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COUNTY OF NORFOLK MEETING.

''et7 LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 21.
Three oldock, p. m.

Ott Saturday last, a meetii:g of the Noblemen. Clergy,
Gentlemen, and Freeholders of the county of Norfolk,
as us held in the Nisi l'rius Court of the Castle at NM'
in pursuance of a requisition transiati led to Geo.
Samuel Kett, E-q. High Sherd; of the county, requiring
hint to convene a county meeting, fur the purpose (1i
considering the propriety of pe toiling Parliament to
ray the pending proceedings against the Queen.
At 12 o'clock the pies of the Castle were thrown
open, and the area of the Coma was in an instant filled
to excess by the yeomen of the county. The bench, side
seats, and table for counsel were crowded Is; the requi-
sitors and other gentlemen of rank and consideration in
Norfolk. At half-past t‘velve o'clock the High Sheriff
court 1, accompanied Itv r. Coke and Mr. Edmund
IVodehouse (the members for toe county), Lord Miry,
t've lion. Kennel, Gen. Walpole, Ur. Archdeacon
Bathurst, Dr. Rigby, the Ht v. Geo. Glover, and a con-
siderable number of other gentlemen of the first respects-
bili:y. Mr. I'Voilehotise and r. Alderman Harvey
took their places in front of die grand jury gallery.
Getietal WaLpot.e was then unanimously called to
the chair. Alit r s veral observatiosis lie read the it:bo-
- the chief of which were as folirov :
Resolved, That this meeting are by no means-dispose-it at pre-
sent to give any opinion on, or to interfere in the question of, the
guilt or mnocence of the Queen Comort, but deem it their duty
as Englishmen to protest again t any mode of ptoceeding with
respect to an accused person in any rank of life where power and
un-me influence or tiny other cause is likely to affect the course of
public justice.
The 161 resobition was merely declaratory of the nature and ob-
ject of the pending bill of pains and petialti?s.
Sd. That " Acts of Parliament to inflict pains and penalties
beyond or contrary to the common law, to serve a special pur-
pose, can never be warranted except by some imminent danger to
the sire, to be removed in no other way; because they enable
tie government to create an offmre (where no legal offence ex-
it e%. liefo.e) to regulate Cie proof. to decide upon the evidence,
wit! to apportion the pumsliment, and thus plainly to confound
ti:e executive. legislative, and judicial authorities, upon the ser-
ration of whicii tie liberty ant justice of the country depend.
4.11. 'lbw the advisers of the Crown, having entered into a ne-
iation with the given Cotaratt upon the subject of the present
reeution, have themselves thercuy virtually admitted, that no
such imminent danger to the state would accrue from not enter-
ing into an inquiry, which by their own acknowledgment " must
be derogetory to the dignity of the throne, and injurious to the
interests of the nation."
sth. That the said negotiation was entered into at the mediation
• of the Houseof Coninioi,... but was rendered null and void, be-
cause Ministers would not advise the Crown to replace her Ma•
jesty's name in the Liturgy, from w hich it had been erased .
lictore any conviction of offence, and that upon the failure of
negotiation, the bill of paint and penalties was bought in against
the Queen.
Gth. That the bill aforesaid appears to have been brought into
the lIGUSC of Lords in consequence of a Retort of a Secret Corn.
niittce of the said House, nominated by Ministers; and that by
this bid neither the ordinary course of law by impeachment, nor
the analogy of British jui imprudence, has been followed.
7th. That the omission in the bill afure-aid of any.specifitation
of the time when, or the place where, the °fleece is alleged to
have been committed, and the refusal of any hit of witnesses,
whet Lby the accused may be prepared with the means of a fair
defence, is at tariance with jeLtice.
St h. That this meeting do therefore protest against the mode
of proceeding by bill of pains and penalties against her Majesty
Queen Caroline, and that a petition ft om this meeting against the
said bill be presented to the Cotillions House of Parliament by
T. IV. Coke, Esq., and Eiliti. Wodebouse, Esq., the Members
fur this county; and that they be r.nd are limo), requested to
support the said petition, and to oppose the bill or prns and
penalties, should it ticLapptly paa, on to the Commons House of
Parliament.
Mr. Archdeacon BATHURST rose to second the motion
for their adoption, and was received with warm minks
or approbation.
