Star. — London, England, 1819-09-06 00:00:00

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The Manchester transactions of the 16th ultimo, begin to assume a new and interesting aspect. trice Bill has been found by the Grand Jury at Lancaster, against Richard Owen, for wilful east corrupt perjury on that day ; and Bills have been presented against several individuals, for perjury and . other offences on the same occasion. •Another Coroner's Jury has sat at Manchester on one of the individuals wounded by a Sabre, and who died of his wounds in the Infirmary.. The verb dict, which our Readers will find in a subjoined let ter, will surprize every person who can be surprised at any thing that takes place in Manchester. It ez- . - hibits no evidence whatever, as to the that led to the infliction of the mortal wound ! On this occasion an important fact was established by a Constable, 'one of the witnesses who was examined on oath,—At one o'dock he heard the Rev. C. W. ETU ELSTON, who was then standing on the steps at the door of Mr. BUXTON'S house, where the Magistrates were assembled, reading a paper, but he could not tell what, nor could he be heard ; and in twenty mi nutes Vv., or at most half an hour, the Yeomanry dispersed the Meeting !—in what manner all the world knows. On this evidence we must continue to believe, till credible evidence to the contrary shall be adduced, and also upon oath, that the requirements of the Sta tute respecting the reading of the Riot Act were not complied with by the Manchester Magistrates. That we may not be accused of speaking too hastily, We shall here lay the words of the Statute before our Readers. It is the sth Act IL Geo. I. and, after a recital, that there had been of late many rebellious *riots and tumults, it enacts • ‘, That if any persons, to the number of twelve or more, brine • id Pilawfolly,•rietossily, and tuntultuondy assembled together to ow disturbance of the Public Pow, and being respired or com manded by any ons or more Justice or Justices of the ream, Ike, where such assembly shall be, by Produnadost in tie King's name, on the form hereinafter directed, to disperse themselves and peaceably to depart to their habitations or to their lawful business, shall, notwithstanding such Proclamation, eshiwrfttlly, • riotou,ly, and tumultuously remain together for the space of one hour after such command or request made by Prorbo%atioth then such continuing shall be adjudged fanny, &c. " And the order or form of the Proclamation shall be as fol lows :—The Justices of the Peace, or other persons author iszcl, • shall, among the said• rioters, or as near 'to them as ha can safely come, with a londraice command silence, and then shall openly, and with a loud voice make proclamation in these words, or to the like effect : " Our Sovereign Lord the King chargeth and conunandeth all persons being assembled, imnu datelylo disperse themaelews, and peaceably to depart to their habitations or bs nisi► lawful busir.ess, upon the pains contained in the Act for preventing tu mults and riotous assemblies."—Then fviliaw the penalties. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. MANCHESTER, SEPTEMBER ♦. Dean SIR-I have to inform you that the Grand Jury at Lancaster yesterday found a true Bill against Richard Owen (upon whose oath the warrant for the apprehension of HUNT and his coadjutors was issued) for WILFUL AND CORRUPT PERJURY. I have not yet heard the particular statements in which the perjury consists, but the fact is beyond question. Bills, of which you have below a copy, are now placarded about the streets. To give you a sample of the accuracy with which the Infirmary Reports, stating that there were only four sabre wounds among the patients there, have been drawn up, I may state that a friend of mine, a few days ago, had an opportunity of seeing John Mellard, a master earthenware manufacturer, of Barslem, who was in town on the Ifitli of August, and attended the Meeting from curiosity. In the In- 1 firmary Report he is called John Mellor, and his case is stated to be " slight." This slight case is a sabre cut, a little below the elbow, received in protecting his head, which has divided one bone of the arm, if not both, and also another deep sabre-cut near the wrist, similarly received. Not a word is said in the Report about his being at all hurt by a sabre. This one case is sufficient to destroy all reliance upon the state ments of Brownhill and Hutton, if it does not prove premeditated deception. I am also informed that Mellard was advited not to report his case . at the Ob server Office, where they are collecting the names and numbers of the wounded: ' ANOTHER CORONER'S INQUEST. in . Viy!hgtllpritioned that a p erson w h o was cut • 1 : 4 4* . the Infirmary : he was from Saddlow9pih his nailleovea Davfeon, and the Inquest • upon his:body emateld.