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, , theretire, that Ole on ly sa e c.iit hive is u Pairliumei.tary mid nmr.::: of acquiescence.) le Comity of Essex will th,s rple to other rounties in the tkis to maintain our lioneur oupport.tht dignity aunt in- Inig4ing the peridssiou of • on and witli•hii iresseJ them :—" Gentlemen, 'no country who inure sincerely she and patriotism evinced all ranks throughout the mine jealous of the efIlln• if—no man who would go heiag trenched upon by any whatever. It is then with enan that I behold the puli eJ roused rt.tainst any 111:ly have been granted to the Augal. I reel tlint intlig und 1 glory in it, like every and i inert still feel nu • were I convinced that the tier which had been con . inquired into. But, iii the should I doubt it ? Has not thai it is a transaction which lie hopes mid expectations of he intends to institute an lm ,'No ! No ! from raricus guar- Lord who moved this Address Earl St. Vincent replied " ing—l stated that Ministers, iesty. had said so.") Then 'hat the Oificer who continuo& is come to England to answer being the case, I meat then some sinister view in the pre some snake in the gram, or what there is some party spirit to a treat noise ensued, wills cries of no ! ( off .1) 'cang'with such contempt as to allow any one who has erred ty ? Shall I assist in raising man who is now upon his trial ? minds of those individuillo perhaps be to try him ? put to the bar behind you, (al io the Shire-hall) would be of the conntry. That cause . which does not support it candid means. There has been, much canvassing upon this oe lett.ir from one of the most .s country ; cod if goad nature s insinuating wanner., can make certainly must be deemed so." we believe, to Mr. Burgoyne, • " He sent round to the reasons for supporting it, and. • the Earl of Essex approved of the Earl of Essex, but I want . not the county of Essex ap . whether it will consent to lend it any party whatever? Another parson was mentioned by this eativasser, and that person er than the-Marquis of Buckingham; you the reason why ; I mean no of- Gentlemen, of all' euccesstul 'peen ie Marquis of Buckingham has and it is not a little mortifying is have failed hint at this time of that his talents have not been n, and that an Administration without him; one that has brought important events to the country at the space of a twelvemonth, than could done during twenty years.... hope to be encouraged, that vigorous measures, the tyrant may hurled from his height, and former insignificance, that liberty mankind. This is a popular effects iney likely he pormanent; is wise for those who do not like idmiuistration, to cutch at every ince opt, however good and well-directed Amongst the Gentlemen who have requisition are several with whom \te. All that I ask of them adhere to the same prin have ever evinced in their si to their love of liberty and of bean:Med by the correctness , and all that I now wish is, that correct upon this occaition as the' towards another. As to tlio No propowd this mention., only *un it/linty very improlathle to happen, lint t possibility °reliance. Suppose that be placed in a situation in which his thought emelt as onght to he hope and trust, upon such an :prejudice willnever be wrought AI at present, while his honour at stake. Upon these grounds think that the Address that No- Wbuld be a disgrace to the County agree to it. (No! Ne! No.o conelnde maring, as an this Meeting do now 11.410411 . 11• " Slime forward with an expreb.ioa sectnd the motion or ntljourntuent. `olt:lopt that course, in reverence - of his gracious Sort-. '"'ereitges who, during a reign of nesrly eraormly manifested an unceasing the wt.ltes, and to mai•itato peopk.—/ lirsr, heir .// That "Iced to the world that it was isistitnte an iaquiry into the the Conyiution of '.7ilitra.— Ition s was it nut dispNyfectilti ith a desire, espressrtl on the for that . whirh he was ora peoinior? That promise which - the Itryal lip,.—(Nn, no, it is okiishitry, in the pres..a:r of the ,nld mit, was it becoming to violate, tiovervign, those orAinary princirles vrere correctly oli,erreil in the between 11114111 natzt ? fie tat n suitve,•%ials of' i!npartial uk . ana 411 art, • lic - fore the rehli; - e eirceunstanivs that act were submitted to public - coesideratiois Wait respect to the Convention of Cintrm heaves not inclined to a.sert that it was not an injudielees or a repieneithible measure. het still lie thought it by iin means deserving of the unqualified reproba tioa which, in the diseappointnientorsaulguine hope*, it had se generally utet wilt. It was surprising that iii a Caba utmost parallel, the Commander had received, mid justly received, f.r«,w the country, ha- , 'lours and re.vaids. He ai!