Star. — London, England, 1820-04-14 00:00:00

• EV: yNIN(G STAR. LONDON. FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1820. THE FUNDS. PRICK Of STOCKS THIS DAY AT ON! O'CLOCK Bank Stock 219 3 per Cent. Reduced 68 3 / 8 1 / 4 1 / 6 3 / 8 3 per Cent. Consols 691/8 sA. 3i ter Cent. 77 1 / 4 14-.4 per Cent. 86% s/ 8 5 per Cent. Navy 105 1 4 105 Bank Long Annuities 175 15 16 Imperial 3 per Cent. Anns. 68 1 A India Stock 215 1 ,E—India Bonds 245. pr. Exchequer Bills (2d.) ss. 6s. pre. Consols for Acct. 695,4 lh % • It is reported that a sort of Congress will be held at Versailles on the 25th current, of a few confiden tial friends of two Illustrious Characters, at which her MAJESTY will be present in person. Our accounts from the disturbed districts, received this morning, are, we are sorry to state, far from being such as the friends of peace and order could wish. The Radicals, as the disaffected are called, exhibit such symptoms of restlessness and disquiet, as cannot but alarm the more sober classes, and all who are anxious for the public welfare ; and to this must be added the effects produced by rumours of sizings, fixed for certain named days and places, which, whether really intended or not, have the effect to keep the public mind in an unceasing state of alarm, and oblige the military to be constantly under arms, and often subject them to harassing marches. In a moment of such general disquietude, it is difficult to obtain cool and dispassionate accounts of the events that are passing, and calm estimates of the credibility of the different rumours, originating some- 1 times in mischievous designs, and sometimes in the fears and apprehensions of those who are under the influence of fears and apprehensions all that we can do is, to lay the different accounts that reach us before our Readers, exercising, however, our best judgment in comparing their various features, and divesting ourselves, as much as we can, of every prejudice or feeling which can give them any false colouring. In Lancashire and Yorkshire the reports continue of a projected and widely ramified insurrection, extending not only to Nottinghamshire and various other manufacturing Counties, but to the manufac turing districts in Scotland. That is, the whole of these are reported to be acting in concert, and their correspondence is understood not to be committed to writing, but carried on by means of Travelling Delegates, of whom, it is said, a considerable num ber have been lately dispatched to every quarter, in order to prepare a general of the disaffected. Such is the rumour in Lancashire and Yorkshire at the present moment, and of course the peaceable and quiet are under considerable apprehensions. A Meeting of the disaffected was, according to the letters that have reached us this morning, to have been held, in the neighbout hood of Manchester, at midnight, on Tuesday last, whence delegates were, it is reported, to have been dispatched to Hudders field, another rising at which place was, it is under stood, fixed for Wednesday morning. According to Of rumours there, wn o'clock was the hour fixed for an attack to have commenced cn that tows, and which was to have served as a signal for the general rising. Happily, however, no prcofs of the truth of this intention were evinced by any actual Movement; and therefore, perhaps, the whole report may have been illusory : but the passing away of the appre hended attack is there accounted for on another ground—namely, that the projected Meeting neat Manchester, for some reason not explained, did not take place. But may not the report of such a Meet ing having been intended be altogether groundless? • However this may be, the people at Huddersfield, and in that neighbourhood, were in a state of the greatest alarm during the whole of that day: the shops were kept closed, and an business was at a complete stand. This alarm was greatly increased by accounts that an armed Meeting of the Radica:s had actually token place on Grange Moor (hetweeaWakefield and Hud dersfield), and the accounts 'moved but too well founded. In consequence, the Cavalry stationed at Iluddersfield were sent in search of them, and re• turned about noon, bringing with them fourteen pri• sOners, and a cart laden with pikes, spears, and simi lar weapons, with some pistols, and a quantity of ammunition. Had the Cavalry reached the ground an hour sooner, it is said, the number of prisonersl --would have been much greater; but the mob had by some means got notice of their march, and not feel ing themselves strong . enough for resistance, took to flight, throwing away their arms to facilitate their cscape.