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3 1 4 Mb‘...4.d•••‘••• GLASGOW. Yesterday sennight the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow met to consider the propriety of frevr.'.ing a Loyal Address to his MAJESTY. The PRESIDENT having taken the Chain, observed that they were met to consider of an Address to his Majesty, in pursuance of a Requisition for that pur pose. He hoped they would allow every one to de liver his sentiments, and would recommend them to do it in as few words as possible. Toe Address was moved by Mr. 111..Ntctt, who called upon the Gentlemen to come forward and shew their love and attachment to their excellent So vereign and the Constitution of which he was the head ;—that Sovereign whose virtues were so well known, and whom the greatest Kings from all parts of Europe came to see and pay their respects to. He would call particularly upon those he saw around him, who had served his excellent Majesty, and were receiving his pay, who, with hearts overflowing with gratitude, would be happy to have an opportunity to rally round him, and prevent him from being in sulted with Addresses sent up to him by the disloyal. Mr. M'AaTttua said, the first thing to be consi dered was, whether they should have an Address at all or not? and he moved that this should be put to the vote. _ _ Dr. CORK INDALE seconded Mr. M'Arther's motion, aid said, as no one could seriously doubt their loyalty, any Address whatever could only be considered as an approval or disapproval of the Ministry ; and the one party might just scud it at once to Lord Liver pool, or the other to Earl Grey. The question being put, the votes were—For the Address, 27—Against it, 21. Dr. M MLA it observed, he for one could never agree to any Address intended to approve of the conduct of the present Ministers, who had made such inroads upon the Constitution—a Constitution for which we were solely indebted to the Whigs. It was because the present Ministers had made such glaring attempts upon the liberties of the subject, and that Constitution for which they affected to be so grateful, that he ob jected to any attempt to support them. Dr. PERRY agreed with those who deprecated the introduction of party politics into the Faculty, as it was likely to interrupt that harmony and concord .which prevailed among them ever since he had the honbur to be a member. Frequent and unavoidable. i::tercourse, and the good offices which they had it in their power to render each other, made it of the utmost imr.ortance that they should live in peace; and this the introduction of party politics must ne cessarily disturb. • Aspersions had been cast upon individuals, and personal allusions made. It was evident, therefore, that the apple of discord •was thrown down, and those who were the instigators were responsible for the consequences. Aspersions had been cast too upon the individuals with whom be was accustomed to agree in politics: they were accused of disaffection to the Constitution. The citi- . zens of Glasgow had been slandered and aspersed as .seditious and irreligions. Reference had been parti eulatly made to the Meeting held in John-street—a Meeting, he would maintain, as respectable as any ever bele. in Glasgow for a political purpose. "We have been told that we could not enter a mechanic's house . withcut meeting with irreligious and sedi tious publications." The Gentleman ought to have given some proof of the existence of such publi cations, by bringing some of them in his pockets.— It seems to be the policy of the present Ministers to divide the country— to set the rich and the poor against each other, that they may be able to keep their places : like the famous steam-vessel for which a patent was lately obtained, they seem to think that the vessel of the State rides most safely and majesti cally, and its machinery works best, during storms and commotion*. They, therefore, send out their • " whippers-in to Administration," as they have been called, to get up Loyal Addresses, and agitate and divide the country with the cry of disaffection. There are some individuals who think it their interest to do so, and are not ashamed to avow that this is their mu tive—[The speaker was very frequently interrupted during his speech, and at this time, with cries of bame, name!" and the greatest uproar prevailed. Several persons said the charge, if meant to apply to them, was falsel—He could name if he was disposed, but those whom it fitted might take it.