Star. — London, England, 1819-12-16 00:00:00

MANCHESTER. • CAsTLEniutott had an nu l'n 'Nat REGENT, at Carlton Nouse. of Yunk went to Kew yesterday, to ;ion of shooting. 'since LzoroLo dined with the Duke A KENT, at Kensington Palace. 7 to learn that Lotd BROOK/ is very posed, at Brighton. staining a heart, was lately discovered of the LE DitsPascsa ftnnily, in East rch, which is supposed' to be that of one NALS, ancestors of his Lordship. the Deacon, who was lately detected an the charity collection at St. Michan's lift, was tried for the offence ass Sactir , found guilty, and sentenced to seven nation. He is nearly 70 years of age. • FROM OUR PRIVATS CORRESPONDENT. " MANCHESTER, DECEMBER 14. " It cannot be unknown to you (without supposing you to be one of the plotters), that we were to have a general rising here yesterday. I say tve;e to have, bec - ause in this, as in many other cases, anticipations and realities are materially different. " Yon will, of course, have seen the don't-till-any body Circulars which were senttronhd by the Bo; roughreeve and Constables to th4 4: friends. The se cret of this was let out on Triday,Aly, the appearance _ _ _ of a notice for a Public Meeting to be held on Mon day, the .13th, at the ominous place called " St. George's-fields." This notice had attached to it the name of an obscure printer, called IV/Mir/gip), ; but I am assured that it is an ascertained fact, that the paper was not actually printed by him. Where it was printed, therefore, becomes matter of curious inquiry. " It has been reported for some days, I believe not untruly, that this town is at present favoured by the company of a person calling himself Arthur Thistle wood*, the celebrated Reformer, and that the object of the said pretended Arthur, is to get up simultaneous Meetings wherever his influence suffices for that pur pose. Symptoms of his operations were supposed to be discernible by the publication of Notices for Meet lings at several places in this neighbourhocid, all for yesterday : and an alarm, corresponding to the im portance of the occasion, was visible in the counte nances of those Atlases who have encumbered their shoulders with the care of the safety of the Town ! You have probably seen noticed the pains which are taking to fortify several of the temporary Barracks, in order to protect them against any sudden assault of the Radicals. For the better protection of the ' Town also, more troops have, within the last few , days, poured into it. Nor is this all ; for in dehpite of Lord SIDSIOUTH'S Disarming Bill, our AlSrmists have been round to most of the respectable Inhabi- ) tarns, and offered them arms for the protection of their property ; but where any doubt was expressed as to whether the defence of property required such a measure, and the arms were refused, i hear that the name of the recusant was put down in a book, and he was told that he would be reported to Go• vernment as a" disaffected person !" Ido not mean to say that this has been done in all cases, but in some I am positively assured that it has. " As soon as the Bill for Monday's Meeting here was posted, a Placard was issued from The Observer Office, denouncing the measure as a trick of the Spies, and advising the people to stay at home. The probability that such was the fact, is increased by the circumstance, that one of the names to the notice of meeting was that of a fellow who had been impri soned two years for robbery. Now it is known, that on former occasions, agents precisely of this descrip tion, were employed ; and nave been also informed, that there was originally appended to the Requisi tion a most inflammatory paper, which, mutatis mu tandis, was a copy of one of those that were so mys teriously put forth at one of the late Smithfield . Meet ings, and upon which The New Tistes,so elaborately commented. Perhaps the person who calls himself Thistlewood, may have brought the paper in his poeket. However that may be, looking to the cha racter of the man who led the Requisition, to the as serted fact of the pretended Thistlewoods unmolested presence here, notwithstanding the understood pur pose of his journey, and to the notice for Meetings simultaneous with ours at other places, most people concluded that the Meetings had not originated with the Radicals, though, perhaps, some weak silly per sons amongst them might have joined in the scheme. " The event seems to have proved the correctness of this opinion; for, notwithstanding an immense caution from the Police Office, for all well-disposed persons to stay at home—for the public-houses to be cleared at four o'clock in the afternoon—for the peaceable inhabitants to put lights in their upper windows at night, and setting forth also the danger ous and alarming disturbances to be apprehended, no Meeting at all took place. " Twelve o'clock being the appointed hour, at that period two of my friends surveyed the ground. The Meeting consisted of one man wheeling a barrow full' of coals, two digging clay for bricks, a weaver car rying home Iris warp, and a child (about seven years old) dressed in a treasonable tri-coloured woollen cap. The Alarmists will, of course, take the credit to themselves for having saved our lives on this occa sion ; or, perhaps, they