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" The Cause far ✓kick fell r. the fish, and lirsstr died ee ghe dud/oaf"

LIBERTY OF TNR PRESS. "
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August 8, igiii • --moo— forThe.acts of y our ituthorify,ere proposed to ri.go'atia
AT a MEETING of the FRIENDS -4 the' pm* ors. H., , . it by those principles which VIP have here entailed.
LI HER TY iif the PRESS, held this day, "to take into 1 semi yea a very amens paper, a Note, addressed We 110011 had to straggle with the ignorant ~ the pai•
consideration the best memo of afforiing peennitry relief to Mr.
to the King hy the late Ministers, on D. LOVELL, Proprietor or the sycntows Neespaper, fir giving in their aloha, and the hatred of the 'serious oho sorrouieled
the heavy Inu•es, and severe sulferion, woich he has incorred resignation ; the Note was read to him in Council you ; they soon began to intermeilfile with the Go.
in firmly swimming, fur a series of years, the invaluable LI. at least, so say persons whom lam persuaded may' vertuettel. Orders were given aiel measures tido tral .
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hefty of the Press,
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Mr. JOHN PICKARD, In the Chair. Iwe relied on. • in which we did not participste. Roy el Committee.
Resolved, I We are still In uncertainty regarding the condi- ' ries went and kindled civil Aar in the Oro•i s.oce., gess..
That it appears to this Meeting, that Mr. D. Given, the Pre. is of the Treat ' •
prietor tont Publisher of she STATESMAN, einioent as no lode- tons
. 'testy. it is very positively asserted, (he antis to the seditious, directed their Wools?
Oradea Journal in the cause,of C.vil and Religi,us Freedom, that beiides what we already know, the following against peaceful cif iteett, and sprehil erourel terror
tosalt;tiaiz.raw unthocorirs..ozeoLuvreruur ir
been deeeageadod:rethilt in the demsndi have been made :-2501000.000 to dis• attd dismay ! They easily succeeded in this, wheat
to three separate charge the private debts contracted by the King and they ann°°"e''d that ffireitter. were "Pir slixilbstielb
Libels, and whirs havewbeetn proved not only
Intentionally litielloses on his part, but in one of the three eases his faway--150,000,000 per annum for the mainte. when they Proem' ' the "an." iii tour Majesty, nY in.
the insertion wasdariaglis coaboement, and entirely withaet ; nance of the foreign troops who are to occupy the yoking it in their aftldresses, and when in the %Roth{
his knew ledge.
That it es itse-ophilon of this Meeting, that it is an hour. 1 Places held as securities—France to furnish with which foreiguets did ithlyet occepi . they permitted•
Bible duty nu the put of the Advocates 4,f she Liberty o h .
La . cannon the plaCes ceded to them and those which the entrance of eighty thousand Sp iniards. A• Mar.
Press to indemnify Mi. Lovell for the losses he has incurred in they are to he restoration of the annuities shal of France was muidered on the banki of the
maint.iniog hissteady and iiiflexible patriotism, and for hls• ~ occupy-4
belonging to the English, which during
unweaned and Son assertinoof the Constitutional Rights of the or (Igen& Rhone, and his as.assiiii; were neither spprehended
to a third—the reitn• ""r
People dud* the whole perioid of the publicathes, of that the elution were reduced punished !! Was it by oppressirits that the
Journalthese exertions of Mr. Lovell is the came of Liberty, . • 1
bursement of contributions and requisitions which People were to be inspired "it" "• love for Pme
Th.a
Troth, and Joshes., independent of his stiletto. nod Imes, en. have been levied in foreign cobtetries daring the rig_ I Government ? Outrage soon eatetelerl itself; its
title him to the marked attention stud support oast gee
Public, fetent wars of the Revolution', ever Power were disteaved which etre not.'
