Star. — London, England, 1819-12-01 00:00:00

7 .~; ~r 1 -, . ; 1 . 44! I IK' ~ It I - 1` 11 . been forgotten was now pumpeted - about amongst them, and appeared to UP' tl.t watch-word of the party : he meant Thomas Paine, whose object, no doubt, was the overturning of the Constitution, and for the republication of whose works an unfortunate individual had recently been doomed to suffer im prisonment. Observations had'been made on the in formation laid befote Parliament, and it was said all had not been disclosed. Government never proposed to lay all the information they possessed before the Pablic ; the only question. now was, had sufficient been disclosed? The Riot Act-did not da away with the provisions of the Common Law, and . the Magis trates might properly avail themselves of it. No line of distinction could be drawn between the events prior and subsequent to the 16th of August. Before the 16th, training had taken place to a great extent, though without the use of arms. He must oppose the Motion of the Noble Lord. Sir M. W. RIDLEY.—Toe Country looked up to Gentlemen on his side of the House, for protection against the designs of Ministers. • -It was too much to legislate for the whole kingdom, from what had taken place in a few districts ; nor was the Statute Book, on that account, to be loaded with new enact ments. Nothing could be more conciliating to the mistaken men in the disturbed districts, than for the House to express a sympathy with their wants, and an intention to take into consideration the subject of Parliamentary Reform. He should give his cordial support to the motion. Mr. LONG WELLESLEY.—The language that was held on the present occasion respecting a Committee a that House, did not exactly quadrate with what had been stated on former occasions, as if it had.only re-echoed the sentiments of the Minister. The great question was, whether the Manchester Meeting was illegal or not? but that question had been wholly abandoned by the Gentlemen opposite; As no inquiry on the partof that House would satisfy the ppblic mind,itoughttobereferred to the ordinary tribunals of the country. He should oppose the motion. Mir. D. KINN AfilD i'as desirous of addressing the Ilouse, while the country was yet in possession of a ' Constitution. The Noble Lord who had that night moved for a Committee, had done the duty of the Ministers of the Crown. He was incredulous as to the charges of sedition and impiety against the Peo ple. There was much distress ; and it was nothing extraordinary that distress should generate di*con. tent. He should give his support to the motion. Lord LASCELLES had strong reason to believe that the prevailing discontents originated in real dis tress—distress unexampled : but what he complained of, was, that mischievous and itinerant persons made a practice of increasi:le that discontent by inflammatory language, going the let gth to ~nnetimes representing that the Monarch ought to be d-zitrontd. Could thtmoral and well-disposed part of so- ciety be i:: safety, or regard itself as in security, unless some new measures were proposed ? There was cause enough, he apprehended, to excite national alarm, and to impose on Patna- rient the necessity of interfering. It was in defence of the la l‘orious classes of society that he gave his support to the present measures He did not consider them as adequately protected till they were exempted from the existing means of delusion.— Upon the whole view of the subject, and the best consideration which he could give it, he was sincerely of opinion, that conci liation was advisable, but that some measures of a restrictive natur- were absolutely necessary. Mr. BENETT (of Wiltshire) said. the question for the C9ll - of the House was, if strong coercion should be adopted on the bare representation of Ministers? He did not think that hws which must affect the whole community, should be enacted on the conduct of a few. Lord M : LTQN said, that the statement of the Noble Lord (Lascelles) might well be liable to the same objection as that brought against the speech of his Hon. Friend, namely, that the Noble Lord looked but at one side of the question. Mr. S. WORTLEY, previously to the Meeting in Yorkshire, had offend to his Noble Friend to vote for a Parliamentary in: quiry, if be (Lord Milton) would join in a declaration against the Radical Reformers ; but that proposal having been declined, his offer consequently