The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-09-10 00:00:00

SOUTHWARK MEETING.

PUBLIC WIILCO.IIIC to MA MUNE
Another Meeting, Noisome. to adjournment, wit
held last bleb, at the Cr... and Anchor, relative to
the proposed Politic Welcome to M. if unl. Hai few of
the Gentlemen who had beets invited oil pretioes
evening attended, nor was any esces• on the
plat of soy iblentee. Alma, hill past eight U,.
Watson and a 00100rOali party of the tlemenster
the White Lion entered the rood.
After come considerable delay. arising froth the •
shot* of so great u pardon, of the otigival Meet:
hog, the visors premint.consistiog almost en.irely of
tilt Committee from the Whit* Lien' and samal
straogars who *ere attracted by the report, that list*
appeared in else Public Juertials, it was proposed by"
one of that Commi.tre that their Timmer, Mr...
Birt, should lake the Chair. This Gentleman, how.
Steer, spry properly declined, and another of the
Committee who seemed less tonicious of the evident
Sudecurone of the proceeding was appointed, on MO
motion and by diatom of hit coadjuters.
This appointment was not formally protested
against, though some of those nrigieally invited felt
that this was an adjourned Meeting of their eons
ne,r which, of course, a Chairman front voting
felvet should hive hems nomiumeil, ant! tlifia bosloesa
regularly teaselled. The final arsologion of the pre-
ceding evening was, that lb. Meetiog shoeld be ad.
jnerned till the oast evening', to r..relve from dad
Catbmittee at the White Lion a !01l and molielt sc.
count of their transacsions, in order that they might
jade of the propriety of cowperati..n. This nisset
was nearly defeated by the batty mode in which th•
Committee took possession, as it were. of the place
of Meeting. and appointed an oScor of then own to
preside. However improper might be his weesius.
lien, It is doe to the Chairman that It should be ob•
served that his conduct in that Atomics. obtained tkd
deserved approbation of the tompany:
Mr. EvAsa, jos. rose and said, that before they
proceeded taimatee open the hastens for which they
had adjoarned, he bogged to say sosnetbiaz ronceen-
ine the sesocisloes misrepresentations that had basest
published in the Daily Papers respecting their proceed:
logs yesterday evening. Ti. report to which lie par-
ticularly adverted appeared in the 'limes, and he dot
not hesitate to pronouure it throughout to be as gross
sad grounding a falsehood as bail ever emanated from
any source. lie perceived it was e. pied into the
Courier. Perhaps that fact wnu!d mashie every one
to comprehend the p:rposes which it was in-
tended to answer. The very heid line of th!t
pretended Report comprised es crony Area and
implied falsehoods as could he ConaPll'd in OP WSW
somber of words. Ile spoke pl.iinly and possibly,
offensively ; but when ha considered the 'mom*
and °liras of that Report. and alto tirenesstanerm
under which it bad heap written, he felt jellified in
!using the most etp:icit and intelligible trims. P.*
Report was headed as Westminster C,rec:ieee of
400." Now, In the first place, tub Meetis4. of (:en•
demen yesterday was no Committee at all. They were
specially lashed by s letter sigeed by a very respect.
able Gentleman. It was load respects a select and pri-
vate Meeting. The Reporters had indeed lo.rude,!, hut
they owed it to the courtesy of lie reopen, that they
were tint eseloderl: The Meeting had never con.
templeted for en instant that the ronsersation and
I proceedings of so small a body would have been peta-
llinty blazoned, much leas cosh, they have anticipated
that any intruder, whose presence was only per.
usittedoliould tale given foi th a statement. talcslmed
to produce an impression so mischievoas. Neither had
the Meeting had any peculiar reference to Westminster.
As In lie asserting) that thie prOteoded " Westminster
Committer'' nomiisely of 400." he really
was at a loss how to characterise with becoming lan.
rise the flagiti of the positive falsehood Isere
%netted. and dangerous implications lying hidden
ender the designation thus attempted to bp fastened
II open itself Meeting. The Meeting was wholly en-
convected with any Com/541're. It was itself nd
Committee, het was simply, as be had before r'utsd,
conferred on the invitation of the Worthy Gnat's*.
man whose name was edited 'to the Circular. Ile
haired. therefore, if any notice was ,sites in this
Daily Prints of their preseatt proceediuga, the report
would be strictly faillaftal arid tree. lie then re-
quested, as be thought it is.elees say longer to
wait far the absentees, that the Secretary of the
Committee from the White Lion would read the mi.
note.hook, sod state the means prepared to carry
ioto effects the measures restated upon.
Dr. Watson demurred. lie atidersiood they were
now to coalesce. end Ito offered to propose that the
&potation of the former evening they'd be added to
,his(;notetittee.
hi,. GALLoway objected. They were not giiiing
ass Cemmlittre, they Were met to testis Irmo the records
of the While Linn Committee what has! Wisdom., that
they might be folly able to judge the propriety of
sliming or acceding to the arrangements already
formed for welcoming Mr giant.-11 was 'greed
en all hinds that NIG Heat deserved a Public
Welcome. The question how it shook) be Oven was
nest to he considered. lie disapproved of a
triumphal entry mad procession. It might give
rise to tumuli ; Isis liettrives peaceable and order-
ly might he the designs of its managers, we hat
i already had proofs that the enemies of Reform were
Ignite capable of perpetrating the toast rotaries, min-
i thief, end then charging it as a necessary ronssrpositris
of the m f the ityinfirorg. At all events
this ought to ho wielded -
Igive plot enemies no
cause. A respectable
his epliden,
conjured the Meeting
tits were en the alert to
',Sham t:
Same general discus.;
of shish the Seer•tery of •
iortructiens sod retetati
111•06141 to determine the
to abstain from any cri.opers,
tee'. As every thing was ire
sire sad amimance were es.
left, was to swell the ran
that bowler they Word'

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