The National Register. — London, England, 1819-08-09 00:00:00

AUG UST 2: e= towns and. their neighbourhood, at which, a Declaration wk. unanimously agreed to, stating. that" the meeting being seriously impressed with a sense of the danger which threat, ns the conimunity from the signs and practices of the tlLatilctcu, diem it indispensably necessary to declare their determination to support the Constitution of tho Country, and to 00-optrate with the local Authorities for the preservation of the peace, and to cull on their fellow town,rnen to join them in taking every measute which the urgency of the case may demand." BURNLEY. A Public meeting wasiieidatthZ:Commerc7al Room here. no Saturday, of the magistrates and inhabitants of the Higher Divi iur, of the Hundred of Blackburn. tin the purpose of adopting effectual measures tin the maintenance of the public peace at this important crisis. It was very numerously intended, and a Declaration was unanimously agreed to and signed, the substance of which WILS exactly to the svne effect as that previously adopted by the initi,istraters and inhabitants of Bolton. ' MAIN /IBS IEI4 PUBLIC Ai P.E U.—Tne itlvettlig ap pointed stew aitne ago to take place at Manchester. at which Mr. Hunt ia tn preside, will certainly take place on :he gtit inst. Sir Charles Wolseley Is expected I" do the nteetiats the honour of his presence. Mr. Har rison will allot h e diem ; and indeed every man of note among the party whose presence is trot vi . .intrii t Ist where. The following is a copy of a circular whi.di has hertirxtrosit elv circulated, atitionociou lie The Public are respectfully informed that a meeting will he held here on Monday, the 9th of Atigtht, on the area rear St Petet's Church, to take into consideration rho most speedy and effectual mode of obtaining Radical Beform in the Connnons House of Parliament, being fully convinced that nothing el-e can remove the intod.rable eei under which the people of this country have se long and do soil groan : at.tl also to consider the propriety of the tin, ep: esented inimbitants of Manchester electing a person to repo-.eni t: , C:11 io Parliament, and theadopting Major tartwrighes Bill. Chair to he taken at twelve o'clock. '• If. IIe MT, Esq. in the Chair." The following Proclamation hes been issued Pow the New Bailey Court House, dated Sr.turday 3istof July :-- " Melva:, it appews by an advertisement in the Manchester Observer Paper of this dry, that a public and illegal meeting is convened for Monday the 9th of Attgoit next, to be held on rho Area near St. Pettris Church, in Manchester:—We, the undersi,gned magistrates, acting ft* the Counties Palatine of Lancaster and Cheshire, do hereby caution all persons to abstain at their peril from auending such illegal meeting. -• Nilliam Rialto*, ••.1. Ilolm e, " J. Norris, " H. Marsh. " John Koiwistle. " l'ratihrJ Traffhnl, " W. Marriott. es 11,411 Fletr.licr." " Thal Wm. Talton, It will scarcely he credited that a sufficient num ber of men cannot be procured, as volunteers, by the Admiralty, to man the squadron of ships of war, dtmined for the South American Seas, to protect our trade from the privateers cruising in that (melee. This must appear the must surprising, as the streets are crowded with strong and yontbliil sailors, either begging or ehaunting dismal ditaies, that they are starving for want of employment. The giving alms in the public streets is nothing more than setting is premium upon idleness, and diverting charity from its proper channel, which should go to relieve the indigent, who are ashamed to beg, but who would cheerfully labour if they could procure work. The trade of begging is become so profitable, that we shall not be surprised to find that it will be deemed necessary to issue press warrants to obtain men for the public service, though we always lament when recourse is had to so harsh and unpopular a measure. It was said on Friday in'the City, that negotia tions are new going forwitrd between the Govern ment of this country and that of Spain, for the signature of a Convention, by which the British Commissioners in Mexico are to be permitted to transmit to this country from thence specie to the amount of 10 millions of dollars, as heretofore, in ships of war; the previous agreement which wad entered into was for 15 millions of dollars, all of which, with the exception of 400,000 dollars, have readied the Treasury. The latter amount is to re main at Vera Crux until the second arrangement has been completed with Spain, when it will be put on bottrd a British frigate, with a larger amount, for England. Whether it will be necessary to obtain any further sum than 25 millions of dollars, will be a matter fbr future consideration. It is conjectured that when the payments in epocie, by the Bank of England, become general, that an additional quan tity will be required. ihasoow, Avoust 3.