may mention a placard issued by the Requisitionists (most of whom'are totally un known). announcing that, for prudential reasons,' the Meeting would not take place. But this hand bill they were posting upon the walls only at the very time that the Meeting was to have been held, Consequently it could not have prevented a congre gation of persons to the sp ot, if any, particularly' from the country, had intended coming. The fact I believe to be, that the wretches who called the Meet ing have not the slightest influence amongst the People to procure one ; and if any of the latter had at any time intended to go to it, the bill from The Observer Office, and the comments upon the proceed ings of the Boroughreeve and Constables in two of our Manchester Papers, had opened their eyes to the trap laid for them. • " However, as there was no Meeting at twelve • The person who bas given himself out as Mr. Thistketieed,is not improbably an impostor. We know It th - be a fact that the real )Ir. Tastinuwotso is at this moment in London.- Esaton. ENING - STAR. )NDON. n are wanted to complete a File of ), 22, Midi 17, 51, and June 16, be gives ter eieh, if brought within sq. 41, Tooke's-court, Chancery-lane. DECEM I BER 16, 1819. IF. FUNDS. ruII DAY AT ONE O'CLCCK : '2151 c•xl 66i 65 ols shut 74 83; shut uities 17 5-16 d;s. (2d.) Bs. 7s. 9s. dis. . .7venth payment is .to be made which is now at a discount of n three and four millions to pay >ales of Stock that have lately , n principally for foreign Houses. 1 arguments against the cruelty, of the enactments of the Bills iberty of the Press, and at which li actually disgrace the Press, ye, notwithstanding, been recog :. Indeed, it was impossible that, of any alaim whatever, either lent •could persist in such unne .ures, for a moment longer than Jtaiiiing a complete view of the the punishment of Transporta ;ainst Libellers convicted of a is expunged from the Libel Bill; 0, imposing Stamp Duties on orks, Works published at .inter :wenty-six days—that is, all the Ins are excluded from the opera laid the recognizances on those Act, have been reduced from lie Capital and its vicinity ; and in the other parts of the kingdom. the Booksellers of the Metropolis ng yesterday. It will be seen, by ddress of this respectable Body, their first form, would have gone g a large portion of their trade, of ekcation and principle from Periodical Press, and consequently .k incurred, by publishing Works nature of things, cannot be read ald indulge a hope that the miti )anishment could be also banished It can produce only evil, without against the commission of the of ire anticipation of such a penalty i thou t. any evil intention, must ope ! Press of the labours of some men ious habits. Dwev er, have reason to rejoice in s afforded, that Ministers are not ly, but under the impression of ,sures carrying through Parliament. said that they oppose all Reform. k:t.t.ort's Bill, for expediting trials, iperation of Ex-n' cio Informations, , 1 Reform. • sing the Borough of Grampound,to to some large Town, :is an actual sf Parliamentary Reform; and the ,he Bills respecting the I'ress, is, as n evidence that Ministers, in these Ly seeking the Public security, how s may differ from them in the fitness tie means they are employing. anticipated evils (Monday last) has ii nut any mischief, or the least ap here we were taught most to look accounts from Manchester, we are LI to believe that every thing respect is a got-up plot, in which those called ad no concern, whatever. It failed d any fall into the trap, or even touch ely ramified triggers. If there are my hardened in iniquity thus to im • employers, and endeavour to inveigle its into ruin, what do they not deserve ? o'clock at noon, of course there was to be a 'Rerodu tidn at twelve o'cletk at night—but the night passed over as wetly as the dr had dot--; and I now hear qua day _ done; that twelve o'clock this night is the time fixed upon for the explosion! It is a tremendously wet,, dirty evening, however, and I think there will net be any such determined traitors as to set to work in such bad, weather. They would have a poor chance to set the town on fire—for verily it is so wet, I. question whe ther it would burn ! " Seriously, however, vie are in a most unpleasant state here. We are encumbered almost past bearing with soldiers : and this arming of the inhabitants hai l by no means an agreeable appearance. As to whether there be any occasion for alarm, I cannot absolutely decide. With respect to the People, as a body, I have no fear ; they are sober and industrious; and they are Reformers, certainly—not Revolutionists. But if such fellows as the man calling himself Thistlewood (who, whether hi be a spy or not, is unquestionably doing the work of one), are permitted to come among*, them, and incite . the poor' creatures to mischief, it will be too much to expect that they should meet with none weak or wicked enough to join them. If it be true, that he has been here so long as is said, and with the views imputed to him, I cannot but think, his being permitted to continue at large, almost a positive proof that he is an agent of Government. Having a good deal of knowledge with respect to the sort of persons from whom police-office information