The National Register. — London, England, 1819-10-11 00:00:00

33n QUEBEC PAPERS. THE LATE DUKE OF RICHAICIND. PO' QUEBEC, SEPT. was stated at Quebec that his Grace the Duke of Richmond died of hydropho bia. While at his summer residence, at William.- Henry, before be commenced his tour to the Upper Province, he was bitten by a tame fox, which shortly afterwards died of the malady. No symptoms, how ever, appeared for nearly 40 days after the circum : Lance, when his Grace being on his return from a visit to a new settlement, in a very obscure situation where he had to walk :10 miles on foot, in excessive hot weather, no road for a horse being yet made, he fliund himself atft..eted. It is stated his Grace was sensible of his approaching fate as soon as his indis position manifested itself, and expressed his appre llcrutions to his attendants. On approaching to de scend the Ottawa, or Great River, the sight of the water instantly threw him into convulsions, and, in little more than 24 hours, this most dreadful malady terminated his existence. His remains arrived at Quebec on the 2d ult., and were attended to the chateau by the military, till persons holding shun. lions under the Government, and the greatest part of the must respectable inhabitants. The remains of his Grace, at his most particular request, were to be interred at Quebec, on the 4th nit , in the cathedral church of St. I'aul, and nut, us stated, to be brought to .England Most ['KEA L. Suer. 3.—Every circumstance connected with the history of our lamented governor must be pe culiarly interesting at this moment of general sorrow ; and we regret that we can furnish but an imperfect ac count of his lave illness. It appears that his Grace left .Kingston on Friday the `.2olii ult., and arrived at Perth on the evening of the following day. That on Tuesday he again resumed his journey for the Richmond settle ment at the confluence of the Rideau and Ottawa livers, am!, as we before intimated, proceeded on foot over a ranged country of thirty miles, accompanied by Lieut.. Colonel Cockburn. His Grace was much overcome by fatigue, and passed a restless ni g ht at a house called New Store. On Wednesday, however, (the day following) he continued his journey, and arrived within 3 miles of Richmond, where he rested well, and walked to the s:ttletnent in the wonting, which he readied about to o'clock. While here, he expressed considerable relief, and attributed his healthy sensations to his laborious ex ercise. Ina few hours, however, he again complained of a returning illness, but passed the next night with so touch compostire, that he continued his journey at fit e o'clock on Friday morning. He ha 4 walked but three miles, wheat has SyMptimis returned with increasing •iolence; ionveyed by his attendants to a Limn, where he remained till 7 o'clock in the tvanitig, %ben he was removed to a neighbouring house, and there expired at 8 o'clock on the following morning. In the death of every individual, society sustains a, lass psoportionate to Ins al qualifications, and to his ability and disposition to advance the knowledge and happiness of others. This sentiment, indeed, embraces all our social relations and relroive duties , 2f1,1 it h by this we are to estimate the worth and excellence of au departed Governor. Without reverting to his long life of usefulness in the various public offices which he sustained in other qu it tern of the globe, we shall find the most ample swiree fur eulogy in his short administration of the govermuent of this country. From the system which his Grace has pursued since his arrival, there can be no doubt that he left his native land in the spirit of improvement, and with an ardent desire to elevate these colonies to a rank sv hicit should be worthy his great ambition. In the curnmeneetnent of his scheme, and as an object of pri mary importance, we have seen him promoting institu tions fo r the rAitoval of pri judice, and the dissemination of liberal and enliglnened principles atnong the lower ranks of society. To agriculture lie has given an adtii• tioual impulse by his liGeral patrona;e, mid co-operation with existing societies : the husbandman is now pursu ing his art with the zeal of an impatient rival ; he seeks fur the aid of science, and studies the application of ge neral principles ; what was before a dull and laborious r o u ti ne of unpluductite duties, has now become the pleasing and luerativc employment of laudable compe tition. Csuala hate been ',injected, and were already an progress, ender the auspices of this great man ; and there can he li•tle clutilit of his intention to have inter sected the vs hole country, sod unproved the advantages whi;h nature