The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-12-01 00:00:00

lions in those papers on the table tree. thine person
bail anise into training L., the purpose of being more
able in rely on one en ether.—(Coed cheering front
the Ministerial Reaches j--11he Howe. should leek to
what might be the consequence of (Mote men being
placed 'tithe's the pale of the law on light gross& ; it
then, indeed, might become unsafe for an &Wish Goo.
liemsn to appear abroad unarmed, or euterompsnied
by an armed tenantry If peace and tranquillity
were sow the object of Government, a.y most be
attained by other means then those resorted to by Go.
Simmonsn two years ago. when informstion was
evonedly song%t ihroath hired Ilid!"--(/lears
hear, hear!)—she Were themselves the most *e-
diting, men in their language at the public and
private Meetints, us in the case of Castles, who
ideally gave es a toast, is May the last of &long
be strangled with she entrails of the last of
Priests;" ter which toast he wag imased:ately espelled
the company. This, ihnuch coming front •he month
of a spy, WI, repreeent4 to Government and the
Moe, as p...e...dina fr..ns a delegate to the Reformess
a that day. Thus Government finding itself be-
trayed and dic-tved by its spies, Iwo not whit to
believe. Th..sd of the present ',stem wa•, that
worst symptoms of she irritated Stile of the politic
mind were megneled Into monsters for the perposve
of alarm. As to the reproof the fiettabis of this
country had received froot the Nirtile Lord aft a for-
mer night, liken he so sieiliously evolded telling the
Hesse what he wilt going to take sway finny the
stock of public libeity, end drew its attention rather
to what ha was going to leave, he would sty in their
defence, that thine were many Inetance. in *bleb fe-
males in Ibis errantry interested themselves in public,
as in the case of the 101 l Weatminsier elecsint., abets
the women canvassed the whole city, and numbers
tittered into a society called the lollies' sabscrip-
tion.—( Ilene. hear! and laughter.)--11 062 oil
the records of the hoes. also, es related by
Lord Clarendon, that a deputation Ind been sent to
answer the complaints of a body of StXX) women,
who remonstrated with the Horne, spin the cruel
detention in prison of their husbands from the society
at their wives, end the brutal murder of their chit.
dren. The relcbrated Pym was ordered to answer
them, and on their refusal le diapers+, the train.
bands were called oat, and Woolly it'd open them,
Iselion they exclaimed—" peace, peace."—(Misch
ittaghler.)—lle was sorry, le citing astherity in fa.
r veer of the tights of women, to have recited a laugh,
likes he was most eosins, to be wines. He citeld
not help being alarmed, he contested, when that was
declared by the Legislator, treason which was meetly
the elect of en 'rumen's impression. lie firmly
believed, too, shot much depended, as to restoring
couitlenee and trangoillity, en the Mete shelties a
disposition to concede on the point of Perlismeotary
Heform,and that the Reformists would gladly eeeept
of terms of accommodation very inferior to these de.
mended by the tenor sad spirit of their various Rose.
Wilsey at psblic Meetings ; iw one of which (we be.
lisle that of Ashby.le.Moor) it hes been slated, all
a refutation of the supposed aversion they enter.
Weed for men of property, " that the aliens.
lion of the rich from the poor would necessarily
produce the the d •strei lion of both ; and that on.
thing be. en nimity in siek.ng a Ridical Helot*
would We the country, but more mpeciaily the
manefsctoring Interest, from destrectio •." He cos.
cleded with work( the House, these were the sin.
sere sentiments of a men who had given the subject
some attention, and who, from his connexions Is
life, could not pris,isly hare any interest In willow.
ing the misfortunes of the higher classes.
Lord LASCELLF.S defended the conduct of Gee.
Byng, who hid offered to the Magistrates to remain
at Manchester. should they apprehend any diner
from the Meting of the 10th of Avg. and which offer
they had declined. He was of opinion, that distrait!,
we, the Clete of the discontent that prevailed Is
certain districts. The people bid been add•eased by
itinerant orator*, to whom they had at first decked
from curiosity. By degrees, the Meetings ben*,
Mere numerous, and the doctrines more isitimma.
tory ; and then those who at first bad attended from
mete euriosity, became, by degrees, connected with
the leaders, though many of them, he believed, were
hottest moo. Bet the try could not go on ender
tech system.—(/leer, hear!) —Many, though they
matched from a great distance to attend these Meet.
ings, were sot ripe for rebellion, though he was
afraid many were. Bet the difficulty could not be
got over while the itinerant orators were allowed to
proceed; and in a short time the manufacturers of
the country *meld be annihilated.
Mr. BENETT (of Wiltshire) said, the emotion
for she consideration of the House was, if strong
ion should be adopted on the bare representation
of Ministers. He did not think that la virs which most
elect the whole of the community, should he enacted
en the conduct of a few. There was meth distress,
bat nothing of a radical feeling, in the County that
he had the honour to represent. He should oppose
strong restrictive laws, without enquity.
Lord MILTON agreed is much of what had fillets
from his Noble Friend opposite (Lord La;rellos). The
transactions at Niattchester most imperiously called for
enquiry,and for the interference of l'ailiament. Much
obloquy had attached In him and his friends for the
I part they had taken at she Yorkshire Meeting, but he
hid concisesi the Constitution to be at yoke. If the
Meeting at Manchester had been illegal, it shoal
hate been distersed accortimg to law. Ht. was ready
to admit, that should violence be employed, it might
lawfully be resisted by violence; bet it was by no
moans clear in him shit vi hence had commences! en
the part of the Meeting. It wits clear, from the jester
!of Mr. Illy, the Magistrate, that no attack had beers
wild• on the Yeomanry •rrioir without the orders of
the Nlaqi.tracy—(lfear!)—N • enquiry sati-factury
; to the people maid lake plirre without the interferences
of Y.. liament.—(rinse!)—The n proposed
I.•t 'light by the Noble I.urd would have jesiilied
whit li•d two done at she Meeting in Vnikshire.
When the whole of the conduct of the N.ihle Lirid
sw:lt.a.nk:ntoinetnnechotti.sildheeraKi ni
nog,
oefodspillAain tcot pref.:shoe last
himself of his Atterican dominions, they shows)
I clearly the spirit under *hies the country was to be
governed.atliie heahrlitimoustd
ee.4.lauillah liehce.Noble Lord
iatrforth (
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effected; effected; and he hoped that he should obtain from
Ministers some tooth:oration f t Is, ;offerings of tt.4
• pe-rate. Befo!st th: Jl-ells -f the 10.1. h of A-413