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and tauttitness as they kad manifested of outrage
and attiocit)—(Lond oppThuse). The right so en-
dangered, wa.3 one recorded, cherished, and re-
spected by all persons, on all occasions;—it was
expressly rectwrized by the Bill of Rights, and had
been mentioned with peculiar distinction by every
Writer on the British Constitution—( Hear,hear).—
It was, in short, a right peculiarly British, and worthy
of freemen; and if they once allowed it to be wrested
front them, they woalti retrograde with amazing ce-
lerity to a complete despotism—(Hear, hear).—lt
was a right, therefore, to be guarded with the strictest
jealousy ; and whose infringement was calculated to
call forth the'Ntrongest expression of popular feeling.
Ile was satisfied that that feeling, which had gone.
forth from all quarters, would prevent the recurrence
of the evil for a long time. He was satisfied that
hereafter no Magistrates would dare to disperse a
peaceable Meeting legally assembled ; and that no
Cavalry would so far forget the feelings of men and
the claims of nature, as to attack helpless age, de-
fenceless beauty, and unresisting childhood—(f/yr-
rise,Lce cheering, which was long continued).—lle was
satisfied that thore was not at that moment to he found
throughout the whole United Kingdom the same
number of men, or persons rather, as composed the
Manchester Yeomanry, who in a body could be
pleaded to for mercy, by men, women, and children,
and who would yet deny their plea. The character
of Englishmen had ever been famed for mercy. Their
character, it had been one praise of; that they never
attacked those who were incapable of resistin , and
that they always acted with Bentleness and feeling—
(Great applause).—lt was still their character. The
public voice had one forth loudly to condemn these
proceedings at Manchester i and though all might
not choose to come forward on the occasion, yet the
number of those who in their hearts really approved
of them was iudued but very small—,(llcar, hear).
He spoke it to the credit of those to whom he was
opposed in politics, that, with some few exceptions,
he had met with none who did not join in condemn-
ing the infuriate outrages of the 16th of August ;
but they had urged that it was proper to wait the re-
sult of pending trials bei ore they proceeded to censure
the conduct of those who were parties in them. And
so he would have waited, and would have exhorted
his fellow-townsmen to wait, bad it not been for one
circumstance ; he would have forbore to blame, had
the Prince Regent and his Majesty's Ministers for-'
bore to praise. (This observation was greeted with
Warne applause.) But he was convinced that it was
the duty of every one, let his politics or opinions be
what they might, to step forth in support of an actual
tight : and to pievent, by a timely appeal to public
feeling, the example of the Magistrates of Manches-
ter being brought into a precedent, by the actions of
those who, in their eagerness to reap the thanks of
the Prince Regent, and the favour of his Majesty's
Ministers, might be hereafter tempted to break
through all the Rights and Privileges of English-
men, be the circumstances what they might. He
would now move certain Resolutions, which he
should first read over to them, previously to their
being formally submitted to their approbation.—
(This speech was listened to with every demonstra-
tion of respectful attention throughout, and was only
interrupted by the occasional marked approbation
which it elicited.) The Resolutions were these :
“ 1. That agreeably to common Lw, and the Bill of Rights,
It is the undoubted privilege of Englishmen publicly to assertible
for the purpose of deliberating upon What they conceive to be
public grievances, or on the legal and e..rtraiturional means of
obtaining redress; and that the unrestricted and fearless exer-
cise of this right is one of the strongest securities of personal
liberty and constitutional freedom.

" 2. That from the information which has transpired, we are
of opinion, that this important and valuable right has been ille-
gdly invaded by the violent dispersion of the Meeting held at
Manchester on the 16th day of August last.
" 5. nit as the Magistrates had not, as on a former occa-
sion, declared the Meeting to be illegal, the persons composing it
had a right to suppose they were legally assembled, and as they
enoducted themselves orderly and peaceably, that they were en-
dtled to the protection of the laws.

" 4. That the conduct of the Magistrates, in entilloying a
adiitary force for the purpose of executing warrants issued
against certain persons there assinubledi without having previ-
nasty Dude use of the Civil Power, was a daring violation of the
Ikidsh Constitution.