•nied to the campaign in Egypt, where, ufter the hrilliant victory it the 2lst of march, the British Commander had agreed Li. two Conventions, the one at Alexandria the other in Cairo, on terms similar to that of Cintru. The French armey were not considered prisoners of war. They were allowed to curry with them their cannon and horses. (A Freeholder—" This late one was quite a different thing. It gave encouragement mid security to a gang of horse stealers.")— ( Loud laugliin.) Mr. 11..ainston tattered at length into the iseparate articles of the Convention, with a view of proving it was 110 t so bad 113 with represented, and justified by the pre cedent which he hal iiistaneed in Egypt. Ile then took a retrospective view of the conduct of Minis ters during their official existence, and attributed to them the merit of the Spanish struggle —the extri cation of tlieSpanisli troops in the North of Europe —the rescue or the fleets of Denmark, Spain. and Russia, from the grasp of him who sighed for ships, colonies and commerce.--(./ loud cry of, To the Questton!)—After some recapitulatory remarks, the Hon. Gentleman got down. Mr. W. SMITH presented himself next to the notice of the Assembly, amidst very great clamour and confusioti—e' Gentlemen," said he, e , I am not at all surprised that some in this Meeting should be so desirous of adjourning ; and, there fore, I shall endeavour to take up but very little of your time iu your present temper. I cannot help , soaking a very few observations upon the speeches of the two Hou. Gentlemen who spoke last, to whom this Meeting will, I ant sure, be always ready to pay attention; because they hold, chit ractera, both in their private and public life, in this county, that must call forth the utmost respect, and therefore deumuid that attention which has been given them. Mr. Corley has obeerved, that, to his knowledge, there has been a cousi derable, degree of canvassing in order to radiate this Illeetin.r. I have upon this to may, that even supposing there was, I think any attention to it was quite unnecessary upon the present occasion, and to such a Meeting as that new assembled. 1 per fectly agree with him, that the Earl of Fasts, or Marquis Buckiugham, are not the perilous who are to direct the sentiments of the county of Essex. I come here, first, to hear the Freeholders themselves express their feelings and their sentiments, as I am now doing, and afterwards to sanction and express those feelings by their vote. I inn convinced that they will neither be influenced by the opinions of those Gentlemen who have been mentioned, nor by those of soy other*, but that the.? will give their own unbiassed suffrages. If it lie thought that thn cause of the Address Might be judged of by the Means that were used to produce attendance here this day. I have only to observe, that they were means which no man need disavow. I cannot think the oppositiou to this Address can poseibly rest upon solid or respectable grounds. when the last Gentleman who addressed you, has deemed it necessary to go into the history of the last ainl of the present war, in order to induce us not to accede to what is now proposed. With respect to the terms of the Convention itself, I mean not to go into th«..m, they have been so accurately and so fully described by the Noble Lord himself, and in the Addres. he has moved, that I shall only state, what I deem not a bad argument upon my side of the question, the opinion of the Ministers them selves, when they state, that this expedition hits disappointed the hopes and expectations of the country.' Whether or not these hopes and expectations were ton highly raised, I'll leave to the Meting to judge ; but when we find those individuals, who planned the Expedi tion so sent and so executed, saying that it has disappointed the hopes and expectations of the option, I think I have a body of argument against the observations of these Gentlemen, which they can by no means do away. One word us to the Convention in Egypt, which has been alluded to ; I may ask that Gentleman, did we stand in the &line relation to the inhabitants of Egypt, as we did to those of Portugal? If we did tee then the comparison would have been a fair one. But in the case of Egypt, the inhabitants were the sub jects of a hostile Government, and therefore the pre cedent so stilted falls to the ground. We had a right to make what terms we chose for ourselves. But in the present ca.e. the Convention complained of was not only injorioue to our allies, but dis honourable to the British name. (Ilear ! hear !) The main question is, are we not called upon to move such an Address as that now proposed b l eu this occasion ?