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GRAAD LIVERY DINNER. In consequence of the sudden indisposition of our Reporter, we were obliged, yesterday, to break off dlitUll3ly 111 our repOrt of the proceedings at the Loudon Tavern. on Thursday. The following is the coat:hailing part, after the speech of Mr. Whit bread, with winch our account left off yesterday:— After the Chairman bed given " The health if Sir Samuel Itotailly," orisons he described as the 'steady supporter of the laws and liberty of Eng lard, which was received with the warintst marks ul esteem and ;approbation, he proposed " The health of !EL Wardle, lie steady opposer of (or , ruption awd abase, sad ally every lean alto, like him, has the courage see bouesty to tormenter difficulty, danger, sad calumny, la Maumee of the pito*, be vier sure of thew soppmt." As Noon us Mr. WARDLE mounted the table, the room rang with aeclamation—when it had subsid '• ed. that Honourable Member addressed the Meet. ittent to what he had said in the noose of A rem ir " • • • mune, last year, which he had no hesitation 11/ attain , . to be must disgracefully corrupt, the lion. Member begged the assembly to recollect, that al though he was much abused for stating, that. with proper economy, the whole amount of the Income Tax might be eared to the hation. yet, that, re. y lately, ode of the very men acquainted with the arcane of the subject (Mr. Hu-kiss:in) stated still more. He conceived. and offered to prove the practicability of saving to inillion to the nation, hot the Honourable Gentlemen he alluded to distinctly declared, thia unless twenty millions were alve,i, unless the expenditure was brought within the in. come, the country had not the meatus of going on. All he could speak to was with regard to the money etweects.arily taken out of the pockets of the people; but this Mu. Gentlemen was well enabled to speak as to the money unnecessarily expended. Yet. with this statement before the Rouse dud the country, not a single retrenchment wag ivonosed, or appeared to he in contemplation. What, then, was to be expected from such a (:overnment, and the House of Comincins, Iry which it was sanctioned ? IVitit res.iect io the calumnies by "ditch he had been assailed, he felt that they were utterly una •ailiog. PoArful, numerous, and inveterate ac his enemies were, the approbation of his holiest and in dependent countrymen furnished all impenetrable • shield against their attacks. lie must, indeed, he insensible if he did nut feel that the esteem of that respectable assembly, which had just been so ho nourably tesiititd, was a complete antialbte to all caluniny—(elpplawes 'nosed kith • er• fi—" All Aunest public ;nes are alundered").—Thution. Gent. adverting to the observations of Mr. ‘Vhitbread as to the privdegea of the !loose of Commons, em. phatically remarked, that the privilege of I oturnit ta,.. for a libel should never belong to that !louse; 11• ause it was one which could never be in favour of the people—which, is fact, if exercised at all, must be exercised agai.ist them—(Cmid applauses.) • Hr concluded with expressing his satisfaction, that his conduct, since that day twelvemonth, when he bail the honour of such a flattering reception in that room, met the approval of the Livery of Lon don; to prove himself * deserving Member of , should ever be among the lust object s of hi s Whitson. (Unicersal and lung continned plaudits.) - The health of " Mr. Byng and the independent Electors ul Middlesex" being , toasted, Mr. Beim rose, and, after retnrning thanks, de. dared, that the only honour to which he had ever aspired in his whole political life, was that of de serving the approbation of his fellow-citizens. In deed, it was always his conviction, that, hail he sought any other honour—had he looked for any honours from the Ciown, such a pursuit must have interfered with his duty to his constituents. Feel ing that his attention was never withdrawn from the people, he was proud to timid, on every occasion where he had the honour to meet them, that he had not attended to them in vain. To the character _ and conduct of his lion. Friend (Mr. Whitbread) be bore the same testiniopy. With him lie had acted foe the last twenty years, and he was fully convinced that he was now the most eligible leader to follow. For himself he was ready to declare his dispositiou to follow him. Like him, he would always endeavour to prove a strenuous advocate for the rights and liberties of the people, and a shady opponent to the corruptions and abuses of the State. Mr. WSITIIRRAD rose with impatience to do that which he was sure they were all impatient to du, namely, to