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NO. 17,329.] LONDON, TUESDAY, EVENING

AN APPEAL to the
WIDOW of WILLIAM
comm

'UBLIC in behalf of the
TIOM, Poet of Inverury.

Mr. John Watson

Provoet Thorns
Rev. George Gansu
Rev. J. 11. 31'Gavin Mr. William Boyce..
Mr.
r.
Mr. William nett
Mr. James Westland Mr. James Chalmers, jun.
Mr. Patrick Watson Mr. Arthur Begg, jun.
Mr. Thomas Saunders.
TREASURER —31 r. Patrick Watson.
SECRETARY— Mr. William Boyack.
The Commit'ee appointed to raise a fund for the relief of the
Widow and Family ot the late William Thom, the gifted but ttufor-
ornate Poet of Inverury, beg leave briefly but earnestly to appeal to
the Public, more especially to tha Public of Scotland, in behalf of the
trust which has been confided to them.
The name and genius of Thom are well known and universally ac-
knowledged ; many of the feeling and pathetic effusions of his amuse
have been brought before the public, not only in a combined form,
but in various periodicals. His talents attracted the attention of the
ablest judges ; and the Messrs. Chambers, in their Journal, have de-
rated a ehapter to his autobiography, and to that favourable weed of
praise to which they considered his merits entitled.
The life of William Thom has, indeed, combined the vicissitudes of
a humble child of the Muses, having formed a scene of trials and dis-
appointments, accompanied by an overflowing share of poverty and
distress.
Many of his earliest and best years were passed at the Hawkhill
of Dundee—the remembrance of which seemed deeply impressed on
his mind ; for thither, to use his own emphatic language, he wished
to return, like a bird that flutters round her forsaken nest, to spend
his latter days in comparative peace and quiet.
His wishes were fulfilled, for not many months ago he did return
from his wanderings, debilitated and impoverished, and breathed his
last on Monday, the 28th of February. He has left a widow breath lyres
infant children, the youngest but five months old, totally unprovided
for ; and it has therefore been resolved to raise a fund, in order, if
possible, to afford them permanent assistance. A Committee has
been appointed, who have cheerfully undertaken this duty, and al-
ready they are happy to announce that their call has been responded
to in a prompt end liberal manner. Lord Kinnaird, Lord Jeffrey,
Messes. Douglas Jerrold and Robert Chambers, and many others,
have spontaneously sent their contributions ; and it i. earnestly
hoped that the charitable and the admirers of native genius and un-
obtrusive merit will support and encourage the laudable object which
the Committee have in view.
Dundee, March 10, 1848.
Contributions will be received by any of the Members of Commit-
tee; and at the shops of Messrs. Chalmers, Shaw, and Middleton,
Booksellers, and Mr. Mills, Perfumer, Dundee.
DEATH OF WILLIAM THOM, THE INVERCRY POET.
(To the Editor of the "Dundee Courier.")
Dundee, February 29, 1848.
Sir,—The painful task has been deputed to me of announcing to
the public the death of William Thom, the Inverury poet. For
some time past he had been in delicate and declining health ; and
his diseased state of body was doubtless aggravated by the uncer-
tainty of his circumstances, and the consequent anguish of his
honourable and sensitive mind. Yesterday, in our city, at half-
, past eleven a.m., he departed this life. He has left behind him
something more than a name—some true and beautitul strains.
which, as " a thing of beauty is a joy for ever," the world will not
willingly suffer, like the inscription on the coffin, to be buried in
the tomb. He has left behind him, alas 1 something of yet ten-
derer and more mournful interest—a widow and three children,
th 7 eldest of whom is only four years, and the youngest but a few
months old. These are " utterly destitute," and but for the kind-
ness of one or two private friends, might have been cast out ere
this to the charity of the streets. I make no appeal in behalf of
the poet himself; " after life's fitful fever he sleeps well." He has
found what the most troubled and tempest-tossed wanderer will at
last find, and which to him was peculiarly grateful—rest. Nor will
I indulge or express any vindictive feelings as to the treatment
which ho received while yet alive. A true poet, he met with truly
poetic usage. He was caressed, but not fed ; as if one could sup
on incense, or as if one public dinner could keep a man alive for
years : But I would bespeak general sympathy in behalf of his
destitute family. I would implore every lover of literature—
every one who has derived pleasure from the departed poet's
lyrics, or from the simple story of his life—to prove their pleasure
and their gratitude true by some more substantial evidence than ex-
clamations or tears. I would call especially upon those who saw
him at our late Watt Festival, and heard almost his latest breath
given forth in those brief, broken, but thrilling accents—accents how
far superior to the measured cadences of rhetoric—to testify by
generous deeds their sense of melancholy satisfaction that theirs was
the privilege of meeting with and hearing him for the last time.
No time ought to be lost. Indeed, no time has been lost. Intima-
tions to the above effect either have been, or are immediately to be,
dispatched to Douglas Jerrold, Charles Dickens, Lord Jeffrey, and
others But as Dundee has had the honour of containing his death-
bed, let us follow the start we have acciden,ally gained by instant,
active, strenuous efforts in behalf of his widow and his fatherless
balms.
Messrs. Chalmers, Middleton, and Shaw, Booksellers, and Mr.
Mills, Perfumer, have kindly undertaken to receive donations.
The smallest sums will be welcomed
I am, Sir, yours truly,
GEORGE GILFILLAN.
The last verses of the late William Thom, written shortly before
his death :
SONG OF THE DWELLERS IN DEAN VALE.
Tune —" Miller o' Dee."
While we laugh awl sing, in this happy ring,
With a bright and a brotherly glee,
May we never forget that the sun bath set •
On the homes of misery.
For oh ! it may be that this chill night wind
Sweeps round some fireless hearth,
Freezing the heart of the homeless one.
With never a friend en earth.

