The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-07-21 00:00:00

r I i ~~ NAVilt • . • ; • 1G g NCE. Dau. Jrttr4o.—Came down from tin+ Meer, end sailed to the westward, the Lord bleleilifir :Wedsorall, for New South Wale. I Mentor, Bullock, sod the Oporto, Covey, for Oporto.—The Brilliant, Fenn, for Calcutta, remains. PORTsmOUTIII, JuLY 20.—Arrived the Royal owe 'sell, from a creise.—Passed by to the weer: word, the Pahners, Kemp, for Calcenta.—His Ma: j e vy'a ships Spartan, Scoot, and Racehorse, remain at Spithesd. • FAWtotilH, JULY 18.—The only arrival today is the E u terprizo. Ilosker, from London. BARIUM, Jut 20.—Arrived the Emily packet, w i t h a Mail, from Gottriobargb.—Sailed the Jane packet, with a Moil for do. CONSPIRACY AT MANCHESTER. - - [MK THE MANCHIsTIM PAPCIIS.] TH SPINN BIAS. This grea t b o or of labourers still contimse in in.. peas. Their conduct is peaceable, but marked by a steady adherence to the rules cif combination. They meet daily, superintended by leaders and delegates, wov e in prems4tron, and manage their pecenlary ar rangements by special appointments. To obtain the peees.ary mip plie s for maintenance, they solicit sub• scriptiotts, and are also aided, we understand, by weekly levies upon other trades. Their plaits tire regularly organised. They watch those factories in 'which business is partially or wholly going on, by certain portions of turned-out men placed as guards, by night and by day, who are ',limed by others in due succession ; and means are taken to seduce those away who are atttliegly at work. On two days in this week great atiikibers have marched in register mili tary files to tti•brge factory of Messrs. Lee and Co. in Scf(.rd. to loduce the females employed there to leave their Oly. For this object they waited , at the siiniter-tonte, d o wn up in line before the building ; but we ate happy to state, that very few of the yeomen have yes followed the esample of the men.— The prepto)ers, we presume, feel it to be not merely • private, but a public duty to withstand this formi• dable illegal procedure; and we fear that many spin ners and others, who do not think far themselves, but who are led by the evil counsel of others, will, in the end, draw down upon themselves consequences which may be very injurious to their future coudi lion in life. It would he a great pleasure In us to close oar in formation here: but we are compelled to add, that in Stockport the public peace has been broken for two or three successive nights, by meetings of refractory work people, power-loom weavers we believe, who assemble at the close of the day. These men will not allow others to fulfil their engagements ► and have directed their vengeance against one particular factor), by attacking it, end demolishing the windows. On Wedue►day night the Riot Act was read by Mr. ilwrrison, of Cheadle, the Magistrate, and pert of the Che.hire Ye.•utanry Cavalry were called wit to act ; en d was the unrestreittable fury of the obis, that ' this Gentleman and several of the cavalry' sere wounded by stones and brick-hats thrown. The /Niro of the town is, however, determined on doing its Out t , and additional constables are sworn in for &Wm. ! sit the: object; whilst their handsare strengthen ed by the a, rival of troops from our barracks. More of the Cheshire Yeomanly are also on their march for the same destination ; and the most vigorous means wilt be used to !Olafe dee obedience to the Many offenders are in custody. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. We are much concerned to slate, that Stockport has been a scene of serious disturbance Otis week. The evil disposition of a numerous body of work people, who have stru , k for an advance of wages, has manifested itself by attacking the power-loom factory of Mr. Garside, the head and front" of whose offence was giving employment to some fe males, who were engaged at Burton-upon-Trent, to continue that occupation which they had spontane ously relinquished. The windows were one and all demolished. The Yeomanry Cavalry were celled nut, but they were inefficient in numbers, and several of them were hurt by the populace. On Thursday, at soon, a troop of the 13th Light Dragoons arrived front our barracks, and exerted themselves; 'won which occasion, Serjeant Carleton sustained a serious injury. One-arwl-twenty persons have been appre hended on a charge of rioting, six of whom have bean committed to Lancaster Castle, and the others Sit re. tnauded for further examination. f ACTS OF SEDERONT..—SCOTCH JUDGES. —We have Mot heard of a publication that has created more in- • quiry than these Acts ; and there can be no doubt, but a stroll iurestication will take place the neat Session of Parliament. We give the following ex tracts from the work itself. The Author is a Mem- Der of the Honourable Society of AVriters of the Sig net. In his preface he observes, " Nor ere the enor. mous shims arising from the esereise of a power so ainconstirotional and anomoloos, confined to Scot. land. Under pretence of regulating its own pro cedere, Acts of Sederont have, since the year 1789, been enacted by the Court, entirely legislastive., nay, of the nature of tasation and of revenue, as. comprehensive in their nature, anti so burdensome is' their effects, as to obstruct the channels of jostiee.