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TRURSDAT. JANUARY 21, 1212.

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with good order and propriety ; yet such is the
joandiced malignity of the supporters of Ministerial
despotism, Cern Bills, and Gagging Enactments, tbit
the Assembly in question hasasssmed in their eyes the
very essence of republicanism. " Ten thousand Peo-
ple met, the occss:on came home to every emu's
besleesieed bosom, end Him seperiniended their
proceedings, supported by sorb (+tante', as
MITCOIL, SAXON. KIWIIT, end OGDEN !"-flit
" fortunately," says the Courier. " nothing fit •
coned to irritate the mob."—The only provoking
-occorrente was the orderly behaviour of the Meet.
log, and defeated in their hopes of a tumult, the ene-
mies of the People mild only attempt a anteater, !
Unworthy of the country that gm them birth are
the men who would deny to Englishmen the privilege
of s Public Meeting, or dwell upon the danger, or
misreprevest or usisenderstaud the ebullitions the
arise upon sperasious when the People assemble to
disease their dearest interests. To complain of such
methods of collecting sod expressing pnblic eenti•
meet, is to complain that we are freemen. They
are the natural and aecesesty consequences of that
public liberty which is the right of all, and from one
of the results of which, the mostly character of the
People, lave probably proceeded the prosperity mod
elevation of the very men who bare availed them.
selves of their power, and are, ootwithstanding, the
gist and most disposed to deprive them of their
rights. " The whole town," pretends the Courts,
see dietusted and humiliated by these ditgreerfol
scenes," distiegoished as the Meeting Is confesved to
be for its peaceable chancier, " end being convinced
of tbe impossibility of eoderieg that such scenes
should be acted with impunity, beet it in contemple.
ties (as we understood) le petition the Legislature
for some ensetment to protect the cssetry from si-
Misr knelt, ID future."

A competent somber of the Members of both
Flosses hiving oaken the requisite oohs, the bati-
stess of the New Parliament will this day be opened 1
by a Speech delivered by the Lords Commiesiooms,
in the nome of his iteyel flightless the Pounce Rc-
GINT. The Speech is eat 'tiptoed to be eery long.
Besides the easel Notice of the mellowed indisposi-
tles;•of the Rico, it will, of course, lament the less
sestaisied in the death of the Quarts, end call the
Marsden of Parliament to the sew ertangements
teedered .'''awry by that event, for the rare of his
MAJ ores perms. The other topics are tindersteed
oe relate priocipally to the evaciatloe of Finite/by
the Allied troop, the Treaty of Air le-Ghspelle,
the general state of European polities, and the pro-
spect of coniiseed peace whit! Obey present. The
piddle Remis@ will he repregeoted in the usual
maim, as being in a promowneos ceeditiee, and the
trade and masefacteses of the reentry ins state el
high improvement ; the redeetioes elected le the
netiooal F.speediture will then, it is said, be with
mach coorplecency referred to ; and the Speech will
tweeted. with a pelisse renew" epee the wisdom of
Parliameot to rest the usual Supplies for the small
purposes of cot/epilog and estrevareee,--Places,
Pensions, sad Siemeres,—fresh establOmeets an-
der pommies of Economy, end for atiotaising
violate and undiminished (bat most precise' system,
of Sword end Paper Kale, mush hes placed this
country in the imposieg sod "might, attitude of
having en Espenditere of Poorly's Millioos a-yeer
i more then the receipt of the national inmate.

Such, according to the Ministerial Papers, are the
Inputs upon which the delegated Speech from the
Throne is to dilate; bet there are other sohjects,
pothaps equally important to the Nadu's, which mg
may sentare In sejr, will not be so comploceotly
dwelt piton by the oracles of authority. Owe of
these subjects is the isimediato umossity adds. fstp
the Mutation of Minister', sod the depterstdo sew-
ditioa to which they hare redeced the country by
their paper espediefits, and drafts open futurity, of
renewing the Bonk Rlfikirkliell Act—a measure,
ohich, in spite of all the promises, and pledges, and
protestations which hare been made, ir, Ito ars con.
6deolly assured, to be semi the first propositions to
be ',shuffled to Parliament. _

This, then, is the malt of all oar aapient Mi.

