Star. — London, England, 1821-01-05 00:00:00

FURTIIIIWPARTICUIAIML Yesterday a Meeting of tht Parishioners of tom bola a district containing the Urged population of the Metropolis, was held at the Horns tavern, Ken nington, in pursuance of a Requisition, signed by-the principal Gentlemen of the garish, and presented to , the Churchwordens, requesting they would take the sense of the iithabitants, at a Public - Meeting, upon the propriety and necessity of praying his Majesty to dismiss from his Councils :for ever his present Mi nisters. The Requisition submitted a variety of topics fur consideration. It comprehended a Petition to the House of Commons,- praying for a Reform in Parliament, and arraigning, in strong- and expressive Lentil, the whole internal end external policy of the present Administration—their establishment , abroad of a ,eg Holy Alliance," to 'stifle the complaints and wants of the people pf the Continent.; and their con temptuous indtifbrfnce at home to the distresses Of the people, vihost expression of sentiment they had repressed, either by open violence (in allusion to the Manchester affair), or by coercive and unconstitu tional laws. As the former Meeting in this parish to congratulate the Queen on the failure of the machi nations of her Majesty's enemies took place immedi ately on the clo s e of the prosecution, and was on that account considered premature by some Gentlemen, a Congratulatory Address was now recommended, to bey Majesty, for the purpose of gratifying those who, for the reason already mentioned - , had not tome forward at the former Meeting, accompanied by a declaratory Resolution explanatory of the reason of the second Address, as the former had been signed by 8,000 inhabitants. This Requisition was signed by . Mr. SLADE, who is one of the oldest end most respectable inhabitants of the parish, by Mr. WILLIAMS, M.P. and a num• ber of other Gentlemen of raolcastd fortune who reside in the district. The ChorChwardens eonvened the Meeting, and Mr. Nost.s, the principal Churchwarden, took the Chair at twelve o'clock. He opened the business of the Meeting by reading the Requisition, and express. ing the proper sense of his duty which he entertained in giving the principal inhabitants of the parish, when ewer they called upon him, an opportunity of ex pressing their sentiments upon public questions. He hoped that every Gentleman who addressed the .Meet-- ing would tontine himself Within the tents of the Reqnisition--llfeerl) Mr. SLADE came forward, and was received with loud applause. lie said that ht felt; in common with the whole people of this country, the importance of coming to some full expression of the public senti ment at the present crisis. A series of Resolutions had been prepared, which he should at the outset wish to have I erni to the Meeting as a whole, to en able them the better to understand the views of the Requisitionist's who had promoted this Meeting : This being done, the Resolutions *mild in succession be put in the ordinary way, by suelt . Gentlemen as should thiuk proper to propose them, and in the regular course they would be open to objection, if any there was. The framers of the Resolutions .courted publi city and invited discassioo--4iimr, drew!) Colonel Swam then read the series of Resolutions, and the Petition and Address, which detailed and elucidated the objects set forth in the Requisition. Mr. iiiti t t.lastv,. M. p. , ; s aid, he was roessested,to move the opening frookition. , Rieke he did .se, he was auroras rostrum his tbaoksto the worthy Chair imen tor the proper manner in which he bad et. optics* in the revisit ear:wood in the Raquisitirett Of saute of the hillehitantor-(4pprcoM)-.and thus giving this greatand attentive - Parish an Opportunity Of moresing tit - sentiments on the present mornen• tails Site of the toulttrl. Ind coneerieg thent both terse suvere4n and to the House of cern:bons. It was more ineunsbent on them to come forward fey snob a purpose at a great Public Meeting like the Deseret, because they were not iguorcat that certain (litratlenten hid clandestinely adopyed what wire termed " Loyal akddrestessi losigh)i..mud issued thesn.as if the, had really emanated from large bodies of theiohabitenti of the Parish7-(lidie, Berl,)-.. 1441 now called upon 1.11050 gentlemen, if,any of them were present, to come forward boldly, face their fel lew-parislsioors, and state their -reasons/or having taken a clandes* coursert-Orear, Jeatjj...Lep th et a come for ward and support, by fair and ra. Coital discussien., the cows) wideh : they bad pursued ...