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timeseas der is exempted sinless on sufficient grounds
el liability to serve or find a substitute."
The following is sit extract of another letter of
akeieree date :-...4$ Samuel Bamford, who has pub-
Weed eeveral poem. under the title of The Wea•
Bey, was spineliended at one o'clock this
mornisig, at hie house at Nliddletou, shout six mile,
fresis Manchester. Mr. Nadia arrested linos mud
conveyed him to Is. New Bailey. guarded by a de.
cwhwient of the pith buses,.. He was brought up
for evrenination to-slay before James Norris, F--q.
He is • tell, stout man, about e 7, dressed in a vol-
....teen cost, and with r coluared cotton Decker-
- vhief, slid his an eptiranince quite the reverse of
that of a poetic genius..
" lir. •Ninerie Gam to the Prisoner, r The charge against
• .sc.. is of a eery urinal Were. You most be easmised
the others wlop were remanded fur high treasen, sod

sletaisted sett' theft •
" fan has rammed ewe"
'• Mr. Norris—' That yin shall hear in die thee
Bamford—, This morning Mr. Nadia seism I umber
papers at my house—uhl newspapers—Sherwin', Rspla-
are, ?ire )31aek Dwarf, and eltbeelts Register. Them
.r.'ght be some loose writiop, bat of so consequence. I wish
to ltuow who has them
" Nnrris--' The constable is satmershle for them ;
as you are detaioed on a charge of a .raises satire, It
st.ti probably turn out that this Was correct.'
" John Cotten"l was next pieced at the bar.
ILSlrole, a constable, stated, that he accompanied
Stiawctres, Murray, and another constable, to the
%White Mors, on the Stanchly morning when Shaw-
t-russ end Alkirras- were so violently assaulted by the
#traltmers at drill, and that ilea Prisoner was drill-
aa Mauchester Alurray stated, he was
or,itive he had seen the Prisoner drilling a squad.
Lot could not say whether hr was one that "track
t in. The Primmer stated, that he was a weaver,
te‘idCog in Boardman-square, and was formerly in
tt.e Coniberland mtlain. (This militia *Main Man-
chrster in 1814, when the Luddite mobs were un
foot.) —Remanded.
"Shortly afterwards Mr. Pearson, of London, sp-
prerra
io,Court. He gave a note to Mr. Milne,
he Magistrate's clerk. Mr. :Milne said, Mr, Pear-
had applied to see Hunt. Hr. Norris slated,
that the Committee of :Magistrates had ordered that
• • Po one should see him ■t present. Pearson was
hutting some questions. and Mr. Norris replied,
• • You have got sour answer.' Pearson—' Has the
Committee ordered you should give no answer r
- Mr. Norris mole no reply, and Precept) left the
Cotirt, say ii;—' Vou must do as you choose'."
It is silt. d in a lever from Leeds, of the 261 h
inst. that souther requisition huts been addressed lo
the Mayor of Leeds to call a meeting, for the par.
10.7.4 e of talon); into consideration the hest mode of
peaceably obtaining to Reform in Parliament. and
rwhre►s of wiry:owes; and that, in case of his
refusing, the requisitionists intend to call such a
meeting themselves. The Mayor, it is supposed,
• will torrsi-t in the conduct which he has hitherto
observed, by not 'unclipping any Reform Metfilig
on the (me hand, liar on !iie other using compulsory
measures, to prevent or disperse them whilst law.,
fully conveyed and peaceably conducted.
A Feroole Reform Society has been established
to Leeds, and is already said to muster in considers-
Lie strength.

PA LL.11310, JuNa 23. 1819•

EXTRACT FROM A Lei-rsa.

" All the present conversation in this place, in-
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deed I might.say in the island, turns on the coders
• ar..t by the King. a short time ago, to make a con-
ri:iiptinis in Sicily. The objection shewn, on the
prat of the Sicilians, to serve as withers, is certainly
a u ways calculated to impress •other nations with a
.ery exalted idea of their military courage. They.
however, -excuse themselves on the following
rouuds : they say fur many, many centuries, it has
I.een a privilege enjoyed in Sicily, and guaranteed
by the Sovereign% Oat no Skilian slioll be forced
to Jerre as a eoldier. Indeed this privilege was par-
cnased by paying certain taxes, which I believe are
r.t.'l paid. and has accustomed the prOple to have
• 5....-11 a contempt for being a soldier. that it has given
nee to the followiog proverb among them—'• illeg-
leo mere porta eke soldate." 'This is sufficiently
expressive. I think, of their sentiments. Next,
they say. that in many proclunistions during the
wigs against the French. they were encouraged to
vt.iesul themselves against then., otherwise their
(adders: would be subjected to the conscription. and
enrirde soldiers of; and now the King wishes to do
toe MOM thing. Lastly, that during a most despe-
rate war, this measure was never resorted to, and
now, during a profound peace, a requisition of men
;. demanded.—How fee their reasoning is right 1
shall leave others to determine, and shall proceed
1,. relate the couseouences which hive arisen there-
from.
" As the law excludes all married men, the lower
(lasses of society ni psi heeler availed tbrinselvaa or
tins Pit eseptiml . Its the course or a few weeks ten
' thun.ond ensple and upward; have beets married in
tins city alone. and so OM its proportion in the re.
indisder of the island ; and when I tell you that in
gear:rat three quarters of this number have not the
incans of maintaining themselves, I leave you to
,Intige of the consequence in a few years. Many had
not even a bed to sleep cu-a very cnnaidenthle
• Humber -were obliged to borrow a coat, or some sort
..if riothes, to be married in; several hoodreds. were
,ratirried who only saw their intruded wives a few
. • cloys befsre; some, the very day in which they were
milted, others. to save their children frometed, the.eos-
. scuttles,. asarrirol them to women of 74. 76, and
even 7,1 years old; the wife agreed to receiwe a few
• tads per day. and never live with, much less see their
. loisloalAib. It I. a,ascends I kaaw UAL boa us.. that
. II ammo* of false uertifiestts of ormire, in MOM lE.
.610,10,11 thalk.Wiie• IWO stew, are dressed as o 8000galio
hsee been marital. sett that, a mother enarriesli#l
0044 ANN mudee ape:l4'4ow of, wear ',mite plot*
wist,„4••,,. de0ti,....-ersee. hies' New iite egisitiitepik
Its slim, all lie leterist, erhiessisid. mod epee Mil.

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