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In thy paves, and ,speedily will be yabliebeil, from an w hored au4 euersciwk Copy transindfrd by the Author, ACCOUNT of the CIiHiS'TIAN INSTI- Ja i - u . noN in the EAST ; or Calle/re for Trawalatiag the Holy Scriptisres aud other laths, Works, haft the Orien tal Tongue's To :hid is added, • Tour weesig the Syrian Christians of Travancore and the Jews of Coale ; Ont&M big an licevaat of tbe Aitelent Christian Brava Tablets, and of the Jewell nail Clesklaic Manuscripts, ceently disarmed in the Interior of Hredoanui. by tie Rev. CLAUDIV; BrefIANAN, D D tios of dee Cluipiriso at Übe Prodidoney of Fart Wills's., in Deragoll. Printed fur T. Catlett mod W. Davies, &rated. PEACE. OLDHAM, DEC. 25. At a Meeting of the inhabitants of the parish 1 Oldham, assembled this day, to the number of %poor& of 10,000, to take into consideration the propriety of petitioning for Peace, the following Resolutions were agreed to unanimously : Resolved—That ft is high time to pot an end to *War, the mieet rfteets of which hoer hitherto hren the add- keg of power mid iutluence to nur enemies abroad, pamper. • ing 11ta War, the luxurious, and too often she profligate at bums, sad lara.,sing dud distressing the moot iudustrious Mod worthy pact of the community. • Itesokreil--That there is nut the moot distant prospect o being relieved from our eoilistrasitnents by ita farther rce.f CIII.IIIICC, nor of soy advantage bring ;raised aver tha enemy' that will make it alter at some future or more distant period to treat for Peace than now ; hut on the contrary, as its ori giti 1.111111/111101111t. PO its progress bas lava ruinous, and if mach larger per.isted in, threatens with beggary and ebto late atsrvation, a rumiderable part of the nation, if not the sibok with subjugation. Resiiircii—That an attempt to retiree oat fountri from the accumulated evils oceasioned by War, is far more honour able than to ye it as a pretext for raising new Loans, ana levying new TIMM, or for committing violence upon unof ending sad define dam States. Krentviril--That rein. Memore takes to dement our 'nom IgT 2 Cl( l ollS4lreteiTu, the Fattier of hie people, from becoming aripiAiated with their dietreamo, is equally derogatory to the - just Richts of the People, sail the Dignity of the Crows. Resolved—That we will lay our Complaints, by Petitiaa, Won- the Commons •of the United kingdom, in Parliament assembled, or art otherwise, in emseert with other towns and places engaged f a the VIIKIC pursuit, not dostiting, but a fair representation of oar real distress will produce the effect desired Rest i:—That a Committee be appoiated to prt pare the said Petition, and to rorresrocul with other places to pursuit of the \aux luutiAble obji ct—Prare. Prriodeot, II 1-:NRI . WHITAKER, Serittary, J.l II ES k AW. OLDHAM, DEC. ilk We, the uiali rs . o,;netl ('on.•tables of the Town of Ohlhalo. twin; seen an advertisement in .ite7;:eliester Git:ette, profesuinr; to be the n4itilt of a Meeting of the Inliahitants of this Parish, to the amount of Ten Thousand People, in whi. h th •re is an evident design to impose upon and mislead the Public-, dunk proper to lay before them the following statement On hearing. of a diw,rrlerl; Asaeinbly upon Old ham Edge, on Chriatualia-day, *e thought it our duty to minds. to the lipid, under tin apprehension that the public peace was likely to be diaturbed. A crow .1 aas collected. to the amount or about Aar or . p+•r Amara permits, but which, we are , 'Certain, did not exceed the latter pasuber. • The occasion or their aesensblirnr, we believe, . t:a die 4 astmlymetu Bath posted up clandestinel, about the ►::tb instant, in the moot YI- ~ ~ aad pretty generally dispersed over Iseightottrhood, Amongst the company as sembled, were many boys, and many loose and dis orderly "people ; but the great Majority, and all the chief actors upon the occasion, were inhabitants of ROYTON, pot of OLDHAM, and or that dais, whose political opinions are notorious for being-ini mical to tlm present established form of Govern- meld. •• We believe there were not more than twenty persons present from the town end immediate vi cinity of Oklhain, and those not concurring in the measure proposed, or participating at all in the bu siness brought forward, but attracted by cariosity stoney& string of Resolutions was read by a per son, from Roytou ; but hurried over in so low a tone of voice, and in a manner so indistinct, that very few people present could hear him, and there Was a general cry, from all parts of the crowd, of— " We cannot hear." The Resolutions mention a Committee and De legates, and are signed by a President and Secre tary ; but no such Officers were chosen by the peo ple present, nor was the name of Henry Whitaker or James Kershaw, or ally other individual whatever, mentioned. From the gross misrepresentation of the numbers, es given in the advertisement above alluded to, there is an evident design to represent a partial, tu multuous, and disorderly assembly, as the great body of people of this neighbourhood; and from the appearance of order and regularity falsely given to their proceedings, it is intended to describe the re solutions in question as the public voice of this popu lous and respectable parish, expressed at a full and general meeting of its inhabitants. To prevent the public from being deceived upon these heads, and to enable them to judge with ac curacy as to the number and description of the peo ple present, and the township or place to which they belonged, are our object in layingthis statement before them. [Here fullow the Striatum] LEEDS, JAN. 2. The General Meeting of the Woollen Manu facturers in this part of the county, in conjunction with the Merchants and others interested in the object of the Meeting, is announced to take place in the area of the Mixed Cloth-hall, at Leeds, on Tuesday, the loth instant, at twelve o'clock. The object of the meeting is to consider of the propriety of petitioning the King on the subject of Peace; and the spirit and language of the ma nufacturers and others assembled on this oecasiou will, we believe, prove, that while they ask for Peace, it will be only on terms that will neither lower the national character, nor endanger the public security. Such a Peace all parties ac knowledge to be necessary, and to endeavour to procure such and no other, will, we apprehend, be the object of this meeting. We regret to find that the Insurance Brokers, Government Con tractors, Loan Jobbers, the whole swarm of Money Dealers, interested in the continuance of the War, intend holding a Meeting in London, to express their approbation of the conduct of Ministers, and to encourage them to prosecutq what they are pleased to call this glorious straggle. Our readers will recollect that these are the very men who set up a shout of exultation on the rupture of the late ilegneiat ions ;—a shout that would have disgraced a ;;soup of inferuals--and that stamped with looting odium every man participating in the diabolical yell. Instead of lamenting the necessity, from whatever cause it arose, of continuing a War involving the destruction of thonsands. and the ruin of hundreds of thousands of their countrymen, these men, ab sorbed in the selfish contemplation of their own private advantage, absolutely gave vent to their joy, and made the walls of Lloyd's resound with a war-whoop that ran through the Kingdom. Un happily, Ministers mistook this shout for the voice of the country. And now, when Petitions for Peace are likely to find their way to the Throne, these Brokers, Contractors, and Loan Jobbers, are again to assemble to drown the voice of the manu facturing parts of the community with their reel feratiou. But we hope they will be disappointed; we trust, the Petition from Yorkshire will speedily find its way to the Royal Presence; and on this ac count it i- desirahle that the intended pacific meet ing should take place rather before than after Par liament assembles, that our Legislature may have the most early and unequii-ncal expression of the sentiments of the manufacturing part of the community, and that Ministers may thereby be in duced to make such public communications, and take su.li steps towards procuring the speedy return of peace, as shall not have regard to the emolument of a few in ergrown money jobbers, but as may best comport with the general 'interest of the country. It has been objected to the Yorkshire District Meetings that they are not numerously attended ; the futility of this objection we bare already sliewn, by contrasting the attendance on the pacific Xs:f logs with the attendance on the * No Popery" 3laetings. And if the rue:nisi to prtiti,.i..s rest their hopes on thirground, they will.llukthathEir all their other vi,iouary expectations, it will &ap point them. What will these ob k .ctors say to the OLDHAM Meeting, where TEN THOUSAND ENGLISHMEN, oppressed by protmcted War and panting for the return of Peace, have resolved to petition for this first of natioual blessings ? The meeting alluded to was, we understand, conducted in the mast peaceable and exemplary manner, and the resolutions were passed without a dissenting voice. THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, TUESDAY, JAK. 5. ADMIRAL COTTON'S EXPEDITION. We expressed, in a former Number, our appre hensions that the late adverse winds would com pel this Expedition, that lately sailed from Portsmouth, to return to a British port. These apprehensions, we are concerned to state, have been realised. The convoy, we now find, were en taring the Bay of Biscay, when, on the 27th, they were dispersed in a violent gale. On Wednesday last three of the transports (one of them the Richard) arrived at Fahnouth ; and on Thursday Sir Cu am us Corroa, in the Minotaur, accompanied by the rfritelope, so, and about 20 transports more, alsoen tered Falmouth harbour, where they now lie. We cannot state the exact number of this convoy, when it sailed ; but we are apprehensive that not more than one half of them have returned to Falmouth : though, we trust, that 'many others have been driven up Channel, and reached the Eastern ports. one has arrived at Plymouth, and another at Ports mouth. Whether the object of this expedition was to assist in the destruction of the Russian fleet in the Tagus, in the capture of the island of Cents, in the bombardment of Cadiz, or what else ; we fear the nation has but little to hope from it now ; as a long time most necessarily elapse before it can be collected, re-organised, and proceed again to sea. Dispatches were, received yesterday from Cork. We understand that they announce the receipt of orders for the landing of the infantry regiments which lately arrived in that harbour from Monte Video, with Admiral MURRAY, and the progress made in the disembarkation. Dispatches were sent off yesterday from the Ad miralty to the West 'tidies. Government have not yet received the detailed account of the loss of His MAJEITY'S frigate the Am. Some interesting particulars of that me lancholy event are given in a subsequent column. The Swallow hrij, of 18 guns, Capt. MILN ER, reported to be lost at Scilly, was safe at Liverpool, on. the Al instant. We are concerned to leans the loss of the Pert brig, formerly the Bonaparte French Privateer, of 16 guns, Captain DONALD CAMPBELL, on the i tith of October, on the bland of Magaritu. Mr. STBOUGHTON, Master, and to men were drowned. The accident happened in a hurricane, in which she drove from her anchors. She had taken, the day before, the Spanish packet Alartate. of li guns, from Ferrol, bound to the Spanish Main. Captain CAMPBELL obtained possession of her mail and dis patches, but they were afterwards unfortunately lost in the Pert. Captain CAMPBELL came home iu the Ak.randria arrived last week at Portsmouth. It was reported on Sunday, that the troops arrived at Portsmouth, under General Sir JOHN Mooar, were to be sent back immediateli, to the Mediter ranean. This rumour, however, is totally tle-titute of foundation. Au order was remised oil Sunday, at Portsmouth. directing them to be landed at that place, and the disembarkation commenced im mediately. The luth Regiment, command. 41 by Col. Ross, landed last evening. We have occasionally copied from the Pros 'social Papers, principally the Yorkshire, aceounts of meetings and IN-solutions in favour of Peace.— Some extracts of this description, from the papers received yesterday, are given in a preceding column, from which it appears that a grand meeting *i> an nounced for the lyth instant, at Leeds, to tak.• into consideration the propriety of presenting a Petition to Ills M AJESTT at the present awful eri-is, praying him to take such measures as he may in his wisdom deem most effectual for the speedy re.. toration of the blessings of Peace.—lii noticing, from time to time, these proceedings, we have never been influenced by any motive, except that spirit of truth and independence, which ever has, and we hope ever will distinguish the columns of THE liamssit Pacts. Seldom, however, has a para graph of this kind appeared, without exciting all the vulgar calumny of the Treasury Journals.— ' Thot.e panders and parasites of the present hour, alio can transfer their adoration of Lord HENRY Pgrer.to Mr. NUEVA f., p Olt the since time nit which they change their coat.;, have, upon every such occasion, dared to impute, as far as th< feeble voices could be heard, every wish fl) peace to faction, to " a base spirit of fachon," a s ' there was something odious in the name of Peace, as if it was a sentiment that could not exist ia th e heart of a loyal Faylishman ; and the term could only be found in a treasonable correspondence. The persons against whom this charge of faction is made, it is not difficult to discover. It is meant to embrace every Member of the Legislature, who does not swell the ranks of the Minister withii doors ; and every subject of the land, who does not support them without. 'With the venal slaves of the Treasury, this is the only essential difference between the loyalist and the rebel; the only standard of right and wrong; and so necessary to their cause is 4 strict adherence to this rule, we find no exception has or could be allowed in favour of Lord Mwrow. Ar a bold and determined opposer of the Paymasters tal the Treasury Prints, his Lordship is a leadiak Member of the party which they daily denounce as , 4 a base faction," and yet his Lordship has bees a sturdy opposer of those meetings. in favour of petitioning for peace. His Lordship has attended those meetings in Yorkshire, and, following his judgment and the dictates of an houourable mind, has uniformly raised' his voice against them he possesses the confidence and esteem of his political associates, min) , of whor entertain a very different opinion on the subject of peace.—Of the calamities which pro. tractisl war must produce in a manufacturing country like Yorkshire, that man must have nei ther head nor heart, who cannot conceive a fright ful picture, and none but the upstart Placeman or Pensioner, who thinks the world must wag well. if only he rolls in affluence, could think it im possible that a wish for peace could originate such a -country, 'in any thing but 'll a base spirit of party Neither Lord MILTON, nor any other honourable man, has, in his oppo. sition, treated the subject in any other way than as one upon which loyal; candid, and patriotic. men, might fairly- differ. That war is only to' pursued with a view to peace; that peace is . welcome a visitor, and attended by so mauy bless. ins in her train, she can never come amiss, fess, we hope, are disposed to question. As pesoe,"then, can never come unseasonably, the only objection to any movement or expression of the public mind in her favour is, that our imitation may retard her approach, that there is a wayward myelin in her nature and only increases with solicitation. only remains then to consider, whether the present moment be PO unfavourable to peace, that the very recommendation of it only tends to remove to u ;Treater distance, and that the suggestion can therefore be only derived from a base spirit of fee. Lion, anxious to involve the country in eternal wai For our own part, when we see the Prints that noto riously and avowedly study the taste and temper the Minister, and ever obedient to the mandates. the Treasury, address themselves to the passions and personal feelings of BON AIPARTR, when we see thew daily endeavouring to goad, and to iaAarre hie ac do think that meetings of this kind may ha their use, by vindicating t►e national character, in proving to the enemy, that the country is too not dignified, and generous, to mix in such petty strife, or to acknowledge the intim ne, of such a weak and womanish spirit. Beyond perhaps, no RTC benefit may be expected from and exprev.ion the public mind in favour of peace ; but at the ea time we must admit that such a measure may as fairly entertained now as at any former period the war, without any imputation of faction, pm spirit, or disloyalty. One of the Treasury• Journals to which we have alluded, indeed the bellwether the dock, has furnished an argument on our side. its number of yesterday, it says, " If the violeuci with which a Power with which we are at war, claims against any measure we have adopted, any proof of the efficacy of it, our late Orders Council, and the Expedition against Denmai must be considered as most efficacious indeed. For never, during the whole ouunbe of llos earres furious career, did he ever betray w vehemence and rage rucaingt any measure, he ha.; betrayed again 4 those two. Th have touched him in the most sensible part, the agony under which he writhes is conspi, ous in every line and phrase of his LTecrec The Expedition to Denmark, in depriv. him of the Danish Beet, disabled him from form• mg any Maritime Confederacy in the Nod/ against us ; and hence, thanks to the vigour foresight of H MAJESTY'S Ministers, we Mu never since that expedition heard him repeat menace of a Northern Confederacy. The Orders in Council have proved to him, that Decrees inspire us with no awe or dread, and rouse ns to greater rigour. Hence hii rage is cited even to madness—to Goa that he, who coi wands or influences every part of the Cootineni ery burl Irir and fi n havi s i f ~ . • Lion to t h e mai ald hi 6 1 ce. that is L, to PA vho ratl hin of , not lan the hi ' ed, len [gin , e" rict CO h Ch as As to sof hog wi h as 114 Ices of ded his able to Linst • and floss • the P V pro , ring • nei- ght - man sell, im- e base DOT nay iotic o be is so les* frx, hen, etion niod l her has It %rut the ive it - I can fac- , a . War. into- er of es of and hein him, , ,d obi, trife, ,and gre..l an of same y be sd of Party nub ter of e. In leuce be $ ers in • nark, • 0 such re, as They and rpicu- ve.— riving form- North r and have at his • e late 9 at tus d only is ex- COM.. anent,