Star.
London, England, 1812-06-19 00:00:00

United Kingdom of Great Britain and lx—e-lati--4.

"'1 he Humble Address of the Nobility, Gentry, Clergy, and
Freeholdeie of the Cob nty of Oxford.
" May ti please your Royal Highness, We his Majesty's most
dutiful and Loyal Subjects, the Nobility, Gentry, Clergy, and
Freeholdets of the County of Oxford, beg leave to approach your
Royal Highness with the deepest and most heartfelt expressions
of sorrow and condoleace on a late ,most atrocious and cala-
mitous event, an event ti.at appears to have been perpetrated
upon a pretence as false and inkchievous in its princ:ple as it wa;
in its manner, most infamous and base.

" 1 hat a person whose whole life had been a series of universal
Benevolence should become the ci,bjece of the malice of to As-
sassin Was sufficient to excite 'strong feelings of !egret in every
good and generouebreast, but when we reflect that the person
whom we now deplore stood in a Situation of importance to the
happiness of millions, that his conduct in that situation, was dis-
tinguished by the most faithful, unshaken ,Loyalty to his '
Sover.•ign, by the most ardent zeal, for the honour and interests
at his Country, and by the most anxious care for the preserva-
Orin of those establishmet.ts, which constitute the foundation of
oar prosperity and !lapilli:es*, we cannot but consider the present
inttance, as the nio-4 au ucious enormity that ever proceeded
hum the depravity of the human heart.
• " We acknowledge with humility and respect your Royal
Highness's p'rempt and benevolent recommendtition of the be-
reeved Family of this most excellent Person, which we now
consider as the Family of the Nation, to Mt, justice and multi-
term of Parliament; and we beg leave to Adel, that the most
• ample satisfaction of your Royal recommendation will in our
judgments best gratify the expectation of the Country and the
' national character fir liberality and justice.
" We cannot retire from your Royal presence without ex-
pr.ssing our most heartfelt concern fur the many instances of
1-cessation of nutrals, in-übordination and violence, that have
lately dis;raced many parts of this Kingdom, and which have
been attended with enormities hitherto unknown to the character
a the British Nation.
" We pledge ourselves in our respective stations to mile
• every exertion for the prevention or correction of these destntc-
tive evils; and we hope and trust, that by the firmness and
vigour . f your Royal Highness's Councils, the national character
and hu, our wl.l be vindicated by a prompt and effeettill sup-
pression of thek,e enoimities, and by the just and exemplary pu-
nishment of the daring and atrocious auttors of them. . •
e' elasd we also trust that the people in general will deei ly
reflect upon the magnitude and importance of the object that is
now at issue, and that by comparing their own happiness and
contfocts with the mi..:iles and sufferings of the surrounding
Natious, :hey will be firmly convinced of the imperious duty of
'hewing that respect for the Law., which can alone secure the
happiness of the People and the welfare of the Country.
" Signed by flair and in the name of the Meeting of the No-
bilk', Gentry. Clergy, and Freeholders of the County of Oxford.
, ” FRANCIS SACKVILLU LLOYD WHEATE,
Sheriff."

KENT COUNTY GAOL.
AT a MEE'IsING of the INHABITANTS of
GREENWICH, held in Vestry, on the 17tb day of June,
1812, for the purpose of receiving the REPORT of the DEPU-
TIES, appointed to attend the General Meeting at Maidstone,
on 12th ofiast Month, and of hearing the Answer to the Me-
morial, presented by them to the Maestratrs, at an adjourned
Quarter Sessions at Maidstone, on the 15th day of the same
:Math. The Resolutions being read, and the Memorial of the
General Meeting of Deputies being detailed, the Report also of
Mr. Wan e, iti answer thereto, being laid before the Meeting,
it was unanimously
Resolved, Thar the Report, as expressing the answer of the
Magistrates, to the said Memorial, is extremely unsatisfactory in
these two respects : In the firit place, it is entirely silent respect-
ing the Recommendation of the Memorialists, that the present
Scale of the intended County Goal should be contracted, and its
dimensions confined within those Ihnits, which the immediate
exigencies of the County prescribe. In the second place, in an-
swer to their Recommendation, that the money should he raised
by annuitici, it offers an argument 'or preferring the pre-cut mode
of assessment, which, as far as it is applicable to the plan propo-
sed in the memorial, which recommends the extension of the an-
nuities, by an application to Parliament, beyond the period of
fourteen years, is utterly irreconctleable with the clearest princi-
ples of calculation.

Resolved, Therefore, as a General Meeting of the Magistrates
of the County, is to be held on the 25 th instant, at Sittingbourne,
for the purpose of taking this subject into their consideration,that
the Magistrates resident in this Division, be respectfully reques-
ted to attend that Meeting.
Resolved, That it be earnestly recommended to those Magis-
trates, to use their utmost endeavours to procure Relief from the
subject of complaint, both by contracting the intendesi Scale of
Erection, and by raising the Money by Annuities.
Resolved, That if no effectual relief can be obtained from the
Magistrates of the County, It is the opinion of this ?sleets:lg that
application should immediately be made to the Legislature, pray-
ing for such relief from the grievance complained of as to its
wisdom may seem fir to be granted.
Resolved, That the Vestry Clerk be desired to communicate
the wishes of this Meeting, in the most respectful manner, to the
Magistrates resident in this Division, and likewise to transmit to
them a copy of these Resolutions.

Resolved also, That the Resolutions be printed in the STAII.
and Courier, and also in all the County Newspaper., with the
hope of inducing other Parishes to adopt a similar Procedure.
Resolved Unanimously, That the Thanks of 4,l_,is Meeting be
given to the Rev. Dr. Crornbie, Mr. Richard Sntith, and Mr.
Edward Spencer Curling, for their judicious conduct. In executing
the Commission entrusted to them, by the last Vestry, and for
the trouble they have had upon the occation.
EVCRET and MARTYR; Vestry Clerks.