had passed, and hoping the Address, &c. would have an early insertion. To this Lord Sidmouth answered, that in the exercise of his discretion, in his official Situation, he did not think it proper to make the required insertions.-(Hisses.) A letter from MR. WHITBREAD was then read, expressing his grateful acknowledgment of their vote of Thanks; after which, the LORD MAYOR came forward, thanked them for their attendance, and said the Hall was now dissolved. (Cries of No! No!) MR. ALDERMAN WOOD came forward to speak, but the Lord Mayor left the Hall amid loud hisses.-Great confusion prevailed, but Mr. Alderman J. J. Smith coming in, there was a shout for him to take the Chair. MR. WAITHMAN addressed the Meeting. He said they were not altogether in a new situation they had, on former occasions, been deserted by their Chief Magistrate, and the practice had been for some Alderman to take the Chair. In Mr. Wilkes's time, something similar had happened: an Alderman, after the Lord Mayor left the Hall, presided merely as Chairman of the Livery. MR. ALDERMAN SMITH said he had scruples in his mind, which had not been removed by what had fallen from his worthy friend. The present was a meeting, consisting of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Livery; this had been dissolved by the Lord Mayor, which he lamented; but still he was afraid, under such circumstances, he could not legally take the Chair. His legal friends advised him against it. Mr. ALDERMAN WOOD then proposed that as it was now merely a meeting of the Livery, Sir William Rawlins should take the Chair, which he did immediately. MR. ALDERMAN SMITH said he had no objection to attend, and address them merely as a Liveryman. (He and Alderman WOOD then pulled off their gowns.) sters must have some feelings against the Princess, or the Address would have appeared in the Gazette. He had wished to abstain from all remarks on the Regent and his Government; especially as he had no reason to believe, that the Lord Mayor, in turning them off at Tyburn (a laugh), had any instructions from head-quarters. He had made inquiries, but had not found any reason to think any influence had been exerted. Indeed, he could not be brought to think that such an Address could have been any way displeasing to the Husband of the injured Princess. He had, however, been informed, that the Lord Mayor had, within a few days, waited on Lord Sidmouth, and asked his advice, whether he should convene a Hall to-day. Lord Sidmouth told him, that he must be the best judge, but that he himself should advise against calling a Meeting; to which the Lord Mayor replied, that he had promised a Hall to some Gentlemen, and must call it, (a laugh.) MR. WAITHMAN then addressed the Livery. He said, it had not at first been his intention to pass a censure on the conduct of the Lord Mayor. A difference of opinion had prevailed, as to the propriety of the first Hall; but after the resolutions then made, there could be but one sentiment, that as much weight as possible ought to be given to the decision of the Livery of London. He therefore went himself in the procession, and even regarded it as a fortunate circumstance, that the Address had been carried. Considering the conduct of the Lord Mayor and Lord Sidmouth, they seemed to him to have acted under an erroneous impression, that the Prince could be displeased at the discovery of the foul conspiracy against his own wife: that her triumphant rescue from atrocious calumny would be ungrateful to the feelings of a husband, (Huzzas.) His own opinion was far different; he had no doubt that the Prince Regent must be delighted at the triumph of one so dear to him by birth, as well as marriage, Loud applause.) How, then, had Lord Sidmouth dared, by his conduct, to countenance an opinion, that the Address would be unpleasing to his Royal Highness? MR. ALDERMAN WOOD came forward. He said it had always been the practice to convene a Common-Hall to receive the answer to their Address. The Lord Mayor called the purpose of their meeting trivial, but his dissolving the Hall shewed that he attached some importance to it. It was Applause.) As to the conduct of the Lord right that the Hall should make some re- Mayor, why had he carried the Livery of marks on Lord Sidmouth's Letter. Ad- London by a circuitous route? Why had dresses had hitherto been always printed in he presumed to think that the triumph the London Gazette; he was afraid the of-which the City were celebrating would give fice had been contaminated since its removal from Shoe-lane to the West end of the town (a laugh). It was evident, that the Mini displeasure in any particular quarter? The Lord Mayor had yesterday excused himself by saying, that his oath compelled him to keep the peace of the city. What was it to preserve the peace of the City that the Livery of London were carried to St. Giles's? (A laugh.) He thought that a public procession should go through all the most crowded streets where the people were assembled to demonstrate their joy. It was not proper that the conduct of the Chief Magistrate should be passed over without disapprobation. He had dissolved the Hall, because he knew he deserved their censure. He had abandoned them, because he felt that he should meet with their execration instead of their thanks.