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MP SWF 7 ~-..- mkt the peoplr to Owed, he waved lie tat, sad the people • i lyoUtrj. luw some MIS aloft sticks, Wier than walking • ;irk.* lkliey I.loked ire if they were cut out of Kidd W ie from 'kw telt* of oak WWI. I 83.• v•Ttral prople at a tit.;•tentee, wham I afterwards sew at the rot Mika ; t h ey iked *taint Fa Charles Wolsrley. 7 hey were wust.ing Ott MY e4V a!, y would come, fur 'bey wire prepared far ila m oil rt illy Th., hail v..sy fires sticks. They said that Sir f ' ...h3f11 , 11 eze a peal hired of their', terdthet many other •glifffiernets • stsortly tarn kr their side. I did nut take ...ante of a a:ut ihrrilon said. t:sees•eitlitu'iiiett-1 k ft tie omretius brifare before it sun. e-Arti. 14. ono emu with e roftti in hie reivt. Artte.lirti by %Ir. liareisen.-1 Met the bawdl Or she pie eas Not the heidio of a limit... 1 • t.utd losalpoe II •••• .101 the handle as tint s pivot Mr.Sri.t.aist be wanted to strike a lickt. i'vre ••• t hona• Cartwright examined by otos, —I was "I.9asehmiler is Storkport in Jane last. lUM r sad I • rger. I Paw many persons coming into town from the _steam tilde on that thy. I saw all, or malty of them, Car. Arci 90111% Love sticks; many of them appeared In hire I,9eu fresh rut from the trees, the bruit was recently pet led MOW of them had large heads. I fit an apprehenstun • f fliai at eeriag suet) large weapon.. Th.- buil t of she noir I. 44 was riaistnnsed of men; l did nut see a child or female, le.-pt tin the outskirts. I heard Sir Charles say, •• Three halls to the Prosecutors of Beguely, Drinnnomil, and Jidin 0M.... knew that three person, had been pros. ruled fur a ntsisir icy. I think there were 5,00) per-tnis iu the crowd. I tea* afraid that if the Wilds of the multitude were Maimed I y ate ay. dart UMW 011 those oecassous, the tuns. ti truces a.rght be serious._ 4:ruawritantaneil—The people were so fornished wilt wen j•u-:a that it indicated to me • pater apprehension' id &init.r than uaird. The slicks were I.irKe hough% of irreg. All the pcoole had not sticks, but some thonvauds had them The pet:rt. g ive three hisses. The Gentleman renuted ont to me as 5.r Charles came forward and hissed. The same person di /:seed the peorie to hiva. The woman and children were so - ylace'd that, in a conflict between the Iwo* and the cavalry, 'the♦ meet bare beim destroyed ; but there were not many women ur children. kr-munisine4--The women and children could go away if h•ry pleased. Oldhsen, postmaster, t Stockport, produced • letter •rliicb reached him on the 3d of June. 311. Lloyd Fort dit 'tt, be 'tie writing. 11 , re the too lelirrs alluded to is the opening speech 'were put cud read. . . . Aaron Collier examined-1 am a constable. 1 was sent to watch the meetiur on Sanity Brow. I got there betwixt 12 and one o'clock, 1 saw the hustings ercetid. 1 dill not Set Woleelry arrive. Ido n o t know II orri,uo. 1 was - 6 1 aldlitt2 in the crowd. Smile Our said. poiolioc; at me, " that is !Catlin . ' runner fr M 1 walked on without taking any entire. When 1 had rot shout 10 yard. 1 was struck with something. I !ward some attic ,ay that I ..was a spy. Not half a minute afire 'hi, I was hit oil the I.earl and knocked dowo 5C11614( . 51. on rrlNMCfille I baud !nosed In a house, sod a woman was na.ltinj my head. Here the case for the prosecution closed. Mr. realm' Horn add r es..ed the Jury on belillf of Sir Y;. Wokeley. The Learned Counsel contended that the meeting was a legal one, and that there wss no evidence of st conspiracy, there bring no proof of a previous acquaint. ranee between the psrties, but a casts:ll cuurersation in the 'street iataiediately prior to the meeting. , . Mr. Ilarrisou commenced with stone olewervatione on the epaech of M.. Manahan, one of the Judges on the bench. Aster whirls he proceeded nearly as follows If it were not Ile Ibis speech Idu not know, Gentlemen ' flirt I would have eddrersaeil you ; and not haring money to fee a Counsel I was obliged to defend myself. But if I fall the earth shall quake as I do; I shall not fall without violence—that is, the vio l-rce of my prosecutors. If in the heat of a discourse my Pores may hove been too strong, what public speaker can 'nape Did I stand before sou conscious of crime, my con. 