The National Register. — London, England, 1819-07-26 00:00:00

JULY• a COMMON COUNCIL, GUILDHALL. At one &chilli on Friday the Coma wet, and the Lord biryor infringed them that be had on Thursday night lecrivrti an iMportant communication from Lord Sidincluth, w loch wit' , their leave he would read —(Cries ml " Read'") . . His Lordship then read a letter from Lord Sidinotath, thankieg him in the warmest terms, by order of the Prince Regent, for his ad:iiirable add ellicient :irran4rlnPiltdll/ pre -61 rye the. peace of the City, during the Smithfield Sleeting oat Wednesday la4.—(lllrai, hear.) Tile Lord Mayor then detailed at some length the .eaten sive arronlements made by the Civil Power to preserve nrder on the day sllutled to. and earned Ids cordial thanks to persons °revery political party, for the aid they title, ded him. He then described the a‘sotatice he had rep eived from public le- lie,' the East India Company, in addition vo placing their na, del./untwist in a stile of streusel', had paced at his disposal 300 men. His Lordship then alluded 'to :t waited bill,of a must inflammatory k ind,t hat is as loran{ 41110.11 the 11/'.VIIIIII Wednesda, inyi in; the people to action on that clay —le made eivery enquiry resiaect Mg the alitilios of tart seditious bill, and nailed his informal' would lead to their ilmeetion en I 'punishment. Ile had perms ed Won in Ilion upon oath, th .1 the disaffected hod mid very effort to tall Into ar lion their moans of olirriwe on that day, and had hoped io this great city to have found (that w inch was fortunately and properly moat the fact) abettor: e lm have ;as sisted in their project, which was of the wo.t diabolical Vi d a, . fur it comprised a plot to :in estent no less nionstrout than that of fiiiim this great city and inerderia; the iamb Minims (Hear.)—This was their o b ject, he repeated he had info - nial ion of it upon oath hut the firinitoma suit ener,ty of hie fellow citizens defeated tile diabolical atteutpts of the fedi tiiiiis.—( Hear. hear.) On the motion of Mr. S. Hilton, Lord lidaiout lie letter xas ordered to be entered on the down Mr. Alderman Wood. M. P. teen came forward. and begged to ask his Lordship, whether ne had directly or indi rectly nay iaformati it of the i ddlao of the p r imed bill, or anv possible means of discovering him ? M e . g m ood Minot rose to ailoress the Lord Mayor, but the worthy Alderman interetipteal him, and insisted ul his Z 1411111131/ answer, Sande the am toy Gentleinan is not ailing to nn.wer fortte -Lord :Mayan." The Lord Mayor said, the enquiry was perfectly regular, and he could give an auswer. Ile had some idea that the information which he received would 111111 to the di teetion of the author, at least he hoped so ;; the oi I was sine of the ))))) st flagrant k:od, and its elm:eats come' r. d with the infor m anion which he had reeeieed upon oath, that the object of the di:affected cue wet that day, •• to fire this great City, and minter all its pezemetrie inhabitants;' but the loyalty of lame people of Landau, watts their feeliogs natmely stern.• io s..ettes of murder and riepioe, presented a n n rbioatiou which appalled the coespirsture. The Court would ial-• learn with mir i wier, that wit isin a very few )arils of Ihr place ill which they sat a seditim:- me. ling had hero held, where proceed in;. took place of the iniaa eerieu. imbue twainst th.• public peace. •All-he &handl now say of that meeting was, that a man might to he very cautious how he allowed petering to frequent leitshaneee alto could use seditious rapt., MilUilb of such a nature. Mr. Alderman Wm.': M.P rose and said, that he most trespass- still further upon his Lordship's patience for a more satisfactory answer. His Lordship had staled that lie had the best information to believe a■ attempt was meditated to fire the city, and minder its inhabitants. Sorely then it was of the first importance to know who these conspirmurs were, and to bring them to justice. As a Magistrate, he could only pledge himself to use the ut most earl lions to promote so important an inquiry. With uspeet to the prints il bill, he could not help recollecting, that during his own Mayoralty, one had been posted up every whale, on the very morning of the Spefields Meet ing, headed in letters MI large that locust, " Spatields Row' Go it, my lio,s4"—" Truth for a penny!" 'the object of that bill was evidently to insti gate the people to acts of violence, soil he had probed it to the bottom, as he hoped lie Lind Mayor would do in this ease. He had ase , rlaiteril that it was printed by • person connected with cue of the corporate bodies of she city (the Bs idewell), and with the knowledge, if n u t with the approbation of persons understood to be connected with Government —( Loud cries of Haar.)