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fr o /44:a Z-c_44 It'y II ~:1or~:~ NUMIVER 4747. ORATORIOS. f.AST NIGHT BUT TWO. TIIE DRUKY-LANE. TUN Ev EN I NG. %V E I)N ES I)A Y. Felt. 2.. for the lest time this Suiten, tit:: admired Sacred Oratorio, composed by Beethoven. called . THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. The Solo Parts by Mn. Salmons, Miss Goodall, Mr. Bra bant. !ad Mr. Bellamy. Al (he end of the First Part. Mr. Liadtcy will perform the New (MS) ).Coacerto. She Violoncello, composed ex pressly by hint for these Oratorios. GRAND MISCELLANEOUS ACTS. The following characteristic itiovessesta-kossi Beethoven's eelehreled Pastoral Sylaphony :—The Village Dance --s Thunder adorns—l he Shepherd's Song. e 1 Principal Vocal Perfornsers—Mra. &Onion, Miss Goodall, and Miss Corti Mara the Italian Opera Howse); Mr. Bel lamy, Mr. Hawes, Mr. Terrell', Mr. Millar, Mr. Hammond. Mr. Benham. sad Miss Byrue (her second performance at these Oratorios). Evader, Mr. H. Smart.—The Whole nel•- —. Sir George Smart. Hours $o be opened at Sir. The Seven. Boxes sad Places to be taken of k 'llleatre. from ten till roar, aud of whom mite Bon nightly. Roux. 2c—tipper Gallery, 11. —Second Price commences at Nine. TIIRATRE-R0Y.41. DRURY-L.-INN. rio-MORROW, THURSDAY. FebrnoTY 26. their Majesties' Sersaais will perform the Tragedy of KING RICHARD THE TIMID. gin` Henry, Mr. Pope; Duke of Glu•sicr, Mr. keen ; tockinghont, Mr. Holland; Richmond, Mr. Rae; Lard Salinity, Mr. Powell; Ratcliffe, Mr. Kest; Tremor!, Mr. Wallach. Queen, Mrs. Glovcr; Lady Atuse, Mass Boyre; Hoehn* of York, Mrs. Brerclots. After which, THREE WEEKS AFTER MARRIAGE. Boles, Is.; Second Price, 3s. 3s. M. ; Second Price, 4s—lower Gallery, 25.; Semite] Price, Is.—Upper Gallen, I, lsecond Price. A Mew Consedy, in Are acts, will be produced on &stur dily. March 7. Vsriaas other Novelties are in "dive prepsralion, *mime which a Play, founded out the very popular Homauce of Rub goy. riiRA TRE-ROY .4 L. COVONT-G A RDRN. TO -MORROW. THURSDAY. Fehruwry 36, will he acted, 7th time, the New tragedy of FAZIO. Doke of IFlorenire, Mr. Egerton; Gomsal s ro, Mr. T. Matthews; Aurlo, Mr. Crompton; Giralili Frei% Mr. C. Kenil•:e; Bartok), Mr. Hlauehard ; Philarin, Mr. Comer; rewrite, Mr. Connor; Theodore, Mr Penn; Antonio, Mr. King; Piero, Mr. Atkins. Bianca, Miss O'Neill; Alda. bells. Mrs. Fanelli ; Clara, Mir Shaw. Tu which will he added (40th time), si new Pnntnminbe, called HARLEQUIN GULLIVER; OR, THi: FLYING ISLAND. Gulliver (afterwards Harlerriu), Mr. &dogma ; the King of L•*.ta (sfterwarik Pantaloon), Mr. Norman ; toadrautiasiwins, Loral Chancellor of Input* (Afterwards Clown), Mr. Grinialdi. The Prim-via Klionsbuidilla (afier wards Columbine). Ni.. F. Deutteit. The New Open of Zama, or The Tree of Health, will he performed every 'reesday and Saturday during Lent. Ou Monday, Fanio, and Harlequin Gullircr. WEDNESDAY NEXT, THE i.trr r FA? REGiNs. The First Ten Prizes ore sore to he Capitols. 3.... or L 30,000 3.... or 10.... of 14.... of 40.... or Besides Ira 231. Ise +—All Merlin; Money. THE Fird-drawn Blook will receive Four Pipes of the very hest Old Pert Wine. Tickets and Share{ are selling at the lowest Prices, entitling the Atlrcii *meta to the shove must important Chances, at the Mil Entabilllelea (MCC. Nu. 20, Cornball, where the Two First Prizes of 20,0001. were shared and soda by the Public's must obedient Servauts, HORNSBY --""9".........11111Pwwww - MW.IIIM , --.."-- - -rwrirriarwr•w7l77 - - --.- - - - . , , 1 ...t....1 4/ J Y 6 , 1 4, 0 - e,, - 7 . .- '- tr ' • - —4 . a.. lf fil7, j: k \ N ; I . ' - .. *“..1 . 1 II . ..: , ' ..• ...-1. . . • , V . ...., it lio• c r a b 4 . . ------......./ 49 • ..., .., . .... • .1 ( 41 „. t, Vi r I * • i 400- . • t ... . . • . _ . _ 'Es PR ICE SEVEN-PENCE. gerinen. but they retuinel .the ...spirit of the A terrine Coveriiment. hear.)—til e ready to admit th a t i n is f lee, State cases might arise which would cal! for extreme remedies —a time of furitir:ii invasion nail iuteriiiil convulsion,. a time when the peace of the people could not lie maiiitejned l the eZiotitig laws. lint hail Alinistera such a case ?—(Crier of 't No ."')—The dist retora u 1 the people. had led sortie.to commit acts of tumult, but silts it necessary. inputting down these tumults, to pot , down the Constitution ?—(App/ause.)