‘visier ; application saving been tinineeisdellf made , :bip.ble. Pearson to have. h ikiWoried 10g.V4i4); hp . order to enable him to be present, is he ithesideZ; mat 6MR I Lancaster on purpose. A Gentleman who was in the room began taking notes of the proceedings.— This was objected to by the Coroxer. The first witness was -Mr. James Ainsworth, the urgeon um* whose care, at the Infirmary, the elts , ceased had been. He proved that the " deceased. had died in consequence 2f a wound given b' a sake or other sharp instrunsesa." The next witness was John Longweeth, a Special Constable. He stated, that he attended, along with others, at the Meeting held at St. Peter's Fields, on Monday, the 16th August : was there between ten and. eleven o'clock, ilium he law several hundred people collected together, and others coming with flags, caps of liberty, and music, and many others having neither flags, caps, nor music. In answer to a question upon that subject, witness said, that " he supposed there were 80 or 90,000 persons present." Observation by a Juryman :—" Do yon think there were so massy ? I have heard several people say about 40 or 50,000." Witness resumed...." About oust o'clock saw the Rev. C. W. Etbelston standing On the if", af Mrs Atom's house, where the Magistrates were, readiaja paper, bat could not hear what At said; and in Aso= ; nevem minims after, saw tie Manchester .Y.soesaary dispersing the peopie."— The same Juryman who spoke before, now said, " so soon 7' to which the witness, after a pause, re plied, " h . IIOEIT XI \ RALF AN 110 Ore A Gentle man present here observed, he thought it would be the fairest way to let the witness state all he knew,' ; without interruption; but this proposal did not seem to please. The witness said he saw the Yeomanry Cavalry and constables striking the people, but could not say he saw any of the Yeomanry strike with the edge of their swords r though I should think this man's death a tolerably convincing proof that they did so. As far as I have heard and believe, this is the sub stance of the whole evidence. It was never even at- tempted to be proved that poor Dawson had ever been near the Meeting. About this time, the Gen.. tleman whose account of the proceedings has beak communicated to me, was ordered out of the room for the Jury to consider their verdict. Soon after wards the Coroner also came out of the room, and whilst he was out, Mr. JONATIIAV ANDREW, one of the Constables, came with the compliments of the Rev. C. W. ETIIELSTON, to say, that, if necessary, he' would attend, and take his oath he read the Riot slab The Coroner said, it was not necessary, as name' upon that subject was already gixen!!! After consulting about half an hour, the Jury re turned the following verdict, viz.—" That the de ceased died in consequence of a Wound received on Me. head on the 16th instant, in the Parish of Manchester, inflicted by the Cut of a Sabre or other sharp in.. strument." It must strike the most careless observer tha is NO VIRDICT AT ALL. The cause of the tbis death was palpable aid notorious ; and the Coroner's duty was to inquire by whom or under what circuits .,.tances, the wound was given ? Whether there was ANY JUSTIFICATION for it ? or whether the person by whom it was inflicted was 'not guilty of Wurtn. Muansta? In the absence of all proof of any riot having taken place, or even of the reading the Pro clamation for dispersing, I maintain there can be no doubt that he was. It is, therefore, impossible that the business can rest where it is. Further proceed ings will no doubt be taken. COPY OF THE PLACARD. • Whereas RICHARD OWBaN, of Manchester, Pawnbroker (cpon whose Affidavit of the ALARM be felt for the safety of the Town, the Warrant against Mr. HUNT and others, on the 16th August, was granted,) has this day had a Taut Bn.r. of HUM? , IMP found against him for WILFUL AND Coafturr Pmsavirr, upon evidence which be give at the New Bailey against Mr. Hum, Mr. Moommusx, Mrs Jourson, and others; the said Roma= Owen having, however, on that occasion, axruuto eo Doctors au A/MIMS, and been suppreed as ruck refitted by tie Magistrates, Persons acquainted with his place of abode are re quested to forward a communication to Mr. Houma, Mr. Cams Paaaaccr, or Mr. Hilmar Deimos, Solicitors for the prosecution' to be left at Mr. Jonmores, 17, Shute-hill, Manchester, in order that the said RICKARD Owes may be Arravuonsin UPON axe WARRANT °STAINES TOR THAT PURPOSITbe said Bacs aal , Owns is about five feet nine inches high, about thirty-eight years of age, of a sallow complexion, dark-brown hair and eyes, and is screw= TO ■AYH RUN LATELY CONNICTID WITH sus Pours . or Mencsaarsa. " J. rrx, l'sitster, Observer Office, ilfarliti.strret,Mesedirser." To THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. LANCASTER, SEPTEM/lIIR - 4. SlR—Last night a true Bill for Perjury was found against Richard Owen, the person on whose oath the warrant was granted, on the 16th ultimo, against H. HUNT, Esq. J. - JOHNSON, Esq. J. Mooanousz, and J. KNIONT. Two or three other indictments for perjury are prepared against witnesses in this cue, and many others for wantonly, cruelly, and unlaw fully, cutting and maiming his Majesty's peaceable subjects, assembled on that ever►memorable occasion. ONI O'CLOCK. • The Grand Jury it now examining ividence upon a Bill oflndictment fora Conspiracy, preferred :against Mr. Howr and his friends. Several Bills for capital Felony against those of the Yeomanry, who,overe the most active on the 16th aldn, were laid Wore the Jury yesterday ; but, although, the Bill %Mpg Mr. HUNT was only presented this momingi t the .listy have resolved to postpone die taus against Os irtaary, by haring the case of Ilsespisney first. Mr. Hurt, nidarlhe at/vital:l hfs Selleito Written a au* ipiOted leer tO the P.O.tentalli - • SrAnitv,) protesting, in becoming terms, against this irregular proceeding, and calling to the recol lection of his Lordship and the Jnry, that they are an Ivrea to corridor only, and not a Jury to try oases. The, practice adopted by the Jury is, doubtless, un constitutional, as the evidence, secretly given by the witnesses on the Conspiracy, without examination or contradiction, may be mired up with that to be given on the other Bills, and the Inquest thus erect them selves into a Tribunal unknown to the English law : that of a Court finally to try offences in the first in stance, instead of presenting Bills, upon spirts evi dence, to be afterwards tried by a petty Jury. We hate also seen a fetter from Mr. lim n. him self, received in town to-day, in which, in addition to the facts communicated in the preceding letters from our Private Correspondents, he states that two other bills for perjury, which were afterwards prefer red against Plitt and De►bphire, on exactly the same evidence which had sustained the bill against Owen, had been thrown oat. We have seen a series of Resolutions purporting to have been come to by " a numerous Meeting of the Subscribers to the Reading, or News-room, of E. SKILTON and Co. Southampton," in which they to tally disclaim the letter sent to us, signed " Iticnaan DAVIS, Secretary," affirming, what the Courier was " not surprised at," namely, that it had been kicked oufl-of the doors of " the Southampton Reading room," on account of itsfisitVal representation of the late events at Manchester, and of its manly, house, and loyal commentaries thereon. The said Resoln tionists declare, moreover, that " the name of Rich ard Davis is unknown to this Society, and to the town, as far as the most diligent enquiry can deter mine ;" and they conclude with requesting, that the Editor of the &ma will send them the said "original letter"—for what purpose they do not add. We can have no objection to give every satisfaction in our power to such as may have a right to ask it, as to the origin and genuineness of the letter in ques