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the people were always best expressed io their own Mr. HUNT ntwerved, that a■ bill Lordship per. slated in hi* ainew/niros. it WM. necemary to explain whit viiiisl,l hr i7,r eollllWll.lriler of it. If it was adostetrti, then the original Ite.olutiou could not be propow.t. H m emborot was rejected, and the original I.liipar sjor CA wrwstiutat said he begird to propose N Pri.l IIOIIIW of C mons, with a view to cm-wet that which mope red to be very error's- Ou• coniroset ou t h e p..rt of that House towards pie t owes. Mr Cleary read the petition on the subject of rep -rotor pentorsiso. The Petition hewing broil resod. Major Cartwright rn .ire I thio it lb...upped by the Chan mon. and mow- teen bon eholitera of the city of IVrot iiiiii Ater, ors i orilet to 13 being presented to the Douse ul Com mons. Mr. IlusT mid, that whenever he felt on attempt sot 'trivia wen going forward. he had always telt at los dote, and shoold now, to lay it before his fel -I•sw-eto ry mess. lie hood ot.euded the meeporg preperatory to - the present one. At that coveting the several rosolutions which Major Cartwright pro sett rezrettl to. The previous meeting had agreed to rill a no Going of the inhabitants of the city or Wet. awl the person.. attesiJing it sighed a erotic-, to he wive.. in the clerk ell the peace, in which it we* sank, st We, the orridersigried, do hereto) , girl* notice. that a meeting of tbe house holden,. inhabitanta, qtr. will be railed at sorb a day." Now gins 'more had been done -away with, and a Ireeh notice, soot sighed is the foro te r h a d stiortell in its stead ; the coneequence was, that as the notice at rweserot stood. noose but house holders 11.1s1 soy ° business to he ',relent. Wor e ineass to take glare to secert who were house boldest. and who were not ? Of all men the !muse holders of Westmineter had less reason to coin plain than ally in the country, for they were repretroeil, end might /*torn to Parliament whoosn they liked ; but the inhabitants of West tionieter were rant represented, mod therefore 'ail @moon to address a Pennon to Parliament : seethe present Petition was worded, no one but a I seholikr had a right to sign it. flowever. error IN sic tiro-sent Amp.. he would support it fur 11 bet. ter Petit .1515, or totter Resolutions, than those loroosieht forward ON she present oceasion by Major Carissogot, had Nutt, been expressed with a 11141. /I: wool.' support sham rine and all. He only Pa's'ted to submit 10 for M t ior the propriety of ex truding the Prti'llsto Plitt lirrulrtiousto inhabitants; for lots OWN 'Dart. it wtos of no contequenre to him whether the Petition was presented to the House °meow e or o.ot, for he was or o l oni,n, that those who lost year had had gait Petitions locked out of the Douse, were mooch snore honoured slim, theme whciload lout them received. The Major had bat tooted, th.it what he bronelot forward this limy was lin bat legoo , y to the L- oldie, It was to be locoed ihet would lint tr the case; lint that, if on alee to Ore his perronal attendance, 1w would con- Insde to r*.ii4t the cause with his pets. If, however, host wow his last legne), its value to the promoters of Reform would prevent its being forgot. Upon the sobject of Petitioos he would observe, that he Jtappeised to be on the House of Crimmins. I oit week, tool bad an opportunity of seeing the way in which Pentiotes acre presented. I)ouhtlese. the resent Petition would he treated on the Pause way. rbr Cloak would see. this is the Petition of the in bahitents and householders of the city of WeSt iiii i liter; lie would then staff ot into his bag. onol there . would be an rod of it. Ti,e only MC of a P r oem ' w e s. shot, toeing trod in Parliooluent, the Em a cia t e might go forth into the country ; but if they were shovelled over without being resit, and then Muffed into a bag, they might as well not be prevented at all. Mr. Ciesithes PITT attempted to address the electors, but they would lint hear him. Maier CARTWRIGHT said, Ihatwith regard to the 6116 , 111(11.111 11014'0 by Mr. Hunt, he uuderstoocl filet tier first form of the !revisits iiii hapisentd nut to contort - sold with the Act of Parliamelit under which they were assembled ; but Mr. Cleary would retains' the alteration. He would just observe, that es far is. his n collectirin