— Aiiiiis , edges of oppression had been alluded to niftier the Suspension Act, but lie wou:d now state the particulars of one, winch had been transmitied to the Nolilelotd, the Member for You 61iire (Lord Milton). is hos !perm, he believed, to bring tt.e subs jest hel tre .Parliausent.—The letter, as well as the statement which followed it, was addressed to Lard Milton by site brother of the unfortunate sullen -1. who was a very resin ct Ode man, The worthy Get - tleistoto then read the folluveing.:— ..." Catherine Horace, Jan. eft. tat s ~e QTY 1,0 o-1 hex leave to lay hrfure your Lordship most deuces-mg ease of the widow and family of ten child' en . . of the late Thoniar Riley, who was, y (minima, unjustly coremit!tal to Yark Castle in July last, by order of land Sii{.• month, as staled by H. H. Allen, Esq. but contradicted by my Loral Sill th, when questioned afii•rwards by Ihri lay, MA', ,who said he knew nothing , against , al though die before-mentioned Magistrate h a d stated to a reflareinrile merchant at HmlitersGrld, that they bol tau/ el1111';:e r.gainst Win there, WI tint lie was ordercd to bu detained by the Secretary tif Staic fur the Home Depart ment. and committed to rlaolo. At the following Assizes his Soljcitor had inquired his 4:efence, but he. was ft-lased a trial, fur resinous wellknown to your lutdship, 15w palbt ilium of U, blab Liberty beiog at that time, mut still cnnlum ing smpetidA. He remained in Pi ilOll uglil the 7111 of (Id. whet; hr imht a rieriod to his existence by coifing his tio•oat, occosionsal by as it. ilreasion of spirits totalled nu by ro,fitic- • meat. Altlintaelk a Lilian, numerously and resm rtatalv signedl lay his friends at Il wide, sfield, owl a evil iticatc r. Lis medical attewinut accompaisyiqg such Petition. had kern . laid before Lord Sidnioutli, of Ise door r his fa, confinement, and of 116 acknowledged indii•try, and r - spectability or character and loyalty in his own m ichhom - hood; aid although My Ritchey pressed the necessity of Ids Mits.:slims Ullllll 110 Noble Seri - rimy, yet his ears oat mitecti4l . , kid lie could not hear so ignominious so eel-Mimi without being allowed an opportunity of exculpas ine Noosed( (roan charges yet unknown, and fitliesail tart, r to hive existed. " Under these cirrnmstanees, can I prevail apron yore Lordship to lay tlui ease before the Executive Governineirt of the country, and intercede fur sonic 1%1111U.1i ai•sistanre, n; (sillier the Huddersfield Magistrates or the Secretkey of - State lanai have been the cause of rohliitiz this tataily their tiresent as well as all future prospect of suj:poit anal protection from their natural parent mud Oardiati. Begging your pardon fur ibis intrusion, I remain "Your Lordship's most obedient humble Servant, " M S. t' Right How Lord Milton, 31. P. &c. &c." :inch was the atilsatanc,e of the letter which the brother of this unfortunate man Isad addressml to die Member for Yorkshire. The other document ste;tetl, tt tin Tuesday, the 17th of last June, George White. head, irienstable of Huddersfield, went to in brothel's house, arid told him he was his prisoner, anti esprt %sett that he w:k moat pleased lie had at length gut hold Of hint; he utter shewed miry authority for taking him, and it is generally believed he hail urn warrant fur that purpose. Ou bearieg that he was apprehended, I went over to Iluulderstield, but was denied admittance to him, nor rurild I any charge they had against him ; but learned that bail in nt.y amount had been offered, but was declined on the part of Benjamin Haigh Allen, Magistrate of llnddirafield, mating at the Caine time that lie was nut acting ripen; hist own information, but from higher audio' ity. lln tear Mil; this I wrote to you, informing you, that as far as I could hear, the informal' or charges were laid in Lour lon, rut II u Secretary of Slate's Office. Ou the receipt Or any letter yon applied, through the medium of Mr. Barclay, M to Mr. Addiugtow, Under Secretary of Stale; this was our IVednesday, 2d July; ou the very same day a respeetalrlo gentleman at Huddersfield was deputed to wail 03 Air. Ike jamin H. Allen, who asked him if bail would he turkerni for my brother; Mr. Allen said, he could not be liberated ri's u ball. The Gentleman then took the liberty of asking . 