Star. — London, England, 1819-09-28 00:00:00

''l I J 1' ~) THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1819. THE FUNDS. PRICE OF STOOKS THIS DAT AT OWE O'CLOCE Bank Stock shut per Cent. Reduced shut 6 per Cent. Consols 69iffir si per Cent. shut-4 per Cent. shut 5 per Cent. Navy 103 102 i Bank Long Annuities shut India Bonds 7 pre. Exchequer Bills (2d.) 5 8 dis. Ditto Small 2s. dis. Omnium Payment if pre. Consols for Acct. 698. The conduct of the coverers of Mood, and of those who cry out for Justice, presents a remarkable con trast at this moment, and exhibits the former in most singular colours. The Courier, and some other ad vocates of lawless atrocities and cruelties, are ebu stantly clamouring about the injustice of prejudging the men who are accused of these enormities. Now we would ask a very simple question. How can mess be said to prejudge an accused party, who are only demanding that their conduct may fairly undergo a legal investigation? Is this the method usually fol lowed by men who aim at loading any individuals with unmerited obloquy? On the contrary, we main tain that these babblers are daily occupied in a voca tion which they vainly attempt to impute w others. Lies have been advanced by wholesale against the warmed and unoffending multitude of men, women, and infants, who were wantonly assailed on the 16th of August, by command of the Reverend and Un reverend Magistrates of Manchester, by armed men. TLey were accused of having marched in military array, armed with pike -staves, of which they carried the heads in their pockets, ready to be screwed on ; Laving set the Public Authorities at defiance; of having assailed the Yeomanry with clubs and brick bats, and of firing on them from the houses ! and no sooner are the real assailants called upon to prove these facts, than they call this prejudging the case! There is not an individual in the Kingdom, no not even among the Yeomanry, the Magistrates, and the Ministers themselves, who have mixed up their own character With these- foul stains upon our national character, who does not know and believe in his con science, that every one of the charges which have thus been attempted to be fixed on the unhappy people who attended the Manchester Meeting, is an absolute falsehood ; and yet, forsooth, those who would have the whole business sifted to the bottom by a proper legal procedure, are charged with being desirous to prejudge the question ! The fact is plainly this: In the eyes of these men, my day for such an investigation, during the life of the present generation, would be tdo early a day, in the judgment of these enemies of justice. But, in spite of the animated oratory of the Reverend Mr. LI'IIELSTONE, whom, perhaps, none will, using his own classical language, call " a downright black guard ;" in spite of his—(we were going to say, hints, bet that would not be doing him justice)—in spite of his threats about hanging, and the punishment so justly merited by the " ruffianly crew," who presume to question the humanity and justice of butchering people without any legal trial ; in spite of the clamour of the few hirelings who disgrace the free Press of England by their wilful falsehoods; in spite of the blind dolts, be they who they may, who would put every thing to hazard, and endanger the very exist ence of our venerated Constitution, and the destruc-,, Lion of all property and of all rights, by opposing the fair course of justice; in spite of all these united, it Will be found, that still the true British character possesses all its energies. There ought to be, and there shall be, a full investigation of the foul and cruel transactions of the 16th of August. Among the other falsehoods boldly and unblush ingly asserted by parricides, it has been maintained, that none but the vilest of the vile had advocated, or would advocate the cause of the sufferers--none but Jacobins, beggars, atheists, infidels, and Radical Re formers! It would be exceedingly =realest for these declaimers, that all of these characters should be classed and identified with those whose veneration for the injured laws and violated constitution of the country, leads them to demand a thorough investi gation of every thing that wears the semblance of murder; but the intellect of the country is not now, nor can it ever be, reduced to such a degraded as not to be able to discriminate, and to separate slaw jects which have no more connection with each other than Mr. Nimble 's mode of conducting an Inquest has to do with the Expedition to the North Pole! The question is, not whether any individual, or