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him signed the Requisition to the High Sheriff of
York, coincided in opinions and principles with the
Radical Reformers. It is impossible that they
could imagine that Earl FITZWILLIAIII, the Duke
of NORFOLK, and the other Whig Noblemen and
Gentlemen, are the advocates of Universal Suffrage,
Annual Perharicots, and the Speocean princi-
ple of distribution, which, independent of the
ruin and desolation that they must bring upon the
State, would necessarily destroy their influence and
raiik, and reduce themselves to poverty. Why,
then, is such trash put forth in the Treasury prints,
when every man in the country must perceive its
futility as a cloak for so ungenerous and alarming
an act of authority ?
We are told that the measure is one purely poli-
tical, and was a necessary rtonsequence of the breads
co,!fidence between Prlitaiste.s and Earl FITZ•
W 11.1.1 AM, caused by the sanction given by the
vehetable E.nl to the York meeting. Could the
Nlini•ters explain why En! FITZWILLIAM, as a
111,114i•tiste, was less worthy of their confidence
after the meeting than lie was at any time pre-
viotody ? Hn duties were, as a Magistrate, to
inaintoni the public pear e, and to communicate
with the Servants of the Crown respecting the
generzti %tate and condition of his district.
The Radical Reformers were, in the present cir-
curnstances of the country, the enemies against
whose violence lie eves to guard. and if he did not
*bare their principles of confusion, or with them
pant after the blessings of a revolution to be ob-
tained through the medium of a civil war—if he
was known to be as firm an advocate of the existing
order of things as rya; the Alinisters themselves,
we can see iirs pretension fir believing that he would
trot with energy and fi,lehly exercise the powers re-
posed in him for the niiiiiitatitaoce of the public
tranquillity. Hut, say the Treasury Prints, how
could the 'Ministers communicate ill confidence
with one who they knew to Ire opposed to their
principles of government ? Was it necessary
to wait for the York meeting to know that
Esti FITZWI LLI A m in the Douse of Lords.
and his 'soh, Lard Alli.roN, in the House of

Coninioni;f:toidlormly expressed their opposition
to the general principles of the present Ministers ?
This cif cunistance, however, was never before
found to impede those croolitlentiol communications
which unit•t have I`Ced%loliillly taken place between
the immediate Servants or the Crown and Lord
FITZWILLIAM, in his magisterial capacity, as the
King's Lieutenant in Yorkshire. In these confi-
dential communication* it was never supposed that
tire Secretary lor the Home Department would
with gobsipuitig familiarity inform the Noble
Earl of the little schemes of office for manag-
ing the House of Commons, he would not
probably tell the market price of Members, nor
what Increase of slit ii.;tli he anticipated from a
vacant Bishoprick, or a new batch of Baronets ;
nor probably would he conceive it perfectly safe or
prudent to whisper to the illustrious patriot what
might to he the tone and character of his official
dispatches with respect to the state of the country ;
but lie might with confidence communicate to
Lord FITZWILLIAM, or to any other Lord of Par.
liament, no motor on which side he may vote
(for the honour of an English Peer, intrusted with
a confidential office, is not to be questioned)—he
might communicate the intentions of the Cabinet
with regard to the means of securing the peace of
the country ; and the Ministers must be aware,
that if such means met the approbation of the No-
ble Magistrate, lie would enforce them to the ut-
most of his power—anti that if he did not improve
of them, he would, as the only alternative, resign
his office. Pussitily Ministers may have in contem-
plation certain projects against the liberty of the
country, of which the conduct of the Manchester
Magistrates was the first sample, and the opinions
un this unfortunate affair, publicly expressed by
Earl FITZWILLIAM, proved that lie would not be
a fit instrument fur the execution of such measures.
A Whig Nobleman could not, consistently with his
principles, cause be sword of the soldier to su-
persede the power of the law, and the mace of the
civil authoitty. Tftis supposition alone can satis-
factorily account for so strange and harsh a mea-
sure, and ought to induce the public still more
I Ily to demand an inquiry into the proceedings
at Maticheatrr, for the strong voice of public
uiun alone can prevent so undisguised an act of
military violence from being drawn into a precedent
clabgerous to the very being of our liberty.

Letters and Papers from lladrid to the 13th, and
from Cadiz to the 6th itt 9 t 91It. have been received.
They confirm the account • ich we have already
communicaten to our readers respecting the breach
iii the military cordon around Cadiz, by the sudden
and unauthorised departure of 6.000 men, who,
with others, surrounded the places infected by the
yellow fever. It seems that this large body, either
terrified by apprehensions of the malady, or from
.the difficulty of procuring food in the quarters
assigned to them, suddenly broke the cordon, aod•
retired to Santa Olalla, a village in Estrernadura.
Finding that so large a force could not obtain ac-
commodation in so small a place, they proceeded
to Casoilis, a pretty considerable town farther up
the country. The inhabitants taking alarm at the
. approach of so large a body of men, ind dreading
a scarcity of l►rovisions, armed theMselves in order
to prevent their euteriog ;• but ift.order to avoid

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coming to extremities. a deputation from Cittsi!ii
remonstrated with the officers, and the troops, in cot_
sequence, halted. The necessity of going to seek
for provisions is mentioned in the 'driers from
Madrid as the only cause of this extraordinary p,o.
reeding, but the circumstance very clearly m 0.,.
feats that the discipline of the expeditionary amv
Qf Spoia is altogether destroyed.
The yellow fever still races at Cadiz. The mor-
tality, however, does not now exeeed 60deatlis a-dar.
The Spanish Government, for the accommodation
of the merchants and others, had appeonied
vas as a port of entry fur all weasels from Soot,:
America, in lien of Cadiz, where no ships were ':-
lowed either ingress or egress.

