Star. — London, England, 1816-12-18 00:00:00

THE It is reported that Sir Rolizairßaowmtwo is about return to Europe, and that Sir HINRY TORRINS !II to mace , d to the Government of Ceylon. o n t h e teturn of Sir JounSushanooitafromCanada s E.irl DALisoust Fis to succeed to thatgovernment. It is slid that the reduction of Second. Maj Ors will' °et i s k e h l. , ce till the 21th of March, and then will roo md to the Battalions serving in France and in • About seventy General Officers have died off since the last promotion. A reduction is talked of in the number of Cavalry cow , The Waggon Train and Artillery also are w be f o ryher reduced. b ,,id that Government mean to take the cloth . ot R e iments into their own hands, and that a log - Nisomeallowance will be made to Colonels in lieu ti it. THE LATE RIONS. • FURTHER PARTICULARS. MAlistok Housa.—lt must be remembered, that a mongst the crowd of rioters was seen a man in the dress of a brewer's drayman, who was remarkable for the ferocity of his appearance, and whose stature ; ad activity rendered hint particularly formidable to the Police. The Loan MAYOR having himielf per ceived at the Exchange a person of such description, who teemed to have a constant eye upon his move ments, gave, amongst the first orders he issued to the fficers, a direction fr'r his :upprehension. No intelligence was received until yesterday, from hich there appeared a probability of the execution this order ; notwithstanding which, the obj-dt, so far from having t iken the trouble to conceal himself, .neittcd the places to which he had been accus , ed, and upon one occasion boasted that he had it . " in arms." Mr; Foster, of the house of Calvert and Co. of attles-street, was the gentleman who waited upon is Lordship with the intelligence, that a report was o circulation amongst the draymen of Calvert and that a man formerly employed by that firm had d ar ed his participation in the riots, and made some cknowledgments which would probably be borne out by evidence. Braad, the marshalman, was immediately ordered b the LORD MAYOR to accompany Mr. Foster to the dace where it was conjectured the drayman could be readily found. The marshalman apprehended him in the teighhouthood of the brewery, and imme &ately conducted him to the Jtistice.room, at the bar of.which, the moment the LORD MAYOR saw him, his Lordship said " I know this man. I remember well that he was at the Exchange on the day of the riots, and was looking at me constantly while the disturbance was going forward. It is impossible that I should be mistaken as to his person." The prisoner having 'said that his name was Williani Gunnell, and that he was not a rioter, the WV MAYOR desired that the evidence against him should appear. Joseph Page, upon whose information, in conjunc• ion with the public report, and his ewn suspicions aio the character of Gunnell, Mr. Foster had pounded his supp•ssition. then came forward and re lattibtly gave the following evidence I am em poled by Calvert and Company, in Thames-street. Thessisoner formerly worked there, not as a jobber, \teethe regular way. I heard of the riots as others kit but I don't know much about them, nor any of dee cottcerned in them." The LORD MAYOR—You remember the day on rhich the riots took place, and What you heard from ne prisoner on that day ? Witness—l don't know on what day I heard any keg about the riots. The LORD MAYOR—What did you hear upon the sbject on any day ? Witness—l heard the prisoner say, but Ido not 'member what led to the observation, that he was landling a piece which was too heavy for him. That's all I I.eerd. The LORD Mayon—Where did you hear this, and was the notervation directed to you ? IViinm It took place in the tap-room of the horns public-house, in Thames-street, and the worth sere directed t.i nobody in particular. The LORD t.iAYOR—Did yen not hear the prisoner sy the lie had beau handling pieces in . Mr. Beck. tip's shop, in Skitiner-street, on the day of the riots ? Witness— I do not remember. Gunnell, the prisoner, here interrupted the exami talon, by " MY Lord, I'll tell you all. I "Wo and all I said. I was, I admit, amongst the 'eters, but I did nothing in their company. I mi. ller war in - Mi. BeeitivitliC shop, nor in any other hop on the day of the disturbance, and I never said Let I Was. I deny likewise having had any piece my possession, except for a few moments " The L-eto Nlayou.