The Sun.
London, England, 1819-09-03 00:00:00

LETTER FRO.II MR. HUNT TO MR. WEST.

Sraedleycottaee, Manchester, Tuesday morning.
" MY DEAR WEST,--I returnee{ here yesterday,
after having been absent just a fortnight, the zeal;
OtIA Reformers of Bolton having drawn the car,
riage the whole way, 12 miles, not withstanding
the- rain fell in torrents. The public' expression
ithcongratulation as .1 passed through Manchester
was such as might very naturally have been ex.%
pected; the petty vindictive folly of the worthy
Quorum proved that their malignant revenge was
doomed to be of a very, short duration ; and the
exhibiting me through this'county 54 miles under
aimilitary escort has produced an rffect exactly the
reverse of tha-t, which the impotent rage and folly
of. this .humbled junto anticipated. 1 shall
.not
laetrile grass to grow under my teet —to start with
Mr. Pearson either ibis evening orearly to-morrow
morning for Lancaster, that we may reach that
• town to 'hear the mimes of the Grand Jury called
over in Court berme they ate sworn ; and if there
be the least semblance of law lett in the land, we
pteNent any of that notorious Quorum who
tent the Yeomanry Cavalry amongst a peaceable
multittule toArtitcher unotfending men, women,
'told children, from taking their seats as Grand
Jitrymen: -as hills of indictment for murder, and
the capital offence- of cult ing•and maiming,: with
intent to kill, tinder Lord Elienborough's Act,
will be preferred against certain p,rsons,.of whose
guilt or innocence, these gentlemen would be the
least likely to be impartial judges.
" Mr. l'eatson and-Sir-Charles, Wolseley have
been indefatigable in .proenting evidence, .and.as.
sitting the wounded, &c. 1 saw x list of 150 lust

evening WhOlittiVe received wounds, and the Ma-
jority of them from sharp keen-cuttine sabres.
I sioW One man here with his shoulder-blade cut
In two ; another with the fleshy psrt of his arm,
just below .1 be shoulder, with a wound seven inches
long,- and cut so deep as to injure the hone mate-
rially, several splinters having been extracted
One poor woman has her lett breast taken clear
oil, leaving her ribs hare, One man his nose off;
one with his ear cut Off, close to his head, which
he actually picked up and carried hoMe iu his
pdcket. I have not the least doubt but there are
200 4tersotis, met', women, and children, who
have received various sabre wounds. In/self had
a slight cut in my band ; and having received seve-
ral camps upon my bat, I have examint.-d it this
'morning. and find there are two cuts quite through
it ; the swords musr,have been a sharp as razors.
," illr. Pearson has given notice t.O 'the Gout-
inanding and other Officers of the Yeomanry, as
well sts 111agistrat.s, to have a muster, that
some of them may be identifivd. But, as this dis-
trict is under Martial Lao", of course they paid
nn atteutiou to it. Mr. Pearson went to see a
Mall yest tura), ho had both his shoulders and
n►e elb.w dislocated, and ihree bad sabre %rounds,
nios, of which he received whilst upon his knees,
soing for time mercy of the wretch who inflicted
hem. It would hAve been worse if it had not
neon for the Regulars, who were beard to
threaten these cosvardly Ruffians with summary
justice, if they thd not desist hoar murdering the
flying people. N,, language can express the bor-
tor felt by all reflecting persons of all parties at
the excesses committed.—l atn, Sir, your's, &c.
H. HUNT."

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM MR. HUNT TO A

FRIEND IN TOWN.

at Smedley Cottage, Manchester, Tuesday morning.

" 1 really 114(1 taut a 111,,111C111'8 1111ie (0 wine
Yesterday ►ill it was too late for the post ; hut as
I wrote trout Bolton on Sunday, you must, I trust,
have been relieved trout all anxiety about my free-
dom again, or, at least, about my having been
released trom incarceration. When 1 wrote from
Bolton I was surrounded by vast numbers press-

