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The Meeting of the Freehohlers of this County,
held on 'rtiestlaj, for the• Election of a Repre-
sentative in Parliament, was very respectably at-
tended. Mr. C. GRANT, sen. the late Member,
Laving been unanimously called to the.chair, and
\lr. Kinkel) chosen Clerk, the oaths were ad-
ministered in the usual form. The claims of en-:
rolment ofG, Ju;;lis, Esq. of Kingsnsills ; Capt.
Thomas Fraser, of Balnain ; Duncan Cameron,
Esq. younger, of Fattsifern; Atileck Fraser, Esq.
of Cuidutltel ; and Robert Fraser, Esq. of Struy,
were unanimously sustained.
"'Mr.. GRANT, sea. spoke to the following
effect
" Before proceeding to the more immediate
business of the day, I wish to be permitted to
avail myself of this opportunity, perhaps the last
shall enjoy, of submitting to my respected COn-
stituents some account of the manner in which I
have exercised the-trust with which they
.last in-
vested me, and whirls is now brought to a close.
Although, Gentlemen, I have on- a former .occa-
Sion stated to you the principles which regulated
my public conduct, and the general course of that
conduct since cannot be unknown to yon, yet I
hold it to be a wholesome practice, that those
who are entrusted with the hononrable office of
representing the people in Parliament, • sh-oulde
front time to time, distinctly explain to,theirtn-
stit news the part they hare 41.4041-4-44iitt—charac-
trr. To you, Gentlemen, this may he more par-
ticularly due. Though remote from the seat of Go-
vernment, you are not less enlightened, as to the
public interests, than those•who are nearest to it

and I am sure you come behind no portion of the
empire in • zeal for the national cause. Ido not
certainly mean to enter into any. large detail, but
briefly to advert to some of the most important
i1)Oe;tioos .which came under the consideration of
th.e.last. Parliament, and.in doing tlris, I shall not
borrow the sentiments of other members, many
of whom may, suitably 1,0 the views they adopt-
ed, and the'stations they occopied, have rendered
an account to their Constituents ; butt merely state
those sentiments by which I was myself govern-
ed. Neither, in doing this; tio I mean to convey
any reproach or censure on those Representatives
who followed, a course different from that width
I preferred. It is in the nature of popular assem-
blies, where freedom of discussion is permitted,
to produce different opinion's trpim the same sub-
;- this also is obviously beneficial, -as- brine,
the way to Oicit,truth upon all questions; and as
long as opposition in Parliament is regulated by
an honest and vigilant exercise' of judkment, re-
spectiog the conduct of Admmistration, it must
prove salutary, .

Gent!emen, it is now near siX years since I
last Stood befoie you in this place, on au occa-
sion - like the present. The -nation was then in-
solved, a,,tl had long been, io a war the most
formidable ,for extent—for duration—for the
power we had to combat—and thy interests we
had at stake, of any we had ever been called. to
sustain. It was, I believe, in the general °pi.
a war for our national independence and
exioence—such 1 own was toy opinion. There
%veil., however, men, both in and out of Parlia"
went, who thought, that peace was at that time
our true policy, and that it ought to he sought
on the best terms on which it could be Obtained.
As this was a question 'of the last importance;
more particularly to those. who would have to de-
cide upon it, I think it fair to confess here, that
my humble judgnieut was for the continuance of
the war ; not because I did not ardently wish for
peace, but because I was convinced, drat iothe-
circumstances of chat time, real peace was unat-
tainable—that the ruthless and gigantic foe we
had to combat, above all things, sought our ruin—
that he• would have steadily pursued it afters pa-
cification-7-and that, therefore, our only hope of
safety, under Divine Providence, lay in determined
resistance...

" Or All- the glorious effects which followed' to
onr own nation and to the world, from our in-
flexible perseverance in a just and noble cause,
need not speak ;"but it is impossible to think of
the animating subject without glancing at the
distiognished achievements or the natives of this
our Highland country,.who were the. fist in every
field, and have raised to the highest summit our
national fame and glory.
" Peace at. length was, by a concrirrence
events, eminently providential, conquered -; but.
the happiness expected from peace did not
There was, on the contrary, a.stagnation of trade
and of manufactures, a decay of -credit, and very
~eneral distress: and to these calamities succeed-
ed two bad harvests, which exceedingly aggra-
vated the national sintering, and the general dis-
content which is almost inseparable trout national
suffering, when ii becomes great.
•' Many discussions then took place about the
means of alleviating the evils which were felt,--
various schemes, were suggested, and they called,
for the attention of public men, even when not
taking the shape of questions in Parliament. But
with regard to the remarkable. diminution in the

