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.~: 1~• ~~ . I I ~ 't THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. TO CORRESPONDENTS. A " Constant Reader" will oblige us hy-a continuance of his Corresoulence. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1819. THE FUNDS. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT 00:E O'CLOCK : Bank Stock shut 3 per Cent. Reduced shut 3 per Cent. Consols 69-1; 5 per Cent. Navy 10C; I India bonds 8 9 pre. Exchequer Bills (2d.) 6 7 5 7 Commercial 23 dis. Endorsed 8 dis. Consols for Acct. 70-1,1 A full account of the Public Meeting held on Thurs day at Birmingham, will be found in another part Of our Paper. Sir CHARLES WOLSELEY, who was at first supposed to be absent, presented himself to the attention of the Meeting, towards the close of tie proceedings, and addressed them with a good deal of felicity on the atrocious transactions which formed the subject of their deliberations. The greatest order characterized the whole proceed ings, and the people, being so permitted, dispersed quietly. A Requisition, signed by 700 of the Freemen of Coventry, has been handed to the Mayor, for a si milar Meeting to the above; and it is expected that the Mayor will accede to it. It will be seen by a Notice in another part of our Paper, that a select party of the Livery of London have had a Meeting, for the ostensible purpose of taking into consideration such measures as may be necessary to secure due order and decorum at the Election of LORD MAYOR, on Michaelmas Day. What the real object of the Meeting was, nobody can be at a loss to discover--that it is the undoubted privilege of the Livery, assembled in Common Hall for the Election of LORD MAYOR, to proceed without inter ruption to such Election no person will dispute ; but, if the rnajotity of the Livery choose to suspend the exercise .of this privilege for a short period, to take into consideration mattzt s deeply affecting their in terests as Citizens of London, and as Englishmen, It is equally their undoubted privilege that they shall not be interrupted in such a course of proceeding.— We understand that there is an intention of proposing some other subjects for the consideration of the Li very before they proceed to the Election, and if the Livery choose to entertain the proposition, which they have a right to do, we conceive the LORD MAYOR is bound by his oath to protect them in the exercise of this as much as of any other privilege. These select Liverymen profess that the observance of " order and' decorum" is their object. If it be really so, they cannot better promote that object than by yielding that respect to the sentiments of their Fellow Citizens, which the sentiments of a majority are always entitled to. For a few to talk of " putting down" (by clamour, we presume) the sense of the great Body of the Livery, is foolish—mischievous. The fair course of duty, on the part of the LORD MAYOR, is one which need excite no apprehension either in his Lordship or his friends. All that is de manded is, that his Lordship shall protect the Livery in the free exercise of their unquestionable right of declaring what they think ; and we apprehend the exercise of this duty will require no very gigantic effort on the part of his Lordship. The Livery of London, like " the blood of Douglas, can protect itself." T ', Li A PRECEDENT. There was no business done at the Quarterly As- sembly of the Corporation of Norwich, on Tuesday last, on account of the Aldermen having objected to admit three persons to their Freedom : and on a con ference, declining to give their reasons for rejecting them, a motion was made by Mr. SPRINGFIELD, and seconded by Mr. EDWARD TAYLOR, that no farther business should be gone into, unless the Aldermen would give their reasons for tuch rejection. The motion was supported by Mr. FRANCIS and Mr. Gooowts, and a ballot demanded, when there ap peared'a majolity of 15 for the motion. The Com- ,rpons, thererote, refused to enter into any other part of the busine.,s which was to have been brought be fore them ; and, after waiting a considerable time, the :fit , t mOlt seat a message to the Commons, that the ply was dissolved. ire sorry to find, that the adjustment which tr.nounced to have taken place between the Manufacturers of Leicester and their