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London, England, 1819-08-25 00:00:00

CrAlitifICATE&-Sm. 14.

IL Miller, Taunton, Somerset, grocer. W. Blackburn,ag-
reed, corn Ale
aing.- S. Watts, Preston, Lancashire, linen-draper.
J. Linsley, Jen. Leeds, 'merchant. H. Dender&le, London,
mefchanec J. R. ova, Liverpool, merchant. J. 13. Hiroo,
Kingston-upon-ILA, merchant.
DISSOLUTiONS PARTNERSIITPS. •

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Fauncefote and ''
odd, Yuisperillwck Works: Seedroff and
Bushei Heniage-street, scum-b.)11, ri. Doazalt and Co. 'Glas-
gow, skip-char.dlers. Wend and Co. blianclu4ter, calico-
prirlera (so far as concerns Benjamin Gouith ~!.d Rigby,
Liverpool, tobacco-manufacturers. t'argei.t 'and Rutty, Fad-
-dington, wharfingrers. Nicholson aid Co. Upper Ground-street,
Blackftlars-road, coal-merchants. a-. 141
'Wood-stieet, hosiers. "Thompson and :(ictc:d.r..,. of Stoic_
ton, • Durham, gPuctrs. lir rod Ts llurden, liedford-str:.( t.
Covent-garden, lacemen. Williams and Wittesor, Brook-sire: 1,
Ratcliffe, f.uviers. Heaton and Shirley, Liverpool, hilt-dr:F.-
^wets. ..-Lloyd and Co: PinZILIICe, merchants. S.m.deri•
Horwood, Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, clothkrs. Jackson
and ikecroft, IVanchester, callco-printers. Gordon and En -
mutt, Laurente:l'uuntneyelate. Greenham and Co. LiverpoCl,
• disdlters. Gaskell and Co. Liverpool, ship-carp:niers. Kis
and Chawner, Bishopsgim: Without, i.t.rgeons.
DtSTRII3UTION OF PRIZE-)10EY. •

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• The Moiquiti3, for La Petite Aitnie and St. Joseph. Sept.. m-
bor 22, October 15 and 17, at No. 70, GreVtt Rui..ell-attevr,
illoom,hury ; recalled there for three r.lontl.s.
The Dragon, •fbr the 'At tza Mara, S. ptcn,ber CO, at !:io.
Clemer.es bin; rettlied every Tytcsdai at.d Thursday, tr thrte
months.
, . The queen Charlotte and Linnet tender, fnr tat, aml
a quantity of tea, tobacco, and vpjri.r., irst. at the house
of Mr. Glover, l'ortsmuuth, aad ,e,....11td there ac.. rli.ll, -0
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST VS, 1819.
THE FUNDS.
VRICZ OF STOCKS THIS DATA? ONZ O'CLOCIC
Bank Stock 229 •
3 per Cent. Reduced 711 701 71
3 per Cent. Consols 70( 701
Si per Cent. 801 80--4 per Cent. 91i 901
i per Cent. Navy 1044{}

Bank Long Annuities 19 1-161
Imperial S per Cent. Aim. 69D
India Stock 219k—India Bonds 12 pre..
Exchequer Bills (2d.) 5 4 7.dis.
Omnium 21 pre.
Cons. for Acct. 7011 70/.

