The National Register.
London, England, 1819-07-26 00:00:00

TIIE NATIONAL REGISTER..

tering, the rash and intemperate act of sending thirty s.r fit t)
constibles.iii the very middle of t lie business of the meeting,
to arrest Harrt.ran.—(Ct ies of Hear.)
The Lord Mayor denied that any dragoons were by his autho-
rity in the City. The City Light noise were only in Giltspur
Street, one or two at a titne, ruling to receive his orders every
half hour as to the state of tie Meeting. Ile warmly animad-
verted upon the worthy Alderman (Waithinan's) conduct. He
was told lie had insulted those gentlemen rem City Light IlorsP),
and endeavoured to instigate the people to attack theta. Ills
conduct throughout the meeting of the Magistrates had been
iniLeent, intemperate. imprudent, and obtrusive.
Ald. Waithinan [asked the Lord Mayor, wkether he was aware
that the Life Guards were in the Green Yard, where his Lord-
ship's carriaqo were kept, and that they were publicly there.
With respect to the attack mule upon him by his Lordship, he
had to refer to his public conduct u a refutation.
Mr. Oldham defended the conduct of Alderman Waithman.
If any thing could tend to create disturbance snore than another,
it was the arrest of Harrison at such a moment. He ended with
expressing a hope that .his Lordship would retract the observa
tions he hail made respecting Alderman %Vaithinan.
r. Jiff said, thc Lord Mayor could not have acted otherwise
than he had done, and seconded the motion of thanks.
Alderman Waithmun said. he had a few words to say. He
would leave all the personalities of the Lord Mayor without
moment. With respect to the apprehension of Harrison. i.e
knew mehing of the warrant issued, but n.arely heard that the
arrest hail been made by 40 or 30 constebles, and he still consi-
dered that arrest ill-judged in the extreme. If he had ben Lord
Mayor, he +timid have taken the responsibility of acting quite
otherwise upon himself.
Mr. Pearsau proposed an amendment, that thanks should be
voted for the civil preparations, but expressing iegrot that the
military were intrmluced.
Mr. Favell bad no objection to the motion, upon condition
that the Aldermen were included.
Mr. Pearson said he tiael miry reason to believe that Mr.
Harrison had given said,
in the country, and that therefore his
arrest in London was merely an act of oppresaion.
Mr. Griffiths denied it, and declared that Mr. Harrison, on
being asked by the Loud Mayor whether he had any defence to
make, answered in the negierre. and express -al himself satisfied
at the intention of the Lord Mayer to send him to Stockport,
before those who had issued the warrant.

Mr. Reeves confirmed this statement.
Aldervian Wood wished fur an explanation respecting the
three Life Guardsmen in the Green Yard.
Aldetman Thotp preferred the lint motion of thanks. approved
of the zeal of the Lord Mayor, but regretted the appearance
of the military.
The Lord Mayor said, the appearance of the ti.ree Life
Guardsmen arose from this circumstance. lle had nut a hone
sufliaeedy quiet to go amongst a mob without putting them in
danger. It was also the case with the Marshals, and lie sent
where he knew he could get horses well adststed to the business
of attending crowds, and on whose steadinmi. he could rely. The
horses wen: brought, but he hind given no orders for the men
who accompanissl than, and he knew nothing about them, but
was fully convinced they had no other orders than to bring the
horses to him tar his use. Out of the Green Yard the horses did
not move till the .Nletting• was over, and his Lordship supposed
their owners remained With them to take care of them.
The Amendment was negativsd, and tile original Motion
agreed to; the numbers being—
For the Amendment. 27—For the original Motion, 69. ,

The thanks were then toted to the otlver—Magist rat I:S.
John William Buckle, Esq. presented a Petition, praying his
discharge front hit nomination as Sheriff. which was complied
with, and ordered, upon hit paying a line of 4001. and 20 marks.

A party, consisting of Mr. Crokcr, the Secretary
of the Admiralty, Mr. Peel,./kc. lately act out on a
short excursion to the Continent. It was proposed
by one of the party to proceed in the packet front
Dover to Calais, and thence round by land to Hol-
land. The Secretary of the Admiralty offered the
superior accommodation of the Admiralty barge, and
proposed to sail direct fur Antwerp. His offer was
accepted: they sailed for Antwerp; but it unfor-
tunately happened that there was not skill or intel-
ligence enough on board to find out the mouth of the
Scheldt. and the time of the party having been ex-
hausted in the vain experiment, they had the mor-
tification of retarning home without setting foot on
either France, Flanders, or I Tolland.
Several farmers in Cornwall have contracted for
their coating crops of barley, at one guinea and
eight-pence per quarter. In consequence of the
great growth of tipples in the neighbouring counties,
to remedy the evil, as it is there considered, many
farmers, it is said, have actually despoiled their
orchards of their fruit, by threshing their young ap-
ples from their trees ! Farmers, who are guilty of
such shameful conduct as the latter, deserve to be
well threshed themselves.

