Star. — London, England, 1819-08-26 00:00:00

MM.! ng, the nalile of the People of reat Britain and Ireland, make to the Prince Reg . Mr. DENBIGH then read it as f lows: To his . Royal Highness the Panics Uwe, and to the People of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. m Sir, and bountrymen--Wbareai at a numerous Meeting of the Non-represented People said others of the British Metropo lis, held on Wednesday, the 25th August, 1819, to consult upon the most proper, speedy, and effectual means of obtaining t he Iftights of the Pe ople, a Reform of the Commons House of Par liament, and a Redress of the Grievances which a patient, hs _Aintrious, awl honest people ?rave long endured, and upon the ropriety of Making a Public Appeal to the Prince and to the 'People, " It. Was agreed to appeal to you upon the miserable and for lorn condition to which an industrious people ate reduced, to lay before the World a few of the manifold grievances they suffer, 'and. the rights they consider themselves entitled to. And in doing so, they consider that the urgency of the public affairs, said the distress and misery the people endure, require them to apse the most plain and unequivocal language, and they pray to Gnu that the solemn Appeal they stow make may iodate both the Prince and ,he People seriously to exert themselves to re • ellidee the evils which have long affected these countries. " In the sad condition to which the People are reduced, it is not,orie of the least of their grievances that they are deprived of the right to lay before the Personage exercising the executive functions of Royalty the expression of their scdrerings, the mi series they endure, and the means they conceive would restore prosperity and happiness; and it is an aggravation to this griev ance, that.it at any time their Appeals, Petitions. or Remon strances do reach the Royal ear, they , by a determination, as we understand, of the Royal House of 'Brunswick not to an swer them but to particular privileged Bodies, are deprived, in effect, of one of the rights guaranteed by a Charter of the lend;' the covenant thereof being rendered null and void, and the Co ronation Oath to maintain all the Charters, is rendeted liable to be turned into contempt and ridicule. ' 4 Solemn are the compacts between Princes and People. and awful the consequences attending the infractions and abuses of those convects ; but the records end experience of past ages have made known to mankind; that the contracts between Go vernors and the governed have usually been first broken by men in power, and that the consequence has finally terminated in the. fall of th e offenders. " It cannot be ccucealed from the Public, that dangerous lii fractions have been made upon the liberties of the people, and that the greatest of these applies to the Borough Proprietors, in their innovations upon the Representative System—a system preeminently the glory of these countries, upon the perfectibility of which depends the liberties and rights of the people; and that from such innovations may be attributed the ruin, misery, and discontent which now spreads through all parts of he land—the impositions, the abuses, oppressions, and murder; practised upon the industrious parts of society—the boundless extravagaece in the administration of public affairs, and the excesses and vices committed by numerous aerate of their power. Nor ought it to be concealed from the Ih - ince and the People of a great Empire, that public affairs are on the eve of a crisis big with important tweets, and requiring the most cool, dispassionate, irapartial, and hemline measures, to avert the dangers and evils of conflicting pas- sioue—to appease the angry feelings of the suffering people, to pre- , • vent any farther encroachments upon their liberties and happiness —to restrain the farther waste (sire:bile treasure—to restore the prosperity of the natien,and the rights and privileges of social life. To accomplish these desirable ends, we solemnly appeal to you.' Sir, and our COUlltf pun, to consider well the necessity of cal ling on the counsel of men of wisdom, integrity, and judgment, nit° have mixed with their suffering country-peopk, and who arc known to be of humane comprehemere minas, and real lovers of social order, impartial justice, and eir country's glory. And we presume, with all due defereilc:, to recommend, as the only means of assembling tegether such characters, is by immediately reforming the Commons House of Parliament—extending the elective franchise to every male adult person--to call Parlia ments Annually, and to elect the People's Representatives by Ballet. And we solemnly appeal to you, Sir, our Prince and our friend, to come forward at this awful juncture of the Na tion's affairs, when the most alarming and fatal attacks have been made Lyon the persons of the peaceable assembled people, and to enjoin them to stay the blood-stained hands of faction, and save the country from anarchy, massacre, and murder." He moved that it should be adopted by the Meeting. Mi. BURT seconded the motion, which was unani mously agreed to amidst loud and long applause. Mr. Joni; BAHAr, of Brook's -court, in Holborn, nest addressed the Meeting, who were, he said, placed in a critical situation, public affairs haviiig now an alarming