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London, England, 1818-11-05 00:00:00

NORWICH ELECTION.

TnE Barns's Pans of Tharsday last contained
stn account ut the dinner given at Norwich, in cele-
bration of the late election of Representatives iu
l'arlfrn►ent fur that city. We wre enabled to give
the following mina of the Rev. Geo. Glover's
speech, otter the health of the Bishop of Norwich
had brew duu►k in the room where that Gentleman
set :--

" As a clergyman of his Lordship's diocese, as
an individual whorl he lies for many years thought
vroper to honour with his kindest fnendship, and
still more particularly as being at this time a guest
of his house, I beg you *lll allots me the liberty of
klialikoirg you on Ins behalf fit du compliment you
Have just paid him. It will convey no information
to any of yon whets I say that the Bishop of Norwich
is the general friend of the whote human race ; that
the See over which he presides was never adorned
Isyr a better Prelate, nor Society blessed with •
Letter man. That there are persons who think. or
pretend to think very differently. I am Well aware.
tut every extended society contains a description
of persons whose good opinion no good Wm can
%villa—whose censure supplies tin discredit—and
whose praise-word confers no honour. But, Sir,
there is also another class of persons arnougst us
who seem to pride themselves °lion the hbendity
of their Sentiments, when they tell you that they
ore spire ready to give credit to the Bishop of Nor-
wich fair a most excellent heart and a must hem-
volent mind, for Ane and itioffensive manners, but
that his ' poiitic,t ire Why are his polities
Lod Would they have a minister of peace
hsr the abettor of unquiet aid unnecessary war?
v.'ould they have him, whose dice it is to teach
men to do to others as they would they shoots
tb, unto them. jolts in violating the rights and
trainOng upon the liberties of mankind—in dis.
a thrones and governments, without any
irf,rence to the will of the governed ? Would they
we him. whose office it is to impress upon us a
r!een %rose of oar Own liability to error, he the Nola
• .ieste of intolerance and persecution? Would
they have him on, momeut beard ekliorting us II)
Paten to the dictates of conscience, and in the nest
;.riiig to exclude millions of his fellow-creatures
trout the enjoyment of the rights and privileges of
the society in which they live, simply for pursuing
the 'counsel hr himself gives them, and for refusing
to woke a wreck of that which he is bound to tell
Poem should be cherished dearer than life itself?
pat they have lutu, whose duty it is to preach
I;berty to the captive, and delivelftnee to those that
are boom', Tie the ndvocste 01 chains and dungeons.
of placmg at thi. disposal of arbitrary power the
wiid persons Of WO fellow-crearis res, of tioffictiog,
e. hat should only be the comirqueriers of conviction,
withool a teur, and punishment without a stria
Intim ? rettell be their 001104 t Or the political duties,
ether of a bishop or of a Clergy man, I can only

say they are nations to which I never can stb-
scribe, for they are notions which I do not hesitste
to affirm, are in aireet opposition to our duty to
Goili to society, and to ourselves; and that I am
truly thuukful that 1 live in a diocese where 1 can
look up to an etta►nple who thinks so likewise; and
in a county where I can still witness an assemblage
and a day like this, nut looking upon the object of
yokit meeting as the triumph of a political party,
but 'ts the muds udder triumphs of liberty, and
justice. and truth. Sir, as an Englisl►n►au, I thank
the,i.ity of Norwich for having nobly performed a
politic ditty. for the appeal it lias made to the
mwal sense sad judgment of its inhabitants, and
fur the oppOrtunity Mat has been given of ,hewing
their opinion a the acts and proceedings Mf our
Inesent ruler% if out one of those who think that
,if the same opportunity had been public's atorded
to the county at large, the result of such an ap-
peal would have been unquestionably not less otitis-
factiry. For I think that smithy of Mr. Wode-
house's former political adherents would not have
furl/Mien. and I am sure all his political adversa-
ries would have remembered, that the first and
only important vote he had given es a Member of
Perlia►uet►t, was fur a continuance of the Suspew.
km Act."

TOPEIGN INTELLIGENCE.

)PARTS PAPERS.

rams, wovriarrit. 1.
The King jraherdey received before 6lsas the
Marquis of Marialva, Ambassador of the King of
Portugal, and the Marquis of Campo Mayors Marc
dal Commander of the Portuguese aim:es.
The King went at three o'clock to Vincennes.
The day before yeaterdey the King of Prussia,
Prince Charles his son, the Duke de Duras, and
the Grand Duke Constantine, were introduced at
the Thuilleries to the King, who received them in
the most Arable manner, and conversed with them
in his closet fora quarter of an hour. At six o'clock
they dined with the Royal family, and at seven the
whole Royal party attended the Hall of Spectacles,
which, in the magnificent dress of the ladies, and
the eclat of the uniforms, presented a brilliant swop
The play war Ifainiet.
Letters from Lisbon, of the leth, of last month
say, that the army has been considerably augment-
ed. It was not known at Lisbon that the differ-
ences between Spain and Portugal had been ar-
ranged.
' The three Russian frigates, the Ligera. of 44
Rats, commanded by Commodore Regmann ; the
Velez. of 36 guns, Captain I'leter ; and the Pronto,
of 36 guns, Captain Stanske, arrived in the harbour
of Cadit on the teeth, having left Portsmouth the
30th. Thee are in excAlent order. On the 11th
strutted in the same harbour. the Tagk. from Urns,
with 80i,000 piastres. The Castilla and Preeioss
sailed from Callao at the same time as the Tagle,
with considerable property on board, but have not
yet arrived.
The King of Spain has, as a proof of his grati-
tude, and iu memory of the valour displayed Bor-
ing the late war by Juan Martin, surnamed the
Easpeciaade, permitted his decendants to bear that
name.

Reports lisifirreeailed for some days at Madrid,
that M. de Labrador had succeeded the Marquis
deems Irujo, as Secretary of State, but they were
devoid of foundation.

YewDE PLOT .—Holifisy at the UNA, Eselsequer, East

'oldie, aud South Sea Huss*.

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