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pies; the People's pin of it lay in the tomins onik
House, in the whole Commons, chosen as they should
be by the whole People. The ConstitutfOß had beim
acknowledged, promised, and professed by all past
Governments, hut had seldom been en;oyeil. It
might be said of it, as was said of the Bill of Rights,
passed at the accession of King William, by Mr.
Fawkes, there was a very excellent bill of fare, but no
dinner! He exhorted them to make themselves ac-
quainted with their rights, lad to take all legal courses
for recovering them. As .a very great man (Mr.
Cobbett), whose writings he would recommend them
to attend to strictly, had observed, " Where the for-
tress is strop, the belt way is to proceed by sapping
and mining. , This he wished particularly to recom-
mend to them—he wculd have them abstain from
using any argument having the least character of
iorce. Not that there might not be instances when
physical opposition would be justifiable, and when
the example of William Tell might be properly fol-
lowed. He was prepared, indeed, to 'skew that re-
sistance to oppression was part of the law of the land,
and that the bearing of arms by the People, was a
part of the Anglo system of laws, as all but the slaves,
which he before described to them, were allowed to
wear arms.

But he would have them first to un-

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derstand their rights, and then proceed by the most
peaceable means to their re-attainment. Some of the
Means he would specify. He advised them to imitate
Martin Luther, and those great persons who brought
about the Reformation, and signed a Protestation,
from which they acquired the name of Protestants.
He 'would advise them to do the same with the ex 7

cised articles; to become political Protestants, and
resolve never to touch beer, but reflect, that every
mouthful they-took gave their property to their ene-
mies in Lhe proportion of fourpence•halfpenny out of
every sixpence so laid out. They might withhold
from a Gdvernment, which would rule them by the
sword, and which was devouring them without re-
morse, for their sufferings, from fifteen to eighteen
millions of Revenue, and he would appeal to them-
selves, whether, on the articles pointed out by him,
there were any which could not be spared without
reducing their share of the necessaries of comfortable
existence?—(Cries of " No, no 1") He would not,
because be could not, immediately suggest what
should substitute some of the articles,.but this would
be-Caine easy, if they resolved to suffer the first depri-
vation, and this it would be necessary for them to do,
if they wete determined to shew themselves Protest-
ants in deed and in truth.
• Tfie people listened with the most earnest atten-
iion... The. different interruptions of applause and •
concurrence are not. eipresseil as they took place,
though the speech was frequently so interrupted. At
the conclusion there was loud cheering, and cries of
66 Thank you, Mr. Bowie."
The following Address was then read, and pro-
posed by Mr. Rem, and seconded by Mr. Ovag

aTo his ROYAL HIGHNESS the. PRINCE REGENT. •
tc TII2 IMMO= ADDILISS OT 131/12111Tilrli 01 int PALISH Or

R 4 TIM COUNTY 011`111.1101ST.
" May it please your. Royal Highness.;--We, your Royal
Highness's loyal, peicrable, and fellow subjects, most respect-
fully approach you With feelings of the most poignant regret and
affliction, and beg leave to address your Royal Highness in the
language of serious complaint and remonstrance.
" With all becoming humility we crave your Royal Highness's
attention while we state, that a constitutional assembly of the
People, legally convened, and deliberating with perfect tran-
quillity at Manchester, on the 16th of August last, was intdr-
rupted by violence, and punishments far beyond those which the
law inflicts on convicted felons, were executed on many per-
sons, then and there assembled, by military force and arms.
" That these aggressions, as has been manifested to us, the
inhabitants of the parish of and to the kingdom at
large, were perpetrated by the order, and under the authority of
the District Magistrates.
" That the persons who composed the fleeting at Manche,.
ter were driven from the exercise of a right, secured to them by
the same Act which gives to the Family of your Royal Highness
their only legitimate title to the Throne of these Kingdoms, and
which it is even more unconstitutional to violate and withhold,
than
" That the blood of these innocent perons was illegally, and
violently shed; their bodies lawlessly maniled and maimed, and,
in several instances, life itself taken away.
,' That the Ministers of your Royal Highness have =dense
of the high authority of the Crown (contrail; to the humane and
constitutional spirit which your- Royal Highness, the present
holder of it, is known to possess), in reternlng thanks to theper-
petrators and abettors of those sanguinary and unlawful deeds.
That they have ... ... •
; and that
the peace of the kingdom, and the authority of the House of
Brunswick, were alike placed thereby in peril of being over-
turned; for we would humbly remind your Royal Highness,
that one of the conditions by whiCh your Royal Family holds
the Throne of Great Britain, is the necessity of protecting the
People in the exercise of their tights, among which none ii
more • obviously recognized by the law of reason and the Sea..
cute, than the right of meeting to discuss public grievances; and
that this right can on no pretence be infringed, without impair-
ing in an equal degree the claim which your Royal House has
hitherto possessed to the obedience of the British People.
" Ia the fulnesi of our zeal, therefore, for the security of the
Constitution, both as it respects the family of your Royal High:-
nos; and the Rights of the People, we humbly beg leave sn re-
monstrate against the conduct of those Ministers who have a
plauded its violation. We respectfully entreat your RoyallEg
woe to dismiss them, and call other persons to your Connell*,
who will restore to the Constitution and the reigning Family the
veneration and confidence of the People.
I.‘ Lastly, we would impress upon your Royal mind the
necessity of directing a Commission of Justice to be issued
wider the Royal Seal, to bring the guilty to punishment, and to
vindicate the supremacy of the laws."
The•CHAIRSI kw then asked if any person wished to
-address the Meeting, and add any thing to the pro-
ceedings already gone through? Upon which.* re-
spectable young man stepped on the platform, and
proposed a vtite of thanks to Henry Hunt, Esq. for
hit manly conduct at the Manchester Meeting, and
subsequently.
. Mrs Bowls, in seconding the Resolution, did ho-
nour to Mr. Hunt's behaviour throughout the whole
of those transactions, and expressed his abhorrence of
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contrived for his ruin. : i 1
The Resolution was carried with acclamations, as ! i . I
was also a vote of thanks to Mr. COOPRR, for his con- •
duct in the Chair. , )1
their •Mr. COOPER returned thanks ; he would let no. op. ,
rt pounity slip of serving his countrymen; he begged i
them to retire quietly to dinners, or if they had
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dined to their tea.—(Loud la/tester, and cries of " No . .
tra.---toVII drink no tea !") i,
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Yesterdaymornieg an Inquest was held at Cletkenwell Work- i
Mouse, on the bodrota poor creature, who was found suffocated •
on the top of a brick-kilst in Spa-Fieldu This is about the sis-
Swath person wkohas died its the same field from the same muse. II
D. Kay, a watchmaker, found the deceased lying on a brick- • f
kiln •on Wednesday. menting :he had no lodging, and for the • 4,
benefit of warmth from the kiln, he lay at the top; and the
smoke that be hiltalcd while he slept, Ea lootA, tausedJais death.'
Verdict—Died by Suffocation. . .
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