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On Monday evening, a meeting was held at the Red Lion Inn Yard, Coventry, to consider the conduct of his Majesty's Ministers. Mr. John Robinson took the chair. Several gentlemen addressed- the as- sembled multitude, and resolutions were passed, to the effect that "the conduct of the Administration during the whole of the session of Par- liament had been such as to destroy the confidence and overthrow the hopes of the people." An address was also adopted, calling upon his Majesty "to dismiss his present servants, and choose such men as shall speedily adopt measures to relieve the people from their burdens."
A sale by auction of goods taken in distress for Assessed Taxes, was announced to take place at Aston Tavern, Birmingham, on Friday week. From forty to fifty persons attended, including some brokers ; but no buyer could be found, except the poor woman from whose hus- band the goods had been seized, and the auctioneer himself. A man came when the sale was over, who was perfectly ignorant of the cir- cumstances under which it took place, and bid for one of the last lots: he soon received an intimation from the company, that he had better desist; which he accordingly did.
Charles Stephenson, a man of sixty-three years of age, and a patient in the Boston Lunatic Asylum, contrived to set fire to his clothes on Friday week, and was so much burnt that he died in a few days. In the room which he occupied, the fire was enclosed with fences, so that it seemed almost impossible that he could get at it : but he twisted a number of pieces of paper, and inserted them one within the other till they reached the length of two feet : he then insinuated them through the bars of the guard; and having procured a flame, unbuttoned his coat and waistcoat, and set fire to the linen on his breast. This was the account which he gave himself.
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