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DUNDEE RADIC.M REFORMERS.

The Rat Oral R4oralvel of this place wad on Wedoesdar,
in she IllAndalen Yard Green.

its twelve o'clock comparatively few were amembleri resod
the lot.tiaga, which the Inmmiltee of Management had
erected in the plain to the eaaturaerl of lir. Pedifie'r hosier,
venire dee regard to accority and' tntrovesdeuce. %on after
twehte, several here bodies of workmen from the moment-
unties an Slim stiliweb• arrived, 6` in martial array"--that is,
linked arm in arm, maerhinj to the sound of • scanty sop.
ply elf inwsie, arid' unfurl:rig a ftl. The gigs were
while, edged wish black, told decorated with hunches. of
er31146 Oise of them eita in.:crated, " Fur the Ruffin...es at
lhilmehildcr—Lost; life to Earl Filgailliam !"—annther,
6•• Order, Love, and Unity ;"—and a ihitil bore upon one
ride, The Voice of the People is irresitlible;" and on the
other, " We only want our Rights, in a peaceable and
eanstithlianial maiiner."—About a hundred sailors paraded
io great order, with • Union flat, rormourited by the
figure of • *hop': bulk, bosh reversed, and emblematic of
the ruined ',area commerce. A poly of jurenilcs carried
a pole, from which dangled n broken tea-kettle, sod Iwo
tea pots; anti from another pole were suspended the
f-aginents of • gill-41nnp, of wine gal tobaccu.pipea,
and,wolf Lones—inemorials of fineries mice enjoyed by the
prowess mart its the c ..... iiry. brit now•proseribed by Ike Rs-
orlicals, is. their war nraiiist the Treasury, and is prudent
eccunitnodmiun io ihr iirceatiiier of the times.

Tire Committee, il,esee.l in decent as..nrning, and me-
enurrinied by a lew itnlivi,inals from Arbroath, t'upar,
mid tither towns, ascended the hustings ■bout half•paat
t +mitre.

311e.Krucncts,ef Kinlearh, one of the 'bleat and most pnb-
imirited of one country gentlemen, nom then called to
preenle and Els soon as the appintew which aecompnnied hie
lamina ceased, he addreesed the multitude is nearly the ful-
l‘mlnf terms:—
- • • - -

