Star. — London, England, 1819-09-22 00:00:00

` ;: ,:. 1 t• I '~ 4 f ,1 I i , ~, 1 V ? g'. - ,f 1 ^4l, Aid i t : THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1819. His MAJNETY Csownza.—Holiday at the Bank. The Meeting at Leeds, on Monday, has, we are glad to state, passed off quietly. As full an account of the proceedings, as our Private Correspondent had time to mate up, previous to the departure of the post, will be found in another column. We shall give further particulars to-morrow. To-day there was a numerous Meeting of the Ward of Farringdon Without, to consider, exclusively, the late transactions at Manchester. It was held at an early hour, and we are happy to be thus enabled to . lay a very ample Report of the proceedings before our Readers. The grand secret, 'it would seem, is now out. A Paper, which has uniformly defended the conduct of the Manchester Magistrates, has at length favoured the world with a full revelation of the " circumstances which preceded" the Manchester Tragedy, and which were so pointedly hinted at by the PRINCE REGENT in his answer to the City Deputation, as forming a ground of vindication with which the Corporation, and of course the Public at large, "must be unac quainted." " We can vouch," says the Paper in ques tion, " for the truth of all that we have stated —This statement we shall beg to lay before our Readers without any comment. We do not know that it requires any. Those who can be disposed to swallow such a mass of incredible nonsense as this revelation is made up of, could not be made wiser by any observation which it is in our power to offer: " In the first place, it was the full hope of the rab ble in general that their numbers would be so much increased as they proceeded to their head-quarters, Manchester, as to enable them wholly to overpower nay civil and military force that could be brought to oppose them. This vast accession of power was so confidently expected by them, that for many days before the Meeting specie had vanished, and it was impossible to get a Bank-note changed. Those who were in debt refused payment, and their language' Was, that the 16th would settle every thing.' The. 'men were armed with bludgeons. and hooked sticks, so strong that a blow would have fractured the skull, and have pulled a horseman off. They had besides short pikes concealed, of a most destructive nature. Not less than 700 bad been regularly trained to the military exercise, in which they were very expert. They were called to this training every morning as punctually as if they had been in the regular service. 'Whenever they saw a portly man, they insultingly addressed him in the following terms:-.- , Your belly is worth a pike.' To the women with decent gowns, who observed therm from curiosity, they said, Aye, we worked for that gown, but you shall work for as' To a Gentleman and Lady who were riding in a gig, they bawled, Come out, you have ridden long enough ;it is our turn now: In their progress, some of them stopped at SLATTUCK'S Inn, between Middleton and Rochdale, and devoured the break fast prepared for stage passengers, refusing to pay, and seiziNg whatever they could lay hands on. The shooting at BIRCII: the constable, was described as g a glorioGs deed,' and it was signified dia. all the great men of the country should share the same fate. Wherever they saw a better hat than their own it *as taken, and the old one contemptuously cast at the person robbed. The 16th they uniformly con sidered as what they styled gie settling day,' which was to overthrow the Government of the Country, and give Ht'xr and his gang full command. As a, proof that all sense- of Religion was extinguished they burnt all their Bibles, and, with a kind of wan ton superstition, they were slowly burnt, as was said, to prolong their torture." ! !! Tht Paris Papers of Sunday arrived this forenoon. The public attention in France continues still occu•• pied by the pending Elections. The Ultras have, at length, to boast of one triumph in the Election of M. CASTELBAJAC, for Toulouse. He is said to owe his success to the votes of the Ministerialists, who prefer strengthening a weak party to strengthening one which is already formidable from its numbers. The new Queen of &van arrived at Lyons on the night of the 16th : she travels without any state, and declined a guard of honour. According to the latest advices from Madrid, the yellow fever continues to' make progress in the Island of Leon. Its ravages in Cadiz are not very sensible; and at Seville there was nothing but a false alarm, which was, however, productive of this good effect —that the precautions have been redoubled.