The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-11-16 00:00:00

ACQI7ITTA I. OF MEAGH ER !!

ThiA morning. about a quarter before eleven,
Mroigher, the truinpeter, was brought before Mr.
%Wright, to answer the charge against him. The
svitoesses brought in his behalf gave evidence which
is. much corresponded, that we shall merely give
the or each.
The examination of several witnesses smonnted to
this, that on the night in question Meagher was
been with two eompauintw going to the Police Office,
a crowd following him, and calling him a b—y
rascal, &c. Ile was going to the Office for assist-
ance. They all considered him to be in danger._
Other witnesses spoke to the breaking of the win-
dows, one said that they flew about iu all directions,
they considered him :nr•d his house in danger. They
were positive as to the breaking of the windows be..
fore the firing; but the landlord of the house was
not so positive. Ile had been awakened by noises,
and heard two pistols tired, but knew not whet bad
been done in the mom alio,e his. which Meagher
occupied. It is to be observed that three pistols
had been fired. 'rliis was the last witness called.

Mr. Wright summed up. He said that such a
charge should be sifted to the bottom as he believed
the present had been. The evidence for the prose-
cution went only as to what happened before his
bnu..e ; but the Prisoner', witnesses spoke of what
h.ppened previously, and it appeared that he had
been in great danger. He conceived lie was justi-
Sable in firing, and should therefore dismiss the
charge.
Some murmurs of disapprobation being heard,
Wrightlll t. ordered the officers to arrest any person
who should insult the Court by eithers pplauditig or
disapproving. The Court was very crowded.—
Meagher went afterwards to the Bridge inn.

MANCHItATER, NoVICMOIR 11.

Beldame, the shoemaker, who was arreatial and confined,
miller the Stispenaion 13111, and to whom Cohbett ad-
itresard one of his Writer*, arrived from America at
Liverpool, in the Amity, the snarl in which Gibbon
was expected. He was accompanied thither by William
Cobbett, wham he left, and this di!, came to SI aa-
ellester. ii. coulirina the accuuut of the refusal of the
other passeugera to sail With Colibett, who 11/3., in conse-
quent e left behind. On the came day (the 11)11, of Oc-
tober) Renbow departed, Cobbett, however, concluded on an
engagement wills Captain Ka old), of the nefellin, and, mi.
due accidents excepted, will be in Enzland in three weiks.—
Tbe cumpacy which hr brings with hiss will nut • little sns•-
prier the people of England. Some short time previous to
fienbow's departure from America, he (Gabbro) and some
others, repaired by night to the corner of a fiend by the road
side, near New Rachellr, where th►e diainterred the body of
Thomas Paine, the author of the" Rights of Man," which they
conveyed in a waggon prepared for the purpose, to New York.
They found it in a coffin, hews out of mahogany; it was
in a i•rfvet state. Their intention is to parade it through
the principal town. in the North of F.uglanil, and afterwards
to resister and erict over it a colirecal statue of hiss by
whom it WV. once animated. The place of its reiotermenst
ia not determined no. Cobbett brings over with his a new
aerostat of the Life of Passe.

ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE MR. NADIN, THE
POLICE OFFICER.
matecHtseetn, 11011,1111111!11. It.
A report hat tn-d.iy hero sent forth Irian the pulie.e-ace,
that NAN was lasi litchi allot at whilst stalking near he the
theatre, sod that the that pleased through his hat, Wising ibs
wadding in,ide the hat.
We have aside all the inquiry passihie to 'reorder Aldo
connected with, tins assertion, sod sod, from the story of

The Earl of HOSILBERY concssrred in this opinion.
The Adam, was then read by the Esil of MoRTRN,
together with the Resolutlon, when they *ere unanimously
agreed io.