propose the health of their worthy Chair man. lir was a living example of what independ ence and integrity, united to great talents and judgment, might produce—Up/dowse/. lie -aw he was deeply seated in their hearts, and he *idled he could also ere him seated io what had been de scribed as a very bad know (load hnyhteri ; be cause he wished to have as min t y good men as pos sible io it—(Neer, hear.) Toe illoimuralite Goa tleman here proceeded to prove, that a case might exist in which the House might exercise the dis puted privilege in favour of the people ; but this not appearing at all palatable, he coucluded by re gretting that the harmony of the evening should be at all disturbed, and, as a speedy wa) of renew. iug it, hr prninried " The health of Mr. Waith man."—(Applaisse.) Mr. Watt ixAm declared, that, when he first came forwaril in public life, he could have little hope of the honour which had been cont,rre,t him that day, by placing him in the chair ; or of the no levs 'Littering, anti he was sure siiirere, tri bute which had been paid by Mr. Whitbread. He hail derived all his cimovter fiom the Livery of London, and he would be the weakeiit and basest of human beings, if he deserted them. In any way, whether iu tit! Common Council, or Livery, or any sithordinitte sitnition in which he could be of the haat use to them, he should be proud to ex ert !Outsell. Hr hoped often to see his fellow citizens met together, as on that day, because it would give them au omtorinnity of canvass ing the co;.!iitt or public men, and of saving themselves in future from the reproach of sending those to Parliament who acted against thew.---(Apphricse.)—Fle did not think, however, that therms was anti the Livery ; for if they had a they would, no doubt, clsoreie better than they did. If dory hail many men like Alderman Comb.. to .filert trim, they could not be at a loos. lie cancliad,d lay swing them the health of a unto who had delved the Livery and the country at large Lord Coetirime.". Laud applause.) This proposition was peculiarly well received, as was Lore Cochrane, when he ruse to return thanks.. His Lordship, after some prefatory wbsersatioils, ex- presvive of his gratitude to the Meeting for the ho uour confer'', d upon low, adverted to the privileges of the "louse of Commons. %Vbat those privileges precisely were he would not presume to say; hilt he would state his decided opinion, that it might not , to Le competent to such privileges to interfere with • any act within the coginzance of the common law of the land. dipplausas.) That tribunal was, in his jitilgitieut, irrecoacileable with the priuciples of Engliah low, before which the accusers were not , examined on pith, and the Sleinlpfrs composing which were not themselves Oil 04111. Such hoeing been always his couception, lie thought it is duty, some years ago, to resist the establishment of what I was called a Court of Inquiry in the Navy. 'where no oath whatever WdS administered, and in conic quince of that resist:trice to that dangerousionos ration, as hr considered it. he was sent with his ship into the North Sea, to spend four mouths oft the 1.1.11111 of Iceland, where they coald render no service whatever to the country. This proceeding appeared to him to have sonic aiialogy to the recent pretensi of privilege. But what confidence could the People of England repose in, or what disposition could they feel to concede to, that House, which claimed the privilege alluded to ?—Let the people look at its recent conduct. Of the Expedition to the Scheldt they approved, And so should lie, if it were properly arranged.— But here he heeired leave to submit a remark or two, which he had not heard in the House of Com mons. The fact was, that that expedition could not sore,•cd, owing to the plan of the Minister at War (Lord Castlereagh), to whose arrangement its failure was wholly attributable. Nothing could be so absurd as the order to delay the progress of the army to tike Flushing and other places. If it were enema by the enemy to capture or destroy • fleet lying oil' Hotherhithe, would not they be con sidered as blockheads if they rtoppid in their pro gress up the river, bury Fort, Gravesend, aye, and even the Tower.