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public hatred and execilitidn-2-4Losed and long cheers).
'llse inference oas decisive 3 it was not in the hands
that thus wielded them that the powers of Gr.vera-
ment ought to remain in tinses so perilous—V.lteere.
It might be asked, if Parliamentary Reform was the
sole object of the Reformers, where. was the danger
of the country? He would tell them : the danger
waseisiso--tens of thousands and hundreds of chow,
sands of disappointed and irritated citizens would
meet in every part of the kingdom ; a strict union
would be formed amongst them, a Union in object
and in plane their numbers would be fully nscerw
tained, and their confidence in consequence increased.
Firmly as be believed the Reformers to be now Un‘ A
connected with hostile views to the Government,
could it be hoped that, if treated as they now were
treated, they wooled long continue so? Could any
man acquainted with history believe that millions
would submit to insult, denial, and persecution?.
They were not now inclined—they would. hereafter
be driven to courses inconsistent with tbr.establiehed
institutions: it was not in human nature to be perm-
eated, and not, with or without la*, to rite against
their persecutors I—(rdieers.) How was this to be
avoided ? By placing the government in other hands,
in the hands of Ministers who would listen to the
people; hear their complaints, attend to their wishes,
conciliate their feelings, and edress their grievances.
This was not the proper place for suggesting any
particular plan of proceeding : what he insisted on-
was a temper, a disposition on the part of those in
power, wholly dissonant from that which we have
for years known, which was wholly dissonant- from
that mild and lenie:t disposition, which at ne dis-
tant period might be able to sooth he i ritat d tate of
the country, and secure its future tranquillity. The
Learned Gentleman, in conclusion, repeated,.that
did not address. them as either Whigs or Tories,
friends or enemies to Reform, but as men who would
join in the Resolutions of that day from a firth oon-
viction that they were the sure and only soerce.of
the future tranquillity of the country.
Mr. Nicom. then read the following Resolutions,
which' he told the Meeting would afterwards be put
one by one:
Resolved, 1. That it is the Constitutional right of the People
of this Kingdom publicly to consult on all minters of State, and
to express their sentiments in the form of Rawhides's, Peti.
dons, or Remonstrances, as circumstances may seem to them

to require.
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2. the Meeting held at Manchester, on the 16th of Au-
gust last, was in correspondence with the above Constitutional
right of the People ; and that neither in the notice which pre.
ceded that Meeting, nor in the conduct of the people in ap-
proaching it, nor in their demeanour when actually assembl'd,
war any unconstitutional act oommkted, or any act amoun.• g
to a breach of the peace, or to a just source of alarm to any of
his Msjesty's subjects.
3. That the conduct of the persons who took the lead in the
business of the Meeting on the above occasion, considertnn them
=admit of any fondest party question, as British subjects,
assettiog their rights, la highly praiseworthy, and mmisa
the approbation of every friend to freedom and his country ;
that the thanks of this Meeting are hereby given to them foe ties
forbearance they exhibited, andtheir unwillingness to disturb
the public peace. -
i. That the laterroption of the proceedings of the above Meet-
ing by the Yeomanry Cavalry, under the direction of the Msets
strafes was Mega} and unconstitutioaal, and unworthy of the
Citizens of cave country, and of a Magistracy, by its Ace
the protector of the'peoples' rights.
5. That the subsequent approbation of the proceedings of the
above day, issued in the name of the Prince Regent, but on the
responsibility of his Majesty's Ministers, has a lamestable ten-
dency to create disunion in this Kingdom ; to fix in the minds of
the people an apprehension that their safety is not duly regarded
by the,HIO Authorities of the Realm, and that their Rights
are objects of jealousy, suspicion, and attack.
6. ,That the Ministers, whose views.aod painetplei have led
them thus to misuse his Royal Highness's sidle, ase\wholly
worthy of his confidence and, of the confident, of tht
and that it is our determination humbly to Address his Royal
Highness to remove them from his Councils and presence.
7. That a Subscription be immediately entered ince for the
purpose of affording relief to the sufferers under the late unlaw-
ful attack ; and for the purpose of inflicting that justice on the
authors and perpetrators thereof which the lows of our country
are ready to afford.
a. That a Committee, Treasurer, and Secretary to the flqb-
scription; be appointed ; and that a Committee of Hight Gentle-
men be appointed to carry the same into effect.
9. That the Address now read is adopted as the act of this
Meeting, and shall be immediately transmitted to his Koysl
Ilighness.
[f lore en Address, founded on the foregoing Resolutions, was
read to the Meeting.]
Mr. Alderman DUNSLa!CY rose to second the Reso-
lutions. After commenting on the politeness: with
which the Lord Mayor had received their Requisition,
and on the readiness with which lie had attended tb
it, he proceeded to say, that he had little doubt but
peace and order would be observed, although, as the
Meeting had heard, there were no Special -Constable*
in attendance, nor had he, or any of his brother Ma-
gistrates, put the Riot Act in their peckets(Ap-
piause).—The late Meeting at Manchester wasitricdy
Constitutional% and the conduct of 'the people as-
sembled at it highly decorous : if it had been impro-
per, it was the duty of the Magistrates to have gore
'among the people% and ordered them to be peace-
able : if after this they still acted wrongfully, it was
then the duty of the Magistrates to read the Riot Act,
*and to give the multitude an hour to disperse in. But
was this, or aught like this done ? No; instead of it,
the dreadful work of havoc was begun ; the Cavalry
—not the Soldiery, for they would have disdained
to 'act thus—the Yeomanry Cavalry, a' new name
unknown to our Constitution-, was let loose upon a
peaceab'e, unoffcnding, and unarmed multitude,
many of whom were put to the sword, regardless both
of age and sex— (Cheers).—lmmecaitcly after tills
dreadful carnage, the Magistrates of Manchester min
two Delegates to London, who told • their men tabs,
end received the.thanks of his Niaiesty's Ministers, iq
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