The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-07-22 00:00:00

RADICAL. REFORM AIRETINGS.

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LARDS, .111 Li! 10.—Tii. Meeting of the Rsdicii
Reformers held this day on Handel MOON has pass-
ind off very peaceably. The Ramos of Renhymede
probably did not conduct their deliberation Willi
mote order end sobriety then hes pigtailed to ill
these assemblies.
Since the first Meetiog in this Riding, the Norge
of the speakers has abated mach of its sentence, god
when deplorable situation of many of their seditord
is considered, there is more reason to commend Thad
to CONON* the temper of their proteediogr.
The bossiness of the day was opened by the appoint.
ment of Mr. JANts MARS to the Chair. At OM
time the persons present did not *steed 3000, bet Is
the coarse of the day the members Wore swelled to
double that assent. The Chairmen, as a perilmlnery
step, reed the advertisement convening the Alleirlogi
and it stated that its object was " to take into con-
okletatina the distressed state of the country, and to
makes solemn appeal to the People of Gies. &noes;
praying them to join in forming • National thai•sn to
obtain our constitutional rights; also to adopt settle
missives as will gigs speedy relief to our ins
coontryinen."
Mr. T. Mason then c.oe forward, sod in • teni
perste and angesnentstive speech maintained the dove
trine of Unitersol Suffrage and Annual Parliameolv,
is opposition to the opinions that bad been provost.
pled thieves tlig Leeds Mercury, of which Alper
sad of its Milo, he spoke with mach rover.. It had,
be said, been asserted by some, that the Robot mers
of the present day were restless and 'spirit's charar
lens, sod wooed be Legislators; but this was neither
their character nor their wish; their intention was to
indent thiir Legislator. to redress their wrongs ; and
when that was accomplished, they would tout so-
moot sink back again into their native ob-
scenity. It had been said that by their Uniost
they meant to collect and organise a yheicst •
force; bat this was also false. Ifillaorto their Pegs
dogs bad been disregarded, and all that they wished
by the Union was to give to thou Pedtioos sock
weight and influence, as would secure to them more
success in future. This mu sot to be effected with-
out great exertions. They should recollect 01.1044
of the waggoner whiiepplied to Jupiter for
to extricate his swops from the Mei. " Flog.poor
hortes," said the (led, t" sad set your shoulder to
tbo wheel." Ile *gold soy nothing about fitting
the horses, bet he Insisted, that unless the nation get
its shoulder to the wheel, we should hem be Wilt
cited from the bog in which a corrupt system of Re-
presentation hod involved es. 1! was the duty of
every man to obtain liberty for his country, sell not
to think his life to high a price ill pay for that
blessing ; for it woe
" Reser Ipy tor I. Slat •• suite mars
Testa tivnis-eudiseis Loreto be • dove." :
They were lead Je mused of as isiteridea to revel..
lionize the ; bet this be dented. They did
not swish to chap the Constitutioe, but to 'Soy ore it
to its pings. vigour and parity. It was a Gtr and
beautiful fahricolerst the Borough Sydow hail iso
paired its balmily and disfigured its prepositions.—
Formerly it might be compered to a bgentilut both of
wheat, bet able the country slept so enemy had
soma tares. " Groat es," eatisimod he, `• .only
seer Coomitoliali is Ito parity, nod welkbe satiskifti."
Mr. TaTortot Manchester, then mate for **nil
in g mod road • of Resolittioos, resembling Keine.
rally Oboe poised et the other Roirtm Nleolings, the
principal totally of which muslin folloci•ng :
" liasolvid, That so as an flied" mrsmi.
Wl* will eedept the a sent, an be foetid to
foresee% tie sod Inhabitants of Leeds, in
the 116.. e• a, another Meeting be
alio', for of electing him to dist nib.,•."
Whet) fie Resolute.. for electing a Member for
the unrepresented Borough of Leech ores
cry was raised from below of " Godfrey Iliggitia,"
bet so measure was taken upon this naliwion•
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Mr. 'firms, in expatiating upon the spreliicatioss
of the Leeds Member, thought that it was desirable
that he should be a man of property. and quoted the
authority of Major Cartwright, who hod, he said,
insisted upon this as a desirable, if not an indispeo.
sible qeslificatioo. Mr. listen was followed by
Mr. KNIGNT, of Manchester, who said, that he
had eijoyed the advantage of a priorin edecation,
having been shut op in Reeding Jail ender the Sus-
pension of the Habeas Corpus Act Here he had
studied the Homer System, sod he bed found that
all the political evils under which the nation at pre.
sent Moored, was owing I. an oligiirchy by which
the People were oppressed and ruined. To this
source be traced the Curti Laws, Ow Combination
Act, sad the Wool Bill, sod declaimed in a strain of
soul.stirriag asperity spinet those measures.
Mr. WILLAN, of Dewsbury, with prestige anima.
lion, deprecated the conduct of the Trustees of Co.
loared.cloth Hall, et Leeds, (or denying to the
Reformers the use of their Court, for the purpose
of holding the present Meeting. He was sec-
ceeded by
Mr. BRATIII.M of Yeedon, who 'snimadverted
with much it,. upon one of the Leeds Newspn-
pert, which had misrepresented his language at a for-
mer Meeting, and pet 'fords into his mouth about
the despotism and strength of the military force of
the country, which he had never used, and the Oh.
jest of which could only be to raise unfounded
alarms.
The Resolutions having been carried pretty nearly
unaoimously, the APPZAL To VIE NATION followed,
end was passed without oppi•sition. In son invent
it was similar to those passed of the Reform Meet-
ings in lAncashirri and the I.ngeage ass equally
glowing.
At the close of the Meeting, thanks were voted to
Major Cartwright Mr. Cobbett. Mr. Hunt, Sir
Charles Wolseley, 'Mr. Wooler, and Mr. !therein ;
tod a vote of thanks was olio given to Mr. Johnson,
of Manchester, who had at the Stocky.• .‘ ettolt 1"
ably refuted the sentiments of the Leeds Meowed!.
and established, in opposition to than Gem, lemon's
opinion, the doctrine of Universal •Inl An-
neal Parliaments. This implied memo •ni
eel by vote of thanks to Mr. Bsieve, the f
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the Paper in question, for the OITVICV
Ina Milt reiittpr•il
to the ceontr), •tql the ',umber of three 13, lord
in the seer Ibl7, loy earlodiog the Spy System.