Star.
London, England, 1831-10-13 00:00:00

PUBLIC FEELING.

NOIITINGHAM, Tuesday, Ti ree o'Clock.—About seven
o'clock, an attack was made on the town house of correction,
which contains a vast number of kni,ontr4 ; the outer-dot r
was forced, when, on the arrival of the 15th hussars and sty 1
force, the people instantly dispersed. In half an h•sur, the
royal castle of Nottingham, the property vf tile Dalt.r of
Newcastle, was discovered to be on fire, aced before aid cottld
arrive, was so completely in flames, that all attempts to save
it were in vain ; Indeed, from its vast height above the reach
of water, the whole population could scarcely hart been
effectual in checking Its progro.s. It Mated away in
awful grandeur till near eleven o clock, when it began to
abate, but continued to flare and smoke throughout the
night. A heavy shower of rain cf very long continusnee,
prevented further mischief. This beautiful edifice was spare
than 100 yards from any other building, and it had not lit
recently inhabited. Its magnificent stair Mts. and floor-
ings of black oak and cedar, and the tapestry hangings tat.
Queen Anne, with every thing it contained. are consumed.
This morning the mobs have again assembled. and their
...rat exploit was to force a way into the castle-yard, to gloat
over the complete devastation—none but the external wails
being left standing. The return cf night is dreaded. An
hour ago, I saw from the park hills a vast volume of smoke.
and fire arising at Denton, three miles distant. said to be the
factory of Mr. Lowe, of this town The mom have never
come into direct collision with the mili:ary, and have co•
tint's(' to disperse on their approach ; but it has always hap.
pened that the mischief has been done. Several gentlemen's
seats and some large mant.factories have been threatened.
The rioters are principally young men and boys, to the num-
ber of 3or 4,000, and it is said that many of the Derhy
mob are amongst them. The races, which should have cetti-
menced to-day, are postponed. All the shops are dosed.
ANOTHZI LETTMIL.—I have just been told th:d
Musters died from excessive fright. No other lives :! ve
as yet been loss. All business is suspended, and all me
shops in the market-place have their shutters up, and tn.o:y
are totally closed. Mr. Lowe's mill, at Beeston, is tat tire
at the present moment. The last accounts from Notting' oti
and Derby state that the rioters have been dispersed by the
military, and that that country is now quiet, though tae
soldiers are still on duty. Some disturbances took place at
Loughborough, and the windows of a clergyman's house were
broken. A meeting was to take place at Coventry yesterday,
and the people were parading the town with banners and
music at 11 o'clock in the forenoon.

