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London, England, 1819-09-23 00:00:00

IEBTING AT YORae

A Requisition breii presented to t 1
Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR of YeO k. signed by•
above 460 inhabitants of that town :mil nc gh-
bour:,ood, desiring hint to tall a l'ohl:t Meeting,
to take into consideration the late tr, fortunate
Events at Manchester, his Lordship appointed his
day (Monday)- for that put pose; and tree:ed a
Hustings. in the Guildhall, in order to accoMmo,
date the different Gentlemen who were liltr ly to
attend as Orators on the occasion.

About ten in the morning, 4,000 or 5,000 reo,,
ple paraded the streets of the ci.y, with hann:Js
a:id music, and in what is called at Manchesiec
martial array, for they marched in a regular pro,-
cession of 6 abreast. A mad preceded them -with 'et
large black board on a pole, on each side
of which was inscribed, in white letters,
" Order," whilst the whole of it was deco-
rated with black crape. Tue band cat music
came next, making a horrible
discord ref unmusical
sounds ; atter which was borne a very large eag,
inscribed " Nlagua Chart a," " Trial by Jury,"
" Bill of Rights," and " Liberty of the Press ;"
!hen a yellow flag, with the inscriOon " To t..e
imtnorial memory of the Reformers killed at Man-
chester on the 16th of August." The union flag
succeeded, inscribed '' England, Scoiland, Ire-
land," similar to that exhibited by the Orator at
Smithfield. The whole were decorated with em-
blems of mourning. In Coney street, the band
played " The Dead March in Saul," during which
the great concourse of people took their hats off
their
,heads, and by remaining uncovered gave
to the spectacle a very solemn and imposing ap-
pearance. • _ _ _

About half-past 11 o'clock, the Committee, ac-
companied by the Hon. L. nuncios, Bryaa
Cooke, Esq., S. W. Nicoll, Esq., and several
other Gentlemen, proceeded from Etridge's-hotel
to the Mansion-house. Ou arriving there they
were loudly greeted by the populace.
Precisely at twelve o'clock the Right Hon. the
Lotto MAyon opened the business by stating,
that in consequence of having received a Requisi-
tion most numerously signed, he had convened
the present Meeting, and requested the Town
Clerk (R. Townend, Esq ) to read the Requisi.
Lion. This was accordingly done ; atter which
the Lord Mayor said, that from the confidence
which he had that they would all concur in main-
((titling good order, and would conduct themselves
with the utmost propriety, he had not placed a
single constable in attendance, nor sworn in an
additional special constable. He had always seen
the greatest order prevalent in the city, and until
he saw something otherwise, nothing of that sort
should ever be done. Having thus briefly opened
the Meeting, he intimated to it the necessity of
appointing a Chairman. An universal cry of
" The Lord Mayor to the Chair" immediately
pervaded the whole of t..e Hall, and his Lordship
took the Chair, amid the enthusiastic greetings of
the assembled multitude. He observed, that at
so numerous a meeting as that which he saw
before hint there might be different opinions on
the subject, he therefore hoped that they would
give every Gentleman who wished to address
them an attentive bearing, and that they would
confine themselves to the subject of the Requisi-
tion.

