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;~ / P ADJOURNED INQUEST AT OLDHAM. OLDHAM. 11101 1 111AY, OC7fiCFII 4. I` , :QI I PST ON J 011 N LEES.—(Eritletice continued ) Ott the opening of the .Court, at mine o'clock. James Milts nal ion-minced ria a whorls by Mr. Millar, the eon. mettle uf Oldham. Before, however, he made any deposi. lime— **. Ashworth roar In address the Coroner npnn a point of 14 , V. maintained, as he tooter 1 , by Mr. Harmer on the Jae!' .lase theimpeeot. Wan pro-redid in, with retiree , to the nitttimitoltty ofmeridenee, and the dociritie of mini - Opal sod nereontry, at it applied to the 'petition under conaidentlion• Rat one learired Gentleman had made only a few prclimi mars ermailm, when '1 he Comfier otderving,a• he termed it, a fresh Note-taker in toe ?Meth, asked that gentleman what was his name, and for "hat imrpose he was making notes. He-a an altercation took place between the Caroller and the !mute-taken, the former contenditag that the or parte stottmenta Of the proceedings in the newmapers were cal culated to mike ail unfair imprearlem on the public mind. It was. however dimity agreed that they .400,1 he permitted Jo i•tosits in Miry; upon an understaniliug that they should out take notch.' • Mr. Aohworth rimmed, and argoeil at coneiderable tenons upon. ewe. pointy , first , reepreting the allegation of Mr. Ilai corr. as to those who in this case *ere liable to the chart,' of wilful mordir, and next tot to the doctrine of the (bruiser only regard to the inadmissibily of certain eat "tenet. A. tes the heat point, he commuted that the doctrine woo utterly wiemvoble, that all theses who might he proved to have been aiding or assisting in the dientrmion of the meeting on the 16th Alietint, were voile, of wilful crovriler, if the Jury shrinli.be of opinion that John ten died of the wovolds he recervref at St. Peter's field. No one, indeed, mould sneered inmaintaiaing a doctrine ail inconsistent alike wills law, jostice, and humanity. What !be would ask, sere the Jury to be calla teflon for a •weeping verdict against all those who wermenneented in Ordering. or pramotioe , the dia. of th5i.. „,,,,,,A r0g ? W ere the Magiatrales. who order. eil the ''it parsnip by the 15th Hoassrs, who, with the 31.1 and fiftth regiments. "listed 4n carrying that order into effect, to he all, and without exception, included in a conviction for wilful murder, 'merely because John Lees came by his death in cons.•q 'of wounds indicted during the executirt• of that order? Such, he was fully persuaded, was nut the law. 'tin Ashworth, after expressing his approbation of 11w or der Wooed bylite Coroner to prevent the publication of the evidence taken upon Hsi, Inquest, pursued his argument t— t:reat pains bad, he observed, been taken to saddle all the ininrirt retelling front the diversion of the meeting to 11 4 .• lath of Aliened upon the Manchester veumaory. an if that corps alone interfered to produce the disperairms. Bin he could state from his own personal knowledge, that there Wrfellt•fflll military bodice on the field, el in dispersing the meeting, as well as the cnrpa alluded to. He did not, however, think that the conduct of that corps, or of the *OVUM bodies with which it co-operated, mould properly be brought into discussion heftier that Court, unless the person who gave John Lees the plow. a blow to which his death ano attributed a ere actually i‘tentilieri Some individual or individuals most, he contended, he pointed nut as the as rmilants of the deceased, and so a distinct charge eatablisheil, before evidence could lee gone into with matted to aiding and shelling the attack. For it fOlll4 not follow, that br e-sow the Magistrates ordered a military force to diaper*, the meeting alluded en, that any set done beside the object or' that dispersion, which he maintained to be quite a legal object, could be said to implicate the whole body Wine in pm-swine, of the orders of the Magistracy. How, foe instance, could hr legally hold or rationally maintain, that military lawn scattered throughout the wide area of Si. Peter's-liekl, ehould be &emid responsible for every unauthorised or violent act done immediately near the bushings, wheel Min Lev' was staled to bate met a mortal wound ? The idea Wan indeed quite preporderou.„ and yet that appeared to he the idea of the Learned Genii( man ass the other side, When he towed his very broad doctrine with respect to prim. rivals and acceararim in murder. The Learned Gentleman, ws., however, egregiously mistaken in his views of the law. For n hotly of persons Fumed in the pursuit of one common object, could never fairly or legally he held an. meerslite fur what any one or more of that body might 1-appeo to do, independently of that object. 