-44 ;nurse, in his opinion, moll hostile to the feil. ins and ,sentiments or their fellir.vflubjects,..-(Ap• p 444 ).. .. •-lie (Mr. Williams) cared little for party ; 1; . 0 was the advocate of full and treecijscussion, and the stead/ adherent 19 Findiple-,(iligileast).--The peed 9f his co nary was his sole ol.ject, and it was because he felt the most decided conviction that the present system of his Irijusty's Minister,s was calcu lated to terminate in the general ruin of the People, tbat he now came forward to oppose that system, and proclaim its inevitable and fatal tendency— (spir, trear. l ).,,,kie then entered into a general re. view of the conduct of the present Ministers, and particularly their late conduct to the Queen ; upon which he .pronounced, from beginning to end, the must unquallAed condemnation, He had no wish to. Irritate, but asAredly it could neither be blinked nor denied, that tae treatment of that Illustrious Lady had *en cruel beyOnd all precedent. Nothing was Mbri .revolting, than that the Queen should live bee; kept in Ignorance of the death of his late Pla jest* her stay and protector,(lrlear, Ara, I—Cor ren.onding with that act was the subsequent prose envoi:a:the amain,. in the.colieus shape of a Bill of lig . ps end 'POl:dies. In referriog to these tiaositc.. ttoqs it wasimpessible not to be struck with th e de raeltpar a her Majesty. It Was as high as it wet' ufthaitnple:l; and there was no instance an historY of sitar hbroism as .hbr Majesty displayed, iu throwing 1 . 4 n fielf upon the protectro Vi . the people of thi s coun try, in open deOance of the a palling threats othe r Wight? etieiniet-a-(Grec it t . iimuj.--Xri allusitin to i the Bill of Pains.and rra t ti r es, be knew not lame to eepreAs his sentiments upon a measure of such sisbepe, , If shop it ulair be mow, which shape had use tioinersisliabte iii tonne, form, o r lint!"-,( *, 'that Bill was an open violation of the best prmiei• plet.ofthe British Constitution, and equally subveo• silt of all the proper forms of private justice_ har!)..-,AWge hostile we' be to the scendaleas con duct per old throughout the proceedings by the Go. scsainent Press, ill their Aaily libels open the Quit tUrotigliout too trial...4lloo~H, thee cog betel the not oaahat her 3Lies: had not.hosiolompletely acquitted; be.-ause the House of - Vorffs had, by a majority of nine, read the Bill a third time ; and con- elected that the it b Majeky's . Ministers sheered their entire co snesrthat they had no ground to stand upon, to prosecuting the measure in the House of Commotts,,lf they believed the Queen gtiilty, they were tie* to send the Bill to' - the Commons. Upon no sti#position; therefore, but the Queen's innocence, could they stand justified in abandoning their Bill--(Applause).—On the sub ject of what was called the " Loyal Declarations," he must say, that whatever might have been deemed the designs of the Radicals, as certain persons had been called, nothing could be More fatal to the Con 'stitution than the system proceeded upon so long by Ministers: their measures had more undermined the peace and Aecurity of the country, than any which had been attempted hy the most evil-midded men, who were charged with sedition and blasphemy. He , saw, therefore, no hope for the country, except for the dismissal from power. Of those men whose Item.- tunate councils in the administration of the - affairs of the country had been productiveof so much Calamity. On the subject of !Worm in Parliament it became every man now to speak out. The Reform which he desired was, in the first instance, what was called an Economical Reform ; and, when he used that term, he-could not but remember the failure of Mr. Burke's celebrated Bill, whieh, it was said, would render, in Attune,. all profligate expenditure impossi ble. Unhappily, that had not been the ease; for the real evil would be found in the intpethet state of the representation of the' People in the House of Com mons—j'Airgaure).--If that . House -eeatained men who were, as they ought to be, the organs of the public sentiments; there would then be that due-con trail of the oritioneloxperidieure, which would pre- vent a bad Minister from having the means of cx tehding the baneful sources of corruption in the man ner in which they were at present- spread over the fate of. the country--f neer)....