The National Register. — London, England, 1819-07-25 00:00:00

JULY 25. CUM.IIO,V COUNCIL. GUILDHALL. At one o'clock on Friday•the Court met, rind the Lord 'Mayor informed them that be had on Thursday night received :an important coinaniaicatioa froan.Lord Sidmouth, which with their leave he would read —(Cries of " Read !") Has Lordship then mad a letter from Lord Siilmouth, thauking hisu iu the warmest terms, by order of the Prince Regent, fur his adoiralde and efficient arronzeinents to pre serve the peace of the City, during the Smithfield Meeting on Weduesdav last.--(illear, hear.) The Lord Mayor-Own detailed at sonic length the eaten siee arrowniente made by the Civil Power to preserve order on the day ti hutted to. and expressed his cordial thanks .to person of every political party, fur.the aid they ram ded He then described the rued-tante he had rer clued from ,public bodies; the East India Company, iii adtlitioa to ,placing their own department in a state of etrength, had placed at his dispimil SOO men. His. Lordship then alluded too printed hill,of a must inflammatory kind,that was posted . shout Ci , tow n nu Meditesdits, anti ing the people to memo on that day—le mode every enquiry respecting the authors of that seditious bill, and misled hos iofortwition would lead to their detection and pail islimeut. He had ,eceived Mho. to dims upon oath, that the, disaffected had made every effort to call nail actiou their means of outra4e on that day, and had hoped in tilts great rit,i tis have found (that whit h was . fortunately and properly not the fact) ahettorito have as.• bitted in their project, which oat of the most diabolical for it carom ised a plot to nil extent no less monstrous than .that of Mine this great city and murdering the inhabitaiite— (lfear.)—Tis was their object, he repeated he had infor. mation of it upon oath --but the &mitres and energy of his fellow citizens defeated the diabolical attempts of the sedi tions.—( !fear, hear.) On the motion of Mr. S. Dixon,l,ord•Sidmouth's let ter was ordered to be entered nil the Journals. Mr. Alderman Wood. 111. P. then came forward, and begged to ask his Lordship, whether he had directly or indi reedy any informitteo of the author of the printeo bill, or any possible means of disemering him? Mr. Samuel Hilton rose to address the Lord tlayor, but ;he norm) , Alderman interrupted him, maid insisted upon his right to an answer, ssyingi.".Surelv the worthy Gentleman is not going to answer fur Ilse Lord Mayor." The Lord Mayeeenid, the enquiry was perfectly regular, .and he would give ean mower. He had stair idea that the ,information which he received would lead to the detection of the author, at Itect he helped se. ; the hi I wit.) one of the most flagrant kaad, mid its contents concurred with the juror -to itiun alright. he bad received upon oath, that the object of the diealferted-was an that day, " to fire this great City, and murdered! its peaceable inliehitants ;" but the to, alt y of the people ofloudoil, aim their feelings naturally averse to -.relies of inurder and 1 .4 ;ri,,r, pri voted a t mobinot ion whirl, appalled the conspirators. The t. hue t would also learn with surprise, that alll,ln n very ft w yards of the titamin.whicil they sat a seditious meeting had been held, where proceed ings took place of Ilse mist set loth nature acainas the puhlic peace. Alt hr 'Moult 11111 W say of that meeting seas, thet a man ought to he very cautious how he allowed ;seism* to fremient his house who could use seditious expel slims of such nature. Mr. Alderman Wood, M.P. rose and said, that hermist ttespass still further upon his Lordshipaepatienee lee a mole satisfactory answer. His Lordship hail stated that lie had the beet infursuntion to believe an attempt was meditated to fire the city, soil murder its inhabilantri. •:Mrely then it was of the first importance to know who these cum-pit-a tors were, mid to brine them to justice. As u Alimietrate, lie could only pledge himeelf to use the ut most eget tions to promote soinipot tam an inquiry. With topect to the printed bill, lie could not help it collecting, that during hien wit Mesottilly, one Itail been posted op . very %theme, on Cie very suotimig of the Spahelds Mei l ing, headed io letters so large that es ery child could read them, " Spalields Rawl On it, nay hays!"