- -He then moved a Resolution, that the Lord Mayor, by the circuitous route taken in the procession, and by other conduct, had shewn disrespect to the Prince Regent, by countenancing an opinion, that the triumph of the Princess would be offensive to his feelings; and that his conduct this day, in dissolving the Hall, rendered him unworthy of the confidence of his fellow-citizens. He could not sit down, without expressing his disapprobation of the non-attendance of the Legal Advisers of the City, on occasions when their opinions might be wanted. MR. THOMPSON Said, it had been the object in all their proceedings to keep his Royal Highness the Prince Regent out of the question; but it seemed that Ministers, by their conduct, and the Lord Mayor by his, were determined to implicate his Royal Highness, as far as they could. The Resolution of Censure was then put and carried with one dissentient voice, and was ordered to be published in the papers. MR. WAITHMAN then moved the Thanks of the Meeting to Sir W. Rawlins. The Thanks of the Meeting were then voted to Sir W. RAWLINS, who returned thanks, and the Meeting dispersed. Mr. Hunt, the late Candidate for Bristol, presented the following Address from the Freemen, Burgesses, and Inhabitants of that City, to Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, at Montague House, Blackheath, by appointment, at two o'clock yesterday: "To Her Royal Highness Caroline, Princess of Wales. "The Dutiful and Loyal Address of a numerous and respectable Public Meeting of the Freemen, Burgesses, and Inhabitants of the City of Bristol, held on the Public Exchange, the 22d day of March, 1813. "May it please your Royal Highness, "We, the Freemen, Burgesses, and In habitants of the ancient City of Bristol, in public meeting assembled, beg leave to approach your Royal Highness, not in the language of unmeaning adulation, which would be as disgusting to the dignited mind of your Royal Highness to accept, as it would be degrading and disgraceful in us as Englishmen to offer; but we beg to be permitted, in the language of truth and sincerity, humbly, though zealously and firmly, to assure your Royal Highness that we are actuated solely with the love of justice, when we declare that we entertain the most profound respect and veneration for the Character, as well as the most invincible attachment for the Person, of your Royal Highness.We should inflict the greatest torture upon our feelings if we were to neglect upon this occasion to congratulate your Royal Highness, in terms the most unequivocal, upon the developement of that Conspiracy against your Royal Highness, which has terminated in the most glaring exposure of the wicked intentions of your suborned Accusers, the discomfiture of your abandoned and perjured Traducers, and, at the same time, the most unbounded acquittal of your Royal Highness in the eyes and hearts of every unprejudiced person in the universe. But it would be impossible to govern our feelings if we were to endeavour to express our abhorrence in terms adequate to the resentment we entertain for those who were the promoters and instigators of the false, detestable, and groundless accusations against your Character, for the base, cowardly, and cruel purpose of bringing your Illustrious Person to an untimely and ignominious death.—We were delighted with that conscientious rectitude of soul which inspired your Royal Highness with the virtuous courage to demand of the House of Commons, that you may be treated as innocent, or proved to be guilty.' But we are far more delighted with the result, which has proved to the whole world that the Character of your Royal Highness was impregnable to the deadly and poisonous shafts of the inost have only to add, that by this severe trial malignant and cowardly Slander.—We we are convinced that your Royal Highness has secured the love, the veneration, and the esteem of every manly and feeling heart in the Empire; long may your Royal Highness live to receive their willing homage; long may you enjoy the uninterrupted society of your Illustrious Daughter; and that you may always succeed in frustrating the machinations of all your Enemies, is the sincere and ardent prayer of your faithful, dutiful, and loyal Fellow-Subjects, the Freemen, Burgesses, and Inhabitants of the ancient City of Bristol. Signed on behalf of the Meeting, HENRY HUNT." To which Her Royal Highness returned the following Answer: "I return my best thanks to the Freemen, Burgesses, and Inhabitants of the City of Bristol, who have been pleased to send me this handsome testimony of their approbation of my conduct, and their congratulations on the failure of that conspiracy which was wickedly contrived by perjured and suborned Traducers against my Life and Honour." OFFICIAL PAPERS. FRANCE. that he confides the care of repulsing any attack of our enemies on the coasts of the Empire. You have not forgotten, Gentlemen, with what ardour the inhabitants of our coasts marched against the expedition directed to the port of Antwerp.- -But it is necessary to direct this zeal, and what happened in 1809, has shewn how important it is to organize the service of the National Guard, in such parts of the Empire where it may be deemed necessary.Those departments which are especially called upon to concur in the defence of the ports, are designated in Title IV.The National Guard shall be organized in the departments, if it shall be found needful, and the companies of grenadiers and chasseurs completed in such a manner as to present a force of from 15 to 30,000 men, in every circle, effective, present, and always disposable.It is from the bosom of the Senate, Gentlemen, that his Majesty will select the Generals whom he will charge to preside over the organization of these companies, and to take the command of them. In giving the citizens such chiefs to guide them in those sentiments of honour as have so many claims on the general esteem, it was his Majesty's wish to encourage the confidence of the National Guards; to render their obedience more easy, and to secure to them such regard and esteem as may be consistent with the duties of the service. Not more than from 1,500 to 3,000 men from each circle will be called CONSERVATIVE SENATE. (Continued from page 640.) the corps as soon as they shall have received the preliminary instructions.