The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-04-24 00:00:00

and good order.
At a public Meeting of the Clergy, Merchants, and
principx! Inhabitants of Wakefield, held on Monday
last, for " the purpose of adopting. measures for check-
ing the designs of the disaffected, supporting the con-
stituted aathuritics, and protecting the lives and pro-
perty of the loyal and pea-cable part of the comtnu-
nity," a very exeellent string of resolutions was
partied. They are in substance as follows :—That
the Meeting view with the deepest sorrow the late
wicked attempts to inhvert the I),'”We of society, sad
that they pledge them -lees to uphold the laws with
all their powers. and finally to oppose every act of ie.
subordination: that they rely with perfect confideeee
on the ci II atchorities and existing military f dere, be-
lieving them completely adequate to preserve the se-
curity of the town: that they perceive and deeply
lament the unparalleled distress of the Labouring
classes, to which the present disaffectid.n is rrinci-i
pally to he attributed: that they earnestly implore
the attentian of the Legislature "to the calamitous
situation ddf that lately Nourishitor district," to devise,
If possible, some remedy for the present alarming dis-
tress; and that petitions to this effect he drawn np,
sigaetl, and presented to his Majesty and the House of;
Gesesont. These are the avowals, anti this the line
of condoict, which are suited to the present eiecum-
stances of the Hiding. It is proper that the insur-
gents should he promptly and firmly misted, and that I
the constituted authorities should be supported in their
efforts to preserve th., publie peace. It is also judi-
clout to ascertain and declare unhesitatingly what is
really the main cattle. of the tEssatisfaction. By
antribing to mere po!itical feeling the actions which
are ,he consequence of unrelieved and apparently hope-
less misery, the Legislature might be fatally blinded,
and the country irreparably injured. The meeting
which approved these reso'utions saw despair sitting
on the haggard countenances of the unemployed poor
—disteess its cause, and disaffection its consequence;
and they knew it would be a cruel, a fatal step, only
to recommend the necessity of subduing their excesses,
wldeout enforcing the propriety of relievin.• their
wets. In the peCtion to be presented from the town
of Wakefield, the legislature will lw truly informed
of the real evils which it should be their first concern
to rectify. If they fairly aclinowledge them, and
show their determination to adopt such measure. U:
veil prose a remedy, or tend in time to produce It, ten
may be assured that we shall hear no more of insur-
rection, but that the pike will be abandoned fur the
shuttle anti the shears, and permanent tranquillity re.
mune its rei=n. If they do not pursue this course,
but increase restriction and accumulate taxes, they
will find, that a distressed people cannot be a contented
people, and that it is the interest as well as the ditty
every Legislature to secure the prosperity of the
people, and through their affection to ensure their
obedience.

Since the wisenthly on Orange-moor, no further act
of violence or riot has been committed in the districts
which bare been lately disturbed. '1 he effects, how-
ever, of the recent risings have by no means subsided,
nor can they be expected to do co fur some time to
come. Numerous arrests have been made during the
set week both at Barnsley and liudderstield ; and a
considerable number of persons, who wee• eng iged in
the late wuvesut•nta, have absconded from their homes.
Of these deluded and unfortunate men, some are wan-
deriag about at no great distance from their places of
abode, shunning the constables and military, and
others have not been heard of since the night of the
Orange-moor meeting. On Wednesday, four bro-
'tberl brthe name of ffutehinoon, wee..apprehended.
at Dodwortb, near Barnsley, along with a man
named Siddon, on a charge of having attended,
armed, at emnigt-savor.—Anotber man was arrested
bye rutty of yeomanry and soldiers, and evinced
great fear on being taken; he is said to have
made important disclosures. Thomas Perriman, a
potion who has lung been known u a violent Ra-
dical, and whose mental sanity has been doubted, is
note of the persons charged with attending at Orange• '
moor; this credulous, doting, old man, has for the
present made his escape, but it is expected that he will
soon be traced and apprehended lie is represented
to have given way to absolute freury, en finding, when
he arrived at the place where he expected to meet the
luntrent arms., that be was duped and betrayed.
Front the confessions of several of the persons who
have been taken into custody, it appears certain, that
the men who marched Irum Barnsley had been amused
with the must marvellous accoante of the force which
was expected to joist them from Iladders6►ld said
Wakefield, as well as the Seotrh army, whose success
was spokes of as certain. On Thursday evening three
'of the persons who had absconded from Barnsley, Wil•
Ha& khe John Birkinshaw, and John I/enigma (She
loon it 1 ablaut Perriman) *ere brought to that town
in the custody of Mr. Hopwood, the coastsklo of B urns-