The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-01-04 00:00:00

It COUNTY MEETING. .~ Ite we have all along anticipated, this meeting proved to be one of the most important, if not the most import ant that has yet been held in this country at any period of its history. It will be best to speak in the first person here. Since my arrival in London (Saturday, ten o'clock) I have seen so article is the Old Times newspaper, containing, as usual,/ string of iniseboods, misrepresentations, and calumnies, front willab it seems this vile paper cannot abstain, even whets it is giving an account of the most molests and Important matters, which concern, and must concern, every class of its readers, because they concern closely every description of persons in England.—l must confine myself to oarrorive ; for to give speeches here is wholly out of the question. Of speeches, 'worthy of the name, either in length or matter, there were none. It was well known in the county, that it was my intention to be present at the meeting. It was naturally supposed that I should do something upon such an occasion. Therefore, some parties, whom I do not choose to name at present, and who, I trust, will become heartily ashamed of their conduct, had actually hired loose young fellows and boy% to place themselves in different parts of the im mense Hall where the Meeting was held, with instruc tions to prevent me from being heard. They bad so much pay in hand ; and each was to have an additional sous if thetsneceeded in the enterprise. Of these facts I was,prni emir assured, before I left Norwich. However, as the reader will have the satisfaction to see, though the project of silencing succeeded to a great extent, that success did not in the smallest degree prevent my ultimate intention ; and, indeed, the reader will find, that the triumph of truth and justice was rendered more conspicuous, more marked, and the promulgation of them of greater importance to the county y by these unmanly and, I must say, base attempts.—.Tbe Meeting was held in St. Andrew's Hall, and, by those accustom ed to estimate numbers in that spacious place, there were supposed to be seven thousand persons present ; being, I believe, by far the most numerous county-meet ing ever witnessed in the country. The main body consisted of land-owners and land-occupiers. There might be a fifth part, possibly, citizens of Norwich • and then there might be in the %bole , from a hundred to a hundred and fifty of the hired men and boys before-mentioned—l, who bad a good opportunity of Irking of the situation in life of the persons at the meeting, should think that three-fourths of the per sons who came tinder my eye, were farmers and farmers sons. At the upper end of the Hall, a pretty spacious hustings was erected, where were the High Sheriff, his Under Sheriff, Mr. Coke, Mr. %Vodehouse, Sir Thomas !terror, and other principal gentlemen of the county. Upon this hustings I went and took my station ; and before I proceed further, it is necessary to inform the reader, how I came to do this, instead of being amongst the crowd below, as was my intention, and, above all commutesthings, my wish. There was a com mutes appointed from amongst the signers of the requisition, to draw tr i t resolutions and a petition for the occasion. copy !of these resolutions bad, through the mass of a friend, reached me before 1 left London. These resolutions appeared to me to be quite inadequate to the exigency of the case. 1, therefore, drew up a petition (the reader will see it below) each as I thought ought to emanate from this great county. The moment ri l arved at Norwich, I sent f ora gentlemen beloriginx to the Committee. put the petition into his band, said 10 JAM, "take this, propose it to the Committee to adopt it; say not irks is the author ill its sad I pledge yes air word. dual/obey metre it. it• sour shall be made known by me that I am the author of it ; bet. tell tliq Committee at the same time that the penes whe bss pat this into your bands is resolved to move It him. self if they do not; and, that they may be prepared with arguments for setting it aside if they can; they may keep the petition in their possession until to. morrow, an hour before the meeting".