The National Register.
London, England, 1816-11-18 00:00:00

ritoriNciaLs.

A Gloucester Taper contalas the followinjartieles :—"Ora
Wednesday night au extensive and daring robbery was corn.
nutted at Kilp:wyu Hoene, near Lianguelec k, Ca rum rthenshire,
the seat•uf J. J. Helloed, Fisq. The house was forcibly an.
tcred, and every article of plate stolen, turgether with a lereso,
City of wearing apparel, and a valuable horse (worth upwaeiW-
of 100 guineas) taken from the stables. equipped wills a new
paddle and bathe, by which the offender-was entsbledlo get
elf with his booty, the robbery not having been diseuveredsby
' the sorvauts till seven e'elock in the meriting. A shabby
looking pony, on which a auspicious eirmarter lead appeareet
some days before at Llandovery, being tumuli neer the house
at day-light, tended to confirm the opinion that this man was
the depredator. He had been two days at au Inn at panda.
very, where he brought A pair of large utility hags, in which
the people of the house had thscoveled a blindly of pick-luck
keys and other implements, waitron deenireg it nem:rosary, to
• &Helaine the circumstance till after the tolniery had been ed.,-
mated ! As soon as use robbery was known at Liandoveny,
• inquiries were made, and it was found that this fellow had
passed thrungls that plaice on the stoles, horse, at an early
bone, taking the road for Brecon ; iu cousequence of whirl),
a gentleman, avemapanied by two servants, followed bite in
a chaise and four, but not till a lapse of several hours. How_
ever, at turnpikes and politic houses, they traced him accu-
rately in his progress all the way to Goodrich (between Mon-
mouth and Russ), where lie appeared to have left the 111411
road for the first lime, after travelling a distance of 61 miles,
and making but one short stoppage at ass ouscure house. Tho
gentleman after losing scent of the game, very sensibly lett
one of the servants at ROSS, to be on the look-out there next
morning, In case they had overshot their object ; amp, pro.
reeding for this city (which they haul discovere to be the
destination which the robber was seeking I, arrived here about
five o'clack. on Friday morning. By this tissue the aherni
through the district they had traversed was pretty grayest ;
and between seven and eight the next morning, two tutu met,
near Goodrich, a person nu horseback, answering the des-
cription given; when the fellow, pereeiu lug their intention
to stop him, clapped spurs to his horse, aqd galloppeol off.
He still, however, kept dm turnpike road, and after pressing
Wilten-gate, was moan suspected by some men on the toad,
and taken into custody near the bridge over the Wye lead*:
into Ross. He bad with hint the sadille.bags, containing tho
whole of the plate and the valimbles stolen; and it appeared
had slept the preceding Mob( at a small public-below :lair
Goodrich, where he arrived about eight o'clock. The- sea.
;skies, entertained, from the nature of the robbery, thatAt
must have been perpetrated or planueel by a person well ac.
(painted with the premises, proves to be well founded. The
offender lived as a servant its the family two years ago, and
came teems London purposely to effect the enterprise. He
acknowledged that he had the assistance of accomplices;
and such infermation had been obtained respecting theta,},
we trust will speedily lead to their apprehension. The pa.
caner, before he left Kilgwyn-house, deliberately•egoipra'd
himself In . the garments he lied stolen, anti substituted his
own habiliments in their place. The plate he cas tied
amounted in value to several hundred pounds.
" On the Id instant were committed to the House of CON
rectiou at Northleach, by the Hon. Edward -Rico, Clerk,..l.*.
Wright, late of Idnury, R. Beekley, and S. Plidi.er, -late of
Burford, In the County of Oxford, labourers, charged wfth
being, on the preceding evening, poaching in the perish
Sherborne,- armed with bludgeons, in company . with
others.—R. Simmons, an accomplice of tho shove men, dling
in consequence of a blow received (iring a bloody elegy.
between the poachers (seven in number) and a party aright,
keepers in the employ of the Host. J. Dutton t and the pri..
setters agree in slitting, that the der Nord was not merely the
ringleader, Ina maltase instrumental In bringing about the en.
counter its which his life. became the sacrifice."
AV Oct.' - -Upwards of six weeks

