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NEW MR TRR-RnY Al, conmr.c.amm Tii'• prising WEDNESDAY, Mee g, tato, will be ark* , LINO HENRY THE PAkT.I Aitrr. 'Remy the Fourth, Kier of &resod, Mr. Motley ; 'Mary, PfliiCo et tatairs, Mr. C. Kesible,. Hotspur, Mr. Komble; Sir John Foktijf, Mr. Cooke. Lady Percy, Mir/ Briiiirrir, To which will be added; the Mimics, Farce of THE POOR SOLDIER. Capt. Fitzroy, Mr. Bellamy ; Patrick, Mr. Taylor •' Der mot, Mr. locleilon ; Darby, Mr. Muudeu. Borah, Mum Holten; Kathlane, Mrs. Liston. To-morrow, hula Henry the F.ighth —On Friday, The Merchant of Vence.--On Saturday, King Jobe. A Nrw Musical Afterpiece is in rehearsal, and will very Goers be produced. THE BRITISH PRESS. LON DON, WEDNESDAY. MAY 9. Mr. II tie, yesterday, read a letter in the Stock Eu•Minge, from the Citaacat.Loa of the Etc'''. 1 113v11. 10 &sire those Gentlemen who intend bid ding for the ensuing Lean to go up to him. on Fri ' d.ty, to know the particular; and the time when he will receive their bidding*. We hare received Puns papers to the 3rl They state, that the siege of Cadiz is co ttttt tencerl, ■nd that the batteries play upon the town. We lately noticed that tl►e sanguinary Matsgu♦ Was on his way to the Pyrenees, to assume the chief command of the French army in Spain. Other fresh Generals, ►ir. MACUutILLD. MONTSRU tad Doaskamil, are nlso hastening front France into different parts of the peuitoula. The Petition of the Cis, ry of London nos pre sented, yesterday, to the House of Commons, by Sir WILLIAM Cystic. The motion, that it he laid spun the table, was supported by I and the other City Members. It wax, however, strongly opposed, nod, after a debate of considerable length, the (pies- . tiros ws. adjourned to this day, upciti the motion of Mr. WILIBLIaIIICS. We congratiilate our readers on.l the country, upon the open, mauly,and statesman-like speeches of Lords Gail( and Garaott.t.o, in the Howe of Lords., on Monday night ; and cannot but augur 'ost favourably of the effect which it will have upon the public wind. In proportion as this will operate . . throughout till the ilitoking claws of the commis- pity, nr the same degree will it lower and dissipate the momentary influence which may have been ob teined by the two parties, who are now striving, in concert with each other, for the destruction of the Constitution of England. We mean the present fklinisters, under the conduct of Mr. Pcacls•at. and Mr. Your, and the Berrdettites, under the guidance of Sir FSANCIS BUIIDITT. Mr. °Von ' eon, and Mr. WARDLE. The two great Whig Leadei s, * coining forward, and stating themselves, (as they have ever hero,) to be the friends of mo derate and practical reform—the friends, however, of the restoration and preservation of the Constitu tion, not the supporter. of its overthrow—must con vince the peopleof England how false and unfounded the insinuations are, which hare been cart upon them : Insinuations which have been dealt out with equal liberality and industry by the Ministers and the Burrirttites. Influenced by the tame motives, actuated by the same views, and driven ou by the same selfish principles, they have proceeded in their attack, hand is hand. and, in their hatred to that great body of talent, experience, and consequence. in the nation, by whom the plums of both have been oppos►d, they forget their mutual jealousies, in or der, of posinhle, to accomplish the destruction of the,,, without which their attempts must be for ever vain and impracticable. Alike the enemies of all true liberty—elite the enemies of all moderate, and, therefore, all practical reform—alike hostile to every thing, which has for its end the preserve. tion, and existence, and well-being of the Consti tution of England, they, with equal zeal, and by the same artifices, endeavour, with all their power, to support and defend the present Administration. and its ruinous system of politics, both foreign and domestic-, in order that the country may be reduced to a situation fitted for their &signs. In no part of their conspiracy against the rights and liberties of their conntry do they seem to have come to PO perfe.