all of those who received injuries from the Yeomanry, were sound Churchmen, or rank' Methodists and Infedels--wh e . ther they were Ultra-Royalists, or Ultra-Reformers-- j whether they were Parsons or common Weavers? but by what law or right were butchers let loose upon them by the Reverend and Unreverend Man. chester Authorities ? Were it true, that none but beggars and miscreants could be found in the country, crying out for the reign of Justice and the Laws, this would only prove, that g,s fi ecople i w• are unworthy to 1» protected 3: . f i f ! , by tither; but, ft is far othrwlse. Ai the Bea . ad ot the roll, signing the Requisition for York County Meeting, stands the first Peer of the realm, the Duke of NORFOLK ; then come in succession the Earls FITS WILLIAM and COWPER, Lord MILTON, Sir WILLIAM MILNER, Sir GEORGE CAVEAT, the Honourable L. DUNDAS, the Honourable J. MoNsow, the Honour able E. PETRE, B. COOKE, W. B. COOKE, GALLY KNIGHT, WALTER FAWKES, M. WIVIL, S. CROUP.. TON, J. BELL, G. STRICKLAND, with a long list of Gentlemen of high character aid influence in that great county. Twenty-seven such names were signed on Saturday last, and the signatures were rapidly aug menting. The Requisition, it isstated, will be laid be fore the HIGH SHERIFF on the sth-of October, and the Meeting is expected to take place about the 20th.—" The Requisition, be it observed, demands an inquiry into the transactions at Manchester ; and we should like to know what Public Officer will take upon him self to refuse a demand put forth for such an object, and sanctioned by such authority? We should like also to discover, what new topics of abuse will be started en this occasion by the Helots of the London Press—what fresh sluices of wanton scurrility are to be opened—what foul names are to be launched ,against the Nobility and Gentry of the first Shire in Great Britain—what attempts to drag down rank, property, and character, (when they do net follow in the wake of Ministers), will be made by that blunder ing Jacobin, The Courier, who does more than all the Radicals living, to level the rank, property, and character, in the dust ? It is the lot of some people never to speak truth, without seriously injuring their own party. Last night The Courier had the misfortune to confess, that the "Whigs have no greater relish fora Revolution than the Tories." Now, this is obviously true : the great Whig families have more, indeed, to lose by a convulsion in the State, than their nolitical opponents, because by far the largest properties of the kingdom have long been their inheritance. The venal prints, therefore, cannot, upon their own shew ing, have the effrontery to tell the Nation, that when the Whig Noblemen call County Meetings, they.do l so for revolutionary purposes. Lord FITZWILLIAM is of all men the least a Revolutionist : he has been at all times considered an Alarmist, par excellence ; and the Noble Lord's good sense, as well as love of the Constitution, is now made manifest by the alarms he feels on the opposite side of the question to that which he espoused in 1793 ; since he thinks with every wise and virtuous man in England, that an outrage upon the laws, committed by the Magistracy, and adopted (in some frenzied but irrevocable moment) by the Ministry, is in itself the most imminent of dangers, aad of all evils the most to be deplored. The Continuation of the Evidence, given on the Inquest, at Oldham, will be read with much interest. If a full investigation of one case elicits so mazy facts respecting that day, so mournful for England, what would have appeared in the pages of our history, had none of the many victims been buried, in violation of the laws of the land, without the sa lutary investigation of a Coroner's Jury ? Yes ! in credible as it may appear—individuals have been in terred without any Inquest enquiring into the cause of their death.—Among the victims was a person named SAMUEL HALL,. a Cotton-spinner, in Mr. Pouar's Factory. He was cut on the temple by a sabre, and dreadfully trampled on by the horses.