The National Register. — London, England, 1819-08-02 00:00:00

AUGUST A. COMMON HALL. Monday, July 26. ELF.CTION OF A SHERIFF, &c. A C4lllllllOll I 411 was held, this day. for hi.r Election of a Sherd' to serve with Mr. Parkins, already elected, for the ensuing year. At one o'cicark, his Lordship. accompanied by •cceral Ahlermeti and the usual city Officers, appeared upon the llustitics, amidst strong marks of disapprobation. Tl•be piii pose for which the Meeting wa• called having been skated by Mr. Woothlinrpe, the Tovratlerk, in the ali.ence u 1• the Recorder, tlie'Loid Muyur and Aldermen ketiied. Alderman Waitliman then came forward,and expressed a hope, although his name was among those who had been put in immiliatioo for the care of Sheriff, that tie might glut lie chosen It w wild lie impossible tor bites to do his rimy as their representative iu I'arliament,•sud Net as Sheriff at the time, with either satisfaction to bias. self or benefit to them.—(Applaii-e.) Mr. Alder:own Itothwell made a similar appeal to the iudnlgencc of the Livery—as did 1:r. Facet!. on the phrt of Mr. Key, likewise on the list, on the ground of his private affairs rg quit itiz los sole atteutiuti. Mr. Key was w to serve, however, Ull any future occasion. The Ton n Cieik then read over the name, of the per. Son% upon one of whom the choice of tlit Livery was to fall. These were, Alderman Waithenan, Alderman Huth well, Henry Alartin, l q. sod W C. has, Lrq. The sense of the tirt•tiu4 was first taken at to the elec tion of Alderman ‘Vaitliiiturn, .but not land war held tip I his appeal, therefoie, was successful. Upon Alderman Itothwell bong proni.s.d, Mr. thud attempieJ to c ~,,, e fa►wwtd to aclilfeas the Livery. This oats res!tti-it by Mr WitoJiliorpe, w bat'aaid he shotild lint interrupt the proreeditigs. The time for adares ing the Livery had gone by ; nod is he did not retire, tbe Maniluth shollit he chili-a to ea. ore o der. Mr. demigod, tin is ri‘ht, to be brim!. Here in good del.: of oltercatioa followed, in whit+ Mr. Mont appesd.•dln the Sheriffs. Iu the boll, there were atter . nate cries of.' hear him," and hisses. Mr. linut.-1 wish tiov , irtre: , lthe Livery ill tile question of - the elect' of A Idrrutiani:mi wee, stud I again tknaiiid iis Liveryman, in he - ( I ) Alter stow /arilt .1 ;itientitt to reikt .11r. Hoot% etlort•, he loevailetl, awl the-She'd'', :Wont tut that he Mil, rutiticJ to Le heart'. !Sir. hunt -aid, I novahout to.arideess .on, and to dole in you my ..piu.un or s$ lint sort of a illao yl,to /A y. rieet lor war Sherd'', and w Intl sot t of mate sou I mi.:hi not to elect.-- It is your duty to eject such a lulu as Idernion oil hove heard o 'tat hi has rat ;:.e pr. via and no doubt yua t. toaltow hint t h e same- t oft of itldtal,siwe Ashich you graated to the worthy Alderman 15ii0 ;vas pot up before him. If obi, tinticipilt . he correct, then soh ti dl _ . bare •to look further. Yon nu t a man nho will not br si at cri,,g to this or that purl , hut tt u rouse ien timely d.in barge his duty to Ms * fellow citizens and the Livery of Ianolon.—(I lea r, and cries iO" Such a. out self.") A man it ho will nut be the tool 14 a corrupt and veisol ad- ministrat . ails Dot elect a man tt 110 will, for the take of grata', MR his 111% n vanity, by an :turmoil° obt.tin 6:11110 molds title, ran the risk of settiutt, thi4 great city to tames ((leac, and cheery.) You At ill not elect u man who Not take the advice of his fellow Aid ranee. Mr. Hunt, niter having ridicAerl the •• Dreadful Clot" In the City, expatiated uitott the. conduct of the Lord Nlaynr. without seeming to care Rauch-whether his Lordship-wits pleased or not. Alderman Rothsvell was then chosen SherS, and the Lard 'Mawr reignited to the !lettings, frmn which he and the Aldermen bled rel.reill, and 'taco. the Towit Cleik had rimed *won nh he election had falleu,.ardereil flirt the Hall &mold be dil filr,Stephens at this moment stepped forward sled offered to the Lord