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r the motive which instigated them. Me mom. mended that the people should institute • new society for the suppression of fashionable vices, and take all Sunday revellers, however well drowsed, or however high their rank, into cus tody, sod take them before • Magistrate to be toed or pisnir!ied as the law should direct. ( Leashrer keit • and wished to . see it more generally practised ; but this could not be brought about by •ttemptio„ to force ietitiment could not he changed by mere force. Let a. nisn'ir condoct to has neighbour sod tiociel be uoJtlernisbed with to. , istice or violence...stud then he, (Ur. B.) would soy with a gieat Poet— " For modes of faith, let graceless seldom light, His can't be wrong. whose life is is the right." Ile could quo,' *higher authority; St. Paul had said, Khrw me your faith by your works"— ,, though 3e. have faith, and should went chari•y, ye are but OS ilintuliiig brass, or u tinkling symbol." He apo- Ifogired for trespassing so long, and proceeded to put a series of Resolutions, asserting the right of politi o n—the legality of the Meting at Mdllehelh ket on the 16th of August—the wanton cruelly ilereised iu olnipersing it—the misconduct of Mi. iiirdirs in giving that act the sanction of the Prince Urgent—and requesting a full and impartial inves- Option of all the circumstances of the case. Mr. Roe seconded the Resolutions ; they were Ferried unanimously, after which an Address to thi Prince Regent, embodying the sentiments ex pressed in the Resnlittinin , , and strongly recom mkiding a change of MillitilrfS was put and carried in "tlw swie manner. Some observations were made by several persons sts to who should he requested to present it in case Lord Essex refused. One of the company pro p Osetl that Lord Solmouth should be applied to. Mr. Bowie loot no doubt, as there was a hreathitig of morality, true religion, and constitutional truth throughout, and as Lord Solmouth was said to be saintly character. that his Lordship would be issues gratified with the Address and Resolutions. It was then moved, seconded. and catried, that the Chairman's risme should be attached to the Address, instead of numerous signatures. It was next resulved to advertise the Resolutions sod Address in the Moron% and Evening Papers. The thanks of the Nlettiiig being thou voted to Or Chairman, the assemuly departed at about tone o'clock. PARLIAMENTAICY REFORM. FURTHRR 'EXTRACTS FROII aIIILSH43I . II HISTORY Of THI RUG% OF OICOROIS TIM THIRD." " Mr. Grey made his final motion relative to a liefnrin in Parliament. which he hail so frequently, at different times, and in various modes. brought rinder.parliamentary consideration. This able and zealous advocate of Reform in general, had not. hosever, yet attempted that great desideratum— a specific Plan of Reform, at once rational, fer ia/le, and beneficial. Such was the object of the proposition now submitted to the candour and lodgment of the House. Mr. Grey solemnly af firmed, that he sought not to alter any part of the Constitution, but merely to (Obtain fur the people, a lull, fair, and free representation in Parliament, to which they were incontrovertibly entitled, 14e proposed 1114 the county representation should clutiiiue upon the same footing. only that the num ber of county Members should be increased from Si to 113, the addition to he made to the larger counties in proportion to their population. In order to put an end to compromise', counties should be divided into districts, each of which should return one Representative; the right of elective franchise to be extended to leaseholders and cripyholders. .I . tie rem:rining 400 members to be returned by one description of persons, viz.—Householders, the first known and recorded principle in our Constitution, according to the celebrated Glanville, in all casts, where no particular right intervened. The poll to be taken throughout the kingdom at one time, and the same person not to be permitted to vote for more than one Member. The duration of Parlia ment to be limited to three years. On this plan, 1%.1r. Grey said, the Members would hold their seats, not indeed on the basis of universal suffrage. but of universal representation—the qualification would be so fixed, that no man, however humble, might not hope, by honest industry and fair CM. bolo', to raise himself to this distinction. The motion was seconded by an elaborate and elo quent speech of Mr. Erskine, who reverted to the better days when the liberties of the country were established by the exercise of the