The National Register. — London, England, 1816-07-29 00:00:00

OTLY fl 9. DISTRESSES (g' the IRON-MANUFACTURERS. The following affecting details are extracted from two let. i t ., .i, one from the viriiiiry of !Instals, and the other from that of ftirminahain, addressed to a respectable iron-merchant in London, on the subject of Mi. distresses Hader which the peo ple employed in the iron-works and collieries of tho,e districts now labour. The fulliming extracts horn these most affecting elmpositions exhibit a picture of misery which we really be lieve to he unprecedented in thin country, and of which very few of our Renders could have had any conception u Costly, near Baster.. Staffordshire. July 21. NIG. a When tome of onr principal iron-works first failed, the whole extent of the 'onset Belot distiess WAS not i 1111 l apparent. The poor manulactorets had minty of them made tl little money I this, with the greatest frog:110y, did not last lung: when expended, they ran in debt where% er they could gain reedit; and whets they could not be trusted any longer, they pawned or mild their Atrititnie, article after article, till the y i d 11411' to sell. W lit is tie ir goods were gone, they wor e (I:Ili:v.11 to have reeosirse to their parishes and to begging. The parishes were overwhelmed by the numbers for aiiplying for th e ir aid, and f :Maid out little comparative su pport. The community in general t tov cominereial district* are usually gesiermis) nude great AM ts to relieve their necessities. Fur my own part, I determined that I would fuse It inlet, and that my Milliken and household sho u ld do so like:vise, in order to administer to tin ir wools: and it was try' desire that none woe. tips of relief should go at • unrelieved. It is true, the sue gone was but small ; they asked for nothisig lint a piece of brand, and bread for some time great nutithei sof them received : lost I mum room! that my eery limited income, swish': chiefly trout uncertain sources, would not even furnish this se:intV sup ply ; and s I was reilticisi to the necessity --to one a niust painful nue -of contisiing shy chanty within much smaller boundaries. Companies of 5, or ts, 01 Ig poor manntacturers, able and will ing to work, have been many times in the course a a riay at lily floor, soliciting bread; and, what has often cut me to the licart, necessarily soliciting in vain. Nultitudts went through the country, offering to wink at any thing merely for a little food, not even expecting wages, nod tilos stained a little temporary employment and subsistei:ce ; but st.!, their wives and children were at home in the greatest possible ihstress. s. Within a small distance of my lionise is a large iron -work; the machinery extends for nearly half a mile ; it tees u noble olanulacnny ; I passed by it one rimming after its operations is ere •mpendeti, stud exceNlingly affeeted wish the sight : it little betiire, it was all animation and industry, affording the hullollra We Means of livelihood to many thousands of any fellow creatures ; the sit nee that now pervaded it spoke more elo- Anil impress's cly to my heart than any language con) i possibly do--it was the silence of mustingled tiesolittion. 14i sited a row of houses occupied by the workmen : the doors were used to be open, inviting the eye of the stranger to glanee as he went along at their neatness, cleanliness, and felicity ; lit tle grolipes of healthful children were accustomed to appear about the cottages, full of merriment and joy ; and the inhabi tants, strong and healthy, saluted you as you went by. lint the scene was lamentably changed ; it produced a melancholy on sny spirits that I did not lose for a considerable period : the cottages were closed—tile inhabitants could not bear to have It known that they were stripped of their little ornaments—ne children played around the doors—the very plants trained up in their windows had pined and died—one man only appeared, emaciated mid ghastly, a living spectre, its if the peaceful st•- ',Myhre hail sent forth its inkabitsulta to till with terror the tuuks of the living. *6 W hen I lime told these poor creatures that the palish t filod