Work las nut becu w complete as we were ofi. I ginally given tp understand. Ms Workmen have CHEAP STEAM-ENGINE AND EXTRAORDINARY ECONOMY Ur FUEL. b4d another Meeting on Saint Margaret's Pasture, . I 0 This day was ~id, /Ace ss. with Plates, I from. the proceedings at which, given in ano- A SIIOIRACCOUNT of a NEW PRINCIPLE ..L.m.'"K a s itOT 4T I VE, ST EA M-EN G I NE, invented by ther column, our Readers will perceive, that the ' , Mr Nei LLI AM (WIG REVE;Bart. the great object of Witich , Vstem of depression is still viciously persisted in by is cheapne.s and simplicity of construction ; as also an Account some Unprincipled individuals. The sticklers for Con of a mode which be has adopted for the saving of Fuel by the . nte of Calcareous Substances in aid of Coal. By this invention ; st i tut i ona l remedies will not, we think, quarrel with, one-rventh part of Chalk, added to any given quantity o f ' the course of redress which these poor workmen have Coal, will be found to double itslllect, either in the production of Steam or Gas, or generally, in any sort of furnace , at the adopted. They have resolved henceforth to pub lish Same time that this application will be found most materially to in the Sewspapers the names of all offending Mas diminish the quantity of smoke produced by large fires. Published by T. Egerton, Whitehall, and sold by all Book. ters, and so assured do they feel of the publ i c scorn sellers. - a hope is expressed, that " no Gentleman will there after associate with them."—Certainly, no Gentleman ought. • , The Paris Papers of Wednesday arrived this fore- noon.—The DuChess of BERRY was on Tuesday morn ing safely delivered of a daughter. The Throne of France is thus still left without a successor in the reigning branch, from the only union which is likely to produce one. Marshal Sr. CYR has returned to Paris. The King of SPAIN has appointed the Duke de SAN FEIWANDO to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, vacant since the disgrace of the Marquis de CASA InuJo. French 5 per Cents. Tuesday, 73 fr. 15 c. MANCHESTER, SEPTEMBER 22. Mrs. .WaoE and her shop-boy have been again taken into custody for publishing a libel. This poor woman, who has a child at her breast of only five months old, was, after being some time in custody, discharged, upon two persons giving bail for £5O each. This is the second time she has been in prison within ten days, and this forms the thirteenth process which has been instituted against Mr. Wan; the proprietor of The Observer, and his family, within about four months. Mr. \Vitas was arrested twice upon the warrants of the Magistracy,• and held to bail in each case, himself in £5OO with two sureties in £250 each. Three Bills of Indictment were shortly afterwards found against him atthe Quarter Sessions, and the same amount of bail was r‘quired in each case. This bail Mr. WitoE was unable to procure, and was therefore compelled to absent himself in or der to avert imprisonment. In his absence, the other processes have been instituted, including the Bills found by the Grand Jury at Lancaster. But the major part of those processes have consisted merely in the warrants of the Magistracy, without the inter position of any Jury. There was an extraordinary Meeting of the Lan cashire Magistrates Et the New Bailey on Monday, for what purpose I cannot divine. It is said, that a very decided majority of the Magistrates of this County, disapprove of the conduct of those who acted in this town on the 16th ult. and I have heard that several of them express their intention to proclaim this disapprobation in the shape of a Protest. the Oa A 1 Assembl .... I : i i ) We ai te. - wu .n Master men, hi .... \ `\` .., .