- -The cohorts formed by the first call on this Ban have already proved what we may promise ourselves from the new call proposed.We do not dissimulate how painful this appeal must be to the last classes; but what French Citizen does not feel it preferable to make a present effort, to avoid making greater ones, and from which the same re-into activity, and these will be placed at sults could not be expected?-Exclusive those points where their services may be of this, the calls, and their fixed times, deemed necessary, and will be relieved should be determined by arrets of the Coun- every three months, in order that they may cil, and these executive measures shall be not be too long detained from their occupataken in the most proper manner to prevent tions and business.The contingent of all injustice and difficulty. You well every circle shall be in readiness to march know, Gentlemen, the spirit of foresight to such points as may be attacked; but will which always guides his Majesty's designs, not be parted from their families, excepting and thus to prevent every kind of danger in such cases, and then only for the time and even of inquietude, he has deemed it the danger may exist.This contingent necessary to organize an Army of Reserve, reduced to the lowest number of 15,000which encamped on our frontiers, will, at men for each circle, will give 90,000 men, the same time, watch for their defence, to which, when we join 20,000 Garden and maintain order among our Allies.—— Gotes, 60,000 of the marine troops, 20,000 Title IV. renders disposable the 90,000 workmen employed in the great ports; the men of the Conscription of 1814, who had local national guard, about 40,000 men in been destined for the defence of our western the depots of the land army, who are withand southern frontiers; they will form the in reach of the coast, and lastly 6,000 men Army of Reserve on the eastern frontiers, of the Gens d'Armes distributed in the where they will fill this new destination. same arrondissement, the defence of our -To the honour and courage of the Na-coasts will be found to be secured by uptional Guard, the Emperor confides the defence of the six great ports of the military marine; it is to the National Guards wards of 250,000 men, independent of the reserve of grenadiers and chasseurs, who are not entered in the first contingent, and ment, which, by despoiling it of an important part of her States, offers her nothing in return but a chimerical hope, and the certainty of an eternal war with the Empire. A wise and enlightened Prince has not forgotten the outrages of England, he has felt his true interest, and remained faithful to us. Nevertheless the enemy has approached our Hanseatic departments, and has there sown the seeds of trouble and revolt. Could he have blended to such a have withdrawn them from the obedience they owe to his Majesty?— How, because a tempest which prudence could not foresee, has dispersed a part of our victorious army, our enemies flatter themselves that they may, at their pleasure, dispose of our territories according to their ambition! They believed that they can dictate the law to us, and draw us into a disgraceful peace. which will besides amount to upwards of 120,000 men more.- -It is nevertheless by means of this measure, which does not call out more than a thousandth part of the population of the six arrondissement, and merely for a temporary service, that the 90,000 men of the conscription of 1814 have been rendered disposable. - The actual situation of Europe, the necessity our enemies are under of dividing their forces in Sicily, in Portugal, and in Canada, banishes every idea of our coast being attack-point as to persuade them that he could ed, but however improbable an attack may seem to be, it is sufficient that it is not impossible, to induce his Majesty, in his great wisdom, not to hesitate in applying the measures which have been proposed to you. -By giving your sanction, Gentlemen, to them, you ensure the defence of our coasts and our ports, and thus the Empire will have an army of 40,000 men on the Elbe, one of 200,000 in Spain, and 200,000 partly on the Rhine, partly in the 32d military division, and in Italy.- And it is in the view of such forces that our enemies conceive the ridiculous idea of dismembering the empire, and to allow our departments to be given as indemnities, in their political calculations. This struggle is the last. Europe will take a definitive situation, and the events of the winter of 1813 will at least have been of advantage to France, by causing her to know her friends and her foes, the extent of her own means, the devotion of the people, and their attachment to the Imperial dynasty. [This project, after having been referred to a special commission, was adopted and decreed by the Senate, in the sittings of the 3d of April.] Count Boulay followed Count Defermon, and thus developed the motives of the 2d projet of the Senatus Consultum. After going over all the recent events in the North, he thus proceeded : -Without doubt it would soon become necessary to burn our fleets, destroy our docks, and reduce our navy to thirty ves sels, as they have dared to propose to us. -Deprived of our Colonies, and the advantages of a maritime commerce, we should furthermore renounce our continental power, and suffer our manufactures and our national industry to perish, and become in every respect the servile tributaries of England! No, no, the nation is of the same sentiments with her Sovereign; full of confidence in the firmness of his character, and the resources of his genius, she will never suffer the least attempt to be made against the dignity of his Crown; she will deplore that it may require all his energy to repulse such vain pretensions.She has already made known her noble sentiments, and we shall see her persevere in them with unshaken constancy.