Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1819-10-09
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LATE DISTURBANCES IN LONDON.
LONDON, JULY %.

the city officers and the hremen of the
different companies began to assemble
in Smithheld, and were stationed il
such places as would enable them to act
with the most eAectual cooperation
Many of the inhalitants in the immediate
vicinity of the market, apprehensive Of
violence, have removed the female part
of their families and children. Most oil
the shops remained unopened, those
that had been opened were Immediately
shut.
Again we say, if the peace of the me-
tropolis be unviolated this day, it will
be entirely owing to the vigorous means
employed for overawing the insolent
and daring promoters of the meeting
That they, or at least that some of them,
are eager for Instruction, and, with in
surrection, for blood and pillage, needs
no other proof than the following infa-
nous placard which was stuck upon the
walls in all the avenues leading to
Smithfeld. That it exceeds in auda-
cious treason any thing yet promulgated
by these ruffians, will strike every one
who reads it, with instantaneous convlc-
ton. 1t is with pleasure we add, that it
was Indignantly torn from the walls, in
many places, by the persons reading it.
1t has no printers name affixed, but we
hope it will yet be possible to trace the
authors and distributors of the sanguina-
ry publication:
To the .hon-rehreSented.-May that
day ct trial. which our intrepid Leader,
in his answer to our Requsition, said
could not be far distant, be THIS DAY;
UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE, ANNU-
AL ELECTIONS, and VOTING BY
BALLOT, if possible, without breach
of peace; but, at all hazards, those OBJ
iects.
&" No riot, no bloodshed, by choice:
but blood-thirsty despots must grant our
rights. If that overgrown pauper, if
the puppet of c., of l., and of
S, whose villainous impudence at
the late propagation of the Houses of
Corruption, could mock the miseries of
the non-represented by jargonizing about
our happy constitution If he can be
put down without breach of the peace,
let peace be preserved. If that COM
pound OF villany and fraud, the B**k of
Es"***d; if those who deserve the pun
ishment they inflict upon their fellow
counterfeiters, and merit halters more
than the forgers they hang, can be ami
hilated without breach of the peace, let
all be peaceful. Peace is our wish but
let ur ever forget that RESISTANCE
'Tn ESSTnN
STITUTIONAL PRIVILEGE OIL
EVERY BRITON. In London, West
minister, and Southwark, there NAV be
about 10000 voters. Shall MILLION
of stout non-franchised hearts, reduced
to the AFFECT condition of Slaves, lick the
feet OF such comparative handful of
rascals, who trample upon as as Hey
are lorded over by superior scoundrcls
Shall ten times tenfold the whole body
of electors in infamous Westminster
crouch to those who, in a Is days' DOLL,
insulted the venerable CARTWRIGHT
with 50 voices ! None but panders to the
Borough thieves of both the factions can
maintain that any practical liberty re-
mains to once free England. If this
work can be done without fasting, pray
ing, or peace-breaking, good: but if the
unspeakable grievances of the Non-Re-
presentation cannot be repressed without
vengeance, it's better to break our chains
upon the heads of our common tvrants,
than longer to endure our servtude,-
And oh if the day of trial is come, re-
collect that the CORRUPT knaves of the
DAILY LONDON PRESS, with their
HelHsh Tyhes, have been our greatest
-OPPRESSORS.
i" July 81, 1872"
TEpelue o'clock.
The assemblage of the people is in
creasing in prodigious numbers. The
wagon from whence the orators are to
speak, is just arrived, accompanied by a
posse of reformers, carrying slaves. The
colors are not yet unfurled. A rush was
made by several gentlemen to get into
the broad wheeled coal wagon, but the
leader of the party declared it impossi-
BILE to allow one person to ascend. Two
guineas had been paid for the hire of the
machine, and that was asserted as the
reason why Mr.. Hunts party should
alone possess the entire privilege. 1t is
stationed opposite Cloth Fair.
The balconies of the Kings Head and
other coffee -houses, as well as private
windows in Smithfeld, are filled with
SDectafOrc .,ts