The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-03-13 00:00:00

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MEETING for REFORM Id lILINVIESTER.
On Tuesday this town was again a scene of bustle
and political speculation. A Public Meeting had
been convened, by handbills and edveetisemenrs, for
Petitioning in fairour of Reform sod against the In-
demnity Bill. The Meeting took place *idiom the
parade of constables, soldiers, &c. dligironing our
fellow.townsmen in the jest exercise of their right,.
The Meeting was held on the same open space of
ground as on former occasions, near St. Peter's
Church ; here the speakers ascended the Restrain in
rotation, and their popular topics made a doe im-
pression en the Meeting. All was quiet—no attempt
was made to disturb the public peace. 'The Meet-
ing was large, but of fluctuating numbers, from
the parties continually arriving and departing.—
Whew the motions were passed, there could not be
less than twelve thousand men—five time. that
number were at the Meeting in the course of the
forenoon. It is almost incredible what 'multitudes
docked in from the country, 20 miles round, in the
course of the day—the Magistrates were afraid of a
commotion—they had fortified the barracks here
with heavy cannon, and had stationed a great num-
ber of military, chiefly horse and artillery, within six
miles of this town; these were on duty ail last night.
There is a deal said about the advance on wages of
the working orders here ; the feet is, wages are as
tow as Hie old standard when trade was so bad. A
person in a cotton manufactory must work 14 hours
d day to earn nine or ten shillings a week ; inferior
bands in the cotton trade now don't earn, on an
average, more than eight shillings a week, and many
even not more than five or es !!! We ore,werking
for foreigners, and starved and harassed to death at
hems with lazes and dear living.
Some of the persons who were confined under the
Habeas Corpus Suspension Act, were received at the
Meeting yesterday with loud tokens of approbation.
These men, undoubtedly, have been atiomefully used
daring their confinement. Do Ministers think all is
quiet, and that they have subdued the spirit of oppo-
sition to their unjust measures ?—They will find it is
the contrary—the spirit of opposition to Ministerial
oppression strengthens daily here, and gains ground
with the highest orders of society • while the decline
in trade, which may he attributed to bad govern-
ment- and neglect of our commercial interests, in-
creases, and of course our difficulties will thicken.
The Regent hinted at an amendment in trade in his
Sl eech at the opening of Parliament. Indeed, if
for trade he meant speculation, then the observation
may be admitted to be correct ; but speculation is
the very reverse of an amendment in trade—it shows
the want of trade, and when it becomes general, is
a bed substitute, for its better. Therefore trade,
which is the staple dependence of Lancashire, is in.
different, very indifferent. Goods are low and wages
low—the lower orders are, in some degree, kept
employed, but how long that may be is uncertain ;
they are literally working for noening at this present
time—and provisions being an dent, with no probs.
bility of being lower, aggravates their distress beyond
measure ;—while the weight of taxes. dear living,
&c. &c. on middling tradesmen, whether with fami.
lies or not, is intolerable. This is a poor prospect
_of things. But, let us hope for a chatige ere long—
an alteration not merely for the changing of Mini.
stare, but for the bettering the condition of society.
The above is from a Correspondent. The Mall'
theater Paper in the loyal interest, alluding to the
Meeting of the patriots on Toesdey, says—" Their
Resolutions, (one of which recommended a resistance
to the pay ment of tales, until the House of Com-
mons was constituted in accordance to their views)
were assuredly carried without Site slightest °mari-
time. Between four and live o'clock the persecuted
patriots closed their proceedings, not withnot first
notifying that they should meet again in the nest and
upon subsequent fortnights, in furtherance of the
same purposes.—(Manchester Mercury )

ThB statement originating in a Morning Paper of
yesterday of Miss Sowcurtu.a hawing been married
to Mr. Bus, is not true.
The drama of Rob Roy, in rehearsal at Drery.
tans Theatre, is from the pen of Mr. tioaeg, the sec.
rental writer of the Innkeeper's Doughler, The
Falls of the Clyde, &r.
An aurora bwealis as observed at Paris on Se.
terday, to the N. N. E. There was also much
t nine.
DUEL —A meeting took place yesterday at an
early hour, between Cadt. I.l and Lieut. T—,
in consequence of a dispute at play OR Tuesday night.
Wimbledon-common was the ground, and the parties
fired twice, when the Lieutenant *as slightly wound.
pd in she pistol hand, the bull grazing the right side,
and there the affair ended.

