9. SECOND Meeting at HunslETMOOR.-A meeting was held this day upon Hunslet-moor, in pursuance of a notice issued by the Secretary of the Leeds Union Society for Parliamentary Reform, to take into consideration the present state of the country, and the propriety of presenting a petition or remonstrance to the Prince Regent, against the laws now in progress through Parliament, affecting the rights of the people. The meeting was less numerous than that which had been held in this place previous to the fatal 16th of August, probably owing to the apprehensions which were generally entertained that the proceedings would be interrupted by magisterial or military interference, and which apprehension the assurance of the Mayor had not been made known sufficiently wide to allay. The meeting, when most numerous, did not consist of more than 2,000 per

sons.

15. MR HOBHOUSE.-The following are the circumstances attending the arrest of Mr Hobhouse, in consequence of the House of Commons having declared him guilty of a breach of privilege, in publishing some offensive remarks on the members: Mr Hobhouse, with his friend Mr M. Bruce, was at No. 1, in New Street, Spring Gardens, about six o'clock this evening, when a messenger of the House of Commons, acting as deputy serjeant at arms, made his appearance, and produced the Speaker's warrant as his authority for taking Mr Hobhouse into custody. Mr Hobhouse said, he considered the warrant to be illegal, and the tribunal, which had condemned him unheard, and in his absence, to be also illegal; and that he refused to obey the warrant. The messenger replied, that he had brought a force with him to execute the warrant, and the men were in the house. Mr Hobhouse desired him to carry

back his refusal to the Speaker; but the messenger said he could not quit him. "Then," replied Mr Hobhouse," you must use force, for I will submit to nothing else." Two other messengers soon after made their appearance; when the first messenger, laying his hand on Mr Hobhouse, said, "You are my prisoner." Mr Hobhouse then replied, "I must submit to force, but I protest against this illegal seizure, and desire you to inform the Speaker thereof." Mr Hobhouse was immediately taken to Newgate, by two of the messengers, in a hackney coach.

15. COURT-MARTIAL ON SURGEON STOKOE.-At a Court-martial held on board his Majesty's ship Conqueror, in St Helena-roads, on the 30th day of August, and continued till the 2d of September, to try Mr John Stokoe, surgeon of the said ship, for improper conduct with regard to certain particulars relative to his intercourse with the French prisoners detained at the island of St Helena, and on the following charges:-1st, For having, on or about the 17th of January last, when permitted, or ordered, by Rear-Admiral Plampin, Commander in Chief of his Majesty's ships and vessels at the Cape of Good Hope, and the seas adjacent, &c., to visit Longwood, for the purpose of affording medical assistance to General Buonaparte, then represented as being dangerously ill, communicated with the said General or his attendants, upon subjects not at all connected with medical advice, contrary to standing orders in force for the government of his Majesty's naval officers at St Helena: 2d, For having, on or about the said day, on receiving communications, both in writing and verbally, from some of the French prisoners at Longwood,

taken notice of, and given an answer to, such communications, previous to making the same known to the Commander-in-Chief, contrary to the said standing order: 3d, For having, in pursuance of such unauthorised communication, signed a paper, purporting to be a bulletin of General Buonaparte's health, and delivered the same to the said General or his attendants, contrary to the said orders, and to his duty as a British naval officer: 4th, For having, in such bulletin, stated facts relative to the health of General Buonaparte, which did not fall under his, the said Mr John Stokoe's, own observation, and which, as he afterwards acknowledged, were dictated or suggested to him by the said General, or his attendants, and for having signed the same as if he had himself witnessed the said facts, which was not the truth, and was inconsistent with his character and duty as a British naval officer: 5th, For having, in the said bulletin, inserted in the following paragraph: "The more alarming symptom is that which was experienced in the night of the 16th, a recurrence of which may soon prove fatal, particularly if medical assistance is not at hand," intending thereby, contrary to the character and duty of a British officer, to create a false impression, or belief, that General Buonaparte was in imminent or considerable danger, and that no medical assistance was at hand, he, the said Mr John Stokoe, not having witnessed any such symptom, and knowing that the state of the patient was so little urgent, that he was four hours at Longwood before he was admitted to see him, and further knowing that Dr Verling was at hand, and ready to attend, if required, in any such emergency: 6th, For having, contrary to his