The following letter of thanks to the ,Migistrates
of the County Palatine of Lancashire, and to the
Commander of the Manchester and Salford Yeomanry
Cavalry, having been transmitted from the Secretary
of State for the Home Department, to the Earl of
DiRBY, we must necessarily conclude that this pro-
ceeding has been founded on facts with which the
Public have not yet been made acquainted ;
which, we cannot help thinking, ought to be com-
municated without a moment's delay ; for we live in
an age in which the public mind is influenced by
facts, and rests its opinions on evidence
AUGUST 21, 1816•
" MY Loin—Having laid before the Panics Rome the
atoounts transmitted to me from Manchester, of the proceedings
at that place on Monday last, I have been commanded by his
Royal Highness to request, that your Lordship will express to
the Magistrates of the County Palatine of Lancaster,_ who at.
tended on that day, the great satisfaction derived by his Royal
Highness from their prompt, decisive, and efficient measure% feel
the preservation of the pishac tranquillity; and likewise that
your Lordship will communicate to Major TGATFOS.), his Royal
Highness's high approbation of the support and assistance t 6 the
Crvil Power afforded on that occasion by himself and the OM.
ccrs, Noncommissioned Officers, and Privates, serving under
Ins command.—l have the honour, &c.
(Signed) " SIDMOUTH.
" To the Earl of Daisy, &c. &c. &c. Knowslerr
A similar letter has been addressed to Lord STAN-
TOWN respecting the Cheshire Magistrates and Yeo-
manry. ...=•••••••
By our letters from Manchester we are happy-to
learn that every thing continued quiet there up to
Monday night. Mr. HUNT was expected to have
been brought up for a final examination that day,
btu this event did not take place. We are concerned
to learn by our accounts from Leeds that in that
quarter the people begin to exhibit symptoms of irri-
tation and impatience which they had not before
manifested ; and which are attributed in some mea-
sure to the impression produced on their minds by
the event; of last week at Manchester.
PION THE ArtYCIIISTER X.E&CrIBT Of TESTERDAT.
We, regret to learn that some tumult took place at
Rochdale on Thursday. Three rioters were brought
to our New Bailey that evening, escorted by the sol.
diets, when a troop of the 15th Hussars and a corn-
. Pim)* of the 31st Regiment set off immediately for
that place.
Ws are, however, extremely happy in being able
" •so assure our lit aders, and particularly our distant
friends, that this place and neighbourhood have com-
pletely recovered the agitation with which they were
overwhelmed by the intrusion of the Radical ftefor-
n-.ers last week, and now enjoy uninterrupted tran-
quillity. Salford, in fact, has not experienced the
slightest commotion or disturbance.
It having been stated in several of the Newspapers,
that one &tuber, a Quaker, presided at a Public
Meeting of those who style themselves Reformers,
held at Leigh on the Ilth:instant, we have autho-
rity for stating, that should any of the Members of
the Society of Friends promote proceedings tending
to disturb the public peace, their Conduct would
have the decided disapprobation of the Society, as it
is, and always has been, the desire of the Society that
its Members should live quiet in the land, promoting
peace and having nothing but good will ta all men.
(vaoM THY aUNCRESTER EXCMINGE 4111,44. to,
YESTERDAY.) . -

g 4 If they (the Yeomanry Cavalry) had acted
-ander the influence of irritation—if they had de-
served one thousandth pert of th." viii :aspersions
with which the enemies of peace melt had as-
sailed them—graded as they had been hrrevenge—
the field would have been covered with hundreds of
lifeless objects in a few minutes when they charged !
On the contrary, it does not appear that a single pis-
tol was fired by any one of the corps, or that a single
• Individual was materially wounded by any of their
sabres" I!

The Magistrates have addressed a letter of thanks
to Major TRAFFORD, in which they state, that they
44 remarked, with peculiar gratification, the extreme
forbearance exercised by the corps when insulted and
dried by the rioters; thus affording another proof, that
humanity as well as courage, stamps the character of
the British soldier" !!

" When HEALEY was brought up for examination
before the Magistrates on Saturday, on a charge of
High Treason, his behaviour at the bar was marked
with consummate impudence. On the fact of his
being on the hustings on Monday last being sworn to
by a witness, he said he gloried in having been.
there: Thu person, who was also calm up and
conktued after the famous Zliuzicct Masan, is gene.

rally called Dotter Ifetilepfor, though very illiterate,
he has been lucky enough to find fools who would
swallow his physics, as well as his politics."
44 By order of the Magistrates, the market held at
the New Cross, which is generally crowded till mid-
night on Saturdays, was this evening closed at an
early hour. This was a salutary measure, and the
night, with the Sabbath which followed, passed in
peace."
46 On Monday, it being generally expected that
Messrs. HUNT and Co. would be brought up for exa-
mination, the many persons who attended at the
New Bailey were disappointed; for the examination,
which is looked forward to with so much interest,
will not, we understand, take place for a day or two."

