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the Gentlemen present to contradict his statements,
• an. t Mr. Lambton remarked that they were too true.
Ntihea this statement was read, the crowd called
upon Alr.'Clark to stand forward. He did so, and
his appearance by the side of Mr. Hobhouse, was the
sinai'file a 1nu..1 burst of laughter. After this it
Brats odd that he (,Mr. Hobhouse,) should be corn-,
pl aired of a, a moderate Reformer. That which ,
Ii td now stated would, he hoped, make it sufficiently
cL ir how far his opponent was a friend to Reform,'
aril he requested them to give him a patient hearing,
that they might know what progress he had made
since yesterday, in his studies connected with that
question.
Mr. LAMB remarked Mr. Hobhouse had expressed
himself very confident as to the result of this Election.
He was a little confident also, as he thought he had
a right to be, from the state of the poll, but had he
been some hundreds behind, after the speech his op-
ponent had made that day, and the exhibition of the
elegant figure he had produced before them, he should
not despair of ultimate success. He
.was glad that
Mr. Hobhouse had made some use of the hints he had
given him on the preceding day, and that he had
tried to be more witty than formerly, and lie had no
hesitation in saying he was coming on very prettily ;
and the jokes he collected from the other Candidates
—from various publications, and which were written
down for him by his friends, would, he thought, shortly
entitle him almost to the hon. title of Joe Miller.-
-His friends too were not behind him in wit. He
saw, on the opposite erection, a placard offering
100;31. reward to any one who could understand Mr.
Lamb's plan of intelligible Reform This, he be-
lieved, was playing off on him the is/ cacique, as the
plan of intelligible Reform belqnged to somebody
else, and he would refer the advertiser to Mr. Ilob-
house, who ought (as he was the only person who
could explain it) to pocket the 1,0001. He was glad
to see the Honourable Baronet there, as he thought
he ought to attend to hear the replies of the friends
of the third Candidate to what he had advanced on
a former day. The Honourable Baronet had ac-
cused him of coming to the Hustings in disguise.
lie denied the charge, and he had, at all events never
come there in the livery of the Honourable Baronet.
As to the differences said to exist among the Whigs,
it was to be expected that amongst them, as among
all large bodies, there would be some differences on
the details of a great measure, on the principle of
which all were agreed. But if the Whigs differed
from one another, how did the Reformers differ from
themselves from day to day ? Mr. Hobhouse had
first come forward with a plan of Reform, that fell
" far short pf Universal Suffrage," and then after
four days consideration, he told them he had no plan
at all, and had ad objection to Universal Suffrage.
Then Mr. Hobhouse had produced a Gentleman,
who had attended a Meeting of his friends,• and a
paper stating what had taken place at that Meeting.
He could wash the person who had furnished that
document to be brought forward again. He desired
that Samuel Clark might be called.
Mr. CLARK having been called, presented himself
on The rail in front of the hustings, and briefly ad-
dressed the crowd, stating his readiness to face any man.
Mr. LAMB resumed.—He stated Mr. Clark to be
a very proper person to be brought forward on the
present occasion. He had a gooddeal to do with the
Wig:, as he was a barter (Laughter), and, as he sup-
posed, had Come to the hustings for the purpose of
shoeing hint dose!--(Laughter.) He had suspected
him at the time he come to the Meeting ; for he
thought he saw something of the Oliver about him—
(Laughter.) Now for the facts:—Mr. Clark had
asked the question of which they had heard; and he
(Mr. Lamb)bad replied, that he could not say what
were the numbers of the voters, in the Boroughs Mr.
Clark had mentioned, so accurately as those whom
they returned; but if the facts were such as he had
stated them to be, the evil ought to be corrected.
This was the answer he had given, and ,he thanked
Mr. Hobhouse for producing this Mr. Clark. He
knew him now, and they knew him, and he would
have none of them trust their throats near his razor.
In the course of the election he had availed himself
of no Mean artifice, and to none would he stoop; and
he cared not one farthing for all that might be done,
said, written, or devised, by Mr. Ilobhouse and his
friend, Mr. Samuel Clark. He again expressed plea-
sure at seeing Sir Francis Burdett on the hustings,
and hoped he would be allowed a patient hearing.
Mr. HUNT had expected to hear something from
the giant—the political apostate, Burdett, this day,
but he believed the Honourable Baronet had run
away again. Ile begged to read a paper which had
been just put into his hand. This paper purported
to be an advertisement, describing as lost, and offer-
ing five guineas reward fur the recovery of a Banker's
check, which read as follows To Messrs. Coutts
and Co. Bankers. Please to pay to Mr. S. Brookes
the sum of £lO,OOO, and place it to the account of
F. Burdett.—The check was dropped last night be-
.. tween St. James's-place and No. 110, Strand. Who-
ever has found and will restore it to the owner,

