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

lan great expedition, and instantly
0.: ;nob, ia consequence of which two men
f.:ut,l toome others, as 1 understaml, were
•Lh is the iinplacabte spit it of vengeance
‘,..,th„ a„irog the Reformers against all
..,;;;0;i: who wielded their swords against the po-
i'.l.-aiday, that many of those military gen-
CioliTht it praclent to keep out of the
;:.em a Er ir of being assassinated. On Thurs..
•i:;ht wiadov. sof Mr. Long, a sadler, who
tie Yeomanry corps, were broken by
la short, tl.c Refoancrs seem to be ..ie;
b d.'speratc spirit of retaliation, and nothing
ence ef a I.r:ge military ferce continually
can sire \yhoin they have marked

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st.itement in sonic of die I.ondon
.:t wilco the penile were marching tip to

lact.tins on Monday Ltst, in a soil of

they were armed with sticks ; and a
w.b thrown out that they might have had
a:I rockets for tlic purpose of fastening
.;!...-c the moment it diould become
0. ;7 u.e them. I saw there people marching
1 I,,,i;:vely declare to you that not one

ILLI a s:ick in his hand ; and I am

~ is eley had pikes in their pockets, the',
ihtln, without a moment's hesitation,
u' provoked attack made by the Ca-
tr ;!icy sve:e quietly assembled round the
attack, /-"am rrieveel to say, has ge-
ein minds a deadly spirit of revenge,
it likely to be soon appear d. The Civil
y Ric %NTH aware or this; and
.eir that if only two persons
toi.,,cther :11,01)3 the streets, a soldier
comes up, thrusts his musket between
them to selsara:c. In consequence
z:iat have taken pi ice at Oldham and
rt nt the military that has been station•.
retytir to those towns, and of
duty is ne.w oa what is

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AUCUST co.
T?. rinks)
the area occupied by the
rr, (.c. :10n..1y last. The pressure must have
on d.. range of boa es called Windmill-
ali'd iron railings in front cf the
r brolzeo, an:l the people were iiled by
• the cellar 9. iahabitants did not
received some of their friends,
alit li.ercv, through their a indows or
of their doers. They all descrilbe
::f t:lo. Yromanry as ir.dicative cf wan.
barbarity. The account which
(t the scene, like the Dagca 9f Death, had
is it hidicrous)y horrid. The living heaps
re-•.lrrection ," the grotesque attitudes
..c falivn ; the quantity of shoes, hats,

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::ad batons, strewed on the ground,
here and there with a silk banner and a
rtv, presented a scene of disci-der and
whoa contrasted ~eith the previous
Lty and triumphant shouts of rtetorm, must
i•ej laughter, had it not been connected so
• itii in,n.aa suffering and violence. The
•-; iber:y, a large fat woman, more like a
• ! a a divinity, was exposed in a way by
• a.." as lindubras says, was more
r.cded tr... 0 Ler care ise. She lay some time for
and tLa was carried a prisoner to a house in
r,,igLbeurhood, where she tried to bribe the ser-
ve,:: ‘‘,:h t sixpence L.) get her a " glass of gin."
Aster bei,%; at the s..eae of action. I proceeded to the
Kniary, .e inquire afier the number of killed and
t,mied. Time are only five dead r—Whitworth,
ri•ilydc, vi•ho was shot in the riot at seven o'clock
tr Monday evening ; Ashworth, constable, who was
1.1e.1 on :he fief,' ; a man called Ashton, who was
rr:,hed to i!eatli by the crowd ; a woman from
smothered, as I have described ; and a
.!:o died from flight. I hive seen to-day the
!naval. Ile was a respectable man, and
UCCS1;011 was respectably attended. -Whit-
Niho was a great Reformer, vied this morn-
duz, Imirmarv. Ile was wounded in the back
!:::.21•,:ad. Ile had some lucid intervals, and was
'm pray fervently. There are !2.9 patients now
f4e Infirmary, 31 being brought in. There are
4fcx-patients. Ilulme, the Yeoman, vho was struck
it.7.t.le head with a brick, and thrown from his horse,

