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r I k~.... , .. s --:.. . -`•!..7.•,..f., LEICESTERSHIRF: 3111.111.1 , Ti e controversy respecting the Address of the privates of tt• Leicestersiei-e Militia to the Queen, has continued it ar..:e.tr%, without ahatetnent. and the fresh Address irsr.srt.itted from them to her 31ajevry, last week has or cas;otted it would seem, the publication of the tortes yorsietlce that had taken place on •the subject. This sl.ens with what concern these Addresses are regarded in certain quarters: anti of what importance the senti ments of private soldiers have become in the present tisnrs. The letters themselves can br appreciated withont tur!iser comment. as mar also the opinion of the Adjutant the noble Colo s nel refers. Leleeeter. August 17. Sta—As Lieutenant-Colonel of thr Leicester Regi ment of Militia, I request the favour of you to send cane tte names of the two individuals whoses , iirnatures were to the :address purportimr to be the Address of the pr;tates of that Regiment to the Queen, and also to men tine from whom you received it, and by whom it was presented. I asl.these questions, as it appears that the private* of the Reeinieat never even heard of the Address olvrtrg the time they were embodied. and I observe it LeArs dire three slaws previous to their dismissal. I Lave the honour to be, Pe. To Alderman Wood. M. P. S:. N. HULSE Loneon. .I,.rist 30. 140. atu honoured with your lette r of the 26111, recuestioc sue to send yea the names of the two h si~t its signatures were to the Addre,s lately sent to err. purporting 19 be an Address from the Privates of the Regiment under roar command; also to mention from whom I receiredit,and by whom it eras presented: and I should undoubtedly at once give con the informa tion desired, were I not induced to infer, front the par ticularity and frame of your questioning, that the Ail dre.s is considered by the connuandants of the Leices t..rshire 31Ditia, of an improper character; anti that pro ceedirgs may be in Contemplationlogainst the individuals of the Ifogunent, by whom the Address was signed. Your omitting to assign the ultimate object of the in quiry. fortifies me in this 'lmposition and I shall not therefore feel myself at liberty to send you the names of the parties without their previous concurrence, unless it appeared that the Address was not intended by the Privates of the Recipient to hare been presented to her Majesty. If the Address pnrporting to he an Address from the Privates of your Regiment. was not, in truth, on!Eorised by them, I shall not be found backward in exposing the ileception ; but shall he most anxious to Five tots all the information in nay power. For the re ser% howey..r. I must decline doing more than referring you to the tierjeant-itlaiiir, who, I ant informed, was st: , tweiied hr the officers of the Regiment to repress the shunts of the Privates of the Leicestershire Militia in favorer of her Majesty; frogs whom I should 'ppm ben.i yirt will i.e. able to obtain much more satisfactory information than it is in my power to give. I remain. Sir. tour obedient servant, (Signed) MATTHEW WOOD. Tu Lieut. Col. Hulse. Arliototoot-.Sheet. MA &pt. IRO. SJ —llavinf seen two letters which have recently I.re- eachangeA between yourself and the Lieutenant- Cotenel of the Leicestershire regiment of Militia, I feel it invumbent upon me, as its Colonel, to inform you that the questions put to you by Lieut.-Colonel Ilarse, were not asked with any view of proceeding against those men whom you asiiht uanee. a, baring sLenel the Ad dress to the Queen, purporting to he !root the Privates of that regiment. I ain not aware of any proceedings that torte/ he instituted against them •, certainly not, afar it has been satisfactorily ascertained, that the two names, which it is understood were alone subscribed to the Address, were aifiXed to it without the knowlerlge of the men themselves, by individuals not helongiug to the Corr. An instance of such palpable fabrication is 'rarer's- oo record, and the detection of it was due to the instilled honour and military character of the regi• anent ; no I since it was evident, either that the pers,:n to whom the snopositions Aildfess was transmitted. hart heen egregioasly doped, or that her Majesty, to whom it was presented. lead been shamefully imposed upon. I...rut-Colonel noise felt himself called upon to afford yoa the opportunity. which I now again ulfcr, of assist leg in the espositre of the tranaaction. ohserre