Star. — London, England, 1819-11-13 00:00:00

The possession of the town by such men would be worse than a military occupation. An army was obliged to observe -discipline, and to observe order; it had Commissaries to procure provisions, and Quar terma,ters to distribute conveniently its numbers; but would such an assembly of needy and discontented adventuters observe any o. der, or obey any superior? If they were hungry, would they not break in to eat ? If thirsty, would they not rob to drink? If they wanted lodging, would they not invade the dwellings of the terrified inhabitants? This was no chimera that he was describing ; similar transactions had hap pened in the history of our country. About 200 years ago, bodies of men marched to overawe the Legisla ture; and what said the great historian (Lord Cla rendon) of those times? He said, that when the, 6,000 Buckinghamshire men proceeded to London to overawe the Legislature, the Revolution was begun., The evil of such tumultuary assemblies was gene rally acknowledged, and, accordingly, at the Resto ration a law was made to prevent their recurrence. (I he Rev. Gentleman here read the preamble to the Act of Charles 11. which limited the number of signa tures to Petitions, for the purpose of chewing that that Ac:: was founded on a sense of the evils of tumultuary petitioning.) This Act had been said to be abrogated by the Bill of Rights ; but Lord Mansfield had ex pressed a diirerent opinion on the trial of Lord George Gordon. The Rev. Gentleman having concluded, Mr. LOCKHART said, the Address ought to he first put to the vote, before the proposed Declaration could be considered. The Rev. 'Air. Timm As assented. The Rev. Mr. HINTON professed his entire concur rence in the Address. He had always attended im portant Coiaty Meetings like the present, and found to his satisfaction, that he could always agree with those whom he was bound to esteem; and to dissent from those he could not esteem, gave him no anxiety. On the present occasion, he was happy to give the Address his unqualified support. He would never renounce the maxims, " rear GOD and honour the King," and " Follow not them who are given to change." His attachment to the King and Constitu tion w as only strengthened by the attempts made to weaker, it. He had long taught those under his mi nistry to revere Hoe who had been reviled and blas pheme by a monster in humen form. If all did their duty in hiculcating those principles, there would be less r.ecessity for a repeti-eon of Meetings like the present. lie had always avoided political contests, and if he had had the idea that politics would be introduced into that Meeting, he would not have attended ; but when the great interests of his country were en de.agered, he chernfully came forward to give them all the support in his power. He, therefore, could not refuse his name to the Requisition, and he would tell the reason. The Requisition only pledged those who sleeted it to a declatatiou of loyalty and attach ment to the Prince Resent, and the Constitution : and who v ould rot declare such sentiments ? " If tietre is any one Avho iioes not entertain them," said the Rev. Gentleman, " I wish he were in any other Kingdom than this"—(Greet applause). Let him go hence, and carry his disaffection along with him.— here was, indeed, a time when loyalty to the King, and attachment to the Constitution, did not go to gether ; but that was not since the accession of the present Family, and he hoped it would not return. It was imi °seder to respect the laws, without reverencing the author ity under a hid) the) aet e administered.— Hitherto the People had only heard the enemies of the Constitution, let them now hear its friends— 'Here the Reverend Gentleman launched into a pane gyric on the Constitution, en the strict admitestra tion of the law, and on the exercise of the legal func tions. He had often attended in this Hall, when used :v., a Court of Justice. Though the Monarch then pronounced, the law decided. 'From this place it was declared that Justice should not be sold—that Justice will he delayed to no man : and here it was likewise declared, as in the Bill of Rights, that the end of Kingly government is for the good of the People.— Our Constitution was too just to admit despotism, and too good to allow anarchy. He should be a monster indeed, if he did not love and admire it. Adverting to the subject of blasphemous publications, he painted in dark colours, and with pointed indignation, the eg'orts of Paine and his followers to destroy the leeligion of the Country. He never saw that mis creant's works in Oxfordshire, and he spoke not for the County, but for the Country, ellen lie expressed -is opinion of the mischief they had produced.