and th it this Meeting accordingly feel great plenstwe in pro- ing
matiog and recommending the Subscriptiou already conemeaced I their account, even the Swiss who claim the sum ' those of your Majesty. Frenchmen thenisetter
y present- : some cities colours
lin his behalf. • which they paid to the Directory.—This is indeed - wished to dismember your kingdom, and separate
That at no epoch of the civilised world has Ow i,alependent the Ass's kick. ' the North from the South. Your Majesty became
EtietClSC of she liberty of the Pre-, promised to confer s • much
benefit on Society as at She present p'riod; it is. therefore, I 'flee reservation made by two of the Peters in fah- sensible that it was necessary to recal to their sub:.
highly incumbent on those who revere that Lawns to insinifere log the oath, as to what concerns
la Orin and ready support io behalf of every moo whip ha.. and the Catholic Re. mission the blind partisans of a cause bison, 'Pei...
i may hereafter lesseni that most essential biilnatk of the iutle. ligion, bad relation, it ia.sairl, to the sale of the pro. MEP,' was ackno* ledged ! Our orders were not
pendebre and freedom of m akin& petty of the Church, and to the toleration granted listened to • Nlegistriles whom we sent its your, frame_
That Seven Gentiemen be appointed by this Meeting to art ns to other religions. In this view the Phrase used Isy were sacrificed, by those who acted in the flame Of
• rommitee, to carry into effect the objects of the foregoing
Resolutions. , the Count d'Artois, in the sitting of the Chamber of the King; we rehsei"ed withnot power; eerier* in•
(Signed) JOHN PICKARD, Chairmen. : peers
• Resolved Unaniroonsts, the day before yesterday, is very mimic— inactions rendered all oar efforts sod inteetious un.
aniline. In such (sircumgance4, what' critea your.
Circumstances might soon occur that would place
That the thanks of the Meeting be given to the Cb iirman fur 66
asoductiug impartiilly the proceedings of this evening . the two Members alluded to in a situation to take Majestt's Ministers do? The Duke of 0 route, •
SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED: part in their deliberations." It is easy to make when Napoleon still .reigned, had sue Ind by tie.
Sarn.Whitbread, Esq. Duke or Bedford. by
M. P. XlOO 0 the hands of Alder. , comments 'poll this phrase. gocia inti, in disarming IA Vendee.i ;NW Ni..j.,sty
Sir Gilbert Helth. man Wood ' £lOO 01 We expect with impatience some information as to was scarcely seated on the Throne 'holt the incur. •
cote, Rost. M. P. 50 0 Joshua Grigby, Esq. , the Sitting of the Chamber of Peers of yesterday. rection broke out' in this same La Vejthee with more •
T.W. C.,ke, Etq. M.P. 50 0 Bury 10 0 . ,' violence than ever. Whet Id be Ifors. tafter' j .ho wyboaro, Esq. 5 5 :The Police has not permitted any publication. Con , n
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Sir F. Burdett, Bart.
M. P. 50 0 JC, 1 01 They Were occupied yesterday in stripping the Ca. your restoration ? Your Minister. p* War der's. A
J. B. Monek, Esq. Marmaiiiike Shaw, Esq. 2 0' moos of, Natural History ; they will probahly finish that he had no troops• with which to subdue these '
Casey Palk, Readiug 20 0 IJ. D. J. 10s. ad. ! provinces: it was not the iittentinut your Court
V. Z. 40 0 Ettomd Lawson. Esq. I 0. by nnfundshing .all the houses in Paris; the one
Mr. Alderman Wuod 20 0 The Friends to Free. I would he as just as the other. I that this insurrection should be opi
Elsa St olive 10 0 dowel the Ram litre
LETTER OF 1 HP. MIS ISTF.RS EXPLAINISII TITER 1 "We cannot conceal from you, Sire, that thou, st.
