The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-01-02 00:00:00

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that the amendment was supported by nine-tenths of
the meeting.--.lt was then moved that it be engrossrd •
and left at the Hod Lion Hotel for signatures;
and afterwards transmitted to Lord Sidnioutt,
the Secretary of State fur the Home Depart-
meat, to be laid before his Stijesty. The meet.
ing then dispersed, and the Corporate Body Fag,-
eeeded to pass their own address, which they tail Mit •
of " the Mayor, Aldermen, Cler,ly. Fretmett, and ,
habitants of the Borough and. Neighbourhood of Liu
keard."---This is a bell, by the way, these wiseecrep
styling themselves, " the Mayor, Aldermen, ana
Freemen, of the Borough end Ncighboatrhood.".
However, this was dune to get the signatures
of those in the neighbonring parishes over when
they supposed they could exercise influence. They
have, however, succeeded but badly, though they
have used every effort to induce persons so
sign, and even profaned the chursh by bringing the
address there on Sunday, and endevouring to persuade
those who attended to sign it, by falsehood ; assuring
then it was neitherinteoded to censure the Queen not
to support Ministers. The Corporation Address
is called; " Tbe Placemen and Pensioner's Ad-
dress from Liskeard." The real Address of the
Inhabitants has been most numerously and respect-
ably signed.
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LONDON:
TrESDAT ETZNING, JANtt•IIT 2, 1821.

The mercenary advocates of a falling Administra-
tion, like a candidate at an election who relies on the
influent, of the Court and of corruption in placing
him at the head of the poll, are continually directing
oar attention to the number of testimonies that are
now appearing in their favour, as published in the
London Gazette. With an exultation mere Word
than real, (for reflecting either on the illaonst of in-
dividual opinions, or on the rnanoer in whith they are
procured, or the disposition of those who express them,
they feel but little reason to rejoin) they display these ad-
dresses with wonderful parade, in the !rope of neutral-
izing the genti rotate of the people. W hen the people them-
selves assemble in their appropriate places, and pass,
by triumphant majorities those votes which contradict
the assertions of the clandestine retainers of Minitry.
their meetings, though composed of those who consti-
tute the sinews of the State, of theN who are the
aunt useful and unimpeachable to the 'addle,. sod '1
the most independent in the higher tasks of life,
these are scornfully scouted as rabble. With the
malevolent intent to separate and set at variance
the higher end lower classes, a reference is made
by way of preference to the expression of assem-
blies, of a superior kind. County Meetiogs, when they
suit their purpose, (packed by the receivers or caper-
tants of Ministerial favours), are appealed to as the only
authentic organs of the national voice, Where it has
not been expedient to hold such mortioo they have
contrived to circulate for signature moil dependent
freeholders such declarations as they think peeper
to prescribe, and they boast of their seem' in such a
county as Hants, seder the patronage of such a Lord-
Lieutenant u His Grace the Duke of ilVaLustorox.
But will they boast of their success at county meet-
Inge, where the freeholders assemble in a voluntary
manner and are allowed to express or at-
test their independent sentiments? Let them leek at
the meeting of the county of Middlesex some time
since, at that of Durham recently, at that of Glees'
tee last week. What nattering unction ran they take
to their souls from these? But they pint 'Winne
degree of pleasure to the north. I■ Scotland, there
have been, what they call County Meeting. To
Englishmen who attach their native and habitualides&
to the term, these Meetings may be made to India

• belief that ape* ___, id* eousposes poossm.---, _
of property in their respective districts. The feet,
however, is that the men who are summoned to those
courts, (for such they might be properly do Thee
are not even all the Land Proprietors.
stitute a peculiar and privileged order; and OR
value of their privileges may be estimated 114
1 tolerable to exactness, when it is known that is one enmi
ty
the whole of these electors do not amount 14•
Between such men and any Minister for Ow tittle
being, n pod understanding will constantly •Ilir
slit ; and in these quarters opposition to the Mill 01
lof the Court can never he expcctod. Yet, evil& ::. the
i
1 Prottedinp of the 'lents' County Meting, the cor•
tiers cannot always exult ; far the speeches of the to-
, dependent Gentlemen of Fife, will be read with 'tote-
-1 est and pleasure by all the friends of tadtProde"e'
and of the rights of ttw people.

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Itotreuthooott appears to be the Gillet of die i&f.
I think there Is a probability *at Ctistrels
into that business with industry 604 **
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