The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-02-03 00:00:00

• 4tl - ON • .--:- R ~~ 7.7"""P"'":717..r77 "7"-- . . ' ' _ . "I' vs • 4, 1 . .. !Pe . • their parts could be accounted for was, that the 'inisterial crusade was so violently directed against the People, that these individuals would never have !wen so tressed, had ,it not been intended that their waves should pritent them from ever telling the tale of their atistsletiones.—(Shoute of applause.)—, 'lt was indeed natural, that men who thus'ezeiciseel their power, should tesiet every attempt at Refont4 l that they should contemplate Reform as gb a moo deadly weapon which could be direct4l a g ainst* their political eaistence ; and therefto.s4; it wris IV natural to espect that they would nave directed all their force against the voice et th e P eo ple. S uc h was the line of conduct whirl th e y had resolved to adopt during the campaie;,, o f l as t year ; but that was a year of signal disgra'A to them; for they had been defeated in almost 91 1 ,111 e attacks they had planned against the liberties W:t the People. But as it was not possible for thr.l People, successful as they now were, to calcu'Ate on the fresh effort despotism would again witke, they must not lose the command ing situation which they then stood, or let slip the fair otyortunity they had of insisting on their sights. 'kite Government seised innocent men on charges of High Treason, and threw them into ptisotas. Did they believe these men to be traitors? lf l'oey did, why not produce the evidence they had against them, and bring them to . trial ? He believed there were traitors; but they were not to be found among the persons thus apprehended end thrown into prison, but among their persecutors; for if the Mi nisters had no charge to make against those persons, and did not bring them to trial, they were theetse-lves the traitors.--( Loud upplaures.)—The 5/Insisters knew very well theadvanteges they had in case they hrought'these men to trial; they knew they had the Judges on their sides, and that their accusations would be heard with a favourable ear in the Courts of Law; and therefore they knew that if any Wee, like Treason petaled, they had every possible chance of obtaining a conviction. V. by then were not the par ties brought to trial i Because they knew they could not succeed; because all the charges had been supported by credence so unfounded, that it would have been rejected by any Night• Constable in Los (Applauses.)— They did, however, with grave faces, pretend to give evidence to that which they knew to be false, and that 1,4094 Was now apparent to the whsle world. In one instance, how ever, which all persons must lament, the Govern ment had succeeded in their projects. The trials sit Derby', and the result of those trials, must give pain to every body. Convictions were obtained there, and those were dwelt on as important evi dence of the existence of treason in the country. — lie was cot.fident that if all the circumstances attend tu:r these trial; were sifted to the bottom, it would be View! that Ministers had acted with gross duplicity in the whole of their proceedings as connected with. them.—(ipplause )—lt had been recently asserted by some of the Ministers, that the agents of Govern. merit had no share in provoking the acts of treason for which the unfortunate men at Derby suffered. In /Incept to this he would assert, that one of the indi si;tuls, who was the companion and associate of (Nicer, wits now in London, and would be ready to esplaits this business. The individual to whom he al. leded, although co-operating with Oliver, had been take') op and thrown into confinement on a charge of treason, although the G o vernment knew that he was acting only stair agent. This was a species of quib bling unworthy of any Government, and was sufficient to point out the real character of the Administration. Some days after the Lew Officers of the Crown had eaters..lb i! in convicting their victims et Derby, they nuns ..estt!ted not to step there; they came to town P:P4Pr to t poew their attack against others, and he publishers of what were called seditious and blasphemous libels, were next singled •out for prosecution and punishment ; although it was well understood that the