The National Register. — London, England, 1819-08-15 00:00:00

~. ~~' .. /.~ //7h it r74#/ : t 1P atio ita • No. 1207.—V0c. XII.] Political Itetrosspect. Since our observations of last week, every day has tended more and more to establish the doctrines we then laid down on the subject of those popular Commotions which have so much engaged the atten tion of the country fur some time past ; b shew on one hand the folly of the alarms attempted tobe ex eited, and on the other the wickedness of those who would have gladly'readc them instrumented to pur poses of encroachment upon the little we still enjoy of civil Freedom. Nay, the very seizure of Har eison, at the acme of popular phrenzy, was found inadequate to the purpose of creating a Riot, and as there was neither an old stocking filled with balls, nor a single pinch of gunpowder detected in any body's snuff-box, as Mr. Oliver has declined busi ness, and retired into a quiet corner of Norfolk to liVe like a gentleman, not even a tolerable farce, and much less a tragico-comico piece of five acts, for the amusement of some, the m:sery ofothers, and the be nefit of his Majesty's servants could be produced. The good men of Cheshire have sworn upon the al tar of their valour to defeaul their King and support the dignity of the Crown, and their Lord Lieute nant has Fiblishei a most darning Manifesto, and called upon the Lord Lieutenant of Yorkshire to follow him in this path of duty. Lord Fitzwilliam, however, was too old and experienced a bird to be caught in so palpable a mare, and again made the tool of abridging or suspending the Liberties of his Countle . Government has also sanctioned the fortuatioa of volunteer corps for the : protection of Ad:mei:ester and - Salford, as if the enortneus military estaldisliment previously on feet was nut either ade quate or disixieeable for the dispersion, if it should recessary, of a wretched and paltry rabble. But a little time has also effected wonders in another respect, it has enabled the lies and exaggerations of the Ministerial papers to meet with that conviction of their falsehoods which is sure to overtake them at last, though unfortunately the mischief they pro dace has sotnetitnes taken place before the antidote to the poison could be administered. No one can for get how Lord Fitzwilliam himself was duped upon the last suspension of the Liberties of Englishmen, and how vainly he afterwards had reason to deplore h:s error, when a minute end personal examination u: the state of his own county had enabled him to ascertain •that truth whichhad been so grossly and scandalously distorted. Yes, the delirium of the moment has subsided, but the misery which led to it still we fear retrains. The harvest expected to be gathered front it by those who fatten upon such tLI has entirely failed. Lord Castlereagh cannot even hope for the plaudits of listening senates on letviive put down rebellion, nor can his beloved as s iciate Mr. Canning agile exercise the humanity of Lis eloquence upon the ritidured awl revered. A3tat though these poor and dla,led wretches are now Partly by the lams of the land, and partly from the sense of their own late follies induced to abandon their 'Meetings, and to withhold the expressions of their discontent, yet it will deeply behove botlrGo • ,_•rto meet and the Legislature not to be unmindful of the spirit, that will still groan though forbidden loudly to complain, and to arply themselves to re m* those evils which it is impossible either to de test, CO to d►sguise. Let theta give to the large and populcass.places in te kith these disturbances, if so I AtA iottr+ irilICE 94d. piece only sashed in the pair; the vi lnia, hissirstver, imme diately re-primed, when thew went oIL, ant the gentleman felt th • hail go chine pot his head ; bow by putting spurs to his horse, he es; aped, and returned safe to this town last night. An this gentleman is a stranger in this part of the country, there is no doubt the usiousina had mistaken their man; anti there is rvrrr ritoot, ti, fe.ir thi it intension was In autissinate Mr Halliday, sn opulent and extewaite moon facturer, of Dewsbury, who passed Moog Ike road a few mi nutes befoul-. The ' trne bill found at the Warwick 'Assizes, 13 against George E !snoods (of Bi mina in, schoolmaster), C. Mad docks (of ltirtnincham, schoolmaster). John Cartwright, (commonly rolled Major Carlo riOil), 'wags Jonathan Woolci (Editor of the Mack Dwisit"). and Mr. Gccatlitad Lewis (of Coventry, schuolmaster,) fur seditiously meet ing to Elect a Representative