The Sun. — London, England, 1816-08-22 00:00:00

`ci t y o f 'L on d on to %lam country WAS Mare 'deeply indebted. A't ti.lies he had thought, pe Imps errooeotti_;le k . tfiat Vv ait Immo did 'far enough ; but lie was niwnys nit hare fender of the tiglit liherties of the peopio `aud he (Yl.r. T.) did hope that he would soon see fito t o stored to !Width fts to be able to * ag , 4l • l) (In those boards. Besides the Rese 'which were to be proposed, ITe had also to soon a Petition In the Prince Regent to the approba `tion of tile ifall ; tor as to the noose of Com moos, he declared that he would rather cut off 'his right hand than sign a Petition to that body, corruptly tonstituted as it was, and regardless of the ho erests of the people. For his part, lie thought it quite inconsistent to style the house of Commons, at the commencement of a Petition, " Your Honourable House,'' while, id the body of the Petition, you charged them with every thing that was hese, corrupt, and bad. (Hear!) The par tisans of corruption, indeed, adduced the rejection 'of the income-talc last session, as a proof of the iodependence of the House of Commong : but this tidmitted of et) easy explanation. The war was an end, and with it ended the expectation of loads and jobs ; nothing farther was to be got by it ; ' • tool theretere, to SHVC their own pockets, they left The people to pay the public expellees as they •loigirt. The same House of Commons that rejected the locorne-tax voted the !tote establishments pro. posed by iniesisters, which teluired large stuns to support then ; anti Obey threw the payment on the fun dholder,or on an illawof,(Shouts of laughter `and applause.);---But withnitt• thanking she House of Commons, lie rejoiced that the detestable in tome-tax was at au raid. Had Mioisters been able to get it even at the rate of five per cent., a inilitarydespotisnt would have been for ever ri vet led about the necks of the people. He Implied much good front the piesent meeting. lie was happy that ever) the liiends of corruption were compelled to acknowledge, that it was no longer a faction who dwelt on ' the distresses of the country, but were resliteet! to confess it themselves. He con . ceived that this meeting would not only do great good Isere, *but was even of importance to the unfortimate people of Flauce. The petition 01 t h e Li ver y o f London would carry to the eat of royalty those wholesome truths which would nirt approach it from the mouth of Mini sters. 'the truths proclaimed at ,this Meet ing' would tend to put down those disgrace . fill riots which had existed in various parts of the country. The mahufacturers would cease to deStroy tlse property of their employers ; they would see that' their masters were suffering as much 31s theniselves, that the Govcrnment alone was responsible for the distresseS Which they en tlurett, and that to it alone we owed all our griev ances. (Hear !) Here be would cell the atteit -tion of the Livery to the late meeting at the Lon doO Tavern, and at which Lord Cochretieghat persecuted individual—(bear, hear !)- , --haul come forward and conferred the greatest benefit on • his country. - Ict us look at it for a little. A confession had been extorted from it, - that what seas celled the glorious terminations of the war Is*d 'tusk us into a state of almost irretrievable bankruptcy. The primary objett of this meet ing, composed of Rslyeity, Nobility, Bi s h o p 3, b.r.Si - P.fOlt. f tilitpwa l e it Kali was to tell me, said Mr. T.,. that my house ryas out fire, Roil brought only a single bucket of water to titiench it, I should think that be catue to rob instead of assisting use. Let us see, then, wise ther the design of relief was real from the extent of the vintributions. ft certain highleniale personage, 'whom yon all knew to be as rich as a Jew (a laugh). gave °illy 3001., while, in such ChTlintStßllCei i she Might have given 300,0001, The Prince Regent gave 50014 • but here he would beg to tell them a se cret, that whers the Royal Dukes set down their names for sums, it was sometimes merely a decoy duck to imluee others to do the same. He recol lected that the Prince Regent oubscribed 1,000/. to the Russian seferers, and it might be well to remind people that charity should begin at home. The Doke of Wellington, who bad received such large sums from the country, had given only 2001.; end the pious Wilberforce, it thousand prayers, a flood of tears, arid 501. !