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ruisance would be abated. and this would,. in its consequences of a change of measures, be productive of better times. Another effect cf such Resolutions rks the present would be, that if any other set of men came iato power, they tumid find that they could not act without the support of the People, and conse quently would adopt such measures as would be for the benefit of the People ; for in the present day, no men could gain or keep the confidence of the People, without a total change of tie present system. The Noble Lord (Ellenborough) had said, that the Meet ing should treat their Sovereign as they would treat any private Gentleman. Now, he did not see how the ob servation bore upon any part of the present proceed ings. He did not know the Sovereign in any of the late proceedings, in his personal character. He was the only person in the kingdom who was not responsible.' To Ministers, and to them alone, he looked for the re sponsibility attached to this measure—(Near, hear). But he would meet the wish of the Noble Lord by another ; and when he (Lord Ellenborough) said that • Ise wished the King should be treated as a private Gentleman, he (Mr. Bennett) would reply, that he would wish the Queen &mould be treated as any other Lady—(Hear, hear).—The Noble Lord had asked 'what had been done this Session ? He (Mr. Bennett) wqutd tell him, and he was glad that the country knew what was done. The House of Commons were occupied, day after day, for four or five hours, in reading and discussing the Petitions of the People, from every part of the countty-Petitions to which no attention whatevei had been' paid. On the con trary, a majority of one hundred Members voted ith Ministers, the other evening, on the question, which had been, be might say, in full accordance with those Petitions, which was, that the omission of her Majesty's name from the Liturgy was ill-ad vised and inexpedient; but, with all their majority, Ministers had not ventured to meet the question. fairly. They had not ventured to say that the mea sure was well-advised or expedient (even the Hon. Member for the County would not, he thought, go so far as to assert this): they bad not even met the l proposition with what was customary, where a direct negative was not intended, that was, by moving "the previous question," which was as much as to say— " Let us hear no mm e of this matter now"—(Hear, hear)—but they met the proposition with the ques tion of adjournment, which they at length carried, when it ..as almost full time to adjourn, at seven o'clock in the morning—(Lead nits pf Hear, hear). The Noble Lord who introduced the Resolutions, had very properly remarked on the want of economy and retrenchment in the present Ministers. That was a subject most iorportant for ;he consideration of the , country ; but ti.e prospect which they had of obtain ing it from the House of Commons might be judged of f orn this circumstance—that there were 72 or 73 of these Hun. Members who were kind enough to take office under Ministers, or in other words, to live upon the revenue of the country. From some docu ments to which he had referred, it appeared that there was divided between this number of Memt.ers a suns of mint le,s than from £170,000 to £lBO,OOO yearly. This, he thought, was about the sum; and what was the effect ? Why, that these 72 or 73 Members were dead votes to Government. They attended daily in the House, and gave their votes whenever they were asked by Ministers. Then, if a tax were proposed on malt, these 70 Gentlemen voted for it, because they were paid beforehand —( fkar; hear).—And thus it was that Minis ers carried their influence into every measure to such a degree, that unless there was almost a popular disturbance at the doors of the House, it was nearly hopeless that they would do their duty. Another fact which proved the immense influence of Ministers Was, the expense to which the country was put for the collection of the Revenue—an expense of £4,500,000, which was about as much as the whole of the Revenue in the commencement of the late reign. Who appointed the Collectors of the Reve nue? Why the House of Commons, in fact. Every man who gave his support to Ministers expected to have his shame in the nomination to such trusts in bis County. He remembered on one occasion, Mr. Can ning expressed his surprise that Mr. Wilberforce did not vote more frequently with Ministers, for that he was as frequent a solicitor of favours at the Treasury as any of those who were the constant supporters of Ministers. It was plain in short that the support thus given was not given for nothing, and no doubt those seventy Gentlemen of whom he had spoken were fully aware of this fact. They each had a share of the , atronage in the distribution of these £4,500,000. This secured their constant attendance, and what with this attendence and their constant visits to the Trea ury, he had no doubt that the other supporters of ti.e Government had hard work of it—(Hear and laughter). Was it then wonderful that their nume rous dependants should be afraid of, and of course opposed to, any change in the present system? The