The Sun. — London, England, 1831-11-04 00:00:00

3P/lIT *F THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The utter insignificance, so far as numbers were concerned, of the military force which over threwl the Bristol rioters, is the sharpest stigma that has yet been affixed to the corporate autho rities of that important city. What will our readers say to the fact, which has been stated to us from the best-informed quarter, that after the 14th Dragoons were childishly sent off to Keyn sham, the whole garrison of Bristol was reduced to a weak detachment of the 3d Dragoon Guards—not amounting to more than four and twenty men! Yet by this handful of deter mined soldiers, and before the return of the 14th Diaguons, was the charge made which gave the first decided check to the ruffians then collected in Queen -square, and engaged in the act of de molishing one of the corner houses. The Dra genii Guards, at length ordered to charge by the Magistrates, used their swords only, and in a few minutes cut down above one hundred and twenty of the incendiaries ; of whom, however, but very few, perhaps not more than five or six, were actually killed, the rest being more or less severely wounded ; but at all events, for that time, effectually disabled. When the 14th Dragoons were recalled, after several hours, on symptoms of a general re-assembling of the mob which the Dragoon Guards had dispersed,--this rein forcement did not add above 50 men to the strength of the other detachment,—and the joint and final attack, which completely quelled the whole disturbance, though with a more exten sive loss of life to the insurgents, proceeded .from little more than 70 rank and file. What a lesson this affords to public functionaries who " pall in resolution," upon the facility with which they may in most cases put down all transgressors of the law when most furious, and seemingly most formidable ! And with what emphasis do the dreadful and prolonged calamities incurred in the present instance, through the incompetence and cowardice of a set of stupid Magistrates, enjoin an early chastisement of crime, as a course at once the most merciful, discreet, and wholesome ! It is grossly false, as asserted by some of the news papers in the boroughmonger interest, that Bristol was retained in tranquillity after the troops had established it, by the general as• ecciation and arming of the Tories. The Tories of Bristol, with good coats upon their backs, and with the means of procuring arms, would not have produced an association capable of contending for five minutes with the mob, let it have been ever so weak in conflict with even a single squadron of dragoons. The Bristol Tories, supposing it to be, as the Anti-Ile formers so impudently and ridiculously asserted, that the Rffortners of the place had taken any part in the insurrection,—the Tories, we say, durst not have shown their noses, not being in the proportion of one to forty of the household inhabitants of Bristol. The real fact, however, is, that the lawless violence, latterly so monstrous and so desolating, had begun with petty demon strations of dislike to Sir Charles Wetherell,— was inflamed by the offensive petulance and needless vengeance of the constables,—was fed by its own successes against particular objects of attack,—was prolonged and extended by the cri minal impunity it experienced from imbecile or unprincipled men in office,—was at last effectually scourged and laid prostrate by a few brave sol diers, acting as much in self-defence as in that of the public welfare, and has since been restrained from re-appearing as much by the active and reso lute combination of the inhabitant householders, friends of Reform, enrolling themselves in a con servative union, 5,-; Ley the array of military power which.the Government, with commendable dili gence, directed to the spot, in a manner as ex peditious as the means of conveyance by land and water in this rich country afforded. Some idea, indeed, of the vigour with which the mili- . tary movements were undertaken, may be formed from the circumstance, that when Sir Colin Camp bell, Lieutenant-Governor of Portsinouth, was desired, by telegraph, to send what force could be spared from the garrison to Bristol, not above three or four hours elapsed before that veteran officer, who had shared the Duke of Welling ton's campaigns in the Peninsula, returned a telegraphic answer, importing that he had already despatched the 52d Light Infantry, then but three days arrived at Portsmouth from North America, to Southampton by steam-boats ; and that he had previously sent orders to Southampton for a • full supply of horses and carriages to await the regiment on its disembarkation there. Thus, in England, when cases of emergency arise, the abundant means of communication create rapidity of movement which really amounts to a multiplication of troops. But Bristol cannot long remain the head-quarters of a very nume rous garrison, which could only be established there by withdrawing from other important posts (such as Portsmouth, for example, and Plymouth) the necessary guardians of their safety. The permanent tranquillity ofßristol against ruffian mobs,with nothing to lose but every thing to gain by c ommotion, must be in the union of respectable men, whose families and properties are pledges to the kingdom for their good faith towards the laws, and for the co-operation with, and obedience to, an upright Government. Nor must this con servative league be confined to Bristol or other provincial cities,—London ought to be, even at this moment, the centre of such peace-preserving institutions. We said so before the meeting in Lincoln's-inn-fields, where Sir Francis Burdett presided, from