seem to be afraid of undergoing a radical reform ? lie for one was ready to confess that lie was a derided advocate for suck a reform, because he saw that utiles , it was elfectell, taxation would be so followed by taXiditill that nothing less than a miracle could save the couutry. lie proceeded to take a view of the policy of the present Administration, nod concluded by declaring it to be his firm belief that it was their intention to rule the country by the sword. lie then took the opportunity of eulo,cizing the recent conduct of the press, and concluded by informing the company, that whether lie met with the applause or censure of his country men, lie should continue in future to act as he clways had acted, according to the dictates of his own conscieuce.— (Loud cheers ) SONG—BY MR. E. T.A,71.011A111, " Buie Britannia." (First verse same as the original Rule Britanni9 Long mistres, of the boundless tide, Thy flag civet fleets in tritunph rose, But now this country, still our pride, We mourn enslaved by native foes, Rouse Britannia, assert thy liberty, Proclaim woe more, proclaim thy sons arc free. Thy lion his spirit broke, Ilas lung by treaderous hands been led, But once removed the galling yoke, Again be stands the oppressor's dread. Rouse Britannia, &c. Though lost man's universal friend, I u hini the Pdiriut we deplore, Let to his. she this shout ascend, Who freedom gave to Afric's shore. Rouse Britannia, &c. United in one common cause, Each freeman's birds-right to regain, Restor'd once more our sacred laws, Britons may then resume the strain, Rule Britannia, Britannia rule the wave s, Britons never will he slaws. . . . _ The Noble AI R AN, after npotogizing for the a b sime e of the Members of the City of N l/tll icil, (impo s ed to the company to drink success to them. This was uccurdini,ly llllllll`, Willi 1111 cc times three. The Noble Cll 411131 tN, ill eiving as a toast" Lord Er skine and the'Frial by J Ilf y," informed the company th e his L01%16114/ had fully intended to lie presciii on this occasion.— (hit he should propose " The health of Lord Erskine, Laid Trial by Jew's," with three times t liree. The toast was then drank with the greatest enthusiasm. The MAYOR OF Nonwicu proposed the health of Lord Bury. Lord BURY returned thanks in an eloquent speech., of which we regret that our limits prevent us f reporting. Toast—" Loud Holland, the Representative of the name and principles of Mr. Fox." The Earl of A I.lllola 'tan, after taking a short review of the causes and progress of the late revolutions in Spain, Portugal and Naples, gave the fo'lowing toast :—" Prospe. lily and durability, to the new rept seutirlive governments of Spain, Portugal, and Naples, and may the arms of any ironer who dares to invade their rising liberties be turned against itself." The Earl of ALREM RLE proposed the health of Mr. Ridley Colborne, WIIUIII be eulogized in a short be impres tve speech. 'Mr. Con:: then proposed the health of Mr. James Mac rhombi, t. hie It ris received with great enthusiasm by the company. Mr. 111 x cow; LD then rose and rricrued thanks to the company for the gratifying rummer in which they had re ceived his health, and more especially to his excellent rriead Mr. Coke, fur the flattering manner in ttloch he had noticed so humble an individual as himself. lle he teed leave to say that he thought they had acted wisely in icon-fling to their old comfortable quarters, because, if they were to endeavour to accommodate themselves to the number of proselytes whom they were continuing to make, they would Sella find they had undertaken un impossible tredi. Last year they Kid . been enabled to fill St. Andrew's lush : this sear they might if they had chosen, have filled the cathedral ; and next year, provided al ays that Ministers provided them with the saute aleallS of making proselytes lb they had re. cently done, they would be compelled to dine in the open air, sad then they would come under the oiler ion of Lord Casilereagles code of laws, which rendered it illegal for Luglishinen to dine politically in their native open atmos phere. Met, however, they were 11;6 )ear, and he must therefore first of all congratulate them in meeting in such numbers to celebrate I lie purest principles of freedum,jud ice, and humanits —all which were comprehended in the cha racter of :qr. Fox, mid formed a just subject of congratula tion to Mehl all assembly as he was then ad:lressiu•;, espe cially as the new year had unfortunately introduced to them sio oilier congratulatory topic. When his HMI. Fl lead the Chairman, in the MA. spa ecli is Web he made that evening, s pressed Si) mach in sn few words regarding the character of Air. For, he could not help forming the aisle that the grave would open mid restore that illustrious stale,rtm again to his country. But It