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' • # • - :; I . • • • ; 'WA rtifieation to express myself upon, all, am tire, by lb(- ' tl, it wotsl4l • —to bistro to we mime.* you bare t. m you s, upou 'suck • Howie. 1 only lucent to say, that we were ace an pour-in English spirit, courage, and ability—that this 'cuontry never tem , heretofore so I , oof nu those qualities as to mutt to l'oreigu aid foe its llefelift• ; said that, at the present time, If the military epirit is not higher than it was, it ra 'ollllf 111011419 C of the impossibility to exceed what it ever has lamoa-ilial it equals it at any permit, no our will he disposed So dewy. Gentlemen, I shall detain you but a few mo ment. longer,Jbou,th before I couclude, I take this uppor . -t tinily of unitilig ;Nieman:at of a iuisapprehension and saiereprsiseutelitin of what fell from tne on a former or- CitSiffn. obeli I met my Conetitiwins in Westminster Hall, fir pneprise uf returuiug Thouks to Mr. %od— It war misappreheusion and usis-statement with respect ic. to what I Said coma:mike the Centlemen of this country, who *ere engagiol it. agricultnial pursuits.—l 'did say, that I witted must ausiously, es I .lo wish, tome the Gerelemen of England, resenting that prowl situation iu which their gnarl fortune has afforded them the means of placing them pelves—that I wisbed to see them beading the people is de fence of the rights of their cuaritry —I said, j was sorry that there did appear to he a dieposition in many Centlenieu, to • induce them to elinsidou the higher interests of their country, and to imply theinselvea to the manage amid of their farms, rather than to the exercise of those grout duties, which the • • people Janis a eight to expect from ilieta.-11 by no means tumuli to say, that that feeling was uoivirsal or general ; fur I could tenet out splendid exceptioes.—l could pulite out I Cl'4l6llll'll, whose liberal pursuits of agriculture are lint wore remarkable thou the firmness and steadiness with wench they come forward in the detente of the rights 'tied lihertics of the cuuttry.—l could name .several but then is on: iu partirshar, I most out enuit—l meets lie. Coke, of Neit.Mtk—/repeeled ph?, ruts). I might err. loftily hare select...ll trimly exceptiors to the neutrality of toy or mark: the object of sly remark was this—l only said, and I still say, that those puraisits ought net to be pars nem*, they umtlit only to be secoadary ; I only inferivil that rater a min had dune his molest oo maintain lies raid. met Mtuet.on, and to acquit himself of the pci formatme of the duties of a Iteprematatise uf the people, the indulg ence is Agricultural pursuits was out only Mame* Lot bu,lablr, tad of tire highest importance to the pub lic. I shall detain you 1.0 a few minarets longer, ft .is merely fie recapitulate the iinportauce• of the objects proposed be the quert ion, we 11Ure undertakeu, mid tile sittotuirent of which we imaiumly expect to arrive at. I Lope that the mown- s dl feel their timowtance, as they might ell do. 1 hop e the people will tee Feasible, that they le essoit the o nly SWIM% of Salvation, and the only hope of everting those initchiefs which have resulted from the me& &areal... 9 Iln):WWlelkaot having been resorted to before. It is if measure which seeks only Meditate for the people what the law ',ivy has of tight immemorial belonged to them. It is only to n cover fir them, what the Constitution says, it their birthright—to remain that isheiitance—in reggae shot, 5., he herr., we Inset possess—that inheritance of lieratances--uur ancient rights and liberties—.sue taws and oar free conetitution ; fur unless we pommel' them, we are Milted nothing. I am so person asking the any thing funded on new Lettle I Jortrinan. I ouly "pro the Statute-book, and ray—Give roe holy that the law a give use; gist me only that i'or shirts so mini, of my anti ston s hast laid down their lives. (riamlca It - aro/se. ) I tried, when we reflect that, if ors ancestors hare laid down their lives in *meeting their rights and piledriver, that we, wheel the danger of our lives is ant in question, will not be so mean as to abandon that which urn ancestors hare pm chased for as at .0 dear a rat. shill ; l ow c u e. lade with saying, drat l ask no more fur the aconite of Lnglatist than what Molted mail loyal subjects might to ask, and what it will beright for a just, patrnil, a wl benefice* Kiog to grout." [The plaudits were almost Mr...end for ten mingles; nothing could exceed the 'Walk') with whirr the thitioui able Beraiet's speech was ireeieed ) After a short interval the following toast ens given •—" A viiitdy Reform is the Representation of the People." Major C• SOY', and Mated, that he had varicose resolutiotia to propose, in order to carry into effect rt.