The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-08-21 00:00:00

.MANCHRS TR R MASS ACRE.

This day. at 1.1 o'clock, a sere num•rncs
log assembled at the Crown aid Archer, iu c .otte.
lqueoce of the iteq.l; Minn which we pu'•lished )es•
Imlay. At vise, At.jir Carter'.. r, blr. %Veinier,
Mt. Wecliugton, and the other Gentlemer of the

Committee, *roved the room amidst loud opplania.
Mr. IVtIOI.CR sa'd, the importance Uf in raj res.
sios d Ow public opinion on the circa:utilisers
which eaneld ocrury•tie attention of the M.,e.10g

was so ',wilt, Ufa Ihe ctoveners of it had j 0.4,4

it proper not to eiony it one Milan., in order
to procure the attendance of some of those elm, by
presiding over it, he woald not say, mail :rode, it
really more impel mat, bet ho, (forri ft Pif • Val li.h.

ell tepototkn might, io 11001. degfve, add to st-ergrect
it twos calcolosed to i.rodoc, its Or pol.lic wind. It

was sloe ihit the never•failirg and venerable Mead

of his coontry, Major Cartotight, was present ; bat
from his advanced age he pegged, on this occasion, to
be allaa►d to decline the Is 1110111' of prasitling over

them. It aas R 'quested that Mr. Watidiiltoa r.uld

d..e.arge that dal), and thereon) Mr. Wools, pro.
Nosed him.
Th• creation havi,,e Leen pot and carried semi.
osru•ly. Avni,tiroN toi lat,d on the
table. HO @MOW th. Meetin4 lis.t he %US quite

willing to accept the honourable post to which they
had rifled him. Ile should be actuated by the
oft! 'der, audi allerent portent. Ile contested
that in this enlightened age he never expected
a necessity would bare been created for such e
Alerting. Ile trusted their language, on the ec•
casino, would be temperate, sober, and worthy of
the increased stock of popular knowledge. He
would not dilate on the recent events at Mae.
cheater; solVe it that be should say, that in Awe.
girl, where 44) year, ago he bad witoeued a Item.
luting, such scenes had wet been exhibited. lie
had, indeed, witnessed fear revelations, and sever
before did he know an instance of Magistrates.
who by their of.ice are the conservators of the public
peace, caliio4 en the military to butcher defenceless
multitudes of arts end' women.—( Lord applause.)--
li lie conetoded by imp easing on them the propriety
ef their language being firm, crassly, end becoming
the tons of Hampden, Sydney, and Russell.—( Ap.
plause.)
' M. Worms than advanced. Ile avowed the( he
never anticipated such events as those they were call-
ed together to pronounce their opinion upon would
have occurred. Under the present System, bed es it
ia,he was not prepared to expect that the blood-hounds
of Corruption would have been let loose, and the cry
of havoc raised, as it had been, at the late massacre of
the Reformers of Lancashire. Ile did nut repose that
t".ere ral•ted a heart solliciently malign.* conscience
sotilrieutly seared to plan the etecetion olio etrereinee
■ rietign. Hat that a can -!•ve of fiends should have
delbera.ed for da)s together, arranging the ptepart•
tions for such, treed v, ;a coolly and composedly, es if
they had been engsgen in superintending a drawl tic re-
bestial, was a horribly reality, at which he still 'WA
aghast with surprise. Unable to force the Reformers
to outrage, their enemitm, under the mask glair, had
committed the most violent outrage ever recorded in
the history -of the blackest despotisms. If it were
possible to doubt the facts be would fairly rebate tie
subscribe his belief that they bad been perpetrated.
I was a manacle so wantonly wicked,thet art term
could topp'y the means of tittering the indignation he
felt. Mr. Woolyn thrn adverted to the cirtmer.tances
out of which the late Manchester Meeting hid grows.
Formerly the Whigs and Tories divided the country
between them. Now, the People had formed • patty
for themselves, they only used the regular and legitis
mete weapons of argument and enquiry. Since the Re.
formers bad taken the lead, none of those infamous
excesses hail been committed which once rendered the
cry of Church and King" as destructive as that
French one of " Ala Lantore !"
The Noting was going on when we west to
Press.

