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Showing posts with label leeds intelligencer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label leeds intelligencer. Show all posts
Sunday, 25 September 2016

25th September 1816: Large demonstrations of unemployed men occur in Leeds

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On Wednesday 25th and Friday 27th September 1816, large demonstrations took place in Leeds, involving hundreds of unemployed men. The prote...
Thursday, 25 February 2016

25th February 1816: Four shearing frames broken by Luddites at Quarmby, their final action in the West Riding

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At 1.00 a.m. on Sunday 25th February 1816, the final Luddite action in the West Riding took place - just after the fourth anniversary of the...
Friday, 18 December 2015

18th December 1815: Cloth Dressers' Union Secretary arrested in Leeds

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In the evening of Monday 18th December 1815 John Sunderland, the secretary of the Cloth Dressers' Union (or 'Brief Institution')...
Wednesday, 26 August 2015

26th August 1815: The Leeds Mercury publishes a final editorial on the Charles Sutton affair

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In the last Intelligencer a boast is put forth by the new Editor that he contributed to bring down upon a rival publication at Nottingham, ...
Wednesday, 19 August 2015

19th August 1815: The Leeds Mercury responds to the Leeds Intelligencer's editorial about the Charles Sutton trial

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We [illegible] a moment from more agreeable and more [illegible] pursuits, to notice a [most] violent [and impudent] attack made upon the pa...
Friday, 14 August 2015

14th August 1815: The Leeds Intelligencer publishes another outspoken editorial about Charles Sutton

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We have promised to pay a little occasional attention to the Nottingham Review , and to shame, if anything can shame, the other paper publis...
Friday, 7 August 2015

7th August 1815: The Leeds Intelligencer gloats over the verdict of the Charles Sutton trial

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On Monday 7th August, the Tory Leeds Intelligencer published an editorial about the recent trial of the proprietor of the Nottingham Revie...
Wednesday, 22 May 2013

22nd May 1813: The Leeds newspapers report on a massive petition for parliamentary reform

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On Saturday 22nd May 1813, the Leeds Mercury carried a letter about a local petition for parliamentary reform: PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. MR. ...
Friday, 26 April 2013

26th April 1813: The Leeds Intelligencer publishes a last word on 'Attentive Hearer' row

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On Monday 26th April 1813, the Leeds Intelligencer published a final editorial on the row that had taken up column inches over the past 3 mo...
Friday, 19 April 2013

19th April 1813: 'An Attentive Hearer' sends his final letter to the Leeds Intelligencer

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Mr. PRINTER,—The evidence given by the "Diligent Enquirer’s" Authorities, is already verbatim before the public; I hold a letter ...

19th April 1813: Hammond Roberson writes in praise of William Cartwright & Joseph Radcliffe

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To the Printer of the Leeds Intelligencer. SIR,—I beg the favour of you to permit your paper to the medium of a few observations on a su...
Friday, 12 April 2013

12th April 1813: 'An Attentive Hearer' writes another missive in the Leeds Intelligencer

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Mr. PRINTER,—In reply to the "Printer’s" Paragraph this week, I inform him, that my Witnesses do speak positively, they state pos...
Friday, 29 March 2013

29th March 1813: 'An Attentive Hearer' writes another missive about George Mellor's last words

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Mr. PRINTER,—My Opponent this week declares me dead ; had it been so, his paragraph might have passed; I would have to know that I am ...
Friday, 22 March 2013

22nd March 1813: 'An Attentive Hearer' writes his longest piece yet on the last words of George Mellor

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Mr. PRINTER.—Sir,—It is indeed painful to trespass on the patience of your readers, by so repeatedly calling their attention, to a subject ...
Friday, 8 March 2013

8th March 1813: The Leeds Intelligencer promotes a newly-published account of the York Special Commission

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As per the directions of the Treasury Solicitor, Henry Hobhouse , an account of the York Special Commission had been hurriedly published, a...
Friday, 1 March 2013

1st March 1813: 'An Attentive Hearer' won't let the debate about George Mellor's last words die

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Mr. PRINTER— A Diligent Enquirer seems to be rather hurt that I have not allowed myself to be publicly accused, without endeavouring publi...
Friday, 8 February 2013

8th February 1813: 'An Attentive Hearer' keeps alive the debate about George Mellor's last words

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Mr. PRINTER—Sir, when you in inserted my first Letter respecting the execution of Mellor, Thorpe and Smith, the Editor of the Mercury, in a...
Friday, 25 January 2013

25th January 1813: The Chaplain of York Castle intervenes in the war over George Mellor's last words

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To the Editor of the Leeds Intelligencer. SIR,—Having seen your Paper two Letters signed “ An Attentive Hearer ,” wherein he asserts tha...

25th January 1813: 'An Attentive Hearer' writes again about George Mellor's last words

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Mr. Printer,—“A Diligent Enquirer ” has certainly taken great pains to ascertain whether Mellor did or did not acknowledge itself and his ...

25th January 1813: The Leeds Intelligencer suggests liberal newspapers are to blame for Luddism

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It requires no extraordinary acuteness of penetration nor clearness of judgement to perceive, that, from the first appearance of open viole...