nisters' financial schemes—the proof and the wimple
which is to be exhibited to the New Parliament, of
Legislative faith, and increased State prosperity.—
The Bank is not to be snowed to reefs to Cash
Payments, however salutary stud indispensable that
'Twister* may be. The present system of Gomm.
tweed cannot be carried on and perpetuated without
the assistance of the Paper Currency—the.' means
,r which lend Corruption lighter eine to fly," which
fill the Mihisterial Treasury, and keep the vanaLs of
the !qv's, together ; therefore, though crime should
it,cteatle with the means of temptation and the grow.
itig stietuhis of necessity; though bewail is already
shi,cired in all its feelings, by the spectacles of mi.
air'', guilt, punishment and death, that are impe-
-1 trill) before Its Iles. Though Juries are protesting
from their seats against the sanction they are daily
and hourly called upon to glee to the sacrifice of
their fellow .creetures on the blood-stained altars of
this depopslating and demoralizing system, the same
horrid situation of things is to be continued, the
same Cassell of public mischief ere to be aggravated,
end the same principles of Government are to be in.
rulcated and upheld, which base ginn birth to so
easy evils

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Those who would on such slender grounds en•
math, as ►eretofore, on the liberties of the People,
either &dodo themselses, or would delude the nation
into the establishment of unmitigated despotism.-
IThat such attempts may still bo tried, on such shallow
pretences as these, we have, for some time past, hose
had too much meson to apprehend. Let, thorn, the
Friends of Freedom be awake and at their posts ;
let thee be as wits as serpents, and ►armless as dotes.
Then" serer was a moment when the 6rm union,

the sell-cemented reasblnetioa of able writers In the
wise of Civil Liberty wee were necessary satin at
present. The avowed end the concealed eneake of
Freedom beer, on their pert, *stemd more in.
tlantely than e'er into a conspiracy to check

the progress of reason sod Reform ; to cow:lnset
the tendency of those patriotic writirags which
esplaiss sod vindicate the Wooed eights .of the
People, and which expose the turpitude, the insi.
diousness, the plots of spies, the impostures, end
the inotpatity of Ministers, and the prostiteted hire.
lip of dm Pmts. Every artifice sad cruelty hove
peen used to estingoish the public spirit which sac.
glee ed in the Societies for discovering sod eemeving
mastic abuses ; and various aid endless false and
wicked charges hive been brought by Ministers, and
the teals of power, against these distinguished chem.
pions, who most proved themselves essimeat for their
seal sod their courage.

Some calor* American Papers bare reached es, bet
not of amore meat date then those prerioo►ly re-
ceived. They notice the arrive! of the T rattly be-
tweets Great Britain end the United State!► and
suppose that the Senate, then sitting with closed
doors► were deliberating on the prorisiolis of it.
Letters frees Panama state, that the affluent inhabit-
ants were embarking for Cadiz. They take consi-
derable property slits thorn.

Yesterday, at three o'clock, a Cabinet Coonril
was held at the Foreign-office, ahich w•.s attended
by the whole of the fifteen Members, int lading the
I.ORO CHANCELLOR, for the irst time of his at
timilance at any Cabinet or Privy Coenril since his
Lordship's loug indispesitlon, a:e.•pt those 1%•Id at
his own hoese.
TM Doke of Scsvrx is now on a visit with Earl
DAast.cr, at Cobham-hell, where • select party
were invited to meet his Royal nighties%
Yesterday a Coen of Directors was held at the
Fast ledis-host►, when Captain A. Il•rtt.ron,
of the ship Bombay, took lees• of the Court, pre.
vioes to departing for St. lifeless, Bombay, and
Chine. _ _

