Star.
London, England, 1826-05-02 00:00:00

MA NCH FSTER, Sammy Evzrnto, Sit o'CLocc.

On Saturday, there were some thousands of people assembled
about the factories in the neighbourhood of Great Ancoat's•lane.
They were, however, dispersed by the military , the latter meeting
only with a slight resistance, in which two privates were wounded
by the throwing of stones. To-day all is perfectly quiet.. There
are some assemblages of people in the streets, but they appear to be
attracted more by idle curiosity than by any desire of doing mis-
chief. The greater part of the persons engaged in the riots of
Thursday and Friday, are said to have been Irish labourers and other
low people, there being. comparatively speaking, but few weavers
among them, and those that were there, were by no means the most
active. The Boroughreeve, constable, and Magistrates, is con-
juaction with General Harris, have issued proclamations, in which
they call upon the people not to remain in the streets after dark,
and state that they have given directions to have all the public-
houses cleared at nine o'clock.

An express arrived here from Oldham about an hour ago, stating
that the populace were rioting in that place, and calling upon the
General of the district to send
_them military assistance. Accord-
ingly two troops of cavalry hive been despatched there, and have
just passed the window where I am now writing.
At Stockport the people are perfectly quiet. The manuf.ieturers
of that place held a meeting•last Friday, es, which meeting they
passed resolutions, declaring that the weavers were in a dreadful
Kati of suffering for want of employ, and that their good conduct
upder suck suffering fully entitled them to every assistance on the
parts of their employers. They further declared, that they believed
the distress was (teatimes' by the low rate of wages paid by some
manufacturers, sod recommended that a scale of wages should be
adopted.•—A considerable number of power looms have been de-
stroyed, but not near so many as generally reported.
HYDE (xsan•MANCHESTER), Aram £9.

The various mobs in and round Manchester, have given out as
their determination to come over to Hyde and destroy all the ma-
chinery in our factories. The different masters have consulted with
their men, and all are resolvediupun making a defence. The mills',
are now armed with all the guns they can borrow in the country, and
each is provided with a quantity of pikes, and several cart loads of
large stones taken to the top to throw down on the people. The
masters with the men remain on watch all night. I was yesterday
requested to go over to Stockport and apply for more firearms; the
• Magistrates have sent to Chester for us. It is surprising that they
have only fifty soldiers in Stockport, of course none can be lent to
us. If we escape any notice tin after Monday, I think we shall be
safe, for by that tints wet shell have troops and the factories well
defended. itaL the. machinery were destroyed, we should have
so large.a Stipulation thrown -out. of work, that it might take an
the land in the township to support them. Even now relief is not
asked as i Charity, but More like a demand; and arse men pa
lading through thi courftey einer every dwelling-house, taking out
• what they please. At the outskirts of the town of Manchester,

