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I Ire. at NA"' FOR THE SUN. THE CONSTITUTION. LETTER VIII. irk! ,of of lot ith to • ho bo 0, ink led; lib ink i t§ . by rid ter Jitl :be iti" re.' r *. )er ich, be !he Of the ed• eft 311 310 3 A for of 311 4. R. EDITOR—I respect as much as any man, the constitutional right of the people to assemble, altar they may petition, remonstrate, or make I noten their grievances, or even their apprehen sions; in any peaceable or regular way. But I de ity, that vast and overpowering multitudes can e% 'et* be assembled with peaceable intentions ; or 41 least with any certainty that they will continue 14 'aceable. The very purpose of collecting them 111 " st be, as we know it always has been, to over tO intimidate, and assume a power which t he Constitution does not sanction. It is ab turd even to pretend that such assemblies can deliberate. They come together already deter kined,.without deliberation, to have , their will, tf Possible, be it right or wrong. The conse luences of permitting such assemblies were seen decisively in 1780; they have been apprehended, Nr ith good reason, on many other occasions. If such multitudes meet, and separate without kischief, from the knowledge that sufficient force I tt prepared to resist them, should they be tumul tuous, I should not, therefore, give them credit for Peaceable intent jolts; while their words and conduct 1 11 were full of violence and irritation. But, waving t his, is it no evil that the multitude of peaceable citizens, who take no part in these commotions, 4 bauld be put in doubt and fear for the safety of t heir persons and property ? That these alarrn S hould b e repeated, as often as any daring adven t4rer may think proper to excite them ? that P u blic business should be interrupted, the Magis trates driven to every possible expedient for pre 4rrviug the public peace, and the Government ° bilged to hold itself in a posture of defence as a gainst a foreign invader ? It is not my intention, Sir, to enter into the Particula rs of any present transactions, but only 14 lay down such Constitutional principles as tiny be applied, when requisite, to any public "tots. Let me say, however, in a general way, 11 ,ust they who condemn the Magistrates and b tliers of Manchester, for the steps they thought n ecessa r y on a late occasion, by no means judge * they would desire to be judged. Is it instantly tp be forgotten, because their conduct may be ft.tought mistaken, that they consist of men of ho b Our, integrity, high station, and public charac ter; men whom none of their accusers would : are, Probably, to vilify in such a manner to their 44Ctt Is it 'to be forgotten, that they, in the centre of these proceedings; must be better able t et judge of their aspect and tendency than they * lto were remote from the spot ? Can it ever be laid, with truth, of any well educated and well litstinereol Englishman (I mean the term as ge 'llsltal to the Empire) that he is a friend to ril lauseere and murder, an enemy to liberty, a ty ttrit in his heart, or one who wishes to injure or gl i r Peess the People ? Let any one be singled out . 6 . 4 Personally actuated by such feelings, and, my life for his, the noble and indignant spirit of a l ' itt3 t ) will arise within him to repel such infa- Sus calumnies. But if these accusations cannot ( Ire!) , be throw n out against any individual, where tl.,he generous or honourable feeling of those q I v ° ur ge them, without scruple, against collec ! bodies of such men Calumny, Sir, he as- Z n .retl, is th e po i soned weapon of all intemperate P t in os: to tions- Ipreturn to the more general question, 44 1) , t nwhich haVe digressed unwillingly, I assert, otor i t l ra d aion it s , vithout fear of any argumentativt: that a law which should in future , erit any such aggregations of the People, as / t end to put the public peace to hazard, would ti'o_e°ll)pletely within the spirit of the Constitu , rn u i ; Limited it should be, and defined in such t h ltr fl uer, that it may not possibly he employed to thel,:et or prevent the constitutional Meetings of ed, °Pie to declare their feelings ; but so limit certain it would soon be regarded as one (n. them te r " sest bulwarks of that system which de s wi so Well to be maintained. SOAIERS. f ALIN CREETEE, SEPT. 12.-I am happy to in- Y n o , that a material improvement in trade e " taken place here, and the price of cottons has, Ns4setioently, experienced a considerable advance. ti,4ICS have been brisk for the three last weeks...