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London, England, 1819-09-28 00:00:00

by tither; but, ft is far othrwlse. Ai the Bea.ad ot
the roll, signing the Requisition for York County
Meeting, stands the first Peer of the realm, the Duke
of NORFOLK ; then come in succession the Earls FITS-
WILLIAM and COWPER, Lord MILTON, Sir WILLIAM
MILNER, Sir GEORGE CAVEAT, the Honourable L.
DUNDAS, the Honourable J. MoNsow, the Honour-
able E. PETRE, B. COOKE, W. B. COOKE, GALLY
KNIGHT, WALTER FAWKES, M. WIVIL, S. CROUP..
TON, J. BELL, G. STRICKLAND, with a long list of
Gentlemen of high character aid influence in that
great county. Twenty-seven such names were signed
on Saturday last, and the signatures were rapidly aug-
menting. The Requisition, it isstated, will be laid be-
fore the HIGH SHERIFF on the sth-of October, and the
Meeting is expected to take place about the 20th.—"
The Requisition, be it observed, demands an inquiry
into the transactions at Manchester ; and we should
like to know what Public Officer will take upon him-
self to refuse a demand put forth for such an object,
and sanctioned by such authority? We should like
also to discover, what new topics of abuse will be
started en this occasion by the Helots of the London
Press—what fresh sluices of wanton scurrility are to
be opened—what foul names are to be launched
,against the Nobility and Gentry of the first Shire in
Great Britain—what attempts to drag down rank,
property, and character, (when they do net follow in
the wake of Ministers), will be made by that blunder-
ing Jacobin, The Courier, who does more than all the
Radicals living, to level the rank, property, and
character, in the dust ? It is the lot of some people never
to speak truth, without seriously injuring their own
party. Last night The Courier had the misfortune to
confess, that the "Whigs have no greater relish fora
Revolution than the Tories." Now, this is obviously
true : the great Whig families have more, indeed, to
lose by a convulsion in the State, than their nolitical
opponents, because by far the largest properties of
the kingdom have long been their inheritance. The
venal prints, therefore, cannot, upon their own shew-
ing, have the effrontery to tell the Nation, that when
the Whig Noblemen call County Meetings, they.dol
so for revolutionary purposes. Lord FITZWILLIAM is
of all men the least a Revolutionist : he has been at
all times considered an Alarmist, par excellence ; and
the Noble Lord's good sense, as well as love of the
Constitution, is now made manifest by the alarms he
feels on the opposite side of the question to that which
he espoused in 1793 ; since he thinks with every wise
and virtuous man in England, that an outrage upon
the laws, committed by the Magistracy, and adopted
(in some frenzied but irrevocable moment) by the
Ministry, is in itself the most imminent of dangers,
aad of all evils the most to be deplored.

The Continuation of the Evidence, given on the
Inquest, at Oldham, will be read with much interest.
If a full investigation of one case elicits so mazy
facts respecting that day, so mournful for England,
what would have appeared in the pages of our
history, had none of the many victims been buried,
in violation of the laws of the land, without the sa-
lutary investigation of a Coroner's Jury ? Yes ! in-
credible as it may appear—individuals have been in-
terred without any Inquest enquiring into the cause
of their death.—Among the victims was a person
named SAMUEL HALL,. a Cotton-spinner, in Mr.
Pouar's Factory. He was cut on the temple by a
sabre, and dreadfully trampled on by the horses.—
He was carried from the field to the Infirmary, in
which he died in the third week after. He never
spoke after receiving his injuries ; and he was buried
in Ilulme Chapel-yard, without any Coroner's In-
quest being held over the body.
His son WILLIAM, 14 years of age, (whom we have
seen) and who worked under his father, being unable
to obtain employment in the Factory, after his death,
the workmen subscribed Bs. 6d. to carry him to Lon-
don, and lie is now in the house of Mr. GILES, N 0.5,
Wych-street.

We are happy to observe the liberality with which
many distinguished individuals are coming forward
in support of the Fund raising for the Relief of the
Manchester Sufferers and the prosecution of their
oppressors. The Duke of LEINSTER, the Premier
Peer of Ireland, has sent one hundred guineas, and
Earl GROSVENOR fifty pounds. Mr. LUCECOGNI *
Gentleman of great respectkbility and weight in ilk
mingham, has, in answer to an appeal macre to bins'
at the late Meeting there, addressed an energetic
Letter to the Public_ on the subject, which will be
found in another part of our Paper. Mr. LUCICCOCK
puts some queries, which, we think are well deserv-
ing the serious attention of every well-wisher to his
state.t country.

We insert, in another part,--an Extract from a Pri-
vate Letter from Paisley, vindicatory of the conduct
of the Magistracy of that town during the late riots.
We are free to admit, that it places the fact of the
seizure of the flags on a much better footing than
it has hitherto been seen by the Public. With respect
to the " after dinner" error, however, we think it is
scarcely fair to blame us for what every person—
every Englishman at least—must allow to have been
a matter of most fair inference. We were well aware
how famous the Scotch have long been for their
powers of fasting, but really the idea of a jolly Cor-
poration fasting from nine in the morning till past
ten at night (as we find was the case), is a think
which it could never have entered into our English
imaginations to conceive. We recollect n0t13,4

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