Star. — London, England, 1819-08-25 00:00:00

I li ' , ' LONDON. ' - THE EVENING STAR. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST VS, 1819. THE FUNDS. VRICZ OF STOCKS THIS DATA? ONZ O'CLOCIC Bank Stock 229 • 3 per Cent. Reduced 711 701 71 3 per Cent. Consols 70( 701 Si per Cent. 801 80--4 per Cent. 91i 901 i per Cent. Navy 1044{} Bank Long Annuities 19 1-161 Imperial S per Cent. Aim. 69D India Stock 219k —India Bonds 12 pre.. Exchequer Bills (2d.) 5 4 7.dis. Omnium 21 pre. Cons. for Acct. 7011 70/. The following letter of thanks to the ,Migistrates of the County Palatine of Lancashire, and to the Commander of the Manchester and Salford Yeomanry Cavalry, having been transmitted from the Secretary of State for the Home Department, to the Earl of DiRBY, we must necessarily conclude that this pro ceeding has been founded on facts with which the Public have not yet been made acquainted ; which, we cannot help thinking, ought to be com municated without a moment's delay ; for we live in an age in which the public mind is influenced by facts, and rests its opinions on evidence AUGUST 21, 1816• " MY Loin—Having laid before the Panics Rome the atoounts transmitted to me from Manchester, of the proceedings at that place on Monday last, I have been commanded by his Royal Highness to request, that your Lordship will express to the Magistrates of the County Palatine of Lancaster,_ who at. tended on that day, the great satisfaction derived by his Royal Highness from their prompt, decisive, and efficient measure% fee l the preservation of the pishac tranquillity; and likewise that your Lordship will communicate to Major TGATFOS.), his Royal Highness's high approbation of the support and assistance t 6 the Crvil Power afforded on that occasion by himself and the OM. ccrs, Noncommissioned Officers, and Privates, serving under Ins command.—l have the honour, &c. (Signed) " SIDMOUTH. " To the Earl of Daisy, &c. &c. &c. Knowslerr A similar letter has been addressed to Lord STAN TOWN respecting the Cheshire Magistrates and Yeo manry. ...=••••••• By our letters from Manchester we are happy - to learn that every thing continued quiet there up to Monday night. Mr. HUNT was expected to have been brought up for a final examination that day, btu this event did not take place. We are concerned to learn by our accounts from Leeds that in that quarter the people begin to exhibit symptoms of irri tation and impatience which they had not before manifested ; and which are attributed in some mea sure to the impression produced on their minds by the event; of last week at Manchester. PION THE ArtYCIIISTER X.E&CrIBT Of TESTERDAT. We, regret to learn that some tumult took place at Rochdale on Thursday. Three rioters were brought to our New Bailey that evening, escorted by the sol. diets, when a troop of the 15th Hussars and a corn . Pim)* of the 31st Regiment set off immediately for that place. Ws are, however, extremely happy in being able " •so assure our lit aders, and particularly our distant friends, that this place and neighbourhood have com pletely recovered the agitation with which they were overwhelmed by the intrusion of the Radical ftefor n-.ers last week, and now enjoy uninterrupted tran quillity. Salford, in fact, has not experienced the slightest commotion or disturbance. It having been stated in several of the Newspapers, that one &tuber, a Quaker, presided at a Public Meeting of those who style themselves Reformers, held at Leigh on the Ilth:instant, we have autho rity for stating, that should any of the Members of the Society of Friends promote proceedings tending to disturb the public peace, their Conduct would have the decided disapprobation of the Society, as it is, and always has been, the desire of the Society that its Members should live quiet in the land, promoting peace and having nothing but good will ta all men. (vaoM THY aUNCRESTER EXCMINGE 4111,44 . to, YESTERDAY.) . - g 4 If they (the Yeomanry Cavalry) had acted -ander the influence of irritation—if they had de served one thousandth pert of th." viii :aspersions with which the enemies of peace melt had as sailed them—graded as they had been hrrevenge— the field would have been covered with hundreds of lifeless objects in a few minutes when they charged ! On the contrary, it does not appear that a single pis tol was fired by any one of the corps, or that a single • Individual was materially wounded by any of their sabres" I! The Magistrates have addressed a letter of thanks to Major TRAFFORD, in which they state, that they 44 remarked, with peculiar gratification, the extreme forbearance exercised by the corps when insulted and dried by the rioters; thus affording another proof, that humanity as well as courage, stamps the character of the British soldier" !! " When HEALEY was brought up for examination before the Magistrates on Saturday, on a charge of High Treason, his behaviour at the bar was marked with consummate impudence. On the fact of his being on the hustings on Monday last being sworn to by a witness, he said he gloried in having been. there: Thu person, who was also calm up and conktued after the famous Zliuzicct Masan, i s gene. rally called Dotter Ifetilepfor, though very illiterate, he has been lucky enough to find fools who would swallow his physics, as well as his politics." 44 By order of the Magistrates, the market held at the New Cross, which is generally crowded till mid night on Saturdays, was this evening closed at an early hour. This was a salutary measure, and the night, with the Sabbath which followed, passed in peace." 