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before any three Al.lermen, of every Part icular that Came to their knowledge previous tO and daring the Meeting." And why is their !alh more to be 'relied On than the Oath Of the Pers on WhO gave information of the horrible design t 0 his Lordship We believe that the Loan MAYOR not belleVe his informant's oath upon light grounds, and it is probable, that lie would not place 472 y belief in the oath of the others.—Besides, what could be expected from such men, but statements calculated to mislead the LORD MAYOR, and In screen the wicked incendiaries from justice. The horrible fact which has occurred at Stockport 4 lay be deemed a strong corroboration of the ac count given by the LORD MAYOR, who, of course, *il l not be diverted from his endeavours to discover the infamous wretches who bad planned so iniqui t°" a design, but despise the insidious tender of essistance from those who must offer it in mockery, since they never could expect that the least con fidence would be placed in their asseverations, but that, however solemn, they would be con lidered as artifices to confound inquiry and to con ceal the Delinquents. SHIP NEWS. P LYMOUTH, JULY 24.—Arrived the Francoise ROBBRT3, from Bourdeaux. FALMOUTH, JULY 23.—Arrived off this port t he Denmark, LORICK, from St. Croix, in 35 tl aYs, for Copenhagen 5 and the Minstrel, BRIS 7'°w3 from Penking for London. L IvEUPOOL, JULY 23.—Arrived the Indefati ahle, SMITH, from Africa—sailed from Port-au the 22d May. The Eleanor, HODGSON, from Yarmouth for Liverpool, was fired into on the 15th inst. off the , I ' dd Ystone, by a cutter, who sent his boat on uoard the Eleanor, and took from him his Cus -1041 House papers. They could not learn the utter, name. We have yet (says the Hampshire Telegrapit) 1° learn the object to be accomplished by sending "tro line -of-battle ships to South America. It 4 PPears the ships (Superb and Vengeur) are not '''tended ,as a permanent augmentation to the naval force there, as they are expected to return 1° about ten months, and resume their respective ~,t ati° 4 B , as guard-ships, at Plymouth and Leith. The Superb has been equipped for sea with great elerity, at Plymouth, where she waits only fur Itie n to complete her complement to 540. Lieu• te "ants the Hon. H. FINCH and T% J. C. EVANS, Bn t i Assistant-Surgeon 111‘DouGALL, are appoint- I d to her, C ommo d ore Si r T Hos . H ARDY l e f t 41 Y r uotath on Mo n day f u r the Admiralty, to receive 1118 final instructions from that Board.—The Ven- Cent', 74 , r, ,apt. F. L. MArrLAND, arrived at Ports 41°I.Ith ou Thursdav (which we mentioned on Satur day), from Leithondisfittinglwith the utmost expe 'ltionforloreign service. All the Officers who say " under:the flag ofßear-Admiralarw AY, at Leith, !re continued in her. Her complement on board t ° be increased from 300 to 540 men. The Quail intended as a tender to the Vengeur, ar 'ved at P ortsmouth on F r i day, from Pl ymouth. ,1 e b e Owen Gl en d ower f r i gate h as b een commis 7fled at Chath am f or t h e S out h A mer i can sta n ; the H on. C apta i n SPENCER i s to command her.io Th e Ganyrnede will take the station of the e, • evern in the Downs, which ship will remove to the S op hi a, Captain Simon, arrived in the the from from t h e Havanna!), advices are received to 14th nit. by which we learn that the under 9entl"ed Spanish ships of war had arrived there, Nra. Sra. del Carmen, Capt. Quesada, on the MaY, in 56 days from Cadiz ; Cud Gulga, (*Ptah] Barandic a , on the 13th, in 14 days It t°ll l Vera Cruz ; Maria Francisca, Capt. C.a- Ca nso n , on the 15 t h, f rom a cru i se ; Superior, B t ain Canna on the 22d, in 12 days from 2.anta Martha ; Diana, Captain Pavie, on the from a cruise ; Deamente, Captain Monte h-i°a, On th e 30th, in 51 days from Cadiz ; and • frne th e m V era Captain N unez , i n s i xty - e i g h t days Cruz. Th e report o f the cession of O e Island to this country by Spain, which has eited so much interest, receives no confirmation Y th e advices through this channel, although the 4 t , e trierican ect. Papers st ill a b oun d w i t h rumours on subj Vett --erday the Loap CHANCELLOR, Viscount N. Arr- , Aud-Ragacti, and the VICE CHANCELLOR, had le nces of the PRINCE REGENT, at Carlton- Lo use, Ca ptain F. C. CROTTY, of the 39th regiment, 11 4 arrived from Canada with dispatches from D uke of RICHMOND. tt(; Lord LOWTHP.R and the Right Hon. FREDERICK ti ( 4 IN are app o i nte d D irectors of Greenwich 444. 