duty, communicated to General Buonaparte, or his attendants, information relative to certain books, letters, and papers, said to have been sent from Europe for the said persons, and which had been intercepted by the Governor of St Helena, and for having conveyed to the said General or his attendants, some information respecting their money concerns, contrary to his duty, which was to afford medical advice only: 7th, For having, contrary to his duty, and to the character of a British naval officer, communicated to the said General Buonaparte or his attendants, an infamous and calumnious imputation_cast_upon Lieut.General Sir Hudson Lowe, Governor of St Helena, by Barry O'Meara, late a surgeon in the Royal Navy, implying that Sir H. Lowe had practised with the said O'Meara to induce him to put an end to the existence of the said General Buonaparte: 8th, For having disobeyed the positive command of his supe rior officer, in not returning from Longwood on or about the 21st of January aforesaid, at the hour especially prescribed to him by the RearAdmiral, there being no justifiable cause for his disobeying such com. mand: 9th, For having, knowing. ly and wilfully, designated General Buonaparte, in the said bulletin, in a manner different from that in which he is designated in the Act of Parliament for the better custody of his person, and contrary to the practice of his Majesty's Government, of the Lieutenant-Gen. Governor of the island, and of the said Rear-Admiral, and for having done so at the special instance and request of the said General Buonaparte or his attendants, though he, the said Mr John Stokoe, well knew that the mode of designation was a point in dispute between the said General

Buonaparte and Lieut.-General Sir H. Lowe and the British Government, and that by acceding to the wish of the said General Buonaparte, he, the said Mr John Stokoe, was acting in opposition to the wish and practice of his own superior officers, and to the respect which he owed to them under the general printed instructions: 10th, For having, in the whole of his conduct in the aforesaid transactions, evinced a disposition to thwart the intentions and regulations of the said Governor, and of the said Rear-Admiral, and to further the views of the French prisoners, in furnishing them with false or colourable pretences for complaint, contrary to the respect which he owed to his superior officers, and to his own duty as an officer in his Majesty's Royal Navy. The Court having heard the evidence in support of the charges, as well as what the prisoner had to of fer in his defence, and having considered the whole with the most minute attention, is of opinion, that his conduct (with respect to certain particulars relative to his intercourse with the French prisoners detained at St Helena) being improper, is proved; that the 1st charge is proved; that the 2d charge is proved; that the 3d charge is proved; that the 4th charge is proved; that the 5th charge is proved; that the 6th charge is proved; that the 7th charge is proved; that the 8th charge is proved; that on the 9th charge it is proved, he called General Buonaparte" the patient;" that the 10th charge is proved. The Court do therefore adjudge the said Mr John Stokoe to be dismissed his Majesty's service; but in consideration of his -long services, recommend him to the consideration of the Admiralty for half-pay. Signed by the president, Captain Stanfell, and Captains

Wauchope, G. Rennie, Sir W. S. Wiseman, Bart. and J. H. Plumbridge; as also by the Judge Advocate.

MISS O'NEILL.-On the morning of this day, William Wrixon Becher, Esq., a gentleman of very considerable property, and the representative for Mallow in Parliament, led to the hymeneal altar the lovely and eminently-accomplished Miss O'Neill, with whose virtues and talents the public are so well acquainted. The ceremony was performed at Kilfanechurch, by the Hon. and Rev. the Dean of Ossory. The happy pair are to remain a few days at Kilfanehouse, the hospitable mansion of John Power, Esq., after which they proceed to the Dean of Lismore's, on their way to the seat of Mr Becher, in the county of Cork.

22. TRIAL Of Kinloch of KinLOCH, FOR SEDITION. - The High Court of Justiciary met this day for the trial of George Kinloch of Kinloch, on a charge of sedition, founded on a speech made by him at a meeting of Radicals held at Dundee, where he presided. Having failed to appear, sentence of outlawry was pronounced against him, and the bail-bond granted for his appearance forfeited. The Lord JusticeClerk thanked the Jury for their attendance; and although he regretted the trouble to which they had been put in attending when no trial had taken place, he trusted they must be satisfied that it was not owing to any fault of the public prosecutor, who had done his duty. His Lordship then said, that he hoped the Crown counsel would take most especial care that this individual should not be permitted to remain any where within these realms without being brought to trial for the very serious charge which had been preferred against him. The Solicitor-General

stated, that he hoped it was unnecessary for him to say, that the Lord Advocate, and those who were bound to concur with him in the discharge of their public duty, would use every exertion to convince the public that the law was inflexible in its course, and would be administered with the same impartiality to this individual, as to the meanest of his Majesty's subjects.

23. In the Court of King's Bench, Lord Ranelagh was found guilty of having applied several offensive epithets to Counsellor Adolphus, for the purpose of provoking him to fight a duel. The circumstances of this case arose out of a late trial at the Middlesex sessions.

