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[The Doctor then insists, will liberty of the press, the abolition I laws, and on the reform of the ci iui April next, firm Nine o'Clocl in the Morning until Six In the Even ing, for the ELECTION of SIX DIRECTORS of the said Com pany, for Four Years. treating all as a patriot and philosopher.] PETER AUn ER, Semtary. TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN ; rrHE ELECTION of SIX DIRECTORS of the JL EAST INDIA COMPANY being appointed for WEDNES. DAY ; the 13th APRIL next, the Favour of your VOTE and IN TEREST is requested for the following Gentlemen, vie JOHN FORBES, Esq. JOHN LOCH, Esq. CHARLES MILLS, Esq. HENRY SHANK, Esq. JAMES STUART, Esq. HENRY ST. GEORGE TUCKER, Esq. Which will mach oblige, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your most obedient humble servants, George Lysil, William Astell, John Masterman, Robert Campbell, John Morris, Josias Du Pre Alexander, John Petty Muspratt, Henry Alexander, George Raikes John Baillie, John Goldsb. 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The vicissitudes in the Italian States, incident to the French Revolution, deprived ha Husband of fortune; and time and distress deprived her soon after of a Hu-band. Friendless abroad, she came to this Country, in hopes to gain assistruiec, un t il she recovered property due to her Husband by a Foreign Government. In this she has hitherto been unsuccessful ; and she has supported her. self for sometime by her Literary Exertions. This lust resource, from physical affliction, now fails her, and she is driven to state her case to those who have the means, and may have the generosity, to contribute to her relief. To many of the Aristocracy in this Country her misfor tunes are known; and it is hoped if this should meet their eye, that they will kindly exert themselves in her favour. 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William Long Wellesley, M.P. and gives a history of recent struggles in the county of fasex. He pays Mr. Wellesley the following unequivocal compliment. Independently of the respect due to any man possessed of your for tune and acquirements, who willingly foregoes the luxurious ease of pri. vale life in order to defend the liberties of Ids countrymen us the !torus lar representative of a great and iuflucuthd county, there arc s.veral ' circumstances which would point you out as the most proper person under whose patronage I should transmit to the public the fullowin, Memorial on the Origin, Nature. and Consequences of th: lute long pro. tracted, end, as I shall show, important Contest, for the County of Essex. I have. addressed these oin.ervations to freeholders aho ate des. tined to become your constituents: and if I judge rightly of the dcgrec of esteem which they feel towards your cause, I could not have found out a better mode of securing their attentive perusal of the various ar guments used in die following pages than the one which so naturally suggests itsclf--ihuL of dedicating them to yourself. His anecdotes of Maldon, Mr. Western, and Mr. Harvey, are curious. It is well known that Member Gtucoygn succeeded in destroying the charter of Malde) : this, when I come to compare certain dates, stems to me to have taken place early in the reign of George 111. sly this event the succession of the admission of free burgesses was interrupted; so that the number of voters, once exceeding two eitousuud, etas in 1806 reduced to the number of about 63, the youngest of %Isom was near threescore and ten years of age. No, it will be recollecal by the add ftbalsitants of Csses, tha. Mr. Western and the family of Colonel Strati. had been in the tr d's. turhed possessio. of the ',presentation of Mah . , s s e ver slue , 17841 whin the present 11 big member for the county was then, for the ars returned for that borough. During dr: period that elapsed be. tween 1788 and 1:116, occurred that kiw i , exist flair-, and harassing war, which was brought :slam. by the polity of Pitt, buthoorously styled the taxmongcr, from the heavy load of tastes, imposed by him on the country, to defray its ruin us expenses. The principles of this war occasioned a grand division among the leading vslii;vians of that pc rind. Mr. %them' ass one among the number of those who uni formly opposed the war, wish a degiee of seal, courage, and intellig cce that reflect considenshle honour on