prosecutions instituted against Mr. Hone would have beets dropped, they were the", renewed with enrreased fury, and Mr. llone was pnt upon his trial. He, however, obtained a complete triumph over his prosecutors; but had not that tri umph been obtained, and had Mr. Hone and Mr. Cathie been convicted, could any one suppose that Ministers would have liberated the State Prisoners ? No ! they would hive been kept in their sluts gee's., and new grounds would have been laid fur continuing the Suspension of the Ilebeas Corpus Act. Tianefore, all that :Ministers could now do, was to have recourse to a Bill of Indemnity to protecrthem. selves from the consequence of their misconduct, and shut out their victims( against the possibility of seeking legal redress for the sufferings they had undergone. • From •Mlnisters, then, they could not expect to obtain any satisfectiou for their wrongs; tut still they were ant destitute, they were still its the hands of their countrymen, to *Less liberality they looked up with confidence for'resiteds for the wrongs they had suffered in supporting their rights. Ts their countrymen then, 'these suffererslooked up for sup port, atid.through their countrymen they hoped to be F estered again to society . He hoped that Meet. ing would return to Ministers the bitter chalice of *heir censure end eritidemnation, and put it ur to the lip of those who had beers so little sparing of it to wards other'.—( Laud and reiterated applause.) Sir F. Bvanerr stated, that his friend, Major Cartwright, hgcl not beets able to attend there that slay, but that he had sen t his mite to promote the *tint of the Meetin g, acc om p anied b y a letter, which !e hogged to be read.—(Applauses ) Mr. Ctemly received the letter from the Hon. Esrt. end, sta ttt iing nit the table, read it to the com pany. The writer began by maintaining that Perlis- Ine:tt had not the power to suspend, at any time, or 4.seter Any circumstances, the liberties of Englishmen. This assertion he did not make on the fact of the 'louse of Commons not being the fair Representation of the 1. m 00p4'. but on much broader grounds ; for although the Parliament might have been ever so well constituted, and although the House of Coin- Natl.; were the true Representatives of the People, still they could have no authority to suspend their liberties for a single moment, because the People were a power greater than their Delegates. A set of inferior hiae-tratec might as well attempt to sus reed the power o ( Z Court Qf King's Bench, and Gott Court, in its turn, might as well try to suspend ti.• authority of the P arliament. As 4 power then could suspend a higher power, so that of Parliament not suspend the rights of the People. The .4 ly 411.1ellea :tar • oi oz, this was beterily,tlhilh • . Pg . M!""'""•O I 'rw<IPMIPP. •" TT Th S' t' AT FISMA N!. , -. 'a • , . was al way" the tyfastOs Rlea—i-a • necessity - aatleh -110ee Lord Caebrasie,kad thr other frypds of Elie eauntrY' b wltia; im thetlouseof Cimmons.for t.:.;!,,,q4.„0d it,: Attowy-' none' of the mewin pBwer thought fii ti eaplaii.— General to do his w dr e z„tsy &sail-ging the reengolicance *lto-, The letter, which would not have been Imam& abriatbat of other war very long, contained a variety ember, an recast fat gompulsi( Load r.. - tgoments to the sits' effect ; and fiefire k pplause)otever plight be t hamil. sequence of the line of conduct he ( Mr. Johnstoney should OW." Was siSettely read through, the company became im- sue, be was determined to support with his last breath ;he cause tlasfitsfit, and desired that the letter might be panted. tbat bad brought hho to Ms dungeon . . He rehdd'ltißwethe pa "Phis was assented 40, and Mr. Cleary tat &wee, Jail. '& 4 "6 6 4 :7,4 143 w all io a s p o rM it tion b in v ore than enough to shield hiss whom be bad been so ty rail. r mating to the company that their s hi s h s ho u ld be coin- nically visited.—(Loud Applattses.) plied with. Mr. Joatte Baguesar (a young man of reapectehle Sir F. BURDETT now announced the wish of Mr. appearance) then stood upon the table. Ile inform- Johnstone, who was one of the sufferers owlet the ell the Meeting that he too was one of the sufferers - Suspension of the ['thee. Corpus Act, to address the of -Manchester. lie would not have intruded upon Meeting. —(Cheer's.) - ' the time of those around him, hut for the request of Mr. JOHNSToNE then stepped on the table, and the lion. Chairman and other Gentlemen, who sog. elated himself to be JOhe Johnstone, from Man- potted the necessity of appealing to the Public through .cheater. He observed, that he should call upon the the sufferers themselves. 