The National Register.
London, England, 1819-12-06 00:00:00

St DITIOUS lIILITINGS ■II.G

' Lord CASTLEREAGH. in moving that the Seditious
Meeting, 13;11 should becommitted, sta.ed. that he had nu
alierat. to propose in that stage of the bill. On the
recommatml he should sate to the House the meditated
changes
Mr I'IERNEY asked whether it was the Noble Lords
intention to make the measure a temporary one
I ord CAs.T.LEREAGH declined answering the question,
as a debate which could be of no possible advantage, might
ensue.

Mr lIERNEY said, the answer was the very thing that
would prevent a debate at that moment It ill.l must anxi-
ously wished that the measure would not 'be made perms.
cent. It that was the determination, it was a pruot of wrath
ag .instthe people. _ _

I.urd CAA iI.EREAOH disclaimed having any feeling
towards the people but that of doing them SC vice.
Mr. I lERNEY hoped the Nonle Lord would propose
on Monday that the measure should be temporary, and not
permanent.

Mr. LA ‘LBTON took the opportunity of alluding to •
misrepresentation made in another place, with respect to the
meeting of the inhabitants of the county lie represented
(Durham) That statement had given a must erroneous im-.
prescient with respect to the assembly. He w.s convinced
that the Noble Lord, who spoke of it to such exaggerated
terms, was informed that his authority was correct. bat from
he many inquiries he (Mr. Larnbton) had made, be was con-
vinced there was a, ground for the declaration that 700
armed melt from the forges attended the Meeting. The re-
ply to his inquiries was, that nut one ran came armed, and
a foreman to one of the mauufacturies from wh tit the
armed men weresaid to have issued averted most posit iuely,
that it wi,s impossittlethatarms could have been made there,
for the metal of the proprietors was weighed out regularly.
and the workmen were in too great a state of porerty to
purchase iron themselves. He denied that tbete was any
disaffection existing in Durham. The people were firmly
attached to Reform, but he by no means Leheeed them to be
indisposed to the Government of the country.
Sir M. W. RIDLEY, said, he was requested by the In-
hab.tants ,it Newcastle to deny that they had tumultuously
assembled. The greater number of those who attended the
Meeting of the lultabitants felt disappointed when the ora-
tors were observed. The Meeting not only 'assembled, but
dispersed in the moat peaceable manner, and the number did
not exceed 7000. The Hon. °net then read a letter from
the Secretary of a Society in Newcastle, defying a proof tat
tumult or disaffection, and declaring that those suspected of
Sedition were only anxious tor Reform.
Lord CAS I'LicREAGH, in answer to the observations of
Mr. Landston, said, that the evidence that '71.1. men lad not
gone armed, where there were 40.000, could be 01 little ef-
fect. •

The House then went into a Committee the report vas
received, and t he Bill was ordered to be :e•cumninted on
Monday nest.
Lord CAS ITEREACH then brought in the LIBEL
BILL, and ~, sett that it bhoulcl be read a tint time.

Mr. LiktWIGI-lAM Laid, this Bill was part of, a syotetu
to abridge the liberty of the press. He must therefore enter
his most decided protest against it ; but be should nut at this
moment enter upon the subject.
The Bid was then reaal a first. apd ordered to be read a M.
coed tints on Thursday, and printed.
Adjuurnsd to Monday.

thin the last seven or eight days, the vicissitudes
of the weather have been reitiarkablL 0.1
in the last week, at 8 o'clock in the morning, the ther-
mometor had stink seven degrees below the freezing
point ; On Motiday,..at the saute Moir, it stood at fifty,
and by two oclock that day, it huh tisen to fifty-three;
and, on Tuesday at ten o'clock, it attained the mean
temper.tture of the whole year ; or fifty-iivr.•
Extract of a letter 1111111 litiellUS A rs. dated August
:—" General San Alartin has heel; called over here
by the Governmelit, in order to take the command of
the alloy against Coy expetlihmt that nor: arrive. lie
will teach ink in liiur days, and tit the mean time wa
are si raiimig every nerve to have our preparations ready.
ane 'dace the country in a situ soon manfully to rrpcl
.he last efforts of Spanish hoitilite, or per:sli in the
attempt. Tots is the avowed determination of every
individual here, front the highest to the lowest. So far
every movement of the Portage-e appears to directed
to oppo..e the Spaniard., and we have certain acconty+
that grey are Mrtifyiug Santa Catalina, att.l Ric
Grande. The same is taking place with Montevideo.
which, it appear-, has been cireintivalated with a ditch.
The artily of Peru is in cantonments in the neighbour-
hood of Cordova. In the province of Glyn, General
San Martin has assembled a dwitiun of 3,00') men, with
IR pieces of caution, intended to ado to the general
defelice, if not wanted, he will lead thein against
Luna.•"