that your letter :diodes to the reported abo.its of the men in favour of her Majesty upon the dishaa ling of the Regiment. I transmit to yon the ropy of a letter. w hell, upon that particular point, 1 hare received from my Quarter-Master ; hi which the real cireurostanees five occurred upon that occasion are fully detailed. It is right that I should add, that ill de tiirteing persons are at this moment making the most ac tive eseetions to entrap some of the Privates into a late avowal of their sanction of the Address, in the teeth of the positive disavowal st hick was fully and decisively given a few slays sine:. by 110 private.:, to the non-com. onissiimed officers who went round for the purpose of ascertaining the real state of the case, and who, front accidental circumstance*. were Unable to see the re mainder of the men. 1 hare the honour, &r. (Signed) RUTLAND. To Alderman Wood. Colonel Leicestershire Regiment. Leicester, Srpf. 3, ISO. MY Lotto ncoos--1 beg leave to acknowledge the re reirt of your Grace's let 'er of the Ist inst. and lost no time in seeing the Serjeant Major and again inquiring from him the particulars of what took place in the drill Geld the evening before the regiment was disbanded. It was the custom, during the period of training, for the men to fall in at their companies private parade, both morning and evening, when they were marched by their respective Non-Cotainissioned Officers to the drill field. The companies hail marched to different parts of the field, and the orders had liven read to them, when the Serjcant 3laior called for the Serjeants to collect their reports ; during this time four or five men in plain clothes joined in conversation with some of the grenadiers, and No. 1. Company. One of them said, romp my lads, give us three cheers for the Queen, (stad said Now) whets two of the grenadiers and one of No. I, Company , pulled off their caps and cheered, and not more than eight or nine seemed to take any notice of it. On seeing this, he immediately fell them in. and the townsmen skulked away. Shortly afterwards I arrived, when the Serjeant Major reported to me what had occurred. I blamed him for not ascertaining their names and place of re sidence. . ..... Alderman Wood must hare been misinformed res pecting the Serjeant Major being sent by the Officers to repress the shouts of the men, as there were no Officers present. The Adjutant and myself only attended the drill (and lie was dining out that day) Colonel Hulse thinking the men would conse on much faster under the Serjeants till they became perfect with the fireleck. The day the regiment was disbanded, there was no parade, except by companies, to give in their arms and accou trements at the magazine. I commenced taking them in at six o'clock in the morning, two companies at tending every hour till the whole was received, and no men could conduct themselves more properly than they dill during the time I was receiving them. I have before Mated to your (inc.a that the men were marched from their private parades. morning and even lug, to the drill fieltf, under the Serjeants ; at twelve u'elock the whole regiment assembled In the Market- •t .. • • ••••* , '4.•;%?.•• p THE STATESMAN• _ , . 11. place, when the ()Seers of course inspected, and took' post with their.companies. The Geier/►cr Chronicle• of this week haring stated a deal more than is hue, • 1 have taken the liberty of for warding one for your Grace's perusal, and am very sorry to see that any of our men have become the dupe• of a set of designing men, and with the exception of Lillev. Newton, and Brookes. and perhaps some few other'. • l am confident the Privates knew nothing of any such thing as an Address. I have the honour. N.c. J. DElKlNti,Quarter-Ma3ter. L.M. Leir , ster. Sept. 3. IWO. We, the nntlersigned Nor.-remmissioned °dicers of ' , the Leicestershire Regiment of Militia, do lierebV dare, that during the late training of the Reginiefit, we. never at any time heard of an intention on the part of the Privates, to present an Address to the Queen, and that since an Address has 'teen presented to her Majeor on their behalf, we have seen the men resident in 1.4-: tester, and the different villages in the County, to the number of -ell. all of whoui positively disavowed any knowledge of such Address, or that the satolistait ever seen, heard, or read by them, or ever gave any sanction thereto; and we ftirtlier declare, that if an Address had been in contemplation during the training. the