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London, England, 1819-09-03 00:00:00

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THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 11319.

THE FUND&

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS OAT ATONE &CLOCK
Bank Stock 2291 2301
3 per Cent. Reduced 7171 72 711
3 per Cent. Consols 711H1
31 per Cent. 80i 81-4 per Cent. 908 91 90U
5 per Cent. Navy 104*
Bank Long Annuities 19+, 9-16
India Bonds 15 16 13 pre.
Exchequer Bills (2d.) 1.2 da par
Omniurn 31 4 pre.
Cons. for Acct. 71a. •

The Westminster Meeting, as we yesterday stated,.
Passed over' without the least disturbance. In less
than half an hour after the business closed; . there
was no more appearance of bustle than on the most
common St. Monday of all the year. *Ths'fialie we
another practical proof before us of therAllicrof
those alarms which certain men 'feel, or pretend, to
feel, as often as any Public Meeting ofaho;People is
ar.nouaced. But what must have been the seas le had
such a corps as the Manchester Yeomant3l.kon let
loose on the multitude who were assembled on .this
occasion? Our blood chills in our veins an the very
idea.

The avowed object of the Meeting was to express
a decided opinion on the conduct of the Alegistracy
and Yeomanry of Manchester, in their recent attack
upon an unarmed and peaceable multitude; and we
could have wished, had it been possible, that every
thing respecting the question of Reform had been
entirely avoided on this occasion. It will be seen,
however, from the detailed particulars given in our
preceding columns, that both in the Resti.utions, and
in the Address to the PRINCE REGENT, the two
questions have been blended. The Address, how-
ever, is moderate and respectful.
The voice of the People on the scenes that passed
at Manchester, will, ere long, be expressed from one
end of the Kingdom to the other, in Public Meet-
ings. We beg therefore and intrea:, if our voice
inay be heard, that these transactions may be mixed
up with nothing else. The firbt grand question at
the present moment thoulil be the right of the People
to receive the protection of the Civil Authorities,
when lawfully assembled, to discuss lawful subjects.
Those who oppose this are not merely the enemies of
Reform in every shape—they are the most deadly
enemies of our Constitution and Liberties, and are
practically seeking a Revolution. The Country has
too much at stake to suffer such principles to prevail ;1
or to permit, without their most strenuous reproba-
tion, a recurrence of such horrors as have filled many
houses in Lancashire with weeping and woe.
We have to announce that, besides the Meetings
that have already taken place, others are announced,
or in preparation for Middlesex, Portsmouth, Bristol,
and Paisley, besides the one demanded for the City
by a Requisition signed by 43 Members of the Com-
mon Council.

The Paris Papers of Tuesday arrived this mottling.

The Jeurnat des Debatt has favoured us with the
following answer to a query which we put to it re-
specting its account of the late transactions at Man-
chester.

" The STAR journal liberal of London, aski of the
Journal des Dela., where it found the news that the
Magistrates of Manchester had read with a loud
voice the Rint Act before making the multitude
disperse? We have the honour to reply, that this
news was textually translated from the Courier and
the Manchester Chronicle. Scarcely any but English
and French Jacobins affect to insinuate a doubt of a
a fact so simple."
The Journal des Debats has not stated truly the
question we put to it. We asked where it get the
news that " the Magistrates advanced (we are now
translating the Journal des Debats textually) and
read with a loud voice the Act against seditious as-
' dies (Riot Act), and after having informed the
itude that the assembly was illegal, ordered
y one to withdraw ;' that nobody obeyed, and
the multitude spewed various marks of contempt
the Magistrates ?"
The Courier and Manchester Chronicle did say that
Riot Act was read, but when, or where, or how,
have never yet been pleased to inform the
id. They have never said it was read with a
pud voice they have never said, " the mufti
de" was informed that the assembly was illegal
r have never said, that " every one teas ordered
lithdrato" before the tragical assault commenced,
key have been adventurous enough, we all know, in
\r narratives ; but these were things they durst
-cely venture to assert.—No, it was reserved to the
trbial fidelity of a French raconteur to insinuate
Lags to be true, which all the world knows to
lse.

The Monlieur contains two Ordtnances, conferring
Order of the Legion of Honour on the Viscount
AMA!, tile son, on account of _the acientific ser-
:es of his celebrated father ; and on the sculptors
no and DUPATY., whoope works in sculpture do
honour to the age, and contribute to maintain