—[Here the confusion and clamour became so general, and so many attempted to speak, that nothing could be dis tinctly heard. Many of the members left their seats, The P. esident quitted the Chair, and was about to dissolve the Meeting, when he was persuaded by some Gentlemen to resume it. The confusion and clamour continued fur upwards of a quarter of an hour, and at least a dozen Gentlemen attempted to heai . d. Several Members loudly disclaimed being actuated by interested motives.' —The speaker de clared he would not be put down by clamour; and that he would not retract anything he had said. He had made no pot oval applications. He considered himself, anal these with whom he acted, personally attacked, their motives impugned, and their fellow citizens slandered, in .the speech of the proposer of the Address. He would now make some remarks on the conduct of that Administration which it was attempted to support by Addresses. They had, for the last thirty years, been making the most serious inroads on that Constitution for which the Gentlemen affect such high veneration. They have uniformly set themselves against all reform and economy, and curtailed the liberties of the subject—(Hear, hear). — They have joined the Despots on the Continent in their hostility to the liberties of the People.— Have they acknowledged the reformed Governments of Portugal and Naples? Arc they not at this mo ment countenancing those despots in their attempts to deprive the Neapolitans of liberty ? Have they not attempted to violate the Constitution by an es, postfacto law against an unprotected female, and that , female their Queen? . Have they not been her prose cutors, her accusers, her judges, and her jurors, at one and the same time? As he hoped the Faculty could not agree to any Address which approved of the present Nlinisters, he would 'read an Address,. simply expressive of loyalty and attachment to the King and Constitution. Dr. BAIRD seconded the amended Address, which was put and negatived without a eivision.—The ori ginal Address was then read, and some verbal im provements suggested. The Meeting again divided, and the Address was carried by a large majority. - .-.--.-. .*.. SHROPSHIRE MEETING. Mr. BENNETT ,has, since the neeting, addressed the following letter to the Freeholders of tht!Countf: " TO THE INDETENDENT TRTTROLDTAS or THE comm . OF SILO!. " Shrewsbury, January 15, 1820. " CENTLeurs—To those of you who were present in the Shire-Hall, at Shrewsbury, on Vedn►sday last, it is unnecessary for me to address myself, as I witnessed your honest indignation at the unjust decision of the Under-Sheriff; but I wish to in form the Freeholders of the County who were absent from the Meeting, that the Amendment which I bad the honour to pro pose was carried by a majority of at least three to one. No man can deny, who had his eyes to see, that the shew of hands was greatly in my favour; and the more I have learned as to the state of the Hall, the more I am enabled to affirm that the great majority of the Freeholders present supported my Amendment. The victory, then, was ours, but the triumph has been snatched from us by an artful manauvre. " You have, therefore, demonstrated, what T took the liberty to assert you woul,l demonstrate, that with all true loyalty to the King, attachment to the Institutions of the Country, and re verence for our holy Religion, there does exist a spirit of inde pendence among you, which would display itself when sum moned to exertion. You have thus treated, with the scorn it merited, the charge that the People of England were libellers and blasphemers: even the Requisitionists have been compelled to avow, that, by the Address proposed, no approbation was in tended to be conveyed to his Majesty's Ministers—men who, I hope you will never forget, are the sole authors of the distress which threatens to overwhelm you, and who may be well dee scribed as having added mote to the burthens, and taken more from the liberties of the People, than all the Administrations from the accession of the House of Hanover to the commence- ruent of their ruinous career. " I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, "Your most obedient and most humble servant, " H. GREY BENNETT. P.S. I have received an intimation that a Meeting is con templated, to take into consideration the state of the Country. I shall, therefore, not trouble the Freeholders with signior the Amendment we carried triumphantly on Wt.s.lnesday ; tor at that Meeting, which I shall certainly auend, I feel assured the real state and condition of the country will be laid before the House of Commons." GLOUCESTERSHIRE. We insert with pleasure the following admirable letter from a Gentleman of family and fortune in Gloucestershire, to whom the Loyal Address for that County was sent fur signature : Addiestrop, January 3, Int. " A Loyal Address