The following is an extract of a letter from Ge-
noa, dated the 10th inst.:—" Several vessels have
arrived here since the :;dinst. from several parts of
the roast of Spain ; but they do not seem to confirm
the report which has been circulated, of a rupture
between the Algoritms and Spain."
A great number of the inhabitants of Manchester
have offered to form an armed association for the
protectitm of the towns of Manchester, Salford, and
their neighbourhood, and their offer has been ac-
cepted by Government.
Thetford Waal Fair was attended RI what] by Rainy Ire•
PpeCtithiC growe,s, both rium Norfolk and null; ilk. cm' tap
a,titesuuribts present we sihrwrved Gem Fitz. ity..l. Merest,
F.stp, NI. P J. Erq. awl J. hloseley., lisq Antonym
the deal rs were Mew.. Waller. Eason., A'asatatur. and
others from Norwich nod If orktliire• blots ewer. ssesii to
the present depression of trade. there was echo-rely a sinker
parcel of Waal disposed of. God A loemhrle. presidcilt
injured Isis al 535. but no Misers came forward. Mr. Coke
am not present. uss.ll; to u recent de ills 111 his family. Ole
lot of half-bred Leicester nod himintk Wool w milwe-
quail!, .m1(1 td excessive!) hot war the squall room
in which more tailis iliO peas .111 (hoed, that the meeting
broke sap earlier than tin.ll, after many toasts HIM smili•
meat., of the seglel4lllll t. its hose 'LW rar, hail been warful.s
recessed.

....
Theeolinsulrtatue of Illitimitia tssi• erected li+t week on
the sun 111 l it of.rii, lealfje ILINIUMPIII at Y.unuaun, to which
it forms it beautiful spec The INCelte it 13 fret nigh ; be-
fore it was put up it wei,thed it tuns. but with the 4 *imposi-
tion with w Mel, it hits been SNK:e tilled, it uhty b. computed
to weigh itt pieseat 53 Wits.

A very fine frigate, named the Fisgard, to mount
upwards of 50 guns, was launched from the new
dock yard, Pembroke, a fi:w days since; she went uS
the stocks in very fine style, amidst the tazlatnations
of thousands of visitors, amongst whom were Lord
Cawdor, Admiral Trollope, and all the neighbouring
gentry. The ceremony of naming the ship was
pet-flit-tiled by Lord Cawdor. This is no less than
the eighth ship that has been launched from. this
establishment within the period of about four years.
past, including the P,ellciale, of 74 guns, launched
about two months since.

Female Courage and Fidelity.—An half-idiot
who, about fitly years since, wits employed by a gro-
cer residing ut Woodstock, or Witney, was told, oft
the. morning of the .'ith of November, to go to a cetfiq
where the gunpowder was kept, and bring Fo:ne
down and pet it into the drawer, to supply the con-
sumption of the evening. The man forgot the order
till it grew dusk, when he took a lighted candle in
his hand, which he inserted in the loose powder;
and, filling the measure, walled away. He could
not speak intelligibly, although he understood whet
was said to him; he wade his meaning known by
igns. Scarcely had he emptied the powder into the
drawer, when, suddenly recollecting .what he had
done, the terrified creature made a ,terrible noise,
displaying every mark of horror and dismay ; and
soon made his master and family clearly understand
that he left a burning candle fined in the gunpow-
der! The danger was so appalling, that most of the
inmates fled; but a servant girl entreated her
master not to alarm his sick wife; and, going direct
to the chamber as gently aspossible, approached the
burning candle. Closing the fingers of her hands,
she formed a kind of candlestick, and lifting the
candle safely out of the powder, returned it to her
master, fainting away the moment she reiti:lied the
shop!
Caintridge, fitly 2/2nd.—The diibolical spirit for
demo) log d well 1 ng-tionses, bards, Sce. still continues in
this comity. A few nights since a hose at Isleham, be-
longing to Mr. Halt, a brewer, of Eiy„ was wil oily sot
on fire and buret to the ground, with all the goods of
tie, occupier ; and on Sunday night list, in the parish of
Exiting, where the bans and COll4 of Mr. liryaot were
SO itecently set on file. five more houses of that village
were set on fire, and the families that occupied them es-
called with dithenhy trolls perishing in the flames. Se-
veral letters have.been dropped, threatenina the total
iic-
struction of this proscribed sill age, in which there hare
ircru werve homes burnt to the ground, no doubt by the
same desperate incendiaries, within the last two years.
Mr. Hancock, the grocer, received a letter, stating that
his boos; would be burnt to the ground before the sun
rose on Monday morning, which was too truly verified
On Sunday last tour homes were destroyed by fire at
Hili-row, in the parish of Haddenham, in this county,
be:imging to farmers, but the calamitous conflagration,
it is 0C111:Ved, was accidental. The sufferers on this. la-
mentable OCCiOOO,I were Mesus.J. %%villain, M. Pones,
P. Peter, and J. Bidwell.
On Itbinday last ngentleman of Norwich undertook, far
• tinting sager, to walk two miles out the London road in
20 MOM es. Ile aecomplished his task with great case iu
18 minutes and a hail.

