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for the bets 111 result a fter and 3 ' rought it, b e : hap wrooro a t 3 rrp• ; puiseti U. r Jars _Ol_ to b e win or ROY ° echo 0, W aS w bo IS Di , n oril price, OWi"g ptio►l• oral r e ' • Wing • ye po ll' pldie rs; .s that/ Toiog tO of the That efore v ii war, IlliCiP al „d-rate erhaPsl )idable• nes 03 - )S5O - u e ll , rtie s in aft ch sub: nd 01 " a gora try an if th e t tfieSe rmilet mute" rul. ho• 3y i \ Spa in On a ' yet th e is bill to t he minde d ile t he re volt, 4 e civil To ING- at w here id no; lber 31 : h'umphal in _ l ed a"" e Cuti ~►rl that ig h un tent t° •iende (l 7 incrY • A free oi g cal l9°t , )r thali rong°, l * tb e prO" cor tieS °C opP° F ; :tion 01 SPa i " ed 1) 1°- ao had is that public lited to Tr, bu t r patT i te, ontern: , S eated orrib l° rson o f at TO" morn- Glee tt ) h e dad euts.---- assist rival at les be- by nencel, a ncolq , .ode.' al° sever" , the ir. om bis, l e COO' aS t 0 C >anl oo. ith th e yester' coal' ied by iusur. corn' FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS. The Dowager Duchess of Richmond and the Ladies Len in Waterloo-place; the Countess of Harmwby and Lady • Ryder, from Staffordshire ; Lord and Lady Berwick, tir osvenor-square, from Shrewsbury ; Lord Sondes, at Gor ,°ll's Hotel, from France ; Sir William Smyth, from Kent ; Capt. Clarke, in Albemarle -street; Col. and Mrs. Martin, in South Audley-street", Sir John and Lady Evans, in Brook !iteet; Col. and Mrs. Longueville, in Grosvenor-place ; Col. t o k eY, in Upper Charles -street, Fitzroy-sTiare, from Brigh f ; Sir Roger and Lady Sophia Gresley, in Conduit street, :4°lll Drakelow Hall, Derbyshire ; Sir Thomas Lethbridge, ""a„tt., M.P., at t h e London Hotel. a N"tianrunEs.—The Marquis of Londonderry, for his seat, 11"11 C otel, on lay ; Frankland Lewis, Esq. M.P. from the Clarendon visit to Lord Braybrook, Audley End. uT, l l,ere are already eleven names . entered for The Fouy-ind er Club. The favourite vehicle is to be a landaulet, painted tit e 3 colate brown, with brass furniture, unornamented with ',Ty arms or crest. t h e w e understand the Earl of Albemarle will shortly lead , to v'c_,naltar Miss Hunloke, a near relation of 31r. Coke.—(Nor- Mercury.) ethe new Crown, which, we understand, is of w ' roost splendid description, and which is to be „ cul by his MAJESTY for the first time on the b` p ' er ibl of the ens u i n g Parliamentary Session, has depo s it e d in theJewel-House at the Tower. 4 he decorations of his MAJ EST Y'S state-coach oft now completed, by placing on the back panel ed the body the Royal Arms, beautifully execut -0 an d tastefully ornamented with the several rders of the Garter, Bath, St. Patrick, and St. 4 adre w . rile ° ll Tuesday evening, after the breaking up of Cabinet Council, Mr. VICKERY, the King's Iljessenne was sent off with dispatches to Italy. The ANNIVERSARY OF Ills MAJESTY'S ACCES :" Was celebrated on Tuesday at Brighton with - . v ery testimony of the most rapturous loyalty. The si u glag of bells early in the morning announced " le happy occasion. His MAJESTY appeared in Pub lic, accompanied by many of the Nobility, , a nd the most distinguished persons in the neigh "arbood. Joy and loyalty animated every (!l ass of people. A grand dinner in honour of th e day t oo k plaCe at the Old Ship T avern , U ' i aich was attended by a numerous body of the Most respectable parsons. WALTER BURRELL, s q., M.P. for the County, was Chairman. -- Mr. B. IL SMART spoke an Address on t he occasion, written by himself, which was received with very great applause. A Song al6O for the occasion, from the loyal and spirited P I , E T of PRIN C E H O A R E, Esq. was sung by the EeeCerall MICHAEL KELLY, and received with tth usiasm. Many loyal, constitutional, and pa urffi'tic, toasts were g i ven , and the whole passed ,witli the most gratifying festivity. We are b„ n g'd to postpone the particulars till to b' 4r0,,. to l ''it 0 RATORIO.—This sublime entertainment I, ii >enced last night at Covent-garden Theatre, 111 .' 