—When I saw you at the Royal 66.4 . 10, you hdd no arms in your possession, at 'fast tlin I could see. You certainly tad no piece. :our appearance is as strong as possible in my re ternbrance. Where did yen obtain posseision of hat piece ? Prisoner.-I got it from a young chap who came le to me near Newgate-street. I took it from him, iut kept possession of it for a very short time, having *aught ii the best way to get rid of it. I gave it b one of the mob, but I don't recollect the man. was nut at Spa-fields. I met the mob in Newg.tte heet moil I reached that street, I did not see them. The LORD MAYOR.—I apprehend, Gunnell. from that I have heard, that you were exceedingly active Skinner -street, when Mr. Beckwith's shop was at ticked, but to-morrow we shall know more about i t. 'shall have a number of persons here who, I have coliht, will identify you as an active fellow on Kit turbulent day. I have myself, I repeat to you, Imost accurate recollection of you, and shall ask Mott one question. Did you not change the first gun Yost got hold of for one of lighter weight. observing 4 1 the same time, that the first was a foreign gun, ud d—d he.l vy, and you would take an English Sts in the place of it ? l'iisoner.—My Llrd, I swear I did no such ' 4l 4g. I handled no gun except that which I took born the boy. M. Foster, having returned to the. Office at this Ile . aw.t, cbuerved to his Lordship that Joseph rage, t?e wit es. . just examined, would contradict the asset -481 tit the prisoner. Upon which his Lordship said, that witness' . has .a' on di; :kei. hwi erv4i ama ( ten e dig pt 01 ° will RI M ;kin! ts; Gob, ~. • . forgotten all the particulars, antic censured his nation to conceal what he knew. He mentioned, however, that Page's memory would probably ins-. prove before the next examination, which would take place to-morrow. Mr. Fotter said that Page bad stated the particu lars related by hini to his. Lordship, which had given rise to the wiestiont put by his Lordship to the wit nets and the prisoner. Tie Lotto Mayou said, that in all probability the' evidence of Page would be rendered unnecessary, as there were many who could identify the 'prisoner as one of the rioters. If he was one of the active persons in Mr. Beck with's shop, there, was little doubt but Mr. Griffin would recognize him. " As to the piece which Le acknowledges to have had in his possession (said his Lordship), I am apprehensive that he stole it." The Prisoner repeated the former relation with respect to the gun, and was proceeding to prove the impossibility of the truth of the charge, without-a reference to any witness, when— His Lordship said, " You can't deny having seen me at the Exchange r The prisoner.—l don't know whether I saw you or not, my Lord, there was so much confu‘ion. The. LORD MAVOR.—You were actually drivs away from the Exchange by my means. Mr. Foster.—He is a man who understands the business of breaking open, and could easily succeed in breaking open Mr. Beckwith's ht , iise. The Lintu Maxon ordered hitn to be bronght up to-morrow, and directed that a communication sbauld be made to Mr. Griffin and others, tipin the subject of this new case. Gunnell was then conducted to the Ciimpter. YOI7NG WATSON. The Loan MAYOR yesterday received the following letter, to which his Lot dship did not think it proper to give so Effie attention as to these which had been transmitted to him in such quantities since the disap pearance of young Watson " MT Loan—Many attempts have been made to mislead your Lordship. To put un end to them, told to the waste of the public mency, now spending so uselessly. ; have tw inform you, that although I reckon myself entirely out of the reach of all at tempts to discover me, and as I an- not the person who shot Mr. Platt, I ion willing to surrender myself, if the X5OO offered for my apprehension he paid to me on my surrenduring. The per. sun who really shot Mr. Platt is well known to your Lordship; but as it is possible he may nit be known to yin as a murderer, lam willing, on being assured of the A'.7rea r. free pardon, to discover him, and many others little sti.t toed. " lam, niy Lord, your Lordship's ob. dient servant, " WATSON." " P.S. Your Lordship's armor will be n:os: likely to meet me by insertion in the 11/oroinf Pont." The above was brought to the