The National Register. — London, England, 1819-11-01 00:00:00

NOV. I. RADICAL REPORMEAS. The character of HENRY HUNT, Esquire, begins to develope itself, and we have no doubt but that the opinions we have always held and expressed of this honest, active, upright, gentlemanly advocate of Annual l'arliaments and universal Suffrage, will u ltanately prove critically correct ; even the Bodi ed: themselves begin to know him ! Whenever a man soars above the level for which he is calculated, it is the duty of those who have the power to bring him back to his proper elevation, and under this feeling we have great pleasure from inserting the following Letter, because it will, we believe, be instrumental towards consigning to the oblivion of contempt a man who never would have risen from it but for the outrageously, illegal, and rash conduct of the Manchester Magistrates : Dam/ Sta.—With the greatest reluctance I have to commu nicate a circumstance which I would most willingly attribute to f a rgetfulness, and consign it altogether to oblivion ; but there arc other circumstances attached to it whip h entirely set aside such a conclusion. I confess Ido not like its complexion, which has for some days occasiuned some unpleasant reflections ; I any this in contidme.e; sal would not on any account that it should go forth to the mild, being of that nature which would give our enemies full scope to descent very unfavourobly upon the conduct of our champion. To state it faidv. and submit the whole to your candid and im partial appreciation. I must ruler to some circumatances anterior so that wherein I allude to. You doutittees remember, that prior to the Smithfield meeting, Cie comn:ittec for the penny subscription was summoned to attend on special business; that e ley voted the sum of 41. I4s. ed. then remaining in die hands of tile treasurer (Mr. I hint) should ha applied to, the ..c:raying of the expences of that wetting in Smith eww) a nti itistructal their secretary. Dr. Watson, to make out an order to draw the same. which lie did. and gave it to me as &meter) to the Committee of Teo Iluirited fur that purpose, which Order I presented to Mr. Hunt: he looked at it, and said, he had et, di tel he had sent a check niche Bank ; this was on elooday mucang, the 19th ult. In the afternoon I called :even, And mgt.'. our seam of money for the present use; lie requested nic to coil it due evening. 11, in your presence bo.ro wed aIL noteof Al r. Baidric. and iu tae escuing robed again upon Mr. Hunt. who, Mita sonic hesitauou, said he could not pay the said suns liiiinota die sanction of the ;anew. which must be obtained at the ;alba,: a retaq;; cos. I Ow tied. ,voul.l place u, in a very awkward ate that it he perhsted 1 now be necessiated to borri , t/ o.A:rt• or the buEnes , must standstill. and the object of the me. 'me ve,aket.tri. it tot defeated ; feat I left him, and Dr. Watsn i a.. .mced 11 in fart!ierar.ce of what we were in pursuit of. t f.: meeting post ; the following morning the obtain up; bud tor :llr. lharison occupied our attention tut some time; alto which I again urged the payment of the peony sub scriptioa money. amid wa. by no means phased with his seeming reluctance to com e ly. lle asked m: if there were any deficiency? 1 repl.cu, Sir, I be;ieve tt e.e will be a deficit of teimiel sof six youn.'," lie " What, after the et 145. 6.1. ie paid." " 1 a, Sir, almouelt the expenditure is nearly 71. wider our cal cwoeue." He requested me to call again in two or three hours. awl tic sold have change fora check. I taller) at the time. and he thee asked me if l would take a check to the bank of Messrs. Will:Anis and Co. Birenin Lane, to be cashed : I agreed. The cheek I found was drawn by Charles Pearson. Esq. for live pound , . I presented it. and had the amount in five one-pound Late:: these I gave to Mr. hunt, and he requested Mr. Giles, who was in the room, to oblige him with silver tor onset* teens. Mr. Weil did so, and Mr. limit gave me tour of the notes, and ler. and fed. in silver, time amount of the penny subscription, winch (though he, as I thought, seemed reluctantly to part with) said he was glad to get rid ot. Now, Sir. we come to the ito:nt which baffles my conjectures. and which I most unwillingly touch upon. You had itifornied ru: that Mr. Pearson had promised, t tat after the meeting. should t'tere be a tilde he wouli make it up to Cie anioutt of 51. r. /lung had left town, and at your insligatiota I waited upon Mr. Pearson relative to the above, accompanied by Hr. Watson; but Mr. Pearson had not returned from Birmingham; was expected at four o'clock p. nt. On the Milos ing day I bad an interview, and producing three bills due for printing. petting, &e. the placard offering the reward of ten guineas, ace. Mr. Pearson observed, " What have Ito do with them do they expect more money from me? :1 have given M. towards the expences of the meeting, and do the Committee expect more of me:' " Sir," 1 reldied. " I have called in consequence of your having assured 'Mr. Thistlewood, that if there acre any defitat after the unerring, would cover it to the amount of el." Mr. Pearson answered, " I did not wait till after the meeting; I gave it; I gave a check for 5/. to Mr. Hum for that purpose, and surely they do Lot want more of me." Guess my astouishment ! Out of that check I lied received the penny subecription. and not the amount of it, AS intendol by Mr. I'earson. I could orly reply that I e as quite in the dark, further then I had explained, fearing to .ay more lest the exposure should subject Mr. Hunt to public censure, and sink him into nothing. Think of this and be silent, for a breath would destroy hies ; therefore be dumb fur his odic, for ours, and for the cause. . Yours sincerely. (Sii,med) EDWARD JUS. BLANDFORD. London, Aug. •. 