The National Register. — London, England, 1815-03-12 00:00:00

11,111C11 12. ESCAPE OF . The serond Representative of ' I,i4Constitnents and Gaolers at , o cape from the King's Bench. This event is supposed to have taken pl ace last Monday night, though it was not discovered till li•st Thursday morning that the Noble Lord had absconded. Im vlt.(batcly upon missing their prisoner, there was a meeting of the and his Assistants. by whom Mr. Butt,,a Mr. Prescott, and 1 0:1 Cochrane's servant, were examined. The latter had not seen Didster since nine o'clock on Monday evening. It is generally supposed by the officers of the place, that by lb, kip of ropes. and a sailor's activity, his Lordship pawed front the part of the prison called the State House to the wall s and let bim &elf down from thence to the ground. He had it seems been in dulged with the lilies ty of going to the top of the faiiilding, in order to make experiments on his lamps, the improvement in which ap. 'w are(' to he a principal amusement with the fugitive Lord. Friday morning a regular but inefiectnal much was made through out the prison. Hi. period of imprisoumerit would expire in June, an d his circumstances are understood to be sufficiently ample ,to ren:ler the fine, which is 10001. no ohject. Under these cireum oat; ces his motives are apparently nnaccountable ; but his friends who have been in the habit of visiting him, say, be has freqheittly dedared in the most solemn mamier that he never would pay yte• tine ; an•l that it was also his determination to quit the country. Mr. Jones, the Marshal, says it is impossible. his Lordship could have escaped m er flue walls, that be must have gone out at thedoors in disguise'. Mr. Jones went to the Committee or the House of Commons, and to the Secretary of State. and it is believed be will advertise a reward for discovering his Lordship. • I ESTMINSTER MEETING. Tuesday one of the most numerous Meetings perhaps ever known in Westminster, was held iii Palace yard. for the peirpo4 of taking into consideration the effect of • the Corn Bill how blifore Parlia ment. _ _ At one o'clock Mr. Morris the High Bailiff; stated the purpose for which the Alerting was called, and exhorted them to order. • Mr. STuttelt began by apologiribg for his coming forward to address them on the present occasion. He allinleit 'in terms of eammendation, to the manner in which the subject -had been'inen tinned in the House of Lards by Earl Stanhope. He thought he might safely describe the:measure nhw cireryintthrongb the 'House ut Commons as a bold and daring , attempt to impose on the Whole population of Great Britain and Ireland•of 6d. for each quartern That (applause). It was introduced by the landed ioereats, solely and entirely with a view to keep up their iestits, which the extraordinary circumstance, of the'late war had raised to ati emir. :nous height (applause) They found that it would be impossible for them to lower their rents without, at the mete% time, diminishing their establishments—He knew of one estate in Cambridgeshire ;et at 1.;;001. a year - not long ago; which Was now let at 7,000/. a Year; and: he, knew of an estate which had been purchased at `40,000/. for which the purchaser 'got 80,0001. ; because tlfose 'purchasers,' and 11 those who had any concern with and, had been disappointed in their views, where they now to conic vs Inning to Parliahtent, and we have made a had apecidation, and we call upon you to help us out \sill) We may toll . them, that they suffer from their own folly, but it is really too notch to astl., that the people of England should lie starved •for it (land applause). It had been said in the House over the way last night, that the object of the Bill was to maxe corn cheap. Now this was really so insulting to the common :•ease of the people of England, that if it had not been said 'by men who were in the habit of canny -, one another by the appishation of ) , / , m9hralife Genitor/co, one would he disposed 'to call 'them either roots or something worse. A whining and most hypocritical cry had Leen set op by a number of Irish Afethhers in the House of Commons, on behalf of th e p oor l a b ourer s i n I re l an d. H e k new per f ee tly we ll Meat the warmth displayed by the land-owners of Ireland on this ueeasion arose, not From any regard to the poor people, but a regard far themselves. lie had been over the greatest part of Ireland, am) he coi:LI safely say, that the laod-owners there took more care of their ilogs,thait they did of the poor . (loud applause). Ile coocluded with aoving a series of Resolutions which lie read over to them. • • Major CARTWRIGHTseconcied the Resolutions.