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TH E POLITICAL HOUSE THAT JACK
1 BUILT. With Thirteen Cuts, viz. The House that Jack
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it ; The Thing to poison them • The Puislic Informer; The
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Dilated for William Hone, Ludgate-hit

WIGAN MEETING, NOVEMBER 8.

A respectable Requisition to the MAvon of this
Corporation to call a Meeting of the Inhabitants, on
the subject of Parliamentary Reform, and the late
transactions at Manchester, having been presented,
and refused, though politely, the Requisitionists
called one by Advertisement. In consequence of
this, the Town exhibited this day an unusual scene
of bustle. The Chair was proposed to be taken pre-
cisely at Eleven o'clock, but, as early as Nine, a Pro
cession from Ashton arrived, consisting of between
two and three hundred persons, headed by two men
Who bore white flags edged with black crape.
The Ashton troop of Yeomanry Cavalry, about
46 in number, were stationed in the Market-place,
where they remained, it is said, the whole of. the
day. About ten o'clock, a Procession of nine or ten
thousand men, accompanied by the Members of the
Female Union, and led up by a band of Music,
moved from Wigan towards Hamberswood Common,
which is about two Miles from the town.. On the
road they were joined by Processions from Bolton,
Warrington, Chowbenr, West Houghton, Leigh, and
several other Processions, with music and flags, all
of which were bordered with black crape. One of
the flags exhibited the figure of a man who has just
broken his fetters, and the following allusive verse :
4' Shall we Submit without disdain,
" To powerful Ignominious bands?
" Free-born, let's burst the galling chain,
" And dash the fetters from our hands."
Another had the words—" Love and Union," and
" Death is preferable to Slavery." In all there were
fourteen, with various devices and mottoes, and seven
Caps of Liberty. Besides these, there were several
standards, the emblem of union, a bundle of sticks,
a loaf borne on a stick, and a mop with an inscrip-
tion beneath it, " 4 Receipt in cull for the Borough-
mongers' Debt, falsely called the National," in allu-
sion to the passage—
" Whin the Debt is burthensome, and eaunot be discharged,
" A sponge will wipe.off all, and Cost you nothing."
When the Processions arrived at the Hustings, the
Chair was taken by Mr. Watitart. There were 18
or 20,000 persons present. So large a number may,
in a great degree, be attributed to a general expecta-
tion that Mr. COBBSTT would be present. The Com-
mittee who managed the Meeting had sent a depu-
tation to Liverpool, with an invitation to him ; but
on their arrival, they discovered their mistake. The
banners, flags, caps of liberty, and a board with—
Order" upon it, in large characters, were hoisted on
the Hustings, which were fanned of three waggons,
The CHAIKMAI4 proceeded to the business of the
day, with an exhortation to observe peace and good
order, and to pay attention to the Gentlemen who
might address the Meeting, in order to do good to the
community at large. " I wish, Gentlemen, that—"
At this moment he was interrupted by an unex-
pected occurrence. The people began to scamper'
off in all directions. The Ladies of the Union called
out, "Be firm—remain where you are." The alarm
soon subsided. It arose from a Gentleman on horse-
back, who wore a foraging cap, which afforded a
pretest to some persons, on the outside of the crowd,
to raise a cry that the soldiers were coming. The
real fact was not perceived by the major part of the
Assembly, and their recollection of the outrages at
Manchester, on which, indeed, they had met to de-
liberate, was yet too lively not to dread the intrusion
of 4 raw, undisciplined troops, among an unarmed
people.
- The Citatnetati, as soon as order was restored,
Aid, he was surprised that such alarm should have
taken place, apparently without foundation. He
begged the people to teMain quiet and firm until tl'c

