Star.
London, England, 1819-09-28 00:00:00

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1819.
THE FUNDS.
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per Cent. Reduced shut
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Ditto Small 2s. dis.
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Consols for Acct. 698.

The conduct of the coverers of Mood, and of those
who cry out for Justice, presents a remarkable con-
trast at this moment, and exhibits the former in most
singular colours. The Courier, and some other ad-
vocates of lawless atrocities and cruelties, are ebu-
stantly clamouring about the injustice of prejudging
the men who are accused of these enormities. Now
we would ask a very simple question. How can mess
be said to prejudge an accused party, who are only
demanding that their conduct may fairly undergo a
legal investigation? Is this the method usually fol-
lowed by men who aim at loading any individuals
with unmerited obloquy? On the contrary, we main-
tain that these babblers are daily occupied in a voca-
tion which they vainly attempt to impute w others.
Lies have been advanced by wholesale against the
warmed and unoffending multitude of men, women,
and infants, who were wantonly assailed on the 16th
of August, by command of the Reverend and Un-
reverend Magistrates of Manchester, by armed men.
TLey were accused of having marched in military
array, armed with pike-staves, of which they carried
the heads in their pockets, ready to be screwed on ;
Laving set the Public Authorities at defiance; of
having assailed the Yeomanry with clubs and brick-
bats, and of firing on them from the houses ! and no
sooner are the real assailants called upon to prove
these facts, than they call this prejudging the case!
There is not an individual in the Kingdom, no not
even among the Yeomanry, the Magistrates, and the
Ministers themselves, who have mixed up their own
character With these- foul stains upon our national
character, who does not know and believe in his con-
science, that every one of the charges which have
thus been attempted to be fixed on the unhappy
people who attended the Manchester Meeting, is an
absolute falsehood ; and yet, forsooth, those who
would have the whole business sifted to the bottom
by a proper legal procedure, are charged with being
desirous to prejudge the question !

The fact is plainly this: In the eyes of these men,
my day for such an investigation, during the life of
the present generation, would be tdo early a day, in
the judgment of these enemies of justice. But, in
spite of the animated oratory of the Reverend Mr.
LI'IIELSTONE, whom, perhaps, none will, using his
own classical language, call " a downright black-
guard ;" in spite of his—(we were going to say, hints,
bet that would not be doing him justice)—in spite of
his threats about hanging, and the punishment so
justly merited by the " ruffianly crew," who presume
to question the humanity and justice of butchering
people without any legal trial ; in spite of the clamour
of the few hirelings who disgrace the free Press of
England by their wilful falsehoods; in spite of the
blind dolts, be they who they may, who would put
every thing to hazard, and endanger the very exist-
ence of our venerated Constitution, and the destruc-,,
Lion of all property and of all rights, by opposing the
fair course of justice; in spite of all these united, it
Will be found, that still the true British character
possesses all its energies. There ought to be, and
there shall be, a full investigation of the foul and
cruel transactions of the 16th of August.
Among the other falsehoods boldly and unblush-
ingly asserted by parricides, it has been maintained,
that none but the vilest of the vile had advocated, or
would advocate the cause of the sufferers--none but
Jacobins, beggars, atheists, infidels, and Radical Re-
formers! It would be exceedingly =realest for
these declaimers, that all of these characters should
be classed and identified with those whose veneration
for the injured laws and violated constitution of the
country, leads them to demand a thorough investi-
gation of every thing that wears the semblance of
murder; but the intellect of the country is not now,
nor can it ever be, reduced to such a degraded

as not to be able to discriminate, and to separate slaw
jects which have no more connection with each other
than Mr. Nimble 's mode of conducting an Inquest has
to do with the Expedition to the North Pole! The
question is, not whether any individual, or all of those
who received injuries from the Yeomanry, were sound
Churchmen, or rank' Methodists and Infedels--whe.
ther they were Ultra-Royalists, or Ultra-Reformers-- j
whether they were Parsons or common Weavers?
but by what law or right were butchers let loose
upon them by the Reverend and Unreverend Man.
chester Authorities ?
Were it true, that none but beggars and miscreants
could be found in the country, crying out for the
reign of Justice and the Laws, this would only prove,
that g,s fi ecoplei w• are unworthy to 1» protected