The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-05-24 00:00:00

DISTRESS ill IRELAND.
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WATESIPOIIb, MAT 19.—0 n Monday Doe overt
acts of riot mess committed here by a mob. under a
bonnsr bearing the espressivemotto of " Dread, o►
/York." The mob, with women and ragged boys,
broke the shop-windows of Mr. James Kestace
White, King-street, a most respectable baker, Gird
whom •• cannot conceive to have given, even to a
blind populac►, resod for peculiar, or for any, re-
sentment. Some of the stones that wore used in
committing the Delmer, injured females of the family.
The shop was entered and robbed of some breed and
of *best thirty-Bye shillings in coppers. The mo►
likewise broke seve►al penes of glass in the front of
the house of that patriarch of Waterford charity,
Thomas Irenb, Esq. of Great Bridge-street. The
popular smidnres moot, however, of long duration;
the appearance of Magistrates scree restored the
tranqail appearance of oar streets. It was not ne-
cessary to call out the military, although an escort
was deemed advimble for bread going from Mr.
While's to the jails, a &variation that should be
stirred with the poor.—Yeilerdny mortal resiwts.
ble housekeepers were /MOM in as special constables
by the Deputy Mayor, Sir Stolen Newport. All OM
perfectly quiet yesterday. Some slight apprehension
seems to be entertained for this day suit to-Stertair
me caenot bet think such apprehension groundless.

We give poblieity in the folloolog ankle not ni promoter* of
redithis, as WMe or err corrupt and unfeeling ealtomporine.
sill went bat frogs rosesiernittoo in the liardviiip. it. loamy
of the eat eyeful of our leilow-ereatores hove endured, sad are
likely to redone, mad also coosidentig the paper of more es e.
queue, than say Mon Power of the prevent none.
DECLARATION OF LAN(y!SIIIKE OPERATIVE

IIArtUFACTUKENs.

The following statement is signed by miserly holf a
million of workout. The rich and powerful would
do well to ponder on its concluding sentence. The
distress and misery of the labooriog classes have reach-
ad the limits of indent endurance. Whew forbear-
awe shall be exhausted, when only the angry voice of
vengeance, uttered by an aroused and resistle►s mul-
diode, shall be heard, bitterly will our •• higher or-
ders" repent their inattention to these low murmur-
ings of complaint, which have so often given them
Cutely warning of their approaceing fate.
•• We, lila Journeymen Cotton-manefacterers,
Mechasics, sod Artisans, throughout the trading
districts of this meaty, humbly beg leave to lay be-
fore the Public is general, and our empleyers and
ruling hours in particular, our past and prevent dis-
tresses, stills some of the leading cusses thereof, to-
gether wish a few Resolotiess we mean to stand by,
which are the list and only resources left for oar fu-
ture seblisteoct.

" For 1111601 r per. we laboored ender Me►e ells.
tresses, caused by a lung stud protracted war, whether
unavoidable or out we cannot tell ; but we were told
that a glorious compsest of our enemies, and an be.
noarable peace. wield restore Of to a state of ease
end plenty. %Pith patience and fo►titu!e, we strop
glad through these diflicsliira,i,anting fur Ilse happy
days we bad yet to see. Tho time arrived *Lich
was to crown our ratane happiness wish the ble.sed
effects of • general peace. But, alas ! since that
porinel, As means that have been resorted to have
only heightened our misery, •oil plunged us deeper
into the abyss of wretched want and distr►ss.
It wined stiffen with horro► say thinking men who
has the bowels of pity Inwards his own image sod the
image of God, to see our tottering old age, with their
nerveless limbs, palsied with infirmities, for want of
corporeal sestenance. Our children by starvetion,
end for went of clothing, are lost in dirt and vermin;
and want of food in these eases, will certainly bring
ow hereditary Musses, and descend to pnsterity.—
Our inns and fathers who have gone throogh all the
hardships of war, and even bled for their King sod
coontry, are now added to the wretched nu•ber of
their friends in meagre want. To what a wretched
, state is oar clothing and oar b►dding resigned ! Bet
we need not say any more on this point ; experience
informs as ton true of nor respecti►s man:s, in these
cases.

