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Humiliations, he has submitted.

Greater trials and severer conflicts, we believe,
await him. Whether Austria has, or has not ven-
tured to manifest any degree of resistance, we can-.
not pretend to decide ; and we deprecate, as the
greatest misfortune to Europe, any premature de-
claration or hostility on her part. We trust that
the Court of Vienna will continue to temporize, to
prepare her force, but to protract the blow. The
Corsican is not yet completely in the toils; but, as
Joss en recedes from Madrid—as he retreats from
Burgos to Miranda, from Miranda to Vittoria, and
from Vittoria to Durango, his presence, nay, his ex-
isteuce, as an outcast adventurer, spurned by Spain,
and onerous or ridiculous to the French, must be
ninst painful and galling to sOS AP•Ill F. WC lIIRy
sac to Don JOSEPH, as Jc sits does to the fellers
personage of that time whom he addresses. " Wlii-
ther shall this ut happy man retire ?"--Certainly,
we may presume, not to Naples--Jountat would
object to such a restoration. As little can Lc now
be placed on the Throne of Prussia. The true is
over for Clue donations and assignations of king-
doms. At Tilsit, where the Corsica,. came .t• rayed
in thunder, and disposed of sceptres at his will,
perhaps FREDERIC WILLIAM might have heen
compelled to accept a Crown elsewhere, arid Jo-
SCPII might have been placed oa the Throne once
occupied by FREDERIC the Ganar—but circum-
atanees are changed. A fugitive adventurer, the
scorn of hi= pretended subjects, and whose attitudes
as we l as virtues, are only known or immortalized
in the prostitute pages of the Meniteur, is not to
be transplanted from the Ebro to Braudeulturgli,
covered with shame and defeat.\Ve believe that N A•
POLEON will not be a little embarrassed with the pre-
MSCe of this ephemeral Monarch. Obscurity and re-
treat will be his bast refuge, if he is et er driven ever
the Pyrenees. Nor do we conceive that he would
And either welcome or shelter in France. We have,
indeed, beemassured, that Joscea has. long since
received from His Imperial Brother, DM merely an
intirnatioa, but a positive and peremptory prohi-
bition, to set his foot in France ; N APOLFON pro-
bably well knowing, and perfectly conceiving, that
" tut Rui erpatrw, est an rt,'s muntrair sejet." Jo-
sutn's situation is certainly not a pleasing or an
exhilirating one at present. He is scarcely eighty
miles from the French frontiers, at Durango. The
Spaniards occupy Bilboa. BONAPARTE'S reinforce-
ments do not seem, by the French accounts, to
have even reached Bayonne, as lute u the 2..301 of
October. The best fortune that can apparently
befal this Catholic King of the Ajsecin dynasty, is
to pass the •pproaching winter at St. Sebastian, or
at Panipcluna, awl to wait for the summer of
Ma, to revisit the Eacunal ; pules. Box APARTE
speedily eirects his threat of crowning Ilion at Ma-
drid. Our neat advices from Spent, from Paris,
and from Vienna, will open new scenes in this
great tragedy,. performing by Narottox ou the
theatre of Europe. The catastrophe, prosperous
or adverse, appears to be approaching by gigantic
strides. • • • .

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A Meeting of the Cosety of -111iddlesex was held
yesterday, at Hackney, for the purpose of consi-
der:lig an Address to ills ALuarra, praying an
efficient inquiry into the late Convention in Portu-
gal. Although little or no pains had been taken
to give it publicity, the 'Alerting ways most ou-
merously foal respectably attended, • and the Ad-
dress ins agreed to almost unanimously.
A NleFsenger was sent off last night frota the Se-
cretary of States Office, with thapatches for Spain.
Seine Letters from Lisbon state, that the trans-
ports which conveyed the French troop, to. Ro.
chelle, have returned to the Tagus—they are to be
sent to Ftiglauil to enrry nut more troop,.
The E., preos, Gum, from Gottenbunth, is ar-
rived in the river. She sailed on the :NI iw.tant.
with a fleet of 1130 nail, taimlcr cnitvey of Hi, MA.
irivv's ships Mindere, and Falead, and parted
tampon? on the Sth instant.
Several transports from Lisbon and Rochelle tut
into Cork. on Friday.

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The MOT!. tVIIMTnII, WITITE, from Lisbon, is lost
on the tale of Mt.—Oen. saved.
The Court of Inquiry upon the Convention of
('intro i. expected to commence it. proccedmr on
Mondoy next, at Chd.ra. :Mit of thr Mein
and witnemer. are arrived in town. Sir C. Current
and General SPL:Iltn hourly cNnetcd.

