The Statesman. — London, England, 1810-10-23 00:00:00

~~,. w r...,. L IS 801 4 .1 M 4114. . f - • ea, orr. ttl ol:r.ircit }IRON LOFD . 'WEL INGTOV, Tu 111 t ‘c:.LLEsor.Dori Mlq iPER El It A.VaRJ AZ. Head-allarli•rS. Alcohum; Oct. 5 • • • 1 4 lbw Illcrtkr.sur SFlloll,—The enemy having moved w i n f orc e, hi. :ids:weed pi cd in front of Cliiathra, or ,o r rtimet to the 3014 ult. and morning of the Ist in:t. I con time to it!idra w the advanced guard of the allie,! to tai• ( .1 itio. tive• Mondego, on the Ist inst. :lad to withdraw the main body Of the.ntakV. retn•iii of the I3ritish cavalry fro•it Forno., Cap h,it:enherr, of th • first r •ginieat of Ilthsars, and Cap sorthe Ifith Lizlit Dragoons, attacked and charf>,ea I,t t'd' skirmish Captain Krauketiberg was woul•d -'. I happy to say but , :breed to withdraw this part of the army by the . of Sante and Pambal, for Leiria, Dear which tiit nit rJ oti the Id, and halted durint• yesterday, the ;Oval) , ell General Hill retired wilh his corps, by heiag Pambal. Eyinhal, upon Thomar, where he arrived yes trotn• nivanred guard of the eaemy arrived yesterithy • at! raa.i.if oar pigaets to retire from - Pomba! lowanis 1 ir:•it• received inthematiou that their Bth corps was , ;mid their other troops Ms this side of the Mondept. I comeqw•nce, motioned at withAraw, and our l i on e ,n nrd %t dl to -day he ea this sid.• .f Leiria. .I. ‘.. nil few exceptions. the troop- have continued to 'ma pt tt rtttidva wilt. great regularity, awl have not suffered i.-e. arm , / is now at try great distance from the position vwe I I I (yak* to receive the eateigity ; and continues a ll/ mated w the hest &positions. I;. all the information I have m-eive 1, the enemy surer, the tre.s!PA distresses. The inhabitants rif the towns and 14 ho e universally abandoned their hones: carrying a ith :01 flat they c 44114 transport, a.:41 that might hr useful td: ; nd bs this in spite of the habits and prac".. pluideci4.„e, by which she armies of the army have ail id ow. hem animated, they have bee., - prevented PQM derisli wale/ adroit:to froin tit. few resourrec which the inhabit ow ma d l y may have left, is consequence of the ism .„;,nity 44 [triaging them on: r"„ a i l ing of importance h•i4 occurred in the north, or in the if „ ice , 44f the s ash of Spain, since my la,t dispatch. My j.n kit from Cadiz aredoted the 22d Of September. 1 have tje Saar ta he, Sa. " W• • UAW:TON. „P. S . I h a ve Ica-nt tint Generals GraiMorge and Foix, i im i t h r langing to the' 21 coritti, sere winiiricil in the • acting a it.ii•Vih ult. It Isis:11:A that the .or - is since dead of his wian'ti” I,l4Bart, Orr. 13.---The following Proclamation bas be. n i-surn soares tle Norouha. Lieutenant-General of the Renal Armless frc. orma ,e of orders Fr im Beresford, Com eosin In usChiet at toe arm give notice to all militiamen, wh ,„ Rl y ho• Rh rut, iii=tantly to join their regimental and Shut evert nue .thq refines t i d-fent) c. entry ni the present junc tu.e, ht filling In jinn, ah,ll he considered as a traitor, his satunst Lied, and himself haniAted to Africa for l ife. Heal- Innen at Vonellas Verdes, Ort. 12, 181:1." PROC F.EDINGS OF TfiE CORtES . to the •iniog be Cortes on the Ist of October, °titer moved's resolotion,thev the Cortes should demand of the Regency 4 vitoinll4nuitielencconitt of e t'.. brooches of lb. general eihninmtratlon ; that klisture a monthly secount of toe same should be ( v o mit ; antAlsit it% a dad) account of events and mareners of any LH portanceshoutd be given i n f or th iutormailomentt cailhore of -thetortes. mutton was,optaitsad :of- and vote unsoi. m 0 sly. to wfj St• r , i'lyy • Gontal t made a, motion or the• appointment of aComatittre of fl lissiice; the purpose of pro. wok( she disitstetilif,cliuses depending before the Tribonah, str• latillifiiitg to see the seal of this earthy Member, litid the frankness with which he delivered his opittiler; .professing that ho sag a soldier, 1144 tid nal understand rhetoric and syllogism+, but that he etulaavoured to make him. kif understood like a Castdias. He was supported by various Members; but the variety of objects which presented themselves prevented them front de. liberating fully on this.' It *at determined, that _the Regency should de. liv-i in a statement of the prometittsis made since Me beginning of April, 1508, with an account of the merit:. and circumstances of the persons pro moted. An intithativa was likewise delivered, that A- Midst Kier should giro in a statement of min .if high treasoq. These various asetione v ,the„eilfspringlief justice lad rectitude, produce such ant efliect upiterille pen. lhal they fe.ljheasselves transported with plea. nr", and p. , neteVed, with. love towards the august A , tublv, where those propositions are made for the e ~ u lati..ll of the innocent and oppressed, and the ...rrur of the wirked t, Tbe Depu s the Anrrictsalprelpp i ted a writ. lilt, in whit h it was prayed., i f WA the:. American Provinces should be declared an integral part of the Monarchy, theta veil sho.:ld be thrown over the late disagreeable events, and that a general amnesty tluald be p ru non n Ced. • THottvetitY, SEPT- 27 . LIBERTY' QP THE PRESS. _ Assutt e! made the elption, the ultimate ob. leet of whi it vas thePolitlealLibcrty of the Press. 14 ni , ivid for a Committee to investigate the q and submit to the Cortes the result of their lahoots and their reflections, and point out the mann a in which it Might appear to them that the Political Liberty of the Press may be fixed. ZOIRAVIIX and'hen na Lamm° supported 16, azoim .f Arguelles. A CI. rierl Deputy manifested some opposition. another Ecclesiastic, 'ascended the itibune, and in a very animated manner pointed wt the evils which had already been eaperieneed host the want of the Liberty of the 'Press, and the fits which would result to us from its political opini on , lc 7013. It was al wa y s necessary to consult pub. wilt* t: tiCllO was Tag Ahnost all the Members voWd for the motion, I : 1 .d a Cuniniittue was appointed, composed of eight ') . e!libcrs, among vrhotn were Arguelles ) Perez de LZStrO, Palacios, and liertisidn. For the Benefit of Jews anti Foreigners.—An s?portuaily ouw offers to Foreigners of every de itriPtion, e n d J ews , o f &p a i n i ng a Freehold, as 4 the Act o f P ar li ament for the F ree h old H ouse 1 4 ttery, the Trustees are regoired to convey the ..reebold Premises, comprising the capital Prises in ''!uid Lottery, to the BEAttEas of the fortnaate 4 0 61 ; respectively. Thus, if a Jew or Foreigner Ilfdder of a Prize Tick.: in the City Lot . *lnch draws on Tucsdoy, December the 4th , he mu s t b y that means become the possessor %capital Freehold, which, by the law of the land, T i rnot by II)ty oth er wane obtain. to "Shut! Lottery begsts i Agdiftnishcd drawing last y , ' d l 2 . 's when the foliovieg.G t pital,Prizes were u y EYTON, 19 Twenty-five Shares :- 1 ,572 a nts • . £l,OOO 1.193 cl ub . D N o 1 17 • • • Class A . • . . bUO * I `'OUNAILL ) neat the Mansiots-Uvoss. 'brasi. em by timed 11 1 16e 111" bira 1 IN* irmy, a fog wch. ;a had my in heal. loco! ! left at p).eu its of )ortu isisbod Ike of opted, trfAre. 06,4 , Tut,. r esatek rk ta then oliva ace of set out ru/cM. en by crew in the )ertl in '1 (writ e, and mow- Wain. n early At tha ht: TO. r there, to the ru cue - ae rank , object Malta' .ali. [ki 41 r on , all (two suss col c . is oo,' ier 1 1 44. 1112 ha 4 ring . o i l aK drd lie Be i• C Lair• action, littd t. 0 50. VII. U , reape' ~~ ...MI - - - THE STATEAIAN. -~• PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. KENT MEETING. , Yesterday, pursitant to the Requisition of a most respectable number of Freeholders of the County a Kent, the High Sheriff, JAMES BURToN, Esq. .:ulivetied a Meeting of the County, at Maidstone. At one o'clock the High Sheriff presented him. if on a hustings erected in the front of the Market Place, and exhorted the Meeting, as it valued the floooiir of the county, to give to eve y i geit t 111 ho sho u ld offer himself to their a tt eu u a can . r tu, e 31 id and patient hearing. It was, only by such a correct demeanour he would be enabled to return a fair and impartial. decision of their sentiments. lie had further to acquaint them, that lie had that morning received a letter (coin their highly-re. spected Member, Mr. Honeywood, expressive of his regret, that