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elect sod fits. d Ceff 4_4419 Mrs.G.
(see circular) sod commented open with seventy.
He stated that this circular wu as remarkable lee
its sbourdity IS it wa fee its putesstnptisa. Is the
first sentence it stated that is meeting was convened
a day before it was held; tend yet in the next pens-
graph it called on its hole and corner allies to come
forward ea the next day, sad attend theneaseoesl
meeting “ri quarter before them, inertitr to rescue
these parishes/roes slut disgrace of each as Address
as trill probaily he then 'Proposed." Here was
cbermingcorafusion of past, present, and future !
He (Mr. G.) would not disgrace himself by
arraweriag the impertinence and presumption
of
these gentry, who were dexterous at jar
sling, but were altogether unfit for straightfor-
ward sad .honeurrable conduct. He hoped,
however, notwithstanding all the dexterous tricks
'Which had been played off to prevent his fellow.
,parishioners from expressing their sentiments, that
the day was not far distant when they would do se
to the confusion of their mean-spirited and defter&
ly opponents. He was quite aware that the gets-
tlemen present. who attended in virtue of the re-
gular Requisition, could very fairly enter ott the
business of the meeting; but as the Workhouse
doors had been shot against a great many of the
inhabitants, and as the faction had sagaciously
called a gentleman to the Chair, who would not
hear any thing bat the motion of adjournmeat,
he thoughtit might be mere advisable to wait
for a future opportunity of discussing those topics,
and in the side time direct their attention more
particrilarly to the trestoseut they had that day
experienced. But this was really a new discovery
iu public affairs, for a meeting to be adjourned
without allowing the object, or Requisitiou, or any
thing connected with the business of the meeting,
to he noticed to the persons assembled. At a quer-
%ter after eleven this packed meeting adjourned, and
'the parishioners had not been allowed the usual
time to assemble. Under all these circumstances,
Mr. G. hoped that the present meeting would se-
parate with a deteranastiou to use their individual
efforts to obtain a large and respectable meeting ;
and, indeed, he was persuaded that such would be
the spirit of the whole pariah, in resenting the in-
sults of this day, that he was satisfied that this
room would not contain a fourth part of the per-
sons who, he had no doubt, would feel it their duty
to attend, and not only express thew sentiments on
the state of the nation, but on the proceedings of this
day. He considered the conduct of these tricksters
too disgraceful to be true; when he weestopped fifty
yards from the Workhouse be thought it was a hoes
played off at the expense of these mock loyalists,
he was therefore determined to walk to this loom
an.l ascertain the truth ; but to his regret and sur-
prise, he found the whole to be true ; he recent-
mesided a Chairman to be appointed. when he
should have the honour to propose a motion that
would forward the wishes of the meeting. He con-
cluded by recommending Mr. Bastin to fill the
Chair,

Mr. BLiosarr having taken the Chair,
Mr...G•LLow•w moved the following Rotolo-
" That a Committee of ten Gentinneu be appointed from
this emceeing, with power to add to their number, to esquire
halo the proceedings abieb have presented the Howsehoiders
of the united parishes of St. Midler', Holborn above Ban,
and St. Glurge the Martyr, from eapressiag their *llion
on the several subjects* fur which these Parishes were ibis
day assembled by Requisition ; sad also to togebe who are
the proper legal authorities for convening dee Householders
sad lubahitauts at the Workhouse, and in whom are vested,
the power of excluding the Hossebuldera from the use of
use said Workhouse fur paruchical purposes, sad to report
the result of them inquiries to the said Housebuiden, as
promptly and as g e tly as possible."
Mr. D•terso wished to make one observation,
which was tilt., that the kok and corner a:talk:-
men, as they might with great propriety be called,
had themselves fully recognised the authority of tbe
Overseers to miswrite • meetiug of the parishioners
in that place, and the legality of a meeting so
convened, by their own act of electing at a
Meeting so aseembird that morning a Chair.
wan, and proceeding to the motion of adjourn-
ment is the usual form. He hoped what had hap-
pened would operate as a warning to the pa.
rishioners, not to be so neglectful as they had hi.
theft° been of the parish affairs, but to atteud the
*mina' meetings for the election of these Go-
vernors and Directors, and secure the choice of
suck men as would conduct the business of the
Iw-
ritih agreeably to the reuse of the great body of the
parishioners. He concluded by seconding the mu.
Lion, which was then put, and carried unauinaously,
A Committee was then appointed, agreeably to
the Resolution ; and the thanks of the meeting
being voted to Mr. Shasta and Mr. Galloway,
fur their conduct on the occasion, the meeting
separated.

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The Paris Pipets of the 7th inotsait arrived at a
late hour last night. The following ire extracts :
rams, jA.NUARY 7.
A rood family party dined yesterday with his
Majesty, ineleding the Duke sod Duchess •of
Origami. the Duchess*, Bamboo, sad Mademoi.
sell. Orleans. They dere rwelltli Cake. The
Duke of Orleans drew the Kiag. He chose for
his Queen the Duchess of ffiemrk .
The official Gazette of states. that the
dispatches brought by this
oisenc
e from Rio
Janeiro, announce, that thepring having been in-
formed of the events at Oporto, and persuaded
that they did not extend belowd agate cities of the
province of Minho. had granted a general amnesty,
and even authorised the assembling of the Curies
convened by the old Regency, although their con.
vocation without his Majesty's consent was illegal.
His Majesty farther deviates, that after the
Cortes shall have finished their business, and sub.
witted their propositions for the Royal sanction, the
King. or OM of his sons, shall repair to Portugal,
being fully assured that the Royal dignity cannot
suffer from the execution of the measure adopted
by the old Regency.
The Emperor of Germany was expected at Vi•
enna on the thth laid, and the Emperor of Russia
on the 49th.

Letters front Vienna, of the 27th last, state, that
a decided schism has taken place among the Neapo.
Bean troops, and that • great majority of them have
expressed themselves dissatisfied with the new order
of things.
The Five pee Got. Consols yesterday
80 fr. 15 c.; Bonk Actions, 1,455 fr.
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FLORENCZ, DUMBER 25.
The Kiag of Naples left Leghorn on the morn-
ing of the 23J last, and proceeded to Piss, where
he found the Grand Duke. These Sovereigns pro-
ceeded ou their route together, and catered this
capital last Saturday. A discharge of one hundred
and one guns announced the arrival of the Neap).
titan Sovereign, who alighted at the Palace of Pitti,
where he was received by the Princes of the Grand
Duke's family, Prince Maximilian of Saxony, and
the Great Othcers of State.
After two o'clock the Ministers. the members
of the diplomatic corps, &c. had the honour of
being presented to his Majesty.

Yesterday, the 24th, th« Duke de Gallo, Minis-
ter fur Foreign Affairs, ad interim, of the kiug-
dom of Naples, arrived here.

—ow--
One is amazed in lookiag over the Casette to see
several of its column, occupied by Ministerial
Addresses, proceeding avowedly from nubility,
gentry, and inhabitants 44 various counties and
towns where so meetings have bees held to collect
fairly and honestly the sentiments of the public.
We can easily imagine the surprise of many of
these good people, inhabitant, of the various places
so distinguished in the Gazelle, when they are first
informed that addressee purporting to emanate
from them have been slready treosmitted to the
Secretary of State, submitted by the Secretory
to his MAJESTY, and that his MAJESTY was gra-
ciously pleased to receive them with expressions of
signal satisfaction. True it is, that, generally
speaking. the addresses profess to come from
Rectors, Churchwardens, ■nd the principal In-
habitants" of any given place, which words are
happily very indefinite, and may be construed to
mean any set of persona whom the framers of the
addresses may think proper to select ; but still the
great body of the inhabitants •f the ;dace so
named have a right to complain that some three
or four individuals should presume to frame the
title of their private address in such a manner as
is calculated to excite the idea that the address
contains the sentiment► of the majority of their
body collectively. There is a fraud practised
upon the Sovereign and the community, the sole
object of which is to support a feeble Administra-
tion, that is already tottering before the impulse of
plastic opinion.

We take to ourselves the credit of having been
the first to draw public atteution to the disgr►ceful
trick practised by the agents rod waitrons of the
Ministe►s, of getting tip these mock addresses, for
the purpose of effecting • kind of counterpoise to
the bursting enthusiasm with which the people of
England hurried to defend the cause of their perse-
cuted (,?user. We exposed the wretched farce of
Loyal addresses to public contempt or indignation,
aad in the performance of this duty were so ably
asi.isted by the other members of the independent
part of the public Press, that the consequence hiss
been a cou►pkte exposure of the means that were
employed to accomplish so ignoble a purpose. The
Addressers themselves, many of whom are, no
doubt, highly worthy and most respectable persons,
who would reject with scorn any insputatiou upon
the honesty and sincerity of the principles they pro-
fess, and would be as far removed from lending
their support to men or measures from corrupt or
motives, as they would be from


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