‘, k s, 'lll6. LEEDS, SEPTEMBER 23. Two troops of the 6th Carabineers arrived here yesterday, and this morning proceeded on their route for Newcastle. They are to be followed' by other troops for the Northern District, where much alarm and uneasiness still exists. Here, thank GOD, all is still and tranquil; at least as far as can be judged from exterior appearances, although much angry feeling is known to exist among the labouring classes; and the Reformers are daily acquiring a considerable addition to their numbers, by fresh converts to the doctrine of Universal Suffrage, Election by Ballot, and Annual Parliaments. The Female Reformers here present a most formidable shew, in point of num bers, and take an active part in the cause in which they have embarked. The most pleasing and heart-cheering information, however, is, that a very material improvement has taken place in the various branches of trade in this town and district. Many of the principal Manufac turers have set on the greater part of the hands they were some time Ago compelled to discharge, and at an increased rate of wages. The Woollen branch, in particular, has assumed a briskness most truly pleas ing; and what is the most gratifying of the intelli gence, the improvement is likely to be permanent, and has, in fact, increased, within these last eight or ten days. LEEDS-SANE DATE The men employed in an extensive stone•quarry, near this town, were requested by their masters not to attend the Meeting at Hunslet, on Monday last, on account of the numerous orders on hand ; fourteen of them, however, disregarded the request and at tended the Meeting. The consequence was, that next day they were all discharged. At Hunslet, the grand rendezvous of the seditious of this vicinity, Meetings are held every night, in a room hired for the purpose, which the Radicals call " The House of CornmOns."—Leeds Independent. We have the best authority for saying, that num bers of persons in the Procession which disgraced our streets on Monday last, were provided with heads of pikes, ready, in case of as attack, to screw on the large sticks with which so many of them were armed.—ldent. A folly Radical, reeling through Leeds on Mon day, sn a state of intorication, attracted particular notice, from the aurnpriate inscriptiorrin the ftont of his hat :—" Iteyo, motion or Ruination!;" LIVERPOOL, REPTEMAER 2 5. The Meeting to codttder of the latelmn 4 secal2ll,llt Manchester, is now positively fired for Wedneedint next, the 29th. Earl SEVTON and Lol•cl MOLINatt are expected to be present, and it is supposed the Earl will be called to the Chair. Mr. \Vootta is now here, and this afternoon a public dinner is to be given him at the Concentric Rooms, Castle Inn. The Election for the office of Mayor of Liverpool, is again expected to be warmly contested.—Three Candidates, it is said, will be proposed. LEICESTER, SEPTEMBER 23. The Framework-knitters of this town and neigh bourhood held a Meeting yesterday on St. Margaret's Pasture. WILLIAM JACKSON, who has presided at former Meetings, was called to the Chair. After some little discussion, a series of Resolutions to the follow. ing effect were unanimously adopted ::That the Meet ing lament that there are Manufacturers so destitute of honour, that they neither regard verbal nor written agreements, and whose sole object appears to be that of undermining their competitors, and monopolizing the trade, at the expense of the comfort and happiness of their workmen, and the welfare of the Public at large: that, to.prevent the recurrence of a practice so preg nant with misery, it is the determination of the Meet. ing, henceforth, to publish the names of such Mama fact urers who shall give out work under the List . Price, ; as agreed upon' by the Hosiers and Frame work-knitters on the 23d of August ; after- which publicity, it is hoped no Gentleman will associate with them ! and that the extension of the Spitalfields Weavers' Act to the different Manufacturers of the Country, is essential to the comfort and happiness of the great body of the People. COVENTRY, SEPTEMBER 24. On Tuesday evening, a numerous body of the Weavers, composed of the different Committees ap pointed to conduct their affairs in the several Wards, assembled at the Half Moon public-house, in this City, to propose and adopt certain Resolutions, where by the masters might be more effectually protected in their engagement to pay to their workmen a living price for their labour. Mr. CAVE was called to the Chair. The chief speaker was Mr. GREOORY. All the Resolutions were adopted unanimously, and the Meeting adjourned. THE ARMY. Wednesday two troops of the Carabineers arrived in Leeds, on their route to Newcastle. It was determined on Wednesday, that the Relief Hospital in Glasgow should be converted into a bar racks for the reception of Cavalry. The Essex Yeomanry Cavalry, commanded by Colonel HOIIDLOX, M. P. are now embodied atSouth end, in that county. The five Troops of the 14th Light Dragoons which marched on Monday, from the Barracks in Canter bury, are to be quartered at Norwich, Bury St. Ed mund's, Lynn, Ipswich, and Huntingdon. The 85th Light Infantry, which marched on Tues day morning from Chatham, for Northampton, re ceived their route late on Monday night. A large Detachment of Cavalry passed through Oxford last night, and a Regiment of Foot was on its march this morning towards St. Alban's—both on their way to the North. GENERAL DEVEIIEUICS Leurow.