Star. — London, England, 1820-04-17 00:00:00

qin„ TIDE • EVANING STAR.. - ~ . LONDON. * .41. ~,, - ` P. .titi MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1820. THE FUNDS. ?NICE OF STOCKS THIS DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK : 3 per Cent. Reduced 68% y s % • 3 per Cent. Consols 69% % 1 4 3i per Cent. 77 1 / 2 -1. per Cent. 87 1 / 8 5 per Cent. Navy 105 1 / 8 2 / 8 Bank Long . Annuities 17 15-16 18 India Bonds 295. SOs. pr. Exchequer Bills (21) Bs. 9s. 7s. pre. Commercial 2s. pre. • Consols for Acct. 69% %• • TRIAL OF ARTHUR THISTLEWOOD, FOR HIGH TREASON. OLD BAILEY. At eight o'clock this morning, the body of the Court was crowded with Special Jurymen, who as sembled in greater nuntbers than we ever remem ber to have observed upon any fOrmer occasion. The most strict orders having been issued for the Constables to make arrangements for the prevention of confusion, the whole neighbourhood of the Ses sions-House was, during the morning, quite fite from impediments of any kind. Mr. Sheriff RorttwELL provided against the in conveniences which the Gentlemen of the Press ex pected to encounter from the acknowledged deter mination of the other Sheriff to do all he could to put a stop to accommodations respecting them. In the early part of the- day, the Galleries were by no means crowded. At nine o'clock the Judges arrived. Upon the . Bench there were—the LORD MAYOR, the LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE, the CHIEF BARON, the CurEF-Jus- TICE of the Commos PLEAS, Mr. Justice arcrizinu- SON, tile COtitJlO\ SERJEANr, SirWILLIANI LEIGHTON, Sir R. C. GLYNN, Alderman CHRISTOPHER SMITH, Sir Cl.nuorus liusren, Sir JAMES SHAW, the LORD JUSTICE-CLERK of SCOTLAND, &C. &C. There were about a dozen Ladle; in Court. The moment the Judges entered the Court, Thistle tywhi was conducted by Mr. Bnows, the Keeper of Newgate, to the Bar. He looks extremely thin and pale. He was dressed in a black cuat, buff waisz coat, and black pa. taloons. The ATTORNEY and SOLICITOR-GENERAL attended upon the part of the Crown. For the prisoner were Mr. ADOLPHUS, Mr. VAL FORD, Mr. BRODERICK, and Mr. CURWOOD.-Mr. HARMER attended as his Attorney. The Clerk of the Peace then proceeded to call over the names of all the Gentlemen summoned to attend, for the purpose of ascertaining their right as Freeholders. Thistlewooi, who h eld a list of the names in his Land, considered it very attentively. A good deal of time was occupied will thil: formality. The following Freeholders were challenged: William !Hasson, by the Crown. Thomas Lester, ditto. Joseph Haynes, ditto. Joseph .Sheiti.td, by the prisoner. Rt.Trott Stephenson, by the Crown. Richard Blunt, by the prisoner. Isaac Gunn, by the Crown. Churchill, ditto. Thomas by the prisoner. Sttn.to.l 1 i b, ditto. Vdreund Collingidgc, by the Crown. William Shore, ditto. Josiah Ilarthentcw, by the prisoner. John Jones, by the Crown. Thomas Briatow, by the prisoner. Thomas Parkinson, ditto. Thomas Ashton, ditto. James Wilmot, by the Cross n. George Phillips, by the prisoner. Thomas Bird, by the Crown. William Johnson, ditto. Samuel Gould, ditto. James Wadmore, by the prisoner. Thomas Brown, ditto. George Allen, ditto. William Reed, ditto. George Davis, ditto. John Parnell, ditto. Jonathan Passinghatu, by the Crown. Samuel Rhodes, by the prisoner. Richard Smith, by the Crown. Joseph Tendered, ditto. Thomas Garrett, by the prisoner. Richard llatchett, ditto. John Dickenson, ditto. Thomas Dicks, by the Crown. Thomas Wood, ditto. James Gates, ditto. Robert Wells, ditto. rdward Bracebridge, ditto. John Jones, ditto. Thomas Partridge, by the priaoner. George Head, ditto. Thomas Harvey, ditto. Jarrett, ditto. John Bunting, by the Crown. William Dawes, by the prisoner. At twelve o'clock, the Clerk of the Peace having called ova• all the names, the Jury box was cleared. Thistlewood begged to be allowed a seat. The CHIEF JUSTICE.