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JOHN BASILA Pot MINIS Natvaoars, But. JOHN PLODIZR CLAHRS, Esq. Sir Wm Intents FRZIMACIS THACKWILAT,ESti. ILLI. HM, HARRISON. THOMAS COLTMAN, Esq, 3. T. WRATISLAW, Secretary. Tickets to balsa at the lisr of the tavern ; and it is requested oso d eme s, wading to dine. will be so good as to leave their Amon, before Tuesday, the 1 rithof June. THEATRE OF ANATOMY, BLEXI4EIM-STREET, GREAT MARLBOROUGH-STREET. THE SUMMER COURSE of LECTURES on ANATOMY; PHYSIOLOGY, and SURGERY. will commateed on Saturday, the 6th of inns, at 7 o'clock In the Month g, by Mr. BROOKES. Anatomical Conversations will be held weekly, when the different Subjects treated of will be discussed familiarly, and 'the Students views forwarded.—To these none but Pupils can be admitted. t•pacions Apartments, thoroughly ventilated, and replete.with may convenience, are open front S o'clock In the Morning for the purposes of Dissecting and Injecting, where Mr. Brookes atteuds o direct the Students, and demonstrate the various parts as they appear on Dissection. The Inconveniences usually attending Anatomical Investiga tions, are counteracted by an antiseptic Process. K'WS tiIiTH•DAY, JUNE 4, the present snin LOTTERY will be all Drawn. Tickets and Sams are .Ing by HORNSBY and Co. 26, Cornhill, London. Bout say and Co.'s is the only Office where the First Two 414000 Prises were sold, and also where the Two First .e30,00b NUS Mae sold; besides 1 of £25,003 1 fl • - 20,000 62 88 • 10,000 78 47 - 6,000 101 - All of which were paid on demand. ....deters by Post or Carrier executed with fidelity and £4,000 2,000 1000 SOO No. 7, CORNHILL. CARROLL anti Co. of the old established Lottery Office, 26,0:f0rd-street, respectfully beg to acquaint the Public, that they have opened a New Office at No. 7, Coessit.:, where, and at No. 26, Oxician Ersav, they are selling Tickets Ind Shares for the Lottery to be drawn on the 4th of lows, in as vat a vaxiety as the limited number of Tickets wall admit ; the Scheme consists of but 6000 Tickets, than which a much greater number were sold to the Public in the last Lottery. Notwith standing the very small number of Tickets, there are Prises of 120,000, £lO,OOO, £5,000, £3,000, £2,000, Li poo, &c, CARROLL and Co. sold in the last Lottery No. 4149,a Prise of £2,000 1 N 0.10,149, a Prizeof 412,000 No. 8,558, a Prize of £5OO. Orders from the Country (post paid) punctually attended to. Is • £30,000 10,000 5,000 9,000 .000 9,000 2,000 1,600 I,ROO 1,600 1,200 1,600 1,500 1,600 1,800 2,650 19,650 .. 12 10 SO 40 CO 105 1,110 BOROUGH OF PLYMOU l'H. ;41 10. indo 4i• KING'S BIRTH-DAY. RTCHARDSON, GOODLUCS, and - Co. (the A. Contractors) respectfully inform the Public that the STATE LOTTERY will be drawn the 4th of JUNE. SCHEME. 1 Prize of - ar.20,e00 - 1 - 10,000 - 1 - - 5,000 - - 5,000 - 2,000 - 1,000 • - 500 400 900 200 100 80 50 40 SO 25 - 15* - - Only goo° Tickets. 'Tickets and Shares are 01) S.4e by Racli ARDSCIN, Goontxcx, and . Co. at thee Offices, the corner of Bank -buildings, Cornhil , and facing the King's Mews, Chating-Crgis ; where, in tisel.ot tery drawn on tkc SO:h April last, they sold the followikg CA- . PfTAL PRIZES, in 64 Shares: No. 5,518 aPrige of .510,0u0 I No.IP/iOO a Prize of £3OO 114518 - 5,004 2,740 - 200 11,433 - 3,000 I 3,238 - 200 2,404 - 3t)o - - _ AT a very numernus and most respectable MEET. ING of•the different MEMBERS of the CORPORA. TION, the CLERGY, MERCHANTS, and other INHA3I. TAN'Es of the BOROUGH of PLYMOU convened by the Worshiptut the MAYOR, by public Advertisement, and.hekl at the Guldhall of •the said Borough, the 19th day of May, ls 12, to constricr and determine on the propriety of presenting a dutiful Address m his Royal Highness the Pa s:cs.' REG F NT, expressive of their conthalzoce,,and dcteration, at the unexampled :.ad atro cious act of Assassination on the person of the Right Hon. Sr E N. ax Pttetyx t, Chancellor of the Exchequer, within the walls of the House of Commons, when proceeding to the discharge of his important public duties, The Worshiptui GEORGE BEI.LANIY,Esq. Mayer, in the Chair, • Resolved, That a dutiful and loyal Address be prepared and presented to his Royal Highness the Patter. REGENT, EXl)fell iite of the feelings of this Meeting, on the above melancholy occasion, and that the following Gentlemen, viz. Sir Wm. Elford, Bart. Dr. Woollcombe Rev. John Gandy Dr. Lockyer Wm. Langruead, Esq. George Eailtske, Esq. Peter Tonkin, Esq. Edward I.yne, Esq. Thomas W:atier,Esq. George Soltan, Esq. Da. ittinn:itt I John Lowe, Esq. ' /dinned L o cky er , E sq . I J. N. Hawker, E-q. tea Committee for tite purpose of preparing meh Address. Resolved, That the Address now produced by the Committee sad read to tits Meeting be aprruved and adopted; and that the immix forthwith engrossed, :r.ld do lie on the Guildiall table for ale signatures of the Inhabi t an t s, until Saturday neat, the 24th byof May instant. Resdv d, bat the Address, when signed, be forwarded by - I the Mayor