— He was carried from the field to the Infirmary, in which he died in the third week after. He never spoke after receiving his injuries ; and he was buried in Ilulme Chapel-yard, without any Coroner's In quest being held over the body. His son WILLIAM, 14 years of age, (whom we have seen) and who worked under his father, being unable to obtain employment in the Factory, after his death, the workmen subscribed Bs. 6d. to carry him to Lon don, and lie is now in the house of Mr. GILES, N 0.5, Wych-street. We are happy to observe the liberality with which many distinguished individuals are coming forward in support of the Fund raising for the Relief of the Manchester Sufferers and the prosecution of their oppressors. The Duke of LEINSTER, the Premier Peer of Ireland, has sent one hundred guineas, and Earl GROSVENOR fifty pounds. Mr. LUCECOGN I * Gentleman of great respectkbility and weight in ilk mingham, has, in answer to an appeal macre to bins' at the late Meeting there, addressed an energetic Letter to the Public_ on the subject, which will be found in another part of our Paper. Mr. LUCICCOCK puts some queries, which, we think are well deserv ing the serious attention of every well-wisher to his state.t country. We insert, in another part,--an Extract from a Pri vate Letter from Paisley, vindicatory of the conduct of the Magistracy of that town during the late riots. We are free to admit, that it places the fact of the seizure of the flags on a much better footing than it has hitherto been seen by the Public. With respect to the " after dinner" error, however, we think it is scarcely fair to blame us for what every person— every Englishman at least—must allow to have been a matter of most fair inference. We were well aware how famous the Scotch have long been for their powers of fasting, but really the idea of a jolly Cor poration fasting from nine in the morning till past ten at night (as we find was the case), is a think which it could never have entered into our English imaginations to conceive. We recollect n0t13,4 _ : ... it even. In AftvDtmtov's (the Sheri of tienfrevr) most entertaining Work " On Fictions." this Thi Paris Papers of Saturday arri+ed morning The number of the English in France is said to be wonderfully on the increase. It is reckoned, that at present there are not less than 15,000 of our country men in Paris. A letter from Iran affirms positively, that the yel low fever has found its way to Cadiz. All Andalu sia is is a state of the greatest apprehension. The States of Wirtemberg have at length agreed , to the Plan of Constitution submitted to them; but `Prince Path, the brother of the Kirtc, has addressed a letter to them, in which he protests against any Constitution adopted without his consent, as heir pre sumptive to the Throne. We have received to-day Jamaica Papers to the 7th of August: From account! which they contain of Commodore ' Aunt's proceedings, after his separation from Gene ral MACGREGOR, it would appear that he has played a much safer game than that Chieftain. On the 29th of April the Commodore and suite embarked from Old Providence, bn board the Buenos Ayre% brig, l and, accompanied by two other vessels, proceeded to l the river Dolce, where he arrived on the 10th May. —On the evening of the same day he sent a party to take possession of a Fort at the mouth of that River, which they promptly succeeded in doing. On the 136, the Commodore, at the head of 140 men, ad vanced up the country, and madehimself master, after a slight opposition, of the towns of St. Phil's and Isabella. A great deal of property of all de scriptions fell into his hands, and he is now, it seems, at Old Providence, disposing of it. Accounts from St. Thomas's of the 26th and 27th of May state, that a bloody engagement had taken place at Achagas, in which General Moretti.° had been defeated, and forced to fall back with the rem nant of his army.. It is stated in Santa Fe Gazettes,-of the 15th July, that the Viceroy of Santa Fe had received dispatches, dated Molinos de Topaga, 10th July, announcing, that on that day a company of cacadores, and ano ther of grenadiers, accompanied by a few dragoons, had attacked a column of Patriot casalry,consisting of 300 men, and another of infantry, unounting to 200. —The cavalry were put to flight, and left on the field twenty- killed ; the infantry Were all annihilated ! The Royal troops were not commanded by Faitnt- NAND Mexnez PlNTO—but bya certain veriutble Jinn called NICHOLAS Lorez ! T'HE ARMY. Tuesday, Major-General Sir THOMAS BRADrOKI),I K.C.B. Commander of the Forces in Scetland,.aciiie4 in Edinburgh. Part of the 9th Lancers have left Ipswich; and the, remainder were expected to leave it to-day. Repor t states that the are to proceed to Nottingham. Monday se nnight the 3d Regiment of Foot, -Ow i Buffs), were inspected in the Barrack-yard Newry, by Lieutenant-General Sir SIDNEY BECKWITH, VlllO was much pleased with their martial appearance and discipline. The General dined with the Officers in, the Mess-room. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Polentorru, Scrr. 97.—Wind S. W.