Mr. James H. Ower
Br -k

Then aye, as we sing, may we closer cling,
In our bright and brotherly glee ;
Yet never forget that the sun may set
On the homes of misery.

Man was not made for this world alone,
The world was lent to man ;
'Tis a debt we owe to Heaven, you know,
Then pay it as well as you can.

Now winter rides mad in his carriage of snow,
With his pelting rain and his hail;
May it never be said that hunger and woe
Held abiding in bonny Dean Vale.

Then aye, as we sing, may we closer cling,
In our bright and brotherly glee,
And never forget that the sun may set
On the homes of misery.

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CHARTIST CONVENTION•

(THIS DAY.)

The delegates met this morning at the usual hour.
M'Grath presided.
Mr. DxxoN, the secretary, stated that, in the confu•
sion of yesterday, he had mislaid the papers upon
which the proceedings of yesterday were taken, and pro-
posed that the minutes of the last meeting should Le
..!onfirmed from recollection.
Mr. LINNET moved, as an amendment, that the con-
firmation of the minutes should stand over until the af-
ternoon sitting.

YESTERDAY'S PROCEEDINGS.
Mr. JONES moved that a committee be forthwith ap-
pointed to draw up a report of the proceedings of the
Convention yesterday, in order that placards might be
posted over the metropolis, and cause it to be forwarded
to every district secretary throughout the country. If
this motion were carried, it would clearly explain
to the people that the Convention were not actuated
by any feeling of fear—by anything which could
lead to a shadow of an impression that by their
conduct yesterday they were in the least degree yield-
ing to the Whig Government, any more than the cir-
cumstance of being caught in the trap set for them by
the police at Kennington-common compelled them. to
do. The report would also state that the Convention
were determined that no mistake should take place upon
the next occasion, and that the procession would then
march down to the very door of the Palace. The
effect of this report will be to prevent the people being
led away by the lies and calumnies of the press.
Mr. ASHTON said that he thought after the solemn
plrdges given by the Convention that they would see the
petition duly presented, some explanation to the public
was clearly due.
Mr. TANNER alluded to the violent conduct of a Mr.
Spurr at the meeting on Kennington common yester-
day, and considered that the Convention acted perfectly
right in not going in procession with the petition.
Mr. KIDD, in a speech of some length, attacked the
Times, and said that he never could, or would, forgive
the writer of those articles which had appeared.
Mr. CUFFAY said what did they care for what the
Times said ? They all knew that paper was its enemy.
The last delegate who had addressed the meeting, said
that he would never forgive the Times. What did the
proprietors of the Times care for that ? He had been
working hard day and night in order to get up
the: demonstration, and now was it all to end in smoke,
by the interference of the country gentlemen of the
delegates? He knew his own constituents, the men of
London, better than the country delegates, and he knew
that they would have been more pleased with the con-
duct of the Convention if they had marched with the
procession at all events to the Marsh gate, where the
people might have dispersed as easily and as willingly
as they did at Kennington-common. He should most
certainly oppose the motion; the people could read the
reports as they appeared in the papers, and any attempt
to justify their conduct was perfectly useless.
After considerable discussion the motion was unani-
mously agreed to, with the solitary exception of Mr.
Cuffay.
Messrs. Reynolds, Jones and Adams were then ap-
pointed the committee for the purpose of drawing up the
report.
The Committee to draw up the report having retired.

