The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-12-04 00:00:00

STATE OF THE COUNTY OF DURHAM.

Mr. Lswisrom felt it to lw (hie to the Haus., in
consequence olotatements made by a Noble Earl
(the Eat' of Strathmore) in : her place, last
si.ght, that fissorterts or fifteen thousand men on the
batiks of the W. it and the Tyne, were in a state
of sittlitmv pre:nirattois :mil training. and only
waiting fur arms to rise into actual rebellion, io
state what Ise knew respecting that pats of the
country. lle did an, without in testy war meaning
to impugn the veracity of the Noble Earl, he-
lieviisg, ott the contrary, that he had made the
narration its a full re ante nit the credi, of the
persona f which he had derived his information.
flowever, as the ',fold? against whom this terrible
accusation had been made resided in the vicinity of
his own r.tate—as lltAlly of them received employ-
ment f I us they formed a part of hits con-
slit ueitts—lta thought it but justice to them to de-
clare that, from Isis own persmal observation, from
all the inquiries he had been enabled to make him-
self, and front till the information furnished him by
his agent, he ball not the slightest reason to think
that the statement to which he had alluded was
founded in fact. He considered it necessary to
wake this drelaratiou teat it should be supposed Ins
silence had itrocreded f inability to con-
tradict the assertion.—(/tear, hoar, hear.)—With
reallect also to what had been said by the
same Noble Earl, of arms having been minutia..
tared for seven hundred men io a stuall sill age a
few utiles front Newcastle, lie had thought it right
to make inquiries no that point. There was but
note master-suanufattorer in the village, and one
of his clerks said, that he thought the fact impost
table, because the iron w'se delivered out to the work-
men by weight, at d taken back in the saute way;
that he could answer for it, none of their iron had
been sired for such purposes, and that the work-
oleo were in a state of ton great poverty to put..
chase city themselves. Pefll4llol he should state the
name of the N 0111 t• Merl In Wlll/1111 he alluded: it
was Lard Representiug, as he had
the honour to do, the county of Durham, he had
devoted it to be his Isountlett duty to contradict
statements so iflilifiOOß to MI large, useful, and loyal
body of men ; for however Put 'mitotic their feeling
its favour of IL- Conn, they %.,ree to loss remarkable
for their obedience to the laws and loyalty to their
King.—(//car.)

Sir M. W. IttuLEY begged leave to say a few
words relating to a 'petting of Reformers held at
the Towii fluor of Newcastle, un the 11th of Oc.
%ober. Statements had guide both that it had beau
attended by the inhabitant% of Newcastle, but he
bad been requested isarticolarly to state, that
scarcely one of the townspeople had been present
at it. Coosidernig the slumber of persons as.
semblrd on the occasion, it win not surprising if
those who were unaccustomed to witness such
assemblages laid is It some degtee of alarm at the
sights—the whole numbers lie believed, were not
short of thirty or ford). tl and. hut he could state
it on the authority oh persons who were present. and
had comittal the people apploaching the place of
mretstig, that those Who proceeded thither in an op-
iwarance of organization and nu ray, did not exceed
seven thsonsadid, and that when ete people ante the
persons who weir prepared It. address them, they
were greatly disappointed, nut that a great many
of thrum immediately withdrew. The disagreement
between the coal owned' and the labourers had un-
fortimately token !dace a little previous to the 111 h
of October, and lie was codivinced that those who
called the nii eting, did so, in hopes that it would
he eagerly attended by crowd% of the men out of
employ. But to the credit of that industrious
body ape-oldie. the few of them who did go, were
attracted by curiosity only, and retired in the moat
uttleily minister. He laid received a letter that.
morlidide Iron) the Secretory of a Society, called
the Polttieul Society of Reformists in that County.
Hr iteetled pot to assure the House, that he was
a complete enemy to those txtr:vagatot notions of
reform held by these people, and Ilia he would do
all its Isis 111114er to iSreVelmt the diffusion of sheen.
lint iii justice io dom. lie 011.0.1 bog lease to state
Just twit Inirs of the letter. The r'llbots. Baronet
thesi read al/ extract. They challenged the most
inveterate of their political opponents. to accuse our
of them of any act of disloyali). Or to say that uire
of them had ever been (longed with the VOlTllith,..
stun of any illegal net. Ile proceeded 44 Say.
duel their narriengs Iv.el often leren honoured with
the allewolso.ce of police officers, and that their
book• stab I.3lketo were ishrlip. 'eddy rue the
lion of litly Milt, chose to examine ;hem. With ti..
'pert to the keeping of bit In• iu aeret, they sin.
Cerrly believed that the thine had been deceived
in the representations lie foul made. Thry wcie not
sect] louts as he supposed; they knew that it was
tier sight sit every Englisiennen lid have ernes for his
proteClWil, el he Paw It Ilree,":sty—that, 'heroine.
if tory u•dited arms, they mould purchase and
keep thou openly. their object bring reform, not
revolution. The Hon. Itasuidel said, he could riot
vouch of his owu ;sodiumy for the truth of Imo
word of the letter, but he considered it due to tilt
individuals in questioa to intake the House sc..
susitited side so inside or at.