" 5. That the conduct of the Manchester teontanry, in fu-
riously attacking a peaceable, unarmed, and urresisthsg Assem-
bly, whereby great ntlinfiets Were indiscriminately and wan-
tonly rode ever, and many inhumanly sabred and bitted, was
disgracefet to their character both as *ldlers and as men.

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6. That as mercy has hitherto beets the characteristic of
Fsiglishmen we cannot but consider those Violent and unpro-
Stoked proceedings, as affixing a stain upon the national charac-
ter ; and therefore call upon the Yeomanry and People of Eng-
land publicly to came forward, and by an unanimous expres3ion
of opinion Wipe oft that foul stain which must otherwise attach
to the British character, and prove that the approbation of the
cruelty and cowardice of the Manchester Yeomanry is confined
to his I%lajesty's Ministers and the Magistrates of Manchester.

" 7. That we most deeply and sincerely regret that his Royal
flightless the Prince Regent should have been induced, upon
partial and ex-parte evidence, to express his approbation of the
onduct of the perpetrators and abettors of those atrocious pro:.
eeedings. - .

" ii That Lord Sidmouth and the other Cabinet Ministers,
ty advising his Royal Highness the Prince Regent to thank the
Itfancbester Magistrates and Yeomanry, have placed the opinion
'of his Royal Highness in opposition to that of the People, have
tended to bring his government into disgrace, and have there-
fore forfeited all claim to support from either the Prince or the
People. •
" 9. That we cannot but consider, under the present dis-
t' eased situation of many of the People, the preventing them by
cruelty and erpt ession from publicly dt, lartng their grievances.
as both unwise and unjust; and the screening .from justice the
advisers and perpetrators of such violent And atrocious outrages,
as tending to destroy public confidence in the pure and equal
adtninisrration Of justice, and to bring the laws and institutions
of the country into contempt.
" 10. That in order to appease the strong feelings of the Peo-
ple, to support the fair Ind equal administration of justice, and
to remove the stigma which must otherwise attach to the Go-
vernment and character of the country, an humble and dutiful
Address be ,led to his Royal Highness the Prince

they were justified in so dispersing,* Meeting; amid, if I•eismtvi, 1
rwithin a eessain time after reading the Riot Act, in employing
the military force. Also, if there was a breach of the peace
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ing of the Riot Act, were liable to be indicted; but neither of
there vi as the case at Manchester. He had not the least doubt,
that if left to, themselves, they would have dispersed, as they
I came, peaceably. But on the showing of the Magistrates own
witness, even, there did not elapse above half an hour, between
the reading of the Aet, and the dispersion of the Meeting by
the Yeomanry Cavalry.
Mr. JOH N FELLOWS seconded the Resolutions, which
were then separately put by the MAYOR, and unani-
mously carried.
Mr. PERRY moved that the following Address be
presented to his Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT
To his Royal Highness George Prince of Wales, Regent of
the United Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland : the
Address, Remonstrance, and Petition of the Inhabitants of
the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham,
Smear:re—That having been from our youth, always taught
to consider it the constitutional privilege of Englishmen, to ast
semble and deliberate in public, upon all matters connected with
the administration of the national affairs, and for the redress of
public grievances, it is with feelings of the most poignant re-
grey, that we have latterly beheld a most daring and wicked
attempt to subset t this first principle of British libertte, and
I prostrate the genius of our glorious Constitution, by the 1111.
discriminating arm of militrey execution. Feeling, then, Sir,
as Englishmen, that proud jealousy of our country's liberties,
which we consider it our most sacred duty to cherish ; and ap-
preciating, as men and Christians, the value of human blood at
too high a rate, supinely to behold it shed in caprice, or sacrificed
by wantonness; we consider that we should be wanting in ditty
' to our country, to ourselves and posterity, if we shrunk from
declaring our marked abhorrence of that flagrant outrage %woo
the liberty and persons of Englishmen, committed by the Ma-
gistrates bf Manchester on the 16th of August last, when, in
consequence of their orders, a charge was made by a Corps of
Cavalry, upon an unarmed and nnoffending body of the People,
met to deliberate upon a subject which they considemd a pub-
lic grievance, by which means (as it new appears) numerous
persons, including men, women; and children, were trampled
down by horses, or mutilated and killed by sabres; in defiance
of every honourable feeling, and in violation of every principle
of justice or humanity commorfamongst men.