has bestowed with a bountiful liberality. his journey to the tipper province, when he fell a sic tint to his assiduity, had probably an immediate refe rence to this object, as al,o to the general prosp rity of the country. IVhile thus employed in laying the basis for an elegant superstructure, lie has been diligent in adopting the necessary precautions to secure it f lie grasp of multi-voracious ambition. The carious forti fications which border its threshold already bid defiance to the most determined aggressor : amid while happiness is 51561111 g within, she drys the peaceful repose of con scious security. e regret that our limits will not allow us to review the various events which [line partially do eloped the great system which his Grace had projected for the growth and prosperity of these provinces. He was emi nently calculated to mature the plan, as his political knowledge and unshaken integrity would have exerted a greater influence in the British Cabinet than is ever )fielded to a titled name ur fortuitous renown. IVe had . looked with prophetic ken through a short s ista of years, and beheld a prospect which had rendered us impatient for its approach ; and should nut disappear with its trious ougiu, his memory will eser line in the gratitude AA the country. We kuvw but little of the private life of his Grace, SITE NATIONAL REGISTER. but that little assures us, that his bettecolenee was an object of general admiration, and that his amiable en. dowinenis and conciliating manners, had endeared him to his Lundy and friends. The needy supplicant wa► always relieved by his bounty, sod our ststicrung grunts Wife pecu:tarly the .011ject of his parental 3olici. _ Let us, ihini mown the foss of so much excellence. Our country is bereaved of a devoted guardian ; the army is deprived of an enlightened and enthusiastic Ic tder; thr child of misfortune knocks in vain at his dresr and solitary abode; the voice which dallied de light and animation through society is hushed for ever ; and all that remains of so much dignity and worth, consigned to the mansion of the dead. The body of his Grace was cons eyed to this city by water, and was deposited at the Government-house at four o'clock on Tuesday morning. It was 'lately enclosed in coffins of lead and mahogany, and at seven o'clock its the evening was removed tot te steam-boat Malshant, to be sonvey,d to Quebec. Notwitionand ing this atrangement had been pioustilgated only a few hours previously, his remains were followed to the river by right or ten thousand mourners, being the cagiest cunconrse of people we have ever witnessed its Canada. Time remains of his Excellency lay in state at the Cilia. teat', u n til faiir o'clock on Sattinlay,. the 4th of Sep tember, when they were removed so the ace of ill• in the Cathedral Church at Que bec, in the following order : The whole of the troops composing the garrison of Quebec, consisting of a large detachment of Royal Ar ttilery, With fifteen field-pieces, whit lighted matches ; the whole of the little Battalion, (kith and 76th Ilegi usents composed the funeral and firing party, and form ed a lane extending from the door of the Citateau, pass ing the French Churcb, through the Nlarket-place, up Garden street, to the great west entrance of the Cathe dral. Oat the corpse being brought out, the collar and insignia of the Order of toe Garter, with his Grace's military appointments, bring placed oti the coffin, the whole of the troops presented arms. On its being placed on the hearse, the troops rested on their cross reversed. The procession Men moved on. The drums of the different corps covered with crape, rolls das the corpse passed. The military hand filed off at the door of the Cathedral Church-yard, and con. dueled it tip to the centre isle, where it was placed on a platform, the mourners remaining near use body. A signal was given, when fifteen pieces were fired Extract of a letter from Man :tester dated Sunday Oct. 3:— I have just learned. with sulficient accuracy tojostify my scouting an account of it, the math ulars of an outrage com mitted in this town last night. About P 2 o'clock, as Mea gher, a trumpeter of Ilk! Manchester Yeomanry, (who distinguished iii,nrelf at 't. Peteistield, and against a hom a hill was preferred at Lancaster), was returning from a public-horse to Ifs own house in Beam:gate, some person recognized him, and (Hill out, " There goes one of the bloody butchers." It ritated at this exclamation, Measlier drew a pistol, and threatened to shoot any man who should dare to follow ii in, In spite of the threat, lan an, fol.ovvd to his UWII house, N hich he entered, and having fa-telled his his door ' soon appeared at au upper