-- The motion of Sir JOUR NEWPORT, in the House 'of Commons, for a Commission to enquire into the in crease of fees made within these twenty years by the Court. of Justice, in favour of their officers, and by what authority they were imposed, I deemed to b e ao orcurre..ce admirably calculated to question the power of the Coati to enact its own Ordinance t, or rules if procedure, without the recognition of Par. :lament —The oppression arising from destructive and procrastinated litigation, exists to an 'some be. yowl esample." The alarm created in Scotlatad, gives rise tcr fretful apprehension ; the new Ptirliament will, it is hoped, speedily do away these she metel and arbitrary Acts of Sedarent, so oppresive ie. their ope ration, and tyrannical towards a bras,, and loyal People. The publication is to be had. at the Li. ISrariesiti Brighton; Apollo Library, Worthing ; and moat of the Booksellers in Londe% with en Ap pendis. r!! ." X . }' 41 1- ) ,111,1 Li ELECTION. MR. ORAHAWS SPEECH AT THE CLOSE OP THE .7 • •• SCRUTINY. f . , GetercEstEtt,—Often as I have ventured to foretel to you success, a nd oft ener still that I have been called on to return to you my thankful acknow ledgmetrts, yet our triumph has never been certain, nor the measure of my gratitude complete until to day, sad this is glorious indeed; not because an humble individual, like myself, has been the object of your choice; but because, 'after a desperate struggle, principle has prevailed over corruption, in dependence over interest, honour over power. Those who endeavour in vain to court your favour, in vain also have attempted to intimidate you into submission. Yoe have fought a good fight, you have won the day; the cause has been your's, your's also shall be the glory. It was pretended, when this scrutiny began, that my friends were to be covered with idisgrace • that shame and defeat inevitably awaited us, an d that transactions would be brought to light, which we dared net face. Mark then the result—we hive passed the fiery ordeal, and I hope without a stain remaining on our character. We have signed no false certificates; we have forged no registers; we have tempted no one to depart from his promise, or to violate his engagements ; we have axed no threats to engage& vote; we have offered so money for falsehoods to destroy one; we were not the first to attack the poor and needy, or to deprive the pauper of his vote; we did not wish to mil our selves of the criminal neglect of an agent of the Corpo. ration, and to strike off 500 Burgesses in a day, because the stamps, for which the poor men hal paid, the Town Clerk in his easy indifference had omitted to procure. No: this was not our coarse: but tread ing the even tenor of our way, we met difficulties with firmness, and artifice with honesty, and we have lost neither our object nor our character. Gentlemen, I consider this a splendid example of a popular Election. I have been called on to defend rights in which you were warmly interested, and which I have seen exposed to danger; and yet though you were alive to your situation, you have peaceably surveyed the struggle without a murmur; your 'pi tits did not droop in the moment of adversity, nor are you elated beyond measure by success. It is thus that the People should always triumph ; they have a giant's strength, and when well directe d it is never abused, nor can it fail to conquer. I am threatened, I understand, with a Petition ; but this I do trot fear; the proceedings of the Committee and Corporation are too much one to beer investigation— the Town Clerk and the Agent are partners—the Mayor and the Chairman are the same—neither do think the friends of Mr. Startiforth can approach the House of Commons with blameless consciences and unwashed hands. No, the sooner this contest is for gotten the better, as far as relates at least to the Cor poration, desperate even to suicide; and let us re. member nothing. except that we have conquered, and that it is the duty of the victor to pity and forgive the vanquished. My political opinions, Gentlemen, have been long known to yon; it will, therefore, be only to tire your patience to state them now. I have been denominated a Jacobin; but if a restless end fe. verish ambition, with liberty on the lips, and anarchy at heart; if a desire to break down the bonds of civil society fur the purpose of revelling in licenti. ousness and blood ; if the abuse of popularity for the purposes of disorder, and if a secret wish to wade through slaughter to a Throne, if these be Jecobinism—then I am guiltless of the charge.