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London, England, 1819-06-19 00:00:00

MEETING ON HUNSLET MOOR.

A full Report of the Proceedings at this Meeting
appears in the Leeds Papers received this morning.
We stated on Thursday, when giving exclusively a
brief account of what had taken place, that we
thought it would be a waste of our columns to give
any detail of the speeches which were delivered on
the occasion ; and on looking at the Report which
the Orators themselves have sent fOrth of their effu-
sions; we think so still. Some passages of them are
almost too daring and licentious for publication.

The number of persons assembled is estimated to
have been upwards of ten thousand. The Chairman
(one WILLANS, a Printer, of Dewsbury), on reading
the Declaration ultimately adopted by the Meeting,
said, that it had received the unanimous approbation
of Deputies from Manchester, Rochdale, Hudders-
field, Stockport, Blackburn, Wakefield, Macclesfield,
and twenty other places. It states it to be their un-
alterable conviction, that nothing can redeem the
country from the situation into which it had fallen
but Universal Suffrage, Annual Parliaments, and
Election by Ballot ! The Deputies Trom each of these
places also stated explicitly and individually to the
Meeting, that such wem the principles universally
approved by their Constituents.
The conduct of the persons assembled was through-
out very orderly and peaceabie.—" We are far,"

says The Leeds Independent on this polar., ,‘ from
harbouring any thought that the great body of the
working classes are of themselves prdne to acts of
outrage afid violence. On the conttary, we have the
heartfelt satisfaction to bear our humble testimony
to their patient endurance under privation—to their
peaceable demeanour—to their firm and respectable
veneration of those laws and institutions which have
rendered this Empire (however severe may be the

present pressure of temporary distress), the freest
and the happiest country in the world.
" But while we bear testimony to their puccable
conduct, and while we cordially lament the evils to.
which they have been subjected, we must frankly
tell them that they are necessarily liable to become
the dupes of designing men ; and that instead of
adopting prudent measures for procuring the removal
of their real grievances, they are rendering them-
selves the tools of a set of " villains, (we quote their
own language) who would gladly employ them in
the temporal destruction of their neighbours, and
to the eternal perdition of their own souls !"
We think the latter part of this quotation rather
strongly put.' We are quite satisfied that the people
are greatly deluded when they imagine that such
things as Uniiersal Suffrage, Annual Parliaments,
and Election by Ballot, are to remedy all the grip•
vous ills under which they undoubtedly I..bour ; but
we are certainly not satisfied that these who are ac-
tive in putting this delusion upon them, have such
incendiary and diabolical intentions as are here as-
cribed to them. Many things in the aspect of the
buiiness incline us to think that these political Apos-
tles are themselves very sincere believers in the delu-
sion which they are labouring to propagate ; and that
the worst we ought to ascribe to them is an excessive
zeal to make others think ac sincerely in a foolish
way as themselves.
Nor ought we to be greatly amazed that men, who
seem not altogether destitute of powers of reasoning,
should be led away by such chimeras; since we have
. high authority for it, that oppression maketh even
the wise man mad." The sufferings of the working
classes in the Northern Districts, arc at present great
biyand example; and, till a remedy be provided, in
some way or other, we should not, perhaps, be fas-
' tidiOtis in quarrelling with the language in which
misery strives to make itself be heard.
'The anneied Letter on the subject, from our Pri-
vate Corr-esprit:sat, will be Inund worthy of perusal;

•
LEEDS, JUNE 17.
" Every thing here threatens us with a repetition
of those scenes of turbulence and outrage which every
feeling mind must deplore. The sufferings and pri
vations of the working classes are, indeed, great in
the extreme; but what relief can they obtain, or
what possible good can accrue to them, in any shape,
from associating themselves with wild theorists and
declaimers, who are, in too many instances, hired to
inflame, mislead, and betray them; and whose vi.
sionary schemes, were it possible to put them in
practice, would afford no relief to the many thou-
sands of starving artisans and labourers, now in want
of employment. The language made use of by the
speakers, at the Meeting on Monday, cannot be to-
lerated with any regard to the public peace; and I
am informed that effectual measures ha;/e been con-
certed to stem the mischiefs that might be expected
to result from such ebullitions of popular spirit,
goaded to deiperatiou by distress on the one hand,
and inflamed by violent harangues on the other.