counnerce and manufactures of the country, it vas
found to arise from causes not removeable by any
temporary expedients—causes, ihdeed, which bad
been on the cessation of former warsexperienced,
but remembered only by the tuore.mat ore and,saga-
citrus turn, who were aware that when all the ex-
pendi:ure incident to a war of immens`.e" scale
ceased, a mullitude.ot the. spriii'gs of manufac-
tures,,ot trade, and of employment, must • also
cease, and be followed by corresponding priva-
tirms, tvhiCh could only. be alleviated,. and might
be expected to•be..removed, by time, •
" Wilb regard to the,unfl.vourahle harvest, the
only practie4l measure, Which, after ,various dis-
cussions in Piarliadleilri-iiis 'brought into effect,

" Another question which arose after the peace
question, momentous, difficult, and involving
many points—was the reduction of the public ex-
penditure. It was no Wonder that, after the na-
tion had so long sustained the excessive burthens
of an unexampled %vat., there should be an eager
desire and expectation of immediate and large re-
lief. Nor' was it any wonder that there should
be' extremes of opinion upon this complicated
subject. Those Gentlemen who, in r•hd out of
Parliament, looked to a return to the Peace Esta-
blishment of 1792, or any thing very near to it,
certainly gave not a doe consideration to the

mense difference of circumstances in the two pe-
riods—the vastly extended scale of our establish-
ments, and the inipracticability of contracting
' them to their foriner dimensions, without the
surrender of the suPeriMity, and *consequently of
. the safety, we had acquired. The 'country, in ge-
neral, was perhaps
,not sufficiently attentive to
this argument, hut inconsiderately 'impatient fur
a state of ease. On the other hand, the Admini-
stration may have estimated too largely the exi-
gencies of the'titne, and the difficulty of deep re-
trenchments in Many branches of the civil and
mititimy service—,retretiChtnents which must have
the effect of depriving of 'employment numerous
individuals who'had served 'the public during the
war.. The call, however, fOr such retrenchments,
was imperious; and I Was glad to see it so fat
obeyed; though thinking that in sonic instances
it had been urged rather on party than on public
principles.

" 13ut with respect to one obnoxious topic which
occupied no little attention at that period; though
it never came to a vote in Parliament,. I will nut
here shrink from avowing my opinion.- I allude
to the Property Tax. I thought that if it had
been continued for two' years longer, the'conti-
nuance would have been for. the ultimate advan-
tage of the public; but that this should not be
attempted contrary to the sense of the country,
end, therefore, any opportimity I had ofspeahiog
my sentiments upon the measure was used against
an unpopular enforcement of it.
" I recollect but one topic more upon which
deem it necessary particularly to explain myself,
1511(1 that is the Suspension of the Habeas Corpus
Act in the precqing, and again in the last, Ses-‘
sion'. I voted for that measure both times, froth
a full conviction that there were treasonable de-

signs and praetices on foot among certain descrip-
tions of perions iu the country, which the vidi-
nary arrn of the law could not reach and punish.
1-low far such a spirit may h;tve been fomented, 6y
carrying the principles of opposition beyond
" eir just bounds, I will not pretend to derer-
bat there has been something of this ex-
cess within Parliament, and more of it without,
will perhaps not 'he denied. But uudouhtedly the
disaffection which ha's manifested itself in the
last few years must be chiefly ascr:bed to other
sources, to the nefarious writings which have
been so indutrioualy and daringly circulated
among the lower ordth ; and to the wild, per-
nicious theories which have been broached both
in philosophy and politics,—theories as extra-

Mitie.

vagrant arirl fanatickds'as. any ever introduced into
relrrtiory and which., tinder the specious pretence
of Reform, would effect not a change in the ad-
ministration of the Government, but the subver-
sion of the Constitution,—the abolition of dis-
tinctions in society,—and thee-destruction of all

property. I an persuaded that to County,
so clear in its loyalty to the King and Constitu-
tion, 1 need not enlarge on this topic. I cannot
question that, in speaking my own seutiments
upon it, I have also spoken theirs; nor have I
ever had reason to doubt, that the general line of
my conduct in Parliapent has not 'been inhar-

moray with their public principles,. A bnost the
'whole of the tune I have acted as your Represen-
tative, has heen a period:of arduous and extended
war, 'in which his Majesty's Government, to be
strong abroad, required to be strong at home.-
1 have thought it best for the national interest
that, in such cirennistances espeCially, Government
shoold be supported where its measures did not