or to Sir Francis Burdett, shall receive five guinea;
reward. This is the highest reward that will be
offered, as the check is of no use to any other person,
• as payment is stopped at the Banker's, and another
will be issued in order to uphold the Purity of Elec-'
Lion in Westminster."—Mr. Hunt proceeded to state,
that Sir Christopher Hawkins, a great Borough-
monger, had been there that day. This Gentleman'
possessed five Boroughs in Cornwall, whose Repte-
sentatives always supported Ministers. And who
did Sir Christopher Hawkins vote for? Why, for
Mr. Ilobliouse.

While 11r. Hunt was speaking, a person rose at
the further end of the Hustings, and attempted to
speak, but could not obtain silence. Once or twice
he fell off the rail, but again presented himself;
sticke&an orange, and seemed determined to wait
till a more favourable moment arrived. The crowd
were against him, and when he was forced from the
rail, before he could ascend, All.llunt concluded, and
Mr. GALE JONES spoke. He thought at first that
the electors of Westminster would have been treated
with Hobson:s choice, but he was now glad to see
them entertained with the fine farce of .4 Hob in the
Well," and Hob had fallen so low that the Honour-
able Baronet and all his friends would never be able
again. The only voters seen in the
to bring him up
Lou: se of the present election were the drunken and
disorderly friends of Mr. Hobhouse.
Mr. Hurr, alluding to the state of the poll, re.

LONDON.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1819.
THE FUNDS.

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK :
Bank Stock 264—Excheq. Bills (2d.) 17 11 pr.
3 per Cent. Reduced 771{4—Cons. 764 711 •
Cons. for Acc. 7611 pi,r Cent. MI 7
4 per Cent. 954 61—.5 per Cent. Navy losit 7{ 7
Bk. Lg. Ans. 201 5-16--India Bonds 67 pr.
Old Annuities 77—New Ditto 761

The Paris Papers of Monday and. Tuesday ar-
rived this forenoon.

The KING is entirely recovered from bis recent
indisposition.

The Chamber of Deputies had a public meeting
on 'Monday, when several matters of considerable
importance came before them.
A Petition was presented from several Pastors of
the Reformed Church of the Departmeat of Dor-
dogne and different Protestants of Bourdeauz, pray-
ing,..that there should he established, for the instruc-
tion of young Protestants. some special Colleges, I
which shall be supplied by Professors, and superin-
tended by Pastors of the same communion. The
Committee on Petitions recommended that it should
be remitted to the Minister of the Interior.