motives, and in a spirit, which the King and his Ministers cannot appreciate too highly. We were the more convinced of the urgent necessity for those associations of the upper, middle, and all industrious classes, from observing—what was indeed sufficiently clear— that the Hon. Baronet had no easy task to exe cute, but that there were evil agents abroad, who, like Hunt in the .House of Coma-ions, at Man chester, and every where else, arc indefatigable in their practices against the peace and well-be ing of the realm, and never speak nor act but to embroil their countrymen, and fo confound the best intentioeed efforts for the attainment of rational liberty. What, for instance, can be the purpose of those individuals who have sum moned the meeting at White Conduit-house next Monday ? Are they not the same gang of plotters who strove so hard in Lincoln's-inn- • fields to draw lines of separation where truth, nor nature, nor even fortune, have made any but such as arc transient and evanescent, be tween citizens who happen to gain a guinea, aril those who happen to gain five shillings by the daily exercise of their skill and industry in some laborious calling ? Can there be any thing in profligacy more diabolical, than the attempt to persuade the wan who makes articles of con sumption for hourly use, that he would profit by plundering the master from whose purse he re ceives his wages, or the customer who replenishes that master's purse ? Can there be a mixture of wickedness and folly more disgusting than that which pretends that there is a distinct and lasting gulf between the interests of the journey man who may be a master next year, and of the master who may next year recede into the condi tion of a journeyman ? Yet such paradoxes are ' put forth in every form by your mob -orators, who sell their political garbage to the poor ; and who, because they are rejected by all educated and libe ral men, some of them on the score of taste, others ofgood morals, others of suspected or all but con victed crimes, every one of them without exception for some cause or other reflecting unfavourably on their pretensions to an intercourse on equal terms with instructed men esteemed among their fellows, would be revenged by throwing the whole world into anarchy, and out of the chaos would, like Satan, erect a hell for themselves to reign in. With what design the meeting of the " working classes" is summoned on Monday next, we know not. That the design is not a good one, seems but too probable, because the implied ex clusion of all but those who live by daily and manual labour, is a malignant one. As we have said before, there is in this country no dis tinction of classes. lie who asserts the distinc tion knows nought of English rights or English honour. Difference of pecuniary means is an accident,—it does not constitute a class. The Means are varying from ;week to week, and what the mischievous demagogues describe as " classes," are fused and incorporated by a per petual fluctuation of their parts. There is ano ther reason for more than suspecting the design of White Conduit-house to be an evil one. We • have heard that there are extensive manufactures of staves and bludgeons carrying on for the per formers of that day's intended tragedy,—that fire-arms are to be carried under their clothes, — that the example of Bristol is to be appealed to,—but that more efeet is meditated, and, for that end, that a more elaborate concert and more studied machination will be resorted to. We affirm that such intelligence has reached us, and from more quarters than one. Do we publish it to excite fear among the innocent and timid ? No; but to unmask the villains, whoever they may be, and either to deter them, or ensure their signal defeat and punishment. " Forewarned is Forearmed," saith the proverb. We are con vinced that Government is awake, and will not he surprised. We are aware that wholesale and Bristolian ruin will be averted ; but unless pro perty and intelligence and neighbourly feeling unite, and keep watch over local and private safety, much individual mischief may be accom plished before the power of co-operation among honest men can be ea:led forth to prevent it. We repeat, therefore, our bathe “y. Enrol your names, fellow-citizens of London and Westminster, in your respective parishes and dis tricts,—name Committees of independent gen tlemen, in whom yoe: can place trust,—arm your selves against incendiaries and thieves and ruf fians, who will all be ready for whatever enrolee may interrupt the public tranquillity. Do these things without losing twenty-four hours, and the conspirators of fresh Bpa-fields or Conduit-house riots may give up their trade--,they will ne ver , make a livelihood of it.--Times. We lay before our readers such further infor mation as we have obtained respecting the la mentable proceedings at Drivail. Tranquillity seems fUlly restored ; but all business ;$ at a stand., end the town presents the appearance of a place which had been sacked by an enemy. Dig ging out dead bodies, watching for incendiaries and plunder, and judicial investigations ? are the occupations which have taken the place of the regular porspits of industry. The conduct of the authorities of l3ristol is a disgrace to the age and the country. A stria ,account must be ex acted of them for the manner in which they dis charge the duties of their situation. But the magistrates ai-a, not the only parties who have acted scandalously, The magistrates (says the Bristol Gazette of yesterday)), when they foi.nal that the armed force of the city was too weak to quell the disturbance, called upon their fellow-citizens to meet them at the Guilt:hall, and consult the best means of restoring the