Star.
London, England, 1819-09-09 00:00:00

MANCHESTER, SEPT. 7.

From the " Morning Chronicle."
Mr. IlattmEa and Mr. DENISON, of Liverpool, at-
tended at the New B tiley Court yesterday, with se-
veral persons who had received sabre wounds at the
Meeting of the 16th ultimo, in order to apply for
warrants against the persons who had inflicted such
wounds. Messrs. HARMER and DENISON remained

in the Court above an hour. The hour of attendance

for the Magistrates is usually at twelve o'clock, but
no Magistrate whatever appeared yesterday.
:Messrs. 11 ARMER and DENtsoN, accompanied by
several I>ei sons wounded on the' 16th ultimo, again
appeared in the New Bailey Court, at twelve o'cl,,ck
this day, and on their aprearance, the two Magis-
trates who were on the bench, one of whom was Mr.

NORRIS, inuncdiately withdrew. Atter a lapse of
two hours Mr. NORRIS returned, and took his seat
on the Bench, accompanied by Messrs. WRIGHT,
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THE/LEE:I, MARRYAT, and FLETCHER.
The Court refused the warrants on the part of
those cases which the Grand Jury decided upon.
r. HARMER then applied for warrants on others
cases, which were not before the Grand Jury.
The Magistrates postponed entering into those cases,
until the prisoners in the dock should be disposed of.
Mr. Lees, a manufacturer of Oldham, died at half
past one this morning, in consequence of a sabre-
wound,
which he received at the Meeting of the 16th,
and a Coroner's Inquest on the body wag take place
to-morrow, at which it is expeci.ed Messrs. HARMER
and DENISON will attend, and produce evidence il-
lustrative of all the transactions connected with the
Meeting. Several persons who witnessed all the pro-
ceedings of the Ml'. are understood to have been
summoned to attend this inquest.
From the same Paper.—The following extract of a
Later, dated Manchester, September 2, fromk most
respectable source, will serve to illustrate some
ofl
those dreadful scenes which occurred on the memo-
rable 16th of August :
To send you many things relative to the lith
that have not already appeared in print, is more per-
haps than I can promise, for every miautir of circum-
stance are so carefully and so industriously collected
that not an iota of information will escape detail.—
Last night I waited on The Oldfield-lane Doctor'
(Mr. Edmund Taylor.) He informed me that he
alone had 33 of the wounded trader his care, about
eight of which Al* cases of sabre wound's : the rest,
.were broken limbs, and bruises from the trampling of
the horses feet, and hurts received by heaps of peo-
ple pressing one upon the other. One was the case
of a poor little sweep, about eight years old, with
his skull dreadfully cut. Another case may be men-
tioned, which tends to shew with what ferocity and
barbarity these poor defenceless creatures were at-
tacked. A mars, who had not been at the Meeting,
b it was returning down Quay-street, from a job,
which he had just cotnpleted, with a plank en his
shoulder, was furiously assailed by a Yeoman, who
aimed a dreadful cut at his head—the poor fellow
stooped a little to avoid the stroke, which however
had the effect of completely taking off the crown of.
his hat—a second stroke was then made at him by
the same brave fellow, which cut him across four of
the fingers of one of his hands; two of the fingers
are di opt, the sinews being cut in such a manner,
that he cannot possibly recover the use of them ; a
cur wounded him a little above theelbow
penetrating the bone. His other noun& tl:e Doctor
did not describe, but he had six in all. The poor
man says he owes the preservation of his life to one
of the gallant Ilussars, who riding up at the mo-
ment interposed, and the Yeoman spurred his horse,
and rode off. I cannot resist the impulse of relating to
you the following anecdote :—A Mr.—, one of the
Yeomanry, stept into the shop of a stationer, and with
cot, iderable sangfroid told the following story :
had lifted my sword, said he, to give a man a most
ta ernendons cut, and was about to let it fall, when
I suddenly perceived the fellow had got a staff! I
of course gave my sword another turn, or I should
have wounded him severely r"

A few days ago five mer, employed by Mr. Hoaxes,
of 111 ighton, in hal vesting, went into Shoreham river,
to bathe, one of ho soon got beyond his depth
and was drownedw them body was drifted by the cur-
tent to the sea, and has not yet been found.
DEATH bY iioXING.—A severe battle was fought
neat Ilford, on Tuesday, between Hardingham,
a bricklayer, and Matthew Lioulton, a sawyer, in,
consequence of a dispute at playing a game of four
coy hers. Tiley retired to a field, and Itnockedh
other down at least filly times, and on Hardingham
being lifted off the gtound in the 70th round, his
head fell on one side, and he never spoke after. It
is uncertain whether his death WAS occasioned by a
blow or by the fall.
Charksldibbert, for forgery, was executed at ll-
cheaer on Tuesday. . .