— I!: had been lately at the mouth of the den (Carlile's shop), in London, and had seen bales of blasphemy, that degraded the mind, and prepared it for the worst crimes, sent off to some part of the country. Seeing all this, he would support the Address. lle was no flitlll/Per in this, and he was not prepared to go far them. He would enter into no other question ;he would give no opinion on the political topics of the day, and he wished to Gon there had been no opinion elelivered of them from any quarter whatever. The Address was then put by the High Sheriff, -and carried almost unanimously, there being but one hand held up against it. The Rev. Mr. THOMAS then, adverting to his for mer speech, read the Declaration to which he then alluded, and moved that it be adopted. • Mr. G. F. Sraarrow thought the Address which had been carried would answer every purpose ; but in the present circumstances of the times, he would support it if it was pressed ; nay, he would sign twenty Addresses and Declarations to the same effect, it proposed. Mr. LOCKH ART begged to suggest to the Reverend Gentleman, the great necessity of the strictest una nimity on the present occasion. It must be evident to him (the Rev. Mr. Thomas) that every topic ought to be avoided which might in any degree destroy the harmony of feeling already existing. To many of the topics embraced in the Declaration, there could be no objection in the minds of any who supported the Address . ; but there were others, upon which the ...Ante unity of sentiment might not appear. He would, for instance, mention the allusion respect ing the Press. That, he conceived, was already touched upon in the Address, which condemned all seditious and blasphemous publications. It might, perhaps, be thought necessary to express distinctly the disapproval of the wicked and seditious pub lications of the day ; to that he could have no objection ; but it might perhaps be as well nut to do so in a way which would imply more than every Gentleman of the Meeting could assent to. The Press of the country ought not, in his mind, ~1 :~~ 't i~ 1 / to be confounded with those two-penny publications, to which blasphemy was eiclusively confined ; for_it should be borne in mind, that all the Press had con demned those seditious and blasphemous publica tions. Indeed the Press, taken collectively, might be considered as sound in this country. With re spect to the right of petition, that was a distinct thing from the right of assembling ; but, in order to peti tion, the people must assemble, as the freeholders did now. The present Meeting could not petition with out assembling. It might be going too far, to take upon us to state what may or may not be tae law in this respect. He concluded by again recommending it to the Rev. Gentleman to withdraw his Declaration, in order to avoid as much as possible any thing that might tend to disturb the unanimity of the Meeting. Thollev. Mr. TROMAB then withdrew the Decla ration, after which thanks were voted to the High Sheriff and Lord Macclesfield. The Meeting then dispersed. Many Gentlemen signed the Address be fore leaving the room. DENBIGHSHIRE MEETING. This Meeting took place, pursuant to formal No tice from Sir WILLIAM WATKINS WYNNE, Bart. the Lord Lieutenant, on Tuesday last, in the Shire Hall, at Ruthen. It was resolved, first, that from the tried loyalty and uniform orderly conduct of the inhabi tants of Denbighshire, even during periods of the severest privation, the Meeting have full confidence in the continuance of the domestic tranquillity pre sently existing ; second, that at the same time, seeing that, under the specious pretence of Reform, serious attacks are made, not only against the British Consti tution, but against the Christian Religion, the Meet ing feel that they would be wanting in a most sacred duty were they to remain inactive, or were they to neglect doing the utmost in their power to counteract the efforts of the disaffected ; and, thirdly, that to further this object, it is highly expedient that the Armed Yeomanry of the County should be aug mented. A subscription was accordingly entered into, and upwards of eleven hundred pounds were sub scribed on the spot. THE EVENING STAR LONDON. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1819. TIIE FUNDS. PRICE Or STOCKS THIS DAY AT OHS OCLOCK : 3 per Cent. Reduced S per Cent. Consols 67{} 4 per Ccnt. 844,i 5 per Cent. N:tvy lO3fi Bank Long Annuities 17i 946 India Bonds 7 8 pre. Exchequer Bills (2d.) Is. dis. par, ls. dis. Omnium 2 dis. ConsOls for Acct. 67H11-. In our Report of the proceedings in the Court of King's Bench, given in another column, will be found some details respecting pi osecutions instituted against News-verniers, deserving of the most serious atten tion of the Public. In Germany, the Censorship established over the Press puts it in the power of the Governments to stifle every literary proauction which has not been previously su! , jected to the Proems tesean process. In England, the process is somewhat different. If any publication is found to be of an objectionable nature (and, unhappily, we have many such) the Law makes the Author, Printer, and Pub lisher responsible. The meaning of the Statutes, when first framed, was conformable to the sense at tached in common language to the terms employed. Every one knows the meaning of the terms " Author" and " Printer ;" but the Legal construction and pro. cedure, which is proverbial for ,fictions, has so tam pered and played with the word " Publisher," that it will require the entire energies of the friends of o Justice," (a term somdimes of a very different im port from that of " Law") to bring the word " Pub lisher" back to its original sense. In the common acceptation of this term, it means the person whose name is attached to the work, as Publisher; but, according to the construction con tended for by the enemies of the Press, it meansany person who having bought the work from the Pub lisher, after wards re-sells or circulates it :—in a word, any third, fourth, ex hundredth vender of the publica tion. The idea is abominable ; and the object aimed at is detestable. How should it be thought possible that the common venders of Newspapers, after buying them from the Publisher, should be able to read them over, before selling them to their customers ? or if they could find time to read them, (and could all of them read) that they should be judges of what is,. or is not, libellous or blasphemous ! If the law can reach the real publisher —and the late trials have shewa that it can--why should it be strained to entangle in its toils the ignorant retailers ? The intention, we think, cannot be mistaken, but we are not without hopes that the public voice will be found sufficiently energetic to turn the laws into their proper channel, and prevent them from overspread ing their banks, to sweep away unwary and inn*. cent victims. A Dutch Mail arrived last night. It brought nothing interesting relative to Holland or the Nether• lands, but some statements from Germany are pre sented in the Dutch Papers deserving of notice at the present moment. The King of PRUSSIA, whose secret instruction to his Envoys at the different Courts has already been laid before our Readers, shews his zeal to hasten the proceedings at Mentz, by sending a Minister to join the Committee of the new Tribunal. M. GRANO, who has been appointed tothis office, passed through Frankfort on the 3d instant, on his way thither, accompanied by. the Referendary Dam mtcn. • The Austrian Minister of State M. Vox WESSEMBERG, who had been requested to place him self at the head of the Committee, wishes, it seems, that that honourable situation should be filled by some other person. In fact, even at Mentz public opinion is so decided against the objects of the Com mittee, that one of the persons appointed to act as Secretary, has resigned and gone home, " because it evidently appeared to him that everx body shunned him, Merely because he belonged to the Committee." In the mean time some importance is attached to the approaching conferences at Vienna, both by the Pub lic and by the Ministers who are likely to conduct them. We have received this forenoon Hamburgh Papers to the 6th instant. They contain an interesting ac count of a visit of the King of SWEDEN and the CROWN PItINCE to Upsal, and of the induction of the latter as Chancellor of the celebrated University of that City. The KING delivered, on the occasion, a speech equally remarkable for its eloquence and wis dom ; but the press of domestic matter to-day obliges us to defer its insertion till Our next. The Emperor ALEXANDER has received the communications made to him by the Hamburgh Anti-Pirate Association, in the most favourable manner, and given reason to be lieve that he will lend his powerful aid to the cause. Letters of the 24th August, from the Cape of Good Hope, announce, , that at that period the Colony was entirely freed from their troublesome neighbours the Caffres, who were driven, or had retreated across. the river that separates their territory from that of , the Cape. Government, it is said, have ordered the , 21st regiment of Light Dragoons from Indin.to the Cape, which, if the intelligence is correct, will com pletely secure the Settlers from the future inroads of the Caffres. By the aid of Cavalry, they may al ways be driven off before there has been time to effect any extensive mischief. According to letters from Demerara, of the 2Eth September, it appears that there has