to the Members of this Borough, in order to be pre. sett.tAd to hi s Royal Highn ess the Prince Regent. LelMeed, That the ThanSs of this MettioLbe given to the ~oe „ Itt for pre,paring and !Dinging forward the Address. ,‘"A'rerl, Ti at tk..se Resolutions be signed by the Cha mutt, ""u,Pohliske4 in band-bill s , a n d in t h e STAR, Courier, Pilot, and maLtslalan, Lyndon Papers; 'frewmait'e Exeter Paptr ; aka in liPaouth Chronicle, and Dock Telegraph Papers. • GEO It GE BELLAMY, Mayor. The Mayor having quitted the Chair Tha , the thanks of this ' Meeting be given to the Wnrshipfultite May or for his promptness in cony= ng it, and for "'LIT rover co.athict la the Chair. FarbAY, MAY ism. PROCIDIDthft HOUSE OF LORDS, MAY 21. At one o'clock, the House resolved itself into Committee to examine witnesses in support of the Petitions against the Or ders in.Cuuncil. Mr. FINLAT Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce of Glasgow, was finally examined; Mr. CORNELIUS Gauss, Mr. BAILEY, of Sheffield, and several other witnesses, were also in terrogated A deputation of Members from the Commons brought up the Irish Bogs Commissioners' Bill, the Tobacco Pipe Clay Exporta tion Bill, the Excise Officers' Superannuation Bill, the Offices Security Bill, and several Private Bills, which were each read a first time. The Earl of LIVERPOOL laid on the Table, by order of the Prince Regent, certain returns respecting Militia Officers. Earl BATHURST moved, that the papers which had been laid on the table yesterday, respecting Non-resident Clergymeu, should be printed.—Ordered.—Adjourned, HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mbezzlement BM was mad a third time, and The Bankets'. passed- Mr. O'HARA moved, that it be referred to .the Committee. 'lnstructed to enquire into the expenditure of Ireland, to make out an account of the joint debts of the United Kingdom to the tat of January last, together with interest.—Ordered. mc. D. GIDDY postpooed his motion respecting the state of the highways till tomorrow. The Paddington and Liniehouse Canal . Bill was read a third time, and passed. . . Lord A. HAMILTON brought up a Petition from the City of I Glasgow ' against the Orders in Cosinctl. Mr. W DYNDAS stated, that there was a Counter-Petition, signed by five-sixths of the Master Manufacturers and Merchants of that City, who were at least quite as wel entitled to attention as the Petitioners alluded to. Lord A. HAMILTON said, that his Petition was signed by many thousand persons who thought themselves aggrieved; and though they might not be immediately Interested in the stile of manufactures, their distress at least was cet tam ; and the Hon. Gentleman in vindicating one class of persons, should not have cast an imputation on another. Mr. Vi'HITBREAD hoped that the Noble Lord would alter the nature of his motion, and refer the Petition to the Com mittee for Relieving the Distr,s-es ot the Country. Mr. A. BARING said, that if the Hon. Member (Mr. Dun dal) would attend the examinations upon the Orders in Council, be would probably alter his opinion. The Petition was referred to the Committee of the whole House on the Orders in Council. Lord CASTLEREAGH brought up the letter from Lord G. L. Gower, moved for yest-rday, which was ordered to lie on the Table, and to be printed. Mr. BROUGHAM moved for an Account of all Sums of Money expended for Clothing the Army, within the last ten years, to January, 1812, distinguishing Militia from Regulars: also as Account of all sums expended on Gun and l'is.ol Barrels. ADDRESS TO THE REG&NT. Mr. STEWART WORTLEY rose to make his promised motion, the object and intent of which was to prevent the formation of an Administration, which he, in his conscience, believed nu man in the House, or the country, thought efficient ; and which, instead of being calculated to lead us through our ciifficul ties and dangers, was far more likely to pltmge us still more deeply into them. He was anxious to do 'Oil thus early, as all the offices • f Governmasit were not yet filled up, and there leas still nme to offer the advice of the House to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent. He also thought it was much the best and most manly way in him, totome at once to this step, rather than to suffer the Administration to be form ed, and then to oppose it. A speedy and determined manifestation of public feeling might lead to the for mation of an Administration entitled to its confi dence. At the same time, by the present motion, he did not mean to pledge himself even to oppose all the measures of the present Government, provided it should not be -enlarged and strengthened : still less did he mean to interfere with the Crown in its convitutional prerogative of appointing its servants; but the House had an equally constitutional privilege of advising the Crown that its servants Atere not possessed of the confidence of the pe•iple. This was the object of his motion ; and he should now state the grounds upon which he called for the decision of the House upon it. He wished every Member to propose three questions to his conscience : 1. Whe tier it was not absolutely necessary that an Admini stration should possess the confidence of the people? '2. Whether the present Administration did possess that confidence ? and 3. Whether all had been done that could be to form such an Administration?