LETTER FROV LORD RANCLIFFE TO THE
ELECTORS OF NOTTINUIL4M.

" PARTS, AUGUST :18, 1819.
GENTLP.MEN—The intelligence of the late trans-
actions at Manchester has impressed me with feelings
of the deepest ;if]fiction nud regret. It would not be I
proper for me to offer any o;,inion of my own on the
course of proceeding', which ought to be adopted ;
but I should not di-.:Lhar.4e my duty conscientiously
on this occasion, if I did not put myself in commithi-'
cation with my Constituents, and Innonnce my readi-
ness to attend any legal Meeting which may he held,
or support any measure which may be deemed ne•
cessary for the constitutional epression of your sen-
timents: and assure you, on receiving due notice, let
the personal inconvenieace be what it may to tre,
from private circumstances, I shall at all times be
ready to attend your wishes.
I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
" Your obliged and faithful servant,
(signed) RANCLIFNE."

NORWICH, SEPTEMBER 7.

ELECTION OF SIIERIFF.—At the election of Free-

mens' Sheriff for Norwich, on Tuesday last, THOM As
STARLING DAY, Esq. was unexpectedly nominated
for that office, in opposition to EDWARD TA‘YLOR, Esq.
and a Poll took place, at the close of which the num-
bers were:—For Mr. Timon, 807; Mr. DAY, 530.
After the numbers were declared by the MAvoft,
Mr. TAYLOR addressed the Freemen. He stated,
that he hid no. expectation of being called upon to
fill the office of Sheriff, and anticipated that some
other individual would have been the choice of the
Freemen.. He alluded to the late sanguinary trans-
actions at Manchester, which he indignantly repro-
bated. He observed, that unfortunately for the in-
habitants of Manchester, they had no voice in the
election of their Magistrates. They are spared the
trouble of electing their Municipal Officers, who are
appointed by Ministers, and paid out of the Taxes.
Instead of those old and venerable Constitutional Of-
ficers, the Mayor, Aldermen, and Sheriffs, whose
very titles mark their high antiquity, they are go-
verned by men w ith the modern, new-fangled, and
lodious names of " Stipendiary Police Magi,trates."
He afterwards said, we have reason to rejoice that
we live under a different jurisdiction. All our local
institutions bespeak a constant reference to the will
of the people, and thereby munifest their high anti
quity, and their entire conformity to the genius and
spirit of our Constitution. Take, for instance,
office to which you have now elected me. The uni-
versal practice throughout the kingdom, in those
times which gave birth to the brightest and noblest
of our laws and institutions, was for the people to
elect their own Sheriffs. This custom was of such
remote antiquity, that though there was a statute
ordaining that it should be so in the reign of Edward
I. yet prior to that time there was no instance of any
Sheriff having been otherwise elected. Now the right
of electing Their Sheriffs is possessed by few places in
this kingdom ; it is a right which you almost pe-
culiarly enjoy. Long may you hold it, and may
you shew by the choice which you make, the
wisdom of those laws and institutions which were
made by our patriotic ancestors.—Gentlemen, 111-
low me now to thank yod for the warm, unsoli-
cited, and active exertions which you have this day
made. I trust that I shall prove myself not wholly
unworthy of them. I feel most sensibly the high im-
portance and the grave responsibility of the office to
which I am elected ; I shall enter upon it with an
earnest desire to discharge its duties with attention
and fidelity. I need not remind you, that one of those
duties is the preservation of the peace of the city.—
This part of my office, I am confident, will be a very
easy one indeed. And here, Gentlemen, I feel it my
duty most distinctly to state, that if it shall to your
pleasure to meet in a legal and constitutional way to
petition for the redreis of bur grievances (and who
will say that we have not grievances which call aloud
for redress ?), I shall feel it my duty to be present,—
not indeed to let loose upon you a military foice, but
to assist you to the best of my ability in the discharge
of so important duty—(4hunts
hem applause) The
right of petitionia ng is one of tost sacred. of our
!-privileges as Englishmen; and to protect the people
in the free and unimpaired exercise of that right, ought
I to be the care of those who have to administer the
I laws. I am very glad that this contest has taken place.
It is of great importance in the present situation of
I the country, that the opinion of the people should be
clearly and decidedly expres ed on those subjects
which so deeply involve our interests as a natioft.
The event of this Election has shewn what is your
opinion. You know what are my political senti-
ments; and you have now declared by the decided,
Imajolity which appears on the poll, that you regard',
a friend to a Radical Reform in the Commons House
of Parliament as a fit and proper person to be your
Sheriff--4 Loud applauae). This contest ha been con-
ducted in a way tue most gratifying to all who value
purity of Election. Here has been no bribing, DO
treating, no canvassing, no persuading, no threaten- I
ing. All has been fair and open. Such, fellow-1
eittzens, ought to be alfElections, and such they will
be when the people shall, in deed and in truth, enjoy
that share in the Legislature which is now possessed
by a faction of Burouglimongers—(Applause). I
have now onfy to thank you for the honour which
you have conferred upon me, and to assure you, that
if I shall be able, at the end of my year of office, to
receive the approbation of my fellow-citizens, it will
be the highest reward I can experience."