been a great deal of sickness in that Colony this year, not only among the white inhabitants, but the negroes also; and that the mortality had been very great indeed on some of the estates. The weather, at the above period, still continued extremely hot. The Paris Papers of Tuesday and Wednesday ar rived this forenoon. The Constitutionel has a curious speculation on the subject of the postponement of the Meeting of the Chambers from the 15th to the 29th instant. M. DE CA2E, it states, wishes to open the French Chambers just at the moment when they will lave received at Paris the news of the opening of the English Parlia ment ; and when people will still be under the panic produced by the terrible measures which Lord CAS , TLEREAGH, Lord WELLINGTON, and their colleagues, have to propose. The measures which the French Ministers have to bring forward, will, by the effect of contrast, appear so much the milder; and the Cham ber will adopt them peaceably, thanking their souls that they are no worse ! The K:so gave, on Monday morning, a private audience to M. RAvsz, the President of the Chamber of Deputies. No notice is taken of the state of his Majesty's health, from which there is reason to infer, that he is com 'pletely recovered from his late slight indisposition. Five per Cents. Tuesday, 69 fr. t 0 c. New Brunswick Papers arrived this morning to the 14th October. A Meeting of the Inhabitants of that City was lately held, at which several most laudable measures were adopted for the assistance of needy Emigrants during the ensuing winter. We yesterday alluded to certain Resolutions of the Magistrates, &c. of the County of Galway, tending to impress an idea that that County and Roscommon were in an alarmingly agitated stat 2:. It is possible, however, that the fears of some individuals may have exaggerated the real fact ; for it is only a few days skim Mr. Justice FLETCHER, in a charge to the Grand Jury of Dublin, spoke in terms of exultation of the peaceable demeanour of the whole Island ; and 'to the same effect speak those Journals of Dublin, on which, from their character, we may rely with confidence.-- Magistrates have, in some Counties, thought proper to petition the Government that the severe provisions of Mr. PEEL'S Peace Preservation Bill may be ex tended to them ; but their representation of the ne cessity of a proceeding so arbitrary is not considered by many Gentlemen of their respective Counties as correct, and in the County of Limerick we find that a Counter-Declaration has been submitted to the Government, directly contradicting the statement made by some of the Magistrates. A similar pro ceeding was expected to take place in the County of Clare. Amidst such conflicting testimony, we must appeal to the facts presented to us, and certainly we do not, in them, find any case• to justify the alarm felt by the Magistrates. The Duke and Duchess of CLAniNCE are on a visit, for a short time, at. Boley Hill, near Rochester, the seat of Sir Joists Goan. On Tuesday. (as noticed in the Star of Wednesday) his Royal Highness paid .a visit tgiSheerness; and on Wednesday he inspected the new Dock, lead and sawmills, &c. at Chatham. In the evening his Royal Highness and the Duchess dined with the Commissioner, the ,Atimiral, the Comptroller, ;cc, bciug proem. . • d TILE AiLi(y ettopfwthaerdvs Veteran l a1 0 1 0 z io ( n r : :: :_ r &. arrived at at Chatham, from Maidstone; tc:: a c - : tended Satu r t d o a j r oin last o: I for service. A Amber of Invalids, selected f o r • garnson e : have already arrived in Chester. Colonel PLUMEE, of Tong Hall, near Lc , ',, of Aughton, in the C ounty of Laacasdr, C as . , appointed to the Ist Regiment of Royal La n Militia, vice PATI'EN BALD, Esq. deceased. • ' RENEE RA WETNO II NE, Esq. of PC l l W o Talatn, 51 -7 ,: to the Lieutenant-Colorielcy of the same Iten-r e , Saturday, a detachniert of the 1-th Font`na' a into Edinburgh a'astle lion, Stirling, to ;e;i t y, two companies of the 6th, echo are immed,..l, follow the remainder-of the Regiment to Eo z ; • Wednesday, two compahies if the bbzii r marched into Blackburn, from Rechdale. The additional 500 Marines are to l,e censor tributed at the four divisions of Por;snin la l, , p mouth, Chatham, and Woolwich. It aoesno.., ever, appear, that any augmentation to t!e pt number of Officers on full pay is to take ri ic: , . The Detachment of the Wth Regiment, v..1,' ; ?.. at Portszoouth, is arrived at Sorewsbely, at ... A place the Head-quarters are fixed. The Depots appropriated by Government, at • the ten new Royal Veteran Battalions ale t 0!,,,. bodied, are as follow , :-Ist Battalion, at thatla• 2d dido, at Portsmouth ; 3d ditto, at Plylrranh:; ditto, at Hull ; iith ditto, at Chester; i-ti l a% - . ditto, at Inverness and Edinburgh ; and three i Q ~ land. The tqal amount of this force, when Li, 1 , with Officers and men, will be upwards cl : ,l,‘ia, Lord Assoc, it is reported, ItAS sent in ,as sts; , tion as Major in the Yeomanry r :tva. T ._,ry. ne i . nation of so efficient an Officer in the Co rp -, 'i . KEEN, the Lieutenant-Colonel, is said to li.,v cla considerable influence on many o f tit; men.livii, ‘ that several resign ;dons may be articivated 4 r , early period of the year.