The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-01-18 00:00:00

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,4 We, your Majesty's dutiful awl loyal subjects, the No-
bility, Gentry, Clergy, Freeholders, mid tither hibabitaiiis of
the Curtsey of Cambridge and Isk of Ely, beg leave to offer to
your Majesty the assUrallee uf our zealous attaebuteiit to your
Royal Perron and Family, and to the Throne and free Coo-
siltation tinder which we have the happimeas to live. Mien
we reflect that the amine Revolution seated your Ma.
irate. Family os the Thioue of sliest Realties anti confirm-
ed our liberties, we feel ourselves united in 'mere.' to yuor
Majesty by more than the common ties beta-reit Sore.
reign and People. It is a peculiar and pre.etnineut feature
of our Constitution to look to the Throne with grew ode, i.t
times of national prosperity, and for protecituu mid .1,,%:•:-
anee in thuse.pr riuds of distress to which all nations .re
jeet, while thetetpunsibilityof Miiiia,eis laird ua a scarify
artinst these atts of misgovernment which lead ullAr cum.
lssuities In unavoidable ruin.

" It would be prisuinptuous and unnecessary for us to
submit the distressed stale of the nation to your MAjwy's
euitaidtratiou as matter of information. 'the difficulto-s
under which your people labour are so notorious, that, oil
that subject at lean, opinions are uniform.

" In ibis agricultural county their (Alerts are uaturaVg
felt, in the depressed Plate of all those who are a:worried
with the cultivation of land; and we should br wasting
feeling towards those of our frllow.subjects engaged in rum.
enrree and manufactures, were we to drily, thit at tic leut
their sufferings were equal to our own.

"The ealstenee of so much national distress in a period
of profound Mire, and that of considerable duration, Ili.
twiny excites' our surprise, and has drivers us frequently to
express our feelings and distresses in pctitious to (bola
Houses uf Parliament, for inquiry and re dress ; these our
petitions have been prrsented in vat., and despairing of ally
relief, either from the adoptiou of measures of prilslic rev-
mossy, or from the seduction of texatioo, uuthe use intim -
race of your Majesty's reseal IlliViS4r., we naturally resale
to a practice adopted in the.best periods of one history, and
heg leave respectfully to submit our uptuiest to your Ma-
je.ty, that your present Ministers have lost the coofi.koce
uf the people, and ears no longer he useful sir effective ad-
•isers of the Crown.

" We feel an unwillingness unnecessarily to enter info
the consideration ef subjects minatete.l with any domestic
arrangement in your Majesty's 11kiwis:ins Family; hut
when, in the person of the Queen of England, en attack
boo beer etude. under the *auction of your Miuistcra, upon
all these prieriples of jiutice to which the meanest of your
klajesty's *objects look ep fur support and defence, it adds
force to our opinion of the necemisy of • cli,,ege in your
Majesty's Consist Is.

. We, therefor►, entreat your Majesty lo remove truss
70111. COOfiai OCC those whose advice ran be so longer eel.
air:cable to )our Majerty, ur beneficial to your people.
" THOS. HUHGES, Sheriff."
Earl R(COOlitli Ike Address is a brief
speech, in which he commented with crest severity upon iFe
conduct of Administration, particula.ly is their unconst Ito.
uoual i .... se of 12000 oven to the ...audios army, on.l
he believe.' there would be disaffection as Wog they
cunoieued.

Mr. Fanonnn, jun. agreed with the ArWillie, and corn.
merited at great II oath and with mach •bony on the pro.
stratum of the LIU proreentiusi so which the ea.
tablistred clergy had lent their assistance—a proweation
iu which the PrOat Colin. were atw Judges and Jurori.
Wuuld it out, said lie, be considered a Mtn to ry of justice.
if a privote isitlivido3l, who CONtlitreti be bad came sf
complaint 'gams( another, Was iti sit doors, mud by put-
ting on a large vitc and black grve, assume to (ivy jittlg.
Medi, and pr0n...1 t.. lat.-Winn against 11.4 offa w.h tag riv.ll
Would not this be rutota.lesed o mos kers, of justice
Yet against thou had her N.jeaty to cos tr awl user whirls
did our Noble Quiets, Ir iassiph, and h.. surcred he r town. a
with disgrace sad cost (~stun—who date nut wow 61.• or in. M.
•civet in the fate of I lir cols n 5. v, but lotitk Iwo bales and I u,
was. (laNgrtfer and upplasse.)—Tat Chit., it, by her It 4.