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to tocover, tit:A:l;h a: first ills case was re-
prdAl as desperate.
To.day at twelve o'clock a great crowd attended
r.t11,2 New Bailey, with the hope of hearing the ex-
'tination 4 Ilant. The Bench of Magistrates was
There being present,
NAisis, Esq. in the Chair; THOMAS W. TATTON, RA. •
WAI. MARRIOTT, WILLIAM HULTON, RALPH FIaTeHRI.,
• ATRIA,, TRAFTORD TRAFFORD, Esqrs. Sci W. flicssuws,
. A. Et HELS I ON, Clerk.
Sll.l4ltis PAN.G was also on the Bench.
Nolutts, the stipendiary Chairman, ordered
State Plisoners (as they now must be called) to
teb;ouOit up.
Hunt was brought first io the bar. I observed no
Cage upon him. Ile walked with a firm step, and
;=slirled an undaunted and resolute, though not an
n.,.nuer. His features, which are always
tie; ;t: seemed more than usual to wear a smile of
ce:itrained conycsure and self-satisfaction. He
l'otl-ed 64117 round. Mr. NORRIS addressed him to
lhi,.efroct :

aY" Ikra, the prosecutcrs are perfectly prepared to go
a rn•iderct• ir. suprort of the charges upon which you w. re
b•.it tiller evidence has con:e before the Maris-
oi the Ilighc.st importance, and they have deemed it their
6.11 tt lay body of it before the Law OfEe;:rs of the
r'at, to advise apoli it. The Magistrates, whose organ I ant,
taeref...re arat.iironsiv deemed it their duty to remind you
4 datZt ni HIGH T REAsoN."
pre,etne, I am not allowed to say any thing"' lae Nlra a e."
l to state one word. I ant pig-reedy innocent
t: eh, iharze,dyto IMO then 110W44 to the
and 'rent duvm.
Jwig, Joi,mion was brought up. 1k appeared
:arch agitated.
Notutts addressed hi:n in the same words as
did aut.:.
Ichnsn" but bowed and retired.
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:It 1 nit. .a.ctt;it \vitt; brought up. lic bowed

slightly. After Mr. NORRIS had addressed him as
he did the others,
Saxton said-4, Am Ito consider myself as committed on
that charge?"
Mr. Nonats--" You are detained on that charge, not finally
committed."
John Knight was the next. He was addressed as
the others!. but said nothing.
John Moorhouse smiled very contemptuously.
After Mr. Nona's had remanded him on the charge
of High Treason, Moorhouse tcok up his white hat,
[most of the leaders wore white hats,] which was
close to him, and said--" I presume it's my bat you
mean, and not me. lam ready to meet the charge."
To understand this, it should he known that since
I hint has wont a white hat it has become the badge of
reform, Johnston wears one; Sir C. Wolseley, 1 have
been told, weal a one. Moorhouse would not be left
behind in this c7ital point.
The follow ing were all brought up separately, and
addressed by Mr. NORRIS as the others had been,
and then remanded on the same charge as all the
others, that of High Treason :
.v.kabeta Gaunt, a tall, thin pale woman, P.bollt 45.
&acts MArgreati:;, about 26, dressed in black.
11,bert Jutec, a rag-6.4,1er, from Manchester, about 25.
Robert Wild, jt:n. about 23, from Staytey bridge.
Genrge ALA late of Doncaster.
Whether the prisoners are to be tried for high
treason or not will depend upon the advice of the
Law Officers. Mr. Hay, the Chairman of the Salford
Sessions, who went to London with the case on Tues-
day, is expected to-day. We shall then know the
determination of Government. From the number
of persons under the charge who have nothing in
common but their being at the same Meeting, the
treason committed must have consisted in not dis-
petting at the reading of the Riot Act. If this be'
the case, high treason may now-a-days be uncon-
sciously perpetrated. After the State prisoners were
disposed ot, a crowd of SO or 40 pi isoners were
brought up for rioting, some of whom were remand-
ed, some, committed for trial, and some discharged.
There was nothing at all interesting in their respec-
tive eases.

EXTRACT FROM ANOTHER LETTER IN THE

TIMES.

