Star.
London, England, 1819-01-18 00:00:00

MANCHESTI.R, JAN G4fl IG.

Notwithstanding the comparative briskness of trade
for some time pa t, every one commiserates the for-
lorn ;old hopelesi nation of :he poor half-starved
weavers, whu have recently tiyen compelled to s:.
mit to a further reduction of ini..eraLle war.
Their condition is truly wretched, being clrivelled
to labour from five 1. the morning until ten at inik,
and unable to procure even the common necessaries
of life. All who could find the means to emigrate
have within the 1:;st few months quitted their Native
country in disgust, and others are preparing to fol.
low; but the married men, many of whom havelarge
families, arc compelled to remain, and to eke out
their scanty unrningt by the grudgingly-doled aid (.1
relief. It is inipossible that this state of things
can last ; and although the flitne may be smothc-ed
for a time, the embers Of discen:_eat sire taking d- .±p
taut, and alienating the love of county in the &Innis
of many el our, best artimns. It is a fact whk
challenges contradiction, that many of tbebest hands
among- the weavers am compelled to labour seven
teen hours out.of the twentpfeur for the scanty p•-
twice cit twelve shillings. per week ; and even this is
high wages, in comparison with what many of them
get, who have families of from six to ten depending
on them for supkit!!!
• . The celebrated Hurr has announced his inten-
tion of being it Stockport (seven miles hence) on
Sunday evening; at which place he will be waited
upon, by a Deputation of the Reformers from
townf.who mean, it is said, to dispense with the 'lse
ofircirse-Ilesh, by-themselvei drawing their darling
Orator from that town td the place of meeting, near
•St. Peter's Church, on Monday morning- next.—Tnn
yachts area largelandly; and there-is no accounting
for these eccentricities of human nature. All we hrpe
for here is, that the proceedings of the day may r,ns
over withour•artv•Serious breaches of the peace; how-
ever, we are fitit ti-nder any 'very serious appr6her.-
i ISi as the aitiVe'Dejinity .1\ AD I with his lynx-eyed
myrmidons, will lionour the meeting with their pre-
sence, and
.give n good account *of all " perturbed
spirits.".-An addition to the numerous tOdy of regular
peicesoltects,.allihe sive-tat constables have been or,
dero to meet in divisions at noon on Monday.

A-foreign letter states, that Collet DIMMIELDT, 211
Officer in the imperial Service, but of English curse,
has.beentille'd'iu a duet with, a kaolin Noble-
man, that took phice in the vicinity of Breslau, in
consequence Oa dispute having arisen on sow pc,:-
tical opinidriVrelativc to England.
THE I)ft It a s,-r—The high winds and.unsettled we:.
'her prevented much fashionable „retort troche Arria
yefterd-.1); ; otherwise, froth: the &eat number of fa.
mikes who Iflve.:thived it to*n doting the h:st fort•
night, an extensive display of fashion might. h... 71
been expected. Of equestrians there were but few to
be seen, nor were any -of them of the too. The pm,
menades too were nearly Oegetted ; by the Ladies co
tirely so. The Welljngton drive, however, especial!!
towards the latter part of the day, had a considerab:
number of very dashing equipages, thoubb few •
them displayed a cemnet: Antongthetn were raki,
the French and Dutch Ambassadors,. the Counte:.i.
FORTIKUR and. SEFTON, with tips Ladies MOLTtiLL
t A uA.,-;-A letter from a mercantile irowe

Quebec, dated Dert:mber tt, sass—:" The. Irarvest.
these Prot/it-Ices having been well serurtxl,.. am!
grain proving of a very supetiontquitlitf,- our
of wheat and flour fur e,:pattz istritia9, 121,_ cc!,
ticlertble, and of a character that will da the ton=
much credit:"

