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could claim, that freemen could enjoy it shed the ray of liberty around, infused its vital principle within us, and made us emulate their bright example. - High on the pinnacle of fame it stood, the pride and glory of exulting Bri tain, the terror and vexation of an envious World!-Benignant in its precept, its mild dominion was a source of blessing; it had no fears but for your safety, no frowns but for your enemies, no hatred but for oppression. Framed for our comfort, it possessed a healing balm for all our woes, a law for our instruction, a refuge for our defence. At once the safeguard and director of our rights, it taught us what to claim, and how to add security to possession. It was our friend, our patron, the image of our Fathers in its principle and spirit; it was our tutelar Saint, our Guardian, and our Guide; our hope, our refuge, our salvation. Liberty flourished, under its shade, prosperity was secured by its auspices, power and fame were the result of its operation. Such were its blessings, such its advantages; and for its preservation was only needed a complete unfettered exercise of the privilege it bestowed.-Like the life-blood of the heart, preserve it from impurity, and it would impart vigour and existence; clog it with corruption, and it must fade and die! We all may well believe what it has been, the remnant of our liberties bespeaks it-now turn your eyes to view the change,-see what it has become.-" You that have tears to shed prepare to shed them now!"- Behold the relict of this once fair and valued Constitution! marred, as you see, by Traitors!-betrayed, insulted, and despoiled, even by those who should have been its safeguard, to whose protection it was entrusted with a confiding hope. Look on this deadly wound, it was here Preroga

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tive struck deep, and left a festering aperture behind. Through here the sword of power pierced, and lopt a vital part away, which neither time nor efforts can restore.

See what a rent Ambition made, who aimed to snatch the laurel from her brow and trample on her neck!--This ghastly wound, corroded with infection, diffusing through the whole a black and deadly ve nom, was given by fell Corruption's poisoned arm, whose force no common effort could withstand.Last blow of all, (and which seems fated to have struck the heart,) Ingratitude itself has given;-this was the worst, the unkindest cut of all; her very Children gave the wound! - they whom her whole existence was fashioned to befriend; whom she had so long cherished, nourished, and supported; those very hands now thirsted for her dissolution, now plotted and combined for her destruction, and, with a most admired eagerness, pressed forward to inflict their portion of the outrage: -here did they stab; and, as they pluckt their cursed shaft away, mark how the life-blood flowed, as if to be assured ingratitude could be so base!-Judge for yourselves how grievous was this pang, how doubly grievous from a source so dear!-Then fell our Leader and our Friend!— assailed by all, no succour, no assistance, no virtuous spirit near to interpose in her defence, she fell! - her Country, her ungrateful Country, gave the blow!" Oh, what a fall was there, my Countrymen !Then I, and you, and all of us, fell down, while base Corruption flourished over us!"-If you have principle within you, bear it not!

speak not, Sirs, to stir you up to mutiny, but to a principle of Reformation! Here lies your Constitution, beaten, defaced, and trodden down-will ye stand by, and see it sink for ever?" In

gratitude more fell than traitors' arms have vanquished and o'ercome her"-wipe off the foul reproach, and raise her from the earth!I am no Orator, as some among them are, who have been active in this mischief, but a plain blunt Citizen," who only speaks right on," shews you the havoc which yourselves have made, and pleads for justice and for reparation!Behold your work behold the mangled image of your once-beloved respected, cherished, Friend and Guardian? These are the wounds, poor, poor dumb mouths!" which I invoke to speak for me: but were I such as some I could describe, I then were one would place a tongue in every wound you see, that should en force you to redeem your fame, and do an act of justice to your Country! Oh! pardon me, thou injured excellence! that I am meek and

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gentle with thy destroyers!-Thou art the ruins of the noblest form that ever rose to cheer a thankless race!

Woe to the wretches that have done you wrong!-woe to those that have betrayed you, to those who have consented to your downfal!" Over thy wrongs now do I prophecy:" A curse shall light upon thy base destroyers, their own designs shall prove a lasting scourge to rain and torment themselves : domestic troubles shall increase, and burthens heavier than mind can reach shall cumber and perplex the land: distress and anguish shall be so in use that men shall smile to see themselves undone: while fell Oppression, eager for revenge, with legal terrors thundering by her side, shall in your hapless Country ride supreme, and, with a demon's voice, cry Ruin, and entail a fixt despair!

BIRTHS.

The Lady of T. Turton, Esq. of a son and heir, in Tavistock-street, Bedfordsquare.

At Chislehurst, Kent, the Lady of H. Jenner, Esq. of a son.

The wife of Thos. Fox, a labourer, at Hernehill, Kent, delivered of three children, two boys and a girl; one of the children was still-born, the other two, with their mother, are likely to do well.

At Winchester, the Lady of Sir H. Rivers, Bart. of a daughter.

At Britwell House, Bucks, the Hon. Mrs. Irby, of a still-born daughter.

At Whitton Park, near Twickenham, the Lady of Sir B. Hobhouse, Bart. of a

son.

At the Rectory, Ingatestone, Essex, the Lady of the Rev. J. Lewis, of a son.

At Thames Ditton, Surrey, the Lady of J. Turner, Esq. of a son.

MARRIAGES.

At Edinburgh, Sir T. Stepney, Bart. to Mrs. Russel Manners.

At Wakefield, F. W. Cobb, Esq. of Margate, to Harriet, eldest daughter of J. Carr, Esq. of that place.

On Monday, June 21, at Knole, Kent, the Earl of Delaware, to Lady E. Sackville, youngest daughter of the late and sister to the present Duke of Dorset.

