The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-04-08 00:00:00

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114 distress and misery of ► _ attended them?
Why, the Gilt man who was sailed into the witness'
boa adeoltt that thingh he bad been there, he was
cueing 20s. aversak by his. labour aad the. Woad,
was admitted the same thin, aad that be was in the
reseipt of 175..a-weeke all the year mind. Allowing
Ammer, that distress existed, could it be remedied by
proceedings like those at Manchester? Wes, it Bitch!;
that these men, by keels' their work foe the 411.1
asset t return from Manchester to seek work pet,
boils Was it likely that thew Mee who were sec
prayed trDdrillieg and training, in starching and.,
erinateemarching. and also in committees, would he•i
came rich and good citizens? He thought sot. Mal
L-eareed fiend bad said, that the meeting at Mama
beater was, at the time it was held. perfectly legal
if hie Learned Friend meant that individuals sided
moot *discuss their grievances. be perfectly agreed
with him : but if he meant to _say that 100.000 Melo,
or
even 50,000. might be legally assembled MAO&
each circumstances as were salculated to excite in the
Minds of men possessed of property which they wished
.to biomes* to their posterity, a jest and reasonable
vetted of terror and alarm, thee be .would sap. that
neither at that or any other period of the blowy of
Ragland, weld sash a meeting be legally assembled.
Howeeld ask them. then, as reasonable men. toed
suck a meeting as this at Manchester. congregated as
it bad Wee under assigns of insurrecßoa sad rebel-
• lief* headed by Henry Hunt. sow confined in Hamster •
gaol. and. Richard Carlile, now residing in Dorchester
Cies* P—Could each a meeting be considered as Sot
likely to *auger the lives and properties of every
individual is the neigh,eoarlsood? He asked them to
reply by their verdict. aye, or no, to sash a question.
.11a did not this!, it necessary to state to them the law
-ate.oiech,a subject, because his Lordship would then tell
Aim that the essence of the &retries laid down upon the
gobjest by Mr. Justice Bayley. at York. wee. that
whore.s meeting was put &netts, in such a manner
.nadoeszaate terror sad alarm, it was decidedly an ll-
legal.eseeting.. If it was so' was it to be allowed to
remain ?.. Were there no legal means of bringing it
that glom? Theisve of England hid been called. the
pitleitionof resiseni but the perfection of reason
weakhriso-brought to a pretty pass if then were so
owns of stopping a meeting of 80,000 or 100,000
people... Weald the law be worth living under. if a
loam like Heat could go where be liked, and at his
will convene meetings, address then,, and direct their
movements? He thought oo good niaa could wish to
labour coder such A state of things. He should lay it.
:down as the undoubted law of the land, that any magic.
trate,,,constable, or private individual. might interpose
between the country and each a eseetleg. They would
see la the course of the evidence the pecnliar crisis at
Webich the magistc• v of Manchester had formed their
deterinioation to disperse this meeting. If they had
sot formed sad executed that determination, he was
cdascientionsly convinced that the town of Manchester
world not have gervived that day. To calculate the
effects °Touch a meeting, he would desire the Jug to
der of what materials the meeting was formed: it
Mi
meo In ?formation for several weeks; the whole
populates withinl2 miles of Manchester lead been for
some weeks arranging for a great day, and it was some-
thing marvellous that his Learned Friend, who had
stated *be object of that- meeting to be parliamentary
refcita, had eves scarcely endeavoured to prove it ; he
bad said that it was convened for the purpose of deliber-
ating', but.by awl by it occurred to his excellent under-
s&ading, that deliberation at such an assembly was
tithe nonseesical: bow indeed could it be otherwise,
lAMPrifOi a word could be beard on such occasions more
thaw ten yards beyond the hustings? As deliberation
could not be their object, it most be evident that their
'gentle') was to show, that if they could not obtain re-
form in one way, they would attempt it in another. His
tearned Peen(' bad promised to show the legality of
the meeting anti bow had be dooe this? He might
Have called 3,000 individuals (as Hnnt once threatened
to do) to prove what be (Mr. Biackburne) bad proved;
but he had contented himself with calling only two cot-
tnn.tp.inners. two statesmen, or at least two who had
disguised themselves under that appearance, out of the
700 who had signed the requisition convening the meet-
ibg at Manchester, to take care of the combined interests
of the whole nation. These individuals said they had
signed a paper, bat it had not been produced; they said,
however, that their object was Parliamentary Reform:
that be would show not to have been thd case by a state-
meet of their real object. It had been stated bye witness
4 the name of Tyas, that Mr. Hunt had attended at
Irnithfield, where. as was usual, lee was chairman ; he
hall there proposed certain resolutions, one or two of
'vela eh he should now read, because they appeared to
him as treasonable as any he had ever read. He
week, show to them that this itinerant demagogue
lad nt.i other view in Manchester than to forward the
object of the meeting previously held in Smithfield—a
nesting not only illegal, but was as nearly nable
as-possible. He should produce a witness who bad
veoeived these resolutions from the hands of Mr. Host:
...the resolutions he would now read, and they apake for
themselves. Learned Counsel here read the
Smithfield resolations, and commented open them as
be read them, bob the lateness of the hoer at which
:the court rose, compels us to omit these comments,
.which were chiefly levelled at Mr. Hunt and Mr. Car-
. Lie]. He then proceeded to say, that if a meeting were
:held to carry each resolutions into effect, one of whish
expressed a conditional allegiance to Government. it
was palbably litrgal. How did he connect the pro.
ceedings at Smithfield with those subsequently occur-
repg at Manchester? He would now explain. First
of all, be would show them the placard calling the
meeting of the 9th of August, which had been most
diligently and assiduously circulated in Manchester
soil its neighbourhood. This placard, calling upon
the unrepresented inhabitants of that district to meet
for the purpose of electing a person to represent them,
and for adopting hie jor Cartwright's plan, the learned
Sergeant then read. lie remarked, that amongst the
. persons invited by this placard to attend, was -Sir
Chivies Wellesley, who, by obtaining a seat for Hite.
..qtiogliam, had afterwards obtained a seat, a close it-
:_rptiglt. at Abiagdon, and that Mr. Wooler, who win
siert emoog the invited persons, had now his residence
.:lu..Warwick gaol. Now he would ask the jury whe-
tker it was more likely a meeting of such a descrip;
gee could be held for deliberation, or for adopting
;inse m in contraception of the law? He would
sew call their attention to the
meeting bad been assembled in Manchester. His
learned friend had said that they had come in b-auti-
fui order—he allowed it, but they would have come
- is still more beautiful order, if they had been clothed
ia regimentals. His learned friend bad also stated
abet they had been trained—that appeared by 'heir

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