'Therefore it could never Lee maintained, that .comae the Man theirs yeomanry were with other military bodies engaged iu stwomulishing the object of dispersing the Meeting at 61. Peleis.fielrl, that they. or any part of them, were to be Implicated in the crime of taking away the life of John Lem whoa, ease was the subject under investigation, unless Ihe individual or individual' who actually attacked the de ceased, or those who were inliltfillairly present aiding or ahetring that attack. No evidence, then, was, in his upi. soon, admissible upon this inimiry, which did nut directly apply to the individuals engaged in that attack : and as to She admissibility of evidence, of that he thought the Co roner was the sole and exclusive judge. To gnarl, then, steno.. Ilse intrusion of irrelevant and inadmissible evi et••ere. as well as to save the time of the Court, lie reeom e,..,,reil that before any witness wait lit future brought eitr- Nta•el fur enaminati ~,, , a written statement should be laid Imefo.r time Coroner of 11w points which the witness proposed f•• Ist awe. Ilarmer observed, that although the Learned Gen stemin had spoken fur above an.hoor, be bail not quoted a angle case its support of his view of the law with respect lu principals in murder. The Learned Gentleman had ratuitonsly stated. that the Magistrates had actually M imed the order for the charge of the cavalry on the 16th of A eteat ; and if so, he (Mr. H.) was prepared to maintain tae! those Magistrates were pasties to, and legally responsi ble foe, all the melancholy results of that charge. The learned Gentleman appeared to express some surprise that the charge preferred in this caw was not extended to the I",th humans; but that surprise would cease, when he itt toed the Learned Gentleman, that there was no evidence ter..wyer to justify any imputation upon that corps. 00 coatrary, indeed, as his object in this prosecution was t ranee, those who cut, and not those who saved the pro. Tile, be should have to• adduce evidence to strew that oft. tern and privates of Abe 15th hussass, instead of being par- Itiv to maiming or murder, acre most emeritoriourly active io endeavouring to restrain the sanguinary fury of the "dlochester yeomanry. But some evidetwe to that (Met Not already been laid berme the Court, mid much more was essiiwoming. In opposition to the Learned Gentleman's view of 11w law with respect to the doctrine of principals in crime, Mr. IL quoted n variety of oases from the Reports of Minden and Cook, as also stated the opinion of Mr. intake Bhs.kdone. Bleckstrine Find, - theme cases ...a that opinion, he con. t..avted that the evidence which he proposed to adduce with respect to the cutting and maiming at St. Peteeefieltl, and the identity of Ow ;masons guilty of such cutting mod person so guilty being, in his view. a party in the riorimission of murder. But it was to be inferred, from the thou Act. that accbtdiog to the judgment of the Legislature, pe t nell• even passive were to be deemed guilty, If they did not disperse within a, given period. Here Mr. Harmer read Cie atomic of Henry VII. with respect to the nature of the opory to be pursued; and of Hie evidence admissible before a Catoner. Upon itruiertheg to 'lead the Statote Law with mewl to the dutirsaitd powers of w Coroner, Mr. Fumed opted Mr. Harmer, observing that be did not require o.ly eotoiMolloo 00 Hen' head.. . Dire Ash•orth,advertiog to Mr. Ilermer's allusion to the Act, took occasion rn dispel whtit.be celled the sery.er p.o.•ous emotion whieb• had Owe - xibiroisl* with regard to the ueressily of reading that Act previous to any order for the ii.' {version of sot tams" sneettno He was snrprised at the ',mot of the error which preepand won this subject, ss. *t ending to common litwouy meeting mould he legally diem esed without at all wading the Rini Act. All, indeed, that this Art had done in aid of the poweis, with whirl, the imatracy WIC Worsted by the , common law. Wan to pro- rover: it a felony on the part of those who cootinoed to. m-ther for one beer after midi assembly was formally pro ,inied illegal. After repeating and eliforcing his former argninetits— v.. Comfier decided no be Lad done before, Hon on 'mi. thwee should in rotate be *Amin"! which Jill not directly mfrs to the attack s trimu John Lien , netts any ruttier( ur the wars to the attaca_upou 'woe air• t I • itosnling is the iroardiele triei«ity •f the boating., alien and met my.beoiber an Om %flack Ira% made. 'flint rfeeselon be ignited the more of Bark Qarew•atreet I $ nt•ruary dietiuctly to repeat, astrylicat mil bad Wen made duo, and then another • -- • to him on the evening of Saturday tier no less than 100 fresh summonses, and he could trot conceive any object for such an extraoreliaary application, unless to prolong or perplex the iovrstigat ion. After some farther remarks by Messrs. Amherst* and Harmer— James Mills was examfterf.