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London, England, 1820-04-14 00:00:00

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LONDON.

FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1820.
THE FUNDS.
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It is reported that a sort of Congress will be held
at Versailles on the 25th current, of a few confiden-
tial friends of two Illustrious Characters, at which
her MAJESTY will be present in person.

Our accounts from the disturbed districts, received
this morning, are, we are sorry to state, far from
being such as the friends of peace and order could
wish. The Radicals, as the disaffected are called,
exhibit such symptoms of restlessness and disquiet,
as cannot but alarm the more sober classes, and all
who are anxious for the public welfare ; and to this
must be added the effects produced by rumours of
sizings, fixed for certain named days and places,
which, whether really intended or not, have the effect
to keep the public mind in an unceasing state of
alarm, and oblige the military to be constantly under
arms, and often subject them to harassing marches.
In a moment of such general disquietude, it is
difficult to obtain cool and dispassionate accounts of
the events that are passing, and calm estimates of the

credibility of the different rumours, originating some- 1
times in mischievous designs, and sometimes in the
fears and apprehensions of those who are under the
influence of fears and apprehensions all that we can
do is, to lay the different accounts that reach us before
our Readers, exercising, however, our best judgment
in comparing their various features, and divesting
ourselves, as much as we can, of every prejudice or
feeling which can give them any false colouring.
In Lancashire and Yorkshire the reports continue
of a projected and widely ramified insurrection,
extending not only to Nottinghamshire and various
other manufacturing Counties, but to the manufac-
turing districts in Scotland. That is, the whole of
these are reported to be acting in concert, and their
correspondence is understood not to be committed
to writing, but carried on by means of Travelling
Delegates, of whom, it is said, a considerable num-
ber have been lately dispatched to every quarter, in
order to prepare a general of the disaffected.
Such is the rumour in Lancashire and Yorkshire at
the present moment, and of course the peaceable
and quiet are under considerable apprehensions.
A Meeting of the disaffected was, according to the
letters that have reached us this morning, to have
been held, in the neighbout hood of Manchester, at
midnight, on Tuesday last, whence delegates were,
it is reported, to have been dispatched to Hudders-
field, another rising at which place was, it is under-
stood, fixed for Wednesday morning. According to
Of rumours there, wn o'clock was the hour fixed for
an attack to have commenced cn that tows, and
which was to have served as a signal for the general
rising. Happily, however, no prcofs of the truth of
this intention were evinced by any actual Movement;
and therefore, perhaps, the whole report may have
been illusory : but the passing away of the appre-
hended attack is there accounted for on another
ground—namely, that the projected Meeting neat
Manchester, for some reason not explained, did not

take place. But may not the report of such a Meet-
ing having been intended be altogether groundless?
• However this may be, the people at Huddersfield,
and in that neighbourhood, were in a state of the
greatest alarm during the whole of that day: the
shops were kept closed, and an business was at a
complete stand.
This alarm was greatly increased by accounts that
an armed Meeting of the Radica:s had actually token
place on Grange Moor (hetweeaWakefield and Hud-
dersfield), and the accounts 'moved but too well
founded. In consequence, the Cavalry stationed at
Iluddersfield were sent in search of them, and re•
turned about noon, bringing with them fourteen pri•
sOners, and a cart laden with pikes, spears, and simi-
lar weapons, with some pistols, and a quantity of
ammunition. Had the Cavalry reached the ground
an hour sooner, it is said, the number of prisonersl
--would have been much greater; but the mob had by
some means got notice of their march, and not feel-
ing themselves strong.enough for resistance, took to
flight, throwing away their arms to facilitate their
cscape.—The prisoners having been lodged in safe
custody, both the Cavalry and Infantry were kept
under arms, some in the town and others in the roads
leading to the adjacent villages and townships, in
every direction. „These prisoners have, it is said,
already made some important disclosures. •
At Wakefield, where General BYNO has fixed his
head-quarters,.the people were also in such a Sate
of alarm on the same day, that many of the shops
were shut up, and business generally suspended. I
At Leeds, excepting the alarm aocitefl by the ac•
counts tf insurrcakaary indications is the swish-

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