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CERTIFICATES-JArt. !9.

J. Parker, Newbury, Berkshire, carrier—lL Warren,
13elgrave-place, Pimlico, builder—J. Firth, Heckmond•-
wike, Yorkshire, merchant—C. J. B. Pons, Regent-
street, milliner—T. Lambert, New Bond-street, uphol-
sterer—L. Devine, Shropshire-place, Pancras-street, Tot-
tenham-court-road, smith—A. Haviside, Bucklersbury,
City, merchant—M. Elliot, Northumberland House,
Finchley-common, bookseller—J. Thornton, Brook-street,
Holborn, glass-cutter.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
K• Cockrell and J. Cockrell, Coleman-street, wool-
brokers—G. Fraser, sen. and G. Fraser, jun., Man-
chester, commission agents—W. F. Reynolds and M.
Reynolds, Colchester, tallow merchants--T. Gardener and
J. W. Gardener, Wootton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire,
carriers—W. Beaumont and J. Judd, Huddersfield, car-
penters —ll. Scriienor and-J: Wilson, Kentish-buildings,

LONDON MARKETS.
(From the New London Price Current of yesterday).
uoA a. —The demand for Muscovades has been general
and extensive this week; the advance since Friday last is
fully Is. per cwt. ; in fine and in strong Sugar the im-
provement is Is. 6d. a 2s. ; the estimated sales are 4,500
hhds. and trs. The prices of low Refined Goods are fully
Is. per cwt. higher ; and, notwithstanding the dull season
of the year, there is an extensive demand ; the buyers appear
eager to contract for goods deliverable in six weeks and two
months hence, but the Refiners are shy of entering into
those engagements ; the request is chiefly for low Lumps.
The wholesale Grocers have been making renewed inquiries
for fine home consumption, but the purchases are as yet on
a limited scale. Molasses dull. The purchases of fine
goods for the home consumption are considerable; the prices
paid to-day are at Is. advance; the buyers, who are con-
tracting for tile delivery of goods two months hence, ale
obliged to give Is. above the present Market prices.
FOREIGN Suo4a.—The only late sale of Foreign Sugar
is about 100 chests washed Havannah, 18s. 6d. a 235. 6.
The public sale this forenoon attracted much attention; it
consisted of 425 chests, of which a large proportion was
washed Sugar; the sound good white taken in at 475. a
48s- ; sound good yellow at 275. a 28a.
EAST INDIA SUGAR.-There is much inquiry after
.all
descriptions of East India Sugar,- on" ae!cdlecif the-hr!sk
warket for Muscovades, but the transactions are as yet 10-.

GLASGOW CORN MA RKET.—Jam. 6.

Wheat is steady at the rates of last wed:. The change
of wind has brought in a fresh supply of Oats and Barley
from Ireland ; the buyers are in consequence shy, and to
effect sales rather lower prices must he submitted to. No
alteration in Beans and Pease.

Wheat, per 2101 b. s. d. s. cl. Oats, per 1,6411,. s. d. s. d.
British, old :l2 0 to 33 0 Irish lO Oto IS 0
new ...... 25 0 28 0 British l7 0 19 0
Canada, free ..... ... 31 0 3i 01 Beans:, I,er 2601 b.
Irish
Barley, per 32011,. Scottish
English ' ' - 25 0 27"0 Pease, St offish
Scottish ........ . ...... 21 (1 £5 0 Oatmeal, per 1101 b lO 0 )9 0
Irish... ............ .... 22 0 23 0 Flour. per TAO 5O 0 52 0