Ilia's
an he lasL day, they' step every deeent-loatig-perititi;aad down

MANCHRSTRR, Aran. 29.
Yesterday the mob here was very outrageous in the forenoon ; so
much so, that they entered several shops, took out prueitions, At.
demanded money, and stopped people of decent appearance in the
open street and robbed them of rheir money, watches, ave. All the
shops in Oldham-street, Anker's-street, Newtoo-street, ate. were
doted the whale of yesterday. About •even o'clock this evening I
went up to the New Cross, and found ate quiet. We have the
Cheshire Cavalry here, with a good .upuly of other troops; and,
with the assistance of the civil power, and with the plan they now
go upon, I fully expect they will br able to keep them quit,. /deist
of the factories that have got any of the offensive machinery in
them have people inside them with fire arms ; on that account the
mob may not attempt again without they get much the upper hand.
It is my opinion, if the mob should make a further stand against
the military, they will fire upon them to put a stop to these things.
They have taken many up as prisoners-
Swum v bloannms.—All quiet last night.
BLACKBURN. APRIL 29.
This town is perfectly tranquil, but the populace aesemlsle tu-
multuously, in various parts of the neighbourhood continually, and
every day some assemblage requires the presence of the military for
their dispersion.
Mr. Gantett's finery at Clithero has not been attacked a second
time. The needier of insurgent* on the former occasion was not
less than 20,000. Fifty riflemen are within the bundles. Two
troops of Dragoon Guards are there, as well as part of the Craven
Legion, so that I conceive the multitude will scarcely venture to
move on the place, whilst so strong a military force is there.
, Mr. ---,one of ear Magistrates, went out with some Croons at
one o'clock this morning, to a hamlet called Bell Thorn, about
three miles hence, and secured seven of the most active of those who
bad committed the coinages at Hatlingden and Over Ilkaiseen.—
They were taken out of their beds, and on examinatiati,lt proved
that they were nor out of employment, as their looms Were fall of
work. - The must desperate of the insurgents, are those who least
feel the pressure of the times.
Mr. went out with two troops of Drigooos,aod dispersed
a large mob this afternoon near Bell Thorn, taking three notorious
?trams prisoners, of whom he had received information.
The pikes that have been seized are chiefly old ones, fabricated in
the radical days of 1119, which have been buried ever since, and
are now dug up (or the work of mischief.
ROCHDALE, Aran. 29.
In an their distresses, the spirit of the working dames of this
town is laudable in the extreme; they have not yet 4 the slightest
degree partidpated in the messes of riot which have broken out in
the neighbouring place, nor. will, in my opinion. unless instigated to
it by strangers, who come in from all pans, with a view to create
disturbances here also. We have here several handfed families
totally unemployed, and those who have work have net more. gene-
rally than two or three days' work per week.
Our Coroner sat yesterday at Edenfield, near Bury, and Is gone
again this inorning. He knew of six dead, and a great many
wounded, of the party who came down from Blackburn, Cohn,
and neighbdurhood, for the purpose of breaking power looms.
ANOTHER ROYAL DONATION.

It will he seen by the following letter from Mr. Secretary Pen.,
that his Manse* has sent a donation of 4500 for the relief of the
distressed in Rochdale: . " Mxtranat t., APRIL 24,11126.
" Saa—l have this day received your letter of the 2241 inst. and
have communicated the substance of it, and of the inclosurst which
accompanies it, to the King.
" His Majesty deeply regrets to hear that so many families is
the neighbourhood of Rochdale are compelled to depend for sub-
sistence upon the benevolent contributions which have been raised
for their relief.

" The funds at his Majesty's disposal are very limked ; but seeing
the exemplary patience with which the distress of the working
classes of Rochdale has been borne, and the local curdles which
have been made to alleviate that distress, his Majesty cannot deny
himself the satisfaction of alleviating in some degree deo imitating.
which he so much laments.

" To the :subscription of Nine Hundred Poinds*Wlak- wars
to have been raise! in Rochdale and Its vicinity, .you lOW Add Five
Hundred Pounds in the name of the King.
His Majesty feels assured that his intervention W *lnsulate
rather than relax the laudable efforts of the Costitnltteg whom
address accompanies your letter. ..* '
" I am, Sir, your obedient *mint, ,
• RONRRTIREL"
" T. the Rev. James AspinaN, 'Rockdale."

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MACCLESFIELD, Soignee Erostitst.,
The different ceachei which Arrived today from Afonchester,
beet brought the gratifying intelligence that last itiglie passed over
in comparative quiet. Although vast numbers ef .teeple were as-
sembled in the principal streets, and although the), laselted the
military, especially the Cheahhe Cavalry; and every well-dressed
person who passed, they abstained from acts of violence. Strong
patrol.* were on daty throughout the night.
To-day an is peace, as well in this neighbourhood as in Stock.

port, Manchester. Bury, and the adjacent villages It is pretty
certain that the weavers hare bound themselves, by the Most solemn
oaths to destroy all power looms in this part of the country.
Bomar bisour.—lt is certain that a great Dumber of oar ope-
ratives have kft the town, and it is supposed they aft in Manchester
and the neigbourbood, swelling the ranks of the main body of the
dissatisfied. What ow idols of things they may bring:home with
them remains tabs sss •

