The National Register. — London, England, 1820-12-10 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX MEETING. On Friday a meeting of the free-holders of the County of Middlesex took place at the Mermaid Tavern, Hack ney, pursuant to reintiaition, to take into consideration the propriety of a Petition to the King to dismiss his ministers, and an Address to the Queen, congratulating her on the defeat of the Bill. Mr. Sheriff WAITHMAN having taken the chair, read the requisition, and afterwards remarked, that though he had no right to take part in the proceedings, he doubted not that he should have reason to approve of what they resolved. In conclusion, he hoped that they would give every gentleman who might present himself a fair hearing. Mr. P. Mooaa observed, that he was one of those who had been instrumental in calling the meeting to Address the King to change that systent which had been so ruinous to the people. He was glad to see their worthy magistrate in the chair, for he was one who had done much to enlighten the public mind ; he had been greatly instrumental in making the sentiments of the City of London almost wholly in favour of the people. (Cheers.) He (Mr. Moore) had recently had opportu nity of speaking to them largely respecting Green Bags. Those filthy bags had been blown into air; not a vestige remained; but, he repeated, all had been done by the voice of the people.--(Applause.) He concluded with moving a resolution for an Address to the King to dis miss his ministers, who had sought to bring into con tempt the dignity of the crown. 1 he resolution was put and agreed to, Mr. Williams. the Parish-clerk, holding up his hand against it. Mr. P. Moortg then read the Address proposed for the adoption of the meeting. It was very long, and was drawn up with very great force and ability. Mr. H• es seconded the address. Mr.MILLS next appeared to propose another address by way of amendment, the foundation of which was to urge the necessity of Parliamentary Reform. When the address was concluded, there were some cries of— " too longl" Major CaturwarcruT seconded the amendment, be cause it adverted to that which would alone save the country. A change of men would do nothing—for Ministers were but the tools of the boroughtuongers.— . 0 - <A pplause.) Sir G. Non. spoke strongly in support of the intended Address. Mr. Biwa said, he could not advise his constituents to adopt Mr. Mill's Address, for it denied that the House of Commons constituted the " legal" representa tives of the people. (Much dissension.) The King could do no wrong. (Much laughter.) Tile Ministers were responsible. (Cheers) and he could not agree to any Address that contained what was personally offensive to the Monarch. Mr. Hunt: said the country had come to that crisis when the truth onOt to be spoken. (Cheers.) What was the state of the throne and of the country! Was not a change wanted? It was; but a chawe of system would only serve the country. He went all the length of the first Address; but, circumstanced as the country was, he did not think it went half far enough. A change of system would put an end to that time serving set of expedients whose rule now afflict the country. A change of measui es—not of men only—would satisfy the country. (Cheers.) Mr. linto observed, from what Mr. Home had said, he was muse convinced than ever of the iini , ropriety of the second Address. (Cries of No, no.) He was not stating their opinion, he was only expressing his own; but as to the second Address, he had no hesitation in asserting, that it contained what was very little short of treason. (A laugh, and cries of No.) He also thought the introduction of the Reform ; .uestion was injudicious; why not let that question stand alone, instead of bringing it in on all occasions. (Disapprobation.) Mr. WHITBREAD was of opinion that Mr. Moore's Address did nut go far enough "(Cheers) ; and on the other hand he disapproved of many expressions in the second Address. It would be better to refer Mr Mill's Address to a Committee to curtail it. He was not of opi nion with the Bishop of London, that on a moral question the King could do no wrong ; but he could not agree to an Address that contained expressions personally offensive to the Monarch. If such exceptions were made, he should approve of the second Address. He was of opinion that Reform was the ground-workof the whole. He thought that limiting but Reform would satisfy the country, and the late treatment of the Com mons had made many Reformers even in th.t House.