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London, England, 1828-10-25 00:00:00

handed up to him ; and when he did put the amendment
proposed by Mr. Hedges, it. was done in a very clumsy-
:simmer.
Onc thing that must strike you in the account of the
meeting, is the utter want of concert amongst the liberal
party. They were scattered up and down in the meeting,
a.. if they had come (as they in the result appeared to have
come) without any fixed purpose. In one respect,
this afforded a great contrast to the conduct of the
leading Brunawickers, who. not only mustered strong,
hut acted together, and brought with them—what
was calculated to have ss much more powerful effect
upon the decision of the day than their own speeches, large
bodies of their tenantry. The liberal party came almost
unattended. 'This is not the way to offer an effectual re-
sistance to the pernicious operations of the Brunswick
Club', awl it is to be hoped that, the example will not he
followed in ether counties. It is said here that the comity
of Surrey will be the 'next in which an attempt will he
made to disseminate the Brunswick Clubs; but there, we
think, the attempt will be hopeless. 'rime, however,
will tell.

Many of the friends (1 civil ind religious liberty here
feel greatly di satisfied with the result of this day's pro-
ceedings, from a conviction that it would have ben other-
wise bad the leading liberals of the county been equally
active in their exertions as their political opponents.

IT OF THE LONDON JOURNALS.

We cannot suffer the relation of Capt. Canning's death,
which we give in another part. of the Journal, to pass
without an expression of regret at so melancholy an occur-
rence, and of sympathy with his surviving relatives for so
great a loss. Perhaps it was a mercy vouchsafed to his
late father, to be snatched away before the disaster arrived
which was so soon to consign hie son to an untimely
grave. The paternal grief would not have been alle-
viated by the reflection that the young hero died in
arms whilst ;asserting his country's rights and increa-
sing her renown; for though Captain Canning was brave
as the bravest, and had recently displayed great intelli-
gence of mind, as well as intrepidity and decision of charac-
ter, in the discharge of his professional duties, he has pe-
rished by a casual and even obscure fate. So much does
what is called chance mingle in all human affairs ; or ra-
ther, of so little value are those earthly honours which
men court with so much avidity in the eyes of the Great
Disposer of events. But though the nature of Captain
Canning's death need not therefore inflict an additional
pang on those near connexions who now lament their loss,
the country, which still deeply mourns the father, will not
fail to heave one sigh snore over the fate of the son.
Tiniee.!

The reports of the Kent meeting yesterday will be read
with the deepest interest. Although the proceedings were
on the whole unultuons and confused, the sentiments of
the speakers, on one side at least, were such as will re-
dound at once to the honour of those who uttered them, and
to the lasting benefit of the cause which they espoused.--
The skill of local and inec.mnical arrangement was de•
cidedly with the Brunswick faction. They were concen-
trated, the liberal party were scattered, so that when the
show of hands was called for, the collection in that one

