The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-07-23 00:00:00

TIIE STATESMAN

The following are ropies of the letter of invitetion
sad the General's answer
Ksrws-•tart, Joh 1.1,
" qia,—The Irish Fr►ends.ef South American In.
depenelence, natetist thehonrier of soereumpsaysts
public r, en Monde,. the 19th instant.
Q Thy ore aosittus to .Iter you this humble testi.
stony, not only of the sense they entertain of the ells.
rector you have acquired, bet of th►ir anticipation
*at your future s►rvices •ill prove alike valuable to
your cause and hrinourstelo to your country.—i have
the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient faithful
tertllttl,

Elora) " DANIEL O'CONNELL, See.
" To Maw-Gretna D`Ltereet, &r. &c. &c.

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LONDON •
FRIDAY, JULY 23, il3i9.

The Lon° Magog will, doubtless, toiday, ltr
Common Council, relate what be may say he thoeght
it his duty to do in respect to giving power to the
warrant for arresting the Rev. Mr. flanutsort, IP
Smithfield, on the charge of sedition. His Lord.
ship, it seems, derived no information from the active
Members of the Government • hen be wished to con•
salt them, bet instead of being back ward on account of
his receiving no Instruction, he seems to have outstrip.
ped all his predecessors fur promptitude of action. This
•is evinced in barking, with such celerity, a Provn-
cial Justice's warrant with the City power to take op,
whom? A murderer? No. A cut.perse, the enemy
of every man ? No. A mao of clerical Unction, of
moral character, and who is accused only of speaking
disrepectfully of that estrarragent system of Govern.
merit which to all but the westisuperficial in onderstend•
ing must he checked, or the country is undone. We
remember the time when the whole power of the
Crown coshd not make the Chief Magistrate back a
general warrant. An ATKIN', it is true, was not
the Masor at that time! We not long ago support.
, ed his Lordship in what appeeted signer towards
young culprit ; for we considered the severity es a
kintlitebs towards the depraved youth, awalcking him,
as it were, from a mole ignominious fete. We did
tint, however, suspect that any other than our owe
, teniment actqlted the Magiltrate's skied and band

In Isis determinedly hasty committal. His condect
open this more recent occasion, however forcibly sod
against our wishes, puts us in mind of Ilegber►yr, in
one of Sit.titsertea's •mating plays, osier busy in
office.% end where his (+ Minim's, occasions hitti to be
I celled by tech a tome, that he eacialms—s" There
now, write me dnwn an sus." But in respect to the
high eflice this distinguished t ilium bolds, we will
not run thvoegh Any frillier scene of thereat de-
lineator of Nature. We may safely say, and with-
net offence, that it is well for the flight Honourable
Magistrate that Mr. Foots, the modern Autsro-
►ttANEt, at he wet properly called, is not now alive;
for if he were, we assure him he would play him off
as welt as he played of the Duchess of K vocalism,
Sir T. iitenscce, or any other character rendered
notorious by are out-of•tbe•way act.

Independently of the green eye thus cast on the
patriotism manifested in the proceeding which bis
Lordship so sedulously appeared to watch over: and
laying aside the merit or demerit of Mr. HARRISON.
against whom he was aiming the civil force of the
Mention.boase, we doubt the legality, and, at any
rate, deny the regularity of the whole course his
Lordship lock. For instance, he is said to bare
dated the attraction of the warrant the Mansion house,
sod yet that he wrote it at the Gilispor.street Prison.
If a Royal variant should be dated SC. Jam's',, and
it could be proved that it was egned in Cterken-
i welt Bridewell, would it be operative ? Dues
not the smallest technical emission or irregularity vi-
tiate every legal proceeding, whether involving the
smallest property or the life and death of the accused?
This is a circumstance that ought to be cleared op.—
With regard to the step itself, as a contemporary says
with great propriety, the tranquillity with which this
estraottlinary measure was emulated, confers no merit
onthe Loan M ATOR ; on the contrary, he incurred the
hazard of great mischief, for the danger was jinni-
went.

It is a fad boyond dispute that such an arrow.
went hod been Tootle by the Commander in Chief in
the orders to the military, composed of hors►, foot,
and turnery. that 6000 troops could hue been
poured into Smithfield in the course of half an hoar.
It is not, therefore, to the prudence of the Loan
MAYOR that the ossidto swords of • number of

rune Officers have been pre eeeee d from the stain of

iluod.

