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. poseent i on , and who yet were willing to leave tution appear to Me to belong to naturally and so ile an d c ountenanced that evil by making necessarily to every English Gentleman , that it would Stance of 00,000 per annum, if she would be nothing but an idle waste of your time, and ittsnit e latinue toff ive abroad in the very place where her to your understandings, were I to enter into any Pro• oppose d oen ces were committed. The Public can- erosions of this nature. Consistently with these ieel. vis res pect those who attempted to establish their ings, I should not have objected to the Address which cage by witnesses whose character would not bear the Hon. Baronet has proposed to you, provided I A , test o f inquiry, and who at t he same time no g - saw an y occasion to call for it, and if I could cons ' . ;led to apply to those persons of respectability who der it abstractedl y ; but, as I find this to be impoe htW situations near the person of the Queen, who Bible—for I cannot disconnect it from the recent acts mid 'have confirmed or contradicted the reports of a weak and wicked Administration, which has ex raised against her. Are we then, exclaimed his . cited the disgust and condemnation of all moderate Grace , to be surprised if a loy al, noble, and generousipersons, of all descriptions, and of all political opi people adopt with ardour and with zeal the cause of nions—viewing it as an indirect expression of the or Q ue en, whom they consider injured and op- approbation of this independent County of measures „ toe d? Are we to be surprise d if, in their ardour which have been declared by a memorable Tote of Wi n t h e ir zeal, they occasionally exceed those the House of Commons to be ' derogatory from the bow ls which extreme prudence and sober wisdom dignity of the Crown, and injurious to the best inte would prescribe? The Public had a right to expect rests of the country,'—viewing it as an attempt to that no Ministers wind(' dare to institute a proceeding obtain indirectly your sanction to measures which of such importance and solemnity without the clear- have already brought us to the very verge of a civil e st and strop est ett proof. Yet , in t he result, the y have war, and which, if encoura g ed by you, and continued b ee n compell in obedience to the declared voice by Government , must ine vi tab l y lead to the dreadful o f the People, to abandon their own measure.— alternative, of a military despotism or the horrors of lent the evils of this disastrous proceeding have not a Revolution, I can by no means support it. If it be cea sed with the proceeding itself. They have sunk asked why so inconsiderable a person as myself should deep, and it is to be feared they have done more to have intruded on your notice ? I can assure you that injure the morals of the country, and to shake the I have done so with extreme diffidence and reluctance. sta bility of the throne, than all that could have been But the Requisitionists have proclaimed that a crisis I done in a long course of years by those designing has arrived!! And I admit that a crisis has indeed persons whose efforts are supposed to have been so arrived, which calls upon every private Gentleman successful as to have imposed upon the country the holding those opinions which I hold, to stand forward neces sity of making a public declaration of its loy. and avow them, and to place himself (for the security s k y . He wished, he said, to state, that in the vote of his property and the safety of the State) betwixt he gave in the House of Lords, according to his con- an arbitrary Government and an indignant People. victims and according to his c o n science, he felt that With these feelings and these opinions, I cordially h e w as placed in the double character of a Judge approve of the amended Address of the Noble Duke, an d Legislator —and that he was bound to consider and move that it be signed by the Sheriff on behalf no t o nly what was just towards the Queen, but what of this Meeting, and presented to his Majesty by the was most expedient for the country and the monarchy. Lord. Lieutenant and the Members for the County." He had, however, no hesitation in declaring that, in On the motion of Thanks to the Noble Lords who [his opinion , the proceedings against the Queen had c pp osed t he Bill of Pains and Penalties, I been the chief cause of the present agitation, and SAMUEL Fox, Esq. thus addressed the Meeting:— that the conduct of Ministers had been most..culpa- " It may be deemed somewhat intrusive in my offer ble. " Thus feeling, thus convinced, (said his Grace)l ing myself to the notice of this Meeting ; but I feel am willing to make the strongest avowal of loyalty impelled to come forward by a sense of duty which to my Sovereign : but I should act with injustice to I owe to my brother Freeholders of the County—a hen and to the People, if I did not urge the accom- County hitherto not exceeded by any in England in raying of the avowal with a plain exposition of the true patriotism and genuine loyalty, under every (111. awes of those evils which we all deplore. Attached ficulty which PROVIDENCE has destined us to endure, as I have been from my infancy to the King, I feel or which the folly of man has