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~. ; )1g ADELPIII lIKATRE, STRAND, (Late T the Sans Pareil.) • lijs PRESENT EVENING, Norembrr 25, r„in be presented, a new Comic Burletta, called T ag f ItEe N DRAGON ; or, I've Quite Forgot. tte ,• w hich, an eotirely new Barletta, in One Act, called °DIA AND ENDS; or, Which is the Manager ? With an entirely New Ballet, entitled WAR AND EFFIE; or, The Ilighland Robber. A brourite Scotch Dance, by the Miss Dennetts. To conclude with the Burletta of TOM THUMB. g .t vrw Barletta, in three Acts, a Comic Farcical Burletta, ON Acta, and an Imitative Barletta Interlude, are in active lA, and will spe edil y be p roduced. 1 1 : l argos to be opened at Six o' Clock, and the Perform steN b e . s in p recisely at Seven.—Half Price exactly aF Half- F-4t.—lloxes M. Pit 2s. Gallery Is. EAST-INDIA ROUSE, November 24, 1819. rviE COURT of DIRECI'ORS of the UNITED' Ca3ll'.4Ar of MERCHAANTS of ENGLAND, gratin,: 1 „ r!sT.I.VDIES, do hereby Ore Notice, QUARTERLY GENERAL COURT of the said , r p,inted to be held at their Howse, in Leadenhall c.a.., WEDNI4SDAY, the 22d Decemller !tent, is further : 1 ,-01, for the purpose of submitting, for confirmation, Loi:41;:l•ill of the General Court of the 22d September a Resolution of the Court of Directors'of the ; 1 ;r List, granting to Mr. JAMT3 Wit.snesmi, under the cir -01:;..s, es therein stated, the sum of seventy-five thousand Sicca E T ,s, zt sw the Current Rupee, with Interest thereon, at Si: per Ar.:ll:in, from the 11th October, 1816, to e day P . iryinerit ,L 1I be made. pi itrport required by the Bye-Laws, Cap. 6, Sec. 20, to r..erse:th the Documents upon which the said Resolution has !es ate open for the inspection of the Proprietors at r..llbLie. JOSEPH DART Secretary. ARMY. WAYTED IMMEDIATELY, for a Regiment IT of infantry, a BAND MASTER, perfectly qualified to I ;1, .d to Instruct Beginners.--Letters to be addressed (post to :t!r.liolli , , arch, li4okseller, Portsmouth, stating with afertncefor character. !cc. ile will be required to enlist for a term of years. Just published, i iJESiEUNES FEMMES.—Par J. N. BOUILLY , .?rear des Castes et Conseil. , ama bide, &c. Two vols. wi.it sixteen Engravings, price 16s. Vellum paper, hot price 17. 12$. 16be had of A. 13. Dulatt and Co. 37, Soho-square. SIXTEENTH EDITIO).T. This day was publislitd, in svo. price Is. T E POLITICAL HOUSE THAT JACK %Vah Thirteen Cuts, viz. The House that Jack Ith that Ly iu it ; the Vermin that plundered t ; *Ding st poi.oti th,-In; The Puklie Informer; The ti lawless Puwer ; The Man all shaven and shorn ; : all tatter'd torr. • The Guilty Trio; The word ; rhe Political Priest; The Pen and the Sword; The - A eraw—thrown vp to skew which way the wind blows!" Printed for William Hone, Ludgate-bill. Cvtntry Orden, with Ittmittances, will be punctually .INOTIIER ORTUNITY OF GAINING £20,000 PRIZES. lIE Next Day of Drawing presents the prospect of uncommon advantage to Adventurers. 1 4 0100 will be gained in the First Five Minutes, by Two £20,000 being attached to the Two First Prizes. IZES of £20,000 are *till undrawn! and may all Le dr.= Yext Day, 9th DECEMBER. Tatts and Shares, warranted undrawn, are selling by I'.. SH, Stock-Broker, No. 4, Cornhill, and 9, Charing-Cross, London ; And by his Agents in the Country. • IT Dail has already sold Five Capitals in the present Lot tie. Hi: Agent at Liverpool sold part of one of the £20,000 Pr.:ts drawn the First Day; and his Agent at Edinburgh sold tr: of the other Prize of £tlo,ooo the same Day. NORTH WA LES--FLI NTSH IRE. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, 1 the King's Arms, in Holywell, in the County of Flint, on ' TIIZZ iDay, the 9th day of December next, at Four o'Clock i• the Afternoon, for a Term, of which about Forty Years re tr.expired, ALL those Valuable PREMISES , called th e GREENFIELD ABBEY WORKS, near Holywell rral, late in the possession of Messrs. MAYTOK and Co.