The narrow limits of our political knawledge
will not permit os to say merit on the real causes
of our distresses. It is set in the memory of many
who are now living, that our families were once
@replayed in limiest industry: oar foreign connexions
end home consumption were thee equal to our ma.
natacture. Then our teployers slink this power
out of our hands; then. by the inures* of ma-
chinery, the price of goods and tho price of walk.
ing were lowered, sod fewer Lands were employed.
Now these points are carried to such so estranges's-4.,
that our half. finished materials aro transported
to other natlous, while thousand. of our own wizens
are nut of employ. end others are walking at se.
doted wages. Its the midst of these irresistible cals.
mills., crowds ere de•ertiug the notion, carrying
away net moneyed wealth and the best genius, so that
our once flourishing nation is now a barren wilder.
was of poserry and distress.

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•' Thus nesse now under the unavoidable nereirsi.y
of throwing our•elsea upon that Its:d *lnch Intuit's.
us a Wag; end laying bold on lbe present existing
foot Logo, we hasably request, from this land-
officers rinser workhouse or workhouse allowance
(with what we ran earn) for nnrael►es and families.
These are the Resoluta (((( s we base entered inter and
•usnimoutly care d to ; and if not complied with,
mere serious will be the consequences of the result."
Signed in behalf of the abets said.
Blurkbutn, Lanrathire.

De trade of Liverpool, which bed hitherto eons
Ilneed tolorshly Ilmo, is Now getting to a sad pass:
the drotroceion of coofidence is seriously anti.
cipeeed. and toiler,* have ceased eo he uncommon.

Urns, MAT 22.—W• are sorry in state, that no
material improvement has yet taken place in the mate
of the nianufactores and trade of this district. and
that greet numbers of persons connected with darer•
branches of she woollen mansfsctore moll remold
unemployed. The Mayor, we understand, relined
tbo cious.dres sssss , oho some time ago applied hoe
assistatice to enable them to g. to British Awerlee,
to the Committee of this Wrirkhoose, who have do-
dined furnishi,;!. any fends for this purpose, on the
ground that the proposed plan did not appear likely
to promote the object the applicants bad in view, end
that the elPculton of it was likely to be attended with
IRSopersble difficulties.

THItrATFSMAr:

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COURT or cliA:4ci.for.

CONTIAIP r Ok COUR r.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH.

ROYAL AUCTION EXTRAORDINARY.

In the silo of her lore 31sjevi)N Rends and chat-
tels. re observe the fiidoisiog articles. which are &c-
-ivilly to he olrerell to the best bidder to.tnorros
morning, sr Mr. Christie's rooms.
1. 44 Ail'inr. and GR a•penre4, chiral, of the present role.
S croon rivers, a inell-pteserne.l half esuois of 1917—ditto 1
sispeunn.ltllY, bud It Book takes'.
t ITO Other 'roam,
3. IN liergrlieserrs.

4. 1011... r cur...'
5. IN and &Mrs 1.§114n, rump,. mod 11.ek 'Arm.
mai I Logl.th bulf-croloss., Vet smooth audit go, t 2 Engin& sad
Amigos es *woe,.
6. 9.15 pre.hicial tokens.
Saab ere among the cotiosliios of this magei6eent
collection of toys, fritik•l4. and nld clothes !

On the !Aril Chancellor entrtiog the Cowl ilk
morning, • person eildins.ftl his Lordship on behalf
of • Mr. FA ward Townsend, regarding him in or.
der Messrs. Wingert& Hill, end stsotArr
men, to proceed in the matter of the said Edward
Tow timid.
The LORD Cruiecrumit.—" 1 hero received a let-
ter from Mr. Townsend. and cannot avoid espresslng
my displeasure thereat : penes, might to Intim flint
I canoes mein) cnenmenications in this way. I lake
this ntiportouity of saying. that In tutors every such
•pplication will bo treated by me as it wield have
been by my predreossors, namely. a. a high contempt
of CJort. find the consegeence of such will follow. I
shall be glad at all times to attend to Mr. Townsend's
case. or any other, if brought or in • regales way.
Several sitotirios.were disposed of, it being the last
day of Term. His Lordship will bald his first Seal is
Liocoln's lan hall en Thursday.

This morning. es the sitting of the Coerl, the
ATTOILNIV•G moved that sneers' persons,
*have nooses he banded to the Beech, that were to
arpner 'hit day for judgment, should have their ao-
rersl joilaments respired ; also shit too Rotes, Wins;
upon some townships for moils does, should be made
Orioles,, no raise bein; oboe n.

M►. Scani.rat prayed the jurkosent of the Collet
on Colonel Frederick Napier ; the Defendant lerd
been indicted for •n assault on • Mr. Borten, on th•
I I Or of November last, •od bud suffered jedgmeot by
default.

