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the whole Country. If it is the determination of the Government
to interrupt a public discussion of the necessity of
Parliamentary Reform we knowing that such public discussion
is consistent and sanctioned by the standing laws
of the Country must determine on our part to meet and
discuss the question even should it be at the hazard of our
lives. Nothing to me can be more noble than to meet
death on such ground to sell our lives in defence of our
Rights against the violation of Law and against the assault
of a Military Despotism. But this I can say on my part
that in this Country under the present state of things, I
will never attend a public meeting on any political question
of reform without arms once having narrowly escaped
with life is to me a sufficient justification. I trust that
I have here pointed out to you the necessity of attending that
Meeting with arms in your hands In contempt of our said
Lord the King and his Laws To the evil example of all others
and against the peace of our said Lord the King his
Crown and Dignity.

3d. Count. And the said Attorney General of our said Lord the
King for our said Lord the King gives the Court here further to
understand and be informed that the said Philip Francis being
a malicious and ill disposed person and unlawfully and maliciously
devising and intending to raise and excite discontent
and disaffection in the minds of the Liege Subjects of our said
Lord the King and to insinuate and cause it to be believed by
the liege subjects of our said Lord the King that divers of the
liege subjects of our said Lord the King have been wantonly murdered
by certain Troops of our said Lord the King , and to move
and excite the liege subjects of our said Lord the King to hatred
dislike and disgust of the said Troops of our said Lord the King
and also of certain Justices of our said Lord the King assigned to
keep the Peace in and for the County of Lancaster on the Thirteenth
day of September in the Fifty ninth year of the Reign aforesaid
at the Parish aforesaid in the County of Surrey aforesaid
unlawfully and maliciously did publish and cause to be published
a certain other scandalous and malicious libel containing
therein amongst other things, divers scandalous and malicious
matters and things of and concerning the said Troops of
our said Lord the King and of and concerning the said Justices
of our Lord the King according to the tenor and effect following
that is to say To the Inhabitants of Manchester and
its vicinity who met together in St. Peters 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,
(meaning the said Troops of our said Lord the King) Fellow
Citizens, one who witnessed your resolute at 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

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	137	Main Headings	radicalism not dangerous
Folio number	055	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d5 e5 / d6 e6
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	46772
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