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all must admire, and the proofs of talent he ex hibits, which none can be insensible to, cannot, and indeed ought not, to protect him from the consequences of that air of ridicule which the almost insanity of his manner and his language throws over every subject which he touches.— That Sir Charles Wetherell has been one of the bitterest and most uncompromising enemies of Reform is well known. That he would have done the cause more injury than he has, but for the reason above stated, is equally undeniable. The poisoned chalice, it is true, has returned to his own lips, and he now stands as he may think a martyr, but as the people will think, the sunk and degraded enemy both of existing institutions and of reformed ones. We shall be happy if this frightful specimen of their incompatibility shall lead to a permanent severance of the legis lative and judicial functions, at least in the House of Commons. Parliament have wisely incorporated this principle in the new Bankrupt Act ; and if it wer' fitting, as no doubt it is, in a Court whicls comes comparatively so little in contact ssith the common interest and feelings of the people, how much more is it called for in eases where the ermine of the Criminal Judge stands a chance of being contaminated by the madness of party ?—Morning Herald. .Our readers will be gratified to learn, that by counts which left Bristol ttt one o'clock yes terday, all symptoms of disturbances were at an end ; and from the number of troops which had poured into the city, as well as from the prepa rations made by all classes of men of property, who had begun to associate for the maintenance of public order, there was not the slightest chance that the tranquillity thus restored would undergo further interruptions. The paralysis of apathy, terror, or something worse, which appeared to have seized the Corporation Magistrates of Bristol, during all but the last stage of the recent dreadful riots, was not shared, we rejoice to say, by the officers bf the civil or military departments of the administration—troops having been hurried to the scene of outrage from every quarter whence they could be expeditiously despatched. Corps of infantry were sent forward from Portsmouth and from Devonshire, and artillery, as mentioned in a former publication, from Woolwich. II the mean tune the brutal mobs were pu down by the very small force of cavalr; which had from the beginning been pas tered at Bristol ; but why were they no put down sooner, or deterred, as they might have been, from committing any violence what. ever, without a more extensive display, awl by a far less severe and sanguinary exercise of power, than sufficed to quell this rank rebellion against the laws, Vier such cruel havoc on public and private property had been already completed ? It is obvious, that if the cavalry had been authorized to maintain the public tran quillity by an application of the means in their hands, they might have done so at first, as well as at last, and better. If they did not act, it was not, we may be assured, for want of a manly promptitude in the discharge of a salu tary, however painful, duty ; but for want of dus support and countenance from the municipal authorities of Bristol. The Corporation of that city are Tories almost to a man. Did they lose their senses ? Had they no sympathy with the sufferers by terror, or fire, or other modes of destruction around them ?. Or were they in stigated by treacherous and fiend-like cun ning, to let the tempest of villainy saes on, that they might afterwards tell the world The Reformers did it ?" That wretched falsehood has, indeed, been raised and persisted in, with a maniac derision of all approach to common sense. Which party, let us ask, have noW most interest—the reformers or the borough mongers—in the excitement of panic and con fusion ? Whose sinister purposes would be served most effectually by distracting the minds of the people of England, and turning them from the meditation of the one thing needful— namely, the " Reform of Parliament"—to the apprehension of excesses by the multitude, and to an acquiescence in things as they are ? Can those who desire to see the foundations of the Government strengthened by a large accession of popular force to the State,—can they be thought capable of encouraging their own friends, men engaged in the same cause of which them selves arc the advocates and promoters, to over spread the land with ruin and devastation, anu so demonstrate the - fitness of English Reformers for the enjoyment of political rights ? No, no. This is somewhat too bad. It is the borough monger party who alone could profit by the lawless proceedings of a frantic populace. If, therefore—which we do not ourselves insinuate—the now subduc k i horrors of Bristol have been the work of more than chance-medley brutality on the part of an indiscreetly managed and progressively inf ur i a t e d mob, and of stupid cowardice on the part of those who ought to have restrained it, let the faction which strives to make a factious use of such atrocities take, as is its due, the credit of having designed anti pre-arranged them. It gives us, as we have already said, unfeigned sa tisfaction to learn, by the latest arrivals from Bristol, that all was quiet down to yesterday,.at one o'clock, pan. Last night appeared a Sup plement to the Gazette, containing a vigorous and impressive proclamation by his Majesty, which recites the illegal excesses committed at Bristol, Derby, Nottingham, and elsewhere ; announces the Royal determination to preserve by all lawful means the public peace, and to, protect the rights and liberties of Englishmen warns the King's liege subjects against all viola tions of the law ; charges all Magistrates and public functionaries throughout the realm to en force it ; and exhorts and commands all ranks of his Majesty's subjects to aid and assist the pub lic authorities in their efforts for the maintenance of order, property, and peace. Nothing in our modern history forms so near a parallel to the flagitious scenes at Bristol, either for their nature or their magnitude, as the Lon don riots in the year 1780; and, on turn ing to the Annual Register for that pe riod, some curious