Star.
London, England, 1819-08-23 00:00:00

that the happened in his day to be a riot in Hol-
born,-notice of which was no sooner carried to White-
hall than a body of the Guards Were commanded to
march for the place ; but first they had the prudence
to send an Officer to the Loan CHIEF Jostles, to ac-
quaint him with the design, and to desire him to send
some of his people to attend the soldiers, in order to
give their interference the better countenance. The
Officer having delivered his message the LORD Cuter
JUSTICE said to him, "Suppose the populace should not
disperse at your appearance, what are-you to do then?"
" Sir," answered the Officer, " we have orders to fire
upon them."—" Have you, Sir," replied my Lord,
" then take notice of what I say : if there beone man
killed, and you are tried before me, I will• take care
that you, and every soldier of your party, so acting,
shall be hanged."—" Sir," added he, " go back to
those who sent you, and acquaint them, that no offi-
cer of mine shall attend soldiers, and let them know
at the same time, that the Laws of this Kingdom are
Of to be executed by the Sword; these matters belong
to the Civil Power, and you have nothing to do with,
them r

We were misinformed in stating, on Saturday,
that the Coroner's verdict on the people who were
killed at Manchester last Monday, was " Accidental
Death." We have pleasure in stating that such a
verdict was not given. The •erdict was, "Died by
Me pressure of the Military, being under Mc Civil
Power." The source of the mis-statement is explain-
ed in one of our letters this morning: it was "busily
given.oui" at Manchester that such had been the ver-
dict—for what reason we shall not inquire.

MANCHESTER.
!ROM COWDRY'S MANCHESTER GAZETTE?,

AUGUST ?I.

I, When the field was cleared, the Yeomanry formed
opposite Monnt-street, and after a speech, we believe
of thanks, from Mr. Hay, gave three cheers and
waved their swords in token of victory ! It will be
asked by every one, whether this attack was legal, or
at least whether the Riot Act was read previous to
the forcible dispersion of the crowd believP it
was not ! We have made the most diligent and ge•
neral enquiries, both among special constables and
spectators, and we have not met with an individual
who knows either when of where it was read ; or, in
point of fact, who believes that it was read at all. ft
certainly was not read under such circumstances as Mat
any considerable proportion of the Meeting were aware
of it, or could hate the slightest intimation that it was in-
tended to disperse them byforce."

MEETING TO THANK THE DOROHOHRFEVES AND CON-
ETABLES, MAGISTRATES, MILITARY, &C. FOR THEIR

EXPLOITS ON MONDAY.

On Wednesday printed Circulars were sent round
atnon3st the Gentlemen usually most active in the
political affairs of the high party in town, and who
were known from their connexion with and recom-
, mendation of the plans of the Magistrates, request-
ing them to assemble on the following day, Thurs-
day, the llth, at the Police Office, to consider of the
best means of conveying the thanks of the inhabi-
tants to the Magistrates, Soldiery, Boroughreeves,
and Constables, for their conduct on the occasion of
" the tumultuous and riotous assensblage," on Mon-
day last, and to bring with them such friends as
might have been unintentionally not informed of the
Meeting. About half-past eleven o'clock, an assem-
irlage of from 80 to 100 persons, including the Bo-
roughreeves and Constables, met at the Police Office;
but, lo! an insurmountable difficulty had occurred to
obstruct their proceedings; for Mr. N. Whitworth, a
noted spouter at the. Police Meetings, and who had
been very troublesome in exposing two or three
abuses connected with this department, had taken
possession of the room in which the Meeting was in-
, tended to have been held, in his right, as he said, of
Commissioner of Police; and this impudent fellow
positively refused to retire and leave the Gentlemen
to their own deliberations. They accordingly retired
to a small room below, and locked themselves in.—l
A messenger was then dispatched to the Star Inn,
to engage a room, and it was agreed that the only
way of keeping the company select, was to place the
Clerk who sent the circular notes at the door, with
one or two other Gentlemen, and as each individual
entered the room, he was asked whether he had a
'circular or had been invited to the meeting? At
length a selection was made, but there still appeared
doubts and scruples in the countenances of some, that
improper persons had somehow got admittance ; and
to place the thing beyond a doubt, it was requested
that all persons who did not approve of the purposes for
which the Meeting was convened would immediately with-
draw. Mr. B—, the Churchwarden, was then elected
to the Chair, and he was requested to reheat the
order, that all who disagreed with the views of the
Meeting should withdraw. This was done several times.
—At length, satisfied that the company were all of
the right sort, they proceeded to nominate a Corn
mittee to prepare the Resolutions. In about half an
hour, the Committee, returned into the room with
Resolutions of Thanks to the Boroughreeves, Con-
stables, Magistrates. Yeomanry, Sir J. BY/40, and the
Officers and Soldiers, Special Constables, &c. Ecc.—
These were soon disposed of, it having been previ-
ously agreed at the Police Office, that no discussion
uhatcver should take place, but that the Resolutions
should merely be put and carried. In fact, they were
all passed 'amine contradieente, and are, doubtless,
or; Ws, oa the road to their Chief is Lgudo4. This

mode of communicating thanks is tiorthi both of the
givers and the receivers.