—(No ! no! was exclaimed by some, and Yes! yes ! by others.) Time object, I say, of this meeting, is not merely to express our opinion 114 to the necessity of a full, effectual, and public inquiry, but also to express to the whole country, and even to our Allies, the opinion which we, as a portiou of the inhabitants of this nation, entertain of a Convention that has wounded the feelings of every one, and has disappointed our hopes and ex peetatious. We know, gentlemen, that it has al ready wooded the feeling* of one of the Come menders employed upon it, and that he has dis it--( Expressions of approbation.) It' this Coavention Ix sot disgraceful to us, mid 1111'1111.. venient to our allies, why, in the name of Gail, &es Sir Arthur Wellesley and his harm!. endea vour to prove that he hail uothing to do with it I gay, that I believe this to be the ease, neon that cur/neon report which is umally taken to lie of euffitieut authority. I bcheve that no man here will take upon him to say that Sir Arthur Wellesley ever tn..k a part in that Coe vention; its thing of which lie approved. I was told thut.thO Convention might hate been a prone: me, hemmer the oppart ttttt ty was lost. sir, I too think that the opportunity, the golden op : portimity was last, and it is upon that acconut that I wish far an iugniry, in orikr to *hew wherethe blame t.oth lie. It that an in q uiry will In. entered into by Minister, brit I am not sore at all that it sill be such a one as will salary the hopes And expeettlions of .the Natinn. 'Maine raid lie seine Where, and as it vs r ie)table may impli cate the very persons who institote it, I suspect Gat that inquiry will not he so pehlic as it oaelt to be, u ultq.s the people express theiretrong 'slates upon the subject of it. Bat lam told that this disrespectful to His lelajelo, as he has royal word tied a,, in q uiry *bait be entered Now, Gentlemen, I have been for the spa twenty-tate tears pretty well versed in pubb fairs, and I know that it. is uniformly the of those who desire to (-leash ineuirs, ' the teteie of the King with any of the ons 'Bedsores that hate been taktee well that the answer is the answer of i niters. The speech which the Sovereign from the 'flarosie is universally dee:lied speech of his Miuisters, and 1 know tlia:' were to say that the people were to he from stinking observations upon it, he completely latighed at. Every one lentil rally avoid saying any thing diseepectft Majesty, and therefore this is one of dins by which truth is attempted to be disee and filets prevented (ruin being disclosed, were by a side wind. There are varioe of speech, vesicle may be taken in an per sense, and eueh us may induce some sons to think there is more in an argnment than really is the ease ; for iiistance, the forces' are to he looked on as the forces country. 'they tight for the benefit of the and are supported at their expense. 7 called His Majesty's forces,' and wle cause to him is delegated the high trust of ing them for the public advantege; but be said, that to him alone belongs of instituting al inquiry, or of ascertaining they there shall be an iuquiry or not ?—1 I say that every man who is interested in , has a right to go up to the Throne to ask, with but a proper and respectfull tone, whether forces have beets directed towards proper and these objects properly executed ? nervations have been only called forth occusitm, ar many individuals by their arguments seem to have forgotten that His Majesty's are the corers of the natem at large." A freeholder, whose stance we enald • from the side of a waggles, at a distant Meeting, made some oisservatione, add resolutions, the nature of which we mu!. But being deemed out of time, they were to the decision of the Meeting. Mr. fleet. could not suffer the question be put, a itiinut declaring, in the face of his Fe . Freeholders, that lie felt himself bound, veneration he owed his King, and the dui' his country, to support the Address which, iuquiry. into a transaction disgraceful to resale, item:ions to our allies, and e :i.e. Iv tde to the hopes and the rescue of long-suffering hninanity, from the base thraldom of cipled oppressor. Tile question of Adjournment was then the High Sheriff; who expressed his taking the deeisiten by a division of the . to the right and left, instead of the ordinary of holding up the hands. From the 'i crowd assembled, and the great pressure this moment took place, accompanied 1 *bouts, which rent the air, and prevented 1 inky of many at either end hearing what the Meeting was divided in the centre by _ Live partizuns ; he friends to udjournment ordered to the left, and those in favour quiry is the right. In the endeavour with this request a scene of tumult an presented itself more easy to be conceit described. It happened to he market-day, meat-market is situated on the left of the Hall. The consequence was, that the vast of persons engaged in that occupation is sembled on the side to which the to adieuniment were ordered They, therefore, presented the motley butchers, bakers, waggoners, pigdrivers, servants, sod soldiers, interspersed with a proportion of freeholders. When the uproar had subsided,' High Sheriff stated, that the greater were on the left side, and were of course of the adjournment. As soon as he made onnnicartron, he leaped froin the table, off in his coach and four, which was in Mr. Western bad just demanded a poll, not granted. The High Sheriff did i have the.usual Vote of Thanks for his the Chair, neither was any such 'notion quently made. Mr. ‘VIESTERN then came forward to freeholders, for the purpose of snaking tion, but was assailed in the most violent monis meaner by a proportion of t h ose eel themselves the successful party. They towards the table oil which he stood, accone by many other gentlemen. Nothing could the licentious conduct of this banditti. '- say, that Clergymen were recognised this assemblage to the most savage atrocious acts. They first upset one of large malineany tables, and with its disjointed melds attacked the persons standing other. Mr. Western having found every appease them inethetual, with his fr tired ; alien instaistly the other table was deed to the fury of this irritated rabble. endings of the freeholders did not terra' departure of the High Sheriff. A very able proportion retired to the Court-huuse„ voted the resolution *hick is to be , front of this paper. 1714 E BRITISH PR. 4~~~J 'cooiuti which we how- civet: of t b a rge.' t thistic, the actorviitory eye i e c a m usf y ea ( Ilear ! hear , ...Ater t hyself that the A. I J a y set se noble xatnple 1 , u4 ,1071, a nd privilege, amid to au; tctot o f o ar conetry. Mr. C I' r.:t, after le• the )(venlig to speak rim . kit 011 , thus addressed there is no titan in this co! participates in the loyalty Ga on this occasion by al ( nu atry—iirs one feat in y! etsn,sur than mystif— ' {saber to prevent its bei, • aninions transaction Is c inti;.gootion ext.' • fan Etiglishmat e r ne ° • coed fsroarable terms that mny Preach army in Porsuie „„5,,,n with pritl-, and 1 e-er Ea, 4 lislimais; and lion to that indiguatiou„ i , t .rt of that Cousentio dieted were not to be itsq twile of God, why shout tie King declared thus. has , disappointed the ho the nation, and that he ii mediate inquiry ?' (.\o! Im o The Noble Lord has sail so. [Here Earl I aid no such thing—l tut not His Majesty, I s3v, (leittleinen, that di ea tai, expedition has cot his condom; this brill s uspect that there is nom tent proceedieenr, some si ' a the worst of all, that th be gratified."—(thee a lu4 sibl reireatel (Tics «Shall 1 :cad the King'. I sappose that he will elle to escape with impunity ? a claisoor against a mats ihaM I prejudice the m whose ditty it may pet The lowest criMinal put t • hidine, to the Court is pestected by the laws of t Mid not be very good wb self In fair and candid n te mY knowledge, much I ration. I have seen a let canvassers in this con high breeding, end insins him formitlnble4 be certs ; Timis nihision was, we b chi) had just spoken.) freeholtlent several reason amongst others, that the it. I respect highly the to know whether or not proves of it, and whether tell' to any party whatevi dui mentioned by this r vas no other than the -I sal I'll tell you the res fence—but, Cieutleinen, • Wore in polities, the Ma been the meet so ; and it • diet his calculations have fay. He regrets that I brought into action, an , has been formed without about more important it large, during the space of ry otherwise have been doi There is yet a further he his their means and vitro of the world may be hu! s restored to his former a Mae ha restored to man) subject, sod its effects !I and, therefore, it is wive the present Admiuistrati sere they adopt, howevi it may be. Amongst t Nand the resplissition I net as a Nlngistrate. is, that they will sill nplas which 'they here elation', in regard to t 1 * itroiee. I hart bevel be of their manners ; and a they mat be 10 correct • erne have been mine tong We Lord who proposed pser a case, ceruainly very still within the possibihit he wart yet to be placed smeluet snight be the , • inquired into ;I do lice occasion. the public.preit op to such it pitch as at • 4%1 reputostiou is nt it: and arguments, I think hle Lord proposes world '4 Ese,ex, were we In se sLall therefore cone linaentiinent, " That this Mr. Psneusitests untie of his theirs. to second t! He wasindriceil tuaelo f 1 9 the ei•ezesiot trod Nigh —a ilosereigie who years, lied uniform oatfrty to accord itieh the interests of hi.; ro i , 'Oeserrign had amen met hie determination 113 110 .1001 Whleh IA to 111 After such an intitaatio to iruportithe !Ain swift, Part of his iiiitijecNi, fo clausly pleased to /Imo proceeded from the *rout I It was from L ftcon Lord liewkwishur world risk, towards their Sovert•iT et-decorum which urn esterenuree of life het . *Gehl ask pHs it not Native, to prtiaoll:lCC r • • .• 0 , • . . • . 1.. • • C '' • , . • .• r . ..., ji dl . ; JC I expectations of -the Natilen. hi 131:inie must' the tee‘ c i i t inny keying received's . ' reliAkeenttest 4 ' ' MP* • • 6 9 I lle""ei and mit H 'able ; . t. diuf Olt 30,004, epee the remind Mat tin, mettrial, cliellka .; e l s e the very persons who institote it, I suspect t it inquiry wall not he so piddle as n onght to Ise, hutately t aken . P ia*: ill the,01.0**4"114331"" . '9.- lees the people express theiretrong esidies k i€ l39l , armies, which, it is neesuneseeinsatinve luirsin.. the ''.•"" , subject of it, Bat lum told ti n this will be case, bud tfi' eri t entleeliteihett midi li'dfolant,V :Q . . j respectful to Hie Majtele:, as he has given his iv-rewrite' of . strength . This urttiment is . h -; - ,al word thut an itiquiry Anill be entered into. 'elusive; :and we think it hardly ponible that Na- tw, Gentlemen, I have been for the space of POLCON lillOnlel not have pushed some troop* acreei nits-else tears pretty well v e rsed i n p u bl ie e r- rs, and I know that it is uniformly the wish the Pyrenees since the beginning ef•September, those who desire to qiiusli ineuiry, to join although, we admit, they may not hove been so nu- : tiaeie of the King with any of the errone- merous as they are lepresented. ii measures that hate been token. I know ----...-- . II that the answer is the answer of the Mi- While one portion of our military force, which iters. The speech which the Sovereign makes uouuestionably ought to have betel rem to St. An- an the Throne is universally deemed to lie the ' eeeh of his Ministers, and I know that if nee- one dero, and which, we venture to believe, will still be re to say that the people were to be deterred sent thither, front Certiena, by sea, is WO lying nn making observations upon it, he would •be in the harbour of the last-mentioned place, melees rnpletely luaglied at. Every one would oats- to us, or to our Allies, in consequence of. tee t‘atit 11 , ovoid saying any thing disrespectful of His of cOILINIOII foresight on the part of our AllilUe+ ajesty. and therefore this is one of those sophisms nistratiois ; another part of the British army, in which truth is att em pt e d t o b e di sgu i se d, d facts prevented (ruin being disclosed, as it fulfilment of the Convention of Cintra, is about to :re by a side wind. There ure various modes commence its inarch'across all Portugal and Spline speech, whiels may he taken in an halms- to the Bunks of the Ebro ; * distance of seven ', n - e s ti t er h , i n a k tid tii n e u r ? is ui ni m or a: in in a d n ti a c r e gn t r o n l e n n e t u lzr d - , hundred miles. We say, about to begin its march ; . . art really is the case ; for instance, the . King 's because , whatever the Ministeriul Papers 'nay afi- re& are to he looked on as th e f orces o f it wart, it is perfectly known, that all the letters re- eintry. They tight for the benefit of the people, ceived from Officers at Lisbon, by the effriceitie. id are supported at their expense. They are down to the loth iust. agree in adinittiug. that lied ' His Majesty's forces,' and why ? Be- else to him is delegnted the high trust of direct- there was no prospect of their setting out before g them for the public advantage; but will it the 13th or eeth of October. Thnt the Coureation said, that to him alone belongs the right of Churn. like every other act or measure per- instituting an inquiry, or of ascertaining whe- funned subsegnent to the arrive; of Bunten), ism ier there shall be an iuquiry or not ?