Star. — London, England, 1820-02-26 00:00:00

THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY - 26, 1820. THE FUNDS. TRICE OF STOCIS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK 3 per Cent. Reduced 68 Ys % • 3 per Cent. Consols 68 1 6814 Si per Cent. 77 1 / 4 4 per Cent. 871 0 4 5 per Cent. Navy 103 1 / 4 1 ,4, Bank Long Annuities 18. 1 / 3 3-16 India Bonds Iss, 14s. pr. Exchequer Bills (21.) Is. 2s. pre. Comals for April 68% % The traces of the execrable plot, which has been' so happily detected, continue to be followed out with the greatest activity, and we are happy to add, with every prospect of conclusive success. Several more individuals have been arrested in town, and arms of various kinds, and in no inconsiderable quantities, have been brought in. Where it is thought right, for the ends of justice, that examinations should be private, particularly in a case of this importance, but little, of course, can transpire. We are, however, well assured, that fearful discoveries have been made—that a fresh light has been let in upon this horrid project of massacre.— There is little doubt that some of the culprits have already given important information. It was to .be expected. The bond of crime, unsupported by fanaticism or delusion, (for this appears a plot of mere naked in stinctive massacre) is but feeble. Even CATALINE'S associates were inn all faithful to Min, alter having pledged their faith with lips moistened in human gore. What compunction produced in Ccatus, fear will operate, or has already operated, in meaner ruf fians. It is understood, and indeed highly probable, that the murder of a few individuals, however ob., noxioes and eminent, was not alone their object. They had the frantic hope of calling up all that is depraved and despei ate to general massacre and plunder. The hope was as frantic as it was wicked ; for never was conspiracy so contemptible in its agents, ;is well. as rocrable in,design. As yet not a single individual of the least consequence or character has been found implicated in the business; with the ex ceptipn of their leader Thistlesviod, of infamous no toriety, they are all obscure individuals, and all poor, nee3y, and destitute—in fact, the very dregs of society. Considerable anxiety has been klt ever since the detection of the Plot, to know whether it has had any - - - ramifications in the couutry ; and we understapd that it was resolved by Ministers to defer the intended dis solution of Parliament, expressly with the view that there might be time for the return of the Messengers klieg have dispatched to nuichester, Glasgow, and other districts, to ascent kin whether there was any • preparation tor a corresponding inaSsacre in the North ; and to put the Civil , and Military Power on the alert upon this tremendous explosion. We are eqabled, by the arrivals -this morning, partially to relieve this anxiety ; and we are sorfy to state, that they present not only strong indications of the existence cf the Plot having been known in the disaffected Districts, but even some appearances of simultaneous action. On the same night (Wednesday) that the Plot was detected here, there was a genetal turn out OF the Members of the Union, at Dewsbury ; two cloth- mills are said to have been set on fire, and various other atrocious excesses were committed. A dispatch arrived at Leeds early on Thursday morning for mi. litary aid ; and such was the urgency of the call, that a party of the 4th Dragoons rode off instantly in their stable dresses. The Civil Power had happily, however, succeeded, before their arrival, in dis persing the rioters, ten of whom were seized, and have been since committed to York Castle, to stand trial for their lives. • Of the state of matters in other parts of Yorkshire, and in Lancashire, we have no tidings ; and from the silence of our usual Correspondents in these quarters, we have reason to infer that no manifestations fof a similar nature to those at Dewsbury have occurred, From Glasgow, however, we have intelligence of an important description, and which, at first sight. it is . - - difficult to view otherwise than as having some connection, to be yet developed, with the plot de tected in the Metropolis. On the night of Tnesday, the day preceding the explosion here, the Sheriff of Lanark -arrested twenty-five persons, who were assembled together at an obscure Tavern in Glasgow, and, according to the information received, assembled . for illegal purposes. No resistance was made, nor is anything said of their having arms to resist with.