- So-ne few weeks agO a most re-
spectably sianed by the freehohhos rh, Intl 0•y of
:vas preamited tr Ilachard liairold, Esq.,
the High Sheriff of the tamaity, reaataating him to
convene a public meeting of the in!::, iiatits, in order
that they might hare atn opportunity petitioning
Parliament respecting the ditties ►n upon
malt and beer. The High Slisriff, hi; 111,,0 of our
readers remember, declined calling any meeting of
the county, on the ground that any Ikfich petition
was calculated to embarrass his Majesty'a' Govern-
Mew: itt the course it proposed to pursue in thea:ext
Session of Parliament. l'hia refusal being signified
to the requisitionists, some of the more active of
them being Magistrates, called a meeting of the
county by the following notice :
" To the Sheriff of Lincohishire—We the ini-
dersigned request that you will convene a County
Meeting, to take into consideration the propriety of
Petitioning the Legislature on the subject • of the
Malt and Beer Duties :—Richard Sutton, Charles
• Anderson, Robert Ileron, Win, Hamm], W. A.
Johnson, Chas. Allix, Fred. Peel, False. Wright,
Russel Gillet, J. H. Thorold, Richard Empsom,
Richard Ellis, W. J. Cholmeley, Sibtitorpe,
Andrew Balfour, John Buntt, John Byation, Joho
Brown, J. Coultass, Samuel Slitter, J. L. Milner,
J. Gs Stevenson, 'P. [Anvil, Richard Healy, Wm.
Shield, Charles Reesby, S. E. Hopkinaum, B.
Brombead, W. E. Weill,. Robert Cracroft, L'aleon
Hickman, Henry Handley, Jienj. Handley, James
L. Nixon, Lewis Witaean,aGa-FaHeneage, C. D W.
Sibthorpe, J. C. L. Celcrafr-, WM. .IKusson, John
Hardy, Wm. Robinson, W. Dolby, Thos. Lowry,
Jos. Roberts, J. Cs Beasley, R. Duckle, W. Bright-
more, G. Panne!, W. Mercer, John Oarfite, Jame.)
Cross, and Thos. Duckle. •
" And the Sheriff having thought proper to refuse to
call a County Meeting, we the undersigned Alagistr:Ors of
this County, do hereby contrite a Alerting to be lio:d
the Castle Hill, Lincoln, at Twelve o'clock precisely, oil
Friday, the Sth clay of January, 1630, in rsinformily with
the above Requisition—Robert Heron, Frcdr-ri-1,-; :'eel,
Charles Allis, Henry Stanley."
In consequence of this notice, a Meeting woo held
yesterday, in the Castle-yard, in the city of Li teolua
The High Sheriff, though he refused to take any
part in the meeting, offered the requisitionists the use
of either the Castle'yard or the Session-house; the
latter being thought too small to accommodate the
number expected to attend the meeting, a scaffold on
waggons was erected in the Castle-yard, and on this
spot the meeting took place.
The meeting has, we believe, excited considerable
attention in the county, but, owing to the unraventa
able state of the weather, it was not so numerously
attended as was anticipated. At half after twelve,
when the meeting commenced, there were about 500
persons present ; but this numher subit-quently in-
creased to nearly 2,000. Oa the Coininita7e, esta,
coming upon the hustings, we &waved among the
Gentlemen present, Sir R. Heron, Sir W.
Sir E. F. Bromhead, Colonel Sibahorpe, co-
lonel Johnson, Mr. Handley, Mr. Chaplin, M.P., Vie.
Mr. Handley was unanimously called upon to taka
the Chair.
The CHAIRMAN then addressed the Meeting. Ile
said that under any other circumstances he should,
probably, have shrunk from the task impmed upon
him, but front the pecul ar nature of the case he did
not feel warranted in doing so; nor would he, after
ihe extraordinary conduct of the High Sheriff, say
that he was unfit to represent an alike which that
gentleman had deserted.—(Hear, hear.) It w,i3.
unnecessary for him to tell the meeting- the!. the
High Sheriff had, in the exercise of his privilage
rather than of his courtesy, refused to comply with
a Requisition most numerously signed, and a more
respectable one had never been presented from that
or any other county.—(Hear, hear.) Nut agreeing.
with the arguments which that gentletnan had just
put forth, relative to the embarrassmeota anvil a
meeting would impose upon the Ministers. the
Chairman) was one of four who had signed the re-
quisition, in conformity with which they were there
assembled. Having said thus much, he would not
detain them longer from the more important husi-
nets of the day, than to request them to hear with
attention any one who might offer himself to their
notice. If things were stated which they did not
wish to hear, they must be opposed by argument,
and not by clamour, by which they would give that
tone and character to the meeting which could not
fail to impress on the country, the Parliament, and
the Ministers, that the county of Uncoil' had a right
to be heard. He would not detain them further that
cold day from the business of the meeting, and he
trusted that every speaker would confine himself to
that business, in order to prevent the introduction
of any unnecessary matter.—(Hear )
Sir R. Hanora thought that there could be but
one opinion on the point of the Sheriff's thinkina•
proper to give a flat denial to a requisition the most
numerous and (after the withdrawal of his own
name) the most respectable that had ever been pre-
sented on any subject to any Sheriff. On what
ground could he have refused? WA.: it on the
strength of his own opinions ? He (Sir Robert)
hoped by this time that he had repented of such
presumption. Was it by the advice of others ? He
(Sir Robert) would tell him that all he could have
called to his counsel ought not to have had a tenth
part of the weight of such a requisition as that pre-
sented to him.--(Applause.)—tie trusted that the
meeting would receive the High Sheriff's conduct
with time indignation that was due to it—(Ape
plause)—for had they tamely submitted to his arbi-,
trary decision, an example would be set by which'
the people of England might hereafter be deprived
of their dearest rights—those of assembling for the
consideration of their grievances, and of petitioning
Purliament. There were persons who thought (and
front the answer of the Sheriff he supposed that
that gentleman was one of the number) that the
meeting ought to have been called for the purpose
of considering the general distress of the station,
but could any one in his senses be of such an opi-
nion ? Wits not the subject before them large
enough ?—(Hear, hear.)—What ridicule would
not have been thrown upon the meeting,a—what
clamour would not have been made, if they had
attempted to set themselves up as a sort of Lincoln
Convention, for the purpose of superseding the
duties of the British Parliament; or if they had
attempted to regulate, without books, paperer,
or documents, the affairs of the navy, the army, and
the country, in the course of four hours—a timing
which the Parliament, with all its advantages, found
it difficult enough to perform in the course of four
Sessions ?—(Hear, hear.)—Under these circum-
stances, he intended to move the resolution which
he held in his hand, and he trusted that it would
be generally confirmed by the meeting. It would,
however, be necessary for him, before concluding,
to say a few words on the important subject ou
which they were assembled; but he could assitre
them that he would endeavour to be as concise as
possible. The object for which they had met was
one of the moat important topics that had ever at-
tracted the attention of the county of Lincoln. It
would riot, however, be necessary for him to trouble
them with details respecting the tax on malt and
beer; suffice it to any, that the duty imposed
them amounted to within a fraction of 50A.; or, in
other words, that there was a tax of nearly L5O per
cent, on the raw commodity.—(Hear, hear.)—This
was what might be called a pretty severe tax on the
agriculture of the country ; but fortunately it did
not fall upon the agriculturists alone—all classc, of
the community concurred in opposing the tax ; so
that it could not now be thrown into the teeth orthe
landlords and farmers that they were petitioning
only for themselves, and did not care what became
of the rest of the people. The labourers hi agria
culture and manufactures were equally oppressed, and
even those who were able to make the eztormot6 sa-
crifice that was necessary to procure a i, holesotne
beverage, were again checked and unable to "do
it on account of the miserable monopoly 'of- the Li-
cencing System. What was the consequence of
this ? That
,;hey were driven to_tha. nieaof ardent
aai: its, to the ruin of their industry, the degrada-
tion of their morals, od the destruction of he

