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that mode inconvenient; orilist, however, they
• would be better informed'oft'efliooboggilemit-moo
the Secretary of Stone. • • • •
Mr. ELLicit moved the 'hunks of the meeting to
the Clintromisioned 14•1111111111 sant !With, ti.e
• mover, god oecoader of the Address mid 'ell the
• preeteus Reoolotions, which were would. uetttti-
INONeIfr. •
Thg.se Gentlemen returned thanks Wittily in one.-
cession, aisd the Meeting adjourned. .
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7'o the EDITOR of The BitillsH, P#liStS.
`onto—Always unwilling to olstruilks, pm alletylios
nop.diseuesion aptlying to Myself, I fialni iftwai masa
.); malevolent *flacks. through the medium of the press,' to
• pamentaolieed le the samewhisnotl, althooglilt to not len-
noisibli but some at Mom may useet with at matitio in. en-
. ~Lther day. Bet, lioeisme ilesiroimil 011 be to. geoid
flo•word se I non do, I aintinEsubssit to my. owe Meese.
. the Livery at
.Imodoe (whom senior Sheriff I ans by
priority of ciente/4*mi euelimed by subsequeet resolutios)
are is any degree 'Bested se Mashed -in my person .as
'their repressalative. I hove the happioess to be conscious
elf bevies acted is the perforsiasce of my Oficial duties.
oa ennstitotioual principles; taking for my guide the ads
'nimble charter of this city. and the true meaning end in-
fest of my high office, withest looking for'favOur or up.
probation, except from my tonstitsests sad my own eon.
science.
" Tbus actuated, I hays mode it my chief study to attend
to the substmoial executing of the office, and at the same
time I have hem anxious sot to reduce the efficieot choreic.
ter of Sheriff of Loudon and Middlesex to that of • mire
pert& affenifind un the various ft-Imagine 'readmit which
aboard innovations have introduced, end idle custom coml.
semi instil new, is antdocting the city hosioess. It kap,
therefore, always hem my studious desire to ovoid coopers.
. log myself with petty corporatiou affairs, or :groin.. with
which icy duties as Sheriff hove very tittle or so mintiest's'',
and ronseimently, wheu urged at different times to accept
the Sheriff's .eat is the Common Council. I bey. istearifassle
objected, not choosing to be placed like Ger or Magog
(whirls would be the case with all Sheriffs who have nut the
felicity and konsinv of beieg en Alderman), although invited
to attend by above thirty official notices, besides by the per-
sonal applications of several Aldermen and Members of the
Common Commit. You may judge then, Sir, of my surprise
at findiug in your Paper of Tuesday, in the report of the
proceedings of the Commis Council, held on Monday lest,
t bat Mr. T. W Williams (who, I have since learnt, is as at.
twiny of thu Mayor's Court, that distinguished himself in
a contest sista the Isle Lord Mayor Atkins) said, It was
manifest that .Me. Sheriff Parkius never cepa:fedi° ht per-
tr.itted to sit in that Coors, for he had serer presented him.
self. Ile was sow brought forward to be thrust door their
throats. Ttoere mesa mere in the resolution proposed than
was meant to meet the eye. lie (Mr. Williams), fur our,
t"...,ught the office of Sheriff most wordily degraded. All
the' business had bees k* to the other Sheriff, and now •
• message was brought is, that the Court must comply with
,Ir. Parkins's whit to sit amongst them.' I have only to
may, It woehi lave been 'image fur me to expect and whit
for what I had always misted, and whet I was wholly ipso-
seat of being proposed, omit subsequently informed, that
whilst I was was wailing is as adjuiasing room to deliver his
Msjesty's Message, a motion for me to be called to take the
Sheriff's seat had ems made by Mr. Patten, •o doubt with
the best intentions, lint entirely without my sauction, or
any communicative whatever with me. As to the other parts
of Mr Williams's remarks, I think them beiseath my mom.
• " Allow me now, Sir, to allude le some circumehnsees
that preceded and took place whet' the deputation from the
City attended to present the dillremes to his Majesty.
After the Slat uf.lawnary, whew these. Addresses had been
voted, and during the regretted indisposition of the fiivg, I
made a puiut of once, mil sometimes twice • day, inquirom
personally at the Palace respectiug his Majesty's health, seta
Saturday night, Rtlik February, when his pleasure was offi-
cially made known to me as use of the Sheriffs, to attend his
Majesty at ilirreo'cliiek os Sunday last, on which day I weal
•to Carlton Palace in doe fonts, sad wee, some time after-
wards, followed by my colleague, whore we had the honour of
an audience of three or four missies. The Kin received us
alone, standing; during which my colleague read, rather is.
distinctly, foss a card, that the Sheriffs had waited wpm his
Majesty to know his pleasure when he would receive the Ad.
-dresses from the City of Landes, to which his Majesty, with
that pulite 1111011 CT for which be is so justly celebeated, gra-
cionsly answered that he would receive the Addresses on the
morrow (Monday), at four o'clock, by dePetatios. My
'coliseums's., who seemed not fully to usderstand his Majesty,
though lie clearly expressed himself, was about to ask an-
whirr questio• respecting the Addresses, wises Isis Majesty
repeated that he would receive them both by deputaiims on
the morrow, at four o'clock, sad immediately imbed to •
gentleman who bad entered the room with us, and shook
lair cordially by the hand. We then retired.
° Daring this short interview I stood within two yards is
(rout of Isis Majesty, and viewed him with particularities'.
taus; and it was with isisite satisfaction I perceived him
in look uncomniouly well, considering the unparalleled
trials he has been recently doomed to endure in both body
nod maid. His Majesty carried himself with great irmness
sod dignity; his clothes fitted him better than is usual On
leaving • sick room ; his limbs retained their usual fine
proportiou; and his eye relented all its wonted vivacity;
so that, with doe respect to his Majesty's physicians, I beg
leave to differ from them is respect to his Majesty's health
hod constitution, and repeat the opinion to the world which
I gave lo the citizeare assembled in the Cuuncil.room,
4 that I think his Majesty is one of the most robust-
. looking mesa of his age in the kingdom ; sad I hope, fur its
benefit, that Coll will lung 'preserve his life, and rusfusad
his enemies, if be has auy, either private or public; and
that the friends of our free cosetitntion and of good order
will, dosing a popular reign, reap the advantages of his su-
perior uoderstaudiog matured by experience.'
I am, yours, Ice.
“ J. W. PARKINS, Sheriff.
'" fork Hotel, March .1, 1820."

