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V 1 ~' . THE FUNDS. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON► MONDAY, AUGUST 216 1319. ?RICK 01P STOOKS THIS DAT AT OHS O'CLOCK S per Cent. Reduced 721 3 per Cent. Consols 71141 4 per Cent. 91ff per Cent: Navy 104111 Bank Long Annuities 19 3-16 India Bonds 1/' pre. nchequer Bills (2d.) par 1 dis. Omnium 4li pre Cons. for Acct. 71M. Nothing can be more natural than that individu. l als who have incurred blame in the estimation of any large portion of the community, whether on well or ill-founded charges, should endeavour to justify themselves by all the means within their reach. Acting on this principle, the Magistrates of Manchester, or their friends, procured a Meeting to fie held in that place on Thursday, (of which we ig arc some account on Saturday, and other particu lars will be found in our columns to-day,) for the purpose of approving of their conduct on Monday last. The proceeding would have been unblameahle, had the meeting been public ; but from all the facts we have been able to collect, ancl:we believe they are-quite correct, the Meeting was select, and every effort was employed to prevent any from being pre sent who could not approve of their whole conduct. Of course the previously prepared Resolutions were unanimously agreed to, and in due time will be forthcoming for public inspection, with " due com ments and appropriate illustrations." This, however, was but a preliminary—" a mere step in the process to clearance." The first use to be +made of this evidence was, to submit it to the Higher Powers, who, ;t may well be supposed, had as yet received do evidence of any necessity having existed to call for a vigour so much beyond the law as had been manifested at Manchester. Accordingly, no sooner were the Resolution 3 carried in due form, than they were immediately forwarded to London, to the Reverend Mr. HAY, Rector of AckwOrth, in York qihire, Prebend of York, Scc. Chairman of the Quarter Sessions, and leading Magistrate at Manchester, and a Mr. TUOMAS HARDMAN, who had left .Man chester on Monday night, and arrived in town on Tuesday night. On Vhdnesday a Cabinet Council had been held, at which, we understand, all the Cabinet Ministers, with the exception of the LORD CHANCEL- Lon, were present, for the purpose of receiving and deciding on the communication from this Manchester Deputation ; and it was then resolved, it is said, that Mr. Huy'r should be committed for High Treason. In consequence of the recei)t of the above-men tioned Resolutions, on Saturday, at two o'clock, ano ther Cabinet Council was held at the Secretary of State's Office for the llome Departm.;ct, Whitehall, which was attended by the LORD CHANCELLOR, the Earl of LIVERPOOL, the Duke of WELLlstrrou, Vis count SIDMOLITII, Viscount CASTLEREAGH, the Earl llaTaturtsr, Sec.—The Council continued in delibera tion for upwards of an hour and a half.-.. The Ar comax and SOLICITOR GENERAL were in attendance. Viscount CASTLERZAGII came to town on Saturday morning from his seat at North Cray, to attend the Council. His Lordship afterwards set off from the foreign Office, on his return to North Cray. The Earl of LIVERPOOL came to town from Combe Wood on Saturday, to attend the Council, and after it broke up the Noble Earl left town on his return. Mr. Hoanouss, the Under Secretary of State, was in close attendance during Saturday at the Office of the Home Department. Our limits do not allow us room for many obser •ations to day, having numetotss important commu nications to lay before our Readers. We must, there lore, for the present, confine ourselves to a few words to the reading of the Riot Act, which the friends of the Magistrates insist upon took place, previously to the scene of blood—nay, according to some of their injudicious advocates this " was effected (not in one but) in several most coMpicuous situations !!" Advo- cotes should never attempt to prove too much; but this assertion happens to prove less than nothing.— What can it matter how " compicuoue any place may be, if what passes in it be done in a private coom Not a cthesplasous, but an audible situation, is that which should be selected for reading the Riot Act. It will be seen, however, from the subjoined arti cies, that the fact of the reading is not relieved in this, though so much stress has it on both sides, is, in out estima no importance whatever. This Act for the purpose of enabling any man convert that into a riot, which was convert, by a kind of Magisterial peaceable meeting into a riotous as is no such virtue in this Act ; and iple question is, was there any riot was read? s lf there was not, the armed men upon an unarmed and ide, was an illegal act. tilts LORD CALM Jgraucxe goia, t Manchester: but been laid upon i tion, a fact of 111 was not passed fc or set of men to c mot so before—to legerdemain, a p semblage.' There , therefore the sing] • before the Act 1+ sending in of ar peaceable multituc 41: it ill related of ~-~ that the happened in his day to be a riot in Hol born,-notice of which was no sooner carried to White hall than a body of the Guards Were commanded to march for the place ; but first they had the prudence to send an Officer to the Loan CHIEF Jostles, to ac quaint him with the design, and to desire him to send some of his people to attend the soldiers, in order to give their interference the better countenance. The Officer having delivered his message the LORD Cuter JUSTICE said to him, "Suppose the populace should not disperse at your appearance, what are-you to do then?" " Sir," answered the Officer, " we have orders to fire upon them."