came to nothing, • Mr. DEN se AN said, the only question regarding the Man chester Meeting was, had that *Meeting been lawfully dispersed? If not, a fatal blow had been given to the Constitution. The Meeting might have been legally convened, and the Improper conduct of a few would not affect the conduct of the whole. Mr. MANSFIELD was decidedly against the Motion. The disaffection, be said, was spreading from the Manufacturing to the Agricultural Districts. There was now scarcely a town or district in the North which had not its Deputies or its Delegates. Mr. W. COURTNEY also opposed the Motion. Mr. W. L A 'MB was in favour of Inquiry before a Commit tee, as the only mode of inquiry which could satisfy the Public. Mr, LAWSON was astonished at the demand for Parlia mentary Inquiry, and still more at the quarter from which it came.--Thellonourable Gentleman rallied the Radicals on their politics and their vettiegrise excl.,. quer, as he termed the penny subscription, and made a humouruus sally on the missepresenta dons of the sufferings of the Manchester folk. Mr. MARTIN (of Galway) rose amidst loud cries of" ques tion !" to oppose the Motion. Lord CASTLEREAGH begged to call the attention of the House to the true bearing of the motion then before it. Its ob ject was two fold—first, to inquire into the events of the 16th of August ; and next, to inquire into the condition of the Coun try generally. But he trusted that the House would not sus pend all remedial measures until the inquiry was concluded, nor determine to rescind the vote of a former night. He believed there was not one Member in the House who would deny the necessity.of remedial measures. Every loyal man in the Coun try looked to the Government for protection, and the very Ra dicals themselves would look with contempt upon Parliament if they did not stand forward and vindicate the safety of the CINII3. try against the notorious dangers that exist, He should be dis posed to make any reasonable concession In the details to the Gentlemen opposite ; but he was afraid, from the spirit mani fested by those Gentlemen, that it would not be in the power of Government to act in concert with them. He should be , un willing to impute to the Right Honourable Gentleman opposite (Mr. Tierney) an unworthy ambition, for he believed that the Right Honourable Gentleman felt as he himself felt, that office at the present moment imposed a very heavy responsibility upon those who filled it. The Right Honourable Gentleman bad said, that the Whigs only could save the Country. [Mr. Tier ney across the table denied that he had said so.] But the Right honourable Gentleman had said as much, when he pointed cut to the House what he represented to be the evil effects of the administration of those now in power. Look, said he to the National Debt—the state of the Expenditure, Btc.—:(Cheers from the Opposition Benches.) But the Gentetnen opposite would have acted morewisely by spewing a dis po sition to co operate with the Government of the Country. But it was too apparent that they acted under the delusion that Government WAS the enemy of the Country—(Cheers from the Opposition Benches). was fully confident, however, that there was a sense, a determination, and a manliness in the Country to second' the disposition of the Government. He did not say, that the Administration of the Country wodld go on in spite of the Whigs, but he WAS sure it would go on without the Whigs. Mr. TIERNEY assured the House that he was never more surprised in his life, than by the necessity of dates to trouble the House at that late period of the night, for it had been his determination, up to the moment of the extraordinary rant of ' the Noble Lord, to have remained wholly siletit—(Cbeers from the Opposition /leaches). He would put it 'to the candour of any Honourable ember of that House, whether o r not be bad bean goaded to address them by the speech of the Noble Lord? Just at the moment when the House was about to divide in pens and good humour, down cams the Noble Lord with his speech, calculated as it was, to revive and stimulate pasty sp i r i t ; lest the Mete should separate arlth amity. Ills Lord s h ip b egan by a misrepresentation of Whig principles. The truth was, that ' the Whigs bore the entire brunt of the- Radisal hostility. Ills 1 Lordship attributed to him (Mr. Tierney) a declaration that the 1 Whigs only could save the Country. The fact