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~~~~1~ i~tL~j~CJ. WU., SEPT. B.—Arrived the Venerable, liex *ETr, from Greenland, 8 fish, 300 nuns, and Ellison, JonNsoN, from ditto, fi-sh, 53 butts. LIYERPooL, DEPT. 8.-i—The Waterloo, HeP 1tt711147, from Madras tn't this port, arrived off the Cape of Good Hope the 21st June. Arrived his 14 1ajesty's ship Trinune from the Irish station.— The Amity, for New York, was spoken with the 21st ult. in let. 42 5 long. 36. 30. out 20 days. The Rebecca, Sins, for Philadelphia, was spoken with the 29th tilt. in lat. 44. long. 33. out 10 (lays. FALMOUTH, SEPT. 7.—ArriTed the Walden, CRots,EB, from the Canaries, in 38 days, with loss of sails and 'op-mast, S milefi the Prince, BKAITH- WAITe, for Mirtonichi, and Ann rilexAnder, HoL.- LA D, for London. Idaawicit, SEPT. 9 —Arrived several vessels u'ith sores belonging to the snow George, of shields, lio vtcT STFPNENSON, Master, from North Shields, with a cargo of conk, wrecked on the Gunfleet Sand. Arrived the Ergle Revenue cruiser, Lion'. EDE, Commander, with ei vessel called the Good Intent, of Dover, under seizure, for havinf!, on b , lard a contraband cargo, consist japof 100 casks of spirits, and a quantity of dry DEAL, SEPT. 9.—Arrived the Mercury, ALLEN, front the South Seas, and sailed for the River, and Jugeberg, JORDT,. frrifil St. Croix, Bud sailed for Copenhaarn. Sided this morning a great pars. 'of the out ward-boutid—particuldrs unknown. P ORTsMOUTII, SFPT 9 —Caine into harbour Nlhjes , v'q Yl,ip l'haetto ) , to refit. Sailed the liawker, WHITE, tor Qnt hrc ; Skiers, ARLE, 10 1 . The 80sitii Seas ; Co,ftlopolite, HoLLAND, for r'e: burn ; Loyal R it on, Rose, tor St. John's ; Charlotte, CLuvs. for, Bilboa ; and two itussian frigates, on a voyige of discovery. THE ARIIY. Part of ric e 201) Regiment, in the ship LYN , orrived ar &tint Helena in April, trout Irei4nd. 6The 19'h Regiment, now at the Island of Cey ,, is, it is said, to return immediately to Eng , land, t o t the . rr i va l o f t h e 45!h Regiment, To e 56111 Regiment is now quartered in the Isle . of Fran ce . Th e 19;11, 731, and 8341 Regiments are now tfnarter,d in the Island of Ceylon. The 73d is re urretl to be on the pOint of preiceediug to the Continent of India. The Ist and 2d Ceyl:in lle igtments are at ),re s ent in Ceylon ; where, by the • 148( accounts, tranquillity was considered as so completely restored, , iat all (he troops which had b 'eu Sent there from hacl rerulned, with the "ce.Ption part of the 59 , 1 i European Regiment. TheS2d Ree ,, nem; in four ., rlosporls, arrived l the Capt. of G ood H ope the beginning of May, on their way ' to t he I s l e of Frame, for whi c h Place they sailed front m S Yon's Bay a b out t h e 1 80 1 of May itudermand from good authority, that the tAill be called out for ooe month's trairlhig immediately after the 25th of - October Lev. Sit George Nugent, it is said, is appointed to. Ithect•ed Si, George Beckwith, as Ct'unmantl.er of the Forces t lanti. '1" ; le 3tCI will I t leave Dith-: .I fle for Ei):41,„(1 i,, the course of next month. 21,. Dragoons, now in India, are to be, •ahottly d.shanded. stThe 38,1, 8,,d - 701 Regiments are a t present tot ar onctl at the Calle of Good H o p e , un d er the !tintand of Colonels Miles and Monk ton. Five '11,,1)-thiesof the 72d.Regiment are at present in the itite,.,o„. where th e 54rIk “egimi m llt, omentarily exPe,:ted from Englaud, w ill lik ew i se proceed ou its 7eva • Two companies of the 38th Regiment :• ta:re proceeding to Algoa By, jin thvi- 01 1 Of t h e Army quartered on a to the fron o tiers, e where di cathes, or nati*e inhabitant s , h ave lately at 'eked the post of Graham's Town—t hree Coat. lll l tli e•etnb ar k e d i n the Golden Grove transport, r°ol Symon's Bay, . , 1 9 1\1 :') JOKING WITH AN EMPTY STOMACH. —The -.." 