peace of the city ; but their fellow-citizens kept aloof. It is true that some came, and about 30 or 40 remained ; anti it is true that several magistrates placed themselves at the head of these 30 or 40, and went into the Commereial-rooms and on the Exchange, and requested the gentlemen they met in the streets to join them—and it is true, that before they reaahed Prince's-street Bridge,l more than halfof those who had; oined deserted the body; some, because their dinners were ready, and some because they had no wish to encounter desperate mob unarmed." But it seems Ma gistrates and citizens thona-ht that the mob only • wished to destroy public property, and that as private property would be safe, it would be 'on prudent to hazard their own safety. " Another' error (says the same Journal) which was shared alike by Magistrates and citizens, I,74s—that the mob intended only to attack public buiidiugs, and to spare private property—but who could place limits to the actions of a dranikeu and infu riated banditti ? 7 he wretches themselves never contemplated the extent to which their passions • would carry theta. mob, like a fire, may be controlled in the cornmaacannent with little trouble; but it requites great powea to extin guish the ;aimed mass." But what an acconnt does this paper give ,of the contemptible nature of the mob which overaweLl the Magistrates, and from which the citizens shronL. " We are prepared to show that those who were the practical rioters anti incendiaries, were not what are Eenerally called the People,' but thirty or forty Irishmen, with about aty boys,l a class of iniseyeants who neither knew nor cared any thing about ,Reform ; but then there was this fatal fact, that the unpopularity of Sir Charles, and the impolicy of refusing the late measure, paralyzed the public, and rendered inert the arms that should have defended the Recorder in the exercise of his c4,cial duties ; which eircuwtances the demons of misehief took advantage of, snd inflicted the dreadful , scourge which the city has sabred. We have given this as preliminary—because we wjab the business to be fairly stated." This corresponds'. with the statement of fir Charles Wetherell on his reWrn to town on Monday last, Sir Charles said, the rnob on the Saturday was quite g.Qn temptible. We will no charge the Magistrates with connivance at these exceoaes from the base motive cf bringing odium on Reform ; but they can only escape from the charge of being the most guilty of ,men, by t;":owing that they are the moat stupid and imbecile. The eame Jour nal records the astounding fact, that soldiers ; were coolly walking backwards and forwards while the incendiaries were proceeding with the work of destruction, and that the firemen of the • ruff rent Companies alone, armed with their ,lire hatchets, would have been more than suffi cient to have routed the mob at any time during. the Sunday evening. What a contrast between the conduct of the authorities and citizens of • Bristol on this occasion, and that of the Ma gistrates of Glasgow and the respectable in, habitants of that and the neighbouring towns in 1820. In that year the whole labouring popula tion of the west of Scotland, in obedience to a Pro- clamation of an alleged Committee for the orga nization of a Provisional Government, calling on the people of England, Scotland, and Ireland to effect a revolution by force,ceased in one day to go to their usual work. But the Magistrates did not look on with supineness to see what would turn up. A single day's delay would have produced incalculable mischief. There were comparatively few regular troops in that part of the country ; but the middle classes from Edinburgh and the principal towns proceeded in arms to the number of many thousands on the receipt of the intelligence from Glasgow. The attempt at revolution was instantly crushed, and the ill-disposed were deterred from adhering to their engagements, and in a few days the la bouring classes returned to their ordinary course of life. The idea of charging these riots on the Reformers is absurd beyond conception. The Anti-Reformers " might as well (as the Bristol Gazette observes) have charged the Ex-Dey of Algiers" with the riots. There ts, unfortu nately, in all our great towns a mob or rabble, uneducated, the victims of neglect, without principle, and if not absolutely criminal, ad dicted to low and debasing vice. Bristol, ac cording to all accounts, has always had more than a due share of this description of popula tion, The rabble, though they can have no opinion of their own upon any subject, are never indifferent during times of politi cal agitation. They become partisans in their way, and have their own way of demonstrating their partiality for whatever opinion happens to be prevalent. At present all classes of Bristol are Reformers, and the rabble also call them selves Reformers. They avail themselves of the unpopularity of Sir Charles Wetherell to at. tempt an outrage against him in the name of Reform, and feeling their power, they proceeded to violence and plunder. They burned the palace of the Bishop of Bristol. In 1829, the same rabble were hallooed on by the Bishop of Bristol and the Clergy, and the Corporation, and evinced their attachment to patriotism, by mobbing all who subscribed a petition in favour of the Catholic claims. Sir Charles Wetherell was then the idol of the rabble ; and he may be so again when the Reform question is disposed of. These are not Reformers, more than the boys who hiss the Duke of Wellington are Reformers. So long as there are mobs, what ever opinion has the advantage of the suffrages of the people in general, will also have their suffrage. The Reformers cannot prevent those who disgrace