The National Register.
London, England, 1819-10-18 00:00:00

FEES CLAIMED BY THE CLERK OF THE JUSTICES OF

THE PEACE.

Mr. Hill, of Chester, presided as Chief Commissioner
ten Commissioners sat upon the Bench with him. After
some ordinary cases were dectiltil,Mes,rs. Milne ((lswald
Nliitir, clerk 111 the magistrates at the New Halley, mid
Mother to the enroiler), liar row, Nalllll, and Renick, ap-
peared, and a request was made to Mr. Hill to hear the
case in %slick they were concerned out of its order, us
they had to attesita elsewhere. This req:lest was granted.
. Mr. Milne stated, !hut he made this application for the
sant of /13., whieh was the minima or fers due to him as
Clerk olthe Justices of the Pt act' fat Salford, upon recog-
IliZalleeS of hail, entered into by r. ft roe, to appear at
the next Lancaster assize S and An.saer ie six indictineuts.
Hr did not el 000 se to keep Mr. Wine in custody for the
fees, and he therelose now apirlied to the Court to order
payment of them.
Chit r Consmissioner.—Have you any witnesses?
Mr. Milne.--Yes; here ate Mr. Edward 144110 W cud
Mr. William Daniels.

They were sworn. Mr. Borrow is alto Sallie WI/0 ap-
peared at the inquest 111$011 JO.lllll Lees.
Mr. Idaleow deposed. that fur War I 1 years that he had
practised at the New Bailey, these fees had been paid:
the plaintiff always Chill god theta, and his father always
charged them.

M. 17. Whitworth (a Commissioner, who sat npon Mr.
Hill's right hand) asked. if there was any authority kir
demanding such tees.?
Mr. Milne referred to the statute 22 (we believe) Geo.
H.. which authorizes juslices of the peace to regulate the
clerks' fees.

Air. Mill said, be was aware of that, and of the legality
of the demand. but die could nut deride 11111.111 hie 0%11
kllOWlrlige without evidence. lie had Lein piesent w lien
the Jusiices fur Cliesisise fixed Iheu tires their.

Mr. Barrow depart!, that 3lr. Baron Thompson had
►anetnoted these tors 41 Liatteostri imthe year 1199.

Mr. 1-11 considered that guile atittieuent.
Mr Whitworth said these tars were not legal; the
Judges did not attempt to exact them in hoodoo; and
aNi.ed Mr. Milne whether Mr. Wroe had not been appre-
hended on a magistrate's warrant.
. .

Mr. Milne.—You ale not a commissioner, but a party.
Mr. Hill was about to check this...ally, when
Mr. Whitworth stood up, and belienteuily said, " I will
nut be insulted by this fellow ; I call upon you to commit
lino tor contempt; I will not sutler any other business to
br one into till he is to tttttt itted." loud shout of up-
planse from the spectators.j
Mr. Hill remarked to Mr. Milne, that such observations
were not proper; but that probably he was nut :Male that
Whitworth was It CO 11111 l ',sumer.

Ma. Milne said he bowed with great respect to 3lr.
Stewasil ; and if he had (Mended the cu 1111 l I,ssi 111 l ei s, lie
must sineei el) apologized fur it; but for Mi. WhitwuttO
he should tike ho notice of 1 .

r. Hill.—That is improper.
11r. Whet wortle.—Thaf is adding instill to insult. I in.
sivt that that tenon he committed. 1 have vceee one com
mitted for a flinch lees offence. The chide Court of
Cutioniervionen4 have been invoked the °ugh mr.

Mr. Kruslww, the clerk, wilS iuteri opting these obser-
vatious, and inueretiing with the bosun...hi before theca,
when Mr. Whitwuttli checked hint fur stick conduct: he
asked, Mr. Nicholas Whitworth, what have you to soy?
Whitworth.—You are only the clerk, Sir. Know
your own duty, and euutine yourself to it ; yuu ire but the
servant of the Court.

Coa,iderable debate ensiled as to the legality of the
%%enrol*. Air. Whitworth urged that they were illegal,
ao, founded upon Lord enentar, which was
itself itlrgal he had gut the opinion of the Just level
authorities in the country to that effect: if this were
allowed, a trading magi3trate and his clerk might rein e
man, though he had the wealth of the Uuke of Devon-

Mr. Hill said. the legality or illegality of the warraut
wan tut tun to the treAtion.
Mt. Johtuam (at 4-unisninsioner, but not upon the bensis
uu thin cans) ()detest Its qua ei,lileilve 11l thy. care, hot tin
eVlllrilee Nab iiiatllllls,ii.le, at. lie hail nut hearu that ea.r.
Mr. Hill said he Anew tiothiug there of what they did in
London.