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health.—(Cheers.) It had hetet his fortune to spend
a great part of•-his early life in Kant, at a time
when the trade of srrogelitig was scarcely elOseiced,
and the consequence was that the Ismer classes of
the county universally resorted to that pernicious
liquor called gin. And what was the result ?
Why, that there wits scarcely a man who was able
to do a good day's work in the whole county S to
which he might add, that his father's house was
-etery night surrounded by thieves on the lookout
for tiny thing that might have been left unguarded
or exposed to their depredations. Such were the
blessings derived frOm the use of ardent spirits.—
(Hear.) He should perform his promise of being
as coecise as possible; but he must entreat them,
on an occasion so important as the present, not to
give way to any sort of exaggeration. Men were
not always aware of the mischief that arose from
painting a picture too highly, or representing things
as they were not really. He remembered an in-
%tante of this, which took place in that very Castle-
yard, on the occasion of a public meeting being held
respecting the Corn Laws. One of the persons
present on that occasion stated that in the opposite
port, on the Continent, there was sufficient corn to
supply the consumption of this country for seven
years. Had he stated seven days instead of seven
years, he (Sir Robert) thought he would have ex-
reacted the fact. But what was the consequence ?
Instead of the statement being treated with the rid'.
utile it deserved, it went the round of the public
!lapel c-was bandied backward and forward ma both
aides of the House of Commons ; and in mere ways
. than one did incalculable mischief to the cause—
( Hear, hear)—and he was sure that he had a right
to complain of it, for he was set down as the author
of the assertion. In connection with the Repeal of
the Malt Duties, a most important question was
:nom e times asked—how the tax was to be replaced ?
He was not the Chancellor of the Exchequer ; and
maces they were shortly to have a better Chancellor
of the Exchequer than those feeble men who, of
late years, had exercised—or, :ether, left unexercised
—the important functions of that office, the country
was not likely to be much better off.—(llear.
her.) But he did not pretend to say that the tax
'could be repealed; it was true that pamphlets had
been published for the purpose of endeavouring to
Tow that the additional consumption would be the
means of restoring the amount of the tax; but his
of was to petition that till the taxes should be
taitie away with—(Bravo, and a laugh)—he meant
all the taxes on Malt and Beer. In his opinion, the
•iktereased consumption would do nothing towards
krepiog the tax at its present produce ; for sup-
poaing half the tax should he repealed, what was
pained by the additional consumption might add to
the amount of Malt Duties, but it would as cer-
tainly be absorbed by the deficiency in the amount
of duties on ardent spirits.—(Hear, hear.) But he
would say at once that he did not wish that the tax
should be replaced, because he knew that by a long,
decided, nod radical economy—by a new organi-
zation soul diminution of the army—by a reduction
of its pay and pensions, every deficiency in the
taxes might be supplied.—(Cheers.)—A great deal
of talk was made about the necessity of keeping the
national faith with the public creditor; but in his
opinion the doing so would be the breaking that
faith with the grossest injustice towards all the rest
of the community. He did not mean to say that
the Government ought to be blamed for the altera-
tion in the circulating medium, or for reducing that
which was once exclusively British circulation to
the circulation of all Europe; he believed that in
time of peace such a course was necessary; but he
objected to their now paying the interest of what
was borrowed at a depreciated currency in the ad-
vented currency of the present time.—( Hear,
hear.) Those who were calling out loudest re-
apecting the national faith with the public creditor,
knew that it could not be done; they knew that in
the very first year of a war the whole system must
he put an end to. His object was to anticipate
that time—to prevent its running to the last—and
to put an end to a system which carried with it the
destruction of thousands, and the ruin of millions.
lie trusted therefisre that the petition would meet
with the unanimous approbation of the meeting.
The eyes of all England were upon them—every
county was waiting for the issue: Lincolnshire had
for once, at least, taken the lead ; and if they gave
'their unanimous support to the present proposition,
their resolutions would be echoed through the
whole of the Empire, and they and the people of
England must ultimately prevail.—(Cheers.)
The following is the resolution which was pro-
posed to the meeting by the Hon. Bart. in the course
of his speech :
" Resolved,—That Richard Thorold, Esq., Shoff of
this county, by refusing to convene a County Meceting,
no 3 requisition most unanimously signed by the Gentry,
Clergy, end Yeomanry, has shown an unwarrantable con-
tempt for the wishes of the county, and has set a most
slangerous example, tending to deprive the people of Eng-
land of their legitimate rights and constitutional privi-
leges, in a manner inconsistent Kith the due and impartial
exercise of his; official duty.—llesolved, that the above
resolution be printed in the county papers."
Mr. SHIELD seconded the resolution. In his opi-
Mon, the county of Lincoln had acted most wisely,
and had shown its independence by being the first
to come forward on this important question. The
question of malt, however, was not the only one
that pressed so severely upon the country; for if the
importation of foreign corn was permitted to go
on numb longer, the end of it would be that they
would not have bread to eat, and then drinking
would be of very little use. (Laughter and applause).
Sir EDWARD F. BROONHEAD was quite of opi-
nion that a most unconstitutional example had been
set on the present occasion : the right of the people
of England to meet, through the proper authorities,
tei ally subject that was not dangerous to the public
pence, was indisputable. He, however, did hope
that the mover of the Resolution would revise it in
one part, which appeared to him to be personally
offensive to the High Sheriff: the phrase that he
alluded to was that of sliming " an unwarrantable
contempt." For his own part, he had not seen any
of it. On the contrary, the Sheriff's letter was un-
commonly civil and gentlemanlike—(Cries of no
no; laughter, and hisses.)—He also begged to re-
mind the meeting of another thing, which was that
the High Sheriff had most handsomely given the
county Hall and Castle-yard for them to meet in
that day.—(Laughter and uproar.)—lf Sir Robert
Heron, therefore, did not wish to withdraw the
words " unwarrantable corrempt," which he hoped
he would—(Cries of " I hope he won't"—hisses.)
Sir ROBERT HERON—I can assure you that I have
always considered the High Sheriff as a man of libe-
ral principles and gentlemanlike conduct ; but my
person:4 regard for him must not and shall not in-
terfere with the duty which I owe to the county.—
(ApPlause.)—The words that I have used I have
used after due consideration; and, let me add, that
they are not applied in any. way to
.his private cha-
racter, but to his public conduct.
Colonel SIBTHORp said he bad great pleasure in
meeting his: brother freeholders and freemen, he be-
lieved he might say, on that occasion, to discuss one
of the most important questions that could ever come
before the public. Till he came to the hustings hs
had not seen the Resolution to be; proposed relative
to the conduct of the Sheriff. Generally, he did
not coincide in the language which bud been used
by the Hon. Baronet. He knew nothing of the
Sheriff—nothing whatever of his private character,
and meant to speak of him only as he had, in the
exercise of his discretion, thought right to refuse to
call a County Meeting,:when the Requ'si ion had
been most numerously sigeed. He knee ,aim only
as a public man, and could not use toward:. him any
of those expressions of forbearance or civility which
the Hon. Baronet seemed to desire. He agreed
completely and fully with the Hon. Baronet who
had first addressed them, and cordially concurred in
the proposed Resolution. It was altogether a mat.'
ter of public duty; and the High Sheriff, by refus-
ing to call the meeting, had not behaved either well
or respectfully to the county--(Bravol)—During
the period that he had been in London i.e had at-
tended a meeting relative to the subject they were

