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London, England, 1819-08-09 00:00:00

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THE EVENING STAR.

• . 'I., LONDON.

MONDAY, AUGUST 9, 1819.
THE FUNDS.
PRIVZ OF STOOKS THIS DAY AT OVI CaLOCIt t
3 per Cent. Reduced mit
3 per Cent. -Consols 71401
85 per Cent. 811-4. per Cent. 90,1 ff
6 per Cent. Navy 1041 f
Imperial 3 per Cent. Anns. 71
India Bonds 12 pre.
exchequer Bills (2d.) 2 pre. par 2 pre.
Commercial 20 discount
"Omnium 411 pre.
Consols for Acct. 71M.

We did not mean to return again so scion to the
case of the defrauded workmen—the willing la-
bowers from whom a due remuneration is withheld
by unjust employers, under a pretext that the price
of labour will find its level,—though themselves are
doing every thing in their power to prevent it. Now
we are going to concede to these cruel unfeeling
men their whole demand :—the price of labour musr
axd will find its just level, in spite of all their efforts
to prevent it. Action and reaction are always equal
and contrary. This is a universal law both in Physics
and Morals. You may dam up water, and as its
height increases raise that of the dam ; but there ate
limits beyond which you cannot go : the head of water
will, by its weight, at last break down the impedimi nt
to its natural flow, and in such a case the torrent sel-
dom fails to sweep away before it all the artificial
means employed to prevent its attaining its proper
level. Ye blinded men, who have laboured upon system
to depress the price of labour below its proper level, ye
have reached this crisis—your artificial mounds have
begun to give way; and if you do not speedily lend
your aid to lower the head of water you will be swept
away with the torrent that is ready to burst forth.

It was not, as we have said, our intention to enter
on this question today. but we have just received a
letter of a most consoling nature from Glasgow, the
contents of which w ill be hailed with rapture by
every one who has viewed this question with proper
feelings. Our Readers have already been informed
of the judicious conduct of the Magistrates and Land-
holders in that large city, and the surrounding dis-
trict, and the no less proper conduct of the working
classes. The LORD PROVOST, as was stated in our
columns, expressed great sympathy for their suffer-
ings, and assured them every exertion would be used
for their relief. These were not idle promises—the
state of the sufferers was instantly considered, and
a plan agreed to which will eventually compel the
Masters either to give the people they employ a remu-
neration sufficient for their maintenance, or to carry
on business, were this possible, without their services.
—ln a word, till the men have finished the work now
in their looms the parishes will make up to them the
difference betty een the pi ice they have contracted to
receive and the sum necessary for maintenance; but
when the present work is fin7sl.led they ate to take no
more from those masters who will not gi e wages
sufficient to maintain them :—and in the mean time
public work has been contrived to occupy those who
are out of employment, or who may be thrown icre,
for a time, by this wholesome arrangement ; so that
the Public will receive, in permanent benefit, a re-
turn for the present expen 'kure.

" TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE STAR.
" Glaspw, August 6.

64 Go on, Sir, with the judicious and humane la-
bour in which you have for some time been so exem-
plarily assiduous, and you will, ere long, r:ceive an
enviable reward, an abundant harvest—the thanks of
every honest Manufacturer, and the blessings of thou-
sands of famishing individuals. I am, myself, Sir, a
Manufacturer, and have long been most unhappy—
compelled, by the prevalence of a most impolitic and
iniquitous system, to keep kek the hire oldie labourer,
while, on my pillow, I have rnethought heard their
cry ascending to t.7.c ears y' JEHOVAH SABAOTH:—
Nor is my case singular. I can assure you that
many Manufacturers have the same feeling, and have
often lamented the alternative to which they were
reduced of either beating down the wages of their
workmen to the price paid by their unfeeling neigh-
bours, or at once resolving to give up business, or sub-
mit to be ruined with my eyes open. I had actually
resolved to wind up my concern ; but now, by your
labours and that of the other Public Journalists, who
I hope will not be backward in furthering this indibi
pensible revolution in the manufacturing system, I
am not without hopes that our business will ere long
be put upon that footing which will enable both the
masters and the men to sleep soundly.
You have already been informed with how much
feeling and humanity our Chief Magistrate attended
to the representations of the suffering workmen, and
also of the orderly and quiet manner in which the
latter conducted themselves. I have now to inform
you of the result. By desire of his Lordship, a
Meeting of the lieritors (Landholders) of the Barony
Parish, in which are many thousand Weavers, was
held, when, after much deliberation and consulting
with our principal Manufactufers, it was resolved—
' That to each weaver who has wcrk in the loom
and cannot make a living by it, the parish will make
up (with what he earns) nine shillings a-week ; but

