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fere. If the parties found any difficulty in instituting
a criminal prosecution, they might have proceeded
by a civil actioa without any impediment. They had
not, however, done so, and the fair presumption was,
that they were not able to make out a case strong
enough to go to a Jury.--(The lion. and Learned
Member sat down amidst loud cheers from the Minis-
terial benches.)
Mr. PHILLIPS said, the peculiar circumstance of
his residing where the Meeting took place must be
his apology for getting up at that hour of the night
to address the House. There was no doubt but tee
Magistrates thought that the Meeting of the 16th of
August was legal, and he was convinced it was the
determination of the people to be peaceable on that
occasion, and there was no doubt they would have
been so if they had net been so cruelly attacked by
the Yeomanry. He had inquired of a great many',
persons, who went there as spoliation, and were not'
connected with either party ; fit tt should not be hid
from the House that patty opinion ran high at that
time at Manchester, and from all the information,
the Meeting was quite peaceable, until the advance
of the Yeomanry, and to their advance there was
no obstruction; but the scene that followed, as de-
scribed by those who saw it, was sufficient to raise
horror in any mind—(Hear). He knew persons who
had placed themselves near where the Magistrates
of Manchester were stationed, and.they never knesv.l
or understood that the Riot Act was read—(Hear).
A Mr. Stanley, a Gentleman of the greatest honour
and respectability, had told him that he was situated
at a window in the house where the Magistrates were
assembled, in a room above them, and that he cduld
see a line or passage from the house to the hustings,
and that he actually saw Ladies walk up and down
it, and his opinion was, there was nothing to prevent
the warrant against Mr. Hunt being executed by the
Civil Power, and that be saw Mr. Hunt beaten and
abused after he was in custody. It was his convic-
tion that the trainings before the Meeting, were ille-
gal, but that could not justify the people being dis-
persed "hen they were acting peaceably at the Meet-
ing. 11 would ask why the warrants were not kept
back until the following day? but if the parties had
committed a breach of the peace at the time, he was
convinced they might have been put in force on the
day of the Meeting by the Civil Power, without any
disturbance, as the people were unarmed. He had
no doubt but they afterwards armed, for they
thought there was neither law nor justice for them,
for afterwards, when the white hat reformers saw
the Police they attacked them, and when the lat-
ter saw the former, they attacked in turn. He
did not wish to cast any reflection on the Grand
Jury; but the House ought to take into its consider-
ation how high party opinion ran at that time; and
the Grand Jury being of opinion that the Meeting
was illegal, might have thought they were bound to
throw out the Bills. This circumstance alone, in his
opinion, ought to induce the House to agree to an
inquiry—(The Honourable Member sat down amidst
loud cries of 0, Question!" and “ Adjourn I")
Sir ROBERT WILSON now rose, and moved that the fur-
ther debate on this question be adjourned till to-morrow (this
day).—The question was then put, put the Motion was carried
without a division.

The other Orders of the Day were then disposed df, and the
House adjourned at Half-past Three o'Clock.

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1821.
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The question respecting the outrages at Manchester
on the 16th of August, 1819, was last night intro-
duced to the notice of the House of Commons, by a
multitude of Petitions from persons who had either
been personally sufferers, or had had relatives
wounded to death on that melancholy occasion, corn;
plaining that every effort to obtain redress through
the usual course of law had been baffled, and praying
that the House would institute an inquiry into a
transaction which is a reproach to the justice of
the country.
Sir FRANCIS Boantrr followed up these Petitions
by his promised Motion for a Committee of Inquiry,
which he supported by a speech replete with humane
feeling and forcible argument—indignant, yet tem-
perate, in its tone of reprobation, and well calculated
to arouse the sympathies even of those politically
opposed to him. The number of killed and wounded
in this disgraceful domestic affray, the worthy Ba-
ronet observed, surpassed by 200 the loss sustained
by Admiral Jilting) in that brilliant victory over the
Spanish fleet, off Cape St. Vincent, which conferred
the splendour of a title on his name; the sufferers in
the one case exceeding 600, and the loss in the other
being only between SOO and 400! The People of
England never could, never would, forget the occa-
sion which had led to the cruel and inglorious shed-
ding of so much innocent blood. It was impossible
that the matter could rest where it was, and be
trusted that Ministers would concur in the propriety, I
of an inquiry, which was as necessary to the vindica.
, tion of their own characters, as to the satisfaction of
public justice.
Mr. Booms WILBRAHAM defended the conduct of I
the Magistrates and Yeomanry at Manchester, and
read a number of affidavits to shew that they were in
a state of danger which justified all that had been dolls,
Lord fdrvron and Mr. DZSMAII spoke asrongly