heaped upon us. Let the more pain that the conduct of his Ministers has us not, then, as independent Freeholders, shrink from been such as alone could lower him in the eyes of our duty in the hour of our country's greatest clis. the People, and cast humiliation on the Royal Family. tress, in laying our complaints before the Throne in lam glad to have this opportunity of declaring in a respectful but firm and proper manner; not insult. this county, which I consider as my home, my total ing our Monarch, but laying before him a history of disapprobation of the persecution of the Queen. As the numerous errors of his Ministers, which, in the a Queen, as a woman, as the mother of her whom course of many years past, but particularly in the is have lost, I congratulate my country on the last few years, have brought us to the brink of de. mien's escape from the Bill of Pains and Penalties; struction, and which, if persevered in, will inevitably ad I trust that the time is not far distant when the ruin this enviable country, and bring us into a series eyes of the King's Ministers will be opened to the of difficulties and dangers, out of which no set of men folly of their conduct, and that the good heart and can extricate us. To vote a partial Address, as the sounder feelings of the King will induce him, when sentiments of the collective body of the independent uninfluenced by bad advisers, to restore her Majesty Freeholders of this opulent County, would be an in *that situation, and to those privileges, which are fringement on the right of every respectable Free bie to her.' His Grace then read the amended Ad. holder; and, at such a crisis, to overlook or gloss over Bras, which was as follows: the fundamental errors of Government,which are daily " TO Tllt MO'S MOST GRACIOUS M 1.11311. undermining the most valuable part of our excellent • WS, the Nobility, Gentry, Clergy, and Freeholders of the Constitution, would be to act as traitors to our coun besty of Derby, convened by the Sheriff, humbly desire, at try. I beseech you to turn your attention to the state of ilkirgertant crisis, to renew to your Majesty the assurance of the kingdom—to its national debt, hanging like a millstone on its neck ; look to the lavish expenditure ill UGhalien devotion to your Majesty's Person and Family , ad we unalterable attachment to the Constitution, as by law of its resources, as if they were obtained from some inexhaustible source, instead of being wrung from a dellied. We are so sensible of the manifold blessings which suffering People. Look at the distresses of the Poor , welkin enjoyed under a free Constitution, that we shall never at the increase of Pauperism, and the growing bur . Ow countenance or support to those who seek to encroach den of your Poor-rates, which, if they go on in the *wear liberties, or to diminish that respect which is justly same ratio as they have hitherto done, will swallow die to the Laws, the Parliament, and the Throne. up the fee-simple of our soil. Look at the distresses • Your Majesty may, therefore, now, and at all times, depend of the Commercial, Agricultural, and Manufacturing spa our most earnest and zealous efforts to maintain the autho my of laws, to defend the rights of the People, and to uphold Districts, particularly the latter, in which there is a universal, heart-rending cry of distress from one end the dignity of the Crown. of the kingdom to the other. But to the purport of *Animated by these sentiments of attachment and devotion , the motion: I hold in my hand the vote of thanks to we yet feel it to be incumbent upon us, as free and loyal sub the Noble Lords who so effectually opposed the Bill jests, dutifully but firmly to represent to your Majesty, that the of Pains and Penalties. I make this motion with hie proceedings against her Majesty the Queen have, in our opt- peculiar satisfaction, and in doing this I cannot re. 40 01 been undertaken without an adequate motive, conducted frain from addressing you in the words of the illus. without judgment, and, as was predicted by one branch of the trious and virtuous Lord Grey himself :—. Let us Legislature, have been proved to be ' derogatory from .the dig- act like men and Englishmen, who, having rights , sky of the Crown, and injurious to the best interes t s of the dare maintain them against the threats of power or entry: When we recollect, that these proceedings were corn- the blandishments of corruption. Let us be sober, weed after this solemn warning front the House of Commons, however enthusiastic ; temperate, yet firm ; moderate , we are compelled to regard the advisers of such measures as no but resolute and fearless ; and the country yet may kW entitled to the confidence,of your Majesty, or the sup- be saved !' " pone( the Comer. The conduct of the Sheriff throughout this inte _ " From the late prorogation of Parliament, so unexpected at the time, and in its manner so ungracious, after the liberal pro. tidon made for the Civil Lkt, we are led to Fear that there may a be some intention of further proceedings against her Ma jesty. We therefore humbly hope that your Majesty will yield to the ardent wishes of your People, and direct such measures to be taken as may remove every obstacle to a speedy and final arrangement, and preclude the possibility of