•• Naito OdaPod slide Rinse was Doming."
If oar Rearms had taken fur his tear the disturb•
ed districts in the North, how much advantage might
have beta produced in his witnessing the distress felt
by so many
.poor creatures. Some have said, "it
might hese endangered his Parses;' bet no,
t• Ther,'s a Disiaity doh hedge a King."
It will he interesting to prose whet has been st-
unted, viz. that handcuffs were used to convey Mr.
110 NT to prison. Bad es we deem the midget of tlne
Civil Authority of the place, end meanly es we think
of their empty ;slide, in displaying a power beyond
all law and teem, ; yet we cutout persuade *avulses
folly to rely on this inte!ligeeee: if it were tree what
a contemptible eet of blegistrates they most be, well
knowing that their Poisoner would notren way. le•
deed, if they possessed as much common tornatt as ihey
showed of cruel arrogance, they "geoid hove .ishetli
him to run away. That step woulcrsiate afforded that
a jest title to vaunt over him.
The Artillery Company is COMAIS(OI44I to be
aunder°
arms on their ground on Monday Inetwiels t 1
o'clock, M. T , in consequence of the selvaged Re-
form Meeting taking place, 11% Igo advertioed, et
Kentringtota.sommon. 'lke Duke of Susses it their
Coin I.
A CAUTION TO BATIIING.---A youth of 14 years
nt eltr's the Inn or Mts. Roberts, of Streethaut.com.
men, unhappily lost bit life, s few days sgo, by
sesn.itrior ton loner in the caller. The circul..ine
‘l2l so checked by the cola:Rea of the eatrormi!itra
that the revulsion of blend to the Lew nccasionod
his death. Bat what renders this fathily cslsmity
Alin more sheeting is, that his fond mother caotierred
her giddy Son not to venture in the waver 104,
having a short time Waste complained of the elect
of too long bathing. He disobeyed the injsnotiow
of his ;men', and the:eh/
ender.tl le. Cr;4tT'Orsbly
disconsolate !

