The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-09-17 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN,

Y... 111 set from the f•.llomiog poragrenli hi the
Alanchetter Mercary of this day, whirh is • high
liming Mioismti•l Nom. that my r•parl of the WI.
raMelings at Oldham. us to A. co.tlensorry between
Mr. Bow. lewd Mr. Ihrwar, k 'wither denied nor
&awed :
" On Witcher',lay test, • Jar
y was sommoned to
investigsie at Oldham, eh. rune of the death of a
'tieing man, hurt on the 16th of /WWI lull. St.
ler'il-60.1d. Mr. Ferried, the Coroner in that di..
him, being in London. his clerk prudently adjourned
the boldest swell Friday lest, at "levels o'clock, at
whirls loose Mr. *needed ; but finding the
body Of the deetwosil had bean boded the thy preens's,
Nt. Millie did not In any way Interfere, sad she
Inquest was metordiegly odjnorsted until Mr.
fetren,re totem, which wes daily espected.—
!doses flarivier, Parson. anti Co. and a ghat inSes
of strangers made their appeersoce. We have
daubed methorisy en hese, that the accoorst of the
young fellow of the POMO of Laos, from Oldham,
who is saki to have died in consequence of the wound
h. &hived no the 16th Wt. in the neighbourhood of
Fe. Pohl', Church, is obsoletely false. So far from
lugs death being nowt thereby, it was occasioned by
his aolopeqoefst debauchery end revelling, which pro.
tiered • fever, that terminated his esistencii. Ile
I eft served (hut it "multi not, be sincerely) big Keil
piled country on the plates of Waterloo, end molted
Mat he coon, bete settled the b--r of • soldier
who Ors, attempted to drive Ms of St. Peter's-field,
If another heel not come up."
That this Paper would have 'tottered open desist,
er the etpre•linn of doubt, if there were even • pre.
tenets In *acme. it, these cannot be the slightest dub,.
Ines it coals) hardly venture to contradict • statement
of what is quite nowise, in this oeighboorhood,
although the Coorier thinks proper to tell my
theatrics', and expresses a suspicion that it was got
op
for the occasion. Bat for whet *cession ? Whet
motive. could prompt r • to attack such • person as
Mr. Usit)..? As well might I be suspected of a die.
position to par an nosed on the wheel. I was holy
estonislied to find a man of his Owner/ of mind up.
pniritml to mild. in a Curt of Justice, and upon
such • solemn occasion, for from his own confession
there can he an doubt of his intention to hold the In•
geoid, if it were pot for the unespected appeersoce
of Mr. Hammer, and the witnesses from Manchester.
lYttai • falling off then from good aid times, to ap.
point such a person to act as a Coroner, for " of
ancient times this office was of gteat estimation, and
nonfictiond have it ender the degree of a Knight."-
3 El. I. e. 10. 4 lost. 271.
But there is a passage in this paragraph from she
Mercury • hirb tbe too severely reprohsted.—
John Lees is the son of very respectable parents, his
father being a manufacturer in very comfortable fir.
eventuates; be has been reported to me as a person
of esemphiry good conduct, and steady industrious
habits, mod this report I have bad from some nibs.
blients of Oldham who knew him from his boyhood,
end who hese we ceinsesio• whatever with the Re-
formers. Yet In this paragraph he is desaiberi as
Ih• violin of " debauchery sod revelling." What
otifirioiss conduct but to deader the character of
the • • • •in order to promote the impeoity
of the • • • • I Fir the design, far al Waal
the toodyncy, of such a gmbliestion must be to
• diminish the public interest is f of the deed, and
to produce en indispositioo to inquire into the cause
of his deeds. Bet this espedient will not sec.
cited, for the Isiqoest will be prosecuted with industry
and seal. Ample evidesee will be *dilated to show
the cause of his death, and sack evidence the CO,Ol/Alf
h bound to receive. Ile cannot. indeed, legally tee
feee it, for s,they (Om Coroners) most hear 'eidetic*
on all hands, if it be offeied to them, and that spew
oath, because it is sot se much an sccosation or is.
dietment, as an inquisition or inquest of
2 11. 11. 157. But without besting ',ideate in this
ease as to the cease, viaduct, and consequence of the
Meeting, it would be impossible to determine bowl
Mr. Udine' by his death.
There is another paragraph in this Paper to 'Ada
I must advert. It is as follows:
" Two noted female Reformers, of the SOON it
Partioglon and Killer, left their homes at Kedge,'
elong whit their husbands, no the morning of the O.'
benison Stettin et Manchester. They stopped at •
poblic.boase by the way, and whilst drinking there,
rartingioe stood op before the whole compsay with
• glees of liquor is her hand, a hoping to God she
might sever go back again alive, if they (the Re-
formers) did wet carry their point that day. Before
the conclasion of that day she was carried homedad
past that very politic-how, where the impressio was
used, having met her awful doom by falling into an
are., from the felling of the iron palliest's'', against
which she snood with others; amongst whom
compassion, Judith Killer, lied her hip dislocated.her"
I saw Judith Killer so Smoky, and she with two
women who eccompaoled Mrs. Partiugton from
Eccns ea the morning of the IGth, declare solemolye
,
that they nesse went into any poblic.boose by the
way; war did they ever bear any as ch elpfession any
where from Mrs. Partingion as this ',titer imputes
to her. These monism farther state. that they did mot
accompiny their husbands to the Meeting; and this
/'element is corroborated by the hedvands themselves.
But as the bushend of Mrs. Perliogion mesas to
bring as action against the Jeered in which ibis
thragraph list appeared, the whole truth will be
folly elicited. MNecherder, Stpf.l.s.
I have joss come from eat of tire mast snuggled,
oadected Inquests that ever came to my hoowledee.
was prohibited from taking netts, every resets.
etrawoe of mine MI the subject, •ith my reference to
the practice unifoimly prevalent elseis hem, aud ewe-
eletly lo Loudon, being quite unevaiing. The Inquest
less upon Robert Campbell, • coustsble, who was
lacked by the people upon the 17‘h of Myth, in
Newton-lane, in consequesce of having Aced • pistol
from kis window. Theta mere twenty-thee" witnesses
eadsced, and for ell of theme the depositioes were, I
mos &smiled to see, presiossly prepared and rege.
larly draws op. They bad therefore volt to sor
er
sod to Age them. Let me hope that some sea i
deafly will be trasplood to elicit the trothrather vi. ist the
ease of Lees; but she hope Sr, I fear,
Moony. Mr. Ashworth, a 'mister, who profess-
ed is act as Amore( for the Coroner, addressed the