1810. P. h. (►o not thole this to any one except the Doctor. To Mr. A Thistkwoctl. On Monday ni g ht , at the different meetings of the Union Societies of Radical Reformers , in-Lon don and Westminster, the bust of Mr. Bunt was publicly broken to pieces, and he was pronounced unworthy of their future confidence. A gentleman from the country, it is reported, is invited by the Committee of Management to carry the intended meeting of the Radicals at Finsbury-market, on Nletiday next, to take the chair upon the occasion." Mr Thistlewood has written anothe. letter. It is to Lord &idmouth, requiring compensation to the amount of 1801. and compound interest, the alleged value of property belonging to that Gentleman, which he asserts was illegally detained on board the Alien brig. Mr. Waddington was the bearer of this 1:t ter. to Lord Sid in ou th. The English Reformers at their last general .meeting directed their chairman to enclose their ap peal in a circular letter to all persons in I t eland who were supposed to posress influence with their Catho lic countrymen. The following answer was written by Lord Cloncurry : Str,_ln reply In the Milne. and Resnlncon* of 80,000 retrun-, %lick )ou have forwanled In me, I amore:, two, as an individual, I fully agree in the opini o n, " That the leople are eillitkd to and!, fait , and adequate reproeuus- THE NATIONAL REGISTER. tion iii the Commons House of Parliammit, wilhuut religious or other disqualiticatiou ; Whiney, humility, or ariwiuu.ily 4,1111 it excepted." It is above 20 years since the people of lied insl, peaceably demading this sight, were, by retry species of injustice and crucify, gnareil into rebellion by an administration and a magistracy who escaped legal punishment in an Act of lii demoity granted by the same Parliament, whip . after sold their couatry, and by the Uuiun which &Aro, ed Ire land rendered the legislatiou of En,,land mo.c CUI Up( 111:111 it was before. Allow me In add, that the rights of the people can only be recoveled by the co-operatiuu of ail those greet cud good men with whom your cultist, y, above all others, abounds and is blessed —soon, for whose lir.ut, and hearts I entertain such a reapect, that, were I an I:Aoi:domes', I would hardly enjoy a good in which they did not partici pate. %Valli the did of such men, relict allil r loran will speedily be obtained ; without it, the fate of Ireland awaits the 'lithe' to happiest roma!y of the world. Every thing should ha done to prevent the distioitio, the apathy, or the fear which may counteract the unbought and undo fatigable patriotism of those furls is Ito have ever supported Ilie rause of humanity, of troth, and of the people—your Bedford*, y /tor Estswilitainv, your flullands, your Bur- Betts, your Bonnets, your Cokes, nod your Version., though many of thove Illustrious men do 11111 eo the full length of annual Parliaments and universal suffrage, which I think the safest as well as the most fittiuq tenant fur this age and these countries, still they will juin in such me:v.llls.s 55 will save the counts) , hods absolute despot ism, the people from that Eastern extras seance, and that military execution wills which they are threatened. Sir, your bumble servant, CLONCURNY. PROGRESS OF THE BRITISH SYSTEM OF EDUCA TION IN SPAIN. In the early part of year 1817. Capt. Kearney, an officer Iron Spain arrived in this country, and attended the central School ill the Unlash and Foreign Schuil S9ciety, in the Borough-road. Impressed unit the great moral benefits to be derived fr the diffusion of this CtieCtl%e systeut of instruction, he detenuinrd to acquire a competent knowledge of the plan, with the view of introducing it into the Spanish d ttttt iniuns, where the education of the lower orders had been hitherto •h neglected. Ott the return of Captain Kearney to Mad rid, ne succeeded in establishing a school in that city, under tile kind patronage, and at the sole expense of me Duke del Infanto and several other patricric uubie uteu. Inc * school was opened on the Uth of January, 1818, wit h ii; buys, and gradually increased in number, w Atm it soon became au object of public attention.