Excerpt from Peter-Loo Massacre: No. 1 The Retormers, who seemed determined to make this a Splendid day. Were equally on the alert, not indeed in preparing arms, for of those they were totally destitute, but iii'prcparing flags and smallbands of music, and in arranging matters for the approach ing meeting. It is evideiit, however, from the great number of females, and even children, who formed part of the procession, that nothing was anticipated that could involve them in the least degree of peril; and an immense multitude gathered together, relying With confidence on each other's peaceable intentions, and certainly not expecting, thattha precautions taken by the magistracy to preserve the peace, would be employed to destroy il, .aud convert a peaceful assembl) into a scene of terror and alarm, daiigeraud death. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.