—The Corpora thin, he was confident, *unlit 'Assist his Lae de-hip in ever) etfort, by reward or otherwise. to detect and punish who ever the persons were also had been engaged in such practices. As far as Pt-garde d the people at the late Smithfield Merlin;, not the , slightest attempt had been made by any person 'moue them to riot or disorder; so (Ant the author of the bill contemplated what the parties themselves, judging 140111 their actioirs, evidently did not. —(Hear, 'war.) Mr. S. Dixon mild, it won:.l hotter become the worthy Alderman to have missed thanks to the Lord Mayor, than to have introduced this conversation. Mr. Fayell-Minded to the Spcfi Ids Bill, and condemned stock proteedings altogether, not being the most likely to connterart the necessary measnre of a salutary Return m. Mr. Alderman Witithonan ex ( wowed his sarpo use that his Lordship should have solo so little about the information hr had receise.l respecting Clot bill, and so much about the au thors 'elite plot to the the Cat s. The last•r he thisu4kt, toi;:ht have ki en spar. ii for prudent:ll reasons, until some of the conspirators trete detected. After olladine to the Spa- Hr.& Bill, and the notlior of it, the worthy Allertecti slid la• sva. not prorpered to at. rich the utmost oeisht to halo of such it do semicolon ; nod is hen he reroole: ted the machi Utlil4lll4 of Oliver and at saws, he tondo' not overlook 11w that persons of a similar dusco iptioia might be at work lit present—( lie ic, h-at :)—st ith a view of exciting s.:ch a ferul.•ut n.s %%wild give room for the iptrotluction of force to pot down nil fore divcu•,i on among the people. 11• r hoped that on paw %mold be spaced to discover the authors (if 11:ere were any) ors° foul a coaspisacy us that of tiring the City and murder iog its inhabitants. Even the information of to; Oliver ooght to be num:dell to in such it With a view of brotoginc the inquiry lissome issue. Loookiug. how. ever, at thrtu. etiog, and at the henry grievances nod tOis 'ewes of the people, he aid not think onsiosuatitie the possi- Molly .of the.r taring part:rotators, by coiocauplati .... , in bloodshed and rapine. o as the kindest way Vtreatioto. them . )'or bus nun part, he exprossed h•i. ustonisitment that the riveting, under:ell the cite ..... stancros went rptietty as it did. Nothing could be more nosh or ill-advised, or urine against the lola .. i .... opinion of Art. the Dicers sow, shim the appearance of drigooota to the streets of the City rri Wedilesilay t it was against the express understuotolaig *oat a soldier should he seen. lii the fullest means is ere 1.1.et0 to have an adequate fume id lornd, in case of 'longer. The worthy Alderman then reptelatudcd, la the s•.'armest TIIE NATIONAL REGISTER.. tering, the rash and intemperate act of sending thirty s.r fit t) constibles.iii the very middle of t lie business of the meeting, to arrest Harrt.ran.—(Ct ies of Hear.) The Lord Mayor denied that any dragoons were by his autho rity in the City. The City Light noise were only in Giltspur Street, one or two at a titne, ruling to receive his orders every half hour as to the state of tie Meeting. Ile warmly animad verted upon the worthy Alderman (Waithinan's) conduct. He was told lie had insulted those gentlemen rem City Light IlorsP) , and endeavoured to instigate the people to attack theta. Ills conduct throughout the meeting of the Magistrates had been iniLeent, intemperate. imprudent, and obtrusive. Ald. Waithinan [asked the Lord Mayor, wkether he was aware that the Life Guards were in the Green Yard, where his Lord ship's carriaqo were kept, and that they were publicly there. With respect to the attack mule upon him by his Lordship, he had to refer to his public conduct u a refutation. Mr. Oldham defended the conduct of Alderman Waithman. If any thing could tend to create disturbance snore than another, it was the arrest of Harrison at such a moment. He ended with expressing a hope that .his Lordship would retract the observa tions he hail made respecting Alderman %Vaithinan. r. Jiff said, thc Lord Mayor could not have acted otherwise than he had done, and seconded the motion of thanks. Alderman Waithmun said. he had a few words to say. He would leave all the personalities of the Lord Mayor without moment. With respect to the apprehension of Harrison. i.e knew mehing of the warrant issued, but n.arely heard that the arrest hail been made by 40 or 30 constebles, and he still consi dered that arrest ill-judged in the extreme. If he had ben Lord Mayor, he +timid have taken the responsibility of acting quite otherwise upon himself. Mr. Pearsau proposed an amendment, that thanks should be voted for the civil preparations, but expressing iegrot that the military were intrmluced. Mr. Favell bad no objection to the motion, upon condition that the Aldermen were included. Mr. Pearson said he tiael miry reason to believe that Mr. Harrison had given said, in the country, and that therefore his arrest in London was merely an act of oppresaion. Mr. Griffiths denied it, and declared that