The Sun. — London, England, 1819-09-24 00:00:00

Eft.A G //the late ARCHBISHOP of TUAM. About three o'clock on Tuesday morning, the remains of his Grace the Archbishop, were remov ed from the Palace, in a hearse drawn by six horses. lo consequence of the funeral - being private, the numerous families in our town and ueipj,bourhood were prevented from attending, and they set out from this accompanied only with the carri,.ge of his Grace, which contained the Hon. aod Rev. Wm. Beresford, and the Hon. and Rev. George Beresford, who, with a few of his domes tics, wet e the only persons to travel from hace. Sri great was the respect which all classes held his Lordship in, that even, at so early an hour, the sr reets were crow ded with People, both on horse foot, and for a few miles the procession was both soli unit and grand ; one private coach only ail ended ; but for a short distance. In his tem pi,rdl dignities his Lori4ship is succeeded by his eldest son the H-uourable John Beresford, now Lord Decics. It is trot positively ascertained, as yet, who is to succeed his Glace, although were we to go by reports, the nomination of either the Bishop of Elphin, or the Hon. and Rev. Mr. Talbot,-hro ther to our present Viceroy, would be immediate. The Right Hun. Lady Anne Beresford, and fami , - ly, set off on Thursday morning from their house. in this town, on their way to London. The departure of this amiable and. highly respected. Lady from our town, where she constantly re sided for the- last seven or eight years, must be regretted by all those families of distinction who knew her ; and will be an almost irreparable loos to the many distressed families about her house, whose wants she has often relieved.—(Tuant:, Gazette ) EXTRAORDINARY ExpLory.alid ESCAPE of a THIEF. The' following relation i.c .so very singular, that. persnns who are the least incredulous will not be inclined! to give credence to it, but there are plenty of witnesses to prove its authenticity. Yesterday moraing,aboat 5 o'clock, the house of Mr. Oldfield, fat tiler and co w- keeper, of Penton-place n near Mite Conduit 'douse, was broke open by . a thi e f, an d robbed of cash a n d Bank-notes to the amount of sixty pounds. A bird-catcher was porsning his occupation in the neighbourhood and heard thief enr,er the premises, the forrner ran off for the constiJbles, who were on duty iir the neigh-, hourhood, and- Lock, Owen, and another of the pa!;.le being informed of the circumstance, accompanied tic e bird-catcher to , the house. As they approached it, the thief ran out, and mad e towards the Tunnel of the Regent's Ca• nal ;tt , - y pulsed hint , but they were not able to (anise up to him before he had enter , ed the Tunnel a cowiderable distance ; they contiaued to follow ltim a The Tunnel is near II mile in length, a‘ed the .thief being before purmers, could see them though they were unable to see him ; he knew that he should not be übit to penetrat e the tunnel, and he adopted a very ingcninus method to evade the constables; he threw himself into the water, and kept under entirely except his heat! ; he supported himself by. some timber which was floating in the river close to the towing path ; as the constables were passing one of them heard a motion in the water, and put tiogthis ham' down felt the wet clothes of the de ceased, nett infornied his companions that a man was drowned. They attempted to get the man out, and the thief in a moment became as a atifircorpse; it being dark the constables agreed to go to a public house (the Vernon's Head) in the vicinity, for a farm:in and a shutter to carry the corpse to the tavern. During the constables' absence the thief thought propel to become animated; Itegot out of the u Ater and ran off, but left his coat and waistcoat behind him, and turned up his shirt sleeves : he was met by some brick-makers, who had been jaforU na l that suntan was drowned, and to them i,terended that he had been in the water drag ging for the body, but was unable to get it out ; Ice itioni, ell of than which way the constables sere gone, and being informed, went in an oppo site WI ecrion, and escaped. The constables, on their teflon, discovered that they hail been com ly out wit ted.—(Morning Paper ) AFFLICTING EVENT.—A most melancholy as curl u ,, c e happen, 11 at Weston-Super-Mare, on rvl. , nday evening. As the two eldest sons of ChAneas ELTON; Esq. of Bristol (whose family we!e there for change of air), were amusing themselves by gatheting shells amongst the rocks, during the flowing of the tide, the eldest was ant►oun,led by a strong wave, which was succeed ed by a second, so as to occasion the greatest, alarm, and he called to his brother, who tvas at some distance ; the yowl) instantly threw oh his cloth,s, altd plunged in to his rescue i but the strength of the current baffled every exertion, and we have the heart-rending duty of recording. the loss of these amiable and endearing youths, who have thus found a watery grave. By this efilltl!I Catastrophe - the family are involved in inconceivable distress. The deceased were grand sons of the Rev. Sir ABRAHAM ELTON, Bart. of Clevedo l Court, in this county.