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must not, be permitted to pass unineestigated.

We insert a note from Sir F. BURDLTT to Lord
grobloorri, avowing himself the author of the letter
which appeared within these few days, as an Address
to the Electors of Westminster. Our Readers are
aware of the steps which have been taken, prepare.
tory to the prosecution of the worthy Baronet for the
said Address to his constituents, on the ground of its
being a seditious libel. The opinion of Ministers,
therefore, being already pronounced upon the sub-
ject, and their pledge being given to proceed against
the Honourable Baronet, nothing remains but that
the Public should wait with patience until that opinion
and those proceedings shall be confirmed or over-
turned by the superior authority of a Jury.
It is determined that the Westminster Meeting
shall be held on Thursday next. A Meeting to fix
the day was held last night at the Crown and Anchor.
The Requisition to the High Bailiff, and his refusal
to comply, wise both read. Some of the Electors
were for having the Meeting on Monday, in order to
allow Mr. LANs, the Marquis of TAvirrotx, and
some others, an opportunity of knowing the day of
meeting in time to attend it ; they are absent from
town. This deference to them, however, was soon
over-ruled. Mr. HonHovas was present, and ad-
dressed the Meeting with great vehemence, and as
great effect. He stated, that Sir F. Buitom was
arrived in town, and prepared to take the Chair "in
his old-fashioned way at the Meeting.

The Paris Papers of Saturday arrived this morning.
M. DE CAza has been seriously wounded by a fall
from his horse.
It is reported at Bourdeaux, that the Captain-Gene-
ral of Catalonia, CASTANOS, has received orders to
to supply the place of O'Doxim, in
the American Expedition.
landate removing 0 Iloa NEL has been
Madrid Gazette. It is so expressed
ery poor apology both for the Gene-
_ delay in the sailing of the Expedi-
ksidering," it states, " that the delicacy
•-General Count AotssAt. would not
represent how injurious it would be to
while the serious wound which be re-
(orious action of Adisbal is still oft!;
bad state of his health, and wishing
is devotion," &e.
Friday-70 ft. 90 e.

MR. HU'I;T.

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FROM ObR PRIVATE COMSIONDIter.
lbothester, Sunday Evening.

" The town was all in a bustle to-day, in the ex-
pectation of Mr. Huives return front Lancaster
Castle. The streets were crowded with people pre-
pared to greet his artival. He did not, howeier,
make his appearance, nor could any accurate infor-
mation be obtained as to his movements."

" Monday Morning, Ten o'Qoek.

" Still no appearance of Mr. HUNT. A report is
now current amongst us that he has gone to Liver-
pool to be present at the Meeting held there to-day.
I cannot, however, find a person who can set me
positively right as to the fact, whether he is yet at
large to go any where. It is true, as I told you in
my last, that two Gentlemen entered into rzcogni-
minces- here for him on Saturday, but unless he
chuses to sign his own recognizance, which some said
he was not disposed to do, on his departure for Lan-
caster, his liberation cannot take place."

We have just been favoured with a perusal of the
following Letter from Mr. HUNT himself to a friend
in London. He hot .been liberated, and was to ar-
rive in Manchester at twelve o'clock yesterday. -The
statement that he had declined entering intb his °sir
recognizance, was erroneous. -` He was hurried off to
Lancaster before the bail bondikould be esect4ipd:

LETTER FROM MR. HUNT TO A FRIEND IN

LONDON.

(RECEIVED THIS MORNING.)

" Swan inn, Belton, Lancashire,
Sunday Evening.

"MY DEAR SIR—I am this moment arrived here,
on my way back to Manchester. The last dastardly
• • • • • trick of the judicial • * • ***** *, in
sending us off to Lancaster Castle, under the follow-

