The Sun.
London, England, 1819-11-13 00:00:00

BETHEL SEANIENS' UNION SOCIETY.

Yesterday a meeting was held at the City of
London Tavern, for the purpose of forming a so-
ciety under the above desigt,ation, with a view of
promoting religious ins,ruction among seamen
in all parts of the world. At 6 o'clock, Admi-
ral Sir GBoRGB KEITH was called to the Chair;
and, previously to his opening the business of the
Meeting, an extemporaneous prayer was delivered
by the Master of one of the vessels employed in
the Thames. This being concluded, the Chair-
man read a letter from Dr. Collyer, expressive
of his sincere good wishes in favour of
the society which was about to be instituted,
and stating his opinion that it would prosper.
A Naval Officer should preside on the occasion,
in preference to any other person. This
the gallant Chairman 0-bserved, was the reason
why the honour had devolved upon him ; but to
which, however, he could "make no other claim
than a zealous participation in the feeling which
prevailed for the spiritual concerns of seamen.—
He then urged the advantage of establishing a so-
ciety for the purpose already mentioned ; and
dwelt on the necessity of opposing the Gospel to
the progress of ir.tidelity, which the power of the
laws was insufficient to restrain.

He was followed by Mr. Smith, a dissenting
miniater at Penzance in Cornwall, Mr. IVard,
late a missionary at Seratapore in India, Mr. !la-
nes, a dissenting minister at Camberwell, and
two other Reverend Gentlemen, not residents in
London. Captain Fabian, of the Royal Navy,
also delivered his sentiments with great earnest-
ness, in furtherance of the institution; as did
likewise Lieut. Smith of the same service, who'
spoke at some length, and professed his illicit-
' lion to rake out with hint a Bethel flag to the
1-1.. y of Honduras, whither be was shortly about
to proceed. The Rev. gentlemen- spoke frequent-
ly figurative strain ; and one of them Mr.
hues, made use of a trope which was both un-
seemly and irreeerential, though he did not per-
ceke it himself in the excesses of his zeal. Ad-
verting to the happy effects which must result from
the new Society, as affording seamen the means Of
acquiring Scrip, oral knowledge, be said that pious
sailors would henceforih be enabled to " hand
out a rope-ladder to Jesus of Nazareth, while
he ascended upon qeck."
The Meeting was attended by a number of sea-
men, who cooducted themselves with the most re-
spectful attention, and appeared to rejoice in the
interest which was taken in their welfare, upon
a suhject of such great importance as religion.
There were also present many respectable females,
and a set ies of Resolutions having been'agreed to.
and thauks voted ro the gallant Chairman, the
Meeting adjourned.

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Yesterday evening the Philosophical Society of
London held their first Meeting at the Scots
Cot poration Hall, Crane-court, Fleet-street, when
a scientific Lecture on Cause•at►tt Effect connect-
ed with the Celestial and Terrestrial Sciences,
was very shly delivered by Air. WALLis to a t,n-
tuerous and very respectable audience. Dr. RR-
Quin' took tl►e Chair, after which a dibctission
upon the leading points of the Lecture look
place.

DARING OUTRAGE —Yesterday evening, he-
tweet) five and six o'clock, five or six ruffians.
rushed into a tobacconist's shop, in Russell-street,
two doors horn Brytiges-street, Covent-garden,
and, to the astonishment of the proprietor and-his
wife, who were the only ptrrsous there, com-
menced a most desperate attack on each other
They knocked down the landlord and his wife,
whom they heat dreadfully, broke several jars and
the windows, and were with difficulty lodged in
the watch-hone.

POETRY.

VERSES
tO TAR AUT►toR of THE MoDßtt

A PICITTS.

Dear Krt.Cumea, who in one design,
The (.71ile anti Dulce join,
Teaching the poor, and men of wealth)
To reconcile their tastes to health.
Restrain each forward appetite,
To dine with prudence and delight,
And careful all yout rules to follow,
Well masticate before they swallow. -
'Tis thus HYGEIA guides your pen,
To warts the greedy sons of men.
To moderate their wine and meat,
And " eat to live, not live to eat."
For the rash Palate oft bestows.
Arthritic Lectures on the Toes!! ! •
The Stomach, void of windland bile,
Shall praise thy monitory style.
And as he cannot speak, enlist
Himself as your ventriloquist—
the Head, now clear from pain and vapour,
Shall order out his ink ati,l paper;
And dictate praises on your rules,
To govern gormandizing fools.
The Legs now fearless of the gout,
As ready messengers turn out,
To spread your volume far and near,
Active in gratitude sincere.
The :inns, from pains rheumatic free)
Shall awe without reward or fee,
Each snarling Critic and suppress,
The attacks of any F.R.S.
While thus the Body, strong and sound,
Your constant advocate is found,
Spurn Critics, who with envy sick,
Or with conceit grown splenitic,
And pointing to receipts delicious,
Exclaim, " who reads my new APICIUS,
If he has brains may keep them cool,
If a sound stomach and no fool,
May keep it so, unclogged by food
Indigestions' sickly brood,
His Hunger, tho' oppressive, ease,
Palate tho' capricious please,
And if with care he rear's my nook,
In theory may be a Cook ;
Learn the delights good rules procure us
When appetite by reason's aw'd,
ZENO.alike and Ertcuaus
Pleasures combin'd with health applaud.
Ile who is stomach's master*, ho
The noblest Empire then may boast,
And at whatever Feast he be,
That man alone shall rule the Roast.'

