The Statesman. — London, England, 1822-12-26 00:00:00

t * ~i NORFOLK. : .6. 4011MIMIla r- NORFOLK COUNTY MEETING. TO TOR LANDLORDS AND DRS OP TES COV:iTT OP Keneing ton, Dec. 25,1822. OINTLIIIgh-11 read, in a paper called the Norwich I Mercury, an account of a Meeting of the County of Norfolk being about to take place. I see the requisi tion, signed by a great number of person.; and 1 also see that the High Sheriff has appointed Friday, the 3d day of J y, for holding the Meeting. As an Englishman 1 should have a perfect right to offer you ivy adtic. 'upon this occasion ; bat beteg, as 1 am, a freeholder Vibe County of Norfolk, 1 think it my duty to &lit; not because I have any right to suppose my self better informed they you ; but because I see, in the Norwich Mercury above, me. tioned, very strenuous endeavours made to prevent you from uder, at the ensuing Meeting, any thing like effectual Heim. The requisition states the object of the Meeting to be, to take into consideration the unprecedented die 4 . tresses of Agriculture, and the beat means of relieving " those disttestes.".. To take the distresses into consi deration je not much more necessary than it would be to take the weather into consideration, or the soother of days in the year, or Any etteste'shitste that ii perfectly uotorionit; ,but to take inset.tonsideration ; that is to say, to drink of, to ensgeet is tio peopose, to discuss, the feet medal rleSTlitleng •illeef distresses, is, indeed, a . most iMpOrtant mother: a matter requiring a knowledge • of the !elect, spirit to propose eff:ctual means of relief, ;and tench patience, impartiality and mute* Indulgence . of each other, in the discussing of those des.. It would have been pleasing, therefore; -to see, in. . ; 'Newspaper of this great county, which newspeperaffeete •to be a guide is these matters ; it would have been pleasing to see all premature discussion, on the subject, abstained fronikShis Dews-paper; or, if it iheeght it its duty to prepeve its raa aa s fur the Meeting by pre vious discussion, It would have been pleasing to see 't , suggesting sonic, at least, of the things which it loarditl upon as proper to be prayed tor, as the means of tenet The paper in qnestion haii, I am sorry to perceive, takes a course very different from this. It has pointed out, one means; one particular means, which it seems to be • pretty certain, will be proposed to the meeting ; and it' has not only reprobated such proposition before hand, bit has indulged itself (for it would really seem to he • happy while it is employed In abusing), it has indulged itself id censuring, nay, in vilhifying the parties from whom it expects that such preposition will proceed..So that, if this paper were to have the effect, in this case, seldeb i obviously desires to have, the ineetiew would • MI6 pinta. under a restraint imposed upon i; not to - listen to this reprobated proposition. This Is worse, * - thliM any partiality that can take place at the meeting . for it is actually destroying the liberty: amen this one day's liberty, of the oppressed parties, befoul they meet to disease the means of obtaining relief. The particular proposition allnded to, U Hist for a /Worm of the mouse of Common*. Certain)y this pro. pdvitiou may be made with perfect consistency; for the requisition states, thit the Meeting Is to take place for the purpose of taking into consideration the best means girsaering the distresses of the Landlords and Farmers. 1; therefore, it be the opinion of any our, that there ire no effectual means of relieving these dist scithoat a Reform of the Rouse of Common.; if there be any one who is of this opinion, or, if his opinion be, • that such a Reform would be amongst the best meansof ' • ohtaining the desired relief; if either of these be the' case, is such person not to be permitted• to propose such ' Worm ; end is he to be darted before hand, and retire- Seated as a person wishing for plunder, because he is • oespected of entertaining the intention to make such proposition to the Meeting? Gentlemen, if you admit this to be right, yod at once sanction the dectrioe, that • a County Meeting really is afarce. I elioold, as I said before, have left the whole of the • subject to he discussed at the ;meting. I should have thought ir, not only presneminons, but extremely inile . carom., eery nntair, and very offensive to yon, to attempt ' to forestell the discussion iu any manner or through any channel ; lint the publication above mentioned, renders it neo•erery that some one should rebut the censure 'which - has thus been passed before hand ; and, as I • happen to have in my bands the ;neves of endeavouring, at least, to do this, 1 shall, with your indulgence, make that endeavour. It is always right, on all occasions, to hear both sides. ' I Will therefore, first lay before yon this article of this Normich Mercury (of the 21st of December), to which I have been alluding. I shall number the paragraphs, • lest I should have to refer to particular parts of them ; and 4 request your attentive perusal of the whole piece of writings I request vou to read and to judge without prejndire ; and if you find any thing ins the shape of ar. lettment here, which is mot successfully answered by me, • yonr decision will be against my opinions and in favour of those of this writer. THE APPROACHING COUNTY MEETING. 