Mayor a ihtper, ripe...rive of the thanks of tioe Livery ill Aideomen Woodrond %%Minuses'. ii is Liohrbi l i ;closed to take it, oral again miol.c to the proper iotheer to pit a pet cmi to the meeting. The officer did ns he had been ordered, and the 1.. rd Nlay or tottroiden by alt the Aldermen, esrept Alderman 11 Allow'', and olfice,s of his hourelould tented. His lAN driiip war hooted mooch. There us/setter, a gencoal ery for Alderman Waithinan to take the Chair. vat ated Cs the Loid Mastic. ,Tisz w orth. Alderman went up to the mmir, took sow his `own, and rut in the chair as a lever!, maid Mr. Waithousio, a hi, was loudly applauded, said, that if be had known that it was the wrsla of Abe Liver) assembled upon a hste• occasion that he should take the choir after the dirsoliotam. of the Court, he certainly should have done so. lie should rather decline it on either uccarinn. hut having h-en culled upon by the Livery he had no alternative.— ( A piolume )--He probably held opinitmisdaterent fa those of the persons wbo had calls. I him to the chair,. but on such en nee:is:sou that -was at loaner of no inopiii tame. Ile ob jected to huge meetings, of the people under mch circuits <tames as those MI „trieh that at Smithfield had been held 1 . nut a hat were tie. people to do, prevented as the, were fr ono assenoldiugas a Chnohnn Hall to deci tre t lieihreoit; envoi, lie begged to be co:bottled inertly as the organ of the meeting before him. Mr. Stephens then came forward. The Lard Mayer load not been, he said, ever • tested by his fellone•titizeus, , and war seithing lens than the tool of A dminbtration, co hose vieur erre dos coded to a Baronetcy, or some hther advan tage, with us hick the public had nothing to do. The Mee, iug were aware of the contrail to Inch the conduct of Aldermen Wood and %V nitioninn presented to that of the Chief Magi,- trade, nho was the mil) forsoillahl: person' in the eycs of the permeable inhabitants, nn the 24st inst. from their appre hrn►ions of di...violence of hi ill-jdlerikzenl. Mr. Stephens then cesoured his Laro'Alp for every particular net of his on liutt day, and as►ed whether every one of his fellow citizens did not 41•11 :11 upon hearing of the conspiracy to '' bunt the City and wonder the neict people." ( Laughter and applause ) It um wonder t h ou the Livery were now lu thoit hall, nod that limy lode not at bonnie from vs hence au•lrasrliet retutio."— (Laughter. )-111a Lordship ass !would to •came foraard for the pal servatinn oaf his own diameter, and pliglift, his intosirmait upon oath. It was to be hoped that the (Thief klogiArate utmlo mot besit..te Liam a subject of such •itat liapasetahre to himself. Mr. S. orise.cluded trail a uviug the thanks of the meetiog to the abov e named Aldurnen. w 4„. ; ," srconded the mollicm. Mr. Favell. aftet ha%iug 11-probated the conduct or the I.ncd Mn)t , r to the Li*, cy, filid he believed his Lonlvliii. anus) L. ive L. dopyofs.oneuh.o , object it urn tofierenl iego4lll. llc theiglit the Met:twig was au ustaisc and Luso- ' I IITE NA'rIONAT, wEGlsinne. • . htic one. .but hedeei,ved that the conduct of it war Each as to relator. all armpit' of had motive. Vbe 1111116 of tli. ineetim; were then given to Aldermen IVtaal and Willtiat:an. 111 r. Waithinitit said, he had acted merely from a sense et plllilie duly. Ille wns snrpria<d at the weakness,, the Lord' Onvoir, in laelievisiz so silly a story as that of a conspiracy . to set lire and murder= and the re was another virprisitir hint, that his Lordship had sent SO or 4i.) men to take ma individual out of a crowd of 100,000. Was not this lc st mime way of securing the peace of the City.—lle (Mr. W.) unshed his luitWs mit of such ibings, but he had nut t he polite and ele,2iint air of the Lord Mayor, sy ho Vat, mead:able fin his rniidnrrs and should not liis Lordship case idlercd the hall is..itead of refused it, mord' I - to pre vent the City from brio% bivitri up! Mr. W. concluded speech, as hit h uan latich applauded, by expressing his sincere thau•ls to tlie meeting. ♦OTE or cs:;.wac ON TOE LIMO MAYOR M. %%aril move d that the c usurp of the Nleetiog should he 'mused upon the Lord Nucor, for• Li• r ooilurt oft the Ilist instaint, by yi hie,' his Lordship forfeii. d all chlinis to the 1'04.1 . 