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his troop at Falkirk, was stopped on the high road, within a few miles of Kilsyth, by a party of armed Radicals, who 'refused to let him pass. He ;puled back, and, on his return, met an Orderly of the Kil syth Troop of Yeomanry, who was on his march in the same direction, with dispatches. The two Yeomen went to Kilsyth, AnJ reported what had happened. Lieutenant HoncsoN, cf the 10th Hussars, and Lieutenant DAiIDSON, of the Stirlingshire Yeomanry, immediately marched with a small party of each of az:Le corps in pursuit of the Radicals, and overtook them near Bonny-bridge. The Radicals, on observing this, Cheered, and advanced to a wall, over which they commenced tiring on the military. Several shots were fired by the soldiers in feturn, and, after some time, the ca ra!ry passed through an opening in the ,all, and attacked the Radicals, who resisted until they were overpowered by the troops. Four were wounded, and one of th'im was left on the geld. Nineteen were taken prisoners, and lodged in Stirling Castle. Five muskets, two pistols; ei.ghteen pikes, and about 100 rounds of ball-cartridges Were caked. " In this encovnter,'Lientensint Horicsox received a pike wound through the right hand ; and a serjeant of the Hussass was severely wounded by a shot in the side, and by a pike. Three horses were also wounded. Lieutenant HODGSON has reported to Ma jor-General Sir THOMAS BRADFORD, that no troops could behave better than the whole party under his crimand ; and a General Order has been issued, highly complinientary to the Yeomanry engaged on . . .• point of. assemblage th e e xpected tntmberi were to totally deficient, that the.enierprile was abandoned. g , The people in this part of the country have been completely deluded and duped by the English emisa saries, who assured them of a simultineout move.' ment over the whole of Lancashire and west of York: shire; but in place of that, there has been merely a small assemblage at Huddersfield, which dispersed on finding there was to be no co-operation; and by the letters from Manchester this morning, all was quietness there.—Our people were also promised leaders, but none having appeared, the command was usually conferred on the greatest boaster, par ticul'Arly if he had ever been in the army. Thus, a, discharged soldier, of the name of Baird, at Condor rat, boasted of having a hundred men in that vil lage ready to, turn out at his command, on any ser vice, hoWever desperate ; and he proposed a com bined operation of 500 men for seizing upon the Carron woiks, with all their iniplements of warfare. A party accordingly marched from Glasgow for this purpose; but, when they came to Cundorrat, Captain Baird could only turn out six men, and two of those soon sickened of the and went home. A number of the Glasgow people must have also ie , turned ; for, when the whole arrived at the general ; rendezvous at Bonnymoor, they are not represented to have exceeded thirty. Here, according CU Baird, they were to be joined by the remainder of their' forces from Kilsyth, Saint Ninian's, Camelon, and Falkirk ; but none appeared ; and our wretched Glas gow Radicals are now lying, several of them wounded, in S:irling Castle, to await,the dreadful punishment of the law. " Sir Thomas Bradford, the Commander of the Forces of Scotland, and the Lord Advocate, have . . this occasion:" been here the most part of the week ; and their pre- FROM THE GLASGOW COURIER OF THURSDAY. sence has been most beneficial. (secosas rianos) sem( &noes mama. "The Weavers both here and in Paisley have very " About six o'clock this evening, a party of Hiss- generally . retistned to their looms, and the public sari and Riflemen arrived at Duntocbar, about nine works might be all going, but the Proprietors have, miles below Glasgow, where they surprised a few much to their honour, entered into Resolutions to 'Radicals, who, upon seeing the military, took guilt employ no workman, . whatever be his excellence, to themselves, and ran in all directions. Nine of who is not a peaceable man. This will do more to them surrendered without resistance, and were car- restore quiet in this part of the country than any reed to Dumbarton Castle. Three of those who at- measure which could possibly be adopted, as it was tempted to escape, took refuge in adjoining glens by the highly paid operatives that the whole system and woods; were wounded