1. Our readers will see by the loag list of names which • this day occupies our coiscona, that this business is really an object, of deep interest with the respectsibie m•euplers of the soil. At the name time they who are anxiossly employ ed in beginning this conatilutionsl and rational advents to wards redress, cannot but harp parer/eft that calumny and a principle. Itspolistble, still more asaligneet, are at work to defame the proeee•!ings beige. Mind, or to nullify them In their progress. The mole (Merida they probably mill them selves) of Ministers are most eager to represent all such meetities es yot up for mere putty purposes. and to sustain their charge; they anticipate. that to lutrrass their Idols the Ministry is the real purpose, RIM that to this Intent the (legation of gamin Iles lathe bottom. and will appear epon the surface—that to told out what are known to be the gee swine ono praiseworthy motives of the movers of the meet lug, In a tallowy put f.wth only to cajole the supporters of Government Into assisting, or If such be the only ends of the Committee; that there era partizans who will overrule this design. atol turn the whole matter their own way. Tnis is the Mitsisteriel method of assailing meetings for the pur pose of petition. • 2. On the ottlee sides few but desperatelY factious men, who are labouring to exasperate the minds of suffering in dish:ea:a, to break down all respect to persons or to con dition. and to was* a war against property, who put for ward Reform as a pretext, but whose real aims are laid bare by their Inveterate malignity easiest every, one above themselves: thin very ergotl but desperate faction, we soy. is on the other baud. endeavouring to drive the meeting into 'the adcption of a resolution for Reform. If Reform makes no part of .its objects, then, according to them, the whole will Ise as coating. 3. It resin rev but a very little common sense to see to the bottom ot these shallow and violent pretenders on both Sides. The one set wishes to stifle an those just complaints of the suffering classes which declare, is language not to be misunderetond, the errors—the unpardonable errors of an Administration which have brought more misery upon the country tnan could possibly have been imagined could. from any wisiskanagenannt, attend a period, end a lung period _ _ - , €00:4 THE STA T 1 of mei Wed Sealy, and that too lab lealltitey bloused be - landed former axperiesoe by arts, by iodedry, by wealth. and by abundance. According to the creed they inealeste. Ma, ward, and misery are only a pert of the nature of things. and can by no (hence be attributable to artificial or political eatt.es: " Tfme And patience," or rather t‘ suffer and be still." it ever their remedy—lt wee so when the sr tittles of klanchester sad Glasgow were all but perishing by the severest want, and they hold the seine doctrine now that the distress has shifted, now the farmer is sinking into the geiph of reedlike, and the labourer wandering about in hopeirs idleness—rescued from starvatkon by alms, by parish allowances. os by petty plunder. Under these af flictions. they work upon the fears of the minority who pos• sees property, by alleging that *I desire of amendment Is but to disturb the Uovernmentt—to gratify the private am bition of one party, whi..linime lobe at the head of affairs — or of another, which hopes to pall down Ilse whole social edifice. 4. On the other head, the band of, demsmesiewe who decry every thing above theesselar, futon spit acknowledged imperfectious, and attribute every evil to one cause. With the lowest cunning, the most inveterate and the :post de testable and black-hearted malignity, they adopt language exactly suited to tire earteity, the passities:4ll4lnrlpathies, jealoasies, and the ;miletl)ttles of the labouring climes, or of that order just above thall, whom they endeivoer to irri ate into hatred waled their superiors, and hilly into in eerrection—lf Indeed they have any object beyoad their •wo paltry pairs float selling the mental poison they thus torculate. But is there a men frith the steeliest portion of ammo. sense. who can imagine that any thing is to be geleetiti, the eouatry by such ezfrennt Tnese two lac thous only do each other's work. Tne one by rejecting all improvement, may drive the people to desperation—the other by the terrors of plunder and confusion, do frighten them le' , a 1 submission as the least of the two -as into encondiUonii evils. Hach are the aims anti such the erects wrought by these violent and opposite factions. We shall of course be understood as speaking still of the fow—for such baseness and such bitterness are too repugnant to human nature to be the attributes of many. 6. It has been our constant endeavour to expose the In juries whieh both are beeping upon the British nation, and to Wes far as in us lies, a just, an impartial, and a useful view of public affairs, yet neither to preach indi ffereucy nor rebolgoo. his, we ere persuaded. within the competency of thienteanest individual to aid the cause of his country by a prudential but err exercise of those powers with which he is emlotreci, according to his-degree. Thus in relation to the County meeting, the subject of our present specula tion..-.we eay it is within the competency of every fuser to make hie voices to be heard—te twist upon the admitted grimes** of a taxation which, pressiog peculiarly twos bte commodity, sod upon his pares, in the first Instance oar- Toms conaniaptioe, and In the last lays epos his shosidsep the burden Of maintaining the clergy area the poor, a bunked he can rainier alleviate nor throw upon the caasumoo, cause there is ever opposed to him. (as. for the sake of that nation, there ought to be) the foralgo conlopetition lie Itho therefore a right to pecielier ,eitaseptiona, and vivito-9d eating his own cause in ;nese parameters. *al &man the reduction of those lima wlddil rose most hardly Mtn, he it fact stiviseates th e guest WOW.. It Ist b ever the more incumbent upon hlui to avoid woo lb. Mewl of motives which may weaken his claiss--aad we owe. teed •It is not only pptitic.• bat min In perry ache.. to 4p claim every topic which can justly be eborged to seesaw lag of party. or of prejudice. Weagalothereforq asp the comity the oreeaslty of avoiding art . meastioa of reform at dim aseeMg, el remotely connected with !Wt. benefit, It forme port aL the immediate objects to be souk.% ea Ms oceasivs. We recommend that so 'limbo to it should be iedulged or em duretL' We would hese the lauded totercat allow that they are above the rose:Acton, impudently 'end imolently laid linos thoor—that they disdeie to solicit the mactioa of the County to one thing while they pion another, and inaat ttota hope is to effect a cedilla poidtive good by means theameng4 prudential aid direct. We have aoma personal kaomiertms of moat (alio ttestimmen composing the Committee, and, we heel no other authority than the etoofidenne Olio sequel* Rocs with character supplies, we should not hesitate to re- peat, Oust such are tilq ends and such are the means to which that very respectable body has addressed its exer tions.. 6. Net Shot they (as a majority) or we are a whit less friendly to reform thou heretofore. On the contrary, some Of the most determined advocates for the necessity of using every effort to procure that most desirable measure are to be found anioe.gst its members. These gentle:SW however are convinced of the 'minim of endeavouring to procure an swains.= expresslou of tic. general feeling velqi regard to reduction of taxation, and other pasitive melanins of re lief foe the agriculturist. For ourselves, we hope very soon to see the example of Yorkshire substantially followed up by Norfolk, sad milk a spirit that shall adroit on quest* as to the opinions of the great bulk of Its Inhabitants. We hope to see a requisition signed by a prodigious and over-, w,heltnine multitude of 'mines addressed to the High filietilf f6r 'meeting. to petition expressly for Reform. nut let the Reformers be guided to thei , object by that temper and jedgmeut which can Shane ensure success. To suppose that vulgarity aid ruffian violence can have any such efficacy, is 1 1 to believe that the intellect of the country is to be scared from its propriety, and the natural power which accompa ides rank, wealth and sound sense, together with the strong combinntion and mutually protecting Intiesee they afford, are to be overturned by coarse language and vulgar vio lence—nlike despicable and despised by all sober minds, by all who hare any well grounded hope or any real title to lead opinion. Englishinea are not to be bullied luto the support of any cause. Of all the Injuries that Reform has endured, it has been exposed