46 On Monday, it being generally expected that Messrs. HUNT and Co. would be brought up for exa mination, the many persons who attended at the New Bailey were disappointed; for the examination, which is looked forward to with so much interest, will not, we understand, take place for a day or two." PRIVATE LETTER. " TO TILE EDITOR OF THE STAR. " Manchester, August " Silt—ln consequence of your manly and jud3 cious commentary on the horrill transactions of die 16th, I present you with a few facts, which, if desired, tan be fully substantiated on oath. I have, however, another thing in view, of more consequence than paying an honest and independent writer a compli ment. it isito prevent those, who are so happy as not to have been eye-witnesses, from confounding the conduct of the Regular Military with that of the Yeo manry Cavalry. I shall be brief. " One unfortunate man, during the charge, was very ill wounded, in his attempts to escape froin the ferocity .of these ••• * • * ••** • • • After being pursued for some time, he canoe opposite to a body of the 13th Hussars, who, with that humanity which has hitherto distinguished them, immediately opened a pass'tge for him, and his life was saved. " Another ) in a similar predicament, just as he was falling to the ground through fatigue, terror, and wounds, was caught in the arms of an Infantry Officer, who supported, and, with difficulty, protected him. Of these Gentlemen, I have several similar anec dotes: " While one of the Sprgeorts was dressing the wounds of some, and bleeding others, who were crushed, a number of people very indiscreet:y stood by to witness his operations. A Yeomanry-man came up, and instantly threatened to hack and hew in every direction, swearing most dreadfully, that g he would cut every soul to atoms, if they did not disperse.'— Fortunately for these poor creatures, his behav;our was perceived by an Officer of the Hussars, who immediately galloped to the spot and p 'tried the • 4 's blows with his sabre, repeatedly ex claiming, For Gala's sake, man, forbear.' " I have many other veil-attested cases of the same kind, but I deem the above sufficiently convincing. Particular anecdotes generally give a more correct idea of matters than general statements, however de tailed. To shew you what the people themselves thought, I will mention one more fact, of which I was witness. In the evening, an immense crowd of , people were assembled at the corner of Deansgate and St. Peter's -street, near the dreadful scene. The prancing of horses was heard. A cry of " the Yeo manry are coming !" spread the utmost consternation among them; but it was soon ascertained that two Officers of the Hussars (who wear the same facings, white) had caused the confusion. When they ar rived, the most enthusiastic acclamations prevailed.— The Gentlemen rode through the crowd, evidently highly gratified, with the points of their swords, as a sort of salutation, turned downwards to the ground !" TO TIIE EDITOR or TILE STAR. " MarettasTEß, MGV3I 117. Half-past Sit, P. M. " I respect your opinions and sentiments as pub lished in the STAR Newspaper, aild therefore 1 re gret the more that you are sometimes led into error: but indeed it cannot be wondered at, under such cir cumstances of alarm as the writers were placed in. I feel it my duty, therefore, to send you a plain statement of the facts as they occurred this day week, having been a calm observer; and believing that no individual could have had a better opportu nity of viewing the occurrences than I had. " You are pretty correct as to events up to the time when the military reached the neighbourhood of the field. The Yeomanry then halted about two minutes, drew their swords, and then trotted up to the hustings, along the front of the line of special constables ; the trumpeter first, then an Officer and the first troop, two a breast. I believe not a hlow was struck-by a Yeoman until they got within a yard or two of the hustings, when some resolute countrymen most certainly struck several with heavy sticks. The Yeomanry then laid round about them with the flat side of their swords, the Cheshire Yeo manry immediately followed on the back (that is on the other side) of the constables, several of whom, in trying to get more out of their way, were ridden over. The 15th Hussars came about the same time, in another direction. Immediately there was a shot fired from the top of a house and some bricks were thrown, and then I heard the Officer of the 15th say, • • • • • • • • • • " I considered the Yeomanry to have been too much agitated to do much execution. Several of the 15th were wounded with bricks and stones. I saw several people cut down who are not in any list given in of wounded or killed. My greatest surprise is, that there were not ten times the number of per sons killed that there are. " It is not true that HUNT was wounded with a sabre, but there were several clumsy blows given him with sumo. At the time Hort was coming up, one *Nit persons on the stage called to the peopla round hilts to " form to the right sit deep, lark their arms together, and keep their enemies off." The " right" was in the direction where the Special Con stables were formed to keep an open avenue. On the advance of the Cavalry, HUNT cried out " Stand firm," several times. Mr. NORRIS, the Magistrate, tried several times to get to the stage, but it was impossible. " We are all still mach agitated here; the weavers have not done more than a day's work all last week; and we are fearful for the worst. I know London well, and the spirit of the lower class, but I can assure you it is very different from the spirit mani fested here. It is not A:form (for which I am my self an advocate), but a division of Property they look for, and this is mentioned openly. Our Town to-day looks quiet, but there are just now some thou sands of persons about the New Bailey% a report having got out that HUNT was to be liberated, they meant to Chair him through the Town.