14giment of Lancers, now quartered in Ken snigtou barracks, were kept without their dinners, Ye t r , B "cloy, in consequence of the bali • r not appear 11n•,' the necessary supply of bread at the usual -He i 'l' wel ve o'clock was the hour iinmed 1 3Z, lll:e„vontract for the delivery, but he never , tittle ( a ppearance till after, seven, by which • al l the litingry warriors were become so ex : t Peraterl, that they caught the poor baker, and ~ ):48", hitt, ill a blanket for nearly half an hour, 3 ' c ' t a y of teachinv Lem poricronlitY• a ti""t-la S toNnoattn.—Upon the door of a house ear Bridoew t d. , 1 a lather and son, ti le co e , a er, °ten; t.. b y .., _ attet a rfner , a blacksmith and publican, th e . 1 . "etpis 4 signboard, 'Willi th e I o i lovi'l ,, g ill . ' 1 - rint' '. q • :---"- Bortiess and .'Son, bldeksinith and • i.4lber's work clone bete, horse slating at.d shay . t t l; l"cks mended, and hale ending, bleeding, art dr awing and alt other farriery work. All . Iti -ills of S pit atos lickars akording to the late co. • 6 teal (rely --Take nobs m AA lave • y wife keeps , kool, lii+ s tokes OS you shall ; !relies reading and r l ag and all other langwitche s ; and has a 510.4, l0 .4, 4orts, it required, to teach borritory, sow ,tiit. the mathematics, and all other_ fashionable tersions " 15,4 41elaticholy event lately occurred at Lyons :- 144-t*. the 29;h of August, during the re at of " The Death of Kleber," at the IVTIIic Circus, a glazier's wife, of the name of • tpl;rizot, was wounded by the goinc oii"f a ram 'qui)lt:..which one of the Voltigetits bad left impro , in bis find). She ivas wounded in seve• Itii.Prts of her face, and so dangerously, that she l " it but a short time. In the coninsinn 1)%11-1"11Y consequent to such an event, a great t ot t of the audience left' the house, but the per 4clauce WaS not interrupted. P 0 1$ T It V. tATUL.LUS, No. XXVd. 211inisfer retuti purr falerni Inger me calices amariores, ere. Boy who fill'st my goblet up, Pour me now a brimming cup; Pour it pure—for my Bacchante Will not hav , - them weak or scanty. Water off—of wine the bane, Off to, those of graver brain Those that never joke or laugh, This tiviue Baccnus self night UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. CAMBRIDGE, SF:PT. 9 —The Lord Lieutenant of this County (with the toprobation of his Royal iligl,ness the Prince Regent) has been !dame(' to appoint William Ilarlock, Esq. of Elr, and Thomas Granger, Esq. of Stretham, to be Deputy Lieutenants for the Isle of Ely. The Rev. James Newsam, B. A. of Christ College, 11,4 s .been nominated by the Dean and Chap!er of Ripon to the perpetud curacy of Viteley, Yorkshire, in the room of the Rev. Wm. Neesou►. The Rev. G. Kelly has been presented to the Vicarage of tVitherowick, Yorkshire, vacant by the death of ale Rev. J. Clarke. - - - - SPORTING IN I'ELLIGN,NCE. BELTING It( ST. L , OM, SEPT. 9. GER. 14 to I agst The Laird 16 to Cardinal Wulsey 17 to 1 Sliaroroc s l 9,t) to I -- Slortinier. 8 to I agst Lisette tif to I —gotta!) 9 to 1 Sir Walter 12 to 1 Arico!a 13 to I Archibald GneaT PertvonmANce.—The match between a brown mare belonging to Mr. Isaacs, and a Juni per horse the property of a Mr. Martineau, fur 200 g►rineas, and which had excited mulch sport ing interest, took place yesterday on the Barking road. The match was to do sixty miles, and to carry 3st. each. The animals kept together the first 16 miles, which was performed within an hour. At 22 smiles the Mare was halted to wash her mouth, and the horse went on and led her about a mile. At the 40 miles both were together again and bits were drawl, after performing the distance in two bouts and 13 minutes. 'The mare began to flag in the 56th mile, after a sharp race of six miles tor the lead, rind in the 57t11 mile she was pulled up, the horse being nearly a mile a-bead. The horse did the ground, and won in four hours and 16 minutes. An extraordinary bet of 50 guineas has hee'n decided by two Gentlemen of St. Colntob, one of whom undertook to run a velociped e from that pace to Liskeard, a distance of 26 miles, in four hours. Not‘vithstandiug the badness of the road, whicl► cJused the machine to move very heavily, he won his wager, by performing the journey 21 minutes within the time,.with perfect ease. Ttitt THEATRE —Mr. Pint-11 , es, Who acquired considerable reputation as an Actor nod a