The National Register.
London, England, 1819-08-23 00:00:00

THE NATI9NAL REGISTER.

boors le enrol themselves fu orminie IKe eneitiy. *Theliettlers
are in it Nei st:tti•, ZIA the l.nlfres have ,teilen :di their ruffle.'
war Is 53 .1 tll 11..ve been ,re:e.ioneti by tlie conduct a
, n hu had the cu 11111 l Anti iu one of the d.•t: kb.

• WAY 10.
The 19th reskient, commanded by Colonel Wotyisi.e,
have come up with the main body of the Catfre• near 1;s:t-
-hanes Town wed nye defeated them with (seat lo"".
Ikea they have withur,ao from the liriti•h territar. The
54th tageautot otrivioi as phi, phre n few thts ago f om
rafetnald,. mot ha' o 1.1.14 Wm, no rehrdutl'fnthefro,.tivrs.
A largoomber of infsitt) have hero ..... totted oil hoi&ehock,
to rouble them to pursue more ell:•eto.itty the Siailg,S. --
They •re IM In excellent robins It is reported that our
prrs►nt Governor isgoin4 home, and•tbat somber has beets
opposuled.

MEETING oa• SiITUIIDIY ar TUE Cliotrs

'MD 4SCIIOII.

Tn enesegnenee of the Notice issned from the °Mee°,
Mr. ‘‘‘...l.t, the huge room in the Irowis soul Anchor wails
nearly tided at one o'clock. by au •ssemhlage cf person►,
of Sla.:n, iu xcoicral, it would he an injustice to say that it
was utherwixe than extremely itspeciable. Among the
inorrttoul►le indivminal► who mingled in the MIMIC. st•e
oh ttttt d Watson, Thistle N'Ond. (Sitc-t, and ►rural otiscis
who took the lead at the
At ten ',Winces east ome o'clock Jlajos Cart right, bc-
COtbraMcst by Mr. WOokr usid .errs at other per/runs, en
tered the romp. amidst the loudest cactus.

At it gooney after 011;;O'Cluekiirllict,kr wended the
/side. He observed, tint on an ureasion of such mo-
mentous importance as the present, it was of the luestest
ronacquenee that a itelsou of vrvier:t and resvectehility
should he called to preside over thvir proceedin7v —Their
old and tried film', the worthy Major Carte tight, was
present ; but Rom his infirm state of healtkliatt ears MAC('
a wish that the honor of tali in the Choir, might not he
pressed upon him. lie 'belief, ry Legged to AWNS that
Mr. Waddington should take the Cho •

motion being pot, was earl i, d ores cm.
Mr. Waddington thanked the Meeting fur the honour
they had dune him, and pledged liiinst If to be guided in
his conduct in the Choir as he trusted they would be in-
durnced in their's, by the maxim Au fi ailtram papterfs.
Mr. Waddington said Pe had been in ,Iniericts, in
France, is Belgians, awl in the Peoinstila ; lie had wit-
nessed the tranintions in all these places, but he p ver
knew nor heard Hutt She Magistrates, wit anglit to re the
conservator of the pence, ordered armed 4roops to fire
Ca unarmed and defenceless individmaln, to plunge their
sal). es in it:, breasts of innocent N 0111e1/, or to ScICI ifiee
the latching babe.
Mr. IVuoler then proceeded to Address the Meeting.
Heispoke in terms of vehement peprol 1114.11 of the conduct
•of the .Magistracy and Yeomanry (he would not chit them
soldiers; of Alancliester—und insisted, that it would have
been quite as legal in the people to go to the Public Alert-
ing armed, and prepared to defend their exercise of a cut,
stibitional right, as it was in the Yeoluanty to fall sword
in Mond on the people, without ally canon or provocation
—( Immense applause.) Air. Wtoder •poke at veal length.
and concluded by moving the following ILt. suittoicaw, width
were tacit, ied unanimously.
1. Thrit in the opinion of this assembly the public meet •
ing convened at Alacchrstei, for Monday last. the I ith nut.
its consider of the hest and most eflretted means of obtaining
Parham. otar R 4141171. WAD perfectly legal end constitu.
tiomd.—Comitinctsly.

