Star.
London, England, 1819-07-03 00:00:00

LEEDS, JULY L

Monday is understood to be the day fixed on for
presenting the Requisition to our Chief Magistrate
for calling a public Meeting " to take into conside-
ration the State of the Country, and to draw up an
Address SO the. People at large to come forwrd and
apply a radical remedy for it." Should his Wor-
ship decline lending his sanction to the measure, the
Requisitionists, it is said, will themselves convene a
Meeting, and invite Sir CIIARLRA WOLeELEY, or
some other leading character, to preside. In the
mean time, such alarming reports having gone forth,
from one end of the kingdom to the other, it may
not be amiss to state, that we continue here in a state
of the most perfect tranquillity. The scandalous re-
'ports inserted in the Sew* and Courier (noticed in the
STAR of the 27th ult.) have been traced to a hireling
'scribe of this town, who was himself present at the
'Meting, and must know that what be foisted on,
-those two Papers was totally false. A public-spirited
Gentleman of this town, wrote to the Conductors of
both the Papers above named. From the Courier
be has not yet received any sort of answer ; but Mr.
TAYLOR, of the Sun, replied by return of post, stating
that the offensive article was dated " Inteiiigencer
Woe, Leeds;" aasd sent by a person signing himself
" Ssarrolea or Sritarroup," with many other parti-
culars. It must be added, however, that the latter
person denies ever having sent it; and on this point,
himself and the Editor of the Sun are at issue. The
matter will not rest here :—a number of respectable
Gentlemen feel indignant at the calumny, and are
determined to unkennel the fox.

I regret to learn, that Messrs. THOMPSON'S, of
Rawden, a few miles from Leeds (one of the greatest
mercantile and manufacturing Firms in the king-
dom, than which there is none more respectable),
were under the painful necessity of discharging 50
of their men on Saturday last; and it is intimated that
they will be compelled to still further reduce their
establishment. This is owing to the badness of the
Arnesicast markets, as this House has most extensive
Agencies and Establishments in the United States.

• Having alluded to both of dime Prints in a former publica-
tion, we feel ourselves bound to give a place to the manly and
honourable acknowledgment of error, which was promptly pub-
lished by the very respectable Editor of The Sun, as soon as
he received more correct information. The followiug Is copied
from the Sun of yesterday:
" Lecos.—We have received assurances from most respect-
able authorities at Leeds, stating, that a paragraph which ap-
peared in the Sow of the 21* ult. contained the grossest exagge..l
rations of the posture of affairs in that town and the neighbour-1
hood. We this morning received better information, and we
hasten to assure the Public, that we were imposed upon, as we
conclude, by artful traitor."—Sun.
We take also this opportunity to cootradict a paragraph which
first appeared in the Leeds Mercury, and has since been circu-
lating through the Newspapers, stating that " a numerous Re-
form Meeting had been held at Dewsbury, when resolutions
and declarations similar to those adopted at Hundet Moor, were
agreed to." One of our regular Correspondents in that Dis-
trict, informs us, that no Meeting whatever has been laid at
Dewsbury, nor up to this time have the people there shown
say disposition to.hold one,—none of the itinerant °ratans hawing
been in thatylat.e.

VENEZUELA.