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that his apprehensions arose Rain the character ana
appearance of the Meeting. Now it is affirmed by
many respectable Whc were eye-wiinesoss
of the meeting, and their Statements ere corrobo-
rated by the testimony of the nerheranb witnesses
who have been examined at Oldham on ifieiniptest,
that the Meeting was peaceable and orderly; that
the People, so far from desiring to commit outrage,
were oniversafly retorting 'each other to preserve
tranquillity ; and that trot only wits there no appear•
mice of arms, but that very few of the people haa
even walking•siiiks. The arrest of flout might
'probably have beets justified, but it *Nord
little prudence to think of 'setting him its the midst
or so large an assembly. It is, however, asserted
on with, that there was a continued cordon of con-
stables from Mr. DtMiOn't house to the hustings
where Hume stood, cud by this passage • single
constable might ha* conveyed the Magistrates'
wurraiii. The pretence, therefore, of necessity to
justify the advance Of the !Mops is founded upon
61 rd aCy•

l'oo much importance-, by a stilt dent, is attach-
ed to the circumstance of ilk Magistrates having

read the Riot Act. No mats capable of entertain-
ing two ideas can imagine that reading this Act
could alter the nature Or the meeting, mid con-
vert, by a kind of Parliamentary magic, a peace-
lisle assembly into a 'leptons mob. Nothing
but the strangest necesbity could justify the em-
lilipyinent of the military, end it i• not even pre-
tended by the Magistrates or their eaculpators
'hat the people had proceeded to acts of violence,
etr hail even evinced a tendenty towards outrage.
Much indignation is affected at the people because
a yeomanry man had been knocked off, or had fallen
ott his horse. In the first place, there is no proof
Ilsat this accident was caused by the, people ;
but had the people been really armed, as is
incorrectly asserted, would it have been sur-
prising that a body of Englishmen, interrupted
in the discharge of what they considered a legal
duty. and assaulted by é military force, should
have displayed an indignant feeling at the out-
rige, and chastised those who dared to inflict
? flail the people been enabled to reii,t
`Le troops on that unfortunate day, and killed
et try Mall that dared to violate one of the most
valuable privileges of the community, who is there
the country, not prejudiced by party sprit,
tshu would not acknowledge that their resistance
was conformable to the principles of the British
Consti tutiou ?

A Dutch Mail arrived huh night, with Papers
to toe ‘,79111 last. They contain further accounts of
the persecution of the Jews on the Continent : it
is, 1....eer, from the prejudices of the people, and
Po! the policy of the respective Governments, these
pecziie suffer so lunch. The King of SAXONY. it
/2 said, has granted those resident in his dominions
the r;ght of citizenship, in opposition to the urgent
ierworistrimces of his onhjects. The Duke of
Ct.:SIHVILAISD left Hanover on the 17th, on his re-
turn to Berlin.

The Paris Papers of Tuesday last, which have
Isrriv, d, contain no intelligence, foreign or do-
mestic, of much general interest. The health of the
Duchess of BERRY. and of her infant daughter, is
au satisfactory, that the bulletins of the physicians
in attendance are tar longer published. We read of
the Kill% transacting business as usual with his
Ministers of State. and enjoying hisdaily promenades.
From the half-pay Officers of the old French
army some are occasionally *elected to be restored
in active service. The Commander of the 18:1; mi.
litary division at D:jon has lately received from the
N7iiiister of war forty-five appointments, for so many
of this class of the military, viz. 17 Captains, 13
Lieutenants, and 15 Sub-Lieutenants. This is u
judicious policy ; it diminishes u very formidable
body of men. in proportion to the numbers removed;
end by exciting hopes of preferment in those that
rent4u, removes much of the angry political feel-
ings with which the sense of disappointment and
injury may have inspired them.
French five per Cents. 71 f. sc. Bank Stock
/ .461 f.

iIIIERIVOL ME ISTINC.

