The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-07-21 00:00:00

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Dau. Jrttr4o.—Came down from tin+ Meer,
end sailed to the westward, the Lord bleleilifir
:Wedsorall, for New South Wale. I Mentor, Bullock,
sod the Oporto, Covey, for Oporto.—The Brilliant,
Fenn, for Calcutta, remains.
PORTsmOUTIII, JuLY 20.—Arrived the Royal
owe 'sell, from a creise.—Passed by to the weer:
word, the Pahners, Kemp, for Calcenta.—His Ma:
jevy'a ships Spartan, Scoot, and Racehorse, remain
at Spithesd. •
FAWtotilH, JULY 18.—The only arrival today is
the Euterprizo. Ilosker, from London.
BARIUM, Jut 20.—Arrived the Emily packet,
with a Mail, from Gottriobargb.—Sailed the Jane
packet, with a Moil for do.
CONSPIRACY AT MANCHESTER.

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[MK THE MANCHIsTIM PAPCIIS.]
TH SPINN BIAS.
This great boor of labourers still contimse in in..
peas. Their conduct is peaceable, but marked by a
steady adherence to the rules cif combination. They
meet daily, superintended by leaders and delegates,
wove in prems4tron, and manage their pecenlary ar-
rangements by special appointments. To obtain the
peees.ary mipplies for maintenance, they solicit sub•
scriptiotts, and are also aided, we understand, by
weekly levies upon other trades. Their plaits tire
regularly organised. They watch those factories in
'which business is partially or wholly going on, by
certain portions of turned-out men placed as guards,
by night and by day, who are ',limed by others in
due succession ; and means are taken to seduce those
away who are atttliegly at work. On two days in
this week great atiikibers have marched in register mili-
tary files to tti•brge factory of Messrs. Lee and Co.
in Scf(.rd. to loduce the females employed there to
leave their Oly. For this object they waited,at the
siiniter-tonte, down up in line before the building ;
but we ate happy to state, that very few of the
yeomen have yes followed the esample of the men.—
The prepto)ers, we presume, feel it to be not merely
• private, but a public duty to withstand this formi•
dable illegal procedure; and we fear that many spin-
ners and others, who do not think far themselves,
but who are led by the evil counsel of others, will,
in the end, draw down upon themselves consequences
which may be very injurious to their future coudi-
lion in life.

It would he a great pleasure In us to close oar in-
formation here: but we are compelled to add, that in
Stockport the public peace has been broken for two
or three successive nights, by meetings of refractory
work people, power-loom weavers we believe, who
assemble at the close of the day. These men will not
allow others to fulfil their engagements► and have
directed their vengeance against one particular
factor), by attacking it, end demolishing the windows.
On Wedue►day night the Riot Act was read by Mr.
ilwrrison, of Cheadle, the Magistrate, and pert of
the Che.hire Ye.•utanry Cavalry were called wit to act ;
end was the unrestreittable fury of the obis, that

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this Gentleman and several of the cavalry' sere
wounded by stones and brick-hats thrown. The
/Niro of the town is, however, determined on doing
its Out t , and additional constables are sworn in for
&Wm.! sit the: object; whilst their handsare strengthen-
ed by the a, rival of troops from our barracks. More
of the Cheshire Yeomanly are also on their march for
the same destination ; and the most vigorous means
wilt be used to !Olafe dee obedience to the
Many offenders are in custody.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
We are much concerned to slate, that Stockport
has been a scene of serious disturbance Otis week.
The evil disposition of a numerous body of work-
people, who have stru, k for an advance of wages,
has manifested itself by attacking the power-loom
factory of Mr. Garside, the head and front" of
whose offence was giving employment to some fe-
males, who were engaged at Burton-upon-Trent, to
continue that occupation which they had spontane-
ously relinquished. The windows were one and all
demolished. The Yeomanry Cavalry were celled nut,
but they were inefficient in numbers, and several of
them were hurt by the populace. On Thursday, at
soon, a troop of the 13th Light Dragoons arrived
front our barracks, and exerted themselves; 'won
which occasion, Serjeant Carleton sustained a serious
injury. One-arwl-twenty persons have been appre-
hended on a charge of rioting, six of whom have bean
committed to Lancaster Castle, and the others Sit re.
tnauded for further examination.