— Yet the order of proceeding upon the late Expe dition was not less preposterous. How, then, could it succeed ? What was to be thought of those who could order our men of war and frigates to proceed slowly up the Scheldt, sa liable to be attacked front the beach by the epcmy, so much expoved to destruction from shells and carcasses, which, pro perly employed, would half/left nothilig but their bottoms within the spice of half an hour ? But the whole contrivance was a system of blundering. The object of the Expedition he thought perfectly attainable. If otherwise conducted, he was per suaded that that object might have heel) attained si , ll IMS larger military force than 10.000 men ; and he was equally persuaded thut that object was still attainable with that amount of force, under proper " l he Health of Mr. Harvey Comlre" being drunk, that Gentlemen slated his resolution to sup port the cause of popular freedom on all races• slims. Ile had, some t ears ago, the honour of being a member of a see ety entitled the Friends of the Peopk, and from that ►ociety he learned lessons, which, he trusted, he should never forget. Indeed. he encouraged to hope, that he should tet live to vie the principles of that society reduced to prac tic.•, by the establishment of a complete Parliament ary Reform. Upon " The Health of Mr. Wm. Madocks, the enemy of the corrupt and unprincipled borough faction," being drunk. That Gentleman rose, and after a warm expres sion of his gratitude observed, that people were fre quently called upon to pledge their lives and for tunes against a foreign enemy ; but, in these times, he thought, they ought to be equally, if net wore forward, to pledge their lives and fortunes against the domestic enemy—who was no less dangerous-- who was, perhaps, more to be dreaded—because he was more insidious—/Lord applaose.)—The Hon. Gentlemen took notice of the fallacious rarnours set afloat by the enemies of Sir Francis Borden, with regard to his conduct 'towards the Serjeant •t-Arms. It had been insinuated that that Worthy Baronet meant to deceive the Serjeant—that his mind was undecided upon Friday, a heftier he should resist the Speaker's Warrant or not. Now, upon this subject. he begged to say a few words, which would satisfactorily explain this bushier. He was present in the Hogs(' of Commons at the examination of the Sei)eant-at-.runs, and what said that olfioer in his deposition*? Why, that Sir F. Bnrslett told him. between five and Rix o'clock on Friday evening, that lie would not yield to the Speaker's warrant. But to hi. own personal know ledge, when a question as to this warnsut was brought under the conideration of Sir Francis Burdett, two days before it was issued, in consequence of a ru mour that the House of Commons would vete his committal to the Tower, the Hon. Baronet declared his decided resolution to resist the execution of the warrant. This declaration he (Mr. M.) stated, up on his honour. to have been made in lois pretence. Connecting, then, the deposition of the Serjeant as-Arin• with this ileclaratiou, he would ask any man of common emotion, or common sense, whe ther there was the slightest ground to impute any thing like deceit or isidecision to Sir F. Burdett ? These circuinstaoces he thought it the mare ne cessary to explain. because they referred to a trans action, upon which the enemies of Sir Francis Bartlett scented particularly anxious to dwell, with a view to affect the lion. Baronet's personal character, which had always been found so pore and unassailable. Bet that personal character would, he was confident, continue to be as much above the reach of calumny, as In. political tech tilde had proved superior to the influence of cor ruption or intiusiolation—( Lord opplauses.) The lion. Member concluded with expressing his rest.- Infirm to pert in the cause which obtained the approbation of that meeting, and which recom meilded him to the favour of Ilia independent con stituents, having no doubt that he should yet live to see the people of Englsod enjoy the Coostiiu lion as it secs. " General Mathew, awl the evil and religions liherties of Ireland," beam; drunk with the must rothusi4stie ezpremiott• of opolawir, The lionoutalile Officer dictated, that he wa4 kiiihly proud of Iht huuuur e paaticulatl) from time sentiment connected with his name; and al►o be cause be was induced to ascribe the partiality of that respectable Nleetitag to the riloril which he was alwajs prowl to avow, the -principles and cha racter of St Francis Burdett. It was his good for tune to know that worthy man above .26 veers.