Joey or rnn•inerable lerieth, cobteruiegs. that Camp.
hew. riga, •as not !wow, at aoy an*, het was
seerely bred to disallows the loading, and impressing
Ms asonsietsen that the verdict wield be " Wllfel
Monter easiest some peruses solteown," while
faylor. the 'sublease, howl whose boss; Carepbell was
droned by the snob, would be •rgsitt.rl. lAsi. Tay-
lor, with his brewer. hes been in prison for she last
forseight. The eerrliet test pryrisoly what Mr.l
Ashworth described. There were no strangers ad.
mired het Mr..--.., the atto►ney for Taylor, who
OW allowed tot take notes, as Mr. Ashworth said,
for his wee, and three sr filer others. Mr. Ashworth
was. as I me assured, aistosnsel (or Taylor amid ►is
servant.

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city. A frreochwao Is said to writs frees 'doe
to a friend in France all faiialai :
• I we moth asrpilved at eat 11•41a1 the Enna is loiadna
so Miriam', as they appear in Paris, awl I imagist the may of
it at I pawed through the ilirrels. I think it Is to he finned is
the kanossay that taints Waren Weir raorten, their lowa, their
1 org44, their climate. their has, sad their character. Every
i Wog Is arrnard to well that every thing appears minable.—
' The siasplwity of their dress iv e4issllleat with tint of their
hones—Their linualttiows with their riebra--sheir wartime's sigh
dark liberty—their rocente4a with their thin' of gain I for,
however tipsiest an Eorglishowa may be, he is always 4eekiwy
after iwoney. All this hororoahes ....aerfotty. aura takitre alt
twitter. at Lemke woe bat foreigaers act ianawiweetly."
This reseothlys warty of their caricatures, which
entertain by their ridicainosness.