went, in Middlesex it had solways been the practice, emorsry to his opinion, to convene the freeholders; lout in West iii i i osier lie.. Thad always understood it to have been the practice if the inhabitant householders. Ile remessolwred a few year. ago. when the Duke of Betiltirof signed a Petition for a meeting in Nlitlilleiwx of the free holders, and three or four other toololeastrio sighed a • tiotier for a meeting of the inloabitantrof Middlesex, the Sheriff made such olijrclionS to the form, that they were obliged to alter it to fierholders. Ile had an recollection in Westminster of ary other form thins inhab i tant householders having been the practice. Ile dill not think it a right practice; but the reason given for it was this:—ls had been oh_ served, abet io aid near the metropolis, if, in with ticco to Iwitoseloolderr and frrelosoldees, the inhabitants were nob :rimiesostly called together. mossy. who were considered toy- some as improper persons, would assemble under that general description. Upon the preseet occasion, the form usually adopted had hteu trainer' to, M. CIA: that Mr. Hunt had charged the Groticustil who cubed the Meeting with a fount ; to topel that charge, he would c:ill the at of the M..rtiotT to the notice IrigllCll lit II pre V10U,4 e, i 11;!.. It evonlil be observed, that they were lIA is.sessibled is, a d.tierelit manner frian what they hid liven. On roomer occasions it washy certain inha. Itllaltt liou•eholilers c4lling upon the nigh Bailiff to convene is meeting of the inhabitant houreholderr, There Ltd liven no public meeting fur the last seven ye.irs that had vat been culled iu the mime of the Inhabitant how. holders; and for what reason there rliotdd lw any siaii..ii frot h that mode, be Coll. fesaed he could mit see. The city of IVestininster hail dour is great deal by thrir former meetings fur the cruse of liberty ; mill they hail alwaes met He th e isittat,i;ant I ))))) selsulderr. At pre,etti they did not meet. as they had formerly thine, nutter the :indignity I.f she High hut under the audio. illy of an Act of Parliatnent, upon the requisition of weett limiseliolders. A notice hail been signed, unlv the inhabitant, of Westminster to- They had not than the Act of Parliament, but mom into it afterwards, it was found that the notice did not point the Imecise form of the Act, mid as they did not wish to give that ••••• the.--_ ._ -- 1 Law were Auto', they-soughs lawfully inert iii Pa -1 Inee-yard--isiol, therefore. they had changed the illace of iuk:ettetic to 11'.14er-yard, •s beititc more mitt/4440t. lie t►uwtell there cook' hr no just ion ! potation of fraud or deception in acting •a he had done. Ile would evt•r repel melt au attack,. as he f now did, is, the teeth of hint who mule it. Ilttwr explained, and iliaclaitoed Noy inten tion of wing the word deception or fraud in an offli-ive The Petitina IVO. pot to die vote mod adopted. Major CARTWgiaIIT then moved the two fol. lowing Resolutions in order : he moved them to gether, observing, that by recommending Petitions in twenties, he by no means disapproved of general lifertings, 4 That lifiniders beings enflieiently prone to persecute, rontriiry to law, it'd it being nowise to tempt thrai 11. On , • nettle arconling to law, it is therefore the hope of Ilia Alerting that PArliamentary Refiersaists will not disregard the Act of the 13th of Citadel 11. e. 5. which enacts that none shall" solicit, labour, or procure the getting of hands. or other consents, of any persons above the number of twenty, to any petition, complaint, reautustranee, steel Ira. lien, we whor addrea•--` fur alteration of matters esta blished by law in rhumb or mite,' unless the matter thrift( have been Arse consented unto awl ordered by certain Ma glair:wry • sputa pain of incurring • penalty not exceeding tone kindred ilinumbi is stoney, and three menthe imprison ment withmithail ;" especially as it is by no means Certain, but that by ronstrowtion, the statute might be Interpreted to mean, that every person who signed • petition, had, by a previous act of his mind, procured his own Oriente. 