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London, England, 1820-12-13 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS.

Lord Castlereagh, from his seat, North Cray, Kent.
At Thomas's Hotel :—Lord and Lady Glasgow, from their
seat in Kent.

At the London Hotel :—Hon. Captain and Mrs. Stapleton,
from Portamouth.

At Hatt's Hotel : Dunbalin, Esq. from Paris; Sang-
ster, Esq. from ditto.
DEPARTURES.

The Duke of Montrose, for the Marquis of Camden's, Kent.
The Earl of Albemarle, for Norfolk.
Lord and Lady G. 11. Cavendish, for Lancashire.
• Claude George Bartillon, Esq. for Cheltenham.

General Orde, on a tour.
Mr. and Mrs. James William Stuart, for Berks.
Sir Thomas and Lady Whichcote, on a tour.
George Ilyng, Esq. M.P. for Botham Park.
Rev. B. White, fur Berks.
Colonel Warburton, for Ireland.
:Major Molloy, for Macclesford.
From the Grosvenor Hotel :—Sir William Robinson, for
Bath ; Bev. E. Chaundy, for ditto; R. Sherwood, Esq. for ditto.

We extract from a Scotch Paper the following ap-
plicable remarks on the late executions :
• The Reader will find in our Paper of to-day, an
account of some horrible executions in London. At a
time when knowledge and humanity have made their
way into the darkest divisions of Christendom, it is
painful and depressing to turn to the old favourite
scat of liberty and justice, and see those modern laws,
whose sanguinary severity is alike disowned by religion
and reason, put in force to no end apparently but to
enhance the dissatisfaction of the people with the Go-
vernment. It is not given to weak erring man to shed
innocently the blood of his fellow-creatures for any
other crimes than those perpetrated by violent means.
And the expediency has been proved to be as ques-
tionable as the right ; since punishments so ini-
quitously heavy have not in the least diminished the
number of delinquents. The Bank of England
ought to be more lenient. We verily believe that
their conduct in first putting out more notes than
they were able to pay, and then, after a deprecia-
tion which had wrought itself into every existing
contract, taking them suddenly in, produced in
every part of the country wretchedness a million
times more intense than that effected by all the forgers
that ever lived. There is no leading man in that
establishment but gained thousands ansl thousands of
pounds by those measures which converted crowds
of persons, as respectable as themselves, into bank-
rupts, and yet they do not hesitate to prosecute to
death poor ignorant men and women for passing two
or three forged twenty shilling notes !"
A few days since, an explosion took place:in Forch-
goch Colliery, the property of EDWARD PROTHEROE,
Esq. in the Vale of Neath, by which three men were
unfortunately killed, and three others much burnt.
The accident occurred in consequence of one of the
latter imprudently taking a light into a dangerous
part of the works. •

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

The Company's ships Canning and Lady Melville arrlott
Bombay, after a passage of 45 days from St. Ileleva, .
97th July last; they were expected to sail Abow:
August, the former for China, the latter ter llctigal. s,
Dunira was at Bombay the 25th July. The Warren 11:0:1,
sailed from Bombay for China the 9th June. The under.,.`
tioned ships hive left Bombay; viz.—ThattiPs and
Hastings, dispatched for China (to touch at l'enr.ne,
mer on the 15th, the latter on the 17th flay. The Dun'a-
Marquis Huntley sailed for Calcutta on the 25th July.
The Aurora, from Aberdeen for New York, v..as spoken
the 15th November, in lat. 42. lnng. 56. out eleven wethf,

of provisions.
The Rodney, MooasoN, from :tliramichi to LiverroG;,
abandoned by the crew, in lat. 49. long. 22.
The Sancho, Da loan, from Hartley to London, , ,
foul of on Friday night, in Yarmouth Roads, by the
Merchant, and foundered. Crew saved.
The Nova Allianca, DA COSTA, from I.ishon, havi77 sr.
a leak at Goa, in May, has been condemned there.
Luria of a Letter from Lloyd's Agent at the Havre":.
dated the 12th of September z•—•"fhe Relampago and the r -
from Vera Cruz, arrived here yesterday, and will sail to-itiorrn
for Cadiz. The Constitution frigate sailed from Vera
the 10th ult. with four millions of dollars on b ard :or ra,i,
and as she is expected to touch here, her arrival is now L1:6..
looked for."

Saturday evening, a Swedish brig in ballast, sprung a le:k
Dungeness, when they immediately run her for the
she went to pieces as soon as she struck ; the crew were
FALMOUTH, DEC. 10.—Wind S.W.—Sailed the Dar;,l, !;
SERTSON, for Poole.
PLYMOUTH, Dsc. 11.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Su.-,e
%%7mo:won, front Queb.tc ; and Emily, Con-Let, from
Postsmoutit, Dec. 12.—Wind S. W.—Arriv..-d his IL;
ship Am, from the Mediterranean. Sailed the [Wart,
ton, Alice, and Zephyr, for London.
Dsst., Dec. 12.—Wind W.S. W.—Arrived an: i
the River, the Cadmos, Aver.ent, from the Isle ut Pra.-
sailed 3d September: on -he 4th Novsmber, tat 17.70. N
long. 9. W. spoke the lloogly, LAMS, front London
dras ; and, on the 9th Nov. in lat. 15. 17. N. twig. 30.
the Recovery, Psalmist, front Batavia and the hie of Flr..
-to Rotterdam. Also arrived a whaler, supposed tl4.
George, BACKLE, front the South Seas; and a light ship,
unknown.

RAMSGATE, Dec. I2.—Arrived the Mary and Dorrtl-
MacsAy, from Sunderland, with her anchor-stuck broke ;
the Sarah, HAIINIOND, from Yarmouth for Naples, with btui
warks carried away.
Cowes, Dec. 12.—Arrived the Malabar, Ascoucti, from F:
tavia, out three months and 20 days.
Disc. 1 t.—Arrived—At Rotterdam, the Flizalv:
Ann, Ridley, of this port, from Newcastle. It Stem::::::
Creek, the Charles, Iligginbottom, of this pc,rt, front Tritste
and Henry, Fox, from Smyrna. At Port= nuth, the Prc,
pest, Wake, from Petersburgh. At Falmouth the Ea;lt,
Sev..ell, from this port for Bilbua. The Favourite, Sellers, fa,
Bucktush, sailed from thence on the 2d Nov. The Gales, (
Sunderland, and the Aurora, of Hull, both for Hull; and t
Guardians, for Sunderland, were loaded and ready for sea.
The Triton, of this port, was all well at Buecari, on the Il
ult. taking in her cargo. Wednesday, the brig Venot.ihk,
Newport, in making the harbour of Shields, struck upon
Herd Sand, where she now lies.
DANTZIG, Nov. 16—The Henry, of Newcastle, Scour, is
shore at the mouth of the Vistula, but expected to he got of •
the weather continues favourable. The frost has set in s.
intensely.
BREMEN, Nov. 25.—After the severe frost we have had fq
some time a complete thaw has set in, with S.W. winds, and d
it should continue for some days, our river will be entirvii
cleared from ice.

Crerox-I-lorsr, Dec. 12.—Ships Entered Inwards :—T:.
Adam, from the South Sear ; Active, from the Cape of (kw,
Hope; Lenox, from St. John's; Prosperous, from Calais; I
lie, front Lisbon; Mary, from Malaga; Northumberland. ;r
ditto ; Eweretta, from Quebec ; George, from Rotte• dam
Marie Louise, front Caen; Esther, from Denia : Arclne.:dei
from Cadiz ; Henry, from Smyrna ; Liverpool Packet, .iron
ditto; Acorn, from Wixford ; and Ocean, from Odessa.-171
tered Outwards : The Goede Iloope, for Bourdeaux ;
cults, for Rouen; and John, for Jamaica.—Cleared Outward>
The Marla Francoise, for Rouen ; Martha, for Bremen; tin a
ders Hill, for Leghorn; Samuel, for Jersey ; Caroline, for la
maica ; Favourite, for Port-au-Prince; Matilda, for Lisiion
and Steady, for St. Thomas's.

Her MAJESTY returned the following Answer In
the Address of Congratulation from the British Sca
men, presented.on Monday last:

" 1 have an unfeigned pleasure in receiving this honest asl
affectionate Address from the British Seamen, abiding iu the
Port of London and the parts adjacent.
" 1 have always felt a warm regard for the Sons of the o:exti
—my sympathies have been powerfully interested by the
ships they encounter, and the perils to which they are inured.—
The toils, vicissitudes, and dangers of different kinds, to
the Mariner is exposed, afford such numerous opportunities, r.nd

indeed, impose such a constant necessity for the performance
acts of reciprocal benevolence, as tend powerfully to impreq
that noble quality upon the character of those who are deruu.4
to a seafaring life. _ _ _

" Of all the maritime people recorded in history, there art
none among whom we can produce any character that is distin-
guished by more generous or amiable traits than that of dst
British sailor. In the British sailor we find exalted couras-,
sublime sentiment, and unbounded liberality, mingled with !I.
most tender sensibility. While the immensity of the ocean
constantly before the view, it expands those grand sentiments ;a
the soul which are intimately connected with the principles
liberty. The sailor would not love his native element, if L.
heart did not expand with that love of liberty, without wh:el
man contracts and shrivels into the most contemptible part •.1
animated existence."