-. :here ilas been a great demand for the German rtfl, Continental markets. GLAsoow, Sept. Wishawtown, where 4 4 1 e People out of employment have borne the res te of the times without meeting, arid without . ()3t any murmuring, the gentlemen in that neig.h -ticlnhood have handsomely come forward, with i t :" l iberal and ingenuous regard for their suffer \g' wh ich 'makes them esteemed, and provided ii)rk for the whole idle hands. A new road, to titl.lll t he Edinburgh and London roads at Garrion ".ge. cro ss i ng the estates of Lord BEI, f4VRti, and General Sir JAMES STEWART, Bart. Coltne ss, has been commenced, and will tt 4l'llr all the hands that arc idle for a Clislderable lime. Many donations have gi!'en by the wealthier to needful objects in a i i e t . et ROBER T LOCKHART, Esq. of Cam- Ivi.snethan, has, in return for the village of 41,,ithaw's e xertions in extinguishing the fire which I), ) , ‘ , "ar t'd his ma nsion -house, given them twenty L 1" of oatmeal, and to the village of Stonehouse 4 t• has seat 151: POR THE SUN. EMPLOYMENT OF THE POOL Mr. EDITOR—I think it but an act of justice to the Public at large, to the Governors, Guardians, anti Overseers of the Poor, and to the individual whose exertions I wish to see properly appreciated and extended, to state, what is infinitely beyond all Speculations or Theorems, a mutter of fact, of which I have had ocular proof, namely, That the Poor resident in the Workhouse of my Peril') are actively and usefully employed in preparing and manufacturing Flax from the straw into vari ous sorts of Cloth and Thread ; hereby producing articles, which are brought from other Countries annually, to a large amount. Mr. SALISBURY, the Inventor and Promoter of this Plan for em ploying the Poor, has, for this purpose, taken large Premises in Duke -street, Lincoln's-Inn- Fields. He has, for about six weeks, been teach ing about forty or fifty of our Poor, some 80 years of age, and some children very young, to go through the various processes of this useful worle,—The Overseers are paid a small premium towards the support of the labourers, and the people themselves receive a portion of their earn ings to procure them little comforts, not to be expected in a Workhouse. They seem much hap pier than in almost idleness, they are not pressed to work beyond•their strength, and by being oe copied all day out of the Workhouse, they return to it with some pleasure, and learn by degrees to participate with others in the pleasant ideas which Home excites. They find a better air, both in the manufactory, which is lofty, and in their resting place, by reason of the, ventilation which can be resorted to, while they are out of a before crowd ed place. It is the wish of Mr. SALISBURY to make this a sort of School of Instruction in his system, a Dcpo! for the machines used, and a pattern for the Public to view, in order to prove its simplicity end usefulness. All the (ears which listless or selfish individuals may entertain about injuring Commerce, or overstocking the Marker, may be put to flight in a moment, upon the tundemental principle " Of being as independent as possible on other Countries for supplies"—and while a useless track - of 'laud can be found iu the Country, upon which Flax would grow under a cultiiation, performed by now idle hands, anti a cloth produced by those who are now laid aside as utiable• to support themselves either from youth or old age, which will be, suit able for their clothing, we cannot surely be said to do justice to ourselves, should we import such articles, and teeny others equally obtainable in a similar way at home, at an annual expence of a million and a halt of money. The cultivation of Flax is of much-more importance than the Public are yet aware of. Not even the dust produced in the manufacture of it into cloth is without its use —it will fee) horses and pigs. The seed produced front the flax growing on' an acre will pay near ly half the price of the crop, upon Mr. SALISBURY'S plan—and ropes or cables made of the flax as he prepares it ate equal, if not superior in strength, to hempen ropes and cables. I trust, therefore, that the Public will examine this. Manufactory, and aid, by its countenance and support, the wor thy Inventor, to commence a rum establishment . of the same kind, where he may have an opportu nity of employing the Poor of the neighbourhood in raising the plant on soil hitherto turned to little advantage, and also to rear materials for the manufactory of toys, to render an importation un necessary—as