CARLute, 31oxyay.—Thiselay the most numerous
public meeting ever held here took place on the Seitts ne
race-ground,) called by the Comittee of the Reform Assu.
dation. The tradesmen of the town closed their shoes.
warehouses, &c. to testify their deep sorrow at the nj..ctiot;
of the Reform Bill. An Address to his Majesty was una-
nimously adopted, praying that he will be graciously pleased
immediately to create as many Peers as will pass the MO.—
This has been intrusted to the lined Chancellor fur presen-
tation. Another address to Rarl Grey was also unatimou-ly
adopted, requesting him not to retire from office, but to re.
main and save the country.
Dovia..—ln compliance with a requisition, signed by a
number of respectable freemen, a Common Hall was con-
vened oy the Mayor to meet this (Tuesday) evening. At the
time appointed, the Hall was soon crowded to excess, anti
many who could not gain admittance were under the neces-
sity of retracing their steps through a torrent of rain. The
addresses were signed by the Deputy Mayor, on behalf of
the meeting, and will be conveyed by this evening's post, In
be immediately presented.
Bareinyox.—One of the most numerous meetings ever
held in this town was convened on Tuesday in the new Toe ta
Hall, by the High Constable, for the purpose of considering
the rejection of the Reform Bill by the Lords, and to adopt
measures relative thereto as the meeting should deem lit.
BalseoL.—Pursuant to a very respectable requisition, the
Mayor convened a meeting of the inhabitants of this city
for yesterday, to consider and adopt such constitutional mei,.
sures as may be deemed advisable to support his Majesty'..
Ministers in the present alarming crisis of public affairs, at it
in the means they shall adopt to accomplish the measure ot
Parliamentary reform,
Sys DIVOID.—The black flag was hoisted on the top of tie
coaches which brought the intelligence of the defeat of ti c
Bill. The families of several of the Lords are leaving Lon.
dog as fast as possible—that of the Marquis of Londonderry
came through Stamford with great expedition on Saturday
night. On Friday a corps of artillery with cannon enter, d
Stamford, but declared that they did not know where they
Were going.
Hs.—As soon ae the news reached here on Satur-
day evening, of the Reform bill being rejected, the town
was all confusion and bustle, no man concealed his bitttr
disappointment. On Sunday morning the feeling of tom:
of the inhabitants found an outlet. On the window shutters
and walls in almost every part of the town, were seen in
bold characters, " Liberty or Death," " Pay no Taxes,'
" No Bishops," " No Tithes; " No Piers, and no
Boroughroongers." Almost every shop in the town was
eloped on Monday.
Lotronnoaottoa—On Monday evening some rioting
took place here, but the civil force succeeded in putting it
down, after the Vicaes house had been attacked, and the
windows broken. Another house was also materially
damaged.
NEWPORT, TIER or Wiranr.—The reformers of the
Isle of Wight seem determined to show that even in defeat
they are nod conquered. A meeting was held on Monday,
at the Green Dragon Hotel, to consider the best means to be
adMat this eventful crisis.
ate:ITERRIIRY, OCT. 10.—At the Canterbury meeting,
on Monday, one of the resolutions moved was the following :
" That in the opinion of this meeting the part taken by the
Bishops and Clergy (generally) of the Established Church,
against the King, the Government, and the people, goes far
to render that establishment. as a secular institution, untrue-
thy the confidence, respect, and support of the country."
Watt ertier.D.—Lord IWhaencliffe was burnt in effigy.
by a vast concourse of people in the market-place of Wake.
field, on Thursday last, for his unpatriotic opposition to
the Reform Bill. The effigy was well made, and habited in
the regimentals of the Yorkshire Hussars' of which his lord-
ship is colonel. Previous to his being consigned to the flames
he was paraded through the town, accompanied by a band of
mask and lighted torches. We understand that the Noble
Lord has also been honoured with three separate and similar
testimonies of public approbation in Halifax.

We have a fik of Calcutta papers to the 11 of
May inclusive. The cholera was making great maw*
among the native population at Melds, chiefly along the
tanks of the river.

By the packet which arrived last evening front
Lisbon,_ we have accounts from that quarter up to the 241
inst. They do not furnish us with any news of an impor.
tans nature. The Authorities were still active in securing
all Portuguese who betray sentiments or feelings adverse to
the exising Government. The Prince Regent, Admire l
Parker, the Asia, Briton, and Dispatch, were in the Tagus.
fully prepared to act in the event of the least indignity being
offered to any British subjects. Thirty-six of their fourth
regiment had been sent to Oporto, where it was expeeteo
they *ooh share tile same fare as those ID Lisbon. Cheva-
lier Caneiru, Ambasador from Don Miguel to the Court of
Denmark, arrived in the Gol4finc t packet from Lisbon.
Lists have been repeatedly i resented to the
English public, of the number of suferers from Don
sliguel's tyranny. A person, who has had the mein. of
correct information, has estimated the amount of those now
persecuted for political opinions by the petty despot, at
50,000. lie states the following as the number of prisoners
in different dungeons of Poriugal : 900 at Linmeiroe IMO
at St. George's Castle, 100 at Aljubto, 30 at C..va di Nlarie,
487 at Sr. jatiaos, 240 at Tratacra, 450 in St. Sebastian
prison ship—in all, 3,047. The prisons in every town and
village in every part of the country are fi led with per OM
confined in eonseqaence of their opinions; and every former
—Almeida, &agents, Rivas. Valence, Per.iehe, etc.--
contain stwe prisoners, of whom no account can be given.
Thousands of respectahle persons have been driven from
their homes, forced to conceal themselves in different parts
of tie country, or to take refuge abroad. Upwards of
1,300 have been transported to the toast of Africa or to
India. The treatment of the prisoners is infamous At St.
Julian's the greater part of the prisoner* ate confined on
the Peed of the sea, and in the winter are ancle-Jeep in
water. Our readers may possibly recollect, that some time
since attempts were made to assassinate two British officer's
near Lisbon. On the complaint of the British Consul, en.
forced by the Government at home, *den were tardily
given to bring the assassins to justice; bet when the Portu-
guese authorities went to the village when the mime had
been committed, the offenders had disappeared. It is now,
we understand, the belief at Lisbon, founded on circum-
stances which we are not at liberty to mention, that the
assassins are now cousaled in the Royal Palace 4Quelus.
The inference ss obvieus—that it woe at the instigation of
persons who Uwe atioenee at the Palace that the crime
wu perpetrated.

