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he abeeinetly nested, sad Ile matey nee Waled from ii. proems difinilties. Is. That this individual does not wish N mecca! from the pablie That this change will mare or hoe sleet every elan sod party is the state; bat that be Wiens, without a shadow of dwelt remaining epee his own wind, that as ba itividnal, of any description, from the highest to Me lowest, will man by the change; ise the contrary, his cosvictive now is Jterfeet, tint ell mast be gnat gainers. " 11. That, eneethelese, he desires as maidene to be rand in bhp entwine% however clear and ansag it may hap but be elks frees Obe meet removable eel beelligeet 114•11 partite a fen, fair, sod open ievestipties. " it. That is alas fee *is retooled sad respectable la. vntiestlon, because the necessities of the mesh, are se Of- Rria AM they canon wait fur years of lours esperioneat and a snood tad safe public opalie, mesa a subject jag all the vital interests Odle aspire, ought to be formed only after such as investigation. " W. probe this individual wow, to the attenuant, sad Pee it it be possible that be can be iallaraced by say private notice or penneal abject. • If, Ikea, his asetives mama be ismiegwed—if bisareperisees has here correctly stated—if the coma" is in gement damns—if these are facie, sad be only asks for ionesicatioa, will you 011111ff0rd him the ie quiry which be solicits?" Mr. Owen was frequently cheered in the course of this address, and at its conclusion the. sporobe. lion of the Meeting was signified by loud sod cons tinned applauses. Sir %V. DI Caesemion said, that in rising to state the motives which hod induced him to introduce Mr. Owen's plan to the notice of l'arliament, he should merely say he did so because he frit it to be the imperative duty of all whom Providence had placed in more fortunate circumstances. to lend • helping hand to the assistance of that class of their countrymen who were weighed down by poverty. wretcheduess, and oppression—( Applause )—asid opinionhis was, that their wants, stiffailigo. and miseries must at length he attended to. and that something must he done for them. It was with ab horrence that he looked on that system lately rdopted of transporting our fellow.cresturea.-.(4p. piaase)—to distant, strasige, and barren soils; as a toms. lie could well say it was a step cruel and dis graceful to the nation. And was not that a motive to induce them to look with favour on any plan which might be entered into with a view to relieve the distresses of the pour? Mr. Owen had de. dared that there would shot only be au abundant sup,tly created for the wants of the people by the siew plan, lint that if even the population increased four-fold, there would still be plenty for their sustenance. Was a Meeting like this to be prejudiced against investigating this plan ? Were they to shut their ryes and their ears against seen its consideration ?—(Cries raj " No, tso!") —He knew, indeed. that there were some who could not be prevailed u; to read Mr. Owen's weitings with candour ; he knew there were some •ho went prepared beforehand, who went prede termined in every respect to disbelieve them. Tlwre were also many who condemned the piss,. be. cause, as they asserted, it went to make man a complete machine. In answer to the objections of such person., be would say. God forbid that man should not be, to a certain talent. a machine— ( /fear, hear)—if the machinery which governed hiswction were that - which led him to rectitude. — (/fear, hear.)—%Vete they slot such machines. they would be little else thine in a state of nature. It was that state of subordination which distin guished a state of civilization from one of savage life ; it was that which livened on the mieid a sus ceptibility of early impressions. and made them, as it were, amenable to moral impressions. Mr. Owen's plan, when examined. would lie found at least to contain the means of prousoting human comfort—it would be found to contain pawer to set aside the prevalence of sloth, vice, and ignorance. nod to substitute in their place the habits of peace, indiastrr. and virtue.—(llene. bear.) —As the strongest proof of the good plinciples and habits it inculcated, he lild only to state, that during the fourteen years of the full existence of the esta blishment at New Lanark. no legal process was ever (nand necessary to enforce or preserve discipline in the exclusive intercourse of the people within its sphere.—(Appiouse.)