recollected immediate!) after w arils thet great and invaluable as Weil a Mall would be in the present conjinicturii, his feclingi would have been too inteloe, the MET tions or his heart too tender, to have borne the vett scle vs hirit the country at present exhibited. Ilr would have fell toss sensibly, and therefore could have ;mad. „tly beheld, the innumerable miseries which the intbet•ihty iwd intatuation of Ministers have prepared fur the nation. Better, therefor•, is it that he should rest in the grave where there are no cares to perplex, no passions. however noble, to stimulate, than that he should see his country misgoverned by a set ;If meu who, having no fixed principles of their own, are content to idruggle on as they can amid the difficulties which surround them. How would his blood boil to the events w Melt are now passing is theSoulli of Fisrope, and to which his Noble Friend haul nheady alluded I A constutionul King dregged to the hat of Once tiMitury despots (laud cheering) to an -.sec to them for the he luaus crime of having consented his eouuc i,,u with his übj. ens by conceding to them a representative form of gosernmeut, a conktitut ; hick British policy had recom mended to another pessoti of the selfsame nation, though it Low saw it tilVenteileil with illValatM.—not Moved as an active accomplice, but wills tiae oust perfect inditlerence. (Cneers.) There were Mate ilia ato Ivh . en even the nerves of Lord w ere not vomit, author and labecor though he way of till the oppression in Europe. Ile who hail been Irane tarred of A or% a). whim had been the altalidinier of Fargo, whit had been the partitionce of S.iximy, who said been the helms er of Georia, contrary to the faith of oaths and It emirs, he, even lie shrink. at present from Ilse con stilton:Mini of his work,madstandsaloofistile t quest is dealing, w bet her the liberties of the world are to be placed :II I lie merry of three tuduerats. Mid Ito not, blow, ver, lo.teled every IliCitzlice, of whicil this la,l S‘ tilt only trot THE NATIONAL EGI4TERR He might have reason for his present coyness; his domestic cc roomy might not yet have reached its full maturity.— Suspensions of the II altetis Corpus net, circular letters from Secretaries of State, having all the force and authorities of laws, Government supported by spies and info' mers, stated in IStlB, by u committee of his own selecting, to have been the instigators of the crimes a hick they themitives detected, augmentations of the forces in time of pence. wholesale enact meats of laws to restrict the liberty of the subject. denials of justice as at the inquest at Oldham, perversions of it as exhibited in a recent ease, rejections of the petitions of starving millions, calumnious denunciations of liberal opi nions assetlitious and atheistical—these, all these measures united, have been unable to put down the force of public opinion in England. But unless public opinion were entirely put down, what British Minister, who valued his head, would avow any participation in the execrable tratic which is now making of the liberties of Europe ? Where, however, was the disclaimer of such participation by the British Government, whir h, suspected as it is by all the nations of the C inert, its I ttttt our, no less than its interest demands I It as as as little to At foand at the mast head of the Vengour as it was in the Cabinet of St. James's, when it refused to reeoi:suise the Ambassador sent over to England by the new Neapolitan Government. Ile could lint foretell the result of the contest in which that Government was E4lOll cuing to he engneed ; but he devoutly prayed that the light tt itt of Heaven might blast those who were the first ogres airs against it, and humble in the dust power a prostituted. (Loud e heers.)l le could not help reins'kin. 111 I lit as that one of the most bi liking and gratifying features of the late revo lutions in Spain, Portugal, and Naples was, that they did not 111 Male in any wild absorb disorganizing philosophy— that they did not aim at ilie uvertli - ow of social order, but that they son.;itt to establish it 011 the sure basis of national peace:lntl tranquillity. They had therefore been conducted throughout with a numeration and an attention to their first of which was perfelly surprising; and there would coil ,equently be no nem ional grounds for jealousy or suspicion regardilig them Would that he could say us much fur those who acted im the other side ! the supporters of w hat it has now Isar flothionaltle to call the monarchical prin i.jile, nil the old :thsued and exploded pretensions of Kings have been revived in full vigour! He could not 'method 10 say how fur the flying ultra loyalists, or royalists, be did not know %/Well it/ call then., of this couutry recognised those princlples it hut this lie knew—that