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~~. 10,14 4 e OFFVE OF ORDNANCE, &comber 8, 1813. HE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS of his MA INSTY'S ORDNANCE de horyby give Nadu, patYr u wtli be received at their Office, in Pall-mall, acre MONDAY, the 47th instant, from such persons as u w illing to undertake the Supply of ACCOUTRE. iNti, for Service of this Department, for a period of Three / g m determinable after the expiration of the first Year, upon ,eciee of Three Months, at the option of either Party. poets of the Articles may be viewed upon application at Pircipal Scorekeeper's Office in the Tower ; and farther Par tail:ri,togetherwith the Terris and Conditions of the C on t ract, or S e known at the Seer et ar y' s Office in Pall-Mall aforesaid, any y t oceen the hours of Ten and Four o'clock, where the Pro. r sli must be delivered, sealed up, and endorsed, " Proposals it:Accoutrements ;" but no Proposals can be admitted after old 47th Instant, at Twelve o'Clock at Noon Of the same ig,ctither will any Tender be noticed unless the Patty making an Agent in his behalf shall attend. By Order of tie Dowd, R. CREW, Marddary. EAST-INDIA HOUSE. A Quarterly General Court of Proprietors wu held yesterday, which was made special fo r the th followingl pi;‘4rector eserto of th c e on i td t e h r o a f ßro uly lu i t a io st n , o f grantinge tuor Jas. Wilkinson, Wilkinson, Esq. the sum of 75,000 stcca rupees. at Ps.the current rupee, with interest, at 61. per cent. Nei October, 1816, to the time when the same Mould be paid ; also to confirm a Report of the Corn ranee of By-laws, recommending the alteration and amendment of certain laws, and to consider a Reso.. lation of the Court of Directors of the 23d of June, outing to Sir G. 11. Barlow, G.C.B. the sum of 1.3101. per annum. The Report of the Committee sf By-laws was first read and confirmed. The Resolution of the Court of Directors on the !..bject of the grant to Sir G. Barlow was next read, a:4a motion made that it be approved. This was o bjected to by some Members, on.the ground of in formality. It was contended, that by one of the Br-laws just then agreed to, no Resolution of a gift cr pension above 1001. could be sent to the Commis sioners for the Affairs of India for approval, until it had been agreed to at two Courts of Proprietors, and until the documents or grounds on which it was patted were laid before the Proprietors for inspec tion. This being also the opinion of the Learned Counsel of the Court (Serjeant BOSANQUET) who was present, and consulted upon it, the motion WAS, after along and desultory conversation,, postponed, with the understanding that, to avoid any further infor mality, the proceedings on it should begin de nopo. STATUE TO THE LATE WARREN HASTINGS. The CHAIRMAN informed the Court, that the Court of Directors, taking into consideration the merits and eminent services of the late Right Hon. Wan en Hastings, had come to a Resolution on the subject, stich they should hear read. The Resolution was then read. It stated, that the Court haying maturely considered the very distin guished services which the late Right Hon. Warren &stings had rendered to the Company, in having reserved their Indian possessions entire against the encroachments of the Mahomedan, Mahratta, and European Powers, had resolved, that his str lie should be erected and placed in their Council-room, at the expense of the Company. The Ca Alam AN named the nut Quarterly Court, , he discussion. LOWNDES did not wish to see 'say favour granted to one eminent man which should not be Wetted on another equally deserving the gratitude tithe Company. He alluded to the Marquis Wel- Inky, us whom he would wish to see a similar bo som paid. Mr. Loa - sots was supposed to have mistaken the reposed honour, as intended for the Marquis of Hastings, and I.ot to Warren Hastings; and, upon tieing set right by a \leinbcr, he sat down amidst tome laughter at the misconception. GRANT TO MR. WILKINSON. On the motion of the CHAIRMAN. the Court took into consideration the Resolution of the Court of Di rectors of the 11th of July last, and after some dis cussion it was carried by a considerable majority. COVIT OP ALDERMEN.