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EDINBURGIC JMBE~fIV G.

• Cheftatorday a litleetiat of the fahabilents of this City
was hrW pursuant to a kripiosniou for that purpose, in the
Pantheon all pails of which isete crowded to eace.s. It is
compote" between 3010 and 4,ooolo.rsons were prestiit.
JAMmit Itnacatrrr, Esq. seas csile4 tolls, Chair, whirls
he took amidst great :initial:ye. Ito theft 'nod the requisi-
tion, in whirl, he reque•tril oath Grill!eaten as might slunk
proper to speak, could confine their obsersViolso oad avoid
pernmalitiim

Mr. JiYellin' rose, and ran reveived with seitivereal
eheeriog. He apologised for heint hen prepared than he
could hive wished, owing to his sober avocations, to ru►er
upon the subject • with that knowledge of it which it re-
quired; Ism notteithotanding he would ettilesvorirlu explain,
with all the ability io his power, the 'florets of the Re.
quisitioisists. Ile was fossil of retirement, and had
seldom leisure from his other pursuits to afford the
necessary liter to enable him to Allred such meetings
with effct. The present style of the limes, however, was
such Slot to risk perrimal obloquy was of is. concern witch
the interest of the country required our attention, and it
was with pleasure be saw aronurl bins many isersioss who,
fur the first time is, their fives, hail ever attended such meet.
lugs. When it is considered that within a short period the
middling and lows, orders of the people hare become, Crum
the dissemioation of knowledge, insist intelligent, and .4
course have lately risen juin great political importance, he
saw stone measures were indispensably ry to allay the
discontent which prevailed; one great cause of which
he believed proceeded from the want of an elective fran-
chise, fur which some practical remedy should hr applied.
Owing partly to a want of this privilege were to be eseriht d
the strange notions which many persons entertained of pro.
lineal reform. He was of opiniuo, that were sueetisgs of 1
this kilod sometimes hell, they would correct those ex.
toneous views, and silence the calumnies of those. whose
policy, mid the °twilit,* tendeucy of *hose conduct, are to
confound the well.mraning with the wuret enemies of the Stale.
The policy of the pfesent Gisverimieut had beets 111 divide
the people into two claimer, which bad, Ise contended, the
worst effect. If the persons in the lower ranks of life see
their infers regardless of ihrir iuterter, and icturuing to
their petit iOllll answers nut evcri conveyed in courteous lan-
guage, it is then time far the higher ranks to interfere.—
These is outy one remedy, and it is, Iliat the upper ranks
Humid stand forward and support those of the people, who,
feeling their sights, seek narrow su a MINCl(1.11 u
The Leanr,' Gentleman then noticed the very orderly and
proper behaviour of the rneetieg. Ile referred to the asses.
lions, that a nuntlrer of the persous who signed Ilse requi-
sition had done so fur the pow'e of cello.; into power,
and that they were hungry expegants of office. The utter
falsehood of such obloquies was almost tuiroleri cccc s to re-
quire refutat' ; but be wonid ask, who are they who are
charged with these views They are those who
have bees. struggling against power, end who might
have gaits's' it by preferring pru6t to principle, their
wilds bring to Irate a land of vacs wet" Jiberq to their
posterity, as the hest boon they rook, Bestow. For
hiss own part, he solemnly declared that he would nut
accept place or emolument to which lie had nut a
fair and just claim. lie hail no desire list oflice. Ile,
and his friends, whom he tenni, around him, bad by their
own exertions, ranted themselves to the situation its which
they now were. They lived gaily end merrily, marl fur his
own part he did not relish the constraint necessarily attendant
upon office. Ile therefore considered the charges brought
agaiust himself and his friends most calumnious, shows',