same must have come to our knowledge. Wm. Wheatley. serjni-maj. William Elliot. eorpoisi Thomas Johnson. serjennt William Care!, ditto George Ilighton. ditto Charles Bass. ditto John ditto %Villistit Bishop. ditto (;erree J-lin.on. ditto Jn4n Waldroin, ditto illiasu Lewis, ditto Jtmer:i Mae. ditto John Jeley. ditto Nathan Cox, ditto Josep!l Dudgeon. ditto James IVakerley. ditto Thomas ditto .1 os POI Newtua. ditto Thomas 110 , 1 re,. ditto John Bradshaw. ditto John I livkinKbottoin. ditto Robert Adeoek. ditto John Fos4e:t. ditto Ed ward Whittingham, ditto L I Jaynes Squires. ditto Joseph Gishorn. itrum•niajor • John Markers. ditto John Norton. Drummer J. Lee, ditto Thomis Warden, ditto ' John klareh. ditto William Asher, ditto Richard Rabrey. ditto Wiiiiam Nowrogsh. ditto Henry Nicholson, corporal (*harks Houghton, ditto 1 William Welton. ditto William Hall, ditto John ditto John Breslin. ditto Thomas Bills, ditto nragultaborph-llerse, Sept. 7. ISIO. MT Loan—ln answer to your letter of the 3th lust. I bare first to observe, on the extraordinary circumstances, that an Address from the privates 14 a Regiment to their lawful and led Queen, should be deemed by their Colonel an ffsnln t o the honours of the regiment. This idea, it it havr no other merit, has at least that of novelty. The soldier sloes indeed resume this militart garb, butt in cheerfully performing th;4 part of the ditty of a good subject, he does not forfeit his civil rights, much less floes be forfeit the richt of exercising his judgment, and of acting agreeable to his feeliitri as a man. That the men had a right to express their attachment to her Majesty, and their abhorrence of the treatment that sloe had'experieneed, I know lull well. lam con vinced that the Address contained the real sentiments of this regiment. And I know that it was agreeable to her Majesty to receive the same. As to the isquities said to hare been made of the men indirideally, and reported by the Serjeant-3lajor, Ad jutant and Quarter-Master, am too well acquainted with the nature of the power of such persons over the men, to pay the <tcalleq attention to such reports. The account siliiela you are pieiseil to gis e me of its designing persons even now enwe.l to entrap some of th e p r i vate , i n t o an a vo wal of the Address, induces sue to inform your Lordship. that I have sink ... minor re ceived an Address signed by MO of the Privates. accom panied with a letter, statin.:, that a much larger number would have signed it, if they could hare obtained the Address at their re•delencr. By one reflection, hn•vever, I am consoled. and that N. that the private soldier has At last cow to herd-1,161mA as a being whose feelities an,f wishes are worthy of *petition. I have the litcionr to he, bx. ‘TTIIEW IWOOD. To his Grace the Duke of Itottawl. Ariimiten-strert, Sept. O. IFIO. SIR—I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 7th inst. With respect to the Address which you state yourself to have received on that day, signed by three hundred privates of the Leicestershire regiment of Mili:ia (which regiment it should he remarked, has been disembodied more than six weeks), it is singular that it should have been thonght necessary to obtain at/Nikki/fa signstures to an Address, which three weeks since you published to the world as having proceeded from the whole of the privates of the regiment. It is impossible that a more striking presumption can he afforded to the Public of the truth of the charge of gross and infamous imposition and forgery, which attaches to the Address presented by you to her Majesty on the 17th of August, than the facts that the Address which purports to be from "The Privates of the beicestershwe Regiment," bad, according to your own admission, only two names subscribed, and that except by the two persons whose names were so subscribed the Addresss hail never been seen or heard of. As to the additional signatures, to which you appear to attach an much importance, 1 will only transcribes sentence in the letter which I vestenlay receiirsi from my Adjutant, dated on the 6tb inst.—" 1 have this morning been informed, that an Address to the Queen, with upwards of two hundred signatures.' was yesterday forwarded, but I have no doubt, were it possible to see the Ilst of tli; names, it would be found that many arc town who never did belong to the regi ment, others are affixed with the decided dissent of the parties, and SUM! have been obtained by false represen tations." Three is teething Ws tAsso retaiwissisog parts of your letter which appears to me to require any canniest ur reply.