system " worked well" for them, but did it work well for the People? It worked thus for them for nearly fifty years; and if he were disposed to go into detail, he could shew who they were, that had been the plunderers of the People—(Hear, hear, hear). — Now, he asked, who could put an end to this system? He would say, it was the People, who, by Addresses and Petitions from their several counties, might at length succeed in turning out those men by whom this system was carried on, and who in turn rooked to it for their support. The Noble Lord (Ellenbo rough) had objected to the attention paid by Parlia ment to the subject of the Queen. He (Mr. Bennett) maintained that this was their duty. It was their duty to consider it first ; for, in doing so, they were only attending so tar to the prayers and wishes of the People of the whole country. It was their duty, as an act of justice to an accused individual. It was their duty to bring content where there was discon tent, to produce ease where there had only been heartburnings, to bring comfort to every man's fire side, which had been disturbed on this subject. He thought that the attention of Parliameut ought to be given to it as an act of justice; as a legal act, he would not now discuss it, but as a question of policy, he was prepared to contend that the case of her 'Majesty ought Co have been more attentively considered. She was a woman who had almost the whole of her life since she came to this country been the subject of . periecutiou—(Hear, hear). — He was old enough to renleniber the first coming of her Majesty to this country; 'full *of youth, and beauty, and grace. He remembered how she was received with the fond Admiration of the whole king . . . . dom. He saw her in that time of her prosperity. He was present at her marriage; and he remembered and that - scaicely had a year elapsed after thai seem ingly prosperous period, when she was driven from home, with her infant at her breast—(gear ' hear)— bereft of that kind protection to which she h ad before so much reason to look for support. She afterwards became the object of a party, who sought, by her means, to get into power; but as soon as the old King, her revered protector, had ceased to exercise the functions of Royalty, and that power was placed in the hands of her husband, her old friends turned roqpd upon her, and they who in 1806 had declared the charges which had been brought against her to be false and scandalous, sought out among the re cords of that same charge, and in 1813 produced a Report founded upon extracts from it, on which they attempted to ground the separation of the mother, from the child. They all knew what followed; it was unnecessary for him to describe it. A Bill of Pains and Penalties was introduced against her, supported on such testimony as had already disgusted the whole country. In conclusion, the Honourable Gentleman observed, that he fully concurred in the Resolutions, even if they were to have only the effect of turning out the present Ministers—a circumstance which he doubted, as it had been somewhere not inaptly ob served, climbing was made in the attitude of crawling, and he had little doubt that if thellouse of Commons came to a vote that her Masty should be restored to all her privileges, Lord Liverpo o l would be one of the first to acquiesce in it—( termitudioie of the Hon. Gentleman's speech was followed by loud cheers). The HIGH SHERIF! said, that no man Lad less dis position than be to interrupt any Gentleman who was addressing the Meeting. He had, in consequence, abstained from remarking on an observation which had fallen from the Hon. Gentleman who spoke last— an observation that had, no doubt, escaped him in the heat of discussion—but which it was his (the High Sheriff's) duty, as presiding Officer, not to allow to pass unnoticed. The Hon. Gentleman bad said, that no hope of a remedy could be expected from Ministers or Parliament, unless the People be came disorderly. Now these words be conceived to be highly disorderly in themselves. Mr. BENNETT replied, in explanation, that the worthy High Sheri ff must have mistaken his words. The words he had used were, that it was necessary that the People should be almost disorderly to pro duce the change to which he had alluded. So far was he from countenancing anything like disorder or tumult on the part of the People, that he hoped every man who heard him, every man in the country who valued what the Ministers had left of the Consti tution, would contrive to let all his actions be guided by the strictest attention both to order and good conduct—(Hear, hear). The HIGH SHERIF! said, the disavowal of the Hen. Gentleman of the words which he had mistaken was fully sufficient. Mr. MABERLY supported the Resolutions. The Honourable Gentleman adverted to the financial em barrassments of the country, to the want of economy which prevailed in the whole system of conducting the Government, and expressed his conviction that I.:3,000,000 might be annually saved to the country. He concluded by congratulating the Meeting upon the pledge given by the Noble Lord (EUenborough), that he would bear testimony to the respectability, and