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FOR THE, SUN. MN. EDITOR—M.IIOII 4 I. I the daily proc- Tice of reading •the Newspapers, yet I alll not in the' habit Of ‘vritittg for then) ; but 1 feel myself - .constrained to address a leiv lines to you at this irnpor.tant crisis. I wish to relate a few facts, which are not the remit of ..vars4y, but what I have seen wit! heard mysulf. 'he 20th of last August, 1 paid a vi4it to Glasgow, my native place, tiliFr aii -tbseuce of some yvaes, and was glad to hear that the Nlagistrates and 'Gentlemen of the City had paid so much attention to the wants of the Labouring Poor, in providing many of thum with work, and supplying those of them with soup who had families, in addition t o their wages; and that their conduct t o the labouring class had been mote likethat of Fathers, than either 11Iagisttates or Move's. I had a proof of 'this the following day, when 1 walked into !he Green, where l saw about 50(1 it o employed in cutting a nevr channel fnr . the on-,foiro. Not one in twenty appeared to be natives of the :nil. The yelsoo who supetiniended them did not appear to he a hard task -toaster, as sometimes they were wlirking, sometinies resting, and soniethn,s amusing themselYes with throwing pieces of ci,y at each other. While I stood there, a poor ing than, covered with mks!, came up, and infot ed them Ibat 6000 weavers were conmitrg from Paisley, &c. to attend the meeting of the Radical Reformers, which was to be held neat Glasgow that day; the intelligence was instantly conveyed front - . one end of tie line to the. other, and seemed to, 'give general satisfartion. AGetttleman who stood by me went up to the countryman to make some in .qttiries of him, when, in an instant, he was attack. .ed by the workmen in all dhections, who threw at him whatever came next to hand. Will difficulty liem.made his escape. Shocked at such proceedings I immediately withdrew, say iug to myself, it these . are a specimen of the Radicals, may God, in mercy,\deliver my country from them ! The Meeting was held, but which I dill not at tend ; it was . adjourned to the Wednesday follow. ing, and having a little time to spate on that day, 1 went to the Meeting, merely to see of what materials it was composed, and what spirit they were of. There might, be about 5 or 6000 pre sent, mostly of time labouring class, with a very few exceptions, and, who appeared to be there from mere curiosity, like myself, as most of them :new away before the bushiest' was concluded.— * There might bC front 40 to 50 upon the hustings, whose general appearance was rather shabby gen teel. Three Petitions were read and approved; 'the first to the Elders of the Barony Parish, ..praying for the revival of some obsolete laws iii favour of the Poor, and that they should act upon . them. The second was to• the Sheriff of the County, that he would interfere on their behalf; and the third .was to the Prince Regent, praying for his interfereoce. When the last petitio n was .proposed, several voices exclaimed,—" There is no use to" petition hini,'• and for a 'time it seemed to he given up ; when a young man arose, and *with the most violent gesticulation, as if he had been fighting his way through a band of armed men, insisted that the poitiOn should by sent. This violent oration had the desired . effect, In :an instant the tide of their opinion was turned, and the petition to his Royal Highness was read and .approved. During the Meeting there were several 'long ,speeches read, and some of them violent in the .extreme. It was with difficulty that I refrained from expressing my dissatisfaction with many of the sentiments which 1 beard; but I knew that my safety depended upon being a silent spectator of what was passing before inc. From all that I saw and beard, it appeared clear to rne, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that under the mask of sympathy for the suffering POor, and Radical Re form, they were aiming at the subversion of all order and good government among us ; in short, of everything that is sacred and divine. Not only was the first acting Magistrate in the Realm held sip to contempt, and the Constituted Authorities in general, but even the Ministers of God, our Spiritual Guides, the Messengers of