30 N Vi. Zt-CoUnt ME LVILLE has returned to town from ili Inspection of th e D oc k- yar d s at C h atham and e ernet s . f:T.,On Saturday the 9th and 12th regiments (the ef ticel B ) , were reviewed on Hounslow Heath, : k re t he PR INCE R EGENT, Prince LEGEOLD, the of KENT, an d D uke of IVEI.I.INOTON. The A NI) ! 85 Of K ENT, with the Infant Princess ALEX c our:L_A. WaS Oil the Hea t 11, and an immense ug sco 1. spec tators were attracted by the inc urpi of the martial scene. ;;;Ji-11AGE " We have received the following letter from Mr. BIRCiI, the Stockport Police Officer : Newcastle-under-Lyne, Friday Afternoon, July 23. ' have arrived here with Harrison, the Preacher, whom I am conveying through Congleton and Cheadle, to Stu;kpurt. I am, i❑ haste, your's, 6 WM. BIRCH.' E( SECOND EDITION. " HORRIBLE ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE BIRCH, TILE CON- LAISLE• " Birch arrived with the prisoner at Stockport about eight o'clock r. M., and conveyed him to his house. This circumstance was soon made known, and the houSe as quickly beset with num bers, who made use of the most daring language. Thus situated, Birch deemed it necessary to take advice of Mr. Llyod ; and for this purpose, under disguise, he went out at the back door of his house about eleven o'clock. Mr. Lloyd was not to be found, and Birch, on his return home, being un fortunately recognized by one of the Reformers, was immediately surrounded, and received the contents of a pistol in his breast. The ball for tunately took a favourable direction, and lodged in his left side. The alarm being given, an ex press was sent to Manchester, and a Troop of Hussars (the 15th, we believe) arlived soon after , wards, and peace was restored for the night. " Three persons have been taken up, and this morning underwent an examination before Thomas 'f atten, Esq. the Rev. Charles Prescott, and Peter Marsland, Esq. They are remanded for a further hearing. " Harrison was sent to the Lock-up-House, and was afterwards admitted to bail. " Saturday, July s 4, Eight o'clock, P.M. " A messenger whom we had dispatched to Stockport is just returned, and states that Birch is still alive, but that Mr. Killer, the surgeon, has not yet been able to extract the ball ; serious ap prehensions are entertained that the wound is mortal. " Harrison is stated to have expressed deep re gret for Birch's accident, and said he did not wish to have been taken to Stockport, and neither was it intended he should. He was expected to have come by the Defiance coach to this town, and a person was in waiting to prevent his going fur ther. Another line of road had been chosen for his conveyance to Stockport, by the Manchester Coburg coach, which runs through Litchfield, Newcastle, and Congleton. It is almost needless to add, that this horrible attempt.at assassination has produced the most alarming sensation in this part of the country."— (Macclesfield Courier, July 24.) His Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT is fully expected to make a visit to Portsmouth, and to proceed thence in his yacht, commanded by tire Hon. CHARLES PAGET, to Plymouth, to view the break-water. The royal yacht was taken out of Dock on Saturday morning, having undergone a final inspection. Dr. RODDAM is appointed to the yacht. On Saturday morning, Sir ROBERT GIFFORD, late Solicitor-General, was sworn before the CHANCELLOR into the office of Attorney-General, vice SAMUEL SHEPHERD, appointed Lord Chief Baron of his Majesty's Court of Exchequer in Scotland. JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY, Esq. Ser jeant at Law, was at the same time sworn in as Solicitor-General. _ . On Tuesday Mr. Serjeant COPLEY, who bad vacated his seat in Parliament on being appointed Solicitor General, was re-elected for Ashburton without opposition. Sir W. GRANT, as one of the Duke of YORK'S Council, went iota %vaiting on Saturday on the KING at Windsor. The Right Hon. Gentle man relieved Lord HENLEY, who left IVindsor for London. A letter, dated Tunis, June 8, says—" The re volt which I.;ruke out amongst the Arabs on the confines of Tripoli has been suppressed. The plague having appeared in the Tunisian camp, the BEY pressed the General to hasten his return ; the latter entered into negociations offered on the part of the rebels, and upon receiving contribu tions in cattle, withdrew his forces, and arrived in Tunis vt:sterday." The Waterloo steam vessel arrived at Liver pool on Thursday in 18 hours from Belfast. She is completely rigged with sails, independent of her machinery—two engines of 30-horse power each, and as she carries 100 tons of goods, is in tended to become a regular trader between Belfast and Liverpool. RED SNOW.