— The Expeditionary Army has been removed from the scene of danger, and its general health is not affected. There are not wanting individuals malicious enough to say, that the whole affair of the pestilence has been fictitiously got up, for the purpose of affording a plausible apology for the delay of the Expedition. Accounts from Genoa state, that the Spanish Con sul there had made a demand for the detention of three English ships and their Captains, charged with having attacked and sunk three ships of the Royal Spanish Marine, off the coast of Valencia. On the other hand, ari English vessel arrived at Genoa, re ports, that it had been hoarded by a Spanish frigate, which fired into her, and killed several English pas sengers. The British Minister has sent dispatches on both affairs to England. French Five per Cents. Saturday, 73 fr. 13 c. WARD OP I'ARRINODON WITHOUT. THE MANCHESTER PROCEEDINGS. This day a numerous Meeting took place in Salis burpsqltare, for the purpose Of entering into certain Resolutions upon the subject which has so viollntly agitated the publiC mind, Alderman WAttrnbun in the Chair. It had been supposed that the Church Wardens of the Parish of St. Bride, would, upon such an oc casion, have, without hesitation, permitted the Ward to meet in the Church, but this poor accommodation was denied, and a Placard was posted against the walls, stating, withoutany comment, that the Meeting was to take place in the Square. At a little after eleven, Alderman WAITIIMAN, at tended by Messrs. THOMPSON, PATTEN, BECKWITH, SAVAGE, VALE, FEARON, &C. &C. arrived, and took his seat upon a Hustings which had been just raised. He was greatly applauded. The worthy ALDERMAN, in addressing the Meeting stated, that it was with considerable bodily inconve nience he attended, for he had sustained, by a fall from his gig, an injury which put him to much pain. The duty he had to perform was, however, of a para• mount nature, and he had therefore determined to preside, as well as to attend the Court of Alderupai which was to sit is the more advanced pate of the day. The Requisition having been read, Alderman WAITHMAN said, that he had sum moned the Ward that they might express their senti ments upon a great public occasion, and that duty he should always perform, whether the opinions of those he called together agreed with those he entertained or not—(Great applause.) He regretted that any hos tile feeling should be exhibited upon the part of those who refused to allow „the Ward to meet in the Church ; but he trusted that the refusal would not cause any irritable feeling, for there were people who would draw advantages from the consequences of disorder, and whose views were opposed with pecu liar force to the tranquil appearances which now prevailed, and which would, no doubt, form a prin cipal character in the proceedings of the day. Mr. Thom Plot said, he came forward under severe indisposition ; but he had pledged himself to move a series of Resolutions to the Meeting, and he had made an effort against the malady, for the purpose of proving his punctuality. The Meeting knew the folly and wickedness of their opponents, who had first ar gued against assembling in the open air, and then tried to prevent them from going together elsewhere. It was far from his intention to wish to influence the passions of those around him. He should lay before them, in the mildest and most temperate manner imaginable, the atrocious conduct of a corrupt and wicked Administration. There was a question of powerful importance now before the Public. It was, whether the People should maintain their privilege of meeting together to discuss any subject connected with.their liberties, or whether they were to throw down those liberties at the feet of an abandoned Mi nister, and breathe but at his command?—(Applause). It would be absurd to call this a party question. The conduct of the Manchester Magistrates and Yeo manry was not the theme. It was.to the right, at which that conduct aimed a death blow, they were to direct their thoughts. He differed in opinion from many as to the object and views of the Manchester Meeting. He was an enemy to large Assemblages of the People, because the object in view was liable to be frustrated by their enormous size—it being easy to set spies upon their scent, and far from difficult to find a Ministerial excuse for « letting slip the dogs of war." But, to do justice to large Meetings in this country, they were conducted with a temperance that did honour to those who formed them—and, why had the People met in such vast bodies?— Because their Petitions to Parliament were treated with contempt—because no assistance was rendered to a starving population, whose cries were disre garded at the very time Bibles and Churches were subscribed for—because no ear was lent to the Pea ple when they called for a leader front amongst the men of rank and fortune, who were qualified to ad vise them in their deplorable emergencies —(Load ' applause). Were the people, in this predicament, to be trampled upon ?—Goo forbid ! They looked amongst themselves, and finding that all application to those above them was useless, came to the determination of meetiag without their assistance or authority.— The conduct of Mr. Hunt was orderly upon every occasion on which he presided, and l it was deserving of the greatest applause during the proceedings at Manchester. He (Mr. Thompson) was not a friend to Annual Parliaments and Universal Suffrage. These measures never could be granted, for Ministers were not fools, The Meeting, no doubt, thought them rather knaves than inattentive to their own in terests. Annual Parliaments would bind them hand and foot, and they would prefer the measure of perish ing with a struggle, to that of perishing without one, (Great applause.) The People, then, should be unani mous in demanding a Moderate Reform, the adver saries of which delighted in the differences that un fortunately existed. If all those who called forite form were united, the Minister must be defeated, for it was by division alone he conquered--(Appleatse.) —The People had an indisputable right to elect their own Governors--they bad a right to substitute a Re public in the place of a Kingly Government—but ~.. madmen alone would contend for ;Itch a change, the inevitable consequence of which would be, war and blood and desolation—(Applause).