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. would try' her, not by any known law—not by any
constitutional proceeding, but by an Act of Parlia-
ment, by means of which she was at once to be pro-
:scented and .tried, convicted and punished!—(Loud
applause). Such was the constitutional, legal, equi-
table course which Ministers pursued with regard to
her Majesty ! Whatever, therefore, might be the
opinion of the Meeting with respect to the disgust-
i evidence which had been brought forward, there
could be but one opinion, one feeling, with respect to
. the manner in which her Majesty had been treated,
and, through her, the country—(Applause). It was
one of the fortunate circumstances of the Constitu-
tion, that no individual, high or low, neither his Ma-
jesty on the Throne, nor are meanest inhabitant of
. the cottage, could be ill-tr&ated without injuring it.'
It was one of the virtues of the Britisb Constitution,
which makes resistance to oppression the first duty
of the subject, and makes the cause of one the cause
of the whole—(Applause).--The People of England
had already acted a noble part; but their labours
were not at an end: their virtuous efforts would
only cease with the acts of injustice which first called
them forth. If they persevered, they would 'stand
forward with honour and with success—(Applause).
Whatever might be the causes of the public discon-
tent—whatever might be the necessity of Reform, he
did nut think that the House of Commons, or any
other public body in England, was beyond the reach
of public opinion—public opinion, wisely declared
aril firmly declared, would prevail ; it would ulti-
mately make itself heard, to -the downfal of those
who vainly laboured to resist its influence or subdue
its force. The Noble Lord concluded by thanking
the Meeting for the honour they had done him, and
assuring them, on the part of his Noble Friends, and
particularly his most intimate friend and relative,
Lord Holland, that they were all most sensible of the
approbation bestowed upon their public conduct.
Mr. JOY moved the Thanks of the Meeting to the
High Sheriff, for his readiness to comply with the
Requisition, and his impartial and honourable con-
duct in the Chair.
Mr. Pit [PPS seconded the motion, which was car-
ried unanimously.
The HIGH SHERIFF returned thanks.
Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, being loudly called for,
came forward amidst the acclamations of the Meet-
ing. He really felt ashamed, he said, to be called
upon, at this late hour, to address the Meeting, after
so full a discussion of every topic had been gone into
with such ability as would redound to the credit of
the county in time to come, and prove a stimulus to
them on future occasions, since it now appeared that
they could meet together and conduct themselves
with the strictest propriety, notwithstanding the im-
pression which had been attempted to be created,
that to assemble for the purpose of public discussion
was a great public mischief. After the eloquent
speeches they had heard, there remained little for
him to say. The consequences of the persecution of
the Queen had been foretold by every men who was
capable of giving a disinterested opinion, undiaking
an impartial view of the circumstances under which
it was commenced. To foresee that it would pro-
duce all that agitation which prevailed in the coun-
try, required no spirit of prophecy. To any man
whose eyes were clear enough to see a church by
day-light, the difficulties in which Parliament and'
the country. would be involved were sufficiently ma-
nifest. The whole of the transaction was so extra-

