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A Plan of the Work may be seen in No. XXV. of the Clussiral J tonal, or may be had on application at Took's Court. No IX. is in the press. DUNDEE RADICAL REFORM MEETING. ! 0.. The Radical Reformers of this place met on Wed- 1 nesday se . nnight, in the Magdalcil-rtrd Green. At twelve o'clock comparatively few were assem bled round the hustings, which Cie Committee of Management had erected in the p:aia, to the east ward of Mr. Peddie's house, with a due regard to security and convenience. Soon after twelve, seve ral large bodies of workmen, from the manufac tories in the suburis, to-rived, " in martial array," that is, linked arm in arm, marching to the sound of a scanty supply of music, and unfurling a few flags. The flags weie white, edged with black, and decorated with bunches of crape. One of them was insciihe2, " For the Sufferers at MancLester—, Long life to Earl Fi:zwilliam !" another, " Order, Love, and Unity ;" and a third bore upon one side, " The voice of the People is irresistible," and on the othez, We only want our Rights. in a peaceable and constitutional manlier." About a hundred sailors paraded in great order, with a Union flag, surmounted by the figure of a ship's hulk, both re vel sed, and emblematical of the ruined state of com merce. A party of juveniles carried a pole, from which dangled a broken tea-kettle, and two broken tea-pots ; and, from another pole, were suspended the fragments of a gill-stoup, of wine-glasses, to bacco-pipes, and snuff-boxes—memorials of luxuries once enjoyed Iy the poorest man in the country, but now proscribed by the Radicals, in their war against the Treasury, and in prudent accommodation to the necessities of the times. The Committee, dressed in decent mourning, and accompanied by a few individuals horn Arbroath, Cupar, and other towns, ascended the hustings about hail-past twelve. Mr. KINLOCIF, of Kinloch, one of the ablest and most public-spirited of our country Gcatremen, was then called to preside ; and as soon as the applause which accompanied his election ceased, he addressed the multitude in nearly - the following terms You, have this day placed me in a si.uation, which, how ever honourable, I would not have accepted of, had I not been satisfied, from long observation, of your orderly and peaceable behaviour, and your respect for the laws of your country. Those laws have lately, in another part of the kingdom, been violated—not by the People—not by those whom the Borough mongers have the presumption to call the lower or ders' (as if all men were not equal in the sight of GOD)—but by those very individuals who have been appointed to enforce the laws, and who consequently should have been the last to violate -them. Promi nent among the lawless planners of the atrocious murders which have lately been committed, stands the name of a Clergyman (it would be an abuse of terms to caU him reverend), who :hewed how little he chose to practice the maxims of his Divine Mas ter; and sorry I am to say, that in that part of the kingdom, there are too many of his profession who, like him, prefer obeying the orders of an earthly master, to those of HIM who has said that his' king- . dom is not of this world. In Scotland, thank GOD! we have few instances of those busy and meddling Priests, who thrust themselves into every man's con cerns—who dabble in the muddy pool of local poli tics—and who, to attain their dirty ends, don't mind using . a sufficient quantity of calumny and misrepre. sentation. Now, my friends, let us convince those who have so long calumniated the working classes, that you can keep order, and behave more correctly than some of those rho affect to look down upon you. I therefore trust that you will give an impar tial hearing to whoever may choose to address you; and that when the business of the day is Over you will disperse peaceably, aN.I retire quietly to your', hOmes, without offering offence or molestation to any person whatever. I am MIX:DUS to impress this most strongly upon you, because nothing would de light the enemies of Reform, and consequently your enemies, so much as CO have it to Say that you had been guilty of a riot. There may be among you wolves in sheep's clothing. We know that the a hu mane' Sidmouth has att least one'voluntary spy in ld town, and there are probably more of tonourable men: But heed them not, If attempts to lead you into acts of violence, set hi m downt as a friend to Bidmouth--.45 1 rst enemy; . aud as such you will avoid hi m . thus put yow your guard, I shall pro cee d' the birsinessfor which we are now assem keksdsn how I, *ho am not a resident in your • ••• town, come to take a prominent dart in tlie proceed-' trates were first applied to , and t ins of this day. You all know rai t t y t • i : e a y r rlVlefangscisd tArolesmabncetrisonfotrhisthAeleeptniirigongbhy t a h n e d ir i p .o r r ese t i l l l c e e. cou 'l n l r i y e o e r u e r next co and they likewise declined. turnedY t shrink fr l o ie n i i r o e c y cn es towards me; post in w I think I can be of sers:ce to the me; and as na Committee t ri it' c 'ei v 'n er cause of the People, I instantly wrote to themv that I would attend in any capacity they thought Et. Born in thit town, and having daily communication with it—being one of your Harbour Commissioners, and deeply interested in all your other improve ments, I do not think I can justly be accused of pre sumption in obeying your call. My motives may be misrepresented, as has been the case beim e now.