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poisonous trade have been torn from him at once by
the laws which he had 110,daringly offended, and
with this he is nether same moment deprived of his
personal liberty for • space of time nearly equal to
half the caliAlated average of human existence.
In his degradation he has not even the satisfaction
of reflecting that his conduct was dictated by •
desire of improving, in the remotest degree, the
moral or political condition of his country. In
political speculation a man may en' with such
feelings and objects as would entitle him to
the esteem, though he may fail in obtaining the
coocurrence of a large portion of his fellow.
men, and were such a man to suffer pains and
penalties, he would be upheld by the proud
consciousness of his rectitude; but what consola-
tion can the wretched blasphemer of his God en-
joy, when thrown by the contempt and indigna-
tion of society into the gloomy retirement of a pri-
son ? Au outcast from one world, where his selfish
pursuit of gain deprives him of all human sym.
pithy, he cannot turn his thoughts to soother to
seek for coneolgtWpo.

A Report will be found in another part of our
Paper of ■ public meeting held on Monday last
at Reading, in pursuance of a Requisition, nume-
rously and respectably signed, addressed to the
freeholders and inhabitants of Berkshire. A mis-
taken sense of duty prevented the High Sheriff of
the county front presiding at the meeting, but his
place was ably mid efficiently filled by Sir FRANCIS
Bummer. The meeting, though not numerous,
seems to have been very respectable, and the
speeches delivered at it are possessed of very con-
siderable merit. The business of the meeting was
opened by Mr. HALLETT, ■ Magistrate of the
county, in a manner highly creditable to his prin-
ciples and talents, and the Address to the Patties
ItEuENT which lie proposed, lamenting the occur-
reucws at Manchester, and enforcing the neces-
sity of a strict inquiry, was unanimously adopted
by the meeting. The memorable letter addressed
by Sir FRANCIS BURDETT to the Gentlemen
composing the Weatminster Committee, ou the
fatal occurrences of the 16th of August, was al-

luded to by Mr. Riese iu terms of warm ap.
prove!, and his sentiments met with the entire con-
currence of the meeting; for, on the motion of
Mr. &Limn. a vote of thanks to Sir FRANCIS
five what they termed his " invaluable letter,"
and fur his " honest and manly avowal of it
to Lord SIDNOVIV," was passed by acclamation.
This circumstance is the more singular, as the
Ministers have it in contemplation to make this
letter the subject of an application to the Court of
King's Bench for • criminal information against
Sir F. Bulinerr. But to prove how directly hostile
to the honest sense of the Gentlemen of Berkshire
the conduct of the Ministers has been at this awful
crisis in the political being of the country, the meet-
ing passed a resolution expressing their "disgust
at the conduct of the Ministers in having dismissed
Earl FITZWILLIAM from the Lieutenancy of the
West Riding of Yorkshire, for no other cause
than his independent support of the constitutional
rights of the people." We are convinced that on
this point, at least, the Gentlemen assembled at
Reading expressed the sentiments of every hida
pendent man in the empire, and such being the
case, what have those Ministers not to answer fur,
in having by their intemperate conduct placed se
large a portion of the public in apparent oppnais
ties to the opinions of their Sovereign as expressed ;1
by his immediate servants ? They have through-
out the whole circumstances arising out of the
dreadful events of Manchester acted as if they
sought to disturb the harmony which ought to
subsist between the PRINCE and his people, and le
strongly was the public mind at one moment ie.
finessed with the injurious character of their pro-
ceedings, that we are convinced had they not see-
ceeded by finesse, and mysterious denunciations of
danger, in exciting a wild and undefined alarm in
She minds of many well-meaning peraons, they
must have sunk before the breath of public opi-
aloe, and not • voice bad been raised in their S.
ever from one end of the kingdom to the other.

The Paris Papers of Saturday have arrived.
The Mathew contains • long Royal Ordinance;
dated the Slat of October, respecting the compo-
sition, prostitution, appointments, and uniform of
the Navy. The peace establishment remains at
the sante amount fixed by the Ordinance of the lit
July 1814. viz. 10 Vice-Adininds, 20 Rear-Adosi.
rale, 100 Captains of the Line, 100 Captains of
frigates. 400 Lieutenants, 500 Midshipmen. 300
Candidates. This number of Officers will not,
howstvvr, be completed, but in consequence of a
Special Ordinance, and is to remain provisionally
as follows :—6 Vice-Admirals, 12 Rear-Adminds.

OF' Ctiptsiesnf the Liar.. qo refillain• &irk*.
300 Lieetesseets of the Liar, 4,1 Midshipmen,
boo CeerrideireoThe feihmiltiPili447o3o:

?new ineVllnee 13.
His Majesty kneed mess rebterelty in his aped.
amok
The Mir: Ii do Mrionlrenseetnel-inei.
MN erieh eienin•ey.,
Os the JO* ..inionet, at site &sleek et *Wet,

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pri vairus • lb' Ts•
not corrsoEtie lining yesterday for the
Doke of Richelieu' in Kris. His
not expected until the-end of this
month, or the beginning of the Dept;
It is stated under the head of tarlsruhe, 4th of
November, that the examinetioti of the evidence in
the case of Sand Ms been closed, end will be sub.
mitted to the judgment of a competent tribunal.
The Marquis of Mala Florida, who has sueceeded
M. Lozano de Torres as Minister of Justice in the
Spanish Ministry, was a Deputy of the Cortes and
of the minority or party of the Servile. when the
t4ring returned to Spain. lie is known as the person
who prepared a Memorial to his Majesty, signed by
the ovioliers of his party, which was delivered to the
King on his arrival at Valencia. It was this Memorial
that provoked time Decree of the 4th May, 1814, by
which his Majesty ordered the dissolution of the
Cortes.
Five per Cent. Consols yesterday, 69 fr. 20c.—
Actions. 1,4821 francs.