PRIVATE LETTER.
" TO TILE EDITOR OF THE STAR.
" Manchester, August
" Silt—ln consequence of your manly and jud3
cious commentary on the horrill transactions of die

16th, I present you with a few facts, which, if desired,
tan be fully substantiated on oath. I have, however,
another thing in view, of more consequence than
paying an honest and independent writer a compli-
ment. it isito prevent those, who are so happy as
not to have been eye-witnesses, from confounding the
conduct of the Regular Military with that of the Yeo-
manry Cavalry. I shall be brief.
" One unfortunate man, during the charge, was
very ill wounded, in his attempts to escape froin the
ferocity .of these ••• * • * ••** • • • After
being pursued for some time, he canoe opposite to a
body of the 13th Hussars, who, with that humanity
which has hitherto distinguished them, immediately
opened a pass'tge for him, and his life was saved.
" Another) in a similar predicament, just as he
was falling to the ground through fatigue, terror,
and wounds, was caught in the arms of an Infantry
Officer, who supported, and, with difficulty, protected
him. Of these Gentlemen, I have several similar
anec dotes:

" While one of the Sprgeorts was dressing the
wounds of some, and bleeding others, who were
crushed, a number of people very indiscreet:y stood
by to witness his operations. A Yeomanry-man came
up, and instantly threatened to hack and hew in every
direction, swearing most dreadfully, that g he would
cut every soul to atoms, if they did not disperse.'—
Fortunately for these poor creatures, his behav;our
was perceived by an Officer of the Hussars, who
immediately galloped to the spot and p 'tried the
• 4 's blows with his sabre, repeatedly ex-
claiming, For Gala's sake, man, forbear.'
" I have many other veil-attested cases of the same
kind, but I deem the above sufficiently convincing.
Particular anecdotes generally give a more correct
idea of matters than general statements, however de-
tailed. To shew you what the people themselves
thought, I will mention one more fact, of which I
was witness. In the evening, an immense crowd of,
people were assembled at the corner of Deansgate
and St. Peter's-street, near the dreadful scene. The
prancing of horses was heard. A cry of " the Yeo-
manry are coming !" spread the utmost consternation
among them; but it was soon ascertained that two
Officers of the Hussars (who wear the same facings,
white) had caused the confusion. When they ar-
rived, the most enthusiastic acclamations prevailed.—
The Gentlemen rode through the crowd, evidently
highly gratified, with the points of their swords, as a
sort of salutation, turned downwards to the ground !"

TO TIIE EDITOR or TILE STAR.
" MarettasTEß, MGV3I 117. Half-past Sit, P. M.

" I respect your opinions and sentiments as pub-
lished in the STAR Newspaper, aild therefore 1 re-
gret the more that you are sometimes led into error:
but indeed it cannot be wondered at, under such cir-
cumstances of alarm as the writers were placed in.
I feel it my duty, therefore, to send you a plain
statement of the facts as they occurred this day
week, having been a calm observer; and believing
that no individual could have had a better opportu-
nity of viewing the occurrences than I had.
" You are pretty correct as to events up to the
time when the military reached the neighbourhood
of the field. The Yeomanry then halted about two
minutes, drew their swords, and then trotted up to
the hustings, along the front of the line of special
constables ; the trumpeter first, then an Officer and
the first troop, two a breast. I believe not a hlow
was struck-by a Yeoman until they got within a
yard or two of the hustings, when some resolute
countrymen most certainly struck several with heavy
sticks. The Yeomanry then laid round about them
with the flat side of their swords, the Cheshire Yeo-
manry immediately followed on the back (that is on
the other side) of the constables, several of whom,
in trying to get more out of their way, were ridden
over. The 15th Hussars came about the same time,
in another direction. Immediately there was a shot
fired from the top of a house and some bricks were
thrown, and then I heard the Officer of the 15th
say, • • • • • • • • • •
" I considered the Yeomanry to have been too
much agitated to do much execution. Several of
the 15th were wounded with bricks and stones. I
saw several people cut down who are not in any list
given in of wounded or killed. My greatest surprise
is, that there were not ten times the number of per-
sons killed that there are.

" It is not true that HUNT was wounded with a
sabre, but there were several clumsy blows given
him with sumo. At the time Hort was coming up,

