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Lien been read sty the Spouts. Ilion Mac Fox rose pnted OUCCrIlltOn; or in ',slier of the tern sebsetpteet
and declared that the indiOation he file at the reigns, when rrbelli,its raged iss the heart of the
atrocious insult offered to the Ring was not inferior kingdom. Ile 411-fie.l the whole profession of the
to that of +my mato, hot he should (lo injustice to his law to prove 'list the Bill Owes before the House
Wow, were he not to *VOW that it was rivialled by ‘as consonant to the principles of the constitution.
the indignation he experienced in consequence „r the The crinsti.iitina anis atiroliited and annulled by it,
motion lie hail jail heard.: If Mr. Pitt 'Besot to How easy *out** 1w- f.r the spy of a corrupt !oa-
f I this execrable measure on the ll.ttivy o..etext gistritte, by grong•to a meeting and uttering a few
of the ',oldie meriings lately held in the vtoo,ty or woo.. words. wheelie, apposite to the %object or
the metrcmulia, let him at least make stint, ;Airtime mitt, to of a pretence for dissolving the meeting.
to prove the emessexion between thesis. That the The law or the laiol (.Isis great Cimill1111110:1111 law.
violence offered to his Majesty was 00 result of, yea assumed) was fully adequate to all the purimaes
three ineetings, there existed no colour of evidence. of good Goverrinn,,t Without the iiitroduction of
It seemed to he the object of the mover of this Bill the (present mr ,aura. lir any potenc muting, where
to bring the public gradually to stklimil to the most a breach or the pence w.is committed, a M igistrate
rigid despotism. If the principle of thi.a inealitive bythe existing low, was entitled to iriterf&e, and,
were admitted by the Ilou-e. Mr. Fox pristeined that • in his support was authorized to roles the posse
in the discussion of the detail he wonid take no cox/ilea, ir necessary ; and also by the Riot Art he
part. Pohlic ineetiligs for the discossiim of public had the power of dispersing tumultsoiss assemblies.
topics were not only lawful, but of the sere .s.eoce Mutilate+ was now otteteloing to 1"*" with
of the constitution, mot Englishmen had iminemo. the imputation of erdsliosi all those who employed
rosily enjoyed this liberty. Now it seems they are the some language which Mr. Pitt had once held.
no longer to do so, unless notice be given ton Nla. But wider the sanction of the venerable father of
gistrate empowered io arrest any person whom m Ins this apostate Minister, the greet Earl of Chillness,
wisdom he might deem seditious; NMI who Itad would IMllttt•ies that the people of England
'hardy to disreilve the meeting by the fit: of his might and ought to defend their rights, if necessary,
own will. SAY AT once. that a free comtitittioti iv he the list extreinito to which freemen emeld resort.
no longer imitable to Ragland! Coodoct y•mr.elvcs For my part (exclaimed this celebrated advocate of
as the *rumors of Denmark formerly did! ftenntinee the censure* ), I shill never cease to struggle in
your liberties, nod accept of despotism; brit do riot support of liberty. In no situation will I desert
mock the uotlerstanding and feelings of mankind the cause. 1 was burn a freeman, I will never die
by telling the world you are free. Can a moi 'Mg a slave 1."
under such restraints as the Bill impn'e. timl le- %Vitro the Home weld (November 27) into a
quires be called a meeting of freemen ? Will the I Ce,omitter on the Sedition Bill, Mr. Fox, true to
people of this country suffer their feelings to be ;.is ii,.t deihr.tion of not debating the Bill iii
thus insulted ?Oris it possible they can regard this detail, iminedirtelv rose an I left the House, fol-
measure in any other light than ire a total extinc. eil by the principal Members of Opposition.
lion of their liberty ? ile truserd that do. people A very in Aerial amendment was, however, made
would he alarmed at the prospect of the state pre- to the Committee, by inserting • claim., limiting
paring for them, and that they would du r•i'lota OF the Bill to flirt, years—a cancer-
while they might, to concert thr means of Five) ling ',ion n tl.)oht extorted from the Munster by the
a stroke' so fatal. Those who fueled to (la AO he alarm excited iu every part of the country by this
pronounced traitors to their country. fie declared
his resolution, if this Bill was persisted in, of tnov-
ing a call of the House.
After a variety of speeches from the principal
Members of Opposition, reprobating the Bill in
terms of the utmost iodigino;on and :iNito..flty,
:11r. Wilberforce, who had during the tv.l) lint
Sessions acted so indeprinl,nt and lionourohle is
pert, rose, and, in terms the most utiqualitied,
acknowledged his acquiescence il), and approba-
tion of, the mere-ure. I For thrve years (he said)
attempts had been made to poison t!,e mind. or
the people, by disseminating fate ptinciplr, of
liberty; and tint of liberty merely, but of philJ-
sophy and religion likewise. Tout all this had
not been without effect, recent events had aff);rded
sufficient proof, and he thought the Administration
entitled to the thanks of the tuition fur adopting the
necessary measures of restraint and prevention.
He did not regard the Bill proposed by Night
Honourable Fitend as militating against the right
of discussing political questions, And rather thought
that right would acquire slew life and vigour when
those assemblies, at which public discussions took
place. should be brought under proper regula-
tions!" The Bill was ordered in by a majority of
914 to 44 voices.

111r.,Urtf.

0,1 the 3:1 of December, the day appointed
for the !bird reading, the friends of liberty in the
Ippeartql for the last time in opposition to
tins etbons ant tyrannical law. Mr. Fox, in a
nicnne aide %peed), expressed his deep concern
to see a spirit of despotism in Ministers en-
cool:wit by that House, winch tended to take
away tie very vestige of liberty in this country.
If such measures, said this illustrious Statesman,
be orn.i,tP(l iii against the decided voice of the
tbojotity of the ittoople, the question of resistance
must al:imately be not a question of moral duty,
but of prudence; and not of prudence only, but
of justice also. But he confessed that in his opi-
nion prudence dictated quietness to mankind under
many severe oppressions. Now that the ardour of
youth was passed, lie saw clearly the wisdom of a
maxim which he had formerly been too ready to
contemn. It was the saying of one of the greatest
men of antiquity," lniquissimurn pacem jusiissitnu
belle untrferu." But if regardless of this pruden-
tial maxima the people of England, exasperated by
a series of measures calculated to reduce them to
the condition of slaves, should be driven to acts of
resistance, Ministers might condemn them, Paha-
await might condemn them, the law might con-
demn them, prudence might condemn them, but
lie believed no good man would ever accuse them
of moral gult. Mr. Fox concluded with declar-
ing that whatever ar:iiices might be employed by
the sycophante of power to represent him as an
enemy to his country, he would persist in doing his
duty to the public, and never relinquish it but with
his life; exclaiming iu the words of Cicero. "
bile jutiiirandrm jurari re quid omittereut ul m-
pg/Pica sales sit."—The Bill, after a lengthened
debate, was passed by a majority of 400 voices, and
the same day sent up to the Lords, where it was
vigorously but unavailingly opposed by the Mar-
quis of lansdown, the Earls of Derby and Moira,
.and Lord Thurlow, who stigmatized it as " a bad
Bill, establishing a dangerous and unconstitutional
precedent. Not that the Bill oppugned the right
sf the subject to discuss public grievances—no: it
nut, rendered the eejoytnent of that right imprac-
'legible. The liberties of the country were to be
exercised in chains. His Lordship contrasted in a
striking manner the provisions of the present Bill
with those of the Riot Act. By the latter, the persons
assembled for an unlawful purpose did not incur the
the penalty of death, unless they continued toge-
ther riotously and tumultuously for one hour after
the Act had been read. Cy the former, if an as-
sembly convened fur the mere discussion of nubile
topics continued together peaceably, to the number
of twelve or more, for one hour after preclaniaucti
was made commanding them to disperse, they were
guilty of felony, without benefit of clergy. For
such a Bill as the prevent (his Lordship declared)
he was fully determined not to vote." On the 14th
of December the Bill was read a third time, and
paused by the owed rrsjoiity. it was accompanied
by two protests, etc first of which expressed io sim.
pie, the second in euereetic
.Istiguege, the chief
arguments agiliost the Bill.

Mr. Fox now moved for is call of the House,
which was acceded to by Mr. Pitt, who
notwithstanding, thgt the Bill would lie produced
in a day or two, and that it might he mid a first
and a second time, and go through the Committee,
before the call.—Mr. Grey urged the right the peo-
ple of England had to expect that a Bill of such
dreadfnl import should at least be discussed in a
full House ; and loped time would he given at
least to utter the last titter groans of expirsog It-
',Pity. The call was at length fixed forth, 11.4 th
of November. In the mean time, the nation at
large, or at least silt who retained any sense of the
iisestimahle 'glue of the blessings of liberty. had
taken the alarm at the Dills now depending, and
meetings were convened in a great number of comi-
ties, cities, and boroughs, to petition Parliament
against the passing of them into laws. • The Cor-
responding Society, whose imprudent proceedings
had afforded the pretext for these nefarious and
liberticidal measures, met, for the last time, in the
field near Copenhagen-house, NoveMber 13, in.
prodigious numbers. The greatest decorum was
notwithstanding observed, and petitions were agreed
on to the Kiog and two Houses of Parliament
sgsinst the Bills in question, after which •they dis-
persed in the most perfect order. In a very short
time, near a hundred other petitions, amongst which
was a very memorable one from the city of West-
minster. were presented to Parliament against the
Bills, signed by more than 130,000 persons; but
no consideration could check the Mmister in his
headlong career, supported as he was by vast audio-
rities of both Houses.

