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-~--~ r _ _•~ ..~ • , ^777 imitgAm ,"U"" • ' ~T!~ f _ ~-._ _ ~-•.-~ , . i . w T 7 irk' /1I 1 KEY, MAYOR. a MEETING or ASSEMBLY of the MAYOR. ALDERMEN, and LIVERY, of the several COMPANIES of the CITY of LONDON, in COMMON HALL anembled, at the GUILD HALL of the said City, oo SATURDAY, the 19th day of Fe bruary, 1831 ; RESOLVED UNANIMOUSLY, THAT the Thanks of this Common Hall are due, and we hereby presented, to CHAPMAN MANSHALL, Req. and WILLIAM RINEY POLAND, Esq. Sheriffs of London sad Sheriffs of Saddles'', roe their impartial and polite condom during the whole of the it.. Election for supplying the vacancy in the °Mee of one of the Bridge !nssters of this City. WOODTMORPL SLOP CLOTHING, Btc. VICTUALLING OFFICE, 4lls February, 1831. P HE COMMISSIONERS for VICTUALLING .1 his MAJRSTrS NAVY, 4 r e. do horsey glee notice, That on Fatoar, the 13th instant, they will be ready to receive Tenders in writing (sealed up), and treat for the supply of the under. mentioned Articles, to be delivered into his Majesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford, viz. QUAIITI . I . T. tiIIOD OF 11611,111.7. Blue Cloth Jackets, No. 2.. 5,000 No. —.......--. Trowsers, No. 2 10,000 Pair Duck Cloth • • ... 100,000 Yards Flannel Wistcoasts ... 10,000 No. Flannel Drawers ... 10,000 Pair Shirts .•• ... 15,000 No. .. Bieck Silk Handkerchiefs .. 10,C00 No. Hats ••• .. .. 1,000 No. Shoes • ' .. 15,000 Pair Hessen, 56 inches wide .. 5,000 Yards Buttons .. .. 1,500 Gross BOYS' SLOP CLOTHING. Blue Cloth Jackets •..1,000 N 0,,,,, ........ Trowsers... 1,000 MOIL Flannel Waistcoats .. 1,000 No. . 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TOWERS' TONIC PlLLS—Theee ,Stersuckic Aperieet PJW Gave for many years received the most decisive marks of pub* ep. ;royal. They are expressly designed to restore the tone and energy the Digestive Organs, sod to ninon and correct Indigestion, a bad :•T d defective Appetite, Depresdos of Spirits, Drowsiness, Ste. In Bores, 2,. 9.1. ca. 6d. and its. MARSHALL'S UNIVERSAL CERAM es Nacelles' remedy f broken Chilblains, Scalds, Burn., Wounds, and Ulcers of every d •nootivation, especially sore and ulcerated Legs. In Boxes, is. led -na t o . 94. N•L3• Tbe above Peeper*loos, when geovine,wa bibetteNatot sod A4lress of Messrs. Buren attached to them. ?animist agitation to tbis math% is requested. , O. 13,708. His Majway's Stag Hounds meet on !Friday at Wezbam Heath. Mr. Oaballaton's Hounds to morrow, at Kehnanh ; Friday, at PYithley ; Saturday, at Swinford. The Duke of Grafton's Hounds on Wednesday, at Punta Fields ; Friday, at Stoke Plains. Mr. Berkeley's Hounds to-morrow, at Hampton ; Thursday, at Clapham Park ; Saturday, at Roston. Mr. Drake's Hounds to-morrow at Warden Kennel; TuradaY, at Horton Common; Saturday, at Hirdingten Round-about. The Quota Hounds Wednesday, at Beekby Holt ; Thursday, at Staunton Wyril ; Friday, at hintinw ; Saturday, at Drabs Wood. Sir John Gerard's Hounds to-morrow, arlisil and Butcher; Thurs day, at Waverly Wood ; Friday, at Delano* ; Saturday, at Coombe Abbey. Mr. Meynell's hounds to-morrow, at Blytbbury ; Thursday, at Foot= ; Saturday, at Rolleston. The Puckeridge hounds Wednesday, at Scales ; Saturday, at Aston Bu. Ha ry ri Fitzwilliam's bounds Wednesday, at The Brighton harriers Wednesdayostar iii=Couree ; Friday, sear the Dyke. Lad Petrea hennas Tturadny, - .1 the Dogma Partridge, t3tifferd ; Saturday, at Stock. The Brookside Harriers, Wednesday, at Asher:robe ; Friday, at Tehoombe 4 Tye. The Norfolk Foi Hounds, to.morrow, at Guist-bridge; Thursday, at Lefton Hall ; Saturday, at Barwick House. The Cambridgeshire Hounds, Friday, at Potton Wood. The Worcestershire Hounds, Thursday, at Grafton-Mill; Saturday, at Brantford Bridge. Mr. Bulteel's Hounds meet tomorrow, at Fleet Western Lodge ; and Friday, at Blatchford. The Somerset Subscription Foxhounds meet to-morrow, at Slowly Wood; and Friday, at Raleigh's Cross. Sir R. Sutton's Hounds to-morrow, at Stapleford Moor; Thursday, at Hackthorne House ; and Saturday, at Brant Broughton. Lord l'athorough's Hounds Wednesday, at Klngsforth House; Friday, at Ormsby Mill ; and Saturday, at baceby Cottager's Plitt. Mr. Freeman's Hounds meet to-morrow, at the Tower on the Moor ; Thursday, at Cheatham House ; and Satu r day , at Ruckland Gores. The