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from peU cenitiry. I.aronatudet4. by moving
uu infilreaa to M. Wardle.
Mr. Soar..rtatt.LE seconehrithe motion, and en,
tensl at. con.adrr.ible length tato the merit§ of Mr.
Wardle's conduct.
Mr. Dat.strav rose, anti prefaced:: sueech of eons
!inferable leugth by some lininorous lotions to tire
trade of the town ; the low stilte of public speaking
in the House of common., ~,,,,,ncoted ih
a veiu of raillery oil the relative situations which dif•
fereut people at the meetite, bore to various Ment•
hers of Parliameist. He oh:erred, that the present
popular clamour for public meetings was u errielty,
indereut and indecorous to the Royal faintly ; and
destructive of that respect and attachment which
it was as much our duty, as it was our interest to
preserve inviolate. it seemed to be the temper of
the times,to sins at bringing every thing that was
;great und illustrious into contempt. The French
rrvolittion had paved the way ; and still remained
the argument suit example of all that were
perverted in their principles, and rebellious in their
hearts. A licentious press had caught the fever of
a public mind, und spread it like* pestilence far
mid wide into every corner of the empire. kie en-
treated the tneenieg to ;muse before they counte-
nanced by their proceeding.; a conduct so useless
in its intended etfeet,a4l so dangerous iu iii tend-
ency. %Vhstever had been the distinct merits of
'dr. Wardle, they bail already been rewarded by
the undiscriminating profuseness of public acknow-
ledgment; sod to proceed further, was to ron.e.tr
and encourage *the r objects and other feelirett thin
the ostensible ones professed. Under the iiitliteor".e
of these considerations, hatd he, I therefore move
that this meeting do adjourn ruse die.
Mr. KEEN moved an aniendineut to the Address,
substituting the words u We, the inlialiitaiits." fur
We, the Mayor, Aldermen, Common Council,
Etc." Ile prefaced his amendment by some severe
strictures on some of the Aldertni ti who had sigue.l
the requisition ; aiel proceeded to eminurlvert on
the abuses of tlia,trusts reposed in the Corporation
of Stafford, a inch, he said, rendered it inconsist-
ent 111 tn. Its come forward on curb en occasion.--

♦s. Kite'. abut' here took place as to the regularity
or hi* pfoceedtio.vs. Thu 'netting, however, seemed
dinaste.i for him to proceed, and tit concluded an
stile speech of coae:nterahle iength by inuring the
auretwlmcnt.

The Res. E. DICKENSON Seconded the motion.
Mr. Da&Aster's motion of inljourninvid Will put
first, uad negatived without u
Ou the subject of the inuentluient, it having op-
fieured thut the meeting was convened us u gesserul
meeting of the inhabitants : mod the Mai)or coos
ce,ving it to be sill object tint worth contending for.
&slid professing his willingness to act in hio private
capacity OR u citizen. in tint chair. the umendmelit
was agreed to wit'onut a division, and the Adsfrets
was then carried unansmou.le.

Seveial other resolution. mere also put and car-
ried

(•he utirwst ureter anti Telookrity inn poiterved
durio; the tune or the meeting..

T4IE-DRl3.'iSil PRESS.

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Lo,N uoN.
sieru It DAY, Arai,. e 9.

It will be seen, on reference to our Parliam.n-
hay iteport. that 51r. PERCSVAL, in .newer to a
yiststinos limn .Ir. WDITBRIA 0, Nit night, stated,
that the 0. lens in Council respectiN Americo
were pertly rescinded. An account of This half.
tateastire, as collected front getier.ll report. is Oval)
in a itztkeding Ltd .Itue particulate ale tx-
ptctril to *ppm: ia this night's Ga.-Atte.

