The Sun.
London, England, 1817-08-06 00:00:00

THE LEEDS INTELLIGENCER.

We have often had occasion to avail ourselves of

be contents of this excellent Journal, and we be:

Here that a more loyal and better-conducted Public
Print dies not exist. It must be gratifying to
all the wise and well-disposed part of the People
to know that there is such a Journal, particularly
when
,they learn that there is a rival Journal near
it, which is as mischievous i❑ its views, and as des•
*able in its principles, as any of the factious
Journals of the Metropolis, which is saying a
bold word. It appears that the Leeds Mercury
published a paper entitled " The Declaration of
CHARLES HEAIINS4AW,'' which, of course, was et
delicious morceaa tor the London Journals of the
same principles, into which it was copied. The
object of this Declaration Was to charge three re-,
spectahle characters, Mr. ALLEN, Mr. T. ATKIN-
sort, and Mr. LE BLANC, with having tamperel
with this said HLARNSHAW, in order to induce

bitn, by bribery and threats, to give fahe evidence
on the late trials in Yorkshire, and with having
actually falsified his deposition before the Magi-
strates. Tlic foilowing positive contradiction from
one of the Gentlemt•n dins- maligned appeared it':
the Leeds I►tfelligehcer of. Monday last, but by ant
unhicy accident we received It too late ysterday
to enable us to insert it :

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LEEDS INTEL LIGENCER.
" Sea,—From the manner. in which my name has been
brought forward in The Leeds Mercury, of Satirday, Au-
gust 2, I think myself called upon to deny, most positively,
that any conver-ation passed, in ary presence, of the nature
alluded to in the declaration signed " CHARLES HEARN-
SHAW." Your insertion of this in your lutelligencer will
Much oblige
;err:.
" Greenhead, Aug. 2, 1817. B. HAiGH ALLEN."

" Sir, your obedient Servant,

If the other Gentlemen thus basely accused
should not deem it proper to follow the example.
eacd r pro-
noses,
Mr. ALLEN, by a public vindication of them.
selves,ncises:is Editor
next
publication, o f Leedsa
defend
against the charge in question, The Editor theft
makes some spirited and judicious remarks upon
the falsehoods and artifices of The Leeds Mercury,
and, after proving, Contrary to the assertion of
The Mercury, that the Insurgents did not first fire,
proceeds as follows :
" The facts of the disturbances have been completely esta-
blished, though the Jury did not consider that sufficient legal
proofs had been brought against the particular individuals
put upon their trial for life and death before them. It is
established that a still greater number of persons were as-
sembied at the bridge than we ever stated—that more shots
were fired than we particularized—and that more persons
have absconded: The Times, it is true, and its unworthy co-
adjutors, have endeavoured, again and again, to make the
whole affair ass-tie a trifling. and ludicrous aspect., by falsely
m
asserting, in the face of truth, that the insurgents were dis-
persed by so small a force as six yeomanry.
The yeomanry,
on the contrary, were )'arced to retire before the insurgents,
Who, in the mean time, very pruriently decamped, before
greater force was brought against them—a force, which, of
course, could have cut double the number of ill-organized
and ill-armed men to pieces.
" But (and it is with the utmost solemnity we call the:
Public attention to these concluding observations, and that
we pledge ourselves for their truth) the plan and hope of the
insurgents were, to have marched in silence into jimiders-
field, after they had been Joined by the numerous other par-
ties of rioters, who had not yet come up to the bridge,
when
the yeomanry fell its with them ; and to have endeavoured to
surprise the Military and the Civil Authorities, in which
e,,„t they would
ossessihave been strong enough, before morning,
to have kept pon of Huddersfield for at least some days,
and to hare commenced their operations of
Rapine and Murder,
"011 an extensive scale.
cc These, we repeat, are facts. They did not come out on
the recent Trials, because the prisoners were arraigned only
fur the burglary at Dyson
r‘nd for the actual outrage at the
bridge ; and any eirco:uvances, not directly tending to con-
vict tlsern of these iso.ated crimes, could nol, of course, be
brought undirr the cognizance of the Jury."

The Martha Newman, arrived in the Ciyde from
New Orle:ins, spoke,
on the Ist of JAly, Off the
Havanna'', a Spawsh fleet of ten sail of Intl) of
war, with a large fleet under convoy, boo d tot
liaving.od board four milli:nil of