iterate obsenick,)
during the last week,
havSrde o
detailed 6
aiflledt7h6, ae cNaesewsNPAPicelcs' they state to have oc-
curredbut which is, in all its features, so
like the one which occurred nearly a century later,
that there is no doubt of their being the same, espe-
cially as, from what we have been able to ascer-
tain, no such Lircumstance occurred in the year they
mention.
The case which we allude to, and which is very
strikingly anolagous to the present, occurred in the
year 1769, when the outrages which took place in
St. George's Fields, led to the death of Allen, who
was killed by one of the military employed on the
occasion. In giving a detailed account of the pro-
ceedings of the Livery of London on this affair, the
Reader will notice the activity by which they were
distinguished.
On the 27th of April, thirty-four Liverymen waited
on the Lord Mayor, TURNER, requesting him to
call a Common Hall, in order "to take the sense of
the Livery on the measures necessary to be pursued
under the present circumstances of public affairs."
His His Lordship requested a short time to consider of it,
and the next day answered, " that he did not think
himself justified in calling together so large a body
as the Livery of London, at the request of only a few
of them." This was followed by several hundreds of
the Livery waiting on his Lordship, three days after,,
in support of the Common Hall, and, on the sth May.
a Court of Common Council was held, in consequence
of the refusal. On opening the Court, the LORD
MAYOR desired that an Act of the 13th CHARLES 11.
might be read, entitled, " An Act against tumults
and disorders, upon pretence of preparing public
Petitions or other Addresses, to his MAJESTY or the
Parliament," whereby it is enacted, " That no per.
son or persons whatsoever shall, from and after the
Ist of August, 1661, solicit labour or procure the
getting of hands, or other consent of any persons
above the number of twenty or more, to any Peti-
tion, complaint, remonstrance, declaration, or other
Addresses to the KING, or both or either Houses of
Parliament, for alteration of matters established by
Law, in Church or State, unless the matter thereof
have been first consented to (if in London) by the
LORD MAYOR, Aldermen, and Commons, in Com-
mon Council assembled. And that no person or per-
sons whatsoever shall repair to his Alasgsre, or both
or either Houses of Parliament, upon pretence of pre-
senting or delivering any:Petition, complaint, remon-
strance, or declaration, or other Addresses, accom-
panied with excessive number of people, nor at any
one time, with above the number of ten persons,
upon pain of incurring a penalty, not exceeding the
sum of one hundred pounds in money, and three
months' imprisonment.'
The Act being read, many debates arose, and at
last a question was put to the RECORDER and COM-
SION SERJEANT, Whether, in case that Court should
advise his Lordship to call a Common Hall of the
Livery, it would not be subversive of the power of
the Court of Common Council ?• and they both deli-
vered their opinions, that it would. This, however,
did not prevent some Member from moving, " That
the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor be desired to
issue a precept to assemble the Livery in Common
Hall, pursuant to their application to him," which,
after a long debate, was negatived, there eing six
Aldermen and eighty-six Commoners against, and
three Aldermen and sixty-nine Commoners for the
Motion.
Four days afterwards, vie. on* the 9th of May, a
large number of the Livery met at the Half Moon
Tavern, and appointed a Committee, who drew up a
Requisition to the Loan MAYOR, praying to have the
use of the Guildhall, to assemble and consider a Pe-
tition to his MAJESTY for redress of.grievances, which
Requisition was signed by three hundred and seventy.
two Liverymen: his Lordship gave for answer, that
the Aldermen and Common Council having advised
.him not to issue his precept, he could not grant their
On the 14th of June, the same Committee waited
upon the Loan MAYOR, requesting his Lordship
would order to be added to his usual precept for
;Midsummer-dal, the words, " and upon other special
affairs." yis 4ordsbiafter taking time to consult
the Recoants and Aldermen, said, they were of opi-
nion it 'could not be done.
Thil.Committee then issued an Address to the Li-
very, slating, that as every attempt of lawfully as-
.sembling to consult on and assert their unquestion-
able right to Petition the Throne had proved ineffec-
tual, they had prepared a Petition which they meant
to submit to the consideration of the Livery on Mid-
summer-day, and solicited their attendance to request
the LORD MAYOR to procegd in this business previous
to the election of Officers.
On Midsummer-day, the Livery met for the choice
of Sheriffs, but the Loan MAYOR was not suffered to
proceed in the business, until he had promised to
take the subject of the Petition into consideration be-
fore the Common Hall was dissolved. The Sheriffs
being elected, the Loan MAYOR declared himself
ready to hear the Livery's proposal, on which, Mr.
LovEtz„ who had been Chairman of the Committees
addressed them, and moved that the Petition should
be read ; it was read accordingly, but the LORD
MAYOR begged leave to make one alteration, which
was, that instead of its being stated to be the Petition
of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Livery," it
should run" thus, " The humble-Petition of the Livery
of the City of London." This alteration was adopted,
and the LORD MAYOR, Sheriffs, and Members of the
City of London, were requested to present the Peti-
tion to his MAJESTY, which Sir ROBERT LADBROOKE
and three of the City Officers promised to do:
A vote of thanks was then moved to the LORD
MAYOR for his judicious and impartial conduct,'
which was carried by the loudest shouts of applause.
During the reading of the Petition, one passage,
drew wthteeayrosufrngommthane
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sot.ldGeeMr:geAlle.eniel(ds)thei
which complains of the too frequent use of the MI6-
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who was present: and a Reporter, who was seen
taking notes of the Petition, was turned out of the
Hall in the most <lisgracefol manner. • •
On the sth of 'July, the Lord Mayor, three Alder-
men, and dui Sheriffs, presented the. Petition to his
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Muxerr, which was. graciously received. Another
account states, that 0 •tb4l
inuodiselbry Address of 1,
the Lord Mater, his, Mania-it snails ste USW%
This Petition was nut signed by the Town Clerk,