Star.
London, England, 1819-07-14 00:00:00

" PUBLIC MPS,TING.

" We, the undersigned, being the Committee of Management
appointed by the Committee of Two Hundred, to conduct the
Proceedings preparatory to the Public Meeting to be held in
Smithfield, on Wednesday, the 21st instant, at Twelve o'Clock,
to consult upon the best means to join the People of the United
Kingdom, in obtaining a Real Reform in the Commons House
of Parliament, having invited 11. Huey, Esq. to the Chiimpon
that occasion, and having received the following Answer from
fiat Gentleman, we beg to lay it before the Public :
• , MR. HUNT'S ANSWER TO THE SECRETARY'S
INVITATION, &c.
" Middleton Cottage, July 8, 1819.

Sta—l received your favour, enclosing a copy of the Cir.
color addressed to Sir Charles. Wolseley, and other avowed
friends of liberty, inviting them to attend the Meeting of the
People of the Metropolis, to be held in Smithfield on the 21st
instant, in order to consult upon the best means of attaining that
great object—a real Reform, and to co-operate with those brave
and honest Reformers who are holding their Public Arcetings in
the North. lam pleased to see that the People have taken this
course, because it will give those Gentlemen an opportunity of
coming amongst them, and by so doing stamp their professions
wilt sincerity ; and it will also give the People an opportunity of
knowing in whom they may placy reliance on the day of trial,
which, in all human probability, cannot be far distant.
" I should be unworthy the confidence that tas been so re-
peatedly placed in me by the Non-Represented Inhabitants of
the English Metropolis, if I were insensible of the honour which
they have now, for the Ara rime, conferred upon me, by their
invitation to take the Chair at the approaching 'Meeting; which
I feel less scruple in accepting, from the pleasing reflection that
at no Public Meeting where it has been my lot to take a part in
the proceedings, has there ever been one single breach of the public
peace.

" The Charier, the. Times, and all other equally corrupt knaves
of the daily London Press, begin to discover again a considerable
degree of uneasiness at the tranquillity with which the great
Public Meetings in the North haVe been conducted. They want
.Riot and Bloodshed, in order to afford a ptetence for their em-
ployers to resort again to Special Commissions, Dungeons, and
Hangings. But I have full confidence that the good sense, mo-
deration, and real peblic spirit of the People, will continue to
disappoint these blocd-thirsty men—and that by great Public
Meetings being peaceably but firmly conducted, the public feel-
ing of the whole country may be so coacentrated as to cause the

consummation of all our wishes to be sptedEy realised by such
a Reform in the Commons !louse of Parliament as will secure
to the People Universal Suffrage, Annual Elections, and Yule by
Be / ! !—I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient bumble

servant, (Signed) " H. HUNT.
" To Mr. E. E.J. Blandford, Mergers witreet," &c. &c.
" Committee of Management elected, by and from the People's
Committee of 200.—Signatures of the Parties : Thomas Porter,

William Price, Thomas James Whamian, William Chequer,
John Williamson, Robert Warry, Juba Barham, William
King, James Hill, Henry Medley, Ricbard Tidd, John Hat'.
rison, sad W. COI. EDWAILD JAMES BLANDfORD) Secretary."

The City Magistracy have already begun to make
active preparations for the preservation of the public
peace from the danger with which it seems threaten-
ed.—Precepts have been issued to the Aldermen of
the different Wards, directing them to return a suffi-
cient number of proper persons to be sworn in as
Special Constables for each Ward ; and individual
invitations have accordingly been sent round to most
of the respectable inhabitants, requesting them to
come forward and enrol themselves for this purpose.
We subjoin a Copy of one of these Circulars:

~ WARD OF FARRINGDON WITHOUT, Jun, 12.

" Sue—Being directed by the Right Honourable the Loan
Maros to return a sufficient number of proper persons to be
sworn as SpeciqiConstables for this Ward, for the purpose ofl ,
being in readiness in case their services are required, to assist
the Civil Power in the preservation of the Peace, in con-
sequence of a Meeting advertised to be holden within this City,
on Wednesday, the 21st of July instant—you are requested to
signify your consent to the Ward Beadles or to the Common
Council, and afterwards to appeal before me at theyestry Room
&. Sepulchre's Church, on Friday next, the 16th instant, at
Eleven o'Clock in the forenoon precisely, for the purpose of being
MOST. (Signed) " ROBERT WAITIIMAN,

Alderman of the said Ward."

Mr. Justice BEST has resigned the Recordership of
Guildford, and Mr. Serjeant Ormow, one of the
Representatives of that Borough, was last week
elected to that office.

The Comet was seen at Hamburgh on the 2d of
July, at sun•set ; at Berlin on the Ist of July, at 55
minutes past 11, it was in the meridian apparent alti-
tude, 2 deg. 20 min. it was very orilliant, and visible
in the next morning twilight 6 or 7 degrees above the
horizon, appearing like Venus. It was seen at Lauen-
burg on the 2d.
Accounts from Nassau, dated the 15th May, state
that it is understood that an order has been issued by
the Spanish Government, directing the Port of Vera
Cruz to be opened tp all vessels having British Re-
gisters and navigated) under British Flags, with the
manufactures of the British Empire, subject to adva-
lnrem duties upon the invoices, the rates of whick are
not yet ascertaqed. All other nations are said to be
excluded.—Welre also informed by letters from the
Brazils, that in consequence of the extent to which the!
Independent Piivateers continue their depredations
on the Portuguese trade, it is in contemplation of
the Brazilian Government to reduce the duties on
British ships, in order that the trade may be carried
on in foreign ships.
Dus.L.—Yesterday morning a meeting took place
in Kilburn Fields, between Lieutenant and
I'. R. M—o, Esq. The first shot missed ; in the
second tire, the Lieutenant was wounded in the thick
part of the left arm, and the affair terminated.—The
dispute originated at play on Monday evening.

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