Musical Perrnrmer, at English Opera-house, and who has since visited America, appeared last night at Covet'', Garden Theatre, in the character of Count Be in the Opera of The Devil's Bridge. Mr. Pritt,tp,r , i does not appear to be altered since he. left this country, except that his•voice seems to be stranger. He acted with the same good sense for which he was alisays distinguished, and sung with tas'e, correctness, and effect. lie was re markably well received on his entrance, and be Excited much applause during his performance. Mrs. DICKoNS also, in Rosa Mina, experienced a very favourable reception, and highly gratified . the audience by h er mus i ca l exertions. DURUSET, as Florian, amply shared in pon;alar favour, and the comic chiracters were well supported by FAWCETTHiId BLANCEIARD. The Duke aod Duchess ot KENT, accompanied by . Made moiselle de SPADHT, General WETHER ALL, and Captain CONR.Y, honoured the pertor mances at the English Opera Howse last night, and with which their Royal Highnesses appeared much, pleased. Hereford Music Meeting• commenced on Tues day, under auspices equally gratityiug and pleas ing, and the company arrived is already numerous and highly respectable. The Cathedral was com pletely crowded. The Sermon was preached by the Rev, Dr. CLUTTON, one of the Stewards the Rev. Gentleman chose his text from 211 Kings, 4th chap. Ist verse, anti in a discourse of energetic eloquence, which commanded the deepest atten tion, ably advocated the cause of the widow and the fatherless. The collection at the church-door was upwards of 2301.- being considerably larger than any former one received on the first day.— The Concert in the evening, at the New Shire ball, was as fully attended as we ever remember on the first night. MARRIED. On ;the 9th instant, at Trinity Church, Colchester, by th e Rev. Auclr ew S Kostemar., Captain Dickens, of the Royal Navy, soil of Major-General I)ickeus,•of the Royal Engineers, to Isabella, second datighter of Benjamin Craven, Eiq. Yesterday. at St. Marylehone Church, loy the Rev. Dr. Drake, George Henry Cherry, Esq., of Gloucester-place, to Charlotte, second dauzliter of the late Charles Drake Gar. rard, Esq., of Lamer, Herts. On the nth inst., Edmond Edmondson, Esq., of Old Gravel laile, St. George, Middlesex. Ori the 7th inst.., in the Minories, Mrs. Ann ClarL, aged 79, late of Lawrence-Po:intent:y-lane. Suddenly, on Mondity forenoon, by a stroke of apoplexy, Mr. James Nland, of Water-lane, Tower-street, principal doe!: clerk and cellarman in the wine husinebs to Alderman 01 Thursday last, at the advanced age of A 2 years, Mrs. Weeks, midwife, of Exeter, and also to the Exeter Lying-in Charity.—She followed her avocations almost to the livt ; was the mother of twenty-boo children, all of whom were baptized; and had attended at the delivery of more than eleven thousand infants. She evinced much skill and huma nity in her prof ess i on , an d was hi gh l y valued and esteemed by her nomerpus employers, by whom her death will be must severely felt. Lately, at Down St. Mary, Devon, %lllllam Tucker, Esq. aged 79 years.—He has bequeathed almost the whole of Isis property (little short of one hundred thousand pounds) to his relatives. His tenantry 1441 , 4 to lainvta the loss of a most exccllent COMMON COUNCIL. A Court of Common Council was yesterday held at Guildhall, in pursuance of 't Requisition, si-_:ned by several Members of the Color, for the purpose of taking into consideration mhe Conduct of the Magistrates end Yeomanry Cavalry of Manchester. At half -past &even o'clock, the avenues. to the Council Chamber were completely filled by individuals noxious to hear the debate. A few minetes before twelve o'clock the doors were thrown open, but there was not space suf ficient to contain more than half of the-candidates for admittance. The Loan MAYOR took the Chair precisely at twelve o'clock, and some routine business having been dispatched, his Lordship rose and said— " Gentlemen, i hold this Court to-day in con- Sequence Of a lietplisition I have received, signed by selveral Members of the Court. I bold