The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-01-08 00:00:00

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Immediately after the meeting
requisition was renewed, requesting _
venc the meeting in some place sufficiently capacious,
to contain the balk of the inhabitants. The requisV
tion was handed aci the Mayor on Thursday, by a
deputation from the requisitionists, when his worship
stated that he would give them an answer on Saturday.
At eleven o'clock on the latter day the deputation
accordingly waited upon the Mayor for his answer,
when he politely declined calling another meeting;
but declared, that he should not offer any obstruction,
if the requisionists should deem it advisable to call a
meeting uu their own responsibility. A counter-requi•
sition was prepared, and signed by 120 gentlemen In
a few hours, requesting the Mayor not to accede to
the requisition which had been presented to him on
Thursday. He received the deputation very politely;
and informed them, that he would give his answer
when the original requisitionists waited on him for
his determination respectini.- the calling of another
town's meeting. The following is a copy of the coun-
ter-requisition:
" We, the undersigned inhabitants of the town of
I Liverpool, understanding that a requisition has been
presented to your worship, requesting that you will
Loan a public meeting of the inhabitants of this town,
.11.14 held in some place sufficiently capacious to con-
tain thp bulk of the inhabitants, for the same purposes
as the one convened in the Tems44 on Wednesday
last; and feeling confident that the real sense of this
great town cannot be ascertained by such a measure,
and that it can only tend to produce animosity and
to hazard a breach of the public peace, beg leave ne
express oar hope, that you will be pleased to decline
complying wLls the prayer of that requisition.—
(Liverpool Courier.)
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(EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM LIVERPOOL JAY. 5.)
THE LIVERPOOL COURIER.
Of Wednesday the 3d January, contains no less than
seven dense colums of matter, with a view to prove
that black is white, and white no colour at all; in
plain English prose, that the eltra-ministerie lets,
Fad an overwhelming majority at,. the late meeting :
and, as a Panne of their CONFIDENCE in the strength
of their adherents, the Editor has heel' so silly as to
, publish a counter-requisition delivered in by the
ULTRAS', wherein they prayed that no further meet-
ing might be granted, on the flimsy and ludicrous
plea, that the sense of the town could nut be eager-
&lard by ageneral meeting of its inhabitants.
In this veil attempt, the vengeful beings *hewed
their fears and confessed their weakness. No truth is
more evident than that the corruptitmists, trembling
at the near approach of an utter and irreparable defeat,
mustered a band of wretched dependents and brutal
ruffians, and sent them, at least two Aonrs prior to the
doors being opened, to blockade the entrances. I have
been assured by persons who were present, that at
first, the fellows who stationed themselves in the ave-
nues, obstructed every person who could not give a
certain sign ; and that this continued till the pressure
became so great, that it forced the whole of those in-
spectors away into the body of the hall.
The immense pains the ghostly Editor has taken
to varnish over a foul and atrocious deed, shews his
etmaciousness of the deep disgrace which the naked
truth must inflict upon the fabricators of mock-Liver-
pool Addresses. Their means embraced iatiwidutioa
and intoxication. A sea-port town like this, has a
vast proportion of shipwrights, caulkers, painters &c.
in its population, and these men, in past times, used
to overawe all the other inhabitants. They are no*
partly muzzled, partly subdued by the better execution
of the law : but when occasion requires the assistance
of the veriest ruffians of that rough class of useful men,
there are persons who know where to find, and hole to
excite their fury. On the occasion in question, a
formidable phalanx was set in motion, who acted by
signals privately given and perfectly understood. it
has been asserted that they carried concealed bludgeons,
and if the Mayor had not dissolved the meeting as he
did, these wretches would have fallen upon the peace-
able and TRULT LOYAL part of the meeting.
From very good authority I have been informed that
a public-house in Edmund-street, kept by one S—s,
a large party of the rioters were regaled with ale and
liquors, who stated that they were paid their wages
as if they had been at their ordinary work ; and had
each of them half-a-crown, and, to use their own ex-
pressive slang, "a bodyfull."
The New Year commences very gloomily in this
town. Poverty and misery are desolating thu lower
ranks of the inhabitants; and thousands of poor
house-keepers are rapidly sinking under the weight of
taxation. The workhouse is said to ay. rum,. Un-
happily, the frost is set in intensely severe, by which
a vast number of persons will be thrown out of work.
In the manufacturing districts, owing to the very low
price of products and wages, the condition of the
weavers and spinners is improved; hut in the villages
and agricultural districts, such is the depteciation of
produce, that those who have any property, are seeing
it daily waste away to pay rent and taxes. What is
worse, there is no prospect of amendment except by
reducing the interest of the public debt, or /*eerily
fazing t.e funds. Such arc the effects of Mr. Peel's
celebrated bills to enable the Bank to pay in specie!

Tna RIXIWID RiQttslTton.--••We stated in our
last, that, after the meeting convened by the !stunt,
which was dissolved in consequence of the clamorous
uproar we then described, the requisition was renewed,
and a public meeting suggested in some large place.
The Mayor appointed Saturday, at eleven o'clock for
delivering his answer. The Ministerial pant in the
interval, betrayed the greatest alarm at the prospect
of on open meeting, where peace might be preserved
by the proper officers, and where discussion would
certainly put down both them and their politics.—
They accordingly got np a counter-requisition on Fri-
clan they c.mvassed for signatures in the Charity
Hall-room in the evening ; on Saturday morning they
were seen running about to the shops and Aces in
Castle-street and the neighbourhood ; in some plates,
we are credibly informed, they used the Mayor's name
14 under the rose," as if a counter-requisition would he
agreeable to hint ; and at la■t they presented it to his
Worship, signed ►y about one hundred and twenty
names.
At eleven o'clock, on Saturday, n deputation from

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waited aped the Mayor to receive
Mayer received the solidus's id
Amer, aged said he had just received a
dapiladsa4 who presented to him a counter-requisi-
dos. Ms bad Wormed that deputation, that his own
mind dictated to him the decision he had formed en
the irobjeet, and that no individual should know that
decisiao, until they the requisitionists, arrived. With
respect to the counterrequisitiol, he bad pat it into his
pocket, without reading it, or homing whose names
were attached to it. Such was his view of counter-re-
quisition. To the gentlemen then present he must say,
that be bad given to the requisition the most serious
consideration ; hut, with al, possible respect fur them ;
and the requisitionists at large, he must decline to con-
veselitheroposed meeting in consequenee of what oc-
curred the other day. He had a decided objection to
preside out of the Town-hall, and certainly the Court- i
room as not large enough for a meeting of that de-
scription, being liable, as he plainly saw, to the opt.-
ratio*, of trick. He bad suspected on Wednesday
that there bad been a scheme for disturbing the meet-
ing, and he now knew that such a scheme was prac-
tised. Although after what had occurred he should
decline presiding at a second meeting, he should have
no objection to allow the requisitionists the use of the
Town-hall, where their own chairman might
bat be could not see how stratagem, and even vio-
lence, could be avoided in that limited space. How-
ever, in withholding his assent from the present appli-
tattoo, M would assure the gentlemen, that he would
nothin any respect stand in the way of any meeting
irhieh they might arrange elsewhere.
The Deputation then withdrew, and the requi-i-
-tionists have fixed upon holding a public meeting in
the Tennis-court, on Wednesday next.—(Lieerpool
Mererry.)

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