•t an agreement ; and, indeed, none is better calculated fur the r mutual purposes, than the absolute necessity of endeavouring to persuade the people, that the Leaders of the Opposition are tint the friends of reasonable reform, in every de partment of the State. We can, with confidence. call upon the people, to examine into their conduct . . during the whole course of this Session, and of livery other, and to ask them, what proposition, that has had for its object the detection of abuse, or the correction of extravagant expenditute—which bee not been supported by the Whig Party in Par liament; nny s not merely supported, bnt,we call upon them to my. whether every proposition of the sort has not been brought forward by individuals of that party? And yet they are abused, as the ene mies of all reform. by the Ministers. who oppose every proposition tending to this point; and by the Bardetrites, who in Parliament withdraw their siipport from such Worn.. and, nut of Parliament, ni.4.ly pref.- the Ministers, and their system, to "7 wholesome and salutary correction of the evil. In addition to the a ii.nl of the Whig Party, to the Ho w of COMMOIIII, in bringing forward and ISlPlstrtin every• plan for the overthrow sad correction of abuses; and, in addition to the oppo sition which they have uoifortuly given to the adop tion of measures, which had, in their consequences, those effects, we have now to add, the deli berate and Well-considered opinion of the two greatest Statebmeu of their day, upon these sub. jects, so dear and so deeply interesting to the feel ings of every man in the country. But it is .sufficient only that the opinions of these Noble Lords, and their friends, should be stated, and that they should meet with the tacit approbation of all the thinking part of the community, by all the real friends of the Parliamentary freedom and Conetitn lion of the country : In times like these, when two active parties are pulling together, for the purpose of throwing every thing into mansion, and obliterat ingevery land-mark of the Constitution; for the put'. pose of keeping, or raising themselves into power, without any care as to the means they employ, it be comes die bounden duty of every man to come for ward and express his decided approbation of the con ductof those who have only the good of their country in view, and to promise them their active support, in the great, important, but difficult work they have in land—tbe restoration and preservation of the Constitution, in all its purity, free from the despotic doctrines of the one party, and from the li centious views of the other ; steering equally clear of supporting every abuse, because it is established, and of pulling down the whole building, because some amendments are required. We, in short, wish for no more, than that the words of Eat I Gate, in the most beautiful and elegant oration ever delivered iu Parliament, should be adopted by every county and public body in England do not, however," said his Lordship, " wish to con ceal the danger which arises from that ferment in the public mind, which now unfortunately exists, from those discussions, and those principles, which threMen alike, all the legal powers of the Consti tution, and the privileges of Perliament. 1 wiil never be the advocate of a wanton, improvident, and unnecessary exercise of those powers; but it is not against the wanton a n d unnecessary exercise of those powers that a clamour is bow raised, but against the existence of the power itself. 