Star.
London, England, 1819-08-26 00:00:00

ASSIZES.

BRIDGEWATER.

REX, ON THE PROSECUTION Of ELIZ. MINSON, AGAINST

R. BARTLETT, FOR A RAGE.
Me. Moon]: stated to the Jury, that this prosecu-
tion was of the deepest importance to the public and
the prisoner. The offence charged was of a capital
nature, and it therefore behoved the Jury to address
their best attention to the facts. It would appear that
on the 81st of May the prisoner met the prosecutrix
abbot seven in the evening, as she was returning from
seeing a female friend part of her way home. He
accosted her, asking her if she would take a walk ?
and after some farther conversation, offered her mo-
ney if. she would go with him ; she said she would
not ; he said she must, and laving hold of her, forced
her to a hay-stack at some distance, and after ineffec-
tual resistance on her part, completed his purpose.
It would appear that on the prosecutrix going home,
she made a complaint to her sister of the outrage
committed by the prisoner ;. that he was, in conse-
-Iquence, apprehended and committed for trial. He
'should be enabled to establish' these facts, and unless
the Jury could discover any well-founded reasonsao
discredit the witnesses he should call, he feared they
would feel it their duty to themselves and the public
to find a verdict of guilty against the prisoner.
Elia. Minson called.—l am between 18 and 19 years
old. 1 have been at service till lately ; I now live at
my brother's-in-law. On Sunday, late in May, I went
to accompany a female friend towards her home.—
It was about six or seven o'clock in the evening ; she
had been with me from two or three o'clock ; I tcok
her about half a mile. On returning back
.I met, at
rterich's-bridge, the prisoner : he asked me where I
was going ? I said home. He said I had better
take a walk with him. I refused. He offered me
half-a-crown if I would go with him. I said I would
not. He said I should ; he took me round the waist,
and pushed me before him : he sometimes pushed
and sometimes carried me. Ile carried me through
a gateway at the end of the first field. He then
pushed and carried me across another field to a
hay-stack. I made every resistance. I tried to
get away: when he got me to tl.e hay-stack, he
took me in hi,. arms and threw me over the rails.
I ran to the other side of the hay-stack, and tried to
get away by getting over the rails : before I- could
do it, the prisoner caught me again ; he pulled me
near to a rick ; there was a cut in the rick : he kept
me against the rick with one hand, and pushed sonic
hay from off the cut. He then threw Me down : I
cried out, and begged him to let me alone. I did all
.I could to resist him, but he had his ends of me.
She then described the violence very minutely: I told
mJ brother-in•law, as soon as I got home, that the
prisoner had used me very ill, but I did not tell him
the particulars. I told my sister the same: two days
after I told my sister all the particulars. I did not
know the prisoner exactly ; I knew his person, not
his name. My brother-in-law, with whom I lived,
knows prisoner very well. I told my sister what I
have now told the Court.
Cross-examined by Mr. C. F. WI LLIAUS.—This was
on a Sunday? Yes, Sir.a.-You had therefore your
best Sabbath-day clothes on? Yes, Sir.—Wa:, it wry
dirty at the gateway where the prisoner took you in
his at ms and carried you? Yes, it was.—When he
had carried you over the space that was dirty, he
hou down again? Yes.—From the gateway to the
ay-stack, was it level or up a hill? Not much of a
hill.—Pretty steep, was it not? Something of a hill;
not much.—How did the prisoner get you up the hill?
He pushed me, and carried_me.—But it was a quar-
ter of a mile from the bridge to the hay-stack, was it
not? Yes, Sir.—The greater part up hill? No, not'
the greater part—When you arrived at the hay-stack
or hav-stall, you say the prisoner threw you over?
Yes, he did,—Were you so lucky as to light upon
your feet? Yes, Sir.—Did you, when over, run to-get
away ? Yes, 1 did.--Then you were not much out of
breath by getting up the hill with the prisoner? I ran
to the rails, and tried to get over, but the prisoner
caught me before I could.—You say the prisoner
took some hay from a cut in the rick ; describe to the
Jury about the length of the cut of hay; describe, it
by the distance of one of your hands from the other.
(The witness separated her hands to strew the length
of the bay.)—How thick was the hay which the pri-
soner took from the cut? (The witness described by
her hands.) You were, no doubt, dreadfully alarMed
at this time, when the prisoner was about to offer you
violence 7—Yes, I was. Then how. did you find time
and attention to observe so nicely the length and thick-
neis of the hay which the prisoner removed to throw
you down on? The witness appeared confused, and'
made no answer.—l think you said you begged the
prisoner to iet you alone ; what were the words?—
Were they, " Let me alone you good for nothing
man?" Yes. (A laugh.)—Did you observe any marks
in the prisouar's .face, after what you say he did
to you ? No.—Then you did not scratch or hurt
him? No.—The prisoner promised you half-a-crown?.
he did not give it vou ? No.--Then he was
'a base man? I would not take the half-crown.
Mr. WILLIAM.. —Did you go the next morning to
an attorney ? Yes, 1 did.—For what purpose ; was it
to send the prisoner a lawyer's letter? Yes.—Had
the prisoner torn and injured your clothes? Yes.—
Did you see the attorney ? No ; I saw the clerk.—
On what terms did you all the clerk you would set-
the business? The clerk asked me, 1 said 1 could