— They are ranked under the general denomination of Radicals, and are stated to have been a Committee of Delegates from the different Radical Unions in and about Glasgow. ire proceed now to lay before our Readers the particular accounts of these Provincial occurrences, such as . they have reached us by the Post of this morning : COPY OP A LETTER FROM A RILIPECTABLE CLOTRIER OF HECIEMONDwIKE. a URCEMONDWIKE, FEBRUARY V 2. " Yesterday morning (Monday), a scene of the most daring and barbarous outrage presented itself that can possibly be described or conceived: a number of the Members of the Society called the Clothiers Union, assembled at Batley, from Hanging and Earl's Heaton, Dawgreen, and the neighbourhood of Heckmondwike. During the whole of Sunday night numbers were heard talking, and walking backward and forward ; but about four o'clock on Monday morning, some of them knocked at the door of a poor woman, and inquired if William Goodall lived there? Being answered in the nega tive, they proceeded on until they came to the poor man's door ; and then, with the utmost violence, burst it open ; at the same time calling out to the poor fellow, who was in bed, " Come out, thou black Devil, or else we'll draw thee!" His wife got up and looked out of doors, when she beheld a vast host of men, armed with large cudgels and other weapons, waiting the arrival of her husband. Ter rifled at the sight, she hastily shut the door, and fastened it as securely as she could. Just at this time their cruelty was exerting all its efforts on a man called Milton, whom they kicked and beat in a man ner too shocking to be related. Alarmed at this con fusion, one of the mill-owners sent the above Wils ham Goodall for the assistance of some Peace Of ficers and others ; bat before he had gone far, he found himself pursued and surrounded on all sides. They knocked him down, then kicked and beat him with their clubs in all parts of his body, so that he is now confined to his bed. At this crisis the Consta bles arrived, but found it impossible to enforce the powers of their office, beset, as they were on all sides, by these desperate and inhuman wretches, who wee vowing, with all their vengeance, that, might be the coasequence, they would till every man that opposed them. Would to Hitooax I could stop here But it was now time for the Black Max, as they call them, to come to their work ; and, alas: as soon as those from the neighbourhood of Morley appeared; they were seized s they were hewn and beaten, to a degree the most barbarous and cruel, While these unfortunate men were suffering the cruelty of their unexpected foes, lamentable to tell, another poor, quiet, and inoffensive man, who waj coming from Howden Clough, to work at the mill, was met by another company of these furious wretches, who beat him in so unmerciful a manner, that the poor sufferer's eyes were nearly lacerated from their sockets, his legs and arms broken, and most of his ribs fractured. Their barbarous career did not stop here. A poor old man, who was re turning from Mr. Srzontoo's, where he had been to seek for employ, was identified as a Black Man, and immediately knocked down, nearly strangled, beaten, and kicked, in a most unmerciful manner. Having. as they thought, deprived him of life, they threw him over an adjoining wall into a ditch. is But perhaps you will now ask, was thfre no one to help? To which I answer, that so far were these murderous wretches from receiving their just deserts, kthat they were strenuously encouraged by others as 'bad as themselves. 'The numb 'r of these . depredr : tors was at least three hundred. lam informed tha their plan of operations was settled at a meeting ct their leaders, hell in the vicinity of Dewsbury. a five o'clock on Sunday morning last r /RCM. OUR CORRESPONDENT AT LEEDS. " LEEDS, FEBRUARY !4. " The most alarming reports were ye;terilay in circulation, lout I could not trace them to any authen- tic source. One report was, that several thousands of the Union men,' who are standing out for an advance of wages, had set fire to two large cloth mills, at Dewsbury, and that they had killed several of the Black Men, as they term those who work at the existing prices. These rumours, though not true to the extent stated, are not without some founda tion. There was a very violent riot and disturbance at Dewsbury and in the neighbourhood, at a late hour last night, and the' Union men' evinced every disposition to proceed to the lengths I have stated. Their