" It is useless to deny that matters wear a most

sombre aspect, in this and every other Manufac-
turing District; nor is it possible to calculate on the
mischief's likely to result from the frequent assem-
bling together of so many thousands of men, whose
minds arc soured by disappointment, and who are
nearly driven to desperation by privations almost be-
yond human endurance.
" It is said the intended removal of the 6th Dra-
goon Guards from this quarter, has been given up
for the present, and that more troops have been
forthwith ordered into the district, to act as circum-
stances may require.
Frcm what transpired at the Meeting on Mon-
day last, it would appear that the plans of the Uni-
versal-Suffrage-men are extremely well laid, as it
came out; in the course of the proceedings, that. an
active correspondence, by deputies, has for a long
time been kept up, between all the Manufacturing
Districts in the Kingdom.
The tax on Foreign Wool has spread a universal
gloom in this part of the kingdom ; but as the old
adage says, it is an ill wind,' &c. so in this instance, ,1
a respectable merchant in this neighbourhood will
net £6,000 by the impost, from an extensive specu-
lation in Foreign Wools, a short time since.
,"Flie sales of Cloth,.at the Hall, in Bradford,
were rather extensive, both this and the last market
days ; but there was no looking up in prices, as the
immense stocks of the Manufacturers will enable
them to 'met the most extensive demands for some
time to come."

A Mail Arrived last night from Hamburgh, with
Papers to the I 2th instant.

An Ordinance has been issued at Hanover, in the
name of his Royal Highnets the PntkcE nEGEST,
announcing, that in consequence of a proposal by
the States of the Kingdom for the encouragement of
the East Friesland Herring Fishery, all herrings
caught on the open North Sea by foreign vessels,
and prepared in the Dutch fashion, namely, the
Dutch, Scotch, and Bremen, and all other herrings
of the,same quality as those superior sorts imported
for consumption in the Kingdom, shall pay an in-
creased duty of one rix dollar per 100 lb. and all in-
ferior sorts, such as the Swedish-Norwegian, &c.
shall pay an import duty of eight good groxten for
100 lb. as fixed on the Ist of June last year.
It appears that considerable opposition has been
made in the Bavarian, Chamber of Deputies to the
grant of eight millions for the expenses of the contin-
gent required to be kept up by that country, as its
' part of the Army of the Germanic Confederation.l
The lqinisters of Bavaria attempt to justify this de-,
mind, by the stale pretext, that the Members of the
Germanic Diet do not consider the state of the Con-
tinent to be sufficiently secure to warrant them in
relieving any of the German Powers from any part
of the number cf troops which the Diet has fixed they
shall each contribute towards the Confederation.

A Bookseller of Heidelberg, who is also a Member
of the Baden Chamber of Demties, has made a mo-
tion in the Chamber to establish the Liberty of the
Press in that Grand Duchy, which, we are glad to
learn, was well received by the Deputies. Neither is-
it expected that the Government will raise any obsta-
cle to it, though the new Constitution granted by the
Grand Duke is silent on the subject.
Farther accounts frOm Madrid impute the present
deplorable state of the Spanish Navy chiefly to the
offensive and defensive alliance which Cirantes X.
concluded with the Republic of France. It was then
in a very-respectable condition, but was annihilated
by the invasion and subsequent usurpation of BONA-
rAnTE. At this time, there is not timber sufficient
in the arsenal to build four ships of the lif:e, The
native forests arc consumed, and the resources to be
found in the cedars of the Island of Cuba are of no
utility, as the Independent privateers infest those seas
so much, that it would be difficult to convey away
any considerable cargoes of timber from thence. The
repair of the Russian vessels has considerably retar-
ded the sailing of the Gland Expedition; and it may
'.be said, that the armament of a squadron has lately
cost more trouble, labour,. and embarrassment, to
Spain, than would have sufficed, twenty years ago, to
• send fifty ships of the line and thirty frigates from 1
her ports.
lIAMJIURGD EXCHANDE ON LONDON.
i June 8 - 34-8 34-11 1 June 11 S 4-6 51-9.