—Li;kfi'dii .11e, - cur,,. M ' It is confidently stated in .olveihampu,n,thai Marquis of ST, Fro rt D has proposed Volunteer A ciations to the whole of his Tenantry in f:;itropi a and that those who are too old or intirm to ak , personally will be expected to ti :Id subditutcs. NAVAL L\TELLIC;ENCE. DIAL, Novestzsa 12....-Wind E. N. E.— 1 1 :11 s rived this morning from th, Westward. She off Dungeness, the kkringapatarn, liaiirrit, from the Svl.4,‘ The latter had spoken, on the sd Occoher, in lat. b. SS. X. ;p 4 24. 41i. W. the Cadmus, of Loncl•li, bavi,,e t boaniii crew of a Dutch 4 , which founderrd at ie.t on bee pass Batavia. The Astrea, WiLsow, replied to het: Qat 10th, did not sail till this morning. *term of th- mme, bound rem an—they cannot get their anchors, it blywic;ri fresh from the N.F. FALMOVTH, Nov. Elisabeth packet, with a Mail for Amerk-a; and tlle Gt d Pike, CIUiDEIFORD, for Charleston. l'ivarourn, Nov. It.—Arrived the Atalanta, Br 172 London for Jamaica ; and Ann, Rol , cui, trout St. Join: founsiland..—Wind N.N.E. POATIIIOII7II, Novamasa IS.—Wind N. E I S. de. los Dolores, BATOLDUA, from }Whoa 14 lesid , 4l; 177 s HALL, from Memel ; and Ilarleston, TNOINHILL, (47t1 —Came into harbour, the Albany and Sir transports, to discharge troops.—Sa.:L.l the Viper case; cruise. Itaxtrictitts, Nov. 11.—The: Paris, from Richeh•cro. timber, in coining into this port last night, gro.:ntle.: but is expected to be got off without damage. CHESTER, NO:: 12. As a measure of prudmt precaution, stron7 are making for the different outer entrances to. Castle. On Wednesday last, at one of the mo.t respedit Meetings ever held in the town of Stockport. it os resolved to r4ise an armed force, chiefly of ca%21.-, for the preservation of the public peace. A 3 al.. tional troop of cavalry is to be raised at Coligieta; another in the district of Newbold Astbury, the of which .are to be under the csommand of Cqua l SWETTESHAM. Within the last few days, upwards rf 20 p:exi cannon, 9 and 12-pounders, have been lodged in= Castle, collected from some of the Gentlemen'son in the neighbourhood of the disturbed districts of f:.:; county, and sent here for protection and safety. Le have heard there has lately been a considerablemor• anent anion the military, who are concentra4 around Manchester, Stockport, and the other pop lons manufacturing towns. The reason is not 1. signed, but it admits, we have little doubt, of ear explanation. The arms, ammunition, and accentrements, warded from Chester Castle some 10 or l wefti ago, for the use of the Manchester titled Assat . .- tion, have been returned to our arsenal. %%c tart . heard that the alarm prevalent among the ye-• disposed classes of the people of Manchester Was I great, and the intimidation held out so fearful, that it was deemed prudent not to distribute them, : 61 they were accordingly lodged in the Cavalry FA racks, near Hulme, till their return to this depot.. From the additional subscriptions received sir the County Meeting on the 15th tilt. at Northwict , the total now exceeds eight thousand two hundli pounds. An entirely new regiment of Yeorna!ul Cavalry will be raised, in addition to the exart fine body of well-trained Cavalry, the Earl a CintsTen's Legion—and an extra Tro.ap of C valry is also to be raised in Wirral, on the eititti. of Sir T. S. M..STANLEY, Bait. and the other pra r pal Land-owners The removal of Earl Frrzwit.tivit has causei e change in the Clerks, and all the subordinate OE:e: 1 of the Lieutenancy, which, to many of them, v . i: l a serious evil. ' Public Notice having been given, that a Eefor l Meeting would be held in Cross Cheeping, on 1110r. , 10 "'text, the 15th in s tant, the Mayor and llagivratl of Coventry have issued a Proclamation, stating, eat as Cross Cheeping is the Market-place.—a place of resort for Public business, and a great thorong?lfar e through the City—No MEETING of the descripti•ll l alluded to in the Notice trill be permitted to b e hr : there—that if attempted to be held, they shall ors:. der the s:tme as a breach of the Peace, and take 0 ( most ecient measures to suppress it." DIED. Yesterday, at his house in New Duilistiteswibilis 34° Dawson, F-4. an eminent Solicitor. intottl and pubk , thed by Loa Kwib Temple,l3st ,! a f L.