his penetration and character ; anti hich must render it ever a painful refl.cticsa to his friends, toat ,he Th.rty which Its represented should ever have comprom:sed its pvlitiral conAstency, by coalescing whit the party who had so low. been t:istin guished by an obstinate adherence to the grounds ou which the war was waged." It was at this period that the individual, who has played so distin guishes' e part on the political drama of Essex, and who was prop;.' , ' chosen by you, to conduct your recent contest sr the county, first prt sented himself as u conspicuous character before the public. land t'w charter of Maldon not been destroyed, Mr. Harvey would, it smuts, have been enti.led to his freedom as the son of a burgess. This of course wade lam anxious to restore the chatter. Mr. Gusted', dr friend of Mr. Morey heed promised, should he be returned, to attempt its restoration ; and thus; Mr. Garvey in advocatiag the cause of his canvas, couples' the tom unable feelings of private fri e ndship with n laueLlik desire of restoring the elective franchise of near three thousand of his fellow.countrymen who were anxious to resusc it a t e their dor. want rights. Now such was the popularity of this cause, that Mr. Harvey succeeded in polling it majority of two over Mr. Western, and thus securing the return of Mr. Gaskell ; who was, however, unseated by petition, and Mr. Western became the member; but on the retire— ment of that gentleman in 1812, Mr. Gaskell came in, having in the interim obtained the desired restoration of the charter. Before I leave the subjmt, it mil be as ;;11,1; order to complete this sketch, to say something of the Colchester elections. In 1810, L. W. Harvey, Esq attempted to reptemmt that borough, opposing Mr. Hart Davis, and Mr. Ti.ornton. in 1810 he was returned fur that borough, hie opponents being Mr. J. B. Wildman, and Mr. Peter ' , The 1/105, prominent object that presents Itself to me, as resulting from a fair r:psescn.ation of ilia bulk of the people, is a repeal of the assessed :axes, and the suisstitution of a graduated property tax, eon. structed on such 3 ratio of increment, as to draw largely from the long purses of the rich and voluptuous, according teitheir respective means of meeting its 4ensatitls. while it kaves the ingenious mechanic and honest labourer in the full poss.-slim of their dearly earned morsel, nor cramps human indos.ry by a destructive system of assessments and du ties. Hcnrc she public exchequer will tic replenished with the rctlun. dant wealth of those who can -carcely tel its loss; and who ought, in justice, to contribute 'se most lay. , ely to die state which protected them In the full enjoymen, of Mc la.. !..t or Its comforts, The second thing I will to:loe mit is the restoration of tithes to their original use, in suet, a tete i •er.oto and grailual manner ' as shall advance the close of religion seiiiimit iojorlug the Interests of the present in cumbents. For tithe. simoig. In early dohs of C..tholic piety, out of the best maxims of Christian charity, which obliged those who pro. fessed to love God above all things, to manifest their equal love for their follow creature. as for themselves, by the onistructiou of a fund raised by levy on the i t otli of e very man's pr o duc e I. For the support of the hotiesi. poor ; 2. Fur the repairs of the church ; and 3. For the k:eriog of the elegy in Use necessaries, but not in the luxuries of life. Hence, in those times, there were neither poor's rates nor church rates; end as the IMMINIC:"Ii, frateroitics of convents and monasteries emptied the 11.0 s of plenty into the co urges of too indigent, the h orr id c ry of want, ill .1)..11M1 y.ll of stoning pauperi-ri which assail our (WS, Was diels Ilt.h:ard. Tit:: osonop..iy of the tithes by .he pastern and lay rector. was a par, of the gc ,, enil ttepretladoo and sacrilegious plun ,rer of th • foot matlo,.ri and of th • riches of the chinch, which w:re us, ti at th: time of the reformation, us a bribe to Witco men to barer, I.s p, lf, the uitivental religion of this country and of the ci. siliatJ WOll , l. - . Lo the gnu' old times in which tithes were instituted, they were ac tually applied to ebnritailk purists's- ; Mk, at that period when reli.'ion wua un i t , ' , a ny vzspected, tilt, were few jails, no pa.ish workholues, and very want; every village curare was a father to his people, he was their