The Sun. — London, England, 1822-04-08 00:00:00

FRENCH FUNDS. April 3, Five per Cents. April 4, Five per Cents. Opened-at Closed at B7 f. 15 c. It was confidently reported this day that the Russian army was in want of provisions, and that an advanced division was in a perilous situa tion, as the floods had prevented the approach of the artillery and ammunition. • [Extract of a Letter from Santa Martha, Feb. 10.1 " We received, by the way of Carthagena, the agreeable information that the Isthmus of Panama has declared its inde pendence by the free vote of its inhabitants. General Cruz engeon embarked at Panama in order, in combidation with the Spanish Functionaries who govern at Quito, to attack Guayaqull. The inhabitants of the city and vicinity of Panama 'availed themselves of this favourable opportunity to signify to the Authorities that they would not pass under the Spanish do minion. Colonel Fabrega, who at that time was Governor, invited a committee of the notables, in which it was decided that all the inhabitants should send a deputy, who should ex- Press their wish upon the Government which ought to be esta blished ; but this intention was not realized, because the inha bitants of Panama of themselves declared their independence, Which took place at Porto Bello.---The above information was brought to Carthagena by one of his Majesty's ships•of war." haVe received several.letters this morning which confirm the accounts of the alarming state of things in Suffolk and Norfolk. The public journals of both Counties have represented the ftveral events with laudable caution, not to ex cite too much alarm, on the one hand, and not to Put the- incendiaries on their guard too much, on the other.—There can be no doubt that Irish emissaries are at the bottom of all the mischief that has hitherto been perpetrated—that much of the evil spirit which prevails arises from want olemployment and real distress among the lower orders, but this spirit probably would not have occasioned such outrageous proceedings . , if it had not been urged by secret malignity. The rumour in both Cou n ti es i s , that thre will be Plenty. more, fires..—lt is reported that there Was a- riot at Bungay on Friday, and that the Nob attempted to rescue the prisoners lodged in the cage for breaking machines in the environs, but that the 7th Dragoons were sent.for at Nor folk, and 18 or 19 culprits were safely conveyed to th e Castle in that city.— : -We have more infor ation on this melancholy subject, but deem it Proper, far reasons which w e nee d no t di sc l ose, say nothing more on the subject at present. I RELAND.—The accounts this morning are not 111 arked by any features of peculiar atrocity. It t ''ls been ascertained that a quantity of arms was , e cently landed on the coa s t o f th e C ounty o f ‘ - 'ork ' from a smuggling l ugger , di rect f rom F lushing. .111.1riTE LATE DUEL.—Our R ea d ers are aware et the papers which led to the death of Sir ALEXANDER lil ELL had b e en c a r r i e d off' from th e Glasgo w S en ti ne l ce, by orte Bort/laic*, formerly a part ner i n t h at concern—. t em. the Glasgow Courier, received this morning, we observe, " among t in indictments issued from the Crown Office, D ','lnbur g h, agat individuals to stand their trials at the ap- i ; ;'.achin g Circuit Court, to be held in this city, is one against hei 'Man z 2W. Borthwiek, who was some time ago iri the Senti -01 Office, THEFT, by breaking open locl:fast places in e Sentinel Newspaper Office, Glasgow." FOn F r id a y a ft ernoon a meet i ng o f C abinet inist ers was called at a short notice by Mr. 11 4 t., at the Secretary of State's office for the e4lrne Department, which was a tt en d e d b y t h e 2 of L IVERPOOL . the CHANCELL OR of th e Ex ,GE LIVERPOOL; Mr. W Y N N , & C . Th e ATTORNEY ERAT, was also present. sl'he Duke of Y ORK was b us il y engage d i n t at.ies s durin g Saturday at the Commander-in-Chief's Office, ous to his Royal Highness leavin g town for a few days. th e ',day morning the Royal Duke att en d e d D ivine Service at ' •/hCh a apel Royal,St. James's, and heard Sermon by the R ev . toff C loottenaugh, the Sitb-Almoner. The anthem was "If we .It o l ve.that JESUS died," Dr. Boyce. The Duchess of Ricx die \ P, the Ladies LENNox, and a numerous assemblage of Iv as " , ''oility, were present. After the Service the n Sac b rament ble d ministered. Yesterday afternoon, about 3 o'cl oc k, t h e !2 lef London for Newmark et . 4,x l esterday their Royal Highnesses the Duke (l eo "uchess of GLOUCESTER atten d e d Di v i ne Service at St. ib e 4 e'S Church, Hanov er - square , an d rece i ve d the Sacra- tv as l ' . esterd ay being Easter Sunday, Divine Service th e 1 , 1) e/formed a t Gl oucester H ouse , b y t h e Rev . Dr. I l akin, to ;Ike and D uc h ess o f GLOUCESTER and their Hou se h o ld. t et ne Duk e and Duchess of GLOU C E S T ER at on Divi ne S erv i ce at St . George ' s Church, Hanover-square, Viday, it being Good Friday. te tt r iday being Good Friday, Divine Service was th N r „ -t til, s ed before the f ormed D by the Rev. T. 'W. Oetg, who also performed Divine Service yesterday before e c i ,!G's Household. e are informed that the Owe n Gl en d ower te t,h captain the Hon. ROBERT CAVENDISH SPENCER, P the Hon. T. FOSTER, Minister, to Copenha g en, 'vith --tr GEORG E NAYLER, to i n vest the King of DEN3IARR f)te, t he Order of the Garter ; that, after the return of th e hohle.4 Glendower, she will be recommissioned by Captain the ( l-IXNRII DUNCAN (Hon. Capt a i n S PENCER ' S per i o d o f t o ce, will h ave expired), and fitted to take the Right Hon. 'etvi'GE CANNING to t h e Government of India ; and, th at Att le e ,. ‘ being performed she will proceed thence to South C o ca, where Captain DUNCAN is to command in the room • %fly - Ln - '°dore Sir THOMAS HARDY, whose three years are ?t wexpired. The Active frigate aptain ANDREW KING, l ti Vegt 1d ) iS IA take Sir THOMAS , TYRWHITT IO Lisbon, to k the Rin g of PORTUGAL Wi th the Order of the Garter.