PRIVATE LETTER.
6' MANCHESTER, SATURDAY EVENING,
Seven o'Clock.

tra4nctiSuiinl,ceelzcWerpottethyaotu
inlas the to
the
enighr(s)f has
Thursday
yinuthede
windows of a baker near New Cross were broken: it
being reported that he had used some violent language
against Mr. HUNT and the Meeting, though I am tcht
falsely,. the effect was thus disastrous to him. All
our further enquiries, and the reports from people in-
the neighbourhood, make us estimate the number
wounded much greater than it was at first thought.
There cannot, I believe, have been fewer than from
200 to SOO. We are still as much at a loss as ever
with regard to the reading of the Riot Act. The
Ministerial Prints here to-day assert that it was read,
one of them says twice, by the Rev. C.W. Era ELSTON
and by Mr. J. SILVESTER, but they mention neither
the time nor the place. lied it been read according
to the spirit of the law, I am sure that they would
gladly have given the Magistrates the benefit of the
proof that it was so. But, if read at all, it was by
stealth, so that the people were not and could not be
expected to be aware of it. In addition to my per-
sonal observation, I have conversed with scores, per-
haps hundreds of persons, both Spectators and Con.
stables, none of whom heard a word of it, although
it is next to impossible but that some of them must
haye done so, had it been openly read. If the Meet•
ing was not legal, I know not how it could have been
made sot it most certainly was as peaceable, until
broken up_ by the Military, as it is within the com-
pass of possibility that it could be. I (-est:l:illy do
not like the assembling of large crowds from circum-
jacent towns and villages, nor the exhibitioa of their
Caps of Liberty, ner many of the mottoes on their
flags ; but that any person could be found to swear
that mischief was to be apprehended from an assem-
bly so evidently peaceable, is to me astonishing.
Every day gives greater proofs of the danger to
which the people were exposed in their attempts to
escape. The burying-ground of the Quakers was in-
vaded, the gates we:e forced open, the Cavalry tram-
pled down the lowly mounds of earth which marked
the graves of their dead, and the work of destruction
was carried on in their very Meeting-house itself.'
This day Joiners have been employed planing cut the
marks of blood from the forms on which they sit,
and even in the upper gallery. It is said stones were
thrown at the soldiers from the wall. It may have
been so; but still, the object of the military should
not have been revenge ; and one would have thought
that the place where this emphatically peaceful peo-
ple assemble to worship GOD, might have afforded tc
unarmed and defenceless individuals a sanctuary
against the swords of their fellow-townsmen. It has
been said many of the people were armed with large
bludgeons, &c. Some of them certainly had comH
mon walking-sticks, and I took some pains, as they
passed me, to endeavour to ascertain the propor-
tion, and the result of which is, that I am convinced
not one in ten had even these; and when it is consi-
dered from what a distance many of the people came,
their having walking-sticks forms no argument
against their peaceable intentions.
" On Wednesday notices were circulated privately
amongst the party upon whose recommendations and
advice the Magistrates are supposed to have acted,
requesting them to meet next day, at eleven o'clock,
at the large room in the Police Office, to thank the
Magistrates, Soldiery, Special Constables, ecc. for
their services, in suppressing the disorderly and tu-
nudtuousassembbsge on Monday last. This affair was
kept very quiet, but some persons who had not had
notices got to hear of it. Amongst others, Mr. N.
Wiiirwoarse, a person who has taken an active part
here as a Reformer. In his quality of a Commissio-
ner of Police he conceived that he had a right to at-
tend any Meeting held in the Building belonging to
those Gentlemen, and accordingly
,he made his ap-
pearance before the commencement of the business.
His appearance excited complete consternation—one
by one the original prOmoters of the Meeting left the
room till he alone remained in it ; they went into a
smaller room on the ground floor, locked the door,
and there ieliberated how to get quit of the intrudeli
The Police Act and the Bye Laws were referred to,
and it was proposed to send for one of NADIN'S Bea-
dles, and turn him out bgforce—but upon reference to
Mr. SERGEANT, the Clerk to the Commissioners of
Police, who was sent for, it was thought prudent not
thus to violate the laws.