Mansion-house as a twopenny unpaid letter from the 'Post Office in Fleet. street. The Lnnn MAYOR mentioned that he would re. ceive any communication .calculated to add to the intelligence already received upon the subject, if di. reeted to the City Marshal's Office, Mansion-house, where personal communications would likewise be attended to. The letters hourly opened by his Lord ship since the riots took place have been so numerous that alter the Justice-room business has ended he Las been 'often, with little intermission, ernployvil until one o'clock in the morning in examinint; tiov. cotents. Fitzpatrick, second Clerk at Hatton Garkien Otyice, , is not returned to town yet from his inquiry atter young Watson. The Magistrates received a letter from him yesterday from Liverpool. The contents did not transpire. John Butler, who was apprehended at Hatfield on suspicion of being young Watson, or teat he knew where Ito was concealed, underwent another exami nation, yesterday, at Bow-street. He recollected, for the first time, the sign of the 11 , :ose where he slept at Kingston, when he was going to Guildford, which was the Bull and Butcher, but could ant recollect the sign of the house between that town and London, on I his return. He was remanded till Sa turda y . A young man, of wretched appearance, who said his name was Eatton, was brought to Union Hill, yesterday, chargtcl by Snow, a constable, ( who ap prehended him, the preceding night, loitering on the Walworth-road) on suspicion sal being yottiig Watson. When the prisoner was called on to give aim accccnt of himself, he said he was a discharged seaman that he had been out of employ for siz months—and that he was, therei4c, reduced to the greatest dis tress.--Thice being no circumstance that could 'create suspicion that he was Watson, the prisoner was ordered to be kept to hard labour in the House of Correction, for 7 days. and then passed to his parish. Mr. PLATT is not yet declared out of danger—the ball is not extracted. Monday was the first birth-day of his Serene Highness the Prince LEOPOLD since his residence in England and union with the Princess CHARLOTTE, which was celebrated with particular attention, and every mark of respect. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when Captain C. Mormons, of the ship Lowther Castle, took leave previous to de parting. for Bombay and China. The Harlequin, Ross, from New York to Liver pool, was on shore on Darbo, on Monday last, but sas expected to be got off. A Mal from Flanders arrived last night, but the Papers which it brought contain nothing of interest. Captain Don Dtsoo CORREA, one of the Gentle men delivered up in Gibraltar to the Spaniards, and afterwards liberated through the interference of our Minister at Madrid, is stated to have safely arrived in London. The Comic Opera of Robin Had, compressed into two acts, was performed at Drury-Line Theatre, on Monday, for the purpose.of introducing Mrs. JONES, from the Cheltenham Theatre, in the character of Clarinda. We have seldom witnessed a more six. cesslul debut. She was rapturously encored in her first song, and received throughout with the most fiat, tering and well deserved marks of approbation. The Opera was repeated last night, with increased effect . WESTMINSTER SCHOOL.TERENCE'S Comedy of The Eimuch was on Monday repeated by the King's Scholars, being the list representation for the present season. The characters were filled in the same man nor as on the two previous nights, with the exception of the 'part of Phadria, which, in consequence of the severe indisposition of -Mr. Wvi.u, was undertaken at a very short notice by Mr. BOROUGH. CORN EXCHANCII. DSC/WIER 18.--We are still without any arrivals of Grain from the Suffolk coast, but our prices co*inue the same u on Mondays bay ing bat sew buyetT at market io-daye • . .