H. H. to.morrow at Bosworth ; Thursday, at Chawton House: Saturday, at Candows Church. The Hambledon Hounds meet tomorrow at Butser Hill ; Thursday at Upbain Pond; Saturday, at Vine Inn, near Wickham. The N. F. Hounds to-morrow at Hunters Inn; Thutsday, at Wind don ; Saturday, at Hale. PORTSMOUTH, Pas. Is. Prom the Hampshire Telegraph. The Onyx, 10, Lieu. Dawson, sailed on Tuesday for Havre. to con vey further despatches to the Tyne, 28, apt. Hope, for Mr. Fox, our Minister at Buenos Ayres. His Majesty's ship Ariadne, 28, Captain Phillips, sailed from Ply mouth on Saturday, for Milford. The Tweed, SS, Captain Lord J. S. Churchill, was paid off into or dinary on Wednesday. The °Seers and crew generously subscribed 141. lb. 9d. and Lord John Churchill made a donation of 51. to the Sc.. men's Hospital Ship. His Majesty's ship Thetis sai led from Rio de Janeiro for Ragland, on the Sld of Deomber. His Majesty's ship Chellettgo &seised at Bom bay, from Bushim, on the 23d Sept. Ths Enterprise (steamer), Lynch, sailed from Bombay on the 21st Sept. for IWadras and Calcutta. His Majesty's ship Chanticleer arrived at Trinidad on the 29th of Oct. from Para, and sailed on the 7th Dec. for Porto Cabello. Arrived at Antigua, the 7th of December, his Majesty's ship Mer sey, from Barbados, and sailed on the 13th on a cruise. Arrived on the 25th November, his Majesty's ship Hyacinth, from Halifax. His Majesty's ship Kangaroo sailed on the 14th of Novem ber, from Berbice, for Barbadoes. Arrived at the Cape, on the 90th November, his Majesty's ship Badger, from the Illauritiol and en the *oth ult. the Kaias, transport from Portsmouth. His Majesty's ship Ranger arrived at St. Kitt's on the 97th Novem ber ; and the Champion on the 3d of December. The Amity transport, Lieutenant Chapman, agent, was towed out of harbour this afternoon; she is ordered to proceed with all possible dis patch to Plymouth, to take on baud part of the 87th Regiment for the ilauritius. _ _ _ The Acteon, 21, Captain Hon. F. Grey, will be taken out of dock on Monday. On Monday arrived the Antelope cutter, from the eastward, with vo huiteer seamen; on Wednesday sailed the Linnet cutter, for Jersey. On Thursday sailed the Antelope cutlet for the Downs, and yesterday the Highdyer tender, for Newhaven. The Leveret, tender to the Kent, is ordered to be transferred to the Caledonia, 120, and will be commanded by Lieut. Mute, of the latter ship. At Spithead—Undaunted4 In Harbour—Undaunted, St. George, Wellesley. Ganges, Asia, Belvidere, Sapphire, Actmon, North Star, and Hermes steam-vessel. On Monday, arrived the Duke of Sussex, Whitehead, from London, for Bombay and Chins, and gone to Cowes. The Jane Catherine, Loader, and the Dale Park, for Jamaica. Tuesday, arrived Flora, transport, from Corfu, with a part of the 90th Regiment on board, and the Sophia, for Jamaica. On Monday sailed the Bliss, convict ship, for New South Wales ; and on Thursday, the Thalia. Biden, for Ma dras' and Calcutta, and the Surrey, Dace, for Van Dieman's Land and Sydney. The Brailsford, Cleverly, which arrived at Plymouth on Mon day from Sierra Leone, lost dx men while there, and left one man In the hospital. During the loading of this ship, a native of Sierra Leone was employed to load timber, when in the act of attaching a Tope round a log of wood, he was seized by the arm by a shark ; he with great difficulty extracted it, bat stripped of its flesh. The poor fellow immediately stood upon the kg of wood sod exclaimed," Here, mama, see what he do." Through lon of blood, the man died the same night. PROMOTIONS AND APTOINTMINTS.—Mr. P. Blackwood (lately returned from New South Wales) has been confirmed in his rank as Lieutenant of the Success. The following gentlemen have been pro , mated to the rank of Purser—Messrs. Robert Barrow, Wm. Hood, James Chemen, Francis May, Wm. Finllayson, R. Singer, Silas Suntan, I Henry Price, James Newnham, James Pinhorn. Commodore Usher, C.B. is appointed Commissioner of Bermuda Dockyard; and Captain Ascough, Commissioner at Jamaica, Commander Thos. Ganwey to the Ordinary at Chatham, vice Gregory, whom three years have ex pired. Lieut. James Harvey to the African steam vessel. Mr. Master, Rev. B. Winder, Chaplain, and Mr. J. Anderson (b), Surgeon, to the Asia. The long miming pocket, Lady Mary Penmen, with a mail from the