The National Register.
London, England, 1819-09-27 00:00:00

:MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1819.

No. 214—VoL. XII.]

Volttital Lettapect.
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Meetings continue to be held or. the subject of
;he Manchester atrocities, and we doubt not but
• that they will be held by every body corporate, by
every county, city and town in the kingdom, until
the genetal voice of execration shall be head
throughoi:t the country. '.Vc this day give the
proceedings at the Meeting in the Borough of South
work, heldo Thursday, over which the :ligh Bailiff
presided. The Meeting of the city of \ink was pe-
' culiarly respectable, and its Resolutions, which were
consonant with tba a of the city of London, will
derive weight from the fact, that the Lord Mayor
of York was in the Chair, that one of the Counsel
to the City moved the Resolutions, that One of the
Aldermen seconded them, and that they were sups
. ported by a most able and constitutional speech from
Mr. Lundas, one of the Members for the City. A
Requisition for a .County Meeting, we understand,
is preparing in Essex, and we cannot but lament the
luke-warm spirit that allows it to be asserted that
no other County Meeting has yet been applied for.
Why is the Metropolitan County yet silent ? Why
have we not Requisitions from the Freeholders,dr
every County ?—The panders of corruption will
hail such apathy as a victory ; and we would gladly
have such a feeling of exultation prevented by a ge-
neral promptitude equal to that which by setting in
action the willing mew& of the Manchester Yeo-
manry, renders silence a crime, and will cause every
one who does not declare loudly his detestation' of
the illegality, as well as brutality of the memorable
lfith of August, to be fairly•fooked upon as "cti
accessary after the fact." The widows an,'. father-
less of the slain, the pauperized dependants on the
mutilated, join in imploring justice on those wl.o
have so irreparably injured them, and such a call,
seconded by every feeling of humanity, carittof be
disregarded by Englishmen. Our readers have ob-
served, no doubt, the COITH attempts which have
recently been made to strike at the root of the liberty
of the press, attempts which, had they succeeded,
would have more effectually achieved what their
infamous originators had in view, than any penal
enacts: eat against the author, printer, or original
and legitinlate publisher of any work—we meant, of
course, that limedinagian stride of police power
which has dared to hotel to bail as the publishers,
persons fur selling books and pamphlets, of the con.
te”ts a which they must be ignorant. I La succts,,.
attended this effort, it would. have necessarily been
incumbent on every newstaan to wade through. six-
teen or twenty columns of each newspaper,before
he ventured to sell t,ne copy ; but the Middlesex
Grand 'ury is not a Lanesshire one-.-it will find
or three.. out hills hy•the facts of the case ; it will
act from. motives of rectitude, and'in observance of
the oath taken by its rnetaliers ; it will not be
whee,:led to find bills, nor intimidated to throw
them cut—it is above .dl p,rsonal considerations.
In proof of the verity of this well-merited tribute to
a Middlesex Grand Jury, we have heartfelt joy
in announcing that every one of the bills of the
nature we have alluded to, has been ignored without
hesitation. This is however insufficient—an ul-
terior proceeding is requisite to set the question
entirely at rest, and the only t: ay to do this, we
presume to be, Ly instituting actions for false int.
prisonment against every Magistrate who shall have
*mild) lent hiniself to so illegal, so unjust a mea•

sure. Tyranny may be exercised by a number of
I Magistrat's, as well as by one Sovereign, and it
then heroes more dangerous, for it leaves the
sulsizet of it, open to the eff,:et of the bad passions
of many, instead of the caprice of one, and
we venture to assert that in no reign have such
extremely dangerous innovations on the liber-
ties of the subject been made as by the sti-
pendiary Police Magiitrates of the present .one—
tile present moment must be occupied by different
considerations, but in supplicating early future at-
' tention to this point, on the part of those who have
influence sufficient to promote its beneicial agita-
tion,. we would only refer them to the recent con-
duct of the Manchester Magistrate&
Tranquillity 'splicers to he restored in Manchester,
Poiaky, and Glasgow, and if the ere:usive/y loyal
will allow it) we cherish hopes that the peace will
not be again disturbed. We give to day un extract
of a letter from Manchester, detailing the mis-
chievous officiousness of some Officers at the Theatre
there, which happily, however, C... 1 not end in riot.
We well remember that about twenty years ago
the Offiects then stationed in Birmiliglaun -used to
enter the Theatre of that town from their'-utess-
rootn,*" hot with the Tuscan grape and full of
blood," immediately call fur " God save the King,"
and during the time it was pla)ing, oblige, e_ very
one to be uncovered. We Lave many times aria
these heroes pass over the front of the Boxes to en-
force their orders in the ?it. The Dirming,hata
men ut lust determined to resent this, antra Cejitairn
B. having attempted to remiiVe the hat of a Mr. H.,
the latter struck him a blow on the ribs..from
which the Noble Captain never ccmpletely recovered.
A representation was afterwards made to the War-
iseice) from whence oriers were immediately, and
r!••st prepnrly, issued, forbidding the soldiery its that
towns either calling for "'God save the king," or
interesting themselves in the call if it were made by
others—an exumtle worthy to be followed by Mi-
nisters. now, if they really wish to preserve the
peace of Manchester.