exemplary conduct of the Meeting, and assure the House, that, at least, this County Meeting was not a farce. Sir W. Da CRESPIONT, in able and energetic language, supported the Resolutions. In the course of his speech he remarked strongly on the conduct of the Duke of Wellington, in having called County Meetings afarce, and appealed for the best refutation of such a calumny to the good sense and manly pro priety of the Meeting before him. i I Lord ELLINEOROUGH rose to explain the language of the Noble Duke : he said, that it had been mis stated ; that his expressions did not apply to County Meetings in general, nor yet to the Meeting of Hamp shire atter it had taken place, but only to what teas expected to occur at that Meeting, when it was sup posed that only one side would be heard !—(Loud laughter). Sir T. TURTON spoke against the Resolutions ; but though occasional disapprobation was expressed, he was heard throughout with patience, if not with good humour. He followed nearly the same line of argu ment as that pursued by Lord Ellen borough. He sat down without having apparently convinced one of the Freeholders of the propriety of adopting his opinions. Mr. DENISON commented with much severity upon the injustice to which her Majesty had been ex posed, by being brought to trial by an ex post facto law, which was contrary to every principle of the British Constitution. The Noble Lord had asked how the restoration of her Majesty's name to the Liturgy could operate to the benefit of the country ; whether it would enable the farmer to pay his rent, or the ma nufacturer to set his looms at work ? He would tell the Noble Lord how it would operate to the benefit of the country. It would restore tranquillity to the country, and enable the House of Commons to enter Upon the consideration of its great interests, and take such measures as were calculated to give activity to commerce, and revive the agriculture of the country. Mr. HOLME SUMNER congratulated the Meeting upon the order with which its proceedings had been conducted. It was matter of extreme gratification to him, that, with a single exception, his public con duct had uniformly met with the approbation of his constituents. It had been said, that the opinion of Pailiament did not, upon a late occasion, coincide with the opinion of the People, but he (Mr. H. Sum ner) conscientiouly believed that it did—(Cris of No). He then proceeded to explain his conduct with re spect to his observations on the Queen. He acknow ledged that he did, in the House of Commons the other night, express his belief, that the Queen had been found guilty—(Loud groans). He proceeded to speak of the 123 Lords who had voted for the se cond reading of the Bill, and asked, if the witnesses against her Majesty had been perjured, why Majoc chi and the rest had not been detained in the coun try and prosecuted for perjury? He said, that when he moved £30,000 as an Amendment to the £50,000 proposed to the Queen, he did so under the convic tion that a greet part of her income was diverted, by those who surrounded her •to the support of clamour and sedition—(Cries of dhanse, shame). He said, he thought it his duty to state so, though he knew be should staid there condemned—(Cries 9j" You pre-I LONDON. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1821. PRICE or STOCKS THIS DAY AT OHS O'CLOCK Bank Stock 229 4-3 per Cent. Reduced 73* 3 per Cent. Cons. 72i I 173i-3i per Cent. 82 I 4 per Cent. 90i 9111-3 per Cent. Navy 106 i Long Annuities 18 13-18 19—Imperial 3 per Cent. —. Exchequer Bills 6s. ss. 7s. pre.—Onutium 61. Cons. for Account 72f 73i. The report gains much strength in the City, that the Kiwo has graciously declared his intention of complying with the wishes of his People, for the restoration of her MAJErry's name to the Liturgy. Yesterday there was an exhibition of a Wellington farce at Epsom, in consequence of a Requisition to the Mott SHERIFF. The company, including the performers and audience, composed of the Nobility, Clergy, and Freeholders of Surrey, was the greatest ever witnessed in that county, and the finale such as will long be remembered by the supporters of the present Ministers, especially in their measures against the Qunmr. Mr. HOLM& SUMNER will be able to bear testimony, if necessary, that these farces, how. ever much Ministers may dislike them, may be yet very instructive. It would have been long, probably, before he learned as much in the House of Commons, as he did from an honest Surrey Freeholder, who said he should be very sorry to follow the example set by the Hon. Gentleman in judging of the Quaaw, for he had often heard' many reports by no means to his advantage. We hope this display of generosity will not be thrown away on the Honourable Gentleman, and that he will now allow that all reports are not necessarily true. The Paris Papers of Wednesday arrived at a late lour this forenoon. Three more petards have been secretly exploded in different- parts of Paris, but nobody has been arrested, nor any one hurt. This can - scarcely' now be regarded as news, and there is no other.—The per Cents. Tuesday, 82 fr. 15 c. New York Papers arrived this morning to the 16th January.