coincidences will be found between them. In rapidity of execution and extent of mischief, the Bristol hicendiaries have much surpassed their predecessors of the capital. But a similar commencement with one object, and a deviation to objects which had no con nection with it—a similar self-destruction of th e miscreants by the ardent spirits which they swallowed, the fires which they lighted, and the buildings which they pulled down upon their own heads—above all, a similar and most con temptible, as well as criminal, abandonment of their duty by the municipal authorities—force themselves upon the reader as characteristic of both series of calamities in a degree which is seldom so minutely- discoverable at such distant periods of time. We subjoin the Royal pro clamation published after the close of the Lon don riots, differing less in its recitals than its in junctions and exhortations. from that which was put forth yesterday. ‘Ve insert likewise a few short passages from the narratives of 1780, in. eluding Lord Loughborough's reflection upon the " patient Magistrates,' and one or two touches in the evidence given on the prosecu tions, relative to " runaway Justices," and the difficulty of gaining access to any by whose orders the troops might act. " It is impossible to ascertain the number of unhappy wretches who lost their lives in the course of this dreadful night. Powder and ball was not so fetal to them as their own inordinate appe'ites. Numbers died with inebria tiot4 esperially at the distilleries of the unfortunate Mr. Langdale, from whose vesse's the liquor ran down the middle of the street, was taken up by pailfulls, and held to the mouths of the deluded multitude ; many of whom killed themselves with drinking non-rectified spirits, and were burnt or buried in the ruins. • * "In this aropte detail of the tumults which threatened the very existence of the metropolis, it cannot but be re marked, that scarce any attempt appears to have been made either to prevent them, or to check their progress. For six days succassively, from Friday the 2d of June to Thursday the Sth, the cities of London and Westmins ter were delivered up into the hands of an unarmed and nameless mob, to be plundered at its discretion. Much blame on this account has been thrown on the Magistrates of the cities, much on the King's Ministers ; with what justice the following authentic papers will in some mea sure enable our readers to judge. a a a * C " GEORGE 11. " Whereas a great number of disorderly persons have assembled themselves together in a riotous and tumultuous manner, and have been guilty of many acts of treason and rebellion, have made an assault on the gaol of Newgatc, set loose the prisoners confined therein, and set fire to and de stroyed the said prison. And whereas houses are now pulling down in several parts of our cities of London and Westminster, and liberties thereof, and fires kindled for consuming the materials and furniture of the same, whereby it is become absolutely necessary to use the most effectual means to quiet such disturbances, to preserve the lives and properties of individuals, and to restore the peace of the country. We, therefore, taking the same into our most serious consideration, have thought fit, by and with the advice of our 1 3 :ivy Council, to issue this our Royal Proclamation, hereby strictly charging all our loving sub • ets to preserve the peace, and to keep themselves, their servants, and apprentices, quietly within their respective dwellings, to the end that all well disposed persons may avoid those mischiefs which the continuance of such riotous proceedings may bring upon the guilty ; and it is necessary, from the circumstances before-mentioned, to employ . the military force with which we are by law in trusted, for the immediate suppression of such rebellious and traitorous attempts, now snaking agaisist the peace and dignity of our Crown, and the safety of the lives and properties of our subjects, we have therefore issued the most direct and effectual orders to all our officers, by an immediate exertion of their utmost force, to repress the satne, of which all persons are to take notice. " Given at our Court at St. James's, the 7th day of June, 1780, in the 20th year of our reign. God save the King. a • • • " Sir Thomas Mills deposed, That he was at Lord Mansfield's during the riot, and knows the prisoner by sight. At half past twelve on the morning of the 7►h, he heard the mob coming up the square, being then in Lord Mansfield's house. They began by breaking the p►rlour-windows; Lady Mansfield and the ladies came down, and he conducted them to Lincoln's_inn•fields; but instantly returned in order to make the Guards in the square act to save the house. He found the officer with his detachment near the house, but the officer said, the .Tustices of the Pence had all run away, and he could not act without a Magistrate. * • 41 C • " He afterwards went to search for a Justice, which look up half an hour ; it was tie* a quarter after one, but finding no Justice, lie returned. 4 • ♦ • (Extract from Lord Loughborough's charge.—" Sun day, the next day, a day set apart by the 1 twa of God -tnd man as a day of rest, and as a day not to be violated - • even by the labours of honest indust, y ; in broad sun. shine, buildings and private houses in Moorfiel.ls were itticked and entered, end the furniture deliberately brought out and consumed by bonfire's. And all this was done in the view of patient Magistrates !" Times. The number of the Quarterly Review, pub lished yesterday, contains an article " On the .... State of the Government," in which it is dis. tinctly stated in the outset, that the House of Lords will not pass any Bill bearing a resem blance to the last. For this opposition to the will of the nation, the reviewer praises the Lords to the skies, and contends that the great utility of Lords in a constitutional sense is, their power of resisting the nation ; it being assumed, that when 199 individuals differ from nearly the whole inhabitants of a country, the 199 are in the right, and the nation in the wrong. The tone of the article is triumphant : " The House of Lords," says the reviewer, "has, as we antieipated, done its duty. It has vindicated its oven con stitutional