—Soon after this, I learnt that there was very little probability of the committee's adopting the petition; indeed, it was de cided that they would not. I then gave another copy of She petition to another gentleman, that he might show it to any friends that he chose. Daring the evening (Thursday) there were probably fifty amongst the principal yeoman of the county that did me the favor to call upon me. To some of these I read the petition ; to others I stated the contents; so that. before the Meeting took place, a pretty perfect knowledge of the contents of ;he petition existed amongst the great body of the farmers.. To only one single person did I make any request of any sort respecting the pe tition ; and that was to Mr. theme tans, a gentleman of great respectability, and, as it happens, a tenant of Mr. Coke ; but a gentleman of talent, too; and to him I made the proposition, not to second the petition ; but, to second it if he should prefer it when be came to the meeting, to the propositions which the other gentlemen had prepared and intended to bring forward. So scrupulous was I with regard to this, that I only requested Mr. (Abbe to be near me; and to second me, if, upon hearing both, be should prefer my proposition. Equally scrupulous on his part, he declined seeing the petition erbearing it read, until be came into the Hall. —We are grew proceeding to the scene of action. Not far from the entrance of the Hall, I was met by Sir Tommie Bzzvoa and a very worthy gentleman of Lynn, whose name is ATM The Committee bad agreed upon five Resolutions to be moved. The • four first not to include Reform of Parliament, These were to be moved by Mr. Alderman Tavares & and to be seconded by Mr. 0. WATSON. The resolutimi . relating to Reform, was to be moved by Sir. T. Smolt and seconded by Mr. AYRI. These gentlemen, jaht before I entered the Hall, wished to mow in what manner I ineaotro proceed; ot, rather, at what stage of busieiss rmeant to introduce my cooties. They loomed to think that it would be best for me to stop till all the resolutions bad been moved and carried seriatim. To this I objected ; not on my own account, bat because it would be making the meeting, if they adopted my pro. position,undo all that they had been doing,and,of course, would expose them to a charge of inconsistency; and that I was resolved to lose my motion altogether, rather than do any thing that could by possibility throw a slur on the character of such a meeting. I therefore told theM that the coarse that I should pursue would be to read my Petition as soon as theilret resolution had been moved and seconded : and that when I had read it, I should move to leave out all the words of the first reso lution, except the word resolved, and to put in their stead, "that the Petition now read be the Petition of this Meeting."—Thus, at every stage of the business, my conduct was fair, open. and abundantly explicit. —I remembered the charge of taking the Meeting by surprise in Kent ; and 1 was resolved to have to appeal to all these witnesses to prove, that, If any petition should be carried, no man should say that it was carried by surprise. The meeting was opened is the usual way ; the four first Resolutions were read through ; then the first was moved by Mr. Alums! Timid!, seconded by Mr. Watson, and supported is a brief but very neat speech by Mr. Cons, who, at the be ginning of his speech, took occasion to observe that he never had attended any meeting with so much ;ileum . kis his life. Then came Mr. WODCHOVIII, who dissented ' from - the whole of the Resolutions. The reader who takes time to consider the noise necessarily made by the movement of shoes and by the pressings backward - and fortvard, and the little murmurings of complaint by seven thousand persons assembled under one roof, all desirous of being nearest to the speakers; any person STATESMAW HE who ultra time to Ooosider these things must know bow difficult it must have bete for a person standing at some distance from the speaker (both Seing upon the hustings) ' to bear what he said. 'The meeting was perfectly orderly' at this time; yet not one single word could I ga. Cher of what fell from the Mover and Seconder, and very little of what fell from Mr. COlM—This was not the case, however, with regard to the meeting ; st he faced the speakers,and a great part of whom could,beard them very well. Mr. Wodehouse, however, who was separated from me only by Sir T. Beevan, I could hear him very distinctly. He said little; but that little was of importance in two respects ; first, as to the matter, and second, as to the manner in which a part of it was received. This gentleman has been grossly and most. basely traduced in a second edition of a paper called the British Press. He is there represented as having made an exaggerated statement of the injurious effesta of Mr. Peel's Bill. He is charged, also, with coming forward as "an advoeatefur the absurdities of Cobbett." The fact is, Mr. Wodehouse spoke in a most temperate man err concerning the effects of Mr. Peers Bill ; and so far from advocating what this silly newspaper calls the ab surdities of Cobbett, Mr. Wodehonse protested