—For his part, he took up a Kingly Govetnment as a necessary evil and a comparative good—(Laughter and applause). His house had been some time ago broken open, and to guard agaiust the repetition of such an evil, be purchased a Newfoundland dog. The animal was 'expensive and troublesome, but he was a necessary evil and a comparative good— (Loud applause).— But if that dog consorted with thieves, and joined them for the purpose of robbing his children of their bread, the animal was no longer a necessary evil and comparative good, and the only plan to be adopted towards him, was to get rid of him altogether, with all the dispatch imaginable—(Shouts of applause).-- With respect to the business of Manchester, he should merely glance at it. He considered that a body of • • • • rushed in upon his Majesty's subjects, and, regardless of age or sex, or of the obligations upon their Sovereign to protect his subjects, hacked and them. But what had this ••* • * • Ca valry done ? Why they had frustrated all the deep laid schemes of the Minister—put a stop to his des perate plans for the subjugation of the People. A deep and bloody tragedy had been long preparing by Ministers. He (Mr. Thompson) had long observed it. He drew his conclusions from the dangerous quie tude with which things were for some time contempla- ted. The great Law Officers overlooked Libels, and he knew that from lions they would not become lambs, from vultures they would not become pigeons. When he saw all this, and when he saw the Prince Regent subscribing £lOOO to a Theatre, and refusing a far thing to the Poor, he knew that a dark Tragedy was about to be performed. It was so indeed, and nothing but the awkwardness of the performers deprived it of success. To represent it in London would not do, although that great f** 1, the Lord Mayor, thought he might as well comme nce t h e per f ormance .. Man chester was the spot selected for the representation, because those in power (the Magistrates, the Grand Jury, and the Yeomanry) were all under the immedi ate influence of the Crown, and slaves to that influence. The design was, that the Yeomanry should go up to the Hustings and seize upon Mr. HUNT, without having entered into previous violence. This was to be done upon the presumption that the people would resist the attempt to deprive them of their favourite, and thus the onus could be thrown upon the'people, and an excuse afforded for conducting the tragedy through all its parts, to a deplorable catastrophe.— But the piece had not been well acted. Had it suc ceeded, there would be an end to all Meetings, for Ministers knew that 60,000,0001. of taxes could not be raised, adnually, without destroying the liberties of the people, and forcing the burden at the point of the bayonet. He then adverted to the cry, that the question was prejudged. Who, he asked, had pre judged it ? Had not the Prince Regent, in his praise of the Manchester Magistrates—had aot the Judges, in their charges to the Grand Juries—had not the Grand Juries, in their decisions, prejudged; and how could it be said that the whole country had prejudged? The Speaker concluded an animated speech with an attack upon the Lord Mayor, whose statue he wished to see next to Beckford's, in Guildhall, but on a dif ferent sort of platform !—(Laughter and applause.) Mr. TEA RON read the Resolutions declaratory of the right of the People to assemble to discuss politi cal subjects and petition for redress of grievances : That the Meeting at Manchester was legal in its character and peaceable in its conduct until dis persed by an armed military force under the direc tion of the Magistrates --That Meetings similar in character and for the same objects, had already met, and Petitions been received from them by his Majes ty's Ministers—That this Meeting viewed with ab horrencethe mutilations and murders which had been committed on an unarmed and unoffending people-- That if the peace is to be broken by those whose bu siness it is to preserve it, and if the rights of the people are to be trampled on, they had better not exist.— That anxious for the preservation of social order, they trusted that the events of the 16th of August should undergo strict legal investigation, as they were equally inimical to the dignity of the Throne; and the welfare of the People. Mr. THOMPSON moved those Resolutions, Mr. COATES said, this was not a question of Re form, or of Taxation, or of theoretic, or speculative inquiry, but whether Meetings like the present, legal in their character, and constitutional in their object, should be subjected to the violence of an armed force,' and the national character disgraced by cruelty and massacre? When Madame Roland was led to exe cution, she exclaimed, "0 Liberty, what crimes have been committed in thy name!" and when we see such outrages as those of Manchester, for the pretence of maintaining order, might we not say, " 0 Loyalty, what crimes have been committed kt thy name!" He thought that in thus expressing their opinions on the transactions at Manchester, they could neither be charged with being uninformed, nor doing it pre maturely, since the Prince Regent had been led to sanction them, on the evidence of Ministers, and of the parties to whom the outrage