The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-12-04 00:00:00

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him. ,aq, his having reseued Wee
Irishmen foam cosespiricy and perseciition.
The liemory or Ilefity tirattan.
Several other approprime and complimentary toasts
were drank, and time company did not separate until
a late hour.

LEEDS MEETING n..WI ItES rlls QUEF:.I"

A Sleeting of the inhabitants of the Township of
',red.' will he held at twelve o'clock this day (Slowlay),
at Illy Coloured l'ioth-hall: to cotoider of the propriety
of an Address of Ci,tiszrattilAtioli to the Queen. The
Mayor li ing nezatiyed the application of the reirlisi-
tiotast% thin Sleeting in held tinder the act of the 39th
of lieorge 111. cap. 6. and is nnhject to certain regula-
tion% the most important of n hick Ite wil: briefly etin-
tnerdte:—

Ist. The persons trim can lawfully attend the meeting
are all flies.: stho reside within the township, which in-
cludes the it hole of the town of Leeds, and lireat and
Little Woodhonse.
2ml. Person. who do not reside within the above li-
,stsite,(ex.-rpt they art- freeholders or copyliolders, having
&W. a-year in the town, and having enjoyed it for 12
months, or Justices of the Peace, or Peace-olEcers
act-
ing tinder their authority) cannot attend the meeting
without hying liable to fine and imprisonment.
3rd. Any person not entitled to attend a meeting of
this nature, and who shall not depart on proclamation to
that effect being made, subjects I self to severe penal
e

Tbr above ane the principal restrictions; but those
who have a right to attend the meeting, and every man
in the town has that rizlst, are as much under the po-
lo-66n of the law Ii such a❑ assewbly as they ate at
their own fire-side.

We have only another observation to make on this
part of this inbjeet. namely, that the proceedings of
the meeting Must necessarily be confined to the ob-
ject for which it is called ; and that say thing heron('
an Address of Congratulation to her Majesty, and the
diseossion of the conduct of her persecutors towards
her, wont/ he out of plow on this occasion.
The Itequisitors anti other liesitletneti, a ho, from an
imperious sense of public ditty. hare promoted this
'immure, wish, of roam, to have the support of their
fellow-townsmen. They invite, as well the friends of
the Queen's cause. as those who may ensertain different
sentinients; they hope and believe that both sides will j
he lie ir.l with equal temper. They are anxiously de- .
sirens for the preservation of the public !MIT, and for
the display of that lito which thinks anti lets
think. After the recent proof they have had of the :
emplary too Irration of the Queen's fri-nds, they have
not the least hesitation in pledging themselves for their
neacrahle and ciirrect conduct, feeling. sensible that they
moist Inr rotivince.l that the only wav to secure honour
and success to any public measure is to show that its
friends may cot.lide in the discrete conduct and good
principles of each other.
As the inhabitants of the populous villages within
this lioriingh cannot legally attend the Leeds
Meeting, it is, we hear, in contemplation, to rote
Congratulatory Addresses to the Queen from these
Pplates, several of which exceed in 'minket-se and opt'.
ence many of the more respectable boroughs in the
kingdom, which return two nienibers to Parliament. ,