'menet would feel it. H tai I any intention of producing a meeigainnry Revolution, I would take the bar mid plead guilty. woen I considered the sham indictmeut —wheel I considered 1 -as bound hand avid foot with the lion. B .1 I looked to lee where I was to be plungeri,aye, even auto hull. l'or the indictment, it is net worth reading. Had I been unjust fields in my concluet,l should not object to being tried, but mar conscions of no crime. I love my country; and if I Oro asked what is shy country to me, I say I lose it, and It is necessary fur me to vindicate my character to you bud In my toOntry. If lam turn from the partner of my bed, my country will succour her ; if I sin banished from cloy lovely babes, my country will maintain them, and instead of one bolter they will find ten. With the strength cf Heaven I shall sow improve the opportunity afford - I'd me, and vindicate my character I wish not foe re tire, I wish not for plnneler ; and however Reform may Ise balled " a noatenni," I say that whatever makes knaves and had men good, must prove a sees-ice to the community. Reform world, I know, In a peat measure, . fleet these desirable objects. I du nut Wald the riches ell others, nor do I think Parliamentary Reform would make poor men rich , or rich men poor. Jf I give a wrun g th rev. ton to my Lord's speech, I hope he'll rectify it. Once the Constitution is gime, it is foist for ever : so say 1 ; and " mi litary despotism will ensue •" thefts what the Reformers leave all along dreaded. I take it fur granted, Gentlemen, ilea read the newspapers—that you read whot is dour in the Rouge of Commons ; and you can judge of the propriety of what is said of it by the Learned !osier. I sake it atm fur granted that you have read the Chester Chronicle, in which eha. gr. is enionieled, and it is roe that account I dwell so Much neon it. That the Constitution of Great Britain is . weelient, none of us 0.110111)t, but not that as established by law, or else it would be • most Bortusting Constit n iota ; and ef any laws be Ratted tee it, it cannot the Comsat totion, but most change, and sometime-a lie better and enenetinies worse. " Vagabond orators," says the speech, were to effect improper things—blush espressiou in any eerier, but more so as applied t* me. I hare endeavour. ed to stop the progress of vice and irreligion, which are allionsiding in the present day. The cheeting doctrines of redemption have been my cowl:lnt theme, and air still ti,u di light or my foul. If it be blarplitney to gluey in the troths of the Gospel; lobe grateful that our DIVIPt.S3WiOUr came down from heaven, and woken his the nature of mum, tor Ihit purpose of sectliring us a victory over Sin, Hell, and the Grave—then indeed halo.] hers a" Vagabond Orator"— then have I been a blasphemer. Pamphlets, containing impiaper things have been circulated ; but I cm:shier it an Enolishmnies right to read tOteli of it as be f..•la protect. The leaders of Reform are charged with senctioning military is:einem/ • 1 km.w of nho du ses; and if smelt practices were now followed, It would be against the : thet I know ; but theta it is because of a recent enactment that makes it illegal. But the Reformers are charged with every thong to bring them into disrepute. What is said of lenge meetiogs of the people, equally applies to election and oilier county meeting,. Mt. Harrison procee•ded in • long series of 'Assert:shoos upon reform, an the course of which, reverting to the Judge's •preels, he said, I cannot suppose my dilating on his speech will offeud the Learned Judge, fur he looked upon eras while I ass doing so with a very 'lemma counts. nance.--(Lood errti editinvel laughter through the Court/ Gentlemen of the Jury, I hold in my baud souther help, mi. oosaguld, and unexpected, as if that Pro eioatier Li s ese • v renditiwa had given me a help when moss Ime de.: it. '1 help is, " A few Ilrief Rsersarks," by Jeremy Beiethant—'.l fairoA) * -a great lawyer, one sdr 11t ablest tie Zeeland, perhaps I might say its the world, mot 1 dare say, if their Lordships spoke tithing they would say Me same. Dal, Gentlemen, I have not yet read over the indictment, .and I shall proceed to read it —fLooglifer > lle here read it—it recited the cuietioued risibility of the ..nerds who Arnett bins He 'vulgate:need at a quarter lo b. v-n o'cluek reading Bentbam's rental ks, said concluded by declifing, that whether the verdict should be guilty or met Knell Ii would be nearly the same in Mien. In either ease hr should be equally well disposed to say, " ail is well—tbe will of the Lord be Mine." wu he had 6u:olzed the fullowin vitae/see wets called • J , eresish Garnrtt exemiued.