THE SPANISH .EXPEDITION.
It is how quite certain that the Sigutisb Expedition
which has been for so many months under prepara-
tion at Cadiz, will not at any rate sail until the be-
gsnning of September. The Commissioners appointed
by FERDINAND VII. to undertake the management
of it, have given instructions to their Agents in
London, to contract for five thousand carbines,
which are intended for the use of the Cavali y to be
shipped on board the armament; and it is supposed
that the Government at Madrid have cletermint.d
to increase the number of horse regiments, rod have,
in consequence, ordered this additional quantity of
arms which are to be of the very best descriptiou.—
The Commissioners, owing to the postponement of

the departure of the expedition, do not require they
should reach Cadiz before the end of August.

NEW GRANADAN INDEPENDENCE ACT.

In the bland of St. Andrews, of the Tiovince of
Carthagena, Ind territory of New Granada, on e I
4th of April, 1819, in the 9th year of Independence,
and the first of its restoration, his Excellency the
Citizen Governor of the Province of Cal thagena,
and sole delegate of the General Government of New
Granada, Don JUAN ELIAS LOPEZ, being in his
own residence, his Excellency the Generatin-Chief
of the auxiliary army, Citizen Garcon 14Gnr.uon,
presented himself with a numerous suite of Officers,
and various other individuals of all classes. After
'the requisite ceremonies, his Excellency the Gover-
nor, addressing the Assembly, delivered the follow-
ing discourse :
" Illustrious compatriots, you well know the mournful Lis_
tory of the evacuation bf Cartbagena. On that great occasion,
I had the honour to depart with political authority. having
retired to the Island of Jamaica, and always planning, with
other fellow-countrymen, the means of recovering independence,
we entered into a correspondence with the Envoy of New
Granada at the British Court, Citizen Jose Maria del Real,
dirccted to that end. At that time, the meritorious Gener:i
I'Grtegor, that darling son of Southern America, offered his
services to that Envoy. They were accepted ; put in execution;
and in a short while was prepared the military expedition which
you now behold, the remainder of whith will yet come to
unite will, us for the annihilation of the Spanish Government.—
A s Governor of one of the principal provinces of New Granada,
and as the sole Delegste of the General Government, I was in-
vited to reassume political authority. I could not deny myself
to so just a demerel, and having joined this Expedition, we di-
rected our course to this celebrated island, for the purpose of
concerting our plan of operations. Already we have the satis-
faction to tread our native soil ; already we are in the territory
of New Granada ; and already may the Government be for-
mally se-established, and our indepeudent flag return to wave
on her sea and on the fortresses. You, fellow-countrymen,

illustrious citizens, will form that Government with the most
free and spontaneous voice. You may accept it, for I may not
exact this, and may now proceed to the august ceremony of re-
cognizing it, that that simple act may he the signal of its re-esta-
Nishment, and that this may form an epoch in the fasti of our
history."

This short and energetic harangue being concluded,
his Excellency General M'Gregor took the appro-
priate oath in the prescribed form, at which moment
the army and the squadron fired salvoes of musketry
and artillery. Soon afterwards were presented by
his Excellency bodies of Officers to perform the same
act of recognition of the Government on the part of
the army and marine; and on hoisting the Indepen-
dent flag, Liras and acclamations in favour of liberty'
resounded on every side, and each of those sho as-
sisted individually felicitated his Excellency the Go-
vernor. The Act being continued, his Excellency
the Citizen Governor declared the Island of St. An-
drew free, and independent of all Spanish domina-
tion, and subject solely to the Itepublkan Govern-
ment of Carthagena, and to the General of the Uni-
ted Provinces of New Granada.

Thus conclude) this august act, and his Excel-
lency the (ieneral in Chief of the Auxiliary Expedi-
tion signed the same in the presence of me, the Se-
cretary of State, who certify the same.
JUAN ELIAS LOPEZ, Delegated Governor.
GREGOR MeGREGOR, General in Chief.
JOAQUIM VARGAS & BP.RGA, Sec. of State.

