Star.
London, England, 1819-08-27 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.

SIR-4 expected ere this to have sent you an ac..
count either of the liberation or committal of Mr.
HUNT ; but both he and his companions still remain
in " durance vile." A report that he would be dis-
charged yesterday, caused a crowd to assemble near
the New Bailey. They were at length driven off from
its immediate vicinity at the point of the bayonet;
but they continued to throng some of the adjoining
streets till a late hour. Indeed the employment of
soldiers is but too common on every occasion : a
small quantity of gunpowder having exploded in a
gunsmith's shop in Market-street last night, a party
of them were in a moment stationed on the premises.
The anxiety and fear of our high party of Alarmists
is wound up to such a trembling pitch, that the creep-
ing ofa mouse almost throws them into hysterics; and
it is said that this noise was at first taken for the
commencement of an attack by the Reformers, and
that the consternation in the Exchange almost equalled
that caused by the famous report of the advance of
the 1.5,000 pikemen!

GLASGOW REFORM MEETING.

GLASGOW, AUGUST 21.

The Special Constables were summoned to attend
at half-past one o'clock, and upwards of S5O met in
the Court Hall. The Lord Provost presided ; and a
number of new ones were sworn in.

The LORD PROVOST addressed them in his usual
able and feeling manner. He began by alluding to
the difficulties under which Magistrates acted in times
like the present. No matter what line of conduct they
adopted, there would be some people who would
blame them. The Magistrates in the present instance
had thought it proper to convene the Special Consta-
bles; whose attendance he was happy to see so nu-
merous, when the notice was so short. They had
likewise military in readiness, but they had resolved
to employ that force only as a dcrnier resort. This
sentiment had all along guided them, and it was in
unison with the instructions they had received. The
Secretary of SW,: had implored them to employ the mi.
li:ary only as a last shift, and such was the wish
If the Lord Advocate.—He then adverted to the
Meeting at Tollcross, for Parliamentary Reform.
He said, that no doubt among them were many
bad men; but he believed that the whole mass of
the people of Scotland were too well educated,
and too well informed, to be guilty of the excesses
committed by the people of the South. Some per.
sons might say, Why allow Meetings of this kind to
be held? But it was the opinion of the Magistrates
that hitherto nothing illegal had been committed in
'calling these Meetings—nothing at least so far illegal
as to warrant the interference of the Civil Authority.
It was his own opinion, however, that were these
Meetings to be continued, and to be held time after
time, apparently for no other purpose than to harass
the public, they would then assume a different cha-
racter, and of course a different line of policy on the
part of the Government would be necessary.
The Constables were in waiting until near eight
o'clock. When they were dismissed, the Deacon Con-
vener, Mr. GRAHAM, detailed the measures adopted
by the Magistrates to protect the peace, and stated,
that so complete were their arrangements, that no-
thing happened at the Meeting without their know-
ing of it in a very short time. lie then stated that
it was extremely likely that the Constables would be
called out next Thursday, when a large Meeting was
expected to take place near the new Cattle Market.
Saturday, according to public advertisement, a
Meeting of Reformers for Universal Suffrage, An-
nual Parliaments, and Vote by Ballot, was held in
the Relief Church-yard, Tollcross, four miles east
of Glasgow. A motley concourse of people, to the
number of about five thousand, were soon collected.
To defray the expenses, a collection was made at
the porch where they entered. Some preliminary
speeches being delivered, execrating the Borough-
mongering system, and indulging in similar topics,
a long series of Resolutions was then read, and un-
animously adopted. Their tenour was much the same
as those passed at similar Meetings in England.--
After a variety of speeches.from several of the Ora-
tors, which occupied some hours, a Vote of 'thanks
was unanimously given to Messrs. WooLER, SHER..
WIN, JOHNSON, &c. for their indefatigable exertions
in the cause of Reform. Mr. H. HUNT, Major CART..
WRIGHT, Sir CHARLES WOLSELEY, and the Rev. Mr.
HARRISON, received Votes of Thanks, and were in
succession honoured with acclamation and loud
cheering. One of the speakers then made a motion
for a subscription towards the establishing a Journal
in the West of Scotland, whose independence could
not be doubted. The speaker enforced the plan by
a long speech, stating the good likely to result to
their cause by such an establishment. Another
speaker then came forward and seconded the original
motion with much warmth. The opinion of the
Meeting was then taken ; and the motion was car-
ried unanimously bra show of hands. The business
having ended, the strongest injunctions *ere given to
disperse quietly.

The loyal inhabitants of Leek, when informed of
the Riots at Manchester and Macclesfield, requested
the Magistrates would have the goodness to enrol
them, and in three hours 560 Special Constables were
sworn in.