CoIIN-EXCIIANCE, M SIRK.T.ANS!, JANUARY 48.—
The continuance of adverse* .wiads keeps our mar
ket very scantily supplied with all ('!rain horn or:
own coast; and the only English. Wheat that apic,u".
this morning, was that by 'carriage from Esst.
and Kent,' which met heavy sale at last lon
prices, notwithstanding the smallness of the
and only that of tine quality could be gor tie;
being no demand 'for any other descriptior.
supply. of English. Barley was alio verr rt
'was fully adequate to the demaasi, .foreven
plys sold heavily at the prices of t'ais. day Wees
'consumers holding OW purchasing till the arrival f
the expected supply from Norfolk and Suffolk,
the wind changes. In Beans, Peas, and Gab, tk.c,
is no alteratiun.
lbtsriusasa. 74aarrs, Jtut. ts..eaftik ant te, dr. rd.
saune.eL elb..# )70atuin, :a. to sa. 44,4 ettl, ss. ed, tu.7r. 02:k
fule 64" ed.. Ltnb Or. Catijr.::riot-43eastq. t2:c.
Calvtl 1:0; Sbetp and tarntil.; •14,4141-; .trigt‘.
t. WV. 617 tleNsr:i!. fer.: See MP( *444.'4,, •

EPP-

DANK P.I,ZOSECUTIONS.

OLD tl LEY SESSIONS, JANUARY 16.

A, Adams Wati charge t with having feloniously
forged t 5 Bank Note, well knowing it to be
t‘ith intent to defraud the Governor and
rc of the Bank of England. •
;!rjeant Bos,tmatir, in opening the case on
:art of the prosecution t the Jurya observed,'
•Li; c'ace, and some others Which would follow
.1 been brought into ft Court of Justice, in con,
of the complaints of various tradesmen,
,r were attempted to be defrauded ;
te Governor of the Bank of England
,rosecutor, they did so only to satisfy
rhich had been thus made to them.
insnn stated, that he was by business'
lived at 95, Henrietta-street, Covent-
; seven o'clock in the evening, on the
ler last, the prisoner came co his shop
..er. He asked for a pdund of Bs. tea,
in, of Nlunday:s Coffee-house. Mr.
rid, wanted a pound of tea on trial,
it he would have more of it. Moi -
Li;t! was in Maiden-lane, Covent-Gar-
was served, and the prisoner offered a
in payment. Witness wrote Mr. Ito.
on the note in black ink, and wrote in
it, " 'Munday's Coffee-house, 14-11—
the 14th of the 11th month in the year
isuaer asked witness whether he knew
lur a brother of his whOhad conic ap
try, and who had been permitted by
to live in his house to assist biro (the ,
lie prisoner said he himself was porter
This conversation took place. while
getting the change., The £5 n-"te was
hands of witness s bankers ; and in •
:ght it was returned as a forged note.—
uote was returned he made enquiry
'oilee-house, but learnt no tidings of

Anson proved that he was the landlord
Coffee-house : he had been proprietor
t years. On the 14th of November last
►t the bar was not his porter, nor bad
so : he knew nothing of a brOther of
he never sent the prisoner to buy any
th November, or on any other days the
never in his service.
her notes, passed by the prisoner, were
►nd identified by the shopkeepers who
hem.

LAW INTELLmrscr..