ing to see and congratulate me. I slept very com-
fortably at the inn in the Mat ket-place ; hti when
I awakened at 7 o'clock, and looked out of the
window, the spare Niro filled by 10,000 persons,
all as still as death, they having. been informed
that I had gone to bed latiguedi, revery one fearing
to disturb me, m ailing ill silent anxiety to hear
how I was when I should get up.
" After breakfast we were visited by many re-
spectable Gentlemen of the town. I called for the
bill, and ordered a chaise for Manchester ;the
waiter informed me that the bill was paid and the
chaise ale-ady provoed.. Multitudes, ba‘ing
colours in their hats, mostly white, of limit and
Liberty,' would not suffer the horses to be put iu
the carriage, but actually drew 03 all to Man-
chester, 12 miles, although it rained in tort etas.
Nothing could equal the reception I met with as
they drew we through the town, accompanied to
this door by at least 20,000 people. Sir C.
Wolseley, who had not ceased one minute in his
hest exertions, together with Mr. Pearson, accom-
panied by Mr. Johnson, who came 5 miles to meet
us, were also drawn in their gig by the people. I

ave commenced an eetion for ddmagts against

the cowardly General, and two others, for,viuleut
assaults ot, me atter I WdS in custody. luttiet-
ments will be preferred likewise against all
those %1 Ito have been prominent in committing
murder,

We either go this afternoon or to-morrow to
Lancaster to attend the Assizes. Ido not believe
even the Lancashire Grand' Jury will tied a bill
against us for a misdemeanour : but if they do,
we shall traserse it to the next Assizes. 1 sup-
pose we shall not get baCk here till Monday the
6th or 7th. lam perfectly well, though 'a little
tatiguk d but one week's shooting at .Middleton-
cottage will make me quite fresh again.

Ever yours,

" H. HUNT."

MANCHESTER, Auo. 31.

Hunt and his party are Still the guests of John-
son. it appears,
_that the honours bestowed
upon limit, by the persons who yesterday drag-
ged him a few miles on the road, and through
Manchester to Smedley, w-ere not conferred
gratuitously ; he was under the necessity of
buying them., and the same parties would not
again serve an employer who bestowed his fa-
vours with such niggard feelings. The whole
sum he gave to more than a hundred persons, who
assisted to dive Eclat to its elate info this town,
was nine shillings. The men returned to a pub-
lic•house on their way home, and when they
found the whole of their earnings did not amount
to a glass of
,ale cads, they beitowed upon him
ample abuse, and swore ha might look elsewhere
fur assistance in future.

WESTMORLAND ASSIZES.

API;LE3Y; MONDAY, Auo. 30.

, CROWN SIDE.
Mr. justice BAYLEY took his seat' in thii Court
by nine in the morning, mud after the usual forma-
lities the Grand Jury were sworn and chargvd.—
The two Members for the County were, as usual,
at the head of the Grand Jury, and Mr. Wybergh
was present at his post.
MANSLAUGHTER RY FURIOUS DIM INO.
Elutire, aged 30, was charged wirir. having
killed and slain Win. Howson, by his .furioas
driving of the Lord lixttioutli Coach, at. Kirkby-
Lonsdale, on tnA.4t.b of
.1314 month.,
Mr. LAma (with whom wus Air. Ariustrong)

driving- out of town in a mint furious rminner. •
Thomas ToAtil„tailor in.Kirkby-lonsdale, saw"
the prisoner friquendy in the street there, in the ,
cr.turse of the 4th, quite tipsy. in the evening.
while sanding at his own door, he saw the Lord.
Exmouth driven so lot ionsly by the prisoner, thac
he was afraid it would,be overturned in-the street-
Wm. Head Johnson, farmer, at Dalton, was an
outside passenger from Stainmore to Lancaster.
The deceased, alPo tin outsioe passenger, hot
walked on at Kirkby-Lonsdale, till rite coach
should take him up. At Kirkby-Loosdale, horses
and driver were changed. The plisonet struck off
at full speed, aiid when desired by the gutted to
'stop, in order to take up the deceased, he pulled
up 1.1:s horses all in a heap. Tim guatd at that
'rne a-ked the prisoner what he was aboot, and
told hint he would overthrow the coach, t,r bort
the horses. When the deceased had rsurnyd his
seat, the pi boner set off again at full g 411,1),,
When they had got to the hill which leads lown
to the bridge, the guard called out to the prisoner
to stop, and lie would lock a wheel: the prisoner
.paid no regard, hut gallopped 00. When they
had got to the biidge, witness otplervea that one
of the hint) wheels was whirling round, and not
touching the ground, and mentioned it to the
guard, who desired the prisoner to s,op, Wit be
drove on. Wh'en they carne to fire first turn. this
coach Was overturned, and all the passengers were
precipitated into the road. Witness was very
miti:h bruised and injured. There Were 7 out,ida

