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)„, 05' Ti L ioj is e , 5 , /, /#17.„; NUMBER 8841.:, OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Judy 91, 181 e, THE PUBLIC are hereby - informed that Thirty-seven PLATES of the ORDNANCE SUP.VEY of. GREAT BRITAIN, carried on under the Superintendence br the fate Major-General WILLIAM MUDGE, LL.D. P.R. and A.S., are now complete, and that IMPRESSIONS front them are on Sale at the ORDNANCE MAP 01 7 FICE, in the `TOWER of LONDON, and also at WILLIAM PADEN'S, Geographer to his Majesty, and Agent to the Boa rd of Ord armee, at CHARING-CROSS• These PLATES 'contain the Counties of Kent, Essex, Sussex, Hauts, Dorset, Deron, and Cornwall, and propor tions of Sines set, Surrey, Pembroke, Cardigan, Carmarthen, Glatoorcatt, Wilts, Berks, Middlesex, Suffolk, Hertford, and Cambridge. Part IX. containing nearly the whole of Pembrokeshire, and portions of the adjacent Country, was published on the I St of August, 1819, and as tie Wort is still in progress, al 'cording to the original Design of giving a complete Map of Great Britain upon a Scale of one inch to a Mile. the Publication of the future parts will follow as fastas toe na ture o f such a Work %vitt admit, :without increasing the an. anal Expense. Gentlemen Wishing to procure a Map of the Country sur rounding their own habitations, may, by application to Mr. BAKER, at the Ordnance Map ()Ace (where an Index Map will be shewn) select any sheets they please, for that purpose. All Letters on tins subject, addressed to Mr. Baker, under a corer to the Secret:it y of the Board of Ordnance, Pall Mall, wtll be immediately attended to: By Order of the Board, R. H. CREW, Sec. Por MADRAS & BENGAL. with liberty to call at MADEIRA Warranted to Sail in all December, , The remarkably fine SHIP, LADY 'V" ... • LUSHINGTON, ALEXANDER SCOT T, %,.c. ,\ Commander, lying in the City Canal. Bur :":then 650 tons. This Ship was built and 4.reZtlil. fitted up for the East India Trade ; has very superior AccommodAtions for Passengcrs, and carries a Sur g eon. For Freight or Passage, apply to G. H. GIBBONS, 42, St. Mary Axe; or to CURLING and DOMETT, 10, George yard, Lombard-street. iIEETING AT EDINBURGH. [FARTHER PARTICULARS.] Ott Friday a Meeting of the Freeholders, &c. Of the County of Edinburgh, was held within the County Hall, h consequence of a requisition sub scribed by a number of the Freeholders, to take ift to consideration the propriety of voting a Loyal Address to his Majesty. The Marquis of Lo- TRIAN - was called to the Chair, who said, he trusted that they would be unanimous in voting the Address. The names of the Freeholders baying been called, Sir Joif ilnrE rose to propose the Address, and said, there never was a time when there was, more necessity for coning forward to express sentiments of loyalty and attachment to his Ma jesty's person and tr over ument than the present but he would not ceetam the meeting by entering into detail, and would therefore only move, that the Address which he rose to propose might be read and adopted. " TO TIIE KING'S MO&T EXCELLENT MAJESTY. - - _ " MAY IT PLEAS?. YOUR MAJESTY, " We, your Majesty's most loyal and dutiful subjects. the .Nohletoen, Freeholders, Justices of the Peace, and Commis sioners of Supt.ly of the County of Edinburgh, in a General Meeting assembled, limnbfy beg leave to approach your Ma jesty_with renewed assurances of our unshaken fidelity and at tachment to your Alaiesty's saceed person, and to that Con stitution which your Majesty has so steadily and'so gloriously. tief.l.ded and maintained. • " Unwilling, as we are, unnecessarily to obtrude upon your Ilajestv the profession of our . loyalty, we feel, that on occa sions like the present, it becomes the impari,,us d u ty o f eve ry friend to his cottony to stand forward without delay, and avow his firm deteemination to support the principles of the Elitist' Constitution, and to rally round the Throne, to pro tect the religion and laws of the Country from outrage and insult. " We have witnessed, with the utmost indignation, the foul attempts that have been made, by means of a licentious Press, to mislead the unwary, antj delude the ignorant, by circulating the most . unfounded and mischievous calumnies against all the constituted Authorities of the realin. Rely ing, however, with confidence, on the wisdom and energy of those measures which your Majesty will adopt, and on the unshatten loyalty and incorruptible fidelity of the great mass of your Majesty's subjects, we confidently trust that those misguided individuals, who have unhappily been induced to countenance the designs of the worst enemies of their coun try, may, through the blessings of Divine Providence, he speedily roused to a sense of their errors, and that they will soon cordially none with us in repressing any attempts to dis turb the pence and tranquillity of the country, and of zeal onoy su pporting that Constitution, to which, as it has been handed down to us (ruin our ancestors, we are indebted for those blessings which, as a nation, wst enjoy, and which it is our Most anxious wish to transmit unimpaired to posterity. Mr. J. VIALKEtt stated, that, in rising to se tond the motion which had just been made, he must begin by acknowledging, that the favour of his friends had imposed on him a task, which he would never otherwise have thought of assuming. No one could be more sensible than he was, that there were many others now present far better entitled than himself, from their rank, talents, and influence, to bespeak the attention of the meeting Little accustomed as he.had been to deliyel , his sentiments on questions so remote as the present, from the usual line of his profes sional pursuits, he would not have presumed flirts early to address the meeting on any public topic, which ,he conceived to be attended with doubt or difficulty, or in the discussion 4.)f which, either profound knowledge, or ela borate argument, was required ; but, in his humble apprehension, the slightest observation Of what is daily passing around its, was petite sHflicient to suggest the most conclusive rea sons for supporting this address. Few, he presumed, of those who heard him, would deny, that the most flagitious attempts bad been made, and were still making, to excite dis affection among the people of this realm. Few - would deny, that the constancy, the audacity, and, he feared, the 'success of these attempts, ere. calculated to ,create the most, serious alarm ,411,1', tif - 1,-.P . NI 'i s T4r•-". '.. "."4 c f Wrtik— 0 ‹ ~, % % "-. . - " . ..1 a . V.:e •----- ," • hi --. 4 -74.., - ....„, 4:4 ..1 , _,A, , , ~,,,,,, .4, ,-•,- • ‘,..„ .; ... ...., ~ , . , x ,,,,,,,,„ Irt , ...-- dri e , Al/4-10.05,1,,,., ~,. „s-e.,,, .. - • ~ • WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1820. among all who truly loved their country. It was true that the clamour for Radical Reform, had for a time subsided. It was true, that the itiner ant field-preachers of treason had no longer their assembled thousands to declaim to. It was true, that the drilling and training of armed rebels was not by law prohibited : that the insurrection both in England and Scotland had proved abor tive ; and that the blood-thirsty gang of Thistle wood had suffered the proper punishment of their crimes ; but the champions of rebellion were still active in their vocation. Though their professed object was changed, their real object was still the same. Prior to the commencement, and during the dependence of a late solemn inquiry, when a regard to decorum, and a re gard to justice, alike induced the respectable part of the community to wait the event in si lence--the agents of disaffection engaging a certain portion of the press in their service, had incessantly attacked all that is sacred and Venerable in our Constitution. Its whatever form their sentiments were expressed, whether in newspapers, pam phlets, or caricatures ; whether in their cease less addresses, or in their ceaseless answers to these addresses—all these engines were alike exerted to promote their mischievous designs. The two Houses of Parlidment—the Judges of the Land—the Dignitaries of the Church—the ordinary Ministers of our holy Religion—and that Religion itself—have all been made the ob jects of their ridicule and invective. If there was one person more than another to whose feelings on a late occasion some degree of tenderness was due---it was his Majesty the King. Yet it was against the sacred person of their Sovereign that the shafts of the disaffected had been most steadily levelled. It had been their earnest endeavour to extirpate all those principles of loyalty, all those habits of respect and personal attachment to the Sovereign, which in better times distinguished the British people. Nor was it, alas ! among the lower orders alone that these outrages against loyalty and decency had been committed. 'Within the walls of Parliament it self, in the presence of the Peers of the United Kingdom, assembled upon the late investigation, the second Counsel for the defence' was bold enough to assert, that the conduct of Nero, the worst of the Roman tyrants, was the only pa rallel which he could find for the conduct of his present Majesty. Forgetting alike the duty of al legiance to his lawful Sovereign, and the respect due to the august assembly which he addressed, that Learned Gentleman had not disdained to borrow from the polluted manufactory of Hone this most foul, disloyal, and unjust comparison. And to what were we to ascribe this unparal leled persec ition ? Is his Majesty thus assailed because his Ministers had advised him not to place at the head 'of Arriale society one who conduct had become the common scandal of Eu rope, and whose guilt had been proclaimed by a great majority of her judges ? Or is it because, upon assuming the reins of Government, his Majesty ward in the footsteps of his venerated predecessor, and did not dismiss from his presence those tried and faithful servants who had en joyed his father's confidence ? Or is it because, during the glorious period of his Regency, the chosen servants of the Crown maintained the struggle for European independence, and achiev ed for their country a triumph unexampled in any former period of its history. The time was now arrived when the voice of the loyal part of the community ought to he heard from' the one end of the empire to the other; and when it should be made te; appear, from such meetings as the present, that, although a few , unprincipled demagogues may have for a time succeed ed in deluding the ignorant and mis leading the unwary, there was still an immense majority of those in whom the real sinews . and.strength of the country werecon centrated—determined to rally round the Throne, and to defend with their fortunes, or, if tieces sary, with their lives, that unrivalled' C:,institu tion which other nations envy, and attempt to imitate. He knew that, iii the common jargon of the disaffected, nothing was held to be more ridiculous and insignificant than the meeting of a Scottish County: But, in answer to such .calum niators, he would affirm, that the present Meet ing did fully and fairly represent the County of Edinburgh, as distinguished from the City ; that it did collect the opinions —not, indeed, of the mere rabble—but of those whose opinions were of value, whom we would consult in the concerns of private life, whom in all exigencies we would e ntrust with our fortunes or our honour. He was convinced that the, great mass of the people, in whom there still remained virtuous'and religious principle, would not long - resist the exampl.;' of those who were their natural. guides and protec tors, and that they would soon be able to dis tinguish between their real and their pretended friends. General F. DUNDAS supported the Address. Mr. FERGUSON, of_ Raith, after some observa tions, proposed the following amendment : "That an humble Address be presented to his Majesty, to express 'tor sincere attachment to his person and Govern• went, and our firm resolution to support, against all its ene• tries, that happy Constitution which placed the House o: Brunswick on the throne of Great Britain. • ‘• That we are prepared to resist, by every means in our power, the designs of disaffected persons to excite sedition, or attack the religion of the country, if any such attempts• shall be rusde; but that we have c' eat satisfaction 'in being able to state, that there appears to us to he no ground for imput ing to the inhabitants of this county, with whose conduct, dispositions, and opinions, we are best acquainted, any dis loyalty, or disregard to religion. ..‘ That we are persuaded, that there Ties or existed, in any part of these kingdoms, or in atty period of our history, a po pulation more loyal, more firmly attached to the Monarchy and Constitution, or more attentive and zealous in the per fm mance of their civil and religious duties, than that of the metropolitan county of Scotland. " That we deeply lament, tbst any circumstances shook' have given occasion to the' dissatisfaction which now so ge nerally preeals with the measures pursued ny your Majesty's Ministers; and we humbly implore your Majesty, that such an alteration of system, and such a course of conciliatut, measures may be adopted, as may tend to allay the discon tents which now unfortunately exist, and to unite all ranks and classes of your Majesty's subjects, nut only in their duti ful attachment to your Majesty's GOverminent, hut in their confidence in. the wisdom and justice of your Majesty's Councils." SIT ALEXANDER MAITLAND G 'WON, of Clifton Hall, seconded the amendment. General DCNDAs rose to say, that Ministers could not avoid entering into the late inquiry, and that they did their duty, and no more, in doing so. The CHAIRMAN here proposed, to save discus sion, that it should bo put to the vote, whether the Address or Amendment should be carried (Loud cries of " No, no !") Mr. nor.? VERE, of Craigiehall, agreed with the sent cents expressed by the lion. Movt'` of the Amendment, and regretted that such Meet ings were not oftener favoured with his counte nance and support. Mr. STUART maintained, that discontent did not arise from the alleged causes, and that dis affection did not prevail to such an extent, as by some it was asserted to do. Lord ROSSLYN followed, and defended the conduct of her Majesty's Advocate, in answer to Mr. Walker, considering the animadversions of Mr. W. as a general attaCk upon the independ- ence of the Bar. Sir GEORGE CLERK was anxious to call back the meeting to the real object they had original ly in view. Whatever merit or demerit might be attached to the conduct of the , chief Magistrate of this city, was very foreign to the present meet ing. They were called together to propose a loyal Address to his Majesty, and to express their attachment to our free Constitution, and their detestation of those individuals in the country who sought its ruin ; and so indeed it was felt and acknowledged by the gentlemen who had spoken on , the other side. lie agreed it was not necessary to express their loyalty and attachment—they were never doubted— but it was necessary to come • forward to convince the noisy demagogues that these was a large and respectable portion of the people who deprecated their proceedings ; and that though well-disposed, quiet, and learned persons, who were well-affected to all that was venerable and dignified in the State, had remained neutral for a while, it was only necessary to come forward to shew what part of the community were friends to the true interests of the country. There was a point beyond which supineness would be blameable,_ and - a gross dereliction from duty ; and it wags hiipossible not to come forward and express their sentiments on the present occasion. Mr. MICHAEL TANNING observed, that the Meeting we, , bound to support the legal Autho rities, otherwise the beautiful equilibrium of so ciety would be destroyed. Mr.JAMES GIBSON, of Ingliston, supported the Amendment. The Loan ADVOCATE said, that he had hi therto abstained from all public meetings, think ing, that as a servant of the Crown, his motives might be misrepresented ; and he should not have appeared that day,' but that he felt inti mately connected with the meeting, from the little property he possessed being situated in the, county. His Lordship had hoped that the' Ad dress was couched so as to prevent discussion, while the Amendment embraced every topic to disunite—it' was a complete party Address, and would tend to disseminate a spirit of disaffection throughout the country. With regard to the observation of Lord Rosslyn on the state of the country, was it pos sible for him to forget that a Grand Jury had found true bills against a number of individuals in Scotland ; and though the spirit was put down, it still slumbered in the breasts of many. As to the circumstance of there being no pro secutions against the press, he could only say, that it proceeded from hisunwillinguess to do any thing against its liberty ; such he would never bring forward but on the strongest grounds ; but however delicate and painful it would be, he hoped that if it were ever necessary it would be done with firmness. The Learned Cord then proceeded to discuss the subject of the proceedings against the Queen, which he concluded by stating his belief that no further procedings would be adopt ed against her, and that every thing legal and fair would be allowed her. But if it was to be asked to raise her to the same honours that her revered predecessor held, where she would be looked up to as a pattern and example to tilt country, he trusted in GOD that others, not they, would do it. The amendment shewee that the Address was Necessary, and the latter contained no expressions hurtful to the feelings `of any ; and the question %vas, whether the country was in that state to require any public expression of opi nion ; he thought it was, and sat down by ap proving of the Address. Mr. JEFFREY stated, at the very outset, that in so far as the address moved by 'Sir .John Hope consisted of professions of loyalty and attach ment to the Throne and the Constitution, he (Mr. Jeffrey) and all his friends would most cor dially go along with it; and if gentle Men on the other side considered the language of the address, in these respects, as more choice and emphatic than that of the amendment, he was most willing . to adopt it. But farther than. that, he could not ~,,x , , RICE SEVENPENCE. give his concurrence to the _address. He pat it to every man of sense to say, whether the expressions used in the. remainder of the oddresa did not imply an uaqualitied approbation 'of whatever measures M . inisters have taken, or aaksar be pleased to adopt: - He agreed Wills the aiatifr side in considering this a crisis in which every man was bound in duty to step forward and declare his sentiments. Ile was aware that Much discontent, and, he was afraid, also some disaffection (though to a far less extent than was represented), pre veiled. This being' admitted, allagreetl in wish ;lig to allay the ferment. The opposite party held that this was to be effected by putting down► and forcibly repressing every symptom of discoa - tent as it appeared ; while he and his friends, ca the other