The National Register.
London, England, 1820-04-24 00:00:00

YORKSHIRE CLOTHIERS.

We lately stated the great falling off in the Yorkshire
Clothiers Trade; since our uhstiact statement the regu-
lar annual returiLitas been made, of which we siajtho
a copy—That great insportance is attached to this mutat,
both by the Coveroment and by the country itt
may be well sitnosed ; and we are Wormed Mai one tai
the first IFt:slim's proposed by the Lord Lieutenant,
who has this week visited Pooh-tract, en account of tile
sitting of the Quarter Sessiotts, ryas—" flow stands the
return of the woollen ?" A very 11.1 oral
:aid extremely proper inquiry ; and every well-wisher to
hi, • (unary is ill regret that the first report made to his
gt,vernment, by the new Lord Lieutenant, on tilts vitally
stupor ant subject, must be so gloomy. In the carpet
manufacture in Yorkshire, the settee( the trade is stilt
more discouraging ; and we believe we are within com-
pass when we say, t.tat within the last three years there
has been an actual decease in that branch of mantifac
Lure ul 3 4ths its former amount. but it is unnecessary
to insist ilium these details; our streets exhibit str.ii
and decisive indications of the 41, cay ut trade, in the
-number of workpeople mat art. seen daily loitering
shout in a state of idleness, not because they will not
work, um because labour is not to he had. hue t.auses
' of tills .grievous depressant were not ill stated by the
peisons to whom our chief magistrate addressed Maisel!.
a..d on whose good disposition lie Mewed a well-placed
reliance when he mixed t ree.y among them lasahurstlay,
Excess of manufacitiritir machinery—the emu anti
wool-lull —anti the pressure of the public burdens, iery
naturally suggested themselves to these poor distressed
manufacturers as the causes of their sufferings; but the
last °lglu to have been placed the first, Mr it is from the
public burdens, occasioited by the public debt, that a
eery large share of our miseries flow, and in which they
all originated. The advice given by the Mayor was the
hest • that could be given ; but both Mr Becket anti his
audience must bate felt that, owing to the peculiarity of
our political situation, it had little in it to cheer the
the drooping spirits, or to animate the mind that has
lweil taught by my .rtence -what is Meant by " Hope
ileirrre(l."
STATE OF THE WOOLLEN MANUFACTURE, 11110-10.
NARROW CLOTHS MILLED.
Pieces. Yards.

First Quarter 34,545
Second Quarter 29,789
Third Quarter &WKS
Fourth Quarter 35,278

119,700 4,811.181
,140,313 5,781,392

Milled last year

Decreased 20,314 332411
BROAD CLUTIIS MILLED.

First Quarter 71,609
Scend Qua iter 67,555
Third Quai ter 66,148
Fourth Quarter 37,966

163,278 8,406,314
Milled lag year 324,339 19,240405

Decreaed 61,061 10539,191
The whole manufactory produccil this year in
yards
Du. last year in yards 15,907.597

In Pieces. In Yards•
Total decrease this year 81.665 2,6'3.102

T;te decletlSlMl in the other otjticiits of the woMlen
Itadr hot included in these returns it, we ullderstand, ill
fie same proportion ; anti the wool: may serve to show,
if any e. idence were wanted un thin Itra.t, the impolicv
of those laws which have burdened die raw material,
and the °lts and wares used in its manufacture, with
aclikional imposts. These laws, however, it is only
jcst;ce to say, do nut create—they merely aggravate—the

The motion for a new trial in the case of Sir F.
Burdett is now em,in the Court of King's,Bench. We
shall not know the result time enough to give it
to-day.
A it., coins of the merchants. and ptinripal
losintailts of Wakefield, Will held on Mina.lay hot, "
the pill pose of allowing 1t11.4,111C4 for clieektmg the de-
ol the ili&allectol, sitipos ling the constituted so-
alto prmleCIIII& the lives and property of the
peat edhle 1)411 of the e 1 eiiiv," a very txtiAlcitt
alrlig of trsulntions lA 'hie!, are in soiltslatate
tiolowing I Intl the Ilio ing view with the tieept.,l
sot tow the tale wicked alltitilit• to ion/serf the peace
alit 11141 they Wedge Ibetn.ei CS to uphold the
'Awl with all their pow, I•, and firmly to oppose every
ct of insubordination; that they rib with perfect con-