it, Gentlemen, with great reluctance—because, I think ,wheneVercrimes have been committed, or are alleged to have been committed, in any part - of the country, they ought to be referred to the pro per tribunal, before whom the necessary evidence shall be laid, in order to come to a correcr judg ment, instead of discOssing then here or else where. • Thi s i s my own opinion, and it lots el ways been thought highly improper to take a course which would seem to prejudge question on which another tribunal was to decide. I, how ever, how to the wishes of those who signed the Requisition, and I now leave the Question in the bands of the Court. They will dispose of it as they Shall see fit." The Requisition having been read, Mr. Alderman WAITHMAN opened the debate, by regretting that the task of bringing it forward had fallen on him. He then proceeded in sub stance as follows :—My Lord Mayor, there are some difficulties thrown in the way of discussion on this occasion, which appear to me to be very unusual. Wcause I ever understood it to be the characteristic of a Chairman to act merely in an official capacity—to summon public meetings, when so reqmiested--but to take no part whatever in the discussion which may ensue ; and this is the first time since 1 had a seat in this Court (a period of three or tour-and -twenty years) that I have heard the Chief Magistrate state opinions from the Chair, in order to influence the decision of the Court in its proceedings. But I do con fidently feel that this Court will act on its own unbiassed opinion and impression —that it will maiatain i:s own character and its own dignity— and not allow its decision to be warped or influ enced from one quarter or another. The present discussion has sprung fro m a wound ieflieted on the Constitution of the Country—on that Consti tution in the preservation of which every indivi dual is interested ; and it is the duty of those Who are so interested, without reference to any set of men, strongly to express their opinions, without endeavouring to prejudge or prejudice any case hereafter to be decided. It is tor all public bo dies to make a solerne appeal to the feelings of the country, and to call for a toll inquiry into those atmocities, which are unequalled in the History of Bog laud. My Lord, it appear's from every account that has reached the' public ear—even froth the Ministerial Organs themselves—that the Meeting at Manchester was legally assem bled, that their proceedings bad been peace ably conducted, that they,hati been dispersed by a military force, and that defenceless and unoffend ing individuals were trampled to death, while other s were cut down by the . sabl'e, in cold blood. It appeared that men, 'women, and children, tot able to escape flout the assailants, were destroyed, though ionocent of any offence. If ally Gentle man can shoW me a precedent for such pro ceeding in the history of ILOgland, Ushould he anxious to examine it; for I confess that, at pre sent,. I know of none. Here . ] must say, that it is not necessary for me to give any opinion on the necessity of calling those meetings together, or enter into a discussion of the -objects they have in view. My sentiments on this stibject are well known. But it is not necessary for us to go into this. It is evident that, when we are inpieed, we have a right to judge for ourselves as to the means of redress; that, if we thiok ourselves ag grieved, we are authorized, under the Constitu tion of our common'country, to meet and discuss time nature of those grievances, and to devise the best means of remedying them. This privilege we enjoy, not under the Bill of Rights (which only confirms our privilege to discuss our griev ances), but under the common lave of the land. It is not for any Magistrate,standin g however high, to dictate to time people how and where they are to meet. It is sufficient for him to ac quaint hi ms elf with the fact, that the people pos sess the might, and are at full liberty to exercise it. If the 'Manchester Meeting had been diffe rent from what I have described it----if it had been convened—if it had - been tomultuously