tion, signed " Richard Davis," but we most take I I the liberty to insist foroc hide fair play in the exhibi- 1 In the first place then, we must insist that the Members of the said Reading Room shall amend their call on us fora sight of the letter, signed" Rich ard Davis," by calling, at the same time, on the Courier, for a sight of the " several Idlers" received by the Courier, from 44 its friends," assenting the very same fact (vide the Courier of Monday, 90th August), in order that it may be awn whether the letter received by ns, and the letters received by the Courier, are of the same date, or of different Gates—whether any of the " several letters," from the Courier's " friends," are in the same hand-writ ing as that sent to us, signed " Richard Davis:" •and in order, especially, that if there be no such per sin (which is net impossible) as " Richard Davis,'" is SouthaMpton, some real person, such as some of the Courier's friends mat be, may be found out, who can tell how be came by the slander complained of; so that the real delinquent (no friend of the Courier surely) may be detected. In the second place, we must insist that, when the said Subscribers have so amended their call, they shall. farther make it in a Way which Gentlemen should and would make it, without which it cannot be deserving of and will re ceive no answer. And, thirdly, the said Subscribers must only ask that any Deputati&s of their own number, or any respectable person in town on their behalf, shall be permitted to inspect the said letter, which they are very welcome to do, at our own Office, and in presence of witnesses. It is rather too much to ask us , to send the original adrift among such friends as the Courier has in Southampton— friends who, for aught we know, may, after the ex ample of certain other patrons of the Courier, be themselves at the bottom of the plot or fabrication, at which they affect to be so virtuously indignant. It is the more necessary that we should be cautions not to part with the original, as we have reason to suspect (from an imposition practised upon us from the same neighbourhood last week), that possibly the letter, signed " RICIIARD DAVIS," was a forgery, and were we to part with it, we might be shut out from all possibility of tracing the fabricator, by means of the hand-writing. If it be a fabrication, the author would, no doubt, be well pleased that we should put this out of our own power. ' The imposition of last week to which we have luded, was a letter from Portsmouth, of the 2d in stant, inserted in The STAR of FridaT, giving an ac count of a .Meeting of Reformers, and a pretended copy of a Requisition to the Mayor to call a Public Meeting ; and stating, that the Mayor having re (tied, a Meeting had been called, by public hand ' bills, to take place as this day. To this letter • given every air bf authenticity, by the regular signa ture of one who calls himself " C. T. Stone," proba bly a forgery, and Jelin of names, given with all apparent' gravity,. who were to perform prominent parts in 4 the ethibition. The letter had the regular post-mark. We have this morning received letters from various friends in Portsmouth; informing us that we have been hoaxed. The place of the pretended Meeting of ers, dubbed " The Black Horse Inn, St. Mary itreet,k -is a very small weather•boarded pot-house, ftequented by sailors and their girls. " Benjamin Mardian, Tie a wovet to be no less a pasonage than a Town te•e ;•" Mr. Richard Gads.," is a utsn ; and " Mr. hem Hodge" is the town 'hi -sweep, &c. kc. It is next to inspoilible that it Editors of Newspapers ents, 'with every degree tire, effeFtesally screen Ilsemeelves nouns such •••Iftnposrtious. - t . .; . , • ..