Salvation to a perishing world ; and also those noble Institu tions which► are the glory of the British Empire, Bible Societies, &c. &c. rwas almost petrified and ned with horror to hear such sentiruentirexpress ed, and in my own country too, the inhabitants of which have been so much and so long renown ed (Or their sobriety, respect, and attention to re 4gious characters, and every religious institu• lion. After this I was not surprised to hear several of the Orators conclude their speeches with the fol lowing remark :—That if they received no redress from the above-mentione►l resources, " then every min must recur to the Law of Nature, with a club in his hand !" The plain Engli4i of which 1 understood to be, that they would take what they liked best, and if any one opposed them, they would knock his brains out. Hence the riots which took place at Glasgow and Paisley wifltin a fort night after, when the Magistrates wet e insulted and pelted with stones—windows and street lamps were broken—shops forcibly entered and robbed—Clergymen's houses attacked, and partly demolished—the iron railing belonging to the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel at Paisley torn up, and carried off, and the Chapel in Glasgow be longing to ttAe same connexion assailed, even on the Sabbath of God, and while the People were actualiy;,engaged in worshipping the GOel of Ileatien. These, Sir, are dreadful signs of the .11pon these occasions the Radicals seem tp: have acted up to their principles, as far as they yrere'permitted to go—recurring to the Law of 7siature with a club in their band. It appeared clear ,to the that it these men had their way, instead of a Radical Reform, we should soon have a Radical Reseliion, and a Radical Destruction. When I beard the men, and their communications. the 'tennis of a certain ,Author (nut notch in their fa- Iroitr I fear) were forcibly brought to my mind, - and which, f fear, is but too descriptive of most of the Radicals, as appears from their conduct, their speeches, and those seditious and blasphe moils Tracts which they are disseminating with 'so Mutt inflitsfYy—" Tl,eir.thron't is an opFn c - pillchte—with t 1,0; tongues they hav'elisrd -(k ceit--,the poison of a!psis finder thrir lips - ;=whose month is full of cursing, and bittertiesi.a.et heir feet are , owilt'to shed hlood—destrtietion and misery are in their ways—the way of peace have they not known—there is no fear of God before their eyes." th-knowledge myself • a friend to . Reform, but not such a Refo a 3 these Radicals aim at, which evidently involves in it the utter ruin of my Country; Which I hope the GOd,of Nations in infinite mercy prevent ; and, 'as to the 'Helmn... choly affair at ,Manchester, 1 shall say nothing, as my judgment of . shall be suspended until the, truth of the-whole affair is elicited in- a Court of Justice. Only I cannot help observing, that to Mr. Hunt's ,statetnews of the events of that clay. can feel no disposition to give credit, or to any thing he.says, after the abominable falsehoods in which he has been already detected, w 'deli he palm ed 'Ton the British Public for. truth, and which have )tell re-echoed by fatally whets at their Eta— dical !Meetings. The simultaneous meetings of the Radicals for the Ist of November ate now' over, atilt you will perceive trom-the accounts we have had from Glasgow . and Paisley, &c. that they now go armed to their Meetings, and in military array. I shall not he sot prized it we are told by The Times, and The Morning,Chrot4ide, that all this is only meet ing, mile! ty, peaceably, and cotwitotionally, to seek a ii-dress of our grievances, and that no dab - - ger is to be apprehended therefrom ! ! The Radical Meeting so lor d ; expected in this place (Dundee) is just over. 1 went upon the' grOund about half -past 11 o'clock, when there'. might he about 100 boys and git Is present. At 12, --KINLOCH, of Kinloch, Esq. made his ap pearance wi h two others who walked past the • hustings, frequently looking that way %vitt) nogreat apparent satisfaction, as there were only about .