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we'nvoill t hay. `e-ew •rringeul urn th stile-test equity by
Niels hril aisthurity. He bed the hitheat opinion for hers)
811/lorillr, hot It Will fur that authority whiili deliver d its
.""rdioc to commons , which was the Atiisida-
lion of common law. Here there Was nei.her common sense
nor common justice, and it was is vain So talk of legal all-
th..rity—the very words sir the Act were earessly against
the system adopted by these Companies Here she Learner,
Dortio took a review of Ilse different Arts of Parliament
erne.. reins she misplay of %rater, by incorporated Companies,
sitter the reign of James 1, and slstwed that they were all
Isle ul►d to sortie, the riblic the torzest 'apply of water, on
the Hirer.' and cheapest terms. Wlieu the New Baler COS.
i * IR"7, were sinah'e to give a cheap and adrepiate
sap,', r 'I io the u..•. east &strict or the melt...puny,
She Vv., London W it„ l'.•tr;psny were simirporated
lu keep sia a hr... lir:nl tompclition for she public in.
t. rest. They 'free ti ..... eit to a capital of 100,001/, nod no
individnal could hatil more than twenty shares. If they
had, as was •sirtniuwil, increased their capital by funding that
wIS cis ourhi tut, in the shape of dividend, then they hail
forf iced 011, of ihe terms of their Charter. They errs also
prohubited from seeking an arbitrary assessm-nt in the way
of rt., and yet this they did not hesitate to do. The I.e.
gialt/nret iu giving these Companies Acts of lurorporation,
want to have enconra7shl rivalship and campetilino,
and not to have facilitated coalition. lhr parties
therefi.re to whom ttw privilege's Were given. Ind fir.
fees. el their right to hold them. In the case of the New
Diver Company, they had made a transfer in rryietnity
tp
the other Company, of that shirts they Owen...lves merely
tartlet the pleasure of the Crown They had shut divested
themselves of their exclusive right*, end uoirh he was per-
stiduod, would be the decision of the laird elvenrellor. Ne
came '.sward on poblie grounds. Ind in hi half of the lower
classes, whir most grittily soarer in a great inetropo'is. like
this by a bad nerd dear supply of Waif.? 11., losses by firp.
and loss of live., ocrasloned by a hid supply of water,
could not Ire rontemplated withuilit lire mint serious atten•
lion. Time Meeting had great welltli to voileuif with; the
Committee hail leivrever dime lit duitv, slid now he Imola
the puhke wosildito theirs.—!.lrphor,r
azaro said tn.,' tun aetilientiost had
been made to the Company, to point out spec•lic grievances
fur r. dress.
Me. (4)OD (of tVlii.ech oriel) complaiord that his
water rale ha I been soddenly raised 45 per cent.
Mr. LII.I.KY ma" to mows :us ainesiilment to the
In Ilion for rereiviony, the Rei.net. lie sAtal, that
the East London Company did not divide Iwo and a half
per rent. 031 1h it shares viola not, therefores be sup.
poor Ito M exorbitantly charitog the politic He was then
',sterilise ton a driail of the affairs of the West Middlesex
Water Company, when he was interrupted, mod hormones' by
the Chair, th it the Meeting had nothing to do with any
Wan r Cumpaity nut of Ow Eastern District of the Metropolis.
A Pr- a tlestillory emiveriestina mt the prow of
orlcr. Mr. I.tt.t•e waved, as an aminilment, that the Re.
pin be ru•ail is,, the 231 h of INTrinhor Next
Air. Eta°, as the no•sver of the so igionl Resole):
nits, replied. and ronteoileil, that the public ernes.' have OM
s:riority aviiiist the Water Companies, except by a sem
testi ;chive Act than bulb. en) subsisted.
Owl* for receiving the Report was carried'
with only Die stirs nticot voice of Mr. Utley.
M. Lunt.r.ir moved, that a Petition from the
ii:h hi•No of tl ls district be presenter] to Parliament!
against stir evarh.tant dramatis of IN sV,lter Companies.
Ile compared the primeiple of their demands to that of she
arstucious recto who directed hi* son to zet money b ally
If he rontul—at all events to get money A laugh 1
Mr. lluv DELL seconded the oniti ot for the Peti-
t oft, amp complituented the Nleeriloz on the presentee
of Air. who would supplet their Petit' in the.
Lime, Huns., ahile Earl Grosvenor wool.' ski She same is
he Upper Hauge. His Lordship had list year taken as
active pail its the affair of Ilse eloisca lVater.works.
Tim mulitin was carried.
Mr. Faust tinned, that the present Committee
should continue to superintend the business of the
Petition.—.44reed to.

Mr. BENsoN moved the Thanks of the Meeting
to Mr. Ilyng I'm* his presence here to-ilite. fie was
['ad to say that the County of Middlesex could boast of be.
ing r.-slly represented by mir at least of its two Representa.
ea ye., 151.1 he hasped the day was not far distant when Mr.
Brig asseeilal have • Callt./4UP of his oleo iudependent and
pots basic priaaciplee.-.r.epplause.).
Mr. BuYtnt.t. seconded Oats motion, which was
carried tr,taitornously.
.Jr. IIYNn, in relit r • g thank'., observed, that
their worthy eltairtnan hart done him the honour of
weitinz, to sive it is venal Gentlemen in the North East
Dist' jet se told he ghat of hill attendance on the present ne-
e-whin 11.- of coarse, in obedience to this desire, attended
their Meetioz. Ile assured them of his uniform desire to
assist in sey in
asy Ica is vane, which may affect them It Rave him great
pain awl isora.:inese to we that any thine I kr an injurious
usanney of such alt article as water subsisted iu the metro-
rsli•. He well ',collected that in the year 1807, a Bill had
b en baonclit osto Parliament, fur the porpoise of ensuring
Il e ;noose a ca mpctition in the supply of water. That Bull,
has re:weantierel, had met ,;rest oppositiou from the Loudon
Heel Water Compluy and the New Harts. Con.pasty. The
Cousnotter on the Bill sat, be believed, for the spare of forty
rip. Vault that time the competition of the new Companies
Is rain^ su errot,that in the opiate where he resided the pipes
sef five Comissiiies were, he believed, laid down. This cumin'.
tition restored she price so much, that the general complaint
a 'miff a ten ilsrap supply. People did not want it .it a peke
a:!ich they knew would not p.y the Proprietors. In the
r• J, however, the se Companies, combina sl and divided the
nvirop. Ins bears n them, and she competition was entirely
overthrown A. to the present Petition, he doubted whether
Parliament could, by soy amendment of the sishsistiug
A Is, give any serious' redress to the ',Milk. Parliament
ca.ulal out well legislate MI as to affix any partienlar price or
so ale of pr es, from the sr. ry different character of the de-
mend I/I imam sprenlasious, the col izinal persons aho had
einharks .1 their maw) became losevi, and the lON shares
parb..pe tel into the lauds of ti -w purchasers fur 301—It
would thee 11... t very n fair to pot the last purchaser
on the sane 114M2 as the original, to secure to him the
interest for lita obese he had is sly embarked 3nl.
,4%tua he shunt.' ra to :sm• ud in the present case was,
that liar metropolis should, from end to end, shew a
J. coded 81)411 of resistance tu the exorbitant demands of
the Waite, ConspanieS, and Ono he was satire the tatter would
kw glad ID CUrole to amicable terms, rather than submit to
fe reed
supply of water they promised; and therefore that very se-
rious lei. r) bad 411111t11 in CllSis of fir, from this want of •
1111114 supply' time of the firemen examined before the
Coussisit re of the Hurls. of Commous had expressly said, that
octal of water when early had was wends a pond wheel late.
'I an re w..s no complaint isi the City of London; and he
.11 a loft/ to know shy dam should in Middlesex.—
11. would ets-ups rate in any me asurts for • redress of their
g. ire seser—his aeseatcsi pleasure was to 'Head the call of
Cilielllilatl/11111.1 m he was always fladY to devote
stisty hour of his life-a.they heal lung supported him, and
his IcAlss al gratarication was to have served them to their
aatist..ei Mo. He n pealed, that his highest ambit'.... was
to obtasu the alapruleatitso of his fallusr-citias no—he regard.
col it as above all price, cad *tumid inset- cease but with his
life tu evideavoue to deserve it —(tartar applause
Thautoi were then moved and carried to the thairinen and
8 reetas y fur their sera IC, s.
The Ile G. utharra es virally acknowledged the favours cun-
t reed apes) then), and the .ttertioe, after the Petition had
se re awed at., necessary signatines, separated at Five IITIOCk.

