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I I r z t i 4 i; Wilma. liter ary friends should think them worthy of being made public, I shall be most happy in following Mr. Owen's example, by yielding my humble and utmost endeavours to improve and ameliorate the condition. of the poor. I beg leave, before 1 sit down, to ob serve to your Royal Highness and this Meeting, that if in the heat of argumeliti have in any way tns. passed beyond the bounds of moderation, it has pro ceeded front my having touched a cord upon whirl: - no holiest man, 1 ti ust, need be aril:lined to confess hi> sensibility—die wrongs, Sir, of my country. Mv. lto•xcuorr moved the third Resolution, which was adopted unanitnou ily That, for defraying the expences of first creating such an Esta blishm:: t, a Pins of £1,0,-AM be raised by sub,criptien ; and. that books for rec:iv.iig the names of subscribers, and the amount of their subsctiptions, will be Opened at the conclusion of this Meet ing, and at 'Messrs. Smith, Pa; ne and Co. Bank:rs, London ; with an understanding, that no part of the sun! subscribed shalt be called for until a General Meeting of Subscribers sita3 have been convened for the purpose of detero:itii.:g 'sr the detalhanf the Plan, and for the election of a Tretu,urer, Trustees, and Managers. Mr. Omar expressed a wish that the name of Ma jor Ton-ens should be added to the Committee, add ing, that he expected to convince that Gentleman of the erroneousness of his notions upon the. merits off the plan under discussion, as well as upon the subject', of agricultural produce. Several subscriptions were here announced, among which were the follow ing t Smith, Paine, and Smith, £7,000; fleneral Brown,1:300 ; .Mfr. Owen, 1,000; R. Frazer and Mr. Tooke, _COO each ; Mr. Goblsillid, £2OO ; Sir J. J. Clarke, £.200 ; Mr. J. Clarke, .e.lOO. The announcement of Mr.Ovven's subscription was received with loud and universal plaudits. • Mr. BOURN said he would trespass on the Meeting but for a few moments. To endeavour to aid a cause which he could not contrilute to in the way that other Gentlemen had just done, by calling the atten tion of has Royal Highness and th e Meeting to the language of that Book, which contained the declara tion of the Founder of the Christian Religion, that he came not to destroy, but to tulfil the Law, and that Law said, Tricia sh.tit love thy neighbour as thyself." Mr. Owen had been charged with infidelity, •but he had devoted his life and his pteperty, and the ener gies of his mini!, in accordance with this precept. Who was the infidel ? The man who did so, or he, who professing faith in the Religion, allowed such misery to go impitied or unalleviated.. He would endeavour te remove a prejudice, the eicistence of which, and which only could account for the back wardness of the Ministers of Religion to support Mr. Owen's scheme, by proposing as a Resolution, " That there is, iu the opinion of this Meeting, nothing in the Plan proposed by Mr. Owen for general adoption, that is either inconsistent with those principles of freedom for which' our fore-fathers bled, or in revolt with those laws of Maw. which are contained in the book called the Bible." Mr. Ito WCROFT, however, begged the motion might be withdrawn, as inappropriate to the occasion. All the Resolutions were carried unanimously, with the exception of three hands. Mr. TOOK prtsposed a Vote of Thanks to the flint trinus Chairman, without whose diligent attendance, and able conduct, the Committee, of which his Royal Highness was President, could never have come to al sattsfactory determination. The Duke of KENT on returning thanks, observed, that the Meeting had been guilty of one omission, for it looked to him, instead of lookin& to the meri • torious individual with whom that Meeting originated. His Royal Highness concluded with proposing the Thanks of the Meeting to Mr. Owen, which was agreed to unanimously, and with acclamation. The Chairman having retired, the Meeting broke up about five o'clock. TiiE Ev ENING STAR. LONDON. TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1819. TUE -FUNDS. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLCCK : Bank Stock '235 236 3 per Cent. Reduced 73 72/11 3 per Cent. Consols 72i 71i S per Cent. S'2l per Cent. 90il i 5 per Cent. Navy 105; 105 Bank Long Annuities Wit Irish 5 per Cents. 10.5.11 India Bonds 10 12 pre. Exchequer Bills (2d.) 2_l 3 1 pre. Omnium 61 5 pre. Consols for Acct. 73 72 71i 72} 71f. This morning the House was crowded to excess previous to the rattle going for business; when it commenced, the demand for Stock was beyond pre cedent. Consols opened at 73, and Omnium at premium ; they then fell to Omnium 5 per cent. premium; again lose to 72ii, and Omnium 51 per cent. premium. The Market looks exceedingly well; but we should consider it prudent for the holders of Omnium to realize at the present price—the profit is now handsome, and the original subscribers are well paid for the advances they have made. We mentioned yesterday that when the accounts left Stockport on Saturday night, the unfortunate Mr. BIRCII was in such a state from his wound that the most serious apprehensions were entertained for his life. A Paper of this morning informs its Readers that it has since learnt that he is dead." It does not, however, give any sort of authority for the state ment ; nor have we been able to learn that any an tkentic information to this effect has reached town. The Public will learn with satisfaction that the PRINCE REGENT has promptly issued the following Proclamation for the discovery of the assassins. The account which it gives of this shocking transaction will be found to differ in several material respects from that which we published yesterday. It appears from this statement that three men went to the dwel ling-house of Mr. Maur, and while they were en gaged in conversation with him respecting HARRISON, one of the three fired a pistol, and shot the unfortn nate man in the breast. No mention is made of any i • r i , 1,(111 ' 1 1* I 3 ,t *. I 1 .. ~.,. I ! „. i i • . . ~ i 1 ,74 4 , 1 , .• . . • 1 , . • i . • ii.: • gill . i.:*k mob, nor is it said that these three men were only Evert of .an assembly of Reformists, collected together to assassinate an unoffending individual. PROCLAMATION. 1 FELONY.—POUR HUNDRED POUNDS REWARD. " Whitehall, 26th July, 1819. " Whereas it hath been humbly represented to his Royal I lighiu:so the Prince Regent, that about ten o'clock in the even ing of Friday last, the £3 l of July instant, Writiam Birch, a specia constable of Stockport, in the county P.ilatine of Chester, had in his c!istody at his dwelling-house, in the Church-gate in Stock port aforesaid, Joseph Harrison, schoolmaster, of that town, charged with seditious practices; and that three men, at present unknown, went to the said dwelling-house, and while the said William Birch. was engaged in conversation with them respect; ing the said Joseph Harrison, one of the three men fired a pisto at the said William Birch, and the bullet, with which the said pistol was loaded, lodged in his breast, and little hopes are enter taineti of hit lif2. " His Royal Hight : less, fbr the bet , w and more speedy ap prehending and bringing to ?mice the persons concerned in the felony aforesaid, is hereby pleased, in the rare and on the be half cf his Majesty, to promise his :.),lii:rSty'S mast gracious,par don to any one cf them (except the person who actually Ered the said pistol) who shall discover his accomplices therein, so that they may be apprehended and corviced thereof. " And, as a further encouragement, his Royal Highness is further pleased to promise to arty person or prisons (eacapt as aforesaid) who shall discover and apprehend, or cause to be dis covered and apprehended, the persons concerned in the said felony, the raw:a - di following :—that is to say, for the person who actually fired the said pistol, the sum of .C. 500; and for either of the other two persons who were present at the firing of the said pistol, the suns of £50.; to be p.ild by the Lords Com ; tnissioners