- - -
ro You have this day pl wed me in • situation, which, how-
maw bonoervahle. I world not have accepted of, had I not
tape satisfied, front long observation, of your noilerly and t
p.serabie behavonetr. and your respect for the laws .t your
I °tottery. Those laws have lately, in another part of the
klngdom. hero violoted—toot by the proplt—not by those
whom the !bosom& grrs have the presumption to call
" the lower orders" fns of all men were not (oral in the
oriebt of flood)--but by use very individuals who have been
eppoiaded to enforce the Imes, and who consequeutly shoold
I owe been the last to violate them. Prominent stank the
vamp of a clergyman! and sorry 1 inn to say. that in
flaw part of the kingdom, there are too many of Ilia pro-
tes.i 0000 who, like him, prefer (obeying the orders of an earth.
le master, to those Or him oho ha vald that hie kingdoms is
not of this world. In Scotland, thank God ! we line,
.6 07 in-
roamers of those busy meddling priests, who thrust them.
has into every man's roncerns—who dabble i-. the muddy
p local polities—and who, to attain their dirty end*,
it or't tided author n sollSeient quantity of calumny sod mis.
a- presentation. Now, me friends, let us cons-Mee those who
liaire en long eslemnintrol the working classes, that you can
Iro ep order, and !ober more correctly than some of those '
ohm affect to look down pions pm. I therefore trust that
you will give an impartial hearing to whoever may choose
to address yon ; and that, when the business of the day is '
arose, you, will disperse peaceably, and retire quietly to your
looms, without olfrrine offence or molestation to any per-
....e hatever. 1 am anxious to impress this most strongly
uo•ot you ; because nothing would delight the enemies of
Ito-form, and conarrinently roue enemies, eu much as to
1. ire it to say that soon bad been goilty of a riot. There
r-o.y be among you wiiteee iu sheep's clothing. We know
it the " humane" Noilinoutli ha. at least one coloinfarp
^V in poor good town: and there are probably move of
I loose "honourable men." But heed them not. If any
roan attempts to lead you into arty of violence, you
may set him down as • friend to Siohoontb—as your
worst enemy : mot as such yon will avoid him. Having
t'.na put you ou your guard, I shall proceed to mate
the business fur which we are now sesemloled ; and •Iso
bore 1, who am not a resident in your town, come to
!ate a prominent part an the proceedings of this days
V..., all know that your Magistrates were first applied
~ and that they rtfia.rd to sanctem this meeting by
I,,ir presence. The Members fur the borough and fur
tior county were next applied to, and they likewise declined.
Y.•ur Committee Oben tinned their eyes towards me; and as
1 onion never shrink from occupying any post in which
l'-iook I can be of service to the cause of the people, I in.
meetly wrote to them that 1 would attend in any capacity
Vor y thought tit. Born in this town, and bating daily rum-
romiestion with it—being one of your Harbour Commis-
s,o.oere, and deeply interested in all your other improve-
r:tato—l do nut think I can justly be ::ceased of prestamp.
t-on in obey-dog your call. My motives may be misrepre.
•••••de.l. As has been the case before now, I shall probably
to- !noel' a topic of abuse to the old women of both sexes, who
a-e fonder of picking holes in the conduct and rrpoistions
i/ their neighbours, than of taking laced to their own. I
0.01 probably he call. d an ambitions demagogue, and other
bard names. Let it beta but neither bard names nor hard
vaage shall ever make me shrink from doing my utmost to
?rote my country from the state of vassalage and ruin into
wt inWiers are doing all they can to plunge it. I have
now to nand out to you w hat appear to me to be the causes
el that continued and complicated distress which threatens
to overwhelm us. Few of you are old 'sough to remember
tsw American war. That was a war waged against liberty ;
I 00,, God be praised! it was unsuccessful. The addition to
tie Boioughmoager debt, by that war, was upwards of one
eee hundred and ten millions. W. 11, ibis was but • trifle
to the addition made to the debt by Pitt's " glorious" wars
meocost liberty ; for, independently of the immense same
les :ed yearly, the permasent additioo to the Burouglamonger
age Ut was upwards of seven hundred millions.' The slim
..toast is laketi from us to pay the interest of Ibis iuferual debt
pea...tints to upwards of 40 millions yearly. Bodonil it forty.
77 it is the cause of our distress—this is the mill-stone
• t octo weighs us to the ground! For suppose that these
w.o.ked wars had never taken place, the debt eonseqeently
would riot hare been eoutracted ; and these forty mullions
v weld have remained with ourselses, instead of going to pay
Borooglimongers and their creditors. Take the popula-
tion of Great Britain and Ireland at fifteen millions of souls.
Fusty minima,' of pounds would give fit 13s. 4d. to every
man, woman, and child in the king.Zom—being tat. a year
to a man with • wife and four children ; and if the oilier
epensea of the Goverionseut were coudseted with economy,
t oe raving would be much more considerable. Would Mtn
add nothing to your comforts? W0.0..W nut this soon be better
to euor prekets than in the pockets of the Borouctimongess?
As to the absurdity which an English Judge lately uttered,
that tames are beneficial, because the mosey is again en-
s elated by Government, and returns to those who paid lot"
---o'm latter part is &I.e. Boot suppose it did retsina to the
h eoruo who paid it, does it dawn to him for nothing ? If
. oe of you has paid hi. in taxes, and tiovernment after.
a. sods employs you to the amount of hi, du you get back
'oar hi. for uothong ? Must you out work for it our again
10-tu.e you get it; and ore you nut just hi. poorer than you
loose been, if Gripe, due tax gatherer, had trot pad
)• u a Tied Away, then, with all tbs. Nonsense of the pen.
atoned et-mgado Bark,. shout tames retail-Sing to us " lake
I:watews of heaven "' 'I be dews of heaven du indeed ref Mil
to co. to eaurasb our COW., mud the sou shims forth to ripen
Owen ; but the taxes are lake the pestiferous vapours from •
marsh, into retort.' lu prevent us from enjoying the bountiful
gifts ut Pewoodenee --Having thus endeavoured to stew
that our distress mimes from recessive taxation, if I am
1;01, it follows of course, that that distress I be gut
id sif Willi the amount of taxation he greatly reduced.
plow tb.. is to be dune is a matter requiring serious
ansideration ; mad to attempt to state nay °pintoes
o,pea Use subject mould lead me into • tedium) detail,
far which this is nekton the time our trlsee. Oue thing
we are certain uf, that, as long as the Hirai* of Coninionil
i. cocsartuted as at 'resew, no - effectual remedy wall
be either proposed or applied ay them. I shell Una We.
apy your flake by .telling you what you all knell already,
lust the House 01 Commons does OM, is the comma •ud
raliOn4 import of the word, represent the people el the
kaagitoors. Th. 6 ms, issofeneuesairty, as overmialue art eke min
at siosin-dosy. Had the paruy4e really bees gepramislied en Ilia
UOMM Commons, • wild these foultals eadoeteareessary
wan hare We, carried us! ‘ltould the temdtil of the-coast-