—(Bath Chro nicle.) _ _ _ Sunday night a singularly fatal accident oc curred to a young man named Price, aged 24 years, residing without Byster's-gate, in llereford,, an d which in a few minutes terminated his exist ence ;he h-id prepared to go to bed, but observed that he Would take a little cold meat for his sup per, and was in the act of cutting or picking a hone with a knife used by shoemakers, when the instrument slipped, and penetrated his body on the left side, to his heart ; he had only time to " Seirl for a surgeon,". when be fell and expired. Medical assistance was of course in vain, although promptly sought. A;Coroner's In que%t was held on the body, and t verdict of " Aceirkntill Death" returned, Yesterday evening, at seven o'clock, an Inquest was held in the Committee-room, Middltsexilos pita!, before THostAs STIRLING, Esq. Coroner, on the body of Richard Barry, suspected to have been mut dered iu St,.Giles'e, The deceased was fo►tnd Weeding and severely wounded in the skull, lying in the passage of a house in Bainbridge. street.' A sot an was standing by with a candle, and a man was on the floor by, the side of Vet dict—" Died from a fall iu a state of intoxi cation." MEETING of the Vi 7 ARD of BISHOPSGATE Yesterday, pursuant to Requisition, a Meeting of the Inhabitant Householders of the Ward of Bishopsgate was held in the Church of St. Bo tolph, Without Bishopsgate, for the purpose of taking into consideration the late proceedings at Manchester, and the propriety of presenting a loyal and .dutiful, address to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, containing such prayer as may he deemed expedient, and further to con , shier the prop iety of pet it iolling the Lord Mayor and CommonCouneil of the City of London, to grant to the wounded, and to the widows and orphans of those who tell on the mournful occa sion of the 16th of August, such pecuniary relief as to their wisdom maw seem meet. The Alderman of the Ward, Sir Richard Carr Glyn, being absent from town, the Meeting was appointed to be held by the Deputies of the said Ward, Thomas Greenaway and Sir LVilliam Raw lins, who presided upon the occasion. 'At twelve o'clock the Chair was taken, am ' M r Deputy GREENAWAY having shortly stated the object of the .Meeting, in which he cheerfully concurred, the I{aptisition, signed by 70 persons, was read by the Ward Clerk. Mr. CORDRI.L., Woollen-draper, of Slioreditch, :then came,forward to move the Resolutions. He .commended the readiness with which their worthy Deputies called the present Meeting for the pus :pose of inquiring •itsto the late unhappy events of. Manchester. To this object he should'confine liitu ,self. Tbe present was an occasion upon which all party feeling should he laid aside.; he . would not therefore introduce any thing of a political. nature into thediscussion, unless whathraturally a ro se fr om the subject they were idiom to consider., ThelMeet ing at Manchester was .perfectly.legal. It might 'be said, and indeed it was said by the hireling part of the Public Press., that it consisted of the lowest orders of society, . Admitting such to be the cage, was that a reason why they should be cut down and trampled upon by the military ? A land of 'freerneu was not the place•to talk so much about difference of tanks. What class of society was more valuable than that . of which Meeting C - onsisted. 'Wits it not by them the agriculture, the trade, and the commerce of the, coon: rye was principally carri:ul on ? When their rights were violated, those of the whole community might also be said to be violated. In the hodypolitic, as its the natural body, when one member suffered the whole was • affected. The, rights of the lowest order of society were as sacred and in%iolable, as (hose of the highest, and he mast say that, 'pion late occasions, they shewedil CleVe.tt of intellect and legal knowledge which would not dis ; ;lace the most elevated classes. He woolo not at pre sent go into the details.of thrive transactions at Manchester. That would he done by a person (Mr. Pearson) who had better .opportunities of judging.than hiMaeff.. Mr. Cordell, after a few remarks on his Royal Highness the Prince Re gent's Answer to the Address from the City of London, concltided by moving a siting or Reso lutions, the saline jtr suhsance.as those agreed to by the IVards of Cripplegate and Earringdon Without. Mr. LEMAITRE seconded the Resolutions, and proposed one in addition, declaratory of the regret the Meeting telt irons his Royal Highness the Prince Regent having approVed of the insurrec tionary movements of the Manchester Yeomanry, and deprecating the ir adoption ad such measures as must give rise to a spirit of retaliation Among the people._ Mr. PBARSON then came forward, and began by alluding to his Royal Highness the