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VIOL XX T Si 011.1 L

A severe storm of thunder and lightning, sitcom.
pained by torrents of had and rain, was experienced
at Tavistock. Litodulph, Saltash, and St. Get mains,
yesterday se'nnight. The hail, or rather flakes of
ice, which fell, were extraordinarily large, and dill
considerable damage to the glass in hot-hretses, &c.
At Liskeard, the ground-floors of the !crust.s iii
the lower part of the m wii were completely nook!. tl,
snit the totrents which rushed through some of the
narrow streets were sufficient to bear down a tuan.
During this tine lire treats of thunder were tre-
niesolously loud, and the Wishes of lightning very
vivid. At several other places the force of the
storm was equally felt ; but it did not reach much
farther west than 'nitro, where the fall of rani,
though heavy, was mint uncommon. The shims
continued about an (mum, and was preceded by a
most oppressive degree of heat.
A singular pettomettots was observed between
Cliacevoster and Retinal) on Saturday last ;—An
appearance like a water-spout was observed to rise
from some old mines in the neighbourhood, soil
continued for sonic lilne, but without any noise or
apparent convulsion in the surrounding atmosphere.
It disappeared after having proceeded for some way
across the country, carrying upevery light substai.ce
is its passage.

THE STOCKPORT CONSTABLE.

In order to possess uuraelves of the latest and
most correct information regarding the elate of Mr.
Birch, the assiatant.constable, we aildres-ed
on Tuesday. to Prier M.irsland, Esq. of Siccliport.
one of the Magistrates' for the county of Laucn•ter.
to which we received. by return of post. the follow-
ing polite and satisfoctory communication, from a
Gentleman deputed by Mr. Mandan(' to :answer
our inquiries :
" Stockport, Thorsday Moraine, Ane. S, 1919.
" Sta—Mr. Slmsland has this moment put 'our letter
judo my hands, and desired me to answer your inquiries re-
specting Birch. lam very glad to say, that lie still sue% ivro,
and that he is much better than his medical sltendanla had
restos to expect ; he improves daily, and although lie is yet
extremely weak, yet very great hopes are now entertained of
his ultimate recovery. The Magistrates have sat daily since
lbe unfortunate affair happened, and have (as you know, nu
doubt) committed a penuu of the amine of Brace, to Cheater
Castle, as an accessary. Several others have been in cos-
Indy, suit man still cattlemen; the real assassin, I am sorry
to say, it is believed, is ma yr( actually in custody ; hut it is
a pleasure to add, that the Magistrate' are in prminnt.ison of
such information as has discovered In them the whole trans-
-action, sad as will very sho►tly, I trust, lend to the appre-
!session of the priatipal offender.
" L am, Sir, yours very respectfully,

" To Mr. Edward Bahasa, Mercury Orate, Leads."

We lament that wahines hemmed a dreadful occnrreoce
which look place in %Corm/tee, brewers ore and two o'clock
on Friday morning—Sums melt who had been employed by
the Excise to seise some malt, were met near the back of the.
Hope Pole Inn, by another party of persons coming from a
public.bosu •' a quarrel soon ensued (several of the parties
appearing to have been intoxicated) and • general battle
commenced. Awing those engaged in fightiug was Joseph
Burton, sad a man nicknamed Jaunty (who occasionally
goes to that city from Birmingham to assist nt the Worn
after these two bad fought for some time, Burton ran off
with his wife to his house, • few hiosdred yardsilistance, sod
in seven or eight minutes returned with a pike, nod dirt
a little more alteration, stabbed Jaunty through the heart
into the lungs, in consequence of which he died as lie was
being conveyed to the lisfirniary. sks Burton was returning
from his own house with the pike, he was beard to say that
he had been far • pike, and would stick it into Jaunty.
A Coroner's laquirit was held before Mr. Hence oil
day;l'.
au adjoaromeat till the following day taLk Ours.
Whet • verdict of Wilful iferder was returned against Bor..
ton, who has bees committed to the city gaol for trial.
The above particulars were detailed in the evidence gi yeti
before the Comae?. Inquest.
A benevolent sod public spirited proprietor in
the Lower Ward of Lanarkshire has offered to the
heritors of his parish to employ Wu weavers to
digging land at the usual rate an acre, or Is. a-day.
if it be preferred; and has recommended porridge
ie the morning end soup at dinner. to be given to
age seemes mid children as chase to accept of
dwui.
The weevers in the Upper end :Middle Ward' of
(,whsle
Leasikehire will be employed ea die
.mew