most solemnly against any such reduction of the Debt as that which I have always contended to be secessary. Mr. Wodehouse did, however, draw forth that which was singularly calculated to give the ,said Cobbett a great deal of pleasure. In defending Mr. Peel against the charges of having produced so much mischief in the country, he observed that the Ministry were not aware of what they were about ; that Mr. Peel was not aware of the mischief he was about to do; that the Parliament did not foresee the effects of the measure.At this moment,a young farmer out in the crowd, " said there was one man that did force. it and foretell " it to,a nd there be is (pointing to me) !" Immediately after this, a man ad,? appeared to be a journeyman mechanic pulled an old and dirty Register out of his pocket containing a Letter to fiereey,and held it up in a half- rolled form, smiling in Mr. Wodebouse's face. It was worth going a hundred miles and back again to bear I and see this. These were the answers which the sensible county of Norfolk gave to the attack which their county member had made upon me in the House of Commons, and to the still more unwarrantable whirl, he ha I made, and on that excellent Nobleman, Lord King. However, Mr. Wodehouse, in the course of his short speech, threw the whole blame upon Mr. RICARDO ; and said, that be thought that something like what was proposed by Mr. Western ought to be adopted. The people laughed ; bet this was not the grand fit of laughter. Mr. %Yode -1 house elicited one laughing 'bout worth going, not a hundred, bnt a thousand miles to hear. In adverting to that part of the resolutions of Mr. Thurtell, which called for such a reduction of the national debt and taxation is will give the farmers relief; lie said, "Gentlemen, so man of common understanding can believe that SUCII reduction can take place without ea dangering that institution which has been extolled by two of the greatest Statesmen that ever lived (Mr. Pitt and Mr. Fos), 1 mean the SINKING FUND." Hu the reader ever wee that laughable farce called thd Wags of Windsor, and particularly that part alms Paddy and the Yorkshire Bite are bothering Mr. Dm putt' Bull ? Has he ever heard a crowd of girl. latigiot tag at a bop-picking feast at some fellow whose face bad bees blacked by a burnt cork? No matter: he hal sever witnessed sash a scene of laughter as burst out is St. Andrew's Hall at Norwich neon ibis occasion. The moment the word Sinking Fated came oat of his mouthi the Meeting, as if every man were pulled by one wire, begs. to laugh. harem'. as a fire does upon a heath, till, it got 111 - over the Hall; and here were seven thou: Nod persons, laughing till they were out of breath. Voiding their sides, bolding their heads, putting tinier bands before their faces; laughing, at last, to see each other laugh; and peal after peal made the roof ring.... Soon after this, Mr. Wodeliouse drew back; and,indeed, it was high time.-11 now became my turn ; and my tan was the signal for the hirelings to begin their work.--• First, however, let me insert the Resolutions of Mira Thane! and Mr. Watson. 1." That it appears to this Meeting that the system upon which our national concerns has been hitherto conduct. ed, has at length led to a state of Agricultural Distress, unprecedented and unbearable. That it remains no longer an evil to be anticipated, but bas now arrived, and in its progress reduced thousands of agriculturists to abject poverty, and threatens all with a similar fate. 2. " That notwithstanding numerous and explicit re• presentations have been made to the Legislature from this county and many other counties of the united kings deco, and forcible appeals have been urged for speedy 4nd effectual relief, it appears to this meeting that no disposition has been shewn by his Majesty's 51inisters to diminish the pressure of calamity, except by so par. tins a reduction of taxation as bears no proportion to the cause of complaint, and that the apathy which has thus been developed demonstrates either ignorance of the facts, or an indisposition to api,ly an efficient remedy. 3. " That this Meetingis convinced the time is now ar rived when his duty to himself, to his family, to his country, and to his King, should impel every man boldly, yet respectfully, to declare, not only that taxation is the leading cause of all our national distreisoe i but that a burden so overwhelming cannot be borne, and ought sot to have been imposed. ' 4. " That from the failure of all the measures reams. mended by the Agricultural Committee of the House of Commons, this Meeting is furnished with additional reasons for believing that the desirable transition from our present state of distress to future prosperity, cannot result without an abolition of all needless, and therefore useless places, pensions, and sinecures, and such a reddce don of the National Debt as is required by the present circumstances of the country, and the imperative claims of public justice. 