Star. — London, England, 1819-11-01 00:00:00

PUBLIC MEETINGS. Re r,r.tioned some days ago that the idea of a nother Reform Meeting at Manchester, on 0: ;,. t November (to -day), had been abandoned. fleeting was also to have been held to-day icsd i e ld ; but we find by a notice in the Leeds received this morning, that it his in like r ,c7: been " postponed till farther notice?' Ile legs, hO% e er, • v from the same Paper, that • : ins hare been fixed as follows : it sipton, on the Bth of November, in pursuance N u i,ition, signed by sixty-four inhabitant i:o;deri, " to consider of the best means of ,:. r, ,he instigators and perpetrators of the late' ~•'l, v .it Milachester, on the 16th of August last,' ::,:ice, and of the necessity of Paxliamentaz y Ilnddersfield, on the same day, in pursuance aqii,ition, signed by ninety inhabitant house- And for a similar purpose. A t Barnsley also, on the same day, and for the v ,,, ; : r ose, agreeably to a Requisition, signed by i ,habitant hotheholders. ' A ci,:lley, on the 13th of November, for the i , u ,-pop, in pursuance of a Requisition, signed 1:.: ' i oubeholders. . i;:adford also, on the 15th of November, in F 1, ..1..ce.;! a Requisition, signed by fifty- th ree in ::.. : householders, to consider " th e present state :, :, : ,.e, , 2•ltati% e System, the unparalleled extent :: ;on, and the most constitutional means of ob. for the numerous evils with which r s .:,;(11itil is affected ; also, at the same ai - :rd their townsmen and neighbours an of espres,ing their sentiments relative to :old unconstitutional proceedings at ca tltr ltith of August last." The MAnchetaer papers inform us, that to be held on the Bth of November, Common, near Wigan, to consider : - .l;,:itentous of all important questions," ',;:,at has been the cause of the brave, an. industrious peasantry of Old "-, • bein , in the abject condition they are, and r (under the present order of things) to b.::, I.nneAtable to resect, must proceed c . nrse to worse?" A deputation of Reformers, it ut., waited on the Mayor of Wigan, requesting to give the Meeting his sanction. They were ;ea. are t 'id, " with every ingenuous and , requisites that most materially ra.-a On these eventful times) deputed to such a.,t trusts. Nothing like coercive threats—no : , k•! U.i ;iqerial rebuke from him was received, ;• .2 :11,1 manly refusal to call the same." an, iumAsax.--A Requisition has at been addressed to the High Sheriff of Mid , requesting him to call a County Meeting to . their opinion of the late occurrences at Man ef. Amongst those who have signed it are Lord LAND, Lord Rusin', Sir FIANIIIIS'BURDETT, GEORGE BYNG, Esq. M.P. The resolution of the Sheriff has not yet been made known. :OUNTY OF o:Tenn.—The following Requisition ,;:en addressed to the High Sheriff of the County 10Linrd: "63 TOE nicts SUE/UFF OF VIC COI7NTT OF OtTORD. '4u—Wc tepee you will call a Meeting of the Nobility, rp, Guatr y, ar,d Freeholders of the County of Orford to Woof an Addscss to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, ri,:m orr lop/1y and attachment to the Constitution. Signed by AIACCIAMPIELD. lAeutcnant, ADMCDOS, AIARLLOROUIJiI I H t )(COURT, BLANDIVRD, Cum itu.L, Guti.nrona. And upwards of Four ll:lndred Freeholders." r: which the Sheriff returned the following answer: compliance with the above Requisition, I hereby convene loting of the Nobility, Gentry, Clergy, and Freeholders of 4)l dCtY of Oxford, for the alsovr purpose, to he held at the is Oxford, on Friday, the 3 of November next, at o clack at noon. (Signed) " JAY 11.49CHT011 LASPOSTOIL ksden Muse, Octcber 26, 1$1." mitt -EL—A Requisition was presented to the ;:o7 of this Town, requesting him to call a Meeting ...le khabitants—bat his Worship declined com ^; with it ; and no farther steps appear to have Liken in the business. IP.c.tiTzr,.—At Leicester a Requisition, signed iii ilidividuals, including, among other re "awe names, those of Dr. ALaxwbitoza, Messrs. 