The National Register.
London, England, 1817-04-21 00:00:00

DINNER TO MR. IVAITHMAN.

On Tuesday, at the New London Tavern, a dinner was
given to Mr. Waithrnan by the subscribers to a handsome
service of plate presented to that gentleman.
After the cloth was removed, the usual toasts were given s
and among them, "The Health of the Prince Revmt, and
may he recollect the principles whirls seated his Family on
the Throne," drank with three times three.
Mr. Favell then rose, and after hating bestowed a suitable
enloginm oo the character of Mr. Waithman, particularly
alluding to the firmness and consistency with which he had
conducted Itinew If in the cause of liberty for the last five-
and-twenty years, in the name of the meeting presented the
service of plate, (which was laid on a table before the Chair-
mat), consisting of ten pieces most elegantly w rought. On
the waiter there was an inscription testifying the admiration
and gratitude of the fellow citizens of Mr. Waithitiatt, " for
his manly zeal and inflexible patriotism in the cause of
liberty."
A toast having been proposed to Mr. Waithuian by the
thNiflll3ll, and drank accordingly,
Mr. Waithinan, after acknowledging his gratitude to lik
fellow-citizens for the undeserved honour they 11.11 le•stowed
upon hint, emceed into a minute detail of his cowinci for the
last five-and•twenty prat s, during whicit period he had
gained, he believed, the coulitit•ttee and at .ach uncut of Isis
fitenw-eitizetts. He cuneLuded 6) Ibrepo•iw:Akilik• to " Lord
oisvenor, and eitr.s retnnooy and Itetrenettment.
and Return in the Commons Rouse ul l'arbament."
Mitt Once thr,T.
A to.od tic, l in.0p0,•4 d by 11h chairman, and thank
Keith ar•lotit., flo 11011. ME. Bennett, that gentlt man re•
tut tied•thatiks.
Limo .t to,oo being next drank to 'Mr. Bs oneham for Ills
minty t °titbits its P•Irlia111t111, 111.1 t gentleman, in a suitable
aio 11, 55 1111111.3
1/1111.1* toasts were next proposed, and drank 14, the
Chrirmati, to :Nit. S.ttill hit .1 Mr. Alderm.ta
belicets, %%hos 411 mint ocd 1. t knu%% tedenwot, The et gn-
bog i•as,rll ‘t1:11 Alva got .1 111,110111 an,: a,
slated by the vocal talents of Mr. MmAleu, and other.publie
singers. •

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Two persons belonging to Manchester were on Thursday
taken into custody at Dover, on suspicion of being cone:Tiled
in treasonable practices. They were endeavouring to pro-
cure a passage to the opposite. coast.,
Tuesday inor ii ee g two of 11w Manchester police officers ar-
rived at the Public Office, Bow street, by the Manchester
coach, will, R. Fliteroft in their custody, charged with being
one of the principals in she tote politico' proceedings at that
place. He resided about three miles out 01 Mattritc3ters
where lie was apprehended. He was conveyed from How•
street Office, about two o'clock to the Secretary of State's
Office for the Hume Department, to undergo an examination.
At the same time Mr. Adkins, the Obvernor of the House of
Correction, and assistants, conveye4 from that prison to the
Secretary of State's Office, S. Mulford, the celebrated Lan-
cashire port ; I:. Connor, wilt) kept the 811111111 • where the I
meetings used to be held ; J. Lancashire and K. Kydings,
four of the men who were brought from Manchester on the
31st of March by Mr. Williams MI Mr. Dykes, the King's
Messengers; also J. Leach, W. Kent; and J. Plant, who were
brought from Manchester on the mth ins. They underwent
examinations b .fore Lord Viscount Sidmontlt, his Majesty's
Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, the
Under Secretary of State, the Law Officers, Sir N. Conant,
Ike. he investigations continued till near half past four
o'clock, %ben R. Fliteroft and the others were conveyed to
the !loose of Correction.
Wednesday morning, two of the Nranehester police offieers
art iced in London by the mail, with a man of name of Brad-
burl' in tbeir custody, whose icsidemee is in a place called
Oxtord Road, in Manchester, where lie was apprehended.
He is charged with political offences. On their arrival in
London, they went to the Public Office, Bow-street, where
Bradbury, the prisoner, was confined till near two o'clock ;
after which lie was conveyed to the office of the Home Secre-
tary, where he underwent an examination before tne Secre-
tary of State, Sir Nathaniel Conant, Me. which continued till
about five o'clock. Ile WAS ordered to be detained in cus-
tody. At the close of the .examination on Tuesday, Lord
Sidtuouth, and the other official gentlemen assembled.on the
occasion, determined to discharge R. Kyding and E. Connor,
the landlord of a small inn where the political meetings used
to be held : there was, it seems, no proof of these prisoners
being leaders, or having taken a principal part in any of the
political transactions. They remained in the House of Cor.
rection on Tuesday nieht merely as a matter of accommoda-
tion. E. Connor is afflicted with the gout; but his confine-
ment, according to our Reporter, has done him good. They
were removed ms Wednesday front the' House of Correstion
to proceed on their return to Manchester, at the expense of
Government. Some of the others are to be removed to coun-
try prisons, and are to be kept separate, as they have been
since their first apprehension.
A letter from Manchester, dated April 12, says-0 The
Magistrates have ordered the several Acts, enforcing the du-
ties of the watch and ward, to be carried into execution, in
the respective parishes of Manchester, Prestwich-cum-Old-
ham, Ashton-under-Line, Eccles, Flitton, Rochdale, Bolton,
Dean, Bury, Radcliffe, and Middleton. We can state from
the best authority, that bodies of ;nen, hi four divisions of
about I,G each, were observed entering this town over the
they-bridge, between one and two o'clock on the morning
of Monday last. They proceeded two byswo in the most
regular order, and preserved step as they marched forward
with military exactness.

A person belonging to Nottingham, of the name of Henson,
was apprehended on Friday last, in London, under a warrant
from the Secretary of State, and, after an examination at the
Home Office, committed to Coidbath•iidds prisow, upon sus-
picion of treasonable pi setices. This man has long been an
object of dread to the well disposed inhabitants of Notting-
ham and its neighbourhood, both on account of the leading
influence he was thought to have with the Luddites, and his
supposed political principles.

SHACKING EVENT. EVENT.

O■ Sunday last the following dreedfal occurrence took
place at Fivebesti, near the house appointed for the reception
of insane persons. Capt. Fleming, whose derangement had
rendered his confinement in the house iseeessary for several
)ears past, after dining with a friend of his (Ca?t. Miller,
late Paymaster and Agent to the Stafford Militia), who had
come from London to see him, contrived to gain admission
into the room of Mr. Gillett, tl►e keeper, where he seized a
brace of plt.tols, with which he proceeded to the apartment
where his Head, Capt. Miller, was writing, and instantly dis-
charged one of the pistols at him, which unfortunately took
effect, a►►d he fell deal. He immediately retired to his own
room, where he shot himself with the other pistol, and died in
a few seconds.

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