—Sailed the Soled, IIeat bIZILSTEM, for Christiansand. His Majesty's ships Lures and Hero, and the Kinnersley Castle and Fox transports,having on board the 13th Regiment and the Rifle Brigade, which sailed early on Sunday the 19th, for Leith, the wind blowing strong from the Eastward, were able to make but little progress during the early part of the week.— One of the transports (the Fox) was *bilged to put back on Wednesday, on account of her being unable to beat to 'Wind ward. His :Majesty% ships SPARTAN and Lea, arriving from Plymouth en Thursday, at Portsmouth, the detachment of the 13th Regiment was removed front the Fos into the SPARTAN, and the heavy baggage of the two Regiments, and the greater part of the women and children, were embarked on board that ship and the Lac on Saturday morning. The ressainder of the women and children were put on board the Caroline transport, and the Staff horses of the two Regiments on board the Fox, the whole of which sailed the same evening for Leith. Foostoure, Sart. 2!.—Wind S. W.—Arrived the La Con stant, LINIBMT, from Croisie. Sailed the Three Betsey*, WRIGHT, for Mute:dun. Arrived off this Port the Protection, Cure, 'from New Bedford. The Packets reported to have sailed yester day are still detained by contrary winds. DEAL, Sm. &W.—Arrived and sailed for the River the Brilliant, Fuse, from Calcutta; Castor, Sosataseiz, from Demerara ; Betsey, Spasm, from Antigua ; James, Gaaer, from Jamaica • Statira, front St. Itndero; Schile e —, front Quebec ' • and the Trusty, Feuer, front Leith to * 1 Lisbon ; and many others, names unknown. Came down frail the River the Essex, BARCLAY, for the South Seas; Arfashie, l Hentstoi, for :Canary Islands: Elizabeth, Stll4Ca • and Hstrucroon, for Africa : and Narcissus, C.:utta,-foc' Rio Janeiro. Cowry Szrr.ll/.---6Arritsfi the Freda., Wilma, from New Orleans, out four months, put in for provisions. Lyra, SEPT. 25.—The Bon Accord, PAILIETZ, 1111TiVellat Aber deem, after an uncommanly quick run front the ice, with 15 fish •lio tuns of oil. The Letitia, Cuss, left the fishing ground with the 800 Accord,- haring lsfish 140 to ISO tuns; and the Eliza% bath, VA: menu; had a fish on the loth August. and was then fast to another. The Estridge, of Dusdke, front Davies Straits, passed Aberdsea oa kriday. with 10 la. The Plums REGENT, whose arrival in Town we announced yesterday, performed, the ; journey from Brighton in less than five hours. His Royal High ness left that !lace on Sunday evening, at five mi nutes past six, and arrived at Carlton House at eleven. Yesterday, at twelve v'clock, his Royal Highness the Duke of YORK arrived at York House, from Oat lands, and afterwards paid a visit to the PRINCE Rs- GENT at Carlton House. Friday morning the Prince LEOPOLD left Edin burgh, for Longtown and Carlisle, from which• City he proceeded next day to Lowth er Castle, to visit the Earl of LOESDALE, from whence he proceeds to Trentham Hall, the seat of th e Marquis ofSvArrosn. The Panics has been extremely delighted with his Northern excursion ; when on the moors he fre quently killed 20 brace of game per day. It is his intention to spend next summer in Ireland, aod thei following dtootiorseason in Scotland. PAISLEY, SEPTZ MEER 24. EXTRACT FROSt A PRIVATE LETTER. i g We are happy to be enabled to state, to t disgraceful riots which have occurred he. ie be now completely at an end. On the nighz, of turday and Sunday last, some disturban ce w , st but they passed over in peace and quietne; large detachment of military have since n troti Glasgow. Some of the London Editors seem tri! the Sheriff and Magistrates for allowin:-r be carried through the town toward; th e 31 .**. The fact is, that these Gentlemen }laving 1 1!2 „? ci . c., flags being in preparatio n , on t h e ni:;!It be;„ Meeting sent for the Committee of the Itadicii,,; professed to disapprove of any flags bcing promised to point out the impropriety of z. % proceeding to their brethren. " On the faith of this p r omi se , the two :17 1 Glasgow were permitted to p ass b y to them • but seeing, from the return of th e party wiir • flags still flying, that the Committ ee l :a d no: fsh their promise, the Magistrates dee me d it their to seize the flags. it will be reco ll ecte d , to, d in carrying these colours, the party were a ct i :g i the face of a Proclamation by the Sheriff and alt gistrates prohibiting such proceeding, and tll st well known to the whole of the Radicals. gi The Editor of The Stay, ill the paper 6,111:1 instant, broadly states, that the Sheriff and the% gistrates ventured to seize the flags afar d';iFq though they had not the courage to do m be! but the truth is, dist neither Sheriff nor 41a3h-az: 4l had any refreshment, from the morning atnlne till past ten at night." BIRMINGHAM MEETIAG. 