—"'frith,. for a penny!" Time object of that bill was evidently its insti gate the people to act,' oft iolenee, and tic had probed it to the Wilton, as he hoped the.4.os il Mayor would do in this case, He hail aseertaioed Mack wise printed by a person connected with one of the cooperate amities of the -city (the Bridewell), and with she knowledge, if out wills ;he approbation of pergola* nodes-stood to he connected with Government Loud-cries of Hear.)—The Cut posti lion, he was confident, a °old assist his Lot (Way in every -effort, by reward onothei *tee, to detect and ',smith who ever the ()ermine were •who had been engaged in such practices. -As far as recorded the people at the late Smithfield-Meeting, not the slightest attempt had been made by awe ;weevil aiming then; to siut or disorder; so That the author of the bill memoir •lated what the parties themselves, judging from their action, evidently did not. —(Hear, hear.) tir..S: Dixon said, it would better become the worthy .Alderman to have moved !batiks 10 the Lord Mayor, than •;4) havaintrodimed this conversation. Mr.:lOvell alluded to the spill •Ids i iii, and condemned -such proceeding* altogether, as being the must likely to counteract the necessary meassue of a salutary Mr. Alderman 'Weithman expressed his surprise Chat his Lordship should have said to little about the lamination he bad received iespecti ilea he bill, soil eo much about the nu flews of the plot to tii e the Cif The latt. r he thouzlit, might have hen spared for prudential reas,aa,euutiltooie of the minspiratitre were detected. After ;alluding to the Spa tickle Bill,and the author or it, tl,e worthy Aldermasi-sed he was salt pr. mired to +Witch the utmost weight to hills of filch is rt.-script on ; mind w hen {tor •coileoedihe machinations of Ohio r and intim spi •s, he tuned wit overlook the posse. bilk,' lit per,oili of a similar di eci iplion might be at work lit present —( Beer, !)--ii ith a view e %citing s , ch •Cernieiit as a .14,1 Os, room for the iiitroduc tine of force to put down all -tee discussion among the people. He hoped -that no p miss would he spared to discover the authors (if there were may 1 ago foul a conspiracy as that of MO; tie. Coy and murderiug its inhabitants. Lveit the information of an Oliver ou.;:it to he attended to in such a ease, will, a of brieging the inquily to some issue. Looking, how ever, ut the meeting, and us the heavy grievances and es of the people, he did suit think insinuating the possi bility of thew beim; paiticiestota, by molten' platain, iu bloodshed and rapioe, was the I. miles. a mei of treating them. For his Oen port, lie exprtsseii his thnuttithnielit that the under all the eire 'lances, went offso quietly as it did. Nettling could he more rash or iftsadvieed, ur snow against the tiiintlimuug•opiiiion of aisle ShadiS•riliCs• LULU I lie appearaece of dragoOlie In the e-treets of the city on Wednesday ; it was against the express-understanding CI it R tidier should he been, though the fullest meats acre ta'sen to base an adequate force at hand, iu caiie.of deflect- Til; worthy Alderman then reprolitaded, in LIT warmest THE NATIONAL REGISTER. terms, the rash and intemperate act of vending I hirty or forty. constable., in the very middle of the business of the meeting, to ai rest I I a rri,4lll. ( • ies of Hear.) Tim Lord Mayor denied that any dragoons were by his combo rky in the City. The City Light Horse were only in Giltspur Street, one or two at a time, riding to receive his orders every half hour as to the state of the Meeting. lie warmly animad verted upon the worthy Alderman (Waithman's) conduct. He Wes told he had insulted those gentlemen (the City Light llorse) and endeavoured to instigate the people to attack them. His condu:t throughout the meeting of tht! ,Magistrates had been indecent, intemperate, imprudent, and