— I am a constant reader and supporter of the STAR, I do not at present feel disposed to give up my name, but you may rely upon what I have said being as correct as any thing that has been said upon the sub ject.—lT UNT has not been brought up at all to-day, nor has any thing more transpired." 4 , „ • This Correspondent not having favoured us with his name, he cannot be surprised that we have suppressed a portion of his Letter where we have substituted asterisks. We cannot, on anonymous authority state, as facts, any thing respecting the Mi. lituy, which stands contradicted by every account that has yet reached us. The authority for the statements which have appeared in The Star, respecting the conduct of the Yeomanry, was not anonymous ; and our present conviction is, that, bad only the old regularly disciplined Troops been sent in among the People, there would have been no bloodshed. EDIT. FROM A PRIVATE CORRESPONDENT or ME 5T4411. " Manchester, Monday Evening, Eight o'clock. " Mr. HUNT and his fellow prisoners were to have been brought up to-day for their final examination. but either the expected advices from London on the subject had not arrived, or if they have =rived, which I rather suspect to be the ease, they are not of so determinate a 'Louie as to leave the Magistrates without the necessity for scnie farther deliberation. No examination took place, and it is now said that it may be some days yet before the prisoners are brought up. If popular rumour speaks true, Government have left the Magistrates to the exercise of their own judgment as to the ultimate proceedings to be adopt ed against the persons in custody. The mighty charge, too, of High Treason, is said to dwindle into a mere forced construction of the Riot Act, accord ing to which Mr. HUNT and his associates, for not obeying an order to disperse which they never heard of, are to be held as rebels to the authority of our Sovereign Lord the :KING, and subject to all the penalties of open Rebellion. If so, it is not difficult to anticipate what the result will be with any Jury of common sense and common impartiality. " The prisoners are, in the mean time, treated in their confinement with all that strict surveillance which is usually observed towards great State delin quents. Nobody is permitted to have access to them without an order from one of the Magistrates, and nobody permitted to hold a word's conversation with them, except in the presence and hearing of the Jailor, or some of his deputies. To-day three persons, one of them I believe a Mr. West, who had come down from London, were allowed to have a short inter view with Mr. Hvgl", but a person deputed by the Jailor was present the whole time. 1 am informed that HUNT has not suffered much from the beating he received, and that he is not only quite well, but in good spirits. " The wounded in the Infirmary are recovering fast. The member of the deaths has, however, been increased since the last accounts to N:ne. I have not as yet learnt the names of' the additional victims." MANCHESTER, AUGUST 23, One o'Clock, P. M. (From the 7lmes.) I have just come from the New Bailey, whither I went this morning, expecting, if not the liberation or final commitment of Hun; at least the settlement of his case, and declaration of the charge on which he is confined. The Law Officers have now had time enough to examine the evidence on which the Bench of Magistrates have acted, and to determine whether it will bear them out in committing him for High Treason, or in detaining him for a minor offen c e ? From t he delay that has taken place, we are led to suspect that there ts some demur in a high quarter as to the existence of the said High Treason of the Manchester Magistrates. It is strongly surmised, that some questions have been put to them regarding their own conduct, previous to the determination of their future proceedings regarding HUNT. How -1 ever this may be, justice would surely seem to dictate a speedy decision. To keep a charge of High Trea son hanging over men who may ultimately be tried only for a misdemeanour, or not tried at all, seems to be harsh and cruel, both to them and to their friends, as it affects their comforts and character. Whatever opinions may be entertained concerning the mischievous insanity of HUNT and his compeers, when agitating the country by their intemperate non sense, it should be recollected that they are now pri soners, and that the preservation of the laws of Eng land is of more value to society than the punishment of these individuals by an apparent deviation from justice. Does it not savour a good deal of the Holy (rue to immure men in dungeons, without telling them the grounds of the charge. or the nature of the evidence brought against them? Besides, in this case, if the Reform orators are only to be tried for a misdemeanour, every hour they are confined in gaol for High Treason is, in fact, so long a period of false imprisonment; because there is no doubt, that if the minor