S. W. Nteot.t., Esq. (one of the Counsel to the
City of York, and also Recorder of Doncaster)
then rose.—He said, that in bringing forward
the Resolutions of that day, it was not his inten-
tion to address them as friends of Parliamentary
Reform, or as its enemies, but as Englishmen,
who possessed a free Constitution, and who were
entitled to the benefit of the laws, made equally
for the benefit, of all. In reprobating the breach
made on those laws, and that constitution by the
late transactions at Manchester, all parties must
join, since it was only by their conjunction that
redress could be obtained. He trusted, there-
fore, that they would, through the proceedings
of the day, carefully avoid whatever might be
ground of division either there or elsewhere. The
Meeting at which they were then assembled, it
was not unlikely, might serve as an example to
numerous others in the county ; but it could only
do so by avoiding subjects of offence, and by
strictly confining itself to that point in which all
of them could coincide. The Resolutions which he
intended to offer to their notice were grounded on a
few facts and principles which appeared to him to
be incontrovertible. The first was, that it was the
constitutional right of he people ofEngland publicly
to discuss State grievances; and thereon to address,
petition, or remonstrate, as they might deem expe•
Thiswas not the right of the high and opulent
alone ; it was the right of all it was the right
not of 70 or 700 only, but of 70,000 or of any
numbers, who conceived themselves aggrieved
it was a right not to he exercised as suited the
mere pleasure of Ministers, or Magistrates, or Mi-
litary ; (if it were so, they might assemble indeed
to cuugratulate or approve, but never could as-
semble- to petition or remonstrate); but it was a
tight to be exercised at the pleasure of the people
themselves, unconfined and unrestrained, so long
as disorder or, excess was not committed by
[ltem. In the next place, be held that the
Meeting of the 16th of August was in strict pur-
suance of the above right—it was for a lawful
purpose. This was clear from the nature of the
notice. The people assembled peaceably, and no-
thing tending to disorder bad occurred, or
was 'likely. to have occurred, when the violent
irruption of the Volunteer Cavalry took place.
Much had been said, and pretences had been held
out of arms and military array. What was this
military array ? The people walked in ranks, as is
usual on almost every occasion of solemnity.
Freemasons' walked in ranks;. Friendly Societies
walked in ranks ; the Corporation of their City
walked in ranks. Was there any thing alarming
or destructive of the peace in such processions ?
No ; it was simply. fur the sake of more solemn
effect. The story of arms ,was equally absurd e
the people came from the country, and, like °tint'
countrymen, carried each his stick. That they
were not armed, even to the point of self-defence,
was quite clear. Had they been armed, dreadful
indeed might [save been the result, and not hun-
dreds but 'thousands must have felt the miseries
of that day. He also observed, that the circum-
stances attending the meeting precluded every
surmise of intended tumult, or probable disura:

'der. tVbet WA'S its pinposei is— to expels au
edherence to the priecinles of Retorts with that
'effect which combined numbers -might give.
meteines, comprising similarutimbers, had been
held in various parts of the countty ; neither
tumult nor riot appeared Olt any occasion ; the
111)1t.et was uniformly the same expression
oHnion. What had the people of Manchester—,
• what cool(' they have, in view beyond this fleet-:
ings of 10,000 or 20.000 men do not usually keep
secrets : they profess all they mean, and that
iisuay with a momentary vehentence, which
lather exceeds than tails short of their real senti-
ments. In 792 and the following years, the
public Placards, Meetings, Speeches, &c. went far
beyond what was now seen. Every portion of our
Established Authorities was then in turn at-
tacked. If the views of the present day were the
same with those of that day, their conduct and ex-
pressions would also.be the. same. But that they
Were not tl_•t: same, even those who did, against
all probability, believe in the existence of designs
hostile to the Governmeot, were reluctantly oblie-
ed to confess ; not a sin ;le tramaction at any
one Public Meeting bad shown the People to be
proceeding in.any such wicked or pernicious de-
signs ; they debated and resolved ; they attempt-
ed nothing further indeed, they were wholly
nn-
prepared for eny.further attempt. On these prin-
ciples and these facts. the inference WHS clear that
the interruption of the Meeting of the 16th was
illegal, uneonstitntional,aml inhuman.—(Cheers.)
Jutleed, he could tint for a moment doubt on. the
particulars of this business of blood, which was
too deeply iefixed in the minds and memories of
all who hearl him, ever to be obliterated from
thens.—((cheering•)—He was not at all surpris-
ed at their cheering. becau,:e no man could .regard
the transactions of the 16tit without horror : this
e'rcumstance,•however, rendered the calm deli-
berate approbation of his .Majesty's Ministers' a
business of a still deeper dye, and a more extend-
ed es rl. It showed the principle on which this
kingdom was meant in future to be governed—he
meaut by military violence ; and, in that point of
view, the mischief of the approbation a thousand
fold exceeded the -mischief of the fact itself. If
that lamentable business had stood alone, it might
in time have passed away and been forgotten; but
it was now no single insulated fact ; it was a pre-..
cedent by which florae meetings were to be dis-
persed, and liberty in future abridged. . The in-
ference he thew from the conduct of his Majesty's
Ministers on this occasion, and on-every other
occasion connected with the meetings of the
people, was, that they were unworthy of the con-
fidence of the Prince Regent and of-the nation. He-
did not speak of their general conduct or ordinary
principles of Government ; he confined himself
avholly to their treatment of that. body of men de-
nominated the Reformers. It was asserted by many,
that the principles of Reform were held °illy by cer-
tain trading districts, and by them merely when suf-
fering from the state of ;rade: in fact ,that there was
no sock principle; that it was a pretext, a mere mode
of exhibiting dissatisfactifm at.th,e present state of
things. If this were so, which he believed it was
not, when large bodies of men were in a state of
suffering and deprivation, when, in consequence
of -the pressure of•their feelings, they became dis-
satified and vehement, what was the course of a
wise -and humane •Goeeroment. towards such a
body'of its subjects ? To execute-against ahem all
the existing laws in full seserity ? To enact new
laws for their punishment ? To persecute and
injure them beyond all law ? Clearly not. It
was the duty of the Government to take the earliest
and the most vigorous measures for restoring the
comforts of those suffering classes. ,fle did,
however, most &Oily believe the principle of Par-
liamentary Reform to be spread among the people
far beyond those districts—that it existed wholly
independent of the depression of trade-s—that it
[vas daily• extending, and that it was deeply root-
in the people's heart. The real state of the pub-
lic mind on the question of Reform was, perhaps,
the most important one that was ev-er.conneeted
with the Government of this kingdom : he had
long felt it to be so : he had long taken every
means in..his•power to ascertain how the fact ac-
tually stood : the result was a &in persuasion
that this principle was neither local nor tem-
porary—that no measures, that no Ministers could
extinguish it—and that a continuation of that mode
of opposing it which the Ministers had for some
years 'adopted would deluge the nation in blood,
and_ -overturn every existing establishment. A
whole people was not to be persecuted, insulted,
overawed—Oro, no it cannot)—a nation could
neither be,. arrested, nor imprisoned, nor. tried,
nor executed. Two years and a. half ogo, meet-
ings similar to these now held took place its seve-
ral districts.; the Habeas Corpus Act was suss.
trended ; several_ hundred persons were imprison-.
ed ; a momentary check of public declarations. fol.
lowed ; but was the principle checked ? By. no
means—it was invigorated (for persecution aLways
invigorated what it,atracked), and thus was ena-
bled to break out•again with a firmness and una-
nimity far exceeding that which had been exhi-
bited in.ISI7. The Habeas Corpris Act, was now
most wisely left untouched ; the Parliament sepa-
rated; and next to some acts of positive conces-
sion to the Reformers, this was. clearly the wisest
mode to pursue ; unfortunately, it was too. wise
to be continued. The scenes of blood witnessed
at Manchester followed- shortly after, and redou-
bled the zeal and ardour of the RetormerS,—
At the same time that their numbers were in-
creased, and their injuries commiserated, the
Government voluntarily held itself forth as
the mark of public hatred and execration.—
The inference .was decisive ; it was
.not in the
hands that thus wielded them that the powers of
GOvernment ought to remain in times so perilous.
11 might be.asked, if Parliamentaty Reform was
the sole, object of the Reformers, where was the
danger of the country ? He would tell them :
the danger was this—tens of thousands and hun-
dreds of thousands of disappointed and irritated
citizens would meet in every part of the kingdom;
a strict union would be fortved amongst them, 'a
union in object and in plan ; their numbers would
be fullwascertained,-and their confidence in cootie-.
ouence increased. Firmly as he believed the Reform-
ers to be now unconnected with hostile views to the
Covet-to:tent, could it be hoped that, if treated. as
they now were treated, they would long continue
so Gould any man acquainted tiff ith, history be..

lieve sul4nit 'to intuit, eett;al,
and persecution ? They were not now inclined—
they woold hereafter be driven to courses incon-
sistent with the established institutions: it was
not in human nature to be persecuted, and not,
with or with,,ot kW, to rise against their pet se-
cutors How was this to be avoided ? By placing
the government in other hands, in the bands of
Alinistcrs who would listen to the people, hear their
complaints, attend to their wishes, conciliate their
feelings, and redress their grievances. This was not.
the proper place for suggesting any particular plan
of pi oceeding ; what he insisted on was a temper,
a disposition on the part of _those in power,
wholly dissonant from that which we have for
years known, which was wholly dissonant from
from that mild and lenient disposition, which at
no distant period was able to soot!) the irritated
state of the country, and secure its future tranquil-
lity. The Learned Gntleman, in conclusion, re-
prated, that he did not address them either as
Whigs or Tories, friends or enemies to Reform,
hot as men who would juin in the Resolutions of
that day, from a firm conviction that they were
the sure and only source of the future tranquillity
of the country.
NicoLL then read the following Resoln-
tions, which be told the meeting would after-
Wal (IS he put one by one
. _