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'flie new piece of 7%e i .1S;;:4 .
fleas ,S7:4llnfisri4e"---
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Spanish I koi rsnt. W..% II vveinid time, f... 10;
Net night, with incris-ed ancveas, 5it,,,,,4 ~,,::
SOMZ very ill rICSOUS silts rations, snrs;,;(ll,,,i, a:
lust ail, which vino hided amidst tirs 'hi
plaudits.—Mr. COINS% pupils were nspiii ree„,
with rapture. and: !madly cheered. 31r. I;,s
'trove a Peruiiisu dn ow. and looked to great
tags ; he saug with all hit ovoid tact-Unite.
dance. intioduerd in the banquet wear, w
haves good effect. and add to the itinetv of i
piece, which, we hove iso doubt, will Ciinsat
favourite with the public. The farce of 71.: i
tan followed,. its *bid"' Mrs. jORDAN ass the r„
outing !ALredaNa—are wore a must beautiful do
looted extremely hell. and played wit!, „-,
vivacity and iiN y, ins i ailed forth tl e 1.u.•!
applause. II: r. 111:111r1 aat louln d iery.tateli b. 7
Sakai:. Airs. eLA % V ANON weeny its Mauer. 1.
n'oule went oil' with much spirit.
ntrio'senravr:.
The new dramatic open of Vie Mils 1.114 i.
night performed to it u,:,.4 crowillgd audi,.,,,,, I
trig the neronit night of its representation. M
Vut:Nd. in the cliaratter of Doran, wt, spirit
and judicious. Mrs. IL JOHNSTON was veil- oh
witting in the part of illcrina. Mrs. Micro
was lomlly encored iii two of her songs. 'ill,.
of the performance wear oh' with loud piandits.
_..._
.1)0 ET:. Y.
COL. THORNTON'S DEPARTURE FROlf YORE
10 bri' PARK, IN WILTSHIRE.
is • LITTIKR FROM WILLIAM, AT WITSIIIIII, I
VONIASSIti.S, TO HIS WRIER° , IN LIPSOON
Dana Cox —Thy' my tenets you kii dly pawn,
And tho' frequee.t I ante, still keep asking tar anis,
What sews or =W.l.:Sive, so dire can 1 tell,
As that which our comity so lately befell ?
0 &sand the story, and sad to remark,
'I h it loans nine has lost what is pined by flint-Puts..
Cutout! T is go .c ! a MOWS elegant yank
Mitre justly irtnowied fur fair-dialing awl truth,
With candour and coaraxe sumr.oir to bulk,
Lod so very exact that his surd ens as oath--
CUIOOPI THORNTON is gene !—and our grief at past skes.n
And all I con zuld is—the mode of is going ;
Which fettled, as be left es, a grand cavalcade—.A
kind of a Muuntebatik-Ilarlequinside.
But that the peace lea we duly may quote,
What but struck the eye was the reesiierfel boat.
That Loot, by a magical kind advection,
Which turned the whole tide of the Yorkshire Eleetton,
Now appear'd, like gilt eisger-tarad, seen at our fro.,
Drawn in trappings of geld by far nxin.•rulour'd Oita.
And a IneA more *ore, riot no sportsman e'er bit ou,
Fur he says they errs got by the King of Greet Britian!
At the top al! 'be game was displaid, as • skew,
Which at tames kid been Vaned by the CoLosat:s ling.: ...-
While semis the loat-augagya, by way sf • hist,
Lay the ship of that hard-hearted, Itorswwhipping Post,
Which seemed, in lon vpice, to address this bekuldtri—
" fly sweet Colonel lens lam, so take ears of year shun
den '"
The hoard, followed next, of each sire and dimeas.on,
Which is fact could be vaned or supposed by siereettuu ;
Lap-c' obrip'es, eta!, terriers; and, dress'd in gold stud,
Two grey-bounds came mu—Braggadocio sod Psi,
With hots round their necks of the Fir,. they .on.
Obtain'd in great matches they never had raw
Os a grey, the head-hratanaw his figure disptay'd,
Riding airy and light, with his ww„rcs unpaid ;
While close et hixtreeta, likes minikia pia,
On a small pocket-pulley—a bag aalapper-ia.
Then fulloord Moe wages,, with treasure divine,
Disigrect tor Immortal—superlative wine !
But the merits of each in two words may be told—
The uaggous and wine self an hundred yens old !
Theo, neatly arranged, in dice order, each cork,
Which at Tharariffe was drawn by His li leen gm of Vane
Who slime from such b.ittks lie octet wresl4ll wiser,
" Toe the wine sod the Colonel were treats fora Penni; "
The AL-verso:at:eh:l, with his hawks in arriy,
Like their master, prepat'd to mane an thine their prey.
Fur things that we know wens easily teach,
And • pirzeou, they sty, in convenient to each.
In stunt, toy dear Cousin, ea words can describe
The roil he made for himself sod his tribe :
Bat bra gone ! this must excillent youth is departed.
And his friends sad Lis tradmaiew are all brekiewbeate
One sentiment ashy an each ft ems impress*
As is rose se the EAPT, ma 7 he se• 17 the Warr.
The Duke of G Lott: raxi:a amen!, yesterday, a
Winuitor, out a visit to Their MAR CATILS.
The Priiice of WALE. was expected to lII'
Windsor, 144 evening. for London, and is rim'
col to recurs, the beginning of next week. He
been there four days ono visit to Their 1: AJ tilt
The Kist. did not take his usual sole. on Thu -
day, nor yesterday, the weistiser being very a
Caron rubl e.
ibis Royal Iligisne.s the Prince of Was.. s is e
petted to leave Pisa, ncitt week, fur Brighli'lli
Viscountess St.nr.:-.1. had a select party, it
night, at her hcme, .0 Dover-street.
1 •
earl CRUTCHFIELD attained, no Thurso y, •i
thirty-serend yea,. His Lordship, who is
Bradley Hall, in Der'syslsire, thee.* I tie :.tarts i
hir domestics, by perm ttiog them to pare is In
and supper on the joyful myosins' wveo the Iseil•.
of their noble master and m:sunas was dinok s
three times three.
Lard FOLEY will leave town this morning f -r 1
seat in Worceitesehire. where. nuserroir. I'NIY I
Nobility will resort to enjoy the spat of '
hunting.
Thursday, died. soddenly, the Right Ho --. u
able One CARL TTON, Lord 110ICAINSTR.N. IS0.• s•,
of the Both, a Cleneral in the array, Colon" .
the 4th or Queen** own Dragnormi, Gweenwr.
Fort Ciriarleinont in Ireland, nod Derecrnor-C
octal and Commander in Chief in Canada.
Lordship is suoceeded in his title rood estate b.!
eldest son, Thom it, now Lord Der.cativt;.
General in the Army, Lieutenant-1 ioverhor of
Brunswick, and Calomel, en-second, of ibe frOth 1
SIM

CONIENTiON OF CINTRA:
xiDDLEskx MEETING.