'Dia Meeting would then Meeting to take a pleasant ride through various parts grant him their attention, while, as briefly as he of the country, and therefore bespoke . their patience. could, he should state the history of hie Street, exa- He had been , ten months in confinement, without mination, imprisonment , and acquittal. He described having committed any breach of the law whatever, or the btaisketting expedition (as it was called) as a having committed any act which could justly call for legal Meeting, assembled for no other purpose than animadversion. The history of . his sufferings could thit of petitioning the Prince Resent upon the state' not be so easily run over as a sqrsib from Mr. 1104 e of glievattres under which the people laboured. But 1 to Lord Elleithorough, and on that account it wa s, *hat was the consequence? The militery trampled he•hoped the Gentlemen ht, whom he was surrosodesa open those who were thus met together, and after would bear with him.---( ffear!)—He wars a married using him with the almost indignity and violence, matt, and had three a:jetties living ; ha had buried dragged him to the New Bailey, where his pockets four. lie had let% advocated the cause of Perlin. were picked, and he was treated worse than a brute. memory Reform, and therefore thought he knew Thirty pound weight of iron was put upon him (cries somethissit fif the subject. In October, 1816, he had of shame!) and the constable told hirn, when he attempted to address a Meeting at. Manchester, who asked for his travelling cap, preparatory to his jeer. were called together to colvi ter ef the distressed ney to London, where he was ordered to he con. state of the country. What ha said on that occasion 'eyed, that he would perhaps have a black - cap in a happened to please the people; and he was after. very short time.—(Shathe )—Upon being brought wards solicited to go to [Ancestor, to Yorkshire, and before the Privy Council, where he expected that all to Staffordshire, in order to Resist at Meetings which the evidence would be assembled, he saw Lord Sid were called for similar purposes. He went, in pile. mouth at the head of the table. sitting with the suance of the int eations, and be spoke boldly his gravity of a bishop; and was informed by him seetiments, for be had no secrets at his heart. lie was that he was sorry to commit so young a man, not afraid of speaking the truth, although perhaps it but he was ob . llged to do ass for no leis' h crime was not at all times expedient to be thus explicit , titan Hi g h Trelson.—( Laughter and critics of shame.) truth having been, however unjustly, pronounced a And en being asked whet the evidence consisted lihel.—(hear!)— Ile would now come to the subject of, his Lordship replied, after a pause, " That which was the immediate object of his rising, merely to is renlidential." (The same expression of dis state the manner in which he had been persecuted.' gust and ridicule was here k rioeu.)—Nothing more On Sunday *tight, the 9th of March, in the last year, happened at the Privy Council, but the comfortable 1 he was comfortably in bed asleep, when he w as alarmed assurance, that he should have solitary confinement. by a loud knocking at his door, Ott looking out of From this precious examination he was conveyed to his window, he perceived 12 men, whose appearance Iforsemenger-lane Jail, and secured fast in the room end behaviour were equally discreditable. They formerly occupied by Col. Despard. In that abode could with difficulty he persuaded to wait until his the Governor, who acted with the greatest humanity, wife had dressed herself, in order to let them in. reluctantly put upon hint the irons, and eapreased They refused to tell who they were or what their his deep regret that his orders excluded all friends.