that tiny called on to petition about, and he knee
that the conduct of the Sheriff in refusing to call the
county of Lincoln together, bad been a subject of
general interest and painful regrets At the meet-
ing which he bad thought It his duty to attend
he hall heat(' the tonduct of the High Sheriff cen-
sured in tht warmest manner. It had been justly
said that the eyes of all England were on that meet-
ing; and he hoped, now that they had met, that
they would, by their firmness, by their determina-
tion, and by their unanimity; ingriente other counties
o follow their esesinple i and when the whole cone-
try toot up tbe question, be had do doubt that it
would influence Ministers to discharge their duty,
which on this point they had neglected, and induce
them to institute such an inquiry into the distress of
'lie country as would lead to some measure of rt
He hoped too that they would reduce the taxation
which new pressed so very heavily on the country,
and bore it down to ruin, and go fully into the dis-
cussion of all the causes of distress, so that the people
should have no more cause to complain of their ne-
glect.—( Hear.)—He had he and with shame—arid
he should not deserve the respect of his fellow-
countrymen—he should not deserve to exist—he
should have no pleasure in any of the luxuries and
comforts he enjoyed—(and he had his full share of
them)—he should not deserve to be there, if he had
not heard with shame, that the members, cn the
motion of his Pon. Friend the Member for Corn-
wall, reffised to go into any inquiry as to the cause
of the great distress of the people. He had, he was
happy to say, attended in his place on that occasion,
though many of the Representatives of the people
had neglected their duty, and had given that motion
all the support in hin power. He trusted and hoped
that the strong expression of public opinion beginning
with that meeting would make such a profound irn-
preFsion on the feelings of the whole country, that
the Ministry would not be able to deny to the gene-
nil voice what they had refused to some individual.,
He differed from the Hon. Baronet in his opinion of
the words applied to the conduct of the Sheriff, and
he hoped that the meeting would unanimously agree
to the Resolution.—(Great applause.)
Sir EDWARD FFRENCII BROOMHEAD said, as he
understood the Hon. Baronet to mean nothing per-
sonal by the words he had objected to, he would not
destroy the unanimity of the meeting by pressing
his Amendment.
The Resolution was then put by the CHAIRMAN,
and carried by acclamation. As was also a Reso-
'trim', that this Resolution be printed in the County
Papers.
Col. JOHNSON was very happy to meet his fellow
freeholders, and he should have the honour to pre-
sent to them for their adoption a petition relative to
the repeal of the Duties on Malt and Beer. He
meant not to trouble them at any length, but to
stick close to the question. Sir Robert Heron had
said that these duties were 150 per cent. on the
cost of the article: he begged leave to correct that
single observation—these duties were 200 per cent.
—(Hear, hear.) They were ditties also which ope-
rated in the most odious and oppressive mariner,
affecting all the poorer classes. Ile hoped to call
things by their proper names, arid be meant to do
so. They all knew the words that a publican was
obliged by law to write over his door—" Licensed
to sell Malt Liquors." Now, the meaning of these
words was ' very contrary to what they were sup-
posed to imply. Besides the dirties on Malt and
Beer, there were also duties on hops; and the
meaning of these words really were—a licence to
collect the public revenue. If he went into a public-
house and asked for a quart of beer, the landlord
might be disposed to make him pay 2d. for it; and
he would be well disposed to do th;s, but there was,
in fact, an exciseman at his elbow, who, for
every 2d. he charged, made him pay 4d. to the
Excise. If he went to a public-house, and was made
to pay 6d. for a pot of beer, he should think it a
great hardship, and he did not think it made any
difference that 4d. of his went to the Excise, and
2(1. to the landlord.—(Laughter.)—The words,
therefore, meant a license to collect the revenue of
Excise.—(Hear.)—F•e did not exaggerate—he had
no occasion; it was only necessary to describe the
thing fairly. The duties were altogether a most
hateful tax. There was also the Excise duty on
hops, and a man could not grow a stalk of hops for
his own use, without being liable to a penalty of
201,—(That's true.)—A man could not make his
own malt in his own way, and to get rid of these I
odious taxes would be a great benefit to the public.
He did not advocate the abolition of them as an
advantage to the landlord, but to the public gene-
rally ; and lie hoped that they would receive the
petition unanimously. The eyes of all England
were on their decision. He knew that some of the
Ministers thought light of county meetings; but
they would not, and could not, think light of the
general opinion of the country, if strongly expressed
and Strongly enforced by its representatives, as he
hoped it would be, if that meeting set the example.
—(Bravo, bravo.)—l-Ie trusted the petition, which
he would then read, would be unanimously sup-
ported. Colonel Johnson then read the follow ing
petition to the Honourable the House of Commons :
" We, the undersigned inhabitants of the County of
Lincoln, call upon your Honourable House, beseeching you
earnestly, though respectfully, that you will give your
undivided attention to the insupportable distress which
pervades the country.
" We humbly represent that taxation, excessive as it
was at the conclusion of the war, has become far more so
by the change in the value of money.
" That it is incumbent on the Government to accom-
modate its expenditure to this new order of things, which
it has itself created.
" That the burden is now intolerable, and must be
lightened.
" We, therefore, under a perfect conviction that taxes
must be remitted to a great amount, beg to point out to
your Honourable House the injurious nature of the taxes
on Malt and Beer.
" That they arc hostile to Agriculture., and equally dis-
advantageous to Manufacture, for they deprive us of the
use of our own produce, and send millions of pounds cut
of the country to purchase the produce of foreign soils.
" That they deprive the people of their national beve-
rage, forcing them to the use of noxious drugs and ardent
spirits.
" That that those obnoxious taxes fall principally upon
the middle and labouring classes; and that the effect is to
demoralise the one and to make the other dissatisfied.
" We, your petitioners, therefore, humbly pray your
Honourable House that you would be pleased to repeal,
forthwith, those odious taxes, and grant that the trade in
Beer may be made free."
Major HANDLEY seconded the motion for the
adoption of the petition. He was confident it would
be found generally acceptable. If the petition were
riot good, he was sure the character of Colonel John-
son would make them receive it with favour and
indulgence.—(Bravo.)—But he did not use the
character of any man to impose on them a measure
of a doubtful utility, arid the petition was, he
thought, so good that it might well stand on its
own legs. The petition went on the great principle
that taxation was excessive, and was carried beyond
what the nation could bear.—(True, true.)—lt
must therefore be reduced. Under such circum-
stances, it would follow that all taxation, even sup-
posing it justly and'fairly levied on the whole com-
munity, and the best taxation which could be levied,
must be reduced; but the taxes they now wished
to have repealed were neither just nor impartial;
they were not levied on the whole community, but
on part of it, the least able to bear the burden.
They fell altogether on the middle and labouring
classes. To the labouring classes beer was a neces-
sary of life; some drink they must have; and, as-
they could not get beer, they took to gin, which
made them unfit to live. The Government had
proved its partiality by reducing the taxes on tea
and coffee, which were the luxuries of the rich, which
were also the produce of a foreign land, and consinn-
ing which took away the employment from our people.
Beer was the produce of our own fields, or the ma-
nufacture of our own people; and using it gave em-
ployment to our own labourers. In looking at the
causes of our distress, some people would not look
straight-forward—they looked to the right or the
left, and would squint.—(Bravo.) The only cause
of all our distress was excessive taxation. It was

taxation which deprived capital of profit, and hrbour
of employment. The frruPtl toe, that we're taken
from the industry of the country and carried into the
Exchequer, were doled out among the idle and the
luxurious. They were extorted from the labour and
sweat of the people, to be given to those who did
nothing.—(Bravo.) Those who were adverse to
the repeal the petition propoi,A,=-If am such were
present—Might say that the Government could not
do without these taxes, but he believed the resources
of the Government could well spare them. They
all knew that salaries had been raised when money
was reduced in value, and that they had riot since
lowered. They ought to he lowered, and there was
some public property which might be appropriated.
This was a delicate subject, and he would not then
say anything further on it, as he hoped he might
soon have another opportunity. He believed that
the resources of the country were ample, and he
hoped to see them so administered that England
should again acquire prosperity, and again deserve
the name of Merry England. He hoped the time
would yet come when songs might be again heard
in honour of the can of nut-brown alettow almost
forgotten; and when every cottager; surrounded by
his wife and family, might be happy with them over
the nut-brown beverage of his forefathers. Ile
hoped, too, that they would be unanimous in ex-
pressing their opinions, and that next year he should
be able to wish them joy that their taxes were done
away, and they all in the enjoyment of good ale.
Mr. CHAPLIN (Member for the County) always
felt great pleasure in meeting the freeholders, whe-
ther they were called together by the Sheriff or by
any other means. He was happy to say that the
obnoxious laws which
,impeded county meetings
had been done away, and that the Magistrates had
the right, which they had exercised, of calling the
county together. He was always happy to meet
the freeholders, to hear their opinion, and boldly to
express his own. Though he differed in some re-
spects from the gentleman who moved tire petition,
he did not mean to olject to it, and indeed he
thought the greater part of it very good. The first
part of it was not, indeed, quite strong enough;
for they ought to make a strong and earnest request
for the reduction of taxation. He drought they
ought also to call for a full inquiry into the cause of
our distress. That such distress existed nobody
could deny; and to no persons was it better known
than to them, many of whom, he believed, found it
difficult to pay the enormous poor-rates which now
fell on the county. From this pressure, and other
similar ones, they would obtain no relief what-
ever by the beer being 4d. instead of 6(1.
(No, no! that won't do!)—He did not mean to
make any disagreeable remarks; but it was not by
clamour there or elsewhere that arty measure could
be carried. It must be done by argument addressed
to the reason of the community. The great dis-
tress which existed could not be relieved by the re-
peal of one tax—he was going to say this; and
that there ought to be a great reduction of taxation
to give them any sensible relief. He would not
then go into the financial questions connected with
the subject, but he would make one or two remarks.
They were suffering partly from the introduction of
foreign coarse wool ; and it was impossible for the
farmer to thrive if the home market were supplied
by foreign growths, at half the price they could sell
wool for. While Ministers were allowing the pro-
ductions of foreign countries to be brought into this
country, every nation on the Continent eas :prohi-
biting the introduction of our commodities. He
agreed to the petition, as far as it went to ask for
a reduction of taxation; but lie did not think that
would relieve the distress, unless they also obtained
protection for their own industry. The meeting
must be aware that it called on tire Government to
abolish taxation to the amount of seven millions;
anti to meet this, there must be a great reduction
of expenditure. To make this, both Houses of
Parliament ought to be petitioned, to institute a full
investigation into the circumstances of the nation.
He agreed fully with the petition, except that he
thought the prayer of it too confined.—(Bravo).
Mr. A. CALCRAFT was perfectly satisfied wit'

the petition, and he hoped they would alsopetition
against free trade. Free trade only deprived the
British labourers of employment to give it to
foreigners. It disabled the farmer to find employ-
ment for the labourer and give him adequate wages.
Our people must have employment before they
could be prosperous. Employment and prosperity
went together, and he hoped, therefore, that they
would ask for that protection for their industry
which was now more than ever necessary.

Colonel SIBTHORPE had before said a few words
o them relative to the conduct of the Sheriff, and

he would then, with permission, say a few words on
the subject of the petition, anti glad was lie to find

t brought underdiscus,ion. He coincided with his

Hon. Friend (Sir R. Heron), that it would not be
well to take up their time by entering into the wide
field of the general distress, or to enumerate all the

causes—and perhaps they were innumerable—which
had led to the present state of suffering. He agreed
with his Honourable Friend, the member for the

county, that a great deal of it was to be attributed
to the shameful encouragement given to the con-

somption of articles of foreign growth. He had
lately thought it his duty to perambulate the
City of London, and, to his great regret, he had
noticed that the shops were filled with foreign
article's of the most trumpery description, all fancy
and finery, and of no real value.—(Hear, hear.)—Hc
been into a glass shop, and the honest man he
found there would rather have sold English than
foreign goods ; but he said nobody would buy the
English, and he was obliged to keep French. At
the same time when he attempted to send even a
pair of decanters to France, they were seized as soon
as they were landed. It was with glass and other
things as with ladies' bonnets—unless they were of
a peculiar kind, and got at a particular place, the
person who used them was considered to be no-
body.—(Hear, hear, and a laugh.)—Not to be no-
body, people went to Paris, or bought foreign goods,
instead of staying at home and consuming the pro-
duce of their own country. He liked to live in his
own country, and in his own city, and to spend his
property in his own neighbovrhood. He was some
time ago passing down liegent-street, and he could
hardly get along by the conflux of carriages which
were putting down persons at two shops, that con-
tained nothing but some new fashions imported from
Paris, or from some other foreign place. For
things of that kind people had to pay tenfold their
value; anti after they had bought them they were of
no use. He rejoiced that they had come there to
petition against the taxes on malt and beer, which
were heavy, partial, and oppressive, affecting the
labouring classes chiefly, whom they compelled to
to have recourse to the noxious liquor gin. He
had bought a bottle of this, and not hav-
ing the power, like the Fire-King, of resisting poi-
sons, he had been quite satisfied with the smell.—
He understood that three gin-shops in the neigh-
bourhood of Covent-garden sold 400 gallons of gin
per month, or about 1,300 glasses each day; and
he had heard of one house that had sold 350 glasses
before breakfast. Porter, as at present made, was
half composed of semi pepper, quassia, liwtorice,
coculus Indices, and nux voinica. If it were exa-
mined it could not be sold, arid it was principally
intended to give employment to informers. He had
a great respect for the law, but it was impossilhe to
approve of a law from the punishment of which an
honest mini could not escape. They had often be-
fore met, and lie hoped they would often again meet,
to express their sentiments fearlessly and boldly,
and convince the Government that they had both
the power and the will to resist oppression. He
hoped speedily again to incet the county, and hear
the people give instructions to their Representatives
to promote an inquiry into the causes of our dis-
tress, and endeavour to remove it. He would not
then, as the day was so very cold, trespass longer
on their patience, as he should probably speak
more at length when he got with them into warmer
quarters, arid when he and they had something bet-
ter in their stomachs than the cold air.—(Applause.)
Sir E. FFRENCH BROOKBEAD was of,opinion that ,

ihe price of beer was much teo high. Ile waealso
of opinion, that the Government had acted Unwisely
and unfairly. It had reduced the duties on rum, on
brandy, on wine, and on every thing except beer.—
Either the duties ought to have been left on the
other articles, or the duties on beer ought to have
been reduced. The consequence was; that respect-
able people had been driven to drink drabs, who
would forMerly have been ashamed of it. He would
be the last man to object to the comforts of the
people ; he did not, like some people, look on beer
drinking as a crime, but be was averse to gin drink-
ing from its ruinous consequences. The labourers
of England worked better than those bf some other
countries, only because they were better fed; they
were formerly used to have meat and beer ; in
harvest time they now had both, and then they pro-
bably did more work than any other people. Farmers'
servants who were well fed worked well, as they
all knew, and he should like to see the time
come when our labourers again got plenty of
meat and beer.—(Bravo.)—He should be glad
to see the taxes on beer done away, and instead of
gin, that the people should drink good ale ;
but unless the public-house monopoly was at the
same time done away, he did not think they would
gain much. This monopoly levied a tax of three
millions on the people, without contributing one
farthing to the revenue. In fact, it diminished the
revenue, by diminishing consumption. The Govern-
ment violated the most approved principles of taxa-
don in taxing hops, and that tax also ought to be
done away. So far he believed that what he had
said was consistent with the views of the other gen-
tlemen preien-, and he thanked the meeting for the
attention it had paid him ; but what he had yet to
say, he was afraid might not be so well received.
Something had been said about public property. He
hoped that nothing was meant to be undertak,n
against the Fundholder, and against the property of
the Church.—(Voices in the crowd, " Against
both I")—Major Handley explained that his obser-
vations had applied to the Crown Lands.
Sir E. F. BROOMIIEAD—There was a great deal
of exaggeration with respect to them. They were
already included in the sources of public revenue;
and did nor, he believed, produce more than
200,0001. a-year (take the Parsons' property.) He
was afraid, if they demanded the abolition of ton
many taxes on articles of consumption, that the Go-
vernment _would be obliged to have recourse to an
income tax; and be did not want any such thing,
and he hoped none such would be adopted. He
was an enemy also to free trade, unless it were all
free; and while the farmer was called on to submit
to a free trade in wool and in corn, he was not al-
lowed to have a free trade in Bank Notes. The
people were not allowed to have free trade in public-
houses—nor free trade in game—nor free trade to
India—not free trade to China—nor free trade in
anything but in the produce of their bitterest ene-
mies. The country did not want the long coarse
wool of foreigners, but with it the trade was free to
the injury of the farmer. He wanted to see trade
universally free, or else protection afforded to the
British farmer. They would best show the mode-
ration of their proceedings by disclaiming any inten-
tion of meddling with property; and to express his
own views, he had drawn up an amendment,
which he hoped Colonel Johnson would allow to
form part of the petition. Sir Edward then read
the following amendment :
" Your petitioners at the same time distinctly disavow
any intention to urge the adoption of measures which may
endanger the public credit, or the honour and safety of
the k•ngdom, and they especially deprecate any financial
measure or arrangements which may lead to the imposition
of an lncome Tax in time of peace."