—Hr ear s reloirter fur Whetter INffnek•sler OArestele The dandester Vitro- Wile wait • Mori.eerie' Paper. He hid me doubt that there wire SAO perms' press.. et the getteliel. 11* eau?. ilou of the sessun int the crierstable, be see meshing 10 ca. cite slats. He HA set bear Sit C. IVeleetry say say thing like tl in sf..W. wtoti.s ihe g.eit fifftiggle will tr.. Itta v0..1ef1." Such s remark could net have escaped hint had it b. en made. Crows-Examined by the Arronmtv low ertirblyeil far the Weff CAranklit, rioted at Wake. It. T. Hampton examined —He was a reporter fur War- Mancheder ()Metre, : be ntleuded to report the Pro ceedings. He felt no terror or •lann, and hoard sone ea presKed by others ; Sr C. Wolseley request the people e• nerally to he peaceable ; but find he addressed himself to the peace-officers, of ilium , be was sorry to say, that they wgre the first In break the peace. He heard nothing of the " great struggle," and thought he must have heard it had it hero, mentioned. Cromaexiimineil Ly Mr. LLOYD.—Heard Mr. Harrison say, it its. ally to petition the Muse of Commons; fur a man might as welt goo on his knee. to his menial servant, whom be paid for sluing hit ditty. It was s grand principle that-ri whole nation could toot err ; and if there were a thou sand walls between them and their Prince, they would blow them down either to Heaves. ur Hell! NWe will have them ii.iwn (be continued), soil see what sort of an animal he is." He recollected Sir Wolsetey speaking of the !Hostile, and •ayin±, H knew how heartily lie . ..wild assist in blow ing down the walls of the &aides here. He- would n desist till be witnessed tits uverlhruw of the English ! Hain Iles. ite.examiaell by Mr. Cr-swim—Sir Charles Wohadel said it was useless to petition the Throne, because - 14rd Sid. mouth had refused to receive their petitions. Julies Swindells examined by Mr. Psiettott —He was at the meeting from fifteen to twenty minutes ; but was out near enough to hear what was said. He frit no alarm. He was a draper is. Stockport. lie had a wife and family, but still he felt ion alarm. The JUDGE inquired of Harrison if be bad any witnessea to produce Mr. Harrison,• after a a b ort consideration, said be believ ed that he should not cxlt nay. The Jury were then can tttttt ed from She Bench not to have any cuniniiinicatiou with persons out of doom on the subject of the trim'. The Court a eight o'clock wax then adjourned till nine o'clock MI 'loci:day mos mug. much wan the public interest excited by this trial, that rexpecialile personnel. were reeking admittance through the Gorrrnor ' e home, anon after aix o'clock ibis morning. The Court has been laxly crowded all day. FOREIGN 111TELLIGENCE. PARIS PAPRRS. PARIS, APRIL 9. Events begin In assume in Spam s more serious turn. The Priors-is, brothers, of the King. have been obliged to sake the name of Citizens. Some provinces still refuse to acknowledge the new Con stitution. The finances are in We most deplorable state ; the Government has procured some money by confi.cating the p►operty of some members of the Inquisition; but this rrsourse is precarious, and the poverty of the treasury will resider general mea sures necessary, of whirl► it is impossible W see the resielta.—(Giszefie de Framee.) The liddiothegne Ilistorique has ceased to ap pear.. . . . . The Astronomers are occupied in calculating the eclip , e of the suit, which will take place on the 7th of November next. Tins eclipse will be visible over so extent of 'true than four millions of square leagues, a surfers. nearly equal to a sixth part of the earth, and resembling a kind of oval of about 7,500 leagues in circumference, comprising all Eu rope, the western part, of Asia, all Africa as far as to Nionooloputa, and a purt of North America.— The eclipse will last three hours. A man, whose state of mind approaches very close to idiutcy, was tried before the Court of Assizes, for having, on the day of the Duke of Berry's funeral, uttered cries of " Vice le Petit 'Fonda !" (a name by which Bonaparte is desi , liateft), mixed with grois insults to the King and Ro yal Family. In collie quence of his menial imbecility. the Jury acquit. ted I • . t;F.NEIiAL O'DONNEL. From the following narrative an opinion may be formed of the Clout de l'Alviabsl. who has occupied the most importont military posts since the return of Ferdinand VII. to Spain. It is an extract from Ins Mailifesto, addrenved in the form of a letter to one of his friend.. Citizen Lopez Golo, dated from Valdepenat. in 1-sr Aluileha, the snd of March. " Being one of the Regents in the yeariSl2, 1 swore the holy Coo•iitution given to the nation by its representatives; the army in the Isla de Leon to take the same oath, and I firmly believed that it would secure the happi ness of my country. " When the King entered Spain, 1 commanded the army cantoned in Navarre and L's Itioja. Rettig incorrectly in formed of the orders given by the Cortes not to obey the King until he should Were conformed to the Cunstitonon, I was firmly persuaded that the diversity of opinions in the national reprcantiai ion would occasion a civil war. 1 placed my army at the disposal of the King, recognising in his Ma. jeaty the chief of the curative power nominated by the Constitistiou; and not imagining that a King schooled iu adversity, who received from the Spanish nation the crown Mach he lad abandoned, could have been capable of tramp. ling wider his feet the legitimate represeutanou of a people so peat and so generous. " Fixed in my resolution of contributing to destrny des potism, and of establishing the sovereignty of the laws, I was with my head quarters at Vittoria, when the glorious movement, directed by the heroic nod unfortunate Pot tier, broke out in Gallicia. As soon as 1 learned it, collected all my army in the environs of Vittoria, resolved to mirth upon Gallicia if the revolution should exteud it self its that province. The sad result of the enterprise of the brave garrison and generous inhabitauts or Cotonou, put as end to my hopes. " After the dissoliition of the army which I bad com• , mended, I remained six months in Madrid without being employed. I solicited the runimand of the expedition des. titled for Smith America, in accord with many excellent patriots in Madrid, and principally General Lucy, bring persuaded that the command of a considerable army can. toned in the environs of Cadiz, would favour my intentions of contributing to the re-esiablistiment of the colistitutional government. " It was out until the beginning of the year 1819, that this army was placed upon a respectable footing. I sought by every means to exalt the mods of the soldiers with the love of their country, but the experience of the unhappy Pottier, Mina, Vidal, and others, forced me to act with the greatest circumspection, sod nut to harslet my confidence to tiny bit a very few well-known patriots. " When 1 desired further to communicate my patriotic aeutimenni, without employing means which might weaken Lieutenant-Colonel of Artillery, Don Bar. thelenty Gnitierrs presented himself In me, with a billet from my worthy companion and friend Dun im CF.Donnj•. He proposed to me to employ the forces uuder my orders for the political liberty of the country, and amused me of the good-will of a great number of officers for *0 holy as enterprise. " I proposed to Unite the army, and the greatest possible number of troops that were in Andalusia, in the strong po. sitton of the Isle, and to act in concurrence with a great number of enlightened patriots, who were in the city of Castes, and to invite the army, the municipality of Cadiz, ' that of the Isle, arid that of Puerto Santa Oland. to sipp an Address to the Ling, rivalries him to assemble the die. solved Gurnee, and se accept the Cunstitutiou of the N.. marshy steers in she year iSIS. This Address, signed by myself, by the said saandeiliallnits, and by depatallens from LON DON. THURSDAY, ArRU. 13, 1410. We publish with Whigs or sineere regret the following account of • serious riot in Greeuock, in which several persons are said to have been killed anal wounded by the fire of the military. For the present we ran only express a hope that the cir- Cllnisiancea of the case are exaggerated. We take the statement from an evening Treasury Paper, no torious for the ficility with which it (batons occur rences that heir in any reaped a political character. It is certainly a suspicions channel of intelligence, upon which it is now impossible to rest with any feeling of confidence. " It was understood in Greenock, on Saturday morning, that five of the Radicals, taken in Pdis ley, were to be sent to Greenock gaol, for safe cus tody, there being no room in the prison at Paisley. These five Radicals accordingly arrived, about lialf.past four in the afternoon, escorted by eighty or a hundred of the Port Glasgow armed associa tion. A large concourse of people gathered loge. titer to witness the sight, and when the escort was about to return home, after having lodged their prisoners in gaol, stones were thrown at them by the isuptilace, who also used very irritating lan guage. Unfortunately, the Port Glasgow associa tion troops became incensed, and fired among the mob, killing and wounding several. It was report. ed, at the nine when the letter It ft Greenock, that five or six persons were killed, and ten or twelve badly wounded. We trust, however, that this will prose an exaggerated statement. lil'e have con fined ourselves strictly to the facts of the letter. Other circumstances, of a still snore painful cha racter, are started, which we abstain from mention. irg till we have more detailed particulars. The writer observes, that the with wus wrought up to a pitch of fury, and that serious apprehensions were entertained as to what might take piece during the night. " Since writing the above we hove received the following extract of • letter, dated Glasgow, Sou cloy, three o'clock t-- " I bows just tints to nicotine accounts or • very strives riot in Greenock, which took place lam ) • ..~.- 5.4 1 nigh " 11 party of the Purt Glasgow volunteers were escorting some prisoners from Paisley to the gaol at Greenock ; when they entered. the town they were Worked with stones, and pelted severely ; they succeeded, kowever, in lodging their prisoners safe in gaol, when on returning to Port Glasgow they were attacked by the mob (portly Greenock and partly from the eirighbourbood), and were obliged to fire in their own defence. They effected their retreat. There are already nine of the mob dead, and nine more dangerously wounded—there are Iwo of the volunteers also wounded. " the mean time, after the military bid retired, they broke apew the gaol, and liberates' the Radi cals who bad been lodged there from Paisley. Troops have been sent from this place, and every thing now is again quiet." The latest accounts from Glasgow represent the tranquillity of that town and its vicinity as being perfectly re-established. The alarm undoubtedly was very great, and the danger was generally thought to be of the most serious nature; but if the strength of the supposed rebels about Glasgow be considered in relation to the military force col lected in that part of the kingdom, far greater danger must have threatened the unfortunate wretches who should be ad mad as to disturb the public peace, than could have befallen any tither class of the community. It is asserted, however, that the Magistrates hate collected Sufficient evi •denve to *hew that the Radicals had resolved 'spots a general insurrection on Wednesday last. It is more probable that the Magistrates have been deceived by knaves who sought to take advantage of the general alarm by mysterious denunciations of danger. There are many who believe that the Ist of April rebellion, with the treasonable address, was the wicked device of some alarmist, fur the purpose of giving an apparent consistency to his previous ►tories. We have received Paris Papers of Sunday last. One of them contains some extracts from the Ma nifesto published in Madrid by the Count de I'Artsust., explanatory of his conduct since the re turn of FERDINAND from captivity. O'DON NEL MI one of the Council of Regency in the year 1812, and as such swore to the observance of the constitution of the Cortes. When the KING en tered Spain, O'DONN EL commanded the army which was cantoned iu Navarre and La Rioja, rood not being correctly apprised of the orders given by the Cortes slot to obey the KING until his MA JESTY had conformed to the constitution, lie caus ed his army to acknotv ledge obedience to the KI NG. He says, by way of justification, that he could not believe that a King, schooled in adversity, and re ceiving from the Spanish nation the throne which he had abandoned, would have been capable of trampling under his feet the legitimate representa tion of a people, so great and so generous. Taught, however, by fatal experience, O'Dost- Net, was resolved to correct the error which he had committed, and when the gallant but unhappy Pour t ER took up Brine in O'Donaser. ool leeted his troops tat Vittoria, with the intention of noising with the Patriots, boot the sudden failure of PORLIER'S enterprise baffled his hopii. 