Ott the 16th of November the Treason Bill
was sent down from the Lords. and, after encoun-
tering great resistance in every stage. it finally
parsed.
On the second reading of _the Sedition BM,
Mr. Erskine distinguished himself by some very
aininsted remarks against it. I kit Act of this
•description (he *din) war never thought of in the
reign of King Choler ff. niter all the horrors and
confusion of ilte former reign. It boss never st-
• tempted in the reign of Kiwg William. when the
UOversioneut was newly established dining a dis-

A meeting is to be held at an early day at Wakes
fitid, or in some. other central part of the Western
" for the 'purpose of expressing, in a dis-
tinguished summer, the grateful sense winch the in-
tnibitants entertine of tile public service* of Earl
Ftrtwlt.LlßM, during the turtrkty.yearscf his bold.
tuF. the high office of the Lord Lieutenant Of the
obt Riding

1 ?OR EiGN I N'T
PARIS POEM
fasts,
Prince Talleyrand is ex red

Prilier6f tr Waite
on the 2811, 'of-October, and
the General of Division, the : _
(Joernal des Debuts.,
A yeoman, quite naked, took refuge yesterday at
the Poste du Pont as t kange, with her new-born
infant. The utifortunate woman declared that,
having arrive,' in town from Chateau(lun, she went
into furnished lodgings, where she was delivered
clutiog the night of a female child. She added
that the owner of the house lied inhumanly turned
her out before even her deliverance was complete.
M. the Count de Blocs., Ambassador from
Presoce to the Court of Rome, has lately experienced
a considerable lops. A pert of his valuable library,
his engravicg., pictlllr,,s, and cameos, of great value,
which he Ini,l embarked on hoard a vessel for Rome,
have become a prey to the anises; the ship in *hick
they were having been burned.
celebrated English painter Sir Thomas Law-
rence has quitted Rome. De has been succeed.
td by Mr. 'Fume., a celebrated laudscape painter,
who is commissioned by the Mince Regent to
sketch the most beautiful points of view in Rome
and its environs.
Madame Pauline Bor.%hese is dangerously ill at
Rome since her return from the Baths et Ltic:a.
Deputy Gregoire hue, it is paid, ordered of his
tailor the costume that is necessary to enable him
to appear as a Member of the Chamber of De-
puties.

The itotnense estublishmetit of Viscount de So-
lager., proprietor of the coal 'nines at Carmeaux,
was destroyed by fire between the 27th and 29th of
last mouth, and the prope►ty so consumed is esti-
mated at the amount of from 180,000 to 200,000
francs.

VIENNA. OCTOBFR. 27.

A marriage is spoken of between the Archduke
Reguter and the second daughter of the king of
Sardine.

Nothing is known with certainty respecting she
arrival of the Emperor of Ituttia in this capital,
and although it is spoken of with confidence iss the
foreign pipers. there it certainly no foundation for
the rumour. No pleparatitais are making for any
augnet foreigners, and when such personages are
expected, preparations are always made fur them
some days before their arrival.

MA:VIRE:IM, NOVEMBER 3.

The Hereditary Prio.ce of Hesse Awubourg,
Field Marshal of Austria, and his august spouse,
the sister of the Prince Regent of England, have
passed some days at Carlsrutie, and are now nt
Bruit:hal, with the Dowager Mprgravine of Bilden.

Polak, ordered that each members of the
order sr ripprar to the Government to he qualifi-d,
and are by birth Italians or German., 'nay go to
Madrid. We learn that ten priest, from the dif.
fereut cone gee have ret out for Germany aide
►ian and Spaniel) purport,.

saattsr, Novr.,sva
The Duke of Cumber hind has worked t,utn
Warsaw. "Flit of the Police has issued al
iirilitiance, placing the cifeUlating lilnatiei tn,
Prussian monarchy under a more strict sorveillitire
4:•!' the local police; only per.citill of vial Otte/ft.-9
a..d character shall be allowed to keep rirculin
libraries.

OCTOBiit 30,
Lieutenant-General Lord Lyi edi•ric, and !Z.
Graham, hate arrived here from St. l'oerabn,g'.
There is a r-port of a 'worn:fgt. brturveta tine
duke Kanner and the second thiuglet r r.f doe g
of Sardinia.

His Majesty, following the example of his peptt.t
ancestors, who alwoys shewed the wisest
towards persons professing other religion than ti.
Roman Catholic, his gibes: t it-mission far
establitelinirtit of Catholic st hoots. Theo,.
port is renewed that the young Oulie of Reictistetit,
is intended to be the coadjutor nod foleCtilit.f of
uncle, as Archbishop 4.1 slid that lira,
1PG..1) go thither and be tostructrt! in theo;tl4! to
three Jesuit..

}ION Tat sIIcIBIIIIIIIOIIIIIFG, IOVEaIRrr
Accounts from Zurich stalk .ifait tiltre is a rr,
or ao imisortr c..inunicatinti made ht• tite
Irian Auib for, M. lroti S 4 hrrnn•, VjElltr,}l,,
wish that re-vitiation' may be ii.liipted in Sicize.
similar to those lately taken t) Grimm,:
Diet.

ritol4 THE NW j

The important notiioscrii t thr /hod, d•s•
covered by ProiettOor Nlittit,„ v. hob it
petted to be-of the fourth et-timer.
by Mr. Broome', booltveller it Frankfort, tt

the scholia. There are now m.lny Greckm .1114“!
the students at Gottingen.—(Hasaburgi
A (member 9.1

THE BRUFISH PRESS.

LONDON.
MONDAY, Novemsse 15. ter,.

Three Hamburgb Mllls arrived Is" 11101 t. T 7.1
persons, charged as principals in the .I..llrrec.ion ur
the peasantry in Norway, in 1818, ;).vr been ar-
rested, and carried in irons to ChristroniK Ate t.i.,;.
Lord CATHCART, the British Ainh,.•rlor to the
Court of St. Petershurgh, being recoiled, ha• token
hi§ departure with his family from thHt Cahill'.

The Duke of CVNBEILLAND his returord to
Berlin from Warsaw.

Ou Wedreinby arrived-iit Portsmouth, the trans-
ports Sir George (Morrie, TArt.rs, awl dlbury.
CUNNINGHAM. from the M luiiiius. with part
the 22,1 regiment of foot (-250 m.. 11) no board,
commander! by MajoriGeneral DALRYMPLE. Tfw
Brilliant (Lieut. M'ti.t.tams, agent) and Auror,:
transport., with the remainder of the regiment, may
be daily expected : they were left et the Cape or.
Good hope. This regiment has been Twenty !iron
in India. The above transports sailed him the
Mauritius on the 28th July, from the Cope
August, and from St. Helena on the 1511 i Septem-
ber. They brought live Frenchmen, who at re
taken in a ship by the boats of his Majesty's
Liverpool, and have been sent to England by ii

Governor of the Mauritius, to be tried fur a Wear
of the Slave Laws. The Liverpool was kilt at ti,e
Maurittw; the Aoutilus at the Cape; and tt,-.
lyeena storeship, on the ilst September. at Await-
viol), bound to England. Spoke the lndiatt'aml
Ann whalers, October 6, outward-boutql and th-
Seri:fp:spawns whaler. October 31, ix, Fr 3 n
bound. These 10 hips do not bring am oleo, fr...,

St. Helena. A party of offic,,rr, %%11,, c&m• for-
went up to Longwood, for the ply-pose of
BONAPARTB, bot they could not obtain a t*:1"11!.
of hum—The Court-Martial on Mr. SruLot.

Medical A dendatit on BONAPARTE, and Sur•;•!
of the fi.g-shin„ kr disobedience of orders, had
conciudrd, I)tit sic the rentt,pre of the Court ha+
not reached Li+ it. an ontheidicated form, w

mentioning it for the present. The f.,..td re
landed limn the transports on Saturday

port. mad marched for Do/entry, nedr Northa'

A Flainburgh Moil hos arrived, with Pi
the sth instant. The following are extract

ALTONA, NOVIII
Mr. Chamberlain Von °elan has arrived here.
and convey to Brunswick the body of the late Duke
nand of Brunswick, winch has hitherto been dep.,'
the Chinch of 01tcusen, adjo:ning A lieu'.

• HAIISURGIt, NOVIMEIER
We hare from an authentic source the airernble
Bence that hat Majesty the Emperor Alexander
rowdy iteceircd the; cvmmunication wade to him
Hasoburgb petratc Auti-Pies'• • -- -

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'EiLiGENCE. I his Imperial iffievly, in a iifivate letter. to spd
him 40 priest* front the Jesuit Colleges its Rama
What& !particularly Italians and Germans), fur the gu.d
of his stales, rood for Ihe foundation of new selswls
PAM, 1110TIMIWS 10..
and cullevs in his colonies. Prince Galitarit N i,.
'peeled this day in , ,
, twister of Ecclesiastical Affair., having made a reprat
s arrived it Montliellitr
of
sounitetltilewaisithl: jteethe
Gtoenheirsailmor
trhiealorlartesotfy,tius.n
at Polosk, has ordered 'that such men. 1,.... ..e
huemill sr; received
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1:4 Jesaits

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