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J 41' R I i~ : !' - i ~- :.,~+ THE E V 14: N ING STAR. LONDON. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 181 9. •• • •••••••••••• ••• • - • PRICK OF STOCKt3 .11413 DAY AT ON% O'CLOCK $ per Cent. Itedneici4rait S per Cent. Consols 67/11 31 per Cent. 751./ 4 per. Cent. 831 84,1 • S per Cent. Navy 10.11 i Back Long Annuities 17 7-16 India Stock 207—India Bonds 6 S pre. Exchequer Bills (CI) Is. 2s. dis. • Commercial. 23 51-1 , discount Omni= dis. Consols for Acct. 6711. The Paris Papers of Tuesday and Wednesday have arrived. The following are extracts : The report of an Epidemic disease having broken out in the Texel, is contradicted. The Duke de Richelieu has arrived at Amsterdam. The King of the Two Sicilies has issued a Decree for arresting all foreigners who arrive in his King dom without a passport, or with a passport not signed by the Agent of the Two Sicilies, resident at the place from which they may have arrived. Some disorders have taken place at Brest, on ac count ofthe arrival of several Missionaries, authorised b; the Bishop of Quimper to preach in his Diocese. On the 24th and 2.51 h, the inhabitants broke the win dows of the house occupied by these Ecclesiastics. Letters from Prague state, that the Prince of Swartzcnberg is dangerously ill. The Emperor of Russia does not visit Vienna or Berlin, as repotted. He quitted Warsaw for St. Pe tersburg, where he was expected to arrive on the 23d of October. A Farriers arrived this morning. The prin cipal details which it presents relate to the Central Commission at Mentz, which, we are told with great gravity, will confine its inquiries to preliminary pro ceedings, and then send the accused persons before the Tribunals of their respective countries, to be put upon their trials. Was ever undisguised tyranny more openly thrust upon mankind, on the pretext of law! Instead of putting the accused party directly to the bar in his own counts y, he is first to be sent, perhaps from the most remote parts of Germany, be fore a foreign Ttibunal!—and for'what purpose? to be again sent back to the place he came from, to be there tried for the alleged offence, whatever it may be! And to crown this outrage on the rights of man and the dictates of common sense, we are also told : " That this mode has been adopted only to give more uniformity and activity to the preliminary proceed ings of a trial, in which individuals of almost all parts of the Confederation are implicated, and whith would have been endless had the ordinary forms been followed !" Several Reading-rooms at Frankfort have deter mined no longer to admit the German Papers, and too take French Journals instead of them. It should seem that the Students of the Universities who were forbidden to attend the proposed Meeting at Berlin, have met in different bodies in several parts of Ger many on the 18th of October. A hundred of those young men who arrived the day before from the neighbouring Universities made a great bonfire in the neighbourhood of Frankfort, in spite of the prohibition of the Magistrates. They passed the night in singing patriotic hymns, and listening to the discourses told by some of the stu dents, from a stage which had been erected on the spur of the occasion. The French Government seems to attach great importance to the present state of things in England, for it has given orders at Calais to transmit imme diately to Paris, by Telegraphic Bulletins, all impor tant intelligence from this side of the Channel. Both in the Netherlands and in France important results were expected from the proposed simultaneous Meetings of the Radicals on the Ist of November— now happily over without any bad consequences. Prince of Wales Island Gazettes have been received by way of New York. The following is an extract, d. , ted Coast of Pcdier, 15th March, 1810: •• 'rho brig Vogl'lamina, Captain Oar:To, sailed from Pulo on the eltt of January; when nearly opposite Achecn, Crew, imtiz,ated by a Seacunny, named Jeru, and tempted by the knowledge of money bring on board, rose at night, and in the rzost cruel manner murdered the Captain and Officers, f::' 7Wlng up their barbarity by throwing overboard the helpless v.:, of the Captain and the servant girl the next morning. They itiattled the vessel, and proceeded in a boat to a place re:: twenty miles from Achet-n, where one of the villains has Lc.!:: secured." A Cabinet Council was held on Thursday at Lord St.u.mtrrit's Office, which was attcn,:cd by the E.t . a o LiviturooL, the Earl Ilarnunsr, Lord CASTLE -1C.M.11, and the CIIANCELLOR of the Exettatatam. Yesterday Viscount IVIELvti Le presided at the Ward dAslmiralty, for the first time since his Lord bhip's return from Edinburgh. The Dowager Marchioness of LANsoowwn, and the Miss GIFIVARD3, arc arrived at their house in Albemarle-street, from the Continent. The Marquis and Marchioness of Lassnowaz and J.tmily are expected borne the 15th Jan. from Paris. Lord and Lady RIVERSDALE and family arthed in England on Tuesday, from the Continent Lady raraa is arrived - at her house in Grosvenor squArc, from el tour. C.IRLISLR ADJOURNED. RADICAL REFORM MEETING. (From thy Carlisle journal.) 