COURT OF RlVo's BENCH, JANUARY 10.
WARD V. certmese.
This was an action fora libel, brought against the
PrOPvietor of the' Observer Newspaper. The libel
contplainedof Appeared in November, 1817, in the
Monday impression of that Paper, and was as follows:
" DXSIIIMUIRS INSI/116ECTION:Wu stitill proceed to give our
Readers 4 more authentic, as well as more minute account of the
rise sad progress of the insurrection, connected as it was with al-
most 4 the manufacturing towata in the kingdom, thou has
hitherto been published ; front whence the Public will be ena-
bled to forth a correct estimate of the real character .0 the dam.,
ger by which the country was threatered, and Cu: si,volut: :le,
cessity which was imposed upon the Minister of the lloitie 1
partment to determine upon the appointment of the Commission
at Derby. The sources :if our authoriiy, though eyte:,:ile.l over,
a considerable part of the disturbed cue...les,. are Ivighb: -?;poet-
able, and we can pledge ourselves for the corm:tn.-A of every
la.:t that we shall state.
" The 27th of May. Birkin accampari,d Oliver to Nutting-,
ham, and introducvd him to the Serrc Committee assembled
there—among whom were, Haynes, lit:lmes, Grosvenor, lieu- I
son, and Frank Ward."
Again :—" ft is a singular fact, and may here be stated, OM
at the execution of the baddites who were tried at the Inning
Assizes, these unhappy men confessed that -a plan had been
formed for insurrection and rebellion, ar.d beat CP,: Md. (moan-'
ine Ned J. odd) was to command. esonte of the moat il-sperate of
these had been pointed out to storat the barracks*, and to per-I
form other dangerous duties. frai: Ward, Oroivenor, non-
son, and Haynes, were all apps rated to command, cad had pro- I
seeded to their several stations."
The damages were laid at £3,000.
Mr. CHITTY opened the pleadings. .
Mr. Scaancrr stated the case. re should, he
said, shew a claim to a verdict upon the great prin.
ciPles of the Constitution, and only touch inciden-
tallyarpon other points, which so naturally suggested
themselves, in a case, where so -mach personal in-
jury was sustained. The plaintilf was new a poor,
a ruined man. . He had commenced life in the town
of Nottingham in an humble way, ae a journeyman
manufacturer of lace, and by his integrity and indus-
try became much respected. In a few years, he
found that the fruits of those habits for which he was
remarkable enabled him to employ others. lie be-
came a master, and added to the favourable impres-
sion of his character, ,by creditably supporting an
aged mother, a wife, and children. to whose society
he devoted himself. Temperate, and retired, and
frugal, he permitted the security he enjoyed in the
bosom of his family to be disturbed by no political
discord. His anxiety for the prosperity of those
whose avocations resembled his, induced him to be-
come a member of a Society for assessian the price
of work ; and such was the idea entertained of his
integrity and worth, that the members elected him
their treasurer, a situation which he filled to the SA-
ticiaction of all. At that unfortunate period of dis.
tress amongst the journeymen, on which dissensions
arose, the humanity of the plaintiff was easily disca-
verible ; for it was soon found that he had not kept
pace with the more opulent manufacturers in min-
cing the wages of the workmen. lie had been pine
himself, and he pitied the poor; he had known what
want was, and he chose rather to check the progress
of his own accumulation, than to diminish the com-
forts of those by whose labour he had attained his