—" Considering the length of time your trial may occupy, the Court will allow that indulgence." A chair was then brought to the prisoner. The following Jury were then sworn: Aucuttnica &spar'', 'Addington, Gent. and Grocer. Thom,. Gooncsum, Nbrth-end, liendon, Esq. THomas Surma., ALDIZSZY, LissOn Grove North, Esq. Jsatas HIRSIZT, Islewortn, Carpen ter. Jona 81100221, North-end, Hendon, Gent. &stun GRANGZII, BlackwsU, Lighterman. Giolos Dtcxassos, Colt-street, Limehouse, Builder. Joins EDWARD SHEPPARD, Eden-grove, Holloway, Esq. Jona Fowtza, St. John -street, Iron-plate-worker. Wit. Glass Roalirs, Ropemakere-field, Limehouse, Cooper. JOHN Dolma, Felix-place, Islingtan, Esq. Wu.s.test Comma, Grove-street, St. Pancras, Esq. As soon as the Jury were impanelled, the LORD CHIEF JoancE announced to the Court, 'that as there were several other persons to be tried under the same indictment, he strictly prohibited the pub lication of the proceedings, until the whole of the trials were concluded. It was highly necessary, his Lordship said, that the public mind should be kept un influenced, and that the Jurors who might serve on the future trials should not be prejudiced by any statements which might be made. He hoped that this admonition would be attended to. The Jurors not sworn on this trial were then re leased from their attendance for the day. The Clerk of the Arraigns was reading the Indict ment, which is of considerable length, when our Reporter lefethe Court, at half-past one o'clock. The Paris Papers of Thursday arrived yesterday, but bring nothing important. M. RtpauLT, the responsible Editor of the Constitutionnel, has been sentetkced, for an article tending, it is said, to excite a civil war, to a penalty of 12,000 fr. and five years imprisoornent. . This severe sentence was passed without the defendant being heard: llis Counsel was absent from Paris, and he prayed, on this ground, that the cause should be deferred, but the Court re fused the request. He has announced his intention of appealing against the judgment.—Five per Cents. 74. fr. 15 c. Maiis arrived to-day from Hamburgh and Flan ders. A family alliance between the Courts of Vi enna and Berlin, is said to be on the tans. The Emperor of AUSTRIA is expected to visit the Prus sian Capital in the course of the summer. There is also a rumour of a marriage between .the Prince Royal of Paussin and a Princess of Bavaria. Letters from Batavia, of the 1 kth November, com municate the details of the unsuccessful attack on Palembang by the Dutch, which fully confirm the accounts we have already published. We have received to day advices from Ceylon to the 19th of November. The Criminal Session of the Supreme Court at Ceylon, commenced at Colombo on the 17th Novem ber. JAMES FARREL, Esq. Collector of the District of Fangalla, was tried for the murder of a native, and most fully and clearly acquitted. The Hon. IILNRY BYRNE, Esq. Puisne Justice, presides at this. Court. The ship Pilot, Captain OWEN, was lying in Co lombo Roads, preparing to take on board part of the Bengal Ceylon Volunteer Battalion, for Calcutta. The ship Maisters, Captain BERRYMAN, had arrived at Point-de-Galle, from Calcutta, with the loss of her fore-mast, and was repairing, in order to receive on board part of his I.l . i.:sty's 19th Regiment,. for England. The ship Di; k, Captain HARRISON, was also daily expected at Point-dcrGalle, from CalcutLi, to take the remainder of the 19th Regiment and invalids for England. The ship novidence, Captain Moos, was driven from her anchors in Colombo Roads, on the 6th of November, and succeeded in getting into Point-de- Galle harbour, whence she was daily expected to s t 1 fcr Bum Lay. Yesterday, Divine Service was performed at the King's Palace, by the Rev. F. W. BLONIRERG and the Rev. Dr. STANIER CLARKE. His MAJESTY len the Royal residence at Brighton on horseback, for the first time since his late indispo sition, last AVednesdav, and took an airing over the Downs to the Devil's Dyke, attended only by Sir 13.' BLOOMFIELD and a single groom, and returned to the Palace about five o'clock, to dinner. The Princess SOPIIIA occasionally rues out in the Duke of CAMBRIDGE'S carriage. Saturday morning, the Duke of CLARENCE left . London for Bushy Park, and returned to town in the evening. His Royal Highness the Duke of GLOUCESTER, gave a grand dinner on Saturday, to the Marquis and Marchioness of LANSDOWN and a large partylef distinguished personages, at Gloucester House, in Park-lane. The Duchess of GLOUCESTER spent Frilry even ing with the Princess SOPHIA, at Cambridge House. Friday, a Messenger arrived in London, from Hanover, bringing let: ers from the Duke and Duchess