Mr. HAar.snos then read the Resolutions, and ati
Address from the Female Reformer's of Wigan, oft
presenting a handsome Cap of Liberty. The Reso-
lutions.and the Addreis were similar to those which

have been passed at- preceding Meetingi; on Chit
occasion; •
Mr. Haitaisosa stepped forward to, second the Re-
solutions just moved.- Although he thought the Re-
solutions did much credit to chose who drew them
up, yet, before he seconded them, he Must state, that
he had a very strong objection to The eighteenth, in
which it stated, that " it is highly de.irahle for the
inhabitants of Wigan to look out lot a person fit to
represent them its Parliament, unless for the future
they are to pay takes virtually, as they are said to be
Virtually repreiented." To this he objected, because •
it did not propose the election of two persons as
Metribers of Parliament—(App/aule). Be should
not, however, propose an amendment to that effect ;
for, when elected, Where were they to be put ? They
could not put them in the House of Commons, be-
cause; in a Constitutional point of view, there was
none in the kingdom —( Applause). He had read
and studied many writers on this subject, and he was
compelled to deny that a House of Commons existed
in this kingdom. There is, it is true, a building so
called, but the Representatives of the People do not
meet there, but the Representatives of BorooghmonL
gers—of meh who had let loose armed Yeomen on a
Meeting of the People, as peaceable as the one hie
was addressing, Our ancestors enjoyed a real House
of Commons, which did much good to the People.-4
In denying it to be a House of CoMmorts he was not
singular; the House of Lords had. long given ail
that name, and called it the Lower House and, ac-
' cording to its present constitution, it might with
truth be denominated the Lower House of Lords—
( Great applause ). It is, in consequence of the num-
ber of weighty evils which we Experience from this
Lower House, that so many Meetings have been held;
for the purpose of reforming these Houses. The
greater part of their grievances had their source in
the Debt, miscalled Satioaal, of which these two
Houses of Lords were the authors. They had get
themselves into this debt by supporting an unjust
war against the liberties of Europe. It was the sup:-
port of their power, while they saddled it on the
shoulders of the People ; but the People now come
forward, and tell them to bear it themselves ; in con=
sequence of which they had entered into wars against
the People. The first of these illegal kgal wars was.,
when they answered the Petition's of the People with
fetters and chingeonsand the next was the present.
They had persecuted the Reformers, and had in,
creased their numbers ; and they endeavoured to thin
them, and thus put down the Cause by terrorism.—
For this purpose they had employed the sabres of a
Yeomanry Corps. " Many of you were present at
Pderloo, and saw that the merciless aggressors re-
spected neither age nor sex. I was there myself, and
saw many endeavouring, but in vain, to escape froth
the ground, and well, indeed, they, might. It was
not; therefore, a matter of surprise to me, that those
who hid witnessed such a horrid scene, who had ex-
perienced the fury and relentlessness of their oppres-
sors, should have again run away, on the alarm that
the Yeomanry were coming. Why the confusion had
been great, it was easy to explain. Many persons
were alarmed, and many were employed for the pur-
pose of disturbing the Meeting ; these ran away, and
the rest ran away, because they saw others doing so."
He was pleased to see that their efforts had been par-
tially abortive. He at length concluded by seconding
the Resolutions:
Mr. BATTERSBY addressed the Meeting in defence
of the Reformers, and supported the Resolutions,
which were put separately, and unanimously carried.
A Vote of Thanks to' the Mayor, Mr..lenansr.rv,
" for having done his duty only" on that day, was
also carried.

The Meeting was then declared to he dissolved,
and the parties returned in procession, with music,
flags, and caps of liberty. They marched six abreast,
in " military array," through the Market-place, past
the Town Hall, the windows of which were occupied
by Magistrates and Constables, through Wallgate-
street to the Packet-house, where about 150 persons
sat down to dinner. AU was peaceable, and the
weets clear of people in a very short time. Tho
Ao came froth other townships also Marched ho
in procession.
The Deputation which was sent to invite Cost
stated at the dinner, that the ship hi which he
expected had arrived with his family, but that he
been left behind, in consequence of the refusal of
'passengers to sail with him:
The Mayor was requested to accompany the .
ton Yeomanry Cavalry to the ground of the
ing, but he refused, and the military rcrnainel
the Market. place.

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