—The prisoners having been lodged in safe custody, both the Cavalry and Infantry were kept under arms, some in the town and others in the roads leading to the adjacent villages and townships, in every direction. „These prisoners have, it is said, already made some important disclosures. • At Wakefield, where General BYNO has fixed his head-quarters,.the people were also in such a Sate of alarm on the same day, that many of the shops were shut up, and business generally suspended. I At Leeds, excepting the alarm aocitefl by the ac• counts tf insurrcakaary indications is the swish- r." . bo►urhood, everything was tranquil; but a rumour, we hope an unfoundgd one, wash in circulation, that a general turn-out, as it is called, was to take place neat - day, which of course was to -suspend all the operations of the Mills and Manufactories in and round that place. We are happy in being able to state that, accord., ing to all the accounts that have reached us, the Civil and Military Authorities throughout Yorkshire and Lancashire, being well informed respecting the designs of the disaffected, have made most effectual 'preparations'to frustrate them. Not only are the regular troops, both cavalry and infantry, kept in readiness day and night ; but the Yeomanry have received orders to keep themselves in readiness to move at a moment's notice. The Regulars, in the manufacturing places in Yorkshire, have slept oir their arms ever since the 30th of last month. We are fearful that there has been some alarm, within these three days, at Sheffield. No Sheffield Paper reaches London on Friday (this day). The Paper of Tuesday, which arrived yesterday, mentions nothing of the kind ; nor have we been able to get a sight of any letter of Wednesday's date. Our appre hensions, therefore, rest not on any direit accounts, but on a letter which has reached us frOm Pontefract, stating, that an express arrived there on Wednesday forenoen, from Sheffield, requiring the instant return of the Police Officers of that town, who were attend ing the Sessions for the West Riding, and requiring also a reinforcement of Military—adding, " a serious disturb:ince having broken out at Sheffield." The same letter states, that .an express had also arrived from Huddersfield for military 'aid, and that the detachment of Artillery lying at Pontefract, were immediately ordered to march for the former place. This,thowever, we connect with the alarin to which we have alluded in the preceding para graphs, and which, as we have already stated, passed over without any serious result: Extract of a letter from Leeds, dated April 11 : " I have just learnt that a Meeting of the leading Radicals took place at-their Union Room, in this town, last night, and that they burnt all their books and pacers, to prevent their falling into the hands of. the Magistrates, being apprehensive of a visit from the Police. Some degree of alarm and uneasiness was felt this day by the more weak and credulous part of the population of this place, a report having got into circulation that the Radicals and Members of the different Union Societies intended to strike work, and parade the streets. No such occurrence has, however, taken place; and up to this hour (11 P. M.) all remains perfectly tranquil. There was, however, a vast .assemblage of the lower orders in Briggate, this afternoon, to witness the arrival of the coach from Huddersfield, ou she top of which were chained three of the deluded men charged with ma nufacturing pikes, and being concerned in the late disturbance there. The coach was guarded by a de tachment of the 4th Dragoons. On their arrival here, they were shifted to the York coach, and set off for the Castle, chained as before, under the escort of a seijeant, corporal, and eight privates, from the 4th Dragoons, stationed in this town. They are, lam informed, committed for High Treason. They appeared most wretched-looking, half-famished ob jects ; but were loudly cheered by the populace, who kept calling to them to keep up their spirits. The soldicts, on the other hand, were assailed with hisses and the most opprobrious execrations and epithets. It was much_ feared, at one time, that the crowd would have proceeded to open acts of violence against the troops; but, happily, that did not take place." AFFAM AT GREENOCK. We observe with regret a wretched attempt to re present the unfortunate aff..ir at Greenock as a Ra dical explosion, and we cannot sufficiently express our contempt at the unfair efforts that are thus made. We refer, nut only to the London Morning Post, but to the Glasgow aronide of Tuesday, from which we have given an extract. To talk of an advanced guard being designedly misled in the streets of a' town with which all the parties are as familiar as with their own doors, is, to say the least of it, nonsense.