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INFORMATION has this day been received at this lyflot, front his Majesty's Coitssil of Elsilwer," That the Light spun Matstritna Castk will be estiagaislied on the 16th instant; and, 6/1 r certain repairs hare been eossjileted, it will h. s hinged an the I't of August rve." J. W. CROKER. EAST-1ND1.4 !MUSE, April 25, 1821. frilE COURT cy*DIIIECTOISV'the.UNII'ED COAIPANYuf AIERCILINTS of ENGLAND, trading so :he do hereby gist Notice, 'That a QUARTF:RLY GENERA!. COURT of the said Co , :trany will be held at their House In Leadenhall-street on D WEDNESAY, the :20th of June next, at Fleven o' clock in the Forenoon, for the purpose of declaring a Dividend from etristmas last to Midsummer nest. That the Transfer Hooks of the said Company's Stock will be sh a t on 'i't; F:sp.tl", the sth of Julie next, at 'Three o'clock, :nd opeued on TUESDA Y, the 17th July following. Anti that the Dividend Warrants on the said Company's Stock, due on the sth July, will be ready to be delivered on i 1)A Y, the (it'll July next JOSEPH DART, Secretary. THORP, MAYOR. A T a COCIII of,LOltb MAYOR and ALDER MEN, held in the Council Chamber of the Guildhall of the City of London, on Tuesday the 15th day of May, 1821, and in thr wcu:id year of the nisi' of “corge the Fourth, of the United Rintfoni of Great Britain and Ireland, King, &c. It was Resolved, That the Thanks of this Court be given to Sir WILLIAM DOMVILLE, Bart. late Alderman of the Ward of queen lithe, for his regular attendance and salutary counsels ia this Court; his wise, vigilant, and impartial administration of jus tice; his constant zeal fo•r the honour, safety, and prosperity of his fellow-citizens, and his inviolable attachment to the Laws and Liberties of his Country. WOODTHOit PE. LA iV INTELLIGENCE. COUR.T OF COMMON PLEAS, MAY 14. ANDREWS V. Iti.LVION...-15.111E V. GEDGE. Serjeant Pre'. moved to arrest the judgment in these two cases, which were actions brought by the plaintiff against the defendants, as two of the Directors of the National Insurance Company, upon a policy of insurance against fire. Ile con tended that, from the wording of the policy, an action of cove taxa did not lie against the defendants. The Caner JUSTICIL—Take your rule. The public cannot know too soon the grounds on which this Company think proper to avail themselves of technic:A objections to drive a plaintiff to look fur relief in a Court of Equity, after the verdict of a Jury has established the justice of his claim, and acquitted hint of the charge of having procured a fraudulent fire. I can understand a case where an individual did not wish to be answerable, when tSete were no funds in the Society; but where that is not the case— Serjeant Pau said, that it unfortunately was the case here. Them was an affidavit which stated that there were no funds in this Society. I.lr. Justice Pear.—lt is important that the Public should he aware of that; and be thereby prevented from insuring with a Company possessed of no furda. Serjcant Varcneas--11y brother Lens is very anxious that the distinction should be known between the National Union Company and the Norwich Union Company, of which latter my friend is a large proprietor.—Buie :tie lt granted. IliOM L.4S7' NIGHT'S GAZETTE. 31EMIER areuaNtn TO %ERNE 11N VMS TRESENT PARLIAMENT. County of Doivn—Matthew Forde, of Seaford, in the county of Down, Esq. in the room of flight Hon. Robert Via. count eabtkreagh, now Marquis of Londouderry. BA NKItUPTCY SUPERSEDED. Thomas Richard William Card, Borough-market, tripe-dresser. BA N K It UPT& William Roe, Lower East Smithfield, wheelwright, to surren der May 26, June .2. and 26, at ten, at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. Brooking, Lombard-street. Joseph Lyon, Marsham-street, Westminster, cooper, May 22, 29, and June 20, at one, at Guildhall. Attornies, Messrs. Dawes and Chatfield, Angel court, Throginorton-street. Men Lawton, bottoms, within Stayley, Cheshire, clothier, Slay 214, 29, and June 26. at eleven, at the Star Inn, Man eheszer. Attornies, Mr. Shaw, Ely-place, Holborn; or Mr. Watkis, Manchester. Uilliam Fate, late of Settle, Yorkshire, cabinet-maker, May 21, at five, at