5. " That the total repeal of the Malt and Beer 'Tau could not fail to operate both as a relief from a heavy burden, and as an encouragement to the consumption of Barley—an object of great importance to the Agri culturist; and would also enable the labouring classes to partake of a wholesome beverage at a much cheaper rate. 6. " That Petitions, forended on the foreroing Resolu tions, be addressed to both Houses of Parliament early in th e next Session, and that the Earl of Albemarle and Lord Suffield be requested to present one to the House of Peers, and the County Members the other to the House of Commons, and to support the prayer of the Petitioners." These resolutions appeared to me wholly inadequate to the state of the case. The fifth resolution was to contain a proposition for Reform of Parliament. But it was not read along with the rest; therefore, let it be observed, that that resolution which was to be moved by Sir T. Hermon and seconded by Mr. MRS, never was moved at all; and, of course, was not set aside by my proposition; a thing which 1 was very glad of, be. cause the frank and every way excellent coodnet of Sir THOMAS and of Mr. Max would have wads me regret exceediogly, even the appearance of standing for one moment in opposition to them. The petition which 1 proposed (and that was fi nally carried) was in the following words; and when the reader has looked at those words, he will he I astonished, perhaps, that !the British Press should call it a petition for wholesale robbery and Confiscation, and that the Old Times should call it a petition, charging the clergy with robbery, and calling upon the parliament to do all sorts of villainous ars. No: the reader will not be astonished ; for if he has been in the habit of looking at these vile papers lie will know that they are capable of publishing, in the boldest manner, to-day, hat whittle they assert to be true, and which they well know will, tomorrow, be prov e d to have been false. He will, therefore, be astonished at nothing that they say or do, unless he should by accident hear truth from them, or detect them in acting fairly and honourably towards the public. TO THE HONOURABLE THE COMMONS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND Ea ELAND IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED. The Petition of the Nobility, Gentry, and others of the Conn! of Norfolk, is Connty-hleeliny assembled, this day of January, 18.11, Most humbly Sheweth, That your Petitioners have always been ready to make any sacrifices which were necessary to the defence of their country, and to the safety and dignity of their Sovereign's throne ; but that they are now impelled by their well-known, indescribable, and unmerited sufferings, to approach your Honourable House, with an humble prayer, that you will be pleased to adopt the best means of relieving them from those sufferings. That, in proceeding to suggest those means, which they do with the greatest respect and deference, your humble Petitioners cannot disguise from themselves, and they will not disguise from your Honourable House, that they enter tain a fixed opinion, that this now unhappy country owes all its calamities to the predominance of certain particular fa milies, who, since the passing of the Septennial Act, have, by degrees, appropriated to themselves a large part of the property and revenue of the whole nation, and who have, at last, by taxes, debts and changes in the currency. involved themselves as well as the whole of this industrious commu nity, in difficulties too great to be removed by the hand of Time, or by any but the most rigorous measures of legis lation. That, whether we look at the Church, the Army, the Courts of Law, the Customs, the Excise, the Colonies, or the Crown-Lands, we ace in each a channel of enormous emoluments to these particular families, for whose benefit and aggrandizement, more than for any thing else, the whole of these sources of riches would appear to exist. And that, therefore, though justice and necessity demand a reduction of the interest of the Debt, and an equitable adjustment of all other contracts, your humble Petitioners would deem such reduction an act of deep iniquity, and they deem such adjustment wholly impracticable as long as these particular families enjoy those emoluments, and as long as they retain in the legislature that absolute sway which they have ac quired through the means of the Septennial