The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-08-26 00:00:00

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...fDFRRTISER.
We *ant the knowledge of Mi. R•antl. tho
learned mother of Bermes. and Oho father of the
preSetit Pori of MALM/BUNT, le estimate for ea the
relative purity and alloy in our native lengeogio.—
What shall he thought of the diction of the Motorist*
Povr and Fashionable World, the Paper for the
LIMP, too! making eye of very blackguard words.
Speaking of the Smithfield Meeting, its leading ar-
ticle of this day sass, " the most particular feature of
the proceedings WOO decidedly the fresh lostaere of
mean sycophancy and atrocious infamy displayed by
Sir Fa•ncts (Weimer, in a letter addrened to the
Electors of Westminster." New, we should like
to know whether lord KAUKO could bate disco-
vered any thing like • shadow of applicability It.
the above terns and epithets to the tangier of the
B t's Letter; wet:isnot. Mean! Why, nothing
can be more open, freak, bold, sad eaplicil
Sycophancy, eb ! Yes, when the lion sees to be made
the lap-dog, we soy admit the possibility of tbe
Baronet becondeg a sycophant : nay, whoa be eve*
coons Royalty to be made a Peer, we will admit the
propriety of the application. Then, atrocious infamy !
Why, surely, the author mast compose his leading
matter logogrephically, and his devil by leis side is
ordered to give him now 'good word for the Orisons
Manchester Mongistrates, now a bad one for the
ln-
veteratereforming Varied, ; sod accident threw these
two naughty words late the cologne higgledy-piggledy.
Bat this ftshinnable Journal, once the property
of a great harm defier, has probably enavoid•
ably retained a little of the stable slang to this
day; which it cannot be cleansed of for some time
to come. Dot ohm. Can it he cnootensore.l by Its.
Ladi s- se as to he called Mrs. Slip Slop's Diary
No; for Mrs. BMW, who naturally estates her
Little, word, at well as her clothes when they drop,
wood not, sorely, be sawn with • paper in her bawl
adopting such pa pa risprorsinor Infamous has
had meaning with the fair set : and atrocious, by its
etjeaoleay (afros), can only be 'polio(' in *fierce and
creel act, such as troops of smarm soldie.s cherginir
as in a battle unarmed men, defenceless worsen, and
helpless rhihiron. That sere indirect to he rehonotte
I. a high degiee—so mach to, that historians and
earrators of the wicked eveut we ailed. to, will
hereafter be apt to saj—
ss 1 rival it to mind without a deep astonish.
meat of the cosy horror sod atrocity of the fact in a
Christian country ! !"
Now with record In this Paper h..ing vented
for the Ladies' breakhitt -woe. the yoe.rion
is, What I.adiW are they l Not the Ms.'awe
D•cireo of Fr ,IlCf —not she II re, MosTAGuts
Of Mss. TWO ALIO of Enelanol no. hot the Mat
DIANA Ta.iris of Covent e,ralon, end the lit. Jen-
my Diver, of Wappin, ; and in their hands oe will
leave he .Itorning Pee, hati..g had 'noses of it our-
sears in the few Iwo. co ease tinted.
Well, well Sir FRAuCIe. you are able to bear
'hi* with temper awl cootesnot, and much more aech
inns.lcrous stuff, en your unbending character, and
Which yiie most tin in order to enjoy that reunion
•isaisitig you, and to linnet shot pothunters crate-
fuls, to your now, which shall make your poste-
rity rejoice in hating had girds an ancestor.

