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tslkcd Ott!' in your Society -what the OW Setisty bad
wo,)oscl to d0?.....yc5.
not the seedy at Suited and the society at Dureley
need i ith the same associdtion ?wol behove it is•
With respect to the nealbsa of persons trot vsf employment,
bow ninny years back de you mean to represent *MI6 be the
case, that a nun.be, of persons have been nut of employment
inthe neighbourhood ofStrood '—For these four years my greet-
cot ihoress lists becu in the wool•oft, to say to weevers I cannot
help you.
You were &kr& to refuse so many people that applied for
work ?.--Yes.
how many peoplehave you refused ?.-Tat is impossible to
say.
In what way are you, broad-cloth or keraeytnere?—vitoth.
flow many permits will you say you have refused in any one
year ?—That >s impeosible for me to say t snore than them arc
davit in the year.
bid you know them ?—Some of them I knew.
How many that you knew did you refuse ?—A great marry.
How many will vou say, that you yourself knew to good
work.,,en, arid per.oni fit to be emphryed believe I Gan say
hundreds within these ten mouths. _ _

I was WI asking about foor years ago, before these associa-
tions were istioA ; I wanted to knot, how many ; how 10-g
have you knows of the.-.e association: being formed !—About
five months.
A good many people have been out of employment sir ce that
time do nut know that there have bean more than at
other times.
Those who have not served apprenticeships did not leave
their employment in consequence of tliesi notices ?-oThere
may have been notices s:rvest ; hut I do not know one out of
employment in costiognisace of them.
Do you know of any good workmen, before you left home,
who were out of employment, who are not counetitel with
your association I-4 do nut know any that are not conneeed,
for I believe it is a general thing.
I thought it did not rdmit persons who had not served out
seven years in the ?not! ?—There may be a fair oi them.
That is to pmsleute themselves ; there are some people in
the woociation who ;Lind in that situation they would he to
prosecute theinsdves; how many members of Vie as.ocia-
tom are there w..ti have not Af":red saes year; ?--.4 cannot tell. '

YOU UV thrt • ar.• soml '-1 canunt tell nay.

You s.sai just stow• that th...rc wzre vntnc Vhst hal ant served'
apprenticeshipg ?.--ITod.r their fathers ; they arc ninthly tinder
their fathers, or souse persons as guides to usitruct ti►rttt in the
usiurss. _

But hare not completed their seven year% ?—Yes.
Hut they Ar: members of the %society do not knew that.
Hut you tn.d me Plat same peoson.; were numbers of the so-
ciety who had not screed apprenticeships all their seven yowl
out ?-o-ol do nut know that.

Do you know of any cards of protection given out by Mr.
.1..-s;op to perseas who are not to be prosccuted do not
know what is meant by card. of protection.
Perliks you can explain it slink more; d:rl you never hear
in your s•iciety of cards of protettion being given to persons
who ate not to be the object of proatrution never did.
YOU never heard of any thing givt•n to persons by way of
proteffion ?—I never heard of any thing but a certificate with
the articl%. _

Are they examined to see whether they are legal weavers,
and have served legal appreeticeships, before they become
members?—Yes, tlit*y are.
Supposing they turned nut not to have been bound appren-
tices, is the mine certificate given to them as to others ?—sSups
posing they had worked seven years.
Supposing they had only worked five years and a half, for i:is
stance, what paper have they than at AI.
Are they not admitted ?—No, they are generally known,
those who have worked seven years,
Do they undergo an examination'—lie must satisfy the ma-
jority he has served seven years, or he is not admitted.
You der not k tiuw of any protellinn given to any persons who
may be unteci to the society, or assist the society, not to be
persecuted
What number of good • Armen, as broad weavers, art out
of employment now ?---1 ihlt is not my office to know whether
they are quite out of employ or no: ; but they come to me for
work, and beg for work, but 1 cannot follow them home to
their houses to see whether they have a chain or not.
!low many have applied to you for work within the last six
months, or within the month before you I.lft home; hive you
had applications?—Yes, daily; it is impossible for me to say
how many.
Persons have applied to you for work, but whether they had
worked at home or not you du not know t.-4t, is impossible fee
MC to follow them home to see whether they are at play ; but
they offer, as I keep a shop, to lay out all their mousy with
me if I will give them work.
Is that the case with all the persons you speak to, that you
do not know whether they were all at play ?—There have been
many I have known to be at play.
Will you mention any you have followed home within the
last six months, and know that they were at play ?-4 have not
followed them'home, I have enough to attend to; I have known
some near neighbours who have been nut of employ.
Has that been the case lately ?—Yes
Name one purson, a goad workman that you have known to
be out of employ a month before you aunt to this place
can reeiille& one Richar I Smith.