of Lis Majesty's Treasury. "SI D MOUTH:* 11LINUFACTURING DISTRICT'S. PO L LOCKS Ilk WS, (near Glasgow) JULY 24. Strong doubts having been entertained of the effi cacy of the resolution come to at the meeting of Gentlemen held here on the Bth instant, to purchase webs to fill the idle looms, they have had another consultation on the subject, and have wisely given up all thoughts of manufacturing, and adopted the more effi.:cious and promising plan of labourers' work. In addition to some agricultural operations, sveral new lines of road have been marked out, and thus a sufficiency of work will be provided for all the unemployed residenters in the borough, old and young, strong and weak, if they be only able and willing to handle a spade, or pull up a wild marigold• When the Weavers were conversed at the gloaming (twilight), and informed of the work• with which they were provided, you cannot conceive the pleasure with which the report was received. This plan is inferior in point of efficacy to emigration; but it is certainly more practicable, and presents greater advantages, than the romantic dream of dividing the country into little parallelograms. The (ientlernen here have set 'a noble esample. if it be followed on an extensive scale, the good effects will soon be felt, and the .Is tress will gradually vanish. • PAISLEY, JULY VS. A Meeting of the Heritors of the Abbey Parish was held yesterday, to take into consideration a Me morial of the Operative Weavers in the Parish, stating the great distress that many of their number dd at present labour under from want of employ ment, and requesting the relief that their distressed 'circumstances so u:gently required. The Meeting named a Committee, who, with a Committee of the Memorialists, should prepare and present to the Meeting, to be held on Thursday the sth of August, a statement of the number and circumstances of the persons in the parish, who at present require relief on accodnt of the want of employment ; together with their opinions in what manner such relief may most prudently and most effectually be given. They then placed die sam of £lOO at the disposal of the Ministers and Kiik Session, for the immediate relief of the most necessitous of the above description. And, by their Preses, JOHN MAXWELL, Esq. Member for the County, they expressed to the N.temorialists their high approbation of their prudent, peaceable, and exemplary conduct on-this occasion; and ear nestly recommending a continuance of such conduct, as the most effectual means of interesting the Public in their favour, and of attaining the sympathy and aid of those who have it in their power to contribute to their relief. REFORM MEETING AT NORTH SHIELDS. Monday upwards of 500 persons collected together merely by verbal notice, assembled at the Spittil bridge, North Shields. No Chairman was appointed, but a long Address, detailing the defective nature of the present system of Representation, was read, and followed by a long series of Resolutions, which were severally carried by acclamation. The Resolutions pointed out the necessity of a Reform in Parliament, on the principles of Annual Parliaments and Univer sal Suffrage, and recommended the appointment of a Committee, to correspond with the Committees formed in other places for similar purposes, and to mutually communicate their proceedings and Reso lutions. A Committee of twenty-one was imme diately appointed, and they were instructed to con cert measures for speedily calling a General Meet. ing. The Meeting then quietly dispersed, and it is only justice to add, that it was marked throughout by the greatest order and decency. GLOUCESTER, JULY 24. At our Quarter Sessions true bills df indictment have been found against John Watts, and nineteen others for riotously assembling with a large body of weavers, amounting to several hundreds, at the manu- ' factory of Messrs. Harris, Stephens, and Co. at Kings tanley, with intent to intimidate them to alter the pricc of a certain description of work, which had been given out to weave. On