A Correspondent suggest sohat all the Theatres might
give the proceeds of one night's representatioo, in aid
of the subscription for the di,tressed manufacturers.
S 'Me symptoms of a revival in
,trade h .re mania
felted themselves in Huddersfield. In .the woollen
manufactory of Messrs. Pettley and Co. situated at the
Paddock, the work people are employed from day light
in the morning till ten o'clock at night, and several
other factories are pretty fully employs* but the
general business of the town is still very flat, and the
sales in the Cloth-hall ate by. no means so brisk as is
usual at this season of the year, rark Herald.

LONDON FEMALE PENITENTIARY
Anniversary Meeting of the friends and supporters of
this excellent Institution was held yesterday, at the
Crown and Anchor Tavern, Strand; the Right Hon.
Sir Gsonna Rose, Bart. in the Chair. The ►eceipts of
the Society during the last year amounted to 1,7164
and the expenditure to considerably more than that
suns. The Secretary further stated- that it had been
recently intimated that the late Bishop of Dusts/Au had
bequea hed 5001. to the &e'er)._ •
BRITISH AND FORZION SEAMEN'S FRIEND SOCIETY.

19th

Yesterday, a General Meeting of the subscribers and
I iends to this Society WAS held at Willis's Rooms,
King-street, St. James's-square ; the Right Honourable
Admiral GAMBIBR, G.C.13, in the Chair. -fhe Meeting
was very numerously attended ; and in addition to
Captain Sir G. Kstin, Bart. R.N., CaptainsJotias and
HARVIO3D, R.N., and Leuc. GORDON, R.N., and other'
distinguished Officers, there were present several Foreign
Missionaries, and some of the most respected Members
of the Established Church.

AHRIMAN MiraPam—The United States Tele-
graph gives the iollowing extract from Mr. M•Durrues
speech : " My father and grandfather both saw the dark-
ness of midnight glitter on the blase of their dwellings!"
CAUTION.—.A great number of counterfeit sovereigns,
made chiefly from " E4yptian ore," are now in circu-
lation, and so well executed as scarcely to be detected
by the application of aquaturtis.
The Court of King's Bench having determined, that
as long as Covent-garden market is devoted to other
purposes than those mentioned in the charter, no tolls
can be taken from persons selling their vegetAbles,*&c.
without the boundary, will, in all probability, lead to
an abatement of this intolerable nuisance.
In consequence id the indisposition of Sir Jona Nr.
CHOLL, who had a fall horn his horse on Feido, in St.
James's Park, the Court of Arches was cluseJ yesterday.
RICHARDSON, GOODLL CK, and Co. respectfully "-
mind their Friends and the Public of the apip_roacbint end of
Lotteries—the last Drawing but one will be 011 ILDNESIPA V NEXT.
The Scheme contains six Priem et X 21,000, with various ether
Capitals. 'rickets and Shares in variety of Numbers, are on Sale
by It ICH.% EDSON, 600MECX, and CO. at their Office, 104, Dank-
buildiugs, CurubiLL

