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London, England, 1819-09-14 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE STAR.

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LIVERPOOL, SEPT. It.
Sut.—Having been employed by the public-spi-
rited Gentlemen of this town to co-operate profession-
ally with Messrs. HARMER and PEARSON, in endea-
-vouring to bring the perpetrators of the late atroci-
ties at Manchester to condign punishment. I think
it proper to address you on the subject of the letter
lately published by my colleague, Mr. PEARSON.
That part of the Press which manifests a disposition
to palliate the crimes and to plead for the criminals
connected with the at St. Peter's-field,
affects, I perceive, to doubt the accuracy of Mr. PEAR-
solids statement. Therefore I feel it a duty which 1,
owe to truth, to justice, and to my country, to de-
dare, through your respectable Journal, my know-
ledge of this important transaction.
" For some time previous to Mr. Peaason's ar-
rival at Manchester, I was actively engaged in col-1
lecting facts and arranging evidence, with a view to
the prosecution of the real authors, and principal
actors, on that melancholy occasion, which has filled
England withhorror. Hence lam in possession of
such information as authorises me to speak with con-
fidence on this subject ; and I have no hesitation in
declaring, that Mr. PEARSON'S statement is perfectly
well-founded. That this Gentleman, indeed, instead
11 of dealing in exaggeration, as appears to be imputed,
has rather under-stated the case, will, I am con- I
vinced, be fully demonstrated upon the first trial or
investigation that affords opportunity for adducing
1 the evidence that has come to our knowledge, even
since. the letter alluded to was published. What 1
feelings then can belong to the writers, whcs being,
I must suppose, totally ignorant of the facts, pre-
sume to propagate unfounded assertions and over-
strained animadversions, which evidently tend, if
they are not deliberately designed, to indispose good
men to that system of exertion which is indispensably
necessary in this case to vindicate the injured laws of
humanity and England—to punish the perpetrators
and abettors of

N But I will at once tell those writers who seem to
sympathise only with ; who would bury the
victims of in oblivion, by proscribing
all who dare even to nionrn their fate--that if any
member of the Press who has reprobated, or who
may
.have the virtue to reprobate, the cowardly

dared use town at ru. rennin= ca ae out ca tae Pale bloOd-shedders of Manchesuii-
,shoula be j
indicted fOr ic' I
liberty.
of social intercourse for the present; and a cordon of a libel, and have only the common courage and ca- tsoo• ; an
military posts has been formed around it, to prevent Lattytht:pdetailres the facts wilt)llaiwhicht
wloricir furnish and also
all ingress unlit for provisions.
French 5 per Cents, Friday, 71 fr. 20 c. be driven to strike
from Court with the universal and unmixed abhor- her hush
ranee of the Jury, the Judge; and the whole People good be
.; , • .of England. I have only to add, that the task which and oth
It We have received a Tvaallatim of an important I have undertaken to perform is in no degree under four and
the influence, or connected with the views of any po- whom tl
; Public Document, entitled " Act of Installs:jou of
the Second National Congress of Venezuela," con- litical party, but suggested by the ftelings of a bane- Owen st
taming an Act of the Deputies present at the are- volent body of Gentlemen, who are naturally and years to
i many, and a bong and very eloquent speech deliver. laudably anxious to seek =dress for the wanton er- hour, an
ed by Genes. Iheravan, as Supreme Chief and Cap. assemb
fendercisien.of military violence against an unarmed, ma& him mil
lage of min, women and children. &saws
tain.aenesul. It is, perhaps; too long to be inserted 4. / 71,0, Sir, your most obedient humble servant, 'ip the ui
entire in any Newspaper, bit to-morrow we shall 4, 11. Di11111011:' of her hl