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    By nine or ten x > n Monday , all appeared awakening to activity and duty , as the rimes required * All business was suspended , and the constabulary force called out , especially by the efficient efforts of the parochial authorities . A warning proclamation was issued , exhorting the inhabitants , not on duty as special constables , ( who had a badge , ) to leave their houses after dark ; parties of horse kept arriving through the day ; arid a large detachment of foot came in at night , much to the joy and security of all . Measures for search were instituted ; and various judicious plans earned into execution for the apprehension of the offenders , the restoration of property , and the protection of the city . These were continued till after the 5 th of November ; and I never saw the streets so free from the crying evils of the place as during that week .

    On the 2 nd of this month , a large meeting was held at the Commercial Rooms , at which it was resolved to urge the Government to institute an inquiry into the origin and circumstances of the recent outrages ; and there has been for some time a military court of inquiry sitting , to ascertain whether there is sufficient reason for putting Colonel Brereton on his trial by a Court Martial ; but Lord Melbourne , in his reply ( of the 16 th ) to the memorial of the inhabitants , gives no expectation that the Government will undertake this inquiry . Nevertheless , he makes ulterior measures depend on the information to be received ; and one part is very important . " It is impossible , " he says in his letter to Mr . Baillie , one of our Members , " not to agree with the memorialists , that the fullest and strictest investigation which the law authorizes and empowers , is required to be instituted into the conduct both of the civil and military authorities . If there is reason to presume that these unfortunate events have had their origin in supineness , neglect of duty , or delinquency , they should be inquired into by due process of law , and according to the established forms of legal proceeding . If the disastrous results which have been witnessed are to be attributed to

    an imperfect and inadequate constitution of the civil authorities , such imperfection can only be remedied and supplied by the exercise of the Royal Prerogative , or by the intervention of the power of the Legislature . " The last sentence is of the greatest prospective importance ; and few who know all the circumstances doubt what must be the result of-a full and

    strict inquiry under an honest and liberal Government , with a straight-forward and patriotic Monarch ready to support all measures which are wise and salutary to the people . On Monday last * a very large and orderly meeting was held in the Assembly Rooms , close by the scenes of devastation . The proceedings are already , probably , in the London papers . It was resolved again to address the Government to undertake the inquiry ; and this Memorial will , I hope , , — - ; ' ¦ . ¦ —¦—— —• : : ¦— » ' * — ' ¦ : * - * The date of the former part of this tetter , which is now completing on the ^ rd .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1831, page 851, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2604/page/55/