It is at lenelh ellno►d that there ere a few, but a
rosy fe• sraonofodarers it) the• Csoraissinn of th
Peace I.r the snootier of Lancaster and Cherter.--
Mous who hate been described goners'', se mesh.
lectu►ing Mrgistreres his' actually merchants, or
haring wholly retiisti from Iselin's': only misplay.
ing a dolmant capital one and then in en inviriog
speculation. list what it bettor, indeed, it •pp►er•
that hate of the disp►uN.s of jestir• have salaries of
four sad ire hundred • year !! With Magistrates
who are ekes paid, sod enastables who hare salaries
sad annuities goo, who too doubt of obtaining jos•
lice where they reside!!!
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We hive resolved not to leave this iniquitors twi-
ne" while there I. sot thing remaining is lack ran clear
it up, or Its any degree assist towards its elucidation.
As it has compromised nor constitutional existence,
and pet the liges of all Englishmen at the mercy of
Magistrates howeter ferocioes, and local troop Peen
though they should be in a state of drookeeeess, we
doe. it ineembent never to here done aith reproselo
• bile there is any aralllttent, honorer slight, whirl.
Is yet onorged, any testimony which is not yet stated
A Correapondeet of she ?loos has greatly contri
holed to the mangeststion of troth on this occasion;
be hes persisted thronghoot that the massacre *asset
warranted eves by the Riot Act itself, as its con.
ditions were not fulfilled, the Act haring never been
publicly read. He insists open this with much force
and assiduity, end he has certainly proved his Cale.
Bet to es this is a dengeroes ushering; we bete no
concern about violating the stipelatinus of the Riot'
Act, like that which we feel for attempting to dig.
per,* a ',Weft', and lawful Meeting by its provisions;
if the Magistrates had read it to 'wry man separetely,
as the Meeting was quiet and legal, it would bate still
been, as it is, an unlawful and enstarrintible Nines,
end oneinfinitety inferior td any crime charged by the
Revolution against the anfortenste Stuarts. So sorb
at present for the argument. As to the fact of arms
and military array, hear what this writer says:—"'The
inhabitant, of Windmill-street (or rather place) over-
-1.014 the Meeting end the hestines. These people
are no Reformers, end therefore their testimony can•
not be supposed to he biassed in f of the Meet.
ing. They are reedy to give their oaths is u Court
of Justice, or elarovroore, that nn Riot Act was read
so as to be heard by any portion of the amieshbly.—
These som• people are the best witnesses to deter-
mine Ilse riot, • !tether the Reformers come armed to
the Ileld, and to. se. at rest for ever the atonic', sense.
leas report, that their sticks were pointed sod Sited
to receive pike•heads. T.O kindred storks were
collected in the area by the inhanitanto of Windmill.
street end the pulite, and they ell easo•re me that not
one of them was so constructed. / hire myself seen
looms! Mason c.ll•coinos of those formidable wea•
pont, and I yesterday esselined the greed police
depot of them its the loofiornorry. Thos latter arsenal
contains 45 hut not on. or 11. ml is pointed or fitted
f 4 a pike.hrof One of them, inn•ed, is a por•
!inn of a floe timeworn COOP, that might bare
been the wstking.stick of some B•r orog.reere two
center...a se.. no. gold head of it is broken
off, sod he bole remains throogh shirts the nail
..., put that fastened it on. Was this the %It
material pik• rt. if of the Loudon 1' lots? —The
•',OlO of the 'Wormers* alio ke that I has.. %yen, both
at the Infirm..., and in Ovate house,. •t• just like
the ordinary • irks of roomers people. They are of
all kinds of • -001, and of the nroliners sixth Some
of 'hem • e were switches ; tom• of them are stronger,
bet wish no appearance of lassong been prepared for
the purpose of attack or defeat.; sod all of them
allow that the hedges on the road, nr the neighbour.
tug thick-is. wove the •otly magazines of arms from
which the Reformers wore supplied with the alleged
means of resisting horse, font, and artillery. That
ne attack by sticks, bricks, stones, or otherwise,
. was made on the emir, Were they began their
neck of ilestroctions is even more positively and
*River-ally maintained than any of the above state
ment•. The io•habitenes of Windmill-street, whose
windows immediately overlooked the having', and
oh„ were so sear as to hear much, and ale every
thing that was going forward, are all ready to swear
that not a atone was thrown, a stick raised, or a
hits uttered, Wire the Yeomanry noshed in among
them. No attempt was mode to oppose their ad.,
yam., no resistance was offered to the emotion of
their purpose in ling the speakers. Some shots
were said to have been fired by the mob when the
cavalry began la set; but this is 'wanly false, aid,
elision' to be so by the Yeemaary themselves.—
There were only titres or four shots Seed on the
area, and Ise or three of these were by foot soldiers
at a bane near Deeissgate. and one by a Drow, at
the Quakers' Chapel. Not a pistol, Cr any other
1 ire-ares, was Need no say of the Rigorism, or seen
in their heed,. The Redoing* Ilereld and the Ater-
carry. though the F.ditots ate perfectly loyal to the
Bonoch of Magistrates, attentive to late events here,
and aware of the points which hese been disputed in'
the conduct of their friends, they have not added a
single fact or a single testimony to their justifiration.
The town has been perfectly quiet since Saterdey.—
Last night a slight accident happened in a gunsmith's
shop in Malkin-lane. A woman, in trying the qoa•
lily of some 11.niti, kindled a little powder, which
communicated with • flask of that article. It {mew
diate blew op, end broke some panes of glass in the
windows of the shop. A pail of water was arose
in through the broken window, and the fire was Is.
mediately extinguished, which might otherwise halm
communicated with larger quantities of powder in the
shop. I mention this siert, ci rcessistence so minute-
ly to pet you on your ifeetd against the use which
the Courier, if it reecho, him, may make of it. The
esplosinor of this last would make in his bands no
contemptible ingredient in a Reform Gunpowder
Plot.

" Tweln of the patients who were In the In.
Amery ►ave gone out cared; 13, w►o were mere
severely wnondml, still remain hi the establish.
tn►at. All mentinoed before, only 61 of the
',needed were placed under the care of the lairmary
surgeons, as in and out.patients; but there is en•
other establishment In Salford, where there were
nearly ea great a number. Many, of muse, who
segered, obtained medical aid at home ; end emu-
tiers from the country, whe were wnanded, are ant
►ea►d of here. It would not, probably, bee high
estimat►. to ewe the amount of people wounded at
Q5O or 300 individuals.

%4A report his been carton, here, both to.day
and yOatAfilly etanlnj,,hat Gneornsent here ordered
the 141‘istrstes insnrodirtoly to liberate Mr. Hun'
and his followors. It is added, that ho refines to
torn prison till formed sot, ebb • roofessioo of tae
vielone• by which he was assaoltod sod lasprisorred
cannot rose% for the tooth of the whole, or and
part, ..f this stateosoot, or the Msnirtrstes ormotnistoi.
Olt their ewe secrets only S. their •in.s 'Mods pied