Star.
London, England, 1819-09-22 00:00:00

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1819.
His MAJNETY Csownza.—Holiday at the Bank.

The Meeting at Leeds, on Monday, has, we are
glad to state, passed off quietly. As full an account
of the proceedings, as our Private Correspondent had
time to mate up, previous to the departure of the
post, will be found in another column. We shall
give further particulars to-morrow.
To-day there was a numerous Meeting of the Ward
of Farringdon Without, to consider, exclusively, the
late transactions at Manchester. It was held at an
early hour, and we are happy to be thus enabled to .
lay a very ample Report of the proceedings before
our Readers.

The grand secret, 'it would seem, is now out. A
Paper, which has uniformly defended the conduct of
the Manchester Magistrates, has at length favoured
the world with a full revelation of the " circumstances

which preceded" the Manchester Tragedy, and which
were so pointedly hinted at by the PRINCE REGENT
in his answer to the City Deputation, as forming a
ground of vindication with which the Corporation,
and of course the Public at large, "must be unac-
quainted." " We can vouch," says the Paper in ques-
tion, " for the truth of all that we have stated
—This statement we shall beg to lay before our
Readers without any comment. We do not know
that it requires any. Those who can be disposed to
swallow such a mass of incredible nonsense as this

revelation is made up of, could not be made wiser
by any observation which it is in our power to offer:
" In the first place, it was the full hope of the rab-
ble in general that their numbers would be so much
increased as they proceeded to their head-quarters,
Manchester, as to enable them wholly to overpower
nay civil and military force that could be brought
to oppose them. This vast accession of power was
so confidently expected by them, that for many days
before the Meeting specie had vanished, and it was
impossible to get a Bank-note changed. Those who
were in debt refused payment, and their language'
Was, that the 16th would settle every thing.' The.
'men were armed with bludgeons. and hooked sticks,
so strong that a blow would have fractured the skull,
and have pulled a horseman off. They had besides
short pikes concealed, of a most destructive nature.
Not less than 700 bad been regularly trained to the
military exercise, in which they were very expert.
They were called to this training every morning as
punctually as if they had been in the regular service.
'Whenever they saw a portly man, they insultingly
addressed him in the following terms:-.-, Your belly
is worth a pike.' To the women with decent gowns,
who observed therm from curiosity, they said, Aye,
we worked for that gown, but you shall work for
as' To a Gentleman and Lady who were riding in
a gig, they bawled, Come out, you have ridden
long enough ;it is our turn now: In their progress,
some of them stopped at SLATTUCK'S Inn, between
Middleton and Rochdale, and devoured the break-
fast prepared for stage passengers, refusing to pay,
and seiziNg whatever they could lay hands on. The
shooting at BIRCII: the constable, was described as
g a glorioGs deed,' and it was signified dia. all the
great men of the country should share the same fate.
Wherever they saw a better hat than their own it
*as taken, and the old one contemptuously cast at
the person robbed. The 16th they uniformly con-
sidered as what they styled gie settling day,' which
was to overthrow the Government of the Country,
and give Ht'xr and his gang full command. As a,
proof that all sense- of Religion was extinguished
they burnt all their Bibles, and, with a kind of wan-
ton superstition, they were slowly burnt, as was said,
to prolong their torture." ! !!

Tht Paris Papers of Sunday arrived this forenoon.

The public attention in France continues still occu••
pied by the pending Elections. The Ultras have, at
length, to boast of one triumph in the Election of
M. CASTELBAJAC, for Toulouse. He is said to owe
his success to the votes of the Ministerialists, who
prefer strengthening a weak party to strengthening
one which is already formidable from its numbers.
The new Queen of &van arrived at Lyons on the
night of the 16th : she travels without any state, and
declined a guard of honour.
According to the latest advices from Madrid, the
yellow fever continues to' make progress in the Island
of Leon. Its ravages in Cadiz are not very sensible;
and at Seville there was nothing but a false alarm,
which was, however, productive of this good effect
—that the precautions have been redoubled.—
The Expeditionary Army has been removed from
the scene of danger, and its general health is not
affected. There are not wanting individuals malicious
enough to say, that the whole affair of the pestilence
has been fictitiously got up, for the purpose of
affording a plausible apology for the delay of the
Expedition.
Accounts from Genoa state, that the Spanish Con-
sul there had made a demand for the detention of
three English ships and their Captains, charged with
having attacked and sunk three ships of the Royal
Spanish Marine, off the coast of Valencia. On the
other hand, ari English vessel arrived at Genoa, re-
ports, that it had been hoarded by a Spanish frigate,
which fired into her, and killed several English pas-
sengers. The British Minister has sent dispatches
on both affairs to England.
French Five per Cents. Saturday, 73 fr. 13 c.