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LONDON,
TUESDAY, APRIL 11, WO.

The account which we published yesterday from
a Glasgow Paper respecting a skirmish between •
small party of the military and • gang of sensed
Radicals on the high road our Banr'yhridge. is
unhappily confirmed. It seems that on Wednes-
day la-t one of theStirlinribire yeomanry, in pro-
ceeding to join his troop at Falkirk, was stopped
within a few miles of Kafir!' by a party of Radicels,
who refused to let him pass, and demanded the im-
mediate surrender of his arms. The yeoman of
course refused to comply with their demand, and
turning his horse's heed,suceeatled ire escaping. On
his return he met an Orderly of theKilsyth troop, and
sop f g him of his danger should he venture. to
proceed, the two yeomen returned to Kilsyth, and
reported what bid hem/twit. A party of the 10th
homers, and an squill number of therStirlingsbire
yeomanry, immediately proceeded in se-arch of the
Radicals, and overtook then', about twenty-five in
number, near Bonnybridge. A skirmish ensued,
which lasted for afew minutes, mid ended in the
total discomfiture of the Radicals. of. whom foot
were wounded, ors ors dangerously as to be left ou
the lield4and the bothers,' nineteen iulminber, were
trim prisoners sod lodged ist Stirling Castle.
The Radicals, it seems, by the spoils of the victory,
were pommel' of Live muskets, two pistols, eighteen
pikes, and about one hundred rounds of boll car-
ttidge. Lieutenant HODGSON, of the 10th hus-
sars, who commanded the Kiog'irtroops, received
a pike wound, in the band, a serjeaut of the hus-
sars was wouauded severely lay a shot in the side and
by a piker stud three horses were wounded.
We have been thus paticular iu narrating tile
*circnnislinces of this distrmaiog event, as it is the
first instance ip which the discontented labourers
have 'Tittered to maintain, even for a moment, a
conflict with the King's troops ; and further, be-
ea ase we sincerely hope that it will prove to be the
140. The tuoFt energetic means have been for some
time employed by the concealed agents of 'mischief,
to unsettle the minds of the working classes—to
keep their curiosity sad anxiety continually alive by
repeate4l denunciations of a general ritinr, by my.-

tenons thousands, who existed, we firmly believe,
only in the imaginations, or rather in the months
of those who propagated sued rumours. Day after
day has been specified for the completion of this
dreadful purpose, and as individual and general
&steers must prove the most efficient auxiliary of
those who seek to disturli the, frame of society,
they have uniformly sought by every means to en-

courage a spirit of idleness among the mann factn ri lig

classes, and unfortunately so ready scent there de-
hailed people blindly to obey the instructions of
these mysterious, invisible, and uoknowu guide*,
that on the suggestion contained in the tretwunahle
address of the Ist of April, stveral thousatals of
the weavers of Gls,Foie, Pahlley, end other places,
instsotly desisted trout their urdsn'ary labour. Thus
with minds agitated by hope, inflamed by trea-
sonable harangues, and prepared by the impulse of
poverty and hunger fur the adoption of desperate
measures, were there tunnerous bodies of men ex-
posed for *event days to the delusive-influence of

seditious demagogue., end we cannot be surprised
',et the biegietretes throughaut all she northern
counties should have entertained lively apprehen-
sions of in'isninediste insurrection ; Wader such
circomilauces, we cis bud cause for congratule-

lion that the greet body of these poor, people re-
sisted every temptation, and that with the excep.
firm) of this inconsiderable effnir at Boonybridge,
in which oat more thou 28 of the labourinitclasses