—t say no— t he 0 set of August; and the supercemion of Ww • say that every man who is interested in the war, Lessee, manifested iu the Commanders x total is a right to go up to the Throne to ask, with a firm, ut a proper and respectfull tone, whether those Irani of enere3, resource, surf milintrle dour, nei- were have beeu directed towards proper objects, ther Lord ilevreassuev, nor Mr CANNI . NO. will 0" id these objects properly executed ? These oh- , venture to deny. Bul the results, imissecfesta and • evatiomi have been only called forth upon this remote, direct and collateral. of that Treaty, so '...kr.x.ioli, as ruuny individuals by their arguments semis to have forgotten that His Majesty's forces justly stigmatized by the City of I..on , liet, are, if re the ionees of the nation at large." possible, more injurious than the principles which • , A freeholder. whose name we could not learn. dictated it were airworthy the elevation of mind rom the side of a waggle!, et a distant part of the characteristic of the British-name and iietioa. In letting, made some observations, and read some it was in /solutions, the nature of which we could not hear. fact, itself, and it will fie so proved by lot being deemed out of time, they were not put experience, a Convention. beneficiel to the beaten, D the decision of the Meeting. 311t1 pernicisms to the victorious army. ft liberated Mr. beet. could not suffer the question to Ju NOT'S force from a situation, where, thriagis op. e pato itiinut declaring, iii the face of his Fellow- pressive to our A!!ies, the Portagueae. it was line sreeholders, that he felt himself bound, by the eneration he owed his King, and the duty he owed pomade fie them to extend assistance of any kind is country, to support the Address which - sought an to their own Killer, and then iminediateq trans% every. into a transaction disgraceful to the British pored them, with their mine and accoutrements, sue, iu.lurtoni to our °Ili") ant! ‘‘ ''''''.ariv boa - 'to Fl'ff• ee, on hoard the very vowel* which were de to the hopes and the rescue of long-suffering troops indispene minanity, from the base thraldom of au u np r in- dee to carry our Clati ops from the ipled oppressor. Tagus to Catalonia. For likesters surely will not Tile question of Adjournment was then put by assume as a merit, or urge as an exteeeatiou of the - he High Sheriff; who expressed his intention of Convention, ti. , t the winds may have dispersed the akiug the decisidn by a division of the freeholders transports sent to convey du NOT, with die first anti o the right and left, instead of the ordinary . method f second division • hi* soldiers, to Rochelle. x to if holding up the hands. F rom th e -immense !toed asseinbled, and the great pressure which at Quiberon. They might have arrived at their des- his moment took phice, accompanied by loud tination, completely ready at ull poiuts tis come bouts, which rem the eir, and prevented the possi- mence their march for the Spsuish frontienelby the nifty of many at either end hearing what was said, first days of the present month; and if, issasio- he Meeting was divided in the centre by some ac- ie.:. pietism's ;he friends to adjournment were 9nence ofilenles of wind in the Bay of Illoomb . ordered to the left, and those in favour of the in- they should have been delayed in their pan* to . fairy is the right. In the endeavour to comply France, such an sccidiest CIO op way alfeettbe Ni- nth this request a scene of tumult and uproar pulations of the Treaty itself. It will ever remain, resented itself more easy to be conceived than what it was at the moment of its eignataire, ins lescribed. It happened to he market-day, and the neat-market is situated on the left of the Town- adequate, inglorious, and formed ~ to diaappaiat Hell. The consequence was, that the vast numb e r the hopes and expectations of the country." 