Leeward Islands, has arrived. The dates from St. Thomas only come down to the 20th December. SURRENDER OF MR. ST. JOHN LONG. ' Mr. Wontner, the governor of Newgate. on Saturday waited tic the hlagtstrates at Bow -street, and stated that 31r. St. John bong that morning surrendered, to take his trial at the ensuing Old Bailey Sessions, which will commence on Thursday next. Stevens, the offi cer, held the Coroner's warrant for manslaughter against him, and thought himself on the point of taking him a few days since, having traced him to a house near the Regent'spark. The warrant was given • up to Mr. Wontner, as an authority for the pigmies detention. Mr. St. John Long has been a good dad looked after, and some of the officals have been equally astonished and chagrined at the manner in which they foubd themselves baffled. On one occasion they felt abut . lutely certain that the prise was theirs. To enter the house with all possible dispatch, that no accident might occur, was the object. From this they wore resolved that no stratagem sho uld deter them. and they ace edit gly made their way, to the interior. The result need net be stated. In their eagerness to enter the house they omitted to look into the carriage, which planed through the midst of them, and in which the Intended prisoner was seated. On Saturday afternoon Mr. St. John Long was brought before Mr. Alderman Farebrother, at Geildhall, by Mr. Wanner. The pri-• sonet had surrendered to the governor of Renate, but he not barn power to detain him without a eotnmitment, be was brought before a ile4stsate. Akimmaq Farebrother said. be supposed the object of the defendant in sunendering thus early was that there might be no retest for post. posing his trial at the next sessions. Mr. St. John Long admitted that ft was so; and Mr. Gibbons re- marked that the solicitor on the other style had notice of the surrender, and bad no intention to ask an adjournment. Mr. Alderman Farebrother then signed tit" comntitment, Ind the pri soner was conveyed back to Newgate in his own carriage. MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 14, 1831. PARLIAMENTARY REFORWIL MR BAILEY'S LRTTRR TO LORD GREY. We have been led by the knowledge which we acquired, of Mr BAILEY'S talents in our late notice of hi admirable discourse on REVOLUTIONS, to procure ft threepenny tract advertised in our columns, which he has just addressed to EARL GREY on PARLIAMINTART RE FOISM. We lament that we are not justified in laying the entire work before our readers, but we have selected a series of passages in consecutive reasoning, which we are per suaded will highly gratify all who peruse them. and while they raise the author in public estimation to the first rank of political writing, they will place the great question of PAILIAMENTAIIT REFORM in its proper light before the nation : MY LORO,---" I am the decided advocate of Par- 1 liammstary Reform ! cf such a Reform_ie, AMU give to die PopulaCy of the United Kingdoms their due influence in the Commons' House, their just share in the making of those laws by which they are to be governed :—their necessary control over the expenditure of those pecuniary aids which it is demanded that their talents and industry shall furnish ; and the full weight of their voice and character in devising and executing those plans of national policy of which they must become in their persona and property the honourable agents, or the shameful victims. " Whilst, however, I know, my Lord ! that such a Re form in our Representative System as shall secure the above results is a measure most necessary ; I feel that its accom plishment is a task most arduous to perform. " Your task, believe me, my lord ! is not merely the trans fer of the right of suffrage from a larger or smaller number of rotten boroughs, as they are technically called, to an equal number of large towns ; it is not merely the question of com pensation with the proprietors of these disenfranchised bo roughs for the privilege which they. bees paid a valuable consideration to exercise, under the guaranty of ancient and universally recognised charters,—it is not merely the diffi culty of reconciling a deliberate violation of the rights of in disiduals with the profession of extraordinary regard for the 'principles of justice; though these things in themselvei, morally and