'About one o'clock, on Monday last, _the Union Committee, and their brethren in the cause of Radi cal Reform, consisting of parties from Dalston, Wig ton, Brampton, Longtown, Bce. arrived at the hust ings, at Coalfell-hill, near Newtown, with banners flying and music playing. Mr. MURDoCK opened the proceedings of the day, by stating that this Meeting was agreed to at the former one, which WAS held on the 11th of last month ; he then begged leave to place on the head of the Chairman the Cap - of Liberty—(Acdantation.) . The Cap of Liberty being placed, the Chairman (Mr. BELL) proceeded to state, that this Meeting was holden for the purpose of denying themselves the use of certain exciseable articles until a Radical Reform is obtained in the Commons House of Parliament. Mr. M'KENZIE then addressed the Meeting to nearly the following purport:—.. Friends and fellbw country men. and I hope most staunch and loyal Britons; believe me it is with heart-felt satisfaction that I see so many of you here this day to consider a great na , tional, and, indeed, a great individual question; be cause, whatever nationally concerns the country, also concerns the individual who forms part of that country. I repeat my exultation—l do feel happy in being surrounded by so many thousands of my fellow-countrymen, who hold the same opinions with respect to our political rights that I have long cherished, and am not now either ashamed or afraid openly to avow--( Cheers)—for I would sooner die at my post than shrinliCom the performanceof that duty which has brought me forward this day--a duty which ' holds the foremost place in my heart; and whose call it would he high treason agairist freedom to disobey.-- Oh ! my country I' exclaimed the apostate Son of Chatham, when the stubborn heart-strings of his flinty bosom were cracking and giving way under the-agonizing reflections—of what? that his perverse and headstrong perseverance had involved that country in inextricable difficulties? No; but that his mad schemes of ambition had been blighted —that the eagle-pinions of his expansive mind (for his mind was as expansive as Satan's in the pursuit of evil) had not availed to eclipse the beams of the rising sun of French independence. He rushed upon the lambent fire of freedom that shone from afar ; and his plumage, his honour, and his life, were the Merited. sacrifice.— ( Repeated cheers.)—Had the consequences of Pitt's engaging in the French war been confined alto gether to himself, the mourning and distress that now pervades the land would not have arisen to Heaven. Neither the property of the People, nor the far dearer and more cherished inheritance of our fathers—the liberty they transmitted to us— would have been to be bewailed. The youngest man amongst you cannnot say that England is now the same happy country as when be first knew it—r No ! No!)—Year after year has the na tional wealth been plundered, and something abridged from the privileges and comforts of the People, until the invasions that have been made on cur chartered and inalienable rights have become to the last degree alarming, and we seem to have proceeded to the utmost boundary of human endurance.— Public and legal Meetings for redress of grievances nave, contrary to the express contract between the King and the People, been forcibly interrupted: wit ness the proceedings at Manchester on the 16th August. The tragedy that was enacted that day will never be forgotten-4 Never, never No, never t) The principal persons that figured in the leading proceed ings of that day were Clerical Magistrates. I think, after the specimen afforded by their proceedings, and the sermons, edifying serm 'ns, preached before Judges, that the less Clergymen had to do with being Magis • trates, the better. Now the performers in this bloody tragedy, the Yeomanry Cavalry, a band of—l do not know what term to apply to them, for they are in nature different from. • any thing