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X \ polUsioNnL 1-C • ' -‘e" ... " ..- " Lk= of March" were come, but they were not gone nothing elet . to dciaXin to take bit seat, and to pre- ; —.(Applause).—They were not to imagine that he serve that order s : and regularity which he bad never - cause they had finished what they had set about, that siekwanti lig on the part of the People—(Ce4eers). they were to go home and sit in peace.'-that they were ' `'"Ml. P. alootte, ler.P. said, that having *Oat/4 to forget the originators and contrivers of the pa lled the honour of addressing the Meeting concern. lution. They bad avenged the innocent, it nook be ing the question of the Queen, he had hardly any came their duty to punish the guilty(Cheers).— thing new to offer upon it. He could not avoid, On this account it was that he heartily concurred in however, congratulating the Meeting, in having for :the Resolution for the dismissal of Ministers—Visor, their Chairman a branch of the illustrious House of , hear).—He, for one, would not concur in such a Re- Russell—( Loud apelausel.—He was happy to see tile' solution, if the necessary dismissal of Ministers were Chair filled by a Nobleman of unquestioned talent, not to be followed by the equally necessary punish un,uspected integrity ; a Nobleman descended from ment. Next to this Resolution followed one for a a family whose virtues were known to the Country, Reform in Parliament—(Cheers)—for, let them not but more particularly to him (sr. Moore). No man deceive themselves—let them not suppose, that be could read the history of this country, without ob. cause they had done so much to rescue the innocent, :• serving the attachment which the Ilouse of Russell that they could have the power of punishing the osshad uniformly manifested towards the rights and lie guilty, unless they had a full, a fair, a free Repre • !berties of the People—(Cheers).—Under such au- .sentation in Parliament—(Lend applause).—He bad oessiices, he (Mr. Moore) would be always reaZl to heard, he had seen from the Papers, and he was sure i iperform his part; and if he had nothing to say for their Noble Chairman was equally aware of the fact, . i 'trim amusement, he.could at least congratulate them that it was intended, on the 23d of this month, when tie having a Chairman so nobly and so truly patrice Parliament were to meet, that the moment the s • tic. He would now read to them the first Resolu. Speaker had taken the Chair, a little man from the "• - '.tion, which was received with loud applause. [The Lords was to summon them to that House by three Honourable Gentleman's proceeding was interrupted taps on the door with a black stick—(Load laughter). .by loud cheers from the Meeting: they were caused Now he would Tike to know, whether, if the !louse by the entsance of Major Cartwright]. Order having of Commons were fairly constituted, the Representa been restored, Mr. Moore continued to observe, that tives of the People could be baulked by any such Ministers were in the habit of stigmatizing all those mean, paltry, and ridiculous maneeuvre? He thought who were opposed to them in opinion, with the epi- that if the House of Commons were properly consti thet " disloyal." Now, he would say that Mihisters toted, the man who so tapped, would have the black themselves were the only disloyal persons. He was stick applied to a place and in a manner ,which would one who would have no Government, however framed, not be at all pleasing to him—( Cheers and laughter). no Administration, however gathered -together - who And yet it was pretty well known that the Repeesen were not directed and governed by the laws ' of' the tatives of the People were to be thus summoned by a country—(Hear, hear).—The first person nito-aeted man with a blackstick, coming and telling them that disloyally was he who first advised the omission of somebody wanted them in another House—e(Laugh her Majesty's name from the Liturgy: he who did ter).—Thank Goa! that, though Reform 'may not so was guiltyof a 'high crime and misdeineanour— inimediately follow, still the opinions of the People (Cries of . Treason r)—He cared not who the ad- were so strongly expressed, that come it must— vises of such an act was—even were it the Sovereign (Cheer:).—And he thanked Goo, too, that his Ma himself—he acted illegally (Hear, hear!)