- 72 Nmises, which are most desirably situate on the Holywell kern, and at a short distance from the Sea, consist of roomy tutu:table Dwelling-House, Stable, large Garden, and Close tt Land adjoining ; Cottages for Workmen, Iron Forge and tee Mills, Warehouses and Offices; and from their vicinity to it Pons of Liverpool and Chester, as well as to consi.ierable roes and Collieries, and other local advantages, are admirably Loilated for the above, or any other Business requiring an un eupply of Water, with convenience for Shipping. PL - ticulats may be had on the Premises; of Mr. Edwards, !:ctioneer, Denbigh ; at the Palace Inn, Manchester; King's :ass, Liverpool ; Feathers, Chester ; White Lion, St. Asaph ; • Ur. Kdwara Chester Solicitor, 5, Staple Inn, London ; and l'eter Williams, Solicitor, Ilolywell. ROYAL MEDICAL INSTITUTION, No. 89, ALDER9O•TTeSIRZET. PATRONS. • 1 7 1 s Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex. Ihe Most Noble the Marqr.is t f liumexar. 11.1• ht Honourable Lady F. Hoav WOOD. 5,:: WILLIAM CLAYTON, Bart. Tuouas licsucuastr, Bart. Str TROMAS Beeves, BAIL. lady IL lir-aucumne. Honourable H. COCURANIG S.trgeoa, A. T. FATTILgAti, Esq. Tflis INSTiTtiI'ION is founded for the express pepus_ of Curing Diseased of the Skin, Syphilis and its ` ..414 i Scrofula. Scurvy, the various species of Leprosy, Car 'ems of the Spine, Affections of the hip and Knee, and in. ScAld Iliad. :lak e hundred and fifty- seven personis h ave experienced a i s zfcci recovery since the second of February last. The must "bud cases have effectually yielded to the new rode of treat t'7l.—Atteadanee from Ten to Two, and from Four to Niue; 104 Advice pans, to the Poor every Morning. All hatters to be Post.pid. PIIICS OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK : :ttr C. Bed. Da-11)itto Consols, 67168168-1 per C . 76 7..i u C (11484 11-6 per Ct. Navy 104 i 103 j 104-11 k. Lg. An. ',i 9 -16 , —Indta Bonds 43. 6s. pre.—L.xch. Bills (id.) 3 5 dis.— 2 . 1: for Opet:ing 68i1. St:din Day, bat no business of any consequence is parties being occupied in making up their accounts. • •..(1,...1t e r lisd been declared up to one o'clock. .i..in.c.—Yesterday, in the Court of King's Bencb, on "taotit, Az . . G. I.IIIIILTAT, Mrs. Carlile was brought up !r-td to the Criminal Information moved against her some tTl:incc, for publi.hing her Husband's Trial. She denied her 1 0 , : to i.nui the next Term, which was admitted. The " Papas relative 0 the state of the Country' tt;e in th e h an d s o f t h e :` Members , and a copy is now ip i•le us, occupying sixty-five pages. Some of the de have been already laid before the Public , i n " shape of " Resolutions," &c. voted at Ref orm ! k t l ings ; but much of the matter is new, and shall t olaid before our Readers as speedily as we can kits room in our columns. - 777 _; .e-- RP" fit` ., • - • .••• - •:-.jo - • •. • • . • 905:;;,;- .. 3+• N 3 k 111 0 ' r l 4 P . A A fir-,- • • • III) • • ilk - - • - • it (1 / 4 1 1 . . . .•• • • • .• ~ • • . •• • • -4 - t • • • . PRICE • Sin , EN ;ON rf.. •,, • :• 44, A . . - spired had - serv''''Fdlit s to streng .• then and confirm' .--- The decision the,. had come to did . not, however, close the question. The Courts of Law were open to • it, arid there the fullest investigation might take plaCe. The Papers now produced were not stated to contain all the information that might be 'obtained ; but these, it had been thought; would give the House some general idea of what the proceedings - had real ly been. Lord TEMPLE was of opinion, that a spirit was abroad which must be repressed, or. the Country would be in danger: He thought the present was an Occasion which made it necessary for every Member of that House to exert himself in defence .of the Constitution. Unless the Government of' the Country were supported on a question like this, he should be unwilling to answer for the consequences; and with this impression on his mind, he felt it to be his duty to support the Address.. Mr. BENNET having had more opportunities of learning , whit had actually taken place than many Gentlemen, rose to correct some of the statements which the Honourable Member for Dover had made, as he had been convinced, by evidence given an oath before the Coroner's Inquest, that great and cruel ex cesses had been committed. The Honourable Mem ber for Dover had spoken of the multitude assembled at. Manchester, on the 16th of August, as being as sembled for purposes of plunder. He detested some of the principles which they met to.advocate, but he had no right to believe them other than honest. He then described various outrages said to have taken place at Manchester, most of which have already ap peared