TROWBRIDGE, WILTS.
['ROM A CORREA PONDRNT.]
" On Vaud iy last, this town was illuminated in
consequence of a Requisition from a set of ragamuffins,
fur the Gentlemen of the town are averse to the mea-
sure,
(though they stihnsitted to please the mob,) well
knoning'that snclo a measure would only tend to per-
petnate the disgrace into which a certain personage
had pinned herself by her amours, and at the same The punishment which is daily inflicting, is ow
time confirm the sentence of guilty, which had been Courts of Law, upon political writers, demands the
• passed upon her by a large majority of the Peers of the attention of every well-wisher to his country. Abe
train,.
years since, when a man of talent, education and es•
The day was ushered in with ringing of bells,
'topiary conduct, became an object of stuck on ths,
sad cast preparations were said to be !staking, in order
to crown this festive day as tl non-such, fur surely, the part of government, his case engaged the aoditritiod
• Sun never saw its like before.' attention of the pnblic ; and 'if his cause was peat
" Collections were attempted to be made for the if his opinions were liberal, and his arguments wet
purchase of an oc to he roasted on this truly anspi-
founded, his fate excited the cummisseration of a..";
• ciouo day, bat the collectors could obtain but jest
money enuu.olo fur the purchase of an ass, and they and even the then members of the administration hi
hail too tine feelings for one of their own species to something like repotgoance at bring conlpelled to we/
immolate him. , a gentleman to a prison ; to the society of pickpockeS,
housebreakers, and murderers. Rut, at the pretest
; Wcil, the evening came, some candles and a few
lamps were displayed, some houses not illuminated at all„ Jay,
such is the numerical increase of le rig-
and some with a fete rush-lights only. There. were moor •p I
transparencies, (vie.) a few pocket handkerchiefs with time to the misguided vengeance of our rulers,
the head of sumethivor male er female it is supposed. that there Is scarcely a prison in England which
one irmssilareney exhibited their words : Pro Rye.- et is not rendered d, by being the depository
of some writer in his country's cause: and the pals-
'Piro Patric, worth a million of all the rest, *lda
sulk of the Scholars translated fur the " Queen and
silt rrami." be sympathy for one defendant, is generally
..tt length after parading shoat as teeny did,
tier discharging a few sky-rockets, Ste. isc. the whole overtaken by the increased severity which is
Sled away, and like the baseless fabric of a vision left visited upon another. • Upon the subject of what
not a wreck behind." 'is called political libel, the Court of King's Beach.
•'1 be appearance of the ahoye paragraph in The in the last Term, pronounced, among oaten.
&emir r Newspaper of the 25th day of November last, I t • u .‘
two decisions, whirl, loudly call for the interference of
Izeited a strung feeling of indignat•generally
li
inhabitants of this town ; many of the a those who are the Parliamentary, and coaregoendy,
psongit this
,scribers to the news-room, ron-idereoi it highly ne- the legal guardians of the public liberty. The het
..drasary that some public notice should be taken of su decision is the case of Dai ploy, ; and we We
rieuss a Hite!. A meeting was therefore, held at their ; are happy to inform our mmien, that 3 dufingthsw
loom, on !friday, the Ist day of Dectotilies,, its:toot, member . ,
.when fourteen members being assembled, and Mr. '
Ilk
:John Cooper, the younger, being called to the Chair, " subject before Parliament, at its next sitting.
the following resolutions were severally passed %s ilk neat is the case of .Sir FRANCIS Buttorrr ; who, after
! a life most honorably and awfully passed
bnly three dissentient voices :-
1. That a paragraph, which appeared in The ram ire . •
, vice of his country, is, in an infirm state of health..
:Cetvspaper of the 23th day of November last, put- .
destined to follow his fellow-patriots to Aerials/rm.
porting ill he an account of the illu ::: ination and rejoic-
ings which had taken place in this tows, in cemseortence Both these cues have undergone eonsiderahle discs"
of the ahandnnmrnt of a most asconstitntinnal Bill *ion t and it is the opinion of muse of the must mei•
with our Co st' al law, in the sel,
of Pains and Penalties, instituted in the House of nent lawyers, that these decisions am • "6"i
lAnit against the Queen, is a scandalous misrepresem
question, mg aside the
tation, a pitiful attempt at wit, and only calculated to . n "1" Hmit' laTi-r .•
as to the &sat solidity tsf these derma • • *
excite party animosity among the inhabitants of this
• .1 l!'
WWit. it Possible there can he two opinions upon their
2. 'J'bat the person, whoever he may be, who sent • —lf our Rulers iinagine tbey can maintaia the r-
titisikeemint for insertion in the above roventionell news- , sent syst„,u, by vi,th.fter, • it iktonies the del if every
pr
ohfss therelsiryiemendrwited the owamist !weer
crier; sad
every prase sad moderate man. at blast to endeavour to tutflic"
that It is the ditty of *lvry sobscriher to this room to *11" t for we teimil sotnntse, that irkalet sere e►
selifikor to discover '
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ON POLITICAL LIIIELS.