Yesterday, pursuant to a requisition signed by a
mpaber of treeholders of the Copittyof :teidltne-
ies, addressed to the High Shelia'., retpliring teem
to convene the County for the purpose of addres.
eing His Majesty, pro) tug an investigation into the
eircumstatit es attending the late Cotivention iu
Portugal, and the causes which led thereto ; and
that far this purpose he would lie gliscionsly pleased
immediately to assemble his l'urtialueut, is ostler
more effectually to investigate the same, a sleetiug
was held at the Mermaid, Hackney,
About one o'clock, the two Sheriffs took the
Chair. and the business was ope.twl by Mr. Sheriff
gnii a, who reed the requisition for the :Meeting,
and the signatures thereto, consisting of the most
respectable names; and then culled upomi such
:gen-
tlrmeo as had any proposition to offer, to come
forward.
11r. CLIFFORD chained the tine/dim' of the
He was deputed, lie said, 14 OW gen-
oi-men who bad signed the requisition, to propose
them an Address to His AI , w Inch, he trust-
• could. from the guarded am; temperate mari-
ner in which it was worded, he found free front all
cavil and ohjerliou, and meet a ith the •pprobatiou
a all. To olatwin tins desirable end, it had been
t.:e object of the framers of it, sedulously to steer
I'!, Jr of egery thing which might be misconstrued
tutu an appearance of party spirit ; stud, gm less so,
the *unlit% of it, to avoid every expression
• could have a tendency towards the prejud
iog of dust question, the investigation of which it
was so anxiously wished to promote. It was equal-
ly their ethicist, that public expectation, which had
I've') so cruelly disappointed in the event of the Ex-
pedition and its circumstances, might not meet
with the same fate in that investigation, which they
has* uttdouht•il a right to call for; but which,
be trusted, would Ire found expressed with all that
loyalty due from the people to the Sovereign.—
He deemed it unnecessary to waste the time of tae
Mesting with any further observations on the in-
tended Address, but contented himself with offer-
ing it to their consideration, reserving to Ithowlf
the right to rept!, to any observations which might
be made, if any, in opposition to it. The Address
was then read as follows :

TO THE LING :S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
We, year Majesty's loyal subjects, tee Fetch')Man if the
Comity of Middlesex, &Aim,, in common with the rest of
our countrymen, deep meat and indigaatioa at the late
event:, ;n Portugal, whirl. tine disappointed OUT most san-
rise hopes, and our hest founded expoetaliows, pray your
Majesty to take into I nor consideration this we moat loyal
statement and pst.tio t.
We prejudge the ease of no roan—but we feel, under sneh
circumstances of national disappointment, slut to demand •
stnet, a ',iterate', sad an impartial inquiry into all its causes,
is mad only an immutable pi inciple of Justice, but has been
the invariable practice of our ancestors.
Without sorb an inqtyry, the godly censor be fairly
brought to paaisbment, nor sun the chai acteis of the Mim-
e-eat, who may be anspectsd, be effectually vindicated and
es Gored.
lies we reflect that our armies and our fleets are corn-
posed d,erm. of the some inscription, and drawn from the
oar envigements at sea always shed sew
lapin Olt Hill easy, mad ...laity& add to the national security,
*bile our victories ou land are generally soavailior, and
often lead to disgrace, we catinot peasuade ouraelves that
the whole blame in the late transactions is attributable to
oar Cessamiley.

We suspect that it moy be owing either to Rome radical
defect is oar sinstary system, or to the incapacity or aria.
conduct of those by whose cum ROY the efforts of your Ma-
lesty's land forces arc directed, and to whose judgment mud
discretion, the usr.i.ame 'neat of the army is cab aired. Sikh
defect, incapacity, or misconduct, cannot be remedied by •
Coot Martial, or by any Military Limit .4 Inquiry.
We theesibre pray your Majesty, nut .rely to order Courts
Martial tabs held on the conduct of all the Officers who ail-
rind or sapid tithes the Armistice or Convention is Pec-
toral, hat Is raeoraneend to the Parliament to iteritute oath
a public mai 4drectual investigation, into all the tames and
circumstances of these transactions, so may lead to the adop-
ts's of such measures sad oalutarcrefanso as may retire the
punishment of the guilty, however high their station, and
prevent the recurrence of similar calamities.
dad we assure your Majesty, that whoever advised von to
retake the Lord Slayer and C'orporation of tiro City of Lou-
don, fire their Iste 1. s.l Petition, acted 114 defiance of the
pi ineiples shear seated your Majesty*, family eau the Throne,
and is contempt and iolatio• odds- unekiubtrd rights and li•
heroics of your pvrip c' essei tett at all times by our .Ances-
furs, tad tinny steured to us at the lilevolutios by the bill
of Rights.
The Address was seconded by Mr. HOLDEN, and
hoes, reed from the Chair,
itLDHILID Yantis: required that the adver-
tisement calling them together should be read.
Tnis sits aceorditagl dnr.e; .od he then proceeded
to observe, that, 1., the tenos of that advertisement,
at should went tliry had ;reel, called toether merely
I r tire purpose eat petitioning His Majesty to jobb-
Lte inquir;: into the circumstances attending the
late Convention ; but what was ins e.tonislunetit.
11,1011 lit airing the Address that had been just read,
to find, that instead of the object so avowed. they
•I•te enred upon to read Ili. Mitiesty a lecture
upon the defects its our military code, end ailing
Orion tam to slier end amend at. (.ilarks of dia-
rn-osore.)He bevon;ht their patietsce.when it might
he found there was no substantial difference Le-
- tat them. lie, in common with the wannest of
them, theipproved sad detested the Convention
- • -•- -

