The National Register. — London, England, 1819-08-23 00:00:00

AUGUST Qt any measure that might provoke a riot; but the Ad ministration, with laudable consideration, declared that meeting to be legal. His Lordship wus doomed to witness The Agreeable Surprise;" the meeting sepurateil in perfect peace, in despite of that " busy, foolish, rash intruding fool," who risked the peace of the metropolis, against wiser advice by the appre hension of Harrison on the hustings. We have no doubt but that the Manchester meeting would . have Lad a similar end, had it not been for the guilty afficious zeal of those who interrupted it ; but the law, we hope, will be allow ed - to take its course. We doubt not the possibility of finding a Jury of honest men in Laneashire,.who, if murder have been com mitted, will declare by their verdict that it has been so, and for the credit of the executive, to give the lower class necessary confidence in the twat• ahni nistration of those laws, which they are: taught to believe, are equally for the pour as tlae.rich, to pee vent a recurrence of such arbitrary and fatal exercise of illegal power, nail to render respected the Go. vernment under ‘ , liich we live, we confidently hope that the last, the brightest prerogative of the Crown ill not be -exereisod in favour of any une, be he whom ho 11141 y, who shall become the victim of the grassly offended laws of God, of humanity, and of the realm. We shall pursue this saject next week, when we shall be in possession of tho evidence given before the Coroner's Inquests. BLOODY BATTLE. New Yone, JULY 21.—A letter from St. Tho miler, of the 3d instant, to a gentleman in Phila delphia, says, " I hasten to apprise you that we have this•day received informatiel from. Auturgna r of an action fought on the 12th ultinio,atCantaura; by a division of the Spanish army under the:coin nand of Gen. Arena, and a division of the Patriots, led by Alari”o, in which the Royalists were totally defeated, with a loss of 1,000• to 1,100 men, all their camp equipage, documents, &e. The Patriots, I red, et to add, suffered severely, having lost 400 men." A failure asomecoissisquence took place on Satin-thy at the Sock Exchange, sod toe pasties, who are mem bat of the house, were publicly ecciarvil as detaalicrs. Their differences, it is supposed, will amour to 70001. The settlements in Outoisag, which took placers° %Vett. nesvlay and Thursday last, produced moue of the eflicts that had beets anticipated • the speculators were all pre pare Ito meet their several engageogentr. atid the !Piet.; consequently, ungierweitt no advance. Tile 3 per Cents. have been equally free Imm variation throughout the week, owing to the very 'ignited extent of speculative operations. Each party. at least for the present account, seems to be exhausted, and to hive ventured to the full as deep as prudential consideration would penult!. Some doubt, too, appears toexist in what direction the account is likely to turn, which may equally deter the cautious speculator from operations wattling to turn t h e scale, now nearly helmeted, in tamer of the advene . party. The market• for stock is precisely in that situation in which a new and bold speculator, unincumbered with previous bargains, might give it a bias tither way. I t as a certain, and It is a consotatory.fact,. that the alarm ing state of the disturled districts . has not created any dimwit in the fund-holder, nor induced him to behest that his property, on that account, was I,lgely to he les sened in •value. Fewer sales have rattly taken place, nor has the market ever been more steady. Comols lon The day of settlement, which is on Thnrglay nest, clnied yes , erday at 711, and Omniuni at 41 premium. The continuation for the October account is i per cent. The departure of Sir Thomas Hardy to lissome the command in the Rio dc la Plata will very soon take pluce. The Vengeur, of 74 guns, :ails front Portsmouth to Plymouth, and will there be . ;oinotl by the Superb. Sir l'hos. Hardy is to hoist a broad pet:dant as Commodore on , board the latter ship, with a Captain under him. Captain T. White is appointed to command the Superb, Letters have been receive 1 from the Cape of Good• Hope, dated the 17th of lay hot. They contain accounts of an excursion of the Citifies upon Graham's Town, which ended in Chair complete defeat, with the loss of many killed and wounded. The following are extracts : cAPI-TOWN, 311 Y 5. The Coffees have broken out, and n ssry permits war is tarried on at present oil the borders. It is said that the savages are to the a ttttt otit of 50,C00 ; and a detiscanonit of 6,060 allot ked (lr-Ition's Town, or, Saturday last, about twelte o'clock in the day, but were repulad, nod 130 le; . • dead in the field. They carried off AO %sounded. Orders have bcvo ilsuctl la every dish tit of the colony fur the young THE NATI9NAL REGISTER. boors le enrol themselves fu orminie IKe eneitiy. *Theliettlers are in it Nei st:tti•, ZIA the l.nlfres have ,teilen :di their ruffle.' w a r Is 5 3 .1 tll 11..ve been ,re:e.ioneti by tlie conduct a , n hu had the cu 11111 l Anti iu one of the d.