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Meeting br hy persist? rid! cillietted tem' of
this Act, was stalaWfue." Ass. proisibitioaof persons
attending Meetings beyond their osin'Ostrishes, was
chiefly aimed at ttinerant moors. it* pottislthients
were fine and imprisonments The lime allowed in
the Riot Act was contracted; telth refereate to this
Act, to a quarter of an hour. -.Flags. hennas, sym-
bolical devices, as well as military music, and mili-
tary array, were prohibited. This Act • was. Itrriited
to five years. By it, tumultuary Meesisspeoai h iti,-
nerant demagogues, were prevented ; but fix ben
sanctionei and protected all Meetings for the pur-
pose of conveying the public voice to the Throne.
all Meetings that were bona fide held for the purpole
of petition or remonstrance.—The fifth Act, which
received the Royal Assent on the 30th December*
was intended to put down Blasphensnas sari Sedi.
tious Libels. It authorized the seizing of curies of
such Libels, wherever they could be found; and the
Court was to dispose of them at its discretioi} The
punishment of banishment was made applicaTh ona
second conviction of Blasphemy or Sedition. This
Act was perpetual.—The sixth and last Act reeesved
the Royal Assent on the 30th of December, the same
day as the preceding. He mentioned the dates thus
particularly, that they might remark the_diligence of
Parliament, which had passed the first on the 11th
of December, and the last of those Acts en the 80th
of December, the very day od which they adjourned.
The last Act was for the purpose of subjecting par-
ticular Publications to Duty and Securities. It would
be tedious to enter into its details. It was a Stamp
Act -for certain purposes. Those particularly inte-
rested would do well to peruse it carefully. But he
could not but advert to the sixteenth clause, by
which a point on which doubts had been entertained
by many, but on which he bad never felt any doubt,
was made matter of Statute. The sixteenth clause
authorized to take the recognizances of sureties for
!the good behaviour of the person held to bail, daring
the period fot which he was so held to bail. Thus,
a point on which some few people hid doubted, was
enacted by Statute, and certain powers were added
to those already given. By the present age, which
bad been huiried along by circumstances, all these
measures were viewed as preventives of future evils ;
to the historian they would appear clogging, as they
did, to the Statute Book—a memorial of the de.
pravity of the country, and of the di!igence wit't
which Parliament did its duty. Parliament had,
indeed, done its duty with firmness and discretion.—
To them (the Bench and Jury) it belonged to give ef-
fect to the measures which Parliament had provided.
If these Acts did not prevent the evils to which they
referred, it was then the duty of Magistrates to be
ready with the application of the laws. Grand Juries
were the most effectual means of applying the laws
properly. They consisted of Gentlemen who came
from various parts of the country, and who must be
informed whether illegal practices existed. Oa them,
therefore (the Grand Jury), it was his duty to call to
exercise the functions which belonged to them. He
knew, from their rank in society, that they possessed
firmness and discretion. If, then, such practices as
had been alluded to existed, or might hereafter exist,
they would do their utmost to bring them before the
country for trial. There was one other topic to
which he would advert. He alluded to the violence
and fraud -committed against Benefit Societies, by
persons who, on pretence of alarm, which had nos
the slightest ground, that their fonds were to be
seized for the use of the Exchequer, had contrived
to get Societies broken up, in order to divide the
funds among them. This plan had been acted on in
violation of the law, and to the fraud of the old sub-
scribers. The subject had been mentioned in Parlia-
ment, and was, as might have been expected, re-
garded as incredible. The Chancellor of the Exche-
quer then disclaimed any such intention as that of
interfering with those funds. He now mentioned the
subject, lest any future attempt, so wicked aad frau-
dulent, should be made. He hoped the Grand Jury
would find bills as quickly as possible. The Calen-
dar was very heavy, containing not fewer than tl5
felonies, and 88 misdemeanours, besides 65 tra-
verses ; it was therefore of importance that no time
should be lost."

