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London, England, 1810-12-13 00:00:00

GI OUCES TE RSHM ELE CI

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A Meeting of the Freeholders in the intere-t of
Mr. Dutton took place tin the is indent. at the
King's Head Inn. in Glouenter, obis h la [mint of
numbers and y tar «greeted any Cons.
ty Meeting on a stab,{ ir orecs on wit4in our remit:use
brume. From a very early hour in the morning
the streets exhibited a busy were in the coroterit
arrival of carriages from all parrs of the coutry.
It was soon discovered that the Loog Room of the
bin (the tables of which were him out for toe)
wuulil not nese!), numerous
Freeisuldets who had tali. ed, iu conseilu, lire of
which several other rooms iu the lnmse were thrown
open. Yet so great was the pres•iire. thut *event
Gentlemen left the inn, not being enabled to pro.
cure accominodation.
Mr. Dutton Inswing areepted the invitation of the
Meeting. errived at the King's I :end shout threis
o'clock. To enumerate those who iittecded on this
occasion, would be to enumerate the Brest inejorny
of persons of the first consequence and reepeetalus
lity in the 4:011104) ; indeed. PO numerous was the
assemblage, that the limits of our paper prevent
j their

The Clair was taken, at the iniaiiiinerna request
of the 'Meeting, by ti. P. Peach, Esq. who, ISMh
shindy on th- cloin liteitte removed, geed—
The link, and a speedy recovery to Ittre-LeTh, Queen oug
Easitty—The Praire of Wake.
rle CHAIRMAN lien rose, and stated, that an
oriels an enteasien he shonld -notice • few of the
charged which hal been preferred in the public
prints egs;.:ist the cause Or Mr. Dorton, by Sit
‘Villiain Guise and his edbeteots. But is n hat.
ever he might say, .he begged to be nntlerstood art
speukoig of Sir William only in his poilthe oharoo.
ter, and he felt happy in the opportnnity of beare
ing public testimony to his private worth sod re.
spectahility. When men, however, had placed
themselves in public situatians, it was competent
for soy gentleman to deliver his sentiments upon
their public conduct. The first charge to which
he should allude, was an alleged " Corobiaatioe of
the Peerage to dictate to the County a proper Re.
presentative." We bear, raid the Chairman. every
day of a combination-of shoemakers in raise the
price of wages; and this, he continaed, we all
understand ; but he confessed be could not com-
prehend what a Combination of Peers meant,.
For himself, he knew net of any duels eambiairs
ties, and wished to be told in what manner it hod
been formed. Hrd it been by public meeting Hee
for one had not heard of any such. Aod how lid
they endeavoured to carry their wishes into effect...
by letter or by woad ? He wished to know if auy
Gentleman predent had received any such letter. or
keen canvassed by this Coalition? And rarely.
among 200 of the moat respectable meets of ton
county, whom lie saw there assembled. souse one Si
them must hive I.llrll within the wishere of this
" Combined Prem....," if such • combitiatipp eye?
had existed..-Atiturser charge was, the," ounannetk
combitiatioli" of men of all parties is support Me,
Dutton. For his part be saw nothing onnototel
in reaoinable and oiLleritte men if all partite
laying aside the childish distinction of a yel.ow or
blue ribbon. and uniting to return man whom
they thought most likely to preserve Ilse Cortatito.
Lion hi Church and Stkte as by law established. mid(
to resist the dsagerous ituanentions of mestere days.
Gentlemen. said lie, 1 koala of no Combination
of Piers. or indeed of any oilikr Combination in
this contest, but that or a great majority ul honest
and independent men of all pieties to.support Mr.
Dutton, whom they consider the most proper per.
site fur their Representative. Another circorua
stance to which he Omelet allude. was. the cacti•
deuce of success expressed by Sir Wm. Guise. He
was of opinion Sir William dusty believed he pot.
sessed the majority he boasted, for his respeet4bis.
lily repelled the idea that he would otherwit.e mated
it. He could net, however, but eumuider that the
Worthy Baronet was greatly deceived in his returns;
Or that, from their mole of canvassing, promises
were obtained on which no reliauce could be placed.
lie would explain their mode of convatansig. as it
had oe,:ilered in tavo instances in his own immediate
neighbourhood. And here lie begged to say; that,
simuld his account I.t, discredited, be wee ready to
tt 'id Sir William Guise, or any of his friends, to
the parties to whom he allutled. Fie aoul.l not
mention the freeholder's rirne, lint wonld esti hint,
Mr. C. (for that ass the initial of his nami) ; hot
he rep.-11.11 his pledge to attend Sir 19 the
party, it he wished it. On bent: ctinvioeed by Sir
William, lie replied, he hrd promised Mr. Dutton;
Sir William then asked him. if lie were indeperto
eat ? cud on being answered is the affirmative, said,
go then abet signifies your promioe." The other
instance occurred in the Chairman's own pariyit,
where a Mr. S. being applied to for his rote by Sir
William Guise, replied he had promised Mr. Dot.
too. lit was then asked the old question, as to
whether he was independent? and Mr. Webb,
who acuompanietl Sir William, told him, solves he
were under obligations to Mr. Donau or his friends,
lie would rote for Sir William. Mr. S. feltirtitst.
ai the supposition. and denied that as j each
motive had influenced him. Sir William ilcdiei
he could not obtain a promise Si the vote, arts!
pressing him three or four times ea the whim,
asked hiiu at least to premise, that if he wield net
vote for hitn. he would net vote gamiest hints Me.
S. replied, he had promised Mi. Dutton, sod ad.
ded. " had I promised you. Sir William, and
afterwards retracted. you might hive justly cal.
led me a scouirdrel.; but that I am ft solved net.
ther you nor any man liviog shall ever
Mr. Window (a professional agent of Ste Wil.
lianet) then said, " 4t all events, Sir. you'll
own that in your heart pin wish Sr William
Guise enceers.'—Mr. S. felling very angry at
being thus pressed, turned is his heel dud left
them. The Chairman mentioned these rifeness
stances, to thew the grimed, of'Sir Williams sod.
fidence ; for all man had not an equal itidepeod.
tehoremeof seirespurstesuand
sponii.mind withM
yh
aievr. S.
u;
cook d.
their
am.
periors in tine scale of scanty, he imagined pro.
mires trizlit have been matte to avoid further ins.
portunity.—The day of Election wonld, isowerllT,
prove the invalidity of promises eatortesl by 4.,41.
f Iteration f' for pie could rot. he said. find key
other word to meet Iva ides of such a modsol ma.
vesting.—se But. Gentlemen," he addedd when
you look at the character awl impveresee of the
,/ is present Meeting, 'Ambient it the rest weight

