The Sun.
London, England, 1819-06-01 00:00:00

EAVLItS.

The following ace/flint of the proreedifles of
these met', in the piltsoit of !heir obit•rt,
no increase rat wagt,, is copied horn n Carlist!!
Paper of,Satnrday lasi :
have already adverted to the low rate 4,t
wages which the malultacturcr4 of tt,is city and
neighbourhood have for ottie time past been coot-
pi-Ved to allow their weavers, In conce'-
cpret.ee of the depressed state of this branea 0,
trade.

" It is natural that this state of things should
be productive of complain:9 and agitations; the
sufferers congregated together, and it will be seen
by tl e proee, dings in Parliament that they have
rt-tiiioued the Legislature to he removed to some
of :he Colonies. Pettiaps it would be going too
far to believe them all cattiest in this request,
their real intention is probably to fix the public
rttention upon their condition, and thus to gain
scnte kind of relief.
•• Ott Tnesday evening, they assembled upon
sa ds in great numbers, a Committee of 12
j 4. is arpomted; amt the vhole body agreed to the
inkblication of an Address, which was 'cad
in tuallUSt rips, &c. The following day many
of the leadlng melt determined not to work unless
t lie manufacturers allowed them more wages ; nd
they Went 'from shop to shop in every part of 'tlse
town and neighbourhood, and compelled all others
to follow their example, taking the unfinished
%yolk from the looms, and sending it home to the
plasters. In the evening they again assembled on
the sands, to bear a let ter from Mr. Curwen read,
iii answer to one transmitted with the petition
before alluded to. On Thursday, strong parties
wrist to Peotith, Wigton, Dalston, Brampton,
Longtown, &c. and compelled the weavers there
to follow their example. Many would fain have
continued their labours, but were forced to desist
by threats of all kinds of visitations.
On Weduesday, the following Address was
eireaved aped posted through the city and neigh-
bourhood :
" AN APPEAL TO PUBLIC FEELING.

e, The Journeymen Weavers or Carlisle and
neighhoulhood beg to call the attention of the
Public to the following 'simple truths :—We are
now arrived at a pitch of wretchedness and misery,
such, we sincerely believe, as never existed in any
country in time of protoand race, except visited
by a natural famine. We we a po,verful people,
and yet we want strength,—we are an industrious
people, and yet we want bread ; whatever the
cause may be, we will not at this 'nutrient pre-
tend to determine, but the effects are dreadful to
be contemplated, and still more horrible to ex-
perience. Only,for a moment let any rational and
reasonable being amongst you lay it to his own
heart, and there, at the tribunal of that principle
that dictates between right and wrong, imagine
us, if he can, labouring in a place peculiarly un•
wholesome nom its closeness and damps, where
the air is impregnated with noxious mart er, so that
wlkar we inhale is little- better than a toe' id gas ;
whiet,, though insepri aide from the nature of the
work itself, is never heluss a particular agerdv4tion
of our misety, and all this fur the rewaid of a shil.

liu a day, amd led chiefly on potatoes, the.pro-
per food wily for hogs ; yet our miserable halt-
Ittioished children Wait frith anxious desire ,for
their scanty twirsel of these provisions, and the
fowl mother, the last of all to complain, swn-
suonin,_: all her resolution together to hide the
poignancy of hue grief from her already discon-
solate partnet ; her child perhaps at her breast,
feebly sucking that nourishment that nature al-
most refuses to bestow.
" If this be not the very climax of human mi-

sery, tell us in what human misery consists ;
wives and children heart-broken and in. rags ;
-plunged altogether in helpless, almost hopeless,
and to all appearance quite irremediable ruin ; we
have only one gleam of hope left us, which is,
that the Legislature will take out distresses into
consideration, we having petitioned our Prince and
the Parliament to have us conveyed to Canada, or
some of the Northern Colonies*, that our families
nosy yet hope th survive the wreck of misery that we
are now involved in, and is apparently still getting
nearer the final goal of destruction, for we are fully
convinced that trade is near its consummation ;
that a severe winter, or a failing harvest, would
introduce a fever that would not be easily eradi-
cated. We are likewise convinced that the public
in general knows that every principle of philo-
soplm, justice, and sound policy, imperiously de-
roa,ds that the poor be protected, since the im-
mutable and irreversible laws of nature have so
blended the fate of all classes of society together,
that svl,atever makes against the/poor, must, in
the cud, prove the destruction of the great. In
our present impatalleled distresses, it is not too
much to denumi, with a voice of thunder, the
adoption of a system of economy, and the strip-
ping the undeserving of their ilhmerited pensions.
We have no peculiar affection for one denomination
of public men snore than another. Both IVhigs and
Tot ies have, in their turn, cajoled the people, and
profited by their credulity; but experience has open-
ed the eyes of the public mind to principles rather
Clan to men ; and we swear upon the altar of the
Constitution—by the bravery of our forefathers, and
by tie blood shed by them in asserting the im-
mutable rights of human nature, that we are their
legitimate suns, and that our conduct-shall never
belie their ancient fame.

TM: WEAVERS OF CARLISLE

" Carlisle, May the 25th, 1819.

