The National Register.
London, England, 1812-04-19 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

APRIL 19.

The House divided—For the motion, 17 ; agaiust it, 49.—Majority, 92.
...Adjourned.

THURSDAY, APRIL 16.

The Mail Coach Exemption Toll Bill was read a second time.
Mr. HERBERT made a motion, of which he had given notice, for the
production of certain papers, to show the frauds and perjuries committed
in carrying on the License Trade. After a discussion of some length
the motion was negatived.—Adjourned.

FRIDAY, APRIL 17.
Mr. WHITBREAD presented a number of petition•, praying for the
repeal of all the penal statutes against religion.—Ordered to lie on the
Tattle.

He then gave notice, that he would call the attention of the House to
the subject of the petitions upon the motion of his Right Hon. Friend
(!dr. Grattan) respecting Catholic Emancipation.
Mr. WHITSREAD also gave notice, that unless in the pending cause in
the King's Bench, the limited sense in which the Toleration Act was
lately understood, should be abandoned, and a more liberal interpreta-
tion substituted, he would, on the 29th of May, bring forward a 'no-
tion, the object of which would be to confirm the liberal interpretation
of the Act.
EAST INDIA COMPANY.
_ _ _

Mr. I.vme-roN presented a petition from the manufacturers and
other inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood of Dudley, against the
monopoly of the East India Company.
In answer to an inquiry of Mr. Creevey,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER stated, that his intentions re-
specting the consideration of the East India question remained unal-
tered. He hoped that he would succeed in carrying the projected mea-
sure through Parliament in the present Session. Circumstances might
delay the agitation of the question at so early a period as he intended
to introduce it; but he would net remit in his efforts to facilitate the
object.

PETITIONS AGAINST ORDERS IN COUNCIL.
Mr. WILBERVORCZ presented two petitions, the one from Sheffield,
the other from York, against the Orders in CoutisiL—Ordered to lie on
the Table.

Sir CIiARLtS MARDAUNT presented a petition from Birmingham
upon the same subject.
Mr. Baiti.:G took the opportunity of expatiating at considerable
length upon the disadvantages consequent upon the Orders in Council,
the object of which Orders had actually been abandoned by the recent
Licenses. He begged to know what would be the practical result of
such a system in the opinion of Ministers. What had it commenced in
hut retaliatory vindictiveness, and what would it end in but the ruin of
our own manufactures, effected bT the very means that would operate
to render those of the enemy ilogri,hing.
Mr. Rost commended the system, which, in his opinion, would
produce an effect directly the reverse of what was apprehended by the
Honourable Gentleman.

Sir C. MoRDAUNT made some observations upon what he conceived
to be the state of the inhabitants of Birmingham. He was of opinion,
that they did Rot suffer so much as was generally feared in this time of
domestic pressure and calamity. He adverted to the great importance
of the Birmingham manufactures, without which, he said, America
could not even shave or catch mice.

Mr. WHITBREAD observed, that. there was a great difference between
the statement of the l ion. Baronet and the petitioners themselves, who
most strenuously remonstrated against the Orders in Council, as de-
structive of their trade, and calculated to ensure general starvation. He
was desirous to know whether it was the intention of the Minister, nuw
that he saw petitions corning in from every side, complaining of priva-
tions and miseries, to appoint a Committee to intr.;:re into the immedi-
ate causes of such grievances.
Ile CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER denied that the state of the
country was so tteplorabl,, as bad been represented; on the contrary,
trade was more flourishing at the present period than it had been t;its
time last year. He concluded by defending the system adopted with
respect to trade.
The
petitions were ordered to he laid on the Table.
l'he Princesses' Annuity Bill was read the third time, and passed
Adjourned.

PROVINCIALS.

RIOTS.

SHETTIFLD, Apau, 14.
Tt being market day, the populace about noon went ioto the market
and seized the corn, and began to Ftrk wit about the streets; gni in
consequence of potatoe.4 being advanced within the i2‘e tett cloys from
6d. to 14d. per perk, they seized about 500 loads, and distributed thorn
to the populace. They also attacked the fish stalls, and took the fish
?oil gave them away : they went into the sh ,nibles and sPized a quan-
tity of meat ; and in the boner-market they did not leave one whole
bor. Many of the country people sold it at hd. a pound to get away.
The mob were now destroying and breakfrz the window- at a dr. ndtul
rate. j I%.lwg;stratc's and About f.,rry Constables no ,v up, tyltiOa

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old). seemed to infuri,t;„, them, for they directly went to the greatest
filitr-dealers and broke all the windows. Justice PARKER then read the
Riot Act, but they teemed to grow worse, merely to keep the Jus-
tices, Woa rt./ r and PAR XF.II, where they were, for while they were
endeavouring to quiet tinen, a party went into the Wicker, and bloke
open the depot where the Local Militia arms are kept, and in about
fifteen minutes they broke 800 stand of arms to atones, beshles_de-
stroying a great quantity of clothes, drama, swords, hay'snets, cartottch-
boxes, &c. and when the Magistr.ftes and Conszahles got anumi;st
them, the Constables, together with the MagiArates, were knocked
down. The horse were now fetched from the barracks, and the yeo-
manry cavalry called in. An express has gone off to fetch the Doncas-
ter and Rotherham militia and cavalry.
Now, eight o'clock, all in a dreadful state of confusion; font- of
the ringleaders are apprehended, and sent under a strong armed detach-
ment to York in post-chaises: they are now threatening to pull
down the town-hall. The soldiers have loaded the cannon mil) grape-
shot, and if they attempt to proceed with their depredations they will
certainly fire,as the Riot Act has been read three times. The banks and
all the shops were shut at one o',.lock, and business at a stand ;—we
dread the approach of night. The damage done already is computed at
three thousand pounds."