1W r and estemo of his let!ou citizens. ((heat apel ,uco. Mr.'l'rill•l•'k conded the motion. M.. Hunt moved an amendment, espers , ing the sense of the ntretior udon his Lord hip's roodoct ; and couched iu much st,,ane language than the former resitiution. (Loud A Klause,) Wmaler came fortsnrol, nod said he agreed in every word eontahleil in the re.olutom, as no tango ige could he too strom; on sut h at them opal arcurdro„ ly seconded the nonea..l.l Mr. Waithman then stepred forward will, the amendment and• the orginal resolutions in Ids hand, and begun to state reasons fur preferrim; the Later, when Mr. Hunt snit, " Order, order, Mr. Chairman. 'The Chairman has no right to gene his nt iniun. it is his duty to put the question." Mr. Waithinan was proceeding with his rerewm, find wris again imerrupted by Mr. lluat, n he. 13,1i' V 0 011 his puttidg' tim question. There was a general cry of " put the cpirsr ," and 11,1141 e that wns going forward. Mr. Wail/4watt accused %Ir. Hum of " lilt'• a hull." ui which Mr. Ihsel r. id, " Why, Mr. Chaiwan, you your.elf are roaring liken' bullock." Mr Viaithmno then found it necessary 10 Aire up :111 idea of givitig hi. uptilloil, Will put the nri,t:uol Alntion to the Meeting. Mr Hunt iirtnedir.trly tared Mr. Waitbrian a ith " siva fling." " It lb. bai.l hr, •` yrur dui), to put he Albeit,ltnent disc, Do your (Inky like A1..1.1111, nu frislli- . 1 tling." Alf. %%althea/in Said doe ShOeld net be interrupted by cla nr,ur and bullying. Tice Anseocitneal was thee pat and carried by an immense .majority. Mr. Stephens then snored the port;cl.!..r 1 - aonits of the Meeting to Nr. Waitbmanfor hits cninlart chi, (IA) iu cawing the.Chnir in the absence of the Lord Mawr. Mr. 11 unt stepped forward and seconded the motion. Ile had no pmts. feeling I%lu-stater, lie said. Mr. Waithinon, in wet ttrning tt.aillt,. said he should never again place himself in a situation in w hick IP...should be sub ject to tawlt from the person who an. ►o sincere in se...Hid ing the Iffilkstiou of Throbs. —The Meeting Ikea separated. The Berlin Gazelle .of the 15th July says, u it appears from the seized papers reerreil to in our last number, that Doctor Frederic Louis John, in spite of the clearest prohibitions, and his own most solemn proini:.!s. nut only professed, in the gymnas tic exercises. all kinds of demagogical principles, but persevered in his attempts to alienate the youth no der his tuition from theancisting Government, and to inculcate into their min& revolutionary and dan gerous principles ; iimexample, that in.tertain cases it might be allowed to assassinate an Officer of State, and that a poniard was an ornament to any individual (two were found upon him). lie was in consequence arrested yesterday, led colveycd to a fortress to be siihjectell to a severe examiwe•ion." The Cheshire Niers differ widely with respect to the atrocious attack toads upon Mr. Birch, the con- stable, at Stockport. Some accounts say, that he was attacked in the street, and another t.-4crts, that a handkerchief was thrown into the air us a signal for his assassination. We suppme. that the Precis. oration is correct, which states that the outrage was committed in his dwelling.house The party pa pers in the manufacturing districts arc so tinctured with prejcdiees. and so totally , :ct variance in the detail of the transactions in the' interior, that it is difficult to conic at the fact.F. ; , rivate letter eon, Manchester states, " that !tonere& of persons are regularly drilling ere: 'three of the town for. the most atrocious purposes." • 11 . c confess we much, douh...the truth of the latter statement. Rennet, the stealer ofVr. Horsley's child, is on board one of tfe hulks at Sheerness, waiting u txm veyance to New South Wales, Another of the bottles thrown overboard from the /sobetht, by Captain . Ross, in his voyage lust year to Baffin's-bay, has been cast ashore on the northern part of the Irish coast. This is the second that has been found on that part of the United Kingdom. Another instance of the fatal consequentis W.