Star. — London, England, 1818-08-31 00:00:00

AIIM %r r, 1818.—It is with great 'lowing instance of harmony necessary to the service, rison of Heligoland towards ling Officer, Captain SMITH, ely entertained on the 12th the detached 54th regiment, and Naval departments, and as of the day was most ap- Captain Rs*, 54th regiment, aech expressive of the good and complimenting him on services ; which address was n Officer with too evident im to centroul, and which, :uni of thanks, obliged him no doubt he indulged in the t only having obtained, but is mild and paternal admi ttention lie had that day re- . H. C. hange that the CHANCELLOR already paid into the Bank :9,000,000 due at the end of ernment, it is said, has con nent, with some trifling mo .entative constitution which nd for three centuries, prior [and in 1807. ;aptain RODNEY SHANNON, prom Portsmouth for St. He '►, Captain FuariEAux, will India station. Major-Gen. appointed to succeed Gene of the Mauritius, will take RON. s..rs-" We have it from the it is the declared purpose of, the moment the Congress, Aix-la-Chapelle, to insist on ,wed to return to Europe, and 1 as a prisoner of war on his 3overnment refuse its assent 11 events to insist upon his re ie barren rock upon which he has nominated the celebrated r of Philosophy, to the Uni- .rrow, and Medals, were shot Archers, at Paisley, and won S» ALL, of the 25th regiment. he Drury-lane Sub-Commit ling season with eclat are hi nt sanguine hopes of the suc are anticipated. The promi- Aty will be a new Tragedy F WALTER SCOTT, Esq. to be the opening Play of the I n which Mr. HENRY KIMBLE, e Manager, is to make his de. .dience :Romeo. 'oven Garden do not intend of the Sister Theatre, in re mission to their Pit and Boxes nt situation of the House, it mt almost certain ruin to those .ous undertaking. .! new Performers engaged at and Min Somenrille. ; Mr. Hunt, whose voice In some I's j Mr. Davies, a pupil of Lanais ; mble ; Mrs. Hill, of Bath ; and Mr. With the following old Performers: hens, Miu Brunton, Mr.. Faucit, s; Young, C. Kemble, Maeready, ton, Emery, Terry, Farley, Duruset, e, Lupino, Grimaldi, &c. &c. his Olympic Theatre with such DOWTON, KNrQHT, POPS, and me. isturday night, a newfarce, in ara and Actors, was brought . is a production of a light but The story runs thus: David a musical dramatic amateur, Bustle (HARLEY), a PrOYIR- Nho engages to conduct Dulcet's Elderberry (BARTLEY) is a plain d from business, perfectly un trical affairs. He has a ward, (Miss Love), who elopes with dramatic amusements. They . busy in fo rm i ng hi s cor p s o f vhom are ;Ong (WRENCH), a Derry icitannsus), a heavy Mary Gonerill (Mrs. PINCOTT), and the separate wife of Wing. 'ILKINSON), an old Charity Boy, Bustle. The thief business of Elderberry's search for his ward he modes by which Dulcet and him, the oddities arising from ie performers to the Manager, w of trin , r aid his wife to re. 2mea and - Juliet, and the con. Mifffincap of much labour and are several incidents which are crous; such as Old Elderberry's ager's, among a set of actors, !yen whose language, mixed up quota ions, stage jokes, and al n the least understand. !n the songs were introduced, in which nate in some imitations of Daft ' particularly so in two or three 'arts; and Mrs. PINCOTT Was of a dramatic Tragedy Actress. tnd Miss Hardacre carry their f the Piece is to shew the Actors the mere Amateurs, and aka.. nclusion, that their exertions will many amateurs. When the air.' Quoa of the nsaiority was deci he repetition of the Piece. The ustice to the light and fanciful particularly Messrs. HARLEY, 'LEY, and !qrs. PINCOTT. Some ; but as a laughable tun a ‘s.ll no doubt have a run of very good audience. MANCHESTER OOTTON st•LYNXItit MANCHESTER, AUGUST 29. The peace of the town is now infringed upon to serious degree by the conduct of these men, and of those persons who are under the influence of their feelings. Every morning and evening during this week there have been disturbances, created by the hostile acts of the unemployed against work-people who would willingly pursue their business. The lat ter have been assaulted by the former, and undergone every inconvenience that their opponents could de vise, accompanied also by no small degree of personal danger. They have been attacked with stones and mud ; in consequence of such proceedings, the Magis tracy, Boroughreeve, and Constables, with their Offi cers, have been constantly harassed by most unplea sant duty, and the military have on several occasions been from necessity called out to assist in the irk some labour. The Special Constables have not been remiss on the occasion. In addition to the above enormities, several most respectable Gentlemen, employers in the Spinning branch, hare been surrounded in the streets, hooted, and grossly insulted by large mobs of women, boys, and men ; chiefly, however, of the former; to such a pitch of ingratitude are their ignorant minds raise by the stimulations of the older turn-outs. The sol diers are insulted whilst on their painful duty, and the Peace Officers have