The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-01-28 00:00:00

THE ilifilittlMUN..;

we might reduce the present resources of the Chancellor
of the Exchequer from till to 10 or 12 millions, helloed
then be their constant endeavour to urge their claims by
the means he had pointed out, always beating in mind,
that upon the success of their -efforts depended the sal-
vation of their Country from utter ruin.—(Cheers.)
The question, was then put and agreed to; there being
only two hands held up against it.
ETSTON then moved, that the petition be signed.
by the High Sheriff, on behalf of the meeting.
This was put and Carried.
Ile next moped, that the petition be declared—" A
petition,• agreed to, with esely two dissentients, at a
meeting of the downy of Berk;."—Aß reed to.
Mr. F. PALMER said the squestion now was, byerbom
should this petition be presented? Ile thought it could
not be in better hands than in those of the county
members, and therefore he would move that it be pre-
sented by their two representatives.
This being put and agreed to, •
Mr. Dystats cause forward.. The motion which bad
just bean agreed to called him up, and he could assure
the meeting that he would with great pleasure present
the petition and support it by every means in Vs power.
The mode which The freeholders of the county hail thus
adopted of seeking relief would, he was satisfied, be
found uhimately to be the most effectual. Had it been
adopted and persevered in long ago, it would, he bad no
doubt, have prevented many of the evils under which
they laboured at the present day. •
Mr. HALLETT next moved the thanks of the meeting
to Lord Folkestone, for his unwearied vat in the cause
of the people, and for his exertions in bringing about
the present meeting.—Carried. • •
On the motion of the same gentlentam thanks 'fr.re
voted to the morerpind seconder oldie petition; also to the
High Sheriff, for his readines in calling the tneetlog,
and likewise for his impartial conduct in the chair. •
LORD FOLKESTONE thanked the meeting for the very
flattering manner in uhich they had noticed his tart.-
tions in bringing about the meeting. His own opinion
and •. feelings were very strong on the subject. Ile
believed that the salvation of the country depended upon
reform, and that if not speedily brought about, the
greatest calamities would befal the nation. It had been
objected to the reformers, that they who Wilt, conspi-
cuous in support of the measure were' impelled
by the heat and ardour of youth, or urged on
by factious motives, or influenced by a passion for
notoriety. For his own part he would appeal to a life,
not a short one, a great portion of It spent 'before ttie
public, for the justice of site application. • lie had, as 11
was well known, had different opinions early in life.
He was brought up in the belief, that the view of this
question which he now took was erroneous, but as he
advanced in life, the more he saw, *and the more he re-,
fleeted, the greater reason had be to give up those early
impressions—(Hear)—the more certainly was lie con-
vinced of the evil tendency of the measures which he had
once approved.
Mr. EYSTON and Mr. Bowurs (the mover and se-
conder of the petition) severally returned thanks for.
the vote of the meeting in which they were included.
Mr. BALLET again addressed the meeting, to mores PIA
consequence of the Mayors of Reading having sometime!
refused the use of the Hall for County IffeetinjW,
that in future all the public meetings of the count),ft,4
held at the Shire Hall, at Abingdon; but this motion,
on the suggestion of Mr. H. Moral), was withdrawn.
Mr. BUDD moved that the two members for Reading
be requested to attend the county members in present-
ing the petition and supporting its prayer. 1 his was
pot and carried.
The Hunt Sunnier returned thanks for the honour
which had been conferred on him. He then declared
the meeting dissolved.
The assembly then gqp_jalft..tkego,
after wlsitikthey separat • '

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•,,,* Mr. ARCHDEACON BATHURST'S Letter to the Nobility,
Gentry, and Freeholders of the County of Norfolk, will
appear in the STATESMAN to-morrow.

Eke *tattontan.

LONDON:

TUESDAY EVENING, JANUART 29, 1823.

M R. CANNING.

ALAS! ALAS ! Just when we were expecting to have
a trip to LIVERPOOL, in company with the Kiag of
Bohemia, to enjoy the second edition of the two Red
Lions, the intelligence arrives that the Right-Honoura-
ble personage has declined offering himself again to
that pack of greedy place-hunting merchants, and their
dependents. The reasons which he gives are quite
satisfactory. He is afraid of afailure; and new (JATTON
or SARESI, open your doors! Embrace your darling
son : your favourite child and your constant champion I
The " CANNING CLUB", too. What a state must it be
in! It is going to hold a "Special Meeting", upon
most important and particular business: Aye, that it is.
It is going to consider hoW it shall fled somebody else
that is a good hand at getting places, and providing little
w;ndfalls out of the public money. Mr. CANNING acts
openly and fairly in this business. He tells the creeping
creatures, in so many words, that it is much better for
him not to try the thing, than to undergo that defeat of
which be Is afraid. His words are these: "it is for bet-
" ter, both for you and for me, that the failure which 1
apprehend as too proloalte, should be prevented than
remedied."—Yes, this is true enough : it is a great deal
better not to go to LtvraVooi at all than to go there and
be beaten, and then to jog into a Rotten Borough at last.
A very wise step for once. As to who may be his suc-
cessor, that is a matter of =very little consequence. Any
body else will do as well asle for LIVERPOOL. MI that
we wanted to know was (and we suspected it before),
that he did not dare run the risk of a contest. So that,
he begins his career as Minister under pretty comforta-
ble auspices.

Aeion. Their notification . ppm the subject ill as

*Wawa , •
The Friends of the Constantion, wlio, warmly attached to
their King and his Government, feel' their Praniples and
Sentiments most grossly misrepresented and outrage) in
the Petition adopted amidst the enstfusion of the County
Meeting on Friday last,—nre earnestly Invited to meet at
the Hotel, in this City, on Saturday. the Ist of February, at
twelve o'clock, for the purpose of inifipantli
that Pct tiou as the unanimous sense of the County of Here-
ford, and of column-rine in en Address to both Holmes of
Portia audit, more in unison with throttle° recorded opinions
of a great majority of the Frecliolders.—Hereford, January
1523.

'So that,Mr.CuanLvox hiS the satisfaction to have his
Petition " indignantly disela:dge by the very parties
who withdrew their resolutions in order that his Petition
might be carried Mr. CHARLTON will not have his Peti-
than signed by the Lord Lieut., to a arteinty. To a cer-
tainty, the Members of the County will not present it as
the Petition of tbeCounty,and thus he has been nipped in
the bud, when he expected to sprout out into a thriving
and luxuriant pollticiao. Tbis is the end afoul play !
ltnever answers the purpose, in the long-run. 'fits
Hole tnd Cotner Petition that will be got up at the
Hotel AI have no effect at all ; and thus merely by the
foul pis?' at the Meeting, will the County be left with-
out any Petition at all.

TO LORD SCPPIELD.
t . Kensington, Jan. 2d, 1823.
liT LORD—In the IVo,:rvik chronicle, of the 2btb hnit.
I see a report of a hole and corner meeting at North
. Rrpingham. Your Lordship stands there reported as
hiving said many things of me and of the petition of
the: county of Norfolk, which are false. And, if uttered,
mast have been uttered with malignarit motives. 1
have not time, at.present, to examine, point by point,
the falsehoods here published under your name ; nor
have I time to notice the inconsistency and the stupi-
dity of the resolutions ascribed to you. I will do this
in due time ; and, if you did atter the speeeh that is
ascribed to you. and have shame in you, ! will make you
feel that shame, In the mean while, I beg you to read
the letter of Mr. Arehdeacon IlaTncasr, published in
the same newspaper. Tile Archdeacon takes a fair and
imanly view of the matter. He calls upon you, as I call
upon you, to call another county meeting ; and not to
sneak about in hole: and corners, and backbite and
revile him whom you know'you cannot auswer. In this
repotted speech of your's, I find you blaming other per-
sons of consequence for not attending the Meeting.
Why did not yeu attend ? I will tell you why you did
not attend; because you knew that I was to be there ;
and because you guessed that the Petition which I should
propose would be carried in spite of you. Your pride;
yourfalee pride, prevented you from attending; and you

