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VIDSON, have also been tried and convicted, and the other six have pleaded guilty, on condition of being transported; and while the circumstances of their crime create our warmest abhorrence, a moral lesson may be extracted from them by wise ministers, who may thus discover, that, though they may be able to place themselves and the perpetrators of such outrages* as those at Manchester, above the ordinary reach of law, yet they are amenable to human passions, and therefore they ought to feel (as well as know) that the only security of all power is justice, and a due respect to the moral sentiments of mankind. We therefore exhort the majorities of parliament to institute full and honest enquiries in regard to the yet unpunished transactions at Manchester, and to adopt all such reforms as shall remove those abuseswhich are as palpable as the sun at noon-day; thereby restoring the constitution, and adding stability to the throne; and then there could be no chance that any conspirators would, like these, be led to conclude, that every man whom they addressed would concur with them, and that if they succeeded in any mad diabolical work of blood, the community at large would support them.

Happy would it be for Britain and the world, if but for a day the spirit of wisdom and magnanimity prevailed in her councils over the blindness of prejudice and selfishness. Those who foolishly think that force alone is security, should remember that they are administering the legal powers of government to a people whose glory is their freedom; and that (without quoting the recent case of Ferdinand) even at Constantinople, the union of ignorance, janisaries, and superstition, does not secure the Sultan or his ministers from the terrible effects of frequent revolutions. We are friends to the form and spirit of our admired mixed government, in king, lords, and commons; but we deprecate that corrupt influence which reduces, or tends to reduce, the three voices to one voice; and therefore hope to see all the commons represent efficient bodies of the people; but we are of opinion that every necessary reform may result from the spread of knowledge, and from the progressive conviction of the majority; and we

heartily wish, for the sake of peace and union, that ministers themselves would magnanimously become patriots, and wisely lead instead of virulently opposing those reforms in favour of which the independent voice of the country begins to be so unequivocally and powerfully expressed.

The particulars of the insurrectional movements in Scotland, &c. are noticed in the Provincial News, but we add in this place an official report on the subject.

Home Department, Sunday, April 9. Intelligence, of which the following is the substance, has been this morning received from Scotland:

About 7 a. m. on Wednesday, April 5, one of the Stirlingshire Yeomanry, in proceeding to join his troop at Falkirk, was stopped on the high road, within a few miles of Kilsyth, by a party of armed radicals, who refused to let him pass. He turned back, and, on his return, met an orderly of the Kilsyth troop of yeomanry, who was on his march in the same direction with despatches. The two yeomen went to Kilsyth, and reported what had happened.

Lieut. Hodgson, of the 10th hussars, and Lieut. Davidson, of the Stirlingshire yeomanry, immediately marched with a small party of each of these corps in pursuit of the radicals, and overtook them near Bonny-bridge.

The radicals, on observing this, cheered, and advanced to a wall, over which they commenced firing on the military. Several shots were fired by the soldiers in return, and after some time the cavalry passed through an opening in the wall, and attacked the radicals, who resisted until they were overpowered by the troops. Four were wounded, and one of them was left on the field. Nineteen were taken prisoners, and lodged in Stirling-castle. Five muskets, two pistols, eighteen pikes, and about one hundred rounds of ball-cartridges, were taken.

In this encounter, Lieut. Hodgson received a pike-wound through the right hand; and a sergeant of the hussars was severely wounded by a shot in the side, and by a pike. Three horses were also wounded. Lieut. Hodgson has reported to Major-Gen. Sir T. Bradford, that no troops could behave better than the whole party under his command; and a general order has been

• Described on the trial as an exciting issued, highly complimentary to the

cause of the conspiracy.

yeomanry engaged on this occasion.

The

The following is the state of the Revenue for the recent quarter compared with that of last year. The three millions of new taxes and their arrears not brought into the previous quarter ought to have added upwards of a million to the amount, so that in truth in spite of the nominal increase, there has been a progressive falling off, which the disturbed state of the country is not likely soon to reverse.

The abstract of the nett produce of the revenue for the quarter ended 5th April, 1819, and 5th April, 1820, is as follows:

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Rome, 16th March.

"During my residence at Milan, in consoquence of the infamous behaviour of Mr. Ompteda (he having bribed my servants to become the traducers of my character); one of my English gentlemen challenged him; the Austrian government sent off Mr. Ompteda. I wrote myself to the emperor of Austria, requesting his protection against spies,, who employed persons to introduce themselves into my house, and particularly into my kitchen, to poison the dishes prepared for my table. I never received any answer to this letter. After this I was obliged to go into Germany, to visit my relative the Margravine of Baden, and the Margravine of Baruthe; the shortest road for my return to Italy was through Vienna, and I took that road with the flattering hope that the emperor would protect me. at Vienna, I demanded public satisfaction for the public insult I had experienced in LomMONTHLY MAG. NO. 339.