superiority. The consequence of this generous feel-
ing was the rallying round him of numbers on work-
men, and the jealousy of those who had acted upon
a more interested system. No one doubted his inte-
grity, and lie continued to pursue an uneleviitting
coarse, content with the advantages resulting from
industry, and happy in the commendation of his own.
heart. At length thoee- dissensions with which seve-
ral parts of the country were agitatea broke out into
a formidable shape, and here the propriety stamped
upon the plaintiff's general conduct was not back-
ward in exhibiting itself. He exerted himself to the
utmost to check the progress of those unhappy ebul-
Aitions. Government thought it necessary to inter-
-1
fere, for outrages were committed, which required
the-interposition of a stronger authority than that of
individuals. Several of those who were presumed
tta have been implicated were apprehended; and as it
was supposed that some might have been impro-
.• rly suspected, a subscription was set on foot, to
&tear for the accused the advantages of an able
efence—na thing the more necessary, as under such
circumstances, a difficulty might arise in procuring
an unbiassed Jury. The subscription was made in
the most open manner, and none of those who sub-
icribed laboured under the slightest imputation of
disloyalty for the part they had taken. The plairaitf
was applied to to receive those subscriptions. Ile
refused, but on being pressed, consented to perform
the office, and acted in this new capacity to the sa-
tisfaction of all. It was worthy of remark, that of
all who had been accused, but one was convicted—
a proof that the plaintiff was justified in his opinion
that his own conduct was deserving of no reprehen-
sion. lie, however, became an object of suspicion ;
and upon the suspension of the Ilabeas Corpus Act,
Was considered a person of such formidable character
by the Magistrates, that they thought it due to their
own character for activity, to exercise the power
Ulrich was just given, and issue such directions re-
specting him, as a degree of zeal, rendered intem-
perate perhaps by their suspicions.- dictated. On the
10th of June, ISI7, while with his family, ten or
fwelve Constables entered his house, and without a
warrant, proceeded to search it from top to bottom.
they did not ,omit .to examine every canister and
shimble,--and to this day no motive was stated for so
extraordinary a liberty. Indignant at the insult, he
determined, with the keeling ream al to an English-
'man, to -complain to those from whom he expected
redress; ,and.by the advice of a Professional Gentle-
man,-whom be consulted as to the best means
. .vindicating his character from the consequence of
such as outrage, .applied to the Magistrates for an
explanation. Consctous of his own innocence, he
demanded the. authority on which the security of his
home, and the peace of his family were a,ssailed. He
was advised to forbear • but he felt his own indee
virulence, and with a boldness; inspired by integrity,
persevered in demanding the cause of such strange
,sod wanton persecution. - The event was such as
might be imagined, where power was wielded by
those who were unqualified muse it with the modes'
*
ration. b 4 a glory round aathority. Theai-
tiff was committed to prison, He asked them for
bread,. andsiwy.savelim a
.stone.- He lay captive,
`PPl;OteCtifit and ahandonrisi, for .some time. 4 war-
et thew cams down for his removal from Ncittiage
a awl he-was-conducted ta Coldbath-fieldsprisemn
niao',:cbairied: ((Liars W.Scarlett 'coMpti-
',limit' Sidmooth :Too bii- istimaOti., 40