a renewal of dis. cessions which have agitated the country, encouraged the disposed, and caused pain and sorrow to all who are interested in preservation of public morals and the security of the Throne. We further presume to hope that your Majesty, from con dderation for the heavy burdens imposed upon your subject% "! enforce a'most rigid but necessary economy in every depart ment of the public expenditure, and adopt a system of policy conciliatory towards your People at home, and liberal towards other nations, so as to secure internal tranquillity, and ram: character fad prosperity of the Nation." During the time his Grace was reading the above amended Address, he was repeatedly interrupted by the noisy vociferations of the ltequ►sitionists, call ig on the Sheriff to dissolve the Meeting. This was their last vain attempt to disturb the proceedings, for, on witnessing the enthusiasm of the Meeting in the reception of the amended Address, they slunk way from the Hall. Their numbers, however, were inconsiderable, in comparison with the multitude remaining, that their departure was scarcely noticed. T. W. COKE ) Esq. jun. one of the Members for the Borough of Derby, seconded the.amended Address, a short but forcible speech. The Address was then adopted, by the most enthusiastic burst of applause ever heard in that Hall. On a motion that the Lord Lieutenant and the 'leathers for the County should be requested to pre sent the Address, HENRY THORNHILL, Esq. spoke as follows ' Loyalty to the King and attachment to the Consti resting Meeting was distinguished by the most in flexible firmness and impartiality, and the most con ciliating moderation and urbanity ; ,and the vote of ' thanks, expressive of the full approbation of the Assembly, was carried by the loudest plaudits. Thus terminated a Meeting, called together at the instigation of a very few individuals—(for great pains were bestowed to get up the Requisition)—lndividuals who seem to imagine that they enjoy a sort of mono poly of loyalty ; and the result of the proceedings may teach them, if anything can, that the feelings of the great body of the People cannot be outraged in vain; that there exists in Britons, spite of the calums'es whicliihave been charged upon them, a spirit of manliness which disdains to insult an unpro tected female—a feeling of loyalty, which revolts from the base attempt to degrade an injured Queen — a sense of honour, which cannot endure the charges preferred only by profligacy and perjury—and a love of their Country, which leads them to rally round their King and their'Constitution in the hour of dan ger, whether that danger arise from the designs of popular demagogues, or from the more covert, but not less dangerous attempts of Ministerial corruption. It is worthy of remark, that of the only two Noble men who signed the Requisition, neither was present at the Meeting: and of the others whose names were subscribed to that memorable instrument, there were some who voted, not for the original, but for the amended Address. Thus has the County of Derby, at length been roused from the supin eness of which it has too justly been accused, and a spirit is excited, which, concurring with the general feeling of the Nation, must lead to a correction of those abuses, which have been heaped upon the glorious institu tions of our ancestors. The Duke of DEVONSHIRZ left Derby for his seat' at Hardwicke the next day, amid the hearty cheers of a great concourse of people who Were assembled Il s e mange of eassima to ei,pose t h e pre MW tll dderati 'i s anll en 1 8 1 meat as eoneUt a . ether Pi* the eh; Di tM amer the I or• ing c n k d their for ' tu the awa3 to so in to• rem ; T. hi Bo t rc LeJ in a adop t ewer 01 Men ant bf H " mind his lodgings - tb witness his departore. Num bers were anxious to • draw his carriage out of the town, but refrained from that expression of popular applause towards the patriotic Duke, in consequence of his Grace's reiterated and earnest request. Extract- of a letter from Derby, Jan. 8. " Many thousands of Freeholders were assembled : never was seen a sight of the kind in Derby before. The Duke of DEVONSHIRE was received with three times three cheers, which continued nearly fifteen minutes.— When the Ministerialists, after their defeat, had reached their inn in safety, and found themselves in a snug loyAkcorner, they drew up a flaming Loyal Declaration ,the King. " INVERNESS COUNTY MEETING. The Meeting, held on Thursday last, was thinly attended, there being but thirty-three Gentlemen (in cluding only eleven Freeholders) present. The Iflet-LIEVTENANT and CON vENEahaving been called to the Chair, The Sheriff Clerk commenced reading an Address, when he was interrupted by Mr. GRANT, of ltothiemurchus, on the score of irregularity : he observed, that if the paper in the Clerk's hand was an Address, no person had.moved or seconded it. Mr. FRASER, of Culbockie, said, it was an Address which he would now take the liberty of moving, and it was seconded by Major FRASER, of Newton. The Clerk then again proceeded to read the Ad dress,. which purported to be an Address from the' Freeholders, Commissioners of Supply, Justices of the Peace, and other Heritors of the County, when it was s observed by a Gentleman present, that the two last mentioned classes had not been summoned by the Convener, and that it was not therefore correct to assume their concurrence to that in which no power of dissent had been given them ; they were accord ingly struck out, and the Clerk was allowed to go on with the reading of the Address without further interruption.