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rew perebems have bees made, aid ail been my limited. 01111, 71—igwer Spanish, 1114—Old, 39—New Prussia. 7bl _Old, 791—Russia, ill—Danish. 78—Neapolitan, °O— perm, 76—Colombian. Mill—Spanish Scrip, SI f. lids pewit to the 13th instant have arrived, and are Aped with accounts of military preparations, but contain no fresh feature relative to the impending war. The Duke of San Lomas° met out from Paris for London on the lith.— The Minister from Spain to the Court of Vienna was to quit that eepttal on the 29tti or 30th ult. The accounts from Madrid, down to the 3d inst. represent that city es tranquil, and the bands of Bessierea to have been routed at all points. FRINCII FUNDS, PBS. 13.—Five per Cents. opened at 781.80 c.; fell to 78. 50. and closed at 79f. ; for the (-omit, the opening price was 72. 75. ; the highest, 79. 45.; ' the lowest, 78. 35. ; and the last, 78. 80 ; Bank Stock, 4,42oE—Neapolitan Five per Cents, 671.—Exehange on London, one months 25E 35cs ; three months, 25f. 20c. FAMOUS IMPARTIALITY. -.f_ . The following papers will Teak for themselves ; and 'they will whew what is the i►tipartiality Of this London press, whlrt is making sniff an e►erlasting boast about the blessings Which It pours dowe upon mankind. If the STATIMIAN trete rot in exlitenre, what a pretty chance truth would stand jest ist this time, when the jobbers of •t't►ange ii*iare_ endeavouring to secure to themselves the whole of the property of the kingdom, The public should kno.v that the " Scorsmaa" newspaper really be longs to a great oracular jobber, who has actually swal lowed up two or three large estates already, and who means, doeb less, to have two or three more of thnn. It is well words his while to lose a little money by newspaper proprieto.ship, if he can, thereby support the plundering system for only one month► longer than it would other wise exist. The .Vorning Chronicle has certainly been guilty of scandalous conduct towards Mr. R►clAaus, whose arguments it was afraid of; but this is a sort of cunduct that most, in the long ran, defeat its own ends. TO TWO 'MOS OF TIM STATILIMAX. Sin,—The enclosed letter was written the 11th ult. and sent by mete the editor of .he Morning Chronicle; but was not published. I, therefore, sent a copy of the letter it by him a fortnight, without either publishing it or even to the editor of the Farmer's Journal ; who, atter keeping sA knowledging its receipt, at my request, returned it to me.—A considerable time has now elapsed since the publi cation, in the C'Aroaicle, of the oracle from the Scotsman ; anti an arempt to reply to it can, therefore, hardly he ex "tied toeaci , e m ACil interest. I have, however, forward ed my letter to you; anti, if von think it worth inserting in thaSraTasat.iw, I shall be obliged to 'you to insert it. At any re.e, 1 quite cure yea will not reject it from any nut.orthy motive; either because if controverts some of the doctrines of the Scotch economists, or because it aijt justly compliment a rival edi or. 1 ant, Sir, Your most obedient Servant, J. RICHARDS. Weretiter, Feb. 10, 1823. 4. Mn ••• eroe Nowak or ens MORNING CRRONICUI. S 3 11.411 She Hoopla, Chronicle of the 8 - h inst. you boated a parer from The Rootanui, entitled, " " plaints oflGe Agriculturists.—Eramination and /le i., lnlytlos. of some of their Staternente.--A fall of 4 irlee Irea Nbl nit , etettrtlysteaslos as increase <if thispaper, whi.ll you speak of as able and wrltieniyon rail the attention of your readers; and, as one of those readers, t now bog leave to oiler on it a few remarks. The write? in the Seolsolan says, " We have to regret, • that ti o Sib-vOinneittee have not beam kind enough to ". inform ns,. what tali; mean, when they say, that Mr. • reer . st Jliu has dispropertiorsolle reduced the peke o f " raw pro dace. It Mr. Peel's Bill raised, as we beiieve., " it did to a mull extent, the value of money, it must " have reduced the money priers of all commodities in • the manse proportion. If we increase the length of " a foot rule, the magnitude of all the articles " meesured by it. when expressed in feet and inches, will "be proPortionably diminished. The same principle " holds In the ease •of money." And again, " even the " Sub-Come ittee would hardly venture to contend, that " the relation of proportional numbers could be affect " ed by 'inuleiplying or dividing them all by the same "number. Beet, if it could not, how can the relation which the valve of commodities bears to each other, at " any particular period, be affected by an increase or dimi " notion- of the tattle of dial eirculaing medium for • u hich they are universally esetianged. We do " not 'believe, that Mr. Peel's Bill mealy added 10 " per cent. to the value of the currency : but, though "it had added 100 or 1000 per cent., it is utterly intuossi " ble it could have hail any greater effect on the price of " runt than on that of hats ; or that it could have added " more to the burdens laid on farmers than to those laid " on drat. ing masters or players." As the writer of the above extract has given no reasons " for his belief, "that Mr. Peel's Bill has rot added 10 " per cent. to the valve of the currency," I shall, in refer ence to this point; merely declare, that my own belief is, that this 11111 has increased the value of money between 30 and 40 per cent. Ilis reasoning on the consequences of an alteration of the ittandird of value, I beg to examine somewhat particularly, Undoubtedly, if, in consequence of an alteration in the value of money, all things tell equally or were Nosily affeeed, no itqury. would happen to any one. To in crease or diminish the length of a foot-rule, in measuring any articles, will, of course, affect all of them in an equal degree. The rave as to numbers multiplied or di vided by the Fame number. But do agriculturalists dispute this?—By no means. What they complain oils, that the :9 (leo. 3. o. 49., commonly called Peel's Bill, has redei ceti the nominal value of all commodities ;—but left debts, public as well as private and taxes at the same nominal an.ount :—That the rule or measure is altered as to what they hare to rineive but not as to what they have to pay; —That creditoes are Itenefited at the expence of debtors: eAml, therefor; that lessees, mortages, and all others, labour tinder considerable monied obligations, are, 4'Jan:serous imeances, ntipeel. "But," says the Scots •• ,men, "it is utterly impossible, that an alteration "of the Standard tan have had any greater effect .".ea the price of corn than on that of hats;" — sod the ite. erence intended to he drawn is, that farmers I have no mote reason'to complain than batters. The er ror here con 'isle, in applying general and abstract rea snake to ester, apparently similar, without distin gaislaing all the cireteneetances belonging to them.— .tirasited. that i 1 value of money has caused the price of hats to fell ; the hatter, the debts and cre dits in whose !retiree are, commonly, nearly to the same amonnt, has been ininted only so fur as respects the stuck Iteibad on h and. The venous articles, used in the manufacture of bets, leaving also fallen, the hatter buys them accordingly ; and ulthough lie sells his hats cheaper. gets by the hats made since the fall of the raw tuaterLd, theinstomary rate of profit. It is well known, that, when 3k. Peel's bill passed, manufacturers and suer , cants were %Szeged in this way, but that, having sustained east tosses by ,the stock of goods 90 hand, they are now, Mei-asL :~ generally. speaking, trailing to some profit. Bat hew stands the Farmer? Has he been a laser only by the stock of corn and cattle he had on hand when this Bill passed? What says The Scots:nate? " The first effect "of a fill in prices is to cause an increase rather than a " diminution of tillage." And, then, lie talks "of the far " mere of bad land lingering in a ruinous employment, in " hopes of obtaining that relief from Parlianien., which " can only be obtained by their ceasing to send corn to " market a hen it does nut pay the expellees of production." But has this writer, rho speaks so dippintly of abandon ing bad land and ceasing to send corn to market, con sidered the thousands and rens of thousands of instances in which farmers are hound by lease? Has he considered, supposing a farmer able to re ire from his farm, how little, in a vi.st majority of cases, now that sales of farniing stock are so norm-roue, he can expect to save from the wreck of his property ? Has he also considered the habits of a farmer, and his total unfitness for employing his capital in any other way ? A hove all, has he considered, how few!' farmers understand the reasoning which should lead therd' immediately to withdraw from an employment in which they were brought up, and at once erase to hope? Ad mitting the writer to have reflected on all this, has he con sidered the situation of the Yeomanry loaded with debts, or that of the mortgager? Are the former to relinquish the dwellings of their forefathers, and must the hitter walk, without murm :ring, to a prison? It is, indeed, said, that the raw articles used farming have fallen; and, therefore, the