one *Nit persons on the stage called to the peopla
round hilts to " form to the right sit deep, lark their
arms together, and keep their enemies off." The
" right" was in the direction where the Special Con-
stables were formed to keep an open avenue. On
the advance of the Cavalry, HUNT cried out " Stand
firm," several times. Mr. NORRIS, the Magistrate,
tried several times to get to the stage, but it was
impossible.
" We are all still mach agitated here; the weavers
have not done more than a day's work all last week;
and we are fearful for the worst. I know London
well, and the spirit of the lower class, but I can
assure you it is very different from the spirit mani-
fested here. It is not A:form (for which I am my-
self an advocate), but a division of Property they
look for, and this is mentioned openly. Our Town
to-day looks quiet, but there are just now some thou-
sands of persons about the New Bailey% a report
having got out that HUNT was to be liberated,
they meant to Chair him through the Town.—
I am a constant reader and supporter of the STAR,
I do not at present feel disposed to give up my name,
but you may rely upon what I have said being as
correct as any thing that has been said upon the sub-
ject.—lT UNT has not been brought up at all to-day,
nor has any thing more transpired."
4,„ • This Correspondent not having favoured us with his name,
he cannot be surprised that we have suppressed a portion of his
Letter where we have substituted asterisks. We cannot, on
anonymous authority state, as facts, any thing respecting the Mi.
lituy, which stands contradicted by every account that has yet
reached us. The authority for the statements which have
appeared in The Star, respecting the conduct of the Yeomanry,
was not anonymous ; and our present conviction is, that, bad
only the old regularly disciplined Troops been sent in among the
People, there would have been no bloodshed. EDIT.
FROM A PRIVATE CORRESPONDENT or ME 5T4411.
" Manchester, Monday Evening, Eight o'clock.

" Mr. HUNT and his fellow prisoners were to have
been brought up to-day for their final examination.
but either the expected advices from London on the
subject had not arrived, or if they have =rived,
which I rather suspect to be the ease, they are not of
so determinate a 'Louie as to leave the Magistrates
without the necessity for scnie farther deliberation.
No examination took place, and it is now said that it
may be some days yet before the prisoners are brought
up. If popular rumour speaks true, Government have
left the Magistrates to the exercise of their own
judgment as to the ultimate proceedings to be adopt-
ed against the persons in custody. The mighty
charge, too, of High Treason, is said to dwindle into
a mere forced construction of the Riot Act, accord-
ing to which Mr. HUNT and his associates, for not
obeying an order to disperse which they never heard
of, are to be held as rebels to the authority of our
Sovereign Lord the :KING, and subject to all the
penalties of open Rebellion. If so, it is not difficult
to anticipate what the result will be with any Jury
of common sense and common impartiality.
" The prisoners are, in the mean time, treated in
their confinement with all that strict surveillance
which is usually observed towards great State delin-
quents. Nobody is permitted to have access to them
without an order from one of the Magistrates, and
nobody permitted to hold a word's conversation with
them, except in the presence and hearing of the Jailor,
or some of his deputies. To-day three persons, one
of them I believe a Mr. West, who had come down
from London, were allowed to have a short inter-
view with Mr. Hvgl", but a person deputed by the
Jailor was present the whole time. 1 am informed
that HUNT has not suffered much from the beating
he received, and that he is not only quite well, but
in good spirits.
" The wounded in the Infirmary are recovering
fast. The member of the deaths has, however, been
increased since the last accounts to N:ne. I have not
as yet learnt the names of' the additional victims."

MANCHESTER, AUGUST 23, One o'Clock, P. M.
(From the 7lmes.)
I have just come from the New Bailey, whither I
went this morning, expecting, if not the liberation or
final commitment of Hun; at least the settlement of
his case, and declaration of the charge on which he
is confined. The Law Officers have now had time
enough to examine the evidence on which the Bench
of Magistrates have acted, and to determine whether
it will bear them out in committing him for High
Treason, or in detaining him for a minor offence ?
From the delay that has taken place, we are led to
suspect that there ts some demur in a high quarter
as to the existence of the said High Treason of the
Manchester Magistrates. It is strongly surmised,
that some questions have been put to them regarding
their own conduct, previous to the determination of
their future proceedings regarding HUNT. How-
-1 ever this may be, justice would surely seem to dictate
a speedy decision. To keep a charge of High Trea-
son hanging over men who may ultimately be tried
only for a misdemeanour, or not tried at all, seems
to be harsh and cruel, both to them and to their
friends, as it affects their comforts and character.
Whatever opinions may be entertained concerning
the mischievous insanity of HUNT and his compeers,
when agitating the country by their intemperate non-
sense, it should be recollected that they are now pri-
soners, and that the preservation of the laws of Eng-
land is of more value to society than the punishment
of these individuals by an apparent deviation from
justice. Does it not savour a good deal of the Holy
(rue to immure men in dungeons, without telling
them the grounds of the charge. or the nature of the
evidence brought against them? Besides, in this
case, if the Reform orators are only to be tried for a
misdemeanour, every hour they are confined in gaol
for High Treason is, in fact, so long a period of false
imprisonment; because there is no doubt, that if the
minor offence was determined on, they could be libe-
rated on bail. The truth is, the Magistrates have

