Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1820-03-07

10 the SOQtn, Is still lndllCr Vi oouCtF
he certainly crossed the river at Hollin's
green, but whether he afterwards pro-
cceded to Botley, or came to Manches-
ter incog, is matter of uncertainty. He
is not here publicly, though report says
he is secreted.
1t is a question which admits of no
doubt, that the Reformers generally who
meant to have escorted him into Man
chester, had provided themselves with
pistols, &C.: indeed many of them made
a boast Of their being SO provided, and
in the course of last night the different
divisions of the Watch and Ward were
much annoyed by parties discharging
their pistols, which had been loaded for
the occasion.
The judicious letter of the public Off
GERS, has been the means, there can be
no doubt, of preserving the peace of the.
town, and their feelings must be much
gratfied by the very general approval,
W sich their measures Of precaution have
elected,
Letter from the BoroughreeDes and con-
stables Of Manchester and Stafford to
William Goblet, Esq.
Manchester, Nov. %, 1919.
Sir-Having reason TO believe that
your introduction into the town of Man
chester, on Monday, the 29th instant, is
intended to be public, and to be accom-
panied by an unusual procession and
multitude Of people, as well strangers
as inhabitants, we, the undersigned, be-
ing Boroughrceves and Constables OF
the towns of Manchester and Stafford,
beg to inform you that we consider SO
great an assemblagc of the population
o: this district, in the present situation
OF the country, is necessarily attended
with considerable danger to the public
peace I've Go therefore caution you
against making any public entry into the
town of Manchestt r--and it you persist
in SO doing, or if you adept any other
proceedings whereby the pubhc peace
may be broken or endangered, we shall
feel it our indispensable duty immediate
ly to interfere.
" We are, sir, your obedient servants,
+" Thomas Sharp, BorougAreeue,
" Rich Smith, 5 c0"'fa0les'
81 e: Schotes, B0rOngh'eeve,
s. . ;'ia.sss@' c0"s'a''e', S1'''S'
His reply TO the Boroughreeyes and
Constables was as follows:
" To the RorougArceUes and Constables
IF Manchester and Stafford.
" Irlam, Nov. %, 1919.
Gentlem had come from any
other persons in this world, the notifica-
ton which have just received from you
would have surprised me. Coming from
you, 1t excltes no surprise, nor any SOFT
ct feeling towards you, which was not
before entertained by every Just man, in
every part Of the world where your deeds
and character have been heard Of
Bat, genllcmen, is ii really come to
this, that man, upon returning to his
country, or upon moving from one part
of England to another, is to be stopped
on his way by threats of interference ION
the part of the officers appointed to keep
the peace) lest the concourse of people
which his mere HreSence may draw to-
gether, should produce danger of
breach of the public peace Is ii really
come to this Is this the state of
England? Is this the iagv2 Is this
one of the effects of that system, which,
we are told, is SO excellent, that it re-
quires no reform The laws of England
secure to us the right of locomotion;
that is to say, the right of :aoving ouh +
bodies from one place TO another. Now,
if your notification be ar thing more
than a,nere empty putting forth Of words.
it prcsumes that you have right to pre-
vent me from enjoying this liberty Of To-
comotion, For you tell me you shall
interfere, if persist in my intention of
making t'u6iic entry into your town.
and also! we know too well what vow
mean by interference And what do
you mean by public entry? what do you
mean, say, by Futile entry How am
to make any other than public entry, if
enter it at all? Like other persons, my
intention must have been to enter your
town ill carriage, or Oh horseback, or
on foot. Are not these the ways in
which all otherpersons enter? And have
not right to enter as other persons
do Either, therefore, you must mean to
forbid me TO enter at all, oryou must mean
that I shall move like the women of the
Seraglio, or the Dey of Algiers, shut up
in hoX, with large air holes in it-or
ride upon horse, my body and head
being covered over with species of tub.