—(Lond laugh'.) Again, the Archbishop of Canterbury, With his immense salary of 20,0001. a year,' only gave lOW. An either proof of what he had asserted might be drawn tram this—ghat while •an addition of 2450,000/. was made to the Civil List in the last Session of Parliament, only 5001. of it came back to the people in the shape of subscription ! Was it' possible,_ t hat such subscribers could believe the distresses to be real ? He for one did not begrudge the grant of 60,0001. a-year to the Prin cess Charlotte; but be could not help remarking, that every private Gentleman felt it his stilly to give his tl,nigliter a dowry : and when all this was to be taken trout the pockets of a distressed pro pie, it showed that, they either knew nothing et all about the:.distress, or cared nothing about it. It was. uontestesery for hint to sty much about the, causes of the distress which prevailed--it was tiwing to the war 'which had helm waged for 20 Years against the liberties of mankied, and to the swarms of placemen and pensioners who Hon . tidied and fatteued on the miseries of the people. Before the war, th e . whole animal expenditure of the couutry did mit amount to inure their , 3: , ,000,00(31.: now, the interest of the National Debt alone Misen to 40,000,0001• and the current expences of the Government required 40,000,0901. more, Ministers had subverted: k constitution by ati immense standing army and While they w ere r i g idl y exacting the last tar ; thing from the pockets of the people, they neglect:- eti to demand back.those loans which Austria haul solemnly eogaged to rep a y. H e now came to what lie corssioered a remedy: and here he would say to oor riders asol placemen, '' give up a little that you may save the rest." This doctriue they ought to listen to, for they lied taught it tattle people .doting the war t ' who Ina given up their $4)l. lie Would remark, that there were about 20 B;shops in Parliametst, who enjoyed salaries va• lying troin gOOl. to the immense SUM of 24,0001. a'.yriir; and he could not help noticing, by the 14 , 1, what an. influence this gave the Minister, who had'. the power of shoving the Bishops so?) theme various steps of preferment. (A laugh.) Nuts, if you took one hundred and twenty Inc gi i,t pear thou:and a year frof the hisli'rtp, anti equa• lize:l their :.alaries, they would still etch of them be A tboti:kan:l tittles bcttci* t:iCir Master w as . ! wonlil say to the " Give up all yofir unmeritol pensions to th'e Prince gent, " Give up half your civil list, mitt save the rest :—(a laugh)—but don't give it at an Kilns— that will only pauperise the people: give it in the shape of a reducthoi of taxes, which would en able the manufacturers stud farmerS again 19 ehi oloy their ItSeful bands.'' lie would remind Mi nisters also of the I)roits of Admiralty, which might enable them to give 70,0001. to supply the t'xpenccs of a profligate Prince, butt wliic Should now be applied to relieve the of the people. ThOllgh Some of these droits Were- basely obtained, yet as they could hard ly be returned to their proper owner, the next ,best thing was to give it to the people. The next thing he should propose was, that Ministers should' immediately withdraw their, army from Fristice.;-•--(Cries of hear !)—Would you like, he asked, to have a lot aign army foisted upon you, in order to force upon you a Government you de , spised and detested ? would tell the Duke o Wellington, that however distinguished had beet his victories, lie was tarnishing them all by con. settling to beCome the gaoler of France. To de• seems to lower persons, he would call tipott the Intoriotts John Bowles, who had helped to stimu• atc the country in its mad career, to refund his ,miscounted thousands under the Dwell Commis lie Should call upon the citizens of Lott (oo to cast down that disgraceful monument pointing to the Statue of Mr. Pitt) erected to the itooory‘of a man who had been the destroyer of is country,—(lmmense applause, mixed with isappi obation.)----fie would nut approach the louse of Commoes with petitions ; lie mthd re ionstrate, and demapil «Constit ntional Parliament as the people's right. This was the only remedy to be depended upon. It wut only necessary to look at the list of places and pensions, and thee ask whet could be expected front Stich a House as it was, where, when the cold-blooded Castlereagh was detected itt trafficking' for seats, the practice was declared to be as notorious ttS the sun at noon day, and where seats were es openly bought and xofd as cattle in Smithfield ? it was high time that all this should be reformed, The people should now recollect that Lord Grenvilles Gag ging Act was no longer it force ; they should meet and unite constitutionally to demand a IT dress of grievances., Unless they formed them selves into meetings in every county, town, and parish in the kingdom,, and presented their peti tions :o l d remonstrances, they would never be re lieved from their listresses. Nothing would be done but by union, and, that pitted by wisdom and prudence. If the people did not act in this !loonier, he ventured to foretcl that the conse quences would be either et bloody revolution or a military despotism. (Load and general applause.) Mr. Ilutet (late caudidate for the city of Bris tol) commenced by observing, that after the abi lity and eloquence displayed by the teover mid se conder of the resoletions, it might appear presump tuous in hint to attempt to add.t• single word to what had been already said. Ilk object, how tver, he could assure them, was neither to it imr ix apojausa,e,,ealti.