" Every real friend of these poor men must
regret and even condemn the language, made use
of in the above addlless,- even for their own sakes.
Indeed, we are informed through one of their Own
body, who was at the meeting on Tuesday night,
that thete was nothing about ' demand with a voice
of thunder; and what follows, yn the paprr read
on that occasion. It this be correct, these expres-
sions are the interpolations of some one more
anxious for mischief, titan that the sufferers should
receive relief.

" Yesterdsy, the weavers of the adjacent
towns arrived bete and jo:ved their brethren, and

about tour o'clock, the whole assembler! upon the
sands, to the amount of nearly 2,200, wheret,hey
passed some resolutions ; the greater par( atter-
tvacds marched into the market-place and English-

" * Thu ictittvus were cacti sigxed f y nearly piabvas."

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3t.ee we order, wilhoat the teas! noise or
distorbarie, nod io a short time those resident at
a distance departed for their homes in the most
peaceful manner. In the coorse of the day the Coln •
mime is,ned another hand-bill, pledging them=
selves hat every thing would be conducted wiih
a scrupulous regard to the public tranquillity,
and they also made a communici-Hon to the
Mayor, explaining their wishes and tLeir ohject.
" El itberto, with ihe exception of the violence
and lit eats employed in compelling the unwilling
to lease their work, the men have conducted them-
selves with great decorum, and we tope they will
continue to pursue this line of conduct. The de-
tachment of the iBth Hussars for some time past
quartered here, under the orders of Major Kennedy,
was to have marched on nut sday morning on its
ro:ite to Leland ; hut, at the rtquisition of the
Mayor and other Magistrates, its departure is very
properlyitteloyed."

Since writing the above, we have been favour-
ed with a. copy of the communication made by the
weavers to ttse Mayor : it is :is follows
As justice is" the grand object we wish' TO Ob.,
lain, it is necessary to draw up a correct scale of
prices, built on the unerring' principles of justice
and equity : they are also calculated on the. very
lowest rate possible ; so as to enable those em•
ployed in the said work to exist by their labour.
We theretme most earnestly request,•Alvar
you would use your magistetial interference in our
behalf, in calling together-the principarmafter-
maniefacturers, and revisting them to accede to-
our tnost just and humble claims. lf, from the
depressed state, they are unable to give us all full
work at the annexed rate of prices, we are quite
willing to have the quantity of our work limited
to any given sum manufacturers may think pros
per ; we being fully convinced that in a state of
tow trade a !eduction of the quantit.y of work
tends to remove the evil by :reducing the quantity
of goods in the market, whereas the impolitic
sy.teni of reducing the price 01 14bottr, to the
starvation of the workmen, tends or lv to glut the
markets with low-priced g‘,ods, thereby prolong•
log the misery we complain
The Mayor anti many other G.tittlem.t..*--witom
he corisul7ed, considering the sentiment 3 and
viet,s expiessed in this 'document as reasonahle
and just, are willing .to cign a petition to the Le-
gislature, praying for Legislative or any other
relief that may be thought expedient, or to use
their legislative influence in any other desirable
way. To promote this object, the Mayor will
calla public meeting, to he held 'at the Town-
hall on Monday next, which, we entertain no
doubt, will be numerously attended, and some
mode of proceeding most likety'
Every one will be anxious to do all in las power
for their rtlief.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

QUEEN-SQUARE.

MILITARY OUTRAGE.,--Aktitheto ReiNOßd,
private h) the first battalion first reirnent 01 Foot
I Guards. was,on Saturday charged with wounding
P. Pearson desperately With a -hiyonet. Pearson
is a journeyman baker out of place, and on Ffi.
day morning he was at a house of call in Long-
acre, there a master baker applied, and a"-it him
for some yeast to -Pimlico. He Accordlngly pas,,ed
throe: Spring-garden-gate with his bucket, wi,h-
oot the seutinel there taking notice ; hut when
he came to Buckingham gate, he was gcing thro'
on the Catriage-road, el hen he heard the sentinel
call out. He understood him to say, he must not
pass that way, hut through the wit ket at the side;
and he, in comp:iance, stepped off the carriage.,
road, and p,,ssed through at the side. The sen-
tinel followed, and, without saying another word,
stabbed hint in the back The blood Howed.amt
some people took him to the Westmit:ster Infir-
mary, where it %v.'s found that the bayonet had
penetrated about three-quarters of an inch near
thr spirit'. The wound was dressed. and, infor-
mation given at this Office. „The soldier's
name, however, was not ascertained, hut the
Magistrate granted a warrant, which' was given
to an Officer. He went to Portland Barrark,
where he discovered that the prisoner was he titan
• who bad been on the post at the time, and he took
him into custody. In deknee, the ptisoner said,
lie had orders from his Cap.aio . to prevent any
persons going through the gate with lood ;he
told the baker he could not pas's With his bucket,
but he became abusive ; in consequence of which -
he felt it his duty to attempt to: compel him, to
stop, as -he Was bound, whilst un(!er arms, to
obey the orders of his Commanding Officer. The
Magistrate censured the conduct of the soldier in
very severe terms, and directed the baker .to' in-
dict him at the present Sessions. lie was then
delivered over to the serjeant, Who attended, in
order to be tried by military law, if he had ex-
ceeded the orders he received.