socially considered, present subjects of no ordi-' nasty magnitude to grapple with. Your task, my lord ! in its 11111011dal duties, comprehends infinitely more than these ar rrigteetants, infinitely more than any poturds, shillings, and plan lerangements ewer cattevinftaitely mom tha n the legal adjustment of any individat is with .the claims of the public ever did. " Parliamentary Reform, my 'loid ! does not weenie the present day what it meant in 1789,•n0r yet, subtly, eitarit meant in 1793, the period of your ham* Reform' mode,. At the earlier period, it might be said to be the moms more enlightened portion of the aristocracy and men orpt party and influence in the country, and was designed, prin cipally, to check the supposed growing influence of the Crown. Reform is now the people's measure—the vehement cry of the almost united popalacy of the empire-- and its pro minent and avowed object, the extermination of that domi nant influence in our national affairs, which the Order' to which your lordship belongs, and to which it is ' notorious as the sun at noon-day,' you pride yourself in belonging, has, I was going to say, long fatally, but, I will venture to assert, mischievously and unconstitutionally exercised. " Hence, my lord I arises the difficulty of your situation and that of the superlatively aristocratical ministry of which you are premier : and hence the arduous nature of the duty you have to perform ; requiring a degree of disinterestedness, an extent of deliberate energy, and a fervour of patriotic devoted ness, seldom, if ever, required in a statesman ! The present Lord Chancellor, whilst plain Mr. Brougham, in the House of Commons, would have managed this question well, at least in debate, as likewise would your Lordship in the upper House ; but, I own I tremble for both your characters whilst contemplating parliamentary reform as your great Cabinet question. The ancient law of , Engleni, I submit, never pre sumed to define the princkle of representation, never under took to fix a basis of national suffrage. Our Magna Charts, Bill of Rights, and Act of Settlement, the ostensible triple defence of our constitutional liberties, are singularly reserved or vague upon this sukject : nor can the statute of Edward the First, nor that of Edward the Third, be considered as at all more satisfactory on this important subject, inasmuch, as whilst providing that the subject shall not be compelled to contribute to any tax, tallage, aid, or other like charge, not set by common consent in Parliament,' they omit entirely to fix any principle of representation, or lay down any basis of national suffrage by which that common consent' shall be really obtained. " Hence, the thousand varied forms under which the elec tive franchise is at present exercised in this country, and which perplex and bewilder every inquirer into the right of voting, as enjoyed by our cities and boroughs. " Does your lordship, in your intended measure of parlia mentary reform, purpose to perpetuate the absurd distinctions which now prevail in different places, between burgage-hold and frsehold—between scot and lot, pot-wallopers, populacy, resident inhabitants and inhabitants at large,between borough men, free-men, port-men, select-men, burgesses, and council men ; I would say, can you, if entering at all upon the question of Parliamentary Reform, think to perpetuate these prescriptive distinctions among the Electors, which serve to separate them in small detached bodies from each other, and the whole from the great masa of the wealth and intelligence of the country. " Depend upon it, my Lord ! if you make the attempt you will soon find yourself involved in the meshes of inextrica ble difficulty. With such a Representative System as ours, no other country than England could have preserved a trace of constitutional liberty. All popular rights, all liberal in stitations, would have been, for many years pest, utterly obliterated : and a capricious oligarchy, wielding the Sceptre which it had wrung from the hands of a fetes/taint:inanity, would have been audaciously seated in the higk-place of power, trampling with remorseless contempt, alike on the natural rights, and the chartered liberties, of an insulted, and suffering people. 