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of prohibition,—they had 'appeared to him to feel for
40 classes of the consmooity. On the whole he as-'
mired his constituents, thnt he was fully sensible of
the pressure which the labouring classes had in long
endured, and of the reasonableness ofellowing them,
on the return of peace, to take their turn In the en-
joyment of low prices, after the farmer and the lauck;
owner had so greatly profited by high ones ; the
whole of his wish would be to prevent any great evil
from arising to the eonsuers themselves from any!
extraordinary tliscouragettM, of tillage that could be
Ideally shown to be soon to be apprehended. Thi
enactment of nay legislative measures, be ssasinclinelL
to think, had better be deferred to another Session,
-though— aft might possibly be advantage tic pro.":
reeding with: the Parliamentary discussions. 11l
agreed, thereturc, with the Welling sentiments of die
resolutions., and with the general spirit of the pets- 1
. den, for the moderation of which he heartily tbetked 1
the gentlemen who had produced it.
Mr. C. CALVF.RT,. the other Representative for
Southwark, esprossed his disapprobation of any im- '
mediate interference of the Lelislature on a subject of
such imnortance, and pledged himself to oppose the
Bill now betore Karl tit.
. Mr. Solicitor Discos', Mr:, W. D. Clarkn, Mr. 1..
Jackson, Mr. Brattd,4nd,oillnientleinen, all spoke
in favour of the Petition. •
ihservatien of Ilk. JACKSON; con.
)f porter, ,^
Issuted the *meting that the proPts,
rpgie.ilederable ; for with all
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rand tear • they di
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*ball tveti-pence per pot. ..$ •
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or common feeling, mill think of answering the
question, without considering at whose instance,
or rather by whose authority, her exclusion is
deoreed ; the peculiar circumstances of the mo.
allot when it is first to operate; and, above all,
kow important her reception 'at Court was con-
sidered, not very long ago, to the character of the
Illastrious remonage in question. It is quite idle to
firlinit other Sovereigns have done the same thing,
viz. banish certain Members of their family front

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,Court,• without assigning any reason. This is 0,19
the same thing. The reasons, if not Wrignnl,.:llstiat
Teliiiairstoed, or will be conjectured Ind it'eanedilt I
be denied, that, from.thlsunderstanding,er those ael4.
lecturer, the opinion of the Public w ill be, and anglit I.
I be, formed. In, every one of the cases cited, legit;
causes of offence had been given. In each'casethe pa , •
knew' what the cacao was. The people wore.sil
then required ko :leeks back to the aggraiitted ate°.
• cities of .11Ettaw,VIII., that their opinion of their
i Sovereles's oobduet might be softened by the com. 1
parison. No.=—The circumstances necessary to •an ,
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independent judgment weres in fact, in ell those '
l cases, before the vette:, they are so now; is all
such cases it is impossible.that the leading end
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inaportaut circumstances should be secret. From Cite
circumstances, the opinion, of the people was, ,
and must be, In -*very instance f0rmed..,,..-I>'o,
?ye
sect that of the Ptlnce of WA Les, father 'De
resent Kiss, would
.not the people demand et: .
Other, whilst they debated the propriety of the nuti4.
_,. -,- I sure, questions something like the- follewhvg :---:11as
,The Red:fere of the Silifiessbee ire Tespottfull g• the King ' banished his son 'from personal hatred to.
' informed, that since tis, intercourse took place words..hial; or •from views of public •convenienci,
be ten France and England( the French Paper*
itid ie avoid the clashing of powerful anti conflicting
are regularly received at the STArEt3lAil OFliejti parties in his Court) The answer to this question
i and thg important Pail of 'choir contents Pahliehad I would deperi&onth,eknown causes.of his banishment;
daily, is addition lO.whaiaPPears in the MOiaing and the pubtic judgment of the measure would de.