Her MAJESTY returned the following gracie„s
Answer to the Address from the Inhabitants of Nes;
Mahon, presented by Lord DUNCANNON

0 The galliff, Burgesses, and Inhabitants of New Mahon, .t•-•
requested to accept my unfeigned thanks fir this loyal and sr::-
donate Address.

" The moral conduct of my adversaries is sufficiently market
by the turpitude of the witnesses they have produced, and,:
the agents they have employed. Had I even been guilty,
conduct would hardly have been less reprehensible. For e.
can excuse a recourse to such detestable means as subornaiica
and perjury? That race of moralists is happily almost eatira:•
who pretended that the end would justify the means. But ).:
it is certain, that if aty enemies could have effected my degrada
tion, they would have felt no compunction with respect to tnx.
kind of means by which it was accomplished. The constancy 0:
my friends has, however, enabled me to vanquish the treachery 01
my foes. If my rights are yet withheld, the attempt to deg: ±e
me has, at least, been abandoned, and the principles of
have triumphed over the projects of Despotimt.'
We have received accounts of the Courier Lord,i
newspaper having recently, in three different pig"
in this county, been publicly consigned to the flair
with every mark of scorn and detestation, for its I:21
slanders against her MAJESTY.—Brighton Herald.
During the late illuminations, the New Times pr..'
the Courier newspapers were publicly burnt at Pcr.'
tipool.—Bristollifercury.
Friday se'nnight, about half-past seven oci
the low premises of No. 3, Albany-street, Edinburs.,,
and the apartments immediately above, occupied ";
the Adjutant-General's Office, were discovered to t
on fire. The doors of the office being forced, t!'•
books and papers were saved, a:though the fang
were then making very rapid destruction. By !1:'
time the fire-engines arrived (a little past eig
o'clock), the floor of the office had fallen down, w Inc
afforded ample scope for the engines to play succei,
fully, and the flames were extinguished without har-
ing communicated to the flats above.

Captain HOLT started yesterday front Piccadilly, to r
foot 300 miles in five days, and to travel into eleven cou..ti,*:
that he may not pick his ground. He took the Bath road.
travelled five miles an hour. T►kc seasup is Much against
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MARY-L.4-BONNE MEETING.