The Spanish Government has taken off 50 per cent.
from the Duty on exported Wool, reducing it from
80 to 40 rials the atroba of ‘..1.5 pounds. This reduc-
tion of Dev is equivalent to 4d. in the pound.
The ad adorer! Duty of 33 per cent. on foreign
Minerals is now done away, and a duty of 2d. per Ib.
imposed, which on fine specimens will scarcely be felt.
A melancholy event lately occurred at Lyons. On
the 29th of August, during the representation of the
Death of Kkher, at the Olympic Circus, a glazier's
wife, of the name of Mcrizot, was wounded by the
going off of a ramrod, which one of the voltigeurs
had left imprudently in his fusee. She was wounded
in several parts of her face, and so dangerously, that
she survived it but a short time. In the confusion
naturally consequent to such an event, a gre:At patt
of the audience left the house, but •the petfot niaince
was not interrupted.
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INTENDED WELCOME TO MR. HUNT.

A Meeting of the Committee lately appointed to
inquire into the circumstances which have occurred
at Manchester, to raise subscriptions, and to appro-
priate them to these who ha, e tatUred, but particu-
larly to the defence of tho,.e wholiave been ,übjected
to procectrion there. thok place yesterday evening at
the Crown and Anchor Tavern.
Mr. GALLOWAY was called to the Chair. He stated
that the body he'now addressed (ahont fiftten in
numbed . were convened to consider the, propriety of
giving to 9r. Henry Hunt, on his arrival in London
from ikianchester, a public entry and a dinner. Flow
far this wnuld be considered by the Meeting eithei as
prudent or ja,licinus, it was for them to determine.
After the Chairman had taken his seat, a desultary
conversation took place bettveen several Members of
the Committee, regarding the line of conduct which
it would become them to pursue.
Some Gentlemen said they understood the thing
was already resolved • upon by another Committee
(that of 200,. we believe), then sitting at the White
Lion,Wych-street, and that a Gentleman present had
a communication from Dr..Wittson on the subject.
Mr. BURT whom we understood to be the proprie-
tor of the white Lion) rose and put in a letter. It
was signed by Dr. James Watsen, and stated, that at
three or four Committees, each 21 in number, it was
unanimously resolved, .that Mr. Hunt should be re-
ceived triumphantly in London, and he welcemed by
a public dinner. MI the principal arrangements had
been made. Flags of silk had been purchased, -and
consigned to the painter, in order to have suitable
inscriptions fixed upon them ; a band of music had
been engaged, and a line of march had been chalked
out for the procession to march through ; the great
room at the Crown and Anchor had been taken for •
the purpose of a public dinner ; and, to crown all,
Me town was to be placarded, as soon as the day of
Mr. Hunt's return should he known.
This communication gave rise to a good deal of dis-
cussion, some Gentlemen thinking it altogether pre-
mature, that any public entry should be given to Mr.
Hunt, until the result of the Manchester Abusiness, at
ileast in its legal sense, be fully known; others, that
*-as a Committee who claimed an unalterable attach-
; ment to Mr. Hunt had already decided upon the
lentry and dinner, it would be of no use interfering.
The CitaIRMAN submitted that a public triantphal-
, procession. in honour of Mr. Hunt, was at fire east
both indiscreet and premature : the circumstances
' under which Mr. Hunt had so highly distinguished
himself, a-ere circumstances at which they ought ra-
' ther to be filled with grief than with exultation : be-
sides, if it were riot propetly managed, such a pro-
cession would be likely to produce an effect prejudi-