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JOURNALS
and see not."
bulk of them, n•e
they live and eat
state of universal

movement. All the counties are up, and all the
cities, and the metropolis leads them, and the
House of Commons has by an immense majority,
concurred with the people, in opposition to the
Lords. Yet are we forced to listen to the match-1
loss impertinence of some persons, who either deny
that there is any animation discoverable throughout
thn community at this moment ; or that, if there
be any, it is excited by the public press! If facts
be good for any thing, the country from north to
south is under one paroxysm of astonishment or in-
dignation at the defeat of the bill. So imperfectly
were the inhabitants of distant counties acquahred
ith the " good working" of the present • cons'itu-
tion, that they were ignorant enough to believe it
altogether impossible for the Lords to reject the
nation's prayer. They were undeceived by Satur-
day morning's event, and have since required all
the moral restraint that could be imposed upon
them by their moat discreet and virtuous advisers,
to prevent them from breaking into acts demon-
strative of that resentment, which the contempt
manifested for the feelings of the whole United
Kingdom had produced among nineteen twentieths
of its active and intelligent population. If
the people be not powerfully moved, how comes
it that the House of Commons, we mean that
might:- portion of it which really represents the
people, has been prevailed upon to pass that unu-
sual (though we acknowledge most salutary) vote,
which restores the ministers to more than their
original influence, and consigns to despair an op-
position which had Englishmen not felt deeply
upon this question, would ere now have been re-
invested with the cing enjoyed, and, in the judg-
ment of the majority of the people—the long abused
—powers of the Treasury Bench. Is it the
Press that has done this ? Some persons
pretend that the People have been excited by the
press, and not by the defeat of the Reform Bill.
Then what has been the instrument through welch
the press has wrought out the excitement ? what
its topic ? what the alarum bell of which it has so
effectually availed itself? Why, nothing but re-
form ! It has appealed to the people, by their
eagerness for reform in parliament, to support the
reforming ministry—to declare their patriotic sem-
timer ta, but to respect the laws. Now. suppose
the press had adjured the nation, by its esteem
for Toryism, and its affec ion for close hes-
nighs, to come forward with petitions against
the Reform Bill, or denunciations against Lord
Grey's Ministry, and pledges of supp rt to L rd
Mansfield, or Lord Ellenborough, what would have
ha; pened ? Who would have been moved, except
by contemptuous laughter? If the press had been
writing up Lord Elernborough for twenty years,
does any man but the noble baton himself conceive
that it could have written him into the public love
or confidence ? or that any effects would have fol.
1 .wed, except an abs to distaste for the rut of
printing itself, on account of the tees to which it
had been made subservient ? If reform be made
an engine for excitation by the press, it must
have already a hold upon the affections of the
people. There is no escape from such a truth
as this. To act upon men's minds, there must
be a pre-existing lever. The press cannot
stand upon nothing. See %hat has really hap-
pened upon this very subject of reform. Another
press than the liberal press hes all along been toil-
ing and bubbling, and appealing, and conjuring,
and denouncing, and exhorting. Its activity has
been incessant,—its mal•ce exemplary,—its argu-
ment, though absurd, most laborious,—tts wit
weighty. Never was tl:e cause of regular Toryism
smell with more zeal, or more characteristic
means, than by certain journals (we shall not
trouble ourselves to point them e ut,) whose
names, if forgotten elsewhere, must of course be
known at the Stamp-office. And what success
have these champiot•s met with in tLe service
of bad government? Have they produced no
yopular excitement? None. Are they obeyed—
or listened to—or looked at —cr heard of ? No.
They are destitute of that article of first necessity
—readers; except, perhaps, such readers of their
trash us may first have been tl e writers of it. T: e
truth i-, dist for the newspai era to have had any
influence whatever in animating the people upon
the reform question, that question must already
have attached to itself from different source:—
namely, the common sense and natural fe• lingo
of society—an extensive and powerful charm.
The Lords generally, we are sure, do not r nter-
tarn the opinions on which we have cemmerted,
but are already awake to the ci-nsequences of
their ()en deplorable error. They untie valued the
resentment of the people. They ought first to have
rechained them. As in the cese of the Irish Ca-
tholics, who by the acqueition of a limited amount
of freedom had been taught the value of more, and
had been vainly resisted in their constitu.ional
efforts to obtain it ; so in the case of the British
nai ion itself, the rapidly and wide-spread intelii-
gence of the last 50 years has exhibited, in full
glare, the vices of a selfish, prodigal, corrupt, .nd
wasting system of domestic and colonial policy,—
eas proved to the peoyle that they never can reckon
safely on an uptis.,ht admit istration of public 11
affairs, until they shall have secured to them-!
selves a real, instead cf only a nominal, centreul!
over the choice of those who manage them, and
has, at last, created an unconquerable desire for
reform throughout the where actin n of tl.e govern-
ment, such as no set of ministers can ever hence.
forth opp se with success, ey shall first
have replunged the whole British ration into that
darkness and brute indifference to ventral cusses,
which had fav Lredtl estealthy march of encroach-
ment upon their common liberties. The die is now
cast : the t eople of England will have the bill
wbich their King and ministers have proposed to
them, and nothing less.
HERALD. —The peace.ab:e conduct of the peo-
ple, notwithstanding the stueed efforts made to
betray them into vio'ence, is only what we should
have expected from their habitual got d sense, good
feeling, and reflection. Indeed, those Journalists
and demagogues who were mi at v,ltement in their
threats of revolution made It appear, upon their
own shoeing. tied revolution was imposible.—
They stated that the whole people were of the one
way of thinking; and that supported as they were
by the King and the existing Administration,
they were only prevented from having that par-
liamentary reform which they desired by a few
nt.blemen. How, dim, could there be a re-