— These questions he asked; and upon these questions he : ppealed with confidence - to their judgment Upon the first question he should say but little. To enable us to continue our present struggle, we must have a Government in whom we could confide as in a guide ; and if ever theist- was a time when the guide is. uld possess the implicit confidence of the guided, it was the present.' On the second question Gentlemen would be equally all agreed; and stand , ing .as the Hen. Member did on terms of personal friendship with many branches of the Administra. tion, and of relationship with some of them, it would ill become him to irritate their feelings. He was one of the steadiest friends of Mr. Perceval's Administra 4ion ; and he very believed there never was a man more formed to g:.*.e the House, by his eloquence land manner than that excellent man.—(Hear, hear.) 'lt was his peculiar talent to conciliate the favour of his opponents, and to-confirm the good opininn of his friends. The Administration without him had been tried, and was found not to possess the confidence of the people. It had been tried in 1803, under Mr. Addington: It might be said that Mr. Perceval's Administration was composed of these materiels ; tint he was there himself': and now that he was taken away front them, their. only support was gone.— Upon the 3d question. had every thing been done to form a strong Administration ? An attempt had been made to enlist a Noble Marquis and a Right Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Canning) on the floor, but upon terms to which it was quite impossible they could accede. The Honourable Member had never scrupled to arraign the conduct of that Right Honourable Gentleman in private) and if it became his duty to do so i n public, he. should not .brink from if : but he thought his answer to Lord Itiver pool equally worthy of his head aod of his heart.— / tins kilt and vain to attempt to form a Win Parcil snapixexusiitifli***:. Administration, .tnileis something web done to con ciliate the Catholics. He had always voted against the Catholic question ; but now he was of opinion that all opposition against it was vain. • He should feel comfort if any efLrt of his should. be successtul ; but in order to the completion of his wish, he advls ed the Opposition t. abstain from that manner and language which ory irritated feelings in a certain quarter, and threw difficulties in the way of the Ad ministration, and exposed the House to the ridicule of the vulgar. His motion involved no one ;he had j consulted with none on the subject, and did not even now know whether it would be seconded. It was I not, however, till after the most pstient deliberation that he had made up his mind to move- 4, That an humble Address ZA presented to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, praying him to take such mea sures as would enable, him, under the present cir cumstances of the country, to form a strong and effi dent Administration." Lord MILTON seconded the motion; Mr. EYRE opposed it as unprecedented and un constitutional. There never was such a motion before, and the blen , e had no right to interfere with the prerogative of Majesty in the neminatioa of its ; own servants. He agreed in the inefficiency of the present Administration, and regi cited that a larger number had not he , n called into it, and that it had not united all the ililities i of all parties : but had no attempt been made to to s purpose The public pretty well knew from certain quarters, that applica tions had been made to persons of ackr_nwledged abilities, who had declined them on grounds which might be good to themselves, and for scruples which he could not but respect :—but that was no reason why the present Administration should be censured for not endeavouring to ealarge itself.. Those per sons would not come forward unless certain 91,cqlons were conceded to them, such as had received the sanction of-the Hi use, and he trusted the approba tion of tee country. He placed not much reliance upon the prophecy of the Honourable Gentleman.