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I bad been butchered. Yet the letter of Lord Sid mouth, which he held in his hand, chewed the coun tenance which they gave to the affair. But it was ridiculous to separate the case of one from the other, sad say that one was blameable, but that the con dOct of the other could be justified.. This was a wrqng way of arguing. If the conduct of the Ma , gisurates was praiseworthy, then ought the Ministers 'wins directed them to come in for a share of praise, but if both were wrong, -they ought to stand their trial together, at the Bar of Paliament—(Hear, hear). Hii lion. Friend had been charged with want of can dour, in not bringing forward his Motion before; but bow could he have done so ? Last Session a strong interest was newly awakened on another subject of importance. When inquiry was proposed, it was urged that such an inquiry could not be conveniently purlued in that House, that the forms of the House were ill adapted for the examination of witdesses, and that it never attempted to proceed into an inquiry by evidence without involving itself in disgrace; and at what period was it that this opinion was urged ? It was at the very time when those who used it were willing to subject an injured woman to such an in quiry ; it was when they were sweeping the hotels of Garmany and Italy of pimps and bawds-to swear their foul and perjured calumnies against the cha racter of a lone and defenceless Female ;—it was when they had determined, through such an ordeal, to drag the Queen of this Country to that fate from which she had been rescued by the People of England !— r ( Long sad vehement cheering). The sincerity of their protestations against the keep. ing no of the fermentation of the public mind on this question,' he contended, was wholly dispro ved by prosecution perseverance in the prosecuon and punishment of Sir Francis Burdett, although one of the Judges bad delivered a sound and well-reasoned opinion that the conviction had been obtained where there was no jurisdiction. In refusing the inquiry now moved for, the House would be playing the game of those who wished to degrade it. If it was desirous of keeping the hold it still had of the good opinion of the people of this country, it would not refuse to inquire into a case of public grievance, so well founded, and so sieaely e,tablidied as this, which had been brought forward in a new shape, and was therefore not pre cluded by any former decision.—(Hear, Hear, Hear.) The SOLICITOR-GENERAL was induced to rise, in consequence of the taunt thrown out by his Learned Friend upon the silence of all connected with Admi nistration. He had said that Ministers were aware of the steps which were to be taken for dispersing ; the Meeting at Manchester. This he denied. Though Ministers were bound to support the Magistracy of the country, yet they were not responsible for their acts. He charged the Learned Gentleman with in- i troducing irrelevant topics into his speech fot the purpose of working upon the passions of the House and of the country. It would be desirable that the melancholy transaction now under debate should be i for ever buried in oblivion—( Loud cries of " Hear, 1 hear," front the Opposition).—Ministers need not be ashamed of the part which they took in this affair— ' (Hear).—The Learned Gentleman had attacked him and his Learned Friend (the Attorney-General) for opposing Mr. Hunt's application for a trial in the County of York. The cause of their opposition was simply :his:—He and his Learned Friend were un willing to cast an imputation on so respectable and so large a county as Lancaster, which would be the case if the trial had been removed to another coun ty—(Hear). The Hon. Baronet alluded to him ; but if the allu sion was meant in courtesy, he (the Solicitor-General) was willing to take it so. He did not see the reason of the ailusiod. He had the honour of his acquaint ance, arid he had never used any disrespectful lan guage towards him, as a public man. The Hon. Baronet might have brought this subject before un der the consideration of the House. The inquiry which he now proposed would never have an end— (Hear, hear).