The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-05-28 00:00:00

MANSION-HOUSE.

Josupit Any.—Some communications have passed within the
last few days between the well-known Joseph Ady, of `r Un-
claimed Dividend" fame, and the Lord Mayor, upon the std.-
ject of the numerous contributions which the farmer has levied
upon the public, and the unwarranted references made in his
letters to some of the Aldermen, whom he represents as volun-
tary securities for his integrity to the amount of £1000; Thurs-
day the affair closed. As it proceeded, considerable merriment
was excited. The following is a brief account of what took
place :
In the first instance the Lord Mayor sent for Ady, in conse-
quence of having received a letter from him. It is generally
known from the advertisements of the Court of Aldermen in
the newspapers, that they have "blown" upon Ady by their
caution to the public. My having paid his addresses to a lady,
found it necessary, in consequence of her disapprobation of the
proceeding of the Court, so much to the prejudice of her lover,
to endeavour to induce the Lord Mayor to withdraw such a
stigma, and sent to his lordship a note, of which the following
is a copy :
" Sir Peter Laurie,—l am a widower, and if you continue to adver-
tise me as a liar, I shall remain such, as my intended wife who be-
lieves my ipse dixit iu preference to four and twenty others, declines
going to church with me until I am at peace with my rulers.
"Therefore I beg a cessation of arms. As soon as you ratify I will
destroy all my stock of circulars disagreeable to you, and issue only
according to the amended form.
" I request an answer—Yours truly,
" JOSEPH ADY."
The
whom I find that in your circular to the
publicyYZu call me a referee, as well as
L or d May
you or—Mm.
humbug,d
other members of the court of aldermen. I never saw you in
the course of my life before, and how can you dare to attempt
such a deception ?
Ady—The proclamation against me gives site authority.
The Lord Mayor—Why 1 never laid my eyes upon you
before.
Ady—Oh dear yes; I have seen you before, and you might
have seen me—at church. (Laughter.)
The Lord Mayor—l wish your name was not so public, Mr.
Adlcly—l don't see how it is a disgrace to me. I have done
great good to the world. (Laughter.
The )
indeed; the case of the poor crea-
ture whom Loomr d
yOl
l
Mayor—Yes,iilducedo come from Ireland upon the pro-
mise of something " considerably to her advantage," proves
that. The case of the poor fellow who came over, upon your
call, from the West Indies, to receive a fortune, is another
in point.
Ady (laughing)-oh, my lord, aye. You mean Brown, the
black man. (Laughter.) But what right had he to come over?
Mr. Brown, the black, wasn't John Brown, Esq. (Laughter.)
Who ever knew an esquire to be black in the face. (Great
laughter.)
The Lord Mayor—You are not black in the face, Mr. Ady,
but you and Mr. Coster seem to be rather of that hue somewhere
else. (Laughter.) 'But you say that you will not send any
more of these circulars about with the names of members of the
court of aldermen as reterees, if I withdraw the advertisement?
Ady—l do.
The Lord Mayor—Very well. The moment that I hear that
you do anything of the kind the advertisement shall' certainly
again appear, and in every paper in Loudon.
Ady—Phen there's a cessation of arms—(laughter).
The Lord Mayor—l know that your object is to get your
marriage over and to begin your trade again, but I'll watch
you. Depend upon it you are in rough hands, and if I catch
You tripping, down you shall tumble—(much laughter).
My—You bring me before an inquisition, my Lord Mayor,
and don't treat me in a gentlemanly way at all. This is not
fair at all. I say that I have served numbers. Why, my Lord
Mayor, I have served yourself. You have got money through
me yourself—(laughter).
The Lord Mayor—How can you get any sleep with so much
upon your conscience ? You have, I. may say, caused great
distress to thousands.
Ady—Not a bit. Did any of them pay their twenty shillings?
—(a laugh).
Ady then departed upon the understanding of the cessation
of hostilities; but the Lord Mayor again sent for him on Thurs-
day, and said " I perceive, Mr. Ady, that you have published
a Circular, in which you state that you have received the thanks
of the Court of Aldermen for your conduct; and you attach
that infamous falsehood to the letters you send round, promis-
ing something considerable to the advantage of those you ad-
dress."
Ady—l had that published long before I had your L dh• 's
or s ip
ratification of the terms on which we agreed; bid I'll stop it, if
you wish. It was only a little fable, in reply to the proclama-
tion which you advertised. If 'tis disagreeable, I'll check it.
The Lord Mayor—l have ordered to be struck several thou-
sands of copies of the advertisement in the newspapers, and, if
we hear of your perseverence in your old game, will send them
through the country. I have received several letters to-day,
which you transmitted to parish officers and others.
Ady—Very well, my Lord; let them first pay their fees, and
then, if they think proper, complain of me. Let them hand
over 20s. each, and I'll show them where their claim lies.
(Laughter.)
The Lord Mayor—l received the Taut/toil Courier, in which
they rank you with Coster, whom I have got rid of. You are
really getting before the public in a very nice way of distinction.
Ady—Newspapers can defame any body. Let the person who
caused that to be published pay the fee, and then speak to me.
(Great laughter.) I can justify myself.
The Lord Mayor—Don't you feel hurt at all at this compa-
rison between you and Coster ?
Ady—A man does not like to hear himself defamed; but he
can't help it any more than being knocked on the head—
(laughter).
The Lord Mayor (to a Quaker who was in the office on other
business)—Pray does Mr. Ady belong to your society?
Quaker—He•does not. We have expelled him after a good
deal of trouble.
The Lord Mayor—Why, Mr. Ady, they say you don't belong
to their society. Why do you dress like them ?
Ady—Dress ! Why not? Why should I throw it off? If I
did rshould not know myself. lam one of the Society, for I
paid a composition of 10s. in the pound. No man has such a
connection with the unclaimed dividends as I have, and no
man can find what I leave worth gleaning.
The Lord Mayor—Well, if you violate this agreement mark
the consequences. Depend upon it I'll silence you as well as
Coster.
Ady—l shall not offend again against the Aldermen, my
Lord. Have you any thing further to say ?
The Lord. Mayor—Not now, Mr. Ady. I hope our inter-
course is at end, but beware of another.
Ady then departed.

