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London, England, 1820-01-03 00:00:00

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PEATH OF THE COUNTESS TALBOT'.
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it i• with unfeigned regret we have to announce the
death of her Escellency the Countess Tat.au'r. This
!Dot
Tionoi. 30 etemplary Lady died this morning,
At nvo o'clock, and from their
Atter a short illness. Several Bulletins
urn. i-sued i.l the course of the ila,
nattor the pith:ic were prepared for t e melancholy c;,_
torophe. This mew has placed her consort and nn-
„,„„.is family in the deepest affliction, has spread a
item over he City of Dublin, which will, we doubt
~,t.legineere!y and deeply participated by the country.
-I NIIIA rrening Post.)
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WENTWORTH HU USE.
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(FROM Till TORII HIZIALD.)
We feel it our duty to notice a paragraph which ap-
peared in the Yorkshire Gazette of Saturday week, with
the usual colouring of falsehood so peculiar to that Mi-
nisterial print. It is stated, that " two troops of Yeo-
manry Cavalry (Lord Fitwilliatn's tenants principally)
were called front their beds at midnight, and were under
anus at Wentworth House during the whole of Monday,
front an apprehension of the designs of the Radical and
Union Society being directed against that conspicuous
mansion." So glaring a misrepresentation as the above,
and from such a quarter, would nut have been noticed
by us, hail nut the paragraph been accidentally copied
into a respectable London print, during the present
week; we, therefore, give the following statement of
the rial fact, from the highest and most respectable au-
thority possible.
In consequence of the expected Meeting at Barnsley.
two troops (composed as above-mentioned) did aesemble
en that day, by orders f Col. Wortley and Sir Ed-
ward Smith ; not for the protection of Wentworth-
!louse, fur its exalted owner required no protection, but
to be in readiness at the neighbouring villages, in case
the Magistrates, who were assembled at Barmier, should
require their assistance. The accommodations at those
villages were, however, inadequate to the number as-
sembled ; and the greater part of both troops, rouse-
quently, were hospitably taken rare of at Wentworth
!louse, by Mr. Byrom, -his Lordship's Steward, and
Lieutenant of the corps. "The troops were therefore
(says our correspondent) in the expectation of being
culled away ; but to their infinite credit, they assembled
on Ow shortest notice, and hail not a siugle acs titre;
which circumstance was noticed by the General of the
district, Sir John 'Veit, to Captain Faber, the Cent-
'Howling Officer, as so highly praiseworthy, in his esti-
mation, that he should report upon it to the Govern-
; silent."
We have noticed this occurrence more particularly
than is usual on such occasions, in order to show how
little reliance ran be placed on the print alluded to, and
how abominably many of the Ministerial writers attempt
the most false and ungenerous insinuations, merely to
answer their own little dirty party views : Hence, in this
instance, an act of hospitedity, in unison with the good
old generous customs of former times, is construed into
an act of fear, arising from an apprehension of dark de-
eiras—Fear, however, he it known to them, is the sole
companion of Guilt, and often the promoter of unconsti-
tutional acts in weak or cruel Ministers ; but the Nob'e-
, man who has suffered persecution, for demandinz a roes-
( etitutional inquiry into the circumstances of the untimely
Ideaths of many of his 31,tjesty's subjects—that Noble-
man, we repeat, may rest secure in the affections of the
PEOPLE, and will live in grateful recollection, when
1 tvrants shall be forgotten, and when their minions shall
base ceased to instill and stigmatize the most upright,
1 the most virtuous, and the most honourable of mankind.
ON VIZ SAME EVBJECT, FROM TOE LEEDS MERCICHT.
• As we suspected, the intelligence about the two troops
of Yeomanry Cavalry being called front their beds at ,
midnight, to guard Wentworth Goose, ott the night of
the 12th tilt., turns out to be a gross misrepresentation.
On the night in question, the two With troops were I
()Merest by the officers to assemble at day-light on the
following morning, at the steal place of most: r, which
happens to be in Wentworth Park, and there they met,
and remained together while they were dismissed ; but
as to any idea of guarding Wentworth House, or the
apprehension of any attack from the Radical anal Union
Society upon that conspicuous mansion, it is a sheer fa-
brication, invented, like many others, for the pr rpose of
keeping up a system of alarm, while certain Hills foutil
their way through Parliament.

Plats' Plots! Plots! but the Bills arc passed into
are all—What Why fools, recur/W.
(,A*. a"d wts •
Whenever it is the interest of the powerfol to
cheat the people, a plot suited to the occasion is
gotten up.
.and terror spreads, like wildfire, over
hoop! e hive had a rush plot, and a nical-ttill
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and a screw plot, and a pop-gun plot. and a speak-
lot. and A retrogatiing-bullet plot, and a
Ere 30,1 loader plot, and now giant,
Am plot. All
•Euissd is danger from the giant, more !none rotas
l'u!% phenols, and wider-mouthed than tiaragantua.
_Lille Manchester Magistrates tremble, its Yeomanry
f &rake shake, and certain Lord Lieutenants are afrai,
4.ertais shahs
are in despair, and the Member fur
tom` ‘lember for that quake for fear. They
ihiseso
.w that Briareos had an hundred hands, hut this tire.
man-devouring cannibal has huutirc.ils of Dion-
all agniot nit). idrisilds daggers or pekes, ti lii. -11
nes 11 the relators, whilst they are exclaiming,
Mariethi his red night-tap.
kty stars. in the air. there's a knife.
I'm smelt cannot be a kens,
ouch at the handle, odds life,
And thea I shall nut nit my thumb.
'%e gut him! No At bins again,
Come. come, I'm not fond of there jukes,
!tin must be some blade of the brain,
Tbose witches
;Melting, thereby Loneashire witches)
are given to boas.
ag t 13°, 'twaA a dagger of straw;
(live me blinkers to gas e me from starting,
The knife that ! thought that !sore.
Mss bought but my eye Betty Martin."
thinking men all this is ridiculous—hut the tales—
tber:is nothing is the Arabian Nights Enter-
al half so absurd. Eveu the dragon teeth sower
Mt, who thus raised up armed men, was but a
- in comparison with the conjurors, who see
of thousands in arms where hundreds of thou-
aqt r.eist ; it o ould be a frightful sight if those,
i.,iet iu 'lie places described.' were witioeg
One tells an horrible story of what this man
, et that matt coneeires, or that man would ven-
t') sew, or this in his conscience betieres ; and this
euartiei.le, saying, dilating story, is taken
or.4f. Pretty proof, indeed I Such proofs are stith-
' to satisfy all those who have golden reasons for
sati.fied, and all those who bare no ream) at air
Kith of December, a dreadful meeting was to
e 3( Manchester: fifteen persons, whom scarcely
ly knew, and nobody cared for, called this teal-
assembly, which . as to produce " serious disturb-
! end meteor,- but the Radicals rasa nut meet, all
as calm as summer's sea, wbeu not a breath of
lies over the surface. In the forenoon of the ter-
.' day, the aforesaid Relitisitiunists, " for prwlen-
maims, inform the public," that it was postponed.
magic talisman. in an instant, confines all the Ra-
m and out of Manchester, who wove to perform
Ustible tree to their Amos,: and not a man
in the area, nith stick or standard. This is
teonderfel ; a decided proof of wicked arts and
Jrations—a proof not founded on believing, thilik-
ing, conceiving stories, hut on actual fact. and it is
aloolotely necessary, for the *alit., of the country, and
prestraution of the Constitution, to re-enact oar good
end laws against WITCHCRAFT. These fifteen requiri-
iionists most he conjoron in disguise, who wish to steal
Co me thr Noble JOHN Lord Mentes simile) the
beguile, and mimic lamp of the Constitution, and sub-
stitute a tie one in its stead. Wicked, wicked rogues,
who lay conspiracy as flat as a flounder, by a stroke of
rhe pen, oho suepead the loco-motive powers of tens
ul thousands in a muimeolf, and make them more obe-
dient to their coniuiands than the cups and balls of the
juggler.
After what we have heard and read, from men called
titatesinen—after examining the trash, circulated by
them in speeches, very little superior to Punch's decla-
madam, and not half so lively as the narrations of
Christmas mainmers—after beholding the madness of
the endeavour to destroy the liberal spirit of the age,
surely the belief in these Lancashire conjurors may be
wisdom in comparison ; and Mr. Nallin, and
'hr rest of believing gentry, may find support in the
conolort of their Letters, among whoui there are persons
%hose credulity cannot be exceeded, nor whose folly
surpassed. The t s.nstitution of England cannot be pre-
'erred by force.—Pains and penalties are weak sup-
porers ; turruption and folly are miserable guardians:
wisdom reared it, liberty nourished it, and patriotism
prutect it, and puuish its foes!—f'l'ag *feed.)

'I J. WILLI!,
" Rot. WlLus."