not settle the business, but that my brother-in-law
if agreeable, would.—You did not perhaps tell the
lawyer what you have told here to-day? No.—
Only to send the prisoner a lawyer's letter ? Yes.—
As you did not bear malice, perhaps you did after-
wards receive money from the prisoner's wifete make
the matter up ? The prisoner's wife came to me and
pressed me, and I did.—Upon easy and friendly terms ;
you took £3, did you not? Yes.
The JUDGE here inteipbsed and said, whatever
'suspicious might be entertained As to the conduct of
the prisoner, and he had no doubt he had used the
young woman very ill, yet in a case so penal, and
under the facts now elicited by the Counsel for the
prisoner, it would be a departure from the just cau-
tion exercised in such cases to permit this cause to
proceed further.—The prisoner was acquitted.
CHESTER, AUGUST xi.
Edward Williams was indicted fur stealirtg a cer-
tain quantity of beer, the property of Sir W. W
Wynn, Bart. from Wynnstay.
Mr. Hammond, house steward to Sir W. W. Wynn,
Bart. said, during the time Sir Watkin is in London,
the servants ate put on board wages. In the month
of July last, the prisoner was in Sir Watkin's service
as a stable lad, and with the rest was on board wages,
at which time they are allowed eau; vegetables, and
milk when it could be spared: but the ale and beer
were not allowed, they. were locked up' and put in
the care,of a man mooed Martin.

W. Martin examined.—l am the brewer to Fir
Watkin, and live in the house, as part of the famil7.
Having missed part of the property under my care,
I adopted measures fot discovering the offender. I
missed some beer last Christmas. I Have the care
only of the sman beer cellar. I missed some beer
again in. July last ; I judged so from the lock of the
cellar being unscrewed, and screwed on again slightly.
I go into the cellar to see that all is right, once or
twice a week. The screws on the !o‘k were not so

tight as they ought to be. On the Saturday evening
I went into the cellar, and remained there all night;
on the following morning, Charles Roberts and John
Speak came into the cellar with cans, and I shut them
up in the passage and secured them. They had then
got into the cellar over .the door-way, betwixt the
iron rails. Speak was taken into custody afterwards.

John SpealCexamined —I was taken up on a charge
of stealing beer. The prisoner Roberts was in Sir
Watkins service in July last : we were both helpers
in tire stable. The prisoner a,,ked me to go into the
cellar and fetch a little table beer, about a week be-
fore I was caught. I went with him, and we got
into the cellar over the door which opens into the
servants' hall. The door was locked ;we took abcrt
four quarts of beer. The board was loose over the
cellar-door, and we had nothing to do but lift it up
and get into the cellar. It ras the small, weal: beer
which we took, what people would call ale anywhere
else. Williams and I took scree, and put it i!Ito the
cupboird in the servants' hall, till after we had
finished our stabling ;v e then drank it. •
Mai tin was rccallcd, to speak to the value of ti e

liquor; he first said it was wc.rtii two-pence per quart,
but afterwards reduced his valuation to a penny.
Speak, in continuatio:l.—E cl,.vard A dun and Henry
Hod Id:lmm helped to drink it. firxikinson was usher
of the servants' hall.