Examitled ky the Cow++,fete,.
Are you one of the petite Piers, have you subsernst.l the pe-
tition to parliament against this I :lever signed it.
Did you authorise a.iy other pet-inns to sulaicrite: at for you
—No.
Have you subscribed any money towards the ear:cacti a this
application ?—Yes, I have.
How much have volt subscribed ?—I cannot tell.
So much a week?—Yes, three hallo-nee a we:k.

For how many weeks have you paid it I—. Ever since the be-
ginning of Janes.y.
Have a great many others subscribed the same ?-...Yes, a vast
many.
Who collects the money ?—lt is brought to the meeting,
every 'aerobes brings -hi- money.
Who goes round to collect it !—No one, it is brought when
thoy meet.
Sixpence pew month ?—Yes.
Have you a tolerably tale sum at present ?—We have nat a
great deal now, I believe.
If this proccetNtiug were to go on much longer, you would
not have any I suppose !—lt is aluays onm;ii... in.

Who has the command over the money !—Only the steward.
The stewards and the treasurerNYes.
The to-murer is a steward too I.—No, the stewards take the
money out, and pay it to thz treasurer
1 he treasurer keep: the account ?—I never saw any.
Have you never seen any account laid before y on, tl:ougls
you have subscribed:Ante January ?...-No full account.
How many keys are there ?.....ihree.
Who keeps them ?—The stewards.
Ilmr many different leeks am there -Thee.
Who is the tren, erer ?—Mr .1055441.
He puts his hand into the box, at.d takes oat ac much es he
pleases, and will give yon an aecount by-aral-byre he
cannot take it out, the stewards mot.
Who is the solicitor?—Mr. Jesup.
Who is the president'-1 reckon heir president.
Duv A t., who has lately been meatior.ed is the
papers, as having received from the Emperor of
Russia a present of :1001 rubles, for a play, was
formerly an aEtor at the Theatre of the French Re-
public, and has written several popular Dramas and
Comedies. In January 180?., one of his produc-
tions, called Edward in Scotland, was represented at
the Theatre de la Republique, and received with
great applause; but applications being made in se
veral passages to the Frentb Pretrider, and qien es-
cored by I& rpedatars, it was, by the orders of BONA-
PARTE, stopped, after a second representation. The
author was arrested and sent to Brest for transpor-
tation, but by the intercession of Mademoiselle
BEAUHARNOIS with her Corsican father-in-law, the
order of transportation to Cayenne was changed '
into banishment to Russia for five years, and Duv AL
now enjoys at St. Petersburgh, not'only rote lion,
but that liberty which his countrymen at Paris, and
in free France, only know by name.

z,ine !kilt Liviwcz.
a AF KINGI BENCH, WESTMINSTER, .lints 24.
Swinge Wore LORD ELLTNIKHLOUGD.

ASSAULT.
NEWTON $O. TALBOT.
This was as anion for an assault intended to have
been committed, which did not take place.
The Plaintiff and Defendant were anchommiths,
employed in the service of a Mr. Whates, a respec-
table person of the same trade, at Wapping. It ap-
peared on evidence, that the Defendant, in tonse-
quence of a previous quarrel at a public-house,
came into the shop where the Plaintiff was working,
on the 15th of last month, when an altercation en-
sued, w Lich the bye-standers, in vain, endeavoured
to prevent. ' The enraged cyclop seized an enor-
mous Clinker, weighing no less than 42.01 b. which he
threw with irresistible force at the head of the Plain-
tiff ; the same, however, passed within a short dis-
tance of its obje&, without doing the least injury.
The Defendant, after the exploit, was turned out
of the shop, muttering, as he went, his resolution to
separate the Plaintiff's head from his body, when he
again met him.
Mr. GA BROW said, there would be no end to
frivolous law suits, if the Jury countenanced such
as the present ; and he conceived that Mr. Whates
was highly reprehensible for making his men bring
ations of such a paltry nature as the present. He
described the affair to be the effed of a drunken dis-
turbance, and trusted the Jury would see how far
damages ought to be given.
Lord Et LEN BON OVG ti stated, that the adion was
brought where an injury had not been sustained;
such damages ought therefore to be given as should
make each party pay their own costs.
The Jury gave one farthing damages, and one
farthing costs.