111. Allen what were the charges against Thomas Riley Ile in, - mediately replied, they had no charge against him ; but that an order had conic down from Loudon fur his elbow bens eeeee and until he received further information from fire Secretary of Slate, be could do hing, the cliargf being laid there. I have already stated this was on Wedue. - day the Sd July; now, on Friday the 411, July, through its,• medium of Mr- Barclay, M.P. you received Mr. Adding ton's answer, stating there was no charge agaia.t Riley, and the he was not detained by order of the N cretary of State, and that if lie was detained it was by the local Magistrates of the place where Ise was ninirehentie,!. It is with abhorrence I view those vexatious and enntradif - tory statements. Now on this same day, Friday. 4th Juty, 31c. B. 11. Allen committed my brollies. to York Castle, aunt on the following flay he was seal to the County Gaol, n u t. r a strung escort a yeomanry cavalry, after lo lug !stilt at Ifinidcrsdeld near three weeks, during all whirl tone NS fli• tressed suite um' numerous family were denied all nerves 1., or correspondence with him during that period. I Psi t tie II I July he was forisished with a copy of thecharges hid, it a;i stated would he preferred against hum at the ensuing AS. ; hilt in the interim a detainer was obtained f the Si is., _ of State, they being well aware that they cuulai taut cr.tmauttu him !rehire a Jury of his country." sv lie .al l i i d ael i n q uired believed e into te r; f the wind of toto he c+tie that the head and front rf this poor man's offend ing was, that he knew one DaWllOll, who was ac quainted with Oliver, the Spy—(Loud hisses) — mud might have said to others what the butt r been saving of the spirit of resistance among tie people—hot poor Riley never in his life had lorrit criminal enough even to attend a meeting fur Ur form iii Psi leameist.-.-(41 lung/t, and Heur.)—'Phis unfortunate man had a wile and ten diddle. le alludingwhich occasionally he reltotiehe public spirit of the people. they who read th e S tate T r i als would re Itittei,,er th e conduct of the worthy Patriot and Levi iy mail. Francis Jenks, to whom, if they ever circled another monument in their Hall, a statue s;aiti;.i lie ' , laced opposite that of their f. I n 13, is 1.- ford. This honest patriot was a hues-tiniver, anal had been apprehended by order of the I:rem-dui.. for a speech he made on the hirsti,:o in favour of an application for the redress a grief_ mires; he died tinder the persecution thus imposed upon him, hot the House of Cututilotts Tiredly reversed the proceedings against him, mid totally expunged their record. Some of the ;err , - sent worthy Membeis for the City had litretietor: ! 'rinsed to accouta for tact:tannin parts of t!.e trt,rt NEXT EDNES I) Y TM Lottery begins Drawiug. CO. 4 OWE HUNDRED CAPITALS, 3 Priv% of .t.1.),00,)! TWELVE I'll'ES OF PORT WINE. NEXT WEDNESDAY /howl Fort, Capitals will he drawls The First-draw* Prise will Aare 5,0091. wore. %we Capitols wilt be dIVIIICA in the Are Miners. The Firstdrewis Black will knee Farr Piper of Part. rery Ticket will be drawn separatele—lireci Prize Mir ?inn Mario. Most MIA Tickets rill Le draws. NEXT WEDNESDAY L. 19 : 10 : o....iney gain— . L. 30,000 L.l : 7 : 0....t0av . L. 1,975 BISI I, the Contractor. WRO SOLD, 17 TIM i"Ftt% LIT 1.077/11V, 3 Pnzr• of L. 20.4)00! - - And Various other Capitals, AL!. IN AIIAREN, in Thirty different Town* in t►e Couniry. In the last Lottery that coniameit Three Prizes uf. 30,000 f. LUSH SuIII them ALL ! ! ! wilt) 11111 wow a selection of Numbers iso every Thousand fur Purchasers to choose ALL 3 Priz•s of L. 30,000 IA THIS taTTIMIN RlSH's, in Cunhal and arariteCrier. RUPTURES RADICALLY CURED. OSEPH EGG ttriis to Cull the 'Metal/111 of er the Public to the effectual and mogulsr properties a lie. PATENT SELF-RESISTING and ADJUSTING TRUSS, *hill which hr pledges himself wit o n ly i ns ta n tly to Musa., but hi the most confirmed and violent nip. toss. The prussore 11. resistance given lay the applic.slion of this Truss to the part affected, Call be precisely regu lated to Me exact proportion required fur the ultimate cure, st I at lbe same time without the least tendency Iso rosin. terliressnre, and is scarcity felt as having way thing mend the 1 .w. 1 ), Omagh entirely ussimppin fed by either strap or bandage s nor tan any bodily Makin shaplace it when pr.