-1 am a hatter, and reside in Oldham. Have been in John Lees's company once. Waste,t at the Msneheeter Meeting on the 16th Seer Lees at the West Wood Inn strong twelve o'clock at night, orlon was there with some either company. Was with Lees shoot a quarter of an hour. I left him there. He complained very much of his wounds, particularly of one on his elbow ; said be had received anotheron his left 'boulder. Lees was met drunk, but rather fresh, as it appeared to him. Wss not long in his company. Lees appeared mooch se usual. Lees told witness he had been at the Manchester mteljug. Did not think he was in danger. His conduct was such es Might become • person who had received a wound likely to cause hi. Meath; bid he did nut appear like • mate likely to di He complained eery mooch; some permit rather slight ed his wound, and lie replied 'dimply. Lees told him that he hail hero at a wake at Middleton, and that be had had some sharp wore with sonic perenne tl.ere. Dr Simmons being called, the evidence id Mr. Damien and Mr. Cex was read over to hibi, and he declared that from all that be had heard, the injuries which the decensed hail re ceived on the 18th of Aumed, were not. and could not, have bees the motor of his death.—[Here the Doctor, who said he had been surgeon to the Nlanthester Infirmery for 27 year.. coined into a long medical dissertation, to illustrate anal enforce the justice of his opinion. This dimertatiou occu pied the Court for Dearly two hoors.l In reply to a question from a Juror, whether, although the wounds of the deceased were not sufficient to nowhere sleuth, they might not have been the cause of the dis- Case whirls occasioned hie death, the Doctor answered in the negative, adding, that Lees had, before hi. death, recovered from all the ilesigermee consequences of hie wounds. By the I:mems—You hare stated, that if the deceased bail received ten times as much injury (IS he had received be would net have died of that injury. Now, what injury did he receive? 11'itnesa—I only speak from the circumstances, as they have been stated by Messrs. Basnett and Cox.. By Mr. Kay—Du you mean to say that bruises received on the sides of • man might out produce his death at the expiration of three weeks? Witness—They coeild not ; he could not survive so long. Mr-Harmer asked whether Mr. Cox, who had semi the body iiiterually,and Mr. Bassett who had examined it ex ti malty, were likely to form a more coerce. judgment than the witoess who had not seen the holy at all' Witaess-1 may, without arrogance, say, that from my more extended practice and longer experience I am more likely to form a correct judgment than the Gentiergeo al luded to. Mary Fletcher, the sweartheart of John Lees, saw him after he was cut. It was on the 21.1 August. I was with him about a quarter of an hour. I saw him again on the Monday night before be died. He was in hod. He dial not know me, nor speak to me. I saw him sin the 14th of Au gust, and he was iu perfect good health and spirits. On the 21st August he complained of his arm being very ill cut, and he said nothing else. John Whitaker—l saw Lees on his return from Manehem lee, when be complained of being severely wounded. I saw him also on the Wednesday before his sleuth, mid he looked extremely ill. He was in excellent health before the Man. Chester Meeting. Joseph Clegg deposed to haring area the deceased on the 2111 of August, which was the Wake time, at Middleton. Was in company with hint in two public-honors, when de ceased drank some milt licinor, hut appeared very dejected Anne Jones.—l live in Windmill-street, Illsuchester, within Cony yards of the hustings. I saw the cavalry cutting rind slashing men on their way to the hustings. After gelling to the hustings, they turned their horses round, awd nide over the people in all directions, still cutting and slashing. A number of wounded persons were taken into my boom. I saw use of the cavalry strike • woman and draw blood. I was fully employed i• palling people into my house, In order: to Pave their lives. I saw a great fprantity of blood on the field, hear the place where the busting, had seinol One of the special constables came into my house, and with great triumph, exclaimed, "This is Waterloo for you—this •is 'Waterloo!" The soldiers whom I saw cutting, I knew so be the Manchester yeomanry, from my acquaintance with their dress. The people, in great crowds, were getting away as fast as they could. I look many into my house. The rail in front of my house broke down from the pressure of gle crowd,occasioned by the cutting of the cavalry, ands woman fell duos and was taken up dead. John /once, the husband of the last witness, corroborated all has wife's testimony, adding that be Paw Mr. Withiugion and Mr. Bowker, who were two of the Manchester yeo manry, culling at every one they could reach. An officer, apparently of the regular army, came op, and shaking his sword, cried out, " For shame! for shame ! Gentlemen ; forbear! forbear! the people cannot get away." IFtton his window he sal the people lying in the arra one upon the other, and when taken out they appeared black in the Gee as if strangled. Withington and Honker continued calling at the people w►ile they were groPiiiriz and screaming from the pressure upon each other, and imploring for mercy. To one 11041 e man he gave a bowl of "later, and whilst he was drinking a special constable came up and knocked it out of his hand. - At a