- 4'4Piiiire Telegraph.) At the, same time several vessels of war were sent up the Black Sea with provisions and stores for the army proceeding to the Danube. It is stated that as soon as the hos tile resolution of the Divan was made public at Constantinople, several ortas of Janissaries and crowds of the populace repaired to the quarter inhabited by the Greeks and Arme nians, where they not only indulged in all kinds of pillage, but also committed several murders. The French Journals give an account of some disturbances which took place at the Theatre of Toulouse, on the 23d, 27th and 28th of last month, between the Buonapartists and Royalists. It was found necessary to shut the Theatre, but the disturbances continued in the town on the 29th, and tranquillity was not finally restored until the 30th. The Chamber of Deputies are proceeding with the discussions on the Budget, but their debates do not possess much interest. There was considerable bustle in the City this morning, swing to the article in a respectable Eveninz Paper of Saturday, stating that the Sub lime Porte had at length positively rejected the Russian Ultimatum, and that hostilities had com menced. This report, having apparently an offi cial character, occasioned a depression in the l'unds in the morning, but it having been stated that the article in question was by no means official, but copied from the Augsburg Gazette, the report was not believed, and the Funds im proved in consequence. RILE. nted his use the the late !heshire, , at one, ies, Mr. Temple, rd May ickshire. .newton ; Rancery- eleven, rs. At -street. -brewer, ;opunis )ol7l. Court of nd Son, !, April ucester. n; and 22, 23, lornies, Ireaves, at six, ;kipton. and, on ; r 18, at Messrs. Messrs. -owner, sinners. ovent- maker, man ; flay 4, L. At )ndon Fields, Court ►n, and d Slay ornies, -yard. y 18, les srs. I May ornies, 140 - 3pistle t, and arrow. eggi 4 pr. rag 79. er 4. THE MANCHESTER TRANSACTIONS. THE KING'S DRAWING ROOM. Lord Chamberlain's Wee, April 4, 1822. Notice is hereby given, that his Majesty will hold a Drawing Room at Buckingham Palace, on Tuesday, the 23d inst. at two o'clock. to celebrate his Majesty's Birth-day. The Knights of the several Orders will wear their Collars. FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS. • The Marquis of Sligo, at the Clarendon Hotel, Bond-street, rom Ireland ; Captain HarringtOn,.l2th Hussars, at Sir John Eiarrington's, in Berkeley-square ;. Captain A'Court, in St. Fames's-street ; Miss. Baring, in Grosvenor-place; Mr. S. larvey, in Gloucester-place; Mr. A. B. Drummond, in Brv anstone-square; Mr. C. Williams, in Grosvenor-square ; Mr. and Mrs. Latimer, in South Audley-street ; Colonel and Mrs. Agar, in Wiriipole.street ; Mr. and. Mrs. Lovatt, in Seymour street, Portman-square ; General Long, in Piccadilly ; Mrs. and Miro Loftus, in Green -street, Park-lane ; M rs . and. Miss Vernon, in Park- s t ree t ; M rs. and Miss Foulkes, in Montague-square ; Mrs. and Miss Stanley, in George street, Hanover-square; Colonel Clifton, at the Union Club ; Mr. F. Pulteney, in Hertford-street, May-fair; Capt. and Mrs. Forbes ; Sir Thomas Beauchamp, Bart., in Portman-square ; Mr. S. Skinner, in Portland-place; Colonel Gardiner, in Green street, Park-lane ; Mr. Welland, in Portman-square ; Lord Arbuthnot, in Jermyn-street ; Mr. Tebbett, in Liryanstone street ; Captain Nugent, in Albemarle -street; Capt. P. Mang han, at the Lin c ol n Hotel, from Cheltenham. DEPART U RE s.--Saturday morning the Earl of Liverpool left town for Walmer Castle ; at the same time the Chancellor of the Exchequer left town for the seat of his brother, hear Marlow, in Berkshire ; yesterday the Marquis of Londonderry left North Cray, on a visit to his Majesty, at the Royal Pavilion, at Brigh ton ; the Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne, on a visit to the Earl of Essex, at his seat, Cashiobury Park, Herts ; the Marchioness of Exeter, for her seat at Roehampton ; • Lord and Lady King, for their seat, Ockham, Surrey; Lord and Lady Holland, for Cashiobury Park, on a visit to the Earl of Essex ; Lord Carrington and the Hon. R o b ert S m i t h , f or W ycombe Abbey, Bucks ; Count and Countess Lieven, for the Pavilion, • Brighton; Hon.. :Frederick Lamb, for Brighton ; Countess of Harrington and Lady Caroline Stanhope, for Harewood Lodge, Sunning Hill ; Gen. Crosbie, for Hampshire ; Mr. Felix Smith, for Doncaster; Mr. Henry Campbell; forßichmond Park; Major Davenport, for Lymington, in Hampshire; Colonel and Mrs. Hammond, for Bath; Major Cunningham,. for Cheltenham ; Mrs. and Miss Holford, for Bath ; Captain Craig, f or D u bli n; Captain Burdett, of the Royal Navy, for Dublin ; Mr. J. Hankey, for his seat in 'Surrey. - Yesterday Viscount Chateaubriand, with the Chief of his Suite, attended Divine Service .at the French Chapel, in Little King-street, Portman-square.. On Saturday forenoon his Highness Prince ESTERHAZY visited the Marquis of londonderry, at North Cray, with whom his Excellency had a long interview; after which his Highness proceeded to the Roy a l P av ili on, at Itrighton. At half-past twelve her Highness Princess Esterhazy left town for the Royal Pavilion, where their Highnesses will remain on a visit with his Majesty until Wednesday. LANCASTER, THURSDAY, APRIL 4. Joseph Prestwick (part of whose evidence was given on Saturday), continued his description of the Meeting and of the conduct of the Yeo manry. A variety of other witnesses were also examined for the plaintiff; but no new circum stances Were elicited deserving of particular notice. SECOND DAY, FRIDAY, APRIL 5. The evidence for the prosecution having been concluded, Mr. Sergeant fIueLOCK rose at six , o'clock in the evening to state the defendant's case. lie said that he had the honour to appear before them in this cause as Counsel for the defend ants, and he requested the patient and indulgent attention of the Jury while he addressed them, because he was satisfied that, under the peculiar impressions excited in their minds, he should require all their indulgence. He was free to confess his regret that this duty devolved upon him ; he certainly lamented that the great talents and abilities of his Learned Friend (Mr. Scarlett), to whom this case had been originally confided, had net been brought into action on this