* See Preface.

LAW IN! ELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CII.I.SZT:IIY, Nov. 12.

DAVIS V. THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH.

Air HART, on the part of the plaintifF;;;oved,
that- the Order made by the Court, before the
long vacation, for the discharge of the receiver
appointed in this case, should be amended. The
order had been made for his discharge, on the
payment of 600/. by.the defendant to the Soil.
citor for the p!aintiff, and the order, as pro-
nounced by the Court, contained a reservation

that the discharge should be made without
dice to any other part of the case. In the.order
%%hid) was afterward; drawn up this reservation
was omitted. When the Bolicitor for the defen-
dant tendered the sum ordered by the Court to the
plaintiff's Solicitor, the latter accepted the money
solely with the former reserv:ition, alibongh the
former had offered it generally as the money or-
dered by the Court.

Mr. iVaitY, on behalf of the defendant, oh.
served, that the money which had been pdd,
ought, according to what had been stated, to be
returned. and the case placed on the same footing
as it had stood before that sum had been given.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said, that . he recol-
lected that the attention of the Court had been
particularly called to the object of the reserva-
tion, when the motion for the discharge of the
receiver was pronounced. The observations made
on behalf of the defendant could not be passed
over without notice, and in the mean time the
Court would feel itself bound to amend the order.
After some limber conversation, the motion
was postponed for a week.

VISCOUNT CLAREMONT V. LORD WALsINGFIAM.
Mr. HART stated, that he had a motion to make
in this case, which would be opposed by the At-
toiney-General, and by another Gentleman,
whose name he did not recollect. Mr. Serjeant
Blomett was to attend the Court on behalf of
Lord tVal,ingham, and lie therefore would post-
pone the motion until it should he convenient for
that Learned Gentleman to attend ; in the mean-
time all proceedings relative to ejectment were
to be staved.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. 12..
CRIMINAL INFORMATION.
Mr. Set jeant DELL rose and said, he would,
with the permission of the Court; move for a Cri-
"initial Information, which would occupy but a
small portion of thrirLordships' time. He was
anxious to move for it as soon as possible, be-
cause it was important that the parries implicated
should have an opportunity Of answet log the
charge in the present Term.—[We understand
the Learned Serjeant alluded to the case of Miss
Maria Glenn, ►vho, it will be recollected, some
lime since prosecuted K family of the name of
Bowditch, for conspiring to carry her ft cm he
house of her guardiin, for the purpose of marry-
ing James Howditch.]
The CHIEF JUSTlCE.—Brnther Pell, you had
better make your motion later in the day. There
is, I believe, a person attending who has been
hrotmgl►t up in custody, in order to move tor a
new trial.

detachment of the Royal Artillery, (aith
their ba;:gage, went from Woolwich Marshes
1111.060 London, yesterday morning, on their
route. to Weelop Barracks, where they are to be
qturtcreJ,

OXFORDSIIIRE LOYAL MEETING.

