The Duke of WELLINGTON should send orders to his man
at the Mansionhouse, to keep quiet. He should tell him, that although a rebellion in Ireland may serve the cause of Toryism, a riot in London would only produce a fall in the Funds, and a run for gold on the Bank of England. The proceedings of the Lord Mayor seem calculated, though they may not be intended, to produce irritation and confusion. The conduct of the Police—acting, it now appears, by his orders on the day of the City meeting—was imprudent in the extreme, and likely to convert a remarkably well-behaved assemblage—for the multitude in the street were as decorous as the crowd within the tavern were disor- derly—into a riotous one. This is called preserving the peace of the City ! We observe too, that at the Mansionhouse yesterday, Lord WINCHESTER, in tone and language insufferably arrogant, refused to deliver up to their lawful owner some of the placarded boards which his myrmidons had seized. This very silly partisan of the Tories may yet find, to the mortification of his vain hopes, that there is such a thing as going too far under the pretence of preserving "the peace of the City."
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