" Manchester, August 19.
" If the conduct of the Magistrates was precipi-
tale, that of the Cavalry was violent and unwarrant-
able. It is allowed by every one here, that much un-
necessary cruelty was inflicted, and it is even af-
firmed that intoxication only could explain the wan-
ton violence they committed. They cut down and
trampled under their horses' hoofs the poor deluded
creatures who had assembled, without provocation
and without mercy. I could send you the deposi-
ti.nis of hundreds, if it were necessary, that not a stone
was duos... n, not a stick was raised, and not an insult
offered to the military, befOre they commenced their
furious career—that they trampled on those whom
they could not disperse—that they hunted them
down like wild beasts, and cut at the living heaps
that were piled. on each other in running from their
violence. The constables, who suffered nearly as
much as the rest of the multitude, from a perfect
want of system and plan, stewed in many instances
a savage spirit of malice and revenge. Some of them
were seen beating with their staves those who had
fallen, and one of them, in the drunken delirium of
savage triumph, brandished his baton, and ex-
claimed in the hearing of the terrified inmates of
Windniiil-street, " Here is our field of Waterloo."
Of the numbers that composed the Meeting, no cer-
tain information can be obtained.
" The numbers collected could not fall short of
30 or 40,000. The principal passages leading out
of it are by Deansgate and St. Peter's Church. From
their being hemmed in on one side by the military,
and from the narrowness of the other egress, the
crowds could not escape, but were trodden down or
heaped upon each other like corn in a field. Thy
consternation and confusion that followed the charge,
the dreadful screams and heart-piercing shrieks of
trampled wretches of all ages and sexes, can scarcely
be conceived. It is surprising that the carnage
should be so trifling. The number of killed, whose
deaths are ascertained is just five ; and the number
of wounded who have been carried to the Infirmary,
or placed under the medical men of that Establish-
ment, amounts only to GO: Foor.Ogden is grievously
wounded ; he has received several sabre cuts about
the head, and has been again cured at the public ex-
pense.' Carliie, of London, made a narrow escape.
The woman from Eccles, who was killed, was the.
rally smothered to death by being below a pile of
bodies in a cellar !"
LEEDS, AUGUST el.
FROM OUR PRIVATE CORRESPONDENT.

A very numerous Meeting of Reformers is to be
held on Hamlet Moor, on Tuesday next; and as the
Mayor and Magistrates do not mean to interfere
with their proceedings, provided they conduct them-
selves as peaceably as heretofore, it is expected that
the Meeting will be more numerously attended than
any that have hitherto been held in this part of the{
kingdom. A Military Officer of rank called at the
house of our worthy Chief Magistrate (who was out
of town), on Thursday, to make a tender of the services
of the force under his command to clear the ground
of the Reformers upon Hunslet Moor, provided the
Mayor did not think proper to forbid the Meeting. His
Worship was again waited upon in the evening, by
the same person, when he declined the proffered ser-
vices of the troops, expressing his conviction that it
would be more proper to send food than swords and
pistols amongst the people.
A Meeting of Radical Reformers, numerously at-
tended, was held on Thursday evening, near Hud-
dersfield ; when a stranger (strongly suspected to be
a Spy) harangued the multitude in the most violent
and inflammatory manner, insisting on the necessity
of using force to obtain their just rights. His ha-1
rangue, however, made no impression upon his
hearers. A strong body of troops, however, is now
stationed in Huddersfield.
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Another Reform Meeting was held last night at
Shipley (about six miles from Leeds), and was at-
tended by at least 3,000 persons. Mr. EDMUND
FEARNLEY, a respectable manufacturer, was called to
the Chair. The principal speakers were—Mr. M#-
.40$, of Leeds; Mr( UntsTow, a schtrolrnavr,

Shipley ; and Mr. Rttaftwaw, It schoolmaster and
Preacher, among the Free-thinking Christians. The
Resolutions, Declaration, and Speeches, were the
same as those adopted at the other Meetings in thi
vicinity ; and the persons dispersed peaceably.
Another Meeting was to be held on the Aldmon
bury road, near Huddersfield, and considerable air
prehensions seemed to be expressed for the result.—
The Yeomanry, under Sir JOSEPH RADCL Lira, and twc
Troops of the 4th Dragoon Guards, were ordered to
be in readiness ; but up to this hour (ten P. M) no
accounts have arrived of any disturbance having taken
place. I therefore conclude that either the Meeting
has not been held, or else that all has gone off
peaceably. •
Posting-bills and advertisements have been circu-
lated throughout this and the adjoining Counties,
numerously signed, for convening a Public Meeting
at Wakefield, on Monday next, at which all the Re-
formers in the District are expected to attend. Ru-
mour, however, says, the Magistrates, fearful of
the consequences, intend to prevent any Meeting
taking place.
The four Troops of the 4th, or Royal Irish Dra-
goons, under the command of Cclonel Ross, that
marched in here on Wednesday last, returned again
to their head-quarters at York, this day ; and the
two troops which marched for Manchester, have
.come back to resume their old quarters.
We remain perfectly tranquil here, notwithstand-
ing the numerous groupes of unemployed and dis-
tressed men that are constantly parading the public
streets, from sun-rise to midnight.