— But if a sober love of liberty be the crime, or a wish to preserve the balance of the Constitution — to oppose the encroachment of prerogative - to sop port the legal rights of the People; if a determine. Ron to resist any approach to Military Government, an anxious desire to enforce economy, a hatred of war, a love of peace ; if these be Jacobinism, then I must confess the crime; but it is a crime which I shave with the hest and greatest men of the present day, and with the Patriots who are gone, and who are indeed Patriots by their defence of liberty. Adverting to the new character in which he now stood, be said--On entering the House of Commons as your Representative, I shall go not a Member of any party ; I shall support no measures which I do not honestly conceive to be fur the benefit of the country ; I shall oppose no propositions which in my conschence I believe to be salutary by whatever man or body of men brought forward. As to the local interests of my Constituents, it shall be my constant endeavour to promote them as far as pos sible. In the fulfilment of my duties, it shall be my busi:sess throughout the Session, to be the first Member in the House of Commons, and the last out of it. I shall take up my residence in the Me. tropotis, the seat of Government, and there I shall be happy to be made acquitted with the wishes of my Constituents, either personally or by letter, to which I shall pay the most prompt attention. Now that the Election is over, I shall cease to act fur a party ; GNI it shall be my pride and happiness to be enabled Yo act for the great body of the community, wbe. ether they had hitherto been my friends or op ponents. Gentlemen, I stand here surrounded by a body of friends, who in the support they have cheerfully sod voluntarily given me, are actuated by no selfish views : they are anxious -to return a Representative for this town and for the country at large, sod not a Representative for themselves. They are actuated by feelings of the most disinterested and patriotic kind, and their whole conduct daring the Eloction has corresponded with those feelings. Hearken to the counsel of these Gentlemen, and listen to their opt. scions. Depend upon it, they are your true and real. friends. Most deeply am I, and all the Burgesses, indebted to these Gentlemen, and particularly to the Learned Counsel (Mr. Alderson), who has exerted himself so strenuously in pleading year cause and supporting your privileges. formerloccasions during the present Election, I have taken the opportunity of repressing my senti ments uu Universal Suffrage. If to that ezirsor dinary doctrine I shall ever be a convert, one thing 1 will pledge myself to, nut of gratitude to the Ladies of Hull, that I will never rest satisfied until the right of voting is granted to women. Indeed, this is not only justice, but my own best interest ; for sure am ; that if the present Election bad bets to be carried IN ;, ~ . M 1.'1% by the votes of the Ladieg, I should hays beets re- ' turned with a very great majority. Finally. I beg leave to say, that I am now abort to take lease of you, but I trust not fora very long period. It is unpleasant to me to deal only in promises fof the fu ture I would muck rather give you an account of the past : and I hope one day to have the satisfadtion of redeeming the pledges I have given ; end that I shall he acknowledged to be justly entitled to that confidence and support, which I have experienced during the present contest. SCOTCH BURGHS. MEETING OF THE GENERAL CONVENTION. EDI N BURGH. JeLv • The General Convention of Royal Burghs met this day, when the Report of the Committee was reed, stating that the Convention bad been in the use of altering the sets of Royal Burghs on whet appeared just and reasonable grounds, and with consent of all parties interested. • Mr. HENDERSON, Member for Kirkwall, addressed the Convention at considerable length, and endea. whited to point out from numerous precedents, the power of the Convention to alter the Acts of Burghs. The question, he contended, was one of the greatest importance to every Royal Burgh in Scotland. The usage had listed for 250 years, and if the Convention uhw found that they bad no power to do so, they would disfranchise every Burgh whose set they had altered, among which the Burgh of Glasgow would he one to which the Convention, not many years ago, had given two additional Bellies. Mr. KIRKMAN FINLAY (the Lord Provost of Glasgow) observed, that the Learned Gentlemen who had just sat down, and who had displayed so much legal knowledge on this occasion, had uo connection with the Burgh he represented—bad been but a few days a Burgess of it, and he supposed had been re turned a Member for the very purpose of supporting these Petitions. (11ere the Honourable Gentleman was called to MIPS by Mr. BUMPS.] The Loan PROVOST of EDINBURGH declared he was not out of order. Mr. Gissou contended that Mr. Finlay was out of order—such espressions could not be allowed. The Member for Kirkwall bed produced a regular com. mission. and represented that Burgh as legitimately as any Member in the Convention. He would ask Mr. Finlay if such espressious would be tolerated for one moment in the House of Commons, or if any Member there would be allowed to ask him (Mr. Finlay) what motives had induced the Burgh of Malmsbory to send him to the House of Commons as their Representative ?