The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-09-11 00:00:00

SOUTHWARK MEETING.

Sir Robert Wilson having arrived in twe, the
lowing letter was sent yesterday to Mr. Gilles, thw
Chairman of a Committee, by the High of
the Borough :
* Town Hall, Sepblusher f, 1119.
" Silt-1 have bed the honour of receiving your loti•:. of
yesterday's date, requesting infornsmion whelk, r next
du, will be convenient for me to receive the Gent!cairn
forming a Committee, to hold a Public Meefoig in 1:11,1
Borough, to discuss certain roceiiiings which ilAtft ink. is
pluce at fancbester.
" fn reply to ah.cb, 1 beg leave to any. tint I shall hold
myst If ready to receive the deputation uo that
" 1 am, Sir, your °ludo of
" .1. PRINCEP, &ea.
" Jobs Gilles, Esq. Chairman."

MANCTIESTEIt SEPTEMCER 7.

The followitig is a correct report of what took
place at the New Bailey Court this day, upon the
vtobject of an application to the Megisttztita for
warrants against certain snootiers of the Ma.schester
yeomanry, charged with coning and maiming, at
the Meeting of the 16th ult.
Mr. Harmer—l beg your attention for a few gm:meals.
Mr. Norris—Whit is your came?
Mr. Harmer—Harmer. I alit nd here on behalf of per-
sons who received sabre wounds on the 10th nit. from cer-
tain members of the Manchester yeomanry. F. rionately
fur the ends of justice, the per-imps mho inflicted these
wounds are identified ; and the object of my application to
you is, that you will take the depositieras of the it litif..f4.
which I have here prepared, and issue warrants to bring the
parties before you.
Mr. Norris—Have you not presented bills of indictment
to the Grand Jury at Lancaster against the persons to whom
you refer?
Mr. Harmer-1 do not mean to disguise Ili aWs of in-
dictment have been preferred to the Giant! Jury at Laiicas.
ter, which bills have been returned ignoramus,. lied I he.
to obrarve„.thst the Gram! Jury are not to be (teemed tall:.
ljhle ; and that it does not follow, that because they may
have mistaken their duty, or misconceived Me eviiletic., the
Willits of public justice should be closed, or all means of
legal inquiry set aside.
Mr. Norris—Are slot these on whose behalf jots now am
ply. the same individuals whose bills of indiclntcul lure
been cot by the Grand Jory ?
Mr. Harmer—Yes, So% Those parties are in attendance.
Mr. Norris—My own impressions are certainly eery i!,
eideil upon this subject. Hut mill, as there ore several of env
heather Magistrates here. I wish to consult their jud;.nctit
before I express my opinion.
Mr. Norris then retired from the Bench, sad in a fete mi.
mutes returned, accompanied by several other M igi•tra tea,
to whom Mr. Norris stated is Court, that an applientwo o is
made fur warrants against the same individuals with regard
to whom hills of indictment had been thrown mit at the pre-
sent Assizes, on the chime of cutting and maiming. He then,
addressing himself to Mr. Harmer, asked, " Have I stated
your application correctly ? if not, l beg you. will set me right."
Mr. Harmer—Yon hare stated my applies! pretty se.
cnrately; but I have to observe that I have additional ta '-
deuce besides that laid before the Grand Jury.
Mr. Norris—l have no hesitation in rayitig, that lam
decidedly adverse to the object of this application. For,
after the eases of the persons to whom you refer. bare M ea
determined noon by so high a tribunal as the Grand .lore.
I cannot see the propriety of issuing warrants to commit
them, in order that they should undergo the same iiiverti-
ga • again before the same toibisaal; surh a procee.loic
would, ku my opinion, be • work of supererocation on one
part. It would indeed be an art of impertiuence sod limo.
sion towns& the Grand Jury of the county, If we were so
to interfere; that would he to assbjeet 1110 Ilieli44lllll of a higher
to the consideration, if sot to the control, of a lower
Comet. Bat suck a proceeding would he altogether withwit
precedent, ana what would be thought, fur itistance, of s
Magistrate who should grant a warrant against a man for
murder after a bill accusing him of that crime had been
ignored by a Grand Jury? such a course would, in fact, he
totally inconsistent with the principles of British jostice.
Had an application beet. made to us before the bills of in-
indictment were rejected by the Grand Jory, we might with,
propriety have interfered, and I should riot have refused to
interfere to receive the depositions. I believe that I have
spoken the judgment of all my brother Magistrates; to
which those gentlemen bowed assent.
Mr. Harmer—Am I to nnderatsnd that the Clout Fringe
the application for warrants bermaso the arm have already
been decided by tbe Gaud Jury?
Mr. Ntirris—Certainly ; yes.
Mr. Harmer—lt is solely upon this grossed that the Court
Wale to interfere? Mr. Norris—Yea.
Mr. Harmer—Then Ibe leave to slate, that I have other
cases which have not been before the Greed Jury, and into
which(as now fully prepared to eater. The parties are
present to make their depositions.
Mr. Norris, after consulting with his brother Magistrates,
observed, this is a :natter of importance, 311t1 will require
some consideration ; bat, as se hare other and pressing too.
ricers to enter into, we must postposie the subject of this
application, and will apprise you, if you will let as know
your address, whether it will be coaveuient fur us to cuter
Early last week hills were posted through Pais- into the investigation to.dsy.
ley and in all the (owl's and villages in the neigh-
whtr.mHaayrosi
eerx—pecltsimo
beastrithroemlllyosoule? Arms, Manchester;
steallsoprob7obljetheaineogagfed for an hour
bourhood. and even in this city, intimating that there
would be a public Meeting in Meikleriggs Muir, on and lae biN'olfrriand shall"
Saturday the 4th instant, to take into consideration business which may require"your attest:soya" runt
any