—Yestertlay morning, the Magistrates gave work to 250 unemployed weavers, at terming a Tunnel in the Green, for containing the Camlachie Burn from the Episcopal Chapel to William -street, at the 'lead of the Green ; and this Morning they have inercieed the number to 4350. It is gratifying to know, that when bread is found for so many families thst an important improvement is to be accomplished. By this scheme, the High Green and the Calton Green will be thrown into one grand sweep, and the stagnant water removed, which fre quently became oflinisive in warm weather. We also understood that the heritors of the Barony Pa• risk and Gorbals arc making ; great exertions for procuring work to the unemployed. The rate 'of wages is 9s. a week firr persons with 3 children, 7s. lid. for those who have fewer children than 3, and Gs. for iiiegle men. A beneve!ent and pehlie •spi ritad proprietor in the Lower %Word has offered to the hetitors otitis parish to emp;ey 100 wearers in digging laud at the meted rate as acre, or Is. a day, if tt be prsferred; and has reaummendcd porridge in the Morning, and soup at dinner, to lie given to such women and children as choose to accept them. This judicious modessf charity, we hope, will be imitated —The weavers In tie Upper and Middle Wards will be employed 011 the uew Carlisle road. THE NATIOSIAL REGISTER. The two line-of-battle ships for South America, Superb and Vengeur, are waizing for men; the lat ter wants upwards of 100, to increase her eomple. ment to 540. She has been completed (according to her only present orders) for foreign service. The 11yperiun, Capt. T. Searle, is also fitting for foreign service, and, it is supposed, to accompany Commo- • dure Sir Thomas Hardy. It is supposed that these ships are intended to go out only as a squadron of demonstration, or of observation, in consequence of Lord Cochrane having, by Proclamation, declared all the ports on the coast of I'eru and Chili in a state of blockade. Extract of a letter from Buenos Ayres, dated May 14:—We have accounts by way of Chili that a South Sea whaler had arrived at Chacabuco from Callao de Lima, bringing the intelligence of Vice Admiral Lord Cochrane baying entered the latter port on the .23d of February, tloring a dense fog, with the squadron under his command, and imme diately opened a brisk lire against the shipping and butteries, which was returned and kept up for a coupie of hours. The result was Lord Cochrane's carrying off a gun-boat, and doing great damage to the shipping, which he was unable to cut out, owing to the chant flistenings. He afu.rwards captured the Spanish merchant ship Vittoria, from Chili to Lima, laden with timber." I.:atria of a letter, dated Berlin July 24 " All our newspapers, the official gazette alone' excepted, in explaining the causes of M..lalm's arrest, have alleged that be had excited his scholars to imuirectionary seri, and that he had even inculcated the most horrid aniftlangennts doctrines; such, for exaniple, as that the assassination of siatestiten, in certain cases, wat no crint... A tsinst these harsh clairge, a protest has since been publicly made, and is signed by n.arly an 'salons, among whom are individuals of every tank in Cie state, officers and agents, lath civil and military, who ell declare that they have lived habits of intimacy with M. Jahn, but never heard any sentiments from his lips similar to theist of which the newspapers accuse him. They fir: liar th durr, thie rir t he two daggers found in his possession, one o. 414eili was a gin flow, the poet korner, who served with him in the last war, and was retain 4 as a lae• mood of that brute tivenan; Cite other was puteintsed by ban in the period of lii., military ttervi et. when many a Prussian held such a weapon to he moods! to his savvy, and had latterly been appropriated to a very harmless use—that of b7C - j4ing sugar." .stter the 4111110 ki.,16.11/41 lc, 111 .514, 1 , WilS observed, at a (Ishmael& party it Vats, lust ;flings were is be restored to the state in witio Mey were in .1788 Oh I I am delighted to hoar mat, - exclaimed 4 lady, who war no looser in the bloom of youto, " for then I shall Ix only it years of ace." - More Patulies.