The National Register.
London, England, 1817-02-17 00:00:00

WE.S'T3IINSTIT MEETING.

Thorsdny, in purse tore ofa rennisition addressed to the High
Hai of Westiniti.ter, a Meeting took place in New Palace-
yard, of the Inhabitant Householders, to take into consid, ra-
tion an Addiess to the Prince Regent, espressive of their
abhorrence of their atrocious Insult of the person of his Royal
Highness. The Meeting was advertised for twt lve o'clock,
hut it was near one before the business commenced. The
crowd was considerable, and several who attended at Spa.
fields were recogniaed auuong the nolititude, The greatest
possible order at,d decorum prevailed during thew hole of the
proccedines. The requisition to the tii,lt Bailiff was sigmd
by the chief partizans of Sir Francis Burdett. Mr. Hunt
arrived about twenty minutes before one o'clock. He was
WOO followed by Loud Cochrane, Major Cartwright, Mr.
Walker and Mr. Cobbett, jun. all of whom assembled in a
room in the nine's Arms Tavern. Sir Francis Bard( tt and
Mr. Jones Burdett arrived ahunt nut• o'clock, and /MITA.
diately after they all appeared on the hustings. and were
received with acclamation by the ssembkd populace. It
was observed, that the Honourable Baronet dhl not con-
verse with Mi. Hunt, whose conduct, we understand was
eonsidered very reprehensible by Mr. Morris, the I high Bai-
liff, in consispience of his having invited the crowd ut Spa-
frlds to attend the meeting of Thursday. Major Cartwri,:ht
opened the business, and entered into the deli nee of Be.
formers, against the attack of the London l'avern Mectine,
and enterced the propriety ;of calling the attention of Be
Prince Regret to the page of history, impressing upon the
necessity of following the glarions example. ef Queen Eliza-
beth, who selected for her Counsellors very different men
from Lord Castlereagh and Mr. Conning. The Major stir.
nnously advocated the propriety of Animal Parliaments, and
asked those who sought liar irietarial, what they would say if
the Chancellor of tlte• Eselitiiier tit:mantled a triennial
Budget?—The triumph of bad Ministers, he was ennvinerd,
was now, however, drawing to an end. Rebut iii and cone p-
tion had now come to close go:triers, mid the contest
soon be decided. The Veteran Reim mist, (like tlto•e W:l9
succeeded him) condemned in %%Min t.'lOlS the insult Mfried
to the Prince Regent. lie concluded with .niov Mg the
lowing Address:

" TIIE I)ITTIFI'L ATOIRESS OF THE INHAVIT \NT tiorsw.
OF THE CITY AND I.ITIEHTIES OE Wk:STXINS'iLit.
•' May it please your Royal Ilighnes•.

" We, his Majesty's loyal sulkiects, the Citizens or Westudirster,
beg to be permitted humbly to w•pniac:t your Roy4l Eh:lt:less, with
an expression of our unfeigned sorrow, that our city shoal have been
the scene of gross and outrageous insults against your Royal
Highness, and in your Royal person, 'against the Kingly office and
anthority, anti also with an expression of our indignation at the am-
duet of the persons who were guilty of such brutal and criminal CX
siessc.; and -we feel confident that your Royal Highness will not be
to receive less gracion-ly there a:smut:re:l of our attachment,.
if we hutnhly entlenvoar to evio,.e oz:r sincerity by franbly elecleriug
to your royal llighrass our opinion of the character and of the real,
causes of acts so di,grraccful and cfaninal.
Wt presume not to penetrat the hearts and rtinds of those who
app-areil to wish to see establis!"l the fact, that a de.,:. a i slued
against the lilt, of' your Royal lli;liness, to be peg...crated by means
of deadly weapons or arms, as the n-sult of a trea,onable conspiracy t •
but we hesitate not to :.vie: our great satisfictian, that such fact has
proved not to be well founiied, on which we are well reamed that your
royal Ilietitc:o will sportive of our cordial congramlations, seeing
that even the trish to preserve your own kfc cannot be more near to
your heart, t!,an the wi.li to sec every pat of the people of Euglat.ii
Muni before the world clear of the iropotstion or stispician of pre-
int:nutted or col'-bleutied assassination; and we innnbly beg Late
to add our ca.ifitlent hope, that your lima! liighne's, in turiAng
your recollection to 'the shot which was really Ired from the bark of
the Thames, and which wounded. one of the seamen in a La:77. in
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which was Too- Royal predecessor Elizabeth :.you al-ts
remember, and r. ill feel resod; to niter from your- own lips, her
jesty's gracious and memorable words on that occasion, • That sho
world lend credit to nothing agair.st her pole, which parents woulii
-net b Oeir own cidltir, n.'

