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MANCHESTER, J. w. 19. [From The Exchange Herald, Man,dxster.l it will be seen from a correspondence (Vide ` ] . ttr SUN of the 13th inst) between a gentleman of his town ;ind the celrbrat ed Mr.llunt, of Bristol, Westminster, COventry, anti Spa-fields' memory, that the trestion of the Corn Bill has been made a " , talkit , g horse" (as our Co,respondent Quiz Las it, in his " Doggrel Translation,") for other purposes. It appears from tl+e advertise ment which has railed a public meeting, that tttudication been made to the Borough reeve and Constables to convene one for tie PurPode of discussing the question, whether i• would be proper to petition the House of Commons for the immediate repeal of the Corn Bill ? The municipal authorities, aware that some thing more was meant than met their ears, and that the question of the Corn Laws was solicited to fur nish a pretence for the discussion of other sub jects, declined the measure. Subsequent circum stances have proved that their judgment was cor rect ; and whatever may be their private opinion as to the Corn Bill, they are certain that the re quisition was, at least, ill-timed. In proof of this, we need only mention the circumstance of a stranger, who can have no possible interest with the town, having been formally invited to at tend the meeting ; a person too who is scouted by ail parties,—by Ministers and by the Opposi tion,—by Whigs and by Tories, —by Reformers and Anti-Reformers ;—a person, who, in the midst of his indignation against the House, which, in his reply to Mr. Whitworth, he libel lonsly calls " a corrupt and packed assembly, im podently and falsely denominated the House of Commons," has again and again essayed to be cwne one of its body ! and again and again been plainly told, 11 the paucity of the votes be was able to obtain, that there was too much good sense h-ft in the heads of the Electors of Wee minster, and Coventry, and Bristol, to stifle; him to be their Bvpresentative. Yet this man las been jo t it e d to make a journey of more then two hin d milts, to enlighten the darkness which per vades this town, and to officiate in the place of pinurmond, and Johnston, and Baguio?, who ate cruelly debarred from the satisfaction of increas ing., or, the still greater enjoyment of creating dissatisfaction. Hence these persons would have bail a claim to be heard nn a question so inte ttresting as the Corn Bill, if that, and that only, wet e to he discussed, at a meeting called for the purpose, in a town in which they resided; but Mr. Hunt can have no legitintatt-, no lawful, no plausible reason for coining so far from home, to it place, where, in every thing but in character, we believe him to be an entire stranger. ‘Ve must confess we are too fastidious to be pleased vrith itinerant patriotism. We are so well aware, and so well sati , fied, that the Commons of Great Britain are better, and more fully, and more fairly represented, at the present moment, than they ever were at any former period (for amelioration has been gradual and progressive from the first dawn of our Constitution), that we cannot con- template, without disgust, the conduct of a man who takes upon himself, not only to he the mouth-piece of his own village, or neighbour hood, or county, but aspires to become the oracle of every place where he can find a diversity of opinion ;—as if lie, and he only, possessed Con stitutional knowledge;---as if he, and be only, was actuated by public virtue. And yet this man, who was despised and shunned not only by the persons who composed the majority in the last Parliament, but by the Opposition—by the late, the lamented Sir S. Romillv.—by Mr. Brougham, —by Sir F. Burdett,—by the popular, twice elected Lord Mayor,---and, in short, by every public man, who has any regard for himself ; for such act upon principles which influenced the Poet of Liberty (as Thomson has often been called) when he wrote - " Toss'd by serious passions To this diet nal anchor keep—fliere is, Can be no without private virtue." Yet this man is selected from the twelve millions of inhabitants of this island, to come a stranger amongst us, to tell us we•are badly governed, and to convince us of the cupidity of our Rulers ! [Here follows the first extract which we gave yesterday.l The scaffolding was then taken possession of by Mr. Hunt, and a number of persons, com pared with whom, he himself—though his ap pearance has not unaptly been compared to that, of a cow-jobber—looked something like a gentle man,. Amongst them, we understand, were Alitchel, Saxon, Knight, and Ogden, whose ora torical powers had been all heard upon the same ground previously to the famous Blanket match. Orator Knight, we understand, opened the busi uess of the day, by moving that '' Allister Hunt" take the Chair, which ►was (we suppose it will be stated unanimously) agreed to—for many held up their hands in support of the motion—though ten times a 5 many stood neater, being spectators from