— business was, contenting themselves with vociferat- From the 16th of March till the 10th of April, he itsg " open the door!" Ile was now abbot to make did not pull off his clothes, for the irons rendered a statement which might be thought singular, but as so neressery a change impossible.—(Crier of shame, he said before he had no secrets, and would openly ' shame, horrible!)—At this petit! came a person, tell the troth. Ile had, said he was a married man, accompanied by a Raw-street runner, who told him and to please his wife, who became alarmed at the he most go to the country. The knits were then desperadoes by whem,the house was surrounded, he 1 taken off, and he (Mr. Bsgules ) felt as if he was in attempted to make his escape. .He, however, knew I a balloon ; but in she midst of this delightful tense. he had no hope' of success, but he was willing to lion, the execrable runner caught him by the *dose give way to the wishes of one who was naturally and told him the handcuffs must go to work. This' dear to him. lie got upon a wall, intending to jump was with horror refused by the speaker, who, how.' into an adjoining 'yard, in which he saw a neighbour ever, was bound by Isis leg to another, and thus sent of his, who would no doubt have willingly given hint off to Gloucester Jail, •where he was treated in the lodging, In hold him secure against the next morning. most inhaiman manner by the keeper, and compelled. —( Laughter ) e —The man called out, 64 You d—d to dip iii 'a tnh of cold water, from which an iltrtesa• rascal, if you jump over, VII blow your brains out." proceeded which chid - toed him le the hospital, where He aid jump over in spite of this threat, and was I he was still refused a visit from a haulms being. tle W immediately seized by thee persons, one of wbom ! also declared that his sufferings were greatly increased was the Deputy Constable of Manchester. The 'hy the conduct of Conynghent, who belongs; to that latter, in order to show his avidity for the ser. jail, and against whom he had drawn up a Petition vice to which he was destined, behaved in the to the House of C. mrnotte. Dining these dreadful most ruffianly manner, and exclaimed, 66 Yon 1 inflictions, his mother's life was despaired of.- - tailoring thief, we have got you safe at last." Mr. B. described other sufferings -of a similarkied, They then reeonducted him to his house, rats. and Was most anxious to do justice to those sacked his papers, and took every thing which jar ers who acted with humanity,. as well as to could or could not excite suspicion. Among those who 'so rigorously and inhumanly..,acted other things they took away was i ns'`Voliz up to the letter of (hair instructions. lie (Mr. B ) Ruins, which happened accidentally to be said, if he eternal iisto this recoguizance, it would. drawer, and from the circumstance of the book being be an acknowledgment ihat he had done amutting il. found under lock and key, it was the more likely to legal; but of the two evils he thought he had better excite the suspicion of the men engaged in this search. i choose the least, and having signed i t he thus ter.. He was conveyed to the New Prison , w her e he was I nsinated seven months' solitary confinement. He confined all night among 12 men who had been taken i should wish to know under what law he wawarized ? up for vagrancy •r offences of a criminal nature. It wag in the act of Petitioning for a Reform in the Neat morning he was removed to another apartment, Representation of the People t:.at he was apprehended but was not allowed to send borne for either victuals ntel dragged to prison—(appinuse)—and this was or clothes, though Ilia house was at a Short distance dons' by the Magistracy of Manchester. And he from the j sit. He had a wooden bedstead to He me could drily say, that if the People of Manchester had without bedding, and a can of water was placed an Many friends to the cause of Reform as his friends Reside him, out of which he was told he might drink its Landon had, they would do all in their power to when he was dry. With regard to food, he was con. drag the Magistracy before a proper tribunal, for a fitted to the jail allowance of half a small loaf of 'breach both of le w, liberty, and justices—(Ap. coarse bread, and a bit of cheese which it was I plaese.)