The National Register.
London, England, 1819-07-25 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

terms, the rash and intemperate act of vending I hirty or forty.
constable., in the very middle of the business of the meeting,
to ai rest II a rri,4lll. ( • ies of Hear.)
Tim Lord Mayor denied that any dragoons were by his combo-
rky in the City. The City Light Horse were only in Giltspur
Street, one or two at a time, riding to receive his orders every
half hour as to the state of the Meeting. lie warmly animad-
verted upon the worthy Alderman (Waithman's) conduct. He
Wes told he had insulted those gentlemen (the City Light llorse)
and endeavoured to instigate the people to attack them. His
condu:t throughout the meeting of tht! ,Magistrates had been
indecent, intemperate, imprudent, and obtrusive.
Alt,. Waitlituan lasked the Lord Mayor, whether he was aware
that the Lite Guards were in the Green Yard, where his Lord-
ship's carriages were kept, .and that they were publicly there.
With respect to the attack made upon him by lux Lordship, he
had to refer to his public conduct as a refutation.
Mr. Oldham -ch.fendest •the conduct of Alderman Waithmsn.
If any thing could tend to create disturbance more than another,
it was the arrest of Harrison ru.stail a artment. He ended with
exprtssing a hope.that his Lordship would retract the observa-
tions lie had made respecting Alderman Waitliman.
M r..luffsaid, the Lord Mayor mould not have acted otherwise
than he had done, and seconded the motion of thanks.

Alderman Waitbimut he had a few *olds to ray.
woukl have all the personalities of the Lord Mayor without
renur.ert. 11 ith !aspect to the apprehension of Ilarrison, he
knew nothing of the warrant issucd, but merely hand that the
artist had been made by 40 or 50 constables, and he still oonsi-
tiered dun wrest iil•jtidged in the extreme. if he lied been I.ord
Mayor, he could have taken the resporsibility or acting quite
otherwise upon himself.
Mr. Pearson pnyosed an amendment, that thanks should be
voted for the civil preparations, but exprmisartg regret that the
military were introduced.
Mr. Revell had no objection to the motion, upon condition
that the Aldermen were included.

Mr. Pearson said, itc-had every reason to believe that Mr.
Harrison had given bail in the country, and that therefore Lis
arrest in London was merely an act of oppres,ion.
Mr. Gritiitits denied it, and deck:red that Mr. Harrison, on
being asked by the Lord Mayor whether he had any defence to
make. answered in.the negative, and expressed himself satisfied
at the intention of the Laid Mayor tascaid bin' au Stockport,
before those who had issued•the warrant.
Mr. Reeves confirmed this statement.
Alderman Wood wished for an explanation respecting the
three Lite Guardsmen in the Green Yard.

Aldeiman Thorp preferred the first motion of thanks, approved
of tha zeal of the Lord Mayor, but regretted the appearisr.ce
of the military.
The Lord Mayor said, the appearance of the three Life
Guardsmen arose from this circumstance. He had rot • horse
sufficiently quiet to go amongst a mob without putting them in
danger. It was also the case with the Marshyls, and be sent
where he knew be could get horecs •ell adapted to the buriness
of attending crowds, end on whose steadiness he could rely. The
horses were brought, but be laid given no orders for the men
who acconammied them, and he knew nothing nhout .them, but
was fully convinced they had no other orders than to bring the
horses to him for Ins use. Out of the Green Yard the horses did
not move till the fleeting wsia, ova, and his Lordship suppor.ed
their owners remained with them to take care of them.

The Amendment wag negatived, and the original Motion
agreed to ; the numbers hei og—
For the Amendment, 27—For the original Motion, 69.
The thanks were then voted to the other Magistrates.
J,llO William Buckle, Esq. presented a Petition, praying his
discharge from his nomination as Slit •which au complied
with, and ordered, upon his paying a .fine of suot and 20 marks.