to none so bitter as the feroci ous revolutiouary vehemence of the seditious press In its be half ; and it is not without some chew of reason that the Ad ministration has bees suspected of keeping lit pay some of its most popular writers, since nothing has so much aided their continuance in atm These writers and these sloes have afforded Ministers the pretexts they luterpase for post poning reform, and have intimidated moderate end good men from all endeavours to correct the abuses that bare crept into s Constitution, admitted to afford the finest mo del of freedom, with time and circumstances. Rot for them the hody of reformers would have numbered in its roll every Englishman who is not bribed by the plunder of the country to betray her vital interests. For ourselves we are completely convinced of the necessity of reform—a necessity we Indeed believe to be so losvitable—that unless it be (as It will be) granted to the petitions of the people, it will be extorted from a reluctant Government in tim last resort— by force. We shall therefore continue to sdvneate this grand object steadily and sincerely—through goo:I report and through evil report—and as truth always prevails et last, we lance no fears as to the reception our principles and opinions will meet amongst that class of persons whose es teem alone we seek--those good and wise supporters of their country's peace and their country's benefit, who de , tote their wbought services, undauntedly and firmly, to these their sole, these their noble sobjects. We have s per feet reliance on the practical sense of the iohabitants of our district, end we are quite at ease es to the judgment they will form concerning our intentions and our abtlities. We were the first. t h e very first.to foresee sad to forewarn them of the coming storm, and they have not we know forgotten it. They have slued had plenty of materials for 44% 1 termlning whether we have imam to delude the Fartsen l into any other beiiet than that which bat scoceirds with his interests—namely. the belief that his condition can only be bettered by a constant end • to bring down his rent, taxes. and other ont-go ups, to a fair level with the price of his commodity. and if he cannot obtain these emit 'all other ends by constitutional and temperate remedies, the necessity of recurrence to those of the last resort will be declared to be inimitable by circumstances, which we trust in Ood are at a distance yet too vast to be Perceptible to human intelligence. We preach neither abject submission nor insurrection. We reject both remedies as alike insp. plicable to the national disorder, and are free to avow that we should carry the first to the furthest Ratite of endurable extremity, before we should consent to the adoption of a scheme of redress Involving such certainty of universal evil as the last ; and In these sentiments we are quite sure every wise sod good mau will concur. R -~ tientlemen, yon will have found here &treat deal of matter not at all belonging to the subject; a great des; oPpersortal allasiott: an astonishing abundance of eri. initial imputation, without the smallest attempt at proof to support it; a surprising overprodoettou of virulence end a not less uncommon lack of charity. One would have thottglit, that, en an occasion ito serioos,aud, when persons like you waists be addressed, the appeal might hove been to sober reason and in plain language; end eat to vulgarpasston, in a strain of unmeaning bombast. However, we will pus over all the vehemence and situ. peratinn of this production ; we will leave the author to keep for his proper use and enjoyment all his charges, against (ion knows whom, of polling down the social edifice ; of detestable and black-hearted malignity; o exciting to hatred of superiors, and the like; we *ill leave Mm to rojoy the honour of accusing onaamed per. sons of :editions intentions; of accusiog them of the most nicked and detestable designs against the peace of the community, while be accuses the goeernntent of leering them to do what they are doing; while he accusal the government of keeping in their pay these popolar writers. who are labouring, to destroy ail order and Mr. fate; and who wish for nothing bet an typortunitt of ' plundering their:richer neigleboare : we will leave the polite end consistent gentleman to keep theserare tiifngs r for his own private emoymeot, and will proceed to en . (pit...into the deep of this long and incoherent arias of sentences. This drift, Dentlesites, may be expreesedin the (oblates ing propositions ; namely, I. That effectual relief can be obtained without a Re ;form of the House of Commons. 2. That, to pray fur a Reform, at this time, would haveatendency to prevent the obtaining of relief throngb other means. 3. That, therefore, you ought not, upon this occasion, to pray for a Reform. *Now,Gentlenien, I am of a contrary opinion- 1 sty NO to every one of these propositions ; and I ant now, with doe submission to roar greater experience and better judgment, Rimini to oker to you, in as Meer a manner es my abilities will enable me to do it the rearms* on which I found this negation. I. So far im I from agreeing in the proposition that re lief can be obtained without a Reform, that I am of opi Mon that any measure that can be devised by man, abort of Reform, would, if possible, add to the distress. To attempt to show this is not nee sssss y at present, all that is required of me being to show, that, without Reform, you can obtain no effectual relief. What are the things that you wept done? This gen. tleman,whom I am aasweridg, talks, in his fifth para. graph, something about ta.vation: " the grievances of taxation." He talks also about a something that " nar rows consumption." He afterwards talks about a " re duction of taste." What hs says is very indistinct. In deed ills perfectly unintelligible. Every line shows that be rather worse than understands nothiog of the matter; becaose, to be in error with regard to a thing, is worse ' thao ever so have heard of that thing. However, it does-come out, in a sort of incidental way, that tins gentleman means that the meeting should pray to be re lieved from a part, at least, of the pretreat teestion.Now, then, this reduction of taxation, to be of any effect; to Word any thing like relief, Mut &claw. It cannot be large without a large reduction of the interest of the without s large reduction Iseult is the army rx ti a large redaction is all the poleffis as es, pensions, sinecures, pay and expenditere of every description. Every man can no* see, that it is the sixty millions a year in taxes, which are taking away the rents of the landlords, after having taken away a very large part of the cap . tal of the farmers. Every man now sees that weare got to the prices of 1790; that we are feat getting to the currency of 1790; bet that we have forty millions more of taxes to bear than we bad in 1791 l ; and every man sees, that these forty millions are taken from the landlords, from the farmers, from the labourers. and from all the trades and employments depesdeat in any way upon the land. Therefore, the object to be obtained is; or rather, the principal object, for I bare others to speak of by-and bye : the principal object to he obtained as, the striking off of these forty million' of taxes. To call npun the goverment to takeoff forty millions of taxes, without, at the same time, pledging yourselves to support the go veroment in the necessary reduetions.• would be to art the part of PNARIIOII and his taskmasters. To call upon them to cease making their demands upon you, ithout giving them an assurance that you would sup port them io refusing the demands of others, would be to expose yourselves, not only to the reproache of the Ministers themselves, but to the reproach of every just god reasonable man in the world. The Debt never can be reduced in any considerable degree without some new arrangement as to what is called the property of the thatch. In short, all parties tuna make some sacrifices; and do you think that this party, the Clergy, are to be exempted ? If you book at the Church and look at the Army ; if you look se:the pensions, sineccres, grants and public-pay, can you imagine that the House of Commons, as at present con stituted, will ever make the necessary reductions and arrangements/ It is impossible that you can so think. You must think with Mr. /Inman, who, in signing, lately, a requisition for a County Meeting, relative to the Tithes, in Ireland, pat after his name these words: " hut I am satisfied that, until we have a Reform of the " House of Commons, the tythetowner and tythe-proc , " tor, will continue to he the scourge and the torment "of the country." Such most be yunr opinion in this case, if you only take a look at the parties ; if you only see who they are. You must be convinced, that with the Parliament, as it now stands, nutting effectual can be done in the way of reduction; and, of Course, nothing effectual in the way ot relief. I may be asked, why, then, I would petition this same body to reform themselves? If I see that their close connection with a part of the met-fivers of the forty millions; if I see that they have interests that ',bold prevent them from making the redactions, what recital hare I to support, Mat they vita consent to pat Cato ether hands the power of snaking those very red - swims*! But, you will please to observe, that there are two sets of interests at work here. Interests that belong to the landlord; and interests that belong to the placewan; tier pensioner, the sinecnrist, the grantee, the army, and the church. Now, I am of opinion, that the Interests which i belong to the landlord, will very soon be found to bel beyond all measure mere powerful than the other set of interests, and the ins is of the landlord call decidedly for a large redaction of the interest of the Debt. New, observe how the landlords are situated with regard to this debt. They, in the manner that we know very well, have all along returned a majority of members to the House. They. therefore, Gave been the borrowers Veit money; time contractors of the debt. I du not say with any evil design. I do not impute any bad motive. But south is the fact. And do . you not see, that it is utterly impossibly, that they, of themselves, and without being joined or countenanced by the people at large, should propose and carry through a t which should largely reduce the int f that debt? Do you set see how they are tied to it like'a boll to the stake; bow they are tied to their own rain and to ours along with thesis; and yet how impossible it is, that they should, of themselves, extricate either themselves or ? When Pitt found himself wound op in inextricable dtfticalties by the war, lie stepped out ofodice, and let another wake ' the peace. Mr.Canoixo has told as about two red hum : we could tell him about on. lion, though not • red one ; and that is the lion, which the fable that we - ---ne - have read to our grandmothers, tells as was caught in the toils of the ionnter, and was fortunately released by the nibbling, of the mortar. Oar lion* are now as fairly caught as ever that bon was. We indeed are cangtt along with them. If they will not permit es to swift A m, all o f as mist suffer together; but it they won permit us to do it, and is tine, there is still safety hr thew Bud hoppineas for as all. What whims poin t , out to thews, therefore, locker eectugh ; and 1 thi n k t h at . , we pay th em a compliment rather than otherwise, in pre/timing that they will Woe to the dictates tt wisdom. 2. Yet owe Norwich Mereory contends, that, to pray for reform, et this time, would here • 'mi nty . secs too prevent the obtaining of relief Bonner Mime i emsome. And sow, I pray you,. gentlemen, to se e t w o o tide Wares with the other pets of the writing W ove , as. In these other parts, this writer says, not only that • reform is a measure of justice; sot only that it is peep er regs•Toikelsire to petition for reform; not only that Nor.' 'folk olio, and all other counties, night to peti•tog for reform ; not only that he is comp/ado consioced if w e necessity of reform; bet that Worm must he .ranted, or "Ind id will doe snorted finest a relectant goveramtif . , as wafter' Well thee, who can Say more than Um efeept this writer himself, who afterwaios I ..y s , t h at 1 ,; will advocate the cause of reform ..birottch good repot s and throogh evil report ;" and who adds to that, that it he meet obtain a nnlress of grievances by misfile. Ilona, and temperate remedi-e, be will join in dielarice "the sects:fry termini's:to Meat si s Lit list resort.." '' And, WI the very same paper in which be lisp tLii,lo, hes the charming sonsistency to beg you ant to pt. ? for reform at this time, because he W persuaded, moo. indeed, convinced, that each prayer would preoext pm Awn receiving relief through other means: Ile wis you. that the thing is jest. He tells you that the thi:s c us ~e cemp o 4 . He tells you that the Wag will be wait ed by force, If not granted to your prayers; he !pitapat, almost in so many words, that you would b-fiumiffeef to A i l ing thiefuste, in ease of refusal ; and yet be tetia sex . *a to proyfor it, lest those to whom you address the prayer. should refuse you relief through other them. ' That is to say. be 'mold have you piped relief from use whom be regards, or, at least, whom ha rep.. mots, as so unjust and so tyrannical as to Weser.. n lief through tither me ths, merely because yen prayed f r afro and neasseary reformat the tame time Hut fog suggested those other means ! I. And, only think of, at this time! Why at this awe. above ail others ? You wait Reform, bee owe you wa t t relief through the Reform. if you could obtain efettgut relief without !Worm, the business would he tient. It is that what yes want the Reform for. Effecteal schist and Protectioa ace the very 'eels of Reform. Bat the wise man is for your getting all you wait first; getting redress of ail your grievances; getting justice and hap pidess and peace and harmony; and then for wait of t something else to do, getting • Reform of the lioaseet Commons 3. This preposition is already by implication, answered t because, out of this writer's own useeth it is' proved, that you ought to pray for R form et fosse i thing, it beige . monstrous to suppose apt any prayer can obtain effectual relief from as amenably sapablegf; acting spun motives so fistula and so Wedictive at thesis which bo has them& likely to exist. 