Saforday nest being the first day of Hilary Term,
The avowal's of Ministers, incepableof defending the Jedges, as usual, will wait on the Leto C 11.11%.
their masters' cause, from the effects of Arhus! blow CILLOR, at his house in Bedford.sqesre, at eleven
it received on Saturday by the verdict of the Jury in I oto'clvlceski.mfrinnsontewr hinianlcie thrge lrii.ollapproce:dtmiai,cPitioocT sii
inni
the case of CLENZWT, and squabbling with each other
not join the procession, as his Lordship is not selfi-
sh/sat the line of argument they should pone., have I eiently recovered from his late indisposition (an st-
en far agreed, ft seems, among themselves as to let the fork of the goal), as to enable him to walk through
matter rest, and endeavour, if they can to.day, to Westminster 11611.
divert the public mind from the disgraceful tap 'rho last letters from Bombay bring afflicting sc.
s of the mortality •rising from the cholera
of their lalepretooded plots, bydistracting it with the
temealos, which raged in the Decan doting the months
alum of fresh eniam°6". Manchester, far the of Jody and August. and had not been entirely
moment, is to be particularly observed, and Netting• overcome, though greatly do sod, in September.
ham is to be quite forgotten. The general 111141)101111 are
Destro, she web of sophistry—is Min! purging, cramp in the eztreesities, rsteneitnt to the
The creature's at its dirty work oohs !" abdomen and muscles of the chest, greet 'how and
f burning heat in the bowels; the ere becomes coveted
The greeted fair this fresh outcry on the port o
with a thick kim, sinks into its sr;cket, becon.i.s
the blinisterial alarmists, who are ever ready to find , flied. The most socoossfut
remedies have been I. r:e
a fob for the whale, when they themselves are sink- i doses of calomel and opium, with warn, batting, fir.
ing, is the Meeting, which we berme innovated, at It has been chiefly mortal among the native.; fen
Meachester, for petitioning
and of which some sc. I Parliament for the re. lieropenns hate suffered. Moat '2.(v, or the
peel of the odioes.Corn Act,
lives died at a religious place ralletl l'underpore.--
Of the Eutopeens who have fallen a rievifir• to
coon!, sech as it is, conveyed through a medium not
the malady,
we have to lament the loss of boot..
the most favourable to the Petitioners, 'mill he fee" Colonel _.vakt., who was mirrieri off in Si% hours,
in ibis day's Paper. 'vie Meeting, it sill be sons, end of Lieutenant Wont; both ou the poestay
MU hum this acceset, was sem:meted dumbest Establishment.

20 raz IMMIX or ruL STATESMA.V.

Stn,—As I wish that the oiiioicins my family tray
entertain of politic m.a and peblic enraqii,es
he farmed upon real fact.. and not opal c,ojectarti
and raisphogla, I anal,l learn, II rough your Viper,
(the poly plain-speaking anti horkest SNifesewn 1 or
any clay relations ever kit*w !! !) eltefl.er the moat
'inlad Tory a riser non gracing the •iresa(.nontionln
a name is tometinies °dines), 1164 or was not same
few years ego, • violent Jacobin, end rvprinsanded
try his gini.tii,er, though a very held and frem-ancak•
ing patriot, for the velipmence, and even the tit 'mow
of Isis attacks upon the Corenthisn

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aerial edifice? it is high titt•e that the most anew.
ligt•tooetl sm,,eg my letsti..ns shoolil he its to seder.
stand oho they hsve to deal •itb.— Yoer's
Jule; BULL
Little I!

EN' MS.
ON DISNINTIOPS KItUI,G "19 SUAC F TIM elltrle.
!Silence if sold so Eite cmorul.
ie., er lbe em d Aa. rent.
Bei .lep Il.r tosay•e by I.llllAeonomodt.
]'or knee a an to we his Hands.

Mill IC

A crisis we're wild brought France is bre waste,
rla that now pardon art former Winces.
0, may • like trail is Brlta. arise
In make as all hams), by (Vain Yes eyes:
Noy Ike roes of tier freesias. lie law at oar reef,
Thai we saf, 9 why speak and etrindartly eat.

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Tice wicked trim, In be rank hail appal.
Sky, .4 AU. wa. made for *ova, Nal &.#s fee ALL."

