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MONDAY, JANUARY tt, 1820.

which has produced the miseries under which they
groan. and are petitioning for an alleviation of.—
Others again are so absurd as to profess that their
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petitions are in no way convected with party objects,
and have nothing of a political character about them•
NO ft real}y the only answer to these professions of
confidence in . His Majesty's Ministers, which
those Ministers can or ought to give is, " pray,
continue it ;" it is our wisdom which has placed,
you in the condition you are in, and if wisdom
has been manifested in your ruin, it would be arrant

fatly to do 'sty thing •to help 'or save you ; you
have like good and faithful sobjects supported our
measures, and ail those who tallow in our train ;
you have most properly returned representatives to
Parliament, who, like yourselves, have reposed in
our wisdom, have voted for wars and taxes, and
whatever could contribute to promote our contir.ti-
ance in power and Me Glory of a Great Nation;
.you have to' recollect that it was under your express
sanction that an enormous debt has been contracted,
and it would now be not only disloyal but shabby
and ineonsistent'toshrink from paying its interest;
you have for five and twenty years supported that
very system of policy which we are now pursuing
and Intan.to .continue; we are glad it .has met
, your approval,-and glad to hear that your confidence
is not diminished ; your Petition shall lie upon
the table." • Such is really the only answer which
such documents as we have mentioned east.eilher
expect or deserve.
Nor are their sentiments very different who welld
pretend that their petitiontrhave nothing to do with
politics. The faet•is, that the whole questithi is,
and must be, purely political. But what Abuse
gentlemen want into get the aid and assistance of
those, who have uniformly and consistently labonred
to ward off from their poor county the calamities
under-which she groaned, fur this express object, and
then return to kiss the rod that has afflicted us,
and fawn and cringe like spaniels with encreased
affection for those who have scourged and whipt
them. They have year after year pursued with
unmeasured Obloony that opposition to a wasteful
and profligate expenditure, which for a single pint
of direct self.interest they would now gladly them-
selves join, and if that end could only be marital,
cast them off again, and return to wallow in their
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former sink,--unmanly dependence and corruption.
But this is not all—for supposing this unnatural
coalition once formed, we do not see how the
opposite parties could proceed one single -inch
together. There can be no doubt that the whole
evil. is the stile and natural fruit of our enormous,
taxation. You must either pray for relief from
this or you pray for nothing, and are those who
profess this anxiety to combine all parties prepared
to admit their own past errors, and to join in
reminding 'tis Majesty's Ministers of the miseries
they 'have caused and the ruin they are spreading
round us? We fear not. On the ot4e.r hand, the
only plan to which Ministers would listen would be
for a duty on importation. This tax, from their
known propensity, 'they Might ,prtibi;bly be easily
led to impose. But would these who have seen and
felt, and exclaimed day after day against the wanton
waste of public money, be inclined to vote for a
measure which would place still more at their
disposal. Would these who have for years been
struggling against fresh imposts being laid upon the
poor, now lend their sanction, to tax even the
bread they eat ? Would they lend a baud to aug-
ment that wretchedness which is already to dined-

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sive, as to threaten the most serious consequence:•.
and as a cure fur which our liberties are gone, and
the• proud name of a free Englishman suffered to
exist no more ? Is it a crisis that can admit of seek
a • palliation ? If trade were prosperous,: if our
9aances were sound, if our Tillers were really to
be trusted, there are -litany considerations which
would'induce us to believe that a duty upon im-
ported corn, and the trade then left free and other-
wise unfettered, might nut be unreasonable. But
with starving manufacturers and universal poverty,
with no disposition to public economy, no wisaom,
no sympathy, no system but that of direct tyranny
and positive subjection of all to their sovereign will,
at the Itelninf State, who can wisely or prudently
lend a hand to support such policy, and that at the
expence of the poor and indigent ? No, we fear,
seriously fear, that nothing short of a great crisis is
destined to set us rights We have been proceeding
with most rapid strides, of late, in that course which
generally precedes, because it can hardly fail to
•produce Revolution. The only mode of actual
relief to agriculture, in our present state, is to enable
it to• contend with success against foreign growers,
but this can•never occur whilst a mach larger min
is actually paid to Government upon the production
of corn in this country, tkan the wholnprice of the
corn itself upon the Continent. That his Majesty's
'Ministers are fully responsible for our situation is
true, -that they 'should be loudly mid earnestly
reminded that they ire. so is true4ikewise. But as
long as they can gu on without interruption in their
career, it is worse than madness to hope that they
I will seriously set Aleut any plan of reformation.—
Let the friends and supporters of 11Iinisters then
have the whole subject 'in their •own exclusive
• hands. They can .pleat; their 'claims to gra-
titude and attention, anti indeed the supporters
of our present Rulers do deserve something for the
for the services they perform. The present Corn
Laws arc infinitely worse than none. The mischief'
they occasion is qualified by no good ' w haterer.—
Their -repesitvould be a work ofwialom, but what
is to be substituted in their stead,• Ministers and
'their frktds ban beat 'consult' together.