'4' ,i'Vers, relish arrive the preteding night. 1 pend on the answer. Now, if it could reasobably
Peels German, Spanish; and other Foreign ; have been assigned to the "former
.of these motives,
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. lepses, al.e also received as usual. 17te advats..! or if rather it could not have been assigned to any,
laps of an Evening Paper are therefore obvious'{other, the King would doubtless have incurfed a
Or country. circulation. i - I very great degree of popular indignation. In Eng-
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• land, which has been emphatically, and we think
justly, called the country of the domestic virtues, it
is impossible but the Whole people must hot begun
to hate the King, as soon as they discovered hlinice',
hate his enoffending..Sou with so inveterate awl me-
ligoant a hatreds as for it to influence the conduct of
ids Government.; for,. in the estimation' of the do.
ziestic people of England, the relation of Fatherelid
• Son is, or ought to be, the most tender of any, 4itie
the single exception of that between fitabind Mid
Wile. We, therefore say, that -Geitee it.,WOuid
have been hated, and justly hated, by all his people*, •
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if he had banished from Court his anoffendlig fieili, • re hue Yecellro Yrench Patten. ad& itoil. up. te.
from unnatural hatred, towards him. Another vet lythe . which are uncommotily,lotbeestbee.,
• 29th inst • -
The article upon Constitatiens is Pectiliarlyettatetint,
natural question amongst the disputers on that ocuit-:
sion, no doubt, related to the degree of punisholoot and will ne doubt engage the attention cifiegitic‘f
L nietaphysicians. .; Ingenious
intended by the kingly Father to be billeted on his' as the Frepohibar Ind-
; tormly been acknowledged, the attempts now made
rOyal Offspring. It is no doubt a disgrace to the
Prince to be driven from his father's Court, k would ..to retrace the grelpriticiplee of constitutions; and to
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be said ; but assuredly the King cannot intend to designate those which, they have already bad, are
stamp deep and indelible ignominy on his name.— Certainly dexterous. Put much more is to be ap-
This would again remain to be determined
prehended than meets Ate eye in this kind of je,
by cir-
suitical and metaphysical jargon. - They would, le--
cumstances that bid transpired antecedend), to the
order of banishment. Cowardice is as base, &i-
cording to their reasoning, suppose, that the relations
honourabl and infamous in a man,
as want',of Of society are almost intuitive. in• men, and- that,
e,
chastity in a woman-. If the Prince of °View, the therefore, there is no neceisitylo.:kirormationj for•
Father of the present KING, had nesterbeen nob: philosophy and experience; le aid in the great work
of securing, by a benbficent constitution, the fiber-
jected to the imputation of cowardice; if a secret
ties of the people, and the happiness of nations.—
commission appointed by his father, had not pro-
No, forsoOth ; a nation is likened ,to a couple o
seeded in a loot and dark examination of this Charge;
lovers, who are agreed, and whose friends up-
hearing witnesses only.on one side, and never oito.w.
ing the poor Prince to speak in his own defence; if Prove the match ;and it only requires some hedge-
the Prince had not, during this investigation, on row lawyer, or Gretna Green parson, to prepare the,
which-his hononr or infamy depended, beep already contract and join them in holy union. Thus the
suspended from the right of :appearing at Court, and. rankest idiot of monarchs, the most contemptible
if his re-appearance there had not been the only geb. driveller its the school of royalty, is fit, if he can
lio mark and guarantee of Ms complete acquittal of i write, to make a Constitution. Therefore, Brother,
•the foul and calumnious charge; if geothing at all ! Louis), Ferdinand, Joachim,' and Emanuel, are set-
of this nature had taken place in his alter as in fact i ting about this easy task, which is to procure happi.
It did not, the supporters of the 'Vag's' conduct ness fig their nations, stability for their thrones, and
would have it, of course, in their power,' as, Indeed, increasing glory for their posterity.
