The National Register. — London, England, 1820-08-21 00:00:00

• ..~+ V 2 Voci*Mcrtpt- COUNTY OF NORFOLK MEETING. '' e t 7 LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 21. Three oldock, p. m. Ott Saturday last, a meetii:g of the Noblemen. Clergy, Gentlemen, and Freeholders of the county of Norfolk, as us held in the Nisi l'rius Court of the Castle at NM' in pursuance of a requisition transiati led to Geo. Samuel Kett, E-q. High Sherd; of the county, requiring hint to convene a county meeting, fur the purpose (1i considering the propriety of pe toiling Parliament to ray the pending proceedings against the Queen. At 12 o'clock the pies of the Castle were thrown open, and the area of the Coma was in an instant filled to excess by the yeomen of the county. The bench, side seats, and table for counsel were crowded Is; the requi sitors and other gentlemen of rank and consideration in Norfolk. At half-past t‘velve o'clock the High Sheriff court 1, accompanied Itv r. Coke and Mr. Edmund IVodehouse (the members for toe county), Lord Miry, t've lion. Kennel, Gen. Walpole, Ur. Archdeacon Bathurst, Dr. Rigby, the Ht v. Geo. Glover, and a con siderable number of other gentlemen of the first respects bili:y. Mr. I'Voilehotise and r. Alderman Harvey took their places in front of die grand jury gallery. Getietal WaLpot.e was then unanimously called to the chair. Alit r s veral observatiosis lie read the it:bo - the chief of which were as folirov : Resolved, That this meeting are by no means-dispose - it at pre sent to give any opinion on, or to interfere in the question of, the guilt or mnocence of the Queen Comort, but deem it their duty as Englishmen to protest again t any mode of ptoceeding with respect to an accused person in any rank of life where power and un - me influence or tiny other cause is likely to affect the course of public justice. The 161 resobition was merely declaratory of the nature and ob ject of the pending bill of pains and petialti?s. Sd. 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 some imminent danger to the sire, to be removed in no other way; because they enable tie government to create an offmre (where no legal offence ex it e%. liefo.e) to regulate Cie proof. to decide upon the evidence, wit! to apportion the pumsliment, and thus plainly to confound ti:e executive. legislative, and judicial authorities, upon the ser ration of whicii tie liberty ant justice of the country depend. 4.11. 'lbw the advisers of the Crown, having entered into a ne iation with the given Cotaratt upon the subject of the present reeution, have themselves thercuy virtually admitted, that no such imminent danger to the state would accrue from not enter ing into an inquiry, which by their own acknowledgment " must be derogetory to the 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 Houseof Coninioi,... but was rendered null and void, be cause Ministers would not advise the Crown to replace her Ma• jesty's name in the Liturgy, from w hich it had been erased . lictore any conviction of offence, and that upon the failure of negotiation, the bill of paint and penalties was bought in against the Queen. Gth. That the bill aforesaid appears to have been brought into the lIGUSC of Lords in consequence of a Retort of a Secret Corn. niittce of the said House, nominated by Ministers; and that by this bid neither the ordinary course of law by impeachment, nor the analogy of British jui imprudence, has been followed. 7th. That the omission in the bill afure-aid of any . specifitation of the time when, or the place where, the °fleece is alleged to have been committed, and the refusal of any hit of witnesses, whet Lby the accused may be prepared with the means of a fair defence, is at tariance with jeLtice. St h. 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 ft om this meeting against the said bill be presented to the Cotillions House of Parliament by T. IV. Coke, Esq., and Eiliti. Wodebouse, Esq., the Members fur this county; and that they be r.nd are limo) , requested to support the said petition, and to oppose the bill or prns and penalties, should it ticLapptly paa, on to the Commons House of Parliament. Mr. Archdeacon BATHURST rose to second the motion for their adoption, and was received with warm minks or approbation. The CHAIRMAN then, in obedience to the usual course at public itiocutigs, priicectled to put the resolutions I The only hands held up against the first resolution hi :re those of Mr. Worldloose, M.P., and Mr. A idernian H.lrvey. The tumult excited by the silent opposition of those gentlemen was considerable, when Mr. Arclideacoil BATHU PST interposed, and said that every gentleman Lad a right to art upon his own opinion, and he gave the gentlemen alluded to full credit for their manliness. 'Thinking as toey did, they had a right to hold up their hunds against the resolution. (Appianse.) With the exception of the 1510 gentlemen we have 031iicd, the whole of the resollllllollS passed unanimous/Ir. When the gtit rt-solution was passed, Mr-Core, M.P., caul.; forward, and was received with the warmest greetings. He spoke as liillowst—Mr. Chairmen and Gentlemen,—The proud situation I have the honour to hold, as one of your representatives, in duced me to ahemd this ineetuig (near;) out, however, with any intention of ghing my opinion, one way Of another, upon the alleged conduct 01 the Queen, fur in truth 1 know Just as little of it as any title of you whom I now address. But I Collie here, in the first place, to return my thanks to your worthy Iligli-Shelifr tar the r...ady 11141HW in which lie has cooveited this 'timing, situ gismo you an opportunity of delivering your n.i mews hilly and fairly (applause)—au opportunity which has lately b+-en mucii clowned. I ant happy to have aoaiu tsie pleasure of adt:ressisiA you, the first nine since the late acts t•eisaine lase. (Great applause ) The great q.,eNtion 1,1 whseii you fed so deep an I,iler,t4 In now Ott t I 141 before the 'loose of Lords—a House ago old thatli.ii.l styled " toe hospiirl fur incurables. ( Applause and laubi.t r ) The Q..eeti is how tin trial txfore. that Ho,,se, which you w II recollect refosi d tier a list of witnesses. (Ifear•) Slle is How on tr.al bickire one persons who refused mien to tell Iter even ine place 5-here the act of adultery its atieged to hate oe..i, cow r.,sited (Hear.) I have J rigl.t tilClt to ask you wbettier Pt . -14 b at: . I L.4.1(11 • w tXpN.A 11(.11s.11 J:...t .'7c thirst .:.. \ THE NATIONAL REGISTER. tribunal ? (Cries of No.) Can I look for a better pros 'ec lug her in another place? Can 1 look for it where I have daily witnessed that a tame and servile acquies ceoce to Mn titters ers is the order of the day—where the repteseinative lardy is found to betray the eleeth c fran chise which you have committed to them ? Can the Qtseen, 1 say, have justice 'beret I think not, as that piece is at present constituted. (Hear ) 'ltsia case of the Queen's ought nut to he made a party question. I know many excellent and hottottraale men with whom I ant under the necessity of ililferitig upon general political topics, vet whom f do not ire their 'private relations the less tespeet on that account. I lose a little apposition; living low engaged in it myself, I can easily allow it to others. (Applause and laughter.) It is not of the fair and honourable differences of public men that I corn plain; but it is of that corrupt and servile part of the [caries who live on the vitals of your industry. (Hear.) Is it likely, that after all that you hat e seen of the plots of this party, of all their green has schemes (loud laugh ter), that you can find virtue in your Ministers? No in them you can see nothist4 but what is calculated to ex cite your contempt. (Cheers.) A more contemptible, wicked, and insulting description Of men clues not exist than the present administration. (Reiterated applause.) This is not my present opinion of them taken from late conduct. It is only a repetition of that which I have lung entertained respecting them. I think with von that the mode of proceeding by which this trial is gOO% on makes a most dangerous, unjust., and cruel prece dent, These Ministers are men too who wooed Kite your money away without reluctance; and to whom would they give it? To a woman wl hey pronounced at the same momatit to he a prostitute (Hear, hear.) — To them it did not signify, so that they could keep her away, and retain their own places. (Hear, hear.) It W.,5 really most singular that such a cabinet could do so, and that one of the members should appear to concur in the measure, against a woman, described by himself to be " the gtace, the lint, the soul, and the ornament of polished society;' and vet this cabinet member, with this knowledge of the lady, did not refrain from becom ing one of her accusers. (Cries of .