conducted—if siolence and disorder had been -ex hibited at it—l say, even in that case, the con duct of the Magistrates and soldiers was impro per and unconstitutional. My Lord Mayor, there is a very severe Act on this subject—l meats the Riot Act—which affixes tile penalty of death to individual a who meet together illegally, riotously, or ternultuouslve and who, on due police being given, do _not comply with tire provisions of that Act, anti disperse to their respective houses. After a certain notice lots been given, they are, 1 say, liable to the penalty of death, if they do not separate. But no set of men have a right to intertere with, much less to disperse, those in dividuals, until the forms of tile law have been strictly attended to. We ought, my Loud Mayor, to recollect a little, the circumstances under which the Riot Act•was passed in 1715—at the time, or immediately after, a rebellino which had raged in the country was put doeen. Thai Rebellion was aot excited for the purpose., of recovering lost rights, but was occasioned by an endeavour to Enlace another Sovereigii on tie thron e , in the room of him who had been recognized in the great body of time people. Then, when there was a rebellion in the country—when there was a Pretender to the throne—the Riot Act was passed, for the edditional protection of the existing Go veretnent, That Act has, however, been consi dered by some of time best men in this country as a great Welch oI AutlivriT, as an audit': asbualp- tion of power. Tt certainly give+ a power to Mai. r... , ,istrates which it is unsafe to lodge in such hands —a power so liable to abuse, that, however ne cessary it might have been when it was enacted, or however necessary at a subsequent perioi—it was treated by many of tile best and wisest thvit in the country as a roost dangerous instrumeot. I hOpe I shall not be considered as trespassiug on the time of the Court, if I refer them to the direc tions laid down in this Act, because theirjodgments will he More properly guided by an appeal to the Act itself than by any representation s or mine. For the intortnation of the Magistrates, this Act is printed et large amongst those statutes which are intended for the direction of the Corpora tion.—(The worthy Alderman here proceeded to read extracts from the Riot Act, which, in substance declared, that, where an illegal, riotous, and tu multuous assembly, consisting, of twelve or more persons, met together, the Magistrates were to go amongst the rioters, or as near to them as pos sible, and proclaim silence, in a loud voice, until proclamation was made to them to disperse— with ‘vhich, it they did not comply within an boor, they were to be taken into custody, and subject to punishment for a capital felony,)--Ile proceed- . ed to argue, that it was evident that the intention ,of this Act was not to interrupt individuals in the exercise of any known.or constitutional right, but applied to meetings of a certain description, viz. meetings illegally convened ,or, whencalled together, acting riotously and tumultuously. In this Act there was no mention made of the military.— However necessary it might be, in some cases, where the lives of the Magistrates were in danger, to have recourse to the military power, there was not throughout the Act the slightest notice of them. it was the Civil Authority, and that alone, that must act, lie went On to animadvert on the charge made by the Yeomanly Cavalry, at the very mot»ent that the hustings were sot routoled, and the persons on them had surrendered. The dash of the cavalry was extolled by the creatures of the Minister as a great military achievement, and it was tauntingly observed, _that the people were dispersed, because happily there. was no Al derman Waithnian present to inspire the people with contempt for the Magistracy.