been wounded, and deprived of their staves of office. Such is the present. state of things, that one factory has found it necessary to have armed soldiers stationed within it. Yesterday ' a body of Spinners marched in regular rank and file, in the open day, armed with bludgeons, to a large factory, and loudly demanded that that at work should he turned out. This was not complied with ; but before the military could be got to the place the rioters had decamped. At a subsequent part of the ' day, Mr. NORRIS, our Police Magistrate, felt it ne cessary to read the Riot Act, the pressure of an im• mense multitude upon the Officers of the town and upon the military became so serious, accompanied by gross insults of manner and language. ,In some factories the masters are under the necessity of sup plying the people they have at work with bedding, and they sleep where they are employed. Many disturbers of the peace have been taken into custody, but unfortunately the worst characters have yet escaped, they are so cautious and crafty. It is understood that the Treasurer to the combined men has this week decamped, and taken with him a con siderable sum of their stock of cash. It has been judged necessary, under these circum stances, that some means should be taken to make a more substantial provision for the security of the in habitants and of the town. A Meeting was therefore convened yesterday of the principal residents, to de vise a suitable plan for this very necessary and impor tant object. Matters are now got to such a pitch, through the refractoriness of some, and the, eonse- Opent distress of others, for many families, we un derstand, are destitute of the necessaries of life, that it is probable outrages will increase rather than diminish. The law, with all its terrors, must therefore interpose. This becomes the more necessary, as the body of the idle and dissolute is expected to be augmented by the accession of men in other occupations who are strik-' ins for an advance of wages. Indeed the baneful I principle of Combination is making deep progress, and it is only by firmness, and farther legislative provisions, that its career can be effectually checked. The men who were committed on the charge of unlawful combination, are still in custody for want of bail. Their trial is traversed till next Assizes. FROM THE LEEDS MERCURY. The Mawr Cotton-weavers in some parts of Lan cashire as well as in Scotland, deriving wisdom from. the diventions of others, have at length made an ad vance of 10 per cent. on the price of weaving. And most assuredly the best way to avert the evils of combinations, is to listen in time to the reasonable claims of the labouring classes, and to endeavour to place them in a situation of humble comfort and contentment. 1•ROM TIIE PRESTON CHRONICLE. The 'Manufacturers of this town have this week raised the prices of weaving one shilling per cut, or about ten per cent. on the sort of goods most gene rally manufactured in this neighbourhood. This is an example worthy of imitation, for, as we have already stated, the clear weekly earnings of the men weavers of Lancashire, previous to this advance, did not exceed eight shillings per week ! Is that a prosperous or natural state of society, where the bead lof a family cannot, by a whole week's hard labour, obtain the price of a bushel of wheat? The following letter, which was received a few days since by the gentleman to whom it is addressed, and upon the orthography of which a studied igno rance is engrafted, conveying considerable informa tion, with whatever design it was penned, or however wild the notions of the author of it may be as to the practicability of the ideas which he says are entertained by the parties to whom he is unlawfully attached: " Mrs. Polard i send this leter to you to let you no that the epiners and whevers are coming out in August in all the nabering towns and vileges round a bout Manchester and in a boat a for duet the are determined to go to logerheds if that the do not get there prise and the colehers will gine then and you may depend that it will be a desperet day for it is there cry that the whil weed the masters you may depend that yout I wright to you Is crow praps you may laugh when may letter you do reed but by G—d•it his a fact and that you whit see and messy a high hid that day wil trembeling be whe are no reformers and that you shet see for the reformers hofered ous SOL per week as lung as wee stop bed in the street bout whe refused and tould them plump and plain that with reformers wee wed hay nothing to do and so whith that the took there mosey and devided it back and whe never meene to have any thing to do whith them bout there whit be a desperit day and that yo wit see for all the men that has tornd bout year are retermined to have there prise her heals dy for the say that it is rich a wile since that there was a den in this cunterey that you think that the dare dow nothink bout you may depend that there will be a dow for there is you and Kenedy Mama Berley and Naulsworth &c. that are picked at the most of any and the say whot the cannot born the will blew and i dow fermeley belive that the will dow it L for i never its an may life sau men se resolut in all the whole body togethei you maydepend that there will be a fight for there prise for i my self as i was conuning over a croft lest in the night i saw a whole croud of men noing non of them I did not stop to here what the had to say bout what supprised me was what i nu 3 glittering things which startid me for doun in Newtowne i have often times herd tell of pikes or pikes but never in my life saw ane before this night then i sau s i will represent them as much as i can.