• •••• LORD. COCHRANE. • • The High tailik ,ha‘ing 'cl*clined to t i ll. a .Meet ing Of the Elector's of Westminster to take into con sideration' the case of Lord CestakNa,, the Gentle. men who signed the Requisition Met iestetdAy at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, Major CanTwatatx was called to the Chair. He opened the business'of the day by lamenting the sb sence of their very good friend the High Bailiff. Hal called the High Bailiff their very good friend, .as; he was a man of excellek character; and one whose ' mind was well affected towards the great question of Reform. His failing was an easiness of disposition, which sometimes left him open to the influence of bad advice. In his opinion, such an officer had only to deride, when a Requisition wa; forwarded to him,' whether the object of it w.is legal or illegal—whe ther it was recommended by p:iod Cr's,dr by absur dity. Here it was of little to the Elec tors of Westminster whether their Requi,ition was compliA with or not, :as they could leg wily meet , without the sanction of the High Bailiff. At Glas ! gow, through a reins:lt to comply with a Requiti.ion, j Ow cause of Reform had been greatly b e ,,doeLt, as A meeting had in consequence hen called in the open air, which was attended by about 40,000 persons, ani many were by this incident induced to takt! an active part in promoting tha important work ot r. orm, who would o:hea wise have remaincd In the present instance, however, the Meeting had been called urtier circumstances differing very ma terially from these which had opposed the requisition to which be had just referred. After a few other observations, he concluded by calling for the im• partial attention of the assembly to all the spelkers who might *near before them. Mr. WALKER in rising to submit to the Meriting certain resolutions, which hai met with the approba tion of the Committee, couid not hut lami.nt the absence of Sir F. Burdett, who was still detained in painful suspense at the sick bed of his son. He (Mr. Walker) proceeded take a brief review of the proceedings against Lord Cochnine, and declare it to be his opinton, that sitting in the House of Commons as the Electors for Westminster did in the persons of their Representatives, the course which Lad been taken with one of them struck through him, at the honour of the first city in Europe— (Applauir.)—Animated as he was by the presence of such a Lindy of Electors as he then addressed, and encouraged as he had been by their support and ap plause on former occasions, he would now speak out, and express his sentiments with that ficedom which GOD and the Constitution of the country gave to all. He would not be deterred by the dread of any new Gagging Mils, or liatnms Corpus Suspensina Acts. Foolish as Ministers had ponved themselves on many occasions, he did nt beiievu their folly would ye! tore to go so far, now that we were at peace witliai the world, as to add such measures to their regular peace estahlishmeet. li this were done. the effect of it won:d he to weak-n public credit to its centre — to shake it in such a de b tree, that the Government :night as well at mice destroy ete National Bank, and burn all its books. He did not Suppose they wettral think of resorting to rneasuics like those which he had mentioned, but they arighc r:ssibly have re course to a plot. ‘4 A Orr ! What do you think of it ?" They might raise a plot, and a learned act.user might raise a figure like that of be Berenger, a in the costume of his crime." This mentioned by the accuser, might he taken up by the Judge and given to the Jury as evidence, and by those means the in nocent might be made to appear guilty. lie need not now cldain the Meeting on the subject of the in nocence of Lind Cochrane, as on this point all were satisfied. If he were to refer to tine fact snore than to another to establish this, it would be sufficient for him to recal the declaration made by the present worthy Lord Mayor at a Meeting in Palace Yard, when he asserted it had come to his knowledge that one of Lord Cochrane's jurors had, subsequent to tire trial, been heard to say, that if he had been ac quainted .witla all the circumstances of the case, which afterwards came our, he would not have brought him in guilty. The Committee who con ducted the Election of the Noble Lord, had investi gated the charge urged against him; they bad exa mined the documents connected with them, and put a series of questions to his Lordship, and the result of all their inquiries satisfied them of his innocence, and he ( Lord Cochrane) was re-elected. The real cause of the persecution to which Lad Cochrane had been subjected, was not the charges publicly brought forward. His crimes were these: he had endea voured to get fair play in the Prize Courts; he had sought to get the Admiralty Drotts restored to their right owners, the captors; and he had come forward to