aspect. He should deprecate any attempt to excite confusion or bloodshed, and it was only by union among themselves that the people could suc ceed. He sugges ted the propriety of the artists and mechanics petitioning the Common Hall to co-ope tate with them in this cause. Mr. Wm.xeu proposed a vote of censure upon the Lued Mayor:for his gross libel upon the Reformers, in declaring that they had a plot for buraiag the City, and murdering the whole cf its inhabitants— (l aid Laugker). This was seconded by a Mr. PHILLIPS ; and the question being put from the Chair, the Resolution was carried with acclamations. Thanks were then voted to the CHAIRMAN, who expressed his gratitude for the honour just done him by'the vote. He trusted the Meeting would bear in mind all the expressions which had been that day made use of, that they might see whether they were faithfully reported in the Public Journals to-morrow; and should any of those who had addressed them be committed for trial on account of what had that day pissed, he had no doubt that thousands in the crowd *could gladly come forward to bear witness in a pub lic. Court to what had been done. He could not tope to enjoy many years of life from the course of ingute but should he be spared to witness his coun try's eniancipation from the galling yoke of thral doter"; he would say, in the ord-fashioned words of Scripture —" 'LOßD, now lettest thou thy servant de aiaffin peace, according to thy word, for mine eyes " hive' e& thy salvation r In conclusion, he would earnestly exhort them to retire in a peaceable manner fro* this place; to permit nothing on any account to irrijate Or inflame them. They knew well how anxious ttetr opponents would be to witness discord and via WO, and their wisest- course would be to give no cause of offence, but to act peaceably, legally, and constitutionally. He thanked them for their kind and patient attention to him and his friends, and he bade'them good night. At six o'clock precisely the speakers left the wag-, son, and the meeting retired in the most orderly and peaCeable manner. It is but justice to state, that not' the slightest disposition to riot was evinced, but on the contrary every thing was conducted with the greatest order and regularity. JULIEN DELbfOUR; On, THE NEW )ERA.—Although this. may.not be among the most perfect of the works of fiction which have proceeded-from the pen of the ingenious Madame Da Gatrirs, it may certainly be pronounced one of the most amusing ; the author has besides given it an additional charm by pourtraying the mariners and custcms of a most interesting and extraordinary period, with such delicacy of tact and accuracy of observation, as we arc sure no one could have exhibited who was not gifted with a mind of a • vary superior cast, and had not long enjoyed an ex tensive and various intercourse with every rank of, rarisia4 society. I ' S . Y:I (. 1 A l 1,1 I POLICY. MANSION HOWL—The crowds again assembled in and about the Mansion House yesterday morning, were very considerable. An expectation was indulged that Carlile would be brought up and bailed, but the LORD MAYOR had determined that be would take the full advantage of the time prescribed by law, for in vestigating the proffered bail, viz. 48 hours. Carlile cannot, of course be bailed before this day. Among other scenes which occurred, was the fol lowing ;—An outre, but well dressed fellow, of gi gantic stature and muscular frame, was brought in with some difficulty by two of the officers, who stated that he as marching ah.ng, en militnire, through Cheapside, with a placard, of which the following is a. copy, stuck in his hat Reform —National and Universal." It was written in large and prominent characters, and the proclaimer, as he proceeded, con stantly uplifted a huge oak stick, with which he pointed to the declaration. Being conducted to the Justice-room (from which the LORD MAYOR had just retired) and placed at the bar, he inquired in a tone of vociferation, whether he was now at the Seat of Justice, and whether he had committed a breach of the law by sounding an alarm through the country? The Chief Clerk told him, that the Magistrate would decide whether he was acting improperly or not. The placard was - then taken in to the Loan MAYOR, who•Vms engaged in his private room, and soon afterwards one of the Marshals returned with his Lordship's determination that thelnan might be discharged ; but at the same time directing, that the officers should be vigilant in taking into custody persons found engaged in the circulation of inflam matory matter, is whatever shape, during the pre sent state of affairs. The prisoner broke out intathe most violent invec tives, not only against the Civic Administration of his Lordship, but matters of State generally. " Give us justice," he cried, with a voice that reverberated through the adjacent Hall, " justice is all that Re. formers require ; and when justice is refused, depend upon it, Jacobinism is near at hand. The people have been injured, and have wrongs to redress ; so also, as an individual, I have been persecuted, and have wrongs to redress." One of the Marsh* told him, if he felt_ aggrieved, he must apply to the proper 9narter for justice. " D—n your justice !" said he ; " what would have become of you, if the Meeting had been held at Kennington Common ? Where, then, would be your justice, while your blood flossed, and, perhaps, like Sodom and Gomorrah, not even ten righteous of this great City would be saved ! Do you want to hear truth," he added, " then read, mark, and inwardly digest this."