. COURT. OF KING'S SWITCH, JANUARris.
BATtLKt D. FAULKNZR AND ANOTRift.
This was an action of trespass upon the case tin
promises, to recover the sum of £5OO, under the fol-
lowing circumstances 1-41ite piaintiff,.residing in
Scotland, being commissioned by a farmer in Fire-
shire to procure for him a certain uptity of spring
,
wheat; wrote up, in 1811, to 'defendant, his
A
Agent, residing in London, des nn the latter to
re
ship him the wheat ordered. The defendant accord-
ingly shipped the wheat, warranting it to be of the
description desired. On delivering the wheat to the
Fifeshire farmer, it was sown in the spring, in expec-
tation of a crop in the ensuing autumn, but it turned
out that the article delivered was winter instead of
spring wheat, and the crop wholly failed. In con-
sequence of which the plaintiff was sued in the Scotch
Courts upon the breach of contract, and after fire
years' litigation, the plaintiff wasadjuded to pay the
sum of £5OO in costs and damages. liar this sum
the present action was brought, and the defendants
pleaded the Statute of Limitations. At the trial be-
fore the Chief Justice, at the London Sittings after
last Trinity Term, the plaintiff was nonsuited, the
Learned Judge holding that the action was barred
by the Statute, in Michaelmas Term last.

Mr. SCARLET? obtained a rule Nisi, for setting
aside the nonsuit, and grinting a new trial, contend-
ing, that the cause of action did not arise until the
plaintiff was damnified, and, consequently, that the
case did not come within the meaning of the Statute
of Limitations.

Mr. MARRYATT and Mr. F. POLLOCK now shewed
cause against the Rule, and contended, that the cause
of action arose immediately on the breach of con-
tract by the defendant, and, tonsequently, that the
Statute of Limitations operated.
Mr. SCARLETT and Mr. TINDAL were heard on
the other side, and

The COURT were unanimously of opinion, after
referring to the express words of the Statute, that
the cause of action having accrued immediately after
the delivery of the wheat, it was too late, on the part
of 'the plaintiff, to wait until the suit against him
in the Court of Session was determined, before he
brought this action, and, consequently, that he was
without remedy.—Rule discharged.

