The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-01-25 00:00:00

EXTRACT OP A LETTER ?ROM THE II %TANN A.

Darr. 10.—Our last was under date of the I inst. We
now write to you witp a view oftlaing away all impromista
miliat might have caused for the state of this
City. From exaggerated reports of an insubordination
amoitgoor troops, at the moment a fear was entertained
that sour ill disposed 'nen would endeavour to profit of
the occasion to excite tumult. Now we think it proper
to inform you such dread has completely rapi.thed.
The troops have returned to their duty, consequently we
feel ourselves in a state of safety.

The proceedings at the Mansion-House, yesterday,
cannot but be looked upon as, in every sense, one of
the most striking scenes of the day. Notwithstanding
the precantions of the Loan M stmt, an organised
band, prepared for the purpose of disturbance, tuo►k post
at the foot of the Hustings, and with every means
they possessed of vociferation and even of personal
violence, did their utmost to defeat discussion and
suppress site independent voice of as numerous rnd re-
spectable a body of Merchant• and Bankers as ever
were assembled in any city in the world. Mr. J.
SMITH, the brother of Lord Ctanixt:von, opened the
business of the day, and was opposed by such an up-
roar as scarcely admitted him to be heard ; but the
most vehement and determined resistance on the part
of the inarticulate enemies of reason awl freedom was
reserved for Mr. Baits°, whose manly declarations in
support of genuine English spirit had rendered bins
specially obnoxions to the mercenary herd. Is
spite of all their efforts, however, and never, it ap-
pears, were more scandalous exertions made for
the promotion ,of disorder and :jot, the great
object of the Meeting was triumphantly carried,
by a majority which has been computed 26
Sher Is one. This mortification of the braw-
lers, though severe, is the least weighty part of the
disgrace that is their portion. The base and despe.l
rate spirit they displayed, exposes to contempt andi
indignation the hypocritical rrie. they are tontinu-
ally •tiering in defence of order and the publicl
good. Whe.•ver they venture to meet the asserters
of constitutional rights, con.ciotii of the weakness
of their soothers as well as of their arguments, they
have recourse, where they can act with impunity,
to the esterrise of physical force. The same spirit
that &aslant! the men who dispersed the netting at
!daubed's', aed at Kilmainham, was utauifest is the
Egyptian-Hall and is a true repression of the despot-
ism, which for sordid purposes, they wish to esereiWl
over the nation at large.

PAtalLiT PUBLIC 1112171:14.—A very 111111111,T0114 111141
respectable abetting took pleat in the pupaloos
cowl) of Paisley. un Friday brit, fur the pnrpose of
addressing his Majesty to trews his Ministers;
Sir Arlan Ilessweii is tem vi.a. A number of
Oratkootto of reek and forttne attended, who spoke
with sock saistatioa in the geese of Reforms ; and
the moologiows pooped were agreed to with 01117
one liiimagirst voice. Tint of room compels es to
petrol a detail of the proceedings till to-no/trot.

