The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-10-30 00:00:00

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—Rev. R. ARUHTEAD—Perhaps, Sir, you are not
aware that this is a private meeting ?
Reporter—No, Sir, we are not ; hut if taking
notes be disagreeable, we presume you can have no
cllectititt to our reporting the proceedings from
Inc:story.
A voice from the bottom of the room exclaimed
.—..• Not if you do it correctly."
Mr. STErt.—To convince yon that the meeting
.01 private, I will read the circular which wts soot
to the Gentlemen who signed the Aiiilre4s of Tors-
div. Ile then proceeded in read the circular, which
stated io general terms, that the subscribers to the
Address of Tuesday were desired to meet at the
Public-office that day, at twelve o'clock.
After some further whispering—
' Me. Slim. put it to the meeting whether it wus
their wish that ally persona should be present except
those who signed the Address ?—A general cry of

I. No, nn, no
The Noble Chairman having declared that the
meeting was strictly private, and that .tratigers must
withdraw, the reporters bowed, mitt retired.
We doubt whether this was, strictly speaking. a
private meeting, or whether, in fact, it was intended
to have been so: the avowed object was of public
import; it was to take into consideration a public
tpiestioo; the promoters wished it to be understood
s. conveying the Aentimentt of the iututliitatits ; and
though a free discussion of the subject might have
lessened. the character of the asdrlrenseri for consist-
..oey and independence, notice Ointild have hero
given, acid a fair opportunity afforded to settertisiu
the keiise of the town.

Besides. hand-bills bad been previously distri-
buted, announcing that this fir-famed radically
loyal Address was left at the Public-office for sig-
timuir.—an Address. which was copied from the
printed circular (without any printer's name affixed
to it) that had been hawked about the county, and
rejected eaten by the mo►t devoted and expectant
friends of the Treasury. 80, bad as it was, after
all descriptions of persons within the county had
been publicly invited to sign it, what right had any
mini, or set of men, without explaining their mo-
tives, to withdraw it privately ? Under these cir-
cumstances, we deny the legality of determining it
to it private meeting. if the gentlemen really wish-
ed to meet in private, would they not have fixed
upon a more secret place than a Public-office? In
tow respect, indeed, it was private—they took cure
to meet on the market-day, when they knew that
the majority of the inhabitants could not attend to
..npose them. But we suspect there was a still
more powerful motive for this unique proceeding.
Hart lint the gentlemen heard it rumoured that it
was the declared intention of one who was not al-
lowed to be heard, to move, as an amendment,
their adoption of the county Address, and were
they afraid of an open discussion ? We are aware
that it has long been part of the Tory system to
keep the country in a state of political ignorance ;
but surely nothing was ever worse managed than
their proceedings here on Thursday, which forcibly
illustrated the fully of a party affecting to convene
a public-private, or private-public meeting, in np.
position to the general sense of the county. The
motion to exclude all who had not signed the Toes-
d ty'a Address does very little credit to the percep-
tion of Mr. Steel, or to the character of the meet-
ing; for, had it been impartially acted upon, the
Earl of Lansdale ought to have retired as well as
the Reporters, it being now understood that his
Lordship had also refused the sanction of his signa-
ture tu the Address.
When we saw the too loyal rejected Address, we
were alarmed, conceiving that it was the manifesto of
Ministers; and we deeply lamented the indelicacy
of the Whitehaven Magistrates, in premat►arely ex-
pressing their approbation of the conduct of their
brother Magistrates at Manchester, as it seemed to
imply, that under similar circumstances they would
wet in a similar manner. Therefore it was with
uniningled satisfaction that we learned
*hat the F:arl of Lonsdale had mildly rebuked their

zeal. as it seemed to announce that a
r:•4llgr had taken place in the opinions of the Bri-
tish Cabinet, founded on more exalted notions of
human nature and extended views of liberal policy.
A capy of the following substituted Address was
very twiitely sent to us in the evening from the
Public-office :

ro RoTAL HICIONFSS TRC FAINCIt 141111111 T _OF Tilt
UNITED 111‘01101111.
" Ntis it plense your Royal Highness,
" We, his Majesty's most detiful subjects, the under-
signed Nobility, Magistrates, Gentry, Clergy, sad Free-
holders of the County of Cumberland, coutemplating with
deep anxiety the nitwit* of the country, feel it our duty
thus humbly to tender to your Royal Highness, together
s lt6 every sentiment of sespeciful affection towards his
frrajesty and your Rossi Highness, the assurance of our
cubstaut and zealous devotion to the Constitution in Church
sod Stele. as by law happily established within these realms.
" per tluous as such an assurance might he justly eleerned
under ordinary circometancss, we trust it will net appear
rio:acurniog„ al • period marked by efforts openly employed
an arils ity, a pers rrrrr uce, and a boldness, unknown
Lot in the worst times of our history, to mislead, to the roil,
of themselves sod their country, • geed portico' of his Ma-
jesty's subjects, and tinder the specious Inetence of Reform
stud the eemoration of the Constitution, to inculcate prim-
ripitscif the most dangerous innovation, tending only to its
anevisaidc subversion, while the treasonable intebtior of in-
seeing hy bore the erect stud success of these priodplcs is
hardly disguised.
" Usworthy, indeed, should we be of the name of Eng-
lishmen. unworthy the eminent blessings we enjoy, if, at
such • 11110Illtall, we did Not avow sod proclaim, at every
Lazard, our determination to defend and pre serve the se-
cavil institutions from which they arc all derived. The
public distress, first artfully turned to excite popular pas-
sion, since kept up and exasperated in assemblsges of the
people, frequent and numerous, almost hewed example;
the character of those assembles, the Resolutions issuing
from them, the circumstances peculiarly distinguishing
'mon, mid the doctrines promOlgeted and insisted upon;
the audacious abuse of the liberty of the press, flagitiously
' ;wryer led to root from the minds of Englishmen every see-,
111111eUi of respect for the laws, of reverence fur religion, of
dilly to the Sovereign, and of allegiance to the State, can
leave to no esprejoeliced man a doubt of the ultimate pur-
pose to which the machinations of disaffection are systee
ramtmally directed, or any other duty to a loyal subject,
Inas that of devoting all hie powers to reader it shortly,.
0 Confiding in the Pound reason and uncorrupted hearts

of • great majority of ow enuolryieseq, we entertain HU ap-
prehensions of the result of a contest (come when it may)
beswern the friends and eoewies of the Constitution at the
Seale time we are forced in regret the encodtaiement and

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ode•nlaye the disaffected cannot hit to derive from the pro-
ceedings of moque who, we are witting to believe, have far
oilier intentions, which by their obvious tendency to aunt.
'newt the existing irritation of the public feeling, iiicaten.
, Ilkley aggravate Ile danger and difficulties of the country.
White we lamest, with a sincerity to those who
bare been loudest in their delimitations ow the subject, the
/ayes hot at Moweliester, sad yield to unveils the estimation

LONDON,
SATURDAY. OCTOBER 30, 11119.

Since the alornm of insurrection has been sounded
by the Treasury Journals, we look with increasing
anxiety to every fresh arrival of newspapers and
letters from what are called " the disturbed dis-
tricts," but hitherto we have discovered oo indica-
tion of those desperate enterprises which we are
told are to overturn the altar and the throne in
common ruin. There is undoubtedly one bad
symptom of discontent which we would gladly have
removed by the, hand of authority—we mean the
occasional meetings of the Reformers for the pur-
pose of learning military evolutions; or, as Mr..
HUNT would cull it, " playing at soldiers." This
game unquestionably ought to be interrupted, for
it is contrary to the most obvious principles of good
policy. and, no doubt, may be prevented by the
Magistrates, under the authoritg of the exiting
law.. We know not how general or extensive this
practice may be; the Treasury Prints speak of it
but seldom,and without specifying either the places
where the people meet, or in what numbers they
assemble for this dangerous ameasesseut; bet.,

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whether nnmetously or thinly attended, such meet-
ings are illegal, and ought to ha 'prevented.
We read with pleasure of the marching of ar-
tillery and troops into the supposed ►cene of disaf-
fection, for should the people Het Milly burst into
violence, they ought to he opposed with the utmost
energy by the organized force of the empire. Should
danger really be meditated. no lord "abject could
hesitate about the part which the Government Poet
to pur►ue. The safety of the Stifle is our pars-
mount object, and in the pursuit of this, the hands
of Government ought to be strengthened to the
utmost. _

It is not, however, by phyticsl strength alone
that a spirit of discontent can be eradicated if it
shall have deeply imbued ant• considerable portion
of the people. He is an unskilfol surgeon who has
recourse on every occasion to the knife, when by
more scientific treatment lie might restore to sanity
the unsound member. We are told by the Noble-
men and Gentlemen who signed the York Declina-
tion, that the present popular discontent hay origi-
ginated in the poveity nl the labourisig classes of
the people, and on finch a subject their authority
he denied. We hope when the question of
coercion shall come before Porlietient in the en-
suing Sies,ion, that these Noblemen and Gentle-
men, while they give their plapport to the
ters upon the expediency " stiengthrsoing the
hands of Government," will not forget the opinion
expresed iii their I)eclaratron, and that like skilful
statesmen, while they correct the eististquences
of
the evil they will also endeavour to remove its source.
At such a moment all parts• spirit should he sup-
pressed, and the intlepetitlent Members of the
Legislaitir should apply therr.selves honestly and
indefatig .lily to usceitain the closes which agitate
the public mina, and endaligtr the tranquillity of
the country. There is no immediate gratification,
either of personal ambition or other less worthy
passion, that could competstaite to an English
Nu-
blentatt or Getitleman for the corruptimi or demo-
ralization of the labouring classes of the Stale, or
for the Asence of that pure and tiling spirit of
Inya!ty winch has for the most part characterised
the people of this country, soil has proierl the most
powerful brool of uhinia between I tartlets of
the community.

The Not folk county meeting, to tike into con.
sideratinn the transactions of the 16th of A ugitt st
Manchester, was held yesterday at Norwich. The
Duke of Nowrom, as at the Yorkshire meeting,
was among the moat prominent actors in the scene,
nod it may be confidently presumed that the
speeches and rfsidutilms were of the satlit. 10131
and patriotic spirit and character. as throw rir the
previous county meetings an the same subject.

A correspondent says, that many Gentlemen of
the !ugliest .resipectability in the metropolis, im-
pressed by the present circumstances of difficulty
Anil danger in the country, are become candidates
for admission into the ranks of the Light Horse
Volunteers." This conintimieation would have.
been more satisfacinry had our correspondent speci-
fied the danger and difficulties to which he alludes :
whether the danger and difficulties created by the
wank and distresses of the count iy, and time dema-
gogues who would avail themselves of these wants
and distresses to lead the peop:e wormy, or the dan-
ger and difficulties to be apprehended from lawless
violence, under the specious garb of loyalty and
duty.

It will he seen in a correppneulenee inserter♦ in
another part of our l'aper, that the It tiliral Com-
Initire are determined to haven public merlin': in the
Nlarket-place, Fioibu►y-vquarr, on 11Ionday, and
t unit DuaneW•TSON has accepted their invitation
to take the Chair.

We received, at i• late hour last night, Mr.
HUNT'S answer to Mr. TIIISTLFWOOD'S charge of
shabby dealing in a mutter of four or live pounds.
It is too long. and came too lute for insertion ; hnt
were it free from these objections, ne really think it
would not become the public press to make itself
the arena for a controversy of this kind. There is a
Court of Conscience, which has r jurisdiction lay
summary process in levity SIMI% to which this alias
pate should have been submitted when it arose.
The brave man finds cause of quarrel in a straw.
So with the Patriot ; he will not suffer any man
to breathe a wish against the Constitution. When
Mr. Hurl stood forward the rdeocate of the laws
and the champion of the Constitution, he kid our
support—our columns were devoted to him ; but
we cannot devote them to his squabbles with
associates about pence and sixpences. •