—An article, quoted froms Philadelphia Paper of the 9th of January, states, that the Spanish Treaty had been that day received there by the Spanish Con su l, an d was to be ins mediately forwarded to Washington. The latest accounts in then Papers rezpecting the Chilian Ex pedition only come down to the landing at Pisco, and, of coune, throw no light on the report of Lima having fallen. The following Is the Mcial Report of the captures made by the Patriots “ At Cuenca, Santa Martha, and the different forts on the road leading from the former to the latter, in the ae7l6tWon the 10th of November, fought by the division of the Republican army :-18 batteries, 173 pieces of cannon, S cannonades, 6 howitzers, 8,942 cannon-balls, 821 grenades, 4,881 charges of , grape-shot, 1,571 charges of powder, 887 muskets, 21,530 bail cartridges, 116,300 balls, 40,000 flints, 60 pair of pistols, 2.50 1 lances, 7 quintals of powder, 37 quintals of lead, 5 gun-boats,' 47 merebant-boats. (Slimed) BURDETT O'CONNER, Chief of the General &at” COURT OF KING'S BENCH. THZ KING 10. SIR FRANC!: The Lord Chief Justice Aaaorr siderable length, the opinion of Scarlea's motion for an arrest of case, and applying the precedent Horne, and quoting Lord Chief able argument in that case, which stated applied strongly to the Mr. Scarlett's argument, and declares forded no ground for arresting judi being sufficient as it stood to prove ant wrote the libel of attd concerning went, as charged in the information. The Court then proceeded with (For further proceedings, see below) SASH LIBEL AGAINST THZ NOSE QUEEN. Mr. SCARLEIT rose to move for mation against three persons,named' and Arrowsmith, who ate the Publishers of a Paper called The Learned Counsel said that thing but what his affidavits contained, suppress his feelings of indignation them. The first affidavit was from Lesley, Bart. of the County of that, in the year 1795, he married Caroline Bennet, daughter of the - of Tankerville, by whom he had Ave sons and five daughters of whom In 1818, to his deep anguish, his' six weeks after being in child-bed,: by affliction at her loss, followed . grave, attended by his three elder participated in his affliction. Sir his full confidence in the honour, fidelity of his departed wife, and ear with which he heard that her basely assailed in a public Newspaper, which he well knew was without the tion. The nest affidavit was from kerville, which reiterated all the , which she, in common with her son.. entertained for her lamented dangly she equally considered as above rei family were equally shocked at the tations cast on her memory. The that Lady Caroline was born in 1 Sir John Wrottesley in 1795. Mr. SCARLILTT also read affil Ossulston and the Hon. H. G. Bennett in Court), the brothers of the Lady. - their astonishment at this base cal mented sister. The Learned Cow affidavits, stating that the Newl was industriously thrown in the ketville and Wrottesley families, gratuitously circulated at W: where Lady Tankerville lived ; in where her Lord lived ; and in Sir John Wrottesley lived.—Mr. , state to the Court, that he had a coi made before the Lord Mayer, by ants, which stated that 10,000 col containing this libel had been the country. Chief Justice ASZOTTYOtI ha \ terms of the libel. Mr. SCARLET? replied, that the most base and unfounded.calumny sued from a perverted and slanderous or thinking it was acting, under authority. It was contained in ' Paper, called John Bull, under the Visitors: The libel was full cious and inveterate imputations jesty the Queen ; but of that, bowery him to complain ; that was rather King's Attorney-General to take trey-General, who sat next to Mr. his bead, and a general smile spread Mr. Scarlet then read she libel, staoce, that Lady Tankerville and Hon. H. G. Bennett were amongst tors, which Lady Tankerville was which Mr. Bennett was the brother tesley, who had been detected in with her menial servant ! Mr. ' needed no argument to chew the famous and slanderous libel mil against the dead as well as the live • The CHIEF JUSTICE perfectly Scarlet on that point, and said motion, he need not say one word his Rule. • LIEEL AGAINST TUE Mr. BROS/GUAM rose to move f( cause why a criminal information against the Rev. R. Blacow, M.A. ing circumstances. He 'noted it A. Miller, of Liverpool, who swore Pamphlet from a Bookseller in thP " A Sermon, preached at the Cht. Liverpool, on Sunday Roening, the with additional Notes, and an Append: the Radical Question." Mr. Baum passages from the Sermon, which disgusting character, and spoke ofher , , nut directly by name, but in such terms application in the closest mariner) sive and indelicate, that we cannot lumns with the expressions. The Court instantly granted the vented Mr. BROUGMAM from midi extracts from the Pamphlet. JUDGMENT ON SIR FRANCIS At a quarter before two o'clock GENERAL prayed the judgment of Francis Burdett, who had just then Mr. SCARLETT then put in a 'oh. affidavits, in mitigation of punishment. of those affidavits are read, and for the Crown heard in reply, judgment may not be propounced Mr For Naval lotelltgaisee, andosbor ardcka, LoN au! Panted and publialid by Lzut Place, Temptable:, hvv,rpt H en:.thth — tiidaceu T oheudifeit tl igv:ronithered,iusentte : Lort,zonstad. of Justice de Gee , present, °ge nt. declared t h at judgment, th e .111 nye that cerning th e , don. with other busing utu). sit.zre warns() for a criminal tedWeae ot , e registered :ailed Joh* ; 11 1 t he sho u ld a w l . 