Ssa; The Rehlcon hempen Universe' Di-swigs
and Ifni ISuffragehiving now been pulsed by the
Onroughmorgers end their infamous myrmidons, who
have so inhemauly butchered unarmed Englishmen
at Manchester, the man whose spirit is not moved by
nth en event most be hr more unworthy of freedom
then the vilest serf of :he Frozen Zone. When 'mili-
tary execution is the precursor of civil murder, it is
Indeed high time for every rational being to think
*l4 act open the melancholy occasion with • union,
energy, sod effect, over the whole estion, that shill
drake the panders of obsolete power perceive the dsy
of retribution and triumph epproaching with the cc-
teleretirepace that ever has, and ever will, follow the
footstep of liberticitle or persecution. Vs Mutat any
this to the gift of prophecy, I logy venture to pre-
diet, that this recent massacre of the Nlanchruer Ra-
dicals will prove the signal for a cordial re.union of
every real Reformer in the three kingdoms, *he will
instinctively feel that there can be no hull way house
of refuge for civil and religious freedom against tyran.
my, which will not sooner or later become a peer-
tory even mere Intelereble, as a pandemonium of ay.
eephants sod hypocrites to the.. principalities Ihmt
be there," then the infernal pit of downright tyranny
In the hands of one despot.
The French ere at this moment frying under the
proms of the ordeal in question; and were it not for
the refulgent light of political knowledge on all sides
around that gallant People, their present insidious
Whigs, or Cone/Mao/dish, would is certainly
visit their chains for two centuries, as those of
England did at the glories% Revolution ; since
which period British liberties end rights here
avowedly bee. crucified between the two thieves,
se !Ong since branded as Wei; and Tory
These names should, Br the New Era of human
Intellect be camisole(' to oblivion for ever, god ill
testis timid Reformer and Anti. Reformer invariably
adopted. The divisions and sob-divisions of the former
ens more rapidly dismal*, at the dawn of reason mud
fere discussion among all those more interested in the
happiness and prosperity of their beloved count? y,
than In the fleeting glories of any King, or tne blush-
ing honours of Sitsecerists, Plaremeo, sod Pension-
um who are the gilded caterpillars that (toil Olt the
!wrest dowers and fruits of honest labour and ra-
tional industry. under the wing sal ['wettings of
sanguinary legions very preposterously fed and paid
from the common hive of working bees. fel they own
&Urethan. A few months. sod, at the worst, tern
or three years of lostellecteil collision by •prieht Re-
formers of every description. would settle this golf.
evident redid for the germsl weal by tossing of the
Press—that no individeal nor majority of any society
in earth bare. right to say huts far abaft /retreats be
atempt on the brow of a fellow mired, and bete the
brood of slur: shall begin, unless the El.ctive Fran-
chise has merged in (emitting exemption from war,
lost in lunacy, or forfeited by crime, for the world sr,
at last, wise enough to perceive where only the
Inestimable blessing of liberty is, in too, to lie (nowt.
The conning Times may, wider more aespicitios
circernstauces for Universal Suffrage, when ell such
opbemeilits will be oat of joint, with a *vivant',
quote, without the least harm to the good 00000 sorb
passages as be lately 'Wetted from litzurt's ex-
cellent work for the vile purpose of bottling up the
Radicals, even In that mirror of political truths, to
the scorn mud ensiteropt of its Readers, at the very
period when the tune. 'erring Editor was lashed into
silence by a eruct) more impotent and servile than
both the worthies of the item and Oid 'limes put to-
gall er.
'(hat day cannot now be eery distant for thrSri rut.
14% to eclipse in strain* worth and circulation
the whole of the hireling Prints which bate fattened
on the corruptions of the C4lllll at the 'spume of the
People, white tern it must soon be to pmt both
the ability and leclination to reward their faithful
servants ie the grout of times ; and there is not
one siisAle Joernslist in the whole empire, so COD-
%piteous for services and so.ti rings, Sir, as your-
self. In good or bad report you have, like the we-
term chstripion of the Radicals, never shruoig a nii.
nate hew your post, and the hoer has sorely arrivrd
for him and you to reap the glorious reeninpence of
all your toils, namely, to hear his Bill of Rights and
Liberties esti Ily bailed as the only sliest anchor
for the salvation of your dear native land, by the
omnipotent majority of its Unreperented lobs-
bkents, &oily resolved to ?trick no longer as the
Mere vessels of " the Constitetkn by law establish-
ed," on principles subversive of troth and justice.—
Ie my last epistle I stated the impredence of array-
ing unarmed physical force prematurely against the
Borough villains, or their foolish dew, the fag end
of the system, ycleped Yeomanry Coups, and venal
Corporations ; suspecting, es I theta Jill, the Wee-
venial; catastrophe; 1/14 110111 it yet sees Sill ;COIN
either to preach or practice the ri ci waits plan that
was Inc.onfitlly adopted le hurling the STU A ur. from
avid truing the GULI.I.IIS upon a forfeited Throne, in
spite of the Devil, the Pope, and their precious bah.
Legdiesafg, not then baptised by so imps' ig a
name. With the bayonets of the Holy Alliance, and
the heroes of Waterloo all in full view, there may
be great ccurige, bet little conduct in any attempt to
*reek a spear, or even to shake one in the fare of
Move Corrals ; I therefore shall revert to the scheme
of my late essay for starring the whole monsters of de.
epotism, from ALEXANDER the Greit,in the North, to
FERDINAND, the Divine Ingelaitor of the %%oath, into
obsolete obedience and non-resisting submission to
lb* will of Goo, eapreased in the voice amid resolu-
tion of the People to abstsin most rigidly from all
eacieeehleartlrles, till their ty rants fall no their knees,
mod cry aloud pet-cart:ors! Your Corresponiriesit,
A. 13 C. imagines, that I +es not aware of theenormous
Indirect tag eis bread, which he has so ably staled,
talthout relenting on sty satiety to keep a fell
discloser. oat of sight, b00m... hying the staff of
ire, this was one of the most indiipanisible items its
Os. whole list, end would have been scoole4l es an
Ibtesetiable act of eeltdeeial by the majority is