* real object of the meetmg In duing so, he would trun'ile theist with nu oho! , sum's, but leave the resolntimis to speak for themselves lie should only observe, Mat they were the chittleco of reuse, and not such as were epplirel to our pssituill, so much as to sober ern.e and sound judgment Major Cartwright then mead the following resolatioas, our by one, amidst the federated acclamations of the enameled atehette. Krao!ved—t. That it is " the germ: principle of the Con stitolion, that the People shall c a share iu tho GU% CFI, inept, by a just rcpreselitsti.,n i . l'arltaiu. nt That the long durntion of earliaments ;reatly facilitates the corruption of the 3leuslw:s, audrernori s that wliiilis”ine check or t outroul on the!r conduct, a fic.iticut recurrence to the opinion of thrir Cuustitueins. 3. That in 3 Petition prest•utcd to the !louse of Commons on the thin May IN it was offered to bi pursed at the tin., • " that 'La indis Am& did, by their own authonty, appoint or procnrr the return .d• Joy Alrinht re of that 'louse," :ex• .iusire of those front Ueolland), " who were thus rumbled to deride all qinst:ous in the smote ..f the whole people of Great Britain " 4. That in the Act (commonly rolled the Act of Settle ment) which place.' the !loose of Brusisoick on the Th. o rie of these Realms, it oat asootrd and recognised us the ram. slits tional proaciple, " that no 'strum .111) has an office or place of profit under the kill:, or receives a primal.... from the Crown, shall be capable of serving as a Stead*: of the House of l'usomous 5. That it appears by a Report laid en the Table of the ?loose "(Commons in June last, that 7s of its Meath..is are in • hr ri•vilar receipt under the Crown of 1;5,9941. a•sear. 6. That it. 1762 it win declared by .11r. Pitt in thr Ilini , e of Commons, that "Ware or eight !II CIIIIPPTII l.f that House seemliest there by the Nabob of Arcot, an I that a foreign - State in enmity to this country might procure a party to act fur it soder the mask and character ut Members of that Moose." 7. 'that such a state of Representatiom is • national grit,. 110CP. it. 'Flat in every demi tins at of the Slate into which in quiry has bees 111441 Y, 151 . 31ithiOlia curs opt iius and ahrusin base been detected. 9. That the exclusion or the public col. e from all idle • once io, misdate eui.sequelit reiruption of, it Gin . ..rani...its of iliv Continental States, have beta the 11 . 4•1 6of the o - sub mcation. to. That ao long as the people shag n ot h e f a i r ly srp; e smiled, et rtriptios melt ; our dt his and taxis a lts tort wombat'. ,• our reooinet . % will he dassipato ; Ih , nowise energy of the l'eople will lir depressed ; a. 1.1 the county de yeterif writs best defence sigaiiist tiitt;igo tos.4. 1 t. That to remedy liar great and gifting ft O. of wh . l h we complain, it is not date wary to have ri ' , ow , to iheo e c. tiral brut illations, tar dangerous experinicrits is t ioset hut to recur to the principle► handed down to as is, the wisdom am: shine of oar forefat hers. Iv * That the irmedy is to be found, and tr he found only, In a tall and fair Representation of the Prop'e in the (*om inous' Hour..., of Parliament reinrsly atnrlh neressary tir the safety of the Throne, stud the happiness am/ insiepen desire of the Cosiatry. la. That we therefore recommend 1w erre, Town, City, and County, to take the state of the Repre.uniatio• into iron inderaton, and ungainl, hat tempeiately, to app:. to Par • liaineut to adopt so. is measures on 511011'4.cm" to the Natio* the reality and tine of Represeetr tura. Sir. ilf •noras 111111 1 , amukt a great nuts, sod miaowing, sail wooded these resolutions, which atrordiiig 10 the pleasure of the company bad brew put collectively, instead of individually. la doing so, he said, " 1 second tiaras solotions, hermi.e I believe, in my inioseirace, that shay aro the truth, the whole truth, sod nothiez but the trutb." ., —(toed pledged nits. 1. 