- pen) filled on, or oat rt ifs silf-acloag and solisishug prin. ciPle oa the Mptute. "the many exisaurshisary curs, that have lieen made by the simple •pplicatioss o f the German Trust, when all other means have entirs ly failed, ran be 111 P+tr.l I, a rrfcrviery to ttttt C Of Ilse moo respectable Me liteal Grails men truth lit Loudon Hied the country; as alai 'tutu. rout. individuals who have been entirely and radically The tinder mentioned National losiilutiont bolls patrwcse and star this Tress. To these J Eid alto wills "thdfaite refers to proof of its efficacy and micellence, tz. 1: Weil, Esti titargeou at the Royal Cheliam; Gunnisig, Esq. Secretary at Si. tkorge's Hospital, tut cuts tch and Si. Thomas's Hospitals; the Royal Military Asylimi ; the St. James's, St. Mal lt-ICAPMIC, Westminster, Lititts 111, Chester. Heithigh, and I Inli.manes and Dis pch• 111. ; also the City of London Truss Sucitty. I. ...is near the Ihymarkel. LONDON, WEDN: BRITON GALLERY, PALL-MALL. IS GALLERY,' ft,. the EXHIBITION nod SALE of the WORKS of BRITISH ARTISTS, is OPEN EVERY DAY front Ten in the Morning till Five in the Eyeshot. Admittance, h.— Cala)(main, la. JOHN YOUNG, Keeper. NEW THEATRE-ROYA F.NGI.II I III OPERA-110 5 M; STRAND. EIDOURANION. MR. D. F. WALKER respectfully announces his ASTRONOMLCAL LECTURR on the above 'splendid Machine fur THIS present EVENING, at Seven OClork. la addition to the usual subjects, moire Miner Phenomena of the Moon; and further Illustration of the Tides, will he introduced. Dozes ss.—P4l 36.- 4 pCsallery Rs.—Upper Gallery ts. 1 he house is warmed by three fires iu the l'it. The use of the Celestial Globe aid the Earth's true Figure - atoeueptad. Kist's Abtber the Strut.- . ture anal Physical peocraphy of the Gluhe, awl ut the great chinges which ilistirruce luau undergo's/. its put ages ; unit will he elucidates' by 'a variety of large and itslerratiug Specimens, and by intentions Original Drat/lets and Sections. To eomniPuce al Seven o'tlork precisely. Adasissitat to the Lecture 4s. Mr. RAKEWELLN LECTURES et the Argyle fioonis, will commence noon after Eistcr. ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES, For the EDUCATING, CLOTHING. and APPRENTIC ING. the CHILDREN of POOR CATHOLICS, and PROVIIHNG fur DESTITUTE ORPHANS, under the Patio:tinge of the Right Rev. Dr. POYNTER, Y.A.L. QEItMONS for the BENEFIT of the ',hove 10P CHARITABLE INSTITUTIOS Will he preached on SUNDAY NEXT, March 1. at the following Chapels:— The PORTUGUESE CHAPEL, South-street, Grosvenor impart ; The SPANISH CHAPEL, Spanish.place, Manchester vinare ; The BAVARIAN CHAPEL, Warwick-street, Gulden slime; The SARDINIAN CHAPEL, Duke-street, Lincoln's lon Fields; and The CATHOLIC CHAPEL, White-street, Moortields. • le nailer the direction or Figure will be attempted. •••••• •••••• • WIG Mal... • • be Moloch, to begin at A I..pcTUßK_ilo.. GE0L04Y.4.44 1s• Venirii; EVENtIiG, Felweare 45, at th e of Sprint. at uw Helot rie Tavern in the Pool's-Y by Irr BM:EWELL, whom may be had a pii- "Au IntrOductioa to Geolozy . ." 2s.—Vower Gallery. li• The Lecture will comprise a general Vi ew o f th e • . 10 BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY MIL EVANN, At his limier ' No. 46. Pall-Mall, 'CMS DAY, ITED NESDAY, February 25, sod Five following Days (Sun day excepted), VALUABLE sind EXTENSIVE COL- Lec-tiom of BOOKS, recesith imported from Ant werp, rinitainiaz many Articles of Foreign Litrzalurt and History, of uucouunon occurrent.% its this emiutry s .' • —•• • • • This any is polnirbed,prire It. 6. humid, S TOCKDALE'S CALENDAR fur IBIS; containing The Retail Calendar—The Alindnach—The Crintpassiiiii to the Calendar—The Peerage, with the Arms— •tul The Bantu. Inge. with the Arum Printed foril &Mani Stackilale, 181, Piccadilly. This day is published, in one large volume octavo, the Serund Gliliuu (with Engravings), considerably •Ilereil and enlarged, of A TILEATISE mt the principal DISEASES of the EVE'S illustrated with Cams. By AN ; r0:410 SCARPA:_ Rothles Professor, and Director of the Faculty of Medi cine in the Royal Imperial Diaismity of Pavia, Sac ILC. Translated from the Italian, with Notes. BRIGGS, Surgeon to the Public Dispensary. Piloted fur T. Corlett and W. Davies, Strand. Of whom may be hail, by the same Author, MEMOIR on the CUTTING GoRGET of HAWKINS, coutaining au Account of an Improvement out that Instru ment, mod Remarks on the Literal Operation fur the Stone, prier ge. MR. WOOI)FAI J .8 IUNIITs. This day is published, handsomely printed in vols. Bvn. price 2/. 