—This was saying, in other words, that there was no per son present who could restrain the impetuosity of the Yeomanry. The Won thy Alderman then aO ver ed to the Meetings at Smithfield, which were suffered to assemble and to separate without mo lestation. If these were legal (and they had beets declared so by by the first law authorities in the country, and by the Secretary of State himself,) that which assembled at Manchester, he contehd ed, was equally so. Wherever the people had met, they had conducted themsrlves peaceably, though in general without the e!!endeece and stip port of those who formerlyattended their meetings. So delicate were some persons of allowing the peo ple to judge for themselves, that on a subject triton which they ought to he peculiarly able to jodge, namely, the mode in which a items , tax would at feet them, they were not thought by their Chief Magistrate to have sense or discretion enough to consider such a subject, or even competent to give instructions to their, own representatives. if„ said he, even mischief on any occasion did anise; from popular meetings, on whom, nosy I ask, ought the responsibility of such mischief to fall ? On whom but those who threw the people Olt their own resources for the expression of their grievances ? On the il.l.igistrates, who will not, as the ought, icS,llly convene the people together, and .on the Goverement, who seem to encourage those . Magistates to th row every difficulty in th e way of the people in the expression of their grievances. Ili the Res.lotions which I brava prepared for this occasion, 1 have taken :he most studious pain, the utmost care, no avoid every thing which could be considered 101 l y. It grievances do exist among the people, and if the people, in their mode of seeking iedress, mis take the proper means, 1 do submit to the sense and candour of any honest man, whether it would not be much better to allay those grievances by the operation of time, and the intervention ut conciliatory conduct, and by !be efforts of persons of rack and fortune, and of rise Goverumenr, to - ameliorate the condition of the sufferers. It the opinion of those alluded to should be, that many of those grievances were imagivary, and that for such as were real, the people had mistaken the remedy, nevertheless, 1 drink it would better become those in power to be kind to people whom they thought were deluded to alter their opinions by mildness and considerate forbearance, that) to exasperate their passions and outrage - their feelings, by mee • ing them with open avowed hostility, and dispersing them by violence and bloodshed.• That can never have the effect of briuging about the won I; of peace ; it must create evil—it never can eticcE good. Tbe Worthy Alderman concluded his speech by moving a string of Resolutions, declaratory of the right of the People to meet to petition for .the re dress of public grievances, and describing the, Meeting at Manchester to have been peaceable, and the conduct of the Magistrates reprehensible and illegal, - and prorosi!! l .: !!at an Address should be presented to the Prince Regent, calling on his Royal Flightless to institute an ioquiry into the proceedings, with a view of bringing the guilty perpetrators of the acts there . committed to coA tlign punishment.—( Vide the Resoluti,ms• at the conclusion of the proceedings.) After the Worthy Alderman had read his Re solutions, he added, that he had neglected to al lude to the period when the Riot Act hail been read at Manchester ; he thought that of very little comparative importance at this moment ; kr the meeting, so tar as it had gone, appeared by every account to have been conducted peaceably, so that there appeared no justification at all for'reading that Act. It, however, the Riot Act was read at all, it must have ;been read by the Magistrate at or near his own door ; so that, at:con:nig to every_ account, a man standing by could not bear what the Ma, , zistrate was reading from his paper. But even it it had hero read as it ought, to as to have matte the meeting sensible of what was going tilt, still there could he no justification for the. H.Ei. tary execution that was subsequently done upon an unarmed and defenceless muhUnde. If the Riot Act had been read in the most open manner, and an hour after its trading scEred to elkspe, these IltrOcitiel would nut chaoge their charac- teti li4 )ile