4, TO THE PUBLIC. " From my known extreme reluctarce to pulA business, and more especially of that description at so well understood by the term politica!, I had licpei to pass unnoticed by the Meeting held htst Thur* ou Newhall-bill. I had no hand whatever in theta last Town Meetings, not havin even seen eidter .. CHARLEV WOLSELEY Or Mr. \VooLra duriaz whole ortheir stay in town; yet has an appeal niyf Let ellow me -to n w o u t sm be en u . upbraided with !heir beta ; ;.'e made to my principles by the unanithous riff-raff and scum of. society !' Wherever I se' t human being, I recognize the image of (ion; however meanly he may be clad, he has a claim ei my good will and fellowship. Let his ceidactk correct, and I stop not to ask what cash he has a his pocket, before I shall decide if he be on:A:nits civility or to contempt. I therefore beg leave tom, that I sincerely sympathise with the lower chsse their dreadful privations and sufferings. A vast p Opp of the great mass of our population is 110 W war ins, individually, for from twelve to filteel hours: clay, for_ the miserable pittance of one sl.illing. I appeal to our Parliamentary Reports fcr the truth the allegation; and even this wretched caming came always be obtained, through the want of emplapect. Is this or is it not, sufficient cause of complaint' And, if they sometimes err in the mode of seckieg redress, with whorit lies the reproach ? With that whose wants drive them to such means as ;Lit knowledge affords, or, with those who, pretending to know better, at the same time refuse their asssist once, protection, and advice? Whoever tell them that their distresses are temporary, and that it is ou of the power of human means to relieve them, ate uttering the foulest libel on the bounty of Peon- DIMCE. The physical resources of Nature, and the energies of Man, if properly employed, might cer vert otrt miserable country into a comparative Us:- -But, alas! what has been attempted! " The late proceedings at Manchester appear tl me so perfectly atrocious and anti-christian, sp ol:'- rageous to every feeling of honour and humanity, subversive of social order, and of every moral dutt, and so directly opposed to every principle of law, aril of justice, that I should think it culpable to withholl my humble sanction from the subscription propi.sed on behalf of the surviving sufferers. If my name will be of any service, I willingly lend it, thouzh am unable to use that exertion in the cause to Which I think it so well entitled. the: Whatever subscriptions may be deposited in :r?F ands, I hope I need not pledge my word fo r the faithful appropriation. JANIGS D OC ECOCE. " Sc. Paul's, Sept. 23, 1819." c a Mr. Hut r, who has been for some days pact 'Wiltshire, will, we understand, be certain') in tev::l to-morrow, to take his share in the expected cif.c *mpest. A Public Meeting, to take into consideration tl:e recent occurrences at Manchester, is to be 11c1.3 st f Bristol to-day. A Requisition, signed by fifty F:re' holders, Freemen, and Inhabitants of the City. w 3 i presented to the MAYOR, requesting that he "rook call the Meeting, but his Worship declined cen/r1: in . g with it ; in consequence of which the Rec,6.:- moist, have convened it on their own respon , ; , i:• A Morning Paper states that an impress took place last night at Woolwich, and that imp ress w,rrac:s are preparing in the City. The statement is r.ct be lieved in the City, and we have not heenabie tc ob tain any confirmation of it. • letter from the Agent to kid'sL at Gibraltar , date:: F•f: . 4, says—" In consequence of the accounts rectivi. from SP'"' that the epidemic fever there was extending its ravage'. communication with that counug (except through the proe" quaranthte) was entirely dosed here yesterday afterno on. BURNS . Mausoleum, at Dumfries, is, at lengl" , completed, by the placing of the marble monutsent erected for it. PROPHECY von 1819 !—Moore's Ain-1211"k, fir e the month of August, has the following inemcrab words Evil communications corrupt good ma ? ' nets. This is a certain maxim we all kn ow ; there fore let every man act for himself , and avoid the inr; sinuations of agents that subtilely delig ht to enso. . : the innocent, to promote their own evil design' ~."- such persons, we shall find, will be sufficiently a c . this month; bus few cf them will be so Lin' " o tsccoraplish thcir crafty ends." tl:, 1 Yt