ing circumstances, will complete their character for
any thing but justice:—We were brought up for a
hearing on Friday, about one o'clock ; and, after hav-
ing been told that the charge of High Treason was
given up for the present, but not abandoned—that
they should go into the charge for n Conspiracy and
Sedition. Well, four or five fellows were examined
separately, after having their former depositions read
over to them, when, on their examinaticn, they
every one contradicted not only each other, but their
own depositions, in the most material parts, if there
be any material points.
" However, the worthy Magistrates, although
vastly calmed down since I saw them last, after con-
sulting in aprivate roam with Mr. 13ouchier, the Solid-
tor ("the Crown, the Prosecutor, determined to hold
us to bail, for a conspiracy and sedition; and should
these same Vagistrates be the Grand Jury at Lan-
caster, I should not at all be surprised if they find a
true Bill against us for sheep-stealing, upon the vexy
same evidence ; for, really, it will be as applicable
to the one offence as the other. However, Johnson
and Moo:house were bailed out immediately; and
good bail was offered for me—but as I was very hot
with the exertion of tour hours in a most crowded
Court, I retired to change' my linen to at►end
for that purpose ; but before I had done this,
I was informed by the turnkey, that he was
very sorry,but there was an order come that I must be
ready to go to Lancaster Castle in three minutes. I

had not time to take even a cup of tea, or get clean
linen, before I was hurried down into the ya:d, where
I met my fellow-prisoners, who had not yet been
bailed, and who had been handcuffed, and ironed,
and we were crammed, some in, and others on a coach,
and off we went, escorted by about SO of the 15th
Hussars, to Bolton, where there was a relay of the
Cavalry, who conducted us to Blackburn, from thence
to Preston, and on to Lancaster, by some more Hus-
sars, all with drawn swords, &c. &c.

We entered the Prison at half-past four in the
morning. At seven at night I was put into a Felon's
Dungeon, and was just got into my first sleep, on my
Iron Bedstead and Miran? Bed, when a Gentleman,
who had followed me in a chaise and four,' came to
say that my Bail had justified at Manchester.—
I left the horrid Basalt', and slept at the Inn in Lan-
caster.—On arriving at Preston this day about two,
the Authorities have witnessed such a scene of enthu-
siasm, which was continued at every place we pissed,
and not less than 20,000 persons have conducted us
here, having taken the hones out of the coach. The
accounts of the immense numbers collected on the
road to Manchester are such that I deem it prudent,
to avoid accidents, to delay my return into that town
till to-morrow.

" In haste, your's,

44 Hi/MY HUNT."

Mr. HARMER kft town this morning to go down
to Manchester, to assist Mr. PEALION in the legal
proceedings arising out of the late transactions. We
understand that there is no doubt Mr. HUNT and the
other persons prosecuted, will traverse till the next
Mixes.

The first person tried, on account of the late pro-
ceedings in the Manufacturing Districts, will be John
Adamson, at the Lancaster Assizes, which commence
to morrow: He stands committed for " having as-
sumed the character of a Delegate or Representative,
' at a Public Meeting, unlawfully convened and held
near Burnley, and with having, in the character afore-
said, at the said Meeting, used certain seditious ex-
pressions with intent to excite contempt and disre-
spect to the Laws and Constitution of the Realm, and
with having in his possession, with intent to publish,
certain seditious and libellous papers and writings,
tending to vilify the Constitution in Church and State."

MANCHECTER TRAGSDV.