LEEDS, APRIL 11.
Last Sunday night, about twelve o'clock, a number of armed men,
with their faces covered, entered the workshop Of Mr. Smith, of Snow-
gate-head, near Folmfirth, in the neighbourhood of Huddersfield, and
broke all his dressin ¶-frames and shears. They proceeded Lam thence
to Horn Coat, about a mile distant, entered the dresang-shop ut Mr. J.
Brooke, and not content with breaking his frames and shears, which
the; entirely destroyed, they brae and demolished his hou,eb l l ref-
niture and all the windows. From thence they proceeded to Retns,
near Hanley, rdniut three miles farther, where they arrived about two
o'clock, and entered the workshop cf Mr. James Brook. and broke one
frame, which was all he had, and which had been taken clown ::brut five
weeks. At the earnest intreaty of Mr. Brook, they were prevailed tirtn
not to break his shears. One case has occurred, which has sre.ni alr.rra
through this manufacturlng district. On Thursday night, ahout twelve
o'clock, the extensive eloath manufactory of Mr. J. Foster, of Hornhory
near Wakeneld, was surrounded by a large 1)94 of armed mere, who,
atter securing all the approaches to the premi,ies, proceeded to break
into that part of the mill appr,nriattd to tlle dres‘ing of clouth, v..here
they completely d.,,strlyed all this shears and f: runes; the forn-na were
not merely ..nipped, but abiolntely broken in pieces. They *then de-
molished all the windows, and, as if actuated by the most tiiat,ulical
pbrenzy, hrnite into those parts of the premises, againq whieti tr-ese ce-
predators do not pretend to have any ground of complaint the scrib-
bling mill and weaving shops, and in:tteriAl! y injured tin: machineri, and
wantonly damaged a quantity of warp reNly for the lo..rri ; de,: royed
not merely the glass of the window, hot the frame,, which were of ca,t-
iron,the windows of the dye-houses, the coumnig-house, and even he:
dwelling-houses contiguous to the NA kshop, shared the sa:ue fate. .%t
the commencement of tFese our.nzes, a rktaehment front CA: mutt body
invested the dwelling-house of Mr. Foster I sons; they shivered the
door in pieces, and broke the window and frame, nd proceeded to the
lodging-room of the young men, and demanded the keys of the building,
under pairs o: instant death. The; dragee.l two of them out Of bed, and
tied them together, making them ii„! naked upon the floor ; the other
they compelles4 to accompany the in with the keys. The dwelling-house
occupied by the book-kerper was also broken into, and his family treated
with brutal violence. They afterwards set fire to the building. which
was extinguished, after their departure, before it communicated to the
main body of the building. Having accomplished their obj-ct, they
assembled in a fig Ad, when the leader called over their numbers, to
which each answered. Having alc,l-tain-d that their whole nornh-r
was there, he said, " the work :s dune, all is well, tliTerse ;" which or-
der was obeyed.

LiTTV•TOIVN, (Nr.t)t
ci i thought, after the recent and porn-Jn:les, ss%• ..hoit'd hear
no more of the Ltt'lrlites, at It•:,q for Stant. tieir ; !Jilt ..."c• had %%Win
work in this neiftlibout hood on :;:ittir.lay 'llO.
Luddites asscmhled to numb-r of from 150 to ‘..1c,0 nme, with in
is -
ti'nt to destroy C'artwrigift's cro;: !f.ng 111:1Chillcs at Rat% tol•kj,
front this town, and pro;:ee/leil to break ripen the door,, b r. svit'ari t
effect, as they, as well as the wirdows, were extre v,•,11 •1
w.th bon bars, and every precalo./ fo taken to frottr,,t.: ?Kir a :.taps,
C.o.i.wri;ht is a resolute rill, :Effi reas'in to hr•it v... that pro..
pet t; would be at ; ol•;lit ..etfe.f lie le.! 7 took the
re-40101-n of-steeping in rfe n ill /•,•er,, hitt ciet-
sisting of six men. At the !lull.. the at..t..lc i. ,:w ,f his elfosc-o
bard., (:ri- of wh wis soklif 1-) .L t'a .td to rie,:ift, and coolest roils-
mencect an inequality it for••e of ti e o•to :--ttartst 150 1:1re.:,.• was
kern up on b /th sides tor a cotfAiler.fiLe An-- v- • 11 npi,••ar
wit4mtlt utfcct. C...i.tw..4r.5t a:11 his i a ry lifctl 140 nines f. o.:•. .11
dows; some of the Lve1.11...'.: were ki'1,•,1...1,11 syve• al ,v,)uilolvd. i :,,v0
seen two of theae fle:udyd in,n dead, who have fanto a sarra..e to
temerity. Another is reported to Irlve since died of his •.-.-ottods; at..d
how many more w/o:tided, remains to be knowli. it. I ight and
his men were so wall protecre•l behind %vans, that ti ey eseApce uti-
hort ; bin they frotittent:y e‘pos^d thenfseives, and (aught 1/ravel-. fir.
Carrwristit and h;.; twrd Ik-co on fluty er'r', ni4lit, 104:t Ca.—fuse::