Martin, to a question by the CHIEF JI,STICF..—
There was always an opening over the cellar door,
but I did not think anybody could get in.
Thomas Hughes, clerk to Mr. Brow ne, of Wrex-
ham, the Magistrate's clerk, produced the examina-
tion and confession of the prisoners, which they had
voluntarily signed. It appeared, that to obtain the
beer, they pulled out the cork at the bottom of the
barrel, and run it into a japanned can.
Tae CHIEF JUSTICE summed up the evidence. He
observi d, that the Jury might give credence to an
accomplice, if he appeared in Court as a sufficient
witness ; but they ought not to give the same degree
of credence to him, as to a man whose credit had
'never ben impeached. This was the opinion of
Judge Buller, and of the first law authorities of the
country ; who also declared that a Jury might con-
vict even on such testimony, if it was suflicienily
strong and conclusive. Ile would not omit mention-
ing, that the cellar door appeared to be left i,i a m s:
insecure and incautious state.

The Jury found the prisoner guilty of stealing to
lig value of four-pence I
The:e was another indictment against Williams,
but the ATIORNXT-GENERAL• declined pr czedirg •
In passing sentence the Judge remarked, that the
evidence on which the prisoner had been convicted
was perfectly satisfactory, and the crime was dark
and offensive, although the value of the property
was not large. It was breaking up and destroying
that confidence which masters must of necessity place
in their servants when absent ; and the Court thought
it proper to mike an example, that the present pro-
secution might operate as an example to servants !'c-
nerally. The sentence of the Court, thei eforc,
that the prisoner be committed to the House of Cor-
rection to hard labour for the space of six months,
and then be discharged.
Charks 11,,berts, another of Sir Watkin's servants,
was then indicted on a similar charge. The evidence

against him rested altogether on the testimony cl
Speak and Henry Hodkmon. The prisoder made
no defence.

In recapitulating the evidence the Judge said, that
the present charge had not the corroborating•stip-
port which the last case possessed; for it altogether
depended on the degree of credit to be given to two
accomplices 'equally guilty with the prisoney.
The Jeyy laid their hr.tds together for a consider-
able time, and the Court was about to address them,
when the foreman said Guilty, one of the Jury ad-
ding, that the reason they bad been so long in deli-
vering their verdict was, because so few of the July
understood the English langttag,' e.
prisoner was senteneetito six montlis'imprison.
molt the HoOse of Coirectien,lo had labour.

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THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

TAURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1819.

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The Smithfield Meeting actually took place yes-
terday afternoon, under the auspices of those who'
differed from 'Major CARTVatIGHT. and Mr. MILLS,
of Bristol, as to the propriety of holding a Meeting
at the present conjuncture. The proceedings, such
as they were, are detailed in another column. The
assemblage was not interrupted by any injudicious
Magisterial interference, and, as was anticipated,
dispersed very quietly,, after the different Speakers
bad made their respective displiys of oratory.
the Times of this morning says we led them into
an error in stating on Tuesday that the Meeting had
been postponed in deference to the opinion of Major
CAarwattort, The fact, however, vas precisely as
has been stated in The Star. The Reformers pro-
mised to abide by the opinion of the Major, whose
advice they were induced to seek by the suggestion
of Mt. MILLS. In the detail of the proceedings will
bet found the very le,ter which the Major sent in con-
sequence of this application; and, in the Mansion=
House Report will be seen comp etc evidence for the
conectnes. of the other part of our statement—that
respecting Mr. Mtm.s. This Gentleman absolutely
complains that the Ultra Reformers broke faith with
him in persisting to have a Meeting after what had,
been resolved to the contrary, and threatens, in con-
sequence, to cooperate no more with them in any of
their measures: and this very fact is stated in the
columns of The Times this morning.

Lord Sznvount's Letter of thanks to the Magis-
tracy and Military in Lancashire for their " prompt,
efficient, and decisive measures, for the preservation
tithe public tranquillity," at Manchester on Monday
week, has called forth strong and pointed animad-
versions from our contemporaries ; and, to say the
least of it, it must appear, to all who are in posses-
sion of no other facts than those which have hitherto
come to the knowledge of the Public, very sur-
prising that Ministers, on the spewing of the parties
under whose aucpices tranquillity was bun
reamed, should have sanctioned such a letter, with-
out taking any measures to lay before the Public the
evidence that yielded themselves such ample convic-
tion. We refrain from any farther remarks that we
stray give room for the following :
FROM THE TIHEs : •

s, We doubt not that the intelligence transmitted
to Lord SIDNIOOIII, considerilig the sources whence
it must have been derived, was of such a nature as,
if true in all its parts, would fully justify the thanks
of Government conveyed in the above letter. Minis-
ters, like other men, can judge of facts only from the
evidence which is offered to them ; like other men,
they can only act on what they believe to be true.
The informants of Ministers, howeoer, it may be re-
marked, were the official personages whose conduct
is die subject of discussion. We are sorry, therefore,
that time was not taken to revise the intelligence first
transmitted, and to compare it with the result of in-
quiries instituted for the express purpose of ascer-
taining its correctness—a task which, we fear, there
o.,as no adequate opportuuity of accomplishing, be-
tween Tuesday night, when the news reached Lon-
don, and Saturday, which is the date of Lord SID-

acOUTil'fi letter to the Lord Lieutenant. If the whole
case were made public, it might appear that Govern-
ment have been not alittle embarrassed by the" promp-
titude and decision" of their zealous friends at Nlanches-
ter. We have already, within these few days, published
• same hints which bad been communicated to us,
touching a diversity of sentiment supposed to exist
b9tween the Supreme Magistrate in the Metropolis,
nod the Provincial in the North. Perhaps our
Readers may agree with us in considering the con-
duct observed yesterday with regard to the Smithfield
Meeting.as a fair clue to the real principles of Minis-
ters; and as a test of what would have been their
• policy towards the Reformists, on Monday sennight,
•had the Cabinet been sitting at the New Bailey, in
. Manchester, instead of at Whitehall. What was there
to call for lilitary interference at Manchester, more
than at either of the Smithfield Meetings, the second
'.of which was held no longer ago than yesterday af-
ternoon? If the Magistrates in one case deserved

• applause for their vigo-ur, the Ministers in the other
ta,,e, by evevy rule of reasoning, are liable to re-
proof for their negligence and languor. Yet, how
gratifying are the results of their blameable forbear-
ance, when contrasted with those of the "prompti-
tude :old decision," so loudly extolled at the Man-
chester Meeting! Both Meetings were called in the
• saw. ;pirit—the Smithfield, indeed, for a more alarm-,
it.b , purpose, by the same class of worthless Revolu-
. .
tiuusts, but equally within the limits prescribed bylaw.
The eff.xts of vigour and of weakness (as of course
the good temper of Ministers will be called by their
mor' fiery partizans) are now before us. By the vi-
gorous system, a Meeting commenced in peace has
ended in tumult, and by it many lives have been lost,
' ti:e right of public discussion has been violently out-
raged, the popular feeling has been incensed to fury,
and a necessity created for more coercion and for
euntaued vigour. By the tolerant and patient sys- ;

tern, a Meeting in the heart of the Metropolis, though
attendel probably by most of the vagabonds it con-
tains, was suffered to ventitself through its proper
channels of pompous and loquacious absurdity, and
to die a natural death. There is no reasonable pre-
tence for doubting that if Ministers had wished to be
considered by the country as adopting the Manches-
ter State policy for their own, they would have seized
with eagerness the opportunity furnished to them by
the Smithfield Meeting of yesterday, to follow, and
thus practically applaud, the course pursued by the
Northern Magistrates. They would, in that case,
have ordered the Ilorse Guards to disperse the mul-
titude. • But the negative evidence now afforded by
Government is decisive of its feeling as to the prin-
ciples which prevailed at Manchester. Still we ad-
mit that the Cabinet has been placed in much dilfi
culty by its Northern friends; and the letter of Lord
SIDMOUTH, be it well understood, decides nothing as
to the lawfulness of the proceedings to which it refers.
That point, as well as what concerns the prisoners,
must be left to a fir different tribunal."
FROM Ms MoRWINO CHRONICLE:

66 We this day publish a letter which purports to
have been written by Lord SIDMOUTH (his Lordship
is now famous for letters), and conveys the thanks
of the PRINCE REGENT to the Magistrates and Yeo-
manry of Manchester, for 64 their prompt, decisive,
and efficient measures for the preservation of the
public tranquillity ;" the preservation of the public
tranquillity ! It promptness be a virtue, the ad-
visors of his Royal Highness are, on this occasion,
entitled to the praise of it. When it is considered
'that the Meeting alluded to was held on the 16th,—
that 21 hours must have elapsed before any intelli-
gence on the subject reached town,—that the con-
tusion of the day rendered it impossible immediately
to collect accurate information,—that twenty-four
hours must have elapsed before a Messenger from
Manchester could reach town,—that the decision of
the Ministers must have been sent to the Isle at
Wight for the approbation of. the Parsec REGENT,
they could have taken but little time to bring toge-
ther and examine the evidence, on which they felt
themselves warranted to pledge the name of the
PRINCE REGENT in support of measures, which were
attended with the loss of the lives of several of his
peaceable subjects. We are not the less surprised at
their promptitude, when we consider that, however
weighty the evidence which was laid before them
might have been, it must have been in direct contra-
diction to a great body of testimony, which is before
the Public. But to those by whom the evidence on
which the Ministers have decided, has not been
seen, it is still more surprising to hear of the
preservation of the public tranquillity at Manches-
ter. The measures of the Magistrates are praised
as being directed to that object. Now, though it'
may happen that measures may be 46 prompt. deci-
sive, and sOcient," without being wise or effedual, yet
there is nothing in the letter to lead one to suspect,
that the public tranquillity has not been preserved.
Who would have thought, that when a Meeting had
assembled for a legal purpose, and had not committed
nor threatened any violence, measures were, taken,
which ended in the killing and wounding a multi-
tude of innocent people, in filling the town with
unexampled alarm, and in rousing an uncontronlable
spirit of animosity in one class of society towards ano-
ther ? Who would have thought, that at the time when
this letter must have been decided on riots were con-
stantly taking place in a district before perfectly free
from them. Who would have thought that all this
was the consequence of measures praised for nothing
else but for their efficiency in the preservation of
public tranquility ? Who would have thought, that
though similar Meetings to that at Manchester had
been held at many places, they had, under the pre-
valence of a different system from that of the Man-
chester Magistrates and Yeomanry, ended without
'the least inconvenience or tumult, while the Man-
chester Magistrates are held up as the only preservers,
of the public tranquillity ? Nothing but the public
tranquillity? We have had another example whereby',
we may judge of the policy of the proceedings of.the
Manchester Magistrates.
44 The Smithfield Meeting was held yesterday. The
Resolutions were to the full as-violent as any which
could have been proposed at Manchester—an im-
mense crowd was assembled. Cavalry did not sur-
round the Hustings—the people were not cut down
or trampled on—there was no fraudulent reading
of the Riot Act, in anticipation of a non-existing
Riot. Yet the people separated quietly, as they did
after the last Meeting in the same place ; and as far
as we know, the public tranquillity is in as high a
state of preservation, as if our main streets were run-
ning with blood, or crowded with the heaps of the
wounded or the dead, while the populace, in other
parts of the town, were taking their vengeance by
demolishing the houses of the loyal. The Meeting
at Smithfield was certainly one of which we quite as
little approve, as of that at Manchester. It seems to
have been a fraudulent affair from the beginning.—
It was called in the name of a Committee, which, for
ought the Public knew, had no existence. The per-
sons who met together were, of course, only those
who chose to attend to such an unauthorised requisi-
tion ; yet they assume to speak in behalf of the whole
People of England, and to denounce as enemies .to
the People all persons who do not exactly agree with
this fortuitous crew, in all their notions of political
propriety. This clandestine outlawry of such a
large portion of the People, is revolting enough
to common sense ; bet it does not, on that account,
require to be put down by the sword. The Meet-
ing, it appears, was not contented with condemning
all who differed from them, but they declared all
speakers on Reform at Tavern Meetings, who refused
to attend Meetings in the open air, when solicited by
the suffering people to do so, were'the pretended, and
not the real Friends of the People. That is, that all
persons who do not attend any Meeting to which
/4essrs. Totsmawoop, PaxeroN, and WATSON invite
them (for who else could have invited them to the
Meeting before it was assembled ?) ate not Friends
of the People. The proceedings of the body of men
from whom these Meetings in Smithfield have • '
nated, sufficiently distinguish them, not only from
the rational Friends of Reform, but from the Friends
,of Parliamentary Reform in any shape, It is some-
what ludicrous to see this small knot of Spenceans
prematurely erecting themselves into absolnts Rulers,.