—Mr. FRANCIS BAUER, from a number:of accurate observations, with microscopes of great power, on the red snow, in a melted state, from Baffin's Bay, pronounces the colour ing matter, to be a new species of uredo (a mi nute fungus), to which he proposes to give the name nioalis. RENNET, the stealer of Mr. HORSLEY'S child, is on board the hulks at Sheerness, waiting a conveyance to New South Wales. BOXING.—On Saturday night, the following matches were made at Gregson's—Cooper to fight Shelton on the 12th of October next ; and Turner to fight Martin, the following week. Proposals have been made for a fight between Donnlly and Spring. Yesterday morning the Condemned Sermon was pteacbed by the Rev. Mr. COTTON, the Ordinary, in the Chapel of Newgate, before the unfortu nate Culprit Benjamin Noble, who is ordered for execution on Thursday next. The Sermon was delivered in a very pathetic and suitable manner, which seemed to make a great impression on the unhappy 111411 and the congregative that attended. PO E ' l fl LINES On a Piece of Sweet Briar's wft.tering in t/.e Sweet little branch of an exquitlte tree Now short is the time thou bast been with me, And thou art dead ! Down drooping you gradually fade away, No longer your leaves, are fresh and gay, Fur the sap that nourish'd thee, Briar, has fled. How sweetly you scented the sylvan bower, Where I sat, and was elMrin'd with thy milk-white cower, All fresh and gay : But the moment I plucled thee from the wild tree, And eagerly bent my dark eyes on thee, Thy little leaves curled, and began to decay. But although, pretty sprig, thy freshness soon went ➢ Like the Ruse, ye retain that exquisite scent, I loved so well. And though from the fair cheek will beauty depart, The goodness surrounding a feeling heart, Will teataia till the bosom has ccas'd to swell. When esteem, too, has once been engrav'd on the soul, Tbough an ocean between those that feel it may roll, From year . to year : Though affliction may rage in the breast, and be As turbulent as a tempestuous seap The heart will change never—to friendship once dear WILFORD. REGISTER OF FASHION. THR PARK AND KENSINGTON GARDENL—There were many cquesVians in Rotten-row about four o'clock ; and indeed, since the return of sultry wea• ther, that has been also the favourite drive, on ac count of its being the direct road to Kensington Gardens. The Promenade, from half-past four to half-past five boasted a crowd of fashionables. The white dresses of striped muslin, with the green embroidered flower, increase in estimation, and the boot of garter-blue, laced on the sides and fringed, is a beautiful appendage to a well-turned ancle. Yesterday Mr. GREENWOOD gave a grand din ner to the Duchess of YORK, Prince LEOPOLD, &c. &c. On Saturday Prince LEOPOLD honoured Mr. DRUMMOND BURRELL with his company to dinner. There was a numerous party to meet tl►e Duke and Duchess of GLOUCESTER on Friday when they visited the Earl and Countess of BRIDGE WATER, at their seat, near Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire. The Noble Earl's mansion•house there has lately been finished at an expence of several hundred thousand pounds. It is built in the Gothic style, and is supposed to be the most complete and magnificent building of any in Eng land. A Chapel is attached to it, which is built and fitted up after the manner of the King's Chapel, Catnbtidge. The Duke and Duchess of GLOUCESTER left there on Saturday afternoon, and dined with the Earl and Countess of VE muLAm, on their way to town, St. Alban's. Lord. CASTLEREAGH gave a grand entertain ment yesterday, at his house, St. James's-square, to the PRINCE REGENT. Among other distin guished personages invited to meet his Royal Highness, were Prince Leopold, Prince Ester hazy, the Duke de San Carlos, the Duke of Wel lington, the French Ambassador, the Ma►quess of Hertford, Sir Benjamin Bloomfield, &e. It h said, that Mr. ELLISTON is supported by Mr. COUTTI in his competition for Drury-lane Theatre. Every thing kind may be expected from the latter gentleman, who seems to live for acts of benevolence. Mr. KZAN, it is said, is so ill in the country, that his wife has been sent for express to attend hint. We hope, for the sake of the Public, as well as his family, that the matter is not serious. The stage could ill spare him at present. The grand meeting of the disaffected, at Man chester, which was fixed for the 2d of August, has been postponed, some say to the 9th, others to the 22d or 23d ; but it is more probable that it stands adjourned sine die. VOLCANIC PH/CNOMENA.