pas4engers.
%VintAnk Wilson, a traveller for the house of W.
and J. Howaders in Liv!rpuol, was an inside pas.
senger, along widi his wife and other.' After ,
they It d tot to the Midge, witne,s feared, front
the intvion, th;tt the coach was going o%er, awl
in a moment atterwaids it was (met-tinned. Wit•
ness saw the deceased 'Ton the toad, lying on his
face, apparently dead.
Robert liebbiethwaite, a husbandman, at KA-
hy-Lonsdale, saW the coach ovet throAn at a TUN'
of the road. He came to assist the passengers.
He turned the deceased, whom he found rying on
his face, on his back. lie never heard him speak
a word. •The deceased was put into a cart, and
conveyed to Kirkby-Lonsdrile.
\Vtci. Batty, Surgeon, in Kirkby- Lansdale, was
caller) in to see the deceased, at ,he louse of Mrs.
Saunders. lie lay in a state of perfect ins, nsi•
bility, his taco and the bed-clothes all covered
with blood. There Was a Wound ovtr the tight
eye, and a severe contusion on the forehead. Ile
died at four o'clock the iollowing day- The ,vit-
DeSS believed that the cl•eceased died from a COn•
cussion of the brain, occasioned by tie tall.

Mr. WILLIAMS, for tie prisor,er, caller! one

witness,
William Parker, guard of the-coach at the time
of the accident. fie never was off the'cOach aC
all, and was sober. lie did out perceive that the
prisoner Was at all drunk. The horses h d go,ne
With witness ever since the coach ran, about five
months. 0.. e of the horSes was hdgery, and
weti a deal of blond.
Crossexamined.—Lie was employed about the
luggage. lie told the prisoner to take time whelk
'Mr. Ho,, son was taken up. S,met itnes they lock-
ed the wheel on going down the hill, andhe wish-
ed to lock it on this occasion. lie told him to
take time twice or three times. The road had
been-widened, and there 'was pleoty of room to

turn in.
Ite•examined in chief.—lle had known the
prisoner- fiVe or six'yeais. He thought him a very
good driver.
By the Court. The horses started crick.—
Mien Mr. Howson had been taken up, they
again started quick. He could not say whether
`they galloped or not, lie \N as under no alarm
till the coach struck. He hallooed three time* to
the coachman to take time.—Guilty.
Mr. Justice BAYLEy remarked, that the pri-
soner's conduct was chargeable with want of fide-
Ilty to his employers, want of regard to his own
character, and want of feeling for the lives and
limbs at those entrusted to his care. It was a
heinous offence for any man to disqualify birnse.li
for the discharge at his duty by intloxication ; but
in his case the heinousness was grea,ly aggravated
by the importance of the duty which he had to
rift-Hui. lit oprietors of coaches k% ere bound by
every consideration to employ oilly men of con-
filmed steadiness and sobs iety ; and coachmen
were bound, of ail things, to abstain from every
species of iotemperaucce. 11e felt himself called
upon to pronounce in this case the hightsc
nishment which the law allowed—imprisonment
for 13 months.

Mr. J. GASKIN, a very old and favour:re servant
of Lis MAJESTY, received d npost serioos injury
flora falling tiOWII a store sr air case at the Q
,Lodg'e, ern IVedoesday last, cod the ieatest. doubts
of his recovery are entertaiur,d.

We received th►s morning tl►e Paris Papers of
Tuesday last. The following a►e extiaets
" PARIS, AUG. 31.—The King received several
persons yesterday. General Count VG,Hence bed
the honour of paying his respects to his Majesty.
The King took an airing to the Bois de Ver-
rierei.

" An ,Ortionnanee of the Police, thited the 21st
inst mnti prohibits the sending up of any fire hal-
and forbi:ls any person to ascend in a bal-
loon not provided with a parachute.
" Yesterday the King gave a private audience
to Lif,nt.-General Coward.

