fections a different line of proceeding would have immove ably placed you, and have proved to demonstration all the advantages likely to result from a Republican form of Government. And you, Sir, sanction and applaud the robbery and indiscriminate massacre of Englishmen who had every claim upon your justice and your gratitude for protection; Englishmen to whom you and your Family owe the Crown which has been swimming in a crimson tide since the apostate Pitt arose and deluged Europe in the blood of its inhabitants; but never was its brilliancy or its glory so deeply tarnished as when murderers were thanked, were applauded, for bathing their weapons in the purple stream which warmly circulated through the heart of gentle woman, and issuing from the sabre's gash was still uncongealed upon the relentless blade, when Lord Sidmouth's letter blazoned forth the Royal approbation of the deed. This was the requiem which was sung over the murdered innocents! this was the answer to the cry of their relatives for retribution! Can such a state of things continue? No, Sir, they cannot. The people are aware that when the purposes for which you were raised to the station which you now abuse are perverted, you forfeit your right to the Crown; and to compel you to resign it becomes in the opinion of that great statesman, Charles James Fox, only a matter of prudential consideration. If a convulsion takes place, great as is the military establishment of this country, the people must eventually conquer: how soon that convulsion will or may take place, depends principally upon your own conduct, and secondly on the decreasing patience of the people. A change of Ministry (not a change from Toryism to Whiggism, though even that would be something,) would instantly allay the rising passions of the people, and bring with it a proportionate degree of popularity to your Royal person. Allowing the law, or rather justice, to take its course against the Magistrates and Yeomanry of Manchester, would effect still more; but a total revision in the extravagant expenditure of every part of the Administration, together with an adequate representation of the people in Parliament, would place you on a throne which the united efforts of the entire world could not shake, because supported by the affections of the people.

When you, Sir, were under the tuition of Mr. Fox, the Country looked forward with hope to the moment when the Sovereign Authority would be reposed in your hands; when a general expectation was encouraged that the Pitt system would be exploded, and one more congenial to the freedom of Europe, and consequently to the feelings of Englishmen,

would be substituted in its room. Mr. Fox died, and you got into the hands of a set of traitors. The period alluded to has arrived, and the disappointment of the nation at the conduct of your Royal Highness is only to be equalled by the popular indignation thereby excited against your person and your unprincipled Ministers.

The private character of a Prince is not always to be scrutinized: but when the affairs of the nation over which he is elected to preside are wilfully neglected, or entrusted to such people as Lords Castlereagh and Sidmouth, his private vices become public crimes; and if a revolution does not take place in his conduct, it will take place in the nation, and the Crown will be placed upon another head, or put aside to give place to a more eligible and more liberal form of government. Do not, Sir, relying on the peaceable disposition of the kingdom, procrastinate in your imagination the day which will be fatal to your pleasures, unmindful of the sufferings of your countrymen: the fatal day may already have commenced; may at this moment be passing over your unconscious head: in short, until a reformation takes place, your Royal Highness cannot rise in the morning with a certainty of retaining your authority till night. This is the dilemma to which your Ministers have reduced you, and from which there is but one method of escape, that which we have before pointed out-expel the present Ministers-reform the Commons House of Parliament-bring the Manchester blood-hounds to justice, and your reward shall be commensurate, viz. the thanks and support of a free and an independent people. My language, Sir, is plain, but I am no courtier, and speak the truth. A certain King of France (one of the Henrys) asked his chief Minister" if he had perused a work which was then published in Paris?" The Minister replied in the negative. "Then (said the King) it is fit you should read it, for it takes you and me to task finely." Leaving your Royal Highness to apply this anecdote in the manner for which it was written, and which cannot be mistaken, I subscribe myself most respectfully, your Royal Highness's most obedient, J. GRIFFIN.

THE PRINCE REGENT'S ANSWER TO THE PETITION OF THE LORD MAYOR AND COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LONDON.

Since we had the honor of addressing the foregoing letter to our most gracious, most compassionate, most humane,' and benevolent Prince, a petition has been presented to his Royal Highness, from the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and1

Livery of London in Common Council assembled, reprobating the late transactions of the Yeomanry and Magistrates of Manchester, and praying that his Royal Highness would be pleased to order an enquiry to be instituted, that the offenders might be brought to the punishment they deserve. The answer of the Prince is insulting to the feelings of the nation; but when a nation stoops to petition an individual, an ungrate ful individual for that which it is their right to demand and enforce, though Europe was in arms against them, they deserve all the contumely which purse-proud Legitimacy can heap upon a debased and crest-fallen people. Britons! must the Press for ever warn, and yet warn in vain? Is there no national glow of independence, no generous throb of freedom circulating in those breasts which were wont to vibrate to the cheering, to the animating cry of "Liberty or Death." If all such noble pride be sunk within you, read the following letter from Royalty, and sink at once into all the darkness of despotism; become the scorn of the world; allow yourselves to be manacled and the word "Slave" branded on your foreheads: or nobly and heroically pour forth your hearts' blood to sweep from that soil which for centuries freedom prided to call her own,-her, native Isle." the villains who, aiming at despotism only for the sake of plunder, would dispose of you as they have done others, if a nation could be found willing and wealthy, enough to make the purchase:

"I receive with feelings of deep regret this address and petition from the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the City of London, in Common Council assembled.