also of matts and baikets, r of all which we have abundance continually coming over front foreign countries. The great point I would wish to impress upon the Public is this, That the greatest injury is often done to even a well organized plan, by ignorant persous, with only a smattering of knowledge, becoming pre tenders to teach it. Mr. SALISBURY endeavours, therefore, to make his a School of Instruction, and if none were permitted to set up for teachers with out a certificate of ability from him, always:open to his inspection, I have no hesitation in sayiug, the plan will, under God, become a great blessing to all classes of the communiiy, and the Poor now living upon the rates, become able in a great measure to pay, by moderate labour, for their support, and thus the Workhouse, in most cases, become only lodgings for those who cannot pay rent. Besides all this, the young would be-insur ed time for education, and alt would be under proper controul. 1 am, Sir, your obedient Servant, -,.- VVILLIAM GURNEY, Rfctor of St. Cleme of Danes. THE MARKETS. 'CORN-EXCHANA, SEPT. 15.—We have bad no arrivals of Wheat since Monday, yet what re mained over from that day made a tolerable show, and few buyers appearing this morning, the sales were exceedingly heavy at our last quo tation. Barley is not in great abundance, and of course keeps up its price ; White Peas still re main scarce, and are much asked for ; the arri vals of Oats continuing to be immense, the trade with difficulty supports last Monday's prices ; in Beans and other articles there is little or no alte ration. (From " The Liverpool Mercantile Advertiser" of Monday] At our Corn-Exchange there was a very good attendance of Country Dealers, but they bought sparingly, and the demand was chiefly confined to fine VVbeat. Some new Irish Oats, of which a few samples were shewn, went off readily at 31. 10s. to 4i. per qr. ; the new Irish Wheats were soft, and not very saleable ; in Flour little was done.— To-day's market was very uninteresting, and prices remain the same as on Tuesday. HOP INTELLIGENCE. SOUTHWARK, Serf. 13.—We had a very short supply of Hops this morning, and in consequence wewere in hopes we should have obtained better prices, but the demand has not even taken off the whole of those which did arrive. We have great difficulty in disposing of inferior or ,middling samples. MAIDSTONE. SEPT. 13.—The Hops continue to go off very mach in this neighbourhood, and we learn they come down exceeding light. It is ge nerally believed that the growth of this district will be one-third less than lastyear. The accounts from the Wcalii of Kent and Sussex speak more favourably they have 'but little mould, and the Hops continue to grow out. POE T It V.l RADICAL REFORMATION, Sqr!civil, et olsit," " Vettere et Vim," • Q. Holt. FLAG. De ,rte Poetica. Perspiring 'midst dust from his radical gang, HUNT swears that he'll drink no exciseable liquor, Till at lamp-post the Yeomen and Constables hang, And rerenge fall on Justice, Judge, Jury, and Vicar ! Yet if renus and Bacchus he equally scorns, At Middleton Cottage his courage may wince— But an oath ta'cn at Highgate, «•hen under the Horns, Is easily broken, as time shall e Vince I PARIS. " Jura inventa metre injusti fateare necesse est." • Q. Hon. FLAC. Sat. 111. Lib. 1. Our Clubs of Reform must be thinner and thinner, Should HUNT keep his oath, all the Radicals cry— Without Wine, Beer, or Gin, our Republican Dinner, Like WAITIDIAN'S Resolves, will be all cut and dry TIM. TWIST. " In Vino Veritas." 'Tis politic Virtue, when want of the Rhino, Makes Radicals scoff at the Jure de Vino. IGNOTUS. IMPROMPTU. HUNT, it appears, has lust his Horse, For which,ino doubt, lie feels remorse— But let that matter pass; His family need not deplore; For though a Horse they boast no more, They still possess an 'hs. HISSING AT A POLISH TEIEATRE. " They manage these things better in England." A private letter from Warsaw of the 16th Au gust, states, that M. BAYLA, Director of the Police in that city, having warmly espoused the interests of Mademoiselle Pntus, a French Actress whn was hissed by the audience, or dered an Ordinance to be stuck up in the market-place and public walks, " prohibiting any future hissing at the French Them re, ander penalty. of being caned. The writer exclaims " that when SoOWOHOFF, in the fanxbuurg of Praga, put to the sword 20,000 of his countrymen, the crime was less revolting." The Polanders, to elude the OrdinanCe, and to brave the pro tection which was granted to Mademoiselle Pnaas by the Authorities, took their places in two bands in the Theatre, and the moment this actress appeared; one-ball began sneezing and the other gaping. The noise was so loud and uninterrupted, that the Manager was obliged to let tall the curtain. This idea, copied from the Barbier 6 Seville, appeared so little amusing to the Grand Due CONSTANTIN, that fifty persons, civil and mi litary, were. apprehended the day after by his or ders. THE THEATRE.