T;;;rts, but lie differed from those who
turn that event into an engine for tutoring
b • Majesty. One passage, indeed, in the Address,
el pith his unqualified and cordial approbation,
‘.;terein it is stated to he dictated by no party
•,.irit—st spirit which, in our present t.ituatiou, he

vmsidcred pregnant suit tb;la most essOchievous
consequences. To the address itself, however. it
sio niipowsilste to serer, without beim: absolute
porticoes, and for this he instanced the Address oP
IN: city of London, which he had a right to con-
sider as ao official record. Had, indeed, the
fits of Lawlor, upon the very tirrt communica-
tion of that disastrous business, end under the im-
pression of that ineli.ol..tion which was so Jewel,-
'lily felt, immediately proceeded to aft•lress His
; perhail. it eiti7.llit not have beco the sots-
jett of anima& errinn; hut, after o delay of ten
months, is by undid it that which wan peibiirly mad
iirosedly about to t.ike I,Lee ? Whist was 'hi* hut
the manifest eu-k ui ps-ty ! No from all
sides/. Anil a hat vas the Kluwer, of which so much

complaint hal brew made i—whr, otertlY, that
we sitl,o4l rrojuolicate iso man. The inquiry itself
had bete &retied .tiol set 0.; -foot iowaistly. th-t
1..04 ao thaw who were more amine.
Mately impt:cattJ, !tad rcunseil to this country

Yele notivithettudine. the meeting mud gob* be
amilit that which was, in -edect, already done.
Meeting was. still a farther proof
the NUM party spent. • Wheii, upon that grecs-
siuu. the Address had been read, (end the manner in
whim it had berm moved, met with Iles entire ep-
probratimi) the business, iiietearl of being follow-
ed up, bed degenerated into a discussion of Perlin-
meutary Reform, and other topics, which, how-
ever good iu theineelvee, were foreign to the
purpose, and the mete effect of pray spirit—
( /Jere a strong spirit of disseti;factiun began to ma-
nifest itself; and Me: Sheriff Smith called Mr. Red-
head Yorke to order, desiring he colifine
hiar-
srf to the sehiect-matter of the present meeting, at
the same time requesting Gentlemen, that Whatecer
difference qj opinion there might be, woold glee
a patient and *gaud hearing to all.) Mr. Redlomed
Yorke then professing to imply himself to the sub-
ject-matter of theilAddrem, objected to it upon the
ground of its brim; a work of supererogetioek, inns-
much es the thing required to be done was already
in a state of actual forwardness, and that Govene•
meet, knowing that a Court of likeiniry was, both
iu its means and its effect, better and more effi-
cacious than a Court Martial, he conceived all re-
inurke upon that head improper; and equally an
those which ahimhi d to the calling the Parliament
together. For these reasons be should propose, by
way of amendment, the substituting eltogether
dieterent Addretia, in lieu of the one that had been
read, expressite of their thanks to His Majesty fur
his gracious declaration iu answer to the Address
of the City of London, that be would cense due
inquiry to be made into the eireumstencer attend-
in;; the late Convention ; and also for the mild,
gentle, and just rebuke, which he had given to the
City upon that ekeereaon.” (This moires was occults-
pealed by hisses from all parts of the room.)
Mr. Sheriff HUNTER asked, if there were any
Gentleman to seemed this motion ? and requested
Mr. Redhead Yorke, if he were really aenous in
pressing it, that he would reduce it to writing. This
he accordingly did, steel a Mr. WELT* declared,
that, having read it over, it had his hearty concur-
rence, and he therefore seconded the motion.
WAITHM•N upologised to the Meeting for
many reasons which prevented him going at large
into the subject; in the first place, the state of hir
health was seek as to disable him limit those exer-
tions the subject itself, and the Gentlenieu present.
might seem to require; and having, ou a former
occasion, delivered his sentiments at large on the
subject, he had no wish to repeat diem on the pre-
sent ;• he could not, however, but consider as most
extraordinary, the manner in which the observatious
