The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-06-29 00:00:00

deralile time 1.. fore lie could make liii.s.e!f
and we could mils, collect a few di-juintrd words
hoe said there. • We usitlerrtioul hint to .3y. 11141 io
conisequence of hearing that the natation:de irimi
tried La Derby were without or 111010 y to
procure them a CoUtlirl, Its had !woman' a
their i s 14. crowd. " Von
brought them into t %looking it lie-
crustily to consider what their crimes were, he thought
it his thrty to assist bigbillion-it about to he hr011;4111
to trial fit all ollerice likely to oiled their liver. In !.0
doing lie obeyed the diettoes of his heart, and he hail
used e:,-fy effort in his power to ',meow the assistance
of the Citizens of Westminster in the cassre of Immo-
ofty.—(Cries of " The letter, profince the letter.")
—With respect to Mr. Cleary's letter, he (Mr. C.)
had admitted, not Only yisterday, but this very
day, the whole of the contiuta which lie (Mr. IL)
had sescrited to it, with the exception of one ex-
presaion, with respect to which Mr. Cleary eras
misinformed. He (Mr. C.) had never heard him
(Mr. H.) use.the expression of which he complained,
sod whoever had inf d I that he (Mr. H.)
had stated those Words to be rositaissed hs tha letter,
misunderbtood what he Said.—(Cries of " Ali ! you
coward—you swallow your words, do inn ?..
" Down with the cowardly That is
always your way."—"that's a way you have of
lying."--" ttemember Morley, you coward !")
What be missal to say was. that Mr. Cleary said,
iu race part of his letter, that he was so enraged
with the conduct of the Derby men, that he would
go down and hang them himself.—(Cries of " Pro-
duct he letter, you coward ; you do more mischief
to the cause of liberty and reform, than the most
worthless hirelieg. Y'.o are -to enemy to the peo-
ple. Off, off, you ruffian I")
Mr. Wisstatcr stepped forward and said, that
Mr. float aught to hoist' his speech or retire.
Mr. Howe then attempted to proceed, and re-
mained a cotssiderable
goistrog any attention. An universal demand was,.
made for Mr. Cleary'. !roes.. " Produce the letter
or the pound of flesh," were the terms of the de-
mand. He (Mr. H.) said, die reason why they were
so clamorous for the letter was, because they knew
he hid sent off one of hir family fair it sixty miles
onto the cotrotry. It was in the country.—(o !
shabby subterfuge, a cowardly mean apology.")—
Here Mr. Haut pointed out a gentleman on the
hos:m.4s to the crowd, and endeavoured to excite
them to violence against the individual.—(" That's
another proof of your cowardly meanness: it is
cowardly to point out any hotly.")—Ur. (Mr. Hunt)
resumed, and said, that dais was a step on the part
of Mr. Cleary to suppress the letter altogether.
His (Mr. Hunt's) family was knocked up lass night,
between Isola, and one o'clock, by three or four
druirkeu rullions, alto came arid abused his servants.
(Cries of " Produce the letter," were reiterated
,('roar all qaariers.)..-Ile (Mi. Hunt) said that lie
rhuultrproduce the letter as stain as it cause to town.
Last oight, between twelve and one o'clock, lie re-
ceived a letter frost; Mr. Cleary, which he should
read, together with his own answer. The elec-
tors should are how this man wrote. " West triiii-ter,
Jone 26. 1818. Sir—Your conduct at the hust-
ings this day, when you endeavoured to turn the
popular fury against tne, by statements »loch you
knew to be false, weals, cowardly us it war wicked
—(" Very true," frost several voices )—na
rous as it was ungentlemanly.—(° You base not a
spark of it, you ruffian," followed this from se-
veral persons ; " you boast of your courage—you
have not MU MOM, you dung.")—You have now an
opportunity of proving it. Cowards only 'moat
without being ready to give satisfaction.—(Cries
" Bravo. ('teary .")—You cannot therefore nun.
understand what I memo, when I say I wait for your
oppoiutotent."—(The reading of this letter was
lowed by expressions of the strongest indignation
against Mr. Hunt, such as " Ah ! you coward, you
dung—remember Morley.")--Here Mr. /loot
pointed to a band of his own party, and directing
their attention to Mr. Cleary and the Gentlemen
about him. said, " At those fellows for me," but
no otte obeyed the mandate. This %sass 10110weil
by groat*, hisses, cud other deitionstratiotro of in-
dignation.

Mr CLEARY then came forward. and addressed
Mr. Hunt to the following ell'ect:—" I publicly
proclaim Mr. Hunt an infamous liar and it dastard-
ly coward. Why not produce my letter, winch he
said he had in his box ; I offered to go for it myself,
or pay a porter to fetch it. There are friends
around me, who aver that lie said yesterday he had
the letter then in Isis pocket. Let Inns produce it
now. This gutter-bully ruffian has dared to as-
sert a slander against lire, which might have cost me
my life. I might have been torn to pieces in the
lap of freedom. in consequence of this slender. He
sa3s that 1 em the paid agent of Sir Francis Bur-
dett; it is false.
" Mr. Hunt was the uniform traducer of every
man who had advocated the cause of freedom.
Whe wee there that he had not traduced ? lie had
traduced the venerable, the honourable, the long-
tried friend of reform, Major Cartsysight ; I.e had
traduced Sir Francis Burdett. In fact, where was
the real. and the zealous, and the cordial friend of
rational liberty that lie had not traduced ?—(Hisses
and laud applanse.)—Was this to I.e borne ? Wert.
Englishmen thus tamely to be iissult«d by an avow-
ed poltroon, who laid mamma(' the skin of the
lion, but who, now he was stripped of his borrowed
disguise, 'hewed what he was-s-a mean, contemp-
tible, cringing ass !—(Hisses from Mr. Haul's
friends, and reiterated shoots rf applause from
those of Mr. Cleary.)—lle gave him the fair, the
manly opportunity, of proving whether he was
possessed of courage or not. lie ai,hrrl him to
chew whether he ought its truth to be ranked among
those who deserved the mime of noncom, or wise-
titer he had forfeited his claim to that character.
The trial had confirmed all that had been said of this
boasting demagogue ; he had proved himself a rank
coward. and rendered himself unworthy of the
cause he bad attempted to atipport.—( Cherrs and
hisses.)—The door was still Open to him to re..
deem his character ; %sunlit he lIIIW tight 1—
(1 heers he would, lie (Mr. Cleary) notwith-
standing all that had passed, would meet him.—
(Cheers and graaus.) —ln tine, he called upon the
Electors ut ‘Vri.tsisiiister, upon all whom he ad-
dressed, to rratutir his mime f the lost calosmiy
by which it had been assailed—he railed mina
them, as his ttc.•user ha.t not made good his change,
topruuvur.et 1114 ir audict —he tiusted they would