Mw. Ausiin, Esq. 2U 0 Arms. Nottingham 3 0
Jos. Perry, Esq. Lk°. R. Moline. Esq. 33 • MOTIVES t'OR lIILIR !MIMING. 1 tacks ere levelled at your throne; you soiree legi.i•
u,i. le 10 0 A few Friend, ..f the It Stat,—Your Majesty deigned to confide to us mete authority to be despised, and the authority of
Mr. Fordbam 10 0 Liberty ofthePress,
A. H. 11 0 at the Coach and the administration of our Empire, when the whole fatmeti sepplies its place. Factions produce revolts.
Messrs. Bra roils &Son 10 10 Mows, Dartford 9lt, of Europe in arms occupied the Northern Provinces, tions, and those who triumph to-day, may be aver.'
Major Cartwright 10 0 Mr. Bryon Corcoran 11 1 whets they menaced those of the East and the South, thrown to-morrow; your throne will no longer have•
John Johnson, Esq. 10 0 W.S. Addington. E•ri.
Wm. adieu, Esq. 5 o Gotai.gtoo Lodge, and when civil war was kindled and diffused over even the support of their illegitimate atithority.—.
Lord ----- 10 0 near Bedford 55 ; the west. A triumphant faction which was re. Your Ministers, always devoted to yhur person, slid
W. Jones Burdett, Esq. 5 5 J. Haths, Esq. High
nom. Northmore, Esq. 5 5 Wt he ' straineils.but not discouraged:. portions •of the po. endeavoored to oppose this reuctio.l; the Princes olft: '
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Mr. Bird 5 5 Fifiro wo Friends to Imiation who had become indifferent from the eicess your House, the Nohlesoryour Court, dr.igoated sa ,
Mr. Murray 5 5 Freedom, of the •of their fears or their sufferings to any events which crimes,-and as attacks upon- your Crown, their talent l
Mas.ey Dawson, Esq. 5 5 Green Min, Pre.ton 21)
Mr. Elam 5 0 1 Chanins Leids, F.q. might ensue •; equally read to support alternately to restore order and submission to the lows: we lest—
Mr. Waithman 5 5 i of the Alhaly 10 0 the tyranny of thi faction and the yoke of foreign all hifluence with your Majesty; we became guilty ha
Mr Galloway 50 i Dr. John Peacock, I arms, until some greater misfortunes should at length the eyes of the nation. •
Mr. West 5 5 i D.irlingtoo 1 0 j
Mr. Charles Hoppe 55 A few Friends, at the I unite them against their oppressors; such has been I. `s The elections were made; a ravine, minority's—
Mr. Him SS I Ander:, ewteeife- _ . 1 the situation of the kingdom since your Majesty's directed them ; that-minority aloneisrepreseifteil.— -

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return, ; The choice which they rec-mmentled to yew 'Ma. .
46 The love of our country was no longer to be 'jesty for the Chamber of Perri indicates the issue
found, but under the tai-coloured flag. The party t spirit. •
which tailed themselves Royalist*, proscribed, in " Ministers, without autharity. a prey to the
their projects, both the laws and the men who did • secutians of the Court, without support in the politic
not eiscousage the subversion of social order. Were opinion, exposed to the opposition of the, Chenshrra,
France buried. beneath her own ruins, and your Ma. , what should we he able to reply to the clamours of the •
people, when at length they shall demand the reasous
jesty reigned only over desert provinces, this party
would prefer the destruction of the glory, the strength, for so many calamities ? . •
and the political existence of France, to seeing her 46 Meanwhile, foreigners possess France as a cons
consoled for her misfortunes, and regaining her losses quered country ; to civil discords they add the 'ravage
under the wise and liberal laws vouchsafed by your of proyisices; they dissipate the funds Which ought
Majesty. This party became hostile in the in to find their way into the treasury; they devour the
the Seats, and in the North, ligause it believed it. provisions of the ',simple, who are threntened with all
self,suppoited by authority. (Tonil citizens waited, approarhing fsit,i •e; they carry off she magazines of
its silence, to hear the voice of your Majesty. At arms, the .ronmlinition alWir, and the centime frost •
present they are printing their arms in Ati*erglie, the ramparts of our cities. The white Ilsg finale
in the Cevennes, in the Vosges, in Franche Comte, only over ruins !—They despoil us of star puhlie
and in Alsace. . monuments, the tokens of our former glors ; they
" You-cannot, Sire, be ignorant what was nor de. seize too monuments of art, which
alone remain to
'mien to your sacred Perron : we had partaken of us after facia> series of conquest. It is dishonour,
your dangers, your misfortunes, and your 'silo; .we Sire, which the people are most reluctant to pardon,
knew the wishes and the wants Of the French people; sod your Majesty has remained silent in the midst of
we expressed them to your Majesty with a respectful all these attacks on the national. honour !