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stated that hit; T.realship had intim a*ed to the
hat he should have every advantage a nerstai in ale
situation required.) From CoLib:ea-fields raison ;,p
was remove 1 to the County gaol of Oxford, whara
he remained till .he fah rsf November, ctea
flnenteat almo a solitary ; ant front thence, witi,:ait
being informed . of the cease of so surprising
change, was retttrned to the bosom of his ramify in
his native town. But he returned with :t bicker,
spirit, to a mother redoeolato.extraate. misery, to .4,
wife broken--hearted. His conscience vs, Itc.wever,
void. of offence, atal he loolced forwata to increased
industry for the niertas of diatieishing the calamities
jet° which he had ham plunged. The Jury would
be surprised to hear, that what had been l:ept a -
secret from the plaintiff, was published to all Eng.
Lind by the Editor of a Newspaper,' which assumedin •
its tone to derive its authotity from a source of
unluestionahle truth. And here, the Learned Cont'
sel said, he would state, that he believed from hi..
soul there was truth in the instructions he had
• received, declaring that his client was wholly inno-
cent of the crimes with which be was dais charged.
He was not a member of any political society,' nor
did he take a part in the politics of the day. Be
lived retired with his filthily; and all he knew of po-
litics was derived from the daily sources ofintelli-
gence with which the public were supplied indistria
minately. Ile never caw Oliver, nor did he know,
except from rumour, that such a person existed. Re
expected, owyeturniqg to Nottingham, that former
good character ti:-ould • remove any-bad impression
that might have beet made -by the disgrace of im-
prisonment, and, that a future investigation would
rove that he bad been persecuted. Whatthen mutt
have twee his feelings, upon finding the paper new
in Court, .containing an attack upon him, which had
been circulated v:liee he was in prison, calculated to
poison the mind of every -one in whore ear the name
of Ward was sounded, mid published with such an
appearance. of authenticity as to render disbelief of
all its circumstances impossible? What would the
Jury think upon hearing it proved that a considerable
number of Papers were issued from the Owner
Office, each with a blank side, without any stamp,
on Monday, 'the 10th of November, professing to
give an accurate history of die dis:erbances, and of
all those scenes which led to the suspension of the
Habeas Corpus Act, .as if the Übsrfver hail !Act
made the organ of Government? Was not this cal:
culated to affect the tribunal of justice, and to distort
the public opinion? Under syhat colour had Kr.
('lenient presumed to publish this calumny, and to
insinuate that he had in authority not-to be shaken
for its insertion ? The Pawned Counsel would say,
for he looked without prejudice, that he considered
the &Armee a respectable paper ; but that character
rendered it the more formidable, where character
was attacked. It was worthy of observatien, that
this paper, which was published on the Monday, did
not contain in its Sunday edition a tittle of the article
which was the subject of the present action ; and that
the Paper he held in his hand was gratuitously cir-
culated through all parts of the country without a
starals,, under tins pretence of being a speciraen of Cie
,type. Mr. Scarlett read parts of the libel, and asked
ally Mr. Clement had not come fore :aid with' :tie
boasted proofs that he was jaatiaed ? The article
seas Well, composed a it was well. done, and ttaca
down a &exiled series of circurotaaaces upon a rega-
lar,systerci. It entered into a vitalica!ion ef,Go.veru-
ment,t and was, in fact,, a covernraent manifestia,
tAiiistie was dekerlheif as.oatifttiillir ache
in sedition, until he time armed. before them, vested
With command. and actually . about to. perform .1
signal act of treason, by stotMing the barrd.ch.
Here then he stood, deserving to he imaged, dream,
andquartered, .and to be visited with those elf,:ei
privations which the' law billeted upon-traitors. Ile
*as convicted, .by die Observer, of being connected
with Oliver ; of beingame of the desperate Ned beds ;
of making war against the King anthills Government,
and of taking his station among the most deeded
enemies of his country ! • All this was attributed to
a man who was wholly unconcerncal with political
matters, and who was deprived of all means of re-
medy, except that of daring his accuser to bring.for.
ward his authority, a defiance from which Mr. Cle-
ment shrunk. Ii this question -acre viewed abstracted
from all political censidei ations, what would be the
opinion of its merits, viewed merely with reference
to that Constitution by which Eivaland had attained
such a high degree of political glory as was envied
by all Europe, and value] by all. who valued order
and liberty ? The personal liberty of an Englishman
was his chartered ptivileae; and if that elevated part
of the Constitution. the ilahea,: Corpus Act, was at
any time suspended in cow:cep:viler of real or suppcaed
danger, it was a season of calamity ; those who were
exposed to it were left to the discretion of M inisters,aad
also subject to the crafty operational privatemalignity.
In such an extremity it became all good men to pity
those who were dragged from,their homes .and im-
mured in a prison, without the opportunity of justifi-
cation. It became every good man to look with
great jealousy to the power thus added to the autho-
rity of Ministers, as well as to regret the necessity
that for a time destroyed the right which the immor-
tal Blackstone desctihed as the unfailing secarity• of
the British Constittition. But what had Mr. Clement
shine? While the unhappy plaintiff was withid the
walls of a prison, in expectation of being bror.;llt
face to face with his accusers ; while Government
thought it necessary to detain him there from a pro.
seated necessity, Mr. Clement had the audacity, the
inhumanity, to publish agaiiat the helpless 2,a aban-
doned man, a calumny of the most eTective kind,
which no one could read xvithoitt,*cayirs; tho whsle
matter had been fully investigated, and t:haas-ertion
L.of Ward's guilt was bottomed upon Volt:I-sisal:le an-
I thority. What could have been the metive.? If Wind
was to be tried, why prtjudice the Jury against him ;
and if not, why fix on him tan- ever the stigma which
his imprisonment' had already in dege* 'riven
rise to? This was what the plaintiff' had to complaint
of—that during the suspension of the habeas Corpus
Act, Mr. Clement had endeavoured to oppress
aft
already oppressed man ; that he had endeavourtd to
prejudice the minds of the Jury by whom it was
pae-
sumed be would have been tiled ; to wrest from him
'che beneSt of a fair anti impartial hearing, • rod to
ahoy the Liberty of the Press. The Learned and inf.
geuious Counsel for .Mr. k!letnent might attempt to
.retest his client by general, observations on hat
•v. He.(Mr. Starlet) wereld..tell the jury villa:
ht
of the Libcrty:ci.tho l'iet;. He con
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