„lsseasee y o e uric r stating ,tew acts, of which no men tion had yet been made. Lie desired only to make is statement of a few plain facts, and should Sithlnit it to their judgment to decide whether they were re lative orlon. They were nosy assembled to telte into consideration the most important subject which they had ever been called upon to disetiss—the subject of that unparalleled mid universaldistress that was now neither denied nor doubted, bu admitted to exist on all sides. It was with respec to the remedy that the difference of sentimen prevailed ; and here,' there was abundenee o quackery in the prescriptions of the statephysi. cians. This variety of opinion proceeded from false pretences and incorrect views of the came of the distemper—wllich was excessive taliajOil, and that alone.--(Applause;)- This system of tax ation, it was equally true, had been created by a long and unjust war, waged against the liberties of all mankind.—(Mixed applause and disapprobation.) Those who were the authors of this war bad undoubtedly succeed e d in all th e i r objects to is miracle. They had succeeded in re establishing the Bourbons in France, the Pope in andahe beloved Ferdinand in Spain. They had succeeded in another point of no less import ance.to them—that of imposing taxes on the peo ple of England . without the consent of their true. representatives. 'But these triumphs over the rights 'of other nationkas well as tills Matt beer perehased at the expellee of all that calamity am suffering which had that day assembled them loge. User, and which there WAS 110 t a man who heard hint who burl clot witnessed and commiserated. lie might assert, without arrogating too much to him self, that he had frequently predicted the arrival of this state of things : but now that every melancholy prediction had been verified!, it became the duty 01 the fist city in the empire to show an example of decision to their countrymen, and to tear away that mask Which was employed to cover our actual con dition, in representing the distress as temporary, amid as arising trout a transient came. At the as sembly recently held at the City of London Ta vern, a powerful effort wits Made to proclaim a hilSchaftd as the basis of their proceedings. It seemed as it' all expectation was entertained that a deception might be practised upon the•natiou by a fallacions deseriptimi of the cause, and by subscribing 1001. or 2001. each, to remedy the , effects. Among these munificent aftliscribers he observed his old friend the Marquis Camden.— (A loud Muth.) This Nobleman had set his name down for the suns of one hundred pounds slid be would tell them what he had taken - from he public in his ('haracter of the Exche quer —ail office in which he,hed nothing on earth to do in the course of the last year. The Noble Lord's receipts for the last year emodinted to 38,4001.; and he fnunil, upon u little examination, that his .donation of 1001. was just three farthings in the pinata mit of this CUOTMOUS Simi extracted from a distressed and impoverished people. .(Ap plause.) The Prince and Princess of Cubi t ( Owl -given 4001., but they bid received 120,01)01. This was the comparative rate at which the great pite.. pets thought it their they to contribute to the] Sll/11. 'CS se. serte Sllniort of the lit,le paupei.s. (A laugh.) It reMiml• hut or the story of Bolton, a eelehra•ed high way robber, whb, aftUr rolthinniQ geotlentarr of 10001.; took treat credit hitbself tlir leavi . et; him is tt pay the turupitte. It coniemplatiolli oe..the present occasion ) , to. sub mit a Resolution to their coesideratiou for yeti tioniog_the I'riuee Regeut iennedia!ely . a _o call Parliament together for the purpoie of abolishing all sinecures and all Useless offices, as one means of relieViiig that public (listless. lie slioiiltl li the last, and indeed it wits not the tharatter of Eng lishmen to grudge real Merit arid eminent Services theirdue reward; bet what did they kneiw,be begged tct ask, ,of the Merits of Lord Camden ? ivhat did they know of the services of George Rose, or of the mother of Mr. Canning? The flame question st'as equallyappllcable to the allowances made out of the public purse to Lady Grenville, Lady Paget, and a long list. of lady-pensioners as well as Sinecure gentlemen. He had looked at the subscription list of the gentry of the London Tavern, and found it amounted that day to the sum of 33;0001.; so that it appeared Lord Camden received, in the course of a year, front the public, much indre than was subscribed in a month by all the rich paupers to its distresses.—(Applause.)