—(l-lere the prisoner presented various copies of She: win's and Cobbett's R egisters.)— He finally declared, that he would not cease in his pa triotic endeavours, until the country was made " a land flowing with milk end honey f' I3eing set at liberty, he soon afterwards furnished' himself with a placard, such as had been tmn from his bat, and pursued his way along Cheapside, Yleet street, the Strand, &c. The LORD MAYOR performed the routine business in the Justice-room until nearly 2 o'clock, when he proposed to visit the environs of Smithfield. Ife had on the night before received information that the Committee, the moment they heard of the suggestion of Major Cartwright, with respect to the intended Meeting, unai;imou,iy opposed it. It appeared that Mr. Mills, of Bristol, upon con veying to the Committee, at which Dr. Watson pre sided, the written intellivere that Major Cartwright was averse to the proposal of assembling at Smith field, called upon them to per form their promise of abiding by it. The answ,:r was, that delay could not ensure success, and that the Meeting• certainly would take place. Mr. Mills, who came from Thistol in a Russian hunting cap, for the purpo.e of dissuading the Ra dicals from meeting on the occa , ion, was so di , gusted at this breach of faith exhibited upon such an ether gency, that he determined ',ever to have inter course with the Doctor again, on with any other of those who in his estimation have neither principle nor understauding. He waited upon Mrs. Watson with the assurance that all acquaintance, either political or private, between him and the Doctor, was at an end. This communication, added to the positive decla ration that the measure was quite at variance with the opinions of every man of weight and under standing in the country, was sneerel at by the Doc-' tor, who had expected the approbation of Major, Cartwright, of Wooler, aad Carlile, to his proposal of a Meeting, started forward, for the first time, as the prominent leader an.l adviser of the Committee and the multitude of ordinary Radicals. Under all these circumstances it was thought necessary to have all the arrangements of the 21st of July adopted. Before the Loan Mayon quitted the Justice- room, an Union-hail Acer brought before him a low squat man, who strutted through the room in such a man ner as to excite general laughter. There was in stantly through the office a whisper that he was a Radical. Upon taking a place opposite to the LORD MAYOR, he threw himself into an attitude that be trayed- his intention to make a speech, and said, " Wherefore am I here ?" The Officer said, he had apprehended his prisoner at Kennington-common, on Monday, holding a pla card, containing, on one side, the words " Order, order; Universal, Civil, and Religious Liberty ;" and on the other, " The Meeting is deferred to a future day. A Public Meeting in Smithfield on Wednesday next, at Four o'clock, P. NI." LORD MAYOR.--What is the gentleman's name? Prisoner.—l am Samuel Waddington. By what law am I brought here ? LORD MAYOR.—By what authority did you hold up a placard, stating, that there was a Meeting to take place in the City, and inviting the Public to attend it? Waddington.—That there is a question which the laws do not request me to answer. It is my plea sure not to do so. LORD Matron.—You were standidg on Kennington common with the placard in your hand, holding it up to the passers-by : why did you do so ? Waddington.—That I was there I do not deny; but why I was there, it is my pleasure not to answer. There is nothing in the laws to compel me to it. Ingo by the laws, and shall answer upon the law. The LORD MAYO/1.-DM not yciur fondness fOr the law prompt you - to,thirek that you were_doing: 1 what might tend to a breach of the race and of course to a violation of that which you Profess to venerate ? Waddington.--I don't deny that I held the pla card ; but what law is against that? Although I may not paste placards against your City wills, that is no reason I should not cover myself all over with them. The LORD MAYOR.—Who employed you to make such a figure of yourself? Waddington.—That question it is not my pleasure to answer : I am devoted to my country, and I stand ' by the laws. The LORD MAYOR—I am glad to hear you say so, and trust that you will in all cases of necessity apply to them, as well as advise your friends to do so. Waddington— A)e, aye; but then, law is unfortu nately not be had without money. The Laws are good, but the Lawyers are of a different cast, and will do nothing without money. The LORD MAYOR—I am not a Lay per, and shall charge you nothing for my advice, and yet it is AF, good a; that of any legal mail. Be industrious; there is plenty of work for those who are idling about but if once you get amongst the herd of lazy growl ers, you'll find it difficult to be any thing but a fool. Mr. Waddington looked rather astonished. He turned to the right and to the left, but his eloquence drooped. At last he said he was independent, and had a good deal of business. " I printed that placard myself; which I carried about(said be) and my respect for the laws compelled me to burn 200 of a similar kind, mevely because my compositor made a mistake in them as to my address." " Well, my friend," said the LORD MAYOR, 4( I trust you will take my advice. Officer, I shall do nothing further with Mr. Waddington : take him back to Union•hall." As Waddington was going away, he sail he should certainly summon the Lord Mayor to Cobbler's Chan cery (the Court of Requests) for the value of the loss of his day. About three o'clock his Lordship walked from the Mansion-house to the Giltspur-street Comptcr, and remained there until Smithfield Meeting concluaed. BOW..STREET.