nine, and June '26, at four, at the house of William Wilman, Settle. Attornies, Mr. Singleton, Mill man stte•e: ; or Mr. looming, Settle. (Norge Wilkinson, York, lines►draper, June 4,5, and 26, at eleven, at :he Golden Ball, Main Sprit Weird, Preston, Ism -bier . Attornie, Messrs. Ihll and Willett, Great James -street, Bedford-row ; or Mr. Townsend, Preston. Benjamin Phillips, Tong, Salop, butcher, May Sl, at five, at the Office of Mr. Stanley, Newport, June 1 and 26, at ten, at the. Red Lion lam. Newport. Anomie*, Mew*. Baster and llowker, Gray's Inn-place; or Mr. Stanley, Newport. John Barnett, jun. West•street, West Smithfield, v,letualler, May 19, .19, and June 26, at ten, at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. Bugby, Clerktnwell-clone. LobeEt French, Wimpole, Cambridgeshire, shopkeeper, May 21, 22, and June 26, at eleven, at the Hoop Inn, Cam bridge. Attornies, Mr. Peacocke, Cambridge; or 11Iess.s. Toone and Co. Craven -street, Strand. Joseph Rider, sen. and jun. New 3lalton, Yorkshire, mer chants, May 28, 29, and June 26, at ten, at the Red Lion Inn, York. Attornies, Messrs. Smithson s.nd Son, New Mallon; or Mr. H. Smithson, Old Jewry. DIVIDENDS to be made at GUILDHALL. 9, P. Dixie, ten. and jun. and J. and B. Dixi e, Falcon square, smiths, at one. June 5, R. Neville, Colchester, dealer, at ten. June 12; T. I. Tweed, Borehans, Esser, farmer, at s. June 9, J. Oliver, Branspath, Durham, cattle-dealer, at rutin. June 5, H. and M. Daniels, Bury-street, St. Mary hos merchants, at eleven. June 5, W. W orboys, Butt-lane, Deptford, linen-draper, at ten. June . 9, J. Wilson and G. W augh, Abler sgate-strect, wholesale-batters, at twelve. May 39, ll . lt . Plaw, Riches-ccurt, Lime-street, merchant, at one. Jane 5, W. Johnson, Heybridge, Essex, salt-manufacturer, at one- Julie 9, W.Taylor, Durham-street, Strand, tavern-keeper, aktwelve. DIVIDENDS to be made in the COUNTRY. June 5, W. Crook, late of Beanacre, Wilts, farmer, at al'-'oen, at the White Hart inn, Chtppenham. June 5, 11. llowutree, Holderness, Yorkshire, miller, at eleven, at the Dag,, and Duck Tavtrii, Scale - lane, Hull. June 6, T. W e bb, , ""ich, horse-dealer, at eleven, at the Woolrack Inn, War wick. June 5, J. Witton, Hull, dealer, at eleven, at the Dug arid Duck Tavern, Scale-lane, Hull. June 11, T. Wright, lite of Le•eds, merchant, at eleven, at the Court-house, Leeds.— i alle 7 , J. Thomas, late of Bristol, wine -merchant, at twelve, rthe Comm erc i a l Itoonas Bristol. June 8, T. D. innock, Peter' s Ch eeseh i ll, near ' Winchester, woolstapler, at two, at the George Inn, Winchester. June 15, J. lielph, Carlisle, W 05 41 . 1 1-draper, a: el' -:-n at the Blue Bill In n , S cotc h- st r eet , Carlisle. Jane 15, N ilonte, Houghton, Cumberland, hut ter,n.4lbacutea.erchant, at eleven, at the Blue Bell, Calliale. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS. MAY IS. The Earl of DERBY presented a Petition front the Journey men Ropemaken of Liverpool, praying that some measure might be adopted to prevent the extended use of Machinery in the making of Roves Lord MELVILLE gave notice that to-morrow he should move the second reading of the Court of Session Bill, awl the Scotch Court of Admiralty Bill. The Consolidated Fund 11111 was read a second time, and or dered to be committed to-morrow.—Adiourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The gallery did not open until five o'clock, in consequence of II a ballot taking place upon two Election Committees. Mr. Dyson brought up the reduced List on the Borough bridge Election Committee. It consisted of Lord Dunctumon John Fleming, F.sq. I lon. Stephen Mahon Charles F.. Rumbold, Esq. . W. A. Johnson, Esq. J. Grattan, Esq. Sir Christopher Cole J. Calcraft, Esq. . Sansei Plumtre, Esq. W. Bickford, Esq. John IL Allen, Esq. F. Ellice, Esq. Sir J. F. lioughey Robert J. Wilmot, MS. " Edw. B. Wilbraham, Esq. Mr. C. DUN DAS presented a Petition from certain Attor nies and Solicitors of the Court of Chancery, on the subject of the Bill in progress through the House relating to that Court.— Laid on the table. The Poor Laws Amendment Bill was read a second time. Mr. Serjeant ONSLOW presented a Petition from certain Bankers in the West Riding of Yorkshire, against the preemie Usury Laws.—Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Serjeant ONSLOW presented a similar Petition from the Bankers of Wilts. Mr. CURWEN presented a Petition from the Flax Growers of lioldernesa, in Yorkshire, asking protection from the House. —Laid on the table. USURY LAWS. Mr. MARRYATT held in Ms hand a Petition from certain Bankers In the County of Gloucester, praying the House to make some alterations in the pr e sent Usury Laws. On moving that it be laid on the table, Mr. C A LCli AFT said he concurred with the Petitioners as to the inadequacy and injustice of the present code of laws re- I I lating to Usury. The subject was one of considerable interest to the commerce of the country, and he hoped the measure now in progress through the House would receive its due share of consideration. He therefore desired to know from the Learned Serjeant opposite, at what time he meant to bring on the second reading of his Bill? expressing, at the same time, a hope that the subject would be brought forward at a time when it could be properly discussed. Mr. Serjeant ONSLOW Was disposed to afford Gentlemen every accommodation for discussing the principles of his Bill. Ills great object was, that its principles should be thoroughly canvassed and discussed. He could not, however, fix a day; but if any other Gentleman named one better calculated than another for discussing the subject, he had no objection to ac cede to the arrangement.—The Petition was laid on the table. THE MANCHESTER MEETING. Mr. BENNETT rose to present Petitions from two or three individuals, sufferers on the eventful 16th of August, from the unheard of excesses committed by the Military in the dispersion of a Meeting held at Manchester on that day. The first was the Petition of Lees, of Oldham, who stated, that on the day in question, his brother, John Lees, had been tram• pled upon by the Yeomanry ; that he was sabred by them, and that in some days after he died of his wounds ; that an Inquest had been held on the body, but some informality occurring on the part of the Coroner, the Court of King's Bench annulled the whole proceedings, and declared them irregular from the beginning. The Petitioner complained, that al though his brother had been thus inhumanly but chered, he did not know whom he ought to prosecute. He sought the protection of the House, and entreated that, for the sake of justice, the persons concerned in this affair might be brought to punishment. The next was from John Green, of Hollingwood, near Oklham, who was also cut down by the Ca valry, and sought redress at the bands of the House. Another from Edward Jones, of Lancaster, and another from John Atkinson, both sufferers, and join ing in the prayer that justice be dealt out to the oficnders.—All these Petitions were laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed. Mr. CItEEVEY said he had three or four similar Petitions in his hand. The first was from James Woolstanton, who stated, that he had been a sufferer on the fats' 16th of August, having received a num ber of sabre wound's from the Cavalry, and being brought to the brink of death in consequenctof them. The Petitioner prayed the House to take his case into its consideration. The Hon. Member said he would refrain from making any other observation on these Petitions, than that of adding his fervent prayer to the House that the actors in that sanguinary affair might be brought to condign punishment—(Hear). The other Petitions presented by Mr. CRZEI/ZY, were from Wm. Scoffield, and Wm. Wrightwain, of Manchester, and James Tomlinson, of Oldham.— Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. A petition from Mary Stillingfleet, who had been wounded, was also received, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Aide: Lion WOOD presented other Petitions to the sat= effect, namely, those of Mary Black, cut down by a Yeoman; Margaret Goodwin, and John Shields, of Manchester; James Herewith; William Hebbert, of Hollingswood, Oldham ; and Daniel Mel lor, of the same place. The complaint and prayer were nearly alike in all.