— I shall probably furnish a topic of abuse to the old women of both sexes, who are fonder of picking holes in the conduct and reputations of their neigh bours, than of taking heed to their own. I shall pro hably be called an ambitious demagogue, and other hard names. Let it be so. But neither hard names nor hard usage shall ever make me shrink from doing my utmost to rescue my country from the state vassalage and ruin into which a contempti ble Ministry are doing all they can to plunge it. •I have now to point out to you what appear tome to be the causes of that continued and complicated dis tress which threatens to overwhelm us. Few of you, are old enough to remember the American war. That was a war waged against liberty, but Goo be, praised, it was unsuccessful. The addition so the Boroughmonger debt, by that war, was upwards of one hundred and ten millions. Well, this was but a trifle to the addition made to the debt by Pitt's glorious' wars against liberty ; for, independently of the immense sums levied yearly, the permanent additica to the Boroughmonger debt was upwards of seven hundred millions. The sum which is taken from us to pay the interest of this infernal debt amounts to upwards of forty millions yearly. But call it forty. This is the cause of our distress; this in the mill-stone which weighs us to the ground ! For suppose that these wicked wars had never taken place, the debt 'consequently would not have been contracted ; and these forty millions would have re mained with ourselves, instead of going to pay the Boroughmongers and their creditors. Take the r o pulation of Great Britain and Ireland at fifteen mil lions of persons. Forty millions of pounds would ' give El 13s. 4d. to every man, woman, and child, in the kingdom—being £l6 a year to a man with a wife and four children ; and if the other expenses of the Government were conducted with economy, the saving would be much snore considerable. Would this add uothing to your comforts ? Would not this sum be better in your pockets than in the pockets of the 13oroughmongers? As to the absurdity which a thick-skulled English Judge lately uttered that taxes are beneficial, because the money is again cir culated by Government, and returns to those who, paid it,'—the latter part is false : Bat suppose it did return to the person who paid it, .does it return to him for nothing ? If one of you has paid £5 in taxes, and Government afterwards employs you to the amount of £5, do you get back your I:5 for nothing? Must you not work for it over again before you ge: it : and arc you not just £5 poorer than you would have been, if Gripe the tax-gatherer had not paid you a visit? Away, then, with all the nonsense of the pensioned rencgado Burke, about taxes returning to us like the dews of HEAVEN !' The dews of HEAVEN do indeed return to us to nourish our crops, and the sun shines forth to ripen them ; but the taxes are like the pestiferous vapours from a marsh, inter posed to prevent us from enjoying the bountiful'gifts of PROVIDENCE.—Having thus endeavoured to shew that our distress arises from extessive taxation, if .I am tight, it follows of course, that that distress can ', not be got rid of until the amount of taxation be greatly reduced. How this is to be done, is a matter requiring serious consideration: and to attempt to state my opinions upon the subject, would lead me into a tedious detail, for which this is neither the time nor place. One thing we are certain of; that, as long as the House of Commons is con stituted as at present, no effectual remedy will be either poposed or applied by them. I shall not occupy your time by telling you what you all know already—that the House of Commons does not, in the common and rational import of the word, represent the People of these Kingdoms. This is, un fortunately, as notorious as the sun at noon-day.' Had the People really been represented in the House of Commons, would these foolish and unnecessary wats have been carried on? Would the wealth of the country have been squandered as it has been, in the support of chuckle-beaded Legitimacy, and for the restoration of that devil Ferdinand, the Pope, the Jesuits, and the Inquisition ? No : If the