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manoeuvre, is it not a fast, that when the Committee of Reqo
'Monists entered the Hall, they scarcely found room to stand''
to the honour of Sir GEORGE CREW; who ap-
peared at the Meeting to represent the ltequisitionists,
and who moved the Ministerial Address, he has, in
that very Journal, answered the foregoing questions,
and in a manner that may serve to cover it with
shame, were it susceptible of such a weakness. That
Gentleman says—
" As an Englishman, and a Christian, I feel it my duty not'
to permit any statement, which, king incorrect, may tend un-
justly to injure the character of those who opposed us, to go
forth to the world =contradicted; more particularly do I owe
it to the High Sheriff (Mr. Mutenr), for whom I have great re-
spect, to refute a statement, the stigma of which, if true, Would
fall upon him. As regard's your latter question, tooted abo4,
I beg leave to state, that we (the Requisitionists), were afforded
equal facility with the Noble Mover .1 the amended Address to enter
the County Hall. As regards your former question, I beg leave
to state, that the doors of the Hall were opessed,fairly and equally,
to all parties collected in the yard. I trust you will give this ac-
count the earliest possible insertion. " Germs Calms."

From this convicted specimen of falsehood the
Public will see what degree of credit should be at-
tached to the tales of slander against the great body
of the People that are daily vomited forth in that
Journal.

While on this subject, •we shall take the opportu-
nity of contradicting another falsehood that appeared
in its columns, respecting the Meeting at hlington,
at which it was stated that the Loyal Inhabitants were
put in bodily fear, and one of them knocked down
and robbed in the middle of the mom. We were
present at that Meeting, and we declare that this
statement was a foul falsehood. The Meeting was
perfectly orderly, excepting only in as• far as the
Ultras chose to be a little noisy—and these did not
exceed half a dozen in number.

The Cambridge County Meeting took place yes-
terday. Never was there a more numerous or more
respectable assemblage in that rich and important
County ; and in no place have the Ultras cut a more
insignificant figure.
A Requisition to the Sheriff of Cambridgeshire,
numerously and 'respectably signed, was presented
before he left the room, to call another County
Meeting for the purpose of presenting a Petition to
the House of Commons for a Reform in Parliament.

The Middlesex Meeting for a' Reform in Parlia-
ment took place yesterday, at Hackney. It was nu-
merously and respectably attended. Tke different
Resolutions were all carried, only one hand being
held up against them.
A Meeting has also been called for the County of
Bedford, and similar Meetings may soon be expected
in other Counties.

A Meeting has been fixed by the HIGH SHERIF,
of Breconshire, of the Freeholders and Inhabitants,
for the 20th inst. to take into consideration* the pre-
sent distressed state of the country, and to implore
his MA.rUTY to change his Counsels. A list of
names more distinguished for respectability, num-
bers, or property, was never before witnessed in that
County. In fact, almost all the great landed pro-
prietors, resident in the County, have signed the
Requisition, together with upwards of 100 of the
most respectable yeomen. The Meeting is expected
to be more fully attended than on any former occa-
sion. The Requisition is signed by Mr. WILKINS,
M.P. for Radnorshire, Mr. W. A. Marmots, M.P.
for Chippenham, &c. &c.
The inhabitants of Kendal and its vicinity are to
meet next week, for the purpose of signing an Ad-
dress and Petitions, expressive of their unshaken
loyalty to the Sovereign—of their regard to the
Constitution—and of their prayers for the dismissal
of a Ministry which has reduced a flourishing nation
to the verge of ruin, and the liberties of a free People
to merely a name; and also of testifying their respect
fop the honour of the Crown, by requesting Parlia-
ment to restore her MAJESTY, without delay, to the
enjoyment of all her Constitutional Rights and Dig-
nities. Here, as in some other places, the Mayon
.could see no reason for calling a Meeting, but hie
fellow-subjects view the present situation of the
Country in a different light, and have resolved to
judge for themselves.

