Star. — London, England, 1820-11-28 00:00:00

- MEETING OF Si:JAMES'S,IC A very numerous and respectable Meeting of the I.ihabitants of St. James's v. a. held yesterday, in the • Pulteney Assen.birroom. J. T. B. BitAIMONT, Esq. was called to the Chair, amid loud and general cheers. lie stated, that the Mernherss for the County and the Membersfor \Vest eninster had beim invited to attend this Meeting. One valuable Member (Mr. Hobhouse) he was happy to see i resent—(Great applause). Mr.Whitbread had written an 4115 er, regretting that his absence from town prevented him from attending, but expressing Isis hearty concurrence in the object of the Meeting, stnd his confident hope that their example would be followed; for the People of England were loudly called on to expiess their sentiments respecting the proceedings in the Lords, and particularly respect ing s the arbitrary proceeding in the House of Com mons—(t hcers)..—'There was no letter from Sir F. Burdett; but, from the distance at which he lived from town, it was probable he had not received the letter—(Seyeral voices expressed a hope that lie was _recovered). • Mr. Hosuouse said, he was so far recovered, that he was able to ride, bin not to walk. He knew he was particularly anxious to take the first opportu nity of meeting his Constituents—(Applause). Mr. llsausioxr proceeded.—Mr. Byng had de clined to attend, in the hope of having an early op portunit of attending a County Meeting. Ile would now call their attention shortly to the object of their meeting 'The last time they met, it had been to offer their condolence to her Majesty, and to declare their conviction of her innocence, and of the injustice of the proceedings against her Majesty. Now they were met to congratulate her Majesty upon her ac tual triumph over all the power and infamy arrayed against her —(Cheers). —Throughout this great and enlightened country, 99 out of every 100 were con vinced of her Majesty's innocence —(Cheers). —Not (sae man or woman was there who was not convinced of the cruelty with which she was treated (Applause). Her persecutors, after having exhausted all the re sources which malignity aid money could supply, had retreated, with groans and hisses, from the seat of their power (Great applause); but their defeat only increased their venom. They retreated like the tiger,' who, having made an unsuccessful spring, slunk away, meditating more mischief Is--(Loud cheers). Mr.A' BECKETT then moved, among the other Reso lutions," That an Address of Congratulation be pre sented to the Queen, and another to the King ; and that his Majesty be entreated to dismiss his present Mi-isters from his Councils for ever ; and to bring the authors of the late base conspiracy against our magnanimous, virtuous, and innocent Queen, to con dign punishment." Mr. YOUNG moved, that an Address of Congra tulation be presented to the Queen, and another to the King, which should also beseech his Majesty to dismiss his Ministers, and bring the authors of the foul charges against the Queen to punishment— ( Great Applause). They were read, and unanimously agreed to. it was moved, and unanimously agreed, that Sir Francis Burdett and J. C. Hobhouse, Esq. the pa triotic Members for Westminster, shouldbe requested to present or transmit the Address to the King. Mr. Hoariouse now came forward, and was re ceived with the most clamorous shouts of applause. —The Hon. Gentleman proceeded to observe, that one of the complaints against Members of Parlia ment who were in the habit of attending Meetings of the people was. that instead of speaking their opi nion in what was called their proper place, the House of Commons, they preferred addressing the people at once. But if this had been the complaint against himself and others formerly, there was no reason for making it now, for they had no opportunity of ad-1 dressing the House of Commons—(Applause). He was one of those who resolved to lose no opportunity of decrying the measures which agitated the country, and would continue to agitate it till justice should be done to the Queen—(Loud applause). With this view he had presented himself at the earliest possible hour, At ten. o'clock in the morning, at the door of the House, resolving not to omit an opportunity of decrying the conduct of men who degraded the cha racter of the country, and who brought the nation to the brink of anarchy and desolation—(Great ap plause). But his effort, as, well as the efforts of many independent Members, was frustrated. Ministers would not let the House of Commons sit for two mi nutes to hear a message from their established Queen, notwithstanding that they were prepared to occupy them for two years in bedaubing and bemiring their hands in the filthy Green Bag—(Shouts of applause). Goo knew what became of the Commons green bag. He supposed the authors of it had got it privately conveyed away, and got it nicely stitched, and a copy of it laid up in a neat corner of that pure and precious part of their dwellings, the library. He supposed it would appear served up with the next edition of the Woman of Pleasure r—(4aar g hter and applause).