--In the debates on this subject in the House, it was asserted, generally, that the Meeting was illegal. This was not controverted. The sub sequent trial had proved the Meeting to have been illegal. At the trial the defendant had advantages which few in his situation were wont to have. The Court of King's Bench not only acceded to his mo. lion for a •change of place for the trial, but they gave Mr. Hunt his choice of a county to be tried in. Mr. Hunt chose the county of York, and very pro perly, for there was no county in England more ' proper for administering justice with an even hand. ' The Jury, on that occasion, were not the followers of Government ; on the contrary, many of them were in opposition to -Government. Yet this Jury found the Meeting illegal —was it to be said then that the Magistrates were not justified in arresting Mr. Hunt at the Meeting ?.-{Hear, hear, hear), He admitted that there were cases where the exercise of a duty might be attended with improper conduct,) but who that looked at the character of this Meeting could say that the conduct of the Magistrates was im proper? To judge of this Meeting, the House should go back to the Meeting at Smithfield, which was clearly got up in connection with the Reformers in the North of England. The Resolutions passed at Smithfield - were nothing short of Treason—{Hear). — The Meeting of Spa-fields was also a part of the plan, but it was not then matured enough for an explosion. The connection between these Meetings and that at Manchester, justified the Magistrates there in the alarm which they felt. There was also another cir cumstance calculated to cause alarm ; namely, the training which was going on in the neighbourhood. It was true that there was no evidence to shew these people had arms ; but it was very clear they were pre paring for a rising. The Magistrates, on the day in question, only took up a station where they could watch the operations of the Meeting, and counteract the designs of the disaffected—(Hear, hear, hear). — They we.e not the aggressors. Nadia could not exe cute the warrant put into his hands, and the Magis tracy were justified in calling in the Military to aid the Civil Power. The Yeomanry were not selected, but tailed in by chance, for the regular troops could not come up in time. The Hon. and Learned Mem ber then insisted that the statements made by Mr. Hunt, with respect tothe proceedings at Manchester, were false and groundless. He next referred to the occurrences at Oldham, and maintained that a Court of Law was the proper Tribunal before which the question ought to be brought by the persons who felt themselves aggrieved. It was a question with which Parliament had no business whatever to biter- fere. If the parties found any difficulty in instituting a criminal prosecution, they might have proceeded by a civil actioa without any impediment. They had not, however, done so, and the fair presumption was, that they were not able to make out a case strong enough to go to a Jury.--(The lion. and Learned Member sat down amidst loud cheers from the Minis terial benches.) Mr. PHILLIPS said, the peculiar circumstance of his residing where the Meeting took place must be his apology for getting up at that hour of the night to address the House. There was no doubt but tee Magistrates thought that the Meeting of the 16th of August was legal, and he was convinced it was the determination of the people to be peaceable on that occasion, and there was no doubt they would have been so if they had net been so cruelly attacked by the Yeomanry. He had inquired of a great many' , persons, who went there as spoliation, and were not' connected with either party ; fit tt should not be hid from the House that patty opinion ran high at that time at Manchester, and from all the information, the Meeting was quite peaceable, until the advance of the Yeomanry, and to their advance there was no obstruction; but the scene that followed, as de scribed by those who saw it, was sufficient to raise horror in any mind—(Hear). He knew persons who had placed themselves near where the Magistrates of Manchester were stationed, and.they never knesv.l or understood that the Riot Act was read—(Hear). A Mr. Stanley, a Gentleman of the greatest honour and respectability, had told him that he was situated at a window in the house where the Magistrates were assembled, in a room above them, and that he cduld see a line or passage from the house to the hustings, and that he actually