/. That if the Alicliiitiales d, caned ruch meeting illegal,
it nas their duly to have demonstrated such and
taken proper precautions agaiost in; being held.—Uantoi-
nt

3. That to refereed to disperse such a legal assembly by
force of arms, can 01.1 y be considered as a wanton massacre
of ourunatUmding and peaceable countrymen; and that the
barbarity with which islesucious inhitary executed the rash
at dues of u vindictive magic vary, sparing withar age nor
sex, eqo is in guilt the blackest atiockies which stain the
annals of tile Unmet Hevolutisow--Unanimousty.
4. That the fir:paid conduct of the Magi,truers at 71:nn-
chester, on Monday, the lath lost., imperiously demand..
that, as in London, the right of choosing Sherilli• and bla•
gistrates should be restored to the people, a 5 previous to the
reign of Edward the 2d.-I..maisimously.
6. That the jesuitical circular of Lord Sidinouth, so al.ly
exposed by Mr. Jeremy Bentham ; the obscure and intictl--
nitepior laination of the Regent ; and the recent calumnies
upon reform delivered from the sacred seat of justice, may
have had a powerful eff.st in producing this lanteutable
outrage on the tans: and that it is much to be regretted
that high hit th and dignified situation should be tent tr..uch
an Improper excitation of the angry passions. of the euemies
of Reform.— Unanisnousla.
6. That Henry Hunt, Esq. Chairman, Messrs. Johnston,
ight., Saxton, and others arrested on this occasion, appear
to have cuudarted themselves 104 h exemplary and enlist 'du.
it discretion, and have therefore commanded the respect
and p.nteetion of every patriot is the United Kingdom,—
trwriiitnestsfy.

1. That the evemplary behaviour of the regular troops
employed 0,1 that occasion, forms a humane contrast to the
cumluct of the Yromainy Cavalry, and may be fairly con-
strued into a plcilze tlnit the 13ritah regular force trill not
trample upon the-rights, our dratroy the libortin of their
fellowsubjecte.__.

S. Th.tt the Electors of Westminster, the florentalt of
Southwark, ■nd the inhabitants of the empire• at lar,:e hr
tusked to meet and expect* the abhorrence and indigna-
tion which must be felt by till at toe vmhttion of the Inn by
those especinily appmtited fur its prate( two ; and the n an.
ten barbarity of tortte4trs who hove umeped the uoiturto to
disgrace the name of solders. •

9. nal this %It cling nook! Itl* pre.enttd n Petition to
the Regent, praying him 44, 134 rig th. atihors of thew atroci-
ties to justice ; but I i tt the t nterreptioos otf l'ettitottt; In his
11, al Itighttcss by Lo d Sahnouth, rrilders ti hopeless to ex-
pect tail/ lot), complaint of toe prayk nit! ;each his ear.—
Uncut fmuusly.
_ .

10. .1 hula Cotrunitire he appointed to consider nF the
brit and most etlectual means of carring the abuse Reso-
lutions hito arc t.

11. That the Shanks of this Meeting. he given to M..joi
Cartss right, for h 3 able exposition and defence of the lir iii-
ciple4 of Radical liefartn, %latch it has been again loot,
cannot be coupierefl, etc.!) lay the sword. A till that he be
requested to :Keeps the office of Treasurer to the Committee.
12. That Ibis assembly do pledge itself, both with their
purses and their prisons to afford eveuy ltnal and com.ti-
tutioual support W slit individuals *rusted and imittivon-

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mist the hits MaarLe'sler }feeling, and M rtt. ftH ranee a
this Itemletiost, they recommend !hilt al sisio•rription he
inentediately eutere3 iota for the piirpii,e of plot:I:tin(
Counarl, and sloth legal aid as may be neeeasitry fur tin'?
protection mid seppno t.
13. That James flamer and Chitties l'enrgon be ap-
pointed Solicitor,. for the purrUNlc Of 0.111114 the iirtswibs
i.oprivnied rt Winchester, and obtaining eoliett iuror-
ntcriat then situations.

IL 'flint thanks be given to Henry Hunt, for his
cool manly, laid south ut conduct upon nunieruos public
occasions, during many pats, wider eircunbialli es of
inthent particubirly liferioue tot had tel chairman
ing the rive iie.i tea lay 16.1(.11t1) rd 1111'6111W .4 %1
nod at the tomato at the barb:moot find Ito.' id inimical
of our oppretted nail I; • Nag toiletry folliv, by tbi nutlet.'
list and savage Ytiitianryt and by orders of the blotel)
minded Nlagistratet.—Monfistivitay.
15. Tani the retiitutious unit% taertittg be bisected in the
Nlalic better Observer. •

Thanks mere al .° voted to 11u• Chninnan for his impar-
tial conduct in the chairs mid to Mr.-1V octet tin couveutost
the !Sleeting.

ANOTHER SMITHFIELI> MEETING.

' The idea of Meeting on Kennington Common has
bees abandoned ; but it appears from the following
notice which has been handed to us, that an at-
tempt will -be -made to bold another meeting in
Smithfield on Wednesday neat—Sir Charles W Arc-
ley in the Chair !