- -- -
IMPEACHMENT OF THE GOVERNMENT.
Mr. CLARKE then rose to move a resolution con-
demnatory of the conduct of the Government authori-
ties. He believed that the delegates represented at least
five-sixths of the unrepresented masses of the country;
and, as the Whig Government, with the short sighted
policy which had always distinguished them, intended
yesterday by the array of brute force to provoke a 601 •
lision with the people from whom they extracted anemia',
60,000,0001. of money, he had no hesitation in
telling the meeting that had they persisted in
going to the House of Commons with
their petition that an immense slaughter would
have been the result. He thought, then, that the
Ministry, because they had dared to call in an unconsti-
tutional army, to :world thein in their attack upon the
people ought to be impeached, and his object was to
move a resolution for the purpose of appointing a com-
mittee of three of their members to frame a petition to
the House, praying the House to proceed with that im-
peachment. The lien. Delegate then read an extract
from the Morning Chronicle, and commented upon the
bad taste of the writer, who had thought proper to
charge the Chartists with cowardice, because they had
determined to save the blood of the people. Nothing,
he believed, would give the Government, or these jour-
nals, more pleasure than to force such a collision ; and it
was of a piece with their conduct that on
that day they would proceed in Parliament
with a measure which would further fetter the rights
and liberties of the people. He thought that this reso-
lution would meet with the unanimous sanction of the
delegates present, and fully justifly them in the eyes of
their constituents. The Hun. Delegate concluded by
moving the following resolution t—
" That this Convention forthwith appoint a commit-
tee of three of its members to prepare a petition to Par-
liansf nt, praying for the impeachment of her Majesty's
Ministers for their flagrant violation of the Constitution,
in employing an unconstitutional armed force to aid
them in preventing the people from proceeding orderly
and peaceably through the streets of the metropolis with
their petitions, and by the disposition and array of their
brute force, provubiag a collision between the people and
the military, and thereby risking
the probability of
plunging the nation into civil war.'
Mr. Down seconded the resolution. He was asto-
nished that the editor of any journal, which had its re-
porter
present in that room, should, if a faithful report
were given to him, dare to write such words as he bad
done. The conduct of the Government was
paltry in
the extreme, for they were forced to revert to some old
statute of the reign of Charles 11. in order to over-ride
the wishes of the people. The houses on either side of
the line of march were filled with soldiery, and those
men who would lead the working men of London into
collision with the armed hands of the Government were
traitors to their cause. He saw one of those men
present.
Mr. VERNON, who was referred to, and who sat be-
hind the speaker, rose amidst cheers and disapprobation,
sad said that he would claim the right of reply if he
were thus personally referred to.
After some altercation between the Delegates, and
some confusion in the galleries, Mr. Wheeler suggested,
and Mr. Dixon acting upon it, retracted the expressions
made use of, and said he would in another place
Vernon a meeting, where both he and Mr. Vernon could
appeal to the public. He concluded by supporting the
resolution. give Mr.
Mr. EDMUND JONES said that yesterday's 10.°eeedings
ought to raise the moral character and resolution of the
to their honour be it said, when requested by
people high in the estimation of the Government and of
that could be seen was borne by two young men,
