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observed that Count Montegras has been
upon to make part of this Council ; he
possess opinions contrary to the spirit of
decisions of the Diet.

Accounts from Vienna say. " .tltN±oitaist
dispatches are said to have arrived from ['vim
our Court, relative to the measures allopttd be the
Diet, some of which, it is said, will lrie-ii-To4t.
dered."

BRUSSBI.II, oCloaki
The discussions of our States General, .1
the present Session, will be highly interesting to all
the inhabitants of the kitigtions, and there isrirrery
appearance that they will he very anion:feel. Thit
grand objects which will chi.-fly occupy tiertatire—
the decennial buili;rt, the new codes, and the
form organization of the armed citizens, 1-4,
States General will also fix upon the city wlwre the
High National Court of Justite is to be establish.
ed. Notwithstanding what some Jouroals tig
northern provinces say, we hope that 11.11,nels w
Malines, which have so many claims, will he pre.
fereed to Bred..
lITUTGARD, ocronrit la.
Our King has been received ia a tery Ltalf
ner by the Emperor Alexander. We expect lava
with impatience. AVe must riot the he
is considered as the guardian angel of the rune of
the independence of Germany, which pl.fre• an its
hopes on him. Fetes are preparing to celebrate his
return. The addresses to the 11'irtemberg Mire
Council, for the purpose of ohNining parantets
against the resolutions of the Diet, and the even.
tual projects of the Vienna Congress, In-come more
mid more numerous in this kingdom.—(Brussels
Papers, Oct. ig.)

M the Bank, E‘cheauer, Els:
India, and South Sem f100..5.

THE BitITISH

LONDON.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER I, IEI9,

This is the important day suggested by some of
the leading Radicals of the North as the most con.
veuient for holding simultaneous meetings of tilt,
people in the various parts of the country wiiera
those who call themselves Reformers are thought to
be most numerous. The purpose originally con-
templated was, we believe, to follow the exempts
of Birmingham, and to choose " Legislatorial At.
torneys" to form a Radical Parliament; but the
Reformers, notwithstanding the extent of their own
legal soil historical research into the principles of
the Constitution, having condescended to take the
opiniou of a Barrister at Liverpool upon the lega-
lity of this project, are now probably rouriw•ed
that such a proceeding would nut be altogether
consistent with the doctrines entertained in West-
minster Hall, and have abandoned it as a dan-
gerous and unfeasible experiment. In confor-
mity, however, with the original seggestion of
.holding the several meetings, the self-cousti.
toted Committee of Two Hundred, acting, as
they are pleased to declare, on behalf of the me-
tropolis, have invited the rabble to assemble dm
morning in Fitisbory-market. Such un assemblage
can have no possible object in view but mischief,
disturbance, and plunder ; and an invitation of
such a nature bring always obeyed with pleasure
by the idle and dissolute who infest our streets, the
crowd preseut will probably be considerable.
%%re have never ceased warmly to advocate the
right of the people to meet in public for the di,.
custion of their grievances, and for the interchange
of their opinions upon the most effectual mode of
redressing them ; but in proportion as this great
constitutional privilege is inestimably valuable,
do we lament that it should be abused for the worst
and most infamous purposes. If discussion were
really the object of WATSON, THISTLEWOOD, and
their associates, could
.no other scene be chosen
for their deliberations than a market place, upon
a tnarket day, where they must be aware that
their. intrusion will interfere with public Wallies.,
and interrupt the exercise of private industry ?
Such an abuse of the tight of public meetings is
the more to be lamented ut the present moment, as
in the existing temper of the Ministers and their
immediate supporters, it will furnish them with a
specious release« for enacting laws restrictive of
one of our best and noblest privileges. It seeno4
fated that these inconsiderate nosi. who talk su
• Snitch about liberty, and know so little how to
enjoy it, should inflict the greatest injury opus, the
cause they effect to espouse, and upon their country
which they profess to love. They have already af-
forded a pretext for the suspension of the Consti-
tution, and a repel& of the same calamity only
once more be apprehended from their rash and
violent proceediugs ; they have given an ex.
cute for maintaining in tithe of general • peace a
large military establishment, with all its
sequent weight of expenditure, and have so
far served the Ministers in thcir great object of
•►holding their extensive *yams of patronage; and
now their intriguing restlessness has called forth to
active *mice more than 10,000 additional muskets,
aggravating the calamities of the nation, ■nd pre-
venting the possible diminution of our heavy
burdens. Foe themselves, they we reckless of
misfortune. We 'should not; leased, expect ihat