Prince Re• gent's Answer to the Address from the City. If his Royal Highness was ignorant of the circum stance; that preceded the Manchester Meeting, he was the only person in the kiagdom not acquaint ed with them. These circumstances were, an enormous public debt, an intolerable load of taxes, a general stagnation of trade, numerous sinecure places, and universal distress. Such were the motives that gave rise to the Manchester Meet ing. The people assembled to consider the best mode of redress. They were in the most wretched situation. Aft er dili gen t inquiry, he found that a man with his wife, atter working fif • teen or sixteen hours a-day, conld`not obtain more than from 7s. to 9s. a-week. So great was their • misery, that the piror had recourse to, the thing hills of the rich to' pick up spine offal for their famishing children. There were vast numbers io Manchester and its neighbourhood, who, for many months never tasted animal food, nor any species of nourishmentof which animal food formed an ingredient., If these were not sufficient inducements riatheir meeting, what could be so ? To this, circumstance-, however, there was.not the slightest allusion in the Prince Regent's Answer. It did not contain a single woad of commiseration for the distresses of the people„ nor,one expres sion of regret for the enmities inflicted upon them. Even admitting.that the interference of the mili tary was called for, it was natural . to expect, that the father of his people would at least expres's regret for the necessity that occasioned it, and' for the consequences that followed. The ad visers of his Royal liighness,• however, did not think fit to do so, and this was a circumstance that should not be forgotten in all future meetings upon the subject. His Royal High ness should be informed by loyal and dutiful petitions of the circumstances that preceded the Meeting, that lie might no longer continue in ignorance of them. It consisted of 130 or 140,000 persons, who came together in a way perfectly legal and peaceable. Much was said of their Marching in military order, but this, under such circumstances, was the best .way to prevent accidents and confusion. As to the black flag, it was originally white, but was painted black for the purpose of rendering the devices more legible. Such, he was assured, was the origin of the co lour that excited so much alarm, When this nu merous body was forced into a solid mass by the approach of the yeomen, and when the avenues by which they might escape were guarded, it was . then the attack commenced. Mr. Pearson then proceeded to repeat the tragic stories and calami tons attacks of the Manchester Yeomanry, which he his already publi,hed. While Pearson was talking, Hunt made his appearance, and was received with shouts. The Resolutions were put separately, and una nimously adopted. Two Petitions were Olen agreed to : one to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, reflecting on his Answer to the City Address, and praying I hat. he would dismiss the Ministers who advised such an Answer ; the other Petition was to the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and . Common Council, praying, that they would contribute something from their funds towards the relief of the Man chester Sufferer,. Thanks were voted to the Deputies, and the Churchwarden, Mr. Bowerbank ; after which the Meeting broke up. Wm. RAWLINS, one of the Deputies, when returning th:tuks, said he fully concurred in every thing that had been done. KILMARNOCK REFORM MEETING. P.XTRACT OF A LETTER PROM A GENTLF.MAN Iff KILMARNOCK, DATED SATURDAY IiVENING, SEP. TF,MB.ER 18. You will be anxious to know the result of the Reform Meeting of to-day, in this place, and in great haste 1 take the first opportunity of giving . you an ,account of it. Every one was in readi ness to suppress rioting. A troop of Hussars ar ' lived this morning from Ayr, those stationed here having been called to Paisley at the beginning of the week.. The constables were convened in the Town-Hall, where the. Magistrates and Justices of the - Peace were assembled. After deliberating, they came to the determination, if no violence was offered, or if decorum was not violated, that .they should allow the people to meet and say what they chose, and that if flags with seditious inscriptions should be displayed, they had persons to note them do - .7n, and, if reprehensible, to bring the beavers atttrwar;ls to account for so doing. It is well there was no occasion for the inter ference of the Public Authorities, for the much feared Kilmarnock Meeting of Radicals has just turned out what I suspected--a quiet, peaceable assembly. The Cammitree, about half-past 12, %vent nut on the Newmilos-road, to meet their ft ieads from that quarter, and in a short time they enteted the town, to the number of sox or seven hundretl,in a very orderly manner, without music, and no flag was to he seen ; instead of these, manv of them had Scotch thistles placed in their hats_. They