director. their friend, and their physician : even the convents, agaii , t which aliases ware nohsequently charged, were treasuries iur poor, wlio sere fed at their gates, anti educated by the vestals who nalltad their cloiston ; rind thus the hallowed walls resoundul with the tean of die pont tout's blessings. Now what have we got in in u ri er n iito,s, with a cler:_;y in possession -fall the tithes—constituting •• tax for the religious education of the peopi.: at the rate of about nine millions u year ? What can we shew with nil this ; but a country full of overloaded prisons, a gross catalogue of crimes, it juvenile delinquency before unknown. and a discontented and impoverished population ! That :t w iser Ldjustm:nt of taxation, and a better distribution of tithes vould tend to 'wiry the growing evil, by promminv the influence of Chris:ix:hi, ov e r tit: heart, is what I concur with the wisest statesmen in believing : 111'4 would mace so important a feature in modern im provement, that they vullit never to be lost night of by those who are desirous to see their country prosperous and happy. In the following passage Dr. F. becomes eloquent, and it proves the powers of a man of learning, to illustrate even the triteness of election Willett with interesting variety : Lct us now take an example of the effects of religious institutions Non what I call the Chi istian year, which, ns the antient calendars re. preszeted it, was but it chronicle of the lxtunties of divine providence : end we shall ace that while the animating changes of its various feasts, fasts, ceremonies, processions, and rites, relieve and elevate the mind, they also refit:slim and invierate the body ; that they arc as useful u they are delightful; and that they make us feel that to the wisdom of our forefathers belongs the adage versified by the poet, who said, " Osamu Nig puuetuni qui iniscuil dulci.” In old dines of British h o spitality, when the landlord had always good Moen' for the tenant. on the fairs, wakes, end festive days; red it lien the I einantry ware itt+py, because their rights were respected, their betels united, and their cares and troubles solae«1 by a religion of bright hopes, taught to every child us soon as it could lisp, by a kind aft: fatherly priesthood; when cowers:ice and pride had not sapped the sirtue a the s i.altity, nor its rennet, appeared in the vul gar insolence, ins. bet dtruttion. tint; ilieconteat of the poor: in these Woe!, I ,:sy, the cootiog round of the great feasts, fasts, and holi days of tits tear niade up the principal objects of the poor man's For abil, they tifiliteied him temporary rlief from toil on earth; they (aught bin , to connect sill his pleasures with the hopes of paradise; halatteing as it weir, labour and recreation across the rail way of life, and making periods of joyous festivity, helps up the ladder to bed V: 0. The fawn of the vatious feasts then constituted the truest of human • &11t lies : for :itey ;Mottled pleasure without the alloy of reoret at the light of time with which the returning seasons aloha wouhl embittee our setnations : every festival marked some period in the progress of the lila of a pilgrim to Elysium, which while it subdued ale force of sorrows, gave animation to present joys, and made existerce appear only to b e heginaing where moral life ended ; thus pouring the halm consolation over cares and penances, while it steeped the inietlittler of fleeting mirth and festivity, ice the true spirit of evetlasting hap piness, It was in ancient families that the children looked forward from fatival to festival as to important prins periods, and counted the days from Christmas to Easter, and from Whitsuntide to the Assumption, as marking the return of holidays, when after salicary penances, tit c y shehild dance and sing, and skip on the green. decorated with gar. lanes, to the soiled of the merry pipe, when old and young came forth to enjoy fe s tivities in tthith by social communion and pleasantry, they forecast the joys of heaven. The aged (tippet tics festivals as well as the young; the infirm, In moments of case, a. well as the vigorous; for to all they told the Im pressive talc of joys to come ; merged the value of present pleasures in the ht pottatica of their future entail, and equalized the value of immortal life to all. Reason and faith taught all in those days they tine was incommensurate to eternity. And