-im proper/driving has occurred. Friday evening one of the - .I'addington stages, endeavouring to overtake another %%loch was on the wrong side of the road, drove•furient3ly against it, and, sinttular twrelate, not only overturned the couch, but also a brewer's drrv, which was on the other side uf it. The conch . overturned was completely destroyed.tosi one of the horses belonging to it ous killed un the spot. We ure sorry to add, that an outside passenger had an arm broken, and two others were severely braised and wounded, and that the tintirttuttate • dra;man had his kg and Ince dteadfully.shattered. pomp LINES TO HIS MISTRES, BY I'ELTIIA.U. WHEN dearest I but think on thee, Methinks all things that lovely be Are prestrd, and my soul's delighted— ' For beauties that from worth arise, Are like the grace of Deities, - • Still present with us, though unsighted. l'hurrbile I sit, rid sigh, the day (With all its spreading light) :may. "I'll night's black wing:: do overtake me, Third:Mg tin Mee, thy beauties then, As stuldsm lights do sleeping men. So they, by their blight rays, awallf rue. ' Thus istsence dies—und dying prove► No ab.setice . can consist with lures That du partaku at' fair perfection • Since in the darkest night, they lusty, By their quick motion, find a way o bee each other, by retkction. The rolling sea, can wi:h•each flood. Bathe souse high palace. that harli stood Far from the main, upon t;:estivcr— Oh ! think not then,• but lova cart 49 As nitwit, for that's an ocean ton, That flows net every day, !rat ever ! Z 44 MANL It.ICTURING DISTRICTS. The following. letter from Earl Fitzwilliam to Earl Stamford, the Lnrd Lieutehant of the county of Chester, will be read with much interest Wentworth. July 21.1814. " MY had the honour of your Lordship's Kurt ern sloe tGth inst., conveying th, resdutioni of the Magistrates isf rhesitire, passed on the 1:;t11 inst. in general quarter sessions, for whien communications I bcg your lsordship to accept my ' bo. t thanks As a meeting of tic people teas fixed fur Alonclay. the ivtli inst., to be in:lc' on Iluradet- moor. near Leeds, which I thought likely to furnish the mans of forming en opinion re specting the important consideration of the temper atichdispiosi non of the tropurstien of that great town and extensive district. I deferred ackhowledging your Lordship's till I had received at counts of what passed on .that occasion. 'f lie ptofessed objects of this meeting did Oct differ front those of one already held at the sante place recently. They were Parliame stary reform. LY meats of universal suff:age. election Ly and annual far liemenrs, gitruhtled upon certain ahstract principles of the rights of torn ; but to these were added, en this ccertsicn, another reso lution (rather inconsistent with the spirit of the Jointer, which would produce a complete ruw House of Commons.) to send a repueseritstive to the present house, whenever a proper one could be met with. Notwithstsnciing there am cars no abatement Horn the large extent of their claims. still I am given to tineteroand, tbeie appeared in their manner a manifest humiliation of in the more humble tone, and means proposed for autining weir ends, since they even expressed an inciiiiark'n to petition Perlin. ment. kl At without warring into pc:tic:lsm of what paved, it is a great satisfaction to me to inform your Lordship, that tile numbers who unaided at this meeting - did not ekceed half er those that attended the last; and that of the numbers preser.t, a much larg er proportion of women made up this tneetiii4 thcr...t the last. At the