A party, consisting of Mr. Croker, the Secretary
of the Admiralty, Mr, Peel, Sm. lately act out on a
short excursion to the Continent. It was proposed
by one of the party to proceed in the packet from
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 for Antwerp. His offer was
accepted : they sailed fur Antwerp ; but it tinter-
Innately happened that there ,A 11.9 not skill or intel-
ligenoe•enough cupboard 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 returning home without setting foot on
either France, Flanders, or Holland.
Several thrtners in Cornwall have contracted for
their coining crops of barley, .at one guinea and
eight-pence per quarter. In consequence of the
great growth of apples in the neighbouring counties,
to remedy the evd, as it is there considered, many
thrillers, it is said, have actualiy despoiled their
orchards of their fruit, by threshing their young ap-
ples from their trees ! Feigners, who are guilty of
such shameful conduct as the latter, deserve to be
n'e threshed themtelver.
The fellowilag is an extract of a letter from Ge-
noa, dated the 10th inst.:—" Several vessels have
arrived here since the 3tl inst. from several,parts of
the coast of Spain ; but they do noi.seem to confirm
the report which has been circulated, of a rupture
between the Algerines and Spain."
A great number of the inhabitants of Manchester
have ()fired to form an armed association for the
protection of the towns of Manchester, S Ilford, and
their neighhourli.lod, and their offer has bin ae-
ccpfed by Governittert.
Thetford nth attended as natal by mans re-
spectable growers, both ftoin Norfolk and rieralk. Of the
agricillturiats prevent he observed Gen. Fitzroy, .1. Merest.
Esq. M.l' J. Griglav, Evq. and J. Moseley, 1•:sq. Amongst
tat- deal .rs trete Mewt% %Vatter. Va manor, and
ber, (ruin Nun if II NOti %urkshire. Mutterer, oh ink lo
the present depression of trade, there was scarcely a single
parcel of Wool disp.eted of. Lord A them.' rte, who presided,
offered !HI at Sfis. but no buyers rain.. forward. Mr. Coke
has net preat nt, oh ng to a recent death in his family. One
lot of half-bred Letc,ster and Norf.() k Wool was Imlay-
tiara:lll void at 511. So excessively hot war the small loom
which na.rc than 100 pen •iss dined, that the meting
hrokc up earlier than walla', after many WAS!, and ..1111-
111011i11, Of the sawe nature.•- those la►t year, had berm warily
received.
The colossal statue of Britannia was erected last week on
the summit of the naval monument at Yarmouth, to which
it forma a beautiful apex. The figure is In feet high ; be-
fore it was Imo tip it heizhed II tons, but with Hie compta.i-
tion with which rt has tweel,shice alleti, it um; bc ruwpritval
to wt•i;h at plercat Jj 'teas.

DISTURBED DzsraicTs.---The following is Or!
copy of a letter addressed by Lord Sidmouth to the
Lord Lieutenant of the county of Chester. Similar
letters, it is stated, have been sent to the Lord
Lieutenants of all the counties which are the imme-
diate scene, or in the vicinity or the reform mt.ct-
ings

" Whitehall, Jdly 7.
" My Lnrd,—The nee:semis public meetings which bare
lately !ahem glare at Storkpm t mid the adjleent parts of
Lancashire, their manifest purpose, and the language
whidi has been held at them, tide engaged the serious at-
tention of his Itlejesty's Gersirnment : your Lordship's
presence under these cu I elllnstancro imthe county of which
yourititilship has the charge, cannot iwit Ise highly.de-
%inside and important ; iu eider Oat, vadvr !vet- Lord-
ship's ant horit y. the meet prompt and dircitill means may
lie adopted fur the pleservation of the tranquillity of the
comity of Chester. The n most vigilance and activity on
the part of the smeiitrates in Ike districts to which I have
refer is 111111tS,sell•gibly and urgently neceNsary, le main.
tam and enforce, if e evpsisiir, obedience to the rows, auAi
to lining to justice those UfleiltlCEl by whom they may be
violated. 'For these !surmises •it is- earnestly hoped the
power of the civil ait'imi dies will lie frilly antlicient ; bat
as a m(.4snre t,l ri craft thou, your vLorcisirip •is 'desired to
give immeilisfe directions to. the seferal corps •ef Teo-
1114111y Cavalry iu Ike county of Mester, to hold them
seises in moislineate fo attend to any-call :Tor support and
assistance, which, in case •f necessity, they may receive
I the magistrates ; anti the utmost confidence is justly
placed in the reel and prninniitiale with which, under
such circumstances, the call will Ise evieyed.
" I hake the honour to be, dc. " SillM01:111."
A very fine friglite, named the Fisgard, to mount
upwards of 50 guns, was launched frun. the new
dock yard, Pembroke, a few days since; •sht, went off
the stocks in very fine style, amidst the acclamations
of thousands of visiters, amongst whom were Lord
Cawdor, Admiral 'Frollope, and all the neighbouring
gentry. The ceremony of naming the ship was
perthrmed by Lord Cawdor. This is no less than
the eighth ship that has been launched from this
establis'ament within the, period of about four years
past, including the Belleisle, of 74 guns, launched
about two mouths since.