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bardy; this was refused me, and a new nsult was offered. The emperor refused to meet me, or to accept my visit. Lord Stewart, the English ambassador, having received a tion of returning by Vienna, and of taking letter from me, informing him of my intenpossession of his house there (as it is the custom for foreign ambassadors to receive their princesses into their houses, when travelling), absolutely refused me his house, left the town, and retired into the country. Lord Stewart afterwards wrote a very impertinent letter to me, which is now in Mr. Canning's hands, as I sent it to England. Finding the Austrian government so much influenced by the English ministers, I sold my villa on the lake of Como, and settled myself quietly in the Roman states. I there met with great civility for some time, and protection against the spy, Mr. Ompteda, but from the moment I became Queen of England, all civility ceased. Cardinal Gonsalvi has been much influenced since that period by the Baron de Rydan, the Hanoverian minister, who succeeded Mr. Ompteda, deceased. The Baron de Rydan has taken an oath never to acknowledge me as Queen of England, and persuades every person to call me Caroline of Brunswick. A guard has been refused me as Queen, which was granted to me as Princess of Wales, because no communication has been received from the British government, announcing me as Queen. My messenger was refused a passport for England. I also experienced much insult from the court of Turin. Last year, in the month of September (I was then travelling incognito, under the name of the countess Oldi), I went to the confines of the Austrian states, to the first small town belonging to the king of Sardinia, on my way to meet Mr. Brougham, at Lyons, as the direct road laid through Turin; I wrote myself to the Queen of Sardinia, informing her that I could not remain at Turin, being anxious to reach Lyons as soon as possible, and also that I was travelling incognito; I received no answer to this letter. The postmaster at Bronio, the small post town near the country villa where I then resided, absolutely refused me post horses; in consequence of this refusal, I wrote to Mr. Hill, the English minister at Turin, demanding immediate satisfaction, and the reason for such an insult. Mr. Hill excused himself on the plea of its being a misunderstanding, and told me that post horses would be in readiness whenever I should require them. I accordingly set out, and arranged to go through the town of Turin at night, and only to stop to change horses, but I received positive orders not to go through the town, but to proceed by a very circuitous road, which obliged me to travel almost the whole night, in very dangerous roads, and prevented me from reaching the post town (where I should have passed the night) till five in the morning, when by going through Turin, I might have reached it by ten o'clock at night. Finding so much difficulty attending 3 B my

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my travelling, I thought the most proper mode for me to pursue would be to acquaint the high personages of my intention passing the winter at Lyons, or in the neighbourhood of Lyons, previous to my intended return to England in the spring. I addressed a letter to the French Minister for foreign affairs, informing him of my intentions, and also that I wished to preserve the strictest incognito; no notice was taken of this letter; and one addressed to the Prefect of Lyons, met with like contempt; in fact, from the 7th of October to the 26th of January, the day I embarked from Toulon to Leghorn, I received so much insult from the governors and prefect, that I almost considered my life in danger, unprotected as I then was, in such a country; another motive induced me to leave it Mr. Brougham could not fix the period for meeting me any where in France. I have written to Lord Liverpool and Lord Castlereagh, demanding to have my name inserted in the Liturgy of the Church of England, and that orders be given to all British ambassadors, ministers, and consuls, that I should be received and acknowledged as the Queen of England; and after the speech made by Lord Castlereagh in the house of Commons, in answer to Mr. Brougham, I do not expect to experience further insult. I have also demanded that a palace may be prepared for my reception. England is my real home, to which I shall immediately fly. I have dismissed my Italian court, retaining only a sufficient number of persons to conduct me to England; and if Buckingham House, Marlborough House, or any other palace is refused me, I shall take a house in the country till my friends can find a palace for me in London. I have sent a messenger to England to make the proper arrangements for that purpose."

We subjoin a list of the new HOUSE of COMMONS, which, as far as the voice of the people prevails, is as well constituted as any in our time.

Those printed in italics were not in the last parliament. Those marked thus (†) are new for the respective places; all the rest are re-elected. Those marked thus (§) are returned for more than one place. Abingdon.... John Maberly

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Peter Browne, John Dodson Matt. Russell, M. G. Prendergast

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Southampton. W. Chamberlayne, sir W. C. De Crespigny

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