explain the causes of the glory acquired by the operations in the Basque Roads (the plan of which he had bad the honour to furnish) being incomplete. It was these things, and not those with which he had been openly charged, that had caused him to be hated. Of these offences he was certainly guilty : and above ill, he had moved for, and obtained to be published ; that memorable list of sinecure places which caused the tax gatherer to tap so often at the dcior of all 'of them, and in some instances, to snatch the bed of the widow from under her and her orphan children. (Applause). The tyranny of Judges had caused two bloody revolutions in this country one was that which closed the reign of Charles the First. It was while he sat on the throne that the proceedings of that illegal inquisition, the Star Chamber, had be come intolerable. •At the head of that Coed was found that villain, that notorious ruffian,Atehbishop Laud. it was there that that infernal blood-stained monster presided. A Mr. Prynne, who had pub lished a book against the atrocities committed by this tribunal, was in consequence sentenced by it to pity a fine of af/5000, to stand in the pillory in various parts of the town, to have his ears cropped irt that place where the Electors of Westminiter most cons . manly held their meetings (Palaceiard), and finally to be sent to a distant jail. Hewes accordingly sent to confinement in Jersey, bin When at last such a Par liament was obtained as the people liked, one of the first things they did was to Order Mr. Prynne to be released. This was done—thousands met him on the coast—they brought hint back in triuthph to London, and strewed his path With Rowers.. Shortly alter, he became a Member cif* that Parliament, and had the sadsfectiOn of bringing that' monster Land to trial and riftieweidi to the block. Nor d l / 4 1 the Parliament stop Ire fiat the King himself Shinty - • e „ '! * r !'! • l'r. • , • after paid the forfeit of his life also, oh a ..C7 Whitehall.—(,Aitt/eere.) Cromwell f. , 11-sse,l 4 aosl had his son Richard who succeeded him, posessed one spark of his father's spirit, . Charles II w , uld • never have been restored to the Throne. The. reign of lathes U. followed that of Charles, and it would now be anticipated that noticing the horrors of this reign he had Judge JeEeries in his mind. He also fill under the blows of :in incensed people, and . James himself was !freed to abdicate. Judge Jefferies", he thoaght it right to remark, was the first who had ever peen called to an acc ,unt for obstructing the tight of Petitioning. In consequence of his acting this part when lie was only Recorder of London and Chief 'Justice of Chester, an Adtheis had been voted, thotLah a ithont effect, by the House of Contmons to the King fir his removal. The sentence passed on Sir Thomas 1.1:1t by the House of Commons, Octo. ber 29, I WO, %Oren he was compelled to receive their censure on his knees, and was besides expelled the tfous: itr exi;ressing airrorrence tre.ir Petitions; was neat recited; as also t!'e proCreel;ngs ately-aftir the Revniuti.in ag.iinst Sir Robert ‘Vr e ight; Chief Justice of the Coott of King's Bends: Sir Richard Holloway and justice Powell, for having overruled the Earl of plea of privilege in the preceding feign, on an action brought by Mr.. Culpepper, and imprisoned his person while Parlia, ment was sitting, or dur;Og the time of privilege, be sides imposing a fine of £:',o,ooa. The tine was voted excessive and exorbitant, contrary to Magna Cbarta, the cononen rights r.O tlee people, and the law of the land ; and the lionse of Lords resolved, that during the sitting of Pari s i meet, at:2 during the ;hue of privilege, no t'cer of Pels:iatnerv. could be im.