Star.
London, England, 1819-11-16 00:00:00

mak into holes. and comem, :n otter to
-signatures in a private and underhand •
wished to meet their fellow.rountrymen
to hear their sentiments on great constit.
tions--queAions on which they h..d a right
their opinions—( Applause ).—Ele had 110 W
farther to say, but to request that tile Meeti
support that authority which it was his
ercise while in the Chair.

Mr. HALLETT then presented himself.
step, he said, was to read the original
signed by seventy-eight Freeholders, c
were Magistrates, the High Sheriff,
the letter which he wrote in coaseqr
done this, Mr. Hallett proceeded. It.
ID his lot to bring forward certain
an Address to the Prince Regent,'
.lion. Having been the first mover
tion which they had heard read, he
cessary to say, that he waited above
he transmitted it to any of the F,
hope that some person of greater
County than himself; some persou
than he possessed, would have taken
Though he was by to means lukewat.
yet he thought it better that some person.
come forward on this occasion, u
habit of attending much to poll
question avas not connected with that
with those different subjects by
was usually agitated. He hoped. ,
sition which had be just read, these
ment of violence, no scheme of
no disloyalty, no. phrase that cott
Their worthy Chairman 'had expressed
if any of those Gentlemen who had •
icOgnty to procure signature; to a'-
'forward fairly, boldly, and in a man,
their objectious to the Requisition,
Meeting, they should be patientl,
most cordially joined in, that hope.
'let any of those roaring rampant
forth let ahem come here. and
'and rampant they can be at a
( Laughter ).—lt was not, originall,
advert to the reasons given by the
not calling the' :Meeting.; but al
that he was hot the only High
fused to comply with the Requisition!
him by Freeholders, it was proper, '
make some observations on his
considered the nature of that letter
fleeted on the Declaration that bad
carried through the. County.; When
*nee of the Crown exerted, not morel)
but in Wiltshire, Hampshire, Otfordshil
other Counties ; and when he
High 'Sheriffs in those different
united in, he would say, the same
he could not possibly help 'thinkii
conduct was the offspring of an
down the voice of the People—(
He would 'now go over a lit4e of
Letter,. for the purposs of offering to the
few brief comments on ir. In the first
would observe, that he agreed perfecth,
worthy Chairman; 'in thinking that it was the
den duty cf the High Sheriff to preside on
sion ; bicause though be (Mr. Hallett), as a .
trate, could call on every one to keep the 'peace,
the High Sheriff could do a great deal mote. '
the Chief Magistrate of the County, and
out every matt above fifteen years Of age to
him in preserving theleate. He had
taus at his command ; mid having such a,
to ensure order, he should.have attended he.
was perfectly satisfied that there wculd be no
turbance in that County. But suppose there
what would the High Sheriff have to say fur'
if he were not present ?—(Appiau se.) Was ,
man in the country who did not feel convinced, ,
if the Magistrates had been present, if they had et.,
sided at the Manchester Meeting, there would Ent,
been no riot, no disturbance, no bloodshed ?—( Tar,'
true.) He but attended Public Meetings for thing
years pest, and he did not know during that time;
nor indeed before it, of a refusal on the part d
the High Sheriff to call a Meeting of the County,-
In his Letter, the High Sheriff said, " he entertained
a favourable idea of County Magistrates who acted
without fee or reward." It was true, the County
Magistrates did act without any fee or reward, ex-
cept what they received from the approbaticm of
their own honest hearts. But the High sheriff was
rnot correct, if he meant to say that the Manchestu
'Magistrates acted on the same liberal principle. It was
-notorious that two or three of them had salaries, and
every one-knew that' they were likely to have a num-
bee of followers who had those stipends in expect:7le,,
(Applause.) He was informed by a respectable Gen-
tleman of Liverpool, that one of those Magistrates
was so ignorant as to have sat on the Bench for tea
years without knowing that a potatoe was a vegetable!
(Laughter.) He remembered also to have hard of
one of those hired Magistrates, before whom a com-
plaint was made, relative to the stealing of a blanket.
The Magistrate declared he could not attend to the
case, for he had read the whole of Burn's Jastice,and
could not find the word " blanket" in it l—(Leug,iter-)
The County Magistrates had but two masters—tee
law of the land and their own consciences; but the
hired Magistrates-had other inastep, the Ministers of
the day, to whom*they looked' for salary and sino.-
tion—(Applause.) ,It was nos just,. therefore, to con-
found the Magistrates who-acted fairly with riot
Who were paid 'a Certain sapend. When he said
he meant no disrespect either to the Magistrate% or
the Yeomen of England generally. At the ore
time, he certainly did not-approve of an armed Ye.
marry force. He approved of the old posse con ~*!Jt
of the constable's staff, -as the most proper weano
for pie:crying the peace. - He was not fond of a.:IT
thing in the shape of a soldier in time of peace, Ile
meant not, however, to disparage the character of 3
soldier. They were useful in tune of war, but in 3
period of peace it was an abuse to keep up a
lame
military establishment—("Prue,frae.) "It was,
the High Sheriff, " unfair tocondemn a man befcll
he was heard." That was exactly what he thou; ht
but did not Ministers, five days after the proceeding:
at Manchester, condemn the people unheard, hS
-rising the Prince Regent to thank the ,',/,teia,
and -Yeomanry ?—(Applause.) The Prince I:clzet".
was made to say, " that he bad received great sonsni.
ties frOm their prompt, decisive, and et c,.e.a. cc;.
loq." They certainly wire very prompt

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had now L.
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thou
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for their co.:. PL"I
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consequence it, liat
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that of
r which the cc we
I, th.tt in Cie ht.,
these was ‘ tzi
f a visicaar7 rzi ca
ould be oby;.t.
pressed a !..tie.. e 3
hid
a Declatv.4,ll..,
t manly v.-.lr. to
on, or to the la
ntly heard ; ark
ae. 'Let them do
iant IrCilt!ists
nd shew bow ro• -
a Public Me:t;,,
sally, his itetiti:
:he High
when he. tea.
Sherd oF • 1
isitions tranc.4.iztr:
pet, he conceivc:
tia letter. 14iten
letter ; when he
bad ..been
?hen he saw the it,
. merely in Berkii
htfordshire, and
e observed that
int districts were .
ime sort of decepri•
inking but that
11 ardent wish to k .
!--(Loud applause
of the High Sher'.
ring to the )leetitt
in the f.rst place,
a perfectly with
that it was the b.._
) preside on this tt
Hallett), as a
to keep the peace,
at deal mote. He r
runty, and could ctl
ears of- age to
ie had the pcsa ccri
ring such ample mer.
re attended here. H
ere wculd be no
It suppose there wa
iave to say fur hirr.rt:
ionise.) Was t!:ere
Dr fed convinced, flat
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