continued indisposition alone prevented him from personal attendance that day, to assist in furthering that great object to which he was most friendly, as well from a sense of duty as of incli nation. A substantial and constitutional Reform he would ever support, as the beat remedy fur the many. political evils under which the Country suf. fared. This communication of Mr. lloneywood was re. ceived with considerable approbation. Mr. Horton then came forward and addressed the Meeting. Freeholders of Kent, I believe that it is 'now very , generffiy attinkted, indeed I may, say if is aIP 11 ,.4 1 Terially felt, ihatihe dangers which affect our cou ntry, and,the n?apg .. grievances of which we complida, cannot now be remedied, or even pal. listed; by the common and ordinary process of a ohange of Ministers.—That process has been tried over. and over agisin , and our condition, instead of • mending, has for a considerable time been most la, nietvtabty on the decline. Indeed the-pressure ,of. the public calamity is such, public hope has been so often disisppointed„• , ha here prevails through out the country an abs , it ;eretice as to toe persons best fitted to co blic affairs. To what causes ere we to . public apathy on so important an occ. ? to any feeling abroad that there exists any Ain alents amongst political characters. I believe ,r the last fifty years, there have been in the various administra tions of the country, men of the most enlightened minds gifted with great talents and possessing high.acconiplishments; yet the condition, in place of being alleviated, is cuneiderable impaired.—No; it is not the dearth, of great political intellect, but it . is the most lamentable deficiency of . public huneity. that has produced our sufferings, awl that aggra vates their continuance. For what did the immor. tai Camdeu, at his day, honestly pronounce, when be declared, that, from the progre.ss of corruption, se general was the public distrbst, and so extensive the indilDrence as to statesmen, -that Ministers would be free from all restraint, that they might set them selves up above all con trout, and with safety defy every opposition. To that state I fear we are new at this moment reduced, sit fferiag the cala nities which that great man so long predicted. .But though degraded, we are not jet, thank God, without a law ful remedy. lf, iuti. cd, w e were so reduced, our situation would be desperate indeed. —But let us not whilst we have our own .reach a remedy of true English growth, which, by emancipating the House of Cornaious from Nlittistertal bondage, shad place the repro. sentation in such a situation as will prevent•the re. currence of Owe causes which have led to one pre. sent dangerous and degrading degeneracy. [Gond- nued applauses.] That remedy is opposed by some as unnecessary ; by others its adoption is retreat as a dangerous novelty. With respell to this object- ' tion on the score of novelty, let us review the many illustrious statestneti by whom it was mast zealously recommended. • The immortal Chatham predicted that the rotten boroughs would not survive the last century ; and that unless tit,. [louse of Commons should reform itself from within, it would be re. formed with a vengeance from without. [Cries r t f hear, hear!] In 1785, his son, Mr. Pitt, a matt of great talents also, declared, that without Parka. me:guy Reform, the nation would be plunged into new wars ; [Hear, hear !] that without it the country would not be safe against bad Ministers ; and that good ones would be of no use. I now Lick of you to determine, whether the events . of the last 23 years have not furnished the best commentary upon this prediction? [Mar, hear!] Sir Wm. Black stone, and surely he could not be charged with de mocritic principles, asserted that the spirit of the English Constitution was in favour of a more cx. tended representation of the people. We have the authority of Sir William Jones, though last not the least respectable, in support of that Reform, to which he devoted the great powers of his mind, and on which lie has bequeathed a most.valuable treatise, as the best legacy to his beloved -country. With• respect to the other objection, of