— The facts of the case _are simply these. For time:' immemorial there has been a grudge between the two towns of Greenock and Port-Glasgow. The prosperity of the former was the original cause of this enmity, and the •erivy of the latter has, we are told, been often an object of ridicule with the Greenock populace. These feelings operating, per -1 haps, with some degree of sympathy for the pri soners, whose offence, though a great misdemeanour, is net calculated to excite much moral detestation among the lower classes, seem to have been the sole cau-e of the riot. The Pprt-Clasgow Volunteers, bearing in mock triumph five miserable Radicals in a cart—them selves dejected and jaded, with a toilsome march if nearly twenty ,rniles,, and being only in coloured clothes, and these in all probability not their Sun day suits, accompanied with the ludicrous magni• licence of a breathless - fifer and a tunelesi drum, was a ectacle with which even Sir John Falste i miAht have been ash:tined to have gone through Co- ventry, and certainly to the school-boys of Greenock, comidering their local feelings.it could not fail to be .rnineutly contemptible. That among the crowd stringers may have been ern, and Radicals too, we have no doubt. Some friends of the prisoners, doubtless, came with them from Paisley, but to regard this burst of provincial feelings as political, is at once foolish and wicked. PRIVATE LETTER. " GRZENOCK, SATURDAY NICIIT. gg We have had a very unfortunate business here to-day. In the morning it was current that the Port- Glasgow Volunteers were to arrive from Paisley, where they harKeen stationed, with five Railicali` as prisoners ; and as we have no Corps here, and as the Port-Glasgow Corps had been much pelted_ wiz!, mud on their entry itfto.Paisley, we were curio is to see them. Many persons expected them before din ner; but as they did not come, it was considered an incurred rumour their coming at all. Wowever, they did come about half-past five o'clock, and lcdged the five men safely in our jail. But as they entered the town with fife and drum, a great a owd was collected, and on their leaving the court before the prison the boys peltei thetti l with stones. By the time they got to the Rue-end, several of the Volunteers were much hurt, when the men began to fire with ball-cartridge, and continued retreating and firing to Mr.tiurnmell's gate, when the mob left them, but not before about twenty of them were killed and wounded. Bailiie wine harangued the mob in the square, and told them that' iliej.tnight• depend on justice being done. g Now was the time, blood for blOtrel,!• worse than the Manchester business,' &c. was their cry; and then, 6 Let us rescue the prisoners: To it they went, and after an hour's labour, they ac complished it, nobody being hurt ; as we had no force, resistance was vain. The next cry was, To Port Glasgow I' but they went no further than Cartsdyke. " It has entirely been caused by sending men with out uniform ; and of an unimposing appearance, amongst people who held the Port-Glasgow people in contempt—in tnarching in with drums beating— in not giving the Magistrates previous notice—and, possibly, a want of coolness in the men ; though, it is said, they were severely pelted. If, when they lodged the men, the Corps had been marched up by the road to the Bank, and home by the back walks, no mischief would have happened ; no more is ex pected, and an express has been sent off for troops. None of the other prisoners in our jail were liberated. The people were civil; but, from some mistaltea no dot% were determined to release. the prisoners, find ing the Port-Glasgow Corps had escaped them." FROM THE GLASGOW CHRONICLE OF TUESDAY. a The riot on Saturday night, in Greenock, in which nine men were killed and fifteen wounded, has occasioned much surprize. That such a calamity should have befallen so loyal a town-where there are