*l* have bees squandered as it has bees, io the support. of
rhuckle.healled Legitimacy, and for the restoration of that
devil Ferdinand, the Pope, the Incite, sod the Imprisition
No: if the people had really been represented, wr wtsild
Nut have gowned with our American brethren, breams*
they did tent chose to be fused by us—we would nut have
quarelled with the French, because they chose to shake off
the fetters of priests and despots will. which they had been
Naomi forages! No: if the people had been rep led,
free onntelves, we would have rejoiced to see the spirit of
freedom spreading far and wide; instead of *fasting all oar
means in a vain attempt to arrest the progress of the he.
man intellect, and to throw heck the world into the feesr
dal bondage and barbarism of the dark atm.! 1.1 abort,
the whole of our moifortuors as a nation, the whole at oar
misery, the whole of Our distress, can be clearly traced to
the circumstance of the people Whig deprived of their
share of the British Constitution, by oat having a voice in
the election of persons to represent them in the Hon*
of Commons. The cause of the evil having thus been
pointed out, the nest thing is to provide a remedy for it;
and this, of coarse, most consist in a retorts of the Com-
mons House. As to Ike extent of that reform, there and
various opinion*. For my own part, after the most mature
consideration, I one decidedly no advocate for a radical
"fortlei on the hosts Of annual elections, universal suffrage,
and looting lay ballot. As to the first, • year is sorely a
long.enongli period to pot uncontrolled coofidetice in asp
mail. If he has satisfied yon in the discharge ~f his truss,

