The National Register.
London, England, 1819-01-24 00:00:00

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RnSEAT (DOMINICA), StPT. 113.
coktscuyicATto;: rani tHE HONOURABLE THE HOUSE OF

Witour the 84,raket..sitd Honor of Aural!)ly to his Ex.

cel:enty the Governor.

nee House having bet': tin 'sloshed by the Cohocial Agents
ltii a copy of smutty papers laid before the House of Com-
int.ns, alai primed by their order in the Ist of Mav Last, have
seem Oficial, en hatch snip' ise, statenieolt of the cases of
several slaves in this island, who or said to hose been loaded
ith hes ey chains and cellar*, 9nill7lliive ;
" ist, A boy about 13 years of see, a large iron chain round his
took, fassen.td with a padlock. total weighing _Mb..
1.. v. Two girls of id yea-s, much marked by the erects of the
eart.wions, fastened toge..her with imu chains round their necks, pad.
beiscd. weigning !sibs.
" Ad. A full grown man, after a severe flogging with the cart-
Yhin, loaded wish kit icon collar aria chains, weighing gi11,..
4th. An old man, ai patently 60
years of age, after having been
aevere%. :semen by Ins muter. was placed in the stocks, with on iton
cellar round iris neck. std chuins, weighing "Albs.
"VII- A buy about al years of age. loseit-i with an iron collar,
cbsias, and log at wood, weii2hing :min.:" and it appearing that
&acts statement was transtnitteci from the Government-house of this
Is:and, dated the 3d September last.
'the Itoose tag tease to fl quest your Excellency will be
',laved to tuo 'AA 11111111 Milli Oil the iiiihrenation yin, may pos-
sess Ott that seilsject, %title the 114111e4 of the negi OVII so chained,
diva those of their ow tiers, a, ',title t iendstct only requires to be
go 'serail) known to be iseiversally execrated is this comma.
1.:1y ; aid e trust your Excellency will eommunicate to Lord
Bathotost the general coloditioh of the slaves in this Island,
which has ho •n so nom Is mist epresented in the Heine of Com-.
mows. We lo el confident that their condition! Is as happy a.
that orally -lave population In the West Indies, and rely with
confidence ou the candour and justice of you. Exrelteney's
el: Loaner to contradict such unfounded accusations otesoonst a
whole coniniustity, when a leis ball rider at. aleor are trinity.
WILLIAM ANDERSON, Spanker.
House of Assembly, July 1, 1818.
His Excellency the Governor to his Honour the Speaker and the

House of Assembly.
The Covet nor, is compliance is itti the request of flit House
•f Assembly, has annexed the names of die oo net A lif wand.
Yen of the slaves who ate mention, d in the statement trans-
:Litter! trims Government Hoit.r, dated Sil Sept, Inst.
Names of Slaves. Belonging to Owu. and Man.
Ist. A boy,
Stow Estate, Mr. Corry.
td. Two girls, ?army Mrsl
at
f Mrs. Warne! in
. Wanxr, 1 i. '
end Frances,s OtICAU.
3d. A man, Livetpool, Mount Eolus, Mr. Cross.
cho . Anoidnian,Vin-} Mr.H9berte. Mr. Roberts, jun.
cat,
b;h. A boy, Louis, Mr. Mvler, Mr. Meier.
11. illi I. ..11.1 to the turps hie which the Hot, tiss be,l,
pleased to easiness " at these in.taners of slasei, having been
loatbot with liravy chains and collars, which Dilly requires to
be generally known to be nolveisull) eseerated in this cot,,.
witiviity,". the GioVelllol takes leave to refer the Ibitia, to his
nlobioage or the 211th October, 1816 ; to the Meii.B.•rs of the
}loose who ate Magistrates; to ili:• Circular Liter by order
of the Privy C ttttt mil, dated Itilth November, 1616, 0.. this
subject; and to the Hoare in general; to the several pi use-
cuti,„„ whirl, 1,:i5.,. been 111011111 M against inilivitlaala for
using tlsi. sinavounly anti illegal mode of tiankning, which bar-
rily- the late law for the gosei lament of the slaves L114'1;1'0.
lutely abolished. The Govereorregrets that en signal pi obi.
billet) has not been made to the use of dungeons on many
estates, ielritis are of an, li a eunati netion that a human brio;
cannot stand tiptight, or even erect in In.dy o hen kneeling;
and into tchirli no light nor ail can find entrance', except
through a small sig.zag aperture iu the *ail.
_..