ordinary, that, after all the eloquence which had
been employed upon it, both in and out of Puha-
+ ment, still something remained to be observed ; so
strange and unnatural were all the circumstances,
that something new would still start out. They had
all heard of a corrupt and blind Bench of Judges ex-
isting at different times. This was a thing which
could easily be conceived, and, indeed, he had him-
self felt the consequences which resulted from a sys-
tem of packed Juries and corrupt Judges. Ia the pro-
secution of the Queen, perjured, corrupt, and bribed
witnesses, had been employed, but it was the first
time he had ever heard of a prosecutor, not content
with the bribery of witnesses, attempting to effect
his purpose by bribing the criminal —(Loud applause).
If the Queen had consented to stamp her name with
infamy—if she had been content to receive the plaister
which was to bo applied to her reputation—if she had
accepted the hiamble vote of Parliament, and fifty
thousand pounds a-year out of the pockets of -the
people; if she had so far sacrificed her character to
the convenience of Administration, she might then
have revelled in all the turpitude which was imputed
to her, at the expense of the people of this country;
she might have indulged in all those low propensities
with which she was falsely charged—(Loud cheers).
Had that unworthy compromise been acceded to,
Ministers were prepared to go the full length of tur-
pitude, in unison with her—had her mind been as de-
based as their's, the conspiracy would have taken
effect, and Europe would have witnessed the strange
spectacle of a degraded Queen, stigmatized, and
blasted in character, but receiving large emoluments
Out of the purse of the People of England! But her
Islajesty was too high-spirited a woman, and too
conscious of her own innocence, to listen to their de.
giaJing propositions. She said, " No; take back
your money; you may heap upon me every injury
which your power can inflict upon the head of an un-
protected woman; I will brave everything in de-
fence of that character which you attempt to tarnish,
and that innocence, of the consciousness of which
you cannot deprive me!" And still we were to be
told, that this Illustrious Person, though acquitted,
was not innocent. He had head, with sorrow, the
declaration of an Honourable Baronet on this sub-
ject. He did not disapprove of the manliness of
avowing an opinion; but he did say, that after the
prosecutors themselves had thrown up their own
charges, it was a little too hard for any Gentleman
to say, under those circumstances, that he did not
consider the Queen as having been fully acquitted.
Good Gob ! in what situation should we all stand—',
what was to become of our characters, if, after a
false accusation was withdraws for want of being
supported, some part of the scandal, which it was
found impossible to substantiate by evidence, must
still be presumed to adhere to us ? He knew only of
one case which was at all similar to the conduct of
Ministers in this respect. The conduct of that great
company of Merchants, the Bank of England, did in
some degree furnish a parallel, for they did bribe
men to plead guilty to the charges which they
laweght against them—they. bribed them with their

lives to plead guilty to a part at least ci" the charge.
This, however, was one of the anomaliet arising out
of the strage circumstances in which the country was
placed—it was one, and not the least, of the evils
arising out of the Ministerial abuses of that trading
Company. The Member for Cricklade (Mr. Gordon)
had dwelt upon a topic, by no means disconnected
with the subject befosi the present Meeting ; a topic
so interwoven with every important political consi-
deration, that no man who applied his mind to the
state of the country could omit k—he meant, the
mode in which Members were seek to the House of
Commons. Could that topic be anywhere more pro-
perly introduced than 'in this place, where they
knew how the Member was returned ?—(Laughter).
They, the inhabitants of a rotten borough, were well
aware• that the Member was sent at the beck and
nod of a Noble Lord, whom he respected in every
view except in that of a borough proprietor; but in
that character he considered him one of the most
mischievous men in the country, as he contributed
to support a system by which the Constitution of
England was destroyed. Even Mr. Pitt, in the earlier
days of his political life, had felt so strongly the me-
cessity of a Reform in Parliament, that lie declared
the evils under which the country laboured could
never be redressed without it. Without a Reform in
Parliament, said he, you must look for fresh and ac-
cumulated grievances; without it there can be no
security for your liberties or your property, nor can
any honest man become a Minister of this country.
They had heard much of professions of loyalty; now
what he understood loyalty to mein was, devotion to
the laws and liberties of the country, and devotion to
the King as a branch of our Constitution, intended to
uphold those liberties. In that sense of the word he
would yield in loyalty to no man • and if any man dared
to tell him, or any other man, that he was disloyal, he
deserved no other answer than a blow---(Applause).
—What was the practical effect of this monopoly of
loyalty in holes and corners? What but to degrade
the Royal Family, to destroy the sanctity of the laws
themselves, and to pervert every prinCiple of justice,
which was hut another word for every principle of
the British Constitution? They had misdirected the
whole mind and energies of the country from the
difficulties it had to encounter. Did the Family of
Brunswick think that this was the way in which their
character was to be upheld ? Did they think, that,
by degrading the Queen, and giving provocation for
every kind of recrimination, the character of King or
queen was likely to be maintained in the estimation
of the country ? If there existed any disaffection in
the country towards the Royal Family, the persons
who bad created that disaffection, and who were an-
I swerahle for the consequences, were the Ministers of
the 9rown. He had declared his attachment to the
Constitution as by law established, but when he said
that, he meant the old, free Constitution of England.
He was not to be considered as advocating the cause
of the New Constitution, which had of late been im-
posed on the country. He was not advocating the
Peace Alien Bill, by which our shores had been ren-
dered inhospitable, and the Nation, which once
merited the high eulogium of giving freedom to the
Slave that once set his foot upon its soil, could
now only be pointed out as the country in which
the foreigner, flying from the chains of despotism,
would find more galling chains,_ and more into-
lerable oppression—(Long-continued applause).—
When be spoke of the law of the land, he did not
mean the law as it was now fettered by-restrictions
on the liberty of the Press, which subjected a man
convicted a second time of publishing a libel, to
transportation. This was a part of the New Consti-
tution in which he was somewhat interested, for he
had himself been once convicted of publishing a
libel, and was therefore liable to transportation for
what might be deemed a second; but no consider-
ation should induce him to desist from writing what-
ever he thought calculated to promote the liberties of
his country—(Loud and continued cheering).—He was
no advocate for this innovation, but for that ancient
Constitution, and that inalienable right of English-
men, of which neither Kings nor hired Parliaments
could deprive them—the right to meet and declare
their feelings and sentiments to Parliament and the
Throne, upon the general state of the country. This
was a right not held, or to be defeated by as Act of
Parliament ; yet, on this very occasion, the new Con-
stitution would have deprived them of the means of
exercising that right, had it not been for the honour-
able conduct of the High Sheriff, who had given
them an opportunity of meeting, which had been
denied to a most respectable body of Requisition-
ists in the County of Berks—(Loud applause)._
He was consequently no friend to the new system of
things; but he was a frienl to that old, free Consti-
tution, which made public rights and public liberty
the basis of its Goiernment. Some beneficial effects
would, he trusted, result from this Meeting. 'They
had, at all events, shewn that they were capable of
observing the strictest impartiality and propriety.
A radical change of system was absolutely necessary
to save the country. Some fastidiousness had been
shewn with regard to the term " radical;" but, for
his part, he declared he had always been a Radical.
He wished to cut up corruption by the roots. He
wished for an honest Government and an honest
House of Commons, which might protect the People
from the sycophancy of Cabinet Ministers, and be-
come a healthy organ for expressing public opinions.
Had such been the state of the House of Commons,
Ministers themselves would have been the better for
it, for then they would never have been suffered to
enter upon that mad and wicked career which' he be-
lieved would now cost them their places. If no such
prosecution had been commenced—if they had told
the King that they were unable to manage the House
of Commons, they might have kept their places, and
the country might have been spared the agitation into
which it had been thrown. He should now take his
leave, not with that utter hopelessness which he should
have felt, had this Meeting not taken place, for he
.arted from them with the hope of seeing them on
future occasions, when they might again exhibit the
same conduct which they had exhibited to-day, and
shew their enemies that there was no necessity to
sneak into holes and corners, since they might ex-
press their opinions here with perfect satety.
Mr. Cam Hosnousr., having been called on, next
stood forward. He said he attended the Meeting
merely to offer his feeble assistance, in case any op-
positiien were made to the proceedings of the day—
idppleusey—He had heard a great deal of what was
eflled Loyal Addresses; but - true loyalty was as

LONDON.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1821.
THE FUNDS.
PRICE OF STOCKS TIIIS DAY AT ONE O.CLOCK
3 per Cent. Reduced 69 Ys 'Vs
3 per Cent. Cons. 69 yt 69 Vs
3} per Cent. 79-4 per Cent. 871,/2 )'
5 per Cent. Navy 10378 104'4
Imperial 3 per Cent. 68% %
India Bonds 335. 325. 345. pre.
Exchequer Bills 4.5. 6s. pre.
Cons. for February 69% 14 %.

This being settling day, but hale business has been done, ex-
cept paying and receiving differences. No defaulters have been
announced, and the market looks better. It is said that the
Jews are prepared to take all their Stock., and as Money is plen-
tiful, an advance is anticipated. Consols for next Account (Fe-
bruary) are e.:l %, for Money.

Our columns are this day again almost entirely
filled with the r-..-oceedings of Public Meetings, con-
vened to consider of the present state of public af-
fairs. The Counties of Kent and Wilts are now to
be added to the number of those which have openly
and unequivocally declared that it is to the conduct
of Ministers, more especially in the late prosecution
of her MAJESTY, that the loss of confidence in the
Government, which universally prevails, is to be
ascribed, and that it is only by the removal of
Ministers that confidence can be restored;' and the
interests of the country. preseried from ruin. I'ublic
Meetings, attended with similar results, have also
been held of the Inhabitants of the NVard of Farring-
don-Within, and of the Pal WI of St. Saviour's, South-
wark ; of the proceedings at which we 'are sorry to
be obliged, by the length of our other Reports, to
•
take a more brief notice than they merit.

We have received this forenoon America's Papers
to the 16th of December.

Accounts froin Port-au-Prince to the 13th of No-
vember, state, that at that period *every thing remained
BOYER was at the Cape, with 25,000 troopt,
but he met with no opposition; and the change of Go-
vernment was rapturously hailed wherever he ap-•
peared. 'A II the branches• of the Royal Family had
received hit protection, and moderation and bum*,
nity dank:A:Oiled his proceedings. The liberal do-.
nations iceortfea to the soldierly from-the plunder of
Cußtsvomeri treasury, had craned an unusual de-
mand for all kiiidt of produce. It is satisfactory to

be enabled to State, that dating the entire
of the important change that has taken
British residents have not only been respectd,
their safety has formed a subject of peculiar
trade to the revolutionary leaders.

Intelligence from St. Juan MarFaritta,
ber 10, states that AIONEGA%
that the Royalists occupy'. in the provinct
lona and Cumana, only the latter city,
and Cariaco. A letter, (Wed the 30th Oct(
"that General URnAN&TA had dereaed die
General La Tristan, and taken possession
LA Tonne retreated to Valencia. General PA,
defeated MORALES The Independents have
*very successful."

BRIGHTON, JANUARY 17.

The KING leaves us on Saturday nrraiii,
Carlton Palace. The Earl of LIVERPOOL, Lord l,
TLEREAGII, and Sir CIZARLES PAGET, arrived;
Palace this afternoon.

EING'S BENCH-THIS DAY.

The Court of King's Bench, GniWhin,
morning crowded to excess. At half-past nine,
case of the KING against Mrs. CAULILE, for
of the libels with which she is charged, came
foe Lori Chief-Justice ABBOT, and a Speci4l,
The proceedings were opened by the Soucc
GENERAL.

Mr. Guitstev then examined several witaesse;
support of the prosecution ;—the case for -
being closed,
1 he 011E1' .11..SME asked Mrs. Carlile if ,
any Counsel ?—She replied in the negative, ,
handed in a long written defence, which wasroi
by Mr. AIIIMT. It justified the letter, as
nothing more than what bad been inculcate' by
cient and Modern writers, from whom varihus
tatibns weie made. It also set forth, that she Li
acted under the impresslon of conjugal duty, and
the writer, and not she, ought to have been prosecute
The SOkICITon-CENERAL replied at some kagdi
7. d tle CHIEF ,JUsTIcE summed up, cspressiughi
decided opinion that the libel was ca:ciated toe.
cite the people to c:mimit ass; ssination.
The Jury retired for a quarter of an hour, and rc.
turned a verdict, finding the defendant—Guilty.

NAVAL L\TELLrGENcE.

Poor Dorn, JAN. 18.—Wind in here
llostaaniae,ancl I%!;:rgt,'.6 Camden, Lamm:, fro=
TORBAY. JAN. 17 . —Put ha -k the ltlulgrave Cast
she has recovered her-cable which she slipped on :nu
Poot.z, JAN. i F.—Arrivrd the !hammy, lissan,froai
foundlard, with loss of bowsprit and topmasts, and hi,
ht-r lower mitts are sprk.ng.
DEAL, AN. le.—Wind W.S.W.—Pnt hack the

HAM, for Madrag. Came down from the River

AMER Y, for Buenos Ayres; aad Jane, Weis, for Ja,
latter has put into Ramsgate. Arrived and sailed fork
the Benson, from St. John's (N. B.), and
Lawns; from Leghorn. The Indefatigable, Cony
for St. John's (N. B.), eras rah down about 100
the Land's End, supposed by a sloop of war. The
being three days on the wreck,- were taken off by
and are arrived bore.

