The Sun.
London, England, 1820-12-27 00:00:00

iIEETING AT EDINBURGH.

[FARTHER PARTICULARS.]
Ott Friday a Meeting of the Freeholders, &c.
Of the County of Edinburgh, was held within the
County Hall, h consequence of a requisition sub-
scribed by a number of the Freeholders, to take
ift to consideration the propriety of voting a Loyal
Address to his Majesty. The Marquis of Lo-
TRIAN- was called to the Chair, who said, he
trusted that they would be unanimous in voting
the Address. The names of the Freeholders
baying been called,
Sir Joif ilnrE rose to propose the Address,
and said, there never was a time when there was,
more necessity for coning forward to express
sentiments of loyalty and attachment to his Ma-
jesty's person and troverument than the present
but he would not ceetam the meeting by entering
into detail, and would therefore only move, that
the Address which he rose to propose might be
read and adopted.
" TO TIIE KING'S MO&T EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

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" MAY IT PLEAS?. YOUR MAJESTY,
" We, your Majesty's most loyal and dutiful subjects. the
.Nohletoen, Freeholders, Justices of the Peace, and Commis-
sioners of Supt.ly of the County of Edinburgh, in a General
Meeting assembled, limnbfy beg leave to approach your Ma-
jesty_with renewed assurances of our unshaken fidelity and at-
tachment to your Alaiesty's saceed person, and to that Con-
stitution which your Majesty has so steadily and'so gloriously.
tief.l.ded and maintained. •
" Unwilling, as we are, unnecessarily to obtrude upon your
Ilajestv the profession of our.loyalty, we feel, that on occa-
sions like the present, it becomes the impari,,us duty of every
friend to his cottony to stand forward without delay, and
avow his firm deteemination to support the principles of the
Elitist' Constitution, and to rally round the Throne, to pro-
tect the religion and laws of the Country from outrage and
insult.
" We have witnessed, with the utmost indignation, the
foul attempts that have been made, by means of a licentious
Press, to mislead the unwary, antj delude the ignorant, by
circulating the most. unfounded and mischievous calumnies
against all the constituted Authorities of the realin. Rely-
ing, however, with confidence, on the wisdom and energy of
those measures which your Majesty will adopt, and on the
unshatten loyalty and incorruptible fidelity of the great mass
of your Majesty's subjects, we confidently trust that those
misguided individuals, who have unhappily been induced to
countenance the designs of the worst enemies of their coun-
try, may, through the blessings of Divine Providence, he
speedily roused to a sense of their errors, and that they will
soon cordially none with us in repressing any attempts to dis-
turb the pence and tranquillity of the country, and of zeal-
onoy supporting that Constitution, to which, as it has been
handed down to us (ruin our ancestors, we are indebted for
those blessings which, as a nation, wst enjoy, and which it is
our Most anxious wish to transmit unimpaired to posterity.
Mr. J. VIALKEtt stated, that, in rising to se-
tond the motion which had just been made, he
must begin by acknowledging, that the favour of
his friends had imposed on him a task, which he
would never otherwise have thought of assuming.
No one could be more sensible than he was, that
there were many others now present far better
entitled than himself, from their rank, talents,
and influence, to bespeak the attention of the
meeting Little accustomed as he.had been to
deliyel, his sentiments on questions so remote as
the present, from the usual line of his profes-
sional pursuits, he would not have presumed flirts
early to address the meeting on any public
topic, which ,he conceived to be attended
with doubt or difficulty, or in the discussion
4.)f which, either profound knowledge, or ela-
borate argument, was required ; but, in his
humble apprehension, the slightest observation
Of what is daily passing around its, was petite
sHflicient to suggest the most conclusive rea-
sons for supporting this address. Few, he
presumed, of those who heard him, would
deny, that the most flagitious attempts bad
been made, and were still making, to excite dis-
affection among the people of this realm. Few
-would deny, that the constancy, the audacity,
and, he feared, the 'success of these attempts,
ere. calculated to ,create the most, serious alarm

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