British Statesman (Newspaper) - October 26, 1819, London, Middlesex TUESDAY OCTOBER PRICE DURHAM COUNTY T a Meet the and Free of the County of holden at the Conrt in Ihe City of on the 21st Day Of Honourable KEPPEL 1U h in the tbe of Ralph by George Baker j it is contrary to the principles of the Constitu and a dangerous invasion of one pf to interrupt and disperse any Meeting loyally assembled and held for the of any matter the public the dispersion of the Meeting held at Manchester on of August by whereby subjects were grievously some actually has filled us with anxiety and and that we have seen with and which his Royal the Prince Re without any sufficient opportunity for to give to persons concerned in the di and execution of that That although nothing has appeared justifies the of Magistrates Yeomanry on to a positive upon it all that cart be in their defence but feel it to beour demand a strict and solemn of occurrences which have proved so calamitous of our fellow and tend to the esta of a precedent of the utmost danger to the liber That while we thus express our we disclaim of the political principles of those by whom Vis at and declare our to the and firm to support the of the laws against may violate an humble Address be therefore presented to his Ki Highness conformable to the tenor o above On the motion of seconded by That the Address to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent be the motion of seconded by That the High Sheriff be requested to the Re solutions in the name of this On the motion of seconded Shep That the Right Honourable Earl Grey be requested lo present the Address to tlu Prince On the motion of seconded by the Resolutions and Address be inserted in i Morning and and tlic Dur and Newcastle BARRING Hie Resolved On the motion of seconded by That the Thanks the Meeting be 3iven to the High Sheriff for his conduct ia calling the and his impartiality in the following is a Copy of the Address TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE his most dutiful and loyal the v and Freeholders of the County of proach your Royal Highness to express our fidelity to year Royal awd to our invaluable and at the same Respectfully but earnestly to represent our deep regret tbc event which took place at Manchester on the of Angust when a which appears to have been legally and peaceably was violently by a military whereby some of our fellow were and many grievously Our at this melancholy occurrence has been much increased approbation of the the Magistrates and V on that which your Royal confi servants have expressed in the name of your Royal thus hastily on ex parte the measures of those engaged iu those fatal countenance of your Royal authority to an apparently gross infraction of a constitutional These and the obstacles which have been interposed to the bringing of this affair before the esta induced us humbly to beseech your Royal ishness to take such measures with the concurrence of as shall lead to a full investigation of these dis and to represent that such an investi gation is required to the public and to prevent IK establishment of a precedent fraught with the greatest io a most important of the thus express our attachment to our Popular we beg to your Royal our equally firm nation to support the authority of being fully that as the freedom of the CLEMENT LT a numerous and respectable MEETING of the held in the Court Room of this in the Chair It was unanimously That the right of for a redress of and to assemble for is an inherent principle of expressly recognised of aud to our existence as a free appears to us that the Meeting of People at ou August was peaceably assem bled for tins legal and constitutional but was never forcibly dispersed by the Manchester Ca the sanction of the oi that Thai we cannot but lament in common with mir the outrages committed on occasion on the persons of ah unarmed and unoffending our is gross violation Constitution in the attempt to silence and overawe a legal assembly by the introduction of military That the transactions of the 16th of and the ap probation which Hie present Ministers have thought in the name of his tiie Prince to be slow on the Magistrates and Yeomanry concerned on that are calculated in tie minds of all who love our free Constitution the alarm for its and the most painful apprehensions of approach of that worst Military That to obviate lie daiger of so dreadful an and prevent the late occurrences at being drawn into we ii our duty to express our opinion of tmt melancholy event our earnest and hope that all it circumstances be submitted to a full and and determination to to the utmost of our all our rights and pri and especially the right of our dearest and most important and to transmit them unimpaired to our That signed by the be in in the Newspapers That tho Thanks of Meeting be given to the Chair man for his impartial conduct in the the safeguard of the so the main of Royal Prerogative and of the empire of the forms the only real security of By Direction of tlie TEACHER of Italian and every of Polite ha a hours inthe She speaks French and fast at their or received at the 1 for E AND are 4a to u of in for Tickets asd Mort thaa 11 is of tiie Tickets are j ty to those 9th off to EIGHT OF at I TO THE 4 when I am endeavour so tt1 frame the as to make it a popu lur and as a matter of course use my best exer tions to gain it the approbation of the Public yet they will do me the Justice to that whenever 1 consistently with that regard which I owe to the interests of my applaud the arrangements of other I never he but on every whether Contractor or present a Cair and impartial epitome of the merits of every But however justly my tribute of approbation may have been paid to former and without any wish to decry those which are it is certain that J never felt more plea sure than 1 do in bearing testimony to the real and decided superiority of the compared with the majority of its other interest in its than in common with any other these remarks can only be dictated by sincerity and a brief outline of its merits alone be to prove Its high With only the Contractors have given chance of all tiie Prizes of and the certainty of getting at least FOUR PRIZES of Besides the chance of every