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that, founiled, as it appears to your petitioners, in policy, as f your Lordships ; but Ire r. juice in having witnessed:
well as in justice, it may receive the willing assent of your firmness, temperance, and cool deliberation, by whiciji,iti
Hon', rab c House, and fin ily be pres ..,ted to his Most opponents of the Reform Bill were answered and horn
Gra eus M jesty, our pat iotic King, f r his sanction and in the dust, and held up to the scorn and contemp' °'ot
app..- x al." The petition was carried amidst the most nation. We therefore again thank and con4ratulate lfel
ent • sia-t cheer ng. Lordships on the final issue of the ardent, yet sacto
SHAFTESBURY.—The Reform meeting here wa struggle, in which your Lordships have been so hooot,,
numerously and very respectably aft nded, notwithstinding and long engaged. We off r you our tnost heartfelt- ,e
hat SI) oton flit-drew off many of the tradesmen and far- tude in your achievement of national regen,ration. sv, 51
tiers of the town and neighbourhood. The Rev. Thomas . has sanctifi..d the victory— a victory calcu!ated to he,' 6,i.
Evans.' ened the business of the meeting, and ViiB followed hind up the wound infixted by denomination and 01#1stf
by Nlessis, George Chitty, Woodcock, and Rutter. The sion upon the people, who, we trust. will not, will!
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forget the ohVgations conferred upon them by }ourl"
latter read a letter fern Mr. Bowles, the late Recorder,
expressing hi• regret that he could not attend the meeting, steps, as Ministers of our beloved and patriotic K;rig' of
nd v.iv'ng s opiion thatWe therefore trust, that not only this general'
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a nilirk
the conntt yhi rom n
revolutionnothing but Reform would save .
. enjoy ,he sweets of lib?rty renovated by your Loolt
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chhoithirileatti'st. ec);6ll:tir'eYn ;d'asner,tl"thr:alt TOWCESTER.—The churchwardens, in compliance
with a requisition signed by upwards of 40 of the inhabi- in be inscribed tan the p ige ol taisaoy. aorl had in g 4,
a),.0.,,5ir y.reatinu,snl,i,ourdti---nietiod
ooroti.
tants, have called a meeting for this day at the Talbot fullreinetntaance, so lug as EnJlishmen 01,1 i ch•riii
inn, to petition the House of Lords to pass the Reform tb .t sacred aim best boon of F-1 - L b 14‘4
eaven— berry elf
Bill.—Northampton Free Press. : thanking, you, Lordship-, •,e ti g leave ever to rein.ial
WEST HAM, ESSEX.—On Tuesday evening a nu- L •rdships' most trat,fill and obedient servants, fc.,
merous and highly-respectably ni. etina of the parishioners • Notiirig•)a-e, S-pt. 9, IS -1
took place at die Swan Inn, at S:ialford, for the put pose '
of petitioning the House of Lords ou the Reform Bill. A
petition was carried, without a single dissentient v dce,
praying that the Honourable H. 11140 would, with as little
delay as possible, and without any alterations in its prin-
ciple, pass into a law the Reform Bill lately carried through
the House of Commons.

PROCEEDINGS of the ANTI-REFORMERS.

No. I.—A petition is now in the course of signature
(says the Western Luminary), in King's-bridge, which
Lord Rohe will be requested to present to the House of
Peers, praying that their Lordships (shouid they not re-
ject the Reform Bill now under their consideration) will
propose such amendments or modifications therein, as they
may deem best calculated to preserve the existing institu-
tions of the country.
No. 2.—An anti-petition is at some of the public-
houses and printers in the Red interest, purporting to be
the petition of the inhabitants of the county of Notting-
ham ; but where it sprung from is not known—most
likely from Clumber, as his Grace's name stands first.
These Constitutionalists, as they dub themselves, are up
to every manoeuvre to gain signatures. One of these mock
petitions lies at the Swan and Salmon ; two respectable
persons called to look at it the other day, and upon it
being shown, they found to their astonishment their
names attached to it, with about a dozen other forgeries.
Upon asking who authorzed them to put their ntm-s
down, " I don't know," was the answer.—Stamford
Champion.
No. 3.—A petition of the inhabitants of the city of
Dublin to the House of Lords, against the above iniqui-
tous Bill, lies for signature at the Merchants'-hall, from
ten to five o'clock each day.—Dublin Evening Packet.—
[Where does it lie, asks the Morning Register, the re-
mainder of the time ?]
No. 4.—A bailiff of the town of Northampton offered
to a person working on the premises a quart of ale to go
and sign a petition at Mr. Freeman's, but the honest fel.
low replied he would rather sign the other for half a pint,
so that it was all " Hookey Walker" with the bailiff
Report also says that thirty of the Northamptonshire mi.
liti,t were prevailed on to sign the hole and corner petition,
although they weie not inhabitants of the town. On the
consistency and uprightne.s of Justice John Marshall, and
other worthies acting with him._Northampton Free
Press.

