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rich implicates the character of. a_great N a‘: is thebalancing power of Aristocracy and Monarchr.-
r • h endangers its dearest privileges; that
,jithic ,To say you are not respectable, is to say that the
'.0,,, fact, is evident from the circumstanees '
on
.rain ere exercising a natural right, and to in the
of that right, is to annoy,
I on) in the exercise
.of
person& the individual right every subject
-• h Empire For what Briton is there, I Commons House of Parliament is not respectable, as
you are supposed by the Constitution to be present
persons of your Representatives, and every
epithet which has been bestowed to disgrace you as
a body, must apply to every Member of the Com-
illa'mons !louse individually and distinctly. But I would
ilsk, whit renders due obedience to the laws, ask—is not that man respectable, who can demand
i„ not put his hand on Magna Charta and the . justice from the highest Tribunal in the Empire ?
egi-bts, and say, the benefits which
flow from
Coe.
-utional Charters are mine--they were I
with my forefather; blood—and the future
• of my descendants
oolis
~stro,ig with my own, that I should transmit
owed, unsullied anal unimpaired? But was
ng
g
' ht of the Peaple to assemble for national lls not that man respectable who can defy the Mo-
narch of England to cross, with impunity, even the
threshold of his thatched habitation, as every man's
p'lt forward claims' house is his castle ? . Strengnen then the dignity of
yonrnatuval and privileged respectability, by that
which results from manly rectitude and consistent
conduct ; and if so, the present Meeting will give
on the lfith, at Manchester, violated in the the lie not only to the past, but the future specula-
pint manner, aggravated by the most atro- tions of your enemies, should they ever dare to in-
rJ to all social ties, and perhaps stained
ste.4.l dulge them. Let your orderly behaviour and patrio-
e tioadiest a uelt y and cowardice that ever die- tic conduct, seal every bale of calumny and detrac-
human beings, since , one murder made a tion with indubitable falsehood. To the present you
and ' millions a hero?' or since 6 Princes have outlived every aspersion, and the characters
ileged to kill, and numbers sanctified the your enemies have delineated by theory, and applied
Yoar silence, my countrymen, on this to you maliciously, they have themselves practically
,c 1 deed, would identify you with its perpetra. and literally filled up, in the massacre at Manches-
',, be assured, the energy of national justice, ter. They alone bear the "blushing honours ;"—the
, it may have been fed with the opiates of brand of blood on their forehead, inscribed with civil
)2, will awake at the majestic call of the Na- war, revolution, and ferocious barbarism ; therefore,
I appear to the guilty parties in all the terrible let unity and constitutional patriotism continue, and,
rot a thunder storm, aided in its retributive eventually, you shall be free. lam ready to confess,
pons by the arm of the only wise GOD of although in the lower walk of lite, that if ever I felt
S..ould you be silent, my countrymen, the risings of honest satisfaction, it is in thus lifting
.n.ce would be construed into an allowance, up a defenceless hand and voice, hoping to give
Sentiment of the Poet will be correct ;rap- energy to those laws which, in their operation, must
:0 7(1'.1...‘ fle that allows oppression shares the prove fatal to all those who owe their greatness to
: Your .assembling together this day does not their country's ruin, and in pouring the oil and wine
rate) on the arbiters of guilt in either party, nor of benevolence into the wounds of our mutilated and
12 i .-rj ,e the case if your opinions go no far- suffering countrymen, in Manchester."
:..i :hr evidence adduced. Your assembling He then moved Resolutions, resembling in their
1: i. siir the purpose of demanding investiga- purport those which have been agreed to at several
ra aim!) you are juaified ; for if justice has not Meetings of the People, respecting the transactions
ailed, it has been delayed, and as long as do- of the 16th of August.
:s, dare is sarficient reason for your inter- The other Resolutions are as follows:
• Already the high approbation of the Prince a 7. That a temperate but firm Petition be presented to his
am the inhuman Magistrates, Yeomanry, and RoyaL Highness the Prince Regent, imploring him to institute
ill Constables of Manchester, has crimsoned a solemn inquiry into those transactions, with as little delay as
-anal character with the blood of his inno- Possible.
" 8. That the Hon. Lord Erskine be respectfully requested
*vs - already the connivance of Ministers to present the Petition to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent.
a the appearance of legislative enactment.— a 9. That the Thanks of this Meeting are due, and are hereby
r.. you will not be silent;; already has the sound given, to the liberal minded and patriotic individuals who have
).th from various parts of the country, which
so nobly and seasonably stepped forward to assert the Constltu-
'onal Rights of the People, and to demandanquiry into the con-
Sol the deed; and you, my Fellow-Townsmen u
duct of those who have been concerned in their violation.
Ne:gliaours, will join me host of Patriots who a to. That it is our duty to afford pecuniary assistance to the
essnerated themselves from the infamy which unfortunate sufferers at Manchester, and to contribute, accord-
to either abettors or perpetrators, by declar- in.; to our ability, to
.procure for them legal That for
is purpose a►u .pp at such
ch places as shall here
nay your abhorrence, but your determine- this purpose a subscription be opened at such places as shalt here-
afte
;illar
Wim Rid .be T urer;
firing to justice the destroyers alike of helpless and that Mash, J. Drewry and withing,hala, and Thomas
cau old age, of peaceable men and of de Jones, be appointed a Committee to direct its application, with
warner.. Befoeil cease to address you, my power to add to their number as they shall find necessary."
men, I would make an observation or two on Mr. YATES, a Gentleman formerly of the Borough
:Jilts of the Riot Act. The. Reverend Reader, of Stafford, one of the late Mr. Shcridan's friends,
iag he 3e4,1, from the title of the Act must now addressed the Meeting, and in a short, but very
~es that it was applicable only to riotous and animated and pertinent speech, stated some of the
.tins assemblies. But was the Manchester peculiar cases of the sufferers, and concluded by
1;3 ci such a cast ? The evidence of many wit- moving an Address to the Prince Regent.
says, no ! What was it rrad for ? That Henry Mr. FRANCIS Baoww seconded the Motion.
Esq. and his colleagues might be served with The CnAutstaut now observed—a Fellow-country-
its? Surely the plea is too contemptible even men, you haie heard the Petition, and I trust its
it Reverend and Magisterial Worships of Man- sentiments accord with those which would be adopted
Was it read on an oath grounded on the by every one of you. Those of you, therefore, who
of a man, or set of men, that the town was in are of opinion that this Petition be adopted, will sig-
'li it was, the oath proves that there was nify the same by holding up your hands-4 This mat
Jut one apprehended, and that apprehension immediately dose, and great elappingfollowed.) That
rise from various causes, quite irrelevant tothe our enemies, however, may not have any oppertu-
nition of theMeeti lig, such as the known pie- nity to censure our procedure, or urge that we did
of the Cavalry—the terrors of a guilty con- not allow them a fair occasion to oppose our Petition,
ntnral timidity--or what is more likely, pre- we shall just say, those who are of opinion that this
!zement with the bloody tragedians of the Petition should not be adopted, will signify the same
But '.,hat did the oath of Mr. Owen go to certify ? by holding up their hands --(Not a man did to.)
, more than that which it was possible might The CHAIRMAN having left the Chair, Dr. HARD-
to pass, therefore, no more an impeachment of tem took it, and proposed a vote of thanks to Mr.
tumble disposition of the Manchester Meeting, Rtnowatv for his able conduct in the Chair, which
it would have been supposing he had made was seconded by Mr. LAus, of the Dispensary-.