was,- that a Right Honourable Gentleman then absent (Mr. Canning) had boasted on a former night, that the Whigs wefe kept out of office for the last fifty years. In reply to that boast, he (Mr. Tierney) begged the House to look at the consequence. He de sired the House to look at the effect of Tories being in Mice— (Cheers from the Opposition). Ile had at the time said, " Look to the expenses of the State increased in the course *1 thirty years, from fifteen millions to sixty millions--look to the dis tress of the Country—look to the prepure of the - Poor Rates— , these are the blessings of Tory government !" And after all this, those very Ministers had the impudence to come and ask the Whigs for confidence. The Noble Lord called on them to give Government their support. The Whigs did support Govern , ~ ment, and now truly their services were - acknowletlged by the imputation of joining the Radicals. But what support did they look for? Give them every thing.-but it was impossible they could have authority., Give than troops—money--and what ' ever assistance they might ask, but they never would possess Statesmen-Ate authority with the Country—(Cheers from the , (ptsitition). He was warm, but he could not help it—(Laugh ter). He was quite taken by surprise. He eould not have imagined that he should have met with a turbulent Gentleman in the course; at least, of that evening—(Hear, and much laugh ter). Instead of conducting himself as a quiet, well-behaved Member, the Noble Lord did every thing in his power to pre vent the House from separating in good humour. What was the conduct of Ministers throughout the whole of this proceed ing? Why they had taken, as they usually did, a miserable, shifting, temporising course, If they had built their measures upon the notoriety merely of disaffection, why their propositions would, at least, have been intelligible. Me denied the that the House had pledged itself to refuse inquiry. - amendment, which he had the honour to propose, was rejected bon the ground of its being an unseemly appendage at the par ticular time. He begged the House so consider the grounds upon which the new measures were proposed. It was not only that there was no adequate reason for bringing forward tem porary measures, but that there was net the slightest ground for permanent laws which wept to alter and change the Constitu tion of the Country--(Cheers). Were the whole Pe op le of the Empire to be mulcted for the sins of two Counties ? The Bight Honourable Gentleman, after having contended that there was not any reason for suspecting that disaffection existed in any other County in the Kingdom, said, that the attempt which the new measures avowed, of altering tbe Constitudon so materi ally, could only come from the Noble Lord himself. He next adverted to the proposition for raising the additional Military force, and stated, that there was not a single proof brought to shew that such an addition was necessary. With respect to.the law aimed at the itinerant Orators, he should say, there appeared no justification for such a measure, save the evidence that there were six persons of this description at present in the Country, one of whom happened, however, to be an Orator of the Noble, Lord himself. But he begged it to be. remembered, that, al though the People might be prevented from actually listening to the Orators, yet that the re ad ing of his speech would be quite as effectual for the promotion of his views. It was quite possible that all the warmth of the speaker could be conveyed to the reader by a faithful report of what he had said. -For instance. if it were possible that the Noble Lord's rant could be reported and read out of doors, that it would set all his friends capering through the Country ! —(Laughter.) He had now a question to put to the Noble Lord-' He wished to know from him if the letter of Mr. Hay, contained in the documentsbefore the House, was the foundation of the thanks which Ministers bestowed on the Manchester Magistrates? If so, he had no hesitation in dliciaring there never was a set of men more branded with guilt before the Country, than those who advised the Prince Regent to bestow those thanks—(Hear, bear). If the thanks Were founded upon the subse quen t information of Mr. Hay, why, he begged to ask, should not the House be put in possession of that information 1 The Right Honourable Gentleman then pro ceeded to shew that the