occasion; but he should be guilty of the grossest affectation if he should say thathe la mented it beeauseahe case possessed any peculiar difficulty, for he thought, when stripped ofsuperfluous matter, it possessed none whatever. He lamented, however, because his Learned Friend would have had the opportunity of vindicating the yeomanry from the imputations and misrepresentations which had been levelled at them since the lfith of August, and of rescuing, not only their character and reputation from that mass of calumny which had been heaped upon them, but also that of the magistracy of the county in which they resided. The first observation he should make to them was, that they were met in April, 1822, to try, in a civil action, the right of the plaintiff, who was a man of an inferior'rank in life, to obtain reparation in damages for an injury he sustained in the month , of August, in 1819. He wished not t o b e m i sun d erstoo d : the agreed with his Learned Friend, that in thi s country the, poor and the rich were equally entitled to the same redress, and he was sure they . always received the same attention from their fellow -country_ men, when they had a legitimate ground of complaint. He would not, however, complain of the length of time which had elapsed before this action was brought ; on the contrary, he. would congratulate his clients, that the day was at length arrived, when they would be enabled to repel the calumnies which had been so longdirected against them. His L earne d Friend," at the outset of his c ase , h a d found something so singular in having to demand damages at this time for a journeyman weaver, as he first called him, and a journeymen hatter as he afterwards said, (for really it appeared that he scarcely knew who or what his client was), that he thought requisite to plead the poverty of the plaintiff ; and yet, poor as he was, he had brought down an at torney from Toolce's-court, Chancery-lane, London, not being able, he supposed, to find one in Lancashire to conduct his cause, and a host of reporters and other witnesses from London., Leeds, and Liverpool. Had the plaintiff received any sudden accession to his fortune that enabled him thus suddenly to emerge from the poverty in which he had been immersed ? or was he merely the puppet moved by certain persons behind the curtain,' whose purses, though late, had at last been opened, not for the pur pose of redressing his wrongs, but of reviving in that Court and elsewhere, the memory of a transaction which had now nearly expired ? His Learned Friend had told thmin much of the poverty of his client; he (Mr. Sergeant Hullock) would add, that that poverty was still in vigour, and that he had no more ability to pay the expenses Of this action, than he had any pauper who died in Lancaster workhouse. His Learned Friend had then alluded to the proceedings at Oldham, and described them as having been abortive. What was meant by that allusion he could not tell, as it was totally irrelevant. If the plaintiff' was dissatisfied with these proceedings, he might h ave a t tempte d others, as in that case h e mus t have been reimbursed his ex penses by the county. But he should like to know who Mr. Redford was ? It had dropped, ahnost as it were by accident, from one of the witnesses, that he was a journeyman hatter at Middleton, and that was all the information about him which his Lordship would find ttpon his notes. His Learned Friend had stated, with much gravity, that Redford, the plaintiff; was a poor man, who had received a wound which had kept him three months from his work, and from which he had not even ' yet recovered. But had this wound been proved by any medi cal man 2 Had any surgeon been called who had ever dressed it ? The evidence of Prestwick, who was a surgeon at White Cross, Manchester, stated, that he had never dressed this man's wound, mid yet there was no lack of medical assistance on such occasions. There was even a female called, who said she had dressed a dozen wounded men ; but it did not appear that she had poured either wine or oil into the wounds of this individual. In all previous cases of alleged personal injury, for which a compensation in damages was demanded, it was the uniform course of proceeding for the individual, either through a friend or an attorney, to apply for compensation to the party who had committed the injury. Why was not the same course pursued here in the case of a man who seid he had been, by the injury he received while peaceably attending a public meetings deprived, for e, long period, -of earning his bread ? Nothing of this kind had been done, but an action was brought in October last to obtain redress. His Learned Friend had told them that when this affair occurred, great dis tress prevailed throughout the country. If such were then the state of the people, so much the greater blame rested on those demagogues who came to make use of that poverty to inflame these people to acts of violence. His Learned Friend had also said, that where great discontent prevailed, great misgovern meat 'must exist. The doctrine might be good, but he could not see its application here. Were they to be told that the drillings at White Moss were occasioned solely by the distress and misery of those who attended them ? Why, the first man who was called into the witness' box admitted, that though. he had been there, he was earning 20s. a week by his labour ; 'and the second man admitted the same thing, and that he was in the receipt of 17s. a week all the year round. ,Allowing, how ever, that distress existed, could it he remedied by proceedings like those at Manchester? Was it likely that these men, by leaving their work for the day, meant to return from Manchester to seek work at home ? Was it likely that those men who were employed in drilling and training, in marching and counter marching, and also in committees,- would become rich and good citizens ? He thought not. His Learned Friend had said, that the meeting at Manchester was, at the time it was held, perfect ly legal. If his Learned Friend meant that individuals might meet to discuss their grievances, he perfectly agreed with him : but if he meant to say