— (Cheers.) He thought that the country would I.e justi fied in instructing their Representatives lint to consent to any further supplies till a redress of grievances was granted. (Loud cheers.) A Committee was appointed, at the suggestion of Mr. Whitbread, and they retired to" settle" the Petition for the rintg. ADDRESS TO THE QUEEN. Sir G. NosL, m the meantime, proposed that nn address be reunited to the Queen, wloch he reJ.—He then related a conversation lie had with a Fweign Baron, who stated that Baron Ompteda, lath iously to th. Nli lan Commission, was pour and penn)less; :Hal that when he died he was worth 50,000!. 1i tiro were true, saidt he Hon. Baronet there had been bribery by whole sale.—(Cheers.) Mr. WooLxn spoke in favorsr of the address. It had been said that the King could do no wrong. He had heard many speak of that maxim, but with very little vatisraction; however, Voltairte bad explained that the people meant by it that their King should not have the it ,, %t et. to do wrong.—(Applause.) As to the ministers, they were only to be attacked through their fears; ;inn 'hope ministers now got their tools to assert what they dared not to otter th:Auselves. He concluded with strongly urging, that the source of all evils was a want of worm. If the force of argument were applied to ar;..tintent of tones, laic people must eNc:;to.,lly tri- • THE NATIONALIREGISTE R. The address was pot and carried, Mr. Williams only holding up his hand against it, amidst the jeeriugs and hootings of the meeting. Mr. PEA ItBON moved, that Noblemen he directed to present the Address to the King, to his Majesty in per , son—he named the Dukes of Bedford and Leinster, and Lords Grey and Grosvenor, proposing that they be requested to present the Address to the King—(.Cheers.) They might direct the King's attention to the language of the address, and say—" These were once your Ma jesty's sentiments."—(Applanse). The Committee returned witlt the " settled" Address topic King, and it was read by Mr. Mills amidst the cheers of the meeting. Mr. Hume moved, that the address, as now prepared, be adopted by the meeting.--Agreed to. Mr. Pearson's motion was then adopted, several other Peers being added to the list. The Sheriffs were requested to attend on the Noble Lords with the Resolutions and Address. Mr. Sheriff Waithman observing, that they would attend on the Noblemen as early as possible. Thanks were voted to Alderman Wood, who returned his acknowledgment for the honour conferred on him. ' Thanks of the meeting were voted to her Majesty's Counsel—to Lady Ann Hamilton—to the Members of Parliament present—and to Messrs. Pearson, &c. for the activity displayed by them in exposing the placard conspiracy. Mr. PLARPON, in making his acknowledgments, observed, that the conspiracy was of a more extensive character than the public at present imagined ; to allude to the full extent of it indeed would hardly be safe. (Hear, hear.) This however he might say, that in the event of the Bill pas,ing the Lords, a placard was pre pared to be issued, calling on the people to rise in defence of the Queen. Had that taken place, the country might have been involved in the most appalling con• aims; and knowing what intentions existed, he was anxious, possibly prematurely so, to check soobaneful a conspiracy. He added, that three different indictments had been found—one for sedition, the second for conspi- I racy, and a third for treason ; and that the Grand Junes which returned those Bills " true Bills," did so on the same evidence 'hit was adduced in the House of Coin mons by Mr. Hume, and which evidence Lord Castle reagh pretended to think so little ol.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. Alderman WAITHMAN returned his acknowledg ments for thanks voted to him, and the meeting was then dissolved, but it was not till after five o'clock. The room continued crowded to the last. WESTMINSTER MEETING. On Wednesi!ay last there was a numerously attended Meeting (notwithstanding the unfavourable state of the weather) of the Inhabitants of Westminster, convened on Requisition, to take into t unsideeation the propriety of an Address to the Queen. Hustings were raised in Covent-garden Mnket at the end of King-street; and at one o'clock the business was begun. The High Bailiff (Arthur Morris, Esq.) appeared, and he was at tended by Sir F. Burdett, Mr. Hohhouse, Sir Gerald Nod, Mr. Bennet, Mr. Ellice, Mr. Gordon, &cc. Sir F. Bustriver