—The LORD MAYOR made atird fruitless attempt, yesterday, to hold a Court of Aldermen, to consider, as was generally under ' 250 c1, his charge against Alderman WArrnmAx for milder, anlike conduct. His Lordship was in his Platt by live minutes before one o'clock, but after Rig in indignant impatience for more than an " 0 4 he was obliged to break up the Meeting for *ant of a sufficient number of Aldermen to form a C atnt. An attempt to renew the complaint against 4 1r. Alde rman WArrnmAx is, we understand, to be trade at the Court to be held on Wednesday next, llithaelmas Day; but his Lordship, it should seem, bill have plenty of other business to attend to on I!..at day. Otn BArt.Er.—Yesterday, the following prisoners xere capitally convicted :- 14, au . l_--, for stealing a gold watch, Ste. the property of :ran He ine, in his dwelling-house. ~J 4,... jr :Ai, for a burglary in the dwelling-house of George '''"lceotid stealing £65 in Bank -notes, &e . ElizatoeA Dmakty,Ahn Maya, and Timms &tinders, for break '.i• sad entering the dwelling-house of Thowss Murry, and steal 'g a clock, &c. value 16s. if.2 /'""t 14.endes, for stealing in the dwelling-how: of Walter •3 n two portable desks a watch, et I'''' Pozei for breaki c. ng and entering the dwelling - house o f . 3:..1 ! a e l Walsh, and stealing £l7 in Bank-note•:. I •'.'t• -, r T' n, for breaking and entering the dwelling-borate :t Ilay.dson, and stealing six gold rings, ecc' , t • , d Griffiths, for stealing divers articles of wearing appatels v -' r Ws. and upwards, of Philip Mark, in his dwelling-house. •. "Th IT:tvna. 1, indicted for rohhins Thomas Mellis, at Wed 't E, proved an alibi. and was acquitted. Th . e Bill preferred at the Middlesex Sessions, 1 . s'!... -,t ViyouEntsynN, the Preacher, charging him I.lasphemy and scditien, has bccu thrown out . '.....: Gtal.d Jull• ,104\ Pit. A. T.N '''. l llllk PK+ , I 4 1 1 11UltSDAY, Sal MEETING AT. YORK, L TO CONSIDER THE Mr /MACES LATiLY COM- !•" _. ; : !MIER 23, 18194 anus 7 , 10 trtuallr absurd t the people came from the country, and, like other countrymen, carried each his stick. • That-therwere not armed, even to the point of self-defenee, was quite clear. Had they been armed, dreadful, indeed, might have been the result, sod not hiinclreds, but thousands must hare felt the Miseries of that day. He also observed, that the circumstances attending the Meeting precluded every surmise of intended aucuult, or probable disorder.— What was its purpose ?—to express an adherence to the principles of Reform with that effect which com bined numbers might give. Similar Meetings, com prising similar numbers, had been held in various parts of the country ; neither tumult nor riot ap peared on any occasion ; the object was uniformly the same public expression of opinion. What had the people of Manchester—what could they have, in view beyond this ? Meetings of 10,000 or 20,000 men do not usually keep secrets : they profess all thei mean, and that usually with a momentary ve berarncja which rather exceeds than falls short of sentiments 'ln 1792, and the following . s, the public placards, meetings, speeches, &c. went far beyond what was now seen. Every portion of our established Authorities was then in nun at tacked. If the views of the present day were the same with those of that day, their conduct -and ex pressions would also be the same. But that they were not the same, even those who did, against all probability, believe in the existence of designs hosile to the Government, were reluctantly obliged to con fess : not a single transaction, at any one Public Meeting, had shewn the People to be proceeding in any such wicked or pernicious designs ; they de bated and resolved ; they attempted-nothing further; indeed, they were wholly unprepared for any further attempt. On these principles and these facts the in ference was clear that the interruption of the Meet ing of the 16th was illegal, unconstitutional, and in kuman—(Cheers‘.—lndeed, he could not for a mo ment doubt on 'the particulars of this business of blood, which was too deeply infixed in the mind's and memories of all who heard him, ever to be obliterated from them—( Loud cheers).