•• Bach as Cbglislimett rare In those days, we lininLly yreqrsie
Vt assure your Bo) al Highness, we, their elildren, cow are &Wila
‘) our Soveri :gn, und worthy of bis canfiticnee; but we cannot re-
frain from observing to your !heiress, that wise and virtstatat
Count:tater, like a Cecil and a Welsinghanl, enabled that illustrion,
Quern to ad' • her people ht: :;nerds,' and to d: dare that' money
was better 3n her sui:.iects' pockets than in her own Exclieeintr:' while
Councillors, like a Cii.stlereagli aid a Canning, afir haying tlrainvi
yonr people to the very dregs of misery and starvation. hir:e atlvista
y.ir Royal I: •:;thess to ascribe their just complaint to ditlr,yal and
sten:low drawn about the Mal opo::s a line of circurn-
vzllation of barrncks, of depot=, and of ars-ralds--have filled yrar
palicze e;,urts with [troops and artilkry—have..urronntled your Itcyal
person with mcnaring dragooos—:thil have (huh by your
people miserable, and at the same time exhibiting your !loyal High-
nese dei:f to their cries, as cuspecting their fidelity, and setting tutui
at 4.;fii.nce, driven soty.e of t''e unhappy s iffer r to that state of do-
rera:lun which alone mull produce the perpetrat,:tin of those out.

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rages which we so strongly reprobate, and wl,ich we hope they have
sincerely repented.
Open, we humbly beseech your Royal Highness, the faithful
'sage of history, and when your Royal 114imeia has there read the
invariable consequence of Princes being induced to make common
cause with corrupt courtiers against an injured people, we presunta
humbly to hope that your Royal Highness will receive, with your
mutual kia lacisland hilulgence, this our dutiful and loyal Address.••

Mr. Col:holt, jun. seconded the ,%direl3 in a few words,
bat front hiN diffidence could not he heard.

Sir. Holt then c.une forwartl, and all:tressed thn meet'ne :
Ye aeciirde:l in sentiment with all that liati been said by
i\lajor CartsvriOit, and adverted to many of his former topics
in the course of his oration.

'the Address wag the,' put and carried, 33 well as a Vote of
T tanks to Sir Fi wick Rimlett and Lori Cochrane, for their
effort:. in siniliontion of the con3titutional rights of elicit tel.
Low sitlklects. . . . . .

stir Frauds Iturffett returned thanks in a Ion; speech—the
Hon. Bart. was sanguine in his opinion the: tlio cause ot• Re-
form would triumph. Hi• mach not the least allusion to the
- repeated attacks directed against hint by Mr. limit, at the
Spo-fields meeting.
Lord Cochrane, its his Address, adverted to the e;reum-
stance that occurred on Tuesday night, in the Commons,
when a 'trendier voted against 4 Petition without hearing its
emtents. Oaly two days tgu (said his Lordship) three mem-
bers were found sknlkitig in a corner of the House in order
to avoid voting on either side of the question, which was whe-
ther a Petition fir Reform should be received. An Hon.
Neither ()Ir. Latubton) who dest•r% cc, a statue for his pre.
• settee ci mind, Myth-ell of one of them (Mr. S. Thornton)
whether he knew whit W4i the immediate question before the
Home, to which he replied, that he knew :milling about the
matte, lough.)—lie was then asked on which side lir
meant to vote, when lie looked :doom him, and finding that Isis
own friends wire the " Noes," lie went out of the. House, and
joined them in the tabby. But this was only one instance of
the bias towards the interests id the public winch was daily
exhibited in that House, where, upon a division being called
fur, a genre of members, who had been guzzling in the coffee.
yawns, miulit he seen hastening down its order to vote on a
subject which hail been disenss'ed in their absence. Oh! if
the people could bat see for one day what there took place,
thew would never wish to visit it again.
• Atter thanks had been voted to Nlsjor Cartwright and the
IT igh Bailiff, the meeting broke up. Hunt and young Cobbett
were drawn home in a hackney coach by the mob.