' the same erect respecting the Sunday Con- Mr. RinGwar returned thanks, and the Meeting
ins of the Reverends who were concerned broke up.
nefarious transaction. But as there was no After the conclusion of the Meeting, about a hun-
vby read the Riot Act in point of proper appli- deed Gentlemen sat down to an excellent dinner, pro-
Lit was all a downright falsehood. There vided on the occasion, at the Swan Inn; end the
lot, therefore there could exist no necessity greatest harmony prevailed during . the time the
ling it. Brat the enigma is solved. The evi- Friends of Justice and Humanity continued together.
adduced at the Inquest on the body of John But as it was well known that near 1600 soldiers
. ..
la-glaci any man in saying, that the reading of were in theimmediate neighbourhood, it was regarded
t Actwasthe signal " that let slip the dogs of as judicious that each party which had come from a
And if the Reverend Gentleman who read the distance, should return during the day-light, to pre-
ta knew that the swords of the Yeomanry were vent opportunity being afforded for the enemies of
• for destruction, would it not have been peace and order insulting them.
:haracter, if, instead of reading the Riot Act,
id the Burial Service over the destined vic-
ilat bloody day? The mind sickens at the
id where tan it turn for ease ? What does it
is the present much-injured state of our
An enlightened population, struggling in
;al way against repeated attempts of an int-
iministration, to establish by force what is'
xemptible and wicked to exist under the sane-
-4 those Constitutional Charters. What does the
'alive mind behold in the relative state of
Why, an industrious population sinking
'h,
.e excess of taxation. Whilst the Governors
;land wallow in luxurious and superlative ex•
'e, the majority of the People pine amidst
"dated ruins of former prosperity ; and with
'ale of patience, stand either unnoticed or
•in the wretchedness of poverty and despair.
r-i then, in the =tare of such a state of social
ito produce a chasm in the course of time,
nothing can fill up, but the bloody convulsion
war, or voluntary individual sacrifice, alike
to the parties concerned? Btu I thank Gon,
f4trignen, we may yet stop in the career of
but, with such a crisis as this in prospect, you
'to interfere! you may scowl is secret at the
Jails convulsion, as its desolating ravages
the circling ruin neat I that alike involves the
'le poor. But why not interfere? Because
Ales to your rights say you are not respect •
'0:11 are Plebeians, as yell have neither rank
Pen, l't save your own physical and mental
tne •
sensibilities• of the patriot and the parent
45itlerecl as innovations by them, in a humanity
ignifieJ either with•
titles or riches. But do not the
''`e.sul Englishmen attach respectability to their
4' Yes they do. And to say that you are
• 'bilge, because you are poor, is to libel an au-
iP lik;
U* A : .
" Conned agreeable to the Constitution,

Thursday, a numerous Meeting of the Devon
County Club was holden at Bampfylde-house,in Exe-
ter. The discussion on the deplorable events at
Manchester, was long and animated. Several Reso-
lutions were passed : their purport was, that the Pub-
lic ought to demand, and that the Legislature is
bound to institute, an inquiry into the cause of these i
disasters.—A Somerset County
.Club is to be esta-
blished at Taunton, analogous rn its principles and
objects with those of the Devon dub.
Last week, Captain Coors*, of the brig Farleye
of Hayle, fell from the Pier at which his vessel was
Tang. at Burry, Sonth Wales, and was so bruised
t he died two hours after.
A shipwright, of the name of RABY, was drowned
last Thursday, in the Medway, at Longreach. He
was at his work on the roof of one of the ships lying
there, and by some accident fell from the same.
Margate Roads exhibited, on Saturday and Sunday,
between SO and 40 Dutch herring basses, which had
taken shelter there, having been driven out of the
North &a by the strong gale of the preceding day.
HASA*. and Cots sales continue to increase daily,
which proves the preference given to their Old Etta-
Mama, and the popularity of the present Muted
I Schemes, containing Eight Twenty Thousands.—
Nag Tuesday the two First-draws Prises will be
entitled to "PO,OOO each (Money and Consols) ; ar.d
it will be recollected, Ilsimas and Co. Sold Au the
First-drawn Capital Prises in a former Lottery.—
The whole of the 6,000 Tickets now on &le will be
Drawn Nest Taesdriy, and from present appearance;
there will not be sufficient to meet the public de-
mand. HAZARD and Co. respectfully solicit a con-
tinsanCe of that patronage they liave experiesical
for 100 years, at their Office, Royal Ezehange-gate
their other Oices, Cambia, and 324, oiTord-
street, corner of Swallow-street.

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