2s. in Winds, a sew and complete Edit' (being the Seciiiid) of .lair LE:TTF.Rs OF JU NIUS; ; Lento , by the same Writrr under wallow; sizontures, now first collected. To which are added, his confidential Correspondence with Mr. Wilkes, tool his Private Letters, qildremed to Mr. W. S. Wooilfall, with a preliminary Essay and Notes; the new matter fur 000 itt at Irast two thirds of the Work ; illustrated with Fae- •• •Ics of the Hand-writings of Justin., Mr. Burke, Mr. Welkin, Mr. Horne, Mr. Dun ning, Mr. W. G. Hamilton, ate. from the Originals now in the possession of his soil, Mr. G. Wumlfall. t w lt A few civics may be bad t, rays' paper, pries, 3/. 31. in boartia. Printed for F. C. and J. ftivinctivii; T. Payne; (3. Wilkie; Longman, Hurst, Itrea. Orme, and Brown ; a n d Dries; J. Murray; .1. 31ariniti ; and K. I,laldwin and Cu. SA N DLIIS, DURHAM, WALL, and ro. lki (1 RGAN mid SAN DEUS. II prior,. A STERERS, Catherine-street, Strand, very gi ate fully acknowledge the liberal support they have received for the last seventeen years (rum the boleti., and Gentry, no patronising their !Manufactory mid Warerooins, and tery humbly beg leave to announce, that the Business is now relingaished by Mr. Morgan in favour of SANDERS, DURHAM, WALL, anal Co. (who have been Assistants in the ColllCrlll ever since its commencement) They respect fully solicit a coutimasice or that approbation anal whirh has been so lung given to the peculiar articles of Furniture ellanuilicturrel only in their Establishment, Nos. 15, 18, sad 17, Catherine-street, Strand. N.B. The Palest Articles, with gnat improvements, ■nd a general exhibitiim of Upholstery and Colima Furniture, always ready for Sale. NEW INV EN 'l' E I) WAXED WICK MOUI.DS, Hi. per dosen ; twit Store readies, per dozen ; best Wax Candler, 3s. Sol. per pound; Sperm and Composition, 30. 4.. per pound; Palace Wax Ligins„ merely lighted, It. 4tl. per ponsol.—M. P. DAVIES, 63, St. Martin's.lane, opposite Slaughter's Colfee-honse, wlr Inventor and Manufacturer of the New Ineented Waxed Wick Tallow candles, which being sn highly approved of and arlaiiird by the uurnertrus Families he had the honour serer,lu first induced lons to offer them to the Politic et large, aid (tom the tiolimiteil support hr has and .5 to rewire from all pia, of llur United 1111 l mod be onerring proofs of his superior mode of ntannfarnve. Brat Mottled Soap, SI. pit- rat.; boa Yell ow s ome 41. tom, p, r cwt.; Demonic Palm situ 11 inilsor Soap, Is. 44. per monad; Brown Windsor, 4.. p.r il..zeii .quares; and Emory Soap., 9.. per ilusns ; best Lhoirli Sealing VVax, es. nil. per pound ; superfine 7i. per Nona. N.B. Families paying half yearly, sopplitd at the regular 3loney 9. , DAY, FEBRUARY 25, 181.8. SMITH, MAYOR. In • MEETING ,or ASSEMBLY of the MAYOR, A LOP.RMEIff, And LIVERYMEN of Hie several CIIPMPANIEN of the CITY of LONDON, in COM MON HALL aseembled, at the GUILDHALL of the said City, on TUESDAY, the filth Day of February, Ibis; RESOLVF.D, riIIIAT this Common II II has viewed with the 11. deepest rower° the fisitpitoit violations which have of late years been mad. smolt the rigida of the subject. mere pqrticularly by the late erumension of the Habeas Corpus Act—a measure fuswidod *either uplift precedent nor necessity, but upon grumpiness alarms made by Ministers. through infamous dud abendoned hired emissaiies, for the purpose of halide the complaiift of the people—shielding curreption—and protecting atomises. Itesoltreil—That the existing Lk+. of the Land were folly sufficient for the suppression agd phisislimeut of sets of tumult and disorder, and were• so considered by our an cesturs,who passed the Habeas Corpus Act as an additional barrier for personal security, at • time reams keble fur plots and Aunts, aud arbitrary and Illegal arrests sod imprisuu. tomtit. - Reanlys ll —•Tholl ftelimellelif !WAN Aet in lime of profound pesos is without precedent. —se I. the we l d o r ' , sr_ bilrary, and oppressive coaduct of M fussier', under its stas• pension, unexampled in the 'moils of the Country. Resolved—That this Common Hall enuntrt sufficiently ex press its abbiarrence of these detestable miscreants, who, as Spies end Informers, have been seeking to eusitare the lives of mifortnuate men, under the influeuce of want and de spair, by exciting them to nets of treason Anil outrage. That the employment astir,' issfamuus Agents is disgraceful to the Government, destructive of social happiness and inter course among the Peuple, and patting the lives of Minima men is a slate of peril and hazard. Ilesolved—That this Meeting forbears Jo detail the nth nitrifies illegal arrests auil deleutions of Persons who have since been discharged without trial; nor will they recount lbe numerous cruel and vindictive. prosecutions in which the Ministers have experiesieed signal defeat and disgrace. They casino', however, but express their opinion, that iii the histances where convict' have taken plate, those de luded men were the victims of the hired Agents of, the Go vernment; and hail it nut been for the fortunate discovery of SUMP of these wretches, hundreds of inuocent men might httee fallen n sacrifice to their artifices, frauds, mail pry juries. ...