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his Royal Highness
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instant.—
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their freedom, and the restoration of a certain track
of land. It is said some troops are about to embark
for that place. In fact, we cannot obtain any cor-
rect information ; but that some disturbances have
have taken place in that quarter I have no doubt.
Business is almost at a stand with us ; the prices of
colonial produce abroad will nut warrant shipments;
in tact, there is no mode of remittance without in-
curring a considerable loss.
On Friday morning Crisp, the Norfidk pedestrian,
started front the Giulia, Borough, at half past one
o'clock, on his ardtiOus undertaking of walking from
London to Dover for thirteen successive days, fOr a
wager of 90 guineas. He was in excellent spirits,
and seems fully confident of his ultimate taiccess.
He intends stopping on the road ti r refreshment at'
the following fans:—The Chest Arms, Chathaia,
fur breakfast; the Lion Inn, Sittin;;'bourn; Lion
Inn, Auspridge ; from thence to the Falstaff Ina,
Canterbury, and the Castle Inn, Damn.

LPRICE 9411.

FREE Tasor.—The diversity of the soil and
climate, of the natural and artificial productions, and
of the national character of the people of Great
Britain and Fiance, . will always enable the one to
produce innumerable articles of raw and manufac-
tured produce at much choaper rate than they
could probably be produced by the other. If we
were allowed freely to purchase the wines, the
brandies, and the laces of France, those commodities,
which we can prmlucc with less expence than our
ingenious neighbours, would be taken in payment.
Au extensive market would thus be created for
many branches of our, manufactures, and a natural
and powerful stimulus would be applied to the in-
dustry of both countries. It should be clearly
understood, that we have it completelyin,our power
to add indefinitely to the number of the consumers
of British produce—to open a trade with a wealthy
nation, possessing SO millions of active, industrious,
and enterprising inhabitants, abounding, in various
products, which are not the growth of Britain, and
at the same time destitute of many species of our
manufactures; to uocomplish this most desirable
of jeer, we have only to relinquish a i'w of the worst
and most contemptible of oor prejudicesto admit
that claret may be as palatable as port, blind! as
English gist, and that a Frenchman may be suite as
honest us a Kt ingin se.

GARRICK AND MADLMOISICLIA CLAMION.--NAt
long kkre :Jr. Garrick left Paris in 176.5, several
pelsons of the first distinction of both ilexes; English
and French, met by appointment at the Hotel de-
Mr. and Mrs. Gemini' •end Mademoiselle
Chilton were of the party. The conversation turned
for some time on the Belles Lettres, in which the
merits of several eminent writers were discussed
with equal judgment and candour; many critical
'observations were made on the action and eloquence
of the English and French Theatres; and ut the
request of this very brilliant circle, La Clairol' and
Garrick consented to exhibit various specimens' of
their talents, which produced much entertainment.
This friendly...contest lasted a considerable time,
with great in on both sides. The company
loudly declared their approbathm in the strongest
terms (tithe two-Ithibitiors. It was remarked that the
French gave the preference to Mr. Garrick, and the
English, with equal politeness, adjudged the victory
to Mademoiselle Clairon • but, as the greater part
of the former were littl:acquainted with the Eng-
lish lungtiage, Genie& was induced to relate a
fact, ar.-.1 etterwar:!s to *exhibit it by action, which
happened Pi one oE the provinces of France, at a
time he was there,•Asnd of which he had been an
eye-witness. " A father," said he, " was fondling
his child at an open. Window, whence they looked
into the street; by one unlucky effort, the child
sprung from his father's arms, lea upon the ground,
and died upon the spot. What folluwed (he said)
was a language which every body understood, for it
was the language •of nature." He immediately
threw himself in the attitude in which the father
appeared at the time the child leaped out of his
arms.. The influence that a father's agony pro-
duvet( on such 'a company, and exhibited by this
darling SOU of. nature, iu the silent but expree•ive
anguish of sorrow, is easier to be imagined than
expressed; let it suffice to say, that the greatest
astonishment was succeeded by abuudence of tears.
•As soon as the company had recovered from their
agitation, Mademoiselle (Aairun caught Mr Garrick
in her anus, and kissed him; then turning to Mrs.
Garrick, she apologised for her conduct, by saying it •
was an involuntary mark of her applause.
Her Royel Highness the Duchess of Clarence
stilt continues ind.sposed at Dover Castle, and, it is
feared, some weeks will elapse before she is sufli
cietilly recovered to return to town. His Royal
Highness the Duke is constant in his attendance on
the Princess.

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