Yesterday a very numerous and respectable Meet-
ing of the Parish of Mary-la-bonne, was held at Mr.
Coils Coach Manufactory, Great Portland-street,
for the purpose of taking into consideration the pro-
priety of presenting an Address of Congratulation to
her MAJESTY ; as also for the purpose of presenting a
Petition to the KING, CO dismiss his present Ministers.
About half-past one o'clock, Mr. BERNAL, M.P.
Mr. JOSEPH Hums, M.P. and Mr. P. MOORE, M.P.
and several Gentlemen who composed the Parochial
Committee, appeared on the hustings, and were
loudly cheered.
On the motion of Mr. PETER Moons, Mr. BERNAL
was called to the Chair.—The Honourable Gentle-
man, on taking the Chair, shortly addressed the
Meeting. It was but lately that the large and re-
irectable Palish of Mary-la-bonne had begun to
hold Political Meetings ; since, however, they had
begun, they acted with the decorum, spirit, and in-
dependence, which was worthy their character. He
had no doubt but that the same admirable qualities
would mark the proceedings of that day; by firm-
ness and moderation they would give effect and dig-
nitr to their decisi He had only to say, that as
Chairman, he was ready to hear the opinions of
every Gentleman who might be dispose i tO a I Iress
the Meeting. As it was, however, but a Parish Meet-
ing, he hoped that none but Parishioners would pre-
seat themselves. The Honourable Chairman then
read the Requisition for calling the Meeting, signed
by about three hundred Inhabitant Householders,
which had been pre•ented to Lord Kenyon, the
Churchwarden. His Lordship, on receiving the Re-
quisition, addressed a letter in answer thereto to Sir
Gerard Noel, Bart. which contained the following
patsage :—" For my own part, as a Peer, having
had much gratification in opposing the Bill of Pains
and Penalties against her Majesty, which, under all
the circurnstaiece , I considered odious, unjust, and
11;.christia.i. I should think that I must overlook my
own duty, if I took any part on the subject out of
11-rijament. Had the consent of the Churchwardens
necess.ii y, to enable the Parish of St. Mary-la.
I- ,r•ne to hold the Meeting, I should not have sent-
p:.d to give my consent.—l am," Stc.—(Applause).
Mr. Hume next came forward to move the first
Pnoitition. The Resolution was one against which,
11:: hoped, no fair objection could be made; it cares
t;ly excluded every harsh expression against the
(7onstitiited Authorities of the country. For his own
ran t. 'mid say, and be thought he might say the
same to .iie Gentlemen who surrounded him, that
they a .is free from factious principles—as much
oppose. - dangerous innovations--sas perfectly
loyal, ,se who met in secret, and who claimed
to ti . yes exclusive loyalty—(ypplause). He
t a loyal man might still look the situation
of h:s country in the face, and might, without dan-
ger, proclaim her wrongs to the world. What was
the state of that country? He would not observe
upon the manner in which the late war was con-
ducted—he would confine his observations to the
time since the war ended. Since that period, the Ad-
visers of the Crown did everything to destroy the
rights of the People; he would not go through the
whole of their disastrous measures, but there were
some circumstances which were so peculiarly atro-
cious as to claim particular attention. In the years
1815 and 1816, evils of the most heart-rending kind
pressed upon the country ; there were, in those years,
no less than from four to five hundred persons, in
that very Parish, who claimed and received relief for
a period of four months; that was a wretched state
f'r the People to be reduced to:; he did not blame
the Ministers for being the immediate cause of that
great distress, but he did blame them for not making
greater efforts to afford relief; he did blame them
for not making efforts to prevent the retrograde
movements which both trade and commerce were
unfortunately making. Ministers, instead of calming
the public mind by acts of kindness and conciliation,
did everything they could to inflame it—instead of
relieving the enormous burthens of the Public, they
only heaped an addition of three millions of taxes
upon them—instead of removing the shameful re-
strictions that had been placed upon the public li-
berty, they introduced new Acts of Parliament, and
unfortunately carried them through the Legislature,
wl.ich aimed a new and dangerous blow at the Con-
stitution of the country. They did everything they
could to irritate one part of the people and to alarm
another. They then introduced their Green Bag and
suTended the Habeas Corpus Act (Applause)—they
cared spies and informers about them—they had the
aid of a Castles—an Oliver—afterwards of an Ed-
wards—finally of a Franklin—(Applause). This last
spy the People were able to trace out, and every
thing was done to bring him to justice—to justice he
would have been brought, had it not been for the Ma-
gistrates, who let him escape through their hands.
When it was recollected that that miscreant had been
fur three years framing the most inflammatory
papers—that it was he who had written and distri-
t ated the celebrated Smithfield hand-bill ; a docu-
ment, which no doubt had been put into the Green
Pag as evidence against the People—when it was re-
collected that Franklin and Co. did everything they
caAld to rouse and to inflame the People, was it not
much to be lamented that he had been allowed
t' escape from the justice of the country ? (Applause).
1!e was to whom the prosecution at Dei by, and
d4raceful and shocking scene which followed
71.:(r):t be attributed. He was the author of the Pro-
clarnation at Glasgow, which led to the movements
(I a few men, and which was called a rebellion.
Pe saw, the country saw, that man—that vile and
v.tio:ious miscreant—fairly bunted down, taken into
c :vady, and deliveredinto the hands of a Magistrate.
et the country also saw the agents of the Govern-
liberate that man, as if no charge of any mo-
neat had been preferred against him, and they saw
that the Government,-when called upon, refused to
i-teifere. If those facts did not afford clear evi-
d,r,ce against Ministers, they certainly contained evi-
d:itce of a very serious description—(Applause).-1
The Ilanourable Gentleman next proceeded to take
a very enlarged view of the politics of the country
for the last three years. He did not, however, men-
ti any facts with which the Public are not already
acquainted. When the Habeas Corpus Act had been
I..st suspended, there were, he said, not less than sixty
persons taken from their homes, confined in dungeons
without having been even as much as made acquainted
uith the charges against them, or the nate or names