Act, in conjunc tion with the notorious mid scandalous abuses connected with the representation. That it is well known to your Honourable House, that, for more than twenty years, the particular families received a large part of the above-mentioned emoluments out of the money borrowed from the fund-holders; dist, during that period, more than a million of money was taken out of the loans to be gives to the Church ; and that, in fact, no incon siderable part of the whole of the loans went into the pockets of these families ; and, therefore, your Petitioners will not suppose itpossible for your Honourable House to harbmir an intention to take even a single shilling from th.' fund-holders, so long as these families shall continue to re ceive those emoluments. Your Petitioners, therefore, most humbly pray, that your Honourable blouse will be pleased to pass an Act for causing RD efficient Reform in the Commons' House of Parliament, in order that such Parliament may adopt the measures neces sary to effect the following purposes 1. An appropriation of a part of the public property, ,wtonly called Church property, to the liquidation of the Debt. 2. A reduction of the Standing Army, Including Staff, Barrack, and Colleges, to a scale of expense as low as that at the army before the last war. 3. A total abolition of all Sinecures, Pensions, Grants and .Enselueseets, not merited by public services. 4. A sale of nomeroes public estates, commonly called Crown Lands, and an applicatioo of the money towards the ,liquidation of the Gehl. fr. An equitable adjustment with regard to the Public Debt, and also with regard to all debts and contracts between pan and Man. Bet, while your humble Petitioners are aware, that, to Reform the Commons' House and to effect the other purposes of Justice and neseeseity,'which they have here most re spitetfoily pointed out, may require a lapse of months, they know, that your liotsourabie House have the power, and they will not believe that you want the will, to afford them immediate protection against further ruin. They, therefore, seeing the pressing nature of their case • seeing the abject misery that burly awaits them, pray, th at your Honourable House will be pleased. I. To suspend, by law, for one veer, all distraints for rent, and to cause distraint. to be set aside where they have been began. 2. To suspend all process for tithes, for the same period. 3. To sospead, for the same period. all processes arising l oot of mortgage, bond, annuity, or other contract affecting house or land. 4. To repeal the whole of the tax on Malt, Hops, Leath er, Soap, and Candles. There measures, so analogous to others, taken by your Honourable House under circumstances far less imperious ; these measures, so easily adopted ; so free from the possi bility of Indicting wrong and, at the same time, so neces sary to relieve your Petitioners from the daily alarm in which they live ; so necessary to afford them a hope of *s eeping from the pains and disgrace of the lowest pauperism and beggary ; to believe that these measures, measures of bare protection from further wrong and ruin ; to believe that these will be refused to your suffering Petitioners, would be to sup the existence of that callousness of heart which your Petitioners are far indeed from imputing to your Ho nourable House. Having thus, with the most profound respect, submitted to your Honourable House those which they deem the best means for relieving their distresses, your humble Petitioners, though they are satisfied that evils so unusual and of such uncommon magnitude require remedies of a nature extensive and extraordinary, beg leave to assure your Honourable noose, that they venerate the Constitution of their fathers; that they seek for no change In the form of the Government; that they know how many ages of happiness and of glory their country enjoyed under a Government of King, Lords and Commons; that they fervently hope that this Constitu tiou may descend to their children ; but that they are fully convinced, that, unless the present evils be speedily arrested Wd effectually cured, a convulsion must come, in which the hole of this ancient and venerable fabric will be crumbled into dust. And your Petitioners will ever pray. ' This Petition was read, and, then, in the shape of an amended resolution, proposed to the meeting. It was here that something of importance happened. But I should notice, first, that, a little after the interrupting platoons began their operations, the Under Sheriff came and delivered to me a message from the High Sheriff, suggesting the necessity, or, perhaps, the utility of my retiring a little from the front of the hmetingst which I answered that the situation