Extract of a letter dated Manchester, Dec. 2:—
"I have just heard that Walker and Knight have
this morning been arrested on a warrant of Colonel
Hargreaves, lot active magistrate residing near
Burnley. and the charge against them is murcrstood
to he high treasn, committed in the part they took
at the meeting held at Ilahergliniu Eaves on the
15th ult., when a barge part of the persons assem-
bled went armed, as is shown in one of the last 916
the papers laid before Parliament."

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DEC, e

OLD 11.1ILEY, FRIAAT, Die. 3.
StepheA Dobbin, George Dolton, Richard Cart,
Charles Haines, Thomas Jackson, James
Jaines.Ninore, Ind IVm. Veal, were severally arraigned
upon a chalice of uttering tinged notes. They all
availed theitisulves of the permission which was granted
to them, of pleading amity to the minor offence of
of having forged nines in Own povicssiim.
Samuel Jackson was with killing and slaying
Jahn Stratford, by ridi::g ag.sinst him with Isis horse,
gni knocking hint down, by w!ficli his death was
occasioned. .

Sarah Stratford, aged eight years, stated, on the Mb
of Nuvensher her Mother desired her to walk out with
the deceased, her brother, who was 18 months old. She
carried him in her arms into Old Street Head. Whilat
she was crossing over the road, near the turnpike, the
prisoner, on horseback, galloped through the prate,
without stayin4 to pay, and his horse !inking against
her brother, knocked him out of her anus. The priso-
ner then continued to pallor on without stopping. Iler
bmther was picked op, and carried to a surgeon's. and he
cited three days alter.

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W. Kimble was presmt when the accident happened.
The prisoner was riJiii Ivry furiously- When the
child on the go I, and the witness called out to
the prisoner to stop, he looked round and saw the
child, but he continued tog Mop on as fast as he had
been gailoping before. Finding, however, that an alarm
was raised, he pulled up his horse,but did not express any
contrition for What lie had done, and told the witness
not to Make bitch a ftli.s about. it. The witness thought
be was rather intoxicated.

The surgeon who attended the decayed deposed, that
his death was occasioned by a co tttttt ion on the temple.
which he received its the fall. He also stated, that on
derby on which the accident took. place. the prisoner
told bun to pay every mention to the child, and that he
would recompense hint for it.
The prisoner in his defence said. that he was not in-
taccated. and that he encleavottred to stop his horse
t,iter the accident vcctured. He celled several wititesws
sybo gate hint toe character of being a humane
ens I,y.
B.rnj unite Smith was indicted for killing and slaying
Hiehaid Sylvester, by driving a coach over hint on the
jodt of Oatober.

It appeared from the evidence, that the prisoner, on
the day mentioned in. the indictment, was dl ;Vial:: a
Paddington stage ih the City-road, and whilst ender-
lll i ll ; to pass dilating- stage, he drove over the deceased,
ail old Mall. Who WA:lilted his livelihood by sweeping a
crossing. prisoner put the dcceased in a corm,
and had hint conteyed to St. Barth°, 1111 l ew s Irrspiial.
Ile g tee I a kva shillings, and paid hint every atten-
tion in his power.
The prisoner called as witnesses several gentlemen,
who had &teen in the hanit of riding in his coach, and
all of whom spoke highly of his humane disposition.
One, the lt. s. Dr. Waugh, said. that the prisoner pos-
sessed a pc-net pouion of moral virtue than he had ever
met with in any other pant') of his rank in life.—The
Lucy aevitked &tor pr0a..,,,,.