he had just heard had been delivered. The Gentle-
man had begun by declaring, he had approved of
the Address, in as tar as it professed to be dictated
by tiA party, and yet iinmediateiv after accused it
of brine the mere offspring of party spirit, awl this
he had attempted to illustrate by a review of the
proceedings of the Westminster Meeting. For his
part, he was sorry at the interruption the Gentle-
man had unit with, a+ he should have liked to bear
how he would have applied his observations to the
present meeting. The Gentleman had eroe.,,kt
to ground his opposition to the present Address
upon two points, that the motion was unnecessary,
as inquiry was in em actual Rate of progression ;
and semi berretta His Ilajest 's answer to the Ad-
dress of the City of London had precluded all ne-
ceesity of further application. This appeared to
him the axe extraordinary, as his obser.....sone on
that answer were founded wither in feet nor luau-
ment. His ateretimi, that the Address el the City
was not adopted until two months sifter the inquiry
had seen directed, was nie true; hut, on the Iran-
i rary. it had been decided long before any inquiry
wan known to be thought of. Upon the very first
meeting of the Common Counc'. after the publi-
cation of the disastrous intelligence, the requirition
had been presented for calling ti-to together, to
consider of am Address to His Majesty on the sub-
ject; and the Address iteell bad been carried at a
meeting in about a week fellowiug. lu the skeet
place, it had been aunt that Ills Majesty's answer
to that Arldrewe had been mild and gentle ; he
should he glad to be informed where a precedent
was to be tested for it ? (Here he was called to ere
der by Mr. Merle, the seconder of Mr. Mediu-eel
Yorke's motion, who wished to know whether the
allusion to what hart peered at the City Meeting, war
not as foreign to the purpose of the present, as that
mede by the last-mentioned (I:eyelet/tan to that of
Westminster ? Mr. Sheriff HUNTER declared Mr.
Winthman to be perfect) y in order.. inasmuch as
the Address of die City of Lodon. and His Ma-
jestv's answer to it, were alluded to in the Petition
now ceder emisideration.) Mr. Waithanui pro-
eeeded. He ass ebeeklutely astonished when he
beard the pretest motion termed unseceseary, after
the City of Landon had presented their Address
on the same subject. particulaily after the answer
which had been given to that Address, and which
he again termed unprecedented. He was told, in
a whisper, by the Gentleman (Mr. Redhead Yorke).
that a precedent was to be found in Lord
Cla-
rendon's History of Charles the First. It must,
indeed, be is inch times. and such only, when
such precedents were to be fennel. Certainly ex-
amples were to be had, when strong remonstrances
had been met by ungracious answers ; hut lie would
chatterer; the whole round of history to produce
such an Answer to such an Address as that pre-
seated by the city Should we. he asked, be ria-
tisfied, on the preserit occasion, by looking to the
pest lie would not advert to the affair of Getter"!
Whitelocke. but r id them of the fate of the
addressee on the Rorlifort business; but this he
%immeshed of, that if effectual inquiry had been
seriously intended in the present case, no rich An-
seer would here been epee to tile City Address.
As matters stud eu present, ire had no right to
criminate our brief men. or look to any for explana-
tion, Lut *lure who had pot their. hands to the
Convent': on—i f. upon proper iikrestimktion. it shoes Id
tore nut that they were irrienewiled to 'sign it, they
would, of connote be acquitted ; and we should
thee, and only then, know to ulioni blame was
jostle tebeiesented; and vet, after the rebuke the
city of Loteloe hail received, rowld there be a
douLt was reedy to blame bat the advisers of
such au Answer? Are we to wait till the guilty
themselves pitied think fitting to inetente impairs.
and rend at the very moment when we see a distio-
gui.lk-d Officer, but who is perticalarly implicated
in imputed blaake, publicly iatrodaced Isy demo

