The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-12-21 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN..

reirta. and he could not reward it in any other light..no He thought they would show their good sense in t
departing from the established custom of entering the
answer of his Majesty upon their Journals.
Mr. TAYLOR spoke for the original motion.
After a short reply from Mr. Fasts.t., the Amend-
ment teas put and lost by a great majority.
Sir C. ilusgen regretted that he had not entered the
Court earlier, as it was his intention to have proposed
an Aniendisient. He felt the highest esteem and grati-
tude for the First Lord of the Treamsry, and he enter-
tained the greatest respect for the rest of his Majesty's
Ministers. lie thought, indeed, that those great men
had erred in the late affair, but it was not fit for this
Court to arrogate to itself the right of judging of their
conduct.

Mr. Alderman !Ilium said it was his intention to pro-
pose au Arnettlntent. Much hail hero said in the course
of this otheossion, of the insult offered by his Majesty's
Ministers, hit there hail not been one word of admission
as to the hasn't ofre.red by themselves to the person of
their Novereign.—(l.oud cries of order, order.)
Mr. F.tyv.i.i. rose to call the Worthy Alderman to or-
der.-34r. A bierni.in Atkins ruse at the same time amid
'tumultuous tries of " OMEN" 111111 " chair."
The Lon D 311 TON said it was his anxious wish to give
every gentleman a full and fair hearing, lint it was ne-
cessary to hear the arguments of gentlemen before he
could deride upon a point of order.
i Mr. Favet.i. apprehended it was highly disorderly to
call an Address ti hid' had been age to by this Court,
and carried up to the fbut of the Throne, an insult to
the Sovereign.
Mr. Sheriff W arriimatt said, the Worthy Alderman
was entirely out of `Order. No discussion could take
glare.
After a reply had been made, and the atnendmant dis-
p•swil of,
Mr. Alderman 11111111 contended, that the amendment
having been negatived, and the original motion bring
the question flaw before the Court, he hail a right, in pro-
posing an amendment, to take all Slue collateral rise -
stutters into ranisiileration. He repeated, that no admis-
sion hail been insole by this Court as to the nature of the
Address. They hail no right to notice a domestic rir-
a. . tante, with a Lich this Court could have nothing to
do.--(lomil cries of order.)
l'he Lonio 31. av in thought, as the Worthy Alderman
was only expressing his own opinion, he was at liberty
to pursue this line of observation.
,Ir. Alderman lIIKCH continued. Ile did say that
this Court had offered an insult to the person of the
Sovereign. They had interfered with the private affairs 1
of the Sovereign on the Throne in a way in which no
individual in this Court would have dared to interfere
with regard to au equal. Ilis only surprise was,
that the reply was so mild, and that it had not gone
•11 further. On these rewinds he should more the
previous question.
311.. S. Divas seconded the motion. 1

Mr. PE tIVOIS trusted the Court trwil.l not entertain
the motion of the Wortliv Altleriiimi--• motion, he be-
liever). pet fectly unparalleled, since it called upon thoin
in effect to take 110 notire whatever of his I:rjesty's
answer. Hr (Mr. I'.) could -
self a party to mirk an insult upon his Ilajesty.
The previous rptestion was lost upon • skew of hands,
and the original question was then put, and carried by a
great apparent majority. A division was called for,and
the nundwrs appeared,
Fur the motion, J Aldermen, 93 Commoners, and
2 Tellers—M.

Agmust the motiun, 5 Aldermen, 51 Commoners, and
2 Trllers --54.

Majority fur the original motion, :Wl.
The other Wiliness of the day was then dispose of, sod
the Court adj,,uraird.