rights ; and has, for a season, at least, arrest, d the progress of revolution. It always seemed to us one of the strangest, and, indeed, one of the most alarming s:gn• of the times—of the unconstitutional spirit and illegal de signs which are afloat—that any doubt should have been entertained as to what the Lords would do ; yet certainly, up even to the last moment, Ministers affected to believe, .ind very solemnly asserted, that the result would be diffe rent. We at first attributed such absurd rumours to mere ignorance, but we now believe them to have been the off- .pring of an artful design to influence the public mind, and ngravate by such fallacious expectations the ultimate dis appointment of the populace. We are the rather induced to notice this device, because we see that a similar delusion will b , or rather already is, attempted for a s;tnilar pur pose. Every blind Tirekias' date Administration, who, ten days ago, ,o confidently predicted that the Lords •vould pass the Bill, is, notwithstanding the affront which his stgacity has just received, equally loud and confi- dent in now assuring us that, in about six weeks time, or even le-s, their Lordships will have passed another Bill quite as efficient as the former. We flatter ourselves hat our pr , phecies would appear better entitled to confi- (fence than those whtse fallacies have Been so lately ex posed ; but until we see this other—different hut equally efficient—comething, we put so little trust in tither the integrity or the common sense of the Ministers, and can so little guess what they may choose to think or call 'equally efficient,' that we shall not waste our readers' time in cast ing the horoscope of the unbcrn Bill. Suffice it for the, present that the two first born of the union between the Monarch and the mob are no more, and that from such an unna'utal conjunction there seems every hour less pro bability of any other progeny than mis-shapen embryos or . short-lived monsters. " If vexation and rage are proofs of sincerity, the Mi nisterialists are certainly sincerely disappointed by the Ma jority in the Lords ; they are surprised at its numbers,— they are mortified by its respectability,—th e y are con founded by its talents,—and they are dismayed at its spirit; but instead cf reading the leason they have received, according to the old constitutional rule, and to their own recent pledges of standing or falling by Me Bill,' they have determined to stand by their own salaries ; and every engine of popular excitement has been employed to procure the sanction of the people to this liberal tedhertnce to office —this patriotic pertinacity of place ! The first point to he establshed for this purpose was to persuade the public that the defeat of the 13111 was only a temporary check, and that the Ministers, if they could he induced to remain in power, would make short work with the majority of the Lords, and take tffective measures for securing the passage of the new Bill through the House. And short work, to be sure, it will be, if the atrocious provocations of .he Ministerial Press, and the murderous menaces of ti e Alin:strrial mobs are to be carried into effect. We should be very soon relieved not only from the majority of the Peers, but from the entire Howe of Peers ; and the ‘ , ngine with which Lord Grey an , ' his Noble Colleagues only propose to turn a few votes, is much more likely to throgate the Noble Earl's ' Order' and restore him to the 4impler title in which, if we mist.ilte not, he glorified about 40 years ago—of Citizen Grey." The reviewer then quotes a passage from Paley, containing his views of the proper use and design of the House of Lords, the chief of which is, " to stein the progress of popular fury." " We may (says Paley) conceive occa sions to arise in which the Commonwealth may be saved by the reluctance of the nobility to adopt the caprices, or to yield to the vehemence of the common people. In expecting this ad vantage from an order of nobles, we do not sup pose the nobility to be more unprejudiced than others ; we only suppose that their prejudices Nill be different. from and may occasionally counteract those of others." These," quoth the reviewer, " are the doctrines of the Consti tution thus prepared for our special use by the ' prophetic sagacity of Paley." This is a very con venient doctrine for oligarchs. Allow to any two hundred individuals the power of putting their hands as often as th e y please into the pockets of the rest of a great nation, and we will answer for it the occasions will often occur when their prejudices will be different from those of the rest of the community. There is, however, considerable difficulty m carry ing this counteracting principle too far. Paley himself admits that " that after all is most likely to be right and expedient, which appears to be so to the separate judgment and decision of a great majority of the nation ; at least, that in general is right for them which is agreeable to their fixed opinions and desires." But Paley has here a saving proviso, of which the Anti- Reformers also avail themselves. The people may be led away by crafty leaders, and the num bers who join in the cry serve only to swell and multiply the sound. The Anti-Reformers, in like manner, say the people are under a delusion and all that is wanted is delay to allow them to recover from it. Nay, the re-action has already commenced. We will answer for it, that the two hundred Lords, who have an interest in th e corrupt state of the representation, will never allow the people not to be under a delusion so long as they insist on Parliamentary Reform. But the Lords are themselves under a gross delusion if they suppose that the people will allow the peace and prosperity ofthis country to be much longer endangered by the agitation which is caused by their mad opposition to Reform. With respect to the provocations of the Minis terial Press, it so happens that the Press has long been below the temperature of the nation. We do not now allude to the classes which read the inflammatory publications which are now too generally circulated, but the classes whose cir cumstances allow them the costly luxury of a daily Paper. It must be obvious to all who have attended to the reports of proceedings