. .
of their accusers: and afterwards, those -who had
suspended the protecting laws of the Constitution,
and who hid inflicted so much injury upon the King's
subjects, not daring to face the consequences, had re-
course to a Bill of Indemnity. At Manchester, too,
when the people had been legally and peaceably as-
sembled, they were dispersed by military force, cut
down, and many of them killed, under the direction
of persons who called themselves Magistrates. It
might not, perhaps, be fair to say, that the Ministers
encouraged, that foul transactipn ; but it was perfectly
fair to say, that they betrayed their duty to the King
and to the country, when they refused to let any inquiry
take place upon it. They not only refused all inquiry,
but in order to shew their disregard for the public feel-
ing, they promoted Mr. Hay, a Clergyman, and one of
the foremost of the Magistrates on that memorable day,
to one-of the richest benefices in England—he meant
the Rectory of Rochdale—(Loud cries of " Shame!").
They next passed five or six Acts of Parliament pre-
venting Meetings, save in Parishes; and such was
the law, as it stood, that if any individual calling
himself a Magistrate, thought fit to interrupt a Pub-
lic Meeting, no matter on what occasion it might
have been called—no matter how urgent its object—
no matter how peaceful, how regular, and how de-
corous its proceedings—if any one Magistrate de-
sired them to be gone, they could not say one word
more. They should desist, or if they persevered, they
should do so at their peril, and subject themselves
to all the severities and penalties of the law. The
People of England were not to suppose, that they
had the right to meet to consider of their grievances,
and to vindicate their rights. That right, indeed,
their fathers possessed—they once possessed it them-
selves, but they had it no more. They met only by
permission. To such a point, at length, was the ,
boasted liberty of Englishmen reduced—(Loud tnur-'
murs). The Press, also, had new shackles put on
it. Any person who might make a statement of
perfect truth, yet if it were construed to be dis-
respectfil to certain individuals, might be fined
and im?risoned for the first offence, and trans-
ported for the second—(Cries of " Shame, shame").
The Honourable Gentleman next observed with much
animation on the late triumphant efforts of Spain,
Portugal, and Naples, and said that it was disgrace-
ful to Ministers not to have tendered their assistance,
at least to the two latter States, which were more
immediately within their reach. He next contrasted
the present Military Establishments with those of
1792. At present the Military Establishment cost
eleven millions ; in 1792, it amounted to sixteen
hundred thousand pounds. The Navy, in 1792, cost
two millions two hundred thousand pounds; at pre-
sent it cost six millions and a half ;
,lthougli there
were but fifteen thousand sailors, a smaller number
than was ever known in England since the American
war. The fact was, that the public money was not
expended on the brave tars of England, but it was
expended on Admiralty Courts, useless Boards, and
Commissioners. The People could not be surprised
that some impotent attempts had been made to up-
hold the odious power of Ministers—no one could
be surprised at that, when it was considered that
there were no less than two millions and a half paid
in pensions, four millions and a half paid to tax-
gatherers, and three millions and a half paid to half-
pay Officers (the last class, who deserved well of
their country, he did not object to receiving a recom-
pense from their country, but he thought dint many
of them, unfortunately, praised the hand that paid,
and not the People that supplied the money). There
was also another class, a class too important to be
overlooked, ha meant the Clergy—the Clergy re-
ceived of the public money about five millions and
a half. There were, in fact, not less than nine hun-
dred thousand Parsons who received annually the
money of the People from the hands of the Govern-
ment—( Shame) !—He hoped he had stated enough
to induce the Meeting to think with him, that men
who had brought so much misfortune upon the coun-
try, ought no longer to continue in the public coun-
cils—they would, therefore, Petition the King for
their dismissal--(Applause).—But they should not
stop there, they should demand that salutary and
necessary Reform which alone would strike at the
root of the evil—(Great applause).—lf the People
had a reformed Parliament, no one would say that
the country would have so much to deplore; the
People would not have to witness such an increase
to their burthens—such daring attacks on their re-
maining liberties—and such an heartless indifference
to the public misfortunes.
The Resolution was then put and carried.
Mr. PETER MOORE next came forward to move the
Address to his Majesty for the dismissal of his Minis-
ters. He was received in a very flattering manner.
He regretted that a more nuftierous assemblage of
Ladies was not present; the Ladies, throughout the
contest, had done their duty—the men would conti-
nue to do theirs—(Applause). His Honourable Friend
had turned Ministers inside out ; there was another