mere curibsii y. The great man then took off his hit for a mo ment, and bowed, graciously, to the crowd, which no doubt he thought were ready to fall down and worship him as the Saviour of his Country ; and he thanked them for the honour they had done him, in the ihvitation they had sent him ; that he said was their first favour ; he then thanked them for their second favour-that of elevating him to the high honour of being - - , the Chairwau at such a meeting. He then pro ceeded to s►ate, that it was the intention of the managers of the meeting to submit a petition in the first place, which he advised them to reject tvish disdain—and a remonstrance, which he advi*ed them to adopt and inforce. He inter larded his inflammatory harangue with libellous invectives against the House of Commons, al though, with much tautology, he pretended to decline taking any part in the discussion of the Question, but to confine himself to the duties of a Chairman', till all his friends, and all their op poneuts, it such would come forward, had p ok when be said be should come forward again hiMseli. Mr. Knight was the next speaker, but if we were ever so much inclined to report the speeches deliveted at the meeting, it would be impossible — `tor none but a voice like allistei l Hunt's could be 'heard at many yards distance, in the open air, on :so windy a day.—Several other persons afterwards spoke ; and soon after one o'clock, just as the Chairman wag about to commence another ha rangue, the scaffolding gave way, and planks and orators all came tumbling down together, af fording a lessOn to them, if they had hat under standing to take it, to look well at home, before .they set about reforming the State. The mishap we have recorded, which, we are happy to add, did not do much personal injury •to any one, reduced the Orators to a diletnnia, from which they were not soon released.—Mister Hunt however, recollecting his former situation in Spa Fields, espying the sign of the Windmill near the ruins of his late elevation—sans cere»zonie, went io, walked up stairs, threw up a sash, and was about to addiess his auditors trona the window — but the landlord, reminding hint that .his house was licensed for the sale of ale, and not to have 'sedition preached from it, very properly took him by the arm, and turned him into the street. There was then no alternative but waiting till the scaffolding was again erected ; and in a little more than three quarters of an hour this was ef fected ; and the soi-disant Patriots renewed their taboo's. Mister Hunt, iwwever, suffered his col leagues to take the lead on the new erection; about three o'clock, Mr. Saxton was speaking ; and he was followed by Ogden, who laboured in vain to make himself heard. At four o'clock the different motions which had been made were all disposed of, and "Mister Hunt" (Cleary, " we thank thee for teaching us that word") concluded the " labour of his lungs" by hoping he should never forget the glories of the day. What. those glories were, we have yet to learn, as well as the resolutions which were passed ; but as they were all public, we expect they will all in due time he published, as well as the toasts Which were used at the dinner to which Mister Ihmt w•rts invited, and to which be wits drawn by a ftw poor deluded people ; the pro cession passing from the scaffold, in the same or der in which it came, through Mosley-street and Maritet-street., arain stopping at the Exchange door, where the scene acted in the morning was repeated ; the man evidently wishing to insult a class of society for ranking above that by which he was surroonded, amongst which not one re. spectable person could be recognized. After staying a few minutes in this situation, the pro cession moved through the Market-place and Old Milgate to the Spread Eagle in Hanging Ditch, where tl►e public dinner was provided, at, which the invited guest was announced as the President I and where no doubt he would exert himself in making his luviters " heartily welcome to drink their own wine." [Here follows the last extract which we gave yesterday.] WEST KENT QUARTER SESSIONS. (From The Maidstone Journal of the lath inst.) The Quarter Sessions for the Western Division of this co unty commenced on Thursday last, when the Right Hon. the Earl of ROMNEY an nounced his resignation of the important situa tion of Chairman; which his Lordship had so ably filled for nine years. His Lordship's ad dress to the Court on this occasion speaks more fully than any language of ours could possibly ex press, and will be read with the most lively inte rest and feeling by the county at large. Charge delivered to the Grand Jury at 4be Quarter Sessions for the Western Division of the County of Kent, by the Right Hon. the Earl of Romney, Chairman, Jan. 14, 1819 : " Gentlemen of the Grand Jury, " During the period of nine years that I have had the honour of presiding in this Court, it has never- been my custom, in delivering a charge to t he Grand July, to address any observations to