of CAMBRIDGE, to the Royal Family. The Messenger left the Duke and Duchess in good health, also the infant Prince. The Duke of CAMBRIDGE, it is ex. pected, will arrive in England in two or three months, his Reyal Highness 'having signified his intention of visiting his native country about that time. Yesterday, Prince and Princess ESTERHAzy gave a grand dinner to the following_ personages, at Chan dos House :—Count WRBNA, Baron STIERNELD, Ba ron Buncow, Lord HERBERT, Count and Countess PALMELLA, Mr. CHAD, and Baron B.TORNESTIRNA. After dinner the whole of the party proceeded to Countess Sr. Antonio's, in, Hanover-square. The pension assigned to BIRCH, the Stockport con stable, is £l3O per annum. AFFAIR AT GREENOCK. The Serjoant-Major of the Port-Glasgow Voids teers, has sent the following Letter to the Editor of the Glasgow Chronick, in explanation of the recent melancholy affair at Greenock : " To the Editor of the Glasgow C'hrottitie. " SlR—Some small inaccuracies having crept into your at• count of the late unfortunate affair at Greenock, I beg you, insertion of the few following remarks. •' In the first place, I be: to mention, that in order to apprise the Magistrates at Greenock of the approach of the five Radi cal prisoners, two Volunteers were dispatched, who arrived there about an hinir before the main body; and although it is uro derstood that this was the first official notice the Magistrates had received, yet it is evident the mob had been well aware of it, as they had already assembled in large numbers, and so vio lently astaulted the two messengers, that it was found absolutely necessary for them to remain concealed mug the corps arrived, with whom they returned. " It is stated, that on our entrance into Cartsdyke, the mob began to assemble; but I have already thewn that the assem z blage had taken place long before ; and it is only necessary to add here, that on our arrival we found the shops all shut—a circumstance very unlikely, I apprehend, had the motives of the crowd been supposed to originate merely in curiosity. On the contrary, it has too much the appearance of premeditation to be mistaben. " It is also stated, that on oar return the mob followed us only to Cartsttyke Bridge; but the fact is, that they hung upon our rear as far. op as the Bettie Works, where they were at length beat off. - " Few shuts were levelled at the snob ; by far the greater proportion having been fired over their heads. Had it been otherwise, the slaughter, from throwded state of the-streets, malt have been dreadful. In fact, it was with the utmost re luctance that any were so leveUed, and only when the Lrocity of the mob made it obvious to the Volunteers that nothing short of their destruction had been determined on. It is right to men tion, too, that the Officers were particularly active in preventing the men from firing, having exposed themselves in the rear, to the imminent hazard of their own not only from the bt.l - occasionally whizzing past them, but also from the ponder ous stores thrown at them by the mob; and in consequence of which fait they were most severely bruised. " I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, " Al. FRASER, Serjeant-Itlajor, P. G. V." GLASGOW, APRIL 14. We continue to enjoy perfect tranquillity here, with occasional reports of night-drilling in our neighbour hood, which. cannot prevail to any extent in the face of the military force stationed here. Arrests of the disaffected are daily taking place in this City and neighbourhood ; and a number of per sons, we are informed, have disappeared, who were not previously) suspected of having been in any mea sure involved in revolutionary attempts. The LORD ADVOCATE brought several Gentlemen of the Law with him from Edinburgh, who are now engaged in examinations of the prisoners that have lately been apprehended. Last night a troop of Hussars, Lord Elcbo's Edin burgh Troop, and twenty of the Glasgow Troop, with thirty Riflemen in spring waggons, and a piece of flying Artillery, set off at eleven o'clock, and took the Kilmarnock-road. We have not heard of any disturbances in the West Country, and should there fore suppose, that a search for prisoners and arms, in some of the disaffected manufacturing villages in Ayrshire, is the object of this strong party. Early on Wednesday morning, a party of the Yeo manry Cavalry surrounded the town of Mauchline, when a strict search was made for arms and papers. About thirty Radicals were'taken up. Some pikes were found concealed in a field near the town. Wednesday- last, Mr. Murdoch, W ith a party of eight men, left Airdrie to escort a quantity of am munition for the Airdrie Volunteers. On their re turn, they were attacked and abused by a crowd assembled at the Barrack gate, who followed them along the road, hissing, hooting, crying " seize the powder," and assailing them with a shower of stones. 