out to be accomplished, which could only be accom-
plished by the People. Whilst the Ministers re-
mained in power, there was no hope—no security for
the People. He would say to them, in the language
of the Imperial General when he took Genoa, in
1746, " if you do not get rid of them, they will leave
you nothing but your eyes to behold your miseries."
(Applause). The Honourable Gentleman, after ad-
verting, in the strongest terms of reprobation, to the
Corn Bill, which he called an infamous law to starve
the country, proceeded to say, that the late proceed-
ings against her Majesty were, in fact, intended as
an indemnity for Ministers ; they had convicted
themselves by leaving her Majesty's name out of the
Liturgy ; they saw the consequences of their own act
when it was too late to remedy it—hence the necessity
of a Parliamentary indemnity, hence the trial, which
was falsely called the trial of her Majesty—(Applause).
The People, throughout the struggle, had remained
faithful to the Queen, and, he might add, to them-
selves. Without the People, he would give little
credit to her Majesty's Counsel, or to the ninety-five
Noble Lords : without the powerful voice of the
People, their efforts would have been unavailing, and
her Majesty would have been sacrificed —(Appuse).
After dwelling on many of the faults of Ministers, he
compared them to a celebrated General, who once
declared that he would spare the people nothing but
their tears. Those Ministers had brought the country
down to the lowest pitch of national distress ; they
answered the public complaints by fresh burthens—
they surrounded the Throne, and kept from the
, knowledge of his Majesty the real state of his subjects.

• • " !, •
Kings were genirally disliked, but they Were often'
themselves the victims of falsehood and deception:
King James the First, on his arrival in England, w,as
surrounded by the different
.powerful parties in thi
State; he entertained, however, a great distrust of
them all, and perhaps in that he was very right--(A
laugh).—One leader propoied one line of acting, an-
other proposed a different course: They offered a
speech to his Majesty, to deliver before the Parlia-
ment.—" No," said the King, " I shall deliver one
of my own." He did so, and after making some
observations on the state of the country, he added
these memorable words But, alvve all, preserve
to me the affections of the People—(Great applause).
Let me be on good terms with the People—let me
live in their hearts—(Loud applause)--for I know
full well that the People can do without a King, but
a King cannot do without the People !"—(Applause).
This, said the Honourable Gentleman, was.language
worthy of a King ; and it was to be lamented that
Kings of England did not always, like James the
First, speak their own sentiments and judge for them-
selves. But the object of bad Ministers was to cut
off all communication between the Sovereign and
his People, the better to carry on measures which
were often injurious to both ; they had gone on from
one step to another to impoverish and enslave the
People of England, who, if properly treated, would
have been the richest as well as the happiest and the
freest people on earth. The purest and most inde-
pendent public men were selected out as the victims
of oppression. Such was the case of that illustrious
patriot, Sir Francis Burdett—(Great cheers).—Did
the Powers that ruled care for his body ? No ; but
they wished to withdraw his mind from the public
cause ; they wished, by placing him in a prison, to
deprive the cause of Liberty of the aid of his splendid
talents, his high character, his bold, manly, unas-
sailable independence—(Applause).—After some
other observations, the Honourable Gentleman con-
cluded by moving a Petition to his Majesty, praying,
that he would be pleased to dismiss his present Mi-
nisters from his presence and counsels for ever, which
was read, and unanimously agreed to.
It was next moved by Mr. CHURCHMAN, seconded
by Mr. NEWMAN, and cordially agreed to by the
whole Meeting, that a loyal and affectionate Address
of Congratulation be presented to her Majesty.
Mr. POTTER moved a Resolution of Thanks to the
independent Press, for its powerful exertions in the
cause of her Majesty.
Mr. CHURCHMAN seconded the Resolution, and
quoted a passage from a speech of the late Mr. She-
dan, viz.—" Give me the Liberty of the Press, and I
will give you a venal House of Peers, and a corrupt
majority in the House of Commons ; I will give you
all the places and pensions that you can demand ; I
will give you any Ministers the Crown may appoint;
give me, I say, the Liberty of the Press, and I will
batter down those walls which you have erected in
your defence, and bury you in the ruins !"—The Re-
solution was carried amid loud acclamations.

A Resolution of Thanks to the Chairman having
been voted, the Meeting broke up at four o'clock.

DINNER AT MAIDENHEAD.

