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MESSRS. COLBURN and Co. beg leave respect. 4. net this Monstrous debt incurred is oppressive and de.
fully to acquaint their Stss:ribers and the Public, that the struetive, Wien, exertion, beggaring the people, and increasing
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appear in a few days. Cards of fermi, to be had on application. S. That the unparalleled amount of taxes, caused by the
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boundless extravagance with which 'the war was conducted, and
the undue influence necessary to the support of Ministers, exceeds
the sum of one million of pounds sterling for every six working
days in the year, or one hundred and eighty thousand pounds for
every such day in the year.
6. That the intolerable burden of taxation, and the conse-
quent misgovernment to which these Realms have been subjected
have greatly abridged the peoples liberties--leaded the country
with a standing army in time of peace—driven many of
fel-
luw.•subjects in Ireland into a state of desperation—nearly ruined
commerce—caused a rapid decay of trade—injnred manufactures
—depressed agriculture--increased the Nora' Rate to an amount
nearly equal to that of the whole public revenue fifty years ago.--
reduced the circumstances of all the useful part of the communiy
—made nearly one in seven of the *hole population a pauper—
and brought the greater part of the most intelligent, most indus..
trious, and most virtuous people in existence to a state bordering
on despair.
Your Petitioners are fully satisfied that these enormous and
still increasing evils would none of them have existed, hadlhe
People been fully reprtuentedln the Mouse of Commons, ' i.;
Tour Petitioners allege— •
1. That the Habeas Corpus Act, the safeguard of our liberties,'
has been several times suspended for considerable periods of time.
2. That attempts have been made against the lives of our fel-
low-subjects by constructive tmsons.
3. That by recent Acts of Parliament, the long-practised and
highly useful right of the People to meet to Petition the King,
or either House of Parliament, has been in all cases greatly re-
stricted, and in many totally prevented.
4. That by the same Acts the Liberty of the Press Ins been
greatly infringed upon, and new and unheard of punishments,
even to the extent of banishment, have been denounced.
5.• That by the same Acts the Power of holding to bail, and
of infi:cting very severepunishments, has been given to Justices
of the Peace, for what they may, in their opinion, deem libels;
and that heavy punishments have been inflicted in cases in which
the parties so punished have, by a Jury of their country, been
acquitted of all crime.
Tour
Petitioners believe that none of the causes of complaint
would have existed had the Members of the House of Commons
been elected by the great body of the people.
Your Petitioners allege,-
1. That peaceable citizens have been attacked by Soldiers ;•
that numbers have been slain ; and that upwards of 400 men,
women, and children have been at one time wounded or other-
Wise injured by such an attack.
2. That notwithstanding the notoriety of this atrocious out.
rage, no public iniquity has been made, but that the perpetra-
tors of the atrocity have been thanked by 3linistets and other-
wise rewarded.
3. That still more recently two of our fellow-subjects have
been shot in the public streets; that an Inquest has on oath de-
clared one of those shootings to be a Manslaughter, and thp
other a Wilful Murder, by Life Guardsmen, but no effort has
been made by those in authority to bring either of the persons so
accused to justice.
Your Petitioners ire satisfied that none of those atrocities
would have been committed, laze the House of Commons been
composed of Members elected by the great body of the People.
Your Petitioners have no hope of relief from what is called
economical retrenchment; they are satisfied that retrenchment
to an extent calculated to relieve the people is utterlyincompa-
tible with the system pursued by Ministers • and which must
continue to be pursued by whomsoever the Ministers;
may be
administered, until a thorough Reform be made in your lip.
nourable House.
Your Petitioners are well aware of the evils caused by a nue-
tuating value in the currency. They know that it was impossi-
ble for Ministers to have kept their places, bad the currency
been suffered to continue Its a state of depreciation in time of
peace • and to this circumstance it is that your Petitioners attri-
bute Ale measures taken to restore the paper currency to an
equal value with gold.
Your Petitioners are fully persuaded that so long as your Ho.
nourable House shall continue to be composed of Members not
chosen by a majority of the Freemen of these realms, so long will
the country be liable to all the evils which must ever attend a
currency fluctuating in value; for experience forbids them even
to hope that a House .f Commons not electtd by a majority of
the peopleuf these Realms will ever refuse to the Minister for the
tine being the power to debase the currency.
Your Petitioners have felt and deplored the sufferings of all
classes, caused by the misconduct they have pointed out; they
deplore the sufferings just now more particularly inflicted on
those employed in raising produce from the earth; but they are
satisfied that a general deterioration of the circumstances of
every description of persons will yet further take place, if the ,
system of governing hitherto pursued be persisted in ; and they
do most respectfully declare their convicti n that the system
will never be changed, nor any relief to the suffering people be
given by any House of Commons, the Members of which are
not returned by the free will of a majority of the people.
Your Petitioners greatly fear, that unless a thorough Reform
in your Honourable House speedily take place, a violent Revo-
lution may be anticipated.
To prevent the evils we anticirate—to rectify as much as
may be possible all errors—te put an end to all abuses—to tran-
quillize the minds of the people—and, as an earnest return to a
wholesome state of things, we pray—
That your Honourable House will take into your most se-
rious consideration the complaints and allegations contained in
this Petition, and will cause an immediate and full inquiry to
be made into the state of the Representation of the People in
your Honourable House, with a view to a thorough Reform
thereof.
(Signed in the name and on L.half of the Meeting.)

The following is the reply of tl:e Lord Lietitenant
to the Address of the Inhabitants of Belfast:— ,
" You may be assured that I have undertaken the arduous
det:es of this Government, with the same sentiments and the
same principles which have guided my conduct through the
whole course of my life, and which have recommended me to
the gracious notice of our beloved litsu. No consideration tan
be so interesting to me as the restoration of peace, tranquillity,
and good order to Ireland; for which salutary• purpose it is be-
come most unhappily necessary to assert the authority of the law
by the force of the State in some parts of the country•. But the
solid foundations of permanent repose mutt rest on the general
harmony and mutual kindness of our countrymen towards each
other; this happy state of society it will be my duty to culti-
vate by an impartial administration of the executive power.
Your kind expressions of confidence and esteem :more me of
your assistance in maintaining the tranquillity of your• own
neighbourhood, and in promoting social union and good temper
amongst all classes cf his MA 1147 Y% subjects."

Mgr. MAT 1111WS has been amusing the natjves of
Edinburgh and Glasgow with his kat year's Ertertaiiments—
his success In every part of the Kingdom he has visited, has
been extraordinary. He has, we understand, collected an ample
stock of whimsical materials fur his new " A T Home," at the
English Opera House, this season, and report speaks highly of
its fun and ingenuity.

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The success which ha; attended Mr. ACKERMANN%
elegant Work. The World in Miniature, has induced to make
arrangements for continuing it in future in regular Monthly
Volumes. liasnoosvas, winch forms the Fourth Division of
the Work, b to be completed its Six Volumes, and will contain
One Hundred coloured Kites. Th., first Volume, published
this Month, contains nit admirable and comprehensive View of
the Religion of the Hindods9 with Seventeen beautiful En-
graving* illustrAtive of the ilindont Mythology. klany of these
Plates are from Drawings executed by an Ifindoo Artist, under
the inopection of M. formerly C'ltfert:ol- at l'semit.het ry •