The Sun.
London, England, 1819-07-17 00:00:00

FOR THE SUN.

SNIITEIFIELD REFORM.

Ma. EntToa—As a day of awful importance iq

nnw approaching, perhaps a few hints to mlr
fel-
-In:v•c may not he useless ; at least I ,hall
offer them, in the hope of their heinv acl,;ped,

and in the certainty that they cannot do anv.

chat the twee/tuitions t:A en by the Loin

7MAYoR for the City of London itwir art! very

jodicions, is self-evident ; but the City of Lon-
don is a very small part of the Me: rop,lis, ,n it

is incumbent on the Magiflrtacy of ail parts of the
vast bozwoN to he equally on their guard with
those within the Civic 'Audis.

The ostensible place of meeting is, indeed,
within the City Jurisdiction ; bnt, Sir. I suspect
that OTHRR MEETINGS are organized for OTHER

PLACES, in the expectation of drawing public atten-
tion to Smithfield alone, whilst the secretly or-
ganized and, no doubt, well prepared Mobs shall
rise up, like the armed men of Cadmus, in Spit al,
Sr. George's, and Tothill-fields, or in other places
equally convenient, from whence they may issue
ilmultaneously on Carlton-House, the Bault,the
Tower, perhaps the Horse-Guard*, &c. &c.
I hope this may be a visionary fear ; but I hope
also that the High Stewart and Bailiff of West-
minster, as well as the Lord Lieutenant of the
County, will not despise the hint.
We may be well convinced, that whatever ob-
jects the Conspirators have in view, they will not
now depend upon the robbing of a gun-shop for
arms, nor upon a few cartridges in .a waggon for

ammunition.
If the Civil Power can preserve order, it will be
so farfortunate ; but, happily, Government seem
dispoSed not to trust to it alone. With re-
spect to the employment of troops, I shall
n►ake one obsersation. They ought not to
be brought forward but in a case of abso-
lute necessity ; but, when brought forward,
they must not be played with. Whilst- humane
or timid Magistrates a►e hesitating -about orders
to fire, half the Metropolis may be in flames. If
ordered to lire, they should be of dered to do execu-
tion. Firing over the heads of a riotous mob is
literacy nothing more then firing into the draw-
ing-roorns and nurseries of the peaceable inbabi-

tants.

On this be I would recommend that all wo-
men and children shall be kept in the back apart-
ments (); every house on that day, which may he

in the vicinity of the scenes of riot.
There is tine also for every master of a house
to prepare lists of his family and inmates, and he
ought 10 keep a journal of their ingress and egress
on that day.

Above all, independent of the individuals sworn
in as Constables, there ought to be a numerous
horse patrole, divided into four districts, with
such specific head-quarters, in order to convey to
each the earliest intelligence of movements in all
directions. Finally, Sir, masters of families ought
to be called on most impressively to keep their
sons, clerks, shopmen, servants, &c. within doors ;
for no business can be done that day, except the
necessary payment of Bills due. Yours,

IGNOTUS.

P.S. One or two of the special mounted Con-
stables ought to be stationed near every gun-
shop ; and the owners of each shop, as well as
the &tilers of gunpowder, ought to be called on
to remove that species of property to a place of
security, not likely to be plundered in the fitst
assuult.

Tie Fire Engines also ought to be in readiness,
and t.il the lVdter.vvolks i❑ proper order.

LoN DON JOURNA LS.

FROM 'I'HE MORNING PAPERS, OF TIIIS DAY.

[Morning Chronicle ]

It was yesterday reported, on the authority of
letters trom Spain, that Count Abishal, the Com-
mander in prospect of the Cadiz Expt.dilion, had
been caßed up to Madrid. The circumstance has
Firm rise to some strange surmises, as it was well
known he was not on the best terms with Gene-
ral All)., the present War Minister.

Pie fatowing is an Doract of a Letter from
Gibraltar, dated June 23:—" A few days ago,
thr wlwic of the American squadron, that has
for some titre been etnizing in the Meditetra-
neat), at rived here from Naples. The object
of the Ait.erican Commodore's vi:it to this place
we understand to be an inquiry into the circum-
stances it hich led to the publication of some anti-
clies it, the London Papers, relative to the late
d„,d, (n.twven British and American Officers
of the Die whilst lying at Gibraltar), and pur-
portiOg, to he on the authority of letters from
this ukce. After some correspondence with
the Governor on the subject, Commodote Stuart
has ordered -a Court of Inquiry to he held
on hoard the Guerrier, to examine into the whole
athir, which is nOVV going on over at Algesiras.
lit the mean time, that no further quarrels may
tHke place bet ween the British and Ameri-
cans, the Governor bas laid an etttbarLo on