at public ' meetings, that the language of the Newspapers, especially of the metropolis, is tame, compared with the language of the speakers at these meet ings. This is a sufficient proof, at all events, that the Ministerial Press is not in advance of the middle classes in general. Nay, the pro vincial Newspapers are actually in the habit of reproaching those of the metropolis with their tameness and inability to share the ardour of the people. The Brighton Guardian, of only yesterday's date, says— " Let any one compare the resolutions of the Birming ham meeting and the language there used—let him look at the eliquent harangue of Mr. Larkin, at Newcastle— let him go through the strong and fervid language adopted by the people of Glasgow, and he will come to the un doubted conclusion that the great body of the ;.eople have gone far before the Press—the timid Press, kept in check by libel laws and stamp duties—the half servile Press, too, always looking to the powers that be, conducted generally by men who sit just below the salt and intent on rising above it—the great body of the people, we say, have gone before the half-timid, half-servile Press, in animated ex pression of their zeal for Reform. This places public writers at present in a situation of difficulty. They cannot write on any other subject than Reform, and the very habit of writing, uninfluenced as that is by the applause or feelings of a public assembly, necessarily gives calm ness and sedateness to their thoughts. which, in comparison with the glowing language adopted in public, shows them to great dis advantage. 11 " " Looking, then, at the present character and proceed ings of the Press, we find it behind the popular feeling as to the zeal with which Reform is prosecuted. At the very time that its Tory calomniators are abusing it for pro voking excitement, talking of Censorship and God- knows what, if ever they should return to power, the Press is, in fact, by its calm investigations, by its substituting reason and reflection for mere popular feeling, allaying while it directs popular enthusia , m. It is obviously per forming the office of a Peel-and-Baring House of Com mons, checking the transports of popular excitement, and directing them by that reason which men, removed from the influence of public meetings, using the pen instead of the tongue, and having no exclusive end peculiar interest to contend for, can hring"to bear on the questions that stir up the pa , sions of the day. That office the crew of selfish boroughmongers never yet fulfilled ; for every one.of them has always found an auditory of brother boroughmongers ready to applaud the dictates of his selfishness ; and that office has never yet been performed by the Hierarchy, which has always sought to preserve its power by stifling knowledge, fostering prejudices, and encouraging the lowest and most degrading superstition. The Press is obviously now c diner than the people, wiser than the Legislature, and more powerful than the Government." The article in the Quarterly steers clear of all argument to show that it is beneficial for the people that they should continue at the mercy of the boroughmongers. There is a shorter cut. The Peers have the power to reject Reform,and having the power, they will be fools not to use it. The question is not whether you (the people) like to be plundered by the borough mongers and their dependents—whether you like to be hewers of wood and drawers of water for them, bat whether they (the boroughmongering Lords) will yield up so productive a sourceof good things to themselves, merely because just they should do so. The Review is aimed chiefly at what is supposed to be the sore places of the Whigs. Th e connec ti on w ith Radicals— the humiliation of being intruded on by a De putation of seventeen, one member of which was a tailor. Good God! only think of the Premier condescending to hold intercourse with a tailor ! " We have given more attention to ;this topic (says the reviewer), than at first sight such an instance of vulgar presumption and Ministerial imbecility might seem to deserve ; but nugte seria ducunt in mala :'—this whole trans, action—the intrusion—the reception—the con versation—the public a tion—th e contradiction— the re-assertion—the explanation in the House of Lords—and filially, Mr. Place's charge that Lord Grey's explanation in the House of Lords was incorrect, and that the statements in the Courier were false and scandalous—all contri bute to show into what hands the Government of this country is fallen." This alone is enough to sicken the country with the Ministry anti with Reform ; and after such a degradation, will the Order't not excommunicate him ? We shall allow the reviewer to enjoy his triumph, merely adding to our extracts the following, containing a piece of information somewhat new to most ofour readers :—" We shall not attempt to pursue in detail the series of out rages against the House of Lords, which have followed the signal of Lord John Russell's penny trumpet ; the meetings convoked by every artifice, yet everywhere failing in numbers and respectability—the addresses carried to the foot of the throne, to undermine the very foundation on which the throne rests—the resolutions voted by mobs who neither heard nor understood them, and reiterated in the newspapers with all that bluster and rhodornontade with which falsehood endeavours to conceal failure ! We say failure, absolute failure ! for the country has taken no part with the knots of demagogues who have stimulated these proceedings ; many even of those who were friendly to Reform have with drawn all countenance from the anarchical agi tators, and the whole strength of the Bill and the Ministry may be summed up in two words —the Press and the populace." " Already the real opinion of the public begins to speak in a manner not to be misunderstood. What proof have the Mi nisters that it is still in their favour? Where are their facts ? We appeal to the elections ; will they in stance the riots ? When we produce the returns for Weymouth and Grimsby, and DUblin, for Carmarthen, and Forfar, and Pembroke, and Dorsetshire, will they venture to reply with the tumults of Nottingham, Coventry, and Derby— with Mr. Carpue's intrusive deputation, and llr. Joseph Hume's window-breaking proces sion ?" This is rich ! If an election had taken place for Old Sarum and Gatton, we should, doubtleEs, have had them added to Weymouth and Dublin, and the Scotch and Welsh counties. But Dorsetshire ! Nothing of Cambridgeshire ? This is miserable Tom-foolery ! It cannot de. ceive the people ; and, God help the Peers, if they are such noodles as to be the dupes of it. The Press and the populace ! As if the popu• lace supported the Press ! We will answer for it, not one in two hundred of the men who rioted at Nottingham, Derby, and Bristol ever read a newspaper. Thanks to the revenue, the populace are not readers of newspapers. But they read what teaches them very different lessons, and which we may all of us one day lament.