4' Why has not such a state befallen us? Has not our le gislative body become corrupt, tom degree exceeding, in all probability, the utmost conception of the acute mind which vebtured upon the above ptbdiction! why pen, instead or ougin g into this wretched and Aiwa conthaen, has E ll ll4' land not only been enabled to preserve her station as a free State, but to lift her head high over alt the the ' watch-tower and the bulwark of the liberties of the world ? Simply, my Lord ! because of the mighty moral • • - • • t 1788... f fk • low _ • 1 PRICE. 71). energy which not only enters into, but constitutes the very character of, her enlightened population. I" A crisis, my Lord ! has arrived in the moral feeling of the nation, the impediments which have checked the p .1- ress of civilisation and morality, must he removed, or the loir:iers, depend upon it, will be forced : and this state of the public mind will irresistibly impose uponour Lordship and your colleagues, the task of preparing, as it were, a near Charter for Englishmen. You must recognise dr • legal right to be represented, you must fix a principle of repre sentation in the constitution—you must establish a basis of national suffrage. You must, in short, frame an universal law of election. It is to the accomplishment of this object, that the spirit of reform is applying its resistless energies, di , e led by the talent, the moral worth, and a large proportion, f the wealth of the empire ; and be assured, my Lord ! that with nothing less than such a result, will its demands bo " Whatever be the required qualification for an elector in your - reform measure, it must be uniform throughout the United Kingdom, at once simple, definite, and easy of attain ment; the result of some fixed principle operating agree ably to the nature and interests of civilized society, and ca pable of easy adaptation to t. e growing wants and desires of a people rapidly advancing in moral and intellectual growth. " Nor, will it avail, my lord ! merely, that you give verge and accuracy to the range of suffrage ; you are called upon by the spirit of the times to adopt the very beat mode which wisdom and experience, in affairs connected with le gislation, has yet discovered, to enable the constituency of the realm, to use the right thus recognised and secured. 'Whether this result will be beet accomplished by " open voting' or ' Vote by Ballot,' I shall not new take upon my self to discuss. I only say, my lord ! the subject must be diecussed: and to that disc scion, there must not be brought on your part, nor on that of your colleagues, any fostered prejudices,—any sinister prepossessions--any jealous un worthy apprehensions. What is most worthy to be called REFORM must be preferred :—what is most effective for the attainment of its avowed object, must be adopted. " Whether you,my lord! are sufficiently acquainted with the temper of the times, and the spirit and character of the active clause of the nation, so as correctly to judge of the nature and extent of the reform required by the people, I have no ity of knowing, but, from the reported speeches sa id to delivered by you, in your place in parlia ment. If these be correctly reported, I should venture to say, your knowledge of the spirit of the age is very im perfect; and your acquaintance with the actual opinions of the people very vague and incomplete. I beg leave then to assert, without fear of contradiction, that nothing less than a formal recognition by the legislative and executive estates of the realm, of the inalienable right of Englishmen, to be represented in the great council of the nation, with an honest endeavour to fix a liberal principle of representation in the constitution of the State, will avail to • • allay the excitement which at present prevails in the minds of millions upon this meat momentous subject. The trans fer of the elective franchise from half a score, or a score, or even a hundred, decayed or close boroughs to larger towns, will be insufficient to restore tranquillity, unless a basis of national suffrage be laid, and a principle of representation be fixed in the constitution, so that the peoplemay knob bow to accommodate their powers to future given Circumstances. " Depend upon it, my Lord! that a paltry, patch-work Reform, such as the transfer of a few decayed boroughs, and the introduction of other anomalies into our Representative Sruem than those which at