Resolutions entered into by the Gentle men of York, in opposition to those agreed to at the Public Meeting in that City, pledged those who supported them to a Parliamentary inquiry upon the subjectof the Manchester events, and for this purpose he read the whole of their e•unterAitate. meat. He would ask those Gentlemen, then, one question, if the terms they proposed to those with whom they were first un willing to act, had been agreed to, would they not have toted in Parliament for inquiry? He could not possibly see how the euevion couMbe angweroit otherwise than in the affirmative. The Right Honourable Gentleman concluded, by thanking the House for the patience with which they had heard Ms speech, which had been most unexpectedly wrung from him, hi theptrty speech of the Noble Lord.—(Hear, Hear, Hear.) The House then divided on the Motion, when the numbers were—Ayes 130—Noes 383—Majority against the Mothan, 173, Adjourned at Half-past One o'clock. HEADS OF THE BILL FOR THE MORE EFFECTUALLY PREVENTING SE DITIOUS MEETINGS AND ASSEMBLIES. Paxamm.a.--No {Meeting of more than persons (ex , cepting always County Meetings, c all e d by t h e L or d Lieutenant or Sheriff, or, if is Scotland, by the Convener, and called by or more acting Justices of the Peace, or by the major part of the Grand Jury of a County; as also all Meetings of any City, Borough, or Town Corporate, called by the s,ayor or other Had Officer thereof; or of any Ward, or Division of a City, called by the Alderman or Head Of ficer ; and excepting finally all Meetings of any Corporate Body), shall be holden for the purpose or on the pretext of deliberating upon any public grievance, or any matter in Church or State; or of considering, proposing, or agreeing to any Petition, Com plaint, Remonstrance, Declaration, Resolution or Address, upon the subject thereof, unless in the Parish, or when any Parish shall be divided into Townships, having separate and distinct Overseers of the Poor , then in the Township within which the ' persons calling any such Meeting shall usually inhabit or dwell, nor unless notice in writing of the intention to hold such Meet ing, and of the time and place when and where, and of the pur pose for which the same shall b e p ro p ose d to be holden, shall be delivered personally to some Justice of the Peace residing near to such Parish or Township, and usually acting for the District or Division within which such Parish or Township 'ball be situate, nor unless such notice shall be subscribed by persons at the least, being householders, usually resident within the Parish or Township (as may be) where such Meeting shall be proposed to be holden. Justices to have the power of altering time and place of Meeting. Adjourned Meetings to be held as unlawful assemblies. No persons to attend any Meeting whatever exceeding the num ber of unless freeholders, or householders, or inha bitants of the county, city, parish, &c. where the Meeting is held. Persons attending Meetings contrary to the provisions of this Act, to be liable to be punished by not exceeding years, at the discretion V the Cowl us which the conviction shall be had. The Act not to affect M of persons in trade, w h o s h a ll meet in any number not e xceeding for the purpose of considering any matters relating to such trade. All Justices of the Peace empowered to resort to any Assemblies held within their jurisdiction. and there to do, or cause to be done, all matters or things which the case may require. • If Notice shall purport that any thing by Law established may be altered, except by authority of King, Lords, and Com mons, dic. the Meeting shall be deemed an unlawful Assembly. Persons attending Meetings contrary to tha limitations of this Act (i. e. strangers), to be required by Proclamation to depart, and if they do not depart within a quarter of an hour, to be adjudged on conviction to be guilty of FORM OF THE PROCLAMATION, • • Persons assembled at any Meeting, sot lawfully convened, may be commanded to be di:versed by Proclamation, and if they shall, to the number of or more, notwithstanding such Proclamation made, continue together for the space of thereafter, every person so continuing, to be adjudged guilty of FORM OF PROCLAMATION IN THE PRECEDING CASE. Justices, at Meetings held in pursuance of legal notice given, may order persons propounding or maintaining any proposition for altering any thing by law established, otherwise