Various rumours were circulated, and obtained
considerobla credit in the course of yesterday. It
was asserted, on the faith of a letter written frets
Antwerp, and received iii this country through
Rotterdam, in a wry short space of tiros from its
date, that BottAIPARTE, previous to pill quitting
Paris, had declared hit determination or Sotentimi
of placing his brother Josi.ril on the throne of
Aurt ia, with the title of Emperor. It was further
.aided in the same letter, that N•rot.ctix did not
mom to place any other muson ia JOSEPH'S room,
set Kiug of Spain; tint, as a pin,l.llrtient fur the
.etrat tory, ungratchil, sod pen, se conduct of the
Spaniards, in oot wing the worthy Sovereign,
whom, in his wisdom end clemency, he had thought
Prwo to give them, that it was his fixed resolu-
tiou to t4t.,iis under his own sceptre, the provinces
of Catalonia, Navarre, Biacay, mid Arragou ; in
tither word., the whole country from the Pyrenees
to the Eno. The remainder of the peninsula,
alien reduced to subjection, is to he divided lie-
twece five or six of his Commanders ; thus extin-
gnishing the SpaLish end Portuguese monarchies.
We give these reports, as we received them, voltii-
' oat pledging ourselves for their exactit.:.le or vs:.
racily ; hut the idea of his ioutitioqw.ot Spain
among his Generals, was one of the menaces which
in his rage. against the inhabitants of Madrid, he
threw out fast December.
Other rumours acre current yesterday: It was
pretunded that BONAPAILTE, 'either front indispo-
sition, or as wishing to take lost in a cevitral point
between Spain and Austria, from whence be might
direct the operations in both those countries, meant
to proceed no further than Straaburgh. But we
greatly doubt this assertion. His presence and
exertions are too much %seated on the Danube, in
Bavaria, and in Austria, to allow or to induce him
to remain iu ..liner. It was not thus that he acted
in 1605, 1500, or in his recent invasion of Spain.--
We shall probably soon hear of his arrival at Stut-
gard, en his way to the theatre of war. A letter
from Holland says, that orders had been sent to
Dresdeu, from Paris, to depose, or to seize, the
person of the Elector of Saxony. That Ilosia-
PANTS suspects him of benig fly a pertain

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and a friend to the Anatrian Home and egos.; opt
oaks no wieder., In &Ct. F*EDERIG A VGLsTILS.
the reiininer P.Yetot of Saxony, is not tll? a Ca-
thodic, liSCAtceildf in slight Itiitroon duelers 1.,
Ernpeoror,Of perinea-. He is cordon-ntly r. 7
Lnearey-related by consanguinity to freemen. the
prestut Emperor of Nutria. it is true, that at
the Treaty ofTilait. he reeetroal from tla Corsican
the Duchy mid' territoey of Warsaw; 'hut we sewer
have doubted of his warm attachment to the
ancient order of dailies, or of his eletestatson of the; .
revultitionary tyrants mid usurpers scattered over
Europe. NAPOLSIPII may, not improbelol, secure
ibis fidelity Ly seating him. Our nett *comets
from Germany, as well as from Portugal and Spain.
sill be of a most interesting nature.
Viscount CasrLseeison has not et tendered
his resigiiiition, and took his seat hoot tii4;it, as
asuel, upon the Treasury Bench, in the Howie at
Commons. The idea that • seat in Pirlisnient,
for a Borough. may be clitatned tar money, is so
emaimon. that though it might he improper to au
Newt it u s fact, we cannot, iii conscience, deny its
roility. lint whether it be founded in feet or DOS
the idea is familiar; and, however uncoestitutiowal
and improper the practice may be, faniilierity with
the idea Wit reduced it, in tins scale of oTinces, to
almost nothing. html, then, the charge azeinst
Viscount CssrLeaeaon amounted merely to the
botiajfile purchase, or proposal to purchau for mo-
ney a scat in Parliament, it would be scarcely fair
ao visit the offence severely upon hie Lordship.
Itnt the offence charged against his Lordship is to-
tally distinct and different. He did not menu to
buy a seat in Parliaraent for motley nut of his own
pocket.--He broke in upon sacred ground: he
sought to abuse 'the pstrotoige of the East ludo*
Company by tracking it, in violation of the law for
II corrupt purpose. We soy a corrupt purpose."
because Vir:onut CASTLEREMaI admits that it isu
to buy a seat fur a political friend, that is, a Meas•
bar who was to support his administration. The
celebrate) Mr. Waatme u only a member for a
borough. Mr. PONSONBY, the feeder atilt party.
happens at present to be only returned by a bo-
rough. Whether they•hought their erode or not,
we No not stop to inquire, hut had Lord CMICI.E.
REA 1111 purchased them for Mr. WARDLI and Mr.
PossoiSr. rsr useful friends, tint with his own
moneAnt their money, but by a gross end corrupt
application of nolewful meims. then, its so the pre-
sent ease, there would be a case for anon:Wive-aim
and for flunislunee.. That a Minister shouted boy a
seat in the House of Commons fur a Vs ritership in
is precis. ly accoortlitig to scripture, " To seeds
the lamb in the Lire's intl." It is to convert tbei-
Durand tiutitusesit lute poison and .lestouctiou. We
.hear every Salislon, of the increasing deasaud of the
Last Italia company upon this little island for pe-
cuniary essistairee, mid Ilia debt thus incurred, is
very ronsisienible.--If than &sat India Writer-
ships are to be trucked and trafficked with and
sold, ci y are they not sold for the supriort of the
poor East ludic Company ?. Why are they to be
webers"l and pole red lobs the means of support.
lug and eatending it:elm. influence and public
corrulitiou. We thought that secret services money,
tkc. afforded Miiiisters a great advantage in these
eases user the public. We thought that my Lord
CAIITLEIMAGN had plenty of waste ground to fen. -
der it unnecessary tOr him to break. iuto the sanc-
tuary of the. Eieit India Patronage, and pitch his
evils there.