saw Ladies walk up and down it, and his opinion was, there was nothing to prevent the warrant against Mr. Hunt being executed by the Civil Power, and that be saw Mr. Hunt beaten and abused after he was in custody. It was his convic tion that the trainings before the Meeting, were ille gal, but that could not justify the people being dis persed "hen they were acting peaceably at the Meet ing. 11 would ask why the warrants were not kept back until the following day? but if the parties had committed a breach of the peace at the time, he was convinced they might have been put in force on the day of the Meeting by the Civil Power, without any disturbance, as the people were unarmed. He had no doubt but they afterwards armed, for they thought there was neither law nor justice for them, for afterwards, when the white hat reformers saw the Police they attacked them, and when the lat ter saw the former, they attacked in turn. He did not wish to cast any reflection on the Grand Jury; but the House ought to take into its consider ation how high party opinion ran at that time; and the Grand Jury being of opinion that the Meeting was illegal, might have thought they were bound to throw out the Bills. This circumstance alone, in his opinion, ought to induce the House to agree to an inquiry—(The Honourable Member sat down amidst loud cries of 0 , Question!" and “ Adjourn I") Sir ROBERT WILSON now rose, and moved that the fur ther debate on this question be adjou rned till to-morrow (this day).—The question was then put, put the Motion was carried without a division. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed df, and the House adjourned at Half-past Three o'Clock. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1821. THE FUNDS. The Market continues to look well: Consols have been done this morning for the Account at 74%, at which price they remain-75 is the price for next Account. The scarcity of Money Stock continues. CURRENT PRICES THIS DAY AT ONE o . Cl.oirk• Bank Stock 226-3 per Cent. Reduced 73% 5 / s 3 / 3 3 per Cent. Cons. 74% $4 .1 / 4 -3% per Cent. 83 1 A 3 % 4 per Cent. 91% U-5 per Cent. Navy 109% $ 1 /s Long Anns. 18 11-16 13-16—Imp. 3 per Cent. 72 1 /s India Stock 232 1 / 4 1 A —lndia Bonds 425.435. pre. Exchequer Bills par 3s. pre. par Cons. for Acct. 741A3 1/4. The question respecting the outrages at Manchester on the 16th of August, 1819, was last night intro duced to the notice of the House of Commons, by a multitude of Petitions from persons who had either been personally sufferers, or had had relatives wounded to death on that melancholy occasion, corn; plaining that every effort to obtain redress through the usual course of law had been baffled, and praying that the House would institute an inquiry into a transaction which is a reproach to the justice of the country. Sir FRANCIS Boantrr followed up these Petitions by his promised Motion for a Committee of Inquiry, which he supported by a speech replete with humane feeling and forcible argument—indignant, yet tem perate, in its tone of reprobation, and well calculated to arouse the sympathies even of those politically opposed to him. The number of killed and wounded in this disgraceful domestic affray, the worthy Ba ronet observed, surpassed by 200 the loss sustained by Admiral Jilting ) in that brilliant victory over the Spanish fleet, off Cape St. Vincent, which conferred the splendour of a title on his name; the sufferers in the one case exceeding 600, and the loss in the other being only between SOO and 400! The People of England never could, never would, forget the occa sion which had led to the cruel and inglorious shed ding of so much innocent blood. It was impossible that the matter could rest where it was, and be trusted that Ministers would concur in the propriety , I of an inquiry, which was as necessary to the vindica. , tion of their own characters, as to the satisfaction of public justice. Mr. Booms WILBRAHAM defended the conduct of I the Magistrates and Yeomanry at Manchester, and read a number of affidavits to shew that they were in a state of danger which justified all that had been dolls, Lord fdrvron and Mr. DZSMAII spoke asrongly support of the inquiry ; while Mr. Wallow and th SOLICITOR-GENERAL opposed it. The last dented that the proceedings at Manchester had taken place under any