was attributed. He condemned, in strong terms, the conduct of those Magistrates, whose duty it is to execute justice, and to maintain truth, but who, forgetful of the precept, had employed Oat frightful caricature of military men, called Yeonianry, in slaughtering their fellow- subjects ;but while heleft these r oil toL ,, to everlasting fame" by the Public , ... e I lt . ouid. ' services would not be forgo en in a-orb • c but that medals w ou ld b e stt ck in their b or lomns erected to th e i r va t ° tr and luirkit. that the c o l ours t h ey so no ly gained 0 . • ' would be pl ace d i n the Church of S a i l i , He had seen a pl an o f Sahli Peter's-field, but two or th ree narrow avenues, someltt e , .. Salisbury-square, and thesewereiigiuustarid c ed e :, bayonets of th e I n f antry, so that the people , . disperse, but were l e f t to the w anton cr tt 6„. Yeomanry. He declared, that done to the M anc h ester sufferers, it strongest argument in favour of Refs, rrn 1 4 possibly be adduced ; and that if tl'e p ant were termed the natural protectcr s of L I; ple, and whose rank gave them infkence, : come forward on an occaion like the z. the People would assuredly choos e I.: '_ among themselves, and the consequen,e, r • dreadful. lien would there be but rw,, /,, , the Friends of Liberty, and th e F r i ends of u, 1 [While Mr, COATES was speaking, i i .:. made his appearance in the Square, arid: loudly cheered.] A Gentleman, whose name we did nothev,i, addressed the Meeting in favour of the Ilesnl Q , which were then put seriatim, and carried unaniz,i Thanks were proposed to Alderman Wairat, for his conduct in the Common Council, thei, of Aldermen, and at the present Meeting, which, carried with loud cheering.—The worthy returned thanks, and the Meeting dispe,se.i. Mr. HUNT, in returning through F!ett-tree,., followed by a crowd cheering him all C:::!1.4;. MEETING AT LEEDS. LEEDS, SEPTE MBEIt 21. I have just come from the Meeting held tbil upon liunslet Moor, and hasten, before tlie depr, of the Post, to send you a brief notice of the ra It v►as " for the purpose of taking into conside74 the most effectual Constitutional means of realsi the Sufferings under which the Country now l.: and reviving our expiring Trade ; to pass an e.p ion the charge our PRINCE has made against his !I esty's most loyal subjects, the Reformers; and to afs us an opportunity of expressing our abllorrele the outrage committed on our peaceable and offending countrymen, at Manchester, on the li day otAugust last ; and also to address the l'e:s REGINT and the Nation, on that cruelty, and oti melancholy and afflicting evils of the times: The day being uncommonly fine, numerous boi of male and female Reformers came flocking law: town at an early hour in the forenoon, and bye o'clock, it is calculated that there were at le thirty thousand persons assembled in Brig Sue 1 the adjacent parts. The shops were mostly cite and matters wore rather an alarming aspect {oriel ral hours. Large groupes kept pouring in fort country, in regular marching order, shouldli sticks and clubs. Soon after two o'clock, the immense multitth!eii gan to move through the town to the place of )1 ing, attended by a numerous band of music, number of flags, banners, and other insignia. Lq wands, surmounted with black crape, were also :e conspicuous. Among the flags, the follcming all that were deserving notice : "-Hunt, the Champion of England."—" Patience. "—A bunch of Ash, fixed to a pole, surmounted by the I.l4ces " The more the cruel Tyrants bind us, 4 ‘ The more they shall united find us !" " We mourn for the Murder of our Manchester Friends!' " Hold to the Laws."—" Thou shalt do no munier."—" Fs Creelty and Oppression, good Loan deliver us."—" MN I Cisarta."—" Peace and Good-will towards Men."—" No Ct l Laws."—" Na Wool BilL"—" Taxation without Repregsta is contrary to the Spirit of the British Constitution."—" Parliaments, Universal Suffrage, and Election by WA -- " Th;y that are slain by the sword, are better than they 1 , are slain by Hunger," &c. It was near four o'clock when the cavalcaic rived on the ground ; when Mr. T. CHAPMAN. Manchester, was called to the Chair. Ater speakers had delivered their sentiments, and a nut ber at Resolutions had been passed, the Meezia.7 out wi committingany excesse s. dissolved,comm and the immense We are now (eleve n P . u .) a ll tranquil, if w e cept some noisy straggle r s in the streets. A considerable sum of money was collected t 1 ercmultitude separated Hunslet Moor, for the relief of the Manchester ss:: ferers, and to defray the expenses of bringing t'e offending parties to justice. Yesterday was a holiday; but the Stock Excloge was open, and a great quantity of Stock NV3S direo on the Market. A very serious depression has talc Place ; and Consols were yesterday done at 641, 214 left off at 69k, for the Account. Money is weed' ingly scarce--eight per Cent. being offered in 011 House. The Bankers, it is said, will not advance any more upon Stock securities. Exihequer were yesterday at 10s. discount, and are expected:o be much lower. This day is a close holiday, o ' l scarcely any Brokers are on 'Change. Consols, hor• ever, for to-morrow, have been done at 68i, an d kr . Account 6911 ; E xc he q uer Bills 12s. discount; a;:d film 8 W 10 per Cent. interes t for Money. eet! . h :t Vir and Boa gO ti svher Ti turfy br A Le it Wal fro] bra r •Si t it # `'~• t r ;, I LI