The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-08-23 00:00:00

THE BRITI SH PRESS.

LONDON,
MONDAY. AUGUST e 3, 1119.

RIOTS RENEWED AT MANCHESTER-MORE
PERSONS KILLED AND WOUNDED.

We have received advices from Manchester, down
to Saturday morning. The spirit of vengeance
ruched by the conduct of the yeomanry in the
breast+ of their townsmen, on Monday last, we fear
,c I 1 not be easily appeased. On Friday evening the
Iteformers assembled in great force at New Cross.
presumed from their conduct, that they me-
ditate-3 some act of violence. The military were
called out, and ou their arrival we learn • serious
conflict ensued, in which two of the populace were
killed, and missy were dangerously wounded. The
Reformers then dispersed, but on the same even-
in; they assembled again, and broke the win-
doss of several persons whose conduct had
rendered them particularly obuoxiOus to the Re-
forniets. Great apprehensions were entertained of
renewed violence in the course of the night,
but it passed over in comparative quiet...—
There was • report yesterday that Mr. HUNT had
heeis committed to Lancaster gaol, on • charge of
high treason. The report was premature : he was
brought up with eight others, including two women,
before a fun bends of Magistrates, on Friday,
when. after an examination, they were all remanded,
011 a charge of high treason. in the event of their I
committal, which may he confidently anticipated,
that offence rot being bailable, the Reformers must
choose a new President for their future meetings.
An [ogees' has been held on the bodies of three
persons, killed in the attack of the yeomanry on
tile populace on Monday last, and a verdict of
Accidental Death has been pronounced in each case.
The following are extracts from private letters:—
• MANCHESTER, AUGUST 20,
" New Mlle" Court-Hume, Twelve ()Thick.
" The following nine persons were brought up
thi• mu►uiuc, before a full Bench of Magistrates,
and remanded on a charge of high treason :
" Heart Rost, .1. Johnson, J. T. Saxton, John Knight,
Janes lionetwiese, Robert Jones, Robert Wild, Elizabeth
Wrist, sod Sneak illsraresms.
•• Nine 'o'clock, p. os.—The Reformers have as-
sembled this evening at New Cross, if possible in
greater numbers than yesterday. A spirit of re-
venge was general amongst them. On the ar-
rival of the military a dreadful couflict ensued,
in which two of the Reformers fell, and many
carried to the Infirmary seriously wounded. On
being dt•ltersed' they again assembled in Tilt-
street and its neighbourhood, where they totally
demolished the windows of a Mr. CREATES, and
many other persons, who have rendered themselves
ritnioxiuus to them. They were proceeding to
greater ravages, hot were prevented by the timely
arrival of the yeomanry. Great apprehensions are
entertained for the safety of some of the cotton
factories, but every possible precaution has been
taken fur their safety."

" SATURDAY MORNING.

•4 The It have been more ■t rest during
the ',iglu than was la►t evening anticipated. and are
less numerous than thry were; but it is feared they
will egoist assemble in the after part of the day."

Paris Papers of Wednesday and Thursday last
have arrived at our Office. A trial affecting the
lilserty of the pens oCcnpied the Assize Court of
Poi. on Wednesday, in which M. de MARTAIN
VILLE, a distinguished writer in the French capital,
nay accused by the widow of the late Marshal
Bituax with haring, in a Paper entitled Le Dra-
pears Blase. defamed the character of her d • d
husband. M. de MarraINVILLE defended him-
self, and justified the character he had given of the
Marshal, by referring to the principal acts of that
General's life. His justification was sufficient, for
the Jury unanimously pronounced his acquittal.
The Grand Duke of Bantu has remitted, in
some slight degree, the strictness of the previous
law against the public press. By an edict of the
late Duke, published the 18th of October, 1810,
only one public journal was allowed in the Grand
Ducky; but by a late Ordinance, licenses are offered
to id I persons desirous of undertaking the publication
of a journal. Political papers, however, shall for the
present he published wily its the towns of Carte-
-1 trite, Manheim, Fribourg, and Constance, and even
in these towns the permission of meddling with po.
litics is confined to only rate journal. This strict-
t.ess would seem unnecessary, for over all journals
the previous censorship will still exercise its pre-
ventive vigilance.
Marshal Sourer, Duke of Dalmatia, appears to
have risen with wonderful rapidity in the good
graces of the Court of the Tbuilleries. He has
already, since his return to France, had the honour
of a closet conference with the Kum, and he has
been graciously received by the Duke and Duchess
of Asnoutmeit.

The F►ench 6 per Cents. ere 71 f. 21 c. ; Bank
Stock, I,4es f. 75 c.

We have received Hamburg!' Papers to the
18th. and Brussels to the 20th lusting. The MVO.
Ititioury spirit that has made its appearance iu the