has on former times been obtained, I know that it is not to be depended upon for a moment—for the wretches play false to both parties. They endeavour to deceive the People, that they may drive them to outrage ; whilst they also deceive their employers, by reporting to them designs which never have been en tertained, and plots which never have existed ; for which, indeed, there is no foundation whatever, but what they themselves have created. " I ought not to omit mentioning, however, for the information of Lord Sidmouth, that all the can non which were lately 4 laying about,' are not yet re moved to places of safety. Last evening, about nine o'clock, a Gentleman going from 'Change to the Post-effice,"stumbled over something in a sort of anti room : on inspection, it proved to be a dismounted cannon, pointed direct to the Exchange News-room, and which some wicked wag had placed there, no doubt, in ridicule of the plot of the day ; it was not loaded, and indeed only about nine inches long ; but the plot having gone off so quietly, and the cannon not gone off at all, the practical joke upon the Alarm ists has afforded ground for some merriment to-day." GLASGOW. " MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, (NOON). 44 This day there was to have been a general mus ter of the Radical force in Glasgow, and large 'parties were expected to arrive from all the country round ; but such excellent precautionary measures have been adopted, and so, great a military force has Leen brought to bear from all quarterpon this point, that it is now understood the plan of a Meeting has been entirely abandoned, at least for the present, and it is expected that we shall have a perfectly quiet day.— Colonel NORCOTT had his powerful garrison early under aims this morning, and the local force of the City assembled, at their different posts, at ten o'clock. The Volunteer Sharpshooters mustered strong. They have taken all the town guards. Hitherto (twelve o'clock), we have had more than usual quietness in our streets, and there have been no Radical arrivals from the country. " We are extremely happy to hear that neither is there to be any Meeting in the neighbourhood of Paisley, this day. Indeed, the military force is so overwhelming, that all attempts of the disaffected, in their present state, could only bring immediate destruction on all concerned. " Great exertions are mating for procuring work to the operative weavers ; and, it gives us pleasure to learn, that the Magistrates and Council are, at pre sent, endeavouring to devise the means for the com mencement of a work of great public utility, which will afford employment to a number of industrious workmen in this city and suburbs. " In addition to the corps of Sharpshooters, and the Armed Association now forming in this city, we ,are told it is in the contemplation of a number of re spectable inhabitants, who, from age and other neces outry occupations, cannot engage in active military service, to concur in adopting measures to raise a corps able-bodied men, whose loyalty is undoubted, to naive pay and clothing, when on actual duty. . "'Thursday last, Rodger, the 'President, and Millar, the Secretary of the Airdrie Radicals, were admitted to bail, and liberated from Hamilton tolbooth. Oa Friday morning, a messenger was dispatched to Airdrie for a post-chaise, which drove up to the Jao door about twelve o'clock, the Radicals being re solved to enter the chaise at that place. Shortly after * ' Rodger and his wife (who is a genteel looking young woman), with the Secretary' walked from their lods:' ings to the Jail, wearing the insignia of the Order, dig- played in the same manner as the Waterloo Medals. The insignia are three pieces of ribbon, red, white, and blue, pendant on the left breast. On stepping into the carriage, the prisoners within the jail and the crowd collected without gave the Radicals three hearty cheers when they drove off. , On arriving at Greenend, near Airdrie, they were met by an im mente multitude of people, who took the horses from • • the carriage, and drew it into Airdrie amidst thiin ders of applause. ' ... " On Saturtjay, a smith in Kilsyth was taken to jail for making pikes; and on Sunday morning three Lotmen were apprehended for baring pikes in their pos session. Twelve of the Kilsyth. Yeomanry escorted rn to Stirling." . . FROM A PRIVATE CORRESPONDENT. " GLASGOW, Foua O'CLOCK, ..‘IO,(DAT A F1T117004. • All is at present quiet. We have a large force of horse and foot ; and, if the Radicals rise this even- ing, we are well prepared for them. The Edinburgh,*. and also the East Lothian Yeomanry Cavalry arrived - here this forenoon. Sir jOIIN HOPX is with them— they are a ,fine body of men, and capita:ly mounted: There is a considerable bustle in town, occasioned by the announced Meeting of the Radicals, but no buti- • ness doing. We have also a body of Riflemen, com posed of Gentlemen of the town, about 700 strong— • all young and active men. We are now under no apprehensions, should the Radicals actually rise but this they will not venture to do, in the face of such a force.