The CHAIRMAN then, in obedience to the usual course
at public itiocutigs, priicectled to put the resolutions
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The only hands held up against the first resolution
hi :re those of Mr. Worldloose, M.P., and Mr. A idernian
H.lrvey.
The tumult excited by the silent opposition of those
gentlemen was considerable, when Mr. Arclideacoil
BATHU PST interposed, and said that every gentleman
Lad a right to art upon his own opinion, and he gave
the gentlemen alluded to full credit for their manliness.
'Thinking as toey did, they had a right to hold up their
hunds against the resolution. (Appianse.)
With the exception of the 1510 gentlemen we have
031iicd, the whole of the resollllllollS passed unanimous/Ir.
When the gtit rt-solution was passed,
Mr-Core, M.P., caul.; forward, and was received
with the warmest greetings. He spoke as liillowst—Mr.
Chairmen and Gentlemen,—The proud situation I have
the honour to hold, as one of your representatives, in-
duced me to ahemd this ineetuig (near;) out, however,
with any intention of ghing my opinion, one way Of
another, upon the alleged conduct 01 the Queen, fur in
truth 1 know Just as little of it as any title of you whom
I now address. But I Collie here, in the first place, to
return my thanks to your worthy Iligli-Shelifr tar the
r...ady 11141HW in which lie has cooveited this 'timing,
situ gismo you an opportunity of delivering your n.i-
mews hilly and fairly (applause)—au opportunity which
has lately b+-en mucii clowned. I ant happy to have
aoaiu tsie pleasure of adt:ressisiA you, the first nine since
the late acts t•eisaine lase. (Great applause ) The great
q.,eNtion 1,1 whseii you fed so deep an I,iler,t4 In now Ott
t I 141 before the 'loose of Lords—a House
ago old thatli.ii.l styled " toe hospiirl fur incurables.
( Applause and laubi.t r ) The Q..eeti is how tin trial
txfore. that Ho,,se, which you w II recollect refosi d tier
a list of witnesses. (Ifear•) Slle is How on tr.al bickire
one persons who refused mien to tell Iter even ine place
5-here the act of adultery its atieged to hate oe..i, cow-
r.,sited (Hear.) I have J rigl.t tilClt to ask you wbettier
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tribunal ? (Cries of No.) Can I look for a better pros-
'ec lug her in another place? Can 1 look for it where
I have daily witnessed that a tame and servile acquies-
ceoce to Mn titters ers is the order of the day—where the
repteseinative lardy is found to betray the eleeth c fran-
chise which you have committed to them ? Can the
Qtseen, 1 say, have justice 'beret I think not, as that
piece is at present constituted. (Hear ) 'ltsia case of the
Queen's ought nut to he made a party question. I know
many excellent and hottottraale men with whom I ant
under the necessity of ililferitig upon general political
topics, vet whom f do not ire their 'private relations the
less tespeet on that account. I lose a little apposition;
living low engaged in it myself, I can easily allow it to
others. (Applause and laughter.) It is not of the fair
and honourable differences of public men that I corn-
plain; but it is of that corrupt and servile part of the
[caries who live on the vitals of your industry. (Hear.)
Is it likely, that after all that you hat e seen of the plots
of this party, of all their green has schemes (loud laugh-
ter), that you can find virtue in your Ministers? No in
them you can see nothist4 but what is calculated to ex-
cite your contempt. (Cheers.) A more contemptible,
wicked, and insulting description Of men clues not exist
than the present administration. (Reiterated applause.)
This is not my present opinion of them taken from late
conduct. It is only a repetition of that which I have
lung entertained respecting them. I think with von
that the mode of proceeding by which this trial is gOO%
on makes a most dangerous, unjust., and cruel prece-
dent, These Ministers are men too who wooed Kite your
money away without reluctance; and to whom would
they give it? To a woman wl hey pronounced at
the same momatit to he a prostitute (Hear, hear.)—
To them it did not signify, so that they could keep her
away, and retain their own places. (Hear, hear.) It
W.,5 really most singular that such a cabinet could do so,
and that one of the members should appear to concur in
the measure, against a woman, described by himself to
be " the gtace, the lint, the soul, and the ornament of
polished society;' and vet this cabinet member, with
this knowledge of the lady, did not refrain from becom-
ing one of her accusers. (Cries of .‘ shame I ') In short,
it Is impossible to speak with patience of such a set of
men—ploy go backward and forwaids, betray their
country, and plunge it deeper and deeper in dein, cover
it win' sties, an.l *lid them all through the world.
