The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-04-20 00:00:00

TIIE STATESMAN.

house was attacked On Wednesday night, and
several bullets fired at Mm without any et:
fect. Letters of the same date represent the
meeting of the Luddites, the day before, on
Cheadale-heath, to have been held, not merely
with a ♦iew to the outrages which immediately
ensued, but also for the purpose of arranging fu-
ture operations on a larger scale. They were as-
sembled by a party of weavers, the majority of
whom had been discarded for misconduct. Seve-
ral harangued the mob, and induced theta, it is said,
to elect a body of delegates to hold " a Second
Congress." They spoke of sending deputations to
other manufacturing districts ; and in the mean time,
until the strength of their friends could be ascertain-
ed, they counselled their auditors to avoid contests
with the military, and to confine themselves to noc-
turnal depredations. It is stated, that at this meet-
ing, which they denominated their 44 First Con-
gress," they determined upon an immediate attack
of the manufactory of Messrs. BURT and Co. but
were prevented in consequence of its being guarded
by soldiers.

TRURO, Aram 17.
We are happy to he able to state that tranquillity bas been
completely restored amongst the miners. /They have all return-
ed to th.:ir work,under an amutanee that every possible exertion
would be made to procure for them a supply of barley.

HUDDERSFIELD, APRIL 15.
A Special Sessions was hoiden here on Monday last, and se-
veral persons underwent examinations before the Magistrates re-
speetiqg the late desperate attack at Mr. Curry/moat's mill,
but nothing material could be discovered. The Magistrates
came to the resol tion of enforcing the Watch and Ward Act in
this town. Boat, who died of his wounds, was interred here
at six o'cl.• k on Thursday morning, great numbers of people
poured in from all quarters during the morning in expectation
of seeing the funeral which was over before the majority of
them arrived; all is now quiet. Hartley was interred at Halifax
the preceding day with considerable parade; a number of the
person, who follow, .1. him to his grave were dressed in mourning,
and wore round their arm a bandage of white crape.

MANCHESTER, Arm. 16.

Alt is quiet at present in this towp ; but yesterday night, eight
or niuc persons were taken up for breaking into a baker's shop,
and taking therefrom a quantity of bread, and committed to the
New Bailey. The cavalry have nightly patroled the streets
siuce the disturbances on the Bth inst.

Since receiving the above; we have learnt that the
rioters at Manchester, OR Saturday last, seized all
the potatoes they could find in the market, and car-
ried them off without payment. Similar proceedings
also took place at Stockport on the last market-dayil

The term " Adventurer," applied by Mr. WHIT- I
BREAD to Mr. PERCEVAL, reminds us of the follow-1
ing apt remarks of Mr. MILES, in his celebrated let-
ter to the PaINCE REGENT:—" When men press
forward to the first offices in the State, without the
necessary talents and information for employment,
it proves their effro :tery to be on a par with their
want of principle, and it behoves the Legislature to
prescribe bounds to the pretensions of those who
consider the patronage of the Crown, and the funds
destined by gratitude and munificence to reward
meritorious public services, as fair objects of game.
Whenever a State has the misfortune to tolerate
such maxims, it accelerates its own destruction.--
A band of political adventurers, for the purposes of
plunder and personal aggrandizement, will sneak
into the higher departments of the State, to the ex-
clusion of men of property, character, and abilities,
whose state in the empire would be a pledge for their
fidelity, Men of this description, and we have too
many of them, will seek to secure their insidious
usurpations, by the creating of unnecessary places,
and looking only to their own immediate benefit,
will care little the the consequences of a prodigality,
which leads, by a direct road, to national bankrupt-
cy. The dreadful example of France has no terrors
for these gentlemen ; on the contrary, the catas-
trophe of the Court of Versailles appears to have
sharpened their appetites for the very abuses which
accomplished its destruction, with that of the
Royal Family. When men sin against expe-
rience they can have very little claim to compas-
sion. The public discontents in France, in 1789,
did not exceed those which may be heard at this
moment in every parish in England, Scotland,l
and Ireland—a revolution was at that time asl
little in the contemplation of its infatuated and be-1
sotted Government, as a descent of the moon from
her orbit, when the explosion on the 14th of July
annihilated the authority of Louis the XVlth, and
subverted a Throne, the oldest, and supposed to be
the best established in Europe."