But, is it, we would ask your Royal Highness, to be bcirne,
that in a country calling itself free, amidst a high-spirited po-
pulation, elevated above that of any other country upon earth,
by its attainasenis in political science, and its fitness to enjoy
civil liberty, at a period tool when the enlightened spirit of the
age is demanding concession in favour of popular rights, that
the local Authorities, of any town or city, shall presume to raise
their traitor arms against the lives and liberties of their fellow-
citizens? It is not, Sir, and we venture to say, that w. are sup-
ported by the voice of the country when declaring, dist such at-
tempts ought to be visited with the most condign inted,hment.
The right, Sir, to meet in public, for the discussion of topics
connected with the National weal, is orle peculiarly British ; it
Is one recognized both by the letter and spirit of our Constitp-
tion, and rendered sacred by immemorial usage ; it is " the pal-
ladium of ourliberties t" with this right preserved inviolate, we
can never be enslaved : without it, we should soon sink into the
political degradation of the Nations by which we are surrounded:
slaves only murmur—freetnen remonstrate: it is the lot of slaies
but to brood over their wrongs In privacy; it is the privilege of
freemen to deliberate in public, and make common cause tibr
the redress of their mutual grievances; and experience, Sir, has
proved, it is in the assembly of congregated thousands only, that
such an expression of public feeling eon be unfolded, as shall be
able in the hour of danger to confer on the Sovereign of a free
people, the power and dignity necessary to support his throne,
amidst the wreck of empires; or uphold the liberties of a nation,
amidst the clash of contending factions. With these views, So,
of the privileges we enjoy, we should feel ourselves to be un-
worthy of the blessings thus handed down to us by our illustri-
ous forefathers, if we meanly surrendered the rights which they
wrested from tyranny, at the expense of their best blood, to
any man, or class of men whatsoever.

Much less, Sir, will the brave People over whom you ride,
stoop to receive the exterminating blow which ihall end theit
country's liberties, from the puny arm of a vindictive Police
Magistracy, which, cruel from its fears, and irritable by its jea-
lousies, is as contemptible in the exercise of its brief authority as
it Is odious in the gratification oohs revengeful propensities.
But, whilst thus retnonetrating against the daring attempt
which has been made by the Magistrates of Manchester to break
down the mound which secures our most viluable rights, it is
not our intention to cattle question, the tight of the constituted
Authorities tb preserve the tranquillity of the country, or en-
force obedience to those political Institutions which serve alike
for the support and defence of all classes of our fellow-citizenti.
But we humbly submit to yotir Royal Highness, than, in the
case before us, a most Wanton and unprovoked attack was made
upon the People, at a time when not only no riot did exist, but
(is there is remlon to btlievt) when even no real apprehension
i was entertained that any breach of the peace was likely to be
committed : which outrage receives additional aggravation from
the circumstance, that timely notice was not afforded to the
people to disperse, before the fatal charge was made; nor was
ally direct intimation given that recurrence would be had to
force of arms to prevent the assembled multitude from delibe-
rating; though the enormity of this illegal and intemperate
interference would be but little diminis'aed in cow estimatior,
even could it be incontestably proved ; that the Riot Act had
been reed the full time prescribed by law, and within hear-
ing of the whole Assembly; because we hold that no Ma-
ristratiss or others are empowered' to supersede tile rights of
Englishmen, at their caprice ; or interfere with the constitu-
tional privileges of the country, unless required by some open
or dangerous oven-act ; and that, even then, the Civil Power
alone ought to be employed, unless it is actually proved that it
is unable to effect the restoration of order.