— , He had seen Administrations, reported to be weak, conduct themselves r•itli vigour : and on the other hand, he had seen high abilities grievously disap point the House and the country..H.e did wish to put a negative on the present n!ozi;n ; but as it would be ; more c •nsistent with the feelings of soine Gentlemen, , he should c.include by moving, that the other ordea l ' of the day be read. Lord bIILTON laid, the House wraill cot per: form its duty to the country, utiles; it either accaled to the original motion, or put a difect negative upoee it. As to its being unconstitutional in the House to i aerfere with the prerogative of the Clown hi the appointment of its own seri ants, it was not only the province and right, but the bouecten duty of the House, when they thought they saw a Government about to he formed which possessed not the confi dence of the public, to interfere rad advise the Sove,, reign of that fact. The Administration bad, by vainly endeavouring to enlist others in support of the relicks of the last Government, confessed that 4jsey felt themselves incompetent alone to carry on the business of the nation. These who Lid been applied to had, to their honour, refused, not upon personal and individual grounds, but upon material political questions, in which it was impossible for diem to coincide with the rest of the Administration :—and would the House wiAl to see a Government of a dis .cordant nature, some of the Members of which were pledged for, and some against, the Catholic question? —Sutely,' if any thing was calculfited to destroy the eonfidence-of the people .in a Government, it was such discordanCe and such jarring. But it was.not a mere change of persons that would satisfy the country ; it was a change of measures which could alone enable a Mini.iny to stand with security to themselves and advantage to the public. Sir FRANCIS BURDETT thought the Address defective, inasmuch as no change would give satisfac tion or security to the country, unless it was under stood that it should not be a mere change of person;, but also a change of system altogether. The Ministers of the Crown ought to be men who either stood pledg-' 'ed, or would give a pledge; that they would apply ; the national resources to national objects alone, that they would act on large and liberal principles, and admit alt men, whatever might be their religious tenets, to the benefits of theConstitutiou. ( Hear, hear.) And more, though in this he might not have so many concurrent voices, that they would en omote the cause of Parliamentary Reforna. Without reform, on fair and constitutional principles, as a security for other beneficial measures, no Administration could ever be strong enough to rescue the country from the dangers and difficulties to which it WAS now exposed.. Though he did nut wish to enter into the discussion at any great length, he felt it necessary, with reference to the present question,. to advert to what had happened on former occasions, and how the political situation orthe country had been affected by changes of Ad-I ministrations. A variety of administrations had been formed in the course of the last fifteen years. At one time, we had an Administration supposed to combine in itself almqst allithe political talenuiof the nation. At other times,.we hid Administrations excluding almost all men of great political talents. During this period they had seen at the head of affairs some men of un rivalled abilities, especially one man of the highest abilities—he meant Mr. Pitt—during whose Admi nistration the peculiar difficulties and dangers in which this country was at present infolvedhad arisen. In the course of the same period wt: ad seen Mr. Fox at the head of affairs,. a man of no lees ability. We had seen Administrations including all parties, others excluding all parties. excepting their own narrow parties ; but the system bad still continued ; and, under this system, whatever was the Administration, the btirthens, the difficulties, dangers, and evils of the country, had gone on increasing. Recollecting all this, he could not consider this recommenda tion of a mere change of men, for such be con sidered as a specc for our inemees. At dm •,4 ; • . unit-time he was far frofii agriehig ivitli d iiii• Ho; pourable Gentlefnan who moved the proceeding tti the orders of the day, in the opinion that the mo tion for the Address was unconstitutional. This was a function belonging to the House, and one which might be most beneficially employed. Indeed, it was the great- business of the House to apprise the Sove reign of the real situation of the country; and the real sense and feeling of the people, of which those persons who were usually about the Court were so lit- ' tae likely to inform him. .But he was fully persuaded, that however enlarged the views of any Minister— whatever might be his vigour and understanding, he . could not, without a Parliamentary Reform, ham pered as he must be by the present system of corrup tion, carry his own views into effect. rf the ques tion had therefore come forward, merely as an ob jection to the actual arrangement of the present Ad- ministration, he should not agree to it on that ground —for, in that view of. the case,• it might be Aairly 'said, that the Prince had a right to appet.rinx his own Ministers—(lfrer, heard and that the House curet to wait till they had some experience of the talents of those whom he had chosen, when possibly it might be found - that the person of whona they had been de- Iprived had not possessed all the ability of the Acimi -1 nistratitart-but that it could go on under