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London, England, 1817-12-25 00:00:00

ADDRESSES OF CONDOLENCE.

The Lincoln Comity Meeting, for the purpose
of voting Addresses of C Weiser to the Prince
Regent soul the PrintlC of Soatte Coburg, was held
at the Comity-hall en Monday re'isilight, WWI sus
attended by a very respectable number of the priii-
cilial persons sir the cottony. A little before one
o'clock, Sir It. SIIETVIEI.D. the High Sheriff; took
the Chair, and 111 timonitig the business of the day,
exprraseil Isis uoierienon that tote coniuton Wilts=
'twit of regret oectsined the • ds of those assem-
bled, and that each had felt, ou I.arliillg the dis-
tressing isitelligetwe, isalliough he had been told of
she death of our of his own family. He was there.-
fore 'nippy to accede to the wisher of the Gentle-
men who hail called tlte Meeting, in appointing
the earliest day which might suit the convenience sit
the freeholder* at 'dirge ; and he had no doubt that
the well-known loyalty of the county would lead
them to express in proper terms their deep sense of
ate loss which the nation had to deplore.
The Requisition hotting been read by W. H.
Robinsoo,'Esq. the Under-Sheritf,
The LORD LIEUTENANT addressed the Meeting
fatter following purport :—ln offering himself to
the notice of the Meeting, lie Would veutare to ob-
serve, then this was one of that description which
must, in its very nature, absorb every other feeling,
,political or otherwise, in the entstenSpletioo of the
irrepirable labs which they had sustained—two ge-
',Benettons of the Royal House of Brunswick gimlet
shrouded in ;the tomb, and the succession thereby
left contracted sad indistinct ! He (Earl Bitten-
line) had had the hoinsor of 'bring received among
the acquatistance of the Princese, and had witnosed
thudomestic felicity which she hail eejoyed in the
society of her estimeltle Consort. To a reksted
taste. she united a solid understanding and a mini-
vaned I ; cad the lows of her might truly be Pro.
mounced to be heart-rending. His. Lordship would
not trespass oil the time of the Meeting, but would
submit to their cousideration the Addresses which
he kid in his hand.
Earl Blume tow awn read the Addresses to his
Royal Highowss the Prince Regent, end to his Se-
rene !ligament the ['Mice of Saxe Coburg.
The lion. C. A. I'LLlcam, in a short lint neat
address, expressed hie ,hearty concurrence its what
had just been read arid be could quote the. worth'
of persons of twice his own age and experience.
who had pronounced the death of the Princess as
the greatest loss which bad ever befallen the nation.
Mr. Pelham concluded by saviiig. that to the Royal
Family and those more ituittedtattly affected by the
sad event, nothing, it had beets well observed, which
was in the power of stun, could Sidininister relief;
fur grief like theirs there was only out source of
consolation.

Sir Roamer Wow( ruse, and said that he came '
to this Meeting fur the purpose of uniting with his
friends and Neighbours iu the expression of the
deepest conceen for that guest lamentable event
winch had plunged the 'torsi Fatuity into mourn-
Mg, and thrown a gloom over the .whole empire.
" Addresses, indeed," said Sir Rebell, " can
offer hut hide Mitigation to the grief of those
illustrious Permits, but it must aflurd them come
consolation to learn that the people participate in
their distress with decency, 's!rith loyalty, sod with
slovenly. It is on seek teilittietillify occasions as
this, that the Monarch Gait the love of the. people.
The heart is open, the feelings Ire exposed, and
the Prince pods himself united to his Illibjrcos by
slew and more eudeariug ties. The Princess Cher,.
lotte was infidel of the people ; (Inning the short
yelled of her public life, she endeared herself to
the country ; the nation turned its expectatious to
her with the fondest !ums; in her they saw in Una,
ginatimi the British diadem circling the fiords of a
hog successiou of mild and prosperous monarchs.
But die brilliant prospect is suddenly Waisted ! It
res 1111 l ds sue of the remarkable plienumet 1111 l of the
Egyptian plains, where the traveller is delighted
with the most enchanting views, but suddenly as
he advances the prospect vanishes, he is left a a
barren waste, surro 1111 l led by desolation, and not
knowing to *hut quarter to direct his anxious view.
To the Addresses I rim tarot happy to give my hum-
ble hut hearty concurrence. I ain niost happy that
she Noble Lord has moved an Address to the
Prince Leopold—it is a tribute of ropey' respect to
n Prince who is known to us mile by his benevo-
knee, his mild virtues, his amiable qualities, anis by
bring the object of the warmest affections of her
who has cariieil with her our deep and lasting
though amending regrets."
It was then resolved that the Addresses should be
transmitted to the Secretary of State fur the Houle
Departnient.
The Tliniiks of the Meeting were (on the motion
of CHAIALEN CHAPLIN, F.sq.) voted to the Sheriff.
Ishii rxiirrord his acknowledgments. and the Alert-
ing dissolved.

C DIA IlY..—Vtitritiny r young man, named
Lomghwrst, wily Is years of ti4r, the 90 u of a re-
opee.table into, reviding oat Moretlen, Surrey, ar-
rived fruin Croydon ut Horse ger-lane gaol, on
a charge •of setting tire to a 'SUMAC Null some ricks
at Moreden. Ile %;ita full committed fur trial by
the Alagistrates ut Croydon.- f .

We are happy to atete, that Somme! fiwghes and
lin mpkry Dowdier, the two s..osibicts umler sett-
telice eif tresesportntioss, who lately made their
escape from our county gaol, are re-taken. The
former lusA, since hie escape, committed N burglary
at Buckley IN!, tweit Kuutsford, Cheshire, and
being detected, he, to 11V/111i being taken, threw
himself through the • window of the house wherein
he was., wbich he shattered to pieces, carryiug off
part of the casement ; anti though, in sluing thi.,
kr ao ftverely uotsisiled himself about the bead, us
to be afterward. sink to remove from the !louse of
Correction at Mieldirwich. yet he coins ivrd to go I /
miles before he waa takeo, Bon dler was taken on
Wednesday week, at Sheffield.— ;Saivism Jostrour)
Sawed Itseielley Johii ure coin-
milted to Chester Castle for trial, for having .tislesi
the liveries soul clothes of the fr:on their
leseigins,t-isiensis over the stables, at the regpeclice
sirso.inses of Sri. It. Batman, of Newton ; I.
KLI 111.% ; Sir JOHN EGrWrON. 14
Oki/fish Pork ; Mad ThOduCHOI.NRIN Dri. E;11.
of Vilir all IN *the collude of4lieeter. They
meld some of the apparel its Sliresechtier, on Friday
st'unight, 4111 i were.upprelictideel there, • • •