OUTRAGES AT MANCHESTER.. •
On Wednesday last a Mealier of the Isihabitiasts of
verpool and Its vicinity was held at Clayton.square, In list
town, for the purpose of taking Ste seisidrrelion the PO'.
endives at Manchester on the lads of Angela laet, and of
agreeing to a Petition to the Prince Retest ott the auldeee.
It will be reeollecteel that a Requisition was some ties=
Presented In the Mayor, to convene Meeting of the i
tants, which that gewilionae, upon ntatore coasideralesels sw
doubt. vermeil. The Reqoisitioniste, however, were Me%
mined to take the arose of their fellogr.tewesmen on the sob.
ject, and therefore pablished a oohs. calling open the Shay
bitants to meet on ilfeilosilay. The chair, it was aanoloseado
would he take.. at twelve o'clock; but long before that toms
a erausirlerable crowd was enllected round a temporary hut.
logs whieh was erected in that part of Ike square frosting the
buns, of Mr. Worthier**, at which the Committee were ae.
',shied. At half-past twelve Ike Right Hun. the Earl of
Sefton, accompanied by Colonel Williams, Mr. Grenfell.jon.
(the son of the :Member of Perlisisietit), the Rev. Mr. Steep.
herd, Mr. Rooth, Mr. Sanders, and several other gentlemen,
aseeeded the hustioes, and were received with loud sod cos
tinned •pplauve. As soon as this sigh.ided,
Mr. BOOTH came forward, amid observed, that, before So/
could enter ups.. the Shines of the day, it world be re.
quisite that they should elect a Chairman for the
He was happy to hare it is his power to propose fee Otelie
'weepiest.** matt who was known to every ladividual moat;
then—a Noblesse, who was the tried friend and the am
suppewier of the rights and liberties of the people.--(fdletd
eheert.)--He begged leave to nominate the Earl of Serino,
and to move that- he should take the Cliair.—( Vociferate
approbation.)
This motion having Seen seconded end carried. the Eat,
of Swore's; roses address the Assembly, and was hailed by
the enthusiastic 'petting of every iiadividual ciimproiseg is.
He began his speech by 'dowering, that, is taking the Chairs
to which he had been called in so very dattering a manner,
it became his duly to draw the attention of the meeting to
she immediate object for which they were that day asses.
bled; and in spider to do it in the clearest manner posibte,
he then read to them the Requisition on which it had beets
convened. It was unnecessary for him to say a word regard.
iwg the issetability of those who had signed it, as they
were well kenvos to all present. He should, however, ob-
serve, that they had sent it to the Mayor, in order that they
Sight have his sanction to their pruceediug.: if they had
obtained it, be should have Arrived great satisfaction from
attending a meeting ft) called ; but as they had not obtained
it, those Gentlemen who were of opinion that the town of
Liverpool. from its vicinity to the scene of grievance, ought
to express its sentiments upon that grievance, found them.
selves compelled to pursue their present line of cunduct, as
no other emirs was left open to them. The terms of the
requisition were distinct sad clear; and he had no doubt
hut that he should receive their supportive', assistance, whew
Iw expressed a wish that they would confine themselves to the
subject mentioned in it. He felt that that subject was the
only one which ought to be considered; it was interesting
enough to require their sole investigation; and the intro.
despoil of any other topic, however vital and interesting it
might In either in his own opinion, or the opinion of others
would only serve to diminish the • ffect which all of then;
wished the present meeting to produce.—(Cheers, and some
crier of " No, no.")—The eyes of the whole country were
ihool alo,n them; their proceedings were viewed withaneittly
by every party its the state: the degree of it might differ its
the different parties, but it existed in them all. By rase
party they were looked to as an important part of an indig..
sant population, shirk had been noosed into activity by the
belief of fro's outrages having been committed upon the
people; by soother they were looked to as men ready to
stand forth with she rest of their conutrymen, and demand
redress fur the injury which hail been inflicted : at the same
time they were watched by a third party, who hoped that
their present proceedings wouW afford it souther *epode.
idly of reviling, cslumnlatiag, insulting, sail perhaps per
suelly attacking the perip:e Load ekeers.)—He was cun-
viseed, that whilst 'ley made the cause of either of the two
feeler parties their own, they would disappoint the hopes
and wishes of the other party by the regularity and order and
decorum of the proceedings of slat day —(Cries of " We
sill, ere rifl.")—He would not detain them any longs, ex-
cept in require that a fair and patient hearing shunlA be
given to every person desirous el addressing them, if that
person confined himself to the subject of the requisition ; he
had notbine more to ask of them except their indidgence, • r
which he knew that he should stand in ample need, as he had
*ever been previously placed in a situation similar to the
one which heat present occupied --I,onp and load cheeri op.)
Mr. Josmett Sea DAIS congratulated his fellow.townsaas
on the appearance of a man of Lord Sefton's character sod
importance at their present meeting. HC hailed it as an
aspicious nines., that the aristocracy of the country were
at last rousing themselves from that apathy in which they
hero so long and so diegracefolly pluiteed.—(Citees.)—
In this time of peril ;mil danger, when the liberties of Eng-
land we. t• trembling in the balance, such at. tames would add
nerves to the timid. hope to the distressed, and confidence to
all.—Theers.)—The example of the Noble Earl would nut
be lost upuu the country; it could not fail to be productive
of the most aalusey consequence, sad would trod more
than say other Canaria, bring together sod to unite in one
common cause all rank. and elseses of the cominueity.—.
If property were, nil it had been denominated, natural domi-
aion, then those who puseesed it were the 'lateral leaders
of she people—rtfearj—and it was n happy circumstance
in the constisittiou 'if society, that the higher the scale of
gradation ascended, the more necessary was it to take cue
that all nhunlil be right below.—(llear.)—They were now
met together to petition his !loyal Highness the Prince Re-
gent to institute a full, fair, and efficieut inquiry into the late
proceeditigs At Manchester; and if there were any thing eel.
related to make all ranks and all classes smite for one comae
sou purpose, the preservation of all, sorely it visa the
calamity on which they were flint day assembled to roe
press their 'sentiments; he, theprfore, hoped and trusted,
that nollung stela fan from the lips of any indiridual Orbital°
oarnird tend to produce collision of opinion —Whew* )--Far
. his own part, he del lint cues before.theen to accuse the Ma-
gistrates of Manchester of a preinediated violation of the
liW, nor to charge the yeomanry cavalry with wantonly
Saaelwrine their uit"inied and unoffending fellow-citizen",
use to inveigh against his Majesty's Ministers fur arroyo,-
misine the honour miel dignity ef the Throne by mixing up
with it approbation of actions, (ruin whose mere recital hu-

