choice, as it was when first they placed a crown upon their heads, which they now acknowledge they had no right to.

The Magistrates of Manchester ordered a set of desperadoes to arm themselves and attack a defenceless multitude of men, women, and children, peaceably assembled for the recovery of their rights, which had been treacherously lost by those in whom they had confidently reposed them. This certainly was high treason against the People. A letter of thanks is sent to them by the Prince Regent, through the medium of Lord Sidmouth! Was not this treason, heinous treason against the Feople? Let the nation judge, and let the guilty tremble.

Mr. Carlile, on the other hand, who was present on the murderous occasion, and arrived in London with feelings of the deepest indignation against the authors of such an indiscriminate massacre, believing (as has since proved to be the case) that the murderers would be screened from justice by the Government whom they supported in arbitrary power, by violating every law human and divine, declared in his Political Register that all hopes of reconciliation was at an end, and the People had no other resource but by immediately taking up arms, not for the recovery of their liberties, but in defence of their lives and the lives of their wives and children. How far this appeal to the People of an entire nation may be imprudent it is not for us to determine; but we do not hesitate to declare, that an appeal to the highest authority in the kingdom to defend itself from swords reeking with innocent blood, is not nor cannot be construed into treason. Alas! poor England! we have lived to see the most secret precepts of the Constitution trampled upon by a set of cold-blooded assassins, who are supported and protected from the just and legal vengeance of the People by those to whom you have entrusted the rigid distribution of justice, and of the penalties attendant upon an infringement of the laws. Yet we would remind the rulers of the realm, and particularly him to whom the highest authority is delegated by the People, that a Prince must have a happier and a much longer reign who lives in the affections of his People, than when supported on his throne by the sword of the assassin: the latter when least expected may be turned against himself; the former will shield him alike from the enemies to his crown or to his person.

Our present Prince (if he thinks at all) unfortunately thinks too lightly of the People, from whom he derives the enormous sums which support him in the lap of luxury and

grandeur, while millions of his subjects (slaves would now be more appropriate) are pining in famine and wretched misery. If his Royal Highness suffered but for one hour the penury and want which they have endured patiently for years, we have so good an opinion of his heart, when uncontrouled by the inhuman dictates of such flint-hearted fiends as those around him, that we most firmly believe half the Civil List would be docked and the gaming table forsaken, to alleviate the distresses a feeling heart would bleed with agony to behold. Unfortunately, however, he has no real friend who will point out to him the situation of the kingdom, and the line of conduct necessary to secure to him the peaceable enjoyment of his crown-none who will tell him that Louis XVI. was a good hearted man, though induced by bad councils to oppress the People over whom he reigned-none who will tell him that that People rose against the tyranny of his Ministers, and although Europe united and deluged itself in blood to suppress them, still did freedom triumph; the Monarch fell a sacrifice to the aveng→ ing rod raised by an exulting nation, and European tyrants shuddered while it waved in terrorem over their heads. Are such lessons to be forgotten? We hope not: for the sake of tranquillity we would breathe a fervent prayer to heaven that Monarchs would remember it, and act accordingly. If the lesson be not in time attended to, we most confidently believe that it will be repeated in every nation where Kings imagine that the People were made only to be their slaves where the doctrine of "divine right" is inculcated against the reason and common sense of an insulted empire, and where military force is employed to awe the People to subjection, but which eventually drives them into open insurrection.

We have seen Lord Sidmouth refuse to present the Petitions of the suffering Poor of the kingdom to the Prince; we are consequently to suppose that he is kept by Ministers in total ignorance of their distresses, and some means should be immediately adopted to communicate with the Throne, and lay before it the sentiments of the whole nation respecting the vipers who sap the principles of our Constitution, to support themselves a few years longer in the plunder of the Treasury. He will grant you redress, be assured, by their dismissal from office, equally loaded with the spoils and the execrations of the People. To compel them to disgorge their plunder must be a secondary consideration, although it is one that must not be lost sight of. That the Magistrates of Manchester are guilty of treason

as well as murder, a doubt cannot be entertained; and we would express a hope that as a first step toward a refor mation, the Prince would allow the insulted laws to take their course sagainst those who so outrageously violated them. If ju tice is withheld, d saffection will be spread throughout the kingdom; and the People, perceiving that they have no more protection for their lives than they have for their property, will be driven to a revolution, which step though all may deplore, no honest heart can condemn. Before we conclude this article, we will make an observation upon the maxim already quoted," the King can do no wrong." "" When or how it first took rise we know not, but it is told of Voltaire, that on his return from England to France, and being asked by the French Monarch what the English meant by the sentence, he replied, "they mean, your Majesty, that they will not let him do wrong. We confess indeed that although the power which that acceptation of the sentence would imply, is now and has been for some time lost to the People, yet such do we believe to have been its original meaning, for who will pretend to say that if the King commits murder, he is not amenable to the laws; or that Ministers are to suffer for his misconduct. The idea is absurd; it is the plea of despots only, for by the Constitution of England, Majesty must as reverently bow to its decrees as the meanest individual in the kingdom. This Constitution is, alas! subverted by a set of rapacious Men who have lost the confidence of the nation, and are only supported by bribery, corruption, and the most open and deliberate plunder of the People. Let the efforts of the People be directed towards bringing them to the bar of their Country, and let that Country wreak on them wellmerited punishment. We pledge ourselves that our efforts shall not be wanting to bring forth so desirable a result to all, except indeed such vultures as themselves.