--A letter has been received from an Officer of General DEVEREUX'S Rifle Regiment, on board the Charlotte, GAMBLE, by the American brig Orleans, bound for Bourdeaux, stating, that the Charlotte had spoke la Forey, with a division of the same Regiment, and kept her com pany for ten days, and then outsailed her—all well, and men very well behaved. Dated 28th July, half past twelve e'clock, lat. 44. 36. The Marquis of SALISBURY is arrived at Hatfield, from his seat, Aldborough, Suffolk. The Earl and Countess GREY have left their seat, Howick, Nothumberland, for Chatsworth, Derby shire, on a visit to the Duke of DEVONSHIRE. • The Earl and Countess of COVENTRY are arrived at their seat, Crome,Worcestersh ire, from Cheltenham. Thursday se'nnight, Lady ANNE BRRESFORD and family, set off from their house in. Truro, on their way to London. Earl WIIITWORTH and the Duchess of DORSET have left Knole, Seven Oaks, Kent, for their seat, Buckhurst, Sussex. On Wednesday they are expected in town preparatory to their going to the Continent. Mr. CANNING arrived at Stutgard on the 2d of September, and on the 4th had the honour to dine with the KING. On the sth, Mr. CANNING, with his family, proceeded on his journey to Switzerland and Italy. It. P. SCUDAMORE, Esq. has been elected, without opposition, a Member of Parliament for the city of', Hereford, vacant by the death of the late Colonel SYNIONDS. CHRISTOPHE has issued a Proclamation, dated Sans Souci, declaring, that no asylum shall be granted in the Empire of Hayti to the disaffected or run-away Negroes from any of the West India Islands, and especially from those belonging to his BRITANNIC MAJESTY. Monday se'nnight, a person with a white hat at tracted considei able notice in going along one of the bridges in Glasgow, in company with the rioters, carrying a lighted torch. The Monthly Magazine, .to be published cm Fri diy, the Ist of October, price Two Shillings, will contain an Engraving, by Greig, from an original Drawing, of the Pt:nce Regent s Oriental Palace et Brighton; and also a Ground Plan of the Scite of the late Tragical Events at Manchester, in addition to its usual unequalled variety of him csting original , l'apeis and usthil haul nation. FURTHER PARTICULARS OF rut a l& MINOHAM MEETI.VG. EXTRACT FROM A PRITATE LETTER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ST. 4. Thursday Everdnr, S. Is 3, ' " R—o u r worthy Magistrates having de temzei to be the conservators of the peace, and not th e p , t moters of tumult and bloodshed, when askti friend of Reform, if the Meeting would be . t ry to pass over quietly ? they replied, tha t if i t Constitutionally held, it shotild Hither be ir rtettix by a Civil nor a Military Power. It is true th ert i o all their influence to impede the .I„ecting.kie siring all [oval subjects tostay at hom e: but, inti. 4 ever light we may view this pre judging th e b, ukt of the Meeting, we have still matter for cones zion, that we are at least blessed wiLn a c 001.4 ,24; and humane Magistracy. " Notwithstanding every effort was made I n ,' opposite party, both by Pamphlets and Ilanti&., to prevail upon the People not to go to the ?•lee, from two to three o'clock hundreds were se pt E . ing there in all directions, and by half-past ta nt t should conceive there were not less than 20.400 sons collected. The Reformers very wisd y fined the object of the Meeting to the Massacres, and I am only sorry that sem: , respectable and able townsmen (for we h who can both write and speak when their o:; : : interests are concerned) had not the courage a decided part in condemning that b—dy bus;: however, of this I am satisfied, that there arc h ' dreds ofrespectable men, in the town of Ilirmingh ai who were deterred from doing so only from motive oCprudence.