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the Landed, the Clerical, the Cromesecial, and
the Yeomanry Interests of this great and evillest
Cutinfy, there rsnnot fur • rn 1111 l eta exist a doubt
that the resell -ftlie prevent emit. bt will tic favour.
able to Mr. Uuttoe•, NIA to the anxious wishes of
his ountiortirri; sod I speak with wore confidence,
from a strict invc•ti;l.tion of die returns of his can-
vass, trout w,ctii atilwars he must have ♦ DU-
CliSt.:D. ♦ WEST DSLID•u M♦JUIIITY."
The Prandant, alter eillarging upon several
other poises mitstiecieti with too contest, crinclailed
a mast antoutotl and tinnily atlilressonnidst the Un-
bonts.leri plaudits of the Meeting—indeed it is ini-
pt...thie to describe the sothusiaiitic feelings which
the ielitress -seised.

Mr. DUTTON. 111 ,eati.nents of the wannest grs.
tituao. returned his ucknosrltdgments for the bo-
nnet' the Comity bail conferred upon Inns by such
• electing; and that it twos impossible he
eou'd Kurt eugenic adequate to the expression of
his erielisits; and therefore Amalfi only say, ilia the
eliotiown%herl support which surroond, cl him, fully
coefon.irated the liwitirances he had received no his
cony's', and gave hum the pleasing conviction that
success Weald 111tIllilltly attend the chin*
win. h Wid been use, strenuously supported. and
which, in the most deriel.,,d laiepluAge, he again
Idea II newer to iirt.•••• Mr. Dutton con-
• 4y "•(00^Ple 7k health of the Chairman,
wid thanks to Abitibi, the hanouretble tentihtents he
had exprrssrd in hit 4,lllress to the meeting.
^I,• r...,if• Pr 6. 1.. t .pare—