—Morning Chronicle. It is a curious and consolatory fact, in the progress of society, that in America, where the greatest degree of general freedom prevails, the people are the least addicted to tumult., and the fewest instances occur of the loss of lives or the destruction of property by riotous assem blages. The cities of the United States are generally as safe from mobs as the Government from conspiracies, and both for the same reason. The great body of the people are so interested in the maintenance of order, as to put down the few who would disturb it, and they possess so great a controul over the measures of authority, that they have no motive for desiring to increase it by the influence of menace or the employ. ment of physical force. They possess, besides, a military organization which, though it might be ineffective against a foreign enemy, is suffi. cient to repress any sudden burst of popular pas sion, and to overwhelm any body of rioters dis posed to attack private or public property. In this respect their armed citizens resemble the French National Guards, and might furnish a model to the forces of the " Political Unions" which are now forming in every part of Great Britain. It may, therefore, be interesting, while we are calling for the establishment of more effective means to preserve the public peace in this country, and while the deplorable scenes which have taken place at Bristol are justifying our earliest invitation, to show how they manage to preserve tranquillity or to suppress tumults among our brethren west of the Atlantic. The American Papers which arrived on Monday supply a case in point. At Providence, some sailors in a drunken frolic attacked a house of ill fame, and being fired upon, lost one of their number. This provoked a continuance of the contest. The sailors were joined by the mob, and both set the civil power at defiance. The military companies were therefore called out and dispersed the rioters after the loss of several lives. The following are the reflections which a New York Paper appends to the narrative of these proceedings, and which we recommend to the attention of the English public ; " Thus have perished many of our citizens whilst en gaged in committing outrages upon private property, and setting at defiance the wholesome laws of the land. It was not by the hands of a hireling soldiery that these men fell, as has commonlyheen the case on the recurrence of similar scenes in European countries; but by those of their fellow-citizens and neighbours, who have, however reluctantly, been com pelled to act in self preservation, while executing the para mount duty they owe to the established laws of the State. These laws must be preserved inviolable, or our Govern ment must become virtually dissolved. As good citizens, the military have done their duty, which might have been equally imperative had it fallen to their lot, like the virtu ous Romans, to have slain their best lover for the good of Rome.' This event will convince all riotous mobs, should any such ever be again collected in this town, that the freemen who make the laws are ready to support the constituted authorities in the execution of them, even at the hazard of their lives. No tyranny and rule can ever be so oppressive and destructive as the capricious violence of licentious mobs, by which every citizen may in turn be made to tremble at his own fire-side."— Times. We give, in another column, some additional accounts of the dreadful disturbances which have taken place at Bristol ; and we are most happy to add that, according to the latest accounts re ceived in town last night, the whole city was in a state of perfect tranquillity—order had been every where re-established—and that the de spoilers of property had not only been relieved of their charge, but that summary justice was soon 'about to be inflicted on them. Upwards of 400 persons had been taken into custody, charged with being active in the riots, or with having secreted the property stolen during their conti nuance. The number of killed and wounded is also said to have been much smaller than has hitherto been represented. And to whom is the merit due of having restored order and tranquil lity ? To the civil authorities of Bristol—to men regularly charged with the administration of justice and the preservation of the public peace ? No—but to the military, which appears to have acted with great humanity as well as great propriety, and to an association of whose existence we were nOt previously aware—to the Bristol Political Union, which, seeing that the Magistrates were inactive, and that the military were insufficient to the performance of all the duties required of it, came forward and offered its services in behalf of the peace and property of the city, and up to the date of the last ac counts, had rendered the most eminent services in that respect, and was effectively engaged in procuring the restoration of the property which had been plundered from the public and from private individuals ! Yet the organs of the pitiful Anti-Reform faction have not only the har dihood to charge the excesses at Bristol upon the Reformers and the cause of Reform, but also the consummate impudence to aver that these excesses are attributable to the establish- merit of Political Unions ! The fools ! Do they imagine for a moment that there is even one in dividual—who is not drawn by special interest in robbing the public within their own petty and proper circle of hatred to the people, and to