LEEDS, Sat. IA.—A committee has been formed here and
measures are taking to make out a strong ease, to induce Mi-
nisters to consent to a repeal of the a oel-daty, immediately or.
the re-assembling of Parliament. It having been intlus.riously
circulated here, and published in Some of our newspapers. that
Lord Milton, one of the etrzaty nietnber., supported the bill in
the lust session of Parliament, for laying a tax on foreign wool
imported, his Lordship Isis written a letter to a respeetablb
gentleman in this town, denying the charge, and appealing to the
debates in the house at the time, for n refutation of the calumny.
The noble Lord Wisher seys—j• I not only opposed to the
utmost of my ability, the obnoxious measem I)•sing into a law,
but I will likewise support any motion that may be made for its.
repeal ; and your Committee may rely on any best exertions on
behalf oftlieliNelves. and the bionufacturing interest generally."
The business in our cloth-halls to-day was rather brisk, as
compsnal with last week; -but these is a shocking deficiency Of
cash ; all is iioneon the credit or kite system ; arid assignments
and compoundings are daily taking place. The body of a female,
whose name a at present unknown, was found this morning in •
pit at W limey, near this town, into whi, h she is supposed to have
been dimwit by two villains, who acre seen to follow her sue
of a public base lust night, where she had called for refresh.
meat.

Intelligence from the Cape of 'Good Hone states
that the news had just reached the ( ape of the in.
tenant% of Government to form a settlement on the
Irish River, and produced, as might be expixted,
very pleasant impression, as the importance of :he
colony would be increased by this uew arrange.
Letters have been received fitm 'Gittietar.of the
2Stli of last month. The comnitnictfion between
that place and Spain was opened ea the 23d bras
Proclamation from his Fccellettey.the Oovernor, is
having been closed Tor several mone:s to prevent
infection from the yellow fever, 'which had been
raging at Cadis, the Isle de Lcon, &c. Trade nt
the British .fortress, which had, for a long tires,
been in the meat deplorable condition, ewing to
'those restriction!, scented to be tn'proving.

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.

sEitorANTs. INK-HALL, MONDAY, JAN. 17.
TlioNtrws V. L.WEY.

This was an aetioo ot trover for wearing apparel,
whereby the 'dahlia sought to recover the value of a
quantity of chilies coat. 4.1 in two trunks. The delen•
dant is the keeper of a tavern, called the Glebe tavern,
Moorgate ; the se are no stables belonging to it. The
plaintiff, a mercbant's clerk, in company with ;mother
persou, cause to the defendant's house, and dined there;
uftei dinner, lie said they should sleep these, and ordei ell
a doable-bedded room. The plailitillafterwards told the
deft sellout he expected two that he was going In
*cotlatiel in *few months, and that he meant to stay there
till he went. The defendant asked him for his name,
which he gave him, and informed him what he was. lite
Winks came, and the defendant resided there three
Mouths. sleeping in the house, and taking his meals there ;
doling which a friend of his came and stayed several
days; mid the plaintidoideied the Wiarges of his friend'e
living to be put into his bill. After the plaintiff left, lie
tendered to the defendant more than sufficient to pay for
his sleeping, but not enough to dneharge the whale bill,
amid demanded his luggage, which the defendant refused
to give up: and the question on the trial of the cause was,
whether the defendant had, in the charac*.er of innkeeper,
* li. ir on the luggage for the ailment of his bill.
'Vise learned Judge who tried the rave was of opinion
that the detendinit had a lien, and nonsnited the plaintiff,
giving I • leave. to move for a rule fusel reside the nonsuit.
And buy/ Mr. Nlarryalt and Mr. E. Lewes moved to dis-
• ge that rule. They contended, that there was no
shtleiettee between the keeper of* tavern or cuffee-house
and an innkeeper; that they stele froth liable to the same
burdens, each in mg obliged to lake out all ale-licence,
oust each being alau subject to have soldiers qtrarteted
oir them.
Mr. tiorney and Mr. F. Potluck, in support of the rule,
contended, that theme was a inateriaLdiffereuce between a
cutlet-house and all iuu : a eulfee-huitse was not intended
tor the leception and abode of travellers, but merely to
fornishdisuiris and other entertainment to the inhabitaide
of the place where it was silos a that oftentimes the
„ cull' skeeper found it emivenient to funaish his
guests with bed*, which lie did ; hut that must be consi-
dered as a truing of lodging* to thews, and did not contest
the cotfee•house tutu an • .
The Lord EhielJustiee said. the defendants were the
keepers of a house in which they supplied beds and pro-
visions to such persons as repaired them. He thought
this runlet nut be distinguirbeil in pi laetrile from au i aaaa ,
and this ease fell within the rule of law applicable to the
cases of iniskeepere- It wonted lie fur the- benefit of all
parties so to coosidet it, fur in limit Case nut only would
the innkeeper be entitled to a heti Oa his giast's goods,
but he also MI I owls would be liable to his guests for the
safe custody of their goods. He thonght it was not ne-
cessary that the defendant should have stables; some tuns
sought be for the arvoinitioilation of tout travellers. Here
use landlord tut 'tidied all other things necessary for the
accommodation ul travellers. The tithes learned Judges
present, Ms. Justice Bayley and Mr. Justice Best, deli-
vei ed the it eqiiniou to the seine Oleo, and the rule was
discharged.