Judge then, Sir, What must have been our feelings, upon tim-
ing your Royal Highness's name brought forward by your Mi-
nisters, to sanction the commission of a crime which bad filled
the laud with murmuring and lamentation : but resting satisfied
that such sanction could only have been obtained by the surrep-
titious aid of ex-parte evidence, submitted by those who could
only hope to protect themselves froth public execration by the
shield of your royal favour, we rely upon your Royal
sense of justice and avowed attachment to the principles of Bri-
tish liberty, to support your subjects in the exercise ni their no-
doubted privileges ; and we call GOD and our Country to.witnes;
our determination, that the lights which we have received from
our fathers shall be by us transmitted inviolate to our sons ; that.
they, too, may walk erect in the light of their country's glory,
and find refuge and protection in the sanctuary of her libmies.
AllXioU3 to draw closer at this moment the ties width bind the
People to their Sovereign, we entreat your Royal Highness, Is:e
all that is sacred in our institutions, and all that is valuable in
our loyalty, to come forward as the Father of your People, and
enable us to obtain the satisfaction we seek, for the barbarous
injury inflicted upon our rights, by the Magistrates and Yeomanry
of Manchester. Never, Sir, could your interference serve more
essentially the hest interests of British Society, nor contribute
more effectually to secure the hearts of your faithful Subjects.
And be assured, Royal Sir, that they are the insidious ene-
mies (or, at best, the indiscreet friends) or your illustrious House,
who, at such a period as the present, would commit you at issue
with an indignant and suffering people, upon a subject involving
their dearest and most valuable coustitutionil pritileges. The
Inhabitants of this your ancient town were among the first in the
kinr 'Hanover an assuranoof their de-
n ancestor on his ascension to the
they will be the last to forsake a
attached by the generous recollection
the proudest periods of English
, fgreeably with your own gracious
is held only in trust, for the ben.-
, should it ever pervert its high pre-
delinquency from punishment, or lend
acknowledged rights, obedience would
• be sanctified by every principle
to was the glorious Revolution of
, and the Prince of Orange but an
Stuarts.

With confidence before your
.e every thing to hope from your
humbly requesting, as a loyal a,nd
be graciously pleased to listen to
. cause a strict inquest to be nude
,citizens, with such other investiga-
abcree alluded so as shall allay the

prestaat parteXed spirit of the etlantry--sadsfy Tette people that
in the peaceable exercise of their constitutional rights, their per-
soni shall be protected against the outrages of arbitrary unfeel-
ing Magistrates—and that no designs are entertained in the cows.
sets of your Ministers hostile to the liberties-of the brave &add
high-spirited nation over Whom you have been called to reign.
Mr. PERRY then observed, that however reluctant
he should have been, on ordinary occasions, to have
obtruded himself on the attention of the Burgesses,
yet, in the present case, he felt it his imperious duty
to come before them with this Address. Little as
they could hope, even should it be presented, that
the Prince Regent would do otherwise than turn a
deaf ear, at the suggestion of his present advisers, to
their Remonstrance ; yet, even in this view, the pre-
sent Meeting would not have been without its int•
portant and beneficial effects in the cause of Public
Freedom, and of British Rights, seeing that it would
'add one link more to the chain of precedents which
marked the exercise of that undoubted right, by
which they maintained their privilege of meeting in
public to discuss their grievances, and lay their
prayer for redress at the foot of the Throne—(Ap-
plause).—After some further remarks from this
Gentleman, Mr. DUNN seconded the Address, which
was unanimously agreed to.
Lord RANCLIFFE then came forward, amidst the
most enthusiastic cheering, which continued for some
seconds. Upon its cessation his Lordship addressed
'the Meeting in these words i—it Fellow Burgesses
and Friends, after the able enaimer in which the Re-
solutions have been just motet!, and the Address
proposed, and in which both have been seconded, I
should, were I to consult my own feelings, remain
silent, and not attempt to add, for I know I cannot,
one word that might give weight to all that you have
already heard. But, brother Burgesses, on an occa-
sion like this, next to the unpleasant tity which, I
must say, is imposed upon me, arising out of the cir-
cumstances which have occasioned this Meeting, the
late horrid and disastrous transactions which have
taken place at Manchester, this is one of the most irk-
some tasks I have ever had to perform, seeing even
the few words I now have to say. I congratulate you
on the numbers and respectability of; this Meetings
—I felt and knewi that the people of Nottingham
would, not be wanting to come forward, when the
people's rights and privileges were invaded. I kne*
that you would come forward, and that you would
do it in that constitutional and proper manner, which
will carry with it its weight, whenever this Address
may be presented. I cannot at this time refrain
from expressing my disgust at the manner in which
his Royal Highness's Ministers have coupled the
Prince Regent's name with the thanks they have ad-
dressed to the Manchester Yeomanry. It is, brother
Burgesses, screening themselves ; it is making a.
scape-goat of the Prince Regent, in order to prevent
that punishment from falling on their own heads
which they have so righteously deserved.—( Vehe-
ment applause.) But Ido trust, that his Royal
Highness will no longer give ear to those Ministers,
hii present advisers, who have pursued every urea-
sure likely to withdraw your affections from him,
which l should be most sorry to see. I do trust,
from the general expression of feeling throughout
the country, that his Royal Highness will, though I
dare not say he will, be now induced to dismiss those
men from his councils who have set aside the inte-
rests of his people, and in doing so, have also set his
own aside. I have nothing more to add, further than
this, fellow Burgesses, that whenever I am called for,
whenever I receive a summons at your hands, I shall
always feel it my duty to step forward, and, as far
as my voice goes, tb assist the rights and liberties of
British subjects:"
This Address was hailed with acclamations ; and
Mr. WAKEFIELD proposed a vote of thanks to his Lord-
ship, for his ready attention to the wishes of his con-
stituents, which was instantly and unanimously carried.
Lord RAscures shortly returned his thanks for
this additional testimony of their approbation; at
the same time he considered, that he had only dis-
charged a duty which every Representative owed to
those who returned him.