" Scme person proposed to proceed to the busi-
ness of the Meeting in spite of his presence, but it
was said he would be making objections, and making
a speech, and it was agreed that, upon the passing of
the Resolutions, no discussion whatever shoLld take
place. At length, finding they could not otherwise
get rid of Mr. WuiTwonnes presence, they resolved
to adjourn the Meeting to the Star Inn, which was
done. Two Gentlemen were then placed as door-
keepers, to exAmine all persons who came into the
room, as to whether they had received notices or in-
vitations, and before the business of the Meeting was
proceeded in, it leas requested five or sir times over,
that all those who did not approve of the object of the
Meeting, would withdraw. There were from 60 to
100 persons present, and the Resolutions were thus
passed unattimously, and, incredible as it may ap-
pear, are actually announced to-day in our Minis-
teriAl prints as the Ansolutiow of 4 a numerous and

highly respectable Meeting of :he I,
Manchester and Salford and their nda
FROM ANOTHER CORREsPOVDENT

“SATURDAY Al

" Notwithstanding the sti °lig ratan,-
the Boroughreeve and Mlgistiates,and t.
case you have not seen it, 1 subjoin a copy,
lace began to assemble on Thursday niAL
derable numbers, at their old scene of re
the New Cross. A body of military wele
perse them, immediately cn whose .ipina,
were, I understand, attacked with sttales
bats by the mob—a dreadful conflict ensle,;
two of the populace were killed, and rnr.
verely wounded, who were taket, to the i

The military succeeded, at last, in cl,
place ; hut shortly atter the routed rm.', as,
bled in Tib-street, and are lanes adj.', e„,
tacked the houses of several persons nix):
themselves obnoxious---among clier.s that
GRAVES, a constable. Snrre Ytornaa ntv at
rived and put the rioters again to fliBl.t, a
I have not heard that any tlcw outta,!,):-•

" A person who gues by 01:2 name
but who is said to be only a viilae
Oldham, was brought into town to-day, ;
some police officers and a detachment (11
He is now lodged with the o11;er prisonci:
Bailey, and on a similar charge; I undcis.
of High Treason.
" It is said that a wart ant is also out a!
son HA RRI SON.

'I he Meeting, which was announced
next Monday at Bolton, has been put Oir
lie notice on the part t f the Reformers t:
It stater, that In consequence of the tn
prcceediugs at the Manchester Meeting, o
last, and the fatal consequences that bal
many of their brave friends, it is tircughi
to defer the Bolton Meeting until a hearin,
had on what is past, Were a competent
Should any cf the persons new in prison
committed fcr trial, they will rot have to
for the issue, since the Lancashire Assize
rightly informed, commerce on tl:e I
month.—The following is the Caution I
alluded to:

4 PUBLIC CAUTION.

" To prevent at rrlpch as possiltle any Fatal Rt27l.
present circomstancts, the fiemaighreetk am! Clont,
chest fed. it their duty tc issue the folloningpicak
When Ste.-as are thrown from a Cevtvc to prac
the Lice: cf the I care OfSeers and ?.ilitary on alt
r.ually er&r.geredj, ti.e l'ersur.s sffendirit Ina be
wired, and given up, by those about them, GT sue;
tually throw a Sty= may stiff r horn the
I in the event cfSn..7.es being thrown, the per"
who are Eying front the puriuit of the Ciri/ ur ..1;:in
ties, should be refused Adr...itunce into Douses
which may otherwise be fixed luta.
' The Occuliers of Houses, from the Irindareer
Stones are Thrown. must consider themselves kiwi•
the consequences.

6 •„• It is earnestly requested, that bidividitaiswi
keting in Groups or Parties in the streets.'

P.S. The verdicts of the Coroner's Intl'
not, as has been busily given cut here,
Death.' Those on ASHWORTH, ASHTON,
PARKINSON, were respectively in these
which you may depend—, Died by the pral
Military, being undo. the Civil Power: Thi
on the boy FILDZS was—, Died by a fir
mother's arms.'

" I have just been informed, that the Pak
ing which was announced to be held at Pre:
been also postponed sine die."

OTHER PZIVATE LETTER?.
" MANCHESTER, SaturLF,
Two o'Cioi.k.

(Prom the Morning Herald )

" In my letter of Thursday last, I state(
people were deeply incensed against the c,
Authorities of this place, and that althoug!:
stained from any violation of the public pCI
minds were in a state of danget oils ap,..tatio:
sorry now to inform you, that what I then rnl
as a matter of opinion is new unhappily
From the information I had collected, I w'
as to express a belief that those who had bi
active in attacking the pop-,:lace on Mon(
marked out as objects of vengeance. My fo;
, turn out to have been well-founded: the ,
ment, so far from hei:T, allayed, is now w
to the highest Fitch of determined rage; an,
but the continued presence of military bc,ii
public streets at all hours cf the day and
vents that ferment from bursting forth into
lence. It was with a smile of angeish and,
I read the statements in some of the Lrr.ic
that tranquillity had been restored in this u
uo such thing; our tranquillity is ncthirg
a forced submission, which the terror cl tl
alone obliges the people to otscrve; and
cannot give you a more convincing proof.
relating a shocking transaction which reel
night in the streets of this town. A shopkee,
name of Fletcher, residing near the New C
been heard to throw out some contemptuc
tions upon the Reformers: the consequence
a mob suddenly collected round his is 31
o'clock last night, and all the windows we:
in an instant. A similar outrage was at
time committed upon the house of a public
name of Sykes, for no other reason, as is
than that of his son being one of the lecino
Whilc these Outrages were going forward,