Yesterday the PRINCE REGENT had a grand Din-
ner Party, at Carlton House. Among the company
were, the Duke and Duchess of YORK, the Duke and'
Duchess of 6 LOUCEStER, Prince LEOPOLD, the Pri n
cess AUGUSTA, the Princess SOPHIA of GLOUCESTER,
the Duke of KENT, &c. In the (Ailing his Royal
Highness had a numerous party.
Thursday evening Prince ESTERRAZY gave a mag-
nificent Ball at Chandos House, Cavendish-square.—
The spacious and elegant suite of apartments on the
Drawing-room floor were most brilliantly illumina-
ted, and were decorated with numerous pots of the
choicest flowers. The principal and.adjoining Draw-
ing-rooms were fitted up with great elegance for
dancing ; the floors were beautifully chalked. The
Hall and grand staircase were decorated with shrubs
and flowers, interspersed with variegated lamps. The
Supper was prepared in the grand Dining-parlour
and Library, where tables were laid round each
room, covered with every delicacy, and with s ines
and-dessert of the rarest qualities. When one com-
pany had supred. the tables were replenished. There
were present nearly one thousand persons of the first
distinction, rank, and fashion, including his Royal
Highness the PRINCE REGENT, the Duke and Duchess
of YORK, the Duke of KENT, Prince LEOPOLD, the
Duke and Duclresof WELl.rnt:Tom, Dukeand Duchess'
of RUTLAND, Dowager Duchess of RUTLAND, the
Duke and Duchess of BEAUFORT, the Duchess of'
litewmoNn, and the Ladies LENOX, the Duciless of
ARGVLE, the Ladies P.I(4I::TS, &c. &c.

According to the last census, the population of
Naples amounts to 329,418.
Funr___This morning, about nine o'clock, a fire
broke out in an uninhabited house, belonging to Mr.
Goren, an eminent builder, at I;alston, in a row (A-
new hoses orposite the Red Cow. It entirely con-
stuned the intei ;or, together with upwards of
4.0 finished and :i0 sash frames, together with
the carper:tuts' tools, &c. Further mischici KA$
_aited by the tinbelyartjval of engines.

TILE ARMY.
Last week, upwards of 300 men of the Trirs::l
Deput, marched from Fort Pin, Chatham, to Ctaiwa
where they are fo he discharged on pensions.
Wtilnesday),e'nnight, a large draehrr.ent of i!:,71,
lided troopt artived at the Depot, Cisathatn, from p 4
Mediterranean.

• RoYAI, 51111TARY COLttbli
The usual Half-yearly Public Examination toe(
Atte at the Royal Military Calleye, at Sandhufe,
previous w the sepAration of.theEstablishment fgl
the Midsummer Vacation, and continues( for ts,
days, the llth and 12th instant, before the Board 4
Commis,ioners of the Institution, viz.--
Yield:Marshal his Royal Richness tke /like of Krim
General the Zarl of Itotrit.rs;
Lieutenant-General Eir It. CUTEST, Bart.
Licateriant-Ceneral Sir }L °AIRS, Hart.
Lieututiant-Genrra/ the Hon. Sir A. Hon. C.C.B. Covetzot
Naor-Gentrai Sir Canaan )1I:ILIAT' G.C.R.
S:r .1: W. Gostrou, Bun. KCAL
31aster-Geser:il.
Colonel Dunne, Lieutenant-Governor.
Colonel Sir Ilow.tan Lk:cc:Las, Bart. /tApt eter-Ciner4
I::struction.

After the Military Inspection of the Battalion 6
Gentlemen Cadetc, between shirty and forty of
young (30,1tlemen appeared for examination in tix
various branches of the Collegiate Instruction, ar.4
the following of that number passed a very
guished ev.amination in the higher branches of
them-40es, and a favourable report was maJe them]
to his Royal Highness the Co:4IfANUER in et:it:2,74.
Uxder Officer, - Wirdam
Ditto, - Charlvt Brow,irigg.
Ditto, - George N.!. Rowan.
Vitro, - Alex. Butler
Ditto, - Thomas Alunuty.
Lance CufForal John Bocbky.
Wybtauu Olpbert.
_ .

The follo•A ink; alto passed adistinguished ezave:.
nation in the regular course of Studies, viz. Math,.
matics, F.otiticatiAn, &c. sc. and were recommeridea
to his Royal liligiiness the COMMANDER inCtttkp
Comniissiom:
L:ndtr 041:er, .
Ditto, •
Ditto,
Ditto,
Lance Curporal -
Ditto,
Gcntlen,an C;td,l -

John Foy.
Edward C. &rah.
Ales.
Augostus Ansdl.
James L. Clarke.
Thomas Robinson.
Charles Wood.

The Board marked their approbatioirof the merit
of the first four, by aw lading them Certificates of iLe
first qualification.
Besides these Gentlemen, other Classes acquitted
themselves highly to their credit in Ezinun,itied
upon History, French, German, Classics, and 1241-
lisleCompoSition.