before the Public. It - was said ; :that but twenty-six persons had been tater' to the Igfirmary ; he had seen a list of fifty- fl ight, and many a. who had , not been carried to the Infirmary had been ,severely maimed. He believed he might say that eiiht lives had been lost, and that he spoke witirin.corupasi when he said, that from three to four hundred had been wounded. That eiaggeraticin bid gone abroad, he did not • deny. This .could not- but be admitted by these who had read the libellous .and disgusting - articles' which had issued: from the Press—(Hear, - hear, hear, from both sides of the House). If. any thing could take place more catCulated thap all the rest to mak e moderate men violent and irascible, it was the furious declamations which had been sent forth by the Press—(Hear, hear, hear). Such, from his own experience, he could say, was the effect which , • they had produced. He then descanted on the man- • ner in which the populace had been attacked on the 16th of August, and proceeded to argue, that the manner in which the Reformers had entered Man chester' in what was called military array, did not make the Meeting illegal. If, however, the .Magi strates were of a different opinion, he should like to know, why they did not stop the partiei • on their way and prevent the Meeting?—He maintained that the Riot Act was not read till after the attack on the People had commenced. The letter of Mr. Hay dill not prove that the Riot Act had been read. He (Mr, Bennet) did, not lay thai it had not been read at all, but he believed that it. was not read till 'after the charge had been made. He was of opinion that no proof had been adduced that the Yeomanry weie attacked befOre they attacked the People. He dis approved of the employment of that description of force on such an occasion, and imputed much of the mhehief to their want of temper. He defended the Union Schools in that part of the Country. He had examined the primers used in them, and thought no books could be provided for them that were better Calculated to teach children their daty , to GOD and man. The blisphemouspublication said to be used in some of them he could not f 9 d, and QR this point, he thought the Honourable Gentleman who had mentioned it must be misinformed. In no. part of the Country had he known greater regard to be manifested for religion than in the County Palatine of Lancaster. He thought nothing more fatal to the interests of the Country, than that separation of the rich from the poor, which all the measures of the present Government went to effect. There was a general feeling is the Cotrntry, th at Reform in that House was necessary. In that feeling he participated. He would not give the sanction of his name to all the wild schemes afloat in the Country; but he was of opinion, that Men, could not be governed in 1819, as they had been in 1719, and that if would he wise in that House to reform itself. He disclaimed all wild notions of Radical Reform:and Universal Suf frage, which, if seriously entertained, and attempted to be carried into execution, would, he bad no doubt, end in Despotiim. But he did not think the Country safe from what might lead to. the worst of 'all evils; a state of civil dissension, increased by the very measures which Parliament_epight" in a: very short time be solicited to pass. callecrupoti the House - to inquire, without' delay, into the state of Sts own Representation, and to . giee The People a more general controul over their Represenfatlves, by exteochng the' elective franchise to a larger mass of society. He intreateci bii Majesty.'s Ministers to pause., No man could look to the financial difficulties and political dissensions of the time, without alarm ; and he most earnestly. prayed, that no petty feeling of party should be allowed to mingle iviththe considerations of paha lic interest. With respect to Earl Fitzwilliarn,.the situation which he had so lOng occupied, *as' not a feather in his cap. lie held it in truit 'for the People ; for though nominally, the servant of the Cre4n, he was really the servant of the j'eoplc; of whom, in virtue of his possessions, his ' character, and his virtues, he became a natural leader. He objected to the Addresi altogether , an d should vote for the Amendment, though lie could hardly see how it could be tacked to 'such an Address. What be wish ed was the'pacifyhig of the People, and he could not support an Address, which appeared to him to have a contrary tendency. Mi. BOOTLE _ WILBRAHAM entered' into some theethiaP!lhmaotsti(nOsf.inthiteatetteburse of Which he n.eotioned, ta WhiCh he had given yes -1 , terday were deibled Mina, isfornuitiOn on oath, and • . • THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1819. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, NOVEMBER 24. About half-past one o'clock, the Loan CHANCELLOR and Suite came down to the House. Ills Lordship wore his robes of State, and a number of Peers attended in Court or Military dresses. The Marquis of CHOLMONDRLEY (Lord Steward) ac quainted the House with his Royal Highness the Prince Re gent's pleasure to receive their Lordships Address this day, at two o'clock. The Bishop of Ecennt (one of the Irish Representative Pre lates) took the o..ths and his seat. Their Lordships then, having previously adjourned the House till to-morrow, proceeded in &ate to Carlton House, with their Address to his Royal Highness the Paixcx Raisztix. HOUSE OF COMMONS. • Lord CASTLEREAQH presented Papers relative to the state of the'Country, comprising extracts from letters from the Magistrates of Lancashire to Lord Sidmouth, dated July, 1818, a letter from Mr. Spooner, a Magistrate of Warwick, and other documents. The Papers being brought up, were ordered to lie on the table. Lord CASTLEREAGH stated the documents just presented to be already printed. He added, they would .be ready to be delivered to Members, at the door of the House, lu aif hour. On the motion of Lord CASTLEREAGH, the usual Stand ing Orders of the House were renewed, and the Standing Corn-1 mittees revived. It was ordered that nc Petition for a Private Bill should be received after the 10th December ; that no Private Bill should be read a first time after the 6th March, and that no Report of a Private Bill should be received after the Ist of May, 1850. The customary Order with respect to the precedence of Orders and Notices on particular days, was made. The Order of the Day being read for resuming the ADJOURN ED DEBATE. Mr. HUME rose to speak. Mr. V. BLAKE rose to order. Adverting to the Adjournment of the Debate on the Address, which had been come to on the preceding night, he observed, it must be the wish of the Speaker and of the House, to regulate their proceedings by the laws' of Parliament. Deciding as they had done, in his humble judgment they had departed from those laws. The SPEAKER said, if the impression made on his mind by what had just fallen from the Honour , able Member, was an incorrect one, he was sure that the House and the Honourable Gentleman would pardon him. If he rightly recollected what had just. been said, it was the object of the Honourable Mem-, ber to rescind or alter the Resolution come to on the preceding night. Mr. V. BLAKE stated his object to be, not to rescind the Resolution, but to guard against its being drawn into a precedent for the time to come. The SPEAKER never understOod that it was the wish of the Honourable Gentleman not to dlter or' rescind the Resolution, but to guard against its being drawn into a precedent. It was not for him (the Speaker) to say what course the Honourable Member or the House should take hereafter ; but a question like that which he wished to bring under its consi deration, ought not to be brought on without due notice being given. It ought not to be blended with any other subject ; it could not be suffered to inter vene like an ordinary question of privilege; the O rder of the Day having been read for resuming the Adjourned Debate, no other business . could then be discussed. Mr. V. BLAKE again rose to speak, but was in terrupted by loud calls for Mr. HUME to proceed. He still endeavoured to obtain a hearing, but without Success. The SPEAKER wished it to be understood, that what he had meant to say came to this—that what der ulterior object the Honourable Gentleman might have in view, it was disorderly in himself to 'propose that any question but that . on the Address should be entertained at present. Mr. V. BLAKE attempted to explain, but could net be heard amidst the calls of 4‘ Order !" which burst from all parts of the House. Mr. HUME hoped the adjournment of the debate would have the good