window w ill his pistols, and toll the peisous culler ted in the street, that if they did not go away, he would fire upon them, and inimediately pre sruted his pistols. Some stones, it is said, at re then thrown. and a few pants of glass were broken ; and Meagher fired and shot two men; a hall passed thtough one mans leg; smother hall lodged in the thigh of the other. The wounded men were immediately inkou to t lie Infirmary, where they are now in a feverish, Ind lilt in a dangerous state. It is Omagh' that they will rot be able to bear the fatigue of being removed to the New Bailey, to prefer their complaint, fur some days to come. I have tech the bulb t a loch was extract. ii flout the thigh of tune of the sded 1111.11; it 19 of the largest size, such us are used for horse pistols.— Meagher very shortly after the outrage was fm red out of his house, and a ilk an escort of military to protect him against the popular indignation, ass conveyed to King Street bar racks, a here he remained la.t night. but was set at liberty this mioning. l have stated what strikes me as the most probable account—namely, that the a inclowa were broken before Meagher fired ; though it is right I should inform you that it is confilently asserted that the window; were not broken till the mob found themselves unable to enter the house to seize Meagher after his firing. The door of the house was not opened till the military arrived and broke it open. . . . ini;tht easily swell this account with various details re lative to Meagher's conduct ; but us these u ill come out u ith more accuracy at the New Wile), 1 think it fair to wait fur that elimination. This heroic Manchester Yeoman tree brought up for exa mination before the Alagittrotes oil Monday, but was remanded, from the inability of the victims of his ft rod') to attend from the state of their wounds Extract of a letter from Mr. Harmer, dated Albion-hotel, Manchester, Sunday Morning. " My dear G.--1 received your very kind letter, communi cating the gratifying intelligence, that the conduct of my col leagues and of myself met the an rohution of my fellow coon • try men. " 1 think 1 wrote you a day or two ago, that Mr. Ashworth, the barrister. attended evidently as the advocate of the mapiq ra tes. This gentleman. although he ventured to suggest bad law for the Coroner's guidance, had too much SCII9e of propriety to pledge his word for its correctness. Yesterday, in consequence of Mr. Ashworth's alkdged illness, a Mr. Barrow, a practising attorney at the N ew Bailey Court, attended in his stead, and this gentleman pledged "his little professional character" (these were his own words) to points of law and practice in a way that astonished ale; although, after a fortnight's residence in this country, one ought not to feel astoni,hed at any inconsistency or absurdity in the adwinistration of the law. •• I was most happy at Mr. --'s arrival; for, although I have engaged two clerks. one of whom writes short-hand, some sentence or expression might escape. and I aisure it is of the unnost importance that not a syllable that passes should remain unknown to the public. I wish to God that Lord Sithrouth had been present during thin investipoion, and he would per. ceive how grossly lie has been imposed on : but could it be otherwise, when he listened oily to dm representations of the culprits ? Why, before he ventured to recommend the Et.ecu a tive Government to return thanks to the Magistrates and Yeti- Marry, did he nut investigate the Maisactisins minutely ? Had OCT. It. Extract of a letter from Manchester, dated Oct. Ist: " The Manchester Yeomanry really think that they perfomied a glorious deed in cutting at the unarmed people. That they so led on the day the deed was done, was quite obvious, as immedi ately after the meeting was dispersed, the whoie corps assembled on the verge of St. Peter's Field, and flourishing their swords. gave dints loud cheers in token of triumph. I have conversed with two gentletnen °irremovability withiu these 4tt hours, .who can testify to this extraordinary tea, and who are summoned to Oldham to do so, it die peculiar notions of the Coroner, since Mr. Ashworth's eloquence was displayed in Court, will allow hien to receive such evidence. But it seems that no farther evi dence, illit,trative of the conduct of the Yeomanry, or the cha racter of the meeting on the lfith of August,. will be admitted. All now required al admissible must, is is un !erstotel, rtfer either to the identity of John Lees, or to that of the Yeomen acrier.t.x engaged at the meeting. But notwithstanding this interdict Nlessrs. Harmer and !Jellison mean, it is said, to utter retry one of the wimesses who are ready to