neneetiwaged, the public tranquillity h not been
disturbed.
The dread of. • geriend rising of the iladicels
Pre'railed reiy stropitiio.lYlAAt.el a tej'pring the
coarse of the laatounirke En,sre haramkono it private
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Smart was considered in 'Chown as the Signal Or
the intone:Oen there, as indicating that the intmr-
gent; oath herr coutosenceirtke strotliiu
their quarter. Now it is pretty, etritlent•llial rf
birth parties Were to Wait for this Agnil, the
rectiou insist be postponed' ad' (Warts iiijeJtdilis
and it Overly thews that in the accounts remitted
by the Magistrates, an error must exist somewhere..
There will ever be found during a period if agita-
tion and ibirM many persons ready with Wes of
dangers and mysteries to pamper. the appetites of
those who love so di food for the imagination, and are
ready to swallow every story, hirwever
visionary. False statements of embryo rebellions
and massieres can easily be made without any teat
of detection, for should the prophecies out be
ed, how easy is it to find some pretence for:the-delay
or miscarriage of the evil detigii.or to affirm that the
very publicity of the information deterred the con-
spirators from their enterprise ? . To deny the eXibl-
rsice of u discontented spirit existing too *try great
and dangerous extent among the labouriug classes
of the manufacturing districts, would be *sidle as
to assert that distress and despair are not busy
among them. But we really do not believe thatthere
are or have been such numbers of people organised
in hostility to the Government as would: encourage
their leaders to verdure upon an open iiisurrection.
They may contemplate some purpnite in occasion
ally agitating the public, and thereby ',Ailing the
minds of the working classes for the pursuits of
ordinsry industry ; but if from those who desisted
from work in- Glasgow and Paisley on the
first of April,, in consequence of the threat or
promise of insurrectinn, be di-Jaded ell •trilio
paraded the ,streets in idle expectation of wit-
nessing some great occurrence is which they
had no intention of bearing a pert, and those
who were compelled by others to follow the crowd,
we sincerely believe that the numbers of the rebel;
would be reduced far too low to render them as
object of terror.
To Ure_Magistrates and yeomanry of Gilligan
sad its • vicinity every praise is due tot winch !Off*
sight, discretion, Mummify; and bravery can lay
claim : by these qualities they have Auring tlseir
late arduous duties been honourably distinguished.
The populace is many instarn'es put 'the patience
of the troops to the utmost trial, but Ausaiseity• is
inseparable from true courage, and these brave sol-
diers have gained more honour by their &Amnesic*
towards their poor deluded,. thong% virgin:ea and
turbulent coontrynien, Lau if they had bound
their brans with the wreaths of ',trusty, and had
their triemphs testified by the shistlhter of thou.
sands.

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The Earl of LAUDERDALE, 1T003,014001 0 private
letter woe received yesterday, dated Rime, the 34,1
instant, is, we understand, rustling a rapid route
towards Leghorn, which place the Quicx cub-
templart,..,l reaching on the Sth, His Lordship,
from a popular sense of feeling, has tendered his
grtirirei to accompany her MAJESTY to
England,. which it was thought more eligible to
effect before the meeting of Parliament.

Paris Papers of Friday last have orriitecl nt
our Office. We have already noticed the publi-
cation of the decree for the convocation of the
Cortes. , In this decree it is not a Little singular to
observe the care with which the representation of
the Spanish Provinces of South America is regulat-
ed and ascertained, as if the authority of the another
country were fully acknowledged by the Colonies.
Mexico indeed is still subject to Spain, awl to this
Viceroyalty are assigned seven deputies. lint when
we and Santa-Fe de Bogota, the capital of New
Grewidat; Caraccas, the capital of Venezuela; and
Poetios Ayre,,, the capital of the Provinces of the
Rio de la Plida, anointed us the places where
Juntas are to he formed for facilitating the elec-
tions of the representatives assigned respectively to
these several provinces, we tire tempted to Ink
whether the KING and his Junta of Government
have ever brand that !liter:es Ayres, Venezuela, and
New Grenada are How ii !rpendent Republics. too
deeply impressed with the spirit of freedoms, to '
rout t the trammels of their ancient despotism. mid
too powerful to he deterred by the appritheintion
of
,Spanish arms freta continuing to enjoy the
ft vita of their. enterprise. .

General 0'1)ox , the Count DP PAhis-
bai, has pt;bl;shed its the ?Madrid Papers an
enli.n.ition of his dwelt/et sitwe the 4th of
. Starch. the dloy in c:,uArdi the pro-
clumalion of the Cdni,Ciiiinvt at ()cana.-.-
Ile cotuptaius that hi, Fennes its enabling the
people, by the protection which be afforded
them, to declare their sentiments upon public
affairs, has oet been appreciated as it deserves.
The French Chamber of Deputies hos been
I. occupied for some days in examining, the public
accounts Of the year 1019 ; lint-this dry discuss*
is nut 'lnfrequently etiktresaed by anigry,yolktitol.
obeerretiook
The •Pivo per Ceoto.P see
Stock. 1,f45 f.
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- ettillifeltiirses rusealintertooti five fifikb
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