no Radicals, and where field-meetings and treasonable placards are unknoWn, while not a drop of blood has been shed in any of the Radical haunts in Lanark shire, shews that the mob are more apt to act on the spur of the occasion than on any preconcerted plan of mischief. The following is a correct narrative of the melancholy affair : gg Saturday, a party of the Port-Glasgow Armed Association, amounting to betwixt eighty and ninety, on returning to their homes from Paisley, were di rected by their Captain-Commandant, Captain Don ley, to escort five Radicals from Paisley to Greenock jail. They accordingly left Paisley, under the &mt. mand of Captain Carsewell, with their prisoners ; one of whom was a Radical leader, named M.Tag gart, another an Ayrshire Delegate, a third was a person who bad been extremely active in going about and stopping the public works. ge The party halted for refreshment at Bishopton, where they procured a cart for the prisoners, who had previously walked along with their escort. They did not halt in Port-Glasgow, but went immediately forward to their destination. On arriving at the east end of Cartsdyke a mob began to assemble, and to hoot and hiss them, crying to the prisoners to keep up their hearts, for they should soon be rescued. The mob continued still increasing till they reached the jail. The advanced guard were misled, by some persons in the crowd, to take a different road from that Which had been pointed out to them by the Ser jeant-Major, which led them east a quarry, where the mob had even opportunity of arming themselves with stones. a prisoners were then safely lodged in jail ; but, in the burry and confusion, the gates were shut, leaving the Serjeant-Major and a small party on the outside. The assault then commenced with fury, both upon those inside and outside, from the top of the quarry, when a few shots were fired, but pointed in such a direction as to hurt nobody.l The gates were then opened, and the parties joined, and marched off. The mob continued to increase, throwing stones, bottles, &c. from windows and closes, by which many of the Volunteers were hurt and cut.. When towards ltue-ervd-street, .those in the rear turned round and spontaneously commenced it straggling fire on the crowd in self-defence. The mob. conti nued to follow the military to Cartsdyke-bridge, where they left them, and returntd to Greenock. The mob then assembled before one of the gates of the jail,, and were making preparations to force it open, when they were addressed by one-of the Magistrates from the top of the wall, and desired 'to desist. Thi , they would not, they said;till the five prisoners were released ; and the Magistrates, ha - ving no militar) force to assist them,. were obliged to; comply, whet, the mob dispersed. The five prisoners got .4f, ant, have of yet beery discovered. The Pon-Glasser Volunteers, and many of the respectable inhabitants, were under arms all night, and barticadocd the bridge at the west ead of the town to prevent an at tack from the Greenock mob, which had been threat ened. ,Indeed, a large party of them advanced icr that purpose, preceded by a bagpiper; but findi.-.g. the Port-Glasgow folks on the alert, they returne2.- The result of this disastrous affair is nine kille4 fifteen wounded, many of them dangerously. • " Of the Purt-Glasgow detachment only tl:-.ree or rcur escaped unhurt, and many of tl:etri re.:eived ..:ch'severe bruises as to confine them to bed. Of this number is the ; Set a Very stout man, who is unable to rise. The Adjutant was also severely hurt. The .Magistwes and other 'inhabit ants who Italie lived at Greenock most of tieeir declare that, among the immense number at the gate cf the jail, who attempted to force it, they could dot recognise any of their towns-folk. It is believed there that the whole plan was organised by a set of desperate Radicals from Paisley, Johnston, and other villages. At two o'clock on Sunday morning the Staff of the Renfrewshire Militia, and a detachment of twenty-five Ilussars,• reached town; and shortly 4 1terwards, a detachment of the Rifle' Brigade and the 13th Regiment, arrived by a steam-boat. The latter were accompanied by the Lord Lieutenant •and Sir Michael Shaw Stewart. The town has since been remarkably quiet. The. milk:try. first reached Cartsdyke about lour, and the whole affair was over before six o'clock. Two of the MCA killed, Clephane and Cumming, were very bad Charactets. Of the