Star. — London, England, 1818-09-15 00:00:00

ape of poor rates, the deft• support. in the view we take of this lion in common with many nay at times be too low for he community. When the are so low as not to be irers, then one of two things the general business does to the community, or the their fair proportion of manufacture must be :than workmen and the commu conclusion is undeniable.— the Master Spinners and he following remarks from of last Saturday, receive.l rugglc the workmen have been accept of the wages which they lade a matter of great congratu !d, the firmness of the Masters, is, will teach them a lesson of It surely is a matter of congra if idle workmen, who were ae from morning to night, In large stances were liable to grow des t of mischief and outrage, should occupations. Whatever tends to onably a proper subject of con y weak to suppose, that because sent, they will never make the lidlt as well imagine that a Ge an should never tight another. .cil to the contruul of circum does not, it appears, warrant the . Rather than give the rise dc td it for their profit to do with this is the amount of their firm a is the firmness of the masters to submission mistake the effect finatleva is a calculation of profit misiderable bias no doubt against ry passions. Now the result of on the state of the trade. This ich makes either the masters or •om, their demands. And if the ishing—if a greater demand were m, their wages would necessarily oft d firmness of the masters and which the men were said to have have to consider whether they of their workmen, or forego the aicful trade, and we may easily ki not hold not long against such ee, provided peace he restored , crest to the public which of the know, indeed, that they will al vt.: each other, according as the to stagnate, the Masters taking l, and the workmen raising them ny human law prevent this great ery constitution of society, from already rehiatted, the public of have no laterite in the matter— s the article.iuto the market, and vo parties who have furnished it to spoil? goods they want at a reasonable ey should inquire very curiously e masters and men as to the re o receive of their money. These [eft to adjust themselves, always Teak out into riot or outrage, and that the law should rigorously peace." n the Master Spinners and 1 1 only add, that being at rest [r. HOLT and the other large now at work, will certainly sideration," and that very be " none the worse for the urned to their labour before :cease their wages—We are the weavers are still un having refused to make the , d to by the others, as our übjoined Letter from one of HESTER, SEPTEMBER Is. luiet, our town still presents :ary station in time of war. Military parade the streets wise the Police Officers and ous buildings are also fitted s in different quarters of the the troops ; so that a consi rustered in a few minutes, at of necessity. it some hundreds of Weavers )y—their masters positively ante. The majority, how- Liters have, as stated in the .n four shillings in the pound; Lion, he must be an extraor nd must labour 15 hours per illings per week, and many m ten to twelve—a miserable a man constantly toiling at v.-I.2re there is, as in most large family. The Masters urge that they cannot afford o they cannot compete with may he dcuhted, however, Ictures are yet at so low an remuneration being made to anic Kifficiert to afford him the common necessaries of ' fear that a perseverance in' Inuit produce the very conse iuld avert by keeping wages blow the rate necesslry for sate subsistence? reduce _ workmen to this state is holding out the greatest excitement to emigration, which is now tak ing place to a considerable extent, from this town' and the country adjacent ; and frofn Nottingham, Derbyshire, and Leicestetshire, to a still greater ex tent.