—S£DITIOCS PinaticATioNs.—Yes ,terday Chrid(Ther Harris was brought to this Office, charged with being a vender of seditious publica tions, and particularly fer selling the last number of " Sherwin s Political Register. —Benjamin Morris, a constable, and messenger belonging to the Office, said he had purchased the publication in question at the shop of the prisoner.—The prisoner declared his innocence of the charge. On being questioned by the Magistrate, he stated his residence tobe in Broad court, Bow- street ; that he was a bookseller by trade; that he did not know the author of the publication in question, which he procured in the way of his busi ness, and was not employed by any person. Magistrate--I think you were in trouble not long since. —The prisoner pretended not to understand the question. Magistrate—lf you are a bookseller, you can't be so ignorant as not to understand the question.— The prisoner, after some hesitation, admitted that he understood the Magistrate ; which trouble meant that he had been indicted for keeping a common brothel, in the very house where he is now selling this and other infamous publications. The prisoner admit ted this to be the case, but said the prosecution did not proceed, because he had removed the gills from his house. The Magistrate—This was not the case: the parish officers did not proceed in the prosecution, but it was owing to your family, poverty, and your promising a different course of life. Prisoner—l have pursued a different course of life. Magistrate—What ! in selling such publications as this ?—The prisoner, in reply, said, he did not know Elia-. there was any harm in the publication. lie in quired if he cou:d be admitted to bail ?—The Ma gistrate, in reply, trAd him he should sit at the Office till midnight, and if sufficient bail was offered for him he would receive it.—The prisoner inquired if the witness who had given evidence against him was an officer belonging to the Office ?—The Magistrate appeared rather astonished at the inquiry, but con descended to say that the person who had given evi dence upon the charge was a messenger employed at the Office, that he had not been paid for what he had done in this business, nor would he he paid.—After remaining a few hours in custody, bail was offered for the prisoner by two persons, named Brookes and West, which, on due examination, was accepted, and he was discharged. UNION HALL—Yesterday Samuel Waddineon, who was brought before the Magistrates of this Of fice on Monday last, from Kennington Common, where he was exhibiting a placard of the adjourn ment of the intended Meeting there on that day, and another of the intended Meeting yesterday in Smith field, and who had been sent by the Magistrates of this Office on Tuesday before the LORD MAYOR, to answer any charges that might be made against him in the City, was remanded by the LORD MAYOR to this Office, and underwent an examination before L. B. ALLEN, Esq. the presiding Magistrate, when, upon proof of the prisoner being the person who was exhibiting this hand-bill to the Public on a pole, on Kennington Common, by Robert Hall, one of the Officers of this. Office, who had taken him into cus tody, and his own confession that he was also pi in ter of the hand-bill, he was ordered to find bail for a misdemeanour, in " unlawfully publishing a cer tain seditious printed hand-bill, for the purpose of calling a Public Meeting of the British Metropolis on that day, in Smithfield, in the City of London, for appealing to the PRINCE REGENT to stay the hands of merciless and blood-thirsty tyrants, and to save the country from massacre and murder, and thereby intending to excite, stir up, and provoke tu mult, riot, sedition, and disaffection amongst his Ma jesty's subjects to assemble at such Meeting."—The prisoner, upon being interrogated as to who and what he was? answered, that he was a printer, and a shoe maker also; and that he carried on both his trades (press and beech) in a one pair of stairs back room, at No. 12, New Bolton -street, Long-acre, where he had lived about a month, and had no family; that' he had printed the bills in question, but refused to tell who had employed him or paid him; and that he was one of the Middlesex Committee named in the hand-bill. The Magistrate, at the close of the examinAtion,:informed the prisoner he might be ad to bad, upon fiadin sufficient suretieei but she prisoner doMed there was any dun gy av , to call upon him for bail, and declared he w • tp;,, find any, but chose to be committed. GUILDHALL.