1 my Lords, to have my opinions distinctly under stood. I ever have been, said still remain, the ad vocate of reform ; equally of that reform which consists in economising the expenditure of the cou.itry, and correcting the abuses in office, as well as of that which would remedy those defects that have ailed, from the operation of time, in the frame and constitution of the Parliament. I have con stantly been of this opinion ; and such reforms are now, in my mind, rendered more necessary, and which the people of England are more than ever entitled to look furies' cousequence of the increased state of the revenue and expenditure of the country, as well as of other causes. But to effect such a Reform, the course of the Constitution must he pursued. its powers are adequate; and, by the powers of the Constitution aloue s ought it to he ef fected. The cl our, however, which is now raised, is a;:iiiiist ►he very existence orthose powers of the Conieitution, fonuded on the law and usage of Parliament, which, if I hare not been mistaken during the whole course of my political life ; which, if those great statesmen, from whom I learnt the doctrines of the Constitution, and to whom I have hero peculiarly attached, were not egregiously inistakeu—wereestablished for the pro tection of the people, autism essential to the main tenance of the Constitution—a Constitution, which, with all its decay, and QII the abuses which have crept into it, I still proimmice to be the wis,st, and the moat conducive to freedom, and to human hap piness, Of any that ever was formed." To these impressive words, we entreat the atten. tien of the people of England ; and we can with confidence appeal to their good sense, to determine whether the reform of the abuses they complain of is likely to be better done by men, who, from their long, and extensive, and laborious experience in public affairs—who, from their education and habits, their stake, and conseqtience, and rank in the country—who are upon principle convinced of the necessity of the Constitution restoring itself by stionseitutiourd means ?--nr whether it is likely to be better done by men who are for the overthrow of every thing venerable and excellent in the State; and who, to accomplish their purposes, and get the power of the country into their hands, have the folly anal the baseness to tell the people of England, that they sopped and defend the present weak, rash, and incapable men, who are at the head of the Government, in order that their weakness may irritate and rouse the people, not for the reform, but the destruction, not for the maintenance, but the overthrow, not for the preservation, but the utter annihilation, of that Constitution, of those rights4and of that freedom, which was established with the blood, upheld by the vigour, and secured by the wisdom of our ancestors The Toulon fleet is expected to put to sea. It is supposed to be destined against Sicily. ALCM/ALI) SPUR, of Eldersbe, is returned to serve in Parliament for the Shire of Renfrew, in the room of ‘V t.t.t an M'DOWALL, Esq.. de ceased. A ktod of aental uniform ii making. to a con siderable extent, intended to be Hans on the day of Sir F. Buaarrfa liberation from the Toner: one tailor has executed an order for 500 jacket,. The colour i. green. WHIG CLUB. Yesterday a meeti.'g of the 11'hig Club wa• at the Crown and Auchor, in the Sirsiiti. It was„ numerously attended, but had only few of its Members in Parliament, in consequence of their attendance there. After the usual toasts were gone through, (Mr. Erskine, Jun. being in the Chair,) Mr. Whitbread, Mr. Byng, and Mr. Martin, en tered the room. On Mr. BYNG returning thanks for his health having been drunk, he avowed his firm adherence to the principles which he had al ways professed ; and said, he was shocked at a para graph in some of the papera, stating, that his friend Mr. Whitbread) in the chair, had been repre sented as a decoy-duck, to delude time friends of