0'1)0N N army was Noon afterwards disband ed, sod the General remained in Madrid fur six moonlit unemployed ; but still looping for sonic opportunity of destroying the despotism of the Go vernment, he sought the command of the expedi tionary army, for the purpose of snaking it the instrument of his &sip's. To this command lie was appointed, and concurring with O'Do.NOJU, GurriEllES, QUI ROG A. sod others, he endeavoured by every ntesois to inspire his soldiers witl► a love of their country; and ►o ardent were the troops to second his projects, that their zeal and indiscretion more than once threatened even his personal safety. Nothing but the certainty of a civil war between the several divisions of his army prevented O ' DON. EL from placing himself at the head of tl►e Con. ►titutionelists in July last, and seizing a strong po sition in the Islas de Leon, which was since ►o happily reserved for the enterprising QUI ROGA. O'DONNEVA subsequent movement upon °cane Is too recent to be here repeated, his object there was to unite with Hisao, owl second the efforts of the army of the Isla. Such is the substance of O'DoNNEL's Manifesto. %{'r present it to our readers without c ttttt went. The French Chentber of Deputies is still Occu pied with the accounts of 1819. The feuds have ri*ens little. The Five per Crittv are 74 f.; Blink Actions 1,460 Yesterday • Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when the than ks of the Court were toted unanimously to CAMPBELL NIARJOBIBANKS and (GEORGEABLBCROMBIE ROBINSON. Elwin,. Chairman and Deputy Chairman, for their z- al and attention to the Company's tuterest during the last year. Yesterday a ballot was held at the East India House for the election of six Directors, in the room of The Hon. William F. Elphiamone, John Inglis; John Behb, James Paulson, James Daniell, and Solea B. Taylor, Emirs. who go out by roomier,. At six o'clock the glows were closed and delivered to the -scrutineers, who reported that the election had fallen on Jacob Bosanquet, Joseph Colton, Edward Parry, Thomas t Reid, William wigmos, and William T. Morey, Emirs. A letter from Lisbon, dated March fig. ails— eg The Sparta' arrived here on the it3th inst. from England, and it is said will sail ea Monday neat for itia Janeiro with Lord BILISIOSID." • s .., . • -i N A fiM Tr GRA - VIAL BENRVOLENP INSTITUTION. Yesterday the sixth anniversary fettival of th e subscribers and friends to the Artists' General Be. nevolent I n stitution took place in Freeinsanote Hall. It was attended by a numerous and distin guished company, consisting of the chief pitroota of the arts rind the most eminent artists in the metro polis. We observed at the principal table, beside,' his Royal nighties' the Doke of Sussex (die Chairman). Sir Thomas Baring. Bart., Sir Thom Bell, the Hon. Douglas Ki 6666 air(' ; Mr. Tome'. ; Mr. Phillips, R.A.; Mr. Wilkie, R.A. ; Mr. Chantry, N.A.; Mr. Collins, R.A.; Mi. Ackermann, and a number of other Gentletn..,, who take an active interest in the promotion of the Fine Arts. The object of this patriotic and truly benevole i d Institution is to afford relief to all decayed A coos of the United Kingdom, without exchision or ills tinctiou, whose works have been known and .4e nerally esteemed by the public, and to give as.i•t. once to their widows and orphans. The cheering itolace furnished by this Institution ought rather be cdnsidered o tribute paid to genius, than an Mier. log to charity, for it is odmintatered to those whose productions the public have contemplated with de light, whose Inborn , * have directed the public taste and refined the national character, but, as we too often find among the wayward NMI of genius, left the individuals, whose studies have led to such re sults, no other reward than the consciousness of boviog a claim upon the liberality and protection of the nublic—s claim which, under the auspic-s Of this Institution, continues to be acknowledged in a trimmer which does equal credit to the artist and bis benefactor. At six o'clock the company est down to an ele gant thinner. After the cloth was removed, the health* of the King and Royal Family were drunk with great applauar. Mr. I)oug:m*3 KINMAIRD. in rising to propose the health of their Royal Chairman, rrgrettrd that in performing this duty. soil only on such an occa sion, he was under the necessity of lamenting the preionice of so distinguished a personage. for it pre vented lime from giving vent to those terlin.s winch it would have gratified him so much to indulge, in describing the character of a mai, to whose phi lanthropic exertions society owed an much. The Ron s! Chrirmint and his illustrious brother (the Duke of Ketity. now unhappily no more, were as remarkable in their career of benevolence as they were in their anxiety to promote the growth of the Fine Arts. from a wise prescience of their value