THE CITY OF COVENTRY

AND

I'EtER MOORE. E:Q.

tRE ADDRPSS To OUR WORTHY REPRESENTA-
• TIVI; PETER MOORE, ESQ.
Chi the. occasion of presenting hies with a Gold Cup, as
a mark Of approbation of his long and faithful woke, in
l'isliament, and That Gentlernho's Ammer thereto, not
having been laid before the public, they are now submitted
to the perusal of the nuns.. •iss promos who spontaneously
subscribed towards that testi O.nial of veneration, ISMent,
and ittOlitelk, left MO brilliant au example of fidelity ia
so ttrpre.rotative, and of confidence repined in him by his
I unstitnetria, s!ionld be lust In the woehh
TO PETER MOORE, ESQ.
• 47. ft— :h• pre seining to you ti testimony of our high regard
Ls your independent and faithful re-vices as oar trustee in
/earhament, we cannot hut advert to the circumstances lin-
er which You hare served •our city and the public at large—
elm-emu:bores which afford us the best ascent of forming !
a career: judgment of your title to our tanifidence, anti
which impel us thus to mauifest that we are not imiensible
of how moth we are indebted to yon, especially for your
endrevatirs to stem those torrents of abuse, oppression, and
disorder, which of late years have a-filleted our country
&limos to .ettin, and which still threaten to extinguish the
smati remains of the former prosperity and happiness of its
ro
When your services were first tendered to the suffrages of
the elrelois of our ancient imil loyal city, the spirit of
frotedom had been long and miserably eirprraaeel : confined
within narrow bounds, it bail seldom ti umphed over towhee
lenience, which, intent one selfish aorranitizement, derided
the true iitiewits of the enmeity. Your declared comments.
sonoinus, and persevering resolntion to maintain
those, proditeesl an irresistible expression of the public
voice, and breakivg Ihrosigh the trammels; placed around its
by prejiolire, bigotry, and party-spirit, yon became our Rs-
We fel, .Sr,: that from the time of your first entering the
Nat:Frill-S-Imi,, you have displayed_ an inflexible adherence
to tuitst:tiotonal principles--an adherence which commands
far I•ittl the admiration of every honest maw—not merely
Wise who were foremost in promoting your retort' to Par.
lout those, also, who, through prejudice, most MM.
10100111 y opposed you; and, now, each class emulate the
other in their-seal to prove, that you live in the affections
of sour Constituents.
Tire state of the full, at the last contested election, exhi-
lined this fact—vow was placed at the head of it by the un-
biassed attiring,s of our fellow-citiaena, who, to their cam.
*tiny honour, returned yaw to Parliacneut for the fifth time,
free of e spew.. To record, unitedly, these facts, soil oar
sincere regard for you, truth as a public character mid as a
private roan, upwards of two thousand of the inhabitant* of
this city, desirous to commemorate to future ages, your ser-
i ;eel said our gratitude, have spontaneously subscribed to
,rearm to you a Gold Cup, bearing on it the following iii-
scription
" As a tribute of profound respect and get:Wade, this!
elm is presented by more Man 4,000 Inhabitants of
tile cif& u,f Coventry, to Peter Moore, Esq. M.P. for I
hi, rattle exertions in the rouse of the People, and Ate
saretteilling attention to the local and indiridstal In-
terests of his Constituents, 1818."
Allq this example he followed by all other Represents-
lives, and all other places represented in Parliament! It
mitt he well that greater number establish a lake claim to
gratitude, and to be rememliered otherwise than as objects
of excermiiiii! Let the reflecting mind revert to the many
and melancholy circumstances, which, by the means of Par-