—Against this practical proof of the efficacy of the plan, they hail often ward vain end angry declamations. For his own part he should cot be operated upon by such circumetancess, he should still persevere in what he conceived to be the pith of truth, he should still adhere to the recom roindation of adopting Mr. Owen's plan, for the ptirpose of trying in the face of the public how tar it could be rendered efficacious for the al. 'relation of the distresses of the people. Ile congratulated the country on the fact of its containing a man like Mr. Owen. who was deter mined to persevere in his view of ameliorating the condition of the People—a view founded on his own practical knowledge of the advantages to be derived from such • apneas of general employ. meat. It• was also in the highest degree gratilying to 'find, that from the Royal Family the public 'were in the constant habit of having the honour mid advantage of the lid of some of its Illustrious Members, to preside at those Meetings which had fur their object the relief of the distressed mid af. Hinted.—(4ppianse.)—lt was highly gratifying foe them to see -so illustrious • personage as their Chairman, presiding . at a Meeting which was cons vetted to nuke at least a trial • plan to promote at this sad crisis the amelioration of the condition of the working classes 'of the community.—( ilp plaisse.)—Whatever was the issue of their proceed ings, it would be the consolatory lot of Mr. O w en to reflect, that from his benevolent mind the stilution at Lanark caught its existence, and gave support and comfort to thousands that might have been otherwise poor. They considered him justly to be their father—their patron—.their preserver.— Mr. Owen might, indeed, exclaim, with the great. eat .plitlonthrovists that ever lived, " I have taken these poor people from their dens of poverty, misery, idleness, and crime, amid transplanted them into the more genial soil of iadastry, and comfort, said happiness. I have Weidmad into their mien's. both young and old, the valise of good habits, and hive found them sensible of the causes of their prosperity." Mr. Owed finis been the champion of the poor, and his estilesiesse have been crowned with success. All men ecqoaiuted with the pule. hors of human life, must know that Mr. Owen would have to encounter harassing, prejudiced, and ungenerous obstecleit; r ykt. while in his work of overcoming them. he *Nola still have the full cuissuletion of knowing. tisiit however estimated or thwarted here, there was yet • soperintendius Be. log who looked with satisfuction upon his benevoleut (trots, and would in the cud reward him, obeu pre- jodice eadd no longer operate...-(Applaust.) — W i r William concluded bjf proptioing. that the Report read to theiMeeting be confirmed ant adapted. Mr, Tomtit in seconding this motion. observed that the Committee were only anxious to tee a trial by way of experiment made on the establishment if an iostitotioss on Mr. Owen's San. By 14t eaPe", 'imam. the plan must stand or fall , and th ere could be no possible objection he thought to give it • fair trial.—(Applattm.)-.They would then have put to a practical issue the effects of Mr. Owen's plait. and the theories of political economists. The ROYAL CINIAIRMIAW, in putting this motion. expressed his full reliance on the good sense of the 'letting. and that they would enable him through out the day to preserve that strict attention to the real business of the day, which was essential to their purpose. He relied on their co-operation iu enahling him to check any political allusions. if such were obtruded, and to confine speakers strictly to the question.—(Applanse.) Mr. Lows complimented Mr. Owen in very flit tering terms fur his philanthropy and perseverance,„ though he did not concur in the general practicabi lity of his plan. He could not refrain from ex• pressing his dissatisfaction at the expression of an Hon. Baronet (Sir Wm. de Creopigny). that melt were mere machines. This was the strong objec tion to Mr. Owen's plan, that it had • tendency to make emu usacliisies—to take away from than that spirit of independence which Englishmen cherished, mid which was, in its operation, the find stimulus to good action.