6. ! N ) Tllem As PA RP" Esq. M.P. for the Borough, "13 irTsented to the Mayor on Thursday last. !. r. V'ership sent an answer, in wkich, Le:r.e.l complying with the Requisition. ....v.: 1 11 , a;:ic1 it with the following important :1: Y,d I • • • . - e.,(41.y be lieve, that to persons in oißeial situations lifoinletnn are open which may net be known to • ...t..t"rti these sources it happens to myself and my to know, that large bodies of people, not only "E.:, it from other places, ate preparing to attend the m...,11 project, with inflammatory banners, caps of 7•• r revo!ationar y emblems, and that such offensive Ut.l lgi accompanied by persons armed to protect them. that these proceedings will give to the Meet 'r r t.: an illegal assembly, and that aeonsequenees . would deeply deplore; and although there ,too , the slightest communion or sentiment vp,a,,:ives and the parties alluded to, le t * at a tw - pmrti, your proceedings must necessarily be ' 4l Ir.ly l r wholly out of your own controul." ''' t 114ve, in consequence of this '.rt the part of the Mayor, called a Meet n authority, to be held on Wednesday ‘rr Utz 3. They add an earnest request, ~ ~... • • ? %site 1,.. all r " that no person, by bringing banners or any other insignia, will afford the slightest pretext for any inter ference on the part of those who would gladly re press all expression of public opinion." HADDENGTON COUNTY.—A Meeting of the Noble men, Freeholders, &c. of this County was held on Tuesday last, the Earl of 11ADDINGTON in the Chair, when an Address to the PRINCE REGENT was unani mously agreed to, expressive of their " abhorrence of the attempts of evil-minded and designing men to undermine the foundations of our admirable Consti tution in Church and State, by assembling, under the delusive pretences of theoretical Reforms, Sedi, tious Meetings of the People," icc. and their firm resolution to use every effort in their power to op pose sedition in all its shapes, and to preserve the Constitution inviolate and unimpaired.. BOLTON. The idea of a Meeting at Bolton is abandoned, for the reasons which appear in the following documents : " Bolton, October 11, 1819. " To THE MAGISTRATES Or TEE DIVISION Or WARRINGTON, woo VIUALLY ASSEMBLE AT LEIGH, AND TO THOIE WHOM THEE MAY CHOOSE TO CONSULT. " thurnastis—lt may be know;itesoit;e of you that the in habitants of the towns of Great and Little Bolton, and neigh bourhoesa, intend to exercise a legal and constitutional right, by meeting publicly to address the Prince Regent, on the late pro ceedings at Manchester, on the 16th of August. " That, in consequence of the measures pursued on that much to be lamented occasion, by some of the Nlagistrates of this Dl vision, and their subsequent conduct in trampling upon the rights of the people, we, the undersigned, request your attend ance, to protect the people whilst in the exercise of their Consti tutional rights, being convinced that it is unsafe to assemble without yoi.r protection." signed by the Boroughreeve, and twenty-eight other Free holders or Householders. " To 'rue Boeornuar eve OT GREAT BOLTON, &c. &c. " Gtsussii.x—ln answer to the Requisition which, as Se nior Magistrate of the Bench at Leigh, you did me the honour to forward to me, to afford you such legal protection as might be in our power, whilst in the intended exercise of the Consti tutional right of addressing the Prince Regent on the late occur rences at Manchester, I beg leave to allude to what I then said to the Gentlemen who waited upon me, viz. that it was an affair of that delicate nature, so far as it regarded the Magistrates •in your own vicinity, that, unless the apprehensions you seamed to express should appear to be well-founded, a circumstance I should be extremely unwilling to admit. any interference on my part would be highly indecorous and improper; but that, on an occasion of such importance, after consulting my colleague at Leigh (who declined the matter altogether), I should most likely lay the subject before the Lord Lieutenant, who was considered by Lord Sidmouth as the head of the Civil Authorities of the County, and who had apprised the Magistrates, by Circular, of his readiness to afford them every assistance in his power—a line of conduct, on my part, of which the Gentlemen above men- tioned most entirely approved. " I beg leave to say I lost no time in doing so, and this day I have the honour of his reply, which I beg leave to lay before you; In which you will observe he fully recognises That the subject had a constitutional and legal right to assemble, for the purpose of stating to the Crown or Parliament, or expressing publicly their opinion upon any public question or supposed grievance ; and that, as long as they conducted themselves peace ably, and without any infringement of the laws of the realm, they could not be legally interrupted by any authority whatsoever.' " As his Lordship has communicated these sentiments to the Magistrates of the Bolton Division, it is quite needless for me to observe, they must be attended with every degree of weight and influence. But at the same time, I cannot avoid