A County Meeting took place yesterday (Fri-
day) in, the To wn•hall a! Oxford, called by a most
numerous body of Freeholders, to express to his
Royal Highness the Prince Regent their loyalty
and attachment to the Constitwion.
At twelve o'clock the High Sheriff* entered the
Hall, accompanied by the Doke of Marlborough,
the Earl MaCclesfield, the Earl of Harcourt
Lords Guildfou4 Abingdon, and Churchill ; Mr.
Ashurst, M. P., Mr. 'Lutist's, M P., Mr. A.
Might, M. P., Mr. Lockhart, several Heads of
Colleges, and a large body of the most respectable
Fret-bidders.
, .The HIGH SHERIFP having taken the Chair,
opened tl.e business of the day by declaring that
it had given him much pleasure 'to attend to the
Requisition for calling the present Meeting, which
pleasure seas much enhanced by seeing so winter-
ous and respectable an attendance. To him it
appeared of no small importance, that such a body
of men should assemble at a crisis like the pre-
sent, when sedition and disaffection stalked
abroad, to declare their loyalty to their Sovereign,
• and their attachment to the glorious and sacred
Constitution of their Country. He hoped any er-
rors into which he might tall in the course ot the
day, would be excused on account of kis total
inexperience, this being the first time be
had presided on such an occasion. He would
rake the liberty to suggest to those Gentlemen
who might he disposed to favour the assembled
freeholders with their presence, that it might be
desirable to confine themselves to the point set forth
io the inquisition, and to abstain from introducing
irrevelant matter, which might lead to endless
discussion, and to a difference of opinion which
was altogether to be deprecated on an occasion
like the present.
The Requisition was then read.
Mr. Molars, understanding the Address to have
been moved, rose to give it his warmest sup-
port. On being informed that it bad not been
submitted to the Meeting, he resumed his seat.
• The Earl of MACCLESFIFLb said, the cause of
the present Meeting being called, must be perfectly
well understood by all present. It might be
thought almost unnecessary for that county to re-
iterate those declarations of loyalty which it had
so often expressed before, but the circumstances
of the times called for, such a Meeting in a pecu-
liar manner. When lkirge bodies of pen were seen
meeting all over the country, for purposes, which
(however plausible the pretences for assembling) it
was clear were hostile to the well-being ot the
State, it became desirable that those frieuttly to
his Majesty's Government, and all well-disposed
persons, should be made to know whet e they
might confidently look for suppot t in the event of
the peace of the country being unfortunately dis•
turbed by the disaffected. That meetings like
those to which he had alluded, had been held in
various parts of the country was notorious ;--
mectiogs not held in a proper way to discuss po-
litical questions with a view of coming at the
truth, but meetings composed of persons who came
with opinions previously rnade op on the questions
to be agiteted—march ing in military order—cars y-
ing flags and hairnets before them, inscribed with
mottos declaratory of revolutionary principles,
and seaming to threaten with violence all who
might presume to differ front them. These as-
semblies had been the means of throwing great
impediment s in the way of the commerce of the
couotry, and much disorder bad ensued!. Those
who took the lead at them, knowing that the in-
fluence of religion was likely to oppose the most
effectual resistance to their efforts to seduce the
people from their local; y, had endeavoured to get
rid of this obstacle, by circulating far and wide
publications., the object of which was to subvert
Christianity, and destroy the Religion of the
State. the County of Oxford all as yet
was safe ; every thing had been quiet ; but
no man could say, bow far the contagion (if he
might so call it) would extend, or how soon it
might affect those who had till now escaped it,
and it was therefore desirable " that the loyal,
the sober-minded, and the good,'' should unite
without delay to oppose a declaration of their Sell..
timents to the evil designs of their enemies, and
the enemies of their eountry—(Applause.)—Wolt
this impression on his mind, he v °old propose an •
Address tO his Royal flighneas the Prince Reeeurs
expressing their attachment to the present Go-
vernment, the Family on the Throne, and the Il-
lustrious Individual now at the head of the State,
and declaring their abhorrence of the practices of
the enemies of religion, and their dett rinination
to oppose them to the utmost, as the best means
of maintaining the Constitution under which Eng-
IHnnen had the lnppiness to live.—He cons
eluded by moving the following Address

.‘ MAY IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGIIIIESS,
cc We, the Nohletricn, Gentlemen, Clergy, and Freeholders
of the County of Oxford, beg leave to approach your ROyal
Highness with unfeigned sentiments of veneration fur the
Laws and lustit utions of our Country, and of loyalty and at-
tachment to his Majesty, his,Family, and the Government.
‘• We cannot but behold with indignation and aluirtnrence
the daring attempts of designing and turbulent niC9i, wh,•„
under the specious pretext of considering of grievances, but
more evidently for promulgating the most dangerous doc-
trines, and the most inflammatory harangues, hare arrayed
'ruder banners -olsedition, and in several places have assem-
bled together many thousands of the lower orders of the peo-
ple, to the terror and dismay of the well-disposed, and tend-
ing to overawe the Constituted Authorities of the Law, and
to endanger the peace of the country.
We pare ()hien* with feelings of horror, the industrious
dissemination of seditious and blaspheinous publications, de-
signed to promote discontent and disaffection to the Govern-
ment, and to bring into Contempt the Holy Religion of the
country, arid to extirprite from the minds of his Majesty's
subjects every religious and thoral principle, that they tray
be the more easily led to the perpetration of crime, and pre-
pared for revototion and anarchy, - with their unavoidable

consequences,—rapine, devastation, and murder. _ _
6. We feel it our duty. therefore, at this time, to declare
our detestation of such practices, and that we will exert our
utmost endeavours to suppress them, arrO to assure your
'Lova! Highness of our veneiation for the Christian Religion,
aid our resolution to support and maintain that Constitution
which we, have received front our :investors, by Which, Un-
der Providence, this country has enjoyed glory, tniattence, in-
ternal peace, and happiness, above other Nations.
The Duke of MARLBOROVOI4 seconded the Ad-
dress.

One or two his.es were here heard. The Con-
sequence was a loud burst of applause, in wlllth

the voice of the malcontent, or Ina!Contents, witt4s
infitAntiv lost.