and false ; ■nd although he trusted the (widow!' advocated
by the party to which he brimmed would lee adopted, he was
nut tangnine enough to think that a Whig Adatinistratous
worth! permanently gain an aseeudaney ; but should such be
theease, it would soon he sees, that mimeo( their present opri.
neat, would sneak over to their party, and share the favours
then is, their poissesaiun. It hail bees justly observed, that every
one should bear is, mind the scope and object of the Rolm-
sitiou. It imported, that it was is, etosseqiieuce of the fla-
grant misconduct of Ministers, in their forego and domestic
policy, the country was illiliCICOI wish, its present distress.—
He did not think the state of the country could be much
improved without a complete change of the present system.
It was of little consequence whether the accusers of the
Qom' were or were not brought to puitishinent, if their
measures were not altered. Their waits ful and unprece.
dented expenditure of the public money was the root of
all the evil which the country suffered, and he would fear-
lessly I, that if no remedy be applied, it would be im-
possible to escape the ruin that threateutal it. Tim Learned
Gentlrman then adverted to the commercial restrictions which
eml mai the trade of the comity, arid commented iss strong
trains on the etapid adherence to ancient absorilstoss and
exploded maxims of policy, by which commercial nation,
had been alienated,anil been ioduced to retort with interest
on our trade the restrictions we loci aimed at theirs. Ile
also adverted to the foreign policy of the try, by which
he argued that an indelible stain had hies' fixed on the name
of Britain. Since the Revolution no Government had ap-
peared inure averse to the exercise of pupolar rights than
those who now manage our affyira. Ile would not enter into
a detail of perticalar instance, of the display of this spirit.
They were so seri; known it was untie( rosary ; but, among
others, iliere was one peculiar feature—he meant the employ.
meet of spier rind informers—Wear, hear, Fear')—by
the eurmiragement of which not only has a blow been
struck at the ale cf the community, but the freedom,
and he would say the license, of initiate •perch has been
tones rted into is former of danger, whirls under au rilO4
and liberal Goverument could be the rase.—(//ear, hear,
Few•.)—And not only this, but it has given rise to
division awl disaffection, and it appears from the re-
cords of dilTerent Courts of Justice, that those spies have
produced those very measures fur which other mem were
apxahalion.)—lie would allude particu-
larly to one art of Slinistera, and that was the tender of
thanks, in the name of their Sovereign, ►o the Magistrates
of Manchester, at a lime when all that was knows of their
conduct was. that this' blood of their fellow.citezeos had been
shed, and whey, it was unknown whether the usemiog was
legal or not ; and what was peculiarly worthy of remark
in that Address, there was not a syllable of commiseration
fur the to liercrs.—(tord applatese:)—A mute peruicious
and terrible example was by these menus set to the
Magistrate.' of sillier comities don had ever hero cx•
hanged in any free country; and if that example had
produced rte natural s ffeet, this c ttttt dry would love
been ere now deluged with blood ; but fur the towhee this
calamity certainly they had ass thank the prudence oust gouil
conduct of the Magistrates of the couutry,aod hr cupid nut
hot particularly Advert to the c tact of the Magistrates of
Glasgow, and to the troops employed iis that district, as
sheering en example esf forbearance and moderatiou well
deterring the highest applanve.—Wear, hear, hear )
He would allude to smother c reumstance iq the conduct of
Minister', moil dial was Ilse removing from office of an ilium-
trim,* and patriotic Nobleman, who Ind always perfurated
hiss duly to his Sovereign in the must upright and conwrien-