The Physicians hAve pronounced that the at-
couchernent of the Duchess de Berry may not take
place for a fortnight ; couriers are however kept
in readiness to set out with the announcement of

the happy event,
" The Royal Sovereign yacht, commanded by
Cnmmoriore Owen, has been for some days in Ca-
lais harbour waiting for the Doke and Duchess
of Clarence, who are expected there the 4th of
September, ors their way to England.

" Froth Marscillei, it is stated, that General
Sebastiani had set out from thence for Corsica,

where be intends to become a CanJidate at the

ensuing clue:in 11.

FIVE PER CENTS.

Monday ..

.72 f. 15 c.

DEFERRED STOCK.
Of the 22d March, 1817, .91 f. 30 c.

22d Scpt. 1817,
22d March, 1818, O7 1. 30 c.

2-2 d Sept. !PAS, Bsf. SO c.
22,1 I%lat ch, 1319, S3 f. 30 e.

" HF.SSE CASSEL, AUG. 21.—There is a report

of the approaching Convocation of a General Diet
for the Duchy of Bionswick, to be preSided over
'by Count Mnnstcr.

FRANKFoRT, AUG. 24.—There is a report of
a Special Commission in Prussia, to be named by
the Prince deliardenberg, in order to ['Like in-

quiry respecting the persons arrested.
" Tumults respecting the Jews have taken place
in various parts, of Germany. At several towns,
as at Boreal'', Bamberg, Darmstadt, Mayence,
Btuns wick, and even in the country, the Jews
have been the object of persecutiou, more or
less violent. Almost every where it has become ne-
cessary to resort to an armed force, and the Procla-
nl66oll6 issued bythe respective_Governments attest
the menacing character of these riots. It is remark-
eNe, that the presence of troops of the line has
no effect in calming-the effervescence, but serves
rather to augment it. In several places it has
been found necessary to substitute the Landwehr
for troops of the 1:!:e."

Though we must regret (tie necessity of stain-
ing our columns with the narri«s of the Reform-
ing Miscreants, whose olject is really to alter the
Law by force and threats, and to overthrow the
(iovernment, yet we ice! it to be our duty to
o,uice all their proceedings, not merely to gratify
the curio,ity of, our Readets, but to afford the
people at large ample means, awl a full oppor-

tlititty of witietstaiitlittg tile', characters, anti fle-
vehpitig their fiagitimits desiwis. \Vitii this view,
we have itit=er!ed the letters trout fIuNT and GALE
JtiNP:s, iti our Paper this clay. HuNT's first let-

ter, no dottly , contains K gross mistepresentation
of do- disasters slant really occurred at Manches-
ter, but which, if they had occurred to the full ex-
tent of ‘vhst he dt-ocribes, was no more thin could
be expected amidst s.o vast at multitude of people,
and after home ot the Rioters bad assailed the
Vt“INIANav CAvArAtY in the most violent manner,