5. Thal einicilletiras brut : : of imp/soarer. wheat lorry twenty l ersons. who complain aim evil whirls iinteriously aff.ris the whole 1114eitill, are illegally compelled to write their Prtitioni, the short form now in rims/whin, which say?, a defective repremontins being the nation's bane, we proy.that all male promos, infants, ineases, and criminals excepted, may equally share in annually electing' Represen tatives to scree in Parliament," seems a convenient model. Lord CticnitaNn addressed the Meeting, in a speech of some length. He deprecated the idea of the Electors of AVestuaimiter restricting themselves its point of numbers. when pre-sewn% their Yeti. pious to Parliametit. They had e right to petition its what .bombers they pleased. Petitiouing by twenties lie thought a mode lialsle to imposition and abase. Ile observed that 14r.ve meeting.; we r e th e bulwark of liberty. The only influence in the House of 'Commons was the infltsence of tear: it , was by the effect penance(' by meetings of large ' bodies Of - their constitoento. that any good could be produced. He rouclusled by moving a Resolu tion, that ire should continue to meet, dour fore failtert had done, in thousands and tens tof thoir 'sods. Psttittrts secouded the Resolution. .He agieed with she Noble Lor,l its this, as he did to every thing elre proposed by Into on t h at day. Major CA aTWRIG tIT 104 . 111, that there was GO dtf. rerrlifc liatKtril the Noble Lord (Cochrane) and himself in point of priucil.lr ; the only abject he. (Major Cartwright) lind to view, by proposiug that Ito more than go should sign any petition, was to , cosiform to the law. It was the opittion of the Judges in the time of Lord George Gordon. when law of the same kind related, that it would be illegal for more 'toast the prescribed numb!? assign a petition. It would he lit, then, to pot the people in the country uposs their guard, and prevoittliiessi„ if possible, front being unite Ilse stetsons of spies and informers-. If Oliver, or Castle, or any odor spy, could prevail upon more than twenty to sign a patio (tots, the consequence would be that the issursous so signing might be put its prison and lined 1001. It was out fur his own individual safety that he made the propoestion. Ile was ready to sign any smelt Petition tis that alluded to by the Noble Lord (Cochrisse).. and to clicomster any iwrsonsil risk that might arise from it. But eat the some time he was desirous to put the people in the country upon then guard, that they might nit be subjected to inconvenience:4, by contravening the. law. It. could be just as convenient to leivel'etitioies signed by twenty as by larger bent. Petinossa signed by great numbers were n lauhle to fraud than such as were signed by only the limited slumber of twenty. It appeared that famed Petitions hud come from two or three places. The Motive we' to give the borough factions an opportunity if eying in she House of Commutes that they were forged, and thereby of throwing odium upon the cause of • Reform. The Petitions alluded to were forged very probably by the borough faction itself. They were sent down to the. places from whence they came, end every effort would be inside to discover • the authors of them. They would, 'perhaps, by Ilion means, he enabled to put the middle upon the right horse ; and care would be taken its future.: that no Petitioso should be presented that weremnt . signed, boar fide, by . the masons whose signoturee were attached to them. The Noble Lord Alid . not appear to him to have inbred any impropriety in the proposed liCSOlUlliill, so far as it redeli the nusubshould ers into sign. Ile (Major C.) should , therefore adhere to it. The amendment of the Noble Lord (C.)'was then pot, and carried uuanis.tously. Mr. WALKER then came forward, and said, that be held in his hand a most valuable Revolution. There was nothing is. it contiary to what' hod been before adopted in the shape of an amenrinteut. Should merely propose that the word " twenty" he left out of the Resolution respecting the right of • suffrage. Mr. lIUMT said, he thought the whole of the Tle. solo* . had bees. sh.posed of by "adopting the amenclenent of the Noble Lord (Cochrane). Ile. lied always. and ever should, iiipintwin the priticnifP . of the Resolution, that every 111411 was entitled' to a shore iii the representation of the COUlliry, becitise he contributed by his exertions to its suppOrt. -proposition of thi4 kind less never before submitted to the electors of Westininstvr. It was proposed • that all should have no equal right tube reiortsetit ed in Parliament. They