any pose from calling themselves Reformers. But the Magistrato of Bristol had fell warning of the meditated outrage — they knew, or ought to have known, the cha racter of that part of the population which com mitted the outrage, and they ought never to have allowed violence and rapine Co proceed to the audacious lengths which have desolated the capital of the Vest. The only justification that ez,P be offered for them is their cowardice and incapacity. Whoever goes about to prove them men of capacity is their greatest 6netny, for we must then suspect their conduct the result of diabolical wickedness. The Corporation system of this country throws the Magistracy too often into the bande of peksoua c; all others the least fitted for it. The disposition to fatten by cor 7 ruption may be possessed by many a person who ought not to be entrusted with the care of the live; and properties of his fellow-citizens. A knot of creatureii cif this description having mice quartered themselves in the strong holds of a rich Corporation, think only of the means of retaining the good things they enjoy. Hence the Magistracy in many places are the contempt of the Yespz c;,411? inhabitants. Worse than the Magistrates of Bristol cannot well be ; bot fear there are many other Corporation Magis trates on whom, in case of emergency, little re liance could be laced.—Morning Chronicle. We were the first, we believe, who endea voured to call the attention of our fellow-citizens 0 the threatened meeting at White Conduit house on 7 4onday next, and to warn them of the peculiar danger of such meetings of the working classes, from the nature of the ,doc,- trines which, for some time, have been, we fear, but too successfully disseminated among a por tion of Otero. Meetings ? of the nature of that alluded to, are unquestionably a great evil at tips time, tending as they necessarily do to bring Reform into bad odour. There is no connec tion, tuot;:t assuredly, between the question of Parliamentary Reform end the declaration issued by those who called the meeting—a itieclaration in which doctrines of the most dangerous nature, with regard to property, are inculcated. The men who promuletp those notions with regard to property may sincerely ei - itegta . i; them ; but this does not make the notions themselyeS the less mischievous. But though there is no ne cessary connectlon I;etween these men and Par liamentary Reformers, Reform ; s t h e watch von.' with both, and Reform will gain nothing by the circtur,tstance. We have said that some of those who entertain qta dangerous notions respecting property, above alluded to, ipliy be only misguided men. There are, however, others whQ, we learn from good authority, have been uttering sentiniellts n public which amount to a downright justification of spoliaLiot:. We have also seen one of the staves, with which we undzrstand it has been proposed that those who attend the trbeting £hould arm themselves. An Evening contemporary (the taioe), alluding to this meeting, says— " god purpose can, however, be answered by pre• pared blarigeno , ;, e, d ,d:3clareti intentions of breaking the peace or resisting the legal aut;..or:;.;ee. The leaders of the meeting to which we allude arc striving'to ther p;,rtisuns to provide themselves with such articles for the occasion, or4er, as their orator Benbow states, to keep the police civi!.' This individual announced that a pattern bludgeon should bi exhibited in I.:s s;;,v, with a pattern cockade, which is of course a tri-eelour. There can l, fear, however, of the effects which a band of fanatics and vaga4opi! can produce on the multitude, even at this moment of excitero,ni, as :ong as the respectable portion of the community, the sober-minded plan, k.rult o r honest Reformer in higher walk becoMe asso ciates for ti.e .:,41..1m0n weal." We warn all iespeciaLle mechanics, and all those who might be disposed to aitenti such a trice:„;itT front mere curiosity, th a t th e y m ay be drawninto a t.le:;ger of which they are not aware. After what has taken piac. , ; at Bristol, the Go vernment and local authorities would he criminal in the extun're if they did not provide against any possible danger, We do not believe that any great number of men entertain, the idea of spoliation ; but we have the example of Bristol to teach us that a very small number of men, if not checked in the outset, may do incalculable mischief. We do not like armed meetings at all ; a nd if a great multitude be once assembled, a very small number of evil-disposed individuals ma y produce a confusion which would in volve the whole in danger. We warn therefore all we ll-disposed persons to be on their guard. No can pow succeed in Lon attempt at spoliation don ; but the Attempt might not be crushed with out bloodshed. They who after this wareing, either themselves attend the meeting, or suffer any over whom they have controul to attend it, have themselves alone to blame, if they disregard it. We are glad to find that the organization of Unionsein e ,the metropolis and neighbourhood is proceeding rapidly. This will be an effectual means of guarding against the danger resulting from popular excitement. When once the re spectable householders are organised in such a way that they can be instantly assembled, on any emergency, in their respective localities, with a view to any object, we may set at defiance the spoilers who ride in coaches (to use the lan guage of Mr. Fox, at the late meeting), and the spoilers who go afoot. We have already noticed several Parochial Unions. The work is going on in the parish of St. George's, Hanover square, in Greenwich, in Chelsea, and several other places. Constant applications are made at the Committee at the Crown and Anchor Ta vern. Respect for property is the foundation of all civilisation and improvement. We seek Reform because we do not wish that a borough mongering oligarchy shall plunder us at pleasure; but while we seek to secure ourselves against one class of plunderers, we must not lay ourselves open to another. Labour, and capital, which is the fruit of labour, must be inviolate.