ADDRESS OF THANKS TO MINISTERS,

FROM NOTTINGHAM.

We have received the following as the dutiful ad,
dress of the Deputies, Secretaries, and others, of
the various branches of trade and manufactures of
the town and county of the town of Nottingham :
TO THE 3IINI•sTEKS OF HIS MOST GRACIOUS AND CA

FRLNCH PAPERS.

(From the Messa9er des Chambres, Sept 27.)
RONIE, SE PT. 6. -Every div it is affirmed more ee,
tivady teat a change is necessary ,n the relations bet!,
the Legations and Rome. A deputation which the
tions of Bologna, Forli and liavenn intended to
hitter, produced in consequence a great sensation. 6,4
Court being inf.rmed of it, intimated that the deput‘".!
would not b.- received, and that if the province hag
grievances they might lay them before the Provincial "t,„
cils, which would enter on their functions in Ootobeell.oo
This prudent answer did not give satiafaction, for earlf,
reasons, and the Legations adopted a different 010% ja
D-puties set out as couriers, under the pretext of debvelorte
despatches; they are six in number, and are said t°
accepted tt,e deputation unwillingly. On the 1t,„1
September they went to the residence of the secre.hee
of State, but were not received till the 4th, and te
only as couriers, for the Government will not bear 0(5.5e,
putation. Cardinal Bernetti received them well, and exPte'o
himself in such liberal terms, that the gentlemen sceresol
tonished. One of them, Pagan', an advocate, spok,e d
much energy, but his words were sometimes modlce re;
Count Marchetti. The Secretary of State anssreo
plainly, that the provinces were considered as rebellr'sv
vita therefore it was not possible to grant them al' to
asked ; that they must modify their pretensions, aoti
his H glmess would on his side make concessions:
(lir;
added, that the Pope would receive them only aso
fel
duals, and that they would certainly obtain every thiateii.
sonable. The couriers make several demand* e'r.
that no more Papal troops shall enter the legatioo t tie
these troops shall withdraw from Rimini, and tbs,,,,it
legations shall be allowed to arm themselves to 109 ore
order ; for this they desire to convert the bells int°ejlec
non, and expect money from Rome ; they reject the II be
of the sth of July, or at least demand that it bbl'.
amended.
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All this tends to secularization, though the object i5,00,0i1l
confessed. It is very doubtful whether such deraadfiel
he considered as seasonable. Meantime the GoverV
turns its serious attention to this affair. On the 211h11,/
was a conference at the Secretary of State's, at vel''4oe
Pope was present. The result was decisive. The #0:
men encamped near Rimini remain there till furthero4,:kil
FRENCH FUNDS, PARIS Sept. 26.-Five per Cents..„
40c. 3.5 c. 40c. 30c. 25c. 15c. 25c. 20c. 881 10c. 20c.
40c.; Four per Cents. 72f.; Three per Cents. 59f. 40c. ":
40c. 45c. 40c. 35c. 25c. 35c. 59f. 50c. 45c. 50c. 45,„. r;
t!
Stock, 1,40 f. ; Rente de Naples, 70f 25c. 70E 69f.„756,r,'y
Rente d'Espagne, I 0 ; ltoval Spanish Loan, M'A„
Rente Perpetuelle d'Espagne, 46 45% Is '4 75 ogy
l( 46 464 47 ; Haytian Loan, 005 f. Excha.
London, one month, paper, 25f. 5c., money, `2SE
months, paper, 25E, money, 24f. 95c.-Cours Authentsq?

TRIOTIC MAJESTY WILLIAM THE FOURTH, R.C.
MOST RESPECTFULLY SHEWETII,-That, actuated by
a sense of duty and gratitude, we cannot refrain from ex-
pressing our sentiments of deep admiration at the states-
manlike conduct your Lordships have evinced, since you
were called into the Administration and councils of our de-
voted country, in the superseding of a long ruling faction
which had nearly plunged society in hopeless and irretrie-
vable ruin, by its love of domination and power, and most
inveterate hatred to any change or amelioration of our ex-
isting abuses and oppressions ; a further continuation of
which would not have been borne by the people, and which
must inevitably have led to consequences they seemed ra-
ther to court than dread, from their impolitic conduct
in conducting the afinrs of the country, and the con-
temptuous manner in which they treated the people
—happily now united, and alive to the true inte-
rests of the country. We cannot but express our
admiration at the measures promulgated by your
Lordship; in the Reform Bill ; but particularly that of
destroying for ever the corrupt system and influence of
the boroughmongers, and their powers-_a power which
fettered England to misery and degradation, and cursed
the land. We beg to express to your Lordships our ap-
proval of the admiration of the persevering, yet patient,
conduct of your Lordships, during the sacred and ardent
contest with a faction bent on opposition, and wholly op-
posed to any improvement in the political institutions of
the country, whose conduct we pity. At the same time
we cannot but deeply censure their folly, in attempting to
oppose the will of a united people, and the benign wishes
of their patriotic and beloved Kin!, who lives and reigns
in the hearts of his people—a people who seek nor desire
change of the fundamental principles of the Constitution,
when freed and unsullied by the pollution of craft and
oppression, which, we lament to observe have opposed
themselves to national regeneration and improvement, and
only supported by the chicane of those irrational principles,
pr,ceedeng from a tyranny, drooping under its own weight
of ignominy and the hatred of an in tignant nation.
It truth be palpable, or palatable, and its observance
important, to those who have so strenuously opposed the
advantage of the improvement of our political institu-
tions by the Reform en our representative system, we are
led to pity their want of sympathy towards the people,
whose unsuspecting minds and credulity have long been
the sport of factitious and designing men, to prop up a
system rendered odious by delusion and injustice—a mock-
ery of what is called Government.

We now welcome the flattering hope, that, by your
Lordships' patriotic exertion., the axe is laid to the root
of the deadly upas of political corruption and misrule.
We console ourselves that the wretchedness ot the system,
and its wide spread branches, are now doomed by the
country, through your Lordships' views and patriotic ex-
ertions, to undergo those prompt and salutary chtnges
now so essential towards the general good ot society and
the safety of the State. We 'sincerely congratulate your
Lordships, that the reasonab'e and thinking part of the
people have, since the introduction of the Reform Bill
into the House of Commons, wholly approved of the
measure, as best calculated to promote the ends of fair
and equitable legislation, that by its means truth and
justice may bear sway, in lieu of political fraud and op-
pression. _ _

Through your manly perseverance, we rejoice that
tyranny can no longer impose a stupor upon the country
—that men's minds are now unshackled, to promote by
union the ends of national justice and national happiness,
in the security of political tights, of which they have been
so long debarred ; while their oppressors have been living
on the common spoil, wrung by taxation and fraud from
the industry of the people,
unknown to the despots of the
darker and more remote ages of the world.
We trust, that by your patriotism, a brighter day is
about to dawn upon the people of England, and that the
happiest results may daily manifest themselves, under
the benign auspices of a Reformed Parliament ; which,
through the instrumentality of your administration, may
be drawn to the true state of the country, its glory and
happiness ; that the people be no longer enslaved by the
immutability of codes, framed and fashioned by faction,
and the despotism of men assuming the stile and title of
representatives, but who, in reality, have opposed their
own interests is those of the people's, and their just
rights ; and that for ages, unhappily for the people of
England, they have had to witness power concentrated in
certain classes, and themselves rendered passive and sub-
servient to laws and impositions opposed to reason and
justice—nay, to humanity itself. Laws which have
shocked the better feelings of the man and Christian ; and
when the suppliant voice of our devoted country has been
raised against State abuses, it has been too often answered,
or silenced, by the contempt of our legislators, who set
themselves above the controuling power of the people, by
the infliction of punishment and fines too grievous to be
borne by an enlightened and truly patriotic nation.
Long, long have the people felt and seen the necessity of
a tha
morenge
inthepolicy of their rulers, and that another
and equitable system of government should forth-
with be established, on the foundation of our venerable
Constitution, beautified and invigorated by the hands of
yourrLordshin and sanctioned by the King and his
People.
We deeply regret that the tongue of the calumniator
has been raised against your Lordships, in order, if pos-
sible, to frustrate the patriotic views and intentions of