WIIATES It. RIPPENEIAM.

This was an aaion of trespass, for breaking into
the house and work-shop of the Plaintiff, an anchor-
smith at Wapping, and preventing a number of
men, who were at work upon an anchor, from
finishing the same, in consequence of which an in-
jury was sustained.
Mr. PARK said, this case was different from the
East ; the Plaintiff was indeed the master of the
mew who were engaged in the last cause, but he
had not, as Mr. Gatrow stated, urged the paltry
aftion into that Court ; the assertion arose from the
,sagacity of his Learned Friend, who knew he should
become Counsel against the Plaintiff, and had there-
fore spoken in order to prejudice Mr. Whates in
the opinion of the Jury.
Mr. Erskine had now become Counsel for the
Defendant; he would, however, not fail to apply
Mr. Erskine's description of the Plaintiff in the pre-
sent case; namely, that he was a respeaable anchor-
smith at Wapping ; the Defendant was an Attor-
ney, by whose =ulna the Plaintiff had been per-
plexed and harassed almost beyond credit. The
shop then occupied by his client, it seemed, had
been claimed by a Mr. Laurence, who made appli-
cation to Mr. Rippenham to ejeet him ; but as the
Plaintiff had been an possession a considerable time,
it was found necessary to serve no less than five
writs of right, in order to turn him out, the last of
which the Plaintiff negleaed to enter his appearance
to, until the morning after the regular time; the
Defendant immediately issued out another process,
from the Common Pleas, which was set aside by
that Court on the grounds that the conduct of the
Attorney had been extremely improper. On
the 7th of May the Plaintiff entered his appear-
ance, and on the 12th the Defendant came into the
shop of Mr. Whates ; the men were then at work on
the anchor of a ship that was to sail the next morn-
ing ; the fire was ordered to be put out, and the
workmen were told, when they remonstrated, that
they should not work there any longer. The place
was accordingly locked up, and the 'Plaintiff turned
out with his family, and the consequence was, the
latter lost the sale of the anchor, which remained
untold for eight months after. The Learned Coun-
sel concluded with observing, that be had no doubt
but the Jury would give those damages which the
Plaintiff was entitled to.—The evidence called 'n
behalf of the Plaintiff proved the fads already
stated.
Mr. Eassint contended that the Defendant had
only done his duty as an Attorney, by going with the
officer to execute the writ of right; the latter had
not committed a trespass, nor had he behaved mall-
ciou.ly.
Lord ELttoseitoncit said, the question the
Jury had to decide upon, was the damages the
Plaintiff was entitled to from the loss sustained by
the stoppage of the anchor. He observed, that ma-
lice, with respell to the Defendant's condua, was
not to be considered ; they would only give such
damages as would compensate for the loss sus.
tained.

The Jury, after some deliberation, gave a verdift
for the Plaintiff.—Damages
Several other causes were tried, but none of suf-
fic:e.it importazce to detail.

A low days ago two soldiers called at a public-
house between Sedbcrgh and Kirkby-Stephen, and
ordere,l son.o ale. It was in the afternoon, and as
they liked their beverage, they drank very heartily
until the evening, when they desired to see the land-
lord. —He attr,nded them.--They informed him that
they were sent to apprehend a deserter, who was
concealed at a short distance from thence ; that they
bad waited on Justice —, (a neighbouring Ma-
gistrate) who had recommended them to his house
and assured them that he (the landlord) would at':
ford them every assistance in his power.—Honest
Becalm declared his readiness to serve them, and
asked bow he could do it ? " Very easily ;" replied
the men. " You have only to furnish us with other
cloaths • we, will leave our regimental: here ; and, in
less titan an hour, we shall have our prisoner under
your ruof; stay with you over night, and march
him to his regiment to-morrow."--The landlord
(rejoiced at the idea of such goodcustomers prolong-
ing their visit) instantly produced his Sunday's coat
and waistcoat, and also those of his ion, in which the
two military men were speedily arrayed, and, Inv-
their scarlet-vestments (of maparsice) they sal-
-IW= - -forth to each the deverter.—How they succeeded
is not known • but the landlord, in a few hours, was
convinced that he had easigit a brace of Twion.