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The King held a Gran yesterday for the purpolle of
receiving the Address of the Hoes, of Lords, which
Mas presented by the Earl of tie!wire and Lord Prod-
hots in company with the Doke of Clarence; hit Arch-
bishop of Canterhury, the Bishops of London, [hetet,
L'lngher, Landoll, Killatoe, the Dukes of Beanfort and
Wellington, the harpies's of Salitbdry and Corn-
wallis, and Inch of the Cabinet Ministers as belong to
the. Upper House. The address was read by the Lord
elsticellor, and was most graciously received.
The King afterwards gave audiences to the Lord
Chancellor, Rarl of Liverpool and Viscount Sidnsouth.
Prince Leopold called upon the Queen at Broadest-
burgh-house on Tuest!ay, alone, and remained dills her
Majesty for two luittrs.
Maa+rac or ST. ANDREWS, HoLaonN.---Yetterday
a Meeting was held of the Inhabitants of the United
Parishes of St. Andrew Holborn above Nei; and Sc.
George the Martyr, to consider of an Address of Con-
gratnlation to the Queen; also an Addresi to the King
to dismiss his Ministers; an 4 a 13etitials to the House
of Commons for the restoration of her Majesty's
name to the Litur!l, and of all her rights and
11 privileges; and for a Reform in Parliament. Mr.
Richard Horsman Sully was called to the Chair, and
a string of Resnlutions was proposed by Mr. Galloway
' and seconded by Mr. Shout. Mr. Reynolds, the con-
missioner of the Insolvent Debtors' Court, opposed
the Resolutions, and moved the previous question on
them, which way seconded by Mr. Syked. Mr. W. •
Took, Mr. Merryweather, Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Prance,
and others afterwards addressed the Meeting, and
Mr. Galloway replied. In the resdlt the Resolutions
were carried by a large majority. A eery king eon-.
eersation arose on the 4th Resolution, containing a
reprobation of the conduct of those who had met at
Gray's-Inn Coffee-house, and it was in the sequel
agreed to. Addresses to her Majesty, the King, end
the House of Common. were afterwards proposed,
read, and carried. nit meeting did not break up till
about 5 o'clock.

The G,unnon Hall which has heen advertised to
be held Tomorrow, is postponed until Monday nest.
The Right Hon. F. Robinson, President of the
Board of Trade, has lately visited Manchester, Shef-
field, anil other manufacturing towns, probably to lay
the foundation of some Parliamentary measures foe
their relief.

In the ships, now fitting up for the next voyage of
discovery, the births are all to be placed in the centre
of the vessels, and the gangways are to pass round
the sides.

Lieutenant Reid, of the Griper, has presented to
the Hunterian Museum at Glasgow, of which city hi
is a native, several natural enrioeities which he
brought from the Northern Expedition, among which
is an entire head of the Musk Ox, a King Drake and
Duck, with a cdllectiou of dried plants and minerals
from Melville Island.

I, Yettow PeTeß—The Governov of Lon'Cana, in
!his Message to the Legislature, states a fact in rAa-
' tion to the Yellow Fever at New Orleans, that merits
panatela'. attention. He amens that nose entfisseik- •
in the prison of that city were, in no instance, select
to this dreadful malady :—that being cut off from
society, and being secluded within the cells of a dnn-
geon, not one died of the prerailing fever. The fact
(says the Washington Gazette), speaks volnilies.
What will your non-contagonists say to it?