At Prittlewell, Essex, Lieut. R. Scallon, R. N. to Rebecca, second daughter of M. Saward, Esq. of Thorp Hall, in the same county.

J. Heaphy, Esq. of Woodford, Essex, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of J. Younger, Esq. of the Circus, Minories.

At Micleham, in Surrey, T. Carlen, Esq. of St. Thomas's square, to Sarah, second daughter of T. Davison, Esq. of Well-street, both of Hackney.

At King's Langley, Herts, A., Corbett, Esq. to H. Conquest, only daughter of T. Toovey, Esq.

At Ipswich, the Rev. T. Drummond, to Miss Pilkington, daughter of the late Rev. J. Pilkington, of the same place.

At Woodnesborough, S. Saunders, Esq. M. D. of Blundestone Villa, Suffolk, to Mrs. Onslow, felict of Matthew Richard, eldest son of Admiral Sir R. Onslow, Bart.

At Fulham, T. W. Wansbrough, Esq. Surgeon, to Miss Chasemore, daughter of Mr. Nathaniel Chasemore, of Fulham.

Lately, at St. Vincent's, A. Neill, Esq. Captain in the goth Regiment, youngest son of the late J. Neill, Esq. of Schaw, to Louisa, youngest daughter of the late Sir J. Patey, of Reading, Berks.

At Rooss, Yorkshire, the Rev. J. Norcross, M. A. Rector of the Consolidated Rectory of Framlingham with Sax:ed, in the Diocese of Norwich, to Eleanor, third daughter of R. Bell, Esq. of the former place.

DEATHS.

At his seat in Kent, in his 87th year, the Right Hon. Charles Middleton, Baron Barham, of Barham Court, and of Teston, in Kent, and a Baronet; one of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council; Admiral of the Red; one of the Elder Brethren of the Trinity House; and First Lord of the Admiralty during the important victories of Sir R. Calder, Lord Nelson, Sir R. Sttachan, and Sir J. Duckworth. His Lordship is succeeded in his title by his only child, Diana, now Baroness Barham, the wife of G. N. Noel, Esq. of Exton Park, Rutland.

At his house in Park-place, St. James's, the Right Hon. G. Venables, Lord Ver-. non, Baron of Kinderton, in the county of Chester. His Lordship is succeeded in his titles and estates by his brother, the Hon. H. Sedley, of Nutall Temple, in the county of Nottingham.

At Worcester, aged 59, the Rev. J. Griffin, Head Master of the College School.

At Brentford Butts, B. W. Gould, Esq. in his 60th year.

At Southampore, in the East Indies, J. Hunter, of Groton, Suffolk, Esq. Lieut.Colonel of the Bengal Establishment.

At Blackburn, John Heyes, a dwarf.— He had formerly been exhibited in a show with an Irish giant, in many parts of the Kingdom; but confinement not agreeing with his health, he had latterly gratified his countrymen by appearing publicly, practising the sword exercise, following recruiting parties, &c.; he was thirty-three years of age, about three feet six inches high, and a native of the neighbourhood of Rotherham, Yorkshire.

At Irnham, Lancashire, the Dowager Lady Arundel.

At Rajalamundry, in the West Indies, A. G. Blake, Esq. aged 53, of the Hon. East India Company's Civil Service, Fort St. George Establishment, Collector of that District, and first cousin to Sir P. Blake, Bart. of Langham, Suffolk.

At his seat, Wolverton Park, Hants, Sir C. Pole, Bart.

At the Right Hon. the Earl of Carlisle's, in Grosvenor-place, Lady E. Garnier..

A Stapleford, near Milton Mowbray, Leicestershire, G. Bullivant, Esq. a capital grazier of that place, and for many years one of the greatest beast salesmen in Smithfield Market.

J. Cooke, Esq. of Bulhore, near Cuckfield, Essex, in his 70th year.

At his brother's house at Tenterden, in Kent, W. Curteis, Esq. of Camberwell, aged 67.

At Reigate, Mrs. J. Charrington, of Stepney green.

In his 56th year, J. Dunn, A. L. S. Curator of the Botanic Garden, Cambridge, and Editor of Hortus Cantabrigiensis.

At Barkway, Herts, aged 93, Mrs. Hurrell, mother of W. Hurrell, Esq. of Newton, Cambridgeshire.

Mr. A. Brockis, formerly a considerable maltster, at Marden Ash, near Chipping Ongar, Essex.

At East Farleigh, Kent, Mr. J. Charlton aged 66.

Capt. J. Waters, master of the sloop William and Ann, of Gainsborough, Lincolnshire: he was accidentally knocked overboard when on his passage to Gainsborough, where he was to have been married on his arrival.

In Wigston Poor-house, Leicestershire, E. Freer, a Kentish woman, aged 116: she retained her faculties, and could do her necessary employ in the house, till within a few days of her decease, and was at church a fortnight before.

At Dyffrynaled, Denbighshire, in the 37th year of his age, the Rev. B. Yorke, Rector of Downham, in the Isle of Ely.

On Friday, the 11th inst. at St. Ives, in his 89th year, T. Jantes, Esq. the oldest Burgess of the Corporation of Huntingdon; he was father of the late Rev. Dr. James, Prebendary of Worcester, and formerly head master of Rugby School.

The Rev. W. Curtis, of Woollaston, Shropshire.

At her house, in Seymour-street, well known in the fashionable world, Mrs. Orby Hunter, sen. She was to have been at home at ten o'clock that evening, but died at eight.

On Monday morning, in Dover-street, Lord Viscount St. Asaph, eldest son of the Earl of Ashburnham, in the 27th year of his age.

J. Preston, Esq. of Sewardstone, Essex.