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    • MONTHLY RETROSPECTof PUBLIC AFFAIRS; OR, The Christian s Survey of the Political World.
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      W * Turner , Jun ., ditto , Richard Monlson , M . D ., Halifax , Christopher Rawson , Esq ., ditto , Rawdoii Briggs , Jun ., Esq , ditto , William Huntriss , Esq ., ditto , Christopher Holds worth Dawson , Esq ., Royds Hall , near Bradford , Rev . N . T . Heinekin , Bradford , George JStansfeld , Esq ., ditto , Rev .

      Edward Higginson , Derby , Bent , M . D ., ditto , Rev . Henry Turner , Nottingham , Rev . Thomas Johns tone , Wakefield , Daniel Gaskell , Esq ., ditto , Rev . Joseph Hiitton , Leeds , Thomas William

      Tottie , Esq ., ditto , George Oates , Esq , ditto , Rev . J . G . Robberds , Manchester , George William Wood , Esq ., ditto , Edward Holme , M . D ., ditto , Rev . William Turner , Newcastle-on-Tyne , Noel Thomas Smith , M . D ., ditto .

      That no individual subscription exceed one guinea . That such individuals as intend to become subscribers to the proposed Monument , be requested to communicate their names to some member of the committee before the first day of October next . That the members of the committee be requested to report from time to time to

      Monthly Retrospectof Public Affairs; Or, The Christian S Survey Of The Political World.

      MONTHLY RETROSPECTof PUBLIC AFFAIRS ; OR , The Christian s Survey of the Political World .

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      THE importance of a House of Commons is estimated probably better by foreigners than by the inhabitants of this country 5 and , indeed , when we consider the nature of the duties to be performed by the representatives , it may be matter of just surprise , that such scenes should take place a& are too common at elections . Much of the confusion and disorder on

      these occasions is to be attributed to the want of care and foresight in preparing the things requisite for the best means of taking * the votes of a great multitude . What can be more preposterous than that

      the freeholders of a large county should be obliged to go to a great distance from their houses to give their votes , when this might be done with so much greater ease in the districts near them ? And if it is necessary that all the votes should be taken in one

      place , common sense seems to point out , that that place should be so selected as to give the least opportunity for confusion . In Westminster , this last circumstance seems to have been little attended to . The place for voting- is in a market-place ,

      where , independently of the election , there is a greater concourse daily of people , particularly of the lovver ranks , than in any market of tbe empire . The consequence was , as migr ht be expected , a very great degree of confusion ; which at one time rose to such & height , that the military ,

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      the chairman or to the treasurer , such subscriptions as they have received . That permission be requested of the Trustees of the North-Gate-End Chapel , Halifax , to place the proposed monument within that chapel .

      That the address read by the chairmau be adopted as the address of this meeting- , and that it be printed and circulated among the friends of the lafe Dr . Thomson , along with such part of the proceedings of this meeting-, as the chairman shall deem necessary .

      That power be given to the chairman to call the committee together , at such times and places , as he shall find most expedient . RICHARD ASTLEY , Chairman . York , June 23 , 1818 .

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      who in all other places but Westminster are ordered to withdraw from the place of polling- , were called in to quell the riot . There was a great number of contested elections , and in the metropolis the sense of the people was manifested in a very strong manner . In the city of London a

      change took place of a very extraordinary nature . One of their quondam representatives , who was expected to be at the head of the poll , and who had in Common Halls given decisive marks of his opinion

      of his own strength , ivas completely thrown out ; and of the four candidates returned , three were decisively of the popular side , and the fourth an untried character , of whom hopes were entertained that he would not be a decided ministerialist . That Mr .

      Alderman Wood should be at the head of the poll was no more than might be expected , as a reward for the eminent services lie had rendered to the city in his magisterial capacity , and his known inde pendent principles ; and it must be a satisfaction to all lovers of freedom , that

      these circumstances had their due weight . MrV Waithman has long been before the public , and the choice of him as one of the representatives manifests the sense of the riablic on late measures : and if he does tris doty in parliament , of which there is no reason to doubt , as well as he has performed it in the Common Council , the

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      470 Notice . —State ofPublic Affairs .

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      ¦ lipi NOTICE . THfiHev . Mr . Evans , of Islington , has in the press , The Progress oj Human Life ' , or the Seven Ages of Man ; illustrated by a series of Extracts in Prose and Poetry , upon the plan of his Juuenile Tourist and Excursion to Windsor , with a view to the Rising Generation .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1818, page 470, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2478/page/62/