The National Register. — London, England, 1820-01-30 00:00:00

.THE NATIONAL REGISTER. • ( Puv Dinltter COUtiliat'd pp` J..; The noble CHAIRMAN in giving the health of the mem bers for the city ot Norwich, said that Mr. Smith was ab :emir owing to the death of a near relative. Mr H. UuRNLY then returned thanks for himself and es,,league ; and concluded by proposing the health of Lord Dt,ry, and prospt city to the house of (2uiddenhatn. Lord Bun a returned thanks. He was untried in public EA!, and must reter them not to the past, hut to the future Times 01 danger were conning on, Ism those who had to act thdin would not act in darkness 1 hey would have tlit! principles of Fos as a beacon to direct their course. (.h:ers Tri el by )(Iry ; and Lord Ft-A:inc." which w.is ptcf.tcc.l by the animated . euloginto pronounced by Mr. Fos tin that Lord's defence of Lindy &cheer•) " 1. )rd A 11.01% , and thanks to h im for In. patriotic con -t in the county ot StalTord." The Hon G e oe,w. returned thaults• Anson and Mr. Itimbold, with the inZependence of Vartlmmli The Hon. Groans ANsoa •gain returned thanks. The indite CHAIRMAN, in intrtalucing the nest toast to their notice .wli ch was, " A full. fair, and free represen tation in Parliament . ", vont nencva by saving that this wits a suliiect th.n acted like an electric :hock on the people ot exhilarating mime and depressing tithe - s; treated lov one p ,rty a• 3 re;iiedv for every evil. and by the oche, as C.Ot ot every mischief; and by both, in Ilia opitoon, vtrongly t cited. He recollected • reading of a boWing . green that was Illsich frequented by country squires. to ss Lich a gentleman often resorted , we ll dressed, well edit . cited we I ma ntiered, and against whom no vis the cause of . c omplaint c Add lie found. This ind,vidnal WAS, however, slimmed by all the usual frequenter. of the bowling green. and fur no other reason, than because he had once been sits pencil of entrapping a hitch ho s. flood laughter:, In other coarities, for they managed these things better in Nortialk . , an it aal is oi t, n shunned for almost a similar reascia lit may 'pc fair i., his dealings, honest its is prinnples, b;uhe t parmay ty so; rit high, be meet, with g eaeral admire the Prince Regent's government, though th,'re may be some particular pints on which he may have taken of fence against it ; he may dislike the disarnung bill ; he now &egret that lie cannot meet escept in his own psrish Wit Ii more than four or live friends; he may It we perhaps got kis 1ic..41 full of Radicals, may s'trp"sea hundred thousand of them to be ill arms in Isis neighbourhood, though so inany males du not exist in the district; ha may suppose that they have pikes come - Jed, though these can no where be fonod. except in the patterns seat down to the country by , the aecretary of State lie now he shocked at the licentious-, ties. of the press, though he deems it in general, to use the I.lnguage of a great barrister, the 6e:ainel of the state, • the th 1, cunt ot impotore, which, when it sinks, draws along scull it the &gni( y of the pc..yle, and the security of the t !n)r e. He may du and thiiik all tins, and yet he is avoid , ed. Why -ii He either does not go so far as his neighbour, who goes farther on theoretical returns. :ibis is the ease elsewhere, but not in Norfolk; tor here,stid the noble lord, .dre agree to differ. Nothing had yet fallen from him calcu lated to create discussion; but snit he was antitnts to seize on the present opportunity of making known Isis opinion on parliamentary reform. Far many years of his life he had been less a friend of pat liamentary reform than many his political associates; Ile haZl beenmaking certaina that there would be great risk incurred in reform; lie had thought that when once it had been conimeneed, it wool 1 he uiflicult to arrest it; he ha of d thought that it w as likel y to increase the power tic Crown.