— Tde efficacy. simplicity, and economy of the plan, ex cited a large share of inteirsta and notwithstanding there were some prejudices to encriuntet, yet its bench cial tendency, :hus practically illustrated, could not fail to secure general approbation. On the 30th of March last, the King and Queen honoured the scbonl with their presence, and were so struck with the national advan tage that would result from the encourz.genient of limits, institutions, that his Majesty was pleased to issue a royal decree, authorising the establishment of schools on the Lancasteriati system throughout the kingdom. Tha Central School at Madrid, which is calculated to contain JOU scholars, was opened on the 4th of May last, in a ball-room, which the Duke of Pais has givan lot the purpose. applications have already been received from several cities and towns for permission to send in dividuals to the Central School, in order that they may be instructed in the plan, and qualified to organize and conduct local scitools; and there is great reason to hope, that the period will shortly arrive when every pour child ill the Spanish dominions may participate in the benefits of a system of instruction which tiriy justly be ranked among the must powerful of human instruments for the piopagation of useful knowledge titroughout the world. The Duke del Infanta has addressed a letter, of which the tollownig is a translation, to the Secretary of the British Jint Foreign Scitool Society : Madrid, Sept. Stit,--1 have the pleasure of handing you a copy of a Royal decree, which authorizes the e4,ablishment of schools upon the Lancasterian sy,tem throughout the Kingdom. and have reason to hope that it will be adopted in all the towns and villages of toe realm, us numbers already have conic to our Central School, which was opened in April last, and in which SA) boys are educated. - _ I have impauridy waited, and nay eagerly embrace, this op portunity to assure the members of the hnti,h and Foreign School Society, of my sincere feelings of gratitude tiir the honour they have been pleased to corder on hie, by electing me an honorary member of that charitable and patriotic aabocustion, an honour that I rateem much more than I can express. James Melba, Esq. DUKE DEL INFASTO. llee iol.uws all iyal I)ecree appointiog Cu ssiun, consisting of the aike del 1 inatito mid seven other Spanish Nuuleinen, to superintend the establishment of Laticasteri an Schools at Nlaikitl,Cadia, other impor tant towns through Spin. At the Leeds General Quarter Se,isions, (opened on Thursday last,) the Grand Jury returned a true bill against Mr. James Mann, political biwkseller of Leeds, for publishing a libel of and concerning the Prince Regent, contained in a publication (-idled the Black Dwarf. On Friday morning Mr Mann appeared in Court, and was admitted to bail, himself in 601 and two sureties in 301. each. It was inti mated to Mr. Mann, that this indictment would not be proceeded upon, on acclunt of the W es t biding Sessions having no jurisdiction In offences committed in the borough, but that another indictment woukl be preferred against him at the Borough Sessions. The libel charged in the indictment, consists of u series of remarks i.pon the :s peech of the Prince Re gent, delivered ut the close of the last Session of Parliament. The indictment was scut down from the Seeretary of State's Mice, and the only wanes examined by the Grand Jury was wperson of the name of Beverley. THE NORTHERN COUNTIES. The Select Committee appointed to consider whether any, sod what ceps may he necessary to be takt n. to ggrre to the Comities a Westinorlatid, Cumberland, Northumberland, and Dothan', and 'lowa and County of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. the same advanta ges of Assizes twice in each y ear, as are now posses sed by all the other Counties in England and %Vales, and to report their observations thereupon to the House; and to whom the petition of the layer. Sherds, Citizens, and Commonalty of the City of Norwich; and also the returns of the Calendars of the Prisoners. and of the lists of causes tried at the Assizes fur the Counties before mentioned, wet, re ferred :—blare, purausnt to the Order of the House. considered Inc same acccorclingly; and hare agreed to the following RErORT; _ . Your Committee, on referring to the different Papers before them by order of the Ilnu , e. find, tha for several yew-. past, persons charged in the four Nothcrn Counties with o ff n e e ., not ordinarily falling under the jitrisdiruon of the General Qnrter Sessions, hat,: continued in prison previous to their trial for WV!? eight, ur nine nion:hs, and in many instances for a longer iivrioq of dine; and they cannot but direct the immediate attention a the Howe to so great a failure in the administration of criminal justiev. _ . The return of causes of the respective counties, with the ex ception of that of Westmorland, mark a large and progressi:e increase of civil busins. In the Alarshal's paper at Carlish, for the year 1814. no less than 80 records were delive.ed, of which tout wily appear to have been withdrawn; in the year 1813, 6t causes were entered; and the two successive years averaged not less than 50. At Durham, in the year 1816, to 31; and in 1817, to SL. Northumberland (including the juris diction of the town and county of Newcastle upon- lynei fur nisheti in Isar, 42 causes: tbr of these causes speeial jurie had been summoned. three of them were inside reinatiets, and consequently went over fur twelve months; in the following year 52 actions were entered, only one of which was withdrawn. As the returns themselves are an their nature too VOlUlliillMUls publication, a short but accurate abstract is given in Lae Appendix. Such being the actual state of business in these three counties. without a vied grounded prospect tit di minution, your Commitu cannot form to dieniselvss any satisfactory . rcasuo why the trial of civil causes should be thus deterred wittim these districts. and the custom of only holding one Assize in the year continued, subjecting the suitors to serious inesnivenienic, and in some cases to ruinous expense. The practice of bringing actions in other counties. now Mien resorted to, where they are transitory. con.