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London, England, 1825-04-04 00:00:00

In pursuance of the above requisition, I do hereby convene a
Public Meeting of the Merchants, Bankers, Shipowners, Manu-
facturers, and Traders of the City of London, for the purpose of
considering the expediency of Petitioning Parliament for a revision
cf the Corn Laws, to be held at the City of London Tavern, on
Wzoicirsnsy, the 13th instant, at Twelve o'Clock for One precisely.
London, April 1, 1825. GA R BATT. Mayor.
N.B. All cornmunieations touching the Meeting to be addressed
to John Hall, Esq. 6, Circus, Minories.

CORNWALL AND DEVONSHIRE TIN, COPPER, AND
LEAD MINING COMPANY.

THIS COMPANY is forming to work several of the
most approved. valuable, and wen satiated Mines in Corn-
wall and Devonshire, and which are already secured to the Com-
pany; the surveys having been made by Captain Richards and
Captain Teague, accompanied by a highly respectable Agent from
the Projectors; the Plans and Maps have been prepared. and the
Contracts signed. The Capital is at present £500,000, with power,
however, to increase the same. The number of Shares is Ten
Thousand, of 450 each. The deposit of XS will be required when
the Shares are allotted ; and no application can be received after
Thursday, the 7th instant.
In the meantime, applications may be made at Messrs. Sir Wm.
Kay, Dart. Price, Marryat, and uolentaris, Bankers, Mansion-
House-street ; or at Messrs. Sr John Perring, Bart. Shaw, Barber,
and Co.'s, Bankers, Conlin.
JOHN WOOD, Secretary pro-tem.

London, April 2, 1825.

BOROUGH OF WEST LOOT.

-A T a MEETING of the INHABITANT HOUSE-
HOLDERS, of the Borough of WEST LOOE, in the
County of Cornwall, held the 28th day of M5:4,1825, to take into
consideration the best means of obtaining due Inquiry intelheir
Claim to be Burgesses of the said Borough.
Mr. ROBERT IHOMAS in the Chair.

It appearing to this Meeting, that in the year 1822, a Committee
of the House of Commons decided that the right to elect Members
of Parliament, for the said Borough, is "in the Corporators being
inhabitants;" that the right tb elect such Corporator* has been ex-
ercised by the Capital Burgesses for a century past, and during that
period that they generally elected persons strangers to the Borough;
that of the twelve Capital Burgesses seven are not inhabitants of
the Borough, that one of the seven has been in India for ten years,
and many of the others have not been in the Borough for twelve
years; that by the said decision, these non-resident Aldermen are
precluded from voting for Menthe's of Parliament; yet that some
of these non-residents now meet in the Borough from time to time,
and elect a few of their friends and dependants to be freemen, who
return the Members of Parliament, and that the Capital Burgesses
thus delegate a power which they do not themselves possess.
Resolved—That the right so exercised by the Capital Burgesses,
is contrary to the spirit of the Constitution of this Realm, contrary
to the Charters of this Borough, and so gross an absurdity as, upon
the face of it, shews that it cannot be founded in law.
Resolved—That from the Records of the Borough, and by the
=el the most eminent Counsel, it is clear that the right of
is in the Inhabitant Householders of the Borough, pre-
sented by the Jury at the Court Leet of the Borough, and there
sworn and enrolled ; and it further clearly appears, from the said
&cords that such right of Election by the Capital Burgesses, was
first usurped in the reign of Charles the Second ; that upon the
Revolution in 1689, the right of the Inhabitant Householders, si
Presented, so sworn, and so enrolled, was restored; but, by the In-
(hence of wealthy individuals, they were again deprived of it about
the year 1710.
Resolved—That as ineffectual application have been made to the
natiourabk the Court of King's Bench, for s Mandamus to try the
light of the Inhabitant licniseheAders upon the return thereto, and
as no other means at law are open for the trial of such right, that
on humble Petition be presented to the Honourable the House of
Commons, setting forth all the facts and praying relief.
Resolved--That the Petition now read be adopted by this Meet-
, that it be signed by the Inhabitant Householders, and that the
Chairman be requested locate the necessary steps to get it presented
to the Houk of Commons.
Resolved-1 hat the Thanks of this Meeting be given to Mr.
Nworthy, of Devonfort, Solicitor, for his zeal in the cause of the
Inhabitant Householders, and for the labour bestowed in preparing
the Pentium.

ROBERT THOMAS, Chairman.
The Chairman having quitted the Chair, :waived that the 'Thanks
of this .ruing ire giv en
e to hiss fot Ms constant ezertiOns IA the ctuae.