'', they had, to•say, that the King meant oily to chat- Pmts, MAY 117.—'llie constitution of peace are
fist his Son by transient disgrace, and not to destroy the topics of. conversation. When shall we behold_
him by, everlasting infamy. If, on other hand, thii famous treety,ofpeace ? When will this cele-.,
such proceedings as we hive stated, hadteally.takeo 1 bested constitution makeits appearance? Shall we at
lace ;If the reciptionef the young Prince at Court i beet haven stable constitution and a pacific treaty of:
had been the only public recognition of his innocence I peace? Are questions continually asked. The very
of the crime of cowardice, for in a person of name, however; of a constitution makes some people,
that rank, cowardice is deemed as great *Apia. tremble, as they see in it the germ of troubles.;
• the want of chastity in a female, theliAilltlaubt. :To that assembly Which called itself Constiteentr/re ,
.edly the .national judgment would have•beettivdded . are indebted for the first idea of constitutions ;audit
by this circumstance, in estimating toll' tea -et mast be confessed that, thouglOt talked of peace,'
.his royal Father. The people would have beet use. union, concord, and tranquillity, its first attempt,
able to avoid the conclusion, that the itileottoo a- was unfortunate. • ille f°lliiolVenalY.4.ties -been'
;the King had been to blastthe repetition of his-lno ' given of its labours : •• ", TheCtiestiteenti -weee.3.o',
with eternal shame. And...if, moreover, front the constituted that they pilled .doira.evebry thing:with.),
' whole course of the proceedings, a strong sad net.. oat rebuilding any thing- !NT miserable 'ind.in.:l
versal conviction of his bravery prevailed, the nation retested wretches, ignorant of the let of kureetietik
must have thought, that in attempting to Itillict igno-. were insttumeutal tetiwir own deitrictioni in Vaiiil
miny upon his Son, he had contracted it himself; sad the did they exert ihemeeices ; Many wire killed, . end
sense of the people would undoubtedly have beeesanc.. none were restored." There seems a general Con-
tinued and upheld by the opinion of all subsequent , tempt on the subject of -cpairtitutions : to ,constitute
ages ; for nothing can be so revolting to the senti- •Is not to create; the establishments. elf:St. Louis
ments and understanding of all nations and times, its :;tea not traded; ' they were, in some respects,
fora man to attempt to undermine the fair fare of Melly a translation of the chapters, in others 'al
his own son, nnleis indeed his.condatit beilisteAii.:-' revision of feudal customs, and in others agnisv ipiii
testable and atrocious, who strives-to teatt*Pollite 1 translation from Roman jurisprudence. According
tion of slander on the spotless • .:of Ids tethis view constitutions marlOtetWO defects: the'
chetilli4
Own wife. We have selected thts• : 'ea of ' firit,..tkat of making the follies of. *a day into a law J,
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the Prince of Wstr.ss, in the reign of **watt 11., for years. The .oevolotion, thus attempted to'
as quoted by the Courier; merely for .lielisitpose of form a constitution fro the rights of
.maptj
showing, that whatever number of reoedeets Way ' equality, and the.: leinreiliaty of the peopio;l
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iirgstsair, Sr: 1814
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Theis ire some occasioneles *Melt kis dangerous'
to speak, lest the most flatting expression of the
seed natural feelings should incur the punishment of
guilt. .The recent treatment of the Princess :a
WALES is precisely one of those. We must, it brit.
speak at all on this .delicate subject, subdue our
tone till it ceases to be the index of our emotions,
and till our remarks assume a character of
as remote from our own feelings, as it must be re-
pulsive to the glowing hearts of our 'readers. Thus
restrained we should have thought it our best course
to remain silent. We would not willingly, by our !sa-
pid and feeble words, so unworthy of their theme,
have contributed to damp the generous and universal
feelings of a nation. We say damp the national feel.
logs; for to doubt that the moral and domestic feelings
of England have received a wound much too pain-
ful and too deep for the sense of it to be aggravated
.by the puny efforts of a fettered press, would be. to
utter a foul libel against the national character.—
From the highest to the lowest•of our Readers, we
*re sure, there is not au' individual, who,on this oc-
casion, does not feel inOnitely more than. we dare ex-
press. We should, in justice to the cause of the
'gloms of Watts, have preferred silence to that
tame and imperfect expression of our feelings which
we most not venture to outstep. As
.a wife—as a
soother-.as a sojourner-in a strange land—as an il-
lustrious, and unblemished Princess—the treatment
she has experienced iu each of these characters,
sight be the prolific source of a long stream of
thought ; but it amid not freely be pursued, without
suggesting to the mind conceptions of madness, and
fitting the hands for deeds of desperation. 46 Let us.