—He was not at all sur prised at their cheering, because no man could re gard the transactions of the 16th without horror : this circumstance, however, rendered the calm, deli berate approbation of his Majesty's Ministers, a busi ness of a still deeper dye, and a more extended evil. It shewed the principle on which this kingdom was meant, in future, to be governed—he meant by mi litary violence : and, in that point of view, the mis chief of the approbation a thousand fold exceeded the mischief of the fact itself. If that lamentable busi ness had stood alone, it might in time have passed Away and been forgotten ; but it was now no single insulated fact ; it was a precedent by which future IMeeting's were to be dispersed, and liberty in future abridged--(Cheers)."—The inference he drew from the ',conduct of his Majesty's Ministers on this occasion, and on every other occasion connected with the Meetings of the People, was, that they were un worthy of the confidence of the Prince Regent and of the Nation—(Long and loud cheering).—He did not'speak of their general conduct or ordinary prin ciples of government ; he confined himself wholly to their treatment of that body of men denominated the Reformers. It was assertedby many, that the prin ciples of Reform were herd only by certain Trading Districts, and by them merely when suffering from the state of trade : in fact, that there was no such piincipli; that it was a pretext, a mere mode of exhibiting dissatisfaction at the present state of things. If this were so, which he believed it was not, when large bodies of men were in a state of suffering and deprivation, when, in consequence of the pressure of their feelings, they became dissatisfied and vehement, what was the course of a wise and humane Govern- Meat towards such a body of its subjects? To execute against them all the existing laws in severity ? To enact new laws for their punishment ? To persecute and injure them beyond- all law ? Certainly not. It was the duty of the Government to take the earliest and the most vigorous measureS4or restoring the comforts of those •suffering classes—(Hear, hear). He did, however, most : firmly believe the principle of Parliamentary Reform to be spread among the people far beyond those districts—that it existed wholly independent of the depression - of trade—that it was daily extending, and that it was deeply rooted in the peoples' hearts. The real state of the public mind on the question of Reform was, perhaps, the most important one that was ever connected with the go SQ vernment of this kingdom: he had long felt it to tte •he had long taken every means in his power e• • ‘9, ascertain how the fact actually stood : the result Was a firm persuasion that this principle was neither local not temporarythat no measures, that no Mi euters could extinguish it—and that a continuation of that mode of opposing it which the Ministers had Tor some years adopted, would deluge the nation in 'blood, and overturn every existing establishment— I (Laud cheers): A whole people were not • to be perse. cured, insulted, overawed (No, no, it cannot): a na tion could, neither be arrested, nor imprisoned, nor tried, nor executed—(Cheers). Two years and a half ago, Meetings similar to those now held took place in several - districts ; the Habeas Corpus Act was suspended ; several hundred persons were im• prisoned : a momentary check of public declarations followed ; but was the principle checked ? By no Means; it was invigorated (for persec ution always invigorated what it attacked), anSerh7is was enabled to break out again with a firmness and unanimity far exhibited in 1917. left ~~ kihi bon s!: ,:eteeedibsreakwainsgclouthtaatg.yawthinheiwaith.haa.dfimrbmenerse teo N pi d b ri tec ri ;i mi n ty lein fal . - *Ad received the.tbanks of his Maiesty's Ministers, od sest wittres ble at Manchester fdlowe f shortly contrasted the .vote of thanks preset+ted to the Ma i- the name of the Prince Regent. The people of En had The Habeas Corpus Act was now most wisely left land had been charged with prejudging the Mier rats usitouclied; the Parliament separated ; and. next to ity ? same act of ive =icemen In the iltdcersese, grates of Manchester, by thus meeting together: seatthis could nut be them for their t. ajut ground of accusation. d " at in patabaii; was son w i se to b e cont i nue d. T h e scenes after the vote of thanks which had been passed on mks The worthy Alderman tbon of the seal and ardour of the lie - straws, with the declaration of certain inhabit:um of cave farmers. At the same time that theix,munbers