Mr. A. ItrnIGIAT, M. P. expressed his determi.
nation to oppose the machinations of the

(coed. He contemplated with horror the at.
tempts made to destroy the...conscientious bul.

-teark which had been placed in the_nnsedneed
Mind-of man, to guard him feein ti-scese who would
tempt him to a violation of his duty. Let this
ledwark be:once destroyed, and whet would be
left .to man ? He was among the warmest
friends of civil and religious liberty, and therefore
Ice would raise his voice to defend that Constitu-
tion which secured, the true and proper enjoy-
ment of real liberty. To speak of the British
Conssitution—the work,of lemirrianhandi, as being
absolutely perfect, would be presit!pptipn. It-must
inevitably partake of the infirmities of our coin-
mon nature, but it contained within itself the
means of correcting any serious public evils that
might arise, and it ensured the redress of private
injuries. This Constityion, he hoped, would be
handed down unimpaired to the rising posterity,
and with this feeling he most cordially concurred
in the. Address which had just been -moved.
'Mr. LOCKHART said, it had been trule Observ-
ed that the people of the County of Oxford, had
ever been distinguished by their loyalty to. their
Sovereign and attachment to the Constitution.—
The illustrious Person at the head of the State
bad not now to learn the strength of their loyalty
and time -extent of their attacleneut. Knowing
this, be would not now stand forvVard to' address
them, if it were not the practice of those persons
who were opposed to the Coustitivion falsely to
, boast diet their opinions were making progress
among the people. What they called progress be
Would call' corruption.—(Flere -a hiss was again
heard, but-it was itumetrately drowned in ap-
'plause )—When time disaffected boastfully exhi-
bited their nenthers—nnesterrs of men ddUtled Or
brought together by bbud delegation—and -when
even, in that loyalfassembly, something of die-
approbation bad been manifested, while they were
about to express their lOyalmy to their Sovereign,
' and their attachment ,to the Constitution of their
country, it became necessary 'for every man to
speak out, end afford the sanction mind influence
of his example to those valued insmitutionS which the
evil disposed had dared to'asseil.7-(4pplense.)—lt
was eeresenuilYthe fact, that ateempts had long
been making tO substitute the will of man for Isis
judgment, and tender the pretence of reforming
our Consiitwion, to effect the total overthroW of
our liberty. Those who entertained such designs,
had also laboured:tn' put down -religion. Some
blind-creatures haaendeavoured to set up Atheism.
They had flies endeavoured to give a negative to
society, and io leave man nothing to -repose
by ivithdi awing floes him his Iwpe in the awful
Providence of the Deity. Happily however these
incendiaries had been able to make but few con-
verts to their pernicioes docirines. They in fact
defeated themselves. Others had more cautiously,
but not less rancorously, assailed the Religion of
the Slate, approaching it as Deists. These, though
they admitted the, existence of the Deity,dinied that
he had ever made any communication of his divine
'ill to the frail creatures be bad called into being.
What was the object of these persons ? It was ob-
viously to destroy our inward monitor—to take
from man his conscience which alight protect him
from sinefor what would the Deity be to man if no
communication bad ever been made of his will to
his creatures ? Man, if these succeeded, would, in
our state of society, become but a civilized
savage, and a fit instrument to overcome the Go-
vernment, in time hands of the remorseless beings
whose desperate, bloody, and. treasonable intene
tions it was the dqty of every good man to op-
pose.--e(Applause.)—The disaffected, in acting the
part whiels he'had described, hail not acted wiih-
'out a master, nor without a -precedent, They
had, closely copied the horrible- examples fur-
nished in the course of the Frenel, Re-voln-
lien. Nothing had escaped their observation;
they hail copied even the fooleries- and the fop-
peries of the French Revolution, their flags
and their caps of Liberty, and they had seen
their Goddesses of Liberty also, in the persons
of shameless women, devoted to the cause.—
(Applause.)—He trusted every'one would see the
infamous object'of the fooleries and fopperies and
blaspeemies which had thus been sent abroad, and
he leaped every one would see that it was impos-
sible for human reason to comprehend the Deity
and his ways without revelation. . Without this it
was impossible for small to comprehend great.—
Such finite beings could not lift up their eyes to
infinity if some portion of sacred light were not
bestowed from on high, to enable them to under-
stand the sublime and awful truths of our religion.
It was pretended by those who called for aPatlia-
mentary Reform, that they bade right to Universal
3uffrage ; and this, with Annual Parliament's,'
they declared to have- been formerly the law
of , the land. This statement was historically
false, and no single book, nor even a solitary tra-
dition, could he %trimmed to beer out the asset tion.
But if it were trite that such had beets the'Coniti-
infirm of England, what was time consequence that
followed i Whyeit would follow, that the Govern-
meet, undcr which thii system hail existed, was so
weak and vicious in its organization, so little ca-
pable of duration, that it had, Speedily perished,
without leaving even the fragment of a record in
history to attest that it had existed.—(Applaitse.)
Under such a system, it nttts4 be this conviction of
every roan of sober judgineut, it would he impos
that liberty could be preserved: Many
countries had tried the experiment (though Eng-
land never had) of a palmier and anarchical Re-
volntioo; and the result was found, to be, that.
the Gayernment thus established :Could scarcely
outlive a month. In Naples,' under- such a sys-
tem, be believed the populace had been ire the
habit of setting up a .tyrant,, whom, in A period
as short as that which he had named, - they
commonly found it necessary to haeg or Shoot..
Some person bad mentioned America, as an exame
pie of _Revolutionary Government. In America.
Universal Suffeeige was not sanetioned. There
women and -children were not 'allowed io vote.
Nobody ebere-enjoyed that right but those who
paid teeei,.''and tliret,4 'taxes too. But even if it
were easee that Thri versal Suffrage hall been succes-
billy:l:led in Amer ice,-Was the 'period during which
this could have been the ease, sufficiently extended
to jertify otheekenatinns in-departing from their
estOlished 4,sferits adopt'afe system of. the:
UVrted Stati4i on the experience of twenty'
years, such a course were to he pursued, no
vernment wotild have time 'io gain strength, from
the changes which Would be perpenseily: tisk-
e-ee' place in: its policy tied lonisation. One