A fiarnivtirgh has arrived will, Pa
lren
from which the following are evract.:._

WAR?A‘V. Ol:Telifil
Yesterday evening, al seven eelork, h,e Mainly the 16,1
of iVicirmberg arrived here. MI Royal llhelium the Ito`.
of Cumberland, nod Prince Antony Rafiewill,
the Grand Duchy of Posen, are also arrived '►ere. I►s 0.
bib there was a grand review of 38,000 troops of aria‘
below WiolB. His Majesty appeared in the un;!.rm
a Polish General, and expressed his sativfne lion nt the sr.
pesrance of the troops. The concourse of spetimlors
immense. Oa the Otte his Majesty gave au audience to tint
Senate and the Ministers of the kingdom.

rewatunr.m.
Yesterday a real national festival was er:ehrate.l in the
Sudertilge. The canal was opened in the presence of
King, the Crowu Prince, and many perisonsof
eaiial has been finished in twelve years,and is esiurt,d to be
of great utility. Among the vessels which first laded ihr„,,,t,
it was it steam-boat, with many passengers Ginn StorlthWin

SRANDINBURG, OCTuCtill 16
Our Government has appointed Countieli.ir Crow.
Member of the Committee for ingnit Mu into tire tattier...
of tho democrats, to be Commissioner and Member of th•
Central Committee at Mentz, and he will brertly Tower,'
that city. It has been erroneously stated that M. Kamr':
was to be the Prussian Commissioner.

A report prevailed in the City yeuerdae, that
a serious misunderstanding existed Intween the
Government and the Bank, and that a eftft...l
pondence of a very disagreeable stature had take.,
place. It was also rumoured. that the American
Government have determined to take Cubs, and a
squadron has been detached for its cuptrtre. Three
were no arrivals yesterday from America. se that
this report was evidently fabricated for the pursimie
of depressing the funds. We hope thai.the former
rumour 1134 as little foundation.

The fol!oseing article loss been onnonno'cated to
us by n Correspondent :

"CIRCULAR BY THE CoMNITTEr. OF THE

RA DICA LS.

" At a Meeting of the Committee of Ilan:term tat f Or
Ratlieu' Reformers of London, on Monday presinig, rrfar!lt
it) the: pisbile NlcelinK for ■ redress of the rieonnta'retei-
wires, intended In be held on 31 lay o. u. litnember 1,1
1919, of twelve o'clock, in Finstntry Market•p.ace. tiros,
square ;
"A

was made to the Committee, that
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multaneous meetings were announced to h.• holden on the
name day the meeting is to be held in Fin.hory Merkel-pl:.ce,
throughout the North of England, Scotland, dec.
" It was Resolved Unatiimonsly—That a warning and sp.
pal to the Prince Regent, calling upon him to redress the
mitnifuld grievances of the loyal, though slatting tool
cruelly oppressed non-represented people of thin realm, be
presented to the said meeting for its approval or rtjecinm."
Here follow I lit P(411(1011'1 .iganot the ex-
penses of the Crown, the great amount of ,the Na-
tional Debt, the Boroughmongers, ,xc. The lo!.
lowing is the concluding Resolution

" Resolved—That as numerous bodies of I at feud from va-
rious districts of the Metropolis with flags, 11111.11., he they
are requested by this Committee to be firm, penr-an'e, 511 i
orderly tit their procession to sad from the Ileet!og, and
while assembled.

(Signed) RT. FORISTER, Chairman.
THOMAS WALKER, Secretar,-

Yesterdays Court of Directors wag Wit it thi
East India House, when the following
were sworn into the command of their ir.ltr, rive

elsips, viz.
Captain J. Jamegon, Earl of Balcarrrig ; CAptaiii T. Lar-
king, Warren Naming.; and Captain C. l.c 'f ham..—
for Bombay and China.
Captain P. Carneion, London—far St. Helena, Hericonlrii„
Prince of Wales's Wand, mud China.

Caplaiu J. Pearson, Geueral Hertill—for,China direct.
The Right Dom the Earl of CLANCARTI,
Majerty's Ami►rnador to the Court of iiramel., em-
barked from Dover, cm Saturday, for o%tep.d.

The Ultra Journal, the Dropeutt Maw, ve.A.
seized ■t Paris on the eoth instant, nil account of
its containing an article directed against the invio-
lability of die sales of National Doinnis.a.

Accounts from Panama state, that
RAFTER, and twelve of the officers taker r•
at Porto-Bello, have been shot there by Ortier
from the Viceroy at Santa
nick, Sept. 3.)
A circular has been sent from Government to
the parish officers in the kingdom, directing iln-tit
to transmit to the Clerk of the House rit •
a correct account of the money that has
peilrd for the relief of the poor, in their
parishes, for 1917, 181€1, mill 1919.
liesides the Chamber of Commerce of liireliwir
ham, several other highly respectable boilie• h"`"
it in contemplation to petition Parliament fur
dification of the restriction on trade with Fr
and for a diminution of the duties on French a I Ilt

Mr. GLYN, of Glyn, Mr. COLMAN RASNLI
the Rev. W. WALKER, Mr. l'h-rrs. Mr. l't %-
DOVES, and several other of the most respectable
Gentletneu of Coruwall, have called on the Frei,-
holders- of that County to sign a Requisition for o
Meeting, to consider as well the strange proceedings
Under the forms of the law, which have f01i0.% ell
the 16th of August, as the melancholy troissacti"i
of that day. •