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London, England, 1819-07-24 00:00:00

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likely-to obtain it, when it said, “ Sikefields"Rcnv !
G o it, my boys." The Corporation, he was confi-
dent, would assist his Lordship in every effort, bay,

woui pay any sum, to detect and punish those par-
sons, Whoever they were, that were engaged in'atich
seditious practices as his Lordship.had described--;
(Hear). If the placard ha issued,frorn • tlausaler-.
sons who had meditated the conflagration of.th*City,
and the destruction of its inhabitants, the whole City

must he desirous of bringing such wretches to cat-- •
dign punishment: and even if it had issued front
others, with the view of excitiaz riot and disorder,

.their conduct equalif merited the execrattiou of dick
countrymen. As f.tr•as he, himcelf could jOdge of
the late Smithfield Meeting, not the slii,test attempt
bad been made by any peon there to:create riot or'
disorder ; so that the 'author of the plicard corium-

plated what the pates themseivert, judging from
their actions, evidently did not—(l Par).
Or: S. D:xow was extremely disappointed at the
pmpose for wLich the Worthy Aiderroxa lad risen-
li•would have-better become the Worthy Mclennan
to have moved thanks to the Lord Mayor, than to
have introduced this conversation. .

Mr. S. givect. would be the last man to :encou-
rage any thing likely to disturb the peaco-ot the City,
or to produce an impropee interference of the mili-
tary ; but still he could not help. thinking. that those
who could- put up such an atrocious placard- as that
of " Spifielde Row.—go it my boys," would do any
thing to put down the cause of,'Reform altogether.
Ss they had all joined to 'avert the danger which had
lately threatened the City, the preient was the time
for those who advocated a moderate Reform, to en,

ter their protest against those men who would mix
therh up with the baseit arid 'meanest of mankind.
Mr. Alderman Watrum A az, expressed his- surprise,
that his Lordship should have said so- little about the •
information he had received respecting the bill, and
so much about the authors of the.plot-to fire the citrp
The latter, he thoughtmight have been spared, for
prudential reasons, until some of the conspirators •
were detected. After alluding to the Spafields bill,
and the author of it, thkWorthy Alderman said,' le
was not prepared to attach the utmost weight to bills
of such a description ; and When he recollected the ma-
chinations 'Of Oliver and other spies, he could not
overlook the pos'sibility that persons of a similar de.
scription might be at work at present—(firer), with
a view of exciting such a ferment as would give
room for the introduction of force to put down all file
discussion among the people. With respect to meet-
ings like those alluded to, be in general looked upon
theni as the worst enemies of real reform, on account
of the opportunities they afforded cif calling into play
the' indiscreei zeal of iudividuali.. Ile believed,
however, that the great mass of the people,'..-was
sound, and that they could not be led away without
rent i-xciternent and much difficulty. The manner
in which die Meeting oa Wednesday went offshewed
that the people contemplated nothiog violent, such
was, he knew, the opinion of pe:-sons residing on the
spot in Smithfield, and who, during. the meeting,
only dreaded the occurrence, of intemperate in .t.M-.-
rence as the source of any danger. 'He hoped•tha;
no pains would', be spared to. 'takeover the 'author*
(if there were any). of so fotil a Conspiracy as that of
firing, the city, and murdering its inhabitants. Eve*
the oathof an Oliver ought to he.attendeji to in such
a case,' with a 'view of bringing the inquiry to some
isstae. toOking, however, at the meeting, and 'at
the heavy 'grievances and distresses of the people, he
did not think insinuating the Possibility of their being
participators, by' Contemplation, in bloodshed and
rapine, was the kindest 'way of mating them. For
his own part, he expiesled his astonishmentthat the
meeting, under all circumstances, weni'off as qieetly
as it did. -Nothing' could' be mire• rash or ill;adViied
or more against:the Unattimons opinion of all .the
Magistrates, than the appearance of DregOons in the
streets of the city oh Wedoestlay-•;-it was againit the
express understanding that a soldier should beneen,
though the fullest means were taken' to ?tale. air ade-
quate force aehand, in case of dance. 'Re-wat also
astonished, at the ''very time of the Meedn'g,' te; see
some of the light horse irtOiltspui-,.itieet,' mid; as he
had heara, actually determined, were • it not for thie
admonition of some of th*: civil 'power,-tolfriPide
the proveision;then • pasSini for the chaiiiiitrOrthe
meeting. The worthy Alderman• then reprehended,
in the warmest terms, the rash-mid. intemperate act
of sending thirty or forty constables in die veilibid-
dle of the business of the in to arrest IlarriSon,
(hear, hear.) irhe had' beect UotOtineeteisirltlitinriVta-
gistrief 'of the eke, ii 4 r, if he Wadi*, Other interest
in die city thee thiit which the tovre.t inhabitant in
pOidipErailk and prOperny'l ad,"tre shotthi 1414 felt
it hisOnty.spliiive Inhdelfie reiimrlis' v hick had fallen
from•him.L.bapbeiag'as he vas on4he.ifot:wherithe
meeting was•held,:being as he was the representatiie
'of the yard iii which it was issemlitel, he'fatitial
te•shotild hairs been:wanting in his duty- tii hinon-
itituents, bothilu a tneniber of that and of aulthtr
sionit, iflit-ii,aft not notieed-th matter itt the'manner
in *hie/ he had noticed ii-=(l—k,sr.) ' • •
• z-Ti*Loim MAVont.nstserted;fat not i stnAeiDra-
gin.iivhad been.-i.dniaesi into anioart cq'tile City ;
and restrarked, trolt the ctin•7l.icr. of Alderman %nth-
man towards hiin had, been of the most indecent, in-
temperate, irnptudeot, ::rid int.rushe kind. • Though
it was not itruinhent. upon hith to explain to the
Court- what inducement-Or inform:ll4in had led him
to adopt the measures which he Ltd dime, . still' he
would repel the Assertion of the WCrtby-Alderman
with regard to-the-eitY tight Horse. There 'certainly
were some of them in (lilt-Tao-street, but nevermore
than ore or two of them at t tirite ;*and th6se too
riding to receive his orders eveiyholthout, as td the
state of the Meeting, lie was told, that the-Wokthy
trss
Alderman had irsuited tiltrin 'most' 150.,k- kw had
even endeavoured tei'exeite'the.p tAictt,. to' stick
them—(lye:-r•, hedr)-nat,'this'i'ei-r tittitt-tvWenterL
ed in the Order Book of die Reginaot4/sfeIVAMP).
He would take every step to inhig the•Xtithertir the
placard to punishment, whom'. he was, though he