quarter before six the Court adjourued till nine to• morrow morning. EXAMINA I'ION OF MEAGHER. MANCHESTER. OCTOBER 4. The ay Edward Meagher, wet of the trumpeters of the Manchester yeomanry cavalry, and who was ow Saturday night. or early on Sunday morning, taken to the New Bailey, on a charge of having fired a phool.sbot at some persons in Deanagate, and thereby wounded two persons, was brought up for examination befose the sitting 11:igistrates. Mr. Wright and the Reverend W. Edmiston. The Court was extremely crowded. On the Prisoner bring brought into Cosirt, Mr. Milne, the Magistrates' Clerk, inquires!, if the persons who welt wounded attended to snake any charge against the Prisoner. Dlr. Atkinson (a Solicitur)-1 attend here on behalf of the persons who were wounded, to make • very serious charge against the Prisoner, being soothe g leas than a ca. pital offence. The object of my attendance to.day is for the ;Impose of getting this matter adjourned, as t h e parties themselves are not able to attend, in contest f she wounds; and 1 shall call evidence before you to stew suffi cient cause for detaining this man. James Clarke being sworn, said, as I was sittiuz in my own house on Saturday night, between twelve and one o'clock, 1 beard the report of a pistol ; 1 went into Deans. gate, and saw a flash. and heard the report of another pistol tired from the Prisoner's window Not supposing that they were loaded with ball, I went towards she Prisoner's home. and was won undeceived, as 1 saw a man in the arms of fear or Aire others, who said he had been wounded by a ball from one of the shots. The Watch and Ward then came, and a stone then came through the Prisoner's room window and broke a lamp an the opposite side of the street. Mr. Wright—Was yin there at first ?-1 was nut there at first. The Watch and Ward asked whu bad fired? lie said be slid. • Mr. Wright—What voice mid he slid ?—lt was the Pri soner said he slid ; he was in his shirt SIOPTIPII. and had a dark waistcoat out, Dad was leaning 'Nesmith the window; lie would have said something more, but the bustle was so great then, that we could not hear him. Mr. Wright—Did you boor' , the Prisoner before ?—1 and 1 have known bon more than (Our or five months. Mr. Alkinson—Are you enabled. from knowing him be fore. to swear that he is the man N-1 can swear to him ; he was Issuing ihrossll the WllidOW, 1111t1 It twill( moon-light I could -see hint very well. His is a curlier house in Della*. gate. Mr. ...newton—How near was you to the Watch bed Ward?-1 was standing with them. Thome. Junes hermit swam. said. " Betimes twelve sad OOP o'clock ou Saturday. I was going home up Denaisgnie. .t nty.becitber awl four ur file otin vs. Near the earl Queervstrrirt I saw ■ pistol third (rum &purl wilt ' another i i 1111 a% Al whether the first took . , • 71 7 'Wort, hist the second wortarletl my Mother in the thigh ; wesit'up, being at the lime about five yards 10.6654, and mar i my brother; be said br was wonntled io the thigh bleeding mach. My heather's name is Jitseph Jones. Mr. Etbehtlon—Did any !dila,/ hippest before you got up, or did you bear any thing mid by the nials!—Nothing hap pened before the lire. The street was very quiet. We heard nothing said by a wiab, but some one before us said, " You Irish scamp, get in.^ Mr. Wright—You have given stifficieut ra Wenn. for as to remand. Prisoner, inlaid you say any thing, you bear what is said? Prisonev—Yev. I hear what is said. Mr. Wright—Have you any fileuds here--any prat-minima adviser Mr. Milne—l believe be is not irrepared, and wishes it poet po aril . Mr. Wright—He mail be remended. Mr. Atkinson—To what time? Mr. Wright-1 don't know when you will he ready. Perhaps'to morrow. Mr. Atkineon—That will searely give ns sufficient time I have taken what tttt 0 I have in great baste. Mr. Milue--Deporrtiona ! If there are soy depositions against this man, they must be taken liy me. Mr. Askinsun—Yu, Sir; but allow me to take toy owe examiostiona Mr. Wright-1 can't say when we Amnia adjourn to. We have had sio evidence of the state of the ammo', Mr. Atkinson —l understand they are considered dan- ge . Mr Jnn, Andrew (one of the constables).....l yeeterd,, went to the IflfirMllrif, And sew the surgeon. 11+ stated to me thtt the men were ruining sin very well, and that there was no danger. I have this ut ago.. and am informed that they are stilt going nu very will, anti that there is not lite least danger. Mr. Wright—lt ritual stand over until Siam-day. Prisoner, you are remand, Nitta Saturday. The Prisoner is a tall thin man, of slash complexion, and is by trade a tailor. Several members of she yotn sore corps vole in attendance; and two of thtm, Mr. Withingtion and Mr. Whitlow, were on the Bench• Monday. Teo o•Clork. I presented myself this morning at the Infirmary. and was received by the house sturgeon in a 'try gentle enmity manner, who conducted me lessee Rohimunsi and Jon,••. the two persons wounds-el by Meagher by pistol shut., on Saint. day evening last. I (oohs, Jones is. apparent