looked uncommonly well, and he was greeted with the heartiest applause. Tue Requisthou having been read, and the Meeting regularly opened, Mr. GARDNER moved a series of Resolutions expres sive of the opinions of the Meeting respecting the late Bill, the triumph of the Queen, and the necessity of dismissing Ministers, and granting Reform. They wereagreed to, as was an Address to the Queen. Mr. GARDNER then read an Address to the King, praying his Majesty to dismiss his present Ministers ; and it was moved, that it should be presented by Lords Carnarvon, Erskine, and Grovesnor. Thanks were next voted to Westminster's worthy Re preseutatives, Sir F. Burdett and Mr. Hubhouse, aunt:st loud applause. Sir F. ButtnErr stepped forward amidst loud huzaas. He had attended, as it was his duty to do ; and he was thankful for the attention with which they had noticed him Ile was still proud of deeming himself " one of the people." Ile had boasted of that, and he continued to do so ; it gave him far greater satisfaction than could be derived from any distinctions that it was in the power of Princes to bestow. If any thing could increase the satisfaction which he felt in considering himself " one of the people," it won'd be the proud triumph which they had recently achieved in their able anti wise defence of the Itherties of the country, attacked in the person of her Majesty. Their conduct also, on the day when her Majesty went to St. Paul's presented a glint speciaole. When the Ministers had hope'l fur sortie scenes of riot or of folly, and when they had withdran at all those sectunies against tumult which they were sometimes so Mild of displaying, the people of this great metropolis displayed that iinilo,lll4 Sight of a peo ple who knew bow to triumph without committing acts of insubordination, of load conduct. But in all parts of the world, •tht re were now arri% tog daily, proofs of the enliAtened state of the public ni . ind, of the success of that cause for which the people of England hail been so long struggling. Attempts might he made to ruIICW tow: scenes and delusions which had been so success fully practised at the commencement of the French Re volution ; but they would he made in %Jill :-•••••tic time had now arrived when, " for a people to lie fret., it was sufficient that they willed it." (Loud cheers.)—As to that great question which had of late so strongly and properly agitated the public mind—the nelartous hill levelled at the Queen, it would be tuu.ecessary for him to repeat what had been so often awl so ably urged by his Honourable Colleague. Ile exulted, in common with them all, in its (Idea. Bill though the NI Misters had faik.l ill establishing die i,2iierti's guilt, they hail yroved her to hake been in the constant exercise of the most hnnuu able %tunes—to have had a hand as open as day to "ri is charity." her , itawever, ae culdi.tg to Ma ai;cusets, seemed to had. ia.tat ;Ai " holy - S. traitors" to her, for they were made the groundwork o ' continued persecution ; and had it been Coant Bergami instead of another individual who was visited by the Queen, with that magnanimity which was so peculiar to her, when af fl icted with th e plague, what inferenc e s wouldmean, base, cowardly, and malignant minds have drawn from so noble au act 1 The Address to the King had his approbation. Ile believed that the King had been as much abused as the Queen had been traduced, and the people disgusted; anti he feared that the people would be heavily burthened for those scenes and pro. ceedings with which they had been so disgusted. There were many ways in which the King might have been abused—the creatures about a Court worked in such a variety of forms ; and if the event did not prove this, the Ministers had at least proved that they all deserved to be " hanged"—(laughter and applause.)—This was his film opinion—that no act had happened since the Revolution which was so deserving of impeachment as the recent proceedings of Ministers.--(Cheers.)-alt was difficult to determine which was the inure to be ad. mired—the exceeding folly or the exceeding wickedness of their acts; but whether sport or pain had been the result to them, the public sufferings, he apprehended, would he increased by them. He, however, would pro. test against one larthnig being taken front the pockets of the poor distressed people of England to pay the ex. pences of the receut nefarious proceeding...o Lear, hear.) He hoped the address to the King would have effect-s. for so long as the men at present in office remained it was impossible that any alteration of the people's sufler ings could take place. The whole country, in one voice as it were, as far as he had been enabled to observe it, demanded investig ation — a change of m en, and a change of system.—(L oud cheers.)—The dismission of the Ministers was demanded—but a change of system under which they had thriven was also required.—(Continued cheers.)—All classes were of opinion that the recent proceedings were of the most nefarious character--pros ceedings that had done much to expose a still more ne farious system ; and he was persuaded that if the people would lend an assisting hand—would give what was called " a long pull, and a pull altogether," they would get what would soon set all things to rights, namely, a Reform of the Commons Houst. of Parliament. _ _ Mr. Hobhouse hoped that he had redeemed those pledges which he gave when , he became a candidate,... (Applause).—He did not consider the late great struggle as affecting the Queen alone—he considered it as alike interesting to the people. The cause was as much the people's as the Queen's, and the result had shown how much reason they had to congratulate the Queen. The most powerful eugines had been exerted against her— but hitherto they had been defeated. The Queen was now indeed the Queen—not of grace and favour—but of the people's affections. The people ou,ht not only to call for die dismission, but for the impeachment of nisters.—(Applause)-11 that were not the result, the work would be hut half done.—(Cheers.)—Hitherto Addresses had been presented in vain; complaints had been silenced, and grievances confirmed. So far front grievances being redressed, " Six" more restrictions were imposed on their liberties. If the people did toot exert themselves, more death•blows would be levelled at their liberties; anti he conjured them to be on th e a l er t, an d never to forget to demand a Reform, which alone would extricate them from their present difficulties. It was agreed that the Address should be signed by the High Bailiff. Thanks were then voted to Mr. Bennet, Mr. Gordon, Mr. Ellice, and Sir G. Noel, all Members of Parliament. Mr. Benbow then proposed an instruction to Sir F. Burdett and Mr. Holahouse to move the impeachment of Ministers ; but it was not seconded, and was withdrawn, on Sir F. Burdett and Mr. llobhouse expressing the hope that if such' instruction were proposed at all, it would not be without the amplest consideration. Thanks ILving been voted to the High Bailiff, the meeting was dissolved. FROM TrESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. J. Leonard, Little Hampton. Worcestershire, ieedanam. iLt N R YTS. J. Green, Notion, York, merchant. Solicitors, Meson. Eyro and Coverdale, Gray's Inn. E. Oldaker. Ipswich, grocer. Sol. Mr. Taylor, John Street, Bedford Row. J. Williams, Biiliopsgate Street Within, linen draper. SoL Mr. James, Iluckleretiry. J. Page, Lipton upon Severn, Worcestershise, tanner. SoL Mr. Plait, New Court. W. and 11. Webb, Brisrul, linen drapers. Sols. Messrs. Jenkins and Co. New Inn. .1. Buckley, Uppertnill, Satkliewortli, Yorkshire, dyer. Sol, Mr. Ibuye, Chancery Lane. M. Abraliani and Daniel (otherwise David) Levi, Bath, gold. smiths. :Ads. 31e,sis. and White, Lincoln's Inn. J. B. Itudgett, Stoke Lane, Snowmen-hire, dealer. Sols. W.llianis and IVltite. Lincoln's Inn. W. Byrne, Fludycr Street, ‘Vestininster, broker. Sol. Mr. Hannan'. Piazza Chamber:, Covent Garden. IL Fox, Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Finds. merchant. Sol. :%Ir. Hunt. Surrey Street, Strand. k:. Edmunds, Oswestry, Salop, scrivener. Sol. Mr. Edmunds, Exchequer (Mice, Littco.u's W. Wilson, Liverpool, merchant. Soh. ,icesrs. Milne and Parry, Tt mple. .1. Bramwell, junior, Liverpool, ship clarnaler. Sol. Mr. Mason, New Bridge Street. CERTIFICATES to be granted Dec. e 6. J. Dawson, Mclthuni, York, clothier.—H. Nash, Chatham, Bucks, draper--W. Stonhill, Ftew kley, Bucks, butcher—H. Newton, Boss Alley. Hursleydown, victualler. Lord N'iscount Kirkwall, heir presumptive to the Earldom of Orkncv, died on Wednesday lust, at his residence in North Wales, in the 42d year of his age. His Lordship's memory will be long cherished by the poor of that putt of the principality, to whom he was a liberal benefactor. On the night of the 2.'2a of November, Mrs. Cos. well, of Ilygrave, nour lost thirty sheer, thitnili ki n g turned into runic LiC3h U./ICU:Ca SO of ras ae , %