ottoman subject, and their known philanthropy pre-
vents toe from suspecting that they will lose a moment,
too the assembling of Parliament, in laying before
.that House all the knowledge they possess of that
truly horrible business. But I am digressing. During
the month of February last, there was mach talk of
ao expected rising; introduced, there can be little
doubt,' by bad men. Things had been curried to such
a height by these persons, that on Itrednesday the first
oflttrcla, the town was inundated with military of
every description, from all quarters ; as it was positive.
ly said, to use the cant of the day, " that something
great was to be attempted by the Radicals that even-
ing." The Solicitor-General and other law-officers
front Edinburgh, were in attendance, but nothing
took place. and they returned to their homes. It be-
came a subject of some doubt among the law autho-
rities of the capital, whether the disturbers of the pub-
lic peace had committed an overt act of treason. The
Bonnyeatuir party, however, gave a copy of the Ad-
dress to the serjeant of Hussars whom they stopped on
the road, and thereby proved, in some measure, that
they were acting on its dictation ; otherwise it is pro-
bable that neither Baird nor Ilardie would have been
found guilty of high treason ; nor would James Wil-
son, it is supposed, although he had marched 1000
miles, instead of 4, along with his miserable party,
with his half of an old rusty sword under his coat, have
suffered his awful punishment, unless it bad been
rhaiged as one of the overt-acts in his indictment, that
he acted upon the views of this infamous production.
About the middle of March it began to be whispered,
that an Moire's or Proclamation of the Radicals would
soon be published ; some believed this to be a hoax,
hut others were, day after day, to be seen at every
place where (dills are in the habit of bring stuck up,
anxiously gazing for the promised manifesto. At length.
on Sunday the 2d of April, the placard appeared. On
the afternoon of that day, a Proclamation was issued
by the magistrates, offering a reward of 3001. for the
authors or publishers of the treasonable hand-bill. All
this looked sere welisa-it was now the inquiry of every'
person, if the authorities had been searching the Print-i
ing-offices. The search was made on Wednesday: the!
Bill was printed on the Sunday! At a very early
period this bill was supposed to have been manufac- '
tnred in Englaud ; for the Editor of one of our news-
papers. who is certainly nothing behind any of his co-
temporaries in acuteness, says, on Monday the 3d, the
very day after the publication of the placard:—" This
paper is supposed to hare been printed in England ;
anal we should suppose it of English composition, from
its dwelling much upon Magna Charts and the Bill of
Rights, it, which Scotland has no interest." The
history of the following two months ; the arrests, and
solitary confinement of numerous individuals ; the ex-
ecutions and decapitations, are yet fresh in the me-
mory of every 111811 in Britain. I shall now, in as con-
cise a manner as I am capable of, advert to what I
ron:sider the most extraordinary part of this business ;
indeed, to mention the detached facts which
follow, was soy ptincipal reason for troub-1
ling you with this communication ; and with-
out making a single observation of my own,
I leave them for the impartial retlection of the public.
On a late 04:Cablegl, when Mr. Home declared, in the
House of C MOO; that Franklin was the author of
the plal'ard, the Glasgow, Coo:rico- of the 21st of Oc-
tober, after contradicting this statement, says, " three
well known persons in Parkbead composed the Ad-
dress, and employed two boys (mentioning their
names) to print it." The following answer appeared in
the Glasgow eliromiele of the 24th of October, written
by a person who knew the three individuals alluded
to perfee:ly Referring to the snit), that the tree
-
amiable placards were written by three men in Park-
head, I can inform, that the individuals in question
(now out of the tray) were incapable of composing a
single line of such a paper. not one of them having
received the most ordinary grammatical education."
The editor of T.oe Chronicle, who has been at immense
labour to obtain information relative to this Address,
(which we hope soon to see published), says again on
the 28th of Nov. " We believe that provincial Frank-
limo might he found, if there were provincial Pearson'.
The late Radical Rebellion has not yet been traced to
its source." Two of the persons alluded to above, as
being the assistant authors of this placard, I know no-
thing about, never even having heard their names
mentioned ; but nigh regard to the other, I can give I
a little information. The person I allude to, was a
weaver, but latterly kept a small public-house. For a
long time back he had been idd the habit of attending
all the Meetings for Reform, far and near, and of •
making spreebes. in his own way, of the most ir.flatn-1
matory description. Neither wind nor rain, frost nor,
snow, detained him from his post on the hustings at
every meeting. In short, be was considered a staunch
tritn] to the cause which he advocated so unwearieolly,
and was trusted accordingly. At one of the Union '
Meetings which were numerous in the suburbs of !
this town about nine or ten months ago, this man fist
introduced the far-famed Address, stating that it was
in general circulation in England, and suggesting that
it would hex most paramount good, if the meeting,
by any means, could get an impression thrown off
for 41lesgew. This was no difficult task. .An appren-
tice boy to the Printing business, who belonged to the
Society, was inveigled by the machinations of this vil-
lain, to throw off I t or 1200 copies, assisted by his
fellow-apprentice, to whom he communicated the se-
cret. and fur which, in a few days after, they were ob-
liged to flee from their country and friends for ever.—
On the morning that the bill was published, the wea-
ver, in the moat public manner, to the knowledge of at
least fifty persons, posted a great number of them in
the virile of Parkheaol. After this, he was almost
constilittly in the company of two Sheriff's runners,
frequently attended a certain office, and this man has
now, that he is out of the way, been branded by cer-
tain authorities as the author of the bill. But if this is
the case, did they not know it in April last; and if
not. bad they not information that he diligently posted
the placard, which crime amounted to High Treason ?
Until a tree bill was found by the Grand Jury against
James Wilson of Stratisaven, nine week* after the
first of April. tin infamous weaver was daily to he
seen prowling about the streets of the city. On that
day be use observed lounging about the Cart-beetle ;
and whenever be heard of the boding be deeaasped aa
a piece of policy. nerdy. sod has net since Leta beard
of. It is not supposed, aeverthelese. that he bee left

the country. Rut I hare &rained you too lens already:
this I must say, however, the suspicions of the great
body of our citizens is aroused on this business, and
they can no more he allayed, without a fnll and fair
inquiry into all the varions windings of the subject.
than the present Ministers can convince us that the:
are high-minded men. possessed of great
exerting it all for the amelioration of t) • condition Of
the inhabitants of these Islands. I am, kc.
A CITIZEN or Lit..‘,.r.ovr.
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LONDON:
TIIVRSDAT EVENING. DEMMER 21.

STOCK EXCHANGE, ONE O'rhOrK.

The Fonds have experienced a trilling declination
thi. morning, in consequence of the resignation of 31, .
Cs Ns iNG ; but the market has not hod its k!l
sway in consequence of to-day being a Holiday ; and
the Stock Exchangt shut. Consols for the Acelurt
which left off at roi 71 last night, are now 70f
sellers.

A mail from the Brazils arrived this morning to
the 27th of October, sailed from Rio Janeiro 26th of
October. Nothing has yet transpired.

We have this morning received Paris papers to the
18th inst.

