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matters and things in one part thereof according to the
tenor and effect following that is to say To the Inhabitants
of Manchester and its vicinity who met together at St.
Peter's Field on the 16th day of August last for the purpose
of discussing the best means of obtaining a Radical Reform
in the House of Commons and who escaped with their lives
from the wanton and murderous attack made on them
by that brutal armed force called the Cheshire and
Manchester Yeomanry Cavalry Fellow Citizens one
who witnessed your resolute and at the same time
peaceable and uniformly well disposed conduct at the
Public Meeting of the 16th ult presumes to address you
on the subject of that meeting and the murderous attack
of the brutal armed force who were sent amongst you
by those who disgrace the names of Magistrates of Manchester
To me it was a painful moment to think — that such
a body of fine resolute Men should have been surprized
unarmed by a cowardly and ferocious armed force Cowardly
Murderers that would have shrunk from fifty of you with
your Pikes yet who could riotously and wantonly plunge
their Sabres in the bosoms of the Women because they knew
the men had no weapons to protect them. The subject of
this address to you is to point out the necessity of your
holding another public meeting to pass their resolutions
and to make that appeal to the Nation on the necessity of
uniting to obtain a fair and equal representation which
was intended on the last Meeting and when I recommend
this I would also earnestly recommend that you be prepared
to act on the defensive in case a similar attack as was
made on the last meeting should again be attempted I
pledge myself again to make one with you should I be at
liberty at the time the Meeting shall take place and in another
part thereof according to the tenor and effect following
that is to say In advising you to call another public meeting
I would earnestly recommend you to do it at the earliest time
possible after the Assizes for your County are holden and at the
same time seek some more advantageous spot for self defence
in case of attack than St. Peters field. It was of all places the
most unfortunate for an unarmed people to be assailed by
a brutal armed force we must not shrink from duty from
the terror of a similar attack let every man be prepared to
sell his life as dearly as possible and I'll pledge mine that
we can beat off the combined Yeomanry Cavalry of
the

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	137	Main Headings	radicalism not dangerous
Folio number	054	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d3 e3 / d4 e4
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[prince of wales feathers] i&m 1818]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur wellesley, duke of wellington
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1818
Notes public		ID Number	46771
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