conic figwort!, and that each shall tender a notice, of which the following is a copy, to the Coroner, and also to the Cons.able at Oldham:— " I beg to inforni you, that I desire to give evidehce to the Jury touching the death of John Lees. (Signed) att." All the depositions refused by the Coroner will of course be published. No fact shookl be suppressed upon than occasion. The Yeounuiry al cad) , identified before the Inquest as among those wive on the 15th of August, Major Trafli,rd, of Trafforth 11. !iglu, who is the First Captain of the Corps, and a cotton spinner of immense wealth. Ills factories AM said to he worth 204'. eX/1- Hubert Sharpe, an ironmonger. It. M. IVhitiow, an attorney. James Atom, cotton dealer. •. Hubert Barnes, cotton spinner. Eilwartl l'ebbutt, tallow cliatullcr. • William Carlton, livery stable keeper. Edw. Meagher, tailor and trumpeter to the corps. John Reid, publican. Edw. Vigor Fox, calico printer, and son to one of the last Lancastei Grand Jury. Jolal iluline, calico printer. This is the person who was thrown from his bone by Ids own impetuosity. Thomas Shcluutaf ne, a c.iravan-man for a dyer in Springfield, for whom he is a substitute. _ I: is understood that et is:enee will be adduced to identify about 90 more of this celebrated corps. There was, I hear, a great dif ficulty in identifying any of them on the 16th of August, in con ifttrana: of the singularity of their head-dress or heant:t." On Friday a meeting was held in the Town-hall at Rochester, to take into consideration the late af.. 'fiii; at Manchester, a requisition for that purpose ha%ing been presented to the Mayor, and acceded to by him. A series of resolutions were passed, as well as an address to the Prince Regent. The re solutions having passed unanimously, thanks were voted to the Mayor. The Mayor, (John Burton Matthews, Esq.) in returning thanks for the honour done him, observed, that he felt it his duty to state, that the whole proceedings of this day were totally opposite to his sentiments ; that he thought that, as the business was even now under a legal inquiry, the resolutions were extremely premature and inde licate ; but that he convened the meeting only from a conviction that it was a duty incumbent on hint to do so. At about 2 o'clock the meeting quietly dispersed. CARLILE —Tuesday next is fixed for the first trial of Carlile for publishing Tom Paine's " Theo logical ks." Four others are to follow in suc cession ; the first is expected to occupy ten days at least. It is said he has served the High Priest of the Jews with a subpoena, to give evidence on his trial. Adverting to the trial, and the manoeuvres of the enemy, he has the followhe , entertaining pa ragraph :—" I was informed ne:rly a month since, that a loyal declaration would be ready for signatures in the City of London, expressive ofits abhorrence of seditious and blasphemous publications, about a %reek or ten days befitre my trial would take place. This declaration has been made, and however direct it might have been levelled at me, I cannot plead guilty of being its object, but do most heartily con cur in its premises, and consequently I attended at the London Tavern, and placed my name and ad dress to it, which I shall expect to see published with the list of signatures." Yesterday morning 24 female convicts were re moved from Newgate to Wapping, and there em barked on board a Gravesend bout, to join the Janus , -7nviet ship, lying off Woolwich, bound for Botany Bay. An immense number of their friends attended as witness their departure. To the instances formerly related of attempts to mis lead the weavers, the fidlowing may be Isined :—On S4turday a person 'applied to an innkeeper in Poilok thaws for a room, as he said, for the orator Braysbaw, from Leeds, to lecture in. lie said, that the orator had been in Glasgow for ten days forming Union Soci eties. The at tides of these societies lie described as only three. I St. That the weavers should nut light any this winter. 2d. That they should not pay any of their debts to shopkeepers. 311. That they should rather burn any property they have, than allow it to be taken front them in consequence of a process at law. Such is this person's account of the Union Societies. lle ?third, that ihe populace at Calton and Bridgetown to about armed, to lie ready for the constables. 11 hen the 111okt:cite'. mentioned what bad been dune for the poor iii had begun Pol okshaws by Sir John Maxwell and his son, the miscreant said, " It is all --- nouseuce," and deca m pct. One hundred and twenty families have been ap proved, on an application being made for their emi grating to the Cape of Good Hope, on the terms proposed by Goverument.