The Sun.
London, England, 1832-08-11 00:00:00

DIVIDENDS.

I. Aguilar, Devonshire-square, merchant, Sept. 4, at one, at
the Court of Bankruptcy—R. Johnson, New-street-square, brass-
founder, Sept. 4, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy—H. It.
Rowland, Green-Lanes, Tottenham, stationer, Sept. 1, at eleven,
at the Court of Bankruptcy.—J. Plummer and W. Wilson, Fen-
church-street, merchants, Sept. 1, at twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy —J. Hudson, Oxford-street, tobacconist, Aug. 17, at
two, at the Court of Bankruptcy—G. Mattison, Camberwell,
tavern-keeper, Aug. 31, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy—E.
Williams, Liverpool, joiner, Sept. 5, at two, at the Clarendon
Rooms, Liverpool—J. Routledge, Manchester, stone-mason,
Sept. 8, at two, at the Palace Inn, 'Manchester—T. and W. Jack-
son, Liverpool, linen-merchants, Sept. 4, at two, at the Cla-
lendon Rooms, Liverpool—J. Chapman, Liverpool, merchant,
Sept. 17, at eleven, at the office of Messrs. Miller and Peel, Li-
verpool—H. Woodhouse, Manchester, colour-dealer, Sept. S,
at one, at the Palace Inn, Manchester—G. Cooper, Exeter, sta-
tioner, Sept. 27, at one, at the Old London Inn, Exeter—R.
Masters, Nethercote,Warwickshire, cattle-salesman, Sept. 4, at 12,
at the Wheat Sheaf I no, Daventry—W. Armstrong, Birkenhead,
Cheshire, draper, Sept. 5, at one, at the office of Mr. R. Ford-
sham, Liverpool—J. Garraway, Batheaston, Somersetshire,
baker, Sept. 8, at eleven, at the Castle and Bell Inn, Bath—T. J.
and G. Gibbins, Wolverhampton, bankers, Sept. 3, at eleven, at
the Star Inn, Shiffnall—A. Sorters and Co., Berwick-upon-
Tweed, bankers, Sept. 11, at eleven, at the Turk's }lead Inn,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne—ll. and J. Hage, Newark, printers, Sept.
5, at one, at the White Hart Inn. Newark—NV. Hewer, Cla-
verley, Shropshire, apothecary, Aug. 2S, at eleven, at the
Wishton Cross Inn, Albrighton—D. Britten, Walthamstow,
Essex, packer, Sept. 4, at twelve, at the Royal George Inn,
Southampton.
CERTIFICATES, AUGUST 31.
J. Colliver, Helston, Cornwall, hatter—C. Hall, jun., Walsall,
Staffordshire, brushmaker—J. S. Sibel, Norwich, veterinary-sur-
geon—J. N. Jackson, Manchester, nankeen-manufacturer—J•
U. Graburn, Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire, lime-burner
—W. Church, Mark-lane, wine-merchant—E. Hawthorn and
NV. E. Lloyd, Burton-upon-Trent. Staffordshire, linen-draper—
W. Whittemore, Brighthelmstone, bookseller—W. Masters,
A ldenham, Hertfordshire, corn-dealer--J. Ellis, Mark-lane,
victualler—W. Hudson, ship Orelia, master-mariner—W.
Ritchie, Greenwich, coal-merchant.

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chants—M. and H. Clark, Streatham-place, Brixton-hill, board-
ing-school keepers—W. Baxter and A. Gibb, Liverpool, brick-
makers—M. Longstaff and R. ileslop, St. Martin's-lane. woollen-
drapers—H. Bevington and 'l'. Missing, Southampton, linen-
drapers—V. Sawkins and J. Chamberlin Brighthelmston,
Sussex, linen-drapers—J. D. Thomson and 'Co. Rio Janeiro—
J. R. Jeffery and Co. Liverpool, linen-drapers (so far as regards
J. R. Jeffery)—C. Wittenoom and 11. Cremer, Cornhill, book-
sellers—J. Darlington and J. W'althew, Liverpool, white-smiths.
J. Brokenshir and R. Hosken, renqn. Cornwall, timber-mer-
chants—J. Wright and Co., Bradford, Yorkshire, machine-ma-
kers (so far as regards J. Roome).
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
William Alexander, grocer, Linlithgow, at the Old Signet
Hall, Royal Exchange, Edinburgh, Aug. 15, and 29, at two o'clock.
Boyd Macrocket, grain merchant, Glasgow, at the Black Bull
Inn, Glasgow, Aug.:A and Sept. 6, at two o'clock.