in the heavens above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth; for no creature in the universe delights to riot in the blood of its fellow. In future ages, the name of Yeomanry Cavalry will be synonimous with every thing cruel and bloodthirsty—(' Bravo, bravo!') — To proceed—new and strange Laws have been made to put down Public Associations, when these did not square with the absurd and bastard loyalty of the day : the term loyalty' itself has been perverted from ' its legitimate meaning : and he is upbraided as dis affected and as a Jacobin who would wish to restore the Constitution—who would desire to repair her gates, and cleanse her Palaces ; while the men who trample upon all equity, who do as they list, who are deemed respectable characters in proportion as they advance the designs of a corrupt Government, and minister to the slivery of the community—are held out as the only truly loyal—( Shame ! ) Some of our men in power, who are mere Jacks-in-office, may not know, in the excess of their overweaning vanity and conceit, the meaning of the word ; but I would be ashamed seriously to inform you, though many of you may be imprudently called the rab ble, that it signifies an attachment to the Laws!— Now, Ministers, and their vile panders, and herds of supple Magistrates, on the oue hand—and the uni 'versa' Nation, on the other, are at issue ; and I ask you, boldly, who are they who have transgressed the laws ? who are they who have plundered the temple of the national sanctuary ? and who are they who, uncorrected by experience, heedless of supplication, deaf to remonstrance—may, possibly, make ship wreck of the Throne of their Sovereign, if the whole People (not the respectablei,' as they are foolishly and, in too many instances, improperly called ; but the rabble,' the hardy class of labourers, who are the sinews of the State, and the only origin of wealth) do not simultaneously press forward, and demand that those men, who have so long oppressed these Kingdoms, be driven from their unworthy seats with disgrace, to make room for others, who will attend to the prayers of a long-suffering People, and re establish the Kin; 's Throne in righteousness I° (C6eers) Were the enormous taxes we pay appro priated to objects of absolute ne c e ss ity, th e P eop l e might, and I believe would, bear up under their bur thens with manly resignation ; but when they see vice, and folly, and harlotry, dancing among the treasures accumulated under privations and suffer ings of the most heart-rending description ; and, in 1 , the madness of their revelry, scattering them oa most worthless objects, and for the basest purposes, the deep-drawn groan must relieve the bosom strug gling must betoken the feelings of the heart—(Cheers).— with indignation, and the glistening of the eye What think you, my friends, of last yea-.'s taxation (including four millions , for charges of collection), amounting to the vast sum of fifty-eight millions of amountedpounds— to sum when n n his im presentes greater Majesty th an a ct: c e e Revenue ied tim Throne—besides the many millions of National ten Debt now hanging as a dead and intolerable weight upon all of us, and this independently of the hun dreds of millions that were drawn from your pockets without having recourse to borrowing : and let me' ask if there is not room fur surprise that the national discontent is not more strongly expressed than it is ? Amongst other items of taxation (which embraces every thing that rapacity can come at) is Tea : this article pays a duty of 100 per cent. and all other ar ticles of foreign produce, which come under the con troul of the Customs and Excise, also pay most enor mous duties, though not in the like proportion with Tea ; whilst Salt, an article of such prime necessity that the use of it is indispensable for the enjoy ment of health, pays a tax of 3000 per cent. or a Government addition of thirty shillings for every shilling's worth of Salt procured from the pits These are only a few of the cisterns whence the over flowing and desolating stream is fed; but I am con- Ivinced, that if the people remain firm and true to themselves, they must speedily put down all their foes under their feet, and shake the pandemonium of tax-eaters to the very centre; for what is that which feeds the ravenous appetite of the Hydra. but your own folly in cotuattning articles that contribute so largely to the excesses of Government ? You are aware, that is many places numbers of individuals have determined to consume as little as possible of exciseable