[The meeting on hearing the amendment read,
called out loudly, " No, no."]
Mr. WRIGHT, of Brattelby, seconded the amend-
ment.

I Colonel JOHNSON opposed it :he did not vsant an
Income Tax; he wanted the Government expendi-
ture reduced, and if the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer could not reduce it, let the Ministers put him
in that Right Hon. Gentleman's place, and he
would reduce it twenty millions. As for public
property, he wanted to have a slap at all public
propert►es; and after that he would compromise
with the public creditor on the best terms he could,
but so that every person should bear his fair share
of the public burdens. He wanted to see the
energies of England relieved from the pressure on
them, so that she might nut silently suffer the
aggrand'sement of other Powers. He should oppose
the amendment; and he hoped they would now
unanimously petition against the duties on malt and
beer; he hoped, too, that they would succeed in
getting them taken off; and that next year he should
meet them to petition for the abolition of some
other taxes.—(Bravo, bravo.)
Sir WILLIAM INGILBY, the other County Mem-
ber, then offered himself to the notice of the Meet-
ing, and was received with some marks of appro-
bation. He was glad to meet the county on any
terms, but he thought it not very liberal in the
Sheriff to refuse to call a county meeting. It was
not perhaps a regular county meeting, in the absence
of the Sheriff; but he felt much gratitude to the
Magistrates who had signed the Requisition for the
Meeting, and under whose guidance they
,had as-
sembled. He had been sorry to hear, on a recent
occasion, when he had met a body of his constitu-
ents at Grantham, that they were in so bad a state;
and since that time, he had busied himself in find-
ing out some plan to give them relief. He had
drawn up something which he should probably
submit to the Meeting, if he were not afraid of
interfering with the results of that day's proceed-
ings; and if that were the case, he should propose
it some other and more suitable opportunity. What
they wanted was a great reduction of taxation,
which at present was enormous in its amount. If
they could get the Malt and Beer Duties taken off,
that would be one step, one point gained, anti they
might afterwards gain another. He hoped he should
meet the county ut some future time to submit his
propositions to the freeholders. The distress in
Lincoln hire was very great, but it was not so great
as in those parts of the kingdom where manufac-
tures were established; and he had lately been re-
siding in one of these, where he knew that the
people were almost starving at his own door. Even
in Lincoln the distress was greater than he was aware
of, till he had met someof theagriculturistsat Grant-
ham, a few days before, he could not know it
to be so great as he had found it to be without at-
tempting something for their relief. As to what
hatfbeen said about the Government not reducing
the taxes, and not touching public property, lie
knew that the taxes had for some time past been
paid out of the capital of the farmer. If not taken
out of the capital of the farmer, he was sure
that they could not come out of their profits, and he
did not know why they should be ruined to enrich
the tax-gatherer and the fundholder. If the country
was in such a bad state that its resources were no
longer equal to its wants, the Government was
bound to reduce its expenditure, to lay its taxes on
equally, and: allow all to go down together, not to
ruin only one class. The people ought to come
forward, and he hoped that they would, to expos
tulate with Parliament when it was opened, in
order to obtain a reduction of expenditure. Nothing
but that could give us any great relief; and to show
that he was in earnest, he had drawn up such a peti-
tion as he thought ought to be sent to Parliament.
He had taken considerable pains with it ; but he
did not think that he should propose it for their
consideration at that time.—(Let us have it; give
it us now, and a general call of the meeting for the
Hon. Baronet to read the petition.)—He accord-
ingly read it as follows

4 TO TIIE HONOURABLE THE COMMONS OF THE UNITED

KINGDOM OF GRZAT BRITAIN AND IRKLAND IN FAR-

LIAMENT ASSEMBLED,
" The Humble Petition of the People of the Ccunty of
Lincoln,

" SHEIVETII,-That your petitioners are plunged into
distress absolutely intolerable : that in a county so highly
favoured by nature, all the proofs of decline, decay, poverty,
and misery are seen in their strongest colours ; that farm-
ers, tradesmen, and shopkeepers are become one mass of in-
sulYetits ; that thousands of virtuous, and industrious, and

frugal families are either ruined, or are on the verge of
ruin; and the consequent want of employment amongst
the labouring classes has led to a state of want and misery
such as no people on earth, much less English people, ever
besore bad to endure.
" That your petitioners ascribe this disgraceful and
fearful state of things to the changes in the value of money,
atbitrarily made by your Honourable House, and unac-
companied with a reduction of the taxes ; because, by that
change, the taxes have, during the last Moen years, been
more than double in amount.
" That your petitioners, therefore, pray that your Ho-
nourable House will cause to be made a great and imme-
diate reduction in the taxes; and that you will be pleased
to begin by totally abolishing the burdensome and cruel
takes On malt/ hops, leather, soap, and candles—(laugh-
ter)---all of which are inttilefab!y oppressive to farmers,
to labourers, and to all the tradesmen and others depend-
ing on the cultivation of the land.
" And your petitioners will ever pray."
It went a little beyond the requisition, as the
meeting would have seen. The distress, as he had
described it, was intolerable, though he might pos-
sibly have used too strong language.. —(lt is correct.)
—The Hon. Baronet concluded by saying, that he
hoped to see the time when the repeal of taxation,
such as he prayed for, would be carried into effect.
—(Applause.)
Sir ROBERT HERON begged to set the Hon. Ba-
ronet right as to county meetings. A county meet-
ing was legal when called by the Magistrates as well
as when called by the Sheriff or by the Lord Lieu-
tenant, and that was as much a county meeting as
if the Sheriff had presided.
Mr. CHOLMELEY differed from the Hon. Baronet
in not thinking the counrry in such desperate
circumstances as he seemed to suppose. He
might, indeed, think our circumstances desperate if
he could not trace the measures which caused our
distress; but every measure which had produced
evil was distinctly known, so that the steps which
it was necessary to retrace, to restore our prosperity,
were plainly before us. There was no cause to des-

