The Sun.
London, England, 1819-07-19 00:00:00

FOlt THE SUN.

SMITHFIELD MEETING.

EotToß—lf it be trio that trifles make the

4tl ft) of bninan bliss, it is equally true that cir-
cumstances, apparently trifling, often form the
actiye and efficient causes of happiness or mi-

St I V.

It is equally true that trifles have roused and
that trifles ir.,ve quieted the stormy passions of a
mad Populace, nay, of a whole People. It is
well known that a celebrated French Character,
in the early period of the Revolution, saved his
life from a furious mob by a well• timed witticism.
When those %On) had hold of him, and those im-
mediately around him, cried out " A /a lanterne !"
he calmly asked them, " Well, my friends, will
you then see any better 1"—IIis life was saved.
Now, Sir, though an English Mob may not be
so susceptible of the influence of a witty trifle,
yet it is not impossible sometimes to catch them
by surpize ; an instance of which I recollect some
years ago, when, on a Sunday evening, sauntering
from Cheapside towards Temple-bar, I observed
several, or at last many, young men walking
Eastward, with a rapidity much beyond that of a
Sunday lounger. The enigma, for such it was,
attracting the notice of other passengers, was
solved on my arrival in Fleet-street, where I found
that some wag, with a piece of chalk, had written,
in large characters, on almost every window-
shutter and door,

" Go 1-lomE, Tom!"

The effect of this on the imaginations of Read-
-era thus designated, was almost incredible ; and
I have no doubt that timely admonitions, judi-
aionsly displayed on broadsides, and placarded on
IVeduesday morning in the various avenues lead-
ing to Smithfield, might have the effect of stem-
ming the tide of population which will be on the
flow towards the scene of desception and folly.

" Go HOME, MY FRIENDS
and swell not by your attendance, for the gratifi-
cation of idle curiosity, the Bands of
RIOT, PLUNDER, AND REVOLUTION.

Of you, now hurrying to this scene of danger,
not one in a thousand will be able to see the active
Agitators on the scaffold—not one in ten thousand
will be able to hear a word of the proceedings; vet,
if the Civil Power is forced to interfere, every indi-
vidual present, after reading the Riot Act, will be
subject to the Law as an Abettor of Riot ; and

IF 'MILITARY AID IS NECESSARY,
in order to preserve Life and Property, Eica of
"rf ou ‘vili be instantly exposed to the confusion of

the moment.

REMEMBER

tile torch of the Incendiary spares neither the
Cottage of the Poor, nor the Mansions of the
Great—then

Go Home!!!

and take care of

YOUR OWN DWELLINGS !"

I trust, Sir, it is not too much to presume that
such an Address, or one better drawn up, might
have happy effects to a considerable extent, in
saving many tho►►ghtless, honest, well-meaning,
but simple people, from aiding the general con-
fusion that must be expected, when the whole of"
the Lower Orders are thus called into action.

Your's,

IGNOTUS.

P.S. As those defeated in the day, may attempt
something at night, I hope care will be taken to
place sufficient guards over all the Public Gas-
works, and that patroles acquainted with the di-
rection of the main pipes u ill be stationed so as
to truitrate any plan to throw the Metropolis into
darkness.

LONDON JOURNALS.

Fitom THE MORNING PAPEILI OF THIS DAY.

[Morning Chronicle,]

'Every advice that reaches us from Spait, proves
great agitston among the people, anti apprehen-
sHos and uncertainty on the part of thc Goveru-
ment. O'Donnel's visit to Madrid, with some
other circumstances attached to it, is not satis-
tac;orily accounted for, but it has been in lowed by
a srange rumour. It is now said that King Ferdi-
nand hay formed the chivalrous project of accompa-
nying tie Expedition to South America, under a
hope that his presence may do what the force of
arms could not effect, and that he is privately to
etnhatk at Lisbon, Ferdinand may certainly have
gr,,unds tor not placing full confidence in
soy of his armed pacificators whom he may wish
to charge with the exercise of power on the other
side vf the Atlantic, end he may also feel anxious
with regard to the last effort it will he in his
pow,r to make, hut we do not tbink he has cou-
rage enough to undertake a voyage attended with
sa many dane,et!:, or mind to conceive such a pro-
ject. Certain it is, that the Spanish Government
Ht la‘t begin set iously to be alarmed at the impos-
ing attitude the new Transatlantic Governments
have attained ; experience has taught them the
inefficiency of all their former plans to reconquer
and pacify, and they are in a complere dilemma
;vita( new mode to pursue, though, if they could
gain their object, there is not a sacrifice they would
not feel disposed to make, In the mean time,
to chew the wavering state of the Cabinet, we are