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ony hour. Whether the pieties who ire to assemble in the village. mean to concentrate in Manchester, is at preient known only to themselves, Certainly the military stationed here have received uiformation which induces them to make ex traordinary preparations. They have fortified their station near the New Bailey (which is bounded on one side by the river Mersey, and on the other by the New Briley wall), by having cut deep sluices at the two ends, the only means of communication; wit] they have also made an embankment, by filling Forhearis with gravel, mut playing them on the hanks of the sluices nearest themselves. At vie New-Crnss Barrack• they are preparing n de. fence of brick-work. ~,,, .jtt the placard speaks et the propriety of remonqr4ti , iv with the Prince Regent, and both Mitoses of Parliament, it is known that the original language of the notice was much stronger, but it has been softened down to its present stale, merely becanse the promoters of $ could not get any printer who would undertake to put his name to the language in its first shape. Like the meeting of the 16th August at this place, though they have felt it necessary to change the lomgoiage of the placard, no mail can suppose they have changed their intentions also. " A similar meeting has been called at Bolton on ilnnelny next. " The following Citeular has been issued by the Borou4hreevel and Constables:— " Police Office, December 7, 11819. " SlR—towing vet-rived informstion, from warming 60.1 , CP5, that the disaffected spirit which has Wog prevail in this and other districts, is on the eve of breaking owl .nto open violence, we consider if would be a breach of d ity, were we entirely to conceal one apprehensions on a sobject of such vital importance; and at the same time, we ate snaking to avoid eariting that general alarm, which waist :milt from a public announcement; and, therefore, adopt this mode of corrowsiication, which we request you will consider to be so far confidential, as not to divulge it •.) say person,na whore discretion you cannot entirely rely. We are, Sir, your obedient Servants, THOMAS SHARP, Rorolighscrve of Manchester. JOHN ORFORD and RICHARD SMITH, Con stables. J 1. SCHOLES, Roronghrreve of Salford. Tumult MARRIOTT a n d S.I]ICEI, MATTHEWS, Constables." IMPERIAL PARLIAMEIVT. /1017 E OF LORDS, SrrutoAT, Drcstani 11. The Bop, A•sent was given by Commission to s' r Training to Arms Prevention Bill. The Corn- P were, the LORD CHANCELLOR, Lord !%11AFfES131.:ttY, and Loaf MELVILLE. HOUSE OF COMMONS, SATV*DAY, Drcv.misca 11. The House met at three o'clock, but were riot strinninned by the Black Roil till lieu. 1. nr. 0•I iigniring the reason of the delay, it reoppseld that the Lords could not proceed to open Ilat Commit-ion, inasmuch as no Bishop was in tettrendance in read prayers. At length one was fnund by their Lordship.' messenger. The prayers I.eing over, the Black Rod appeared at the Bar of e Common., mud the SPEAKER, attended by .evreal Xleinhers, went to the HMlge or Peers. On ti.eir return, the SPEAKER informed the House the Royal A.sei.t had beeu given by Commission tv the Training to Arms Bill. fur the feerfoinesee or the prestintplioosnes, rash% nesse, of • prefsoctiovay licenser. And to what an author this violenc bath been lately done. and is what book of greatest consequence to be faith fully published. I could now instance, but I shall forbear till a store convenient season. Yet if these things be not presented seriously and timely by them who have the remedy in their power, lout that such iron moulds as these shall have authority to gnaw out the choicest periods of eaquisitest book•, and to commit such a treacherous fraud upon the orphan remainders of worthiest men alter death, the more sorrow will belong to that haples race of men, whose misfortune it is to have understanding. Henceforth let no man care to learn, or care to be more than worldly wise; for certainly in higher matters to be ignorant and slothful, to be a com mon stedfest dunce, will be the only pleasant life, and only in request. " And as it is • pariietilsr disesteem of every knowing person al;ve, most injurious to the writ ten lobe/ars of the deed, so to me it terms an under valuing and vilyfying of a whole nation. I cannot set so light by all the inventions, the art, the wit, the grave and solid judgment which is in England, as that it can be comprehended in any twenty capacities, how good soccer, much lease that it should not passe, except their superintemlance he over it, except it be shifted and strained with their strainers, that it mould