The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-07-24 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.

At one o'clock yesterday the Court met et Guild-
hell, end the Loao Mayors informed them, that h►
had lest tight received ea important communication
from Lord Sitimooth, which, with their Wave. he
would read.—(Crier of " Reed!")—tlis lemiship
it.en read a letter from Lord Skimmed', thanking
him, In the *Growl t• rats, by order of the Niger
Regent, for his a ,0,,ab10 and efficient mute.
stints to preserve the peace of the City daring
t►o i.nithfield Meeting ea Weduesday lut.— (hear,
Low Vaynr then detailed, at some
• xtb, ti r eateurir• arrangement• made by the
' Tito) Ironer to preserve, order 411 the day alluded to,
aosi etiii•stril los cordial thanks to persons of every
~•••I:cti vtly, for the all they afforded him. He
• •en drAciihrd Me assistance he had fruited from
Public 13• dies; the East India Company, in addi-
tion in placing t►eir own department in a state of
.urn: •'•, had placed at his disposal 590 men. His
1,./11.1,1p then alluded to a printed WI, of a most
i.•ti,mtrutory kind, that was posted about the town
nn IVr•lnesday, inviting the people to action on that
day. It. made every enquiry respecting the aothnrs
of that Willows bill, and trusted his information
would lead to their detection and punishment. He
had radiud information upon oath, that the disaf.
Ceded had made every 'effort to call bite action their
means of (mirage on that day, and hoped is this
great City to have footed (that which was fortuately
sad properly trot the fact) abettors to Imo assisted
in their project, which was of the most diabolical
hied, for it comprised a plot to an guest no less
uustreou than that of firing this great C.lts, cod
murdering the inAsittitats.—( that o—lbis was
their object, be repeated he had information epos
oath; bet the firmness and energy of his fellow.citi-
sena defeated the diabolical attempts of the Wl-
tiosm—( Year, kw!)
On the mistime of Mr. S. Dtsoa, Lord Sidmontlr's
letter was ordered to he entered on the Joiroals.

Mr. Alderman Woo* then raw* foruard, sad
►eyed to ask his Lordship whether he had, directly
or indirectly, any Information of the author of tho
printed bill, or any passible means of discovering bilh?

Mr. S. Duos ;pis In add►ess the Lord Mayor, bet
the worthy Alderman Interrept►d, and insisted upon
his right to an answer. saying, "Sorely the Worth)
Gootletwas is not ping to moor for the Lord
Mayor."

the Lou MaYost said, the enquiry was p►rfectly
r►solar, and he would give an answer. ile bid
some idea that the information which he rec•itrd
would laid to the detection of the nether, at least he
hoped so; the bill was of the most wont kind, end
its contents contetred with the information which
he bad received, upon oath, (bat the obj►ct of
oho disoffeciftl was, on that day, to fire this gred
Cily) and murder a 1 ilf peaceable tahabriontt