The Austrian Obserrer has at length hroken silence
on the affairs of Naples. It contains among others,
the following remarkable passages :--" The Neapolitan
Government, on account of its in , is compelled
to defer the augmentation of pay, which had been pro-
mises( to the troops. The 12th legion of Infantry has
already proved refractory in consequence, and mani-
fested insubordination. Many of the soldiers have been
anxious to return home. It was resolved to order this
regiment into the Ahrunes; in its mirth an officer
was actually shot by his own soldiers, at Teano.
" A dangerous explosion has been prevented; but
the recruits uniformly refuse to repair to the places of
their destination. Disorder and anarchy increase at
Naples. Pillage and murder are, inure than ever,
the order of the day. No person dare appear in the
streets during the night. The rer6oaari exercise the
most unlimited power. By open force they resist the
Government and Parliament, who lire in dread of
their poinards."

A letter from Madrid of the Sib instant, contains
the following brief untice:—" A courier arrived here
yesterday from Burgos : the news which he Wags
are of a very alarming. nature."
Favica FuNne.---Five per cents. 78 f.
Bank Actions 1430 1.

Our Readers will not be surprised to learn, that the
anticipations we had formed respecting Mr. CAN.
Imixt:, are at length confirmed and confessed. The
Right Honorable Gentleman has resigned the *See
of President of the Board of Control, and it is ac-
knowledged by the Ministerial Papers that he re-
tires, " because h.! could not with honor to him-
-1" self, rennin in Administration, after the turn which
" the Q.:llL'ea business has taken, sad Ike Parlieseeee-
" terry discussions likely to Carrie upon it." Of all the
men who bad directed his %Jerry's Councils. Mr.
leavnino is the only one who can deserve the credit
of consistency, for his conduct relative to the QVILEN.
In his temporary retirement from the kingdom he with-
held his countenance from the prosecution of a business
Ilse condemned, though he retained his name in the cabi;
net of his Muter; and on his rehire it appears, he
has found certain circumstances subsequent to the
derision, which reader his continuance in office so
longer practicable. Whether these circumstances
most consist in the umbrage given by his previous
steps, or in the obnoxious course which his co'.
leagues hare since been led to meditate, does not
'efficiently appear. bough, however, say be
inferred from the political manoeuvres employed in
procuring ultra-loyalist, Addresses, and from other
obvions indications that a system of augmented rigour
is in contemplatiou. That the press or the people, the
nation, or some prominent individuals are marked out
• as objects of wrath, we have little room to doubt.I
Prom the step which has at length been adopted by
Mr. CANNING, who, on former occasions, skewed
little tenderness, either to masses or to individuals of
the common people, it is apprehended that Ministers
have determined to continue their persecutions of the
gvegx. If this be the Bee which their rigour
take, it cannot, of course, be conned to her NAJIMITT.
Her adherents as well as herself will be involved la •
suffering; and the course that has already roused mid
distracted the country, will be pursued to as 'Mimeo
which cannot be contemplated without horror. Were
there no other reason than this tor desiring and
petitioning a change in his &coast t's maseilsb
this alone would be sufficient, and will, we
trust, be acted on by all who bare at beam a
due regard for the remaining libertiee of the
country, for justice or humanity, or only ger
domestic pram—Relative to Mr. Csxx Ines ulterior
mearefer, it is reported he the lliaisterial orgies,
that be intends to repair to the Vositiassot, and
there remain fur some time in retirement. Mr. Pau&
:is mentiooell as his probaMe swam M the Ake of
I President of the Board of Goodrum!.

Among the, important etiowoosiestlooo from celess•
postleets our wort of thieeireolog, the.letter boo
A eithies of tillosirow" cosset fail to obtain row,
liar attention. no prereanags of the twain a
the inhahienoto of gditeborgh alma, wilt ho read will
lively imetreet.

lIEETING INH ABITANTSV

On S outstay the meeting of the inhabitants of this
of which notice had been given by advertisement
for some days pant, was held in the Pantheon, all parts
of which were crowded to excess before the hour of
meeting arrived. It is computed that between three
and four thousand persons were present, bat a very
contider;oie number of the inhabitants, and even seve-
ral of the gentlemen who had called the meeting, were
enable to get in. all the accesses to the interior of the
place being (bolted up by persons endeavouring in
vain to obtain adminsi ,o.

Shortly before the preses of the meeting took the
chair, the meeting paid a well•nmerited compliment to
theirvenerable townsman, Mr. Archibald Fletcher.—
lie was received, as soon as he was noticed making way
to a chair, which the committee intrusted with the
arrangements bad provided for him, with three dis-
tinct cheers, and the greatest demonstrations of re-
spect.
At twelve o'clock Mr. islets Ginsote rose, and pro•
posed that Japes Muncreilf, E►sq., should be called to
the chair, which was unanimously agreed to.
Mr. Monomer took the chair amid great applause.
lie said he was deeply sensible of the honour the
meeting had conferred upon him, and assured them
that he would discharge his duty to the best of his
ability. The meeting were assembled, he observed,
to exercise an Important constitutional right, the pri-
vilege of petitioning their King, the Sovereign of a
free people, and respectfully to lay before him the
acts of his responsilVe servants. It was by the ex-
prission of opinion at such assemblages that public
liberty was preserved, and no state could lay claim to
freedom where such meetings do not exist. Time
learned gentleman then pointed out to the meeting
the propriety of preserving order and decorum in
their deliberations; and, as he knew of nothing which
could prevent the inhahitants of Edinburgh from
exercising their political franchise, so he had the
fullest reliance on their good sense, that they would
Lid ddi ire to ttessopt that might hr wade to
produce any thing like tumult or disorder. Assem-
blod as t lice were to consider and discuss measures of
a pu'llit ',tire, there might be differences of opinion;
but he relnested, that the greatest attention should be
paid to those who might differ in opinion front the
majority of the meeting.
_