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DESTRUCTII

IN OF THE ROYAL GEORGE
INDTAMAN. •

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.
CANTON, Jam 1, 1826.
I doubt not ere you receive this, you have beep made
acquainted with the melancholy destruction of our ship'
by fire on the mousing of the 24th December; and
imagining that you will receive gratification by heat-
ing the history of it from one. who was an 4e-witness
of the awful scene from the beginning to the end, I shall
shortly inform you of everything which occurred.
11.awitt the hours of four and five A M. of the 24th
December, while asleep in my cot, I was suddenly
roused by the cry of" Fire" in the gun room, and leap-
ing out, I rushed to the steerage, where I found the
chief, 3d and 6th. officers, attempting to force open the
gratne.; of the gun room scuttle, which was locked and
covered with a tarpaulin. There was not at this time
much smoke, but the smell was dreaciftilly suffocating,
and the crackling of fire was heard distinctly, and the
instant the tarpaulin was removed, the smothered flame
could be perceived below through the smoke, which
began to issue slowly in dense black volumes. The
-first impression I felt, let me to hope the mischief
would le only partial, and though I imagined consi-
derable damage might be done, the total destruction
of our ship -never crossed my mind as a passibility.—
ilut it too soon forced itself upon me. The sudden,
sapid, and awful progress of the flames can scarcely
be couceived, and is impossible to be described. They
burst loth like a mighty torrent, which gati.ers stiength
as it rolls on, spreading desolation, mocking human
power, and 'sweeping before it • every resistance. In
less than ten minutes from the first alarm, we were
- driven from the steerage and the poop, and the whole
of the afterpart of the ship was in a blaze ; naked as we
were; we flew upon deck ; the whole of the ship's com-
pany had previously been roused, and every man was
at his post, exerting every energy to repel the fury of
the devouring element. So rapid wete its ravages, that
even at this period we had received no assistance, for,
although the alarm bell was rung, and the boats f the
Scaleby Castle and other ships' had put off with the
greatest and most praiseworthy promptitude, they were
unable to get alongside, until the, flames were rushing
np the after hatchway, and had burnt through the mizen
stays. The interval of time which elapsed, just before
their arrival, was perhaps the most awful of the whole
.• trying scene. A partial explosion of gunpowder had
taken place in the gun room; the spirit room had burst ;
the fire was making quick-and sure progress between
• : the lower decks, and had seiz:•d upon the rigging ; and
the Hoppo man, in freeing himself from his fastenings,
had.cut our boats adrift also, so that wesaw them float-
ing slowly down with the tide, leaving us almost with-
out hope of escape or succour, and with the prospect
before 6s of a speedy and terrible destruction. This
was an awful moment—it seemed an eternity of time.
• I cannot describe the feelings of others,- indeed I can
scarcely recall my own, but I can recollect my tongue
felt dry, and rattled in my mouth, that I could scarcely
as ticvlase as I tried to encourage the men around me,
and that .1 drank greedily from the fire bucket as I
handed it along. Yet even in this moment of despair,
no man shrank from the hopeless labour in which he
was engaged, but continued to struggle boldly with
the, resistless eltment. • It was not yet fifteen mi-
flutes .slece the first alarm. and the boats of the
Scaleby.Castke, and other ships above us in the reach,
now got , alongside,- those from below having to row
against• a strong tide, .arrived at a later period; but
• all of them did whatever could have been expected
from the unponqberable bravery sof British seamen.
.The greatest Order-and regularity was observed by our
own men, as'wel/ as by the boats' crews which came to
our aid. ' 'While some were employed in getting the
postider.f ont the magazine aud throwing it overboard,
and tome in slipping the "ships' bridles, others were en-
gaged in protracting by every possible means the work
of total destruction, which was now too apparently
without a remedy. At last, about 6 A.SI4 only an hour
and a half after the fire was discovered, every effort
having been made in vain to subdue the flames, which
bad now seined on every part of the ship, and advanced
so near the. magazine as the bulk-head of the lazaretto,
the danger being eminent, it was resolved by the com-
maadiagi Officer, with the advice of Captain Delafens,
who had ;trine on board, to abandon her to her
fate, a,od. seek only the safety of the crew. Accordingly,
iheausier being given, the men went regularly into
their-bnats,,the last of which had not left the ship '5OO
yartivvehen she blew up with a tremendous noise, scat-
teting far and wide her blazing fragments. This
,teciind explosion, though it tore up the forecastle, was
bowover, only partial,and was occasioned most probably
by three or four barrels cf powder, which those ern-
played in the magazine were forced to leave on the
'gun deck when called to forsake • the ship. As she
.dropped Majestically down with the tide, her hull in one
complete blaze of fire, and every mast, yard, sail and
rope bugling, the sight was awfully grand and sub-
lime, but'at the same time to us heart-breaking. There
was a noble ship, which bad carried us safely so far
from home, through so many dangers, which we ex-
pected would have conveyed us so soon and safely
back again to the shores of Ord England, and
which so lately claimed not only our praise, but
the admiration of all who saw her. There she
was dropping helplessly away, piece by piece,
into that element over which she had so lately floated
insplide and splendour, the prey of anr,ther and a more
terrible one. Thus affording a sad and melancholy ex-
ample of the transitory nature of all earthly things. Her
.bridles bad been slipped, as I have mentioned above,
with the purpose of sunning her on shore; but that in-
tention having failed, from the rapidity of her destruc-
tion, she dusted past the Honourable Company's ship
Windsor, at about the distance of a cable length, and
at last took the ground about a mile below leer former
anchorage, her mainmast still standing. Finally. about
7 A. at. the magazine exploded, completely tearng out
her bows; the hull, already consumed to the water's
'edge, parted abreast ; the foremast and mainmast fell,
burnt to a cinder, and sine of the finest ships of her class
in the whole world had become a shapeless mass of
smoking ruins.
• Most providentially, during the whole progress of
this awful catastrophe, not a single life was legit; and
it• was only owing to the rapacity of the Chinese having
overcome their fear of death, that human blood was
abed towards its final conclusion. Tempted by the
, hope of plunder, they ventured near the wreck, and
•Wera engaged in stripping the copper from her bows,
not aware of the powder s ill remaining in the
magazit,e, which suddenly explodings and c ruying
"ell "A b 6" ir, killed and wounded rpwards of
tavelny;•, • If* grader part of Our crow was receive,)
co board the Honourable Company's ship Scaleby