authority from Ministers, and threw the wOole responsibility of them on the local Magistrates. Mr. PHILLIPS, of Manchester, thought the pro posed inquiry essential to the liberties and securities of the people of England ; and for a complete refuta tion of the affidavits read by Mr.. WI (ARAMAIC refer red to a statement which had been communicated to him by the Hon. and Rev. Mr. STARLET, who was in the same house with the Magistrates on the 16th of August, and an eye-witness of all that happened. We had often before heard of this statement-as being in private circulation, and when these events were for merly the subject of discussion, took some notice of it. We are now happy to find it thus circumstan tially made public, and have particularly to request the attention of our Readers to it, as establishing be., load all controversy the view which, in common with the great body of the British People, we have, always entertained of this afilicting passage in our domestic history. The debate having been protracted till half-past three in the morning, was then adjourned. A Mail arrived to-day from Holland with Papers to the 12th May. They contain accounts of some interest from Batavia, which we subjoin. BATAVIA, DECEMBER 1. The Government has lately received dispatches from Lieutenant-Colonel Keer, Commander of the Island of Banca, stating that his expedition, destined to destroy the pirates, who, together with some of the inhabitants of Palembang, had established them selves in the eastern parts of that island, had been successful. Lieutenant-Colonel Keer received on this occasion manifold proofs of fidelity, both from the Chinese and the other inhabitants, and was assisted in his enterprise by Radjar Akil, both with boats and men. The principal object of the Commandant was .to make himself master of the fortress of the rebel Radin Kling, to whom the government of the whole island had been given by the Sultan of Palembang, and which was provided with cannon, blunderbusses, and other fire-arms. After a very troublesome march, Colonel Keer reached the fortress on the 9th of October, with about 160 men, of whom 50'were turopeans, and took it by storm. The garrison, con s isting of 300 men, for the most part was put to the sword. The notorious Radin Kling, and several Chiefs of the insurgents, were found among the dead. We took five iron can non, two blunderbusses, some muskets, and a large quantity of native weapons. Our loss consists in five killed and ten wounded; among the latter are Captain Van der Wyk, and Lieutenant de Fray. The zeal of the first is highly spoken of by the Lieutenant-Colonel. The Commander writes at the conclusion from Torbaoly, on the 24th of October, that he has forti fied himself there, and is having the place put in a good state of defence. On the report of the fate of Kadin Kling, the Batir Ganing was abandoned by most of his people, and has fled into the woods with the remainder. TheYalembangers and other strangers have left the island with their proas; Banca is tranquillized to within twenty leagues of Muntak, and it is hoped that the same tranquillity will shortly be extended to the rest of the island. Last night his MAJESTY honoured the Italian Opera with his presence, to see the favourite Piece of Is elm:emu di Tito. Crowds of persons, anxious to obtain seats, assembled at the doors before six o'clock, and, at the moment of their opening, the rush was tremendous, and severe conflicts ensued at tin doors. The Box prepared for his MAJESTY was that usually occupied by Lady Bassonouoit, into which another had been thrown. It was lined with crimson velvet, and ornamented in front by a most splendid canopy of crimson and gold, surmounted by the crown, and ornamented by national emblems, richly gilt.— The front of the Box was emblazoned with the Royal Arms, in gold, &c. At eight o'clock his MAJESTY entered the Box, accompanied by the Dukes of Yonic and CLARENCE. The audience stood up acrd greeted his MAJESTY with loud cheers ; when the Corps Dra onatigue came forward in their full dress, and sung " OoD save the King," in a superior manner, the audience joining chorus. His MAJESTY appeared to be particularly gratified with the music of the Opera, and was throughout in excellent spirits ; and on his departure received the same testimonials of loyalty and affection as on his entrance. The Duke of Wax.