this occasion the weavers 1 who had taken out such work were forcibly corn-1 pelled to carry the same home to their employers, by large bodies of men, who entered theirhouses and made use of threats and violence to effect their pu:- pose. But Messrs. Barris and Co. having refused to take back the work, it has • ince the suppression of these disturbances been wove by the %title mcn who originally took it out at the price fixed. MANCHESTER. At the Manchester Quarter Sessions, Eve indict ments have been found against James Wroc, the edi tor of the Newspaper called the MaiicheEter Merver, for various libels upon the constituted Authorities of the country.—An indictment has also I:.ef:n found against Mark Wardle, for a seditious libel on the Go vernment and Constitution of the country. The pur poses chaiged in all these cases arc, those of exciting insubordination in the couutry, and rebellion against ' the Government. At a General Meeting of the Magistrates of the Counties of Chester and Lancaster, held st Manches ter on the '23d of July, it was unanimously resolved, . - " That for the purpose of promoting co-operation between these Counties in the present crisis, a Committee he appointed out of the Magistracy of each ; and that this be empowered to , add to its number Magistrates from the West Rit'.ing of York shire and the County of Derby : that the Committee be a Select one, and be empowered to Mereast its number; and that as it sees ssecabion it be requested to convene the Magistracy." LEEDS, JULY °6. The Workhouse Committee had two meetings last week on the subject of the Poor, and have di..cussed the grounds of the Report they are to make. Mr. Owss has written an answer to their comniunication, in which he " begs leave to state generally that the distress which pervades the poor and working classes• may be permanently removed by employment on the soil, and that styli occupation may be so arranged for them, that it shall not be prejudicial to any class 'in society. " Mr. OWEN very politely offers every facility and information in his power, and for this' :purpose intends visiting Leeds; but we are given to understar.d that as far as his Plan has yet been de 7.veloped, the Committee are not much disposed to follow it. In the mean time we are concerned to learn from indubitable authority, that pauperism, from want of employment, continues on the increase. We have received, today, Bombay Papers to the 24th of February. Letters from Husseinabai state, that large bodies of men were reported to be about entering the Bei tool-valley. By one account they are stated at twelve thousand men, but it was thought that the defeat of their brethren in arms at Chouragur and Futtelipoor, would deter them from carrying their plans into operation.. Another account states, that Lieutenant JOUNSON was taken prisoner by the enemy, who spared his life on condition of his conveying a letter to the Subidar in command of the fort. The purport of this com munication was, that if the Subidar would give up the fort, he should receive a reward of thirty rupees per diem, and the sepoys also should be remunerated on taking the oath of allegiance to AIPAH SAHIB.— The Subidar received the letter with contempt, moun ted the guns, and kept up a brisk fire on the enemy, who perceiving it out of their power to take the fort, proceeded to attack a Havildar and 12 sepoys, sta tioned in the village.. Lieutenant BRANDON entered the fort on the morning : it was found it had been three times attacked during the night, and the enemy had tried every means to bribe the garrison. Capt. ROLERTS was slightly wounded in the affair near • Futtehpoor. The Park Papers of Saturday arrived this forenoon. The only domestic intelligence, of any interest, which they contain, is an account of the first day's proceedings in the trial of the noted General Sarazin for Bigamy, or rather Trigamy. The General de fends his own cause, bumot apparently in the hap piest manner. \Then interrogated respecting his in termarriage with Miss Georgiana Hutchinson, in. England, he