• Resolved—That ibis Meeting by seam, with uo less grief than indignation, secret Parliameulary Commit appinut ed at the ItUggrFl sssss of Minister*, composed of those hhiuis tees, and other Placemen and 'Pettibone:or, fur inquiiy upon such e*-parte evidence as the Ministers And it convenient to furnish them—while the Petilirins of those who complain of injustice and oppressioq have been Waited even to be taken lute cuusideral Resolved—That the ;Aire( 'of such Committees, in the opinion of this Meetine, cannot tend to foe ward the ends of justice—to vindicate the vittlatkil rights of she subject —or to 'retire the People from oppression —but to beret'', pen. sect, anal indentnify.their Oppressors. Resolved—That Petitions be presented to both Houses sif Parliament, praying them immediately to institute such full, impartial, and rigid iwieiry into the conduct of Minis ters, as can alone satisfy the justice of the Country, ur the exrefaliella of the People, Icy referring all the proceedings Ninon-fed with the latiaSaspepsion Act to a Committee. ill he composed of such Member* only as livid neither place unr pension under the GA' ireniabilet ; and &het they will, uot pass nay gill of Indemnity to 3liuisters, and preclude slew who have been the victiher of oppression from a fair appeal to the legal Tribunal of (be Country. Resolved Unanimously—That the arid Petitioes be fairly transcribed, and signed by the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, two Aldermen, and twelve Liverymen._ _ . Resolved 11l i l numly—That the Sheriffs, attended by the Ilemedihtrineer, du w sit upon mid request smile Ismt iu Parliament to present the Petite to the Hight Hoseotiruble the tiouseof Lords. Resolved Unanimously—That Mr. Alderman W I, one of the Representative. of this City in Parliament, be re qiirt44 d to present the Petition to the lionuaraltie the I loit.e of Commons Revolved Uonnimouely—That the Repreamitatires of this Cily in Parliament be, and they are hereby inatructed to support the *Mil Petition in the Honourable the Huns. of Commons, and by every means in their purser to promote the object of these Rep.illitions. Resolved U ly—'What the Thanks of ibis Com mon Mall he given to Samuel Unveil, Eaq. the Atwell, nod Robert Weidman, Esq. the Seconder of the Resolutions aireed to this' clay,for the able manner iu whirl, they hate introduced them to the consideration of this Hall. Resuli Unanimously—That the Thanks uf ibis Hall be given to the Right Hun. the Lord Mayor, fur the remlinevs *ids which he convened this Meeting, sod fur his ienitar tinkly in presiding over the debate ihis day. Resolved thianimuualy—That the Revolut . agreed to thi s day he signed by She Town Clerk, and published in the usual Muruiug and &tuts% Papers. IVOODTHOR PE. • were hurried through Pmhament---they complained then, 0d.111.1 complain now, thyt they were founded main the Reports of Secret Committers, mein which were sonic of the Ministers of the Crows ; •4111 111 ex-parte tvidetna• alone, selected by those Ilinisteis, withunt even further investiga- IMti, oft-r those Repro ts bail barn cootrailteicil in wane of their most material partv, and had liens offered to be ilia. proved at the Bar of yunr ininouratile Home. That since the pawing of the said Art, your Petitioners hare viewed with indiguation aid horror •he vindictive cruelly with. which Ministers 114“. exrret•ril the powers. in trusted to ibent—nusnecons individual% have been turn from their wives and families. dragged into distant prisons, wheie they have been immured, Isrnvily 400011 ; for months toge ther, sod afSetwardr released wnhont tieing brought In trial, or even knowing the charzes ugyiust them, riniumgh re peatedly demanding to be !airtight before the legal (idioms!, of the country. Your Petitiolutmefinitut sufficiently expttss their nhhor rente at the eniploymunt