them except on matters which are shortly to come under their immediate notice ; and I have been guided in this, by the consideration, that there Can be no objects which require the,attention of a Gland Jury at the Quarter Sessions, but such as immeiiately apply to them in that capacity, and therefore that the introduction of any other matter tends only to waste their time and to dis. tract their attention. " I should not on the present occasion, which is probably the last of my addressing a Grand Jury, have been disposed to depart from my usual practice, hut I feel that I should not discharge my duty, if I did not advert to what has happened at the last Quarter Sessions for the County of Hants ; and here I trust that you will give me credit for an unwillingness to notice what passes in another Court, and that you will believe that I would not in this place remark on any thing which passed in that Court, relating to the county of Hants ; the late proceediog, hoWever, to which I have alluded, relates so immediately to the county of Kent, is of such a nature, and has been so widely circulated, that I feel bound to take this public notice of it. r • " Gentlemen, the paragraph that I am about to read to you appeared in the County Chronicle, of November 3, and has probably fallen under the observation of some of you, my authority rests only oollie publicity which this statement has acquired, and on IV fact that no contradiction of it has, as tar as 1 know, ever yet appeared. It is entitled ' Prisons,' and proceeds as follows : " < The new rules and regulations for the Go vernment of the County Jail and Bridewell of Hants, 133 in number, and which provide for the due inspection of the prisons, and proper classifi cation and employment of the inmates, were agreed to at the late Quarter Sessions.---A drop for the execution of criminals is to be built over the jail, and the chapels new built or repaired.— Sir Thomas Baring, .who was Chairman of the Committee for these improvements ) adverted to . the structure of some prisons, which, be said, in stead of being loathsome dungeons were built like palaces. He had always understood that it was generally admitted that vice should be concealed from public view ; but the exterior of these build ings would signify that instead of being ashamed of vice, they gloried in their shame. In older to illustrate this, he would instance the prison re cently, erected at Maidstone, which had cost the enormous sum . , of 250,0001. ; 7,5001. of which had been expended on a vortal 1 . 1 This instance was sufficient to establish the tact, that it bad been forgotten that prisons ought to be places of reform, and not of comfort. This ought to make us extremely cautious, while health and reform are the chief objects of our prisons, that we do not make them the receptacles of parishes and workhouses.'—On this authority I have seen that other Newspapers have assumed the accuracy of these facts, viz. that the New Prison for this county has cost 250,0001., of which sum, there has been expended on a Portal the sum of 7,5001. " Gentlemen, though no man is less an enemy to fair discussion than myself, and particularly on this subject, yet, I am happy to say, the time for argument is now passed ; it is now brought to the sure test of experience, and I claim no credit or favour on the part of the Bench and of myself for our proceedings in this matter, but willingly sub -mit our conduct to this only sure criterion. " Gentlemen, I should not have thought it ne cessary to enter much at large into this subject, if an accusation had been brought forward, rest ing only on the opinion of Sir Thomas Bating, but it appears from the extract which I stave read to you, that he has laid down the grounds of this charge by stating what Prisons should, and what they should not be ;—that they should be places of health and reform, but not of comfort ; that they should not be built like palaces ; and as a case, at variance with this sound view of the subject, be brings forward our New Prison in the terms already quoted. " Gentlemen, the objects which this Court had in view, in the establishment in question, were security and health, together with ample means for the classification of prisoners ; the best provision Ow could be made, for such a variety of employment as should ensure a supply of la bour to every prisoner on whom it could be by law enforced, or whose feelings could be excited to the voluntary performance of it ; and above all, the strictest attention to the improvement of their moral habits ; and with all this, such an attention to their comfort as their health might fairly re quire. Whether we have succeeded in these'ob jects experience must determine. " The principal ground of the attack is laid, by an assumption, that the total cost of the Prison is 250,0001. of which 7,500/. has been expended on a Portal ; in answer to which, 1 have directed Mr. Alexander, the Architect of the Prison, to make the following extracts from our books :—There has been