—( Lord and reiterated op. plause.) The LORD PROVOST of EDINBURGH rose, and said, that if such proceedings should take place again, he would order all strangers to be put out of the Hall. Mr. FINLAY proceeded, and said, that he bad no wish to throw any reflections upon the Honourable Member for Kirkwall. He then contended, at con. siderable length, that all the authorities quoted by the Learned Gentleman only showed that the power lay in the Convention, when all parties were satisfied. Mr. Buttmes. before proceeding to give his opinion on this point observed, that to prevent any interrup. lion from the Lord Provost of Glasgow, he would tell him who he war. He had been 20 years a Burgess and Freeman in Montrose—possessed 10 times as much property in the Burgh as qualified him to be a Member of the Convention; he bad also the honour to be one of the Magistrates of that Bergh, elected, he was proud to say, by a unanimous poll of hie fel low Burgesses, and it would he gratifying if the Ma. gistrates of Edinburgh and Glasgow could say as much. Mr. Burnea•supported the propositions laid down by the Member for Kirkwall, and concluded by calling upon every Member of the Convention. if they valued the memory of their ancestors, to defend and support the powers that bad beep handed down to them through a long series of years. Mr. WALTER Coot contended that the Conven tion had not the possess, uuiess all parties interested were satisfied. ' Mr. Glasox contended that the Convention bad the powers, and had exercised them for 250 years— that their right had been recognized by repeated de cisions of the Supreme Court, and by the opinion of every constitutional lawyer who bad written upon the subject. the concluded with submitting a mo tion, in terms of his speech, to the Convention. Mr. Cools submitted an amendment, that the Re. port of the Committee should be simply approved. The roll was then called, when there voted for Mr. Gibson's motion 23—For the Amendment 25. On Saturday afternoon, Hearti's Hemel•Hempsted coach was overturned at Hunton..bridge, about three miles below Watford, owing principally to the care. lessness of the driver in dashing rapidly round the corner of the bridge, with the overpowering weight of 17 outside passengers, when, shocking to relate, a respectable young woman, and also a young man, the servant of a Gentleman in the neighbourhood ll were so dreadfully injured, that they survived only , a few hours. Several other persons were also severely wounded. " Goon Wixa NUM no Bosn."—This saying, arose from the old custom of uhipping wine with a bush or bunch of birch, under the notion of clear. ing it ; but of bate years the vintages and mode of obtaining wine have bebn so much improved, that a man may now clear from any Stock he prefers, and leap it into Lis own cellar, the choicest Claret, Purl, or Madeira in the Kingdom, free of any ez• pence whatever, by the gratuitous arrangement of Mr. CARROLL. the Contractor fur the Lottery, who invites the Holders of each Prize of 1,009 S o vereigns to select Four Pipes of Port or Madeira, or Four Hogsheads of Claaret, and in proportion for Shares; and to send the Bills to either of the Contractor's Offices, No. 7, Cornhill, or 26, Oxford-street. — This is quite independent of Two Prises of f 30.000, Two of £2,000, &c. &c.; which may all be drawn the 4th Nest Month, as there are no filed Prizes, and only 8,000 'rickets in this L.'ttery. Yesterday morning, as en apprentice to Mr. H. Bereett, carpenter and builder, in Fetter-lane, was assisting the man in rolling a heavy 11 trk of timber, on rollers, into the yard, it slipped MT, and, falling on him, broke his leg ) and ludictat several other braises 00 his body. • .' . ,__~ • 1 ite A -- "S ,` le., , ij t 4 • YORK ASSIZES, Jura 18. • e , 3 I CROWN SIOP.. ti Atireg and John.Meriist were pet epee their trial fora conspiracy to defraud Maleseltoe,4 corn-dealer, at Cleveland Poot k i • !)_ 1 • Askey, a very respectable-leoklag two-and.tuenty years, superintended the eeighler and measuring pain delivered.its M< Ilaseglost's grip nodes at Cleveland Port. Murtio a s it ioniser 14 the neighbourhood, of !great credit sod respctubio HI, who freqepoily sold pais. to n. Sit charges of fraudulent statements of *rights fed measureinents were relied en fbr. proof. . They taerel of 'hie estere:—Askey entered 21.1. 91114 of oets i .the IS Pight was said to be 2st 61b, Ile entered 131 b. the weight alleged 2st. !31b., Ike, Of these alleged frauds the only evidence was, the assertion of nth', servants of Mr. Hamilton, who said they sometimes looked on, and sometimes measured or weighed AL. oats over again, each alone aad on a sepalate, often lion. A sailor was one of : *hi*, Who threw 0 bee" net of his jacket into his waistcoat parkot for *toot bushel struck by Askey. The bushels entered wet* 66; the beaus transferred were 68. Bet the peitnt cipal evideuce was that of George Eldon, who woe* sured the oats ever again in Due instance, and found • difference. Mr. WILLIAMS and Mr. Coktwaw, the Counsel. for the prosecution, pointed and enforced this avid dente. Mr. Caoss and Mr. Jones sets Ahe Ceensel .tor the Defendants. The former made a most powerful. appeal to-the Jury on the pest of Askey. , For TS years he bad been the tried and faithful settent of, Mr. Ilaselton. The charges against him could go sae. further back than last December, and could find Wry support but in the assertion of one witness to,eeda, charge. The principal *hoes. was Eldon, *lto boor pened to succeed Mr. Askey as meter sod weiehege, This fact required no comment. Against all solocies. , picioes and interested evidence against him, heel' s .