agriculture/ produce can be afforded cheaper now than mallow the war. Tnis in some degree, must be admitted independent of rents, has labour, which forms so ins portsnt a part of the expence of farming, fallen, or can it fall, in proportion to the reduced price of corn sod cattle? It has not— nor can; the taxes on exciseable ar ticles see, for the must part, as high as they ever were; and, if the farmer do nut give wages to enable the la bourer to purchase these articles as well as to buy bread and meat, the Ove upplies the deficiency : —and thus, the price of labour is kept not higher than the comfort perhaps the existence, of the labourer dernatuls; lint certainly higher than the farmer can afford to pay., I am aware, that, in as much as no article which does not repay the cost of production can very long be produced, the supply of Agricultural produce will, in the end, accommodate itself to the demand. But, in the mean time, who, except Mr. Cobbett, whose abilities asd exertion+, on this subject, command admiration, has endeavoured to awaken the Farmer to a just sense of his situation ? Accordingly, it is probab'e, that the supply will not be adequively diminished, till the ca pital of ti e farmer is utterly waived. Then, indeed, on the principle that extremes generally beget each o her, me may expect corn to be at a scordo price; and that at the moment when the fonds, usually appropriated to the maintenance of labour, being destroyed, the demand for labour will fall very far short of the supply. When the present race of farmers shall he nearly, if not quite, !M -une, bo h land and labour will, doubtless, fall low enough to abed the near farmer the current profits of stock. A very great proportion of the land must, indeed, previtntsly be driven out ot cult ivation,and become entirely worthless; land the rent of what continues to be cultivated will then, of course, fall very considerably lower than it n lw is. But, say the disciples of Mr. Ricardo, it is the Gad land only that will go out of cultivation. Never was there a more artful assumption made, on which to found an argu ment, than this. - What right have these gentlemen to im mune that worse Lust is in cultivation here than on the Continent? I believe the contrary to be the fact. But, however this may be, the British Agriculturist asks only to be put on an equal footing with the ContinentaL The truth is, that our llovernment, by the aid of a false paper money, has imposed taxes here to an amount which, re maining nominally the same now that money is revered to its ancient value, will, if the trade in corn he rendered free, prevent the British Farmer front raising corn - , on band Or *Me ohne — fteltril,O;" * (ier cheap as the Foreigner. In addition to this, all *limos of what description or nature soever, (and both Farmers and Landlords, generally speaking, are debtors,) by the enactment of )Ir. Peel's ISM. unaccompanied by a retitle tion of the nominal amount of their dents equal' to the in creased value of money, have been cruelly, although, doubtless, unintentionally, defrauded of their property. The writer in The .vcotsmase, however, says, " that the 'abolition of the corn laws might now be easily effected, and would be attended with signal advantage." With out examining, lunch less &fending, all the doctrines held either at " Henderson's Hotel," or Oman's " and admit ting fully the egregious error that Mr. Webb Hall has fallen into, in ascribing the present low prices of Agri cultural produce to the importation of Foreign Corn three or four years ago. 1 have no doubt if the present standard of the currenry be continued, that, taxed as this country is, a free trade in corn would by driving omit of cultivation a large proportion of the land of the king dom, and greatly lessening the value of what might conti nue to be cultivated, not only ruin the present generation of Fatalities, but would render the land-owners, altogether, a degraded clam. But this seems to he a consequence, which the writer either does not see, or which he regards with the fashionable coolness of the political economists of the day. But, says the Scotsman," Both parties' , meaning those assembled at the tiro " Hotels," hare the same object in view-- the bringing about an artificial rise in the price u of the necessaries of life." Now, supposing this were effected by the repeal of Mr. Peel's Bill and an alteration of the Standard, there would, according, to this writer's own argument, be no injury or injustice done to any one. Things, to use his own language, would be measured, proportionally, by increasing or decreasing the foot-rek ; and the relation of proportional numbers could not be af fected by Multiplyingbyllie orate crusher. Does he start at the result of his own reasoning? Where then is his consist ency, and what becomes of his argument? But 1 will not art the hypocrite. An alteration of the Standard, which should raise prices to what they were in 1813 and 1814, would relieve debtors by depriving creditors of the power of claiming more than what is justly due to them. And this is demanded not only on the ground of jnatice, but on that of necessity ; a necessity which cannot bC de nied, since all the Farmers and Land owners of the. United Kingdom are almost compelled to sue informs peeped,. Of course, a distinction mum be made, between , plebe s contracted previously to the passing of Mr. Peel's Bill and subsequently. The Scotsman kindly warns Agriculturists, that Vain be, by artificial means, raised in price, the use of potatoes, l as a substitute for broad, .will increase. lie forgets that the same means which raised the price of corn, would raise that of potatoes. The wages of labour, also, would, of course, rise in the same proportion as the necessaries of life. Arid the condition of the labourer would, therefore, be improved; because, although his wages would be only nominally raised in reference to some articles, they would be really raised in reference to others ;—inasinuch as all taxe.l articles would relatively be lowered by the taxes on them remaining nominally the same. The use of potatoes, under such circumstances, would, probably, diminish. " 1 agree, with the enter in the Scotsman, that the " weight of taxation is not to be estimated by the bulk or " species of the produce, which mast be sold to obtain the money to pay it, but by the value of that produce. And " that a heavy taxation" consists, in lithe abstraction of a " large value, and a light taxation in the obstruction of a " small value: and that the costs of producing corn, an I " consequently its value is not invariable." - But I snake a distinction, which the writer endeavours to avoid, be tween the cost value of an article and the market value And, 1 deny, " that the cost of producing corn fluctuates " as much as the cost of producing cloth or any ohm " commodity." The present state of the Farnicrs of this comiery is abet utterly irreconcileAle with such an hypo thesis. In another part df this letter. I have shewn why the coot of prodacing corn sloes nut fluctuate in the some way, nor so soon, ts the cost of prolucbt); bats. It is true, that, ultimately, if the present market prices of corn continue, the cost of producing it mast fall; or it neither will nor can be pro duced. the mean time, " the abstraction of • " large value," I speak in relation to the Cost, from th. Farmer, through the medium of direct mid indirect taxes and poor -rates, which last, are, by taxes on exiiseable articles, heavily increased, occasions a degree of dis:reis frightful to contemplate. lot, then, both farmers and landlords, as they r. Inc their existence, unite, tt hich it is in their patter, in endeavouring to avett the evil which threatens to overwhelm them. IA all vain distinctions of Whig and Tory, for the pr sent at least, be laid aside. Let them not bi discouraged from meeting by the ill-timed and unfeeling sneers of such writers as The Scotsman. The:r distress is admitted on all sides; and they may rest assured, that this distress can only be adequately relieved either by the repeal of Mr. Peel's Bill and such an altera tion of the Standard as is expedient, or by surh a reduction of Debts and 'faxes as will no longer allow the Drones of Society to ronausee all the honey; but will remedy the injustice under which thousands ate now suffering and, once more, give to industry i's fair reward: 1 casco', Mr. Editor, conclude, without expreSsing my hopes, that, as yon base inserted in your highly respect able Journal, the paper above-nwittioned arum l'he Scotsman ; and, by your praises, have girt-. to it a n im portance which it could d herwise never have obtained, yon still, with your usual liberality, publish :his letter in reply. .. 4am,.-litivirowr most obedient Servant. Worcester, Jan. 11, 1623. J. RICHARDS.• • • Extract of a letter from the Agent to Lloyds, rla.erl Antigua, Dgc. .17.—" The Mail Boat arrived this morning with the first monthly mails, brought over by the Jamaica puke's, and bring accounts of a severe gale having been experienced to the South: at Martinique, 32 sail of yes_ eels were driven on shore, and several small vessels at 8a... badoes, amongst them the mail-boat, Ma•hew• King. His Majesty's ship Pyrenees, lying at Barbadoes, parte I her chain mooring, dragged both ketch anchors, and fired guns of distress, - but rode it out." Circulars, it appears, hare been addressed to all the Army Surgeons, requiring each of them fo male.' an imme diate teturn of his fitness or unfitness to go upon i. diate serAct. This is the first important stet that has beemtaken with respect to the military force ut the coun try, since the agita'ton of the Spanish question. On Thursday afternoon, soon after the arrival of Mr. Vansittart and Mr. Bathurst, at the King's Place, at Brig /sum, the Right flan. Deatlenten had audiences of his Majesty, when Mr. Bathurst resigned his seals and other insignia of office, as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and the King was graciously pleased to de. liver them to Mr. Vansittart, appinting him the Chan cellor to succeed Mr. Bathurst. The Right Hon. Gen tleman had afterwards the honour to dine with his Ma jesty. The Right Hon. Gentleman returned to town yesterday afternoon soon after three o'clock. • Yesterday, Mr. Robinson, the Chancellor of the Ea chequer, transacted business at the Treasury. Mr.. Peel, principal Secretary of State, has transmitted to the Mayor of this borough. and, no doubt, to the authorities in the other commercial and manufacturing towns of the kingdom, a number of Inquiries to which answers are re quired.* sed of which oSdal paper the following is a copy : Quelita I.—What is " The present state of trade and em ployment 011W:working classes?" Qaestion S.—What " The rate of wages as compared with the Marge of providing comfortable subsistence for scroilliss?" Gila as to do atiounief tbotirentwair+ - " - - • Question 40—What "The general disposition of the work ing cis's,' to retard to the peace of the country and subor dination to the laws?" Question S—" What is the calculation with respect to the continuance of trade and employment !"—(Leeds Cou rier.) The Earl of Cavan obtains the 45th Regiment. vice Lis ter. deceased; Lord Lynedoch, the Stith Regiment. vice the Earl of Cavan; and General Meade, the 90th Regiment, vice Lord Lynedoch. By a return of coals imported into the Port of Loudon, and delivered in the year kW, it appears that the total quantity was 1,192,511 chaldrons. Mr. Owen is now at the Duke of Leinster's and is expected .in Dublin on Thursday.—(Dublin Morning Post.) Tue Lars DIENISSALL—We understand that the in dividuals dismissed from their situations in the house ' hold of bis Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, are, Sir Charles Vernon, Chamberlain ; Captain Stanhope. Aid de-Camp and Mr. St. George, one of the Gentlemen Pensioners. Mr. George Rich, It is said, has been ap pointed to the office of Chamberlain; Mr. Stopford, son of the Earl of Courtown, to the situation held by Cap tain Stanhope; and a Mr, Montgomery, to the gentle man Pensioner, vice Mr. St. George. Several other dismissals are spoken of, but we do not eh sc to be the first to mention theta—We hare not heard, from any source upon which we can place much reliance, the particular cause of these dismissals; the report is, that h s Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, conceiving that the conduct of these gentlemen, at a recent dinner of the Beef Steak clnb, was disrespectful to his Excellency, and to his Excellency's Government, and to Mr. Plnnkett ; whilst every " honour" was paid, in the most marked manner, to aft who were known to differ politically from his Ex cellency—such for instance, as Earl Talbot, Mr. Saurin and the Lord Chithrellor, If this be trite, the cause is suf, ficient and proper.—(Dublin Morning Post.) The Proceedings tinder the Writ of Inquiry, b . ; order of the Lord Chancellor, in the matter of the Earl and countess of Portsmouth, commenced at the Freemasons' Tavern last Monday; which report of the Proceeding.: wilt* he given in the Observer of Sunday, Feb. Id. Tose length of these Proceedings haring already extende , l to eighteen of The Observer folio columns, the Eaitor this week will be under the ne:essity of publishing an extra sheer. •The price of the two sheets tu-morrow will be Fourteen-pence, SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. -.1...--- DEAL, Feu. 14.—Came down from the river last night, the Favourite, Provender, fur Havannah ; the rest of the outward bound remain apparently all well.—Wind FALMOUTH, Fee. 18.—Arrived the General Thompson, from London to the South Seas.—Wind S. W. MILFORD, Fee. 13.—Arrived the Progress, from Buenos Ayres, with lo.a of bulwarks, some deals and spars, and considerable damage in her upper works. The Flora, Iteldrum, from Charleston to Liverpool, was totally lost near Holyhead. Crew drowned. A Court-martial assembled on Wednesday on board his Majesty's ship Snperb, to try Captain Suckling, and the Officers of his Maje l ity's late sloop of war Rscehorse, for the loss of that •essel—Captain lil•Kenzie, of the Superb, President. After examiniug a number of witnesses, the sen tence of the Court was—that the Captain end Officers were fully acquitted, with the exception of the Master, who was I slightly reprimanded for not keepiug the lead going; and the Pilot, in consideration of his certificates of former good roaduct, was only severely reprimanded and mulcted of his p,y • I. „. 1i1a.... CASH/MIME COLL\ CY-.IIIEO - 11;Sili _ PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. (mom THE MOSICIIM CHIEOXItLita • A Meeting of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely was yes ee day held, pursuant to the following Requisition present. , l • to Messrs Pemberton and Hayward, the late Under 'he. rills (the lee High Sheriff, Robert Jones Adeane, Esq. basing died tef •re the Requisition was presented:—) "Cambridge, Jan. 2b, Ine2: " We, the undersigned Freeholdeb, request that yea will convene a Meeting of the Freeholders and inhabitants of the County of Cambridge and Isle of Ely, for the purpose of taking into consideration the present distres.ed state of the nation. the most effectual means of obtaining a redress of grievances. and restoring to the people their undoubted right of being fully represented iu Parliament." To this Requisition the Under Sheriffs returned the follow ing answer:— ' We do therefore, io pursuance of such Requisition, ap point a Meeting to be held for the above purpose et ti.e Shire hell ih Cambridge, oa Friday the 11,th of Feb. at o'clock at noon. (Signed) " CnetsT. Pinestroir, " W. W. Haawasta. " Executing the office of Sheriff foe " the County of Cambridge." At aft early hour in the morning the Freeholders began 'o crowd into town, and at eleven o'clock a large numbee of persons had assembled on the Market-hill. . l'onsiderable disturbances having been expected from the attendance of the students. it was understood that they were to be prevented from being present at the Meeting; this order, however, was not issued, and even if it had 0 would have been to a certain extent unavailing. milt wised , only apply to those who resided within the Colleges, iri addition to which a considerable nitaaber reside us jLe town. There was also a rumour afloat that Mr. CoSbett Win expected, and this added in no sinall degree to as appre hemion that the business of the day would islet go of • quie ly. We owe it to the High Sheriff and Undeelheriff state; that they atfortlsi every secommodatiou to the'Lott don and Proviso ial Reporters who attended the Meeting. It having been understood that the attendance of Free. hoPers would be too great to be contained In the Shire : Hall,temporary hustings were er cted in front of the Ross Inn, on the Market-hill. At 12 0'c10..11 the High Sheriff, W. Raynor, of Wise- I teach, Esq., attended by the Under Sheriff, Mr. Heed , • GirJlestone, and several other Gentlemen, took his atatists I on the hustings. • Among the Gentlemen present we noticed Lord P. 0. Osborne. the Rev. F. Maherly, Mr. Wedd, Mr. Wells, Mr. Fordham, Mr. E. K. Fordliatn, Mr. George Fordhatn, Mr. F. K. Eagle, Mr. C. Butes, Mr. E. Forster; Mr. If. Gunning, Mr. J. Page Mr. Gemming on, Mr. Death, Mr. W. Nash, Mr. S. P. Miles. the lice. Mr. Mott* the Rev. Mr. Drake, the Rev. Mr. Eduresubt, Mr. TbSchary, Mr. Pryme, Mr. Nash, Ste. Scc. • The HIGH SHERIFF opened the proceeding by sW ing, that he had teen the Requisition whteh - ha t been presented to hit predecessors, an l be glove theta credit for the promptitude with which they roWied with the T - quest of the Requisitionists; he hoped alit Meeting would give every Gentlemen who addre sed them a patient bra:- ins', and that the Resolutions would be so tempered as to do credit Loth to the Meeting and to the County at lame. The UNDER SHERIFF here read the Remit-DION observing, that it contained the hignsitureNs of 900 Fr.- h.tlders (a person on the hustings :.aid it was signed by . 1024 Freeholders.) Mr. C. !leaks said, that before he proceeded upon the business of the day, he felt it his duty to read to the Meet- I ing a letter which he had that morning received from his Grace the Duke of Bedford, on the subject of the Meet- ling. 