At 'neon as Mr. flt x? returned from tha Meeting
In Smithfield, he Oitpatched twn confidential friends
to enqiiire for the Rea. Mr. ll.tuatsou. to 941, that
if he wished for bail in London it should be promoted
for hint in the mntnine. 'Diem Gentlemen found
Mr. IlAant.oo in G.lo,per-streel !triton, and on their
Warn in Mo. HVNT informed Lim, that Mr. Bata-

itigom wag shoo 00 hr spot off with the Officer. to
th► rr,onf y of Chesser (where he had beia reedy), in
the night, or et d.y.hr►.ak in !hemming. Httreeeer,
steno rl►Cen rt ck in the morning, Mr. IlttvT re•
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refit-C1 met.sie 10 Fay. that Mr. llAµ•ti...v was 51111
io Gillaret-Stitet prison, •rsd reighvd for bail ; upon
•birb Mr Neat procur►r! ton friends, responsible
wident citla.ns and househnlJers, and procecal.rl
•ilh them to the etison, where he lsdd the Jail►r that
(hey •etc come to lime bail f.•r Mr. HA•atsoN, hut
tin.v fo••td that he had been sent off into the country
about t•unty initiates. This was • little after two

Among the stratagems which have been resorted to
(we cannot say ht the Government, whatever we
Ploy is st.k), to taring about misunderstanding among
the Reformers, was the dispatching the fotged letter
which follows, to Mr. WARD, of Nottingham. who
was just preparing to come to loon to attend the
Novilafietil Meeting. On his arrival he showed the
letter to Mr. BLANDVOIID, whose name is subscribed
In it, and who unhesitatingly pronounced it to be a
forgery. This ruse forms a part of that pitiful sys-
tem upon which the New Thies and the Courier so
compliment their masters. It prevented Mr. WARD
from PprNkisti from the Hastings at the same time
reading the Nottingham Resolutions :
Sta.—The London Committee of 400 are surprised
at the apathy of the Friends of Reform at Notting.
ham. At the present moment a Meeting there, adopt.
log similar Resolutions to those of the brave Storks
port Reformers, is highly desirable. Orr Meetings
should be simultaneous and in onion. In short, es
a friend ro Reform, we earorstly tall upon yoe
to use your influence to promote such Republic
Meetings without loss of time.--The borough.
mergers aro slimed, and we know they base
something in contemplation against os ; we wish
darns to know our strength. Be a d the time is
arrived when actions only will distinguish the Re-
former from the Anti•Reforener. Ficus, this hasty
and abrupt epistle; the times and the occasion sill
I not allow of ceremony.—Yeees, der.
" E. J. KLANDFORD,
I...ad.'s. July I.i, ISI9 &trews, t., Committee et 103.
To Mr. F. Wt.rd, Nuttieghami."
On Wetisiesilsy morning a placard tees posted in
and about Smithfield, a copy of which was given in
estertlay's Paper, Wog a faithful transcript from
the placard itself, as it appeared on the walls. Its
manifest lenclet.cy was to levity the assembled Re-
formers to acts of outrage and violence, though the
intemperance of language in which it was coached
most have destroyed, and did defeat, Its purpose.—
" The Committee" have thought it incumbent upon
them to disavow all knowledge of this placard, and
have come to a tietermitistion to prosecute the parties
cent...reed therein. They have therefore pablisheel
the following hand-hill:-
- TEN GUINEAS EEWAVD.

,s Whereat a tortoise inthmasasory planed. dated July
1919. sending to etehe she People la arts of •Issletter. and In
s imolai'. she Public assembled for lieforat to Smishaesd, to
vim and e..ssfasian, was pliwed and po•t•st about the lissome.
leading thereto; WO ire I. Isere's% Oren, slat it is the lineation
or .hir Committee nho called she said Meesing to promeuse she
Prin.,. and Poldi.her. 'hereof I and that a Reward of Ten
Goiarns will be paid upon sheer convicting. to any person or
prr.a•u who will give such iatoneussio• Ind so slier

4. Lim iiien JAq. Bumnroßn. Set.
66 Ple.lo. IllatganCaireet, sear Hackney.
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