Morton's pch. The story is
iven to the interesting, stud the send- tat a triad the case I should have summed up•for au Yu,Oct. 31.—Upwards of st‘ weeks ago, wrman, who
mend g slaves, tr. Justice Sayley then sentenced the defendent to a doe Zelinda and are such ae"ittal*
f kept one of the gates at k:glincton, observing a mastiff dog
hovering mastiff
about the gate. anti dreading injury to her chickens
s would do honour to the polishud European. On the a is. which was of course paid immediately. or ponitry, went out to prevail it. lltedag iustantly at-

NOVEMBER IA
MEETING AT SPA-FIELDS.

In consequence of an advertisement whlch was placarded
throughout the metropolis, stating that a meeting of mann.
facterers. attiaam, site. would be convened in them. Melds to
flak ',lnto consideration the propriety of petitioning the Prince
Regent opouthe present distressed state of the country, as
immense concourse of people assembled on Friday, of about '
or 6,411:10 persons.
, Aimed half put 12? a hackney-coach, containing four per-
_eons, drove into the held-, pelted with dirt by the mob. Upon
Its arrival, Mr. Parkes addressed them front the coach, and i
requested them to be tranquil. He then mounted upon the
roof. and harangued the multitude. lie exhorted them to be '
firm and bold in the pieseut crisis. The nation was nut tinder I
a Pitt adutteistrition ; it was under a power which reqnired
to be uarrowly beaked atler.. Now was the time when the
people should evert themselves for We maintenance of their
eights and liberties, and be like the bursting of waters—
cal ry all before them. He begged to tell them, that at this
important moment one tiros and decided step would ensure
success. He besought them to be patient and united, and
peaceable and unanimous, and they would succeed. But in
what were they to be patient? in their present sutferiugs,
which were connected w;tli their future salvation. He was a
stranger to the motives that had brought them together, or
the gentlemen who had caused the placards to he issued ; hut
he was a f, lend to the constitution, and was born to reverence
the rights orate Primer of the realm. What were the com-
plaint/a, and whom did the people complain of? The immora-
lity of the country, which bad extracted from the people that
which they ought to have enjoyed for their snpport. Immo-
rality had paved the way for corruption, and corruption had
takenits permanent seat: it never could be dislodged unless
the people a-allied round it with firmness and intrepidity, and
informed those who possessed the seat, that they had no right
to sit there, and that the populace had a right to dislodge
them. (Hear, Hear.) He felt a delicacy iu appearing before
the present assemblage; and he felt somewhat that told him,
his conduct was marked with impropriety. (tao. AU.) It did
appear tether singular, that a stranger /Wield come forward !
eo address such a multitude, but be bad to inform them,
that it was himself who bad lied the high honour of moving
the resolutions at the last meeting in Palace Yard. Having
said so munch, lie woold now withdraw. He recommended
the people to he on their guard, tOr their enemies were near.
(Wear. Hear.) Their enemies were in every quarter of die
globe; het he exhorted his hearers not to be deterred by
thew the cause was good, and their enemies were trembling;
sow was the time when the tyrants should sufier; and it' the
teatime were unanimous, bold, amid intrepid, the supporters of
corruption would tremble before them.
The meeting thewaajottened to a public-house called Mer-
lin's Cave, where the two persons ewhotigned the requisitiun,
were attending the arrival of Mr. Hunt. About ouc o'clock
the orator appeared in the centre of the multitude, and was
conducted umidst their acclamations to a hackney-coach, on
the roof of which, after the example of his predecessor, be
thounted, and addressed a few sentences. However. hese**.
abandoned this post, and gratified the committee men with
his presence in the ale-honse. His approach was preeededltf..
a three coloured Sago and a cap on a pole. Here he maxim.
amused Ids haraugne I iotnahe front room, in which large 11-
