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men. *One man, whim I saw a few days since, re-
ceived a desperate wound on the head, while on his
knees supplicating for mercy ; • and another poor fele
1 iw was with -him who suffered the dislocation of h?ii
shoulder, a sabre wound on the head, arid several
severe contusions on different parts of the body : he
informed me that he was conveyed to the Infirmary,
and undressed for bed, but upon being visited by one
of the attendants, he was accosted in an insulting
tone, with I Well, you have bad enough of it ! I sup-
pose you will, never attend a Manchester Meeting
again.' The poor fellow having ventured to reply,
that ' This atrocious work, more than anything, cons
vinced him that some alteration in the system was
necessary,'—he was peremptorily ordered out of the
house, and compelled in this dreadful condition to
walk home, a distance of six miles. When I saw
him, his arms were hanging useless by his side, his
visage pale and emaciated from pain, and his whole
frame enfeebled by loss of blood i—his wretched
appearance would have found for him pity among
the savages of the desert—but the doors of a Chan.
table Institution, in A Christian country, were shut
against him !
" The number of the dead are not, and cannot be
accurately ascertained: the poor wretches have crawl-
ed from the scene of •actien, and died in holes and
corners. One man was found by accident some days
afterwards, half consumed by the worms, which had
made his corpse their prey ; and one of the suffer e: s,
who died a few days since from a sabre wound on
the arm, would have bean interred, like others, with-
out any notice of his end, had it- not been for the
spirited conduct of the Surgeon who attended him
in his last moments. The Constable said, that the
man had , died from pressure,' and that there was
no occasion for an Inquest to sit: so that our coun-
trymen, wounded by the military, or trampled to
death by the cavalry, are to be huddled into the grave
without inquiry, like the beasts which- perish ; and
their cases screened from investigation, by the pres
tence of their having ' died from pressure.' But
however we may lament the fate of the fallen, it is
the living who are deserving our commiseration ;
let us hope that those who are no more, have found
in Heaven-that mercy which man had on earth de-
nied them. Not only do the manes of the departed
ask for vengeance—but the suffering pangs, the
mangled limbs, the bleeding wounds, of our unfor-
tunate brethren, demand our compassion ; and their
weeping wives and sorrowing children supplicate our
pity, and ask for our assistance.
" Gentlemen, during the late war, the bravery of
our Army and e gallantry of our Navy, never went
MR. PEARSON'S LETTER. without the testimony of approbation of the Corpus
--,-. ration of London ; while the wounded in battle, and
TO.Tint INHABITANTS OF THE WARD OF the widows and children 'of those who fell in the field
BISHOPSG ATE. were sure Co find in her munificence a liberal bene-
" GENTLEMENHaVIng just returned to London factor. Never was the City purse shut against the .
after being a melancholy witness of the distressing distresses of mankind, while there remained ability to
scenes occasioned by the proceedin3s which took
relieve; and the triumphs of victory were always
place at Manchester on the 16th of August last, I gilded with substantial proofs of civic liberality: mid
may, perhaps be permitted, without censure, to sug- surely now that several of our unoffending country-
gest to my Bishopsgate friends, the propriety of as- men have been doomed to an untimely grave, and
sembling in Wardmote publicly to express their sen- numbers of our peaceful people wounded and dis-
timents upon an occasion which has called forth the abled by the outrageous violence of armed despera-
sympathy and indignation of the British Public— does—surely the Corporation of London would, upon
sympathy for those who are now languishing under your ication, do more for the widows and cliil-
the misery of intolerable distress and agonize"*l suf- dren oft he slain than commiserate their fate, and
feting—and indignation at the • • • • • would lend their assistance to bind up the wounds of
authors of their woes. the broken-hearted, and to minister to the wants of
~ During the last few days I have been occupied their fellow-creatures, who, having long borne with
in visiting the abodes of many of the suffering victims bypatience the load of unexampledpainful distress, have been
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of these atrocious deeds, whose names I have taken
indiscriminately from the lists which were presented condition of bodily affliction.