—But be thanked Gou that they had an opportunity of expressing . their opinion by one word. Those who laboured on their vocation—the Ministerial writers—had expressed a hope that the Eve or six who cried " Shame s would be deserted. Me, for one, whether in company with others, or de serted, would do his duty. But he appealed to Sir Gerard Noel. whether those who cried " Shame," were not nearer sixty —( Hear, hear fro* Sir Gerard .Noe ).—The better way of stating it was, that there were not six who' did not cry "Shame" at the das tardly, mean, unhandsome, ungentlemanlike manner of getting rid of the message of the Queen—( Hear, hear ).—The Black Rod was introduced—by whom ? 13y the Secretary of the Tieasury—( Shane, seam )! A little whifiline fellow--( Applause )— to be brought in to tell them lat their presence was instantly com manded before the Lords! He knew very well that it was the prerogative of the King to prorogue Par lianseot ; but this prerogative, and every other, was to be exercised with discretion—( Applause ).—lt ought to be exercised only for the benefit of the People. Then they had been called together to in quire into a dirty and nefarious transaction, they ought at least to have heard the Message of her Ma.- jesty, and to have learnt whether she was satisfied— whether be had a house, a purse, and every proper provision for the nearest to the Sovereign of that busily which the People of England placed on the introue—( aierioase).—He had lived, however, to See theOttinisteei who in Isl 4. had been receiveclwith ~elvers and clapping• of hands, many of the Members, standing up—he had lived to see, and he thanked Goo for it—and it was almost enough if he died next moment—he had lived to see that man hooted out of the House of Commons- , -(Greet cheering). — This was done, as had been well observed by a pa triotic Journal, by a radical assembly : it was not a rabble, but the cream of the Nobility—it was at least an assembly chosen by Ministers themselves. — Yet such had been their conduct, that they were afraid to meet even their own toels—( Applause ), A Paper, the Court Gazette,. published, not on Satur days, but every evening - 7 13 e meant the Courier—t e commended that the . King, as the husband of the Queen, should take thE method which was sometimes taken with refractory wives, and confine her; and ,stated, that if a Habeas Corpus were applied for, the Queen would have no right to that writ—( Cries of " Shaine!").—What did such writers mean ? They appeared to be anxious for *evolution, for driving the people to desperation ; they seemed to thirst for blood, and they would not be satisfied until their lips were gratified with that unholy beverage—(Great applause). 'The Queen would not, however, be confine,i. The People of England would see that the Queen, if she had not a house, should, at least, not have a prison ; if she had not a Palace, that she should at least be at large—( Great applause).—This magnanimous woman was, indeed, endeared to the people of Eng land and the lovers of liberty. He, though no great lover of monarchical institutions, must say, that she had done mote to reconcile him to those institutions than all the kings tha: ever sat on the English Throne —( Loud and repeated plaudits). Sir GERARD Nom. came forward after repeated calls, and said he had come from a Meeting for at.• ranging the cavalcade to receive her Majesty.—(Cris of " Where?") It was to meet under the Duke of Wellington's windows—(Great eheering).- 7 Alluding to the affair in the House of Commons he believed, if the Speaker had not retteated so qui ckly, he would have fainted : he had, at all events, extremely failed in his duty, and be was by no means fit to meet the House of Commons again as their Speaker. He had sneaked away under mere form, and left the dignity of the House to shift for itself. He was ready to back his worthy friend (Mr. Hobhouse) in the senti ments which he had so magnificently expressed. Thanks were then voted to Mr. Hoarrouss and Sir GERARD Nom for attending the Meeting, and to Mr. BEAUMONT, for his able and impartial conduct in the Chair, and the Meeting dispersed. ST. PAUL, COVENT-GARDEN. A numerous and respectable Meeting of the Pa rishioners of St. Paul, Covent-Garden, took place yesterday evening at Fisher's Rooms, King-street, for the purpose of considering the propriety of an Ad dress of Congratulation to the Queen upon the com plete defeat of her persecutors, and also of a Petition to the King, for the dismissal of his Ministers. Six o'clock was the time appointed for the commencement of the proceedings, but long before that hour the room was crowded to excess. Lord WILLIAM Rossem. having been unanimously called to the Chair, addressed the Meeting to the fol lowing effect ;—Gentlemen, Inhabitants of the Pa rish of St. Paul's, I have always made a rule not to attend a Meeting in any district