—After concluding, a silence of some minutes ensued. Mr.Gaassr, of Rothiemurchus, then rose, and:said, that he had expected to hear from some person the reasons for moving themAddress!—that he never was at a Public Meeting in Isis life where a Gentleman came forward and proposed to send an Address to the Throne, without having, or assigning some rea son, or necessity for so doing. He considered the Address to imply the existence of sedition and blas phemy in this County, which was contrary to fact.— (An observation was made that the expressions were general, and were not intended to convey any such idea.) —M r. Graht defied any man to read that part of the Address, and to say that a person who did not know the County would not suppose that such prac tices did exist here. He objected to it, because a stigma would thus be falsely attached to a loyal and religious community, in order indirectly to convey an approbation of the late measures of Ministers. When a Public Meeting is called, at a period of great agitation like the present, the natural inference is, that the words used to express the sense of the Meet ing referred to the cause of this agitation. Though this was undoubtedly implied, and is well known to be the use uniformly made of such Addresses, he was persuaded that if an approval in so many words of the proceedings of Ministers regarding the Queen were put to the Address, no Member of the Meeting, nor any man in his senses, would sign it. He would beg leave to ask if any Gentleman present would stand up and say that he approved of these proceedings ? He would even dare to say, subject to correction, if wrong, that there were not three Gentlemen present, who would sign an Address approving directly of the measures of Ministers generally. The present agita tion in the country was chiefly owing to the ill-ad vised measures against the Queen: and that being notoriously the fact, it was the duty of every honest man to oppose the adoption of an Address, which would be construed elsewhere into an approval of measures, of which no party voting it confessedly did approve. He would, therefore, if the Gentlemen who had brought forward the Address which had been read, did riot accede to such alterations as would remove what was objectionable, tend it neces sary to move, as an Amendment, another Address, which he then read. Mr. FRASER, younger, of Torbreck, seconded the Address proposed by Rothiemurchus. The with drawal of the Bill of Pains and Penalties was a proud triumph to the People of England. Without enter ing into the guilt or innocence of the Queen, he con sidered her an ill-used, persecuted woman , who was ' entitled at least to the sympathies of a free and gene rous People, into whose arms she had thrown herself. He considered the proceedings against her illegal and unconstitutional ; for he had yet to learn how to re concile with justice the making a law against a par ticular person, on account of actions preciously com mitted by that person. No man could say, who had the least regard for the happy Constitution and equi table Laws under which we live, that he could wish to see it drawn into a precedent, that a subject of Britain could be tried by a Tribunal where the cha racter of Accusers, Prosecutors, Judges, and Jury, were combined in the same individual! He was one of those who thought that public opinion should i n -. fluence the deliberations of the Legislature. He con cluded by asserting his pretensions to loyalty, which, he said, would not give place to that of any man, and for which he was ready, should occasion unhap pily occur, to lay down his life. Mr.FRASER, of Rolig, deprecated the introduction of any discussion of the late proceedings against the Queen, to which, as one of the Requisitionists, he declared, before GOD, it was not intended that the Address should have reference directly or indirectly; that matter was thrown entirely out of view by the Requisitionists; and not meant to be at all touched upon ;—(the other Gentlemen present, who signed the Requisition, corroborated this declaration) —of that proceeding he would say nothing, but it was quite notorious, that very recently the principles of Radi calism had been carried the length of epen rebellion, and therefore he thought it the duty of every good subject to approach the Throne, and declare that he would resist such attempts with his life and fortune. He must say, there were some acts of the present Administration which he thought wrong, and of which he could not approve. But although he dis approved of some of their measures, he concurred in the propriety of the Address, and did not see the ne cessity of any alteration—since it was uerer content- plated, as he had already said, directly or indirectly, to approve tif their late proceedings, and this, he thought, should be fully 'and publicly understood. After some discussion, the Gentleman who pto posed the original Address, conceded some verbal alterations, and the introduction of an entire clause from the opposing Address, to'the following effect:— " But we have the utmost satisfaction in being able to assure your Majesty, that, in this part of your Majesty's dominions, there exists no spirit of disaf fection, of irreligion, or of immorality; nor have any attempts been made, so far as we have been able to learn, either by the circulation of books and wri-ings, or otherwise, to shake the loyalty, or corrupt the manners of the l'euple."