The National Register. — London, England, 1812-04-19 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. APRIL 19. The House divided—For the motion, 17 ; agaiust it, 49.—Majority, 92. ...Adjourned. THURSDAY, APRIL 16. The Mail Coach Exemption Toll Bill was read a second time. Mr. HERBERT made a motion, of which he had given notice, for the production of certain papers, to show the frauds and perjuries committed in carrying on the License Trade. After a discussion of some length the motion was negatived.—Adjourned. FRIDAY, APRIL 17. Mr. WHITBREAD presented a number of petition•, praying for the repeal of all the penal statutes against religion.—Ordered to lie on the Tattle. He then gave notice, that he would call the attention of the House to the subject of the petitions upon the motion of his Right Hon. Friend (!dr. Grattan) respecting Catholic Emancipation. Mr. WHITSREAD also gave notice, that unless in the pending cause in the King's Bench, the limited sense in which the Toleration Act was lately understood, should be abandoned, and a more liberal interpreta tion substituted, he would, on the 29th of May, bring forward a 'no tion, the object of which would be to confirm the liberal interpretation of the Act. EAST INDIA COMPANY. _ _ _ Mr. I.vme - roN presented a petition from the manufacturers and other inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood of Dudley, against the monopoly of the East India Company. In answer to an inquiry of Mr. Creevey, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER stated, that his intentions re specting the consideration of the East India question remained unal tered. He hoped that he would succeed in carrying the projected mea sure through Parliament in the present Session. Circumstances might delay the agitation of the question at so early a per iod as he intended to introduce it; but he would net remit in his efforts to facilitate the object. PETITIONS AGAINST ORDERS IN COUNCIL. Mr. WILBERVORCZ presented two petitions, the one from Sheffield, the other from York, against the Orders in CoutisiL—Ordered to lie on the Table. Sir CIiARLtS MARDAUNT presented a petition from Birmingham upon the same subject. Mr. Baiti.:G took the opportunity of expatiating at considerable length upon the disadvantages consequent upon the Orders in Council, the object of which Orders had actually been abandoned by the recent Licenses. He begged to know what would be the practical result of such a system in the opinion of Ministers. What had it commenced in hut retaliatory vindictiveness, and what would it end in but the ruin of our own manufactures, effected bT the very means that would operate to render those of the enemy ilogri,hing. Mr. Rost commended the system, which, in his opinion, would produce an effect directly the reverse of what was apprehended by the Honourable Gentleman. Sir C. MoRDAUNT made some observations upon what he conceived to be the state of the inhabitants of Birmingham. He was of opinion, that they did Rot suffer so much as was generally feared in this time of domestic pressure and calamity. He adverted to the great importance of the Birmingham manufactures, without which, he said, America could not even shave or catch mice. Mr. WHITBREAD observed, that . there was a great difference between the statement of the l ion. Baronet and the petitioners themselves, who most strenuously remonstrated against the Orders in Council, as de structive of their trade, and calculated to ensure general starvation. He was desirous to know whether it was the intention of the Minister, nuw that he saw petitions corning in from every side, complaining of priva tions and miseries, to appoint a Committee to intr.;:re into the immedi ate causes of such grievances. Ile CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER denied that the state of the country was so tteplorabl,, as bad been represented; on the contrary, trade was more flourishing at the present period than it had been t;its time last year. He concluded by defending the system adopted with respect to trade. The petitions were ord e r e d t o h e l a id on th e T a bl e . l'he Princesses' Annuity Bill was read the third time, and passed Adjourned. PROVINCIALS. RIOTS. SHETTIFLD, Apau, 14. Tt being market day, the populace about noon went ioto the market and seized the corn, and began to Ftrk wit about the streets; gni in consequence of potatoe.4 being advanced within the i2‘e tett cloys from 6d. to 14d. per perk, they seized about 500 loads, and distributed thorn to the populace. They also attacked the fish stalls, and took the fish ?oil gave them away : they went into the sh ,nibles and sPized a quan tity of meat ; and in the boner-market they did not leave one whole bor. Many of th e country people sold it at hd. a pound to get away. The mob were now destroying and breakfrz the window- at a dr. ndtul rate. j I % .lwg;stratc's and About f.,rry Constables no ,v up, tyltiOa 2-I3 old). seemed to infuri,t;„, them, for they directly went to the greatest filitr-dealers and broke all the windows. Justice PARKER then read the Riot Act, but they teemed to grow worse, merely to keep the Jus tices, Woa rt./ r and PAR XF.II, where they were, for while they were endeavouring to quiet tinen, a party went into the Wicker, and bloke open the depot where the Local Militia arms are kept, and in about fifteen minutes they broke 800 stand of arms to atones, beshles_de stroying a great quantity of clothes, drama, swords, hay'snets, cartottch boxes, &c. and