The National Register.
London, England, 1822-11-04 00:00:00

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THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

LONDON, MODAI. NOVtMBER 4.
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Mr. Hunt's cruel imprisonment having expired,
he came out of Iklicster jail on Wednesday morning
last—he was accompanied in his harouche by Sir
Chas. \lroiseley and Mr. Northmore, and was every-
where received with enthusiasm—a number of his
friends breakfasted with him at the Castle Inn,
Ilchester, after which they proceeded through So-
merton to Glastonbury, gaining an accession of ap-
plauding multitudes at every step--and at six o'clock
a large party sat down to dinner.—Congratulatory
addresses were presented to Mr. Hunt from Leeds,
Manchester, &c. as well as souse elegant pieces of
plate—the whole passed off with perfect peace and
unanimity—this day's rtjoicings are but the prelude
to similar ones its many of the large towns, and on
the 11th inst. Mr. Hunt is to make his grand entry
into London—so far so good—but the philosophic
politician weighs such things in Isis mind, a
little beyond the ficts themselves—he sees how
diametrically opposite is the real effect from what
was intended by Government, of the gross oppres-
sion to which Mr. Hunt has been subjected—
he sees how much of contempt fir the higher law-
officers is engendered by one sentence, in which a fair
metage of punishment fix the off4nce of which he

was convicted by a Jury, is totally disregarded, and
in which an acquittance for a long remembrance of
petty mortificutions is aimed at—he sees above all,
how popular a man may become whose morals are
loose, whose manners are vulgar, whose education
is not above the level of a charity-boy—not from
any worth he possesses, but solely because he has.
been persecuted by the Government, and seeing all
this, he naturally and most correctly deduces from •
it—that the Government is not what it ought to
be—that its acts are not accordant to the wishes of
the people it governs, anti that the sooner a radical
change is eiketcd in some way or other the better.
Mr. Bowring is still in prison, and we forbear to
agitate the question of his confinement till we know
the cause of it—it is not with us a mutter of course
to censure whatever is done by legitimate Govern— •
ments, though we can very rarely avoid it without
sacrificing every principle of honesty.

We have received a variety of American papers,
including those front New York, to the 9th ult.—
lu the latter city the yellow fever, we are happy to
state, has abated, but it rages with great malignity
in Pensacola, where there are not a sufficient num-
ber of p,rsona there to bury the dead, many of
whom are interred without coffins. At New Orleans
it made its appearance early in August. Accounts
Itompuito state, that Bolivar had arrived at Guaya-
quil, where he was received with the greatest re-
joicings, and that the whole of that Province had
joined Colombia. Peace and tranquillity were every
where established. Bishop Papaya!), long the must
faithful adherent of Spain, has joined the cause of
the Independents, declaring to his flock that Heaven
has determined in favour of American liberty. Nu-
merous agents have arrived at Santa Martha from
Europe, to contract fur loans, and a great number
of applications, it is said, have been made for pri.
vilcges.

Accounts from Verona state, that the Duke of
We'linguist appears much Letter. lie arrived from
Padua on the 16th. The ex-Empress Maria Louisa
is at Verona, and appeared, on the ffith, in one of
the buses of the Opera, attired in a simple but inte-
resting manner : on her head she wore a plain round
cap of Brussels lace, tied under the chin with pink
riband; end her robe was of homely Scotch tartan,
mash: in the hellion of the country. She displayed
rreither rexa is nor diamonds, and there was no ad-
ventitious eircurnstaece of dress to distinguish her
from any &male in a comparatively humble sphere
of life. Her countenance is said to resemble the
portraits of her that are published in London, and
•appear Lth pleasing and intelligent, but wears an
of dtlection. The police are scouring
the A• 7i of all visitors who cannot show satisfactory
crotisicLi for their applimtion to remain in it ; and
the Duke of Wellington is constantly importuned
by Englishmen, desiring to be protected from sum-
mary Inundates of rep:oval General Macauley,
who has served f•)r t:me he India, and who is
now toe active co-adjutor of NIT.. Allen, who is thew
in his efltuts to get the slave trade completely abo-
lished, received from the police au order to attend
immediately, and on doing so, ha was commanded to
quit the town within twenty-four hours, though he
c. ad in his pocket their own ticket of leave Ito a
month. In consequence of this, he applied at once
to the Duke of Wellington, who with some difficulty
obtained permission fur him to remain fur a few
days longer.