• MANCHESTER, JANUARY 17.
SALFORD SESSIONS.
These Sessions commeeced this day at ten o'clock.
The Reit. Mr. Hay presided as Chairman. The
other Magistrates present were—R. WRIGHT, R.
FIELDER, J. WATKINS, J. SILVESTER, and R. FLET-
CHER, Esqrs. The Grand Jury, of which Jo HN BRAD-
SHAW, of Manchester, is Foreman, having been
sworn, the CHAIRMAN thus addressed them :
' They had been aware that Parliament had been
,called together at an earlier period than was usual in
time of peace. This was understood to have been
necessary inconsequence of the many disorderly and
dangerous acts which had taken place in several
parts of the country ; and the result of the early meet-
ing of Parliament was, that measures were passed to
prevent such nefarious practices. One must lament
that such a necessity should have existed; but that it
did exist, was well known to all those who lived in
the manufacturing districts of England and Scot-
land. Parliament had passed a number of Acts,
which, it was hoped, would be effectual for their re-
spective purposes, and prevent farther inconvenience
to the peaceable part of his Majesty's subjects. If
they should not prove effectual for those purposes,
Parliament had reserved to itself the power of alter-
ing them, so far as might be necessary, durum the
present Session. The Acts occasioned by late pro-
ceedings through the country, and having reference
to them, .were six; of these, four were permanent, and
two temporary. Ile would advert to them in their
order:—The first, which received the Royal Assent
en the 11th of December, was an Act to prevent un-
lawful Training and Military Evolutions. Those
convicted of Training might be punished with trans-
portation for a period not exceeding seven years, or
imprisonment not exceeding two years; those pre-
sent at such Training might be punished with im-
prisonment, not exceeding two years, and fine. This
Act did not interfere with indictments previously
preferred. It was perpetual.—The second Act,
which received the Royal Assent an the 18th of De-
cember, authorized Magistrates, or one of them,
upon oath of one witness, to issue a warrant for the
Seizing of Arms kept for purposes dangerous to the
public peace. The Officer might forcibly enter, by
night or by day, and seize such Arms, unless it could
be shewn that they were not dangerous to the pub-
lic peace. It extended only to certain Counties in
England and Scotland ; but the Crown had the
power of restricting and extending its application.
It was to continue in force till the 25th of March,
1822. The fourth clause of this Act was important,
as giving a power never given before: by this clause
Justices of the Counties included in the Act, or ai•
neighbouring Counties, had a concurrent jurisdiction
equally as if the case occurred in the peculiar pro-
vince of any Justice or Justices. One could not but
lament that the circumstances of the times should
•have made such a provision imperiously necessary.
lie-felt assured, however, that this power would net
be unnecessarily exercised. But while he felt a con-
fidence that it would-not be applied to light and tri- Yesterday afternoon, about five o'clock, a fire
vial occasions, he could not consider that he did his broke oufin the lower part of the premises of the
duty, if he did not enjoin that the cases to which it Lamb Eating-house, George-street, Sherborne-lane ;
would be applied should be rightly founded: rightly but, by the prompt arrival of an engine, and the as-
applied, the power was salutary; wantonly exercised, sistance of some neighbours, it was won extinguished.
it would occasion much inconvenience.—The third A fatal accident occurred last week at Statenbo-,
Act, which received the Royal Assent on the 234 of rough : the son of Mr. Urrox, in priming a gun,
Decenibee was calculated to expedite Trials for Mis- unconscious of its being loaded, flashed the powder
demeanours. Its reasonableness was generally ad- in the pan, when the gun.exploded, and the comely.
mitted, and it was unnecessary for bins to. address entered the upper part of the head of a young map,
them upon the subject.—The fourth Act received the ROBERT RELSEY, about eighteen years of age, the.
Royal Assent os the 24th of December. In speaking waggoner's mate, who was standing at a ihort
dis-
of this Act, he would avail himself of the very suc- trine,. The eyes of the unfortunate youth-were toe
cinct summary of a friend of his (T. Trafford, Esq. forced into his head, and he lingered till the fellow.
Chairman of the Cheshire Sessions). It was an Act ing morning, but Dever spoke after receiving the
against the mischievous innovation of oqr own day, fatal wound.
of bringing together immense Assemblagesof People, CORN-EICHANGE, MARK-LANE, JANUAR/
ostensibly for the purpose of petitioning for the re- The River being yet so full of ice as to proves t
dress of grievances, bqt, in fact, for the purpose of, barges moving above bridge, the sales this ow:ring.
excitiogiaiscontent and disaffection, and of ultimately have been very limited, the consumers not being
overthrowing the Constitution. It left .untouched disposed to purchase till the navigation is coenpleteci
County Meetings, and Meetings called by Mayors of free, which, if the thaw continues, will be the 44,-
Corporations, or by the majority of . a Grand Jury.' on Friday : as such N‘e c .1111110 t quote any taiiocijpa:
'lts prorhiOns were calculated to prevent Soilißillta•

Of the 8$ misdemeanours, nine are, in fact, tra-
verses from the last Sessions, in which sureties bad
not been found.

John Heyes, aged 45, and committed by J. RI,De-
WAY, Esq. is charged on the oath of Thomas Barrett,
with having, on the 22d day of November, 1819,
gone about the streets a Great Bolton, shouting and
crying out to the following effect The Friends
of Civil Liberty, and Parliamentary Reform, are in-
formed, that Mr. Cubbett is arrived at Liverpool,
and in good health : those friends who have not
signed the Address, are desired to avail themselves
of the earliest opportunity, as the sheets will be
closed this day, to be forwarded to Liverpool." That
the said John Heyes had a bell, which he used be-
fore his so crying; that a crowd of persons, to the
number of SO or 100, followed the said John Heyes„
and shouted and mad; a great noise; and the said
John Heyes did incite the crowd to shout and make
a noise, to the great disturbance of the public peace.
It is expected that Mr. Wroe will get the several
indictments against him removed by certiorari to the
King's Bench, and that they will be tried at Lancaster.