Star.
London, England, 1810-07-12 00:00:00

DISTRESS OF IRISH MANUFACTURERS.

It was with sincere regret we four.d the following
melancholy statements in the Dublhi Papers which
arrived es terd:i y :
DeutiN, JULY 7.—Thursday abrut 10,000 of
' our unfortunate starving manufacturers were assinn-
' tiling in order to di,:phy their misery in the cyo of
their fellow citizen:, Ly a procession. They p7oprised
carrying a ibeze in mourning as symbolic ef tiu it
ruined stat•.. The Magistrates, hov;ever, who :re
bound to watch over every incipient threatning of the
public tranquillity, temperately interpised, l',TloP-
btrated against the intention, and recornmend:i thou
poor men to send a deputation for the purr o e
humbly submitting their grievances to Govern-
ment. The advice was salutary, and being g;vtn
with temper it was adopted ; and the Magis.
trates took care to patronize the petition wh;ch set
forth their miiery and wretchedness, on its transmis.
_ .

His MAJESTY gave audiences to Mr. PeacevaL, I sion to the Lord Lieutenant's Prinepal Sect. .tary of
and the rest of the Cabinet Ministers present. I State. A Privy Council was in conse•nten •Le CA.A' ' d
•
which sat yesterday to a late hour in the afternoon,
In the evening their MAJESTIES and the Princess !
ELIZABETH returned to Windsor. ' and a due and attentive investigation of the gnevances
We are happy to find that the improvident act of complained of was patiently pursued."
the King's Officer, under the extent against Mr. Wtt.- ANOTHER ACCOUNT.-44 The lamentabic state of
LIAM COLES, in the interruption offered on Tuesday the manufacturers of this City was yesterday, for the
to the concerns of Messrs. FREDERICK Comm and second time, under the consideration of the Pr:ey
Council. The signal of present misery, the Blum/-
instantly corrected on satisfactory evidence to the
WILLIAMS, by taking possession of their books, was
Am'was carried through the Liberty yesterday."
,
She] iff and the Jury impanelled, that their concerns, ! ~ Pursue Cnener.—We understand that a Privy
as well as those of the late firm of WILLIAM and FRE- , Council was held yesterday at the Castl:-, to consider
what measures would be proper to adopt, as poem-
MUCK CoLas and WILLIAMS, were wholly distinct,
, ble, in some degree, to ameliorate the manutacturing
and unconnected from the concerns of THOMAS Cotes
and Sons, assumed by Mr. WILLIAM Cotes.—The classes, who have been deprived of employment in
immediate redress of the complaint may have pre- ! consequence of the decayed state of business, arivng,
vented an action, which would in all probability have ! or at least increased, by the present condition of Ire-
; land."
resulted in very serious damages.
I Much of the distresses of the Irish •'manufacturers
On the evening of Friday last, the flour-mill on •is attributable, not to this or to that A
ve the Water of Dighty, belonging to the town of Dun-
but to the absentees. What would have been spent
dee, and held on lease by the Corporation of Bakers, •
in Ireland is drained off to this country, and the
was burnt to the ground. It is not known by what
accident the fire was occasioned. amount is stated at not less than two millions annu-
I ally. Hence the Irish Nobility and Gentry who live
Yesterday morning a desperate battle was fought in deme
nt
a of their own country can Afford no encoura nement
a field near Walwnrth, between a gentleman's groom to the manuf • manufacturing industry of their countrymen
in that neighbourhoodand a journeyman shoemaker in resident in Ireland—and hence the man an i ures want
the Borough, for 20 guineas aside. The former was
that patronage and stimulus so absolutely necess ay.
backed and seconded by his young master, and his an- nut only to their prosperity, but to their very existence.
tagonist by his employer. A ring having been form-
ed
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in the presence of a large concourse of spectators,
who were assembled on the occasion, the two corn- At Marlborough-street Police Office, on Mondiy,
batants set to, and the conflict continued for nearly 50 a tradesman of the name of Gqk was exami: est on
minutes. The groom was at length victorious. ' suspicion of having dishonestly conic by a I.otw,
Yesterday, at two o'clock, as Mr. BLAIR, an Attor- which was stolen out of a field at Kensington, as long
nev, was returning home to dinner from Westminster since as Szptember last, and which he was riJin on
Hall, lie dropped down dead facing Northumber- in the New. road, Mary-la-bonne. Mr. Galli br•aVit
land House, Charing. Cross. The Duke's porter very abundant proof of his having purchased the anim.d
humanely rendered-ovezy assistance, but all efforts to for 20 guineas, at Marlow fair. This Was Satisirc:ory,
recover him were vain. His remains were immedi- bat the horse was ordered to be restored w its re.‘i
ately carried to his house in Lancaster•court, Strand. owner.