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Mr Aldermen Wean reseed ask!. that he most Lordship —((,lies of Order. #2rd. r :)—A• .i Sill
trespass still farther upon his Lordship's patience for I.nriiiiiiii% condrwe •n the de, „• ,i,. !el ~bit, it
a more satisfeciery answer. His Lordqhip bad stated was *en as would hard down hiq namo t • the latest
ail ha had she heal iaromooto„ to loom an atirmr posterity wish reaped. A bro•!... M•ristrate had
was esedistod to fire the city, eed murder its in. adeassered to (centrism 'l. pr. ref-Other. A war.
'habits's. Sorely. thee, it wes of the first import. rant bad ben brash, fr. in the reontey to apes
MK. t• inew who these aspiration were, sod to bend Hardtop ref a Waal . f the t.. sr. thil!M
bring dune to justice. At • Megistrate, be meld Those who atm detracted from hi, Lordqhip's r sit
wound have blamed him, if belied a act' 1.... molly
only pledge himself to en (be ass. nektons is
upon It. lied ceased the parson to be imissediately ice.
promos so important en eiseiry.—(flear, hear,
heer!)—With respect to the printed bill, he could Palest. d. If he had not, be would have been me-
net help recelketing, that dude( his own Mayoralty, fused i.f erglecting his defy through fear.—(,Ales of
ea the 2.1 of December, ens bad been posted op No, no!)-11 limiter firmats of conduct had bees
every where, en she way moreing of the Spa. formerly displayed, the City Uould sot hen bee.
fields Meeting. heeded In letters so very Ise that disgraced by riot end bloodshed.
every child *add reed them 16 Spoilt/dr Row!"— Alderman Snotty could not refrain from giving
" Go it oey goys!"—" Truth for a Penny!"—Tß. his decided approbation of the Lord Mayor's con.
object of that hill as evidently to instigate the ps duct on the dey In (leaden.
ple to acts of tinker*, and he bad probed it to the Mr. Gatemen said, he wit al the Compeer whim
honey, es he hoped she Lord Mayor said do in the Lord Mayor produced the strain, end asked
this cis. Ile bad ascertained that it was printed by whet was to be dens. He (Mr. G.) said, " f here
a person comacted with nee ef the Corporate Bodies is but ea thing to be dote; and she is, for year
of the City (the Beidarell), and with the knowledge, Lordship to do year ditty." ll* (Mr. Cll ) went, sad
if net *IS A@ approbation of perms understood to would again, so like each a esiscreent. a reptile,
who had disgraced and disturbed the city ad country.
he connected with Government.—(Good cries of
" Hoer !")—oTho Corporation be was confides, Tim« who tamed tbe Lord Mayor, ask to hat
would assist his Lordship le every effort, by rewards beets IN bin place.
or otherwise, to detect end punish whoever Asper. Alders.° Woos whiled to know whether the
lens were who had been engaged in each Pestaces.— Lord Mayor knew any thing of Life Guards...
As far as retarded the yvolow et the late Smithfield beteg stationed in the Green-yard, where Ilse Lord
Meeting, not the slightest attempt bad been made by Mayor's carriage and horses se kepi. He believed
any person among them to riot or disorder ; so that there were three, end three horses, for they 00fi
the author of the bill contemplated what the parties sea in the street. He ImAiri the individual said
them' Ives, judging Peso their Wins, evidently did be brought forward who bad made alai, as to that
not —( Hear, hear!) object of the Meeting being riot and devasiallen.
Mr. S. DIXON said, it would better become the Mr. WILLIANS believed lb• cortiat of the Alder.,
Worthy Alderman to hate moved theists to the Load wan of his Ward had been ary difPrent from whet
Mayor,2ban to hare introduced this conversation. 1 hod been 'elleleuenied ; and if he loot al defatitedi
Mr. FAVILLL llllNdeli to 11111 SO-fields bill, ea la Sims Iles he bed done, he would hate takes the
dimmed such proceedings altogether, as. . e I tit daily to call him • coined. Ho was
most likely to coenterset the weceseary sense of • it post • and he believed the only dread
saints, Reform.
~ that the Lord Mayor would Sart Memel( lee
Mr. Aldermso WAITNNAN repressed his surprise mech. Though It will prop/tad to heves large form
that his Lordship should here said so little about the in readiness, it was wrong in egidhlt It. He bed es
hiformaiinn he had received respecting the bill, sad doubt that the Lord Mayor had a right to apprehend
so Inch sheet the authors if the plot, to Ire the the was •, but be thought it a very unwise 'leo ors do
City. The leper. he theses', might ban been it It such a time; and If the Lord Meyer hid iii•
Sparta, for peedeetlal reasons, until sees of she leaded so have °Naiad a broach of the peace, be
conspirators were detected. After alledieg to the amid not hate taken a more efforts& way. He be.
soi.fiehlq bill, and the Gelber of it, the Worthy Al- holed, if the seal of the Lord Meyer had era twee
derma said. be wee not prepared to attach the it. ermined by the advice of his brother Magistrates, do
west wriest to bills et tech • description; and whets Meeting would not bate passed off so easily. This
be
recollected the auchtostioas of (Amer and other fell aidrofffitta did not etci•e distetbenee, nor Mod
ipire, he could not overlook the possibility that per. abort Olitets acid Castles le snap the people.
aria of s similar dscription might be at work at Mr. JACKS was sorry this gelation had draws