—and those jesty's Ministers had, however unwillingly, assisted in who obeyed the order were, as he before said, guilty, bringing about " a consummation most devoutly to of high crimes and misdemeanours. Whoever did be wished." They had given a blow to the present so oug ht to be impeached, and he hoped they would system, after which it could not exist. The People be impeached!—(sfetplause).—lf the laws were to be were weary of their burthens, they could no longer thus despised, thus trampled upon, it would be bet- bear them. Was it possible to see a set of men who ter to give Ministers at once that arbitrary power had nothing but their-demerits to recommend them which they so long sought for—(Cheers).—The Ho- 6 office, without feeling that such a system should nourahle Gentleman concluded by giving his cordial exist no longer? The People were weary, they were support to the Resolution. exhausted ; some remedy ought to be applied. He Mr. ROGERS seconded the Resolution, which was would not now go into a detail of the conduct of the put and carried unanimously. , present Ministry. Let them, look to 1811, when Mi- Major CARTWRIGHT proposed the second Resolu- nisters were declared totally incapable of governing tion. It was seconded by Mr. Puieror, and carried. the country. And what, he would ask, had they Mr. MANN, proposing the third Resolution, en o done since? Where was the single act at which the' tered in a most eloquent and impressive manner on finger of friendship could point, that the House of, the nature of the proceedings lately instituted against Commons, speaking of it even as it was, not as it the Queen—[The worthy Gentleman was loudly and ought to be, could look at and say, that the present repeatedly cheered in the course of his speech.]—He Ministers were worthy of office? But he would not concluded by reading the third Resolution, which go back so far, he would take the history of the last was seconded by Mr. Serjeant, and, being put, was year ; they there saw that Ministers had endeavoured carried unanimously. to accustom the people to military execution--.(Loud Mr. Powys next stood forward, and read an Ad- cheers)—and scarcely were the people recovered from dress to her Majesty, founded on the above Resolu- the stupor and astonishment which such a measure tions. It was received with repeated cheers, and car- created, when they found that the next person sub bed unanimously. jetted to similar domination and tyranny was the Lord Joust RUSSELL observed, that they now came first subject in the country—(Cheers).—With respect - to the second object of the Meeting, that of present- to that great House, called by some " the august ing an Address to his Majesty, praying a dismissal House," by ethers " the High Tribunal," in short, of his Ministers. he did not know what names were given to the House The Resolution to this effect was read to the Meet- of Lords—(Laughter)—indeed, he felt that it was ing, seconded by Mr. Helmut; and carried unani- dangerous to speak freely of this Assembly, for mously, as foll o ws : • among other blessings of our wise, moderate, and " That a dutiful and loyal Address and Petition, founded on humane Government, he found that any two scoun the Resolutions, be presented to his Majesty, earnestly and re- drels who would swear that certain words were used, spectfully entreating a change of men and measures, and that no matter with what good intention, could get any his M tjesty will be graciously pleased to banish his Eresent evil Counsellors from his councils and presence for ever. one confined within tour walls for an indefinite pet , R. WAITHMAN, jun. in proposing the second riod. His venerable friend (Major Cartwright) bad Resolution, condemned in strong terms the conduct a sample of this. To such an alternative he did not of Ministers, as well with respect to her Majesty as wish to subject himself. It was, however, extra in their general policy. He concluded by reading a ordinary to find it urged by some Papers devoted to Resolution, which was seconded by Mr. J. DAILY, the cause of the King, as it was said, but which and carried with applause. were his worst enemzes— ,, Oh, now at least fault Mr. HOBHOUSE next came forward, and was re- cannot be found with Parliament by certain persons,, ceived with loud and reiterated cheers, He was for one House of Parliament has acquitted the Queen." afraid that having so frequently expressed his opi. This was as much as to say that Parliament was not nions on this momentous question, they would feel as bad as we thought it. He would not say