would now have en op port y of rejecting or ructiving it. There was one of their excellent repre,entatives hy•ihotii the' principle was never avowed. Ile hoped he would now conse distinctly fiirWanl, and state his feelings upon the subject; tlnit he would say whether or uut he bad altered his utiud upon it. It was a pelt.. . whiar lee (Mr. H.) should be *sdy either • die. COCHRAN, amid, he would nit theiril upon the atteutiou of the Meeting. t iler ten eiperience of his couillict. it was aile•hard • thus publicly called upon to answer such ~..erbob. If lie had silt oilier rptstin for refissing than because he was tiros rhaUst i pged, it would' he quite sufficient with hiiu to uortit the demand by a refusal, lie WWI N 111011. t s stubborn fellow, and nothing cunt l induce him to do whet he did not like. Ile helped the Blietors of Westminster, like himself, would not he compelled to do *Mit they were avrrse to. lie had always exerted hion. self to the be.t of his uoderstanding, and from the honest feelings of his heart to perform his public cotoluct, as he stated before, was in their recollection for the last tees years. That of the lion. Baronet (Sir F. Burdett) was before them for double the time, nearly for twenty years—lA per sou hi the crowd heie cried out, " Let Sir truncis Burdett sped( .for himself.")—Lord C. thanked I fur tile hint. It was a proper correction, and came in very good time. The lion. Baronet rouble and always slid , speak for himself. IYith respect to the form of the Petitions. Ile' that if they .11 came to the House worded its the same manner, they would he liable to the tame uhjections as printed Petitions. They would appear to have been drawn op from the influence or di nation of some individuals. For this reason, he should object to any specific form of Petition. The whole country had different !Oral grievances to complain of ; they all, however, were unanimous in calling fur Re form. Was it right, then. that the people of IVestminster should prescribe to the whole nation the form of words in which they were to come be. fore the Rou se o f C o mmons t "rite people should be allowed to state their sentiments in their own For these reasons, he thought that the Resolution prescribing the form ought nut to pass. . _ Mr. WALKER said. it was not meant by this Re solution to prescribe the form of Petition ; but it was thought good to adopt a Wort uitr, and to di dare in a Item,luti DDDD 111/11U111 and egoist mar sristatiou aas the seutimeut of the electors or West minister. , , Major CART**VOW raid he hid now to perfiirrii the most important part of Idi duty, For half a century the friends of lilicity had beets lohouritig to obtain ta Reform in Parlnfluent. They hod, at dif ferent times, petitioned to olnain it, b.t all to no purpose. The question was, whether the Claim MAN just or not! The Grenville Act completely shut out the people from .having justice done them tiptoe * qttestion of electsomil riieits. The House of Cumulous was made the only judge in questions of that nature, sod they refused to do justige to the people; but they were hound to do justicei and should At last tin it. He concluded by Itroptsaing • atrinw of Resolutions as follows, and oleo the form of Petition. which *err nitre l i 11l sootily *greed to. 0.. That . , by the law of Ws land. it apposes, that when ever, by 'w Petition of night," even* petiole man Mitered* the King 'himself, for that hit Majesty wroitgfolly holds an loheritatice beibneing.to that man, the King, as mere MM. her of official duly, invariably says in writing, " Let right be done to the wirty;" vibes' a commission kV feverishly Issordto that end 7. That whet', list year, more, as it is believed, than a million of t h e aiggries:eil people, speaking, as it is helie•ed, the move of malty nliUlow., emplended by,their - Nations f Ihirbl, 6 ' Howe Sfembers of the Holies of CoMinuisii, who Wrongfully withhold from the whole nation the nsost vale. able and the most sacred tokritsace, Cosstitationsi presentation, the edipleadero, Instead of being answered that right' 'should be ado? were iwornfollt refined justify, end were, moreover, insulted sod calumniated; Nod their oppressors had iwilsenee instingle, not oat, to tousle their Pefitium to he tratopkd on, but to piorine a invprosion *leo of all lairs of protection ; in eiinserpience of which, Parliamentary lteformers were Minim:oily bunted by the blood-hounds of (sive accusation, into ruin and misery, chains, dungeon*, and elide. That every English Court of Indieatare halls mantel, altrilintellint 'lilies; nut Only stoliority Imt responsibility : to try, VDT mutt., try, en ivstie, it bath no amnia—to do,or not to do, its duty, It bath no choice; for, in the English Constitution, as in the rode of mimic and reason, it is an eternal princ,ple of equity, emphatically reiterated to the maxims of onr law, triirlittines the brightest gess is Magus Charts, that justice shall not be denied. 9. That as touching electorial rights, the House of Com. muss claims to he as exclusive Court of Judieonee l us the Grenville Art moan 111 l s that claim; and as for redress of the greatest -- efeeloestsrnoiks, the Courts of Law are seroritimely shot against the people ; .so the Heuer of f:oosisiona, use of whose olden it is to impends unjust judges, cannot enume rate motor its privilege* that of Irking itself an milavdal Judge; stir 111,11111 g it. attributes, that ails sattiority to mock at justice.; . sit impiety peculiarly offinsafiro to God, nod Ilia. gusting to man. - - 11l Thit to deity ;melee, is to dispenee with and h *im pend law ; a treason Ilsr which • King was expelled the throne; and inch m dealal by h Court that had motiopolisld all the powers of reilimes, were an aggravation of the guilt, beyond the force of language to !Immo. If. That It "'priers to this Meiling that, in respect to Parliamentary Reform, those are the factious, who, tirsiost the totblie right of she nation, set up a private interest of their party; those *re the rash, who, to geltlevidelit prin ciples, oppose obviously emetics.. opinions ; those are the presommusins, who, in place of the unwind Constitution of their country, prefer UMW/ minceits of their own ; those are the intemperate, who expect the ammo* sense of the cosantuulty to stoop to their 'period digestion ' • and those • are the violeut, whose projects, if adopted, wouldidolatewor liberties. The worthy Major then 'imported -12. That dila blertiog Mont the Right Hoo.John Rooters, Lord Sooners, for his laving Written an Easy, admirably well calculated to accelerate the downfal of mirruption as by law establialowl; by exposing the milieus* ittooralwe of its defenders, the licasen foreheads of ittichawipiuss. the incor rigibility of degas& and the imbecility sof its apologist*. Lord Cot:nob/4E detested the principles of Lord Somers as much as the Hon. Gentleman who spoke last, but he could not agrce to this motion; because theelectors, out of the respect they owed them selres„ ought to abstain from tuixing any thing like lesity iu their proceedings. Arc s lerolloUseerd strung and decided opinion on the unconstitutional tendency of the publication of the Noble Lord whb was the subject of this Resolution, and thought it should be met by a vote of teprobatiou. .--Ptappiaaw.) Mr. HUNT was equally explicit on the 'object of this work, and referred to the acquittal of the Noble Lord's (Somers) onerstor on impeachment, as one of the evils felt by posterity. Major Ca IrrWRIGHT times said he would withdraw the Resolution. The nest Resolatiou 13. That the Manta of this Meeting are given to lint profound reasoner, mad iirr-renineat writer on Irrodstsoa, icretor Bentham, Esq. for the philosophical sud unanswer able eindicatists , in Ala " Catechism on Parlimarotart Re form," of Uteri& of'ail the cootassous of thus realm, equally to stare and saasally to - extrehe the freochist of choosing power 'kilt, Nfaxi-tratts which they would litted ciple for hero glad of the olpportittesti• of speeetwisq, . they to live or burl right.to be M steln is stowable. In • Lord ( orttili , to rossfurtn to the Art. Mietilff deviatient long upon from the original motile.' Wile, that the meoting had yea" eli3" tweet intended to lw rolled at Covent-geode.) t but Slow to h e on looking into the Art, they (owlet that, as sari• a question flier the fluis.e of C ttttt snow. air the Courts of 11, than b -S""SIPP-r ..^-. , ~~ -~,._` . _ Members to ..erve in l'arlistneut ; as..ts,ll as their fordwr rigid tea. cute protection Ity the aitpNeita inn "Penal ballot, arptiod Weary or oppression; for havnag freely exereimd that uilieria frattebise..