of IsGmtoua nod abandoned wretch,, in the capacity of Spies and I mers, the hired Agents of Goveriament, who, it appears, have been tra versing the coulltrY, .and- wherever dissent' rind wives y bail topsiders* ahttoutrut add Irri i..a, !terse wSuaunn wtmches have, Joy thelmsest firtitees and falsehoods endeaviirred to excite simple mud "kindld men into nets of outrage and treason; and, in the inbtance, where convictions have taken place, your Petitioner, feel convinced, I whit has trans pired, that the unhappy and deluded imlividnals were the victims of these abandon' il Agents. • Thal, not withstandit.g the solemnity with which the mag nitude and atrocity of the Tres , ul,ll iu grutland were said to exist, your Petitioner* can Mail no reran! n( any convict Mt; for the crimes alickeii, •Ithoutth itiu most disgraceful bon. pering with ~witness appears to lime taken place, in urtkr to procure rush conviction. That in the Metropuli4; Itrter the greatest prejudice had been excited by Minister!! Sothis, nn indiiidual, and after vindictively persist:ng in putting him on bii trial the third lime, sot content with ilie, previous scrinittal of two slicers rive Juries (riming a hich trials attempts weremarle In deprive hint of the ouly menus of defence hy.which he could establish his innocence), Ministers experienced could disgrace and discomfiture; and your Pelitunters rauend refrain felon ex tirmiug to your Honourable lbsoye their convietinn, that those prosecutions wire not underinkets for the pridection of but for political objects; and that, had the pub lications been in (a :ow of Nlitiiucra, or in ridicule of their opponents, they would 1101 have excited the sintinion, of the Government, u nl ess , as i n ot h er cases, to reWard the Authors. That while these acts of severity and oppression have been pursued with unrelenting rigour, ulthouL t h the sufferings of the People have hems ssuraangdrd , and the itnuaLers of their Petitions eiilhout precedrot, their grievances ;have toritlicr 'seen redressed. nor Iheirrrsunplgints inquired into ; and y o ur Petitioners believe that the groundless shrove excited by Ministers were solely fur the purpose of sti6us complaints anal prosvetine abuses. Your Pititioners lutvi. looked with anxiety to the recent proceedings of your Ilouourshle Moose. The Continuos House of Parlisment his beets sepre.ented Gy she hest Aulhos Wes as the great Inquest of the Kingdom. to search into all the oppressions moil : injustices of die King's Mi nisters. It is long since your Petitioners have seen this important and esecemarx function exercised., but t i key enter tained the m u st satigtiiiie hopes - that your ratite House, after the uneitlimpled difficulties and privations the Pro* had colored, segraystril as they have been by the arbitrary .and oppressive acts of the Ministers, would at length have instituted the mon serious and rigid iniquiiv • the moltiplied oppressions and injustices of the King's Your Prtitioneri cannot conceal from your Honourable House that they lo►.k with eau confidence fia atay Report that the Committees of Secreay, slow sitting, a►ty make; the said Committees Lammm hag to he composed ► for the greater part, of Place►mo, anal those ►ety Ministers whine conduct is the subject of Mee:444lkm. That • Committee thus firmed is at Valiance with every established prfncipte of civil and criminal jurisprudence, and ci►tnot satisfy the jos lice anal expectation of the Country. Your Petitioners thereiore humbly pray your Hooour•hle House to institute an su►uuudiat., impartial , and rigid iuquiry into the conduct of Moister% muter the late Suspensi ~,, of the Milieu CorpOs Act; tuatl that the whole p eel-ratings connected therewith may 1w referred to such Committee as shall be composed of sorb Members only of your Honour able House as hold peitber Places nor Pensions mailer the Crown: And Ibex furiber pray that you will nut render the vaunted repponsthiblynf 31ioisters a mere name, by passing • Bill of I► demnity. and preclude those who haie Green the Victims of oppresuroas and per.ecutiuts fruid the Means of •ppcal to the Laws of the Country. Signed, by Ocder of Court, 111 NRI - woournoßrE. SMITH, MAtOR. A COMMON COUNCIL, WWII its she CHAMBER of she GUILDHALL of the CITY of LONDON, ou THURSDAY, the Mb day of February, 1VIS; ORDERED, r ily AT the Petiiion to the tionounehle Houle 1. or Couvinwri, agreed to this flay, iu relation to the Su•prosion of the