The-Gobt ;nor ie. eonuttends to the Moon ass a %Tie.
inentary lov to MAW, these dtiogrottb, and to matt that all
places need far the I.orpose of contitteateut may be airy and
of propet diottosione,
The Governor io,.nret the House of Assembly that he will
at all times eotainunicate to Lard Hathiirai the trite elate of
the condition and tseatment of the glove population- of thin
tiland ;and it o ill ht. for hib Lordbliip winder of the conspa-
wive )unit of their situation with the 'doves to the ether
islands.

CHARLE6 WM. MAXWELL.
By his Excellency's command, J. M. WILLIA3I6.
Government House, Dominica, July 28, 1816.
Hi! Honour the Spa alter ..old Howe of Amwmbly to hi/ E.

eellency the Governor.
The House, impressed %this the importAisee of the discussion
relative to thy treatment o:the shires, and desirous of esposin..
to punlie detestation thw.e prisons who, dead to the ruire of„,
have abos.d Ilse ambutity hits wird to them, by
loading tin it Naves with henry chaivs, beg leave to return
you their Ihani s for ?our nies.Age, e, jug to them the
Dames of the pi r.mis who acted in bitch at. iiiijiv•litiobly man
ner. They base called before them Mr. Jams Cross, in. of
the parties acensed. And the negro Lir erpoul end Ali. ce,es.
In his delence. slated to the House that the Clutha albs( 4 to
the nceiu neighed less than foci pounds, and produced e
Chain %Well he declared to be the eimoimpat t the satire :
this slats unlit Is as confirmed by the negro, as to the appear-
ance and probable weight of the chain.
Umitt these cimisinstances the Howie cannot hut conceive
that your Excellency must have been ini•informed by the
person who rt. iglied it: and as this In.:tier nowt rerjous
importance, and as the I/ sand diameter of the country
eu.t the Leeislatttie depend upon a full rod CUllipit It eXpla-
nation of all imitteis connected with the Irratitsvad of the
slaves, the House tegtiest that your Excellency will cattle the
chain atbaeo to the imp() Liverpool to tie laid before thew,
with viii Milne of lite itetson who nesched it, that it mar be
Letuse liar !loom..

WILLIAM ANDERSON, Speaker.
Howe of -Vlvaly, Augma If, IBM
[TI„ n I "au.% s Mt attidaeits, fm the pit pate of proving
that the rham. a.. d we, e alias w et. lit titan matt d

We ate authowed *tete, that the paragraph in the M-
awr., °fleet wee). that one of the iliroiliers tor OA( he.rer,
who w4* Litely rlertrrl on the patriotic interest of the;
boroaalt, hod act owed the Chill/4o Hundred.. upon art no.rirr.
itrAt !ire 1111 to go oat to the 14 I st illimi4 a.• mom.
OleNa •;• 1.1 jiyoullMl 1,4 ".

All t1)...1-..nant. of the how:a on the north side of Cockspur Sweet,
from t u.r, of thr Ilrytualkst to t'.e King's Maws, including pm
of Sa .... • hare recur.: 1:01!. v. quit, on tic eel• ration of
their r : k sc. on 1,74- ' , •-, Arm atrrei, irattintr to
st. . • tare. r.'•l Z., n. ,• .s aalowet pan vi the Kto•,:s

ifeb L. rut L. ~t 1 doa u. at (test to it.
Nab), the twit an tlw asetrupolit. %11; Cias be opracd,
bad Anal a stzildttg o..,ject it2ai Yell-mall bad Cheing•cross, •

1" TIM NATIONAL REGIS/TR

MEETING.- "