them food or labour, they have replied, 'Sir, they , cannot do either ; mid some who hese Cored the best a !Ali our inane fiSeturies were flourishing around us, have said, • We Auld ra ther die, Sir, than be dependent on the parish.' " It is its unanswerable proof of the excellent disposition of these poor mantafactmers, that although there are many thou !Moils of thesis in the most distressed condition imaginable, there is very little depredation in the country. " It it will aid you in your benesolent designs, I will go through any part of onr neighbourhood, from house to house, and gi ve you a particular statement of the cireionstances of each tansily ; the labour will be to one a delightful remuneration ; doing good I have lung found to be its own reward. I would devote any portion of my time to procure you information. **Some, I believe, have really flied of starvation ; and in many c use-, if not iumiediate it wan the rinfory canon , . An iusnNi c.rnev of wholesome liourisliment where they had been accus• tains si to great abundance, produced diseases which ternintated its dissolution. " Even I /rarity, Sir, hat left some of onr districts. She has given all she had to give ; the stream of her benevolence is dried up, and molting remains but the gratefid recollection of the ell moil through which it flowed, or emotions of despair lest it fiso , olst never again be replenished. " I could send yogi many intlividnal cases that come under my own persoual knowledge. Nut far front my house, a respect• able individual, possessed of extensive information in the iron trade, who had been a confidential foreman in a large concern, anti lived in much credit, has been for some time, with a Wife Anil eight children &emote of a sufficiency of bread. Many poor families distinguished for their sobriety and iiithist yovith U, 7, or S children, at e in the saute disastrous CM mustances: I have repeatedly saved a math his wife and six children, from absolute stars anon, who were redneed to eat the eahmige-stalks, and the refuse of their little cottage-garden, as the only toed they could obi lin. *: I fail I the pleasure, Sir, of being present at the meeting of your Motown ole Society, I think I could plead the valise of these p oar rnanufaciltreis till my strength would tail me, and I could plead no longer, their gr , at distresses has e takeii deep hold sir my heart. Shad the injured Afriean readily t i e d a multitude of the most able mid elequent of our nation, to de fend his ranee, and secure oils rights; and shall there be none to cominiss raie our perishitig A:gm-sou/11i yuisa, ahuse hogs niiity mid industry lists e •Iseaol Use glow) sot In itoli tilfolighont 11.0. ‘s bole hanitaule globe% shall no friendly hand he extelided to wipe AWAY flair tears, and to pres tut them f • sinking for es er tinder the insillopoi tanks pleasure of accumulated wets? Fut bid it honour, steces.cy, humanity, reliAitior' •• Tibbington.houar, near Birmingham, July 25, 1816. '• 1 have not to-t a sssss 111Clit ii, J,. rimiting rionation of 51. t some of the most iliAressing caw' , in my neigh bourhood ; aaJ al lu.ugb the narmiit lu r•teti 1 . .1.111:1y war sIII:111, aficr iii Viltilie it iiiii not aril. of 341, yr tit de. eretahle, that ►io.aria of trauma.. Boned from the Cl . rs of tho.•e who owtouk of it. N or 1• l'4llliUt Ineaur titr glotita. pro ~1.1% in situ ; 41111 Ghat ,1111 0111 W, ii to utcr•a,r r4ieltli). Jl..ny tsi the . trou•vsutie., :ruts THE NATTAVAT. REGISTER. Niolw-%%0rk4. mail cnitieru•s that have been hitherto kept at wink, are on the e•ve of being stopped. Indeed hondre ds of melt have had notice within the last fortnight to seek fresh em ployment; and there are already souu• time-awls who have been out of work many months, living upon charity and the household furniture which their late prosperity etialrled then to provide. But in berless iustainces these comforts 11,tve gradually been disposed of to prevent starvation. The liberal and humane peroills, who have hitherto been a great support to such wretched objects, find the (72-11.