Habeas Cuevas Act, be publi.lied in the fistful Morning and Ereuiug Newspapefs, when the same shall have been presented. _ _ _ WOODTHORPE. Tu the Hottouralde the COMMONS of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, I. PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED: TIIE HUMBLE PETITION Of TOE LORD MAYOR, ALDFR MEN, AND CODMON.. or THE mg up LONDON, IN CONINION COUNCIL 411151:51LILLU, fill PW, tit, That your Petitioners., holding in veneration the sacred principles of Freedom upon which the British Cnnstitisti 000 is fuunderl, hoer witnessed, with the steepest concerts. the frequent and dangerous ' a which, upon usifounded alarms and prcteucca, have of late years been Mille hereon— re particularly by the Suspeic-iuti of the Daiwa% Corpus Act, and other restrictions upon the Liberty of the Sufficc", during the last Session of Parlianceut. They remiud your flumnorrhle House, that the Umbras Curio's Act was passed at a period remarkable, above all oriole, for plots nod alarms—that it conferred nu new right, hut was intended as • bar, ier for the Liberty of the Subject, io coriserprence of the frequent arbitrary and illegal arrests ■nd imprisunmessts upon charges of sedition and treason by the corrupt sod tyrannical Ministers of those day.. They submit to your Honourable Hausa•, that if this great bulwark of personal security is to he suspended whet/tree the People labour under heavy grit vanes's, find the misses's , - rinet of Ministers has impelled them to lay their complaint,. before Parliament, or at the foot of the Throne, instead of inquiring into and redressing theory, this boasted right is Income a dead letter, its whole efficacy is lust, and it had better at mire be struck out of the Statute Rook, than be %uttered to remain only as a sail and mortifying memorial of what Eliclishosen formerly ruj reed. 1 hat your rehti )))) rrs slid, in Or last Session of Parlia ment, implore your Honourable Muse not to assent to airy propositi for depriving the People of that esseulial part of the Cusistitoti ~,,, the Habeas Cot psis Act—no pre cedent whatever existing of such a mrastn•e having been resorted to at a period rd p.ofolossl PrJee-111. y &lomat:a the precipitancy with which Int abaft S 4,11 Silt Is vital Met , at COM.IIOI HALL. Yesterday a Common Hall was held at Cada hall, for the purpose of Petitioning Parliament to institute inquiry into the conduct of Ministeis during the Siivens4m of the Habeas Corpus Act ; and also praying that sin Act of Indemnity should not he ps.sed In prevent the remedies to be had at Law by the suMrers under as bitrary imprimnimetit. At one o'clock the Louts MAYort entered the the wood state, and opened the business of the le-eting with the I,ccustoineil t'orinalities. His Lordship then said, that he felt it his ditty to con vene the Livery io pursuance of the Requisition *hie!' lied beet) transmitted to him, and lie en treated that they would calmly and dispassionately consider the arguments referred to them in the course of the debate, soil decide as they thought (proper; lot the same timw giving a full hearing to Truth sides of the question.—(Hear, hear, and et fee of " Bractil"l FAVEI.I. came forward, and was received with great applause. Ile said , that if ever their was a time in which the Livery was convrurd of importance to their dearest rights, as well us those of the country, this was that period.—(H ear./ They were slot now assembled to disclose an abstract right, for the great question of personal freed was a rigid coeval with the comlosou law itself— it was of Saxon origiii, and firmly held against the invasion of their Rot)slw uneestors during many successive struggles; it was the right secured to the people of England Chorta—by the Habeas, Corpus Act—by the hill of Itig!i's the Act of So ilettsent.—(llear, Saar.)—Sir Edward Coke, in a very long and learned argoineut lung before the passing of the Ilabea. Caleptis Act. wrist so far as to she« from Scripture the solar of this right, by ipintiug the expression of tic- Apostle I'd !—" I Ire ye been twat openly, and ant con demised for tient r a It. , inan."— . l . l.e irglit of personal (.knit, without which the condi (too of freemen was but Si 1114511 C, was inherent its the Briii•li l'onslituuon. If mess were to be dragged It) fins,,,,, ironed. an.t atter wools discharged without trial or ststwit. I,:lits could ilie people toast of freedom ; lr•itileiril the Al- 0 ~~ KM. leg