-1 Isere the honour to be, Sir, your obedient humble servant, RUTLAND, To Alderman Wood. (siVed) Colonel Leicestershire Regiment BONA,.Atm.—When Rear• Admiral Pamplin left B. naparte was understood to be well ; but lived a most se cluded life, refusing to see any stranger—even Admiral Lambert lid not obtained have to visit him when the Conqueror left the island. We understand that Adtniral Pamplin had not seen him for many months: that he sent to him to say his successor had arrived. and be shoal.' feel happy in introducing him ; to which Bona parte replied. he was too unwell to receive visitors. He ' had built a mud wall round his garden, with loop-holes, to enable him to observe the approach of any person to his residence. His new house, which is a most spacious and excellent erection, will be trimly for his reception 'about Christmas next. Captain Lnytehens, 40th Re giment, was the Orderly Officer attendant on his. Ad. rival Pamplin left St. Helena on the Stith of July. 'Some Postmasters having lately altered the rate of postage, on the plea that any letter which contains a printed form, accompanied with written instructions relating to that form, is liable to be charged as a double letter, an application has been made on the subject to the . Secretary of the lieneral Post-olliee, who has answered, that there is no authority fur any sack exaction; and he hasordere4 the Postmasters to return the postage which they have to improperly taken.— (Staqiord Merewry.) ' RWOLGTION IN PORTUGAL. The following is an extract cf a private letter, dated Lisbon, Aug. 31 :—" At last a revolt of the troops has taken place at Oporto, three regiments of the line, and two of militia. The officers were arrested, but soon liberated, after being thanked for their past services, saying. that as this affair was between them selves and the government, they required their aid and assistance no longer. The constituted authorities, with the bishops, merchants, &e. &c. have taken the oaths required of them. Last Saturday was the day of the explosion. All was quiet at Oporto. The ad vanced guard was yesterday at Leira, about sixty miles from Lisbon. Nothing has been clone here by the Regency. hut the issuing of a Proclamation. The Oporto Proclaniation was a spirited composition. The Regency one was torn down the other night, and the Oporto substituted in its place. Yesterday the police were very busy in defacing it. No letters were allowed to tome from the Post-office yesterday ; con sequently we are all in the dark. The Creole, they say. is tee take Palmella before this business he lead declined going in her. Three frigates are preparing, supposed to carry off the Regency at a moment's warn ing. It is .upposed the Spaniards are at the bottom of this business, and that Poringal will become a pro vince of that country. All is quiet at present here ; no movement of troops, and wi dependence on any one. .• The Regency is allowed till to-day to accept the new Constitution. The King is to be respected. Thee have paid the troops here. '• Excuse haste. The packet is expected to sail every moment for England. P.S. I lie Regency are certainly going to the Rio. The frL ate. are to take them, and the Count Paltuella goes in the l'reole packet." Extract of another private letter, slated Lidos. August 30 :—" By the incise:ell translated documents, yon will perceive that the Standard of Liberty has le•en, raised, and the Curtis anti Constitution proclaimed, in, the three northern Provinces of Pormgal. " The first intelligence of this event reached us on the VAIL Yesterday our present Government is pled a Proclamation, calling the insurrection the horrid crime of rebellion against legitimate potter and authority,' desiring Gs: people and troops to remain firm to their Government, at.d promising to do Lo w all in their power to ameliorate the condition of the na tion. But this Proclamation has been treated with very little respect, though it was la s ted in al t every corner.- This morning the greatest part of ths to were found torn, or smeared with d'ct. not even ex ceptiog the places where sentinels are slw vs posted. " To-slay advices from 11; o to s p to th • 27th were received ; every thing remained s niet th .re, and they are preparing to act on the d• it necessary. . . " It is rumoured that Alfit rte awl Akin Tejo are ready to proclaim, if they hare not already proclaimed, the Constitution ; but we have no confirmation of this. " There can be no doubt that ire are on the eve of an i por t,a le t . change. Gud grant that it may happen without any disorder being committed. Yours, &c. _ _ " Even in Lek* the Consti!ution has hems pro. claimed. " Pardon the want of signature tp the pnlarnt; even• precaution is necessary u•hiie the preasnt order of things continues." PROCLAMATION. (No. I.) 4. Soldiers !