[FROM Tut SIasrCUMITEIt la F. aat.b.}
MANCHEErtfi, JAN. 19 —li ap• rat. tt at psis-alien had
been made to the n,r::itglirerSe and e.,•1•1.,b1e5, to convene
a meeting for thc purpose of sliseisoing site (pavilion, wits I her
it would be proper to petition tile Fluisse of Conrmon■ feet
Ilse immediate s epeal sit ilie Curu Bits? mnlueipal ass
thorities, aware that something more was meant than met
their ears, and that the question of the corn laws was solicited.
to furnish a pretence fur ts,e discussion of ether subjects,
derlioed she measure.
The anonymous art vertisensent by which the public meeting
0/ To!""laY'was callsql, tinted that " she chair would be taken
precirely at II o'clock." A party, with flags and' 1111 l sic, met
the orator, Min took his horses from the carriage. A little
before 12 o'clock, the reptsblioan procession come down
Market Strect ; it consisted of three mew, bearing flags with
inscriptions. The first, we understand, was the property of
the "Man from Bristol;' it was red, wish geld letters; on
one aisle the words '' Hunt and Lille, Is," and on the other
side " Unit resat Suffrage." It was immiatrd on a sett staffs
which was SIISIMIIIItted wills the teat cep of Liberty ! The
other flags were whit.• ; stir One of shells was nom " Yu
Corn Laws," and on Ilse oilier " Rights of Mast." These
were followed by a band of !rosin., and imme,llatrly after
ensue the silly people who drew the haroorls, in which stood,
waving his hat, the so-oficmrejected candidate her a seat iu
the house lie has so much libelled. \Vitro the ps oce,ion
arrived it the Exchange, the carriage stopped ni the front
door, midi the orator wished to have given " a spier of list
quality," by making an has envie to the sub.cribe•rs to the
newsroom, who were looking at tile " most impudent man
living" from the windows end door. lltit the moment he
opened his month, he wes saluted with every mark of indig-
nant contempt, and he was °Mined to give up his intention,
for she b:sses and groans untie gentlemen whom lie wished to
become his auditors, drowned even his stentorian powers, 1111:1
his 11:y1111141111W 11/10Vril cowards with their precious lota, to
the hustings (if so Ilse scaffolding may he called), which was
erected VII the ground near SI. Peter's church, new rested
for exercise by the Alanchester and Salford yeomanry. ca valty.

The eeatfolitingira. then taken lospie..io.'n of by 111 e: time

and a number of persons, corepa.red with whom-, he himself
(though his appearance has riot 'inaptly been compa7eil to
that of a cow..iobber) looked stinietbiag like a gr otkinair.
Amongst then, we millet:stand, were Mitchel, Satins, Knight,
and Ogden, whose oratorical powers have been all heard
spoil the saint ground previ•iisly to the blanket now h.
Ureter Knight, we understand, 1; pencil the Inisiliess et. the
day by moving that Nigger Bunt should take the Chair. Ile
did so, and proceeded to speechify ; lie thanked them for
limit Coverer, that of elevating him to the high honour of being
their chairman at such a nieetinr, inter larding hie
inflamma-
tory harangue with libellous invectit ea against the Howse of
Commons.
Kniglii was the neat speaker ; hot it' weweee ever so mach
iodised to report this speeches delivered at the meeting, it
would be isupossilsle; l'or none hut a voice like Mister Hunt's
could be heard at many youth' distance, in the open air, on so
windy a day. Seerial other !seism's afterwards spoke; and
soon atter use o'clock, just as the chairman was mascot to
oommaiit:e another harangue, the scaffolding gave way, and
planks a,id matins all Cdlllo tumbling down together.
The mislap, sae ale happy to add, slid lint do nisch personal
iajely, but seduced the Gratin 6 to a dilemma from which they
were nut soon released. Mister Hunt, lion ever, recolleeting
his former intention in Spafiehis, espy ing the sign of the Wind-
mill, near the 1111115 of his late elevation, sans erreneenje went
in, walked up stairl, threw tip a sash, and was about to
address bus aiiilitors limn the window; but the landlord r .
minding him that his house was licensed for the sale of ale
and nut to hare sedition preaelicd 140 M it, very properly took
hi. by the arm, mid turned him iota the sit eel.
There was u,, alternative but waiting till the leaffoldiatt
we again erected ; and iu 3 little wore than three•quarters cf
au hew this was effected, and the se;-disuat patriots resumed
their labours.

At fern o'clock the differentinetiests which had been meth-
were ail disposed ef, and Mister Hunt coacluded the "la hour
of Ms lungs" by hoping he should never forget the irloricr of
the nay. party then proceeded to the ditmet to whirl'
Mister Hunt was invited, and to which he way drawn t. a frt.
poor deluded people, the precession passing from the lira tfold
in the saute order in a hick it Mlle) again stopping at !bent.
change door, where the scene acted in the meriting was re-
voted ; the titan evidently wishing to insult a class of
se' iety far ranking above that by which he was surtosncied,
amongst which not one respectable person could be meg-
hized. Mies staying a few minute. in this situation, the pro.
CESIUM mused through the Market Place, and Old Milgate,
to the Spitted Eagle, it, Hoagies Ditch, whet, the public
dinner was provided.
Before wet:rawhide this article, it is a justice owing to the
lower clan •
the town of Manchester to say, that, except.
lug dining the dinner hour, between twelve and one o'clock,
and excepting a few women and children allured by the
morel'', ut the scene, the greatest portion of persons of that
'descrirdioe who attended were evidently from • distance and
from the country, led to the town by the influence of the ad•
vertisernerd which had been industriously circulated. At
noun there were present at least MOO persoms, but a yet;
considerable proportion was drown to the place entirely by
cariosity; and that the /011Clal feeling was not with the
tendrils ut the spectacle furl proof was given, by at least two
'ha ris of the persons pros( at, sr ttiog up a shoat of satistactiou
Loa the fall of the hustings.