commodities, spirits, wine, beer, tea, cof fee, sugar, tobacco, &c. &c. kc. and the consequence already is, even on this partial scale, that the monster is gasping for breath; already the Revenue is greatly deficient beyond what it was at this period last year, though then a failing quarter. My friends, there will be a series of Resolutions submitted to you, either for adoption or rejection, which I shall not at present enter into the merits of; suffice itto say, they are in tone similar to those adopted by 40,000 of our brethren in the North, at a Meeting lately held at Rutherglen, who have boldly come forward, and are determined to reduce the Resolutions to practice-- they are determined to prove themselves not un worthy the name of descendants of a Bruce or a Wallace. Come boldly forward then, my fellow countrymen, and support the Resolutions, and prove that you will never be unworthy of being called the countrymen of a Sydney, a Hampden, or a Russell ! (Cheers.)—And, my countrymen, mind me, it only needs ' a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull lto gether,'—a general co-operation of the whole king dom—' to drag the savage struggling into day; and occasion a final, and, I trust, a peaceable end' to all our miseries."—( Loud and continued cheering.) Mr. JAMES Whams addressed the Meeting, by stating, that he was sorry to inform them that -his friend Mr. Cockburn had been rendered incapable of appearing amongst them that day, by the effects of indisposition; but he was happy to assure them that a more determined character in the cause of Reform was not to be found. He then observed, " you have heard a detailed account by Mr. M'Kenzie, of the mi sery in which the country is involved; and you must be fully satisfied that the late war was unjust and impolitic; but that infamous apostate, Pitt, was the original cause of all our sufferings—by waging war against the rising liberties of France,. to uphold the Thrones of the Despots of Europe, which led to the restoration of the Bourbons, and of that despicable character, the petticoat-embroidering and beloved Ferdinand ! who.has proved himself a disgrace to the name of King; by involving the Nation in that war, it has been brought under that enormous load of debt and taxation, which has led to our present ruinous and starving condition. Our absurd rulers have had the audacity to state, that the Country- is in a flourishing condition; and have had the im pudence to make such a statement to the Prince Re gent ; but let them visit our manufacturing towns, and they will have proof of that condition which these panders in office call flourishing—(Hear!)— They have asserted that Radical Reform is contrary to the Constitution; but we say, that Taxation with out Representation is contrary to the principles of Magna Chattel, the great Charter of the Country.— The People of England have long been cajoled by the Whigs ; these men have now come forward as the pretended Friends of Reform ; for 25 years past they have cried up the necessity of Reform and Retrench ment; but when they, with Charles Fox, came into power, what blessings did the country enjoy? The Boroughmongering System continued in its full strength, and the.finger of a Whig came heavier upon the great body of the People than the whole thigh of a Tory. These same Whigs have now come forward to proclaim a refined system of Reform, consisting of Triennial Parliaments and Household Suffrage, which, they assert, will answer every necessary pur pose; but which, we assert, would be neither just nor answer any purpose nece ssar y t o re li eve t h e sufferings of the People : we hold it to be due of right to every man of full age and of sound mind, to be represented in Parliament. Parliaments ought to be Annual, because then an opportunity would be afforded to kick out a rascal at the end of a year, if he did not do his duty.—( Loud cheers.) As we have no hopes of any efficient Reform from this plan of the Whigs, we must exert ourselves' in order to accomplish that desirable object. Wisigs have, at all times, made use of the People as a step- ladder, in older to elevate themselves to the*Treasury Benches ; and, alter accomplishing their vile pur pose, they bare, disdainfully, thrown their step-lad der away, and denominated the People a rabble !' The true way of obtaining a Radical Reform is by English mea smiting in small bodies, of t:0 or 25 each, mutually assisting each other, in every lawful en deavour, to obtain the grand object—emblematical of which union is the bundle of sticks. Our. object is nearly accomplished —tyranny trembles upon its throne, and with grief beholds our union, and large Meetings of 40,000, 60,000, 9 and 100,000, where the People assemble together to expose the abominable system of the tyrannical Boroughmongeting faction. But the honesty and spirit of Englishmen will step forward and elect a pure House of Commons, which wily sweep away the corruption of Saint Stephens.