having , been sent to me 'for the signature of my name, I wish to state to you in very few words the particular reasons why I did not sign it, lest at any future time, should I venture to express my opinions on poiLical subjects at a Glou cestershire Meeting, I might be accused of apostacy, the prevalence of which vice gives too much an ap pearance of plausibility to the pernicious doctrine that all public men are impostors, and that every politician has his price. You well know, that at the last General Election for the County of Gloucester, from respect to the 1-louse of Beaufort, and from ad miration of the personal character of the Noble Candidate, I seconded the nomination of Lord Ed ward Somerset, and I was proud to be instrumental in bringing a Hero into Parliament. On that occa sion, . I said a few words expressive of my admira tion of the military talents and private character of Lord Edward Somerset ; but I made no political allusions whatever: indeed I could not with a safe conscience have done so, as my opinion of the con duct of Ministers was quite at variance with that which the Noble Lord entertained of it. You per-" haps remember the conversation which I had with you, that day, on the subject. I am warmly at tached to the Princes of the House of Brunswick, and I would shed my last drop of blood in defence of their persons ; but I do not think that the stability of the Constitution, or the dignity of the Throne, are essentially connected with the continuance in office of men who are not in habits of intercourse with the People, who know nothing of their dispositions, and whose views, in my humble opinion, on all subjects of domestic and foreign policy, are narrow and con fused. Yet the Loyal Addresses imply an appro bation of the conduct of the present Government. " The term Jacobin,' being effete through fre- Tient use, has lost its influence on the minds of men, and anew watch-word for alarm must be invented, to frighten the timid into a compliance with the vio. lent measures of Government. All those who do not support the measures of the present Administration are stigmatized as ' Radicals. 66 That in a country where the Freedom of the Press is established, there will be an occasional abuse of it, I am ready to allow, though I hope that despo tism will never be called in to keep the peace ; but a Government that has the confidence and affections of the People, need not fear paper shot ; and libels, as such, are punishable by law. With what colour or pretence of decency the adherents to Government can complain of the licentiousness .of the Press,' when those writers who are under the immediate controul of Ministers are virulent beyond description in their abuse of all public men who differ from them on political questions, I leave to the impartial to de termine. It is not by declamatory Addresses pre sented to the Throne, where the question is always begged, but by a practical reform of existing griev ances, by conciliatory measures and temperate argu ments, that the designs of the wicked can be frus trated, the deluded reclaimed from their errors, and peace re-established in this distracted country. " Let the Courts of Justice punish the violators of the law; let it be the pleasing task of Parliament to separate the mo,'erate from the violent, to remove all just causes of complaint, to abolish all sinecures and useless offices, to tolerate in some degree the im patience of the people, who have borne with unex ampled fortitude the pressure of a long war ; and it will do more far the stability of the Throne than Loyal Addresses' can ever accomplish. It will en throne the King in the hearts of his subjects, and give him more real power than the most absolute Monarch possesses. I therefore do not see the neces sity of Loyal Addresses in the present times; they will only tend to widen the breach between the hi b ber and lower ordersof the community, which has been caused by the folly of some and the :nadness of others; to place the Sovereign in an unamiable light as the head of a party, and to throw, unjustly in my opi nion, the imputation of disloyalty on all those who do not approve of the tenour of these Addresses, and among whom may be found the firmest supporters of the Throne, and the truest friends of the Constitution. —I am, your's, Bce. CHANDOS LEIGH." Saturday night, betw►en seven and eight o'clock, as Thomas Jefferson, a shopkeeper, of Market -street, was coming to London, just on the north side of Barnet, he was ttomed by a siree high wayman, well mounted, who robbed him of XIS in notes, and some silver, but he did not take his watch : he then galloped off. :,~~";~, LITERATURE • de- Tit! NEW