with which I had not some local connection. But that rule must be set aside in the present instance, from the interest which my family naturally feel in this Parish, and there fore I promptly acceded to the wish expressed by i the Gentlemen who did me the honour of soli citing my attendance. I was anxious, too, to join with you in exulting upon the failure of that odious Bill of Pains and Penalties, which is now no more, and to witness the sympathy which you so generously manifest in the sufferings of the Queen. Such ex pression of good sense and good feeling is, I am happy to understand, the fist object of the Resolu tions which are to be submitted to your judgment. The second Resolution relates, I learn, to the resto ration of her Majesty's name to the Liturgy; and the third, to the dismissal of his Majesty's present Minis ters. As to the last object, I really do not care any thing about it, feeling, as I do, most sensibly, that unless the grievances of the people be redressed, the present Ministers would answer as well. if not better, than any other—(Applause). Therefore, the removal of Ministers, unless accompanied by a redress of grievances, is, in my view, of no moment. But yet the conduct of thole Ministers has been such, espe cially towards the Queen, that I should be glad to see the people universally express their disapproba tion of that conduct. With a view to that expres sion, indeed, I hope the Meeting of this Parish will be followed up by the Meeting of every Parish in London ; nay, by every. County, Town, and Borough, throughout the United Kingdom (Loud applause): for the present, Ministers have most mischievously contributed to degrade the Monarchy, by injuring the character of the Monarch, and to endanger the safety of the country, as well as the stability of the Constitution, by undermining the morality of the Public. But the principles of these Ministers were sufficiently illustrated by their late mode of pro. roguing the Parliament, without deigning to give any explanation of their conduct, without making any communication from his Majesty to Parliament or to the country, according to general usage (Applause). The Noble Lord concluded with observing, tliat un derstanding the Meeting would take place at twelve o'clock, he had made arrangements which it was now impossible to dispense with, and therefore he hoped the Ladies and Gentlemen whom he had the honour to address would excuse him in leaving the Chair scr soon. At nearly seven o'clock the Noble Lord withdrew, amidst universal testimonies of respect and regard. Mr. Honuousa was then voted into the Chair, - and his appointment, was hailed with unequivocal proofs of attachment. Mr. Nottrintousa, after a long and eloquent speech, moved, That an humble Petition be pre sented to the King, praying that his Majesty would dismiss his Ministers, and that no further proceedings. may be instituted against the Queen.-" The Resolution was seconded by Mr. CLARKE, and carried unanimously. Mr. Putman moved au Address to the, Queen, congratulating her Majesty on the signal victory she has obtained over her enemies. This Resolution was seconded by Mr. Juoclrts, and also weed to unanimously. A Petition to the King, and an Address to the Queen, in terms of the two preceding Resolutions, were then read to the Meeting; and approved of. It was resolved unanimously, that the Petition should be presented to the King by the Duke of Bed ford, and that the Address should be preeoted to the Queen by Lord William Russell, and the two Repre sentatives of Westminster, accompanied by a Depu- tation of the Parishioners. Thanks were then voted to Lord William Russell and Mr. Hobhouse. Mr. Hosuouse rose to return thanks.—He recol lected that when the six Acts, of which so much had been said, and under which the People were now suffering, were debated, it was said, by the Minister of the Clown, that in large meetings the sense of the People could not be collected, in consequence of the intrusion cf itinerant demagogues, but that small parish meetings would always convey the real senti ments of the People of England. Happily the peo ple of this country had made good Lord Liverpool's pledge; and had proved that that Nobleman knew perfectly the temper and character of Englishmen, and that he was right in his opinion of small meet ings, however wrong he might be in his inferences AS to large ones. Restricted as they were in the right of assembling, the People had resolved, that if one hand was tied down, they would make the best tight possible with the other—( Applause ).—Fortd nately that other hand had been too much for the Government; oppressed and crippled as they weie, their means had still been sufficient to intimidate the King's Ministers, for without that intimidation they would certainly have effected the destruction of the Queen. It had been confessed by Ministers, it had been confessed by Lord Liverpool, Lord Ellen borough, the Marquis of Stafford, he believed, and many other Noble Lords, that the loud and unani mous expression of the public displeasure rendered it impossible to attempt carrying ' the Bill of Pains and Penaltiis without risking the Crown itself.