- pels the attendance of WIIIICS4it, carried from a considerable dis tance, kept at the cost of the respecuve Ferias, and probably as last dismissed without a hearing. It is clear, limn the evidence heard before your Committee as to the pressure art civil business in York. that it is now with diffi culty got through, though a greater number of' days is allotted in the summer, than was usual in preceding years ; sad that of late two Judges have presided in the Spring Circuit, it will be found. that at the close of the last Commission at that place, sir special and Mrs* common jury comics were made reinanets, yet the Court was occupied ten, twelve, or tourtevri hours out.ng each day. _ _ At I.ancaster, to a most heavy calendar, arc added in general, not less man I6U causes, involving in them, as may naturally be imagined from the site and populauon of the Palatinate, tions of die highest initiortance, as well on tammiercial as ..n oilier points. Looking, therefore, to all the circumstances which accompany this view of the subject, and considering it just, that these coutr ties should not be deprived of those advantages which are possessed by all other counties within the United Empire, your Committee beg leave to recommend, that such measure.; should be taken as would divide the present Northern Circuit into two separate Circuits, the one comprehending the Counties of %Vcamorsind, Lancita..r, and turnberland; and the other including tho.,c of York, Northumberland, and Durliani. No objection could arise under this arrangement, it to the a.tend a ne e in Sr. ened liar, for wit It the proposed alteration, there would Still teinifilli to each 01 these divisions as much, if nut a larger extent of busi• nets,. than is generally transacted upon eve r y oilier Circuit in England. To carry this plan into its full execution, and to give it that weight and authority which interests of bll.'ll nionwin dennuol, your Counnittee are of opinion, that the (lanes which belong to It should only be intrusted to establ.shed Judges of the land: whether Ole present limited number of that highly respected body will permit such an addition of labour, must be MI to the further deliberation of the House : that bead of examination not falling, as your 1111 l iittee apprelwntied, within the previa, limits of their Instructions, they did nut proceed to any regular course of inquiry which might embrace it, but iu looking to thil state of the new trials &titre the Court of King's Bench, as con • nested with the Northern Counties, it could not escape their ob servation, that those who now ailmtnistar the justice of the coun try have difficulties impos.sl upon them, winch, with all their zeal and activity, they are in some instances unable to surmount. Your Committee, iu adverting to the substance of the Petition from the City of Norwich, whic't was referred to them by order of the Douse, are called upon to observe, that the inconvenience there sustained from the delay of the trial of prisoners, appears to have been so great. that it would be highly expedient, for the sake of public justice, that some remedy should be applied to the evil; and that if it is the pleasure of the House to rouommend s in whatever way they shall think best, an angtmairation to the present number of Judges. such additional Judges might be moot tcw..fully and beneficially employed in the respective Coates in We.tinitister flail, and in the regular tribunals of the country; by this means an opportunity would be atthrded of sap plying she defect so loudly complained of on the Norfolk arse Jlidlattd Circuits, viz. ut having only on: Judge on the Sining Circuit to preside on the Civil and C111111U4.1 Trials. Path April .1 S. Sittings appointed to be held in Middlesex and London, before the Right Hon. Sir Charles Abbott, Knight, Lord Chief .Justice of the Court of King's Bench, in and after Nlichaelmas Term 1819: IN maxi. MIDDLCSFX Friday Nov. I i Nlmiday '2..11'11418y •• • • .... YO Monday Ired.iy lcti iaterday .... .• • :7 A F rEtt TEK AI. Ltlll DO 'C. Tu-sed.ey Nov 30 I Wednesday Dee. I. The following Loam hits been givcn relative to the future Sittings of the Court of Lord Chi — iiiceilor will Mild his firm' Iwtow Teo nt Oil NI lay We int 01 NuvemNer, io I..sieuist's Ina 'the vreatti Sea a ill he hell nn Me We ta.mia ) lan eng. as T r im commence,. on .he Bth of Ni.oveihhor. The Vire Chancellor will commence his Sat.iso at 4i. Coy t h i L'uculd• lon , vu Muudv the lauf Nusenther