THE CONSTITUTION OF HANOVER.—The French
Papers contain an Ordinance, hatted front Carlton
llotbe by his Royal Highness the PRINCK REGENT,
concerning the organization of the General Assem-
bly of the States of Hanover.
It is ordained that the Deneral Assembly of the States
shall in future be posed of two Chambers, and be
formed partly of Members who shall personally have the
right of sitting in the Assembly, and partly of Deputies
etetad. The two Chambers shall enjoy the same
rights and attributes, and all the propositions which
shall emanate from the Cabinet Ministry shall be
addressed to the General Assembly of the States.—
fhe Members of the two Chambers shall profess one
of the three Christian professions which the Act of
the Congress of Vienna has placed absolutely upon
the same footing ; they shall have accomplished their
2ath veer, and shall he possessed of an independent for-
tune in cases where their employment does not give
them 9tiicially a right of slain" in the Assembly. fhe
4.trdittnre Ikea lives a personal hereditary vote in the
First Chamber, to Members who bare formed aro yorel,
consisting of landed property, situated within the king-
dom, yielding tiollo crowns annual net revenue, and not
encumbered by mortgage. The Deputies of the Blues-
trtan Order, chosen for the flotation of each Assembly of
the States, shall possess a net revenue of six !loa-
der,' crowns, arising front landed property within
th. kingdom, and not encumbered by mortgage. The
Dimities from the Freeholders in the Second Chamber
shall have a net revenue of 300 crowns, arising from
landed property within the kingdom. The other Depu-
tes chown for the Second Chamber shall possess a oat
revenue of MO crowns, arising either from landed pro-
perty situated within the kingdom, or trout capital POW
plotted within the kingdom.
The Chester Chronicle says—" Some movements
of a hostile nature having been expected among.
tit! Lancashire Radicals, the Yeomanry Cavalry of
this county, we hear, have again received orders
to march to the vicinity of Manchester, to be in
readiness, if wanted."

Friday afternoon the Duke of York left York
House, St. James's Pa!tee, and proceeded to Wind-
sor, for the purpose of being in readiness to hold a
Council upon the state of the King's Health, on
Saturday, which took place soon after twelve
o'clock. The Council continued sitting for upwards
of two hours. Their Lordships visited the King,
after which the Conned broke up.
Yesterday the following Bulletin was exhibited
at St. James's Palace:—
" Windsor Castle, Jammu I, 1020.
" His Majesty's disorder has undergone no sensible al-
teration. Ills Majesty's bodily health has partaken of
some oL the infirmities of age, but has been generally
good during the last month.
" 11101111 H•LIORD,
" M. BAILLIC,
" W. HIBERDILY,
On Sunday last, about half-past 2, a number of
the inhabitants of Chester-le-street, attended at
the turnpike-gate, to thin southward of that place.
in expectation of the arrival of J. G. Lambton,
M.P. from London, and when the carriage came
up two of them stepped forward and begged that
Mr. L. would do them the honour of allowing them
to take the horses from the carriage, and drawing
him to Lambton-hall, distant about 4 miles. Ile
thanked them for the honour, but said he was afraid
some accident might happen to them from the
slipperiness of the road. The horses were, how-
ever, disengaged in a moment, and ropes put to,
also ropes behind to drag when necessary. When
the procession arrived at Chester-le-street, Mr. L.
was cheered by the ladies and gentlemen as he passed
through. When they arrived at Lambton-hall, he
again thanked the people for the honour they had
done him. He said that he supposed they had
heard that it had been intimated to him that his
estate was parcelled out, a fear that he (Mr. L)
never entertained, or he would not have left his
children among them. If his opponents divided
his estate, lee hoped they would give it to the
friends then around him. He begged further to
inform them, that they would always find him at
his post, in defending their liberties as English-
men. He again returned thanks, and desired they
would go into the hall and taste his strong ale ; a
request which, of course, was complied with, and
the health of the Hon. Member and his family was
drank with cheers of applause.
A Meeting of Gentlemen has been held at Liver-
pool (George Williams, Esq. in the Chair), at
which it wait agreed to address Mr. Hobhouse, de-
claring their sentiments against the legality of the
House of Commons committing to prison, unless
in cases of direct obstruction."
We had a heavy fall of snow on Tuesday, which
continued with little intcrniission during the day,
and last night and this morning it has fallen to the
depth of several inches.—(F:flialnirgh.)
Some of the turners in Paisley, who, in cons.-
gnome of the non-employment of the weavers, have
nothing to do in their own trade, have directed
itheir attention to the fabrication of toys, and have
:outdooe, we are glad to learn, the Dutch artists.—
f Edinbiergh Evening Courant.)

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