constitutional lowers of that !louse. We could recollect with pride and Worn ph the glorious exertions of our fore. tethers 'titbit' those wall., when tyranny. century sifter century, was combated and defeated, and the freedom of Englishmen was asserted and confirmed. Tl•e only cure far the evils of Government was to make the House of Commons what it had been in rot days of our ancestors, when it preserved the li berties of the people, and was crowned with their love and veneration. Mr: Pitt opuosrd the motion. Was it not lieuer. he asked, to endure some inconvenience rather then hazard the annihilation of a sys tem under which the country had flourished in prosperity, had been supported in adver. ally, and acquired energy and vigour to re. ,noer from the dist which it had endured It had never been contended that the ineqoalpty of i• uoresentatian had been attended with any practical .h.advantage4l; that the interests of Yorkshire bad 1,..en neglected, because it sent only two members , 4 to Perliament, or that Birmingham or Manchester I operienced any ill consequences from liming no iepreleutatives. Afire all, this plan would be far Irma satisfying the speculative soil democratic par. tisansof Reform without doors. Mr. Putt, avowed his total disapprobstino of the plan proposed. Mr. I int defended the mntiort. and recalled to Mr. Pitt's recollection the words used by him on bringing I,rwited hi. own original motion of Reform in 1781 —4 , Without it Reform in Porßanient. the notion cannot he's , " This moat (lheiAltsericnn War) snag . . Sue ended. bit. whet will pepteet .us wins: as . vtittr.? 4s ceriorinly, as the spirit Wick tagerdered the present, anuses the . secret . Contests of the • Cruses. we shall. finder the Mil eeeee of II defeetire representation. Ire invoked in nese wars sad sing:- '7l, bit ealamitirs." This was be Right Honourable 1, ,If ~ , s.4eistletuau's prophecy. uit . Par e tem ANA* be. " " 7 -... Z- ...-...._. -....-- been fully accomplished. Another war has tikes place, equal in diserter, end, : at least equal , ipt disgrace. It seemsAl if bill • whole hie s kali 14 ,1 period of his prophecy. had deetined.fivrtlho illastrsion wel reakultabigr Mr. Fox observed, that every prediction hatsrded I by Mr. Pitt,du/ing,tlve coerie of_ the present wee. had -laded ; every hope, every-expectation. every' promise, had proved fallacious: yet Parliament coos tinned to confide in him; and this, the only one of his predictions which was entitled •to regard, the auly.oue which had beau yenned in the result, was that which had been unfortunately slighted Bud neglected. Mr. Fox appealed to the House, whe ther they were the faithful organs of the public will ? Can we review his administration without being convinced that the present representatinis is a shadow and a mockery ? Ministers lied affirmed the popularity of the present war : the same hail brew raid of the war with America; and a clamour had been raised which they culled the Voice of the Nation ; but whatever had been the case in the out set of both, the progress in the public opinion bed been the same in each, it had iudisputably changed, though the voice of the people had not been heard in the choice of Representatives. Had the representative system been perfect, or its prac tice pure, the new Parliament would decidedly have voted against the comitinance of the war. Mr. Fox continued :—The best and most advisable plan of Reform, was to extend the right of election to housekeepers. In cooclusimi, Mr. Fox expressed his tLst the nittioo, by adopting wise and temperate measures of Reform. might yet save the monarchy rod the people. Let those Ministers who have plunged u. into the present state, retire from the post to which they are unequal. Ati Ad ministration composed of men who possessed the ',drills of conciliation, must he formed, but of which he did not wish to form a parr—ambition was dead within him. Ile sought only the salvation of the country, and his desire us to himself was retire ment. • On the 30th of May, only four days subsequent, a motion was made in the Douse of Peers, ably supported by the Dukes of Bedford and Grafton, the Lords Guilford and Sussex, the Marquis of Lansdown, the Earl of Moira, &c. &c. &c. The Duke of Grafton, whose age, character, and long experience in public affairs, commanded the re spect and attention of the House, declared, that if the present motion WWI received with the same cold indifference hitherto s'wwn, lie should not trouble the House again, but before he retired, hr ftlt it a duty incumbent upon him to lay bef3re his Sove