CHARGE OF HIGH TRE.ISONI
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COMMITTAL TO T lIF. TOWER OF WATSON, PRESTON,

HOOPER AND K EAR E.

The office of the Hone Secretary bas been in a constant
ints'lle since Sunday lust, %hen the different persons whose
names have hero so often mentioned were arrested. Ihe
investigations into their proceedings have been unremitting,
Rail the final remit is, that most of them are now committed
for trial Mi no less ach ir4t• than that of High Treason. Our
information k st ry scanty, for the examinations tid fore file
;Privy Council are not suffered to transpire. All that we tire
permitted to know is, that on .lintrsday evening, at eight
o'clock, the Cabinet Ministers, together with Site Law-Officers,
assembled at the Honie Offiee,:tiel the elder IV.atson, Preston,
-the two Evatises, I nstles, and Keea, alias Kearns, underwent
sepal ate examinatione, which lasted till eleven o'clock.' 0
•this occasion such eire iiiii 4aneet, it is said, came out, as in•
ihiecil the Ministers to decide on the cotninittal of some of ti:e
.prisoners for high treason. On Friday morning Lord Sitl-
ionath directed a warrant to the Keeper of Newgate to de-
liver op to Yibtores, the King's Messenger. the body of
wlbo has been detained since the last Old Bailey :Ses-
sions for a misdemeanour. Hooper was acCOrdiugly sent to
the ulliee of the Mule Secretary. tit the mean time the
Ikeepei orrothill-tields Brideweli and the /loose of Corms-
, lion brought up from their respective prisms, Watson, Pres-
ton, Keen, and Castes. Great care was taken to keep them
separate from each other. A King's Messenger and a police
officer were assigned to guard each prisoner.
Thu examination respecting-these persons contilitted from
3 till half-past 1 o'clock, doting whirls tidue three witnesses
were examined.—a woman who keeps a public-60mq,, a black
man her servant, and another man who is by trade a smith.
rie testimouy of these tlerenent% went to confirm an impor-
tant statement of another witness, whose evidence is not slit-
felted to be published. All that see can I:ty is, that a pretty
strong report is in eireulatiou, that the smith has beers em-
ployed to deadly instrumenk, surto as pikes, etc.

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at the close of the examination, directions were sent to the
Coaneil-office to make out the customary forms of commit-
ment for high treason; Watson, estnn, Hooper and Keen,
Mai Kcarn were the persons ordered to be so committed.
Immediately afterwards the warrant of connititment was
?ivied !iy t • cwel re C Mobsters au S Privy Cumuli :I r.
before-mentionetl. Castles was sent back to Tothill-fields. All
the necessary and legal forms being gone through, Arrange..
ments were lilt Ic for conveying the prisoners to the Tower,
Allii lour Itack.esy co.:dies were speedily procured, in each of
which one primmer, with his twit guards, was placed. The
gnat& consisted of four King's Messengers and four Bow.
street officers. Si N. Conant rode in the first carii:tge.
itr.iltrade left the Secretary of St.ate's °thye abut': give
aid proceeded to the Tower, where they arrived .it lt.iif ; 4st
tire. The Deptity,governor, and (Model Sutton, the com-
manding officer or the guard, were on duty to receive than:
the gales were closed as soon ill the coaches Ii id peis•ed
throtigh them. The prisoners were conducted to the s, cond-
i-ate apat tments, which had been prepared for their reception.
leach of them is confined in a separate room, With two war-
deur (.yeoman of the guard) as constant ht‘itie att. ta;lants,
while two sentinels i.t.e constantly to keep the watch up the
otit,i(le of the door of cacti room.

As soon as the evintinations were etnsetl, o:.1 the prisoners
hit b,..en dispatched to this safe and impteenable custody.
Lord Sitlmotith went to Carlton-house to acquaint the Prince
llrgeut with the result of the operations of the i'rivy Ottmeil.
It is ►ight to mention. that Proton pessisti in sat•iuQ that
the two rvauw..a had no kind of eon twetion with hint. 'Mete
two individuals, were not examitted on Frid.ty.