• • - . • . • . THE rrns. Scarcely any business has been trap Funds since Settling-day, and consec have remained steady. The late tree; have made Jobbers and Brokers rnor making such heavy speculations, and at the responsibility of their Princip a l close a bargain. It is said to be the of the House to thwart those great sp have been borrowing money of the kers, and depositing the Stock in t; large amounts, not to buy this Stock to market. If this determination is depression in price must inevitably t the Funds find their natural level. morning, commenced at 72i for the have not varied a fraction. Indeed little business doing; and on Saturda three, an hour when the House was f on there were not twenty Brokers press doing nothing. Yesterday the following Bulletin of health was issued: u Winds°, Cast His Majesty's general health continues to is no dhpinntion of his disorder." From Madras it is stated, that an of the Army there is immediately to t new regiments are to be raised, and a be made of one Major, one Captain, nant, to each regiment of cavalry. The Paris Papers of Thursday aria their contents are unimportant. Ftv, Wednesday, 72 fr. 95 c. Papers to-day, have not yet arrived. Mails have arrived since oar last Holland, and Hamburgh. The Official Gazette of Berlin aria Gazette which appear at Naumburg, well as the Paper called liermana. pressqd by order of the Prussian Go having permitted themselves to use expressions." The plague is said to continue its stantinople. The Captain•Pacha has and banished to Smyrna, for his ren ling the late disturbances. He is s office by ADDALLAH PACIIA. Princ returned from his exile at l‘lytelene. We have received to-day a father can Papers, reaching tb the 12th ulth The heads of the different Depar ceived a summons to repair to the meet, in consequence of the dispatch Spain by the Hornet. The PRESIDE! on the Bth. The invaders of the pr were, on the 23d of June, ten miles birre. Their force was daily increash A letter from Valparaiso, dated 111 a Lord Comma - az has excluded from 1 port of Payta, and left it free for wha for supls. Lord COCnaANE had t of San Lorenzo, and bad captured a r vessels, which be had converted int and fire and explosion ships It appears by letters of the 22d ul tktt the time granted in the prelin Allem for the KING'S signature to the the Florida Treaty has been suffered out that necessary appendage havin The KING announced on the 22d his tion not to ratify the Treaty of Cessi mains to be seen what course will be I United States, who are already in pos we think they will ever be induced tt hold. It is believed in some circles at: 5000 troops which lately sailed from Ca teed for the Havannah, as was then rep( rida! In the mean time we are told ag hundred and ninety-ninth time, that the tier for South America willsail by thee --" It consist (says one letter) of 12 s gun-boats, 150 transports, and 22,( a large train of artillery. All our an exhausted to supply it ; as for the spit it is not such as to argue well for tl distant an Expedition. Many General esteemed by the troops, have been re sequence of late events, and replaced devoted to the Court. There is still in the Kingdom of Valencia. Them dura are insecure ; and the Portuguese, of covering their frontiers against the formed a cordon from Almuda to El lately posted up on the gates of the It containing, in large letters, the folio , 4 This house to let from Ist January, lowa, Sernorma S.—Sailed yesterday I packet, Captain P.tscon, for Ostend, with a ni also, the Chichester packet, Captain Rimes, Captain ADAM, for Calais, with pimento suer embarked Isere yesterday ter Calais, o Jane James, Captain HAYWARD- Arrived y the King George packet, Captain Kea ; and from Calais, with passengers.—Arrived this Cele Chaliatit packet, Captain Hamm* fro mail and passengers. Sailed this morning I Moves, for Calls , with passengers. We beg to correct an error which s statement on Saturday, respecting tin to arrange a triumphal entry , for Mr. not held at the Craune, Clerkenwell, bu public-house in the vicinity. CORN-MARKET, MARK-LANE, The supply of Wheat was very larg from Essex, Kent, and Suffolk, but the triging, trade was exceedingly hear quarter lower than on this day week of fine quality could be disposed of, derable quantity remained on hand at market Fine Barley being scarce, fin( both of New and Old sold 2s. perqw White Peas being scarce, obtaired more than on last Monday. The Oat heavy, at a decline of Atli Is. per qua, articles there is no alteration. SMITHFIELD MARKET, SEPTI • (To sink the offal ; per itOCC of Beef .......4* Od to Sr 44 I ......... Mutton — .1 48 04 to 5a od Pork ..... Lamb 5a od to tis Beasts I 910—Callabal.0-.4%4 1 , end lArtbs 1 LONDONA:Frinted an 4 ptablisbrd br Los • Place, 'People-Iw. • • ~... ,~; e !~~ " "~ • • r