expended, • L. r. d. For the Purchase of Land For Law Charges Making a total on that bead of /.10,442 7 2 A large portion of which sum was paid on the verdict of a Jury, one - of the members of which I now see among_you. the remainder of the ex pences mei) , he shortly comprised under the fol lowing items : L. s. d. Oists of Building in every part, includ ing Management, viz. Architect's Com - mission, Resident Superintendance, and Measurer Making a Total of To which must be added from 10,000/. to 12,0001. which will still be necessary to complete the works, the chief part of which are now finished, but not paid for. " Gentlemen, I do not know whether Sir. Thomas Baring meant, in the latter part of his sta:ement, to allude to a Portico, of a plan for which much has been said, but which was never proposed for the Prison, but for a Court House, and never adopted by the Court for any situation, and which consequently does not exist ; or to the Porch which has been erected in the front of the centre building that contains the Chapel and Keeper's House ; if to the latter, the sum which be mentions is about fourteen times as large as that which has been expended, viz. 5161. With regard to his statement of the whole expence in crored, it exceeds the amount of what has been already paid, and of what remains due, by about 57,0001. " From these facts, Gentlemen, it must be evi dent to you, that Sir Thomas Baring has been gr e atly misinformed ; if indeed he bad merely stated his own opinion to be, that the county of Kent had expended an enormous sum of money on the erection of a prison, I should not have de layed you, while I entered into the above parti culars ; hut as this charge appears to rest 'on what might be presumed' to be an accurate detail of facts, I should have been wanting in the duty Which I owe to this Court, with whom the mea sure originated, and by whom the execution of it was long superintended ; to the Court of Gene ral Session for the whole of this County, under whose direction the works have been for some years catried on ; in that which I am nOsv dis charging towards you, Gentlemen ; and indeed in that which I owe to myself, who have the honour to be the Chairman of both the Courts which I have named ; if I had not publicly shewn the in accuracy of Sir I:homas Baring's charge, by a full and detailed statement of the real facts of the case. s' Gentlemen, the sum which has been expend ed is indeed large ; but if, as I confidently affirm, utility and not ornament has been the object kept in view, and economy has been consulted through out ; the necessity for so large an expenditure, at the same time that it must be lamented, cannot, I thAnk, be denied. It will, I fear, resolve itself into the melancholy fact, of which the prisons of this county now afford a striking proof, that the increase of crime, and consequently of prisoners, is such, as renders it probable that even the pro vision here made for their confinement will be found scarcely adequate to the purpose for which it is designed. • " Such, Gentlemen, being the facts, can it be said that we have been guilty of a lavish expen diture, when the only objects that we have hid its view are security, health, reform, and the best means of enforcing industry among the prisoners, Where we have the power, and of encouraging it where we can do po more. " lf, after this statement, any difference of opinion should exist, let experience determine the question ; if the resuls should not do justice to our expectation no man will be more ready than myself to allow that the correctness of our judg ment has not been equal to the goodness of our intentions; but it must at all events be unjust, A that a statement like that in question shnul"'o' ll o . been made, and censure pronounced on the Al gistrares of this County, in a place wher e party censured had not tire means of a rePlY' as. ' - 5 ., less its accuracy had first been most carefully.ti certained.rags Gentlemen, the present calendar nothing out of the commou.coprse of , yoor (WWl' but if any difficulty should occur, the. Co'rt be ready to give you every assistance power; it exhibits, however, I ant sor ry' t° 11 , 11 1 1; another proof, if such were wanting, tha t 'bit estimate of the number of prisoners likely t°" confined is rather below than above the truth.' After his Lordship had concluded his cbarg i e ,„af the Grand Jury, the Court adjourned to th e Inn, for the purpose of chusing a Chairman i° t„0. room of his Lordship, when the choice fell Thomas Law /lodges, E'q. The business .° , l " ;l# 4 Sessions was then resumed at the COlirt " 8 of which has occupied theatteniion of ,the ever since, and the Sessions are not expectOdo' terminate till this evening ; he ()mot Cal e° contained 107 prisoners for trial. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, Jim 20. , as k The LORD CHANCELLOR this day again Pre ll a, in his Private Chamber at Lincoln's Jon His Lordship came at eleven o'clock, a nti - 06 ' occupied till two in the hearing of motions, 0°.e.,, of which exhibited any feature in the least it' resting, save to the parties concerned. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, JAN. 20. The VLCE•CHANCELLOR came into Court a t se t o'clock, and proceeded to hear the causes Ili down for hearing this day. , They were devod of interest to a general reaaer, eonsi sti r . principally rat cases that have been aired) ? ; l e gued, and now came before the Court utic'l‘c-' Guns and demurrers. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JAN. 24* COOPER V. 'SIR GEORGE ROBINSON, BAit t ' This was an action against the defenda nt ' to representative of the late Sir George Robios °9 o 'eft. recover damages for injuries sustained by b o re ool• of agreement. The tbmages were laid tt t e ' r „,ilf It appeared that Sir Geerge Robinson's 16 7 0 ,;(s• had held certain property upon Tower-hi ll : d i o f. the reign of Charles the Second; it was be l o w .. lease from the Crown. In 1789, Sir G. 11 °, 41 4 , son granted a portion of his property CO - 00 lessee for eighty years, 'but as the lease from ,et Crown had not so long to run, he engage d t° rbe it renewed. The sub-lessee disposed of i t t° os, plaintiff, who extended considerable sums on 0 premises. The period of the lease from the C , r %ot expired in 1809, and as Sir G. Robinson di(' of get it renewed, the plaintiff was turned on cc , possession. He sustained a loss in conseq ue n li g er amounting to 9201., which he sought to (no., by this action. The defence was, that Sir biuson, in pursuance of his agr,eeruent to elv er . your to get the lease renewed, made even' es ai e. lion by petition and otherwise for that pu r l ) o f The Crown would only consent to grant a 11 , - 0 , lease on condition that he pulled down the boos //- and rebuilt thern upon a plan rocire'benefieisi the health and convenience of the public. A a't pliance.with those conditions would have matl e 'a necessary to pull down the plaintiff's . house, s fi he could not have teceived the le as t benefit Se, veral witnesses proved the fact s , an d t h e Les r°- 0 Judge was of opinion that the plaintiff could support his action. He was accordinglY suited.—(Morning Post.) Cof.l. MARKET, 4NUARY 20. Ships at Market. Ships sold. Price' A SI i Newcastle . ...20 .37s J. to 446. 0 3 Sunderland ...' - .355. 3d. to 425. Ok 4 Elgin Main Coal. i .. . 31s. od. to ---_,....00,,' BIR'l H. On the 2d ult., at Teneriffe, the lady of Gilbert t',Satrail Bruer, Esq., his Majesty's C onsu l-G e n e ral fur the Islands, of a son. MARRIED. 4 NIP On Wednesday morning, at St. 'Martin's, Ludgaiiii Henry Wilkinson, of Ludkatc-hill, to Miss Margaret ball Campion, of Islington. DIED. IslA rf t " ! At Hinton St. George, in Somersetsbire , on Thtirl"-,' Pits r" Earl Paulet : the Noble Lord, on the pieceding eveli'; t directed the horses to beput to the post-chariot early 0 ; next day. At five o'clock in the morning, the Cocotte° alarmed by the sudden indisposition of the Earl t e r jo.„ seized with an apoplectic fit, and never spo ke after fired, His Lordship lingered until 11 at night, when h e exVir f r the 63(.1 year of his age. b On the Stli inst., of a paralytic stroke , in her 50 Phillis, wife of Mr. William Brooks, of Paddington. per lt ; 011 Saturday, the 16th instant, at Chudleight sq , shire, Margaret, wife of Benjamin Le Ws:trace, of Hackney. PROVINCIAL BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND 1 )t " imerns. f Lately, the Lady of Dr. Christopher Alde rson, 0 a son. At Kilbagie, Scotland, on the 14th inst. Mrs. Stein; of HARRIED. Lately, Mr. Robert Bennett, to Harriet, daughter°l. 619 late Mr. Joseph Make, of Netherthorpe, Yorkshire. ..01,00 Lately, Mr. Wm. Biggcn, of Bradway, Yorkshire' A. Swinden, of Little Sheffield. bo th Lately, Mr. James Barnes to Mrs. John VarleY, Stanningley. Yorkshire. gi ss Lately, Mr. Francis Johnson , of Harrogate, t° Whitehead, of the Promenade Inn there. Charl" On the 12th inst. Ospringe, Kent, Mr. sons to Miss Ellinor Blaxland. DIED. On the 18th inst. at Martrate,MissSarah Edwards, daughter of Captain John Edwards, R.N. On Tuesday se'imig,ht, Mr. Wm. Tidswell , of Sh 4 On Monday se'nnight, Mr. Holt, of Sbeffield• Monday se'nuight, Thirsk, Yorkshire, Williant " Esq. solicitor. of t" Same day, at Gainsbro', Yorkshire , M r . J. Maw, 006 Society of Friends. , ghtt Lately, after a short illness, Mr. Thomas nli t e ' t s ell► Sandal, Yorkshire. His death was caused by a sligi'lrarli‘ on his leg, which brought on an inflammation in th e his body. A O l e On the Bth inst. in the Workhouse at Rotherfie'''sile‘ Hannah Maynard, aged 100 years and five months• tained her faculties until the day before her death. ,liibrm At Edinburgh, on the Bth instant, Mr. Day ld rinser. Gf e LONDON: Printed by J. B. CARST AIRS, of 1` , 19. 19 ' Or. 1 '; Ormond-street, Queen-square; and .pulAished SCRIVPS, of No. 7, South Molton-street, at 930," Office, No. 112, Strand ; where Advertiserno tl i Letters, &c, (post-paid) must be aldresicd. / , 1 ~d ~r~ ~t~