— After this, said Mr. Hobhouse, let us never more hear of popular clamour—let us never more be told that the voice of the people is so much empty breath —it is the breath that fills the sails, and will, I trust, finally carry the people into the safe harbour of their Constitutional rights. He confessed that he was one of those who thought that the Bill of Pains and Pe nalties would pass both Houses; not because he thought well of the Bill, but because he thought ill of the Parliament. When he entertained that opi nion, it was impossible to foresee the miserable shifts to which Ministers had been reduced. The witnesses against the Queen had told so many lies, that they might aptly enough address Ministers in the lan guage of Fag, in The Rivals—" If we must lie, have the goodness at least to let us lie a little con sistently"—(Laughter).—They had not lied consist ently, for the lie of one witness had contradicted the lie of the other ; the consequence of which was, that be fore the Bill came to a close, it was impossible for any I man living to come down to the House of Lords, and say conscientiously that he thought the Queen guilty. It should not be forgotten, that 123 persons had been found in the House of Lords, who thought, or rather declared by their votes, that the rotten, patched up evidence was sufficient to convict—not one of the rabble—not one of the vilified People of England— but the Queen of England, the Consort and Cousin of the King, the sister of a Prince who had also fallen in battle, beloved by the late Sovereign, and whose wrongs, even if she had been guilty, ought to have shielded her from persecution. He firmly believed that in no other assembly in the world could there have been found, not one hundred and twenty-three men, but twenty-three men, who would bare con victed her upon such evidence. Many analyses had been made of the majority, as it was called, but he had heard one to-day, which placed the character of that majority in a point of view sufficiently striking. Out of the 123 Peers who voted against her Majesty, 81 had either been created, or raised steps in the Peerage, since the year 1784. This numerical cal culation was of great importance, because it shewed that the majority of the men who voted the Queen guilty, merely said content to that system of which they were, in fact, the mushrooms. They merely said content to that system out of which they sprung, and upon which they flourished—a system which had been designated after the man who left it, as a fatal in heritance to his country (it was unnecessary, in speak ing of the calamities of the country, to name Mr. Pitt as the author of them) —a systeln which had grown with their growth, and been strengthened with their strength—a system, of which many who now heard him had been victims from their very birth, which had already struck at the vitals of the Constitution, and which, if continued, would be at once the cause and witness of its dissolution. In looking at the Protests of some of these Neble Peers, it was ludicrous to observe, that one of them was ac tually signed by the last created Peer, who had ob tained that distinction for shooting a certain number of tawney, naked fellows on the other side of the tropic. That Protest was also signed by a Royal Duke. How all this light, which had failed to illuminate Lord Liverpool and Lord Eldon, the framers of the Bill, had struck only upon this-Noble Lord, and the Royal Duke who had signed this, and he believed every other Protest, no matter how inconsistent their contents, it was difficult to conceive. He (Mr. Hob house) entirely concurred in the sentiments expressed in the Petition to the King. He detested and ab horred the present Ministers from the bottom of his soul ; and if he did not detest them, lie should think himself wanting in those honest and patriotic feel ings, which ought to animate the breast of every man who wished well to his country—(Continued ap plause). To them the country was indebted for the burthen of 600 millions of debt—to them they were' indebted for two millions of paupers—to them they , owed a standing army of 92,000 men, a greater army .than that with which the Duke of Marlborough was enabled to 'nimble the power of France, and almost to carry hig victorious standards to the gates of Paris— to them they were indebted for the invasion of their best rights and privileges, for the destruction of all those domestic comforts for which Englishmen were once distinguished, and for the introduction of an or zanized band of spies, paid by secret service money to uproot the comforts of the people, fur it was a fact that the people paid au lesi than reo,ooo ear to be themselves - betrayed — (Load Before concluding, he would mate one or t ,, :0 vations with reference to his worthy colle:y.tie Francis, Buniett), the verdict against whom, t h,,, who administered justice in this comm.) had thott 2 ;: t fit that day to coutirm—( Cries of " .Shame !")