The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-04-18 00:00:00

.VII. RETUR.V.

Yesterday a public dinner was held at the Mermaid
Tavern, Hackney, to eeiebrate the returu of Mr. Whit-
bread to Parliament for the manly of 3litlilleaex. At
halipaat font o'clock, near 4410 tlentlemen sat down to
as excellent dinner, Mr. Shaw Lefever toeing in the
chair, supported on the right by Mr. Whitbread, and on
the lett bx Messrs. Ellice and liobhunse.
After dinner the Chairman gave " The health of the
Krug, and may he remember the principles which placed
his family on the tbrone.--Drank with three times
chime.
ihr then gave—" The Queen, and the rest of the
!local Fausily."—The toast was drank with the most
emisiosiastic applause, which lasted for several minutes.
The Cu ttaMMAF then stood forward, and said he bad a
toast to propose, which he was sure would he received
with the utmost cordiality by the company. It was the
" health of Mr. Whillorrail.'s In proposing the health
of this Gratifies*, he sitotitt take IleClilOrl to make a
tew obserautions upon the late contest. Ile congratu-
lated the electors or Middlesex on the battle which they
hail so gloriously fought. and the victory which they
bail so gloriously won. The same spirit was still active,
by which the eteltors of Middlesex had been iospired in
INN. when they resisted one of the most unconstitu-
tional ni that was ever attempted to be imposed
on the country. On the present uccAsion, the free-
holders had manifested, in a manner whirls could not he
misnissicestood, their determination to resist all invasions
oi their rights and privileges, and, in the vindication of
the principles which they had espoused, they displayed
a resolution highly creditable to them. Of the father of
the lion. tientlenian whose triumph they met that day to
celebrate, he would not trust himself to speak. Ile was
mass, ."Fake him fur all in all, we ne rr shall look
upon his like again."—(Applause.)—Connected as he
(Mr. Lefevre) was with the family 01 which that departed
man was the delight and pride, it would he difficult fist
him to speak bow he felt, but as an Englishman, and a
member of that country to whose benefit all the lahours,
talents. sad wishes of the late Mr. Whitbread were di-
ei ted, be (the Chairman) could not withhold the tri-
bute of his applause to that wan, since the freeholders of
Middlesex had au anequirtmatlly and so eloquently de-
clared their partiality for his tuetuory.—(Applause.—

31r. Wittvitertn rain.- forward to say, that he ronhl
testify that the absence of Mr. llvn. was urea •ived
by unavoidable circumstances. He then gave the leeklth
of that Uentletnan, which nas drank with three times
three.
The Rev. Mr. Neter.* returned thanks in * long
speech, in which he declared hiatisclf the advocate of
Universal Suffrage. The tattle troy- definition of liberty
was Universal Suffrage. N'ithoutt Reform frequent Par-
liaments would prove an injury to the people, lint if Re-
form was once brought shunt, it was of rety little run-
sequence how long or how short was the duration of Par-
liaments. The Rev. Gentleman sat 'Zama, amidst luati ap-
plause.
The health of Sir Francis Burdett and John ram
liobbouse, Esq. and the Independent Electors of West-
minster, were then drank with three times three.
Mr. Ifornouse canoe forward anti addressed the corn-
pany in a long speech, in a hide he eulogized the elm-
racier of 'Mr. Whitbread, stating, that that gentleman
had already been tried sufficiently to give the electors
the fullest conviction of his sincerity in advocating the
great C.itise of Reform. lie concluded by giving, "The
Spanish Peorle, and may theit en.leavours to establish a
Constitustional lioveretnient be crowned with success."
Tatar-31anwillois Hymn.
Toast —" The independent Liverynves or London"—
three times three.

