Star.
London, England, 1819-09-22 00:00:00

WARD OP I'ARRINODON WITHOUT.

THE MANCHESTER PROCEEDINGS.

This day a numerous Meeting took place in Salis-
burpsqltare, for the purpose Of entering into certain
Resolutions upon the subject which has so viollntly
agitated the publiC mind, Alderman WAttrnbun in
the Chair.
It had been supposed that the Church Wardens of
the Parish of St. Bride, would, upon such an oc-
casion, have, without hesitation, permitted the Ward
to meet in the Church, but this poor accommodation
was denied, and a Placard was posted against the
walls, stating, withoutany comment, that the Meeting

was to take place in the Square.
At a little after eleven, Alderman WAITIIMAN, at-
tended by Messrs. THOMPSON, PATTEN, BECKWITH,
SAVAGE, VALE, FEARON, &C. &C. arrived, and took
his seat upon a Hustings which had been just raised.
He was greatly applauded.
The worthy ALDERMAN, in addressing the Meeting
stated, that it was with considerable bodily inconve-
nience he attended, for he had sustained, by a fall
from his gig, an injury which put him to much pain.
The duty he had to perform was, however, of a para•
mount nature, and he had therefore determined to
preside, as well as to attend the Court of Alderupai
which was to sit is the more advanced pate of
the day.
The Requisition having been read,
Alderman WAITHMAN said, that he had sum-
moned the Ward that they might express their senti-
ments upon a great public occasion, and that duty he
should always perform, whether the opinions of those
he called together agreed with those he entertained
or not—(Great applause.) He regretted that any hos-
tile feeling should be exhibited upon the part of those
who refused to allow „the Ward to meet in the
Church ; but he trusted that the refusal would not
cause any irritable feeling, for there were people who
would draw advantages from the consequences of
disorder, and whose views were opposed with pecu-
liar force to the tranquil appearances which now
prevailed, and which would, no doubt, form a prin-
cipal character in the proceedings of the day.

Mr. Thom Plot said, he came forward under severe
indisposition ; but he had pledged himself to move a
series of Resolutions to the Meeting, and he had made
an effort against the malady, for the purpose of
proving his punctuality. The Meeting knew the folly
and wickedness of their opponents, who had first ar-
gued against assembling in the open air, and then
tried to prevent them from going together elsewhere.
It was far from his intention to wish to influence the
passions of those around him. He should lay before
them, in the mildest and most temperate manner
imaginable, the atrocious conduct of a corrupt and
wicked Administration. There was a question of
powerful importance now before the Public. It was,
whether the People should maintain their privilege
of meeting together to discuss any subject connected
with.their liberties, or whether they were to throw
down those liberties at the feet of an abandoned Mi-
nister, and breathe but at his command?—(Applause).
It would be absurd to call this a party question. The
conduct of the Manchester Magistrates and Yeo-
manry was not the theme. It was.to the right, at
which that conduct aimed a death blow, they were
to direct their thoughts. He differed in opinion from
many as to the object and views of the Manchester
Meeting. He was an enemy to large Assemblages
of the People, because the object in view was liable
to be frustrated by their enormous size—it being easy
to set spies upon their scent, and far from difficult to
find a Ministerial excuse for « letting slip the dogs of
war." But, to do justice to large Meetings in this
country, they were conducted with a temperance
that did honour to those who formed them—and,
why had the People met in such vast bodies?—
Because their Petitions to Parliament were treated
with contempt—because no assistance was rendered
to a starving population, whose cries were disre-
garded at the very time Bibles and Churches were
subscribed for—because no ear was lent to the Pea
ple when they called for a leader front amongst the
men of rank and fortune, who were qualified to ad-
vise them in their deplorable emergencies—(Load
' applause). Were the people, in this predicament, to be
trampled upon ?—Goo forbid ! They looked amongst
themselves, and finding that all application to those
above them was useless, came to the determination
of meetiag without their assistance or authority.—
The conduct of Mr. Hunt was orderly upon every
occasion on which he presided, andlit was deserving
of the greatest applause during the proceedings at
Manchester. He (Mr. Thompson) was not a friend
to Annual Parliaments and Universal Suffrage.
These measures never could be granted, for Ministers
were not fools, The Meeting, no doubt, thought
them rather knaves than inattentive to their own in-
terests. Annual Parliaments would bind them hand
and foot, and they would prefer the measure of perish-
ing with a struggle, to that of perishing without one,
(Great applause.) The People, then, should be unani-
mous in demanding a Moderate Reform, the adver-
saries of which delighted in the differences that un-
fortunately existed. If all those who called forite-
form were united, the Minister must be defeated, for
it was by division alone he conquered--(Appleatse.)
—The People had an indisputable right to elect their
own Governors--they bad a right to substitute a Re-
public in the place of a Kingly Government—but