% SO ttttttt emus, that theii funds of t•harity are thereby completely esti:rusted; 11111 i die only resort the poor cir Mutes have left, is to go to the and from thence procure the best food they can for theinschcs and r hildrt•n. The taste of bread is almost forgotten to many of them. I hope you will rseuse my RUlllf into any further detail on the suntect of such distress; tbr I assure you, the AUfittEllig of soy mind to retrace what I lene batiste wiluosiell, without the ability to relieve, is too much for my feelimis." POLICE. GUILDHALL. %nna Nicholson WWI lirenglit before the sitting Magistrate on 'f iscsilty, at Guildhall, charged by a whole neighbourhood with riotous conduct. The clomp was e letely proved, and Rll,. war %rot to Itridew, It for ihe .11st time! The °dicers slated, that she had been taken fourteni ti flea on Bridge; where she appeared to make an effort, each time, to throw het • self over ; that she Ind been t%tend , almost naked, in the kelinel twenty times within the period of three mouths; that she had shammed the coming other throat with a rusty knife Ili times, and bad beaten watelinieo and patrols& on likeir duty times out of number. Wednesday J. Kirby, one of the ?wrote of Ablerrnte Ward. was charged with assaulting and falsely imnrisoning Mrs. liallen area Miss Itidley. 'Mi., Ridley deposed, that on Saturday evening, about nine o'clock. she was going down Aldervate-.trect, accompanied by Irs. BuHen and a boy ; when, having oceadon to send the latter home for an article which had been forgotten, and stopping a few moments. the de fendant demanded to know where they had sent the boy. 'lite a replied, they had sent hint ho:ne ; when the defenduat asserted, want they had sent him to pass bad money ; that they themselves were bad characters, and verniers of base coin, and that they toast go to the watch house. The sannylainants assarcd hint the boy hail been sent home on a iii-nsage; and, to convince hint of their respatabilitv, he was weltamie to secanpany them home. This, how :eel, he declined, and insisted upon their going to the watch-house. Miss Finney, terrified. now at tempted to escape, by running twu or three data into a shop ; hut the defendant called out to a gentleman pasa:ng to aid hi:n in the King's name. The gentleman having refused, he then called loam a cobler when the complainants. finding resistance and remonstrance vain, we. companied him as ptisuners. ("pun then arrival at the watch-house door, they found it ciasol, and they rem:lima! scene moment- in the yard ; when, finding that the watch-house-keeper hail cot arrived to oven it. the defendant told the coimAaihants they might go about their business. 'flits, how,:ver, they now retosud to do, awl, at the instance of 11111 C gentlemen who had collected in the crowd, insisted upon know ing for what purpose they were detained. The defendant now attempted to retreat, but was brought back ; and in the mean time two gitLers. named Lawrence and Taylor, arrived ; when the defendant reiterated histharge, that the complainants were bad characters, and had heen passing base money, and desired that they might be searched. Officers, investigated tile tratiatction, could not disetivtr the slightest ground of complaint; one of the ladies (Mrs. Bullen) they had known as a respectable houseketlxx more than i years. The Officers, therefore, immediately dismissed Cat, charge. Mrs. Mullen fully confirmed the above stateinent. Mr. Al tennan T. Smith enittiretl if the defendant was intoxicated: when the romplainanto replied in the affirmative, as did also the two °therm The latter gave how a gut) I char,wter. The Magistrate said. flint previous good character could lie no extenuation of ne offence of wiich the defendant hail linen g'flty on the present occasion—a crime rendered not the less atnxious by hav ing attempted to add to an assault and false arrest the charge of a grass misdemeanour against two rt-sp:stable and tLfenceltia hatieles. The crime was, if possible, more fi 'grant, at a time when the whole country was fermented by the exposure of the condoet of certain individuals inn ing as Police Officers ; and he could last but consider. Last however in toxicated the defendant was said to have been, th.re mast have exited a motive of the worst nature—whether the extortion of money, or what, he could scarcely imagine. Ile felt it his duty, therefore, not to let the matter pass unpunished, and wished the complainants to state Loa far they meant to proceed. Mrs. Millen, M:ss Ittdicy. and Mr. Butlen. 