-- i e c gge ters d tif lea a v c e ert to ai m n a d k e e SC a ii f"V pti,;n cf c c hi a e ll art themselves Divine l'e ac 'cave .„ f p e r s e t tewl ed t pretenders a t r o t est Christian m the hayP • from tine pit, had the temerity tt, pror,) , tlrrt are these se • . , 1 , , ers the enemies of (ion and :nail, and .e E , T A dash, have plunged them headlong info ,tern " one " dition ! They are the supporter s of the pry " surd system of taxation and misral ai r l d quently vindicate th e practice of all impiety parliament e s n o t ?se seriously s b l e Y c a a luasrernsendd a Pad cal !i ef 4 quity. They, themselves, are partakers in th ottn 'l c e a , l b le y d t t hei he r T l i iv th in e g s. A ll V ii h u y • 47 i o ( o n ; ff e p tt :7:l r e . heayt up.eurerpoinsetetnhdeeydrcerii-geizpiarlii:nyatr(i)leynabgraientEsi the Itle4llS of inve s ti gat i ng i nto the origin of ]"h a w n h d e t f h o e r r ‘‘ t °l ‘ bellied Doctors i n Di v i n i ty to r i ot in I the support of the poor of the parish? if it st as Glared in favou r c f t h e l atter, it wol,ld be an tr.. - tunate discovery for the sons o f l uxury and corrupt' He believed that the Tithes were principally meanti, the support of the poor, leaving only a small stir in reversion for the Clergy; and he asserted that . shillings a week is a sufficient allowance fee prat' ing two sermons once a week. The peDple mn cling together, and encourage each other. Meeting of to-day was intended to shcw that e , individual is yet useful in the comm .city, and assist in accomplishing the great cause for al;, they were assembled. Men who are small of • like himself, and not fit for bugle, may effect. " serve the cause by abstinence. Keep money Iron pockets of your enemies, and you will reduce power of doing evil, •as you take from them means of supporting their armies, for, according the old adage—' No pay, no soldier.' The sr%. must come down, and will come down; and by . d., ing ourselves, fcr a few months, the use of thel ciseable articles we can do witholt, we ill tiuish job, for corruption has got a death-blow alreadr He concluded by stating that the Resolutions sio•-• be now read, after which he would do himse:f pleasure to make a few observations thereon: 1. That this Meeting views with grief and sorrow n mulated load of poverty, starvation and wretchedness, on this once happy laud, and that this state of suffering is • confined to ono class of society, but extends less or more . all (except those who live on taxation' ' ; that this misera: result of an enormous load of taxation irr.pcsed - ..:pas the Prcf by those who styled themselves their Ttilers, but tr'o Sart plundered the defenceless People of their al!, to render selves despotic, and to rule by the law of the sword. 2. That the ruling faction could not have carried ontbelt qnitous measures, had it not been from the igutratee cf People, because tyranny ceases to exist the mene tit itta lightened : therefore it is the duty of every man to roc= fyl inforrriation respecting his sacred rights and libtr.ks,;:a: a man he may defend* them against every encroacloneet, whatever quarter it may come; for which important i.ur7.- •naurt should assoehre in small numbers for their manol iner don-and itripoovernent, that thus a race of enlightened men . arise who shall demand their rights a' nwn, in a tune fluted make tyranny tremble arid hide its guilty head. 5. That fie People have, in A great measure, therasdro blame fur their sufferings; because they have incotuidem, wasted much of their money in the consumption of err , article., whereby they have kept themselves ranee, to the support of 'despots, v..ho keep a large sta:• , ..itiez... in time of. peace, to prevent the People from obtaial-„; constitutional varies--all which; is a direct violation of On ~ .Charters of British Liberty. Tea, which pays a duty of cent. per Cent. or just one 4. Tblt the exciseable articles particularly referred is sequently every five ounces of rea,eonsumed by oat fansil--s a soldier a day's wages, to prevent the People obwi7i.,!:: rights and liberties; Tobacco said Snuff pay three ; ens ounce, so that five ounces of the“.: ar:ieles pay a so ZiCr wages; Spirituous Liquors pay Ils. per gallon, or better four-pence per noggin, consequently every four nesting man drinks, he not only abuse* his own constitutioe, his finances, benumbs lus n, and paralyres noble faculties of his soul, but pays p hiCaing bAtitCr :a lei him in subjection to 'a cruel and merciless task-maas.r; which pays duties equal to' pixits, may be viewed in the light, as being equally destructive to the inorah, the E!.;.:4 and as tending to the support of tyranny. 