you will re-elect him: if yon have no longer coufidence
in him, you will dismiss him, as lie utight to be. As to
Poiversal Suffrate, peeing that ell men are errsl in the
sight of their Creator, I cannot mideratand way one man
should bare a vote, and another not have one. Is not the
life, the Comity, the property of the poor man. as dear to
him, as the life, the family, the property, of the rich man
is to him? Du we not all contribute more or less, accord-
ing to our means, to the exigencies of the State? Are we
not all liable to be called ispori, at any moment, to risk our
Imes for its defence ? Why, then, one man shoot.' have a
vote, and another not, I coarse 1 cannot comprehend. As
to election by billet, I look upon it as ali.oltitely necessary,
to neutralise the influence which would otherwise be elm,
cacti by unprincipled persona upon those shorn they em-
ploy. There are at presets', In this country, three o
the Tories tar Ministerialists, the Whigs or the Outs, and
the People. As to there bring • fourth party, desirous of
a revolution, I know of none. If such a party does exist,
their numbers most be very small indeed. We want no
revolution : on the contrary, we want • reform to prerent
• revolution. We want nothing but what is contained
within the four corners of the British Constaution--freed,
indeed, from those abominable corruptions which have
nearly coorerted H into a code of despotism, and wt into •
set of slaves. As to the first of these parties, the Tories,
they at least employ no 'lineage. They tell you they want nu
reform, because the prevent is the beet possible system.
Anal so, indeed, it is—for them. As soon might you expect
that the worm which feeds on corruption should rejoice is
the restoration to health of the burly on which it feede,as that
the Tories should wish fur any change of the present rterrtspl
system. As to the Whigs, they are fur a reform; but thee
—softly—it must be • temperate, a moderate reform. As
none of them have Beer given us the plan of their useidsuale
reform, it is iMpuillade to judge of But this we cats judge
of—that the moment you quit the straight-forward path of
universal suffrage, inn plunge into an ocean of doubts
and ditfiullies,_ to which there is no end. &ippon • young
man was to offer himself as an apprentice to any of you,
and to introduce himself, by savoy, that he bad been a
great rope, but that be was now become moderately
honest—would you employ him ? Or suppose • fellow
who used to get drunk every day was to tell you lie
was now a moderate drunkard, because he got drunk
wily six days out of the omens—would you say he
was refornsed ? But it is thus that the silly despi-
cable Whig faction argue. They are quite shocked that it
should be supposed that they have any ideas on the sub-
ject, in comatose with us Radicals ; and, I believe in my
conscience, that of the Iwo factions which have alternately
had the worrying of this pour country, the Whigs are most
to be dreaded—in so far as • pretended friend is worse that,
an avowed enemy. Look at all the meetings which have
taken place in England, at which the Whits have tardily
mode their appearance The instant a Reform" was mete-
filmed, they were off like a shot. As much riprechifyiog
as you please with regard to the Manchester murders; but
as to Reform," Not • word es' that, Hal, an thou !avail
me." You may judge of their sinerrity its the cause of
Reform, from this circumstance, that although they all join,
like a pack of bounds, in unceasingly abusing radical Re-
form, not one of tlum has ever had the sense or honesty
to propose any distinct plan in place of it. They say it is
visionary, absurd, impracticable ; but they mule.
scend to show in what respect it is so. But, while they
contrut themselves with railing at us, the venerable Cart-
wright, whom I am proud to call my friend, has, in the little
book which I hold in my hand, shown that there is nothing
tidier impracticelde or absurd in what we ask. It is enti-
tled, " A Bill of Iti,..:hts and Liberties;" and shows, its the
clearest matiner,tiot only the practicability, but the amazing
facility wills which the eh chews for the whole kingdom
could be begtin and finished i• oar or Iwo days at most. This
little book, my friends, has never been answered : For the best
of a!! reasons—it is, iu fact, unanswerable; and withal, so
plaits, that he wbu may read. lot us stick to it as our
guile; and, with prudence joared to perseverance, we shall at.
lain our object, in spite of bob Whigs and Tories • • tr.—.
We come now to a part of the Requisition on which lam
almost afraid to trust myself to speak. I mesa the late
atrocious proceedings at Manchester. There, our defence-
less countrymen, whale permeably and lawfully assembled,
as we now are, were, without say warning, attacked by a
band of relßaus, sword is baud, and hacked and hewed
down without mercy. Neither age nor sex were spared.
Nay, the most interesting of all Nature's west ks—a woman
with • child at leer breast—was wounded and struck down
by one of these trate 'amen!!! In reading of these atroci-
till, we cannot help exclaiming with the Poet—

" Can such things be,
dad overcome us, like a summer's cloud,
Without our special wonder?"
With a refinement in cruelty worthy of the ;denser* -of
this horrible massacre, every avenue by which the peo-
ple attempted to escape wee closed by • hedge of bay.
marts, pointed at them by Wisp (they could slit he
soldiers) who drove them back, to be rut sad *Lobed
at by the merciless yeomanry. Could these fellows be
!Britons ?—linpossikle ! Fur a Briton and • brave mins
bate hitherto been synonymous terms; and none but the
basest of cowards would attack an assembly of unarmed
loco, women, soil children. But, cruel as their conduct bas
beeu it is nothing compared to the cool deliberate villainy of
those who set them rm. If they are out put upon their
trials, for the murder of their fellow-citizens, then there is
neither law nor justice in England; and the time is near
vibes we must either bow our necks to • military despothes,
ur be prepared to rise like men in defence of our liberties.
These gallant (Msncliester) yeomen have imbrued their hands
in the blood of their tellow.citixens ; and they may now ex.
clsine, like Ludy 31u, betty Out, daesei'd *putt* ur add, in
the our& of bet conscience- les Lord,

b Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
Clean from our lands? Nu: These our Lauds sill rather
The mulittudinuus area inearuadiue,
Making the green—woe red."
heir" offence is rank" indeed;
it smells to Beaver :
It bath the primal eldest terse uposl,--
' A brutbes's murder !'
Ilavitig the', toy Blend., slated my sentiments, I s►all
now make way for any uf Ouse beside sue who may Irish to
address you; trusting that you will give an impartial bear.
ins to all. A Pities of Besolutions has been prepared, sail
will be submitted to sun. If leo approve of them, you sill
my so:-if nut, you will •rePet them. Use thing more,
furls i concliiik. Atter ens to "slut out to you, that
although we were to obtain our wished-fur reform, it would
vat at ware temuire all our tlisertsacs. Not .•ur worm& are
run deep to be bested is IMP abort a time. But the effect* of
it would begin immediately to be fell. Economy wuirl.l per.
virile every department of the State; tie tsars would be di.
minished ; the abourd tesirretimis whit ohich eon:mem is
fettered would be duos easy; confident* bstwrea the pee•
ple mid their inlets ;timid be restottd; hope would" sptiag

THEBR ITISH_ PRESS.

LON DON.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1819.

The Paris Journals of the 14th instant arrived
last night. The French Funds continue to rise.
The 5 per Cent. Consols left off on Saturday at
69 fr. 60 c.; and Batik Actions at Lank fr. They
had been both higher in the course of the day.
All the free cities of Germany. it is paid, have been
invited to send Ministers to the Corigre.s, which
is to open its sittings at Vienna on the clOth instant.
We hope that this intelligence will prove correct.
The voice of these little States, although not less
interesting to the best feelings and principles of
society. has been of late heard boot little
in the supreme direction and management of
the affairs of Europe. The following paragraphs
contain the only local news of any interest iu the
Paris Papers :

PARIS. NOVEMBER le.

The King transacted business on the li2th instant
with his Nlinisters of Finance and Foreign Affairs.
Yeste►day the King braid mass in his apartments.

The Deputies arrive in great numbers drily to
Paris. Tie repairs of the Hall for their reception
are completed.
The Council of State, in a sitting at which the
Keeper of the Seals presided, decided yesterday to
stop the prosecution against Genoa! Donadieu,
upon the charges against him for his conduct after
the insurrectiou at Grenoble.

Mr. SWANN, who was convicted at the last
Spring Anises bild at Bothnia), fur the county of
Coninell, of having given bribes to certain elec.
tors of the borough of Pylori, for the purpose of
influencing their votes in the election of a Member
of received yesterday the judgment of
the Court of King's Bench for this offence. and
was sentenced to Puffer one year's imprisonment
the custody of the Marshal of the King's Bench
Prison. When Mr. SWANN reflects upon these-
verity of the sentence indicted upon Sir Manassas,
Loess, for the some offence, he will uo doubt coo.
eider himself as very fortunate in having to undergo
only bog the period of imprisonment inflicted opal'
the unlucky Baronet, without at the saute time suf-
fering any pecunia►y penalty.
The inquiries promoted by Parliameat doting
the last Session Wile of tarstiumble iaspestaute t•