SAYING A GOOD THING WITHOUT KNOWING IT.—
The very great success which has already attended
those adventurers who have made their purchases at
Rtan's Offices, becoming, the other evening, the
subject of conversation in a mixed company, and it
having been mentioned that, in addition to the Capital
Prizes he sold. he had also sold a Ticket o Bich en-
titled the holders to Four Pipes of Port Wino, a
Gentleman observed (oho professes to have a great
contempt far punning), that their good luck was
enough to intoxicate them.
DUBLIN THEATRE.—It has been intimated to us,
that Mr. JONES, the Patentee of the Theatre Royal,
has sent in a formal resignation as to management.
lie has. as we are informed, delivered in a declara-
tion to Mr. Wm. FADDEN, that he never will again
interfere in the management of Crow-street Theatre.
—The Drama of The Falls of Clyde was performed
an Saturday evening, and a more wretched, and,
its many respects, a more disgusting production,
we have never witnessed. The only interesting scenes
are miserable imitations of the two last scenes in
The Deserter, in which Miss KELLY displays powers
which agitate and subdue the audience. The Moral
of the Piece is bad, and seems pre eminently
calculated to violate every honourable feeling,
while it vitiates the public taste, and outrages
common sense. The overture has much in it to claim
our applause. The glees and choruses are as unin-
telligible and ineffective as can well be conceived, ami.
the pantomime music. of which we hare heard so
much, and which delayed the represeetetion of Use
piece for two months, could be composeil, or rather
'arranged. by any fiddler in Dublin; is about Wass
boor.—(Dublin Evening Post)

• . ; A4rolL4 DITELLIGENCII.
Dkak, MARCH *mei seere diti;obeetilli
morning •to be ashore °a. the Beht‘heed: A
boat hat just returned from Mr, and states that sod`
has gone to pieces, and she appeared a copper bot-
tomed and fastened vessel, laden with cotton a
stomas, black sides, with two white asould4iNpa
a Addle heed. We moot ascertain Roy fortiliestiesi
ambits et present. soo
Pontszooeti, MARCH 12.—Arrieed the 11141‘111
and MarY, 1Ie4rell„ from Trieste, for orders she
met with sexy bad weather on her voyage, in 'biota
she lost her sails, and had her bulwarks washed:
awey tAi is under quarantine. Mao arrived his
Malesty's slips Tiber and llope, froin a mite.
lavaaroot, MARCH 11.—The Minerva' Sketch-
ley, from hence for New York,- which list into
Ullapool on the eth ult. was burnt to the water's
edge on the 4th instant, and the whole of her cargo
destroyed, Kith the ezception of 20 bales throws over-
board, which has drifted ashore.
MARGATE, MARCH 12.—A loner with some
cotton from the Marquis Wellesley, has come down
this morning, and reports that tltL ship settles very
fast down in the nand. They had got about 40 bales
of cotton on deck, bet could only puts small pro-
portion of them into the loggot, as it came en to
blow very hard attain Ibis morning, which obliged
them to leave the ship.
OSTEND, MARCH 10.—The Celestin, —, brought
in by our pilots, without any person on board, ap.
pears, by the papers foiled, to have Sailed from
Guarialospe on the 27th of Jane, ry ; having made the
Tower of Deekirk, she seems to have struck upon the
cliff. The Captain's name is Trieste ;no boats on
deck ; it is supposed, therefore, that the people
saved themselves in them.
PLYMOUTH, MAUCH 11.—The sloop Egton, from
Lisbon for London, out 14 days, was picked up this
morning off the Eddystone, by a Cawsand pilot-boat,
dismasted.

The late THOMAS ILSMAPIT, Evoi. who died a few
days ago, in Dubsist, has bequeathed to the several
charitable iostitutionsin that city, legacies amouittiug
to 60,0001.

MURDER AND BURNING DI THR LYNCH FAMILY.
—At the county of Loath Assize., on Tuesday. the
3il inst. Hugh M'Cabe, John Kiernan, and James
Campbell, three more of the parties concerned in the
horrible murder aad burning of the Lynch family,
were brought to trial, found guilty, and ordered for
emotion.
