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London, England, 1819-08-26 00:00:00

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The Lou CSAPtcsl.l.oll' was hetapi.tl until
heltpest two o'clock IA headatilds prit-
lien ill vitt, at tlKfth hoot he rose to amend a
C. net Council.
is Lordship will hear rootless to-roorrow.

Italestoll 100051. .
A RADICAL RRPORSIkR.
irk doted edits sisembleal is and abort the Moose's
WM*, yeateedly ntornisg, were very considerable. Au eta.
relation was imbffiged.. that Cathie woiffil he hroseette'isp
aid hailed, brit the Lord Mayor had determined tbst he
would take the fell iddatage of dose prescribed by la*. of
investigating the proffered bail, vie. forty-eight boars. Car-
l& eseinit of reline he bailed before Thursday (this day).
Among other scenes which occurred, excited by popular
eircumitands, wits the follorsing:—
As mire, hat well.dremed fellow, of Meiotic sinusee anal
mitiownlar frame, was hinieglit in with some difficulty lip two
orate officers, who stated tlAt he was mini:hint alone, en
miftferr. through Cheateside, with a placard, ut whirls the
following is • copy, stuck in his bat:—
" Ristostar—NATtosaL *ow Untvvitiat.!"
It was deciphered in large and prominent character., son
the prorlaisner, as he proceeded. constantly oplifled a
liege oak Mick, with whieb he poiated to the rfeclaratios.
Being conducted to the Justice-room (from which the Lord
Mayor Madinat retired) and placed at the ler, he inquired
fa a doe of vociferation, whether he was now at the seat ut
justice, anal whether he had committed a breach of the law
by assailing as shire through the country ?
The Chief Clerk told him, that the Magistrate would Se-
Cille whether he was actin! improperly or tot.
The placard was thew taken in to the Lord Mayor, who was
'seated is his private room, aad anon afterwards one of
the Marshals returned with his Lordship's di terminatintilhat
the man might be discharged; but at the same time otimct-
hog that the oaten should be vigilant in taking tato cus-
tody all peruses fogad engaged in the eircelation of isillam-
saetury matter, in whatever shape, durum the present state
of affairs.
The Prisoner (whose name we could not learn) broke out
iato the most violent invectives, oat only against the Civic
Administration of his Lordship, but matters of State gene-
rally.—" Give as justice!" Ise cried, with • voice that never.
berated through the adjacent ball, " justice is all that 11r.
formers require, and when justice is refused, depend upon
it Jacobins= is near at head. The people have been in-'
jored, and have wrongs to redress; so also, as au iedivi-
disal, I have beets persecuted, anal have wrongs to redress."
One of the Marshals told him if be felt aggrieved, he
Mott apply to the proper quarter for justice'.
D—n your justice," said be, " what would have become
Ow the Meeting had been held at Keimincton Corn-.
mom /*Ow* then would have been your justice, while your •
UNA lowed, and perhaps, like Sodom and GossorraA, ant
even ten righteous of this great city would be saved Dls
you want to see troth'!" he added, " then read, mark, leer,
and inwardly digest this."—(Here the Prisoner presented
various copies of Sherrill's and Colotoeff's Regtoterf.l—lle
finally declared that be would not cease in hi. patriotic en-
deavours until the country was made " • land Rowing wails
milk and honey."
Being set at liberty, lie soon afterwards fornislard him& r
with a placard such as had been torn from his hat, and pur-
sued his way along Cheapside, Fleet-street, the Strand, Sic.
PLACARDS.
Samna Waddington, of No. 12, New Belton-street, Lour-
acre, was brought up by Robert Hall, an other, of Uoissis-
Hall. who said he had apprehended the Prisoner iu Kerning-
ton Commute, with a board, on which was a bill, containing
on the one side the words " Order! order I—Universal
Civil and Religious Liberty"—and on the other, "The
Meeting is deferred to a future day; • Public Sleeting an
Smithfield un Wednesday, at four o'clock, p. P/6"
The Lord Mayor—Sy what authority did you hold a pia.
card, calling a Meeting is the City!
Waddington—That's a question which the laws do not
require me to answer. I am 'sot bound to answer. I etas
standing with the buscil-1 do not dewy it.
The Lord Mayor--Who employed you ?
Waddington —That is a question I refine to answer. I
am the printer of the hand-bill, and a person named as one
of the Middlesex Committee. My compositor made a mitt-
take as to my residence in the printiug of the bills ; its con-
-1 sequence of that mistake more than SOO copies were de-
stroyed. I admit I held the placard; but I 110 gist see that
i 1 cumnsitted any offence.—Tbe Prisoner was dischas gest.
nuttftwat.t.
A poor female of deranged intellect was brought up be-
fore Mr. Alderman Waldman. Oa being pressed to give her
real address, she said, " If I must speak the truth I will
tell you, that I have beta educated in adversity, brought up
in the coautry of bondage, and that l reel myself now in the
laird of misery and dished."
The Magistrate—Yost have been already at the Consider
Prisoner—Yes, I have been; and I must may, that there
I have been better guarded than regarded. Mist are aseptic.
plc to do? I complain not of the laws. The laws were
made by men of ability and virtue; but there is a distinc-
tion between law and the administration of law, and wbrtbsr
from the neglect of the Sovereign, or the corruption of the
Magistrates, the laws do sot confer protection.
Alderman Waithmais—We have heard you 'stake a good
speech, but pray tell me where you came from.
Prisoner—lt would pudic the lawyers to find out that.--
(A lospe.)--1 am in distress, as any of the people are ;
yet, there is good liked is England entirely waste, as good
land as is to be found is foreign coistilries. Let me depart,
and I will not disturb you. lam sot anxious to cum, here.
I do not elsh to create disturbance or trouble.
The Worthy Alderman, after a suitable admonition, dis-
missed the Prisoner.
She had seercely withdrawn, whew another in•enar coshed
before the Janice—a female of about dimly of ace, of
wretched appearture, with a very bad Wadi ale She said
she was the theems—queen Browu—talked to an ins oherer.t
usionits of the military and of rights and prerocatite, and
prodseed • bundle of tailed paper*, principally retrinaats
of
old ittespapers, which she owiated detained evidence rf
her Ow looking over for papers, by an odd dine',
deuce, it appeared that the Ant scrap continued the vote ut •
forted 111•1111, of Cumaisons,declaring Miniatess nacapabie—
thit •setwild scrap contained as 'Ash. front Culdwit, en Re.
fora the third cautioned a lbw of the majority epsilon
the reruns of Sir William Curtis.
The Magistrate—My poor woussa,l can do *whim for
you ; year claims. I suppose, are too high to be sanrestagated„
here, aiid ad for the papers you produced. I ore risibincts.
them fitoduralire to the cause of lcottimuscy. •
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