pair, Though he, for one, must say that he thought
the agriculturists had partly been the cause of their
own distress. (" How, how They had partly
caused it by their extreme apathy. Like charity,
they had believed and hoped, and suffered all. The
reason why the Ministers had not taken off the
taxes on Malt and Beer was, that they, like other
people, were ready to attend to the most clamour-
ous. The Ministers had given relief to those who
had been constantly and steadily asking it of them.
Now the agriculturists could hold out no longer,
and, as had been said, the contest was soon coming
between the fundholders and the landlords. If the
agriculturists did not take care of their own interests,
they might be sure the Ministers would pass them
over. He formed this opinion from the eagerness
he noticed in several weekly and daily journals
to decry the agriculturists; and in particular
there was one journal which he noticed be-
cause of its great influence, but which displayed
most lamentable ignorance on all questions con-
nected with the agricultural interest. Its sentiments,
too, were those of wishing to destroy that interest.
It seemed to think that. the gentlemen of that part
of the country were born under a fenny atmosphere,
and could not comprehend their own interest. But
he would add, that the Meeting would regard him
as thick-pitted if he did any more than touch on
such a topic in such weather. lie wished to see
the Malt and Beer Duties repealed, but he was
afraid that this would only be like a drop its the
ocean. There were many other taxes which must
be repealed—many other laws which must be
amended—and there were many other causes of
their distress of more importance than these duties,
to which l►e could not even allude. There was the
currency also, which had added, as they all knew,
One-fourth to all their charges, and bad increased the
value of all public taxes and salaries. By an arbi-
trary and most unjust change, by violent operation,
their property and the.property of all the industrious
parts of the community had been altered in its value.
—(The Meeting expressed some impatience at being
detained.)—Mr. Cholmeley therefore concluded by
' expressing his satisfaction at the respectability of the
Meeting, and declared, though he had not very san-
guine hopes of attaining their object, yet the con-
sequence of that Meeting would be important, and it
would not, he hoped, be without some effects on the
authorities of the country.
Mr. HEALY expressed his satisfaction at hearing
what had fallen from Sir W. higilby, as he had been
one of the Hon. Baronet's tutors, and had taken
some pains to make him aware of the true situation
of the country. He also expressed his satisfaction
at the respectability and great numbers of the meeting.
Mr. T. SMITH said a few words to recommend
Parliamentary Reform to the attention of the meet-
ing, but the cold had made the farmers so impatient,
and their usual dinner hour having nearly arrived,
they cut Mr. Smith very short. He said that they
could not expect any reform in the expenditure as
long as the Parliament was unreformed, and he there-
fore hoped they would next petition fur Parliamentary
Reform.

Before the meeting broke up,
Colonel SIBTHORPE proposed that they should
consider the propriety of calling another County
Meeting, to discuss the question of the general dis-
tress.—(Bravo.)
Colonel JOHNSON would readily agree to the pro-
posal, but he hoped the meeting would not be called
till the weather was warmer.

The CHAIRMAN then read the petition and the
amendment, and afterwards put them to the vote,
when the amei.dment was rejected, no person but
the mover, that we could see, holding up his hand
for it ; and the petition, as at first proposed by
Col. Johnson, was unanimously agreed to.
Col. JOHNSON stated, that the petition would
soon be ready for signature, and he hoped the peo-
ple would sign it numerously. It would subse-
quently be sent round to the different market towns,
and would lie there for signatures.
Sir W. INGLLBY moved the thanks of the meeting
to the Gentlemen who first signed the requisition
for calling a county meeting, and also to the Magi-
strates who had, on the Sheriff's refusal, called the
county together; and also to Mr. Handley, one '.lf
them, for his able and impartial conduct in the chair.
Sir C. F. BROOMHEAD seconded this motion,
which was carried by acclamation.
Mr. HANDLEY, in the name of his brother Ma-
gistrates and in his own name, returned his thanks
to the meeting. He congratulated the persons pre-
sent on the propriety of their proceedings ; he was
pleased to see 'so numerous and respectable an as-
sembly ; he was glad of their unanimity, and lie sin-
cerely trusted that the next time they met he should
have to congratulate then on the success of their
exertions, and on having obtained the object they
had then met to petition for. He hoped, with Col.
Johnson, that they would cease to see the Excise-
man walking through the laud, or standing in the
streets. He hoped, too, that the brewers' monopoly
would he done away, and that he would sell most
beer who brewed it the best and cheapest.—(Great
applause.)—MG, Handley then declared the meet-
ing dissolved.
Long before this period the people had gone
away in considerable numbers, under the influence
of the cold and the damp ground, it being covered
with snow. In a few minutes the Castle-yard was
entirely clear, every liody appearing anxious to get
into warmer quarters.

The Life and Correspondence of Sir THOS.
MUNRO, the late Governor of Madras, of which we lately
gave a brief outline, is now published, and may be said to
comprehend an recurate history of India during the last
45 years, told in the vivid language of one who writes
the impressions he feels at the moment. Nor is this we
are assured, the only charm attaching to the work hi•
private letters to his parents, his sister, and hiv wife, an
said to be as replete with amiability, wit, humour, de-
scriptive talent, and single heal tedness, as his official cor-
respondence is comprehensive of accurate and extensive
information ; whilst his minutes and papers upon the
opening of the trade, the system of internal government,
and other questions relative to the general management of
British India, will be read at th:e moment with the deepest
interest.

MEDICO-BOTANICAL SOCIETY.

Last night an adjourned Meeting of the Medico• Oil
nicat Society was held, for the purpose of continuing
inquiry into the conduct of Mr. Frost, and of considei",
the course which, under the circumstances, it might
expedient to adopt. At seven o'clock, the hour appoio"-
a considerable number of gentlemen had assembled ;
Earl STANHOPE, the President, took the Chair imp.
diately; upon which be inquired if Mr. Frost was r,
pared to &liver up the papers, books, and other propel
belonging to the Society, then in his possession ?
Mr. FROST-4 wieli to ltsk a question—
The PRESIDENT-Oedrf, &Mer You will plexe
confine yourself to a categorical y'ei? of ceo I
Mr. Frost was silent.
The PRESIDENT-Gentlemen, you see that N. iengi
man is not disposed to make any answer. It was t,
fectly time that thegentleman had objected to the author,
of the Council ; but it Was seareely to be supposed the'
would deny the right of the &sciety to resume Its 41.
property whensoever it might think proper, and to ell
the custody of that in whomsoever it pleased, NoW
had to report to the Meeting that in conformity ttith'',
vote of the Meeting held on Tuesday, applicatiort P
been made to Mr. Frost for the articles in question, °f•
that up to that time no answer had been received from b';
by either Treasurer or Conservator, who both had $:
dressed communications to bins. The Herbaria,
books, and the other matters in the possession of ril,l
Frost, were of value and importance to the Society
Council had done all in their power to accomplish thee'
jects of their appointment, and more especially as respeli
Mr. Frost ; he wished that every part of their proceed'
had been made public—he wished that their into
thoughts.could be known—and then, indeed, it would 14
pear, that they had been actuated by nothing but el!
of which Mr. Frost had talked so much, " the good,'
the Society." There were some facts to which he shoP.,
now deem it necessary to call their attention. In
JP
spring of the past year they received notice kora P
trustees of the house in which they then were, that ebl
must quit the apartment they occupied. It was prop)°,
to transfer their property either to the residence of e
Treasurer, at Bromptan, who very kindly offered 04
the requisite accommodation, or to the residence o P
f .
Free., Bridge-street, Blackfriars. Both were exceediot
inconvenient, but the latter was adopted for the artie
mentioned. Now it was well known that Mr. Frost
sided in the house of the Humane Society only on ale'
ance, and they, of course, knew not the moment at strl,i•
his successor might demand to have the rooms vacated
which the pro;-arty of the Society had been deposited ;
Treasurer therefore applied to Mr. Frost for the article'
his hands. •
Mr. FstosT-I never received any typlication on
subject.