bations had been already offered en the Altars of patriotism.-
lie
111.1.1 sorry to fiud Ilia on an occasion of this importance it
bad become necessary f. r them to send a hundred miles into'
the country for so buintee an individual es hinaseit; in come-,
(memos of the itbsenee of the true friends of the people. Not-
witlistembeg the diameter, he lead selmerfully obeyed, air hie
alwaxs should be really to du ; matkjhught Ininielf honoured.'
by their confidence. hey had teR fur the purpose of peti-
diming the Prietee Regent and the' Legislature for some re-
lief to those growing miseries, which Mould requite a math
to tell, and a month to understand. He heard yesterday of a-
labourer of Spitallielda, who, with a wife and three children,
bad hem heard to pray that some hand would deliver hint
front the load of life. What, then, was the cause of this dis-
tress? Wasit, as their enclitics had the impudence to pro.
mulismte, die indolence, end improvidence oldie poor? This
was the cause assigned by a hireling press ; but it was untrue.
There was no people so industrious its the people c f this cram-
ery. An Etiglishnum worked as much in ei week as any °Wei!
laboarerina month. (Applause, dad grime/. "We do. we do.")
What was the mum of the want of einployineast?-7'enation.
What was We cause of taxation?—Corruption. It was cur-
caption that had enabled the boroughanungers to wage war
• for the destruction of the liberties plait countries, but pried-
pally of our own. Its object had been contessed by Miuis-
•tere themselves to-be the reeturatioe of despotism and .perse-
cutioa. With these,vieWs, therefore, they began to re-esta-
blish the Douche's, sad the Pope. He begged to intimate to
them the nature of the imtisition, whicii he should do by
reading an extract from a book. (Here We orator read the
description of au nolo daje seat 1/ 1). Wilcox, the then chap-
lain to the British factory at Ilabon, addressed to Bishop
liuruct.) They had now in •their.view the British • Ilastile,
(pointiug to the COW-liatlefields prison), .where so much ty-
ranny had formerly been exercised. (it was abort Ws. period
ef_ the speech ibet wheel ter milfortave to hare oar pocket picked.)
lie begged them to bewaste• of wolves im sheelea chehing.
Where were All these preteaded friends? What had Locum,•
of all the great city pottier+ ? At such an iissemblv they uo
, Inure dated to appear thou my Lord Castlereagh. 'they were
the greatest enemies the' people ever had. two years ago.
when it was proposed to petition for the repeal of the property
tat, he hail proposed something should be added with a view
0 the relict' of the peer, (Apptease.) The rich man, who
brewed his owu , beer, had it lac a harrel cheaper" than the
mechanic, whim was obliged to buy it. Up started one of the
wolvesin sheep's clothing, and abused kill, ns hawking about
his speeches. And what disgrace was there in endeavouring
to remedy the sufferings of his fellow-conetry nieu? (,ippliture)
This walk opposed his motion; and why? Because the mi-
series of the poor were altogether out of their consideration.
The rick alone were to be relieved, and the poor might go to
the devil. It had been given out that he had quarrelled with
all public men; this was false. When had they known him
to quarrel with Mr F. Burdett, or with Major Cartwright?
Had he quarrelled with any of thou now present, among
whom were thuusithels who, at the hour of trial, would prove
themselves motley of public cuelitlence? 'they would mot
be found behind their counters, or compromising with Go-
vernment some Exchequer process. (.Ipploore.) He had
' sever any eounexion with Government, nor would he ever
have. He never Avoid be found its any dirty scrapes. y
had IWO SONS of enemies-.one class who preferred open hos-
tility ; anutker, more itwidious, oho called theinselves friends,
and came for die put prase of creedal disturbance., ass pre-
terser for calling out the military. 11 wus their baldness-to Iris-
trate the designs of both. All ranks, save the children of esr-
tuptioa, W 1.313 Alike is Oat common distress. It was not alone