5. That every Radical Reformer should put on a srmas23 tion to abstain from the use of the above articles until he el s Radical Reform in the House of Common , : the ka:::‘ results may be expected from this line of conduct; Le 4 always be in a sound state of mind and body, he will iror r his mind by reading and reflection, and afford to his Brethren good evidence that he is earnestly desirous to prone Radical Reform, and that to obtain this important end he a sacrifice his own propensities; and lastly, that whirl is of ir.t.L's importance to the grew cause, he will keep out of the pocto of the Boroughniongering faction a great part of that Revere• which they depend to support themselves in their ustmatd , '' thority. 6. That as Radical Reformers are renerally oppressed Ltd , jured by those who oppose their constitutional claims, it is iaa peasably necessary that they e:,sieavciir to assist aad Aar] each ocher in their respective trades, calling', or professieß , sol that they should deal, as much as they possibly can, Wilts ea . other : thus aiding, assisting, and encouraging one another b the good and gt cat cause of universal freedom. . _ 7. That although the faction in power may trump up grf bag plots, in order to form a pretext for the Suspencion of • Habeas Corpus, and may obtain such Suspension, operation of which they may send many innocent men harass and plague men, infinitely better than t:lnnselvri. they cannot thereby pay that enormous lopd of debt they contracted, neither can they compel the Reformers to P ! interest thereof, by compelling them to swallow their sb' nable exciscable articles ; therefore Reformers may tem themselves with the idea that the debt, and all 1:s conseear• hang ever the heads of the Borougluuongers, notwithea , -- Indemnity or Suspension Bills. 8. That it is highly absurd to pretend that a People clri guilty of treason, conspiracy, or rebellion, as a faction. slots be guilty of those crimes, and the simple reason is, that :he , ' dofespth9etisin beingmajiitye!otfatalisPhedeop, and is Supreme Law ; ther. ft,. charge the People with such crimes is another in.,ta! c: anr will in making laws b v‘ and that such doctrines sho uld be universally condemne d 9. That however much mankind may differ in religious h d ich a t d li en ,y ia c l h t oo ha s t e the t ot l e 'ec to p c k political opinions:and that great diversity prevails is crruir k highly iniquitous and oppressive to drag men before Courts ' Law on account of such matters, the proper tribunal being lie opinion, and the proper weapons of a ttack and d e inge sa reasonand ' sound argument : it is a sufficient punishment :a a uthor that his ignorance or fc:ly be exposed, and that his ''ft' nions sink to oblivion by the all-powerful arguments of au° and reason; if, therefore, there ate laws to punish melt for tees of opinion, it is high time they were abrogated, s a d just and reasonable ones substituted in their stead. 10. That a Subscription be opened to aid in rel , cvirs Sufferers in Peterlcs-field, to be transmived to the I're-I'T,, appointed to receive such contributions, and that ;dr. JP-• Cockburn be appointed Treasurer to the same. 11. That it appears to be highly expedient that a Geer', Meeting, by deputation, of all the Ref. , rmL: s in the Kingdom of Groat Britain and Ireland be called by 1'. 11,14 vertisement, t 6 be held in some central town, to Like irw cc . sideration the propriety of Making one Univerrd Solemn, peal to the Prince Regent, explaining the true state et c ", country, and pointing out to him the cons t i tut ional tned .. : enfranchising every man in these Kingdoms, and thus . to T:7 their constitutional rights. And that to such 31et!.:4 Cartwright, Henry Hunt, Esq. !Sir Charles WolselrY , tg and the other couspici.ous advocates for Radical !Icier+. it mil invited to assist in the discussions, that all the steps ws s".•`• nia) , : q b:..gu \v i t led tu b z y a w g i : scl ih o t n c t it an ni d e el f is o c r re v t v i ar oo d . to comment t; 11. f~ .:• : Y 5 1 • ; anY Igrt.ll Pu,g Orel rous t of Lb: