The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-01-10 00:00:00

FOREIGN RELATIONS. Extract from a pamphlet, entitled " Admiaistration the Affsdre of Great Britain, !relied, and their • IrtlitMolee. at tbecommencement of the year IL e "Vtingralled explained under the beads ef—Mnaace. . Itmenftes, Foreign Relati?ee. Colonies. „, Trade, and Domestic Adadaistration. • is mould be ; supeatiag Mauer already motoring to enter into thi mesas upon which the system of Ee ry,' was settled by the trestyof Vienna. If the settle. Itigent.if deer period was sot perfect open every point, it war onquestienably the Islet that could be proceurl.l ,etufer the circumstances then existing, to preserve the . Ware peace of The Congress of Sovereigns, If , times* be ao called. grew, le' fact, out of the sinew. staisessf that pried. • • • It is a •••-- of the character killed Powers, and Congress formed con f rim wee p interests Delon g the other'Princes, an amicable con , particalar and common of dismal io L. r .b a t in. no Pgrls"" sense in.which Sn ead to he preimit at thjecte u palpably :urope,,aod threaten excess, these princi it be addedriSit destruction of all , which characterized ottl, the avowedly and assuredly to keep down , g spirit of Friuli Ja. saute be "so tiers Ind. secondly Toma s aicable meditetinnand If /usu. these principles that his Majesty's minis ;Cr,' may be presumed to bars regulated their own coo • duct in the pert they bore in an affair not yet terminated. Ths contest between Spain and her subjects was intro . dsced in the late Cliegress at Verona. Without the aid n( any . other facts upon this subject than what events . lisre rendered sufficiently known, it manifestly appears ; that Frazee eLskied the consent of Europe in, the. first , • piece. and the commit= aid, if eventually necessary, to „Awful a 'evolution so directly . affecting the general • nkjects,of the Congress. The ministers representing the • ptrsoa of their Sovirreigu, insisted; and assuredly with , a strong appearance of truth, that this contest fell imme diately. within the two objects of Congress. • That the , Congress, es France understood it. proposed two lime . dims cads—the sappresidon lo origin of all revolution , ;sr spa, apt .social principles, and the maintenance of the. general peace of Europe; but that both these objects were ;like endangered by the present condition of Spain, That it was a Jacobiuical revolution. That if a Junbinical revolution bad any instinctive characters they sere three. A revolution is necessarily such, when it le effected by a military defectionwhen it re , .strains, isil . consequently endangers, t h e person of the Kipg and his lousily; and, when it operates in a . • avatars of irreligion and spoliation of the church. . that all.. three charoctertatic distinctions were . manifest upon the faie of the Spanish ffeetilirtloo. Ti?. Spaniel Revolation had notoriously commenced with the general defection of the semi , from tho Sov ereign. Cothollc Majesty bad no longer an y con. troul over blii etetimidiess. The Spanish Army was • 'lodge, the ofierebaud, but of Mina and the e r r et upon the person of the King' was' • eqnally notorious. He possesses as little the choice of ; 'hislifinisters ai the command of his army. He is corn •• 1 pelted to tips the warrants for the execution, or rifle/ ••WrAfiir 'of his most faithful and sealoos adherents. It fijdi torione - to all Europe that his Catholic Mi9eity is hot the aolotord bead of his own kiogdom.lThe Spanish 7: • iFtioces were heist ia a state of daily peril and anxiety foe their lives and butanes. Is it possible that the cx. . simple tali" rebellion so successful should not affect the • safety If the French Crown? It had not been without I etffissity thlis the French Government bad succeeded is ea repro- sing the. revolutionary spirit in the capital and provinces. If the Spanish Kevolution should be per • o-isted to tromplom aid consolidate itself into some form • of government fosadod upon the principles of atio:ela, I the example would . eibledl beyond Frances an t • Wodid seared) , be form enuch in Europe to contend evilest a system d successful and.yeceguised doookio ions. And what, in faits . did France fitidire ? Hai Go isilneet required sodas' more than what belonged, sr setter of paths right, to every independent nation. • • • " •IThateree might he the general troth of these repre sentations en the part of the French (, moot. and whatever respect might be due to the immediate inter. este of Finset., it was manifest that her proposed appeal • to arms would be at once a great present evil, and what was more to be dreaded, might terminate loon extreme • and untoeseen issue. • • • One object of Congress • would seceessarily be interrupted by the proposed ap. peal Ye *TIRO on the part of France ; it would be a ter. • em nation, in fact, of the existing general peace of Eu rope. Melds, was great, the sneers. uncertain, and the extent and consequences wholly unleasetto. The • war would assuredly not end with the occupation of 'Madrid, whilst Cadiz adhered to the party of tbeCortes, • and former experleoce had proved the almost impreg • *able strength of Cacti& The whole power of France —sad It a period when Preece could unite with herself a great portion of Europe—had been foiled beforeCadix, • soil with every respect for the tried courage of -the Preach is was scarcely questionable whether the French 61 meat could justify itself, in prudence, for • a long enduring siege of this fortress. The operations, therefore, would oath, confined to one eainpaign. With every wish for the welfare of France ; with every desire • for the permanent security of her thrtioe, and for her ' consolation In rattle order and tranquillity—it was im possible for the ministers of his Britannic Majesty to ••• •- 1 held forth any promise of co-operation in such a war. 'l'l Frame embarked in it, it east be, as respected Eng .. • hod, upon her owe grouted, and wills all the eventual .' o * risks of the contest. f • • ' Sorb we presume to have been th e lan g ua g e of the Eng ''' Soh Minister, upon the application of France for the eom mOtt aid of Europe to a war with Spelt). 4 k: 4 IL is impossib*.to _deny the right of France, as an lade • pehdeot nation. to enter upon Such a war, if her Govern-, r • • • , • AMP rittesid doss It to be a matter of self-defence, aid if 't -- • thollitanialtGovtenment de fade, should raise such mod!- . flestioas as nisei may think alone compatible with her . serhat. OurllTtrilivors, therethte, did not dim/ the exist - hope of the right but they'questiodaArditirraust be al , • lowed to question, the existence of Such right' ender' the • • aerial slate of Franie and Spain, and, indeed. of &trope ••• .01aerally.• They esteem the general peace at too high a ...Me to interrupt it from the apprehension . of remote den • • ger. They recognise, at the lime time, the aocient princi ple the isidepeadence of nations in their own internal woeueroa : and they deem this principle to be so Intimately • comtected with the security 'oflhe• general' peace, and the • peomanent interests of mankind, that they are unwilling to naafi. any other exception to it than a case of necessity, ex treme in all its clreuxatances • • that le to say. unquestion auo is in existence, formid able in its magnitude, nail at OSP certain and extensive in its operation. 4 very few words will explain intelligibly whatever we have further to add with regard to our foreign relations. As regards our relations with Ratite, It is impossible , usgpripipnvws •...• 'meows. - • • ; Is is a most ancastEtl representation I of this systesn, - 6alieefl that the Atli , f I , 14011_11111 swops them, have in this Co rkri./ , conWWacy to control the internal col 0 .,„ . '.._ eb or to apt the antlsoritative arbll . . sis — iplietweers thwarted State, upon hill ontr ac tl a umwelves., • • • . • rds gaglanikaml as regards lb ..: - rim Conies' is, la fait; nothing bat sr , • fascsit-rif eoilitylgimapon their partici , tri - tpust ; it is a mere council of discui .4. . {ripe A lipipf t and confederacy - Tin it & att ct .. . lia rnagress, as pitch, and in the sent i la . it* .... 4 21:ftilittpolnil trantaillitv of Euro tote -mtrodem, it theliaarigefqui ftlga .'... • Wag eir.higre.ppolistion, and„ let it . systematic regicide, that infaloated dr , rrlicions faith and establishment, whit rive frisch revolution. in a word, tb .. 0+1,40 object of Congress is assured 14ssi suppress the all-destroying apir .4ofelpiqpir for why olithild not the semi i i wreil expresses the thin ?* And, it taW His pesos of Europe by amicable .disc:wise. • • • • certain extent, in sympathy sae j Oreek i — VT it equally impossible to give such a predominance to fail ings of mere charity and generosity, as to suffer them to, seduce us from the higher obligations of prudence and self defence. The first and most important interest of all the nations of Europe and of England in parf.cular, is to maintain the existing general peace, and, in per mit et this object, melt anxiously to avoid all s$ changes, which, by disturbing the present state of pope session of the great European Power., may lessen tbe security upon which the jets treaties of peace were founded. It might possibly he easier to dismember Turkey than to distribnte the dismembered' . provinces satisfactorily. • • • Our general policy with Russia, independently al i bis j question, has been attended with no less success.... TIM. two countries now trade upon equal and friendly . tonna. We bare not, indeed, any commercial treaty with Row ; sin; neither have we with France. Germany, nor the , Netherlands; lecause, on the dee part, we carefolly : avoid giving to our dipitniity 'the air or parsoln+g. merely commercial advantages t and became., • on the: other, the tenacious adherence of our own mirchaabi and manufacturers to their (=Waive prisitegis,' rittdw it nearly impossible to solicit a greater freedom of took; from foreign states. His Majesty's hliaistersiAtdmile. have done all that belonged to them. Fly a itatisto • the late session . df Parliament they have restinied the eighth section of the Navigation AA by which thn• rest trade between Orl 7 0 1 and Riegoese !et. tered. •• •. .` •ry to!, .../ (To be easels -.141-iodeiste)pos- ♦aa. I Dahlia I Waterford arc Afi. •• • . 1 rube , 6 •' • itiditaar , .... 1. I. • -4 • —llMittlio - ' 0•' -franc* , • • a 't J ,Ileadees 7 0 brazil I G. Sway - o O Lisbon 0 • Osetasbare - I PRICE OP STOCKS TUll Bask Stock .. .444 per Ct. Red 79111 3 per Ct. Cons • • 784 per Ct 4 per Cents...-113 94111 New Fours 6 per Ct. 1107. Long Ann .. 20/646 hop. 3 per Ct.. ... ..... >lll' Irish 6 per ()ants UAY Atprto Otii)* India Stock „. ft Ditto Bonds wi wi t s !!s,, pm. South. Sea Stool' South Sea Old Ai; ' 7 -h e t Ex.8111.2d. ss lie pm. moot. s fir. Ile pr. Small At s Its pas. Doctor .. LeitssyTtekals....97l. 194.. of similarity inionnticm .100 15 ' A to only to add, than I do not perceive difficulty is a doom or wormy yeoman setting /loch. IT thidY Pauses and forwarding them to JB3, Fleet Street, Loadoo. la Suffolk, . and is Essex, the same thing is wanted I TIMM to' say, the circulation of the same paper. A mitt once a week does not cost much ; and, in short, this appears to me to bale) sifFettnat way of counteracting the enemies of truth Afilnglise in the Eastern counties. • Vist. CORNET/. . P. S. I &bill be glad to hear from any friends i 0 Norfolk, Suffolk, or Essex, upon this subject, The sooner they writeto me the better; because dm sooner I fix upon doing the thing, the more time there will be for making the ins preparations. II shall be very sorry to produce sleepless niste in (jockey but,othose whose sleep will ,be tlintoti by me, will, at any rite; have the blame to 'inke to theniselves. 1 ' • STOCK.. VACUA Nog, Haw-easy . Tipties o'cir f ton.— A great dial of business- wairlohig this -moteing.ilk. /he above Market. Consols opened . art 80if went tip to I. and lowered again to fe. The ispresses from Paris this morning have brought the French Funds 87-35, and Spanish 50. The fall of the SpaniSh Fundi in Peris—is owing * the Spanish Government having drawn on Messrs. Hubbert and Co., their bankers at Pit-is:l9l,M thousand francs; bet it is said, that front some irregularity. the Bills were unpaid and protest. •', end retdintid to Madrid.:-The above circumstintatifils4 knowkin our 111i0d,',w1ilt the report of segie of the Ashasihdditee hieing withdrawn themselves from drid,itaire sensed -the fall this morning in the Spanish Bondi: 'Possion,Maaear.—This market had rather a dismal . appearance-this morning, and it was supposed, in the earlitc int of the day, that the Spanish Ufa /note* bad arrived ; bat soon after, it was ascertained, that the fall of thk§panith Bonds was owing to their coming lower frepeOiris.—New Spanish Bonds opened at 501,50941, , 491. 1...7 • , .• .• Chili, 7i — Spanish, 494-01 d, 66—New Prussian. ag 14 —Old, bit • S6 r -Ressispii44l4—Danise, 101—Nes- Oita° 8"11). 76)--Pecs ha .1111.-oGolorsbiae, ik —Spa. eidt Seep 161 dis. • .-0: • By the Paris papers which hive reached us to the Bth lest. we find the fluctuations in the French Fuadt have been considerable, in consequence of varioni'm moors that prevailed respecting .tbe state of affairs at Mattel& or of •the anticipations that were formed of Its , result. The different journalists continue labouring in; their respective vocations, and the Journal des Debits bee again animadverted on one of the prodnetioos of an Ultra. Some days ago there appeared in certain of tbe Leyden papers an extraardineiP Note, lifer which we 'ha net room, said to have been addressed by Corot 'AChllle de Jouffrey (apparently the diplomatic agent of the French Ultras at the Congress of Verona) to the 011160 Montmorency, in which the Minister of she .sllllf of France was plainly told not to obey the is. sanctions which he had received from his Court. This Note the journal above mentioned has noticed in Bie l fellowiog manner : " The English papers contain a pretended not, from M. Achilles de Jouffroy, presented to M. de Montmo- rency, dated Verona, Sept. 23. We cannot believe the authenticity of this document, in which the Royal Charter is bitterly censured, as • disadvantageous to th e ,f/overe;go Power,' and above all, on account of ' the unlimited toleration of religious worship,' and of the incendiary liberty of the press,' which it conseerates.— The Author of the Note declares that the Charter ought to be preserved in France because it cannot be re placed by any thing better; bat it must not be endea voured to introduce it into Spain, where nevertheless we thought it might have formed a mean of conciliation between the opposite parties. In general (says this apocryphal Note) all adoption of the French Charter displeases the three great Powers, Austria, Russia, and Prussia, which are ' intimately united,' and 'vote with but one voice,' and have ' much confidence' io Moss. Achille de Jonffroy !—lnjurious reflections and Upon. ciations then fall upon celebrated Stratesmen, whom he calls Apostles of the Charter. The Journal des Debate comes in fora share of these remarks. This honour is well deserved by a Journal which defends legitimacy and constitutional Monarchy; the King, the Charter, and honest people. We think that this Note is an odious fabrication of some Liberal, who wishes to satirize certain opinions. Mons. le Comte Achille de Jouffroy is too,sonnd a Frenchman to be capable of composing ,this piece; and he too well understands the laws of propriety to have presented it to such a Minister of the Kingas Mons. de slontmorency." The charge of the Spanish Ambassador against Messy'. Ouvrard and Rougemont was to be brought for ward,before theCorrectionalPoliceonWednesday last,The accusation against them is that of an offence against his MajestrKing Ferdinand VII, by presuming the legal existentiof the Regency of Urgsl. The French papers contain intelligence from Greece and Torkey. The Greeks continue to gain triumphs on land, abd the Turks appear as unsuccessful in Asia as in Europe. Baisora is stated to be occupied by the Persians, and the Pachauf Bantam's to have revolted and burnt St. 'ohn of Acre. FRIINCII FUNDS. Jaw. 7.—Five per Cent. Consols opened at 87f. 65c.; closed at 87f. (loc.—Bank Stock, 15501. Neapolitan Five per Cents. 731. Exchange on London, one month, 251. attr. ; three months, 25f. 15c. . A pamphlet has just now been published, with a kind ifficial authority, for the purpose of giving a ilestatement of the external and internal con• the country. It is similar to that which ap. last year, immediately before the meeting of tent, and it is said to be the prodnetion of the thor. In order to give our readers a notion of and outline, we havc, in our paper of tleti , inserted an abridgement of the first part of Ike, .emeot, and shall, to-morrow, give the rewiailldelt.' entire. The Irish Public will learn. with great pleasure, t►at bis Excellency, the Gold Lieuteuant, has altuust eu tire's recovered from his Ice., int Test.) . , . - i ..' . 'H B A TMAN. sotto acknowledge oardip ekes - What' tWkt . biadrac den that n of e co n u n n s t u ry n . linopir Oor . a L ee n o ve cia n t n io ri o u s es w ti l n t n h atoil t... o P ne et n era t h W arg eh an ie d f c a it a n y dz sc t. Ta l ty h i a s y s e r De- cause by 44 bicb 0 was has been prevented betweep Russia ~_ 1823. and the Porte. It wia impossible, indeed, atm le putt= . I°l 11 ", U r al , °I sect, eipate with Ressia.and with every Christian alter, !e_a_lll l l.l it No. 183 l ilies. certain extent, in sympathy for the ()reeks ; but it 1 . 11 else, andia /fees Vte sgateis,an. Riel n g • 1110111 PAT gym WS, 411/IVART 10, 1823 . , • *•/%1 , ,;5i ',to . CON • ." I.‘ l . NOIPOIAL WOMAN , •:.,. ,sUlfi 1 .. . W Ani •• • lirersittrhvavrnsale' •0.,14 • 414 • . . ' r , mom kits iceestines oe, niitian, swerom;:jittilts, car - ,sett afia• hia . HUTS. . 11; If I receive, on of before the tweatieehntilis month, Of January. a list of BY/nausea ofientleasets,larwarded 40 me by person.4;aq knoir t. H'l trectfintrjlet of are' hundred names of persons who will take thistimpae for, ac year, or for half n year. I pledge myself to publish the Bin number Of the paper actforlioh, (Jolliet* Satur day after the Meeting of Parliament.—rse motives to the undertaking of this paper, have been already stated in the STATESMAN and in the Register. Its main ob ject is to protect the Yeomanry of Norfolk from being insulted by those, whose duty it is to defend their characters rather than teethes them. Messrs. BCRES and KINDBRDROOK, did. ii their last paper (called the Mercury), most vilely libel the Yeomen of this County ; whom they charged with having prayed in their Petition for a stoppage to allpaymenu ; whom they charged with having prayed for • declaration of era: Bank ruptcy ; whom they charged, in short, Is having voluntarily brought themselves to the I pitch of degredation.—This last charge. like tiro o rs. is at present false ; but, what it may be , if the Y men were to continue to support this calemniat in , I must leave it to themselves to decide. Besid ' ice , these considerations, the Yeomanry of Norfolk w giving their support to • paper, which is great y assisting in the work of their ruin, • This paper 'has done. and doubtless will do, every thing that it has been. or will he, able to do to defeat the success of the petition of the County. Aid, will the Yeomanry continue to pay peo ple who are thus endeavouring to prevent the possibility of their receiving relief : if a paper, supported by the Yeomanry themselves attack their conduct, and counter act their endeavours to obtain relief, What are they to expect from other parts of the press. Then in point of utility, supposing the motives of the parties to be eqoally, good : is it not manifest that a paper under my controul and direction would be Dutch more likely to convey use fel information, especially,as to matters conoceted with the interest. of the Yeomanry, than a paper kr such hairdos* the Merciry is well known to 6,7 boring the Session at Perilament, irted7 - erety tiff ',Mast give rise to something interesting to the , Yederen, who so able to inform them of what h 4 beer done during the past week, and. of - seAml. ;it likely to be done as I am? How can men who hare no con• nexion with well informed persons in London, know any thing about the feelings and interests that are at work in the Parliament ? And bow importaotmost it be, to a county like Norfolk. and to those of the neighbouring counties also, to he in: possession of a regular chain of trot information as so these matters, and t*Ofeyo4, to them in a way that all the world may understand ? The advantages of a publication springing from Purls a source must be evident to every body. However, I eon• Less tbat my principal object is to prevent the Yeo. manry from being insulted As to the price, and other "tont the ;natter. These 1 inquiry ; and 1 shall teem to whatever may be fooud proper sent, the yeomanry of Not folk single friend belonging to If they continue this, it rate.—The Old Times new• fully alarmed at Ibis proposit. -. mine lb a paper In the Eget. I have frequently observed bow exactly the ?Amish Mercury bas been an imitator of this very vile paper; and I should not beat all autinised, Ira eon• oection between them existed, of a nature much mor ed by those whom they pay. of semi-ol iter terms, I know nothing fasourahl will, of course, be sit terns of t a to be 'n pasted Is '~fir Parliamel folk age a same autl the press in the its spirit shall not be my ny evening, repaper appears to be dread. statement osition of mine to hate a paper entire. ; LINCOLN PREPARATORY REFORM MEETINti. (Toole TIM aTaliroltD Nitre.) Thursday, Jar. t, 1823. The prayers of the ultra Tories prevailed. and the skies frowned upon the Reformers. The sudden break ing up of the frost -mattered the cross roads in mug places impassable. rotten as they were slippery. sad Seth encumbered oith ice. The honest hearts of reformers are not lodged in Settee cases thatrthoto of their rents; none of them hare wings. few carriages, att7Z; all horses: the most distant ones bad therefore an choice bat to stay at borne.--After all. a preparatory meetingseldom ezePese strong isoerest or a numerous, attendance: and. however the sanguine seal of those who called it might raise their ospectations, their cooler reflections will probably lead them to be 'edified with numbers little short of those who attended the Yorkshire meeting summoned by Mr. Fawkes under more favourable circumstances. lie one o'clock, a re spectable assembly was formed and proceeded to Wei ness.—lt was opened by Sir R. Hero*. whe rea t the resolutions • *Web had been prepared, "tit afterwards proposed the appointment of a com mittee.--He was followed by Colonel Jokason, who spoke with good sense and animation. Many other ilitutlelinii (MIT gaits their opinions, which were lis treed to with 'ottmttion. Firm to their purpose, and confiding inthe•justlie of their cause and the support of theigaeighlsoars. they saw op occasion to claim credit for their simarrity by outrageous language or violent resolutions, and indeed there was an evident desire io the meeting to consult and conciliate all who were wil ling to unite with them in saving their country by pro footing Reform in Pnrlismeet. • The following ate the Resolatloas adopted by the ,Meeti De :- - , 1. Thai it is the opinion of this meeting, that the „present lamentable condition of the country is in a great meanie* attributable to the goon of govern ment which INN been adopted and acted upon ; and ,over width . Ilse gMat body of the people bare not had thebVt a irecteletitittionai influence and congeal. .' 2. A Ale meeting is fully convinced, that nothing butt a sprooli. and 'substantial klibres of Parliament. giviag 140 IMO* ' their joist share to the legislature, can afford . the baps el restiningthe country to a happy and prospermis 000ditioi. . • • 3. That this meeting is of opinion that the conviction of theabiolutouteessity of Pasbementary Reform, en tertaiotel by the latiehttantriof this county, and' so *googly !Raced' at the last coatity taming. has 'Decent* more "'send since that period:* ' 4. That a committee be appointed, with lastest-thins to promote a tequieition for a county meeting, to men der of the mpediency.of petitioning the legislature for a Reform of Parliament. • 5. That the committee be instructed to act io concur 'mace with the Yorkshire committee, sad to forward the reqeisitioa to the sheriff al tbe time that shalt appear 'Wilgus best calculated to obtain a fall assembly of the county. 