Mr. Harrison, on being asked by the Loud Mayor whether he had any defence to make, answered in the negierre. and express -al himself satisfied at the intention of the Lord Mayer to send him to Stockport, before those who had issued the warrant. Mr. Reeves confirmed this statement. Aldervian Wood wished fur an explanation respecting the three Life Guardsmen in the Green Yard. Aldetman Thotp preferred the lint motion of thanks. approved of the zeal of the Lord Mayor, but regretted the appearance of the military. The Lord Mayor said, the appearance of the ti.ree Life Guardsmen arose from this circumstance. lle had nut a hone sufliaeedy quiet to go amongst a mob without putting them in danger. It was also the case with the Marshals, and lie sent where he knew he could get horses well adststed to the business of attending crowds, and on whose steadinmi. he could rely. The horses wen: brought, but he hind given no orders for the men who accompanissl t h an, and he knew nothing about them, but was fully convinced they had no other orders than to bring the horses to him tar his use. Out of the Green Yard the horses did not move till the . Nletting• was over, and his Lordship supposed their owners remained With them to take care of them. The Amendment was negativsd, and tile original Motion agreed to; the numbers being— For the Amendment. 27—For the original Motion, 69. , The thanks were then toted to the otlver — Magist rat I:S. John William Buckle, Esq. presented a Petition, praying his discharge front hit nomination as Sheriff. which was complied with, and ordered, upon hit paying a line of 4001. and 20 marks. A party, consisting of Mr. Crokcr, the Secretary of the Admiralty, Mr. Peel,./kc. lately act out on a short excursion to the Continent. It was proposed by one of the party to proceed in the packet front 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 fur Antwerp. His offer was accepted: they sailed for Antwerp; but it unfor tunately happened that there was not skill or intel ligence enough on board 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 retarning home without setting foot on either France, Flanders, or I Tolland. Several farmers in Cornwall have contracted for their coating crops of barley, at one guinea and eight-pence per quarter. In consequence of the great growth of tipples in the neighbouring counties, to remedy the evil, as it is there considered, many farmers, it is said, have actually despoiled their orchards of their fruit, by threshing their young ap ples from their trees ! Farmers, who are guilty of such shameful conduct as the latter, deserve to be well threshed themselves. The following is an extract of a letter from Ge noa, dated the 10th inst.:—" Several vessels have arrived here since the :;dinst. from several parts of the roast of Spain ; but they do not seem to confirm the report which has been circulated, of a rupture between the Algoritms and Spain." A great number of the inhabitants of Manchester have offered to form an armed association for the protectitm of the towns of Manchester, Salford, and their neighbourhood, and their offer has been ac cepted by Government. Thetford Waal Fair was attended RI what] by Rainy Ire• PpeCtithiC growe , s, both rium Norfolk and null; ilk. cm' tap a, t itesuuribts present we sihrwrved Gem Fitz. ity..l. Merest, F.stp, NI. P J. Erq. awl J. hloseley., lisq Antonym the deal rs were Mew.. Waller. Eason., A'asatatur. and others from Norwich nod If orktliire• blots ewer. ssesii to the present depression of trade. there was echo - rely a sinker parcel of Waal disposed of. God A loemhrle. presidcilt injured Isis al 535. but no Misers came forward. Mr. Coke am not present. uss.ll; to u recent de ills 111 his family. Ole lot of half-bred Leicester nod himintk Wool w milwe quail!, . m 1 ( 1 td excessive!) hot war the squall room in which more tailis iliO peas .111 (hoed, that the meeting broke sap earlier than tin.ll, after many toasts HIM smili• meat., of the seglel4lllll t . its hose 'LW rar, hail been warful.s recessed. .... Theeolinsulrtatue of Illitimitia tssi• erected li+t week on the sun 111 l it of.rii, lealfje ILINIUMPIII at Y.unuaun, to which it forms it beautiful spec The INCelte it 13 fret nigh ; be fore it was put up it wei,thed it tuns. but with the 4 *imposi tion with w Mel, it hits been SNK:e tilled, it uhty b. computed to weigh itt pieseat 53 Wits. A very fine frigate, named the Fisgard, to mount upwards of 50 guns, was launched from the new dock yard, Pembroke, a fi:w days since; she went uS the stocks in very fine style, amidst the tazlatnations of thousands of visitors, amongst whom were Lord Cawdor, Admiral Trollope, and all the neighbouring gentry. The ceremony of naming the ship was pet-flit-tiled by Lord Cawdor. This is no less than the eighth ship that has been launched from. this establishment within the period of about four years. past, including the P,ellciale, of 74 guns, launched about two months since. Female Courage and Fidelity.