reign in person the reasons of his conduct, flattering himself that lie should experience the same gra cious and attentive hearing which his Majesty had ever vouchsafed to one who had always spoken the unbiassed and genuine diCtates of his heart—slid, the Duke of Leeds, who usu Illy voted with Minis ters, remarked, that the Noble Secretary, Lord Grenville, had made the Constitution d.pend, as it were, upon the continuation of the present Mi nisters in office, which was rather too much to cow cede to any Administration." FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. PARIS PAPERS. PARIS, NOTIMIIIti 13. The King yesterday, et eleven o'clock, received the visit of the Duke of (Means. After Mass. which his Majesty heard in his apart. meats. lie returned to his Cabinet, where he receiv ed the Ministers, the Marshals, and a great num. ber of the Peers and Deputies of France. The King has granted a pension of 1,200 francs to M. Casimir Delavigue. author of the Sicilian Vespers. By en Ordinance of the 10th of November, his Majesty has placed on active service 20,000 young soldiers of the class of 1818. Of this number i0,0t6 will be sent to the regiments of cavalry, 1,232 to the regiments of artillery, 120 to the engineers, and the remainder will be attached to the departmental legions. The departure of these young soldiers for their respective destinations will be terminated by the 20th of next December. They will enjoy to the eve of their departure the power of procuring substitutes. MADRID, NOVEMBER 4. The King his published the following decree : " Considering it useful sod advantageous to the service of the State, that Doe Jew lunar, charged with the port-folio of the nuances, should mime his employment of Director- Gerund of Annuities, 1 relieve hint from that of Minister, (motile; him as a recompeue for his service the honours of my Council of State, and 1 nominate Don Antonio Guns*les, Honorary Caveatltor of War, to succeed him in the Minis. try of Fionsce. " At the Palace, N0v.3,1815." The town of Puerto Real has not escaped the malady which desolates Andalusia. The disease continues to dec in San Fernando (bland of Leon), as also at Cadiz. where the number of sick has considerably diminished. At Puerto Santa Maria, there died on the 24th, 16 persons out of 816 sick; on the 25th, 27 oat of 905; ou the 26th, 18 oat or 867. At Cadiz, the mortality on the 26th, was 90 lieri.i.ss out of 8,981 sick ; on she 27th, 71 out of 7.76 s ; on the 28th, 70 out of 6,960. There re mait:ed on the 28th, 6,211 sick, but it must be remembered that ou the , i2th, ten days before, the sick amounted to 12,338. be sent to increase the esprdition which has arrived F i at the Hersonsh, and to second the troops which Isar to defend our possessions in the Florida,. The influence which the Grand liuqui►itnr vier. civet; in the Council a Stole begins to be felt. The iuquteitors in the provinces have received e►ders to make every three months u circninstuntisi report on the religious conduct or every perms em ployed tit s public office, and of the priucipsl per sous of their districts. sum's. novsssea 6. The proceedings relative to the secret associations are continued with great activity. and the Com mittee will soon make its report to the king. The Committee is under the direction of M. liiioheirn. Minister or Just ice. The new Prussian Edict respecting the censor ship of the press, which is now in force in the whole Monarchy, is the general subject of conver sation among the enlightened classes of sotiety. It has excited a diliagreenble sensation—ninny of its regulations are a restraint on the book trade. The enlightened friend* of liberty would have desired the fulfilment of !Homilies long since made, by introducing all unlimited liberty of the [IMP, un der the responsibility I.f authors and printers, a law bring published to repress the abuse of this liberty. It is hoped that this subject will be recon sidered in the discussion of the Cnn•titution. It i. arid to be resolved to try Dr. J,hn before the Criminal Court at Berlin, for baring attempted to excite troubles, and inflame the youth against the Government. He is still at Custrin, where he is well treated. Nothing is decided respecting the other prisoners for political transgressions. Some, it is thought, will be sent to Mentz, not to be tried, but to be confronted with others who have been arrested in other parts of Germany. with whom these are said to have been conuected.