-You, Gentlemen, who are the principal organs of this generous people, you will shew yourselves its worthy interpreters by sanctioning the measures Such, Gentlemen, was the condition of proposed to you. What we are especially those countries, when the misfortunes which charged to present to you is, as we said at a rigorous and premature season occasioned the commencement, in the cases provided the Grand Army, reanimated among our for by our constitution. Since the enemy enemies those hopes which our victories had has defiled the territory of the Hanseatic disconcerted.- -All kind of intrigues have Departments, since he has excited these been listened to. A new coalition is formed disorders and seditions, and that he has in the North; and Russia, believing that there raised culpable hopes, it is evident she could shew her hatred with impunity, that the empire of the constitutional and has set the world the example of an odious common law, the exercise of which preperfidy.The coalesced, in their trans- supposes a regular and peaceable state of actions, have ceded Norway to Sweden, and affairs, should be there suspended, and promised our Hanseatic possessions to Den- make way for whatever extraordinary mea mark, as an indemnification.The Da-sures may be commanded by circumstances. nish Government has rejected an arrange- This suspension is, however, only for three months; every thing leads us to believe that it will not require more than that time to bring these departments again under perfect submission; and we have no doubt that we shall see all the good citizens, all the enlightened people of those countries concur of themselves to the successes of the measures which his Majesty will take to restore there the government of order and law. [This project, after having been referred to a special Commission, was adopted, and decreed by the Senate in the sitting of 3d April.] PRUSSIA. The King of Prussia's Address. TO MY ARMY. independence. They relied on their Sove- FREDERICK WILLIAM. Berlin, March 23: His Majesty the King has made an offensive and defensive treaty with his Russian Majesty the Emperor Alexander. TO THE PUBLIC. It is unnecessary to render an account to my good people of Germany of the motives for the war which is now commencingthey are evident to impartial Europe. Often have you expressed your wishes of We bent under the superior power of fighting for the liberty and independence of France-that peace, which deprived me of your country. The moment for doing it is half my subjects, procured us no blessings; now arrived. He is no member of the na- it, on the contrary, hurt us more than war tion by whom this is not felt. Youth and itself. The heart of our country was immen voluntarily fly to arms. What in them poverished. The principal fortresses were is free will, is to you who belong to the occupied by the enemy; agriculture was standing army a call. From you, ordained neglected as well as the industry of our cito defend the native country, she is entitled ties, which had risen to very high degree. to demand what is offered by the others. Liberty of trade being interrupted natur-See! What numbers forsake every ally clouds all the sources of ease and prothing they hold most dear, to venture their perty. By the most exact observance of lives with you in their country's cause: you the stipulated treaties, I hoped to obtain an will, therefore, doubly feel your sacred alleviation for my People-and, at last, duty. May all of you, on the day of convince the French Emperor that it was battle, or in time of trouble, keep in mind his own interest to leave Prussia indepenmoderation and due discipline. Let indi- dent; but my intentions, my exertions to vidual ambition, be it either in the highest obtain so desirable an object, proved fruitor the lowest of the army, sink before that less. Nothing but haughtiness and treaWe discovered, of all. He that feels for his country, does chery were the result! not think of self. May the envious meet but rather late, that the Emperor's concontempt, when the general welfare only is ventions were more ruinous to us than his The moment is now arrived considered. Every thing else must now open wars. give way to this. Victory proceeds from in which no illusion respecting our condiGod! Shew yourselves worthy of this high tion can remain. Brandenburghers, Prusprotection, by obedience, and fulfilling your sians, Silesians, Pomeranians, Lithuanians! duties. Let courage, constancy, loyalty, you know what you have suffered during and good discipline be your renown. Fol- the last seven years—you know what a milow the example of your forefathers; be serable fate awaits you, if we do not howorthy of them, and remember your poste-nourably finish the now commencing conrity!- -A sure reward will fall on him who distinguishes himself; deep disgrace and punishment on him who forgets his duty.- -Your King will always be with you, and with him the Crown Prince and the Princes of his house. They will fight along with you. They and the whole nation will combat with you, and at our side a valiant race come to our assistance, and to the assistance of all Germany; a people that by glorious deeds have secured their test. Remember former times! Remember the illustrious Elector the Great FREDERICK! Remember the benefits for which our ancestors contended under their direction, the liberty of conscience, honour, independence, trade, industry, and knowledge. Bear in mind the great example of our allies the Russians. Think of the Spaniards and Portuguese; small nations have even gone to battle for similar benefits, against a more powerful enemy, and obtain |