Resolved." 1. That it.is the Constitutional right of the
People of this Kingdom publicly to consult on all matters of
State, mid to express their sentiments in the form of Resolu-
tions, Petitions, or Remonstrances, as circumstances may
seem to them to require.
R. That the Meeting held at Manchester on the IGth of
August last, was in correspondence witltt he above• Constit-
utional Right of the People; and that neither in the Notice
which preceded that Meeting, nor in the conduct of the Peo-
ple in approaching it, nor in their demeanour when actually
assembled, was any unconstitutional act committed, or any
act amounting to a breach of the peace, or to a just source of
alarm to any of his Majesty'ssubjects.
3. That the conduct of the persons who took the lead in the
business of the Meeting on the at`ove occasion, considering
them independent of any political party question, as British
subjects, firmly asserting their rights, is highly prai:!eworthr,
and merits the approbation of every friend to freedom and his
country: and that the thanks of -this Meeting ate here given
to them for the forbearance they exhibited, and their un-
willingness to disturb the public peace.
4. That the interruption of the proceedings of the above
Meeting by the Yeomanry Cavalry, under the direction of
the Magistrates, was illegal and unconstitutional, and un-
worthy of the citizens of a free country, and of a Magistracy,
byitsotlice the protectors of the People's rights.

5. That the subsequent approbation of the proceedings of
the above day, issued in the name of the Prince Regent, but
on the.responsibilityof his Majesty's Mini,tets, has a lament-
able tendency to create disunion in this kingdom; to fix in
the minds of the people an apprehension that their safety is
not duly regarded by the high Authoriiies of the realm, and-
that their rights arc objects of jealousy, suspicion, and at-
tack.

6. That the Ministers, whose views and principles have led
them thus to misuse his Royal Highness's name, are wholly
unworthy of his confidence and of the confidence of the Na-
tiun ; and that it is our determination humbly to address his
Royal Highness to remove them from his counsels and pre-
sence.

7—That a subscription he immediately entered into for the
purpose of affording relief to the suflet ers under the late on-
lawful attack; and for the purpose of inflicting that justice
on the authors and perpetrators thereof ...filch the laws of
our country are lead), to afford.
S. That a Committee, Treasurer, and Secretary to the sub-
scription, be appointed ; and that a Committee of eight Gen-
tlemen he appointed to carry the same into effect.
9. That the Address now read is adopted as the act of this
Meeting, and shall be immediately transmitted to his Royal
Highness.

[Here an Address, fondded on the foregoing resolutions,
was read to the Meeting;.]
Mr. Alderman DINSLAY rose to second the Re-
. solutions. After commenting On the politeness
wit,l) which the Lord -Mayor had received their
requisition, and on the readiness with which he
had attended to it, be proceeded to say, that be
had little doubt but .peace•and order would he ob-
served, although, as the Meeting had heard, there
were no speCial constables in attendance, nor had
he or any of his brother Magistrates put the RiOt
Act in their pockets. The late Meeting' at Man.;
chesler was strictly constitutional, and the con-
duct of the- people assembled at it highly deco..,
rous. if it had been improper, it was the duty
of the Magistrates to have gone among the people,
'and ordered them to be peaceable ; if after this
they still acted wrongfully, •it was then the duty,
of the Magistrates to read- the Riot Act, and to
give the multitude an hour to disperse in. But
.was this, or aught like this done ?—No ; instead
'of it, the dreadful work of havoc was begun ; the
cavalry—not the soldiery, for they would have
disdained to act thus-=-theYeomanry Cavalry,a new
name unknown toour Constitution, was let loose up-
on a peaceable,unoffending,and unarmed mu!t itude,
many of whom they put to the sword, regardless
both of age and sex. Immediately after this dreadful
carnage, the Magistrates of Manchester sent two
Delegates to London, who told their own tale,
and received the thanks of his Majesty's Ministers,
in the name of the Prince Regent. The people
of England had been.charged with prejudging the
Magistrates of Manchester, by thus meeting to-
gether ; but this could not be a just ground of
accusation, after the vote of thanks which bad
been passed on them for their conduct. The Al-
derman then contrasted the vote of thanks pre-
sented to the Magistrates, with the declaration of
certain inhabitants- of Manchester against their
barbarity, which has long since appeared in all
the public Journals, and concluded by saying,
that all he asked was that their conduct should
be submitted to inquiry, and that they should
have a fair trial by a Jory of their Countrymen.
if they were found guilty, they ought to suffer
the punishment which the law awards to crime
like theirs ; but if they were innocent, their
deeds ought to be recorded in the temple of
fame, and they themselves not pointed out as
objects of hatred to the great mass of their fellow
citizens.

