The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-04-19 00:00:00

MAPIi:HESTER.

a sioter! Mir;s•opiisl Pipet.

Ex *At 1 UP .1 ?1i1y.% LET': KM MIANCIMIITER.

v.t r .A:•. IL 16.

Th.. io,thense ppulatior 4:: this town :.rid nei4h-
busul.oud n t ouen:y paticipated in the :at.• to-
rment sst rebellion, th-agh Hu.4.4ertfeld is only 711
miles distant from anchester. The transaitionV
which filth pia:, there tr. Wettrestlay last were nut
g‘nerally known lo•re until 10Am* :cup on the toiloss-
inordq. There is t . n. 1.1. er2Sun, tme%,•r. tv ap-
prehend that the isbucting elutes of this p of the
country an toady to rise against t!o• borer:l:tient at
at any tittle when they say think rei;elliotis attempts
has, been suceessful in other plates. But the ener-
getie cuniluct of the Magistrates on the 11;t+: of Au-
wit has alruust oaralized the Radicals of this neigh-
loerho..d and Lancashire, which, below that time.
:,46Ist 1. expected to be tie part of the kingduns is
~:.it!t r..l,eilion WWII." commence, may now be cossi-
t .red morn tranquil than any u:her of the manid.4l-
- 01.0 lien.

‘• Its feel completely at e:.se here, knowing that
the Magistrates and military Lee made proper pro.
p.aations to resist the Iladica!s, if any insurrectionary
Juusrements be tnatir by thefts. The troops slept ander
arm for se% era's nights last week. Donbie sentineLs
ate a t era) night. I informed you, in my last, that
ti... ;:.ew Bailey Ltierracks had been velttitionally
Stew, narks ct defense has.. been rum-
r.est.r4 at the hint-street Barr.icks, which are in the
4.:•tre of the town. Ti' trowel which arrived here
at the vutninencement of the klarno still remain.

" A meeting of the princip .1 inhabitants will be
it- held to-morrow to determine upon the most propel
. E.Aaaker of the first er!rErAtion of his Majesty's birth-
,
- ea) ten the 2.1. th instant. Prabably at grand invert-
altan,feerdejoi, dinner, 3nti ball, will be resolved upon;
sod, it is to he hoped, that every loyal inhabitant of
• t..le• tutrn gill feel it at, imperative duty to s:ep for-
ward un the occasion, and show the Radirmis that they
gm r. ally as contemptibh. in numbers as in nie.ii:s and
&Flirty.
" A few evenitips since as Meagher, the trumpeter
I.* !Le Yeetwanry, was riding past the Exchange, he
~:... attacked by :t few individuals, who commenced
ti,ong and buutitur at him, nd shouting • bloody
hatcher.' In order to show that he Was nut intinii-
curve., Meagher returned, and the mob si,eedily in-
c:•-a.ed so murk that it was usquisite to send to the
ps.:i:t-office for teastahles to tlilserse them. On the
arrival of the utfii:ers, the crund dispersed ill a vtry
s•:,.:rt time.-

Iir.IRTER SESSIONS.

Aratt. l7.—These Sessions commenced to-ilae.---
Tt,wgli there are many prisin.er, for trial, nothing is
b• done of mend public interest. Thu cases are
.:•tly petty felonies and misdemeanor*.
jbe Magistrates assembled some time before thr
ti:Ji rung of the Court ; they had a long eonsultation
in their private room. About elterti o'clock the Ma-
go:rates caner upon the Much.
The Growl Jury was sworn, consisting of twenty
r.•!pertable gentlemen from hlanehester and the
n of st-hum John Hardman, Esq. was
Foreman.ti

.liter the King's Proclamation against rice end
immorality hail been read in an impressive manner
by the Clerk of the Peace. the Chairman vcry shortly
addressed the Grand Jury to the following effect :
" Gentlemen of the Grand Jury.----I ant nut aware
of any thing of importance that it will be flares • •
fur me to address yon upon, except one subject ; I
ut-n•iint it merely that the Magistrates here assent-
blcd may stand in a proper light. Yon are all aware
how much dis,its-ion has taken place upon our mete-
votes:in August last, and whether we judged properly in
deeming the meeting that took place an illeeal one.
'the reecnt trail at York has decided that such meet-
ings are illegot. hug our opinion t.as been sanetion-
ed by the highest judicial power of the country. It
vas yrekiously sahrtioned by the highest legal autho-
rity, though it had not been judicially determined to
he correct ; and the illegality of such meetings had
r.!:o been rein& tautly admitted by isnot of those who
are not friendly to us. We hive now, hotvever, the
dec:sion of the highest! judicial and legal authorities
in our favour.

'• I am terry to oh•erve the calendar is at.Taiti a
very lieJvy one; but I Observe several
,gentlemen
asnotr,-4 you who have Wort sewed on Crawl Jo-
ries, and I hope you' will use your acett-tomed dili-
gence.''
The Grand Jury then withdrew, and the Megis-
tr%;^s took the oath% of alieeiance, &c. to the King.
There are 307 prisoner, for trial, besides 72
others, who h.re Leen bailed since committal ;
amongst them is James roodward, for assaulting
mad throwing stones at the sentry at the Knotmill
guard-house, on the night of the 211th March.
It is lamentable to state, that the total number
cf prisoners in the New Bailey is now 753! 1 hree
soldiers of the tst4.tla arc there committed by Colonel
Al'Gregor, on the 12. th January, for six months, for
trench of the Alleles of War.

The state of the public feeling at Paris, respecting
the Censorship, was manifested is a marked manner '
on hursdai • flu. Lerturcs on Modern 11:story. At
the moment when M. Raoul Itechette, the Professor
(one of the Censors), ascended hie chair, cries of
4.-Gas le Cesseefr— resounded from the tipper part of
the Saloon, and a considerable disfuesance took place,
which was not appeased without some difficulty,
although it was not thought ispeilent to call in t:ie
aid of force.
Ann lieytrey, conch tea at qte Warivicksli:re As-
shes of the murder of her nsiviresti, was exetuted on
Wednesday last, in the &mat of Warwick gaol; after
the cap was drawn over tier face, she iris asked, for
the last time, the motive which induced her to commit
the murder? She ',plied, as she had done several
times before in 'W. rems, that she had no motive,
bet the hnpressioa ois her mind that she must un
bee. She died perfltty resigned to her fate, and with
the sane aisdaasted firmness of cotri:enance that she
displayed at her trial. She did not appear to be more
than 17 or 18 years of age.