- Mr. Alderman WOOD began .atiMist loud Applause to address the Meeting. He knew that land in Suffolk and Norfolk had risen of lite enormously; but were They now to be told, that because the purchasers could not now' get per cent. on their purchases, their 'sere therefore to take 0 per cent. out of the pockets of the English . v, ohm heart! _ neverxtuar up fled on them b that wer no; _ svoold have .....egisletuto told that .they ought to do their duty, and endeavour to fall upon wean. to see. that bread should net be improperly raised to the people.. He could tell them that we ball somewhere in this island triter of up.; wards of 80,00 acres, whirls, if brought into eultisatiois, would Ike &nod sufficient to make up any defaeiency of focal tu this eot.o ry; in years of scarcity, The eppositioss to this measure in the Hte.se• of Commons would have no effect; it had, indeed, increased ,* bot there could be no hope that it would increase to a istmstser able to throw out the Bill, lie would, take the present oppuitunity telling them how Ta.ndon was situated in repasd to provisioss,. In Cornwall and Devonshire, white wheat and floor w ere ilisPerta' from the Isle of Wight awl from lfrattee. the price is a.s effiesidet ably higher than in London ; awl yet isi London the Nice of the qa.trteru loaf was three halfpence higher than in those districts: Something; ought to be done on this suh.tert by the Legislature. Ttsere was great mass of poor people ,n L. salon; and though wages weret higher here titan in the country, ytt evely thing, it was well known„, was higher also than in the count y ; rents were three tines higher., The landlords, independently of the Legislature. eould do something. themselves—they could lower their rents (applause!) lit Ireland ' s for instance, on the return of peace, cattle, atter beiug le through... -111 e winter, not only did not pay for their feeding, but fell to a lower, , . price than before the winter. This ought properly to he considered. by the landlord. And here, as so much had been said aht,ut Ile" land, lie would only tell them that iii Irekind the poor did Not eat any bread at all; he had been over as,d over most parts of that country. and he had Meted hut:died• of cottages; and flow his own,. knowledge, he cauui d that in many later tracts of twid the poor, ate nothing but potatoes It had nut clime been usual to refuse this Royal Assent, and methods hall been devised of stopping Billitite their progress through iefie or other of the two Hos t iles; bust still, they bad all of them the power of - addressitig the Prince Regent." and he had no less the power, by the Constitution, of redwing Iws assent to the (applause). But be beskeehed than, whatever they did; to do it by pe'ition aitd remonstrance ; altd they rest assured that redress would come sooner or later; for no power could resist the tostaniinons Vbice of a great people (loud .applastac). The Resolutions were then pot, aufk severally carried ottani mon?ly. • Mr. STURCH then read the draft of the Petition, which was also agreed to unanimously. and it was ordered that Lord Grenville be requested to present the Petition to *lie House of Lords, and ain't Sir F. Burdett be requested to present the Petition to the House of Common.. Sir F. ItynneTT came forward amidst a torrent of applause. He declared, that highly gratified es he had always kit at mee , ing any part of the popnlation of these kingdonig. amid more partieul.irly at meeting his •Fonktitnents, tl.e Electors at %Vestminster. he had never experienced such gratification as that which he now felt _at witness ing the most crowded assemblage of tl.e people of this great city, which, in'XII probability, bail ever been cong , eg tied together He conkssedthat he felt himself rather in-a new situatoin, •ditferitg as he did, in a great measure, from the sentilreasts 01 those around line, and with whom it was his happiness, on almost every other subject, to coincide. Important, however, as the sobjeet on which they nein now assembled was eSICCARA sky many. lie must be fortgreo for goyim!. that, to his mind, compare it with souse other subjects to which the attention of the people of this country might lie sot fully and properly directed, it was light and inconsiderable. The meeting, would have observed that he held tor his hand in favour of only one of the Resolutions—namely, that Resolution which was. descriptive of the constitution of the Assembly over the way. iVith• out a reform in that Assembly, it was its vain for the topple of this . country to thick that they'cuald expect any thing limn leetitioning v b e u been attending them. He was aware that he had exposed himself to scprobatton , and to the censure of those wko thought that be ought is) ha attending the debates of the House to which hr had allotted , did not like to attend mock debates, where he tyas (-retain lee could do no good. What utility could' there be in his to the proceedings of nu ******** Chamber of Taxation, w Inch had usurped to itself the right* of the people, and together with them, e ve ry. other right, legislative. judicial. and executive. He could regard it in other light than as a Chamber of Taxation—a Registry for re. cording l'ax Edicts? %Vital. therefore, the publie if this country. ought to apply r, what they hada right to, and without which flier • ought on no account to be satisfied, was a Reform in that Howe. This they had as great a right to as the King had to his Crow's. *w it h ou t re p rescu t i nion the people could have uo tight to sabwit to THE NATIONAL RP.GISTER. 171. LORD COCIIRANE. • i r t n i e a i b artl i oin e ) e ? 1 . Sla w nv . o . f th t nt e s;llo had iv re ' vc i r le ;:te ji i i i7: .o Parlio. of Westminster bas. it seems, gives Meld to be rett.ved limn the migetY Veitikiled ihrtu 1 ).! war at once the flip. He has made his (cries Dino; no!) He wonld have the JLegislistine told that .thoy, -'irt+ ~.~ f' RE - 10 - ~~~dt~e~~C :x# ' ~,.:~_ viii