saying, that though I consider the exercise of such a right undoubtedly legal and constitutional, yet, in the present irritated state of the public mind, it might be attended with very dangerous conse quences. " I rentals Gentlemen, " Your most obedi ent humble servant, " Woolden, 90th Oct. 1519. J. A. BORRON." • (COPY.) Sta—l am this moment honoured by the receipt of your letter iaclodng a Petition to the Magistrates of the Warrington Division, who usually assemble at Leigh, calling upon them for their attendance upon a Public Meeting to be shortly assembled at Bolton, for the purpose of addressing the Prince Regent on the occurrences that took place in Manchester on the 16th of August, and to protect them in the exercise of this right, against any interruption, being convinced that it would be unsafe for them to assemble without such protection. " As you have laid this business before me, expressing in some degree a wish that I should interfere in it, I have thought it my duty to lay the business before the Magistrates specially acting for the liolton Division—only stating that it confirmed me in the opinion which I had before ventured to express to them— That the Subject had a Constitutional and legal right to assemble for the purpose of stating to the Crown or Parliament, or ex pressing publicly their opinion upon any public question or sup posed grievance, and that as long as they conducted themselves peaceably, and without any infringement of die laws of the Realm, they could not be legally interrupted in this exercise by any authority whatsoever. I can have no objection to thes..• sentiments being communicated to the Gentlemen who have ap plied to you ; but at the same time, I can give no sort of pledge that their intended Meeting shall not be interrupted by the Ma gistrates, with whom I can never think myself called upon, or justified to interfere in the discretionary exercise of the power and authority entrusted to them by law. " I have the honour to be, Sir, " Your obedient bumble servant, a Knowsley, Oct. 19, 1819. " DERBY." At a general Meeting of the Requisitionists for calling a Pub lic Meeting, held on Monday eveniug, the Stith inst. the Com mittee laid before the Requisitionists the above correspondence, and stated generally their proceedings since the List Meeting.— After some deliberation it was at length agreed to further post pone the I'ublic Meeting, for the following reasons : " That, as several of the Magistrates in this immediate neigh bourhood were deeply implicated in the unjust arid barbarous conduct of the 16th of August, no reliance therefore could be placed on their exertions to preserve the peace, more especially ' when their conduct on that occasion would necessarily form the !principal subject before the Meeting. " That this place is the ♦ery centre of the Spy.system, recently extended to an unknown degree. " That these wicked Agents would use every method to goad on the poor and distressed to acts of outrage; and if not success ful, would foment the appearance of riot among themselves, to furnish a pretext for the exertion of that discretionary power, alluded to in the Earl of D:rby's Letter. " That the perpetrators of the foul deed on the 16th August, are at present disgraced in the eyes of the Nation, and can only hope to recover themselves from this degradation, by the com mission of some exces,es on the part of the People. " That, en these accounts, it is highly expedient to forego the Meeting a little longer, rather than be at all instrumental in the getting up of a plot, so much desired by the delinquents, previous to the assembling of Parliament. " Bolton, Oct. 28, ism " N. B. Books will be opened for Subscriptions to relieve the Sufferers so the 16th August." Orator Brayshate, one of the champions of radicalism, lately went to Strathaven, where the weavers are par ticularly distinguished for their shrewdness and in telligence. The people allowed him a patient hear ing. When his harangue was ended, they told him they were satisfied his schemes were impracticable and absurd ; that they knew the subject themselves much better than be could teach it to them ; and he failed in his object of making converts at Sitrathaven. Would that the same good seas! had been shewn every where else I MEETING IN FINSBUIZi, THIS DAY, In consequettee of the determination of Mem!. Thistletrood and Co. to hold a Public Meeting this day in Finsbury. New Market-Place, all the Parish. Officers of St. Luke's, Spitalfields, Shoreditch, ney, /cc. were in attendance at an early hour