- LlNozox, and several Naval and Military Officers, were in attendance upon his MAJESTY. The following notice has been made.public Brimilenbewsh-Hours. May 15.—Her Jimmy has been pleased to dismiss front her service M. Cam* Foam, in conse quence of her having as further need of his services, as she is now settled in England. “ Bee Munn , has also given a power of attorney to Signor Jewett Matuurrn to sell her property in Italy." Yesterday a Court of Aldermen was held at Guild hall, at which the Loan MAvoa presented a letter from Sir W. Dom visa.r., resigning his office of Alder man of Queenhithe Ward.—(See Advertisement.)-- His Lordship nominated the following Gentlemen, to be returned to the Livery for their choice of two of them to serve the office of Sheriff for the year en suing, viz. ARCHDALI PALMS, Esq. Citizen and Mercer. SAM= PA11111214 Esq. Citizen and Girdkv. EDMUND WALLIS R.IIIDELL, Esq. Citizen and Goldsmith. Mu-as Svantaza, Esq. Citizen and Merchant Taylor. 116113A1111. CoLl, Esq. Citizen and Draper,. Timms Kstax, Bag. Citizen and Pislaterer. Ewan Dumas; Esq. Citizen and Weaver. Jossam PULLIT, Esq. Citizen and Wax-chandler. Jame Canoe, £ 9 . Citizen and Merchant Taylor. THE AR . IIY. The Regiment of Loyal London Militia, u n a n the command of Sir CLAUDIUS HUNTER, had diit morning a grand field-day in the Artillery Ground, in the presence of several Officers of distinctinn. They went through their evolutions, &c. much to the satisfaction of all present. The Hereford Militia meet on the 28th of May, for twenty. one days training. The Royal North Gloucester, June 27, for It days drill. Vita Royal South Gloucester, July 7, ditto. Worcester Militia, Oct. 51. ditto. Oxford Militia, Oct. 5, ditto. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The David Scott, WAIMLINOMIN; Windsor Castle, Lee; Nancy ; THOMPSON; WOMIIII4III, ; GOICOOdS ; Enwauts; and de William Mosey, Jacesow, had sailed from Bengal, and were daily expected at Madras, on the 13th afJanuary. on their way to Ragland: the Phenix, Bosoms ' was to sail from Bengal ou the 3d ; Lady Ranee, COXIIINSL ; and James Sibbald, Fuser, for the Coast, on the 31 s t ; Lady Carrington, Wass, for L on don, in all January; Lady Yeunaway, lalv.t., for London, is February ; Ann and Amelia (country ship) the end of Janmov ; three or four country ships were fitting out for London. To e P(ovidence, AMAIN was spoken with an the 27th of December, in the Bay of Bengal. The Ben Jonson sailed from th, Cape fee London on the 6th ; the Warren hiastings and Lallans sailed from St. Helena for London previous to the 24th. Pt.vstoore, MAT 14.—Wind W.N.W.—Atrived of this part, the Henry, Lowe', from Sierra Leone, and sailed fur London. Sir Ggoace COLLIZR was expected there daily in the 'Nests, from a Cruise. Sailed the Marshal Wellington, Gaiter; far London; and Mary, SIIEPIIEIIO, for Siena Leone. Poitessoctls, Mar 15.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived his 112. jesty's ship CassisLucia, from a cruise. MAL, Mar S W.—Came down front the IlFer yesterday and remain, the Jemima, Warr, for the ('ape and Batavia; Ajax, Cl A 1414 for Madras; Nefeus, II K. fo r Ili a Janeiro; William Alarming, Sutra, for St. Kitt',; RUTH lIRFOILD. for St. Vincent's; Mediterranean, DARE, t . r Marseilles; Lord Wellington, Mahout, for Quebec; if cv:'01::, M i KILLOT, for Mirarniehi ; Iltrcuh.s, BOVNAN, for 1 NW: ; S - CaliC/CMAY, for Gibralttr ; and Britannia, SIEVCART, tor S.. John's, (N. 11). Arrived and sailed fur the River, the Thorns; Comm. Mauroxisatiss, from China. 11re Catharine Stewart, FOItSICS, from Bombay, nal remains, and a fleet of outward. bound, all well. DOVER, Nlair 15.—Arrived the Governor Carver, 'Liner., from Rotterdam for Boston. after cutting from two anchors and rabies under Dungeness. RAMSGAT; MAY 15.—Arrived the Walpole, Hosea:, from Sunderland for Ilythe, with loss of anchor and cable; and Royal Oak, Masonic, from Southampton for London, with loss of misers-mast. The Margaret, of Perth, front London, broke an anchor this rnoming,and has been supplied with another. Mar 15.—Arrived the Hope, FLINT, from Bengal; and Castle Forbes, Raze, from Bombay. Worranavast, Mar 13.—Arrived the Fortune, Ticxr.z, front Liverpool. for Newfoundland, with low of boats, bulwarks, &c. having experienced very severe weather off the North -wet coast of Ireland. Lrszaroos., May 14.