24. SIR GREGOR M'GREGOR.The Jamaica papers contain a narrative of another expedition by MacGregor, which failed, no less disgracefully than that of Porto Bello. The present relation is signed by a few of the surviving victims of an illjudged attack upon Rio de la Hache, a town of New Granada, to the westward of the Gulf of Maracaybo. With two hundred men, the remnant of more than one thousand two hundred brave English soldiers, who had mostly perished through hunger or disease, M'Gregor sailed from Aux Cayes for the above-mentioned Spanish town. The place was gain. ed, though with the loss of nearly one-third of our unfortunate country. men, and lost after a very few days; when hardly one of them escaped the edge of the sword. The commander-in-chief remained on board his ship until after the first action ended, and betook himself to sea again before the second began: never having seen blood drawn, nor heard a shot fired throughout the whole expedition. Eight officers, including Colonel Norcott, who had hitherto bravely headed the troops,

abandoned their unworthy leader at Rio de la Hache, and published the statement to which we refer, as a protest against the conduct of MacGregor, and an exposure of his character and pretensions to the world.

28. SINGULAR AFFAIR AT LEEDS. -A strong sensation has been oc casioned in this town, by the discovery of a human being who has been incarcerated in chains in the house of his parents for upwards of fifteen years. On Wednesday last, the mother of this unfortunate young man, whose name is Benjamin Surr, applied to the committee of the Leeds workhouse, stating that she was in want of relief for her son, who was not of sound mind. The committee, on investigating the case, found that the family belonged to another township, and referred her to the overseers of that place. On the following day, the old woman had a fatal accident: while walking in the streets, she came upon a piece of ice, and falling backward, frac tured her skull so dreadfully, that after languishing till Friday she expired. One of the neighbours, moved by her situation, went into the house, the door of which was usually locked, and after rendering the last offices to her remains, walked into the cellar to wash her hands. While in that situation, she heard a moan as from a human voice, and on examination she found that it proceeded from an object, so neglected and destitute, that it was difficult to say whether he was of the human or the brute species. This discovery was communicated to the neighbours, and a considerable number of persons assembled round the house, which is situated at the Black Bank; but John Surr, the father of the family, had locked the door and refu sed to admit any of them. The overseers and constable were then sent

for, and promptly attended the summons, but the old man, probably from an apprehension of the fury of the populace, refusing still to open the door, they were obliged to force their way into the house. On obtaining admission, they proceeded into the cellar, and here they found the unfortunate man squatted under the cellar steps, chained by a leg to the wall, and in so loathsome a state that it was evident he had not been washed for years. "Sharp misery had worn him to the bones," a few sacks and a little straw served him for a bed; his appearance was that of a spectre; and his bones had in several places penetrated through his skin, which was much excoriated. As a first step the parish officers ordered him to be taken to the workhouse; and on viewing a comfortable bed which had been prepared for him, he exclaimed-"What! is this for me? God bless you! You will go to heaven for this!" and other expressions of a similar import. Sometimes he converses freely, but frequently incoherently. There is, moreover, a vacuity in his look, which shows a defect of mind. He appears, however, to be perfectly inoffensive and tractable, and it is evident that he knows and feels the difference between his present and his late situation. When the young man, who seems to be about thirty years of age, was taken to the workhouse, his father was taken to the prison, and underwent a private examination before the Magistrates at the Court house. The reason, we understand, that was assigned by the old man for keeping his unfortunate

son in the situation in which he was found, was, that he was deranged in his intellect, and required restraint. It also appeared, that the prisoner had always maintained a good character; and though it is impossible to justify his conduct towards his son, the nature of his offence was not judged to be cognizable by the law; it was therefore determined that he should be discharged.

30. PARISIAN STATISTICS.-The present population of Paris is estimated at 714,000 souls, of whom 25,000 are not domiciliated; the number of houses is about 26,801, containing about 225,000 hearths or families; the mean number of births and deaths is about 21,000: and the proportion of male to female births is as 25 to 24; of which a third part are natural children. The city of Paris alone pays about a ninth part of all the taxes levied on France, or about 98 millions of livres, which is about 168 livres to each individual; whereas, in the provinces, the average taxes paid by each individual are calculated at 26 or 27 livres. The medium annual consumption of bread is estimated at 113,880,000 kilogrammes; that of wine at 870,000 hectares; that of butcher meat at 70,000 oxen, 9,000 cows, and 78,000 calves; that of wood at 1,160,000 stères. The amount of pious donations received during the first half of the present year has been 1,897,891 francs; while that of the spectacles, for the whole year, has been estimated at 5,012,866 francs. Last year the number of suicides in Paris was 330: during this, it has just been found to be 376.