On Wednesday last there was a meeting at
Lloyd's, of the subscribers to that Room, to receive
the rel•urt of the committee who had been deputed to
conduct the correspondence with the Admiralty, on
the subject of the piracies su frequently committed
on Britisli merchantmen in the South AM:tit:all
Seas. The meichaotmen complained of want of due
attention and protection on the part of our Ailain-
ralty, the navy of Englund having been useless, as
tar as concerned the protection of our merchant ves-
sels ; but the correspondence of Loyd's Committee
with the Admiralty, on this important and national
subject, was abruptly interrupted by Mr. Crokc r, the
Admiralty Secretary, on the ground that the Com-
mittee of Merchants were deficient in their respeci
towards the Body uddressed!—At the meeting (Mr.
Marryatt, M P. in the chair), the merchants of the
City of London agreed to a resolution, " Army:visa
of the whole conduct of the eenunittee, and requiring
them to manage much further correspondence as might
be requisite." Therefore, there is more " reaped"
for Mr. Croler !

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LIBERATION OF MR. HUNT.
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ILCIIESTER, WEDNESDAY, it O.CLOCK.

The appearance of this morning was unfavourable for the
inhabitants of the vicinity coming hither.—lleavy rain con-
tinued until seven o'clock, when the sky began to clear, and
the promise of a line day wan given. At that hour the people
began to assemble, and, until eight, tallied in straggling
gtoupo. 'file attendance WWI lean 11,1ftlefOUS than was expected.
Mr. Buhl was accompanied by Sir Charles Wolseli y and
Mr. Northinore, who sat with him in the carriage, and by se-
veral friends. The barouche wa■ drawn slung the 'Wielder
Bridge to the Castle Inn, in front of which the crowd was
dawn up. The warmest reception was certainly given him.—
Ile stood up, and repeatedly acknowledged the cheers of the
penile.
When the harouche nriired at the Inn, Mr. Rant aildrcssed
the crowd at considerable length, after which Sir Charles W ol-
'miry appeared in the balcony and briefly addressed the popu-
110e. Mr. Hunt was then entertained by his friends at break
fast.

NORTIIMilltli rose, and Eight that he wished to let the
patty present ace the flagon and salver sent from the friends of
liberty in the county, and which were to be presented to Mr.
Ham, at the dinner that day at Glastonbury, as a tribute to him
for his manly tnditical conduct. He was certain that Mr. Hunt
was happy, as well from his own conscience as their approba-
tion-11).e flagon and salver, with the inscriptions upon it,
seer. then Manned round the room, and exhibited by Sir Chas.
IVoilseley at the window to the crowd in front of the Inn.}—
Alto- a short interval.

Mr. MUNI requested the notice of the Meeting to what lie
VMS about to any—" I am, Gentlemen, you know, a mail of
busine.s. Some of the freeholders of the county now present
have thought this n 61 opportunity to cull a illeetin4 of Somer-
set lo;ellier ; and it is meant to.aubmit a Requisition to you
for you's approledion, and for the signatures of those who are
freeholder., and like the proposition.—(blear)-1 will read the
Requisition to you
To the Iligh Sheriff of the County of Somerset,
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kVe, whose names are hereunto subscribed, Freeholders,
Landholders, videsinen, and others, alteeted by the agricul-
tural distresses of the country, requeq that )ou will, as earl)
as may he, convene a Public Meeting of the County, to take
into consider:llion the lh at means of petitioning Parliament
f.,r the redres, of those grievances ender which ‘Ve at preseht
labour, and fur restoring the Representation of the People in
l'arlia vent, agreeable to the ancient principles of the English
Constitution.'