greil pain, at. tendril with some degree of Ivor, a flesh appearing on his countenance. Robinson Inuits very mile, and riimplitined of much pain from his wound. The surgeon assured sue that they were not dangerous; hot still, tendant on 'roosts°, wounds, it would he very impruident to remove the turn, at present, to give their evidence against Meagher. LINGAR D'S it LAND.G [FURTHER IVNT R CTII.I Ton/laved from, n former Parr) NUMBER or SLAVES. "The several claw, 14. whose moose's have hew hitherto d►scribed, ronsliteeteol the A tie.) Salem nalson. They al:site were possessed of lib• rty. or power. or prom rev my forayed, howen.r, but a small pail of the popolati ~,, , of whirls, rebate. nut ler. than two thirds existed iii a ♦tale of slavery. That all the 6,41 adventurers were freemen, there can be little doubt ; but in the course of their clan gors's it is probable that they funnel, it is certain that they made, • great number of slaves. The pow/telly of these men inherited the tot of their fathers, and 'twee nonuser was continteally it el by the her-bisru Simms. who haul been tethered to the sante coodilitits by richt, to had twin wade colitis,' in war, ur had bet oi deprived of liberty in punishment of their crimes, or hail spoutancously ►wrren dered it to escape 11w horrors of want. The degradation awl enslavement elf a freeman were perforated Imbue a n o w. patent wisher of witnesses. The unhappy man laid on the ground lies sword and his lame, the symbols or the free, took sip the bill rind the goad, the implements of slavery, awl falling on his knee., placed hi.. head in tok►n of snit. mission minder the hands of his master. " All slaves were not, howrveronembered in the same class. In the more ancient laws we find the now di•tin guished from the throw ; and read lif Inmate slaws of ti s c first, the second, and the third rank. I,e later eoseiniews we meet with hernia's, wickets, paroling*, and other bar barous denneitinotioos, of which, were it asset., it would he useless to investigate the meaning. The most numensiss class consisted of those who lived on the land or their Lent, near to his mansion, called in Saxon his tune, in Latin Isis will*. From the latter word they were by the Normans dews. minuted trilbies, while the collection of cottager in which they dwelt, acquired the name o f ' , Msgr. Their respective services were originally allotted to Item accordion t o w a n pleasure of their proprietor. Some tilled the Iwndq others exercised fur him the trades to whirls they had been Mitred, et In Worn they received certain portions ui land with wiser perquisites, for the supposes of themselves and their tame- Bet all were alit, &prised of the privileges of fro e mery. They were forbidders to carry arms; they were sub jected to ignominious penishenents; they might he brausissl and whilst Recording to law. Their persons, families, and goods of every description, were the property of tlwir Lord. Hi could dispose of them as be pleased, either by gift or sale; he could amine them to the soil rye remote Hum from tt ; he could transfer threw with it to a new pro prietor, or leave them by will to Isis heirs. Out or the hundreds of instances preserved by our ancient writers. one may be suffice/alt. In the charter by which Harold of Burk. cobalt gnus his mower of Spalding to the shiny of Croy lend, he ?immerse. • among its appeuilawan Colvin, his bailiff; Harding, Isis 1,1011 h; Lefstsis, his carproure; El. stale, his fisherman; Osmond. his miller; and Wine others, who probably were boishantlinen; and these with the it awes and childreo, their goods awl chattels, awl the cottages in which they lite, ►e transfers in perpeloil posses • to the abhey. " It should, however, be observed, that the hardsh i l o their centilitre were considerably mitigated by the inthienee I of religion. The Bishop was appointed the protector tat the ; slaves within his diocese, and his authority was .mphyeit io shielding them from oppressiou. Their lords we re Ire quently adossaishrl that slave sod Ortolan were of iqual value is the eyes of the Almighty ; that both had bees. re deemed at the same price; sod that the master would be judged with the some rigour as be hail eaerrised towards his depolarises. Is general the services of the slave were fixed and certain; if he performed them faithfully, he was ril- I lowed to retails his savings' sail many of those who culti vated poeticism of land, or had received 'permission to err- rise their teades in the burghs, acquired a comparative de- pre of opuksiee, which enabled them to purchase their liberty from the kindness or the avarice of their Lords. Even the laws suppose some kind of property in the slave, since they allow him to commute the legal piosieliment of whipping fur s boe e.f six shinnies, and fixed the relief of a villein MI a farm at the price of his best beast. " The prospect of obtaining their freedom was a power ful stimulus to their industry sail good lo hat i ~,, r. Bork.* those who were able to pouching , it themselves, many el. i gained it from the bounty of benefactors. Some acre ems.