spot which formed the head-quarters of the club-men, ap-
peared more imposing on behalf of the petition than on any '
other single spot against. it. For the wording of the petition
itself,apart from the understood objects of those who moved it,
we see nothing to complain of. There is merely a profession
of attachment to the Protestaiat Constitution, a declaration
of regret at " the proceedings which have for a long time
been carrt:ng on in Ireland," (which, generally speaking,
might apn,', as well to the Orange proceedings as to those
of the Catholics), and there is no direct prayer whatever
against the grant of civil privilege to the Catholics.—
Though such, no doubt, was in the minds of those who
brought it forward, they had too much respect fur public
opinion, and too much dread of an absolute defeat, to ven-
ture to clothe their violence in language more explicit.
They did not DARE to propose a distinct and positive re-
fusal of Catholic Emancipation. So extraordinary, how-
ever, was the tumult while the petition was read, that not
one person in ten could' hear a sentence of it. We shall
return to this subject in our next publication.—leed.
Victory has at length declared for the Brunawickers in
Kent, Of the assembly on Penenden-heath, from five to six
eighths, as far as we can learn, were on their aide. They
were united too, while Cseir opponents were agreed as to
nothing. Though so long an interval had taken place be•
tween the date of the Requisition and the Meeting, the
leading men on the liberal side, with a singular inaptitude
for business, had been unable to concert any thing like a plan
of operations. From the sources of information we possessed,
we were from the outset anything but sanguine as to the re-
sult of the ;Meeting ; though the prospect began to
brighten up a little during the last two or three days. We
knew that the tenantry of England, holding generally
their lands at will, are the mere thralls of awls landlords ;
and we knew that the Aristocracy and Clergy are one and
the same, and hostile to Emancipation. We knew that
there were several distinguished exceptions among the High
Aristocracy in Kent, hut that the great majority were as
we have represented them. In the great towns of Eng-
the people alone can be independent, and five out of
six of their inhabitants are favouralile to Emancipation.
But, unfortunately, the towns of Kent are at too great a
distance from the place of meeting; and it being impossible
to drive them, as the tenantry were driven, except in the
case of the towns nearest the Heath, we antleipatee a thin
attendance from them. We understand that Rochester,
and the towns connected with it, and Canterbury, were on
the liberal side ; but the Tories and Parsons had literally
organised a sort of rustic conscription. Prices are high
too et present, which gives the mote power to the land-
lords. During low prices the landlords have little in-
fluence, as was made apparent, a few years ago, when Mr
Cobbett alone beat Celt Aristocracy. In every part of
Europe the country is the abode of senility and ignorance.
The farmers of England though, no doubt, the hest of their
kind in Europe, are still, with few exe-eptiree, ; Moorish
race, servile to their landlords, and insolent to the wretched
labourers under them, by all accounts the most degraded
beings in the human form in any civilized nation in this
part of _ the world. We do rot consider Kent an
anomaly. We protest we believe, that most of the
agricultural counties of the South of England,
would exhibit a result still more disgraceful. We re-
peat it, the Aristocracy and Clergy are all in all
in these districts; and so long as matters go on smoothly,
they must be all in all with the Government. The Duke
of 'Wellington may possess the means of softening their
opposition, by well-tinted appliances • but before see blame
the Duke of Wellington for not availing himself of his in-
fluence, v,e must know more of his doings than we do
know. In disturbed tiniest, the man who shouted "No
Popery„ on Penendea Reath, would be worth nothing,
When the civil wars broke out in England, " rooet of the
gentry," says Mrs. Hutchinson, "were disaffected to the
'The nobility and snore considerable I
Parliament."—"
gentry," say's Hume, " dreading a total
confusion of
ranks and orders from the fury of the Innielace, ranged
themselves in defence of the Monarch ;" while with his
usual discernment he oieserv, se that " the small here_
ditary influence which can be retained over the industrious
inhabitants of towns ; the national indepe.ndence of •
eens, and the force of popular currents over these more
numerous associations of mankind; all those causes, then,
gave authority to the new principles propagated through-
cut the nation."—" Greater bri.very and activity (he adds)
were hoped for from the generous spirit of the Nobles and
Gentry, than from the base disposition of a low multitude;
and as the men ofentatee, at their own expellee, levied and
armed their tenant, besides an attachment to their mas-
ters, a superior force anti courage were expected in these
rustic troops to what could be looked tin- in the vicious
and enervated populace of cities." The result showed
how erroneous these estimates were. The Town popula.
tion of England is now more than one-half of the whole,
while then it was hardly one eighth part; but even then
the London apprentices alone were snore than a match fur
the Gentry and their Yeomanry. 'The spirit of combina-
tion of the people of Erevan and the concentration of stores
of all kinds in them, give them ea overwhelming advantage
in troublesome times. We have seen in our times what
Paris could do,--that it uniformly gave law to all France
during the Resolution. It is well known that when an in-
vading enemy obtains the capital of a civilize~! country, the
possession of the rest of the couatry follows as almost ;matter
of course, It is law, and law alone, that gives to an Arin-
tocracy their power ; and it would he well for them to re-
flect on the nature of their power
i and the precariousness of
for a flameena
its tenure, and to take tvanning ►n- time,
one day burst forth in Ireland, in the „ogress of
they may be consumed. No Men have such as, interest in
the preservation of order ; yet no men seem to in to sport
so recklessly with the elements of disorder. An idea.
of
the sort of reasoning addressed to the Brunswiders may be
formed from the declaration' of Mr. Gill"' "I tally as-
sert, that if you do cement to admit the Catholics to power,
the threshold of the Constitutioie will be passed; a door
will be neened to struggle* and,innovation. I do net mean
to say that the RomarsCathelies of ;he present day would
overturn the Constitution if admitted to a full exercise of
its privileges; but, Gentlemen, we must look to principles,
not to men. Whets we tee the present distracted state of
Ireland, owing to the tYntnner in which the Catholics mix
up their temporal with their spiritual allegiance ; when
wesee theoversrulingpower exercised by the Catholic Ase
soeiation..a. power beyouktbe law, &v." Wby, Ood bless