merely to retain ilk ir power. To such melt and to
their system lam a declared enemy. I hate been
an Iron ate earliest vernal of my lite. To such cor-
ny!. practices I bate beet' ever hostile-10 them
vow au eternal haired, and will carry it in my grave.—
(I,ritid aCCiaitiatious.)—The practice of such loth i, sub-
versive 01 the Constitution as established at the Revo-
lution, and its only capiabiiity is an active operation of
utitchiel. If mumblers go on rinheediugly in such a dis-
astrous career, they must, and will meet with resistance ;
(applause Oink; I am ready to tell yon, %% idiom he•itation,
that such most be the state to which they will at last
prt.s,,ke the country. (Hear.) I am a Man inlVa:Meti in
I.fe, and who cannot 110 W io the course of nature
e joy it inuch longer. It matters little how long I live;
any life is of little value, but such as it is, it snail be
devoted tome preservation of the liberties of iny coootry ;
and if ever so required, 1 sit .11 be neatly to lay it (lown
for the sett ice in that country. (B:iterated cheers.)—
This 11, the hazardous state into w hien the present ad-
tomistiation have brought the country; and it is Inv firm
conviction, that if such Ministers ate suKred to keep
their places, this 'enmity must eventually become the
scene of civil convulsion. (Hear, hear.) These are my
sentiments, and I litre faithfully represented them to
you. Su /Glig as you desire toy services in Parliament,
so long shall they be devoted to your interests. (Cries of
"We know it.") God knows I have no personal inch •
nation to retrain in Parliament; my happiness is at
home, and those who know my inclinations need not he
told that they concentre in other pursuits than those
which an attendance upon Parliament furnishes. There
will be those, I have no doubt, wi.o will attribute these
soritiments to a man NA holit uicy w,ll say is an sdvorate
for revolution. (Laughter.) Gen:ions Goo I in the proud
snuatton to which I Noon as your representative, With
the possessions tv mem Prot idence has unworthily be-
sowed upon me, am I likely to be the advocate of revo-
lution? What can I dente from civil coils ulsion ?
Wild( can the Noblenieti and Gentlemen who think
with me derive from commotion in society? (Bear,
Hear herr, and-great applause.) We are not, gentlemen
the advocates of revolatio.., but lit-y are such whose
wicket! and designing noel-sines illstratt the count r, , ano
leave the people no hope oh calm deliverance. (Cbeeus.)
I hat e mole to you witit, except that 1
boat; tet li.ippy to go op to London will, your petition,
and obey orders.' (I(cetened careers and cries of
Wodeliouse.")
Mr. IiVODISMOOSE amidst much interruption opposed
the priciple voting the rrtgilutitials. lie deplored the pro-
pagation of such a sentiment as was implied in the rest,-
Itatious, and In which he tiever woola concur 'tamely,
that there w 45 maths'- honour iu the Peera, nor honour
in the Commons. He disclaimed any intention 01
disrecpetwo the meeting by this opposition.
Mr. E. VVoneatotratt spoke against toe object and
proceedings of the meeting amid considerable inter-
roptiots.
The Rev. Mr. G s oVER, in a speech of great eloquence'
supported the resolutions. Speaking of the omission of
her Majesty's nano: in die Liturgy, he contended that
the Cab:net had no such power, for the Act of Confor-
mity could never have intended that the Cabioet should
sit lii judgment upon the private conduct or moral con-
dition of princes lettore they ordered them to be prayed
for (541 c regret that Want Of room prevents its from
'gamine the apeeclots of the other gentlemen who ad-
dressed the titectuig.i
A petition, immoral on the resolutions, teas ordered to
be presented to toe Ilini.e of Contour:ls by
y the Malty
it'lslllerS• Alter %Inoue nialoi,p .110 Mr. Coke, Mr.
stteeriehem, e. and the at.-nit, the treeing in,.
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NVEW'S.