A nr.-ttirol: took place at Chalk Farm at an early
li.uu nu IVeiluestlay ~,,, last. between two
I utriu; N..lrlerorro, the Earl of 11-- awl [mod
W— art tried by two Noble Fro-ort., the Ea, I
-- and 1.0131 F--; utter an rxelvroor
,111}, rfel aid rectrucili.rtum
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
PARIS PAPERS.

PARIS, KOVEMRSI '24.

The Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester ar-
rived at Strasburg on the 17th from Upper Snabiat
where he had gone on leaving SwitzerlAnd, with two
supe • Flight!' of icers. and a Noblemen, who has
accompanied him in all his travels. During his re-
sidence to Germany and in Switzerland, he took
the name of the Earl of Connaught, and it is also
under this name that he has arrived et Strasburg.

M. the Duke of Richelieu is not expected sooner
then the 28111. It is thought that Lord Wellington
will arrive in Paris on the 26ilt. Some persons who
have tie means of being well taws/fled think that
Lord Castlere igh will visit Paris before he returns
to England.
It it said that if Talmo succeeds iii rendering
himself wholly independent of the first theatre, it it
his intent to perform alternately at the two
French theatres. De requires only 1,200 francs fur
rich representation. Ile could not be more mo-
dest !

The reigning Duke of Brunswick has celebrated
the anniversary of his birth with great solemnity,
and several Prince* were assembled at Brunswick
oil that occasion. The Duke of Clatence was of
the somber. In three years the reigning Doke will
take upon himself the reins of Government, which
are stilt held by the Prince Regent of England.
Au F.siglishinan of dutisiction porch wed at Aix-
-14-Chapelle one of Rubella' pictures, for the eitor-
limos stun of 4,000 guineas.
The intelligence respecting the pretended inter-
fereure of the Emperor of Russia and of the Em-
peror of Austria, the object of winch was the re-
moval of Bonaparte from the Island of St. Helena
to some other place, is altogether false.—The
arrest, at Brussels, of several individuals, lot
the most rat foreigners, is the subject of
general conversation, and excites in a singu-
lar degree the public attention. All the re-
ports that are circulated concerning this circum-
stance excite horror and indignation in the highest
degree.
A woman, named Susanne Decarion, a native of
Surinam. died on the 12th instant at Haarlem,
aged 105.
According to letters from Berlin, the King of
Prussia is expected to arrive there on the glith lost.
A suicide was committed on the Ylst instant,
which displays a sitigular character iii the commis-
sion of this wicked act—that of a resignation
founded upon the must false interpretation of reli-
gious principles. On Saturday last a man was
found hanging on one of the trees in the wood of
Vincennes. At the foot of the tree was a note,
containing these words—" Let not my (heath be
imputed to any one: toy guardian angel wail come
to take me away, and God will pardon me."
The ship which strived ht. Leghorn from
Alexandria, on the 4th inst. brought there the
afield' tlrwa. of the taking of Demjch, the ca-
pital of the Wechabites, by the troops of the
Viceroy of Egypt, commanded by his son, Ibratain
Paella. The news was contained its a dispa;ch ad-
dressed to Osman App, one of the Viceroy's
Generals residing at Florence: •
In • sitting of the Ist, the Council of State was
engaged in discussing the project of a law tending
to modify certain articles be the Criminal Code re-
Wive to Juries. The nioditication affecting the
35 Ist article is a very important one; its mischievinis
tendency was developed by the Nlarquis de Is Place,
Peer of France. Its tenor is as follows :

" 11, however, the accused shall he declared guilty
only by u simple majority, the Judges will delibe-
rate upon the same !mint amongst themselves ; and
if the opinion of the minority of the Jury should he
adopted by the majority of the Judges, ill such a
manner, as that on uniting the number of opinions,
this 'mother should be found to exceed that of the
majority of the Jury, and the minority of the
Judges, the opinion in favour or the accused shall
prevail." According to the new project of this
law, the Judges will be required to deliberate upon
Jeclaration of the simple majority of the Jury;
the opiniou of the majority of the Jury will only
prevail when it shall be adopted by a unajoiny of
the Judges.
The ropers found in the possession of Geio-rul
Gourguud are, it is said, of the highest itoportattce.
They designate the principal agents of tha St.
Helena conspiracy, develope the secret machine.
linos oil winch were founded the hopes of deliver-
ing Bonaparte, and will lead to discovesirs of the
highest importance.—(Quotidienne.)