be unc•rrent without their manual stamp. Truth and understanding are not such wards as to be monopolized and traded iii by tickets, and statutes, and standards. We must rot think to mike a staple commodity of all the knowledge in the hind, to mask and license it like our broad cloath and our wool packs. What is it bias servitude like that imposed by the Philistines, not to be allowed the sharpning of our own axes and coulters, but we must repair hem all quarters to twenty licensing forges. • • • • • " Nor is it to the common people Jesse than • re proach; fu► if we be so jealous over them, ar that we dare not trust them with an English pamphlet, what doe we but censure them for • giddy, vicious, and ungrounded people ; in such a sick and weak estate of faith and discretion, as to be able to let nothing down but through the pipe of • licenser That this is care or love of them we cannot pre tend—wisdom we cannot call it, because it stops but one breach of license, nor that neither, when es those corruptionswhich it seeks to prevent, break in faster at other dores which cannot be shut. And, in conclusion, it reflects to the disrepute of cur Ministers also, and of whose labours we should hope better. and of the p►o6ciencie which their flocks reaps by them, then that after all this light of the Gospel which is and is to be, and all this continual preaching, they should still be frequented with such an unprincipled, uneditied, and !sick rabble, as that the whilte of every new pamphlet should stagger them out of their catechism and Christian walking. " And lest should persuade ye, Lords and Com mons, that these arguments of learned men's dis couragement at this boar order, are mere flourishes, and not reall, I could reconn what I have seen and heard in other countries. where this kind of inqui sition tyrannizes; where I have sat among their learned men, for that honor I had, and hin counted happy to be born in such • place of philosophic freedom, as they supposed England was, while themselves did nothing but bemoan the servil con dition into which learning amongst them was brought, that this was it which had dampt the glory of Italian wits, that nothing had bin there written now these many years but flattery and fus tian. There it was that I found and visited the famous GALILEO, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy wherein than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. • • • • • " For when God shakes a kingdome with strong and healthful! commotion, to a general! reforming, 'tis not untrue that many sectaries and false teachers are then busiest in wincing; but yet more true it is, that God then raises to his own work men of rare abilities, and more than common in dustry, not only to look back and revise what hath bin taught heretofore, but to gain further, and goe on, some new enlightened steps in the dis covery of truth." LONDON. MONDAY. Dicssissa 13, 1819. The Manager. among the Radical Ref irmers have, we lament to say, convened a meeting of the popolace fur th 4 day at Maachester, and taneous meeting• are proposed to be held in some of the neighbouring villages, foe the purpose, say their placards, of remonstrating with the PRINCE RCOENT and both Houses of Parliament upon the impropriety of passing the measures proposed by the Ministers against the freedom of deliheration and the liberty of the press. No doubt these people, however erroneous may be their principles, have as good a right to meet fur the purposes stated in their advertisements, as the wisest and most loyal of his Majesty's sal jects ; but after the events , •R ..-.A. LICENSING VIE PRESS. A* we have the authority of Lord SIDMOUTU f r avowing that Ministers had under their consi slewion, whether it might not be expedient to im woe a censorship upon the Press, when they deli berated upon the measures necessary to curb its I:centiou,ness (as the term goes), and as what has happened once in a Cabinet constitutional as the p-e=eot, may again recur to the fertile conception a its Nlembers, we should recommend to their perusal (the Poet Laurent, no doubt, has the book), !: oN 'a Speech to the Parliament of England .1;•- the Liberty of Unlierned Printing, of which i‘ r follossiiig is an extract. It was originally pub hi!.ed miller the title of " Areopagitica:"— " And how can a man teach with authority, which is the life of teaching, how can he he a elector in his book as he ought to be, or else had tititer be silent, whereas all he teaches, all lie de. lasers, is b'it under the tuition, under the correc tion of his patriarchal licensor, to blot or alter what pre6stly accords not with the hide