this morning, to act with, and under the direction of the Magistrates, assembled at the Police Office, Wm ship street. The City Light Horse are assembled at their barracks in Gray's Inn-lane ; t troop of the Horse Guards parade the City-road, and the rest of the corps are understood to be stationed, read) mounted, somewhere in the vicinity, though not in sight ; the Artillery are also prepared to remove, on the receipt of orders, from the Artillery-ground, ~ear Finsbury square. In the mean time, the Tower gates are closed, and neither egress nor ingress is to he allowed' till the Meeting is over. About twelve o'clock WADDINGTON took posses sion of the place of Meeting, by planting the Radi cal Union Flag, which he never quitted. At one o'clock a hackney coach drove up with WATSON, THISTLEWOOD, PRESTON, and WALKER ; and shortly after an empty waggon for the Hustings. WATSON and his party waited in the coach until the arrival of their Committee, who, preceded by an itinerant musieian, beating an old drum, entered the field at half-past one. This party, contemptible in numbers and appear ance, bore among them a bundle of sticks en a pitch fork—ore suppose an emblem of Radical Uuity ; and The same flags as were used in Mr. Hunt's procession. We suppose the Exchequer of the Radicals is as low as their character, since none of the additional flags (announced in a programme in some of the Morning Papers) made their appearance. WATSON and his friends now mounted the waggon, and we understood the Doctor was to take the Chair. The numbers assembled appear to be about 1,500 or 2,000, of a wretched appearance; but the most of whom look on the scene with contempt and indif ference. The arrival of the heroes of the day was not welcomed by a single cheer. What motive induced the selection of Finsbury Market-place for the Meeting, we know not, but there could not have been a worse, the rain having ren dered it excessively dirty. We understand that a pile of 30,000 bricks, which were on the ground ou Saturday, were removed last night. Saturday se'nnight, a Meeting of Radical Reform ers was held at Galston, in Ayrshire. About twelve o'clock, a number arrived from Kilmarnock, march ing four deep, with music and flags On one, that floated most grac.fully in the air, was inscribed, in large characters, " Liberty and the Rights of Man." On another, " Liberty, Civil and Religious." One of the columns had a fardel of rods, tied on a long pole with this legend : The more that ye bind us, The firmer yell find us ! —During the proceedings, the Female Reformers from Galston, accompanied by a band of music, arrived. When they came within about twenty yards of the hustings, a vocal band sung Scots who hde sue Wallace bled, and moving on " solemn and slow," to the music, a Deputation of Female Reform ers mounted the hustings, when one of them placed a splendid Cap of Liberty on the head of the Chairman, another presented a flag inscribed " Annual Par liaments, Universal Suffrage, Election by Ballot," reverse " Rise, Britons, and assert your Rights!" and a third presented an Address from the Galstcm Fe male Reform Society, consisting of 279 Members.— When the Cap of Liberty was placed upon the head of the Chairman, the Meeting gave three cheers.— Sveches of the usual kind were delivered. The people dispersed in an orderly manner. The Leeds Mercury of Saturday, contains the fol. bowing article : " We have heard rumours, from several quarters, of the arrival of pikes in this neighbourhood, and, ia one instance, a Gentleman, on whose veracity we can implicity rely, has told us that he has seen one of those instruments, which. was shewn to him by a Re former. The description given-of them is, that they consist of a pike, about six inches in length, placed at the top of a socket, which may be fixed upon a stick, and from each side of the hilt of which proceeds a curved piece of iron, made sharp to cut a bridle or in flict a wound. With such evidence before us, it would be disingenuous and base not to admit, that some of these instruments have found their way into this neighbourhood ; but to what extent they have been', introduced—by whom they are fabricated—or at whose instigation they are placed in the hands of their possessors, we are wholly at a loss to pronounce. The inquiry, however, is an important one, and we should be glad to have a Committee instituted, con sisting of persons of different parties, including two . Magistrates, whose duty it should be to investigate the matter thoroughly, and to ascertain, with pre