MONTH I.T GASINII PIM pendently of the contributiotti of persons of the first talent, which may be expected in future to fill the pages of this Journal, it must be confesr.ed that the new plan on which it is now printed, gives it a nm-ked additional superiority.. Part of this new plan con sists in the printing of the Original Papers in a large type, similar to the Edinburgh and (quarterly Re views, the paginz, being so arranged, that at the end of the year the Literary Essays may be bound up se parately from the i‘liscelianeous Departments, which will together form a distinct Volume, for general re ference; thus combining in the same Work, the seve ral characters of a Magcrzine, a Review, and an An meal Register. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT TATTF.RSALL'S YESTERDAY. DERBY. 8 to 1 apt Reginald 14 to 1 agst Morel 12 to 1 apt Gustavus 16 to 1 agst Jock 12 to 1 agst Charm 10 to 1 agat Prudence OARS. 4 to 1 agst My Lady I 15 to 1 apt Sister to Steeltrrp amnrtswonru. Reginald and the Selima colt are the favourites. DONCASTER ST. LEGE& to 1 asst Jack Spiggot. 15 to 1 agst Sandbeck 13 to 1 art My Lady 20 to I agst other 15 to 1 agst coiweu HUNTING. His Majesty's Stag Hound, met on Friday, at the Turnpike gate beyond Staines, on the Sunbury-road, at ten. The Pytchley Hounds meet on Thdrsday, at Winwick War ren • Saturday, at Stowe, at half-past ten. The Duke of Grafton': Hounds meet to-morrow, at Stoke (Bruern) Park ; Friday, at little Norwood, at half-past ten. The Oakley Mounds meet on Thursday, at idoulsoe; Satur day, at Galsey, at half-past ten. - The Quorndon Hound: meet to-morrow, at Wichnerpool; Thursday, at the eighth mile-stone on the Leicester-road to Welford ; Saturday, at Clifton, at half-past ten. Lord Anson': Hounds meet on Friday, at Odstone ; Satur day, at Black Swan; Monday, at Ilopwas Bridge, at half-past 10. The Croxtou Hounds meet to-morrow, at Paxton Wood ; Friday, at Knapwell Grove, at half-paat ten. OLD gAILEY sysstoNs. Te-terday, Rohn-I Lemke and Philip M e , wretched-looking young lads, were indicted ing a saddle and bridle and two stirrups, the property of Thomas Cole' :veil. The prisoner Meadcs, in his defence, tied Lad not tasted food for several days; that h e , plied to the parish officers of Eaing fu ttl peatcdly, and particularly at a V.:stri 31 e , t i al that they reinsed to assist him, telling hi m t h t plenty of work.—This was corroborated by ;* wbo stated that they had since expressed du, at not having attended to the prisoner's wants. The Itr.conrmt observed, he could not find his heart to punish the prisoners, from their poverty. He therefore directed the Keeper , charge theta at the end of the Sessions, and care and pass them to their parisb. llforgaret Werren, a poor Irish Noman,, dieted for stealing two knuckles of bacon, perty of John Hawley. The prosecutor is monger, and proved that the prisoner had! bacon nut of his shop. In her defence she, she bought the knuckles of a woman in tbe And gave eighteen-pence for them. The Jury found the prisoner—Guilty. As soon as she had retired from the dock, tryinan of ber's % said he came to give her a He stated that he was in the shop of the befuze the lady just now at the bit came in, saw her take up the bacon and pay ss. for did not :now who took up the money, but was that she paid it. The prosecutor tieing asked whether he witness in his &sop? said he had never seen him Witness said he carne there to spake the trim nothing el e; T?le Recut/inn—lf you don't go about yo ness, 1 shall hive you prosecuted fur perjury The Itishmaii immediately darted out of Bow-sraErr.—Yesterday, Clipatose, ther of respectable appearance, and sixty year. - ' was charged with attempti ng to pick rockets. an officer, stated, that he saw the prisoner, lads, attempting to pick the pockets of sen sons between Somerset-house and Temple-tw lads sounded the pockets, while the prisone close, ready to - receive the property, and . instructed them how to proceed. The priso; plained that he was very deaf, and had not charge. Mr. BLUME (in a very low tone)-- , long have you been deaf?"—Clipstone—"FirT your honour!"—Mr. Bin N IE, " 0, I perceive! hear when you like! You and I have met you know, when I was at Coion-Hail."—He committed to the Session, as a rogue and v; MAxstox-I;ousts.