and proceeding to denounce for punishment all wl►o
will not submit implicitly to their guidance."

FROM Tux Moicm'a 11454L,0:
" It appears that the thanks of the Executive Go-
vernment have been conveyed, in earnest and unqua-
lified terms, to the Magistrates and Military force
which put down the late Manchester Meeting. - No
man who knows any thing of the British Constitution,
or of the British character, will suppose for a moment
that a political measure, upon which the public opi-
nion was unsettled, could be decided merely by the
voice of the Government. On the contrary, such is
the independent distrust of the people in the acts and
motives of authority, that the very circumstance of
the approbation of Ministers being thrown into one
scale, would incline the opinion of the popular mass
of the community to the other. We, therefore, arc
far from thinking that Lord Swstouen s letter of
thanks to the Magistrates and Military, addressed
through the medium of the Earl of DERRY, will make
any considerable alteration in the opinion and feel-
ing of the country as to their conduct. Nay, more,
there is even a certain latitude of construction in judg-
ing even the opinion of the Ministers themselves.
No one, at least no candid or reasonable person, can
at the worst impute any more to the local Authori-
ties of Manchester than a disastrous error. Their
anxiety and their fears may have disturbed their ima-
ginations. Objects, too, which are seen at too short
a distance, whether by the mind's eye or by the visual
organ, appear monstrously exaggerated and distorted.
The observer, who thought he saw an elephant in the
moon, merely beheld a fly in his telescope. Suppos-
ing then that the Magistrates, in their zeal for the
support of constituted authority, acted wrong, still
the Government, in consideration of their motives,
would affect approbation even of measures which it
deeply regretted. Every body knows that it must
be a desperate case, indeed, where Ministers will
saci ifice or disavow their subaltern functionaries.—
The Government itself appears in rather a curious
position. It has yoked itself with the proceedings at
Manchester by this letter—whether from cordial ap-
probation or from a regard to the policy of protect-
ing the under depositories of power, we shall not take
upon us to decide ; at all events, Ministers have flung
themselves in the same bark with the Magistrates on
the great ocean of opinion, sand it is likely that they
will merely shale their peril without contributing to
their safety. It is, sie think, important to press upon
the Public, that the letter of thanks is not conclusive
proof of the approbation of Ministers ; that even their 1,
approbation is not sufficient in this enlightened and
jealously independent nation, to silence or to incline
the public judgment ; and that though both the Go-
vernment and Magistrates maybe perfectly agreed,
still the memorable step taken at Manchester might
be lamentably and mischievously ill-judged. The
reason why this should not be lost sight of is, that
if other towns should unhappily (which HEAVEN
avert !) be placed in the same predicament with
Manchester, the local guardians of the peace may
not 'be too ready to adopt the estample and earn a
like testimony of approbation from the Home De-
partment. We should tremble for the safety and
character of the people, if such a scene were re-
peated even on a minor scale. The sight of blood
upon the paved 'streets of a populous tower is a
dreadful omen. It is remarked—we believe by
Rot Lita—that the Arron at Rome was never stained
with blood until the massacre of THIERMS GRAC,
cirus, and from that period forward blood flowed
in streams until Roman N irtue and Roman freedom
gave way to murder, proscription, anarchy, and
monAmus tyranny. The French. Revolution pre-
sents a similar example. We repeat that we make
these remarks, in the hope that, should similar cir-
cumstances present themselves in other places, the
Magistrates will pause and pause again, before they
venture upon the example which Manchester has set
before them."
FROM THE BRITISH PRESS:

" There were some who, in their anxious regard
for the character of Ministers, indulged a hope that
they would not prejudge the conduct of the Magis-
trates of Manchester, but would allow its merits to
be ascertained by the laws of the country, upon a full
and impartial hearing of evidence adduced, as well
on the part of the People as of the Magistrates. This
hope, however, was fallacious, the Ministers have
thrown off all reserve, and identifying themselves
with the Magistracy of" Manchester, seem resolved to
share all the merit or the obloquy which, in the opinion',
of the country, may eventually be attached to the oc-
currences of Monday, the memorable 16th of August.
I We do not suppose that this mark of approbation
was given even by the Ministers to the Magistrates'
of Manchester inconsiderately or suddenly. But
allowing that the Ministers were influenced by the
most upright and conscientious motives, it cannot be
forgotten that they have decided on an ex-parte state-
ment of the case—that they have judged upon evi-
dence furnished by the Magistrates only, who were
also peimitted to detail their individual fears, and
the apprehensions of others no less timid, and no less
unfriendly to the starving Manufacturers. It was
easy for the Magistrates, interested as tl:ey must be
in giving flatteritig colours to their own work, to
suppress some facts, and communicate to others a
false importance ; and confined as the Ministers must
have been to such testimony, it would be impossible
for them to come to any other conclusion than that
which they have expressed in Lord Slosiourn's letter.
Under such circumstances, they ought to have dis-
trusted their own judgment, and have deferred the
expression of it until the whole case had been sifted
in a Court of Law."

His Royal Higness the PRINCE REGENT returned
to Carlton House this day. On Saturday his Royal
Higness sets Off for Ragley Hall, the seat of the
Marquis and Marchioness of IlenTroup, where he
is expected to dine on Sunday. Here the l'en;cr
will remain a fortnight ; after which he will probably
♦isit Cheltenham, and the Marchionkas Dowager of
DowNsulait. His Royal Highness afterwards returns
to town. In October he goes to Sud'uurne Hail, in
Suffolk.

Yesterday morning Prince ESTIRIIAZY, the Aus-
trian Ambassador, and Count LIEVEN, the Russian
Ambassador, had a long conference with Lord Cits
TLERFAUH, at his house in St. James's-square. The
former was with his Lordship upwards oftluce hours.

MANCITEETBIL—ritesday Emi;

FROM OUR PRIVATE CORRRspoxrjr,
We still continue perfectly quiet. Notl,ii;,
leen decided on as to Mr. HUNT, or aryof,
prisoners. A general expectation preva;ls
Will be liberated barons the week Is over.
seen Mr. WEST, Mr. HUNT'S friend, who Lai
down from London to afford him any anis.:
may require., in his present situation. He
that on applying to see Mr. HUNT, be
rentptorily refused admission.

The jAilor referred him to the Magistra%
order, and the answer of the Magistrates''
" No—Mr. West (emphatically) cannot bt
ted." Other individuals have, however, beea
interviews with him.- I mentioned yen(
but I was of coarse mistaken in supposing
them to be NIT. 11%.:5t.

LEEDS EL FORM MEETIAC.

LEEDS, AUGUST £4.