—lt is quite idle to talk of the amor patria, and attachment to the soil of our birth ; for, in spite of the most restrictive laws, men will emigrate; and who can blame them, when they find their utmost exertions insufficient to their maintenance on the meanest scale, and are compelled to apply to the Parish for relief to eke out their paltry earnings? " The Parish Officers have just stuck up a notice on the church-doors stating, that an order was signed on the 7th instant for a Poor Levy of seven shillings in the pound on all inhabitant householders! This, in a period of profound peace, must appear excessive. Many of the small housekeepers, on whom it falls with peculiar severity, complain of the heavy poor rates as an excessive tax levied on them to enable the manufacturer to retain his hands, and reap all the advantages of their labour at a less rate of wages than consists with equity—a state of things which cannot last. " You will see in the Liverpool Papers that a man named Potter has been committed to our county jail for attempting to emigrate to America, with ten cases of machinery for die manufacture of twist net , and bobbin lace. This is a new manufacture, just brought to perfection, and is confined chiefly to the town of Nottingham and its vicinity, with.,some few places in the adjacent counties of Derby and Leicester, and latterly in Devonshire ; and many individuals are at this time acquiring rapid fortunes by it.—Pot ter's case, however, is only a solitary instance of de tection; and it would be no difficulty to prove that some hundreds of instances of successful emigration from the districts I have named, have taken place within the last three years." Since receiving the foregoing, a Private Letter has been handed to us, which serves to explain one of the points alluded to. We subjoin an extract : " MANCHESTER, SEPTEMBER le. gg The late dissatisfaction among the Cotton Spin ners here and in the neighbourhood has been taken advantage of by a number of persons denominating themselves American Agents ; it appears they have been particularly active in holding out to those de luded men the golden prospects they would realise by transplanting themselves to America. Many hun dreds, it is said, have accepted the proposals made them: and the spinning-jennies, and other implements used in their business, have been packed up in as small a compass as possible, with which numbers of them have recently embarked." The Earl of ROCKSAVAGE has left Lord Gitvutn's seat, Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire, for his father's, the Marquis of CHOLMONDELEY'S seat, Cholmondeley Castle, Cheshire. • The Earl of LAUDERDALE and Lord MAITLAND are now at Milan. After making a tour in Italy, in which they are to be accompanied by Sir TMOMAS MAITLAND, the party proceed to Corfu, the seat of his Government, as Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. Tuesday evening the Grand Duke MICHAEL and suite arrived at the York Hotel, Bath ; and the fol lowing day, Mr. MARSHALL, M. C. of the Kingston. , rooms, escorted him to all the principal objects of at traction and curiosity—the Baths, the Pump-rooms, the Abbey, Guildhall, Assembly-rooms, Sydney-gar den, &c His Imperial Highness left Bath on Thurs day morning, visited Bristol, where having seen every thing new or rare, he drove to Mangeon's Hotel, Clifton, where he remained until Friday. and then proceeded to Plymouth, for the purpose of inspec ting the Breakwater and the Diving-bell. CROWN AND REGALIA OF SCOTLAND.—A warrant kas been issued under the sign manual, and a Corn mission issued under the Great Seal of Scotland, ap pointing the Duke of GORDON, ROBERT Viscount MELVILLE, the Right Hon. ARCHIBALD COLQUIIOUN, Lord Register, the Right Hon. ALEXANDER MAC°. NOCHIE, Lord Advocate, and the Right Hon. DAVID BOYLE, Lord Justice Clerk, Commissioners for keep ing the Crown and Regalia of. Scotland. At ameeting of the Commissioners, held in the Register Office on the 19th ultimo, Captain ADAM FEItGUSSON was ap pointed Deputy-keeper. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.—Last night Pizarro was played. Mrs. YATES goes through her round of characters at least without loss of time, and if she is not to establish her fame by their separate vigour she obviously has merits on the ground of variety. Her Evira was, in general, a spirited performance. YOUNG was the Rolla, and a most manly and im 'pressive representative of the Peruvian Chieftain. His declamation, remarkable at all times for skill, was displayed in its finest lights and shades in the gorgeous diction that now and then catches the au dience in the dreary and vacant common-place of the general dialogue. His speech to the soldiers is a grand display, and sure to attract applause from every one who has an eye for noble gesture, or an ear for masculine periods delivered with masculine and ac complished energy. The other characters were suf ficiently sustained. Mrs. FAUCET was the Cora, and, though not altogether the creature of the poet's ima gination, was clever, and