the country. They did not affect to proceed with any
physical demonstration, for the only shadow of weapon
who,
others to give these up, did so without a murmur; and
yet knowing that the people sought to obtain their
rights by peaceful means, the base press of the country
twitted then with cowardice. lie thought that they
discretion, when they himself and
were fairly entitled to charge some men with a want of
predeter-
mination of the Delegates.
Mr. WHEELER hoped that anything having any ap-
proach to personality would be avoided.
Mr. JULIAN HARNEY said that never would he again
call upon the people to go out of London, and never
would he ask the people to meet unarmed, and as one of
sought to overturn the
those persons connected with the press, he must say that
in his soul he detested the " race teat wrote." Of all the
enemies of the people these were the most miserable,
because they sold their consciences for gold.—(Voci-
ferous cheering.) Unless the venal press had by its
writings prompted the Government to torm these prepa-
would have been
he (Mr- Julian litasr,nteh):
rations—unless they had played upon the tears
b o a s t e drueiptnhegar that he
,b
he e-
of the shopkeepers, the people
triumphant. Lord John Russell
he belonged to a houseeiodf pwluhne-n,
people, and
to coerce
longed to a line of patriots,
wouldderere . rather
H e
thought the the resolution proposed by Mr.
Clarkewal,
:heoldugt oehluitghthhetye t
Government
had
de
ior adopted,
time t
hborurebtu etgbehhenef
theiropsruee
fftspei
earth came to their beloved.
Government asked the aid of thei ,
England, and the .1
they would answer " No '
Set they
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strong arms to defend t
,You refused the rights ' '
defend it yourselves. of the
longer preserve you in yo u
people—the people will noe.)
he Government would laugh
Mr. LUNN thought that the course
proposed -by Mr.
presentciarke,
apnods i t
supportedpositron.--(Cheers.)
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time. He did not see that they would gain anything by
adopting the resolut
at them, and deservedly set them down as a set of
" ninnies," who came there to speak, and not to act, on
this great cause. He thought it
would be far more wise
on their part if they discussed questions that would be
likely to give them a chance of success. He propos, d
that they should pass on to the next question before
them.
Mr. CUFFAY thought the proposition a farce. It
meant neither more nor less than that Mr. 1% argus
O'Connor should impeach the Ministers, and that Mr.
Chisholm Anstey should second him in this impeach-
ment.—(Laughter.) It was, he repeated, a farce, to
expect that they should get the Charter by moral force.
No, for that would be asking the aristocracy to commit
political suicide. They should ask the people to arm,
and this very exhibition of force would intimidate the
Government.
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in
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Mr. KYDD supported the proposition contained in the
resolution, because he believed it would enlist in their
favour the sympathies of a large class throughout the
country. The Ministry wore not impregnable from
their
place p
in e s
thei
t io nilou
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that
the Ministry of Ireland. And what good could this do?
they would ask. Why it went back to Ireland.—
(Cheers.) It created a confidence in the breasts of the
people of that country that they had a champion so bold
as to lay their statements before a powerful Ministry in
the House of Commons. This manifesto, like the im-
peachment of the French Ministry, would revolutionise
the country, and bring about with it consequences
like
those which bud driven the ignorant creature of Louis