how bad tired at hearing the same tones coming from the be thought Parliament was, perhaps his opinion was same instrument--(" No, non—and he wished it not material ; but surely that Parliament was at least -here to be understood, that if ever there was in him bad enough, which declaied, by a majority of twenty any apparent backwardness in attending Meetings of eight, that the Queen was guilty, and that too, upon the people, it should be attributed to its just cause, evidence, which a Noble and Learned Lord (Erskine) and not to a motive which was foreign to his heart. had declared insufficient to convince any twelve He was always glad to attend public discussions honest Jurymen in the kingdom—(Cheers).—He among his fellow-citizens--(ateers).—They were, as was aware that the expectations of some persons were had been well expressed, assembled to celebrate the of a most extraordinary nature. He was satisfied triumph of the People. He was glad to find that with the badness of Parliament as it was—he should the higher classes had at length given their tardy not wish to present himself before any worse tribunal aid on the present occasion. Let the People, how.. than die Houseof Lords as it stood—(Laughing).— ever, not conceal from themselves, that they it were The real fact was this, and it could not be too often who had, by their exertions, gained this result fo repeated, that for the sake of procuring a conviction, her Majesty. Far from him was it to deny that due though in point of act no conviction had taken place, weed of praise which belonged to those Noble Lords yet there were the same effects—the lattlecanvas"lll who exerted themselves in support of her Majesty. and courting had taken place as if the object was to Far was it from him to cast an imputation on those Procure a tide-waiter's place—(Laughing).---Thse Noble Personages who had, in uniformity with the dirty work, though too bad to be done by the ordi early part of their lives, done so much hontiour to nary persons employed, did not want supporters in themselves and their country 6n this occasion.— those who umiak performed it; there was still the Among the Noble Lords who most distinguished same eagerness to have it executed, and the parties themselves in favour of her Majesty, was us be found only wanted that of which the People had deprives, the father of their Noble Chairman--(Lotsd and re- them, not the will, but the pbwer to accomp lis h it. pealed cheers).— A person, of whom it might be said, The Honourable Gentleman, after entering into seve without any exaggeration, that his opinion was of rap other parts of the case, both as it regarded the ten thousand times more weight if favour of her case of her Majesty, the situation of the Country, Majesty's innocence, than those opinions which were and the necessity of Parliamentary Reform, observed, given by debased and ignorant persons—s(Cheers).— that in order to create division, it bad been reported That Noble Duke, from his own knowledge and ex. that her Majesty intended to quit this country. to perience of the country in which the crimes were al- this he would answer, that her Majesty could not leged to have been committed by her Majesty, felt do so without separating herself from that protection it unlikely that they could have been committed at which had saved her from the persecution of her all. He (the Duke of Bedford) felt that many of enemies. The Queen might forsake die People, but the charges against her Majesty arose from the ne- she could not hurt them ; she could only injure her; cessity of her conforming to the habits of the people self by withdrawing from the only safeguard which among whom she lived. He (Mr. Hobhouse) had had protected her from her enemies. But why should also the satisfaction of living in that country • for her Majesty wish to depart ? She had no such wish, some time, and be felt astonished that many Noble she could have no such idea. A part of the Press, Lords did not rise in their places and accuse hi s Ma- had attempted to say thather Majesty was not ac jesty's Ministers of the grossest ignorance with re- quitted. This was extraordinary. What! if the spect to it. They had displayed as little knowledge Ministers of the Crown, exerting every power, and of that country as if they had been discoursing on straining every nerve, could not - get th e D ill t h r o ugh . the " Terra 'Austrealis incog." . (Hear, hear).