On Frith? the Committee for managing the affairs
at Lloyd's represented to the Admiralty Board, the
probability, that from the prevalence of contrary
winds, a timber of- homeward-boußdAnerchantmen
mey be detained in the Chops of the Channel, in a
distressed situation for water and previsions. A
letter in reply was received from Mr. CROICER, stating
" that Admirals Lord KEITH and Sir ROBERT CALDER
have been directed to use their best exertions to push
out any cruizers which may be within their reach,
with supplies of water and provisions, for the mer-
chant vessels that may be beating about the Chops of
the Channel, and in want thereof."
We rejoice to see that Mr. IlonmEn has given no-
tice of a motion on the subject of Colonel WMA-
non's office, for Wednesday, next, in order, that if
the PRINCE REGENT, unlike every Sovereign that has
sat on the throne, must have a Secretary, the extra-
ordinary appointment may be paid out of his own
privy purse, and not thrown as a burthen on the
people.
At no time within the memory of man were the
exertions of Government more conspicuous, than
previous to the late meeting of the Common Council.
All the great bodies, the Bank, the India-House,
Chartered and Joint Stock Companies, the public
Boards, the Bankers, with the whole host of Con-
tractors, Commissioners, and dependants of every
description were upon the alert,and a canvass at every
door was made to bring up the known partizans, to
convert the hostile, or at least to keep them and the
doubtful away. Poor old Sir JOHN ANDLasore, Mr.
KEISSLE, and other invalids, who had in fact retired
from attendance, were prevailed on to attend; and
yet all would not avail. The City Address, praying
for the removal of what is called the six-and-eight-
' peony Administration, was carried ; and this Address
they cannot keep from the ears of the PRINCE, be-
cause it must be presented to him sitting on the
Tlrone. The example thus set will, -no doubt, be
followed by every considerable body of independent
; men throughout the kingdom. The City of Roches-
, ter meets this day for the purpose, and the sense of
the nation will be unequivocally pronounced on their
merits.
There is a report to which we could not give cre-
dit, but that in these days there seems to be a dispo-
sition,to transgress all the rules of decency and de-
corum which used to be held sacred. We hear that
an intention has been signified from a high character,
of a grand Dinner to be Oven on the 11th of May
, vest, to the Commander-in-Chief, by the General
Officers of the British Arm!, !—So that by this sort-
d meeting, ender the pretence of a dinner, they
I are to convey to the Army their sense of his Royal
('Highness's merits, and their approbationof hit return
to office!!!
Mr. PoLE, it is said, returns no more as State
Secretary to Ireland. He will be succeeded iu that
office by Mr. ARBUTIINOT.
On Friday night a new writ was moved by Mr.
WELLESLEY POLE, for the county of Antrim, in the
room of Colonel O'NEIL, who has forfeited his seat
by voting without having taken the oaths. At the,
same time a Bill was brought in and read a third time
to indemnify him against the other penalties. The
Colonel lately accepted a place under Government,
wlvich vacated his seat. He was re-elected—and for-
getting
to take the oaths anew, he has incurred the
penalties of the Act, which are the forfeiture of his
seat, and a'Sne of 5001. foieach vote. Yet the Ho-
nourable Gentleman will no doubt •be re-elected,
i through the influence of the House of Hertford.
THE LATE HORRID MURDER IN CIIESIIIRE.—The
Coroner's inquest, in the case of Mrs. Murray and
' her servant for the murder of her husband, have re
turned a verdict of Wilful Murder. The servant is
committed to Chester goal; but Mrs. Murray is not
sufficiently recovered from the wound, inflicted in
the attempt which she made on Sher own life, for re-