--0111.44 -•—••-p a poor ferrLle, last week exhibited specimens of het poet: 0 1 4, was again brought up before Mr. Aldermar MAN. On being pressed to give her re. l l a c she said, " If I must speak the truth I will tell. that I have been educated in adver s it y , ', m t . ; in the country of bondage, and th at I feel nlybei:, in the land of miseryand distress. _ _ The ;Magistrate—You have been aoreadv Compter ? Pi isoner—Yes, I have been ; and I must sat there I have been better guarded than rear What are the people to do? I complain: laws. The laws were made by men of d' virtue; but there is a distinction betaee, the adminictration of law, and whether from lect of the Sovereign, or the corruption of traces, the laws do nct corder protection. Alderman WArriim A N—Wa have Leal d a good speech, but pray tell me where you ci Prisoner—lt would puzzle the lawyers t that—(a am in distiess, as nui„ • people are ; yet 'there is good land in Eo tirely waste; as good land as is to Le k reign countries. ' Let me depart, and Iwi turb you. lam not anxious to come here. wish io create distkitbabce or trouble. The 11'orthy Alderman, after a suilab:e tion, dismissed the prisoner. She held seal (Ally withdrawn, when ar.otl rushed before the Justice—a female of of age, of wretched appearance, with aver) eye. She said she was the Queen—Q ueen . 6, talked in an incohcrent manner bf the of rights and prerogatives, and produceda soiled papers, principally remnants of o;LI pers, which she insisted contained cla:ins. On looking over the pare7s, by an ciderce, it alpeateci that the first scrap th,. vote of a former House of Commons, incapaLlie—the second scrap con! article ft,rn Cobbstt, on Reform—and the tained a list of tlic majority against the nu William Curti. The Magistrate—l►ly poor woman, I c: thing for you; your ,14 . ms, I su:pose, are to be investigated here, and ;u tar t?-.e papent dnce, I see nothing in them 1 . ..N0.:m01e to oflegil;macy Mr jcsty then nia.ie a vo ful curtsey, and retired. CURIOUs MODE Or FJECTING A BAD T 1 Dennis O'Reilly, appeared to answer the ( of Catherine Donoughue, for an assault. E was accompanied by a host of friends, and fusion of tongues Ivas admirable. Mrs. IX described the assault in very vivid terms. been " completely upset," s& said, by Mr. because she asked him only for the key of t and he would not give it to her at all, but try her heels instead, and she called some six Ladies to prove that tl-.ey saw her lying , Dennis O'Reilly began his defence with a bo' to the ground, and ‘f I'll tell you what it is , Honour—that is, yuiir Worship, if your' Honour will hear me."—The Magistrate asp of a patient hearing....." Then, your Won was telling you, or was going to 'tell yon, noughue 2s a complete nuisance; and for woman, she is not a bit of it, your Honour—. I that would be bating a woman, your Horn is, your Worship!"—The ag stl ate told hi inclined to think better of hi m.—" Och sum Worship, and I would not do it! but " noughue was heaviest at top, for she had go: in it, your Worship, and I put my hand to: der, and Go along with you, said I, Mrs. Donee) Here Mr. O'Reilly suited the action to the the word to the action, with a peculiar grit most intelligent grin, as Sterne would say, Magistrate catching the idea, said—" Ay you just put your hand to her, and down bled('-" By the powers! and your Worsi right as if you was at it yourself !" exclan 0 Reilly, with another bow, and with a tri smile, he added—" But I'll tell your Worsh: rest of it: Mrs. Donoughue owes the landlt for the rent of the place, and he can't get hcr it, nor get his money either; and so, your what do you think he did now?" The shook his head. " Why, he took away ftom key of the—of the—water-closet!—saving y( ship's presence, to see whether that would out!"—Here a very crowded Office was ct, with laughter, in which Mrs. Donoughue very tily joined, and after some further conversatir parties were persuaded to retire and shake h 2 About three o'clock yesterday afternoon, man who used to sell hot pies, &c. in the nr hood of St. George's-fields, went into one oi famous brothels in Dover-street to offer hi sale, when he was immediately surroundei wretches who inhabited it ; his pies were soon up and devoured by them ; they then hooted laughed at him, setting him at defiance, and • to pay him for his pies. This treatment ex._ the poor man, and he refused to go without ment. The female wretches, some of them cated, and none of whom exceeded eighteen hustled him from one to another, and on his • some resistance, they snuck at him with cp poker, or any other article that first came until he was beaten quite sznseless, and left The case becoming known in the neighl the poor man was carried home to his house, street, opposite Bethlehem, hut he expired minutes. - A surgeon who was sent for, am could render no assistance. One woman, charged with giving the mortal blow, ‘c and lodged in the watch-house. BIRTIIS. At Chateau de l'lngueterie, near Bonlogot-sar- ) k 10th instant, the Lady of 'Major Macdougall, a 3 son• Saturday, at St. Ann's Rectory, Lewes, the La# Rev. George Shiffner, of a son. DIED. March 20, on her passage to Bombay, on board 6s Nal ship Minden, the Lady of Rear-Admiral Su Waal Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies. 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