—line will unite us. Let us haste to the salvation of our country. There are no evils that Portugal does not sutrer : there are no sutL•rings that the Portuguese do not bear in the extreme! The Portuguese without security in their persons and pro. perty, request our assistance t thq desire Liberty re gniate,l by Law. _ . . _ . " You yourselves, victims of the general evil, are n.) longer runsidrred as your value and virtue merit ! " A Reform is necessary ; hu: it must be regulated by reason and justice, and nut by lieent;ousness. Contribute to preserve order : repress all tumults : smother the least symptoms of anarchy. _ _ _ . . " Let us create a Provisional Government in which we can c , oifide : let them call the Cones, which will he the organ of the nation, and let these prepare a Constitution that will secure us our rights. " Our King Don John VI., a• good, as benign, and as a friend to his people, who adore him, will bless our exertions. " Lunt• live our beloved King! Long live the Cortes and their Constitution !" Oporto, in Military Council, Aug. 24. (Sign e d) tire': t.vi:oo, Colonel of No. lit Cia:tctl:A Pitt Artillery Lieut.-Colonel of No. 6. Major of the Jlaia Militia Dit.o Oporto ditto." PIIOCLAMATION.—(No. 2.) "SoltHers !—OurSufferings pre past bearing ! Our country in fetters! All respect for you lust! Our sacrifices triturated! A Portuguese soldier on the point of begging alms !! "Soldiers—This is the moment. Let us haste to sure our country—let us haste to save ourselves. "Comrades!—Follow me : come with oar brothers in arms to orpnize a Protkional Government, and let them rail a Cortes to form a Constitution, the want of which has been the origin of a:1 our sufferings. It is not necessary to recapitulate them: all of you feel them. " It is in the name and preservation of our august Sovereign Dun John VI. that it will govern. " Oar Holy Religion shall be protected : as our ex. ertions are sincere and virtuous, so Uod will bless them. " The soldiers who compose the brave Portuguese army will haste to espouse our cause, because it is also their own. Soldiers The power is in their hands; we ought not therefore to allow any disorder. If to each of as our country one its salvation, let it also owe to each of us its security and tranquillity. " Place confidence in a Chief who never led you in any path but that of honour. " Soldiers !---You must not judge of the grandeur of the cause by the simplicity of my expressions : men of talent will one day- illustrate this act more glorious than a thousand victories. " Lee VI hallow this day ; and henceforward let the cry tsf Our hearts be•.-. Long lire King John Vl. I.ong lire the Portuguese Artny--Long lire the Cortes and their National Constitution." 1 COPY OF l b '• I swear by the Holy tiospyl obediene. t o t h, p rn visional Asseully for the Supreine of Kiugslosu nun• established, and whirki, iu th. time , 4 Don John VI., is to govern till the institution of tortes which is to convoke for forming the Porttleir,, Constitution. tt 1. swear obedience to thew - Castes, and to the Cp. stitutiOn they niety form, (si.tintainit r the Ro wan ( . 1. thole R e ligion, and the dyn as ty ut Ihr Seen. Home of !bagman." _ _ Signed by the following Memberr, of the Prnri%:.on., norernment for the City of Oporto, and the rest of tin Kingdom. President—Antonio da !Min Pinto. Vice•President.-.Crunbreiral, Colonel 4 Art:iler. S, eretarier—Don • Jose Ferreira Borger, Don /la SE% a Carrallso, and Don liotnes ell. ( v, Member fur the Clerpy"—The Wan a the (1. aritraf. Member for Magistracy--.—Manu e l :Skin 1)1.14 for the .Nobility—lerrirs :in.! Pedro Lei. 3leuiher for the University—Friar Francisco San.: Luis. _ refnudes 31embrr fur Cimmerce--Francisco Jon. dr Ban,. Lima. Members for the Province of Minh.--J., ao Cunha Santa May .n and Jute Maria Xavitr Azvvello. Men:hers for the Province of Trasos Mentes.—hp. Joaquin de tuira stud Jose Manuel Ribeire Fenei r ., de Ca4tr.i. hienibers for the Province of lieira--Jors. tie , Castro e Abreit and Roque Ilibeiro d'Abrantestastellu BlrStleu. Acu. 2.l.