A numerous and respectable party of upwards of
one hundred Gentlemen, sat down to dinner at the
Town-hall, Maidenhead, on Friday last, to comme-
morate the Triumph of the People, on the issue of
the late Bill of Pains and Penalties, THOMAS GROOM,
Esq. the Mayor of the town, in the Chair, supported
by the other Members of the Corporation.
After dinner, ". Non nobis Domine,"—when the
first toast given was, " The King; and may he ever
bear in mind the principles which placed the Bruns-
wick family upon the Throne,"—followed with the
National song of " GOD save Me King:" then fol-
lowed " The Queen ; and may the innocent ever be
protected by the People." This was drank standing,
and with rapturous applause : the acclamation was
caught by the multitude in the street, and the whole
town rang with huzzas from one extremity to the
other, until it returned again to the banquet, and
the thunders of applause resumed were answered by
the multitude without, aided by the discharge of
musketry, returned again, and the three times three
had an effect never before felt within these walls.
" No jocund health, that Denmark drinks today,
But the great cannon to the clouds shall tell;
And the King's rouse the Heav'ns shall bruit again,
Bespeaking earthly thunder !"

The Independent Branches of the Royal Family,
Sussex and Gloucester."—" The most Reverend the
Archbishop of York, and the Church."—" The Navy,
our constitutional Bulwark."—" The Army, and may
it never be employed to subvert our Constitution."
On proposing the toast, " Lord Folkstone and
the Independent Interest of the County of Berks," a
Gentleman present urged the attendance of as many
as could make it convenient to do so, at the ap-
proaching County Meeting, which was answered,
by many assurances of the intention; after which,
Mr. Stunt produced the following letter from PAS•
COE GRENFELL,
Taplow House, Tuesday Morning, Dec. 5.
" To the Committee for conducting the Public Dinner
at the Town-hall, in Maidenhead, on Friday, Dec. 8.
" Gerririars—l am much obliged by your attention iu in-
viting me to the public dinner which is to take place at Maiden-
head, on Friday next, for celebrating the result of the late pro.
ceedings against her Majesty the Queen ; and I am flattered that
the opinions which I hold upon that subject should be sanctioned
by your approbation. I shall never shrink from the public
avowal of those opinions. I have always considered the pro-
ceedings which were instituted against her Majesty, to have
been as unconstitutional as they were unjust and uncalled for ;
and I participate most cordially In the feelings of satisfaction
which have manifested themselves sn generally throughout the
whole kingdom, in consequence of those proceedings having been
so triumphantly defeated.
" But I am prevented from accepting your friendly invitation
to the dinner, on Friday, by a previous engagement, which
obliges me to be in Hertfordshire on that day. I beg, there-
fore, to wish you a pleasant and convivial Meeting, which, I
have no doubt, will be conducted with that good order, modera-
tion, and decorum, which become the professed friends and
staunch supporters of the King. Queen, and Constitution.
" I am, Gentlemen, your most obedient humble servant
" PASCOE GRENFELL"

-Mr. GRENFELL'S health was then drank, coupled
with the independence of Maidenhead, and received
with marked applause.

A Requisition, signed by upwards of 100 most
respectable citizens, has been presented to the LORD
PROVOST of Edinburgh, requesting his Lordship to
call a Meeting of the Inhabitants, to consider of the
propriety of addressing his MAJESTY to dismiss his
Ministers and to re-4ssemble Parliament

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SrA

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Newark, II th Dttenibet.
MR. EDITORWISdOM in Bodies Corporate beinr