—The Journal of the Two Sicilies mentions, that on a fine clear day, about the end of April last, a loud detonation was heard at Massa-Lubrensa, accompanied by a slight shock, which was supposed to be the effect of an earthquake. On the following day, however, it was discovered that the grounds in the vicinity of the town had entirely changed in appearance, present ing deep crevices and hollows ; and from the masses of atones contained in them, it was easy to con jecture that the phenomenon was the effect of vol canic fires. A terrible eruption of Mount /Etna is mentioned, in recent accounts from Naples. It is stated, that the torrents of lava, which descended from the volcano, nearly threatened the destruction of the city of Catania, and covered the surrounding plains. A corresponding eruption took place at Vesuvius, though the latter has been without com motion for the last seven years. The lava ran itr the direction of Pompeia. At the same time, Vi terbo was visited by the shock of an earthquake. HISTORICALANECDOTH..—WheII SARAH Duchess Of MARLBOROUGH was called upon by the Court of Chancery to deliver up a sword of great value belonging to her late husband, she ap• peared with it before the CHANCELLOR, and de sired she might have some security, that the fa mily to whom it was to be surrendered should not pawn it ; " For," said she, " I should be sorry to see the sword which that great man wore exhi bited in a pawnbrower's shop !"—The sword, now so well known, is that with which the Emperor of GERMANY invested JOHN Duke of Marlborough with the Lordship of Mindelbeirn. Saturday morning, a gentleman named Pryer, whilst looking in at a caricature shop iu Sackville street, bad his pocket picked of notes to the amount of 231. besides his watch, &c. Sooty marks appearing on his trowsers, and there is little doubt, but that two sweeps who were stand ini; by him were the depredators. MODERN R EFORMERS The following observations on the late iirrorm MEETING on Ilunslit Moor, of which we gave an ample report, in a private letter from Leeds, ott Wednesday last, are extracted from The Leeds In dependent, of the 22d inst. Considering the mis chievous nature of another Public Print in the same town, we must repeat our satisfaction, that there are two such loyal Journals as The Leeds In telligencer and The Leeds Independent, to coon. teract its tendency, the first a Paper Of establish ed reputation, and rising fast into credit, and horn being under the evident management of talents and knowledge : " The Resolutions are curious. We are to have a Member of Parliament elected for Leeds, in the same manner as Sir Charles Wokeley has been appointed for Birmingham. As it seems to be a matter of indifference is !tether our new Re presentative be a merchant or a landholder, so as he is a rich man," we advise our unrepresented townsmen to apply to Walter Fawkes, Esq. of Faruley Hail. Mr. Fawkes, it will be recolicct ea, at the Anti-Property Tax Meeting, held for this county at York, in the Spring of 1816, first Magnanimously declared, that he, for one, would never consent to petition the House of Commons, as at present corruptly constituted ! He went further, and asserted, that if ever they felt dis posed to come forward and demand their rights, in a manly manner, they would know where to find him. What he meant by their rights, he sob. sequently illustrated by his famous work in sop pott of Annual Parliaments and Universal Suf frage—the fame of which, by-the-bye,was speedily extinguished by the learned, unanswered, and. unanswerable Reply of Mr. Sadler, of this town. Thanks to the candour of a celebrated Reformer, the Rev. Christopher Wyvill, the public were soon informed that notwithstanding Mr. Fawkes's pretended horror against petitioning Parliament, the petition adopted by the very Meeting he was then addressing, had been drawn up by Mr. Fawkes's own hand !