The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-08-27 00:00:00

If prosecutions sef this nr titer person hoes 6. ef.
6res of the boon MA WOK end the Arroussc-fi vm L.

Ar.enulit alterle nature of thing', and d away
established fact+, then would the conduct o.f Gcterna
sent hate some policy, 11414.:gh ta, justice, in its rat
sent m . Appet's to the probity and Rand
sense of Jurio. (fairly calved tocei her, no foul play,
3$ formed) ), cannot but render ess.”ltial service to
the cause of liberty. The prosecolina Sir F. liln•
DETT, 11001,11 bat which we do hope,
out of /NITA to ti.e character of Gloat Britain io
the eyes of natives is well as foreighert, is hot to.
.opted on, is a l.iatul resort. Its probahlP ant is
misunderstood ta) our embroileit an ! mem rrrrr Pd
Nlinirter‘. We see nothing in Lis letter which en i
dignont lf,itnn inklit not trite on leurning the een.
duct of the mit and iti4 ke4l diegislrlry of Nlanthe••

ter towards the poor il.fenceless assembled it •fulmoi
'1 the plare, slavgl.tere.l awl wenn led by tb•ir
military, instead of being soothed in 111,4 rev‘es.
—Hear .bat the Militia E.:ening rust call eu this
occasion : a Paper which any he considered as th•
impertl won of the People's sentiments and opi.
adorn in that part of the United K ngdum. A Paper
w►ich is crass. lied for not being too hasty i r giving
its own opinion, bet wailing till farts and the cii.
cemstences connected with any important event, ■re
well enquired intro, befog, it pronounces iisjudgmont
thereon. la its leading article is commence* thus—

SrATF OF ENalii.ANO.
" All other subjects sink into absolute indifference
when compared to the news which has been tec•igell
from Engload during the last four or five days. That
a conjs has been predicted by f•firal we know, but
few meld base supposed that the lint utert act against
the peaci of the community would be committed by
the Constituted Ainhoritiee st Manchester. Yet the
fact is too broad—the circumstances of too s.ubhorit
• character to he denied. It is quite notorious tint
the Reformers conducted themselves *nil exemplary
peoprien —it is quite manifest that Mr. lit:ST, at the
time of his siren, dsl not utter one inflammatory Cr
seditious expression—that the people,men and izonicn,
assembled without one defensive or ultntsive weapons
—that the Riot Act, if read at all. was read in a corner
—that there is no persor. except the Stagistraiel,•hro
can be priuluced, who breed it read—that Mr. llama,
anti Iriscorrysiiintis. soOted themselves to be arrested
without offering theorettost resistioNs. All these facts
are incontrovertible. The %Is:line:id Prints may quib-
ble sod potter and lie, !sot they cannot rail the sea' off
the bond. It is written lo Dross. It is equally argues-
tionable, that after the 'nett of the Chairmse, and
his immediate friends, the Yeomen, tratitenint-•1
(ielitletrtra I. made a charge upon the defenceless and
unreoiotkg multitude—that they cel them down, men,
women, and children, riAltt and left—that they rod,
nicer the giouad its itittittph, end Mizell the opium
:polio, a few Caps of Littes'y, arid same b‘tr• &um
banners. It is tree, that more than a bionic..l per-
sons were killed and wounded —that 31r. Wye, and
his etiwiptitione. were with brick Nits and
'Otos, when they went being briseght op before the
Nlegistrates, and that they escaped being murdered by
a miracle. All these are facts which cannot be denied.
They may b., Unified by the Ministerial Pistils, and
they sr. junifirrtlooith chat effect we shell not pretend
to say—but the facts, as we bare stated them, are in.
contrutertible.
" It further appears, that on th• riming of Mon.
day, in conseq of some manifestations of riot,
the military were ordered to lire, and did fire, and
did kill and wound o I persons. Oo Tuesrlsy,
Manchester is represented as being to a state of cam-
main* tranquillity, but a serious disturbance, as
stated in our last, had recurred at Macclesfield. Oa
Wednesday the town was alarmed by similar reports
from Stockport and it y ten. Fires were lighted in the
adjacent hills, and every mart in M inchestre and the
iteighbooring Hundreds, were ordered by the Magi!.
tracy to preserve the peace of the country at his peril.
Thursday the Writ-band Ward Billets put into action.
We bare similar nerve from the disturbed districts on
Friday, and it appears that on Saturday a Dope's.
lion of she Military end Civil Authorities of the
place loaf arrived in London to 'splint and justify
their conduct to the Genet nment. Accordingly w•
are told that a Cabinet Council was construed in
the forenoon of that day—that the Attortnx• Gad
Sotto-roil-GENES 41.11 were ordered to attend.—
The result of this insastigation we are not yet made
act-lanned with ; bet if we may heti'', that repro-
sentation of the Courier, the locsl Authorities
succeeded completely in their Unification. We
should feel much indicted to doubt this amnion.—
We do artily believe that this unlitert ebullition
will not be sanctioned by the Witisters of the
Crown. lii this we coincide in opinion with the
Times, a Journal as inimical to Mr. lit:HT sad the
Reformers as the Courier itself. 'lt is more than
a week, says that Journal, ' since we We assured
from Lancashire, that Goveinment suggested to the
Magistracy, the propriety of letting the People meet,
gm. Titled their rg or,clitigg did not ioterrept the pub-
lie tranquillity. phis is a big' ly glatifsing circum-
stance, and one spots the audientirity of which we
are much disposed to rely ; since it Is, we are reedy
to acknowledge, co 000 o tent *ids the general temper
and character of the leading Minarets of Administra•
nen.' "
The above facts and reasoning will, se doubt,
hare their doe effect upon the People itf nd, eh*
will naturally syntpatbise with all the distressert, and
will compassionate the Fare of those who bate bees
so bsitniously tteatrd. Nlittitters have been tee
precipitate in thcir approval of what was done—they
heard bat on. side el the question—let them revoke
their applause, and hear the other site—better he
late is rectifying an error, than leave it unrectified
(or ever. The spilling trf human blood is a trans-
action which heaven and earth call oat for enquities
inter. Prosecuting fir Fe ixcis BURDETT will SOS
restore the dead to life, nor stanch the blood of enr
healed entries in the surviving wounded.
The present LORD MAYOR May trely mot of
his popularity at this time. it is most certain, that
he has been more talked of all riser the kingdom,
within the last few weeks, than was the case with
the great BECILINRD, who to coltishly gated the
Civic Chair.