1e r the direction' of Mr. Bocusa, whose ad able skill skill as a composer and performer is de st,"lredly held in high admiration. His chief in t:444:ra is the harp, in which lie displays first ,:tte powers; but, according to report, he pos ises great skill on many other instruments. tale nts Conductor is Sir GEORGE SMART, whose f , e nts and experience' in these entertainments V 4 lify him to render most valuable assistance. i 'r• SmitaT is the Leader. Mr. BOCHSA has col s4ct''d an instrumental band of the highest de v'pllPtion, a n d suc h a p owe rf u l combination of b: c ,al Performers as were hardly ever assembled C o re on any occasion. Among the latter are Ai t MPoitEsE, RoNzt, Mrs. SALMON, Madame s. rats, Miss STEPHENS, and Mrs. BELLCrIAM- S l. ' i s• The male vocalists were BEGRIZ, P L ACCI f o s r Pi °, TINNEY. The firSt part of the per iulance consisted of a selection from The ti ssiah. The second part was a judicious selec ef," from Itossuat's Oratorio Moses in Egypt, a I ) i 'l 3 ositiou highly admired on the Continent, o"" , beard last night for the first time in this a llotry. A m i sce ll aneous se l ect i on const i tute d Last the third. In the course of the evening lii s l b tßY gave a concerto on the violincello in the h est manner, and Mr. Wrr,LmAN another on r e - k , orn o Bassett° with extraordinary skill. We as gt t e t that the pressure of various matter prevents ti c hron‘ giving so ample an account of the as ; and varied musical treat of lust night 11 4 ," exquisite merits demand ; but from the aikilerous audience which attended, and the warm * 4B reiterated applause with which the whole is i. r ecei'ved it is obvious that Mr. BOCIISA eatitkei iy to be properly recompensed for his a ti :,Priztlig spirit, in having collected such ar e '''olirable assemblage of first-rate talents as ir ca lculated to raise this entertainment to a I gher te ria degree of reputation, and consequently to er it more attractive than at any former . tod. tta lc e°unts from Berlin, dated the Bth instant, t tl e, that three Students, of the names of BAN DI4t?It! KRE BS a n d KOCH, had conceived the bold f- r of forming a band of robbers in Italy, and Of is purpose had already persuaded a number aced l dents, between 17 an d 19 y ear s o f ag e , t o 411 ( 17 11 Pooy them thither. By various robberies 40 0 burglaries, th e y h a d a l rea dy go t t oge th er s ess . lr ix dolla rs , w hi c h sum was f oun d i n th e pos b44lou of K oc h . -B an d emer, a young man o f a kimeharacter, 'was' to be Captain of the proposed lua u ) and th ey were to set out as soon as t h ey ) 10 ' got tog e th er 4000 d o ll ars , w hi c h t h ey h a d Al a of of accomplishing in a short time. This 4 4 _ 11 ) which wou ld h ave p l unge d many parents No u, afflictio n , w h ose sons were engaged i n the 1 14 `) Was happil y di scovere d . K och and K rebs ve been expelled frdm the Gymnasium, at thuelt_chinisthal, b u t rece i ve d i nto another, where t .. Y . are p l aced under strict superintendance. :ittn -Leiner has disappeared, and is sought after t eu h,. I Police on account o f ro bb er i es s i nce com ah,_ t s well kn own th at P ro f essor J a h n, amo ng his : gymnastic exercises, introduced a 17vl e.,h.ich he c a ll e d " T he Banditt i and the Pleased4i r t s h . e " students e Suppose th a t thi s game so muc h I,olved to practi se it • in question, that they re in earliest. - _ YA --) Lk fk In 4 - ,,, w - •-:= 1 ' I ' l '4' P I rv\ •sfl , 17- - '''. ~', = ) ~ 4, 3 ~...„; . fi c A ,.... . c - ~ or , 1 • ' ,•-• , ... --, , ..._. ,-,--, - ' fi t'A - ,4_. - ;,t , 't • ; 4** ‘," I , ~ _ ,\,), \ \ .: et-,,, t ,,,,... , , z , - ' -_ ,,,,....2. -Alf•__ r_ ;:,-,T-_4s9 4,- 'l ' T , ' S R 01 1 : 1 % I.' i ' ) l'. •„ .1, X TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST IN- DIA STOCK. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN—When you decided, by. a very large majority, in favour of the justice of my claim to some compensation for the losses . I have sustained, I supposed that the question had been set at rest, and under that impression returned into the country. Mr. JOSEPH HUME, however, from an anxiety . for the accuracy of his statements, has again ad dressed you ; and had he confined himself to his own vindication, I would have left him to the benefit of whatever success might have attended the effort; but as he has again, by misrepresen tation, endeavoured to impair your confidence in the justice of your decision, I am constrained to trespass once more upon your attention. It can only be necessary to compare this Gen tleman .with himself, to. shew how easily he can shift his ground or change his opinion, when his assertions are disproved or his fallacies exposed. MR. HUME IN HIS LETTER OBSERVATION'S. OF THE 10TH INST. " Mr. PELLY accuses me The charge of mis-statement of two glaring mis-statements. stands proved. "'Tie first,, that the Born- -A reference to the papers bay Government advertised for must have satisfied Mr. Hu ME a supply of hempen rope by that the Bombay Government public contract." did not invite or advertise at all, in any form or shape, pub lic or private." "On reference to the papers Then why does he not inge -1 find that the Bombay _Go- nuously say so ? Why has he vernnient did not advertise in recourse to the miserable ex cite Gazette; therefore so far pedient that they did not ad• I was in error ; but this ap- vertise in the Gazette, thereby pears to me in nowise to af- insinuating. that they did in fect the merits of the case, as some other mode ? It is really it signifies little whether Mr. c l arions to observe the shifts to PELLY sent in his tender on which he has recourse to get public or private notice." out of a scrape. Unwilling to acknowledge his error, though it stares him in the face, he interposes the Gazette, the creation of his own imagination, and magnanimously conzesses, that as the Government did not advertise in that paper, " so far he was in error." He would have you believe, first, that although the Government did not advertise in the Gazette for tenders, they did advertise in some other paper ; and, secondly, if you will not believe this, he would have you do so, that I sent in the tender not on public but private notice. In the General Court, in a debate upon my claim, on the 19th of December, Mr. HUME addressed the Proprietors to the following effect : " That when the subject was beforq the Court on the 26th of September, he had not read the papers ; but having since pe rused them with minute and diligent atteration, he felt he should not discharge his duty if he voted for the proposition. That the /acts of the case were these :—The Bombay Government, towards the end of the year 1817, odder iced for ropes, and Mr. PELLY sent in a tender, which being deemed the most advan tageous of lino other Aubmitted, was accepted. Mr. PELLY then stood in the situation of a person entering into a contract, to thee:re/us/on-of o. her perso no front the competition, who were ready and willing to execute their en fragements," He thought it very material to Slew the injury done to other competitors, who, if my tender had not been accepted, might have executed the contract ; he therefore laid great stress on the circumstance of tenders having been invited by public advertisement; and three weeks afterwards, in a letter addressed to you for the express purpose of inducing you to vote against my claim, he puts this circumstance prominently forward in his narration, or, I should say, mis-statement of facts ; but when he receives a public contradiction which he cannot repel, he shelters himself under the remark, that " it signifies little whether 1 sent in my tender on private or public notice." And here again he displayshis reluctance to confess his error, at my expence ; he will not admit what he knows to be the case, that there was no notice of any description, but insinuates that, if not public, it was private ; and this he does with a per fect knowledge of the ground upon which the tender was made, it being stated in my first letter to the Bombay Government, after I took charge of the Residency at Bancoot, and with it the Rope Manufactory established by one of my predecessors, that a contract with Government was essential to the very exist ence of the Manufactory. MR. II1JME• OBSERVATIONS. My letter of the 7th inst. Mr. HME here palpably stated " that Mr. PELLY, in his ,turns from my challenge,which Memorial, assigns, as an ex- was in the following words, cuse, that a war had begun and appeared in the Times of with the Peishwa after lie had the Bth instant : taken the contract, and that he " I defy Mr. III:ME to point was thereby prevented from out the place in any part of completing it." my Memorial where such an excuse has been assigned." This Mr. PELLY noticed as The ground of his Address the second glaring mis-state- to the Proprietors is the hay ment, and in reply to it says, "I ing carefully read the papers defy Mr. IluatE to point out at the India House, and my the place in any part of my Memorial among i the rest.— Memorial where such an ex- Finding nothing n it to sup. cuse has been assigned." port his allegation, instead of "'ln confirmation of my as- liberally avowing that he was sertion I offer the following mistaken, which it would not extracts from the papers open have been unbecoming in any to [Here inspection." man to do, he quotes from two [Here the Reader is referred documents, which in no de to the extracts already pub- gree alter the fact, because it fished in Mr. HUME's letter, is impossible to do so, and which appeared in the Times keeps out of view my Memo of the 7th Instant.] rial, which he had originally charged as having assigned the excuse ; thus clumsily and • disingenuously attempting to shield himself from his own mis-statement by echoing the errors of others. I have all along maintained that my losses were occasioned by the war extending into the country wheie the hemp grew; but I defied, and I now again defy, Mr.l/ uses: to make good the truth of his statement, that " I r.P E L LY, in his Memorial, assigns as an excuse that war had begun with the Peishwa ter he had taken the contract." " As to the omission charged hlr. IluzuE is determined to against me of having suppress- render