Ins Exec/Wm.—Extract of a letter from Artie.,
March o:—'' I am this moment returned boas
Reagbstnwn, aftet beholding a most tragic scene. Tea
wretched victims have been immolated on the altar` of
offended justice, nemely—Marrom, Ruddy, Camp-
bell. Malone. 111•Cabe, Craven, Kieran, AP Larne!,
Gaynor, and Lanxin. On the scaffold, Craven,
Lennin, Kieran, and Campbell, confessed their guilt;
bet the other sits unfortunate beings declared, in the
most velem+ sod impressive manner, that—' They
were is immune as the child unborn, of the crime for
which they mere about to suffer ; and that they never
ha their lives were at the burning of Wildgoose. lodge;
and that they forgave their prosecutors, and all the
world.' They were apparently very penitent, and some
of them met their fate with a fortitude worthy of better
men. Prior to their ascending the fatal platform,
they prayed most fervently, although I was sato•
niched to bad they were not accompanied by a
Clergyman. I enquired the cause, and was inform.
ed, that the narrow prejudice of the unlettered
minds of two Magistrates dictated the unchari-
table policy of preventing the attendance of se-
veral respectable Catholic Clergymen on the un-
fortunate Prisoners, who, with laudable zeal and
piety, offered their spiritual service,. Even in a
Coert of Justice they could not refrain from the
' Insolence of Office,' and the enlightened and
liberal Judge Fletcher felt it his duty to reptiosand
them, by designating them ' intermeddling Under-
strippers' But to retorts to my subject. It is
true, that the Rev. Mr. Duffy, the Catholic
Chaplain of Dundalk jail, was attend* on the
Priioners in his spiritu,ll c +pacify ; but it was
morally impossible for him to administer spi-
rituel consolation to ten wretched victims.--
There were on the ground a concourse of 20,000
persons. who assembled for the purpose of beholding
the melancholy spectacle. There are three of the
sictims to be suspended in gibbets at Corcreagh, four
at Louth, and three at a place called I lack b rld').cross,
on the road leading from Dundalk to Castleblayney."
—( Dublin Evening Post.)
The place for Rainer and Old Tom's race is not yet
bard, but Sunbury Common is named as the most
likely. There was heavy betting upon it yesterday ;
Tem rather the favourite, and also on that between
Brazier and Appleton, the baker; four miles to be
run, on the same day.
Tuesday night the premises of Mr. Kitchen, deft,
in Priater's.plaeo, Bermondsey. were broke epee'
and robbed of a large quantity of goods, which had
been sent !bete to be dyed. Several lob c:o pipes
were left by the robbers, which it appeared they bad,
smoked.
Lest night a shocking accident happened in lOM's&
road, Chelsea : a man named Charles Strachan, in the
employ of Mr. Ruell, Grove.house, Fulhani, driving-
a cart opposite the Admiral Keppel, stopped there to
water his horse; a light being reflected from the
window of the house the horse set off, and running
la a very (animas manner threw him from his seat.
end the horse and wheel passed over him and crushed
his hotly ' - he was carried to a 'ruggers's, where he
was directed to be taken home, as he was dying, and
no assistance amid be possibly rendered to him.
Coax EVOI4IOI. MARCH It —There ens very little tor
sine.. 41..eut or Market the isar,,oor, and trade very bear, at
bloooday's prim.
SMITHFIELD MARKET, MAncn 19.
To shah am Offal. per roue of 81b..
• 4eot-,,.. So. 6d. to 4s. 141.1 Head .1 Cottle mi. day o
Olean . 41. 61. to 6.. 6d. Ream
"Zds-... 6s. Od. to 7.. Od. 1 Sheep aort Lambs
.. s'. Od. se 6s. 6.1. Calve,
1611
grilest; ....in. ed. to pt. 04. Pip llO
• HAT-MARKET.
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amEtiNG of Mr. WAITHMIN's
•AT THE CITY OF I.olli/ON TATtlelf:
Yesterday, et 1% o'clock, a Iketieg has tre)di
pursuant to advertivement, for the perpoSe con;
bid ea ng the piopriety of Mr. Waldtmeess election to
Parliament, and the best meant of forwarding tbsi
same, dtc. Mr. Alarmed Goonnzuzia in the
On taking the Chair, the Worthy Alderman said,
that be sepposid the lessons of. the Meeting, end its
objects, were folly knower from the Newspaporrs...a
Tie Meeting would, be was emplaced, be Mite. to,
the principles which Mr. Waldman bad for so many
years professed: bet in sepportieg that Oltailemen
he was sot insensible to the pretensiodq of otbeing
though the Mends of Mr. Worths/mu were enseillieg
to dictate to others, and were only, Mittens to glut
him all the support in their powers and to do all they
thought best calculated to sreereiris interests. At e
former Meeting it bad been the wish, that a Comiit4
tee or Committees should he formed for forwarding
the election of Mr. Waithman,. in the metropolis ens;
its environs ; and it was Also their general wish, tire
such arrangements should be made on an eatearkid
scale. With regaid to Mr. Waldman's pretensiettis
he might only says that he had now for many yesel
been the steady advocate of the cause of the Peoples,
and that he bad invariably withstood every tempts.
lion. Ile sies.4oavinced that the greater plat of Ott
assembly bed come there with sentiments and reel•
ings in unison with the advertisement, and he was
glad and peered to sea so many friends to the etude.-4
(Applause.)