-:-Vntil there was a suitable Reform in the House dl Commons, there was no hope for thecountty sfor et rail that desipitble event took place, the Public had not that security for the management of their most important and es sential affairs that the Constitution warranted them , in having. The Hon. Member concluded by pro , posing the first Resolution, and repeating his hope that, if any Loyal Addressers (as they termed them selves were in the rank they would now come , forward, and meet, in fair argument, their fellow ' parishioners--(Appkese). Mr. SLADE, in seanding this motion, repeated the challenge of his Hon. Friend to the " Loyal Ad vdressers," and inquired how it was possible for these 'Gentlemen to charge their fellow-parishioners with inattention to religion, when, within a very short period, they_ had voted the building . of four new Churches, at an expense of .'.60,000 ?- -(Appleuse).— With respect to the morals of the People, he was one of those who always thought tint the morals of a country in no wall degree depended upon the ex 'ample of their Government-•-(Hear).—lt would not, perhaps, be necessary for him to enter into particu lars; -though he could not refrain from saying, that he feared the Coort of England had not, for some years past, set the best example in morals that might" have been sat to the People of the country at large (arate r haer).-e-The Addressers, instead of calling themselves simply " Loyal," should have added the term Ministerial," whieh world have been, 'he thought, a-better destriptiott if their charatter and abject—(glean,-1t was not, he thought, very deco rous for persons who met tlandestinely—as the "Jolla Addressers' bad met-.-to Impugn the loyalty and 4haracter of the great body of the People. If they• thought the latter wrong, why not tome for ward and confute them at the groat -Public Meetings which were now holding in veelous parts of the rout try?-o(fieer).-i-:indeed, in times of real immorality there was no want of ultra -loyalists ; for they were found in abundance during the profligate reign of Charles U. when suds writers eaßtichester, Hobbes, Spinosa, Collins, and men of similar principles were patronised. lie disliked appealing on all occasions to the staong hand of the law, to put down any opi nions by force-4Near).-•?It wat • the duty of the' Clergy, who participated eo largely in the bounties. Of the Crown, to combat the 'Stets aintlelity. It was their duty to argue down hod principles, or at least to make the attempt with real seal and ability, rather than to call en a too-grilling Government to put down the liberty of the Press, that great pane.' distin of publictreedom. Public opinion was not to . be put down breach means, riot by a standing army viGreat a , pplinae). The first !resolution was carried unanimously. Colemel SLAWS then moved the second, which re. commended the immediate restoration of the Queen's: same to the Liturgy. Mr. SOUOLTss, In seconding this Resolution, tot. tended, that-the act of striking but the Queen's name' from the Liturgy, in the , manlier in which it had been done, wits illegal, and would filially become cognizable before a Jury of Unglishmen—Vireat applaute).—lle would thew this by the law of the case as derivablefrdm the 'Statute s end also by the Canons of the Church. ire held in hit hand the first Edition of the Book of Common Prayer, after the Act of Uniformity had passed. ThiS Prayer had in fact been : . ,previously regulated by the Lett of the Id and $d of Edward VL the ash and 6th of Elisabeth, and the 13th and 14th Cherie IL The early Acts lie had quoted, particularly those of Elistbeth, en joined that all Parsons theuld be bound to say and sing the Faun of Prayet in the order and manner in which it was then frained i tinder a heavy penalty in Lase of a &patter, from that form stitheett " lawful authority." Then came Ow Att of Uniformity in the time of Charles 11. efintained a clause, ttill imposing the istayy petialty, if a Clergyeran t in tinging or reading the Prayer ) idtorad departed from eke words in Abe boob *idlest lawful ay.' ihority:" This 1;1%411 authority was said icy. Gibson' sad Ratite to be tibia in the Klag_sad Council: but by the Act of the it,thalienry VHC c. 19, no' eltetetiwititiold Wts plat bes es to teak the penalty, isnlessit wets made by the Ringsn Osundi, and at coding to the litatatt law. This was laid down in Gate, Raymond, Hawkins, and other law iuthmities. Now eine Canon l aw was not ;story upon a sub'est of those realms, inks" where E .rer ie with the &state or the Commbn so h e wee dm fee memo itt - tbealoinrat glillallibtot thilk the tellipadblt Owe be merely.aescahe nameitithe,persont signation ef wfaile such rank , existed the country. 