effect of proving whether or not the statements made by the Noble Lord oppo; site, on the preceding night, were or were not cor rect ? If what he had advanced was really entitled to credit, he ought to afford them some proofs of its accuracy, which were wanting at present. He (Mr. Hume) admitted that a spirit of insubordination was abroad, but he contended that nothing-hadheen done by Ministers in the way of conciliation to repress it. Instead of removing the grievances which gave rise to it, the Government had determined on augment ing the Army ; and now, in a time of profound peace, the bustle of recruiting was seen in every country town, and all the preparation that usuay marked an effort to oppose an external enemy, was now making to oppose our fellow-countrymen. He could not vote for that part of the Address which went to approve of the addition of 12,000 men to the Army. The statement in the Speech, that our present em barrassments arose from the distressed situation of the other countries in Europe, he did net believe to be completely borne out by facts. The Amendment had his entire approbation, as it merely went to pledge the House to an inquiry, which, in the pre sent circumstances of the country, was absolutely ne cessary. The assertion of the Noble Lord, that the proceedings which actually took place at Manches ter were not intended to take place, and were not and r the direction of the Magistrates, made inquiry the more desirable. What would have been said of the Military if they had turned about, and attacked the Magistrates instead of the People? After the No ble Lord's statement, it appeared that they had just as good a right to do this as they had to do what had been done. The Papers laid before the House did not bear out the Noble Lord in the statements lie had made. There was nothing about the Riot Act being read three times. The Noble Lord had stated one Magistrate, who went to read the Riot A ct to the crowd, to Lave been trodden down by the mob. He had not mentioned who that Magistrate was. Why did he not tell them his name ? He (Mr. Hume) hoped the N(hle Lord would make out that which had been stated to the House, but no proof at it appeared in the Papers now laid before them. — Mr. Norris would have bees likely to speak of the readings of the Riot Act, but all he said on this sub- ject was contained in one line—" in the mean time the Rioi.Act was read, and the mob dispersed." If ever any circumstance called for inquiry, it was that to which public attention was now directed, and that inquiry could not be satisfactorily conducted in a Court of Law--(Loud er?es of Hear, hear, hear).—A Learned Gentleman had said, there were four causes that would make a Meeting illegal—" Numbers, devices, arms, and threatening language." He wished to know what Statute determined the number that made a Meeting illegal? Of the existence of such a law, he confessed he was wholly ignorant. It was said, the numbers of a Meeting might be so great that it could not be controuled by the civil power. He would admit, that when great numbers of per sons assembled, when it was found that they could not be coerced by the civil POwer, and when they were engaged in doing any thing improper and un lawful, then, and then only might a military force be resorted to with propriety. With all respect for the Learned Gentleman who had made the asser tion to which he alluded, he could not think what ha had...raid with• respect to the numbers attending a Meeting was law on this side of the water, whatever it might be on the bther. He then argued, at some length, that the Meeting at Manchester hail not been illegal. If it had been so, how culpable were those who approved of its dispersion, in not bringing any of those who had attended it .to justice before this time! He gave the Noble Lord credit for .sincerely believing what he had stated ; but he would ask, what confidence ought the Noble Lord and his col leagues to place in Mr. Norris, and those acting.un der him, or at least in the reports which they might make, when it was known, that a day or two after the 15th, they had hastily shut up the Exchange at Manchester, and reported that an army of 15,000 Radicals were then advancing to fire the town, and plunder its inhabitants ? After this, he would insist that any representation which they might make ought to be received with great caution. If the coup. I try was disturbed, it ought not to be supposed that it could be tranquillized by injustice and severity.