•t: kb. • WAY 10. The 19th reskient, commanded by Colonel Wotyisi.e, have come up with the main body of the Catfre• near 1;s:t -hanes Town wed nye defeated them with (seat lo"". Ikea they have withur,ao from the liriti•h territar. The 54th tageautot otrivioi as phi, phre n few thts ago f om rafetnald,. mot ha' o 1.1.14 Wm, no rehrdutl'fnthefro,.tivrs. A largoomber of infsitt) have hero ..... totted oil hoi&ehock, to rouble them to pursue more ell:•eto.itty the Siailg,S. -- They •re IM In excellent robins It is reported that our prrs►nt Governor isgoin4 home, and•tbat somber has beets opposuled. MEETING oa• SiITUIIDIY ar TUE Cliotrs 'MD 4SCIIOII. Tn enesegnenee of the Notice issned from th e °Mee°, Mr. ‘‘‘...l.t, the huge room in the Irowis soul Anchor wails nearly tided at one o'clock. by au •ssemhlage cf person►, of Sla.:n, iu xcoicral, it would he an injustice to say that it was utherwixe than extremely itspeciable. Among the inorrttoul►le indivminal► who mingled in the MIMIC. st•e oh ttttt d Watson, Thistle N'Ond. (Sitc-t, and ►rural otiscis who took the lead at the At ten ',Winces east ome o'clock Jlajos Cart right, bc- COtbraMcst by Mr. WOokr usid .errs at other per/runs, en tered the romp. amidst the loudest cactus. At it gooney after 011;;O'Cluekiirllict , kr wended the /side. He observed, tint on an ureasion of such mo mentous importance as the present, it was of the luestest ronacquenee that a itelsou of vrvier:t and resvectehility should he called to preside over thvir proceedin7v —Their old and tried film', the worthy Major Carte tight, was present ; but Rom his infirm state of healtkliatt ears MAC(' a wish that the honor of tali in the Choir , might not he pressed upon him. lie 'belief, ry Legged to AWNS that Mr. Waddington should take the Cho • motion being pot, was earl i, d ores cm. Mr. Waddington thanked the Meeting fur the honour they had dune him, and pledged liiinst If to be guided in his conduct in the Choir as he trusted they would be in durnced in their's, by the maxim Au fi ailtram papterfs. Mr. Waddington said Pe had been in ,Iniericts, in France, is Belgians, awl in the Peoinstila ; lie had wit nessed the tranintions in all these places, but he p ver knew nor heard Hutt She Magistrates, wit anglit to re the conservator of the pence, ordered armed 4roops to fire Ca unarmed and defenceless individmaln, to plunge their sal). es in it:, breasts of innocent N 0111e1/, or to ScICI ifiee the latching babe. Mr. IVuoler then proceeded to Address the Meeting. Heispoke in terms of vehement peprol 1114.11 of the conduct •of the .Mag i stracy and Yeomanry (he would not chit them soldiers; of Alancliester—und insisted, that it would have been quite as legal in the people to go to the Public Alert ing armed, and prepared to defend their exercise of a cut, stibitional right, as it was in the Yeoluanty to fall sword in Mond on the people, without ally canon or provocation —( Immense applause.) Air. Wtoder •poke at veal length. and concluded by moving the following ILt. suittoicaw, width were tacit, ied unanimously. 1. Thrit in the opinion of this assembly the public meet • ing convened at Alacchrstei, for Monday last. the I ith nut. its consider of the hest and most eflretted means of obtaining Parham. otar R 4141171. WAD perfectly legal end constitu. tiomd.—Comitinctsly. /. That if the Alicliiitiales d, caned ruch meeting illegal, it nas their duly to have demonstrated such and taken proper precautions agaiost in; being held.—Uantoi nt 3. That to refereed to disperse such a legal assembly by force of arms, can 01.1 y be considered as a wanton massacre of ourunatUmding and peaceable countrymen; and that the barbarity with which islesucious inhitary executed the rash at dues of u vindictive magic vary, sparing withar age nor sex, eqo is in guilt the blackest atiockies which stain the annals of tile Unmet Hevolutisow--Unanimousty. 