The National Register. — London, England, 1820-08-27 00:00:00

NORFOLK C )UNTY MEETLVG. On Saturday last, a meeting of the Noblemen, Clergy, Gentlemen, and Freeholders of the county of Norfolk, was held in the Nisi Prius Court of the Castle at Nor wich, in pursuance of a requisition transmitted to Geo. Samuel Ken, Esq. High Shirt-dot the county, requiring him to convene a county meeting, for the purpose of considering the propriety of petitioning Parliament to stay the pending proceedings against the Queen. At 12 o'clock the g ites of the Castle were thrown open, and the area of the Court was in an instant tilled to excess by the yeomen of the county. The bench, side seats, and table for counsel were crowded by the requi sitors and other gentlemen of rank and consideration in Norfolk. At half-past twelve o'clock the High Sheriff entered, accompanied by :Mr. Coke and Mr. Edmund W'odehousis (the members for the county), Lord Bury, the lion. Keppel, Gen. Walpole, Mr. Archdeacon Bathurst, Dr. Rigby, the Rev. Geo. Glover, and a con siderable number of other gentlemen of the first respecta bility. Mr. Wodehouse and Mr. Alderman Haney took their places in front of the grand jury gallery. General Vt i ALPOLR MIS then unattimously called to the chair. After s weral observations lie read the reso lutions, the chief of which were as follow : Resolved, That this meeting are by no means disposed at pre sent to give any opinion on, or to interfere in the question of, ths guilt or innocence of the Queen Consort, but deem it their duty as Englishmen to protest again-t any mode of proceeding with respect to an accused person in any rank of life where power and undue influence or any other cause is likely to affect the course of public justice. The xtl rewhition was merely declaratory of the nature and ob. ject of the pending bill of pains and penalties. 36. That " Acts of Parliament to inflict pains and penalties beyond or contrary to the common law, to serve a special pur pose, can never be warranted except by sonic imminent danger to the state, to be removed in no other way; because they enable the government to create an offence (where no legal offence ex isted before) to regulate the proof, to decide upon the evidence, and to apportion the punishment, and thus plainly to confound the executive, legislative, and judicial authorities, upon the sepa ration of which the liberty ant justice of die country depend. ' 4th. That the advisers of die Crown, having entered into a ne gotiation with the Queen Consort upon the subject of the present prosecution, have themselves thereby virtually admitted, that no such imminent danger to the state would accrue from net enter ing into an inquiry, which by their own acknowledgment " must be derogatory to tha dignity of the throne, and injurious to the interests of the nation. ' sth. That the said negotiation was entered into at the mediation of the House of Commons, but was rendered null and void, be cause Ministers would not advise the Crown to replace her Ma besty's name in the Liturgy, from which it h a d b een erase d efore any conviction of offence, and that upon the failure of negotiation, this bill of pains and penalties was brought in against the Queen. tith. That the bill aforesaid appears to have been brought into the House of Lords in consequence of a Report of a Secret Com mittee of the said House, nominated by Ministers; and that by this bill neither the ordinary course of law by impeachment, nor the analogy of British jurisprudence, has been followed. 7th. That the omission in the bill aforesaid of any specification of the time when, or the place where, the offence is alleged to have been committed, and the refusal of any list of witnesses, whereby the accused may be prepared with the means of a fair defence, is at variance with justice. 9th. That this meeting do therefore protest against the mode of proceeding by bill of pains and penalties against her Majesty Queen Caroline, and that a petition from this meeting against the said bill be presented to the Commons House of Parliament by T. W. Coke, Esq., and Edm. Wodeliouse, Esq., the Members for this county; and that they be and are hereby requested to support the said petition, and to oppose the bill of pains and penalties, should it unhap,tily pass on to the Commons House of Parliament. Mr. Archdeacon BATHURST rose to second the motion for their adoption, and was received with warm niatks of approbation. Toe CHAIRMAN then, in obedience to the usual course at pu tlic meetings, proceeded to put the resolutions aeriaii 4. Th • only hands held tip against the first resolution Were those of Mr. ‘Votlchotise, ALP., and M r. Alderman Nary y. The tumult excited by the silent opposition of those gentle nen was considerable, when Mr. Archde acon BATrIU RST interposed, and said that every gentleman had a right to act Upon his own opinion, and lie gave the g intlemen allotted to hill credit for their Illaniine!s. Thin sing as they did, they had a right to hold tip their hands against the resolution. (Applause.) Wish the exception of the two gentlemen we have name I, the whole of the resolutions passed unanimously. Worn the 9111 resolution was passed, Mr. CostE, M. P., came forward, and was received with the warmest greetings. He spoke as follows:—Mr. Chairin to and Gentle cu,—The rood situation I have the honour to hold, as one of your representauses, in duced time to attend this meeting (hear;) not, howevt r, with any intention of siting my opinion, one wa y it( another, upon the alleged conduct of the Queen, for in truth 1 know just as little of it as any one of you whom I now address. But I come lucre, in the first place, to return toy thanks to your worthy Iligh-Sheritt tor the ready inatmer in which he has convened this meet . and given you an opportunity of delivering your senti ments lolly and fairly (applatise)..--all opportunity which has lately been much curtailed. I art happy to have again the pleasure of addressims yi•ti, the first tome suttee the lute acts became law. (Great appiause ) The great quesiion in which yin feel so deep an ituerest is now oil trial before die House of Lords—a Ilnuse which long ago old Chatham styled " tile hospital for incurables." (Ap and ) Ti;; Viten is timv nn trial befor chat Hons.., which you w II recollect refitsed her a list of witnesses. (Hear.) Slte is now mi trial be Cure the persons who refused es en to tell purr tom the i dace where the act of adultery was alleged 10 have burn eOlll. Milted. (Hear.) I hays a right then 1(10,k oil . whether *he hi s ally reason to xlisct l justice oon that tribu sal ? ((•ries of No.) C.lll I look .I.r a better pros pect for her in another ! dare? (':in I look for it where I have daily witiiessed that a tattle and servile acquies cence to Nlittist cis is the order of the day —w lucre the representative body is hind to I etray the elective . Iran chive which you have committed to them ? Can the Queen, 1 :Ay, lave justice theiti 1 think not, as that THE NATIONAL REGISTER. place is at present constituted. (Hear.) This case of the Queen's ought not to he made a party tpaestion. I know inahy excellent and honourable men with whom I am under the necessity of differing upon general political • topics, yet whom I do not in their private relations the less iespect on Ihai :lemon. I love a little opposition; being lung engaged hi it myself, 1 eau easily allow a to others. (Applause and laughter.) It is not of the lair aud honourable differences of public limo that I coo plain; but it is of that corrupt and servile part of the Tories who live on the vitals of your industry. (Hear.) Is it likely, that after all that you have seen of the plots • of this party, of all their green bag schemes (loud laugh ter), that you can hod virtue in your Ministers? No in them you can see nothing but what is caleulated to ex cite your contempt. (Cheers.) A more contemptible, wicked, and insulting description of men does not exist than the present administration. (Reiterated applause.) This is not my Kerwin ()violin' of thettataken from late conduct. It is only a repetition of that which I have long entertained respecting them. I think with you that the mode of proceeding by which this trial la gnu tug oil mak es a mos t d a w e eroos, unjust, and Mel piece dent. These Ministers are men ton who wou ii give your motley away without teltictance; and to fellow would hey give it t To a woman whom they pronounced at the sauce inneneot to be a prostitute. (Hear, hear.) — To them it did not signify, so thet they could keep her away, and retain their own places. (Hear, hear.)) It was really most singular that such a cabinet could o so, and that one of the members should appear to concur in the measure, against a woman, described by himself to be " the grace, the life, the soul, and the ornament of polished eociety awl yet this cabinet member, with this knowledge of the lady, did not. refrain Irod becom- Me one of her arcuser... (Cries of 'shame!') In short, it is impossible to speak with patience of such a set of men—tney go backward and forwoids, betray their country, and plunge it deeper and deeper iu debt, cover it with SpieS, and send tneist all thtenigh the world, merely to retain their power. To suet' Men and to their system I ant a declared enemy. I have been so from the earliest period of iny life. To such cor rupt practices I have been ever hitstile•—us them vow an eternal hatred, and will carry it to my grave.— (Loud acciamations.)—The practice of such men is sub. versive of the Constitution as established at the Revo lution, and its only capability is an active operation of metchief. It ministers go on unheedingly in such a dis astrous career, they moot, and will meet with resistance; (applause Onid I sin ready to tell you, without hesitation, that such must be the state to which they will at last provoke the country. (Hear.) I am a man advanced in life, and who cannot now in the course of nature enjoy it much longer. It matters little how long I live; lily bite is of little value, but such as it is, it shall be devoted to the preservation of the liberties of my country ; and if ever so required, 1 shill be ready to lay it down for the service of that country. (Reiterated cheers.) — This is the hazardous state into which the present ad ministration have brought the country; and it is my firm conviction, that if such Ministers ate suffered to keep their places, this country 111119 t eventually become the scene of civil convulsion. (Hear, hear.) These are toy sentiments, and I have faithfully represented them to you. So long as you desire my services in Parliament, SO long mill they be devoted to your interests. (Cries of "We know it.") God knows 1 have no personal inch nation to remain in Parliament; my happiness is at home, mid those who know any inclinations need not be told that they coneentre in other pursuits than those wind] JII attendance upon Parliament furniehes. There will be those, I have no doubt, who will attribute these sentiments to a man whom they will say is an sdvocate for revolution. (Laughter.) Giacions God I in the proud situation in which I stand as your representative, with the possessions which Prot idence has unworthily be s-owed upo • me, ant 1 likely to be the advocate of rev°. lutitm? What can I derive from civil convulsion?— Who. Call the Noblemen and Gentlemen who think with me derive from commotion in society? (near. Hear hear, allll great applause.) We are not, eentletneu due advocates of revolution, but they are stain whose vt icked and tiesieuing measures distract the country, and leeve the people no hope of cabin deliverance. (Cheers.) I have nothiog nape to trouble you with, except that I snail be hippy to go up to London with your petition, and obey yens orders." (Repeated cheers and cries of • Wodehouse.") Mr. L. ooenouse came forward amidst much in ternapiion. Ire were soluble to hear distinctly wh it lie staid, but he opposed the principles of tile it:solutions and the olriect tat the nweting in Ado. Tie. Rev. G. (it oatea said, as he hail not the honour of having his name attached to the requtsition, he was afraid it would Iced: like presumption in lii in to offer any rent:irks, nurse especially alter the manly and open speech of door worhy and honourable Member, Mr. Cults—(Applause.)—lie could not begin better than in congratulating them 4/11 having a High Sherin who pos sessed constitutional keling enough to concede to the wishes of the v cry numerous and respectable body of men who bigoted due requisition. Our limits will not allow neaner is it possible to describe the foreible and do . petit manner in which the reverend gentleman depre cated the conduct of Nit:hiders, and the little regard they spew ler the safety of the Coostitution, in Winging for ward the Bill of Pai•is an • iknalties--" A Bill said the • reverend gentleman) neither authorizA by necessity, SallCliohed by expediency, nor Guided by justice."— I he 'cowed etentlemon said, he undeistood Mr. Wodeliouse siy,ll,! would not present the address. Nlr- Vf . ouEttousg Immediately called him to order, and Salt!, he opposed the first Ulla SCCOIIIi resolutiona because he :tett:eta the whole proceediugs 01 the day were impolitic and unnecessary. NI r. Cbovett explained, and retired amidst loud applause. Lord Bury, N. B. Palmer, Esq. and Coonsellor Elan ! paean, ;:;dr. stied the inecintg. The addrcs; vvei read and carried unanintottely. tig Thanks were then voted to the INis Saeriti and tit Chairman. Toanks were also voted to T. %V. Coke, El. for his attendance, and pronaiaed support to the adilress nt the !lonic of Commons; and to Mr. E. IVodettotsse, fur his constitutional attendance. We are obliged to abridge the proceedings of this meeting, in order to give our readers as enlarged au ac count as possible of the proceedings against her Majesty. FROM TUESDAY NIGII2"S GAZETTE. WHITEHALL, Aug. 21. The King has been pleased to recommend the Right Reverend Father in God William Bishop of Landaif to be ctio,en into the place of Dean of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, London ; and also to be elected and admitted into the place of Canon Re. sidentiary of the said Cathedral Church, the same being void by the translation of the Right Rev. Father in God Doctor George Tontline, late Bishop of Linailn. Dean and Cation Residentiary of the said Cathedral Church of St. Paul, to the See of Win chester. ;BANKRUPTS