and gtsicioiisty received by tiis Majesty ? If this
thee be the cave. with what hOpe qui we, believe or
existe!t that. due or effectual inquiry will take
plsSee Bat even if the. Answer to ens City Ad-
dress had been ever so gracious or favouralt e,
still he tonteaded we were 'treas.:wily called
on to petition ; for if ever we could be brought to
look on patieatly and silently, while such scenes
were acting, then imleed we would cease to be
Lefore beset don't, he would sllglitly
touch op one or two beiles, which furnished addi-
tional ground for inquiry. Why, be would ask,
did the history of this country so abound with the
most signal victories by our fleets, while the page
was, at the same time, 'tattled" with defeat* at laud ?
To what could this be attributed, bat to some radi-
cal defect in the system of oar military appoint-
ments! If we wished to learn of what nature de re
were, we need only look to Major Hoginee pam-
phlet. With regard .to calling the Parlionieot to-
gether, as the most efficient . mode of iiiquiry, lie
would only my, if that were not necessary, as in-
deed lie had heard it whispered they would Hot he
called together till after Christmas, as the Nlinia-
ters had money enough ; till then he knew of no
other use they were of but to tax the people, or any
occasion fur assembling them, but merely to lay
additional burdens on their shoulders.
Major Caarwau.uT supposed the amendment,
proposed by Mr. Redhead 'Vorke, was grounded
on the supposition, that en inquiry having been Kis
reudy instituted, all further interference was un-
necessary ; now this he conceived qui. the retools
for reiterating their complaints. Witco they found
the Address of the City was adviser] by Ilis Major.
ty's Ministers to be remitted with rebuke, instead ar
attention, this he thonglit a good ground, if Clem
were no tither, fer adopting the present ; unless'
they were willing, by their silence, to join in that
censure. As to what is called a Court of Inquiry.
he rather supposed that was not so well understood.
Such a Court, he affirmed to be unknown to the
Law of Englund. In the case of Sir John Moe.
(Intent, indeed, it had been denomniat. 41 a Board, ,
and not a Court. and there he had appeared co-
luntarily, and •denied all right to compel him.—
Courts of Inquiry, as they were called, had been
compared to Grand Juries ; but they were no more
like to them, than to the moon ; in the latter, the
Members were sworn, iii the former they were not ;
in the one "the witnesses were examined upon oath,
in the other without oath—the one was necessary,
the other discretionary. There were some eases on
the subject—that of Admirals Keppel and Pauli-
ser—theie the latter called on the former to dear
his charatler from aspersion, to which the other
replied, /Co; defend vounielf;" the Junior
Atltoil al iliere, and, by the bye, one of the Board of
Admiralty accused his senior officer, and yet here
was no I.ard of Inquiry. lit the case too of Sir
Robert Calder, who attneked e superior fleet, arid
took two ships, whirh, instead of sending home,
with their men and aminnnition, ht. brotig,lit into a
British port ; but he not having the coal fortune
to possess Court influence. could obtain no Court
of Inquiry upon eccusation brought against him.
Ile had taken some pains to endeavour to trace
these Courts of Inquiry. " lie had searched Black.
stone, and after travelling throughthe other Courts,
he at last came to Court" Martial, but could find
no trace whatever of Courts of Inquiry. It was
said they were no new thins ; for his part, be be-
lieved they must have originated in the good
sense of some Colonels of regunents, who adopted
this preliminary mode of inquiry into private
bickering, eluting Officers, in order to avoid,
if possible,' the publicity of Courts Martial,
sod that so they had been extended to genera:
practice ; but still, he contended, they were en
Iwo coutrary to law. Ai to general praistice,
that was no ground whatever whereon to justify
them ; maitthings had obtained footing by ge-
total practice, which yet had been declared con-
_ rary to law. General warrants had been in ge-
neral praciioe, and, yet were declared illegal. It
bad been a ;4eperaf practice with Judges to brow-
beat Junto out of law as well as fact, until their
right was established to decide on both. by the
practice becoming the subject of inquiry, mid
being declared illegal. Another practice there
was, which was highly illegal—that of sending,
offenders out .1 the kingdom, to Jersey, for
inatancw, and other parts beyond the seas.—
This iodred had been put a stop to ; but in lieu
thereof it was the modern practice to immure
out in the gaols of counties distant from their for-
goer habitations, which he instanced by the cases
of two earn now under cmitinement in the gaols of
Dorchester alai Gloucester; he hoped, however,
that ass Address to Parliament would have the ef-
feet of (amain; such a pmeeteling to be declared
illegal—Upon the whole, he was of opinion, we
should go up to the throne to cbtain redress of
grievant:ea, and that as Greed Juries were the eon-
intuitional protectors of innocence, .0 were Courts
of Inquiry nothing but the unconstitutional pro-
tectors of guilt.
MG CLIFIOILD, alluding to Mr. Redhead
Yorke, thought it rather odd that he should ap-
prove of the inilaness and gentleness of Govern-
meat, who bad himself so smarted at their
hands, excepting, pother% that, having let him
out of prison, they ine,:ht now hare taken him
into their pay. Mr. Waithman had sal posed
there was no precedent for the late rebuke to the
City Address, hot he could furnish him with one.
In 1676, when Jeffries was Recorder of London,
the City had addreweil the King, and, in this in-
stance, were rebuked. But the Common Council,
on the e7th of October. declarcd it was their un-
doubted right to petition ; sad, on the 3oth of the
saute month, resolved, in order to give puldieitv to
theireotes, to publish theta, which was then ,forte
for the first time ; and this right was afterwards
made one of the articles of the Bill of Rights. As
the taetropolitan convoy of the kingdom, they were
called Upell to stand fOrward, and even if it Should
turn out in the end for blame, to abandon the pre-
sent Petition would he only affording a subject of
triumph to the +enclitics of despotism.
Mr. YORKS said, he must Matinee, it would have
been- -fortunate for the Gentlemee who spoke
last, if he had made his remarks on a person hot
present. for lie was there, and able to emirate him.
He slid not deny hut he was sent to Dorchester
gaol.—(.l lord cry of hser hear !)—But he a!,-
oared the Gesitleman he had not been taken into
the roil of Gotreranstert. A Gentleman. Mr.