—Yesterday evening, one of the patroles of the 7th Hussars, near to Paisley, was attacked by six men, who threw stones at him : he Inade at them, and they fled, and separated : three took a road, and he came up with them. cut off the arm of one, at a blow, and made prisoners of the other two, whom he took to Paisley Jail: his conduct is deservedly praised." Mn. HontiousE.—A Public Meeting was held at the Crown and Anchor to-day, to consider of the proceedings against Mr. Honnousn. The large room was nearly half filled. Sit FRANCIS BURDETT was in the Chair, supported by Mr. DOUGLAS KINNAIRD, Mr. 13;tuct, and several of the other leading charac ters in Westminster. A series of Resolutions was moved and adopted, expressive of the astonishment of the Meeting at the committal of Mr. Hoattousc, and protesting against the assumed right of the House of Commons to judge in their own cause, or to condemn any individual without a fair hearing and trial, as was also an Address to Mr2Honitousn, em bodying the spirit of these Resolutions. Mr. Honnousn has been accommodated with apartments in the house of Mr. BnowS, the Keeper; but security has been required that he shall not abuse the indulgence given him. Sir FRANCIS BURDETT went to Newgate this 'forenoon, to enter into bonds to that effect. TILE ARMY. Sunday morning last a strong detachment of the 10th Hussars, with two field-pieces, arrived at Ha milton from Edinburgh. The town was thrown into considerable bustle on account of the novelty of troops arriving on Sunday.—ln the afternoon another strong detachment of the 10th Hussars, two compa nies of the 6th, and two companies of the 13th Re giments of Foot, with upwards of 200 of the Edin burgh Yeomanry Cavalry. marched into the same place from Edinburgh. The whole marched next morning for Glasgow. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The following is a copy a letter posted at Lloyd's: " Treasury Chambers, 10 th December , 1810. " Gaterszumi--The Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury having bad under sonsideration your Report, dated the 2d instant, on a representation from the Chairman of the Committee for managing the Affairs of Lloyd's, respecting goods saved from vessels wrecked on their homeward voyages, I Wee it in command to authorize you to extend the indulgence granted lay the letter from this Board, of the 22d April last, in respect of wrecked goods outward-bound, to goods saved from wrecked vessels homeward-bound, under the same precautions, and on sufficient security being given that the salvors shall be satisfied. This Indulgence to be for-one year; and at the expiration of that iperiod_, you are to report to my ards whether it has been at - Waded with any injury or dangtito the Revenue.-1 am, &c. (Signed) " S. R. LUSHINGTON. Commissioners of (-Noisome." • Dais., MCI:MRCS 15.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived the Electra, ROBINSON, from I hiladelphia ; Duke of Cambridge, STEWART, . from Amsterdam, for Antwerp; and Howorth, DAWSON, from Newcastle, for Jamaica. Came down from the River the De nisOn; Raw and Karns, SUAICSTZLIII, for Jamaica ; and Ossian, BLACK, for Triiite. Put back the Peace, GOWLAND. for Antigua. , FALMOUTH, I)te. 13.—Wind N.—Arrived the 'Lady Louisa packet from the Brazils, last from Scilly. Sailed the Walsing ham packet, with Mails for the Mediterranean; and the Sally, Lower, for Lisbon. PLYMOUTU, Dec. 14.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived the Plenty, Times, from Newfoundland, in twenty-Oire days, with loss of fore-yard, and part of her cargo thrown overboard. Porrsitousit, Dec. 15.—Arrived the Hope, Coisms, from St. Anders). Sailed the Elbe, Pi-Treason, for Hamburgh; and • Louisa, Boactures, for Antwerp.—Wind W.S.W. DARTYOUTU, DEC. 14.—Arrived the Dolphin, Rawans, from Lisbon fur Antwerp, with loss of. lee-boards, sails, and very leaky. It is supposed her cargo is dialoged. Ymosiotren ' Doc.ls.—ThelititiSh Queen , Weeps, from New castle,•got on shore last night on this beach. DISTRIBUTION OE PRIZE-MONEY. The Dover, Cornwallis; and Semarang, for the capture of , certain public property at Amboyna, and for ordnance at Ter- • nate, on the 23d inst. at No. 3, Brick-court, Temple; and re- • called there Tuesdays and Thursdays. 'I . -mmm•IIMENEM • ----- yesterday, a Court of Directors was held at the • East India House, when the following Captains .were sworn into the command of their respective ships - Captain J. SITWART, of the Lady Melville for St: Helena, Bombay, and. China ; and Captain J. Ixiies, of the Prince Re gent, for Madras and China. The Constables of Wolverhampton have called a Meeting of the Inhabitants of that place, to be held to-day, for the purpose of considering of the best means of relieving the distress which at present pre-. vails among the manufacturing and labouring thaw. Stations are axed upon, and telegraphs are to be erected, without loss of -time, to form a communica tion between Manchester and the Merropoli s. • The Committee appointed 'to examine Mr. Dress's Plan for the permanent Relief' of the Poor; under s' , well arranged system of spade cultivation, haiing re-' cdmmended that it shall be veto the test of fair ex periment, on an extensive scale, an independent Mem- . ber of the House of Commons moves thitclor foe a Committee of the House, for the purpose of ping more fully into the details of the Plan. tf, ~~ ' 1 , I