no more work shall, in the mean-time, be taken out
either by those who are entirely out of employment,
or by others, at prices which will not yield the work-
men nine shillings weekly.'
" Delegates have been appointed for the different
districts, to collect and give in the names of the suf-
fering workmen, to Mr. Hzwnv GORDON, a most ac-
tive and benevolent Gentleman, Agent for many of
the Landed Proprietors of the Barony Parish, and
Trustee of the Highways, who furnishes the unem-
ployed with spades and mattocks, and pays them not
less than 9s. weekly. The plan has given universal
satisfaction to all ranks, and it is not doubted will be
followed immediately, not only by all the parishes in
this neighbourhood, but in every other manufactu-
ring district in the Kingdom. Nothing else is wanted
to remove a large portion of the present sufferings,
and to bring, as you have been contendingfor, the
price of labour to its proper

We have received another interesting communica-
tion on this subject, which want of room compels us
to defer till to-morrow. In the mean time we would
press upon other manufacturing towns the example
that has been given by Hinckley and by the large
City of Glasgow ; and we entreat our fellow-labourers
not to relax in this good work, but, if possible, to in-
crease in their zealous labours for the welfare of their
fellow-creatures, and of their country generally.

THE. DISTURBED DISTRICTS.

MANCHESTER, AUGUST 5.

The declaration of the Magistrates, as to the ille-
gality of the intended Meeting of the 9th, has had the
desired effect. The Requisitionists dare not pc, severe
in their intentions of holding it, and the following
Address to those who signed the Requisition has been
issued :

TO THE REQUISITIONISTS WHO SIGNED TIIE NOTICE
FOR THE PUJILIC MEETING ON MONDAY NEXT.
" Fiz,now Cisizits:4.—On my return from Liverpool, with the
result of the important mission, and in the faithful discharge of
my duty towards you, and the rest of my fellow-citizens, I
deem it necessary thus publicly to inform you, that after taking
Counsel's opinion, npon Ahe legality of your public notice, I am
instructed by Mr. Ila?macre to say—' that the intention of
choosing Representatives, contrary to the existing law, tends
greatly to render the proposed Meeting Seditious ; under those
circumstances, it would be deemed justifiable in the Magistrates
to piteent. such Meeting.'
" In recommending you to withdraw your notice, and to re-
linquish your intention of meeting your neighbours on the im-
portant subjects Intended to have been discussed on Monday
next, I deem it necessaty to state to you, and to the public,
that in the opinion of the most enlightened friends to liberty, re-
sident in Liverpool, your Requisition is perfectly legal and
constitutional; they are, nevertheless, induced to recommend
this pause in your proceedings, merely in consideration of the
cruet threats of violence issued in a paper from the Bench of
Magistrates, since the publication of your notice, and of the
evident preparations now making to carry these threats into
execution. lam acquainted with your necessities—l know the
honesty of your intentions, and the lawful means you are desi-
rous of pursuing; but in a quesion of absolute right, you are not
prepared to defend yourselves ; I therefore do not deem it ad.
Tillable, under the present circumstances, to subject the persons
of yourselves or your friends, to the illegal and unconstitutional
Iviolence which your oppressors and their contemptible tools
have prepared for the occasion.
" The formidable preparations which your tyrants have made
to meet you, their unarmed and suffering victims, is the highest
compliment in their power to bestow upon you; it is more even
than y m could hope to gain by the Meeting ; you, therefore,
may relinquish the objectionable parts of your Requisition with-
out the regret, or even the shadow o' a defeat.
" Colonel WILLIAMS, a County Magistrate, had the honest
boldness on Monday last, at the Liverpool Quarter Sessions, to
advocate your cause, and the cause of the Lancashire 'Reformers.
before his brother Magistrates ; he confounded the whole Bench;
not one man being disposed to reply to the constitutional argu-
ments of this faithful and sincere friend of his country.
" I beg leave to conclude with reminding you, and all the
friends of liberty and justice, that our cause grows, and gathers
strength with the plunderings of our enemies; whilst their rapa-
city must not only destroy the means of their own existence, but
must, ere long, turn them to the destruction of each other.
" I am, very faithfully, your obedient servant,
(Signed) " J. T. SAXON.
" Manchester Observer Office, August 4, ISO."
Another Requisition is now signing, but their tone
is much lowered. It is addressed to the Borough-
reeve and Constables, and is as follows:
44 We whose names are hereunto subscribed request that you
will conv..ne a Meeting at as early a day as possibl,:;to consider
of the propriety of adopting the mo‘r legal and effectual means
of obtaining a Reform in the Commons I Louie of Parliament."
llevr has arrived at Manchester.