Ht. 31oNeat's: than read the requisition to the
Lord Provost. He t.aid, that whatever observations
any gentleman might think proper to make, he trusted
would be confined to the objects expressed in the requi-
sition, and that-personalities of every kind would be
avoided. He then called on the gcnslemen, who bad
et„cr•l the requisition, to state their sentiments.
.11r. Ji irtttT rose, and was received with universal
cheering. Ile said, that the motives the gentlemen
had in view who signed the requisition were highly lin-
siorAhle to them ; but as it might be necessary to state
to the meeting their reasons, he bad been requested by
some of his friends to explain them. lie apologised
fir being km prepared titan he could have wished,
uM ing to his otheravocations, to enter upon the subject
with that knowledge of it which it required ; but, not-
withstanding, he would Padeavour to explain to the
meeting, with all the ability in his power, the objects of
the requisitionists. Ile had, perhaps, been rather tardy
in ateeolling tiseettage of this description. He was food
of .esireutent, and had seldom leisure, from his other
pursatite, to give the necessary time to enable him to
al-ed s•ch meetings with effect. The present state
of the times, however, was such, that to risk personal
•bloquy was of no concern when the interest of
the country required our attention ; and it was with
pleasure he InW aronnd him many persons who,
hr the first-time in their lives, had ever attended such
meetings. When it is considered, that within a short
period the middling and lower orders of the people
have heretrie, from time dissemination of knowledge,

intelligent, and, of course, have lately ri-en into
rreat political consequence, he saw some measures were
indispensably necessary to allay the discontent which
prevailed ; one great cause of which, he believed,
home. ti-d from the want of an elective franchise, for
*Lich seine practical remedy sbould he applied.
Oo irg partly to a want of this privilege were to be as-
cribed the strange notions which many persons enter-
tained of political reform. Hr was of opinion that
were meetings of this kind sometimes held, they would
correct those erronrons views, and silence the calum-
nies of those whose policy and the obvious tendency of
their conduct is to confound with the well-meaning
the worst enemies of the State. The policy of the
p ot Government hail hero to divide the people into
tw • classes, which had, he contended, the worst ten-
dency. if the persons in the lower ranks of life see
ttieir rulers disregarilfol of their interest, and return-
ing to their petitil,nr sinners nut even conveyed in
courteous language, it is then time fur the higher ranks
tointerfere. There is only one remedy, and it is that
the upper ranks should stand forward and snpport
these of the roll., who, feeling their r4glits, seek re-
dress in a rcspeettul manner. The Learned Gentle-
man then noticed the very orderly and proper beha-
triOlf of the Meeting. He said there v. as une topic on
whick4lie would say a few words. He referred to the
assertions, that a number of the petaxis who signed
the requisition had adhibitcd their names for the par.
p ee of get i g into ps.tver, a• d that they were hungry
expectatitsaoffise. The utter falsehood of such obloquies
leas almost too obvious and apparent to require refute-
; but be would ask, who are they who are charged
with this They are those who ..re struggling against
'pilfer, and who might hare gained it by preferring
posit to principle, their wish being to leave a land of
peace and liberty to their posterity as the best boon
they could bestow. Fur his own part, he solemnly de-
clared that he would nut accept place or etuolumeat to
which he bad not a fair and a just claim. He bad no
desire for office. He and his friends whom be found
groom, him h ail, by their own exertions, alone brought
themselves to the situation in which they now were;
they lived gaily and merrily; and, for his own part,
he did not relish lite constraint the possession °fake
mast bring along with it. He therefore considered the
charges brought against him and his fries& hi bet
law ralumeimm, absurd, and false; and AMMO
be treated that the counsels width *ore advocated by
the party to which be belonged wouipl be adopted, be
was not sanguine enough to think that a Whig Admit.'
trade, would penuaseotly gala an asoesJaotpt but

should such be the sass, it withl sots iii ion teat
some of their present epposests would oak over to
their party, and share donitors wMe4 II tin be
enjoyed. It had hoes Poly obiervid, thy every wit
should bear in mind the seep* and ol.ect or this regal.
si tion. that it was in etireopiesee it the la-
grant nseredaet of Ministers, in their foreign and
domestic policy, that the distress which delisted the
country had been brought about. He did lint think the*
the state of the country would be much improved sinless
a complete change of the present systeni was adopted.
It was of little consequence whether the secusers of
the Queen were or were not brought to punishment,
if the measures of their conduct weals nterTirered;( It
was their wasteful and uwptecodented expeaditure of
the public money which was the root of all the evil
under u hich the country laboured, and he would fear-
lessly assert, that if no remedy is applied it would be
impossible to escape from the ruin which threatened
us. The learned gentleman them made some pointed
observations on the impolicy of the restrietioos on
trade. Nu man, he said, who Is acquainted with the
history of the times, cam be ignorant of the high and
commanding attitude which this country bad attained
iu 1614, in the eyes of the world; sod when hostili-
ties were again renewed, for the ostensible purpose of
restoring and establishing freedom to Europe, the
unrivalled prowess of British soldiers laid prostrate at
our feet the usgatz_ power which seemed. to oppose
I the object iirview. 'Mut how was the ailtantage im-
proved? It was altogether lust, and the sole purpose
of the war seemed to be the aggrandisemeut of the
greater powers of the Continent. One small state
after another was seized by the more powerful ; and
while Britain could have put an effectual stop to such
aggressions, she evinced the most callous indifference;
thus giving the lie to the professions she 1111141 C at the
time when the continental people roused themselves
to shake off unlawful pourr, and thus entailing upon
the name of Britons a reproach and a stain which will
not be soon wiped off.