adequate to the general demands of the part. CONNOR was the Pizarro, and played his ungracious character well. The House was fashionably and numerously attended. ONBERItY, of Drury-Lane Theatre, it seems, was prevented from attending his duty on Saturday night, by an accident which happened to a Margate Steam Packet, in which he had embarked early on Saturday inorning, and which, in the usual course, would have reached London some hours before Mr. o.'s at tendance at the Theatre was necessary. The vessel, with much difficulty reached Sheerness, but not till six o'clock the evening. Qtalitt, At eleven o'clock, yesterday the Duke of Yo ktt arrived from Oatlands, and, after passing about half an hour in the chamber of her MAJESTY, went on to London. At noon, her MAJESTY remained free from any violent pain, and took a slight refreshment ; and, shortly afterwards, the Paixcesses walked for an hour in the gardens, accompanied by Sir HENRY HALFORD, and General TAYLOR. About four o'clock, the Duke df Sussex arrived from Kensington Palace. His Royal Highness's car riage drew up at the private garden door, on Kew Green, which he entered alone, and walked through the Botanic Gardens to the house. His Royal High- ness remained with the Queer; and Princesses, in her MAJESTY'S chamber, upwards of an hour, when he withdrew through the gardens again to his carriage, which waited at the garden gate. Almost immediately after, the PRINCE REGENT arrived from Carlton House, and instantly visited her MAJESTY. His Royal Highness was attended to her MAJESTY'S Chamber by Sir HENRY HALIPORD and Sir Famtcts MILLMAN. After they retired, the [ Panics remained with her MAJESTY a considerable time, and afterwards joined the Physicians in the Drawing Room. Shortly after Sir HENRY HALFORD left Kew to visit the Princess SOPHIA, at Windsor.— At seven o'clock the PRINCE REGENT dined with the PRINCESSES. Her MAJESTY up to half-past tea continued tole rably composed. The following Bulletin was issued this day : " Kew Palace, September 15. . . " Her Kiszsrs had some good sleep in the fore part of the night, and remains without any material alteration in her symptoms. (Signed) "Y. HALFORD. F. MILLMAL" • MRS. FRY. Tuesday Mrs. FRY, accompanied by her brothel, J. J. GURNEY, Esq. of Norwich, arrived in Glasgow. Wednesday and. Thursday she visited the Jail and Bridewell. In both of these places she collected the female prisoners and delivered to them eloquent ad dresses. During her short stay in Glasgow she formed a Ladies Committee for the purpose of affcrding re ligious and moral instruction to the prisoners. She stated her opinion on the state of the prisons in a letter, which she left in the hands of the Magistrates for publication. She was perfectly satisfied with the jail in respect of cleanliness ; but concurred in the ob i jections long since made to the classification of the criminal prisoners. She on Friday set off to visit Mr. OWEN'S improvements at . Lanark Mills. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT TATTERSALL'S YESTERDAY. ST. LEDGER STAKES. 7 to 2, and 4 to 1, apt. Reveller, by Comm. t 6 and 7 to 1 agst. Torchbearer, by Coma. 7 and 8 to 1 apt. b. f. Octaviana, by Octavian s to 1 agst. Mr. Watt's Tamborine colt. 11 to 1 apt. Masker, by Comus. 16 to 1 apt. Lightning, by Thunderbolt. Dotteasraa Races will commence on the 21st instant, on which day the St. Ledger Stakes will be run for. KENTON PARK RACES. TIM SWORD TRAP. COMILINCRD ON SATURDAY. Mr. Dobbs's Matchless beat Capt. Jones's Filch, one mile, 30p. Mr. Moore's Hollyhock beat Mr. Fraser's Lily, one mile, 50gs. A Hunters' Stakes of Five Guineas each.—Heats. Mr. Cameron's Whalebone 1 4 1 Mr. Howard's Slip - 3 2 Mr. Giles's Speed 3 3 Captain Marsh's Restless 4 1 4 Three to 4 apt. Restless, and 5 to 1 apt. the winner. CURRAGII MEETING, SEPTEMBER 8. Leinster Stakes, 100 Guineas, h. ft. Two-year old Colts, Sst. Fillies, 7st. 111 b. Two year old Course. Lord Cremorne's c. by Pipes Mr. Prendergrast's c. e. by Recerdon - 2 Col. Bruen's c. by Gauntlet, or Pope - Handicap Plate of £lOO. Twelve Gs. entrance. Connolly's Mile. CoL Lunt's Neptune, 3-yrs old Mr. Prcudergrast's Castanet, &yrs old S Marquis of Sligo s g. Fleece, 4-yre old Mr. 3,l`Donnell's Phantom, 3-yrs old - 4 Junes, the pedestrian, has performed his task of wailing 210 miles in three successive days, near Warwick. Monday se'nnight tlie'Royal Company of Archers assembled at Peebles, to