—They were laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Mr. HOBHOUSE was sorry to say he too had a number of Petitions in his hand of the same melon• choly nature as those already presented to the House. They all complained of dreadful violence exercised towards their persons, in a way unknown to, and ihot sanctioned by the law, and prayed the House to vin dicate the justice of the country, by bringing the guilty to punishment. The Honourable Member then presented the following Petitions, with a short his tory of the sufferings of each Petitioner: Thomas Kelly, of Manchester, trampled upon and cut down by the Cavalry, on the 16th of August; I several sabre wounds; was confined eleven weeks is i the New Bailey, and then liberated, without the sha dow of a charge being brought against him. William •Thompson, also wounded, stated, that he was present at the Meeting, and did not see an at , tack made upon the Cavalry. NVilliain Barnes, of Edmonstone, in Lancashire, sabred and cut down; not during the Meeting, but so late as nine at night, when the Cavalry were wanton lug in blood about the streets; witness escaped with his life only by taking shelter In a shop. John Lees, of Royston; present at the Meeting, and saw no attack en the Cavalry. T. Ashton, wounded with a sabre at the Meeting: Elizabeth Neil,"of Manchester, cut down, had all her ribs on one side broken, and was confined to her bed for five weeks. Joseph Coates, of Oldham, wounded on the head by the Special Constables; confined to bed 24 days. David Dawson, of Yoticshire, father of Edward DaWson, who, after lingering fifteen days, died of his wounds.—This Petitioner had been told, that in England there was no wrong without a remedy, but his son's death was still unpunished. He prayed the House to do its duty by him. Lord MILTON said he had presented a Petition from chit man before, and he believed he was very sincere from the artless manner in which the Petition was worded. It did not seem to be one of those Petitiott got up on a certain occasion or to forward any particular object, but the unsophisticated effusion of a father's indignation and a father's grief. ' Mr. HOBHOUSE said the Petition before him shewed that it was not drawn up with much art.. It was either written by the Petitioner himself, or by somebody else (win his dictation. William Ogden, old and infirm received two sabre 'cuts, and was badly braised by the special constables. Petitioner was put into . imminent peril of his life; hoped as the laws had been so openly violated, some thing would be done. A female, named Margaret Horrocks, cut down and trampl e d ' upon ; complained further, that the sol diers used the most dreadful oaths at the same time, which shewed that they were not masters of them selves, bat acting under the influence of the worst of passions. Another female, Biddy Marks, shoulders dislocated, and legs lacerated. William Booth, struck five times with a sabre by the same Yeoman. Thomas Grimstone, both arms broken, head cut, and confined seven weeks in the Infirmary. Is a weaver, and was able to support a wife and three children ; now in the Workhouse at Warrington, with his miserable family !—(Hear). Catherine Coleman, mother of nine children ; re ceived three wounds ; was thrown on the ground, and, whei some humane individual endeavoured to protect her, a Yeoman cut at him, and endeavoured to reach her person. William Steward, several sabre cuts on the head ; offered to come to the bar of the House, and speak to the events of the 16th of August in the most solemn manner. James Chisnell, was present at the Meeting; Ca valry not attacked. Simon Mellor, of Royston, was present.at the Meet ing, and saw a woman die of her wounds. Peti tioner thought the attack was premeditated, other wise some one concerned in it would, before now, have been brought to justice. Mr. HOBHOUSE said the language of all these Petitions was ariess to the last degree, and such as merited the consideration of the House. Perhaps the facts stated in them would give the lie to the scandalous and foolish inventions which had been circulated respecting the consequences of the fatal Meeting of the 16th of August, at Manchester— ( Hear ).