—( Brussels Papers, November 16.) ST. PETERSBUROH, OCTOBER 27. The day before yesterday, in the afternoon, his Majesty the Emperor arrive.] in good health, from Warsaw, at Gatachinu, where the birth-day of her Majesty the Empress Maria was celebrated yester day, and this city was splendidly illuminated. The Emperor arrives here to-day. The Society established here, with his Majesty's permis.ion, fur ameliorating the situation of pri soners, and the state of the prisons, was opened on the 23d. A Ladies' Committee was also appointed. In both are the most distinguished names in the empire.—(linotburgh Correspondent, Nov. 13.) THE BRITISit PRESS. FLANDERS AND HANBURGH MAILS. I,IAD6ID, 110V13116R 2. It is said that a Trea , y has been concluded be tween our Cabinet ■nd that of London. by which we are ..aa►ed -of the protection or the British to snake our right. respected by the United States, mud to maintain tranquillity in the other parts or America which desire to separate from the Mother Country.. It. is &diked. that as *oust as enema. stances permit. a equaleralia reitiforovineut will LONDON. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19. 1819. The Paris Papers of Monday lost convey the satisfactory assurance, that the epidemic malady which ravages Andalusia begins at length to de crease. It appears by the extracts they communi cate from the Madrid Papers of the 4th of Novem ber, that tne mortality in Cadiz had diminished in the proportion of one-fourth within the space of ten days, and that the number of sick. which amounted on the 18th of October to no less than 14,338 per son., did trot on the 28th exceed 6,960. In Seville the malady seemed also to have abated some of its virulence, and although its ravages had somewhat extended themselves in Puerto Santa Maria ■nd Xeres de Is Fontera, hopes are entertained that the fever has passed its crisis, and that the province of Andalusia will soon be restored to its usual health. The King of FRANCE appear, to hove 'nippily overcome his late indisposition, but it is cot inti mated whether his MAJESTY will open the Session of the Legislative Chambers iu person or by Corn missiou. The Society called the Friends to the Liberty of the Press, appear to have excited in an extreme degree the hostility of the Ministers. They are uo longer permitted to hold their meet iugs in a public manlier, ■nd the Ministers seem resolved to invade the sacredness of private resi deuce to complete their destruction. For this pur pose they caused General TAILAYIE, at whose house the Society occasionally held their meetings, to be summoned before the Jorge d'lnserretion, preparatory to a criminal process against the mem bers of the Society; but the General reposed upon the Charter, and he refused to answer questions which were not authorised by its provisions. No intimation is given that the u►embers of the Society have in any respect forgotten the duty they owe to their Sovereign and country. It is, therefore, strange, that the present Ministers of France, to whose exertions liberty is much indebted, should wish to persecute any individuals merely for their attachment to a free l'ress. Another change has liken place in the Spanish Ministry. .Dou Joss luau, the Minister of Fi. mince. has been restored to Isis former situation of Director-Genend of Annuities. and the poriefewille alike Finances has been transferred to Don Axio. PIO GONZ•LCZ SALMON. Honorary Counsellor in the War Deportment. Don Jose lIIAR had Inc. seeded the celebrated GoliAT in September 1818, and completely disappointed the expectations which had been entertained of him. The uuly financial measure suggested Ly him ass the negotiation of a loom the retention of *lnch was intrusted to the Minister of War. It is hoped that SALMON will r :• •, : 1.• carry into dr.-et some or the projects which had been devised by GARAY. German Papers strived last night. The perk.. cations against the Jews seem not to have yet ter minated. Accounts from Copenhagen say, that very serious disturbances broke nut at Elsineur on the same day es at Copenhagen, end that the popu lace threatened to exterminate all the Jews if they did lint hasten their departure as soon as possible. Ittis,is is said to be making rapid strides towards the establishment of • naval power. The number of her ships of war iv continually increasing. It is stated in an article from Frankfort, that the number of students in the University of Gottingen is rapidly increasing, and that they are now actuat ed by the best principles. Their excellent conduct has attracted the attention of the Government, and the P►ofessors have in consequence obusined honours and distinctions. Some rumours have prevailed in Vienna, that