me entitled to no cre ed that in his account the dit in the execution of this un- Hon. Company have credit for fortunate contract, however compound interest upon the much I may, to my own loss, sums advanced to him, I have have saved to the East India only to observe, that the Corn- Company. pany did not advance him When I found it impossible money to lie at interest, but to procure hemp, my consola for the specific purpose of pur- tion was the certain knowledge chasing materials to complete that, from the failure of the his contract. He did not so cotton crops, they would not apply it, and should therefore require it ; but as money had take no merit to himself had been advanced to me for the he thought proper to allow the purpose, I thought it just to Company 50 per Ct.' interest." allow compound interest, though under no obligation of law, or custom, so to do ; yet, not even for this can I find favour in the sight of this Gen tleman. I will not weary your patience by entering into any further details, unless provoked by Mr. llumc ; when I shall never hesitate " faithfully and fearlessly" to expose his misrepresentations, with whatever pertinacity he may choose to ad here to them. I will only assert, without the fear of contra diction, that by the fulfilling of my contract, I saved to the Company, and lost to myself, a large sum of money : and that the price which the Bombay Government had to pay on the first contract they made with others, after the termi nation of the war, anti whilst my cordage was in course of delivery, exceeded what they paid me for the same quantity of lashings, in the sum of 6,5001. You, Ladies and Gentlemen, may perhaps be amused with the reveries with which Mr. HUME concludes his letter. They, however, neither concern me, nor the subject on which he address ed you. And as to the amiable sympathy which ,• • the ttonotirable, ProPrietor manifests for all the tea-drinking old - Women of the Empire, I have no doubt of your being quite satisfied that that inte resting portion of the community u ill not consi der a grant of money misappropriated, Which has, been most strongly recommended to the Court of Directors by the enlightened local Government of the Country where the transaction took place, unanimously recommended by that lion. Body the Court of Directors to the Proprietors at large, and by you carried at a Ballot by a majority of. 358 to 86. I have the honour-to be, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your obliged and obedient servant, • J. HINDE PELLY4 Hyde, near Minchinhanpton, Gloucestershire, Jan. 28, 1322. MERCANTILE SII I NG, &c. DEAL, JAN. 30.--Wind N.N.W.--Sailed the Swiftsure, Bransfield,. for. Gibraltar and Lima ; Olive Branch, Rind, for the Cape of Good Hope,- and the rest of the outward-bound. Arrived and remains the Lovely Ann, Duncan, from the South Seas, last from Milford. Came down from the River and sailed the Thames, Heaviside, for Beneoolen and China. HARWICH, JAN. 30.---Arrived the Leicester packet, with a mail from Holland. Sailed the Vansittart packet, with a mail for the same place. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 30.--Wind N.—Sailed the Duchess of Athol, Daniels, for Bengal and China ; Golconda, Edwards, for Madras and Bengal ; Eclipse, Keat, for St. Thomas's ; Harmony, Woodall, - for Demerara ; New Albion, Crutchell, for Trieste ; Endeavour, Musselman, for Jamaica ' • James and Isabella, Amedy, for Cadiz ; Waterloo, Gold, for Africa ; Ocean, M'Neilage, for Jamaica ; Morningfield, Melville, for Rotterdam ; Swift, —; and Sisters, Bishop, - flir Hull. COWES, JAN. 30.—Sailed the Johanna Elizabeth, Holies, for Batavia. LIVERPOOL. JAN. 29.—Arrived the Arno, Procter, from Buenos Ayres; sailed 3rd November; on 29th, in lat. 29. 2. S. long. 21. 6. W. spoke the Britomart, from London for Van Dieman's Land, all well; 20th December, lat. 1. 40. N. long. 22. 45. spoke the Southworth, from Cork for New South Wales ;—same day spoke the Thalia, Welsh, from London for Van Dieman's Land, with passengers all well. POILTSMOU TIT, JAN. 29.—The Euryalus, Capt. Clifford, now completely ready fbr sea, will not sail for some time ; orders being received this morning for her taking on board Mr. Hamilton and suite, who proceed to Naples, Sir AV. A'Court being about t 9 return to England.—This being the Anniversary of his Majesty's Accession to the Throne, the same was ob served here in the usual manner, by the ringing of bells, tiring of guns, &c.—His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence yes terday inspected the Provisional Battalion, and this afternoon the Royal Marine Battalion. His Royal Highness was accom 'panied by Admiral Sir J. H. Whitsbed; Major-General Sir James Lyon, Major Drake, &c. His Royal Highness• was much greeted by the populace. He leaves this place to-morrow morning.—His Majesty, in Council, has been pleased to rein state Lieut. John Fletcher, It. N. It will be recollected that Lieut. Fletcher belonged to his Majesty's ship Tees, then com manded by Capt. Rennie.—Preparations are making for widiril ing the channel leading into the harbour ; a buoy has been placed on the shoal nearly opposite the Queen's Bastion. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH (THIS DAY.) THE KING V. J. R. BISILOP, ESQ. Mr. SCARLETT moved for a Rule to spew cause why a criminal information should not be filed against John Rees Bishop, Esq., a Magistrate in one of the Welsh Counties, against Whom he was sorry to say that the affidavits upon which he moved stated no less than ten distinct charges of misconduct, which he proceeded to detail, but after mentioning two or three of them, the Court stopped the Learned Counsel, and granted the Rule. TUE KING V. THE BEY. W. J. JOLLIfrt, TILE MAYOR OF PETERSFIELD, Mr. GASELEE moved for leave to, file a quo warranty information against the Rev. W. J. Jolliffe, the Mayor of Petersfield, and the brother of the Member for that Borough, on the grounds, first, that he had been elected by a Jury selected and nominated by the Steward, who is the Judge of the Court; and, secondly, that the Steward, Mr. C. J. fleeter, after nominating the Jury, had remained with them during the time they were retired to consider their presentment, for the purpose of influencing them in the election of the several officers.—The Court granted the rule. INSOLVENT ,DEBTORS' COURT. Yesterday, Captain John Williams, of the Royal Navy, came up to be heard on his petition. . 31r. BARRY, Mr. ANDREWS, and 111 r. LAW opposed the insolvent's discharge on behalf of 23 creditors; the whole num ber of creditors was 30. Mr. BARRY stated, that the creditors on whose behalf he appeared had no wish to delay the insolvent's discharge, but merely desired that a reasonable portion of his income should be applied to the payment of his debis ' • and as the insolvent had an income of 4411. a year, he thoughtlsol. a year would not be too much to divide amongst his creditors. Mr. LAW said, he appeared for Nix.. Broughton, who had been. the Insolvent's agent, and whose debt amounted to 8001. being one half what the Insolvent owed, and for which he had agreed to pay 501. a-year, with which Mr. Broughton was satisfied. Mr. ANDREWS said, he appeared for a number of creditors, who expected that 2501. a-year out of the Insolvent's income should be applied in liquidation of his debts. This proposal not being_ acceded to_ Dar. ANDREWS proceeded to examine the insolvent, who stated that he had apension of 2501. which had * been allowed him in consideration of a wound he received in his head, at Copen hagen, in the year 1307, and which was still open and required constant medical attendance. He had also 10s. 6d. a day half pay, and had a wife and eight children, all of them depending on him for support. Mr. ANDREWS contended, that as the Government of the country had made the insolvent an allowance sufficient for his support, which he had imprudently exceeded, he must now be compelled to make the best satisfaction to his creditors that his circumstances would admit; and he hoped the Court would order 2501. a year to be applied to his creditors' demands. The Coiner said, they should be sorry to allow their feelings for those persons who had bravely . seived and suffered in the cause of their country to operate in any way to the neglect of the interests of their creditors; but in the present case they thought the Insolvent had been hardly dealt with, in the ob servations the Counsel who bad claimed the larger sum for the creditors had been instructed to make; there was not the slight est pretence for saying that the insolvent had ever used any mis representation to obtain credit, and when it was considered that his largest debt had been incurred by a payment to Govern ment, it could not be said that, considering the habits of his life, the largeness of his family, and the expence of his wound, he had been guilty of any wilful extravagance. The Court, under all the circumstances, ordered that 1301. a year should be paid out of the Insolvent's income, in liquidation of his debts. PIGEON S lOOTING. A match at eleven birds ead shot Common, between eleven Oxon, forfive guineas each, - - 1 Jo: Tg. ' Killed. took place yesterday on Bag shots of Hants and eleven of deli was decided as follows OxoN. Killed. Mr. Harris . 11 I Mr. Davis . 9 Mr. Sumner . 10 Mr. Hart • . 9 Mr. Jones . 9 Mr. Grant . 8 Mr. Walsh . 8 Mr. Thompson . Mr. Dennis • 7 Mr. Jopes • 7 Mr. Smith 7 Mr. Wheekr . 7 M r. Baverstock . 6 Mr. Lee . 6 Mr. R. Jones . 5 Mr. Norris . 4 Mr. Mason . 6 Mr. Cormack . 6 Mr. Rogers , . 6 Mr. Holt . 5 Mr. Gee . 4 Mr. Gilham . 4 MARTYRDOIVI OF KING CHARLES I.—Yester day being the , anniversary of the Martyrdom of the above pious Monarch, the same was observed at the Chapel Royal, and other places of divine worship, with the'usual solemnities. It was also observed as a full holiday at the public offices. AGRICULTUItE. SUFFOLK COUNTY MEETING. On Tuesday lasti pursuant to Requisition, a public Meeting of the Freeholders of the County of Suffolk was held at Stow Market, for the per.: pose of taking into consideration the present dis tressed state of Agriculture. The Meeting was held in the Market-place, where a temporary hustings was erected. The Meeting was at tended by the Duke of Norfolk, the Duke of Grafton, Lord Henry Fitzroy, Lord Calthorpe, Lord Iluntingfield, Lord Dunwich, Sir Henry Bunbury, Sir W. Rowley, and all the Gentry of the County. About one o'clock the HIGH SHERIFF, having taken the Chair, proceeded to read the Requisition, and open the business of the day. He stated that he had reason to expect there would be the greatest unanimity in the steps which the Meeting would deem it advisable to take. He would leave it to those who fol lowed him to state the matter more in detail.— (Applause.) Sir HENRY BUNBURY then came forward, and was received with loud cheers. He began by saying, that upon any other than a subject of such unquestionable urgency as the present, he would be content with giving a silent vote. On the present occasion he was called upon to ex press his sentiments, and he wished to bespeak the indulgence of the Meeting for a few obser vations he had to make. From a Meeting com posed like the present, a complete unanimity of opinion was not to be expected ; but a unanimity of inclination to save themselves, their fami lies, and their country from ruin, he did cal culate upon.—(Cheers.)—For his own part, he wished to avoid all topics likely to produce angry feelings, and he would not prostitute the purposes of the Meeting to the answer of those calumnies which had been unfairly levelled against him. One observation, how ever he would make. Several gentlemen having desired that in the discussion of the subject of the Meeting no allusion should be made to politics, he wished to say that he thought the thing impossible. Agricultu ral distress was the effect of a system, but the effects could not be viewed without the cause— how could the remedy be administered without ascertaining the source of the disease? Causes and effects were not to be looked at without looking at the authors. It was therefore impossible to dis cuss a political effect without glancing at the system; and the anxiety to keep men from being spoken of was like Dennis Brulgruddery in the play, who said to some one who was abusing his wife, " I f you please, don't speak ill of my wife, because it would not be becoming in me to hear it of her."—(Cheers.)—lle would do his best to avoid touching sore places. lie believed there were only two points upon which they would all agree—namely, that the distress of the country was becoming insupportable, and that the nation must either raise its means to the high state of the expenditure, or bring down its expenditure to the low state of its means. Upon the reme dies they were sure to be split into a variety of opinions. On one hand, it , was held that the agriculturist's only salvation was in the price of corn being raised by artificial means, namely, by Acts of Parliament which imposed high duties upon corrrimported into England ; and by that means prrenting the foreign produce from com peting with us, except on terms that afforded a fair remuneration to the British grower. By remuneration, he did not mean that share of profit which enabled the farmer to support his family, but also to pay high rents, rates, taxes,' and labour. Without stopping to combat these opinions, he would only say that, however effectual similar plans might have been at a time that the country was under the in fluence of a paper currency, it seemed to be totally unadapted to the present state of things, and could not restore the farmers ; for could duties avail when there was no foreign corn in this country ; and when our own was not sell ing at any price ? But even admitting the effi cacy of that plan, there were still considerable doubts as to the policy of applying it .just now. He addressed himself to the advocates of the measure, and asked, did they think (assuming both duties to be a protection,) Parliament would legislate for them alone--did they expect, in op-, position to the interests of the manufacturing-and commercial classes—against the feelings of the country, and in the teeth of all the writers on political economy—to carry such a measure into effect. But suppose Ministers should take them at their words, and say, " We agree it is better to liave the ports open, but we will fix the duty at 20s a quarter of wheat," would not the result be, that the landlords and tenants would be cry ing out louder than before ? and Lord London derry would answer them as the Irish drummer did the soldiers he was flogging, " Oh the Devil burn you, hit you where I will I cannot please you."