• . • •
Hie contrary, be believed that all the atrocities which
were perpetrated proceeded from the wild notions of just ice
which those gentlemen entertained, and for which they would
probably have to sssse► at She bar of their °geode' coun-
try. At the same time he could out forget, that, by their
pervious and subsegarent courloct, by their attempts to
screen the accused, by obstructiug inquiry, they had acted
contrary to law, sad had justly forfeited the coulideoee of
the public : but he did must certainly hope, that the Prirsee
Regent would not only dismiss them from all plat-roof trust
and profit, but also from his tumults, as a preliminary set
of atorenteirl to his offirtided people. The wilder would not
pass away, without bringing to light events of importance:
past eveut• hail created great diserratest, sod nothing bat
inquiry would allay the rising ferment. After stw-oz, that,
without a firm union among the friends of liberty, the coun-
try would sink either under anarchy or a military despotism,
he concluded his speech by proposing, that She Meetiag
should adopt au Address to the Prince Herat.
The Her. Mr. SHP:PM:RD, is weeding the ttwtioa of the
last tliscaket, begged to coognitulate his felkw-citiseuraa
the number and respectability of the meeting. He per
■round him the friends of freedom in all its *a-
lines shades This was as it should Ice. The petal now I.
dispute was not one of secondary imporiaoceit was not
whether this or that system was good or bad. The moist ea
which they were now at issue was, whether Eagliehowa had
or had not is right to assemble ■ud distress political "see-
lion, at all.--:Ckeerfsg.-I'be Heir. Mr. Shepherd, after a
must eloquent speech, was succeeded by Me. Sam/ere, wM
lead so Address to bun Royal Highness the Prince Regent,
simmer to those already parsed at a number of public meet-
AS soon as the Petition was concluded, load bents of ap-
prubetieu followed from the surrounding multitude, which
at this time ■muuuted, we believe, to out km than 8,000 or
8,000 pentium.. . _

. - - -
On Owe question *brit it be agreed to being pat,
Dr. enoseirrnu came forward. lie oberreed, that although
far more *rialtos, to hear than to hr a speaker at mlblie meet-
ings, yet he roorrieed that it would be a dereliction of duty,
and a grimed of irelf-reproacb, if he refrained frets offering
a few remarks on the srrhject 'refuse the meeting. He would
frankly admit that ilia opinions and anstinsents ware fully is
accordance with those expressed in the Petition. The Dr.
censored in the strongest terms the conduct of the yeomanry
awl Magistrate, of Manchester.

Colonel Williams, mid a great ...beret most respectable
Geodesists, stated their abhorrence of the late disgraceful
scenes.

The meeting thee separated in a mess pasestabie snastaer.

AGRICV LIVRA L REPORT POR SEPTEMBER.

There is no novelty of report from any part of the coun-
try at this time, blot a month hence She bars-doors will
have determined with more accuracy on the quantity of the
various crops. With respect to aggregate products, the
present is the most plentiful season which has occurred fur
many years, not only ass this country hut throughout Europe,
in most of the eons countries of which there is also a con-
siderable stock of old wheat. Our last year's wheat con-
siderably excels in timidity the growth of the present; and,
of course, fetches more money in the market. Beans
are a great and good crop, with local failures. Heli-
goland beaus, however, and Talrvers or Spanish wheat,
have failed generally ; the latter, we &pprebend, not freers
early sowing, as generally suppo.wil, but rather from the
capriciousness of our climate, to which the foreign species
have nut yet been sufficiently habituated. Swedish turnips,
natives of a climate far severer than nun, are always a enure
hazardous crop than flee common species, and are at pre-
sent in a very uncertain stale, much mildewed in every quer-
lee. Labour, which has bees high ito the harveet•fiel.l, con-
tinues so in threshing, the quantity of straw being extreme-
dinary; that;in the ear not proportionate. Rain is greatly
*meted in the north, and rater for the cattle, which
have been driven miles fur that necessary; the pastures
are burnt up, and Ile stubble, bare. In other parts, a far
more favourable report ; but, in all, rain mach wasted.
Hops a great and fine crop, with a prospect of a still greater
reduction of price. In Scotland, must of the crops a full
average.