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violation of the law, and to the fraud of the old sub-
scribers. 'rise subject bad been mentioned in Parlia-
ment, and was, as mieht have been expected, regarded
as incredible. The Chancellor of the Exchequer then
disclaimed any such intention as that of interfering
. with those funds. He !sow mentioned the subject, lest
any future attempt, so wicked and fraudulent, should
be made. He hoped the Grand Jury would lind
bills
as quickly as possible. The calendar was very heavy,
conteining tint fewer than 213 kloniet:, and 88 In mile-
encaitoors, besides (Si traverses ; rt was. therefore of
inkrortauce that no time should be lost."
Of de misdemeanours, 9 are traversed; from the last
Sessions, in which sureties halt not been found.
John Ileycs, aged 45, and. committed by J. Itidgw:iy,
Esq., is charged, tin the oath of Thomas Barrett, with
hat jug, on the 22d d of November, 1819, gone about
the streets at Great Bolton, shouting and cuing 01St to
the following effect The friends of dud liberty,
and parliamentary reform are informed, that Mr. Cob-
bett is, arrived at Liverpool, and in good health ; those
friends who have not signed the address, are desired to
avail themselves of the earliest opportunity, as the
sheets will be closed i his day to be forwarded to Liver-
pool." That the said Johill Ileyes bad a bell, which he
used before his so crying ; that a crowd of persons, to
the ounther of 50 or IQO, followed the said John ileyes,
and shouted and made a great noise; and the said Julio
o Reyes did incite the crowd to shout and make a noise,
to the great disturbance of the public peace.
The trial of Mr. Wroe, for several libels in " The
Manchester Observer," will not take place at these
sessions. The indictments against his family, and st,
set eral or his agents, which were traversed at the last
sessions, still remain here, and will be tried. The de-
lextlanw h ewe ied their traverses in the paper. There
are also about a dozen cases of illegal drilling or nuts en-
tered in the traverse paper.
• It may hr desirable that nor readers should he apprised
that the Rev. Chairman was mi.:in:illy it lktrrist,r, but Willa
is flat is generally termed a hrict.lew onc,7' be tinned about
anit became a Clerothan. An old joke says, that a gentle-
man consultiag his friend how he should dispose of his dn..
ferenusons, haring by his friend's advice devoted all but one
to different professions, ennuned what he should do with
the remaining one, he, brine almost a foal—"bfakeii parboil
of him," was the reply - but we are sure the Rev. Chairman,
who is now the incumbent of the Vicarage of Rochdale, by
the reeent-gift of the Crown, wolf never be taken for a
Loot.: !I
The business of these sessions Is much more extensive
than that of many county assizes, and often more im-
portant cases of highway rubbery are frequently tried at
the sessions, course as felonies at common law. Sen-
tences of transportation lot 14 years occasionally occur,
and sonieti sies evert of transportation for life, and many
important questions upon appeals, highways, and nul-
-1 sauces, often come before the coon.

SURREY SESSION&