obtrusive. Alt,. Waitlituan lasked the Lord Mayor, whether he was aware that the Lite Guards were in the Green Yard, where his Lord ship's carriages were kept, .and that they were publicly there. With respect to the attack made upon him by lux Lordship, he had to refer to his public conduct as a refutation. Mr. Oldham -ch.fendest •the conduct of Alderman Waithmsn. If any thing could tend to create disturbance more than another, it was the arrest of Harrison ru.stail a artment. He ended with exprtssing a hope.that his Lordship would retract the observa tions lie had made respecting Alderman Waitliman. M r..luffsaid, the Lord Mayor mould not have acted otherwise than he had done, and seconded the motion of thanks. Alderman Waitbimut he had a few *olds to ray. woukl have all the personalities of the Lord Mayor without renur.ert. 11 ith !aspect to the apprehension of Ilarrison, he knew nothing of the warrant issucd, but merely hand that the artist had been made by 40 or 50 constables, and he still oonsi tiered dun wrest iil•jtidged in the extreme. if he lied been I.ord Mayor, he could have taken the resporsibility or acting quite otherwise upon himself. Mr. Pearson pnyosed an amendment, that thanks should be voted for the civil preparations, but exprmisartg regret that the military were introduced. Mr. Revell had no objection to the motion, upon condition that the Aldermen were included. Mr. Pearson said, itc-had every reason to believe that Mr. Harrison had given bail in the country, and that therefore Lis arrest in London was merely an act of oppres,ion. Mr. Gritiitits denied it, and deck:red that Mr. Harrison, on being asked by the Lord Mayor whether he had any defence to make. answered in.the negative, and expressed himself satisfied at the intention of the Laid Mayor tascaid bin' au Stockport, before those who had issued•the warrant. Mr. Reeves confirmed this statement. Alderman Wood wished for an explanation respecting the three Lite Guardsmen in the Green Yard. Aldeiman Thorp preferred the first motion of thanks, approved of tha zeal of the Lord Mayor, but regretted the appearisr.ce of the military. The Lord Mayor said, the appearance of the three Life Guardsmen arose from this circumstance. He had rot • horse sufficiently quiet to go amongst a mob without putting them in danger. It was also the case with the Marshyls, and be sent where he knew be could get horecs •ell adapted to the buriness of attending crowds, end on whose steadiness he could rely. The horses were brought, but be laid given no orders for the men who acconammied them, and he knew nothing nhout .them, but was fully convinced they had no other orders than to bring the horses to him for Ins use. Out of the Green Yard the horses did not move till the fleeting wsia, ova, and his Lordship suppor.ed their owners remained with them to take care of them. The Amendment wag negatived, and the original Motion agreed to ; the numbers hei og— For the Amendment, 27—For the original Motion, 69. The thanks were then voted to the other Magistrates. J,llO William Buckle, Esq. presented a Petition, praying his discharge from his nomination as Slit •which au complied with, and ordered, upon his paying a .fine of suot and 20 marks. A party, consisting of Mr. Croker, the Secretary of the Admiralty, Mr, Peel, Sm. lately act out on a short excursion to the Continent. It was proposed by one of the party to proceed in the packet from Dover to Calais, and thence round by land to Hol land. The Secretary of the Admiralty offered the superior accommodation of the Admiralty barge, and proposed to sail direct for Antwerp. His offer was accepted : they sailed fur Antwerp ; but it tinter- Innately happened that there , A 11.9 not skill or intel ligenoe•enough cupboard to find out the mouth-of the Scheldt, and the time of the party having been ex hausted in the vain experiment, they had the mor tification of returning home without setting foot on either France, Flanders, or Holland. Several thrtners in Cornwall have contracted for their coining crops of barley, .at one guinea and eight-pence per quarter. In consequence of the