The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-11-13 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX MEETING,
Yesterday the Meeting which was edvertised is
that eS the Freeholders of the Comity of Middiseet,
was held at the Massed Team, Haan/. At
see oil:lack these were lisle sere thee 100 penes.'
proem, amid theme (thrregh, es doubt, respretabie Itt
their walk of life) ware wet of that reek mod statues
which characterise the great body of the ledepeedeet
freeholders of this coesty. Shortly after owe o'clock
the members proem swelled to (*.et 150 mesas,
sad Major Cartwright twitted the roe., anew.
partied by Mr. By.g (she Gouty Mosher), Mr..l.
T. Clarke, the 1L,,. Mr. Dreyer, sad several ether

Geetknoms.
Oa the modes of Mr. Cuts. Mejor Cartwright
was called to the Chair, amid the 'Meese of the
Meeting.
The seeable Major, Is toting the Chair, sold,
that two or three Requiskiees bed hive headed
about I. the county; bet it was foiled hapossibk,
through the peocrestissation of the Sheriff', to have
s Meeting called sod attended by them, as was here-
•ofore the costae. A few of the freeholders, them.
fore, in behalf of themselves aed 48 others who bad
signed one of the Reqeleitieee, bed deteemleed to
call the inmost Meeting. It was a legal mode of
priweedieg. even without the macho,' of the Sherif,.
Under the Gagging Brlls, wen householders were
strfaciont to call a Meeting; sorely, thee, without
'hose Bills, settee times seven would, eves by Mi-
nisters, be considered enough to satisfy them of its
legality. The Chairmen thee said, that he was reedy
to hear any Gentleman who had any preposition to
sate to the Mettles.
Mr. J. T. CLARti thin come forward sad said,
that when he bad the helmet of addressing a public
assemblage on a former occasion at Westmiester,
ho certainly anticipated that • Middleses Meeting
would be speedily held. He was sorry that drapes.
deems preveated the reillaatioa of his wishes,. bet
at present they were assembled, he regretted, he
.ambers aseiparotively so leadeqoate to the intent
of
their seamy ; now, however, that they were there,
they mast do somethieg. Notwithstanding what
would be said by the Courier, or by their more
im-
partial critic, the Chronicle, that Meeting, though
smell, was sailed open to deliver its sentimeett—
They were celled open to deliberate on the recent
lamentable proceedings at Manchester. The Coe-
*thuds. might survive that fatal blew, bat whether
it would or not must depend upon sebeequent pre.
ceedings. lie was sot a little afraid that the Coe.
siltation in ks integral parity could not survive
this last blow, unless by the interposition of as lode.
prudent Legislature. It would he in vain, with
recent:* to the proceedings at Manchester, which
bad led to such disastrous conseqernces, to riven on
what might have bees the result of that /lefties—
it might have been each as to project great
alterations in the Constitution; but still the point to
consider would be, whether the Meeting bed done
any thing, so fir as it bad gone, to justify the ap.
pliestion of military miens for its dispersion. Be-
fore this, it would indeed be necessary to show that
the Magistracy had jest cause to disperse the Meet-
ing, and then that obey had failed in their legal efforts
to do so, onless they bad feCOUttt to military force.
—(Cries of (seer!)--111 agreed that the Meeting
was not strictly confined to a Petition for a Redress
of pigment's, but still be contended that it was per-
fectly legal, and he weald support this opinion by
potting parallel cases. l;appose a Meeting was
called to get rid of the far famed Toleration Ad, bet
which be would call as Intolerant Act, because it
went to affil a scale that subeeited the real Weis • n
Ihich reltioa civet to stood—a basis of which ht