and taken. They had or terror was enforced. themselves wholly to blame for the wounds they 6 ' Early yesterday morning, we are told, a party received, as they were respectively called on to stir- of from forty to fifty men, supposed from Glasgow, render, and the Officers did everything in their power -armed with p ikes, muskets, &c. appeared en the banks to prevent the soldiers from firing. Of the nine of the canal earKrkintoch, and after waking some who were taken, three were manufacturers of pikes, time, apparently in expectation of being joined by tae others cotton spinners. The wounded were left others, they threw away their arms, and disappeared. at Duntochar, it being thought, froth the state of Some of the arms have been since picked up. their wounds, improper to remove theni. It is re- " Three of the principal Radical leaders, George ported, that had the party arrived an hous• sooner, Washington, David Graham, and William Graham; they would have found a number at chill, as it is werei p a nehended last night, and, with a trunk con- . notorious that there are about 300 Radicals in that wining papers, lodged in the Police Office." vicinity. None of the military were hurt." PAISLEY. APRIL 4. PROM TIE GLASGOW 11111tALD. FROM THE GLASGOW HERALD OF FRIDAY. 64 On Monday evening, shortly after eight o'clock, " Wednesday afternoon, the Radicals in Bridgeton scarcely a person was to be seen on the streets except atcl Calton attempted to eiFett a general rising ; the Police and the Military. The Veteran Battalion their drum beat to arms, preceded by a flag ; the from Ayr completed their march, a distance of 36 front min carrying pistols. A number of those who miles, in 17 hours ; one of them, however, turned had arms assembled at the place of rendezvous. Af- lame and was some hours behind the rest, and on' ter remaining for some time, it would appear they coming near Paisley he was jostled by three Radicals, found themselveS disappointed in the numbers they and robbed of his arms. In the course of the even expected, and agreed to meet at a later hoUr in the ing, suspicion fell on some persons in Elderslie and evening. Several shots were fired as signals for the Johnstone, and at midnight a party of the Police meeting at night. No meeting, however, took place. escorted by Military, succeeded in recovering the Those in arms have gone towards the South and musket, but the robbers have not as yet been ap. East. They went into several houses and demanded prehended. arms ; those who had them were obliged to give ~ On Monday night, a large party of Radicals, them up ; others were threatened and denounced for made an excursion, in the neighbourhood of Paisley,' not giving them, where the Radicals supposed they to the south-west, and visited a number of houses, were in their possession ; they also threatened others demanding arms. About nine o'clock in the evening, to turn-out, and, if they did not, would force them, t h ree arme d men entere d t h e h ouse o f M r . Robe r t and place them in their front when they were at- Rowan, at Millarston, and demanded a musket, but te•ked. A considerable body of them, armed, were he had nothing of the kind. The same demand was seen on the opposite banks of the Clyde, next morn- made at the house of Mr. George Muir, and at Mr. in;, and a number of musket-shots were fired slur- z.,,Craig's, of Lowndesdale, with no better success.— kg the night. They had previously succeeded in seizing four mug:- "On Wednesday morning, about day-light, be- kets or fowling-pieces, in four different houses at, tween thirty and forty Radicals, armed with guns, Ferguslie, and at West Toll, near Paisley. At eleven pistols, pikes, &c. apparently from Glasgow, marched o'clock, when the family of Mr. Ross Robertson, at through the village of Condorrat, about ten miles Foxbar, had gone to bed, they were alarmed with east from this city, in military order. It is probable the noise of about 40 men on the outside of the house. eley are the same party who had the action with the Mr. Robertson put up his bed-room window, which Cavalry at Bonnybridge, as noticed above. Between is on the second floor, looked out, and asked them I . :a:Way night and Wednesday morning, the sieiths' what they wanted? They replied, they wanted arms. • aops in the said village were taken possession of by Mr. Robertson told them that he was determined not lire Radical', who,' after stuffing the windows