The Hon. L. Donnas, M. P. for York, then
came forgard, and was loudly cheered by the
Meeting. After the very excellent speech of his
Learned Friend, who had brought forward these
resolutions, and also that of the worthy Alderman
who had succeeded him, it was totally unneces-
sary for him to say -much. The present was a
question of a very novel and extraordinary nature ;
it was this—is there a Constitution. or is there
not ? If the people had not a right to meet, the
Bill of Rights was. nothing more than a dead let-
ter : if the right of assembling was to be limited
at the will of the Magistracy, the Bill of Rights
was nothing ; for then any timid person, by
making a
°timid affidavit before a timid ►Magi-
strate, might have. the most legal Meeting im-
mediately dispersed ; and yet it was upon
this very ground that an attempt was made
to justify the Magistrates of Manchester. lie
maintained, that the people had a right to meet as

they ()id., if they choose. To h.c.re a little music
give,weight to their meeting could not he. pro-
rye Of any danger to the community ; nor yet
court! it be injurious to it that the country-
men should walk together in ranks, or, as it
was now termed, martial at ray ; for what harm
could possibly, result front the playing of a rife
or the beating of a drum He would fairly own,
that if_there was any danger from martial array,
it was from the martial art ay of those who were
sent in to attack the people. Though he fully agreed
with the general spirit of the Resolations,• he
could not help .observing, that he was rather in
favour of an Address demanding inquiry, than of
a Declaration expressing their opinions on the
late unfortunate circumstances. He objected to
the latter plan, because he did not wish to imitate
his Majesty's Ministers in any thing. He did not
wish to prejudge the question, as they had first
done themselves, and as they had afterwards
forced their Royal Master to do ; for that he too
had prejudged, it was evident from a comparison
of dates. The melancholy events took place on
the 16th, and the Prince Regent's thanks were
dated the 21st. He said thus much to them, his
Constituents, because be was now, and had been
from his earliest youth upwards, a friend to the
libtriy of the people ; he trusted that he should
be so to the day of his death, and that, dying, he
might 'bequeath that sentiment to his son. It

was said that this was a party question ; this he
positively denied : it was a question between tl►e
lovers of the Constitution and its enemies ; and if
it ever became a party question, it would be ow-
ing; to the Government leaguing itself openly with
the Magistrates. After pledging hiruselt to sup-
port an inquiry into this dark business, both in
the House and out of it, the Member retired Irony
tine ►ront of the hustings amid a volley of alt-
lan•e.

