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persons assembled, when Mr. Bargoyne pro¬ 
posed that Du Cane do take the Chair—*.Vlr. 
Du Cane was then unanimously called to the 
Chair. 
Mr. Du Cane having stated the nature of 
the requisition, and the object of the meeting, 
The Rev. Mr. Ongiy rose to propose a se¬ 
ries of Resolutions, declaratory of the present 
corrupt state of the Representation in Parlia¬ 
ment, and of the necessity of a radical reform. 
He said, that if ever there was a time at 
which it became the landed interest of the 
country to co-operate with firmness and cor¬ 
diality against the factious intrieues and de¬ 
signs of what was called the monied interest, 
that time had now arrived. He then adverted 
to what he alleged to be the more notorious 
proofs that the Commons House of Parlia¬ 
ment had not for a long time spoken the 
sense of the nation, and concluded a speech of 
considerable length, by proposing the follow¬ 
ing Resolutions, which were severally put, 
and unanimously agreed to: 
“ Resolved—That it was averred in the 
Petition to the House of Commons, on the 6th 
of May, 1793, and evidence in proof of the 
facts at the same time tendered by the Peti¬ 
tioners, that THREE HUyORED AND SEVEN 
of the Members tor England and Wales only, 
are not sent to Parliament by the suffrages 
of the People j but are, through numerous 
breaches and evasions of the freedom of elec¬ 
tion therein set forth, returned by one hun- 
©RED AND eifty-eour Peers and Com¬ 
moners; and also, that the allegations in the 
said Petition still stand on the Journals of 
Parliament uncontradicted. 
Resolved—That it appears to us undeni¬ 
able, that this deplorable decay of popular 
Representation in Parliament, co-operating 
with the Septennial duration of the same Par¬ 
liaments, is a gross and palpable departure 
from the only constitutional charafter of the 
Lower House of Parliament—' a full and free 
Representative of the Commons of this Realm.’ 
Resolved—That the elective franchise 
was by ‘ an established principle of our ancient 
and excellent Constitution,’ distributed be¬ 
tween the Freeholders and the Householders ; 
and therefore, that it is the opinion of this 
Meeting, that in addition to the land owners, 
and in lieu of returns to Parliament in the 
name of depopulated, or close or venal bo¬ 
roughs, the Householders of Great Britain and 
Ireland, directly paying certain assessments 
to the State, ought, except in the case of Peers 
of the Realm, to have a voice in the election 
of the Members in the Commons House of 
Parliament. 
“ Resolved—That in the opinion of this 
Meeting, a law for taking the poll cf the 
voters under such regulations as would pre¬ 
vent in future the ruinous expence of contested 
elections, is not more necessary towards the 
independence and integrity of Parliament, 
than it is for the preservaticn of public mo¬ 
rals. 
Resolved—That the county of Essex, 
which, in respect of its extent, population, 
commerce, and taxes, is one of tlie first coun¬ 
ties in the kingdom, may no longer be de¬ 
prived, as it is at present, of its fair and just 
prr-portion in the Reur- sentation nr the People, 
nor its inhabitants left under the oppressive 
influence of decayed, dependent, and conupt- 
ed, boroughs. 
“ Resolved—‘That a Petition from Free¬ 
holders and Householders in Essex, be pre« 
sented to the House of Commons, praying for 
a Parliamentary restorat on of the undoubted 
and fundamental Right of the People to a 
Representation by free election to short Par¬ 
liaments ; and at the same time resolved, That 
all such Reform in the powers of electing the 
Members to sit for them in Parliament, ought 
to proceed on the approved principles of the 
English Constitution of Government, by the 
Three Estates of King, Lords, and Com¬ 
mons.” 
Married.~\ At Mistley, Mr. R. Page, of 
Great Clacton, to Miss Risbee. 
Mr. Jones, of Colchester, to Miss Chenery, 
of Ipswich. 
Mr. T. Hayward, of Great Bardfield, t© 
Miss Thorpe, of St. Ives. 
S. Round, esq. to Mrs. Rowley, of Great 
Baddow, 
At Westham, Mr. Henry Courteney, mas¬ 
ter of the academy at Stratford, to Miss Cbar- 
lotce Bridge, daughter of Mr. Samuel B. late 
ot Thaxted. 
Died ] At Arkesden, the Rev. [.Perkins. 
At Chigweil, Mrs. of Brownings. 
Ac Grays, Mrs. A. K Hinton 
At White Roothing, Mr f'. Hills. 
At Widney Green, W. Barwick, esq. 80. 
KENT. 
On Tuesday, the 6tii, as a private in the 
1st West York militia was led to the halberts 
at Chatham to be punished, agreeably to the 
sentence of a court-martial, he took out a 
razor, which he had concealed in tne sleeve 
of his coat, and, in presence of all whose duty 
it was to carry the sentence into execution, 
cut his throat. 
Serjeant Best has recently purcliased the 
Great Tythes of the parish o: Eiith, for wh ich 
he gave tlie sum of 24,0001. 
The practice of lettii g land by the year, 
with a stipulation «f a different rate of rent, 
if paid in bank notes rather than in gold, is 
stated to have become very general. A farm 
lias been publicly advertised in the followi'-g 
terms:—“ To let, 50() acres of prime land in 
the county of Kent, now in the highest state 
of cultivation. Rent, if paid in gold, 1000 
guineas per annum ; if paid in bank-notes, 
13121. 10s. per annum.’’ 
Married.'^ The Rev. Thomas Hancorne, of 
Deal, to Mrs. Weil ford. 
At Lewisham, J. F. Pethrick, esq. to Mrs. 
S. A. Scott. 
At Sittingbourn, Mr.R. RatclifFe, to Miss 
Wise. 
At 