—/App/arse. )—The plan had, in his view, a tendency to alter this high and patrio tic feeling, without substituting a better principle. There was one sweeping objection to this system — its object was to give effect to industry. and make its productions so cheap us to be within every body's reach. But could they shut their eyes to the fact. that one of the causes of the present distresses among manufacturers was, that the demand for the art:cle had so diminished as not to enable the em ployer to give the workman any thing like ass ade. quote remuneration for his labour. If, therefore, Mr. Owen's plan increased the production of the article, it must still lower the 'trice is the marker, and augment, rather than reduce, the existing evil. Such a plan might apply to the new colonisation in the Cape of Good Hope; but to a state of society like that in England, he feared, on e general scale, it would never be found applicable. Mr. TKst.wALL begged to esplain away the no tion that had beets •ttsched to the expression of •n Honourable Baronet, when he had said man was on a certain degree • machine. The expression was evidently intended to convey a meaning, that man was a machine capable of receiving and communi cating instruction, such an instruction as Mr. Owen's plan was meant to diffuse. He had certainly seen manufactories where man was made a complete ma chine—for instance, the pia•nsauufactory of Bir. iningham—there one man was all his life making a pits's head, another the stem, another the point, another rivetting 011 the head, and the last man co louring the pin. —(A laigh.)—There, indeed, man was a mere machine. lit Mr. Oweu'is islets, the machinery was that which set intellect at work, not that which obscured it. It was set at work fur the general good---which he thought was the real ob ject of religion and liberty._(4pp/aute•)—loo a certain extent, Mr. Owen had himself demonstrat ed the practicability of Isis plan; at all events it would give rise to the consideration of the topic, soil perhaps lead to the more mature consideratioo of the best mode for the relief of the distresses, of the people. The people, the many-headed mon ster as they were called, were only disorderly when they were kept in ignorance—when they were its. strutted, they were useful nut only to themselves, but to their superiors its wealth and statism.-- (Hear. hear.) Mr. Parrs came forward, sod was proceeding to allude to some Om which he had submitted to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for the relief of the people, when— Mr. RowcaorT rose to order, and objected to the introduction of the plans of others at this Sleeting, which was specifically convened to consi der of Mr. Owen's plan alone. If every man were at liberty to create a discussion upon his own parti cular plan (and he knew there were a dozen plans in the roast). there would be no time for the regu lar business of the day. Mr. Parrs then contented himself with present ing to the Chairman a paper, cuisteiuisig, we pre sume, some outline of hi. plan. Sir SAKURL CLERK J ERVOISg said, that the plan at Mr. Owen had been called wild and visionary. He was of opinion that that Gentleman had already done great good. If nothing else resulted from his plan than the opportunity it afforded of ezcitiisg great discussion upon the state of the labouring classes, and even possibility calling • better plan into action. still Mr. Orem] would be found a great benefactor to society.—(Hear.)—The Hon. Bart. concluded. by proposing a Resolution. That in pur suance of the recommendation of the Committee, an Institution be founded to try practically the result of the plan. , CIIWILES GRAY. E.g. seconded this motion. Major Tomas, in giving his humble support to this motion. begged to state in what he agreed and where he differed from Mr. Owen. He congratu. listed the Meeting on the presence of their illus. trious Chairman. who, as well as the other mem bers of his august family, were always ready to come forward on ass, occasion where it was necem wiry to enlighten the ignorant. and succour the dim tressed. At any time the co-operation of such dim tinguished personages was of incalculable advim. loge. but at this time it was peculiarly g►atift slag. --(eipplarse.)—Mr. Owen's character should nut also be forgottesi—( Hear, hear.)