Lanientary instrumentality, have disgraced the traminctions
of later years! The country plunged into an unjust, San-
gooier'''. and pecneactril war, Inc
fiction .—• war, the necessity for which was problematical
to niauy of its must clamorous abettors, the consequeaces
*sheerer are rainuus ; a war, that has drenched the earth
wide the blood of our dearest relatives and friends; •
war, i.t which the whole substance of the nation has been
tested ; and, moreover, hundreds of millions of money low-
sowed Mot StittailllMesl away, to support it at the ripens,
vat a wretelitti people, iu ages yet emboli', noon whom this
en...gloriosa debt has been entailed by a faithless combitta-
i at.. ore' powering and triumphing over die few faithful
oils anti stipporters of the rights of their countrymen.
We torts with dimpled from these evils, anal mitt rs nut less
appalling present themselves. The institutions of our an.
I-routs—the footielation of social order and prosperity, have
Lrrn destrut ed, or grievously impaired : our whole country,
the land of freedom and happiness—once the easy and
admiration of tuber nations, is reduced to a prison and •
p.m house. Even the apparent state of peace, attained by
.air otter cxbai,ttion, has foiled to produce Ittalle its
4eoint accompauienents in other countries. Food can
moonily be obtaiiied by the must incessant labour—the
peat of r army necessary of life is artificially enhanced
almost its yotol the teach of the most industrioce, who
ore even compelled to degrading reliance on parochial
sates fur the or support. Notwithstanding the abundant sup-
plies affooded by nature and a KOMI climate, their bounties
are nut permitted to flow we are not only denied the sur-
plus of the produce of odor faints, but our manufacturing
population is prohibited from emigrating to other countries
to meth of that plenty which is denied them in their own.
Cases of Claire's and destitution, unpaialleled,dwell in every
shot-lion, anal the load of oppression and want ha* become
su crocus% that whole classes of the people, as well as
Ineii-
• ,duals, have, involuntarily, become oppressors of each
011.er ; some siiniog to avert approaching want—others to
ososiconie its grasp ; whilst the higher orders, to whom our
outesturs were Wool to look up with reverence as the pat-
ti ens ail all that is just, noble, and beneficent, appear linen-
elide of miseries inflicted ; and the Constitution of the coon.
try has beset perverted to give indemnity to the perpetrators
i.e these mile, to say noshing of its frequent suspensions,
aril the consequent stoppage of the course of justice.
lloweser those enormities are to be deprecated, we bare
pi ide in knowing that you, our Representative, have nut
i.erasiourtl, have nut participated in their tratnaction—that
!lon, Sir, have muddy resisted the whole of them—that you
hayp been slaw in the post of duty and of honour—and
base not given a vote that has cost the country a penny, or
Ike widow a tear.
Aline US to Moult you, Sir, for the kind attention you
has.- tot all occasions *hewn to the inhabitants of our city,
aed others, to whom, individnally, you have rendered va-
luable servers, both in Parliament and otherwise. And in
conclusion, atlhOugir we know that your natural energies
Lase hero almost too laboriously exerted in our behalf, and
that of the country, we sincerely hope that you will long
Lee in advocate the cause of the people whom you so well
we peewit, and to enjoy our good esteem and the small token
thereof, stow presented, of which we beg your acceptance.
'We hive the honour to he, Sir,
Your CONSTITUENTS and FRIENDS.
Cuientry, March 19, 1819.