present exist, and which must a&a, ere long, supervene in disturbance, and confUsion, will not be saiMent to Weft the important class I have ' above alluded to, le 411011111 forward and strike hands for the maintenance of dm Cort f lon., . " To ensure th eir , my Lord ! some principle of representatiommust he fixed —some basis of national suffrage MOM be established, which their unsophisticated common sense is capable of discoming, es being applicable• to the necessities of a highly-civilized potpie: wad also efficient in their regular operation, for the redress of extraordinary, no leas than ordinary grievances. " In short, what they demand is a Representative System which shall accelerate—not impede—the " march of mind :" ' which shall contribute to develop—not to crush or hinder— 'the rising intelligence and morality of the country. " There must no longer, my Lord, be dependence on crazy and corrupt Corporations, frequently composed of the very drivel of the population over whom they preside, for the privilege of exercising the noblest right of a freeman. " There must not, I say, after the introduction of your Reform measure, any longer exist a necessity for any man in the empire abasing his mind to the vulgar notions, or pandering to the crude politics, of the " Green-grocery " Aristocracy, which lords it with such ridiculous arrogance over their fellow-citizens, in all our boroughs, and many, Bien, of our ancient and populous cities : there must, I re peat, be no longer need for any Englishman to do this, in order to enjoy the elective franchise in his own locality. Nor must there be suffered to exist, my lord, any further apprehensions, in the breasts of patriotic men, that should pub lic opinion in the boroughs run counter to that of the lords of the " Guild," theysball be enabled, by conferring the elective franchise, at once,on five or six hundred, or a thousand, " non residents," along with their dependants and retainers, to stifle any honest expression of sentiment entertained by their fel low-citizens, on public affairs, as has been practised in some Boroughs. " These crying evils, to which the undue infieence and oppression of the hereditary Aristocracy is a trifle, must, my Lord ! be redressed. The intelligent, patriotic, middle class of our populacy ; the men who constitute the moral, the in tellectual, and the social strength of the Empire, will no longer submit to such a condition of insulting degradation. " I am the more earnest, my Lord ! to impress these ten timents upon your mind, because I know full well the feeling and opinions of this body of men, being one of their amber, and having lived, and mixed with them on every occasion, throughout a course of active life, now passed i ts full meridian. ' • " Never had a ministry and parliament of England mote need of wisdom, of patriotism, and of energy, than the pre sent ; never has there been a Bill introduced into the House of Commons since the " Act of Settlement" was passed, of half the importance with the one, which your administration Mande pledged to introduce during the present session. The rain of public credit—the overthrow of most or all of our ancient institutions—the very subve eion of the monarchy Itself! can by possibility conceive as remotely, if not intimately involved in the great measure of your administration, should it be opposed in its spirit to the temper of the times in which we live. " I entreat your Lordship and d our colleagues, then, in the name of the people of England,—in the name, at least, of that part of them, who hatre'no criminal designs to gratify by their interferenos—no hopes of plunder to realize from anticipated changes—no dangerous, inapplicable theories to Advocate, by the expression of their opinions, to ponder well the steps you are about to take, on the momentous question of Parliamentary Reform. Above all things, do dot betray a wavering, vacillating course of policy : do not attempt eo Lipase es the armory; with a delesiver,' equivocal espreesiao of year sentiments —do not adopt a salvation', sinister, or too mach generalized course of notion inlets/ 0- itridlal plans: be . pracfical, specific, intelligible. " Let it be ataniftst to the Country; that your anxiety is, not to keep your placess, but to command the respect, and deserve the gratitude of your fellow-citizens."