not think on it, would be our mbtte, if the consi-
deration of the subject was not found upon us„ not
as might have been expected by lea cautious men,
who feel as we feel; bet by the most barefaced and
audacious attempt of the courier, that' hireling ad.
troc,ate of existing power, to persuade the public, by
black letter authorities, and historical retrospections,
that the Princess of WALES is not ill-treated. The
cases referred to, are those of GEORGE 11. and the
Prince of WALes ; of the Dukes and Duchesses of
GLOUCESTER and Cuasseet.aan, in'the present. reign ;
and of the Princess, afterwards Queen Anne, in
the reign of Wii,ctirs and Manx. In each of these
instances we admit the fact, part of the Royal Fa-
wily was forbid the Court by the reigning Sovereign,
• without any reason being alleged. And why should
• they not ? If the Dukes of Susstx and KEN'S should
give Parliamentary offence, and ba refused the
Court ; or if the Princess CHARLOTTE should be
guilty of disobedience and disrespect to the autho-
rity of her father, and, therefore, be forbidden to
appear, whip"vould care for it? Certainly not the
nation at all, probably not very much those illustri-
ous Personagoithemselres. What is it then which
Tenders the cask of the. Princess of WALes one
of peculiar hirdStip ? into mow of common sense,

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be adduced fer the banishment of members of the ,
'Royal Fetidly from Court at the pleassive:_ec*
ruling Prince,' each precedents -ealvitatik:44oeff:o•l
'pan, the judgment to be for old `irlitin.preseat '
MITES unless, which is impossililioill eivisa
stances were precisely these*. In pivAingibitifi
have been led to greater length, than we intended.
The censure which the • Courier presumes t0..:841W
against the Princess of WALES for pOlishiiig thedoeu-.
ments relative to the transaction, and the insinuation,'
that she has been Instigated to this step by.theleaderr
.of a political party in the country, shall shortly be r 4.,,
pelted. In the mean time we cannot be, surprised
'that the course She has pursued should be misander.
stood by those, who manifest so little regard to chit-
rimer themselves; or that political management
'should be suspected, even in the most honourable
conduct, by men,, themselves the blind tools of in
anwcrthy faction.

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Tb. opposition to the Corn Bill daily gathers i
strengtll, us will be seen by the proceedings of a nu-
M I
eroue and respectible Meeting of the inhabitants
of the. Beiough of Southwark, held yesterday, who 1
unanimously resolved to petition Parliament against
the measure. The decision of this popolousdlstrict,
Janddition to the City of London, and which will ob 1
I vioubtbe followed up by the inhabitants of Westmin- i
I titer, cannot fail to -have a due influence in the House i
Commons. Mr. X. THORNTON Wes, the principal
}spokesman at the meeting yesterday, and, all thloga
!seonsidered, acquitted himself to the satisfaction of•his
Constituents. Mr. CALTEWT. itpresied himself hi
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kern, more decidedly hostile to the Corn Bill ; Int,
in reply to an observation of Mr. JACKSON, concern.-
ing the price of Porter, •he seems to bete committed
a trifling error, for greet as the profit on Porter may
i be, it was not supposed to amount to TWO PENCE PER
{ POT' Surely there must be some mistake iti this Report;
las one-half, or even a fourth . part of ttat *amount 1
wouldbe a very handsome profit upon an article of i
such immense consumption ; and it is generally un- 1
itderstood by the people, that Porter can be afforded
a a lower rate ; nor is there any doubt of its being
loon reduced, if the price of Grain is left to find
r! , its own level • Or. in case of any sudden fall in vs-
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,fiue.an import duty of ten or fifteen per cent. in adi.
I &ion to the expense of freight, &t. would et..
ways suture Si preference to-lohe English farmee.w•-•
Tao edieninedt. Meeting at Epsom takes piece • titie
1 day ; .its objfet Is Of 4 different nature,. which we
,i noticed yesterday; and bad Sir THOSAIL Teem
been now in Parliament, it is probable he aroeld -have
I been a speaker on the other side of the question I

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cerniojrhe price of
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of the brewer we,
expences of nut*, i
sot put Into tholi
i halfpenny, ;more eh
j i The rending to,/
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