candour. You seemed to listen to us.; and now that 64 We were for a long time ignorant 'that secret
we are quitting your councils, we hope you will per- treaties had connected you with foreigners—your'
mit us so recal them to your recollection. I Majesty wished to nepciate yourself—we could nut
" Successive revolutions have changed the condi-
prevent the disbandment of the army, end this meets .
tions of families, have overthrown the fortunes which sure being completed, left France sod your p•,rson
they had amassed, have closed up the patio: they had in the power of foreigners. What had your lions*
opened, have tarnished the national glory which they to fear from that army? Napoleon no longer es:
had exalted: but those revolutions have also taught isted for France. The national colours granted; and
the people thnt there is no happiness for them exrept some concessions made to the public opinion,that army
under a filled snot steady Government, because that would have become yours— it would have versed red •
will replace the conditions of families its a state of to resist the ambitious projects of your Allies. Was
harmony with existing manners. because it will conso. every thing to, be shondoned to the conaftittations sod-
lids/. existing fortunes, because it will permit the the seductions of your Court and of foreign Piiorest •
citizens to go on its that career which they have Your Court Is led astray by prejudices.—tbe foreign
begun, and because it will establish the national ho- Sovereigns have interests opposed to yours—sthe Ems
nour nn the principles of unalterabi•justice; results of •peror of Russia was, perhaps, the only one *hobs
the utmost importance to the nation, because it will you could believe sincere in his promises. '
place individuals in that relative condition which the " The Allies at this moment oppose the recruiting
state of society requires. , ; of the departmental legions. •
"If we could have given this direction to your , " Such are the misfortunes of the !Rotation' lit
y's Government, Frenchmen would have been which unwise Gounrils here placed you** Ms.jevty.—•,
united in heart and in conduct with the wishes of Your subjects are almost every where in oppusitiois •
their King ; their interests would have been con- or in arms against each other, and almost every tither*
founded with the glory, the love, and the safety of te partisans of your Efouse are the smallest number.
the Prince. Those desires, and those fanatical pas. The French, humiliated and discontented, are ready
sions which would have disturbed an order of things to proceed to the last extremity. Your Mistosts haw-
so aospicious to the general good, would gradually no longer the means of opposing the pretensions of
have died away, nr have been lost in the en.ptiness of foreigners. They Ism presented a treaty which
an ineffectual opposition. would consummate the ruin of 6- nation, soil which
46 Your subjects would have submitted to your would cover it withyeteroal shame. We hive•tost
laws whatever their opinions might have been, or thought it became us to give an nssent whirls would
their former condition. The Republican •or the Im. have residored us culpithle towards that nation, wide%
perish party is sin looser to be feared; the mass of may be humiliated, slot which cannot he heat
the nation wish only for liberty and tranquillity.— down. sloce 'our Map•sty has coufided authority
Foreign Cabinets, its seeing Frenchmen r•ibed round to our hands, we suave tonstasilly beets without
error thecae, would have limited. IneteUsiou, which, the. powrg qt; syl..inkr g .ss loom the power ne
then you might Ita!e..withstoods . . I preventing evils Our opinions his. no Minuet

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