Castle, in the kindest and most hospitable manner by
the-Officers of that ship, who appeared to strive vith
eachother for the pleasure of soothing our misfortines,
and rendering our foilorn situation more comfertible ;
net was their benevolence confined to myself antil
brother officers .alone, under the immediate suparin—
tendar c' of Captain Nzwar.r., the meanest sailor was
clothed and fed, and comforted most liberally.'
No one has saved a single articleoutof all they pos- '
sessed ; every thing the ship contained was destroyed,
even to her papet a. Our sails were bent, and sea votes
nearly completed. We had 8090 chests of the Com-
pany's tea on board, besicits private trade, and we were
to have dropped down the river in two days, to com-
plete our cargo at Second Bar; but ship, and cargo,
stasl every thins else is gene, and we consider ourselves
fortunate, though nearly naked and destitute, in having
escaped with our lives out of this dreadful and distress-
ing calamity. No trace of the cause of it has yet been
discoveted, although the select Committie, at ihe re-
quest of Captain TitsfSms, have been endeavouring to
investigate the matter by the strictest enquiry—all
agree it must have been burning for hours before it was I
discovered : the moment the tarpaulin was removed,
and a current of flesh air suppled, the flames burst
forth beyond all human controul. Our ship is lost,
totally lost : further than this we know nothing, if 1 "
except the sad . conviction that our proudest hopes
and fondest expectations are buried in the wreck
of our good, but unfortunate ship, the Royal George.
Our poor Captain, at the time of the accident, lay
dangerously ill at Canton, and the news of it, as might
have been expected, reduced him to the last extremity.
For some days little hope was entertained of his reco-
very, but I am happy to say he is now out of danger,
and I trust he has yet many happy years to live. He
has been to us all along not only an able and skilful
Commander, but a kind, affectionate, and liberal father ;
and it might have melted the most obdurate heart, to
have seen him, even when his own dissolution was
thought to be approaching, exerting himself, far be.
yond his feeble strength, and spending almost his last
breath, in carving out schemes for the future welfare of
his poor suffering Officers and crew," as he kindly
terms us, forgetti•lg, in the goodness of his heart, that
he himself is far the greatest sufferer.

APPEALS.

HOUSE OF LORDSr MAT 1.