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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1819.

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We lay before our Readers to-day, very ample and
interesting details of the three great Public Meetings,
held on the subject of the late Manchester atrocities,
at York and Leeds, on Monday, and at Kilmarnock,
in the west of Scotland, on •Saturday. Each Meeting
is marked by certain very distinctive features; but
they all agree in presenting this happy and quieting
result—that the peciple rt►et in peace, and were al-
lowed to part in peace.
The Meeting of York was wholly under the sanc-
tion and guidance of the Civil Authorities. The
LORD MAYOR of the City presided; one of the Coun-
sel to the City opened the business, and moved the

Resolutions ; one of the Aldermen seconded them;

and one of the Members of Parliament for the City
- (Mr. DuNnas), corroborated them by his approval.
The question before them was treated, as it ought to
be, not as a party question, but as a question between
the lovers of the Constitution and its enemies,

" If ever," said Mr. DUNDAS, most truly, " it be-

comes a party question, it will be owing to the Go-
vernment leaguing itself openly with the Magistrates."
The conduct of the Magistrates at Manchester was
condemned in terms which yield in severity to no-
thing which the indignation of public feeling has yet
given utterance to ; and we do think, that " hard and
stoney•hearted" as these Gentlemen may be—deaf—
obstinately deaf as they have hitherto shewn them-
selves, to all that the ordinary Public have been able
to say on the subject, they cannot help feeling con-
siderably impressed—we could almost hope—edi-
fied, by reading the solemn condemnation which
Gentlemen, equal in official trust and respectabi-
lity with themselves, have, after the most mature
reflection, and from motives the most unbiassed,
found themselves compelled to pronounce on their

conduct. The interruption given to the Meeting of
the 16th was pronounced by the leading speaker to
be 66 illegal, unconstitutional, and INHUMAN:"
and the sentiment was happily re-echoed by another
Gentleman, in the words of the Poet:
" Some Devil had thrust sweet Nature's hand aside,
" Ere she had pour'd her balm within their breasts,
" To warm their grow and earthy mould of lash
'4 With pity!"
The Meeting at York is extremely remarkable on
several other accounts. The people went to it (will
it be believed?) in mat-thing order, with Bands play-
ing, and with colours flying, lettered all over with
Reform Inscriptions ; and yet the Magistracy of York,
instead of dispersing them by the sword, presided
over, and applauded their proceedings! Can that be
treason and open rebellion at Manchester, which at
York is loyal and constitutional conduct?
At Leeds, as our Readers are aware, the Meeting
was left entirely in the hands of the Reformers, and
assumed, of course, more of a party complexion than
it might otherwise have possessed. The whole pro-1
ceedings were, however, characterized by the utmost
peace and good order. The Mities and Magistrates
meddled neither with the people nor with their flags:l
and the people dispersed as they came, without of-
fering, or indicating a wish to offer, the slightest in-
terruption to the public peace. Would that which
was wise in the Magistrates of Leeds have been other-
wise in the Magistrates of Paisley?
The Meeting at Kilmarnock, folionirig so imme-
diately after the disturbances at Paisley, bad been

looked to with considerable feelings of alarm ; but
we are glad to perceive that there also the good
sense of the people, and a better sense of propriety in
the Local Authorities, combined in securing another
triumph for public order And constitutional right:
The Civil Authorities had prutfakieliothed thin if
ei no violence was offered, if decorum was not vio-
lated, they would allow the people to meet and say
what they chose—and that if flags with seditious in-
scriptions should be displayed, they would note them
down, and bring the bearers afie, wards to account
for so doing." The people, on their parts, anxious
to avoid any conflict with the Civil Power, which
might without any compromise of principle be
avoided—anxious to refrain from giving even a
• colour of offence—did nor bring any flags with them
to the Meeting—they offered no manner of violence,
no insult to decorum—the only emblem they boie
was a Scotch thistle in their hats. The Magistrates
paid homage to the motto of which that thistle was.
the emblem—

over a defenceless inuititude,tir from empty trophiku
won at the hazard of consequences in whicll.all that
is deArj. us as !Usti and as Citizens, is involved.
• The Paris Papers OfNuSay arrived this foie-
noon. The Elections of the third series are now all
completed. The Journal des Debate gives the fol•
lowing classification of the persons returned. Libem
rals 37, Royalists 5, Ministerialists 5, Doctrinaire 1,
Uncertain 1.

.We are happy to learn by a letter dated 17th of
'April, addressed to Captain Salaam?, of theANoao
.34AcHE frigate, and Senior Officer, in the Pacific, by
the whole of the Masters of British vessels remaining
at Valparaiso at that date, as well as by the only re-
sident British Agents at that port, that " in the ab-
sence of both British and Americas ships of war,
Lord Cocuaoss has uniformly protected the neutral
right of all our merchant vessels." " From the day,"
adds the letter, " that he hoisted his flag as Com.;
mander-in-Chief of the Chilean Navy, till the day of
his sailing, he not only abstained from every act, for
which the difficulty of manning his ships might have
afforded a pretence, but actually rendered every pos-
sible assistance which could have been expected from
our own ships of war ; and we know of no instaimei
where any seams► were allowed to enter foihis
drop; contrary to the wishes of their employers ;15ut
in several cases men who had volunteered and ac-
tually received bounty, were given up- on the first
application."

erlsorr•mee

Tuesday evening, at seven o'clock, their Royal.
Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE lan-
ded at Dover, from the Royal Sovereign yacht.—We
are sorry to understand that the detention of their
Royal 'Highnesses at Dunkirk, 'was occasioned by an
event which must disappoint the hopes of the Nation.
Her Royal Highness had a miscarriage.

PAISLEY, SEPTEMBER 18.

FROM A CORRESPONDENT.

We belie►e it is almost without precedent that so
serious a riot as that which commenced in Paisley on
the 11th instant, should have ended (if ended it be)
without bloodshed. For five successive days the
town was kept in constant alarm, during which pe-
riod the Riot Act was five times read, and in each of
these days there was more or less destruction of pro-
pert)? by the mob. The last four days have passed
over quietly, but there have been certain symptoms,
which indiCate that the spirit of mischief only slum-
hers. This pause from outrage and perpetual alarm
has given time td recollect many circumstances, which
in the hurry and bustle of the moment passed by nor
heeded. Of these we shall for the present only me&
tion one or two. A party of Special Constables wen
patroling Causeyside-street on Saturday night about
twelve o'clock, and were assailed- with a vast shower
of stones ; it turned out, however, that this attack
was intended to cover the breaking into a spirit shop,
which took place at the same time. Fortunately dos
proprietor heard the depredators, and went down
stain with a light, and they were not hardy enough
to accomplish their purpose by open violence. Pro-,
vious to the attack on the house of the Ree,,Dr.
Findlay, is Storie-street, on Sunday night, after they
had armed themselves with the iron railing fres She
Methodist Chapel, one man was heard to say, "Now
for , he has often preached patience, we will
give him an opportunity of exercising it. A cry of
No, no," was uttered by the mob; the first speaker
resumed, " he is an old offender, he consecrated the
volunteers colours many years ago;' on which they
proceeded, and not only demolished the windows to
the street, but forced open the outer door and broke
the windows in the lobby. In some of the streets in
the west end of the town, stones were laid down dur-
ing the twilight, for the purpose of using after it was
dark, so that the rioters, when the patroles advanced,
had only to stoop and lift them. There were also
very many instances, during the disturbances, of
stones and btick•bats, some of them warm from the
fire, having been thrown from windows, in streets
chiefly occupied by the operative population.

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