—The very favourable impres sion matle by Miss THEE and Mr. PHILIPPS, at Covent-Garden, by their respective performances of Patty and Lord Aimworth, in The Maid of the Mill, was fully confirmed last night by their re presentations of the same characters.- , —We repeat that Miss TREE deserves great praise for her,act ing as well as musical excellence. The part could not have a more interesting representative, anti Mr. PHILIPPS is well entitled to the same praise. He is an unaffected, judicious, and impressive Performer. The Opera went off altogether With great eclat. The second piece was Sylvester Daggerwood, in which Mr. YATEs " out Heroded Herod," as the hero, and we are sorry to see a re gular Theatre degraded by mere grimace and per• sonal mimicry. The Edinburgh theatre Closed.on Saturday, with the Tragedy of Macbeth, for the benefit of Mr. H. JOHNSTON. It will re-open on the 27th, with the Tragedy of Othello, the part of Othello by Mr. KEAN, who is engaged for twelve nights. Miss S. BOOTH closed her engagement at the Liverpool Theatre on Friday last with her own benefit, on which occasion the fulness of the at tendance wris a convincing proof of • the respect and regard with which her professional talents and private worth are held by the Ladies and Gentlemen of that town. Miss S. BOOTH. arrived in London yesterday. The PRINCE REGENT will receive. the Sheriffs of London to•morrow, at Carlton-house, at ten o'clock, when his Royal Highness is expected to appoint the following day for receiving the Address of the Common Council agreed to on Thursday last. Letters 'from Cork, received yesterday, state that in the course of a few days 'upwards of 1000 persons will sail from thence to settle at the Cape of Good Hope. Mr. PALMER is appointed by Government as Magistrate for the district in which those persons are to reside. An order from his Royal Highness Prince Lao- FOLD was received a few days ago by a tradesman in Edinburgh, directing a Highland bonnet, with some tartan scarfs, to be prepared before his arri val there. The articles are composed of the richest materials—of the Royal or 'STUART pattern of tartan. The bonnet, which is uncommonly ele gant, is topped with a crown of blue velvet, sur mounted by a beautiful plume of black feathers. The Westminster Scholars say, though the loss even of one Page is of serious consequence to a Student, yet they are most fortunate in finding the substitute Good-enough ! _ _ _ The Rev. J. HAWLRY:of Leybourne, has been presented by CHAS. MILNER, Esq. to the Vicarage of Barham, Kent. SAVINGS BANKS..--At a late meeting of the Officers of the. %Vest Mailing Provident Bank, the third annual Report was made by the Secretary, from which we are happy 'to find the number ot depositors is progressively increasing ; in the first year there were 100, in the second 152, and in the third 200 ; the deposits amount to 2,4001. which have been invested in Government Deben- , tures. We cannot too often impress upon the minds of that class of society, tar whom these Banks were first instituted, 11;e beneficial effects resulting from them. SHIP NEWS: FALMOUTH, SEPT 12.—Arriced the Waterloo, BLACKLER, trotn Prince Edward's Island, in 32 (lays. Cowes, SEPT. 14.—Passed the bock of the Wight the Welburgel, MEYER, from Rio Janeiro for Bremen, under jury -masts, having lost her fore and main Masts. Passed through the Roads, to the Westward, the Royal George yacht. DEAL, Seri. 14.—Passed by the back of the Goodwin Sands the Gertruida and Maria, GLAZENER, from Rotterdam for Marseilles. Re main in the Do. ns the Severn. frigate and Dili gence East India pilot yacht. PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 13 —Arrived the Brilliant, ROBECK, from Newcastle ; Titus, CHILTON, from London for Pernambuco ; Isabella , LAURY, from Petersburgh ; Mars, BURN, and Cheetly, Rtcn- ARDSON, from Memel ; and John, MATTHEWSON, from Copenhagen. Passed by the Ocean, HOLMES, from Jamaica for London. PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 14.—Arrived the Brisk sloop of war from the Downs. Sailed the Canty' store ship for St. Helena, and Venus, FIEZARD, for Havre. KINSALE, SEPT. 7.