Mn. PLATT.—WC are happy to lean t! et Mr.
Platt going on well. The tall still remains, but th. 2
wadding has been expelled. The wound continues to
• sipparute kindly, and n, doubt is entertained by his
',gyms of his ultimate rezovery. •He, however, is
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d to his bed.

From the LONDON GAZETTE, Tuesday, Feb. 11.

Mt SHIER returned to OnVie in .PArtt.t.tstr.NT.
Mahnesbury—Sir W. Allay, Bart. vice W. It. Beach, Esq. who
has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds.
BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED.
N. Hun Iles, of Crantield, Bedfordshire, cattle-dealer.
J.Bnoww.jun.of Rodhorough, W. C. /19W N of Stonehouse,
and J. Moan e, of Dow iel!Itl, Glotteeiter.,ltire, clothiers.

BANKRUPTS.
BALT. J. late of Windmill street, Finsbury-square, stationer, Feb.
15,22, March 25, at Guildhall. Att. Nlr.Stmet, Broad-qt.-buildings.
YOUNG K. of Greenwich, dealer, Feb. 15, 25, March 25, at Guild-
. .. .

halL Att. Mr. Recd. Mark-lane.
BRIGHT T. of Watling-strect, silk-manufacturer, Feb. 15, 25,
March 25, at Guildhall. Att. Mr. James, Bucklm,bury.
EMPSON G. of Sheffield. tanner. Feb. 20,21, March 23, at Sheffield.
Mt. .Ir. illakclozk, Se.rjemies-inn.
Iltrlours J. of North Nibley, clothier, Feb. 20, 21, March 25. at
Petty France, Gloucestershire. Att. Mr. Williatns. Ite.l Linn-sq.
WioLtswonTri W. and .1. W. of Halifax, rneritanti, March 5,6,
21. at Halifax. Atts. Wigleswort:i "Jul Co. Gray's-inn.
Scattnonu watt .1. of Buckden, initholJer. Feb. 25, at Hanting.lon,
21. March 25, at Buckden. A. Mr. Clennell,
SCARBOKOLTOH W. of Stilton, innholder. Feb. 25. at Huntiug.lon,
26. ..larch 25, at Bucialca. Att. Mr. ('lcnnell, Staple-inn.
SucKsmarit S. of Cronvtol, rotten-mnufacturer, Feb. 22, :'.ll-.11
1, at Nilils!'leiter, 25, at Isa•:aster. Atts. }lurJ and Co. Terv:,l....
CLOSE J. hue of Doncaiter, broker, Mitch 7,8, 25, at Dons:aster.
Atts. Long Jill and Co. Gntr's:nn-sqUare.
SIIACELOCK J. late of NlartstiAJ, Notts, nie:oer, Feb. 17,18, March

23. at Hudder.tield. Att. Mr. :kitty°. Chamxry-lane.
RUGE ILA S. of frevetitin. At ixttuttth,itice. coal-tar-amaufaetut

Feb. 21, 22, Attch .45; at roatipool. Atta. l'rice and Co.
WonsEY .1. of Bilston, waiter, Feb. 21, 22, March 25, at Birming-
hic.u. Au. Mr. F.gerton. Giay's-inn.squate.
II ous stilt I. gen. of Alston, woollen-draper, Feb. 26, 27, March 23.
at Carlisle. Att. Mr. Birkett. Cloak-lane.
~IARTI s T. of Chichester, collar-maker, Feb,„l 7, 19, March 25, at
Chichester. Atts. Few and Co. Covent-i.;arden.
lES W. of Wick and .tbson, Glouc•*.hire. plumber, Feb.
2t, 22, March 25, at Bristol. Au. Mr. King. Sericants'-inn.
EARL A. of Carlisle, druggist, Feb. 26, 27, March 25, at Carlisle.
Au. Mr. Birkett.
KING \V. of Leanington, stablolceeper. Feb. 2-I, 25, March 25, at
Harton-upoo- faat. Atts. Hicks and Co. Bartleit's-buildings.
Cow EJ. of Colchester. coach-maker, Feb. tit°, 21, March 25, at
Colcherer. Ans. Pocock and Co. Ely-placu.
BENNETT G. of Little EceleF.ton, Lancashire, tanner, Feb. 26, 27,
March 25, at Gaistang. Mts. H urd :mil Co. Temple.
Rom NsOS IV. of Carlisle, meren. Feb. 24, 27, :11...r.:11 25, at Car-
Att. Mr. llodgcnn. Dyer's-conrt, Akiermanbury.
DIVMENIIS AT GCII..DHAI.L.
R. Baxter, of thz 'Talbot-inn-yard, ire:limn-leer. March 29.
C. Boklero and Co. of Cornhill. hankers, March is.
D. Fowler and It. Green, of Lime-street, merchants, March 4.