'MANCHESTER, SATURDAY EYENING.
The Botoughreeve has declined calling the Meet-
ing, according to the amended Requisition (above
inserted) in consequence of which the Requisitionists,
have published the following Notice, caning a Meet-
ing on their own responsibility, on the 13th instant :
" A Requisition having been presented to the Boroi:gbreeve
and Constables of Manchester, signed by above 700 lnhe.bitant
Householders in a few hours, requesting them to call a Public
Meeting' To consider the propriety of adopting the r.-.ost legal
and effectual means of obtaining a Reform in the Commons
House of Parliament,' and they having declined to call such
Meeting, therefore the undersigned Requisitionists give notice,
that a Public Meeting will be held, on the area, near St. Peter's
Church, for the abovementioned purpose, on Monday the 16th
instant—the Chair to be taken by H. Hunt, Esq. at 12 o'clock.
" Major Cartwright, Mr. Wool, r, Mr. Pearson, Mr. Carlisle
Dr. Crompton, Edward Rushton, Mr. J. Smith, Mr. Thoma;
Smith, will be invited to attend this Meeting.
" Manchester, August 6, 1819."
This Requisition is signed by upwards of 200 names,
and the Paper in which it has been published, adds—
" The signatures of Householders, who have since come to
the Office of The Observer, have exceeded One Thousand, which,
for want of time and room, we are compelled to omit."
A grand review of the troops stationed here and
in the neighbourhood, took place yesterday, at a short

distance from town. The number of horse and foot
assembled could not be less than between two and
three thousand. The spectacle attracted a multitude
of gazers, among whom Mr. HUNT, with two friends,
all mounted on horseback, were conspicuous.
Several Cambric Manufacturers have given their
Weavers an advance, chiefly on account of their sa-
crificing neighbours having walked the plank—or in
more apt terms, quitted the stage. Good sixty-reed
cambrics have been sold for many weeks at 245. but
considerable sales have been effected at '26s. this week.
Low stout calicoes continue in fair demand, and are
easy sales at 3d. advance, which makes an average
in the last three weeks prices of 15d. to 18d. per
piece. Second and third seven-fourth calicoes full
18d. higher within the last four weeks. Fustians have
fetched a penny to three halfpence per pound on last
week's prices, and are very brisk sales at the advance
Various other descriptions of goods calculated for
the autumn trade are a little improved, say 21 to 71
per cent. on prices obtained the second Tuesday in
July. A great deal, in obtaining an advance, de-
pends on stocks suitable for immediate demand.