SURRENDER OF MEE, THE CHAIRMAN OF THE SPAFIELDS
MEETING.—On Wednesday last, this person was conveyed in
a coach to Bow-street, from the office of the seeretary of State
at Whitehall, and brought before Sir F. Roe, charged with
having acted as chaiimnn at tae r-Jpanelds meeting, on Dion-
day, the 13th inst. The defendant had been sought for by the
police ever since the meeting, but managed to keep out of the
way until 'Tuesday, when he surrendered himself on Lord
Melbourne's warrant. He is a low-sized man, apparently
about 36 years of age, and his appearance is that of working
mechanic.
Sir F. Roe asked the defendant if he acknowledged himself
to be the person described in the information ?
The defendant admitted that he was the party referred to.
Sir F. Roe then told him that he must put in sureties, him-
self in £2OO, and two sufficient housekeepers iu the sum of £lOO
each. The magistrate added, that he had called for the same
amount of sureties in the case of the person who had uttered
treasonable language against the King, and he had also required
him to give 48 hours' notice of the parties whom he meant to
propose as his sureties. As the defendant, however, would hare
to surrender in the Court of King's Bench on the following
day, it would not be fair to require the same notice, and there-
fore he might give in the names of his sureties as soon as he
thought proper, when their respectability Would be immediately
inquired into, in order that no unnecessary, delay should take
place.
The defendant was then sent in custody of Stevens, the
'officer, too thb House of Correction.

'For some days past the public sympathy has beeu much ex:-
cited in behalf of five poor boys, employed in a cool-pit at. Ledg-
hill, near the fish-pond, Stapleton, who having descended the
shaft for tte purpose of resuming their usual occupation on the
evening of yesterday week, soon found themselves in a most.
awful predicament, from the sudden and unexpected eruption of
a body of water upon them, which increased with so much rapi-
dity as to threaten their almost immediate destruction. In the
first moment of alarm one man and a boy, mho were also in tho
pit, rushed towards the cart, and were rescued from their im-
pending fate by the greatest promptitude on the part of those at
its mouth, but the five boys to whom we allude, finding them-
selves cut off freak this mode of escape, were compelled to effect
a hasty retreat tea more elevated station, there to wait the issue
of the exertions of their friends, whose anxiety, approaching to
despair, it would he difficult to describe. On this elevation,
which is about a quarter of a mile from the ascending shaft, the
lads memained for the space of six days and nights, with no other
nourishinent .than such as could be afforded by a little moisten-
ed hay, and with the most painful apprehensions as to their fate,
expecting every moment to be their last from the rising of the
water, or when that abated still threatened, as they fouud them-
selves, with death by starvation. Under .these circumstances,
the most persevering efforts were made for their relief, and as
each set of hands became fatigued they were relieved by others
without the slightest intermission. Mr. Ilrain, one of 'he coal-
proprietors, or. his sons, 4i-ere • constantly .on, the spqt to super-
intend the proceedings, and,they thus materially contributed to
the result which we. have now the pleasure to record; for these
incessant exertions were finally. crowned with success, and on
Thursday evening the poor lads were happily released and res-
tored to their friends, as if risen from. tow deal. It is scarcely
necessary to add, that their recovery, from this perilous situation
has been the subject of general congratulation in the neighbour-
hood.—Gloucester Journal.

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