Wuitimac, said, 4e bad told him bra inErasient
ao artAvi!!).beiaggiteti. similar to that given'
Corporstion'ortoindon. He mentioned he
read it in Lord Clarendon's history. and we
been told that the time of Chalks was the

glorious that this country ever karetwee-(4
iiret4gh.)--.The right of the enhjeet to petition,
Royal
but it was scandalous
.lcs approach
Royal eat with such laugui'em as the 'Address'
posed, sifter thi..Sovertigo had pledged hi meet
his Royal word;•thiA"ah i,ireittgation should
pluses—(Loud murmurs.)
A Gentleness' inquired frost Mr. Redhead
was he not dischar"ed from the rules of the ,
Bench prison, in the Court of King's Beach,
the Lords' Act ? he answered g, do ; and the
tlernan grids' correct; its; we believe, it was from
Fleet prison, by the Court of Common Menu
Mr. Joni' Bes'hitt:v shoed, lie rose for the par-
pose of avowing that the original Address had his
nutmeat support said approbation. It was a happy-
thought in that I.,ildress, which points out the etas
ferenue between our army and navy, that OW
should be victorious, and the other Away, meeting
with defeat ; or, whet was worse, their valour sullied
by convections, disgraceful to themselves and
country. Ile was an admirer of the titivy ; ht
the Iwe.ent state of Europe, nor armies were
grand object. He approved of the Address,
cause it condemned a system which prevented
vigour of his countrymen in some from being
into action. He approved of the Addrelme bazaar*
he thought the kind of inqiiity which they Ir-
. told by Ilia Majesty's Ministers was to be I
would frustrate the hopes of the country. He .
proved of it, becanse it called on,His!Vlajesty to as-
semble his Parliament, and direct them to institute
an inquiry, and it was the only lawful tribunal the
country had a right to acknosledr.—(.4 loud
of Hear Illwar Bravo, 4'c.)
Mr. Mt: i.i.tstt, Member for Middlesex, addressed
the Sheriff% and hoped the Pre:rholders form* the
Meeting would give him a patient hearing. He
then commenced with ob erring, that tin!. maim&
merit had his entire approbation, for the original
'Artiress acid to prejudge. • He had never known.
however extraordinary it might appear, a business
of that iiitture brought forward, that the mover did
not try to prove that he Was not actuated by part
for instance, in the present case, we were assured
the mover, there were no parts, motives; but 3'
pearacl to him that it proteelied from nothing
but party. (Loud hi.. ing i.e store, no wore.,
He a ishi-d they were all tioanimous; but
thoroughly convinced they would hear him..
had the ability of some gentlemen, he would
and be heard, althcmgh they did hiss—but
nutelv he had not. (A load cry of yaw hare ..__
He then proceeded—all I see et present proceeds
from tarty. He would acknowledge, when
heard of the Convention; lie conceived
meeting at 'the present neceseary ; but not
they had the Royal word that there should
oudicietaisopaipi. fit: had not henrd any one,
thathad Lot pre.) ii3Rll the Coinmauiere in Portugal.
Even the expression of the mover of the Addree-
that such a petition was neceeasry, to prevent ,
like happening again ; was not 'this prejudging .
(A cry rf No I no!)—lie %mild contend it was—
for at can sayings that the Convention was w
(A loud faug/Z)Every word of M. r. aithman's
von prejudging. He understood I to say, that
there was no man bold enough in that Meeting to
state, that due in%estig-ation would take plant.--
He was the man to say, there would be a full in-
Testigutinit by a Court of Inquiry ; and if' the deci-
sion of that Court niet the dieopprobation of the
country, he would be the mall to UMW to that
place, and move ae Address to reprobate it. He
was assured, from information he could rely on,
that the warrant for the Court of Inqniry had
been signed bt His Majesty, and sent to Scotland
for the signature of the Secretary of ‘Var ; and be
also believed the Court of Inquiry would sit on next
Mender, for ke saw a paragrapA in a sietorpaper to
that ejict.—(4 loud laugh.)—The mover of the
Address thought it very strange that any person
should differ from him. He assured bins he never
agreed with him. Yet he acknowledged that er---
subject had a right to petition his Monarch.
they attempted to interfere with the army, it
not only tiritling fault with it, but it went to
away with the whole system of the army.—(A lead
cry of " it wants ii.")—lle thought they would be
much better satisfied for him not to prolong his
speech.—(A cry qf "yrs, yes.")—He condu. led by
ot.erving, he thooght it would lie indecent to
present such an Address as that proposed, altar
the lioe al ; and there we. • a man ap-
pointed as one of the Court of Inquiry, Whom uo
person could doubt, who had the full confidence
of his country, and who must be allowed to be ei
most proper person—the Earl of Moire. There was
not ary person bold enough to say, that be would
forfeit the honour of his country from private mo-
tives; there were many others as respectable, al-
though lie did not recollect their names ; this
ought to satiss'y every rational Man, and the arneisil-
merit should have his vote.
Mr. WAITIMAN rose in explanntion, but was in-
terrupted by Mr. MIELLtSII, wl.Coui Mi. Sheriff
HusTrn called to order.
Mr. 1%. AITHM A N theh proceeded to give his ex.
plai,atnin ; and stated, from what he had witnessed

;•1 to 1.0;d Jktritte and Damci,ou, thsre would

not be as Vfficient without 51inistem were
di lot.. It ; the Gentleman, Member for the
Cminty, 31r•ilish, had stated, that he never
h. I,rt of our pro; osition of the 'lager* of the ♦d.
fires:', Lot t; le Mover disclaiintd a I perty. Irt that
easy lit most eirier have heard or read ally of his
speeches. for where there is . party wishing to in,
quire into the abases of the Ad ministration, he
would he always foul cl; if he was otherwiTe, he
would think his coulit.ymeil ots,..,ht to despise him,
.rod he would despise himself. As Mr. Mellish
'tad intrcidneed Newspipers, he saw, in a Moroni:
Print, under the iutiuener 'of Nlinisters, that the?
did Om slot muney, and Parliament would slot he
called until ./anuary ; or, in other •ords, if Mi.
sisters could do without money, they never would
be as.emhleal.
Mr. ilYwo, member for Mithllesest, rope and
said—Rvraember, we hare a light to assemble;
and h.- hoped th. y would always value that right ;
he %Antall ^ bast troubled the inverting with his
sentiments, if hi. owleaLme had not delivered his,
for he thought it was his duty to hear the senti-