hound humour skis , ch he calls his judgment. When every acute reader, upon the first sight of a pedantick licence, will be ready with these like words to ding the bfAt a cult's distance from him, I hate a pupil tpui,;:er, I endure not an instructor that comes to me under the wardship of an overseeing fist. I k7iow nnthilig of the licenser, bat that I have his own hand here for his ignorance ; who shall warrant me his judgment ? The State, Sir, replies the sta t one r ; but has a quick return, the State shall be gorrri,ours, but not my critics ; they may be uostskets im the choice of a licenser, as easily as this licenser may be mistaken in an author. This it game common star; and he may atble, from Sir F:ancis Bacon. that such authorized books are bat the linguage of the times.' But though a licenser should happen to be judicious more than • (Lowy, which will be a great jeopardy of the next sutcesuoit, yet his very office and his commissions ▪ loon to let passe nothing hot what is Vial gam,y rrorised already. Nay, which is more la. sneittab!e, if the work of any deceased author, though iit.er so famous in his lifetime, mad even to tbrs day, come to their bands for license to be print ed or reprinted, if there be found in his book one *enterer of vent'rous edge, uttered in the height of zeal, and who knows whether it might not be the dictat of a dirin spirit, yet not suiting with every low decrepid humour of their own, though it were I(noz himself, the Reformer of a kingdom, that siseab it, they will not pardon him their dash : the 'ruse of that great man shall to all posterity be lost, THE BRITESii. PRESS. tirhkti Maseisisifir IA alarmed and agitated as that two has been in consequence of the former meeting, we lament that these wicked we deluded people Should have determined to ex par it to the dangers that may be expected to arise from bringing the people again jut*, a state of im mediate opposition to the Magistrates awl the mi l:tory, while the feelings of the one party are in a state of active irritation, and the apprelomsiont of the other so highly excited as possibly to precipi tate them into !matures of unnecessary violence.— The Bormiglireeves and Constables of Manchester and Salford have issued to I permits possessing their confidence a circular letter, apprising theft of their having received information from various sources that the disaffected spirit of the people in the vicinity of Manchester "is on the eve of breaking out into open violence ;" and the intelli gence from Manchester further informs us, that the military quartered in the town have mode the most formidable preparation., such as imply an appre hension of being attacked by the moil tee. They have fortified their station near the New Bailey (which is hounded on one side by the river Mersey, and on the other by the New Bailey wall), by cutting sluices to interrupt all cominumeation, and throwing up an embinktnent; and at the New CMOs barrack• they are preparing it defence of brick-work. Should the appreben b )))) • of the Magistrates he really such as they express its their circular letter, and as are implied by these military preparations, they would be very censorable were they Hot to issue notices prohibiting the threatened assembly of the people. A very had spirit, uo doubt, seems to be at work in Lancashire wills the people of that county : the goestion of reform is new, they seize upon it not us a speculative twilit, but as the certain promise of a future good, and pursue it with all the ardour and enthusiasm that novelty inspires. these feelings is unhappily now added a rancorous asperity, occasiouril by the proceedings of the 16th of August; hut we crunot think that any body of them sidficirinly large to be in the lent degree formidahle to the military force stationed in Maticherier„ could be imluced to take up arms against the existing frame of government, for they are in gr-iirral too intelligent not to know that their principles are not countenanced by the great mass of the people, that, standing isolated in the midst of the nation, they must contend moonlit fearful odds, a n d in the in stant of their insurrection fall victims to their own temerity. We hope, fur this reason, that the fears expressed by the Magistrates of Manchester are un founded or exaggerated. These Gentlemen are placed in an extremely delicate and difficult sitwo lion, and are on that account entitled to much in dulgence; but there is a rashness that arises from excessive timidity which is much to be dreaded, and by which they in the former instance seem to have been infiuen..ed. In this habit of the mind the sufferer miscalculates his danger, mid in the blindness of ju Igment which accompanies it, rushes upon the very evil he sought to avoid. So was it with the Magistrates of 'Manchester on the 16. h of August, for while they expressed their utmost soli citude for the preservation of the public tianquil lity, they were the first to break the peace, and chose for this wise exploit the very moment when the exercise of their authority was must likely to be attended with danger. Paris Papers of lVedilestlay hot have arrived at our Office. The Chamber of Deputies was oc cupied on the preceding day iii choosing the can didates for the situation of President of the Cham ber during the present Session. M. ItavEz. the President for the former Session, had been chosen some days since, and the list was completed on Tuesday, by the addition of M. LoURVoISIER, M. LAINt, M. BELLART, and M. SATOTE-ROL LIN. The Chamber adjourned to the next day, when the above candidates will be presented to his MAJUITT, that he may select one for the office.— The Marquis de LATOUR-MAl:Route entered upon the Ministry of the Wur Department on the 7th instant. The 5 per Cents. on Monday were 68 1. 90 c.— Bank Actions 1,465 I. The Dutch Paper* which have arrived express some apprehensions fur the tranquillity of the north of France, from the turbulent spirit of some des perate men, who are said to be actuated by re• volutionary feelings, a contempt for religion, and a hatred of the existing government. We are happy to find in them the following proclamation from Sir THOMAS MAITLAND, dated Corfu, the nth of October, stating that tranquillity was per fectly restored at Santa " His Exeelleecy the Lord Cummissioner, pro fempere, feels the greatest pleasure 1113 announcing that public tran quillity is entirely restored at Santa Maur*, and that several ringleaders in the revolt have fallen into the hands of his Excellency's Resident. The deluded peasant■ who were led Autrey by the machinations of vile and contemptible mew, bare returned to their homes, and resumed their lawful labours. His Excellency's Resident is eapged in discover lag the origin of the mail revolt of the peasants, and the jest severity of the less will afterwards fall ow the heads of t►eee who bare seduced them. " By eider of his E‘eelleney, (Signed) . G. OSBORNE." " Corfu, October 8, 18)8. The late strong gales hare caused great damage among the shippittgon our coast. The whole hue of the eastern coast, ss3s a letter from Yarmouth, presents a scene of devastatiori god ruin. *reek lies scattered at every step. and the melancholy conclusion is. that giversl ships, with their nnfortu. note crews, hive gone down ; besides these, there ■re many ls stranded, some of which are so much danniged as to render them not worth re pairing. "Vinous articles have been washed ashore at thig. place, and • crew of 14 men arrived in so open boat. oft Wednesday, having been obliged to quit 'heir *hip. which was entangled in the sands. The ves•rl wag plainly seen from the shore ; it is hoprd sloe will be saved. it is reported that one or the revenue cutter is lost. On Sunday se'rmight, the nutter, 2K, Captain the lion. JoIIN GORDoN, arrived at Portsmouth from the Newfoundland station, last from Cadiz, which place (efter a stay of 43 hours) she left on the 2:1 , 1 nit. The fever which hail been raging at Cadiz tire months, and which carried off, on its out. set, 170 persons daily, was fest subsiding, there being only fourteen deaths on the dry previous to the Tamar's sailing. An order was in consequence daily expected to open that port, and Po►t St. :Nary',. The Tamar had no commuuication with the chore. The cold weather setting in, instantly checked the rage of the malady, and hid a most salatary influence on the state of the public health generally. It was computed that the five line-of-battle ships and seven frigates lying at Cadiz (forming the principal force of the grand Expedition), had lost, on an average, 250 men each, by the fever. They are now considered in a healthy state. It continued to be reported, that the Expedition to South America sail in (anothei) two months. The Tamar, during her cruising on the North American shores, got on shore on Burge Point, in the Straits of Bellisle, coast of Labrador, on the 13th July last, in a thick fog, steering the usual course. The un accountable current prevalent on that dreary coast hrs been the loss of many lives and much too petty, and had orally proved equally fatal to the Tamar, but for the prompt measures adopt ed by the Captain aid Officers. The main and enizen-mots were cut away, the guns thrown over board to lighten