The Paris Papers of Sunday arrived this forenoon.
The Emperors FRANCIS and ALEXANDER took their
departure from Vienna for Laybach on the 2d inst.
Among the Envoys who are on their way thither,
mention is made of Count De LA FERRONATII, the
French Minister to the Russian Court, and the Mar-
quis DR ST. MARSAN, Minister for Foreign Affairs
to the Court of Sardinia. A Courier is also said to
have been dispatched from Madrid to the Spanish
Chargé d'Affaires, with dispatches of great import-
ance, relative to the affairs of Naples. Of the share
which England is to have'in the approaching Con-
clave, no notice is taken.
It is the prevailing expectation at Vienna, that after
the conclusion of the conferences at Laybach, there
will be a grand Review of the Austrian troops by
the Allied Sovereigns, in the environs of Treviso:—
The Neapolitans, in the meantime, are profiting by
the respite which the Meeting of the Congress at
Laybach affords them to increase and improve their
means of defence. On the 25th ult. the PRINCE RE-
(max held a Military Council : and the same evening
General WILLIAM Perm set of for the Province of
Abruzzo, to take the command of the third division
of the Army. To this division is attached a body,
commanded by the brave Mottetu, which has as-
sumed the appellation of 7 he Sacred Band. Two
other divisions of the Army had taken up the posi-
tions assigned to them in the general plan ofdefence,
and the fourth was to remain as a reserve in the Ca-1
pital and the environs. The works, at all the points
which it was deemed requisite to fortify, were nearly
completed. Gaeta and Civitella had been amply

supplied, and the defence of the former had been
confided to BEOANNI, and that of the latter to Colo-
nel PEPE, the Deputy. Plans for opposing the
threatened invasion had been transmitted to the-Nea-
politan Government, from foreign military men at
Turin, Milan, Paris, and London. Among those
from the latter Capital, was one from General Dv-
MOURIER. A number of Spanish Officers, of superior
rank, are also, said to have arrived at Naples, to assist
in organizing the Guerillas.
A Courier Extraordinary arrived on Saturday at
Paris, with advices from Madrid to the 4th. At
that period the greatest tranquillity continued to pre-
vail. Among the individuals arrested for their re-
fractory conduct, with respect to the Debating Clubs,
are M. MORA, Editor of the Constitutionnei (which
has, in consequence, been dropped), M. LUNA, a
Guerilla Chief, and the Duke del Pauquz. On the',
29th ult. the Permanent Deputation of the Cortes
assembled to take into consideration the affairs of
Naples ; the Courier dispatched to Vienna is, most
probably, the bearer of the result of their deliberations.
An article from Lisbon states, that the Provisional'
Government had been informed, by a letter him the
Commander of the Province of Beira, that on the
night of the 10th instant, a detachment of Spanish
cavalry, who were in pursuit of fourteen criminals,
entered the town of Afaiales, two leagues within the
frontier, and there forced twelve of the criminals
from the hands of the Portuguese Authorities, and
likewise killed a peasant ; the Government had, in
consequence, addressed a letter to the Spanish Minis-
ter for Foreign Affairs at Lisbon cin the subject. The
Spanish Minister replied to this note in the most sa-
tisfactory manner,..by announcing that his Govern-
ment, immediately on learning the event, had or-
dered the Officer who was guilty of it to be punished,
and that steps had been adopted to prevent the re-
currence of a similar transaction for the future. The
Minister added, that his MAJESTY would grant to
the peasant's family (if there be any) a proportionate
indemnity.
Don Jostrit MARIE RODRIGurz, who stands deeply
implicated in the massacre at Cadiz, and who had
taken refuge in Portugal, has been given up by the
Portuguese Government, and sent to Cadiz under a
Istrong escort.
The Elections for Lisbon and its environs were
concluded on the 25th ult. on the evening of which
day, a brilliant illumination of the City and neigh-
bourhood, for two leagues round, took place.
A number of merchant ships had arrived from the
Brazils, towards the end of December, some of them
after very short passages ; but the advices brought by
them contain nothing determinate as to the disposi-
tions of the Court of Rio Janeiro. It would seem
that the KING waited the result of some communi-
cations with Europe. The dispatches from Lord
BaRISFORD, announcing the manner in which he had
been received at Lisbon, had reached Rio; but the
Public had not been made acquainted with the na-
ture of their contents. It may be reasonably sus-
pected that the late events in Portugal have not been
represented by his Lordship in the most satisfactory
colours.

