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London, England, 1819-10-11 00:00:00

Tit E EVENING STAR.

- LONDON.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1818.
THE FUNDS.
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We last week mentioned that a Requisition was
about to be presented to the Mon SHERIFF of Hants,
for the purpose of calling a Meeting for that County,
to consider of the late transactions at Manchester. A
copy has been handed to us, which we subjoin, to-
gether with a letter from the Marquis of BUCKING-
!! AM, in reply to a communication from the Earl of
CA RNA RVON, on the subject :

U TO THE ITICH SHERIF? OF THE COUNTY Or RAFTS.

" We, the undersigned Freeholders of the County of llants,
have observed,with the most painful emotions, the dreadful events
which have taken place at Manchester; and we have learned,
with equal surprise and alarm, that his• Royal Highness the
Prince Regent's 31inisters, instead of instituting an immediate
inquiry into acts of violence, apparently unnecessary and un-
provoked, have, without•allowing even the time requisite for any
Inquiry, advised the Prince Regent to give to the Magistracy of
J'Manchester his most unqualified thanks.
" Under these circumstances we feel it to be our imperious
duty not to prejudge, as Ministers have done, a qUestion which
must be made elsewhere a subject of the most solemn investiga-
tion—but to call on every man, who values the liberties and rights
of Englishmen, and the Constitution by which they have been
so long secured to us, to join in petitioning the Prince Regent to
convene Parliament, without delay, in cyder most effectually to
explore the causes of these disasters, to detect the guilty, and
brirg them to puni.hment.

" We are impressed with the fullest confidence in the known
and tried attachment of his Royal Highness to the principles
which seated his ancestors on the throne, and will not entertain
a doubt that he will be graciously pleased to grant this our most
earnest petition, and to submit these disastrous occurrences to
the consideration of his Parliament, the Constitutional Advisers
of the Crown, and Guardians of the Liberties of the People.
" It is with these feelings, and to promote this Important ob-
ject, that we request you as speedily as possible to convene a
County Meeting.
" We have the honour to be, &c."
" Arington, October 2, 1819.

"MY TZAR. Loan.--I feel, very sensibly, your kindness in
communicating with me upon the subject of the proposed County
Meeting of Hampshire, to address the Regent to call Parliament
together, for She purpose of instituting an inquiry into the late
events at Manchester. I consider the inquiry into those events
to be already instituted before the legal Tribunals of the Coun-
try. If Parliament was to interfere, it could only dose by taking
the cause ont of the Constitutional Courts of Justice of the Land,
and by interposing its authority between the People and the Ju-
ries sworn to do justice to the parties.
•` I cannot, therefore, make triyeelf a party to the calling any
Meeting, the necessary result of the discussions of which must
be to prejudge alike the cause of the Magistrates and Yeomanry
of Manchester, as well as of the persons against whom Bills of
Indictment have been preferred, for a " conspiracy to overturn
the Constitution of the country and to alter it• taw• by fore• ;W
inasmuch as by so doing, I should concur in striking a blow at
the root of our establishments, and at the institution of Trial by
Jury.
" Considering it the duty of every peaceable and well-disposed
subject, in these perilous times, to do every thing in his power,
as well by his own actions as by the authority of his influence,
to allay the angry spirit of the country, and to check the dispo-
sition towards Sedition and Revolution which unfortunately
prevails to so fearful an extent, I shall not only decline attend-
ing any Public Meeting, culled to express any opinion upon, or
to take any step with reference to, the late proceedings at Man-
chester, but I shall use my best exertions to persuade any per-
sons who may be likely to ask my opinion upon the subject, to
absent themselves from proceedings which, emanating from
whatever source they may, can only have the practical effect of
disturbing the course of public justice, and of endangering the
peace of the country. 1
" • I have the honour to be, my dear Lord, with every feeling
of personal regard, yours, most sincerely, (Signed)

" CTIANDOS BUCKINGHAY.
" The FArl of Carnai-von, &c. &c.

We are au:horised to state, (says The Hampshire
Chronicle) that many of the Noblemen, Gentry,
and other respectable Freeholders, of this County,
have signed, and sent to the HIGH SHERIFF, a De-
claration of their opinion against the calling of any
County Meeting, respecting the late events at Man-
chester; and that, up to three o'clock this afternoon,
(Saturday) no Requisition had been sent to him, re-
questing him to call any Meeting.

The Requisition for the County of Cumberland
expresses the jealousy occasioned by every thing
which invades the sacred right of the People to meet
and deliberate upon Public Affairs; represents the
transactions at Manchester, as wearing that appear-
ance, as far as they are at present known ; and re-
quires that a County Meeting should be called for
the purpose of petitioning the PRINCE REGENT to
assemble Parliament, in order that a strict and so-
lemn ifiquiry may be forthwith instituted into the
whole matter. When the last accounts from Carlisle
came away, it had been signed by above an hundred
names.

The Requisition fbr the Meeting of the County of
Westmoreland bas been acceded to, and the Meeting
is appointed to take place at Kendal,• on Thursday,
the 21st instant.

The President of the York Whig Club has called
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a General 'Meeting of the Members, to be held on
Tuesday (to-morrow) evening, " for the purpcse ofl
considering of the propriety of a public Declaration e
of their sentiments on the Present State of the e
Country, and on the most desirable way of removing!
existing evils." This Meeting is supposed to be pre-
paratory to the County Meeting on Thursday.
The Meeting of the City of Carlisle was to be held
this day. The Mayor of Ibigl has declined comply.!

ingowith the Requisition presented 'to bun, but die
Rectisitionists have on their own authority. ;appointed
a Meeting to be held there on the 20th inst., The
Requisition to the Mayor of Newcastle was signed
by no less than 300 individuals, but the Mayor, who
has been newly elected, was acquainted with very
few of their names, and declined acceding to the
request. A hand-bill was in consequence issuechvith
the signature of " Nat. WEATIIERSTON, Secretary to
the United Committees of Political Protestants," of
Newcastle and Gateshead, calling a Public Meeting'
of the inhabitants a Newcastle and its vicinity, on'
Monday (to-day.)
At Bolton, where the Boroughreevcs and Con-
stables had, at first, declined calling a Meeting, on
account of the paucity of names at the Requisition, a
new Requisition has been presented, signed in less
than five hours, by two thousand persons ; but this,
also, having proved unsuccessful,. the Requisitionists
have called a Meeting, on their own responsibility,
to take place on Wednesday, the 13th inst.
Meetings have, on the other hand been called at
Tynemouth, and at Ryton, for the purpose of pre-
paring Loyal Addresses to the PRINCE REGENT, ex-
pressive of " their abhorrence of the traitorous at-
tempts now making for the subversion of the Laws
and Government," Btc. and at Whalley and Penrith,
measures are taking to raise two additional Corps of
Yeomanry.
A Requisition for a Middlesex Meeting is in a course
of signature, and has already received the names of
several of the most distinguished Noblemen and Gen-
tlemen, as well as of that of Freeholders in_the middle
ranks of society.

LEGAL PUBLICITY OF ALL PROCEEDINGS
IN OPEN COURTS.