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Let Switzerland, let Spain inspire! 



And ev'ry name in ancient page, 

 Vesuvius lend its fiercest fire, 



And Brutus' spirit witb it rage. 



Tbou stands't the delegate of all 

 Mankind — they gaze upon thee now, — 



O answer to the rapturous call 

 And lay the proud invaders low 



SOUTH AMERICA. 



Bolivar has concluded an armistice 



Incidents in and near London. 



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with the hlootly Moiillo, and liberty 

 seems to be secured on the Spanish 

 main. Lord Cochrane and general Sou 

 Martin, are also said to have captured 

 Lima, while Panama has declared for 

 intlependence. Liberal jirinciplcs are 

 therefore making all the progress 

 which their best friends can expect, 

 considering the re-act Ion of power and 

 bigotry. 



INCIDENTS, MARniAGES, and DEATHS IN and near LONDON 

 IVitli Biographical Memoirs of distiiunnnhed Characters recently deceased. 



CHRONOLOGY OF THE MONTH. 



Jan. 29. A COMMON Hall of the Li- 

 -t\^ very of London was held 

 to take into consideration ihe propriety of 

 petitioning the two Houses of Parliament 

 to resist any attempt to institute further pro- 

 ceedings against the Queen, and to tiike 

 measures for procuring the insertion of her 

 name in the Liturgy, and puttinif her into 

 immediate and full possession of all her 

 rights and dignities; when several resolu- 

 tions were put,aud carried unanimously: as 

 well as petitions to both Houses. 



— 31. Five young men executed at the 

 Old Bailey. 



Feb. 'i. A numerous Meeting of the No- 

 bility, Gentry, Clergy, and Freeholders of 

 Ibe county of Surrey at Epsom, to address 

 the King and both Houses of Parliament on 

 the proceedings lately adopted against the 

 Queen, and praying for some inquiry into 

 the present posture of public affairs. The 

 addresses were carried unanimously. 



Five divisions took place in the House of 

 Commons on the motion of Mr. Creevey 

 not to grant further supplies till the griev- 

 ances of the people are redre-sed. 



A dreadful fire took place in New Bruns- 

 wick, which spread to the extent of 100 

 miles. 



— 6. The Marquis of Tavistock's motion 

 in the House of Commons for a censure 

 upon Ministers, negatived. 



— 9. Sir Francis Burdett sentenced in 

 the Court of King's Bench to pay a fine of 

 j£2000, and to suffer three months' imprison- 

 ment for an alleged libel contained in a let- 

 ter written in Leicestershire, and publislied 

 in Middlesex, reflecting on the late Man- 

 chester massacre, and the general impolicy 

 of g')vernment, of which he had been found 

 guilty by a Leicestershire ijjeci'a/ jury. 



• — 8. A numerous vestry-meeting of tho 

 parish of St. John's, Soutliwnrk, was lield, 

 when resolutions were unanimously adopted 

 to address tlic Queen on the abandonment 

 of the Bill of Pains and Penalties; and to 

 pelitio.T the Commons' House of Parliament 

 for the restoration of her Majesty's name to 

 the Liturgy, the dismissal of Ministers, and 

 a liberal extension of the elective franchise. 



— 9. A numerous meeting was held in 

 the parish church of St. Luke, to consider 



the propriety of presenting a congratulatory 

 address to her Majesty in opposition to the 

 threat of the law on the Church Wardens, 

 for ecclesiastical libel. The senior Church 

 Warden presided. A congratulatory address 

 was then voted to her Majesty, and an address 

 to his Majesty, praying him to dismiss his 

 Ministers, and two petitions to Parliament, 

 praying the restoration of her Majesty's name 

 to the Liturgy. 



— 12. A meeting of the constituents of 

 Sir Francis Burdett took place at the Crown 

 and Anchor Tavern, to consider what con- 

 duct it was necessary for them to pursue re- 

 lative to the sentence. Mr. Hobhouse took 

 the Chair. He said that Sir Francis Bur- 

 dett not only did not repent having written 

 the letter, but had declared that he would 

 be ready to write it again, ten thousand 

 times over. He thought that it was abso- 

 lutely necessary that something should be 

 done in the way of defining what was, and 

 what was not libel. Mr. Gibson proposed 

 that a subscription should be raised for the 

 purpose of paying the fine which had been 

 imposed upon Sir Francis Burdett. Several 

 resolutions were agieed to, and an address 

 to the Baronet, founded upon them. 



— 13. A motiou in tlie House of Com- 

 mons for restoring the Queen's name to the 

 Liturgy, negatived by 298 to 178. 



FoiH- oflier young men were executed at 

 the Old Bailey. 



A meeting of the inhabitants of Guildfor.i 

 to consider the propriety of presenting i)eti- 

 tions to both Houses to restore to 1 er Ma- 

 jesty all her rights and privileges as Queen 

 Consort, iind to take into consideration tho 

 distressed state of the country, and the ne- 

 cessity of a reform in the (Commons' House 

 of ParlianiPnt. V,'illiaiii Sparks, Esq. the 

 Mayor, in the chair. Mr. George Foster 

 proposed, and Mr. Finnimore seconded, the 

 resolutions; and the several motions wertj 

 carried without a dissenting voica. 



— 1 6. A duel near Ciialk Farm, at nine 

 at night, by moonlight, between Mr. Scott 

 of tlie London Magazine, and a Mr. Ci:ri.s- 

 tie, friend of one Gibson, alias Lockharl, 

 alias Wilson, supposed editor of a scurrilous 

 Edinburgh Magazine, or Satirist. Mr. 

 Scott was wounded, and for some days io 

 danger. If we may interpose an opinion in 



regard 