to the con►sierce end manufactures of this country. The iiiirogiage of their Royal Chsitman was now donbly dear to them. ms they were bereft by the dirpensatioos of Providence of that aid which his illustrious brother, had he lived, would have conti nued to their Institution. The Hon. Gentleman concluded by proposing the health of his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, which, was drunk with greet enthusiasm. The Rovst; CHAIRMAN rose, with feelings evidently overpowered by the allusion inside to the Imnented drills of his ilturtriuus brother. It re called to his otind, as it did to that of every hid'. vidusl present, the bitter lass which he bad in cata comb with the country at large endured, in the death of a personage whose life had been devoted to pursuits of philanthropy and benevolence. His Royal Highness, in rising to retu►n thanks, wars merely nide to articulate a few words expressive of the interest he felt in the promotion of this liarititu tin, whets, as he said, the allusion to the melsn clioly death of his illustrious brother so overpowered his feelings, that he must sit down and claim the considerate indulgence of the company. The company sympathised in his Royal High ness's feelings—the hand struck up God save Me King. and the musical Gentlemen present sung that fine anthem in exquisite style. His Royal Highness beco eee lig somewhat more able to express his sentiments, rem•irked, that the introdoctiois of his lamented brother's usiine by thr. Him. Geoidlemon was as natural a► his own sishdoerl feelings 011 hearing it, fur the Duke of Kent had been the first Chairman of this Societ e , mud had, with the zeal sod activity so ',scatted v belmighig fir him, used his utmost to give tit-et to its Liu &able and benevolent objects.—/ Loud applause. J-- The Royal Chairman then made ass eloquent amid feeling appeal to the meeting in behalf of this Ili stit orlon, and alluded (without di.paragement) to another fund formed for the relief of Artist., hut the !present, he said, had the decided advantage, front the wider sphere sod grester universality of its applica tion, us it embraced all Artists, while the fund to which he alluded only assisted those Artists who had been subscribers to it. He assured them that he should ever feel a deep interest iii the success of this lostitotion, and he trusted they would on the present occasion *hew by their Putneriptions, not only their reword to the Society, but their affection and reverence to his lamented brother, who took se deep an interest in its original formatioti.—iGreat ripplawsP.) Mr. Yours°, the Hon. Secretary, then read a Report, coistaming a number of most interesting and affecting instances of the timely aid afforded by this excellent Society, to distressed Artists. Mr. Iltsisearsots, who was one of the Stewards. bore testimony in a case within his own knowledge, to the proper manner in which the funds are applied. and the admirable effect they had already pro duced. The ROYAL CHAIRMAN, in proposing the health of Sir Thomas Lawrence, the newly-elected Presi dent. and the other Members of the Royal Aca demy, took occasion to pronounce an elegant *MI well-merited enloginin upon the character of the late venerable President. Mr. West. Mr. PHILLIPS, SS a Member of the Royal Aca demy, returned thanks for the honour conferred upon that Corporation by the toast. and assured the company of the interest they took iu the pros perity or this Institution. Ois the healths of the Marcisia of Stafford, end the other Members of the British Institutier, being drunk— Sir THOMAS &tango, as one of the Directors or that putnotic Institution. returned thanks. and ex pressed the gratification he felt at this tribute to au ebtablislituent which he hoped had answer ed all the purposes for which it *us formed.-- As a lover of the Arts, he thanked theta is► 1 11.1. • the entire arty should have been yeesenisd by myself to the King. I atm oftteed to act occ9fdlog Is the gamer which his Majesty miyltt make. " I fixed as the "pitch uf this movement, the pe►iud next appniuledd for the embarkatims of the expellitims and, if it were pot:Able, the period uf the arrival of the ship A 'hi, stitch was expected frptti America with fonds fir the Go. 'eminent. I fixed that had occurred in the tettfortotiate coterpriars of Gallium, Ca. talon's, end Valencia; and tint having uhaerved any heroic firinwess, such as has been exhibited by the immo►tal soldier. who tontpusad the division of the worthy General tanker; believed that nothing but the rerinitsty of an immediate embarkation could give to Ilse expeditionary army the doci lity is y for *trying the sacred mu." of Mr cotsuiry, and delivering the soldier, from the. •pprtheitsi 0000 • usually invited by the with uf iuslructiuns. 1 pUi;lirli out that it was wecesgary to culled. the wishes of all the Officers, •o rxeite awning the 4011)111 an wnwilliog wega Is) embark, and to merit the apptiulcd time without distrust. " About the middle of the mouth of May 1 received a leiter from his Majcsir, which aunourted to me a plate of au isesurreetion in the army, the (object of which was to discern reel the projected rxpedition , and to establish a new system of govereinoeut. Ili, Majs sty charged me to mike some examples to cheek this disorder, sod out to treat this notice with indifference, as the execution of the plan appeared pe °halide. " Noose of my proceeding,' previous to the period at which I assembled a past part of the army for the purpose of en c empire% theist near Pewter Sesta Marie, ought to inspire my fiends with the slightest distrust. o the 2.1 or 3.1 of July, us my return to Cadre, 1 wee informed that the lan guage of s 000 e officers of the garrison were so alarming, that the Corregidor hod given intimation is) the Captain-General of the lids, that a revolution was threatrued in the army, and that advice of the same nature had heels communicated to his Majesty by au extraordinary dispatch.. This impru dence, which exposwel the future success of a well-pla 1111 l .1 cute rprise, caused one to adopt measures for diverting the Mil-Mal/II of the Government. I changed the regiments of the goo mon or Cadig, and ordered souse of them to be seat into easetoiernetots. " I was informed that the troops et Puerto Santa Maria were resolved to elect Gener..l Dun Psalm Saarsfield as their Chief, and to seize upon the Isla without the concurrence of the other troops, if I refused ii, 110 as they desired ; but which was contrary to the success of the enterprise whirls bad [Witte' to been confided to my patriuti4M, and my colitis. slum for the liberty of my country. " My emetic, were as ardeul as theirs, but a war was to be apprehended between those corps of tier army which held different opiniona, aid this could opt (Ail of !Mug injurious to the nation. When I was convinced of the impossihility of att. owing what the troops desired, General Saarsfield came on the evening of the 6th, to I.IIIIWiIIICC to me that the trsos e p r s . of Puerto S a nta Ma r i a were i n comp l e t e revo l u ti ou , dri mined not to go to the cantoissurots assigned to Ilsern, and resolved to male me if I did not yield to their ile niatids. I revoked the order for their departure, charging General Saarslield not to make use of this revocation ex cepting at the last damnify. " This General, noel Colonel Arcu-Agsiero, whom I had edit to restore corder, returned on the following day, and Wormed me that the troops persisted in their demand. To save them front so great a fault, I proceeded to their quar ters on the night of the Bth, and arrested the Chiefs who wants d to depose me from the c o mmand, with the intention of selling them at liberty, and employing them with advan tage, at a period fawns's:dile fur executing flee meditated co mprise. It was not wild 49 hour* after the arrest of these Oaken, that I caused their papers to be seized; I acted in fine as a friend, and not as MI Owens's! General. " The Goveinment recalled tor lu Madrid, and deprived me of the comniaud of the army, thus frustrating all my hopes. Ewen after the nomination of General Calderon in toy place, I was desirous to art 1 , 111 fawns Madrid, for the pur pose of putting myself at the head of the army, and of giving liberty to my arrested companions in arms ; but the fear of tint bring obeyed by the Generals-is-Chic( of the army caused me to &pigs from my purpose. " Assume as I learned the heroic movement of General Quiroga, I was deairous of imitating it so soon as my (mem would permit me. I found no opportunity for dieing it until the 'onsets of the corps of sippers of AICIII4 with the regi ment the Imperial Alexander, at Ocatia, where I caused the Constitution to hr proclaimed, mid formed a strong division, which would have favoured the people of the kingdoms of Jaen, Cordova, and Seville, in declaring themselves, and would finally hare joined the division of the immortal Hier° in directly seconding the effuses of the brave use's of the Isla de Leon." 1:14.E in i.lTlSil