shoot for the Silver Arrow given by the Burgh, when it was gained by JAMES Buows, Esq. Accountant. About eleven o'clock, yesterday forenoon, a bul lock, hunted from a drove going up Holb( rn, ran into Gray's Inn-square, pursued by an Immense rabble, to avoid which he ran into one of the Inns, up. stairs. The noise brought the lawyers out of their; chambers on the lobbies, who ran away in affrigil; at beholding a huge pair of horns making their way ep stairs. The animal was afterwards got off without .. doing much damage. Thursday, a weaver named Dowell, resident in ' Carli sle, exhibited his gormandizing powers to great advantage. lie made a bet that he would devour, within .50 minutes, an apple-pie, consisting of one eishth of a stone of flour and two gallons of apples, drink two pints of ale, and smoke two pipes of to bacco, a feat which he performed within the time. The Declaration and Remonstrance voted at the late Palace-yard Meeting, and which Lord Sinxiourit so commendably refused to present to the PRINCE REGENT, has been returned to Mr. HUNT, and thus acknowledged: 8, Norfolk-street, Sept. 14, 1818. " MY Loas—At the same time that I acknowledge the to torteof the Remonstrance, which was unanimously agreed I to at the Public Meeting held in Palace-yard on Monday, a/4461th was delivered to your Lordship by me, to be presented to his Royal Highness the Pautcz Rion; I cannot avoid adding, that your Lordship appears to be the First Minister of &ate that has ever dared openly to interpose his official authority to prevent that frank communication between the King and the People which is so essentially necesspry to the happiness and safety of both. " I remain, my Lord, " Your Lordship's most obedient and most humble serum, (Signed) " HENRY HUNT. " Lord Viscount Sidmouth, Home Department." Wednesday Matthew Clydesdale was brought from Hamilton, and committed to the Tolbooth of"G1u• goer, charged with being guilty of murder. NAPAt AtTPLUOSNCI PORTSVOUTH, SE iI'EmBE,R 14. Wind S.W:—Arrived the Floia. Tiestax, troll Amsterdam for Batavia, with troopS--zshe is woriing through for Cowes. Came into tlarbdur his Majesty s 'ship SEMIRAMIS, to be paid off. Sailed the STAR= LINO Cutter, on a calm DEAL, SBPTB ‘IOPII Wind S.W.—Sailed last bight and this morning the whole of the liome*Ard-bound for the River.— Remain his Majesty's .hip SEVERN; the Rapid, WAT 4 SON, from Havannah fob Bremen ; and the Swift East India pilot yacht. DOVEr., SEPTEMBEI. 14. Arrived last night the Princess Charlotte packet, Captain IiALLANDS, from Ostend, with a Mail and passengers. Sailed this day the Flora, Captain \VAT , sox, for Calais, with passengers: Six passage vessels are now coming In the Reads from Calais. SHEtIINESS, SEPTEMBER 14. Arrived the ALERT sloop of war, from Leith, to .1), paid off. His Majesty's ship NORTHUMBERLAND is paid off by Captain JAMBS WALKER, and recom missioned by Captain M. Sermourt. HARWICH, SEPTEMBER 14. Wind S.W.—Arrived the Auckland Packet, with I mail, &c. from nolland. LIVERPOOL, SEPTEMBER 13. Arrived the Brampton, M'KELLAR. from Bombay: ivied the 27th April, On the 31st May, in lat. 25. 50. S. long, 56. 23. E. spoke the Sappho, from Cal• cutra, out sixty days.• On the 9th June, in lat. 28. 15. S. long. 46. 58. E. spoke the Daphne, from Cal , pitta. On the 11th Jnly, in lat. 27. 10. S. long. 11. SO. E. spoke the Georg e, from Calcutta, out sixty three days. On the 25 th - July, in lat. 5. 19. S. long. 16. 20. W. spoke the British Army, from Batavia, out ninety-five days, On the 31st July, in lat. 6. 42. N. long. 23. 34. W. spoke the Jane, from Lisbon for Maranham. On the 26th of August, in lat, 31. 13. long. 35. 42. spoke the Earl of Buckinghamshire, from Bombay for Liverpool I sailed the 15th May t informed that the Dorothy and Seaforth sailed from Bombay for Liverpool the 10th May—the latter put back, after having been three days out, being crank. The Coutts, —, from London, arrived i at Bombay. LEftWICK, SEPTEMBER 9. Arrived the '2d inst.' his Majesty's ship SWINGER s from the herring fishery, and sailed again on the Nth for ditto. Arrived on the Bth the Symmetry, —, from Davis's Straits: the Symmetry had not seen the Discovery ships for some time previous to her leav ing the Straits. SEPTEMBEtt 9 • • el Arrived the Advice,WEssrEn, from Davis ' s l gths t ts, with three fish. BELFAST, SEPTEMBER The Peggy, JAM69ON, which sailed the 25th ult. for St. Johns, sprung a leak, and