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with affixed to petitions previously prepaied. This is the
line of conduct chalked out by tlio';e who call these meet-
ings, for those who attend them. They have been,
however, a little interrupted in the routine of their busi-
ness by Mr. HUM E and Mr. WAITHMA N. The former,
though a Proprietor of East India Stock, thinks the terms
offered by Government ought not to be rejected by the
East India Company; and the latter, though a citizen of
London, thinks it would not be improper to defer petition-
ing Parliament till they have more information on the sub-
ject. Mr. IlowcitorT, on two occasions, has had the good
Aartune to m..ke himself eminently ridiculous, and has :.t
ittst so far his character, that he is listened o.
and laughed at as a second Mr. COATES, acting for the be-
nefit of the East India Company. On these occasions he,
with a great deal of whimsica! gravity, and ludicrous so-
'county, informs those who appear less favourable than
himsel: to the claims of the Company, that at a meeting
to " consider" of petitioning Parliament, they are not to
take a general view of the question, but merely to consider
what will promote their own interest, and having decided that
it will be to their own interest to procure the renewal of the
Charter, to tell the Legislature that to alter the present sys-
tetn will injure the outports aod tlu, empire at large, and
risk the security of our possessions in India.
His good fortune, a few weeks ago, when he succeeded
after receiving a few hard rubs from Mr. Hem E, in put-
ting that Gentleman down, encouraged a Mr. TWIN-
ING, at the Mansion House last Thursday, to attempt the
same part. The person on whom he tried his talents in this
way happened to be Mr. W AITHM AN. This Mr. WAITH-
pd AN, it is well known, has a good portion of that quality
which Tristram ,Shamly tells us is called Perseverance, in a
good cause, in a bad one Obstinacy ; and, on this occasion,
it was all called into action. We are no more disposed to
court the good graces of 'Mr. NV AITHM AN than he is to
curry favour with the Government on this occasion, but
we must say, the stand he made when interrupted by Mr.
TWINING, and subsequently by Mr. Itosvcaorr, who ad-
vanced with the confidence of a hero flus Led with victory,
to bear down all before him, did him honour. Mr. WA IT If-
MAN, coolly and manfully, insisted on the right of. a
Citizen to deliver his sentiments in that hall, on that
which concerned the City. He met with great opposition ;
but he made himself heard : All he asked of the assembly
was, that they ,hould fake time to consider, and to obtain
information on the subject, before they decided on a
vestion of such great importance, and he moved an amend-
ment to that effect. This was negatived, and of course the
Meeting resolved that they would trot consider before they
proceeded to act. After this we may expect to be enter-
toned by the Company's partizans, with more stories about
,the people in the country signing petitions they knew not
why, et:ly that others did so; and it is to be hoped the Chi-
lens of this enlightened Metropolis will be liberal of their
compassion to such ignorant persons, seeing others so much
their superiors may da something like it. To the Public at
large if will not appear the cause of the Company is so good
as they would'have it believed, if their friends thus shrink
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JAN. 24.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

GOTTENBURG MAILS.

Moscow, Dec. 21.—The number of inhabitants who have returned
hither, increases from day to day. Some houses are almost entirely
repaired, and there is no place capable of furnishing room for a resi-
dence that is not occupied. Trade and manufactures revive in an
extraordinary manner ; 2,500 shops are ahead!' built, and the mar-
ket -place is every day thronged with a prodigious number of buyers
and sellers. On the 13th instant, his eminence Aui:ustin Bishop
Druilrow, and Vicar of this metropolis, consecrated to the protec-
tion and intercession of the Virgin Mary the lower church of the ca-
thedral, where the relics of Wassilje the Righteous repose, and with
it the whole suburb of the Kitay. At the commence:nent of this
religious procession, a prayer was said- at the place of burl/lie execu-
tion, from which the procession passed to the above-mentioned
submit. The concourse of people, on this occasion, was extraordi-
nary Processions were made, as his- Majesty the Emperor had di-
rected, for the purification of the churches throughout the whole
city.
GOTTENBURG. JAN. 16.—We have just received intelligence that
Macdonald has tirllowed the example of his master, and taken him-
self ofFfrom his army. He travelled as a jew merchant, or rather as
a pedlar. It is also positively said that Konigsberg is in possession
of the Russ4ans.
There has been a riot at the Theatre at Berlin—the people cried out
" Long live the Emperor Alexander of Russia." The King, who was
present, ordered silence, but in vain.
Report also says, that the mob have been fighting in the streets
with the French soldiers, and a number have been killed in the
city, as well as ;n tie. country by the peasantry.
General D'York has concluded an Armistice with the Russians,
and agreed that the Prussian troop: shall serve during the war.
Letters from I.:migsherg by the way of Rugetiwald, state, that the
Russians were expected there on the 7th at latest, and were looked
with the greatest impatience. The King of Naples with the
wreck of the army is at Wehlau, on the Pregel, to which place he
has drawn the whole or the garrison of Dantz lc, excepting 5000 men,
and it is thought he intends giving battle to the Russians without
cava I ry.
It is said the Emperor Alexander has issued a Proclamation, in
which he calls himself King of Poland and Protector of the States of
Prussia.

P. S. Persons who left Berlin on the sth, state. that they were
present in the Theatre, when the cry of Long live the Emperor
Alexander,' was vociferated. with an enthusiasm which could not
be checked by the disapprobation manifested by the King of Prussia.