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Not at liberty to enlarge on this subject. A few da l e might perhaps bring much new matter to light. e had now a few observations to make on the fourth Resolution, which related to the Attorney-General, Who was now not the Attorney-General of his Ma jesty, butof the Lords, prefemng perhaps a number' of masters to one, fearing that the one, powerful as he was, did not possess means sufficient to reward his services. The Committee, in . tenderness to that once hodourable but now degraded character, had drawn up this Resolution in very delicate terms. He could not do so ; and when he read over the Ad dress of the Attorney-General as made at the Bar of the Peers, he was surprised the chivalrous spirit of the Aristocracy of England had not directed one of the servants of the House to kick him from the Bar. He 'contended that should this Bill pass it would operate to overthrow Christianity, and to kick from beneath the King's Throne its support and stability ; and should the Parliament;. pass the measure, they must look for power to support Their. unchristian and sinking-like. measure; and the first measure must be an attempt to silence the Public Presi--the engine whose efforts . they felt they had most to dread. . Mr. Hums appeared before the Assembly most unwillingly, as it was well known what his opinion on this subject was, and he was desirous some other individual would. have addressed the . Meeting ; but having been called on to address them, he should have telt himself guilty of disrespect if he.had disre. garded the call. He congratulated the Meeting on its number and respectability ; and he trusted, what ever attempts might be, made to prevent it, the peo ple would long continue thus to meet. It was his fate to meet generally in an Assembly reldont or - never unanimous, and in which it was his misfor- Lune generally to be in a minority ; here, however,, tilt was unaoimity, and not an individual had been found hardy enough to raise a dissentient yoke. An attempt had indeed been made to obtain a Counter- Address in the parish in which he resided, that of Nary-la-bonne ; but, like all the works of the wicked, it had originated in darkness, and sunk in obscurity ; and he verily believed had never suggested itself to the mind of any individual except the Editor of the Nets Times. The Honourable Gentleman then pro ceeded to comment on the proceedings against the Queen, and described them as oppressive, illegal, and unjust, and declared that, although late, he trusted the House of Peers would ultimately act con scientiously, and throw out the Bill ; the object of which was neither more nor less than an attempt ou the part of an individual to get rid of his wife. No thing, in his opinion, could stop this unjust proceed ing but a general expression of the public opinion, both of men and women, on the subject ; and he wished now to press on the minds of every indivi dual who heard him, male and female, the necessity Of coming forward on this occasion as if the cause was their own. He called on eery one present to reflect what had been the treatment her Majesty had, received since her first arrival in this country, Mar ried as she was with the brightest ptospecti.j--[4t this period Sir GERARD NOEL entered the room, and vas received with loud applause. It having subsided. IMr. Ikon resumed: Ile was not sorry for this in terrtraion ; on the contrary, he rejoiced at it, since it served to slew the Meeting an individual, who, rioxi otti t , support Ministers, had gone with them to the ritniost extent which honour wisirld allow ; but at I.2tortli H they became so bad, that Ws on. rriend was o - obliged to give them up—{Applause).—'else lion. Gentleman then proceeded to comment on the con duct of her Majesty ; which, he said, was of itself a proof of consciou; innocence. The trial was now .pending—the result could not be far distant. He ,trembkd not for the resul‘; it mu't be that guided by justice; the thii,king minds of Englishmen could not decide othervise; all Europe were looking to us; we had been their Polar vat in the load to honour: . a.id whilst the nations if Europe were rising to the r. eridian by our example, let not England sink be licatli the horizon !—(..!pirlause).— When the Jay of trial arrived, he trusted every man would be at his post—(l.oird (yplause).