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J. Godbold, of 114100-garden. upholder. Feb. 15.
G. Covey, of Bla::kwall, boat builder, Feb. 't.{.
.1. W. Harvey &R. i:opland, of High-lir:et, linen drapers, March ri.
J. Hen -son and A. N 4: ihOn, :Ilitre-court, Milk-street, merchants,
March 8.
F. Judin. of Ilatton.gardm. mcreiiant, March .1.
W. I.uddington, of BriAlg.:-.Arcct. 8r....t01. hatter, March 22.
M. Moore, of Albennarlc-sztoct, fancy .1 css maker, March 8.
T. l'orter, of Onion-court, ninchant, ire% 11.
J. Powell. of Tottenham.court.road, iroimionger, March 11.
J. N. Raticlyffe, of Birmingham. March 4.
. H. Schroder, of college-hill, sugar keine:, March 25.
J. Wright, of King strat, ware ,uuseivau.. March I t.
1)I\ IDENI)S IN TIIF.

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.1. and E. Dixon, of Liverpool, merchants. March 7.
N. 31`Knight and Co. of Liverpool. mere:rants, March 10.
R. Wood, 4 Marton, Yorkshire, horse dealer. March 6.
C irr cATEs. MAR C T. Boyce, of Brantford. thrrr.er—W.
'Chester, of Owsl:y. S iroeshire, maltster—.l. T. English, of .%Isop's-
htrlldirves, merchant—V. Forster, of Glaueester, picture frame
dealer-W: (lemon and Co. of Langbourne-cliamhers, Fenchurch-
street, merehants—R...liteCKoll. of no:flaw. Sedburgh, Yorkshire,
wool denier and chapman—S. dares, of Sandcs. Ikelthrel, how.
deader.—E. Kirkpatrick, of Moat. CumberLert, butter-factor.—J,
Lythstor, of Liverpool, timber-merchant.—A. Macknair, of Queen-
steed,. Golden-square, book jinder.—W. Nelson, of Liverpool, mu.-
sharit.—ll. Nurilish of Meophann. Kent, heti:char.—C. Puggas.ley,
of Low,T-road, Aix-cloth maraufe:turtr.-I'. ittcharis,
of Lic_rpuol, nier.:lautt.—J. Shipley, of Ilirminglinm, coach-maker,
C.Wielimann and It. Beckwith. of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, merchants.
—W: Wilson, of Ilawkc.ide. Cumberland, dealer,—S. Worthing.
tun, of Pendleam. Lancashire, printer.
PAIITNERSIII DISSOLVKII
S. Birch, of Stoney Dale, Lancashire, and J. lialford, of Matches
cheater, merchants.
Bromley and Band, of Coleman-street, alctionecrs.
Martin and l'czkover, of Bristol, pin-factors.
S. and J. Cowell, of Sutton at Hone, Kent, millers.
Evans and .0, ir, of lasuniti,t.r. snlicitors.
t. ;aid Furnival, of Liv...rpo.d, Frueers.
Gledhill and Ileycs, jun. of Staasheld, York, corn eLzlers.
T. and 1.. Grandy. of Salford, phisterers
and Felton, of I .ondon
Johnson and Carr, of Berwick.
John on and Co. of Osgathorpe, Leicestershire, worsted makers.
Malian' and Cartwright, of (/xfoAl-street, boot makers.
IVidelleton and Gates, of Dover, bricklayers.
W. and N. Oshoume. of Kingston-tiism-Ilull, rail merchants.
It. and .1. Stratton, of Bristol, whcelwr:ghts.
plow kei and Cu,x of Dudley, iruniunngers.