! " Mr. Ellice, the independent advocate of Reform 111
Parliamene'—three times three.
Mr. Hum's returned thanks in an animated Manner.
lie professed himself to he the advoeate of Parliamen-
tary 'Worm, and wonid pledge himself to snpport it to
IL extettt that he Owned benefit/id to the tsountry, as
the saute that he shenhi freely acknowledge that he hail
not vet bete convinced of the expediency of the doctrine
of I ni vernal Soffrage.
The health' of Charles Calvert, Req. and Sir Robert
Wilson, were then drank with applause.
" and religions liberty all over the world, and
the indeiwtodent press," were then drank.
The utmost hilarity prevailed amongst this very large
consphoy to g late hour, and the company separated,
every one highly gratified wills the entertainment.

DISMII3.4NCES IN scondsp.

AFFII 1A- AT GIIKENOI K.

/11ITIIES RICSIVHD THIS SIORHING.

Although the accounts of the unfortunate disturb-
' ance, whit li lately bal petted at lireenock, appear to
have been detailed in all the newspapers with uniform
and laudable impartiality. there are some circumstances
with which the public may u ish, and indeed have a right
to be. acquainted, and which we at; happy to lime it in
our power to furnish from good authority.
The Port Glasgow Volunteers intended to have march-
ed from Paisley at four o'clock in the morning of Satur-
day, the !stlo instant, many of them being very anxious to
return to pay their workmen and visit their families,
but having been informed that some riotous prisoners
were to he sent to tireenock, they cheerfully waited till
12 o'clock, amid took them under their escort, to save
trouble to the troops of :lie Nue, who had been touch ha-
rassed during the week, and from whom they had received
the greatest attention while doing duty with them at
Paisley. As not the slightest apprehension was enter-
tained of a disturbance taking place at Ureenock, Mr.
Dunlop, commandant of the corps (who was obliged to
remain at Paisley to settle some money matters relative
to the corps, and to wait on Sir T. Bradford), gave or-
ders that 30 men only should march with the prisouers
from Port tilasgow to tireenock, and to return house
imessesliately after they had perroimed that duty ; hut
Messrs. Carswell and Cleland, who roentuandeil the re-
spective companies, heard sonic rumours when passing
through the former town, which induced them to aug-
ment the escort to about M) men. They proceeded th rough
Port tilasgow without halting, sending on a file of men
an hour before them to give notice of their approach to
the blagistraies of lireenock. On marching through
Crawfurdstlyke, some symptoms of ill-temper appear-
ed amongst the populace, but the Volunteers having
been used to a great deal of a similar sort during
the wet•k, It passed unheeded. When they arrived
at the gaol, a party went into the Court, and a smaller
party was stationed outside of the gate as a guard;
while the prisoners were about being delivered to the
Chief Magistrate of lireenock, a considerable number of
stoats were thrown, some of them of a large size, which
so much annoyed the volunteers, that they were obliged
to stand close under the wall for ruts-Mien, the stones
rousing fr the high ground to the south, which
added to their force. At this time, two Or three abuts
were freed in the air, and the mob was warned by the
guard without the gate, that the tame:els were loaded