4lt wisaear ,that 'Ohristian name might be altered in the. Liturgy, but he denied that ithe• Game of an 'office like that ,of the Queen could be . altered by the mere dictum of the king or of the Archbishop of Canterbury. if there be a Queen, her name must be stated in the Liturgy ; he had seen the names of two Queens (Dowager and Consort) in the Liturgy; and if the .pffices east, they could not be altered .without lawful authority. Now what tvas lawful authority? The Book of Coot:noir Prayer was " part and parcel of the law of . .England ; it was therefore of common lasSr, and sou d not be altered so as to expunge the names •of office, while that office subsisted, by any other antbdrity than one equal to itself, namely, the law—( Heir, hear). — The 56th Canon of the Chards 'was also conclusive Of the Ecclesiastical law of the ,Case; aud the Bishops must have forgotten it when they concurred in the late illegal act—(A lavh);—and every Clergy man who had so omitted her Majesty's .name, was ,liable to a prosecution for the penalty. He was happy to inform the Meeting that a Jury .would soon have to try the point—(Great applaase).--He con cluded by cordially seconding the motion, which was carried unanimously. Mr. AZRAHAM bloona, the distinguished Bar rister, rose to submit the third Resolution, which was declaratory of the necessity that existed for the dis missal of Ministers. He agreed - 'that much of the prevailing evil might be traced to the want of a Re form in Parliament, without -pinch it was clear there could be no adequate controul diner the management of the affairs of the country.4dinisters, as the House of Commoes was now constituted, could pass what- I ever measures they liked, and afterwards get an in demnity for the consequences—(hear!)—He refer red to the horrible transaction of the 16th of August, at Manchester, as a proof of the bad disposition of Ministers, and of the lengths which they were pre pared to go to stifle the expression of the public sen timent--(hear, hear !y—That act ought never to be forgiven them—(/lea , , hear!)—nor their base and unwarrantable use of spies to assist in getting up every species of plot—(ther, hear!)—Castle,, Oli ver, Pletcher, and such fellows, were let loose upon the People by men in power for the most infamous of purposes; and Castles in open Court confessed, that while paid and clothed by Mr. Stafford, of Row street, who acted under Lord Sidmouth, he had com mitted. overt acts of treason without consulting his confederates, whom, at the moment lie made the d;s closure, he was endeavouring to hang for his own acts—(Hear, hear!)—The Learned Gentleman then commented upon the foreign policy of his Majesty's Ministers, which he condemned as equally reprehen sible with their domestic policy, for they had incor porated themselves with a " Holy Alliance" of Des 7 pots, leagued for the suppression of public liberty wherever it reared its head.--(Hear, hear!)—lf the system of such men were not changed, there was no hope for the country—(Hear, hear!) Mr. THELWALL seconded the Resolution in an ela borate speech, in which he dwelt upon the power of the Press in a free country, and the invaluable ad- 1 vantamit gave the People, in laying before them the, reports of public events. It was against such a Press that the present Ministers and the Loyal Addressers' were leagued ; but he relied upon the spirit of the people ultimately defeating all the machinations of their powerful and remorseless oppressors. After some further obiervations from Mr. THEL WALL upon general political topics, the Resolution was carried, as well as others returning thanks to the Independent part of the Press, the Gentlemen who had promoted this Meeting, the Churchwardens who had convened it, &v. The Addritss to the King was also agreed to. The Petition to the House of Commons was ordered to be presented by Mr. Wactiads; and the Members for the 'county of Surrey were requested to support it. The Ad4ress to the Queen passed with equal IIELli•• raity,—the Meeting broke up at four o'clock. WiTT;NO AT TATTERS -444:S YET *DAY. 15 to '1 ocit Ogs?Om as to I &got tnidonee $4 01. opt. Charm 66 1 111 r. ' 16 . 0 I ajot.Votel 14 to I opt lock YO t 6.1 apt •Patato4 *A's to i asst 111 y Lady 7to apt Emily 7to 1 asst SOW to, Steekrap I 9to 1 apt Zeal tit! XILAYSINCIAIATOII.—A MILE 114 S MINI7TI3. Six to four the lian wins. SPORTING 14.14AAORDINA-Ilio-.—A match, which stands unprecedented in the annals of sporting, was decided in ;he Migh-street, Hammersmith, about theme c'elock last Monday afternoon :—A master baker, living in the town, had betted a gu i nea w i t h a oeighboat, that he and his mastiff would draw his bread barrow, with twenty quartern loaves in it, a mile and a half, and do the ground in less time than pay stag* 'owl that passed through the town (the baker to have his choice), between one and three o'clock, provided the horses did not break into a gal lop. The baker started against the last coach (the Blue-eyed Maid), to the infinite amusement of seer ral hundred spectators, and surprise of Jarvis, who was not in the secret, and who determined not to be beat by what he called an an and a dog, drove on furiously, but his horns invariably broke into a gal lop, when kr was requested to stop nod trot, that' being the terms of- the agreement. Me good-hu mouredly complied, but the ground 'which he so lost 'I 'enabled the baker to get so far a head, that coachee could not overtake him, and he finally travelled the ground in a mach shorter time, and won the wager. Tuesday morning, about nine o'clock, as the Bath mach was proceeding along the road to Slough, 'When at Colnbrook, the axle of the fore-wheels broke, by which accident ten outside passengers, and four inside, were more or less hurt. The coachman was taken up is a state of insensibility, and one Gentle man inside had his face cut, in consequence !if its being forced through the window; but, among the whole, no limbs were broken. Ptak 11111T114101tDISANT I--The auxiliary mail-coich front London to Exeter, was, on 'Wednesday, dis- Tvered to be on fire, ab out a m il e from Crewkerue. o such a height had it gat before it was discovered, that the bags, ac. were taken out, and forwarded to (Exeter by chaises, and the vehicle required many hdurslabour before it was considered fit for travelling. A kw dips sea s a poor w oman , I n the asighbotnhood of elltlOodargiot e left her child, about six months' old, in the cradl e , , tor the- trona* some out-door business, and on he; loam tbr ankat ta•pleats, and almost devoured by a prrokevs leG wkisbdpooor avenue betmered to pay hog mat. .~ar.~ 130%-1011•1111b1.1X4-suplioiition that-Mr.,C ' alus. i ronich Amhassador's ccutrier, was your three of the horse-patrol, uncle+ the au' le was a robber, is crroneouc There is patrol stationed on the Harrow-road„ank that even he.was off duty on tlie night in Yesterday, between one and two n'cingi Sir JOHN LAMURT was attacked .by numerous gangs of robbers which infest near the Crown and Anchor - Tavetn. gaug were observed to matt out Sir - Jot pet for plunder, by Captain CROsat.EY, wl to be passing at the time. Shortly - after, " Stop thief r was raised; but as. Sir Jul avocations to attend to, he was passing dering that he Lad anything to do with hearing it repeated, he looked round, ai morocco pocket-book in the hand of a instantly felt his pocket, when he mired pocket-book, -and then recognized the pocket-book in the hand of • a lathuring William Tucker, of Arundel-street, in the crossing fromPicketticreet, nearly op.. Crown and Anchor, when he saw two men Sir J. LAKIIIIRT, while onenf them took pocket-book out of his pocket, and pave companion, whose name proved to be " and the latter put this pocket-book ini Upon this, the act being so very glaring, seized hold of Carroll by the Says Mr. Tucker a blow with so couch violence, tl. 4 zi t loosened some of his teeth: Carroll, in consequence, escaped from Mr. Tucker, and ran dowu Milford lane. Mr. Tucker soon recovered himself, and /so ,. sued Carroll,. calling 4. Stop thiefl" and he was taken in Esses-street, when Owen Swaney, a hibouri n man, who had seen _Carroll running away, sliw Sr. JOMN Lauseafs pocket-book drop at the time. lig picked it up ; and on its being claimed by Sir Jolly, he delivered it to him : it contained a £5 Banker England note, and some papers. A constable wa s procured, and Carroll was brought to this Office, whence he was committed to take his trial at the en. suing Sessions. Sir JOHN LA masa! spoke very higEy of the conduct of Owen Swaney, and promised to re. ward him for his loss of time. MANSION-HOUSlL—Yesterdayo young Jew, named iresql, was brought up from the London Workhouse, under the folloniil circumstances :—The Stiperin• tendant of the Workhouse stated, that Woolf ap plied for relief at the RefuFe on Tuesday night, and appeared to suffer much from the inclemency of the weather and hunger. He seas received, and after having been suppiiel a i,b a meal, toi , k a comfort able station amongst the lieloless create: es there. Ile had not been long in the Asylum, , vlien in came a sea faring man, of decent appearance, mho 'said he had undergone the greatest hardships for the ILA six or seven dayi about town, in consequence of Jim). ' pointnier.t in two objects, to accomplish which he had come from Liverpool to London. The Superin- • tendant administered the necessary *chef to the un fortunate applicant, who had scarcely recovered from the state to which tho severity of the season had re- duced him, when he made a most extraordinary es- 7 hibition before all around him. He fixed his eye:* upon-Woolf, who seemed to shrink from - his giance,_ and, seising him by the breast, said, the jew was the man he had been so long looking for. The Jew es deavnured to extricate himself, denied that he knew anything of the complainant, and appeared as moth terrified as if he was in the grasp of a madman. In deed, the general belief was, that the complainant was a little troubled in the head; but he soon re- moved that suspicion, by producing a hand-bill, offer ing a reward of twenty guineas to the person who . should apprehend Woolf; of whose figure and dresa very particular account was given in the bill; is which it was stated, that the Jew had stolen a tinbor, containing money to the amount of 1:184., a Fret 'mason's certificate, &c. In ,the examination which tools place before the Lotto Stavnn, the complainant ; s, that he had come up to London with the vice • ocietting some prize-money, to which he had cow cetved htmselfentitled, as well as to look after Wool who had robbed a very intimate friend of the menu as stated in the hand:bill. He added, that be had zio A plied at the N'avy Office, where he found that thew WAS no prite-naoney due to him. After a search Cl some days, which proved ineffectual, his last hrthius . - disappeared, and he was reduced to the necessity of begging - aid of the Institution. The sailor was scot. to the Refuge, and the Jew to priton. GOILDHALL.—David Coffin was folly committeX . charged with uttering four forged notes, to )jr. . Haines, a butcher, in Fleet-market. The first* passed on the 28th ultimo, in payment for a piece.ef •, beef. On the 30th, he pasied a second, for another • piece of beef, and obtained change for a third, bi observing, that he wanted to purchase some trillins articles, and strangers did not like to give charge; and the same night he paid the fourth for some mho- : ton. On Monday' last, Mr. Haines p a id t h e m or Messrs. Jones, in Smithfield, and the next day then, were returned as forged. While Mr. Haines was the Bank, on Wednesday, the prisoner went mai.' and was taken into custody ; and in ping to the . Compter, a boy picked up another bad note, PP posed to have fallen from the prisoner. A Bank lan spector pronounced the notes to be forgeries, and the prisoner made no defence. MARRfV At Zdiaburgb, William Russell, Rs+ Advoeite, to Morgarots eldest daughter el C. F. Du Fresne, July 13, at Bombay, Lieutenant-Colonel Hunter Blair, nth Relent, to Um, eldest daughter of Thomas Morris, Sag. _ • DIED. Dec. 17; it Ayr,. Mrs. 11. Reid, relict of Major S. Dooliuks Monday,_ in Graftos4treet, Mary, the infant daughter of elf M. M. W. Ridley. .• Saturday se'nnigiit, at Alnwick, in consequence of a nail nolo ming into his foot while unpacking a hogshead of tobacco, wkich produced a locked-jaw, Mr. Gavin Landells, aged 43. • MALLS 1111111 alLt..-ERR. Dublin 0 . 1 Waterford 0 1 Guernsey sal Jersey • 1 Holland 0 3 Flanders . 1 0 Malts 0 0 AIL 11114 , ' Lisbbn 0 Franca 0 Hanaburgh 0 S Gauenburgh 0_ Leeward Wands 0 g HIGH-WATER at LONDON BRIDGE TOL i4OE ROW. Morning • - minutes ..ttet'S Aftetteon it 40N1PON irrlated and published trA . Tet/0,414, •ewc *pm, rock* RS wounded • prehension shi t is only a sif ) e t indit hap m ud In question. clokk, General ry one nf tbni e 'fest the 81-04 1 9 n. t Tosta, as an 4 ': r, who happe n ti tter, the. cry . 3 Jolts had tithe g on, act cot*. if th the try, and saw.a a stranger ; be •tl nired his own e red mortices ing man.. the Strand, was I Ipposite to th e men hustlinif • Dolt 4ir Josss rsavi it to his e Wtlljent C. into his pock et gig , Mr. Tun* I m when he gain A 'ioleoce, 0.4* ,n cunsequencs, ..4 down Milford-