PUBLIC MEETING AT CLITHERO E.

(From the Blackburn Gazelle.)

On Saturday last, a public meeting of the inhabitants
of Clitheroe was held in the Town-hall, WILLIAAL HART-
LEY, Esq., in the chair, for the purpose of memorializing
the Secretary of State for the Home Department, request-
ing him to institute an investigation into the conduct of
the Magistrates who caused the introduction of the military
into the town yesterday evening week. The meeting war
numerously attended, many persons being unable to gain
admittance into the hall.

The CHAIRMAN having stated the object of the meeting,
ROBERT TnareEs, Esq., rose and said, Gentlemen,
—Having been called upon by many of the respectable
inhabitants of this town to assist in obtaining an investi-
gation into the conduct of the military introduced into
our peaceable town on Tuesday evening last, and being an
inhabitant of the borough myself, I shall not shrink from
that task. I myself was an eye-witness to all the pro-
ceedings of that day until after 6 o'clock, having previously
agreed with the influential gentlemen of Clitheroe, to re-
main in town all day, in order to assist in preventing any
riotous conduct, should such have been attempted, and I
can vouch that no breach of the peace was committed
within my sight. Under all the circumst inces I can learn
I am of opinion the Magistrates had no right to introduce
soldiers into our town, with drawn swords, galloping over
and slashing and wounding the people, before the Riot Act
was re td, or the people had notice to get out of the way.
I will further maintain that they ought first to have had
recourse to the civil authorities. Why were not special
constables sworn in to assist in keeping the peace of the
town, when the Magistrates knew that so large a con-
course of people were likely to meet at Clitheroe, to ex-
press their disapprobation of Mr. Irving's political con-
duct?—(Cheers.) Was a single constable sworn in? No.
For my own part, I will answer for the peaceable conduct
of my own townsmen, and I will also undertake to swear
that I never saw a breach of the peace committed during
the whole of the day; and further, that if Mr. Irving and
his party bad had the courage to get out of their carriages
when they stopped opposite the inn, not a soul would have
touched them. In the first impulse of the moment, it was
the intention of the principal gentlemen of this town to
have presented a petition to Parliament on the subject, but
it has since been thought more advisable to draw up a
statement of facts, and present a petition to Lord Mel-
bourne, his Majesty's Secretary for the Home Affairs,
praying his Majesty's Ministers would immediately cause a
full investigation to be made into all the circumstances con-
nected with this bloody, outrageous tragedy. Gentlemen,
I will, therefore, beg leave to propose the first resolution for
the consideration of the meeting.
JEREMIAH GARNETT, Esq. of Roe.field, seconded the
motion, which was put and carried unanimously.
Mr. GARNETT then proposed the second resolution.
T. THOMSON, Esq. of Primrose, seconded the motion,
and it was then carried unanimously.
JAMES TnoalsoN, Esq. of Primrose, in proposing the
third resolution, said, his friend, Mr. Garnett, and him-
self, Ion?, before the day arrived, had reason to dread that
insults would be offered to Mr. Irving if he persevered in
entering the town in the manner proposed. If Mr. Irving
had come into the town without placatding the walls with
a notice of his approach, and had canvassed every district
and every voter, without calling for a public display, no-
thing of this would have happened.—(Hear, hear.) It
had been acknowledged that the conduct pursued was dis-
graceful, and that those who had acted such a part ought
to have known better ; but be would tell them, that nei-
ther the Low Moor men, the Primrose men, nor the Cli-
theroe men, bad any thing to do with it. It was the act
of strangers, of whom they knew nothing.—(Cheers.)—
The candidate and his friends passed through the town,
and stopped at the Bellman public-house; and it was there,
in an unlucky hour, under the influence of passion and dis-
appointed vanity, which got the better of their judgment,
that they determined to call in the military. It was highly
creditable to their excellent bailiff (Mr. Garstang) that he
protested against the proceedings.
Mr. GARNETT said that the bailiff was not consulted
until after the military were brought into the town, and
it was then that he protested against the course pursued.