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ArArin. INrEt LIGT NC P.
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Yesterday, pursnant to further orders from the
Admiralty, to Messrs. Fuge and Son, merchants.
11,500 dollars were landed fmm the Dutch gailiot
the Vivo Suter:, from Surinam, captured by the
Doris frigate, and, with the S„500 landed the day
before, were sent off in boxes per waggon, to the
English house in London, to whom they were con-
signed from Surinam ; the property claimed by the
same house being the greater part of her cargo
viz. oil, cinnamon, &c. will, by virtue of a writ o.
delivery, be landed and warehoused at this portf
When it is considered how lately the Dutch settle.
meats of Surinam, Berbice, and heauibto have
been surrendered by treaty to the 13 itai+ian Repub—
lic, it is not to be wondered at that a f.:re tt deal of
British property should be shippt I on board tau-
vian bottoms at the above settlement for Europe.
particularly as it was profound peace when the
goods in question were put on board.—Had this
circumstance happened in a French port with
Batavian ship, though friends and allies to the
French, there is no doubt hut the Municipality of
the port would have condemned the remainder of
.the Dutch property and the ship as lawful prize,
for having English goods on board. Orders came
down this day for the 9th regiment of foot quar-
tered here and at Dock, and the £Bth regiment in
Dock barracks (so distinguished on the 2lst of
March in Egypt) to hold themselves in readiness to
march for Woodbury Camp, with the North and
South Devon regiments of Militia, from Mill Bay
and Frankfort barracks. The regiments to replace •
them in this garrison are not yet mentioned, to do
the various extensive and requisite duties of the
garrison. Several prizes came in to-day. but it
Glows so hard cannot learn their names.

PORTSMOUTN, JUNE t 3.
Went out of harbour his Majesty's ship La Pre-
voyante, of 40 guns, Wm. Brown, Master, com-
manding, being completely stowed with uaral
stores of every description, intended to be deposited
at Gibraltar and the island of Malta. Commissiorh-
Otway takes his passage in her, to assume his offi-
cial situation at Gibraltar.

Also went out his Majesty's sloop of war Warp, of
18 guns, the Hon. Capt. Aylmer ; and Charlotte
hired armed schooner, of 10 guns, Lieut. Alt, Com-
mander. The latter made signal for a convoy to
the Downs.
Arrived from the eastward several large trans-
ports; and remain with his Majesty's fleet, hired
armed cutters, revenue cutters, the trade bound
foreign, and a large fleet of colliers destined for
different ports. ind N. moderate and variable.
His Majesty's ship L'Egyptienrie, of 50 guns, last
night put back to St. Helen's, and this morning
proceeded to sea again.

LIVERPOOL, JUNE 22.
Arrived the Swift, Tate ; Benson, Phillips ; 7a-
maiea,Glegg; and
.7anter, Redmayne, from Jamaica;
and Brother,, Hall, from New-York.
The Broiers, Hall, ran foul of a privateer,
which stove in her bow, and she upset in the
Queen's Dock Bason ; no lives lost.
DEAL, JUNE 25.
Wind N.—Sailed his Majesty's ships Antelope,
Commodore Sir Sidney Smith ; Raisonable, Captain
Hotham ; Terror, bomb, Captain Harding ; and
Clew pm-brig, Lieut. Irvin, on a cruise. Arrived,
and sailed for the River, the Lord Ne&on, Smith,
from Jamaica. Came down, and sailed, the Inda-
tiphfr, Weir, for Jamaica. Put back, and sailed
again this afternoon, the Hero of the Nile, Aber-
crombie, for Barbadoes. Remain in the Downs,
the S4her bomb, Rear-Admiral Montague, Cap-
tain M,Leod ; Gelyihied, Captain Colby ; Barilisi,
gun-brig, Lieut. —; Nary, Earle ; and Adven-
ture, Phipps, for Oporto ; Samaritan's Hop, Boon,
for Trinidada ; Sala:, Robson, for Gibraltar; Swift,
and Liberty East-India pilot vessels.

HIGH WV

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