memorial, that _John Dyall_, whose name, as _Chairman_ of the Committee who called the meeting (and of which Committee Thomas Preston was Secretary), having, _before the meeting took place_, been called before Mr. Gifford, one of the Police Magistrates, had _furnished Mr. Gifford with a copy of the said memorial_, and that that copy was _in the hands of Lord Sidmouth at the moment when the meeting was about to assemble_, though (from an oversight, no doubt) neither the Police Magistrates nor any other person whatever gave your petitioner the smallest intimation of the dangerous tendency or even of the existence of such memorial, or of any improper views being entertained by any of the parties calling the meeting, though it now appears, that the written placards, entitled "_Britons to Arms_," are imputed to those same parties, though it is notorious that that paper appeared in all the _public prints_ so far back as the month of _October_, and though, when your petitioner waited on Lord Sidmouth with the petition of the Prince Regent, that Noble Lord himself informed your petitioner, that the Government were fully apprized before-hand of the propositions _intended_ to be brought forward at the meeting. So that your petitioner humbly begs leave to express his confidence that your Honourable House will clearly perceive, that if any insurrection had taken place on the day of the first Spafields meeting, it would have been entirely owing to the neglect, if not connivance, of those persons who possessed a previous knowledge of the principles and views of the parties with whom that meeting originated.