one of the Archdukes was to be crest ed King of Gallicia, but they are manifestly witb out any "Railway. It iii repnrieri that hi* Highne9a the Hereditary Prince of Ile.sa Homnoutta will be appointed Commander-in-Chief iu Bohemia, in the room of the late General Count ..1Z LEN AU. flainborgli and Flanders 1114i:s have arrived, with Pepe,. Isom the former city to the 13th, and from Brussels to the 161 i instant. It is stated, under the head of Madrid, that a Treaty has been entered into by England and Spain, by which the former is to co-operate in reducing the Insurgent Colonies of South A rn.lrica to subjection. The consideration which England is to receive for this Quixotic service is not mentioned ; bat even that omission is not necessary to discredit this ac count.—The restraints upon the liberty of the press in the kingdom of Prussia have excited great discontent and disappointment. The people expected that it would be ;diced upon the same footing as the press in England. It is curious to observe the anxiety of the Continental nations to imitate the Constitution of England as a model of perfection, at the moment when our Radicals pro claim it totally defective, and Ministers threaten its existence by laws subversive of its most essential principles.—The Emperor of RUSSIA has returned to St. Petersburglt from Warsew. In that country also • laudable spirit of improvement in the state of society is derived from English example. Among the new philanthropic societies and esta blishments recently formed in the capital, are two for the amelioration of the condition of persons con• fined iu prison. Last night, at nine o'clock, the PRINCE REGENT arrived at Carlton House, from Brighton, accom panied by Sir BENJAMIN BLOOMFIELD. A copy of Lord E••INOTON'S letter, announcing Isis refusal to sign what is called a Loyal Declara tion for the County of Devon, is given in • subse quent column. The proceeding. in the Court of King's Bench this Term increase from day to day in interest and importance. The political occurrences which, during the course of the long vacation, occupied and distracted the public mind, are in their regular course developed in the King's Bench, to undergo the temperate and careful revision of the sages of the law, who, abstracted from the vulgar prejudices and passions of the conflicting parties, will apply to the acts of each the strict principles of justice. The proceedings which took place in the Guild hall of the City of London, on Michaelmes-day last, were yesterday made the subject of an appli cation to the Court of King's Beach. The circum stances of this case are fresh in the minds of our readers, but they will be found succinctly repeated in the statement yesterday made to the Court by the SOLICITOR•GIENZIAL. Upon the facts therein contained, the Learned Gentleman applied for • criminal information against Mr. Sheriff PAR KINS, Mr. Alderman UVAIritY•N, Mr. HUNT, and other Liverymen, for having riotously in terrupted the regular business for which the Common Hall was summoned. The most sin gular part, however, of the complaint was, that au insult of a very gross nature had been offered to the Common Serjeant—a comparison having been instituted between him and JErreates, some time Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, mud Lord Chancellor of England. We remember that the Learned Gentleman was said to have been de signated, on the first day of the Lord Mayor's election, by some unlucky wag in the crowd, by the title of Little le/. It is admitted, that whatever is intended as an insult may be received as such, and probably for this reason the Learned Gentle man thought himself bound to be very indignant at the contemptuous appellation ; but possibly had the epithet of little been spared, and the name of the Judge not been so unceremoniously contracted, the Learned Gentleman would not have felt it a very great reproach to have been compared to one ao distinguished for !aiming, though unfortunately so notorious for his slavish obedience to the will of Royalty...-The Court granted a conditional rule against the parties. Yesterday the Earl of Livnitrooi. and Viscount CASTLIIIMAGIII had • long consultation with Vis. coant Stossoutu, at the Secretary of State's Office for. the Hose Deponmenst. ...~ -...-....,,,4...~.~,..,~-^~-.~- I k e tV ) Es 'Ot rk t i f-4.