—" Have you, Sir," replied my Lord, " then take notice of what I say : if there beone man killed, and you are tried before me, I will• take care that you, and every soldier of your party, so acting, shall be hanged."—" Sir," added he, " go back to those who sent you, and acquaint them, that no offi cer of mine shall attend soldiers, and let them know at the same time, that the Laws of this Kingdom are Of to be executed by the Sword; these matters belong to the Civil Power, and you have nothing to do with, them r We were misinformed in stating, on Saturday, that the Coroner's verdict on the people who were killed at Manchester last Monday, was " Accidental Death." We have pleasure in stating that such a verdict was not given. The •erdict was, "Died by Me pressure of the Military, being under Mc Civil Power." The source of the mis-statement is explain ed in one of our letters this morning: it was "busily given.oui" at Manchester that such had been the ver dict—for what reason we shall not inquire. MANCHESTER. !ROM COWDRY'S MANCHESTER GAZETTE?, AUGUST ?I. I , When the field was cleared, the Yeomanry formed opposite Monnt-street, and after a speech, we believe of thanks, from Mr. Hay, gave three cheers and waved their swords in token of victory ! It will be asked by every one, whether this attack was legal, or at least whether the Riot Act was read previous to the forcible dispersion of the crowd believP it was not ! We have made the most diligent and ge• neral enquiries, both among special constables and spectators, and we have not met with an individual who knows either when of where it was read ; or, in point of fact, who believes that it was read at all. ft certainly was not read under such circumstances as Mat any considerable proportion of the Meeting were aware of it, or could hate the slightest intimation that it was in tended to disperse them byforce." MEETING TO THANK THE DOROHOHRFEVES AND CON ETABLES, MAGISTRATES, MILITARY, &C. FOR THEIR EXPLOITS ON MONDAY. On Wednesday printed Circulars were sent round atnon3st the Gentlemen usually most active in the political affairs of the high party in town, and who were known from their connexion with and recom , mendation of the plans of the Magistrates, request ing them to assemble on the following day, Thurs day, the llth, at the Police Office, to consider of the best means of conveying the thanks of the inhabi tants to the Magistrates, Soldiery, Boroughreeves, and Constables, for their conduct on the occasion of " the tumultuous and riotous assensblage," on Mon day last, and to bring with them such friends as might have been unintentionally not informed of the Meeting. About half-past eleven o'clock, an assem irlage of from 80 to 100 persons, including the Bo roughreeves and Constables, met at the Police Office; but, lo! an insurmountable difficulty had occurred to obstruct their proceedings; for Mr. N. Whitworth, a noted spouter at the. Police Meetings, and who had been very troublesome in exposing two or three abuses connected with this department, had taken possession of the room in which the Meeting was in , tended to have been held, in his right, as he said, of Commissioner of Police; and this impudent fellow positively refused to retire and leave the Gentlemen to their own deliberations. They accordingly retired to a small room below, and locked themselves in.— l A messenger was then dispatched to the Star Inn, to engage a room, and it was agreed that the only way of keeping the company select, was to place the Clerk who sent the circular notes at the door, with one or two other Gentlemen, and as each individual entered the room, he was asked whether he had a 'circular or had been invited to the meeting? At length a selection was made, but there still appeared doubts and scruples in the countenances of some, that improper persons had somehow got admittance ; and to place the thing beyond a doubt, it was requested that all persons who did not approve of the purposes for which the Meeting was convened would immediately with draw. Mr. B—, the Churchwarden, was then elected to the Chair, and he was requested to reheat the order, that all who disagreed with the views of the Meeting should withdraw. This was done several times. —At length, satisfied that the company were all of the right sort, they proceeded to nominate a Corn mittee to prepare the Resolutions. In about half an hour, the Committee , returned into the room with Resolutions of Thanks to the Boroughreeves, Con stables, Magistrates. Yeomanry, Sir J. BY/40, and the Officers and Soldiers, Special Constables, &c. Ecc.— These were soon disposed of, it having been previ ously agreed at the Police Office, that no discussion uhatcver should take place, but that the Resolutions should merely be put and carried. In fact, they were all passed 'amine contradieente, and are, doubtless, or; Ws, oa the road to their Chief i s Lgudo 4 . This mode of communicating thanks is tiorthi both of the givers and the receivers. PRIVATE LETTER. 