of us all was far too painful for us to wish to retain our situations any longer than was absolutely necessary ; but that, forming part, nothing was so far from my thoughts as to turn my back upon a meeting such as that that I there saw, and one that I was sure would approve of the proposition that I had made. Another long de mur took place. I made my motion of amendment, which was instantly seconded by Mr. Gibbs. The High Shea objected to the form of my motion. At last, how. ever, all objections were got over, and I contrived, in 'spite of all opposition, to make the meeting clearly un derstand the purport of my petition ; and to make them also understand the nature of the question about to be put to them. If I cannot say that the division was unanimous, it was so little short of being unanimous as for the show of hands against it not to be a third part equal in number to the hon. dred or hundred and twenty men that had been hired to make the disturbance. I was obliged to turn my head to the right and to the left to find out a hat or bend to see shit or a band held up against it.—The High• Sheriff declared the petition carried. Then Sir T. Beevor, who really deserve; the thanks of the county for his conduct, proceeded to propose that the High• Sheriff should be requested to sign the petition on behalf of the Meeting, and that the coon mead/off should be instructed to present it to tt.e Hoare Com Mons and to support the prayers of Here Mr. Coke came forward a second time and 4.; served, and very reasonably, as they were about to is; struct him relative to the presenting a document to the Parliament; lie wished to ascertain whether they them selves understood the purport of the two documents that had been presented to then*. He then proceeded to notice the resolutions of Mt. Alderman Thurtell, Ode by one, and to express his approbation of each. He thin came to speak of the petition which I had had the ho nour to propose to the Meeting, and expressed his doubts whether the meeting hid heard the contents of it. Numerous persons near me, exclainied t " sae have! we have! god we like it, and we will have et!"—Mr: Coke having ceased, Sir T. Beevor objected to the irregularity of putting the question again upon document*, one of which had been so decidedly nega tived, and the other of which had been so decidedly ap proved of. I alio expressed my iurprise that any loll demon should wish for a re-hearing; but (and my very words were these), " you have passed the petition; the " thing it done; in my hand I hold a copy of your,peti " tion and not mine any more than yours; but front " my knowledge of the great respect which you all " bear towards Mr. Coke, out of my great respect " towards you, I will consent for the documeals "to be put again." The Resolationi were then read over once more; and this time in a very eh dible voice by the 'Reverend Mr. Glover. The peti tion seat then read (i is. the (Jeri SheritT;).but, as he! voice that could be understood it before; feetly well. A prof resolution again to I Beevor, " I will nen amendment that yod amendment was accol many of you as are COSSET: will please forest arose! Then are against the MI be pleased to held t as far as fourteer, hi get any further. OM not believe there v, by Sirr. H. e o , ant for the signing and for the present the county members.. about my being conch number of persons gentlemen Cobbei just at true'lis it these gentlemen wei me. Many of them , _.c calm, yeome.. (runty, who paid me that mark of attention, because they those: t I bad been endeavouring, at the least, to do my duty and to render them a service. Such writers as those of the Old Times, and the British Press, may talk as long as they please about " Comm.'s partisans." Men of sense; and, particularly, the Ministers, will think it wondrous strange that Cobbett shonid be able to make partisans a hundred miles from Londonin such torment* numbers. They will think, as the Prince did of Fal staff, that I carry love-powder about me, or that sort of stuff with which they catch the rate, and that makes them all come out of tbier boles and dance about the rat•cateher. " Away, will the ministers lay." with such vile stuff Away, too, with that re nerd's last shift, that these seven thousand persons did not Insole what the petition emanated! Away with this ! For bere'are son &emits! horns eta Alms : they :118 luiow what it contained or they did not: if they did then. knowing its contents, they have approved of them : and if they did not know the content' , it is their con fi dence ; their high opinion of, and their implicit confidence iia the knowledge, the talent and the inttgrite of Mr. Cob ben. that made them receive his proposition and aiopt it, even without knowing its contents I" The ministers will see this dilemma ; and so will every mart in the kingdom, these besotted wrltters excepted.