cision, whether the object of the persons, at whose in-! stance they ate made and distributed, is insurrection or fraud—to subvert the Government, or to afford materials for a Green-Bag ? We have spoken with several of the Reform leaders upon this subject, and they have all, with one accord, deprecated the clan destine collection of arms, and disavowed all parti cipation in, or connexion with the parties by whom they are introduced, As a matter of policy, they know that nothing can be se fatal to their cause as such measures ; and we hope and, believe that not a man among them is, directly or indirectly, concerned in an act that will, if persisted in, endanger the lives of the persons in whose posse.:sion the pikes may be discovered, and strengthen the hands of those who wish to perpetuate abuses, even at the point of the bayonet." , A few days ago two men, who ate said to have , murdered Mr, ST UA Er WO ft TL EY'S game-keeper, were conveyed, chained and handcuffed, to York Castle. BRI~7'OL PETITION:. The following is a copy of the Petition to Ms &gat Highness the Patgee RIGICNT upon the Manchester outrages, resolved at the late Pulslit, Meeting held ill that City, and which; a s stat ed i n t he STAR of Satur day, was left with Lord Viscount Stosiotrru ou Thurs day last r TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OP WALES, •LQENT or TO& UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN MID HOLLAND, "'he humble I'irrirtou of the FREEHOLDERS, FRLEMIN, and Tx praarratres of the CITY of BRISTOL, ASaeMbled pursuant to pub lic advertisement on Brandin Hill, In the said City, on Mos. day, the 4th day of Octobtr, 1819, " Sieweth—That, in the opinion of your Petitioners, it is the inherent and indigputable right of the People of England to meet publicly for the discussion of grievances; and to address the ;,::•- 1. - er..7:gn thereon, win:never they may dee.n it expedient or ne cessary. 4, That, from all the ^vidence which has met the public eye in respect of the late meta:l.:holy proceedings at Manchester, it ap pears to your Petitioners, that the Mciling out of which those proceedings emanated, held to consider the propriety of adopt ing the most legal and effectual means of obtaining a Reform of the Commons House of Parliament.' was so held under the sanc tion of existing laws, lung recognized and act , rd upon, and that It was conducted in a manner the most orderly and peaceable. " That, front the same evidence, it also appears, that at an early period of the Meeting, the unotfending prople there as." aiembled, were, tinder the direction of :Manchester Magistrates, illegally charged by the _Manchester Yeomanry Cavalry, by whom they were indiscriminately slaughtered without regard to age or sex. " 'bat in this work of •nsparinedestruction, the Manchester Yeomen appear to have displayed a ferocity of disposition dis graceful to a Christian age, and calculated indelibly to stain the National character; at the same time your t etitioners thus ex press their opinions upon the conduct of these Yeomen, they cannot refrain frzln shewing to your Royal Highness, that the conduct of the 15th Regiment of Hussars, upon this melancholy occasion, appears to form a striking contrast, and tbat their hu mane interference, in several instances, to awn the needless spilling of human blood, entitles them to the thanks of their Sove reign, and the grftittide of their feaow•countrymen. " That your Peticioners,jiave contemplated with astonishment and indignation the conduct of his Niajesty's Ministers, with re ference to those disgraceful and barbarous prticeedinp, and par. titular!; weir having Advised your Royal Highness, upon an ear parte statement made to them by the persons immediately im plicated in these transactions, to sanction and approve of them, even without an expression of regret for the loss of his Majesty's Subjects under such circumstances, or for the fatherless and widowed condition into which the relatives of those killed *ere thrown. " That your Petitioners crave leave to lament what to them appears the unseemly hastiness with which, prior to legal hives. tigation before that great palladium of the rights of his Majesty's subjects, a British Jury, your Royal Highness was, under the baleful advice of those Ministers, lel to prejudge the question of the guilt or innocence of the parties Identified in these trans actions. " That, following the example tans set before them, the ad dresses of some of the Judges on the late Circuit, as well as the declarations of certain Grand Juries, with