was pleased to express his sorrow that he had not put a tope round her neck and sold her at Smithfield ! A general movement of indignation was evinced by the assembly at this atrocious avowal, and the President aptly observed—" It is with too much reason, Sir, that your first wife, in one of her letters, produced in process, observes, that the Sun of St. Do mingo, seems to have turned your brain." A letter from Frankfort states, that a very extra ordinary story is current in that city, of the King of Wirtemberg, who is at present at Schwalbad, having been attacked in his apartments by four men in masks, who did not, however, offer any violence to his Majesty, but con/anted themselves with saving to him, in a menacing tone—" Learn to govern in fu ture with justice and good faith, otherwise thou shalt fall a victim to the cause of the People!" No farther particulars of this attempt had transpired, but the re port of it had produced the greatest possible sensation. In the mean while the States General of Willem berg had at their second sitting voted an address of thanks to the KING. "We felicitate your Majesty,' , they say, " on having taken the resolution to give to the Constitutional Act the character of a flee con tract between the King and the people. We are the representatives of the rights of the nation, but we are also the representatives of its love for)our Majesty." Letters from Jassy (in Moldavia) make mention of a vioient insurrection which broke out on the reOtli of Jane, against the notpodar, and ttLich was ci put &own by force. Blood had becn () a 2Sth of June, at the departure of the Couirer, quillity appeared to be re.estahliAtetl, but ih ert ., an apprehension of new troubles. It app ; .,„ the cause or the pretext of this commotion too rigorous execution of some sanatory Frelich 5 per Cent:. Friday, 71 fr. 35 c. Yesterday a most tespect.ible as,emi; the City of London Tavern, to receive t. a Committee appointed by a previous the purpose of considering Mr. (twat' Royal Highness the Duke cf KuNT in I The proceedings of the meeting, which will find at large in our columns, wet teresting. The recommendatiGn of tho submit the plan to the test of experhng proved, and 4:3010 were subscribed in wards a capital for carrying the plan inl —A Public Subscription W 45 also re, the Advertis.•;:le.nt), and we 'have no dot that this experiment will prove that by of the labouring classes; properly be enabled to maintain themselves in c think great praise is due to Mr. Owztti, self subscribed 1:1000, for his persevei-hv N A V. 4 L 1N1'1:L iGENC The Leander and Podargus yin he paid off this week. The former is to be recommissioned b, son, for the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Henry Black , latter to be laid up in ordinary. Lieutenant Atck•son, I:tte of the Lecr, der, is rank of Commander; and Messrs. J. Dewar, and lAxoti, of the Leander, are promoted to the ttirtnt. fALNIOiIIt, JULY 24.—Wind from F.. to S.— port, the Rebecca, RGwe, from St. Domingo Amsterdam; spokeon the 9th inst, in lat. Todd, for Qu( bee, all wo 11. Poarsuourtt, JULY sr;.—Pass'4l through fee l'Esperancc, lloisT, from Norvray. Arrived Taveon, from London, with loss of buwTrit, yard, &c. having been run fool of by a brig on off I:ktrhy Head, name urknowo. Ds.Ar.., Jeer 26.—Wind B.—Arrived and stilt the Sir Godfrey Webster, Bovrs, front Jant..i:/ Rev 'G.—Wind S E.—Arrived pzek:•t, from Holland, and Charlotte ditto, from both with Mads. Sailed the Castlcre4h pack,- Earl of Leicester ditto, for Cuxhaven ; and Gottc.burgh, all with Mails. Roes.;, JuLY £G.