___ He would only say, that in the better days of E ng . lisp jurisprudence, the case set up against his .A t ;, ; colleague would have been scouted from thinCe,: 7l -, in which it now found willing reception. that distinguished individual first heard of the vertii:t against him, his obseivation was—" All I can say that I;hope it will tend to the public good r had no doubt that he would have received the see. teuce of the King's Bench with the 'ame feelinpr, and, for the sake of the People of England, be.. t . whatever persecution might be heaped upon his hest with the same undaunted spirit which he had ev manifested in their cause !—(Loud applau.se). The Meeting adjourned about eight o'clock. FARRINGDON WARD WITHIN. Yesterday, a Meeting of the Inhabitants of f:7s Ward was held at the Queen's Arms Tavern, New. gate-street, (the Deputy of the Ward, Mr. J. Caov.. DER, in the absence of the Alderman, from indis,,,c sition, in the Chair); Mr. HERRING, of Newpz:t , street, after a few observations, moved that a lcyli and affectionate Address be presented to her MA- J'ESTY, congratulating her on the result of !he L::! proceedings against her. Mr. PYNIAN, also of Ye.: - gate-street, seconded the motion. The Address then read, and after several Gentlemen hal &- livered their sentitt.ents, carried unanimously. A Deputation was then appointed to wait upoti MAJESTY, to learn her pleasure when she wouit.l Lc pleased to receive the Address. TIIE EVENING STAR. LONDON. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1820. TILE FUNDS. Consols maintain the price they closed at yesterdar, which was 69%. From the many failures already announced, and others expected, it is supposed the Consols will be forced still higher by the operatifa of buying in the large amount of Stock left on the market by the defaulters. A very extensive defaulter was declared yesterday, whose deficiency was about £35,000 sterling. He made off for Paris on Satur day evening, with £15,000 in Bank notes.—Three failures more have taken place this morning. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK : Bank Stock 219 3 per Cent. Reduced 68% 69 68 7 8 3 per Cent. Cons. 69 3 / 4 1/2 q 4 3 / 8 3-1- per Cent. 78-5 per Cent. Navy 105 Yo Long Annuities 17 7 / 8 India Stock 225 224 India Bonds 245. 255. pre. Old Annuities 68 3 / 4 % Exchequer Bills 2s. 3s. pie. Onmium IA pre. par. Cons. for Opening 70 1 / 2 1 / 4 70. On Saturday the Imo- sent a message to Lord GRENVILLE, who forthwith had an audience of his MAJESTY, which lasted for an hour and a half. From this circumstance some infer, that a change of Administration is contemplated ; but if so, we may conclude that it is not intended to form such an Administration as will give the Country a change of measures, and unless this be effected, we may a well have no change at all. No one will believe, that under Lord GRENVILLE, who supported Ministers throughout the whole of the late obnoxious proceed ings, an Administration can be formed that shall enjoy the confidence of the country—which is the very first object that should be looked to in the cir cumstances in which the nation is now placed.. Among the evil consequences of the late iniqui tous Trial, none is more to be lamented than the sc:t of licence which it has given to sycophants and li bellers of all classes, to vilify, in the grossest man ner, one Illustrious Member of the Royal Family, in the base, and doubtless false hope, of gaining favour in the eyes of certain other Members of the Family, in win= the dispensation of power, wealth, and tides resides. The Premier, Lord LIVERPOOL, when he introduced the defeated Bill _of Pains and Penalties, stated explicitly, that if it did not pass " the QuEzl must be treated, to all intents and purposes, as the Queen-Consort of England." The Bill has not passed; it has been abandoned in the twelfth hour, under circumstances amounting to a most complete and shameful defeat. How then is her MAJESTY now treated as Queen Consort? — Let us consult any of those Papers which pretend to be the organs of the sentiments and feelings of the Ministerial and Court circles, and who thew at least by the language in which they indulge, the sort of liberties which are countenanced and applauded in these circles, to whose support alone they trust for a profligate existence. In the Morning Post of this day, we find the Queen. Consort of the Realm openly denounced as 44 an audacious and abandoned adultress;" her cause —a cause which millions on millions maintain—declared to be " infamous;" and her MAJESTY'S approaching public thanksgiving, for her deliverance from the foul conspiracy by which her character and pease have been menaced, is styled 44 a farce," a " selen:n mockery !" Is this .4 to all intents and pur poses" the way in which " the Queen-Consort of En g land" sliolold be tre4t,ed? 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