—Every thing havinr been in , ra tele arrarzeti on the 23.1 instant, between the tis.l and 111ilitaty Authorities. yester.lay A hallTast foot A .m ~ the Castle at tha mouth of the Dtttru, at - .n. - Att:;ed by a royal salute, the day debtined to give lib, tti to Portugal. At day-break thse .ttoolus of tthe line and rn:Titia sett:bled under arms, and the Officers pr weeded to f.rin a Military Courcil,.iriliith published two Pro. laniations (Nos. 1. unil2); qt half-past eight they marched to the Prada Nova, anti posted themselves in front of the Public Hall : the Governors, Bishop, and other authorities having arrived, the Proclamations wet e read in their presence, and it was universally agreed on to Pita:dish a Provisional Governmen., with powtr is call the tortes, fur these to f win a Cunstitation t thi agreement was sworn to by all, is the folloninz fen (No. 3.) The same was published to the peopk tr..ops, who welcomed the intelligence with loud nut repeated shouts of Long live King John V l.—Loor live the Cortes and Constitution. Ii; the ivening tit Authorities attended the National Theatre, and were , ereeted with the same acclamations. Every thicors conducted in the greatest harmony and good ordr, Not a drop of blood spilt, nor even a dissenting vino All appear content, and every thing is going um a bef:re. The Government paper, which had ri'en 27 per cent. discount, is now at 25, and bids fair a go lower, as our cause cannot but prosper. "The foreign 4)6c►rs in the P.rtnguese srrrie were all placed under temporary arrest, bat tresteS with the greatest politeness, anti paid tip to the day. lh•neral Blunt is at Punte sie Lima, and two osrsrt have been to intimate his arrest to him. " The oaths of fidelity to the Corte• are pourilz in from all the towns an.l villages in thew thre provinces." FNTIt ACT OF %No rittit LETTER. Lunn,. AUG. 30.—You doubtless mast hear this packet, which goes off express, the late ereat si the change in the Government of the Pruiinces web of Oporto, and at that city, which was publiclydeclarti and sworn to by all the authorities, military, cirii clerical, and others on the 2-Ith instant. The ex alp" has been followed at Coinal.ra and Leira; also at Abrantes. from whence the tro•aps and anitlJia force+ have marched to join the common cans.. glary an paid all their arrears due hy the Royal Government. and there seems every reason to believe all the *roans here anal in the vitinity will take the same part. he Government yesterday issued a Prorlatuation exlme• leg every one to maintain order and faith toward: King. Order certainly exists, and we hope it will prevail, but very little respect has been sl:oltn to the Proclamation." YORK dUJOURVED ASSIZES. (reßrara rAwrici LARS THE ABILI10:0,1INT 0? THE raisoxcets.) CHARGE OF MOH TREASON. SEPT. 9.—Mr. Justice Bayly and Mr. Justice Park arrived in town this morning; the latter came from Lancaster, the Auizes in that town having conclude It will be recollected, that Mr. Justice lark, Woe leaving York had adjonrned the Assizes over to tie day, in order to proceed in the usual form, necessary to the putting of certain persons, against whom liib had been found for High Treason, on their triA.. Their Lordships having iu the usual form prod to the Court (held in the Castle), the prisoners, mow two in number, were placed at the Bar at Italtpastto o'clock. he Counsel for the prosecution next eat' ' ed the Court; they were Mr Ser j 'eaut Ilullock, )I f. Serjeant Cross, Mr. Littletlale, and Mr. Bailie. The Counsel as.igned for the defence when the IV' were found, were Mr. Williams (at present one of 10 " Majesty's Counsel), ,Mr. Starkie, and Mr. Blaeltbsra Mr. Williams has not yet arrived Isere, but the OS" Counsel were in Court. There was one indictment in which eighteen B( 4 ' prisoners were included, but the Bar nctelwiari s cions enough to hold 6.1 n, they were called ors two divisions. The names of the liret party placed 2 ' 4 the liar, are—William Comstive, aged 20; Itie hr- Addy, aged 29; Charles liautield, ; Benjamis son, ti ; Joseph Cicapiel, 2S; James Flowers. 1 Benjamin Rogers. 30 ; William Rice, 40, sad .W 3 Burkinshaw, aged ill yews. Ilieprisonen 'melt( swered to their namesAlae elbert proceeded to r over the indictment; it contained three moats, 3 was of very great length. The erne, was. laid at !le parish of Silkstone, ia the West Kioiwg of Yerlsahlin the time the 11th of last April. The prisoners severally pleaded Xot Uillty.stmenv s them was one Flowers, who appconni so dates te err ~