The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-12-28 00:00:00

COUNTY OF EDINBURGH MEETING.

Friday, at twelve o'clock, a meeting of the Noblemen,
Freeholders, Justices of 11w Peace, sold Commissioners of
Supply of the County of Eoliobusgli, was held in the Coital y
pursuatit to a Ito quisitiuo, fur the purpose of voting
a total Address to his Majesty us, the present slate of the
country.
The Marquis of LOTIII AN was called to Ilse Chair.
Sir J Hope their roar lu IlfolloPe an Address 111 his Ma-
jesty. Ile said, he would not trouble the meeting with any
retssook• of his own, boot remold only observe, that there
never was a time when public duty more imperiously called
upon them to yule no Address to the Thauue than the
present.
Mr. JANIEII irstatrs, of Dairy, in riaing to second the
Address, observed, that all must allow, of whatever party
they were, that the must flagitious attempts had !slyly be. II
made to earite disaffection, sod these attempts were still
premed with such audacity, perseverance, mid allCreaa,
as to envier serious alarm in the masa of every lover
of his country It was true that the a-honour for
Radical !Morin was nut at present au I las (ornately—
the itinerant held preachers of brawn Were of now travers-
ing the cosintry—drillims and training had been put thorn,
and the smemldies of armed Walk had proved abortive.
The blood-thirsty rats! sir Tli_igleao,..l hail expiated their
grimes will, their blood. But the champions of rebellious Were
still the Dante. 1111 l though flattish-
ed, was not quelled ; and the obj et of the oliscrontrot was
still Sue the I tie impiety, while a rev troll
for dernroin tool justice hail isetraim,d the reasonable
past of the consinusoity from exihre,iug flu ir sentinwnis,
the agents of olisallo t lion, Eng oging a certain portion
of the Pres, had, in the must waootoon aool snip, ilicipled
manner, exerted ihentselvo.l io 141111.11 at allli
1/1t... OW public mind ; and 111 whatever issued from them,
a lather in the shape of ttesevapars, paniliislel4, sir racks-
u• es, whether is the tintortros 401.1renes to the Queen or
the It.a,rlres Aisswe.s to those Aoldsmors—the two 1111110141
of Parliament—Joolges sof the Land—the ihgraitaries Ili the
Cho., Is—the ordistary Ministers of our Holy Retie —slid
Religion itself—have all Wen mask the 'driers of their rich-
role and invective. Nor was it to the lower orders shone
that thus. fed lines wore random'. ti,ntrir. of a similar
spirit bad bees aces autos! those from whom better migist
have brew eared d. Is the House of Piers, Ilie +ratio!
Counsel fur the direst.* had asserted, in the most open
and-harefaced ininner, that the c tort of No ro, the Itunrom
Emperor, afforded she only parallel to that which hail
bee,' roused towards the Queen. la defiant. of her doily
sod allegiance tor his Majesty, noel forgetting the or avert
be owed to that *again sourish'', that Itaairal Gentlest, on
abut riot scrople in borrow from the politica I manufactory
of llone, that most fool, unjust, anal scassilaloss Idol. Anil
to a hal, Ise would soh, were they so ascribe this ainpreeeoleist.
ed, this unjust persecutions of his Maio sty arid his Ministers'
SVhy, 'krause they would nut consent 10 place it t the hi ad of
fo-snale -oriely in this country, /nr whose conolort load been
Ile economist Sl*:11141,11 of Lwow., at a majority of her
J sok. s had voted guilty—( /Par, /deur. kerar'.)--Was it for this
that the Government Wall to be alroard—tweanrie his Majesty
had assume; the tried and faithful servants who had ea.
joyi d Isis lather's roudileui :toil who, ilitring the ghortinia
issol of the Regency, hall persevered su thesdrogglefew torso
town iutlepeoiletire till they hail achieved a troiseipli
1 ample.% in the aituals of the country? This was a tinie when
the voice sof loyalty shoi•lol be hear.' from one end of the
country tooth, unbar; mod thooorb • few testis., demigogires
coutitioril In delude the ignsoramt nod smsleall the mawary,
and *naval to overturn all that wan allered and valuable is

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