‘ shame I ') In short, it Is impossible to speak with patience of such a set of men—ploy go backward and forwaids, betray their country, and plunge it deeper and deeper in dein, cover it win' sties, an.l *lid them all through the world. merely to retain ilk ir power. To such melt and to their system lam a declared enemy. I hat e been an Iron ate earliest vernal of my lite. To such cor ny!. practices I bate beet' ever hostile-10 them vow au eternal haired, and will carry it in my grave.— (I,rit i d aCCiaitiatious.)—The practice of such loth i, sub versive 01 the Constitution as established at the Revo lution, and its only capiabiiity is an active operation of utitchiel. If mumblers go on rinheediugly in such a dis astrous career, they must, and will meet with resistance ; (applause Oink; I am ready to tell yon, %% idiom he•itation, that such most be the state to which they will at last prt.s,,ke the country. (Hear.) I am a Man inlVa:Meti in I.fe, and who cannot 110 W io the course of nature e joy it inuch longer. It matters little how long I live; any life is of little value, but such as it is, it snail be devoted tome preservation of the liberties of iny coootry ; and if ever so required, 1 sit .11 be neatly to lay it (lown for the sett ice in that country. (B:iterated cheers.) — This 11, the hazardous state into w hien the present ad tomistiation have brought the country; and it is Inv firm conviction, that if such Ministers ate suKred to keep their places, this 'enmity must eventually become the scene of civil convulsion. (Hear, hear.) These are my sentiments, and I litre faithfully represented them to you. Su /Glig as you desire toy services in Parliament, so long shall they be devoted to your interests. (Cries of "We know it.") God knows I have no personal inch • nation to retrain in Parliament; my happiness is at home, and those who know my inclinations need not he told that they concentre in other pursuits than those which an attendance upon Parliament furnishes. There will be those, I have no doubt, wi.o will attribute these soritiments to a man NA holit uicy w , ll say is an sdvorate for revolution. (Laughter.) Gen:ions Goo I in the proud snuatton to which I Noon as your representative, With the possessions tv mem Prot idence has unworthily be sowed upon me, am I likely to be the advocate of revo lution? What can I dente from civil coils ulsion ? Wild( can the Noblenieti and Gentlemen who think with me derive from commotion in society? (Bear, Hear herr, and-great applause.) We are not, gentlemen the advocates of revolatio.., but lit-y are such whose wicket! and designing noel-sines illstratt the count r, , ano leave the people no hope oh calm deliverance. (Cbeeus.) I hat e mole to you witit, except that 1 boat; tet li.ippy to go op to London will, your petition, and obey orders.' (I(cetened careers and cries of Wodeliouse.") Mr. IiVODISMOOSE amidst much interruption opposed the priciple voting the rrtgilutitials. lie deplored the pro pagation of such a sentiment as was implied in the rest,- Itatious, and In which he tiever woola concur 'tamely, that there w 45 maths' - honour iu the Peera, nor honour in the Commons. He disclaimed any intention 01 disrecpetwo the meeting by this opposition. Mr. E. VVoneatotratt spoke against toe object and proceedings of the meeting amid considerable inter roptiots. The Rev. Mr. G s oVER, in a speech of great eloquence' supported the resolutions. Speaking of the omission of her Majesty's nano: in die Liturgy, he contended that the Cab:net had no such power, for the Act of Confor mity could never have intended that the Cabioet should sit lii judgment upon the private conduct or moral con dition of princes lettore they ordered them to be prayed for ( 5 4 1 c regret that Want Of room prevents its from 'gamine the apeeclots of the other gentlemen who ad dressed the titectuig.i A petition, immoral on the resolutions, teas ordered to be presented to toe Ilini.e of Contour:ls by y the Malty it'lslllerS• Alter %Inoue nialoi,p .110 Mr. Coke, Mr. stte er i e h em , e . and the at.-nit, the treeing in,. pereeel. • .~::~. _ • , R .t • *,.," . . - 4 NVEW'S. Corers, AUGuST 15.—Arrived the Integrity and Zephyt transports, with the gd Veteran Battalion, from Portsmouth. ABI:ItUELN, AUGUST 15.