—Morn ing Chronicle. A Correspondent, who signs himself " a Member of the National Political Union," ac cuses us of not treating the question of the Po litical Unions fairly. He says, we mix them up with armed associations, with which they have no necessary connection ; and he calls upon us to discuss the subject on its own merits, without any reference to the proposed plan for a military organization of our peaceful citizens. We were not, indeed, aware that we did not meet the question of Political Unions in a candid and straightforward manner. It is not our habit to avoid the fullest expression of our sentiments on those questions of public interest which we think it important to discuss, and we are sure our readers will do us the justice to allow that we neither sacrifice our opinions to power, nor shape and alter them according to the newest fashion of an ephemeral popularity. The prin ciples which we maintain now are those which we advocated when some of our copteunposariee, who are most clamorous for Political Unions, and most vehement in their appeals to the po pular passions, were as obsequious supporters of an Anti-Reform Ministry as they are, at present, the impassioned and implacable denouncers of an Anti-Reform Opposition. All political unions, clubs, and associations are bad in prin ciple, and dangerous in practice, which usurp any of the functions of the executive Government. If a Government cannot preserve the peace, and give to the public that security which they have a right to expect from the executive power of the Et'tate, without the assistance of eelf-consti tuted bodies not recognised by the Constitution, such a Government is unfit to exist. It must be grossly deficient in the wisdom and capacity requisite to the right administration of power. TO acknoviedg that political associations can tranquillise the people when the responsible Go vernment cannot, is to acknowledge that the Government is virtually deposed. If a Govern ment confess its own incapacity it commits an act of self-deStrectioo, and the public confidence is transferred from it to voluntary associations, which have neither constitutional existence nor responsibility. But, if a voluntary association can calm the storm of popular commotion, it can also raise it. The greater its power to tran quillise, the more potent its energy to disturb, If the tempest preeses on the veesel of the State, the Prospero, whose magic wand stills the angry waves, can, at his pleasure, let loose the hurri cane that shall dash it on the rocks. History is full of examples, but we need only appeal to the French revolution of 1789. When the moderate and enlightened members of the Constituent As sembly ftamed the efew Constitution of a limited Monarchy, which the King ratified, and to which all orders of the State gaye in their ad hesion, the ambitious men, who wished to profit by confusion, framed political clubs, under pre tence of performing the double office of protect ing liberty end plveereing order, and, 'though many well-intentibned persons and sincere friends of rational freedom at first patronised those so cieties. as is the case with regard to the politi cal unions among ourselves, yet those clubs be e came the political ladders upon which such crafty and ferocious adventures as Damon, Marat, and Robespierre, climbed to the eminence which enabled them to overturn the newly-modelled Constitution, end to ratee epon the Nine of regular Government a sanguinary and intolerable despotism. The :people may have some reason for combining in political bodies to carry a great ;question when they have to struggle against an adverse Governnient. their forming unions under such circumstances is not for the purpose of usurping the functions of the constituted authorities ; and yet even those unions generally do more harm than good to a popular cause, as was the case with the Corresponding So e eieties, some quarter of a century ago, to facilitate t4e caerying of Reform, but which societies materially retarded its success, as our condition at the present day affords melan choly evidence. We said, when we first ob 'eete-1 to uolitical unions, that they would cause ) • disunion. We since adduced pepof of this in what took place at the formation of the London Political Union, where the champion of the /forking classes spoiled the project of Sir Francis Burdett aisd 11;.s friends, who expected to have the working classes to shout at their heeia, but not to enter and sit down in 'their political ceeeeTh We have also referred to what has taken Place at Maneheetea, where the Political Union, or at least a large part' of that • Union, honoured Mr. Hunt with something like a tri:- ler nplial proceesims, vshile he descanted upon the advantages of univeral suffrage; annual 'lsarliae .ici. men ts, and vote by ball o t. Th e C our i er ca ll s t h ose Political Uni ons " monstros i t i es, " yet 'thinks they e t .:e7,y ke go o d t hi ngs , b ecause they of are the fashionthe day. W e are o f o pinion that there is no state of society which ought to psti l ee us fall in love with m o nstrosities. The true)( uen ssisdotn coveentTlent is founded onprin ci But the pri n Ci p i e s s of our Teodoro' po;:- t are contiuually giving way to Whet le expediency —the idol of short-sighted S le ich creates greater difficulties th t a s i t t e i s t iT evel t- e - 1 1; oves.