- eipsted by the justice and gratitude of their ma•ters; others owed their freedom to molter. of religion. When the rule. bested Wilfrirl had received frost Eilelivalch. King of Sus- I ors, the slowation of the isle of briery, a nth 250 unite soil female slaves, the Bishop instructed them in Ike Christian faith, baptised them, and immediately matured skein to li berty. heir manumission was an art of charity frequently herniated by the preaches.; and in most of the grills, which are still eittant, we reel with iltreetious for granting Ills r s rerisin number of staves. lint the commiseration of the elneritahle was noire i scoot by the condition of the voile Ifrot (those who lend been reduced to slarcry by a junicial orotencejohan of such as had bet's bOrio in that state, soil had never tasted the blessings of libetfy. . By the Bishops in the Council of Calcitith it was agreed to free at their decease eget', 'hive sts [bat defteriptiuu; sad.similar rot i , i ~, i• hte • inserted in wills sit the I.lily ‘Vyi.flifill; of Atlwlsoni, sou of King Ethelred; and .Elfric. Archbishop , of ('sitter. .bury. nisounfission, tole legal, was to be primal. • is pohlie, in the market, :n the court of the tundras, or la , the chords nt the foot of the principal altar. The Lord tali jog the hand of the slave offered it to the bailiff, sheriff, or del-el/man, gave him a swum! awl • !mice, and told him that I , the ways were opeo, aad that he toss at liberty to go where. wryer he pleatterl. " Before I roar's& this subject, it is proper tomtit that the sale and porches* of slaves publicly prevailed florins the *lndent the Auelisfiliton period. These nohappy men were like cattle its the market ; and there is reason to believe that a slave was ninally estimated at four times the price of no mt. 'l'o the importations of foreign slaves no im p/Ammo had Peer hetu opposed ; the export of natives slsvrs was (miriade-Is under arrive penalties. But habit and t h e p arson o r rein hail taught the Northsonbeialis to bid defiance to all the efforts of the legislature. Like the SI. rages of Aft iru, they are raid to have carried elf, not only their own roittitr own, hut teem their friends and relatives; and to hard sold them as slaves in the pouts of the ('on. lineal. t• The men of Bristol were the ant to abandon Boa tiers. fermis erlatiC. Their agents travelled into every part of she country; they wire in.trisciett to give the highest price for females its a state of pregnancy: anti the slave ihipa rrgit tarty sailed from that port to Ireland, where they were as. core of a featly and profitable market. Their obstinacy however, uni to the Neversty of the Magistrates, but to the zeal of Wolstan, Bishop of Worcester. That Prelate visited Bristol several successively, resoled for months together in the neigithisiorhood, and preached on every Sunday agnioat the barbarity and irrelig of the dealers in slaves AI last the merchants were convisseed by h is rem otty slid in their vlrlstilesnoly 'wood themselvea to renounce the trade. Our of the members was soon after tempted 10 violate his engazement. Ilia perfidy was pu nished with the loss of his ryes."—t' Pp. 171-376.) BitISTOL MEETING. Ocrosce 4. The Miyor having refused to grant the use of the Guildhall of this city. accordirig to the prayer u regiwition to that I ffei.t. signed by about 50 inliabitooto, freeholders and frertnen of Bristol, fur the purpose of considering the late dreadful events at Maio heater, &c, a very large concourse of peo ple repaired, agrerahly to several advertisements placarded through the rations streets, to Brandon hill (upon which some 'iodine* had been hastily eracted), by two o'clock this -Afternoon. At three nrecn.eiy the proceedings of the day commenced, be Mr. Winton's moving Mr. Stocking into the Chair, which Iris seconded sod carried. Mr. STOCKING. in returoing thanks for the ho nour an d r e sponsibility conferred upon him by this office. regretted that it kid not fallen into more able hands. fie should take this opportunity of adverting to the conduct of the late Chief Magic bate of this city, who had refused them the use of their Gnildhall. At the seine time, it was not his intennim to make any utineeeosary or invidious re mark upon the propriety or impropriety of that cone:net : all lie had iii view was, to observe, in en-tear to those who entertained great prejudices agaillet meetings held in the open air, that they wire 11.. W ihiver to convene them there by the de termination of the Chief Magi.trates. For his own earl, hr had reaeon to lie dissatisfied with the event ; for lie thought the spot ui which they now stood a much more eligible our than that where-in they should here met, bad the requisition been aeceded to. lit Ilse latter instalice he should not have hail the honour to address above one fourth of the numerous assembly whom he now be. held. Ile could roily conclude, therefore, that those who hail denierl the 11411 thought this a better place, lie inn.' nest istowr•e el l the conduct of a certain class of gentlemen whom he perceived to be absent, lint *ha ought to have hero there. He meant the IVitigs.