—At the Assi7es for Exeter, Mr. Justice Best, - on the Grand Jury being sworn, ,ad dressed them in a most impressive charge, in which he stated that he thought it his duty to call their attention to the circulation in the heart of that city of the most blasphemous pamphlets, ridiculing the Lord's Prayer (which every Christian held sacred), and other parts of the Church SerSice, which - he held to be clearly indictable, and for which he un derstood an indictment was to be preferred. An indictment was accordingly, we understand, imme diately preferred and found against a vender of these impious books, who has been committed to Exeter gaol till he finds bail to answer it. MitLANCIIOLV EVENT. —An American Paper, called The Poisdani Gazelle, contains the Following : —Mr Lyman Sperry, of Malone, Franklin, having been absent from his house on Friday afternoon last, returned home in the evening, cod finind his wife and four children in a - most deplorable condition— some of them just able to be abeut the house, while others were lying on the bed, &c. in a sorubrous, sickly, and wretched state. Ile endeavoured to arouse them, hoping to administer relief; but in a short time one child expired in his arms. Shortly Mier his wife died, and in a little while another child breathed its last.—He procured medical aid as soon as pssible, and by their active exertions the other two children were saved from immediate death, though it remains doubtful whether they will re cover. The oldest child that died was about five years of age. Those who survived were from seven to ten From what the surviving children say, it is supposed that Mrs. Sperry, who has been for two or three years, by turns, a little deranged, gathered Cieoto, nr, as some call it, wood chuck -root, steeped it in warm water, and fed her children, and drank plentifully of it herself, with a view of saving them and herself (in the embraces of death) from penury and want, which she had emitiently insisted was sowing upon them, although it is understood that Mr. Sperry is its good circumstances. Pommy —Richard Prior, the young man who stands charged with the forgery out Messrs. Martin, Son, and Hughes, and fur whose apprehension a reward of 5001. has been offered, has succeededin effecting his escape to America. On his arrival at Liverpool, lie put up at an ion in that town, which is leitt Ity a penam who was Formerly a welter at the Lou.l.en Coke-house, Lutlgate.hill, and in that capacity had known Prior se an occasional fre• quenter of - the house. No mai:hie:l, however, was entertained respeoing him ; but on the arrival of the newspapers of Friday lust, which stated the parti culars of the tisrgery, the itinkecp.a wrote to the parties in town, stating the file; of Prior's having been Otero, and it:tin:ming them that he sailer: tit:re twat port in a vcssal bound for America, on the Swiday preceding, via., the 25th ult. '5l We ar• ',formed by a gentleman wit° left Sheffield the last week, that in one wagon he stw 333 dead dogs carried nut fur interment, and 250 the succeeding day. The slang'iter occurred in consequence of the late la mentable instances of hydrophobia in that town, which had induced a town's meeting to be c o wl :t ied, du d A reward of 3s. each olitied for their des•tructiun,--\Ye hope the owners of does in this town will, dining the present hot weather, keep them confined. We cannot hear of the melancholy OCCUtfelleea at Shtllield without serious alarm. _ . The lieu spapers published in the manitfacturing dis tricts for and against the Radical Ili-formers, are so owelt in the habit of twrvertang facts, that it is innte,sible uo have any just or impartial Ikw of the proceed;iigs at the Reform Meetings with , nit being actually present. One paper asserts that Hags It use been displayed es ion iittlanititatory inseriptirms, - while another a• ly declares that no such flags were exhibited. P•ivate let ters agree in staling, that the Reform Meetings are nit the dechne, which is attributed to the very obscure cha racters which take the lead at these assemblies. CITY or EDINBURGH EL EC IleN —Wednesday being the dayappoitiled to elect a representative in Parliament lor the City of Edinburgh, at 12 oclock the Right lino. the Lord Provost and Town Council assent blel iti ilia Council-chamber fir that purpose, when the writ for i e new ele-c,iois having