From the very great satisfaction which the plan
adopted iu former Lotteries, of solvertisinK a List
of Numbers, save to the Public., and the circumstance of
many of those Numbers harm" proved fortunate, T. DISH
is *rain induced to repeat it in the present; and lemma the
adder-mentioned may form part of the Eight 20.0001 Prizes,
contained its the grand combined Scheme.—The follow's%
Tickets are reserved fur such persons as may order them;
and may be hail at either of has Oakes, 4, Corahill, or 9,
Charing-cross, its Mettle Tickets, Hakes, quarters, Eighths,
or Sixteenths._

No. 344 No 4.2.!./
9,071 I 2,165
7.416 2%6
52 Id 14,705
3,500 I 6.00
Lorz I 5,2*1
B.2dj 257
6,003 3,306

No 1.33 S No 5,2811
7.417 3.245
4.256 13.11
2,048 I 9.215
256 1 7.429
9.211 4.259
8.264 2,141.
0,1144 323

Adventurer, who wish to have Two whole Tickets of the
Mlle fate, by which 40.0001. may Iseobtaintti, may have

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t 5.167 t 5,269 r
Persons not approving say of Ilse stoner, inn, chow ont
or several 'flounsanol, at either of the &more Offices, where
particular tor fancy Numbers may be HI/mined, if not pre-
rimorly Lottery Pth of Next Month, Nu-
'rather ( Lord Mayor's Day), when the Tau First Tickets
decided onus. get 20MO/. each.

L. 141 'Amery (be Tickets ruse to 21/1. tack, sod Sistiretaths
to It. 15s.

•.• Letters post-paid duly

The Captain% of the whale ships recently arrived
from Davis'a Straits, report generally their opinion
in favour of the practicability of a north-west pas-
sage. Throe vessels have sad • very issrrow escape
from being locked ill the ice, and their safety was
considered oo doubtful, that they were ensured at
Lloyd's at 40 guineas pertcent. They penetrated
further to the westward than mina!, awl the Cap-
tain of the Bois Accord, who steered a south-west

COAL MARKET. OCTliliEll I.
Ships at Market. Ship.MN. Prier.

2 Neweasile
1 SOO Ireland 1 43. na. 0.1.
I Welsh Cool ..... 2 .... 6f.s. 0.1. to 041.
1 Umbers
1 Culls 0 .... 0.1. w —s.

[Fro. the " Leiden 111.. q: "'kg Citrrevt":

FRIDAY AFTERNOON. OCTOBER L

Colton.—There lute bees no sales of Coitus. by I.ri•Ale
contract this week, owinr to the eatensive apisetity clei«.l
at the India House far tu.ilay ; it consisted of shove loyii,l
hales, of which only about one-third was diaposed of-5,017
bales Settee', at 6.141. a 8.1.; 8.929 Surety, fild a IN. 11,
prices went very Iteven, Mot upon the whole the market
may he considered P. lower for East bailie Cotton ; in am.
nil instances parcelv went at the reduction of lel per !E. ;
but the quantity sold at that decline C 1111411114 be takes, a. 4
criterion the effect of the sale will km he unfavourable
with respect to the prices of Cotton: for the Madras Ccr-ui
960 bags, there appeared to be no purchasers. By r• ihhe
Elk yesiertley,ll64 bales Rethici Cotton went at 16J. a lil!.1:
the &orals, 68 bare, were taken in at 7 Id.
SUGAR —The demand for kluecovadee has continuct
steady all the week : the Irmss3ctioaq are hot extrie•ir.,
the prices are firmly maintained, aud the huhlros appeah-
ililloUtlS In elf( ct sale..

porcbases of Rtfiavd goods, for inrnirililte sbipmrni.
have bees very cnosiderable, the prices has, hosierrr cm. r
way on aerosol of the great anxiety of the Milikrs to chic
sales prelim's to the closing of the report srasou.
The wholesale pour., for she home cousumption or the
irowniry, have been machining hue goods us a wet) haired
wale. Molasses are in 'tends. rimiest.
Hy public sale, 310 chests Haraminh and 2L chests 11,1: I
Sowers were broogbt forward, the middling strong st iffir
were all taker is as 48s. /14:•ad Ye". ""'l
-r-olied, and allot.: