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LITERARY NOTICE. The SECOND TOUR SO of DR. SYNTAX in SEARCH or CONLATION, 01. The THIRD.TOUR of DR. SYNTAX in SEARCH of a WIFE, Vol. HI. The popularity of these very amusing works, - which have passed through several editions, has induced the Publisher to present them in a brualler size. We noticed the first volume in this retiuced shape, viz. The First Tour of Dr. Ttax in sea rch of the Picturesque, some mouths, ago, .and ,since the publication, the Author tins Veen removed 'from all human troubles. Ills naineivas not affixed to his works tinring - hii but as there is no reason for conoeuling, hut rather • - fpr'dsclusing it, as the work does honour to his memory, we may now properly inform our Readers that the author of the humorous and moral vo before us was IVIr. WILLIANt-COMBE, a uentiematt who, in the earlier part of his life, •ma.le n distinguished tigure in'thehiglieSt literdry - and fashionable. circles of .this country. We gae a brief account of his .character and produc 7 tityys immediately after his death. His life was m Apt' by vicissitudes, - and he had 'ptqmised to relatf, it to the World, hut no memorial has been :fottad among his papers. Such, a work would ha%e been high!) , amusing and instructive, but he has hetineattied' a 'val u able legacy to mankind in his Dr. ,S Snits, in which there is not .a ;le that, in point, of moral' tendency ought to he omitted. It was the' invariable object of the writer in' all his works to render, aneusetnent aeCesiary to Ortue. 1 t is need. 'less for' us to comment on the work , hefore 'us, AS it has obtained the stump of. universal appro.', bation. We have, therefore, only to add, that though now presented to the public in a more ' cheap and portable shape, it is by •no means les !oled in beauty. 'lt is printed in Frretttottt , 'E, 'from a clear distinct letter: The engravings, re.- presenting the most striking incidents - in' the re spective volumes, have been reduced under the superintendance of Mr. ROWLANDSOX, and dis play all the spirit and 1101110M' of his original and admirable designs. We have reason to hope that - Mr. , AOKERDIANS, the liberal Patron of the de parted Author, will collect such partictilars of 'his Life, and other works from his hand, for publication, with a Portrait of the Writer to 'wh,orn our country is so much indebted. NOTTINGHAM ELECTION DINNER. , - - A public dintier commemorate the triumph of Independent principles in the return of Joseph Birch and - Thomas Denman, Esqrs„ to represent the town of Notting 'ham in Parliament, was given at the Exchange Hall, Notting ham,. on 'Wednesday la's: The suite of rooms were elegantly Sited up for the occasion, s and the columns anti pilasters deco -rated with laurel, and harmers with popular mottos. The following Members of • the Corporation were thr .Stewards :—The Mavor, .(0. T. Oldknow, Esq.), Aldermen W. Wilson; John Allen. J. H. Barber, anti C. L. Morley; and Messrs. Thomas Wakefield; H. Enfield, A. T. Fellnwes, .W. Hurst, and J. Beard, Members of the Com Mon Council ; ,and the whole arrangements for the entertainment were credit. able to their efforts and avowed anxiety to affOrd the utmost -possible accommodation to the electors. • COilistON BALL. • Previousito the dinner, a Court of Common hull was held :by the Corporation, for the purpose of swearing in several Ito noraty'burgeases. A nuuiber of persons attended in the listiwn tHall to see the ceremony: After some routine businees was tilepoeed of, Mr. Alderman Waitliman was introduced, and sworn m a Burgess of, the Corporation. After the worthy itllefintin had taken the oath, the Town-clerk, Mr. Enfield, *dressed him as follows :—" As the officer.of this hall, the 4tat r y devolves upon me of expressing the high satisfaction of this Court, at having this opportunity of enrolling yOur name - among its corporate members. It is with the greatest satisfac ,tion that we add to our number the name of a gentleman, who .uppn all occasions, both within and without the walls of Par -Variant, has persevered lh Making the most decided, unyield. ino,lind uncompromising efforts Ire the cause of civil liberty,, and in the extension to every class of the community of those .13:et:sings which the true principles of the British Constitution are so well calculated to diffuse: for these able efforts we row , enrol your name upon the list of our members, and I have Rityself the greatest satisfaction in being the organ of so gratify lute a communication."—(Applause.) Mr. Alderman WAITIIMAN.—" Mr. Mayor and 'Gentle, nmen of the.Corporatien,--Accustomed as I ant to deliver my sentiments tut he public, I ,assure you that I feel on the present occasion the embarrassMent which is peculiar to every man on. -finding himself placed in a new situation : probably , I now feel -that embarrassment greater titan I should have felt upon any other occasion.. To express to you my gratitude for the honour you havadone me would hi doing little : it is impossible for me not to consider this one of the highest horours I !Hive re amived---to be selected by your independent Corporation as an individual who has always supported the genuine cause of civil liberty, is Indeed too high an honour for me to acknowledge by -the mere ordinary expression of my thanks ' • and I feel mat it I were capable, under any circumstances, of relaxing in those elute which have secured for me so decided a'mark of your approbation, this act of yours would give men fresh stimulus to exertion. I can therefore assure you, that I shall seek to merit this compliment;'not by the mere thanks which I now convey, but by a steady and unrelaxing pursuit of the sante line of con .aittet which you have stamped with your applause. On the * present occr•pri I feel myself peculiarly fortunate, for 1 am, sccording, fo all human probability, on the eve of buying to un .dartaket one of the highest offices of the city of London ; and it is not a little singular that your Corporation should have been the first in the kingdom to have declared and petitioned against the late expensive. war with France; and it was at that very -period my fortune to have been one of the citizens of London, .who, pursuing a similar line of condtict soon after, expressed :our citations in language of the same import, - which we pro- Toed as a . petition to Parliament against the war. I there lure think it to be one of the most fortunate circumstances of -my life, that after the lapse of 27 years I fiutl myself elected, amongst others, a member of that Corporation, whose conduct I endeavoured, to follow in the year 179 3 , upon so momentous an 'occasion." In conclusion, lierepeated his thanks, for the liOliutit which had been conferred upon hint.—(Applause.) • Three or four other buttresses were admitted soon after. t i /rest anxiety was evinced for the arrival of Sit F. Burdett .and Troia shin, who were expected to take the oaths alai ) ; titirne•sas; but neither , liad sxriVed at flee o'clock, 'Sol the Cairn :on jixlt WAS`dissoled. Tif r. DT fiNEtt. At lialf-past five o'clock Lord, R* ric r r. entered the Ex - t ehaiirslloorns, and took his seat as Chairman, at the head of the principal table. On Ids Lordship's" right hand sat the . . ..Blifetriberii fur Nottingham, . Messrs Denman anti Bitch. On his left wlre Sir Francis Burdett, Bart., who did not enter the „room until dinner was neatly over ; Sir Bober - Heron, Bart.,, ; Mr. A blerxn an Wa m ; Colonel Johnson, ;11 ; 470,44m4 Wildman, of Newstead d Ablicy ; T. Birch, jun. ; the ;,Messrs. Strutts, of Derby ; Mr. Disney Chairman of the Essex Quota S:tssions) ; the in-nnbers of the Corp.ration ; and up., wiarcbtof4o o re.ipectable inhabitants of the town and*ighbour hoodvcopied the other tables, As. SOO as the cloth 'was removed, the Chain-non (Lord It gave the health of the King, and the band atruckup the:Royal Anthem ; then followed the licalths of the dto~ s 2 k End/. the Ca A; it man.-- , We niust drink the foll Owing toast with Hotelsthree °ln three. he People. (1 cheet-4.) The C 11,4.1 1 1. AI Ati than said, that it WAS duty to propose tout w hi c h came ,wll after that they had just given--the company would anticipate, no doubt, that lie was Awl,: to Euro pese the health 9f their worthy representativei, Messtc Arch and Drnmi.M.—(AppLause.)-4ie expressed the liig!lelit nazis_ faction at having the honour of proposing such a'toast. Ile had once had the benour of being their representative, but circutn stantea had cen::.p.dletl , him to relinquish that station. Never had he felt greater pleasure than that wilich his situation now afforded Lim of proposing the hee.ths of Men who, 3s their representatives, were engaged in pumt!ng the sante p u blic curse Which he, if in Parliament., would 3 1, 0 h ave cnd:vivourcal to pursue. Lang might their exertions tend 19 promote and adorn the' interests of the people of Nutting. ham, and of the cotintry at lafge.—(Applause.)—Jf aver they failed in paying to such characters a just tribute to their me rit, he should have to say that they would incur the censure of a late Noble Lord who had used the singular expression of their " turning their backs upon themselves.' —( Laughter. ) Mr. BIRCH said, that as senior member, he understood the task devolved upon him of acknowledgin in the first instance, the least which they had just drank. As ' he would be followed by men cf transcendent talents, he should not presume upon the patience of the company by detaining them long while he delivered his sentiments. lie felt that he was addressing con stituents who would interpret with candour and indulgence his observations : he spoke with the experience of enjoying that indulgence upon many former occasions. Ile was upheld by the gratification of seeing old faces around him—men of 20 years acquaintance, with whom he had the satisfactioh of enjoy ing a long frindahip, and reciprocity of pursuits. lie had first been recommended to them as a friend of civil and religious liberty, and it was for them to say, whether by his Parlia mentary conduct he bad since redeemed that pledge.--(Cries 'of" You hive.")—He knew that the early recommendation he had rece'ved, and whiclehe hoped he had sustained, had se. cured for him the support of a large class of enlightened men. A s a merchant (and he was proud of the appellation), he had always watched their interests, and endeavoured to maintain their independent character. He had now the pleasing task of cotigratulatingthem upon the amended policy which had arisen since he first knew them, and on the extension of their better' policy, which had embodied among the members of their, corpo ration distinguished non-residents. Had they had such aid in 1803, the Bill which went no degrade their municipal privileges, by extending them to the county, would not have been thought ot. The .Hon. Member concluded by paying a high compli ment to the integrity and independence of their worthy Chair man, Lord Rancliffe. 2.11 r. DENMAN rose amid considerable applause. lie said he was heopy to give precedence to "so potent, grave , and re verentlh eeigner" as his worthy colleague, and trusted that he should long have to enjoy a similar gratification, for he was perfectly convinced that his Hon. Friend had always acted a manly, honourable, and consistent part to' his constituents.— ( Hear hear! )-e-He ventured to think, that it was the conduct of the inhabitants of Nottingham - , in 1802, at the first election of his Hon. Friend, which had lit the torc h of liberty that had I since blazed in so many other parts-of the United Kingdom.— And it was 'due to the citizens of Nottingham to say, that in no small degree was attributable to their early chines, the subsequent progress which the great question of independence had acquired among the public bodies, of the country. 'They haft since that period achieved another great public service, by rescuing hall' of the representation of their county from the state of neutrality into which it had so supinely fallen: lie would not disguise that., even in their last struggle, they had perform ed a public service—a service which those who on that occasion contended with them, and who charged thein with intending to make their representation a close borough, would have spared, lied they (their opponents) gained their point, for then the re. proach would not have been that the burgesses were making a close borough of Nottingham, but that those who wished to make it so had lost the power they aimed at, of handing it over as such to the Administration of the day.—(Applause.) --They had in their struggles established the triumph of principle; and Inuc7l as he valued the honour of being one of the• representatives of a body so independent, still more lie claimed credit_ for the assurance of wishing perpetuity to the maintenance of *so great a principle,' rather than for the continuance (highly as he valu ed it) ofany honour which was personal to himself.--(Applause.)' —The burgesses of Nottingham had sent him and his worthy colleague as their repreeentatiyes in Parliament, to consult and wateliewer their particular interests, as well as • those of the people at large. It was not their lot, .he admitted, to have had the honour of originating in Parliament many new and active measures but they bad atoned for that want of original power, by watching and endeavouring incessantly to check and. controul the heedless career of Ministers, backed, as these Mi nisters were, by majorities in the House of Commons, who, to say the least of them, represented, if they represented any thing at all, sentiments which were the the counter part of those felt and avowed by the people of Nottingham.—(Cheers.)-The country knew, that the Ministers and majorities of whom he spoke, were not the friends of public liberty : it was perhaps more the fault of their education than of themselves that they were so; and under this unhappy delusion, caused how it may the advocates of those Ministers had presumed to arraign their opponents, by retorting upon thein the imputation of meaning revolution instead of reform. Where was the proof of such a charge ? Had the people abandoned the frank and independent spirit of their ancient character ? Had they ever sent forth spies and informers among their opponents ? 'lied they, contemplat ing.a daring and violent exercise of authority, dispatched by their own contrivance the emissaries who were well adapted to pave. the wee ter the ulterior infliction ?—(Hear, hear 1)-11ad the people ever countenanced a publle delivery of thanks to soldiers and magistrates, of whom they knew nothing, but their last violent act of, cutting the throats of numbers in a crowded assembly.-4114r, hear 1)-lied 'the people ever to lerated as Alien ltill, to cons ign to , the tender mercies of the Secretaries of State all strangers who were either foreigners or rendered so by :others who had an interest in their ex pulsion ? Had the, people supported such odious Measures, then, indeed, they might heve been reproached with having contemplated innovation. But not so had been the course of popular feeling; they had on • the contrary opposed all these odious measures ; they ha , : opposed the foreign enlistment bill, which went to excliide British valour froth participating in the establishment of the principles of freedom ; they had opposed the base persecution of an injured and hapless Queen.—(Cheers.) —They had established the ground-work of good principles, so much so, indeed, that he was at a loss to conceive any place in the country in which a public mart would venture to come for ward in the face. of his countrymen, and honestly deny the ne. coed y'of Parliamentary Reform. If public opinion had gained this great adrantage over violent and exploded prejudices, lie was proud to feel that from Nottingham the example had been set. Westminster had caught the glowing spirit, and evinced it by , electing as its representative the illustrious man (Sir Burdett) who sat by his side.—(Cheers.)—London, by a kin• dreg effort, was about to manifest the seine spirit, by electing as its chief Magistrate, the worthy Alderman (ilir. Waithinati) who sat near liiin.—(Applause.)—lndeed the Metropolis was always the rallying point of public spirit, and, like a citadel in a besieged country, it held out for time maintenance of the last rights of an assailed cotninunity.—CApplause.)—To the higher classes of the country much was also due for an independent dis play of spirit in late times ; but, abdve all, that tribute must be paid to the middling daises, who had mainly persevered in prointe.ing and keeping alivo the great and essential cause of reform, and by so persevering had indisputably secured its final.' inevitable triiimplieL((,haers.)—The lion. and Learned,Mem. ber, after some further observations in Itirtheriince of the great cause of Reform, concluded by thanking; the company for the honour they had done him, and proposing the health of their Noble Chairman, Lord Rancliffe.—(Applause.) 'Lord RexontrrEreturned thanks, and expressed his cordial approbation of the principles . which they had this day met to celebrate. He took a review of the conduct of Mr. Brougham and Mr. Denman upon the hate Queen's trial,antl said that it justly entitled these distinguished lawyers to. the thanks and confidence of Ilietr country. His Lordship concluded by pro. posingthe healths of time independent electors of Nottingham.-- Three tunes three. The CHM nan , : said, that he had now to propose the health of a very distinguished individual, whom they hid long wished to See amongst them—Sir Francis Burdett.—(Loud cheerio — After naming a man so named and so admired, he was relieved from the task of recounting leis ptiblic services, and the un (hunted perseverance he bad uniformly displayed in the cause of the people, and above all in that cause of reform, without which all other measures were but a mockery upon the public understanding.—(Applause.)—To the steady and persevering efforts of the worthy Baronet, aided by the good principles of other public men, and backed by the people's voice he looked for an ultimate triumph of their great cause. —(Caers.)—He hail formerly observed, that sonic well disposed men in other respects expressed doubts upon the question of reform ; happily for the nation, these doubts lied now vanished, and those who were originally lukewarm were now ssngulne in the ranee of the people.—( A pplause.)—W hen lie named. Slr Francis Burdett lie spoke of a man whom he revered in public, and loved in private -life ; one whose health the freemen of Nottingham would drink as it deserved.--(Cheers.)—To talk of Wellington and Waterloo, was glory it was true, but inferior, indeed to the glory of that man who fought the bloodless b a ttles of his country in the assertion and promotion of their dearest civil rights. Such a man must, and ought to conqUer and in fro posing the health- of Sir Francis litirdett, lie felt be was bring mg before them the merits of a great public character, whom to - designate in the language of th e ir immortal hard—" Tjtke him for all in all, we. flier, Shall look upon his like again." The worthy Baronet's health was drank with great enthu. siasin. Sir Fu Arras BYTUDETT Slid, that lie felt so much indebted to thirrindness of his' Noble Friend who had proposed his health, and to the manner in which the company had received it, that he was Unable to express as he could wish the senti. ever, that mews which animated his bosom. believed, how sitriplesivrayw7lltheVest, and more especially when he la bnur".ii under fe,lings so strongly excited. That'll(' had done his duty towards the people of Nottinghani, and those of the country at large; but more especially to all good Englishinen, who like them had evinced a determination to maintain the great and glorious principlea of civil liberty—those principles, •steadfast maintenAnce of which had raised them formerly the eyes of the world, and filled them with renown—this was only his (Sir F. Burdett's) duty, and - he was proud 'at receiving for the performance of it so warm.and. grateful an expression of their thanks It was his pride to cherish these sentiments, and watt Englishman he felt them strongly—((sheers);—they 'were ofttat deseriptien as to induce him tilted every attack or injustice committed upon the humblest of his countrymen as one offered to himself:--.( Loud cheers.)-Thitt was formerly (with present recollections, he said " formerly" with pain) the prevalent feeling of , that old class of the men of rank in the country who were styled " the aristocracy." When the old aristocracy of the land, acting under the wholesome recollection that they held their large estates for the public good, were proud to c nue - forward to defend their country when menaced with public danger, there was a salutary protection for public rights; but he lamented to see how much that bond of public strength had been weakened, so far.as the Aristocracy of the land were concerned, since the French revolution. On that remarkable occasion, the people deprecated foreign interference, and pro claimed the mode of doing so pursued by the Government to be hostile to the principles upon which. the British Constitution was professed to be founded. The higher classes, unfortu nately, took a different view of the signs of the times, and by an unmanly and unworthy decision for theinselves, unme rited by the lower classes, and unfortunate for all, they adopted a, course which made them in the end accomplices in the guilt of others, whose views were despotic, and whose principles, both then, and ever since e were subversive of British freedom, and of the principles upon which the English Con stitution was prefessed to be founded. But notwithstanding that temporary fatality, he was happy to say, and that convic tion was his pride, that the spirit of Englishmen was not to he subdued ; that, notwithstanding the arbitrary acts of un bridled power-notwithetanding the scondalous encroachment and usurpation of parliamentary corruption,-there Was still a regenerating and invigorating spirit among the people of England, which would yet resist the torrent of arbritary power, and ultimately establish that only security for a free nation, the right of electing those who were to make the laws which were to effect their lives and property.-(Applause.) -His Learned Friend (Mr. Denman) had already touched non that Parliamentary profligacy which had sported with the destinies of the Gantry-he had alluded to those measures which wicked ministers, sustained by corrupt Parliaments, hadachieved, and then With an air of triumph had asked, what set of men in the country would be found now to advocate such measures.? He (Sir. Francis) agreed with his Learned Friend in this interrogation, but with one exception, and that was, the majority of the 1150 gentlemen, calling themselves the House of Commons.- (Great applause..),-That majority, he believed, would continue, if permitted py the patience of the coun try, for the future as heienifore, to pursue the same ca reer of public injury, regardless of the consequences. Amongst the many injuries of which. the people had to complain,. not the least was the gross misrepresentation of. their object; they were represented as being impatient . of wholesome controul, anil anxious to subvert Social order=.-(a laugh) ; - but this gross absurdity,--thin monstrous calumny, believed by none of the time-servers who used it for their own sinister purposes, but who were driven to assert- any thing, however untenable, to cover their projeete, was not now attempted to be palmed upon the publiceeiredulity. What was it that the, people, ay, the boldest of them, had ever asked for ? Only two things, both of which they had always been told were secured for them at the revolution. The people wanted nothing but their own rights they sought not to invade those privileges of the Peers, which, extensive as they were, and questionable if a wise man had them to re-model, but being here, the people said, wine ortrwitte, let them now remain in their full extent-with them they sought not to interfere. But they had demanded, and would still demand; two vital privileges-one wits, simply, the right of choosing their own representatives, and the other, the sacred right of an effective and honest trial byJury.-(Applatise.) -These were rights which, in common sense, they knew they were entitled to. The theory of these rights was not only admitted, - but praised, by those who in practice deprived the people. of the benefit of them.-(llear, hear !)-The people had, in point of fact, as little in the way of actual right of power to exercise, as the people of almost those countries proVerbially called enslaved ; not that the people of ,England were the most enlaved in the world, and why ?-because there was estill amorist them some portion of their ancient spirit, whicli Coin. pelled those in poWer to be oceiteimeally discreet in the exercise of it; but • that was not the timorous protection which the People of England ought to enjoy--it was not the occasional keeping alive of this spirit that ought to satisfy thent. No tea , sortable mind would tolerate -the enjoyment of liberty, at the caprice of men in power. The people of Engle/id knew. that they had a right to a more su b s t a ntial, security for their free.: dom -( Hear, hear!)-They had a right to a full and free presentation in Parliament, and he hoped. they would not re- Lex their most steadfast e f frdrts for he pptuotion and niti. mat. •suecess. It was for that, the peep e, of whom he .was proud to be one, ought to make united, struggle. He waA ready to put his loot as far in advance as any other man in the attainment of it.-(clieers.)e-Tlie electors of . Welt. mineter had already made great and, disiatereiteil sacrifices in the public cause, and they would be proud to find that other great bodies.of die lerge towns throughout the calm. try were ready to, co-operate with them in the promotiou of the true interests of the people.. But When they considoreit the ittnuensl resources of the tOroption • which they had to oppose, they would feel • the imperative necessity of re doubled efforts : tlds corruption was appalling, it arose out cf 'every think ; the blood and treasure of the people spent in colonial. conquests furnished a wide spume of emolument. in aid of Corrupt power. There never existat a government-41'e not even the Roman Empire irr its days of most lavish rei soerces•-,which possessed such a mischievous extent of means--. had not a tenth of the corrupt power which the narrow oli garchy of England commanded. It was not the King, who enjoyed this supremacy, for the King with all his powersand prerogatives, extensive as they necessarily were, for the repre sentative of the people of England, as such the King of a free nation ought to be considered-it was not the' King, gut the borough mong er ing oligarchy, of which. they had to complain ; it.-wits ;hat oligarchy which oppressed and loaded the King himself with ohloqtty.a-(Cries of " hear, hear !".)-The King and • the people, upon a just . mutual understanding of their rights, had, and could have, but one common inte rest. The Crown was bound to maintain the rights of the people, 'and 'the people owed allegiance to the King, but none to the oligarchy.-tAppleuse.)-That oligarchy . deserved punishment rather than respect--rather than the privilege of beingrespectively Sited to permit the people to refoem them. selves. Sooner than yield to so base a power as this oligarchy usurped, he would risk his life .50,000 times over • it 'was against that usurpation that the whole ,artillery of the public ought to plity-against it they were bound to direct their loudest execration.-(Applause.)--Ifuny thing could put this oligarchy into a more degrading light than its monstrous usurpation, it would be its nioet odious hypocrisy. • Did not the company recollect, that when an aged gentleman, Sir Manasseh Lopes, was detected-detected they c al led i t ! _( a laugh) -in doin g that which five-sixths of the Members of the House knew they had done themselves to obtain their seats, the unfortunate gentleman so detected, not havi ng the luck of his colleague, who, wiser in his generation, bribed off the petitioners who com plained of bribery-(loud letighter)-becarne at once the object of the indignation of the House. Really the spectacle was lu. dicrous, were it not that the system itself was full of public danger. Poor Sir Manasseh ',epee was instantly overwhelmed as an example, forsooth ! Even the very Judge who tried him, who must have got his own seat in Parliament in the very same way, and who possibly made the seat he had so acquired the steppingstone to his subsequent promotion-even that Judge read the old gentleman a long lecture upon the heinous ness of his latigh.)e-Big wigs and long robes not only hide a man's face from his acquaintance, but also fioni himself t or else the public could never he treated' with such exhibition as the sentence - of Sir M. Lopes. 'lt was a sort of drama, 'which, contrary to the rules of the drama, began in farce and ended in tragedy : for the poor gentleman who was prosecuted, had to endure two years' iniprisonment, and to pay 10,00111. fine; more odious act -of injustice, heightened by hypocrisy, had never been exhibited,-(hear, hear !)- As it was said, from the foot of Hercules you could know thp statue : so he might gay from this one act they might esti mate the general 'coniinatitioif lir the Heim of Corttrutinst. The worthy Baronet concluded amid great applause, by reiterating hie sentiments in f avour o f Parliamentary Reform, and of the value of such Areetingi as the present , and by p ro p osin g th e health of the " Mayor and Corp o ration •of Nottingham."-- Three times thre e . The MAYOR or • Noveneottam returned thanks for the honour which hail been just done to himself and the Corpora tion. After alluding to sonic of the local acts of the Corpora tion against the overw h e l m i ng e fforts of the county aristocracy to impose upon company that' th e p r i nc i p l es of the Corporation were not those them a Ministerial M ember, lie reminded the of ye s h 4 daY ; they were, on the contrary ,old and lon g asserted from a deep conviction of their public utility; and happy lie versidly adopted w" now to say, that these opinions had become, from the growth ( a A t s p e p e l i a n u g s; i ) c - h el by the country at large.- of education and diffusion of Public intelligence, more aid- The eltA I n ndexatiliPwroecila:ll:l which he prefaced with an .oulogi assembly AS t he present met to e promote their concluded by repeating his high satisfaction old principles. the health of Lord Holland, cellent they thusiagen. principles and e fi e r acten un i l l u ii7w il a h s is dr i aVik rd ' gi w ti i P tl ' i s c o x :- He next proposed the health of Mr. Brougham, whose ab sencehail all so muc h oceitSion to regret, and who must have been prevented from attending by some unforeseen cir stance. his thanks for this compliment to his Learned Friend, and on Brougham, in neer, in behalf of Mr. Brougham, begged to offer his A p l a r. rt n to " exprafis his regret at not being here this day. Since he had entered the room he had received a letter from Mr. at Brougham-hall by indisposition. The concluding wee d s Which. lie deeply regretted that he was detained a hie letter were-" My spirit is among you, and whe- they I can eat, or whether I can drink, my tout sioll be —‘ Success to the good old cause.'" In the words, then, of his eminent friend, he would propose his toast—" Success to the good old cause."—(Cheerso The CHAIRMAN next . proposed-the health of Sir Robtr. Heron, upon whose public conduct, so long., established in a neighbouring county, it was unnecessary for him to filatiate. No man was better attached to the " good - old cause. If ru mours were not incorrect, he would soon in a neighbouring county be its representative. He now proposed " The health of Sir Robert Heron,, and may he shortly be the ,representative of the county of Lincoln.":--(Loud applamit.) Sir ROBERT HERON said, that : proud it, w as of the honour which was done him, by the manfti whi his health had been drank, he felt that he owed it to the partial kindness of his old friend (Mr. Denman); and well contented he was to owe it to such a source. It was melancholy to consider into what woful disgrace the profession of the law had fallen. He spoke of the more prominent membOs a that profession, among whom there was no want of talents or oratory ; but the misfor tune was, that such abilities were deemed by many of the pos 'sensors as so many marketable commodities, to be bartered for honours which were dishonourable when so acquired, and to be exchanged for place, and wealth, and power.—( Hear, hear !) —There were, undoubtedly, brilliant and honourable excep tions, and one of them they had the honour of possessing as their representative.—(Applause.)--He should now say one word respecting himself. He had received information of the very dangerous, it not fatal illness of the father of one of the county Members (Mr. Pelham.) If it were true that that honest and warm-hearted man (Lord Yarborough) were 'dead, then he (Sir R. Heron) avowed himself as a candidate for the county of Lincoln.—(Applause.)—He had pledged his honour that in such a case he would O'er himself as a can didate, and that pledge he would be ready to redeem. Ile hoped, however, that the circumstance upon which his pledge was con tingent had not occurred, and that the health of the personage ulluded to would mock the expectations of those who looked forward to a change in the.representation. The CllAinata sr, after a prefatory encomium, proposed the health of that long and consistent supporter of public freedom, Mr. Alderman Waithman.—(Applause.)—lle had to congra tulate the members of the Corporation of Nottingham upon having such:a brother burgess as that independent Gentleman. (Applause.) • Mr. Alderman WATTIIMAN, in returning thanks, lamented that he had to incur the bad taste of speaking of himself, for the great general topics which had fixed the attention of the country were already exhausted by the distinguished gentleman who had preceded him. He was, however, bound to say a few words in acknowledging the compliment which had been paid to him by the corporation of Nottingham. Ilis public labours were, he believed, coeval with the first great public effort of this town in raising its voice against the .French war of 1793. The following were extracts from a declaration of the inhabi tants of Nottingham, ansi from a petition transmitted to Par liament in the year 1793, by the corporation :—" As there ought, then, to be reasons of the last necessity, for which a wise nation should face such q,erain of evils, which will come home to the feelings of every individual, it is another argument against the present war, that no such reason ever can be ad duced. Be the internal character of France what it may, it is our wisdom to leave her to herself, to her own crimes, and to her own virtues, and: with a dispassionate mind to determine what is good for ourselves. A conciliatory mind on the part of England is all that is requsite to disperse the gloomy horrors of war." In the London petition, which was subsequent to. that from Nottingham—" Your petitioners, from theirpresent 'view of public measures, - presume humbly but firmly to ex press to your Hon. House their decided conviction that the principles upon which the war now appears to. be carried, neither are nor can be essential to the prosperity, the liberty, or the glory ()Nile British empire ; and humbly pray that your lion. House, disclaiming all right to interfere in the internal concerns-of France, take such measures; as shall be consistent with the honour 'and character of this country for the re storation of Peace." The worthy Alderman, after reading these. extracts, declared his sense of the honour they had conferredjupon .him, and expressed his great satisfaction, accustomed as he' was to be. present •at public meetings, at seeing so crowded. and respectable:tin assembly ail tire present. It was only . 'by sueli meetings, so respectably formed, so decorously conducted, that they. could hope to stem the tide of corrup tion. It was for the .rising order of the people to imitate the conduct o their ancestors, and pursue that line of public con duct which was best adapted to the restoration of their liberties ;• acrd he cordially recommended the continuance of such meet ings as the present. lie then alluded to the sinister influence with which the Livery of London had often to contend, - *lien the poorer voters were eontmuled by the richer, and express ed the -gratification he felt at finding that the Corporation of Nottingham had so successfully combatted a similar Influence, and established their independence by the return of such members an Air. Denman and 31r. 'Birch. The Worthy Al- Re t ' deft : ome n :l to n eig t d l n ar then, itiig, : :pr,tll ,ei v adu t mlbl a ctiy o n n wtt ; sortie erj l ntl e i)s n itty, god justified pteiri.,nle)erfa constitutionaletrie his st i t i 4c e oi n i r t di e l c iae e ll s iti i hi t o doo v ips o eet i f 4lo,,o a tti. the ultimate success of the great cause In which they were so cor dially and usefulli ethbarked.' In allusion to what Was called revolutionary War against France, the prineipre of the ErOish Government was to prevent despetisin and anarchy ; yet to the disgrace and dishonour of this country, the tame British Go vernMent now beheld with the utmost apathy , and 'indifference . the Bourbon Government attacking every principle of free le gislation, on the part of the f3partisli people. The CHAIRMAN then : gave the health of Colonel Johnson and the ElectorS of Boston—he, indeed, had to boast of having some constituents, and of being a fellow-labourer in the same vineyard. Colonel Jou srsow, in returning thanks in behalf of him stlf.and his - constituents, said that he had, to boast of being for, the fast two years a ,Burgess of Nottingham. To dWell upon the corruption of the House of Commons, would be indeed a work of supererogation, after the speeches which they had just heard : but little had yet been said respect ing the mode of effecting that reforni. He hoped the Whigs (who had, he thanked God, shaken off the Grenvilles) would now see, that, left to themselves, they were stationary, and that .they could do nothing without the people.—(Applause.)—The people would be proud to have them as leaders . ; but before they would so have them, they required the agency of acts, not words. The Whigs h ad a faint glimmering on the death of the late King, but they saw as it were through ground g l ass , and could net see distinctly—(A laugh);—they must now, unlesi they desired still to continue stationary,. depart from the old road which was clogged with corruption, and take that station which their talents and possessions entitled them to occupy with the people ; and by manifesting in th e fi rst instance to that people their sympathy with them, and their cordial sense of their injuries. and their rights, secur ing their confidence. 'lle spoke the sentiments of a freeman, desirous to offend no man, but.careless of offending any in the discharge of his duty. The Cum miss . ; next proposed the health of Col. Wildman, who would, he hoped, tight the battles of the people as well as he had already those of his King.—(Cheers.) , Col. Wtilisrax, in returning thanks, congratulated the Cot partition of Nottingham upon the moral force of their repre. sentation in Parliament, which was calculated to outweigh the numerical force of their corrupt opponents. There were some soils in which the seeds of corruption would not take root, and he was _proud to know that•Nottingliam was one of th e m. They now felt that corruption was not like the Upas tree, fatal to the plants which approached it; but was a tree which they might approach, lie hoped, without danger, and hew down without difficulty.—(Applause.)—Ho avowed himself to be a radical reformer, prepared to embark in that attempt, and to persevere until they succeeded in their efforts. If any thing could redeem the oharacterof the House of Commons, it would be the conduct of such members of it as graced the present company.: -.(Loud: applause.) " . The Cum nstarr, after complimenting the last speaker upon his independent principles,. proposed the health of Mr. Strutt, and the electors of Derby. . Mr. JOSEPH STROTT returned thanks in a cordial manner. At Derby, he said, there were many Tory burgesses from Not tingham, who would vote against them t there were also many others who continued stanch co, the Iglood old cause. In the words of the poet he would say—' , ' May liberty be purchased,- though life's the price."—( Applause.) • The CHAIRMAN said, that although they had two indepen dent Members for the town, there was only one fur the county— Lord William Bentinck, who regretted his inability to attend this day................... His Lordship's health was drank with applause. The Cum a max next proposed the health of the Duke of Sussex, upon whom be pronounced a warm panegyric. • Mr. Dew MAN wished to propose the health of a soldier, now fighting in•that country in which liberty must live or die.— (Louij cheers.),--He hoped that such a toast was not irregular at an entertainment for a municipal object. He then proposed the health of Sir . Robert 'Vilson, which was drank with en thusiastic applause. Some calls were now made for a songs gentleman made an inefFectual eftbrt to sing, but was interrupted with a try of " a speech, from Mr. Denman," and the theme was also given— ' Spain, Spain. Mr. PENMAN, in compliance with this wish, said, that " Spain, Spain," naturally enough occupied their attention, for were Spain conquered by such means as were now used, there was an end to liberty. they had, however, the gratification to know, that if Cadiz fell, Spain was still unconquered : they had also the gratification to know, that the first, blood shed i n the cause of liberty, in Spain was 13ritish ; and he hoped that the last musket fired in defence of the national liberties of Spain would be rec.3rded as havieg been furnished by British sympathy.—(Applause.) Tim CHAIRMAN proposed the health of Mr. Disney, of Essex, who .had come from a great - distance to attend this Meeting. Mr. DISNEY, in a speech replete with humour, and the avowal of good principles, aeknowledged this compliment ; and stated, that though living at a great distance from Nottingham, he was proud to say, that he was the third member of his-fa mily who had in succession enjoyed the honour of being a bur gess of Nottingham. The accidents a life had transplanted his family from Lincolnshire iota Essex, and he regretted now more than ever that transfer ei influence, when he heard that such a ma ' Sk R. Heron-Vol the prospect of beigg a candi date for that county. The Learned - Gentleman alltfded to the profession of the law, to which he belonged, and concurred in lamenting its public degradation: There were, however, noble exceptions, which he yet contemplated With delight, and would endeavour to imitate as a model. Essex, like Nottingham, would yet, through the efforts a Mr: Western and other tilde- : pendent _men ' establish its character for enforcing the only measure which could save the country—a Refiner) in Parlia ment—a measure to the establishment of which he declared his unabated attachment.--(Applause.) Mr. Breen proposed the health of Mr. John Morley and the Wliig electors resident in London. - Mr. DENaI.SN proposed the health of " one of the excepted lawyers," who did not fall within, he feared, the just censure which had been pronounced upon the profession. -The gentle ' man whose health he wished to propose was " Mr. John Dams, and a speedy reformation at' the abuses of the Court of Chancery." He had the pleasure of stating that Mr. Wil ' hams would have done himself the honour of attenclinethis day, were he net'pre-engaged as a steward at the Lincoln races. Mr. Williams's - health was drank with great applause. ' Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, before he retired, begged to pro pose the health of Mr. Robert Ntrakefield, the 'ice-Presi dent, and the other stewards. • This was drank with ap plause, and Mr. Wax - Erismn returned thanks, and eoowed the Oce.) interest he felt in the independence of Nottingham, and r.t.. - pitnlated the means by which that independence had been so honestly achieved. • Theprincipal'personages of the company withdrew at half past 'lO o'clock ; but a considerable number of the independent Men of Nottingham remained to a late hour in the enjoyment of the festive harmony. Apologies were received by the Corn• rnittee from Lord Holland, Lord %%'m. Beritinck, Dr. bushing ton, and other distinguished public characters, for their una voidable absence. - PRICE THIS DAY AT Bank Stock shut 3 per Cent. lted. shut 3 per Cent. Cons- ....... B3l :$ per Cent. shut ( Old sht. 4 per Cent. 1 New l O - 2 ug ,I 5 per Cents. 1707 Hank Long Ann. imp. 3 per Cents. F STOCKS ONE O.CLOCK. 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I t is now admitted, his escort by an to which he had however, in the Official Bulletin of Count. GULL'' LETiIINOT, that BALGABTEROS was fairly made prisoner in the field, having been surrounded by one of It!Eco's battalions. .BALLASTEROS had drawn up his troops to give RIEDo battle; , . but the Constit u ti ona l so ldi ers, throwing. the ir schakas in the air, ran to embrace their former comrades under BALLASTERO S j and it was at this moment of friendly conjunction on the part of the two armies, that BALLAtITI:IIOS WIIS' sur rounded and taken. After all this, however, tie are told by the bulletin that two of Micro's squadrons went over to BALLAsTtaoR, and that BALLAsTrtos (how he regained his li* berty as well as his command, after , having been, a prisoner, does not appear), had put himself in communication with General BoNNEm,tiNs, who set off in pursuit of Rico° ! Nothing can be more unintelligible than all this! We must wait with patience either for the Spa. nish accounts, or for the occurrence of some event that may throw a little light upon the subject. It is still asserted that It moo himself, with three of his officers, has in his turn been made prisoner ; but as the fact rests on no other authority than that of the Intendant of La Carolina, (and who knows whether even his signature has not been forged), it cannot be wondered at, considering the syste. t 114.