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London, England, 1817-08-19 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL JOURNALS.

An Address was riot long since presented' to the
PRINCE REGENT, purporting to be an Address
from the Loyal inhabitants of Cornwall, but was
too strongly expressive of party spirit, and too
offensive in its general substance, to come from so
respectable a County, and therefore the truly
loyal people who belong to it, presented an Ad-
dress of a very different kind, and which fairly
vindicated the County from the disgrace of hav-
ing assented to the former. The following are
the sentiments of the Royal Cornwall Gazette of
the 16th inst. on the subject :

THE COUNTY. ADDRESS TO THE PRINCE REGENT.
" The year 1816 was a period distinguished by
events of no ordinary Occurrence, and will form
a remarkable epoch in the annals of England. The
country had recently terminated an awful and
long-protracted contest, in which her energies
bad been exercised in a mapper corresponding
with the magnitude of the interests which she had
at stake. She retired from the field,—.Victorious,
but bleeding ; covered with glory, but exhausted
by her efforts ; and requiring much time, skill,
tidd patience, to restore her to her pristine vigour;

"The othrr nations of Europe felt proportionate-
ly the shock of the revulsion from a state of wide
topread War to that of general ; and, in en-
deavouring to accommodate themselves to the or-
der of things, they unavoidably added o a cm.
harassments of Britaiu. Her manilla:tures, with

'tvltich she had so long supplied the Old anti
the new, were no longer in request 'ciinthierce
lingered around her shores, vainly eX4recfing its
. accustomed impetus ; the spirit of adveriorte stood
tot pals all busines Irtrignished ; and a w.r.ferai
feeling of sadness and dismay peiiyaded eveq
cdmitenance.
To add to the national distress.s it pleas-ed
Heaven to blight the fruits of the earth by tinge-
, nial weather.' Tort eats of rain, during' the mouths
usually devoted to harvest labour awl festity, beat
tlown the grain to the ground, or rendered it unlit
fur the use of man. Thus; almost the last re-
source of hope was taken away, and the misery
of the country was fearfully augmented.
At this particular season, when the minds of
SO many thousands were exasperated by the want
of einployment :int! by the privations under which
their faMilies lahoured,—tlie millions of Sedition
burst forth from the gloom in which, during the
days of the national prosperity, they had been
compelled to abide; and from Spa-fields to the
remotest corners of the Kingdom, their voice was
heard, uttering the deceptive cry for reform.
" Of the kind of reform which toady of those
characters contemplated, a indgment may easily
be made by referring to the proceedings of the
2d of December, when the streets of the Metro-
polis were crowded by a lawless armed mob, hear-
ing the banners of revolution, and engaged in
plunder and bloodshed ; or by those of the 28th
of January, in the present year, when the life of
the Illustrious Person exercising the functions of
Royalty was endangered by a frantic mob, whilst
be was returning from theAlischarge of one of the
most important duties of his high ofice
" This traitorous attempt naturally led to an
investigation of the nattue and extent of the lbs.
a&ction, which, it was lamentably too evident,'
had taken root in the country. Committees •of
Parliament were appointed, consisting of some
of the most upright Members of With patties in
that body, who found that treasonable designs
and practices were in being, to Meet which, it
was necessat y for a time to suspend the Habeas
Corpus Act. To the propriety of this 'suggestion
the wisdom of Parliament assented ; and, pro-
bably, by this means the country has been pre-
served from the horrors of extended insurrection
and rebellion.

" But ►wile Parliament was thus securing the
safety of the people, the latter were not unmind-
ful at what they owed to the Parliament, the Go-
vernment, and the Constitution. The loyalty and
integrity of the nation was roused ; and Addresses
to the Prince Regent, from 1410 St of the prin-
cipal counties, cities, and towns in the kingdom,
gave his Royal Highness the hest assurance of the
general so:indnesti at political feeling, and thus
tended materially to repress and extinguish the
fiames,of disaffection.

" It might have been thought that, after the
explosion of the Spa-fields and Palace-yard poli-
tics,—,--after the experience Which bad been thus
afforded, of the: danger of hearing the minds of
an uninformed poptil,ive by misrepresentation and
exaggeration,—ready good and nise men would
for a while have stifled (belt' comphints, bow well
soever they might suppose them to be ionnded,
until a state of national calmness should have
pointed out the proper time for their di,cussion.—
Common sense would have dictated such a course
of pioceeding, but our reformers of Cornwall
WPre ahore. lei„/ hv Rile!, a musty
guide. The prevalence of congiaiulatory invet-
logs afforded our western Illismiuuti, a plea for
again assembling and displayi.g the oratorical
abilities of the leaders to the charmed ears of
those competent judges of the science of govern-
ment behind the bar

" In the notable Address to the Prince Regent,
prepared by this enlightened and tetuperate,body,
his Royal Highness was told, amongst other
things, that the Ministers are " all interested in
stifling the complaints of the people," and that
they (the Addressers, or re-dressers) "cannot but
believe " that the area•ures l3tely adopted by
Government to suppress -disaffection, " so far
front being designed to strengthen the existing
laws, and preserve the constitution, are part of
a systematic conspiracy to overthrow them, and
to establish, in their stead and on their rains,
a despotic and military tiovernment." In con-
clusion they "conjured his Royal Highness to
believe" that "it the baffled hopes, rejected
prayers, and unredressed grievances of the people
had at lengths driven them to listen to the counsels
of violence and desperation, to aggravate the
causes of their discontents would not be found
the most effectual mettod to remove them."--In

a former Address, his Royal Highness was told
by the same party, in ekfect, that they were dis-
satisfied because economy, retrenchment, and a
Reform in the Representation of the Commons
had not taken place ; and they " most eat nestly
conjured his Royal Highness to believe that the

feelings of the people were no longer to be trifled
with, without the risk of a crisis which they for-
bore to name, and would not willingly content-
)late."

" Expressions so vinient,—intiendos so palpa.
ble,—and tnibconeeptions so glaring and dange-
rous, presented to the Prince Regent as the

sentiments of " tl►e Gentry, Clergy, 'Freeholders;
and other Inhabitants of Corn could not
fail to make a deep impression on the moderate
and reflecting part of the natives and residents of
this county, all of whom were stigmatized as
concurring in the productions of the Reformers,
by the sweeping designation which they thought
fit to adopt. h was, then, the duty of those who

felt aggrieved by such an imputation, to vindicate

themselves from so foul a suspicion, and to come
forward in.the presence of their Prince and coun-

try, to defend their characters and their opinions.
This they have done, fully and effectually, in that
honourable document which will hereafter serve

as a complete refutation of the assumptions of the

party, and as a correct standard of the feelings of
Cornishmen in seasons of doubt, difficulty, and
danger. Envy may cavil, sla►ider assail, jealousy
distort, and falsehood misrepresent, the,motives

by which those who signed. the real County Ad-
dress were actuated ; but till they can obliterate
the names of nearly thirteen hundred truly re-
spectable inhabitants of this County from the lists
appended to Cleat important article, their vain
attacks will recoil on themselves with a load of

ignominy proportionate to their offence.",

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