Litres, Jaw. l&—Abeut seven o'clock in the evening
terday week; the asters, WATT, of Kincardine, a kir
tons burthen, fourteen days from alga for Jlull, with
seed, &e. went on shore on the rocks near the fish town of Um,
about two Miles from Montrole, at a place called Silly Cnip.
From the thickness of the weather, they had not bees able*
ascertain their situation exactly, and mistook some high Wit
the neighbourhood for the Cheviot Hills, and the Rell
light for the Staples ; they therefore presumed they Vat atur.
ing the Frith of Forth, and were unconscious of their hop
until the mom- - the vessel had struck. It was sully is cam
quence of the great exertions of the fishermen of Fonda"
the hazard cf their own lives, that the crew were saved. Ta
fury of the waves breaking over the vessel on the return el de
tide, soon rendered her a complete wreck. hardly a retain
of the ship or cargo Das been aved. On the Intelligence he
reacting Montrose, which was at ton o'clock. the tows drat
was sent round the harbour • abd places adjacent, and Root
GAB:um, and a number of smitten and others, nntwithstattfag
the badness of the weather, proceeded immediately to
render every assistance for the safety of the ship and cargo.
Cesium Hocsz, JAN. 1 ft.—Entered Inwards : The hi.
perous, from Cithis; Sprightly, from &vine ; Active, fns
Lisbon ; Friends, from St. Petersburgh ; Pomona and Need,
from the South Seas ; Liberty, from Oporto ; Ike, from 4"
terford; Azores, from Buenos A ) res ; Three ads, fremOr
tend ; Grisette, from INeppe ; and Fortitude, front ltio Joao
Entered Outwards: Anrura, for Buenos Ayres; St. Illettishr
Rouen; Wilson, for Antwerp; Carthy, for St. Thum.%
Cordelia, for Njadeira ; Va:entioe, for St. Michael's; Nepali
for Itutt,:rdam.—Cle:s-ed Ou:w..:rds Abeona, for Jersey; ile
rid Walter, fur Leghorn; Malden, for Cork; Lydia MA
for Belfast; Potter, for Jamaica.

Birtfs of a Sln and Heir to the Howse of Aitorti
Great rejoicings have taken place in consequeoced
the safe delivery of the Lady of Lord Jou s CAMPERL4
At the family seat in Scotland, the Heads of es
Highland Clan arc making preparations to celebran
the event by a series-of splendid feats.
Yesterday, a Meeting was held in the Spitirgi
Court of St. Saviour's, Southwark, pursuant to a Ilt•
quisition signed by the Inhabitants of that Pavishlll
the purpose of taking into consideration the nowt*.
of congratulating her !MAJESTY on the failure of tle
Bill of Pains and Penallies ; of petitioning his
JESTY to dismiss his Ministers ; and of present*
Petitions to both Houses of Parliament, praying that
they will proceed forthwith to obtain for her Mk.*
JESTY those dignities, rights, and privileges, to wili6
she is so justly entitled, but of which she has bee*
hitherto deprived.—The Resolutions were to thee&
stated in the Requisition. They were nsoved.by
AlisioN, and carried unanimously.—When the quo'
(ion for voting the Address, &c. was put, Sir Roue
WaLson rose to express his sentiments, which, bent'
served, were already wed known to all bis Cone
tuents, many of whom were collected -before bit'
After :Thanks were voted to the Members for die
Borough, to the Churchwardens, Sic. &c. the 31ett'
ing broke up.
CORN EICIIA.NGII4 MARK•LAYt, JAN. 19.—The supply:lolh
except Oats, has been very small this week, particularly of 1112.
Wheat and Bailey, which articles, of prime quality, 1014.'
morning on full as good terms as en Monday, but diem_fry
little demand for inferior *ample,. .The arrivals of Oats lals
been rather inconsiderable, but ±-e fresh Corn-being hire llwg'__,
obtained A. per quarter more :hap on Monday. Ban!'
Peas continue very dull in sale, the si:pply of each bang aill"
than the immediate demand can take off.
SMJTII rizi.n MA MELT,. /AN. 19.---Beef, 3s. 10d, to 41. 911.101'
stone of Sibs. ;. Mutton, 3s. 6d. to ss. od. Veal. 4s. Bd. to Ss• _
Pork, 45.6 d. tp 55.10 d. Lamb, 06.0 d. to Qs.od.—Oittk at yids
Bracts, 390; Calves, 90; Sheep and Lambs, 4,800; eip, no•-1
Hay, 3,- I Os. to 41. 4s. Clover, 41. 10s. to 5L ss. 3traw,14,111.
to 11. 14s.

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