ANOTHER NARRATIVII MOM AN ,YE-WITVICSIG

- TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.
Sta—The atrocious falsehoods which have been
Meeting,
Manchester
propagated through the medium of some of the News-
papers, on the subject of the
are so extremely disgusting to every friend of hu-
manity, that I could wish those who witnessed any
act of wanton barbarity, to detail it to the Public,
and thus to let facts speak for themselves. The ex-
tracts you have made from Wheeler's Chronicle, and
which you state may be considered as official, are a
tissue of as complete lies as were ever huddled to-
gether. I had a pretty fair opportunity of judging
of the nature and character of the Meeting, and, as
far as I am able to form any opinion, it was exactly
the reverse of what is stated in the Manchester Me.
gisterial Gazette. I was in St. Peter's Field soon
after ten o'clock in the morning ; at that time there
were not more than twenty or thirty perions present,
and no appearance of either Military or Constables ;
I went to the New Cross to see the Oldham Proces-
sion enter, and so far from their being any thing like
"Military array," I at the time remarked, that a
great part of it had the appearance of a Female Be.
nefit Club, as hundreds .of women were walking
hand in hand, four abreast, and nearly the whole
dressed in clean white linen caps ; and I will take
upon myself to affirm, and to swear if necessary,
that not one man out of one hundred and fifty, had
a stick of any description in his hand ; I saw a
few boys, indeed, with twigs in their hands, and
some few wish short sticks, about half a yard long,
and as thick as a man's thumb, which had the ap-
pearance of having been pulled out of the hedges as
they passed along—and yet this was the vast body,
that had the " appearance of military array!" An
enemy, indeed, quite fitted to the coolness and courage
of the Manchester Cavalry. When I returned to the
ground, the Special Constables had just taken their
stand, and they, as well as the people who were
assembled around them, appeared in great good
humour. I mixed with the crowd, and passed
through the body of Constables :—all was peace, and
not a syllable was heard either of a disposition to,
riot, or of the Riot Act being read ; and surely, if
either had been the case, I must have had some inti-
mation of it, as I conversed both with the Reformers
and the Constables. I then took my stand in the
window of a house which fronted the field, and which
commanded a fine view of the whole, and I am con-
fident, if the Riot Act had been read during that
time, in an open and undisguised manner, I must
both have seen and heard it. I heard, indeed, "Goa
save the King," played by the Band, and I saw the
people stand uncovered, but I saw no riot, nor did
I hear any Riot Act read. Apprehending no danger,
I descended from the window, and, mixing with the
multitude, I stood within twenty yards of the stage,
where I remained till the arrival of the Cavalry ;
their ignorance of military tactics had thrown them
into considerable disorder, and, while they were
forming, I retired slowly to the outskirts of the
people ; I there got on a post about a yard high,
and in one minute saw the horsemen gallop at
full speed among the crowd, some flourishing their
swords over their heads, and others cutting both
right and left ; and though Mr. Wheeler says, " the
Cavalry had not advanced many yards before they
were assailed wit'. a heavy volley of stones," I de-
clare before GOD, with all the advantages I bad of
viewing the scene, up to this time I did not see a
single brick-bat or stone thrown. I now thought it
high time to retreat, and going doss n St. Peter's-
street, entered a house not far off the ground, from
whence I had a tolerable view of what was going on:
in a few minutes hundreds rushed down the street,
pursued by the soldiers, who sabred the wretched
fugitives indiscriminately; some of the wounded sunk
at the steps of the doors, unable to proceed further,
while others ran on, the blood pouring from their
heads, sides, or arms. Amidst this scene of general
horror, one had scarcely leisure to notice any indi-
vidual act of cruelty. Some people had taken refuge
in the perch of a Charity-school that fronts the street,
where they stood completely out of the way; they
were, however, unfortunately observed by one of the
fiends on horseback, who immediately rode his horse
amongst them, and dispersed them, by sabreing them
right and left. The yard of this school is separated
from the street by an iron railing, over which many
persons had clambered, to escape the blind fury of
the soldiers: a boy, about 14 or 16 years old, had
with some difficulty ascended, and had got one leg
over the top—at this moment one of the armed ruf-
fians came galloping up the street, and, seeing the
situation of the unfortunate lad, immediately checked
his horse, rode up to him, and gave him two cuts
thraedbioogy,feaoll
dli ktehea
gallant
nctmhworsoenmtahne
his sabre—the
the
other
with
galloped off to his brave associates in the field !

Wheeler states, that " not a single shot WAS fired
by any of the military ;" whilst I was in the house
in Peter's-street, I distinctly heard three gun-shots ;
I am confident, from the report, the firing was from
'a musket—and where, I would ask, could any- of
the crowd secrete such a weapon? Perhaps the sa-
pient Mr. Wheeler would tell us, in a breeches pocket,
or a watch fob ! Pray, were di the persons reported
from the Infirmary as being shot, killed or wounded
subsequent to Monday? After the tragedy had closed,

I went towards the Polic..ciEce, ?.tz
square, which is close by, I found
Constables assembled, relating to e..c,
respective exploits z one of them, 4 the
keeps a public-house, stated, that s R,
thrown a stone at him, which grazed
and, being observed by one or the inL.
mediately levelled his piece, firQi, and
down ; the Constable was miru:e in lin
be placed his hand behind him to 14.,
Reformer had been hit, and bent his ost
wards to chew the Manner in which
fill; and it should be recollected this
less than an hour after the circumstance]
and most likely before instructions
been issued. No doubt Mr. Wheeler
man he was greatly mistaken, and that
ever happened—but I bel;eveif the
time, and it was believed by all his
Constables who heard him, .rnd I hut
doubt—not a shadow of a doubt, but
tary did fire.

