BLANKETEERS, the nickname given to some 5,000 oper atives who on March io 1817, met in St. Peter's Field, near Manchester, to march to London, each carrying blankets or rugs. Their object was to see the Prince Regent and lay their griev ances before him. The Habeas Corpus act was suspended, and the leaders were seized and imprisoned. The few stragglers who persisted in the march were intercepted by troops and treated with considerable severity.