111 my place be the Muse a Cumsaiins, to agitate , the piektion of Puns. niettlary Reform, I :ertainly limb the liberty of stating lint ronstikiation Mum earth should indorse me to abeam@ it, because, (ientlennts, ever since I 10311 the .seen of thinking, and ever suttee 1 load an oppsa tank) of looks ing either at the 'causes of the calsinitits existieg at the peseta boor, ft of lookiug bark br those of furuser times. I am posonadall they are all to he saerilial to ea einfair tutwa sal` the mus e people is Parliament. - After the must Crtal and must etoosinetag apttinten of clotiseree I (ter heard is a' /:(e, abaci Las been deltvcrcd friar the chair, it • weak lie in rani for ate to attempt to point ant to yod any reason why you should agree to these measures. I am per suaded that there ran be no necessity of impressing opal your until', more stimigly than you same feel, the advantages that would result from an immediate Parliamentary Reform. The mementos mil enormous abuses which have bens ea pused to public view by the exertiuus of soother Hunuuran de Friend of mine, elm sots near me, (alloliug to Col. Wardle.) ere usiloolorilly the strongest possible reason that could be urged, why a Parlienseutars Ileforin should be imme diately adopted. You will agree with use, that although Ccanuitters arc appointed year after sear, to examine into atones, vet nothing has been dome; and the reason is that the person uuw at the head of the Government, at this mo nietit is the greatest revnaioniot is the kingdoms. (.17.plase , re.) Gentlemen, permit we to congratulate yuo meat siucerely, upou the reviving scone of the country, 'front one cod of die kingdom to the IHlmer ; and that en ing to the good sense mil patriotism of soy HOU. Friend, hegain ell effectually an csaininat ion jaw abuses aiid connynion, we hat e checked that ohm la, if coutinued, most have sapped the inundation of the constitut leo. I feel particularly happy indeed, lam Salad lug thus to 1919, hcCaOSC I have known him from my earliest infancy, and have unite - seed his exertions to every d yartment in w bleb lie has been engaged ; and 1 know dint there is our striking feature in his character, 1 mean his moileratiou and madman, which einineutly entitle bite to the confidence of the rationnl part of the people. '[lucre is another (;entk man near me, ,Ilnjoir Cartwright, who moved these Resolu tions, of whom 1 may say, that if ever hottest principles sod perreerrance in paths duty entith d a man to the gra titude of iiis country, to him that gratitude is due. o oh- ' lain the great point of Parlieuientary Reform, that cure fur all our evils, has ever been Isis object; and when / sea him here this day, flatter myself with some hopes that we shall Attila it Gentlemen, I hail made out n small abstract of the present state of the representation of the people in I'm hament ; but on recount of the able inset ch from the Chair, I shall not take up your time by alluding to it (Lend erire or - grad! read.') Gentlemen, 1 hair cumuli avuwrual to make this Mott-act sum short, that it will not tiresome for you to In lir " Here the Hue. Sinaloa. read a stateuseat, by which lie aa:oir out that t 7.. Members were relented by 1,175 vuters its C.ogland, that 71 Peers returned Iti7 Members, and that, since the year 17)).1, it appeared, from the best possible calculatirni, that pre Peers had been created who have il/AU ewe over the House of Commons, and six Baronets who basil legitimism in the election of 11 Members Upon the whole 1 may state, that alai individuals have tutluence to the election of Members to the House of Commons, and that Rua hers ale sent . to Parliancait by' !molls created in the present reigu. Resides boroughs, I may alum) allude to the repre• sentation of the Bounties, au& as those of Buckingham Gloucester, Cambridge, and others, whirl arc represented by in BOOS Or brothers of Piers Add to thir, the Treasery return 10 Members cad the borough faction, which the Chairman has so morit enlarged upon, Appear to return 139 1 Menthe., to the !louse of Commons ; maLieg altogether Theo se conic to the Istwonglia, who have no more than • about 130 191442's apse an average, w hith gives you um all .1!7 Lnghab Aleusbers elected in Hogue:fair and conupt mode.— Now the English pet t of the [Vas. of Contokous con,oos of I nl.l Members ; and if yon deilnet limn that number those retuned in the nuances. I have described, it leave, a balance of tali tolerably tree, uniafineneesl, and iudependent and if you desinct these tart from the theme remains a majority of 141 in favour of the borough tortoni. It is un necessary fur ! f ir to rummest ovum these farts, but 1 may add, that la thin ealnilatiou I have left net all the influence that arises f pentomis and places, ehirli has been au ably stated by the Ciminero. It was the iitainkst danger arising from this %miler infleence that And induced me to rise in ms Ogee iti Facliatnerst, mid to state that 1 would sslansit a piopesition fit a reform hi the tepee:rotation; and, Gentle men, I have the setistartion ef statitig, that the Resolutions kirk I have just steoueled appear to ciiiitain all the solid prieriph-s which eats render repreeerttation effectual fur the salvation of the country. I I.earti!y emigratuiste pin upon this mining spirit in the mom ry ; I refs awl) did once despair, as 1 thought I saw no more public plant, bet now I think that kous the Revolution down to the present time there never was au opportniiity . mere auspicious for ander tektite and arrovapliehieg year object. After the descrip tion is huh I leave given vino ut the present elate of the Items sift'ummumr, yeti must he es 11 colds well aware holy utterly irnpios.lile it so fur those fro individuals who are free and independent toil* any thing like uarir duty, was: they are ; snpported out o f d inies by the msaaimous, voter and con curience et the people. I think that !be same 111114:Wini1U0011 1 sPimil whirls now reigns here, will be &mid to titbit from the atierrnisiit part. of !holland, to the Isle of tuight, and That it wilt extemil eta:lreton to the East Indies. 1 oust that the percipient all these geartrrawdl echo back our seutinients, and bre/malty cow-inced with on of &cabriolets mortatity of Parbauteut ars , Reformation. lfany env 'tics of a ars pregame I lu arease ns of wishing for a revoluti tttt , !ion have only to , throw hack npon them theirgroondless iilaitillat tell, ale! ea) to j them that we want nut a revolution but a irs.siirrahon of the constitat iota, such as It was intended by our ancestors, who hall g.vcu it to no as one Imisitteel birthright and inheritance. Me want .4r rep-et:cut:llion iis Parliament that will he endow in watching over use Misislw.s ; for, Gentlemeu, I hope 1 shall be understood when I sae that there is so smolt thing as prerogative in the abstract, milers it has its cornspmJ imag ebeel to the 'louse of Commons. It is perfeetly true that the King has the point of making war and peace, bet it is also true, that the House of Comitiolis eau prevent his &nog either; used IA hid, , time Hume of ('unmans IMO (he power of grnutiog supplies. It is the And principle of the constitution filet the hie, rim do no a renv, and fur what reasuo R:stanse hi. Ministers are responsible; but what is she use of the :t1 misters he ing respoissible, unless there Ire a vigilant and kaki'''. Iluose of Continues to watch over that reepousibility. I admire the constitution as much an soy mita, and if I went to wish for aiiy dila; more than nootho, it would he that air .build pi, • • the elude of that conetitotion and nothing but the- emistitetimi." Sir Pn stets Beaufort-. as Chairman of the Meeting, then proposed the Ritioletions the their adoption, tied they were uoanimemly speed to, with lend cheering and in eta- Podium 'lle Hon. Buronet the° ease the fiellowittg Toast " The cause fee whim le Hammen bled in the neld, and SAW) oil Hair he -Drimk with three times three. salvage wan rm .11n41.11, Sir F. Bt. aperr proposed m• Mr. tfariPe ; and may we ever pusses. an advocate with ability to detect, mil r(011 - ste In en poov boot tins Monk most enthusiastically with there times three, aconiipanied lay loud bursas. Mr. ‘V Aa II then pi eeented himself to the notice of she company ; hut it was wills very gnat tit/Acuity he mould 1.4- 13411 a heatiag, mn aerunist of the bursts of ap;ilause slant ensiled on heholding dila 'Tint. 4 reformer amougst them. mu gieutlyinesi,"sanl he," the very kind mower sit which yon have di wok tut health, dense .Js my warmest gratitude. If tuy l'as liamesitary coodect has been such us to merit such tbaelis Cunt aeu, I ran may %a), that beitig countered I have ' don e but little, I a ink to God I could have done ‘. In ' the investigation who!' I instituted, 1 have to express my gratitude for the minim and assistance which I received frost your worthy Chao emu, who, although he could not attend iit his place lirrollial M solisposition, supported Ms! moil gbh h his ....s advice and assistance upon all occasion. I am uueslling thrtefore that you ehunlil aunt/ate retire. Is to me, that praise *birds eneu in the bed of siekness and anxiety he was entitled to al your bends. It is my greatest Imprimis that I run call this worthy Bartlett my friend, and that I And my political life has been so furtunale. The people of Ihigl • id, in giOng tar sup r,9l, dud themselves but justice, because I was doing my host to serve them. Sly trial wiss but short; you 194.4 mil up at once, and by year eupport, gave tue visits to go through with at Vote worthy t imaunuau has Intim Aghting your battles, and bu been tieing his bat cudeavours to se cure toyer your librrtitsandywn liven. He has been di finned, abused, out vilified; and yet he tins out received that sup• port which I have received, 'Rimini. I am coovineed he tie served it much hitter, become hie abilities are superior to, some. le real, however, to sore yin., I will not yield to say eau in England. 