proof of the. goodness „of..the British Consli-
tution was ftiund in fact that it had
endured for Tine-IThrtdred years. It never
could have existed-sriTilMg had it been destrite-
.
Live -of the liberties of mankind: ' If-funnd to pro-
mote social misey, itiitead of lasting nearly, a
thousandears, conlq.noti.ua;ve_been sustained
for a single century. lie uteri .descanted on the
blessings flowing
,front the Btill4l Constitution.
which from sinall beginning s had mmcreased the
happiness' and renown of the people, and raised
the nation to the'lii;-ltest.pil male of glory. He
again condemned the proCee.diligs of the disaffeet-
and,,reverting to the Ft etieh'ROordotion, he
showed elfat it was not alone Royal* but the
and. the great who. stilfered. at "that period.
The poor peasantry had -,been brought to the
market places of France, like cattle tra' the slaugh-
ter, and decapitated. Women had beet; butelier'ecf
in the same way ; and it had not.been uncommon
to tie the wretched virgin to.the hack of her lover,
and then send then: both to sea and knock the keel
out of the vessel, or to thro,w them into the River
Loire. This !lad been fannliarly spoken of by the
infamous ruffians. Who perpetrated_sneh enormities
(and who, of-cou'rsk, had lost all feeling,) is oothing,
morellian frePUbliCan
He hoped the people' of this country, Would never
be guilty of such crimes; but once s:educed front
their duty, it was impossible lo say what horrors
they might not be let! 03 to- ',prove and abet.—
He enlarged on the calamities -inseparaide front.
Revolution,. again eulogized
.the- Eugli,ll Consti-
tilticb, and spoke with 'ttowli_ satisfaction of the
failure of the schemes of thelltforrners.in various
parts of England. On reviewing the events which
had transpired, since the Pt ince Regent had been
called to exercise the, funetioiri of the Sovereign,
he beggt d to say., pot wit hvanding the libels
by which. his Royal Highness had been assailed,
that impartial history would hereafter record that
no British Sovereign had ever stood on a firmer
basis of glory. He strongly supeorted the Ad-
dress, though, 'for theinselves, it wai liarilly ne-
cessary that they should come forward with that
display of their loyalty, and of their determina-
tion,to resist to the utmost the machinations of
the enemies- of social- -order and the happiness, of
mankind.--(Lund applause .) • ••. •
Mr. Peangs said Ise sllotridleespasi• but a few.
moments on the time of the Meet iikg ; he should
not perhaps have risen upon,the present occasion
to express his sentiments were it not for the ob-
servation that had fallen. from his Learned Friend
(Mr. Lockart). He. juitly'Observed, that it was,
under existing circumstances, the. dtry of every
loyal and well-disposed rerFon to come forward
and boldly avow his attachment to the Constitu-
tion, and his detertninott` to support it against
tbe attempts of those who would overturn both

IA Iv and religion. This invitati(vn he was disposed
to accept, and he came 'forwiird the moirwillingly
to .avow his entire concurrence in the Address,
because he perceivuil some slight tendency in
the Hall to a - differenCe of He flat-
tered himself that the County of Oxford was
as pure and as.free horn political contagion as any
other County in England. There might be a
few, a very few individuals to whom it had
"reached, but the great majority were -sound and
loyal.—(Applause.),---They knew the views, the
machinations, and principles -:of those who would
overthrow every thing great anti valuable both
iii Church and State ; those views and principles
they were determined to resis!. Whatever dif-
ference of opinion might prevail among those who
were friendly to a temperate and well-considered.