Votes of thanks were then successiVely passed to
Mr. Henry Hunt, for 'the noble stand made by him
recently in support of the rights and liberties of En-
glishmen, and for his firmness and conduct during
his captivity, and the commencement of judicial pro-
ceedings against him at Manchester.
To the three constitutional lawyers.-+Messts. Har-
mer, Pearson, and Denison.

Mr. DENISON, sem returned thanks on behalf of
his son, who, he hoped, would never desert the path
pursued by his forefathers—(Appiauses.)
To Mr. Thomas Wakefield and Mr. Perry%
Mr. WAKRtIELD then replied, and most forci=
bly exemplified the falseness of those alarms which
had been industriously circulated respecting popular
Meetings, by.the perfect peace and good order of
the present one. No attempt had been made to draw
soldiers round them, for those in power well knew,
in point of fact, that they were needless : no addi-
tion to the Civil Power had been made, for the quiet
and good sense .of,...the Meeting rendered them use-
less. Not one special constable had been sworn in.
He exhorted them to a steady pet-severance in a con-
duct at once honourable to themselves and disgrace-
ful to those who had resorted to measures of violence
not excused even by a plea of necessity.
On the motion of Lord RaweLteee, a vote of thanks
was passed to the Mayor, who, in returning his ac-
knowledgments, observed, that not even nee of the
ordinary Constables was in attendance. The Meet-
ing then dispersed in the usual peaceable order. It
would be, perhaps, needless to praise a conduct which
they appeared to adopt as matter of course. (,`ertainly,
however, not the slightest disorder or tumult was even
dreamt of. A plank gave way in the hustings, which
occasioned a momentary laugh below, and some con-
fusion upon• them. No accident, however, occurred.
The Meeting was very numerous.
The Address is 'to be presented by Lord RANCLIFFE
and Mr. BIRCII, the Members for the Town and
County of the Town of Nottingham.
Friday, at a Meeting of the Corporation of Nottinir
ham, a series of Resolutions, and an Address to his
Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT, connected with
the subject of the late proceedings at Manchester,
.were proposed and agreed to, similar in their general
tenour to those passed in the General Meeting of the
Inhabitants on Monday. The Address of the Corpo-
ration was directed to be presented by Lord Hof-
LAND) the Record's,

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SWEABINO IN THE Mum
,- A Common Hall was yesterday convened for
purpose of swearing in the new Sheriffs, Mr, Ali;
man RICHARD ROTHWELL and Mr. JosErsi
lUD Pataxxxs. We never recollect seeing so
an attendance of the Livery upon any similar
casion. The *LORD MAvort, attended
4,4
train, came in state, and entered the Hall a: 41
half-past one :he was received with loud hoei,,
and hisses, and with every expression •.)f. uislike
displeasure from the people. His Lordship /7.4
terally assailed by cries of—" Fire ! tire ! Mural.
murder !" and several most coarse expressions` tEit
used by some of the crowd. At about two 0'64
Mr. Alderman Itomwm.r. made his appearanci
his carriage, at the door of the Hall : he war
ceded by several other carriages, and by a 44
which was stationed within the porch of thz tbk
and played the national air of " GOD save the liine
as the Alderman entered the Hall. The rece:rdonet
met with from the people was rather flattell
otherwise. The retinue of Mr. PARKINS was :at
splendid, nor did we observe that he was accori4
vied by his Company, as is .usual.
The Loan MAYOR ascended the Ifustill:7 at a littk,
after two o'clock, and was greeted by the pople
the same manner as when he entered. The cries ol
" Fire ! fire !" were again vociferated, and were cm,
tinned until his Lordship had taken his seat.
The Crier then, in the usual form, pi Malawi
RICHARD ROTHWELL, Esq. and JOSEPH WILFRED
PARKINS, Esq. as having been chosen Sheriffs for tht
ensuing year, and called them forth for the perm,
of being sworn.
Mr. Alderman ROTHWELL presented himself, am
stood at the table to be sworn first, as senior Sheriff;
when Mr. PARRINS addressed the LORD NI IYnR, and
claimed precedence of the Alderman, as having been
first chosen.