if such donstriues had been considered correct in the year 1688, this country would have been placed under the ban and interdict of all Europe. The worthy Gentleman proceeded to censure, in a style of ex ulted eloquence, lorce,and elegance, the villanous conspi racy Ft:Z/1111Si her Nlajesty, Had concluded by declarin;, that there a-mid be 110 1101/e for time country until an entire recon ciliation had tusk , o plaee between thin higher and the lower orders of society. He was of opinion that tit the present moonlit the latter a hiked 141 be guided by the aristocracy of the country, t heir natural lead, m.. Circumstances hail alien ated them ; but the (vents of the last three years, by pro (hieing n common sympathy, hail caused them wain to up . proximate. He hail //Cell % its delight the aristocracy biAlifl forward to support the people in melt a cause, what right had they to expect that they could control them when they were, or appeared to lie, in the wrongl Ile did not know that he alsould say a word more to them, except to remind them thas it was now obvious that a radical change, and nothing less, can or ought to satisfy lltis Itilig Mr' tated nation. lie knew that smiler the doctrine of animal Parliaments and universal age wild and extravagant tuitions hail been broached ; hut they had lint 11,..en so until moderate demand. hail met with a denial y ear lifter year. H. firmly believed float though there might he desperate itien—aud thole were always such in every State—who wished for confusion, the great mass of the people only desired as hat was just and rational; and that if they were met by conciliatory inea 6111Ts, they would be satisfied with such au infusion of new vivnit Mai the noose of Commons as would tender it what they used and ought to find—a sufficient check upon mal-ad. ministration. The lion. Member, after thanking them for the patient attention which they had given him, sat down amid the loudest cheers. Several other patriotic toasts were then given, among which were " Earl Grey, and our friends throughout Eng land oho adhere to the principles of Mr. Fox." " The in dependence of Ipswich, and Mr. Leonard," fur which Mr. Leona, d returned thanks in a speech of considerable length and ingenuity. " The Liberty of the Press." " The Duke of lirJ urd. " The Earl of Itosslyo, and the gentlemen who lately met at Eiliolnirgh to commemorate the principles of Mr. Fox." " The Yeomanry of the county, uud success to them." The Stewards," &c. The Earl of Albemarle did not quit the chair till half past ten o'clock, before which time very few of the .party had dispersed. We cannot conclude this account without expressing our regret that the Committee have not made an arrange ment for the greater accommodation of those who wish always to intend this dinner—the latter end of the week must be inconvenient to many—and as neither Saturday nor Sunday are possible days for such a purpose, a close and uniform adkerence to the liditqloy is impossible. Now if it were fixed regularly for the third Monday in January, all the inconveniences attending a chatige of the week-day would be done away. We respectfully beg to call the attention of those with whom the ;111 . 41185 -111C1116 111C1116 rest to these observations. A match for 50 guineas a side has hecn made by a gentleman, who has engaged himself to walk 18 miles in three hours and eight minutes, within 20 miles of London, on or before the Ist of April. Tire Anstir.—On Monday last (the 22d inst.) a corporal and private of each of the cavalry regiments, except the 12th, at present stationed in Ireland, passed through Liverpool on their way to London, to learn new exercises, which arc to be taught the different corps there. A duel was ibught early on Wednesday morning on Hounslow Heath, between Major 1) and Mr. 14—, a gentleman of fortune, in consequence of a dispute at a room in Bond-street on the preceding day. ltilinmation was given to the Police, but not until after the mischief was done. The Major was badly wounded in the shoulder. but as we under stand, the ball was extracted upon the ground, and :he Major came to London. LAW INTELLIGENCE. .- ._. .;r-'? L 11•11 Mil - • - 11.• .. • t: COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, wEumespAy, JAN. 24 EXTORTION OF A SHERIFF . S OFEICRR. ROWDEN V. THE SHERIM OF MIDDLESEX. THEATRE ROYAL DUBLIN. ~. _, - _. adini Serjeant Pell, for the Plaintiff, stated that his client had been arrested under a Cr' pias directed to the Sheriff of Middlesex; that the officer by whom the arrest was was made brought him to his house, where he lodged wo nights, for which accommodation ins. was de manded by the officer's wife, and paid by the plaintiff without any objection. After the second night the plaintiff was given in charge to another officer, and be fore he was removed feom the house in which he had been from the time of arrest, he was obliged to pay a fee of 1 1.35. Gd. for which extortion the present action was brought. The learned Sergeant stated, that by a statute passed in the reign of Henry VI. Sheriff's Officers were restrained from taking a greater fee than 4d, on au arrest; but by a statute passed in the 32d of Geo. 11. the Justices of the County were empowered to fix the fees of the Sheriff's Officers at Sessions. a table of which should be hung up in the Sessions House, and the Officer became subject to penalties for taking ally larger sum.