The announced Meeting of our Radical
took place this afternoon, at the old place,
Moor. At five o'clock, the hour nrpointeL,
ing the Chair, very few had assembled and,
who had then reached the ground soon
themselves in every direction, to seek shet.
heavy thunder-storm, attended with x fine
shower. The rain cortinucd to fa 1, Ivy,
until after dusk ; but, after the first fury cd

had somewhat abated, about 2,000 pers42,
pouring upon the ground from different dir
and proceeded to the business of the chly:
however, they had so much to transact, that
closed upon them before they could get thrnv
whole. In a word—their time was entirely,
in reading details recpecting the lamentable
rences at Manchester last week, and in passir
lotions to assist their brother Reformers now
son at that place.
•liwas then resolved that the assemblage.
proceed to the consideration of any other

so late an hour, but reserve every thing fur
Meeting at the same place, of which due .
be. given in the u.aal m.tnner. It was now
o'clock at night. The Meeting dispersed very
ably, and the people in a very orderly -

turned ta their various places of abo le wit
nifeqing the smallest disposition to riot, or
of any kind.—The only thing noticeable
the mode of assemblage was the approacl;
Horseforth Reformers, who came to
regular. procession, accompanied by a ban,
cians.—The lateness of the hour has left
for giving more atople details by this Post:
tWng is perfectly quiet, and the inhabitants
are highly satisfied •with the pi uder cc
the Magistracy in this neighbourhood, in _
ante of every thing like the exercice of a ri
yOnd the law ; being well rersuaded that
security for a continuance of tranquillity t
entitely on the line of conduct which the
wisely adopted—not to fiet or irritate the
while they continue to avoid any bleach of
lie peace.

THE ARMY.

Yesterday morning the 3d Battalion of
Guards, under the command of the Hon.
STEWART, matched into town from Chath;;Tr).
they had been stationed for a considerable tine
they will go into quarters, for a short peric
are then to relieve the Coldstream now doirg
in the Tower.—This Regiment will then
quarters for the winter. The full Band of t)
nadiers met them on the road, and being fuily
ped in marching order, had a very iniposti
pearance, and attracted the attention of an '-
body of spectators as they passed along.
Tuesday morning the 19th Lancers sands
ceived :in order to quit Brighton, supposed on a
to YlarchesTer.

The 2d Battalion of the Firs: Rc:siment
left town this fore:'oon for Brighton.

Tat beinr Seltling-day, and the
vet) Luce during the present Account, the anz!ety
fercncor this nnorni: war unusu:Ny great. Beforetweh
nu Its than 1.! dtfatiltcr_ v rte e.eclared, whew differs.%
thet amouut to .1:1 inlry nie I.; m.—Consois 14eied °CI
to 713, ar.l ore u'clock were at 71*.

The Paris Papers of Monda7, receive.]
noon, are quite barren of intelligerce.
A Flanders Mail has broaTilt us this

Brussels Papers to the 24th lost A number di
sons have been arrested at Ghent, for enlr
for the South American Patriot service.

A Hamburgh M:iil arrived this forenoon,
pers to the '2oth instAut. The spouse of
Duke Nicliorais was, on the 3d instant,

livered of a Prineess, who has received them
MARIA. Hamburgh Exchange on Leming
and 20th August, 35. 8. 35. 11.
The Royal Sovereign yacht, Captain On's'
rived in Calais Harbour, on Tuesday, to Wait
Duke and Dachess of CLARRWCIL

The following is a Copy cf Lord SIDNOto
ter% in which the grant of a pension to Bt.
signified: " WHITCHAM., MOIST Mil

have great satisfaction in informing yo 4
!loyal Highosiss die Paisca Roszar has been graci:oll
to grain a l'ensiot, of £l6O a-year to Wp.1.1•311
Constable of Stockport, against whose life a most atr

tempt w.is lately mid., tawcossequence of the ezelliP.-
in which, under circumstances of peculiar latportoc6
charged his duty as a Peace Officer; and I :In fur
his ROII%I. Hwttvasss gr.ltiolll intention, in We
limcit's wound should (contrary to the hope which mal
reatonably indulptcl), unhappllr prove fatal, of et"
Royal Bounty to his Widow, for the support of
family, whous
,he may leave behind him.
"' I bare to request that you will c3mmericate to
Bradt this instance of his ROTA,. Illautorsa's beneficence,
I am persuaded, will be received with grctitude by bits,
trust, will operate as an encouragement to ether
to a Gilictui and fearless discharge of their rublit
-" I have, &c. /signed, " rr
" The Ikv. C. Prescut, Stockpot*.

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