'lteti . men were placed in front as a guard, and the rest closed behind. There might then be about 700 or 800 men, and their insolence increasing, they were charged by the party. They were instantly rejoined by the crowd, who continued to pelt them with stones. When they came to Westmuir and Shettleston, the mob became quite infuriated, crying " kill Mur doch." In this manner they were handled till past Baillieston Toll, when the appearance of a party of Volunteers, sent to meet the escort, compleatly turned the pursuit. The party were all injured by stones, and some of the horses cut. Only one shot was fired, and that over the head of the mob ; but some of them will doubtless feel bruises given them with the broad side of the sword. Wednesday morning, about three o'clock, eight of the 7th and eight of the 10th Hussars set off to Holy town, where they seized three leading Radicals, and brought them into Glasgow Jail. The annoyance sustained by the country, in conse quence of the ridiculous exaggerations of the force of the Radicals, is well illustrated by what took place last week at Kirkfieldbank. The treasonable placard was posted up on the night of Sunday ; but nobody seemed disposed to follow its recommendation for a general strike till Wedneiday : but on that day there came a pestiferous messenger, who announced that the Radicals had taken the field 72,000 strong, the men armed with pikes, and the women with "wasps !" The Radicals of the village immediately held a Meet ing on the road, and made use of the floor of an old house as hustings. Upon being asked if the military had not come out to clear the streets ? he said,:" Na, man, they dare nae." The Radicals then resolved to cease workieg. So great a panic was created on Wednesday, that it was impossible to dispose of Royal Batch of Scotland note ; it being sagacioudy 4 i observed, that 44 they waclaa' wonner though a twenty shilling note was nae worth a farthia' the morn." It is but justice, however, to the populace at Kirkfieldbank to remark, that none of them appeared in arms; and it is believed that they have none. CARLISLE, APRIL 13: Saturday night, or Sunday morning,; a number of inflammatory p4cards, inviting. the people to imitate the conduct of the disaffected at Glasgow, &c. were posted up, and scattered about the streets of this city and its vicinity. It purported to be " printed at the Constitutional Press, Glasgow ;" and as it is reported that several Delegates have passed through lately, from the Nortk, into Yorkshire and Lancashire, it highly probable that these agents of discontent bad taken that method to disseminate their doctrines.— As we are unwilling to assist the purposes of the disaffected, we may be excused from giving a copy of Eke placard in question. It would seem, thn the practice of secret chilling is not abolished in this neighbuno)d. We are very credibly informed, that on Sunday evening la,t dies of men were observed training in the plantatio4g at Coal-fell-hill, near Newtown. POPULAR AGITATIONS IN THE WEST RIDING OF YOI!KSIIIRE. . (From the Leeds Mercoszy of Saturday During the present wick, this part of the country has been kept in a state of considerable alarm. recent occurrences at Huddersfield, as ctatc.l last Paper, the news from the manufacturing. - .tricts of Scotland, and the assemblages of the une,n ployed 'in the streets by day, with some still more dangerous Meetings by right, have tended to ke up the alarm. The following is the substance of tae information we have collected from the varitus touts of the West Riding : STIEFFIELD.