7: : 0 of persons engaged in that occupation were all as- We are well aware that Ministers, who hvii el- . . it-tabled on the side to which the friends ready shown, by the month of their mien. Alpensll to adjournment were ordered to repair. They, therefore, presented the motley groupe of HAwassacav, in the late sarcastic answer km . • butchers, bakers, waggoners, pigdrivers, livery- the throne, how averse they are to any reel inquiry; ;enfants, and soldiers, interspensed with a proportion aid who have demonstrated, by leaving eine of. the of freeholders. When the uproar had subsided, the principal actors in the late transactions in thiairi High Sheriff stated, that the greater number mend of the forces at Lisbon, what "woes of ift- t „ , were on the left side, and were of course in favour of the adjournment. As soon as he made this coin. quiry we are to have ; such men, it must he ex. •.. iniinication, he keyed froin the table, and drove peeted, will endeavour to screen, so far as they off in his coach and four, which was in attendance, can venture to do it, all the Commanders implicatel • Mr. Western bad just demanded a poll, which was i ii e the two Coventions; Conscious that, where ex- iint granted. The High Sheriff did not wait to have the.usual Vote of Thank s fo r hi s con d uc t in Perree' enterprise, and all th e c har ac t er i s ti cs o f a t the Chair, neither was any such mutton subse- man qualified to conduct armies to victory, were quently made. wanting in the person whom they had wined to i Mr. WESTERN then came forward to address the supersede a successful G ene ral ; the impediments i freeholders, for the purpose of making some n.o- . . e defec t of - ensile; from tion, but was assailed in the most violent anal out- I mgeous meaner by a proportion of those who deem- supplies of provisions, or even from contingencies ed themselves the successful party. They rushed of other kinds. would constitute valid reasons to towards the table ooh which he sto o d, accompanied conclude a Convention with the enemy ; and well by many other gentlemen. Nothing could exceed aware that the nomivation of ouch a Getierist, like that the licentious conduct of this banditti. Shame to . my. that Clergymen were reco g ni s ed in s ti ga ti ng of WIISTELOC EC, is in itself matter of ineulpa this assemblage to the most savage and the moat serious tion against themselves; they have atrocious acts. They first upset one of the recourse to ingenious reasoning, or unfounded sup- large malinesany tables, and with its disjointed fog- positions, in order to palliate the evils which they meats attacked the persons standing upon the hey . od , i Th e first pr mei. us, us are unblushingly other. Mr. Western having found every effort to appease them inetliertual, with his friends re- told, that Jurroe and his forces will never more be tired ; when instaistly the other table was also sacri. called ieto active service; that their ferocious mins- deed to the fury of this irritated rabble. The pro- ter, though he tnity receive them. and allow them (mediates of the freeholders did not terminate on the to heed oa the *hove of France. will held them and departure of the High Sheriff. A very consider- able proportion retired to the Court-huuse, and their Cinainunder in utter alienation ; that theyable voted the resolution *hick is to be seen in the will only, by their presence and language, dame front of this paper. discontent and disaffection arson;; their criuntry- e.--- men ; lastly, that no measure so productive of TI-IE BRITISH PRESS. benefit to us, or to thin Spaniards, sad punt. im f .• • • — 7 7 - calculated to injure Naivetes, could have been LOX DON, devised, as Sir Hsw's admirable expedient of senile SATURDAY. 4 /ETODEIt 23. nig them all back •as expeditiously as possible to • ---......._ The Provisional Cuvernment of Spain is orgs- France. wised and established. All the Provincial Govern- Though these argitmeots, or rather illusiemei mints, and the Great Conn:els, have recognised the are in fact an insult upon common sense, yet it Supreme Junta. None of them appear to have had may he proper to ask such as venture to etele . ... AMY dou b t as to the propriety of submitting to it, them, cm what groond or principle they as am ~ eireept fee Counril of Castile, which thought it that BON AAAAA E will manifest any dieplinisure le- neces ;ars to take the written opinion of all its mem- wards Jtetor and his followers? Vestaxiturre, hers upon the subject. Some o f th e p a p ers mike to who terminated his career immediately after he set questien the le eet e eccoines which we have Riven of foot in France, bad lost the battle di Trafalgar,