—Morning, Herald. In another column will be found an account of Mr. Hent'e vieit to Manchester. An Even ing Contemporary suggests that the Member f or Preston should be voted to Coventry by the Broad Sheet, as the most effectual means of ex tinguishing his influence. We are willing to allow that no step would be more likely to mor tify the Honourable Member himself than the ne glect of his orations by the Press, but we Brill haye too much faith in the general discri- mination of the public not to think that in some cases exposure is worse than neglect. We have given a detailed account of the speeches' and proceedings of Mr. Hunt on this occasion. Those who think we have done him honour by such a notice will do well to read over the ac count with care, and ask themsel ves h ow th e y would feel after making such an exhibition, either at Peterloo, or in the columns of a news paper, in the Broad Sheet, or on the extended plain.—Morning Herald. A meeting is announced— a great and nume rous meeting—and a meeting, it is said, of the " working classes,' in Copenhagen-fields, for Monday next. Now, if it be a meeting of the working classes, we do hope that it will take place; for the working classes have been invariably distinguished in their conduct by great good sense and moderation—by abstinence from vio lence, both in language and conduct—and by obedience to the laws. Every object that is dear to them is embraced by us , un d er the condition of time for accomplishing it ; and we have no fear of their meeting on any subject under proper leaders. But is the meeting of Monday a meeting of the work ing classes? We fear not—we fear that the proposed meeting is only another trick of th e Anti-Reformers, to bring discredit on the cause of Reform, and to turn the mind of the King, and his Ministers, of all true Reformers, against the cause which they have so warmly and disin• terestedly advocated ; and we fear it, because • we learn, from a source on which we can rely, that a great number of those who have proposed to go there, have determined to attend the meeting in an armed state, and that a discovery has been made of a great manufactory of spuri ous constables' staves ! If such be the fact, and there can, we fear, be no doubt of it, we are confident that the meeting will not be a meeting of the working classes, but a meet ing got up by the Anti-Reformers, and against an attendance at which the working classes can not be too much on their guard. We know them well from long and intimate intercourse, and we caution them as friends. These are not Castlereagh times, in which peaceable meetings , of the people are prevented ; and the man who would go armed to a meeting, during the exist ence of the present Government, would be tray not only hostility to it, but hostility to the King, and hostility to the cause of Reform— Again, we say, people 91 England be on your guard against the Anti-Reformers and their spies.—Morning Advertiser. Cook had heated the old lady to " something She next pointed to a sack which lay on the and said that Cook had doubled it up on th e before, to put the old woman in it. Witness) her what she meant by his putting the old o' in a sack ? and she replied tiat he had doo up to place it under her ow the bed. . She that the old woman had no linen on. This thought somewhat extraordinary that she g houl° examined her so closely, and asked her how she cd ° do so ; but she made no reply. Witness agu' ll r pressed much uneasiness a b ou t h er gra ndmoth e i which the femal e p r i soner to ld h er that she h ad ; her and her husband sitting by the fire went out to collect some cinders, and on her r e '; she was gone. She (witness) asked the fernsi e ,,' soner to go out with her t o h ave somet hing to n o ' She did so, and they wen t to two p u blic h°, While in one of them s h e earnest l y i nqu ired s' the old woman, when the female prisoner °bet " You speak as if you th rug h t we h a d m urder" .) made away with her." Witness observed thin' had her suspicions that such was the ea-e, bu t did not wish then to express what her feelings Mrs. Cook pressed her (witness) afterwards home with her to have something 10 eat, bu t refused to do so, and gave her some halfpence i° some bread and cheese with, but she did net or) Witness, after searching about for the old lady, again to the residence of the prisoners. The} ° both at home, and Cook appeared in a most ss ifil temper, and th e f ema l e appeare d to b e drets,4 beaten. Her face was one mass of contusions• shortly after-wards left the room, and the female v her that he had given her a desperate cause she had been out with her, and lest she sr eo let any thing drop about the old woman. WWig,n g , expressed some surprise that so quiet-1000'; man as Cook appeared to be should a ct s u ' l ) which the female observed, that he " " Ig o: greatest murderer in Europe if the truth was She (witness) had subsequently made inquir' e s: all the gaols, poor-houses, and hospitals in the et( tropolis, about her grandmother, but was not s' bo ti obtain the slighest intelligence about her. S li h e ct ie , never recollected her stopping a night from " o s!' Mrs. Cook had frequently solicited the old ` m o o d to go to lodge with her, and appeared most 5°5 4 to know if she (witness) was her daughter, ° t ot relation of her. She however never told he r . 