liberty. Mr. Vi T HITUREAD said, that it was of little COMIC. (pence to him what might be reported of him, so lung as he was influenced by independent and ho nourable motives. He had ever been actuated by principles of Reform. That question was soon to be brought forward by a Gentleman (Mr. Brand) who possessed the best head and heart, mud would do it justice. It would have his support. He had ever, too, been actuated by motives of economy, 1 and had to Warta that so much waste of public treasure hail taken place. He hall too to la ment, that the conduct of the present Mi nisters had been such as justly to irritate the feelings of the people, and to render it, with some, problematical, whether the House of Coos , mons was advantageous to the nation. lie was a friend too to the right of petitioning, and had to regret that the petition for Middlesex had hem refused ; and that he had seen that night inani• tested a disposition to do the same with the one of the city of Loudon. Ile hoped the people who were refused would again and again petition, till they were heard ; but he hoped, thongh their petitions might be augrily refused, they would not be irritated to lose eight of the "lan guage which they owed to that li case timid to them selves. Ile reprobated, however, the conduct of decryiug all public men, and that of looking for Government out of Parliament. He concluded by proposing the health of Mr. Martin, who apologized for saying little, in COWIN:U . IWe of his being under the necessity of returning to the House of Commons. WAITHIIIAN, in consequence of his health having been drunk, stated, that he hoped, because he had derided home public inem,„it would not be imputed to him that he meant to decry all public men; that be, in common with the people, had been disgusted with the conduct of Minister., and when he found fault with them, he did oot wish to inculcate a notion that he had no.respect for parlia ment itself.—The company broke up at an early hour. READING MEET/NG, MAY 7. In consequence of a requisition to the Mayo . signed by upwards of 250 householders, electors of the Borough, " To take into cousidenition the pre sent state of the country, in relation both to fo reign and Joilest le uccuriences, particularly the policy and conduct of the late Expedition to %Vol cherett ; the imprisonment of Mr. Gale Jones and Sir Francis Burden ; and the necessity of a Re form ni the Representation of the People. ;' it nn nteruusMeeattg took plsee this wortitug, iu the 'town-hall. The Mayor having declined, from motives of diffideuce, to preside on the occasion. Thomas White. E.q. was called into the Chair. Lieutenant-Colonel NEVIREILY opened the busi ness of the meeting. It wan, he said, the hist time that lie stt.od forerun' in (imposition to His Ma jesty's Ministers ; but the present crisis was so alarming, and their conduct hail Inch mirkeil by such repeated acts of imbecility, that he was imp,- riously called upon. consistently with his ditty to his King and to his Country, to declare his con viction, that nothing could wave both but a change of men cud measures.—( Lund applause., J The gigantic strides of the French despot, who had subdued all Europe, except Turkey, Portugal, and pint of Spain, must impress upon every nisi' the ab solute necessity of meeting oursituation, with all the wisdom and ability of the country. Hr descanted es the euorrcous waste of men and resources in the ill planned, ill-concerted, and therefore unfortunate Expedition to Walcheram and declared it to be hit conviction. that, with more capacity and devisiou, the objects of it might have been attained. Advert ing to the cue of Sir F. Burdett. and Mr. G. Jones, he said, he was now convinced that a Reform of Parliament was absolutely necessary. He then moves) certain Resolutions, expressive of the sense of the Meeting, respecting the objects of the nil