appear improper ; but only so far ; and my sup-
port has been a discriminating, not a blind sup-
port ; 1 regulated it in its degree, as well us in its
character: 1 shOuld Have thought it a most un-
worthy use of the high trust you reposed in me,
it 1 had sought to convert it (supposing that to
have been practicable) into an instillment of pri-
vate emoltiment. h can repeat now; at the close
of my Parliamentary service, what I, mentiuned

litre once before. that I have t e r 'ltl.-
minisi.kition any thing, ebbe! for myself or any
one of my family, The situati..n in which my son
was placed itt the Troasnry, to as the spontaneous
cffer of his Majesty's Ministers, wholiy unsolicit-
ed 0.; either my pit or his.
" Before I close," I wish to say a few words on
the internal impiovements which have been eir-
rving on in this county. Lasting. monumvo,, as
they will remnin, of the munificence ot Parlia-
ment towards the 11 ig hlaods. and of your
publiespirit ; I have yet tee.) sensible that your
contributions to them pressed heavily on the
Landed Interest, and have regretted this circuit .
stance ; but I believe you have judged wisely in
submitting to the inconvenience_ of them, and
that though the present generation must, in cor.
set-pence, be subjected to privations, all future
time will reap the benefit of them. Of the libe- -
flinty of that Administration which planned
them ; of the patriotic labours of those English
Members, in particular, of tie Commissions for •
the Roads and the Caledonian Canal, who have.,
for a series bf years, lent their eminent
their time and labours, to the prosecution of
these works ; and of the humble assiduby which
it was. my duty, in an especial manner, to devote
to them, I treed not now speak.
" One important concern of a similar nature,
which has lately peen brought into view, deserves
to be noticed" on the present occasion. You will
have observed that Parliament it,is recently passed
a law- for the increase of Churches for the ESlitm
bliShed Religion in England ;• and you may have
seen that a sneasure of the same nature was
brought 'forward in behalf of Scotland, but-post-
poned, in the House of Lords ; a delay which I
extremely regret, though, I trust, it is only until
the ensuing Session ; because I should have Wels
glad to have witnessed the-'completion of that
measure its closing my Parliamentary service.
The principle of the law for •Eitgland, where the
population now greatly exceeds the means of pub.
lie worship is,-thitt the towns or parishes shall
contribute together with the State, to the ex-
pence of New Churches, and shall provide for the
stipends of the Ministers, and the same principle
was, in the other Bill, proposed to be applied
the Southern and Lowland parts of Scotland, and '
upon the saute general grounds. But that prin..
ciple could not apply to- the Highlands ; for there
the evil of a defect of 'places of worship; though
it indeed exists to a formidable extent, arises not

from increased population, but' from thesdisper-
sion of a thin population over very large parishes,
,ome 30, 40, 50, and 60-miles lone; in eat:h of
which there is only one Church, to :which 'it is
impossible fora great part of the parishioners,
(loin their distance-i- to have- access; Awl this
very. serious pr.rvation'of the means of 'religious
instruction and worship' is but very init,erfectly
supplied by the occasional services.ot
tniysioua-
ries. It was, iltrWeve'r, •evitteiit-10 • ;Opal- the
comparatively unproductive Estate 3 'the
lauds could not afford the -private 'cfmtritinliott
which is expected in tlid'pOplliiiii3-toWris'iif Bug.
land and Scotland ; 'and tharif (iovVfiittiegit ttiVant

to follow up, with respect to the its
wise and liberal intention of encreasing
•ber of Churches-, it must tut niih neirdy tWeviitiole
of the: means, particularly die stipends" for. Alm
additional 'Alinisters. 1, therefore,-thOught
cumbent upon me strongly to represent tlriS'ease
no the rerstmis 'chiefly engaged -hi bringing-Ur-
Ivard the Bill, as probably others, -informed of
the state of the Highlands, -- alsoTdirt';' and I'had
the pleasure to see such a principle recognized iu
the Bill. I cannot but most earnestly wish; that
a intqtsure which I think calculated so much to

improve the religions interests, and, therefo-re, ell
the wher interests of tlieltiklilantls, may soon
haire its perfect accomplishment.