with to part with the arms he had, which were necessary 1.31 . , &c. so as to prevent the sound of their hammers for the protection of his house and the public works I.:ing heard, fell to work making pikes and such under his charge. He also represented to them the •..fernal instruments. They took two guns from illegality of their proceedings, upon which they ::e terms in the village. threatened to take them by force.. Mr. Robertson "On Tuesday night, about nine o'clock, a young then proposed to give them one pistol, after he should eientleman, belonging to the Sharpshooters, was at- discharge it in the air, in order to avoid bloodshed. t joked b.y a fellow, a discharged soldier, who at- lie accordingly fired the pistol in the air, upon which" tempted to take his rifle from Lim; in a rencontre five muskets were instantly discharged at Mr. Robert ' :at followed, the villain was severely wounded in son.—Mr. Robertson's son, Matthew, who had come '..e head, secured, and committed to prison. to his father's room during the time he was speaking " Wednesday afternoon, while one of the Ayrshire with them, believing his father was wounded, fired a t*:.valry was standing in an entry in Gailowgate, one pistol at the assailants, which was answered by- seve ci those abominable instruments called a deg ,horse rill shots from them. Mr. Alexander Robertson, !iy], was thrown at him, which cut him in the cheek. another son of Mr. Robertson, who sleeps at a dis %le villain who threw it made his escape. This tance from the house, and who had been informed iastrument is somewhat of the nature of a shuttle- of what was going on by the watchman of the bleach cork, has a steel point three inches long, is loaded field, proceeded towards the crowd, and when about with lead at the head, and dressed with feathers, so forty yards from them, he saw them fire their second as to guide it when thrown. It gets its name from volley into the house, upon which he fired a pistol I•!iag intended principally against Cavalry. at the party, who immediately ran off. The watch .. A number of pikes were found along the banl:c of man and others then went round the premises to the Great Canal, by the inhabitants of ilort-Dundas ; ascertain whether any of them were lurking there, information thereof being. sent to the Sheriff, a when they found a dead body lying on the ground. party was sent out, and brought them to town. The body of the man turned out to be that of Adam "We believe we may congratulate the Public on Cochran, weaver in Paisley. It appeared, on the the prospect of a speedy termination to our revolu- examination cf the body, that a wound in the heart, t.onary outrages. The judicious measures taken by • occasioned by a bullet, was the cause of his death. the Civil Authorities, the powerful rlilitary - force This unhappy young man was one of the most de brought to bear with such promptitude on this point, termined of the Radicals, and was the more dange and the discouraging accounts from England, have ; rous as he had been a soldier; he was fearlessesi 2:1 contributed to break a conspiracy which appears' danger, and in the prime of life. to have been more extensive than almost any onel " The houses of Mr. Alexander Robertson, senior, imagined ; but the want of leaders deprived them of near Mackie's Mill ; Mr. Thomas Robertson, Foxbar; all confidence, aad the power of the Military pointed and Mr. Archibald Fulton, Lcechland, were previ out to them the hopelessness of their cause, and the ously attacked by the party of villains, isho were re destruction that awaited them. ! pulsed by Mr. Ross Robertson and his family. Mr. "On Wednesday night there was a general muster Alexander, Mr. Thomas Robertson, and Mc. rulton, of the Radicals in various places round Glasgow, were compelled to deliver up arms. with a view of marching into tits town, but at every 1 , 6 The number of persons idle on Tuesday exceeded q. t t t I that of Monclay . : the: system of intimidation having had a more fn).l effect, masons and gnarl- . iers , who wrought on Monday, durst not on .Tuesday. “ Most of, the copies which had been posted on Monday, of the Proclamation of the Lord Lieutenant, Sheriff, and Magistiiiis, had been defaced, and a person was sent to replace them, which he found im practicable without a military ward . was then escorted by a Police Office r , an Coipcial with four men. In the execution of this duty, the soldiers