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London, England, 1819-07-21 00:00:00

THE MANUFACTURING 'DISTRICTS.

CIIVSTER QUARTER SESSION'S.
, ott the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of,
oar Lord the King, held at Nether Knutsford, in Intl
for the County of Chester, on Tuesday, the 13th day.
of July, in the year of our Lord 1819: present—
The Earl of Stamford and Warrington, his Majesty's Lieute-
nant; Sir John Thomas Stanley, Bart. Sir Henry Mainwaring
`?dainwaring, Bart. Trafford Trafford, Edwin Corbett, Thomas
William Tattoo, John Ford, John Glen, Wilbraham Egerton,
Thomas Bayley. Halt, Egertest Leigh, Edward Venable, Towns-
end, Peter Nlataand, Nathaniel Maxey l'attison, Ralph Wright,
Edward Tomkinson, and John Hoskin Harper, Esquires; the
Rev. Charles Prescott, Rev. John Brown, Rev. John H. Mal-
lory, and Rev. James Thomas Law, Clerks.
A letter from Lord SIDMOUTR, his Majesty's Prin-
cipal Secretary of State for the Home Department,
to the Lord Lieutenant of this County, as to the pre-
servation of the public tranquillity, having been laid
before this Court :

.81,4140:00114 It is Resolved—That we, the acting Magistrates for the
'County of Chester, will, both in our publit and private capacities,
slo our utmost to further the views of his Majesty's Government,
In preserving the peace and good order of the country.
6 That 4t appears that various public Meetings have lately
this and the neighbouring counties, at which evil-
=and designing persons, taking advantage of the depres-
Atm -of trade and the consequent distress, have wickedly dime-
.3o:*tvid Mannamatory doctrines, and under the false pretext of
Parliamentary Reform, have vilified the constituted authoritiei,
theteby the igorant and unwary to insurrection and the
cf gimes which may endanger their personal liberty
amok kepi.
iUt e, 'the relbre , conceive it to be our (fifty, ask Is aisle

our determination, to counteract, to the utmost of our power, all
such designs; and we do most earnestly recommend to all the.
:friends of our King ind Constitution, as by Law established, to!
tally round the standard of legal authority, and, by the mardo
festation of their principles, destroy the baneful effects of bias-.
phesitotti and seditious doctrines, reclaim the deluded, give eon-1
:216t0 the loyal, and maintain inviolate our rights, our lib:rty,
our laws.
" And We further reeomtitend, that all won-disposed lndivM
duals be invited to declare then- willingness to come forward la I
support of the civil power, and if necessary, to form voluntary'
associations for the preservation of the public tranquillity.
And.we further recotnniend the Magistrates at their seve-
ral Petty Sessions, in cases of emergency, to appoint such num-
ber or the well-disposed inhabitants in their districts to be Spe-
dal Constables as to them shall seem necessary fur the preser-
vation of the public peace.
" Resolved, That the Magistrates acting for the Hundred of
Macclesfield be requested to obtain all the information in their
power as to the proceedings of the disaffected in that district;
and that this Court do adjourn to an early day, for the purpose
of receiving their RepOrts, and adopting such further tneasnres
as circumstances may require.
" That it be recommended to the Magistrates In the Hun-
dreds of Rucklow and Alacciesfield to act on the present occa-
sion, as far as possible, its concert with the Magistrates Of the
County of Lancaster.
" flat these Resolutions be signed by the Lord Lieutenant,
on behalf of the Meeting. (Signed)
" STAMFORD and WARRIIGTON, Lieut."

MEETING ON MUNSLET MOOR.
• LEEDS, JULY 19:u.

" I am happy to inform you, that our Public
Meeting this day, has passed over without a single
accident or breach of the peace, farther than the
4 war of words.' None of the leading characters that
were expected thought proper to attend, and the
meeting, although extraordinary pains had been taken
to give publicity tb it, was not so numerously attenl•
ed as the last. At the highest estimate. I could apf
reckon more than four thousand, and I think mat
.safely aver,. that full nineteen out of every twenty
were drawn to the spot out of mere cutiosity. ' The
day, however, was extremely unfavourable, and much
raid fell during the meeting, which no doubt pre-
vented the attendance of many from the neighbour-
ing townships. The principal speakers were the same
as those who appeared at the last and preceding as-
semblies at the same place.
Mr. JAMES MANN. a Political Bookseller, of
Leeds (who was imprisoned under the last Suspension
of the Habeas Corpus Act), took the Chair, and after
a short speech, proceeded to read a series'of Resolu-
tions, among which was one, that the meeting should
be adjourned to a future day (of which timely notice
should be given), and that they should, at such meet-
ing, proceed to elect a Representative for Leeds (in
imitation off' what had been recently done at Birming-
ham), and send him up to claim his seat in the Corn-
mons House of Parliament.

" Mr. EDWARD BAINKS, the respectable Proprietor
of the Leeds Mercury, delivered a short speech, in
which he avowed himself as friendly as ever to the
cause of Rational Reform ; but he could by no meats
consent, to go the same lengths proposed on the pre-
sent occasion. Annual Parliaments and Universal
Suffrage, he said, would involve the country in a

continual-state of anarchy add confusion.
" liwtodu, of Manchester; Wit.s..tiis, of Dews-
bury ; and , RitAYSHAW, the Yeadon Schoolmaster,
likewise addeessed the Meeting at considerable length.
The latter was particularly severe on the Editor of
the Leeds Independent, whom he accused of a wist
to cerise the inhabitants of this district to tare up
aktas against the Reformers!!!
.(4. Several other spokes delivered their sentiments,
bit they were not listened to with any degree of at-
tention,. nOr were their -effusions worth taking down.
It must, however, be gratifying to learn that not-
withstanding: the violent language made use of by
the principil speakers, the great body of the people
conducted themselves with great order and decorum,
nor was there, as I have already observed, the slightest
indication of any inclination to riot."

• INTENDED MBETING AT ROCHDALE.
The following is a Copy of tl s Circular:—
~~
We whose names are hereunto subjoined, being inhabitants
,householders of the town and parish of Rochdale, conceiving
the increased, and still Inereadng misery of our unhappy coun-
trymen, to proceed from the corrupt state of the House of Com-
mons, do calf,a Public bleating, to .be held at. Rochdale, on
Monday, the 26th of July, 1819, to take into consideration the
most speedy and effectual means which the laws of Nature and
the ancient Constitution of out' Country furnish us with, to
obtain a Reform in that House, on the principles of Universal
'Suffrage, Annual Parliaments, and Election by Ballot; and
also for the Mime of making a solemn Appeal to the People
of Great Britain, praying them to )pin us In an undertaking so
laudable, and on the success of which the future happiness of
Our Ci;e depends.
) James' Brearley, Jameitlrbrer, James Kershaw,
rte Whitworth, ,James Oldham, Junsph Taylor,
• AlliPir Brown, awl James Cockerel..
it The Clair to be taken at twelve