JB/137/050/001

Click Here To Edit

" its injunction to be idle; and when they hoisted their banner
"of Rebellion in Bridgetown, they remained three hours on
"the Streets or in the neighbourhood, unmolested and unquestioned
"by any person. So circumstanced, they would
"doubtless bring forward whatever strength they possessed. Its
"numerical amount deserves to be mentioned noticed. From
"Catton and Bridgetown there came 95 armed men; from
"Gorbals and Tradestown, 50; those routed at Kilsyth were 51;
"and if the 40 men that appeared at Kirkentilloeth did not
"belong to Bridgetown, they will make a total of 246 men
"armed with pickes, fowling pieces, blunderbusses and pistols;
"but of these only 51 took the field.

"We have reason to believe, that the total number
"of members of the the Union Societies belonging to Glasgow,
"its dependencies and neighbouring villages, fall short of a
"thousand. In the hey-day of Radicalism , they never amounted
"to 1500,

"That this small portion of the population - about one
"hundreth part - should have ruled imperiously the greater number
"of the working people, would excite surprise, if we did not every
"day witness how easy it is for a few men united to dictate to the
"facile public, and if we did not know that the commercial
"pressure must have enabled the Radicals, so exaggerate their
"numbers, by confounding discontent with the wish for revolution.

"Thus then it appears, that though the disaffected were
"allowed every opportunity to muster, they could only bring together
"the 246 ill armed men, and that the total number of members
"of the Union Societies, in Glasgow and its neighbourhood,
"fall short of a thousand. Yet Glasgow has always been looked
"up to as the most important of the places lying under the
"suspicion of disaffection.

"The Magistrates and well-disposed inhabitants would,
"without the assistance of any regulars, have soon put down
"this petty insurrection. It has, we see, been put down instantly
"with little effusion of blood. No woman and children -
"no unoffending people have been cut down in the mere wantonness
"of power. We suppose this formidable rebellion
"has been extinguished, at less than one hundredth part of
"the suffering occasioned by the dispersion of one peaceable
"meeting. "

Identifier: | JB/137/050/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 137.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	137	Main Headings	radicalism not dangerous
Folio number	050	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c2 / e2
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	46767
Box Contents