—The Address, thus altered and amended, was unanimothly adopted as the senti ments of the Meeting, Mr. GRANT declaring that he consented to the concluding paragraph, where the vigour and wisdom of Government was applauded, on this distinct understanding, that the expressions had reference to the King and Constituted Authori ties in a general sense, and not to his Majesty's pre sent Ministers, who, he denied, either collectively cr individually, possessed either vigour or wisdom ; but that, on the contrary, they had displayed, in their proceedings, imbecility and indecision, and the very reverse of wisdom. SLIGO T&WN MEETING Monday sennight there was a respectable Meet ing of the Inhabitants of this town. The Rev. W. G. ARMSTRONG, Provost, was called to the Chair. Mr. WYNNE said, tfat it was evident co every per son who had watched the progress of events during the last Live years, that there had not happened any natural calamity which had not been converted by the disaffected part of society, into an instrument to bring into contempt all the establishments of the country, and to excite a hatred against its Religion and Government. So active of Itne had the malig nity of this faction become, that tre Press, to which he was proud to say the country had owed the esta blishment of its Liberties at the zra of the Revolu tion, had degenerated, and had become the vehicle 1 1 of every seditious and treasonable doctrine which characterised the present times. He urged the ne cessity of checking this torrent of blasphemy and impiety, as the tendency of such pestilent doctrines was to deprive men of their hopes here and here- • after. Unless that should be done, it would be in vain for them to establish schools for the education of the children of the lower orders, as the rising ge neration would soon be corrupted, and be rendered the active implements of the disaffected. He said there was nothing in the personal character of the Monarch which could excite any suspicion that he was hostile to the liberties of the country, or to the mild principles of the British Constitution. — The whole of the King's public life chewed his at tachment to the principles of rational freedom ; and he (Mr. Wynne) was convinced, that if there were any one circumstance which ought to endear his name to the people of this Realm, snore than another, that circumstance was to be found in the magnanimity with which his Majesty persevered in the maintenance of the late war, until he had de stroyed the upstart Tyrant of the Continent. He then read an Address, conveying the attachment of the Meeting to the Throne, and of their determination to counteract the circulation of blasphemous and se ditious libels. Mr. FAUSSET setonded the Address, which passed unanimously. It was then moved and carried, that the Address should be presented to the KING by Mr. WYNNE. SLIGO COUNTY MEETING. Immediately after the Town Meeting had dispersed, the County Meeting began to assemble, and Colonel PARK, the High Sheriff, having taken the chair— Mr. E. S. COOPER, M.P. addressing the High She riff, said, that he was always happy .to meet his Con stituents in that place, but that he never attended any Meeting of the Freeholders of the County which gave him such satisfaction as he then felt ; because he never knew a moment when it was more necessary for every loyal subject to come forward and express his attachment to the British Constitution, than at the present crisis, when everything valuable in the institutions of the country was openly and privately assailed, with all the inveteracy of an infuriate fac tion, determined on the subversion of Liberty, and the destruction of Religion. Mr. Cooper then moved a series of Resolutions, expressive of attachment to the British Constitution, and of abhorrence of the seditious and impious publicattoas which issued from the Public Press. Mr. WYNNE seconded the Resolutions. The High Sheriff then put the Resolutions, which were carried unanimously. Petitions to the House of Commons for the resto. ration of her MAJESTY'e name to the Liturgy, and the restitution of all her other rights, are now receiv. ing signatures in the following places: Sdmouth Lostwithlel I Ife.- Cockermouth Bodmin Carlow, Ireland Sodbury All the Trades of Monmouth the Metropolis Ipswich Carlisle Portsmouth Leith Dartmouth Rdingthorpe Rochester North Waltham Hertford , Rimester Shoreham Stamford, Lincoln Weymouth Cirencester Cuirass Salkirk Coleford, Glo'ster I St. Austell Biggieswade ' Dover St. Mewan Kettering Maidstone I Mevagis'ey Liverpool Bridport COUNTY ADDRESSEIIeit gives us much satiefro tion to find several Addresses are daily arriving f&m all parts of the Country, and the most fastidious cannot find fault with them. We allude to the eulo giums which are passed on Messrs. 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