1( she was more than a friend, who had knol from her childhood ; and as such she r e spect had rep atedly warned her graiidmothes sef i ht t going to the house of the prisoners, by telling ( it what they were, and that they would be su b. , r put a black plaster on her, and dispose of het 'tio but she had still had a good opinion of tbi=oh I' l 4 he Monday night alter the old woman vi °s 4 : . t missed, she went to the house of the prison er- st' was late in the evening, and Cook was in bed. r Cook pressed her very much to stop there 011°1 0 1 beatiaL as she appeared tired, saying that her husband have no objec. ion to her doing so. She re rasß eil'i do so; and Cook d e -i re d h er not to be 50 °lodll about the old woman, as in all probability she er iii' hear from her at the end of the month. "'a tat instant," said the witness, " I thought I hea r e e voice of my gr an d mot h er , as p l a i n as ever I.tat n the course of my life, say, ' Nancy, where ° i ll~ use of your looking for me, when I have we 17 14 located in that b e d o f C oo k' s, b y him a nd 0 4 " The circumstance, as well as be r e ol rears to get o u t o f t h e p l ace , h a d suc h an e ffect ' 5 lO . her, that she was scarcely able to walk down 51 John Shield s , a l a d o f a b out f ourteen Yel r i s ots i age, wh o l o d ge d i n A ugust l ast i n t h e sa me .vith the prisoners, recollected one Friday u. i rvit about nine weeks since, having some words rather, and being turned out of the room. " 4 1ry consequence, sat on the stairs. It was betwee n or t and eleven o'clock at the time, iNirs. Cook e t down stairs, and asked him if he had been I d turned out through t h a t wre t c h (meaning a w n fr who used to wash and clean for himself and big 0 ther). She said, th a t if she served her boy s IN I O I would rip her from top to toe. She then reqoso him to go in, b -,;,t his father not being in bet iv c mid not, and he went into a dark corner ni o i stairs. Mrs. Cook passed without seeing remained for about half an hour at the street u i t and then went up to her room. While he a' u ' ihe corner, Cock was coming down stairs, britve, fore he reached him, somebody called him bath' th witness, being c a ll e d i nto hi s father's koom,wetc / i t o rl, hed. As he w a s com i ng dawn stairs at five c' frc io the next morning, saw Mrs. Cook coming, ' 0 t,e cellar, and h ear d t h e ce llar-flap fall, au ,6 asked him wh ere h e was go i ng so ear l y . He rei n e about six o'clock, and went into the cellar ° Le e , aome eg g s, a s h e k ept some d uc k s an d h e ns I s P fe t He felt about for s ome tirr.c for the eggs, an d , e llot getting them bro ug h t t h em up stain:. 'The — if if was very dark, and he could no t see t h e botlY, ef t, was in a sack under th e sta i rs . I t m i g h t be without his observing it. set ° A witness named deposed to havvie if/ the prisoners and th e i r stet one morn i n g u 'i t or , o'clock, in the Minories, in the month of Jutle io ir Their aon had a sack on hi s l ac k, i n w hi c h she 'l 4 ness) was satisfied was the body of a child. oct mother helped him to carr y i t , an d t h ey t u reen' the court in which they resided, bl Young Cook was here called and questione',) he denied all kno w l e d ge o f t h e transact i on , to' d o r( he never was out so late as two o'clock in the ° fo il iiig. He said that the statement of the day 1)8 ,0 was quite correct. I n re pl y to a question frome)l HARDWICK, he said that after the death o f tile, lady his mother t oo k h er up lik e a b a b y in 'o' 4 'l r 0 1 and carried her do wn s t airs . This induee u r , Magistrate to make some inquiries as to the P e of the missing female, and it appeared, 0 1 000 0 ,1 was very tall and a goo d fi gure , s h e waa not heavy. ..at4l MURDER OF MRS. WALSH. I FURTHER EXAMINATION of the PARS TIES CHARGED with the MURDER. Yesterday evening Edward Cook, and the female Eliza Cook, alias Ross, were again brought up to Lambeth-etree.t police-office, and placed within the b tr, before the Hon. G. C. NORTON, and J. HARD. nice, Esq., for final examination. When brought into the office, the female, who appeared as ferocious as a tigress, on perceiving her son, exclaimed, " Ned, I hope you are not going to hang your mother," and seemed at the moment almost ready to dart at the boy, and tear him to, pieces. He, however, was removed to a distance from her by the officers. Previous to the examination being entered on, Mr. Norton said he understood that there were two gentlemen belonging to the London Hospital pre sent, who svie.hed to sey something; and if so, the Magistrates were ready to hear them. Dr. Luke, who, as well as Dr. Hamilton, was in attendance, observed in the report of she proceedings at this oisjee on the day before in the morning jour nals, it sated that the body of the missing woman had been taken to the London Hospital. He (Dr. Luke) wished to deny the truth of such statement, • and to say that no such body had been received at that institution. At the time at which it was stated that it had been brought there ; on, the ZOth of Au gust, the lectpire; and dissecting rooms were under regair, and none but the tradesmen employed in doing such repairs entered them. He had besides made inquiries, and fatted that during the whole of August not a single body had been received at the London Hospital. Mr. NORTON observed, that so far as the Hospi tal was concerned the statement of Dr. Luke was perfectly satisfactory, at the same time the repre eentatioes in the newspapers, at to the statement of the boy respecting his mother saying that she had taken the body to the London Hospital, was perfectly correct: Lydia Basey, the wife of Thomas Basey, a boot. closer, residing in Long-lane, Smithfield, was grand daughter to the missing woman, whose name was Caroline, and not Elizabeth ; Walsh, On Friday, the 19th of August last, she went with her to the residence of the prisoners, in Goodman's-yard, Mi. stories. She did not go into the room of the pri soners at the time ; but she heard the voice of the