Star.
London, England, 1819-11-25 00:00:00

eat rest on the words of Gentlemen of the highest
character and respectability.
Mr. EGERTO'S BRYDGES admitted the neces-
sity of inquiry, but at the same time, he consider
that the House of Commons was not the place where
it eontd.trecart led • ost 'affextually. .The-Magistrates
fait as anaious as the. Rouse could be to have the case
fully investigated. .._. .. -' • - -•-. . -
Sir wittiANT DE cßEsproNy colitend'ed that
the hint Act was an Act Cif warning, which its it*
Manchester case had notbeen given,- and conferred
no powerao disperse the pteopleitill an hour after it
had been read. He wished te'stat'e 'an important
fact. He knew -a venerable Clergyman, a man of
piety and character,' whet, impelled by curiosity to
see Mr. Hant, had waded through the crowd assem-
bled at Manchester, as far'as the hustings. Having
satisfiedhis curiosity, he was returning as fast as his
age and the multitude would permit, when he heard
the Yeomanry galloping with great velocity. They
stopped, and formed in line opposite the house in
which the Magistrates were sitting. Ile thin saw
some person come out of that house and make a short
address to the soldiers. They then clashed their
swords together, dashed forwards, and forced their
way into the crowd. He saw Hunt seized, and the
flags torn; after which the Cavalry turned round, and•
commenced the work of destruction and death—(hear)
—he then endeavoured to escape through a street op-
posite the hustings ; but when he came there, he
found soldiers placed across the street. He entreated
them to let him pass; but no—they would not allow
him, and forced him back into the scene of action!
He then expected to be cut down, when he recollec-
ted that a friend of his had a house in the place; he
hurried towards it ; his friend saw and admitted him,
and once in safety, he repaired to the window. He
then saw a poor man take shelter under the same
eoor, pursued by that same trumpetel, who cut re.
peatedly at him, and even tried to force his horse up
the steps of the door, to reach him more effectually;
the man ultimately leaped into the area for safety.
When such facts as this Were proved on such respect-
able authority, he trusted that nobody in the House
would be hardy enough to vote against an-Amend-
ment iusisting on the necessity of inquiry.
Lord NUGENT complained that Ministers were
not contented with assuming the fact of illegality
of the Manchester Meeting, but pretended that tt
had been admitted to be so by his Right Honourable
Friend last night. This he denied. It was from the
fact of that admiision'that depended the life of the
inquiry now called for. The evidence given by the
Noble I,ord (Castlereagh) was inadmissible, • because
it was not evidence in chief, but founded on suppo-
sitions, and because he had made himself a party to
those transactions, by, advising the Royal thanks to
be expressed on the subject. The decision of the
Grand Jury at Lancaster had been adverted to, as if
it had tried the legality of the Meeting; but it was
no such thing. The question was merely, whether
certain individuals should be put upon their trials
under Lord Ellenborough's Act? and had nothing
to do with legality. Even had the Lancaster Grand
Jury pronounced the Manchester Meeting illegal,
the country had the unanimous declaration of another
Jury, the Coroner's Jury at Oldham, that the Meet-
ing was perfectly legal. Granting all that his Ma-
jesty's Ministers supposed, it would not proceed one
single step towards vindicating their conduct for
having advised so precipitate a letter of thanks. If
it were even right to employ any military farce, he
conceived that it ought not to have been the Yeo-
manry, as many of them were the masters of the
poor wretches who were crying for wages. Au im-
portant fact had been stated to him, on authority
which perfectly satisfied. him of its truth, and which
he was ready to bring to the Bar of the House. It
was, that issues of wine and brandy bad been served
out to the Yeomanry before ' the charge !—(Hear).—
Ile had also been informed, on the same authority,
that some days after the 16th of August, a number
of Constables had met is one of the public streets,
broken their staves, and burnt them, declaring they
would no longer serve under the orders of such Ma-
gistrates. An Honourable Gentleman opposite had
told the House that the Charts of Law were open.
—Who were these confiders in the uprightness of
Juries? The very Amisnrities who, two years ago,
had supported the Indemnity Bill---(year, hear).—
What had the House been told,. when action's were
brought against Lord Sidmouth for an undue exer-
cise of power ? That Juries were not a fit 'Pribtrnal
to decide on such cases. And no* it was Parliarttint
that was represented as the unfit Trribunal-411ear,
hear). Was there to, be one law for the Radichls and
another for the People ?,
What was the House to
he called upon to do ? Were die),
.tolimit the Li-
berty of the Preis ? to pass a Bill -of Ilidemnity ? or
to Suspend the Habeas Corliti4t 1 It was only to
misgovernment that the great'ailiejaei of Thitions
were to, be attributed. The reOple of England were
naturally loyal. peaceable, and 'religious. What had
altered that charieter„lif it wai altered ? * seas
grieved when he heaK4 the Hogotd-allole Mettrter for
Walther speak last. night Of dite prevalence of blas-
phemy, and he trusted alai tsetoie Ott Religion of
that. llonourable 'and slifluigotshed indlirdual, had
led him into an einsviated,lrlief on that point. 7—
_What effect bad the trtl'of"at.POOr 4teteh,Ciiiiie;
produced ? Had net. hiibaithied attempts tOdt-
grade Religion, wilted,* thrill of boyror.through' the
whole Court, ,vied prbdtsse4 'a iiidict of condeinni-
tion ? If a split ofblispheior. and sedition existed,
it was Dot to be met 14. dialigsnd 'chains. But
let the People be enitirofed. -Tertfade and matt&
factures revive. Open a Commercial Treaty with
South America ; or, if that-cannot. be done, !et air
jirithful oily, Ferdinand, be 'piesialled npi?n to °pin
some of his ports to our.Mercita.ndiie. Those were
the means of changing We ;spirit of People. He
then combated the reit:kll:al of r..ordritzwilliam from
his post. Lei the Miaittert bet4aie 'lest, whilst they
attempted loflegracle,stic4 a manitf having ihewn'
a paternal feeling to WO Peope, ankthe Constitu-
tioual jealousy of atitngliainap, they devaded their'
own,Sovereign7-4,p'ioitio-K,lr_the Muse should'
separate without .airitiding:„ltlief to' the People, it'
nught, perhaps, give rise to icenesablood and ruin.
For it would be said that which.the.Magistrates had
done, bad not only recettvectrroin the,
a hasty
tg
vote of thanks, but alit i e Sarliament had contributed'
to screen them. twit. ratatteities of their' con.
dact—(ileti;,' heairltein
Mr. NV ARREN had understood, that on the former