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We ere happy to find that Lord Eassina is con.
sidereal out of dollar.
The Police Officers cannot certainly be at a loss
where to carry a dated, delinqgget. Lord Si Digowng
has furnished the Public with an officer primly to
i.e purpose, chosen from the learned spot, Doctors'
We are glad to find that Minister. have consented
to a reform in one of the branches of Government—
we mean that of the Customs and Luis., for the
purpose of consolidating the numerous Acts of Par.
'ismer', in one general Act. As they stand at pig.
sent, doubts, difficulties, and rotor ,dicts ocher in
almost every act done at those offices. The obscure
entanglements e.•rr di, prosented In the young
Merchant hue enneinced the world that the toots
oust be cot shroud), fur that they rennet be untied.
it has been mitt b$ • blinishatial Paint, that Lord
Caseates rams retell have clear., CLosteura had it
mew proper that G .yeatintent should hare inter.
frrel—this we dent, en ‘•• the utterance that
Wane, Counsel 1136 prertred, in such en .tempt,
!o give the Noble Lord a Itot.sfao for hie Oliver.
NIIIIS TON me HANK fir FNCLANO. - NOTE, 4ND
SMICIE.• -We leaf° (seta Washington 6aadte)
that the General Post-015c. Departowlet is about to
issse a Circelar to all Post-Master., directing them
nut to receive, in pa) meat far postage, the notes of
any Bank that will not redeem letipaper *kb semis,
on dcmand. This is a strong indicat..to that the ts.
moment will persist in demanding specie of all
banking lostitutions with which it has and AGM"
course ; a refusal to enw will, of course, be con-
sidered an act of insolvency am the pert of each in.
stitation. Many of the usaaseres muted by a Re-
poblicen Govetnruent ate equally proper under a
mined Mstarchr.
A certain class of ;.ersoes, as well es lb* Govern-
sent, are interiorly motions to psi down Mr. Dim:
and to do this the) aro inventing various anus, by
saying all manner of nut-of-theaway things of him.—
Now we wish to inform those whits hnoters-dewa
of demagogues, as they denominate bins, that the most
effectual e•e of extinguishing that fire which they
my may inflame the oht le kingdom, in short of
pulling down HUNT anti his party, would be to let
dint the price of corn by levitating the obasitioos
D
•Ils ;lair
I ;laird expressly for raising the peke of bread.—
. Verbusa Sat _ -

Jamaica Papers to the 48th November, ("stain
souse distressing accounts of the ranger cammitted
by the bettienne. The plantain walks, la many
districts, had tress nesrly all destroyed, and great
loss sustained with respect to the entree-km. which,
in many instances, were neatly stripped uf their
fruit and leaves. The Canes, particularly the yams
plants, had also solteteri iroy materially, aril soma
properties had their bedding,. tiegro.hoeses, &c. en.
lively destroyed, or c,insitierably injured. The places
whet' the storm appea.s te hare raised with be moat
d,,tyuctigg were Black Rivet, 811•1111114-1111.
Mar, kt.tilego lily, end fort
The connoction of Government with Ilse Proprie-
tor of the Obsrrscr, io the publication of the libel
upon which • Jury has so virtuosos', pr ed
their verdict, is readereil manifest by the evialesce
given on the trial. All applications which have been
made to the Commiiiii..orts of Ftentp.„ for lease to
distribute grrato•tvusly en additional sheet of a Neils.
paper, in order to afro, d, on some pal titular ovation*,
I more ample jam motion to the Politic, base been re-
f fused—the Commissioners ousting, that they bail no
power to dispense with the esimiug law of the land.
Bat in the ease of the Observer, a second sheet an.
i stamped was given away is prolate notesbers. Ades-
! pertains power does types, to be eaerrised seine.
• here. The fact is sworn to et the trial. Romany
W mecca, s letter.csrtiar at Dolby, " swots that on
Monday, the 10th of November, he received a great
; gnantny of the (Mora r Nowarotper : ikro tscre de-
' UUCP ed to him by Jiro. FArrar, the wife of the jrnirr
ni Derby, who dst.iteti him to U. liver ties glutei.
Wm.'', mid she gar him a shilling for so doing."—
i• 1 now s COOK, • lettri.eartiar at Leicester. ileiwaed
Jape's "ash, that " he also rat -ivy.' a quawity of Ob.
ser,•rs- i.e rceeir:eu them at Port Office ~'i(k Ais
I iettes 1 : theinVil it iptte•wil. 110 ass desiteti t., de.
liter them eratuit.,o.ty, sotl arrotr:.•.ely ho 'IA en:
he
(PeeilPtitizo t r IL • ee of the i'vrt•Odf.es
for his trusil.te. Aunt her 1,11•t-c.?“•r (he he. .e)
st 1)., hy, acted it, !1i.e.141411111.1', and was 111•61.
Isyr tem•neteted." It wokid be Itititog with her
toed.rs' ontlerttaotlitte, Nitu this esilletite. to astern: t
any other prunt. t libel in fact tinting from
, Government; pet, when the it•tvao.thle author is
prosecuted, 11,111• Of be nor G..veroment have oi.e
I word to advisee is tarpon cf iis troth.