that 100,000 men, or even 50,009, might be legally assembled under such circumstances as were calcu lated to excite, in the minds of men possessed of property which they wished to bequeath to their posterity, a just and reason able ground of terror and alarm, then he would say, that nei ther at that nor at any other period of the History el England, could such a meeting be legally assembled. He would ask them, then, as reasonable men, could such a meeti ng as t hi s at Manchester, congreg a t e d as it had been under ensigns of insur rection and rebellion, headed by Henry Hunt, now confined in ilchester Gaol, and Richard Cultic, now residing in Dorches ter Castle—could such a meeting be considered as not likely to endanger the lives and properties of every individual in the neighbourhood ? He asked them to reply by their verdict ay, or no, to such a question. He did not th in k it necessary to state to them the law on such a subject, because his Lord ship would then tell them that the essence of the doc trine laid down upon the subject by. Mr. Justice Bay ley, at York, was, that where a meeting was put to gether in such a manner as to create terror and alarm, it was decidedly an illegal meeting. If it was so , was i t to b e al lowed to rem a i n ? Were there no legal means of bringing it to a close ? The law of England had been called the perfection of reason; but the perfection of reason would be brought to a pretty pass if there were no means of stopping a meeting of 80,009 or 100,000 people. "Would the law be worth living un der, if a man like Hunt could go where he liked, and at his will convene meetings, addiess them, and direct their move ments ? He thOught no good man could wish to labour under such a state of things. He should lay it down as the un doubted law of the l an d, th at any M ag i strate, constable, or private individual, might interpose between the coun try and such a meeti ng . Th ey would -see in the c ourse .of the evidence the peculiar crisis at which the Magistrates of Manchester had formed their determination to disperse this meeting. If they had not formed and executed that determination, he was conscientiously convinced that the town of Manchester would not have survieed that day. To calculate the effects of such a meeting, he would desire the jury to con sider of what materials the meeting was formed : it had b een in preparation for sev era l wee k s ; the whole population within 12 miles of Manchester had been for some weeks arranging for a great , day, and it was something marvellous that his Learned Friend, who had stated the object of that meeting to be Parlia mentary Reform, had even scarcely endeavoured to prove it ; he had said that it was convened for the purpose of deliberating, but by-and-bye it occurred to his excellent understanding that deliberation at such an assembly was quite nonsensical ; how, indeed, could it be otherwise, when not a word could be heard on such occasions more than ten yards beyond the hust ings ? As deliberation could not be their object, it must be evi dent that their intention was to shew, that if they could not obtain reform in one way, they would attempt it in another. His Learned Friend had promised to chew the legality of the meeting, and how had he done this ? He might have called 3,000 individuals (as Hunt once threatened to do) to prove what he (Mr. Blackburn) had proved ; but he had contented himself with calling only 2 cotton-spinners, 2 statesmen, or at least 2 who had disguised themselves under that appearance, out of the 700 who had signed the requisition convening the meeting at Manchester, to take care of the combined interests of the whole nation. These individuals said they had signed a paper, but it had not been produced ; they said, however, that their object was Parliamentary Reform i that he would show not to have been the case by a statement of their real object. It had been stated by a witness of the name of Tyas, that Mr. Hunt had attended at Smithfield, where, as was usual, he was chairman ; he had there proposed certain resolutions, one or two of which he should now read; because they appeared to him as treasonable as any he had ever read. He would shew to them that this itine rant demagogue had no other 'view 'in Manchester than to for. ward the object of the meeting previously held in Smithfield— a meeting not only illegal, but as nearly treasonable as was pos. sible. He should produce a witness who had received these re solutions from the hands of Mr. Hunt : the resolutions he would now read, and they spoke for themselves.—(The Learned Coun sel here read the Smithfield resolutions, and commented upon them as he read them, but his observations were chiefly levelled at Mr. Hunt and Mr. Carlile.)---He then proceeded to say, that if a meeting were held to carry such resolu tions into effect, one of which expressed a conditional allegiance to Government, it was palpably illegal. How did he con nect the proceedings at Smithfield with . those subseqUently occurring at Manchester ? He would now explain. First of all, he would show them the placard calling the meeting of the 9th of August, which had been most diligently and assiduously circulated in Manchester and its neighbourhood. This placard, calling upon 'the unrepresented inhabitants ofj that district to meet for the purpose. of electing a person to represent them, and for adopting Major Cartwright's plan, the Learned Sergeant then read. He rem ar k e d, th at amongst the persons i nv i te d by this placard to attend, was Sir Charles Wolseley, who, by obtaining a seat for Birmingham, had af terwards obtained a seat, a close borough, at Abingdon ; and that Mr. Wooler, who was also among the invited persons, had now his residence in Warwick gaol. Now he would ask the jury, whether it was more likely a meeting of such a descrip tion could be held. for deliberation, or for adopting some mea sure in contravention of the law ? He would now call their attention to the manner in which that meeting had been as sembled in Man c h es t er . Hi s L earne d Friend had said, that they had come in beautiful order :—He allowed it ; but they would have come in still more