put back into this harbour last night. cuSTom.lit)Usg, LONDON. SEPTEMBER 14.' Snits ENTCRED INWAIIIM—The Bee, Adams, from Haroburrls; Prince Regent, lhvenhill, from St. Petersburgh; Prince of Orange, Collins, from Rotterdam ; James, Walker, from Ara change! ; Concordia, Olsen, from Christiana ; Princess Char.. lotte, Lamb, from Tobago ; Juno, Wishart, (torn Petershurgh ; Baltic Merchant, Cans, from Pictou ; Diu, Hoare, from Was terford; Alexander, Cumming, from Archangel; Mayflower, Kemp, from Riga; Ebenezer, Albluet, from Jersey; Richard and Ann, Patterson, frum Riga ; Britannls, Ruble, frorn terford; Justitia, Boexlum, from Drobeck ; Hoop, Styntjes, from Louvaine ; Adamant, Angas, from Riga; Latona; RBbin eon, from Miramachi ; Zealous, Read, from Archaised ; Wars tons, Stott, from Memel; Emanuel, Evenson, from Christiana; Margaret, Liddle, from Riga; Mary, Spence, from Petersburgh ; Livingston, May, from Riga ; Prince Regent, Hughes, from New Ross; Peace, Garland, from Archangel; Stork, Kirby, from Riga; Susan and Ann, Currie, from Petersborgh ; Fair Hibernian, Bondman, from Hamburgh ; Hannah. Bain, front Hamburgh ; Sisters, Watt, from Archangel; James and Mary, Johnston, from Riga; Neptune, Gray, from Belfast; Prov deuce, Sudds, from Calais ; Hebe, Jameson, from Dublin ; Nelly, Gib!), from Hanaburgh ; Ann, Stone, from Wilmington ; Industry, Wright, from Bremen ; William and Thomas, Mason, from Harlingen; Marva, lia.kell, frcm Dublin; Harn.onie, Suter, from Hamburgh ; Sarah Christiana, Young, from Cr,,. nada ; Admiral Cockburn, Briggs, from Madeira and Calcutta; Waive, Treader, from Petersburgh ; Orb, Stickney, from Arch. angel • Young Dixon, Hindhaugh, from Onega ; Minstr e l, Gr e• gor, f rom Smyrna; Ann, Reed • and Alert, M'Dougall ; from Archangel; Generous Planter, Thorp, from Jamaica; and Eli zabeth Hill, Briton, from Leghorn. _ _ Otprwaana--The Fox. Fox; aad Eleanor, Stephens, for Ostend; Prince Saxe Cobourg, Ladd, for Rotterdam ; Wellington, Reims, for Cork; Henry Cerf, Roxburg, for Gibraltar and Honduras ; Charles Henry, Phillips, for Naples ; Isis, Turnbull, for Trial. dad; and Speculation, Cartb, for Oporto. The Russian frigates Laigkoy, Espaichnoy, and Provoinoy, arrived at Spithead on Thursday from Cronstadt, on their way to Cadiz ; on their arrival at which place they will be delivered to the Spanish Government, and their crews sent back to Russia. The importation of grain into Scotland still conti nues; of 91 vessels which passed Elsineur between the 16th and 18th ult. no less than 44 were laden with different sorts of grain. A deplorable event took place at Chartres on the 3d instant. A vine -dresser, named Durand, having to empty a privy, took three of his sons to assist him. The eldest went down, and fell senseless ; the second .followed to assist his brother, and experienced the same fate. The unhappy father called to his third son to go down and assist his brothers. The young man instantly descended, and perished. The alarm spread in all quarters. A party of soldiers succeeded ir.. •aking a hole through the wall of the privy, and the dead bodies were drawn out. They were much regretted, being honest and industrious young men. A short time back two children, one five and the other eight years old, residing at the village of Chonilly, in the arrondissement of Epernay, entered a neighbouring house in the absence of the proprie tors. Having eaten heartily of whatever the !place contained, they treated an infant whom they found in the cradle in a most cruel manner. They struck it upon the head, and to prevent its cries, filled the mouth and eyes with filth. They concluded by stifling the poor infant under the ashes. The Judge of In struction made inquiry into the business, and the eldest of those concerned in this singular murder is committed to prison. As General Dir.t.ore and Mr. Janne; two of the Grand Jurors of the County of Meath, were returning home from the Assizes of Trim, in a gig, they were stopped by two footpads, armed with pistols, and rob bed of two pounds in cash. The General also lost a gold chain and two gold seals, which one of the de predators took from the General's watch, returning the watch, for fear of discovery by its means. The General said—" Lads, why rob me ? I have always been a friend to the distressed." One of the thieves answered—" General, who should a man in distress burrow from but afi lend ?" • , 1 '1 . _1 ' • , f . , . ,1 A