—Lord Sidmouth afterwards thought that it scandalous to offer to any man. On the I would be necessary that he should be brought before Tuesdas following he was taken from the New Prison, in ord r the Court of King's Bench, stud he (Mr. Baguley) to be conveyed to London, t ires ion. to which attempts were came to town purposely to demand that his recogni made to force irons on his legs, on which he wore bouts. such zances should he nullified. They all (as might have a were used is with the worst of felons. This effort , which was made by the aforesaid Deputy Constable, gave him che greatest been heard of ) came to lite Court of King's Bench, pain, and it was with the miaow reluctance time was allowed and went there day after day without gettiug any Aim to send to his house for a pair of shoes. At length the shoes satisfaction until they began to clamour.— (cheers of were brought. and he wa- cli.iiited to a fellow-sofferer ; he tra velled to London. On his arrival be was conducted to Cold applause.)—lie was fearful that * similar clamour Bath fields prison. where he spent his first night in an iofinattry, . must he resorted to in the !louse of Commons, befogs- containieg eight beds, seven of which were occupied by pelrsons l a b our ing ender disea , e or insanity. The Governo r of the poi. a redress of those grievances under which the Public son tieing informed the next morning of the circumstance, gave groaned wodld be obtained. . One Circumstance, him immediately a good bed and beddiug, and behaved to him ,wt-. . no ,„ Pr, he thought it necessary to adve r t to before w ith all possible kindness and humanity. He had great pleasure i n sa ying, that that Gentleman had conducted himself in a man- he got downi w hi c h was a letter which bad been sent tier highly honourable to himself during the whole period of his to his father by Lord Sidmouth since his enlarge confinement in that prison. On the 15 hof March he was car- meet b tical to the Secretary of state's Othce t o be examined, and Lord , egginghiti to tree his parental and c orr e ctional sidmoutn 'hen told him. that io consequence bf iafonsation he influence over his sont.—(Lattarider and applause.)— had received, he bad felt it his duty to issue a warrant for his .Be had the letter - in his pocket—(crier of read; appre h ens i o n, and that iti c onsequence of further information (but be never said what dint information was) he thought it his read !)—hot it was toodisgosting.—(Cries of no, no, duty to detain him on a suspicion of High Treason.—(hear !) read, read!)—Mr. Baguley pulled it from his pocket. Ile (Mr. Johnstone) then requested, that if he were to be coo- , i k Lou d a) louse and laughler.)—Mr. Baguley hea t fi n ed it should be es the. city of London, as he had se v e ral rela tions there. Lord Sidinnuth faithfully promised that be should proceeded to state, that after his (ether had written be confined in London as he wished. But how did his Lordship to Lord Sidmouth, praying that he (Mr. Begoley) keep his word ? To shoe- how much his Lordship was to be be-• li e v e d, however, he had only to that oo the 10th of April might b*permitted to see his mother, who was on the he was again handcuffed to a broth er sufferer, and carried to p oisst of death, Lord Sitimoutlecamted the following D or chester, from whence, on the `kith of the same month, be was answer to be sent :—. • - - • carried in like manner to Exeter Castle —(Shame, shame 1) .. item it oas butjustice to say that Mr. Brown, the jailer of that si Sm.-- lam directed by Lard Sidmouth to acknowledge the place. behaved towards him with the utmost humanity. lament- receipt of your lever respecting soar son; and tam further tail ing only that be had not the means of making hi m m ore c omfort. ;scallion( you, alai his Lordship lead . previously determined 0., able. He had only to add, when be left the jail, Mr. B ro wn )(Mr SOll'S releasa, and had ordEred a tEntrant for his liberatiisa I gave him 111. to hear his expences home. lt was not imposeible accordingly. nbicbhas.been transmitted to, the jail. Lord Sid-1 that this jaiier-woum be the next person closeted.