** be satisfied by opposing Mr. Ilaseltoo's cnoidencm, for 22 years.—Several witnesses were called for Si* Defendants, some of whom gave a complete centre diction to the statements en the other side; aecb others, themselves highly respectable, gave thin strongest testimony of character. Mr. Justice BairLor summed op et great length, and with a manifest distrust of the evidence for the• prosecution. It had been attempted to show that Askey bed confessed the crime, because after his dis. missal he had gone to Ilaielton in hopes of recover. ing his situation, and bad begged his pardon for the irregularity of trusting to his eye in one instance as to the quantity in 19 sacks. His eye happened to be correct, but it was an irregularity in his situation.— The Jury, however, would not construe strictly sock an espression, at least they would not seller it, to prejudice Martin. The characters of butb were of the very best kind, and it was the advantage of suck a possession that it afforded great protection in the hour if difficulty and danger. lie animadverted upon the possible injury to the Defendants from liaselton's religious aversion to an oath, being Quaker, and not giving evidence. The Jury Instantly found both —Not Guilty. Mr. Caoss.—And is this faithful old servant to hi held in distress for months, and to be tried for felony • at the nest Assizes ? After some consultation, Askey was obliged to give bail, himself - 10 1001. and two sureties in 601. each, to appear at nest Assizes to be tried for felony in embelslieg the difference of corn with reopect to which he had been acquitted of conspiracy. The bail was instantly given. Askey repeatedly wept like a child, awhile Mr. Cross alluded to his services and his sufferings. This trial occupied the Court till three o'clock.—• The convicts were then brought op for judgment. Joshua Wokingld, Joseph Woefulld, and B..oj►ruin Buckley, three very young, stout, sod handsome men, convicted of petty larceny at Dewsbury, were sentenced to transportation for seven years. The following 15 convicts were next arranged at the bar at oncrefor sentence :—George Long, George Groves, David Holt, Jart.es Galloway, John Brook. Thomas Beason, and Thomas Pearson, for grand larceny; Isaac Ferrer, John Ferrer, Joseph Ferrer, John Mitchell, William Vague, for burglary; James Jackson and Thomas Bradley, for horse.stealing; and William Smith, for sheep•stealing. Mr. Justice BATLEY, standing, 'his head covered with the terrible emblem of a sentence of death, and with a look of mixed solemnity and sorrow, address ed them :—lt is most painful to find that in the short space of three months not less than fifteen per sons should come to stand in the situation in which you now stand. The crimes of some of you are ac companied with circumstances of peculiar aggrava. lion. Yoo, Ferrets, were at that bar before. Tt►is I know, not from information, bet from painful re collection. Your danger end your acquittal failed to have their proper effect on you; and in jus tice to the Public, I must pause before I determine whether my responsibility can allow me to mom* mend you to the mercy of the Crown.—(The pc) Judge now made particular observations on the circumstances of each crime of which the several Prisoners had been convicted.) You, William Smith, stand there a most afflicting monument of the dreadful effects of crime. For many, many yesrs, your character stood as high as the charac ter of any man could stand. You had a son who looked to you for example and assistance; vow had a parent that felt deeply interested in you. Toe one you have irreparably injured and disgraced : vow have contributed to bring the grey hairs of the other with sorrow to the grave. Criminals, if for your own happiness you had no feeling, could you forget that you had friends and relations, parents and Alla dress, who are most deeply interested in you, and who participate in your danger and disgrace? The folly of am is at least equal to its criminalty ; it sel dom escapes punishment from-the laws of the land but there is en eye from which no prudence can con ceal, and no deaterity elude. There is an infatua. lion in crime which facilitates detection ; often, too, criminals themselves in the most extraordivary mat►• ner divulge their crimes : nor is this accident : it ie the wise arrangement of that Being woo sales over all, Itentomber, too, that there is another •orid where the punishment of crime., not forgiten, shall be abundant and steroid. I beseech yoe, then, were. ploy your time is obtaisiog &k mercy at God, asd ft • • 1 ; . • :,. I : • • t. I • 4 • • 4 ,1 F • • ^: • I If l a ftp . ' • f r 1. 4 . 10 r • 4 •t. -,-