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ompb, has eineamarated the triumph of Ilsepeil•le. aad the
teiumph of the press. the Ho.. Gent. the* alluded to the
Nlasetrester affair, whit* he said, alone ought to have raised
op every voice Pa IM country, where the useffeudiug
p•ople, who h.d amemblled to coorplais of their grievances,
were trampled wader the feet of the horses, and fell bes
fore the sabre of the Wake. He apprehended, howtyeried
effeetost ativentege would be tilt* ty result tre a mere
chant* of men without a choice of measures. It world
import bet little were Lord B substituted for Lord C. Re-
form is every skisg. It was Lord Chatham's dying legacy,
and William Pitt himasit said, that without Refoim au
Minister could remain honest.--(App/ottre.)—He their
alluded to the Revolatioas in Spain and Portugal, sail
moved • Resolution that no Jeers! relief could be afforded
but by a Reform la Parliament.
The Snadmr observed, that the High Sheriff felt aoxious
that the almost latitude should be given to dismission; yet
is Ile situation in which he stood, and trammelled as he must
say he felt by the recent Attest* Parliament, be could uul pat
the Resolution to the Meeting, as the subject was out mom-
I ironed I. the Requisitioa.
Illaarer, in a "patch of peculiar force sad elegance,
supported the Address.
The Rev. Mr. Illaniits:Y roes to move an Amendment to
the Address. He was as admirer of the female character,
smite loved hi. Sovereign, and regarded liberty as his life;
he Was thee ready to sacrifice that life sod his property is
defeice of hieltiog ; hot he could nut curucieotionsly Joie
in expressions of 'Machinist to one who had ',tempted to
degrade the female thirstier. He then went al cousiderable
lekth into Ors nitrite of the Queen's case, as also the dis-
tresses of the commie', sad the six restrictive Acts, and coo.
eluded by moving as an Asseatimeot. an Address which hit
held in his hand, eensairseimi with the abhorrence sad dia.
gust that was excited by the conduct of the King sad his
-Majesty's Ministers.—(Mach elanwur).
The Situates, said, be felt an artful responsibility atilseb-
oil to him. He was the tinker of the Kier, and 'monad not
-.soffer tbe Damao( hisSusereign to be insulted in his pregame.
Mr. Bassos Lirrt.o opposed the Address, and rob,.
guard the conduct of Mioisters„ who had sustained the
country through a long and arduous war. He thought
the it conduct the mania' of the Regency Art, by Oat
limitations of whßh the Prises was precluded from teach.
hog on the rights of the Crown or the people---(ffiams,and
muck clamour.)
The Sprain, repeatedly begged that every Gentlemen
might be kitty beard, as it was the ouly way of coming at
the truth, and as cessoaaat with the manliness and candour
of Englishmea.
Mr LlTrt.a (II convinced that the greatest portion of the
distress felt by the farmers was ottribotable to the fnrtleleat
mode by which the averages had beer talteu—(.4pp'gruoir)—
list which it was impossible for the Ministers to prevent ;
thi y had done every thing within their power fur the support
of the Corn Bull, Shoogir at the bossed of hiving their houses
burnt shout their ears. He could have 110 11011 of interest in
Ike Address, save what be kit Yoe Ida country ; be expected
nothing from Ministers; bat be coasidered that every Mall
Oho held up los hand fur the Petitioa would hold up his
hand agsiort his Suvereiga.—(Letetlyktor end liras lasting.)
Ma WVLILAI called Mr. Little to order.
The Addle,* was this put, aid declared by the Sheriff to
be carved by 30 Minimise majneify.
Mr. F. Pure (son to the Mesaber fur Bedfordshire) loosed
a Vote of Milks to Lord Francis O. Osborne, fur his up-

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tight, manly, Parliarneatary corded, particularly in the case
of the Queen. •
Mr C. TOWNLEY, jun. seconded the motion, which was
carried by 'eel...Meas.
Sir C. Lazo, moved that the Adekmss be presented to his
Majesty by the Lord Limileuant of the Curia'', together
with the County Members.
Mr. Nig seconded the Elation, which was tarried new. con.
Mr. 11...t0r Ono owned the Thanks of she Meeting to
the High Sheriff.
Mr. TownLEY oreooded tkt motive —Carried by acct.-
S. Watt.", F.eq. briefly relented Omsk. on lethal of the
Sher:ff. He highly approved of the order anal mudelate
temper which characterised the procembeiza. '1 reniem-
Mame of their approbation would be • source of satisfaction
t the fetteriff, when be again Trtuoutel to the inclusion of
private life.
After the Sheriff bail declared the business of the day
concluded, Mr. W. Vette proposed three cheers for the
(Olen which was carried into effect with hearty and con-
tinued acclamation, by nearly ills whole ut the assemb'ed
multitude.
In cemestwouence of the Sheriff not being allowed, owing
to the restrictive powers of the late Acts of Nehmen!,
to receive a Elution which was nut embraced within the
liequtrithow, ...her, most numerously and respectably
*fated, was presented to the Sheriff, previous to his leaving
t•iwn, requesting hien to call another County Meeting, for
She proem of proposing • Petition to the House of Com.
moos fur a He form is Parliament, and to implore the House
immediately to restore her Majesty the QUeeU to her rightful
honours sod dignities.