The National Register. — London, England, 1816-09-16 00:00:00

F•:hrTEMI3ER IP. WESTMINSTER MEETLVG. Wednesday, in pursuance of a requisition presented to the I sigh Bailin; a Meeting was has in Palace-yard, to take into consilerution the present distressed situation of the people at large, and to consider the propriety of pe titioning the Prince Regent on ties: subject. The High Bailiff having taken the Chair, and elle:Ile:I the Meeting in the usual form, Mr. WALKKR stated, that he hell in his a letter t ra m Major Cartwright. The Major was nut able to attend o e , the present occasion , but his heart was with the \teethe.% ; acid in his letter Ice had repeated %base opinions which he had so frequently and so forcibly addressed to then'. The letter, how ever, was 10112, perhaps to long to allow (Wits being read ; but that was a point the Meeting would decide. Ito' question was then put, audit was decided that the letter shotld not now be read. The Rev. Mr. PARKES ebservcd, that he 1.•lt Linn& *laced in a most arduous situation, when he ronsidereil himself • s now addressing the Electors of Westminster as the repress'''. t "live of Major Cartwright, who had grown old in their ser vice ; and must live in their esteem. The Electors of West minster had been frequently called together on most important oecasians, but on none more important than the present, namely, rut bear witness of the existence of general distress, extending to all ranks—to the manufacturer, the agriculturist, and the commercial man ; and which had driven all ranks to the work house and to the parish for support. It was nut necessary to enter into the detail) of woe it was impovsible to turn to the tight or to the left without alerting with calamity ; and unless some extraordinary change should take plat e to prevent it, this fertile country would become a desert. The voice of the Electors of Westminster had often been raised to forte' them' evils, butt that voice had bent neglected. The time, however, was now at-cited when that voice must bs heard aml attended to—the time was come, when those who directed public affairs, if they wished for a calm, knew where to find it; if they wish. ed for a storm, they knew bow to raise it. The national vessel was overloaded; there was a dead weight teprin her, which, if not removed, would :dam itcly sink her. This weight WAS ex rav agant expenditure, sinecures, and pensions. Let this dead weight be thrown overbuiail —let the people rail for their con siifutfonal rights, and the vessel would be saved: but the work of a great nation ought to be done speedily. The Citizens of Westminster had said :ouch, but the time was come when speak ing was not sutficieut. —( Applause.) ,—W mild they wait patiently to see themselves and children reduced to starvation,and mark. ed as paupers, fur the finger of scorn to point at 1--(No, tie !) - fier some further observations, in a similar style, the Rev. Gentleman proceeded to move the first Resolution, which lie trusted the ineeting would not adopt as an act of passion, but St the result ut deliberate consideration. The first Resolution was then read and adopted unatainoisly. Mr. I IuNT, then came forward, and addressed the Meet ing as Englishmen, Fellow-countrymen and Fellow-citizens, and observed, lie hail been selected to bring forward the next R eso l u tion. 'r,,e worthy Clergyman who had jwst addressed them, lead dealt much in metaphors, he would speak plain facts and call things by their right names. The general distress was now aeknowleeiged by every class of persons, except the tax gatherers, and those who lived no them.—(zlop!,sees..:s.) There was no doubt that all our distresses had their origin in want of a proper representation of the people. The immediate cause of our distress was, the carrying on for upwards of twenty ye ers, a war, cruel, bloody and unjust, apinst the liberty of all man kind ; a war, the expence of which had ruined our commerce, such reduced us to beggary and distress. But then we are told - -Trite, we are reined; but then look to what honour we !hoe obtained! If to have thriven liberty from Prance, and, by aid of foreign mercenaries, to have forced the Boterbons upon France, against the will of the people, was glory, then we hid got glory indeed :—if to restore Papery was glory, then glory was indeed ours ;--and for John Bull to have paid the piper, then in deed we had obtained glory in abundance. ( ptaiire.) —By the Act of Settelment, which placed the present Family out the 'Throne, it sv a provided that no plat-email should bane a seat is the people's House of Commans ; would it then be credited that upwards of 200,0001. of the people's money was paid to placemen havaig seats in that !loose? And thins we were governed by a set of borough- congers and pensioners.- The system of that arch-master of corruption and bribery, Sir 1:. Walpole, Has open—he used to put 5101.. or more outlet a plate, at Cabinet dinners ; but the system of Pitt and Fos, for both had followed the same system—(ti's no! i es yes! )--116 would repeat it, both systems were the same. In proof of it, let ns only look at the 20001. a year to Mr. Homer, the 404131. to Mr. Punsonby, the 38,4001. to lord Camden, the still larger suns to Lord Arden, amid it would be found that both sides were alike. Woold it be believed, that one of these sinecurists received more than live hundred Lit utenants, who had bled in the service of their coun try received for their half-pay 1 One good had resulted from the labours ut himself, and those who acted with him. About et•ven years ago, he posted up a list, containing the names of fio of these sinecurists. Thenatter was not so well understood then as it is 110 w; people had begun to calculate. A few days ago Iv met a Gentleman, wlao resided in a small village, a short dis tiller from London, who had always been a loyal mum , a great royalist and of course hail nut agreed ss ith titan ; but at this meeting his friend said, " Mr. lfunt, you were quite right in what you said in the Common Hall the other day ; upon calculi. Lion,) tied Lord Camden receives more of the public money an nually 111:111 been raised by taxes in our town (Itagslioo for some time past." This calculating spirit would do good ; it would shew vs hat these sturdy beggars were receiving, *bast those wh o had fonglit and Idea in the service of their country were receis nig nothing% lie had Mien informed, that sec eral Midshipineu, rather than go to the parish for relief, had engaged in hay-making and hop•piekiiie, at the paltry sum of Ys. a day. Was this as it ought to be? The Resolution he should have to tcropose was, that a Petition should be presented to the Prince Regent, desiring his Royal Mellows.; to call Parliament toge- thee, nut as it had usually beep. called together, to divide the ' epoils of the people among themselves. but to receive the Pe tdions of the people, and to attend to them ; and well it would br if they attended to them in time, and proceeded to relieve ti:e people, by doing away the pensions paid to the Ladies (trenv ilk-, Mrs: FOX, the Hiss liunits, and all ether 1 limns, lie was au are it swnld be said that these were but a !lea-bite, perhaps they were not ; but a flea-bite was a nasty • thing to look at ; and the misfortune was, that we were Ilea- Lilco from the crowns of our heads to the soles of our fret; I Lot a single part of US, however mina u., had escaped. Under these ei!eumstaimes it was time the voiee of the people should he lit tel and attended to; mud lie %vault' now call upon Lord castlereugh to attend to those cries. tic know,Lord Castle reagh to be aanan of coarage ; but it' lie had any regard fur his own piirsonal tiat'vtv —if lie had the safety and interest of bls Royal .Vaster at heart--he would ad. ire las Lord •liip havoc ; t,•:l lot THE NAVON.U. REGISTEW diately to ha s t en t o hi s R oya l II iglitiese, and advise him to put All end to Ins tour, and hasten to town to receive and att , nd to the Petition and Prayers of his still loyal, affectionate, and suf fering people. He would advise Lord Castlereagh to recall to the recollection of his Royal t oat it was the neglect of the Petitions of (I P: people which hastened the overthrow of the !house of Stuart, and that the tenure no which the present family held the Crown was, that those Petitions should be atteaileit to. After some further ob servations on the amount of sinecures and pensions, and the extraordinary and extravagant military establishment which Ministers seemed determined on supporting, he concluded by moving the Serum, Resolution. Mr. WALKICR then Came fortvnrd to propose the third Resolution, which, he said, stated a matter of fact, viz.: that during that periad of our history, in which Parliaments met and sot but for one year, this country was not burthened with that corse, a national debt. This was v-ry easily accomited for; men who had to give on account of their stewardship every year, AV cm careful as It, their conduct. Why Rpm should not the people call fur the restoration of their ancient consti tutional privilege, and by doing, so, restore the prosperity of the country, as it IL xistetiduring the early times of the Consti lotion ? The duration of Parliamt its had been prolonged from one to three