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i 1 ,1 NE WC.1.51 LE FON riIiVINER. [Concluded frees second pogo.) " The writer to wl lie And , il is Jostler Blackstone, anal while In. might make aAnsission which he has mach ' Om note ; we easy reflect upon the Io t, the ennuis tiou of the Judge formed a part of the o ppressitta oh-el veal upon, ai J the trial by Jury was 110 prutectuni to the !its, of Poigli.:aniera It was then that Russell sue Sidney weir is. ra ifirrol !as forms of law, against all law and justice, and OD one very ins wheel the forms r was executed, the famous ti. riie psocrrdrd from one of the Ustiverstties, tundemniug 1111 Impi.osv J. 14 le retell every pi ;maple on which a fr. t CollttilUtion eau lie founded Charter.. were forfeited, lives takeii against law, convictions coirsim y to evidence, eUpi pious tines and aridly:ay mut creel imprisonments, form the Meek catalogue which the writer deplores; and these Ise ileinwitioates great practical oppressiou. 1;111 111 return to the übservatious of Mr. Fox, In this passage, which I hope you will all carry home with you—hr proceeds— '. • What a field fur meditation does ilmr short observa tion, from such a mass, furnish! Whit iefiections dues It mut suggest to a thatching mind, upon the inefficacy of hi% man laws, and the hopes fection of human constitutioas ! We are called from the contemplation of the progress of oar Con stitution, a n d our •tteistion fixed with the must miuute secaracy to a particular point, when it is said to have Moen to his modal in 'fiction. Here we are then at the best nos "• roved of Ore best Constitution that ever !SODOM wisdom . . framed. 1101,11 follows? A tone of Oppression and misery, .• uoi arisisig from external or accidental causes, such us war, larestilealee, or famine, nor even from any such ultimatum of the laws as might he supposed to impair this boasted ;per. fer•lion, but from a corrupt soil wicked Ailmilistration, alt eb all the tontniorloailmared checks of.. the Constitution 'erre nut able lo pievint How vain, ilium how idle, how • prsaampturrirs. is the upiusiiin % that lairs tan do every thing sia/Phow Area! and perpocions the maxim founded spots it, ahat moudoiree. nut torn, are to be &Hindi id tor " This is it display of that wisdom which always distill., Kai-hied Mr. fox. Aud If its the exercise of that Constitution iiiiiler which we have so many privileges; if tinder the 1...0M o‘stem of representation that existed al the time of the Rivratistion its 16811, and after its abuses have been oilfired to 21111'r up amongst sea, may we nut Inospitose them OM much to lime ni 1%4.11 f the fellowmen and aegligelice of the pro. iilr, av to Ilse defects of the Constitution ?--(Appiiitie.,*— T hese I% a ten a more dreadful institute than this WIN: found in the history of a moots, whose popular Coastitation must famish mailer of most interodisig oho-ovation to every lover of freedom. The Coinditutiou ref Amnesic.. is Lee and popuise in the largest scum ; the right of votiog upon su exte..s.ve a priociple as to exclude nu citizen hum a vote who is not actually a pamper. That right is exercised by doe institutime of hallos, and the election of Representatives to Ilwir great National Cutiventitio, the Congress, is for a tetra not exereitiog Iwo yeArs. Yet this. outwithatandint, fates shimt of slat parity and perfiction which reeineituenda 1011111 AI l'arlistitruts and lieu:weevil Siitit age extended to so rams of a certain age mid woad iiiiilerstantlinz. What is she case ito America ? A (h•aitlesiami was deputed by thirty. iiiee fentilies, whet Lash Ise. n driven by the necessities of the toms to third/ of emigroirrii--a melancholy proof of our rest - itt cowl& —ow 111 s repot they were to de pead ilium the spirit of tLe country and the inducements it might hold 41111 #l l them. The Gentleinclig Ducat is Fee ism. He has puLii..lird She Report which he made to these persons, and ha hutik is full of the 11:0111 valuable informa tion. and is iliviinguished by the minks sisal only of au in. eteriug. obisererog, sisal iategigent mind, but of the greatest Aurorae; mail impartiality. Whit sloes Mr. Femme say of the eperiti .... of Ilse laws and of this !roasted Coustilutioro? Ballot. as on might know from tapir Imice in certain causes its our own rotatory, is not Mond to exclude the nicalis of influence iii vole/ or unfairness in culleetilig them. AA • proof that improver imireeedings are suspected, it Is suffi cient to mention that 1114.1 . 4• is always a previous struggle for the appointment of inspectors; the will of the (maple is not left to its own free operation, but the votes are directid by a heady for which Ihry have t otu obliged to form a new ap. prllatitto, that of ' Plll ' , UM filVlllll . OW interest ore more than surpected, as well as jobs, peculation, and coil option. This is Mr learuli's statement, amid I shuuld ob. trove to you, that he is by to means • willing witneas on the subject, and has sheen the strongest attachment to popular freedom. Rut be cites au opinion which is better duos his own. The man he quotes is nu lellll n prasut than Mr. Cob. belt. He says, • Mr. H.' a poison with whose name lam nut acquainted, who is a Lancashire lOanoracinter, induced to lease this country by IliMil3r tenses with Mr. Cobbett, c in foams me, that he wu with Mr. C. at Harrishiergh ; that Mr. C. di claret, that daring the aces rat yea, which hr re. •ided near the Treasury in London, he did not witness s o much bribery, corruption, and place-bunting; I wish you, Gentlemen, us mark the expiession, ' all he had seen us one wnk in Pi nosylvania ; that the Members of the Legislature were eugaged la little except smoking, driokine, aud gam bling; moil that lie could certaiiily hare carried his . i 11l this alliii'ei to a pecuilialy claim Mr. Cubluit hail upon the gi•lmbre, ' had he towbar roiled to bribe. all these epimoits Mr. H. joins his friend. Althuagli I coma* go the length of Mr. II and Nr. Cohlrett in their wholesale cen times, pi *haps from not having had the same opportunities with them of forming a judgment, yet I hair become ac quainted with facts in Waulrintim which no man could have induced to to befits... will t persoost olsservation."—Why do I state these things! Is it that I racy dem trial. the ICI 111C of popular rights in soar estimation ? Far from it I wish wisely to shew you, that, louder a system 'which may appear suture perfect, similar, or teen greater, abuses may still exist. I wish nut to imply that puptear government is nut to Le ranctioned aud enjoyed, become it is liable to cor• volition. I hare no such design. My value fur popular rights remaius undiminished. I believe Shut the principles of it are destined to snake America one of the greatest na tions io the world. The evils with sbielt it is afflicted are transient aml accidental, and will be easily removed. The reason why I elle this passage, is to prove to you, hew idle Is the opinion that laws can remedy every thing, and Milit ant that spirit in which liberty lives and pinata anti has its being, coastal', and active in the hearts of tura, that the best constitution and the best theories of reform can be of no avail ; to warn you against that mischievous belief, that nothing iv to bedtime madras certain measures can be effect. ed. I think much of the cause of Reform, but not that it is of that exclusive impurtauce which supersedes every other t tfort, and without which nothing is to be douse.-- What instiintions art perfect? All have suffered much from abuses and from the operations of lime. Hut pursue the conilitirt that I have advised, and you will fool • ft (low-la. boom arunduutis wish yuumelves to apply the necessary re- Medico upon the principles and conditions wlech I have stated Rot are the Recurities of the Coostitution really so defective, that, is the present stair, if the people make their vuire heard, it is tint likely to he effective noon their representatives? My belief is the reverse. I tin phir• you to discharge this front 3our minds, if ever it had any ineueace, and till that season shall arrive when II greater reform can lie accomplished, to direct your OM Is iu 'radios yourselves of this °ppm Sanity of rendering ser vice to VOW froliollry. Exit. /011tativta to check sad con. trot prank 111 l —to mono, • system of economy soil of re treuchsueut is all unuecessai y expeuditure—to reduce all oucuntaitutimial establishments—to correct the evils of pauper circulation not founded on cash—to amend the cri 'usual law where it is defective, which every day proves mote tle altiCOdUlelit—to extend to all classes of your felluw.subjects those rights and privileges which many have hitherto asked in rain. 'I . hese are objects of tau inferior On pittance, and let me entseat )4141 nut to neglect them. They are within your reach, and certainly attainable, if the people of Euglaild are only true to themselves, and will t zed the power which they power over Parliament under their present Constitution.—(Applassit.)-1 was about to -hole, but in stating the übjscla dist required your exertion, there was one theistiotita on which I shall shortly observe, and which must have otensiumed the most painful recollections. It is ittspoasible to notice the state of the Crimival Law, and mut to be resuitided of the &radial loss we have all sustained. A gal all the great men whom fate has swept away within a few short years, with a rapidity that seems aw f ully prophe tic to this country—amougst all the public inisfurfuses ws hive suffered, there is 111111 r eau excite a deeper sir a nen* DiOCCte rigid than the torso( Sic "moue' Homily. Nut only tit eefaordt,uiv p-ourrs of Ism ut.ad, but tLt pauessinu and eslisbition of the hest affectium of the heart, combined will, the crs strsi pr.suct,!es of private virtue; the exit it of his It:mie e. awl the vas ely of his knowledge and •eqiiire. mitts ; le, etv,.:eiltle integrity and noble disinterestroltiess ; his emits, tire its his protessiou, and his collision from all its hertiours,untieb were within Lis 'each, must the ever resider his memory illustrium.—e Applaree.)--To the parity of his public views, to his atiadiment to the cause of freedom, Os • his unwearied and devoted patriotism—the depth of has Parliamentary know/edge, the impartiality of his Parliamen tary t induct, and the duties of his calling, hear witness Aininigst other subjects, II is well known that his wisdom hasl et directed itself to the reformution of the Censure' Laws. if the necessity of that great wink, in which he had been constantly opposed by those to whom timbers supplied the place of argument, 1/f{faU to be felt at the time that be was taken from us, though be did not live to complete that great and beneficial work, he has left us precept* and a valuable example, which, I trust, will promote its completiou, and Our tanking forward to which is our oily cumulation. Idu not feel that I ought to revert to any tither subject; I shall, therefore, conclude by reutwing my recommendatiou that, though a Reform in Parliament IS a thing to which your oilcan'', will be directed, it is one you should pursue with that cautions moderation which tan done tender your cause suet essful, and that in thoraciu lime you will use your 'Mitts its the way In which you can best aefire your country - , and must effeetually promote its interest and that of its in stitutions. I have to thank you, Gentlemen, for the atten tion you have lent to Me, and to propose to you—' The shniuus and immortal memory of the Right Hunournble Charles lames Foie." The toast was then drunk in silence, the company stand ing. Sir M. W. Pliatee—" G.nllemesi,afterthe wry eloquent speech which you have heard Gum the Nobir it would be Imposed/le for site shirts any obserta•onis to yssu "Oh the expectation slit I could odd to the at tptitiuis alld respect you have steals toe ards bon; I tame however. you n ill cordially join toe to di ..king the health which I mean to cutteliele a ith t ooisosstag. I petit wily refer to the renter , sits you have heatil lota hies, to call In your attention all Isis (muter toothy°, to take a view of his ne ikon, it:stch recommend him to you as the Mottle friend of Sir Fox, as the steady suppos ter of the principles which cause his nit mury to be revered, as the eloqueut and indepen deist defender of the rights of the periple—l need only, in. deed, meution the Name of Earl Grey, to excite in terry breast that sentiment of attischment It, all that is enioneut its ability, sad estimable in the endearing •ffeeltrass ef elm human Item!, and its thetnessie life —e.-Ipplarrse ,e—My reclines would prompt air its trespass , farther, were 1 istl counts:tom that usy so addresaiug you in his pr.-menet mighT be ati• Muted to labOliVCS neitht r pleasing to myself woe gra laying to pot." The health of Earl Grey was then drunk with three times dyer, and great applanee. Earl Gat 1 - -m I rise, Gentlemen, to return yur my most sincere thanks for the humour you have dime sue —My berth,' has been proposed to yuu in a manner much tots timers-hit, faun this great partiality tam) , friend near me. I have al ready SU bug trespassed on your patieuee, that 6.1 /10 so weal Mager would be unpardonable. Indeed, of myself I am al ways must unwilling to speak. The principles %rimy public life arc before you; awl of my opinions I have given aesuie additional esehmation to-night, whit Is I have not the vain hope will protect rie fronts misrepiestutation. But you base the honest and sincere declaration of my sentinseitte, and I would rather expose myself to any evil, Chats of having employed falsehood, or having practised any unwilling con testatort where every motive of interest and duty called on ae to be clear and explicit. As it has been the glory and pride of thy life to adhere strictly 1,1 the principled of Mr. Fee, soil shalt continue Is. he the object of my existence, as bug as I have health to deride myself to the public service. Gentienien, I return you my must siueete thanks.' Sir CIIAILLSS MONCX--" ISCUllrelleD, I like the liberty of rising to pri.pose as • toast it part of our Cour.itutien, which you will agree with me is the right whitk we ought Ur hold most dear. 1 mean the Will of 'latices Cur iguorsere applanri)—lo my ui•':nion it is the right Next In enter to the T. int by Jury. Indeed, without that, the Tetra by Jury is waist. It is the lest seem ity of that li berty offices' Britain. At lit periil cue Id this toast require My recuminendatiou to Freemen, Litt more pat ticularly is it acceptable at the peewit muitunt. In giviii; this toast, I cannot refiain Linn expressing my opitsion on flits pitsi lege whirls I aud all of yito have seen suspended. At the same time that you have sects a security, you should hare it fully sod ant ply assured to yon. In sit y opiuiuu, it is the most sound and effectual defence of British ft echs' , it is that upon elliels our liberty dem-oils ; it can only he of vantage tri us in the hour of dealt r; the bruise id ouly of use when the house is attacked. Much is said of the time when this great palladium should be suspended ; my opi nion is—no time.—(Grced applause J—For the writ of Habeas Corpus to be rendered nugatory just when it mieht have been beitelicial, is all impertinent and culpable trifling with the hest interests of a free people. In ordinary time: it is a hula.' k of the State nut in use, and we look to ir, as if, while it exists, we might email, secure in perilous times. Tu suspend it when people fall into a dispute Willi the is of the Crown, or at soy momentum pet iud, is to take sway our wells jest when the castle is besicgtd. foie such a eaudival paint of the Constitution be tempo eerily anuibilated, every comiterproof and contradiction should he answered."—The Hutiourable Barobet . concluded by proposing— " The Writ of flattens Carpus, the hest security of the British Coestitation"—which was drunk with peat &plass button. Doctor FT,ISSICK—" Gentlemen, I rise to propose to you " The full, fair, and flee Represeutstion of the Peo ple in Parliament ;" and I trust you will permit me to indulge lit a very few observation • Memo the subject.— Those Boroughs abide though they still possess bodies of Electors, have become the properly of powerful in dividuals, are in every respect unfit fur all the pm poses of powder Ileprtstutatiusi. They bold oust the semlintece, though tht y have lust the reality, and are little batter Ilsau a bitter mockery of the best and greatest privilege of the people of England. Cnu it be wondered at, Grutlenien, that they will turn that private property ....fur the Boroughs I ore nothing else) to their owls advantage, and out to the ',ebbe good ! And if we do tied that ro mush harm liar mit been dome by them as !flight have been txpested, it is rather to Ire attrihnted to individual virtue, than seducible to any excellence in the system itself, %Vuuld that leg,slntur be wise, who trusted the pet 'Detwiler of an islaislishment to private virtue, and nut to the excellence of the instituti )))) To the justice of that precept, I tins: the mow lily of repairing the Represeutation of the People, the v. ry soul of the English Constitutiou. Many uf ths elicit who but for tin se Boroughs are by nu nseasse cadent:ilea to protect the interests of the people. There are those also are assembled to act iu direct opposition to all ends for %Lich the system of Reemsenta , non was established. These arc the servants of the Crown. Can it be that these are likely to do any thing for the public benefit Yet the 111110blella have frequently hero defended, 's bringing into Parliament people of laical. Perhaps they may have Ihsi use. They introduce men of ability spot en duwed with fertione, who would otherwise seldom obtaiti seat in the hinnies of Cumulous. But it is not tit that SU ancient and gamily an edifice should be defaced by a piece '‘ of modern meson' y. We du not delete to innovate by our reformation—we a ish to pit reeve, and out to alter. Let others talk of lopping off the boughs, tte will nut see the &Bush oak duped by any audacious basil!, we hope to , have it lung kept tu us in all the majesty of branches and luxuriance of stride. Ile only uish to remove Ilse muss, usid tear away the parasite ivy that &specie and disfigures its %mut:table blink. And till that happy day arrive, when the 1 representation sissy be purified, it is more particularly im portant fur the people to exert those tithes powerful inept), I that are in their halide, ri fere press and a power of Lee dis• cussiott, which will enable its to band Joan to Irlateluty the Constitution, which is the gseatest blessing of our comet y I will add, the brightest lustre to our glory." The D r . re st , gave—" full, fair, free Repersentation of the People in Parliament," %hick was receive.' and drunk with enthu siasm. I Mr. HOARV—" I beg, Genii: mete that I may he showed to give as a toast, a panne %Inch seems reuliarly ammo 'pi late to the object sit this alerting-1 allude to Mr. Landis toe. —(Appfuu se trial Iles UUS been luie,;, but in his short probation he has exhibited a dos . _ all•rlauent to slinse principles which have inosouttslianl Mr. Fox, and to.those of his ancestors, for I have borne feast... Co I.now that these were the principles of Ins father and gratiolfai ker. The writ of Habeas Corpus has heen Obliet.,l; lint there was a still more penult:lmm thing as a pies Divan the absolving Bill uf hob nosily —r/fp/ofintvc)—Tll 4l Kill was 111 ."'". 1 more fraught with misellivf shin IDe Ilaloras Coo pat• Sitspeis pion Act, I in .y leave uot she stunt ~1m.., fur if those who exercio ol the powrrii roolri-itil by the suspension had Ines. brought N the rehilintion they deserved, it would have operated its a very puvseiful preventivo• of future suspen sions, Mr. Lamlition hut always exerted himself in favour sof economy *ad Wren. 'intent. He very ..' , lv ,eiondrd a most important motion no.ode by one of tl. ..lconMovi fur New castle, *conc.% a part of the infroozeonvot. of ihe Crows., and he inns at the head of that iIIVC , II-:i111 111 wla leh exposed the corruption or the Lisbon job. I (hint, its tar a. lie has gone these is scaseely any one principle supported by Mr. Fox on which he has ant t•xprtssrd si Maar ,entiluesets i. it ii that nreat Statesman." 'lke worthy Grotto twin then proposed " J. G. Insultton. Esq. out of the Ittopresrldit 'Via for 1110 Comity of Duclia.u," which was skunk with three times three. Lissitrroal—" Groolcneett, it is hardly tiossilole fur me to reps eseet to you any teems in which I EMI •itfliciently (specs. the 15ciist I entertain of the humour you hate just conferred 5.88 me. After the very ft-kites mg inallorc t 1 wldeli my name and (amity, and the small Pei Viers which I have rendered, have been mentioned by the too great partiality of my friend, Mr. Hoare, I T.ftreely know how to tiros!. yaw. Willi regard to my Parbanientary conduct, it has beeis game time before you. All that I Eno say of niptelf is, that since my rut mice into public life I have ev.r bail the principles of Mr. Fox in my view, as say best soil sure:.( guide. Ido aneerely cotacta, that oneis as it his fall. is lo my 1.• I to be present at Meetings of this slc•scripi iiiii , thane are muse 11.. t go..e Inv 4., notch pleasure as the ;Niewenstle Fitz Matteis. I trice t.tLru R very great interest in the p.oesess a Ririe I hone's, and will support them as lung a..• Is Orr ur rcoiain iu this country. sore wills toy" Noble titian i.,0, our IVot thy Cbairmwu, in thinking that there never was a time whin Illr di...1.114ra of Mr. Fuss wtve more called on to mert soil declare their setilionenie tban at preseot. Oa the subject of the Honor of CoilitisOUS, l sissy say, of the late Pas hament 1 casmot speak but with the deepeat horror and ratitempt. Blindly devoted to the Mi. nodes, it sustained its character to the last. They sassy voted acconliug to the wishes :owl petitions of the people, except its sine instaiee, sad I hest th. y co:write.. Cie run "emirate al their own pr.--Aets. I remember well my Lord eassilereagls, its bis extramoliseary phraseology, ask lags ahoher they would tune :heir hacks upon them awl'', kumh.)—They were actuated by list principle otsellf-intereat, and conceiving that by swing their ten per cent. Iliry wool.' lest keep their backs in their original pirsilluns, they infused to continue the Income Tax. Ex ! Cept in that tote instants., they were constaia in prufustod and servility. It is hue, 1 had a seat iii that Feriae:twos, and I was prono of it, but not . is uccuttlit of the place ill whack I sat down, but as is swank of the satecul sun comp s den , _e of my fellow-citisens. The late electiou lims been a triumph of the principles which dist nigisislied, 8411 11U1111to. tasty distinguished the friends of Mr. Fox. Every thing has. Rune (bat way, Slid SO it might to have aune—fur they have been *lucre all attached to thee. Constitution. The rouse quinces of the el.ction will, I hope, be must fortunate. It will serve to rescue England from being the pander to the ty ranny of confederated Monarchs, who assemble in she name of Kimmel for the most ineliefoUs foirpiisrs ; for ri pieasing the nascent Voice Of freedman ; for the huying and it Iling of States and the wholesale transfer of people. 1 base to the acts of those own oho have been lifted into office from the sphere of their own Wilma! insignificance—nob tittle dependants bawling fur libeity and popular rights, they have dome more flesh:leery thaw et - c r could have hero effected by all the nutted ,Voucialtil with the lowest of the rabble, they calk.' upon them to disclaim all public men ; Ili place their faith on themselves, a could wily rise by corruption mid hi tidied to the id, natural elevation that they sought- They constantly urged the necrusity of physical loser, nod the poling" y of a state of life which could meter he natural, evict amongst savages. They wanted to establish systems which could may terminate iu a comphtC despotism or a confirmed anarchy. They claimed respect atilt from the people that they could waver gain. We had then an *omit. dation of spivs and informers. With that mid their pi t vious conduct the Halwas Corpus Act was .nips.'..'. snit people of England bail no coin 00000 idealism with them. [Flit worthy Gentleman then cited a very rlorpient pas sage (ruin Lord Holoclortke, to chew that such Miorsrsts and such proceed:air us had been witnessed iu this eatit try, wen• pi uductive of the loss of liberty nod grandeur Ili Rome.] Agantst such characters it is the fluty of ever ) titan In exert himself. They have too loo; stilled the voice which should have called them from their seats. How. much sootier that would have been effected had 31e. Fax been alive and employed all his eloquence, nay well b. supposed He hiss left an auprrisbable iiiinr, snit I twee tin doubt butt his pi iiiriples will he of eriive towards the ultimate salva tiyp. of the country." The worthy Gentleman concluded by !L a i. in* the company for their atient 11111 l 'm4 looping to be i vr• denied fur the length to which he had prutracisd his .n.ser. yahoos. Copts's hoped he might he allowed to pro pose a toast, which he was sore would be di unk with pica sure—" The health of Sir 11. W. Ridley, Hart. Mclut..:r fur INewetstlr-upon:f pie "--(Apptituse.) The tuast was arisrik wills liner limes three. Sir M. W. lliDt.sit—" Gentlemen, it wolail be nth. in me wer e I to ati.itipt to (Icily the extreme plricare. which bare rreetved Punt the Immure iu which you hare di link my health. %%lien I ...insider that it was druak w Ctliellte tion with my attaclirmot to the pi ineiplea of Mr. Fox, I need only say, this! ut a .inpossilde to make me son vv front toy attachment to those prinesples. They have beets drvpty rooted iu my mind from may earliest iutaiwy, and I think they will descend with use to the grave. There are mans here by a hose kindlirse I have I,eidu enabled to take a part in public affairs, and I trust they will bear me neat, ahrn I say ;hat I have iiivariahly maintamed the principles we are here met to celebrate. I look forward with *newsy lit the neat, but likewise with a Isupt time this pnuriplrs we support will be more generally a vogilisrol times formes ly. it shall always be my eiiileavour to support your iisterests, and I hare do doubt that as long us I pursue the lose of co:id:let in which I have hitherto acted, 1 shall continue to Es cesve the a pproluition wish %bah I have been honotire..l." Mr. BILIGY. proposed the health of sit Cloaks Ilunck, Ilion+ was drank nob three t im. s three. Sir Otani., s lIONCK returned thanks in a swat slier els, in which he stated his attachment to the principles of Mr. Fox, and his determination lit pis seven to the last in Ow Course in which he had monmencell. It was decided Skit the Stewards fur the next year 40)44 be W. Ural, Esq. of Fettling's; H. Riddell, Esq. of Felton, fur Northumhetland—H %Valiant, Esq. mud H. latitictob, Esq. fur Dorlansio—Tliumas Bigge, Esq. and W. Armstrong, U.N. fur Neat...sae. The health of the Stswarols for the ensiling year heingdpro -nosed by the 'Noble Chair malt, Mr. Witham ruse and spoke nearly as fulloas i— " Gentlemen—ln behalf of my brother Stewards soli my self, I beg to rel urn pop our sine. re shanks fur the honour poi • have conferred upon et. Mil.. 1111011 my legs, I beg Wel:eon your indulgence for a few momenta. Gentlemen, the eithject am about to trouble you upon is une which has been sits caused by men whose talents mill Carillons would do ho nour to soy cause. T. none are the Catholics of this great empire Inure peculiarly iiirlelitrtl 1!.511 10 the Noble Earl who dna day has done us the hoonotsr to take Ilse chair, and also to those Honourable Gentlemen attic House of Comtiletta have the pleasure to see him. My Nellie mart ions, Geollemen, in the great cause of catholic limanci pail 0000 0 titter the thundre of eloquence which has rolled flow the lips of a.. many distinguished slatesnwit in both HUISSILI of Parliament, ean sold but little to the ; situated, however, as I aril, 1 will rade...vow to sin my dant,. " When them, Getillestien, I claim your astetitani to this cause of Catholic Emancipation it wont.l he idle in se to enter into all the details of that great question. 'Fbc Ca tholic Question is nut a religions, it is a political one; I wish not to enter into Ihr religions quirks of the priesthood, . hut I wish to ask why the Catholics of the present day shouhli he vicludtgl (rum an egoist runcipatikui uf the privik . cis of one etit 1,3 Ad:ling:, when that tacse of exch...O..n has' ceased t o " Gentlemen, in the reign of Charles 11. in the year 161'B, , it was thought expedient U. exclude the Catholic Nubility and Grub y from till situations either tolerative or b able. The well.kneit es pretended Oeitea' Club Was assigned as a reason fur sect) extlitsioss, but the real cause was the freer and apprelom.iciti entertainersl by all classes of the com munity for the Protestant succession. The then Duke of York was but tuojustiv setseweied of favouring that party, whose re ligious tenets elitrert d au widely Gout the general wishes of the country. Fear was enteriaineet for the Protestant ascendency. That Duke of York has lung been dead, and not a vestige re ar, oils of di it once powerful family, excepting the lairs of its ii, tics and misfortunes. The cause, therefore, of exclusion tin longer exists. 'fhe dragon which has been Sel unirb Ilse .Ifrati of these rralros , has been success/ally attack( it sad N.liticiristly weakened by a ~,, of Ow Georges of the I!iteatr . House of Hanover. V. he then, till England' wilt them continue to disgrace thyself by thus disgracing thy yomplc Engisnil ! oho haat sects the Catholic brethren in every plain of Enrape defending Shy hallltels—Lngland! the Ally of Catholic 1 inee,Spain,and Pusiugal—England! who luta it toranteeet n Cat nuluc Establishment Ise Canada—can's( tl are the Catholic, the child of thy ream soil, thus iIISU- Ltletl, thus vilely degraded' 1a this just ' —ls this generous ? —la tins the part at a great country, 1.. fetter a large portion of Illy population'—la it possible ilium canal thus degrade that portion of thy p o pulation by Ilion art principally supported against this rite ter esullisaiii I so loudly ex. clams. Insane it disheartens exertion. ti eleamurages merit, it tirleditates the State. Let ns, therefore, Ire amstittitionnl, but Oren in war 'Petition. lam cteevinced the day will WWI dawn whets the beam of reason will Bash su LISI2IIS that it a ill disperse the rlouelei of preiudiee which have hut too lung use rtimeg Omar isles, and allow are to hope, that from so guest an accessiursof Mental as will is plis.:cil stiesigth, that before this generation cues by. we !seae see and hear mien whom talents, exertions +lnd political integrity, may vie with our patimet , c .tormiot a. " Mr. LAMLiTtiV, after a high anti deserved eutemium upon Mr. lirwuubassi'sahililsea, w who li hr mentioned his bavtog liec a freeliolilei, ii, ureter to cote for tlxst Gentleman at ilw Westmorland Llection, promo. " Henry Iliroaglimo, Lot. and t•ileelfes I!.e esliseuf lime peeiel, lice ire %Vestioor land," ulnae was lb 110 - with three litiats three, and great upplatisr. Nestles the Masts :lett, above, the following were !hunk in the course of the evening).— _......, " The (onstiiiition as established in itltol" " tio , r of Ireland ; and ton, cu wan be diequelifieJ by I 111 J. 11.11 rinan serving 1.0. uncut.)." " The of Hannover; and 111.1 V they never forzet she priuci;u:s th.a ~.