—and this foul blot upon his political character Mr. Fawkes has never attempted to remove ! Mr. Wyvill, also, at the same time, strongly condemned the inflammatory and the dangerous tendency of Mr. Fawkes's language, and predicted, that if such language continued to he held, and that if the schemes of his hiend Major Cartwright were persisted in, the country would ere long be exposed to the dread ful alternative of either submitting to a military despotism, or of encountering all the horrors of revolution and civil war. How accurately Mr. Wyvill estimated the consequences of Mr. Fawkes's conduct, we are daily receiving proof. His de termination—or pretended determination—never again to petition the Legislature, has been univer sally adopted by the Radical Reformers—ark alarming and an unjustifiable resolution, which in charity we might have supposed Mr. Fawkes never contemplated in the moment of his pas sionate address, but that the political hypocrisy which was detected by the fact of he himself have ing written that very petition to the presentation of which he objected, proves thal he coolly medi tated a mortal stab on the affections of the peo ple toward their Representatives. Mr. Fa nkes, therefore, having the honour to be the author of that anti-petitioning system which is the present rage of the day, ought not, in our opinion, to be deprived of the ulterior glory and fruits of his own scheme. He is a " rich man," and what is more, an able one. He is a man holding the very same sentiments, and advocating the selfsame scheme of Reform, now so agteeable to the mul titudes whose frequent meetings wear so serious an aspect. He is able and willing to lead them on their march ;—and we say again, None so fit as be to " represent the unrepresented part of the inhabitants of Leeds !" " But, some others of the Resolutions of the last meeting are still more curious than the one relating to the election of a Member of Parliament for Leeds. The eighth Resolution declares it is " highly necessary that Deputy Meetings should he appointed, and out of these Deputy Meetings, Dis trict Meetings, and that out of these, men shall be appointed to form a National Meeting, that the whole may be brought to one focus, in order that they may devise the best plan of obtaining' annual parliaments, election by ballot, and Uni versal Suffrage." The Resolution does not in form us in what manner the District and Na tional Meetings arc to be elected ; but it is evi dent that it is intended the General Meetings shall elect the Deputy Meetings—that the Deputies shall elect the District Meetings—and that by these again shall be elected the supreme power, under the name of a National Meeting ! " This is in itself a pretty commentary upon the doctrine of Universal Suffrage. I❑ the scheme of their own temporary government they aban don to a few—to the members of the District Meetings—the right of electing the supreme, or National Meetings. [By the way, does not this scheme of framing power upon power, very much resemble the organization of the famous Society of United Irishmen ?] " The multitude who adopted this Resolution, it is true, in all 'probability never thought any thing about either its object or tendency. They never inquired whether the election of these Meet ings had any thing to do with their favourite doc trine of Universal Suffrage or not. It was enough for them, that it seemed to be a new scheme— for, in their present temper, every thing which is new must be good. Now when it is explained to them, however, it may serve to shew to them of what sort of stuff their leaders and orators are composed. They will allow you, at your public meetings, to elect your deputies by your univer sal suffrage, because they know th.it you can have no other choice than that of electing them ! that point gained, Universal .snffrage is to tl►em of no further use. They will take care to elect wise and discreet men, out of their own body, to form your District and National ..leetings. That is a task which, you see, they think too de licate and important for you to be entrusted with! fake warning ill time. The end of all these crooked ways, into which your betrayers are se ducing you, will be disappointment and vexation, it not ruin or pretnuttate death."