conduct was most violent and outrageous—so much so, that an express arrived here, at an early hour this morning, for a military force; and se str ' gent was the request, that a troop of the 4th Dra• goon Guards set off immediately in their stab)e dtesses, but before their arrival at Dewsbury the mob had nearly dispersed. With the aid of the peace dficers, they succeeded in apprehending ten of the ringleaders, and brought them to this town, where they underwent an examination, and were this after noon sent off to York Castle, to take their trial on a capital charge." also been obtained. They are all lodged in Bow creet oSce. At Tidd's house were found two thousand roan is of ball cartridges. The soldiers of the Guards, who were on the pre- ; raise;, had their depositions drawn up yesterday morning. It is not true that any shots were fired by the soldiers. Thi,tiewood is in 0-Nllllth-fields Prison. He is watched ni g ht and day. He slept well on Thursday night, and ate a hearty breakfast yesterday morning. Ile does not enter at all into conversation with the Officers. His appearance is very much changed within these few months. _1 circumstance, rrleer curious at the present mo ment, occurred yesterday. A person followed a Gen ti 'man on hor-eback, and asked him if he was not The CH ANCELLOR of the Excn WU ER ? He replied in the iegative; but as the Gentleman was riding into Downing-street, the man said, " Then you ate the Cita C E LO ICS friend ?" The Gentleman rode on, but the man continued loitering about for some time Letween Downing-street and the Home Department. A short time previously to the rendezvous being attacked by the Officers on Wednesday evening, Da vidson, the man of colour, went -to the next door, Mrs. WESTON'S, to beg a light. He had his hands filled with candles, and the lighted candle he carried in his hat, and returned to the stable. It was then observed that several lights appeared in the loft. Some of the squares of the two front windows be longing to the loft were broken ; but to avoid obser vation, sacks were hung before the windows. No more was heard of them till eight o'clock,'which was just as the OiEcers had entered; and the first alarm was given by a noise which seemed like the crash of falling premises. Then the firing of guns and pistols spread general alarm. After the loft and stable had been cleared, the gal -1 sat Captain FITZCLARENCE, although then proceed ing with his right leg severely bruised, led on a sortie to the back of the premises, proceeding through the passage of Mr. Weston's house. One of the soldiers, to light the way, took a lamp belonging to Mrs. Wes ton, which •.as been erroneously exhibited as belong ing to the Conspirators. This unexpected appearance of the soldiers at the back of the premises enabled the Police and Military to secure many prisoners; and too much praise cannot be bestowed on Mr. and Mrs. Weston for their active co-operation, as they gave the alarm of the way by which the Conspirators were retreating, called in the soldiers, threw wide open all the doors to make way for the attacking party, and rendered all possible aid andfacility. When TI istlewood escaped from the place of meet ing in John-street, he did not proceed directly home to his lodgings, but hastened toward Lord HAR• ROWDY'S house, to inform hi; scouts, who were sta tioned in that neighbourhood, that the plot had been discovered. FROM THE GLASGOW JOURNAL. " OLAUONY, FEBRUARY O. " Last night a large party of the Radical Reform ers, which met in a tavern in the Gallowgate, were apprehended, by a warrant of the Sheriff of the County, and committed to the Jail of this City;— twenty-six in all were seized, consisting of Delegates from various places in the city and suburbs, as also from different towns and villages in the neighbouring counties. Their examinations are now going on at the Court-room, before . the Sheriff. The appearance of the Military, and the seizure of such a number of individuals, collected a considerable crowd. The shopkeepers closed their shops, and for about an hour there was much bustle and confusion in the street.— The Military Guth!, in returning to the Barracks, were followed by a crowd of disorderly persons, and assailed with stones. We are glad to understand, however, that four of the most active in the mob were laid hold of, and are at present iu custody vend that a precognition is going on, with a view to their trial for this daring offence. The sentinels at the Jail were doubled, and in a short time the town attained its usual tranquillity." It gives us much concern to add to the details of disxffection and disturbance in our own part of the Empire, accounts from Ireland of a not less seriously alarming description. The following is from the Dublin Journal of Wednesday last : RIBBONMEN. . r-r 4 . 