• " Affil now, alroVi, me to con-
chide, with otlering to you again,"for all the ho-
nour—all the rower-=all the support,. public and
personal—which you have been plea4,l to bestow
upon me, my units( cordial thanks; and as you
have accepted my tweak services, so also accept
my fervent wishes for your ptospetiiy, and that
the County bt Inverness, to which I shall ever
continuo to be most truly attached."

J. N. MAoLeon, of Macleod, E.g. passed
the highest encoMinm on the public and private
character; Of Mr. Grant, and proposed that
he should be• requested to sit for his picture,
that it might be hung up in the Court Rouni,• as
a lasting mark of their regard to him. This pro-
posal Was received with acclamation. The Hou.
Gentleman then stated that he did not intend to
deny that the report which had ..been circulated
of his intention to appear as a Candidate .on this
occasion, -was, to a certain extent, well founded.
He had early imbibed an ambition to aspire tO a
station which his •immediate ancestors had oct:it-
pied for two generations ; the progressive strength
of this ambition had kept pace with his ripening
years. But although, on some future occasion,
he might soliCit their support, -he-at preient gave
way, with cheerfulness, to superior abilities, and
expressed the most unqualified eulogium on Mr.
Charles Grant, junt This address was 'latch ap-
plauded.

Colonel MACDONELL; of Glengarry, in an 'ad-
dress, highly anti justly complimentary to Ir. C.
Grant, jun. proposed that lie should be returned
as their Representative.

BAILLIE, of Duchfour, rose to second the
motion of M?cliod, adding to it that the Meeting
should give a written testimonial of .their satis-
faction, in every respect; with the conduct of Mr.
Grant as their Representative,.in several succes-
sive Parliaments ; and that a Committee shOtild
he immediately appointed to (Law tip such a pa. '
per, to be signed by the Meeting. With this pro.
pout the Meeting immediately complied.
GLENGARRY'S 1110(iUll- was seconded by Colonel.

Aracieod, of rtassay, and was carried nnani-
tnotssly.
Mr. CummEs GRANT then addressed the Meet-
ing in the I..Jiowing terms :
" GPNTLPMEN,—You have been pleased to
accept the offer which I made to you of my ser-
vices as Representative of this County in Parlia-
ment. When I presumed to make that offer, I
did so with doubt and apprehension--I was frar-,
fill lest it ought seem to savour of presumption.
l'rom sue!) apprehensions your kindness has this
sky relier.(A-ms-. I thank yon, Gentlemen, with
the,warinest feelings of gratitude and respect, for.
the honour you have just conferred upon tne--4
thank y*On for the manner is which you have con-
ferred it, and by which, highly as I esteem the
honour, it is in lily view enhanced and dignified.
To you, Getitletnen, who have given me the
favour of your presence this day, and in some in-
stances from very distant places, with consider-
able trouble and fatigue, I am bound to present
my ack 1101 V ledgmenrs. To those Gentlemen who
have made and seconded the nomination, 1 must
vxp,ess my sense of their goodness ; and espe-
cially to my honourable friend Glengarry, for the
very handsome teems in which he has expressed
himself. I feel myself particularly obliged to
allude to one lion. Gent. (Macleod) whom I now
have in my eye. From that Gentleman, ever
since I have had occasion to have any communi-
cation with him, I have experienced only
courteousness and liberality of conduct—and this
day he has given proofs of the same honourable
and generous spirit. lam aware of his just pre
tensions, with reference both to antiquity of
fatnfly, to extensive influence, and to personal
character and qualifications, to the attention of
the county. I admire the frankness and feeling
with which be has delivered his sentiments ; and
I only wish that the county may not see reason to
repent his having relinquished, for the present at
least, the desire, so natural and so honourable to
himself, to serve you in Parliament.
" But, Gentlemen,w bile 1 thank those whom I