beautiful order, if they had been clothed in regimentals. - His Learned Friend had also stated that they had been trained :—That appeared by their own evidence. Why had they been so trained ? Was a man less able to decide upon any given measure, because he had not been drilled during the night for some weeka ? No : it was not to enable them to decide better that they had been drilled—those drillings were of the same nature as those which raw recruits underwent in his Majesty's service. They were employed night after night in marching and counter marching, in wheeling in and out of line, and in clapping their hands at the word " fire." That surely could not be neces sary for the purpose of deliberation. He would state another fact, which would prove that deliberation was not their object in these drillings. At a certain word they fell down, at another word they rose again. Now that was a light infantry move ment; and for what purpose could it be practised by these men, unless they contemplated a conflict at no distant period with regular troops ? It was also worth while to consider when these drillings took place ; they were all in the night time—Th e y began at dusk, an d l as t e d unt il t h e morning. Two or three individuals, who had visited them from curiosity, had been almost murdered by them ; and he would show that at one of these drillings, of which several were held, some at 'White moss, some at Cockey-moor, others at Tendon-hill, Redford, the present plaintiff, had been present—sometimes as a com mander of a squad, sometimes as a private. Ire would like wise shew, that he had been carrying a flag in the Middleton division et the moment he received tae sabre wound for which he now demanded reparation. The Learned Serjeant then de. scribed the barbarous treatment which Murray and Shea - cross, two of the Manchester police, had received at Whitemoss, and I stated that the party whom those individuals had seen drilling, . on passing Murray's house on the 16th of August, while re-' pairing to Manchester, had added insult to injury by halting, yelling, and hissing before it. He then described the march of the reformers from that place by the E:cchange, and the air of defiance with which Hunt had stopped his cavalcade before it, to hiss the gentlemen engaged there on business. He likewise detailed the manner in'which the column was halted • before the Star Lnn, where the Magistrates used to as semble, and also the hooting which there took place. After stating the manner in which this division arrived at St. Peter's field, after a circuitous route from Smedley Cottage, he pro ceeded to describe the military manner in which the other divisions took up their ground. He should prove that they marched to the geld. Mr. Shuttleworth had said that they merely walked. To that person's opinion he would op pose the opinion of military men, who said that their stately organized step was that of regular troops. They had likewise music, bugles, drums, and fifes, none of which were necessary to assist their deliberations. They had also banners with in scriptions. Hi s L earne d F r i en d sa id there was not wrong in that : that they were on l y use d to di st i nguish the different townships from each other. If that had been the fact, they would have simply put the name upon the banners; whereas they had put " Lees" on one side, and " Liberty or Death" on the other. Then there was a black flag. A fat jolly-looking man had been called to prove that the flag was painted black, merely because he happened to have at that time no other kind of paint. But that statement he was sure the Jury could never be induced to believe. The Learned Counsel then commented on the impropriety of such an inscription as " Liberty or Death," and said that it was intended to express insult, defiance, and hos tility to the constituted authorities of the country. There was also the inscription " Let us die like men, and not be sold as slaves." Were the people of England, then, in that state of thraldom and misery, that it was better for them to.seek death than to endure it? If not, was not such an inscription calcu lated to excite disaffection, insurrection, and absolute rebellion ? After condemning the inscription of" No corn laws," he pro ceeded to point out the revoluti onar y, t en d ency o f t h e caps of liberty, which were paraded through the field with so much os tentation, and to call the attention of the Jury to the " dagger," or " the piece of tin," as one of the witnesses had called it, which surmounted one of the flags. He thought that he had no* sa tisfied the Jury that the meeting was illegal ; but even supposing that it was not so on account of the banners, he woultt . ask them whether, under all the circumstances, it was not so constituted as to strike terror into the inhabitants of Manchester ? After eulo gizing the conduct of the Magistrates in very strong terms, and stating that it was absurd to su pp ose th at they could wantonly, and without cause, lend themselves to acts and proceedings which had put in jeopardy the hires of hi s Majesty's subjects, he asked the Jury, whether, under the impressions which they had deriv ed from the facts that came within their knowledge, the Magis trates could have acted in any other way then they did'? They r were aware of all the facts which he had detailed. They knew Hunt was not easily to be put off, and that, though he had ac. ceded to the postponement of one meeting, he had not aban doned his intention of disturbing the peace of their neighbour. hood. In consequence they left their homes, came to Manchest er , and there consult e d, d a y by d a y, not how their own property, but the property of the inh.abitants of Manchester, and the tran quillity of the county, could best be preserved. The Learned Counsel, after some other statements of this nature, informed the jury that the Magistrates, in pursuance of their duty, hired Mr. Buxton's house, in order to be eye-witnesses of the proceedings of the day. They left the Star Inn at 10 o'clock to repair thither. They found a cart placed in the middle of the square, which they naturally supposed was left there for the purpose of