—(One of the n o un; i "Pay. t 9 serve. "r !hal r tiensihte (` this: said aiaesulry cried out, He will be discharged from his °trace. He was peke, • ts'a lie. ent , e a e rie Krone fladheen expressed;) the first who had been appreliewled, and with the exception of the of your son' error ; 'amid luilielidhat yourseltand your wife will I use yuttr parental authority t o,p,r,tiatlq,hins tra Isis Notre con t.:valises and M r. lienbow.he was the last w ho bad been d ischarged. He regretted that he had nat , like the Evanses and B en how, duct to behave a* a guod, as a lota'. and a quiet s ubject, re fused to bind himself to snake his appearance. He Men brietly a' i ;on Ac. , • .1 IL HOEHOUSE" s tated the manner in which he was treated is the Court of Kin g' s . Bench, and informed the company, that finding there appeared Thus, after nine months' incarceration. Lord Sirlatouth emi t() be so further business for lora, helical,' letter to the Attorney. sensed to Isis discharge. prociided his father would stop up his arurril the day after his liberation, directing that worthy Gcn- month. —(Lairgh!er ;mil stpptatisr.)—.l int so would his Mn jetty's Hainan to eke Swan with Two Neelis, Lad taste, if he should Ministers stop the mouths of the People if they could t and hate any occasion for the presence of the ail-waled Johnstone, s hould these means he Poona insatticiem, they would then resort or those who were his companions in stiffering.--(laeghter.) , to the Green 113,;:nfot mai imi.--( (oer, sod Isoeliter.)— Ile coo. He nuts begird tcate to :hawk the Iltth Chatrinaa, Lard tolke- cl.al-t! by ob.aisit.g. then 'a it: I rz..- dta E. a,a, t,:i 11aj•-13-1 I S I ~ ;. ~~: F • -,.% • • ' ~.- , iir eft7 , 1 - -45' c. • I.rf • -s • i 3 Ministers had, by their prorfer chester ten thousand times mere and, a: far as his freb:e lowan every thine to promote it, as fit done. for theiPeople of that c prndent l'eopie would go, as under th e 'protection and she • ----- % togs, mhde the People now ritoott3 than they urre pt. 14 %wild on Isii r ade is it ciAld be con/tut iy ay ...mild go tut far man ag a. the. , thought they eve ' er of guild meu.—(Load ap.. plause.) - Mr. DRAPER denied that tpergwas,spe:lshe 4 the period alluded to, coy necessity which sothoriek the introdection of the measures resorted rnao-Ma i nisters and the Green Bag Committee.—(ills was marked with moth-acclamation.) • - • Mr. GALE JONES said, his priacipal object ie rising was to propose that a word inserted 'II out of the Resoletions might be left out, foe the purpose of substituting another. It tots prOPostet• • to the Meeting in one of the Resoluti .ns, to declare. that they viewed with alarm the Suspension ofthe Habeas Corpus. He would consent to a deelaraoo r , that they could view With alarm any manetere.thae; could be ado!ited by so feeble an, Altninstration his th 9 present.—(G res! applamse.)—lle should vriS4 therefore, that the word alarm might he struck. reati for the purpose of inserting that they viewed with ina, dignation sorb a measutP. Ile would beg leave also to offer another Resolution •or their iocceleaace.—e They had all heard with horror the plain onvarnisha. ed tale told by the persons who had that it,, stated their case. Ile was desirous that EpPCific itejole, tioll Illi4ht go forth indicative of the anttorrettre which they held the practice of nsaaacii , g linnose he. ings like so many cattle going to s fair. Toe mortal Sterne had drawn a h.!art.renilieg picture I f the miseries of:solitary confinement ; toot how veal• ly was it aggravated by the add; 104111 cruelty 44 loading a prisoner with heavy irons. Keglishmen had long boasted they were free, and were now to submit to be manacled like wild beasts or cattle sent to a market ?—Was it possible for any msn to h ear the piteous tale told by the injured, insulted, op. pressed individuals who had just addressed them with out feelings of disgust anti inward horror, espe cially considering that they ha.) been torn from so. ciety, shackled like dogs, not like human beings, and immured in dungeons on pretences for which it would be almost a crime to brush a sly from the ta. ble.—( Loud cheering )--An Englishman's heart . : burned with virtuous indignation, when be thought on such horrid barbarities being used, and considered the quarter whence such barbarities were inflicted. --(Cheers.)