Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-01-29

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threats of interference Con the part of officers
appointed to keep the peace, lest the con-
course Of people, which his mere presence
may draw together, should produce danger
of breach Of the public peace? Is itreally.
come to this? Is this one Of the effects OF
that system, which, we are told, is so excel
lent, that it requires no Reform The laws
of England secure to us the right OF oco-mo-
ton that is to say, the right OF moving our
bodies from one place to another. Now, 1t
your notification be any thing more than
mere empty putting forth efwords ,t'presumes
that you have right 10 preventive from en-
Toying this liberty ofloco-motion. Foryou tell
me you shall interfere, if persist in my IN
tention of making public entry into your
| town and alas we know too well what you
mean by interference And what DO you
mean, say, by public entry? How am to
make any other than public cntry, If enter
il at all? Like other persons, my intention
musthave been to enter your town IN carrI-
age, or on horseback, or on foot Are not
these the ways in which all other persons en-
ter9 And have not right to enter as other
persons do Either, therefore, you must
mean to forbid me to enter at all, or you must
mean that | shall move like the women OF
the Seraglio OF the Dey of Algiers. shut up
in a box, with large air holes ia tor ride
upop horse, my body and head being CO.
vered over with a species of tub. This IS
the state, is it. to which the system has
brought once free and happy England
ITO what pitch must men have arrived,
when they could set down and look one ano-
Their in the face, while they wrote and sign
ed paper, such as tina, you sent me This
paper was addressed 10 a man having no
power and no inclination to disturb the pub
lie peace a man who, with knowledge OF
the recent events duly impressed upon his
mind had taken the precaution to beseech
the people net to mix up reception OF him
with even an alIusion to those events. 1t APP
pears manifest that the public peace could
not have been endangered from my entrance
into Manchester. But, TO see such multi
tudes of people assembled together 10 show
their respect for me, appears tc have been
more than you could endure. We read &C
counts of the Prince of SAKE Co5ourg, the
the Marquis Of Anglesea, the Duke OF Wei
! lington, and other great personages, moving
here and there amidst public plaudits. Inf
mite pains, at any rate, are taken TO make US
believe that this is the case. What right,
therefore, have you to make any attempt, Ell
Their directly or indirectly, to prevent the
people from bestowing their applause upon
me, in person? Is not my right 10 move
from place 10 place, as perfect as that of any
| of the three men that have just mentioned
Ave. but then, the assemblages that they
| cause are so small
"Suppose iwere at this moment living at
| an inn in Manchester. II is pretty clear,
believe, that an assemblage ofpersons would
take place at any time that | chose 10 walk
out to the spot where the dreadful scenes OF
the 10th August were exhibited. What then,
would you expel me from your town, or COM
pei me to keep myself shut up III a room ?
And if the people presumed TO come to shew
me marks Of their respect, would you visit
them with your awful interference GEN.
tlemeD, we shall live to see the day, and that
day is, believe not distant, when shall be
able to visit the excellent people of Manches-
ter and its neighborhood, without your da-
ring to step in between US with your threats
Of interference.
LET me call on you to think little on the
figure you now make in the world. Here am
|, len miles from Manchester there are the
people whom you call an unusual multitude,
ready TO receive me, AID 10 bestow on me all
possible marks of respect; and there are
you, sending me threats Of interference, and
preparing all sorts of means for making that
interference efectual, in order to intercept a
verbal expression of popular appreciation,
intended to be bestowed upor man. desti-
tute of every species Of means OF obtaining
that appreciation, other than the means natu-
rally arising from his integrity and his ia
Tents, his well known love for his country,
and his we'll known zeal in her cause, during
the whole course ofhis life, under all circum-
| stances, whether abroad OF at home. whether