—Yesterday, Mr. Dune; bell arpeared against a Jew boy, named /Wen, and charged him with a rubbery, wh proved. The Chief Clerk drew up a recogi in the usual manner, bictiii:g Mr. Campbell pear at the Old Bailey, to prosecute and deuce against the prisoner. Mr. Campbell said, he had no ob;ection evidence againA the person who robbed him, begged to know by what authority he was upon to prosecute? H. had made up his to be the prosecutor, for he could not, in hi be legally a prosecutor in a criminal case. The LORD NIAyoR said, the Act of Parliamei dered is imperative upon the person robbed cute the person against whom evidence coup duced likely to lead to a conviction. The City Solicitor was sent frr, and up questioned by the LORD MAyon upon the hal Mr. Campbell, in the event of his refusal' cute, that Gentleman said, without hesitatii, a refusal must be followed by the commitment party refusing. Mr. Campbell defied the City Solicitor to an Act which could compel him to prosecul termed that he was ready and willing to deuce to cenvict the prisoner, and he hoped, foreextremities were proceeded with, the Act i he was to be committed would be shewn to The City So:icitor immediately referred ti and 2d of Philip and Mary, cap. 13, entitle Act touching the Bailment of Persons:" bt reading the chapter, he fiuind that not one w said upon the subject of compelling any one secute. The Leal ned Gentleman then admit:, there existed an er:or in the manner of binding parties to prosecute. The Act merely required, persons should be hound over to give evidence; of course Mr. Campbell was in the right. The word prosecute was then blotted out of cognizance, and Mr. Campbell signed the' quiring hint merely to give evidence. As soon as the boy was ordered to be committed, Mr. Campbell said, he should take care :hie should be done. " make his Majesty's A General," said he, " prosecute the prisoner." The Lonu MAvon observed,- that the Leg must interfere in the ensoilz Session to remi impediment thus presented to the course of . DIED. Dec. 20, at Freshford, near Bath, aged Mrs. _ _ Parker, widow of Captain Parker, Corn:rig of the Dom India Compare, 's Service. Monday st'uoiBht, at lion-may, John 01live, M.D. of the Royal East Mithiiesex Militia, aged 34. Friday, after a short and severe illness, whilst en a lint.e of Mr. Itough•on, Skinner -street, Snow-hill, Stracban, formerly of Clay-hlll, Enfield. A kw weeks ego, at his souse near Edinburgh,the celebrate!! Herman Boaz, in the 84th year of his age. Mr. Boaz, by vetsal consent, had long worn the chief L _nets of legerdem#l 2 % being at once the most expett, most various, and most grac . e'al in the r ,rf,.rni.,::•:e of his His professional visits to burgh, were marked by due unvarying and honourable circoer stance—the prcits of a night's performance were every tont dedicated to charity. But err near:y twelve years past, he hail• been disabled by a paralytic affection, and thcnch a poridar *xi eminent performer for the greater portion of L7s life, he had tat beer. able. to " lay up" for L 7s helpless and de:fining years, and is understood that his family have iskers left unprovided for.-- !laving frequently enlivened the :Masonic Meetings in Ealinburo, with Ids stores of anecdote and song, he was attended to is pave by six of the Lodges in their Itegalla,• and buried switk , maconie. honours ; and it is gr a rifyl i . g to learn, that, connsts l 4. with the true principles of that Order, this was done lees wet a view to vain and idle parade, than as the prelude tall 110111 C CUP dons in behalf of his widow and (sadly. • _ HIGH•WATE LONDON ra TO-1101MOIG.' Mcruing • • 1$ minutes after 1 • - Alia moon • 4$ - _ - .ni=ul LONDON rid hy Limn Kat, nal. ; Terlrk* Um. e oa t rat et . % . val ue 1 . ecar t i Ile h a d r r e li e f •etiu & N Er l ucre . ' the I their ants. E T • _nd i t • I •1r a tglid Ixr to dig the L.t , ar.d . A. no "rat • e I 1, cite , • Ai is a ...• d tak er le said the Berta ?art 1 'a a co n M a Cliatact... loran Ptlataria l Gnat elution for i ts' sock rat out sart ti pod • hvit th he saw t chi him bele._ :phew' truth, . 'tare o the S t your • ' orv. of bonu, te. iears of sr, 1 ets. Lis% St T, with to several re. of 0, -bar. T. . Pent ter &Dowd,. Teo I frequently ta chi isonet cow der h heard the ern IC)—" Hog P! Isivs yea; . pad tveyoutm lute met before, eons -le was the" pare, vagaooad, the scan CarAp. Logout . which Its !coguiz3 T . bell to + MM d give evi. 11 ea a tioa to fa* the litn, but he Inez was calla pat is mind ad rad his opinion, that rpa iameat res. 1 vd to pro* a Can fluid be ati. 'eon Ow upcn beiq ' bu hxbiht]of •-• cif) al to pre* LE tation, that • , Bei meat of the i co • • to produce ' to I ccute. He , o give mi. • e a , td, that be. • ct on Wald' 0 hint.. . E h Ito the IR-• th at titled "At a n ' but opal ••••• le word was in o il n idt e tme t d; o p luired, ovinatthi nv i . Lience; ttad it of the te• le bond rat de committed, that jus.ic s Attorney !r, " • Leg; Slatare remove the of justice. In. le lion. Ea. 1 V.D. Surrea! 