than by the authority of King, Lords, and Oimmons, &c. to be taken into custody, and in case of resistance, may cause Proclamation to be made, for the dispersion of the Meeting, and if or MOM shall continue together for the space of thereafter they shall be adjudged guilty of , Persons obetssitilini Justices, to be a dj u d ge d gu il ty o f • • If die person, as sembled at nay Meeting or Assembly held contrary to the pro vinces of this Act, or which shall belles* and be ne unlawful Assembly, under the provisions of this Act, or any of tbs.. atoll koppost is be kilted, otAimed, or kart, ta the disperses, as en sleafauring to disperse, or, arresting, or apprehending, or detals- Lig them, or any of th em ,or in the endeavouring so to do, by reason of theit resisting the persons so dispersing, seining, or err-. prehending, or endeavouring to disperse, seine, or a them, that every such Justice of the Peace, Sheriff, Cortiliffilled riff, Mayor, Head Officer, Magistrate, High or Petty Constable. or other Peace Officer, and all and singular persons being aiding and assisting to them, or any of theta, shall be free, discharged, and indemnified, as well against the King's Majesty, his Hoke, and Successors, as against all and every other person or peeves* of, for, or concerning the killing, maiming, or hurting, of any such person or persons so tontinuing together as aforesaid, that shall happen to be so killed, maimed, or hurt, as aforesaid !!! Persons not to attend Meetings with any gnu, pistol: sward. dagger, pike, bludgeon, or other gremitts weapon, no pain of being convic;ed of • , excepting Justices of the Peace, Peace Officers, or any persons actyig in their aid or assistsace. Nor to attend Meetings with gags, banners, or ensigns d' playing any device, badge, or emblem, or with any drum, military or other music, or in military array or order, on pain of Sheriffs-Depute in Scotland to have the same power as Magi strates in England. Justices at Sessions may sub-divide large Parishes and Town. for all the purposes of this Act. - Meetlegs may be held under this Act ha certain Parishes . Westminster ' within of Westminster-Hall, notwitia-, Waft the Act of 57 Geo. 111. e. 19. Puma indicted under this Act, not to be allowed so traverse to a raise gnent Anises or. Sessions. Plasm kr Lectures or Debates, unless previously honied, • therewith provided, to be deemed disorderly places, and ' persons opening or using the same, to forfeit the sum of for every day or time the same shall be so used ;•and every per son managing or conducting the proceedings, or paying or - eeiving money en account thereof, to forfeit the sum of Magistrates may demand admission to unlicensed places. i tties Justices may license laces for Lectures, &c. Justices may inspect set places. Lectures at the Calve Inns of Court, Gresham Col lege, College of the nut Itiffii Company, of under the autho rity of any Society incorporated by Royal Chatty or Act ' Parliament excepted. License to be forfeited in ease of Lectures of a seditious or immoral tendency being delivered. Limitation of Actions against Justices, &c. for exceeding their powers under this Act, to calendar months. Prosecutions for offences under this Act to be commenced within months thereafter. I • I I • ' • ' ~~ 't f 1 k ~ I THE EVENING STAR. . LONDON. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1,1819 s THE FUNDS. FRICK OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK : 3 per Cent. Reduced 67.1 661 3 per Cent. Consols 68 671 68 6711 Sit per Cent. 75-11 4 per Cent. 84+1,4 5 per Cent. Navy 104-1 103 k 104 Bank Long Annuities 17 9-16 f India - Stock 208*—India Bonds ss. 4s. pre. Exchequer Bills (2d.) 2s. 4s. dis. Ornnium 2l—Consols for Acct. 68t 67f 68. ••••••• Never were more important subjects brought into discussion than those embraced by the gagging—the Revolutionary Bills .now before Parliament. That to prevent unauthorised drilling, is just in principle, none will dispute. But why irthis salutary measure to be accompanied with the subversion of all the venerablo; institutions of our. forefathers? How often have we heard of the dangers of innovation from the mouths the very men who now innovate by wholesale. Should the Seditious Meeting Bill pass into a law in its present 'form, an end will at once be put to all expression public opinion, Our counties and cities are .to be broken down to their constituent atoms, in every at tempt to express their desires to the Legislature or • the Sovereign. Every thing, as in. France during the worst times of the Revolution, is to be done b;• divisions of Lilliputian slenderness-..