• In fact, I may say there prevails most universally, a sentiment of disgust and Aha b recce at that monstrous violation of die Constituties Sir CHARLES WOLSELEY addressed the Meetins ~ • but did not preside, stating, that .he declined out no disrespect, but he thought it would be beta fa some Gentleman connected with the town to oh the lead: accordingly, the Gentleman who called Meeting, a Mr. GEORGE EDMONDS, a person w, name is no doubt familiar to you, presided. " Mr. EDMONDS is a man of considerable tale's, and is one of the Gentlemen concerned in exposing to the Public some nefarious_ transactions respecting our Parish affairs ; for which, upon the e;ectka al Guardians some months back, he was honAted sr:,] the suffrages of several hundreds of the payers ei Poors' Rates, and duly elected a Guardian of izt Poor. He at present, edites two Papers—the on called Edmonds's Weekly Register, anti the other(i very recent publication) Edmonds's BirrzSitg 7 ::r! Gs. setae, both devoted to the cause of Reform. lie ,the son of an eccentric, but respectable Dissenting Minister of this place, and is the same perinn sys Was, with Major CARTWRIGHT, WOOLER, and itl.-es, indicted at the last Warwick Assizes, for r:/.la:-../17, electing Sir CHARLES WOLSELEY, Member of Pc. liament for Birmingham. Mr. EDnONDS, and tht other orators, were dressed in the usual habilinseno of woe, rode to the Meeting in a mourning coach, and had their hustings covered with black cloth.' ANOTHER ACCOUNT. BIRMINGHAM, SEPTE3II3ER 33._ _ . Agreeably to a summons which had beenplacariel for some days, through various pars of ti,: VVAT the inhabitants of Birmingham assembled this Jiy great numbers, on a spot called Newhall Iii 11,2:). three o'clock, to take into consideration the happy transactions at Manchester. A temperaij platform was erected, covered with black cloth ; the sombre and funeral hue of which wa , , if posAle, irr creased by the arrival of a mourning coach, vii feathers, containing Sir CIIA It 1. ES WOL SELO', Lin. and another with several Ladies. The immense concourse of people v..ho had con. gregated together on the occasion, presented a spec• tacle which it is not easy to imagine, .ind still onie difficult to parallel. The inequalities of the ground, upon which the Meeting stood, presented the a?. pearance of a la: ge Amphitheatte, ,xhibit:iig a per fectly semi-circular arena, or flat centre, up,•111% - :.:LS innumerable multitudes stood, to all arpeararct moveably condensed. The hills behind t'.:cm, cu the contrary, displayed a fascinating view of British beauty, in numerous associations, of well-aresseaa a handsome females. The ground was flanked ma side by hills, manifesting the same appearance those just described, and ou the other by a coupled bridges ; on the top, and upon the parapets of Veda, a prodigious multitude was planted, in various E. , )- sitions, and multiplied ranks, but preserving a 53 and anxious silence during the whole of the prod' ings which formed the business cf this day. lushes, this Amphitheatre, if we may be permitted s 0 term it, discovered an almost endless array or r' r '' women, and children, horses and vehicles ; hut et numbers of this accumulating crowd were cot les remarkable than the deep expression of WV' 2 1:1 attention which their countenances exhibited. the orators who presented themselves to the irtic, Of this auditory were clothed in deep mourning ; 221 ' so general a feeling of a character in unison w ! “ : sombre trappings of the temporary forum et hall um, appeared to pervade the listening spec::: tors, that upon a display of !:ands--cettaiitiy least numerous ever raised in support of a belie`.'' Resolutions—some were blacked, %erne smeared;o soot, and others covered in mourning gloves. withstanding this, no indications of even momenta., tumult or alarm, were exhibited throughout the 4 1 . 1 : Upon ascending the platform, Mr. E r annius, (t: Editor of a Birmingham Par.), was itoolett i ' d ; . r called to the Chair. He opened the business . by ,;(.. precating any charge of presumption that nui..ht brought against him for so doing. He had lir Ifor the assistance of others who were ab sent, and was urged against him, that their High Bailiff w' u° have pre,,ided ; hut, from goes,.: cause or ether , heiv,..l,.:aied placiq; i 41Stif 14 4 SI