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madmen alone would contend for ;Itch a change, the
inevitable consequence of which would be, war and
blood and desolation—(Applause).—For his part,
he took up a Kingly Govetnment as a necessary evil
and a comparative good—(Laughter and applause).
His house had been some time ago broken open, and
to guard agaiust the repetition of such an evil, be
purchased a Newfoundland dog. The animal was
'expensive and troublesome, but he was a necessary
evil and a comparative good— (Loud applause).—
But if that dog consorted with thieves, and joined
them for the purpose of robbing his children of their

bread, the animal was no longer a necessary evil and

comparative good, and the only plan to be adopted
towards him, was to get rid of him altogether, with
all the dispatch imaginable—(Shouts of applause).--
With respect to the business of Manchester, he should
merely glance at it. He considered that a body of
• • • • rushed in upon his Majesty's subjects, and,
regardless of age or sex, or of the obligations upon
their Sovereign to protect his subjects, hacked and

them. But what had this ••* • * • Ca-
valry done ? Why they had frustrated all the deep-
laid schemes of the Minister—put a stop to his des-
perate plans for the subjugation of the People. A
deep and bloody tragedy had been long preparing
by Ministers. He (Mr. Thompson) had long observed
it. He drew his conclusions from the dangerous quie-
tude with which things were for some time contempla-

ted. The great Law Officers overlooked Libels, and he
knew that from lions they would not become lambs,
from vultures they would not become pigeons. When
he saw all this, and when he saw the Prince Regent
subscribing £lOOO to a Theatre, and refusing a far-
thing to the Poor, he knew that a dark Tragedy was
about to be performed. It was so indeed, and nothing
but the awkwardness of the performers deprived it
of success. To represent it in London would not do,
although that great f** 1, the Lord Mayor, thought
he might as well commence the performance.. Man-
chester was the spot selected for the representation,
because those in power (the Magistrates, the Grand
Jury, and the Yeomanry) were all under the immedi-
ate influence of the Crown, and slaves to that influence.
The design was, that the Yeomanry should go up to
the Hustings and seize upon Mr. HUNT, without
having entered into previous violence. This was to
be done upon the presumption that the people would
resist the attempt to deprive them of their favourite,
and thus the onus could be thrown upon the'people,
and an excuse afforded for conducting the tragedy
through all its parts, to a deplorable catastrophe.—
But the piece had not been well acted. Had it suc-
ceeded, there would be an end to all Meetings, for
Ministers knew that 60,000,0001. of taxes could not be
raised, adnually, without destroying the liberties of
the people, and forcing the burden at the point of the
bayonet. He then adverted to the cry, that the
question was prejudged. Who, he asked, had pre-
judged it ? Had not the Prince Regent, in his praise
of the Manchester Magistrates—had aot the Judges,
in their charges to the Grand Juries—had not the
Grand Juries, in their decisions, prejudged; and how
could it be said that the whole country had prejudged?
The Speaker concluded an animated speech with an
attack upon the Lord Mayor, whose statue he wished
to see next to Beckford's, in Guildhall, but on a dif-
ferent sort of platform !—(Laughter and applause.)
Mr. TEA RON read the Resolutions declaratory of
the right of the People to assemble to discuss politi-
cal subjects and petition for redress of grievances :
That the Meeting at Manchester was legal in its
character and peaceable in its conduct until dis-
persed by an armed military force under the direc-
tion of the Magistrates--That Meetings similar in
character and for the same objects, had already met,
and Petitions been received from them by his Majes-
ty's Ministers—That this Meeting viewed with ab-
horrencethe mutilations and murders which had been
committed on an unarmed and unoffending people--
That if the peace is to be broken by those whose bu-
siness it is to preserve it, and if the rights of the people
are to be trampled on, they had better not exist.—
That anxious for the preservation of social order,
they trusted that the events of the 16th of August
should undergo strict legal investigation, as they
were equally inimical to the dignity of the Throne;
and the welfare of the People.
Mr. THOMPSON moved those Resolutions,

Mr. COATES said, this was not a question of Re-
form, or of Taxation, or of theoretic, or speculative
inquiry, but whether Meetings like the present, legal
in their character, and constitutional in their object,
should be subjected to the violence of an armed force,'
and the national character disgraced by cruelty and
massacre? When Madame Roland was led to exe-
cution, she exclaimed, "0 Liberty, what crimes have
been committed in thy name!" and when we see such
outrages as those of Manchester, for the pretence of
maintaining order, might we not say, " 0 Loyalty,
what crimes have been committed kt thy name!"
He thought that in thus expressing their opinions
on the transactions at Manchester, they could neither
be charged with being uninformed, nor doing it pre-
maturely, since the Prince Regent had been led to
sanction them, on the evidence of Ministers, and of
the parties to whom the outrage was attributed. He
condemned, in strong terms, the conduct of those
Magistrates, whose duty it is to execute justice, and
to maintain truth, but who, forgetful of the precept,
had employed Oat frightful caricature of military
men, called Yeonianry, in slaughtering their fellow-