4. That the fir:paid conduct of the Magi,truers at 71:nn chester, on Monday, the lath lost., imperiously demand.. that, as in London, the right of choosing Sherilli• and bla• gistrates should be restored to the people, a 5 previous to the reign of Edward the 2d.-I..maisimously. 6. That the jesuitical circular of Lord Sidinouth, so al.ly exposed by Mr. Jeremy Bentham ; the obscure and intictl- - nitepior laination of the Regent ; and the recent calumnies upon reform delivered from the sacred seat of justice, may have had a powerful eff.st in producing this lanteutable outrage on the tans: and that it is much to be regretted that high hit th and dignified situation should be tent tr..uch an Improper excitation of the angry passions. of the euemies of Reform.— Unanisnousla. 6. That Henry Hunt, Esq. Chairman, Messrs. Johnston, ight., Saxton, and others arrested on this occasion, appear to have cuudarted themselves 104 h exemplary and enlist 'du. it discretion, and have therefore commanded the respect and p.nteetion of every patriot is the United Kingdom,— trwriiitnestsfy. 1. That the evemplary behaviour of the regular troops employed 0,1 that occasion, forms a humane contrast to the cumluct of the Yromainy Cavalry, and may be fairly con strued into a plcilze tlnit the 13ritah regular force trill not trample upon the-rights, our dratroy the libortin of their fellowsubjecte.__. S. Th.tt the Electors of Westminster, the florentalt of Southwark, ■nd the inhabitants of the empire• at lar,:e hr tusked to meet and expect* the abhorrence and indigna tion which must be felt by till at toe vmhttion of the Inn by those especinily appmtited fur its prate( two ; and the n an. ten barbarity of tortte4trs who hove umeped the uoiturto to disgrace the name of solders. • 9. nal this %It cling nook! Itl* pre.enttd n Petition to the Regent, praying him 44, 134 rig th. atihors of thew atroci ties to justice ; but I i tt the t nterreptioos otf l'ettitottt; In his 11, al Itighttcss by Lo d Sahnouth, rrilders ti hopeless to ex pect tail/ lot) , complaint of toe prayk nit! ;each his ear.— Uncut fmuusly. _ . 10. .1 hula Cotrunitire he appointed to consider nF the brit and most etlectual means of carring the abuse Reso lutions hito arc t. 11. That the Shanks of this Meeting. he given to M..joi Cartss right, for h 3 able exposition an d d e f e n c e o f th e lir iii ciple4 of Radical liefartn, %latch it has been again loot, cannot be coupierefl, etc.!) lay the sword. A till that he be requested to :Keeps the office of Treasurer to the Committee. 12. That Ibis assembly do pledge itself, both with their purses and their prisons to afford eveuy ltnal and com.ti tutioual support W slit individuals *rusted and imittivon- 277 mist the hits MaarLe'sler }feeling, and M rtt. ftH ranee a this Itemletiost, they recommend !hilt al sisio•rription he inentediately eutere3 iota for the piirpii,e of plot:I:tin( Counarl, and sloth legal aid as may be neeeasitry fur tin'? protection mid seppno t. 13. That James flamer and Chitties l'enrgon be ap pointed Solicitor,. for the purrUNlc Of 0.111114 the iirtswibs i.oprivnied rt Winchester, and obtaining eoliett iuror ntcriat then situations. IL 'flint thanks be given to Henry Hunt, for his cool manly, laid south ut conduct upon nunieruos public occasions, during many pats, wider eircunbialli es of inthent particubirly liferioue to t had tel chairman ing the rive iie.i tea lay 16.1( . 11t1) rd 1111'6111W .4 %1 nod at the tomato at the barb:moot find Ito.' id inimical of our oppretted nail I; • Nag toiletry folliv, by tbi nutlet.' list and savage Ytiitianry t and by orders of the blotel) minded Nlagistratet.—Monfistivitay. 15. Tani the retiitutious unit% taertittg be bisected in the Nlalic better Observer. • Thanks mere al .° voted to 11u• Chninnan for his impar tial conduct in the chairs mid to Mr.-1V octet tin couveutost the !Sleeting. ANOTHER SMITHFIELI> MEETING. ' The idea of Meeting on Kennington Common has bees abandoned ; but it appears from the following notice which has been handed to us, that an at tempt will -be -made to bold another meeting in Smithfield on Wednesday neat—Sir Charles W Arc ley in the Chair ! UN 1 VERSA.L.