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PARLIAMENTARY iii 10,6411.

Wednesday se'onight the first systematic Sleeting
in "Disport of Parliamentary Reform win lir Id et
the Angel Inn, Colchester. whets upwards °I eighty
gentlemen of the town and ne,glshourlionsl wall
down to a most excellent dinner. It having hem
teltirttered that Mr. Harvey was to take the Cher,
the high rood to London was thronged with votes,
and reopectabk inhabitants, and "Imo Ins approach
• 51 bin three miles of the borough, the papillae/
hrosmr irresistible, the horses were taken from the
Vail nage, and that gentlemen was drawn to ilia
angel. amidst the t hunts, and heattsfat shouts
• thonssesiols. The suet Is through which he passeri
were tI ged with beauty and fashion. emulating
each other is, support of the patriotic candidate.
Mr. Smolt,. in a neat speech. propose-II the
health of Mr. Harvey, which was received with otos
bounded enthusiasm. That Gentlemais, in retains.
jog thanks, occupied more than an hour ; in which
Ise embraced all the leading and importaist topics
*hick at this time peculiarly engege the •de of
every Englishman who feels lot the hest interests of
his country. The declaration that he was, at length,
emancipated from every inn%ible embarrassment,
and stood alike unfettered in his character and
principles. as when lie first presented himself I.
their notice. was received by a burst of isatisfactioo,
winch stone can appreciate who were not present.
He further pledged himself. that no boon within the
mine of sower or inflitence. should deter him front
offering himself as w Candidate to represent thii
respectable borough in Pailiautent. at the neat
gessend election.
Tlw company did not retire till Nearly twelve
o'clock. when -Mr. Harvey left the Chair. and
every person expressed himself delighted with the
political discussion and harmony which had been
excited.
The deputy Chair was most ably supported by
Mr. G. Seasnan, of Gorbecks, and the pleasure of
the evening was considerably increased by the vocal
powers of Mr. Gibbon.
The following are a few of the leading toasts :
The Kiag, in edema—The Priam Regent, and may be
liner fmget his ewe deciaradou, '6 that the Throne is esta.
hashed for the Good of the Peopte."—The Source of all
legitimate Power, " the People."-4 Natioa's best Defence,
"as sutured Sword wielded by a beam sail hulepeadent
Peupk."—The Names sail Me cries id the 704 isilividnal
Burgenland who, by their Vines at the last General Election,
supported the Cause of Liberty, acid may their Example be
eateusively emulated at she next: Slay oar Juries be
Judges, nut oar J edges Jurors.—al r. Drury Thorn ; sad may
lbs Dew of Despair never fall ow the Brow of an honest
Mari.—Str. Wester's, sad the Whigs of Essez.—Mr. Kesdall,
sad the Free Bergeron of Colchester reddest in Leedom.—
Mr. Hall, sad the 'wades Committee.—The late patriotic
Loa 'Mayer sf-Leadoe, sad litanks to him tor his liberal
osheeription la support or the Cause.—The speedy s
sirs off dime who easpeeded the Habeas Corpse Att -1::
ems le the Patriots is /oath America, sad may the Tyrasts
who omen them sever be worse employed that is eabeol.
Peeliceets.—A free Prow which is like the Alt we
trrelautte, without It we die.—The Memory of Yr. !Ws
speech in Fame, et Parliansealary Realm Arvid ;
sea may the ItesurniNg (Meer at the approaching Coated
imitate the impartial Cosiest of his worthy Father, at the
lest General Medias.
Wisest the last toot was given, Mr. ARGIINT ex-
, subscription would be speedily
to that now in
which lie should

by truth

and 1 tau only say. had Olive ticutlenirn lire., in the art
sat Greece or Ruse, Ihry wined have hail statues raised to
rommemorate the todeprodence they have evinced. If
pm will permit me to deign to Notice Mem Gentlemen
who were the funcvnil-twesity, I colloid', their eaiisteoce,
as a busty of Ilsoistrases, quite as asininity ism a cowry
tailing itself free ; their tyranny I. of the most grievous
Idea. beim/ despotism. 'itemised by one neighbour lips.
*outlaw. The isibalutanta of the Turkish and Russian
donatioets, it I. true, are Rotorua by abs.lute master%
but their eyes are not every day blasted by the eight of
the tyrant.; they live at a distance from their slaves;
tut ws have the pa's, the misery, if we step beyond our
threeholds, of beholding, every hour in the day, mesa who
would trample us to doss, wive rut their authority as
poesy as themselves see ineiguilicant. It is the opulent
of Cuumel, that jun have bail to persevere to prevail; re-
mold mined, sail success is entails ;—so people were ever
csoqesered instil they became divided or distracted in
their tuoneils. • The work that is well beige may be said
to be elided. It is hong since we begs. our resistance to
uppreniou ; hot, be 01111•1414, though the moaner sew writhes
in thllconvishihrs agoisice of ilissolutioes, it will require our
aessinkra exertions to strangle him for ever. That we have
eat I. perareave fa prevail, may be said to be demonstrable;
fur if we extend our views from a borough to a wation, from
a station to a meniscus, its what part of the globe, is what
age of the wield, has it ever bees found that tyranny could
mewl befuri iVe howl's of the majestic figure of iudepea.
deuce ? I trnstatat the Memo which we have lighted up will
Not he extinguished in the borough of Al.wick through the
remotest ages of .vcceedisg geoeratioas."

BUNGAY NAPICA77ON.
Yesterday se'imight there was a very numerous
and sespecteble Meeting of the Proprietors and
Occupiers of the Estates at and in the neighbour-
hood of Mangey, at the Tuns lon, to take into
consideristiOn the propriety of opposing or support-
ing the intended Navigat. .
J. J. BEDIN °FIELD, E‘ti. svas celled to the
Chair, and alter a few prefatory remarks, submitted
to the Meeting some observations written by sit in-
habitunt of Bungay, tending to chew the injury
our h au extrusion of the navigation would be to the
town and trade of the Omer ; after which
Mr. Coorsa submitted to the Meeting. some
Resolutions, expressive of their dtterminatiou to
oppose it.
Mr. MUSKETS* (Steward to the Duke of Norfolk)
begged tq state, thnt ati opinion had gone abroad
that his Grace was favourable to the measure,
whereas the fact 1,1113, that he Media to give it no
support whatever. Mr. M. concluded with • few
observations on the injury which the millers fre-
quently received from the conduct of the bargemen
letting off wuter in the night, probably frosu two or
thiee locks, whereby the tail water is frequently so
raised as to require one-third more water to work
the mills then before. This he knew had occurred
in one river with which he was acquainted—that
from Bury to Lynn. There were also various other
difficulties to which the Proprietors of Estates ad-
joioing the uarigations were liable, and which often
were sources of endless litigatiou.
Mr. Wit.t.arr, Mayor of Thetford, said he was
authorised, on the ;tart of that town and Corpora-
hon. to say that they would oppose it in every stage.
Mr. ADAIR thought that the mischievous rouse.
queuces to the town and trade *could be such, that
he should give it every opposition in his power.
He should put all private considerations aside, hut
he could not but look upon it as a measure fraught
with injury to the public, and as such he should
consider it his duty to oppose it. Mr. A. then read
a letter from Lord Maynard, expressive of his hos-
tility to the ineaspre, and another float Lord
George Elmsford. to the same effect.
Mr. ARRAS. of EdFllllBlll, was authorised to state
to the Meeting. thin Sir Windham Dalling was
unfriendly to the measure.
Mr. Comma expressed the same oeutiusents with
regard to Mr. Kerrison.
Mr. Hussey begged to state, in the absence of
the Host. Captain Irby, that na gentleman was
also unfriendly to the plan.
The Rev. Mr. CHESTER objected to it on rather
a singular ground, that of its favouring the increase
of the corruption of morels amongst the lower or-
ders.