PORT OF LIVERPOOL.--Tilt fOROVIing I{ an account of the
'mutter of ve,%eis atpurted at Ilse Cts,tom fluase fur the
pear ItllB. without including the vestals employed ill Ike
coasting trade t

Prum Europe 8(1
liritiels from Porde Porte
Foreign hoot Furcu4o Ports.-- 335
irciand awl isle of Mao _ Ib2lb

Total —.4817
exceeding the arrivals in the preceding year by i 37.—The
number of vessels siti.igi Arno the Edst ladies yrar(anfi
Liehided in the above vtlecement), wa• 31,eumprising 20,b62
The number which has cleared out f this 4.m t
since the vprn:tig ut thi. trade els-rens uur haudred.—TUr
of r5,,,e1.. ,mployrd is. the c,..tuolue tta.le Optioning
thu, (ruin 1. eland with gs sin owl.) they be computed •1
u a k3(ii :u 2,5,nt reclusive of 101.• SU .rs,,rlv daily nevi
tug y artweru this pent bud th, Weaver Cud
' t zatikry .s.

. .
A new in:annee el thieving ingenti!ty lately in practice in London,
is to steal cart.. paint the holies a elttliriat colour, and put on tr:_.tti
wheels. lituabors of omdasocn !writ Lady bcvn sobbed to this
manner. •

JA N, it 4'

LAW IN7WLLIGI*CIE

COURT ()I' KING'S 11KNCH, J4littAtUr it.
• t.ineh.- WARR V. eLESIMPIT.
This was an :union for a libel. '!'sue damages were laid
at .iOOOl.
'lr. Scarlet stated the ease to the inry. The present was
a case of no common interest in a political point of view. The
had raised himself from it lower aitnation to 'het ore
mast, r 1111 l 'Art arer at Nottingham. lit• took part yolk
the jots ney men when they stood mit for the increase of wage%
aid gave them that itierease himself. When the disturhaares
broke out iu that pert of the country, Ward because the
Treasin er ; and aloe Habeas Corpus Act was •tispeaded
iii June, 1817, he. was taken from his family by 10 or 12 con.
stables, and after ineffectual applications to the magistrates
at Nottingham, he was cons eyrillo Cold Bath Fields prison,
and trout thence to Oxford, where ha remained till the 18ab
of NUrPtilihrr following, when he was released. But lattice he
arrived at Nut iat,ham, lie discovered, to his astonishment,
;hat the Editor of a Newspaper, called the 04server, had sent
into the %%01111, on the 10:14 of November, 1817, a Vapor,
published interest to the usual form. partly blank and wits,.
out a stamp, differing iumai tally from the paper of tbe pre-
esdinc day (Sunda% ), the Oil, oldilovember.of whirl, it per.
',mica to he a ,ircontl edition. In this Paper, tinder lb:
head of '• t• 1 l mmriretion, gad Execution of we
Convicted." a full it-tail of all the cireimistanees connected
vs tit, those satin 11111311. prneeedines i• professed to he given ;
n liar e‘iiiise of 511.:1.111 ard, the plaintiff, who knew nuthiug
al polities or of o:iver, except what II" ye,
11'1,111 readin7 a Newspaper, I, arensed of being one of the
iuds rituals satin 11,1111,:11 the Secret t.:oniiiiittee N•ttbigham,
to 'A il,lll Glaser was iutrndured, and by chum he was
iu-
teliertl all vs a. ready; and further, that some of the
loncldit es o 1.9 Were eutivieteil and exerntrd at Leicester, just
previous t J Cat irexecution declared, that the pleintilf,Frmik
Wald, was one of the old Ned Ludas %vita were appointed
to cointeand the rebel forces; that he li id proceeded to his
appeimed pu•t, from whence he was, with other*, to march,
tor 'lie pni do•e of elbowing the barracks, at an appoiuted
'fhis was the libel.
Am' 11 Sad, daughter of the pleintiff, deposed, that her
father ii vs ii at Nottingham, and was known by the name of
Fralik Ile was a lacy-manufacturer i entplt,yed 10'
I handy, and conducted his own hilliness. Reeollertedl
the Col:stables coming to her titlier'a house on the 15th of
181; ; they seatched the house, and, having done so,
left it befit e her father (fide he allerwerils went out ; this
was about four o'clock in the afternoon of Taesilay ; after he
%sem not lie chit not return, and an the Saturday morning
after %%Ones% saw him in custody. He returned home soon
after lice Intl, of November, lel7.
J. Holmes knew Oliver; %I as confined in Cold Rath Fields
in the rhumb of June ; was taken up at NOttingharn. Ward
wee in custody at the came time, so was Haines; they were
brought sip to Cold Batts FleltlB.llt the same time.
Mr. Goorlyer, the poiblisiter of Me Onserrse, stated the.
number of-rapt-resold on S lay, the 9th of November. It
was Impossible for him to say how many were piffled without
stamps and given away, Mr. C. himself packed the;,, up and
sent them away. Witness was not present when lie sent thrin
away ; does lent know that Mr. Clement Sent them by limos
drevie to the different Post ;11:Islets and prisons in the rummy;
but kilo its that it nail customai y with Nr. Clement to give
away a number of blank papers whenever any thing occurred
to excite pllillic interest.
Nelson, a (suer-carrier at Derby, recollected receiving a
large quantity of Observers one day in November 1817, CI 0111
Mrs. Eaton, use gaoler's wit's, to distribute about the tows
gratis.
Mr. Gurney, on the part of the defendant, addressed the
Joey, and contended that Mr. Ward might to have tried this
cause iu his own neighbourhood, if he felt that his character
load suffered any thing by what Mr. Clement bad inserted iu
his paper, which could not have been maliciously done, as it
arose f as account he had received of the disturbed
Celia ties.
The Chief Justice summed up, and went through a review
of the libel, which lie said eOlitaitied circianistatires of genre
charge against the plaintiff; and the defendant having been
',loved the publisher, the plaintiff was intitted to a verdict ;
the lineation of tlastuizes was s..ie pectinally for t!tr esire..eie,,
u stints of the Jury ; he wosi;il on ems occasion, as he diJ un
all others, recommend them to consider that gnestion this.
passionately, and to be guided in the Sete they awarded by
inederatiota, blended with justice, a course which he had no
duubt they would pursue oh the precut occasion,
The JIII y retired for near half an hour, wheal they returned,
and by the mouth of Mr. Kirby, their Fermium, the late.
Sheriff of London. deliveeed a verdict fur the plaintiff-.
Damages 0001. costs 40$.