went up to the ground, ,when the business of the day was commenced at the ap pointed hour, one. From the flattering appearance of their good conduct, numbers of respectable persons and cou :ables went up to zee what the Meeting was like, aed at the ditinea. hour, with three or four Gentlemen, I walked that length. We were agree ably surprised at the peaceable spirit which seemed to reign among them. • It was any thing but a great Meeting, as I have seen more persons at tent 7 preaching in the neighbourhood of Glasgow , . There might be from 1,500 to 2,000 persons, as near as I can guess. The person who was addres sing the Meeting while I there, gave a pitiful account of the times, in rather an eloquent manner. Most of the speeches were violent, however, thoogh containing a variety of melancholy truths. It is very pleasing to the inhabitants of this place that they have behaved in such a manly, becom ing manner; indeed, to their credit, every Speaker invoked them to abhor. every thing . like riot and confusion, and to detest proceedings like those in Glasgow and Paisley, as ruining the cause of Reform. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. . . CONDUCT OF CONSTABLES.—J. Sims, one of the Night Constables of Farringdon-Within, was yes terday brought, to this Office upon the complaint of W. Randall and three other watchmen, for re fusing to perform his duty in taking a charge, and for otherwise misconduct ing himself in his office, on Tuesday night. Randall said . , that on the night mentioned, when going his rounds through Cheap side, lie saw a party of about six persons, appa rently gentlemen, assault two Quakers, who were peaceably walking together arm-in-arm. They knocked off their hats, which were of a brown co lour, commenced a cry of " Hunt for ever," and treated the Quakers in the most wanton manner. Witness went to the spot in order to put astop to the proceedings, when he was himself knocked down. Three other watchmen soon after came to his assist ance, but they Wer e qu i c kly l a id prostrate by the drunken Radicals. Atter a desperate resistance, however',4 of the party were secured and taken to the watch-house. Here the Quakers refused to give evidence, not only because it would be in opposi tion to their feelings, but that. they were com pelled to leave town for their residence in the country the following day . ; The complainant and his companions in vain urged a charge, and if the defendant refused to enforce this duty, there was at least sufficient evidence of complaint from them selves against the four Gentlemen. He however obstinately refused, and . not withstanding every re monstrance dismissed the four defendants. 11te 'Magistrate (Alderman J. J. SMITH) repro bated tlae conduct of Sims in warm terms, and said there was but too much reason to apprehend that the conduct of Constables of the Night was not removed very far from that too frequent sus picion which was applied to improper watchmen. The defendant, under the Act, was fined 20s, and Costs. HATTON-GAIUDEN. Yesterday Thomas Bucic, the driver of the Tot teridge stage-coach, appeared to a summons on an information under the Stage-coach Act, 50 Geo. 111. chap. 48, charging him with carrying more passengers than what the law allowed ou his stage. Though Buck tried much to evade the penalty by producing a false license, on the clearest and most satisfactory evidence he was convicted ,in the penalty of 201. and costs. It appeared that this conviction would not have been insisted on had not Buck, some few days ago, in coalition with a ragged wretch of an informer, of the name of John Masters, tesiding about Bethnal-green, and using Worship-street Office, informed against his own. friend before the Lord Mayor, for con niving at the offence, in order• to extort the penalty nf,501. in consequence of his friend (at his own Testiest) interfering with the real informer, in order to save him the penalty. After the convic tion, Buck publicly expressed much sorrow at his own treachery, saying, that since he informed against his friend he had had no rest, and when he gave evidence before the Lord Mayor he hated OLD BAILEY. At the opening of the Court yesterday mottling a great number of persons, principally females , were discharged out o f custo d y , t h e bill s aga in 4 them not having b een f oun d. Mrs. Miry Ridding, who was committed about three weeks back on t h e c h arge o f stea li ng a 60 belonging to a night Const a bl e , was t h en put tv the b ar, and arraig n ed among many - ot h er pri.