being used as a hustings. Having sworn in a number of special constables, they formed diem in two lines for the purpose of keeping up a face and uninterrupted communication between the cart and the house. After describing the military mode in which the different parties arriving on the ground took up their position round the hustings, he asked whether such a circumstance, passing before the eyes of the magistrates, was not calculated to excite their fears ? It was true that it did not alarm the fears of the plain tiff's witnesses; but then it ought to be recollected that, with the exception of' Mr. Stanley, they either participated in the transactions of the day, or entered strongly into the feelings of the parties there assembled. The inhabitants of Manchester, however, when they saw the area completely jammed with a dis contented population, became alarmed; for what meeting, as Mr. Stanley had well observed, was not dangerous that was headed by such men as Hunt and Caidile The communication between the hustings and the waggon remained open for some time, but in consequence of its object being observed by some of those assembled, the waggon was removed, and the space be tween its old and new position filled up by the multitude. He would prove this fact by indisputable testimony. Indeed, there was not one witness ion the part of the plaintiff, except Mr. Stanley, who dared to state that there was an uninterrupted I communication between Mr. Buxton's house and the hustings. He would shew to them that there was an interruption, caused by the locking .of arms, six or seven deep. It was not sur prising that the witne ss e s s h ou ld spea k of the peaceable de meanour of the meeting before the arrival of the Yeomanry, because at that time there was nobody to quarrel with except themselves ; but the danger was from the collection of so great a mass of excited persons. In defence of the vigorous measures taken by the Manchester Magistrates, he refer red to the great mischief done by the mobs in 1780, which he ascribed to the pusillanimity of Kennet, the then Lord Mayor of London, .who had neglected calling in the military to quell them. For that pusillanimity a criminal information had been filed against him, on which he had been found guilty, and severely fined. He also referred to the extreme danger to which the city of London had been exposed, arid the plunder and destruction which had taken place in it at the time of the Spafields meeting, in consequence of an observation that had been made to the mob by an insane individual. Now, he would ask, had human nature altered since that time ? If it had not, was it not likely that the same fatal results would ' have occurred at Manchester ? It ought to be recollected that it was a hot summer's day on- which these men, with their wives and families, resorted to Manchester; and the exhaustion that their journey and fatigue in standing Would create, would have obliged them to ,have resorted to -the alehouses for refreshnient. Now after they had been filled with the politics of Hunt, the religion of Carlile, and the porter of the alehouse ; he would ask whether the lives of his Majesty's subjects would not have been endangered by 'such a number of individuals preparing to leave Manchester about nine or ten o'clock at night ? Would not such a circum stance have generated universal dismay ? and if it would, there was an end of the argument. The Magistrates hid as good a right to disperse such a meeting as they had to abate any other kind of legal nuisance. Under these circumstances the Magis trates thought themselves bound to call in the aid of the military. They issued a warrant to apprehend the leaders of the meeting. They put it into the hands of the constables, who one and all of them declared that it was impracticable in them to execute it. Ills Learned Friend had said that the civil power ought at least to have tried to execute it, which was in other words to say that two or three constables ought to have been killed in an at tempt to perform an impossibility. In consequence of the Ma gistrates coinciding in opinion with the constables, a message was sent off to Capt. Birley to advance part of his troop to the field, and to Colonel L'Estrange to bring out the Cheshire Yeo manry, and the 15th Hussars. During the interval between their arrival on the field, and the despatching of the message, the riot-act, as he would prove, was publicly read out of the window under which the witness M`Kenna was standing, and over which Mr. Stanley was looking at the crowd. , It mattered not whether the public heard it, but read it was. On the ar rival of Major Trafford, the constables put the warrant into his hands, and desired him t o ass i st t h em i n executing it. He allowed that the cavalry returned the cheers of ,the people before they set out for the hustings, and he maintained their right to do so. They did not, however, proceed rapidlv. Ile would prove that they had never struck a blow till they had arrived at the hustings ; that they were assailed by brickbats and stones, and that they met with an almost insurmountable resistance in their way to the hustings: It was not till they were attacked that they used force, and then they had a right to defend themselves. It was his belief, de rived from the testimony which he would adduce, that but for the prompt aid given by the 15th Hussars and the Cheshire Yeomanry, the Manchester Yeomanry would have been utterly, annihilated. Orders were therefore given to Colonel L'Estrange to rescue them. The Learned Counsel then pointed c-at the parts of the plaintiff's evidence that seemed inconsistent with each other; and afterwards proceeded to say that it was not what reporters from London and elsewhere felt as to the danger to be apprehended from the meeting that the Jury had to con sider, but the feelings of those who had property at stake in Manchester. He had a few words to say regarding the manner in which the trespass had been proved. It was only proved by one witness, who said that he saw Oliver strike him a blow on the shoulder. Ile did not say with what side of the sabre, and therefore it did not follow that the wound