subjects ;but while heleft these roil toL,,
to everlasting fame" by the Public , ...e
Ilt.ouid.'
services would not be forgo en in a-orb
• c
but that medals would be stt
ck in their bor
lomns erected to their vat° tr and luirkit.
that the colours they so no ly
gained 0. • '
would be placed in the Church of Sail i,
He had seen a plan of Sahli Peter's-field,
but two or three narrow avenues, someltte, ..
Salisbury-square, and thesewereiigiuustaridcede :,
bayonets of the Infantry, so that the people, .
disperse, but were left to the wanton crtt6„.
Yeomanry. He declared, that
done to the Manchester sufferers, it
strongest argument in favour of Refs,rrn 14
possibly be adduced ; and that if tl'e pant
were termed the natural protectcrs of LI;
ple, and whose rank gave them infkence, :
come forward on an occaion like the z.
the People would assuredly choose I.: '_
among themselves, and the consequen,e, r •
dreadful. lien would there be but rw,, /,, ,
the Friends of Liberty, and the Friends of u, 1
[While Mr, COATES was speaking, ii.:.
made his appearance in the Square, arid:
loudly cheered.]

A Gentleman, whose name we did nothev,i,
addressed the Meeting in favour of the IlesnlQ,
which were then put seriatim, and carried unaniz,i
Thanks were proposed to Alderman Wairat,
for his conduct in the Common Council, thei,
of Aldermen, and at the present Meeting, which,
carried with loud cheering.—The worthy
returned thanks, and the Meeting dispe,se.i.

Mr. HUNT, in returning through F!ett-tree,.,
followed by a crowd cheering him all C:::!1.4;.

MEETING AT LEEDS.

LEEDS, SEPTE MBEIt 21.
I have just come from the Meeting held tbil
upon liunslet Moor, and hasten, before tlie depr,
of the Post, to send you a brief notice of the ra
It v►as " for the purpose of taking into conside74
the most effectual Constitutional means of realsi

the Sufferings under which the Country now l.:
and reviving our expiring Trade ; to pass an e.p
ion the charge our PRINCE has made against his !I
esty's most loyal subjects, the Reformers; and to afs
us an opportunity of expressing our abllorrele
the outrage committed on our peaceable and
offending countrymen, at Manchester, on the li
day otAugust last ; and also to address the l'e:s

REGINT and the Nation, on that cruelty, and oti
melancholy and afflicting evils of the times:
The day being uncommonly fine, numerous boi
of male and female Reformers came flocking law:
town at an early hour in the forenoon, and bye
o'clock, it is calculated that there were at le
thirty thousand persons assembled in Brig Sue 1
the adjacent parts. The shops were mostly cite
and matters wore rather an alarming aspect {oriel
ral hours. Large groupes kept pouring in fort
country, in regular marching order, shouldli
sticks and clubs.

Soon after two o'clock, the immense multitth!eii
gan to move through the town to the place of )1
ing, attended by a numerous band of music,
number of flags, banners, and other insignia. Lq
wands, surmounted with black crape, were also :e
conspicuous. Among the flags, the follcming
all that were deserving notice :

"-Hunt, the Champion of England."—" Patience. "—A
bunch of Ash, fixed to a pole, surmounted by the I.l4ces

" The more the cruel Tyrants bind us,
4‘ The more they shall united find us !"

" We mourn for the Murder of our Manchester Friends!'
" Hold to the Laws."—" Thou shalt do no munier."—" Fs
Creelty and Oppression, good Loan deliver us."—" MNI
Cisarta."—" Peace and Good-will towards Men."—" No Ctl
Laws."—" Na Wool BilL"—" Taxation without Repregsta
is contrary to the Spirit of the British Constitution."—"
Parliaments, Universal Suffrage, and Election by WA--
" Th;y that are slain by the sword, are better than they 1,
are slain by Hunger," &c.

It was near four o'clock when the cavalcaic
rived on the ground ; when Mr. T. CHAPMAN.
Manchester, was called to the Chair. Ater
speakers had delivered their sentiments, and a nut
ber at Resolutions had been passed, the Meezia.7
outwi
committingany excesses.
dissolved,comm and the immense
We are now (eleven P. u.) all tranquil, if we
cept some noisy stragglers in the streets.
A considerable sum of money was collected t 1
ercmultitude separated
Hunslet Moor, for the relief of the Manchester ss::
ferers, and to defray the expenses of bringing t'e
offending parties to justice.

Yesterday was a holiday; but the Stock Excloge
was open, and a great quantity of Stock NV3S direo
on the Market. A very serious depression has talc
Place ; and Consols were yesterday done at 641, 214
left off at 69k, for the Account. Money is weed'
ingly scarce--eight per Cent. being offered in 011
House. The Bankers, it is said, will not advance
any more upon Stock securities. Exihequer
were yesterday at 10s. discount, and are expected:o
be much lower. This day is a close holiday, o'l
scarcely any Brokers are on 'Change. Consols, hor•
ever, for to-morrow, have been done at 68i, and kr.
Account 6911 ; Exchequer Bills 12s. discount; a;:d
film 8 W 10 per Cent. interes t for Money.