hand, were of opinion, that tranquillity , could not be permanently established, without ascertaining the real causes, by inquiry and ia a vestigation, and then removing them. The Learn ed Gentleman then explained and elucidated these principles at considerable length, show- . inga the, .dangarous effects of, a system a atrt blind coercion, and the advantages - of a fair, liberal, and constitutional Administration. Ike then proceeded, in a strain of animated and powerful eloquence, to defend the Whigs as a body from the charges which had been made against them. They had been accused of relin quishing their own principles and adopting those of the Radicals. This he most positively denied ; challenging all and every man in that house to mention a single instance in which any Whig, either- in Parliament or out of it, had given his sanction to any of the revolutionary princi ples of which they: bad heard so much. The ablest and best answer which had ever been made to the pernicious doctrines of universal suf frage and annual Parliaments had appeared in the Journal with which he had the honour to be connected: But there was another accusation : it was said the Whigs were anxious to gain over the Radicals to their banners. To that accusation he pleaded guilty. The Whigs were anxious. to gain over the Radicals, as they are also to gain over the Tories. But how did they desire to gain them over? Not by' surrendering their' owiaPrin ciples, but by the force of argument and a kind conciliatory treatment, to induce them td re. nounce their erroneous opinions, and to class. them selves, on conviction,,with those who supported the true principles of the Constitution. The object of all men—Philosophers, Statesmen, Divines—was to gain converts to their own opinions ; but, to attain this object, the Divine did not content himself with denounciag fu ture punishments against those who differed from • him, but employed argument, persuasion, en treaty, and all the means which an active Chris tian beneVolence could sur a aast, to win them from theitertorS. Now . this was precisely what the V< logs were doing with respect to the Radicals ; and for such service the Tories ought to be most grateful. If sincere in their professions, they could not but be anxious to secure the conversion and co-ope ration of those persons whom they now stigma tized as Radicals and rebels ; but, if these per sons ever reached the heaven of the Tories, it was impossible they could get there without first passing through the purgatory of Whiggism. Mr. Jeffrey continucd. this - course of argument with great effect; and concluded with deprecating the idea of the meeting contenting itself with such a profession of loyalty, as could mean nothing more than an approval of the acts of that adminiaaa tion which had plunged the country into so many difficulties. If the present coercive system of administration was persevered in, ankall_conci liatory .measures rejected, the discontent and dis affection now unhappily existing would, he had no doubt, continue to widen and increase, until' it should embrace so mach of the population, that the Aristocracy and Property-holders of the Kingdom would form but a small minority, to be ultimately and certainly' swept away in the pro gress of a bloody and destructive Revolution. A vote having - been called, - the Address was carried by a majority of 110 to 2G. The . Meeta ng then broke -up. Reduction of Rents in Ireland.—Lord WicK- Low has reduced the rents of his tenants in the county of Donegal, for which act of•liberal:ty an Address of Thanks has been presented: to his Lordship. The Addressers observe : 44 ' We be lieve it unnecessary to explain to your 'Lordship, that although an All-Merciful' God has crowned our labours with an increase,and blessed as with a favourable and plentiful season preserve the same, yet the low value of all agricultural produce in the 'markets 'at present, made' ei'en the increased quantity insufficient to create in come necessary to liquidate ail charges•upon us ; but by your 'Lordship's liberality, we 'trust '(through God's assistance) to be able to cultivate our lands, with benefit to your Lordship as land lord, and to otirselVes as tenants ; and- that as your Lordship bas contributed to our pro-verity and comfort, we hope we shall not be umr(iodful of the wants of others, but be able and' to afford assistance to our destitute, sick, and *edy neighbours,as the most !;:;rateltel retain' we catt make for Your Lordship's, lit)erality to us." The Duke of ,CLATIEncr, whin last in Ger many, presented to the Uniziersity of c ; ottingen a fine collection of naaritiwe Rboarts in one hundred and eighty . sticksets ; and: 04! Duke of CAMBIIIDGE has presented-to the samv instipatiou,.a.o astrono mical clock of a ruzious ,:014-txnetion, to be ktlaced iu ervator y.