Colonel Comte, of Wheatley, as be could not
rest sa-titfied with himself, it he gave merely a
silent vote upon so extraordinary, so novel, and
so important 'an occasion as the present, begged
the indulgence of the meeting for a few moments,
to express his sentiments very briefly. The pre-
sent discussion had arisen from a most violent
attack having been made upon the Constitution,
and from the liberties of the subject having been
invaded in the most extraordinary and idarmiug
manner. In the preservation of those liberties
and that Constitution every individual was, and
must be interested, without reference to any
party or any set of men whatsoever; and it
was, therefore, their bounden duty to call for a
full inqeiry, and to prevent such an alarm-
ing attack upon the
,rights and privileges of
Englishmen either from passing unnoticed, or
from being drawn into a precedent. From all the
intelligence, that had hitherto reached the public,
three facts appeared to be established—namely,
that the Meeting was legally convened, peaceably
conducted, and violently dispersed. These three
facts being establisher!,.. and doubts still existing,,
from the suppression of circusostances which
might and ought to have been communicated to
the public by those who were partic3 to them,
and who knew accurately all that had pssed,
surely it was their duty to insist upon a
thorough investigation of all that preceded
and passed upon that melancholy occasion,
especially after his Royal Highness the Prince
Regent had been graciously pleased to in-
form the Lot d Mayor and Corporation of
London, that with respect to the meeting of Man-
chester, they had not been correctly informed:—
The Colonel then proceeded to observe, :hat Sir
IVilliatn Blackstone, who'had never been charged
with subjecting the prerogative of the Crown to
popular clamour, had, in his Commentary on the
Laws of England, recognized the Statute of Wil-
liam and Mary, which declared, " that the subject
hail a right to petition, and that all commitment%
and prosecutions for such petitioning were illegal."
Still, in sayiog this, he wished ro be distinctly Un-
derstood : he did not by these observations endea-
vour to 'prejudge the real conduct of the Magii-
trates, but to place them only on the same footing
on which every Englishman ?ight to be placed who
had been acceparyin producing such fatal results as
they all kne iv had occurred at Manchester,atid to re-
quest that they might answer for and explain such
conduct. He wished to God that others had been
equally cautious in not prejudging a case so impor-
tent,and in not holding out the approbation of the
Executive Power, before it could be known that
such conduct had deserved it. Though he could
not give more than a qualified assent to all the
Resolutions, yet he most cordially concurred in
the general object of the Meeting, and heartily
joined them in resolving to preserve the most va-
luable of all rights an Englishman can enjoy—of
meeting to consider the real state of the Country,
and to suggest any legal, means of correcting any
evils which, upon due inquiry, may be disco-
vered. He was astonished by the modera-
tion and temperance with which their proceedings
had been conducted : probably, the discussioa of
that day might give a tone to other country Meer-
ings ; and lie trusted might induce men of honesty,
who were anxious to remedy defects, but to pre-
serve every thing that was valuable, to rally round
and uphold the Constitution : " for ail of us," to
quote again the words of Sir W. Blackstone,
" have it in our choice to do every thing that n
good man would desire to do, and are restrained
from nothing lent what would be pernicious either
to ourselves or our fellow-citizens ; and in so doing
we should best perform our duty to our uitary."
The gallant Colonel, who at the last election was
the unsuccessful candidate for the Representation
of York, then retired amid the loud and enthusiastic
Shouts of the surrounding multitude.
A Person, Darned WALKER, then addressed the
Meeting, but his speech consisted of such furious
and foul, as well as hackneyed, abuse of the Yeo-
manry Cavalry, and the Magistrates of Manches-
ter, that we shall not pollute our colionsis by the
insertion of such a mass of libellous prejodica-
tioo. lie is said to have been a Printer, but by
his poetical spouting, we should rather suppose
that be had worn the tragic buskin.
Mr. HAEQEOVE, the Editor of the York 17trald,
being, then loudly called for by the noiltiyole,
came forward to address them. lie said, that
though he had already declared to. the public his
abhorrence of the proceedings of the Magistrates
and Yeomanry Cavalry, he was again ready to
declare; to them his detestation of the hypocrisy,ol

the ltagistraleS prior to the meeting, and of their
horrid violotion of both law and justice at thaw
time ; he-:was again-ready to declare to them tl►e
abhorrence with which he viewed the cowardice
of the Yeomanry, in attacking the defenceless fe.,
male ,and the helpless infant, and the savage liar-
bstity which they afterwards exhibited in the
cold-blooded murders which they perpetrated.
For the country, therefore, to be silent after such
atrocities would be highly criminal, and would
constitute a direct invitation. He also concluded
his speech by expressing his agreement to the R"
solutions proposed.
Mr. Flower, Mr. Gill, and Mr. Walls, after
wards followed on the same side.

The Loan Alivon then put the Resolution%
above stated to the Meeting, and declared theta
carried without a d,ssentient voice.
Another Resolution was then moved, secondc4
and carried, that it is the desire of this Meeting
that the Committee already appointed do adopt
such measures as are requisite to carry the pre.
ceding Resolutions into effect.