The Learned gentleman then made some remarks
on the domestic policy pursued by tiovernmen:, and
contended, that it WAS in vain to disguise, anal
vain to deny. that no Ministry ever held the political
franchise in such abhorrence, and this feature of
their conduct, among other% deserted particular no-
tice. Ile then alluded to the employment of spies
sad informers, which, he observed, had given a blow
to the moral feelings of the people. The effects of
this system had been, in point of fact, that those in-
formers were the very means and instigators of
the disorders, fur the commission of which others
suffered. The object of the Government was too
apparent to be mistaken ; a spirit of disaffection
was excited by these means, and the more opulent
part of the community, alarmed fur their safety,
were then told, that unless they rallied round the
Government, their rights and their property would be
involved in one co tttttt on ruin. He severely con-
(
donned the selfish principles which actuated the
Government in having recourse to such proceedings,
and animadverted en the terms of the thanks which
his Majesty was advised to give to the magistrates
of Manchester for the melancholy catastrophe which
occurred in that town, and that too, before the truth
could be known or investigated. Ile gave no opi-
4.aissa so lb. lowlier, or illegality Wile,. sleeting ;1
Manchester; but Ministers had betrayed their duty to,
their Sovereign, by advising thanks to be given to ;he
Magistrates, when nothing more could hr known than
that the blood of his subjects bad been shed. Ile was
bontsd, when he took notice of this subject, to Col-
gr.tulate this meeting on the praise-worthy for-
bearance and conduct of she Magistrates in this
country at the same time, especially at Glasgow, by
which the country had been saved from witnessing the
effusion of blood, and a most salutary example had been
set to Magistrates in similar situations. '1 lie Learned
Gentleman then noticed the conduct of the Government
in removing Earl Fitss intim from an taco of taut,
merely because he attended a meeting similar to the
present—a measure which he considered ascalculated
to make and to keep up an odious distinction between
the higher and the lower ranks of the country. With
regard to the proceedings against the Queen, be had
neither leisure nor inclination to wade through the
mass of pollution and obscenity which hail occupied
the Upper House of the Legislature of the cquu.
try. Ile would not now enter upon the question of
gnilt or innocence; but after the opinion which the
great majority of 'louse of Commons had expressed,
he looked upon it as the most uncalled fur and most
impolitic course to persevere in the proceedings against
this illustrious female. A small majority of the Mi-
nisters had ventured to say, that the course which bad
been adopted was called fur to preserve the morals of
the country; never was so shallow a pretext made for
any measure. Yet the proceedings were persisted
in day after day, and month after month, with.
out any precise object, and against the declared senor
of the country. Addresses have ham poured in to her
Majesty from all quarters. This showed the teenage of
the people to be decidedly stalest the measure; for
Ministers bad not obtained, not even front a close cor-
poration, one address in favour of their proceedings
against the Queen. It was almost unnecessary, he ob-
served, to remark on the going forward and the going
backward, which marked the signal stupidity and inca-
pacity of the projectors of the measure. They were
knocked down at every set-to, which proved that they
should be put out of the ring to giullaeoto more skilful
1 emstbatants. He then remarked on the impropriety of pro.
1 roguing Parliament at a time when so mash basiness
bad lain over from the preceding session. And then to
prorogue Parliament without a speech: even with-
out a Court-circular, showed the fear whim Minis-
-1 ters entertained of meeting Parliament. It is quite
`clear from their manner, that they don't know what
to do, and in point of fact there is ao Govern-
ment at all, so that the petition is not fur their
execution; but only an order fir the interment and
carrying off the dead. The learned gentleman
' made some oheservatioets ea the incapeelty of mu-
' sisters to extricate the toiletry hoes its dithcalties,
and remarked that it was net by new measures of
1110114011 that the .astute/ wield be Minya. Mt
thei l melt eoleedele ow by Wing famine to
Tides( sw& He emoslefleduiti main the reee-
Ivies% and set isms NNW &mtg. le the
course el hie spee:h the imbed guidelines' wag te-
pees/41r isterrepsell by the engem ef the wain.

ImAN.

Mr. Herne seronded the maddens. In does

like these, be said it was the die,' of every loyal
tubject to press upon his Majesty's attention the
saad proceedings of his advisers, which, if they do
mat plunge the country in confusion, tend greatly
i* abridge its liberty.
The CIMAIRMAN then read the first resolution,
which was unanimously adopted ; and when he bad
sancluded rending the second, a gentlethan, whose
mane we understand is Arun, rose for the purpose of
opposing it.
After some confusion he said, that a more complete
Am than the present had never been acted on any
Mage, and that however much the learned gentleman's
speech might be praised, it was for a duassebk purpose.
On hearing this expression, loud cries of " 'I urn
him out" mounded from all parts of the meeting.
The Citatsossi reminded them that every gentle-
man, whatever his °pillions might he, ought to be
listened to with Attention; but he would not allow
nay gentleman to use improper or indecorous lan-
guage._

Mr. R. B. BLTTN suggested, that the raptession
might have been used inadvertently, and that if the
gentleman apologised for it, he might be allowed to
proceed.

Mr. Avrow then expressed his sorrow for using so
objectionable words, and sat down after repeating
" up with Flyn, the Tories out, the Whir in."
A geetleman thought that the second resolution did
not go far etiotigh, and proposed that in the present
embarrassed state of the finances, the meeting should
offer themselves to carry on the business of the Adnii•
nistration without fee or reward.