—He bad aliewn iuvincible perseverance, in pursuing. at a great ex. pease, and under every difficulty. the promotion of his plan—he had pressed onward in the midstof emery difficulty, and when the object of hia solid. Vida was considered, there was • moral grandeur in this course, which would even ensure fur • hewer°. Neat esithusiast the approlsation of his country. Bat Alf. Owen was not • benevolent enthusisin—he had practically satisfied himself of the efficacy of Wisp. ?ens, though he had. be thought, much over-rated its ellieral application. He had, however, surmounted .atom eery 'strong peejudice, that the human mind was the victim of obitisside habit. A Froucholaw. Woad, Weed, remain • Frenchman as to Isis bedsits, Mid an Englishman would remain with 14 Iringlisb prejudices,. perhaps, under •ay circuits. strenceecoti. Coen u jai ll s tr i tt . e, an t a hat o Lfensa bor th ia rn o at t. Giles% Would present the contrasted spectacles of the best add worst of their species. Mr. Owen hsd.. however, theio.them that the parsirsus of 'the he. 'non mind *eve under the control of discipline. sad that they *ere to .be influeoced rseSl.MOdified by receiving instrettion. and by being exposed to superintendence. les so far pronouncing upon the utility of Mr. Ostea's plan, he protested against his e ngreftiog upon it new schemei of Political nemsomy, which were by no means amenable N this species of moral trsining. unless Mr. Owen maid be considered as holdiag • control over men teasers, which nothing but Omnipotence could wield. The Major then went into , • calculation to chew that there were three operative causes which had the effect of producing the existing die tresses of the country. One was the slow return of evilsl ins the cohere of a. worse soil than was found in neighbouring countries t the next was the operation of the Corn Laws, which increased ~ the ;nice of the food of the pone; and the third, the bad policy of those taxes on silt. tallow, and other articles of general consumption among the working classes. Which by taisiug the price made their proportion of such articles scanty. In what way Mr. Owen's plan would remove these evils, he was at a lose conjecture. Some tune atgo lie had asked Mr. Owen a question. whether the products of his village wenetis he consumed with in it. or..brought to another market ? He bad informed him. that arrangements would be mode fur either, iii local Circumstances might 're quire. But if the former alternative were taken, in order to limit the production of commodities to the *ants of such a small society. the great powers of machinery could out he introduced. Each indivi dual could not employ himself on any single branch of a trade or manufacture, he would be obliged to turn hiniself to massy kinds of ocean*. tions ; Isis attention would necessarily be divided in an infinity of ways, and, of course. that dexterity and miraculous facility was not to be expected which resulted to • workman from the divi sion of lsbonr.—(Hear. hear.)—But Mr. Owen declared, that he would introduce the great machinery, and produce as much commodities in one of his villages as would supply half the country. It followed, then, that the produce was to be sold ahrowl--.and how in that case could the owners of these goods go with • hope of profit to an already glutted and overloaded market ? —(Hear, hear. shear.)—The most beneficiel em ployment for capital would be created by an styli.. cation of the principles of political economy to the actual state of the country. In the oteserrstions of the Hon. Baronet (Sir W. de Crespiguy), a sets. Minot had lwesi expressed to which he could• not give his assent; aisd although he saw that it also had the sense of the present Meeting in its favour, he trusted he should always be found manly enough honestl y to avow his own opiuions, what ever they might be. He said, then, that he in Isis heart belitved emigration to be the very best plan the Ministry could devise to relieve the poor. except removing taxation from the necessaries of life. Emigration had been called a degradation to the poor man, but did not well-educated and professional young aim the suns of our gentry, go out,every day. in the hope of improving their for tunes, to our foreign settlements ; and with what justice could it be said to degrade a helpless tne. Online or labourer, that the Government should send him out free of expense to a fine soil, put him in possessions of the cacaos of sobsisteuce and independence, and bestow on hint 100 acres of land ?—(Hear.)