sition ; laud two Petitions to the, House of Com mons. one praying that Sir Francis Burdett and Mr. Gale Jones may be released ; and the other praying for a Reform in the Representation. Mr. Lxrcitwoatit seconded the motion in a speech of considerable length. llatook his build, lie said. on constitutional ground, and declared himself ready to live and die in the defence of the preroga tives of the Crown, and of the liberties of die subject. He then took an enlarged view of the case of Sir F. Burdett, and Mr. G. Jones, which he proved to be intimately connected with the lilirrties of the people; and thanked the meeting for an attention which he should not have claimed, if they had not beet deprived of the brilliant. talents and imperiur knowledge of Mr. Monck and Major Mar.h, who were both absent, from causes over which they had no controul. Mr. Vtisas rose. hr said, to say a few words on the situation of Mr. Gale Jonas and Sir Francis Burdett. Ha did not question the right of the House over its own Members, but distinLTuished be tween the abstract right and the manlier, time, and circumstances, of exercising it. Bait, with respect to M►. Gale Jowls, he contended, from legal au thorities and historical precedent, that he ought to have been tried in a Court of Justice. The Ili-whit:on, were separately put, and carr►ed unanimously, and ordered to be presented and ad vertised in the Reading and London Newspapers, --- The remains of Lord Cournownon are to be interred in St. f'oul's Cathedral, on Friday, the most private manner posviltle„ within a few fret of Lord N111.411X. Not nen the choir artvice to to be ung on the occas .u.,, - . ..11P4A7141#0 4NTAMIC.ENCE. ' .4 IPM/SlARtra FIR 1 oIICETINc, lit , - 1 . t Sttlivtas'%,ntilif 7. tf •• D' Ai lt r iste ne • rum nt, sO. t eat' n- • • . Ala. SLAidligs, h ft. Ili 1 nisi Discount. Sweepsiakee otagogs. each, h. ft OM. Mb. Ab 'D. Of Grafloulic. Wasi: ........ .......... Ld Darlington's e•hiltittid ..... ............... 3to I ern e D. of Graftan's c. iV a% y, • Mr. Shakespear's Sir David, set. 71b beat U. id Giaficia's Taudyke, oat. First three miles of B.C. gimp Is it. Lica belling. Sweepstakes of 2.sga. eseli, for .t-t r olds, cults est. -n,. fdLes , Bat. 41b. Two. yr old comm. Mr. Tansi lt art's b. c. Gloster ..................... Mr. Wilson's Cambrick lA. Grimvenoes Jubilee ...... .• .... ..... . Mr. Ladbrokes f. Wasp, by Waxy 3 Mr. Norton's c. by Remembroacer Mr. Howurth's Revoke, Mother to Tromp, NC 411 s. The Judge could place but Mee*. 3to I apt Cambric-7 to 4 agat Jubilee. Sweepstakes of loop Oat, b. M. for colts and tin., r,„;,.. 3.y, old, and uot named in the Derby, Oaks, or ItUvis Stakes; colts eat 61b. ; Silica 1353. 311. Mr. Vansiltart'a gr. e. brother to Builcips. ...... Mr. Lailbruke's c. Mr. Edward D. of Gruftou'a f. Fisiring The Judge could place but three. 5 to 4 00 Burleigh—s to I against Fairing. Mr. Ladbrokes Mr. Ldwaril, beat Lord 11 Siumitivi's Doi J oar, eat. alb. cacti. Two• yr old C. limp. Even b.. tting. Wilton's Benvolio, brother to Bucephals., beat IA Stawell's luvstd, sat. 711.. M. loop. 7 141. 4 11111 liV11•01111. Me. Wansittart's Bilrleigh, brat Mr. Wilma's Tsai, each. B. C. oimies......Eveu betting. LAG. H. Cavendish's Bramble, 7.1.1 i lb. heat LI ti se l. c . ton's Music:au, 9st 11h. 'l'. hi. NI. itl.. 5 to a apt Bramble. IA F G. Osborne, Puppy, 7st 1216. brat Mr .tudres's Thorn, aid. tulb. Two-yr. old Coarse, tougs 1. ft. 5 to 2 not Poppy. Sweepstakes of tongs. each, b. ft. T Major Wilson's Juniper, 9st. alb Mr. rUrtleiSllnitrlVll, eat. 71b • lA. Oafurd's Poulton, est. 7115 3 7 to 4 apt Juniper —I i to ol nn Poultois. Gen. Grutveuuet• Lochluvar,list. gib beat Mr Shales:vs.'