reform, he would not enter into them at present.
Their business now was not with such a question,
and it would be unnecessary to offer Iris senti-
ments on it. But with respect to Annual Parlia-
mews, Universal Suffrage, and Election by Bal-
lot, that mad and sweeping system, of which they
lately heard so much, no man in "'is senses, no
man in the slightest degree acquainted with poli-
tical subjects, could for a moment suppose that
society could exist under the operation of such
principles, that they were at all practicable in this
or any other country. Upon this subject he should
not have touched, were it not that the circum-
stances of the times, and the object for which
they were met, naturally' invited to it. Nothing
could be more fallacious, more absurd, titan the•
arguments of those who supported Vote by Bel-
lot and Universal Suffrage. Tire former was cried'
up as the infallible -remedy for venality, as if un-
-11 der the present system, when votes were p'rbiicly
and openly given, under the solemn sanction
of an oath, when the name and residence of the
elector were recorded, when he 'had to encounter
public opinion, and was liable, in the event of
detection, to opprobrium, and to the punishment
of venality, as if these-and all other guards were
insufficient, and nothing could secure purity of
election but vote by ballot. What security could
this give against venality ? Was it not more
likely, on tire contrary, to be practised under a
system which would take away tire possibility of
detection, and tree the elector from the influence
of every consideration which at present must ope-•
rate so powerfully ou his cerpluct I With respect'
to I.Tei7ersal Sutltage, it was ably treated, and'
its fallacy refitted, in the speech of his Learned
Friend (Mr. toddle:O. lie justly, and at the
same time truly slated., Mot it was rejected by all
the Governments of 'the world, from republican.
America to regenerated France. But Annual
Parlisments were to be the great rernetly of all
evils—the universal. panacea for every disease that
could affect the State. The persons who main-
tained these principles seemed to think legislatiOn
was the most plain and easy thing in the world;
that every...man, every woman, and even every
child, wai' adequate to the task.. They
re-
minded burn -of the great poet's- faCefirius de.;
.scription of Dogberry and Verges, ther:'-titain.
rained, that, however diflictilt of attainiiient
other qualifications might be, reading and
ing came by nature.—(A laugh:)—What higher
degree of madness could take 'possession of the
human mind : He trusted that the-tirnewas not
yet come when an empire, whose sway extended
from the remotest extremity'nf'qbeearth to the
other, would be entrusted to the guidance of such
men, of such I'aethirieents-,4i'morsr-be dismissed
'with the ebb' and flow of every tide of popularity.
From these Pa.aitiments too, according to the
principles of elfil enlightened Reformers of the day,
were to be d:ekeliolett'all men' in place, all those