been tend, and other preliiiitnary baseness gone through, 13elcon ram! and n ,... tested against the c ',tient/ of the Town council 1.1 elect a member of Parliament, on the ground of the illegality of their own election. The prows: was laid on the tattle, read by the ele ; rk, and oidereil to lie recorded. The Lord Putvost then rose, and, abler briefly eulo gizing the character of the kielie Slim. \V m. whom lie considered every way Tialifwil to represent tie City of Edinburgh, proposed that he should he re elected. Bailie Smith, in a Short speech, Si emsdol t h e motion ; %v hen Deacon Patterson presented toinseli to the meeting, and proposed James Nlaiittireil, Eq. a grill eutan intimately contweied with the citizens of Editilair 4 ll, and who teas, in his opinion., a finial there suitable per.iu to reresein them ill Parliament than the Him. Mr. I)iiildas. Li%vrie amine:led the motion. He said. he had uo personal enmity to Al r. I)atelas, but he oujerted to him on public groistuls: be held lucrative situations under Govertietten, and had. moreover, opposed the wishes of the citizens of 111 their alleluia, le Opal , ' a urine liberal system of burgh polity ; and alllouteli he had inn the smallest doubt but that Right I on. Gull trines' woOki he returned, yet lie could not conscientiously give him his support.— Treasttrer Manderstim remarked; tlvat he was somewhat surprised am the confidence expressed by Deacort Lawrie that Mt. I)undas would he elected, when only two menttirrs of die Council had as yet declared themselves in his 'favour. Deacon Lawrie sarca'tically replied, he should be happy to find 1 • self mistaken; which ob servation excited a general laugh and a slight disposition to applaud. The clerk then proceeded to call oser the names of the electors; all of whom, with the eXceptifili of Deacons Gillespie, Paterson, and Lawrie, video' for Jr. I)itudas, who was accordingly declared drily elect ed. The Right Hon. Gentleman was not present at the meeting. lit the afternoon the Lord - Pcovost and Council, and a numerous party of friends of the newly elected member, dined together at the George -street As-embly rooms, where they spent the runt.oncicr of the day in social harmony. • StsiouLan CIRCIJIISTANCE.At the letter end of last month, as a eat belonging to Mr. W. All-. work of Gouilhurst, was prowling through the meadows, it was observed to kill a partridge, and, on examining the spot, a nest was found, containing 18 eggs, tvitich were taken up and that evening, e.t.a. posited in tin oven that had been recently used. On the fdlowing morning, wir!il the oven was opened, the whole of the eggs were fenuti hatched. and the young ones running about, but in catching them S were unfortunately killed; the remaining 15 were put into the nest, and placed in the meadow where it was taken from on the preceding eveltin4. 112 a short time the old cock partridge toes attracted to the spot, and in a - cev. , irinutes it departed with the whole brod, in the presence of several persons ; since that time they have been frequently seen by the gomokeeper of 'l. AVallis, Esq. The foreign exchanges, on which the price of the precious metals so materially depends, still maintain their former elevation. On Paris there was on Tuesday .scarcely any alteration, but that on Hol land and Hamburg!), bus risen ; the greatest into ; uovement bus taken place in the exchange on Frank. butt, which is about one per cent. higher. The Funds were nearly the same as on tile preceding day, butt the market was heavy, owing chiefly to tho supply of money btock having been more plentiful than usual. Consols for August closed at 711, and (Minima at 4 premium. The arrests which have taken place at the same time in dim rent parts of Germany, and especially in Prussia, have caused much uneasiness. It is re. marialile :hat the persons arreste.l and accused, par ticulurly in Prussia, arc the same patriots who, in 1812 and the succeeding years, contended for the deliverance of Prussia and iliermauy , they arc the same apostles of notional indepeud-inec who rose with the twist seal inn in IIILIAS against the French, who declared the war to he a war of the peiiple, aitil who, in a cermin pinnt of view, have ilzserved name of the dciliviaers of C;erimaiy. Tlve ,, .vhole fair cannot bail to draw the attention of tit E urt , i ,,, ; and it is impossible to mistake the . icaportanai which every writer gives to the aflitir, and %%Idols the diplomatic movements do not teed tc