The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-08-19 00:00:00

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ilifE STATESMAN.

2111:1ISD %T. Atiatnit 19, 180.

The Manchester Magistrates has., lamentably and
unhappily, thrown sneltitedes of individuate into
sorrow and mourning, and the whole kingdom into
consternation sod dismay. They have also carved
oat work enough for the Bench end the Bar weevilly
both for some time to come at least. They happen too
to be manufacturing. 4GPTIt %TES, which snakes
their case the more affecting to their characters;
and that circumstance aught to have instilled a greater
watiness iota their conduct. They are opposed
by Wariest against the complaints and bewailing, of
the poor weavers, who constituted a very great ma-
jority of the people which formed the smarmed mass
of population,into which the Yeomanry Cavalry so be-
roicallycharged en • g•llop,sword in band! Theyshoold
base been slow to strike, where it was so obviously
Wesel for the profit in trade, and the passion in au-
I bority, to indeence their minds, if not their movements.
But they have done the deed—and a fatal one it is :
they have committed t'..mselves in the most import.
ant occasion which could present itself to delegated
poser. They have done more in their way this
Casks did in his. lie passed the Rubicon against the
villa a Sepals falling into decay,bot they have passed
it spinet the will of A matt RISING PEOPLE. When
we speak thus, and make this comparison, we do net
confine oar view of the thing to Mr. liwir and a
few of his agar companions, and numerous fol-
lowers. No, he and they are bet as a corps of
pioneers. The road moat be opened by some, for
VATS itself impels the march. The Manchester
Magistrates, fall of their own self-conceit, but in-
flated with their accidental end actual power, imps-
Rest for the contest which was to chase away the
high priced notion of liberty, and to cheapen the
already too low priced labour of the loom, have
fleshed the swords of their young trained bands is
the bodies of Britons assembled to regain their /oil
Nitwits—we will not say privileges—the People
sire privilege, being themselves the depositaries of
national pailiff Bet we will sot frame the is.
dictment against the supposed offenders till all the
facts are truly known which forgers or accompany
the dire at least, and to es at present seemingly the
rash act. As we profess to be the champions of
freedom, so we would prove eerselves the devotees
of troth end justice. The supposed offenders must
answer through the Constiteted Authorities of the
Law to the Teibenel of the Empire. We may
at least say, however, in Ibis stage of the tragic
business, that it might have been repotted that the
compromised Magistracy would, on such as occa-
sion, have acted cautiously, and even timorously:
such • conduct would have been no imputation against
their courag►, bet an excess even for a remission.—
They ought to have recollected what their relative
connection with the complainants commanded, bet
especially what it forbad. The first great hinge on
labial the portal opening to their acquittal or coo.
demnstion will, and mast, tern, is the fact of reading
the RIOT ACT, and elso the proof of its necessity.—
It will not be enough that it was read from a distant
window, or gabbled over in the corner of a field. It
might have been reed from the motive of preventing
mischief, and not as a colour or pretest to conceal
the approach to mischief. No ambush—no ruse de
guerre will do here. It was no open rebellion which
called out the discretion of the Justices, and the
power of the military. It was not according to oar
conception of the whole case each as could be de-
terminated " • tendence to a breech of the peace,"
for we sincerely believe, from our souls, that it was
a deeply felt grievance which called the People loge.
ther, and sot a shallow resentment against this or
that man or mestere. They met to devise a confer
those evils which a wrong system of Government hes
been multiplying for a long time past ; bet especially
since Mr. PITT (the " [leaven-born Minister," in
the eyes of the Manchester Magistrates) declared,
that "so honest maw could not be Minister of the
country." The Chief or Senior Magistrate among
those who hove been thee scting,shonld have thought of
the consequence of spilling one drop of eiti:ens blood.
A soldier's blood is not of the same political vales—
ha has consented to sell it to his King, as he
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seeress to you, for pay. Many among them wish
for wounds, is order to be proportionably paid fee
them in money;—but far different is it with a citizen.
Calling op the esprit des corps of a Regiment is no-
tbiog ; bet collie* up the spirit of a Nation in vindi-
cation of a Cities's', life is a tremendous thing!!—
What has not • WILLIAM TELL done ?—a J 01174
Ilaments ? In short, every single limb dissevered
from the body of a Citizen, like a polypus, forms
A new and entire hod) ! What then have these
ras► men dome ? That gestation shall be answered
as the facts and circumstances of shill deplorahle event
unfold themselves. The maim audi altcra•a parkin