It is said that a handsome stone bridge is to he
erected over the Canal in St. James's Park, Instead of
the Chinese wooden one now palling down.
Tee UsDeaTaitiero To Do 50 Muss to 12 Horns tse
12 successive atve.—Lient. Owen started at - four
' o'clock yesterday morning, on the Basingstoke row!,
reached Basingstoke, through Swallowileld, Heckarld,
Stratlifield•Sav, &c. (15 miles) in three homer and fists
minutes; anichal done forty miles in ten hours and a
quarter. His route will be strait to gxeter, thence t..
Bath, through gomersetsh'sre, Oxford hire, Worcester-
shire, &c. into the Northern road. The pedestrian is 25
years of age, and of great powers.
St:int:tan Courneriou.--.ln drawing a wile! duck.
I recently shot by Capt. Blackman, of livrebant-street,
the servant discovered within it a vegetable substance,
curiously formed, and shard like a pear. It measures
in circumference eight inches, .Lud when extracted
from the bird, weigheJ nine ounces.
A Pant uee --lee of these ferezions animals is
said to be roaming through the bills between Anders
sun's ferry and Wright's Title, in v.l. csointy. About
ninety huntsmen were in quest of it last week. but
found not a restage of it. It is supposed to have
crossed the rive: into Lancaster count/. Three hon..
1 dred men are to go in permit of this animal, on the
lint snow that falls deep enough to attack it.--./. Arne-
! views Paper.)
Three lads were yesterday brought to Bow-street
Mies for a burglary, whoa the person who gave them
.IS eitar,Te was desirous to avail himself of the disco-
' trey stated to be made by Mr. Megan Campbell, and
I **decline the obligation and ezpence of presentees.
la tins attempt however, be was, we understand, de-
feated by the Magistrate, who prevailed spots bias to
ester into recefainacee to prosecute upon the teems
doll were in use. It is highly necessary that this da-
bble point be settled. When Mr. Campbell's plea
was admitted at the Mansion Hone, we tbseeght it
completely establislud in justice and reason, as well
is in the spirit and letter of the law. If it were fklly
acknowledged and acted on at our Polieeneeme, we
I are confident it wool.' be. a terror to efeil deers, mud
a praise to them that do well.
At an early hour yesterday morning, upwards of
thirty men and women were taken In coffeefteheps in
Beire-lane, and other places, in perloanata a warms
from the Magistrates of Bow-street. Some of them
were held to bail, sod onsets were discharged vun their
owe mcognirnees. We heartily approve of peeper
eiiiistice in sessirsof the bawds of the diesohde aid
=Pato. Theimilionig cowlust of depredators is the
oli% has an alarming height, and may
net unjustly Wam bed on the prevalence of those sec-
Waal places of resoit, which within these few years
hate ben established in diferent parts ettbe town. We
SINS it the sere necessary to point them ont mob-
kids for the legislation of the police, in Order to viadi-
late the credit of respectable bonen of a thotilar name,
tirlaert, in the &a time, tits industrious elevens have an
Apportanit, o 4 enjoying their hour of relattetionoaed
tegalingwith *beret:age '• which cheers, but eot inebri.-
ages." -We think it proper that this distinction as to
eisiteedher Nand he stteegly molted and kepi in view.
If selloilltle, Jae 23.....11ie Ranger ratter has Sent
Oa a email antler, called the Nancy, laden with sae
bendrei aid fair casts of spirits and soots dry geode.