A letter from Corfu states, that the famous Ex-
Pacira of JANINA has obtained his pardon, having
succeeded in gaining the party of the Harem by the
sacrifice of two millions of sequins (1:1,000,000 Eng-
lish sterling), and jewels to the value of about half as
much.—French Five per Cents. Saturday, 801. 45c.

New York Papers arrived this morning to the 10th
of December.

COLOMBIAN Ritruatic.—By the Meter, from An-
gostura, letters have been received of the 23d Octo-
ber, from which we make the following short extract :
The affairs of the Patriots improve every day.
Since the Spanish Constitution bas been published,
great desertions from the enemy have taken place;
in some instances, Colonels with whole battalions
have come over—these are triumphs of opinion in-
finitely superior to those gained in the field.--
The army of New Granada began to move, on the
20th ult. from Cucuta towards Venezuela ; the ad-
vanced guard consisted of upwards of 4,000 men,
under the command of General Urdaneta ; General
Paez will form a junction with it in December.—
Morillo is in the neighbourhood of Valencia and San
Carlos, where he appears determined that the grand
struggle shall take place: we have good reason for
anticipating a favourable issue. Bolivar, in person,
has been moving through the departments, and in.
specting corps and promoting organization: he will
lead at least 12,000 men, well armed."

We have also received, at a late hour, by the ship
Constitution, from Norfolk, Virginia, Papers to the
14th December; but must defer any extracts we have
to give till to-morrow.

Yesterday afternoon, at three o'clock, a Cabinet
Council was held at the Foreign Office, which Was
attended by the LORD CHANCIM.LOR, the Earl of LI-
VERPOOL, Earl BATHURST, the Earl of WESTMORE-
LAND, Earl of HARROWBY, Viscount MELVILLE,
Viscount SIDMOUTH, Viscount CASTLEREAGH, the
CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER, the Hon. Mr. Ro-
atusou, Mr. WELLESLEY POLE, the Duke of WEL.
LINGTON, and Mr. B. BATHURST ; the whole of whom
continued to sit in Council until half-past six, when
they broke up and retired.
Yesterday the Duke of YORK held a Military Levee.
The Duchess of CLARENCE, we are happy to say,
is so much recovered from her accouchement, as to
see company every day.
Monday being the Duke of GLOUCESTER'S Birth-
day, the same was celebrated at Bagshot, by the
Duke and Duchess having a select party to dinner.
A fire broke out on Monday night at Thorpe Hall,
in Hertfordshire, the residence of Mr. CAMPBELL
Bows'', which burnt it to the ground, with coach-
house and stabling contiguous, and a rick of hay. It
was occasioned by the negligence of a servant setting
fire to the curtains in going to bed.
AILILMSTS rx Duaktx.—Sunday night, between the hours of
eight and nine o'clock, llajor &KR, upon previous information,
proceeded with a strong party of Police to a public-house in
Winetavern.street ; having entered the house, he found there a
number of persons assembled, apparently of the class of work-
ing tradesmen: they appeared to be in close consultation, with
Papers on the table, the character or subject of *which, whe-
ther political or otherwise, we have not been able to ascertain.
The appearances were such, however, as that Major Slaa con-
ceived himself fully warranted in taking into custody 'the whole
party, nineteen in number. After a private investigation at the
Head Police Office, they were sent off to different prisons, some
to Newgate, some to Kilmalohant, dud the remainder to the
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