volution ? The word revolution, in its political
sense, means a change of dynasty, or of the whole
subsisting frame of government, effected by force,
Bat here the King and the people-rthe executive
!government and the popular force—went together.
There was, therefore, no possibility of revolution,
because there was not',ing to rev lutionise. But
though the people have been orderly and peace-
able, there have been some instances of rabble
violence. The outrages at Derby and at Notting-
ham, and the person al attacks in London upon
some of the Noble opponents of the Reform Bill,
have not been the work of the people. They are
the worst enemies of reform who indulge in such
excesses—for they disgrace a just and rational
cause by the most wanton, and criminal, and
tyrannical application of brute force. Such
disturbers of the peace must either be the
dupes of treacherous instigators, who hope
that ref,,rm will be impeded by outrage, or
ruffian• of desperate habits, who care nothing
about the political question, but think the crisis
favourable for the more congenial operations of pd.'
lage and devastation. The breaking open the gaol
and letting out the criminals, and breaking indis •
criininately the windows of the respectable inhabi-
tants, whether reformers or anti-reformers, prove
what a mere rabi•le it was that commenced the dis-
turbances at Derby,which the military have quench.
ed in blood. The burning of Nottingham Castle,
too, was a brutal and barbarous act, only worthy
of the followers of a Tyler or a Cade. Reform has
nothing in common with incendiaries and-men of
blood. It repudiates them and their acts. Its great
object is improvement —their's destruction. We
regret to see any portion of the London Press
lending itself at this moment to the instigation of
the worst passions of the rabble, by publications
denoting the members of the majority in the House
of Lords as objects of popular vengeance. We do
not suppose the papers that publish those things
have any intention of pointing out certain noble-
men as objects of personal violence; but such is
their natural, if not inevitable tendency. Even
the Book of peace—the Book of our religion, has
been ransacked for the purpose of profanely apply-
ing passages in the sacred writings to purposes of
malignant m'schief. In an evening paper of last
evening appeared the common version of the 58th
Psalm, applied to Lord Mansfield, and other anti-
reform lords. One verse, we need hardly tell our
readers, runs as follows :--
The righteous shall rejoice to see
Their crimes such vengeance meet,
And Saints in persecutors blood
Shall dip their harmless feet.
Is it right or decorous in a respectable Paper to
profane even a bad translation of any part of the
inspired writings by such an application ? Can
fanatical violence serve any just cause ? or does
reform stand in need of the practical zeal and
pious works of a political St. Bartholomew.
Pos r.—ln the House of Commons, last night,
Lord John Russell was very properly called to
severe account by Sir R. Vyvyan and other hon.
Members for certain unwarrantable expressions
used by him in a letter to the Chairman of the
Birmingham Political Union, at whose last sedi-
tious if not treasonable meeting thanks worn voted
to his Lordship and Lord Althorp. It will be seen,
that Lord J. Russell, in his epistle, had the teme-
rity to talk of faction in allusion to the recent noble,
just, and gloris us conduct of the House of Lords,
I y which they have secured to themselves the eter-
nal gratitude of every true ft iend of the Consti-
tution ; a bile be displayed a want of candour,
and of truth, of which with all his faults ee
had before considered him incapable, in talking
about the united voice of the people of Britain.
Upon this latter point his lordship must excuse us
if we assert that he well knows the fact to be the re-
verse of his statement. So far front the sense of
tl e people being unanimous in favour of the Revo-
lutionary Bill, he must, if he have taken the trou-
ble to consider the subject at all, have satisfied
himself that there not only exists a wide difference
of opinion in every district of the kingdom re-
specting it, but that in very many the majority are
adverse to the Ministerial measure; and that in
all, the tt uly loyal and the better classes of the peo-
ple are decidedly hostile to it. With what justice
of propriety, therefore, can Lord John Russell
presume to talk of the sense of an united people.
Los k to the election now proceeding in Dorset-
shite—look to the late elections for Weymouth,
Grimsby, Monmout'•shire, Forfarshire,
in all of which the Bill Candidates have been
signally defeated. Look again to the elections, even
slur ng the Reform mania, for the three Universities;
for the counties of Buckingham and Salop, Hunt-
ingdon, Noranoupton, and Cambridge ; the Anti-
Bill petitions from London, Leicester, Belfast, &c.
the declarat'ons front Staffordshire, Berksh re,
Bris'ol, and other places. What then becomes of
the disgusting cant about unanimity repeated so
audaciously from day to day by the revolutionary
journals, and now echeed by a member of the Go-
vernment ? Is this the • unanimity' of Lord John
Russell ? I low shculd we rightly designate the man
who, in his situation, can make such an assertion ?
With regard to his outrageous libel upon the
house of lcrds, in terming factious the due exercise
of their rights and duties, se cannot do better than
make his lot dship answer himself, which in better
days he did with powerful effect. •

