The Sun.
London, England, 1818-09-07 00:00:00

TO TFIE

CHESHIRE GRAND JURY.

We extract the folloWing passages from an able
Charge delivated by Mr.-,Serje,nt 11,st, at the
opening. of the Cheshire Assizes, to the
Grand Jury of that County. lr will be read witn
grea! ioterest at the present moineut :
." Auil here, Geotlemen, I cannot but advert to
those seems whidt have been acted in this
eoutt!V tt ithiu the la,t two or three months.—
Looking on in the guilt of those inisgitiiird men,
who have been induced to embark in the work of
roil) iu its most serious light, we cannot but
consider it as infinitely inferior to that of (hose,
who, lying in dark cooctalment, excite and sti-
mulate their victims to tint, ruin, and desolation.
Such, Gentlemeo, are merely toe bubbles on the
sin face ; the cause of the tempest must besought
for beneath. It is a tact too clear to admit of ti
moment's doubt, that the whole of those move-
ments which have agitated the peace and tranquil-
lity of the Gnaw y.are the result of a foul and
vtietced conspiracy to destroy-the mallttlartures of
the land, and, pio;;.re%siyely moving from crime ttr
crime, to annihilate every thing worth preserving
in the country! This view is by no means exag-
gerated : %ve all know by tl.e experience of his-
tory, that • successful crime makes its authors its
first victims. We all know that during the p:biotl
of distress kvbich this County lately expeitenced,
lastt which no Lomat' power could prevent--$
say, Gentlemen, at that period we all know with
what readiness the wealthy portion of the com-
munity contributed the assistance asked—that pc-
riott happily is gone by ; and now we see those
very met', whose misery excited our sympathy and
insured our assistance, !bsessed of fa,ids which
enable them to stand against their masters,
in order to compel them to accede to their.
demands. And 1 think it my duty to state, that
those persons who are guilty of collecting nvincy
in any way, with the object oL st rengt hen itt4
such funds for the support of discontented kind re..
tractory workmen, are gu&y of a most dangerous
conspiracy against the hest interests of the coon-
try, and it the case of such an offender be brought
betore you, I have nu doubt it will be treated as
such.

" Gentlemen, the law as it at present stand*
with respect to the appropriation ut the Funds of
Ft iemtly Societies, 1 am apprehensive, has beer
notch abused. By the Act passed. I belies e about
the 35th of the for the encouragement of
Friendly Societies, the funds collected by then
are expressly stated to be appropriated for the main-
tenance of poor and indigent Members, not for
the use ut those who render thentsekes poor
by their own imprudence and coutionacy to
their employers, but to the really poor arid
infirm. I am induced here to notice this
sohjrct, in order, it it appears to you that the
Foods of any such Societies are.appio;,ria.ed to
the use of any such persons, that you will consider
it as A proof of their malversation, and Of the dan-
ger which may accrue trout it. Wit these °blur-.
vac ions ate almost needless to such an enlightened
Jury as I AM now addressing, and to Gentlemen
such high re-pectability.
" No Government, however, can be sate—ms
country eau enjoy the real blessings of libel ty; if
the idle and dissolute, the w ickrd and seditious,
are supp!iett %tido the means 0 leSibtooce 10 the
laws of the land but in the Act`to which I nave
before alluded there are ceitain wholesome pro-
‘isions trotting in a great measure to prevent the
progress of such abuses, •
" Gentlemen, at this time I have to entreat
your most serious attention to the state of the
country—at this time, when the eves of the poor
as well as the rich look with anxiety on the pro-
ceedings to which I have adverted. In your higlt
and important trusts, as Nlagistrat es, and as Grand
Jurors, you call tor the assistance of the well,.
disposed, to enlighten the ignorant and deluded
offenders, and bring to justice the hardened guilty.
—Would to God, Gentlemen, that_ the deluded
would learn huts' teddy and smooth it the co,rse
which leads front folly toffestroetion. As Mon-
tesquieu observes of the savages of Umisiana,,
like them, ' to get at the fruit they cut crown the
tree." For how could our trade he preserved, it
the sources of it be stopped ? are the
workmen to find employment and w ages, if the
manufactures be destroyed ? Where, I ask, if such
combinations and conspiracies are to be permit-
ted, is the landed proprietor to recover his rent,
the tradesmen his customers, or the workman his
wages ? The period is of high importance to the
country. at large.
" Let the manufacturers be firm in their deter-
mination, and • perform fearlessly the duty the!,
owe to their country. Compromise must not be
heard. If they concede one tittle, or deliberate
cue moment, they are destroyed for ever! and
their lives and property will he at the mercy ut
riotous, wanton, and lawless :nob."

We understand' that the dkprttes in London,
between the Miter and Journeymen Carpentets,
ate on the 'mini of being settled ; an agreement
haying been made between a number of the mas-
ters and the wttikmcn, by *bieh their wages and
to raised, from the 31st of Angust list, to five
shillings per day, HS they %vvre in ISlo.—(Mout-
in,o Paper )

All PACULOI.IS ESCAPR.—A few nights since, rs
matt who was skeping in a garret at the
pleks in Tifoxhild,;e dreamt tha; be was about
to be seized by the Devil. when, griting out of
bed, lie c:!iruhrd tip to a window, at whelk
he got Ott, an+l wets inttnedi'ately precipit4tell
npun the pavement in the tireet, and, wondertul
delkerance lot him, eicaped with only a few
slight hinises.—( Bath penild )

BIRTUN
On the 4th lost. at Wanstead, the Lady of T. A. Curtis,
Esq, a son.
On the 13th tilt. at the Baths of Lucia, the Lady of
J;l:nes 1,)14 r, F.-q. of a son. .