the Noble r Lord over the way, as efficiently and beneficially op when beaded by the late Mr. Perceval. In the Piet . which he had Rated, this would be perfectly nal turid and fair language. _The Primo ought to h'ays! the appointment of Ins Ministers—end keys presume that he has so much common sense as to appoipt pan sons deserving of confidence till we tiod it other-IT/mei' • by exivrience. Let us wait a little, theretcre, and not come to any premature decisron. But this was not the light in which he viewed the :object. It wise of the last importance, that the- Sovereign should he apprised of the real state of the country, and that fie should be -informed of the necessity of adopting cows ciliatory measures with regard to Ireland; that he should be told that a great dissatisfaction Ins(' spread thiongliout he countr3, and that some hopes of die adoption of conciliatory measures should be held out to the people. No opportunity could be betteir fur ' this purpose than the present, when a new arrangs mtnt was about to be formed. He must, however,. propose an amendment to the motion, for, without a change of system, he conceived the recommenda tiun to form a strong Administration quite nugatory. ", If the present system continued, he saw no objctt that might not be accomplished - by the present Ad. ministration, at- well as any alien His design was to point out to the Prince, sot the propriety of a change of men merely, but the necessity of a-change of system—and he would read to the House the sub ,stance of his intended amendment. t 'rite Speaker infermed the Hon. Baronet, that it • could not as this moment be regularly moved.l He was perfrealy areas of that, but still he might put the • House in possession of the substance of it, which was, that the Fiance thonld form an Adrninis. trati,,s , which would apply the national resources to national objects—extend the benefits of the Constitu tion to all classes of the community without distinc tion--adopt conciliatory measures towards the peo p:e, and restore to the country the advantage of a flee representation. - Mr. WILBERFORCE complimented the Hon. ' Member wh/ had brought this subject under djscue. sion, observing that he had dime it in a way that did * hilt the highest credit. His Honourable Friend had said that lie thought it more manly to bring i forward the matter before the arrangements were completed, and the Administration sensed. To that he had only this one objection—that it was unconstitution•d— (Hear, hcar,) and in his opinion, it was far better to adhere to the principles of the Constitati. n on all oc casions, than to violate them for the sake of any tem. porary advantage. The first departure from Consti tutional principles always took place with a view to some immediate advantages—but when they consi dered the connection between all these principles, and the confusion introduced by a departure from any one of them, he WAS sure they would see the impropriety of sacrificing any principle of the Constitution for the sake of a temporary advantage. In this he was con. firmed - by the result of whatever experience he him. self had acquired by the history, not only of his own but of other countries, and by the opinions of many of the wisest and most eminent men. He would not, therefore, presume to violate a great constitutional ' principle fur any temporary benefit. His Honourable Fr lend had said, that it was more manly to bring the matter forward while the arrangements were pending —but to this he had to reply, in-the words of an ono• nymous writer (Junius), to a fnilitary character (Sir W. Draper), who had replied to a letter of this wri ter, and pt.t his nark to the answer—" This Wu an instance of spirit ; and if it had been in instance of any thing but spirit, he should have been inclined to follow the example." What was the utmost incon. venience that could result from waiting for the mea sures of the new Administration? Some time would be lost-.-a week, or a fortnight. But were they to depart from a great constitutional principle for such an advantage as this ? He was old enough to recta. lect, thatahiny years ago the question, whether the House should have a previous negative on the ap pointment of the Ministers of the Crown, bad I decided. It had then been determined, that 4a not ; and that it was only when either or both of the • Houses of Parliament had had experience of tileflt the measures of Ministers, that, if they could not toed' fide in the Administration, it became their ditty us address the Throne and express their judgment. The amendment of the Honourable Baronet (Berea) near him, was objectionable, on the same graistilimps It was unconstitutional. This was not the part the? had to act—they were not to call to the bar at dap House the persons chosen, or whom they insage4 would oe chosen by the Prince, and interrogate thus asto the opinions which theyhald. end the se they iitendod to give. 211eCtown bed kit se de ite _ ar - • # t:, -51 •9 4 .% •: „ . ./ " 6 • • : . • t A ... /