Reform being un. necessary, I must say thatatieh a field of discussion, is so Unlimited. that . ..k . e.t this moment could not venture to trespass upon your kind attention 'bra detailed review of allthe . argyinents opposed to this assertion. Sure Lao that: it rests upon the same weitlearbuilds, and Is equally futile, as those upon the score of novelty, wbich, I trust, I have sue. eessfully combated. put I beg le a ve to ask every Freeholder present, whether he conceives his lib e r ty and property justly secured, su long as we have a House of Commons completely under the influence of the Slinivtry—liultliivg at their disposal an expert, diture of seventy millions a year—hoiding.Parlia,..l ment itself in a state of thraldom, in perfect disregard of thosesalutary checks which haveits better times ex. isted, and which our forefathers were weak enough to consider amongst the must estimable branches of the British Constitution. But the enemies of Re. i form tell us, that our measure is to be resisted, be-1 cause that Constit t tstion must not be altered. Against such an intermit:lll protest. The British Constitii. ottoppreliension, unfulds two principles t n ot ' ie of spirit—the other of form ;in some degree resembling those of soul and body in animal life. N.,w, the spirit, I conceive to be unalterable ; but I ibe form capable of being corrected, amended, and improved, according as its palpable decay, or A tkin from its original purity, render.such Reform oecessary. Wilt, then, the enemies to Refor u m t ven t ure to declare that such a deviation has n ut taken place! Will they say, that the forms of our _ 7VC -. 7 , 77" , • LI . 'Avis , • Constitution arc not at this moment opposed to Hi spirit, and that in its most essential principlos-the British Constitution has nut keit impaired, neiti-• lated, and absued ? [I !ear ! heqr !] If such a change has taken place, and who can dons , it, is it, 1 ask, a crime in us to call iipon the hand of wisdom to apply the necessary correction ? pear ! hear;] Every ntotive that can inllueisce men, lieve use, Gentlemen, demands that prompt and efficacious improvement. CFrom the Free.: holders—" It is time that it were dune quickly."] - Yes, but our opponents shelter themselves un der the pretext that they cannot ; accede to our wishes, because they ktiow of no plan of Reform, as proposed, to which they can agree. Sir F. Burdett's delineation of the Reform he proposed ; they opposed, because it was too theoretic and octet' sive, and not suited in their minds to the exigencies of the (lines. Yet we find the same men equally hos. tile to the preposition of the lion. Mr. Brand, a proposition which narrowed the question of it.furm, and which at once presented a practical remedy to the gross abuses which we are all anxious to re. dress. The truth is, and a lamentable source of complaint with the Country it i also, that the House of Commons seems determined even not to I entertain any discussion upon a question upon which. there is not an honest man •in the Country but holds a different opinion from that branch of the L-gislature ( Hear, hear !). They appear not only determined to oppose any specific plan of refer. (nation, but to stifle, if possible, the discussion itself. But if Englishmen are only true to their own best interests, there is is the • expression of the 'public will a voice powerfni 'enough to compel even Par. liament itself to accede - to that great measure, which sound men feel to be essential to the salvation of their country. From my. soul I believe, that if Any .of the many plans of Reform which have been sub mitted to the Consideration of Parliament had been honestly anti promptly adopted, Incalculable benefit would have resulted to the country, and many of its present awful calamities been averted (Hear, hear v issar !). This is my sincere conviction ; I felt it. my duty to declare it in the face of this Cutely. I can have no objects of vanity or Wes reetito gratify—the tense of what the•public pros. verity demands has beam my only-impulse. If we' . can be gratified in the necessary and laudable object that we this day seek, public contentment will be the unfailing consequence. And, in answer to