—lt wa s one branch of the Legislature, was not that 3 'full true they were there assembled to celebrate the acquittal ? No doubt it was, and the People of Eng. triumph of her Majesty, but let them not therefore land felt that her Majesty had come out of this try imagine that the whole work was finished. The ing charge "'pure as unsunned snow: This was evidence of which he'tpoke, if not in judicial pr o . teedings, at any rate in the press—(Loudapplease). —He had it in his power to prove that multitask s were now teceiving pay from the public money, end had ileceived titles, for living at Milan, Rome, N. saro, and Paris, and defaming . her Majesty. He h a d sat down at. the same table with Officers of - rank in the Army and Navy, Who often expressed their qtr. prize at the sudden elevation to wealth and titles a the persons thus unworthily employed, without knky.r. big the nature of their mission. Being possessed a mass of information upon this subject, and know. inn, as he did, that the servants of her Majesty 1441 been bribed, and that even £5O had been given t o one of them for the mere exhibition of the foeish diploma of which so much had been said, would h e have been deserving the name of Englishman if he had abandoned such a cause ?—(Loud diters,L—lle defied any man to say that he had, in pursuing th e course he had adopted, any political view. He i!t4 taken up the Queen's cause from principles berad the reach of contamination. He had been intri.sted with all the facts, strengthened by the solemn decla ration of her Majesty of her innocence. He found. her surrounded by spies and pretended friends, ar,.i it was his warmest wish that those who now dump:: proper to . reject that which had given conviction to the great body of the Public, had seen her when she spurned the paper of compromise presented to h.:l - Lord Hutchinson. if they had seen the SCOTia and indignation with which she had refused the £50,000, they would no longer raise up the hand of prejudice against her fame! —(Applause). no( this .6tat time that 'similar Bills had been intro duced. There had been many previous Bills of a similar nature, which, in the. mockery of justice, had been entitled Bills of Pains and Penalties. And it was curious that the Bill of Pains and Penalties against Bishop Atterbury should have been intro (bleed in nearly a similar way to the resent. On that occasion, when the Bill had passed, and when Bishop Atterbury was exiled, a Noble Duke (Wharton) wrote an Ode, which was so applicable to the case of 'her Majesty. that he would, if it was not occupying too much time, repeat it. It would appear, too, as if the Poet, possessing the powers generally ascribed to Poets of old, possessed also the gift of prophecy. The words to which be alluded were— " Thy mighty ruin to effect, " What plots have been devis'd, 41 What arts and perjuries been rated, " What laws and rights despis'd ? " How many knaves and fools, by bribes alined ; " What witnesses by hopes and threats seated 1. " And Yet sfsey act their dark deceit, " Veird with a new disguise, " And from a specious spew of right, " From treachery and lies ; " With arbitrary power the People awe, " And coin unjust oppression into law !"—(Cheers). These were the words of a Statesman of those days, not certainly a Statesman who was an honour to his tribe, but still, as Statesmen go, he was pretty well —( Laxghter). Mr. Powis seconded the Resolution proposed by the last speaker. Lord JOHN RUSSELL, before he put the question, wished to state, that his opinion on Reform had been long before the Public. But lest any misapprehen sion should take place, be wished to repeat„that his opinions on that subject were the same as be had already t expressed in Parliament. Mr. P. Moons proposed a Resolution, praying an Address to is Majesty to dismiss his Ministers. This Reidution was seconded by Mr. TUELY, and carried. Mr. MANN next read the following Address to the Crown, founded on the Resolution - 1 • TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. " May it please your Majesty—We, your Majesty's most loyal and dutiful subjects, the hshabitants of the united Parishes of St. files in the } -s, and It. George, Bloomsbury, in the county of .Middlesex;' beg *eat humbly to approach your- Ma jesty's sacled person, to eapsess our unshaken attachinent to your Majesty's penes ovri rimy, and to the Constitution of erg Country, to snack, meet mspoetfully, your Majesty's attends* to our statement of the pfirances and distresses which