The PRESIDENT knew not whether the gentleman be
received any application ; but this he knew and belie"'
that application had been made to him at his custoM°
place of residence. At that time he believed lie had be
removed from his situation under the Duke of Cumberlao
and he did not know whether he then resided at Ken' e
elsewhere, but he was informed, and could not doubt,
the applications were made to him at his proper place°
residence. To the conduct of one who had been goill
of retaining the property of others he would not apr;
the language which that conduct merited. Neither COOII
he, without a feeling of extreme reluctance, direct s°
attention of the meeting to a matter respecting the cc"
duct of Mr. Frost as to the accounts of the establialei
meat. Bringing this subject before the meeting
large might be attended with consequences most t°
pleasant to Mr. Frost, and therefore it would 141
been infinitely better if the whole consideration of
had been reserved for the Council. His Lordship 010
entered into various details, the object of which was to 81°I
that Mr. Frost had received sums of the Society's moo.,
for which he had not accounted, and that he had be,
guilty of acts manifesting a disposition to raise himself O,"
the dictatorship of the Society, thus doing injury the rt'F„
serious, instead of the good of which he was so constaos?,
speaking. His Lordship then recurred to the mischievci:
effect which must arise to the Society from the practice;
the Directors usurping the power of admitting Membej
without the consent of the body at large. He was grief
to state that on late occa ions he had been greatly delud',
by the representations of Mr. Frost. He wondered It,;
any persons could have confidence either in the jtst
ment of Mr. Frost, or in the accuracy of his rein
sentations. He then adverted to a statement made r
him by Mr. Frost respecting the conduct of a Mel°
her of the Society, Mr. Brown,. which had bed
made the subject of inquiry by the Society. T 137,
he had found, were not founded in fact, and it Was the*
fore no matter of surprise that he had withdrawn his
fulence from Mr. Frost. The whole of his conduct at
peared to he governed by a spirit of dark intrigue, whie,
though not skilfully conducted, was fiequently producti"
of mischievous effects. With such a man it was iraP°/'
sible he could could continue to act—that be could re
m,in President of a Society of which he was the Direct
tor. He would DOW read an advertisement, that %rots,
show pretty conclusively what had been the conduct n'w,
proceedings of Mr. Frost. His Lordship then read th
following advertisement :
" At a meeting of the Members of the Medico-Bets
nical Society of London, holden on the 24th of Decembe!
1829, John Frost, Esq. Director, F.S.A. in the Chair'
The Chairman having laid before the meeting a numb°
of circumstances, proving that the present system of con",
ducting the Society, as adopted by the existing Couno
was contrary to the Bye-laws, and calculated to frustro!
the objects for which be founded it; and that its constr
tution being thus violated, its laws were no longer a We'd
guard ; it was resolved unanimously, ' That a change
President is hereby declared necessary, and that the Chair
man be empowered to take measures for filling up of 08
said office accordingly, and make such other arrange;
ments as may appear to him to him 'o be for the good 01,
the Society; and report thereon to the next meeting'
Signed by order of the meeting, John Frost, Chairrno
N.B. All communications on this subject to be addressed
to Mr. Frost, No. 32, Sackville-street, Piccadilly."
That the Director had there assumed the office of diets;
tor, was evince" in a manner almost ludicrous—it We
effrontery without parallel. It was as if the Lord
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[Here Mr. Frost rose to quit the room. Lord Staaboll
said, I will net go any further—_l have done. Several
Gentlemen said it was impossible that Mr. Frost cool
remain to hear such grossly personal attacks. On tbe
understanding that there was to be an end of them, SP
Frost returned.]

The Pazsinzwr resumed, saying that he wottld the°,
call before them a witness, whose testimony, he doubtej
not, would excite no small surprise. He then calk*
Thomas Knight, porter at the house, No. 32, Sackvilie
street, in which the meeting was then auembled, srhe
made a statement as follows :
" On last Tuesday night, Mr. Frost came to me, .4
said I could do him a great Fervice. I replied I should he
happy to do anything for him that lay in my power. It
asked me to turn off the gas that supplied this room wit':
light. I refused to do any such thing. He replied, 60
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the room, and any one in the room, were the gas turns"
off, would have been subjected to much inconvenience front
the escape of gas from the pipes ; I mentioned the prop(/'
sitisn to the Secretary and Treasurer."
The SECRETARY stated that he had some doubts of the
porter's representations ; for Knight said to him (the Se'
cretary) that Mr. Frost offered him 101.
The PRESIDENT then read the draft of an intended AP
davit, in substance agreeing with the foregoing testimony'
Mr. FROST-Why was that not sworn to?
The Pitestnexr—The Magistrate of the Marlborough'
street Office thought proper to decline receiving it. •
The examination resumed—He did not make any Offer
of money ; he merely said he would be my friend. ,
The TREASURER stated that the porter had represent
Mr. Frost as having offered him money.
By a MEMR ER—I have general directions to turn 01
the gas at ten o'clock ; and I have frequently done it while
the Members were in the House, but not in the room.
By Dr. Sic MOND-Mr. Frost was perfectly serious; je
was the beadle desired me to turn off the gas.
(At this moment Knight was taken suddenly ill, o'l
was carried nut of the loom in a state of insensibility.)
The PRESIDENT to :k that opportunity of apologisint
for anything which fell from hint at the conclusion of hie
speech, reflecting, perhaps, with too much severity, up"
the conduct of Mr. Fr.st. With reference to the gas, he •
certainly had no intention of imputing to Mr. F. any clef
sign of bringing about a dangerous explosion by means 0
the gas. Ile, of cour)e, acquitted him of every thing WI,
an intention of setting them all in confusion by the extine;
Lion of the lights, the more especially as the poor man kr
carried out did not appear to know whht he was saying.
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in meeting his Accuthr And his judge in the same person'

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