-../Hear.f—Now, they were not met there to th-euas a party question, or the meek% of one particular system of Refit, in uvrr those of an other ; but they had nal to consider no less qat.tam . them the constitution of the c o o o tey was to be finally extinotiished. And yet he dud think, that the apathy &sem creel by those gentlemen in regard to the rufferings of the people, proved that iaah3ag Was to be expected front them. A grist mars persons assembled at Nlancht sier order:lloy sad legally, as those getitlemen to whom he now addressed limisrlf might have done. These persons were shamel..ily outraged ; and it was upon this fatal oct urreiiee that the follownig requisition was presented to the Mayor.—[Here the requisition was read.—Sneh were the trims of that requioi time ; lint the real question for their consideration was, whether they were prepared to give op their yet remaining liberties, or to maintain their few remaining rielos which yet were left to them. lir to recover those which they had been depriv. eel of ? Would they rennin, passive and inactive spectator,. while Lords Castlereagh and mouth erected the Plunder(' of despotism on the :Mos of their niece free Constitution ? It had beets said, that they were prentaturely judging the Tiro' ' rot riding without sufficient evidence. Mr. Stocking went on to *hew that this charge op elii d fir better in other quarters ; and that the in terruption i.t a peuerable meeting on the Ifith of August, I>tt ulie Magistrates, was an experiment bi te-toted to a-certain how far the people would put up with that conduct from them. If they were not roused by this atrocious conduct of the Magistrates, let them remember the efforts made by Ministers in 1817, which made their opinion clear, that either tiny most pot down public meetings, or public meetings would put them down. They wanted to carry a feeling of this sort into Parliament, by tneairs of which, soil with the aid of another " green Inig"—/ I finghtes,i—they might be enabled filinlly to suoperld nor tree C 011141104014 it was eVidellt that the attentot was to be made ; but as it would look very ludicrous for Ministers to use the same means agaill to goi n g to Parliament for the same object, the attempt was now to be hazarded without a PUS. pension of the Habeas Corpus Act.—(.Shame !) But the spirit of the people was noosed, and they would find much difficulty in endeavouring to re duce it to their wishes,. lle then went on to prove, th a t upon their own rhewiug, as much as in the acts charged siroinot them, the Alogistrates of Mooches ter had shamefully violated the laws. Upon the conduct of the yeomanry, he said, they were called in to disperse the multitude. What was their duty ? '1 o disperse the multitude ; and if any one remained there after a certain nine, they wear to take him into custody : but it was not their duty to slaugh ter men and women. Ile trusted that that day would smut arrive, when the righteous rengeassee of the all-seeing Lord should overtake, iii its swift et• . the guilty victims of its offended preteens. After this, he adverted to the condoct of Mr. Hunt, which lie considered to have beret entitled to appro bation ; and cotecluded by a spirited exhortation to the crowd, to preserve the stiletto' order, and to part in the moat perfect harmony.--i'Lmsd and centinurd *miaow.) Mr. WALKER called the attention of the Meet. ing to some " domestic" cavalry, three or floc troopers of whom were seen movis t air as a di bou ( t ;o th ,i. e t o h n . t .y . 4 ' skirts of the lull. There are, todeed," he uia. " some Talton yeomanry ; but, h are not Manchester yeomanry !" Much .roprise had been mortised at the conduct of the Whi t :s oli which he most heartily joined ; and as fur the alr—to • of their Mayor he did toot see that it could have t him to have presided that day among the ta ,__ (• 4 No, mo.")—No doubt, on the contrary, have done him much honour to have that Here the worthy gentlemass entered into a I.oi planation of some facts of a local nature, fr rester to the immediate object of this Mr. Walker then read several document., all re. specting the Alanchester Meeting of the ltith Au. goat, a n d it. consequences. Withers, Williams, Crwns, Wi nt „,,, and other gentlemen, spoke to the mime effect, iti,d moved several Resolutions: after which, the Chair. man proceeded to put them separately, and bring all seconded, they were carried una tt ttt 9uslrs The molt perfect good order and good ',weer prevailed throughout the day, sod this ptsaserptta meeting discersed with that quietness a n d facility for which thole of a similar 'mum, lately c4lted, have been-so invariably distinguished. FL I: E. fls Tuesday torahs, a must alarming Sre ;oldie oat is the hick waresuuse of Mr. Savage, a dealer is Irt-h pions, residing at 1 1 04, Uppe► East Smithfield. "I - he d o ,„. s raged with such tory, that the entire of the pre.0,.....