not, alarm nuhtF " The moral :meter and principles of the country have been worded and bushed, by the nnjusrond Segal proceed ings of yaw nejeutyli Miters against year Makesty's Roy Comm the Qin& They hive rafted dines the most bin and camsane 6 s her Majesty's Mew and dignity, dui peted by no eeeANe or sufficient erldesee; es the eoctrary, , there is abundant proof to warrant tie held thee the whole is a lad ewupkary, upheld by subanueilitilminset, ulli=4MA cenammtneed by your Majesty's ' Mottoes. din =of tdb disgraceful ineeedgedek 011ie die met ye. and indecent hire been *ironical ireesteet sWe maw try, which have outraged the moral and milgions feelings di his community, and which are 2)6. d,qthgatory to the dignity et the oisti Crown, as they are injurioui to tim interests of the Nadal,. " The manner in which your Majesty's Ministers have eisii: dieted the proceedings against her Majestymppeace to us equary l illegal and alarming. The Constitution guarantees to ailimpar dal justice, and, for that purpose, has wisely kept distinct the duties of Prosecutors, Jurors, and Judges ; but your Majesty's Ministers, in defiance of all justice, have cunstituted themselves the Accusers, Jurors, and Judges. of their Queen. The oblige. tier S which we are under to obey and to uphold the laws of the Land, oblige us to condemn the flagrant iniquity of those proceedings. " The general policy of your Majesty's Ministers, distinguished by no liberal, enlightened, or comprehensive principles, we con. ceive to have been highly injurious to the welfare of the coun try, and to have been the chief cause of the accumulated misery which it endures. The almost total stagnation of trade and commerce, together with the heavy pressure of taxation, these , evils combined, produce in the middle and lower classes of so-. ciety distresses too wide and too deep to be described. Their 1 disregard of public opinion, and inattention to the petitions-end prayers of the people, however loudly expressed—their constant resistance to all plans of retrenchment and economy, and to the correction of abuses and cot option—their eagerness, evinced upon every occasion, to abridge the liberties of the subject, and . to enact severe and restrictive laws—these, with their illegal at tempts to degrade her Majesty the Queen, have no other ten dency than to bring your Mniesty's Government into contempt, and to alienate the affections of your people from your Majes ty's Royal House. " Confiding in your Majesty's rectitude and paternal feel ings, we humbly hope that your Royal mind will ever be open to the just complaints and prayers of your Majesty's faithful subjects. In this confidence, we humbly beseech you* Majesty to exclude from your mends your Majesty's present Ministers who have abused your Royal confidence, have lost that of the People, by seeking unjustly to destroy t he Queen, have thereby violated the Constitution and the rights of the subject, and thus brought the 'Nation to the brink of a precipice, and disgraced its character in the face of Europe." It was then put from the Chair, and carried with a few dissentient voices. Mr, TRELWALL moved— " That the grateful aiknewledgmehts and wannest thanks of the Meeting be presented to Lord John Russell, for his kind compliance with the wishes of the Committee in taking the Chair this day, and foe his kind and obliging co nduct while pre. siding over this Meeting." Lord JOHN Russett. returned thanks in a most feeling and impressive manner. It was recollected that he had, at an early stage of the proceedings in Parliament, expressed his opposition to the proceed ings against her Majesty--(Cheers). He had through out entertained the same feeling. The Noble Lord concluded Wy observing, that he was happy the Peo ple had exercised their opinions on this occasion ; for these Ministers who had called the People in the lower classes of life the rabble, and the base popu lace, would find they were wrong. He had witnessed many of the processions to,Hammersmith, and during the whole of those processions, be had found the Peo ple act in a quiet and, orderly manner. They had, exhibited Hags too, which was prohibited by the last , year's Bills, but in no case were there any . outrage, nor in any case would there be any such feeling, un less the. Manchester Yeomanry were let loose upon the People--(Cheers).— The Meeting then dissolved. THE EVENING STAII. LONDON. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1820. THE FUNDS. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK: Bank Stock 218 219 3 per Cent. Reduced 68%' 5 /, 3 per Cent. Cons. 69•/$ ys 3- per Cent. 77 1 3 / 4 -4 per Cent. 86 1 4 5 per Cent. Navy 105% 54 % Long Annuities 17 3 / 4 13-16 India Bonds 265, 275. pre. South Sea Stock 76% Old Annuities 6834—New Ditto 69% Exchequer Bills 5 , . 3s. 4s. ss. Cons. for Acct. 6 3 4 1 34 3/4. The death of the late Bill of Pains and Penalties has produced, among other anomalies, one before unknown to our history—Ministerial Protests againt the measures of the Cabinet! It has been common enough for Peers to protest against the measures of their opponents, but never before against their own. In this case, it was known, OR the evening of the eth, by the adherents of Ministers, that they meant to withdraw the Bill. On casting up the votes they should have, Ministers did not deem the majority sufficient to warrant the passing of such an import ant measure, and they asked, and obtained, his MA rasTy's . consent to withdraw the Bill. The diiinte rested alarm of the Master of the Horse drew, no doubt, a few murmurs from him, but no attempt was made to oppose the measure; and yet we now find these Peers protesting against an act decided on LI. the Cabinet, approved of by his MAJEsnr, and as sented to by themselves!! We have given these Protests in another column, and as other Protests may be received till the 23d, we should not be surprised to have some more of these elegant and grammatical productions. The right of voting is hereditary: what a pity that the powers of composition are not obtained also by in heritance! Lord SITEFFIRLD, who signs the first Protest, voted, as our Readers will remember, for the second reading of the Bill, without hearing the evidence for the Quit Eli. Lord Pawls, who subscribes the last Protest, is a near relative of an Under Secretary of State, and Lord SHAFTESBURY is actually in office. What! and are Ministers to be deserted in their utmost need, even by those whom their bounty feeds? Are their very servants to turn round on them, and tell them that they have paid no regard to what was due to the justice and honour of the House? Whence this anarchy ? How long is it to prevail? The Duke of CLA s erge subscribes them all! though the reasons assigned in some of theni are directly subversive of the grounds of protest in the others.— But this may have arisen from a conviction that men in his high station cannot too often or too pointedly express their abhorrence of abandoned and licentious conduct; and especially those dignified individuals who have no beam in their own eye The report of yesterday, that the Palace of Hamp ton Court was to be assigned to the QUEEN, is not realized : on the contrary, her MAJESTY, if Blinisters can carry things their own way, is to have none of tile Royal mansions of tbe.iiingdom. If Ministers can prevent-it, she is not to have any one, of all the nu merous residences provided for the Royal Family by the Nation. We say " Mini sters ;,7for the Kum can do no twang ; ind whtjt wring done it must be by them ! .The following , is ia.substance the answer of Lord LIVERPOOL to thelate regnestof her ISIAJESTA " That he has received his MAJESTY'S commands to infofm the Qttize, that it is not possible for his MaJecry, under , all the circumstanOes,to assign any There was a Meeting yesterday of the inhabitants of the Ward of Cripplegate Within, for the purpose, of addressing the Queen upon the fate of the Bill of Pains and Penalties, and Petitioning the House of Commons to impeach his Majesty's Ministers. • Several -appropriate Resolutions were agreed to, .and an Address was ordered to be prepared. There were a . few dissentient voices, but nine -tenths of the Meeting were decided supporters of the Resolutions and Addreis. Mr. Alderman. %Vow), in returning thanks, ob served, that since the . Bill had net its fate, the most important witnesses had arrived in Buil:mil. The Gentlemen who had joined in the opposition to the Resolutions would have an opportunity of seeing the of the Royal Palaces for the QUEEN'S residence. — Lord LIVERPOOL has been further commanded to infottu the Quuw, that, until Parliament shall meet for the dispatch of business, the allowance ulll. ll has,hitherto been. enjoyed by the Wiens will be cue. spen God tinu to el be fAci; cud M • wkicl the C Slat] theii by a of tl are Lou prat of bacl am( def: dire deft bat stm coo min fou tile the Ha the i rise ad pJ in'