those who oppose the claims of the people, tinder the . pretext that the just inflitence of the Crown would be diminished, I reply in the words of a conclude ing passage of an Address presented by the Huuse of Commons itself, in 17g3, to his Majesty,' 66 that the Throne's best security consists in a free; 'unite: fluenced, unfettered, independent House of Corn mons." Mr. floecies then read the following Petition, amidst the most marked demonstrations of applause, from one of the best-conducted public meetings that we have ever witnessed : " • We, the Inhabitants of the County of Kent, in Sall Coe . ty Meeting assembled, conscious of the rights we posses of all. dre,ing and petitioning your Honourable Haase upon ail pub lic affairs, and impelled by a high sense of tite duty we one to ourselves and to our country, beg leave ti lay before ‘int our opinions and sentiments on the greseut defective state of the Re peen:fit:aim' of I he People. " To the a isdom and justice of the original design of con- vesting to Parliament the Representatives of the People, to de liberate and co-operate with the Sovereign mod else Peers upon ever% question of National Concern, we give our unqualified approbation ; hut when we take into our con.idcration the decay of some tloroughs, once prosperous and well-pEopled, the rise and flourishing conditions of others, formerly •Jf little note; when we reflect upon the effects of the heavy and insupportable expense of Elections, which claws the doors of your Hon. House to many of the best friends of their country, and robs it of their faithful service ; when we think of tbese things, we are of oplitiodthat your Hon. Hnu , e is at this time by no meuns a fair Representation of the People ; and from i the manner to which a Wee portion Ode Witt:do:ll Member, obtain and secure their seats in your Hon. House, we cameo but infer. that that nigh and sacred Ace, intended for the pub- lie service, is frequently sought for mind procured by oneolisti tutional means, and is too often perverted fro its original de sign, nod renlered subservient to private ,:.s. In this cisme . wr. ascribed the greatest part of the national catatonics we now huve to deplore. The mean principles, and morrow vietrs which have too to governed Inc Conceits of the Cabinet; the I false nothition and little intrigues :if its Members; tne conino tune of asysteni of expenditure, lavish beyond ex , ntple ; the I usahy disgraceful expeditions, in which the blood and trea sure of our country have been too prodigally wasted; ;he decisions 6t . your Honourable House, in direct opposition to the general sentiments of the nation ; .the unwillingnesk- hi therto evinced by your Honourable house to protoote.iuquiry into, or couleet abases in, the representation--mot unwillingness which cannot fall to exci t e our distrust, and to diminish time re spect we owe to the name and functions of your Honourable House. And we deplore particularly one instance of this am:- willingness, of which we comp! mia, no your tejectiou ofa Mo tion made in the last Scission of Parl'ament, by one of time Members of the Coon v of Herts,-as that Nlotion, had it been adopted by sour Hoa-ornble House, must necessatily have brought before your Committee a full inquiry into the present defective state of the Representation of the People, anti there by have led to a substantial Reform in time Comtism* Home of Parliament, so essential to the salvation of the State, by restor- Mg to us a free Constitution, that inestimable inheritance, transmitted to us by the wisdom and intrepidity of our ancestors. " The times denmnd this open avowal of:our sentiments, and is the language employed to convey them,. we intend no disre spect ; though we are persuaded that 110 words run he too Strung to express our feelings upon this occosioo. Therefore, we most earnestly entreat your Honourable House to under like; before it is too late, In a true and cordial spirit, the mea sure of Reform, upon principles which, by conciliating the affections of the People, and Wag restoring to y ous Honourable House its doe *eight and character, may rescue our country front domestic discord, and secure it from the foreißli foe, , give