•—The colleors metin is on Canemore on Monday next and the wayvere are retermined to have 7s. per pound more and all Engleancrs working clan of men are retennined to have more prise or dy for as soon as the spinners gees in all other traids will cons bout— for the have made a younloa in every traid and hove ry traid is nar. at this present time paying money to the spinners for i no of a fat that the 'pipers paid £35 sterling for delicate* that went in the • Mine pikes ars dolionste4 on the letter, of differint kinds. coatery t tolissisting tither tralcis to stop in sad to 'my to !beta webs the was oat t►+t the aught nand the Mager the delimit that goes la the coatery as Is. per days—and so ao more at pre- Lint, train your most hobedaat serrant—iThe signature is ob scured by the wafer.] " Rr Mr. Jarlathan Piaui, Groat Atwoata-streft. litigant Factory Tout Rom iLutclisskr." The subjoined Circulars are stated in a Sunday Paper, to have been addressed on Wednesday last to the Secretary of a Benefit Society in London : (71431111 D cravat-se.) " Dzartirstris—Two Delegates from Manchester having aP. rived in London at the request of the different trades in that town and neighbourhood, to solicit your kind assistance and sup. port, and in forming a union of the operative workmen, me. chalks, and artisans, of the United Kingdom, to support each ether in an difficulties which may occur between them and their employers, for the mutual benefit of the labouring people. They do hereby request that you will send ade a te from your trade the White Lion, Wych-street, Strand, on Friday evening nest, at eight o'clock, where every information will be given. " London, August 26, 1818." -• (XIANUSCILIPT ATTACHED TO THE MOM) " Gammas—As the Cotton Spinners of Manchester are in the greatest digress, In consequence of the long contest with their employers, any aid you may render them will be gratefully received, and at any future period punctually returned, if re quired.—Your's, SWVIIIMUS." EXECUTION. This morning, at seven o'clock, the Shiervv for the County of Surrey, accompanied by his Officers, attended at the Gaol in Horsemongenlane, and pro ceeded to demand the bodies of the several ,convicts who had been tried and left for execution at the last Guildford Assizes, when the following unfortunate criminals were summoned from their cells, to undergo the sentence of the law : William West (aged 24), for uttering as true, well knowing them to be forged and counterfeit, two Bank Notes, purporting to be those of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, to Mr. Philip Butler, of Barnes, in the County of Surrey. William Park (aged 28), for a burglary in the house of Mr. Broomfield, at Lambeth, with whom he lived as journeyman baker, and stealing 3241. in Bank notes. William Cook (aged 40), for breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Mr. John Dudley, at Leigh, and stealing various articles, under circumstances Of peculiar atrocity. The prisoners were conducted to the Chapel of the prison, where Divine Service was performed in the most solemn manner by the Rev. Mr. Moroi, in which he was mast fervently joined by the unfortunate cul prits. After having spent some considerable time in devotion, the cavalcade proceeded to the yard, where the proper officer was waiting with the apparatus for knocking off the irons, which being done the crimi-- nals were pinioned; and, accompanied by the High Sheriff, the Reverend Divines, &c. &c. ascended the stairs leading to the top of the entrance to the Jail. On their reaching the fatal platform, West was first placed under the gallows, Cook next, and Park came up last. The Executioner then proceeded to perform the awful duties of his situation, during which time the Rev. Mr. MANN and the Rev. Mr. KNIGHT, ad ministered the consolations of religion to the unfor tunate men, who all behaved with great steadiness and composure, and acknowledged the justice of their fate. At a few minutes past nine the fatal signal was, given, the drop fell, and they were launched into eternity. An immense quantity of persons attended to witness the melancholy ceremony. The unfortunate man, William West, was born at Kingston, of poor but honest parents, who brought hint up to the business of a butcher, at which calling he for some time procured au honest and respectable livelihood, but unfortunately getting im plicated in the criminal traffic of dealing in forged Notes, it brought him to an ignominious death ! William Park, who was a remarkably well-looking young man, belonged to a very respectable family, and has been long known in the neighbourhood of Newington, Lambeth, &c. &c. where be always bore the character of an honest man, till the un fortunate stair for which he suffered.