M. D'ARGENSON, in support of this Petition, put a 1
number of questions, which excited a great deal of
sensation in the Assembly. Is it not true, he asked,
tliat great complaints have been made of the zealous
spirit of proselytism displayed in the Rcyal Colleges
by the Catholic Clergy, in regard to Protestant,
youths? Is it not true, that in the Colleges of the
South of France not a Reformed Minister is to be
met with, and that they have gone nigh to excluding
entirely Protestants ftont these Colleges? Is it not
true, that at Montbeliard, a town entirely Protestant,
after the fathers of families had, at their own expense,
re-established from• its ruins the Protestant Gymna-
sium, Ministers introduced into it a Catholic Rector?
Is it not true, that at Paris, and especially in the
College of Louis le Grand, which has lately been the
scene of so• much disturbance, the spirit of Conver-
sion has been carried so far that they have forced the
Protestant scholars to go to mass ? Has not this
been one of the causes of that disturbance? (Great
murmurs. Some voices on the is true.) Is it
not true, that, in the Department of the Upper Loire, i
a Protestant youth has. been seduced by a Catholic',
Priest and carried to Lyons, and that when the father
endeavoured to. reclaim his child, he was thrown into
prison by the Mayor ?—(Great murmurs.) Is is not
true, that they cited to this unfortunate young man'
the example of St. Louis, who renounced every thing
in order to become a Christian ?

Is it true that in the Military Schools none but'
Catholics are admitted ? Is it true that in the Or-
phan-house of the Legion of Honour, only one Pro-
testani girl has been admitted, and that only after
having taken the vows; so that the orphans of those
brave Protestant officers who die on the field of ho-
nour, have no other alternative than to chuse be-
tween apostacy and retiring into a House of Refuge,
destined to lost children ?—M. D'Attozusoa conclu-
ded with moving, that •in remitting the 'Petition to
the Minister 6f the Interior, accompanied by a let-
ter from the PRESIDENT, ,so as to produce an answer
from the Minister, which might be communicated
to the Chamber.

M. ROYER COLLARD, the President of the Board'
of Public Instruction, replied generally to the facts
adverted to by M. d'Arger.so. n, that no complaint on
the part of Protestant parents had ever been made
to that Board, nor, as he believed, to the Minister of
the Interior, who would doubtless; if he had received
any such, have remitted them to that Department.
After several other Members had delivered their,

sentiments, the Chamber adopted the Report of the
Committee, for simply remitting the Petition to the
Minister of the Interior.

The Minister of Finance, Baron Louts, next pre-
sented to the Chamber the definitive Accounts for
the years 1815, 1816, 1817, and by approximation
those of 1818, and a Bill connected therewith, equi-
valent in purpose to the Financial Resolutions usual
in' the Treasury practice of this country.
Article Ist, declares the expenditure of 1815 to
have been 798,590,859 francs, and specifies the pro-
portions in which it has been divided among the dif-
ferent Ministries.

Article 2d, declares the Expenditure of 1816 to
have amounted to 896,707,205 francs. Article 3d,
that of 1817 to have risen to 1,039,810,583 francs.
—And Article 4th, proposes to recognise the
total Expenditatre of 1818 as having amounted to
11,1:A649,360 francs. Each of these Articles speci.'
fying, in the same manner as Article Ist, the parti-
cular sums expended by each Department.
The Bill was ordered to be printed and disttibuted.
The Minister of Finance developed the grounds of
another Bill which he brought forward, containing a
Financial Project, of as great magnitude and novelty
perhaps, as any which has figured in modern his-
tory. The object of it is to lessen the burden of the
large debt which France has been recently obliged
to contract to discharge its obligations to the Allied
Powers, and the method proposed is to spread it over
a larger surface, instead of keeping it, as it is now,
concentrated at the Capital—that is to say, that there
shall
,not be one grand Stock Exchange alone in
Paris, but that a Stock Exchange shall be opened in
every considerable city and town in France, so that
monied men in all parts may have equal facilities
with those in the capital for investing their money
in the Government Funds, free from that trouble ,
and expense of correspondence and negotiation
which at present keeps a large part of the real re-
sources of the country.locked up in private coffers, or
employed in a manner from which the owners derive
less advantage than they would from lending it on
the interest which Government allows.