ti4/1111 leallnef, inertly beessee he had given ruuntenance to
1 merlins( !she the prearoot. And who was she irdsvideal
thsse removed Ass individwal Taw had hera the early friend
of Isis Sovereign, soil had arrived at the last stage a life
witbost havisg bees is the least degree distiiscsialted by as
inelioatios towards •iuleul CCUIrSti —(llear, hear, kear.)-.

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The last subject let wohle &lode I. was the pinceediogs
agajettit the sod the sodden and it eintaniiplen rut,.
g anon of Paaltainent ; stna bee he might probably sin prise
the weeding by annierviog, Om he had not read the whole of
tbe evidence al this case, lie alt. not w hole t. eiefile has
Mind with that mass of perjury, obvectitty. and fifth which
had been so long served op Is. torah; the delicate wafture of
the litinse of Lords— 'L•trfaiW •••11 lIIIe 11w MIME" that
fell from their tables bad foronsheslev plentiful repair to *II
without doors( who were food of such entertainment.—(land
and ersatintard lostglder ;—floe would not *ay murk of that
measure which, after advawing to maturity, was ahistidooed
bit by bit. Every-matt knew it was not a measure for the
public intereit, but a measure that wee. framed against tie
disapproving vote of the noose of Commons, :mai the long-
coutimied, clamorous, anal iseessant opposition of the cons-
fry. No mu. mats round see les what ends such a measure
was hrunght forward. The argument of State policy opts a
shallow and ridiculous tetrad The whine proceeding was
reptignant to the feelings of the merle. user persisted all
defiance of their violent reillrebstirre. Addresses hod
Own 'pouring iu from all amassers; wad it wis 'mina ka-
ble that unt one of woe neat up by Ike opposite party.
not even retie from any chase Corporation, had mammy-
ledtprel in the slightest degree its•prorriely sir neeemity.
Never was there a inure nuanimeos verdict. proisouotiug
the unequivocal couttemnation of any great public transac-
tion, which Vail brought (coward too at a time at event
public distress, when we were threatened with commotion
and tumuli, partly the • ffrct of apses and agitators, tied
partly from uth.r causes; when* It was thought news-
wry to severe laws against libel and sedition,
while the obvious tendency of such a proceeding wee
to give Increased effect to all those ream* of diacouteut.
The conduct 'of Ministers on this questiuts Was moil like
Asiatic servility than English compliastre. They betrayed
suck au alter hula, retire to the voter of the iwnple—there was
such bullying and threatening—sisels wavering and ineworist-
ency—sueh meats and trifling rirrailaill—the whole proeventogs
in short, exhibited such signal at ninth ty, and such sit ter inc. pa.
city and iudecision, as, independent altogether of the merits of
the measure, afforded sittltricnl grounds for pronouncing them
unfit to carry on the affairs Of a great nation. They bail been
beaten at every stage of the encounter ; at every new
round, at every rally, they had been defeated; stud having
beet' flawreslso often, Ilathiat now remained lint to carry
them out alba. ring.— Loan laughter !—Nest came Ilse pro-
rogation of Parlianseut. After all public Inisineint had been
interrupted, the whole lime of the SrtfolaUlt monopolised by one
single inquity,Minismrs had 'prorogued the Parliament with-
out • speech. without even a Court circular. They had, in
fact, turned tail, and shuffled oft' in the dark, soil out eves a
place of rendezvous hail hers, appointed —J,uipoise.)—.
Never was a morn ludicrous, pitiable, and disgusting spec-
tacle exhibited by a routed mob, and uut one of them
could give any rational arcount of the matter. Those
who are bo I to say soinrthitig, all• contradict each
other. They du not kayo whet to do, our can they say
what is to happen. There was at present, in fact, nu Go-
vernment in activity. Were they, therefore, to succeed sit
their petition for the dismissal of Ministers, they would ob-
tain not so order fur execution, hut an order far carrying
away and interritig the 4410. It was apparent that the
preseolisystem could nut be continued without the destruc-
tion of public peace or of public liberty. Mr. Jeffrey then
proceeded to recommend lenient measurers, and concluded
with proposior a aeries of Resolutions.
Mr. L. HORNER 'dwell), arrooded the Itevolitt• L.

The first Renato wag carried 11111 l ; but after
the second was rend, mid the Chairman had put t►e que<-
lion, whethe► it was the will of the meeting that it should
pass—.
_ _

Dr. AITON, of Stockbridge, who was sealed in one of
the boxer, vociferated '6 No' ' in such a tone as to attract
Several attention. Grant codas ...0 immediately ensued
from the ►oud disapprobation which was expressed from all
quarters.
The CHICIRMAN Is ering nt length soeceedrd in Palming
order, suggested that any individual who bad any thing to
say in opposition to the Resolution, Phoold undoubtedly be
heard.