Mr. ftatillhata (after aaking their oplui0115) declasi ed the

commissioners to be nosoimosealy for the plaintiff, hot
opine being challenged and obliged to My .ire again, lee
said 6 weer for the plaintiff, old I for the Girl. odae.t.

Mr. Whitworth and Mr. Johnson again urged the com-
mitting! of Mr. Milne for contempt.
Mr. Hill telused, and thanked God that he knew nothlti
of the ',aeries.
Mr. Wroe appeared fur himself, and seemed much die.
satisfiedwith the result.

The following is a copy of the Address voted at
the County Meeting held at York on Thursday last,
which passed with only two dissentients:—
" To His Royal Highness GEoneie Prince of Wales,
Regent of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland.

" We, his Majesty's moat dutiful and loyal subjects. thf
Nobility, Clergy, and Freeholders °Eike Comity of Yoi k,
humbly entreat peimission to approach the Throne of our
gracious Sovereign, with that reverence an atieetion %vitt: h
it becomes us as a loyal and flee lir °plc to entertain te-
wards oils lawful and afflicted King.
" We di tply lament the malady which has so long aid
unavoidably withdrawn his Majesty from ilia. public in-
tercourse with his faithful subjects which tended so min If
to streligilitm their attachment to Isis %acted person, antl
and to increase his Royal confidence is their loyalty dad
aticction.

"At the same lime we humility beg to as,nre your
Royal 111;0111es., its the Representative of our Sovereign,
th it our fidelity to year Itoptl Illustrious Fa-
mily, and our devotion to the laws of this realm, are 111141-
tei able,

" We feel most strongly that the prerogatives attached
to the dignity of the King, that politically he can do tat
wiling, that he is the distributor of justice, and the lime-
lain of mercy ; are as undoubted and as beneficial to his
people as that the laws of England are their birthright ;
and we entreat your Royal Highness to believe, that we,
acid the great bulk of his Majesty's subjects, seek only
our constitutiotial rights, that the laws may Rule ill peace
and quietness, sad be administered with equal justice dud
mercy to all ranks of the King's people.
" We beg to assure your Royal Highness, that we lien
with gratitude your Roy al Highness's declaration from the
Throne, at the close of the last session of Parliament, 'that
no object can be nearer your heart than to promote the
welfare and prosperity of all classes of his Majesty's sub-
jects, which cannot be effected without the maititenauce
of public order and tranquillity,' and your Royal High.
ness's • that determination to employ, for that purpose,the
powers intrusted to your Royal Highness by law.' In ae-
rordance with your Royal Highness's gracious wish to
preserve public (ruder and tranquillity, and to prevent (lie,
subversion hajepy Cow:Walton, acid with feelings of
ardent veneration for the laws and privileges of our iodise
laud, and an anxious desire to hand them down unimpaired
to our children and their latest posterit v, we humbly
entreat permission to remind your Royal lighness,
" That it is the undoubted . fight of the subjects of this
Realm to hold meetings for the put wise of considering any
matter of public intai est, and of adopting such resolutious
acid proceedings thereon as arc conformable to law, and may
appear to them necessary for Ilse maintenance of their con-
stitotional privileges, and the general welfare.
" That to disperse by violence, and still more by the
employment of a military force, a meeting law fully mum-
bled, and peaceably held tut such purposes, is a dared vio-
lation of the law, and an alarming invasion of the rights of
the people.
" We therefore humbly heglease to represent to your
Royal fl ighnet:s that we have learnt with unfeigned concern
that a meeting held avowedly for such purposes at Manches-
ter on the 16th of August last, Lit which it has not hitherto
apiwared that any illegal act had been committed, or that
previous proclamation to disperse had been made according
to I in, was suddenly attacked and dispersed by a military
force, whereby the lives of a great number of Its Majesty's
subjects were endangered, and many of them wounded and
sante killed.