of ti e plaintiff was caused by that blow. He must ag -in sub mit to - the Jury that there was no evidence to affect this person. There was another part of this case upon which he must address to them, and through them his Lordship, a few observations. He meant this—that the defendants acted in obedience to a warrant from the Magistrates ; the resistance experienced, was, in point of fact, a resistance to that war rant ; and, -if that were so, there was, as he should con tend, an end to the whole of this case. If they acted with out a warrant, though under the orders of constables, then the plaintiffs for an action of damages, should have brought their case within 6 months after the occurrence. It was no an swer to say, that the parties contemplated redress for a criminal wrong, and that they had brought this action last summer, the moment they felt that there was no chance of obtaining the re dress which they sought. That excuse was unavailing against , a protection secured to the public by a positive statute. He should lay before them in evidence abundant proof of the case which he had stated for the defendants. He knew that the. Jury had a weighty duty to perform. He a Imitted it was of the utmost importance that the justice of the country should be administered to the satisfaction of the country ; and in an ticipating their verdict for his clients, he felt himself only ask ing what would sa ti s f y t h e country and the justice of the case. The Jury ought to feel that this question was, whether or not the laws and constitution of the country were any longer to be permitted to exist—whether, in fact, they were to be sub verted at will by those who exercised the calling, as it were, of managing meetings of this description. " It is for you, Gentlemen of the Jury," said th e L earne d Ser j eant, in conclusion, " to say, as honest judges of the whole case, whether that me e ti ng at Manchester w a s congregated under such circumstances, (I shall not now allude more particularly to them,) as to en titleeit to the name of a legal Meeting—whether its circum stances were such as to give it legitimate protection." If you think so, then I have only to submit the point of form in behalf of my clients ; but if you think with me, that these banners, these flags, and this music, were indicative only of a movement for the purposes of revolution, then I must ask what conclusion can you arrive at, but that this was an illegal meeting, and not one assembled to promote a con stitutional purpose ? If you think that this meeting was called for the same obj ect as t h at j ust b e f ore held in Smithfield, and that for which the placards were issued in July in Manchester., then the meeting was clearly illegal. The real question, strip ped of all form, was this—was or was not that meeting of the 16th of August assembled under such circumstances as to endanger the public peace ? Was it calculated' to alarm the anxiety and awaken the apprehension of the peaceable people residing on the spot ? If it had that effect, then the defendants' case stood sustained; and if, in the language of Mr. Stanley, a meeting convened under the auspices of Mr. ilunt or Mr. Car lile might be dangerous, then equally there was an end of the case. I leave it in your hands, with a perfect confidence that he verdict which will satisfy yourselves will satisfy your country. • The Learned Sergeant concluded at half-past eight o'clock. THIRD DAY, SATURDAY, APRIL 6. At nine o'clock this morning, the names of the Jurors were called over, and Mr. Justice HOLROYD soon after entered the Court. Mr. Sergeant Iltric.i.ocx said, he had one or two remarks to make to the Jury, before he proceeded to examine his witnesses, witich he begged pardon for having omitted the preceding even ing. Ile had forgotten to advert to the sticks which were car ried by the people who attended the meeting of the 16th of Ati gust. Sotne inquiries had been made on this subject, and they had been told that the people carried small rods or little bits of sticks, such as were ordinarily used in walking. Now, he should be_able to shew, that they were large sticks ; and that the people, on their march, carried them as soldiers did their firelocks. He would also prove, that the night before the 16th of August, great care had been taken to clear the ground from stones and missiles of every description ; but that, after the meeting, the place was strewed with stones and sticks. Facts such as these required no comment. [The examination of witnesses for the defence then commen ced, our report of which shall be given to-morrow.] PEDESTRIANISM. - Martin, the boxer, undertook on Thursday, within two miles of Brighton, to run eight miles and a half within an hour, for a bet of ten guineas. He did the first two miles within fourteen minutes, and went on at a winning rate, completing the distance, with three minutes to spare. Henry Rayner on Saturday undertook, for a bet of ten guineas to go five miles in twenty-eight minutes. He start ed on the Lewisham-road, and performed as follows :—The first mile in 5 minutes 12 seconds; second in 5 minutes 24 seconds ; third in 5 minutes 25 seconds ; fourth in 5 minutes 20 seconds; fifth in 5 minutes 51 seconds; winning the match in 48 seconds within the given time, and which is the greatest performance on record. THE MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE, ArRrL 8. , Our market was largely supplied with Wheat this morn ing, and although the sales were very heavy, yet prime sam ples obtained last Monday's prices; but the inferior quali ties have merely a nominal value, there being little or no de mand for them. The supply of Barley was considerable, from accumulated arrivals since last Wednesday, but the chief part being of ordinary quality, superfine malting sawn. pies sold on as good terms as this day se'nnight, but all other sorts were dull sale, and rather cheaper. Oats are Is. per quar ter lower, the arrivals being very abundant. In Beans and Pease there is no alteration. AVERAGE PRICE OF CORN IN ENGLAND AND WALES. Wheat, 455. Id.; Barley, 19s. Id. • Oats, 16s. id.; Ry e , 17s. 7d. ; Beans, 21s. 3d. • Peas, 235. 