-- 1 shall:take another opportunity of discussing most fully the merits of the Petition, which is the more neeessary, as, from the manteuvre beforelnentioned, I was prevent ed from maintaining, in the way of speech, the truth of its allegations and the justice and necessity of the mea sures that it recommends. WM. COBUTT. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. ---a MAL, JAN.3.—Came down from the river and sailed, the Ida, Taylor, Eclipse, Horn, and Kingston, Liver, for Jamaica; Belong, for Grenata ; Lamb, Joseph, foe Demerara ; and Hero, for Genoa., Ponvsssourn, JAN. s.—Arrived, the Hayti, Mar shall, from St. John's, Now Brunswick, sailed 13th ult. FALMOUTH, JAN. 2.—Arrived the Juno, Pritchard, from Jamaica, sailed 6th Nov.; Agnes, Cundy. from Messina, Billed 16th Nov.: Wm. and Henry, Partridge, from Leg horn, 22d Oct. and from Gibraltar 18th Nor. logs of boat ; Gleaner, Bradwell, from Cephalonia in /10 days ; Mary. Young, from Bilboa, 20 days; Manly, Clark and Hope Lowe, Seville, Augusta, Talbot, Cadiz, 94 days; John and Wm. Deno, Oporto, 17 days, and Unity. Taylor, from Ter reira.—Wind S. LIIIIIIINOTON, JAN. 3.—The Purse? of the Mellish, Capt. Ford, from Bengal and Madras, landed here this afternoon ; reports the hull of the Mellish to be much lajured, the cop per being all off, and in want of provisions; left Madras 26th Aug. last, spoke the Medina from Bombay, Cept.Oweo. left at the Cape. The late Capt. Mattison was killed at the island of Rodrigues, by the swinging of the cepsiere ; the Woodbridge for the Isle of France, was left at St. Helena, 14th Nov. sod Catherine, American ship, at that place. YOUONALL. JAN. kind the Hope of Ibis port. has been lost of this coast, and ell her crew perished, as a boat marked Hope. of Youghall, Michael Cashman, was drives on shore at Rldmore yesterday. When she was first seen on the oiling, fear men were la her, but the heavy surf on the shore washed them oat. A special mission, it is understood, is immediately to be sent from the British Cabinet to Madrid. One ac count says, that Lord Fitzroy Somerset is about to pre. ceed on this important errand ; while another states Lord Win. Bentinck is to be employed. TYe Procurater.fistml has a large naastif, trained to bark at the word' Radical.' He is, of course, a great favourite wills the gentlemen is office.—(Dendee Advertiser.) At the sale of the farming stock of a person of the name of Wright, at Milverton, on Friday, 46 ewes in lamb were knocked down at M. 81.—(Doerns Freeholder.) Mr. Payne, of Bishop's Hull, recently bought a sort and 10 pigs, for one pound ; and Mr. Palmer, of Long Sutton, lately purchased 21 geese, nearly fall grown, for the like sem ! —(lbid.) le A letter from Plymouth states, that the Britannia of 120 guns, and the Impregnable of 104 gans, are in dock, and fitting for immediate service. The latter is cutting down to a 74. The Windsor Castle, 74, was to be docked neat week. The Superb, 7s, and the Bulwark. 76, guard-ships, are to be got ready for Channel service. Tea CALN'S HtAD 4 1 177 , 1111.-11011 day night last, Mr. John Armstrong apprehended limn men in ditfereot houses in the viciotty of this town, but all la the county of Louth. They are charged erith being concerned in the disgraceful act of placing the cal f bead on the altar of the Roman Catholic Chapel of Ardec. After a long investigation before Lord Oriel, ea Tuesday, at Callon ' one MID was admitted to bait on his own resog -1 . mance, and the other six were committed to the Castle of Ardee f,r farther exacts' tut' ion.—(l)rog/teda Jou nat. (in a very feeble voice, by the C r uder proceeded, I .took the liberty (in beard) to make these who bad not r, understau 1 the substance of it per- /position was now ma le to put-the the meeting! " That," said Sir T. ver agree to : it is Mr. Cobbetes d hare to put and nothing ulse. Tile ccordingly pet in these words" Al for the petition propor_d by Mr. ass to hold, up tour MiLlah:, sad • :ft the question , wiip mall bf 79$ as ition proposed by /di. CORBETT wilt up your bands": is counting I got but they were dotes before I could ut of the seven thousand panons, I do rereforty. The modes was timid rale sod seconded by Mr. Gibbs, 1 tbleh, of the Petition by the Sheriff .renting and supporting of it by rre.—What the Old Times "ataWs nducted to the Inn by a rottsideiabto is true enough; but in calling these belt's partizans," the Old Domes is generally is. Generally 'peaking, rere, personally, wholly unknown to m were cepital yeomen of_the county, 711 { I I } i. 1 ~~