- CI VI k., AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY, . ..... _ _ " A public meetik, ,, a the British Jletrupolis. in behalf of the People of the wliole I:mpire, will be held in Smithfield, on Wednesday, August 23, at Four o'clock in the Afternoon. " The Surrey Committee have, at this awful and moinento.ts • crisis, detrrinined to defer their Meeting at Kennington Coto iron, usa. f..4trrc Bay, and join the People of Middlvse: in an App(id to thy Prince It cent, to come forward to the people to stay the hand of merciless aad bloodthirsty Tyrants, and save the Cotxtry from taassacre aad n.uracr !!' " • England expects every Man to tio his duty.' " Sit Octal cs Wor.set.F.Y invited to the C hiir. " Committee for the Byrom- 1 1 Southwark and County of Surrey.—W. Palir.. I Ci:i.stey, 11. Donnin pan. I. Molt. 11. Elden, tAL Cletry, C. C. ityan, T. Lonaabrough, 1. Alears, D. Wrce, J. iirtsky, LP:e. DEsN'tv.ittAte, Smretory. " Committee for Williamson, I. 11'lloalian, I. Potter, .1. Dill, W. Hall, S. Whatrrian, .1. I tat rtion. C. Bank., S. Waddington, W. Chapman, 11. Worry, C. Phillips, and J. Ilartnet. . _ ED. J. DLAN9FORD, SdaClary. • " Samuel WaJdington. Printer. IS, man and Eve court, Oxford ,street." M:. Blandfordi the Secretary to "The Conttnittee• of Two I lundred,' who called • the lo.it Stnithlield Meeting, W. 13 on Friday night taken into custody on-u war►acut Amin the Lord Mayor, and was brought up on Saturday for examidation before it.s Lordrhip. The examination, however. having taken place in private, we are not as yet able to law the- result before ourreitders. , The arrest cf Mr.• Blandfi;rd is supposed - to be in consequence of the proctedings at the Mamion House on Friday res pecting the Southwark placard, which nur mailers will find detailed iu our Police report. Mr. Bland ford was remanded:- ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE. A new 'Student Dramx, entitled The Bootie llfart , was on ' Frill ev nishe produced at this Theatre. The plot i. loot re. markable for clearness or consistence The first act war easy an' pleasant ; hut the second act assumed a tragic east ; and its horrific sentiments and bil WU ' wherr the duct i.e of qdr-de,truet.on is recommended to a murderer, alihouatt able sustained h. T. I'. Cooke, was nearly fatal to the pie, e„ couke'S diameter ,vats Unit of Manfredi, whose suit was ;sc rew:dile to Cfara's (Nliss Carew) fattier, Fra,coni, tin - account of the wealth which would be gained by surf s • lotion: but tiara ido nowton) the [Hiroo of Mrnifrriii, di.. covers that' C'ara love; Leona, amt there fore he rem prST Manfredi tit decline the match. For this, and to get the old man's wealth, he plans the murder of Baetresia, white out on a shooting port ; hut he mistakes the iiidividital, uwiiig to a change of t lathes, nod 1411 .6)! C fotlisr, Fra4c.ai. Swakiiiirrallyou RIIINIVIO, ac he nn I'S .111; to he ri .11(.010', lust brother, 'and who, by the death, would etijoi„ estates; but Barando •ncettsc-, , Manfredi, and the mord. r is eventually traced to pine. Cootie's personation of tbr chit. raetor was bighty creditable to hien. blisisCarew, a* Clara, sung an air nod a Looter Duet with Miss Kelly in excellent style.—Tbe music was pretty, especialiy that of the ar; and Miss Carew rave it vs aft '• great ' , What's, melody, and ellect. It wits deservedly encuod. Miss Kelly made the Meg of what she h4ll to do its a sort of a waiting maid ; and her endeavours pi read tier mistress's love-lettet.after it was folded up, were estremele entertain. Mg. "Idle saw " lose" ill ii comer," Ri*fy" try Its !Om-. and confidence" neat ly rub!, dnut. I Ini ley hustled about, • and wing a comic song, a. a Butler, woo silo reality had nothinA to do. 1 r•reat diversity opinion is said to exist in the Cabinet respecting the. recent' lamentable occur. rences at Manchester. Lords Li‘erpoul and Sidintaith are reported to be vehement. in their denunciation* of then), while Lord Castlereagh and his adherents . highly approve the prow pi; errie displayed. A high Character is said also to be a decided aivocate fug G er maitic measures. In omsequence of some altercation having taV:e place lately at the Dublin Theatre, between the Proprietors some of the servants, the High Con stable interfered; when he %vas attacked by a military. guard, anti driven out of the Theatre. The Lord Mayor Attended, and investigated the matter, wlicn, the sentinel &dared that he had orders to shoot the f1i,411 Constable if he attempted to exercise autho rity. Sir G. Beckwith was informed of this, ant promised to came a strict inquiry to be made into this singti:ar