4l4 amt****o-1,41041pv • .4.4ast. •••,•'• Letters from the West this morning, state that the banditti still continue their depredations through. out the County of Galway. The system of these marauders has already become formidable, and it is daily acquiring new strength. A few weeks ago the noctutnal parties did not exceed 20 or 30 men, or probably not mdre than from fifty to one hundred. But now the banditti assemble in such numbers, that they resemble the Guerillas of Spain during the late war. About a thousand Ribbonmen visited Castle Lambert last week. and demanded arms. Meetings and swearing-in still go on rapidly, and it appears that the force in Galway is not sufficient to check the evil. A Meeting of thirty-two Magistrates took place at Athenry on the 17th, and strong Resolutions were adopted. His 'Grace the Archbishop of TUAM, Sir JOHN BURKE, Mr. DALY, M.P. General Mourn!. LIN, and other respectable Gentry attended. They have sent a representation to Government, request ing the assistance of an additional number of troops. —Au order has been issued to prevent the soldiers from being employed on Revenue Duty, that the Whole military force in the County may be placed under the Civil Authorities, for the suppression of this incipient rebellion. But if the Ribbon System be not speedily and effectually crushed in the west of Ireland, we fear that the tranquillity of the country cannot be preserved. It will not only debauch the minds of the peasantry, but will instruct them as to the best mode of combining their physical strength for producing any simultaneous effort that their re bellious leaders may suggest. The Paris Papers of Tuesday and Wednesday ar rived this morning. The Moniker contains the official appointments of Count SIMKoN to be Minister of the Interior, in the room of M. DE CAze ; of Baron MoUNIER, to be Di rector-General of the Departmental Administration and of Police, alsp in the room of M. D'IVAZE; and of Count RourAits to be Under Secretary of State to ;he Ministry of Justice, in theroor. swe be- , Here) of Count SIMaoN, promoted. It appears, from these appointments, the two former of which were combined with the Presidency of the Council in the person. of M. liecaza, that the Presidency in the hands of the Duke de Iticnituzu, will be little more than a nominal function. The rennin' of the lamented Duke de BERRI were nwrc g n Tuesday transferred to the Chapel of in the Cathedral of St. Denis, where they are to lie in solemn state for some day!. The Papers are filled with the details of the Procession. Since, the day of the assassination, fifty-one indivi duals have been arrester, in consequence of revela tions made or information received. • A Postscript to the Gaulle de Prance- of Wednes day states, that the Duke of . WELLINGTON had arrived at Paris Five per Cents.—Monday, 72fr. 70c. THREE MORE ARRESTS. BOW-STREET, ONE O'CLOCK. Officers have just arrived with three more Person!, accused of being concerned in the Conipiracy ; and they are now undergoing examination before Mr. BIRNIE. They were found in obscure hidgings. and in the greatest misery ; but, notwithstanding, were all armed, when tbcy were arrested. A seizure of arms and ammunition was, in the course of yesterday evening, made in the house of a blacksmith, named George, in Chapel-tt eer, Edge ware-i °ad. The articles were all taken to Haw-street. DR. WATsog.—Yesterday afterngon, Mr. 13nnreN, the Marshal, and other City Officers, we tto h te cross-street Prison, and having communicated to Dr. WATSON the purport of their visit, procee !et . ' to seal ch for papers in his possession. In the interim, other Officers went to his late lodgings in Three King's court, Fleet-street ; but, after -a minute search. at both places, nothing , was fonn i tending to criminate the Doctor in the late infamous conspiracy. LAW INTLI.LIGENCE. COURT OF JUSTICIARY, EDINBURGH, FEB. ti. The Court . proceeded th:s day to the trial (,f Gilbert lifLeod, the Editor and Publisher of the Paper called the " Spirit of Me Mon." After the evidence for the prosecution, and in etc culpation, had been gone through, the LORD ADVO• cATE for the Crown. and Mr. J. I'. GRANT for the prisoner, addressed the Jury at great length. The Jury were then charged by thd LORD JUSTICE CLERK; and, after wising for a short tin e, returned an unanimous verdict, finding the pri , onet Guilty of the crime libelled, but, on account of his good cha racter, recommended him to the leniency of the Court. The LORD JUSTICE CLERK SSW' ed the Jury that their recommendation would be attended to. At a quarter before or.e, on Tuesday morning, the Court adjourned till next day at twelve o'clock, when judgment was to be giver.; . NAVAL lATELLIGENCE. FAucotrn, Fn. 23.