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A sailor, who 34,1. hs name is John plidertm, and that he
tx+ings to llu.l, was landed from a packet at Fa:month oii
Sunday, and brou,,ht before Andrew Young, 1:•41 the Nlay or
of Oat town. lle .tated, that on the 29th of June, till:,
be ISM walking in a held near Stockton-upon-Teen, with a
young woman mitred Marian It (Minion, to whom he paid
hi, ;warriors; and suspecting ill it she favoured another mum,
a dopute move between them, en a hica tie drew a knife front
his pocket and stabbed her under the left hicast. On her
fitllin;, he fled, and contrived to evade pur•uit, until he tut
on hoard a vea,..l and left the kingdom, from a bich he has
been obseut rrer smee ; but being timed :. to supp. rt the
horrors of reminvt that ethsvtautly haunted him, Im confessed
the crime lie t ad remmisted, an 1 resigned Mmaelf into the
kind, ni envoi r. This is tile stn. ybe tellv, but how far it is
titre it is impooible. at pievnt to 'Ay ; he ha; been comma.
ted in the tummy gaol, and Pk statement transmitted to
_ _ _

A deputation from the Female Reformers at
Blackburn puid a visit to Manchester on Monday.
They paraded different parts of the town, but parti-
cularly ,the neighbourhood of Newtown, in t!:a
costume which made such an impression on the late
Blackburn meeting. They afterwards attended a
meeting of Female Reformers at the Union rooms,
ir. George Leigh-street. We are informed, that at
this meeting, Mrs. I—, Mrs. W—, snd other radical
Amazons, harangued the audience on the usual
topics, and at considerable length.
During the heavy fall of rain on Tuesday even-
ing, the drains which convey the water from Hyde
lark, anti the upper part of Piccadilly, to the
Thames, were overcharged, and all the rooms in the
lower part of Buckingham-house were inundated,
some of them to the height of more than two feet.
The kitchens of several of the Louses near Buck.
inghant-gate were tilled so high, that the water put
out the tires in the grates. It was not till midnight
that the water had entirely subsided.

The grand Meeting of the radical Reformers at
St'inchesterosbieh was fixed for the 2d of August,
has been postponed, some ray to the 9th, others to
the or :23t1. Among other matters it is rumour-
ed, that it is the intention to elect en Atforury and
Reply:collative, in the same manner as Sir Ciiiirl,za
%Au:ly was elected at the Birmiogirtat

X4O

Y 6 I)nnoelly twat' is a utak state. anti lilt ItouJl
O or •r tt al the u ore' bruit•u, he led in this reuail, at the
cfine or filch both it rot down. D.:1111. ily under.
unit Lath tt rre naiads,. to P.viair of Oliver.
hut yet the own were to Ilm.t 0 cal vtate that it s •us any 0111..11
ins t Awn) jut ton'. the od.le al,pout Data.. Ily's w in•
hiag, s•rength faith Huy thiug like equal evene,
nen' h••ar luau thrila,:ft iii rant. N. Doom Ify h.ut ..he ii
on in s po tits. nod ar qualified the approbation his
llinentiau frieutle atertaited flit lvOu until the close of the
A a SIVA not !innate the ,nun la who •h Cation etl until that
%%hid, lini..hea the suit. There sta. no J.ninl.nrd-slr••et
to
Do.. obaut it. A tilling lit uould have tattled it,
hat we ilauli thert fait. leave the 4one:bed situation of the
turn, to Intuits.: may tlairg or ripe or stake ui.kil the few
idea.. they hat 1.-f1 istre put on Doe ade.by n hit.
Ditaitellt nil. favoured by nature in the 36 It round, and
h•• proved Itlm•rif it good nun by title effort hr made. Af er
"at.lf riff: figli .51 rai) ittlwr. Donnelly, fortifier than hi.
fientgoniet, his hint iu t hi. hi oat itsol three hint at heavy fall,
on•I a hen on his wrote. knee VI, hival (•II spun Isis •boulder
it I pitiful state. itud.iit 414-unable tot-lone to Line, the
I Ittt. (hanaiiau tt a. drelasea Nittur, after a bitug‘le Of
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