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whit several of them have suffered should have
hosed down their spirits, or taught them humility ;
but it argues in general a deficiency of common
sense when experience has in vain inculcated its
lesson of wisdom. Scarcely two years have passed
since some of the most prominent among these
self-styled Reformers narrowly escaped the severest
penslty of the law, while a considerable number en-
dured a heavy and protracted imprisonment in irons
and solitude; they were made the sport of spies,
and were betrayed by those in whom they most
„fled. It chews as little courage as wisdom again
to encounter similar evils, with an increased chance
of their being attended with more serious conse-
quences. Fur the distresses and misfortunes of the
country,' they evidently have no concern ; but it is
strange that the delusion under which they act can
so far blind them to the immediate consequences of
their pernicious proceedings, that they do not per-
vire the imminent danger they themselves incur of
becoming the first victims to their own wild and
slestructive projects.

A full report of the Norfolk County meeting,
held in Norwich on Friday, is given in our pre-
ceding columns. A large portion of the ministerial
interest mingled in the assembly, but it could make
no stand against the strong and popular detnand
for inquiry into the transactions at Manchester.

Among the new measures called fur by the pre-
sent crisis on the tneetiog of Parliament, we
understand Ministers mean to impose ■ stamp
duly upon the cheap minor publications. They
lidte long complaiiird of theta as the advocates
ut fotidtlity, treason, and sedition. The public
to ly therefore ask, why their circulation has been
so long encouraged by • dispensation in their favour
Cram the tax imposed upon the higher orders of the
public press ?

A long and tedious letter, entitled Watson's
Reply hi Hunt's Last Letter, was transmitted to
our office last night. Having expressed our Wil-
l.. recce to the financial disputes of these gen-
tlrmen u a matter of no interea to our
readers, and having on that ground declined
tic insertion of Mr. HUNT'S letter, we need not
ttter any apology for the omi►sion of Mr. %VAT-
\'s reply. lit all cares where the rights and
kherties of the country become directly or indi-
rvcily connected with the conduct of these gen-
tlemen, they shalt have full and fair advantage of
our columns ; but we cannot fill them with their
p■ltry personal squabbles and contemptible money
concerns.

We hue received Paris Papers of Wednesday last.
The ✓ourtsul des Debuts contains a long political
article upon the present state of this country, in
which it informs its reader, that "the present fladi-
eqh area continuance of the old Luddites, the chiefs
of whom were iu close connexion with those indivi-
duals who, having been the agents of the Jacobins,
were become the spots of the Imperial Police."
It further states, that the United Irishmen, banish-
ed from their country, had established in Paris a
directing Committee, and that the mass of the Lud-
dites were frisk labourers, as is the ease at present
with the Radicals ! From this specimen of the cor-
rect iatelhgeace of the Paris Papers, it may be seen
that no reliance can be placed upon their statemeuts
or opinions epee our domestic concerns.

We lure received Piptre from St. John's, New
li-wlswick, but they contain nothing new.

The arrival of Hamhurgh and Flanders Mails
Las brought us an article of intelligence from
Hanover, by which we learn with some degree of
surprise, that an ordinance has been issued by com-
mand of the Patmce REGENT of Hanover, re-
r,ving au edict concerning the censorship of the
Iqt-rat, issued more than a century since by the
rector GEORGE Lewis, the first of the House of
Brunswick who sat upon the throne of England,
but which had been suspended by a decree of his
immediate successor in the year 1731. By this
edict no writing shall be published in Hanover
aitliout having been previously submitted to the
censorship, under a severe penalty, which, with
some tither regulations, effectually destroys every
semblance of a free press in the kingdom of Ha-
wirer. It is avowed that this edict has been issued
ti pursuance of the Resolutions passed in the
piet at Frankfort, in the sitting of the 30th of
ii-ptember ; but it is much to be lamented that
I', l'atsice REGENT of Hanover -should ma-
ti C-st such an indifference towards, the (fiber.
ics and privileges of his people, as to deprive
hrm at once of a free press, in obedience to the
runes of the Government of Austria, dictating

ly its Minister to the Germanic Diet. Such a;
indisguised act of arbitrary power proves how il.
'limy all the hopes of • free constitution mnst-have
ten, in which the people of Hanover were taught
indulge. They can now expect nothing from
le r Government bet a system of naked 'de*.

17—
Bet a short time since the visa eslieriiised
0,041 prospects of coming freedom, and the march.
. : public opinion pie assurance that more correct
fit enlightened principles of government would
ilfully reeognioed 'at no distant period. is emery
eof Europe. To Germany, in particular, we