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meats of Iris constituents, and to be guided by them;
(great appialse); hut it became a duty oa
when auuther, placed in the same situatiou, had de-
livered his maiiifestly co.itrary to the
couti.y at lar,;e. lie approved of the Address,
as unwed by ntr. Clifford ; fur, wilco he find read
the Couventarmi, it struck loin it was disgraee-
ful to this eountiT, and that it. was duiiig mjinitree
to our ally. Ile not only disapproved of the COUP.
vention, but *he reproof of His Majesty's Maois-
t: is to the City of Looddii ; as ahainiouble as the
was, evt•lt if it Ita.l ended ut the de-
feat or din.Jace of the army, it iiii;;;ht Le retrieved
by some able Commander. and would have beeu a
trifle, compared with the odious rebuke. which there
. flux 110 MEtillni of retrieving; sod if the county of
Middlesex did not go build with the City
of Lowloo, it had lost all sense of liberty; be
knew they would, which made :mu proud ui being
the representative of the greatest county in the em-
pire ; he trusted they would be always jealous of
their rights and privileges ; they had as 1111114:11
to be careful of them, as Monsters were zealous in

the wish of depriving limy of thew. (Great up-
plants, Bravo ! Limn, !)
The question was then loudly called for.
Mr. Sheriff SNITS tint put gr. Mishit:id Yorke's
amendment, which Wd, negatived, there being Dilly
a whew of 20 Iniiids for it, although the meeting
cousisted of 400 persons.
Then the original wililrew4 was put. and carriod
nearly unanimous, there being a spew of only 15
hands against it.
Mr. Cm eyrie') then proposed a motion, tliat the
Sheriffs should terry up the Address to the Secre-
tary of Stine, sod tok when it should be presented
to his Majesty; and that th.! Address and the Se-
• cretary's Answer should be printed iu the news-
papers. This motion being seconded, was rut and
curried.

Dv. GLAssc moved, That die thanks of the
Meeting should be given to those Freeholders woo
ai.,ised the Requi,ition to the Sheriffs to call the
tweeting:" which motion being seconded, was car-
ried iii the affirmative.
Dr. GL time moved the thanks of the Meeting to
the Sheriffs for their upright and impartial con-
, (Net, which was carried 11101111 ttttttt sly.
The Sa.Aatirrs returned thanks for the honour
done them. and assured them they Nould, when
officially exiled on, always act, as far a; iu them
lay, to trust the approbation of their countrymen ;
and they were proud to say, there never was a
meeting where a tree discussion was tarried on
with more decorum ; and they regretted that the
same kind of conduct lied not beau preserved in •
meet*. that took place hrtelv in another county.
Mr. WAII /IMAM tbeu utovcd, " That the Revo-
lutions 2hrmfd be printed iu all the London News-
• pa eery." which was agreci to.
The Suzann t:ics roar. nod stated, as the pr-
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or: of the Nl, r twit were go.re through, it war. ad-
journed. They left the room, attended with the
heart-felt gratification of having done their duty.
si:w•iwei-•-====ire
PflLlflr.

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3101145T1111ET.
A awe Um been nutter the private iuctsttgatim of Mr.
011114.11111111, fur err oral der. past, which proves it almost
eseetiltatly sieciestry, that every tams, however exalted hill
dittetter er consequence. should heap • journal of his time,
to nosh the moot eitpleaseet eireettistatices and serious
minsesaeorea. Time ttliiia leg is for mks,
Afraid ta• ode k, hat %sterility morning, a tailor's Lind
illerries shop, to the !Highborn hood of M. Margie 's-Moe,
smaltrakee epee ; the noise of tbe rebbant avaketithe tailor,
who slope iii hue back potato- i he pat •;., slink it being very
insto•-:ight, distinctly saw that one of bus shop.wlndon
*bath rs was taken down, and tan rubbers at ho window,
the glass broken, and nee of the roLbers taking ;troth out of
his shop ; be looked at them for some rime, till he wade tip
his soled that he had seen safhetrarl of their primmer that
be should be able to identify them, it being nearly a• light
airy ; ionised, 01)11 VA them be knew well, he having been in
Lis situp g tear days previous, amid ordered a pair of panta-
loons. Aft,' At- had liatisSed himself with observing their
persons, be p'. un alarm, and die ridnires
In the course of the unweing, the taller game informatioai at
the abuse oLice, of the robbery, tee pasittely described
the emu who had egdered a pair at pepininbils, a fele days
precious ; and immigotd, at a suspiettios corroboration, that
when the Tall Unified the pantaloons, he Miiitt a 'Amager
111 hie, imbed for a deposit of it. he mit-brill' in the habit of
making clothes fur inning/Ts, mr,tliont taking that precau-
tion, to recount clothes bring tkroa a spots his Lands, stitch
be riefeerd to 11 agreed to call upuu Anthony, th,
*dicer, on Smithy nter3ing, 42 Lille tette lied tat,
the auto he described let•eutoody. Anthony s'astt d for him
deriag huaday, hot the tailor did not call. tia Monday
lINWOIng the tailor sailed at the usher again ; Aethuity asked
line the frlita)4 fur ha WA keeping his time to which he
replied, that %one li.,l.64iiiaaj him that Satbday was
11111 improper dcy ; and asked if it was not time enough then
Anthony basin learned that it was • peen of seine eons.-
mtemee wanted to LA, iota custody, ik.clined haring any
glen to du a ith it
On Tuesday evening, the person who had ordered the pan-
taloons,ealled at the shop to iiimplire ti they weir done '1 he
tailor made muse excuse to detatu bun in the shop, and in
the wee time seat not for assistaere, had him seamed, and
takense It. Ructions weich.house.
On Wirdeesday mere*, be woo taken hefure (:it %-
le aw. owl the tallow strode positively to his bring one of the
matins, estraerebeary to relate, the Primmer emoted
to he Caplan. C of the army,_ a gentlemen of the highest
ressoetability, whose relative batik au 'salted place at
tang..
Ga anvil has lrrn indefatigable to his rarities* in
this indrpo7tinary baciiess ; and Imisday it was premed,
meat tecautrontrtaMe manner, that the gentleman
uses re liedght his owe esellienee, at the time of dor robbery.
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