It was the late Earl or BRASTOL, nod not the

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Duke of GRAFTON. whose will contained the in-
junction not to print the memoirs of his life &toil%
NM of his lute MASRATT. The following is set
•uthvutic copy of the last codicil
" By way of codicil, I write this with my own baud, and
tcreby give to my natural eon, Augustus Nerve', ibe bus
or chest, with all my father's manuscript writings llwrei■
resumed ; and in case of his death, 1 give the same to my
tirdllser, William Hervey: bat with strict injornctioa, both
to tine sod the other,
Pother. memoirs, dyeing the reign of his pleural Majrrty ;
vie fur any time, or at any time, to give or lend or leave
them to my brother Frederick, the present Bishop of Dirty:
as witness slay hard thin 101 h day*, May, use tbursard
seven hundred sod sieveuty-aire.—Bairrot..

Extract from • letter dated Glasgow, the 28,h
February
tt Oa Saturday (the 241111 lastest) the Oity Fiscal weal omit
au Calton with • military party, aud marches were made in
Ike smithy of Peter H'Nab, Tureen-pees, of James John.
stun, iu ParkAane, sod of Husk Mardoch, is (Ay,le.streei,
I. llPNalis, • complete pike sod *crew, four pike
serene, and three pike heads were foetid; and sa John-
seies a pike screw. These pima% as well as Heyday's,
were firelight to the jail, where they remain.
This otershig (Illooday, February 28) tiro Radical
orator' at the late public meetings were apprebesided at
ParkinsVasa brought into tow* in aseriagts.
" V rowdy (Sunday, fekruary 27) the Esaltesl detentes,
who were egivreketitted in Glasgow oat Tuesday lest, arrived
am post-chaises in Edinburgh, under au motet of hussars."
CATOOT&SST.—Yratergoy • greet member of
cqtriatiges tinted the shove attest, coalition% Geo.
betakes of reek end their deriders. at view the
pmpeyee where Sall2lBBllB PM murdered, The
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