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and rode off at four o'clock, *mid loud acclsint-
lions.
Tipe Meeting then th.perst.:l is the ntut ',see-
able insulter, and out the shAhte.t 41.-immio-s
riot or tumult occurred dismal; the whole of she
proceedings.
At the time the filming broke up. it innontstril
to not less tit to 6.1,000 nervous. Au they digitised,
they filled all the adjoining streets.
Mr. HUM WWI ncoompaisied by a large party.
lousily cheerio:
Alt. FRANCI3 WARD. of Nuttioghim, commonly'
called " 11-1141seol FRANK W ARD," and *Moe iwf.ollS
from Storitimrt, ietentleil by tura:lei.) S. It sp.
',eared that the letters Pr IliVitillloll wore lot griritli.
addressed to the parties, and post paid from 1,411.
don. under the name of the Secretary of the Cum.
mitoe thruuon which this NlerAilig had heels coo.

(Fos Miscellaneous Intelligence see last P.,e.)

1470. BRIT! s PRES S S.

LONDON,
THURSDAY, JULY 2-2. ISI9.

The formidable Meeting of the people in Smith-
field, which has been fur some time the object of
curiosity mud apprehension—which the timidity of
some, and the policy of other", had by anticipation
arrayed in the most gloomy terrors, and from which
evils the most tremendous, because wholly unde-
fined, were to have arisen—was held yesterday
according to appointment. Of the proceedings
that there took place, a very circumstantial and
detailed account will be found iii another pert of
this Paper. The Meeting was numerous, but we
are extremely happy to state, that there was nothing
either in the demeanour of those who acted the
most prominent part en this occasion, or in the
conduct of the great body of the people, that ceiald
justify their enemies in attributing to either revolts-
tiotiary or seditious purposes. ‘Ve feel a peculiar
setisfaction at this circumstance—having contended
for the propriety of permitting the people to assem-
ble and express their opinions freely and publicly,
although we lamented that they should be called
together for no practicable or strictly constitutional
object. ‘V.e do not profes to know any thing of the
private lives or general characters of the individuals
who have constituted what they are ;Armed to call
" The Committee of Two Hundred.," and who
have so kindly undertaken to act on behalf of the
nation fur the attai 1111 l ent, or as they think proper
in the fullness of their historical and legal lore to
express it, " the recovery" of our ancient rights,
especially of having annually-elected Parliaments
and universal suffrage. They might, for aught we
know, be very creditable persons—but they are
undoubtedly altogether ignorant of what they pro-
fess to inculcate, mud express themselves in a lan-
guage equally unknown to the Constitution and.
punishable by the law. What oilvantage could
these Gentlemen have hoped to derive from such
a Meeting as that of yesterday ? Do they not
know that their projects of Reform are listened
to with alarm or derision by every individual
who has any property in the country, or who is
capable of forming au opinion upon the subject ?
—lf they boast, therefore, the possession of good
sense or common understanding. they would
desist, at least for some time, from pressing a topic
so unpopular and so hopeless.
The conduct of the people, however, yesterday,
was above all praise; their temper and demeanour
were in the highest degree exemplary, which is to
be attributed more to Mr. Durres firmness mad
iiilpienCe with those about him, than to the pru-
dence or precautions of the City Magistrates. It
will be been by our report of the proceedings, that
Mr. HA'RRISON, who is stated to be a Dissenting
and against whom bills of indictment
were found by the Grand Jury of Cheshire, for
having uttered seditious speeches at Stockport, was
preseut yesterday in Smithfield. A warrant had
been issued for his arrest, which he had hitherto
evaded; but, as if it were dune to put the temper
of the multitaele assembled yesterday to the severest
trial, two City Marshals. attended by a posse of
Constables. entered the crowd, at about two o'clock,
and esteeming 'towards the place from which the
speaker addressed the people, they a ted
lisa-
aisow, sad conveyed him to the Giltspur.street
Csniapter. A momentary agitation, as might natu-
-1 rally be expected, was created by this singular
event; but Mr. liver so earnestly and successfully
i entreated the people to preserve order, that no

opposition was made to the arrest. nor was the
slightest mark of disrespect shee§ to the officers.
A more seasonable opportunity might, we think,
have been chosen for enforcing the Warrant of the
Magistrates, and certainly it speaks ill either for the
wisdom or the humanity of those who, for the at-
tainment of an object which might have been ac-
complished at any other time, would hazard the
chalice of irritating ass immense body of people,
even though they might have been confirmed by
the assurance of having instant support from civil
and military forces. Was it expected that the
people, all sturdy English, would have been ex.
asperated by such a proceeding, that in their imps.
titiei they Would have prevented the arrest' Mid
beateu the officers ; and arcs it hoped tliai an ad-
mirable opportunity might thus be obteined,or Polite
ing iu u►► the unarmed multitude the tens of thou.
seu4s who were "shoed' nod ' mar i 4.1101