present—(!hs' !)—wilb a view of Inciting such a forth so such piety heat. Thie wee the Stet tinsels*
ferment
as wood Give room for the introduction of had heard cf sof seal le presertiog the peace of
force to pet down all freediscasion nine the Peo. the City. Ile was of °pintos that if the Lord mny,br
pie. With 'area to Meetings like those alluded to, bads deedouti,teseken,
hethewproulsdeehaagyeat warrant
he, in general. looked upon them as the worst ene-
o
mies of real Reform, on i of the opportuat. triennia infuriation.
sips they afforded of ailing into play the indiscreet Mr. Oman. defended the conduct of Mr. Alder.
seal of individuals. Ili believed, however, that the min Wnithmen Whim the charge of indecesley sad
grs.l mass, of the People were sound, and that they fetesperaen which had been brought against him.—
could out be led away without greet eacitemeet and He admitted that the Lord Meyer was bound so take
match difficulty. The miner in which the Meeting Harrison ; but he ought to hate had him watched by
on Wednesday wee, oty, shoos,' that the People Co.. his constables, and taken after the Meeting was over.
instated nothing violent ; tied was, he knew, the Mr. SMITN had hoped that seme of the Alders..
opinion of persons residing on the spot in Swittifield, would hare mead the Thanks of the Court to the
arid who during the Meeting oily dreaded theorem,. Chief Magisirete; but as that bad not been done, It
aim, of intemperate interference as the tarn Oats ass his intention to de se. He then censured the
diner. Ile hoped that impalas wield be spared to dis- conduct of Mr. Alderman Weinman, in coming to
cover the whom (if there were soy) of 5, fool a con. the Cowper, acid protesting against the conduct of
'piracy as that of lying the City sad mordering the the Chief Mishits', In the way he did. Ao epistle
inhabitants. Fan the information ass Meer ought cation was made to the Lord Mat or ,o send his nee.
to be attended to in tech a ease, with a tiew of bring. stables to pall down the blordy fag, with the words
int the eintoiry to some issue. Looking, however, " Liberty or Death" open It ; bat his Lordship re.
at the Meeting, sod at the bogey grialloces sod dis. I lased to lend his constables to any seeb purpose as
tresses of the People, he did not think insimating the i escitiers brae' of the peace. He then concluded
1 possibility of their being participates, by conlempla. Iby main the Thanks of the Cost to the Lord
lion, in bloodshed and rapine, was the kindest way Mayer for the efl.cto.ii measures he had taken to pre.
of tontine them. For his own part, he empress, his ' one the peace of (Ito City.
astonishment that the Maths, under all the circus. Mr..lt a seconded the motion.
stances, went off as quietly as it did. Nothing amid Mr. Put. Les stated, the preparations fade by AO
be more rash or ill.advised, or more against the Vas. Sheriffs, by col:ecting their Officers in the Charter.
einious, opinion of all the Magistrates, thee the sp. house, to csop e with the Lord Mayor if ma..
pearls* of Dragoons he the streets of the City on enfl•
Wednesdly ;it was against the espies understand. Mr. Alderman WAIIIIIIIII appealed to the Cone,
wit „hit • soldier should not how, though the raj whether he was likely t . lies. a •tocl iii the Vann
lest mesas mere taken to have an ;deviate force at imitated to hilt% For his own part he was ski.
band, is case:dens. He was else astonished, at mined that it was half.past elan o'c'ork is the fore.
the very time of the Meeting, to W. some of the . soon of the 2lq#, hetore he knew where the Lewd
Light Horse in Gdospor.street, end, se he had heard, Mayor was. Ile had gone soil protested *ain't
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actually determined, were it not for the admonition seeding the firemen, *So were recta Cattail's, Into
of some of the Civil Power, to impede the procasin Sinithileid, ss wells, 'saint I • oivstaty ?swing go the
then passing fur the Chairman of the Meeting. The streets ; hot he hay not dose so iii the way replanted ;
worthy Alderman then reprehended, iii the warmest hut he was received in a way whin all who know his
(eras, she rash and intemperate set if sending 30 or I Lordship's enJuebted erbenity,woeld ',fell, coisceivea
40 Gambles, its the very twiddle of the baskets it 1 Ile bed simply said that be protested against meek
the Maths, to arrest Harrison. (Cries of "Worr) I masses es bringing the seldleis into she efts. 11•
TS* Leett hi &Telt dvittvd that any Orsenos .ere cools! Not after in this Vote of Thank.. bee,ste. IT
by his wheels in the City. The City light Hone it bed not been for the misses endorse of the
were only in Gilisper-atrat, oee or two et a time, Alderson, he believed that the military ~std hies_.
riding to revoke his orders every half hoer, as to the bar celled on, sod disorder God siefeein wan
state of the Meeting. Ile warmly aelienserted piton hate ensued.
the Worthy• Aide(Matheson) rsen's ( conduce. Ile The Lees IWATOW said, be nest be.' In emltesse
was Sid he had levelled those Gentlemen (the Goy Itt"el i" '" "ii in sly "liar Y' Opfer@ .1 usoruis. he
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Light Hem), sad had endeavoured is Imago, she oid set knew liner, In she op his IV' •,^^ :
15101+1e In attack then---bb ended gkespeosenr In bad erdWred thst a essofeitattel pereen e. said be al