— Upru his first alerting him at Geneva, although then young, he saw reason to admire his talent., and to confide in hits principles, and from that hour to this that admiration and confidence had been ad. vancitig. It was nut of the power of calumny to depreciate the character of his Honourable Friend. He might he called jecobio, leveller, and dema gogue, us Mr. lox, and Mr. Grey, and Mr. Grat tan, and Mr. Whitbread had been; but no nick name• or outcry could affect the reputation of a man who pursued the open, vitality, direct, hottest course of Sir F. Burdett. The Hon. Officer concluded with strong remarks upon what he called w the ac cursed l:toust," and the agents through whom it was carried, particularly the corrupt means em ployed by the chief agent. (Lord Castlereagh). Coon " Mr. Creevey's health being drunk," that Gentleman declared his recantation of the opinion which he had expressed in the House of Commons upon the tirat discussion of the motion for the re lease of Mr. GaleJonea ; for, upon further consider*. tion, he was decidedly of opinion, that the House of Commons had no right to coininit for libel. " The Honourable Mr. C. Hutchinson's health being drunk," that Gemtleinato addressed the meet ing in a speech replete with peculiarly-impressive elotience. He was glad to hear arty 'moment in England, aisil particularly from Ouch a respectable meeting, which ►narked a just solicitude for his native country. The English people might always be assured that such a solicitude would meet • grateful return, and that whatever was given to Ireland, would be a gain to England. This Gen tleman's speech was frequently interrupted by ap plausrs. . _ . Several other Gentlemen were also distinguished by having tilt ir healthy drunk, inuring whom were Mr. Clifford, Mr. Alderman Goodbehere, and Mr. Sheriff Wood. The latter, on returning thanks, stated, that on receiving • letter from Sir F. Burdett, on Satur day, he immediately proceeded to the Worthy Ba ronet's house. Upon arriving there, he ordered the "arsny to withdraw from before the door ; arid the officer instently conformed to his order. As to the people, he felt confident, that he himself alone could have dispersed them, without any posse comi taw. Feeling it his duty, •nd being also of opi nion, al he had no hesitation in stating, that the Slieaker's warrant was illegal, he offered to sleep at Sir Francis Buriletes house, on Saturday night, with a view to the Honourable Baronet's habi tation. But that was thought unnecessary. He, however, returned with his Colleague to Piccadilly, on Sunday morning, and again found the Guards, with eu Officer, not so very well disposed to conform to his order., as he who com manded on the preceding evenitm. He applied in the two Civil Nluaistrates a ho m h e Mond there, and they thought proper to say, that, if the people did not 'lnverse they would order the troops to charge. This threat. however, was not'executed, for he promptly told these Magistrates, that i f th e y attempted to issue such an order , and any death ensued, be would indict them for murder.— ( Load appiev.su, and a ri yty Nome ! name ! Further, he prevented those Magistrates from sending out placards describing the people as felons &v. which placards he found at the (llou cester Coffee-house. reedy for circuletion. flue his interference prevented those papers from noun ; ; forth, which lie could not help considering as extremely improper, and likely to lead to much mischief. [The cry of •• Name, name," was again revived with increased eagerness; but the worthy Sheriff did not comply with the desire of the Meet ing.) He concluded with declaring his resolution to persevere in the line of conduct which obtoined him the approbation of so respectable a proportion of his fellow-citizens. After nominating Stewards for next Alerting, the Chairman withdrew, and the Almting disperaied. The Ea.t Kent Militia moved, last week, clone Berry Head to Exeter, where they at present re main. The Ifith. or Royal Iriph regiment, marched in to Ottery Barracks, under the command of Capt. UOIIItLQUIR, on the 16th instant. Government hap ordered preparationP to he made at Plentouth for the reception ut sun pick or wound ed soldierp. Vice-AdmirA Sir C. COTTON painted Iw Plymouth on the 17th iiattwit, in the Lire's/ frigate, on his voyage to the Mediterranean, to take the chief com mand of the fleet. The letters received ob Thursday and yesterday from Plymouth are silent respecting the stattimmt of the American Captain, F.:111 to have taken Jar. rally, the sailor, from the Island of Sombrero. ire have the satisfaction to inform the public. that an experiment was made, on Thursday last, at the Deritend Iron Foundry, Ili order to prove the utility of a new-invented mode of hai.ging grind stones, with intent to secure them trout breaking while at work, and which was done with • large grindstone previously sawed in two, and afterwards fining the parts upon the spiedle in se complete a manner, as to perform from 430 to 300 revollitious in a minute, to the entire satisfaction or a number of Gentlemen mill.owners, their foremen, and grinders. This valuable invention of Mr. Sl.essa, of Birmingham. may probably be the saving of many lives and much property. An affecting catastrophe happened at Armed). Waite, in Cumberlsild. on Tios,day Sewsu.. mlllwnppht , aud J.isms SLes, (aged IS), his apprentice, both of kirkoswald, went from thence to their work at Armathwaite•mill; when they got the miller's boy to set them acres. the Eden, in a beat. Tommie the middle of the current, the boat upset, and all three were drown ed. Mr. Sewst.i, has left a wire and three small children to hameot his loss. This ricer, on Toes day. was consideraoly enlarged, from a sudden fall of rain, arid the men. iocautionsly undertook to mitigate a boat across the river ai'h two polls.