—Soon after eight o'clock on Tuesday evening, a number of disorderly persons assembled in the Market-place at Sheffield, hut with what (h. ject it is difficult to define. About the time of meet ing a pistol was fired in the street, and oiler giving a loud shout, they marched down King -street, aleng Ladies'-bridge, and advanced about halt a mile z!:e Attercliffe-read. In the course of their march th,:ir numbers were somewhat augmented, but never, '.l . e believe, exceeded 200. On their return to the which they re-entered about ten o'clock, some of then proposed to stop the Mail; others cried—" Ail :u a mind to the Barracks:" and others—" Not till the 14th of April."—" Remember the 14th of April."-- Ile proposed adjournment of the insurrection (svh cli the number and appointmnts of the revolutionary army seemed very strongly to suggest) met with ge neral approbation, and after a little more thing, ansl la few more exclamations, they retired to their te ll spective homes. On the following morning, a persca l of the name of Blackwell was arrested while he was at work, and in the shop in which he was employed were found a loaded pistol, a bayonet, and two pike handles. Soon after his arrest, Blackwell undet went an examination before Messrs. Alderson and Chand ler, who had been sent for from Pontefract, and he very frankly admitted that he was the person who had fired the pistol on the preceding night. Sonic pains were taken to discover what was the plan, or what the object of the assembly of which the prisoner seems to have been the head, but all the inquiries on that point were fruitless, and Blackwell was commit ted to York Castle to take his trial for the offence. BARNSLEY.—The report of a simultaneous rising in the manufacturing districts, which was to take place as last Wednesday, spread pretty generally through the country on Tuesday, and reached Darn— ley on the evening of that day. On this intiniatior, which was thought to come from an authentic source, the principal inhabitants of the town assembled ou Tuesday evening, at the King's Head Inn, and a patrol was established, on the moment, to traverse the town and neighbourhood during the night. A little before midnight information reached them that a number of persons were assembled at Bank-top, about a mile to the south of the town, on the Shef field road. About one o'clock the malcontents, who amounted to about 200, all armed with pikes or other offensive weapons, began to move by different routes towards Grange-moor, the appointed rendez vous, which is a large common between Wakefield and Huddersfield, and nearly at an equal distance between the two places, from each of which it is about six miles. In their line of match they did not proceed in a collected body, but took different routes, all avoiding the town, except a body of six, who, notwithstanding the patrol, fearlessly passed through the streets, each of them armed with a pike. Hav ing gained the main road from Barnsley to Hud dersfield, they re-collected their force:, and began to collect arms from the inhabitants at a little distance from the town. Their first call was at Mr. Pick ard's, where they were not successful. At Mr. George Hurst's, of Bank-lane, they obtained a gun ; and from Mr. Richardson, of the Rose and Crown Inn, at Darton, after using considerable violence, they collected three guns, leaving a pike and an axe behind them. From Flockton, which is about a mile from Grange Moor, pnd where they arrived about break of day, they were watched. Here these poor infatuated dupes had been led to expect that they should find from 50,000 to 60,000 companions in arms, but, peiceiv. ing that all these flattering representations were mere delusion, they threw away their !arms, exclaiming that they were betrayed, Soon after their dispersion, a detachment of Cavalry from Huddersfield, consist ing of sixteen of the Yeomanry, and ten of the 4:h Dragoon Guards, under the command of Major De Bath, appeared, but they found that the enemy had fled in small .groups towards their respective homes. The pikes left upon the field amounted to upwards of 100, which the soldiers picked up as trophies, and conveyed to Huddersfield, frith a green flag, edged with a bkck fringe, on which was inscribed— ,. He that smiteth a man so that he die, shall slit cly be put to death." The only prisoner made during the night in Barr s ley, Was a boy about fourteen years of age ) who w-'5 .~ 1..