The Chstastot said that he was afraid the meeting
would he rather a nnmeroul Administration. The
third and fourth resolutions were then read and
adopted.

SIR J. A. Attila/IT roe', and in a very eloqdent
speech condemned the mea.nres that had been poryurd
by Government in re•pert to the Italian itmes, and
especially the ceviiini of Genoa to its natural ene-
mies.

On the fifth resolution bring read,
Mr. Coc►at;ne rise, and made some pointed obser-
vations on the bad effect which the employment of
spies and informers had on the morals of the people.
The Learned (lentlecoan (looted a passage from Iturke,
as to the noble and spirited character of the nation in
his time; since then, however, there has been a chasm
between the governors and the governed, which is
gradually widening, anti which, unless public spi-
rited men step' forward to prevent, will sink all orders
in one common misery. After what bad been •aid by
his Learned Friend, with regard to Spies, he slid nut
think it necessary to say any thing farther ; but he
could not help remarking, that it must have struck
the most superficial observer, that for the last sit
years, there had nut been an instance where spies had
been brought to punishment; their vocation had, in
our days, been a trade, and he was afraii it was the
only trade in which there had bee. no bankruptcy. Re-
quisitions had been circulated in different parts of the
country, even from counties in the south of Scotland, to
frame addresses to theSovereien,in which it is stated,that
blasphemy and sedition prevail among the people. Yet,
as a complete answer to these c dummies, thoesalsos
not in ali Scotland a single person under such charges.
Ries these charges against the peopte had hems denied
by the King himself, in his answer t• the Court of
Alsiermes, in which his Majesty said, that the great
hotly of the people were loyal. The Learned gentle-
man paid a I onspliment to the press, anti to the hies.
sings the conntry enjoys from its being unrestrained.
He then alluded to the meeting, which, he said, was
only a forerunner to others of a similar description,
as their esansple would, he trusted, be followed all
over the country. The public might then see the Town
Councils sending up their addresses and other persons
smuggling them undiscussed, without being appalled
by such conduct.
The other resolutions, and the address to his Ma-
jesty, which was so echo of the resolutions, were seve-
rally read and agreed to by acclamation.
Mr. Jamas titnsom ruse anti said, that the elo-
Tulare of the Learned Hentlettian. sad the appearance
of the present meeting, gave the lie to all the
calun►-
sies which had been uttered and circulated by persons
who described them as the scum of the earth. The
object of the Whigs in no instance had been a scramble
for power, or they might long ere this have b, en in
possession of it, 'nil he was persuaded if a change did
mot take place, a revolution would ensue. After some
observations on thrimpulitic conduct of Ministers, he
moved that the Dnke of Bedford. F.arl tire!, Lord
Holland, or Lord Erskine, be requested to present the
address.

Mr. ANDREW St ovt seconded Mr. Oibson's motion,
which was agreed to. lie had great pleasure in w.t•
no wing this meeting, arra in bearing testimony to the
service of the Whigs to the ountry ; even in the short
peetsdpf their power, they had abolished the slave
trod^ the disgr ice of the age. and had quitted office
foe adherence to the principles of religions toleration.
A Committee was then appuiited to Airtime the oh-
jetts of the ineetiag.
Mr. .loam CLenit rose. and proposed the thanks of
the meeting to the Chairman, fur his able conduct in
the chair.

Mr. J. P. GRANT seconded the motion, and con-
gratulated the abetting on the order and decorum
which bad prevailed. As it was one of the blessings
of our constitution that they might meet and /sprees
their opinion on public measures, he, thereture, trusted
they 'meld again meet, whenever occasion required.
as sack public convent ions were attended by the best
rimirisesees.—The motion was then. carried with
ghat applause.
Dlr. Joan Ca•to then proposed, anti the meeting
resolved to return thanks to the gentlemen by warm
it bad bean called. _

The Unatsatan then dissolved the wetting, after
ststiwg how witch he had been gratified hy the deco-
rum aid order which had bees obsenrid. numith.
standing the tory crowded state of aU parts of the
building, lie begged them tu sere oat 'try sLwly,
to prevent awideats.
l'ho weedy them dispersed is the west orderly
Ilia SIM*.
Owing to the etawd, ne EdialatrgA Current states
that the reporter au pretested free giving wore than
as mediae of the speech... That of Mr. Jeffery, it

llPPears, wag ocirercally admired, for it. eloquence,
attest of information, wit, and good humour.
The proceedings of the meeting listed for above
three Morin.

ORIGINAL POETRY.

TUE CoMET.

AN INOUE/PTV, ON HISSING A rummy OUTPUTS ?NAT
~ORLIC n►IVION ITAD lv TIM QVISN'S CASK SNOT LISS
♦ COMET TUMOVSN IRS BRITIAN ISLA.

