The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-06-01 00:00:00

PRIV.ITE CORRESPONDENCE.

• MANCHU-fan, T.I.AV '29.
The accounts of the meetings of the weavers in
this town, will, no doubt, excite general regret ,
throughout the country, for nn matt who wishes it
well will, at a time like this, be feud of seeiug such
disturbences as hare been here this week.
The worling cotton-men are determined to bold
oat for their wages, and not 'a:Shuttle has been heard
since Tt4iiday morning last. They seem far, how-
ever, flout threatening any mischief in other re-
s Every one here is ready to acknowledge, that it
is impossible for the weavers to exist in the manner
they have lived for the last 6 months ; and unless we
were eye-eitiseases of the misery souse poor families
are reduced to, we would not give credit to its re-
lation.
The weavers are now literallestervieg, but some
liuwaue men have established subscriptions for
their temporary relief; you will eel* conceive
the state of the poor creatures, when they declare
they will mot go to their work, adding, they can isms
live alnieet as well without work as with it. The
poor man that was shot by a yeoman is to be in-
terred this day—the f-elings of comutisenition ex-
cited by the appearance of his wretched wife and
six small childrey, are indescribable./
The poor man who has thus fidlen a victim to
the fury of one of them, was, 'remain, to ac-
count, a very harmless being ; and 1 think it a
duty we owe to his character to state, that, con-
trary to the assertioe in one of the Manchester
Papers, he did nothing to warrant the violence
which has been committed on him. It has been
said, that he threw a brick-bat at the soldiers, but
that is false. Alter haring been seriously cut e ith
a sword he was shat hi the grniu, and expired in
ten minutes afterwards. The general opinion
here is, that if no soldiers had appeared, there
would have been no such disturbance. It was
only necessary to convene a meeting of the Many-
facturenz, aatl iuferin the weavers of it, stud peace
would then have reigned, as it does now that snch
a meeting is agreed on for Tuesday next. We
are notwithstanding waiting with awful anxiety
for its issue; in the mean time we are fear ,that
if something is not done for the relief of the
weavers, very serious occurrences may be ex-
pected.
Many respectable manufacturers have made of-
fers to raise the wages of the sterkinets, but if the
rise is not general, they will be -obliged to gist their
work done as low as their neighbour, or they will
:lot be able to sell with him.
There is le clamour tigainst.
for opp(sing the late application., triParliautent, to
establish a nielimeoi. It is sairll.lyst Lis concern
in Mancheetersubscribed £3O, swan assistance to
the application. It is also asserteri, but how far
these things ere true, we will not,. pretend to say,
that his carriage was stoppeijo...4 Bari, by the
wearers, but it inling no nut peit but• Mr--, his
partner, and sirs. it woo allowed to go on
lir
as it may, no such act et' violence has
been committed by the weavers in Manebester.
A 111 E RICA.

NEW YORK, )(ARM '26.
The British Covernmeut, without intriulteg it, is
about to render America a meet important service;
a duty of 9d. a pound on raw cotton, end of
a bushel on salt, it appears, was proposed to be
levied, at the period of the lust advice.. As we have
abundant wilt springs in the buck country, is New
York State, in Erie (aunty, Pormeylvania, in Ken-
tucky, and Teniessee, these English duties, ley
securing to us our own market ae,minst foreign
competition, will, at the saute time, encourage.
the manullicture of our owns. salt, and the spirit
tor improving roads will give us this great pe-
nultl store from the heart of our own soil, and
carry through the avenues of ao sexteneire society,
the active circulatiou of our .Mph capital, enrich
our own industry, -aid add .to oar, Trimurti*, and
our good fe,etisne, which in this, owl eel many in.
stances, liaa.been protnotod by
,tllO, infatutmon of
foreign Botieati. The spinning our- men cotton hag
already commenced upon a liberal scale io domes-
tic life ; the citizens of the interior, whose eyes end
ears have not hem closed against theedmissitai of
truth and timely warning. have, in various parts of
the country, begun to provide n *en the raiuy day ;
in the county of Dauphin in this State, the labour.
saving cotton spinning machinery has been pot into
. activity with so much success us to encourage many
inhere..
An intelligent gentleman, wile has opportunities
of kuowing, states, that in Lancaster county the
bosom • Uutt:h girls have already begun to spin
cotton at their leisure hours Irons other duties;
and that it has become a faellion among die farmers
in that rind the adjoining counties to keep the aphi-
stiug WI). el goiug. The same geutlerrein had u
piece of as Pine !lam of tett yandv, as ever come
from ad Irish loom, manufactured from the flax,
alum by the young ladies in his family daring the
winter.
In the industrious stn'.. of Jirsev, duniestie
emfactUret aro more in use for epiaieel of every
kiwi thou was ever known.
In a very short time the Ainerim people will find
it t• he their interest and their ditty to determine to
wear dointetic esainifeetures altogether ; perhaps
it is too anon at present, but the time cannot be
wry long when it will be indieperisab..e.
A premium is about to be offered for the beat
piece of woollen cloth, of American
to be produced at a given time, at the. Itchtestic
Dlanufacturer's Warehouse. Vie expect. to . the
preminua advertised in us few dais.
samimseeli-neace

The French haveaucceesfed in attae:ting to their
interest, Qujoar, the present Minister of the King
of Persia, a man who, At/rough unpopular in the
Empire, has obtained a complete ascendancy over
his master.
During the Evening Service, at a place not far
front the FonudliagNospital, on last Siturisy, the
ltreerend Preacher thought it con-i,tent with hi:,
professiorml duties :to allude in hit ili:couroc to
political topics. A rafkituce wawpartieularly made
by him to what he was pleased to designate the
audacious measure of Catholic Ftuancipation.--:
The good sense of the congregation was eo pre-
doatinadrover that of the preacher, that the most
vespectatle portion of them ram and left the
Chapel;
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