Corers, AUGuST 15.—Arrived the Integrity and Zephyt
transports, with the gd Veteran Battalion, from Portsmouth.
ABI:ItUELN, AUGUST 15.—Arrived the St. Andrew. New-
ton, from Greenland, with 13 fish.
WHITBY, AUGUST 18.—Arrived the Elizabeth, of Hull.
from Greenland, with it fish, ISO tuns of oil.
ULL, AUGUST 18.—Arrived the Prince of Brazil, Tod,
from Greenland, with 86 fish, 330 butts; the Elizabeth, Col-
gulioun, from ditto, with 10 fish, 150 tuns, is in sight.
NASSAU. J uNE 28.—The Enterprise, Blain, from Jamaica
for London, was cast away on the uth inst. on the French Keys.
The crew remained on the wreck ten days without seeing any
vessel pass, when the mate, Mr. Young, was dispatched in one
of the boats to Crooked Island, where he found the sloop Maria,
Bitty, of this port, taking in salt; the Maria went to the wreck,
Mr. Young having been absent three days, but found no person
there; it is supposed the Captain (Blain) and the crew have
gone to Cuba; the ship was full of water, and the whole of the
sugar, upwards of 4455 hogsheads, was lost. The Maria saved
about 28 puncheons of rum, mike, sails,riggiog, &c. with which
she arrived here on Monday.

The Chevy Chace, Johnson, arrited in the River fl'om Domi.
nica, sailed id ult. and on the 23d, in lat. 3b. long 50. saw !bur
sail, and was brought to by a brig, which chased under English
colours, then hoisted Spanish, and afterwards the Patriot flag,
and informed that the vessels in sight were two brigs, and a ship
deeply laden, which she had captured the day before. The pri-
vattxtr wished to put two or three Spanish gentlemen passengers
on board the Chevy Chace, but the master declinat receiving
them.

SHOCKING ACCIDENT - Tharsday morning,
about ten o'clock, a melancholy •iceident happened
at the building now making for the new im-
provements in Swallow Street. As several nevi.
gators were at work, in the employ of Mr. Green,
and about clearing the rubbish in wheelbarrows
along some planks placed under an old wall, about
20 feet in height, and upwards of 40 in length,
situated at the back of a timber merchant's yard.
opposite Swallow Street, the whole unfortunately
fell down on a sudden, with a tremendous crash
westward. At the time the dreadful catastrophe
occurred, three of the poor fellows employed, were
under the wall, and instantly enveloped in the
midst of its ruins ; a fourth person very providentially
escaped a similar disaster whilst carrying a basket
full of dust, on the platform, which was knocked off
his shonlders by the falling of some bricks from the
wall, when he instantly let go his hold and ran
away. An immediate search was made after the
three unhappy aufferers, who they succeded in ex.
tricating from their perilous situation in a few
minutes. They presented a spectacle truly indis-
cribablc ; their heads were literally dashed to pieces,
and their bodies appeared so dreadfully mangled
that every person shuddered who had an opportu-
nity of seeing them. The bodies were conveyed to
the Sudlers' Arms public-house, in Swallow Street,
opposite to where the accident occurred, and from
thence in separate shells to St. James's Infirmary,
in Poland Street, to await the decision of the Coro.
ner's Jury.
On Wednesday morning three small gun-boats
were moored in front of Cotton-yard, where the
Italian witnesses are lodged. Men from the Dock-
yard at Woolwich, were employed in them, fitting
up the frame-work, or stem-platform, on which the
guns are placed. A strong guard of artillery, escort•
ing five waggons with ammunition, arrived in
town the same evening, from Woolwich, and depo-
sited a part of their load in the Mews, and the
remainder in the barracks at Knightsbridge-
Several of the Fair Sex applied at the Town-hall,
Sheffield, since Wednesday last, for the purpose of
signing the address to the Queen, but were intim-mil
by the persons in attendance, that it would be both
irregular, inconsistent, and indecorous to comply wit'
their request.

Zittbe.
At °Afield lodge, Reading, the lady of James 0. Murdoch. eq. of
• dauetder.
At I Ile let Lambeth. Mrs. Wm. Ileseltiste, SOH.
1,14.. e, Mamas, ut a S.aught..
s. 1 t,ekle), at the Lase, of a dau410,3