--(Carrit4ll oteMnmously.) ,Tne next -14. That smee more repeating to our redeemed Repre. itentanses. §ir FIIIIM if Burdett sod furl Cochrane, our warmest thinks for past exe r ti ons in P ar lOusieut, we tiow dessiee then. to toe sartareol. that ***eerie, which at this time they can render their country, can in oar judgment be an important, sir would to their Constituents be so acceptable, as their it...diving to the House of Gammons n 8111 for cf. feetesally speuriag to this people; fairly distributed steroid lug to population, in all time to mate, the- self-evislettl sight of universal fseedons, with I elections; and, its those elections, the protectisin of a ballot ; it being certain, •hat no individual member of -the erinsinaaity can be rirhtfoill snide linluk to taxes, or amenable to laws..to which be halls nut•bled the Sarum of assenting through the agency of a ►e presentative, in whose eleetiou be had a perfectly free and independtat Oil this being proposed by Major Cartwright, a person in the crowd addreawd the Isostiods, and widted to know the reason why the name of Lord Cochrane had not appeared in the hats of thie mi nority on the laden ttt it y LitH. Lord Cocuitsww replied, dist he Ind continued in the House until he was sick of it. The fumes of that (louse were enoCgli to !Jolson the devil— (Roars of luaghter)—And it would be only a delu sion on tl►e public to go -on any longer with mock and sham debuts, end sham diV1,4011%. It was his opinion that there should be no division in that lion•e until it was reformed. The Itrsolution was then carried. Out the motion— 15. That in former periods, when the Commons House was Arealorgan of the nation's will, it was then the dutiful practice of that House. when asked fur extraordinary sup plies, to answer, that without previous conference with its constituents, and receiving from them the necessary amain- My, it could not gragt any such extraordinary supplies : end in thole slays it was likewise a antifiil and intuit salutary peed iee, to refuse melte withhold supplies until grievances were first redressed. Mr. HUNT told the people. that if their claims were not acceded to, they had a right to resist the payment of taxes, not by force, hut as the Quakers did, by starring the tax-gatherers In take their goods.—( Load cries of " No taxes !")—They should wait quietly till their goods were taken ■way ; then, if all the people of England acted in this way, there would be no tuxes. and the Right Honourable Nichollit Vaui'dtart would not like to have his salary pond him in chair* and tables.— He described that an atrear of Property Toe had been brought against him on his removal from the county where he previously resided, but that he re sisted it; and on being threatened with en appeal to fort*, beet rime told the Commissioners to bring the military force, for to nothing lees than to an overwhelming force would he yield. Ile turned nothing of the matter since.*.(Greiti applause.) —He then stated that a tenant of his hail his oxen seized on the same account, but when brought to market for public oak for the armee, the owner pro claimed for what the seizure had been made; no butcher would buy them, they were returned to the owner, and the mall was politely told to play the tax as soon e% he could make it convenient. The wor thy Gentleman, alter referring to the glorious resist ance of Hampden, and imploring the people to look to the practice of the Quakers, auiroideerted upon Mr. Canning's attempt at treating with coritc mot the luwer dosses of society. and 'abided. as be h•ad often Ohne before, to the Right Hon. Gentleinait's patronage, in a manner which excited considerable laughter. Mr. WooLvdt, at the close of the day, congest*. hated the Ale r ti ng at th e i r fi r ,' formal recognition of short Parliaments and Soffrage, commensurate 'built the calls of the State on the subject. He hoped the public voice would echo this sentiment throughout the kingdom. He proposed the Thanks of the Meeting to Major Cartwright. This pro position was received with acclamation, and the venerable Major returned thanks. The following Resolution was then unanimously adopted : • 16 That as a recovery of public liberty womit rest with tbs people themselves, became all Geverineeist depends on public opinion; as antioaal petition are the public voice; and as en this voice threads oat political salvation, su this Meetiag nonlideuily treats that the people will, by the nisrl titude of their petitions trues every quarter of the United Kimiduat, make manifest their detersamatiois to be five.. Sir FRANCIS BURDETT said, that, as the regular business of the day was now over. be would brit lly address the Alerting, in return for the honour they bad done him. In the long string of Resolutions which. in his official duty as Chairman, he had Ibis slay put, and the different opinions that they bad beard upon them, it insist be obvious that the whole could not have had his full coneurrence.