-re io tt short lime destroyed, together with a gamut, y %ions, sad other articles which were therein. Several entities arrived, het from the scarcity of water, they conld he of very little service. The dwelliog-hoose of Mr. Savoy, our prevented from shariog the same fate, by a quantity of water which was in the yard of Mr. Rhodes, a hater, who lived meet door. The premises were i d, but the pm. perry destroyed by the devouring antacid, is estimated at several Isuudred pounds. DISTRESS IN THE UNITED STATES. We copy the following from an American Paper, lately received : " It is estimated that tly!re are 20,000 persons daily seek. jug employment in Philadelphia. In New Yoik 10-000 able-bodied men are said to be wandering She streets looking for it, and if we add to them the women, whu 4a sire something to do. Ike amount cannot be km than 20,000. " In Baltimore I here may be about 10,000 persons is unsteady employment, or actually shirt-ring because they cannot get into business. We know several decoct me m, lately S good livers,' who now subsist on such victuals as two years ago they would not have girds to their mimings in the kitchen. Here are 50,000 persons In three Ciill 4 l %holly or partially idle. Admit that they obtain half employmeat t just enough to keep them from becoming an encumbrance up others, and average the value of what they might ears at usly 50 cents. per day, sad the amount of logs is 12,500 &u s , * per day, 75,000 per week, 3011,000 per month, ice. Here we see how it is, that the want of employmetit at national wealth. Tlionsimds who are heat ilegmeeil to sup. port themselves decently he labour, are iii a state of po.i. tire suffering, because they have nut any thing to do. The distress of the people has reached an alarming extent, and there is no conside►ate man i■ our large ritiea and t•rwea tbat looks to the approaching' wittier without antieipatiss scenes of misery, such as he sever before wituessed.” FOREIGN INTELLIGENCF:. !rt., ocTnerft 5. Arrived Ilse Hind from Leith. Passed up Maas,' the Ajax, from Nlsdrts for Loodsits. fisiled the Perseverance. Proper, fur H horme ; ErnPe. Peateun, fur B.hia ; Aaxlie %Yilwe, Codes" . I. iisr she South Seas ; Elisabeth, Spear, ; sad salmis, %'•on H. %the. sue, far Sierra Leone ; Britannia, Davie, for liastiburgh; and the Albiut, Ruse, fur Loudon. VALMOETW, OCTODER 3. Arrived the Trusty, Forney, from Lcith for lion. MAKGATT. OrTolttll J. Arrived the Lsoksall, &Attridge, from Hull fur NetthATts a with loss of her mast. DIAL, neletteft 4. Sailed the whole of thcootward-honed exc. pt t 6 r. is, South Seaman, which ship remains to ►rpanr Inc se. Came down from the Kiser and sailed, the Heinle..., for Euston; Ann, Wilkie, for Si. Dominica; Bayard. for Viral. nia; Jane, Mittesnore, fur the Is'e of May; his 111.ojesty's ship Sparta°, fur —; sad the Cape packet fur 11w• Cape of Good Hope. The latter remains. MEETINGS OF L'REDiroDs AT GUILDHALL, TO-HORROR. ...mim.- x. X. J. 'Blair, Sbschrell, grocer S. Locke. Temple-plsee, dealer 1 IS .1. Johnson. Goodgr•street, shoe.mnettrartur..r W. sod J. Dewey, Holland•street, *hi p-ots tiers 1 le CORN SXCHANGS, OCTOBER 6. We have bad but few fresh arrivals since Mends!: aid what appeared is Wheal wait liken of readily ai Ihe Arias of ibat day. Figs Barley is he dreamed, and full a. Arse. Oats, Pease, sad Beaus, math's, at our last quoin! pares. COAL MARIIIIT, Ot-rosra 6 ---- --- _ , Ships Ml4lltrinet. Ship SOM. Prue • 71} liiewenallt 44 . ... 35.. 64 In 445. 113. 22 Sunderland I Cinders .3 1 1 I s e : 0 6 : 1 1. . I t: _44: Od mi i . iCanttell Cent ..... •. 9 .... --s. Oil. to —s. Oil. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. 3 per Ct. Cons. 74, 7O I South S.a Stoelt... 771 3 per Ct. IS.An.lo3ifik I Et. Bill., 2..5 7 6 di'. Imp. 3 per Ct. Au. 69k Lottery Tickets 19/. ISt. India 80ndit..... 7 pr. I Cons. for Am.. MARRIAGF.S. Tuesday moroln4, at St. MaryJe-bose Clavrch, Loy tee Rcv. Edward Nut they, Canso of Windsor, Major.G. nerd Sir Herbert Taylor, to Charlotte Albin'', eldest daughter of the late Edward Dishrowr, Esq. Ou Saturday, 11w 2J instant, at Hrighton. Robert ir . sdh F.sq. to F.l • iheth, daughter of the late Sir Itictisid Ouslow, Bart. G.C.B. so Admiral of the Red, and Lieateasot-Gent ral of Mariam, sister to Sir Henry Chaelow mid Lady II)Je Parker. DEATH. On Tuesday sentlight, at his house in North-street, Cork. Mr. Thomas Crimps. Hip death ought to wire as • warming to others to 'Multi Beeping iu ii.:sired beds. Mr. Crippe was no his return from Clielterdiani, rime he was sir•lefeJ . fur Ore recoil-1y of his health (quite rerovered) , 'topped la Hall, where be slept iu damp sheet., shirk, in a very Awl time. terminated the life of • valuable member of society- . _ HIGH WATER THIS DAY AILONDON OSIDGE. Horning 9 afler 4. I Evening 94 after 4. —-- - LONDON : Pruned sad Published a ti* ridlce,l4- 117. Screed ; wiser* Advatieesents ere received, asd I nags (pea-said) wait be addassen—C. sm rm. Pie. Ili Mauves lam, Frillier-4. WHITE, No. II?. dem* Puislisher w