The Wooten tratls of 4 /7i England—The Commander in
Chief and the driny--Lo,ri Wellioven and the brae Troops
in Portiwal, and SUM!s u then. efForis --the Lord Lieu-
I. out of the Convoy. —Lord Sherburne —The Earl of
Berkeley and Land L &Annul, the Late and resew Mem-
bers of the Comity.— rhr Bishop and Clergy of uhe Diereses
—Mr. Codrington, P. for Tewkesbury, and thanks fur his
ovalous support of Mr. Dalton.
On Sir. Codringto.i's health being proposed, the
Chairmen read a letter frost him, atatitv that some
Important engagem, ilia in Landon preveided hint
attending the ineeti- g spiv sting they might
be informed ilia Mr. L)ano ib votive hail Ins b st
support and warine,t %visors. The Member' for
Cireneester were then drank; alien Mr. Beach, in
the insole of both Members, roomed thanks. The
Woollen Manufactory ,tf the ('ovary. M... Shep-
pard, of Uley, rose in the name if the manufactur-
ing interest, and, in stay energetic terms
the Meeting, that, although it had been attempted
Ly the °lipoid+e party to raise a clamour to the
prej tidier of Mr. Dutton, by altr.huting to him
of the Commercial iutert,t of Vie County.
Oil of would venture to .souse the Meeting, that
so injury would result from the insinuation, which
viall Alt- groundless and unjustifiable, as would
be Italie evinced iiy the great majority of votes lu
that very interest, attending Mr. Dutton to the
poll, should the temerity of his opponent resider
ouch an attenthinee torcesintry.—The next to.rst
given was, .idltiral Bei he*. and our brave Tarr
in the Tagus : au c furgetting hit gallant Nephew. the
lion. frederich Verateley.
The entertains°, t was enlireind by severe] ex-
Salient and appropriate sour; hut our limits will
not permit us to particuturnse them : still we cannot
forbear isoticimr, that upon the cutielusion of the
popular soag, " The Land, Boys, we live in," tile
company asniversailly joinail in the chorus, which
woe altered to " Dirts..o for ever." Th-. Chairman
gave, The Land we live in, sad Dutton fir ever;
sod ong4.-ted, that he saw Out r.. 3111011 wily a good
cease should not be 'erred as sell as a bid one ;
and that the only way was to fight the enemy with
lir own w. sinus, and therefore he should bring up
all the enters its his neighbourhood free of expense
to Mt. Dutton. The tile-I VI I. rapturously caught,
and universal assent to the laudable intention of the
Cnairinan pervaded the Meeting.
In the course of the evenint, many loyal and con-
etitistionnl toasts and sentiments w. Tr drank ; and
en The Corporation tf Bristol being given by the
President. Sir 11. Protheroe rose to return thanks ;
and gratified the company by avanring them he was
fully convinced that Bristol and its stibisrbi would
also produce a great inajori:e iu layout of Mr. Md.
toll. " Indeed," said Sir Henry, in concluding a
most excellent and npuropriatc speucli, "1 1:•111 duly
compare the vain and confislent boast. of S;r %rm.
Guise, to the flush or hectic seen in the fare of
Conan:option, which. though rartv mg wills it Ilse
•pnetirsore of strength, °illy Makes.. s secret inter-
nal weakne,.. and approaching dissoliition."
The Bailiffs and Burgesses of Tewkesbury were
then given ; and on the health of Mr. Footle being
drank, he rose and assured the Meeting, that
though the-agents of Sir Wm. Guise hail tisserled
that the majority of Free!iolders in Tewkesbury
and its eic..iity sere in favour of the worthy Baronet
(for whom he hod the highest personal regard), he
believed he might, without fear of contradiction,
assure the !Meeting, that they would come to the
hustings in favour of Mr. Dutton, nearly in th- pra.
portion of three to one. lie would, Inns-ever,
pledge himself to their polling two out of three iu
that interest. He concluded a neat and manly ad-
dress, lay assuring the Meeting, that the Tea kes-
bitty Freehollere should appear at the Hustings
free of expense to Mr. Dutton.

This Meeting !shied till a late hour, and every
thing wrs couriurted with roodeemion and liOg
trm:r►, though we never recollect a more festive
and joyous eo:ertsintornt. •

Sroturtai; the great twitch hetwist
Crib and Wiens:, that of Mr. NIIIILTOM en,:ro••es
its full ,4 hare of attention. The motels is to ride to
fr,X) miles) In fire hour•, and to he done
within at:v.4o.4n thy,. getting i• against Oe per.
forrkiaove, as the rid. r his to perform 14 miles
eac:i hour. Ile will go OF the stones oti a p.,tley,
and then he will mount a Pet mate, 404 to SOO.
ford lie will have nine other Lome*.

On Ntouday laet. hennt the A tttt iveretry of th-
Institution of the Royal Academy. in a tie:lrtal
A spend/1y of Arad• unmans, the flllowil.g Gentle w eak
wrre elected Offierrs for the roautng year
PIVIIIIIEST—StirjuItin West.
Vrtreueß—W. Q.-es, 11. Th..m.on, J. IV.Wektiaa, .1.
/10,11veute, n 114% Wood:a/4e, retire.
SUCCIIEDZIO IV 1141T•TIO‘ Iht TIE Cowmen—A. W.
J. N. W. Turate, .1. Saint, sod C. 11. 4%1, Pigs.
A*. uirotir—G. Dauce and .1. ingt•la,
S ,;.er Medals Were Kiten to the follueing Sta.
for the best Draeriog of as .teadeal)

rim lutit Muitel dm Academy Furore.
r, (•ir the 1)4,4 Architectural INurrin.

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