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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1820.
THE FUNDS.
PRICE Olt STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
5 per Ct. Reduced 691,6 1/4 I,,Es-81} per Ct. 78%
4 per Cent. 87% 1/4—Long Anns. nothing done
India Bonds 255. 245. pre.
Exchequer Bills par, Is. dis.
Cons. for Acct. 70% % %.

Every post brings us advices of some new defeat
sustained by the " life and fortune" faction in their
attempt to impose upon their SOVEREIGN, by getting
up Addresses, in support of Ministers, pretending to
proceed from the inhabitants at large of counties,
towns, and districts, when, in reality, they are at di-
rect variance with the sentiments which the inha-
bitants at large are known to entertain.
At Peterborough, the Magistrates (the Rev. Dr.
STRONG and the Rev. JOHN JACESON SEREGOLD),
ventured on convening a Public Meeting of the In-
habitants, in the hope of being able to carry an Ad-
dress, which they had prepared, in the Usual style of
ultra-loyal extravagance, ascribing everything (the wet
weather scarcely excepted) to" the madness of the Peo-
ple !" The Meeting was more numerous and indiscri-
minate than the Reverend Magistrates probably ex-
pected; and, to complete their dismay, they found
themselves unexpectedly favoured with the presence
of the worthy and independent Member for the County,
Lord MILTON, who, in spite of a petty attempt at
opposition, was called to the Chair. Need we state
the result? The clerico-magisterial banding was
kicked out of doors, and an Address adopted, which,
after vindicating in manly terms the character of the
inhabitants, for " inviolable attachment and uninter•
rupted fidelity to his MaJerry's person and his illus-
trious House," states, that they "lament, in common
with many millions of his MAJESTY'S loyal subjects,
the agitation excited throughout the country by the
conduct of his MAJESTY'S Ministers, in introducing
the late Bill of Pains and Penalties into the House
of Lords, and farther imploring his MAJESTY net to
consider their present ardent and unfeigned expres-
sions of loyalty and attachment to his Sacred Person,
and to our invaluable Constitution, as in anywise
implying an approval of these measures."

• At Manchester there have been two sorts of Meet
ings, both to Address his MAJESTY; one a Public
Meeting, at the Manor Court Room, where every
person might attend, and the other a private one, at
the Police Office, where little more than a hundred
persons could gain admission. At the ?alba Meet-
ing the Address, unanimously agreed to, expresses
the deep and unfeigned concern of the Meeting that,
in the first year of his reign, his Mutant's Ministers
should have "precipitated an investigation by which
public opinion has been so much outraged, public
tranquillity so much hazarded, and the loss endan-
gered of any portion of that strong and affectionate,
but rational attachment to our political institutions,
which constitutes their best safeguard, and the
greaten glory of the Ruler of a free People." The
Address of the Private—Police ()Ace Meeting or
Junta—which, with a decency and modesty quite
characteristic of a certain class of Gentlemen in Man-
chester, actually purports to be that of " the Borough-
k ree es and Constables of Manchester and Salford;
tog er with THE Magistrates, Clergy, Merchants,
7'ra ers, and Householders, of thes..42inons and their
bicinities ;" this private, smuggled, piece of impos-
ture, carefully avoids saying a word in opposi-
tion to the sentiments of the other Meeting, respect- 1
ing the prosecution of her MAJESTY, but treats his
MAJESTY with a most furious tirade against the
whole body of his loving subjects, abusing them
as " base and seditious," gg wicked and audacious,"
gg avowed and inveterate enemies of the State r as
indulging in 66 frenzied clamours," 46 opprobrious
calumnies," 44 domineering insolence and licentious-
ness r as, in short, in a state of absolute 44 delirium!"
Is it possible that the men with have penned such
frantic nonsense can seriously imagine that it is ac-
ceptable to his hlastsnt's ears to hear his People
thus foully and falsely reviled? Is it possible they
can hope for a moment's success to their effrontery,
in attempting to palm such stuff on the Kum and
the Public as the genuine sentiments of 44 the Mer-
chants, Traders, and Householders" of Manchester
and Salford? We give full credence to the Man-
chester Gazette, when it states, that this Address "was
notoriously in opposition wan overwhelming majority
of our population."
The People are not to be led astray with a name ;
—they see, that with loyalty in their mouths, these
men are endeavouring to extinguish loyalty. They
will approve themselves the true friends of the
Throne by aiding in an endeavour to remove from
the presence of the SOVEREIGN the men who have
so egregiously failed in their duty to him. At
a conjuncture like the present, he is an enemy
and not the friend of the KING, who contributes in
any manner to mislead him, with respect to the sew
timents of the country, as to the conduct of his W.
nisters ; and, therefore, while, like good subjects, we
manifest our loyalty, it is essentially necessary, to
prevent such manifestation from leading to false
conclusions, that we should at the same time respect-
fully, bat boldly, convey to the Throne oar sense