• soners. During the ar r a i gnment she trembled ex -. ceedingly, and app eare d to l a b our un d er very stro ng emotions; she was dressed genteelly, and wore a large white veil ; she pleaded Nat Guiley, but W.l permitted to retire for some time till the pris o ners previously arraigned should have beets tried before ,the Common Serjeant. Her trial was ftxed• for this day. Michael Hayden was indicted for stealing from the person of George . Ebden a parcel of precioul stones, consisting of a ruby and some Itliquoisest valued altogether at 1001., on the 31st of Mal last, in the parish of Covent-garden. The pr" perty was clearly traced to the possession of the prisoner, hut there being no evidence to prove that he stole it from the person of the prosecutors he was acquitted. Samuel Shear Man was,intlicted for stealing, 0134 George Taylor for feloniously receiving, 1601 b. O lead, the - property of his Royal Highness the, Duke of Kent, front his house, near Abton, on the' 9th of July. Thomas Marnham saw the prisoner Shearmati, early in the morning of the day mentioned in the indictment, going towards London, leading an ase with panniers, which appeared to contain suing weighty article. He stopped with the ass at, Taylor's cott age , near Bayswater a man calla our, he could not swear that it was Taylor, anti assisted Shearman to take something out of the panniers, and carry it into the cottage. On his' way tO town witness met a constlhie, named Ed"' ward Cooper, whom he knew, and informed lino. of what he had seen. Edward Cooper deposed, that in consequene the informition he received from the last witness, be procured assistance and went- to Taylor's cot-. tage, where lie Wand a quantity of lead, but nei ther Shearman nor Taylor was there. As 'be witnesses were returning to town again, be wet the prisoners coming towards hint. The witness supposed they had left the cottage, and passed him on the road, while-he was gone in search of assistance. He asked Taylor how he had be• conic possessed of the lead ? He replied that he had bought it from a man named Bradshaw, and that it was some iron which Shearman had brought to his house that morning. The witness took theta into-custody, and they were examined before Magistrate ; but there being no proof of any dis' honesty on their part, they were discharged- About a fortnight after, however, It was :.';:;cover' ed that some lead had beets stripped from the roof of tue . Duke of Keot's premises, and that found 'in Taylor's possess:on corresponding io every respect with the parts uncovered, the psi" soners were again apprehended. Bradshaw, the man from whom Taylor said be had received the lead, contradicted that part of: his testimony. The ease for the prosecution being closed, the. prisoner's Counsel objected that the Christie(' names of the prosecutor were not mentioned in the indictment, but only his title of dignity. rag a Recorder overruled thi s o bj ect i on , an d d ec id e s that it was sufficient for the title of a Peer to he mentioned. Shearman called no witnesses. Mrs. Bear, of Margaret-street, Cavendish' square, said, she had known the prisoner T a ylor for nine years, during which time he always bore a most excellent character. Several other wit' nesses gave him a good character for honesty•-" After a short deliberation, the Jury found both the prisoners Guilty, but recommended Taylor to mercy. . • Timothy Leary, aged 17, was convicted of be` ing committed a burglaiy in the house of the Reo• !)r. Stephens, on the 29th August last, and 0 I having stolen t►terefrom three coats, and $O silver spoons. METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL. BY R. BANKS. PHILOSOPHICAL INSTRUMENT MAKBR. Thermometer. I Weather. _ do • ~.: • i ti Z,',,-; ... tzio.: . • 71 ?. ? 'i' l • ;',"- •-- ',••;• .r.• bn -i ,t.: ..tS ,E . 6*-• re.• 4 4 .... --: ca Z .•-• z" v) ,::: 0 .,. = --_______........... S ept. ~) 0 0 0 Inches 15 62 66 7-2 55 30.03 .32 Fair Rain 14 56 55 GO 44 29.82 .03 Rain Fai r 17 52 55 61 52 30.05 Fair Cloud: 18 57 56 67 32 .22 Do. Do. 19 56 54 GO 46 .19 Do. Fair 20 55 53 6{ 46 .35 Do. ' Do. 21 .55 54 61 47 .50 Do. Do. ' .35 hundredths of aft inch have fatless in the week. BIRTHS. . At Dartmouth, on Wednesday last, the Lady of J. 13 i- ; Smith, Esq. of a son. On the tad ult., at Lisbon, Lady Buchan, of a son. MARRIED. Yesterday at Marylehone Church, Lionel John William Manners, Esq. eldest sun of Sir William Manners, Bart. of,- Buchminster Park, Lincolnshire, to Maria Elizabeth, daughter of S. Toone, Esq. of Keston Lodge, Kent. DIED. Wednesday, at Barley Wood, near Bristol, aged 72, Martbot the benevolent sister of the justly celebrated Mrs. Hannah .. • More. On Sunday, the 19th inst., at Worthing, in the 74th Ye 4r of his age, James Gunter, Es q ., o f E ar l' s - court, Old Brame ton : he expired in a fit of apoplexy as he was retiring fr ° ' - ' his family to bed. On the 20th inst., suddenly, Frances, the wife of Cba rle . i Purton Cooper, Esq., of Lincoln' s -i nn , an d e ld est d a ughto . of Richard Battye, Esq., of Hampstead. . •-t LONDON: Printed hyJ. B. CARSTAIRS, o f N o. 29; Gre''‘, Ormond-street, Qu ee n- s q uare; an d pu bli s h ed b y W. t-;„ SCRIPPS, of No. 7, South Me.iton-street, at THE B°. , Office, No. 112, Strand ; where A4ertisenients y 014 r al " Letters, Mr. (post-paid) must be ad,lri7i9d. ~' t ~~ 4; 4 4 , I rta , 4e 1011 %At "ii4j Litt( au, .1-14 , I .1 .!'ii s ic 91a • 4 v *at