were since appeared an all the Public Journals, and sot- Holy mcreaseti. as dies conufwersted, the Go- a ga i nst hester . their barbarity, which has iittnic r of 4 vernatent eohustarili held erselfterth as the mark of • • MITTED AT MANCHESTER. A Reqnisition having beenpresented to the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of Yoitt; signed by above 460 respectable inhabitants of that City * and, neighbourhood, desiring him to call a Public Meet- 1 ing, to take into consideration the late unforttinate I events at Manchester, his Lordship appointed _this I day (M inday) for that purpose; and erected a hust ings in the Guildhall. in order to accommodate the different Gentlemen who were likely to attenJ as Orators on the occasion. About 10 in the morning, 4.000 or 5,000 people paraded the streets of the city, with benners and mu sic, and in what is called at Manchester martial array, for they marched in a regular procession of six abreast. A man preceded them with a large black board on a pole, on each side of which was inscribed, in white letters, " Order:: whilst the whole of it was deco rated with black crape. The band of music came "next, making a horrible discord of unmusical sounds ; 1 after which was borne a very large flag, inscribed iir Magna Charta"—" Trial by Jury"—" Bill of Rights"— and " Liberty of the Press :' then a yellow lag, with the inscription, " To the Immortal Me mory of the Reformers Killed at Manchester on the 16th of August." The union flag succeeded, inscribed. " England, Scotland, Ireland similar to that exhi bited by the Orator at Smithfield. The whole were decorated with emblems of mourning. In Coney street, the band played " The Dead March in Saul, " during which the great concourse of people took their hats off their heads, and, by remaining uncovered, gave to the spectacle a very solemn and imposing appearance. About half-past 11 o'clock. the Committee, accom• pealed by the Honourable L. DUNDAS, W. BRYAN Comte, Esq. S. W. Nicoll, Esq. and several other Gentlemen of respectability, proceeded from Etridge's Hotel to the Mansion-house. On arriving there they were loudly greeted by the populace. Precisely at 12 o'clock, the Right Honourable the LORD MAYOR opened the business, by stating, that in c.nsequence of having received a Requisition most respectably and most numerously signed, he had con vened the present Meeting, and requested the Town Clerk (It TowNeso Esq.l to read the Resolutions. This was accordingly .tone; after which the LORD MAYOR said, that from the confidence which he had that they would all concur in maintaining good or r, and would conduct taemselves with the utmost propriety, he had not placed a single Constable in at tendance nor sworn in an additional Special Constable. He had always seen the greatest order prevalent in the city, and until he saw something otherwise, no thing•of that sort should ever be done. Having thus briefly opened the Meeting, he intimated to it the ne cessity of appointing a Chairman. An universal cry of " The Lord Mayor to the Chair r immediately pervaded the whole of the Hall, and his Lordship took the Chair amid the enthusiastic greetings of the assembled multitude He observed, that at so nume rous a Meeting as-that which he saw before him, there might be different opinions on the subject; he, there fore, hoped, that they would giie every Gentleman who wished to address them an attentive hearing, .aid that they would confine themselves to the subject of the Requisition. S. W. NICOLt., Esq. (one of Counsel to the City of York, and also Recorder of Doncaster,) then rose. He said, that in bringing forward the Resolutions of that day, it was not his intention to address them as friends of Parliamentary Reform, or as its enemies, but as Englishmen, who possessed a free Constitu tion, and Who were entitled to the benefit of the Laws, made equally for the benefit of all—( ). la re probatinic the breach made in those Laws - and that Constitution by the late transactions at Manchester, all parties must join, since it was only by their -con junction that redress could be obtained—(Near). He trusted, therefore, that they .would, through the pro ceedings of the day, carefully avoid whatever might be a ground of division either there or elsewhere ; the Meeting at which they we re then assembled, it was