It is a sacrifice of one's fee:ilF,s to
argue on this execrable business—disp,
graceful as it is ! Indignation shout;!
breast of every Englishman, and the
patriotic fire would make the upholder
despotism tremble at their own audaci±
certain, that if the people of this Isla
quietude and silence to this invasion of
and dearest rights, without even a let;.ti 1
against it, personal safety %%mil Ivo
guarantee from the hands of the wand
than from the laws and institutions of Er

THE• ARMY.

We are happy to understand that the
for the National Monument in Scotian,
up rapidly. The pliant 71st Regim
scribed one day's pay towards it.
Lord F. Gowza gave. a supeib enter
Tuesday last to the Newcastle and Pntv
Staffordshire Yeomanry, on his Lordshi
pointed to the command cf the Corps.
Extract of a letter from an Officer
dated Oldham, Saturday, August 21:,
Manchester on Monday, but only empl
ing the outskirts of the town quiet, wh
an occasional charge; it was shockingi
pie lie wounded, there were at least
about, but not so many kille l as has 1
We have to clear this town every nigb
public-houses at the different village,.
ral BYNG has ordered us to be on the Nts
o'clock to-morrow morning, and disperse
who regularly assemble to drill with
day morning. They meet, as we are
the amount of several thousands Al
der from the Magistrates to fire, and ma,
swords, if the least resistance is made, and,
they.do not give up their arms the
appear."

NAVAL INTELLIGENC

Posts:wows, Armin SO.—Arrived the Lord
port, from the West Indies. Passed by the Cr
from Quebec for London. Sailed his :Majesty's
for South America.—Wind S.S.W.
Daws., Accts: 30.—Arrived and sailed for
Colonist, Basstirosn, from Barbadoes; Oral
wows, from Dernarara ; JaMto, WALTON, from
Brunswick; and Alonzo, from St. Andero. Cab.
the River, the St. Lawrence, Douctrs, for Quebec,
yesterday, the GANYMIDE frigate, from the Ms'
from Portsmouth.—Wind

DIASCIAM AUGUST O.—Arrived in oar
evening, the Fortitude, Starves's, from Ted!),
charge of a Deal boat, having been on shore
Sand, with loss of an anchor and cable.
AZZILDEOI. Aucctr v.—Arrived the Jean,
Gseenland, with two fists.

Yesterday morning, the Duke of Yo)
York House, St. James's Palace, from 1
Yesterday the Duke and Duchess
companied by the infant Princess A
who, we are happy to say, continues
enjoy excellent health, the Princess
their attendants, left Kensington Palace
Palace, on a visit to the PRINCESSES, for
The Duke and Duchess of WELLtsc.
town, for their seat at Strathfieldsay, H

The Duke of NORFOLK does not sta.
Castle more than a week, when his Gi
visiting his seat in Yorkshire.
The Marquis of SALISBURY has left,
his seat, Aldborough, Suffolk.
The Earl and Countess CLAIMS STY
arrived yesterday in town from Bristcl.
they are expected to take their departure
in Ireland.

The bankers of Newcastle have rcdi
date of drafts upon London from 40 to
Birch, the Constable, is new said to
of danger.
DEPARTURE OF THE FAIR CincAss
day morning, the fair Circassian and
Excellency the PERSIAN AMBASSADOR.
Charles-street, Berkeley-square, to go
Lord Exmouth ; she was accompanie,
by Colonel D'Ancr, Captain WILLOC,
PIERCV, who slept on board last night.
morning for Constantinople, from V,17,
by land to Persia. Ills Excellency rem:
land till April or May next. He is shortly gt
a tour through England, Scotl.vid. and IrelghL
STEALING OP THE BANK Isis.—An old ea
woman, who is possessed of some property
Bank, on going a few days ago to receive
dend, watched an opportunity to get into the W.,:
Lodge, and put the keys into a small basket !.e....1.1
tied with her. We are informed that when take.
the Borough, where she resides, and on being(l:;‘,
tinned as to her mntive fcr having stolen the ~.‘;
she replicd, that if the keys were in her
her dividend would be secure! She has bra
some time in the haiiit of stealing keys from 31:1e,,,.`":
Offices, and when taken, in t less than'2oo
keys were found in her room, and those of
were tied to the bedstead with a string.

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