when the Magistr.ftes and Conszahles got anum i ;st them, the Constables, together with the MagiArates, were knocked down. The horse were now fetched from the barracks, and the yeo manry cavalry called in. An express has gone off to fetch the Doncas ter and Rotherham militia and cavalry. Now, eight o'clock, a ll i n a dreadful state of confusion; font- of the ringleaders are apprehended, and sent under a strong armed detach ment to York in post-chaises: they are now threatening to pull down the town-hall. The soldiers have loaded the cannon mil) grape shot, and if they attempt to proceed with their depredations they will certainly fire,as the Riot Act has been read three times. The banks and all the shops were shut at one o' , .lock, and business at a stand ;—we dread the approach of night. The damage done already is computed at three thousand pounds." LEEDS, APRIL 11. Last Sunday night, about twelve o'clock, a number of armed men, with their faces covered, entered the workshop Of Mr. Smith, of Snow gate-head, near Folmfirth, in the neighbourhood of Huddersfield, and broke all his dressin ¶-frames and shears. They proceeded Lam thence to Horn Coat, about a mile distant, entered the dresang-shop ut Mr. J. Brooke, and not content with breaking his frames and shears, which the; entirely destroyed, they brae and demolished his hou,eb l l ref niture and all the windows. From thence they proceeded to Retns, near Hanley, rdniut three miles farther, where they arrived about two o'clock, and entered the workshop cf Mr. James Brook. and broke one frame, which was all he had, and which had been taken clown ::brut five weeks. At the earnest intreaty of Mr. Brook, they were prevailed tirtn not to break his shears. One case has occurred, whi c h h as sre.ni alr.rra through this manufacturlng district. On Thursday night, ahout twelve o'clock, the extensive eloath manufactory of Mr. J. Foster, of Hornhory near Wakeneld, was surrounded by a l arge 1)94 of armed mere, who, atter securing all the approaches to the premi , ies, proceeded to break into that part of the mill appr , nriattd to tlle dres‘ing of clouth, v..here they completely d.,,strlyed all this shears and f: runes; the forn - na were not merely ..nipped, but abiolntely broken in pieces. They * then de molished all the windows, and, as if actuated by the most tiiat , ulical pbrenzy, hrnite into those parts of the premises, againq whieti tr-ese ce predators do not pretend to have any ground of complaint the scrib bling mill and weaving shops, and in:tteriAl! y injured tin: machineri, and wantonly damaged a quantity of warp reNly for the lo..rri ; de , : royed not merely the glass of the window, hot the frame,, which were of ca,t iron,the windows of the dye-houses, the coumnig-house, and even he: dwelling-houses contiguous to the NA kshop, shared the sa:ue fate. .%t the commencement of tFese our.nzes, a rktaehment front CA: mutt body invested the dwelling-house of Mr. Foster I sons; they shivered the door in pieces, and broke the window and frame, nd proceeded to the lodging-room of the young men, and demanded the keys of the building, under pairs o: instant death. The; dragee.l two of them out Of bed, and tied them together, making them ii„! naked upon the floor ; the other they compelles4 to accompany the in with the keys. The dwelling-house occupied by the book-kerper was also broken into, and his family treated with brutal violence. They afterwards set fire to the building. which was extinguished, after their departure, before it communicated to the main body of the building. Having accomplished their obj-ct, they assembled in a fig Ad, when the leader called over their numbers, to which each answered. Having alc,l - tain-d that their whole nornh-r was there, he said, " the work :s dune, all is well, tliTerse ;" which or der was obeyed. LiTTV•TOIVN, (Nr.t)t ci i thought, after the recent and porn-Jn:les, ss%• ..hoit'd hear no more of the Ltt'lr lites, at It•:,q for Stant. tieir ; !Jilt . .."c• had %%Win work in this nei f tlibout hood on :;:ittir.lay 'llO. Luddites asscmhled to numb-r of from 150 to ‘..1c,0 nme, with in is - ti'nt to destroy C'artwrigift's cro;: !f.ng 111:1Chillcs at Rat% tol•kj, front this town, and pro;:ee/leil to break ripen the door,, b r. svit'ari t effect, as they, as well as the wirdows, were extre v,•,11 •1 w.th bon bars, and every precalo./ fo taken to frottr, , t.: ?Kir a :.taps, C.o . i.wri;ht is a resolute rill, :Effi reas'in to hr•it v... that pro.. pet t; would be at ; ol•;lit ..etfe. f lie le.! 7 took the re-40101-n of - steeping in rfe n ill /•,•er, , hitt ciet sisting of six men. At the !lull.. the at..t..lc i. ,:w , f his elfosc-o bard., (:ri- of wh wis soklif 1 - ) .L t'a .td to rie,:ift, and coolest roils mencect an inequality it for••e of ti e o•to :--ttartst 150 1 : 1re.:,.• was kern up on b /th sides tor a cotfAiler.fiLe An- - v- • 11 npi , ••ar wit4mtlt utfcct. C...i . tw.. 4 r.5t a:11 his i a ry lifctl 140 nines f. o.:•. .11 dows; some of the Lve1.11...'.: were ki'1,•,1...1,11 syve• al , v , )uilolvd. i :,,v 0 seen two of theae fle:udyd in,n dead, who have fanto a sarra..e to temerity. Another is reported to Irlve since died of his •. - . - ottods; at..d how many more w/o:tided, remains to be knowli. it. I ight and his men were so wall protecre•l behind %vans, that ti ey eseApce uti hort ; bin they frotittent:y e‘pos^d thenfseives, and (aught 1/ravel-. fir. Carrwri s tit and h;.; twrd Ik-co on fluty er'r', ni4lit, 104:t Ca.—fuse:: r Vl"=7