libe ral institutions, wherever they are established, or attempted to be established —so egregiously blind to the moat undeniable evidence, as to believe a word that they say ? Do they not know that the Reformers of England—embracing, as the class does, nearly the whole population of the country, not only purge themselves as a body of the out rages which have been committed, but that they charge them on the insane determination of Sir C. Wetherell, the champion of Anti.lteform, to enter a city in which it had been declared he could not sit in safety in his capacity of Judge, and on the Magisterial inanities who were so foolish as to permit him to attempt it without having first provided a sufficient force to pro tect him ? Is not the man grossly culpable —nay, almost as much a subject for criminal procedure as the infuriated multitude of Bristol--who, after being made aware, as all the accounts certify, that disturbances would be the result his entering the city of Bristol, still persisted making the attempt ? And with what gra, can those Magistrates ever attempt to sit in Jury-box, or on a Magisteri a l b enc h, a f t having permitted a riot to continue within t! city during three days, and the destruction of much property, and so much life ? We do n %%ish to enter any farther into this subject—v do not wish to tell the whole truth against of opponents, lest we should, by our disclosure give rise to another popular 'ferment here ; bu we caution them to beware of giving utteran, to more falsehoods. The patience of the publ may be worn out ; and the wearing out of th.. patience will do them no good.—Morning Ad. vertiser. A decision in the Court of King's Benc yesterday requires particular notice. The de• cision seems to be one of great hardship, thong: supported by law ; but the law, so far as regard the case, is certainly most defective. If a perscr who takes up his temporary residence in an in. or tavern, does not apprise the proprietor of th property which he brings into it, it is certainly hard case if the proprietor of the house shoul, be liable to pay for the same if it should b, stolen. Such a decision must expose the pro. prietor to great frauds. If, for instance, then should be a connivance between any two partie! where one deposits property of which the pro, prietor knows nothing, and if it should be carrier off by another, though with the knowledge of th, owner, surely . the proprietor of the hous4 should not be liable to the loss, nor pay fa that of which he never had charge ? Yet suet was the decision of yesterday ; and thougi according to law, a grosser case of private in justice was never perhaps committed. If th law be not amended, what is now to hinder at► half dozen of swindlers to rob, with the fu authority of the law on their side, every tavern keeper and licensed victualler in the kingdom The oath of a swindler is always ready when property or money may be got ; and according to the present law of the land, he has only to take up his abode in any inn or tavern in t! kingdom—swear that he has been robbed of a, much as the landlord can pay—bring his actioi —and get a verdict for the amount, with all 1' costs.—Morning Advertiser. It is curious to observe the eagerness with which the Ministerialists are now endeavouring to escape from the well-merited odium which recent occurrences have thrown upon them and their cause. If the subject were not one of a serious nature we should be highly amused at the desperate struggle of these unfortunates. " It is impossible," says the Globe, " that the Tories can talk any more about a re-action in the public mind, after the reception of Sir Charles Wetherell at Bristol This, as far as it goes, is very well ; but in a few hours a very different line of argument is adopted. "It is impossible," says the Times, " for any one to suppose that the Reformers of Bristol took any part in the late disgraceful outrages in that city !" Now it is sufficiently obvious that these assump tions cannot both be true. If, as the Times as serts, the Reformers of Bristol were not engaged in the recent atrocities, it is evident that the argument of " no re-action," which has been drawn from them by the Globe, is of no avail whatever; whilst, on the other hand, if, as the Globe asserts, " no re-action " has taken place, then there is every reason to sup pose that the rioters of Bristol were true ortho dox Radicals. The fact is the Radicals have misunderstood, or pretend to have misunder stood, the arguments which have been advanced to prove that a re-action has taken place in the public mind on the question of Re form. When we have asserted this point we have not alluded to the rabble who con. stitute the majority of the present Ministe rial party, but to the intelligent and wealthy por tion of the community whose sentiments are worthy of consideration. It is to these latter, and to these alone, that we have alluded in our arguments upon this subject. During the late general election an enthusiasm prevailed on the subject of Reform unexampled in the annals of this country ; the people considered that Earl Grey and his colleagues were really desirous of maintaining the national interests, and, conse quently with a few exceptions, they refused to vote for any but Ministerial candidates. Since then, however, the great edifice of'Whig deception has crumbled to pieces, the Bill has been care fully examined, and has been found to be nothing more than a mere Whig expedient for the pur pose of maintaining the present Ministers in office ; and consequently the great body of the people are now as decidedly hostile to Earl Grey and his colleagues as they were decidedly friendly to them in May last. These are our grounds for asserting that a re-action has taken place in the public mind ; and we defy our op ponents to gainsay them ! With regard to the rabble of the United Kingdom, we are quite ' ready to allow that no re-action has yet taken place in the sentiments of that respectable com munity. The rabble are essentially radical both in their opinions and in their proceedings, enter taining a truly radical notion respecting the meum e 6 tuum of this life, as well as a truly ra dical indifference respecting the manner in which they obtain the object of their wishes, whether that object be plunder or blood. These persons, therefore, we willingly surrender into the custody of their patrons in power, being compelled in common fairness to allow that they are true ra dicals, and that " no re-aotion" has taken place in their sentiments upon the great question.