whether life was reduced to the lingering memory of a second chi Mood, enjoyed Mill, in the full vigour of manhood, er, as yet, only dawning on the c xpectaticy of youth, it was viewed merely as a passing moment el trial, the beginiug or point of min. duacedicat of a great something called e minty, in which the changing qualities of time and space would he lot in a perpetuity of enjoyment to come, on an infinitely magnified scale. f.very chutch was then an eutblent of some truth, the Spire pointed to the place to which men are to aspire ; the cock on the vane wets an emblem of vi i gilance which always moved accordant to the breath of heaven ; the pahned windows were storied with religious history; every niche in the wall filled wish ' images of exemplary persons; and the .hells in the ample .Called the. faithful to prayer, imitative in their sweet notes of the admonition of the original preachers, some deep, 10010 tledll, some lead, 'soma mellow,' but all in melodious harmony t. the lightql Vat& rste.emblear of jqy, and the music was expressive of M icah:mil of an "united congvega All these salutary helps are still to be found among the " Institutions of Christianity ;" but t he y are abolished by that specious thing called A Letter, addressed to the Right Hon. Earl Grey, 4.e. 4c. on Me State of our Political and Commercial Relations with Fortiro , . 7 WM. WALTON, his is a very able pamphlet on a subject which has lately been little studied, owing to the higher claims of other topics, and to the disgust felt against the governors and governments of the peninsula. Our intimacy with Portugal commenced, during the earliest days of that monarchy. An army of adventurers, staled to have amounted to 14,000 men, embarked in 200 ships, and composed of English. Nor. mans, and Flemings, bound to the Holy Land, owing to stress of ire:. they, put into the Douro, where they waited eleven days for their hadvr, Count Arnold de Ardescot, whose vessel had been separated from the rest. In the interval, a negotiation commenced, through the medium of the Bishop of Oporto, and it was eventually arranged that the fleet should proceed to the Tagus, where it arrived on the vigil of St. Peter and St. Paul, 1147. Alonzo I. lately proclaimed king, was at that time preparing his second attack upon Lisbon, a formidable position, garrisoned by a large army of Moors. The crusaders accepted the over tures made to them, and, having landed, materially contributed to the success of the enterprise. For this assistance they received a large pore tion of the plunder, together with valuable grants, of which many availed themselves by remaining in the kingdom. Almada and Sacay.nn were settled by Englishmen, belonging to this expedition. Oa the taking of Lis bon, an Englishman, of the name of Gilbert, also em barked in the fleet, was appointed Bishop; and it is a curious fact that he ordered the breviary and missal, of the Amnon Church of Salisbury, to be used in his diocese, which practice continued till the year UM, when the Row lehassiee was introduced. The earliest remarkable mention I find made, in Portuguese history, of British resident %ratters in that country. occurs in • long series of Grievances, presented by the Cortes of Rears, in 1482, to King John 11. This mica is divided into 174 head., or chapters, all relating to the intense/ adrisluisseatien. The complaint alluded to is curious, and being confident that it never before appeared in English, I subjoin an entire version. " Item—Sire, the inhabitants of your kingdoms receive great injury and your rights equal detriment, from therein allowing forti n m establishments, such as of English, Flemings, Castilians, and Genoese; the consequence of which is, that the English resi dent*, regularly every year, bestir themselves at the wine and oil sea son, for the purpose of ascertaining the quantities on hand and proba ble prices, according to the appearances of the times ; and, in order to learn the same with snore certainty, at the period of the crops. they bribe a broker to carry them round the district of the city of Lisbon, who shows them all the estates, and there they minutely inquired into the quantities of wine, oil, and other articles to be found ; which in. formation, as soon as obtained, they seed off to their own country for the use of their partners; in such manner that they are Wormed be fore hand of the merchandise ;hat is to be sent therefrom, according to the .I)w:earn:es of the times, in ender to sell it well and make better putei .1-es ; they are always them on di. alen,wlierces your subjects are dimwit of their guntd ; and acconling to the said advices, when the English would otherseiee bring to the City of Lisbon three thousand pieces of clothe, they only bring ea thousand five hundred, and this is occasioned by their r. Advisee here, as they send over accounts of the signs of the times. in otda the better to sell what they bring over and with greater pro& eurehea theit return.; likewise, the Flemings and Genoese never do nary good to your Kingdoms ; they rather rob then, of their gold and Alva. coin. mood discover your secrets regarding Mines and the (*laud.; and, as for the Custilians, those of them who. for their molprecatas in tl‘eir own country, are despised and thetefrum, in your Kingdoms arc received anti cherished ; from which •ou t a i m:eh:lac great disservice, because ell endeavour to dimioith your rids istni destroy your kingdoms; in consequence where of, Sire, your people b. *cece your lieelluees, from this time hencefor wards, nor. to allow the said resident* in your kingdoms, or lordships, and that they should go peaceably away, until a catain time ; and that every for. ign increht.nt shall return in the ship, or vessel, in which he cam., under u certain penalty, because forcign residents and merchants, if permitted to remain, arc a living plague (playa viva, that destroys the land; mill the Herr:add will promote your service and be of great advantage to your native subjects." la rise annals of our Portuguese connection, the year 1703 is me mot able. A convention *vs signed on the 16th of May. 1763, a stl followed by a new cointrercial arran.r * ement, known by the name of the Methuen Treaty, concluded on the 27th December in the same year, of abiet the following is a copy. /1. • IP% 411 ' " Article I. Ills sacred Royal Majesty of Pogogal promises% both in his own name :rind that of his aueeessur., to ad.i.:t, for ever hereafter, into Portugal, the woollen cloths anti the rose of the woollen inanufse tur:s of the British, it- was accustomed till they tette prohibited by the laws ; nevertlieksa, upon this condition ; that is to say, " Article 2. That tier Sacred Royal Majesty cif Great Britain shall, in her own name iiial that of her SUCC4:I4OIT, be obliged for ever here atter to admit the wines of the growth of Portugal into Britain ; so that at no time, whether there shall be peace or war between the kingdoms of Britain rind Fiance, any thing more shall be demanded for these win.% by the name of custom, or duty, or by any other title whatsoever, directly or indirectly, whether they shall be imported into Great Litt. tain in pipes, or bogsliet.ds, or other casks, than what shall be demanded for the like measure or quantity of French wine, deducting or abating one third part of the custom, or duty. But if lit any time Ibis deduc tion, or abatement of customs, which is to be made us aforesaid, shall in ally outliner be autinpted and prejudiced, it shall be just and lowtul for his Sacred Royal Majesty of Poriteal amain to prohibit the woollen cloths and the rest of the British woollen manufactures" Our commerce with Portugal thrived so well that, towards the year 1745, 6 or 700 British vessels arrived at Lisbon annually, and we be sides carried the pritcipal part of the trade of that port to the Mediter ranean. The largest proportion of the supplies of Boar was also re ceived from the British Allelic/11 Colonies, of cod-Ilsh from Newfound land, and of provisions from Ireland. 1761—Imports (Portugal) .... . • 4299,088 .. ... (Madeira) ......... 3 JBl ... —Exports (Portugal) (Madeira ) . 31,605 1762—Imports (Portugal .. 369 127 .. ... ( Madeira 1 3,729 E.. —xports ia ( P ortugal .. 9011.729 ... ... Madeira) .. 43,232 ki t 1809, the offic value of our exports to and imports Lean Porto. gal, stood thus--Exports, 1,011,8931. Imports, 916.8471. In the same year toand from Madeira--Exports. 187,1301 Intputs, 10,4101. In the same year, 247 British and 70 Foreign vessels entered the ports of England, from Portugal, Madeira, and Azores. The following abstract, constractcd front official data obtained in Lisbon, from 1819, exhibit a comparative view in rein, or the natienal currency, of the commerce of the various foreign nations carried on with Portugal Great allowances must nevertheless be mad: for smuggling and under-valuation. Imports. Expot ti. .. 