Prize in the and the possibility of gaining EIGHT PRIZES of Money and The Lottery begins on Lord Mayors 9th of Next Month when the Two First Prizes decided must have making TN THE FIRST FIVE MINUTES a It has been the practice of many myself among he to advertise the particular Capitals they havo sold but to those who know the of my this will appear superfluous it will therefore suffice to observe that I sold The The The Tho THIRTEEN And a proportionate number of and other Capi loo numerous for insertion Tickets and Shares are selling at my and by my Agents in the I have the honour to be The Publics devoted Stock and WESTMORLAND COUNTY FROM THE WESTMORLAND In consequence of a Requisition most numerously and respectably addressed to the Honourable the Earl of hereditary Sheriff of this to call a Meeting the and Inhabitants of the to take into consideration the late transactions at and to deliberate upon the propriety of petitioning his lloyal Highness the Prince Regent forth with to assemble in order that a rigorous and solemn inquiry might be instituted into proceedings apparently so The High Sheriff called the which was held on Thursday the 21st at the town pf in a spacious part of the called where the hustings were It was calculated that more than persons were assembled upon this the Under took the chair about one and opened the proceedings by reading the He stated the happiness which the Hereditary Sheriff felt in complying with and his desire of attending this person but that his Lordship bad been under of proceeding to London from the Meeting at he the Under Had no doubt that every of what would be heard with attention and noble Hereditary High Sheriff of having readily complied with the by a committee of gentlemen freeholders of This is called to express our sentiments on the disgraceful transactions of of ami ofthe of transactions have been so ubly and amply discussed in the counties of and almost other county in ar from the of shuH have very little the that io very different ways I mean in the and another Ministerial on the part of the Magistrates and Yeomanry and in almost every other independent paper in the against such Magistrates and In the first the Courier tells that the Man chester Meeting was illegally disorderly con and the only speech there had a tendency to excite and That the civil power were prevented from exercising the due process law by several titts of and riot on the the That the had previously declared the Meeting an That one ot naming observe had the was thereupon made to disperse with i loud and audible voice these are the very words of the That after tho reading of the Act making sneh the people re fused to the Magistrates then thought it advisable to call in the assistance of the military to en force the due execution of the Pardon gentle I have made sad mistake here when 1 said the military 1 meant the celebrated Manchester Yeomanry and you will 1 was and am only quoting the That the Yeomanry Cavalry conducted themselves with great forbearance and and of the the public press through out the with of this and another fabulous Ministerial publish the very reverse to this statement which has and which the people at large the Riot Act had been and if the people refused to and prevented the authority of the was a griev ous fault a TV grievously and family it been answer as I said there is another way of this Meeting was the ob ject of it was and this object has been allowed to ever since the illustrious House of Bruns wick tt on of these cannot be denied with any regard to that the Meeting was legally that no act of violence was on the part of the people and in stead of speeches of an inflammatory and seditious na tbe only one delivered was a exhortation to continue peaceable and that the process of tho law was not even attempted to bo the gallant Yeomanry of in stead of without any wantonly sabred and rode over the and that an unoffending peace became the rirst victim to their can both these accounts be true the solitary contradict ing accounts of the Courier and another Ministerial there are facts admitted on both That die Meeting was at the point of the by the Again pardon i forget this new fang led the And That in such several of his subjects lost their docs not each of these ad mitted facts alone call lor investigation and with regard to the due preservation of our liberties and the Constitution of ami Can any one after reading tke late public been made Cau any one that inquiry is of there has been one open Court called a Coroners which has been conducted in a most ry manner day after day have disgraceful proceedings taken place and it strong ex pressions from tbe been most unaccountably and perhaps illegally adjourned for the space of ten weeks most probably till a of Indemnity can be obtained to cover these disgraceful and thereby acknowledged illegal and continued we care not for a Coroners Court we de as a last a Parliamentary Wybergh concluded this Address with repeated bursts of applause he is a Magistrate of the counties of and Fiva Resolutions were then asserting the right of tiie people to meet to deliberate upon public and the necessity of inquiry into the transactions at and proposing that a petition should be presented to the House of Commons upon the object is solely to secure and hand down to our children the British unimpaired either by military or magisterial or the efforts of infidels or as 1 the rights of petition as the imprescriptible birthright of English handed down to us by our secured by Magna Charta and the of and the Act of I feel that the invasion of this right affects us whether Tories as an as a freeholder of this 1 stand here totally independent of all party feeling for its Should it be restricted at oi much less of he who and is not weary of such a is not worthy of the honest name of an but deserves to die a ap questionable proceedings at lo use the mildest are a call upon us to stand warri to assert our most valuable Should we lose the right of meeting to or should this right be tied down with at the caprice of any lo cal Englishmen would then become worthy companions of Germans and in respect of civil It is admitted on all that the Meeting at Manchester was dispersed by military and that lives were