— Morning Post. An inquiry has been made into the circum stances which originated the report of the suicide to which we adverted on Monday as being current throughout the metropolis. It appeirs that, at an early hour that morn ing, a man was stopped in Barnet, who was riding into town at a most furious rate, mounted on a horse foaming, and evidently having been very h ird ridden for some time. He was stopped by the constables, under what they con sidered suspicious circumstances, until his business was as certained. He represented himself as the bearer of an ex press froM 'Fairmont], conveying the melancholy intelli genre that Sir - - had assassinated himself the previous evening. He was, of course, at once liberated, and proceeded on his onward journey with the utmost speed. The false intelaigence he had been thus the means of spread ing, reached the metropolitan police office, from whence it was.rapidly communicated, with all the appearanJe of of ficial truth, throughout the metropolis. It is not known who the individual was who originated the rumour ; most probably he was some thief, who adopted this plan to escape from the hands of the constables. TRISTAN DE MONTHOLON, SOD Of the General of that name who followed NAPOLEON to St. Helena, recently died at Algiers, in consequence of wounds received in service with the army in Africa. lie was only nineteen years of age.—French Paper. A few days since a foreign vessel with a qua rantine flag at her mast head entered Calais harbour in distress; the proper officers were alongside, and told the master to proceed to sea again, or she would be fired into. The master begged tint she might be allowed to remain on account of her being leaky, and the state of the weather being bad, but he will not listened to ; he was desired pe remptorily to put to sea, or he would be fired into. He was obliged to comply, the wind blowing bard at the time. %.„-- • 1 1 ~,i ll • D „.. l'ituu. of THE DOUBLE-SIGHTED PHENO:I 4 -'' : ` 1 " Ten in ice , PPIY to On Tuesday we visited the Egyptian-haf t E SI - I ,-- , a cadilly, induced by the published ac 1 ' , Wel ' aj , q ' ' s 'ter " The astonishing powers of M as t e r -`1 ; 32 %,;.. .h e , only eight years old, one of the greatest ' ' , lcr ' as ia l '„ Vies of the age, just arrived in London I.', ~ ~ ..a l to , lot Highlands of Scotland, and now exhibit.. ' , `l ' a rht it kret we the Egyptian-hall Bazaar." We there f,, k , a4 kt N e 4 boy about the age mentioned, and with ° '.. tur thing extraordinary in his appearance, a" ' a .. l eyh es, Ara 'ck ut merous company of ladies and gentlemen ~, ,..., b y bled to witness - his performance, in whic h I' curia Ice lie assisted by his father, and which evident l i `grai nii, ta t cited the very highest degree of wonde r ' p e Le())l d_ would be impossible to make room for a °l ii: fielder description of the various peril) liih ieit eh that were exhibited. A brief sketch of ',::,,, may serve to give some idea of what, in $ e- J . . % 4 tt,' rent age of the world, would certainly be e t 313 . o ro . '''' s supernaturd. The child or phenomenon. P ot ` d . at a chair in a corner of the room, with ht s. '.4` .-41 311 f 1 1 1 , 41 turned to the company, and a handkerchi ef 1 -4 401: in lie ! his eves ; Lis father then went round to the : ~A d el; he • an_ ! lli ittl pang, and on a schoolboy ' s slate, which a • a id for a plate, collected from the coinpeni be tit , 4141 thing they chose to p u t on . S ome put - ',.% , ( - —some a trinket—some a button, ands' „ . PK., I glove. The f a th e r th en t oo k th e ar ticles . ?Lee to rally in his hand, calling on the phenom ei 1 , }) - 17H IP et•- !s, to - describe each, which he did, or appeare d : 4 ' 'lti o 2(1 in the minutest particular ; and even %Th e° ' -.I: attempt was made to mislead him, he 1.° ,1 4 44 1 ' le detected it. For instance, the father tr.' . se glove from the plate, saving , declare what, .LEA or b of money I have taken up P—lt's not a l .? 14.!. Ai ls IP - What is it P—A glove. What colour ,, • 4 ' th Black. What hand is it for ?—The lef t ' 41 t - c' 1 Ni l 4, , All the answers perfectly correct. Anot i NI ; ie g ' . Cu' stance : What have 1 taken up now ?--- $ ' k tn II • '-' I Y What coin —Half-a-crown. What .. h 1- reign ?—George the Fourth. What )7„ L , ' i , 14 1, 1 4it i i 1824. All perfectly c o r rec t. Th e re n . "'" ;'I e;b re t! of various dat es , and some of the reign O(. G .. y ,• ' l Ol • : the Third and William the Fourth, butt° , , t ry' ,' , g made any mistake. The father asked • v tek, y, ' o 1 0; 41 the company to write their names on as I ni.. le lady and two gentlemen did so. We 41 .. 4 .11 is swer for it there was no collusion i n one _A, ';hilt] r ' he ' Y 44 . 11 names, and we are not less certain of C Ot•le ,-, 4(4. is e .' - 4 . u They were all called over by the pliannin ~ i •,,."liie ' the order they were written, without a 10° . r -• Zitit h hesitation. We shall mention but. one r n i . eti o - i „,,""t g more. The phenomenon was led out '':,' 4 4' i h - room, and the door closed ; his father the' N.' (1 at the opposite side of the room, and iii,•.. 4 p Vt , et t ,, a upon any of the company who chose tot 4 -4 „ in It him, and whisper to him in the lowest P - ,- !i t i,i' . in ;• voice. Three gentlemen did so. The re ,' ''' 1 : t j i i • e certainly be no collusion—one of the g en ,ti 1 ,614 ii was one of the most distinguished 'orris'''. •. AI . r the bar. The phenomenon was brnot) c r , 't / s the room, and after taking his p os t at the A i • . It y with his back to the company, was asked , 1 s the fi r st gent l eman sa id, w h at t h e seconu, NAY and what the third ? Th e y a ll declareudo, . l c ', answers to be true to the letter. We - i t 'll, - . at wheth er the gift of tongu es e x c ited more w o , • PIlt)41 - amongst Mr. Irving's congregation, tha n ;,', 7 :ll,r, 0 1 ia pe p r a f 7t r , ma e n x c c e it s e , d of a w m h ( t ) c n h gs w t e thoselia's-e iwnehnotiovvnie; „ :,,,: e lp . , IC stahye•rtnhatth%°veugblylintend to confouna - ':i k l, UP' ' i 'W ) M'Kean, who makes no pretensions to s ,I, • •to ICJ''' ' l ug , tural gifts, with the pretenders of the Ca • 3 chapel.