female prisoner, as the old lady went up stairs, It was between tiye and six &clock in the afternoon. She understood that het- grandmother was going to stop there. She had nothing with her at the time but a small basket ; and she had never seen her since. Anne Buton, sister to the last witness, stated that her grandmother, Mrs. Walsh, had lived with her for six years psevieus to August last. The last place at which she r e sided with her was in He'd Lion -court, in the Minories. The prisoners at the time lived next door to her in the same court. Having given up her room in the beginning of July, the old wotrau stopped for some time with the prisoners, who took is and she (witness) subsequently 'took lodgings for her at a Mrs. Shaw's, in Playhouse-yard, Houndsditch. Her invariable practice was never to go out before ten o f s eleven o'clock in :he forenoon, end returned at three or foer in the afternoon, and sometimes much earlier. She was in the habit of selling tapes, threads, and other articles. The lest time she saw her was about four o'clock on the afternoon of Friday, the 19th of August, at the house of Mrs. thaw. She (witness') then told her that she under stood she was going to Cook's to lodge, as she had seen, her bed there in the course of the morning. The old woman said she was, upon which she re ' marked that if she went to Cook's they would cook her; that they were bode-,natehers, and would put a pitch-plaster on her, and sell her body at some of ' the hospitals. The old woman seemed displeased end angry at her remarks, said the Cooks were not so bad, and requested that she, witness, would ac company her to their house. This witness refused, but went part of the wad' ; and on their ptirting ei the et;ti of iSutles-Street, the told her that She wits sure she should never see her more. she,however, told her not to stir out the next morning until she called on her, and that she would bring her some stock ings and other articles which she required. The old lady ze;d she would net, 4ntl they parted. During the whole Of Vfidaynight 'the witness could scarcely get any rest, such were her apprehensions abouther grandmother, and on the following morning she went ra the hose of the prisoners, at about a quarter be fore - nine 'o'clock. iin reaching is she found no one at home'but the fernale. 'She asked her for the old lady, and she said she was just gone out. She ape peered a good deal confused at the time. Witness expressed some surprise that she should go out so MARRIED. early, contrary to h er . 2s u a l h a bit an d more particu. On the Ist inst. at St. George's, Hanover-square.: t,1 . , -- or ce.;,e) Locto o n t , g in ig n e.h c o o u u s n e, t t o )l; . i s znt a tt i , m c . olp t u ? ; o o f t Lye, % f i . , rd larly as she must have expected her, and promised to wait at home until sheetilled. On which the female to Miss Elizabeth Hart, Y onl; daughter H 3l4 '' Chapel-street, Grosvenor-square. pticoner said that she was gone out early, its On the 43d inst. at East. Monkey, J. Hewitt, Esq., ' f order that site might return early ; and added, that to Sarah, sixth daughter of E. Dddwall, 'Esq., la ir ° oit y WhateVer things site (witness ) might have for her 4 ..Vai; lot inst. T. Brown, Esq., of Burderop, to Sara l'i she might l ea ve them. The female prisoner as daughter of the late J. Crowdy, Esq., Swindon, WO"' f washing something at the time, which she said was DIED. t ory' On the ‘241 inst. in Lancaster -place, the infant tia n g a butcher's jacket. She said that her husband, Willoughby, Esq. Cook, was very partial to the old lady, that they had e CANTED AND A - VBLISRED BY 311P1.D0 YOL)N°' a jolly good supper on the night before, and that slur OFFICE ; 112, sTaAND, Loxpox Lt a deposed to having apprehended the pi.% to ti and detailed at som e l engt h t h e i r contra di ct orY-0 tnents. After their e xam i nat i on on t h e pfe ce evening, the prisoners were locked up in the' f fei 4 ferent cells, the m an i n t h e centre , an d t h e ‘ 1 ;" 0 0 and boy on both sides; he heard the female 0 ,,53i to Cook to ask th e b o y w h o h a d told hin11;10 all that he h a d aga i nst h cr, andy he d' and on Cook asking the question, the boy r e f ) , that no one told him, and that be said so be his mother did it, ..110 The ezamination, after lasting. nearly six terminated here; a n d th e p r i soners , WI;(5, cont e t Oernselves with a mere declaration of inno e were committed for trU. At l Died, at Edgefield, Mr. JAMES DYP: ti in the 86th year of his age. M r . DYaALL tl habit of relating many extraordinary facia conevrei te l , ' smugglers of Norfolk, with wh om i n hi s ear l y &I', f t , had totteh intercourse. He sa id t h at f or a ser i e s o vi , upwards of twenty coonitis of oats per week be e 4 (iiniuined at his house in baiting their horses, eigP io a ',hid:, the prc,perty of one sorne:iMell it : months in his stables. The old man chuckled over ee° captions and the bold defiance practised against the 1 1 1 ft laws at that time of day. One anecdote is WO r , I o p, serving. On a certain occasion a Magistrate r ode his door, when no fewer than twenty-four carts, lade ° ' contra!) ind spiri ts , stoo d t h ere rea d y to start . 'f e ,firi gictrate remonstra;ed, an:.l asked whether he was n ° : A l f cf the revenue offieers. Not in the least," said P t. '`,, " for (leeri ng , an d po i nt i ng towar d s hi s house') tl'e' all dead drunk 'a my parlour."—Norttich Post. BIRTHS. f sta'r' '' On the Ist Inst. at Cormaught-sor,re, the Hon. - ,r.... 4 of a son. d 0 , main. On the Ist inst. a t Southend, Kent, Mrs. R. • 0 of a son. On the 2cl inst. the lady of Samuel Girdlestone, jun• f- I. 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