On this there was a general cry of " Hear him, hear I '"
on which Dr. Mhos slated, that in ronscipteiteenf the liberty
allowed him, be begged hi express hia iloacut tram the Itcso-
!esti 111 l now read. A more complete farce was never acted
on the stage of the world, nor of the Pantheon.—(Here the
hisses and cries of " Pat hiss oil" became so violent, dist
the upeaker's voice was completely drowned.)
The ritatattatt having restored order, expressed his °pi.
Moo strongly un the impropriety of interriipi Mg the speaker,
as the insist effectual way to come lo a speedy &Timm was
to hear the individual to an rent.

Dr. AITON then ressimed—They bad got, lie said, a liar-
!slain and a Merrimac, and else only thing neteammy to
complete the farce was a Columbine.—[Here the speaker's
voice W2S again drowned in a tuenultuuns clamour Of ilis.
approbation.]—However "such the speech now delivered
might have been disguised, it was delivered for a damnable
porpose.—plere the eonfusion because greater than ever,
and nothing was heard but •latent hisses, and loud and in-
cessant cries of " Out with him!"

After order was restored, Ur. J. A. MultßaY stated, that
it was unquestionably proper that every endividisal Moonlit
he allowed fairly and freely to express his station sits, so
lung as he observed the role.; ul• good ; but when any
MIR went the kngth of impel that the speech lately heard
was fir a damnable purpose, tie ought slut to be heard.—
(App/anse
Mr. N. B. BLIfTfl begged that the meeting would allow
the Gentleman another trial; the curse which they this day
advocated needed no support but what arose f a full
and free discussion. That Genthienan had expressed him-
self intemperately, but he trusted lie would ;ipulogixe, and
be allowed to go on.

Mr. Motrcate►r expressed himself to the same effect.
Dr. ASTON then said, be was very sorry be had offended
the feelings of the meetiag by the expressions be had used.
lie hail little more to say, sad would only add, that the
veer+ of the Learned Gentleman might be all compreheudtd
in a few words—

" Up with Sarchi, down with Flynn,
Tura out the Turie,:, and let the Whigs iu."
Me k kugliter and disapprobation.)
Another individual iu the boxes glum rose, and said he
hail a word to say un the sermid itesulutiou, and that was,
that it did not go far enough ; and lie would move, in natio.
Goo to it, Slott they should pledge thew.. Ives, if ever they
gut into power, to
and disapprabation.)
The CISAIRMAN observed, that as the peseta meeting
wouh form rather a numerous Ministry, such an Amend.
ment, lie was of opinion, would be useless—(Laughter.)
The third and fourth Resolutions were then con icd uoani-
muusly.
Mr. J. A. MORAY rom, and in a very eloquent speech
condemned the measures that bail been pursued by Govern-
ment in respect to the Italian States, and especially the
cession of Genoa to its natural enemies.

On the Fifth Resolution being read,
Mr. Coe KBURN ruse, and made some pointed observations
on the bad effect which the employment of epics and in-
formers had us, the murals of the people. The learned
Gentleman limited a passage frum Iturke,as to the noble and
spirited character uf the trition in his ; attire, then, hue.
ever, there has been a chasm (repave,' the Goveruurs and the
governed, whirl. is gradually widening, and which, unless
public-spirited men step forward to prevent, will ►ink all
orders in our coiutnon misery. After what had been said by
his Iteinied Friend, with regard to spies, he did not think it
necessary to ray any thing further; but he could not help
remissible', that it must have struck th► mini+ superbei•l
observer, that fur the ►art silt years them bail nut hewn as
instance whine spies bad been brought to putair'onient ; their
twenties bad, in our dam been a trade, sad he was afraid
it was the wily trade in *Web Om bad term no bank.