close of the business, the meeting was otscolved. and the people dispersed without tumult or insult to any tne.h a manner tie most orderly and peaceable. On the whole, 7 shards 1 may confidently assure your Isords'rip, that though there arc to be found in this riding a certuiti number of very seditious, desip,u ing, and dangerous characters, who arc enticacouting to inael into the miuds of the ricinformsd, decttines subvcreit e of every thing valuable in our constitutional establishment, these MCP r.:C kw an numbers, without character or in:lettuce; 1110 mesas of cl:e population is by no means disaffecaed. but, on the contrary, rem. tented with the present node of things. If they attend such inireungs, it arises in a great degree 'from want or ircupation : they have the nii.rOrtune to be unemployed ; howeccr willing to work, under the present stagnation of trade, they car. riod none; and arc thus reduced te the crud distress, wbicit every man, whose daily support depends upon his dally earnings, mit , t be in when employment frills. Tour is their haul lot at present • which, to th...r credit, from evcri thing I hear, they 'Dew. to hopes of better times, with .patience :mil resignation. I here eon into length, but I thought your Lorddiip might be a-.xioae AC know the general disposition of a great population, so con:i guous to parts of Cheslurc. I have the honour to be, my Lord, your Loidsliiis most obedient. tie. (Signed) WENTWO3TH FITZWILLL\ SI. •• To the Earl if Eta:Mord, sic. " P.S. I libel I bare omitted to say, that the orators, on Mon day, were mostly the saute as on tie fin:ncr oeeason indeed, they are a sort of itinerant orators, who have attended all the dif tere.r.t meetings." LEEDS, Jt' IN C.). By some bbling • cmong the Iteiertiers themselves, as well as by some dtcumenti that lieve fallen into the hands of two ie. speetable genthimen in this tverglibottrhood, it remiss that :he ar inngentents arrnaarly completed thr a general meeting of:ill else unint.relorin societies througliect the kingdom, who are to ntblc sinutlianeolisly oa lllle and the same day—the small at shipst'viltages. and hamlets, in the imam; Lige tutut, er corr venientspot sit ground contiguous to ,ir ; and that very strong resolutions ate preparing which are to be adopted generally by these meetings. It is cetttin that an acti•X ;:orrc.Tondcnee has been for some time carrying on hetteten the societies in all pairs of Lnghttld, tiodlantl, and !seisms:: seta that trey do nut tru,t to the casualties of post•otliec conveyance. but amave their plans by means of del/shies ortdeltiratos, who ale new coldtantly traversing the kinclor... hint/it - multi-to the other ; while othcta are stationed in theireineiral large-tewns, and act like a el um of telemraphs, to come). important intimidation to the principals au these movements. Note it lieninding ell these alarrnirmernproms, the ltlegistrati her: seem to reel perfeetlfsecure in thopeutection which the cit.l power, and the few trocpseahat are 3!:iticruel in thin dirtrict, would Wind them. ant they have httwrto eeClinrtl taking any notice of the taiggestions that I:ate within the hat month been repeatedly and leiti.iirdly thrown nut. for eid,ing an addineitial armed for:" At re-rivet we ate pc7feetly tranquil; but tui commeicial ilietreps ilac:eke elm, hour. there is nergeralcllizg how long our tied taicusity uay cornii.u?. Sir Charles 'Noisily hat addressed a letter to tlic people of Birmingham, doted:July c, 1.319, in which be tliatikt rbein ter the honour they have done hint in electing hits to be their legislatorial attorney.-... " Whether, gentlemen," be says, " I shall or net be acknowledged imd received in the Cniir.ons Howe us your representalive, depends on Ills cir cunist:..ice—wiletber, in the constituted Authpiitits of the State, chore be or be not remaining un - , tolerable proportion of wialotu justice, or respect fin. public liberty, or the least desire fur r ": 41):41 act: a the Cetatittition.