cial to the cause of Reform upon the mh:ds of the
whole country, and prejudicial to the cattse of those
imprisoned at Manchester upon the minds of the
Jury who might be imeancAcil to try them. Per-
haps, if a remonstrance were addressed to those Gen-
tlemen with whom this scheme had originated, they
might be prevailed on to give it up altogether.
Mr. GRANT was Of opinion that the Meeting should
dissolve, without coming to any regular decision on
the subject ; that those who thought fit to attend the
procession in their individual capacity might do so,
but that the Committee should not stand pledged to
attend
.it collectively. He accordingly' proposed a
Resolution that the Meeting do adjourn without
taking the subject into consideration.
A Counter-Resolution was moved, that the Com-
mittee do take into their inunediate consideration the
expediency or inexpediency of giving Mr. Hunt a
public entry and a public dinner on his arrival in
London.—This was carried by a large majority in
the affirmative.
The propriety of the measure being finally agreed
tpcm, Mr. EVANS proposed that Mr. Hunt be receiv-
ed with " a public welcome." This was carried ; and
it was next proposed and carried, that a Committee
consisting of five, viz. Messrs. Galloway, Prout, Parr,
&vans, and Carlile, be a Deputation, to wait on Dr.
Watson, and the other Members of the Committee
then sitting, and learn their arrangements for the
purpose of receiving Mr. Hunt.
The Gentlemen named immediately proceeded to
the White Lion, and returned about eleven o'clock,
when Mr. GALLOWAT.announced that they had been
received with every mark of attention and desire of
unanimity. The arrangements the Deputation thought
extremely judicious, the flags and sentiments were
most appropriate, and above all, the plan for the
dinner was considered extremely judicious. It was
first proposed that tickets should be 13s. 6d. includ-
ing a bottle of wine, but it was afterwards considered
that Mr. Hunt had many old friend., and there were
many Ref'ormers beside, who could not bear the ex-
pense, and it was thought better to have dinner tick-
ets at 7s. each. The Raformers would thus have an
Opportunity of giving the lie to the assertion of their
adversaries, that they were not a sober people ; and
an immense Excise would not be further 4ncreased.
A motion was next made, that the Committee
should ce-openne for theSe purposes collectively and
individuVly, as they pleased ; which beiag carried,
the whole of the body retired from the Crown and
Anchor, to consult with the Gentlemen at the
White Lion.
In cempliance with public feeling, and as one
method of counteracting the venality of too many
Electors in this Borough, the Mayor and Corpora-
tion on Friday last, admitted as Elector' ad Bur
gesses, 4.0 resident and established housetn
their petitioning individually and payini
fees, Etc.—Skacecsbury Chonicle.
The •following ludicrous scene took
days ago at Broi.ehty Ferry :—A letter
Lat the Ferry, by the wife of a fisherman
Wick, in the end of which he mentioned,
It mote." The wife being no great scholar,
am no more!" and conceived the letter ti
minion of her husband's death. She bec;
land inconsolable at the news, and 'oitterl
her heavy bereavement, in which she wan
(many other fishermens' wives, about a sct
ber, who had that instant heard a report
0/se...evil' fishing boats at Wick. It is
describe their melancholy lamentations
posed loss, until a Gentleman, whose
duced him to request a perusal oldie
these tinhorn widows, as they supposed
the most unspeakable comfort, by explait
alarming words were nothing more wan
farewell. The mourning of these woe-
stantly turned into rejoicing.—lnverneu

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