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'opts's. Iteepoisitious.-bad b.wn eirrnhrtril in ill' • -.re
patio of use cirwstiry.•esta from!. counties in the swum
lit Scutbowl, a, fratm'Arlstrrases to Ow ti,irtreign, to shorts
It is stated, heal blasphemy end e-dition pc...int among
the people; yet, us , complete anrarr to
toes, there was al/ bcosiand a •iogle presets under
such thsigeti. (ices aims Charge. against li'e poopte h.*/
been detshal by the Klieg himself tit los Auswer so she
Coml of AIM erects, tis alich his Majesty said, tbot
the great body of 11w pouplc sore lope. The Learned
fdreetlesnao paid a compliture.; to she-114,v14 and lo Ilse
blessings she comoiry trims from its brine unre•lll4lo'4•
—lle then atlusivi! to the sioretieg, ertsisli. he 5.!.4, watt
Milt a fureritulter to others of a similar descript•oss, as obese
ea staple ',Amid; lie 'turbid, be ful:userd all neer the
The politic might then are Towu Cooper's insid.rig op thew
Aranresses, 'tad other perilous weingeling thetlfl useliacwswedi
iFithoet Moog appalled at cub emulate,
The other itcoolullows, and Address to his Maintop,
Which was an satin of the Iliesoltstseet, weer severally email
mad *greed to be arelasnatitse. • 5.
JABIss Grat.‘en ruse and esisl, that the elmuessre of
the 11.esrned fientlentim and the appearance of the Dreamt
eneetssig, gave the lie to all 11w calumnies Whirl. had 1, „it
altered and, circulated by persons who described them is tile
swum of the earth. The rib'!ect of the Whigs to no inst•uce
bad IWO a *trent Me for power, or they tr,ghrt.or err thes
have beets in possession of it ; and he was pirsuaded,. if a
change dist lint take place, a t•volut;ou °old ensue. APieF
some observation. on the iMpolsoic coMluct of hfinisters, be
moved that the Mike of Redford. Fir! first, Lind floltaint,
or Lord Erskine, be remutated to preset:* Ilse Address.
Mr. ANDRUIT Scu7T areon.lud :%tr. Gthson'S motion.
which was ,(herd to. II- bad great pleicort to willinpiloirt
this meeting, and Su bearing te.lienJoy to Ow Serv,re elso!
Whig. ies the 4' tie: crew io penol of 'Nei/
power they hill abolished the Slave Trade, lie ,Itvr,hr,' yf
slur age' and hid quitted office for aditerroee to the yrsu.
(Haire of religions toleration.

A Commit ire wig then appointed to further the ot.jects of
the Ineel in.

Mo. Jona CLeak ruse and proposed the thsnks of OA
lording to the Chairman, for Inc ;:ble conduct in tie Clut.
Mr.). GRANT secoloJed the motion. 2nd tongratalated
(h. meeting 011 11, ordtr and deco: "to whorl, hid porevailetll.
As it teas one it the blessings of our Cnnsiiini.ion, that Mei
might meet and express their (opinion on pooh, c measure's
thereftre, to tutted they would ag ono nivel teliencter IrCe/I7
sista required, as such public consofisliurrs r.-re attend. (I lop
the best eons. opiences.—The enoiivu was then carrleJ will
great applause.

- Mr. J:rn•to then proposed, and the ineetinf reso!red to
retort thanks to the Gentlemen by whom it bad been calk&
The CIIAIRNA* thee dissolved the meelisie, after •tot.r44
hen meth hr had bees gratified by the decorum an order.
which bad been observed, not ri thstainfine the very cron.i.el
state ant, parts of the briildtag. He begged them to sisk,ve
oat very stalely, to prevent armless'.
The meeting the• dispersed is the most orderly trimmer.

The following Petition, grounded apon the Regolntakes.
wos unanimously agreed to :

TO THR LINO'S MOOT TTCRLLENT MAIRITT,
The humble Address and Petition of the undeisigned
Inlishititato of Edinburgh;
Hay it plena, your Majesty,
We, )siter Ilajesiy's most loyal and dutiful subjects, the
nuedersigreed lishabitants of Edinburgh, convened by mehlit.
advertiseoseat, beg leave in approach your allajenety's Ttiroare
with thir mourances of sincere sail nualterahle attsrle-
meta to your Majesty. Person and Government, awl to the
prisiciplea of that happy Constitution which placed poor
Illustrious Family on the Throne of these Realms; and
,Is. to express our determination to repel and resist, to tiro
utiiiost of suer power, any attempt that may to, made to in.
•a.le that Constitution, or to impair, in any degree, the re-
spect that is due to all and each of its branches.

