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1820 Apr. 29.
Collectanea

Morn. Chron. Apr. 29, 1820.

"The Speeches of the unfortunate men who were yesterday
"brought up to receive their sentence, will be read with considerable
"interest. They serve to illustrate "the wisdom and
"firmness" which we are told in the Speech put by Ministers
"into his Majesty's mouth, was displayed by the last Parliament.

"The convicted men all avowed the commission of the
Acts for which they were tried; and such an avowal is always
"a great satisfaction to a Juror.

"But here only can these speeches give satisfaction to any
"mind alive to the interests of the country. They afford another
"proof that the feelings of reverence and regard for the laws that
"once actuated the people of this country, are, by the system of
"folly and injustice, so long pursued by those who have had
"the direction of public affairs, now unfortunately extinguished
"in a considerable part of our population. Those who think
"with the framers of the Speech from the Throne, that the
"restrictive measures" will bring back the far greater part
of those who have been unhappyly led astray, and will revive
in them that spirit of loyalty, that due submission of to
the laws "which they once possessed – who think that a deep-rooted
"feeling of injustice can be eradicated by severity – know
"little of human nature.

"Thistlewood says," he was actuated only by a desire for
the prosperity of his country. His object was to avenge the
death of those unhappy people who had been inhumanly
cut down and massacred at Manchester, and by sacrificing
the lives of the guilty, as it were "chant a requieum over
the souls of murdered innocence." Davidson cited the case
of the Barons and King John. Ings trusted his children
would live to see the day when ample justice would be
done to their country, and when Englishmen no longer
should be doomed to live as they now did." Brunt said "he had
by his industry been able to earn 3£ or 4£ a week, and while
this was the case he never meddled with politics; but when he
found his income reduced to 10s a week, he began to look about
him, and to ask to what that could be owing? And what
did he find? Why, men in power, who met to deliberate how
they might stave starve and plunder the country. He looked on the
Manchester transactions as a most dreadful matter, and thought
that nothing was too severe for men who had not only caused,
but even applauded the dreadful scenes which occurred there.
– The names too of Brutus and Cassius were pronounced on
this occasion.

"Now we put it to Ministers, what effect the execution
"of men, with such dying declarations in their mouths, is
"likely to produce on the country? In what light will these
"men be viewed by many when they are no more? – The
"attempt to commit such a crime as that for which they were
"tried, ought to be viewed with unmingled horror; and woe to
"the country where such attempts are not so viewed! But
"will unmingled horror be the feeling excited by the declarations
"of these men? Can Ministers themselves, for a moment
"think so, when they review the proceedings of the
"16th of August, and those which have followed?

Identifier: | JB/109/142/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 109.
Date_1	1820-04-29	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	109	Main Headings
Folio number	142	Info in main headings field	Collectanea
Image	001	Titles	Morn. Chron. April 28 1820
Category	Collectanea	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner		Watermarks	C WILMOTT 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	Andreas Louriottis
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	35797
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