persons through,. whom theaGovernment was to
become responsible•for its acts, through whom it
was to decide ufmoW the most important subjects,
etiirtn' explain the grOunds on which it acted.
-Were they -to be.held up to public execiation
for doieg every thing-- in their power to.pro.
mote the service, the glory, wad happiness of
their country ? -(Applause,)--Notwithstanding
tame obloquy cast on PailiaMent be was cone
•fideot - that more high . minded, more ha.,
nowt able, better informed, or more public - spi-
'rited characters, were no where to be found...-.
(Applause.-).---4f was 'composed of the illmisu ions
in birth, the wealthy, and the virtuous ; of men
tyho raised themselves to riches by their industry,
men distinguished for every species of eminence
fin. the pen as well as the sword', persons of ex-
tensive knowledge civil and -political, instructed
in- war, commerce, agriculture,. of great financial.
research and mechanical skill. He doubted much
if-the- great.' towns of Birmingham, Leeds; and
Matschester could be better represented, or their
interests better attended to, if they returned as
then Representatives; those Orators who were
travelling from one end of the country to the other
for the purpose of declaiming and proving to the
"pea* how greatly they were oppressed.—(Aps
plaoae doolated much it the medical skill of
Dr.Wetsoe woidd be ablror successfully exerted to
the-d he wounds at time State, or whether the .other
orator so celeht ated among his party, would 'do
much by his el-tyleoce to strengthen the integrity
of the flouse of Commons. If a sample might
be taken from what occurred•at their own meet-
hies, very little freedom of debate could be ex-
pected from these gentry. At such meetings no
opinions were listened to but their own ; no per-
son dare vesiture upon opposition ; it he did, he
was cert ato be immediately cried or pulled
down. Leery roan not of their party was a knave
or a fool. There svas nothing sacred in the in-
stitutions of ,he country, civil or religious, they
did not attack and revile. Even the justice of
Trial by Jury, the impartiality of men acting un-
der the sacred sanction of an oath, was called in
question, because all infaincms parodist aud Wass.
'theme! was declared guilty,—(Loud apphittse.)—
He- doubted mach if an assembly composed of
such persolia,,could do much-tovt ards the improve-
meta of the State. He lamented that the' late
,Member for Banbury was not now present.-
1-le would be. the first to .stand forward in de-
fence of that Constitution handed down to him
by his-ancestors, ammd of that Religion which by
his example and his virtues he contributed so
meet) to extend in his own neighbourhood. He
hoped he should be forgiven this tribute of re-
spect to the name of one who was dear to all
that had the happiness of being known to him.
Universal Suffrage was preached up as the pana-
cea that was to cure every malady, and spread
universal happiness through the land, to secure
the country against want, to force a market for
British produce throughout the world, to give a
death-blow to corruption, extinguish the national
debt, produce by its magic,touch a total and sud-
den change from misery to universal happiness,
"and support time glory of the country upon an itni
movable basis, without the aid of taxation. Could
any man, not besotted by the grossest ignorance,
or stultified by vulgar declamation, expect for a
moment that such consequences could follow
from the adoption of such a principle? The effects,
on the contrary, would inevitably be to pion.'
der the rich, and make it felony to drink small
beer.—(A laugh)—to bring back the times allud-
ed to by their great poet, when time parish clerk
of Chatham was ordered to the lamp-post for be-
ing found guilty of knowledge. The experiment of
revolution was not a new one. They had a sample
of it two centuries back in this country. -.What
was the consequence ? A Usurper passed through
seas of blood to the possession of guilty power,
and at his death the nation, after suffering all the
horrors and calamities of civil war for imaginary,
and unattainable good, were happy to court the re-
turn of that Prince, whose father they doomed to
imprisonment and death. They witnessed another
experiment of time same kind in France, where a
Government of Five Hundred was soon superseded
by a Government of Five, where such scenes were
acted, such frightful atrpcities committed, as
made the heed shrink back with horror. He
trusted suds evils would be averted from this coun-.
try, that they would never witness such an expe-
riment, They were to be averted by the co-ope-
ration of all ranks in opposing sedition and blas-
phemy, by the attention of the rich to the interests
of the lower,orders, by sober consideration of
the ponrer classes themselves. They should re-
flect, that the wealthy could not be despoiled of.
all they paSsessed without injury to the poor.—:
They must iri consequence be deprived of em-.
ployinant, of those munificent institutions for
every species ' of misery so liberally supported
by the rich. They ought to consider, that
even if the Spencean Plan were carried into
execution, how small the portiori. must be that
could fall to each individual. They should reflect
also, that if they -suffered, they did not suffer'
alone—they had no- monopoly of misfortunes. •
The nations of the Continent were, in all respects;
equally as much-dittressed at present as tidal
and America, even with-her infant ,liberty, so
muChlitoisted,of, and so greatly envied-by some,
was at present suffering under much greater pd.-.
vat ions aild,difficulties than this.. Her trade was-
at a stand—her merchants bankrupt—her com-
merce unproductive ;
.without specie, or even:a
paper currency of credit. Tbesse who visited. that
country filled with *ems happiness and
wealth, were powegfad to return, home in all the
bitterness of dieappointmerstea This count's, was
now. in a state that required. the vigilance of all
interested, in its welfare. Persons were active and
zealous in their endeavoura to persuade the people
in follow the meteco ic light of a fallacious Ono
Saaphy in place of the Polar Star of reason. He
hoped that lay their Resolutiotea, tkets,day,they
tvotilil.,enee their attachment to the religion; the
laws, and the' Constitution .of time -country, that
they Would chew those who boasted, of their
strength that they too were not weak,, that they
Were determined to support that Constitution un-i
der which • they enjoyed , the greatest happiness,
here, and that religion which afforded the highest
comfort in thii world and the best hope in the
future—(Applense)—that religion embraced and
supported by the iliaest and the best men who

i ,

adorned Kaman nature. .and that Con3ttiutio
founded in wisdom, and improved by the exr
rience of ages.7--(Great applause.)
Mr. Moms had great 'pleasure in 511311011
the Address. He pointed out the advantage' °(I
loyalty and attachment to. the Constitution, 51/dc
,showed that more ample provision had been-M6
for the relief of the poor in this Country, o°-
were known to exist in any other.
The Rev. N. Thomas highly approved of the
Address, but wished abeclarazion to be.al*o
ed, expressing their loyalty, setting forth the,sta l
abhorrence with which flies viewed the abuses °
the right of petitioning, and of the freedom of-Ilie
press, which bad lately been witnessed in the
mutinous meetings that had taken place, and al
the extensive circulation of blasphemous public°