great growth of apples in the neighbouring counties, to remedy the evd, as it is there considered, many thrillers, it is said, have actualiy despoiled their orchards of their fruit, by threshing their young ap ples from their trees ! Feigners, who are guilty of such shameful conduct as the latter, deserve to be n'e t hreshed themtelver. The fellowilag is an extract of a letter from Ge noa, dated the 10th inst.:—" Several vessels have arrived here since the 3tl inst. from several , parts of the coast of Spain ; but they do noi.seem to confirm the report which has been circulated, of a rupture between the Algerines and Spain." A great number of the inhabitants of Manchester have ()fired to form an armed association for the protection of the towns of Manchester, S Ilford, and their neighhourli.lod, and their offer has bin ae ccpfed by Governittert. Thetford nth attended as natal by mans re spectable growers, both ftoin Norfolk and rieralk. Of the agricillturiats prevent he observed Gen. Fitzroy, .1. Merest. Esq. M.l' J. Griglav, Evq. and J. Moseley, 1•:sq. Amongst tat- deal .rs trete Mewt% %Vatter. Va manor, and b er , ( ruin Nun if II NOti % urkshire. Mutterer, oh ink lo the present depression of trade, there was scarcely a single parcel of Wool disp.eted of. Lord A them.' rte, w ho presided, offered !HI at Sfis. but no buyers rain.. forward. Mr. Coke has net preat nt, oh ng to a recent death in his family. One lot of half-bred Letc , ster and Norf . () k Wool was Imlay tiara:lll void at 511. So excessively hot war the small loom which na.rc than 100 pen •iss dined, that the meting hrokc up earlier than walla', after many WAS!, and ..1111- 111011i1 1 , Of the sawe nature.•- those la►t year, had berm warily received. The colossal statue of Britannia was erected last week on the summit of the naval monument at Yarmouth, to which it forma a beautiful apex. The figure is In feet high ; be fore it was Imo tip it heizhed II tons, but with Hie compta.i tion with which rt has tweel,shice alleti, it um; bc ruwpritval to wt•i;h at plercat Jj 'teas. DISTURBED DzsraicTs.---The following is Or! copy of a letter addressed by Lord Sidmouth to the Lord Lieutenant of the county of Chester. Similar letters, it is stated, have been sent to the Lord Lieutenants of all the counties which are the imme diate scene, or in the vicinity or the reform mt.ct ings " Whitehall, Jdly 7. " My Lnrd,—The nee:semis public meetings which bare lately !ahem glare at Storkpm t mid the adjleent parts of Lancashire, their manifest purpose, and the language whidi has been held at them, tide engaged the serious at tention of his Itlejesty's Gersirnment : your Lordship's presence under these cu I elllnstancro imthe county of which yourititilship has the charge, cannot iwit Ise highly.de %inside and important ; iu eider Oat, vadvr !vet- Lord ship's ant horit y. the meet prompt and dircitill means may lie adopted fur the pleservation of the tranquillity of the comity of Chester. The n most vigilance and activity on the part of the smeiitrates in Ike districts to which I have refer is 111111tS,sell•gibly and urgently neceNsary, le ma i n . tam and enforce, if e evpsisiir, obedience to the rows, auAi to lining to justice those UfleiltlCEl by whom they may be violated. 'For these !surmises •it is- earnestly hoped the power of the civil ait'imi dies will lie frilly antlicient ; bat as a m(.4snre t,l ri craft thou, your vLorcisirip •is 'desired to give immeilisfe directions to. the seferal corps •ef Teo 1114111y Cavalry iu Ike county of Mester, to hold them seises in moislineate fo attend to any-call :Tor support and assistance, which, in case •f necessity, they may receive I the magistrates ; anti the utmost confidence is justly placed in the reel and prninniitiale with which, under such circumstances, the call will Ise evieyed. " I hake the honour to be, dc. " SillM01:111." A very fine friglite, named the Fisgard, to mount upwards of 50 guns, was launched frun. the new dock yard, Pembroke, a few days since; •sht, went off the stocks in very fine style, amidst the acclamations of thousands of visiters, amongst whom were Lord Cawdor, Admiral 'Frollope, and all the neighbouring gentry. The ceremony of naming the ship was perthrmed by Lord Cawdor. This is no less than the eighth ship that has been launched from this establis'ament within the, period of about four years past, including the Belleisle, of 74 guns, launched about two mouths since. Female Courage and Fidelily.