The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-04-06 00:00:00

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tionemisi ff the pleadlogi dittilehttaire etilletted '
AIR subject matt* ' of' the, Mtn 400 Mir, say . •
Which the ptalitift low Wietilrti edit *tuft, ett4.-* '
Wit the asters 10 thee* elefbaree is aterb Inidle; • '
feidaste relied for their jostlikatiss Is comadlittle • '
et attire”, Thlt.eatnie was one 4 die Whet% hi. :' •
p.rteseej et oily as it cancenied the plaintiff, bit'. • '
as it would abet, in IN resifts, the itedi of pleat,
sad tbe rightist all claws of biChlikety's **Meets; • •
sad he inlaid satire the jury that he owl:Jo:Wetly
amyl, could set bring greater ialentt aid espetiottee . *
to lay it before thee. Bet howeret loseritifptlis
abilities for ehi task he bad undertaken. astlioiselsat-
'ever &frets his Ohio world kit: to complain,- he . •
mold sever have to lay that he ilbrati reed .4Whin
seal led all his energy to procure hies jostle*. l'ho
of the Jury had heard that the action was .
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'lt recover damages for as want coisinitted
iitt lbe *BIM by the deism:lasts. This assault teak g
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st Manchester oa the 16th of Aes% 1810.—
he mentioned this, he wadtsre that they had
heard sad read much of the treasactions of that
day. sad that their minds must Lava remind the as.. •
lispeessimm as 'dwelt but be besought them, as tar
allay is their power. to dismiss all sot* hapromiees,
111 leave eat of their view all that they had heard or '
isseined. to listen to the *widest...which siboolii be
kid before them at if the fatis had eater parsed-
through their minds before. aid es that evideace tit
dee* whether the defend:tots were justi6ed is woo-
mltdng that :mirage as the plaintiff fir which be sow
ditmaaded damsge• at their bawds. As to the fact of ,
the outrage somaiittesi as the pesos of the plaistit,
theta could be so doubt :it could be placed herbed .
the resch.of costradiction. sad the only question
which they would have to detonable would be. whe-
ther the defeedsa% were polled it sot. is actin to-
wards him as it would be plated they did. It had
bees said, that the facts which would Ito disclosed is
widget* formed penid rather foe cambial the' chit
justice. lie (the Learned Counsel>: admitted, ail
this Wfas the ease; and that as ladictmest. rather theta
so action, would at lest have been the proper eosin of .
littesediag. But the geodes,. of the jury most
hare !mown. and could tot have ferrates. the history:
of the trausactioas that roan eat of the *etre(' in
voodoo. They could cot luire Argonne the Oldham-
levies% where an attempt had bias Aide ID vela to
Wag the proceediage of the 16th of Aufettortimisally
before them; they could not have forgone' 'that *tier
attempahad bees made to bring the defeadaats as trial.
aid that all the appliettioas of persons similarly absence*
with the pialetiff bad bees diltuissed or repulsed. The '.•
lialetittherefore.had no other resbedy than teems ho- •
fore them. sad demand damages teethe lajories Who/
mallidoed ; and if the defendants Were jumbled is at.
tackier him while awe:idly a peaceable mostkag for
a legal °Meet. then the outrage which he hadfiellllollll
might be billeted as any iedividual at any ressitire.
for any objeet, hoWever legal or laudable: TM Jaw..
meld recollect, that is 1816, 181 f, sod 18114 a pont'
living of distress was felt la meet of the manufecells
lagdistriets, sad premed with peealiar severity ea suit .:0 I
parts of this coliaty. /tat dime. bad is, tae iii. ti •
steam bail aggravated to treacly easel derawahooo ....,...\ - -.:---;
sad, as alibi have beep expected, eaterelly esdilipti...ol!
gave rho to a shoal Melia( of discs tact. • Pon bitima=4).—
owslitimm bet omitted hvbenTeiertelter _who were sliplis. •-
I.itag P . flow wean ilia to t.4sweettarehr k ' --t
*he were oesualegooder the callosities of poverty sod • • •-;
&aloe? He bad Mori .it dated by a Roble Lerd:if •
high sliaracter,as timely a political axiom, that wheels i
great dbconteot prevailed, there mist socelearilY lot .
great miegoveramest ; for the people lostioctively
chug to the beadle of goad gwreramtat, aid loved
the eoestitatioa soder which they lived, sakes they
saw it administered to their prejudice. The distress
at Manchester woe supposed by the people there to pro-
ceed from the improper conduct of their Goverment.
aid accordingly they issued as advertisement on the
23.1 of July. appointing a' 'seeder for the 9th of
August, to disease their grievances. to take into cot 4
deration the souses of their distress as the means of
obtaining redress, and to consider the gate-
tins of a Reform in helmet's. [The Learn-
ed Counsel here read the words of the advertise-
meet, which has bees often before the Palrlic, and par.
titularly became the subject of dissemble oa the trial
of Rant and others at York.] ;The adwirtisemest cott.
eluded by stating, that wee of the objects of thematic
lug was to coseider the propriety of sleeting a repre-
sentative to Parliament on Major Cartwright's pls..
This advertisement was published ori the 23rd of July.
1819. In the isterval between the notice sod the day
appointed fir the meeting. it was suggested that the
litter object was illegal, sod bills were posted up op- •
prising the requisitioeists of this fact. The relaisi-
Itemises themselves asked legal advice epos the subject •
tad were informed that their declared purpose was ii-
legal. What did they do on this? Did they peellibt
is their illegal purpose. or shear that thiy dine- .
garded the ware's, given them ? No : they immedi-
ately abandoned their original Isseutios, and sent a
requisition to the berenglireeve, requesting him to
call a meeting for purposes allowed os all bands to to
• unobjectionable. The boroughreeve refused to comply
with their damask sod then still pursuing their ob.
jest by means which they thought legal. they
appointed a reestiog es. the requisition of tam
than seven buadred ishabitaat konsehoiderno.o
(The Learned Gemmel here read iMI .rictieidell.
which, like the foresee one, has bees often before thy
public.) From this abandonment of their origins/ fa.
motion, because Is was declared to he illegal,. and
their' adoption of 'mother course... against which so
warning bed hoes gives, the reqursitioniste .at least
'showed that is their opinion, they *ere cowl/144f
so breach eL law is the second instance ; and the ma.
gistratev, by not pmbibiting the fulfilment of • their
purpose, led them a dm. conviction Ad they 114 e.
wise were satisfied with NO legality of the ansounce4
meeting. The people ahliwed that, whatever might
subsequently happen, they erinsideitdctirot they had.
still the right of assembling to discuis tfieirgrietaates,
and to petition for redress; and that if the state of
•Parliament formed oat of those grievance:, and Par- -
liamentary Reform contained the means of . redress,
that that !abject as well as others atight legally form
the topic of their deliberations. Toe peopla in that
vicinity bad heord 'fan actual and rirteel represents.
this, and hiving heard aim. wore of opinion dill their
haterests would he better attended to, if they were to.
Lastly. instead of being virtually, represested. They

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