her (the guns were afterwards weighed). She was got off after nearly seven hours hard striking, mod next day run back to L'Ruce a Loup, where spars were procured for masts and yards from ANDREW PIERSON, Esq. who, with his usual hospitality, was particularly attentive to the wrists of the officers, and greatly assisted in the speedy refitment of the ship. She afterwards completed her cruise to the northward. On her ar rival at St, John's, she was hove down, keel taken out, and the damage sustained found to be trifling. The Tamar was the largest vessel ever love down at St. Juliii`r, the Media brig, being the only mau of-war hove down before. The Tamer was released from quarantine OH Wednesday. She is ordered into harbour to be paid off all standing. We understand it is intended, on the part of Opposition. to niovr on the third reading of the Seditious Meetings Prevention Hill, shich stands for this evening, that Ireland be excepted from its operation, Vaere bring no case whatever made out to justify its extension to that country. There will be no Chrotmas recess. The House of Commons will only adjourn from Christmas eve until Monday the 27118. Au adjournment for a mouth or three weeks will probably take place in the end of January. On Friday Sir THOMAS MUNRO left town tn pro. ceed to India, as Govern► 4.f Madras. He takes out with him the insignia of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath for Major-General Sir JOHN M•LCOLM, Knight Grand Crow; also for Major-General Sir WILLIAM Tooter: and Sir WIL LIAM DOTETON, with which they are severally to be in►ested by the Marquis of HASTINGS. A meeting of Merchants was held on Siturday in the City ou the subject of a Loan to the Venezuelan Government, when, we understand, • large sum was subscribed. We understand Col. W. COONS. of Wheatley. has resigned his commission as Colonel of the 3d West York Militia.—(Doncaster Gazette.) M. Caout.Lxints and his son have been tried before the Court of Assize at Paris, for selling sedi tious engravings, namely, portraits of BONAPARTR and his family, and particularly a print of • Ilene de pia. which, its unfolding itself, displayed an eagle, besides • caricature, in which BONAPARTE is represented as again upsetting Louts XVIII. mad his throne, with Vire 1 'Ampereme at the bot tom, awl the following inscription around it : Je repreadt Nom helmet et Se luiste la calcitic. The Jury returned a verdict of acquittal. A letter, of recent date, has been received bye Gentleman in the vicinity of Chichester from Phila delphia. As we can place implicit confidence in the same, we think the deplorable situation of that part of the globe *lnstil(' be disseminated for the information of our cousstrymen at home.—The fol lowing extract will suffice Trade is fairly at a stawd•still ; there is mot • Rank is which we car canifide. lour partner, whom you left Hon. rishieg, is reduced to poverty. Hail lau article to sell, I could do nothiag with it. Of money, there is muse ; and credit bas long since been exploded from the book of com merce. I regret to sihl, that one of the must benevuleat institutions winch tree grated soy country, I mesa that übich under the sppellation of ' A Monti for Distressed Euglislinstm,' was set ow Coot and inpported by oar country. men who bad previously obtained a respectable footing is America, sad who, observant of the alarming and gowning evil of emigration, bad. with true fraternal (reliefs, codes mired to C011•1011Ct its dire effects, has been obliged to de. Wr! its iuroisipetrticy to wet the infinite uumbe r o f a p p li. iens far relief." A1wi1b...P.40....w..., av a1ku t ar""40"-- k 00 -, . - T6 ' ,. 0. 01104•1 t t r i sig.. t WAPS • r 4 (01 ; 4 • i•c • . ) POETR tr. Extrael from Twelve Vocal Piet's, 'delta expressly for Musical Week, composed by Dueler CLatas, tor Cam. bridge, just published :-- GOLICF. MACRANE, SY LORD SYRON. The elowds may pour down on Culloden% r e d I d a * But she waters shall low o'er its crimson in vain ; for their drops shall mem few to she tears for she slain, But mist are for thee, toy brave Golige Methane' Though thy muse was the range of the Mined and brave Thoigh thy death was the he►o's, mod ginei ~,, thy grave • Wish thy dead foes ■mend thee, pifd high us the plain, My sad heart bleeds o'er thee, my Goliee Machain • - - How the horse and the Isoneatan thy single hand she But *hat refold the mightiest single arm du? A hundred like thee might the battle regain, But cold are thy hand and heart, Gelato Maclaine! With thy but* to She wall, and shy breast to the tare, Full Bashed thy claymore its the lace of their chute ; The blood or their boldest that harvest snit stain, But, alas !