TO ,THE INDEPENDENT FREEMEN AND INHA-
RI t'AN'Y.S OF TH F. CITY OF COVENTRY.
kloocseettsio (:ONSTITIJ a•T* AND F•tea DI —I spore-
cite as I might to du the testimonial of approbation awarded
to me by my numerous Cimatituents of Memel/tat and loyal
City in( Cothntry, aud, the 0101.11 so, ns it proclaims to the
%Aule body of electors thrunehont the empire, and to the
wueld at large, this congenial sympathy sloth ought to ex-
i.4 batwerii Constituents mid Representatives, iw the genuine
spirit of die Brutish Constitution ; and, doubtless, it will be
Idiotically recorded to the applauding iodation of others
In times to come.
This swiro• of sentiment cannot fail to be the more im-
' premier, as it has been uniformly manifested during • very
160111 awful, and eveutful period of extreme difficulty
end unparalleled swathes, pnblteand private—a period, in
abut. public !Owe''', the national basis and the pride of
Illritons in uer flee Colatitution, was wantonly betrayed,
Lay, trepsouably rendered up a prey to thamselres. by the
rot, suit thileist Ministers of the Executive Authority of the
toot, mod that, too, ea Ike pretended eallyiug fur flasfr dir.
feaci: —sinews. what ? why, forsooth, against the Cwsstitn.
4foll itself! and all this under Ike f■lse pretence of moody
eVID, width their own perfidious designs against,
•u! iihshooest &slings with, the people, had created by •
hug writs of cestrieed plata, barefaced artificer, sad

aYc ~.

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scheme, of delusion, Worker,, and fraud on tht prolific
ividendy Tor the -criminal end of hamiliatiug the
•nationia Spirit of Britose, to the slavish eondiliou of salmi
subruissiorsep arbitrary power.
I opposed those proceedings throoglsout, as my duty to
the country and to you imperatively demanded; No, at this
dirtimee Oftitne, reason and experience have maimed my
first sirloin's, and sanctioned the Rae of conduct I itursultd
•
aMyour neporsenistive.
The .objects tie' a free State, who maerifiee its Ilitertier,
are its Worst enemies. In oar own times, we have seen the
corrupt exercise of domestic trust impose on our country
far greater calamities, than any foreign enmities could even
have deredlo carpals., on 'greeting by fore, of arms ; not
only Meth. Constitution been violated, hut the prerogative
of the Sovereign (which tains eaclosively for the benefit if
the people) bas been grooly mairagrit ; the Throne of one
affections inimiarittly liatsell.il, the siallilaal strength *sit-
ed, and grated profligacy of expenditure line entailed
distress, misery, and calamity, on the people of the empire,
for many (emeriti ssss sy t to come. These are not minion
errors they are great crimes, the swish of which is, as fare.
told, :hat after a contest 025 years duration of useecet.
wary. tuitions warfare, on I port of Great Britain, every
nation and government, and the people of every country,
except Britain, have benefited by that war; and on the Bri-
tish, and the British alone, the accumalmed distresses, mi-
series, and burdens, of the people of all these nations, km,e
been traasferred and entailed, in addition to those we had to
bear heretofore; the intolerable oppression of which, my
respected Constituents, 1 am cowriaced no elms of his Ma-
sobjeets can possibly feel more poignantly, or in more
claiming shapes, than yourselves; whose steady loyalty, in.
meow iorlitstry„ and tremorl resignation to the yet living
hope of alleviation, pre-emiocutly entitle you to your Ste
vereign's earliest niter's, • • protection, and justice.
1 tellfirleallasasly appeal to God arid my country, that, so
far as the powers of troy trust have extend, d, during the 16
years 1 have served as your Representative in the British
Parliament, I have uniformly and studiously enikavonred
to keep the nation free from all those dreadful calamities;
mod you, my respected Constituents, to whom, alone, 1 bold
myselfresponeible fur my cunanct in the trust you have re-
posed in me, have, by the proud and invaluable emblem of
your satisfaction now presented to me, certified yourselves
as my best, indeed, the only witnesses I can proudly desire
to attest, mid to proclaim that satisfaction to future ages,
and which affords me the highest reward to which 1 can
aspire—Repeating my sincere regards for your welfare,
1 remain, my respected Constituents,
Your faithful Representative,
PETER MOORE.
Gloucester place, Morels 94, 1819.