'lite abuses that exist in the Goverunsent, are pert. titly well knirin to sou all, nail I pledge myself to at t to the best of my abilities to remove them ; fur it is im poesinle that ever I should sterile boos that hue of cusdnet which I may say has had the sanction uf the great man of the people of England (roe, if ! !fever 1 desert you, I ought to be au outcast of the country; Co.- there is nothing I ran wish so mach es your mania, and that of MI the bawl past of the community. Just before 1 had • •. ~- _ . come to this Meeting, l had a letter pill into my hand., from the North of England, 1 1114.0 n knit! Sheffield, the cuntenta of which I was desired to communicate to you. It inarms us, that after coming to those Resolntim.' which the ialia bitants of that place did me list honour of c ((((( municating ; they estate to auuther 'lntention, expreesire of the necessity of ell ( men pt ion hying dune away by a speedy Reformat iva in Parliament ; a Resolution which was signed by uu less than te,ooe lama entauo !)—I can aleu inform yule that there an Resolutions from Paisley-, in Sc o tland, gigue.] by spirants of 4,000 people. breathing the mine seatiments Such being the case, I think it is impossible that we should not he etc...waged. if ever you have an idea that I mu %ermine from my point, or acting is a manner unheromine the Representative of a free people, 1 hope trod will call sue to eccuwit, and, It s dolt t so, give me an opportunity of explaining 'nylon - . 1 say this partiesearly, because there appiwis a combination in the public prints to iniseepnieut me. Slane of these emit.' say, that 1 ion curry day einuidinieutine the llimxtrn, wet speaking of them, in if they were men that ought to be trusted. It was no recibir back shim Friday last, that I arraigned them of every thing that ea,: corrupt, for not en tering their accounts at the lVar °Mee. Awl whim I wits taxed with abusing the present Ministers, and being more, attached to the last, I said, I wished out to hurdeis any of them with any sins but lieu owe. I am free to coufess that the sins of the last Administration will number with those of the preseast. Gunk -41142 U, &Rho' our ;acquit iiitalice hat been short, yet I think it necessary lobe thin explicit, fur it is your kindness alone that has raised me to the proud situation I now hold, which I had nu right to expect. Geatleaueu, I de clare that I belong to no party, (applause's); I have no pre • dilectiou Inc one patty w piefereuce to another. All that 1 du declare iii , that until the a hole system he (Imaged, it matters out to the people of Cierland who are the Ministers. (More applur.es. ) 'llarrefore, Gentlemen, 1 may say to you this night, what I said uti Friday night in the House of Cum ulous, that I do nut wish the preseut Ministers to be removed, but that I du wage eternal war with the system of corm?. lion that rends, and I shall de so u n til we have leanest men to be Ministers of the country. I have been told by his Majesty's Ministers, within the walls of the House eremitism/it, that if we *muted purity of character, we acre to look for it in men high in office; and at the same tune I heard those who were lately M tinders cheer the idea, which was as much as to any, we were all Right Honourable men. Although. 1 du respect mail individuals is that House, Molly 11110 hare sees their errume, but are now ready to du you a Nervier, I have nut the tunit distant predilection either fur the uue side or the other I hose heard a ( deal of late, relative to the dauger of Parliamentary Ram rn, but who are they that are su apprehensive of danger to this particular o They aie your placemen mid pensioners your lux eethei ere and your conmosiamers of taxis. YOli art all douleteme aware, that a ithiu a short time, a great body of the inhabit-ant e' not only it this city, but 14.m:hoot the eunutry, have juiced the et:m.lmi! of reform ; idtliongh they wire for merly called Alarmists ; but I have reason to kuim that the public mind has considerably changed, and that those who formerly trembled at the saute of my worthy friend near me, now seek his rountename and protective. It is the fear of Joe Nei wrong that has prevented them from dieing good ; frieude alike to the King' and to the people, I say, that or see uu daliger, because w.