The idea of this project is, we think, borrowed
from our iimaix, who, in his speculations on the na-
tional debt of England; has some striking observa •
tions on the danger which the country runs from the
great determination of blood, as it were, to the head,
which arises from the Capital being made the grand
repository of a load of debt so enormous as that un-
der which we have the misfortune to labour. We
are inclined to think favourably of the project, and
haze no doubt that, if adopted, it will afford us an
instructive example in the relief which it will give to
the Finances of France.

The discussion on the Bill for the Alteration of the
Financial Year was then resumed, but at so late an
hour, that it was obliged to be aglin adjourned till
another day.
The rumour which was current in Paris of•the
deaths of the Pors and the late Queen of ETRURIA,
is now declared to be wholly without foundation.
M. REGNAULT de Saint Jean D'Angely, BONA-
PARTR'S Prime Adviser during the hundred days, has
received liberty to return to trance.

By the ship Glide, arrived at New Yolk from Ba-
tavia (which place she left on the Ist of 'November)
advice had been received of an insurrection having
broken out at Amboyna, at the head of which was
SAPPERWA, a great Insurgent Chief, who, with his
followers, was committing great slaughter.
The pirates had become most desperate depredators
on the Malacca coast. An English ship had been at-
tacked by them, and the Captain and the whole of
the crew murdered. Communications had been sent
to Sir THOMAS STAMFORD RAFFLIS, begging that
some armed vessels might be sent in search of them.

The exterior and interior Of the late QUEEN'S Pa-
lace has latterly undergone a complete repair. A
quantity of elegant furniture, partly. from Windsor
Castle, and partly from Frogmore, and a selection
from the PRINCE lixotrir's Cottage, has been con•
veyed to Town in Artillery waggons, and placed in
the Palace, where the PRINCE REGENT will reside
during the repairs of Carlton House.
Lord LAUDERDALE was much better last night,
and there is every prospect that his Lordship's health
will be speedily re-established.
By an Order from the Horse Guards, the Mourn-
ing in the Army for the QUEEN is to change on the
2d of April, and to cease on the 2d of June.

We haver, great pleasure in performing a part of
lour duty, by referring our Readers to the advertise-
ment from the Society for Promoting the Blargement
and Building of Churchls and Chapels. it was
thought that the Society would have been rendert%l
useless by the intervention of Parliament, but it has
been shewn, that quite otherwise is the case: In the
short period of six months, it has been the means of
causing the expenditure of at least thirty thousand
pounds, in addition to its own grants, towards pro-
curing for the lower orders of people the opportunity
of attending Divine Worship according to the rites
of our Apostolic Church.
The Ferry bridge Hunt Ball, which took. placelast
week, was attended by all the rank, beauty, and
fashion of that part of Yorkshire. The ball was
oprened'by the Hon. Captain STOPPORD and the lion.
Miss PETR E. After the two first country-dances, qua-
drilles and waltzes succeeded, until the supper-rcoms
were thrown open. After an elegant repast 4, the
merry dance" was resumed. The band of the York'
Assemblies occtipied the orchestra. The dresses of
the Ladies were extremely rich and tasteful.
Bremos-aoom, Fes. 15.—The following are the odds on Races
to come :—Riddleswerth Stakes tto 1 agst Treasurer. 31 to 1
p apt Blatstockin, 9to 1 apt Soothsayer c. 10 to 1 apt En:.
parer, 13 to 1 agst Dodona.—St. Leger. Tto 1 agst Laird, 9 to
1 agst Mazdar.e, IC. to 1 agst Blaestrate.—Duly, tt to I agst
Euphrates 15 to apt Pledge SO to agst It s, to t
apt litueaiotkiog, 7to 1 apt itarossn..2Nu lauding admit ally
'other Liam