0,1 the part of the former, did not wish to press promoting% against the de fendant ; and, on account of his having a flintily, and being (as they be lieved) in a state of intoxication. they were willing to accept of a public apology in the Newspapers. The defendant hewed, and, having ex pressed his contrition. promised to sign most readily any instrument to the effect proposed. The Magistrate said, he could not but think the lenity the complainants manifested wag too great. The conduct of the defendant ought at least to be represenutd to the Alderman of the Ward. M RLBOROUG H • STREET. Thursday, W. Cook, landlord of the Artichoke public-lionse at Kensington, was examined at Marlin,' ough.street, on a charge of stealing porter-pots from other piablicai,s. It appeared, that the prisoner had sent 15 pew terpos to a pewterer's, in Skinuei - street, Hisimpseate ; who, on examining them, observed, that out of tae whole only wile was marked ailh his (Mil nawe ! In fornt.Uiou being gi% en us the circumstance. his premises were seat eked; when a number of others were found, and also the prisoner, in the act of deriving the owners' names 011 them with a tile. He was ordered to bud good bail for his appearance at the scss:mis. T. Herobrew, Sarah Turner. and Jane Slipper. were charged by Mrs. Welling, residing in Park-place. Upper liaker-street, with unlaw fully conspiring togeeter to injure Aer in her pawn, by doingher sonic bodily harm, under the tollowmgcircumssances t appeared front th , statement of the complainant, that since the month ot February hut. front some unknown rims... come evilalisposed persons had made it their constant practice m -umoy her by sending ananymou , letter e and parcels, the contents of which were of the must vile and obseene nature. filial length they beerme so numerous, she was under the neurasitv of desiring her servants not to take in any !rum , that might conic by the post the party finding themselves thirt foiled, and that they ...odd make no impnession on her by sending those kind of letters. pursued anather plan; and on Monday sennight the complainant's house was heal by a vast number of trade people of all d *ions. amongst which war an undertaker, who had received a note desiring him to wait upon her imnolliately, for the purpeue of removing one at the hanale savants, who was stated to be head. Alter the boas lead been thus played of. a letter was 11 , 111Ight by the tw I,Nquiv-postnEtr. ru hich complainant at first rerum:d to take in ; but observing that it had luen put into the post.atliee which is but a few doors trout her own home. she took it. This letter also prorA to be anonyinthts, the eat tt lets of which were, that if the persons who wmte it could meet with her, they would give her a goal beating. The complainant. who tier scour time ptist, has hail supiciost of the detindams. who ate near ntiAlehoties, happened to mcnnon the circumstance to a Lady living rh.se Ity, who bummed her that her servant had seen a letter which was direcned to her pot into the pou.otlier on Saturday evening by the girl who lisssl servant to the detoulante. Hembniat and iktrah Turner. the a mee-a whom he co-habits. and dui, led to the diseovery of the whole of th se pra,.ticc.. det'endant .lane Slipper bring asked by the Niseiserate where she got the letter, stated that she had received it fr an &a+. h Ar tier, whit denied any of it. as did likewise the detadant licmhms4 till the Mai , :rate desired that he should hr swarm to that fact; when he. th-1,.a. app trendy very relnetantir. esiateearl et I • bust writtett Cie ULC, viia.l. lie Lad desire 1 t. ah Tamer, .maaww 109 keeper," as he called her, to have put into tile pia. The ',Ater question was of the most indelicate nature, licsidcs the threat it con tained, and appeared to be in the same hand-writim as the notes which had been sent to the different tta , lespeople. The Magistrate said, it was high time that an end should be put to such unwarraniabl^ pro ce.slings, and ordered each of the defendants to find sureties to keep the peace, and be of good behaviour. • - UNION HALL. As 1 7 NrousimceliET- 1 4 gentleman of respectability, named Fib ks, was on Sam day chat g. it by his female sees .