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oilers and us; surely they (mg% !hoe tlity tsMe...l•
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r. with En:Mho:we, with num Who nev-c wt wear,'
heigtion •
Visited+, sentligbt. in consaltemee • —Oa - treated, ever wow Ise, deterred Croat doitig their Mew Is,
Sheriff, numerously and respectalsly signed, a meeting of rout made a rattail,
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the Freeholders and Iloisselualtkrs took place in the enmity or Engslauil, who. in justice to flair coniary .itol asWt,„•
Hall. The Shereff, W. Hanhary, Esq. look the Chair at shook' Cry inquiry. The
twelve of clock,
sa,aldhelmSallitesrdtifralaedlielrarssedaelittelt'Ala..swilinisillbtr. statedAi" dire sad ..m.leVet.lo7.lu."lgui,iu:nutohl'lllruiZmilifyl7l:;gie".4%.l:l:l"•ni.
the usual
the • for which the meeting was esinveued, requested query. that melt • *into may nos . este for • day long, AL.:,
grolleepro to strictly confine themselves to the objects for
is necesssary sill the cleiraehr albs err tidy. Aisin..,,gme•.
the rumen
of which they were imsembled, and hear the value of the
titht
all sides e. it h equal impartiality and candour.
,lmel, is ruorla*ion, sold, It. wiswhloaY it se,•p n, qtr as
C,
3sliortieslhFeroir
lit.teoni:muses::_alißrd .puke nearly operoartlyeends foolilhoiwsne:z. Cult,
!litho's, loch I rise fur the purpose of proposing to you, I gaiety; you. 'Mambo, lbe longest s ibeao,,A
consist( help expressing the satisfaction which I feel as *Peter portant privileges. of Esiglishown ;to short, :he Ire h.:: has
so loon
l Fury
ta‘p..:ea,l,:e 'in: till :1411. object:llieg l.the
beer
n 7. ea:hits:lf:. eti:itiela ;into I.7ra..2l.adhnetdeotah
epn eraess..leepneti tCe
lahiliy milicnerh,
csii::l:e'or:aeriitilr;its :bier
4Ri.leet'esieitiioiniii:st.rsi
inara loq~ nand Rids
m.
,Bove tv sees r.
of thous I see around ow *hew the futility of such efforts. a sketch.
and prove Ibis part of the country is as much alive (avid The Maw,' was then I.( ad. received with veal sa
God foi his they .1 not he!) as soy other to the import, it
sore of the event we are about to consider--an event which easClil:r.Trailieffild. unila..oli*li.s.umf'sue„stllaynrilawa.,ae r, Col s•eondtd it, ‘""1
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has aritateil this lzingitum fisiim one end to the other, its as Sir Hammitt) Jones said, the excellent o'.euvrawww
alises•t iiiiprecisiemed installer. But, Sir, Ido not hesi. ;Messed to the me:ether rendered further comusest aissor(..
late sly, that I was fur some time of opinion (as many gory. lie shotifil therefore move he Houle* i!„.
tl"ntlill"Panrilires. carried with acclamation.
f Rotlp.ty, art
or,i.etirs:,ll).!:runwiitsel
utineraellanasibyeacrouwnittiyirms.c),etith.trat
went ow:folded, and we saw what line Nliniaters thoisght The High Sheriff returned thanks,. He fell hts 4„.,„
proper to ',the at this awful crisis, and upon this morneistons Shield to call the meeting, in compliauce with this ail •s
occasion. True it is that some of Mum Ministers have of 11..' highly !Trouble awl nom. rows Ludy of
their Royal Master to prejudge this questiou, and I who had had obeyed
to r,lioris thanks to the one party concerned is the late mons with p1,..3„,..
lamentable occorrentim at Manchester, before they could The meeting thee separated.
possaiblir hear what the other party had to soy upon the sub-
j. et ; but I hope they will not consider it beneath them to
allow tioit they have acted too hastily in giving any (mishits
11p1111 that transaction, even at a time when that transaction
was likely to be brought before tlw legal tribunals or the
rtinuhy ; mud, Sir, I should probably have satisfied myself
fur the present with entertaining a hope, however ill-found-
ed, and from late events I fear it is, that his Majesty's 'Mi.
nisi. is w mild at the meeting of Parliametst take tip this
hissinea. a. they ought, hail it out hero theorist proper
to propane• and adopt ceitaia political Resolutimis et
the lair Quaiter Seations, in which I du not see
one word said of the late lamentable events at
al aneliester. lint, Sir, I raIIIIIIi fir a moment consent to
Irk those flrsoliiiions to forth to the country, as poosibly
they might do, Ss the voice of Oda county, spoken by the
Gintlimen who signed these Resolutions, as if this comity
would consent, at the present moment, to come to soy
political Resolutions at all wittiest taking some its..
Ice of au event, our silence upon which might imply
are iiidiffeience to a t.:ansaction of such vital importance to
the rights and privileges of the people. The pleasure, Sir,
I feel at seeing such a full meeting here this day, is certain-
ly very much damped by the real disappointment it is to
Ise not to see soy of those Gentlemen among its who com-
et. aal these Resolotions, that I might request them to in-
form us to whom it is amen= us they mean to attribnic
had ilispovitions and had conduct, *bee coming to Rosso.
lotions upon such attlijecta as blasphemy and sedition. 'flier
say they are ' duly sensible of the grind dispositions stool
conduct of most of those immediately around them.'—l
would ask why was this woid ' most' Inserted ? I would
ask what is it that has passed either in public or in private,
auoniZ the lowest or the highest of 'moiety is this county, to
jnetify this invidions exception? What is the mark of bad
disposition or bail conduct that has any where manifested
I address myself particularly to the Gentlemen who
fra,..d the Resolution*, and think that wool had better been
omitted —With all due deference to the framers of those Re-
solutions,l will venture to say there is sot a man among us
who may not feel himself just as free from every inapt*.
titicii of blasphemy or sedition, as themselves, nor will
I eller'. sic ID those Gentlemen, nor to any other descrip-
tion of persons whatever, that exclnsive loyalty which it
i. now so much the &Alan with *time Gentlemen to anionic
to t lietowlv.s., The gallant Colonel thee proceeded to ani-
madvert upon the Prole.. against the prosest meeting,
which appeared in a late seamber of the Hereford Jonrenl.
This solemn protest he described as a sort of Harlequist
romoositioli, jumping from one shape lino another is. a most
ludicrous slimmer, and which had even changed its shape
since it hail received sonic of the signatures annexed to it.
After severally stating and answering its points, he asked,
why do not the framers of this document, if they disap-
prove of what we are dome, come forward, mad fairly and
publicly before this aireenibled county, argue this question,
awl then see the regale ? No, that weald ant suit them, for
they knew full well shot if the body of persons whose names
are to this protest, were lore present, sod could hear the oh.
jeer of our meeting clearly explained, they would not have
the 'import of oar half of those who signed it. It is a very
easy thing, Sir, for these Gentlemen to go shoot their re-
spective pari.hea, from house to house, with their own
stiletto lila. making their own side of the question good;
mod arc hall the petiole they aililsess able to argue with
them No. Sir, they are both unwilling and afraid to do
so : tunny sign their mimosa Itemise they Loewe not what
else to do, awl ale glad to get rid of such troublesome visi-
tor.. Suppose a mats is askial--'s Are rim a loyal mass, I
hope you are no friend to blasphemy and sedition!" what
answer is he to mike? Why, Sir, I say, God forbid be
'Mould not *ten soy thing whatever that is lint in his
way, if acting ter the oripelise of sorb misrepresentations.
But, Sir, the conduct of these Gentlemen is all of a piece
with that Which lin4 been pursued thromehout the king'.
They have nn where manfolly come forward, nod fairly
argued the spiesti tttt even where the terrific householders
Bare Mil been called together. They have MO where shred to
face the people of England, bet have preferred going about
the coutitry, from house to house, snaking their uwu Mate.,
meets, awl begging signatures to talcs of their own telling.
After adverting to the Jiveral politic *strung* which had
beets held, their peaceable ilemeamose and uniformly orderly
dispel-Won, except in the case of Manclierter, he said he
should not give any opinion upon the conduct of the Magee.
Kale* urns that oceasion. All lie knew was, that the pelt-
ple have ass undoolued right to meet, and that at our of
their meeting* the sword has been draws upon them. nod Bei.
tisk blood has st•iued the British soil. If the Magistrates and
military hail suffieient reason for what they had Mine, let them
have the bestefit of a fair isiquiry, and acquit themselves of
the gritvous eltneges which at wettest exist against them, of
having watitouly shed the blood oft heir cosinienmeo. It, ow
the contrary, noneees.ary vsoletice has been used, and the
People have bees. wantonly attacked and massacred—let not
their blood sink into Ilw east!, utorveored, but let empiiry
be made into their wrongs. awl Ito it never be said that the
current of Medial jostler tiny, not with as pure a stream
fur die lowest es fur the highest elnitses of Society. This
cannot be called poindging the question ; un the con-
trary, all that is ask“' is inquiry, that justice mid joule-
trent may follow. Again, it is sifol, do not interfere with
the tribunals; let joslter lake her mune. Hot is justice
taking her usugt e.,nree? Have no tweet issiiwihments brew
16020 in her way? Is the soljoionissent of the Inquest al
Oldham for two month, a usual course of justice? A Per
• slumber of seitsvivies have been louts:ld from a otialllate
to give their evitleuce, after they have IMS.llll.4Sjeett for se.
wrest days, the impend is adjunrited i.e the noddle of the
proceedings, and the violent death of a ftllitorreettore is
laid upon the shelf, as if it were a Widow; occotresow übieh
might be again taken into ommitles Awn when the Co-
ronet hod nothing elsse 141 il.s. If the C • has
sock a resit it is one rarely :total neap. sod he would
nut be likely to exercise it non loss 411111 ressmossilti.
lily. Dues it hook like a wish to promote fair inquiry
whet' we see the venerable lord Fitimilharn turned but or
his situation as Lind Lieutenant of the West Riding of
Yorkshire, fur meetly supporting the nowt moderate Re.
solution,' in favoar of toquiry ; a man than whom there
never was one snore distinguished for eves, amiable
quality in private life, more attached in has 6iug, ur
10011 P inualerate in his eoposition to Ministers. There
never was a man more generally esteemed. both by the!
Wheat mid the lowest orders of society M his own comity,:
sod this is the Dian 0h0..' Ministers have liked on as a pro,l
per al ject to mask with llwir displeasure for having pre-:
mimed to adc merely a fair Immo y into the bloodshed or
• atiailter of has countrymen. lie 'could nut conceive the -
object of thi. violence, stolen. it he lestimidst ..... awl 'suttee
of a deli rutistatiou to putitek all thew olio stun dare to ask

