21 DECEMBER 1839, Page 6

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Street, Edinburgh. was occupied by a n t:. see s assembled to recosq their detesta- tion of the persecution eml imerisamoent of John Thorogood in the Chelmsford Gaol, for n-,u-rt:. t of church-rates. Long speeches were delivered on the occasion, by Mr. Adam Black, chairman of the meeting, Mr. James Aytoun, Mr. lt. W. Jameson, Reverend Andrew Nicoll, Mr. Russell, and Mr. Maette of Perth, Mr. Aytoun denounced, its in every way worthy of contempt, those " truckling London prints," pretending to be organs of the Dissenters, and those " lick-spittle leaders," who are in fact the subservient creatures of the Ministers. It was resolved to aid in the subscription set on foot at Leicester for Thorogood's relief. -