We have received Paris Papers of Monthly and
Tuesday Int, one of which states that the Princess
of Watts remains at Lyons. The trial of the Editor
and publisher of the translation of Mr. Flouti o USK'S
history of the Hundred Days took place before the
Assize Court of Paris on Monday. It Seems that
this translation was originally printed at Ghent, and
that a copy of it was purchased from a traveller in
Paris by M. Dow CRC, one of the Defendants in the
present Cur. This copy was shewn to the other

Decadent, Reusfeut.t,WAßlN, who thought it
sight be published if some lharte, which reflected
with too ouch severity upun the KING and the
Royal Family, were supprepsed. 'tun:NAT:LT
WAliix oolieproft the took of erasing the must

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offensive ports, end these stierstitins being nssib.,
the book was printed. Five copies of the publi-
c.itiou were, in pursuance of law, deposited in
the public office ; 484 copies were sent to Brus-
sels, Ghent, Geneve, Naples, IVsr•aw, Turin, and
other foreign towns; 487 were distributed amon4
the linedtseilers of Paris; and 35 were presented to
the fiieu 1. of the puhlisherp.

The publication was charged as libellous, in hav-
ing made a formal attack upon the inviolability of
the Sail's permit, the order of succession to the
throne, and the constitutional authority of his
ill,,jesty. Several passages in the work were
charged as calumnies against the members of the
Royal 17411111 y.
The Advorate.flieneral in his speech to the Jury
remarked upon seine points of diversity between
the original onik and the trooshitiors, which were not
to the advaorage of the latter. He observed, the
although "the author was a republican in principles,
and too much inclined to sacrifice legitimacy to
usurpation, he, however. was not blinded by the
drspotistn of BONAPARTE. He censored NArO-
- ma every occassiuu, but all there passages had
dicippeared its the translation. Mr. floettouse
had used the words tight.' in speaking of the se-
crest title of his Majesty to the throne, but the
translator ',refixed the epithet ,pretesided'."
At half-past four o'clock the. Jury retired, and
returned to the Court at half-past six. They pro.
nuturced the two prisoners Aof Guilty of formal
attacks upon the inviolability of the King's person,
Ste. but they declared them, Gaily of public insults
towards the 'King and Hoye! Family; and- the
Court, after some deliberation. sentenced Domsac
to A; months imprksoninent and 1,000 francs flue ;
and If salami WActs to our year's itnprissinaseat
and 1,000 francs floe.

k may be remembered that some time since a
cloth wss formed in Paris. composed of friends_to
the L.berty of the PO'S), having for its object the
maintenance of th it liberty. 11w Joe raud des Ik.
bars how inform% ns, that an order has bees issued
for the stippreasion of thi• mines.
The French Five per Cents. tee 71 f.—Bank
tank Stock• 1.490 1.

A Dutch Alai! has arrived. with Papers to
the with insgont. They contain roam details of
the tttso►►ection that broke out last yaer in Java.
It is attributed by the Dutrl► to the superstition of
the native*. hut they writ equally superstitious in
,he time of Governor ltstieLes, and yet the Island
did 1.01 then suffer any such troubles.

Yrster►lay. at fire o'clock. his Hoye, Highness
tire PRINCR KROIENT arrived at Coriton.:iouse
from Brighton. accompanied by Sir BEssasttst
BLoontrast.n.

Accouuts from 11.411 fax mate, that the Liente-
nsist-Gover 00000 lu. 1 I:ntitit tithe receipt of a despatch
from Earl ILitimusr, in reply to an Rpplicatiiiii on
the part of thr Groans! Assembly of Nova Scotia,
for istmexiiiff the iritud of Piiiice Edward to that
province. The proposal has not bean acceded to.
According to the answer this. transmitted from
hence, it appear• that " the PeiwcKtoswf sees
no Tannin in make sat.y alteration iu the existing
Constitution of the Colony, nor to sanction an
change in the •ppropnation of the Colonial Re-
ren•r."

• Advice, from the Cope of Good Hope bare
yrrivell. Ever• thing appears to be quirt is
that Colony. We extract the following Protlama.
lion irsned by the Governor, Lord CHARLES So.
Illeastß, to improve the state of Orphan Chi Wen,
both Hottentot* and others:—

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