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'the in... tors haat hollowed the father in th , nof isillis iseii, anbliaat the voliont __...e thelllt-
-04 sew The tree whicts tfily'bad *ea vas ' . sees to be Moulted, in the dim., ~,• of ao impegostista
esttli
Liars..) in lola —IS et Alden(' le loolsoltironiy bens alisty, efith inspowity. So little apprehessioo had the ro-
titat yt.ung Gets.letuav, he was cositioced, woold
be' ray. Hitt 4ie would•tetnitnal the claims, that the sate-
te,i unieh thee hail achieved was not the only benefit I Meet's of a senors attack, that the whole formed at the
gate oldie whom oia of sectious court in an open colu 4
to
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which shev strewed from the last eler•ion for Mtiddlesea: march, as they expected, aptickly home, but they had prv-
The struggle, if /teen it terminated in defeat, would IT.,_vr newest my a few yards, when, finding themselves pressed
been otii: ol•lV.lntageoll%, Is li kW' an opporattekv no UPC
elect,ds to 4 lerlarr 'loci r sense of the necessity of mice anal harassed with stones, &c. throw uat them, they
ruin!, and efficient Itetorni in Par litainent.—(Applause.)— 1 • tho-,
formtd close 'Wen ttttt , a. 1.1 proceeded at a steady pace along
4 lee KIM` of such an infringe/it hotly as that of the, Cathcart-street. When about opposite to the Tontine
electors of Middlesex, thus totequirocallY exltte"stila , inn they tired in the air, by war of intimidation, anti, if
ons sufficient to wake alarm in the breast of any 31inis-:
imia,dide,
to snare the ell'aisino of Maio I, hut, yarn they
ter. The cry of Reform was now raised' mho- IS* Vevey , .• .
reached fitte-end-ereet, they were under the disagree-
ramparts of eurroptitoo. It wan echoed in the hours oft
the aaltocaers of vorrnpe --their very chambers te- I able necessity of firing souse shuts point blank, fur the
turnell the unwelcome *wind I and an powerful were the ; preservation of their Antis and lives. Here the officers
accents upon the politic ear, that !Isere was nut a matt in ! interposed, and moral neat the fire as owb as the safety
the country wiso would have the boldness to deny, that I
of the
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Reform ens the object of the people's iste-d anxious wish. ' '.." • ' P"".". i
lie then vinalirated the Reformers from the Him • or I with different weapons and all of them furnished with
being revolutionists. Ile concluded by Filing .. The 1 stones, hrich-hats, bottle., &c. persisted its annoying
health of Mr. Charles Samuel WhitbresUl, and thorough I the valtiatei.m, till they arrived nearly at the east-end
anti ettivirol adorn. in the Commons Meuse of Priii•- .
of craafii
_eta. ,
attack desisted
r i iyue, when the was uom,
useitt."— Drank oith three times three, and the loudest '
applause. and the party returned quietly home. Many, indeed
Mr. Wnrronean returned thanks. Ile declared, that I almost the whole, received more or leis injury, which
he mould enter Parliament without the slightest attach-! they had chiefly staffered previons to tieing in earl-v.
'rent to any party. There were many persons it Portia- 1 The Adieu'', who was in the roar, was struck in nine
menu, who assumed to themselves a character of i ode-
prudence, bait w lot, Ise helieved, were independent of . different parts of his body, and the Serjeant-Major, who
was also in the rear (both exert:ng themselves to peeves,
nothing, save their constituents. Ile media no retlectiou ;
upon any party, o lien lie declared, that the only thing het mischief to the crowd). is still confined to bed, owing to
was deternlined not to he indeflV•ilell: a was, the "me I the bruise* he received. We have now only to dtpreeate
of the Electors at; 3lithllescx. ttavieg declared his de-
i this treatment of the vtirtnt.ets, who had been engaged.'
termination to support any proposition tor the reforms.;
lino of tor Mouse of C
, sod having "mice," the' by order of the Lord Lice tomant, on severe ditty at a dna-
animadversions which had been uttered against his ex- I lance from their homes, during the week, and wider many
cellent colleague, but which had ouly reflected disgrauce l privationo--they were escorting to goal, under orders
o" their author, the 11""• tle"ttrit'''" eonehule'l an atti- I from the civil authority, men who hail committed great
mated speech, by proposistz the Issoltis of " The lode- . .
~rimes, and 'ono were, it is believed, wholly unknown in
peudeut Freelacafilers of iliddiesex.--Urassk with doer'
times three. ! Greenock, and that the voionteers should bare been at-

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tacked by their n►arest neighbours, in behalf of such
villains, conlil not have been anticipated. The riotous
prisoner% only were liberated from gaol, and it is, there-
' fore, a fair •inference, that on their account the riot
was commenced, and conducted by their friends
.frout
the eastward. The writer of this article ran safely say,
that no feeling rests with the volunteers, sere t►at of
forgiveness anal regret. They consider the people of
Greenock as comparatively it:aweless, and that they bad
been instigated to the outrage by a crowd of artthl in-
cendiaries anal rebels, with whom the volunteers had
been contending during the u eel( at Paisley, and who
hail most unjustly in6ame.l the populace of Greenock
against their unotfeuding neighbours of Port Glasgow.
It is to he hoped that the forgiveness will be recipro.
ell on the part of the people of Greenock, that they will
consider the volunteers a• having been employed in a
laudably and imperative duty, and that the events of the
`Mb of April, MO, will he for ever buried ilt
A few discrepancies, but of no consequence...appear in
the Recounts given in the di•Trrrnt newspapers, whir*,
in a ease of this sort, *as to be expected, but it is tato-
nishlug bow well these details agree in the amain.

