Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1819-10-30
EOREIGN.
LONDON, AUG. 4

Reformers' meeting at Rochdaie, Ju-
~ 26.-The procession began to move
about O'Clock, and was headed by at
least FIVE thousand female reformists, and
followed by about $4,000 men, bearing
but too sad an evidence of the distresses
of the times, but withal SO terrible in
their appearance as TO make the boldest
tremble. Only figure to yourself 5000
desperate women, with six times that
number of the other sex, whose situation
could not, perhaps, by any change, be
made much worse, assembled in one
mass, with not above loo military for
the defence of the loyal and peaceable
inhabitants, or to repress any tumult
that might be expected to occur |
hardly need inform you that all the shops
were closed, and business of every kind
entirely at stand, The Cap ofLiberty
was carried in front, with other banners
bearing inscriptions: on one, was De-
struction to all Legitimate Governments;
on another, Annual Parliaments, SC.
or Death to those in Authority who OPP
pose their Adoption; on third, the
Memory of Paine, Brandreth, Ssc.;' on a
fourth, Success to Female Societies.
Some trifling insult, or some pretend
ed one, being offered by a drunken fell
low, who had been bawling out Church
and king for ever--confusion to all re-
formers = caused such scene of ter
ror, and may add, mischief, as never
before occurred in this place. What
windows were left exposed were shat
tered in an instant, particularly those
which were graced by females of respec-
liability; insults of the grossest descrip-
tion were offered to the latter by those
of their own sex who were in the mob;
and nothing but the appearance of the
few military we had could have pre-
vented the most alarming consequences.
Thanks, however, to the judicious ar
engagements of Maj. Berwick and Capt.
Ouseley, and to their presence upon the
spot, the threatened danger was avoided.
The red cap of liberty was torn down
in an instant, and all the other flags fol-
lowed as if sudden paralysis had seiz-
cd the standard bearers: the mob filed
off in every direction, and, as was thought
not to assemble. But the minds of
these misguided men and women were
too thoroughly imbued with sedition,
conspiracy, and rebellion, to be driven
off the field with so little CEREMONY
They assembled again, at the place orr
ginally fixed for the meeting, viz. Cron-
kayshaw Moor, about mile from Roch-
dale. Parson Harrison was the promi-
nent character on the occasion. The old
MAJORS bill was to be proposed as
rallying point, and to be their answer if
asked what they wanted.
British Naval Intelligence. A Lon
don paper of the 26th of July last, states,
that two line of battle ships (the Superb
and Vengeur) are to be Immediately
sent to South America; but they are not
intended as permanent augmentation
to the naval force there, as they are ex-
pected to return in about ten MONTHS
The Superb has been equipped for sea
with great CELEBRITY, at Plymouth. Com.
modore Sir Thomas M. Hardy had left
Plymouth for the Admiralty, to receive
his final instructions from that board
The Owen Glendower frigate is also
commissioned for the South American
station.
Thus it appears that the English, from
some cause, are exercising their naval
force on the coast of South America.
Gen. D'Evereux's Legion, consisting
of ten regiments, sailed from Dublin on
Saturday last. The Foreign Enlistment
Prevention Bill came into operation on
the following day.
Capt. S. Roberts is appointed to the
naval service on the Lakes of Canada.
Admiral Sir Henry Blackwood goes
out in the Leander Of so guns, to relieve
Admiral King, as commander in chief
in the East Indies.
By the explosion Of a coal mine, near
Newcastle, England, about 40 persons
lost their lives.
Advices from the Cape of Good Hope,
of May 10th, state, that there had been
another Eruption of the Caffrees, who,
BY the last accounts, were supposed to
be completely repulsed, to the number
of $4,000 men. They had crossed the
river which divided their territory from
that of the Cape, and were committing
the most extensive depredations. Orders
had been given to. the military force at
the Cape, to repel the invaders.
Extract Of letter, dated
Hamburger, July ".
The accounts from Prussia continue