— Ile called on every one to oceed firmly, but moderately ; and he wished that tile Gentleman who had last addressed them, and who had 'aid that siolence was more likely to injure than to aid the cause of Reform and Justice", would, with his friend , , keep that sentiment constantly in their minds. lie called on every one to unite with him in supporting the I.iberty of the Press ; for, v.ries that liberty once restrained and shackled, Britain, which had so long been the resource of the oppressed, must herself become oppressed. lie trusted, that, when next they met, and that at no distant day, they would be able to congratulate themselves on the tri umph of innocence over oppression. The Queen had thrown herself on the protection of the middling classes, and by their support he had no doubt she would ultimately triumph, to the great discomfiture and disgrace of her enemies. Mr. Paatasotr said— , 4 I am extremely glad that I have given the precedence to the Honourable Member of theZower House, becau e he has anticipated many of the observations which it had been my intention to have offered to the consideration of the Meeting. I am still more rejoiced at the circumstance, because it adds one to the many proofs that thoie who are the most resolute and determined in opposing rank, talent, and wesdth, where , they are opposed to the in terest of the country, yet are found ready, with the greatest humility, to submit their pretensions to prio-1 rity to their superiors in rank and property, when their possessors ate disposed to embark in the catte: of People. There is, however, one point in the! speech of my worthy predecessor, flat I cannot - with consistency suffer to pass without observation. Mr. Hume has, with great earnestness, recommended 1 Moderation in all our proceedings, and has referred to the contending question on Parliamentary Reform. - For sir part, I cannot conceive bow that subject can r optsly occupy the attention of this or similar Meet -togs. Although myself an ardent advocate for 'Par liamentary Reform upon the most extended scale, I anxiously desirous that, in our exertions iu the cause of the Queen, all political distinctions should be forgotten—that we should all unite hand in hand, striving with one another who should love her most 'and serve her best.--add upon this subject I know not the bounds or limits, which the worthy Member iiesuld prescribe to our exertions—moderation in our exertions in the canal, of an injured. and persecuted woman, would be treason tp her interesta—Vieor,. • • • her, beer.)—Well may we .ezelaim with the Poet, ' Oa seek a theme 'tiny' impious to be calm, • Paget= is moms, transport mew here r The worthy Gentleman also seisms so think that the' analogy between the House of Lords and the House of Commons gives to the People of England a milli. cient guarantee for the justice of the rlecision of the forther upon the case of the Queen rink the worthy Gentleman should recollect, that one of the principal objections against the integrity of the Tribunal, to the examination of which her cause has been submit ted, arises from the very means by which its Members have obtained their elevation. If the modern creation of Peers has generally been the reward of profligacy and vice, or of subserviency to the Ministers of the day, who can suppose, for one moment, that there is any other Body in this or any other country to which it can be compared? Besides which, if we regard the conduct of those who have been raised to the Upper House, we shall find that neither their man ners nor their morals have benefitted by the elevation. I would ask any rational man, whether he would have believed that the same Captain Pellew, who has looked with undannted• courage in the cannon's mouth, could have so changed his character by an introduction to the Peerage of our country, as to be imible to look in the face of an honest man ? All signs to vulgar adages are, perhaps, hardly fit to be 'introduced in this Assembly ; sometimes, however, they may serve to impress a sentence more strongly upon our minds—it has been said that a Cat may look at a King,' and would it ever have been thought that he who could live amid the cannonstroar, should, by merely becoming Lord Exmouth, be so besotted in intellect as to claim the advantage of the latter branch of the adage, which I shall be too polite to repeat? I believe, with the Honourable Gentleman. that the Bill will never pass the Peers, but it is because public, opinion has been roused, and fear may pro duce changes which reason or argument could never have effected. The bold and manly declarations of the whole kingdom in favour of their noble but per. seemed Queen, • Will make false accusation blunt, And tyranny to tremble at virtu:::' The profession of which I have the honour of being a member is in danger of suffering, - for