The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-06-17 00:00:00

SPrrALFIRLDS ALTO.
The second reeding of the Silk Manufeetures Bill, tore.
el the Regulations embodied in the SpitalSelds Acts, be.
Sued by the Rouse of Lords for yeittenlay, as early as
• o'clock lu the afternoon several- thousands of the
/revers interested in the fate of this Bill, assembled in
New Palace Yard. in front of the entrance to the House(
Lodi, and In Abiegdon•street. By titre o'clock, et shich
-us' Use Leeds rposeetes pubtle busloeu, it was ettleettte

,st there wereiot fewer ihan ten *housed Weavers intim
neighbourhood of the House of Parliament. All the open-
' splices were completed thronged with them ; the crowds
were fir more numerous than what assembled on the sewed
and third readings la the Commons; bet their general di.-
meamour was quite as respectful and orderly as where tiler
Iced the lobbies of the lower House, on the second Feather;
of the Bill. on which occasion we had the salialattioa ei
healing testimony tie their decorous conduct. They drew
up in lies in the road-way, so as to aided (heir Lordship+.
carriages room topes, and they took of their hits to the
Peers op Ma carriages proceeded. Under the piazza, where
the Lords quit the carriages to enter the House, depots-
floss of the weavers, most respectably dressed, were drawn
up on matt side, backed, however, by many hundreds of
their breams, the piazzas being crowded to excess. Those
In frost handed to their Lordships, as they passed into tau'
Hesse, tiro papers very neatly printed. The tirst was sit
address to their Lordships, from " the Journeymen Silk
Weaversef BpitalBetds and its vicinity," setting forth the
advantages that they had derived from the Acts now smith;
to be repealed, and ~neatly entreating their Lordships to
allow them at least " the seine privilege that was granted to
the Master Manufacturers; of being heard before a Com-
mittee, in order to produce such satisfactory evidenee ss
they humbly conceive coold.not bat convince their Lordships
that whatever had been asserted against the iavaleable Acts
was sot founded either is justice or in troth. Therefore. they
sincerely aid humbly hoped, that they would set safer the
dreadful measure now before their Lordships to pass into
a law."

This domweast was decorated with their Cost of Amu,
atid their motto :—" WSAVZ TIIIUTH WITO TRUST."

The other paper was from the master silk manteactn.
I rent Ito. signed by about one hundred and twenty
names, with the period (leveral upwards of jij)g years)
during which each manufacturer had been in nade.—
Amongst other things it said, that the existing nett
" prevent differences and disputes between the silk am.
nufactarer and the journeyman ; put it out of the power
of the journeyman to exact from the manufacturer. higk
ramp( wages when the trade happens to be is a flourish.
lag state; secure to the journeyman a fair and eqnitable
price for his labour, and cmsequently prevent the aim-
factarer from taking advantage of bis weaver, staler a
temporary depression of the trade ; give encouragement
to ingenuity,the weaver knowing diet in proportion tubs
is skilful his earnings increase, the skilful weaver work.
hag with greater facility than the ordinary bead, ativ
coneequently is rewarded according to his skill ;Immo
an exorbitant increase of the poor rates; keep the di.-
tricts in which the silk trade is the staple numnfutate,
in a state of quietude and repose; and have effectually
arrested the progress of panperistn, which produced mo-
ral degradation in every point of view, represses tonna.
try, engenders negligence to the m inagement an l eco.
posy of a family, increases disaffection, has a tendency
to riot and outrage, tread injures the landed interest,
produces a general demoraiisstien of principle, sod en•
dangers the State itself." ••-'
Their Lordships received these papers in the most eon-
descending meaner. When the crowds heard the rope,-
sitios that had been wide by the Earl of Lirer and
esot
and that the operative classes were to be 6 e• Wed-
nesday, they were, as may be imagined. immommenly
delighted. They remained to cheer the Leta as they
left the House ; and then they separated lathe Met or-
derly manner.
..