tions.
The Rev.. J. Kirg,Torr heartily approved of t",
Address, exnityd in the good feeling manifesto,
Oxftsrd, where royalty was the predominating
feature,\ and hoped those who attended to cool
the proceedings to the Public would not constc",
a solitary despicable hiss into a difference of oi'v
Dion, and let it go forth to the world that did
were a divided County.
The Address was then agreed to,.nnethaisd 0011
being held up against it, amidst the shouts 1,0
laughter of the Assembly. it was orderMO°
signed by the High Sheriff, and to lie for the lig'
natures of the Freeholders.:
The Rev. V. THOMAS rose to move theAddre'
whic be' had before expressed a wish to gel
adopted.
Mr. G. F. STRATTON declared, that if twat!
loyal declarations were produced he woold
them till. The only right way was to ~t,,na bE
•the King and Constitution. He soitvetl that tG
liberty now enjoyed far exceeded that t/,`-c
known in " the good old times," as tie:: ill:
called. • He' held traitors in sovereign conteielir;
but was determined to oppose to all their scheol'
the most determined resistance;
Mr. LOCKHAnT, apprehensive' that the deci
ration might possibly endanger the uffanimitY
the Meeting, put it to the Rev. Gentleman
titer it might.not be better to withdraw it.
The Rev. V. THOMAS expressed himself comet
to give up the declaration, rather than risk d,!6:
A,l -forging the unanimity which so- happily prev
The Declaration was accordingly not [gesso:if
Thanks were then voted to the High Sher:4
and to he Lord Lieutenant of the County, ',!,f
it was announced that that Address wouid
signatures at the Star Inn, and that copies of t 6
would be sent to all the market towns ill ll'
County for a like purpose.
thoi
The business of- this important day was
conducted with exemplary decorum, and closed "e
a glorious unanimity. And beholding-I whene%
we have looked around us at this boding Cri4/1
other districts festering in their own wounds, Ans
tent asunder by party :spirit and the rude silo",
„
of conflicting opinion, we cannot' hoe cottgrs"if
late, with a ,strong and most earnest feeliog
respect, the Freeholders of the County of 'oo°l
upon the better path 'which they have ch05e1),.:
upon having resolved, teat is, with one bed',
and one accord, to offer up the homage °,e;
their gratitude and unabated allegiance to 11,1
Prince Regent, for 'the manifold bfessings and pr.
vileges which they •themselves are now enjoYil44;
and the inheritance of which will be ratified .:4
their children's children, under the tein"-"
away and accredited Authorities of this re..3rw
Holding, too, in vivid remembrance that Cl 11;
son tide of horrors which flowed from iv,j;
death-storm of the French Revolution, they 11'10
wisely determined, so far as in them Ho' or
chase back into the obscure awl loathsome ti"'rl,
from whence they originally crawled, that Pc3'fl.
lent brood of Anarchists and Blasphemers
has lately been littered, with such prolific inlet's;
over the whole country. From these 14sticor
agitators deep notes of preparation hare eire6te
been sounded forth ; and to every dis,,as.""lL„
mind it must be quite clear, we should think,lll%-
with callous hearts and darkened understandingr;
they are deliriously eager to shiver into tragnle,%,
the beautiful compactoess of the British CousWof
tion—to trample in the dust the distinctions9rx
rank and the sacred rights of property—.to to
their 'Way by uprooting-and desolation, 3"4
build the monument of their own plituderl,
pasiions, their blood-thirstinesq,.and selfish I"3ii-
ira
pity over the meditated ruins of the Altar AO.
Throne !

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SEDUCTION.—In the Supreme Court of jive
culla, a verdict of 25,000 rupees has_ been obi3o
ed against a person of the name of:Croff,„
har! seduced the daughter of a Mr:Combo37)
cf 0
The injured young Lady, in the canto-1)&a0s
of the horrid depravity of which bee,
the victim, had previously put an end to her c

isterice. •le
A melancholy accident happened in .the
bourhood of 4andalstown on 'Tuesday last'
eye
widow woman, named
,Alurray,•.,eeho lives ,".,-„g
6.aigmore, went out to dig a few:potatoes, i'!"'ncl
with her one of her children to g.a'tlret thei"' I'oo
leaving a younger, with a child about six rii°" 0.•
old, in the house, and the door pen-i'‘iberl'iov
fortunately, a pig entered the 'cotfage, an'A'bor
tack the children—the elder child ran i'ut' 1,?1,
the younger one .was torn by the aninlal the
shocking manner. One of the. ears and "11,0
cheek 'was torn away, and the rest 'of 'bed. 0 /
dreadfully mangled. The child.hkis since die ig
It is hoped the above recital may, prove a wiLrild
to others not to leave their children esPse
similar situationC—(lrish Paper.)

BIRTH.
On Tuesday, in Baker-street, the Lady of Rear',
Test, of a daughter.

MARRIED. Lielite.'
' On the 11th inst., at St. Margarers,•Westminster, -loges;
nant and Adjutant Fugion, gist Regiment, to Jane' Vtlode
daughter of the.late Matthew Harpley, Esq .91. Fore
Westham, Essex.

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