- 400 present, and all of the lowest order. Thy: Com mittce now came !Ton the ground, and mount ed the hustings, with -- KINLOCH, of Kinloch,. who was chosen Chairman, acid- whn was the principal speaker. A number of Resolutions were read, but owing to the noise of the children, nothing of them could be heard, except by those who were close to the hustings. There were four flags, bearing the following - i n scriptions : " Uni;or, Love, and Order.;'—'"fhe Voice of the Multitude is irresistible."—" We Only want our Rights iu a peaCeable - and constitutional way."—'' Universal Suffrage."—On the top of a pole were suspended broken tea=pots, tea-cops, a snuff-box, and tobacco-pipe. -01) the top of a Marine Flag was • suspended a small bust, with the keel :uppermost. -There might be about two thousand present, more- than one half of whom were women, .girls, and boys, who ap peared to be there out of mere curiosity. To the credit of Dundee be it *poker', that none of the respectable inhabitants were seen near the place; in - short, the Meeting was every thing but re spectable, and presented very little encourage ment to hold •another. It really appeared ludi crous to see a Gentleman of --Kirmocn, of Kinloch's appearance addressing an assemblage of women, boys, and girls, &c. This interesting M eet i ng l aste d a b out one whole hour. A Col lection was made at the different avenues leading to the hustings for the Manchester Sufferers ; but I query whether any - of it will ever reach Manchester, as, from the appearance of the plates, there seemed hardly a sufficiency to cover the expence of printing bills, and the erection of the hustings. • By inserting the above in your intelligent an useful Paper, you will oblige A NORTH BRITON. LAW IN'I ELLIGii;NCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, No v 17. THE ROCHESTER CHARITY. Mr. HART begged to call the attention of the Lord Chancellor to this case, which our Readers are aware stands over for final judgment. The reason, he said, for thus troubling his Lordship, was the anxiety of mind . tinder which the poor persons interested at present laboured, and which was, in no small degree, increased by the ap proach of Winter. Under these circumstances, lie hoped his Lordship would, on as early a day RS convenient, favour them with his judgment. The LORD CHANCELLOR, fully appreciating the importance of his decision in the case to the per sons in question, should most certainly it them of the conclusion he might come to, as soon as possible. He was * afraid that he should be unable to do so to-morrow, as the pressure of other important 'business would in all probability prevent him ; lint however, it he conld not du that he would certainly hand down the minutes to the Counsel on the case, on coining into Court on Friday morning. The other causes brought before the Court this day were of no public interest. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. 17. SENTENCE OF HENRY SWANN, ESQ. [Further Particulars.] The ATTORNEY-GRNERAL lose and moved the Court that judgment 'be pronounced upon Henry Swann, Esq. wl.o was convicted at the last Spring. Assizes for.the County of Cornwall, held at B0(111110, of wickedly,. wilfully,' and corruptly giving certain bribes to some of the Electors of the Borough of Penryn for their votes in his be half to return him as on:: of the Members to re present that Borough in Parliament. Mr. Swann immediately rose and stood on the floor. lir. Justice 13KST then read to the Court his notes of the trial, and record of the defendant's c inviction. Our Readers will recollect that the whole particulars transpired in the House of Com mons last Session. Mr. Swann was then asked if he had any,affi davits to put in ? He replied in the negative, and proceeded to address the Court in a speech of considerable length. He commenced by alluding to the want of profe,ssional assistance at his trial . , in consequence of Serjeants P e ll an d L ens b e i or retained against kith, and lamented the conse quences that ensued by his having in person un dertaken his own cause. He found himself at his trial overcome by bill situation, and unable to ► meet tj u tharge,a4 it might bays been Met by a cool professional Gentleman, 'if he hail had the good fortune to have retained one. • It may, per haps, he asked of hint, with his onfortuttate ex perience of' . the , past, why lie now in person tame to that Court to urge argtiments in mitiga lion of his offence ? answer was, that hav ' ing no affidavits to ,offer, and having incurred the enormous expence of ,an el ection contest, which cost him seven thousand pounds, and ' also the expence of 12 - 001. - additional, in conse quence of the Petition to the House of Com moos, he was noprepared to meet any additional charge upon his fortune, and still less prepared to incur the expence an arrest •of judgment, or of prolonging hiS mental anxiety by post poniog the period of his sentence. He assur ' ed the Court that .he entertained a deep sense of the necessity in an offence like that of which he stood charged, of making an example .of an rffender, to prevent the House of, Commons front being rendered contemptible in the ryes of the . people at large. In his•dase there had been pe culiar and unprecedented hardships, for on all former OccasiOns of prosecutions by the House of Commons, they were undertaken after reports of Special Comniittees, and these reports were alone the instritctions to the Attorney-General to •pro. secute. h e late At.torney-General, than whom he .valued no man more, had. departed from this •, course. Had he confined hilitaelf to it, lie (tlr. - Swann) must have 'been acquitted—in fact, lie was at•the trial acquitted of all the counts in the informatiou which contained the charges brought against hint in the House of Comm Ons; nut, in . his case, the Attorney-General did not coofine himself- to the COmmons Repart ; he-sent down the Solicitor of the Treasury to Penryn, to take tip ai'ditional charges, and on these alone had his conviction been grounded. The Attortieyre neral, in -1806, did po such thin;. • Mr. Swann then proceeded to comment on the evidence given on the trial ; and to urge the improbability of its truth. He declared he would state the matter - as it occurred, as he scorned to conceal any thing, bow ever it mieht affect the judgment of the Court. In the year ISI2 he had applied to Peter Jrnkin for hi• vote. The man hesitated to give it to him, lest he should offend a Mr; Gino!), . who, .he said, supplied hint with flour for his family when he was nut of bread in the winter ; he INlr. Swann) immediately went to Mr. Glazon, and agreed to pay him. a debt of this man's, in the ultimate, event of his being unable to dis charge it himself; indeed, he wished to be fri.nd Jeokin. Some time after this occurred, he was reminded of his promise, and lie wrote .(town word, teat if the man traosmitted to hint his promissory note for 201. he would ,remit him a draft for that amount. This was done, and to show precisely his own view of the transaction, he had subsequently pinned his banker's chectioe to this man's note, as the sole consideration in virtue of which be bad paid- the ~.201. This oc curred ill 1813, and when in -ISIS be canvassed the borough of Penryn, this man refused to give him his vote unless he rewrite(' the note; he irn • mediately tore it, and- gave it to him, but a pau per, named Wills, .happened to .pick it up, pasted it on paper, anti thus preserved it, and rased it against him. He challenged any man to prove wilful corruption against him. "Ife had, on the contrary, ,cooducted himself in five successive elections wholly free from suih a charge, though it was so openly practised io a particular borough), that 24. guineas was the price of a plumper. and 12 of a split vote. He bad materially served the borough and its inhabitants, who were grateful, and anxious to show their g t itude towards him. Hein;;-engaged in many pubic Works, lie availed himself of a,vatiety of opportunities to be useful. ; to the inhabitants, among whom he distributed a great teal of beneficial labour. ; he bad .al.wnys objected to bribery ; this was known to nihny out of, and to some within that Court, The Member for Leicester, whom lie saw behind tLe Bar, knew it from a particular transaction. Dlr. Swann WaS understood to allude to Mr. Denham, to whom he looked, but Mr. Denham is Menthe,. for Wareham.) He had refused to counienanie bribery at Gramponnd, and was lie Ilirefore to be held up (41 the world as an encourager of it ? Ile then detailed the circumstancea of personal indignity which. he had endured. He had sent a written request to the Attorney-General to post pone judgment in bis case for a term, as ur