—and be had had several other reasons for rut s upporting it warmly, which he then deemed to be go od. but wltieli he now knew to be irisutficient reasons. Never. his:eser, did lie think that the cause of re b form could be met by direct :a r g ument; ;or that it could : de fended by common sense, that Castte Rising timid('Di, g• return two 9,r:tubers to Parliament. wilds. Shellield, and ham, and Leeds, :tort Manchester, did not recant tme. He would have prevented the racy ion of Parliamentary reform !rusts being agitated as much as it hid been, by conciliation and good government. Ministers had, however, destroyed his theory, and he was now a friend to returns, aad titat to a eunsicicratteextent, being cottediccil that whittevsr risk night be incurred by promoting rehorm, was a mere lea tiler in the scale when compared witlt the evil already done without it to the constitution. Having stated his ointsopi nion this far, he would stat e how tar lie would go in p renann Ile was for the resluration of ti pa:lie n:cots, though that, tak 0 hy itself, would lie in little ed . vamage. lie was for tot. &sit aochisd -cut of buronglia where ever corruption v.. as CiILiC4VCI; he WM for granting the right tit represe:da:ion to the pupolinis districts, -did tor elend• rug the si.drage every 111.‘11 Coilinbuting, directly to the taxes. 71,e1 c Was Juuther reform more impur.ant even than these: he tre:::tit, the reform withfil the Hunse of CWlllllolis, as to the capability 4.f members lioldnig places sitting there he in. 'I 1.16 V, i but the opinion of an mionleidiv,dual, but beheved A tnat others Lesides lotus l :in had n iceentiv. beem made converts. Each of them separately was humble, and i.lit.ider , thought them so; but it they were uitce united, they would e must 11 ,1',Velful. A loud .-- citeeriil). „ l'uast" I Univer sal 111e.1.11/11 kutleatiou. Toast.—" Mr. Honey wuud, Menalaer fur die county of Air. Ho NEVWOOD returned thanks it, an animated eels, which Ste regret that our limits and time will not allow us to report Ihe hum gentleman atterwa , ifs, at the re•piest tit the Chair:l'4'l,6n% one of MCIOLUCa, O. for the swords ot usher days." 'Toast.—•• Lord Holland. the representative of the name and priori pl,ss ot Fox." Toast ---•• 1 tie kiestora.icil tit the Liberty ot the Pt ess." (cheers.) Mr. CORC proposed " The health of Mr. (lacclonaltl, ti P.— a man whose pubhc apt! pris ate virtues vette tiiiimpeacliable—a matt who-e principles wet e tlu,e ot Mr. Vol, :old whose uudta tiled exertiwis VeCtt ill tits: tit the people." 'I hi; toast was drank with three times three, stud MaSti,llowed by loud ard re t ,,ea;Lil clieet 5. Mr. LI) said th,t whatever e mbarrasmiciat lie e felt at the the wishes given to him as th suggestion or a mail whom Lim meeting empliatic.nly entreat theft own Reort•se,,olliV:, rte was 1101 to HHat:slH; time It tic source from whit :hose wishes came . they came not trim any hunib.c pi etension• of la,, h .t from the auspices tinder winch he %VW. ced •I 11 he acc.ved ut tlic introdu .) the C.:airman it did nut become him to speak ; hat of the le r ald th tor him 1.: could not bean inuiffereut spec.ator• (applause i but pi CHILI:II3s lie was f , out sneaking et the Cii.llllll.lU, lie wou:il spear, to them and say, that the mall Who did not preter the waruoa-un ot suers a pecting to CuLtrt I.I:4tI4ICLAJL:b, V. 43 not an Englishman. lie should say nothing of the illostri ous and noble personages by whom the Chair was support ed. It was auflicient that they bad before them a Prince of the Royal Family, who pledged himself to support the people's, rights, and who as:lotus...le:wed it to be his duty to du so. Having said this, whet mole was left for him its say (loud cheering; ? Oa the other side he saw the premier Peer of England i a man who did honour to his title, but who Was excluded, by his rel gious opinions, from an equal participation in the blessings of that Constitution which his ancestors assisted its forming. And why should he, who lied foregone many of the advantages, hut none of the true dignities at his tit:tvon, be thus excluded on account of his religious adherence to a particular torn) of worship ? But to retire. He