NAVAL LVTET.LiGi.:NCZ%

The John and Mary, Nasnam, from .
put into Bridlington, on the 17th inst. with much
mane, having been struck by a Leavy see
VKSSELS SPOKEN UITH.—The Liza Ann,
London to the South Seas, on the 414 inst. in
38.4.3. lon. 11. 15. The Reindeer, Munk
Bourcleaux to New York, on the 12th inst. in •
O. IoL7. 9. 29. by the Margaret; BZ'CWN. -
Liverpool.
Facuovrtt, FranuaßY
gales and thick weather.—Arrived
pert, from Portsmouth for Barbadces,
Bristol, i\ tA sTr.nu N, from Plymouth to Vt.lles,
loss of foremast and other &huge; also 5i:V tra: •
names unknown.

FORTSMOUTU, FEBRUARY It:ie.-`lllld S. W.
rived several outward-bound vessels, and remai3
the others, all well. Sailed the Scot:cc ent:et,
a cruize. • •

DEAL, TEnIarARY 18.—Wind W.S.
and sailed for the River the Catharine, Bn(.
the Sooth Seas. Came down from the itiver
raid, SrRANACK, for St. Vincent's; Marquis
ley, NamEarfor Grenada ; Gulden Grove.
for Cape of Good Hope; Duchess of York,
HAM, for Buenos Ayres ; Mars, lIEPPSLL, for
and Letitia Tennant, —, for Belfast ; and
in the Downs with the rest of the out-

DOVER, FEBRUARY 18.—Sailed last night ,
Duncan packet, Captain PASCOE, for Ostend,
mail and paspengers. Arrived this day the
Leopold, Captain ltocEns ; Lady Jane James,
ll.tywartn; and l'lris French packet, from (
with passengers ; also, the Favourite, Capt. Poi
with corn from Wend. Sailed this day the,
chester packet, Captain lturrEft, fur Cal.us, wr.:2
mail and passengers.
LYNIINCTON, I'FBRUARYIB.—Ptft back the I'm
Eliza, .Sr molt: f and Jupiter, Si' ITII, forCuracrL
BRIXA Nit. FEBRUARY 17.—Arrived
schooner I'itEAsANT, from a cruise.
MILFORD, FEBRUARY 14.—Wind N. N. W.--
the vessels bound round land sailed yesterda-;,
the wind shifting during the night to the South,:
they have all put back.

OLD BAILEY, FEBRUARY Is.

SPECIAL COMMISSION.
Sort after the sitting of the Court this mo:ni
Mr.SitELTON, the Clerk of the Arraigns, read
cial Commission, authorizing the trial of
persons charged under the Abolitioft cf the
Trade Act with having removed, for the Nr:
being sold, a number of persons from the island
Mauritius.

Mr. Laren GRAHAM addressed the Jury it a sllort
speech.
The Grand Jury then withdrew, and about tlrTe
hours afterwards, returned with. a Nil not for
against Jaques Aristide .llnuneron ; and traz it
against Philippe Cuday, alias Phillithed, A
Clarensae, and Joseph Anne Tre,grose. "they se.,
rally pleaded—Not Guilty. Their trLl wos then
appointed to take place at ten o'clock on .4::.ltur

morning.
Willson Bremen was found guilty of stealing
pieces of foreign coin, the property of John Nelson.
Robert Hines and John Close, chimney-sweepers,
were capitally indicted, for stealing, in the dwelling-
house of C. P. Rushmore, Esq. in the parish of St.
Luke, Chelsea; a silver cream jug, a silver sugar br
son, twelve silver spoons, and a variety of articles of
plate. Guilty—Death. Aged 17 and 19.
Charles, Hannah, and Sarah Ptotrell, father, mo-
ther, and daughter, were capitally indicted for steal-
ing in the dwelling-house of William Goff, a US
note, two £lO, and rive £1 notes, his property.
The Jury pronounced Charles Powell, Not Guilty;
Hannah Posed!, Guilty—Deal', aged 40; and .Slra4
Pesen, Guilty—Reath, aged 13.

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