reference to the late transactions at Manchester, whose minds and judgments: in the opinion of your Petitioners, should be uniolluenced' either by political feeling or extra-judicial reports, regarding affairs which might become subjects of legal investigation before them, appear to your Petitioners to have echoed the sentiments which your Royal Highness was advised by those Ministers to express. That in the judgment of your Petitioners, your Royal High ness's approval, under the pernicious adVice of your Ministers, of the conduct of the .Manchester Magistrates and Yeomanry Cavalry, expressed within /ire days,aftv: the perpetration of the acts which your Royal Highness had been thus influenced to applaud, ill accords with the reproof, which your Royal High ' nem was, by the same pernicious Counsellors, advised to express in answer to the Address and Petition of the Lord Mayor, Al dermen, and Common Council, of the City. of London, presented• to your Royal Highness, a full calendar month after the fatal occurrences, therein, as your Petitioners think, so justly repro bated and condemned.' p 44 Thal your Petitioners are firmly convinced, that all the evils of which they have reason to complain, owe tbe'r origin to the imperfect state of :he Representation of the People in the Commons House of Parliana:t:t ; and that if the empbatical words of the late Lord Chatham- 4 That unless that House promptly redressed grievances within its own walls, they would be eedrefsed with a vengeance from without,' should be verified, the conse quences resulting from a convulsion so disastrous will be solely attributable to the Oligarchy, which at the same time encroaches on the prerogatives of the Crown, and tramples' upon the rights and liberties of the People. " Your Petitioners most earnestly beseech your Royal ness to take tits premises into your royal consideration—that such measures may be adopted as the justice of the case le'idly calls for; and that your Royal Highness will be pleased forth., with to dismiss from your produce and councils for ever, those Ministers who could advise your Royal Highness to sanction, with expressions of approbation and thanks, the conduct of :ho t i Manchester hlagsrates and Yeomanry. _ _ _ " Signed on the behalf. and by the ciireetion. of the Meeting% " THOMAS STOCKING, Chairman." The Honourable JOHN TALBOT and the Honour able ARTHUR TALBOT, sons of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, have arrived from Dublin, at his Excel lency's seat in Staffordshire. The Italian Company who lately exhibited in Dub lin, Major CHESTER, of Drogheda, Sir JOHN STEI. VENSON, and several others, had nearly gone to the bottom a few days since, in endeavouring to make their passage from Belfast to Glasgow in the Sir ;VII,. liana IVallacc Steam-packet, owing to the bursting of the boiler. They at length got into Carrickfergus. EXECUTION.—This morning, a little before eight• o'clock, John linlmrsy, for the murder of his wife on the 28th of September last, was brought out of New gate to undergo the dreadful sentence of the law. Ile was a young man, behaved with great fortitude, and died penitent. Mr. COTTON attended him in his last moments. After hanging the usual time, his body was cut down and conveyed to St. Bartholo mew's Hospital for dissection. CORN EXCHANGE, MARK-LANE, NOVEMBER 1. Our Market was wall supplied with Wheat this morning from Essex, Kent, and Suffolk, ar.d sales of fine quality were wade on the same terms as last Monday ; but picked samples of White obtained an advance of '2s. per quarter. Although the quantity of Barley at mat let was fir from large, yet the trade was heavy, except for superior parcels, which sold at 2s. per quarter higher, titan on this day week ; but middling qualities are nearly unsaleable at 345. to 355. per quarter. Oats are Is. per quarter cheaper. Beans support last week's prices ; but the demand for then was not near so brisk as last week. In Peas and other articles there is no alteration. AVERAGE PRICES of CORN is England add Wales, fro* the Returns recilived in the week ending Oct. 23, 181 e. Wheat I Rye. rarity. I Oats. I ik atm I Pease. s. d.' s. d. s. d. s. ti. s. d. s. d. titi 9 41 7 58 3 15 3 47 7 49 10 The Average Price of Sugar, front 'he Returns niane in the Gazette, in the svetk ending the :iib Oct. 1019, is 355. 9iti. per cwt. SMITHFIELD MARKET, NOVEMBER I. (To sink the offal; per stone of oihs.) Beef 3s 6d to 4s UM I Veal. 5. Cid to ds od Mutton .. .44 Uti 2d Port ..... 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