years, from three to seven ; and, should the House of Commons take a fancy so to do, they might, unless the voice of the people prevented it, declare their sitting perpetual. Several other Resulutious were then put nod carried, when Mr. CLARY read a Petition founded on them, in which they ray the Regent to call together the Parliament to listen to the voice of the people; complaining of sinecure places and pensions, and of a lavish expenditure in every department of the State ; praying the abolition of the former s and retreuelt inent of the latt e r. The P e ti t i on was carried unanimously, and ordered to he presented by the High Bailiff, accompanied by Sir F. Burdett and Lord Cuehrane. The Thanks of the Meetteg were then voted to Sir F. Bor den. Sir F. Branr•.T'r said, that after so many years spent in their service, it must be highly gratifying to him to receive an additional mark of the approbation of so numerous a Meet ing. that Meeting, so very large, showed the spirit of West minster ; and he trusted that it was but a sample of that which would be shewu in every part of the kingdom. Their enemy was f'ormid•tble, .said deeply entrenched behind forms of law, as well as rows of bayonets; and nothing would conquer that enemy but a firm union among all classes of the country--at least of those who did not wish to see their country reduced to a state of ciataildete slavery. After so much had been said as to the general distress, which was admitted on all hands to exist, he had not thought of saying any thing on that part of the sub ject ; but be felt it his duty to speak to them in as undisguised laugeage as any of the speakers that had pacceded him. No Englishman ought to look at the sham causes of the distress held out to them by the boroughmongers but his attention aught to be directed to the real ca uses, so as to be able to apply the proper remedy to it. The real cause consisted in the cor rupt state of the representation of the people, which was so great, that the Speaker of the Hume of Common* had been obliged to akelare that it would have made our forefathers hair to stand an cud; hot it would have• done more—it would have made their swords leap from their scabbards. The govern ment of the country sat intrenched in fortresses; fur had we out barracks at Hyde Park Corner, in the Tower, at Wool wich, as well as the Lines at Chatham? Yet all the people could dr. was to say to that Government," oppress ns no more ;" just as the worm we tread on would say, if it could speak, " tread on me no more." But let it be remembered, that no thing was more dreadful in the ears of the oppressors than the voice of the oppressed. It had been said, that the national debt was one great cause of the general distress; but they ought never to talk of the not' • I debt ;it was the debt of the oligarchy in the Hoe. , e of Commons, incurred for the purpose of putting down liberty all ever the world; and by so doing, disgracing the English character; for never was it more Jai graced than in the shooting of Nev at Paris. The object of that oligarchy was, to restore despotism abroad, and to pre sent reform at home; it was for that millions of money had been squandered out of the 2—ekets of the people of England. They all knew the play of Catherine amid Petruchiii, in which the proud spirit of that lady was subdued by starvation. He did not know whether that was the plan of Gos eminent to soluble the spirit of the people ; but he knew that millions of men would not starve.—There were many secret springs aris ing out of the corruption he complained of, which, by a thou sand ways, would attack a man's life w:ao spoke his mind on those subjects. That oligarchy had 100 Minds in every man's pocket; and almost every thing, great or bind'', fou n d its way 01(0 its 111101C0Se Ile:. It la:is that oligarelay which had tram pled on the Crown, and had obliged it to give up its dignity to receive the plunder of the people. IS•-t it would now find that the people could pay no more if they would. When any one proposed to do away with sinecures, they were answered, that would be of no use; and then these men Wo‘llll subscribe their miserable farthings, until they might amount altogether to as much as Lord Arden took out of the public purse in a year. But surely every farthing that could be saved to this distressed people ought to be retrenched. The cause of tins great evil bb ing apparent, the remedy was equally so; and that was by getting rail of this immense system of plunder. When he law • by the public papers poor persona distrained on for rent to the awouuf of lOs. he would ask, what more 80 enemy could do