—At the present moment it was the daty of the rational friends of 8...f00 m to adhere together, notwithstanding the base, insidious attempts, made use of to divide them. Tl:ey had in that Chair a Reformer—a man who had steadily through life ad vocated the cause of humanity, and the principles of the Constitution.—((sheering.)--The Ildrni , of Sir Francis Burdett was justly revered, and not more than due, for he was the unbiassed, unprejudiced, inflesible Patriot. —(Cheers.) —Sir Francis did hii duty, and he acted not from the base motive of seek ing a short.lived popularity, for on the contrary, amidst odium the most unwarrantable and uncalled for, he persevered to discharge his duty as an honest l'atriot.—(Cheers.)—Never could Britain boast of a more disinterested Patriot, never was time a mama who so boldly and manfully scorned the aspersion, cast on his character, whether these asperaieus were uttered by the vile tongue of a pretended, but false friend—(Cries of " Age, thist is Cobbett")—or that of au usurping, tyrannizing despetism. (Overt.) Lae •the frietorts of Reform reme ober the old fable of the bun.. 'tiled sticks. If theydividerl., their energ) was gone ; but let them adhere, and corruption would tremble fro** its.pisonscle. In their worthy and most respectable .Chaitman they had a pledge, that while the People had 'rights, he would be their invariable and un. wearied Champion. Let Englishmen remember the irons these individaals had been (*.tiered with, and let them dead petit on some other day ‘‘ the iron may . „enter their own soots." To be an Englishman and a slave was an absurdity ; and let them !icier forget Cutunibus, who through life bore in mind the indig; uity he had suffered in wearing irons. Mr. Jane, concluded by moving a Resolution to the following effect • That •he subjecting of Mr. Lynnsand his Son,together witlt other., to , runs three days and three nights; was a gross 'into. lion of the law of the Laud, an outrage of honsattity, as in•atir to the whole People of England, derogatory from me character of t•nglishmen, and inconsistent with the principles of the En.; tisk Constitution." JOsLell MITCHELL, of LiverPonl, seconded the Resolution, and proceeded to give a detail of his sufferings while in confinement. Ile then stated the circumstance of his having got into company, while in London, with a notorious fellow who pretended to be a friend to liberty. This fellow was Oliver, and this man he introduced into different parts of the country, supposing him to have been equally friendly to the cause of freedom with himself. He solemnly declared that neither he nor the friend with whom he acted, had ewer contemplated any act of Treason, nor had any other object in view, than that of obtaining a Reform in Par liament by legal and constitutional means. Ile assured the Meeting, that although he had suffered the greatest• hardships by an imprisonment of sis months, and by being reduced to beggary, he was still as hearty in the cause as ever. Mr. WILLIAM CLIFIf then came forward to state a few facts which he thought the Meeting should not be ignorant of. He was, he said, another of these unfortunate men whom the Government had laid hold of as a fit subject for their persecution. Ott the 2011 , May last, as he was quietly working in his shop, man whom he bad never seen before, came in, and asked him whether he would go to a tavern in the town, to see a Delegate from London. At first ite refused, being busy about his work, but the stranger pressed him to go very much, and told him that the Delegate he was to see was expressly sent to Derby by the friends of Reform in London, Sir F. Burdett, Lord Cochrane, and. Major Cartwright. By this coop. ment his curiosity was roused, and he cons,mted to accompany the stranger to the tavern. ',lle *sr introduced to this Delegate, and after some CO"` versation he was informed that his name was Oliver.-- (Loud cries of shame !)—Olicer very freely talked or Reform, and said that the Petitions presented to ear natant were of no use, that they would not be listened to, and that the London people had come to a determination to present no more. This L)e . legate further stated, that the country ions in an or ganized state,_ and that particularly at Le eds it `vs' with great difficulty that ttse People were kert ‘ 1. """ The he said, which Sir Fran "" 4 to bring fctivard iu the Ll2Jse, would no: IN PI