- l it koned for nonpayment of a fine to the King, with out a manifest preach of the privileges 0( I'arlia. ment. He read the answers of the Judges to certain, interrogatories pelt to there on t::e selsect of toe fine they lea sertenced Mei to pa y, as Also en the imprim sonment of his person. They severally expressed an opinion that a sm .11er fire have been sufficient, and endeavoured to remove from themselves ail re proach other than that of concurring in it. They said they had consulted hooks which they had consi dered as authorities, and had thus been misled. Mr. Justice Powell had said, he tor himself had thought a tine of se ;(XlO would have been sufficient. Asked if they had consulted on this subject. two of them re plied that they only done so in Court. JUstice Powell said, they had conversed on it a week before at the Lord Chancellor's. This they said they did not re member ; but after they had withdrawn, Powell stated the subject to have been brought up at the• time and place he had mentioned, when a fine of A`2oyt/00 was first named, bet the Loid Chancellor afterwards said £30,004) would he better, and then the King could remit £lll,OOO of it: From the pro. ceedings to which he had referred, it would be seen. that it was decided by the laws, that to imprison.; Peer of Patliaincnt for a mere misdemeanor, or *ix any cause, except " ritasor, felony, or a refusing to give security for the peace," was contrary to law', and a breach of the privileges of Parliament. ?his errs the decision of the Lords.; it would he seen whits they the Commons were equally tenacions of their privileges. He took notice of the progress which the. cause of Reform was making, and read over a list of untepresented . places which had petitioned on the sub ject. A petition had even been sent up from the rotten borough of Wigan. The weavers there had acted a great part. They had nut tasted animal food. for months, yet they had reMsed proffered aid tvr subscription, and demanded to be restored to their rights as Englishmen. In speaking of the contri'- butions for toe release of bird Cochrane, he stated 360 pence w have been sent up from Lewes. An Elector had wished that when they presented the ear -1 per subccribedto Lord Cochrane, it could be carried up on a bundle of sticks. In expectation of a Palace : : yard Meeting, they had in preparatiob their farces of oak. They had to boast of having in aid of their undertaking the names of all the counties in England; Se:gland, and Ireland The Gentleman who sag. bested the presenting the subscrip•ions on a huodli of sticks, had it 'unquestionably in contemplation to give an idea that with tininititity ttieTcould octet he . broken. He strongly fat this, and he felt that tWe whole 'legitimate power of the country Could only be fairly exerted by the universal will—by tat spirit, whichy like the sap of our native oak ascending front the root, should pervade and invigorate all the . branches of the State. 1-le concluded by moving a series of Regulations declaratory of the innocence isf Lord Cochran! of the Stock Exchange Fraud-=elf the illegality of the Lite proceedings against hilianf the breach of privilege of Parliament •involved there= in—of the Consequent invasion of the rights of the Electors of Westminster—of the conviction of - the Meeting that the vengeance with which Lord tocto. care has been pursued was entirely ()Wit* to his pub lic and of the Propriety of expressing these sentiments t his Lordship in an Adthess, to be car. tied up by the Conimittee. Mr J. W. PAKkINS seconded 'the Resolutions. He Strongly enforced the necessity of a Reform in Par liament. He 'had been absent from this country /..r) ',ears, bq he h 4 a been taught to kid warmly on this subject befwe he left it,.tliough those who were Ora its advocites 'did the cause more harm than it had ever sustained trom its, avowed enemies. He en- I larged on the corruption of the present sys'tem, and described the pohlic.burdens to be oppressive: He himself felt the effect of. this d—d taxation inl. Mediately on hit return. He recounted a scene which had passed between him and a tai-gatherer, in which he had infertned the latter that he would pay all hi had a tight to pay, but no inote than he could help for the support of Sinecurists and corruption.—= He concluded by admonishing the Meeting to plasm their Object in a 'constitutional Way, and to abstain froth rioting. _ The Resolutions. were then severally read, and after a few rerriayks on some of them' from Major CA it TWRiGHip they *etc agreed to unanimously. Ao Address, embodying the sentithents.of the Re lolUtions, vias. read', and adopted by the Meeting. The follbaing ResolutiOn, moved by bfr.WAuttit, ivtis also *carried by acclamation : That the 'warniest•Thias of ;this Meeting ors doe arid hereby . cordia ll y gives, to those onmercnis public spirited. i ndividuals who so promptly same foriraird lab their,pittkait s taites.of One Penny each, • to 'Mihail, fh. sa d fidi "Thanks *ere itioitioo be moved to Major CARIN