At a dinner on Tuesday. iri which about 100 persons were
ant-milled, at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, to edentate
the tri ttttttttt of Ward, Hennes, sine of the persons who had
Lee is imprisoloed dist the Awlipell•lUil of the Habeas COITUS
Act, sicsif.cd his imprisonment to his efforts a detect Oliver.
On the Y7tn of May, Oise! was at Nottineltain, and had fee.
Juent and long Intel siesta %kb Biamireirt. On the 711 i of
une lie appeared their agent, called a lauding of the Re-
former'', and told thetas, that the revolution eo happily Leslie
in Yorkshire hail been stopped by the imeferrneeuf Oustr
'neut. and that he bad with difficulty escaped. Holmes, miss
peeling that he um. a Nit', coon is eal to ire him into another
meeting, by a:leging that he was swipe. il. He caw to
ihai meeting, and hating been hind pressed by Whites, lee
der lei cal that Ile was trial at !bat moment to 'feet the
standard of frecsban, and implered ,hem to bestir thenistlyi
or the poor int uuf Yof k would be all murdered. When asked
why then lie should tinny away Elmo them, he asplied,
if any person would go f r him he engird clay, lint wale else
could I qually periwig) his duty in London. He had alive% S
deluded the people, by del.sei me to them a dreidttlt d nits-
sage ham Sir Pleads Bartlett, Majus Cala% rtent, anal :rir
!tube'. N il.nn. Mu. Chalks Yeomen, the solicitor for \l r.
Ward, staled, that having been mut h impressed ty Lind
Castleresigh's statement, he had 4.tne to Notiingliene to ass
certain, to his own sati•laetion, he seal elsarartes of Ward,
lie feand that all, whose motive fur listing litni wrie rant
obvious mud creditable to them, loved and respected late.
His character for veracity laud been impeached lay represent.
itte that he had in his petition complained of hie dungeon .111
Ilitop, while in fact it was pine ill E:3,11,111. Hr esan.lited
that and ltrinilliy rilleu li.e hind with water by
admire it up the wall. Wait! 11.1% an appestaster tat great
simplicity and modesty.
Two Lambeth bakers. named Mallard and Jefßries. were Beet! ow
Thursday, st !Tanta Hill, fiir basing pearl-salt OD lbeitreMilaes,
WC' 40 talbe the bread, sod make it Luta.

JAN. 7.4