—Williarn sok appears to have been a labouring man. Wednesday night, no fewer than six forged Notes were tendered at Vauxhall : they were detected by Inspectors who attended by order of the Bank Di rectors. Last night a dreadful fire broke out on board a west-country . barge lying in the London Docks. It was occasioned by the carelessness of one of the boat men : the devouring element spread to the adjoining ware-houses, caught a bottle of phosporus, and blew up the whole of the adjoining premises. _ _ _ - Friday se'nnight, a child cf six years old died at Balfron, after a few hours illness, after eating a quan tity of berries of the rowan -tree, or mountain-ash. Thursday afternoon the scaffolding erected about the church of St. John, Westminster, gave way, and three men were precipitated from nearly the summit of the building. One was killed on the spot, and the other two were taken to the Westminster Infirmary, in a state so dangerous as to afford but little hope of recovery. A dreadful calamity happened, at six o'clock on Saturday evening, in the Canal near Croydon, to NICHOLSON DUNDAS ANDERSON (son of the late Ro- NERT ANDERSON, Isq. late Superintendant of the Ma rines of the Hon. East India Company at Bombay) a student at the East India Company's College a Addisccombe, near Croydon ; whilst bathing with three of his fellow-collegians he sank and was drowned. He was speedily taken out, and every effort was made to restore animation, but without effect. Last week the manufacturers of Preston raised the prices of weaving Is. per cut, or about 10 per cent on the sort of goods most generally manufactured in that neighbourhood. CORN-EXCHANGE, MAR[-LAVE, AUGUST 31. Having a continuance of foreign arrivals of Wheat, and a good supply from Kent and Essex this morn ing, the sales were heavy, at last Monday's prices, although the major part of this day's supply, from the above Counties, consisted of samples of New, In, the buyers purchased but sparingly, in consequence of the large arrivals from abroad. A few samples of New Barley appeared, which were readily disposed of for Malting at 70s. per quarter ; and fresh gt find ing Barley was in demand at an advance of 2s. per quarter. Old Beans are `3s. per quarter cheaper, and heavy sale at that reduction, the quantity at Market being large. Oats are 2s. per qr. lower, owing to the magnitude of the supply both of English and foreign. 8)IITII YIELD IVlAarrs, AUGUST 51,—Betf, GS. Od. to Si. od. stone of albs.; Matton,is. to Ss 6d. Ws!, 54. to Ss. 411. Park to St. tod. Lamb Ss. to 6s. Cattle at Nlarket—ilenit. 2920 Calves, 210; Sheep and Lambs, 19,620; Pigs, 240; day, • Iced, 51. to IL 81. Cl•ver, 54 t• 91. On Bttaw f-I. Si. to V. I is. ‘. i ri rl. i . s 1 LANCAIIIRZ ASSIZES . _ i ~I 1 - . 4 LITTLEDALE V. THOMAS. il , h The question in this C.tie respected the liability of an underwriter to pay the sum insured for in a ves- sel trading betweet America and the West Indies, l i y , " , I /1 and carrying horses on deck without informing the •$ , 1 underwriter. The ship Lancaster, Captain Cook, i from Norfolk to Grenada, was upset by a white squall on the 3d of October, 1817. The crew got upon her i l itti / bottom, and remained there for three days and four nights, when they were rescued by another vessel. ei i I li There had been four horses in a shed on deck, and the plea for the defendant was, that the shed exposed 1 the vessel to danger, and that since this source of i danger had not been communicated, he was not lia- I ble. Several witnesses proved that it was the in. variable usage to carry live stock, horses, mules, and I sheep on deck, in the American trade, without dan- ger, and without information to the underwriter. Verdict for the plaintiff—Damage; £lOO. , BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE SETTLE V. CRUMBLEIIOI.NIE. e : Mr. FELL stated the action to be brought by Sarah I ' Settle against John Crumbleholme, for having vio- i i 'I i i 4 lated his promise of marriage to her by marrying another woman. He pleaded that he had made no 1 such promise, and thereupon issue was joined. • James Tatham examined—My place of residence t 4 is Button. lam uncle to the plaintiff, Miss Settle ; i I have known her from her childhood; she resides , i , , with her mother ; I am acquainted with the defen- dant, he resides half a mile from my niece's residence ; $ an intimacy has subsisted between them for six or seven years ; the families are also intimately ac- i i quainted ; she has been in the habit of visiting his I house and he her's ; he resides with. his father on the same farm ; I have seen them many times together ; i the defendant was received in my niece's family as c suitor to my, niece ; his attentions were received as t honourable addresses ; they expected marriage; there i was no disapprobation on the part of his rather. I met defendant on the 29th of November last ; a con- k ' versation then took place about my niece ; he asked 4 ' • .I me if I would stand father, and give her away. I I told him I would, but I wished to know who she was. ,I He said, Sally Settle: and I said, with all my heart. 