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8 great attention the accounts of the proceedings at the popular meetings which have been held of late, I have no hesitation in giving it as my opinion,  the proceedings at Paisley bear away the palm. T are the model for the imitation of every town county in the kingdom. It appears from the of the speakers themselves, that they are, or manufacturers. They apologized for want of ability for the task they had undertaken,  one of them observed, that he had been urged  ward in part, with a view of rescuing Scotland, f the disgrace, which the general servility of his  in high life was but too well calculated to b upon her. Look then, at these tradesmen; read t luminous, eloquent and powerful speeches; com these with the few disjointed members of sentences wh

Lord frequently, on such occasions, stammers or with the redundant and senseless trash of a bring "Learned Friends;" make this comparison rer, and then say, whether that you believe that th an age when hereditary and professional privileges  likely still to make mankind bow implicitly to their  Great national evils generally in the end, bring t antidotes; and as this is a season of uncommon  and peril, so it has brought forth such a po of public spirit, and of talent as to convince every  that the cause of freedom is in able hands, and  affairs of the country would not suffer by the  that may be expected to take place. Canning called the Reformers "a low degraded crew." the best parts of his hundreds of speeches were selec they would not amount in point of talent to what find in the speeches delivered at Paisley, on the  of October. It is a very false notion to suppose, men in this country, are possessed of talents and dom, because they possess power and emolum Thus far Cobbet. I will now ask you a single