Mr. Jarrell"' rose. He said he cordially ■greed with
every word and every sentiment in the Resolution sod Ad-
dress. He was • warm erlellll to the Constitution anJ laws
of his country, and would yin to no man iu his loyalty to
his Buvereign.—He lansentrd that eircuenstaitees had occur-
red which rendered this meeting necessary, and that denier
gogues with wild and visionary schemes should have been so
successful in misleading the people. He conceived that
their success was in a great measure owing to the indiffer-
ence with which the distresses of the people hail been viewed.
In order, therefore, to bring over the people to a real way
of thinking sod acting, lie was of opinion that the best way,
and, in his view, the only way, ass to show that we were
alive to their wants, that we sympathised wills their esicfor-
tunes, and then to treat them with all that kindness whir h
they deserve. By adopting such a line of conduct the minim
of the enemy would be !Mimed, and we would gain such ad-
ditional strength that the ♦oice of clamour would noon be
hushed. He did nut mean to object to any part of the Ad.
dress, it had his unqualified approbation; hut while it con.
Mined raper/idioms of the loyalty and attachment of the
meeting to the Throne and the Constitution, he thought it
would be incomplete if they dial not continue something to
conciliate the wavering; this was not to be done by holding
intimidating Magmatic?, or threatening military vengeance.
No, it was by acts of landing', it was by showing the people
that we feel for them as fellusv.sharers Its the same Coustitm
lion. The beamed Geotleinan then took • view of some
recent acts of the Executive, which he condemned, as they
tended to alienate the minds of the well-affrcted, and urged
upon the meeting the propri►ty of their expressing their sen-
timents on these transactions. He concluded by moving the
following amendment to the Ad:lreys

" We deeply lament the severe and long.continned distress
to which the mannfactaring classes of tior country have been
exposed from want of employment, slid view with abhor-
rence all attempts that may be made to excite them to acts
of tumult and insurrection, which must greatly aggravate
thr ir sufferings, We earnestly hope that the utmost vigi.
lance will be skarn in detecting all such criminal designs,
and is repressing thews by the able, firm, and impartial ad-
ministration of Ilse existing laws.

" But, while we thus humbly lay at the feet of your Royal
Highness the assurances of our unshaken loyalty to your
illustrious House, and the principles of that Constitntion
which placed it on the throne, together with the offer of
our dutiful services to defend both against the efforts
of all wicked and disaffected persons, we csunot avoid
expressing our extreme solicitude that the deluded and
suffering part of our population demob{ be tenderly
and indulgently treated in this period of unparalleled dis-
tress—That their hardens, in so far as the public service can
possibly adroit, shook' be lightened by every practicable re.
treachanest, and their alleged grievances c.draily and Mapes.
siouately ingnired into by the proper coloititutionsl authori-
ties—That no encouragement should be given to the precipi-
tate or unnecessary employment of force, nor any art of vies-
;cure be @auctioned, while a doubt exists ac to its being sham
lately unavoidable—That leo restraint should he put ou the
great constitutional right of the people to petition for re.
dress of grievances, without the strongest cvideace of its
absolute ueceasity, hoe any measure adopted that may emus.
troilism the assertion that the Government of this conutry
looks with jealousy or aversion on the exercise or existence
of this invaluable right—That eveiy effort in short should
be made, not only to repress and iistimidile tee feta mischiev.
ens and daring nnhv:duals who nee endeavoui tog to ordure
the people from their allegiance, but to conciliate and nude!.
the moltitudes who are exposed to their seduction—and that
at a lime wUeu it is especially nricesmary that sli who are well
affeeted to the monarchy and constitution, and to the laws
and religion of the country, should he cordially united, no
harsh oWeusive measures should be takea to deprive it of
the services or active co-operation of persons of known
loyalty mid uoqueetioiwil honour, extrusive jammer, and
tried patriotism 81111 wisdom." . . . . .

eh. W. DUNCIAS said, that on coating bray, he thought
there would leave been no objection to the Address, framed
as it was without any political allusion. IVith regard to
the preload state of tree country, ow into could demist that
religtoe had been assailed. Neither reek, any Iran doubt
that men meeting with flags and hawsers, b•sriwg the
t•ost daring iaseripliusia, would not be attended wish the
mat mischievous couseqatsees; and although they bay*
hitherto separated peaceably, yet if • cheat wile rot
put to them abs time world time whets they w•nid SONO*
• mare waxen and threatesiag attitude. The tot .a.