to me. Some of them, mutilated and disfigured, are " That portion of the Corporate Representation to
which, through your good opinion, I have the ho-
suffering pangs of absolute want—and many, many
nour of belonging, has not often intruded upon the
others, rendered incapable of resuming their work,
City ; and, therefore, if it should be
are doomed to see their unhappy wives and misers- funds of the
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the pleasure of the Ward to stand forward as the ad-
Me offspring looking up to them for the food which
their mangled limbs and enfeebled frames can no
vocates of their suffering brethren, their representa-
longer supply to their craving appetites. tions would produce the greatest effect; and if the
" Had you, my friends, received as I have, the impoverished resources of the City Establishments
undoubted testimony of every dispassionate observer, should be pointed to as a reason for not complying
as to the wanton and cruel character of this sangui• with so just and merciful a request, the Ward of
nary attack' upon a peaceable, unarmed, and unof-
Bishopsgate might with pride refer to its uniform
disapprobation of every thscriptiiin of extravagant
fending people—provided with no protection but the
e
fancied safeguard of the British Constitution; had expenditure; and might with satisfaction advert to
the miseries, without measure and without hope, of its own example of retrenchment and economy, as
this suffering people, been known to the friends of
furnishing means of relieving our suffering fellow-
liberty in the Ward of Bishopsgate, always foremost creatures.
in the ranks of freedom, and forward in the work of " I again, Gentlemen, entreat your forbearance
mercy, they would not have been silent on this me- and excuse, for obtruding myself upon your notice in
lancholy occasion. this unusual manner. A heart, overpowered with
No confidence whatever if to be placed in the feeling for the condition of its suffering species could
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mist epresentations which have been put forth by in-
not rest satisfied with venting itself in unavailing
terested and inculpated individuals as to the number sighs : and a perfect conviction that the Military
of the victims of this • • • * • outrage. Every Power in the North of England is fast approaching
species of art and every device has been resorted to, to the consummation of a military despotism, which
to conceal from the public mind a knowledge of the will, if unchecked by the expression of public opinion,
be very soon at our eb.vn door, would not permit me
actual number of the killed acid wounded. In some
to rest until I had solicited my brother inhabitants
cases, the dead have been buried without sufficient
enquiry ; and in others, false statements have been of this Ward, to meet and deliberate upon the pro-
put forth respecting the causes of their death : while, priety of petitioning that Body, in which I am one
of your Representatives, to grant, exclusively for the
in one instance, the Editor of a Public Newspaper has
had the daring impiety to charge upon his GOD the relief of our wounded Countrymen, that liberal as-
slaughter of one of his unoffending
sistance which the Russians and Portuguese never
creatures—and
has represented the robbing a husband of an affec-
asked in vain ; and at the same time, for the inhabi-
tionate wife, and depriving their infant children of a tants to consider the propriety of laying their Petitions
tender mother,as an awful visitation of PROVlDencitfor at the foot of the Throne, that these bloody deeds
the use of expressions which had no existence but in may be enquired into, and the guilty punished.
the perverted imagination of this profane calumnia- "If the present feeling of the country be permitted
tor. lam possessed of minute statements of the cases to subside without its public expiessioo, policy may
of upwards of 300 sufferers on that fatal day, fur-
permit for a time our homes to be our castles—and
nished either by the individuals themselves, or by our wives and children to walk the streets unmo-
eye-witnesses of their sufferings ; and of these a very tested; while we may be suffered in security to deli-
largeberate on our own concerns—but 1 feel assured, that
proportion are indebted for their wounds to the
sabres of the Yeomanry. Among the sufferers whom
we hold this right only at the will of those who di-
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I visited, I found numerous instances of deep gashes rest the arm of military power; and that we may
. consider inn-selves as stalled oxen, only fed for the
from one to five inches long, on the heads and necks
slaughter. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, your
of men, women, and children, inflicted by the swords
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of these desperadoes, while othetA, are languishing faithful servant, and obliged friend,
under the effects of severe wounds .and contusions, . (Signed) " CHARM PRAWN.
both external and internal, arising. from the tramp- n No. ie. Bt. Helries•place, rtskorseate-
ling of the Cavalry, and the truncheons of the Police . Ottcrt, Sept. 16."

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