know now, that you DARE not call another County
Miffing, and sufferfrce disoussiox to take place. My
grandmother told me, 6, pride will have -a fall;" and
your pride will hare afall, before many years are over
your head; that is to say, if you be the real author of
the speech that I have referred to, and if the rest of
your order have not a great deal more of wisdom than
you hoe. Once more, I challenge you to accept of the
I
I litirt elf the 4cektlesculk. The petition is the pe.
is WM* enttlitp. Ditty part of :fi is open, hottest,

and fair, You are rep dto have called itimucht-
kW and ramous. Loud you are in the hole and cot
ter; belt silent as a mouse, is the Hall However, I
shell remark farther upon your speech another time.
FADE me, my Lord, or say 'uniting about me.
WM. COBBEI T.

STOCK RECILINGI, VA LT- PAS T TWELVE O'CLOCK.—Our
Feuds have risen this morning. Consols opened at 76j,
and, at .present, they are 771 to 1. Spanish Bonds
opened at dif, and got up to 421 f. The principal buyers
in the above Bonds are the Bears. There is no express
this morning from Paris, and every person is on the tip
toe in Streit'', to know the result of the French King's
speech.
FOREIGN MARKILT.—Most business is done this morn.
fug in the Spanish Bonds. An opinion now prevails,
that England will not suffer Spain to be invaded, and if
war takes place England cannot remain neuter.
Chili, 70—New Spanish, 4tl-01d, 46—New Prussian,
74—01 d, 77—Russia, 74—Danish, SO—Neapolitan, 721--
Peruvian, 78—Colombian, :WI—Spanish Scrip 231 dis.

The Frankfort papers which have reached ns this
morning contain an article from Augsburg, dated Jan.
14, which states that there has been for some time past
extraordinary activity in the diplomatic relations of
several Governments of Southern Germany. Reports of
all kinds have been for some days in circulation respect-
ing the approaching assemblages of troops on the right
bank of the Rhine. It is said that the Russian troops in
the Grand Duchy of Posen, and the March of Branden-
burgh, will come into the Rhenish provinces, and that
the troops now in those provinces will have another
destination.

Paris papers to the 26th inst. brought no intelligence
that could be depended on, except of the rise in the
French funds on Saturday. This rise is supposed to be
owing to an article which first appeared in the Journal
!iles Debuts, and afterwards copied into the .11oniteur,
reproving the Ultra Jou:s.als for having represented as
settled, measures which were still under consideration,
and as " accomplished," events which were still " in
obeyanee," and in which a thousand circumstances
might occur to make important modifications. It also
announces that the Austrian Ambassadbz hid left behind
dim at Madrid a Secretary of Legation ire quality of
Charge des Affaires from the Hanseatic Towns, and
explains that previously to the sending of the Ambas
sailor now recalled, Austria carried on her diplomatic
relations with the Spanish Court through the medium
of itch a Secretary,
Faar►CH FUNDS ON TIIIIRSDAT.—Five per Cents. opened
at 78f. —c. ; fell at 771. 90c. and closed at 78. 85 ; Bank
Shares, 1,475. ! Neapolitan Stock, WI. ;Spanish Bonds of
11121, 410. Exchange on London, at one month, 23f. 35c.:
at three months, Of. 20.1.

A letter from Paris of Saturday, says—" I think I
&an state as certain, that although all the papers an
ilbunced the recall of the Count de Lagarde, the courier
who was despatched to him conveyed directions, that
if be bad not already left Madrid, he should continue
there some time longer."