. Knave of Clubs, t1e.1.71b. Two-1C old Costar, Eveu bait bog. IA Darlington's Levaut, Tat. stb - beat Mr. Payees n 4. rash, Tat. 141 b. Teo-gr. old Coarse, nog,. h. ft. 3 W I apt Levi's, Gen. Gowres Mirth, beat .Mr Criveu . .. Blxl Diarr.mi, set. 71b. each. Across the Flat, iiuigs. h ft 7 to ♦ apt Mirth. . . . IA Lowther's H) Its, rec. t. from Gen. (:OWPOI 71b. etc►. Two.yr. old count., 'oust ►. it IA Grosvenor's Plovcr. rec. ;:.:41s. frogs Major tt J euiper, est 91h. me►. I). 1. hn g.. Oxford's Victoria, est. rec. logs (rum IA C. H. !snow set's Scorpion, est. nth. IL C. tnoes. Major Wheatley's Hippotnein s, est. 7111 rce. iings fr.ge 14 C. Somerset's Cerherno, est. -lb I). I t tog• .lugs it Yesterday, about tat lye o'clock, Their Min , . Tics, Protease* At;uusrA, Etiz.tarru, and S. . _ PIMA, attended by the Lady in salting, arrival at the QUEEN'S Palace, from Windsor. PriocessMAlllir fettliiiiii* at Windsor a1;11 AMELIA. to the course of the moron% they Atte visited by the Royal Dukes. The Kota will hold a Court, this t. 1 4 ), at tilt QUELICS Palace. The QUERN will bold a drawing-room, it-wkr row. at St. Jamb'. Palace'. . . Yesterday the Princess of WALKS sii.l UJhlws of UHL ISSWICIL dined with Her MAJLSTI :wd UK PRIM. ell/is. lis the evening Their MAJESTIES hml a St-ket party to tea and carda. A mong the cOllllll In orrr, the Commence of Canligar and.Balloarst ; Lady C. Wilde rave ; Lord M. Helens; Gr oeval Campbell; Caloorla Hoorard aid Serpi ; 111ibtreares Slaulsope, Mill, rod Mate. Mrs. EDWIN, this night, makes her first appeal to the liberality of a British atithi•nce, at the cumin Theatre. fur her own Benefit, 1.1 the parts sof Charlotte, in the comedy of The Hypocrite, awl of R•mliih”i, in the ludo-draws at that untie. A hnllinnt Howie as most deservedly expected. The Wellesley Irabian Hone is lin;bly extolled in The York Herald, and other *p.n.:nig papers; but he is distanced by the Wellesley Plot. slnch greatly excels any thing to be found in ihe 'ha bitat Nights Entertainments. On Monday night au affray took place at t h e Wheat-sheaf public-house. near ‘Villianis's hear, Mary-la-bonne, where several lifeguards-tees are quartered. A pasty of labouring-men insulted them, and, after a sleeve scuttle, the lat ourers wire under the necessity of retreating. One of thew, who hell been very active in creating the dieter ante, was much hurt. There were Four Prizes of Twenty Thousand Pounds each in the last Lottery, of which Blur Ammon. GoooLuat, and Co. sold two. 51,r ENKIN BAYNTUN SANDI'S, of Milienlell Castle, Hart. has started for the county of Glower tar. in opposition to Lord DuRSI.F.T. Ws were mistaken, yesterday, in stating that the real name of the pre:ended Baron De Kt:4l.u, the Brit actor in Marquis Weit.i.csLav's carpi de Bee let, was Bryan Kelly. It is, we uncterstatid, BOW, Kelly, a native of the county of Meath, within a few miles from Dargen, the late paternal seat of Marquis Was.Lesi.se, and now the out of [loots O'Curslloit. Take at all to all, it was a Woodrum( business. We probably shall never look upon its like again. Es MOCK OF STOCKS Turcito 11'. Bank %tork A apa Coot Radom/ ...... - .... • • 69ii a per Coat. Own* ... ..... .• inil 4 per Crust . - 441 41 s per feat Nary ' iireift Long Anatolie, ...... 111,1 4114 i 'Milo Stork lO7 i - -- -- 1)111u Honda 25 41 prow • I +.o,f-quer Bills 6 13 perm. Lottery Tkketr 411. Iri Cuiumols fur T. DISH, Stork brolly', 4, Givelbill, rad g. Cbar.treruir RIR I H. Al Edinburgh, Viscountess tllcnionetit, danglatiff-te•tot tbe Lail of Limerick, of a daughter. ors M A RR I AG E Oa the 3.1 Instant, at the Chorch of fleet Deal. b* the Rev. Jobs !tames Itarlhuosr, the Rev George Neuf, frets Foriereee, Rector of IL%thorere, to the roomy of Arid. no Eliaabeib Butter, only daußttt.r of Janws Mettonot Puy rot, of Toper heal Horne, it* tire slum coodty. LONDON by I . SMITH. No. I 9 Clere'r• 11$, sad .1 at the Office, No v., Bork .ft4i. Ch.iwrie Clew* Shand, I. J. 1% 111 TE. .. a tor plate --(her' &e. far dos Paper, *eat to tilt .r.it Paid,, "/ stlerled to.