" That we have seen with surpriseand regret, that to the
interference of the military, attended with such fatal con-
sequences, your Royal Highness has been advised by your
Ministers to give the sanction of your Royal llighoess's
approbat ))))) whereby they have prejudged a most important
,intiert or judicial investigation, and have pioclaimed it
proceeding to he meritorious, which has the appearance of
being illegal mid highly criminal; a measure full of danger
to the unbiassed and equal adininistration of justice.
" That, whilst we strongly deprecate every tendency to
a breach of the peace, we feel it our especial duty to re-
sist, by all la %still means, any attempt to intringe on the
rights which the constitution has solemnly sanctioned for
the protection of our common liberty,— and which it is
equally necessary, for the security of the Crown, and the
safety of every rank oftlie State, firmly to maintain.
" That without adverting to the objects to which the
meeting of the 16th of August last was directed, we feel
that the circumstances connected with its di•per.irw, call
fur a full investigation, iu us ii that measures, Wliiell, Ulf.
explained, trod to establish a preet dent of the utmost
danger to the bliei ties ol the country. nray be constitu-
tionally vindicated. it found to admit of • sari-faelory jus-
tification ; or, if nut, that they may be authoritatively
'narked w ith due erasure amid condemnation.
" We, thereto' e, insist limubly implore year Royal High
nest, Mel yoa will be pleased to asseisible Parliament.
with as little delay as possible, arid recommend to their
immediate care a whm) inquiry into these transactions."

CONGRESO Sircer-80xe5.....1t will be retnembered
that a certain number of gold snuff-boxes, decorated
with a miniature of the Prince Regain in enamel.
and studded with brilliants of the first water. were
manufacttired in this country by order of Government.
and presented by Lord Castlereagh. in the smite of the
Regent, to the govereies and Princes assembled at:the
Congress at Vienna. These baubles constituted a large
item in the current expellees of the year. and the folly
and profligacy of the measure were commented upon in
Parliament at the time. One of these boxes is now mt
sale in the hands of an eminent jeweller at Brussels.....
Six inindred and :ital. have been offered for it by a
itodse iu Loodon; butt that sum has not yet been accep.
tvd. It would be curious to discover what branch or
the Holy Alliance could treat the present of his Royal
I liglitass she Prime &gent %vial so much indignity.

NEWCASTLE. OCTOBER It.
--410-

The meeting which task place here on Monday
'iv calculated to teach a great moral lesson. It has
long been the boast of the Pitt faction, that the
population of this pert of ithigland was perfectly
inissive and destitute of spirit. At length one
hundred thousand people started up, as if by magic,
and declared their determination to unite iu demand-
ing their constitutional rights.
The meeting was intended to have been held on
the parade ground, but before half of the divisions
hod arrived, it was-completely filled. The whole
body, therellve, marched to the Town Moor, pre-
ceded by the hustings, drawn by three horses. The
divisions followed each other in close regular
rinks, four and six men deep. Part of the pro-
cession which approached from the South was one
hour and five minutes in }missing. The banners and
flags were splendid and numerous. Several excel-
lent hands of music passed, playing patriotic tunes.
The whole immense hotly marched upon the ',mound
solemn silence, the music playing " Sci7/r trim
bee ori' il'allacc bled." All the dogs, and the rods
of those who direct the affairs of political societies,
were surmounted with crape. The following is a
list of the principal inscriptions, as well as we cog id
collect . _ _

•'_lu memory of those who were murdered at 'Alan.
cheater, and History recording the dreailCul et ems of
that day."—On a white ground, with the Rose, Thistle,
and Shamrot k.

41 We mourn for the niabsacred at Manchcster."—A
Wadi flag with a and hinder.
" Itachael weeping fur her children, and would not
be comforted, breathe they are to."—Ordcr, lure,
and nnin,..—Gold letters nu blue ground.

•• brothers he for a' that."
" England, Irelaad„ and Settsland."
" England vsprcts every man to do his duty."
" Do unto all men as ye would that they should do
•tinsto you."

" An hour of sinuous liberty is worth a whole eter-
nity of bondage."
Though hand join in haad the wicked shall uot go
unpunished."
On a blue silk flag, wiih the figure of Justice and her
scales. " Risforin Society. Presented by the
Fenialc Iteforniers of %Viol:non."
" Esil to him that evil thinks."

"Anlin. Raliainents--Unirental Suffrage—Elec-
tion by Ballot."
•' A wonderful and horrible thing has been Coin-
:it the 'dial."

•6 Thmks to Gld which giveth 114 the Virtory."—
AVliite H •g, with Death's heal, an arm and sabre.

IV:Iell Om wicked lwareib rule, We people mourn.

—Solomon."

•• Ec.•essive Taxation generates Poveity—and Po-
se►ty generates Crime."
" Justice nveruke the Manchester Murderers."
" To the immortal Memory of Cie Reim Mull, was-
fatted at Nlaneliesier on the fetal AuAiist

A pair of Faber, (the Roman syinho I of Jon and
power. consisting of a bundle of rods and au ax..).
" North Shields lirformers."—lted flag.
" Take away the %Oiva from before the King, and
leis throne 'ball he established."