• it, Mary Harris, with assaulting her and violating her person. The prosecutrix stated that she had been in Mr. Hicks's service about three weeks ;on Sunday noir iiiii the 21st instant, her master came home late, and going up to bed, immediately •ie sired she world take him a little gin and water up to his bed room ; she .►ccordingly did so: when she went tip stairs, her m att e r was partly nmiresse•l, and she also had some of her e to o thes off; as soon as she entered the room, her master took hold of her, threw her down on the bed, and notwithstanding her resistance Etre vied his purimee. On being questioned by Mr. SHIA°, the Magistrate, she eon. fessed she shan'ti not have brought the eharge agaiust her master, if he hod not turned her unit of his otiose. Mr. Flicks denied the truth of every pare of the girl's state. meat ; mad the Mogilrato feeling convince d it was nut founded on fail, dismiss'• the charge. Mr. Hicks said lie hail now a very serious charge to pref against lets acceeo , r, woo, upon this intonaeion, took pla••c of the accused. Since Mary ;Innis had quitted his settle she had been frequently at his house•; after she went away, o e day a ;tow iihroket's depilate was found in one of the rooms in which she had brim, and near it a silver milt mg, helmotior so a friend of his, alto ail. gone into the country, and had loft his plate in his t Mr. Hicks's) care ; he stroogly suspected the prisoner of having ta:.en it from its proper place; lie had also missed set vial oilier articles; and ha•l ne d 0.11,1 if tbs• prismotr was committed tOr re-examination, he si.onuJ Lc aule to pi. duce such evidence as wound induce the Magistrate to rommit her for trial. She was aceui Jingly committed tar re.examination 4111 Friday next. _ . accident which we have long anticipated, happened nn Friday night at Vantdiall-garden. to Nladaoor Saqui : as she ss as d anc i isg on th e ti 2 lit rope, n boll is solrAillited for the raseatie. she tell ; an d, w e ar e •lorry to sac, some of her flOn are broken. About nine on 'Tuesday night, Mary Dantnn, residing in Steward's !lents, Drury-lane, tial liersvlf by the neck with a pi ve of bed-avid ing, but was fortunately beard b► tria. Daley, th, landlady of the house, groaning very loud, who went up stairs to her room, and saw her suspended; when she inimediately cut her down. and sent for as. instance. In a short time signs of ramming animation a!peareil, and by to o'clock she was revuvered so a. to be able to speak. The Ca(tye she assigned for this rob act was, her lin, ing no employ, and hem,4 without food or sufficient Last Sunday evening, Mr. Kennedy, of Oxford-►treet, suatill bopped clown and expired. BIRTH. At Brsseli, Lady Vitte.ow. of a bO4. Major Angelo, of the ?Ist reg. to l'arrline de Choiseul, datt.of the Maul. de Ctois.:ul.—T. Cotton, Eq. to Miss Richards, of Dui ley Grove House.—A tired Thorpe. Eaq. of Walthamstow. to Louisa, eFest dam of late Sir Wm. Mater, of Anareabrook.—At Florence, at the house of Lord Burghersh, Claude Alexander, Esq. of Rallyamyle. to Keatinge, eldest dau. of Col. Keatinge.—At Stirling, Capt. H. Littljohn, to the dau. of Provo•t Littlejoht. of Srirlim.r.—T. Cotton, E. 1-te of Caraecta. to Miss Richards, of Harrow-roarl.—G. Rich. Its* son of Sir C. Rich. !tart. to Catherine. eldest dau. of late 11 Lof tus. Cs+ of Kllly on, Westmeath, nieee to Elul of Arran.—At Eran hurgh, Lieut.-Col. Duncan Cameron. of 7th Highlanders. K.C.R. to Catherine. eldest dart. of late Idetit.-Gen. Rajah.. of Rosa-hall.—eart. Henry Elton. 11. N. to Mary. widow of late Peter Toucher, Es+-... Capt. l'acton. o.' Ono, Irma guards, to Frances., dart. of late H. Halsey. Eso. of Henley Park, Surrey.—ltr. Sherson, of I.l.idge 11.ause, to Min Fisher. dart. of R. Fisher, hay. 01 itening.—i.:arl Mullet. to Lady Snia' lturgess.