—(Loud cheers.)—His opinion was, that high duties upon the necessaries of life are, in all respects, impracticable, or if they were practicable, they were most pernicious. He would always oppose them, if for no other reason than because they affixed a pretext for bolstering up errors in Ministerial management, because they perpetuated taxes, and because they were a great means of checking the progress of Reform. Then came the change in the cur rency, which was an important question, and closely connected with the cause of our dis tress-. Upon this subject he should say, that however necessary it was, the pressure of dis tress in the year 1811, to reform the currency, the effect of the change, coming as it did 'whilst we were labouring under great expellee in Government, and an immense debt contracted in a depreciated currency, was to increase the value of fixed incomes, and to reduce generally the profits arising from every species of agricultural produce. It was needless to dwell upon the state that the country was now. in, when the labourers were totally without employment, when they were living upon the funds of parishes, and when the gaols were overflowing, and every species of crime 'upon the increase. All these sad effects were to be traced, to the poverty of the people, and the recklessness which it induced. The condition of the labourer was seldom kn.' Proireti, but there WAS also a corresponding lin , . provernent in his moral habits ; and what was true with regard to an individual, was also true as to the wholes And the farmers were even worse than the labourers ; they were spending not their profits; but their capital ;, and the day would come when they Would be able to pay neither the rent, the tithes, taxes, nor rates. The Hon. Baronet then read a letter from a gentle man who had been pfesedt on Thursday last at a Tithe Audit in the parish of DoWnham, in the Island of Ely, and nine-tenths of the people were defaulters. In some other parishes the poor's-rates could not be collected at all. This state of things required no comment. 'taxation carried to excess was the-main cause of our culties. It was alike the interest of the landlOrd, tenant, and farmer, that economy should be in- , troduced into the public expellees, and a More . equitable distribution made of the public burdens. These were the only substantial means of relief for the country.—(Cheers.)---Vhe Hon.' Baronet concluded by moving the following Resolutions " 1. That the owners and occupiers of land in the County of Suffolk are now labouring under unexampled distress, which is the more alarming because it does not appear to result from temporary or accidental causes. " 2. That we cannot concur in the assertion that our dis tresses are owing to an excess in the production of corn ; we cannot consider plenty as a curse; but we fear that a decree.pc in the deuiand has resulted from the lamentable poverty of the people and We desire to see the condition of all classes so much improved, as to insure steady prices to the farmer; and employment to the labourer. " 3. That excessive taxation is the main cause of that di:i tress which is crushing the landlord, the • tenant, and the la bourer, the gross amount of the taxes rising far above that proportion iviilch the income of the nation is able to sustain, and their effect having been aggravated by injurious effects upon the currency of the realm. 4. That the return from a paper currency to that of gold has increased the profits of all persons enjoying fixed pay, or salaries, orplaces, as well as of the freeholders, at the expense of the agricultural and trading interests. . " 3. That if further and more effectual measures be not adopted for the relief of the agriculturists, the proprietors and occupie.rs of land, together with those traders and artisans who are chiefly dependant upon the farmers for their support, must sink into irreparahle ruin. " 6. That the - decay of agriculture already disables the far mer from employing the labouring poor, and thus tends to de grade the condition, to demoralise the habits, and to destroy the independence of the labourer, as well as to aggravate the overwhelming pressure of the Poors' Rates. "7. That -the landed property of England is burthened exclusively with the support of the unemployed poor—with the maintenance of our Church—and with various charges in which other property is exempt; whilst, on the contrary, most of the branches of our national industry enjoy immu nities and protection, from which the agriculturists are ex cluded. Under this double inequality, they find it impossi ble to bear that amount of taxation which is demanded front them, on account of the Civil and Military Establishments of Government, and of the interest of the National Debt. • " 8. That . the expenses of the Government ought to be re duced immediately, and to the lowest scale possible • not merely by the dismissal of inferior clerks, but by the abolition of all unnecessary places, and by large reductions in the charges upon the Civil List, as well as in all official salaries, and in the pencem of the Army, Ordnance, Colonies, Collection of Taxes, and other branches ; and if possible, so to regulate the finances of the kingdom, that the gross amount of taxation may be low ered in as large a proportion as the difference in value between our present currency and that of the depreciated paper in which the greater part of our debt has been contracted. " 9. That these Resolutions be embodied in a petition to the Commons Ilouse of Parliament, conveying our strong but re spectful solicitations that its attention may be given, without delay, to this most important subject, and that effectual measures may be adopted for the relief and protection of the owners, oc cupiers, • and labourers of the land, as well as of the other pr,.l - classes of the British people." Sir ROBERT A.RLAND rose to second the Re solutions. He concurred entirely in what had fallen from the lion. Baronet, and, agreeing in the sentiments- dictated , in the Resolutions, he 'had great pleasure in giving them his support.— The Resolutions were then read by Mr. Merest. Lord HuNTlNoriEr,n began by recommending unanimity as the best means of obtaining their objects. Upon the causes of the distress he be lieved there was but little difference of opinion, but the remedies by which it was to he cured were not so easily ascertained. One great means of curing it was retrenchmentin all the expellees of the State—a subject which he was sorry to see lightly touched upon in the Resolutions. He complained that large sums were continuing to be expended in the Breakwaters at Plymouth and Chatham, the benefit of which works were more intended for private traders than ships in the public service. Too much praise could not be given. to that patriotic statesman Mr. Hume, who had made such noble exertions in this cause; and he hoped this day would not pass over with out giving him the thanks of the meeting. On the question of 'the currency there were many opinions ; but without stopping to examine the feasibility of them, he would say, that if we could once return to the prices of 1792, a pro tecting price of a very few.shillings more would compensate the fartner.—(Cries of " No, no All that was wanted was to increase the demand and lessen the supply. To accomplish that, he had himself conceived a plan—perhaps a chime- . rical one—but its details were too complicated to expose at.a meeting, and possibly they would see it in print. Its object was to give the Go v-eminent a power of going into the market when corn was under 305., and there would be thus created .a spirit of speculation which at present was much wanted.—(Great disapprobation.)— He would shut the ports entirely, or otherwise we should be in the state that Ireland now is. The Noble Lord concluded by hoping that the Resolutions had met their approbation, and that they would go home satisfied with the exertions which had been made in their behalf. It was much to their credit to set an example to the neighbouring counties of the good spirit with which they met together to talk over their diffi culties.--(Cheers.) Lord DUNWICH wished to claim the attention of the meeting for a few minutes. In the pro positions for a reduction of the public expences, as stated in the Resolutions of his Hon. Friend, Sir Henry Bunbury, he entirely concurred, though lie could not agree in the manner by which that reduction was to be carried into effect. He regretted that he had not an oppor tunity of signing the requisition for this meeting, but he ascribed the circumstance entirely to ac cident. He considered a too sudden return to cash payments as one cause of our distress. We had traded during the war upon false capital, and after so long a time the country was unfit for so sudden a return to a metallic currency.— He hoped that gentlemen who followed him would keep to the business of the day, that, if possible, the proceedings might be marked by unanimity, and the result seem to be the act of the whole. He considered the great increase of debt another cause of distress : that debt was increased by the inevitable consequences of a