—An half-idiot who, about fitly years since, wits employed by a gro cer residing ut Woodstock, or Witney, was told, oft the. morning of the .'ith of November, to go to a cetfiq where the gunpowder was kept, and bring Fo:ne down and pet it into the drawer, to supply the con sumption of the evening. The man forgot the order till it grew dusk, when he took a lighted candle in his hand, which he inserted in the loose powder; and, filling the measure, walled away. He could not speak intelligibly, although he understood whet was said to him; he wade his meaning known by igns. Scarcely had he emptied the powder into the drawer, when, suddenly recollecting .what he had done, the terrified creature made a , terrible noise, displaying every mark of horror and dismay ; and soon made his master and family clearly understand that he left a burning candle fined in the gunpow der! The danger was so appalling, that most 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 aspossible, 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 reiti:lied the shop! Caintridge, fitly 2/2nd.—The diibolical spirit for demo) log d well 1 ng-tionses, bards, Sce. still continues in this comity. A few nights since a hose at Isleham, be longing to Mr. Halt, a brewer, of Eiy„ was wil oily sot on fire and buret to the ground, with all the goods of tie, occupier ; and on Sunday night list, in the parish of Exiting, where the bans and COll4 of Mr. liryaot were SO itecently set on file. five more houses of that village were set on fire, and the families that occupied them es called with dithenhy trolls perishing in the flames. Se veral letters have.been dropped, threatenina the total iic struction of this proscribed sill age, in which there hare ircru werve homes burnt to the ground, no doubt by the same desperate incendiaries, within the last two years. Mr. Hancock, the grocer, received a letter, stating that his boos; would be burnt to the ground before the sun rose on Monday morning, which was too truly verified On Sunday last tour homes were destroyed by fire at Hili-row, in the parish of Haddenham, in this county, be:imging to farmers, but the calamitous conflagration, it is 0C111:Ved, was accidental. The sufferers on this. la mentable OCCiOOO , I were Mesus.J. %%villain, M. Pones, P. Peter, and J. Bidwell. On Itbinday last ngentleman of Norwich undertook, far • tinting sager, to walk two miles out the London road in 20 MOM es. Ile aecomplished his task with great case iu 18 minutes and a hail. . ..... _.._... A sailor, who 34,1. hs name is John plidertm, and that he tx+ings to llu.l, was landed from a packet at Fa:month oii Sunday, and brou,,ht before Andrew Young, 1:•41 the Nlay or of Oat town. lle .tated, that on the 29th of June, till:, be ISM walking in a held near Stockton-upon-Teen, with a young woman mitred Marian It (Minion, to whom he paid hi, ;warriors; and suspecting ill it she favoured another mum, a dopute move between them, en a hica tie drew a knife front his pocket and stabbed her under the left hicast. On her fitllin;, he fled, and contrived to evade pur•uit, until he tut on hoard a vea,..l and left the kingdom, from a bich he has been obseut rrer smee ; but being timed :. to supp. rt the horrors of reminvt that ethsvtautly haunted him, Im confessed the crime lie t ad remmisted, an 1 resigned Mmaelf into the kind, ni envoi r. This is tile stn. ybe tellv, but how far it is titre it is impooible. at pievnt to 'Ay ; he ha; been comma. ted in the tummy gaol, and Pk statement transmitted to _ _ _ A deputation from the Female Reformers at Blackburn puid a visit to Manchester on Monday. They paraded different parts of the town, but parti cularly , the neighbourhood of Newtown, in t!:a costume which made such an impression on the late Blackburn meeting. They afterwards attended a meeting of Female Reformers at the Union rooms, ir. George Leigh-street. We are informed, that at this meeting, Mrs. I—, Mrs. W—, snd other radical Amazons, harangued the audience on the usual topics, and at considerable length. During the heavy fall of rain on Tuesday even ing, the drains which convey the water from Hyde lark, anti the upper part of Piccadilly, to the Thames, were overcharged, and all the rooms in the lower part of Buckingham-house were inundated, some of them to the height of more than two feet. The kitchens of several of the Louses near Buck. inghant-gate were tilled so high, that the water put out the tires in the grates. It was not till midnight that the water had entirely subsided. The grand Meeting of the radical Reformers at St'inchesterosbieh was fixed for the 2d of August, has been postponed, some ray to the 9th, others to the or :23t1. Among other matters it is rumour ed, that it is the intention to elect en Atforury and Reply:collative, in the same manner as Sir Ciiiirl , za %Au:ly was elected at the Birmiogirtat