—No. he exulted in the idea of lands in every quarter of the globe being peopled with Englishmen-- Waled seeds oat her Olt% 11111 BM On chief, To people Freestones ramie He rejoiced in the prospect thus held out of the English constitution and language, English habits and manners. being propagated and extended all over the world. Mr. TwaLWA Le explained. A Mr. SAWIDIEILI having then signified a dispo sition to address the Meeting, was called to the platform by the Duke of Erin and then proceed ed. Ile was not in the habit, he said, of speaking in public; having never. he believed, done so he. fore. he hail to request the indulgence of his audi. thee. lie then strongly condemned the principles of the English Poor Laws. and quoted the u; t ttt ors of Mr. Ricardo, in his work on political ecoloriny, for the necessity of • total alteration therein. He then warmly recommended the scheme of cultivat ing and settling the people on the waste-lands of England and the bogs of Ireland. The latter corn. prised, according to authentic statements, above two millions of acres, already drained Nesd and Ise could state. from his own experience. that the 'radioing used cultivation of it was attended with very little expense. and would make ass sonde return fur any capital expended on it. What a great field was here opened for the Islwrolity and exertions of &Thanatos. in favour of their dis tressed fellow•sebjects in the Sister Islasid.—/ The cries of " lirestios !" fire &ramie very load and frequent.)—But be feared. in asking relief fur Ireland, Ise was asking • boon not to he granted. The English people sought for objects of misfor tune and oppression to fuel the effects of their bounty and commiseration, except in Ireland ; they poured brim into the wounds of every aims but the Irishman. who had twig hero shedding his blood in defence of her soil, and in support of her laws and constitution. Mr. ltewcaorr here rose to order. Mr. S•un Den then adverted to • colony of poor people its the north of Ireland, of which it was delightful to witucsa the admirable consequences to its population.--(The interruption again became rather rioletai.)—He should now cool:ludo, return ing thanks for the hearing he had received. if lie had taken op their time ustresecombly or ioised.- rattly. lie had been led to du so from touching • chord on which sits honest man would condemn him. for feeling warmly the wrongs of his country.— (Applusse.) Mr. RawatorT then Mille a few Obliefte after which. the Reputation was poi and carried. i Ur. Ittowtmurr. in she part of Geueral tieOWIW. Mots ntorroi a strand itmolutiuti for raisiug a sum of one hundrrd ilmusaoil pounds. he defraying the eapesissa attendant on the first establishment. send fur opening bunks of subscription , at the houses of News. Smits, and Swath, Williams* stud Compeity. end set+ other bankers as skin .11m thetetro—the subscriptions eat to be called fee sill the callincolanother General Meeting to approve 1 er.the (Well% &c. . , Mr. 191111 . 0 Gottisnto seconded the Resolution. The Duke of Kure said, he had the satisfaction .to iumossoce. Alma Messrs. Smith, .Paym. and Smith. liviil given in their names fur • subscription of I.oool.—(Cheeriag)—Gen. Browne fur 300!. and Mr. O.weo .himself for I,oool....(Costfiesed cheeriivi.) The Resolution was then put and carried. Major Toattaus moved. " That the Committee appoiuted at Freemasons' Flail the 46th June. be requested to continue.to act, sod to have the power of neminetieg other Committees." After • few remake from Mr. Oerso, the Reso lution was seconded by Dr. Piccatase. and carried. The following subscriptions were then Alter! :•-- kir. Tooke, 1001. • his Royal,_Hiebilm the Doke of K n ., 200 1 . i -- aultleatid. Eau 5001. ; Sir Samuel Clarke Jervuise, 200 plurals; Mr. Hyde as ws matler stau4l) 1001. A Mr. BORDIJI wished to propose a Resolution, but afterwards withdrew it. Sir S. C. Jgetronte proposed the thanks of the Meeting to his Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, fur the able and conciliating manner in which he had presided over and cuuducted the biisiriess of the day. Mr. Toots, in seconding the motion, bore tea. timussy to the seal and assiduity with whorls hi. Royal Highness 6d performed his duty as a Mem ber of the Committee. . T ti l i ie s R in o o y t a ion l H w ig a i s m ca ro rried reto b r y acclamation. ordtmn kr.and pro. prised a tote of general acknowlerignieuts to Mr. R. Owen. which having been secoaded, was carried unanimously. The Meeting then separated. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. PARIS PAPERS. ssau, JULY 23. It appears certain that the King's saddler has re ceived orders to prepare the carriages for the corn. Ration, and that similar commands have been sent to Lyons in anticipation of this august ceremony. The Court of Anises will to-morrow try the case of General Sarrasia. accuted of bigamy, or rather of trivially. Miss Georgisua Hutchinson, the se cond wife of the General, prosecutes him. She has published a memoir, in which she states not only the celebration of the marriage, hut oleo communicates the letters of the General to her; iu which he styles her bia wife, and speaks of the precious pledge of their love which she hears within her bosom. In the mean time General S.anizits, in his memoirs, persists in denyiug that there ever existed a legiti mate union between him and Miss Hutchiuson, and goes on to say. " If Miss Hutchinson had dared to call herself Madame Sarraain I would have seised on her, and carried her to Smithfield market, with a rope round her neck, and sell her like •coa." La Demoiselle Schwarts. whom be had first married at Leghorn. in 1799, and La Demoiselle p. whom he had married in the department of Lot and Garonne, in 1117, seem to observe perfect neutrality in this singular case. Marshal Gouviun St. Cyr, Minister of War. is expected in Paris towards the end of the mooch. The marriage of the Margrave Leopold of Bode°. with her Royal Highness the Prig,ceos Sophia Wil helmina. daughter of their Majestic. King Gustavus IV. awl Queen Frederica of Sweden, was celebrat ed at Carloruhe on the 17th of this month, in pre sence of all the Meirslotes of the Grand Ducal Family of Baden, and of the Royal Family of Ba varia. COMPARATIVE TABLE OF THE EXTENT. POPULATION. RICHER, DEBTS. REVENUEA. AND TAXES OF GREAT BRITAIN AND OF FRANCE. FOR THE TEAR 1119. [Free Ilbe Gamete de "um.] Grail B►itain sad Imbed. Stage* Population Agricultural capital Grose produce of agri culture Net produce dim, ... 1,464300,000 1,346,400,000 Gross produce of Ma. NufaCtusiax hid** try 1,230,000,000 1,401,000,000 Harms ' 51 isles, &e 1.010,000 1 , 657 , 000 Oxeu, Ike. . 7,100,000 4,003,000 Cheep, Ste. . . 40,060,000 3b,189,000 Valise of Experts Cotton imported and "nought Public Debt Interest thereat, Revenues of the State 1,500,000,000 01111,110,000 Properties of Indivi duals The Editor of the (;aartte de France, in pub. fishing this comparative estimate of the wealth and resnurcer of the two empire', does not state from what documents he has derived his information.— The picture, however, is flattering to this country, as it chews a nation of comparatively small extent and population, squiring, by industry and enter. prise, greater power mid wealth than one mach larger and snore populou', and favoured to a far Inglwr degree by nature. In the estimate of our population, however, the Casette de Frame has considerably under-rated this empire, probably .from not being aware that the inhabitants of the British Islands increased ise number during the late war with a rapidity quite unprecedented its Romps. In Ireland, in inirticular, the increase of impala. tines has been very great ' it having, during the last 25 years, nearly doubled. The total amount of the population in Great Britain and Ireland is esti. mated, according to the best authorities% at 11111 M• thing 100 a than 17,000,000 souls. lONIAN ISLANDS. (From Hoe a Jor►rst •e D•bats.l The literature a►►d some= which the cartes* of Corteututiouple and the cospossta of illohoosistdisia had driven from the pommies which were their cradle. and obliged to sea so asylum in the West, may now indulge the Imps of -sgaiii visiting their natal laud, and if they have Dot as yet pens wiled to the Continent of. Molest Gnats, they have st kat hoed a first asylum in the lonian Islands. For some time the Greeks of these Islands have looked for the establishment of an versity ; they have obtained this benefit from t. e enlightened care of Lord Guilford (grandson of Lied North, the eelebrated Minister). Cherg. al by hie Government with the application of this University, Lord Guilford has appointed to the several choirs, and his choke has iu every instance fallen upon Greeks of the first merit. No one h is seconded Lord Guilford's intentions with mire effect than the Count C•po-d'lstria, who was h o p, in Corfu, sad wbo has fried nv means more *or. thy of himself, of paying the debt of tills! duty tewards his country than by multiplyin g the mace, of instruction for his young maintryinsii. Not truly has the Coast Caposcl'lstria encouraged by his liberality the foundation of the biters University. but being apprised that M. Politi, • young Lencodian, possessed of knowledge and talents, desired to profess chemistry in the Liman Islands, be