Ought not some inquiry then take place I think you will agree with me that it Have the Manchester Magistrates and Cavalry acted in a legal and humane manner Let it not be understood that 1 now condemn God forbid that 1 should condemn any man unheard or that I should judge one or any set of without hearing both Have the Ministers done this As they have avowedly sanctioned and the conduct of per sons in taking away the lives of bis subjects those those I decidedly not tbe letter containing the Prince Regents approbation of this conduct despatched from before the subject could be and before the real truth of the proceedings could have reached the Royal ear Knowing the generous charac ter of his Royal I no hesitation in say he has been imposed upon and the subsequent conduct of his Ministers in that Their answer Address of the Corporation of the first City in his dominions shows a deliberate determination on the part of Ministers to encroach on the remaining liberties of the and of their wish to public neither nor to circumstances which that Instead of regret express and condemn the for their igno I govern only a short tirne since first ed theft the Seditious Meetings last of to complete the breach they had made jit the suspended the Corpus trie great bulwark of our 1 am not astonished have my pity and hen I consi der thost confess f see an inclination dn bis Ministers to engross the suppress the rights of tbe British We have a upon will be tno generous to fo the counsels of weak Ministers who Royal ear by who not increase the prerogative at the expense bf the tions of his though suffering But whilst t the conduct of cannot help that Meeting of so large a number of collected toge ther from different is highly that the people of its the adjoining large should not have met in rS respective towns er though I prove of immense masses meeting i decidedly condemn the illegal dispersion at the point of the or The resolutions being by tbe put the and the resolutions wore if there ii a who opposes these beg he will hold rtp hrs hand but no person doing trie resolutions were ap and carried HENRY give no opinion on the conduct of tbe Manchester Magi Crates on day of but he was of that the matter ought tu be inquired and that ought to be heard in There had been an at in in a Coroners but that inquiry being at present put an end it was tiie duty of every man to do his utmost to bring the matter before a proper tribu nal for if the which he had read of the trans actions of the Kith of August at the Magistrates have much to atone for cirri he doped they would be made to atone fur or he should consi der tbe law a dead letter he must ly hope that our most gracious Prince wonki open his ears to the prayers ot his He that the House of which are now about to would immediately take tbe matter into their most se rious consideration but God forbid that the the House of or any of that body of persons forming so high a tribunal as they should for one con demn any man or number of without having heard them in their then proposed a petition to Parliament winch was read bythe Under aud received with loud and continued of it behoves us to guard against tiie Reformers on tbe one aad the of Crown and the Minister on the 1 inn convinced that a mo derate reform in Parliament is absolutely necessary but I trust the House of Commons will enforce he laws of the and wili prevent cither by or the Radical As to tiie proceed ings of the I conceive them to be most and the adjournment most 1 urn afraid that tbe Coroner has acted upon tbe suggestions of others whom it would be improper fo name Where Can this question be better inquired into than by the tribunal of the House of Commons Let us put down every se feeling of these Radical Reformers let us ob serve what has been done in and Cumber land and let us rely upon Parliament rendering that justice which has been hitherto Christian then seconded the petition to which was by the aimei to without a dissentient THOMSON that the petition be by the Right Lord Viscount and tbe Colonel the by which was and received with un bounded applause as was also a resolution for ing the county and Brougham to support the prayer of in the approaching Session of HENRY who came forward amidst loud which lasted several and it was with difficulty he could prevent a repetition of and obtain a 1 feel highly ho by these marks of your and pe by the honour you have done me in associating my name with those of your worthy Members for tha to present this Petition to the Commons House of you have lately heard it as in the public that 1 am a placeman the only place that I hold at present is tbe one you have just been pleased to confer upon me I thank you for me to this honourable unlike many other honourable is unattended with emo this appointment gives me the right of declaring your sentiments in baye very properly instructed your members to sup port the prayer of your 1 hope they will GO so as I have uo right to condemn any man I will take it for granted that they wiil obey these your hear they do we then have an opportunity of declaring our sentiments upon their conduct Your 1 those who at present who are your in the and have had ample opportunity of corning and of convincing us by their at least being against their will by justification or condemnation of the Manchester Magi trates and yeomanry Cavalry for their conduct upon ti e late lamentable transactions at th it this has been done elsewhere the Honourable Stuart Worfley one of the Members for the popu and independent County of York did not remain absent from late County Meeting hold thereupon U wa of different political and decidedly against some of the then it was the duty of your Members to attend tuis which has been legally convened by the High Sheriff oi this and Tor which we return him our most sin cere first place of a Member of Parliament is the hustings the his seat in the House of supporting and watching over the interests of his constituents and of the people at they are not worthy of if they do not come and meet you they do not I can account for their absence by presuming that they agree to the Resolutions this day conti perhaps because they have and hear mean that your worthy Members nothing to aay ih opposition to your