not unlikely, might serve as an example to nu merous others in the country ; but it could only do so by avoiding subjects of offence, and by strictly- con- Ifining itself to that point in which all of them could i Icoincide—(Cheers). The Resolutions which he in tended to offer to their notice were grounded on a few facts and p r inciples which appeared to him to be incontrovertible. The first was, t hat it was the con stitutional right of the People o f England publicly to discuss State grievances, and thereon to address, pe tition, or remonstrate , as t he y might -deem expe dient. This was not the right of the high and opu lent alone ; it was the right of all; it was the right, not of 70 or 700 only but of 70,000, or of an y num bers, who conceived 'themselves aggrieved; it was a right not to be exercised as suited the mere pleasure of Ministers, or Magistrates, or Military ; (if it were so, they might assemble, i n deed, to congra tulate or approve, but never could assemble to petition or remonstrate) ; but it was a right toemselves, be e xercised at the pleasure of the People th uncon6ned and unrestrained, so long as disorder or excess was not committed by them. In the nest place, he held that the Meeting of the 16th August was in strict pursuance of the above right—it was for a lawful purpose. This was clear from the nature of the notice. The peop le assembled peaceay, nd nothing tending to disorder had occurred, or wais likely to have occurred, when the violent irrigation of the Volunteer Cavalry took place. Much aar been said, and pretences had been held out, dais! and military array. What was this military array . The people walked in ranks, as is usual on most ever y occasion of solemnity. Freemasons walked al rank Hear )-- Friendly Societies walked in ranks s- v -4fleA —the Cosporition of their city Walked malts. as there auy thing classing or destructive of the peace in such processions? Nu ;4t was simply for the sake of more solemn efect. The story - 0 4 k;si OIL *e. T • - •-"••• f;: :~~ 4 a ; I IL 1 r!I 1 ii i ir ! :, •t i • ;., i • : .- I. ; 11' Y 1 , „41C • • . • . • , .g-ar).l.e2/ .11-410.•••••4..." SEVEN-PENCF. public hatred and execilitidn-2-4Losed and long cheers). 'llse inference oas decisive 3 it was not in the hands that thus wielded them that the powers of Gr.vera ment ought to remain in tinses so perilous—V.lteere. It might be asked, if Parliamentary Reform was the sole object of the Reformers, where. was the danger of the country? He would tell them : the danger waseisiso--tens of thousands and hundreds of chow , sands of disappointed and irritated citizens would meet in every part of the kingdom ; a strict union would be formed amongst them, a Union in object and in plane their numbers would be fully nscerw tained, and their confidence in consequence increased. Firmly as be believed the Reformers to be now Un‘ A connected with hostile views to the Government, could it be hoped that, if treated as they now were treated, they wooled long continue so? Could any man acquainted with history believe that millions would submit to insult, denial, and persecution?. They were not now inclined—they would. hereafter be driven to courses inconsistent with tbr.establiehed institutions: it was not in human nature to be perm eated, and not, with or without la*, to rite against their persecutors I—(rdieers.) How was this to be avoided ? By placing the government in other hands, in the hands of Ministers who would listen to the people; hear their complaints, attend to their wishes, conciliate their feelings, and edress their grievances. This was not the proper place for suggesting any particular plan of proceeding : what he insisted on was a temper, a disposition on the part of those in power, wholly dissonant from that which we have for years known, which was wholly dissonant- from that mild and lenie:t disposition, which at ne dis tant period might be able to sooth he i ritat d tate of the country, and secure its future tranquillity. The Learned Gentleman, in conclusion, repeated,.that did not address. them as either Whigs or Tories, friends or enemies to Reform, but as men who would join in the Resolutions of that day from a firth oon viction that they were the sure and only soerce.of the future tranquillity of the country. Mr. Nicom. then read the following