S I affidavits were pot in on An part of An
proseeotion as well es for the Def►ndant, and
Mr. SC tacrlT addressed the Conn in aggravation
of poesishinent, describing ibis as a case that de-
'moo! the actions attention of the Color,.

Mr. Aim:menus, on she pot of the Drfendant, de.
►cribed shier► as bring ',holly provoked by the
Proescotor in his violent condect toward. the *Re of
the Defendant, whom he descsibed as a Geodesists of
Isiah milita►y character.
T..: COUST sentenced his to pay 451. to the King,
and to give security for pod beisavirrat for two
yes►s.

- Ci.leirel Nspier psl.l die mosey, gale tile requisite
security, end left the Collet.

CovI%T•GAIIIMPI.—On S•lntilejr night was per.
formed, for the faro lime, ate totaled*. or Dramatic
Skeich,in one Aso-ailed Cozening ; or,llaff an flour
be France; in which Mr. YATE, (who lately acted
Falstaff, performed no less than seven characters!
By this uncommon versatility he hid, fair for rivalling
Mr. MATIMWS. In his imitations, sod especial!) of
11:s archetype. be case so hear the exemplar as to
convulse his audience with laughter. We ihali take
an opportunity of 'mitring to this subject again.
We have already onsationed the Wore of the
hoes of Zuccutoucce, limn. and Cu. at Rica.
It is reported that the sees for which (hey have step-
ped payment eased. 17,000,000 macs hence, or
about a silliest sod a half ileitis'.
On Saturday the dispatches fee &eget were closed
at the East India-House, sod delivered to the Mes-
tere of the fellowiog ships, via. !—Fame, S. tics..
MINGTOX, end Almorah, T. wisTit.
We are Wormed, and we receive the intelligence
with a sympathy for the unfortunate sefferers, that
in consequence of some manefacturet a bating reduced
the price of weaving. a further pretty general teduc-
lien has take. place in the weaving tifgitighama. IVe
have information, from a very respectable quarter,
that the undress low wages now given are oecesir.ned
by ease manufactory,a in this city, who, taking ad.
vantage of the scarcity of walk have tethered the
price below what they might fairly gist., and thus
compelled many ethers Its fellow an ezample which
we know it is with velectanee and grief they ere
obliged to imitate.—(Carlisk Journal.)
The trues of W. lverhamptis is in is most miss
able irate. The order of things there is completely
inverted'. Now, the last soiellre• of • starving
jorrnrsevan, is in set up smiler ; his employer ren-
net find him work, 0,, which there is any possible
!irons, and is therefore obliged to discharge him ; the
poor wretch then sells hi. bed and hays an anvil,
procures a little iron, and having manufactured a few
articles, banks them about to the different merchants,
for what he can get ; and his the manufactured ar-
ticle fetches very little more than the price of the raw
material ! He might have previously received to..
a week is a semis ; but now he is lucky If be reaches
71. alla•OlISW laallifacierer.

Ceti .. ..... At, MAT !I.—TIM 14nrbet we. low thinly
!NIPPIsed slob MhTTS slow wwfbiwl i hr wimple. weld at fell ea
gw.wl wows a. AS 414.41 week.-111W ley 1-. chewy/rt.—Owls SI.
lwrer.-16 114 w.. cad Prow She 'knee. I.re andsieal.
Wbsat iliaglioo) .... 56 66 Grey Feld 41) 44
New din. — brow 46 50
Unto i rereigs) .... 64 63 Old de.
Itye 31 31 Ikb de. lO 44
Verily ... ... .. II SI 440 b
ftrw ... .. ........... Ilse do
Mali
11110te Mrs 60 51 Feed dw.
Pew 11/to .... ...... -- Fier blwur 6O b 5
all. Bwileit .... ....fa 41 Sedweth. .

11141T/IFIKLD SIARRLI. Alit 24.
To Q 44 the Wad, pet ruse
Rid .... 4.. OA. so bt. 04.1 Head nt Crude Ibis da,
VOlllell ..k. !4. ire 4.. 44.1 pea/16 - leoo

.—. OA. Is .. 64. ilstep sad Lambs I3J J
Pon .. 5.. Of. a. 66. s.t. Coif.. YUO
Si. U 7. to 7c 04. INO
IIAY-MARKEt.
Hay .—... M. 0.. pd. Pk nil.
fle,.t 61. Us. Od. 1,6 71. 7. 04.
/um w ... Y. 4110. Ud. p. Pt.