No 11130 (MIA iintseil Afr. hunt) can object to such a requisition,
or to a public meeting, but one who will say that we are in a
state of pros'', rity. I HIII n freeholder of the county, so is Mr.
Northmore near me ; he will sign it and pass it round to you :
and if the Sherill will rail the meeting, we pledge ourselves
to attend acid do our dory."—(Applause.)
The Requisition was then liatid,d round, and numerous sig-
natures attached to it.

After !tune observations from Sir Charles Wokeley, Mr.
Itiorthmore and Mr. Flow. they w nt into the baruu•lie, and
the prockssion art not for Glastonbury, where it arrived at 4
o'clock.

GLksToNtiraY, Fora O'CLOCK.—The liberation of Mr.
Hunt seems to have made a greater !WHIM I iiii here than at
clicster. The people who have Collected are of a better class,
and many parlirs of well dressed women, escorted by their
friends have gone forwattl to meet the procesdon. The hills
surrounding the town are sionerous groups were stationed upon
them. The belle of the Churches were eutfered to he rung,
after sonic contest among the authorities.
The proeeasi.•n as it came along received a great increase of
strength, and as it entered here there were at least :WOO pro-
lite with it, extending the whole length of the town, and fur
some distanoe on the flclicster road. Mr. Hunt afterwards
proceeded on his arrival to a room in the inn, where be held a
Court beet, and the several °dicers were sworn in with much
ceremony, and Mr. Hunt delivered ut suitable speech on the
occasion, to the constables of the Ilunlred.

Al six o'clock about simy Gentlemen sat down to dinner, in
the 'argent room of the George him Mr. Nortliniore was
called to the Chair ; and on his right 31r. Hunt wit. placed.
When the cloth was removed the Chairman gave th,. first
toast, which was drink with aeclaniation—

The People, the source of legitimate power."
A letter from Mr. James 31aun, the reformer of Leeds, in-
closing an Addreas from that town, was read, and the Adslreas
presented by Mr. Northmore to Mr. Hunt.
After the Address wan presented, the Chairman gave The
King, and 1111 y he Dever forget the empression of Lord Chan-
cellor Pus teseue-- that he has she dk legation of bin office hum
and fur the People."—A toast whirls he (the Chairman) gave
with as much meal and fervour as Mr. Canning could, iss pro-
posing bin Majesty's health.
The toast nue drank with great applause.

Satre.* popular toasts were given mill drank, and an anima-
ted settech wa. lit lit ered by the Chairman, prefacing the toast
he gave the health of Mr. Hunt.

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iIUhT returned thanks in a speech of much length. in
which he alluded, in energetic terms, to his trial, his Convic-
tion, his treatment in prison, and various other paiticulars,
which were reel ived auh considerable applause.
The following toasts acne then successively given from the
accompanied by brief esplanations
alay the %% bags have the sense to give up their Boroughs."
The Cliaiiman observed that, when he started for Exeter, the
two other candidates, who were ItIVIRIs opposed, united against
him, as if lie were Belzebtili. A W hig was, be said a hypo-
ciile, and a Tory a duevuright lhi f !
The height's of 3lator Cartwright, Alderman Wood, and
Mr. %cooler ; the sutfering Reformers, Messrs. Harrison,
Swan, and Lewis ;" .• Spain, Greece, Portugal, and America,
411.1 the CilkIMS of Freedom all over the world."

la. Sir C. WOI.sELEY fatefully pressed upon the attention of
the Meeting the propliety of a southern subscription UlllOll, on
the plan of the northern, for promoting Relore'.
At eleven u'rlnc!, the company broke up, and the principal
personages &Tatted, amid loud cheers.