the conduct '; of some of its members. I see, however, now before me fire Barristers, and I liee observed, that during the whole of the time the conduct of the Attorney- General has been deprecated with the severity which it deserves, those worthy Gentlemen have, one and I all, united with this company in a loud and manly expression of. detestation at conduct alike unbecom ing 1 man, a Gentleman, and an Advocate. Let ns hope that this proud feeling, this esprit de corps for the honour of.our protession will not end here. I be- • lieve that two of the Learned Gentlemen to whom I • have adverted are members of the Inn of Court of • which an individual is a lkncher, who has figured in thii.piOceeding in a manner more disgraceihl, if possible, than the Attorney-General himself. The • one leis duty perverted to the utter- • ance of falsehood, - and degraded to the propagation of slander, it is true, but still it furnishes a flimsy pretext for his conduct; but the other individual (I mean Mr. Cook) has submitted to the performance of a duty which his profession could neither impose nor sanction, and which the meanest man in the country, who - could have boasted of personal charac ter or professional reputation, would have started from with disgust. I hope that those Gentlemen will put their seal to the expressions which they have this day sanctioned, ,and that they will erase from the list of lienchers of the Inn the name of a man who can but disgrace their Society. The members of another, of what is terme..fliberal profession, have also been this day censured with a bold and manly language which does honour to the speakers„ and may, it is to be hoped, be of service to those who have been justly the subject of their censures. One distinguished individual, _of the clerical order, Iras lately entered the lists in support of the persecutors of the Queen. It is much to be regretted, that the worthy Gentleman to whom it was addressed per mitted his personal feelings so to get an advantage over his better judgment, as -to spare this political parson the dressing to which this letter had exposed him. I am not skilled in heraldic lore, but I cannot help thinking it a little remarkable that the first Ile vercad Divine who has• drawn the pen in the cause of the King's divorce and the Queen's degradation, should boast of the name of Cunningham; but how long it has ceased to be accompanied by a title, or when it shall resume that distinction, I am unable to say. I have long been prepared to expect much from a supple priesthood ; but I must confess, that 1 did not expect to see a Christian Minister come for ward to attack those principles which are the brightest ornaments of the religion which he pro fesses to teach. The Morning Post introduces Mr. Cunniiv,ham's letter with a pompous prologue, in which it characterizes the author as eloquent and pions; and I confess, that from the letter itself, had I not received the information, it is the last of all epithets which I should have been disposed to be • stow upon the writer of such an extraordinary pro duction. As to its piety, I have no hesitation in say ing, that it hardly contains an expression which does not oppose some of the fundamental principles of Christianity. He begins by condemning the attend ance of the Ladies at Public Meetings; hut does he not recollect, that whatever is good and great in morals and religion has ever found strenuous advo cates in the female 'sex? Excellent women were among the most active promoters of the Christian re. I ligion in the early ages, and even the crown of mar tyrdom has been frequently the reward, which bi- I gotry, not unlike the bigotry and illiberality that I sometimes raises its head among even Clergymen of the present day, has bestowed . upoh those who gib , rie ) :l in the faith which they professed, in spite of I the madness 6f their persecutors. Women have even been the most powerful auxiliaries in any.good cause which they have undertaken. It would betray an idle affectation of pedantry to ransack the 'page of history, to point out the various instances in which I their noble exertions - have - had the most powerful influence upon the destinies of mankind. The,attend ance of Ladies at the. Meetings of the various Chari ' table Institutions, the rlible and Misiionary Societies, have ever been the theme of praise of those: who are 1 now the first to condemn it ; not that theeassemble to give vent to the finest feelingsof the 'Mitten - tear; not that - they endetivOur to 'NM thetOrrent of 6p.• 'pression, and to give consolation to the afflicted soul of persecuted innocence —(G; eid apptause.)