PROCLAMATION

From R. G. P. and his Ministers in Council assembled, to the Subjects of their happy Country.

WE, R. G. P. by the grace of God, promoter of corrup tion, and defenders of rapine and bloodshed, send forth this address to our loving subjects, greeting, That whereas it has been laid before us in council, that divers persons, to wit: Sir Francis Burdett, Major Cartwright, Mr. Hunt, and other vile incendiaries, are inflaming the public mind with evil doctrines, and alienating the affections of our subjects from me their Sovereiga in embryo, and also from

my honest, wise, conscientious and economical Ministers, and as a Government is only to be judged of by comparison with others, we send forth this Proclamation to place things in a proper view before your eyes, that they may be opened to the evil intentions of the before mentioned incendiaries and also to the Piety, Uprighteousness, and Humanity of our proceedings.

The first charge against us is, that through the means of our Parliament we plunder you of your money, to support us in extravagance and luxury, while you are absolutely starving.

It is clear that this charge is trivial in itself; for we by Act of Parliament take from you all alike, so that none can complain of our being partial: whereas in Turkey, if an individual becomes rich, no matter by what means, the Sultan when he sends for his wealth, sends also four mutes to strangle him. Of such conduct as this we never have been accused, for the piety of Lord S is shocked at any thing like blood, and in this particular we are guided by his holy councils, 'Tis true, indeed, much has been said by the vile Reformers about being accessary to the murders at M, inasmuch as we gave thanks to the perpetrators; but surely if the Devil sends assistance towards supporting us upon the throne, it is but mere gratitude to afford protection to him in turn, from the wrath of offended Heaven, expressed in the voice of an indignant nation. Ingratitude, Lord Ssays, is the worst of all crimes, and for worlds he would not be accused of it by his Satannic Majesty, from whose friendship he expects to derive such emoluments hereafter,

There are also inflmmaatory papers sent forth amongst you, which would forsooth bring into derision, hatred, and con tempt our loving and faithful subject Derry Down Triangle; but if his reasons for his every action were fairly weighed,. it would appear that his conduct was consistent with the adyice of a very great character of the last century: “ Get money honestly if you can, but at all events get money.' You exclaim, Why he sold his country in the year 1800!" Granted; but you forget that he was well paid for it.Again you cry out, "He ceded a certain island in the Mediterranean Sea to the Turks, after promising British protection from that very power, and drove thence, by that means, the unfortunate inhabitants to seek that freedom in a foreign land, which had been treacherously betrayed at home Again we answer-'twas gold that did it. Thus you see, poor Derry Down has been calumniated, and is not

so much to blame as might have been imagined. As to the charge of not resigning his place when he is aware of his having lost the confidence of the nation, it is not to be wondered at, for in that case he should also resign his emoluments; otherwise, we presume, that he would not demur about transferring the trouble upon other shoulders.

We are next accused of keeping up an enormous military power; but our ministers advise that we by no means suffer them to be diminished in number, lest the people should' insist upon an abolition of sinecures and a decrease of salaries, which would of course curtail our pleasures and amusements. As this would be by no means a desirable object to us, you cannot wonder at our unwillingness to surrender one iota of our patronage, by which alone we are supported (as is very evident) in the utmost magnificence contrary to the wishes, and in despite of the opposition, of such treasonable publications as the Black Dwarf, the Republican, the Medusa, and the Cap of Liberty. We would most strenuously advise our subjects to abstain from reading such Jacobinical effusions of Patrotism, Justice, and Political Economy as these vile prints abound with. They would instigate you poor ignorant people to the impiety of rebelling against the Sovereign who holds the Crown by Right Divine, as Lord Sh says, and against me his moral and economical Representative. Our good friend Hone-hater is dead, or the authors of such seditious language would, right or wrong, be brow-beat into silence. At the next meeting of Parliament, however, we will endeavour to pass an act which will at once abolish the Liberty of the Press, which indeed was always as disagreeable to us as it was pleasing and gratifying to the People. The charge of inhumanity against us, is a foul libel, for at this moment we are revolving plans for the prevention of any more bloodshed, by putting a stop to Public Meetings altogether. Mr. Hunt was not born in the dominions of the Grand Segnior, or he would acknowledge the lenity and justice of our measures. cannot say that we act like Amurath who shot the people from the gardens of his palace for his amusement, or that like Nero we ever wished that all our loving subjects had but one neck, that at a single blow the whole people might be exterminated. No, no-we know too well that the nation would resent such conduct to our bitter cost; and we also are aware that the fulfilment of such a wish would bring its own punishment along with it. We would only wish that all the Reformers termed Radical, were headless, in which case a moderate share of the plunder, would effectually si

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