~11,! %tom would, doubtless, have proceeded to
more n(oing extietui.ies if the latter hail tamely
suhmitted to their rialiauly attacks. It was cer-
tainki not the paipose of the 'Magistrates to dis-
perse the Meeting ; but when it pit on so threat,.
eniog an aspect vain' when the Yeomanry Cavalry
a ere so formidably attacked, it was the duty of
:be 14:ter to disperse S. Mob iltdiaed rather to
mischier than to listen, after the leading Orators
were gooe. As a proof of the artifice, hypocrisy,
and taischood of HUNT, he said in a former Let-
ter that he had received many wounds, but he did
not think it necessary to submit them to the Sur-
germ but in the Letter which we insert this day;
all the it,juties of which he complained are
reditred to a slight would in his hand—ex
tow dice omnes ; and it may taiAy be itiferr-
-0 that all the rest of his stories are equally
fallacious. This fellow is at present triumphant,
and seems, while he isresortiog to the Law, ro
hold it in defiance. Government is now so far,
commit( ed in the goes; iou between these Reform—
ing Sallreriers, atu the preservation of the State,
that Ministers Cannot relax without disgracing
themselves, and hazarding the vet y existence of
the Sovereignty. They must not suffer the bastard
popularity, which HUNT liaS acquired among the
mete Rabble, to have any weight with them, hut
they mii)t put the law into vignrouS, opera-
ti,m, ail,' proceed to seize on all who offend
agaihst it. We should not insert the letter
Irmo such a miserable hackneyed Agitator as
GALK it it (11(1 not justify what we
hail said of Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, viz that he
had taken advautage of HUNT'S COIADCMCiIt,
wbido tie probably thought would be much longer,
and t hem dote epped into HUNT'S place, to reco-
ver his own lost popularity ; but the 'trick was
fully understood by the Radical Reformers, and,
as we stated yesterday, feuds have arisen between
the Litter and the Ultra R, formers, as the Letter
Of GALE JONES fully explains. But how lament-
able is it that sliCll scout as HUNT, GALE JONES,
PRESToN, iVooLER, and the whole Gang of sub-
' veiling Miscreants, should thus rise into notice,
and distuth the peace of a Great Empire !—To
advert to the Meeting of yesterday. It was a mass
of contradiction and inconsistency throughout.
At one time Sir FRANCIS expressed his hope that
the Yeomanry Cavalry would vindicate them-
selves from a foul, libellous, charge of intending
to assassinate HUNT, and soon after be stigmatized
them as murderers. Mr. HOEHOUSE uttered a
more flagitious speech than even the Baronet,
and if it be reported justly in the Morning Papers,
we hope it will be noticed by Government. But
we have neither room nor iodination to comment
on the proceedings of the clay, and therefore re-
fer Our Readers to the revirt of them in other
columns.—We may just Observe, that both Sir
FRANCIS and Iloanonse. followed HUNT and the
Radicals, in'uttering insidious praises of the re-
gular Soldiery, in contradiction to the Yeomanry
Cavalry,—But this subject is properly noticed
an admirable Letter to Sir FRANCIS BURDETT,
which we have inserted this day. It is written
with force, argument, and a gentlemanly mild-
ness, as well as with a firm spirit of Loyal-
ty, that cannot but, strongly impress our
Readers. By way of a corollary to this excel-
lent Letter, we shall subloiu passages from the
Baronet's Speech yesterday, -and leave the Nation
at large to make the application. " No man can
be more wicked than a man who endeavours, on
foLse grounds, to procure popularity: Such a man
is a Villain"—" the man who, for the mere sake
of popularity or public applause, without feeling a'
conscientious, desire to do good, thrusts himself
forward before time People, though not a Villain
is a Fool—and such popularity I consider as a bell
jingling in his tool's cap." Whether the Baronet,
in either of these characteristics, had his quondam
friend HUNT in view, we pretend not to determine,
but we doubt not that HUNT will retort them
upon the Baronet, probably congratulating him
on uniting the two desriptions, and having aptly
drawn a true Portrait of himself.

Yesterday the Contract of 20,000 Tickets for a
New Lottery, to finish 29th January next, Was
taken by Mr. SIVEWRIGHT.
This morning, between one and two o'clock,
an alarming fire broke out at Mr. WiHat's, iron-
monger, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's .1 Dn-fic Ids,
which in a short time consumed the interior, and
damaged the adjoining houses.

SHIP.

LAST INDIA SHIPPING.

The East India Company's ships Geueral Hewitt
and DUnira arrived iu the o,,wus yesterday ;
they sailtd from St. Helena the Bth July.

The Dhhira lett Canton the 31at Alarch, and
Anjer the 4th Ibty,

The Bridgewater, ,outward-bound, arrived at
St. tieletta the 4th July.

The Marquess of Ely, outtrard-bound, arrived
at St. Helena the sth July ; she parted company
with the Larkins off the coast of Portugal in the
night of the sth May.

DEAL, SEPT. 2.—Ariived, and sailed for the
River, the Dunira, HANITL-roN, from China ; Ge-
neral Hewitt, CAMERON, front Madras and
Ceylon.
WHITEI4AVEN, Aura. 31.—Several collier:, on
entering the port, drove on the beach between
the piers, where they still lie. The Content,
'Wants, and Thistle, ADAbisoN, both with coals,
came on the strand to the eastward of the har-
bour : the crew were saved by the life-boat.—
Should the gale continue, it is feared both vessels
will go to pieces.
L/VERPOOL, SEPT. I.—The Susan, from New
Orleans for Liverpool, is on shore near Formby ;
two of the crew were drowned.

PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 2.--Arrived the limo-
soff; HAGEMBISTER, from Britavia, in 131 days.