were pelted with stones, and were under the neces sity of firing four shots among the mob before they dispersed: Several pasons are said to have been hurt, and one woman shot through the neck. She is still in life. " This day the.most putlic.ttreets were kept . eleir of idle crowds by Cavalry constantly scouring them, and the shopkeepers found it safe to keep off their window-shutters, which was not the case on Monday._ At mid-day, two lads entered a cotter's house a little to the east of Foxbar, and took by force one or two muskets. During the whole of the day there was a vast assemblage of perions at Foxbar. They had the audacity,to examine the houses at the bleach field, and threaten to set fire to them, notwithstand ing there was a party of military at Mr. Robertson's house. The consequence has been, that many of the bleachers have sent off their chests, and, through fear, intend to leave the work " Aftut. s.—The weavers are still idle, though seme of the other workmen, particularly the masons, have returned to work. The streets are less crowded than on the two former days. It is believed many are gone to the country. The cotton-works at John stone and Paisley are still shut up. A crowd, to the number offroin three to four hundred, are assembled on some . high ground above Foxbar. Whatever may be the whole of their intentions, one object, no doubt, is to produce fear iiithe minds of Mr. Robertson's fa mily, than which it is not easy to conceive a baser principle. Among the threats used to the master cotton-spinners at Johnstone, 'some of the Radi cals gave then intimation, unless the mills were shut up, The Provisional Government would not make up the loss or damage they might sustain by the ra vages of a mob." FROM THE EDINBURGH CHRONICLE. " The Edinburgh City Troop of Light Horse Yeo manry, commanded by Lord ELCIIO, marched on Tuesday, at five o'clock, for Bathgate, on their route for Glasgow ; and we understand that the County Yeomanry have also got orders to hold themselves in readiness. A detachment of the Royal Edinburgh Volunteers have been ordered to hold themselves in readiness to do the duty of the garrison at the Cas►le." RISING AT HUDDERSFIELD. FURTHER PARTICULARS. FROM THE LEEDS MERCURY OF SATURDAY. " A very unusual sensation was observed in many of the villages in the neighbourhood of Huddersfield, towards the evening of Friday, the slst ult. The women were seen passing about to each other's houses, many of them in tears, and several of the men ap peared unsettled, and as if meditating some daring enterprise. The Magistrates, without knowing the precise time when, or the place where, the blow was to be struck, were informed of these indications by their agents, and the military, throughout the manu facturing districts of Yorkshire and Lancashire, were' that night under arms. About ten o'clock at night, the general muster commenced, and the initiated, in a great number of ,the populous villages, by which the town of Huddersfield is surrounded, began to assemble, many armed with pikes, some with arc arms, and others with scythes and pitch-forks, pur loined from the neighbouring farm-yards. In some districts the bugle was heard to sound through the yanks, as the signal for muster, but the more gene ral practice was to go to the houses of those who were known, or supposed to be favourable to the de sign, and to press into the service the head of the fa mily. In some instances force, and in many others threats were used, to swell the ranks of the disaf fected ; and not a few of the persons called upon es caped out of the windows, in the rear of their houses, and relieved themselves from further impor tunity by concealment in the adjoining woods. " The plan ,of operations was, to approach the town in four divisions. Having surrounded the town, all the parties were to advance at the same moment, and while one captured the horse barracks, „and secured the Cavalry, another was to take pos session of the barracks occupied by the Infantry, who were also to be secured; the Civil Authorities were at the same moment to be made prisoners, and the principal inhabitants of the town confined to their dwellings by the new Provisional Government. This .desperate project, wicked and visionary as it may ap pear, was undoubtedly formed, and the capture of Huddersfield, with the stoppage of the coaches usually passing through that place, were to form the signals for the general