6 ' MANCHESTER, SATURDAY EVENING, Seven o'Clock. tra 4 n c ti S u i i n l, ce e l zc W e r p o t te th y a o t u in las the to the enigh r ( s )f has Thursday y inu th ed e windows of a baker near New Cross were broken: it being reported that he had used some violent language against Mr. HUNT and the Meeting, though I am tcht falsely,. the effect was thus disastrous to him. All our further enquiries, and the reports from people in the neighbourhood, make us estimate the number wounded much greater than it was at first thought. There cannot, I believe, have been fewer than from 200 to SOO. We are still as much at a loss as ever with regard to the reading of the Riot Act. The Ministerial Prints here to-day assert that it was read, one of them says twice, by the Rev. C.W. Era ELSTON and by Mr. J. SILVESTER, but they mention neither the time nor the place. lied it been read according to the spirit of the law, I am sure that they would gladly have given the Magistrates the benefit of the proof that it was so. But, if read at all, it was by stealth, so that the people were not and could not be expected to be aware of it. In addition to my per sonal observation, I have conversed with scores, per haps hundreds of persons, both Spectators and Con. stables, none of whom heard a word of it, although it is next to impossible but that some of them must haye done so, had it been openly read. If the Meet• ing was not legal, I know not how it could have been made sot it most certainly was as peaceable, until broken up_ by the Military, as it is within the com- pass of possibility that it could be. I (-est:l:illy do not like the assembling of large crowds from circum jacent towns and villages, nor the exhibitioa of their Caps of Liberty, ner many of the mottoes on their flags ; but that any person could be found to swear that mischief was to be apprehended from an assem bly so evidently peaceable, is to me astonishing. Every day gives greater proofs of the danger to which the people were exposed in their attempts to escape. The burying-ground of the Quakers was in vaded, the gates we:e forced open, the Cavalry tram pled down the lowly mounds of earth which marked the graves of their dead, and the work of destruction was carried on in their very Meeting-house itself.' This day Joiners have been employed planing cut the marks of blood from the forms on which they sit, and even in the upper gallery. It is said stones were thrown at the soldiers from the wall. It may have been so; but still, the object of the military should not have been revenge ; and one would have thought that the place where this emphatically peaceful peo ple assemble to worship GOD, might have afforded tc unarmed and defenceless individuals a sanctuary against the swords of their fellow-townsmen. It has been said many of the people were armed with large bludgeons, &c. Some of them certainly had comH mon walking-sticks, and I took some pains, as they passed me, to endeavour to ascertain the propor tion, and the result of which is, that I am convinced not one in ten had even these; and when it is consi dered from what a distance many of the people came, their having walking-sticks forms no argument against their peaceable intentions. " On Wednesday notices were circulated privately amongst the party upon whose recommendations and advice the Magistrates are supposed to have acted, requesting them to meet next day, at eleven o'clock, at the large room in the Police Office, to thank the Magistrates, Soldiery, Special Constables, ecc. for their services, in suppressing the disorderly and tu nudtuousassembbsge on Monday last. This affair was kept very quiet, but some persons who had not had notices got to hear of it. Amongst others, Mr. N. Wiiirwoarse, a person who has taken an active part here as a Reformer. In his quality of a Commissio ner of Police he conceived that he had a right to at tend any Meeting held in the Building belonging to those Gentlemen, and accordingly ,he made his ap pearance before the commencement of the business. His appearance excited complete consternation—one by one the original prOmoters of the Meeting left the room till he alone remained in it ; they went into a smaller room on the ground floor, locked the door, and there ieliberated how to get quit of the intrudeli The Police Act and the Bye Laws were referred to, and it was proposed to send for one of NADIN'S Bea dles, and turn him out bgforce—but upon reference to Mr. SERGEANT, the Clerk to the Commissioners of Police, who was sent for, it was thought prudent not thus to violate the laws. " Scme person proposed to proceed to the busi ness of the Meeting in spite of his presence, but it was said he would be making objections, and making a speech, and it was agreed that, upon the passing of the Resolutions, no discussion whatever shoLld take place. At length, finding they could not otherwise get rid of Mr. WuiTwonnes presence, they resolved to adjourn the Meeting to the Star Inn, which was done. Two Gentlemen were then placed as door keepers, to exAmine all persons who came into the room, as to whether