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said, oppeaterl it the Havonnah, with alarming '
,Inwtoins. We are informed, that the competent
authority at Boortlearnt. apprised of these circum-
stances. has prescribed to the Committee of Health
at Pattillse, to subject to a rigorous quarantine
vessels coming from those places.
A letter from St. Domingo announces the death
of the celebrated Billaint-Varentiet.
About twenty armed men proceeded in the night
of the 23d of August to the mountain d'Alpe, in
the district of Argeles, sod after having shut
up in their cabins the keepers of a flock of
sheep belonging to a Spaniard named Clenienti,
a farmer. they carried off or killed twelve sheep.
Tins attack was made by way of repri.ials for the
violence lately committed by the Spaniards, in car-
rying off 4,000 sheep from the French territories.
lONE, AUGUsT 23.

The famous scheme of.fisiiing for stators, appears
to have failed. The researches in the TOver have
now been continued three weeks, and nothing has
been found. The Directors themselves allow, that
they have no indication as to any parts where their
labours might be successful, but that they proceed
entirely at hasard.

THE BRUISE PRESS.

LONDON,
TUESDAY. Sfirremsse 14, 1819•

Yesterday Mr. HUNT made his triumphal entry
into London, accompanied by many thousands of
pror:r, mho testified, by repeated acclamations,
their sense of his manly and judicious conduct in
the .trsiggle which he had to sustain at Manchester,
siwonot cruelty nrid injustice. The Treasury Pa-
;isk, with ingenuous simplicity, in what-did
Mr. Ilyrces triumph consist? and why should his
return to London be hailed by the people ? But

they are not so ignorant as they seem. They know
that the Magistrates of Manchester had strained
" thrir brief authority," and endeavoured to per-
ve•rt the laws of the country, for the purpose, not

only of oppressing Mr. HUNT, but of destroying
in his person, as far as in them lay, the most va-
lued rights of the people of England. They know
that these Magistrates, influenced by certain poli-
tical propensities, ■nd taking as their justification
the opinion of some silly blockhead on a par with
themselves in wisdom, arrested HUNT and several
other persons on a charge of intending to create a
riot—that in the execution of their warrant a mili-
tary force was unnecessarily, and therefore illegally
and unconstitutionally employed—that several per-
von.; were barbarously killed and wounded, al-
though making no resistance to the troops—that
many were arrested without warrants, by the
troops—that these, with the former, were thrown
into solitary confinement, and as if for the purpose
of prolonging this tyranny, were accused of high
treason—that an attempt was made to strain the
lass of high treason, nod that at length a charge of
conspiracy was with difficulty " got up," and they
were compelled to admit to bail those whom they
strenuously sought to make their victims. Perhaps,
indeed, it would he more correct to speak of the
" triumph" on this occasion as the " triumph of
the law ;" for no person can imagine that the popu-
lar enthusiasm which waited upon Mr. HUNT dur-
ing his residence in the county of Lancaster, and
greeted him upon his return to London, could have
been excited by his presence, unless sonic general
principle of public right had been involved in his
individual sufferings. Had the Magistrates of
Manchester the good sense not to strain the laws
of the country beyond their just intent, for the
purpose of gratifying some angry feelings—had
they pursued the example set by Lord
Sto-
atouptt the Magistrates of London, and of
many other parts of the kingdom, and permitted
a meeting of the people legally convened to con-
tinue together so long as they conducted themselves
with propriety and decorum, Mr. HUNT might
on every succeeding day have walked through the
streets of Manchester without attracting auy par-
ticular notice, and the capitol would not, on his
return, have poured forth its population to receive
hint with all the honours of a triumph. Whatever
eminence, therefore, HUNT has attained—what-
ever prejudices he has overcome—whatever interest
is attached to his proceedings, and with whatever sym-
pathy his wrongs are viewed, to the folly and intern.
perance of the Magistrates of Manchester he owes it
rill. They must have been egregiously ignorant of the
character of the people of England, when they

&uipposed that they could with impunity violate the
tights of any individual. however little he might

',nibs. of the general respect and confidence of the
The absurdity of Ins political principles,
however they might alarm some, and disgust others,
could never deceive the people into the notion that
Mt. HUNT'S rights and liberties could be destroy-
ed, and yet that those of tine nation in general
could still exist in full vigour. A precedent found-
ed upon 116 oppression would hereafter afford as
powerful a pretence for pursuing the same conduct
towards others, as if the injury had been inflicted
upon one more distinguished by rank or personal
consideration. Let the people of England never
lat.e sight of this truth, and, without in any degree
implying approbation of Mr. HUNT'S politics or
general conduct, they will perceive the necessity of
giving him their strenuous support in his present
struggle.

In another part of our Paper will be found a letter
addressed by Mr. Hossiouse, the Under-Secretary