• loiter that them is none. We know that the only danger that ran ouw arise, would be from delay. have to cougratulate you, that the people of the couotry N,, , are nor worthy Chairman in his true colours; he is the Paine ,tau in puiut of hunuurable mine:plus integrity, and rar'tlierl, that seer lie was. He has nut damaged, but thank God, that people of England are changed.—(Ladsiserresp) —.Thee know bow to value his treasoeudent merits, fur with out miy.iug a Compliment, I Imo* of r..s men that tau stand equal to linu. 'They, Mem the pyirity of his inutiies, and that every attempt h. lima 5uade,.16.116 for the advantage of the King, and at the same time fur , the benefit of the people. 1 have been unacked as being a Jacobin, but why tired 1 valise such au attack, when I hear hue it bas been applied in other gnarly'? I did hear the Noble L .rd net me, (Lord Coehroin) acting HS the friend of the "aeon, attempt to thent relief; it was then iusinunted against him, that he emeht to raise a mutiny in the fleet. Th., sort of mutiny that that Nold, Lund has raised in the fleet, I Walk late events have fully eviucC.l.—i s tleor ! /hew'. Hear !"—He hes raised a mutiny in a Beet, but it was in the fleet of the comely; and, utilise I am much mistaken, the Noble Lord will prove lisingelf as great au esieley to domestic as to foreign foe+, In I be as Cleanable of raisin a mutiny M the one as In the other. If such men as be are to 'he brawled with the saute ofjaeohinesin, I %tumid be happy to lie immured with It ulsu." He then concluded with proposing the fulluwiug toast : May the real jaciihiniral conspirators he deprived of the pe.err of underin iiiiii g the Cuustitiition." • Mr. It. E. Tow miend next tddressed the mei ling.—. 1 he gent e awn who have spoken before me, have so tuucheularbed spun es try point councetel with Parliamentary Reform, tl.at tire> have lent liter more for run to ,10, than to propose.. toast which, lam certain, will Inc 'haul: with general apprukitom and enthus,.isin. Mr. M ulueks usewved, that any thing I.e could door the Mouse of Commons would he of little avad, 110‘1101 be west properly backed by. the people; I agree entirely with him, but at the same time, I think that there is nu time to beltist in the people expressing their sentiments If 0r air redly to procure what we sects 10 unanimous in thinking is wanting for the presemitioit of the country, you must foilew up su l ly, and give blow to e blow. Mr. LVardle seems to flatter himself tun much in thitikiug that the great portion of the people may nut give way to the system of alarm. That alarm may be created by the machinations of our domestic Cl/11114.1. 1113 a fee Jaye we may hear of an engagement tak ing plate betweea the Ansi, iana and the French, and, if disastrous 011 • the part of our saliva, we may be told that the salvation of the country is to depcnci upon the sus peusioa of the habeas corpus act, and retool sc had tu mar tial law.--(ifeiir! hear! hear!) lam afraid they have mole danger to encounter than they at present see before them. It is fi,r that reason I wish that nut a pungent may he lust in haring scrotum to 4'uviity Meeting , ,, to ',hew the sense of the people at large. If the pcup:e at biro will nut se cond io the Pcsultaf we come tu 111 this roam, the coital ry is gone. It is reasonable tu suppose that we should ish lo support our country, but if the country were to be completed by • fuieigis enemy, places and pensions would be, moat probably, what would be suffered to remain The enemy would limit, that the SJIIIC means whirls put the ministry into 1111 hands, would lie the means of eushling Inns to retain it (Hear! hrur ! 