have the happiness to see around me, it would be
unjust if I were to confine my acknowledg-
ments to those who are present. Many of those
who are alisent are equally entitled to my thanks.
From many of them I have received assurances
that I possess their cordial good will, and that
pressing circumstances alone could have detained
them from participating in the proceedings of
this d ty.
" them, therefore, Gentlemen, and to you. I
tender my hest thanks,—,l thank you for the marks
of your personal regard,-1 thank you for the
testimonies of public confidence.
" 1 deed, Gentlemen, I have reason to thank
you ; when I reflect on the circumstances tinder
which I now appear before you, and remember to
Avhom I (rive the power of so appearing ; when I
Consider the extent and magnitude of the inte-
rests oow entrusted to my charge ; when I recol-
lect how large and valuable a portion of the Bri-
tish Ein!,ire is formed by Scotland, and of that
portion how importanla part by the County of
Inverness ; when I
remember the character of the
people whom I am called to represent—a people
eminently gifted with those qualities which are
usually and justly attributed to our countrymen,
morality, virtue, inflexible faith, and invincible
valour ; when I recollect the names of those by
whom I am surrounded—names connected with
the ancient glories of Scotland—names which
have been transmitted from age to age through
Successive generations,, and which have lost none
of their brightness in their last and more recent
transmission ; when I remember that to this
country I have been taught, front my first child-
hood, to look with fondness and filial affection—
that with its scenery, the habits and manners of
its inhabitants, with its history, have been en•
twined the earliest associations of my youth, and
the more sober and mature thoughts of ripening
ages when I call to mind that this honour is con-
ferred upon me, while those are yet able to value
it, for whose sake every honour is to me doubly
precious—when I reflect on these things, I can-
not restrain the swellings, I will not say of self-
sufficiency or vanity, but of ardent gratitude and
personal attachment towards those who have hid
me under such deep obligations. I should indeed
be in danger of being carried away by feelings of
immingled exultation, if I could forget, on the
one hand, that I owe this obligation more—infi-
nitely more, to your kindness than to my own
desert ; or it I could forget, on the other hand,
what are the duties and responsibilities annexed
to this office—responsibilities which, highly as I
estimate the honour of this situation, do yet sur-
mount and overtop even the eminence of that
distinction.

" I cannot forget, Gentlemen--I du not wish
to forget, that it is mainly to your kindness ►hat
1 owe this honour ; that it is to your just sense
of the services of one to whom you have this day
paid the tribute of your approbation ; that it is
to your confident hope, that as I ought to be the
last person io de‘iate from his example and
abandon hii principles, so in this instance my in-
clination will second my duty. These cousidera•
Lions, though they tend to depress any vanity on

my part, yet throw a more interesting character
. on 'he connexion that has been formed between
us--a connexion built on public principles, and
held together by the most powerful and venerable
ties in private life. Neither do I wish, Gentle-
men, to forget the duties which are involved in
this office. 1 know there are duties of personal
friendship, the most gratifying, though not the
least difficult to execute. 1 know there are duties
of local obligation, duties arising from the pecu-
liar situation of this part of the. Empire—duties
at all times important—at this time of special
importance. This may be truly described as a
crisis in the fate of this country, in which a
transition is now taking place from one state of
society to another—a crisis, therefore, requiring,
on the part of all who are interested in its wel-
fare, wisdom, promptitude, and humanity, to
avert what may be contingent, to mitigate what is
inevitable. in the difficulties resulting from the
necessary progress of civilized life. I know,
further, that there are ditties of public obligation—
duties to the Empire at large—these too aredu-
ties at all times—at this time of paramount im-
pio•tance in the affairs of the Empire : alco this is
a peculiar crisis, ex!tcting on the part of the le-
g.slature the strenuous application of sound

sense, political wisdom, 'anti genuine; patriotism,
to reconcile what may be termed the discordancies
of our situation ; to nourish the resources, and
to reduce; 'lit every possible degree, the burtheus
of the people ; and, at the same time, to pre-
serve the lofty and splendid position which we
hare•acgttired, and which no man will be disposed
to undervalue, who remembers bow deeply and
cs4entially, in a great and tree country, the hap-
piness and, comforts of every individual are in-
rolved in the national greatness, power, and in-
dependence,

"." I have alluded to the subject of general po-
licy. I. will not now enter into it. It would in-
deed be delightful to me, if I could persuade my-
self) that on every, the most minute question or
political conduct, the opinions of every individual
in this country -coincided with mine. But I
knoW, that in a free state, as has
,been justly re-
marked to-day, it would be idle to expect such
un it to y, nor, in a
public view, would it be de-
sirable. I know that this diversity of opinion is
not only the result of a free Constitution, but a
proof and pledge of the soundness and healthiness
of the political system. But, whatever may be
our difference of opinion on topics,which, though
of extreme importance, are yet comparatively not
of the first importance, 1 know that as to great
and radical pi inciples we are agreed. With re-
spect to any particular line Of policy, we may
differ ; with respect to the measures which ought
to be pursued at any giv,n period, we may differ;
with respect to the mode of administering the
Constitution, we may differ ; but here our dit-
ferences cease ; with respect to the Constitution
itselt, under which our fathers have reposed in
safety, and under which we ourselves have
achieved such greatness ; with respect to the
necessity, the indispensable duty, of maintain-
ing that Constitution in all its parts, anti of trans-