7464.146,836 4219,087,093 ... 2121,762,068 - 1946,11069 ... 307,249,322 642,6261773 .. • • 3 6 0 ,0731727 - 4 7481050 3 ... 601,1941,306 117,1111,645 . . 617,451,403 1.4176 .. 400,413,430 r 750.81160 ... 482,681,217 *177,220 189- 9 "^ 1 6501,375 716 1819. Great Britain Spain France Austria RlMill Holland Sweden Prusgia Denmark 189,230,75 S , Hamburg 709,784.580 1286,402,715. Italy ... 2165,976,459 1573,292,195 Uniteel States ... ... 543,378,820 188,791,220 Barbary States 19,384,940 45,977,380 It a ill be seen that, on an average of 13 years, from 1817 to 1829, both inclusive, 608 British and 66 foreign vessels have annually entered inwards from Portugal, and 461 British and 103 foreign cleared out. wards fir that country. We send forth our goods to find the best and safest markets, and in doing this Portugal most assuredly affords us in. finitely more scope than we do to her. Formerly, from other countries, she could receive the manufactured comforts now supplied by us, per. haps on terms mort advantageous to the consumer, fur reasons sta. cieutly explained when I notic.d the competition of Hamburgh,France, &c. but, for nearly the last thirty years,. fortuitous circumstances have materially favoured us. From the commencement of the present seta. tury this trade has Scarcely been interrupted by any other cause than the French invasion, and our exportation of woollens to Portugal and her dependencies aro always considerable; on an average from 1815 to 1827, both inclusive, equal to 447,21131. per UM In 1815 they amounted to 727.8081. when oar total exports of woollen were as high as 9,387,4551. The United States of America, and the Fau Indies and China, were alone larger customers in this article during that year. litany persons think that we give to that country unrequited ,prefer comes. Some imagine that, in the admission of her wines, they dis cover that a great and valuable concession had been mule, without any equivalent—they even speak of special favours. bet us see how this matter really stands in fair account. Granting that our exports to Poe. tugal are equal to two millions and a half sterling, and again I remind your Lordship, that good. shipped are always undervidued, en reaching their t destination, these goods .pity fifteen per cent. wheteas those ut other nations are charged thirty. In t l, is item alone, we lt4ve therefore, a saving, or preference, equal to 375,0001. independent of 40,0001. more ;in reduced duties un 200,0011. of aed.fish. sent from Newfoundland. Hest is the contrail. Os 111 mange, Iw II say that we annually import 23,000 pipes of Portugal wines, contstn.il 415 gallons re& The duties hlth..to chargeable on diets yea 4s: lid. and ou the wines of France 7s. 1011. leaving a difference of 2a. the amount in which Portugal is favoured. On 2,876,000 gallons, contents of 23,000 pipes, Portugal, compared with France, is taus SUFFOLK. TO BE SOLD FOR 4,000 GUINEAS. THREE HUNDRED ACRES of TITHE FREE and FREEHOLD LAND, situate at Mildenhall, in the County of Suffolk. held under ,he corporation of the Bedford Level, GO to 70 Acres of die Lund are arable, and in the highest state of cultivation, and the residue acres are good old pasture. There i% on the Estate a newly.ereeted modern built FARM HOUSE, of brick and tide, containing on the basement, two large parlours, boarded doors, extensive kitchen, stone flagged dairy, with brewhouse, and store rooms. Up stairs, two spacious servants rooms, kitchen detached, store rooms, and three excelleat chambers over the parlours. Outbuildings, two Barns, one entir.ly new, with six spacious stables, each sufficint for eight or ten horses; also an Ofthard, of time years standing, planted with thrifty young trees, and on one part of the es. tate there is a plantation in width about 12 yards, and in length about 11 mile, of Firs and other trees, and the same affords a great covey for game of which the county abundantly abounds. This estate is held under the corporation of the Bedford Level, is surrounded by no less than twenty market towns, distances between six to thirty miles, commands good turnpike roads, and above all a good water carriage, by which grain may be conveyed at a third expense less titan the road carriage. For further particulars apply to THOMAS TOOKE, Ese. 41, Loser Stamford street.