People had really been represented, we would not have quarrel led with our American Brethren, because they did not choose to be taxed by us : we would not have quarrelled with the French, because they chose to shake off the fetters of Priests and Despots with which they had been bound for ages! No ; If the People had been represented, free ourselves, we would have rejoiced to see the spirit of freedom spreading iar and wide ; instead of wasting all our means in a vain attempt to arrest the progress of the human in tellect, and to throw back the world into the feudal bondage and barbarism of the dark az,es! In short, the whole of our mi s f ortunes as a nation, the whole of our misery, the whole of our distress, can be clearly traced to the circumstance of the People being de prived of their share of the British Constitution, by not having a voice in the election of persons to repre sent thenr in the House of Commons. The cause of the evil liming thus been pointed out, the next thing is to provide a remedy for it ; and this, of course, must consist in a Reform of the Commons House.— As to the extent of that Reform, there are various opinions. For my own part, after the most mature consideration, I am decidedly an advocate fur a Ra dical Reform, on the basis of Annual Elections, Uni versal Suffrage, and Voting by Ballot. As to the first, a year is surely a long enough period to put uncontrouled confidence in any man. If he has satis fied you in the discharge of his trust, youwill re-elect him t if you have no longer confidence in him, you will dismiss him, as he ought to be, As ro Universal Suffrage, seeing that all men are equal pi the sight cf their Citearott,-I cannot understand wiry one man should have a vote, and another not have one? Is not the life, the family, the property of the poor man s as dear to him, as the life, the family, the property, oft the rich man, is to him ? Do we not all contribute, more or less, according to 'our means, to the exigen cies of the State ? Are we not all liable to be called upon, at any moment, to risk our lives for its defence? Why, then, one man should have a vote, and another not, I confess I cannot comprehend. As to Election by Ballot, I look upon it as absolutely necessary to neutralize the influence which wonld otherwise be exercised by unprincipled persons upon those whom they employ. There are at present, in this country, three Parties—the Tories. or Ministerialists, the Whigs or the Oats, and the People. As to there being a fourth party, desirous of a Revolution, I know of none. If such a party does exist, their numbers must be very small indeed. We want no Revolution :—on the contrary, we want a Reform to prevent a Revolu tion. We want nothing but what is contained within the four corners of the British Constitution—freed, from those abominable corruptions which have nearly converted it into a code of despotism, and us into a set of slaves. As to the first of these parties, the Tot ies, they at least employ no disguise. They tell you they want no reform, because the pre sent is the best possible system. And so indeed it is for them. As soon might you expect that the worm which feeds on corruption should rejoice in the resto ration to health of the body on which it feeds, as that the Tories should wish for any change of the present corrupt system. As to the Whigs, they are for a reform; but then—softly—it must be a temperate, a moderate reform. As none of them have ever given us the plan of their moderate reform, it is impossible to judge of it.— But this we can judge of—that the moment you quit the straight forward path of Universal Suffrage, you plunge us into an ocean of doubts and difficulties, to which there is no end. Suppose a young man was to offer himself as an apprentice to any of you, and to introduce himself by saying that he had been a great rogue, but that now he was become moderately honest—would you employ him ? Or, suppose a fel ' low who used to get drunk every day, was to tell you he was now a moderate drunkard, because lie got drunk only six days out of the seven—would you say he was reformed ? But it is thus that the silly despicable Whig fabtion argue. They are quite shocked, that it should be supposed that they have any ideas on the suoject, in common ss ith us Radi cals; and, I believe in my conscience, that of the two factions which have alternately had the worry ing of this poor country, the Whigs are most to be dreaded —in so far as a pretended friend is worse than an avowed enemy ! Lock at all the Meetings which have taken place in England, at which the Whigs have tardily made their appearance. The instant • Reform' was inent; , )necl, they were off like a shot ! As much speechifying as you please, with regard to the Manchester murders—but as to Reform, Not a word o' that, llal, an thou twist me!' You may judge of their sincerity in the