1 6. That fhe combine do consist of the followieg parities. with power to add to their number :—Sir }to rt Heron, chain/ash, Colonel W. A. Johnson, Vise:. Althorpe, Sir J.M. Thorold, Sir W, A. Ingithy. Charles Alain, Kassel Collet. Richard Mason , Wm. Tomlinson. and W. M. Shield, Esqrs. '7, Resolved, that the unanimous thanks of the meet ing he giveop Sir Robert Heron and Colonel Johnson. for having convened this meeting, and thus again called tbe attention of the county to the subject of Parliauien. Cory Reform ; sad for their manly, patriotic, and en lightened exertions in the cause of Reform generally. Just as the meeting, of wbieh we give the above coo. cite account, was over. a strong and numerously signed requisition was pot Into the hands of Colonel 'Johns/ a from Boston, which we are sorry to learn he bad no, the opportunity of stating to the meeting. The follow ing is a copy of it : • To the Sheriff of the county of Lincoln. • We, whose names are undersigned, request that yon will convene a bounty Meeting, for the purpose of tak ing into consideration the propriety of presenting a petition to Parliament on the deeply distressed state of England, and the necessity of great and effective ie• trenchinent in the public expenditure, and of a Reform in the Commons Houseof Parliament.' This Requisition Colonel Johnson recommended his Roston friends to send to the bight sheriff with the one from the Committee. A good max struggling with adversity is said to fie a spectacle for the Gods to admire. but" the hose vular' among mankind are certainly as well pleased to see a great man in a perplexity, or, as they style it, " bothered." The following notice, in which Earl Somers, the Lord Lieutenant of Herefordshire, cone's** a meeting of that county, is a pleasant instance of the latter kind : " Eastnor Castlr,Jan. 8. '• A respectable requisition, including the signatures of many Magistrates of the county, heeler recently been made to the High Sheriff of Herefordshire to sum ; mon a county meeting, for the purpose of considerinr, and applying to Parliament for relief of the present e).- treme agrictiltnral distress, which requisition he has de clined to comply with ; and a similar requisition hsvinr, according to law, been since presented to nie, as his M.- 1 jelly's Lieuteo%nt of this county. I must avow myself to 'have been considerably emb d how to act ; on the one hand feeling the objects of such requisition to de serve and demand most serious attention ; while, on the other, apprehensive from experience in other placer, that such meeting, instead of promoting its avowed and legitimate objects might be cotrrerted into a vehicle for party contest. On these grounds, I have hesitated, but conscious how grievons and .pressins it the existing distress, and treating to the good sense and predenci•e of the freeholders of this agricultural count,. of what ever opinions in regard to general politics, and in am . fideacs that they will confine their efforts and observa tions to the merits of the real subject of their propesitt deliberations, on which alone I am requested to as semble them, I hereby, agreeably to the requisition f have received, and by virtue of my office, and the pon er legally ingested to ire thereby, sum9ion a meeting (.7.,, the nobility, gentry, clergy, and freeholders 9 ibis• county of Hereford, to assemble at the 51.... ea Hal)a the city of Hereford, at half-past eleven o' e io c k i n th fort noon, on Friday, the 17th day of this instant, J tutarv. for the purposes and objects expressed in the a weseill requisition to me, a copy of which is above inse Led ati , =• hereto prefixed. " Sost:cas." The requisition to which Earl Somers alludes, is the following : . . "IV e . the undersigned, request you to calls co antY meeting, for the purposes of taking into cons; den sioo the propriety of representing to both Houses o f P. kens meut the anparall.-led and daily increasing dl stre • of, the agricultural interest of the county, and tb.e se a erai muses thereof ; of petitioning them to adopt much tow sure. as they in their wisdom may deem best este , s l a ted o rg f t g li i r .l a i w n f:l l l l consequences mniixirsso ovpr o i f e li fe r i r ai th i tt o r g. s . l . elay, its at• for its relief, and of expressing to them ont app s ellen' a fo ki r, n l i Now, as the people of Hereford are to take int ) con sideration the cause: of the agricultural distrr is, and are to 110 it without differing wining !henget% ee, ‘'' shall look with some anxiety to the result of the it tnt• limes and 'united wisdom. foarramorri t .146 7.—The 64th regiment is ,attired here.from ladia. They proceed to Chatham T; aa Owen Glendower, Sir Robert Meal‘,' is at Spithieri j, where she will remain bat akw days oad dm sad for bet demtinstiee. W -