The National Register.
London, England, 1819-11-08 00:00:00

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R V-LA E.—WC ale sot iy to .that we are de-
prived or the pleaxnue of colupismeo ins the. Hou•e by the
continuance of old Peres that the won has long bet n
tired of. Wild Oats has been t epeatej till the opiniuu of
the public might easily have bet n di scot the
empty benches; yet tail evening it was played again, and
to our great surprise ay see ilia. the bills I.lllllOllllCe 4 di.
termination to play it regularly nnt•e a week.—ls it possi-
ble that, sit Dir. I?ilistnn's age, ha can be so fir ender the
iniiiience of buyl•lh sanity as to pit fel the (wpm tunny 4,1
dashing sway iu /icy, (a character he was inimitable in
tivitity years ago), to finding, by lime Treasury returns, that
a constant change of well mrlerti d novelty is scones ing
permanent the countenance he recei• ed on the commi ut t
mean of hi• tcrati in the •I'ht•aur.

CoVENT Cr 41IDEN.—To our great joy Mr. C lienth!t•
reappeared al this Theatee on Ti.n stl..y evening la.t.
lit ',layer! Munk: in a very mastrrly though sse rfu
nut 'silk it among his he.; efterls. A continuance of WI •
inlet r opted applause On his rare was the best proof bow
perfectly the public opinion is in unison with one own, as
to the areal value of !bi+dtsunguilhrd pet furMrr.
Saluirda, the Comedy of Love ,nakft 1.. e Man was re-
vived—it was ••• Call ar to eitibtsee tae whole con.n,
41triogcli of the House, arid is very likely 1./ 10.0/1111. poi I,
har. ito3ina f tilutl.d, in nilsell Mi•s T.t-r 'Nat lot-4
sweetly as lu pt event the legrel we might nitliout her lest
fur the AbSVllee Of Miss Stephens.

On Monday last the wife of a tailor in Line()ln
eloped with a serjeant of t i.e Cohistreatn guards who
was recruiting there. Tl:e Lady, aft.r rontraetiag
as many debts es possible, pawned several hottseht):l
artiJes, and went off with the tvhole of her La..
band's money.
The writer of the letter to Sir Ro:srt Nlends
(lately alluded to ia this paper), proves to Lave
been one of the Collegians; and he has for this very
reprehensible offence, been very properly eNpellta
trom the College.
As Mr. William Shippliam, of West Le-ant, v as
lately on his way to Chichester. on a spkited hone,
mooed XS-merits) (from 1);..4 extraordinary services ,t
that partimilar place, and indeed thitmi. h the whole
campaign), the animal took fright, and ran on the
pavement, whin built were thrown with a Itcaleu-
(hot slwek. alt. S. reccirc.i vtuw sever," vont tiNions,
but is now happily retoveriog. It is a fall that tho
above horse received sever..i wounds during the la, t
conipaio ; three otu sera were shot fitiat his back,
one ot whom fell d)l.

At a Court of Aldermen lull on Saturday, it wait
resoive.l that a prosecution should he instituted
.gainst Nlr. Alderman Waithman, Mr. Sheriff Par.
Lies, together with Messrs. Thompson, Bantsteati,
Hunt, ;id others, tbr a conspiracy to obstruct tLe
rcgtilar pr.rt•e;lin;;s in the election of a Lord Mayor,
at the Common I fall ot. MisLae:.

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NORFOLK COUVTY .11EETING.

A rtrpti,i lion has log been waled to the High Shea'.
of tile county of Nor tuck, %ivied some of its most OVIIIMAI
&/1141 itaeieciabld inhabitants, desiring Min to calla public
stetting to take into coueideration the Idle unfurtutiate
tweet relict's at at anelicsi er, Sir W iliiillllll/)ntlham Dalling,
the High Slier iff, appoilited Fe itlsy lust for that purpose,
and made suitable preperations at the Shire-hall, lie the:,
Castle of Norte icli,fity the accointnottatlon of the ditlerent
gentle men oho were likely to attend as orators or specta-
tors on that iinportant oceasiou.
'I he ineelieg, AS was before stated, was appointed bit be
held In the Shire.hail, in the C ode; and a Wale befere
41 o'clock the High Sheriff suede his appearance there,
attended by the Earl of Albemarle, Led Bury, Sir T.
Dreamt, Bart., Sir T. Baker, Bart., sir R. P. Jodrell, fit.,
'l'. W. Cake, Esq., E. Wndelauttse, Esq. inembria fur the
.county ; Hon. L. Ilarburtl, Hon. T. Primitive, 51.13., J.
APDtniald, M.P., J. W. D. 31eresi, Esti. 51. P., net al
Kepeel, C uplain Beauchamp, N. Bolingbroke, Esq. Mny oe
of Nora ich, E. Lambe, S. T. Soisilawell, N. Nliekleiliwaite,
A. Berea', M. Elwyn, P. Hammitt, E Rolfe, J. T. Mott,
E.R.Postle, W.Foster, J.J.Kedingtield,Esqts, Archdeacon.
1i ithiirst, Rev o.Glover, Rev. it. F. Elwyn, Rev. J. P
Cullyer, Rev. fe. Saiulby, Rev. H. Wilson, Rev. W. New-
combe, Rev. D. Ila,te, and many other respectable gen-
rleilien and freeholders of tee county. At the same time,
hundreds surrounded the doors, and the cry far an ad-
join inneut to St. Andrew's-hall became so vele mem, that
' a vacate mutton was made to that effect by the Earl of
Albemarle. It was immediately after carried by aerie.
station, awl at 114/011( II) uniuntes past 12 o'clock can' w luule
party, parceded by the crowd who lead attended at tile
Nitire hall, et rived at St. Andrew's-hall, whieh the Mayor
had obligingly lent them for the day. The hustings
.(winch were tee same erected a short time since for the
ateommodation of the Bible Suck t)) were crowded in a
ire ))))) ait It. %stela a degree, that a part of Ilitan gave way,
and mane apprehensimat wet e excited for the remainder,
and the Ball, which a %eiy spacious, and will contain be-
tweet, 5 and IS,' 00 persons, was immediately above three-
parts titled. The High Sherd!, who was among the last
Ito entered, was received, on mounting the 'instance,
avatii the most tumultuous applause. A, $11)(1I1 is this had
subsided, he came fin ward to open the !menses,* of the
slay, and in doing so ole.erveil, that he had thought it his
duty to convene the present laureling, in coi.rq of 4
eetpiivition, to take into cousiderat ion the proceedings at
Menehester, having been presented, worded in the must
-temperate and constitutional language, and signed by a
numerous body of the nobility and gentlemen of the coml.
ty. 11'liatever doubts might arise regarding the expe-
diency cat necessity of the measiii e which he had adopted,
no doubts twilit arise in any gentleman's mind regardisig
the right possessed by every individual, whatever were
his political sentiments, to be heard salt It silence and at ten.
tom This was all lie had to gay to the hearses at the
meetings but to the speaker. he would suggest the to o-
priety of confitiiiig themselves to tlue subject of the
iregnisition, and of absttinittat from mixing 111/ wills it any
irrelevant or intlammetory topics. Vl'llatever irregularities
use his partroiglit occur in the proceedings of the meeting,
as this was the first over which he had ever had tier humor
of puesidisig, would, he trusted., he attriblited to leis want
of experience, and not to Ms want of good iuteution.—

Cheers.)
Tlir Under-Sheriff then came forward and read the
requisition, and the names of those who had suir•ci Wed it;
atter which Mr. Coke incised, and the Earl of Albemarle
s.ecooded the preposition, that the High Sheriff should
take the chair.

The motion having been put and carried in the affirma-
tive, and the High Shetilf having taken the elixir in
consequence of it,
The EARL of ALBEMARLE came forward, and address.
ing himself to the High Sheriff, said, 11441 it was allotted to
lime to open to the inteting the business for which it WAS
then assembled. In doing an, he could assure them, that
.it rejoiced his heart to stand before a meeting so numerous
and respectable, to open the business on which the county
of Not folk was that day publicly nut to deliberate. He
lilt—yes, be feat folly fell, how arduous was the task im-
posed upon hint; hut irt the present momentous etibit of
the (opium-y, as a fine state, when so much danger sur-
rounded it oii every side, when the aspect of its affairs
presented an trick set iota rause for alai m inn every quar-
ter, it would indeed be unpardonable in him if he sin auk
from what he believed to he his ditty. La uttler to per-
.orin the duty which had lieen assigned him, he
throw himself on the general indulgence of them all. To
his friends iu the wet tug lie should appeal for that kind-
ness which lie had before experienced at their bands, and
for 44 lurli lie could nssure them that he was must grateful;
Mid to his enemies in that 11411—Unt he enlist withdraw
that word, and rather say his political opponents, because
lie 'netted that lie had not a 'nominal enmity it pelt earth,
ssu'l he was once that he himself bore enmity to HO 1444.
(Che,l-.) TO his political oppnnt nls, then, lie would ap-
peal for %slim lit himself was always ready to grant, and
what every Eu4:fishiest' Intl a ugh to thostatill —a Mit
hearing Slid fur play. boot applaut‘e.) lEtatittragril 115
their approbation to proceed, the first use which he sl 1.1
rake of the litierty which he had outaisied of addre,stim
them, would he to ray a a„bt of gi itit t,.cle to the Malt
Sheriff. Ile Wolilti twit that gentleman, that lie was coo.
toissioncil by the individu.ils who signed the requisition—
s holy of men ni •4 r equalled in potato of ie•peetallility
and sititithers by the sunset 'bets to ally previous requisi-
tion in that county—lie would tell Mtn, lie rcl'o'dlelis that
he was eutioni•sioned by Cit. in to con vty to hint, the flight
SM-ritT, fin 4. 'mammon. thank• for the reatu.ess as oh
hick hr had avel-'l,l I,' their request, and had enabled
them to mutt flues tai. Is. 4111 COSIstIIII.
in ',ohne a•sembly, tit ile.l4ae Zhu ..114111101 of the
county of Nto folk. (ulli ei 4.) 'lite Ne 11111111•11111 of Vial
great vannty could hot tie collected from airy decimation
agrrid to in 4 col nue, how ever eesptchibly and 1111.1i1,
yemsly Ih,it ilerlitr;oiiiii might he signed; tutu-ever -11
those OlitllbtlS riled th:11 t
,e.prrtabiliiy might be
as lu this city they 9vll. the ishiolt
'Mitt 1/t 1111. Not t-4111, -(sitioe fusses, tivermlit lined
lit lottil ;.-lii• the iltlitts major. fife malni,
and 41111 11111 l it,, envy , all initr•liallesl lit 111111 i-f
orthr, nt dile older of promotion and nigh; of sitsice,
and matt lied np iss a military , iltithera it e. lie it 'i.e.-ileum
budv, lo sd:l their 1144i1.5 to this notable ,croll, the Nor-

vArt, dc4l.lM ion ( ,nu!! r,ud continued cheer,..) Iti going
hvo the detail. of the 11.'18)1)1e pow...came,. itt Maui h. si, 1,
(for he could •Al them I, no other Hahn 1, 1.11.1 111 I.olll*
pi. ming on them, he should attend mo.:t to the