to us? Such proceedings would taut be endured if the country were properly represented. The remedy was plain, but it could only be accomplished by meetings 3001 as that, by onion and tirmuese. Ile trusted that there would be meetings in every county, and every great town in England.. This olag::r -clay would not give up its plunder unless it were forced. It was true that there were many good men on both sides; bait it' they would not give up the narrow views of party polities—if they would not condescend to correct, they would soon lose the power to controul. lie concluded by praising the conduct of 1091 Noble Colleague, who at the Loudon Tavern got among tile domestic enemies, and threw them into us much confusion as he bad often done the rot eigu enemy. Thanks were then voted to Loral Comm A Ne.. lii. Lordship said, the honour now conferred on him exceeded any acknow ledgments he could make tor it; and was, in itself, greater than any thing that any Ministry could bestow. On the other side of the water they fwd seen the Chamber of Deputies dis solved, and their number reduced; consequently a majority could be the more easily eurruoteil. In his opinion, that change in France was to be ascribed to a similar fiction working this imitates. He thought by petition they wanku not be able to attain their end ; but every county, city, borough, and town, should prepare a remonstrance to be presented by two Dade gates to some Member, to he laaal before Parliament on the first cloy of its meeting. He had been told that great good would arise from the subscription ; now he had caleelated, that it wanald give lusts pint of bier and a penny fog to envy pun y' to Logland, on I The Thanks of the Meeting were then voted to Major Car& Wright and Mr. Hunt. The latter Gentleman took that occa sion to talk of the venality of the Press, and to abuse in the grossest to toner the Editor of The Times newspaper. Thanks were then voted to the Liglt Hailitl, and the Meets' ing broke up. From tke LONDON GAZ:TTE, Tuesday, Sept. 10. Whitehall, Sept. 6. Ills Royal Highness the I'tince Regent has been pressed, In tbd name and na the behalf of his Majesty, by Letter; Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kin of Great Britain and Ireland. ler ante the honor of Knighthood upon James Little, Esti. of the Island of Teneriffe. HIS Hoyrii Highness has been pinned to appoint T. Turner, Esq. to be Consul at Ragusa and Bores di Cattalo; and T. W. Richards.. Esq. to be Consul at Nantes. His Royal Highness has also granted an honourable augmentation of anus to Dame Catherine Arait Pre vost, widow of Sir G. Prevost, and his eldest son. His Royal Highs nests has also permitted Col. Lemoine, of the Artillery, to wear the Si cilian Order of Ferdinand and of Merit; Capt. Jones, of the Light Dragoons, the Spanish Order of Charles III.; and Capt. 'Afaeltiehlse. of the Artillery, the l'iedmontese Order of St Maurice and Lazar. PROMOTIONS. Artillery—Major Deal:missy to be Lieut.-Colonel, vice Sir J. Pjtr, deceased; and Brevet Major Payne to be Major, vice Desbrissy. BANKItifPTCIES SUPERSEDED. T. Wo.sitEn. of Knebtworth, fanner. G. Moon, of Greenwich. hay-deller. It. ItITTLL and J. H. BLAIR, of Rinnittarn, gun- makers. I 1 BANKUP' . J. SIOSWORTH, of Sunderland near the Sea, dealer, Sept. 23, , 22, at Stokesley, Yorkshire. Atts. Morton and Co. Gray's Inn-sq. .1. PAci Ex. of Painswick, Gloucestershire, clothier, Sept. 17, in, Oct. 22, at Stroud. Aus. Adlington and Co. Dectfonl-rOw. T. MASCALL, of Wo/verhanipton. grocer, Sept.l 20, 21, Ott. 22, at Birmingham. Amts. Price and Co. Lincoln's nn Old-square. C. lIA3I ELTON, of Iles:ham, draper, Sept. 19, to, Oct. 29, at Carlisit. Att. Mr. Birkett, Cloak-lane. E. KIRXP.ITRICK, of Moat, Cumberland, baron-factor, Sept. 19, 2 0 . Oct. at Carlisle. Att. Mr. Hirkett, Cloak-lane. T. !last:mei:, of Louth. hatter, Sept. 27, 25, OM V-, at Manchester. Mts. Willis and Co. Warnfoid-murt, A. SLATER, of Cucldington, Cheshire, corn-dealer, Sept. 24, 23, Ore. 21. at Northwich. .ttts. Leigh anti Co. New Bridge-street. P. Housgr, jun. of Ottery Ist. Mary, Demo, miller, Sept. IN 10. Oct. trl, at l'aunton. At.. Mr. Burfoot, Temple. T. and I). lit MSOII, of Cpholland, Lanctis!iire, tanners, Sept- 2 5 . (let. 22. at Wigan. att. Mr. Windle..lo l ln-strect, Iledford-mw. W. EAST EKEII.I.I), of Fleet Market, stationer, Oct. 14, 17, 22, at Guildhall. Att. Mr. Shuter, Millbank-street, Westminster. J. LAMB, of Carey-street, victualler, Sept. 14, 24, (kt. 22, at Guilds hall. Aces. Comte and Co, Great Suthilk-streA, Borough. DIVIDENDS AT GIALIMALL. Oct. 1, It. C. Stones, of Chelmsford, stationer. Sept. It, S. Muline, of Billiter-line. merchant. Sept. 13, It. Forty. of Stow•in-tik:.