-ated thew int hr ..I , luse. " Trae cause ror Hamptitts bled in the field, and Slane% uu the •• The Stewards fur C.. - iNir, and for their exer. l iuu,." " The Liberty of the Meas." " The Army, and may it never, in composition or num bers, be made bingeriins to the Liiicrties of Britain." " May the memory or we Revolution prevent the neces sity of amillier." " Thi Ahnlitiun of the Slsive Trade." u Lori! " " The Ituse, and Shamrock ; and may the three Nations they reprt,t-eti Is united 'lit I.ltpi,..rting their Liber ties." " The cause of Civil and kteli:icrus Liberty all cheer the wurlil." " The Duke of [karma and the Whig i n te r est" Tira7 7111;•,!•,.. Chairman ' , tired about eleven o'clock, after wislmig the eiiimee•• • • Lanuy new year, and the Meeting shortie after bruit: up. There arr.: about 114 persuus present. Nn !UV LK AGRICULTURAL REPORT. The month of Derember iu general furnishes very slight material. tur au Agricultural Report, the ploughs being el tber locked up by finct, for laid by from the wooer's ui the laud. The weather of this season, lmwever, has been so dry and open, that out Autir work halt pivieeetted nearly with out interruption, except indeed what huts arisen from too great di peas. lit ditching still draining part icularly, the haat of rain has bre., greatly felt; and it iv a siiigniar circumstance. that even in the depth of winter, the bviiks and bidtorrs of Ditches appear perfectly dry. The young Wheats look healthy; the latest sown wdl strutt the best chance, both as to the plant itself, and as to freedom from weeds; WOMB Sit de plorably fool, and in all sorb cases it may wilily be re coninietobql to brgiu hoeing as soon as ever the earth is buff vo'utly shy, tree in 3tuuary, if possible; both weeds and runt are unseasonably forward in vegetation, and, therefore, the earlier this operation is entered ep os, the better. or much trouble and expense Limit be the cuuseqiience of delay; we base seen some which were hoed last N O Vtliii.orl, 41..1 are moth the better and cleaner fur this Ihnely r altivalMo. The Turnips are very far from Kuud iu quality, and seem to do the beasts but little service; nianv, partierlerly the early sown, are rotting fast. The Corn markets, on the whole, are much lower thau at our last month's quotation., though within the put week they appear to lw 111rliucJ to follow the London markets. dud to look a little upwards —Wheats 375. to 401 ; Barleys :i Is. to :ids.; Oats 201. to 241.; Grey Pease, which are muct4 in rrqtif st for aced, from the genus' fathom of the Byers, 32.5. to 3J5....-Jan. 2, 1819. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORT , AIoUTO, JANUARY S. Arrived the importer tt.toisport, Gum Cork, with troops ; and the Britannia, liatniyu, Cum the Ilowns, roads. Passed Ivy the Itnairia, RAM ... from Bengal, for London Sailed the hummock, for Jersey ; and the IViMani Pitt, Graham, for St. Helena, &c. ; lirmighs to at St. Helen's last eight, at ten o'clock, and •got nutlet weigh this morning, and is now in the oiling, the a Ind bring too light fur her to make muck way, FALNIOCTII, JANUARY 3. Arrived the Lola Mary Pelham packet, with a mail from New York, to 27 ilass: Duke of Kent Packet. with ditto s f Lisbon, in 8 'lays; his Majesty's ship, Lee, from a cruise, and brought in the French lugger Theodore, with 2n5 tubs of spirits, which she captured about eight leagues to the southward of the Laud, last evening. RAVIIIGATE, JANUARY 11. Came its several vessels for shelter. LIVERPOOL, JANUARY 4. Ariived the Silty, IL-girth, from Nina Scotia ; on 29th November ; iu lilt 42. 25: long. fi3. spoke the hi ig Peinceso Chtirlow, Willinuo, of Duitirries, from St. Jollies New lituisswick, far Jamaica. MAI., .A!IIfAAY S. Arrivcd and sailed for the !liver, the Ocean, [lemming. ton, front Renzi, ; Active, Rube, t-. from Antwerp, for Pk month, and rental,. Crone down from the River and rmnaii;, the Ariadne, Hamhielon, for RittJaireiro ; Queen, Gral.aut, for the Cape of Good Hope; Fanny, —, for St. Viueent'a ; Kathy, Wise, for Cbp,rle tOtt; Harriet, 'hillock, font:nen tie ; Mang. si fur ('ot k and rodrinion, -..---, for Del ; :dr.} 11elanthu, Parrett, t. r !labia, &c. 4,:tiAvrivNa, JANI,JAR% 5 Art irt .1 the Samuel aud Ilarlaml, front Uneln c ; Alrarooler. Desaitt, from Mal,eilles; Coanmoslore Harty, K 4 Y,r 1 . 4 tl New Orleans; Si. Ann, Galling, note Ostend ; William stud Ann, Divers, from Antwerp; cud Poole, fom the South Sea". Sailed the William and .9ary, Ttearkella, fur Cadiz; Rain. hler, littortit, for Constanttuuple; fieilei irk, Stephen, for Cork; %V1111:14111 /14)V/el', aeon, mob ftotterdam; Amity, Fri velt, fur Newry; and Qute.is Eliratreth, Aim), for Cbsirante. Three failures tccorrert in the City on Tueaday : they are to have 6'ol ItCtraritolied. iu mon i.ist.inre, by the stopphr of the house:. alluded to ur l'aper of yestertla). Host in the soli• rs, to their Cluti.eXl4ollll with Paris. It a believed that i•otie of these are to u considerable esteot, or likely to ,ii*4sreeab'v cow:T.‘..v•ta. THE it Rhin iTt.kr4iy the 25t14 'Pigment, nniler the "mantled Banns liliiinigiich,marelwd into Cork Itarraiiks,front Fir m „„ Thu's.liy the iilat rceimrnt innretietl hum Curk banstig for reirnoy, till its rustle In litibtin. The 25th, 35115, and . 44th regiments, with the 4111 di% giving, are to rumpl.