— The present action, the Learned Sergeant stated, was net brought under the statute of George the Second, a it did not appear that the Justices had fixed any rate of fees, in consequence of which his client sought redress under the statute of Henry the Sixth, which fixed the penalty of three times the amount of the sum charged in extortion. The case, as stated, was fully proved. Sergeant Vaughan, for the defendant, said, that as the plaintiff could not recover under the statute of George he Second, because the Justices had not complied with the enactments of that act by fixing any rate of fees, so neither could he recover under the statute of Henry the Sixth, which since the passing of the Act of George the Second, had gone into disuse. On this point the Learned Sergeant argued at considerable length. The Chief Justice said he could not admit that it was the law of England, that while a statute remained on repealed, it should he deemed to have fallen iota disuse, and the officers conduct his Lordship considered con trary both to the letter and spirit of the statute, as well as to justice and humanity. The Jury immediately found a verdict for the plaintiff —Damages 31. 103. Gd. On Thursday night, the New Theatre in Hawkins . - street opened, its a style far superior to any expectation which even the most sanguine could have entertained. As a model of classic elegance, the original portico fur nishes a specimen of architecture; little was•wanting to embellish and complete it ; however, the attention of the Patentee has, in the _present instance, been devoted not only to the beauty of the structure, but to its per manence, security, and general comfort. It is impas sible in this hurried sketch to give an adequate picture of this elegant, thou' r.h stil unfinished edifice. raised, as the ldilress most aptly expresses, like the fabled Palace of Madin, almost without onr knowledge. The Dress, or First Circle, presents a richly executed ornament taken from the Temple of Bacchus—the mouldings and pillars in burnished gold. Second Circle displays an elegant design—the Cap of the Ants, from the Temple of Erectlius and Minerva Polius. - . 1 litrtl Circle.—The Grecian knot, with a continuous link of bhainrocks. The Cieling.—ln the centre, " The harp of Erin," enveloped in rays of light, with a raised band of sham rocks in dead gold and green—coveing represents the Lyre simply executed. The Yroscenium.-•Stagedoors in the Grecian Order, richly gilt.—The Alanavr's box is festooned with crim son velvet drapery, relieved with blue—a richly gilt Apollo's Bead in the centre. Shamrock supporters—the semi-circle, a Hooey-suckle in fretted gold. Fronti:piece.—The King's Arnis supported by Cu pids, with the motto " To hold, as 'twere, the Mirror up to Nature.', The dimensions of the house exceed that of Crow street by six feet in depth, and Leven iu breath—its 101111 is that of a horse-shoe. A DANDY !RESERVED,—On Thursday se'nnight a young man. of good fatally in Paris, walked .he Pont Louis I Gth, and threw himself into the Seine. Fortunately an elegant white coat made in the first style of dandyism supported him upon the water, until several sailors came to his assistam:e. They laid the honour to catch the opposite the Invalides at the moment he was sinking. An unfortunate run of ill luck at the gaming table in duced him to commit thc act of despair. . . . . Oa Friday evenin., , , the 19th, a tire brckc out its the commas of Mr. Matthew M'Cabe, John -street,. Dublin, woollen manufacturer,. occasioned by the neglect of sonic of his spinners. It raged with un abated fury until the whole of the untuanutactured property fell a sacrifice to the devouring element. The lower part of the building was occupied by his presses, which, notwithstanding their great bulk, were ulso consumed. By this unforeseen calamity, a most deserving and industrious citizen is, for the present, deprived of the means of afl4ding employ meta to upwards of two hundred persons, wholly depending on him fur support. The Magistrates of Essex have determined to erect a spacious penitentiary tier that county, in which all the prisoners are to Le classed, and those who are able obliged to work fur their own suprort whiist imprisund. i~ MN