Resolutions, which' he told the Meeting would afterwards be put one by one: Resolved, 1. That it is the Constitutional right of the People of this Kingdom publicly to consult on all minters of State, and to express their sentiments in the form of Rawhides's, Peti. dons, or Remonstrances, as circumstances may seem to them to requir e. iat 2. the Meeting held at Manchester, on the 16th of Au gust last, was in correspondence with the above Constitutional right of the People ; and that neither in the notice which pre. ceded that Meeting, nor in the conduct of the people in ap proaching it, nor in their demeanour when actually assembl'd, war any unconstitutional act oommkted, or any act amoun.• g to a breach of the peace, or to a just source of alarm to any of his Msjesty's subjects. 3. That the conduct of the persons who took the lead in the business of the Meeting on the above occasion, considertnn them =admit of any fondest party question, as British subjects, assettiog their rights, la highly praiseworthy, and mmisa the approbation of every friend to freedom and his country ; that the thanks of this Meeting are hereby given to them foe ties forbearance they exhibited, andtheir unwillingness to disturb the public peace. - i. That the laterroption of the proceedings of the above Meet ing by the Yeomanry Cavalry, under the direction of the Msets strafes was Mega} and unconstitutioaal, and unworthy of the Citizens of cave country, and of a Magistracy, by its Ace the protector of the'peoples' rights. 5. That the subsequent approbation of the proceedings of the above day, issued in the name of the Prince Regent, but on the responsibility of his Majesty's Ministers, has a lamestable ten dency to create disunion in this Kingdom ; to fix in the minds of the people an apprehension that their safety is not duly regarded by the , HIO Authorities of the Realm, and that their Rights are objects of jealousy, suspicion, and attack. 6. ,That the Ministers, whose views.aod painetplei have led them thus to misuse his Royal Highness's sidle, ase \ wholly worthy of his confidence and , of the confident, of tht and that it is our determination humbly to Address his Royal Highness to remove them from his Councils and presence. 7. That a Subscription be immediately entered ince for the purpose of affording relief to the sufferers under the late unlaw ful attack ; and for the purpose of inflicting that justice on the authors and perpetrators thereof which the lows of our country are ready to afford. a. That a Committee, Treasurer, and Secretary to the flqb scription; be appointed ; and that a Committee of Hight Gentle men be appointed to carry the same into effect. 9. That the Address now read is adopted as the act of this Meeting, and shall be immediately transmitted to his Koysl Ilighness. [f lore en Address, founded on the foregoing Resolutions, was read to the Meeting .] Mr. Alderman DUNSLa!CY rose to second the Reso lutions. After commenting on the politeness: with which the Lord Mayor had received their Requisition, and on the readiness with which lie had attended tb it, he proceeded to say, that he had little doubt but peace and order would be observed, although, as the Meeting had heard, there were no Special - Constable* in attendance, nor had he, or any of his brother Ma gistrates, put the Riot Act in their peckets(Ap piause).—The late Meeting at Manchester wasitricdy Constitutional% and the conduct of 'the people as sembled at it highly decorous : if it had been impro per, it was the duty of the Magistrates to have gore 'among the people % and ordered them to be peace able : if after this they still acted wrongfully, it was then the duty of the Magistrates to read the Riot Act, *and to give the multitude an hour to disperse in. But was this, or aught like this done ? No; instead of it, the dreadful work of havoc was begun ; the Cavalry —not the Soldiery, for they would have disdained to 'act thus—the Yeomanry Cavalry, a' new name unknown to our Constitution - , was let loose upon a peaceab'e, unoffcnding, and unarmed multitude, many of whom were put to the sword, regardless both of age and sex— (Cheers).—lmmecaitcly after tills dreadful carnage, the Magistrates of Manchester min two Delegates to London, who told • their men tabs, end received the.thanks of his Niaiesty's Ministers, iq The