f ACTS OF SEDERONT..—SCOTCH JUDGES.—We have
Mot heard of a publication that has created more in-

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quiry than these Acts ; and there can be no doubt,
but a stroll iurestication will take place the neat
Session of Parliament. We give the following ex-
tracts from the work itself. The Author is a Mem-

Der of the Honourable Society of AVriters of the Sig-
net. In his preface he observes, " Nor ere the enor.
mous shims arising from the esereise of a power so
ainconstirotional and anomoloos, confined to Scot.
land. Under pretence of regulating its own pro-
cedere, Acts of Sederont have, since the year 1789,
been enacted by the Court, entirely legislastive.,
nay, of the nature of tasation and of revenue, as.
comprehensive in their nature, anti so burdensome is'
their effects, as to obstruct the channels of jostiee.--
The motion of Sir JOUR NEWPORT, in the House 'of
Commons, for a Commission to enquire into the in-
crease of fees made within these twenty years by the
Court. of Justice, in favour of their officers, and by
what authority they were imposed, I deemed to b e ao
orcurre..ce admirably calculated to question the
power of the Coati to enact its own Ordinance t, or
rules if procedure, without the recognition of Par.
:lament —The oppression arising from destructive
and procrastinated litigation, exists to an 'some be.
yowl esample." The alarm created in Scotlatad, gives
rise tcr fretful apprehension ; the new Ptirliament
will, it is hoped, speedily do away these she metel and
arbitrary Acts of Sedarent, so oppresive ie. their ope-
ration, and tyrannical towards a bras,, and loyal
People. The publication is to be had. at the Li.
ISrariesiti Brighton; Apollo Library, Worthing ; and
moat of the Booksellers in Londe% with en Ap-
pendis.