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O:EE.IYAG AT THE MAXSION 110 USE.

TP.II•NIPU OF TIMP. IILAL AND ENLICIITICSIED LOYALISTS
ouvEa ITS SINISTIIII OIiIIISTAILtN PaIaSSSOSS.

Yesterday we witnessed an extraordinary Meeting
a( the Mansion-house, in consequence of tne Requisi-
tion ef the truly respectable and liberal Bankers and
Merchants of London, who had determined to declare
their opinion of the general state of the country, as
.well as to mark their disapprobation of the condnct of
those individuals who, deluded by prejudice, misled by

timidity, or actuated by interest, have, under the ape-
ciaos pretence of loyalty, and with the nominal
authority of the mercantile body of this great Me-
tropolis, recently contributed their influence, by
lending their names to the propagation of the foulest
:nets upon the Press and the People of England.
Twelve for one was the time fixed by the lord Mayor
for the commencement of the Proceedings, but, by ten
o'clock, the avenue of admission to the Mansion-house
was filled by a bo;ly of persons evidently organized
and prepared to act in concert in an endeavour to pre-
occupy such part of the Egyptian-hall as they thought
proper, or most conducive to their object. From the
sentiments of these persons, which were very uure-
screedly and even loudly expressed, it was quite obvi-
ous what the nature of that object was, as well as by
whom they were summoned to attend ; they were not,
however, so numerous as to prevent the advocates of
liberality from finding their way into the Egyptian.'
hell when the great door was thrown open, bet we
could perceive that those partisans of Miniateria!
L:Lerly, contrived to range themselves so close to the
hustings, as in a great measure to &anum' the
suite of the people, and tee prevent them from hearing
eny speaker whom they thought proper to interrupt.
This hand was, indeed, so regularly marshalled, that
it could render any speaker inaudible, even upon the
hustings itself, whose. it u as not their pleasure to hear.'
That power they evinced in various instance., lent in a
most ludicrous manlier with respect to Sir W. Curtis;
for, so injudicious was their partisanship, see foolish
their zeal, that they actually prevented the Worthy
Baronet from being heard, through the loudness of
their own dicers, forgetting that a speaker may he
eiuite as effectually rendered inaudible by cheers as
I-v hisses. But we shall make no further comment,
far the I resent, upon those partisans of the hole and
corner Addressers, than to observe that it appears
rather ungracious, if not indecent, that Ouse who had
el:en especial care to render the place where they
framed their Address, utterly inaeressible to any but,
those who agreed with them, should thus have in•
is ueled into an assembly avowedly convened for a differ-
ent purpose, merely, as it seemed, with a view to create
disorder and contusion. Many parts of the scene
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•z leery, we must say, extremely diseusting, although the
result was so truly grateful to every friend of liberty,
,justice, and reason. The defeat of the artful adherents,
or the mere dupes of Ministers, was indeed, iu this
case, completely decisive.
There were, we understand, about 2,500 persons
present, compreheuding, certainly, the tuost affluent
and eminent merchants io the kingdom.
About one o'clock the Loan MAYOR took the Chair,
fled his appearance was hailed by loud and uninter-
rupted cheering. Upon silence being obtained, the
Worthy Magistrate declared that he felt great grati-
fication in being called Mims to preside over a Meeting
eo truly respectable. This Meeting lie had convened
to compliance with the Requisition of a most respect-
a'ule body of blentlemen.—(Applause.)—lnto the sub-
ject of the Meeting he did nut mean to enter ; that
Meet would, no doubt, he most ably discuss leyl
Ventiemen around him. But, as among so large
a bully as this Metropolis comprehended, and upon so
important a subject, it was naturally to be expected
that a considerable difference of opinion would •pre-
trail, he hoped that the observations of every Gentleman,
syleo should think proper to address the Meeting
would be attentively and patiently beard, and that that
urrler which was becoming so respectable an assembly
would be strictly preserved.—(Applause.)—lie trust-
e I that the Meeting would attend to his request, to
allow the business of the day to proceed without any
improper interruption.
• Mr. Joust SMITH said, that as it devolved tiptoe
km to move the Resolutions which he leeb.i in leis
hand, he shoniti :'ate shortly the reasons which urged
himself and the gentlemen with whom he had the
honour to act, to subscribe the requisition which led
to the present meeting. A number of most respect-
:ol'e gentlemen had thought proper to publish a decla-
ration, purporting to he that of the merchants, hankers,
and traders of the city of I melon. 'This declaration
del appearing to express the sense of the whole of
the mercantile hotly, the gentlemen with whom he
concur, eel, thought the peeved. meeting necessary.
bile would not allow those gentlemen, or any other
locistlirtwierrten, N declare for that body, of which
.lee had the honour to be a member, any other genii-
nients than those which they actually entertained.—
(Applause.) With the declaration of loyalty which
thuse Gentlemen had published, he and Iris friends
most cordially concurred.—(Applause.) But, in ad-
dition to this declaration of loyalty, it was justly
telt that from the present situation of the country,
the mercantile body of London had other duties to
perform—that they were called upon to declare their
opinion as to the general state of public affairs. (Here
t..e Lion. Gent. read the several resolutions which be
Lad to prcipose.) To the first he could not anticipate
stry objection, its it was known that the opinion of the
• tti:dee sel London bad always had a very material
ieduence upon that of the country at large, nay,upulli
. decisions of Parliament itself. To. the second Lie•
solution be could not anticipate any objection, as it
expressed an abhorrence of blatpltensous an I seditious
publicatilms and a declaration ofloyalty, with that of
rrsblution tee maintain the Constitution The third
-Eesolation be also deemed such as celed. be liable to
1.0 objection; her every man must sieniegit the enforce.,
• went of the laws fur thee preservation of the public
ear*, and for. the protection of the people. If these
• iste.s bed indeed been duly-enforced--if doetrires
i.ebversive of all civil society ballot been allowed to
4 i-culate with impunity-cif persons had not been per-
t. ;peel to 'abash that the taxes should out be paid,
filets us certain conditions, the couutry would not,
e nem persuaded, have now so many evils to deplore.
at if the laws bad been duly administered and

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