other
the late proceedings at Manchester. Then bills Mr. Harmer—l have Iseee spoken to by the friends of Iwo
hail broad 'black hoes in the margin, as is usual lads of the name of Wrier, arsenal whom itultchnesor have
with Newspapers on occasions of public mourning, been found fur libel, and who are new in custody on a Koichi
warrantiii will
for waut of hail. I wish to know to what amount
It was currently reported that the Iladicals were to hart be required ; because, if the sum be moderate,
march to the place of meeting with flags and in the y can immediately matelot it.
military order, in consequence of which intimation Mr. Norris then said, that be would step out and consult
was given to sonic of thorn that such processions with his bristlier Magistrates, who had withdrawn from the
f
would not he permitted in the streets of Paisley. Renck upon the declaration of the Court with regard to the
application After event
fit five
irwar warrants.
On turtle'', however, several hundreds from the a. &tes absence Mr. Norris returned, at.
towns noel villages to the westward, marched with companied by his brother Magistrates. and said, " The oral
flags to Paisley. The flags were four in number, required for each of the %Volt.* is 1001. and two soothes in
white with black edges and inscriptions. On atone 00/. each; and added, " I have taken the upportonity of
or them were, " Weep for Manchester"—" Right consulting with my brother Magistrates, 'IP" your previous
" and alcithea we had defithrerrarpeed
respect
atinsaws.arralisittaii
utbsew ei.wonarried•-uratnion
pre_
Union Mers"—" The Massacre of Manchester, wltri
ou the reverse, es I) Suffrage."—The Sheriff sent feel ourselves pees: had; circumstanced respectessic pow
of the County, and the Provost mid Magistrates of occurrences of that day, we bare come to a deternsinatiou
Paisley, called out about eighty special constables, nut to interfere in any investigation on that subject"
Mr. Harmer—May I bet; to know the names of the Ma_
not with the view of giving any interruption to
gintittes who are now present, and have come to this deter.
the meeting:. but to prevent such indecent process
sions. Of their laudable purpose we cannot speak Mr. Priories—Certainly; their names are, Mr. Holton,
with too much commendation, while the folly and Mr. Wright, Mr. Marriott, and Mr. Fletcher.
impropriety of such processions call for the strong- Mr. Reenter naked, when the Court would be prepared to
est reprobation. At the same time, it its but justice receive the bail for the Woos?
Mr. Norris—lt will be ureessary that notice of the pro.
to the people of Paisley to say, that they conducts posed bail should lie given in the solicitor fur the prostrat-
ed themselves very properly. Much as we disagree ties; mid if the names are now reels the bail any attend
its political opitsions with the Paisley Reformers, we to-morrow.
Ilan to state to their credit. that tumultuous pro.. Mr. Harmer—The warrant merely expresses that they shall
ceedings form no feature of their general conduct,
and their behaviour on the present occasion was oherdier olukhClubuerfititrlemat Justice to put
tnivenbail It willii there
°sin-P.l'
he an extreme harilaltip that there lads, one of whom is only
such ite might have been expected. So soon as they fifteen years of „ge. „hook; be eirogslea with petals. of I I,e
knew that such foolery was to be attempted. and most exceptionable character. Let me hope that the Mans.
before the constituted authorities had expressed hates will take into theme etto
ree 7ideestinbo6
themselves on the suble of the
ject, they had. sent to the o
Il .f.egi
het:tell:l:er charge
sat elareinositilvi ir'ra ing'uaYslithe age' is the
sits or eloasai r brother.
country advieing otherwise, and. when the Meer-
Mons as above mentioned. arrived 11. om the "alit, Suveihheita prtitmeiceebtaliiinagpipes, I
NrzprmreheNnoirrl,
Norris
gelatepluttitoppireredalthemeut.
le
they diostioileil them to forbear, and the flags were their responsibility. arnrl asked sloes if they coxfurld_saweaerrthat
laid mode at the end of the town. thus rendering they
iwereth:esoer.l.hm!:::ll;oseacahs?solll..herweessit'esum.altmednm: ;11
the iiiterference of the constabulary unnecessary. . 4
gbecrie;hato t sum the bait were come prepared lojostify.
The meeting, however, it Meikleriggs Muir, did xi,. Norris—lt is she melee, here 18,„„spri the bail to
not take place, but was adjourned tilt a future day. I j„iiitisiy.ftipartertriiibacialfinsurusiito -.ahem
bs.
thereof._
—(Glasgow Courier.)

Thomas hoonil. John Morey, JAR Jay, Thomas'
Marlin, Henry hobinton, William serre, and Daniel !Ayer-
mar, headhorouglis of the parish of Spitstfirlds, appeared in
cons. quence of summonses issued against them at the in-
stance of Mr. Downes, the High ('unstable of the lower divi-
sion, for having been absent from their appointed ;dace of
rendezvous in the CVVIIINg of the 25th ult. the day ut the last
Stnithficld Nleeting.
In excuse these officers alleged that they had been accus-
tomed on former occasions to dismiss themselves when they
considered their attemianee no longer necessary. and did so
on the evening an question, without the irgli Constable's
authority.
The Magistrates expatiated on the inconvenience which
mty arise to the public, if peace officers were allowed to
set upon the sitzTestiosi of their melt minds on such area_
shots as the present, but in the hope that nothin; of the
kind would again occur. inflicted only a nominal fine.
John !ling and Wsfliant Mullins were charged by Messrs.
Hoehn' and Larking. clieesernongers, residing in Whiteehopel-
road, with stenbog from them a (Itrllitity of oats, their pro-
perty. The Prisoners were, folly committed: the latter for
stealing the oats, and the former fur receiving the same,
kilo% itog it to be stolen.

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