The Recoßheß, who *as sitting on the right haul
of the LORD MAYOI, replied, that by the law of the
land, as well as by the municipal law, 31r. Alder.
man ROTHWELL had a right to precedence, and to he
sworn first.
Mr. PARKINR protested against Stich a doctrine,
and presented a paper to the LORD MAYOR,
said was his Protest against such proceedings.
The RECORDER.—Swear Mr. Alderman
Mr. PARKINS again appealed to the Lon MAYOR,
and demanded that he should have the precedence
of the Alderman.

The Loan MAyort.--I am not competent to form
any opinion or judgment upon the matter. Tr;
question must be referred to another Tribunal.
Mr. PARKINS..--My Lord, I have a duty to 7.°7.
form to the Livery of London, and 1 demani
my Protest may be received.
The LORD MAYOR..—I cannot receive it.

Mi. PARKINS immediately laid his Protest upent..
desk, before the LORD MAYOR.

The following is a copy of the Protest :
" I, Joseph Wilfred Parkins, do hereby solemnly and rt.:*
proteit against Mr. Alderman Bothwell beicv swis-n in a;
flier Sheriff of the City of London and CouLty of Oiiddl.a,
for the reasons following:
" 1 at. Because of my priority of rotation. haring I'M! elecel
by the unanimous choice of the Livery on the t;ith dar of
1819, and having entered Into a bond to discharge the duties .:
that on the 20th day of July following; wiiereas the said :tide.
man Bothwell was elected only by a very small shew of hz:4l
'On the Stith day of July—that is, six days after I had Oven bard
and he gave bond to discharge the duty so late as the canc.
month of September.
" 2dly. Because the Act of the Common Council. pvoel is
the year 1748, cannot affect my seniority, as that Act
recta, that every Alderman who shall not have served :be
of Sheriff, shall, according to his seniority in the Court of LA
Mayor and Aldermen, and before any Commoner, be put in co
minatiun for the office of Sheriff; and every Alderman 1,1..)
shall be elected shall take place according to his seniority in tie
Court, and have precedence of every Conuitoner ; that, accord.
Ingiy, Mr. Alderman ltothwell was put in nomination WA
Joseph Wilfred Parkins, and rejected by the Livery ; thznifcce
the Act was fulfilled, and if Alderman Bothwell had been ziec-
ted on his first nomination, his seniority might have then bees
Undisputed.
" 3dly. Because the Act never was intended, nor could it le.
tally be construed, to interfere with a prior election, and de
price a Commoner of that seniority which the choice of the Li,
Very had bestowed, and which, by entering into a bond to de
charge the duties of Sheriff, had been confirmed before Alice
man Bothwell had been, for the second time, proposed to 02
Livery for their approbation.
" 4thly4 Because the Charter of the City of London has
rected the Sheriffs to be freely and indifterently chosen by in
Citigens, without any restriction; so Joseph Wilfred Parkin
was unanimously chosen, and Richard Bothwell iejecicd, bl
Which the free and fair choice of the Livery was declared. and
the seniority and precedence of Joseph Wilfred Parkin, wn
established ; and that any Act of Common Council which rniOt
be construed to controul the free choice of the Livery, and give
an arbitrary right of precedency to Richard liuthwell, wori
the Livery Eatl rejected when they elected Joseph Wilfred
Una, must be considered as a curtailment of the citizeng r"•
yr/Loge and choice in the election of Sheriffs, and as an encroach.
ment on their chartered right; therefore void to all ir!v,`l,
and
purposes, anti enacted without the power of operation Cr4fre.i.
" sthly. Because in entering into an office in which 1 IA?
been elected under charter, by the Livery of London, in rov
mon Hall assembled, I deny the competency of any otter et
son or authority than that of the Livery who chose me, to aloe-
gate their priority of choice ; and I claim that priority as my
doubted right, conceiving that if I waived it I should ;lot tidal
the palpable intentions of the Livery, and should compromiss
their rights :
" Therefore, I, Joseph Wilfred Parkins, do hereby dentai
to be first sworn into office, and that .Willi.un Jack -on, Inv i r•
der-Sheriff, be also sworn, according to usual ce,tin, by ;WI
that priority of precedency may be confirmed wind: the prioni/
of election had bestowed ; and this I now publicly demand,*
my own name and on behalf of the Livery of Loudon, wbon
representative I Liu, and for the support and protection i f the
chartered rights and_ptivileges of the said Livery in their t)::
election or Sheriff, unencroached on by any assumed authoritY,
and unshackled by any laws or regulations to which they wet
not partieGuildhall, September 28.
(Signed) "W. P.IIIKINS.
* Witness, Joseph Stephenson, H. B. Fearon."
Mr. Alderman ROTHWELL and Mr. PARKINS were.
then sworn in (the former standing in the piace et
seniority next to the LORD Ativord by the -Totes
Clerk, and took the accustomed oaths. This ccre•
moony having been gone through, Mr. Alderman
ROTH WELL was adorned with the chain of office: 11,1
bowed to the people, and met with considerable coca'
plause. Precisely the same ceremony was obse,
with respect to Mr. Sheriff PARK I NS, but he was no,
so well received by die Livery.
The Court then proceeded to the election of 11
Under-Sheriff; upon which occasion another dispelarose tletweeu the Sheriffs.
Alderman ROTHWELL presented Mr. Fred. Tur
nee, of Bloomsbury-square, Attorney at Law, .is a hi
and proper person to serve the otlice of Under Sheriff
of the County of Middlesex.
Mr. Turner, who was Under Shetiff last }rex',
twin forward, in the expectation of being sworn.
Mr. PARLII44 immediately aaid-4 Obje4L