—The Jane, BROWN, from Jamaica for Glasgow, got on shore about a milt vo the Westward of the Galley-head. The cargo, is expected to be saved, but the vessel will be lost. CUSTOM h LIST. Entered Inwards,Septemterl4.—Mary,Padley,lTamhurgh; Sons of Commerce, Fox, Antwerp; Huppett, Sundshumi Hernosand ; Neptune, Aurens, Wismer ; Betsey, Cargil,s- Petcrsburgh ; Jane and Alice, Jones, Petersburg') ; Elinor, Bell, Memel; Neptune, Roxby, Cadiz; Juno, Blackburn, Petersburgh ; Aurora, Scott, Archangel ; Blucher, Sehertan, Swerinemude; Mercury, Allen, South Seas. Entered Outwards, September 14.—William Manning, Smith, St. Kitt's ; Mary Ann, Findley, Cape of Good Hope; William and Alfred, Drysdale, Antigua; Albion, Wart, Isle of France; Ranger, Henry, Pernambuco; Fux, Fox, Ostend. Cleared Outwards, September 14.—Colonel :Alen, Lew led, Cape de Verd Islands; May, Harvey, St. Thomas ; Nelly, Gibb, Hamburgb ; Fly, Sawyer, Calais; Mackaiel, Hill, Hannah; Elinor, Williams, Duhlin. CORONERS' INQUESTS. DEATH OF MR. S. SIMMONS THE COMEDIAN. An Inquisition was taken yesterday at the Barley Mow public-house, Mount-street, before A. GaLL, E , q. on the body of this unfortunate Gentleman, who met his death on Saturday night last. Mr. Simmons, as most of our readers know, was is most respectable member of the Theatre. Royal, Covent-garden, to which company he be longed many years, and his talent had ever met with unqualified approbation. The evidence, as to the calamitous event, was as follows William Chapman, servant to Mr. Thomas Vardon, No. 5, Hanover-square, stated, that the wife of the deceased had some business to do in the house, and at eight o'clock he called for her, but she not being ready, be waited until she was enabled to accompany him. At ten o'clock Wit ness let the deceased and his wife out by the area gate, and having ascended two or three steps its his way out, he suddenly fell backwards, the wife close behind him. Witness picked him up, and carried him within the house, but he died instant. ly. He did not appear to have been drinking, and be fell directly backwards. Dr. Hyatn was sent tor, but be used no means to restore anima tion, satisfied that such could be of no purpose, as the deceased vas past recovery. Tile Beadle here stated, in the absence of the Surgeon, that the deceased had died of apoplexy, as the Doctor informed him. Margaret Simmons, wife of the deceased, who gave her evidence under affliction which excited much sympathy in the Court, stated she bad been married to him 16 years, and he had called upon, her, to escort her home, as stated by the last wit. ness. She, related the manner in which the de• ceased tell backwards from the steps, and whether be was in a fit or not she could not tell. Sh e h e ld her arm out to save him, and having uttered this expression, she manifested the most agonized grief. When recovered she said, " I thought I heard him breathe." To some questions put by the Jury to the bea• die, respecting the state of the appearance of the deceased, who was in a putrid state s he said his face on Sunday evening resembled that of a black man. Another witness, of the highest respectability, stated it to be the opinion of Dr. Heaviside A that the deceased had died of apoplexy. Mr. Ege:•ton, the performer, stated, that the deceased was weak in the eyes ; that Mr. Jere miah Taylor, the oculist, had told him, (the de-4 ceased) that unless be was bled often, he would, :lie by apoplexy. Mi. Robinson, and several friends of the de• ceased, were present. The Jury returned a verdict—" Died by th 4 Visitation of God in a Fit of Apoplexy." DISTRESSING EVENT. Yesterday an Inquest was hem(' before CHARLBS JBI%IMETT, Esq. at the Swan, Battersea, on the body of John . Thomas Dagnell, Esq. father of eleven children,, the two youngest twin boys, hut a•few days old, when it appeared in evidence that the deceased on Friday last got to the top of one of his walnut trees, in his garden at Battersea, at. height of 30 feet, to pick some walnuts, which he occasionally threw down to his children, who were under it ; when one of the little ones cried out, " Father pray do not fall." No sooner had the child spoken the words, than the branch upon which . the deceased stood broke down, and he was precipitated to the bottom, in the pro gress of which his head struck some lattice work, and broke it down. His head was dreadfully fractured, and helingered until Saturday, when he expired in excruciating agony. Verdict--•" Ac cidental Deatir."