‘V old, saddler. Sept. 13, R. Hughes and It. Ctiallen. of Storringtnn, brewers. Oct. 2tl, J. and E. anti H. Kensington, of L o mbard-street, bankers. DIVIDENDS IN THE COGN7'IIY. Oct. 4, R. Beck , of Westbury, innliolder, at Bristol. Oct. s, T. Blake, of Ringwood, saddler, at Birmingham. Oct. 10, W. Moths, of Bi rmingliatn, tintberunereliant, at Birmineuartai , Oct 4, W. W. Lyon, of Burton Turn, brewer, at Burton. Oct. S,'l'. Grylls, of Dtretend, cock-founder, at Birmingham. Oct. 3, B. Bartlimp, of Illaxliall, merchant. at 11'ootlhndge. Oct. 4, W. Whitehouse and J. Galan, of Liverpool, merchants. at Li verpool. Oct. 4, H. Arr. of Spalding, merchant, at Spalding. CERTIFICA'fFS, Oct. I.—W. sand J. Ritchie. jun. of FinborY' square, merchants—E. Partridge, of Little Queen-street, oilman—.l. Salter. of Dartmouth, bookseller—J. Martin, of Alfristnn, shopkeeper —J. Lawrence. of Iloundsditch, draper—ll. M. Senterset, of Marls borough, surgeon—J. Cape, cf.' Gravel-lane, Southwark, brewer. PA !ITN VMS!' I PS 1 11 SSOLVED. T. Oliver and Co. of Great Winchester-street, merchants. W. Broughton and J. Massey, of Great Woodhouse, York, joiners J. and C. Atkinson. of Iludderstiekl. merchants. J. Clowes and Co. of Shelton. Stattimlshire, carthenware-martufactusgra. T. Williams and Co. of Oxford -street, coach-makers. W. and 'l'. Johnson, of Kidderminster, cheese-factor& W. Jones and P. Lindsay, of I.iverpooL chymists. W. Cooper and J. Townsend, of GOldsmitecerow, Hackney-road, pas per-stainers. A. Stevenson and R. Ruckaall, of Cobridge, Staffordshire Potteries. J. iii;tit 7 anag. i;;;;ll,;iiianchester, eatn-manufaci S. Turner and I. Stevenson, of Slieffield. linen-drapers, THE ESQVIMM:K.—LateIy a cast assemblage of persons of all ranks was collected at Leith to see the contest between ins Ewyni•nanx :south and the six-oared whale boat. The pier, the windows, and the roofs of houses were all crowded ; the dei.ks and rigging of the vessel were the sane ; the latter at the ie... minent risk of many lines. The exhibition commenced a before two o'clock, and lasted till halt' past three. His • terity in managing his canoe was admirable, and he evidently showed his ability to overcome his opprrients in point of speeii, by the advantages he often gave thei,i, and %%Inch lie as often redeemed. He was ♦ery expert in diving, which he did several times, and also in throwing his darts. When at a con eideralde distance from the beacon, lie threw one ot'his dart', and struck the bulb of the beacon with the greatest certainty, He was so fastened into his scat, that he could nut fall out, ai a drawing, like the mouth of a purse, girds him about the so that, in' an instant, he was seen to dive under the water, head down and keel tippeiniont ; again, in the twinkling of an eye, he raised himself erect out of the water, awl scudded along as if nothing had happened. A raft of wood iinpedeil ha progress down the harbour after starting, when, to the arto nishnn•ut of the spec titors, he crossed the raft with his c inoe, and again launched into the water. His canoe is a s ey great curiosi•y, weighing in all 161 b. He rows it by outs eat or paddle, and he is so very dexterous iii inanar.ing it, that he uutsails any boat with six oars. 'Elie ii irbour was eroi a•'d with boats, tilled with elegantly dressed temak•s. Pres ious to the exhibition the public had an °ppm tunny of hispeeting the canoe and the following, efiriusiiies, at a care-room at the Wet Dock, vie.: —'l sea unieornie horns, the scull• of a sea hot se and hear, the cal of a whale, and the preserved skin of a black cag,le. The Esquimaux was dressed in the fashion of his country, from the waist downwards, in undressed sealskin ; his jacket of the same, only the undressed side inwards. He in a gouil looking healthy young units, and apparently very docile. lie understands a little English, and when he over. comes the method of talking common to his country species of whisperie:i I, there is liitle doubt but that he may soou be e • a proneient in our LifignaZe. The whole passed off w.thout any nerions accident, though ses ei al people fell into the harbour, but were got out safely. completely (lurked, On Monday somight were sold at W'ake'field, belonging to two respectable farmers in the neighbourhood, two hurse , , with each a sit•lille and bridle, tne the sum of three giiineas ; wives may also be considered as lunch depressed ill s aloe by the pressure of the tones, a labourer leaving ."1,1 hi. %V I e r % Wediii-day 1.14, ui It akelield, to a waterinai., six Ilia slt.ail auto el spa nee.