A Comet led over the land.
And hriehr, 'neath Its radience. was seen
n Angel of justice to stand,
roteeting an Innocent Qt ten.
Oppression sifts dumb with affright,
And tyranny hambrd in dust ;
While Barrens, with joyous delight,
Encircled with born ber best.
PAID of Pits. thy harp shou'd have sung
In its softness the plahlt of her *oe ;
Tfiy Noise warmed the hearts of the young
While the egad vilth pity &ergots.
at lilt are the airbags of thy tyre,
pleasure breathes odorous dew ;•
A thodsand mny feel the deslre:•
The Genius %dont is with you.
Thee 'wake, lot the seraph of joy
The visions of pleasure dispel ;
Thy highly-gift talent ociploy,
Wer angering virtues to tell.
A halo' of briThiness iIIIIMPS
The Wormers sil'', Ilrltoos adore;
When her enemies •ink in their tombs
In her name shall posterity glom'.
And proudly our children shall bout,
When power depotie's leere'd,
'That 'Taut. resumes a host
Which, unitud, can neer be ciierturnid.
Ent the fiykt of the viefe•r is pest,
Anil the omen airsick KIN.. with dianiay
And the preitst have been feint with the blast,
And their nadirs Is seatter'd array.
One ffssyerteg kope-star of love,
'lids% the sttesky horizon is waist
"ris the Aft of the purees above,
Dot Noste htassamiatous lautan.
C. M. W.
• We believe the poet is now in Paris.

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The diplomatiefioces which had been denied with
boldness by The Curesiet, is at length acknowledged
by one of his cotemporaries of the Ministerial press.
" After what happened at Troppan," this joormlitt
say', 6, it is by no tnrans surprising that the Conrt
of Vienna should n ish that Lord Stewart may he suc-
ceeded by another British Ambassador ; and it is
equally probable that the spirited Lord may desire to
be removed front a Court where be was provoked to
resent an instilt to his King and coun•ry. We cer-
tainly regret (it is added) that the occurrence hap-
peaed."
The advice' from St. Petershures, by the hot ar,
rivals, are of the !4th ult. It had bean issagiard that
the Emperor Alexander would have inlicteli a severe
posaioimmeat-ow she twfriaMerlillopit. Ile has, hot -
ever, dealt gessmoosly and tesiently with theta, hay-
ing hinted an order merely that the regiment should
be disbanded. it would probably have bits!' imp9o-
si We to have passed a severe sentence on one portion
of the troop*, without including the rensainticr, run-
misting of persous of the first families in Russia, whose
iallaence was too powerful to be opposed.

The commercial letters mention that the navigation
bad closed for the winter, in conwipence of the hard
frosts.
A Proclamation bas bred issued by Rohert Towns-
end Farquhar. Esq., Uovernor of the Island of Mau-
ritius, granting the freedom of that port. It men-
tions that his Majesty's Ministers being anxious to ex-
tend without delay to the Manrities, sad its depen-
dencies, the benefit of those enlightened principles
which govern their measures with reference to com-
mercial relations with foreign powers, have directed
that the trade between the island and its dependencies
shall be conducted in such a manner is shall give ge-
neral satisfaction to the inhabitants. Certain regu-
lations are affixed to the Proclamation df his Excel-
lency, and are laid down in six distinct articles. This
is as it ought to be.
Yesterday. the Maass of Kent, the Princess Vic-
tort& and Feedort and unit, returned to her Royal
Highness's apartments in the K►ing's Palace, Kerning
ton, from a visit of some weeks to Prince Leopold at
Claremont, and which was prolonged on account of
the extreme mildness of the it&Suil.

A DMUS. TO TUC Quers.—Yeeteriar, a Meeting
of the Carpenters and Joiners of the meteopolks vras
held in the Pulteney Assembly [Mom, sear °olden-
square, for the write of considegiug the propriety of
an Addrees of lleogratalation to her Majesty.—Me.
Jame. Armitage was called to the Cleeit, and briefy
addressed the .Meetistg. by stating the objecafer which
they were aseresbird, mad expressing his repast for a
patient hearing of every gentleman who should
' deliver his sentiments for or against the Meeting
Mr. limo then ruse, and. in a short speed'. proposed
an Address to her Majesty. which being seconded, was
unanimously agreed to, amidst loud applause.—Seve-
ral llentlemen afkerwards addressed the Weiss. as
to the manner of pritseatio., the Address, atal in
voting thanks to radiate public characters. and to the
Chairman ; who then return( d thanks; and the meeting
adjourned.
Yesterday ntoritiag, about two o'clock. a ire broke
out in a bcuse adjacent to liensiegton Palace, ad.
joining to that M which Mr. Sicerd rebid's% which
caused greet esuifesien in the Palace. There is no
accounting for the origin of the /re; it tem discovered
in one of the upper apartments shortly after it coo.
• =roost. %rhea the parish engine arrived, aed rendered
every assistance. 7be military was soon caileti mat.
' sea procredril to the Palace, mid mutinied until the
fire was at as cod, which Listed several hours, but the
lames were pt nosier by the arrival of the engines
from Lomita. Daring the time the fire continued it
burned wish great fury ; every etertion was made to
more the property, which roved successful t bet the
roofs ?f two bosses, that of Mr. Shard's. and the see
adjoining. were emayletely destroyed. We an set ia-
formed of any farther oceideet.

I

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( 1 RPt,R42IONR verso, CIVIL LIBERTY and
• PUBLIC PROSPERITY.

-...41.--
SECOND SERlES.—Larrea 11.