gent business required him to look after his affairs in Jamaica ; but that learned person, in very polite terms, lamented he could not corn ply with his request, and also stated, that he had given directions_ on the previous day that be (Air. Swann) should be informed it was necessary for him to enter into recognizance, to abide the judgment of the Court. Nov be would tell the Court how this communication had been made to him. At the hour of six o'clock in the morning, two persons enteted :ois house in the country, ran up stairs, and knoekid at his bed room door with as much violence as it .they trteant to break it open ; they alarmed his wile and daugh ters, and he with difficulty was allowed by them to enter his dressing-room ; they shored his ser vant out, who entered to clean his coat and boots, and while he was by himself, engaged in chang ing his linen, his wife happened to tl►row up a window in another room. and one of these per sons, under the notion that be meant to escape, ran out to the garden, and without sere- moray dashed his arm through time window of his dressing room, threw op the sash, .and acted towards him as if he were a traitor, a felon, a murderer. He complained strongly of this degradation, as he was a man always to be twind at his house, a Magistrate always acting-on the Bench wirli his brother Magistrates, and, of 4. • - course, at any time to be loioul when requirra by any body. He then proceeded to arraign his pro secution, which he called severe and unjustifi►- ble, whe n he u•as interrupted by The Clll JUSTICE, and reminded that the Court could not listen to suet► rat:0101A. He begged pardon, and concluded be reading -a letter addressed to him by 150 respectable indivi duals in Cornwall, who sp6ke in the highest terms of his honour and independence. The Court reminded him that this declaration could only be•received in•the shape of an aftid, Mr. Swann then concluded by stating, that hi Parliament be had ever acted as a couicientiou9, independent•man i unsbachied - -by MiniJterial Or other influence, and was therefcife unljkcly guilty of wilful or corrupt bribery. The ATTORNEY•GEN E HA L , i n re ply, oei r eru led f the conthict 'of , Its prenecessor as. to thrn e - alie (): conducting this pros ecu ti on , an d a l so own in - refusing Cllr. Swann's request to post pone this judgment. He also defended the cow! ;ItiCt of the officer who went to Mr. Swal'n s. hotise, who had only acted as he:bad done no r" ceiving (both the night before and the morn in g in question) repeated evasive answer's at the house when he inquired for the Defendant. • He called on the Court to act on Mr. Swann's own atboil" sion, that an example was necessary, iu seta' case as.the present. Mr. Justice linycey, in Ws addre s s, observed, that the defendant's admission, as well as thevvi* deuce, justified the convictioni and that such conduct was calculated to bring a heavy sitspiciol on the purity of the Houle of Comthons, whieis ought to be above suSpicion.• The defendant' s rank ought to hive prevented him flout engsg't l in suck proceedings ; but a single act only 0 7 been proved against him; iH the sentence, b"`" ever, the Coiat had taken into consideration fl' Bl oilier proceedings were still pending.. .The ,s O4 . fence was to be imprisoned for One Year in illf King's Bench .PLisol:. BLASPHEMOVS VARODY. Jo.eph flirniitvgliant.Pr potted on the motion of Mr, 'CLARKE, to.recvi' e , the-sentence.of the C imo t, having been convict` '{ by a Jury, at the 'Warwick Assize's, of publishing pitifane'and bhispheimius,libel, called The Pc li : heal Litany. -The indictinent charged hint wn l7 the intent of bringing the Litany into contempt; and also to bring into ridictile anti conteloP C the Houses of Lords and Commons. It appe Br : ed by the evidence of the case, that the defendkill' sod the .Parody after ,Hone's trial, with a tle4 10 " lionto the Shade of , Libtrty. It was exposed tidy in his shop', and the defendant told the person who purchased • th e wor k, t h at he "would It to the Magistrates themselves, or any r t r . son who might as k f or it. The defendant 8 " .. dressed the Court at considerable length, ststing, that lie had sold di e w or k• at t h e earnest d es ire "' two persons, who had plotted his ruin. It