—He would not anticipate the debate by saying more at present. The Petitions were all laid on the table, and or dered to be printed. Mr. JAMES presented a Petition from Nathan Broadhurst, who had been a sufferer on the 16th of August, and who was now a prisoner in the Castle of Lancaster. Mr. HARBORD presented a similar Petition from William Beckwith. He then proceeded to detail the circumstances which had occurred at Manchester on the day in question, and contended that' a political soldiery, and not the regular troops, were employed to disperse the multitude—(Hear, hear). The chief actor in this scene of blood was a Clergyman, a cha racter whose duty it was to promote peace and good will among his fellow-creatures. He should not pro nounce any opinion upon the conduct of that dual ; his merits would be duly estimated before an other tribunal—a tribunal before which he must ren der a strict account of his actions. It appeared, how ever, that his services were viewed in a high quarter as most meritorious, for he had been promoted to a living of £2,000 a-year in consequence of the politi cal zeal he had evinced. The Honourable Member then referred to the Oldham Inquest, and maintained that the facts connected with it ought to be strictly investigated. It appeared that the Courts of Law afforded no adequate redress to the complaing par ties, and he should, therefore, support the prayer of the Petition for evidence being received at the Bar of the House. The impression as to the transactions was strong upon his mind, and co-existent with that impression, was the apprehension and horror he felt of men acting as the Manchester Magistrates had done, without having considered the consequences. - Mr. Serjeant ONSLOW vindicated the conduct of the Yeomanry, and denied that they were a political soldiery as had been represented. He next adverted to the conduct of the Rev. Mr. Hay, the Manchester Magistrate, and said that his late promotion had risen from the good opinion entertained of him by a di.- tinguishea Prelate who had given him the living, and not from any considerations of a political nature. Lord MILTON was ready to admit that the Yeo manry in general ought not to be designated as a political soldiery, but in the neighbourhood of Man chester there was too much reason to believe that they were actuated in a very great degree by politi- I cal feeling. He wished to know if the living to which Mr. Hay had been appointed had not been given to him with the understanding that the Prelate in ques . tion was to have the presentation of a living which was at dip disposal of Government ?—(ileer.) Mr. BATHURST—Certainly not ; no such' thing. Mr. HARBOR') said that the explanation given by his Noble Friend as-to Yeomanry Cavalry in ge neral was precisely that which he intended to have given himself. As to Mr. Hay, he declared on his honour, that everything he had said respecting him. had been substantiated by the information he had re ceived from a friend of ,that Reverend Gentleman— (Hear, kear).--The Petition teas then laid son the tables and ordered to be printed. Mr. F. PALMER presented a Petition of a similar description from a person named David Ellis.—Laid on the table, and oidered to be printed. Mr. COKE (of Norfolk) presented a Petition to the same effect, from an individual named Birch, who represented himself to have suffered severely on the day in question.—Laid on the table, and ordered .to be printed. ' Mr. S. C. WHITBREAD presented two Petitions, complaining of similar grievances; the one from W Getty, and the other from James Boothby. The Pe tition from the former individual stated all the con fusion that had occurred on the 16th of August' to have been occasioned by the Caval r y.—L a id on th e table, and ordered to be printed. Mr. LENNARD said he had also some Petitions to present from persons who had suffered, in what might justly be called the Manchester massacre. He would nit anticipate the statement which was to be made by the Honourable Member who was to bring the question before the House ; but would now, with,. the leave of the House, submit the 'Petitions which had been entrusted to him. The Honourable Mem ber then presented Petitions from Elizabeth Gaunt; John Grenagh, and William Bromley, stating that the parties had been trampled upon and wounded by the Cavalry on the day in question.—Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Sir ROBERT WILSON presented similar Petitions from Joseph Jones, Joseph Ingle, arid Edward John son, who had been cut down and maimed for no other reason than because they had attended the Meeting. The latter had. two of his ribs broken.— The Petitions were laid on the table, and ordered to be printed.—The Hon. and gallant Member, in/went mg a Petition of the same nature from William Cheet ham, took occasion to comment on the conduct of the Mayor, who exclaimed to the Petitioner, you, 111 cut your head off!" He then moved, that the Petition be read, as he wished to afford to a Noble Lord who was present an opportunity of vindicating his character from the imputation of having,. as Foreman of the Grand Jury, refused to sanction the Bill of Indictment preferred by • the Petitioner. It appeared that the complainant had received a wound in the neck, of three inches long, and one inch deep, and that nine inches of the rim of his hat had been taken off by the sword of one of the Yeomanry Ca valry. It further appeared, that the individual had • belonged to the 2d Lancashire Militia, the regiment to which the Noble Lord wgs attached. The Petition contained some severe animadversions on the feelings evinced by the Noble Lord upon the occasion. Lord STANLEY denied that he had acted in any unworthy manner towards.the individual in question. It was certainly true that he (Lord Stanley) had been Foreman of the Grand Jury that had thrown out the Bill of Indictment which the Petitioner had preferred ; and it was no less true that he knew him to have be longed to the same regiment in which he (Lord Stan ley) had the honour of holding a commission ; but then it did not follow, as a necessary consequence, that he was to espouse his cause further than circum stances might warrant. Upon seeing him wounded after the affair in question, fie expressed a regret that any person belonging to his regiment could have ex posed himself to such an attack. He disclaimed the slightest idea of treating the sufferings of the Peti tioner with levity or indifference. Sir R. WILSON explained ; and the Petition was then laid on the table and ordered to be printed. The Hon. and gallant Member next presented Pe titions to the same effect frorn-Joseph Bryerly, Mar garet Booth, Ann Whittaker, and three sister s, aged twenty-four, eighteen, and fourteen—na me ly, Eli zabeth, Ellen, and Isabella Ilarvey.—Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. The Hon. Member presented Petitions of the same import from Mary Fields, and Robert Taylor Wylde, who stated himself to have been detained for twenty six days and nights in solitary confinement, before he bad been brought to trial at York, for the sole offence of being a Radical Reformer.—Laid on the table, anti ordered to be printed. The next Petition presented by the Honourable and gallant Member, was from John Bryerly, who stated that he had witnessed the acts alleged in the other Petitions, and was prepared to depose to them at the Bar of the House.—Laid on the table, and or dered to 13.: printed. _ _ The Honourable and gallant Member then said, that the last Petition be held in his hand came from an individual who had presided at the Manchester Meeting; it came from Mr. Henry Hunt, against whom the law had been strained to its utmost se verity; nor could the proceedings in his case be viewed in any other light than as vindictive, cruel, and unjust—(Hear, hearj. Lord MILTON said, that the case of Mr. Hunt and that of the other persons connected with the proceedings at Manchester stood upon quite different grounds:--((lear, hear). Sir. RoßEta WILSON now said that he had a Petition to present from Mr. Hunt, in reference to the sitnaeon in which that Gentleman was i liced as a prisoner in Ilchester Jail. The Petitioner stated, that the Jail had ,been intentionally selected, with the view of aggravating his punishment, as being one of the most unhealthy and worst regulated in the kingdom—( Hear, hear). mi. scARLETT said, that in refutation of those statements, iL was aullicient Jo say, that the Affida-