Mr. Tflomsosr continued—Let them remember what
was the state of the town at six o'clock, At least five-
sixths of the people had gone home.—(Some one in the
meeting said more.) Those that remained presented
something like the appearance of a Clitheroe fair—a few
intoxicated, and a good deal of boisterous good humour
going on; but nothing that called for the introduction of
an armed force.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. Garnett and him-
self walked up the streets a little before six, when every-
thing was so tranquil, that they considered the tumult of
the day passed, and that they might then go home.
They had anxiously watched the proceedings from ten
o'clock in the morning, fearing lest their men should do
anything to disgrace themselves and the town; and sure he
was that the disgraceful scene which took place arose from
the imprudence of strangers.—(Cheers ) In an hour after
they had left the town, they were called hack to witness a
frightful tumult between the military and the inhabitants.
He saw not the beginning, but he saw what he should
never forget. The people might well be exasperated.—
(Hear, hear.) They saw an excited soldiery—and how
they came to be excited when they arrived remained to be
seen—drive into their town, where there was no disturb-
ance, with flashing swords menacing them with de-
struction.—(Loud cheers.) There was the Bailiff of
the borough, why was he not consulted ? Why
did they not send to him to inquire whether or
not troops were necessary ? There was Mr. Aspinall, of
Standen Hall, a Magistrate, why was he not consulted ?
If they had, this melancholy transaction would have been
avoided. No ; the feeling of exasperation, caused by the
treatment they met with in the morning, had not subsided
even in six bours, and they came hack to show the people
that they were " their masters now."—(Cheers.) He
understood that the pretext now set up for bringing for-
ward the military, was, that they wanted to rescue their
friends, who were pent up in the yard of the Swan Inn.
He (Mr. Thomson) would venture his life that 999 out of
1,000 did not know that they had any friends there, or
that if they did, they c fired nothing at all about it.—
(Cheers.) He himself saw a Magistrate belonging to Mr.
Irving's party walking about the streets unmolested ; and
he was persuaded any gentleman at the Swan bur might
have done the same. But if it really was to rescue their
friends that the military were brought, it was not a little
singular that the most respectable among them was left
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JEREMIAH GARNETT, jun., Esq., seconded the motion,
and it was carried unanimously.
Mr. TRAPPES moved the next resolution, appointing
Mr. Garnett and Mr. Thomson a deputation to wait
upon Lord Melbourne with the memorial, and to use

every endeavour to obtain an investigation.
Mr. BURRELL addressed the meeting at some length on
the flagitious nature of the offence, and alluded particularly
to the part taken by the clerical Magistrates.
The resolution having been seconded, was then put and
carried.

The deputation left Clitberoe at 2 o'clock for London.

The following are the resolutions:—

1. That the occurrences of Tuesday last, on the afternoon of
which day a body of cavalry, with drawn swords, suddenly and
unexpectedly entered the town in the train of John Irving,
q.,M.P.
for Bramber, and furiously, and on the instant, as-
saulted the people in the streets, inflicting severe wounds and
grievous bodily injury on many, have excited one general feel-
ing of horror and disgust.
‘2,. That it is the bounden duty of the inhabitants of this bo-
rough to seek and demand substantial justice, and the punish-
ment of the authors of this outrage; and that his Majesty's
Government be therefore solicited forthwith to institute the
necessary inquiry into the conduct of the civil and military
authorities engaged on the unhappy occasion.
3. That the proceedings in the early part of the same day,
when Mr. Irving made his entry as a candidate for the future
representation of this borough, and was received with disfa-
vour, and assailed in an unbecoming and disgraceful manner
by individuals unknown to the town, neither justifies nor pal-
liates his return, after the lapse of many hours, in the mode
and under the circumstances described in a foregoing resolu-
tion : more especially when it is considered that there was a
near and direct road through Worston open to him for Isis
return to Whalley, without ever setting a foot in the town of
Clitheroe.

4. That a deputation of gentlemen, eye-witnesses of the
proceedings, and competent, from their personal knowledge, to
lay facts before Lord Viscount Melbourne, his Majesty's Se-
cretary of State for the Home Department, do proceed imme-
diately to London. And that Jeremiah Garnett, Esq., of Roe-
field, and James Thomson, Esq., of Primrose, be earnestly
solicited to compose that deputation, fully authorized to act in
behalf of this meeting in such manner as they shall deem
most conducive to the attainment of the object sought.
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5. That the bailiff' of the borough, Mr. Garstang, did, on
the late trying occasion, discharge the duties of his office,
under great difficulty and danger, with firmness, impartiality,
and judgment. And this meeting, deeply deploring that his
advice was disregarded, and his resistance to the employment
of troops unsuccessful, offers to him its grateful thanks for his
services on that unhappy day.