It vva,-; then moved by Mr. NICOLL, and SeCOO,I‘
ed by the Hon. L. DuNDAs, that the Thanks Of
the Meeting be given to the Right Hon. the Lord
Mayor, for his ready -attentinn to the bights of the--
People, by calling this Meeting, and for his most
independent and exemplary opinion in the Chair.
After it had been searr;ed, the LORD MAyott
returned thanks in a short speech. The multitudd•
then dispersed.

MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—Sunday, sth in-
stair, a melancholy occurrence took place at'
Carumoney, seven miles front this town. Mr.•
William Btyson, fat nier, was found - drowned in
a draw- wril, near his house, and- his wife erase
at` the same time, found dead in the house with
her throat cut. When the Coroner's Inquest was
held, it appeared by the testimony of a SerVant..
Mall, that about I 1 o'clock forenoon, when be
went out, he left his toaster in the house, read:4
keg the Bible, -and his wife also engaged in read
ing a religious book. About three o'clock, when
he returned, he observed his master's hat lying
on the ground before the door ; and, on goin;
into the house, he perreived the wile lying in
front of the kitchen fire, with her throat cute -
-and a great deal of blood on the floor. He im-
mediately got the assistance of some neighbours,
who, after a search, fouud the body of Mr, Bry.o.
son in the well quite dead. A servant girl gays
similar testito,my. No person could be found,
who had witnessed the perpetration of this direful
catastrophe ; but, from the evidence adduced, it
appeared that for twelve months intSe.Mt. Bryson,
had manifested much perplexi-ty of tnind respect•
ing his affairs, although they knew he had no oc..
casino to do so ; that he had often appeared in a
disturbed state, and spoke very incoherently.--•
From all these circumstances, the Jury returned
a verdict, finding that Mr. Bryson had:destroyed
his wife, and afterwards thrown himself into th,,
being in a state of derangement of mind at
the time. They were a vet y respectable coupleo'
much esteemed by all who knew them.—(Befost.
News Letter.)
SHOCKING ACCSDENT.—Mr. Meredith!, of
Green-lane Farm, near Nit lebtd, was passing
through his meadows on Suotky. eveninglasti
ashen be was attacked by a ferocious bull, and
so dreadfully gmed about the body, that he _can,
not possibly recover. He was twice tossed 117
the ferocious animal, which- at length left biro
prostrate upon the ground.

ATTEMPT AT RoßßEßY.—Tuesdny night, about
eleven o'clock, the house of (2 tail'
nurton Crescent, watt broken into, but tbe.Calj'
tail' hearing a noise, got out of bed and discharg''''
ed a pi,tol„ which the robberi hearing, decamped,
without any booty. This nzkes the sixth at'
tempt of the kind in Burton Crescent.

Sunday between eleven and .one o'clock,: wbile•
the fatnily were at prayers, some thievu.l, by mean'"
of false keys, entered the dwelling-I;onse of i‘Jr.
James Hall, No, 14, Bow-lane,
robbed it of linen, wearing apparel and plate U)
considerable amount.

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Ditto, at Sight
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Antwerp l2 sEx.Motie/
Hanthurgh
AttOtla
Park, 3 Day's sight 25 35 0 Us.
Ditto
liourdeaux, ditto
Franhfort on the Main
Madrid
Cadiz - 36 Effective'
Bilboa 354 ElfeetiVe..
Seville .
35}
Gibraltar
Bateclona 3i,
Leghorn
Genoa... 4,1 -Venice, Ital. Liv 27 20
Malta... ...:Sf -Naples' 39
Palerino . ll7d. per Ox.
Lisbon
Oporto
.3.1 . .t
Rio Janeiro
Ditlllll l
Agio of the Bank on Holland.... '2 per Cent,

BULL;OS.

Oortugal Gold, in Coi:: .0 0 0 per 00'
Foreign Gold, in Bars 3 17 10i
Nvw 1)011ars
:;firer in Bari, Standard 0 5

liIRTil.

On Tnesdar, the 34th inst., in Upper Gower-street, the
lady of i,l,ailes therii, Esq., of a sun.