milting it uniint.aired to our posterity, we are one
and indivisible. Against those pernicious maxims
of modern times, which, tinder the pretext of cor-
recting, would subvert the Constitution ; against
that system, if any thing so vague in its notions,
an:l so irregular in its movements, can be called a
system ; against that system, as false in policy as it
is spurious in philoophy, as absurd in theory as
it is tool and bloody in practice ; against that
system, which has tor its object spoliation, and for
►ts means impiety and anarchy—which would
teach us that Government as such is oppression—
that social order and tyranny are synonimous
terms—that the law of property is the law of rob-
bery—That there is nothing sacred in morals,
nothing venerable and adorable in religon ;
against this system, I am persuaded that we are
prepared, heart and hand, to contend, even to
the last gasp We love the Constitution ; we
know what it has done for us• For to what cause
under Providence can we ascribe the power and
prosperity of this country To what cause is it
owing, that Great Britain has attained such pre-
eminence among all nations 2 That she is so
dreaded, admired, respected, and beloved ; dread-
ed, as supreme in arms ; admired, as supreme in
arts ; respected, as supreme in virtue; beloved,
as supreme in charity ? to her national spirit to
her wealth, her industry, her commercial and
agrieultural skill Undoubtedly to. all those ;
hut above all these, and above them, not as ex-
eluding, but as embracing and comprehending
them all to the British Constitution—that Consti-

tution which is equal to the rich and the poor,
which guards inviolate alike the cottages of our
peasantry, the palaces of our nobles, the throne
of our king, and the altar of our God, that Con-

stitution of which it is the happy peeuliarity that
it has grown with the growth of this nation, and
has adjusted itself to all the movements and,pro-
gress of a great people, developing its capacities
with their enlarging powers and unfolding re-

sources—that Constitution, its'a word, was the

cradle that sheltered our infancy, is now the inag.
nificent temple in which our manhood is conse

crated to virtue and renown.

" Gentlemen, I have detained you, perhaps,
too long, yet I cannot sit down without once more
expressing the feelings evith which I MU impress-
ed. You have public claims upon me. h shall
be my endeavour at least that they are satisfied.
But I beg to say in return, that I also have claims
upon you. You have plAced me in honour ; you
have imposed upon me a sacred trust ; in the dis-
charge ot that trust, so lung as my motives and
intentions are unimpeaehed, I claim your support
and protection ; for whatever may be erroneous
in my public conduct, I claim your forgiveness
and indulgence; for whatever may he doubtful, I
claim your candid and generous interpretation ;
for whatever may be last table, I claim your ap-
probation ; whatever may be my failings, believe
me that towards you at least, they shall be fail-
ings not of the heart but ot the head. It shall he
my strenuous aim, that when I am called to sur-
render the trust now committed to we, 1 may be
able to ask you, Nvit bout a blush, it your confi-
dence has been misplaced. I am proud of my
Constitnents. It shall be the ambition of my life
that you shall have no reason to be ashamed of
your Representative."
(Mr. GRANT sat down amidst thunders of applause.]
A motion that time Alerting should adjourn the
consideration of other business was unanimously
approved of.

When the audience was beginning to disperse,
at the suggestion of Glengarry, they greeted the
new Member with three hearty cheers, the spi-
rited Chieftain taking the lead.
A splendid entertainment was afterwards given

in the Northern Meeting Rooms, by Mr. Grant,
to the Freeholders,&c. The company were nu-
merous, and the evening passed in the utmost
harmony and conviviality. Many toasts were
given, of dearest interest to us us Highlanders, and
participators in the blessings of the British Con-
stitution, which drew forth numerous speeches of
vivid and spontaneous eloquence. In the coarse
of the evening, Mr. Grant's health was drank,
as Secretary for Ireland, amidst the most tumul-
tuous and enthusiastic applause. We were de-
lighted with the enlightened vietvu which he dia•
covered to us in a short but feeling speech, when
adverting to his appointment in that unhappy
country. We know he has the will, and We gust
he will have the pov-er, to do much for its
'me-
lioration. The eyes of his countrymen will be upon
him, the breast of a True Highlawder must ever he
solicitous for the welfare of " Eirinicb !bod)."

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THE SUN.

SOLEM QUIS DILEHE FALSUM AIWEAT ?

LONDON,
FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1818.

We received this morning the Paris Papers of
Tuesday last. They contain nothing further re-'
specting the Conspiracy. The following are
extracts:—