remitted to him the funds solficiept to purchase all the instruments and furniture prow furs chemical laboratory. THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, TUESDAY. JULY re ISM. Public Meetings continue to be held in various ports of the manufacturing districts, for the avowed purpose of expressing the sentiments of the people on the necessity of a reform in the mode of electing Member, for the House of Commons, which are uniformly conducted in • peaceable and orderly _ manner. With the sincerest sorrow we have, how. ever, to stale s that the conduct of the poi:Mace has not in every instance been free from censure. At Stockport they have unfortunately stained them. selves by the dreadful crime of assanismnon. It appean that Mr. HARRISON, the Dissenting Clergyman, who was arrested during the Meeting at Smithfield, on Wednesday, by order of the LORD MAYOR, was conveyed to Stockport in the custody of a constable, named Macs, and snind in that town on the evening of Friday. The pops'. lace were soon apprised of the circumstance, mid quickly assembled in considerable numbers round Macs's house, threatening to pull it down, ankle the of6cer surrendered his prisoner. BIRCH, sp prehensive that they would carry their threat into execution, endeavoured to make his way to the house et Mr. Pexacovv, a Clergyman and a Magistrate, to obtain advice and assistance, but he was sefortunately recognised by some persons in the street, one of whom discharged a pistol at him, and wounded him severely in the breast. Buten tiudisig himself wounded, jumped over a garden wall, and thereby escaped further violence, but the ball had not been extracted when the latest accounts left Stockport, and from the direction it appeared to have taken, fears are entertained for the tuitions. taste man's life. The assassin, we lament to my, has hitherto escaped detection ; hut suspicion has fallen upon three or four men who have been er• rested, examined before the Magistrates of the town, and remanded. The of this event is a matter for serious reflection. It would be idle to contend that the act of an individual should net be objected as • reproach to the great body of the people present at the moment of its perpetration. The escape of the aesamin proves the connivance of those who wit nessed the deed. •tad stamps them with the moral _ . guilt of the transaction. Has the character then of the people of England become so depraved—has the pressure of general and individual calamity effaced the finer traits that once marked their in genuons and noble disposition, that they will n ow countenance the public commission of a crime from which. not long Pince, they would have revolted with feelings of detestation end horror? Have the laws ceased to command the reverence and respect of the great mass of the people. and has the Govern ment become so odious and so unpopular, that so inoffensive man shall be pointed at as an object of public vengeance, merely because he performs his duty with fidelity and energy, in executing the laws at the desire of the existing authorities ? If such really be the cue, it would well become our rulers to consider by what means so great a revo lution has been effected in the feelings of the people, and bow much of it must of otcessity be attributed to the unusual poverty that too gene rally pervades the country. The people have not usually manifested an hostility to the Govern meat and the laws of the country ; boot when they are galled by the consciousness of unmerited suffer. inp. they will sometimes permit themselves to be momentarily led away from their ordinary princi ples. But in such ■ cue it becomes the prudence of the Government to interfere, and obviate the evils of sects as unfortunate deviation ; it should endea vour to remove the causes of discouteot, and allay the irritated feelings of the people, by **hewing kindly sympathy for their distresses. • The public stied being unnaturally excited, the Government should carefully avoid every circumstance of irrita• lion. and strive by gentle means to lead them beck to their accustomed principles. Have the Ministers acted so in the present unhappy state of the public mind ? Although professedly the Ministers of expedients, they have yielded in no respect to the voice of the people. When the people cried for relief, they were answered by the im• position of fresh burdens * end the moment at . which the neasfecterisi clause were mist It t.g, it c 34 el ti 115 sr ipt 111 11 11