Star.
London, England, 1820-02-28 00:00:00

GENERAL ELECTION.

TO THE FREEHOLDERS OF TILE COUNTY OF
ESSEX.

Gwrtaratirs, Gitutvs, Fez. 17, IE2O.
SOME weeks have elapsed since I communicated
to my Friends in England my intention to return home the
end of this month, but their kind and earnest entreaties that I
would prolong my stay abroid, to confirm the health I had ac-
quired, induced me then to abandon that determination. Upon
hearing the melancholy news of the death of our late venerable
and respected Sovereign, I instantly resumed my intention, and
fixed the day of my departure hence, when, unfortunately, the
preceding evening I was seized with a cold, which, though
slight, rendered it prudent for me to delay my journey. lam
now free from illness, and trust I shall not be prevented leaving
this place in time to be enabled to meet you upon the Hustings,
to render •to you an account of my past conduct, and to offer

yin my future services.
I fed conscious that I have done the best in my power to
pr mnote the interests of my country : believe me, my mind has
tirer been devoted to its service, and, as far as health an 4
strength will allow, you may always depend upon my best and
utmost exertions I never have ceased to feel the extent of
those duties, the responsibility as well as the importance and
6;gnity of that situation in which you have been pleased to
pace me. Be assured, my first and most anxious wish, and highest
ambition ever has been, and ever will be, if you again elect me,
tn prove myself worthy of the honour of being one of your Re-
presentatives in Parliament.

rime the honour to be, Gentlemen,
With every sentiment of respect and gratitude,
Your most devoted and obedient Servant,
CHARLES CALLIS WESTERN.

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, MO.
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We mentioned, with regret, on Saturday, that by
the accounts received from the country, there ap-
peared strong indications that the atrocious conspi-
racy, which has been so happily detected in the Me-
tropolis, had its ramifications in the country. We
have now much pleasure in stating that the arrivals,
by this morning's Post, are of a nature to dispel
much of the apprehension generally entertained upon
this point. With respect to the rioting at Dews-
bury, which, in consequence of its happening on the
very same night as the explosion here, formed the
strongest symptom of an extended confederacy, we
are quite satisfied, from the information we have
received, that it had no connection with the as-
sassination conspiracy, of the Cato-street gang.—
It had its origin in the state of trade, rather than
in that of politics, and had no other object than the
simple and definite one of preventing the master
manufacturers in the woollen trade from employing
'workmen at a lower rate of wages than what the
" Workmens. Union" had fixed upon as an indispen-
snle minimum. Indeed, the " Union" of Dewsbury,

and several other " Unions" connected with it, and
established on the same principle, have, we under-
stand, uniformly taken great pains to disclaim any
connection with those styled Radical Reformers,

refusing to have anything to do with political mat-
ters, and confining themselves exclusively to the single
object of " obtaining wages adequate to the purposes
of life ;" for so we find it stated in one of their printed
Appeals now before us. We are of course, as our
Readers may readily suppose, far from meaning to
say a word in countenance of the violent measures '
vohich these men have taken to enforce their objects;
neither do we at present offer any opinion as to the
character of these objects in themselves; but this
much we may safely venture to say, that it affords
room for no small congratulation to find that there
are, in tlez proceedings of these men, none of those
features of general massacre and devastation by
which the metropolitan scheme of treason has been
so horribly distinguished, and nothing, in fact, which
conciliatory measures, founded on a mutual desire of
doing justice, may not speedily cure. -
Of the grounds. en which the arrests at Glasgow
have taken place, nothing farther has yet transpired,
except that they are of a seditious character ; nor
anything beyond the mere concurrence in point of
time, to connect them with the Caro-street Plot.
We may say generally, in short, of all the accounts
which we have received today from the North, that
they are of a tranquillizing character. The news of,
the intended assassination had been received at Man;
chester, Birmingham, Leeds, llalifax, and everywhere
else, even where Radicalism is most rampant, with the
greatest indignation ; and, as far as external appear-
:ll'lM go, they completely dispel every idea of the
existence of any extended system of complicity in the
• ciabolical project. •