—Morning Advertiser. :- 1, 4' . L . . ti' l - THE MARKETS. ~ i i „ te 'l.O n i in meansj usti e e t o ourselves we , 410 41 C')AL MARKET-Nov. 2. ... ,•,_ 1 . y ( ▪ kdair's ............ -.- 265. 98 Walls End ItiddeU'S/ 0 ' , V' 1 Bensham Main..,.,,,, _, 25 0 Ditto Peareth........"' Dean's Primrose---. 25 6 i)itto Perkins and ('a , 0 . 1 Hebburn Man ~.-.•,•.,,.28 6 Walls End Russell'S/0. .1 Hebburn Ati e tiolywell.. 27 0 Ditto Wall.") ......../ 1 0 ' Kenton West .--....-... 28 6 Bell's Primrose ......./.51/. 23 . •, ) _p!t l : . Killingworth 9 Lambton Primsosc... i f i 14 4 " Ord's Redhugh —........ 25 0 Morton Main ..........<O, It t it„ Petaw . .-.- ~..", 1 0 27 0 Walls End Hetton '. , .„r Pontop Windsor....--,. 24 0 Walls End Lyons... #. l: ' ''' 1 • Lawrence Main—......, 28 0 Walls-End LarabtelL,•^' _. , s 1, , ,.!! 3 ...4 lantield - !l - 1 .,/ 11 4 Townley' 25 6 ham) ............. 7 , ' ' 4 th t :' Willington Walls End Bell &Co.-. 28 3 Dittallussell's Lyn., ,, jot "tog) , 1 Ditto Bell,Robson,&Co. '27 9 Walls Endßutter 1 0- PI . 1tb.,.._ Ditto Bewicke and Co. 30 0 Walls End Adelaide/5 1 - A - • 7 Walls End Boundary... 25 9 Walls End Tee5...#... 1 0, ,A /1 walls End Brown's-..... 28 0 W. E. Old Etherlel ... ie, • 4 . 14 ..- Wall• End Callerton ....... 26 0 Cowpen ...........<, r, 'I, ttl% , Walls End Carr and Co. 27 0 H ar tl e y . ...............--- A * St, • Ditto Clarke and C 0... 26 9 South Hartley en%,00 / ,‘ l)\J %Vali. End Gosforth ~, • ~ Walls End Heaton 3 t 0 Silkstone Field and - !, ' , ` i l o t p ‘ ' • Walls End 1111E1a —2B 6 Greenwich Hospitel'"2,9 l , ' 4 ,,,,.4 Walls End Hotspur— 28 0 Walls End Selby..."r.. .i, ,, h t' Walls End Newmarch- 29 0 TantieldTrader....."'" - 1 LI P.,,, 1 Ditto Northumberland 28 3 Adair's Main small./'4i , " Il i , -I. p. at Market, t , 1714 —Ships 001t1. lOU —lmo °. f .4441; --__ - - -- -- -,,, ~I;,' COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING T..- k „,• Wheat. Barley. 1 (tats. 0 ~ ,byi,l 1---..... 1,. 1 . ii , t Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. , s. to „„,. .er 4, 106, 4 4 Abingd0n—,......... 62 81 31 43 ,22 w / 44,71( t Andover------ 73 80 37 41 ' - „-:.; ... • ' ,71 14, Birmingham..--.... 64 72 22 40 24 ~.„.. ..# , ' 1 4..7 1 6ridport ..,.---.. 56 74 32 39 21) w„ ..•, - 1, Cirencester 4S 68 30 42 25 E ... , 1 11 t iN44' Paringdon * . 54 86 36 40 26 iii. ••• . ' ' ,! Guildford ................ 48 74 23 32 26 303.5 .. ' ',l` ' 4 l' Henley---- 54 83 30 35 20 / ' 'Ell, Hereford S 4 92 44 48 - ~.,- .., "41 Highworth —... 62 80 32 42 28 J „z. ~.# ,14 Maidenhead —.. 65 86 32 46 20 . ... . • k, , 411 , M0nm0uth,,.,..,.,,, 51 61 39 - • - ~,,- ... ,• 'c Reading --- 65 90 31 47 '2l i.x.„,, ... li' Salisbury--............ 44 64 34 42 23 u`'..„, / ilk Southampton --. 54 5S 37 40 '2B _„;.F. , ~.. .A 1 Stroud „;.r' / r Tewkesbury .-- 65 74 40 42 ,30 ii., .. Oi l Uxbridge -...-. 4B 74 32 34 24 T 't 4 , ,( Wastage., 58 80 39 43 21 ~.,,, ,u .., tl3ll Warminster Windsor., 59 - 21 „„„w 4 , tit 1, • 1 tt i %Vorcester—..... 65 66 44 51 31 .0 . 4 ; ba..11 1 HULL MARKET-Nov. I. _ A .SO7, It i . 7 */ Wheat, Old -s. 5Ss. 60s. ......N ow ." .. •--", ,J . F. "T' t h „ . .. Foreign -s. 50s. 545. ln bond . .• -7 , 4 7 ,1 e1 i u . ' Oats, Poland Small or Feed.... -s. 20s. 21s • ...5.,. . 401 i, ll 1 4 Foreign Barley, Nnrf. & Sul ... -s. 40s. 425. Linc. & Wold ... 4 'llo' ' • Iti kt :L. ...slip i • 7 Foreign ...41. Beans 38s. 40s. 425. F0reign......... ..... 5. .1 .. Al Pease, White s. 461. 48s. Grey ....s. fOI. I. St ; 4 1 Taros -s ..s, -a. Foreign ......• .• , 14, 1 411. Rapeseed, in Wald n0ne.......... Free, per last --... , CHELTENHAM MA lIKET.-Nov. I. i t, o l ' .ll l - 1 1f.4 411 Per Bushel s. d. to s. d. P et lb. 5 I , 1 1p an , ,t; Wheat - i Barley 4 0 5 6 Mutton .................. 5 0 ,1p Oats 4 0 4 3 Ve a l ...................... 5 I 4 QIO Ay Beans Pease - • 11 r tit Hay 3l. 108 to Si. 15s. AL pet tog' HI 4 .1 • A , 1 1 '6. AN DUMFRIES MARKETS.-Oct. 26 ' 1."10 . , - "tetl . ' s s.d. o° C o rq Wheat, Imp. Bush .. 7 Oto 7 8 Butter, 16os ............. 0: . - -.'s I, c „ Barley ......... ........... 3 9 4 0 Eggs, dozen ... .......... 0 4 tls, • Oats Flour, 141 b. Oatmeal "'' '' 4 Veal ....... , ............ .4 A . r y. .. ,4 Potatoes, cwt. 1 0 ar te‘.e.„.. A correspondent asks " 1-Icr it 11 ,040 u -'., 14 that of the clergy who beset the Palace gates .., S . I'4 , ' KING came to Brighton last year, not one of eb o lip ' li k sicl be seen there on Saturdayevening last, to greet b . to i a' o t 44 on his return? and whether this Lick of resPeebii re. , e tAi , Lion in the clerical body is at all attribute g ot ` , 1 4 4. MAJESTY'S approval of the Reform Bill, which " f ~ :: , 1 sti r of their tnightinesses the Reverend Bishops e ei vebe , ' l , N it 1 1l opposed ?"—Brighton Guardian. BIRTHS. e o re 4ch On the 2d, inst. at Earl's-court, Old Brompton, the , ' kß'o' Gunter, Esq., of a son. of P. . a d: * N On the 3 th ult. at Forest Gate, Essex, the lady ,r Esq., of a sots. ~tie' ) 4 'o MARRIED. nor-square, to e.liza, the eldest daughter of the le , . ity,_ N i m()v, the yo O oo n go, t 2 8 11 0, i inst. of a tt the late George's, eo m r . g r e . ' s, Storey,H ano v o e f r - i‘ sq l o n u a i r i e t ,.. l ( ... ' .._ ,h a or r t 7 . 0 140 54 , ‘ :a I 4)P ( of Bath. 9 0 '0 1 ' A l 4 ly; On theist inst. at 'longhorn, Jas. Bunbury Blel":, , .0 . ....1 son of Sir James Blake, Bart. of Langham-hall, Su _ __:, 4, o ( therine, youngest daughter and co-heiress of the lationf t tL Sy i ; kingtoa, Bart. of Chevet, Yorkshire. •,„ ' illiir On the 27th ult. at St. Andrew's, M. Murray, ..-4 , . qt v, a to Anne, second daughter of the late 'l'. Al. 141 ' , .1, 2 ,.., Philadelphia. 9 0 . e ' '-, ' , ic akte 4 V., '".l On the Ist inst. at Pentonv i i ) ll l e E , ' • On the Ist inst. at St. Alban's, G. HO ll o f the y cond son of J. P. Henslow, Esq. .. ,xl, relict On the 30th ult. at Beverley, Mrs. I ' V 10 1 J. LockwoDd, Esq. -- - -----ill - - - --- --- _. ,___ JWO YOUNG , PRINTED AND PUBLIsIi ED By xsp, Lost)" SuN OFFICE, 112, D M . r. T. Htetieut. 11 ' 0,