causes which kd to the melancholy results related above, not the least is perhaps an old grudge that has long existed betwixt the working classes of Greenock and Port-Glasgow." FROM TEE GLASGOW comm. EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM PORT-GLASGOW, DATED APRIL 10. " On the march to Greenock, the party received intimation to be on their guard against s surpriz , ?, :zs there were evident indications of intended insult, if not injury to the corps. This intelligence placed thu Officers in no very pleasant situation. Crowds o! . idle men and boys met them before they had gone a mile from this, and increased considerably on 6e . i.r route. On entering Cunt!). ke they were astonished to observe all the shops shut ; and here voices !legal to bawl from the crowd, to the prisoners--' Cheer up ! you will soon be relieved from your situation !' and after passing the first bridge, a large stone struck one of the sentinels. in the cart with them. From this time the crowd encreased rapidly till they reached the jail,.when one company went inside the jail-yard with the prisoners, and, the other remained cutside the gate. • " At this time a number of men, on a pile .of deals in a joiner's yard, to the westward of the jail, and I crowd on the height of the reservoir to the east, be gan to assail the company stationed inside the gate with vollies of stones, when several of the corps were severely injured, And as the lives of all were in dan ger, two or three shots were fired over the heads of the party to the west, who made off. The prisenets being now lodged in jail, the corps, according to the orders of their Commanding °Meer, Captain Dun lop, began to retire, in order to return home, and were accompanied to the square adjoining, by Mr. Denniston, the Chief Magistrate. " The by this time had become so excessive, that the Volunteers had not room to form as they wished, but immediately began their march out of town in close order; and here a scene of tumult commenced, which most unfortunately terminated in the loss of many lives." (The rest of this Narrative is nearly the same as the preced:ogi. KILSYTH, APRIL L The following has been issued to the 10th Royal Hussars, at Kilsyth : " SQUADRON ORDERS. " To communicating Lieutenant-Colonel TATlMellapprobation to thnse Non-Commissioned Officers and Privates of the Squa- droll who were engeged at the affair of Bonnymuir, Guswooo cannot bet point out to them, that however hisigra cant they may deem it as a military operation, this armed rat ble, of rogues and fools, the impreuionit has made en the minds and conduct of those who were not there, has been C; the greatest consequence to thepeace of this country. The cor dace of Private Cecile, of the G. Troop, which was highly creditable to him as a, Hussar, will prove to these deluded wretches, that the allegiance of the Army is not to be shaker, as they had the effrontery to declare in their hand-bills; and that, however humble his stades, a private soldier requires only the opportunity to prove his attachment to his King and Country." Private Cooke was the Hussar who was marchinz, dismounted, from Stirling to Kilsyth, 'wilco met by the Radicals, who asked for his ammunition ? Scciog nothing was to be done against so many, Cooke told them he had no ammunition, but if he had they should have it, as he was for their cause. The then gave him one of their hand-bills to read to his comrades, which he promised to do ; after which he hurried to Kilsyth, told his story to his offwber, ‘vi(ti whom he returned mounted, apt gave them a differ ent proof of his attachment to their cause. Yesterday, a Court of Direetcrs was held at tl.c East India house, when the new Directors, elected on Wednesday last, viz. JACOB BOSAFOUNT, JOSL COTTON, L: ARD PARRY, TIIOI/AS 111..3D, WILMA `i WILORAM, and WILLIAM 'l'. MONEY, Estill. [(Ilk the oaths and their seats. Jon* ABERCROMBIE ltOBIN• SON and Tnosms Esqrs. were chrsm Chat-- man and Vevuty Chairman for the year ensuing. Yesterday, the Earl and Ceniness of DEBBY Lady MARY ST ANLEY lilt their house in Crusven c• . square, on a ir6it ..o Prince t - ,,LA-y.r, at Claremont' .. O go I'he panic forward. prchended _ . with partit This me tain in the lodged in forty Statc A demi Arrived at o'clock, at ducted the Four RI Hamilton Milkr and their conni out, on bai The san from Kilbi possession, seized at S Sunday nil Ycsterd Capt. 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