1 About five or six minutes after that he got up, and said I am sorry you have disappointed me from going ' to see my wife ; he then went away ; he said I had kept him too long. I remember his being put in possession of his estate; from his uncle he got half the estates, together with house, goods, and stock, and , -his father and he then lived upon it. I think it is . 1 1 worth between 1:500 and 1.400 a year. If it was sold, $ . ' I 1., think it would be for 1.:18,000 or £ 20,000, inde- \ pendent of the stock. I think the stock would be worth £BOO. The defendant is married; he married 1 since November. The defendant offered to lend me 7 , £3OOO the night he had been at my house. My niece I was delivered of a child a month before Whitsuntide ; '• t ' I saw defendant after that at my house i he came and' told me that he would not have her. I asked him if •' / he had got any thing to lay to her charge? He said • • k he had not, and he should be very much affronted if any body else said any thing against her. I have known my niece from her infancy, and up to the tima.of this unfortunate connection, I never he6sel of any thing improper of her : I have known of no ` . O i 1 other suitor ; her character has been unimpeached. 4 . It Mrs. Elizabeth Tatham, wife of the preceding w :t- I 1 ness, deposed to nearly the same circumstances. ' i 1 Robert Howson said he was an fun-keeper at Bur- ton ; he had known the defendant ever since he came ' to his estate at Longboum ; I remember his being at I • my huuse, when he was playing at cards with my wile : there was a bustle at that time, Mr. Brougham 1 having just come to Kirby Lcnsdale ; when Crumble- 1 1 holme first came in, he said," how do you do ?" and i he said to my wife, " you beat me at car.ls the other I night, but I will play you again," which he did ; when `i_ , they had done playing cards, my wife went out, and I 1! I I turned to him and said, " Mr. Crumbleholme, what r is to do, you seem to be full of trouble ?" He said, I - have a letter from Mr. Dewhurst, and I must go and settle about Miss Settle. I said, can't you marry her ? I 1 a and he said no. I said, what money are they asking? ; ' t he said, E. 500 ; I said that is a great deal ; he said, yes it is, for what is done ! He said over again, he 1 ( 4 , . g must go to settle it with Mr. Dewhurst, at Lancaster. e The witness said L',500 was little enough, considering I t the character of the girl ; he said he would not give Lt her so much, for he would make his property away. L . I asked how he would do that? he said he would make it over to his sister. I said you will presently be at Nell Redman's, that is the poor house ; I said, It d perhaps there will be a wedding at your father's and li then you will be flung again; he said, " I will make ieaway my property and go to America, and then I 0 shall be out of the gait of them." 1 said, " how have i ) af r' you come about this Miss Settle; when I was young, I could never come about them till I promised some- thing ?" he said, " I promised her marriage, but I 'n hope you will not telL" I said, " they will come for to half your estate in spite of your teeth." He called at n" my house afterwards on the Ist of June, and he said, Le a- " Robert, I hope you will not tell what you and I 1$ talked about the other time." , • at Mr. Wallace.—! am uncle by marriage to the I -' t l , l plaintiff : I have been intimately acquainted with her 'a. and her family about nine years. I am also ac- , de quainted with the defendant's family ; the two fami- ' lies have been very intimately acquainted ; a great - i he intimacy also subsisted between the plaintiff and the it. defendant's sister. Defendant himself was received in as a suitor to Miss Settle ; his attentions were known to and approved of by both families ; the character of the plaintiff has been always very respectable ; it at, has never been impeached. lam acquainted with 1 -n- the estate upon which the defendant and his father f O. es, live ; there are 182 acres ; the whole of the estate is ail worth £22,000. I suppose my niece's fortune is worth 1 nit about £BOO. ice Several witnesses deposed to the character of the les plaintiff. 1 ied M r . TOPPING) then addressed the Jury. He admit- i I Id- ted the promise of marriage, and pleaded in extenua- Per tion of damages. and The Learned Judge recapitulated the evidence ; ket and the Jury, after a short consultation, retursied a i the verdict of Seven Hundred Pounds Damages. gn. HAYES AND ANOTHER V. JARDINS. . S Per Mr. ScAttLerr stated this case to the Jury. Hayes, ' 44 ' Bonney, and Brotherton, had been partners, and thi 101 action was brought to recover money paid on their per 4 . account to the defendant, who acted as their agent. ~` 4 0 . , . . _