Peen now the deviated°. is bei ml,
Aad half the bantam of destracdon done
Even now, methinks, as pondering here I stand,
I see the rural virtues leave the land.
Down where yoi anchoring vessel spreads the sail,
That idly waiting laps with every gale,
Downward they move, a melancholy band.
Pass from the shore, and darken all the strand.
Tlllll

Stn,--In perusing the affecting picture drawn so
long ago by Goldsmith, of men abandon* their na-
tive land in masses, it is difficult to persuade ourselves
that he was not prophesying the last year's expatriat-
ing scheme of the Green Bag administration, for the
purpose of taking off what they chose, in their jargon,
to call the surplus population of the country. This
was perfectly of a piece with all the rest of their
wanmuvres, in order to conceal the real causes of our
public calamities, and to perpetuate the existing de-
I..sions. This project was much too ridiculous to deters e
'zing encountered by argument. The profound intel-
kets of Castlereagh and Co. could alone have con-
trived the possibility of nourishing men at less ex-
i.else of money or of labour in the deserts of Africa,
. r in the ands of Canada or Nova Scotia, t.:an in the
r iltivated soil of England, Scotland, or Ireland. This
sablime project, like so many of the other feats of those
'(tnteames par excellcsee, who have had a thirty years
lease of the mismanagement of our 'treks, has served to
-.rich a few spectdators, and to ruin many dupes,
without producing any effect, excepting an increase of
and art increase of misery, upon the lot of those
who-have remained under their jurisdiction at home.
The mischievous tricks of these political jugglers,
which have bronght this great country to the brink
of rule, could never have been so long tolerated, but
Gar the aid of their minor satellites, the privileged
corporations, in propagating, for their particular inte-
rest=, every species of delusion, and upholding every
species of aouse,-•--those selfish and degraded bodies,
which now, as in the time of Milton, " fill men's ears
continually with the noise of their conscientious loy-
alty and allegiance to the King, rebels in the mean
time to God in all their actions besides." A hook has
been written on " the Crimes of Cabinets." A collec-
tion of the crimes of Corporations wonld form a co-I
'ions and not uninstructive work. First ue should
have the crimes of the Boroughtuongers, anti their
tools or agents I for, although they have not a com-
mon seal, those wholesale dealers in the representation
of the people, are, in spirit and in essence,---in every
thing in short but Ia form, a privileged corporation.
Next we should have the sank hangings, and the
other intsumerable miseries occasioned by the copart-
nership of this body with the Boroughmougers.
Thirdly, tie should have the criminal exploits of the
chiefleavengers of Ministers, in all their dirty work
*Vie last quarter of a ceatury,—the great metropo-
litsn corporation ; from which we might descend
shanghai' the forms, degas, sad motes of corrup-
Usk, eitswirvia dus iw oink-pads, which have the ap-
propriate Immo of forming a slaecore for our most
disinterested first Minister of State..
In titiCenuoveration, it weeki be injustice to forget
the estallished Church, which has always taken care

to Identify itself with the State, as the privileged cor-
porations nose endeavour to identify themselves with
both. These bodies were considered by Milton, as
they are now by all men of observation, the principal
rauses of abjectness and servility in the people ;
4. which debasement of mind In the people." says this
great writer, " I cannot •villingly ascribe to the natu-
ral disposition of an Englishman, but rather to two
other cows : first to the Prelates and their fellow-
teacffers though of another name and sect (the Pm-
-hyterians), whose pulpit stuff, both first and last, bath
tern the dwtrine and perpetual diffusion of servility
and wretchedness to all their bearers, and whose
lives, the type of worldliness and hypocrisy. without
tEe least true pattern of virtue, righteousness, or self-
denial in their whole prattler. I attribute it next to
'the ficttems inclinations of most men Welded /repo the

-xlildfl• kr *ever t! est& end Armours If their ores."—
'1 Lb last observation obviously includes all bodies,
juntas, and individual', having interests distinct from,
or opposite to those of the poblk, and of course em-
braces privileged corporations. This nuisance, in-
deed, ire% in the dayrof Milton, only in its infancy.
it bb since, like other encroachments upon the rights,
liteeklei, and prosperity of the people in this kinp,llom,
been regularly increasing. until it has acquired its ac-
ted, enormous and destructive Magnitude. If we con-
sider that none of these bodies ran enjoy any rechisire
pririlege,Nefilek is nit at the expense of the communi-
ty at liege. and that their interests therefore immedi-
Italy and necessarily arrange themselves in direct op-
peeitiOne to those of that public, at whose expense
they exgt,fr etrelf nos wonder. seeing the clusters of
juntas of corporations rrtiich have, IMMO IWistet two
hundred years, sprung up like mushrooms around us,
brerlaying, as it were, the great body of the people.
that so little liberty, prosperity, or happiness remains
t.• the nation ; or that the members of these corpora-
tions themselves are become so infamously base. They
(rare all the vices of the mostpbjeft individual, with-
out his aceountahlenese.- Their Mass as much sur-
pass those of the poor miserabid wretches, •who are
hanged for theft, robbery, or murder, or uttering
forged bank notes, as the perpetration of crimes in the
mass, surpasses in iniquity their perpetration in De-
tail; tit lathe guilt of corporations falls short of that
of gaverottients deliberate'', persevering in courses
braudef airiniquitous by the whole world besides.
I will tilt, at present, stop to inquire where the
tight residis of taking away from the bulk of the
people so many of their rights, and so Much of their
liberties, prosperity, and happiness, and of parcelling
them out at pleasure amongst fannired
juntas, or corporations; as I am not now investigating
the cusses, but the effects of these political esernicenses.
The pkipable, aid inevitable effects of the constitu-
tions of these exclusive bodies is to array them uni-
formly on the side of The predominant faction, parti-
cularly if that faction be the lowest in the scale of
corruption, 'against the clearest interests of *the State.
Like tle*Pnppet-show Illan, who shifts the figures of
his plmettsmagoria. in order to suit the taste or fancy
of his young customers, thin' presiding .puppet-show
wen of these privileged corporations s:u iy to give