"At a time when ill designing and turbulent men are. actively engaged in inflaming the minds of their fellowsubjects, and endeavouring by means the most daring and insidious to alienate them from their allegiance to his Majesty's and the Established Constitution of the realm, it is on the vigilance and conduct of the Magistrates that the preservation of the public tranquillity must in a great degree depend; and a firm, faithful, and active discharge of their duty, cannot but give them the strongest claim to the, support and approbation of their Sovereign and their Country.

With the circumstances which preceded the late Meeting at Manchester, you must be unacquainted, and of those which attended it, you appear to have been incorrectly informed.

"If, however, the laws were really violated on that occasion, by those to whom it immediately belonged to assist in, the execution of them, the tribunals of this Country are open to afford redress; but to institute an extra-judicial enquiry

under such circumstances as the present, would be manifestly inconsistent with the clearest principles of public justice."

There are certainly many thousands who do not wish well to the present system of rapine, murder, and espionage, and we hesitate not to rank ourselves amongst the number, but this letter from his Royal Highness will create more Republicans in the nation than our humble endeavours could do in a century. It clearly shows to the Country that Kings and Princes feel only for themselves, and regard not the famishing people. If the people petition that what they earn by the sweat of their brow should be left them, and not be devoured by taxation, they are termed ill-designing, and murderers are thanked for cutting them to pieces. England, England, England, shall this last? Shall your plains be dyed in blood to support one family in grandeur, while the remainder of your children are pining in misery and want? Forbid it Heaven! forbid it every heart that shames not its virtuous ancestry! forbid it sainted spirits of Hampden, of Sidney, and of Russell! The Cap of Liberty is raised! in triumph be it borne! Rally round it, Britons! Heart and hand support it against the attacks of tyranny, and it will soon wave triumphant over the fallen banners and shivered scimetars of despotism, The Prince says that" a firm, faithful, and active discharge of their duty, entitle the Magistrates to the strongest claim to the support and approbation of their Sovereign and their Country." This is absolutely begging the question. We agree with his Royal Highness; but when Magistrates transgress their duty and become violaters of the public peace, and instigators to murder-to a noon-day massacre of men, women, and children; what then, do they deserve? An honest Jury would consign them to the scaffold, to perish amid the execrations of all, save his Royal Highness and the sycophants who swarm round his person at Carlton-, house and at Brighton.

His Royal Highness next tells them that they are unacquainted with the circumstances preceding the meeting at Manchester, and misinformed of those which attended it. This is insulting to common sense!-The Prince hears one one side of the question from interested persons, and on their bare word presumes to tell the inhabitants of the most intelligent city in the world, that they know nothing about that which has for nearly five weeks been ringing in their ears from the injured sufferers upon that occasion, and from the relatives of those who are now no more. Their dying

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knell has been borne on every breeze from every quarter of the kingdom; and yet enquiry is not to be promoted-and why not?-because TRUTH would be developed by enquiry, and those who wish to rule by the sword never need the assistance of any thing but the most impudent and barefaced fabrications, such as the Courier daily teems with.

Year after year have our Liberties been curtailed by the present traitors to the constitution; there are but three remaining; and these are, Public Meetings, Trial by Jury, and Liberty of the Press. In the next meeting of Parliament we doubt not but some steps will be taken by the boroughmongers to curtail the latter, on which almost entirely the others depend; indeed, Trial by Jury and Liberty of the Press depend so reciprocally on each other, that the invasion of one must (if not instantly repelled) be the ruin of both. We would therefore caution the inhabitants of England not to slumber on their posts; but if an attempt be made to wrest from us these our remaining Liberties, and that attempt be sanctioned by the Prince, to immediately prove to the world that the spirit which conducted a Charles to the scaffold, may again be successfully exerted to subdue a more deliberate, and consequently a more guilty Tyrant.

INTENDED MEETING OF THE INHABITANTS OF BELFAST AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD.

This meeting, the object of which is to take into consideration the singular and unprecedented outrage made on the 16th ult. on the people of Manchester, at the moment when they were in the peaceable exercise of the best and most valued privilege an inhabitant of these countries can enjoy, has been the subject of much conversation for some days past. It is honourable to the understanding of our community, that the more the propriety of this meeting is considered, the more willing it is to have it convened, and at as early a day as possible.

The citizens of Belfast ask themselves, and with much truth-Have they not as good a right to vindicate the right of petition as the inhabitants of Westminster, or Liverpool, or Portsmouth? which last town has called a meeting a few days back. The citizens of Belfast ask themselves—(the great majority who are still found consistent and honest politicians, who have never surrendered to the Golden Calf their principles or their honor; who have not been taught in that school which instructs the student to fawn upon the hand which his father despised)-these men, anxious to preserve the little that remains of Irish freedom-a freedom