Yesterday a bus ran from one In another et the
Steck Escheor, and with rather more gravity on the
Royal Eschangi., that a disturbance had liken place
at Glasgow end Paisley, the terminsiion of which
was nut to be entici plied. Now, although the Meet-
ings in Englaed moot by wall le kayo skits', effected
the public opinion with fear enough to loser the
value of the different Stocks, yet the Wye of hubs.
letter in Scotismd disposed the minds of many to en.
pleasant anticipation. The Scotch area moo sober
led reflecting people then their southerly neigh.
boom. They selling+ ace without Met thinking.—
Lik• all other northern people, they are less volatile
end more howdy, mad conseqeently all their move.
meets are worth watching ; what they attempt to do,
they seldom fail in effecting ; sad we can only ley,
that it is matter of the greatest surprise, that they
hive been so uninterruptedly awl so son... Wally
played open by their political horns pats Gentry for
the lest bell renter). Nothing but a seccession of
erch-impostott, like MOAT UMW" could have
kept Owes in their present di.grarefel trammels
Thoggh seder a less genial son, they are, neverthe.
less, dimming in Intellect ; sad they may, contrary to
their outsold harvest, which is always later than our
wits, show the fruit of their political collivolios
of freedoms before their South British or Hibernian
neighbours. What they will, they are sure tnobteis.
They will net make so botchieg a holiness of Rep
101111 as other nations have done. Their very asap
tern will use ne such language to the. se that *Mel
is countenanced by the Ministers of Great Britain WI
to the people of Englead.
For the Went of the tenements to which the ge-
neral gtievances of the whole United Kingdom have
given rise at Paioley and Glasgow, we refer the
reader to the particular sternal, from those
rises. --To es it is not et all serprisiog,
kettniog as we tin how fell the Body politic is
of disorders and ill.humosrs, that the latter should
break out io some place or member of it.—A co.
temporary, whose knowledge of public opinion
must et least be equal, to oar own, and if the sound-
ness of that knowledge were to be peeled at by the
greet numbers who repeal on it, far superior to it, sem
in the Tines of this day (after treating of the at-
.tempts to set aside the dictates of Magna (liarta, as
Ministers keep often set glide the Hobe OS Corpus or
Personal &tidy Ad), " sock attempts cannot sac-
teed. The streets of hymen interest, feeling, and
intelligence is too strong for them. They must be
brought before other Juries; they mast come before
Parliament itself ; or if they do not, why we cgs
only add, that there ate others besides the 6 Radi-
cal' Reformers, who will question the esisteect as
.to any useful ;ramose, of that renowned sad tutelary
body."—Now, this is saying, only in better len-
page, what we would have wished to say. After
urging his ewe sentiments on the questwrion before
ch
the People of England, whihewriter says,
16 have been strengthened by daily accumulating
de-
monstrations of their justice," be apostrophises by
saying, 46 We cell emphatically upon the higher
classes thregghnet the Empire to take me of
themselves and of their owe welfare. A de-
sperate blow has been aimed at British freedom "
Re then concledes—" But liberty and property are
inseparabk." On this paint we only say they eight
to k so; hod they may continue to be so stodge cer-
tain regulations, which should subject the latter to
that tele of legation, which would prove that persons
wee* of prior esistence to properly, and are of para.
mount consideration in every point of view. He,
nevertheless, amities the same source to both, sad
finishes his article by lidding, whet we will make no
objection to, " The law which emotes one of them is
the safeguard of both. If life be et the mercy of the
Magistracy, what becomes of fortune? Never was
there a case in history which made so manifest the
onion of interest betweee the tick sod peer amongst
a free people."

The Address and Reastostreace voted by tbeCoart
of Common Coattail, eat this day, at twelve o'clock,
pretested to the Rutin? by. the Loan Matsu, Mr.
Alderman WAITUNIAN, end shoot sissy of the Gentle•
nee of the Coulson Council, attended by the Rt.
CORDER, end other City Officers. We remerked that
the Loan MAYOR sod Sheriffs wwe the only
deals she sere not dressed in deep moetniss, in
testimony of their sombre feelings on the melancholy
occasion which sere rise to the Address. ills lima%
Highness-was strayed is a Field Mershal's enifosm,
and was attended by his Grace the Doke of
LINGTON, Lord CASTIMIIAOII, Lord Stowoova, end
ethers of the t ebinet Ministers. After the readies
if the ileseestreoce by the RerMinza. Yews

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