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Address be presented to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, kingdom to afford the House of Hanover an assura
praying that he will direct an immediate and effectual inquiry to votion, and to congratulate your ancestor on his a
be made into the outrages which have been committed, and Throne of these realms; and they will be the la
iniuse the perpetrators thereof to be brought to a fair and sal- family, to whom they are attached by the genera
/Aida trial; and, if convicted,to speedy and condign punishment% of events connected with one of the proudest per
" 11. That a subscription be entered into for the perpose of history: but they cannot forget, fgreeably with yam
*misting those who have suffered from the attacks If the yen- declaration, " that the Crown is held only in trus
inaorT, and also for defraying a 3h:re of the expense which will fit of the PeOpie ;" and that, should it ever perve
be incurred in the intended judicial proceedings. rogative, to-screen State delinquency from punish
si Pl. That Mews. Fellows, Ilart, and Co. be appointed its powerful aid to Invade acknowledged rights, of
Treasurers."
become a crime, and resistance be sanctified by
Having read the Resolutions, Mr. 11-Aetna:l.n said, that he of natural and social right ; else was the glorious
bed forgotten to observkto them one cif cumstance, which was, 1688 but a successful Rebellion, and the Prince of
that the Magistrates, and those who had attempted to defend i usurper on the Three:* of the Stuarts.
them, had expatiated on their right to diverse that Meeting, I But we present mutates with confidence
after reading, ses they mould wish to be believed, the Riot Act.' Royal Highness, certain we have every thing to 1
Now, he had Obeys understood, (and if he were wrong in his patriotism and love of justice, humbly requesting,
interpretation of the law, he was sere the Town-Clerk would dutiful People, that you will be graciously pleas
correct him,) that Magistrates were not justified in dispersing a the prayer of our petition, and cause a strict inqu
peaceable Assembly by the fact of reading the Riot Act—(Near.) for the blood of our fellow-citizens, with such o
If a ckiz broad' of OP Peace was comodued, then, indeed, . cion into the circuinstasces above alluded so as
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