cause of Reform, from this circumstance, that although they all join, like a pack of hounds, in unceasingly abusing Radical Re form, not one of them has ever had the sense or ho nesty to propose any distinct plan in place of it. They say it is visionary, absurd, impracticable; but they never condescend to shew in what respect it is so. But, while they content themselves with railing at us, the venerable Cartwright, whom I am proud to call my friend, has, in the little book which I hold in my hand, shown that there is nothing either imprac cable or absurd in what we ask. It is entitled, A Bill (I Rights and Liberties; and shews, in the clearest manner, not only the practicability, but the amazing ci!ity with which the elections fur the whole King dom could be begun and finished, in one or twerdays at most. 'this little book, my friends, has never been answered—for the best of all reasons—it is, in fact, unanswerable ; and withal, so plain, that he who runs may read.' Let us stick to it as our guide; and with prudence joined to perseverance, we shall attain our object, in spite of both Whigs and Tories • • • —We come now to a part of the Requisition on which I am almost afraid to trust myself to speak. I mean the late atrocious proceedings at Manchester. There, our defenceless countrymen, while peaceably and lawfully assembled, as we now are, were, with out any warning, attacked by a band of ruffians, sword in hand (their sss ords sharpened for the occa sion), and hacked and hewed down without mercy. Neither age nor sex were spared. Nay, the most in• teresting of all Nature's works—a woman with a child at her breast—was wounded and struck down by one of these brave Yeomen. In reading of these atro cities, we cannot help exclaiming witk the poet, Can such things be, And overcome us, like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder ?' With a refinement in cruelty, worthy of the planners of this horrible massacre, every avenue by which the people attempted to escape was closed by a hedge of bayonets, pointed at them by beings (they could not be soldiers) who drove them back, to be cut and slashed at by the merciless Yeomapry. Could these fellows be Blitons?-Impossible ! For a Briton and a Lruve man have hitherto been synonymous terms ; and_uct.e but the basest of cowards would attack an assembly of unarmed men, women, and children. But, cruel and infamous as their conduct has been, it is nothing, compared to the cool, deliberate villainy of those who set them on. If these Reverend and Worshipful monsters are not dragged from their hiding-places—if they are not put upon their trials for the murder of their fellow-citizens—then there is neither Law nor Justice in England ; and the time is near, when we must either bow our necks to a mili tary despotism, or be prepared to rise like men in de fence of our liberties. These gallant (Manchester) Yeomen have imbrued their hands in the blood of their fellow-citizens; and they may now exclaim, like Lady Macbeth, Out, damn'd spotr or add, in the trots's of her conscience•stricken Lord— . Wilt all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from our hands? No; these our hands will rather The multitudinous seas Meal steatite, • Making the green one red.' Their offence $ rank' indeed; . it smells to heaven; It bath the primal eldest curse upon't— A brother's murder!' Having thus. my friends, stated my sentiments, I shall now make way for any of those beside me who may wish to address you ; trusting that you will give ap impartial hearing to all. A series of Reso lutions have been prepared, and will be submitted to you, If you approve of them, you will say so. If not, you will reject them. One thing more, before , conclude. Allow me to point out to you, that al though we were to obtain our wished-for Reform, it MINNIIMI would not at once remove all our distresses. our wounds are too deep to be healed in so time. But the effects of it would begin imrn?, to be felt. Economy would pervade every , ment of the State ; the taxes would be i the absurd restrictions with which commerce tered would be done away ; confidence People and their Rulers would be restored ; woul I spring triumphant on exultin g wine Britain would once more smile, a land of and Peace." This speech was hailed throughout with cheering. The Resolutions were then . Members of the Conunittee—Mr. BROOKES a• MATTHEW—the one after the other, and unanimously. The introductory address of Chairman had so far exhausted the different of the Requisition, that little of our native was displayed ; but some of the strangers—pl, rious-looking men—favoured the Meeting v sentiments. A person from Arbroath, urged the union among all Reformers. Another person from Arbroath, gave it as viction that no Reform short of this, could care country. A person from Glasgow, in proposing of the Meeting to the Committee, spoke of the and malice with which the People and their' leaders, had been assailed by the supporte rs cf present system. The thanks of the Meeting were voted, w enthusiasm, to their respected Chairman. A collection for the Manchester sufferers at the points of entrance, and though conL chiefly of copper, it:amounted to about sizteea Po A subscription, 4n a larger scale, is also opens which Mr. KINLocu has contributed ten guineas. THE EVENING S' LONDON. ERRATUM in the STAZ Of Tuesday, in :h., shire Meetiog.