-parishes and half parishes—if the Magistrates contrive not prevent even this. This is precisely what was done by the French Tyrants, when they divided Paris into Sections, and the Country into Communes, which they directed at their pleasure. To restrain, in this manner, the right of Petitioning to Sections, is to destroy it effectually ; for before -the tedious de. tail can be gone through on any objectionable mea , sure, the whole Session will have passed over, and the matter in question have become law. And what shall we say to the increased creation of artificial fe lonies by the operation of this Bill—that is, acts le gally constituted so, though not morally criminal' Should a person, in the exercise of the right pre tended to be reserved to him, mistake the bounds of! his own District and shew his face in Another, he no longer walks with the firm step of a free-born Englishman, but in the slippery path of a felon, As to the Bill which is intended (under the pre text of restraining the circulation of Seditious and Blasphemous Publications), to destroy the Freedom of the English Press, it is impossible to speak of in terms of sufficient reprobation, But The Courier tells us, that it is not intended " to interfere with the vital principle ! of the Liberty of the Press--there is to be no previous Ce n sorship." Insulting syco phant. The Bill is infinitely worse. Yes, infinitely worse ! Where there •is a Censorship, the man who publishes that on which the Censors have put their Veto, does it with his eyes . open. But this Bali neither more nor less than a snare to entrap men who have never contemplated the perpetration of a crime, A publisher isnot to be allowed the benefit of knowing, officially, what may be construed a libel, by receiving the opinion of tht Censors on the article, before pub lication. He Must act on his own judgment—his revisers are a Jury (perhaps a very ignorant one) after he has fully committed himself (owing to the want of Guardian Censors); and, on a - second gems, he is to be transported as a felon among thieves and murderers I—Are Englishmen at last to be brought to this pass ?—ls this the preservation of the vital principle" of the Liberty of the Press?—And all this' is to be thrustdovm our throats, with the levity maw nifested by a Mountebank, when he makes his petite, swallow such a potion as he is sure, from its fikhines4, must produce wry faces, to muse the surnpunding multitude. What must he the result of this system ? Wdl" n ch se a r ra ou t s te a r situat tl' io n ? N o occupy n so an d d a ap. hitherto conducted the Free Press o f ,by , lik e th ose wh o 44 rba da. ni.t:nUeottif e du cat i on Engl an d , c, . ate- ble, measure will defeat its object. The p ' • Stag entirely into the hands of the very • P ress will WI flea oh m d m Bill is intended to exclude fr • • 0.. s it ; and, when Dolt late, our sapient Rulers will endeavoursny to u n d o ef t h at of their own Creation. ;;IT .----, Ord. MA NCHES --y-e-- TER . NO i'EMREP i of . , . 2g, toe. ce. PRIVATE LETTER. dis- "By the Public Papers you will have s een of . H I announcement of Mr. COEBETT'S intention to . [Mi. Manchester. His arrival was fixed to take place -ell wn- twelve O'clock this day. As early as ten a' . c considerable numbers of p erso ns moved alon g *in , 'l' Salford road to meet him, and form the pros..' by which he was to be accompanied into town. I the same time bills were posted about the street s , 1, as order of the Boroughreeve and Constables, oa ; V the • mg the peaceable and well-disposed inhabitant s ' t per- abstain from joining th e assem bl age, and to , t their children and servants as much as po, •c within doors. The Sp ec i a l C onstables were } called out, and the Military were uncles' arms. :31- the time at which Mr. Coaster's arrival wa s dpetted drew near, the military arrangements as . • a more threatening aspect. A troop of the 1 " so r Hussars, a large body of Inf an t r y, an d ( I . : w seir Two FIELD PIECES were stationed close to the , Bailey, by which Mr. Cosazrz was expected ( eed pass. Other bodies of soldiery were posted in .: 1 quarters of the town, and, I am told, two field-p• in Messrs. Plczaosuis waggon-yard, whe re t h e , many were concealed in the early part of the f ; noon on the never-to-be-forgotten 16th of Aug 1 and two more in George Leigh -street, where dinner of Mr. COBEETT'S friends was announcec • take place. These formidable preparations seen to announce that desperate measures were in ap tion. On passing the New Bailey, about ties o'clock, I met a friend, who said t , They surer. , not mean to use violence towards the people? I • • plied, , I do not knoir, I thought they would not the 16th of August. Now, therefore, I have no , 1 fidence in their conduct.' Mr. Cosner?, lu, stand, last night slept at Irlam, a pla c e ab out sto he miles hence, on the - road to Live r p oo l, an d , I sat horses were put to the chaise in which he mean t , le, proceed to this town s when a Beadle arrived with , to letter from the Boroughreeve and C onsta bl es , A 4 which he requested an answer, wherein, I underst we they said in effect, that 'as his en t r y i n proc ' • of into Manchester would collect a great crowd, " cause great disturbance, they should not pease it Kit take place ; and that if he attempted a public en . of they should feel it their _duty to INTERFERE. be Coati/ITT infornled the messenger that , no ans at- was necessary; but as his o wn o pi n i on co i nc i, to with the- judgment of hi s f r i en d s , t h at the nun pled military preparations mad e p rove d w h at sort ng b ' INTERFERENCE' was contempl a t e d, h e d eeme d nd y most prudent to return to War r i ng t on , w h ence , I • to derstand, he proceeds, probably thi s even i ng , to ,• me ion. He has, however, lam told, wr i tten an an to the Boronghreeve and Co ns t a bl es , w hi c h will k ,ris published to-morrow, wherein he sa y s , ,Wn 4 es, in, KNOW WHAT YOUR INTERFERENCE MEANS. The tic. ns, however, is fast coming, whe n I s h a ll not d epen d* le- your pleasure for permission to enter Manchester: ea- " Upon the circumstances I ha v e narrated,lken nd not how•to comment. It is a thing, I apprehet tan unexampled in our history, that a n arr ay of hti fe. and foot and cannon should be made to oppose:2: icy ..entry of an English Citizen into an English ton ii? Nor do 1 know by what law, by what authority, tbest alarming manifestations can be justified? 'll 3 of question does not involve the personal or politic.4l he character of Mr. CoaaaTT, but the Rights of ever! British subject. Upon the prudence too of thus sty rn diously adding to the irritation which unfortunatO prevails amongst the populace, most people will inn 'e- doubts, for surely, however strenuously we ought to Id visit any attempt on their Oft to violate the luwore. aas ..„.. ought carefully to abstain from any act which ca afford them just ground far complaint, still coca it r orom any which may tend to goad them to ?nf ir breach of the public peace. ` he " Upon the whole, it is my decided opinion, bow• re ever dreadful the idea may be, that hail Mr. CC* o- SETT persevered in his intention of making a pnbll 1 entry into Manchester, THE TRAGEDY Or PETERLO4 I WOULD HAVE BEEN RE-ACTED. Mr. COBBETT said, 10 hishould never forgive himself if he were, howere: sr unintentionally, the cause of blood being spilt." , is , 401.1Mromplilinpoi• Yesterday being St. Andrew's Day, the Governor , so Friends; and Benefactors of the Scottish Hospital, n e . Crane-court, dined together at the City of Load( 1 p Tavern, the Duke of Ctitaanca in the Chair. Aftt kg the cloth was removed, and the usual loyal toas•s b_ given, his Royal Highness rose, and, in anim ated S terms, alluded to the praiseworthy object of the Se• la ciety, to relieve the distresies of their poor fe11 13%, ' t b subjeCts and countrymen. His Royal Highness sne- le nuously solicited the aid of the humane and beneror *, 'cam in behalf of-the Institution, the calls on which, i d he olssetved, had lately far out-run its means. 11l ! It Royal Highness concluded with giving ~ S ucc e s s to Scottish d the Corporation.”—Other toasts followed , with some excellent songs and glees from prof is sional Gentlemea ; and at eleven o'clock the Royal s. Chairman retired ; previous to which Mr. Aux% the , it worthy Secretary, announced that the donations 0 1 the evening . amounted to nearly £440, among which 11. were 20zumeas from the Duchess of CLARENCEe..• Er The company did not finally separate till a late hour. 11 1.03TDON ; 'Printed Out published by Lem Hem Picker- -11 ' Place, Tenipto-Nar. • . . . c