—An half-idiot who, about fifty years since, was employed by a gro cer residing at Woodstock, or %itney, was told, on the morning of the sth of November, to go to a coffer where the gunpowder was kept, and bring some down and put it into the drawer, to supply the con sumption of the evening. The man forgot the order till it grew dusk, when be took a lighted candle in his hand, which he inserted in the loose powder ; and, filling the measure, walked away. He could not speak intelligibly, although he understood what was said to him ; he made his meaning known by igns. Scarcely had he emptied the powder into the drawer, when, suddenly recollecting what he had dune, the terrified creature made a terrible noise, displaying every mark of horror and dismay ; and &sin made his master and family clearly understand that he left a burning candle fixed in the gunpow der! The danger was so appalling, that meat of the inmates fled ; but a servant girl entreated her master not to alarm his sick wife; and, going direct to the chamber as gently.as possible, approached the burning candle. Closing the fingers of her hands, she formed a kind of candlestick, and lifting the candle safely out of the powder, returned it to her master, fainting away the moment she resulted tha shop! Cambridge, July 2cnd.—The diabolical spirit for destroying dwelling-houses, barns, &c. sti:l continues in this county. A few nights since a house at lslehatn, be• lough% to Mr. Hall, a lamer, of Ely, teas wil ully stt on fire and burnt to the ground, will all the goods of the (occupier ; awl on Sunday night last, in the parish of Exning, where the barn and corn of Mr. kiryaat were so recently set en fit r, fire mice houses of that village were sttt on fire, au I the families that occupied theta es caped with elitii.7ulty trout perishing in the flames. Sa yeral letters have been dropped, threatening the total de struction of this proscribed yikage, in which there have bren twelve hones burnt to the ground, no doubt by die same desperate iitertuliarieF, wialsio the last two years. Mr. Hancock, the grocer, received a. lettor, stating that his house woold be burnt k, she gmond before the sun rose on Monday morning., wit i.:11 was too truly verified On S lay la-t tour hooses• were destroyed by fire at Ili-row, in the parish if adalen ham. in this county, beloogiug to farmers, lust the calamitous conflagration, it is brheved, was accidental. The attierers on dos la. 'namable occasion werr.. Messrs.J.Wayama, M. Porte:, P. Peter, and T. On 711 , niday inNt a gentleman of Norwich undertook, for a utAiug wagrt, to wail; two mile. on the Unadon road in 20 tooalwrs. Hr nrroniplialied hia task with great cue in t 8 miossira and a 11411. A iallov, who v.sys his name is John Bodeom, and that be beloogi to Hull, was Lusted front a packet at Fal:noutli on iuntas, Uhl br114.11111 before Andrew Young, I.Fci the Mayor of that loon. lie vtatet, that on Cie with of June, lb 17. lie was walking in a held near Slockton.upon-Tee:., WWI 4 ,oung woman named Malian liohimon, to uhnat he 11::isi his. addresses; and suspecting this site favoured anus h• r mars, slopu te Arose bet • eels theist, on • Rich he drew a knife fno• his pocket avid stabbt d nee under the left breast. On her fallssa,;, he fled, awl connived to evade pursuit, until he got on boast a ve.sel and left the kingdom, from o h:ch he has been obsent ever since; but being vtonble to sapit,vl the humor. of resnone that tili44llll/1y haunted him , hr confessed the crone he s at committed, out resigned hints's& into the hands of justice. Tiriy)ethe 1,11., hut h . .w t," t 1.. 1 true it insponsible at pies nt t.. 5.1%.: he Arts colons t test to the count) d La? •ta, sto 1.1 t ,w.tatato,..l to