There is n report current, that BONAPARTE is re.
turned from Strasbarghto Paris. Another report
states, that four more of the enemy's ahipe hare
been destroyed in Basque Roads.
The election of a representative for the county
of Eilinhorgh takes place on Monday next.
The Court Martial upon Admiral HARVEY will
commence its sittings, on Monday, at Pirtionootts.
Major Galen, of the In li Foot. (son of Mr. Jo-
strut tiitEru, late of Birsnimtliarn), mention., in a
letter recently receivid from him, that he is acting
ea full Colonel in the SllllOlBll pi.ivinces of Cats-
lone, Almon, and Volesicin.-1 le says, thie them
parts are greatly iufested by the Prem.+, lint that
the natives do not fear them an much as they. did.
lie also writes of a late engage.nent, in which he
had the entire command of the Patriots, who stem
victorious.
. Ministers. it is raid, have tottered a rien.ii..n of
sqol. or 6001. • • .ear, nut of the Civil Liu, to the
eldest sunning brother of the late lamented Cy-
i•eral Moottlt, which, with a sisit becoming a re-
listive of Geoend f4t;onk, he thought proper to de-
cline. ll'hy, as in other case., was not to apural
made to the liet.e iii behalf of the
runt:ly of Sir John
.Nlouni.; a:. ! tl n, whatever
had been the gift, it would have been valuatic fumes
the character of the giver ?
We are extremely softy to announce the loos of
the Nell,' LITTLE. of Marring:v.l.:;be sailed front
that port the 13th instant, and was wrecked on
the Sunday followinik near Duuleary, and all the .
crew, (eight in number) except one boy, perished.
This is the ninth vessel that port has lost 'Since
October:--one by capture, and eight vrreckerl,
being about our-fourth of the number which be-
longed to the place at that time and of the latter
(one boy excepted) the crews of six perished !
Ity-
these dowers about 40 heck balm been untimely
lost.
Veit•erday • meeting of the Whip Club took
place in Cavendish-square, previous to their depar-
ture for Solt Hill. where they dined. From the
oretnesalof the day, but twelve equipages started,
among whom we uoticeJ Earl Sesrox.• Mr. Hes-
TON, and other amateurs. Sir dome Laos accrep-
ponied Earl !kreos in his bsrouche. "the *plea-
did exhibition of elegant pedestrians was musits
commodid hy the inclemency of the weather.

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