The Sergeant-Major of the Port-Olasgow Volunteers
sen: the following letter to the Editor of the WM.
goo Chromiele, in explanation of the recent nielandtely
affair at Urersousits--
" TO TOR EDITOR at rot ILllllleleCniosticit.
" Sta—nome small inaccuracies having crept into
vuur arcount of the late unfortnnate affair at fireri
1 beg your insertion of the frir following remarks :
".In the first place, I beg to ntridiot . that in order to
apprise the Slagistrates of tireenorl of the approach of
the live rriotous prisoners. two Volunteers were dis-
patched, who arrived there about an hoar before tho
main body; and although it is understood that this was
the tiro Mficial Holier the Magistrates had receive/I, yet
it is et idea the 'nob had hero well aware of It, as they
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ad ■tread}• assembled in large numbers, au so vio-
Wetly *smutted the two messengers, that it was found
absolutely necessary for them to remain roncealed until
the corps arrived, with 'whom they returned.
" It is stated, that on our entrance into ('artsdykr,
the mob began to assemble; hut 1 h to already shown
that the assenthlalre haul taken place.long before; and it
Is only iteresary to add here, that un our arrival tee
found the shops all shut—a circumstaoce very unlikely,
1 apprehend, had the motives of the crowd been sup-
posed to originate merely in curiosity. On the con-
trary, it has ton much the appearance of premeditation
to Ite mistaken.
" It is also stated, that on one return the mob followed
us only to tartstlyke-bridge; but the fact is, that they
hung upon onr roar as fur t. as the Bottle WorLs, where
they were a: lergth beat Mr
" Fete skulls twee leveled at the mob, by far the
greater proportion having been tired over their heads.
hail it been otherwise, the blatighter, from the crowded
state of the streets, must have horn dreadful. lit fact, it
teas with the utmost relnctaswe that any were so let-elicit,
and only when the ferocity of the mob made it obvious
to the Volunteers that nutlaing short of their destruction
had been determined on. It is right to mention, too,
that the officers were particularly active in preventing
the men from tiring, having exposed themselves in the
rear, to the inuaitsent hazard of their own lives, not only
from the bullets occasionally whizzing past them, bat
also from the 1 lentos stones thrown at them by the
mob ; •and ha consequence of which last they were most
severer• bruised.
" I am, Sir, your most obedient see
FKASan

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Thursday afternoon, the erenailler company of the
811th regiment, unde► Captain Walsh, with the colours
and band, marched into the Laid, from Aberdeen.

The piquet of the Royal Mid Lothian yeomanry
(n hurls was statione.l at Mn.e.ellturgh) CUMe in here on
Thursday, and parade every morning at the Hiding
School.

We hear that Captain L'Antv's rice company, 120
strung, made a tender last week to march to lilaspoii,
to assist in putting down the insurrection there, or to
and• other part of the kingdom where their services
might be required.
App►ehrnsions of the rioters in tilaligow still con-
tinue. Two were apprehended on Tur►day, and four
on Wednesday night.

Thursday night a troop of Hussars, Lord Elcho's
burgh troop, and twenty of the tilsagow troop, with
thirty rifirmen in swing waggons, and a piece of eying
artillery, set off at eleven o'clock fns•► Margo., and
took the liiltnnetvirk road. We have not heard, rays
the " Glasgow Iterahl," of any disturhancer in the west
country, and should therefore suppose, that a search for
prisoners end arms in some of the disaffected manufac•
wing villages in Ayrshire, is the of jest of this strong
party.

Wednesday morning, shout thn.e o'clork, right of
the 7th, and eight of toe 10th hossaros set off to Holy-