— W lien they hail got into the centre of the current the hoist liecanie uurnan.ige.ilde, viol they ave. by th, it cesistildrimpetuo•i , the water, precipitated r,r er the water-fall, sod fell a height of utarly 10 Let. to the fall dor heat was NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. teoittsmouTd, APRIL tg, Arrived the Jason frigate, llou. Caption KI N from G.bralter ; G os h aw k, Captain Li!horn. Im o ; Lisbon ; and Clarkson, Sca:fe, trout Monte Vst e , in 79 days. Sailed the Nereus. 36 gime s Capta;ft P. fl e) . wood, with the body of Lurd Colliugsbood, t o 1 4, Nure ; Leveret and Peacock, to the Eastward; s o d Escort gun-brig, for Gue rnse y.. Passed by the Efiza-Anaa. Smith, from Soo. Several paakeugvro lauded fretu her; ntsp tfK carpenter. who rec ived le woend , the ship harin g 4 , let. 10. long. 1.5. engaged a Preach pritatee i , 44 4 be at liar ult. PLYIHNITII. *Pall, IQ. Came in the French %loop St. Piers, from fi t _ mine, prize to the l'ierecr, gnat-brig. Aie.ll..z French ship, name unkuown, prize to the AltdL4 rigete. ratiaotrni. *MI 17. His ijesty's sh i p H orat i o , wall 1• :.ail 411 Est lenhanien. appe a r e d o ff h ere . this day., hound. Should the wind c ontinue to blo w as and unfavourable as it present, it is eap eck d will put in h ere on to-inorrow. OLD BAILEY. Aran. 19. . _ The I Prisoners bring tried. and theSes. sinns ended, the RECORD/IR iwocredrit te pu n ". fence. The folloaiug teethed judgment of death. : Richard Imre, alias Carlin, far forgery; Melinda Wig ton, furs burglar) ; John Ingrain and W. (*mach tor stealing; Jaynes Poole, for a rviibery an ibe Intai r ." Geo. Humphreys, for stealing in a d‘.clinig Law; blirie4 Ford, for shoaling in a dtetlling.lionse ; James l'yne, highway rebltlEf . % ; and W. Masailtii, alias MattLish., y e burglary in the day time. Two acre ordered to be transportad for the Ism situra teen years. - Se;eral were ordered to be transported fur avert wan. Two received sentence to he itupriauatd for two :a the Howe of Corn, Jim). The tent wiry sentenced t• varioas minor piel.i•Luttosts The Sunhats were their adjoartsed so Ilcduca.ul, tLe oth of Jaw scat. E RA E7'S. SMITHFIELD M. ,RKET, AraTL se. To Mak the Ottal prrolone of 0116 Reef...... 40. ed. to 60. u‘. 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MARRIAGE& Saturday last. al All Saints% Nrseaetle, he the Re* . 14 '• Elverson, Mr John Barnes, to Mies Mary Greenhill Suns- u its, t ash of the 'Theatre royal, Newcomer At Cheltenham, by the Rer. Me. F1P4110414 R khard Pro.", F. 4 of Os si 1 .14 re to Mrs fleanct widow of lite lite M.9..t Orintel, of the id battalion of ituy ' als. On Saturday. at St Anne's Church, Dahl'a, tsy erase ' Kolarrt lastourke, Esq M. P. fut Lady Essuly "ITCIICII, taster Its the Karl of Chores Ilse re re 91011!. elle WO,. and benlegrasont see oat tortelse's skstuvo., at Ilairistusa, mangy Kildare. A islllt sus, Esq. of Harcourt-street, tu sun, oettebter to Doctor Jstrueoso, Sturgeon Gess erector of Ho•pitala to tie Os denote Departmerst . . Us the ;lb inst. Joint M unlock, Leg irtalleelottl Moriagion. is Fathet, chest daughter of W. Ant of Murillo k, in the louse rsioni. l%edoesitay at St. Edittonffs March, the Her. Dr. Perkins, Major Braditod, of the Sli of foot, to Maria Arm, dittanbter of the Isle, and I prescot Ste Stafford Heury Northeole, But. DEATH. Ow Monday hat, in Dottras, Lady Des 'arse, Tio.rles Des V... on. of lischwralle, queen's count! dauslarr of the hoe Deus ekotopsetse HIGH WATER, OIS HAY, AT LONDON A w e to min alter .; I Ewer. 39 tali' LON 131)N IN, 4: NISI nt, N. t, ety.s. au paillabe4 Ai thr , itb. a. 14 • 1,, !lark at IN. I tnmareie, IlirAsal, by .1 %4 UIT R , gat same elaC be few IL I. P3—.l, v.. Lib Oar , . (pia. Pa' del/ ittleadsd le. • , b tfw Mr L.- e. g.isela."` r„; ,o,doi, Ls* ~ Exeter. b, ilb rfft"'" I aisle" I°l6e g, *ire a W.'iv, iv. B. " Jaw J. my. .1.9 1".. lee "" NV BI:IlL ra" nd Pre rh, %r t. , fa. t h Th Prof 10.1. abk KUV calk , kon Phan with