they had received notices or in vitations, and before the business of the Meeting was proceeded in, it leas requested five or sir times over, that all those who did not approve of the object of the Meeting, would withdraw. There were from 60 to 100 persons present, and the Resolutions were thus passed unattimously, and, incredible as it may ap pear, are actually announced to-day in our Minis teriAl prints as the Ansolutiow of 4 a numerous and highly respectable Meeting of :he I, Manchester and Salford and their nda FROM ANOTHER CORREsPOVDENT “SATURDAY Al " Notwithstanding the sti °lig ratan,- the Boroughreeve and Mlgistiates, an d t. case you have not seen it, 1 subjoin a copy, lace began to assemble on Thursday niA L derable numbers, at their old scene of re the New Cross. A body of military wele perse them, immediately cn whose .ipi na , were, I understand, attacked with sttales bats by the mob—a dreadful conflict ensle,; two of the populace were killed, and rnr . verely wounded, who were taket, to the i The military succeeded, at last, in c l, place ; hut shortly atter the routed rm.', as , bled in Tib-street, and are lanes adj.', e„, tacked the houses of several persons nix): themselves obnoxious---among clier.s that GRAVES, a constable. Snrre Ytornaa ntv at rived and put the rioters again to fli B l.t, a I have not heard that any tlcw outta,!,):-• " A person who gues by 01:2 name but who is said to be only a viilae Oldham, was brought into town to-day, ; some police officers and a detachment (1 1 He is now lodged with the o11;er prisonci: Bailey, and on a similar charge ; I undcis. of High Treason. " It is said that a wart ant is also out a! son HA RRI SON. 'I he Meeting, which was announced next Monday at Bolton, has been put Oir lie notice on the part t f the Reformers t: It stater, that In consequence of the tn prcceediugs at the Manchester Meeting, o last, and the fatal consequences that bal many of their brave friends, it is tircughi to defer the Bolton Meeting until a hearin, had on what is past, Were a competent Should any cf the persons new in prison committed fcr trial, they will rot have to for the issue, since the Lancashire Assize rightly informed, commerce on tl:e I month.—The following is the Caution I alluded to: 4 PUBLIC CAUTION. " To prevent at rrlpch as possiltle any Fatal Rt27l. present circomstancts, the fiemaighreetk am! Clont, chest fed. it their duty tc issue the folloningpicak When Ste.-as are thrown from a Cevtvc to prac the Lice: cf the I care OfSeers and ?.ilitary on alt r.ually er&r.geredj, ti.e l'ersur.s sffendirit Ina be wired, and given up, by those about them, GT sue; tually throw a Sty= may stiff r horn the I in the event cfSn..7.es being thrown, the per" who are Eying front the puriuit of the Ciri/ ur ..1;:in ties, should be refused Adr...itunce into Douses which may otherwise be fixed luta. ' The Occuliers of Houses, from the Irindareer Stones are Thrown. must consider themselves kiwi• the consequences. 6 •„• It is earnestly requested, that bidividitaiswi keting in Groups or Parties in the streets.' P.S. The verdicts of the Coroner's Intl' not, as has been busily given cut here, Death.' Those on ASHWORTH, ASHTON, PARKINSON, were respectively in these which you may depend— , Died by the pral Military, being undo. the Civil Power: Thi on the boy FILDZS was— , Died by a fir mother's arms.' " I have just been informed, that the Pak ing which was announced to be held at Pre: been also postponed sine die." OTHER PZIVATE LETTER?. " MANCHESTER, SaturLF, Two o'Cioi.k. (Prom the Morning Herald ) " In my letter of Thursday last, I state( people were deeply incensed against the c, Authorities of this place, and that althoug!: stained from any violation of the public pCI minds were in a state of danget oils ap,..tatio: sorry now to inform you, that what I then rnl as a matter of opinion is new unhappily From the information I had collected, I w' as to express a belief that those who had bi active in attacking the pop - ,:lace on Mon( marked out as objects of vengeance. My fo; , turn out to have been well-founded: the , ment, so far from hei:T, allayed, is now w to the highest Fitch of determined rage; an, but the continued presence of military bc,ii public streets at all hours cf the day and vents that ferment from bursting forth into lence. It was with a smile of angeish and , I read the statements in some of the Lrr.ic that tranquillity had been restored in this u uo such thing; our tranquillity is ncthirg a forced submission, which the terror cl tl alone obliges the people to otscrve; and cannot give you a more convincing proof. relating a shocking transaction which reel night in the streets of this town. A shopkee , name of Fletcher, residing near the New C been heard to throw out some contemptuc tions upon the Reformers: the consequence a mob suddenly collected round his is 31 o'clock last night, and all the windows we: in an instant. A similar outrage was at time committed upon the house of a public name of Sykes, for no other reason, as is than that of his son being one of the lecino Whilc these Outrages were going forward, • :7. ';:•.,,. • • • I • :ear: or L.f • the . t.. • rCair.st . 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