W. Payant, Manchester, wine Nterchant. Solicitors, Messrs Appleby and Serjeant, Gray's Inn Square. S. Warner, Ashtlird. Kent, ship owner. Sole. Mesas. Gri maldi and Stables, Copthall Court. W. Cowl, I.ark Hall, Cambridgeshire. dealer. Sols. Messrs. Toone and Monkhouse, Lincoln's Inn Fields. W. Scott, Liverpool. imen draper. Sole. Messes. Lowe and Bower, Southampton Buildings. Chancery Lane. J. Bennett, Chester, druggist. Sol. Mr. Battye, Chancery E. Eyes, Liverpool, dealer. Sob. Mews. Lowe and Cowbum, ENGLISII OPERA HOUSE. Uu Timisday night, line and Easy was performed before the new piece, Patent Seasons. The latter enter tainment is a witty attempt to repay the D. ury-latie Manager so me of his °Hence to the dignity of this minor 'Theatre, as the late proprietor of the Olympic has firmed it. It opens with au Address delivered by Aliss Kelly, en costume as the Comic Muse : its object is to contrast the advantages of small Theatres with the diffi ctiltois to ultiosh the larger noes subject the finer efforts of acting. 'Dien follows Harley, as the distressed ma itagiir of a Summer Theatre, discns•_itig, with happy luefultiess, the emptiness of the boxes, and the famine of the company. He is assailed by different performers for an account, if not of his receipts, of Its low spirits; and lie answ, rs them all by a lamentation that a Sut ttttt er Theatre is not a Winter Theatre, where a winter season has now included a snnttuer. He is visited by the Chorus, dressed as ilacitcaih's gaily, and leads them with a parody of their song :- 1 - lark . ! I hear no sound of coaches, " Tile D vil a one appro aches," Ile then bills asleep, talking of the good old time wiieu payers could keep hiemselves out of gaol, and dozes away. prollUtllleing the name of Garrick. The scene draws, and exhibits Garrick standing hetweeu Tragedy and Comedy, as in Reynold's picture. Garrick dq!scemis dad awakens the Manager, who does homa, e to the illustrious shade. But when he has time to recover his speech, he expresses his surprise that Garrick looks so tall. The part is played by Wrench. The words easily applied—•' Why I thought you tragedy chaps always ran short." Tnis, which produced much Clapping, was answered by " Tiley now run as long— or !Ley GPI!" Garrick proceeds in detail the contrivanci s necessary to popularity. It may be presumed that they ate not without reference to the present dispwation.—. " Take all opportunities of presenting yourself as a speechmaker benne the house." "But how shall I find occasion 2:' " Oh, nothing easier; send a check-taker to whistle among the gods, and then come forward, entreating the gentlemen in the two-shilling gallery to suffer you to address tile gentlemen in the one-shilling ; teach the audience criticism ; patronize them, &c. ; puff your performances till puffing falls sick under you; pm in your playbills a call for your tradesmens' accounts when they are riot due, that they may not be paid when they are ; stano et your pu-door with a stop watch, and check the time of every arrival. Extend your winter into summer, and triumph in the results of of you: expeirment to the dependents Ott the S ttttt titer Theatre. (It was in ntioned that those were l^,:a families.) Print your great actor's name in great cha racters. If you are poor, ridicule others as• being pour : and if you are deep, lay hard upon tut In for cult.iing, &c." All this was receive] with alternate hissing soul applause, as the Ricotta of tither Theatre happened to he iseculiarly touched. The last scene introduced an assemblage of the characters of the English Opera hear , ing ba ttttt •rs with the 114MCS of the principal perform ances, and final v joining in chorus. The piece is a mere builcsque ; lint , for one of its rapid preparation, it implies industry and ingenuity The present proceeditrs against her Majesty real to our mind a circumstance which happened a few years ago at Wigan, in Lancashire. A poor man, who was very obnoxious to the wealthier part of the population of that town, was tried at the Quarter Sessions tir a misdemeanour. After hearing evidence on both sides, and also a very leuruel and impartial summing up from the Chairman, the Jury were or dered to withdraw to consider of their verdict. After a quarter of an hour's coasultation they returned, and the Foreman (a tat substantial Baighcr) said, " Not tf he'll !crux Town." COPPER Misr.—About six months ago, a labourer employed in cutting a drain on the farm of Enrick. in Galloway, the proper:) , of Mr. Murray, of Broughton, discovered apparently a rich vein a copper ore. A short time afterwards the mine, was let to a company in Cornwall, who lately coin. menecd worLing with great spirit, and last week shippcd a cargo of ore (upwards of 40 tons) On hoard the sloop San/prof, 111. Llartellv, Cart - nat.:hen. 'hire.