— We cannot 'forget that the greatest good which has ban achieved for mankind in the present age, was accomplished with the assistance of woman. Th e bold energies of lordly man were nobly engaged n i giving freedom to the enslaved Negro; but without . the assistance of virtuous woman, Afric's swarthy sons might still' have groaned under the yoke of wretch ed slavery ! And will the soul of even the., wonder-working Wilberforce, or the saintly senti ments of the velvet-cushioned Cunningham, pretend that that which was proper, while it was directed to relieve the sufferings. of oppressed mankind in the other hemisphere, becomes inconsistent with the cha racter of female delicacy, when exerted to give con solation to the wounded feelingt_ of their persecuted Queen ? Oh, no! Mr. Cunningham objects to the in terference of women, because he knoWs the influence which they exercise in society—he kno‘vs that if their exertions are called into activity in the cause of our beloved Queen, in vain will be the insidious attempts of her enemies to rob her of her reputation, which, to the well-regulated mind of a virtuous woman, is dearer even than life itself. Mr. Cunningham also thinks fit to censure the supporters of the Queen, be. .cause she has not been looked upon in a favourable light by the great and powerful in the land, and he brands the Addressers as illiterate and uneducated, not boasting of what lie calls the Aristocratic distinc tions of reading and writing, a charge that' is not more ridiculous than it is unchristian. To deny to the Addressera of her Majesty the Aristocratic distinc tion writing, when their signatures to the Ad dresses contradict the asszition, is so truly contempti ble as hardly to demand a reply, did it not furnish . us with the means of knowing, that it is because the faculty of reading and writing is no longer confined to the Aristocracy of the country, thatbigotted Clergy and tyrannical Statesmen oppose the meetings of the people. While Eng land was still buried in ignorance, the Government had no objection to Public Meet ings—Church and King mobs were its best engines; but now that men have had the benefit of education in Sunday Sdiools, the advantage of Bible Societies, of Szhools for Adults, and of the political writings of the age, they no longer approve of the people meet ing together, and then pretend to urge the illiterate and uneducated state of the people as the cause ; when they well know that they - would give all that they possess, aye, and perhaps their places to boot, if they could reed what they have done, and stop the progress of information, now rapidly advancing. We should have heard nothing of Mr. Cunningham s letter, could his patrons have found some Joshua to have bid ele sun of knowledge to stand still on Mount Gideon—we should have had no objection to Public Meetings, could his master have played the Canute, and have hidden the tide of knowledge to have flowed back to its bed ; it is because know ledge is diffused, and education almost universal, that the minions of.corritption arc anxious to silence the voice of Fublic opinion ; and as to the absence of the rich and the great from the ranki of her Majes : . ty's supporters, surely a Christian Minister is the last man who ought to advance this as an argunien against the cause itself. Does not this Reverend Di-- vine know that the religion which he' preaches was originally propagated by men whose poverty and humility were the very opposite of the bloated wealth of those Clergy which is now intertwined with those who abuse the confidence of their Master and de stroy the interests of the State? Does not this do que»t and pious Clergyman recollect that at the time when the Christian Religion was neitherfashionabk nor pr9fitable, not only was the Gospel preached to the poor, but that not many wise, nor many noble were called ?—and does this Learned Divine suppose that the Christian Religion is a whit the worse for not having had a House of Peers for its supporters?— The Clergy should have been the guardians of their Master's honour; it was their duty to have stood for ward in the Queen's cause and to have been honest to him whois the sourceof theirlionours and emoluments.. Was there no Nathan honest enough to have gone to our modern David, to have pointed out the wretched ness of deserting a wife and associating with profli gates, and to have said, " Thou art the man?"