iv° nearly two years since the pensecution colt'' menced; and during that time he bad "been Pot z° great expense, and compelled to assign his Itr ° '" perry. His suf f erings had induced the Jury, w l ' a found him guilty, to recommend him stronglY L 0 the mercy of the Court. He had two mot terk l children to support, and t rus t e d the Court wou'' not visit him with punishment that must deprit'S the innocent of bread. Mr. Justice BAYLEY, in delivering thejudgment of the Court, observ e d th at the defeudant's con' duet sub sequ e nt to t h e trial had deprived him l a snore. measure of . the merciful consideration ,Jury had recommend e d. I n case h e had n ot InJo e other publications s i nce hi s tr i a l, h e per t r afl would not h a ve b een b roug h t up for indgmt:V.' lie was not punished ou that oc,: as i., n ior hlt 4 il' cations • since his trial,' but the circumst , ol brought to th e mind of the Court the en o rmi , y the first-libel. Looking 'at the off.,•nee in the tnoc t ienient manner possible, the Court sentenced 11 0 to be imprisoned. Six Mouths in Warwick G 3 ' )i. At the expiration of that time, he is to find slue ties for hip good behaviour for, three years, hi' le .sels, in 200/ and two sureties in 10/. each. - The defendant stands charged upon another formatiui: with split tons and- bksithernolO•P 4ll) .ca: ions. ARTICLES OF THE, PRACF., Mr. CHARLES PITT, Survevorof the , , applied I n person against en Attorney of Co ', l ri s resittiogat Arund.i, davits fOttudell upon information and complaining of alleged personal violence r,rwar 4l4 the • pplicant. Ilk motion hati.an alternatit'e jeer, either for at•tirls of the- pt;a'ee, tit: to the parry off' the rolls of the Court. e COURT said; they•could not interfere in fII C . present form of the uffiglavitF, either. h Oii:f I"3 Or *lie othur. The alli:lavitS for ;it - tic:l9 .of t'''' peace tnitst contai•l a,statmiort f:c" I mitt the Mot ioil",tor striking off the roils could " iv ly be made for profe;.siOnal ilvinquencv, RonsEin' OF Tilt: 571.--Of • night of yesterday se'oni;.7ll:, the Latvervol.Ma i ` f w4s robbed ot a box , containing tour ingot;.ll - weighing upivards ot 300 ounces, 400-otince s or dollars, an d a num b er ot al-ticks of co s ily jetec i " Ivry, the whole valued t-tt abont "'i lia which the robber got clear off. and l ois eluded the vigilance of the police-ot cers ; not' has any . lrice ben matte ot a n y o f t h e propeftf. It is snspeced to he whs. is called a p ot -up ra h ' bery, Hurt that tht - robber knew, rite extent of gyb e YO-!11.1) the box contained. A coachtno has been taken into cut ody ; and, atter undc" going an examination, he has been committed OP Congleton prison, near which place it is suspec t ' etl the mail was robbed. SUDDI,tti DPATO.—Oti Tuesday tl4.lit last, tilt wile or a baker, residing in Dot set-street, StY 4 111011 r-place, .Atiryltbone, aftev uelifiag 10 11151'ill good health, was fouttut 44eati in the apartment, the morning following. REMAEKAiLE DEATH —All AllterieFoll PaP er says, " A young; man at Harlington, New J, e _ c ; sty, ate a piece at Loney-comb, ii% which a u.es concealed. Whil e i ti ect of swallo wit4, was 1 it the bee sui ng him in-the thr oa t, OV e SO 4; 10 occasion, within half :an hour, his de at by suffocation." BIRTH. • . On the gth itt,t., En Noi it:a/1(1y, be Lady of Cap Nun J. Aplin, It. of n NIARRIED. At St. Gporgt,',, !'Jr. 3. A. Parry, of •Hollf!i-street, O ven : di.h•squart . ., to Jttor; - yoolt 4 c s t. ilatig . liter of Cosrua Trol i P Isla, ui H0.11,0v-street,li tt rt oit Crei.ccr% 1):;7.1). . • uee" l- ' Or) M nrid.iy, the I.lti, lust! 1 1:-. Philip !rake, of street, theaoide, in the , Md year or. his age. a fe#, l'estei-dus rn.rilio,f. in the .',711) ear of . iiCr ;12T, a fter 4 ' days' ill ri,s•:, .11 , . iiinton, ‘s . f•e. of Mr. Nens.l).l,? 1(.1:Ito'', • L.,rnb's Conduit-street. _.....e.,'—'r —:-; es , I.ONT)ON: by J. IL CARSTAIRS., f;f• No. ;11.‘nd-sittct, (,),0,0,- , 3,013re ; an d stitllTS, of No. 7,j1, 11(1foil-streel-, o;l , c e , y:). 114. ; whervAdreitisemez:ts. L..tturs, (pott-1:$:f.) nut trjadesestcd. ~. i 1 NU .. 5 .... ....,,.. NIOTI 111 141 1 rx Thal'l wt, ; 4 ' pr 111 g A~ u , elan 1144 4 tlr .1, dui', 0:', 4 ". kt ;L t rtCril tdi„ tt ll Cp h ,