—The Her. J. }Welland. of 11.thiptnn. to France,. dau. of late s 1 lit. Arnold. Eaq. of Isle of Wight.—At Rrrarting. Rev. .1041111ornbuckie. to Arabella. dau. of Wm. Andrews, IL H. Mason. H.S. to .tlissiKborde. of Citifton.—.tt Guernsey. the Rev, P. Nlairv•v, A. AI. of !tampion. ONhard.shire. to Matta. bCianlfil dart. of .1. F. T toner, h:so. and niece of the late Major-Gin. Sir Isaac hrucit.—Vl tn. R staleigh„ i:sq. M.P. of Cornwall, to Caroline, eldest dau. of H . !tins oars, Esq. of Wilts.—Mr. C. H. Harman, of Wines otliee-etnirt, sear, or. to Miss Harriet Clon, of Islington.—Hon. and Hey. T. 1.. Tluntias, to Mary Jane, eldest dau. of Rev. Jas. Bortsquet. of flartlingstone.—!lake Seward. i '.sq. of Greenwich Hor pital ai 1 adz veo-street, to Miss Katherine Beaeheroit, of Lambeth. DU.I). If. A. Leicester, Esq. brother of Sir J. P. I.eicester, of Tablev Ran. Cheshire.—At Welwyn, Herts. agial 77. Capt. Hugh Barkie, Aged 7a, Ars. A. lleyrick, dau. of Lady Lucy Meyrick, gvand-ban, of Karl of Londonderry.—At. Mid. Temple, suddenly. llobt. l'uoloy a Esq. barrister.—ln Ireland. ('apt. Perron Sinwock. R.N. of Gravel-- hill and Ellesinere.—.fit Interne}, Sir Alex. Mae. l.akhart, Bart of Ice and Carnwarth. in conserptcnre of falling off his athrir.ge, and the wheel going over his breast.—At St. Pol, in France tin eotiz4lllelll7‘ of being overtiirmid in his gip..). Henry Egerton Ntarsh. Brevet Major of the Rural Art.—The Hight itev. John Skinner, Primate of the Ephwo pal Clitirch of Si...thuni.—Mias datt. of Dayrol. Esq. of Shudy Canino. near Linton. Site was amienng heiself by the side in a fish-pond. when she fell in and was drowned.—.At Islington, John flown, Esq.—Hen. Wright, Esq. of Clapham-common. —At ,Nortolk, America. I'. Fortle, a native of France. o w i ng a in that place of probably to } tars, he continued :n the occupation of a retail gr,wer. upon the must limited scale. his stock in trade never ex ceeding goo dollars; yet in this inconsiderable way, it is ii"erted that Ile acctunuiakil Upw aril% of 5141100 dollars !, One room se rt din. :or lii,. store. parlour. bed-chutnlwr, and kitchen : and the whole expense of his liottsmild would be over-rated at 100 dollars a year. About lo.ta PO dollars were deposited in the banks. ismisi dollars lie :lad se:nir time aim remitted to France, and about 10.0011 dollars in gold, wens .o• id and .'y thund after his death. deposited in the Lire bottom of a wooden chest, realer a quantity of old (Maths and rubbish ! The ex. t....orian..ry weight oi the (Lest led to the discovery of the treasure ! He has kit a brother in France, and rcqu:sted that all pus elFcct.. a..is court?) might be remitted to him. (Norfolk r.)-1n France, Jiunes Stephens, Kok ofCattierton, near Bath, Just. of Peace tar So iner,etshire.—ln Itttoo, Ediauial Eq. an uorivaned p er . former till the pipes.—ln ;Os ..?7th year. Nfr..l. 8. ,•: iv •cori of tor. T. Hititelliain. newsman and. stariilner, of llolborn.—Tlie Hcv. Cooper Willvarns, Hector of Kingston aril Stounnotith, Kent. —Mrs. Ilistre. wife of Henry Hoare. Esq. of 91st year. Mrs. Graham, widow of T. Graham. Esq. late of Edmond Castle, mother of Sir .1. (;11/11:011. Burt M.P . . for Carli.h . .—SVin.ll:,ll. of ' Kt-coley. senior Alderman of that Coreoration.—At ('amber.. w.a. aged 75. .lan t e4 Ciecshirv. Mr. Hugh Gran:limn lite of Inti.—At T.miworth, in soth year. Sam. f'ooper, Esq. formerly of Southampton-build. taiLsow, in 7.lth rear. James I /unlop. E n .—At. Nfauf , tone. Wm. Alexander, Esq. of the Rriti.h c anta ,,, a7 . 4 3th year. Mrs. Anne Pyott. relict of H. T. Pyott. one of surviving laughter. an d an . heiress s of Sir H. Singly% Wirt. of Northbonestoetet, Kent.—tor. R. Vaughan, IS years the well-knoivn vta•hni:••• of the Cambridge Tule. Fendi. He 'lined at nielceridgc on Sutoir.r. and in the a lin t : ,u off in a gig to return to Cambridge. hut hail oily proceeded about a node, when he doer fel:or tv 3 , thrown out, anti votive , iii 11,uk ' gee where be expired .in ‘Vedtriday, npwaiela of f ' o , yoi.!S s e . tl is. y1 ' illi:; 1 i Smart, lisr of Ilatithey.—flfra 'ryndas, tact of the lair G. B. Tiertele. of !I it;.:Ord, Sealer* :Wire.