stability to Cie Tlirme, and perpetuate the Constitutimm; Mr. FOOT then rose and addressed the Meeting. After the very able manner , hi which this INlSitiess has beets opened to you, little remains for me. but to go through the customary form of strenuously and heartily seconding the Address which has just been proposed. Gut even in the performance of this duty, I feel it necessary to throw myself on your . indulgence, and to solicit, with all the dif ii. dome of a . man • unused to public speaking, a candid and impartial hearing. Were- we met together to discuss some abstract question of- police—some dif ficult theory in the art and mystery of Government, I should out presume to intrude myself upon your notice; but. the subject of our Address is a most simple one. The grievances we complain of are common to us all—the remedy we seek is obvious an d i n f a llible. We *re anxious for nothing new -- it IS the Constitution that we seek for—the Giusti tudion, as established by the wisdom of our tutees. lon, the Caustitutiou of King, Lords, and Com motsa—the Constitution of the Statute Books. It ' la st ;Wen common _anxiety wu request, that Par liament will, in its wisdom, adopt some measure cal culated to support its own henuur, and vindicate 'its own lnity. We wish that some effeetuel me thlid may he resorted to, to prevent time recurrence of scenes au disgraceful as those which have, dining .r0” , ..g.47. !VP" s ►,., c~!Mo + 4.- ,nr -.-'r -7trw .. t. w ~ . - - --- _;, 15 - - I - ..r • • ' r .. . the two or three last Sessions,_ been exhibited to the eyes of au astonished *lt'd iusulted people. We ' wish to see.the time when corruption shalt be no .rarer avowed and silsocated, and when ministerial imbecility shall cease to lie protected by Miiiieterial majorities [loud cries ,I hear . We *kit fusee the time n hen the gua(iltaus orthe imistie. purse . seal! disburse with wisdom, what they grant with caution, and when the great machine of the bilge shall be worked, not for the adibititin of interest -of the Governors, but fur the happiness of the go. Tented. It is from an extensile' bt The right of vo ting from freehold to copyhold'iiroperty—it is from increasing the number of Members in a due propor. Lion to the population of boroughs anti of. counties —it is from efficacious measures for theveduction of the enormous expellee attendant upon the present system of election, that we shall obtain this ob. jaret, so congenial to the principles of Englishmen'. Gentlemen, I presume, and I. thick I pretome fairly, that this is the sum and substance of our wishes, and to wishes so reasonable, it won't) at 'first sight seem difficult to suppc,se an uppositron ; but, Gentlemen, the creatures of Administration, the minions of utile; the expectants of emorument, are embodied in firm phalstix again , t us. The con. test in which we are engaged is arduous. Self.iute. rest is dead to the voice of reason and of truth ; anti to talk to the borough-monger uf Reform, aud to 1 the hireling of retrenchment, were, indeed, a to aster to the ocean, and to whistle to the wind." Hear, hear !] Against this mercenary host of t i ' des we hive to oppose the unanswerable argument 4f common sense, supported in the first instance by the countenance of this most respectable Meet. big; and, in the next, by the Unenimises exertions irt independent men of all de , eilptioni and et all parties, whose opinions are dictated by re. ,action, aud who are steadfast in the judgments the'y have formed. Let os, then, keep the grand specific of Reform constantly in view—let :of not be lulled by hope, or dispirited by ditties. r . .pointments. Our sober voices may' at 'Oft ,be stifled by the yell of corrupttnn, and our: regatta may at first be denied by prejudice mid by power.— ' fLoud cries of hearse!) Let us,AtOwever, be true 10 ourseiaes. Let stems swerve, even for 4 ino. anent, and our final success must be the result. The :march of justice may be slow, it is nevertheless sure. Ours is the cattle of justice, and it will, be. neve me, ultimately triumph. [Hear, hear '.] 40 io.by those meifis . wsibtspe, at no distant period, *Melee a House of Minuet's so c., isiltuted, that whilst they hotionr. the Crown, they , s l tli(t - d ireteet the people—who MAI attend to our i....nte4 l ,iitte. 