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LONDON SOCIETY,
For PROMOTING CHRISTIANITY AMONGST the.JEWS.
~N Mart?, two Sermons wilthe
preached for tlit benefit of the above Society ; that in the
Morning by the Rev. THOMAS FRi(, M. A Minister of thi
Lock Chapel, at St. Clement Danes, in the Strand. Prayers to
begin at eleven o'elock. SonSubiect.—The Duty of Chsisttans to en:.
deavoer to promote the version of the Jews;) and that In eke
Evening by the Rev. JOSEPH SAMUEL C. F. FREY, at the
French Church, in Spital Fields. (now belonging to the Londoa
Society.) Service to begin at hitlfpost sic o'clock. (Subj•ct—The
obligations of Christiana (A all deriontiaations to commiserate the
Jewish Nation Strider all iti afflictions.)
GENERAL SEA BATHINfi INFIRMAItt. •
PATSIIN,
' His Royal Highness 011011.0iE PRINCE of WALES.
raisumon"—Right Honnesobits kart of ROMNEY.
Dams s;
Welt ROM LOW Mllol3llollr :Satinet Thornton; Esq. M. P.
Right Ho.). Lord Mayor Garrow, Esq.
Sir Edw. iceatehbull,BartsM.P. J. C. Lettsoits, M.D.
Sir Win. Geary, Bart. Thomas Forsyth, Emi.
Sir Robert Wigram, Bart. Francis Cobb, Esq.
Sir Wm. Leighton, Kt. and Ald.
Treasurer, :antes Rent Syms, Esq.
I'HE, Anniversary Dinner of the Governors of this
-a• Charity, will be held at the London Coffee House on Wed-
nesday the 31st Mae next,..4Tewp • r! •
John Ansley, Esq. ALLIn. Will;ant Curtis, Esq.
Thomas Bros, Esq. Robert Hate, Esq.
Junes Burrows, Esq. 'Thomas Lane, Esq.
Nathaniel Chater, Esq Richard Ogborn, Est
Richard Clark, Esq. Georg: Skelton, Esq.
iSam. Woodfield Comp:on, Esq. James Woodbridge, Esti.
Tickets iOs 6d. each obe had of the Stewards ;at the Bar
the London Coffee Huohe ; and of Joseph Rainbow, Secretary,
48, St. Paul's Cliutth-yird.

COUNTY OF WILTS. •• • • '
A T a MEETING of the FREEHOLDERS,
LANDHOLDERA, and other. INHABITANTS, of the
County of WILTS, convened by the High Sheriff, and holden at
the Council-Chamber, in the City of NEW SARUM, on Wed-
nesday the 17th of May, 1809,
Sir CHARLES WARR fi MALE'', in the Chair,
It was Resolved, That the l'hanks of this Meeting be given to •
GWYLLY St LLOYD WARDLE, Esq. for having instituted the rd.
cent Inquiry in tilt House of Commons relative to the conduct
of his Royal Highness the Doke of Yeas:, is Commander in
Chief; for having, unconnected with, and unsupported by, any
Party or Faction, prOsetated that laudable Undertaking, with
unexampled magnanimity, talent, zeal, temper, and persevet-
ance, and especially for having had the resolution to discharge his
duty, in defiance of the threats and prejudices excited against him
by the King's Miuisters, mid by many of the Leaders of the op-
pane Warty.
That the Thanks of this Meeting be given to Sir FRANCIS
BURDETT, Bart. who seconded Mr. Wardle's motion, and also
to Lord Viscount FotICESTONE, for the active and able assistande
he afforded to Mr. Wardle during the whole of the Inquiry.
That the Thanks of this Meeting be given to Lord Viscount •
Mit rdat ALTnOlt Pe,• Lord Sroatarv, the Hopi T./Intuit),
the Hon. W. H. LYTTLZTOM, Sir SASEURR RellitLEV, KM.
Major-General FERGUSON, SAMUkL WIIITIIRRAD_, T. Cu awe ,
T. w. COICZ, H. MARTIN, T. GrLetAFT.i And C.W. WYN N
Ktors. who, during such Inquiry, stood forward the Advocates
of impartial Justice, and alio to the whole tithe Minority of 1514,
who divided in favour of Mr. Wardle's Motion, amongst whom,
we, as Wiltshire Men, observe with pleasure the name of that
venerable and truly independent senator, WILLIAM Hussar, •
Esq. who, for Nine successive Parliaments, has represented the
City of New Sarum with ability, and perseverance, and with
undeviating integrity and inclapenuence ; of THOMAS GODDARD, 1
Esq. Member f..c Crickiade, and of .BENJAMIN WALSH, Esq.
Member for Wotton-Basset, in this County, while we observe,
with indignation and regret, that the name of neither of the Mem- .1
bars for this County does appear in that honourable list. And
we also lament, that with the exception of Lord FoLxecro x
WILLIAM HUSSET, Tnomns GotouA up, and BENJAMIN WALSH,
EST's. we do not recognize in that list the name of any of the
thirty-four Members who are bent to Parliahiesa by the various
Boroughs In this County.
That in adverting to the Cause of the disgraceful Acts revealed
and demonstrated during this inquiry, this Meeting cainnot help
oia,erving, that in the Act of Parliament, commonly called the
Act of Settlement, in Virtue of which Act only his Majesty's
Family were raised to the Throne of this Kingdom, it Is declared,
" 1 hat no person who has an Office or Place of Profit under the
" King, or recOves a Peusiva from the Crown, shall be capable
" of serving as a Member of the House of Commons." . But that,
notwithstanding the wise precautions of this Act, which is one
of our great constitutional Laws, and which, as its Preamble ex-
presses, was made for the further limitation of the Crown, and
better securing tke Rights and Liberties of the Subject, it appears. '
from a Report laid before the House of Commons, in the mon:ai
of June last, in consequence of a Moiion made by Lord CocH.•
RAN 5, that there are in that House 78 Placeinen and Pensioners,
who, though part of what they receive was not stated, are be the
said Report stated to receive Xf75,994 a-year, out of the Taxes
paid by the People, and out of that money, to watch over the es'
penditure of which, they themselves are appointed.
That we observe the names of all those Place:nen and Pension -• •
ern voting against Alta Wardle's motion.
That in the Act called the Bill of Rights, it is declared, " That
" the Election of Members of Parliament ought to be free," and
in the same • .et it is declared, " That the violating the Freedom•
‘• of Election of Members to serve in Parliament, was one of the
" Crimes of King James U. and one of the grounds upon which he
"was driven from the 'llarone of this Kingdom." But that not-
withstanding that Law, this Meeting have observed, that on the
11th instant, Mr. Madocks did, in the House of Commonl, dis-
tinctly charge Mr. Perceval and Lord Castlereagh with having
actually void a Seat in Parliament to Mr. Dick, and with having
endeavoured to prevail upon the said Mr. Dick to vote against
Mr. Wardle in the case of the Duke of York ; and that Mr. Na.
docks having made a motion for an Inquiry into the said transac—
tious, the House, by a very large majority, decided that there
shorld he no such inquiry.
That from these facts, as well as numerous others, notorious
to us, and to the whole Nation, this Meeting have e firm con-
viction, that it is in the House of .Commons, as at present con'
stituted, that exists the great and efficient cause of all such scan •
dalous abuses, in various departments of the State, as have, in:
other countries, alienated the Subject from the Sovereign, and
eventually produced the slownfal of the State.
That therefore this Meeting, anxious alike for the preservation
of his Majeoy's Throne, and lqtitinste Authority, and for the •
Restoration of the Rights and Liberties bequeathed theist, by the
wisdom, the fortitude, and. the valour of their Forefathers, hold
it a duty which they owe to their Sovereign and his Successors,
to themselves and to their children, and to the safety, happiness,
and renown of their Country, to declare their decided opinion and
conviction, that no change, for the better, can be reasonably ex- •
pected, without such a Reform in the Commons House of Par-
liament, as shall make that House' in reality, as well as in names
the Representatives of the People, and not the instruments in the
hands of a Minister. And we further declare, that from the
proof we have always had of his Majesty's love for hls People.we
have full confidence in his royal support and protection, in our
constitutional efforts, against a Faction not less hostile to the true
dignity and just prerogatives of his Majesty's Throne, than they
are to the interest and feelings of his faithful, suffering, sod iaa'
suited People.
That HENRY PISNRUDDOeK WtriDNAM and RiCIIIARD LoMO,
Esqrs. the Rttpresentatives of this County, have, by their at.
conduct in Parliament, proved themselves ondeserving the Con. '
&truce of their Constituents, and of the future support °CAW*
County.
Resolved Unanimously, That the Thank* of this Meetli g
be givep to the High Sheriff for calling the saints, and for his im-
enrdal Cenduci in the Chair.
Palmed iu tar Presence of
CHARLES WAARI &MUT, Shetiffe

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