— On the subject of his political conduct or views it was not necessary for him now to make profession's of faith. If his mist conduct did not sway the Electors of Westminster, no declaration he could make now could possibly influence their opiniosis.— (Applaase.)—Against professions that might now be called for, he would set up the tenor of Ins life, 110 f would he make any. test they should appear to be ia compliance with the wishes of others, and font lois owm voluutory adoistion.—( A pp/ouse.l—•Hre would contiuue to struggle to obtain for the glee tors those rights and privileges which bud been wrested from them as Englishmen ; he would pursue the recovery of those rights in the manner his own mind pointed out as that most likely to i.e e%ctisve iu the situation in which he found himself, and un der all the circumstances of the case. Need lie tell the Meeting what his opinion was of the conduct of Alinisters in the late wicked and unconstitutional suspension of the liberties of the people, and the cruelties consequent thereon ?—(Great applause.) Need he tell the people what opinion ht enter tained of that man, who, ill his place in Parlia ment, descended from the rank of • Legislator. and become a mere buffoon to try awl crack jokes on the sufferings, in fi rmities, and oppression of one of the victims under the late suspension ?—(Crrat applause.)—He need loot describe the horror, die gust, and indignation with which he had witioreseci, on such occasions, that which would not have been tolerated in aolyothersociety of Faigliglimen through. out the land, still less did he ftel it oreesultry to ex press his abhorrence at the infamous and *trot:low acts of hired sines who were aentamong the suffering part of the cotatiminty to excite them to acts of violence, for the purpose of throwing (idiom en thnt loud call for Reform which Ministers wow from every part of the country. It was this appre heo.imi that compelled them to drag•Euglislioneis from their homes and families, expose them to crll. i . elt i e. and itoproomment, rE..el:ar4e them without trial.•rithoirt letting them see their accmer, or hear the pi•ensation.—(.lpplanse.)—The situation of the eourirry was truly unfortunate, for the people had to apply fur redress to the authors of their griev iinces.—(..lpplanse.)—Ori the subject of the form or mode of petitioning, he certainly, with hi. Noble Colleague, preferred petitioning in large unerttrgra to di,i ,o by such a limited number as lord been alluded to. If the people wished . their voieN to he effectively heard, they should do so in interiority number.. He warned the people against the machinations of spies, who might induce them 14 commit acts of violence for which they would after ward. lila] no justification. Look in the case of tiro Petitioner Sclioles, who stated. den 1w VIII. actually imprisoned for complaining of the violence of the Gillum* Oliver. Even honest well-meaning nest should pause before the people were led to acts which would involve them iu penal consequences. Of Oliver the most honourable mention had heel. made, and by a very honourable mail—irly Lord Sitlmouth.—(Laughter.)—As the Poet said, " They are all honourable ineii."—( Great larighter.)—The Noble Lord, like the Liettieltaut de Police of the old Government of France. WWII the public defender of Spies. as an honourable man, and such was the language in an Honourable House, and what was as astonishing as any thing was the approval, so for a 4 votes went. of GCritlemen wlin.e religious scruples were so nice, that even the mild tenets of the established religion were hardly sufficient for their consciences, for they odopted what they called " Vital Christianity." and these vital Christians, accordiii,; to their tenets, were the best of all pos sible Christians.—(A hunch.)