—The twenty-four lines a: thu column of the third page, should have come of the first and beginning of the second coh We notice this derangement for the sake of STAIWaS a s record to be referred to hereafter. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER THE FUNDS. PRICE Or STOOKS THIS DAY AT o Bank Stock 216 3 per Cent. Reduced 661 67 Vi 3 per Cent. Consols 67 1 W I per Cent. 7.9-1 76 751 4 per Cent. Mit 5 per Cent. Navy 103/ffi Bank Long Akinuities 17 9-16 India Bond 6s. Bs. pre. E.Ncliequer Bills (2d.) ls. 2s. clis. Consols l'or Acct. 67w. The sixth payment upon Omnium will be to-, row ; upwards of four millions of money is amount altogether to be paid upon the outstand:zg Omnium. An attempt was this morning m: get up the Funds, but it did not succeed. for the Account began at 67f, but fell to 67k; at one o'clock, were at 67i. Much dissaf sr has been expressed by the Monied Interest at expected influx of Exchequer Bills, alluded to day, as the Market is now glutted with them, they are from ls. to 2s. discount. The Public are generally aware, that the Dl7 imposed last Session on Foreign Wools was depreca-,:d at the time, al threatening much mischief to oar Woollen Manufactures, especially to the coarser de. scriptions of goods, which used to be Sea in col. siderable quantities to the Northern parts of the Co'. tinent, and for which one of the principal returi used to be coarse Wools in the raw state. Then anticipations have been but too truly verified by e:e experience of last summer and autumn, the usual orders from Russia for coarse Woollen Cloths haring. in a great measure, been withheld. The alarm of th' Yorkshire Manufacturers has been proportioned to the ruin with which their Manufacture is threatened by the continuance df this impolitic Tax ; and they are employing such means as are within their reach to awaken Ministers to the dangers which may be anticipated if the Tax be not repealed. Already it has occasioned much injury to the Manufacture; and if persisted in, the mischief will soon be placed Ix- . yond the reach pf remedy, b y t h e etablishrucut c: Continental Mienufactories, to work up the raw ma terial which formerly came to this Country'. We learn by letters received from Yorkshire this morning, that on Saturday next there wia be held, in the Court-House, at Leeds, a General Meeting of the Merchants, Manufacturers, Woolstaplers, atd others, interested in the Woollen Manufacture, to take this matter into consideration, with the view o: making an application to Parliament for the repell of this most impolitic Tax. The failure of the foreign orders, at the t rJ.ll period, may be considered as furnishing sufiScier evidence of the evils that have already been pro duced by the measure of last Session. Were Ix , ther proof wanted, we have it before us, in a letter from a 'resident at Hamburgh, brought by the last Mail, and which we subjoin, without any com ment, as the facts speak for themselves ; and the let ter is the more worthy of attention, as it was r written for the public eye, but presents the free com munication of one friend to another : " HABIBURGH, NOVEMBER 8. ae " In answer to your last, we are sorry to inform you, :hat have neither Rape Sesd nor Oil on hand, and there is very to be procured here, so great has been the consumption. 'Fhi , 5 . a convincing proof of the rapid growth of our \Won. n nl , " f.:ctures, and shows the lropolicy, 9U the part cf the ErE"1::1 , your goof these ho any man, r i {you ro...ty your WOll h4ving to state (1 1)10; Rad orhi stresses. c; c ut !cl in so ~ .hu n vim irnordi r ,, Le every d e ,' be dir.n. ;ommerce is ; it nce bettvr l • testored ; ling Wing : land of ble hout with 1, rcii m moved bs, 1110010 ES aNd ler, and cash address of lifferent bra* sr native Ora ngers--ploin, eeting with the necessa l ave it as his c 1 s, could save losing the tha, coke of the sc,. wid their .1 ;upporters voted, Isch , rman. ifferers was eugh consini- ut s also cre:led, i ten - ;TA . Ti(pnr: he t - ,r) of t':.e e in betw•ccn tl ! , lumn of r _ e f caw who es r. 18, ]Bl9. JNE O . CLUCK : s. e will be to-rno;. )1 money is the outstandizg morning made to u.c ceed. Coasch fell to 67} ; and, ch dissatsfac:lco nterest at the 'are alluded to yestec. I with them, ata that the Dity 1s was depreca - ssi mischief to ota o the coarser de. be scat in ctn• parts of the Cm. !