— A different course must be pursued. If Ministers wished to check discontent, their conduct had been most impolitic. Those who now laboured to inflame the passions of the people, had been lifted from in .significance to importance by the- injudicious pro ceedings of the Government. He reminded the House of the causes which had produced the French Revolution, and called upon them to proceed with caution, and to labour to conciliate, rather than to irritate the people. The Amendment, he thought, pledged the House to nothing that was at all objec tionable, for in, his view of the subject some inquiry Was absolutely necessary, as nothing but inquiry could vindicate the conduct of the Magistrates, and satisfy the country. - Lord CASTLEREAGH rose. to explain a part of what he had said on ill: former night,. as he-had been misrepresented, in consequence of being mis conceived by the flopourable Gentleman who had just sat down. His assertion that the Meeting was dispersed in a manner in which the, Manchester Ma gistrates had not contemplated 'that it would be dis persed, even when they cnnsidered it to be an illegal Meeting, had been referred to ; and it was assumed from this, that the Meeting bad been illegally dis d, without the sanction of the Magistrates.— C:t he had said was, that the leaders had been seized, and every preparation made for dispersing the Meeting under the Riot Act, and every possible means were adopted for giving notice to the crowd of this their intention. That which ensued, he had stated to be the consequence of an .attack made on the Military at the hustings by an armed mob. The Honourable Member had assumed what then took place to have been unauthorized by the Magistrates. He (Lord Castlereagh) had assumed that it was in self-defence that they had acted, which gave them a right of repelling force by force. That House, he had said, was not the place where facts like these could be established, so as to enable them to render substantial justice to the parties; but he bad felt ,himself called upon to oppose assertion by assertion. The dispersion of the Meeting, effected as it had been, the Honourable Member assumed to be illegal, 'because it had not been in the contemplation of the Magistrates. He (Lord Castlereagh) held it to have been justified on the principle of self-defence. He bad now to state a fact which he had not been able I to communicate last night. lie had now to inform the House, that the dispersion had taken place under the immediate orders of a Magistrate. He would narrate the. circumstances ;—A- . small corps of the Yeomanry (about 40 in number) went among the crowd to support the Constable in the .performance of his duty. When they arrived at the hustings a iconflict was commenced, in consequence (as he was informed) of an attack made on the soldiers. One of the Magistrates, who observed from a window near the spot what was passing, and who, with Co.,lonels Ltstrange and Dalrymple, saw these 40 o the Yeomanry not only assailed, but, as it appeared to them, overwhelmed by the crowd, said to the Officers, " Do you not see the perilous situation in which the Yeomanry are. placed ?" and upon that gave them orders to support the Yeomanry and dis perse the Meeting. In consequeuce,of this, the lah Regiment and the Cheshire Yeomanry,' which form ed the supporting force, advanced, and the Meeting Was dispersed. is:ow, passing to. another point, he begged to say, that he had not stated the whple of the inforMation on which Ministers had formed their judgment to be contained in the Papers laid on the, table that night. For the remark made on Mr. ' Norris, that he had not mentioned the three readings of the Riot Act,. he did not see much, in k. How could it be expected.' after. such a day of tumult, and after a night disturbed by frequent riots, that he, at twelve o'clock at night, could give all ..the partial iars of what had occurred in the day in a hasty letter. it was, not, however, till a full explanation had been received, that conviction was prodhuced had on the rnind trait si of Ministers, which eyerr.thing tat since • • . t`P ' ' l 7rl 4* • ~I'! 4 i Ihm LI • •: I;, 1i