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London, England, 1819-07-27 00:00:00

PAISLEY, JULY VS.

A Meeting of the Heritors of the Abbey Parish
was held yesterday, to take into consideration a Me-
morial of the Operative Weavers in the Parish,
stating the great distress that many of their number
dd at present labour under from want of employ-
ment, and requesting the relief that their distressed
'circumstances so u:gently required. The Meeting
named a Committee, who, with a Committee of the
Memorialists, should prepare and present to the
Meeting, to be held on Thursday the sth of August,
a statement of the number and circumstances of the
persons in the parish, who at present require relief
on accodnt of the want of employment ; together
with their opinions in what manner such relief may
most prudently and most effectually be given. They
then placed die sam of £lOO at the disposal of the
Ministers and Kiik Session, for the immediate relief
of the most necessitous of the above description.
And, by their Preses, JOHN MAXWELL, Esq. Member
for the County, they expressed to the N.temorialists
their high approbation of their prudent, peaceable,
and exemplary conduct on-this occasion; and ear-
nestly recommending a continuance of such conduct,
as the most effectual means of interesting the Public
in their favour, and of attaining the sympathy and
aid of those who have it in their power to contribute
to their relief.
REFORM MEETING AT NORTH SHIELDS.

Monday upwards of 500 persons collected together
merely by verbal notice, assembled at the Spittil-
bridge, North Shields. No Chairman was appointed,
but a long Address, detailing the defective nature of
the present system of Representation, was read, and
followed by a long series of Resolutions, which were
severally carried by acclamation. The Resolutions
pointed out the necessity of a Reform in Parliament,
on the principles of Annual Parliaments and Univer-
sal Suffrage, and recommended the appointment of
a Committee, to correspond with the Committees
formed in other places for similar purposes, and to
mutually communicate their proceedings and Reso-
lutions. A Committee of twenty-one was imme-
diately appointed, and they were instructed to con-
cert measures for speedily calling a General Meet.
ing. The Meeting then quietly dispersed, and it is
only justice to add, that it was marked throughout
by the greatest order and decency.
GLOUCESTER, JULY 24.

At our Quarter Sessions true bills df indictment
have been found against John Watts, and nineteen
others for riotously assembling with a large body of
weavers, amounting to several hundreds, at the manu- '
factory of Messrs. Harris, Stephens, and Co. at Kings-
tanley, with intent to intimidate them to alter the
pricc of a certain description of work, which had been

given out to weave. On this occasion the weavers 1
who had taken out such work were forcibly corn-1
pelled to carry the same home to their employers,
by large bodies of men, who entered theirhouses and
made use of threats and violence to effect their pu:-
pose. But Messrs. Barris and Co. having refused to
take back the work, it has • ince the suppression of
these disturbances been wove by the %title mcn who
originally took it out at the price fixed.

MANCHESTER.
At the Manchester Quarter Sessions, Eve indict-
ments have been found against James Wroc, the edi-
tor of the Newspaper called the MaiicheEter Merver,
for various libels upon the constituted Authorities of
the country.—An indictment has also I:.ef:n found
against Mark Wardle, for a seditious libel on the Go-
vernment and Constitution of the country. The pur-
poses chaiged in all these cases arc, those of exciting
insubordination in the couutry, and rebellion against
' the Government.
At a General Meeting of the Magistrates of the
Counties of Chester and Lancaster, held st Manches-
ter on the '23d of July, it was unanimously resolved,

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" That for the purpose of promoting co-operation between
these Counties in the present crisis, a Committee he appointed
out of the Magistracy of each ; and that this be empowered to
, add to its number Magistrates from the West Rit'.ing of York-
shire and the County of Derby : that the Committee be a Select
one, and be empowered to Mereast its number; and that as it
sees ssecabion it be requested to convene the Magistracy."