offence was determined on, they could be libe rated on bail. The truth is, the Magistrates have got lam difficult', not by Hdxfs c• n Uldir own. They dread the indig.,%l,,. Fire for their precipitate and sanguii, and to justify their own rashness, rmi • tend to find, the commission of a try ,; appears to me to be the origin of the C! . .t . Treason. That no !pounds exi•.teu fu. Meeting, is evident horn the non-appreh prisoners, when one of them offered I that the proceedings of the Meeting f foundation for it, unless their reniairaog ings to be cut down by the military, dispersion at the reading of a proclatt. they never heard,can be construed into a resistance, and an open levying of . war, evident. I have conversed with sevetal stables who have been sworn before the is the private examination, and none of ; deposed that HUNT advised resistance. places great stress on the expression used tor, when he advised his friends to stand any one " became disorderly, to put 1. But, good Heavens! what an easy, ,ic! they make the commission of High . T..-c.. chester, if an exhortation to ordsr word of wilawful resistance against anti c of the Constables, in their depositions, 1, the exhortation, " put him down " and down." The majority, however, of those the Orator, deny the use of the latter exi,t the same time the evidence of the Specia! and of all those who acted against the Monday, ought to be received with sped T'sey are all parties—they are all intlarc , most violent and rancorous hostility to ti and men who can express regret that the baton protected their victim from the lift the dragoon, cannot be expected to be vi lous in the means they employ to enlist in the more inexorable axe of the execut treatment of HUNT when in the custody and when deprived of all means of self resistance, was so inhuman and brutal, th Magistrates who had advised the milit , could not but rebuke it ; and would met their prisoner, with the evident design of , trial unnecessary, heitate about twisting ; adding an expression to procure a colotict prisoners are kept in solitary coofinemeni not allowed to see any person without an a Magistrate. The town has been tranquil since Frid: Watch and Ward Act is strictly enforced, got down here bales of C'obbetts, Sherm Dwarf:, and Medusa:. The Observer o✓ beset with a mob of applicants. HUDDERSFIELD REFORMER: Haddersfit'Al, Considerable alarm has been excited and neighbourhood by the proceedings of Reformers. Almost every evening duri week Meetings have been held on Crop between Huddersfield and Marsden, of chester road, principally, it is reported, pose of training ; and on Thursday afternoon ber of persons assembled on Colcloug)- fi play at soldiers." Earl) the next morni the Magistrates (who displayed the most activity on the occasion) had a meeting, bill was issued, signed by J. HAIGLI, 13. and J. IIoasPALL, Esquires, calling on able inhabitants of Huddersfield, in col the Meetings held in this and other ni counties, to enrol themselves as Special A hand bill was published on Saturd of the Reformers, signed " A Yorkshireman, suading the people from acts of violence, ing them that a British Jury would ay% for blood" for the Manchester affa:r. LETTER TO THE EDITOR OF Tit " LEEDS, Al " The Reform Meeting announced ti Wakefield this day has been adjourned day next; but the Meeting on Ilunslet held to-morrow. " Four strangers (in the garb of get. strongly suspected of being spies,) have be engaged during the four last days in the leaders of the Reformers in this distri' their procurement much information haf mitted to the Secretary of State. We e expect a number of arrests during the cl Matters are certainly assuming an alai tn, ance in this neighbourhood. Every wail dow-shutter is chalked with languau of flammatory tendency, that it would be it give it circulation elsewhere by transcriL " I do not pretend to see farther into other people; but the result of the Maim ing has produced an effect en the public quarter, which I cannot help thinking with mischiefs we could not otherwise pated. The bursting smoke of the hi: ratively quiet volcano threatens /Is with at no very distant period, if the utmost not employed to give gradual vent to lava, and thus allow it to spend itself otherwise it may sweep every thing bercre " Two arrests have taken plaet here 01' and I am informed that warrants are several other individuals. The Manch( I am happy to cay, has not yet seized conservators of the peace. We cannot a considerate prudence that has marked e‘ their conduct. Had they been as hasty as others, it is impossible to say what might h.3e our present situation. " Very extensive orders for stuffs and piece-„"" have been received here within the last three They have come most seasonably, and by lull:is.. employment to some who arc out of work ; nia to quiet some portion of the present irritation. ` 4 ' l i. t 1 `. _ • ‘,l , 1 01 • , • (1 . A i 1' . -1 - 1 1. • t '. t 4 .• . . le ,1 •a !;::• re .j a tr. I . t . .n Chia %1 21, : . t i 4 .1 . : • z. 1 ! , 1.,t,i Ise .t! ; e, n:cd silk '7 ir;. • he Gila. lifted t very s , M their . t, utioger, Kly of N elfdri that eve- Litar• ten win .1 of 'cr.& . ig a ph. 'action? lent: they an nide: idayla , t. ed. Wei, iertriits, • °dice is , SRS. Atrr. .1 in this of the llad uring the' 7ossland Y on the d, for the :moon a : ugh Moor, rning (F • most list; g, and a • B. H. AL mu the res :onsequcr. • neighbu d Cons:A'. relay by • uireman," ce, and • " • lIE STAR. 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