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At" r. - ~~-w.. .-'~. ,: :~,> .. ..~ ~ , a • - , . n‘ , It! 4 , \ Lis di. .. -, 'LI.' k ~ .----4.,..t ) r the _ ... . . . , --,..:--.%* ' ,A kt 43 11 9z (34 .1" 4 --:;--- " - -.. - , )vern „ . E _,. 4 H i g h ~ , i, e , it 0 i /41 ? &,../. a/ C 1 / / 7 ari—ifiti- -gy eeting . _.. I __.• , 41 , • 1., 1 . of the NUMBLR 9491. . FR I DAY, JANUARY 24, 1823. NAVY-OFFICE, January 23, 1823. T HE Right Honourable the LORDS COM MISSIONERS of bis MAJESTY's TREASURY having OPpointed Money for the Payment of HALF-PAY to SEA OFFIcEn, from the let of October to the 31st of December, IU2, according to his Majesty's Establishment in that behalf. These are to give notice, that the several Payments will be gin to be made at the l'ay-Office, by the Treasurer of his Majesty's Navy, at Ten u'ClOck in the Morning, on the fol lowing days, vie. On the 3d, 4th, and Stir of February, to Admirals, Cap tnins, and their Attornies. On the 6th, eth, 10th, 1 Ith, and 12th Of February, to Lleu. tenants and Chaplains, and their Attornies. On the 111th and 15tis of February, to Masters, Surgeons, •and Pursers, and their Anomie:. After whieb . the Lista' ivill be recalfed' the first and third Wednesday in every month, that all Persons may then and there attend to receive Iliay become payable to them and bring with them an Affidavit as required by Order in council of 30th July, 18t9, the Forms of which were publish ed in an Advertisement from this Office, dated 16th Septem ber, 1819, and may be procured at the Office of the Treasurer of the Nary ; and in case any of the said Officers should not be able to attend themselves, but employ Attornies for that purpose, the said Attornies arc to produce similar Aff idavits from the Persons They are employed by. Where Officers are Abroad on leave, their Agents are to produce attested Copiei of such Leave before the Half-Pay can be paid. And as by Act of Parliament passed in the 85th year of his late Majesty's Reign, entituled, oc An Act for establish ing a more easy and expeditious method for the Payment of Officers belonging to his Majesty's Navy," it is enacted by the 20th Clause of the said Act, " that if any Commissioned or Warrant Naval Officer, who shall be entitled to receive Half-Pay, and shall be desirous to receive' and be paid the iatne, at or near the place of his Residence, he may apply to the Treasurer of his Majesty's Navy in London, to have such Half Pay paid at or near the place of his Residence, &c. in the manner pointed out by the said Act." And by a fur ther Act passed in the 56th year of his late Majesty's Reign, eutituled, " An Act for enabling the Officers in his Majesty's Nary, and their Representatives, to draw fo'r and receive their Half-Pay,". it is enacted by the tot and 3d Clauses of the said Act, " that if any Officer in his Majesty's Navy, who shalt be entitled to receive any sum of money for oron account of his Half-Pay, shall be desirous of drawing a Bill of Exchange for the same upq . n the Commissioners of his Majesty's Navy, instead of receiving the same by Remittance Bill, he shall signify such desire by Letter to the Treasurer of his Majesty's Navy ; and that if any Officer in his Ma jesty's Nary, who shall be entitled to receive any sum of mo ney for or on account of Half-Pay, shall be desirous of having his Half-Pay paid to him by Extract, at any of . his Majesty's bock Yards, where Clerks for the Payment of,, ages for the Navy shall reside, instead of receiving the same by Remit tance Bill or Bill of Exchange, be is to apply either to the proper Clerk at the Navy Pay-Of ee in London, or at the Pay-Office at -such Duck Yard, 'signifying such 'his desire." Notice is hereby further given, that the Half-Pay ending the 31st of December, 1842, will commence paying on the 3d of February, 1823, and all Persons desirous of drawing for, ar of having their Half-Pay remitted to them, may apply - as above iiirected. , MEsi.—Billi of Exchange drawn under or by virtue of tho Act above recited, are not liable to the Stamp Duty. No Persons residing out of his Majesty's Dominions are en. titled to the . pririlegrs of this Act. BRITISH INSTITUTION. PALL-MALL. THE GALLERY for the EKHIBITION and SALE - of - the WORKS of MODERN ARTISTS will be OPENED on MONDAX NEXT, the 27th Inst. from Ten in the Morning until Fire in the Evening. By Order, JOHN YOUNG, Keeper. Admis.ion Is.—Catalogue ts. • The Subscribers to the Print from Mr. West's Picture of "Oar Saviour Healing the Sick in the Temple," who have not already received their Impressions, may receive them upon payment of the Remainder of their Subscriptions, nt the British Institution daily. SURREY INSTITUTION. lE•tannary ft , 1813. PROPRIETORS and SUBSCRIBERS are respectfully infornied, that Mr. GURNEY will give an EXTRA LECTURE, solely On his NEWLY CON• STRUCTED BLOW PIPE, for facilitating Experimental In quiry. and extending the use of the explosive mixed Gases, on TUESDAY; the 28th Instant, at Seven o'Clock in the Evening, precisely, in which the Properties, Powers, and Perfect Safety of the Instrument will be fully explained and developed. KNIGHT SPENCER, Secretary. •s• Gentlemen interested in the Progress of Chemical Science may obtain (Gratuitously) Tickets of Admission t• the Lecture, on application to Mr. Gurney, Charles-street, Soho-square. TURTLE. MORRISON'S PRESERVED PORTABLE TURTLE. Sent in Jars (hermetically sealed) to any part of the World, and warranted to retain its good qualities for years. T HE TURTLE in these Jars cons i s t s o f t h e prime parts of the Fish, killed in the West Indies, when in the highest health and condition, and will be found to excel in richness and flavour, the produce of the half-starved Animal, hitherto used in this Country, after a voyage of several Months. The TURTLE will also be found infinitely cheaper than that field by the great Dealers, not merely from the obvious dif ference in price, but from its consisting of nothing but pure Turtle, and no such refitse as White Meat, Tripe, or Liver. 'o Families residing in the Country, and to Hotel and Tavern keepers, this TURTLE cannot but be a great con veence, at affording, at al most instant notice, the necessary supply of exquisite Soup, without the waste and loss attendant on teasing a whole Turtle. Certificates of its excellence from Personages of the highest distinction and best taste may be seen ; but a single trial is requested in preference, as more certain of insuring appra betion. To be had Dressed or -Undressed, at the rate 'of 10s. per Quart Dressed, or Els. 6d. per Quart Undressed ; which last tuakes neerly three times its own quant i ty of the former. The Dressed requires only to be warmed up, and with the tyn_ dressed a Receipt will be given, by which any Cook may make it into excellent Soup. N. liberal discount allowed to those who purchase to Dress and Sell again, and to purchasers of a certain quantity. FOR READY MONEY ONLY. WAREHOUSE, .. 31 CHARLOTTE ROW, MANSION ROUSE, LONDON ; ill ere may be had, every day, fresh dressed, T urt l e f or ;In edlitte Use;n, Vege t ab l e s,and Pota e l So & u ps of all kinds, Dressed Meats, l 're 2 ll Salmo. ,FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS. 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They unite every recommenda tion of mild operation with successful effect; rand require no restraint or confinement whatever during their use. In ten. pical.climates, where the consequences of redundant and vi tiated Bile are so prevalent nod alarming, they area() invalu able and efficient protection. They are likewise peculiarly calculated to correct disorders arising from excesses of the I'We—to restore the Tone of the Stomach—and to remove most Complaints occasioned by Irregularity of the Bowels. Sold in Boxes, at its. 9d., his., I Is., and 225., by Butlers, Chemists, No. 4, Cheapside, and iin, Regent-strett, (near the Argyle Rooms), London; 20, Waterloo.place, Edinburgh; 34,Sackville-street, Dublin; and by the principal Medicine renders throughout the United Kingdom. rrHE following unadorned tale of deep %listresa will it is hoped, excite the compa ss i onate a id o f t h ose whom God has blessed with the means to relieve the miseries of their fellow -creatures, when arising neither from indis cretion nor want of foresight. The Petitioner is' the Widow of a respectable young Man, who gained a decent li ve lih oo d by reportin g f or the Public Papers • but for near t we l ve months preceding his death - , which tookl place on New Year's Day he was contmed to his room, in a deep de c lin e , an d in eapatile of earning a shilling. At the expiration of the third month of his confinement their distress was considerably en hanced by the'death of their then only child, the expences of' whose funeral deprived them of their last shilling, and their future means of sub s i s t ence arose so l ely from pledging, or the sale of their clothes, and such other little comforts as in dustry, when in health, had enabled them to procure. In this distressing state, she was In November last put to bed with another child, which, added to the funeral expences of her husband ten days ago, left h er n o t on ly d est i tute ; h ut considerably enthralled. Here she thought she had reached the climax of woe; but Providence has since thought fit to take from her her infant, which, but for the kind contributions of some of her humble neighbours, she should have been totally incapable of interring. She is now therefore truly alone, in debt, and al most destitute of raiment, having parted with her bed, bedding, and nearly all her little furniture. From this abyss of misery site has no hope of extrication, but by aid of a .kind and generous Public, who she humbly hopes will not suffer a widow to pe rish, who is, desiroes to struggle against calamity, arid exert her industry for her future support. To enable her to do which, the smallest donation will be most gratefully received at Mr. Peck's, Grocer 175, Strand, near Norfolk-street ; and at this, and at tifToflices of the different Daily Morning Pa pers. She returns her most grat e f u l t h an k * to t h e Proprietors of the Daily Morning Papers, and the Weekly Dispatch, which had the, goodness to insert her advertisement gratui tously,. and acknowledge the receipt of the following Contribu tions with her blessing on the donor s : Compositorsi at the Public Ledger, 15s. 6d.; .Mr. Roden, Morning Herald, 2s. 6d. ; Mrs. D. left at the Mornint Post, ss. ; Mr. Vernon, New Times, 2s. 64. ; left at the New nines, by R. Robertson, 11.—The following were left at Mr. Peck's, Grocer, 175,, Strand : Mr. Thomas-Kerr, 174, Si.; a Friend to the Distressed, 2s. 64 ; .T. K. 11. IL Is. ; J. b. S. its. ; Mrs. R. 10s. 6d. ; A. 13. 4. la. ; Mrs. M. 2s. ; Mrs. S. 0. Se. ; Mrs. Cutting, 10s. ; a Stranger, 10e. i • 0. H. C. 51. ; Mrs. Coombs, 6, Phillip-lane, Ald e rrnanbury, 2s. 64 ; a Stranger lc —Any future donations will be acknowledged. , FOR. THE SUN. MR. Eorroft,—As in the report or the trial in the case of Tuz litNo against KNATCIIIIULL, FowELL, and PARTRIDGE, contained in your Paper of Monday * last, you have but very briefly stated the observations of the Loan Cuicr JUSTICE to the Jury upon delivering their ver dict, and as it appears to us that such' statement' is calculated to Convey to the public mind an erroneous impression of what actnally passed on that occasion, we have deemed it to be our duty," as Solicitors for the prosecution, to obtain from Mr. GURNEY, the respectable Short-hand Writer, whom we employed to take notes of the trial, t his note of alt that passed subs eq tidy, to the . ..hey detiiieting - theitArilict, , *,co i of which we now send you, and w e re ly on lour known candour for an insertion of it in your nerixt Paper. We have the honour to,he, Sir, . Your most obedient Servants, 4 ROBINSON 'Arai ;BURROWS, 23, Austin-friars, Jan. 23, 1322. TICE KING V. EXATCHBULI,.. During the time that the defendant's witnesses to character were under examination, the following observations were made : FOREMAN OF THE JURY—I believe, my. Lord, the Gen tleman of the Jury have made up their minds. Lord Chief Justice ABBOTT—Then I will not prevent your interposing ; nor shall I express any dissatisfaction at your verdict, if you believe, after hearing all these gentlemen speak ing in the same way, that two of these defendants had no knowledge of the state of facts with which they stand charged, you ought to acquit them. At the same time, I think it due from me to say, for the sake of persons in the professio7, al. though they may be satisfied in their own minds, 'I ought not to suffer this case to terminate without expressing ray dissatis faction, that Attornies should take upon themselves to assert for positive facts (which the evidence, I think; shews two of these defendants to have done), that which they are not certain may be correct.—Gentleruen, there is one other remark I ought to make, in justice to the very honourable person who sits near nie—(Sir Edward Knsitchbullt—the Learned Colinsel who ad dressed you last went nut of the strict line, Which was, the defending one of the defendams now before you : he departed. from the strict line, which I was sm.!), for, to complain, that Charles Knatchboll was l e f t so d estitute as not to be able to avail himself of the assistance of Counsel be having rela tiVeS----- A JunYstAw--,lt is the wish of the Gentlemen of ry that the cause should go on, if your Lordship pleases;,lVe have no objection. Lord Chief Justice AnnoTT—l am perfectly satisfied, Gen tlemen, wish your verdict, if you are. Sometimes in the course of a long investigation into matters of this kind things are thrown out, upon which it is my duty to make remarks, not meaning by that observation in an y way to i nter f ere with your verdict, or to express the least dissatisfaction with it. Unless you are satisfied of the guilt of one, or both of the other de fendants, you must acquit Knatchbull t you cannot convict hint alone, whatever may be your opinion of his conduct. FOREeSAN OF THE Jtutv%-.4 believe, my Lord, that the. Jury regret that they cannot do it. Mr. ComMON SERGEANT... —Will your Lordship permit me to say one word. Ido as s ure your Lordsh i p, that in saying what I did my only object-- Lord Chief Justice AnotaTT—l say I was sorry you departed from the strict line. Mr. CO3t3ION-SERGSINT.._, the cause is now over, if your Lordship will allow Lord Chief Justice ADBOTT—I merely say I am sorry you should have Made-remarks in your address to the Jury, on the part of another defendant, in a way to affect a man of tionbur. /qr. COMMON StatGEANT.--I do assure your Lordship, that it was the last object I bad in view. I thought it was strictly consistent with my duty to the Gentleman I repre sented, ,to submit to the consideration of yhe Jury, that if a person was so destitute of friends.as this defendant appears to be, .connected as he is, it most have resulted front a course of unprincipled profligacy, and, therefore, that ho was a person whti was more likely to have imposed upon the two other defendants, one of whom I represented ; that was the only object I had in making the observation. lam truly sorry, if at any time in the discharge of my professional duty, lam compelled to make such observations as may give pain to honourable minds. The Jury pronounced the defendants Yet Guilty. Upon the verdict being -taken, a noise was made by some persons in the Court. Lord Chief Justice AnnOTT—Nothing of that sort. * The statement in question was copied front the Morning. Chronicle. CITY THURSDAY EVENING• No Mails have been received this day from any part of the Continent at Lombard -street, but several private expresses have come to hand from Paris, which bring advice* from that capital till Tuesday evening. The Remelt on Tues day morning fell to 82, and afterwards declined to 81k, finally closing at 82. 10. It was, however, a close holiday, and busi ness was not generally attended to. The Consols for the February settlement opened this morn ing at 774 advanced at one time to 77k, but afterwards de dined to the opening price, and finally dosed at 77/ being dearer than yesterday. All descriptions of European Securities are Ewer this day.— The French Rcntes are at least 1 per cent. cheaper.—Prussian Bonds are front]. to 13 per cent. lower. The Bonds of the magnanimous ALEXANDER are also lower, and very little business is done in them. The Scrip of the Spanish, and the Bonds of 1821, continue to approach that period when the same figures will denote their value. Many transactions have been done in them. In Paris, on Tuesday, tiler were sold at 42, a 42. Colombian Bonds have this day undergone great fluctuations. They opened at 55, advanced to 59, and gradually fell again to 55. It is reported that plenty of Colombian Securities can be got in the West Indies, much under the London prices ; but it is not said whether they be a new issue by the present (lovern meat, or a part of Mr. ZEA'S contract. The continuation of severe weather almost puts an e nd to commercial purstiits for the present. few speculative pur. chasers of hemp have advanced du.: value of this article about «Os. per ton. It is partly occasioned by an idea that cordage may be in demand for various purposes, should Europe be again in volved in war. The severe weather, added to the prospect of war, makes the holders of tallow also more confident, and this article has the appearance of being` dearer, as the speculators are sanguine that their opponents do not hold a quantity equal to their time sales. The publiesalesof Indigo at the gist India House ate not commanding such high prices as were expected. l'he f rost h as put an end to the Continental trade, and it is at present too valuable to tempt monied speculaturs•—( Alorning From the great reduction in the price of salt, the public have just expectation of a fair reduc tion in the price -of cheese, butter, breed, ( Liverpool .Idvertiser.) Petitions to Parliament against the New Mar. riage Act have been adopted in the several Kwishes of this City Bath Chronicle.) . YORK REFORM MEETING. • • A Meeting,' to consider of • pet i t i on i ng Parlia ment for a Reform in the House deo:unions was held on Wei needay, for the county of York, in the Castle-yard. Froni the inclemency of the. weather it. was supposed by some that there would be but a thin attendance. It was in consequence sug gested that it might be advisable to hold the Meeting in the County Hall. At eleven o'clock the attendance was far from numerous, but after the hour had struck it rapidly increased, and the idea of adjourning to the Hail was necessarily aban doned. The High Sheriff, with the Under Sheriff, were on the hustings by eleven, and a few minutes afterwards Lord Min- TON, Mr. S. WORTLEY, Sir C. WORTLEY, the LORD MAYOR of,York, Mr. SnEYennn, Mr. W. FAR ICES, Mr. Ps: st- TIEnTON, Mr. .f. W. CLOUGH, Mr. RAMADEN, and many other Gentlemen, accustomed to interest themselves in the ttf. fairs of the County made their.appearance. At a quarter past eleven the Under Sheriff opened the busis ness of the day by reading the Requisition. The Ikon Sue:lure said he had considered it his duty to give then, the curliest opportunity of exercising their un doubted riht of discussing the subject of the Requisition. He strongly exhorted them to act with fairness and moder ation, and to give to every onin,who might address them an impartial bearing. Taking the:Course, they, would do honour to tnemselves and give additional force to the proceeding& of • the day. Mr. FawitEs then addressed thti Meetingon the import ance of the object which they had in view on the present oc casion. It was one which lifted theni above all narrow views, private prejudices, and party feelings. He praised the zeal which they manifested in thus coming forward, notwithstand. ing the inclemency of the weather, to contribute all in thei r power towards saving a sinking nation from the destruction with which it was threatened from perseverance in a fatal and ruinous system. • They were there seriously to denounce principles which had enabled a set of men, under a name which had hardly been known till the commencement of the last century, to manage the affairs of the country as they pleased, almost without any controul, for nearly half a cen tury. The consequence of this was, the nation had been loaded with a debt, the amount of which would be incredible if it were not pmveable. The system they had established had occasioned a general spread of' venality. It had led to the maintenance of a standing army (which our ancestors always considered to he unnecessary and dang,erous) in a time of profound peace ; and ' in a word it had produced a state of things which must tinge every true Englishman's cheek with the blush of shame, when he reflected that this, the country of Elizabeth and William, was in the slightest degree connected with those who had dared to say, that the deseemtlanto of the men who fought at Ma rathon, and who had so heroically defended their Thermopylae, were rebels, because they had risen against the infamous sys tem of oppression, imposed upon them by the insolence of Mus sulmen. The system acted on, had enabled A body of placemen to wallow in wealth, while thousands of their countrymen were steeped lb poverty up to their very lips. The effects of it were (nether seen In the oppressive restrictions which had been laid on the Press, and in the proceedings which had taken Nice against the friends of liberty in Westminster Hall. By the Bill of Rights Englishmen were entitled to be represented in a free Parliament; but the privilege which that Act had been Intended to secure was withdrawn, and the conse quences of this would better appear from the .statement of a few stubborn facts, than from the most brilliant era torical flourishes. It 'would perhaps surprise some who heard him to be told, that tinder the present spteen thrice the expenditure had been actually Incurred in the reign of one King, extending over fifty-nine years, than had been sustained through the reigns of the thirty-one Kings who had preceded him, which hall occupied a period of seven hundred years. At the end of the reign of George the Second, the exnendi. ture for the long period he . had last named amounted to 795,060,34n/ a and the public debt to 129,1132,0001 At th; end of the reign of George the Third the sums expended since his accession to the Throne, anionted to 2,357,431,262/. It was computed that 50,000 guineas would cover about a mile of ground. The money expended in the late reign, if pro. duced in guineas, would' go four times round toe whole planet, and thus, accordir.g to calculation, cover about 46,000 miles.— (Applause.}--During; the late reign every arti c l e of food and clothing h a d b ee n raised in price, so that what formerly cost 100,000.0001. per annum, had been brought up to t?.0t1,000,000/. This extra 100,000,0091 e added to the tastes, made a total of 150,000,4/001. per annum, which was t a k en front the people; over and above what they formerly pain, a sum which was equal to five times the rental of all the land of the country. itras this burden borne by the higher classes alone ? No ; snob was not the case. \Who paid the duties on beer, porter, to baceo, tea, and all articles of Excise Jr. was miculateil, that of the seventeen millions of persons forming the population of this Kingdom, about three millions were heads of families, with five or six. individuals depending on each of them. The higher classes amounted to one-fifth of that number, so that the suns paid by the great bulk of the population in the taxa& was about in the proportion of 145 to 5. Ile proceeded to state the manner in which the preeent'llonse of Commons was formed. In the petition presented by Earl (hey in 1789, which had never yet been answered, it was stated that a ma jority was returned to the House by fewer than fifteen thou sand persons out of 17 millions. It appeared that 280 members were returned on th e nom i nat i on of 07 Peers ; that 21 Peers for Scotland nominated 31 members; ,that were. nominated he thirty-sia Irish Peers, matting the total number thus nominated to exceed 300. Of the remainder, 16 were pat in by Govern ment, and only 171 were fairly returned by the people. Ile ; then shewed, nom what had lat e ly occurred, that three Mem- ' bers who came from places where the electors did not amount to one thousand in each, had been less friendly to retrench., ment than, those who were returned front places were the voters in each were not fewer than ten thou and. The Act of Settlement had been framed to exclude those holding places of profit under the Crown from sitting in Parliament. But at present there were in the. House of Commons 89 mem.: bets holding places, the profits of which amounted annually to 179,3144 He would not spe a k o f those Members d who derive . emoluments from being in the Army, but he must not omit to state that the money *hared by the relations of those who were in the House of Common, had been calculated to amount to not leas than 1,000,0001. If those headdressed were " made of penetrable muff," he thought these facto would produce an im. prmsion which must last beyond that day. If such ware net the case, he knew not what would move them, and should judge that they would continue insensible to the merits of the case, even though one should rise from the dead. Be would now (as Mr. Canning had done him the honour to mention him in his celebrated oration at Liverpool), with the permission of the meeting, offer a few words in reply. From Mr. Canning he had always differed in politics, but there were few to whose speeches he. had been acettstoined to listen with more admiration and delight, He considered that Right Honoura ble Gentleman to be. possessed of talent, wit, eloquence, and learning, and was only sorry that powers like those which he might claim were not exerted in a better cause. Prom as MAR so /i i ited, commendation wa s a l wa y s accepta bl e , and lie wished r. Canning to believe that he was not ineensitile to the very flattering mention which hail been made of him. He hoped that nothing . which he might now say would be viewed as proceeding from personal hostility. Such was not the case with respect to Mr. Canning or any other person whom he had ever known. Mr. Ca nning h a d said, in opposition to the Friends a Reforiz, that the Government of England was a limited Monarchy, and considered that an independent House of Commons would be incompatibl e with the exi s t e n ce of such a Government. He (Mr. Fawkes) would say, the Go vernment of England was not exactly a limited Monarchy, but a Government consisting of 'three ;states, namely, a limited Monarchy, a limited Aristocracy, a nd a limited Demneracy. He was at a loss to know why, in a Government (=stating of Three a:elates,' it was nec essa ry filet one of the three should be corrupt. If this argument were good, and if Peers eug•ht to be allowed to noinunne Members of t h e Lowe r Range, he did not see why, on the same principle, a hundred Cnmmoners might not be introduced info the House cif Lords, or why an associate neight not be provided for the King himself, on the gtr , and that power lodged in the hand, of tiny one of the three Latates might be dangerous if the interference of 'another were not secured. Mr. Canning had contended that the iafhi. ence e s th e c l own, as now exercised in the House of Com ne.ns, was necessary. To contend (or this was to contend for tyranny in disguise. It might not be injurious in a particular .. I. PRICE SEVE:NPE I NCIL reign, but this was not to be calculated' upon. It had been said of - Augustus diet he ought never to have lived, or diet he ought never to have died; and he vsoultl ask if that which had occurred in the time of Tiberius, of Caligula" tutti of Nero, had not more than outweighed all the benefits en joyed under the away of Augustus. - Mr. La' unintes sup. position was, that It would be an act of. glaring to justice to the proprietors of boroughs now to , disfrattelinte than—. Before he admitted that such property ought to he respeeted, he must desire to see the law by which one iedividual wee to poems as much power as the people in Yorkshire, is Westatinster, or other places had altogi.her. If the „safetyof the country wer e to be sacrificed .to vested rights, *het were they to think of the depoeition of Jannta the Second? he no vetted rights to be respected ? • That Menatch s however, was expelled, and without compensation was. sent Away to begah -0 ! St. Helene ! (Mr. Fawkes exclaimed) e with all thynaturitl and added horrors, what a bed of roses were thou to thy late inhabitant, .compared with that exile to which the unhappy James was doomed! Mr. Canning hail 'Aim spoken of t.,.., danger which must attend suc h c h anges as t h e Ileformere hed contemplated. But it was well know,} to thetn all, that changes of inech greater importance than the extinetion of a e n fe a n t ' io. rotten borough; ic s h s t l b c ee , n effected' without injury to the should they hay to tea •Inefer. niation and thei fo Itevolution, and to the two Unioni whieh had taken place (orea-in our ,tenne time), by whia, ir. ettch ease, au independent Parliaraent bad been done away with altogether, it But Mr. Canning had no.oNection to. see . 4 timees barn, Crteklade, and firampound, disfranohieed. Whsn they were proved to h ave a b use d t h e i r privilege. Ile wits will. ing to sacrifice (Untropound and Old Sarum, but his'conditct in that was merely throwing a tub to die whale. lir. Cantiihg would not consent to a general reform in the House of Com mons. He said—" You had once a popular Donee Of Com. mons, and what did it effect ? Why it overturned the Con stitution, and decapitated the King." But their was one thing he had forgot to mention, whi c h wou ld m al ts the argument of the Right Honourable Gentlemau little at. a fetiches, end give just weight to that of his o_pponeute ; end this was the desermtion of men by whom th at Parliament was conkteed.— He had referred to the Resolution of the dih of January, 1648, by which the House of Lords had been tleclared useless and the authority o f l aw g i ven to t h e votes of tht House of i.'ont mons. But it ought to bo remembered, inet in January, 1643, fifty Members of the House of Commons had been expelled for deserting their duty. On the 29th June, 1644, 200 Mem bers were expelled for fathering to the (king; 143 Members were secluded or imprisoned in 1648, under the Act; called " Pride's Purge ;" and it was•those who remained, 80 in num ber, who arrogated to themselves the right of governing the country, that the res o l ut i ons rea d b y M r. Canning, had been passed, and of these 81 persona, it was worthy of remark, fiat no fewer than 67 were rotten borough Members. Ile did-not know that it was impossible for a shinier scene to be acted now. lie could not forget the decision which hall been come te en the India Bill, in opposition to the King, told the wiehes of a large portion of the people. If the King were to co.operete with such a body, what evils might not follow. Ile knew of nothing that could effectually protect the country against these but the measure which he now came forward to recommend. He was afraid he had detained them too long;.---(.to, no !)--lle heti done all in his power to oppose that system, against which he now called on that Meeting to raise its powerful voice. Ile invited them to get rid not merely of the men who had deluded. them, by telling them that the sun of their prosperity was in deed clouded, but that it would soon burst forth again with all its former splendour, while they had found the nlttotre continue to increase around them.. Ile hoped a change of system winthi be adopted which would remove those of whom he had spoken, which would " Scatter plenty o'er a smiling land," by confiding the direction of their affairs to those who. wtntld only seek to read their history in the joyful ey es o f a gretefal and an admiring nation. When James the Second was about leaving France to attempt to regain his lost kin g d om , t h e French King, Loui s had the best thing he could wish him was, that Ile might never , see him agaiu. lie would say now, that the beat thing ice could wish that Meeting was, that he might never see them again on such an ocralion as the present, and he therefore assured them that witching the prayer of their Petition might be grtuited, he should be rejoiced if on this subject he should never have an opportunity of addreeeire them again. He then read the following Resolutions for the adoption of the Meeting s-- " Resolved, 1. That the Constitution of this Country is a Government consisting of Three Independent stat es , a L eg e te e ,Monarchy, a Limited A r i stocracy , an d a Limited Democesicy. That each has its dietinct and peculiar functions end privileges, and that one of these estates cannot unduly influence the func tions of either of the others, without disturbing that balance which is essential to secure and perpetunto the various Wean. tages white] may be derived to the people from a tlovernmeet so eonatituted. " 2. That the House of Commons, as at present eompesed, does not express the national will ; nn the contratv, it has too generally proved its readins to compl with tsc dietateedef whetsoever Alteister rutty h es ave dispense y d the favours of the Crown. Co 4 :n ; t l ;iti T na ha li t av ti e le beets t t 3 h o e f iv t a h l e at i ,l7 3 a e i n td v stat e protli tpi tlf te th c ex l pe it) t it itrinerl of the public money, and the unprincipled ..erection aed con. tinuance ofuseless places and ueurierneti pensone, iir hence of the loud and general expresaion of the public feeling. " 4. That the heavy preseure or load of nines imponed, for the purpose of supporting an extrevagant Civil Lien and of maintaining a ruinously large Military and Colonial itstann e e s ment, is totally incompatible with a state of profound peace. and acknowledged security. " 5. That the only measure which can remedy these evils, and preserve the country froth the dangers that may be ;Miele pitted from a continuance of th em , is a spee d y and effectual Refortn in the Commons House of Parliament. " 6. That a. Petition, founded on the above Rnsolutions, he prepared and presented to the )louse of Commune." The Hon. r.. PETRE seconded the motion, and confessed himself a recent convert to this measure. He hail heretofore conscientiously fought under different banners from dose un der which he was now enlisted, but when he saw the present state of, this country, anti considered the principles on which the Sovereigns of Europe had recently acted, he felt that some change of system w a s n ece ssary, and in his opini on t h e on l y remedy for the evils now complain e d o f, and the onlyesafe guard against their recurrence was to be found in Perlienien tary_Reform. • Mr. S. WORTLEY felt duct he should :nand in need of s great deal of indulgenee from the Meeting, as he had to ex press sentiments entirely diffnient from those of his two, li,.n. Friends who preceded him.--1 Here the disapprobation was $e loud that the Ilon. Gentleman could not be heert!. Mr. W. FAWKES begged as ft partkidar theoar to hint that tho Meeting would act the part of candid Englishmen, lint do their duty as Electors of a great County, by payieg every et tendon to his Bon. Friend (Mr. S. Woitley). Mr. S. WORTLEY repeated it, he should stand in need of much indulgence, as his opinions on politics were adverse tel those of many of the persons he addressed, and ilix t vi4lly on this subject. He, however, had a duty to perfont amine hr never entertained an opinion which, at a proper time, he whs not ready to support, it they would favour him with their at tention, he would point out what he thought the fataeY of those argument* which had been addressed to-diem. He it would not be thought ill In him to say this, and he wished - - not to irritate them, when he said they, as it appeerest to him, took a wrong view of this matter altogether, and were in a situation which exposed them to be duped.—(Disapprobation.) —He begged again to assure them that he lucent not to etletel. but he must speak boldly, if he spoke at all. his lion. Friend -who opened this business hail put the hagtlteellt as fettle' es lie had ever heard any argument put in his life. Ile would admit that if innovations had been made on the Constitution to bring it to its present state, that that they had Algitr gtoulad on which they ought t o p et i t i on P ar li ament to Wform But he denied the premises of his Honourable. Friend,. and would shew them that he had taken a wrong view of the Cone stitution, and that fur the last four hunched years the influence of the Aristocracy and of the Crown in the Hemet of Voni. mons hail been the soiree as they wexe at this tiny.--{Hisses.) He old they that the present state of rite Houle of Commune proved no usurpation en the part of the Aristoseacy, or.on the part of the Crown; anti be would appeal to them if tho court. try, governed as it had been, had not reason tr. (tie grateful -for many blender. Whatever the Conetituden of Parliament might have been onginally, front the time of Henry VIII. sold ()Amen Elizabeth, forward the influence of the etrietecracy and °fettle Crown, had always beets felt in the }louse tit Commons. Meny _ of the Boroughs which were new under the infl uence of the A e q ually *0 then. It wets said in the celehrated ptritisireeThel:elv ntow w hich his Hon. Friend had referted, thet an act of `` ~ ~~ J~ i ~? ~ ~~