The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-07-10 00:00:00

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y‘ its INDEPENDENT LOYAL LIVERY-
MEN ei bONDON.
FOR THE sTictuMAk.
Toe have gained a victaiy, which British history
will record to the lateekititets by setting a great
.sample, sot ooly to t entry, hot to future
Legislation. Persevere •a lox have begun& and it is
to 40 hoped that next St. Thomas's Day will af-
ford the saute opportunity ore placing the City of
London at that meridian it has formerly so resplen-
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doily shone. Although I have sot only voted for
'the four successful Candidates, bet hive contributed
greatly in rousing the tree British spirit' of my Fel-
low-Citizens and Liverymen, cannot bet feel sur
prised at the advertisement of certain Merchants,
&inters, and Traders of London, friends to one; of
'th, Candidates. A very , long experience, nursed
and bred as I have been, anti continuing in the
bosom of politics the last sixty years, forces me
to look at this step with a jealous and suspi-
cious eye. Knowing as I do the power of this
phalsnz, and the aristocratic pert of the City of
London, I escisim, in, the language of one of the
first poets recording the siege of aocient Troy, 46
fear the Greeks and the presents they bring." if
'they have by try iellemite coutributed to the elec..
Lion of Mr. Wtt.soy and the exclusion of the on-
*successful Candidate, we have equally had our
share in theglorioos triumph of showing that we are
not slaves ; and, I trust, on any future occasion the
same spirit of loyalty, independence, and regard to
the Constitution, will be equally manifested against
any junto of men who shall associate for the purpose'
of overawing, or influencing others against the
dictates of their consciences, and so destructive of
the natural love of social legal liberty. What other
purpose can this Meeting have in sietroitets to create
a frightful deadly monster of Party, to *bsorb the
feelings and sentiments of well-disposed men by the
overawing power of their penes an46ll.4iiirir leper-
tire situations in the trading intaresttef the capitol ?
You ban obtained *most important poiot, and by di.
ligence and attention may maintain it. Hoeing purged
the Kepresentatiou of the City in the !loose of Com-
mons, it is to be hoped the inhabitants of the City
of London will reflect on the miserable state of the
Common Council, and be prepared, without preju.
dice or offyclion, to elect fit and proper persons next
St. Thomas's Day, that their conduct in the manage-
ment. of the Corporation affair', and such (rational
subjects as may there be discussed, may reflect the
long-lost dignity of that Court, the epitome of what
the !louse of Commons is to the aggregate interests

or do United Kingdom. The groat considera►ion of
every good Citizen, in ill public affai►s, should he his
Country, his King, and the Constitution. These
are truly the sentiments .of

A LOYAL INDEPENIMINT LIVERYMAN
OP LONDON
Fortylour years, and a reardeut Inhabitant lathe most
populous Word of the City.
Farringdon Ward. Julie So, 1818.

In an article of the Police Intelligence from Marl-
borough-street,. copied into our Paper of Monday
from the report of another, it was stated that T.
Priciest's', who was charged with appropriating mo-
sey belonging to the Horse Shoe Benefit Society to
his own use, hid obsconded. This statement, we
have satisfaction in saying is not true. Mr. Prideaus
being ready to answer to any such charge.
There has long been a great and increasing pnpu•
Winn in Wirt—the descendants of Eurepestis from
Indian mothers and their progeny. Many of them
are well educated,,' and people of considerable pro-
perty ; and, latterly, they have been studiously in.
vestigating what are their rights as fire-born British
subjects. Private letters inform us that they have
commenced a Newspaper to facilitate the objeas of
their enquiry, a measure which has excited no small
degree of alarm in a country where the Supreme ,Go.
vernment has been, till lately, in the habit of ortis.,,,
pensing very summary judgment on all who presumed
to talk of a free Press.
On enquiry it has been found that the rights of this
mixed race are so completely guarded by the last
Charter granted to the Company, that it is not in
the power of the Indian Government to adopt sum-
mary measures against these free Pies: men, the
race in question being expressly put under the pro.
faction of the Courts of Judicature, and their rights
secured as British subjects amenable only to the Bri-
tish law S. . .
In this dilemma, the qiestion under discussion by
those who regret this extension of a free Press in
India, when these letters came away, was—Whether
they should oppose the free Journals, by establish-
ing counter Journals? or, by occupying the columns
of those before printed with the licence of the Go-
vernment, with counter-statements and argaments

LIMERICK, JULY 3.4—This morning a serious and
dreadful battle commenced betereen the lower order
of persons attached to the interests of the City Can-
didates, in Patrick-street, among %thorn were several
butchers, armed with hatchets, cleavers, knives, and
other destructive weapons, with which they com-
mitted great havock ; and, were it not for the prompt
exertion, of Alderman WILKINSON, who, with ti
party of the 12th and 96th regiments, arrived in such
seasonable time, there is no doubt hot many lives
would have been lost. These misguided people
actually charged him, and did not retreat till he or.
dered the military to prime and load. He took one
of the ringleadiqs prisoner, whom he afterwards re-
lease!, on the butchers promising to return to their
shambles, and to observe peaceable behaviour in
future.
The late Judge Ronne, in going the Wostern Cir-
cuit, had a great stone thrown at his head, hut, from
the circumstance of his stooping very much, it passed
over him. " You eee," said be, gnod•humnurerlly
to a friend, " tt I had been an upright Judge, I
might bate been killed!".
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