rising !. . '4 6 About eleven o'clock at.night, all the divisions were in motion; the northern division, some.of the [ sections of which had roused the peaceable inhabi tants from their beds, and collected arms from them in their route, assembled in Fixby Park; to the number of 200 or 300; the southern division had approached, but never reached Almondbury-bank. l The advanced-guard of the western division had, be-' fore twelve o'clock, taken their station at Greenhead, on the height which commands Huddersfield, and within halt' a mile of the town : while the main body of that.division was stationed on Lindley Moor. " Soon after two o'clock, the beacon on the Castle hill, which consisted of a quantity of shavings smeared with combustible matter, and hoisted on a pole, was fired. For some time the approach of the insurgents, to -take possession of the town, was every moment expected ; two or three sky-rockets had been observed to rise before this hour, and frequent reports of fire arms were heard extending along the banks of the river to a considerable distance ; but from some cause, which is not yet fully ascertained, the insurgents be gan to disappear in every direction, and the medi tated attack upon the town was abandoned. As the morning approached, several parties of horse and !foot soldiers were sent out to reconnoitre the country, and to pick up stragglers, but not .a single prisoner was made during the night, and it is a little remark-- able that, with the exception of the outrage in kirk lees-lane, and the stealing of arms and other offensive weapons, no excess or depredation whatever was committed in the wide circuit over which ihis rising extended. " A great many lemons, out of the disturbed vil lages, have absconded, in consequenCe or the part they have taken in these proceedings, and the extern of the mischief to the distressed f am ili es o f t h ese in fatuated men,is incalculable. The per.ons already apprehended, will be committed to York Castle ; but the Magistrates wait a reply from Government be fore they decide whether to make out the committals fir High Treason, or simply for a misdemeanour. " The arms hitherto captured by the military: amount only to three pike-heads, a few side-arms; and fire-arms, and several pike-handles, syith two at three scythe-blades, fastened into shalt!. " Since Friday night, there have been-no symp- • toms of disturbance in the town or neighbourhood of Huddersfield, with the exception of some exptession of popular disfavour towards the Yeomanry, who were assailed, on Thursday last, with loud hisses in the street, in consequence of which the tow n, fbr some time, wore an alarming appearance, but this ap pears to have been a mere. and-the public peace was almost instantly restored. " On Wednesday night last, at seven o'clock, the Magistrates of Huddersfield, Joseph Llaigh, Benjamtn Haigh Allen, and John Horsfall, convened a Meeting of the Inhabitants; at the George Inn, inti mating that they had a communication to make to them of considerable importance. At this Meting about 100 of the principal inhabitants and trades people of the town assembled, and Mr. Haigh having taken the Chair, lie p:oceeded to state—That the town and neighbourhood of Huddersfield were in a state so alarming as to call for the greatest vi` o Rance , on the part of the respectable inhabita nts . It ap peared, he said, not from vague rumour, but front depositions taken before the Magistrates, that a si multaneous rising was to take place throughout all the manufacturing districts of the kingdom, extend ing even to Scotland, and that the signal for that rising was to have been the capture of Hudders field, and the stoppage of the coaches. The Magis trates, he said, had certain information that there were on Friday night last from 1,600 to 2,000 persons in arms in the neighbourhood of Huddersfield, whose -it was, to change, by force, the existing order of society, and to rob and plunder the respectable part of the community. A Delegate, whom they well knew, had come over from Nottingham to that place, cn the 30th ultimo, and had convened a Meeting of Delegates, at which twenty were present. On the Meeting being dissolved, these men were dis patched into various parts of the country, and each of them had a ticket given to him, on which was lwritten a significant word (which the Chairman mentioned, but which it may perhaps net be ad visable to state in a Public Newspaper); and these cards, when cut in two, were to form a sign and counter-sign, by which the leaders were to be known. from causes which could not at present be explained, the wicked designs of the lawless bad been hitherto frustrated, but there was no reason to - suppose that their intentions had been altered.