saw. besides those ilhutrious peramiages, set of tree and independent men assembled together, to promote, and wish Cod s leave. to perpetuate Brttish free dom, by doing homage to a man whose soul iiiwas wrapped in the liberty of his country. (cheers.) Every dependent mind nos: feel stronalv on such an occasion; and he was glad to see many Geatlenteu present, who came fresh and reeking from the sacrifice of the people's rights, raider it take feeling of illusory pine. Flavin witnessed such a scene, it sails tin wonder that they shout(' tools with eagerness to such a meeting Where were they to assemble and lamest what was lust, or tally round what remained 01 public liberty, unless at the thrills of Charles Fox ? It was now It year. ,once the decease or Mr. fox. Perhaps it was neces sary that a little time should elapse, in order to throw into the shede any objectionable particle 01 a great man's charac ter, and in order to tulle Ming out the ins re. splendid light of his immortal character. It was lord against Mr. losonat he had not done enough. True, he had slot done enough, ii the measure were to be the great power of Ii s mina. But then, let those who made the (injection, look to the ditlical • ties wills which he lied to contend, and then the wootter woidd.lme how he had dona so much. It w.'s known that Mr. Fax was king an object of jealousy to the Court. He apposed himself to the Allletican war; Inc o pposed himself to the French war—where sw.s he adequately supported? flie result or this want of sepport wAi the Coalition, the immediate consequence tit which necessarily was a tempo rary loss of popuiarity But it never could be said that he had fur a 11101114:11t cons period:meal his great political principles —that lie had ever !oat sight of the rights of the people. But even it this were a stain, it was wiped away by his emancipation et the Slave. (cheers.) Let it he recol lected too flit hi:Jest act was an attempt to do away with religious tests 'or civil olliees "%VII% ,it the catalogue of .lr. Fos', irtues wee to stop here ,he would be eutitled to glory, v and relic; r nations would beatow though we denied it But, as it had been eloquently put float the Chair, be placed the Press of this commutry upon a rock tit adament, le.onnz its guilt or innocence to ue decided by a 131 it alt Jury. (applause ) Witea the me.istires of last session came across hi. mind. the recolleetion was odious as the transition was revolting, fruits remax,( whom the Regent was proud to call friend) to the utopeakable littleness of the pre:watt Ministry. Lea no: disgust, however, hurry him into iojuatice. !'here w. 5 one of the Ministers to whom they we, e indebted, and that Minister was slow partakiag the fie:d spot:: of the country its their neighhournomd •lb Inns it was that they owed the liberty they emijoyed of meeting ia th a Hall; notwitisoanding the frown of a lord lieutemmut or the veto of a Magistrate. Fur thare was a power to-Mod, which was reedy and for ever :, disc erive them uf ate lemerty of holding catch mia (-tangs. even my Loth Castlereagh, ashamed to go so tar. atepaed in between the aeople and those who would further oppress them. at .tirvt Inc mea sures intended to he brought forward were at it very slider ent nature from those now in force. Minister , had con• certed a measure a hundred-told worse than that of now restraininia the Liberty of the Press, and in order to teel their way, had circulated it privately among booksellers Rut the booksellers remonstresed so powerfully against it, that it was withdrawn. Thia circular had been sent with an understauding that it was to be kept private,. and accord ingly it never saw the light. Minim-tees having, as t he! ) , conceived, /passed bill, enough, refused to inquire into the state of the country—monstrous alssuramity ! Let them ask the ma nnfacturer—let them ask the farmer—let em sk the philanthropist, who best knowa as he most th seeks a to know, what the distresses of the country are ? Let them ask their calculating Mr. Vansittart whether the revenue has not fallen off from one to two nmilliomot Such state of the conotr y, that lie might say with the poet the " Thy sack'd inhabitants rep i ne, complain, Tex'd 'till the brow of labour sweats in vein. War laid its burdens tin a reeling state, And peace does nothing but declare the weight; Successive loads succeeding broils impose, Aid sighing millions prophesy its else."