'I he Worthy Gentleman then read the following • letter:— " London, Feb. 12,1892. • a : lorelaraofflowaroveliti lamaaihritimamkka-4101triall a tis, F Oder Requisition to the High Sheriff of the Cane yOf • bridge, to call a County Meeting, for the repose of Infant' . into conalderstion • the present distressed state of the ea- • tion, the most effectual means of obtaining a redress of grievances and restoring to the people their undoubted right of being fully represented in Parliament,' yo. will re. collect that I declined signing the Requisition, from an up- • prehension that the state of my health could not allow of my being present at the Meeting. 1 now feel myself justified in having withheld my name, as my health is still so mobilo as to render me wholly incapable of attending to any sort of business, sod more particularly the fatigues and anxieties inseparable from a great pubils Meeting on so momentous a . question , but after the part I took at a Meeting in Cam bridgeshire, last year, on the same subject, I think it incum bent upon me to account for r y absence now, though I-feel at the same time, that the uniform consistency of a long po litical life in support of the people's rights, mustexempt me front the suspicion that my seal for Parliamentary Reform has suffered any abiOment. Every day, nay, almost every hour that my life Is prolonged, more and inure convinces lee of the absolute necessity of this vital measure; and I re quest, Sir, that you will have the goodness to state to the Meeting, that nothing but extreme debility could keep me from obeying the summons of the Sheriff, at the Shire Halt • on the 14th instant. _ _ " I wilt not detain you now by a single argument In fa vour of a Reform of the Representation of the Represents- . don of the people in Parliament. There will, lam sere, be many on the Market hill on Friday, far abler than mysely to advocate and enforce this great measure. You koow my unalterable sentiments upon it. I seek not to i',istroy with a rash innovating hand, but to restore the constitution to its original purity, by snaking the House of Commons the real representatives of the people in Parliament, acting as ad efficient controul over the power of the Crown, and not, ac it has emphatically been called, ' a convenient instrument in the hands of the Government, to register the ediets of the Croton." . '• I trust the real friends of Reform in the County of Cam bridge, will be united in their object. We have mach. to contend against—the overgrown influence of the CroWn. operating through endless channels, • has spread coiruptiod over every part of the country, paralysing the . eforts of bo nest and independent men; but we must not he detotre4l by: difficulties; the County of Cambridge bas done itself infinite honour by its unshaken perseverance; we must steadily , - pursue the great object we are seeking, io one straight un deviating course ; and as our cause is that of sougat pallgy 6 truth, and justice, It moat and will ultimately prevail. 1 " I am, Sir, with sincere sateen, . . ..., " Your faithful and obedient seitant, - , " - lilisenan." . Sorb, proceeded Mr. Be ales were the noble, th 4 manly, the patriotic sewiniews of tft it great man 'upou the question before them.. flaying been in sonvb degr.. instrumental to the calling of the meeting. hi hoped ther would pardon him for corning forward to move the Rew lotions. They were all. met there to prom de the gieat and glorious cause of Reform in the Representatiqp of , the People, and who was mere p iss•ssed of the heart n:. ' a man, and the feelings of an Rrigliihrnan, who wont) hesitate to raise his voice against that 'system 'A VOrrup-. tion and misgovernment which had plunged the mint's into bankruptcy and ruin ? The lando.vner, the teneni.. and_the labourer, had all tasted *of the same hitter sup; they had all suffered the sew privations, and • under tyn present system it was impoi.sible that Ministers 440.4 grant them any effectual relief, trel , ss by taxi,* some other branch of the community. The ir distresioe. aris'ag out of the evils of the presen t syste m antic so otiieti , ,, that none would attempt to deny them, (heir,.'bear. hear,)—excep t by those persons wao fetreitd tart OM all on the bleeding vitals of their. co.inftli 1 14151) rt Corruption wa. at the bottom; apt! lokory • t tail .14 of all our institn ions --(hear,) —a tar/1)100p - retrgbtottv that accursed p . aper systeni' which y. is ri,:Ois' 64x V she Revolution of - 16 - which ha - t c• ' vl,Slllo,tett '' , i engage in wa , t4tl.:nl mini-cr.-v.4 wi‘fs by ne;;Tch tit' : plundered the na•ion with aa in.parittr ha A; the . co I . SI- • ' M I I 1 1