a qualiii yarely to be met with, every instance of it
•
ought to be treasured up with the utmost care, and
preserved amongst the most valuable muniments of
the Corporation. It is with infinite satisfaction to
myself, that I am able to rescue from unme riled ob-
scurity the ancient Corporation of Newark-upon-
Trent, and to record a few such acts of its wisdom
in political matters as are worthy of imitation by all
others. It is unnecessary to remind you of the dis-
sentions and endless animosities which the struggles
of independence against political power, unduly exer-
cised, occasions in various places ; from these the
town of Newark- has been long a stranger, by the
sage and judicious conduct of its worthy Body Cot-.
porate. They are, however, under manifold obliga-
tions to a Noble Duke who so eminently distinguished
himself on a late occasion, in the House of Lords ;
and it is, perhaps, in some measure, to his Lind and
superintending care, that the tranquillity of this Bo-
rough may be attributed. his Glace, possessing con-
siderable estates of hit own, and being lessee front
the Crown, of others in the town and neighbourhood
(which latter might have occasioned endless disputes
amongst the inhabitants, if his Grace had not fortu-
nately got Them himself), condescends to present the
Corporation with a person to represent them in Par-
liament, and they deem themselves too much ho-
noured in being permitted to return such nominee as
their Member. Here then it is that the Corporation
displays its first and brightest beam of wisdom ; for
if, from any paltry and unprofitable consideration of
independence, they undertook to choose a Member
for themselves, the odds are much in favour of their
disagreeing about it, whence would arise those cavils
and disputes which every quiet individual must de-
precate; while, as things are now managed, their
own good sense, and the dread—the horrible dread—
of offending their great and noble patron, keeps this
Corporation in one mind, and they go nn smoothly
doing his will without a murmur ; and thus preserve
that happy tranquillity which those men geneially
enjoy who sacrifice their independence to their indi-
vidual interest. The same admirable, enviable, unity
of opinion on all political questions, invariably pre-
vails amongst them. And how does it happen ? Why,
from their being too wise to judge, to presume to
judoe for themselves, in such cases. If they, or any •
of them, were to arrogate or exercise a right of form-
ing their own opinions upon political matters, that
precious bond of unity which prevails in their coun-
cils, would be daily, nay, hourly broken ; while, by
invariably adopting the opinions of his Grace, they pre-
serve their peace of mind, their prices of land, their
absolute sway over their humbler neighbours, and are
relieved from endless trouble and anxiety. If ever they
venture to anticipate (as they sometimes do) his Grace's
opinion, they are sure, if they do err, to err on
the right side. In the Queen's case, for instance,
they pronounced her Majesty guilty, without a
syllable of evidence, while his Grace, with that high
sense of impartial justice, honour, and modesty, which
would have been unbecoming in any one of lower
rank, condescended to hear the criminatory evidence
before hr pronounced his verdict.
But as insubordination will occasionally manifest
itself in, and interrupt the peace and happiness of,
the best regulated families, so it has produced its
baneful influence in this hitherto peaceful Borough.
The middle and lower classes have had the hardihood
to weigh the proceedings against their Queen by a
different balance to that used by his Grace and the
Corporation, which has produced the most opposite
conviction. The independent inhabitants have dared
to place the conduct of the Noble Duke and his ser-
vile imitators in one scale, and the conduct of her
Majesty in the other, and have found the former ter-
ribly wanting. An Address of Congratulation to the
Queen has, therefore, been framed, which is already
numerously signed, and is daily acquiring fresh sig-
natures. The Corporation (fearing, perhaps, lest his
Grace should suppose they had presumed upon this
measure), have determined upon a counter-Address to
the King, expressive of their loyalty, &c.
I am an inhabitant of Newark, and have (as you
must perceive) a very high opinion of the wisdom of
its Corporation, but I an: bound to confess mvstdf
totally at a loss to conceive the necessity for such an
Address at this moment, never having heard the
loyalty of the Corporation or inhabitants so much as
doubted.

The Corporation cannot, surely, be so stupid as to
insinuate that those who address the Queen are dis-
affected to the Crown, and those only loyal who sign
the counter-Address: if that were really the case, his
Majesty's person and Government and their professed
supporters, would shrink into insignificance before
the vast—the numberless host who have declared,
and feel the utmost abhorrence at the late diabolical
proceedings against the Queen and Constitution.
The fact is, however, that those who address the
Queen, are the real friends, the staunchest supporters
of the King and the honour and dignity of his Crown.
I will stand second to no man in loyalty, and 1 shall
certainly sign the Address to her Majesty. The coun-
ter-Address I shall not sign—for no one has dared
to question my loyalty, and till accused I shall make
no defence.

This, Sir, I conceive to be the ground upon which
every honest man should rest who is similarly situa-
ted, for one may fairly doubt the honesty of a man
who volunteers a defence before he is accused: upon
this principle, therefore, I think the loyalty of those
who are so eager to profess it, may be doubted ; and
that it is from the consciousness of a want of loyalty
that Addresses to his Majesty, at this moment, origi-
nate: I shall be glad to see any better reason as-
signed, and perhaps some of your Readers who are
able, will rescue the few who have or may joiniirs
such Addresses, from so serious an imputation.

I am, Sit your obedient servant,

Cams Eacmarcz, DECIDXIEIt 13.—We have h:d
no fro& arrivals of any Grain since Monday, and what Wheat
remained over from that day's supply, met very heavy sale this
morning, when, from 'the smallness of the demand, very few
sales could be effected, and prices must be quoted the same as
on Monday.—There was no Fine Barley at Market, in conse-
quence of adverse winds, Which have prevented our having any
supply from the Norfolk coast.—The Oat trade was exceedingly
heavy, at a decline of Is. per quartet.—ln Beans and Peas there
is no alteration.