—(cheats.) After several observations on the evil.; produced by the e,trictul issue ut paper money, the irjurious effects of successive loans, and the „rieceasity retrenchinetit economy;anol be.eshorted them to act with Ulattomity, with out u netniMity it -.vas impossible that a Reform in Parlia ment could be achieved. tie concluded by sincerely thank Mg them for the honour conferred upon him. Toast.—" Sir R.• herguson m"—who let urned thanks. The Doke tit Sussex. in rising to pronoae as a toast," The Indeimendent Yeomanly (it the Cammity of Norfolk,' said, that he could not a dequately describe them as they were, and should therefore attempt to describe them by stating celiac they were not. It was not the gallant Yeomaury. of Nor hml ie who would have galloped into a peacealmle meeting. A,t2MI , IC .1 tot peaceable purposes, there to cut down melt, women, and children. iloud cheers.) Neither were there ill Norfolk inag•sit amt., s , hu would have given orders to sic ii an effect ; and if they had been gives, the Yeomanry of Norfolk would have paused before they esee teed them. Cloud cheers.) lie was utie of .hose who believed the Yeo• maitre to be the constitutional force of time country—but:rid to preserve peace and good order, not to be the first to violate and destroy it. kchi:et.). He wished the Ye, e manry throug h o ut the comery to he viewed wi th re spurt - and .. el he thought the ye.eery at Nortola. IID 141: what the aticieist yeomanry of the county were, and at what they (male to be. (cheers.; 11e A ttVi,tal them to stick to their sights, co staimd by the Constitution ; and if they did co, he commld a so m ie timman they would always lied those who would stand by them Meetings like time present were tit imaleinable au vammtage. Ile winder not have come doom to thia had he hot thougot res. ..ao order from a noble Jai a, or a sign manual Irvin another iihn.e. Clitild tint have brought hint dovi , ll, had h e d isa pproved alt: lint Meeting at they u.eu did (Mika vially, they could discuss impurtatst leshjects us a - - and convivial manner. They could not, indeed, exactly march about with bloody-looking flags, and other dismal emblems, which had been invented to frighten the timid; though if tiny were to have the word " Norfolk" on their flags, or esen " Liberty or death," he thought it would bc ditlicult to prove that such inscriptions were unconstitu• tional. (cheers.) " Liberty or death." continued his Roy:t! Highness, " why, I confess, that I would rather have deatl'. than lose my - liberty.' (loud cheers ) Those who did wit think bberty worth fighting for, did not deserve to enjoy it. (cheers.) Keeping these points in his mind, he would give The independent Yeomanry of Norfolk:" and as he had doubt that these things would, sonwhoss.: or other, as wa. the phrase elsewhere, (laughtero get into the public print., he would just remark upon an expr::ssion used by Ministers, —that the agriculture of the country was in a state of re pos:: H.: wished that those who had used so though:leo, au espression. were in the same state of repose : but from such evils he-hoped that he might without being profane. say, " The Lord deliver us, and the rest of the community." loud cheering.) Several other toasts were given, among which were "-Carl Grey, and the Whigs of England ; " ‘• Duke of MiliOn, and the Whigs of Scotland;" " May we dye to seL the right of petitioa restored." After which Mr. Taylor sang the following song, in the chorus of which the whole cotu pany, including his Royal Highness, joined : The trumpet of liberty sound. through the world. And rite uni verse starts at the sound; Her stand ird l'lolosophy's hand h u unfurl'd, And the nations are thronging around. cllUitUS tall! fall: fall: These are the days of liberty ! • Fall, tyrants, fall ! Pow noble the ardour that seizes the soul ! How it bur,t, from the yoke and the chain 1 What power eau the fervour of Freedom control, Or its terrible vtneanee restrain! Fall, tyrants, fall! Proud castles of despotism, dungeons, and cells, The tempest shall sweep you away ; From the east to the west the dread hurricane sa•ell<, And the tyrants are chin wit!' dismay. tyrants, fall'. 