The Earl of Darlington, we are concerned to
state, is confined with a severe fit of the gout, at
his seat, Ilaby Castle, Durham.
Four Candidates are at present mentioned fur the
representation of the University of Cambridge,
the Speaker of the House olCommons, the Solicitor
General, Mr. Scarlett, and Mr. Spencer l'erceval --
Should the Speaker accept the Chiltern Hundreds,
he cannot, we pretiume, act as Speaker without being
re-elected to the Lituatiun. The ease will be rather
novel.

THE NATIONAL REGISTER

LETIER FROM MR. BOIVRING TO AM. CANNL%U.

lloulngne-prison, Oct. 24.

SlR,—Afler 13 days of solitary and severe cuidinement,
an permitted to address you I have been shut oat from al,
communication with may Government, my lawyer or physician'
with my family or friends. During this imprisonment an at-
tempt was made to remote sue to Paris by a wart ant Non, the
judges there. 1 resisted, and resisted succeasfully, under the
protection of one of the articles of the code de pi ocedurs (the
100th), which there was every disposition to violate.
It would appear the Government begins to feel that it has
been too rash and arbitrary in its proceedings. 1 have under-
gone another long examination—secret as usual—and even the
presence of an interpreter denied, thongh formally demanded.
Four pages of interrogatories bad been cent from Paris. Not
one question among them had a reference to that " revolutionary
correspondence" of which I wen suspected of being the bearer,
and Olt that plea, and that plea alone, delivered over to the va-
rious acts of outrage of which I have been, and still am, the
victim. 1 again inquired wish a list I was charged, and de-
manded the ct of accusation. None exists : the ground pre-
viously taken even seems abandoned. Some justification, some
plea of justification, would of coarse be expcchd by you, and
a long series of questions have been sent in eonsequrnce ;
sonic of which they deemed might possibly lead to a confession
or a detection, which might palliate their arbitrary proceedings.
They suspect Inc (they say ), though they venture not to accuse
me, as the process verbal will show, of being engages' in a plot
with individuals (whom 1 have never seen) arranged iss London
(from whence 1 was far distant at the time) to rescue from
prison (though I never heard even of the place of their confine-
ment) the young men who who were lately executed Mr politi-
cal offences:, (wins not au individual of whom had I ever any
the slightest intercourse.) They suspect me of furnishing the
pecuniary IIIC:1113 for liar escape, thou,;ll not 1,01)0 francs have
passed through my Monis since 1 have been in this country
The charge is as visionary as it is falise---it is false in the ag-
gregate, it is false in every individual detail ; hut to support
it, the whole machinery of moral torture (for the due operation
of wLich a fortnight's sufferings are supposed to have prepared
thy victim) is put in action, and it is expected to entity some
new fact by a snare so widely and so artificially laid. Sir, it is
front this monstrous system of inquisitorial manning and %inhme
that I appeal to my country and lit you. Abandoned to the re-
sources of my own mind—a mod stronger, however; than all
the strength of tyranny-1 have hitherto had to struggle with
every thing that elatiliee and oppression coo d direct spinal sue
abandoned, among criminals, without so much as a single pre-
samption, however weak of crime.
It cannot surely be tolerated, that a man, and an Englishman,
is to be bunted from suspicion to suspicion—each baseless or
absurd—till aontethitig. suall be found, or something shall be
fancied, which may serve to veil the origin I acts. If so, the
olds of suspicious despotism are gained—the sufferings are
inflicted—the innocent object of dislike is buried in a disesteem.
This, Sir, cannot be done with impunity. I Imre confidence in
the dignity of your character: I have confidence iii the high
spirit uf my country. Some redress will be demanded for the
past—some security will be untamed for the future.
I have the honour to be, with every sentiment of respect,
Sir, your most obedient and moist I ble sett ant,
(Signed) JOIIN BOVI RING.
To the Right ilonnotahle George Canning, his Britannic
Majesty's Secretary of Slate Mr Foreign Affairs, Oct:.