The National Register.
London, England, 1820-01-23 00:00:00

WAILFIELD Sesstaxs.—On Friday last, at the
General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, held by
adjournment at Wakefield, for the West Riding of
the County of York, the Grand Jury returned a
true bill for misdemeanour against J. Mitchell,
against whom an indictment bad been preferred for
directing abusive and seditious language against the
Prince Regent and the two llouses of Parliament,
at a Radical Reform Meeting, held on the 4th of
October last, at Skircoat Moor, near Halifax ; and
for then and there using expressions tending to
excite the peo.de to _partition the estates of the great
nobility ; and, among others, of Earl Fitz.villiam
'lt will be recollected that Mr. S Wortley referred
to these latter expressions, without stating who
had used them, more than once during the last
sitting tu Parliament, as indicating the nature of
the views entertained by the Returners of York.
shire ; and that, ke.did not cease to hold them up to
public notice, until he was reminded .by Mr.
Brougham, that to tell one half the truth was just
as useless as to join to it one half of another story ,
and that the reel inference would be very different
from that which Mr ‘Vcrtley had drawn, when it
was known that it was Mitchell who used them.
At the same time it was added, that Mitchell was
the individual who had introduced the infamous
spy Oliverdo the Reformers of 1 orkshire, and was
more than suspected of acting in that capacity .him-
' self. The present indictment dues not urigin-te
with Government, or of any of its Agents, but with
those who are politically hostile to .the individual
members composing it. It will remain, thetefore,
to be seen, whether Ministers will take this prose
cation upon themselves, or, by nut doingeo, remain
liable to the imputation of wishing to screen a man
like Mitchell.
It is calculated that a person has 1500 oppor-
tunitils of leaving London in the course of the
twenty-four hours, by stage coaches, including the
repeated trips of the coaches, which ply the short
distances. ltis understood, that about 300 stage
coaches pass through Hyde Park Cotner daily.—
There are about forty Brighton couches. There
are eighty-four coaches belonging to Birmingham,
of which forty are doily . to Chester nineteen, of
which sixteen are daily ; to Manchester seventy,
of which fifty-four are daily. In the year 1770
there belonged only two stage coaches to Man.
cheater, one to London, the other to Liverpool,
end they went only twice a week ; there ore now
twenty coaches pass backward and forward daily
between these two places. There are sixty coaches
belonging to Liverpool, of which fifty-six are daily ;
to Preston, twelve ; to York, eighteen, of which
ten are daily ; to (lull, twelve ; to Newcastle, six ;
to Glasgow, thirteen ; to Edinbxrgb, .thirty-nine ;
I to Aberdeen, nine; and to Inverness, three.
Oa the Ist of December a meeting of gnglish-
men took place in New York, to consider the state
of their country, and particularly the affair at Man-
chester, at which an Address to the People of Jng-
land was voted, and a subscription was entered into
for the relief of the widows and orphans ,of those
,who suffered on the 16th of August.