•tt the garrison 0r Cork. The 25.1 t and 35th regiments will embark fur Cana.!.:. the .11141114 spring Thursday the Ikth refitment or trot, euiantani!eil le Colunel 4rravea, artivetl at Cork, and we►e to in %vele rersitity next day. It is CIO Okla ibt, will tetiieite t!:; at Waterlurd. CORN L It is well known that a l'e dims is at me w! handed nbuut to the rarities, for their siguaturw, which Originated io On anOilyllllllll corresponde nce in w London Paper, and has far it% sole obiert the 5j imposition of what are termed lEgh-proterting tie% Oil all " corn, meet, flour, rye, oats, pe a s,. beans barley, wool, flax, hemp, hides, talk*. %veds, butter, cheese, poultry, ve,:etables, appl th and pears," imported late litiß country% We cannot account for 1.1101 an attempt as tli% to remove nil check to niotiopoly„ slid the hiet ing stiapulus England afforded foreigners to trade with her, At no time could we Move expected it —b u y least of all at the present. Our poor are Ore A t weighed down and degrudert to pauperism ; and it is sought to raise the ;price of 'wady all the net-res e r ' , of life utuet be recollected that alien tin. lase Corsi Bill. was brought forward, *Os. tier tooter oar admitted to be a rentuitterittiog price L►► by the agriculturists thrru►elvr'. 'Fitts, pri ce l b. whole period since the enactment of tier c Bill fully averages. We were last harvest Ist sr.l with a ;plentiful crop of this gram, a►ttl st►tl the o. quisite currelicy is preserved. For But ley, emelt tom taut wish it higher who his the- ►ll4llll-st rpm': ' Lelitig for the national welfare. Why then is it ~ pried to slier the law, whilst a reniumeratin . g pe,•, is übbliaed ? It is alleged that the torn rrturii. not properly given iu ; hut this surety multi lie 6t the discretion' of the grower, as well •s the put cliaver. If either or 1101 h report a higher puce than they have obtained or given, or neglect to ' , lake any vomit, the coin!dairst falls upon thetn selve• ; and each must lie tilde to correct the Hoe cur:ciesi ut the Gthrr. If an erroneous morle dr4aitig the ay._rage has been adopted, that would uottoubtedly be corrected on a proper tepresents. lion to Parliament. _ . lf, as the projected Petitiou sets forth. the pro duce of this country may be torreased to the fall quantity required for our crnisumptioli, at least let us wait till that is effecter!, and till such abundance is freely brought to market, ere we imiiii.e a dart which must otherwise, us truly is the oh* si its advisers, rase the pi ice of the staff of life to an ent.rtuous !trivia, lienefivisf to ho cis... 01 the community. High prices of corn must Mow every thing tlse to a level with them, b-gta ning with !Jon-, rates, tithes, mil rent:. Ties would be a mere deprecittion of the value of ounte. and the consequence must be the aeiniliilation elute' commerce. To prove that the effect of import ation is only to check monopoly and mancesro not to glut the country with the commodity, but merely to supply the market of the raetropoln„ which would otherwise nitro he rait:ed by tict i. lions 'comm . . it is sufficient to hint at tiw small amount of the weekly teturns of British corn there. compurcd with the foreign, and at the defue litt:e to state, that although out tens than twenty milleals quarters of wheat are consumed yearly In this country, ti:tt imports average little mare t su half a ntillioa. 11119 is the mighty quantity which is said 10 c a rry what, ought to be the prtifila 0i Eng lish cultivation into the coffers of foreign traders! If it is compared with the number of land (wets. Piers. it will be found not to deduct quite wit quarter from the produce required of each of thew! WATERFORD INFIRMARY, DEC. 31.—The wr tality of tins week is unexampled in the expereute of this Institution : six males and four females hate died since the last weekly statement. Many per sons, fur whom application has been made, could not be accommodated in the Hospital ; but it due. not appear that any increase has of late taken pie, in the number of ruff•rers from the epidemic. It is the custom in Hainburgh, in case of le %wide. to deliver the body over to the Theatre of Anatomy. 'l'bis disposition is far preferable to the disgustuy, and disgraceful practice of this country. A Jet, hanker of Hamburglt having lately cut his throat in that city in a state of mental derangement, las hotly was ransomed by the Jews for the purport al burial at the large t•tina of 3,000 &wins. CORN EXCHANGE. latethum 6. We have had but few freab arrivals since Monday, an.l salts io general very heavy ; in short there was so little de;ng we quote the peseta numtually the same as no Moints!. It was said, last Alutulay fortnight, that Flour ruse to :N. per sack, hut thot price has not keen ntaiutaluesl : the w r ice uoia is 655, pet sack. COAL MARKET, LISVALKV 6 Sitio , at Market. Ship. Sold. Price 49 Newcastle 151.... 31.. 6.1 to 45. 3d. 17i 4;soloierlauti 1 Scotch Coal ! Ha'heath Cost ..... s . od. 1 Ciadcra ................ 27s 63. to —__—.— Yesterday—FrtrilaNT —Holiday at the Bank, Each , vtt. futlia, and South Boa Roman. MA R RI AG E. At W.d h oit Church, by the Lae !Whop of Clorte, tta Rrv. 'lhoulat Lemur, Royal Cr. Beth, to Hrs. Fr:vier , Hodges, sout,gest daughter of the late Kight lion. Sar Robert Dead, and ~ister to the bite Lord Moskerry. DEATII. On the 251111 December, at his country seat. near Paris, iq the 324 yea& of lus age, Adrian Hope, Esq i•ecoad sou .1 the late John Hope, Esq. of fu runiFly of Am sterdam. • HIGH %WATER. 'I4IIS DAY Al' LONOON-NNllaa• M0rr ._.._.. 2 . " 1" at." ". 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