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrlved the Diana packet, with a Mail from Rio Janeiro, in 62 days; and Scrota, CA ali', from Tarragona in 44 days. Sdikd a:lLnc 30 sail of casters, among which are the following for London:—Dove , Fame, Jane, Industry, Young Benjamin, Amity, Dimond, Waterloo, Union, Friends, Union, Eliza, -6 .lizabzth, and Ana. PLYMOUTH, Frs. 24.—Arrived the Morning Star, Quittorr, from Dundalk; and Triton, Borns, from Gcnoa for Antwerp! the latter with damage to her mast. Postrastourn, FRB. 25.---Wind N. R.—Arrived the Ilebr. Swim:sox, from Gibraltar for Rotterdam, leaky, and must discharge part of her cargo; and Pusey Hall, HEAD, from Bar. badoes. Sailed the Lovely Ann, Dow, for London. Fat.' 21—Wind E. N.E.—Came down from the River and sailed with the whole of the outward-bohnd, with a fine breeze from the N.E. the Vittoria, TATE, for Triuidad ; lapeing, thorrit, for Smyrna ; Jane, loartusoe, ter Charente; Piney Hall, Hz*n, for Barbadoes; Mary, GaAs, for Jamaica; and Hadlow, CRAIGit, for Cork and New South Wales. The Posthumous has damaged her windlass and lost an anchor and part of a chain cable. Arrived and remains the COMMIE*, 161E7E4 from Cork for London. Haewice, Fan. 25.—Wind F. S. R—Arrived the Lord Dun can packet, with s Mail from Cuxhaven. Livaaroos., Fes. 24.—Arrieed the Friends, Wasson, front Charleston. Sailed the Luna, Jonas, for Maranham ; Dolphin, M‘Curit.aas, for New Providence; and Turners, Lzansa, fur Antigua. Yesterday the Duke of YORK visited the Ktbro. Mr. BROUGHAM'S Courier to the QUEEN arrived in town yesterday, having gone by Mount Ceitis to Bologna, Flot ence, and Leghorn, where he met her MAJESTY. As he only left Dover the 31st of Ja nuary, this is an instance of extraordinary dispatch. It is said that her MAJESTY was to set out on her re-; turn to this country, as soon as she had reposed for 'for a few days at her village near Pe‘aro, having bees' much fatigued with her late dangerous voyage front • Tonlon to Leghorn, in which very bad weather was encountered. Her MAJESTY was, we understand, ' greatly affected by the late King's death. RICHARDSON, GOODLUCK, and - Co. respectfully acquaint the Public, that the Ticket No. 71807, drawn yesterday, a Prise of Twenty Thousand Pounds, Money, was Sold by them in Shares, at their Offices, Bank-buildings, Cambia, and Charing Cross. Yesterday the State Lottery finished Drawing ; when No. 2.807 Nt gi drawn a Prize of Twarrs THOSSAND POUNDS Money, and was Sold in SHARES by BisH, at his old-established 01Eees, 4, Cornier 1, and 9, Charing-cross.—Several minor Capitals were also Sold by Bun the tame Lottery. In th'e Consistory Court, yesterday, sentence of divorce was pronounced in several cases, among which was that of the well-known actor, Mr. Harry John:- ston.—Mrs. Johnson, of Westham, was ordered to do penance for calling her step-daughter a w—. —Mr. Alnutt, of Clapham, was ordered to serve the office of Churchwarden of Allhallows, Barking.— Dr. SWARM moved the fission of an allegation on the part of Lady Hawke, otherwise Corn, bring ing into Court one of her Ladyship's stocking), with Lord Hawke's name marked upon it ; pleaded to be by his Lordship's directions, when he ordered the same of one of his tradesmen for her use.—The Covar gave leave to bring in the allegation, and at the same time observed, " This evidence was not very material." HUNTS apparatus for manufacturing his Raise; Breakfast Powder, has been 'seized at his ipanufac... tory, near Christ Church, on the Surrey side of Blackfriars-bridge, by the Officers of the Excise e .— The Powder is made by roasting rye in A. mar id at of coffee, and then grinding it in a mill. He inteids trying the question of law with the Board of DIED. On the gist hid. at the house of John. Mee; loq g Aitooe E n d, Hampstead, after a lingering illness, in the Silt, of her age, !Licht], third' daughter of Mr, C„kosgAg • , I)(risTrrunett• publi•hed - bnLysirs - . ittVift ,`, Ace, Tempkola 3 •3:i. • . • •I " • &