Star.
London, England, 1819-09-25 00:00:00

a- he thtught that the fewer who were
,11. ):°1;-- s°' cnce of this- Meeting to any ill
_ ,„A in consequence
tr.- , ti, • letter: for himself, he should have
';',l"kel"the IlleAstltC of presiding at it, because lie
i'''',-, ''''' preferable to undergo any privation ra-
vr::••• 'it ,-, ive them of the opportunity of express-
°' than "t'''' eits on the late dreadful occasion.
.•!..„'i;s.r rl:ttillniought, was one of those cases in which
..'l."',„-' boon(' to come forward, and to yin-
r7.,.,7,,,1'A'''',17 humanity. lle could not here for-
'' '3l:
le his approbation of the conduct of the
Is
for-
'r c``'+ i ila..i tt ates, as compared with that of
1i.,"341111.,i,n.:tes o‘iNlatichester; but it was to their
`'' i''''...''r that they were indebted. They knew
r:Teince e''''‘''le of Birmingham required no such un-
' '-'e P '''), he resorted to for the purposes
;... ,•:urie,..l3, means to
~..„, Ihe subject immediately before them was
1..•
jcp,y hind painfully interesting to every ftiend
..,
.r 41, and to every one of those sympathies
•'''-i'En-lish hearts were actuated—(Loud op-
' larder had been committed, in the face of
'. • . trout of justice, under circumstances the
tad and revolting ; but it had been perpe-
' ....u:nier the sanction of those by whom the exer-
-1)e very laws should have been protected,
. t
' • 1 ct thus been violated—(Lind and long; con-
, .0 ia
ries ,/.a Shame.") Yes, the crime had, in this
been marked by a character of new and
:41; CTIW
Iry • it had wreaked its vengeance on
, • ,
i 10 • ~.=1 Oil defenceless beauty, and on helpless in-
,
,:.—t_ua;ne.) This had occurred amongst Eng-
' with Joel; the guilt was lt glishmen. Yet the
• "'Nuents had been distinguished by royal favour,
-,i'liad received the thanks of the Prince Rifent.
4' : ' 1 for what? Why, as to his Majesty's t aus-
-1 it was true they had passed oppressive laws, and
repealed good ones ; but so long as they had
,A a decent regard to the laws, framed even to
• ir wish, some little merit was due to them ; but
7e they were contravening statutes which even they
:=toted to respect. Their efforts had been aimed
d - '1
the peace, e, the morals,
~,and the happiness of
.e aviary,
in
•many other instances ; they were all,
ever, but one and the same trick, and the same
):rein of cruelty. Their proceedings had driven
ea to madness and to suicide, after they had been
'arid, by their persecutors, in pzisons. These
?f victims victims had frequently experienced, on such
trims, the most unfeeling treatment.. -Yet all this
~leten under the authority of a Secfeuu7_of State's
~wart. They had been refused.a fair English trial,
slhad no longer even to boast of the freedom and
...fe7 I their own persons—(Hear,-liear). The Re-
.,.:er, bad been charged with revolutionary dc.'
.gt,; they had been declared, and stigmatized, as
promoters of anarchy and disorder—(No, no).
i:a he appealed to them, to facts, to reason, whether
.y conduct, or any course of action, could more
xib:y or immediately lead to a state of anarchy
1 Ji,order, than that pursued by the Magistrates
. Manchester ? He asked, in the name of justice,
.ket;.er the conduct of Robespierre, of Danton, of
Nuai, ac bile they conducted the political movements
:revolutionary France, could possibly exceed in ini-
nity those enormous outrages which they were now
Called on to deprecate and to condemn?—{Loud v-
iva). They bore upon them every indication that
mid mark the excesses of foolish but brutal men.
LI cot the Magistrates beguile the people of Man-
ager to meet in immense multitudes for the discus-
ial of their great object, by declaring their intention
:a to disperse a Meeting thus confiding and un-
r.ed? Could sophistry itself deny, that after this
..multitude was justifiel in entertaining-the fatal
cidence that they should be safe and unmolested ?
Fiat, however, was the event of that dreadful:day ?
&body of men, sometimes called a Regiment of Ca-
r.:ry, rushed in among them, sword in hand, attack-
.lg with equal atrocity and fury, men, women, and
6:drea!--iShante) Could any deed surpass the vio-
'ewe of this? Could it be remembered, but with
Itrpand enduring indignation, that those for whom
mnitosd, courage, and affection, are ever most
zterested and most excited, were thus trampled on
ad mangled by cowardice and treachery?—(Hear.)
ILI it might be asked what the Magistrates of
XL-Attester had to say in their defence? Would they
le' that their conduct was legal? If so, they were
"der the necessity of using arguments which re-
er..eil only upon themselves: for if they were thus
z.errninetl to prevent the Meeting in question, why
LI they not publicly declared their intention before
z,trok place, as they had done on a former occasion
).t a similar nature ; and when the people, little as
.:.iy v:ere, perhaps, bound to abide by their deter-
:444ton in the matter, no sooner saw the mtifica-
t..:: !Lai they respected it, and abstained altogether
f:ea thz Intended Meeting ? The Requisitionists had
'-'4.•••••n every desire to be acting in the most legal
tti tar. 11 the Magistrates had not themselves
I.43ght they were so acting, why had they declared
Lit they should not disperse any Meeting which
ii-gl.: a,stmlile ? But the Meeting was a legal one,
',l,lthe object was legal. What were the words of
Le ik(atisttion? "To meet and determine on the
x,t,st legal means of obtaining Parliamentary. Re-
km," The more, then, this point was examined,
t..e.,,r-ore clearly it resulted that such was the case.
‘'
'Lrely, this point established, these desperadoes
'''. '',i.: at that moment just as well, as reasonably, as
1',::, tlt Irons behind their backs, resume their
...:, ,l laugliter, and butcher their wives and their
` - a Lttue their faces. If it was competent for
31,.....:.•.,,i..tta‘y by force to assail the Manchester
it,-,, ~ employed in the serious pursuit of a great
.. t'',Jiat, they would be equally justified in
c,•• ~ ‘
.'. u.t,L soldiers even into the very churches,
.211atting their indiscriminate slaughter of
~., •., , and :t.,es though
Kkneeling before the
-..' . I.:*.a.•.tyb of their AER. And he could
)00y...countrymen, in the solemn con-
.-....-. 7' - ~..,•.)1. truth, that they were not more legally,
. ' '.• -.), niurally, not more religiously employed,
.....: `, the (hINIPOTENCE of HEAVEN, than
':: •
... --e %‘!“.31 en aged in the holy and benevolent
. .. - e.•.,.:•leouring to ameliorate the condition,
t. '...,tit...11 •the sufferings, of a Great Nation—
:: 1 aFfadsc).--yet could not these Magi-
4zi. --: 1..:v,: ,:t least spared this frightful effusion of
-1.. 'bad ? Could they not, in any case, have
I:,:i:Li,i..:d the ground with those very soldiers?—'
.. ;I',"ll'',.f).—It was to be asked, whether they had
.),Q Pi ,t Act !—(" Na, no.")—Whether the
'., ': '' flad heard it read ?—(•' No.")—Now, he
.....-.... :, •..
.. • ~ ....l !seen read by them—(" No, no")—in'
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''''''t l''''-'4l"--(Gi era lansktor.)—Had they not