'tear !) What gives us liberty, bat the impel iurity of ourCuustitut.oil if that tall, it will he solely by the means of corriiption Ile then con cluded by proposing the following to..st , `. The gallant castigator of our foreign furs (Lord Cuch rane, and may he inlet with equal suttee, and greater sup port, when be joius the patriuut baud, aialust our doiniadic eneinits." I los Last wini received with great applause. Lord Cocun • N s returned thanks to time meeting, far the bottoms dune him ; and in a short speech, impressed his hearty wishes iu favour of • Parliamentary Reform be thouslit that • petition to His Majesty, was the ugly m o de of alt g the object in view. The king, he was corwlitc eil, had bee° burn and bred with all the qualities and inclines ofa Briton, and there:bre it must be a source of the greatest pleasure to hits, at the end of his life, to have all oppo►tuui ty of a 9 highly gratifying the wishes of his people, ma to Remit them the prayer of their petition. He concluded with giving ur a tout, " The Electors of Westminster, and may the splendour of their example animate the country to imitation." After the applause which followed this toast, hod sal/sided, Mr. W. Nolen next addressed the meeting. He began by paying mune tribute of applause to the gullaut (Hiker hp bail just sat down, and next stated, that he h■d been for more than thirty year, of his life a most indefatigable *almoner of ■ Refrains in Pas liaineut. " I was a Member," said ba " of the original society which was instituted for the purpose of obtaining this rend object—a society which basso lung nis ceased to rand, that it its names now al most forgotten. I mean the Society fur Coostitutiunial Re. formation. Cut of its ashes algif.t that of the Frivol, of the People ; a name, I trust, not impruiwrly chosen, rod, I will ventdre to say, nut unfitly supported by those who took it upon themselves: but, Gertlemen, standing as I now da at tlie eumineneeinent of u third campaign, aiiirb has taken plait upon this $llll . t , the two former one• having lusted • loner tiros than the ter gi; el Troy, I cannot help at the puma, • moment, taking a hue of coaditet somewhat different front that very pleasaut out which has hero adopted by my friends, rho have preceded me ; and bower, r uotortiinate it may be for myself, I cannot help saying a few Woe di, which may tend to throw some degree of damp upuu the prei.eat ( tiltirieurs nl dirapprol•atile.) To throw a dump upon yam eterttuus is the faridi:.-st Cum ma purpose ; bat I cannot help being of opinion, that those olio undertake any task, on account of its being an east. wic, if they should Ind It unfortunate and difficult, are too apt to relax in them efroi Is. .V as, ao, ire will set r‘ Jut) Gnolemen, whets I-wrath-et, that, about the ycar 5775, I commenced this career, and a lien I sin perfectly sure that the portico with a hum I cow. toenced it, 'mow whom was Nlsjor('artwright, the Giewtha mail a hu has brought forward his Resolutions, sod maiwyettin Gem legato who arc present,lint n rt a M ijority ufticalcettrig, couceircil that they were Chen likely tio succeed in their ou ject, bat are scarcely nearer to it now, than before:, my heart urisgives we, as to i;ur pe-bability of success. I beg leave to slate my reasons for th:s u, in: in, and fur no oth er purpose, than out uf them to raise shoat arguments which may induce the present meetiug, and their posterity, should it be accessary, to persevere in endeavouring to obtain the object in view. Idu kuine that that society called " the Friends of the Peopk." did labour with the utmost real and ability, arid went one step farther 'llia itopredeccnors, !Jeane it laid before Parlmumut a pehtion which has been game * , this day ; in which, all the abuses or a majority of the abuses prevailing in the reprtscutation of the peupk, were de tailed with a precision, and with a force width it was utterly impossible fur any, but those who were pre-deter mined to resist, to hive objeeted to. I lament, that the copies of that pi titiou which was preseated su loug as 17 years ago, are en searee, that they cannot now be hail, sue it would be the most metal- to be inipresuil upon the mini of every use at the rearm moment. You out sit however, I truat, sufficiently impressed with the necessity uf that reform; but I beg to call to your atteutiou the u;... position you are likely to etperieuer. You are to be uppus. ed not wily In the corroptions of Government, the cu.. ruption of the Borough holdeis mud husough moiler% lint also by every corrupt borough voter iii this kingdom. I.)w out matter yourselves that all the voters of England are as the Electors of Wisitusilister. lie wsweiri, that wherever there exists a borough ,mire or less Coll apt, in that burnish you will hod opposers to yolir plats, and do out flatter your selves that their 'murders are small. Gentlemen, amongst those iii the list of