for Rirminelisio, iii parlia ment, and cleclimy at that meeting Sir Charles Widseley, as Legi!liAti VFt ►tiorney and Represestallve. A certiorars has been applied rut, by the prosecutors, to remove the proceedings into the Court of King's Bench. in comic wiener of which the ilrfenclants will he e:.!led noon to plead in that Cm), ton the first day of nest 'ferns, and the prosecutors will he enabled to take doss ii the record for thettriul of the defendants at the neat Warwick Assizes. We hare received Halifax papers to the 20th July. Orders have been receircA there for the immediate discharge of almost every person employed in his l‘bjesty's Naval Yarti arid Hospital. These est.:- biishments are no longer to be kept up: the ships of war on the Halifax station are in future to receive at Bermuda whatever repairs they may require.— The Earl and Countess Dalhousie arrived at Qie bec, in lns Majesty's ship Mersey, on the 30th J:ine. The Parliament of Upper Canada was on the 14th of July prorogued by proclamation until the 21st day of Oztaber. Some fine specimens of native English gold have heels presented to the Royal Institution by Sir C. Hawkins, Dart. through ths,hands of Earl Spencer. They were found lately while streaming fur tin, in the parish of Ladook, in Cornwall: sottse of the pieces weiglual each 60 grains. Native English gold has also been found lately in Devonshire, by Mr. Flexman, of South Alolton. Lancaster, (Penn ), ,Irene 29.—Lartrc Snide A strange circumstance is said to have taken place is few days since its the neighbourhood of this city. A woman passing along a path through a rye field, sat down on the side of the path, when immediately she was seizcal ruuud the waist by a huge black sualse, which raised its frightful heat! in a threateuing, at titude, mouth open, on a level with her time, with its eyes fixed upon her countenance. The screams of the woman brought a black man to her :ts-sistance, who resolutely grasped the monster by the ne:k -with one huud, and with the other seizNl its tail, and while unwinding its coils, the woman, by his dlrectioas, took a knife from his pocket, and off went Oa reptile's head." The relations we have heard of this wonder differ from each other, but in no considerable degree ; from one source we are iT: - fortnett the snake weighed upwards of SO pouty.!s.— Alaerl'eari Paper. A letter Nun Antwerp, slated Atli ! 3, states, the pub lisher of a paper of that city, called the Constios!..nnot Journal Wile Protinecof Antwerp, has beet, called Mann at the instance of Hawn Minder, the Austrian M:u.sicr at Brussels ' fur it:wrung in his paper an art.cit, daieJ Frankfnr, June 20. (translated I the Morning I nide) containing some refLetions on the conduct of 1 1 -l. Handell, Austrian resident at Frankfurt. He is tug 3.1:11.2 Minister who caused ete prom tit of the Cotette of that city, for in:wriiita, from the Leiblsothepse !him. ague, an account of the arrangements between Atirria and the Ste of Rowe. The Stockport Magistrates have rzceived such information of the ninnierous attack on Birch, the constable, as has intitietd them to pub:ith a new edition of the alveniseinent offering the reward, wi:h the 'taint:R. of James anti ..I.lcob M'lnnis, n:ttivcs of ircknd, and weavers of 17 iey , nc.ir Stocport, as being deeply implicated in the felony, an t i a.; baviog absconded. A letter of the sth, frooi Stockport, says, that Birch was w far recovered 11 to be able to walk about in his house. The Manckeslci . Observer has recommended the patriotic inhabitants of Manchester to raise a sub scription for Mr. I lenry Hunt, on accoinit " of kis having been harrassed in the Courts cf Law, in cot:- EIIUCIICe of his so conspicuously taking part with the Radical lleforniers." We do not know how fir the appeal will be successful or not, but us a gaol patriot he should rather have the subscription made to the Zistrm.al utanufactarers and t'•.t ir Our Etna, ConOttutton anti II abA. SUNDAY, AUGUST 15, Rae. b they will have them called, have taken place, that fair power of choosing representatives which Mr. Pitt himself.proposed. Taxation without Repre sentation tore from us America, and the principle wan which that secession was established is now universally admitted• to have been just. Let them eetxmenrime the Revenue so as to relieve the poorer classes from a weight of public contributions. which crushes them to the very earth, and renders their scanty earnings of but little comparative value in the market or in the shop.. L2t them di minish by resolute and vigorous retrenchment the magnitude of our public debt, which in proportion as it is paid off will tind its way into tther and more productive channels; diffasinp,- employ. ment, furnishing subsistence, and . promoting that content and happiness fur which Englishmen were once so eminently distinguished, and which then rendered their love of their King, their veneration for their Laws, and their attachment to their Country famed anal envied by every region of the earth.