We have received Philadelphia Papers to the
16th last. They contain on snide from the No.
timid Intelligeracer. the Government Paper. which
states that Congress would not meet on the 3d
November. as had been announced; bet on the
first Mondry in December. the metal time.

The Gazette of lest night contains an ■ncom-
monly long list of bankrupts: they amount to
forty-four. The political disciples of the late
Lord MELvitut will see in this mass of bank-
ruptcy a proof of the prosperity of the country ;—to
them, therefore, it will be matter of congratula-
tion ■nd not regret.

Yesterday. at three o'clock, the Earl of 'AVM.
POOL, Viscount CASTLERCAOIII, and the CHAN-
CELLOR of the Excusrausa, had • meeting with
Viscount SIDMOUTH. at the Secretary of State's
Office for the Home Department.
The Duke of You held a Military Levee yes.
terday, as Commauder.in•Chief, at Isis Office in
the Horse Guards.
It is stated in the Paris Papers, that, by a new
regulation, which commenced on Sunday senoigbt.
at Calais, the English Journals are charged postage
as letters, by which the expense of them is tripled;
the annual cost of a Daily London Paper to Paris
now amounting to 100 louis, at Tours to 200. and
at Marseilles to 300. The Paris Papers add, that
this additional impost is only a measure of recipro-
city, in consequence of the ahoy imposed on French
newspapers in England, in which they are charged
as letters, according to the distance from Paris.
The following is an extract from a letter written
by Lord COCHRANg to a friend in London :
VALIPAILIUSIN JULY 20, 1012.
" MT DIAII amok you MOM kindly for your
long and circsmstaistial letter of Jemmy last. With it t re-
ceived your book, cootalniug the whole correspondence be-
tween you sad —; sad t perfectly cower in opisio• with
you, as to the character of all the parties. I have just hooded
over to the Chili Government, is part of their sheriff my
late copier., lanyards of 100,000 dollars; sod neat trip,
now I understand bow to carry us the war here, I shill get,
I tripe, at least some .l loss, besides Imadep Ike still
satisfaction of chest &hog the easmiee of liberty to thte quar-
ter of the piebe!—The occasion of my new writing to
you is quite gibe:peeled and accidental. I prod it by a
whaler which happens to be pen**, and I have traassnitted
to Mr.--funds to pay vpir bill fur the goods you have
scut ins, tad Abuse I noir order. Remember me klodly to
all frireplit./.ltou shall have a long seeount from me of all
tillage herein a short time; but hitherto I have had no lei-
sure fur letter•writing."
J. C. R.AWSDEN. Esq. has resigned his Deputy
Lieutenancy and Commandentship of the Halifax
Local Militia, in consequence of Earl FITZWIL•
LIMN'S dismissal.
The troop of the 10th Hussars which hay been
for some time stationed at Perth. arrived at Piers..
hill Barracks on Thursday. They were relieved
by the troop which marched from Edinburgh on
Monday sennight.

OUT-PENSION zas.--Caphia BAINES. the Re.
ceiling Officer of this district, hos, op to this pe.
nod, inspected upwards of 800 sea. Those found
unfit for ganition duly are paid sod dississed, that
they may retofis to their families, sod mot be ao ex.
pane to the public or so nominalistic* to the in.
habituate of this city ; mid those selected for oer.
vice are ssorehod of seder an olliosr. is detachh.

ments of 50 men, to Plymouth; two disinotis cons.
'Deuce their route this morning. Government be.
log desirous of forming these bettalious as soon es
possible, have ordered en addition to the Medical
Staff, to swift Surgeon SKEAN, ELL in the discharge
of this arduous duty. For this purpose, Stoff.Sur-
geon Hown.t.. M.D. is arrived, and Staff•Sorgeou
Mows is hourly expected. It is merely en act of
justice to observe, that nothing eau be more cre-
ditable than the pescroble end orderly conduct of
these old soldiers during the time of their-reomin.
ing in this city.—(Gloweerier Jarred Illestday.j
On the night of Seturdsy, or early as Sunday
weaning, the Catedoo44 stesoi-boot, which plied
between Perth mid Dundee, eras buret dews ia the
harbour of the latter place, nearly to the water edge.
It has pot been correctly ascertained in what man-
ner the Ins origiested.--(Edieherga Paper.)
Joao Enlist, who has been so long under sea.
tepee of death op the change of murder. &c. et
Herriegton, received the Patrice Resteav's par.
don at Monday morning lest, sod was immediately
released faun prison.
We regret to lean,. jest as we were putting to
press. that the Rev. Joist Mu wine T. perish priest
of BolSowins, wear Sniffs was that dyed oss the
toad by some desperate vii aiey ow his return to his
dwelling lea itiglit.—( Lawrie,: (;eseitte.)
Dam—A natio( took place on Wedneedity
morning. in * field wear to Oswald Home. between
Mr. J. W—.... nod Mr. H. S.--., bat of Durham
They were attended by Lieut.-Grown, W--,
as mama to the Ismer, and for the
latter. &Ref mabeaging two shots the parties se.
panted.-.. Mr. S.'s Ara asee posed don to Min.
w„.4:64•14 pod. she vetoed lope his Wawa% but
haF
tbs Filly Pomo, joie" bat received onion
of rot*.

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Omit ibis .game, as plapd by tilifelkire Wag *I" MI" 1.811e3
considerable time attended with gigot sad rapid cirieed at • p
profile. but the molt pillages him in deeper sod I Jammu& were
more desperate 'misery than be eror before rape- I arrival of the
tieneed. The emoluments of his immoral and Excellency is