Stewards of the present day, is Mr. Fawkes, the late Member In Yurlrshire, who is prevented by accident awl distance from brine here be. I know, was out of opinion that as this preseut moment the County of York was ready to ncoud the County of slid. dlesex. Mr. Smith coached"d by conjuring them to cambia their entitling, with those weapon. a Inch their _opposition respectively shinned ; fur it was nut a measure winds' anal b.: carried by acclamation—Mr. smith was proceedieg for thee, bat the uuise and bustle became au great that he Mai Out he head. Mi.jor Ca RTRRIGHT. in allusion to what Mr. Smith lowl stated, cowl:ruing Mr. rashes, read *letter below received front that Geminates' this mo r aine, whereiu it was stated, that the comity uf I wit a..s 4.3:1% prevented hom coining 'forward to capon.* the cause of Parliamentary Reform, till they saw what mast be the conduct of this meeting, that it isms a congenial feeling throughout the wordy of 1 wit, and they would out be lung Witted h. 11 1 ,1 WAIT.INI•N Sher white."' the nutting with lila usual eloquence am! aniniatiou ; hat th e hitgue64 a the ',jut prevents as attemptiug a detail. Sir FR ha cis lit alit I gar; as a tout; hat old decripit led-ridoeu path:roan, whom a* long lust sight of, called, Norm Gtiteria, inner we yet hope tone agaiu winltiug abroad." . . - At eleven o'clvek Sir Francis Bard( tt t aceurvinied by hie friends, left the routs, amidst the Lud arrtantstiuna u/ the civirJed u*setut4), inapt uf Lulu attended him to his e.tniage. We telt Mujor Cartericbt in the amis., but the Meeting soon afterwards diverted. ?BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY e. An necount of the proceedings at the 'Meeting of the Frituds of Psiliumentary Reform, yesterds, at the Crown and Anchor, is given in our pre-ceding eulutno .— Au hsteresting debase also took ',hire lost night in the House of Commons, on fite , Fourth Report res.wscting the Dutch Commis- OlterS. The Proclamation of the Emperor of AcrrittA, premium to hir departure from Vienna, to loos his arin3 ; mai the Addre4s of the Archduke CHARLE4 to the German Nation, lie given in our Front Page. The fin of trice which willed from Dover t• Cit Lit on Friday, returned with the tide, not hav ing been permitted to hind her dispatches.—The in:liter of the vessel was informed that no di-patches would be received, auks* accompanied by a Ines. senge% Ou Sunday a firing took place on the French coast in the ii:rectinas of Boulogne. The causer was out kl 10%% u ; but as the French annoionce their vittories iii this way, it is of ounrse a subject of solicitude. Some neutral vessel,. also report, that au illamiva• tion took place tit the saute time at Boulogne. A.count♦ from the north of Spaia„ by the Tit. geard, state, that the French collected a forte for the purpose of retaking Vigo, but were driven back by die Spaniards with grist lows. Dispatches have Virtu received from Lord Gsw mat, and it is said they state that all the French ships except one bail of theism, have got into Aix toads—that one is likely to be destroyed—The Ihdrfatipthle sod some other ships were left baiter. inK her. 1 Adviser hive been received, that the Flubbing 1 Fleet it gene up the Scheldt to :Veracities, The Archduke Fen:Mena is said to have penetrat ed with an Austrian army from Bohemia into the Upper Palatinate ; hut this piece of intelligence stands in need of confirmation. But, on the other hand, it is certain that :in Austrian corps hams marched into the North of Tyrol. by St. Johann, and another by the Piirteethst into the Southern part of that country. The Nile cutter, LientenentSYstosis, arrived, on Thums) , night, at Falmouth. with dispatches from Lisbon and Sesille, which a ere forwarded t.) London by expreirs. She was 1(1 days from Lisbon. The lliagicienne frigate, aids the kith Dragoons. from Fahootith, haul arrived et Lisbon. all well. — Marshal Beacsroao had marched at the head of the Port ugueseertimy, towards the Eastern fronts er, w inch WAS threatener by the French Marshal Vttroa.— It is said dust time French army which took Oporto, continued there; and that. atr Jona Caarmuca• with the British army. remained in the neighbour hood of Lisbon. Lot 4.K)N i Pristed by G. ati nIJ%4. N, N. Is_lN Noswell-roart Corn -stre..t pubildKJ at Owl Ogier. Nu. IS, Earl: Of St. ('ls mesh'. Chtiorls. Strata, E. of wine plirr —t)ralero, &r. for ohm ParPG %rot to IL. tither , i 0.511.4141., will be sigh wilmded . ) 0 1 • i a A a i at. pr PL . in, VI% al/ i cell . (ski in HI