. , .
the politfial welfare of the country, by exposing
the morel degradation of the major part or the elec•
tors ise some of the minor borottghs. They offer,
however, the humiliating conviction, that much isf
the corruption in the House of CoMMons must of
necessity be traced to the corrupt condition of the
;tropic themselves. Nothing could be more revolt•
ing to the feelings of any person alive to the honour
of his country, than the unblushiog effrontery with
which the bargains and pales of votes were transact-
ed in some of those boroughs. The price of a vote
was as clearly established in their marts of corrup-
tion, as the price of a bullock is in Smithfield, and
each fellow calculated the value of his 6, sweet
voice" with the utmost accuracy, according as the
slumbers of voters happened to have increased or di-
tnioishrd since the last election, or, in commercial
terms, in proporwin to the supply in the market.
Some of the witoesses, we believe in the case of
Penryn, said that a dissolution of Parliament was
always • subject of congratulation in the borough.
for every vote was worth at least 24/. The electors
looked forward to the appearance of the candidates
with the utmost impatience, but thought very little
about their political principles, provided their parses
were sufficiently heavy to meet the ordinary ex-
pense.' of she election. This disgusting traffic was,
however, confined to the poorest classes, fur the
wealthy and respectable inhabitants must have la-
mented a circumstance which war calculated to
throw so dark a stain upon the moral character of
the borough.
We believe, however, that Penryn, and Gram-
pound, and Barnstaple, and the other boroughs
arraigned before Parliament during the last Ses-
sion, differ not very considerably from many others,
where the elective franchise is equally limited in
point of numbers, and is enjoyed for the greate►
part by householders in poor and narrow circum-
stances. These are in reality the rotten boroughs
of the country, though in appearance they enjoy
the proud character of independence, and to these
principally ought the corrective hand of legislative
wisdom be apt.lied in the great and necessary work
of Parliamentary Reform. There are two ways of
applying • remedy to the evil : one is to increase
the number of voters to such en extent as to render
partial bribery of little importance, and universal
bribery stnpos•ihle; the other, and. as we think, the
preferable and more constitutional way, is to trans-
fer the right of being represented sit Parliament
from such places convicted of general corruption,
to more populous and commercial towns. This is
the mode of proceeding which, in the ensuing Ses-
sion, will be pursued by Lord JOHN Russets., and
is conformable to the system formerly practised by
our Kings until the reign of Cuseuts 11. of
correcting such anomalies as time and circum-
stances may create in the mode of representation
Its Parliament, by depriving one town of the elec-
tive franchise, and bestowing it upon another
better entitled or better enabled to perform it with
advantage to the community.

Judgment was pronounced in the Court of
King's Bench yesterday, upon a bookt•rller named
JOSEPH RUSSELL, of Birmingham, who was con-
victed at the last Warwick Assizes of having sold
copies of Home's Parodies. The unfortunate man
was sentenced to ►iz months' imprivonment in the
gaol of Warwick. It undoubtedly is severe that
ItusszitA should be ruined in property, deprived of
his pervinial liberty, and subjected tow heavy pu-
nishment, for au act which, on three successive
trials, was solemnly pronounced in a Court of
Justice, by three highly-respectable Juries, not to
be an offence against the well-being of the State.—
Stich an occurrence is more likely, in the minds of
the unreflecting multitude, to bring discredit upon
the administration of justice, than could be effected
by all the speeches which it is iu the pout of their
mob-orator. to utter.

it beeine that the prosecution against this wretch-
ed man was commenced early in the year 1817,
und that in consequence of repeated notices given
to him to prepare for his trial, he has been so dice-
wally ruined in properly as to be at length unable
to fee • counsel or an agent for his defence. This
circumstance. with some where, induced the Jury
who convicted him to recommend him to mercy.
but it seems that being irritated by the malice of
one MILEY. his actual prosecutor. he published
his trial. and detailed some of the ungenerous means
practised fur his ruin, mind the Court thought that
this publication aggravated his offence. It war
stated, however, and not contradicted. that in the
report of his trial he bad omitted from the Paro-
dies such passages as were thought to reflect upon
the religiose of the country ; and if such be the case.
we cannot imagine how any " political alloy' "
whatever, contained in any part of his pamphlet.
could lie considered an aggravation of an offence,
which was ostentatiously rosreuted as an attack
upon the liturgy of the church. Let it be re-
membered, that these " political allusions." what-
ever they may be. have nut as yet been pronounced
libellous ; that they may be, and possibly are at
this moment, the subject of a distinct prosecution ;
and that there was time enough to punish a man
for • political libel "bee be bed beau found guilty
of the publication.

Yeeterd4y the Csbiset Ministers dined with the
Earl of limiauwanr, rt hi. ballet iu Oiweeuw.
interne.