—Petered inward. retha, Nlathiesen, from Tondeen ; Juno, lii Riga; Europe, /Mainland; Aid, Trotter; Ant Brodrick, I'eart, from Quebec ; Robert, At, Fox, Fox, from Ostend ; Four Friends, Oaks amptun ; Minerva, Brown, from Liver;ool; Thomas, from New York ; Betsy, Smitu, Le. Three Slaters, Marchant, and Lord Liverpool, Rotterdam ; Tolsen, Smith, from P.:ra ; M from Curk; Jenny, Scotland, from Hamburg! from Waterford ; Rambler, Par:-.er, and Deni St. Petershurgh ; Free Briton, Peart, from Pie nab, Urquhart, and Brook, Boyd, &ern J Strettur., from St. John's; Ceres, Sch-.ltx, f: luta, Owen, from Limerick; Thom2s, Be:1, irs Admiral Berkeley, Hoare, from the Sous gore, from Grenada; and Gosport, Tay:or, b . . Etlured Outwards: The Nile, Dornii7. fat Wi!son, from Dantzic ; St. Ann, Crab?), fur Ji Nymph. Bnrroughs, for Nlesiina. Cleated Outwards: The John, Manbead, lot ley, Mearns, for Berbice ; Hoope, Freewin, garetta, Lewis, for Dublin; Tuscan, Thompi and St. Helena, Christey, for St. Petersburgii. THE COMET. OBSERVATORY, GOSPORT, JU The Comet's motion is row considerably dower the last seven days it has only gained Y 7 minutes ' day westward of Capella, whilst in the first ell appearance it gained 49 minutes and 11 second grandeur of this celestial visitor is nearly lost to will be still lessened as it advances to its ayi the help of a telescope the nucleus appears dim, Jupiter at its meridian—and the corruscations the trait , as at first. It is now ovet the back by drawing a great eh cle on a celestial g!obe, its first and present position, its path will appeal ' the square of Ursa Major. The north det linat when on the merit:laza undtr the pole at 11h. 51 (corrected for refr.tction, &c.) was 51. S. mean lime, sh. Om. 45-7.45. The North Cornwall Bank (Messrs. whose suspension of payments was late are now paying their Notes in full. Mr. HUNT kit town this morning Hampshire. The Magistrates of Cheshire, and Counties, have come to the deterniinat all Rrforrn Meetings, and this on spoits'ebil ity. WILTSIIIRE COUNTY ELECTION.—SI 6th Day—Mr. Benett 204—Mr. Astley 189- 7th Day—Mr. Benett 190—Mr. Astley 25" Total at the close of the .. .7th Day—For Mr, Astley 1647—Majority in favour cf Amazing crowds of genteel people day afternoon to West-End Fair, bul advanced, they were gicatly annnyi pickpockets, who, not contented with plunder, proceeded to acts of indiscri and hostility ; in the course cf whicl were sevelely bnii7ed and wounded. . • In the Gazette of Saturday, a reward, of the discovery of the person or persons who, 19th invant, sct fire to the out-houses lielonizi Hancock, of Farina, Suffolk, and a free pat any accomplice making such Ciscovery. BOXING. Do,rNet T Y'S Wirt inz ig rat hs.r an r-sore to and a Noble Lord has of:ered to back tine Irish Champion for 4:1C0 a-side ; and for Do: choice out of the following : Cooper, Carter ltichmond, Painter, Sutton, Burns, and Neat, that the lamtl,..n Prize Ring do not w:sh l)oni Irclard whllcut leaYarg another sty. Thursday, a pi:di...cbattle was - four lit at miles from Bath, between twc jour: eymen 1 of Stock and Poole ; after scveril de , perate! three-Tiarters of an hour, in which both adepts in the mill:1:g zit, victory was declared DIFD. At Tar ridge Wells, Charles Le Bas, Esq. officiated for a tew seasons in Bath as 11.0. of Monday so'nnight, at Bath, of a paralytic Eq. Midsomtr-Norton, Somerset. Wednesday, at 11'hirchureh, near 13Iandfot year of his age, Edmund, son of the Rev. tlv., same plc:. Monday st.'nni7ht, in his 7. 1 s t year, deeFl , cant Leech, of the 14th Lamers. - 101%; DON Printed and ptiblich , ql by I.FvEi Place, Te:31,1,-1;.! 11 Was ct ed. 0 a luster, • iliert! tina • c. .1I :4 I *Lige rtio the :1 • - :'s t.ots, • the f : I .,.scd a our VI re hi i;ly silt to IL on . tentv.a? • Corn itbe the rtaq For fit! Ito ex:,;•, bert :" Stre 01.;• , .1 ( 4 APT , '.01; ; ; 0 I.lte ird., Seconl red, elev., O. who :its ;II- Ale] Cittriiez air/ ntod I 'in tin 'F; :tr3y lusts mks% 0 ,.!, I promott!.. 1 11. flawk, e'er v be rank of C.2t aegis —Arrived .1. 13 in 36 cLo ;ntt teng. 14..„ A cr South3r the Speco . : l4 fore -mast, . 1 , 3 the 211 st led fcr th, .-a. 11 the Ati urn Coutahe int, for !lolls- Jane dinai, of rds: The latchir.sc.n, • ct w T 311 e! Preston ; roe], from ' very kes, front t, I.or:d o n p , vita. 7C711 P. 7314 7 not, Norizr,: tool i'Vriznne, 2h ; 7 .klus the 1 ire t, re;11,: row irtrt ; J2.417.if:Z; rent St. V •nt itas; &ET, . 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