Mr. STUART SARI he believed that his opinion of the
causes of the ',reared sitnatiou of the cedilla', were sic
1111.40 &Waseca truss °tote who had p.uposed the Aidress. as
well as from those who had moved an addition to it. The
chief causes armed to him to he, the distremis I. which '
the manufacturing part or the people had for a lone p.tioti,
and eaperially of late, been subjected from want of r ark
and the low rote of wages., and the unwilling ear Paths-
meta bad almost untforenly lent to the petitions ..f the
people on the stihj.-et of parlilineotaiy representative.
The Mortised condition of the maisufacturera was admit.
led. He could speak from certain informatiou as to otie
considerable maiiiihretnring district, the weavrra .0 the
Dunfermline and linkcallily districts ut the neighbnining
couuty of Fife : their average wnes did nut exceed
six or seven shillings per week, • sawn quite insoffi.
cieut for the maintenance of their families. It was a
tree saying of Lind Baton, that " Rebellions ut ea*
belly were the worst," and that the unit irmidy was
to remove the tartar of the ardnion, the poverty.—
He was quite aware that this was not the place to diceess
the cpiestioo of pailiamentary term m, hut he cultist not help
thinking that the petitions of the prattle had out beau
treated as they ought. He was roily further desirous. in re-
p'ainiug his sentiments, to moire one expresso..., in the
Address of which he disapprove-4, because it conrs-red re-
ference to the circulation of blasphemous pulthestious if/
this country, a fact which he Nis' no grouted. h:r behev;,:g.
He had for two or three monthh+ poet examined the porn-
phlets of all the hawkers whom he had met nod fomid, in
the village near which hr retitled on the opposite roast, and
he bad not discovered otie irreligious publication. 'fhe
pamphlets they chiefly hail for 'Ale acre of a very opposite
tendency, such as The Evangelical Hagazine,Clienia vepi-
sitar, Tenets, Iloelneee Works. &.c. and he firmly ttei.e•rst
that at the 'sitarist moment the people of this cono.n w. re
far more given to building rhombi. s than pollute them
as had been •Illegtil. He disapproved of the circulation cat
such pamphlets as hail been alluded to, hot he nio-t A. nv ttry
it bad taken place in this consitry. In Eitglanit thereat might
be different, and he approved of the late trial cod cosmic.
for an offence of thus kind of Mr.Carlile, tf tt s.e not ar..
traded with the consequence of disseminating the patio.is
it was professedly intended to (hack. With ihi,e vicyla !le
cordially conceit-led iu tie addn.uu to the Addrras so ab.e
laid before the mist Mg by Mr. Jeffiry.
Mr. DEWAR, of Vogrie, said a few words in favour of ISe
Address.

Mr. J. WALKER lamented that any different,e of oi.:ni•.Y
should have occurred who n 11113u1113117 was ma iteam.bta.
He thought that the amenittnent was entirely nal td ;o;
and that as the meeting, had ataPathhal fur the sole puir•.,•,e
of voting a Loyal Address, discuasion on the measiirt
the Executive Government was Improper 311.1 uurallrc tu^
General DUNDIs maim a kw wha,rvatitias is support ui
the Address.

Mr. J. 31VIRAT, in a tuitic and eltiquent grit( h, rupinnt-
ed the Amendment.

The qaeatinn w w then pat. Amendment ur Not. whr, t
was carried Nut by t lame stojus :ty. Olt of whom 100
ben who were pie.ctit, uuly lb voted tor the Auteniloseu..
The Addles. was then unanimously ail.pteil.
On the motion of Sir GEOKGR the Omits r.f
tweeting .were voted to the Nuule Chasmic', after which re
meeting broke ail.

PUBLIC MKEVINGS.

HUDDERSMELD P(ELIC MEZT:NG.
mov%aistn R

The public meetiug at this t. 4 r.
into consaderatum the Lie tra.Mietio.lo at NIA•.Ct!,-••••
ter, and the hest Utrunie of prionotteg a Had cm!
Reform," which was o•iginally inteottrd to he
holden nn the 1,1 etrolixf, Lut *N. posoonned
consequence of some mi.:m*lloy er the now, :o
cou.tsble, took place that :lay on the side of At..,f..4-
During the forelsow. brat 4,1 1).",.!•1e
from the adjacent cuitotry entered the 'war-
iug
fi egi, Rte. and ',mar of them. precede it by Pev“ie
Of music. The urverntAa!:e 01 V.sper NI :lie +vv. la
wail, however, much rmatter than hada Aron at tp.
pitted. and we observed that a i.ery terve ;ornt.rrtoptv
were boy,. After *auk short t“nt tit ry fora.dt
in procession, ant alarchpit ;aware* Mt trlate .tf
rae,t mg In the fUrtilVilnK Cr.te• 4 --
carom; ?mitten, nub wh'ate wands, ..waev.ted by
buscbes of crape.-- Reat, of is sue—Fist, Cape of L. t.-rty,
&e.—Ralureteri, or e,gbi •:otrw.S.
The procrvit,... !.aura t:r some lire at M .A.
green, to prot•tar.., reinfot,tmelta, anal to wan for
tips Halifax Reforalera, *no **re ron,ideriihij alter
the time. Whets the ahnie i.srl jaiiirtl the vr,.:.•-•
aion assumed • wore r.arrni4labie appea-ance, act .
the number of flags mat we., great. ailouiltp!bg its
the whale to fort)-four, with a great vaemiy .01

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