Under the influence of these re iii i t Items and consiolering
the rioentastaisces to which this country is now ;dosed, we
feel it to be oar indisp►nsable duty 1111.0 respectfully to le •
preseut to your Majesty, that it is tour firm cotorietiooot aoul
belief, that your Majesty's present Thirster. have veto.. ly
lust the confidence of the great holy of your People, o,rool by
a aeries of injudicious and rep►ehensible measures hose de-
servedly become the objects of such general distrust stud
aversion, as to he longer capahle of conducting the
of the notion with safety or advantage.
That they have, fur many years, persisted in the course of
most improvident stud wasteful expense, and, im tiro., of
unexampled distress, have obstinately rejected every propos-
Dittos tor effective retrenchment or econonms.
That they have, is like manner, pursued an ignorant 'rood
Mtrixl system of policy, as to the laws and recuw..., ..r
trade, by which the oational distresses have been aggrsyst ed.
or the means of relieving them withheld ur intercepted.
Tbat, at the close of a war, the professed object of osh'ch
was to viadicata and restore the independence of the
European communities, anti which had been brought to a
successful termination chiefly by the distinguished valour of
our free littlish soldiery, they lent themselves to a policy
incousistent with the bestproociples of national liberty, and
to conducted themselves towards various independent
States, as nut only to tarnish the honour of the station is
the ryes of the world, but to ruing such Suspicion ow one
good faith as must ►e productive sir mat practical em.
to tttttt meats its our foreign relations, both political sod
cusufllterial.

That they have manifested, at all timrv, an uncriustit utional
and distempered aversion to all popular right• and
lege", anal have, on mail, occasions, imposed untiresesery
rest, actions on their exercise and enjoyment.
That, in order to effect this object, and to maintain. if
possible, their own power and influence in the cuuutty, they
bare ascribed the discontents, which arose chiefly from their
own misgovernment, to the prevalence of a sprit of dias
loyalty and disaffection, which has had no natural or extru-
sive existence among the people.
That they have struck an alarming blow at the morals of
the people, and have invaded the iirivate security of emery
class of your Majesty's subjects, by employing. eacoarig-
int!, and prufectinr en unprecedeuted 'somber of spies suit
iantriners, who are proved, in many cases, to braee beets
themselves the instigators of those disorders for which oust s
haw. been exposed to prosecution and punishment.
That, iu pursuance of liar same objeeta, they have take*
advantage of the peaceful and loyal dispositioas which pre-
vail geurrally in this eutintry, to pentads tummy weal mean•
lug prisons of the troth of their calumnious aniarepriarets-
lions, lied have thus excited among them grievous sad
groundlesatilatine, while, at the same time, ibe smile mea-
sures and reproachful language which wren renscgn, 001 w
adopted, hare occasioned mod, fear and irritation
those who were the objects of their Clidlntnell, sail doireirie.l
the Irss instructed among Own) to last-n more rea,dl4 en ti•r
seduetioue iif She fete' wicked and designiog perilous who we...
hostile to our free Constitution, or who expected to seeks
profit of a season of tumult and disorder.
•that, with a view to deter pet-sone of rank and cuadition
from contrurringiu the reasonable complaints of the prolate,
they have advised the adoption of the !nose harsh 11111 i 16111%.11_
jog megaton towards individuals of the highest riarinn, the
most ustquementeed loyally, and the ms•t approved
trrs,res, whose presence at puld.c meetings was at 'tnca :I.e
pledge of the niudermion thf tl,e memettees to he adusit -
yd. sod the belt means of repressing any tendency to exe. - a
ii.r,,,ateniperrace that alight otherwise have beca.appre-
lictided.
That, by these and other means, they have diffused a
spirit of discord through the body of our pasessi/ation, and
ultimately produred a most alarintug dlowAista between
door classes of the community, without whom cordial co-
operation there ear no longer he peace and primps toy fur
the country.
Thal) by she late proceedings ageism bee Majesty abs