> txt ift,a MEASURES OF SAFETY. ER,RT:rftheACjiTihairawOteMotaAoprßtthVisATpltiacLeETarteEßin, DcoAnTsEi EROADITAIRS, NOVEMBER 17, 18 19, er able alarm on account of Lord Stozouvres respecting dismounted cannon, *lnch they appre hend may have been partly occasiobed by his Lord ship's accident when he stumbled over an old 18. pounder, lying dismounted on the Cliff, near tis, in September last, during his Lordship's visit to llroadstsirs. It is said that his Lordship, in hit fall, seemed to suspect that the piece was loaded, and was fearful that in the concussion it migh t go off." The writer of the letter has suggested, in addi t i on to the calling in of all the old cast and how l . combed cannon, many other precautionary m e .. sures, from which the following is a selection : It is earnestly recommended to his Lordship !: direct that all the hop-poles through, ut the county of Kent, and also the counties of Worcester and Hereford, he taken into custody, sod bound over to their good behaviour. It is said to be in contemplation to dig up the several pieces of cannon now serving as posts in several streets, to present their falling into the hands of evil-disposed persons : their place to be supplied by some old blocks lying about Downing. street. The Radicals having availed themselves of the loose brickbats in the vicinity of Fiiistiory Market. place, to form thereof a magazine of ammunition, it would be advisable to issue an order that Ito rub bish shall be in future shot in waste places, Lit that the same shall be deposited in public stores in be erected for that purpose. That Ladies be prohibited from carrying (irks or work-bags, under a severe penalty; tie same being easily convertible by the seditious Ito knapsacks and cartouch- boxes. All Leghorn bon nets, above a certain size, to be prohibited, for tie same reason. No toy-al.op to deal in pop-gyms, penny tram pets, whistles. or wooden sabres ; the revolutioresy Radicals having enlisted children in their rank', one of whom, thus equipped, was taken at Man. cheater by the Loyalists, flogranie bello. The pri soner was four years of age. and one of the most effective members of this new corps of Infantry. No velocipedes or jack-asses to be allowed in the disturbed districts, except among the par tisans of the Minister. From the siege of Troy we learn the dangerous use an artful enemy might make of • wooden horse, and the jaw-bone of an ass would prove a destructive weapon in the hands of the Radical Sasnpsons. No pawnbroker to exhibit his three Mae balls, upon pain of forfeiture of his license. They ale as likely to fall into the hands of the Radicals as the old cannon. It is earnestly recommended that all old pistols. ramrods, and gas barrels, be removed front the wins (lows of gunsmiths' shops, and their place supplied with substitutes in pasteboard and popier-macke. All lump-posts to be removed forthwith. The use made of them in France during the Revolution must be fresh in his Lordship's recollection. All old maids to he also sent away, being natu rally timid, and having shewn, in their lives, an in disposition to turn out to a man. Its laying down gravel upon the roads, especial care should be taken to pick out all the It would be highly imprudent to leave such danger. ous articles in Inn way of the Radicals, and where there is so much combustible matter, a single spark might produce a conflagration. The present watchmen of London to be all die banded, or drafted into the new Veteran Battalions. They are chiefly Irish, far advanced in years, and scarcely one of them to be found in the list of sip natures to the Loyal Declarations. A new watch estublishment should be formed, consisting of place ntas, pensioners, and expectant., who are the only men in the country worthy of public confidence. and to whom the lives and property of individuals can be intrusted with safety. Ladies and Gentlemen, when they change their stockings. should take care to fold up the soiled ones, if without holes. and lay them by carefully. aThe sta c kingla tdicali int o at the a dep depot afie I fo r i ds , o w en d r e e r t a l g ntd b converted ii;b at then it must have beru a whole one. The neceesity of the above precautions has keens fully established by experience and the evidence of facts. There are many others, of a specehinve character, which. should the present blots be at tended to by the Secretary of State for the Hume Department, shall be communicated to his Lord-- ship in due time. A WORD TO THE WM. The Duke and Duchess 4 CLARLIICR returnta to town on Wednesday teeninaf, from Bushy Park, to dinner. Yesterday their Royal Highne.ws walked in St. James's Park. In the eve ttttt K. l'r Duke and Duchess of YORK dined with tiwr Royal Highnesses at their residence in St. James', Palace. 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