— In this alarming state of things it became the duty of the inhabitants to unite for the presei vation of their laws, their persons, and their property, and this meet ing was called to obtain the sanction of the inhabitants to an application to be made by the Magistrates to the Lord Lieutenant, fur powers to bring in operation, if necessary, the Watch and Ward Act in this district. This was the substance of the communication, and it is scarcely necessary to add, that th! Meeting in stantly gave them their sanction to the application to the Lord Lieutenant. In the course of the commu nication the Chairman admitted, that he did not be lieve the Reformers, as a body, had anything to do with the conspiracy, which had spread such very general and well-founded alarm thr ough the neigh bourhood. The conspirators were the mere dregs of society." The Paris Papers of Thursday and Friday,havie ar rived since our last. The pressure of our domestic intelligence compels us to be brief in our lattice of their contents. The general discussion on the Project of Law respecting the Financial Accounts prior to 1819, was concluded on Thursday : it still remains to discuss it article by article. The accounts from Spain by the ordinary courier of' Thursday, << ere mostly anticipated by . the extraordinary arrivals of the preceding day, noticed in our last. The Consti tution was proclaimed at Bilboa, the Capital of Bis cay, on the 29th March. Tranquillity has been re established at Cadiz, and the balls and illuminations have been almost continual since the .moment the Constitution was proclaimed.—French Five per Cents. Thursday, 7S fr. 80 c. Saturday morning his MAJESTY held a Court at his Palace in Pall-mall. The following Presentations were made to his MAJESTY: Baron Jos the Saxon Minister, on presenting nesv credentials. Count LuneLP, the Neapolitan Minister, on his appointment. 'Major-General Sir Bitumen D'Utass, on being appointed Governor of Antigua. Sir W.wrait SCWIT, on being created a Baronet. The Right Hon. Dam Bevis, the Lord Chief Justice Clerk of Session in Scotland. His MAJastv held a Privy Council, after which 'he gave audience to The Duke of• York, the Lord Chancellor. the Earl of Har rewby, Viscount Sidmouth, the Duke of Wellington, and Sir Walter Scott. ......... _____ The Court closed at three o'clock, when the KING left the Palace, in his travelling carriage, for Brigh ton, escorted by'a party of Lancers. . EXECUTION. —This morning, at nine o'clock, the following malefactors were executed, pursuant to their sentence at the la.t. Surrey Assizes, on the top of the County Jail, Horsemonger lane, viz. Bony Payne, for burglary and sheep-stealing; James Worfidge and James Cane, for burglary. They were attended in their last moments by the Rev. Mr. Muni, and' seemed deerlq sensible of their awful situation. Cane seemed to labour undcr muck weakness, and was obliged to be supported. This urfor ' tunate man moved in a respectable sphere of life, and -.vas ad , milted to bail for the offence for which he suffered, Ira SLI. rendered himself, not doubting an acquittal. He bas left a w:fe and four children to lament his fate. ' CORN EiCHANta, MA ItIC-LAMIt. APRIL 11.—Chr mft:ket has been largely supplied with Wheat this morning :rem Ess.l and Kent; exclusive of a considerable quantity th .t remained over from last week's arrival, tbe den: .r..t for which was very limited, and what few sales were male; avt•re it full Is. per qr. ardor the prices of this day week. "..".7e , nil ley trade was very hear?, although the supply was but 5.n.:1l • a fiva picked srviies ob tained last Monday's pricer. but :.!te middling qualities wets nearly unsaleable, at a re.: action of 1:s. per qua' ter. Oats are z... cheaper, the arrivals far exceeding the demand ; which is .1 J the case with Beans and Peal, SYNTH /110.9 hisuzer, Aram 10.—liteef, 4s. ties. t• 3 i's. Sd. rue sums sa Nib.. ; Mutton, 45 641. to See. td. V ea!, fir. pd. to fo. f i t !. Path O. to 6r . ed.; Lamb 7s. to e . 6d. --atie at Mr rkrt— Beaai r 1620 . .; Calves, lil; Sheep and lembs, I t1,r , 01l ; rts, c.9rl. I • Atd, 1 - '4