— Then, and not till then, let them boast of having secured tranquillity, or prefer their claims to grati tude and support. REFORAI MEETING AT LEIGH, us WCONEII3IY L 4 I. Th. meeting at Leigh has passed corer much quieter than was expected : neither hunt nor any of the irsuol itinerant orators were there. The resolutions cnibracs 11 the osual topics, ending with the necessity of a relmin in the Com 'noes' House of Parliament, that bciag the olleied statree truss whence a• 1 their hardship: hay, • arism. .1 be, eitair man was es man of the name of Bninhirr. There 'Were also' pr. sent one Henry llattershee ; James Clore (who was taken from the itustitigs by a posse of ctin:tablel, nit some prior charges against hint, though not less thou 3,000 per noes were assembled, and who remained a , . 44,eclatohl.): and a man of the urine of James Smethurst, an Warrant methodist preacher. Ott the oppuintosent of a Chaim rot, thirteen females, di rowel chiefly iu white, with Mar k nells and gloves, appealed, arid presented a cap, with the wolf' " Liberty" atom it, nod a deg, ore • bit Is was wait, "No Corn La a s,''• Annual P.tniaaacols,•' Univeisal •suift age," " Llirtiun by Baalltra" Tito females atterwards ascended the cart, tutu resin lined lbrre Militia: the whole of the mem log, but they took on part in the &billet. Several ;moons whip presented themselves to the Nfazis 'rates an boil for Clore were rejected, and be was sent off under an escort to Wigan-gaol. The town remained quiet at nine o'clock at night, hut it was deemed tweessar) to keep the Hussars all as the ci ow d had exhibited gee..' exultation, weed with hi-acs, when they were oboist to bare returned to Bolton, and they were ilscrer.. re ordered hack. (EIT/I•Cr OF ♦?OTHER t,r-rrra.) LE1(01, Ur:. 11. " Thk day there hes been a meeting of Reformers in this loon. Leigh is situate about 12 mile. from stunchester it commit.' a population of n arty 20,000 inhalittants. late hour of the tweeting, and the near demo lure of the pie t, only admit• of a hasty sketch of the proltveili fits. •' The Reformers waited mod ist 2 in tar afternt•nn, expecting the arrival of their celebrated leader, thus, hot he was wanting in the hour of trial. At Witt:tit, a Mr. Rat tershee, Sir Thomas Clure, Mr. namhor, tone uf the So ciety of Fiiriols), and a Mr. Smithurst, (one of the lane rant Clergynit n, ast ended the platform, with several otho r persons., not known iu (Lie parish. •• Mr. Panther was rbo.eu ehatrmaas " Ritartty liner Ins Chair we., taken , a &potation of 12 women., tram t h e [ . ..male Reform Sorfetyr, ilhor up pearauce. They were drviard in while. with black iashey. They sieve precedled hy a dm; hearing the A/Rowing iatsca ip tiatt G. Nn Corn !AWN j Animal Parliitarents4 Udiverval Soilrage4 Vote b v Itoilut ;" unit n biamilard, crown ed by the eap of liberty, whit h woo prevented by the Indies to the Chairman. After the iimnea hail take: their station in Ihr cart, co. ,v,iilor,eiley aed the ladies' addremt to the men of Enicil,nd acre r.aol. At Mi. moment the ante. not pollee appeared. and wthout iIIIV 01141110.104 to .k .lr. T:1 , 1111. Clore int t coileviv no a bench warn m. All o,e, now di, rosy. The Ch.iirotio 1.-ft his st.Ltio.", %thick far the remain der et the lomat? was lard by a wianoti! The t.trent maim rity of the I petiole thspesseil from fear, and the orators were, left for some tittle in abeyance." On Monday tart Nn r. Brid,haw arias %toll Nash, w a s apprehrndr.l by Jul,., K.ty, a cowttlinie,, tin a charge nr le luny at htiary. thr !adj.s wit.. sitnri star at stir ittiorh•t.tlio.l-uf ir6tim nt. feting in t►i. wan, a .ICU tie c.tip of liht•rty WAS hoist d.—B!.aeltlairp .U. 441. Lerhg, Aunt.m• 11).—A4try , 144:4 ATT I %spy Ar Ass is sly AI 10 AL—. (mitt town It. an Nlailida% night, as a itet,tientan wits itoiac Ana) ttas to,, a to 1)..i5.1,1t%. about half-way ream hence, he k..ar.l w WI Nide. 11111 his 1....reiv..d moo on the hank 44f the Nes. ro , o at....pb:e the tainiuke emsd, tvhu pre ., „ I , .1 a "„ „ i him, awl tausteditsfely vultei i u , 1 t ttl .. ..1. - . • t'