Madrid
Letters from Madrid state, that the ZAN who were
to leave Madrid fur Seville, dwindled down to 1.1,000,
and that at the mooniest of their departure they received
counter-arders. Part of them took the direction of
Badajos, and the rest that of Valencia. At Madrid the
emigration still continued, and the Duke d'Angontrom
had re organised the old Guards. The Corpus Christi
.'ay was celebrated wi.h great military pomp, but few
inhabitants made their appearance. •
Accounts from Bayonne state, that the Duke d'Ancou
!eine will not quit Alsdrid ; but that he *ill reotais in
the capital for the present, with about ten 'holland m u
of the Royal Guard ;. while the first corps, and the re-
mainder of the res. rve under the command of Marshal
Duke of Reggio, will proceed to Senile, and perhaps
even to Cadiz, for which city it is affirmed that the King
and the Government have already set out. If this should
be the case, the attack be snore difficult, as a fleet
would be 'Necessary to blooksde the city by sea, while the
army beeeged it in form.

Two Commissioners bsvt been appointed by tfifs
Covotry, for V..e pgrinse of ateertainitti,r, conjointly with
two Commissioners cootie part of Spam, the validity of
the chktras by British subjects on the Spanish Govern-
ment, and for the purpose of arraeging their payment
(tom the fond assigned for the liquidation by the Corte,
The friends to Spaoisli independent, will reco orrice with
pleasure in this proceeding, the unsltereil determination
of England to acknowledge an other Government lot
Spain titan that of whisk the Kiog is at the head.
The following is en extract of a tette., written nearly
a fortnight ago, on the state of the Peniogula
counter-revolution in Portiegil will soon be atcomOlished,
under the auspices of the Queen of Portnaal, Donna
Maria CarLdia de Bourbon, eldest ester of Verditand
VG. (the same who so energetically refused to ober the
illegal mandates of the Itevolotionirs). The cosnirined
Royal forces of Portugal and Spain under the Celiac de
Atuarame earl tieneral Qnesada. 14,000 strong, ate by
this time making considerable progress in Portugal, sad
the blow will be struck. The treaties between °r, at
Britain and Portugal were entered into with the Kier,
tied not with the Revolutionists : the former employe.%
aid the latter cashiered, Lord. Beresford and the British'
officers. Impartially speaking, what have the Liberala
in Fraser, Spain. or Portugal. ever done for Englsed?
They are her bitterest enemies. • Read the hymn of
Niers aid passe on the ri tee—.
" Lusitania baud el yego4ogles."
Remember that durlitg the Peninsula war, the baked
Wellington was always supported by the Ro;s1 Pry
in the !(punish Cortes, and opposed by the Rivolution
ists--tbstßallasteros refused to serve ender his Grace--
that the British army, after the battle of Talav,rs, was
nearly starved—last the proposals for admitting British:
troops into Cadiz, and for raising forces in Spain os the
plan of 'the Portuguese army, were spurned with the
greatest contempt—that the grossest libels hare been
published in Spain, en the British Sovereign, nation
and army—particularly la Carts de las Dames RePass-
las a Jorge /IL—that the- Liberates attributed t`ie abo-
lition of the Constitution in 1814 to Sir Henry Wellesley
and General Whittingham—in short, Ragland, a' the
great Head of the Anti-revolutionary Confederacy from
1793 to 1814, Inherits the eternal hatred of the Revell
tionary party,: one and the sauna in Forte-
gel and Spain, in France. Piednioat and Naples.-.
(Courier.)
Letters were yesterday received from Rio Janelt by
the way of Guernsey, to the 19th of April. They uhr!",
tion that Lord Cochrane had sailed agates t Sabo lun
the Braeiliaa fleet, consisting of a man of war, °sell'
gate. and two corvettes.
We are assured that the Assizes ea the Northern Cio
cult. will begin is usual atiork, and not at Lansseter'
as was expected. Thit Commission day at York. it is se"
dethinod. will he ea Wednesday the nil nth of July'''.
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