Historical Sketches and Personal Recollections of Manchester: Intended to Illustrate the Progress of Public Opinion from 1792 to 1832 |
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16th of August afterwards alarm amongst assembled Bamford banks bill Birley boroughreeve boroughs called Catholic catholic emancipation Church classes commenced commissioners committee consequence constables constitution corn corn-laws court declared defendant deputation dissenters distress duty effect evidence excited favour Flixton friends gentlemen Guardian guilty held House of Commons Hunt hustings James John Edward Taylor John Shuttleworth Joseph jury king labour Lancashire Lancaster Castle libel liberty London Lord Sidmouth magistrates Manchester manufacturing military ministers Nadin occasion opinion paper parliament party passed peace period persons petition political present principles prisoners proceedings proposed protest public meeting radicalism reform repeal resolutions Richard Potter riot Robert Robert Hyde Greg Salford Samuel Samuel Bamford says seditious sent Shuttleworth spies spirit Stockport suffering Thomas tion tory town trade trial verdict vote wages Walker weavers whigs William William Cobbett witness yeomanry
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Page 162 - ... whilst over the whole field were strewed caps, bonnets, hats, shawls, and shoes, and other parts of male and female dress, trampled, torn, and bloody. The yeomanry had dismounted— some were easing their horses...
Page 91 - House papers containing information respecting certain practices, meetings, and combinations in the metropolis, and in different parts of the kingdom, evidently calculated to endanger the public tranquillity, to alienate the affections of his Majesty's subjects from his Majesty's person and government, and to bring into hatred and contempt the whole system of our laws and constitution.
Page 367 - ... he did not mean to assert that he could form such a legislature as they possessed now, for the nature of man was incapable of reaching such excellence at once ; but his great endeavour would be to form some description of legislature, which would produce the same results...
Page 367 - He was fully convinced that the country possessed at the present moment a legislature which answered all the good purposes of legislation, and this to a greater degree than any legislature ever had answered in any country whatever.
Page 194 - Will the gentlemen of England support, or wink at such proceedings ? They have a great stake in their country ; they hold great estates, and they are bound in duty and in honour to consider them as retaining fees on the part of their country, for upholding Us rights and liberties : surely they will at length awake, and find they have duties to perform.
Page 162 - All were silent save those low sounds, and the occasional snorting and pawing of steeds. Persons might sometimes be noticed peeping from attics, and over the tall ridgings of houses, but they quickly withdrew, as if fearful of being observed, or unable to sustain the full gaze of a scene so hideous and abhorrent.
Page 114 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
Page 156 - ... and against the peace of our Lord the King, his crown, and dig'nity, and to the disturbance of them these informants,
Page 181 - As to the charge of conspiracy, though you might not have been together previous to the meeting, yet in the eye of the law, all those who commit separate acts, tending to one illegal object, are guilty of that crime. Coupling the two meetings together, taking into consideration the manner in which the last was assembled, with such insignia and in such a manner, with the black flag, the bloody dagger, with ' Equal Representation, or Death
Page 161 - On the breaking of the crowd the yeomanry wheeled, and, dashing wherever there was an opening, they followed, pressing and wounding. Many females appeared as the crowd opened ; and striplings or mere youths also were found. Their cries were piteous and heart-rending, and would, one might have supposed, have disarmed any human resentment : but here their appeals were in vain.