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RESOLUTIONS
Passed at a Public Meeting, coesibting of upwards of two
thousand Hout.ehokiers of the Parish of St Luke, Mid-
dlesex, held iti the yard at the Wor►house, en the 10th of
°ciao., 1121.

1. That this meeting► views with feelings ef un-
mingled disappointment and regret the rejection by
the House of Lords of the Rill passed by the
!louse of Commons for the amendment of the re-
presentation of the people in England and Wales,
front a firm con% ictiLn that the provisions contained
thertin were eminently calculated to promote and
secure at or ce the stability of the Throne, and the
rights And liberties of Englishmen.
2. That this meeting records with the liveliest
gratitude their admiration of the noble and pa-
triotic conduct of their most gracious Sovereign
during the p•ogress of this all-important measu e,
and would venture to express an opinion that the
present is an occasion on which the exercise of the
Royal Prerogative on the part of the SovertLn,
is imperatively called for to prevent the final dis-
wpointmeot of the just expectations and the
fondest hopes of hi, people.
3. 'That the perseverance, ability, and integrity
displayed by his Majesty's Ministers, in their
efforts for the accomplishment of the great object
of Reform, have entitled them to the lasting gra-
titnde of the people; and that they be requested
not to resign their offices until they have used

every Constitutional means which may yet remain
to complete the glorious work they have so nobly
begun.

4. That it is the decided and unqualified opinion
of this meeting, that the resignation or dismissal of
his Majesty's present Ministers would inevitably
and almtkt immediately inrolro the country in all
the horrors of a sanguinary revolution.
5. That in order to watch the progress of this
important question, and to provide a point of com-
munication thereon, a Committee be now appoint-
ed consisting of those vestrymen who signed the
requisition for this Meeting, with power to add to
their numbers, and that they be authorized to com-
municate with any other parishes on the subject,
and to adopt any other measures they may deem
necessary fur the promotion of this great object.—

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