—Now from what he had seen of some of these iiamieuhite Clo•istianS, he saw the strongest reason for Tiestioning their clsiw to ►xtraordinarypurity. Lungider.)-- The 'woe spy might plead, like Romeo's Apothecary— " My poverty, not my will consents." But what would be !mid of the employers or these spies, of the men who created, fed, awl rewarded them ? In crime there were comparative vadat and surely the spy was the most innocent of all, in comparison with those who sent him forth, awl who, conscious of their guilt afterwards, sought a Bill or Indemnity for their of eace.—(Applouse.)—Siirely after such pailegy ries and indemnities upon the new a stein of espiumage, the public would out Se surprised to look forward in this era of lire death...! of chivalrous orders, to the oppoirittnent of a to w order for the most honourable post of pies.— Lrt.the Meeting limey the Hew medallion appended to a garter blue for this holy order—on the obverse there should be a figure of Judas. On recollection this would be treating Judas with too much severity —poor Judas, in any comparison with the good spies of the present day, would he most Hnjlistly loaded with irifatuy, fur he repented, and did an act of justice upon himself as an atonement for his crime, and the real infamy was upon the Flight Priest who counted ont the 30 pieces of silver— (Apptarrse).—The high Priest should, therefore, decorate the obverse of the medal, and the worth) " Church and State" should be his motto. On the reverse should be imprinted the likeness of some good " vital Christian"—aud on the exergue r)::•••! , tt be engrave!), after the manner of the &litchis struck by the Afrian Association, to mark their abhorrence of the Slave Trade—" Are at net brothers Load laughter and applause. These medals should be largely distributed, awl Reynolds, Oliver, Castle, and Co. should have th e reward of their merit. The worthy Baronet, in a strain of animated indignation. commented upon the dreadful abuses that prevailed during the late suspension of the flobeus Corpus Act, sod the de lent outrages that had been committed on indiri duals who had now no redress. They had, how ever, the consolation to know, that their situation excited the sympathy of every good mai l ; and that they had, in a moment of severe trial, displayed a Constancy which did honour to their feelings and character. No great cause was ever olccessful, without great personal sacrifice; and, it rod! a COMIC as he hoped, that, in common rah the rest of his countrymen, he would hr lorind, r i e v er y sphere of his ditty, to perform the part of , man of principle and fortitude.—(Great applause.; The Meeting then dispersed, after giving hr. e cheers. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FLANDERS MAIL. GENOA, FEB. a.:. The Commander of the squadron of the Uniied States of America in the Mediterranean, has recluir. ed the Vey of Algiers to give orders to his cruisers not to take the liberty in future of visiting can vessels, under any pretext whatever, bet:ans., as the plague prevails in the territory of Algiers, it is as much to be feared that the contagion might be spread• by these visits. lie added, that in ca.e of refusal, he had orders to give chase to the AI. gerine vessels, and to sink them. If ail the mare. time Powers would hold the same energetic gunge, there would not be so much reason to Gar that these corsairs wonid communicate the plaztie to us, and their piracies would cease of theinselie-. AMSTERDAM, mAacit 15. The event which has happened on board cur squadron in the Mediterranean has given giouhil to exaggerated or inaccurate report, iu foreign. paper,. l'he fact i , , ti►at the Purser of the Wil liam I. had formed the nefarious project, in wh,c:► he. stsc...eeded iu engaging some of the crew. to mike thetriselves magters of the vesel when it kit Port Mahon. and to deliver it up to the Algerisivs in hopes of n great reward. In the linter part or December, it waa observed. that something was in agitation. Oil the Ist Ja. nuary, Admiral Vali Bream haring called togr. titer the whole crew, and in the energetic and ple language of a seaman, et:hinted them in ill. prestave terms to do iii it duty to their lilng acid, country, the authors of the crime were (town eeied immediately after, and tried by a Bakker, the purser, wta condemned to :.~-_, I w - ~_.