got lam difficult', not by Hdxfs c• n
Uldir own. They dread the indig.,%l,,.
Fire for their precipitate and sanguii,
and to justify their own rashness, rmi •
tend to find, the commission of a try,;
appears to me to be the origin of the C!..t
. Treason. That no !pounds exi•.teu fu.
Meeting, is evident horn the non-appreh
prisoners, when one of them offered I
that the proceedings of the Meeting f
foundation for it, unless their reniairaog
ings to be cut down by the military,
dispersion at the reading of a proclatt.
they never heard,can be construed into a
resistance, and an open levying of .war,
evident. I have conversed with sevetal
stables who have been sworn before the
is the private examination, and none of
;deposed that HUNT advised resistance.
places great stress on the expression used
tor, when he advised his friends to stand
any one " became disorderly, to put 1.
But, good Heavens! what an easy, ,ic!
they make the commission of High. T..-c..
chester, if an exhortation to ordsr
word of wilawful resistance against anti c
of the Constables, in their depositions, 1,
the exhortation, " put him down " and
down." The majority, however, of those
the Orator, deny the use of the latter exi,t
the same time the evidence of the Specia!
and of all those who acted against the
Monday, ought to be received with sped
T'sey are all parties—they are all intlarc,
most violent and rancorous hostility to ti
and men who can express regret that the
baton protected their victim from the lift
the dragoon, cannot be expected to be vi
lous in the means they employ to enlist in
the more inexorable axe of the execut
treatment of HUNT when in the custody
and when deprived of all means of self
resistance, was so inhuman and brutal, th
Magistrates who had advised the milit,
could not but rebuke it ; and would met
their prisoner, with the evident design of,
trial unnecessary, heitate about twisting ;
adding an expression to procure a colotict
prisoners are kept in solitary coofinemeni
not allowed to see any person without an
a Magistrate.
The town has been tranquil since Frid:
Watch and Ward Act is strictly enforced,
got down here bales of C'obbetts, Sherm
Dwarf:, and Medusa:. The Observer o✓
beset with a mob of applicants.
HUDDERSFIELD REFORMER:
Haddersfit'Al,

Considerable alarm has been excited
and neighbourhood by the proceedings of
Reformers. Almost every evening duri
week Meetings have been held on Crop
between Huddersfield and Marsden, of
chester road, principally, it is reported,
pose of training ; and on Thursday afternoon
ber of persons assembled on Colcloug)-
fi play at soldiers." Earl) the next morni
the Magistrates (who displayed the most
activity on the occasion) had a meeting,
bill was issued, signed by J. HAIGLI, 13.
and J. IIoasPALL, Esquires, calling on
able inhabitants of Huddersfield, in col
the Meetings held in this and other ni
counties, to enrol themselves as Special
A hand bill was published on Saturd
of the Reformers, signed " A Yorkshireman,
suading the people from acts of violence,
ing them that a British Jury would ay%
for blood" for the Manchester affa:r.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR OF Tit
" LEEDS, Al
" The Reform Meeting announced ti
Wakefield this day has been adjourned
day next; but the Meeting on Ilunslet
held to-morrow.

" Four strangers (in the garb of get.
strongly suspected of being spies,) have be
engaged during the four last days in
the leaders of the Reformers in this distri'
their procurement much information haf
mitted to the Secretary of State. We e
expect a number of arrests during the cl
Matters are certainly assuming an alai tn,
ance in this neighbourhood. Every wail
dow-shutter is chalked with languau of
flammatory tendency, that it would be it
give it circulation elsewhere by transcriL
" I do not pretend to see farther into
other people; but the result of the Maim
ing has produced an effect en the public
quarter, which I cannot help thinking
with mischiefs we could not otherwise
pated. The bursting smoke of the hi:
ratively quiet volcano threatens /Is with
at no very distant period, if the utmost
not employed to give gradual vent to
lava, and thus allow it to spend itself
otherwise it may sweep every thing bercre
" Two arrests have taken plaet here 01'
and I am informed that warrants are
several other individuals. The Manch(
I am happy to cay, has not yet seized
conservators of the peace. We cannot a
considerate prudence that has marked e‘
their conduct. Had they been as hasty as
others, it is impossible to say what might h.3e
our present situation.
" Very extensive orders for stuffs and piece-„""
have been received here within the last three
They have come most seasonably, and by lull:is..
employment to some who arc out of work; nia
to quiet some portion of the present irritation.`

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