Several parties of female reformers were seen in
the procession. The speakers arrived in three post
eiraises, dressed in deep mourning, and on a.,cend-
ing the hustings, which were now decorated with a
pro: osion of flags, the business commenced.
Mr. Nlaclenzie, a respectable master-printer wa.
c..112:1 to the chair, who addressed the meeting in
utt energetic speech.
Mr. Marshall, a boaseller, then rend the Reso.

,tins, which were supported by a Mr. Layton, a
s,:!molunutter, Mr. Hodgson, a master weaver, the
itev. J. 114'Pherson, a young man named Jameson,
the Rev. G Stevenson, who, we understand, is
a methodist_ preacher. One of the Resolutions
ailed upon the Clergy to attend to their spiritual
business, and another propofed the inthicdiate for-
ma:lon of a permanent fund, fir the protection and
s..;;Tort of those who may become the victims of
tri.nny and uppressi..n.
It was ascertained hy actual subncast:rement, that
the space occupied by the compact body of the
meeting would hold 76,000 persons. at the rate of
Cur to a square yard ; but when the thousands of
s,:attered spectators are included, and the close
manner in which the great body stood. the whole
tu.ty safely be s:a.e.l at 100,cocr. Perhaps they
largest puldic nt::;:tifig ever held.
As soon as the Chairman had di solved the wva.t-
ing, the whole formed under their respective flags,
and within six rc:nutes t 1.1..: vast I:cily of men were
in marching order vt a constMe er soldic r was
Keen rn the ty!efind, l!,ti the as,clutly was, while
tlte speal,,!s as siler.t .;5 in church.
Nt.urly the oi the inuncive assemblane stood
Loci vcr,d, and t ::,••••ts el applause were un
astonishing. Sevemi ht:ldrc,ls of men marched
past the barracks, their 1,,a1 playing " Jairiaie
Vise are ye waking :el ?" Those who belonged to
the country, marched through the town without
halting, and ut night the streets were nev..r quieter.
The Shiele: fortnert. were accompanied by about
$OO sailor,, and the whole halted in the suburbs,
wlrn, a•ter tal.ing a refreshment ef bread and water,

t*

LoW)dn.
MONDAY. OCTOBER Is.

The Trial of Mr. Carlile for re-publishing the
Age of Reason commenced on Tuesday, and on
Friday evening the Jury found him Guilty.—
From anxiety for the well-being of Society
we had hoped that all the Newspapers would
have refrained from publishing the different
counts in the indictment, because those counts em-
brace the most objectionable parts of the work ; as
however we have ascertained that AIL oun CON
TEMPORARIES mean to give them at length, we
t•xtstt.t.tN6LY insert them to-day, lest some of our
readers not properly appreciating our motives for

the suppression, should be dissatisfied ut the omis-

mon.

Our constant renders, and those who know us
best, will least of all suspect us of an inclination to
offer adulation to any one, however exalted his situ-
ation; but as we censure when we see cause so to
do, so we are certainly justified in praising where
praise is due, and with these feelings we cannot pass
over without eulogy the conduct of the Lord Chief
Justice of the Court of King's Bench during the
late trials for blasphemy. If he erred, it was on
the side of mercy, when lie allowed the defendant to
go such lengths in derision of those sacred institu-

Lions we have all been taught to feel del;:rence for,
from our earliest infancy. In his charge he was so
perfectly impartial, so fair a representative of the
Goddess who ought always to be considered as pre-
siding in a Court of Law, that we at once honoured
him as an upriAlit Judge, and drew a comparison
between his lib. rality and the conduct of his into-
lerant predecessor.

In this day's Paper we have given the nett pro-
duce of the Revenue of Great Britain in the Years
and Quarters ended 10th October, 1818 and 1819,
shewiiig the decrease thereof. Comparing the two
quarters in 1818 and 1819, there is a deficiency in the
latter of 900,0001. in the Lustunis There is also a
diminution iu the Excise in the quarter just ended,
of gg,oool. cerrirattl with the correspending guar.

ter of List year. The whole of the Revenue of the
year ending with October 1819 has fallen short of
that of 1818, to the amount of 370,0001. There is
a very serious falling off in the last quarter, and
there is no prospect that the Revenue will imprcve.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer will find it diffi.
cult to provide for the deficiency.
It will be seen that the Inquest'on John Lees has
been adjourned to the Ist of December. Our law
libraries are yet incomplete; we want a digest of
the Laws of LANCASHIRE, fur sure we are, that the
practice there is any thing but the Law of Exci-
LAND.