Mr. MAIGITSON complained of the misrepre-
sentation which had been made by some of the Yar-
mouth projectors on the state of the subscription.
So lung as two months ago he had been informed
by a leading man there, that the shares were all
filled up, while the real feet was, there was not at
that time a single guinea subscribed.
After a few other observation., the Resolutions
were severally put and carried, and thanks having
been moved to the Chairman, the Meeting dis-
persed.

opercs to FIVIIIII Off raiiisurivico., .......e...—...........-. ,
amt may the Iteraraise °Geer at Me approoehiag Cosiest
imitate the impartial Cosideet of his mistily Father, at the
last General Medias.
When the last toast was given, Mr. ARotOT ex- '
!Dressed ii hope that a subscription would be speedily
set on foot in Colchester, similar to that now in
progress iu London, and towards which lie should
be happy to contribute.
BEFORM.
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BOROUGH OFITOCRTON.
How glorious art the victories achieved by truth
and the extension of knowledge, over tyranny, su.
perstition, and ignorance! How sublime the con.
temptation! Already has a grand revolution been
effected in the borough system of Secttimid, and the
example is rapidly g • • g ground in England.
, A hiwick, our readers know, has thrown off the yoke
of oppression; the bargerses of Stockton have now
i effected their emancipation iu the following man-
Der :
• The burgesses leaving long had it in contempla-
tion to bate a day apponited for the examination of
the records belonging to the Corporation, to know
the real extent of their privileges, requested the
Mayor to call .a Meeting for that purpose. He
compiled. when the dreadful discovery ensued,
ti which bus placed the property of these free-men
at their own disposal.
A requisition to the Mayor. in consequence. was
signed by the majority pf the burgesses, that he
would immediately dismiss the tenant then in the
occupation of the principal part of the property,
and colleen, an Early Meeting for the letting of the
same. Some gentlemen, in the midst of these we-
t plasma proceedings. entreated his Worship to dis-
solve the Meeting: but the worthy Recorder,
whose conduct merits our esteem, submitted that
the acts of the Corporation could not be lege!, un-
Ok less the burgesses, as a body, concurred with the
. Mayor and Aldermen.
Mr. Alderman Dixon's/et/begs. indeed. seem to
e. have suffeted greatly from the illegitimacy of this
• ure, as he was clearly of opinion that the
rcegodr was •• omnipotent."
Mr. Ceow, in reply. said, he had frequently
heard of the divine right of Kluge but this was the
tint time in his life lie laid heard Of the divine right
41 of Mayors ! The Corporation is now entirely free ;
r 45111 the rtvenue, which was about 200/. per a 00000 ten,
will, by the late regulations, amount to upwards of
urn/. per annum.
BOROININ OF ALIIIITICIC.
flu Monday the Itith alt. *Common (:uilil of the
free hurges,.es was held in the Town Hall. Genital'
LINDSLY. E.g senior and presiding Alderman, in
the Chair. Aller some preparatory business. are
lion of the proceedings of the Committee, for the
~titaiiiing their ancient rights and correcting the
s, if.eleilion of the four-and-tsenty. was made by
33r. When Tote, Ctrs k of the (imid ; this was suc-
ceeded by an Writes* f Mr. T. H. Sell. of which
the follow mg is an extract :
a cwilitemra--It is eratifyiug to observe, that riotwith.
Stliiiiliiig iltr 'lady ilkiprfilieurlits JIMMY is your corn, to
C 1144111 .1.41 1011, by the chirsiscry, the Wild of illikpriff•
Scale 11l she lawyers of Aleillit k, yon sir WIN Illipitily ad-
..,onuic to the goal of your wishes. Rid lo whom" are
i yip indebted fur the progress you have made' Tu your
WIN sitiliesffilitig Ilicittoffoi—utior tsprittlitly to the exer-
i t out of au individual sow before you, W. Tatr. It as
lour, usibin these few weskit a Comatittos of Non-freemen
e.s t CY vo:untsrily formed to advocate year rfoccraiisca i
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