3ut gentlemen, is there nothing else to induce you of the Comfy ot Norfolk not falsest without praying for Reform? This writer speaks of tbe County of rose*; sad what is the County of York to think of you, if, amongst tie" lust " mates" of restoring the country to hamairossa yea gi nut include Reform ? I ask eta what toe County Ina York is to }hide of yaw ; and I ask you boom you ars supporting the County of York, 'if you declare (as yea will do if you follow this writer's advice) that Reform is sot amongst the best mesa of reiloring to you that happiness which you hare host ? What 4110 is to be thought of you by the Oottisty of Dame, who, dead as a clod for so manv years, is now about to meet to petition for Reform ? ilea are shout to take the lead; and I beg you to bear that in mind. And shall it be said o!yor„ always heretofore the foremost in dehag your duty ; always the foremost in expressing your abhor • wince of iujostice and corruption ; shall it be said of y. , 1 that you now shrink from the tweet, and strive to r•a relief by licking the ground before the belly of t..e Viper? I ate by se means initiates epos the subject; for I sm sure that you will do your Juty. Bat, as I iatimattot before., there are other things brsides a Ketone of. the Parliament, to be taken into view upon this occasion.— If this gentleman had been distinct p if behest told yes what he would permit you to pray for, as well he wbst he would not permit you to pray for. we might hawed..• cussed the whole business with him before head. I slosi not attempt to enter into a detail of what ought to be the subject matter of the petition. Bat this I can say. gssie rally, that in the brat place, the prayer ought to be speetitc ; that is to say, thst it ought to specify, act plainly specify, the things that yaw least dew Tear landlord Is getting no reut ; the farmer is losing his capital; thousands upon thousands have had tbr:r estates and capital confiscated ; other thousand. upon thousands are upon the brink of ruin; dis:raints are in the houses of thousands upon thousands ; ethers are is hourly expectation of distraint ; the mortgagee has al• ready grasped estates innumerable ; he is rad, 10 grasp a la age part of the remainder ; as a natural teasels/we of all this, wretched beings innumerable are exposed to all the sufferings of want, and all the terrible sequel to the commissioa of crime; and, upon the whole, the country presents a scene of ruin, devastation and misrry of all sorts, wholly without a parallel. This has all proceeded from acts of the Parliament unadvisedly passed And sloall you doubt of the rarer of the Parnatnent to give redress? Shall you doubt that it has the power to pat ra Wu/4.W, and all ilittitai" stop, too, to the daily ineremoing terrors aid !tortes that now prevail? That it has such power you rasa he certain ; sod shall you, in your petition, presume that .t wants the will? No: it is for you to print out the wee mares necessary to give you ralef; it is for you to point out, sgreesbly to tote lae,otage of your repiitios t: the Sheriff, " the beet means of relieving the dews: and I pray you to observe, that one of the goalioirs Of 1 those ' • test mamas" must be, their being SpEELW in 1 producing their effect. It is objected to Retorted Po' liament, that it most be SLOW in producing relief. Why slow, Gentlemen? The Parliament ran pass rats not very slowly; and it-torna, you will recollect, U.: any other measure, is to be produced by an act of the Parliament However, without waiting for the meta. within which a Reform might be accomplished, your ruin might, at any rate, Le put I: stop to by the Parlia ment in tLrce days. That is quick enough for these hasty gentlemen ; or, they must. at last, after many years of unaccountable patience, have become Impatient in teed ! la short, not to take up too much of yoar time: not to forestall the proeeelings of the meetirz ; Not to esti cipate the propositions that may h. made, Me ends IN betore and 1 confidently rely, that some one will be found in the county of Norfolk, able and winkle to pro pose, and that a majority of the Meeting will be bowl ready to support, an effectual de Rpeat !WWI for these evils. firm in this opinion, t podia; tientletwen, Your roost (+eclipse, And most bumhb wow, Wm. Castors. T:77o^ PIPk A ._