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London, England, 1820-12-19 00:00:00

the system pursued with regard to the Quamt...l
True friendship often requires that unpalatable truths
be told—that endeavours be made to undeceive when
we see confidence misplaced7—for to encourage d-
gerous '

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delusion is not friendship but flattery. -
A Requisition for a Meeting of the County of
Gloucester, signed by Lords Ducts and Sammons%
and sixty other names of the first respectabdity, has
been presented to the High Sheriff; but that Gentle.,
man has given a refusal, on the ground that the Re-
quisition assumes, what he cannot admit, " that the
late measures in Parliament against the Quails were
illegal and unconstitutional." It Is not said whether
the Requisitionists intend to bold a Meeting on their
own responsibility.
The High Sheriff of Ilerkshire has also given a
refusal to the respectable 11equisition lbr a Meeting
of that County ; but a Meeting has, notwithstanding,
bow called by a sufficient number of Magistrates to
give it the legality required by the recent Statutes.
In Staffordshire there is a Requisition in circula-
tion, which will speedily be presented to the Sheriff,
requesting him to call a Meeting " for the purpose
of considering the best means of securing our glo-
rious Constitution equally against the dangerous de-
signs of the seditious and diSaffected on the one hand,
and the encroachments and abuses. of Ministerial

power on the °thee •
In Scotland we are-glad to see thatthe People'are
also bestirring themselves. We have no great hopes
from anything in the shape of a County Meeting
on the other side of the Tweed, bvt thete is one
good thing about the Scotch County Meetings
which we do not always see exemplified among
ourselves—they are called by public advertise-
ment, in sufficient time to allow all to attend
who chase—they meet publicly and openly—and
whatever.may be the value of the sentiments which
issue from them, they are at least the genuine and
spontaneous offspring of those in whose name they
are sent forth to the world. A Meeting of the N-
obility, Magistrates, and Freeholders, of the County
of Edinburgh, is, we observe, appointed to take place
on the 22d instant, for the purpose of considering the
propriety of addressing his MAJESTY, on the present
state of the Country. The County of Roxburgh is
also to meet on the same day, for a similar purpose.

The Courier has invented a now ingredient for the
establishment of Me reign of terror. The names of
all the " new comers" (the Ladies) who may pay'
their respects to the Qum, are to be regularly noted,
and " the whole to be kept regularly before the public
eye!" His object cannot be mistaken. But he will
fail in his aim :—the good and the Virtuous cannot
be intimidated by the insinuated threat of any time-
server whatever. In what light would the admirers
of this system view a threat to keep 44 before the
public eye" a list of the visitors to Carlton-Hourc!
and, more especially, an invitation to compare and
contrast the two lists ? This would be called Radi-

calism, with a vengeance—an attempt to we
bhall not say what. Fools should never employ a
weapon with two edges.

Frankfort Papers to the 10th instant arrived yes-
terday. They confirm the previous reports that the
Congress at Troppau had broken up, and that its
conferences were to be resumed at Vienna, on the
arrival of the answer of the Neapolitan Government,
which was expected about the 12th or 13th instant.
Ii Was not supposed that the King of NAPLES would,
at his advanced age, and at this season of the year,
accept the invitation of the two Emperors M meet
them at Laybach.—An Edict of the Emperor of
AUSTRIA forbids the delivery of passports for Italy
to literary men, artists, scholars, and other young
persons, unless by the special permission of the Mi-
nisters for Ecclesiastical Affairs and of Public" In-
struction.

The Paris Papers of Thursday and Friday have
arrived. The following are extracts:

PARIS, DECEMBER 16.

The King yesterday gave a private audience to M.
Laine. His Majesty, in the afternoon, transacted
business with the Duke de Richelieu.

The King of Denmark has appointed the Count
de Bourke to succeed the Count de Waltersdorff, as
his Minister Plenipotentiary at Paris.
The Gazette de France says—" Letters from Ma-
drid say, the King has issued a Decree, by which he
suppresses the pension which he had granted to Don
Alvarez de Toledo, still incorrigible in the perfidious
and rebellious conduct which has given him an infa-
mous celebrity. This Spaniard has attempted to
impose upon different Cabinets, particularly upon
the Emperor of Russia, by the grossest Impostures.
Since the arrest of the King's valet de chambre,
Bussengol, nut a day has passed without new ar-
rests, which are founded, it is said, upon the decla-
rations made by that individual. The most incredu-
lous begin to be convinced of the existence of a plan,
we will not say of counter-revolution, but of disor-
ganization and massacre—a plan set on foot by per.
sons who knew the impossibility of its execution,
but who believe they shall have attained their ob-
ject, if they can succeed in making it a topic of con-
versation at Troppau, that blood has been shed in
Spain. Yes! blood must Sow, since the patience of
Government is abused with so much obstinacy; but
that blood will be legally and promptly shed ; and,
far from being a loss, it will be a gain to the coun-
try. since with that blood it will acquire the tran-
quillity to which its true children are entitled."
Don Villalba has addressed a-Proclamation to the
garrison of Madrid, announcing to them, that he
has succeeded General Vigodet, appointed a Council-
lor of Sate. This Proclamation contains the follow-

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