48 '' etained, and .„ ration while h e , N tom Sir Joh w, Stafford, sh o st tied the Roo, TTi le Earl and ad fourteen - en whom mean • its beloved wile ,a ,andhe,ov vl her remains b ler sons, who ' Sir John thee 4 ur, the chastity, tOT d described 1 1: tr character had spaper, in a : the slightest I the Countess se proofs of sonsinslaw, 5a L ighter, whose .. reproach, and the atrocious'. The Countess . 1772, and maned ffi davits from , nnett (who were iy, alike ez calumny on their unsel also read.. wspaper in •: Ile way of the I es, and that d Walton sous „ -• in Northu... • Staffordshire, a r. Scarlett halal • copy of an , • I . y one of the copies of the . A circulated . have not stated he libel contaimi 1 nny that had ere' derous Press, ler the protectin No. 5, of a R•• :he head of " Qati ins against agai the nst most ha twever, it was ather matter fa re up.,—[The • Scarlett, held read over the C.OO , which was in and the wifeci ;st her Majesty's ras the mother, 'ler of Lady C W • a a criminal Scarlett said, y he. Court than eel might he zi living. ly agreed with that, respecting 0 word more, bat ' A t queen. for a Rule to in should not be.' A. under the . 1 . 1 it on the Affidavit swore he booghe that hurh t v o -" ' the 26th Ippendis, Devi% 1.143}1A1l read s eh were of the . fherMajesty terms as to point.„,' r) in nsnot pt the :geuurlmnaet:nsysanoaarfc:lo::,. sidi :IS BURDZIT. anent. • ve nfoit the voluminous the uenei t sm h eitim e ei C ngur A eo o hdus a ttbsi ll :Tt buo;:ris oa who ll. tbs sr : d this Term snicks, got 41.1 I r LEVEL Kim, too it. !judged -t le Queen, =" You shall ',suer again be cif County Member"). He concluded by saysng, !het he was sure a year would not pasrover their heads be fore they would say, as in the case of the Property Tax, Mr. Sumner is right—(Cries tfußreer, sever' anti great disapprobatiox). A. plain-looking freeholder, whose name we un derstood to be WILD, addressed the Meeting from the middle of the crowd, with much energy and con siderable humour. He arraigned the conduct of Mr. Holme Sumner through the whole course of his pub lic career. His attack upon the Queen, he said, was founded only upon hearsay and were he to resort to hearsay evidence, he assured the Meeting that he bad heard a great deal to the disadvantage of the Ho nourable Gentleman—(Laughter). The HIGH SHBRIFF said, that as all the Gentle men who wished to address the Meeting, seemed now to have delivered their sentiments, he would proceed to put the Resolutions. As none but freeholders, however, had a right to vote on this occasion, he had to request that all those persons who were not free holders would retire to a short distance, so as to give an opportunity of fairly and accurately ascertaining the sentiments of that Meeting, which, in strictness, was the only part legally assembled. A considerable number of persons who were not Freeholders of the County, immediately retired with the utmost order, and without exhibiting the slightest mark of reluctance or dissatisfaction. The HIGH SHERIFF then put the Amendment, which WAS negatived by an immense majority, there being only five or six hands held up in its favour. The Resolutions were then put and carried by a similar majority. Mr. WEIR WESTERN proposed Petitions to both Houses of Parliament, founded upon the Resolutions, which were seconded by Mr. HARE TOWNSEND, and declared by the HIGH SHERIFF to be carried unani mously; but it being remarked that a single hand was held up by a person seated in a chaise, the Mon SHERIFF formally announced the minority of one, observing, that in declaring the unanimity of the Meeting, he meant no injustice to the individual in the chaise. After the Resolutions and Petition had been put and carried, Mr. MACDONALD rose to move the assembly to express their opinions on the conduct of their consti tuents. He was introducing his motion by an elo quent and energetic speech, when The Hion SHERIFF interrupted him, and objected fo the motion, as not being in conformity with the letter or spirit of the Requisition. Mr. MACDONALD resumed his observations at some length, and concluded by observing, that if the Meet ing could not express directly their opinion of one of their constituents, they could at least intimate it by their silence respecting him ; and be therefore moved that the Petition be entrusted to the care of Mr, Denison alone. Mr. Houtz Suunza remonstrated at some length, that the opinion of one ' comparatively unknown to the freeholders, should be taken in preference to their own opinion of his conduct, which was proved by having twice chosen him as their Representative.— The motion was, however, carried by acclamations ; as was a second motion, that the Petition to the House of Lords should be presented by Lord KING. The Meeting was then dissolved about six o'clock. THE EVENING STAR.