RADICAL REFORMERS,
•ND
STATE OF THE MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS

Manchester, August 5.
The declaration of the Magistrates, as to the illegality of
the intended meeting of the 911 t, has had the desired effect.
The regnisitionists dare nut perstvere i■ their intentions of
holding it, and the following address to those who signed
the requisition has been issued, dated from the observer
Office, and signed by n Saxton," couoterosseding the Meet-
ing.

"TO THE REQUISITIONITTII WHO SUMO THE NOTICE TOR

TOL PUBLIC MICTINO ON MONDAY MELT.

" Fellow Citisens—On my return from Liverpool, with
the result of the important mission, and in the faithful dig-
charge of my duty towards you, sad the rest of my fellow-
citizens, I deem it weeeemary thus poblicly to inform you,
that after taking Counsel's opinion, upon the legality of
your public notice, I am instructed by Mr.Rauecock to say,
' that the intention of choosing Representatives, contrary to
the existing law, teuils greatly to render the purposed meet-
ing seditious: under those circumstances, it would be deem-
edjustillable in. the Magistrates to prevent such meeting."
" In recunimending you to withdraw your notice, and to
relinquish your intentiou of meeting your neighbours um the
important subjects intended to have been discussed on Mon-
day next, I deem it necessary. to state to you and to the pub-
lic, that in the opinion of the must enlightewed friends to
liberty, resident in Liverpool, your requisition is perfectly
legal and constitutional ; they are, nevertheless, induced to
recommend this pause in your proceedings, merely in Iron-
sideration of Inc tune' threats of violence issued in *paper,'
from the Bench of Magistrates since the publication of your
malice, and of - ieevident preparations sow making to carry
these threats into execution. I am acquainted with your
necessities; l know the honesty of your intrutious, sod the
lawful meats you are desirous of pursuing ; but in a ques-
tion absolute right you are not prepared to defend your-
selves ; I therefore du nut deem it advisable, under the pee-
sent circumstances, to subject the persons of yourselves or
your friends to the illegal and unconstitutional violence
which your oppressors and their contemptible tools have
prepared for Sheueeasiou.
" The furtniilable preparations which your tyrants have
made to meet you, their unarmed and suffering victims,
is she highest compliment in their power to bestow upon
Yost ; it is more even than you could hope to gain by the
meeting ; you, therefore, may relinquish the objectionable
parts sit your requisition without regret, or even the shadow
of a &fest.

" Cs"lossel Million, a county Magistrate, bad the honest
boldness i.e Monday last, at the Liverpool Quarter Sections,
to advocate your cause, and the cause of the Lancashire Re-
formers., before his brother Magistrates; be confounded the
whole Reuel), out uue man being disposed to reply to the
curstitestional arguments of this faithful and sincere friend
of his country. I beg leave to conclude with reminding you,
and all the friends of liberty Ind justice, that our cause
grows and gathers strength with the plundering* of our
enemies ; whilst their rapacity must not only destroy the
means of their own existence, but must ere long turn them
to the destruction of each other.

1 ans, very faithfully, your obedient Servant,
M J. T. SAXTON.
" Manchester Obsneer•otice, August 4, 1819"
Another requodiion is now signing, but their tone is
muck lowered. It is aadiessed to the Suroughreeve and
Cotibuilales, owl is addressed as follows: .

" WC, whose moors are hereunto subscribed, request
that you will convene ■ Meeting at as early • day as poui-
bk., to colloid& tif tie propriety of adoptiog she most legal
and effet nod means of obtainiug • reform to the Commons
House of Parliament'."

Boat is iu limn, and, it is probable, bail been tbe ad-
viser as to the propriety of not bolding the Meeting.
The Watch and Ward Aet is about to he enforced in Lan-
cashire. A Sp.eisl General Meeting of Justices will be held
for that purpose at the New Bailey, in Salford, on the 12th
instant.
• The fact W, the paltlieatios issued from the Bench pe-
rtnipturily commando ■ll persons to attend the Meeting,
alien a contiary mewling wavintended to bare been con-
veyed.