Female Courage and Fidelily.—An half-idiot
who, about fifty years since, was employed by a gro-
cer residing at Woodstock, or %itney, was told, on
the morning of the sth of November, to go to a coffer
where the gunpowder was kept, and bring some
down and put it into the drawer, to supply the con-
sumption of the evening. The man forgot the order
till it grew dusk, when be took a lighted candle in
his hand, which he inserted in the loose powder ;
and, filling the measure, walked away. He could
not speak intelligibly, although he understood what
was said to him ; he made his meaning known by
igns. Scarcely had he emptied the powder into the
drawer, when, suddenly recollecting what he had
dune, the terrified creature made a terrible noise,
displaying every mark of horror and dismay ; and
&sin made his master and family clearly understand
that he left a burning candle fixed in the gunpow-
der! The danger was so appalling, that meat 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.as possible, 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 resulted tha
shop!
Cambridge, July 2cnd.—The diabolical spirit for
destroying dwelling-houses, barns, &c. sti:l continues in
this county. A few nights since a house at lslehatn, be•
lough% to Mr. Hall, a lamer, of Ely, teas wil ully stt
on fire and burnt to the ground, will all the goods of
the (occupier ; awl on Sunday night last, in the parish of
Exning, where the barn and corn of Mr. kiryaat were
so recently set en fit r, fire mice houses of that village
were sttt on fire, au I the families that occupied theta es-
caped with elitii.7ulty trout perishing in the flames. Sa-
yeral letters have been dropped, threatening the total de-
struction of this proscribed yikage, in which there have
bren twelve hones burnt to the ground, no doubt by die
same desperate iitertuliarieF, wialsio the last two years.
Mr. Hancock, the grocer, received a. lettor, stating that
his house woold be burnt k, she gmond before the sun
rose on Monday morning., wit i.:11 was too truly verified
On S lay la-t tour hooses• were destroyed by fire at
Ili-row, in the parish if adalen ham. in this county,
beloogiug to farmers, lust the calamitous conflagration,
it is brheved, was accidental. The attierers on dos la.
'namable occasion werr.. Messrs.J.Wayama, M. Porte:,
P. Peter, and T.

On 711,niday inNt a gentleman of Norwich undertook, for
a utAiug wagrt, to wail; two mile. on the Unadon road in
20 tooalwrs. Hr nrroniplialied hia task with great cue in
t 8 miossira and a 11411.

A iallov, who v.sys his name is John Bodeom, and that be
beloogi to Hull, was Lusted front a packet at Fal:noutli on
iuntas, Uhl br114.11111 before Andrew Young, I.Fci the Mayor
of that loon. lie vtatet, that on Cie with of June, lb 17.
lie was walking in a held near Slockton.upon-Tee:., WWI 4
,oung woman named Malian liohimon, to uhnat he 11::isi
his. addresses; and suspecting this site favoured anus h• r mars,
slopu te Arose bet • eels theist, on • Rich he drew a knife fno•
his pocket avid stabbt d nee under the left breast. On her
fallssa,;, he fled, awl connived to evade pursuit, until he got
on boast a ve.sel and left the kingdom, from o h:ch he has
been obsent ever since; but being vtonble to sapit,vl the
humor. of resnone that tili44llll/1y haunted him, hr confessed
the crone he s at committed, out resigned hints's& into the
hands of justice. Tiriy)ethe 1,11., hut h..w t," t1..1
true it insponsible at pies nt t.. 5.1%.: he Arts colons t
test to the count) d La? •ta, sto 1.1 t ,w.tatato,..l to