—ls there no prophet, no Daniel, to translate his Master's dreams? Is there.among the Clergy of the country no John who would be prepared to tell to the Herod of the present day the truth, and the whole truth, even although some dancing concubine should have demanded his bleeding head upon a silver charger? The . velvet-cushioned Clergyman, moreover, com plains, that Meetings to address the Queen are cal culated to injure and insult the King. Where sleeps the Attorney-General, that he thunders not forth his anathemas against a man who thus can libel his kind and munificent Master ? Is it to be believed that a Clergyman of the Church of England could for a moment suppose that Meetings to praise a woman are either intended or calculated to insult her husband? Is he then so indifferent to the character and reputa tion of his wife, that even to praise her is a crime? He who would report this as the charaiter of our King is a traitor to his interests, an enemy to his cause. It is the part of every sincere friend of the King to be firm and honest in the discharge of their duty to both King and People—to be sincere to both. and withhold the truth from neither. Until the appear ance of this letter, I had hoped that the stupid doc trines of passive obedience—non-resistance—Divine right—and the perfectibility of the Kingly nature, had been buried in the tomb of the last of the Stuarts ; but now it appears, that, to speak to . the King of the social virtues is to insult and injure him, and the Clergy are ready to join with the Law yers in proclaiming that " the King can do no wrong." " The King can do no wrong ?' Does he then hold his existence by a tenure different from that which pertains to the rest of humanity? " The King, can do no Wrong? Strike, then, Mr. Cunningham, from the Decalogue " thou shalt not commit adul tery." " The King can de no wrong?" Tear, then, from the pages of the Holy Writ, the leaf on' which written—" Man shall cleave unto his wife,, and the twain shall be one flesh."—" The King can do no wrong ?" Proud Royalty, doff" thy tiara, . and produce thy patent of exemption from the law that " man is prone to evil as the Sparks fly upwards, and his heart deceitful above all things, and despe rately wicked.' 0 The King can do no ?"--. Why, then;: did not the . First Charles carry his head) 'to the grave?--LA The King can sto no wrong? ' Why, thok•froes-net a:ciescaidant of loud James now rit npon.bur Thrtine ? But the King can do WTOW"... morally, if not politically ; and he who would deny it, be be Ckrgyman or layman, is guiltor of conduct destructive of the interests of the Kias and injurious to the rights of the people. The King; indeed. nvir here not be answerable for conduct which . he think it proper to pursue—hut a day will come when King and Peasant, Peer and Relate, shall appear to. gether—when whether the King . Englanteaa et cansot do wrong, shall be considered hef(sr; Lat BEING, who holds in his hand the standard o: trtrl and justice, and when the slippery or:it:urns of .1 ven. tongued Cunningham shall not add one cubit to Fs stature. Gentlemen, in this cause I hope every m an who loves liberty will unite to arrest the progress of tyranny—for when it shall have profaned the' mple .ofJtotice, it will not be Tong crc it de.troy the A liar (I Public . Liberty.—This speech was highly ap, landed. The Hey. Mr. BERGINER took that opportunity of withdrawing himself publicly from those stilt" swelled and blackened the ranks of her Majesty's persecutors—(Shouts of applause).--He felt no syrn pathy with the tools of power. True piety sickent...: 2 , at the hypocrisy that attempted to mask opplesda with the appearances of religion—( ;4pplausr).—lie begged leave to read, for their approbatiou, the A dress proposed to be presented to her Majesty ch.: Queen.—The Address was then reau. WooLEft next addressed •the )feeting, and ob. served that the people of this country v.-oti.d hear much, but the British lion when once roused wos not easilf quieted. He called on Ministers to roce. lea this—they :night pass the Bill, but, in spite of all their efforts, the Queen would still remain Queer in the hearts of the people, and she could not be torn from thence but at the risk of the safety of every 'regular establishMent in the country. The cry would run difough the land-- v' Strike the bright shield—let :he brave warriors bear; And, or for conquest, or for death prepare!" The Address was then agree.] to, and orde:ed to lie at various places for signaturui. The thanks of the Meetirrg were then vote.i to Sir. Alderman WOOD, for his upright, honest, and al.ier conduct, in assisting the Queen of Engiand. Mr. Alderman Vi . 