—Arrived the St. Andrew. New ton, from Greenland, with 13 fish. WHITBY, AUGUST 18.—Arrived the Elizabeth, of Hull. from Greenland, with it fish, ISO tuns of oil. ULL, AUGUST 18.—Arrived the Prince of Brazil, Tod, from Greenland, with 86 fish, 330 butts; the Elizabeth, Col gulioun, from ditto, with 10 fish, 150 tuns, is in sight. NASSAU. J uNE 28.—The Enterprise, Blain, from Jamaica for London, was cast away on the uth inst. on the French Keys. The crew remained on the wreck ten days without seeing any vessel pass, when the mate, Mr. Young, was dispatched in one of the boats to Crooked Island, where he found the sloop Maria, Bitty, of this port, taking in salt; the Maria went to the wreck, Mr. Young having been absent three days, but found no person there; it is supposed the Captain (Blain) and the crew have gone to Cuba; the ship was full of water, and the whole of the sugar, upwards of 4455 hogsheads, was lost. The Maria saved about 28 puncheons of rum, mike, sails,riggiog, &c. with which she arrived here on Monday. The Chevy Chace, Johnson, arrited in the River fl'om Domi. nica, sailed id ult. and on the 23d, in lat. 3b. long 50. saw !bur sail, and was brought to by a brig, which chased under English colours, then hoisted Spanish, and afterwards the Patriot flag, and informed that the vessels in sight were two brigs, and a ship deeply laden, which she had captured the day before. The pri vattxtr wished to put two or three Spanish gentlemen passengers on board the Chevy Chace, but the master declinat receiving them. SHOCKING ACCIDENT - Tharsday morning, about ten o'clock, a melancholy •iceident happened at the building now making for the new im provements in Swallow Street. As several nevi. gators were at work, in the employ of Mr. Green, and about clearing the rubbish in wheelbarrows along some planks placed under an old wall, about 20 feet in height, and upwards of 40 in length, situated at the back of a timber merchant's yard. opposite Swallow Street, the whole unfortunately fell down on a sudden, with a tremendous crash westward. At the time the dreadful catastrophe occurred, three of the poor fellows employed, were under the wall, and instantly enveloped in the midst of its ruins ; a fourth person very providentially escaped a similar disaster whilst carrying a basket full of dust, on the platform, which was knocked off his shonlders by the falling of some bricks from the wall, when he instantly let go his hold and ran away. An immediate search was made after the three unhappy aufferers, who they succeded in ex. tricating from their perilous situation in a few minutes. They presented a spectacle truly indis cribablc ; their heads were literally dashed to pieces, and their bodies appeared so dreadfully mangled that every person shuddered who had an opportu nity of seeing them. The bodies were conveyed to the Sudlers' Arms public-house, in Swallow Street, opposite to where the accident occurred, and from thence in separate shells to St. James's Infirmary, in Poland Street, to await the decision of the Coro. ner's Jury. On Wednesday morning three small gun-boats were moored in front of Cotton-yard, where the Italian witnesses are lodged. Men from the Dock yard at Woolwich, were employed in them, fitting up the frame-work, or stem-platform, on which the guns are placed. A strong guard of artillery, escort• ing five waggons with ammunition, arrived in town the same evening, from Woolwich, and depo sited a part of their load in the Mews, and the remainder in the barracks at Knightsbridge- Several of the Fair Sex applied at the Town-hall, Sheffield, since Wednesday last, for the purpose of signing the address to the Queen, but were intim - mil by the persons in attendance, that it would be both irregular, inconsistent, and indecorous to comply wit' their request. Zittbe. At °Afield lodge, Reading, the lady of James 0. Murdoch. eq. of • dauetder. At I Ile let Lambeth. Mrs. Wm. Ileseltiste, SOH. 1,14.. e, Mamas, ut a S.aught.. s. 1 t,ekle), at the Lase, of a dau410,3 IParriro. At All Saints, Hertford, ii. T. Jewett. cm. of Liverpool, In 7tilss Er duklua, only danKliter of the Itev. f. W. Franklin. of Ile uwt J. AI Camber well, I. Mdoey, vim. to isebaridas, eldest damOter of the late It. HsrveiS, es y of Sl:impel taw Modillesea. At ,t. Friday state', A. W. 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