—The Grenada, fnr Buenos Ayres, has bees run foul of in the river, and lost her bowsprit, anchorsal cable, and spritsail-yard. Captain PARRY'S Journal of his Voyage for ex Discovery of a North-West Passage, was published THIS DAY. FlRE.—This morning, about half-past two o'clock, a fire broke out at the Three Horse-shoes public house, in Pear Tree -court, Clerkenwell-close, and raged with great violence, threatening destruction to all the adjoining houses, which, being very old, hate no party walls; but the fl.imes were subdued after the house in which the fire originated, and three others, were consumed. The origin of the accli!ent is not known; but the conjecture is, that it fOM the bar, the fire having begun in the lower part of the house, about an hour after the family had retired to rest. The smoke was discovered by a watchman, who, unable at first to alarm the inmates, broke open the door, when the flames butt forth into the street. The landlady was saved with difficulty, and the lodgers, we are happy to eclat, were also saved, day means of ladders, from the peril to which they were exposed. In the adjoining house, one of those de stroyed, lived a poor old woman alone, this habita tion having been provided for her by the Parish: she was taken out of her bed, and carried to a neighbour ing house, with only a few things around her, the rest of her clothes, and what little property she had, haw in g become a prey to the devouring element. ELOPEMENT.—Monday se'nnight, Mrs. }lanais, wife of Mr. HAYDON, residing at Grove-house, Tops. ham, eloped with a• person named SYMFS, formerly a midshipman in the navy, but of late a spirit-deafer, at Martock, in Somersetshire. The details of this case are of the most shocking description, Mrs. Hay now having so far forgotten the duties of a mother as to leave two babes at home, one only seven months old, and to accompany a married man, who has left a wife at Crediton, with one child, and in hourly ci pectation of another. The fugitives were pursued by Mr. HAYDON and a Police-Officer, about ten hcurs after their departure, and traced direct to London, not even disguising their route at any stage. At Salts bury the parymonr placed himself and there omit out side a coach, and reached London about four o'clock the same afternoon. The pursuing party arrived at Bow-street in two hours after ; but no clue could be obtained likely to effect a discovery, until the follow ing morning, when they were recognized by Salmon, the Bow-street Officer, at the Green Man, Blackheath, where they had passed the night. The lady was im mediately taken into custody, and the destroyer of the peace of two families was overcome by a fainting fit. Mr. HAYDON resigned his wife into the hands of a friend of her father, and the affair ended. A se paration, we understand, has taken place, and a di vorce will immediately follow. But what adds hor ror to the crime is, that the opportunity chosen for the elopement was at a time when the father of Mr. HAYDON lay a corpse 1 On the whole, we never met with a circumstance more replete with depravity, or more repugnant to the feelings of humanity. Coax EXCHAWOI, MARK -LANE, MAT 36.-.-Having but a rusil supply of Wheat, that of fine quality met ready sale this morn ing, on as good terms as on blondzy, but there was scarcely any demand for the inferior qualities. The continua= of ol d . weather has increased the demand for fine Malting Raley, prune samples of which go off freely, and what little appeared 10 -61 obtained Monday's prices. Having large arrivals of Oats from Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, as well as from Ireland, the sales were heavy to-day, at a decline of 6d. per quarter. In Boos and Peas no alteration. DIED. On the l'lth January last, on board the General Hewitt Ea Indianian, on bet passage from China, Mr. John Noble Rsia• cock, Sixth Mate, in the 40th year of his age—known to fore but by those few beloved. April 20; at Rome, Lieutenant-General Read, of cr0v , .00.5, Wiltshire, late of his Majesty's tit Regiment of Life Guar LONDON; l'elined and published by Laval. KLN se, Place, Tralpk-list. 7. ;~. XI 61 th un sod !i1 ZEI Ms i Pri TM JI to ti his 14 Cu the edit MII will Cap k fe P Tani side Mel b? 31q sod .OW