0;13 presented hiansed to return thanks, but the arient and enthusiastic shout , of ap. plause, accompanie:l by wa , :ing of hats and hand kerchiefs, prevented the worthy Alderman'for several minutes from uttering a single.cspression. felt himself not entitled to such distinguished in irl s of respect for his conduct towards her NI rje,tr (Cries " You are!" ).-4:td any 07in... • Gentlennati been in .possession ofthelalqwiec4 ! e ich bad reached him, it was im . possibe Nava acted just as had done.. Tbe clikider of ate honest man, he could a.sare then,, was more ,le;:r to him than any title or honour that could becoalei red on him—(Great applause).—From pec uliar sources of informaiisin, though the-secret would, perha l p, ga to his grave with-him, be had incontestableseyi.:ence that a Conspiracy had been commenced, and carrying on. against her Majesty; even before .sheltad ever come to this country,.Or Lee's allied td Its SOvereign. No man, therefore, assured of this, ails* was, could 'leave acted differently. He was , happrtii says that he hidlesterday received letters'ilitint'd.relativelif. hi - , now employed on the:Continmt in the service of her Majesty, conveying intellited4 of the most satisfac • tory,nature. The pe.son to whom he bad allude,± had witteti ; to him ilithat Iran unreserved say in Which . a son ought to write Co a 'Alec; . 41 , 4 therefore his information was the more entitled to.arisdit, •The tenour . cf it was such as to shew -that it was iarpossible but the Queen must rise above the : foul charges im puted to her, in such a manner as to bring &wit de gradation and infamy on all her persecutors—(Loud applause).— A vote of hanks from so respectable or. Assembly, was an honour c which he should gratefully recollect as long as he lived—(Applause)." Sir GERARD NOEL propose,] a Vote of -Milks to the Chairman, which was carried unanimously. Mr. HOIMOOSE returned thanks. Mr. PEARSON proposed a Vote of Thanks to the, Committee, which was carried with applause; The Meeting adjourned at six o'clock. GLOUCESTER Made MEETING.—The Gloucester Grand Musical Fettival was attended by the Nobility, Gentry, and persons of distinction of the county, ail being anxious to give their sanction to so delightful a triennial jubilee, in which the most celebrated and eminent Professors were engaged, at a very consider. Able expense to the Stewards ; the distinguished cha racters, as well as the audiences generally, contributed liberally -to the collection:, for the laudable purpose of relieving the Widows and Orphans of deceased 'Clergymen.. At the head of the distinguished charac ters attached to the county, and the adjoining county, were the Duke and Duchess of BeAtifortritid daugh ters, Lord CALTHORPE, Mr. BRAGOR LIATIWRST, Mr. FOLEY, besides the Bishop of the Diocese, amid several dignified Clergy. BIRTHS. Friday, at Bourn Hall, Cambridgeshire, th e Cotintess De La 'arre, of a son. At Dover, the Lady of CaptainSiott,'Royal Artillery, of ago. Sept. 12, at Newhaven, Leith, the wife of Aiiiitenant-Colonel .00kson, of the Both Regiment, of a daughter. • Monday se:unight,' at Wickham, the Lady of Rear-Admir' l Giffard, of a son. • *Sept. 11, at Flemington, the Lady of Andrew Fraser, E+q• Fort Major of Fort George, of a son. • I MARRIED. Yesterday, at Mary-la-bonne New Church,' bfohe Rev. As thony Hinton, Vicar of Grandborough, Bucks, Mr. Joseph Robins, eldest son of Mr. Robins, of Warwick -street, Golden" square, to Marianne, eldest daughter of Mr. Lock, of the Edgware-road. Sept. 18, at Perth, Glass Sandeman, jun. Esq.-of Springland, to Margaret daughter of Dr. Stewart, of Bonskeid. At Chichester, Ili.: Pitt, pipe -maker, to Miss-Hesth, both of that city. The Lady sealed an eight-feet wall to avoid the rig lance of those w ho aimed to frustrate her object. • DIEM Lately, at the Parsonage,Beshill, Mrs. Schanmann, relict of the late Capt. Schaumann,King's6erman I..egion,who fell at Waterloo • Sept. IS, at . Kilmarnock, Mrs. Hamilton, wife of the Rev. Andrew Hamilton. Sept. ig,. at Dingwall, John Simson, Esq. writer there. Sept. 18, at Bumtsfield, near Edinburgh, Lieutenant Robert linesman - Scott, First Regiment, or Royal Scots. Sept. 13, Mr. Robert Blair, late Assistant-Surgeon in the Hoc. East-India Company's Service, Bcngal Establishment. RIG H-WATERat LONDON RRIDGR TO-MORROW Mc rains. - • - •27 minutes after 4 . Aftertiew - . z • •57 :IS - 4-0- !* . • LONDON hipirt marrlllisbed by LryttKom, rickey Place, Ten4le-Ilar. IN .r 1 die mai ad. T frun T ing T as al 71 NW berei 11 wain at is 11 beta *lto . Ai Fran► Peal caul avec T Pt tog ; - 1 G 2. •I hltr o sl at the 3. i tem . 4" _ _ Nano; amps .11*.1 *um tures c averib 11. - or the the 1111 G.Ay S Lon and aol