Mr. Kruse' trailed that the Meeting would hot
consider it arrogant in him to come forward on thit
present occasion. lie was One who had long adevire4
Mr. Waithman, and they were met to confide iris
qualifications for becotning one of their Represents.
rives. He augured success to the cause for which
they bad assembled, especially when they saw the
chair filled by a men who was so much venerated by
his friends, and was so steady i supporter of the
Constitution. Mr. Waithmets had always been tit?
zealous advocate of the People; whether they hod
been attacked by inquisitorial imposts, or their li.
berries endangered, be bad always been found at hid
post. He should not detain the Meeting any longer
that. to read a set of Resolutions oo the subject fee
the consideration of which they were assembled.
The Worthy Gentleman then read, a set of Hestia
lotions to the elect, that Mr. Waithman was Telly
equal to the various duties consequent upon the high
office of Member of Parliament for the City of Lon&
don. That he had been more than 20 yetis the cons
slant supporter of the People's rights, and those of
the city, which was shown by his having so greatly
emitted himself for the discontinuance of the Income
Tat, the admission of the children of decayed and
distressed citizens into Christ's Hospital, end a tram•
her of other questions. That the Meeting considered
him fully qualified to represent the City of London
in Parliament, and Would use their ezertions for the
purpose of securing his election.
Mr. 01.011Allt came forward 10 second the Reviles
tions with the greatest pleasure, mete especially ben
cause be believed every word they contained to be
tree. His sentiments were those of ars independesa
man, for he had as often opposed Mr. Waithman as
supported him. lie was convinced that all that Gen.
'tenon had done proceeded from putt and disinte•
rested smiler, and be had gone heart and hand with
him on vest general questions. He bad by accident
met with a writer on Members of Parliament, who
described what they ought to be very forcibly. lie
alluded to Mr. Justice Blackstone, who said, that
they were the guardians, the makers, the repeaters
of the laws; whose business it was to watch and check
every dangerous innovation, to advance and cherish
every well grounded improvement, and to transmit
the Constitution to posterity amended, or, at least.
without derogation.—(Great appiause.) —lle thought
Mr. Waithman capable of 111 those duties. It's
conduct was known to ell ; and, by coml.
dering what he had done, he believed all would
be of the some opinion. For fise successive Set.
Anne of Parliament, year after year, he had attacked
the system of mock auctions—a system which wee
replete with frauds, inducements to swindling, and
thefts upon the fair trader. They would see all his
ezertions against the Insolvent Debtors' Act, an Act
that, instead of a mestere in favour of insolvent
debtors, ought to be called an Act for the sanction of
fried and perjury. They would see great efforts on
his part likewise, if they would marine what be had
done in that Aogman stable, the Bankrupt law,.
Then last, not least, he would mention his opinions
in making that glorious Institution, Christ's floss&
tat, subservient to the benefit of the children of de-
cayed and distressed citizens. An 'objection bed been
urged against him, that he belonged to a retail busi.
ness ; but that was the very reason, in his mind, why
he was the most fit Representative of the City. Were
not bankers represented, and merchants? and yet
the great body of retail trailers bad no Rerresents•
live at all to guard their rights. Ile appealed to the
Assembly, be appealed to Mr. Waithman's enemies
(if he had any), whether they could find any men
more fit to represent the City of London. On that
very ground he was content to rest the fate of his
flee, il.n.—(Applause.)
Mr. FATIILL said, he hoped the Meeting would
ezcuse two seconders to the Resolutions, as they
should have a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull all
together. It was not from any thing recent that he
supported Mr. Waithman, for in that way a man.
might be deceived; bet it was from his ezertions in
times of real danger. He remembered the time when be
had been in imminent peril ; bet, even then, be had
dared to be himself, and was now proposed, he
thought deservedly, to become a Member of the great
Council of the Nation. Ile frosted his cause wield
be brought to a successful hose. He bad been sc.
rased of hash% been violent in his tended, bet the
accumtibn was not well resorted : be could bear
testimony to particular slisatioas is which be bed
stood, where; if he had cot been a man of great
judgment and discretion, be might have carried the
popular pbrenzy to the greatest height. Bet he wee
a man prepared to say where they were to stop.
Indiscreet friends had sometimes prompted men to go
beyond the bounds of propriety ; bet by was nue
only well•groooded in principle, bet bad jot/wet
to nett his talents. These imprudent Mends ked
irj the maser Freedom and Refosia Vitt Utile