011. The Average Price of Brown.or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the Returns made in the Week ending the 4th day of April, 1822, is 345. Od. per cwt. SMITHFIELD MARKET, Arrtri. 8. Although the market this morning was not so well supplied as on former Mqndays, still it may be quoted upon the whole a fair Holiday market; Beef was rather short, in consequence of which the price was somewhat higher than last Friday. There was a good supply of Sheep and Lambs, and the prices are the same as last market day. Beef 2s 6d to 3s 8d Veal ss Od to 6s Ed I Mutton 2s 6d to 3 s 8d Pork 3s Od to 4s Od Lamb .... ss. Od. to 7s. ...., t 5 ,...:. . - ..—.,...-; ~.. ;.. 1 ;60 ,77.--. ,„g.....- 7,:e c, ••• .:,..;, ~,, F o r ~,. 41 ~., ) ^ f 1 , . ...-- • / 4.. _ ... .t. 5.,., .. ____, , ) ,5 !ZR OF .x__„, k„ , j ,,. if e , & 4 „) :., $ THE KING'S LEVEE. Lord Chamberlain's Qffice, April 4,1822. Notice is hereby given, that his Majesty will hold a Levee a Carlton Palace, on Friday, the 19th inst. at two o'clock. ROYAL NAVY, The Driver, 18, Captain Thomas Wolrige t went out of Portsmouth harbour on Saturday morning, fitted for the coast of Africa—she will relieye the Myrmidon. The Hind, 18, Hon. Captain Rous, will relieve the Menai, at the Cape. The relief of ships on foreign station, for the next three years, will then have been made. The Driver is the only ship at Spithead. The Euryalus, Capt. Clifford, C.B. passed Gibraltar for Naples, on 14th ult. being 12 days from Spithead. Early on Sunday se'nnight, by a change of wind, the An dromache frigate, Commodore Nourse, C.B. was enabled to sail from St. Helen's, having on board naval stores for the ships at Rio Janeiro and the Cape, as well as disp a t c h e s for these places and the M aur i t i us. The Commodore will have under his command the Menai, 26, Captain F. Moresby, C. 8.; the Heron, 18, Captain Job Hamner; and the Cygnet, 16, Captain Thomas Bennett. The Hyperion frigate, Captain Lillicrap, will proceed from the Cape to the East Indian station, to relieve the Topaze frigate, Captain A. 14. Corry. On Wednesday morning the Liffey frigate, Commodore Charles Grant, C.B. sailed from Portsmouth for Rio Janeiro, the Cape of Good Hope, Trincomalee, and Madras, t o re li eve Rear-Admiral the Ho n . Si r Henry Blackwood, Bart. K.C.B. in the East India command. Major-General Campbell, second in command at Madras, Sir James flume, and many other officers, went passengers. Appointnients to the Ordinary :—Capt. R. Thomas (formerly Flag Captain to the gallant Lord Collingwood), at Tortsn;iouth, vice C. B. H. Ross ; Captain Samuel Jackson, C.B. at Sheer ness, vice Pawke ; 'Captain John Ayscough, at Plymouth, vice Hayes ; Captain Wilson Rathborne C.B. at Chatham, vice D. M‘Leod. Captain (Commander) Davis, and Lieutenant *Yule, are also appointed at Portsmouth. AIERCANTILE SHIPPING, &c. APRIL 6.—Wind W.—Arrived and sailed for the River the Langford, Conlory, .for Berbice ; and Louisa, La cory, from Charente. Came down from the River and sailed the Amphitrite, Morgan, for Jamaica ; Reliance, Harrison, Buenos Ayres ; Lord Wellington, Everhard, Quebec ; John Howard, Smith, do. ; Thames, Marshall, do. ; Vigilant, —, Miramichi ; Blenheim, Smith, Montreal ; Esther, Raundsale, Aiiramichi ; Henrietta, Tyne, do. ; Mayery, Hall, Montreal ; Guilford, Johnson, New South Wales. APRIL 7.—Wind N.E.—Sailed about 7 A. M. the Guilford, Johnson, with 190 male convicts for Port Jackson. Came down from the River and sailed the Supply, Hall, for Oporto ; Chance, Fusse, Gibraltar; Mary, Henrietta, Quebec. 'Arrived and sailed for the River the Intrepid transport, —, for Ply mouth ; and the Zephyr, ditto, Nukollo, for Harwich ; the latter remains. FALMOUTH, APRIL s.—Sailed the Duke of Marlborough packet, for Lisbon ; COuntess of Chichester packet, Mediter ranean ; and Lord Hobart, do., for the Brazils ; 6th, wind N. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 6.—Wind W.—Arrived the Me nerva, Hill, for New South `Vales; and Bengal Merchant, Brown, for Bengal and Nladras ; 7th, wind N. Sailed the Richard, Williamson, for Demerara • 'William Pitt, Richard son, Miramichi ; and Hardys, Hardy, for Quebec. His Ma jesty's ship Driver went out of harbour preparatory to her sailing for the coast of Africa. PLYMOUTH, APRIL 6.—Wind N.W.—Sailed the Benjamin and Mary, Trotter; and Hannah, Warne, do. The General Kyd East Indiaman, on her voyage from Ben gal to China, was unfortunately run ashore in the Straits of Malacca. The chief mate was drowned ; but luckily the vessel did not receive any particular damage. The ship William Money, Capt. J. Jackson, sailed on Tues day from Portsmouth for Madras and Bengal. Among her passengers are five young Ladies, six writers, and 30 cadets. About 40 sail of wind-bound merchantmen have also proceeded thence for their destinations; . and upwards of 100 sail passed down Channel last week, with a fine fair wind. On Thursday the ship Asia, Bird, sailed from Portsmouth for New South Wales, with 190 male convicts, shipped from the hulks at that port. About one half of them are under 30 years of age-30 being less than 10. They are under the pro fessional care of Mr. J. A. Mercer, Surgeon, R. N. • Sir CHAS. A'Counr, the Ambassad or t o th e Two Sicilies, is arrived in town. He landed at Dover on Friday. Mr. ALEXANDRE, the celebrated Ventriloquist, gave a gratuitous rehearsal of his entertainment on Saturday last, at the Adelphi Theatre. His transformations of person and changes of voice were so various and so quick that the delusion was complete, and it was hardly possible to sup pose that it was a single individual who had assumed so many different appearances. SUlClDE.—Yesterday morning, at five o'clock, a young man, named John Smith, who resided in Milford lane, Strand, was found hanging from a lamp-post at the west side of St. Clement Danes church-yard. He had been a sea faring man, and had squander e d awa y 2501. pr i ze-money in a shprt period , and left himself without the means of subsistence, , which, it is supposed, led to the act. His body was carried to I St. Clement's watchhouse. 1 veen tion UT'S the The ene- :five tted the hich Y. - nut inly rent !um, lints led.