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,111,1 Li ELECTION.
MR. ORAHAWS SPEECH AT THE CLOSE OP THE
.7 • •• SCRUTINY. f. ,
GetercEstEtt,—Often as I have ventured to foretel
to you success, and oftener still that I have been
called on to return to you my thankful acknow-
ledgmetrts, yet our triumph has never been certain,
nor the measure of my gratitude complete until to-
day, sad this is glorious indeed; not because an
humble individual, like myself, has been the object
of your choice; but because, 'after a desperate
struggle, principle has prevailed over corruption, in-
dependence over interest, honour over power.
Those who endeavour in vain to court your favour,
in vain also have attempted to intimidate you into
submission. Yoe have fought a good fight, you
have won the day; the cause has been your's, your's
also shall be the glory. It was pretended, when this
scrutiny began, that my friends were to be covered
with idisgrace • that shame and defeat inevitably
awaited us, and that transactions would be brought
to light, which we dared net face. Mark then the
result—we hive passed the fiery ordeal, and I hope
without a stain remaining on our character. We
have signed no false certificates; we have forged no
registers; we have tempted no one to depart from
his promise, or to violate his engagements ; we have
axed no threats to engage& vote; we have offered so
money for falsehoods to destroy one; we were not
the first to attack the poor and needy, or to deprive
the pauper of his vote; we did not wish to mil our-
selves of the criminal neglect of an agent of the Corpo.
ration, and to strike off 500 Burgesses in a day, because
the stamps, for which the poor men hal paid, the
Town Clerk in his easy indifference had omitted to
procure. No: this was not our coarse: but tread-
ing the even tenor of our way, we met difficulties
with firmness, and artifice with honesty, and we have
lost neither our object nor our character.
Gentlemen, I consider this a splendid example of
a popular Election. I have been called on to defend
rights in which you were warmly interested, and which
I have seen exposed to danger; and yet though you
were alive to your situation, you have peaceably
surveyed the struggle without a murmur; your 'pi-
tits did not droop in the moment of adversity, nor
are you elated beyond measure by success. It is
thus that the People should always triumph ; they
have a giant's strength, and when well directed it is
never abused, nor can it fail to conquer. I am
threatened, I understand, with a Petition ; but this
I do trot fear; the proceedings of the Committee and
Corporation are too much one to beer investigation—
the Town Clerk and the Agent are partners—the
Mayor and the Chairman are the same—neither do
think the friends of Mr. Startiforth can approach the
House of Commons with blameless consciences and
unwashed hands. No, the sooner this contest is for-
gotten the better, as far as relates at least to the Cor-
poration, desperate even to suicide; and let us re.
member nothing. except that we have conquered, and
that it is the duty of the victor to pity and forgive
the vanquished.
My political opinions, Gentlemen, have been
long known to yon; it will, therefore, be only to
tire your patience to state them now. I have been
denominated a Jacobin; but if a restless end fe.
verish ambition, with liberty on the lips, and anarchy
at heart; if a desire to break down the bonds of
civil society fur the purpose of revelling in licenti.
ousness and blood ; if the abuse of popularity for
the purposes of disorder, and if a secret wish to
wade through slaughter to a Throne, if these be
Jecobinism—then I am guiltless of the charge.—
But if a sober love of liberty be the crime, or a
wish to preserve the balance of the Constitution—
to oppose the encroachment of prerogative - to sop-
port the legal rights of the People; if a determine.
Ron to resist any approach to Military Government,
an anxious desire to enforce economy, a hatred of
war, a love of peace ; if these be Jacobinism, then
I must confess the crime; but it is a crime which I
shave with the hest and greatest men of the present
day, and with the Patriots who are gone, and who
are indeed Patriots by their defence of liberty.
Adverting to the new character in which he now
stood, be said--On entering the House of Commons
as your Representative, I shall go not a Member of
any party ; I shall support no measures which I do
not honestly conceive to be fur the benefit of the
country ; I shall oppose no propositions which in
my conschence I believe to be salutary by whatever
man or body of men brought forward. As to the
local interests of my Constituents, it shall be my
constant endeavour to promote them as far as pos-
sible. In the fulfilment of my duties, it shall be
my busi:sess throughout the Session, to be the first
Member in the House of Commons, and the last
out of it. I shall take up my residence in the Me.
tropotis, the seat of Government, and there I shall
be happy to be made acquitted with the wishes of my
Constituents, either personally or by letter, to which
I shall pay the most prompt attention. Now that
the Election is over, I shall cease to act fur a party ;
GNI it shall be my pride and happiness to be enabled
Yo act for the great body of the community, wbe.
ether they had hitherto been my friends or op-
ponents.
Gentlemen, I stand here surrounded by a body of
friends, who in the support they have cheerfully sod
voluntarily given me, are actuated by no selfish
views : they are anxious -to return a Representative
for this town and for the country at large, sod not
a Representative for themselves. They are actuated
by feelings of the most disinterested and patriotic
kind, and their whole conduct daring the Eloction has
corresponded with those feelings. Hearken to the
counsel of these Gentlemen, and listen to their opt.
scions. Depend upon it, they are your true and real.
friends. Most deeply am I, and all the Burgesses,
indebted to these Gentlemen, and particularly to the
Learned Counsel (Mr. Alderson), who has exerted
himself so strenuously in pleading year cause and
supporting your privileges.
formerloccasions during the present Election, I
have taken the opportunity of repressing my senti-
ments uu Universal Suffrage. If to that ezirsor-
dinary doctrine I shall ever be a convert, one thing 1
will pledge myself to, nut of gratitude to the Ladies
of Hull, that I will never rest satisfied until the right
of voting is granted to women. Indeed, this is not
only justice, but my own best interest ; for sure
am; that if the present Election bad bets to be carried

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by the votes of the Ladieg, I should hays beets re- '
turned with a very great majority. Finally. I beg
leave to say, that I am now abort to take lease of
you, but I
trust not fora very long period. It is
unpleasant to me to deal only in promises fof the fu-
ture I would muck rather give you an account of
the past : and I
hope one day to have the satisfadtion
of redeeming the pledges I have given ; end that I
shall he acknowledged to be justly entitled to that
confidence and support, which I have experienced
during the present contest.

SCOTCH BURGHS.