Joseph Bruce Petitioner

• Place: Manchester
• Role: Demonstrator,Injured,Petitioner

Petitioner briefly describes the attack and the wounds he received.

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Petition of Joseph Bruce of Manchester

House of Commons, Votes and Proceedings, 15 May 1821

 

A Petition of Joseph Bruce, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, was presented and read; setting forth, That the Petitioner attended the Meeting on the 16^th August 1819, on St. Peter’s Field, Manchester, at which Meeting good order universally prevailed; the Petitioner had been at the Meeting upwards of an hour when the Manchester Yeomanry Cavalry rode most furiously amongst the people, cutting at all they met with most ferociously; while in the act of making his escape the Petitioner was stabbed on the shoulder by one of the Cavalry with a sabre, and the Petitioner believes that if he had not leaped over some railing into a cellar, he should have been killed on the spot; the Petitioner humbly prays, That the House would be pleased to cause a strict inquiry to be made into this brutal outrage.

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