1 . 1 Cleve on whose neck the proud despot has trod, Now feels that himself is a man, While the lordly usurper who ruled with a nod Hides his head 'midst his servile divan. 'Fall, tyrants, fall ! Poor vasals who crawl by the Vi,tula's stream, Hear' hear the glad call And obel ! Rise, nations who worship the sacred bean, And drive your Piz4rros away. Fall, tyrants, bll I The cruel dominion of priestcrait it o'er— thinukri, its tuggots, 'And ch tots Mankind will endure the vile bondae no more, While religion our freedom maintains. Fall, tyrants, fail ! Sh ill Britons the chorits a liberty hear With a cold and olsetibible mind No• the triumphs of freedom each Briton shall share, And contend for the rights of mankind. tall, tyrants, frll ! &c. 4 4 'Me hr,ttth at the strangers who honoured the meet ing Nish tha ir c bt•eu drank, Lord \lolintu (ao,lßattlott bantlaril severally re. thankc. The ileAilil e,t `• i h Rev. Mr. Newcombe mid A illermen Fos'. s" be-•n 111'4 .cs sally etitnied thanks. Cie Until Mail then g•ave." Mr. SlieriiiTaylor , who was retinue , ' to his 'Aire isy the free voice of his fellow•eiti zei.s."—Tins watt %tat tiratik with three limes time, was twig %%amity reeekvil by the svinile roma. Mr. 5114141 . 4% LON remitted ilialiks in a very appro priate speech. 111, said, in roost old times all Sheulis isare e retell as he had had the tumour to he—by the elusive of the people. Ileh.d always Jeri tea lilt. ii inialn of Mi. alit: he was now snore than ever eisisvinceil that Le. full representation was the only thing that emslil erne oar Duke ..t Norfolk, anti il to assure his fellow citizens, that lie vainest mote the :4110111ton, buttons they lion, than ally which it wait p.p. , Ode for li.J.Ver tii He pieties alt himself to ragwort, as far as iii him by, the rights and psi %elegem of Isis fellow citizens. The 11P1i.l toast N ad, " Tile %vat of Habeas Corpus, one of the ressusining rights in the people.' 'flit CIIAIItYAN, Ist tlposior to:0, sail, that trathis waswasOtte ..1 oar rerentliliesties, bee:inset Nlinis dated not tomhh it. He repeated they &nett wit. Tli cre t . w as mote pithlie spirit Etie %%II Oil the last suspension at (het Act 111.19 tot any previous or subseqeunt qrankuestion. Tn e health of the St-tvAl its been d, Aide, Willi Ma1t...11 'Tint tied than rl ks. next Wei e. — a Ea Eitzwilliam, the man the whose vimiluet has ter guilt: the trite test of pats iotiou." " Lailies of the t;iiiinty." 111 r. Cube. alien plops:sett that the Earl or Albemarle sl be the Chan mais ins the enststrig Anni%ersary.— This wait iVed with. tlic triost lively suet ks of sat isfac mull. 'lice Earl of A Lot:maitre hoped they wonlit have the presence of thc Duke of NII•Ne% dell ye•tr, as hi" eetiotiii 4111 kindeepss lied endeared him to she citizens, of \orNlrit. It' It'll 1 1 1i11..111t11 by the psispostil that he tt lit bit the ctwal next yeiis , hilt lie ti iiiii l his worthy t s iessit. tire 1)11 Is lit \milhli. atilt Coke, ought to that Isimossi able ratuation iii astir tutu‘. Ile sees 1101 lu the mean untie eitt.tg to play the Is µum say that lie was not mond of such a situation. lie itiit the high est distinetion that puucr bi stow. M.:11 l their tills WAS Isis ti.•te. His tin) Duke 111 Sit.ise‘, attctolyd the .111.1 !lII' uihor V 11.11.100, 111 Ibe 101 iiiii It•tllr.t ,it hs lt pal( Ulle t;CIU/ s k Mel:ling bloke up a1t0:4,-ow' Lit t aU. D'ilin^ Ihr e""" n gi so ngs and glees mile sting b. Mr all, Mi. Rsrruu, Ms. Dili , lit, tl ) biy ins. All. 1 uungt, MI.:100w; Mr. U. Clark, anti 311# JUIw to) Ivr,