Star.
London, England, 1819-12-16 00:00:00

MANCHESTER. •

CAsTLEniutott had an nu-
l'n 'Nat REGENT, at Carlton Nouse.
of Yunk went to Kew yesterday, to
;ion of shooting.
'since LzoroLo dined with the Duke
A KENT, at Kensington Palace.
7 to learn that Lotd BROOK/ is very
posed, at Brighton.
staining a heart, was lately discovered
of the LE DitsPascsa ftnnily, in East
rch, which is supposed' to be that of one
NALS, ancestors of his Lordship.
the Deacon, who was lately detected
an the charity collection at St. Michan's
lift, was tried for the offence ass Sactir-
, found guilty, and sentenced to seven
nation. He is nearly 70 years of age.

• FROM OUR PRIVATS CORRESPONDENT.
" MANCHESTER, DECEMBER 14.
" It cannot be unknown to you (without supposing
you to be one of the plotters), that we were to have a
general rising here yesterday. I say tve;e to have,
bec-ause in this, as in many other cases, anticipations
and realities are materially different.
" Yon will, of course, have seen the don't-till-any-
body Circulars which were senttronhd by the Bo;
roughreeve and Constables to th44:friends. The se-
cret of this was let out on Triday,Aly, the appearance
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of a notice for a Public Meeting to be held on Mon-
day, the .13th, at the ominous place called " St.
George's-fields." This notice had attached to it the
name of an obscure printer, called IV/Mir/gip), ; but
I am assured that it is an ascertained fact, that the
paper was not actually printed by him. Where it was
printed, therefore, becomes matter of curious inquiry.
" It has been reported for some days, I believe not
untruly, that this town is at present favoured by the
company of a person calling himself Arthur Thistle-
wood*, the celebrated Reformer, and that the object
of the said pretended Arthur, is to get up simultaneous
Meetings wherever his influence suffices for that pur-
pose. Symptoms of his operations were supposed to
be discernible by the publication of Notices for Meet-
lings at several places in this neighbourhocid, all for
yesterday : and an alarm, corresponding to the im-
portance of the occasion, was visible in the counte-
nances of those Atlases who have encumbered their
shoulders with the care of the safety of the Town !
You have probably seen noticed the pains which are
taking to fortify several of the temporary Barracks,
in order to protect them against any sudden assault
of the Radicals. For the better protection of the'
Town also, more troops have, within the last few,
days, poured into it. Nor is this all ; for in dehpite
of Lord SIDSIOUTH'S Disarming Bill, our AlSrmists
have been round to most of the respectable Inhabi-)
tarns, and offered them arms for the protection of
their property ; but where any doubt was expressed
as to whether the defence of property required such
a measure, and the arms were refused, i hear that
the name of the recusant was put down in a book,
and he was told that he would be reported to Go•
vernment as a" disaffected person !" Ido not mean
to say that this has been done in all cases, but in
some I am positively assured that it has.
" As soon as the Bill for Monday's Meeting here
was posted, a Placard was issued from The Observer
Office, denouncing the measure as a trick of the
Spies, and advising the people to stay at home. The
probability that such was the fact, is increased by
the circumstance, that one of the names to the notice
of meeting was that of a fellow who had been impri-
soned two years for robbery. Now it is known, that
on former occasions, agents precisely of this descrip-
tion, were employed ; and nave been also informed,
that there was originally appended to the Requisi-
tion a most inflammatory paper, which, mutatis mu-
tandis, was a copy of one of those that were so mys-
teriously put forth at one of the late Smithfield. Meet-
ings, and upon which The New Tistes,so elaborately
commented. Perhaps the person who calls himself
Thistlewood, may have brought the paper in his
poeket. However that may be, looking to the cha-
racter of the man who led the Requisition, to the as-
serted fact of the pretended Thistlewoods unmolested
presence here, notwithstanding the understood pur-
pose of his journey, and to the notice for Meetings
simultaneous with ours at other places, most people
concluded that the Meetings had not originated with
the Radicals, though, perhaps, some weak silly per-
sons amongst them might have joined in the scheme.
" The event seems to have proved the correctness
of this opinion; for, notwithstanding an immense
caution from the Police Office, for all well-disposed
persons to stay at home—for the public-houses to be
cleared at four o'clock in the afternoon—for the
peaceable inhabitants to put lights in their upper
windows at night, and setting forth also the danger-
ous and alarming disturbances to be apprehended,
no Meeting at all took place.
" Twelve o'clock being the appointed hour, at that
period two of my friends surveyed the ground. The
Meeting consisted of one man wheeling a barrow full'
of coals, two digging clay for bricks, a weaver car-
rying home Iris warp, and a child (about seven years
old) dressed in a treasonable tri-coloured woollen cap.
The Alarmists will, of course, take the credit to
themselves for having saved our lives on this occa-
sion ; or, perhaps, they may mention a placard issued
by the Requisitionists (most of whom'are totally un-
known). announcing that, for prudential reasons,'
the Meeting would not take place. But this hand-
bill they were posting upon the walls only at the
very time that the Meeting was to have been held,
Consequently it could not have prevented a congre-
gation of persons to the spot, if any, particularly'
from the country, had intended coming. The fact I
believe to be, that the wretches who called the Meet-
ing have not the slightest influence amongst the
People to procure one ; and if any of the latter had
at any time intended to go to it, the bill from The
Observer Office, and the comments upon the proceed-
ings of the Boroughreeve and Constables in two of
our Manchester Papers, had opened their eyes to the
trap laid for them. •
" However, as there was no Meeting at twelve
• The person who bas given himself out as Mr. Thistketieed,is
not improbably an impostor. We know It th-be a fact that the
real )Ir. Tastinuwotso is at this moment in London.- Esaton.