4 n a visit at tbe • t iill, Dr. Ida 1 P . • • A dispute arose, after the termination of poor Gri ihatx's skaiting match against time, in conrequence of a variation in the going of the two stop-watches ; as by the one he had lost, and by the other gained the match, and the decision was left to the arbitration of Mr. JOHN GULLEY. Until this was made, it was agreed that the stakes and bets should not be claimed by either of the parties ; but the death of Graham, will probably put an end to the whole of the business. Monday se'nnight the Wexford coach was over turned on its way to Dublin, by which the toachni4n met an awful and instant death, and three of the pas sengers a narrow escape from sharing the same fate, being considerably injured. AlURDZIM—Friday se nnight a murder was com mitted at Whitehouses, about two miles from Pate ley-bridge, attended with circumstances of peculiar atrocity. The following are the only particulars which have yet reached us respecting this dreadful occurrence :—The unfortunate deceased, Ibbotson Mason, who was a respectable butcher at White houses, had been employed in dressing a sheep for the ma, ket on the following day at Pateley-bridge, in which employment he had been assisted by a younger brother. What occurred between them on this occasion is unknown ; but the mother of the young men having occasion shortly afterwards to go into the shop, was appalled with the-dreadful spec tack of her eldest son lying dead upon the floor, and weltering in his blood. The cries of the distracted mother alarmed the neighbours, who, hastening to the spot, found the skull of the unfortunate deceased so dreadfully fractured, that the brains were literally scattered in various directions upon the floor. An axe, besmeared with blood, with which, doubtless, the murder had been perpetrated, was found near the body. Suspicion instantly fell upon his brother, Joseph Mason, who had quitted the shop only a very short time before his mother entered it, and who, it seems, had previously expressed a wish or intention to murder his brother. Upon inquiry, it was ascer tained that he had gone to Knaresborough, for the alleged purpose of visiting his other brother; and on searching him a large butcher's knife was found con cealed upon his person, with whidr, it was supposed he intended to murder his younger brother. Monday se'nnight an Inqnest was held on the body, when,' after a long investigation into all the circumstances, the Jury returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against Joseph Mason, who was committed to York Castle, to take his trial for this heinous offence. It is right, in conclusion, to mention that the prisoner had been previously confined for lunacy, and charity would hope, that this dreadful deed has been the result of some maniacal excitement.—Leeds Mercury. The following circumstances may be relied on as being authentic. Mr. Cruise and his brother were on a visit to Mr. Nangle, of Gartisker, in the county of Kildare, and went out shooting on Wednesday 1.14, along the river Boyne ; having sprung some snipe and ducks at the same time, which flew in op posite directions, the brothers separated never to meet again. Mr. William Cruise continued his sport near the Boyne Aqueduct, and a little before sunset called at the house of a respectable farmer, of the name of Lynam, to inquire the shortest way to Mr. Nangle's, which was about a mile and a half distant; then pro. cceding for about a quarter of a mile in a direct line across the fields, he fired at a bird, and before lie loaded his gun again, which was single barrelled, was joined by two men in frieze coats, who were seen to assist hint in looking for the bird in an adjoining field, and on the identical spot where he was found next morning murdered, his pointer dog lying acrers his breast, his watch, money, powder horn, and shot bag untouched, the stock of his gun broken off near the butt end, the rest of it shattered, the lock re maining but the barrel taken away, and the back of his skull broken into'many pieces. This respectable and unfortunate Gentleman was a total stranger in that part of the country; the faithful dog could scarcely be dragged away from the body, and on the day after the corpse was found, broke away from the house of Mr. Nangle, and returned to the spot where his ill-fated master was assassinated. Every possible search and esettion has been made by that indefatigable Magistrate, James TANDY, 1 . :(1. of Carnisle, to discover the perpetratots of this diaboli cal act, but hitherto without effect, though it took place in the immediate vicinity of a populous neigh bourhood.—Dublim Journal. ~~. ~ ~ _ _ ,