—thine a reddest there, Colic, Maclaine ! _ . Hewn down, bet still battling, then runlt'st on the ground, Thy plaid was one gore, aad thy breast was one wound, Thirteen of thy foes by thy right hand ley shine; Oh, would they were thousands for Golke Matheae! Oh l ou d. m u d long heard, shall thy coresacb be; And high o'er the heather thy cairn we shall see; And deep in all bosoms thy DOW s►all remain, But deepest in olive, dearest Collet Methane! And daily the eyes of thy breve bay before Shall t►y plaid be nefolded, unsheathed thy claymore; And the white rate shall lolosen on his bonnet anis, Should be prove the true son of asy Golies Methane. " The delermieed fierceness of the Highland character uric. to sets of desperate resolution ned heroism. One of a clan, at the battle of C•llodee, being singled oat and wounded, set his hack neatest • pork well, and with h large and claymore bore singly the onset of • party of di, goons. Pushed to desperados, he Made resistless innte. at his enemies, who crowded and eneenthered t►eamelvea to hair each the glory of .laying him Save that breve fellow was the uuregardd cry of mese einem &Ake IM•ebane was cut to pieces, and t►irteen of his memoirs tar Mot around bins."—rereaseh's Remains, pap 200.) BRIGHTON. DEcemare 11. Aitatw.a.—Lord Northland, Sir Hugh Pa ser. General and Mrs. Harcourt and family , &c. We have the satisfaction to announce, that the Prince Regent, accompanied by Sir Benjamin Bloomfield, returned to this place at fire o'clock yesterday evening. The Duchess of Gloucester, it gives us great pleasure to observe, has been daily improviug in health since her arrival here, and scarcely a day ha, passed without lwr Royal Highness's 'Rifling a Steyne walk, or a carriage siting, usually both, before dinner. At noon, on Thursday, her Rnyal Highness. ac companied by the Duchess of Leeds, left. Marl borough-row in her chariot, to pay • visit to rh, Earl and Countess of Chichester at Steamer, col returned about two hours subsequently. fl-r Royal Highness had a select party in the evening. including— .. The Marquis and Marebioness of Courteous*, the lion. Miss Conyaghans, the Earl and Collates, of Warwick. the Cousins of Startlnfield, Lord and Lady Fiisroy Somerset. Lord and Lady kalistoelt, and the Duchess of Leeds. The Pavilion is not yet ready for the Prince Regent's reception; his Royal flighoesr, quently, is once more a resident of Marlborough row. Ili. Royal Highness the ['lime RECENT has presented the Persian Ambassador with a very costly dressing-case, containing numerous neevi stories in gold and silver, with an appropriate inscrip tion on the lid, of his friendship towards his Excel lency. Yesterday their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE went to the Chapel Royal, St. James's. On Saturday his Royal Highness the Duke of GLOUCESTSI left town for Brighton. The Duke of HAMILTON entertained the Mar quis of LANSDoWN and a large party of thou , - guished personages, on Saturday, at his residence in Grosvenor-Alyce. The Earl of WESTMORLAND will give a grand Cabinet dinner on Wednesday next, at his house in Grosvenor-square. Lord HINLIY will give a grand entertainment on Thursday next to a distinguished party, at lits house in Hertford-street, May-fair. The Countess of WEsTSIBATM has taken an ele gant house in St. James'a-place, to which her Lad, - ship will remove in a few days. Lord LASCELLES arrived on Thursday at Don. caster On Ins way to flarewood Howe. General D'Eviuuux, accompanied by Colonel POWER and Captain CARR, arrived at Liverpool ov% Thursday from London. on their way to Ireland. The Doke and Duchess of Rumeaus sent List week a liberal supply of new blankets, and pieces of flannel, to be distributed to seers , poor widows and families in nottesford, Nortansumi , , and Easthorpe.—The 8e1,4)4 dote to perpetu. charity), consisting of one lad of household bread, is also distributed weekly to nineteen imor and families in the parish of Bottesford. The cattalo in the Parks were completely frez,, yesterday, and exhibited an immense multitude s skaters. LAST THURSDAY the Lottery finished D.awinz. when No. 1,656. a Prize or TYIRSYY THitilsas POVXDS, was Sold is Shares by J. and J. WY MIMI! I, who also Shared sod Sold Nis other CAPITAL NITA. • Lottery just rode'', at tbeir fortuaste 01Seev, 37, Corobtil 38, Haymarket; 11, Heiberg; mod 141, ttitfonl-ativel. .1. sad J. 81YRWRIGHT ere Sole Contractors for the moll New Yeti 1 4WW11. weatatoimy FOUR Puires of 40,000/. besides oilier Capitals sad on Prise less than IW. The Drawing beetle the 12th JANUARY. - - tis