Berne the Jury returned their verdict no Thursday,
Carlile retired from the Court, accompanied by so ne
Irietids, to the Guildhall Colll.e. house. The City Mar-
shall,. informed of the cir:outis.aluce, placed officers at
vie !root and b .ck doors, ti'i .ie left the house, a.smit
20 1111131Ites afterwards,. am! proceeded to his own dwel.
mg, whither they followed I . Ls about an hour
after, a coach drew no to the door, of which notice was
sent to the Marshals.—The verdict having by this time
been gtven, Mr. %Vont tier tinned with two tipstatis,
and went imo Carlile's shop, who had then put on his
great coat, preparatory to palting into the coach.—
lid-tamed that the officers haul a warrant to detain hint,
he saie, that he was only going to Blackheath to see his
children, which he did curry erehing. Mr. IVoninti
oisformed him, of he could produce 'WO respectable
lllllltitkerperS to be bound for his appearauce the next
stunning, he would be at liberty ; thus Mir. Cathie pro.
:nised to do, and names' tetanal. Thew pestling were
applied to, hi.' declined becomiii;.: security. r. %Vont-
ner waited two hours, when timbale the security could
not he Mir:toed, lie left Mr. Cathie in the custody of
Twopenny and I%lereliatit, two city officers, who ri..
'named with him all nignt, and un the following morn-
ing
they tlelitered loin into the custody of the proper

Thursday was settling day in Consols, and it pre.
Rented a remarkable contrast to the settlement of
the last account. No fluctuation of any consequence
occurred, nor does any apprehens:im appear to be
entertained on the score of defalcation. it is now
evident, that the effects of the inordinate specula-
tion that prevailed at the time the loan was nego.
ciated, have passed away, and that affairs at the
Stock Exchange again find their natural level. The
price of Consul• at the close of the business was
68i, and Omnium is quoted at a discount of per
cent. The continuation for November is I per
cent.

In the year 1780 a message was sent by his MA.
jesty to each of the twelve Judges, offering them
the protection of the military, to which Judge Gould
returned the following answer :—" I am grown old
under the protection of the English laws; and I
am persuaded, however some persons may be mis-
led, the people in general lave and respect tho
laws; and so great is my attachment to them, that
n ould rather die under them, than live under the
protection of any other laws."

We wish that all the admirer of Cathie snd Paine
would read the eighteenth Chapter of Leviticus,
and Paley s Sermon on Joshua xv. 40th v. before
they attempt to pass such decided judgment on the
command of " the Lord God of Israel," that his
people should utterly destroy al' that breathed in the
land of Canaan. Archdeacon Paley, be it runem-
beret!, was the warm friend of both civil and reli-
gious liberty, although he was nu less the enemy
of that, mi.walled liberty, that blasphemous licence,
which disgraces the writings we allude to.
On Tuesday, the Mayor of Hall declined acceding
to the revisition from the Radical Reformers, tin. a
public meeting of the inhabitants of that place A
meeting has, however, been appointed by the Radi-
cal Rethrmers of Hull, fir Wednesday, the 20th
inst. The notice is signed with 21. names.
The force of public opinion on the necessity of
imposing on the electors in close boroughs the same
regulations which apply to •he voters in counties
and cities, begins, it is said, to be extensively felt
throughout the kingdom ; and, as evidence of this
opinion, a Correspondent intiorms 1,15, that there
are at present several of these boroughs fir private
sale ; ; ttttt mgst them, one in Surrey, mu in Sussex,
two in Hatitosl.ire, three in iViltshire, two in De-
vonshire, two in Osruwall, an.'• one in Yorkshire._

Extract of a 1& from York, dated Tueaday
evening.—" On Illy nrrival in this city, I found
every one of its inhabitants whom I conversed with
unwilling, 1 had almost said unahle, to c•inverse
upon any other subject than that of the county met'.
ing which is to be held here on the ensuing Thurs-
day. Their expectation is, that the meeting will
e more numerous than any which has taken place
in the comity incbC the celebrated meeting of 17S0 ;
and their boast is, that if the numbers mist% cr their
expeciatitm. it will be tre•ltictive of the same belle•
tidal results to the country. Atnuag the requisi.
tionists are to be found some of the stubborn:A
Tories in -••••••••••