Po THE EDITOR OP THE DRITISII PREsc

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Stst..-As your Jonewil of yestentar contains a statenSeet
of a charge I was comp. Ited to poi, r agaiost Mr.
Portur.u-place, for an assault, siol ike proteinsl
my so doing being oraittee, I b eto regtwill the itliarri•sa of
some further nts.ervations I made before Mr {time
the yesibiication in flowaliqw was left me bt a bleed. she ass
true of the Jiirora on Mr. Carlile's trial, to lwriim the oi.r.
lions Mr. eartile had east oil his character, its likewise armor
a brother Juror, also known to me, both of •isio,, arc tiler.
clouds of great respectability, and that it *as b. derive my
Abhorrence of Mr. Carlile's religious and put':. al
and to afford Mr. Fry an opportuirity of ina'sqle ..steer
for his misconduct, after ascertaining my era. to
a proper ',Lice.
Tour statement is incorrect in saying Mr. P. rate witti
al...atilt WAS trivial ; lie nail no such thing. Mr. Ers re.
quested Mr. Burnie to permit him to state Lis deteeie. es
oath; Mr. Itirnie told him he could not do that, but srut:4
bear what be had to say. Mr. Fry being' ordere4 to find halt,
1 then proffe-e.l him the opportunity of making an apolop,
which be rtfused to do.
The Rev. Mr. Wilkinson accompanied Mr. fry to the
watch-liouse as his friend. I had never before area him is
my knowt.dge ; he then rave me his address, smile: his re-
sidence to be in Si. Saviour's Church yard, Southwark ; mid
added, that he had (eminently officiated for the Hr.. Mr.
Ellis, the very respectable Minister of the New thatch,
Strand.
Clearly to place before the public my principles, sh.cli
are io direct opposition to those detestable, irreligious, 7
political publications, which are so industriously cireubm.l
at ibis time, are my reasons for wishing this explanat ttttt
ire given.-1 stn, Sir,
Your most obedient Servant,
JAMES JOHNSTON.
167, Strand, November 18, 1819.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

!foT7l47ltlt 18.

-44, ..
Arrived the Liffey, from Plymouth; IS I t els
the Downs for Madras; and Perseveranoc, 11:ezetvi,
Memel.
Sailed the Dry Harbour Planters, Morey, fir'' bola.
Pissed by the William and Alfred for the %Ve,t tudtesk
and Volacia, Russell, for Jamaica.
T ILMOUTO, Not' r Brit I‘;_
Arrived off Ibis port the Amity, Frivott, foot: v.Orocia, is
41 days, for London; and the Little Frederick, Thorp, from
Prince Eilward's Island.
Sailed the Lord Sidinouth packet with a mail for the Ma.
zits.

DCAL, NOVIMBEft IS.
Came down from the River and sailed ttw William Lti h.
ington, Su ghrue, fur St. Kitt a; nod Thetis fur Hari,
A brig parted this morning and ran to leeward, pAiticul tea
unknown.

\RWICR, OIrEMISIR lg.

Arrived the Die Hoffman:,lt, from folisiogrn,
for London, *Oh loss of anchor, c..blc, and bowsprit, h,. iNe
bees ran foal of by a brig; Auckland !matt, front Coi-
haven ; ■ud Prince of Orange packet from llollasid, both
with mails.

SllTT.lt!efg{, }O\ roars TS.
Arrived the Newa,Jackson, from Riga, with hi,. .4 sartor
and cable. The Sheffield, Shaw, and Ann, Poppietriii.faiw
London. hare pet iu here, the former with lima of
and the latter with fuss of chain rabic and anther.
11141RGAT6, NOVrintrlt fit
The Rising San, Stiles, of Philadelphia, (ram in,a, ass
takes charge of by some boats from hence, aii I cm
‘‘hitstatile, having been on abort mu the Kota, rnd r
rudder, windlass, anchors, and cab). s. -

MARRIAGE.
On the 15Ik instant, al Astbetry, in Chexhirr, the R:r
A. H. Ruthann*, of Chester, to Susanna, dauglort ot NAL. •
Biel slaxey Patties% Sq. Of Qinghai'''.
DEATH.
On the 25th ult. at Hotightoo Hall, Norfolk, ORw• •••,1.
the Mauro, of Choloondeley, Dr. Willuani A.m•n•'_' ,f
DOAN, *gra 45.

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