'kitty nut Inrding tier our rightt,• bet hiller of .fir joy.' It Islay these meinitie, 'hope, at ntriiit. tent period, to see the We ,Ig: divijul t • inlipnb * adherents of the present Minister luriod out Of office—the management of the Il i ritistt Cabinet plaegil in the hands of those*hrewill Once'Oeore open its , us a free career for the' restorition i tlf 'Our honour, oun liberty, and Our `happiness :—for nothing tees i further to promote the nation' , setfety and the pee. inlets comfort, than ttielim men of tiaras, 'loyalty, I.probity, tied honOnr, direct the Public coisteiis e . [Load approbation]: I am delighted with these unequivocal Marks alone acquiescence, 'and shall .conclude - with becondlig . tha motion now preeusid. Mr. Cos called upon the Freahotilers to teens heart and hand in the great cause of • Refufm ; ,the system of • venality had so far prevai)ed„, as ,41. quirerstesply and uniform cutlet's tb resist it. I; was a system Which had Witten* triuttipfied ',eer au law,, and bithiefianre to ever public priniple. ft had succeeded iteconeeeling fr om their beloved King or real eentionents of his . failh!til Pou'ple. He trusted that (he result of that Meeting would set the exam,. ple to England, and that their traeious Monarch would at Lolgth be undecelaud ';•hitherto petitions e i t. rt l e d for the Royal eta were consigned to the office of some State Secretary, and then transferred unopened to the builei•-iholis [lrusghier] ; the prey tent . Mhtistent had abused the confidence they had, by a triek,. gained from the public delusion, .end how had they rewarded that eintlidetiee ; Mr. Perceral, whose brother, Lord Arden, tuuk yearly 24,001. • out of the pockets of the people; this Mr. Puree. vat, the Clerk of the Irons, or the Clerk. of She Mint, he did not know which to call hint, hp told that people upon whose hard earnings he and hip family maintained tbeteselves—he had told the peo. ple that Mr. Hunt's pillage of 200,0001. of their money was but a misappiting of that money ; bid he would ask them if it .was any thing else ,than public rubbery ?—[..:lpistonser.l He concluded li calling un the Freeholders to be at once ireati , taad I temperate. In the present crisiv the etivice of no man, however huieb!,.., was to, be scorned. 14 would conclude by telling them, in the language the Poet, that When dangers call mid delegates are met, Sage COU ibe k should not come with t irdy feet e For in the crisis pf our comatry'li fate, He merits death who gives advice tin late. The question was' then put 'by, the Sheriff, that • the Petition, as r.4l,odiviir . t,abried in the erpresentctl to the House of read COm by iuo hi ns. affirmative unanimously. ~ A Freeholder then proposed three , cheers for the 11proposition was immediately conceded to, riff ; and whichca rried into effect. M r. , RYDER then ruse and moved,• that the 130 ii• She riff tion be left for signatures, in the diffetent towns of the county Of Kent ; and thet a Committee be ap. pointed to carry 'into execution the objects of this Meeting, Ind that the persons Whoie 0,10105 are W. the Reqiiisition do constitute the said Committee, with the power of enlarging the number .of sold Committee. . . Mr. roe?, before the question was p u t by ills. Sheriff, •said, that ho was anxious to remind thp . Freeholders, that one of their ltepresentativci l Sir klhaard . finateithull (then in his eye); had tic4 . lseti r ap hii bandit' favouref the Petition which they bad so recently adopted. Ho, on the contrary., htut op. posed that Petition ; turd lie, Mr. Foot, was net it all surprised that the lion. I.3.tronet had opposed it ; indeed he should have he:oi surprised if he had out, such an opposition was only consistent with the general public conduct of that Hon. Baronet, which bad been, lie was sorry to say, uniforthly in uppositionori the sentiments of his Constituents.— .[Applaases.] Sir EDWARD KNATCUDULL replied with consi. eerabic 1$ armth. Ile said that when he first saw ••• ,1 _. ` - - r r th i 4 , ash ;tend grit, MO ha i I De. creed s Wait mi tho vity, Iva ; done.' and will L..