—And, oh ! that Englishmen Should live to see the day, when, after speeding hundreds of millions to reinstate the Bourbons on the throne of France, they should accept as a relief two hundred potinds from a Frenchman, and front such a Frenchman a! the Dec tie Berri ! (Loud and continued applause) It. was intended to submit. to them,. on thiS occa, sion, resolutions of the same nature as those witieL he had unsuccessfully recommended to their adop. don on the consideration of the corn -bill, amd which, he trusted would be more acceptable now that bitter experience had proved the necessity of speaking the language of boldness and sincerity. When it teas .notorious that a slim of 8,000,0001 was annually raised in the shape of poor•rates,wlsici was still inadequate for the sustenance of the poor, how absurd was it to suppose that a paltrysobscrip• tiop of 30,0001. or 40;0001. could he oldie Slightest national impottauce ? The true cause of the ex isting misery, he woold repeat it, was, dial the :middle order of proprietors paid so mach to Go. :vernment that they had not wherewithal to givif employment to the poor, TheSe were the fruits of a long, bloody, and unjust war, which had 'enabled sineeurists to nourish, surrounded by the agonizing groans of a starving multitude, eating up the filt and happiness of the kingdom, and sup ported by a profligate system of Borough dealing, which robbed the people of England of their elective franchise. Here Will the origin of a system that took the wages of industry to give them away to idleness, and 11;e, rewards o f g e. nius to lavish them on profligacy and stitl&ity (Applause) ; —a system which was . fiust geovi.tteo in the corrupt bosun' of one of the greatest villains that ever existed—he meant Sir Robin Walpole; and had been !nought to maturity by anothei. Minister, Mr. Pitt, who was as corrupt as the other. The progress of that system had irldeed, of late years, been SO rapid as to have at length brought it to a premattire old age : it wag evidcntil stingglinq in the of lie cavocvit !mind that the wtirolog voice of our iiioni& Livery, admobit ion to theme !tire longer delay to restore to • Englishmen their;igtit-; lie hoped, too, that this meeting would alp re %%ii!, hi m i ll the occessify olpetitioning the Prince Regent to convene Parliameet, even in its present cor rupt shape ; to recall the British army from France (applause) V and to secure a reform in the Go vernment, before the people, `goaded to madness, should demand it in' a tone and slimmer which might involve the whole frame of it in a common destruction. (Applause.) Let them be Warned by one who predicted the present calamity ten years ago, nor suffer themselves to he deceived either by the delasions of one part* or the othe r. Errors were easily p ro p agate d : and in the Mori Chronitle of that day there was a paragraph, containing as glaring a falsehood as was eVer formedub kisite(!; o the wld.b; r o i r t c n j l t r u s r t a a l i c e o d ;re t i s l p a o t !le e r th) ; t: l t ' l e ta re t p the ensuing liorvest was likely to prove most "abun dant. Ile pledged to them his character as a gfarrollisset.Lca;it I;namtt'llityltaast,raalcrieaonr;lititiga that h t i l B l:;,:e tt ... a H 18 : 4 1 1 1 : a ‘ i v al l e t i ll v s p o ee s i ra l t d i rb ij a e e t t i ti. o ii l 6l l . c eo rit:t e l t t e t i l l i : t h e C e k c ri o lo o o t i : ws n ; n t o r s. y o u ( ; s gl e 3r a ie t: a o n : P t air! i c s i t e ije t " i i'n l i t he a c ; Y t ) daye h t t i t i t e ti harvest iu the letter received a from t City, no toe an e l i s i e ne t I n t e t a s g t a r t i e c 'l o t ; for that the consequence would be, that n t r i e le. di i a l t o e r l t y s t o o rd i e w r tolte restriction Alillehri,eernsiowveotti t!d an im d opened. Such statement s cou ld not b e very agreeable; but whenever he had the houtiur to address them, they should find that he would al. ways tell them the plain truth, without tear, ant without reward. (Applause.) The Resolutions were then pat severalty . , and retried in the uffinhtstiee unanimously. A Yeti Lion lion founded upon them was also read, and agreed to, It was afterWardi resolved, that the Petition should b e p resented b y the Lord Mayor and the Sheriffs to the Prince Regent on' the Throne. the .. r a e o g r i t i l is ltil t i i t o y l o i Q e ii f o c n t t o h p i e l n iii in f li j o c iv i e l e i r s i y v i i ti t t j o Mr. IIuNT m ove d t h e t h an k s rite for sunimonint; slid for his impartial conchict in the chair, wide was received with waving of hats and, shouts approbation.. • Ile LO.lin 'MAYOR expressed his grateful' ac knowledgmeuts for the honour he had received lie WAS at all.titnes anxious to conduct Ithnsell it he office of their Chief Magistrate so as to merii heir approbation ; and if he succeeded in niu ig it, it constituted his highest reward'. 't'was , thenmoved, that the resolutions be in in the mood morning and evenlng newspa ,s; to which an t amendatent was moved and ,cried, viz, tbra thershould he published in all. n answer to an observation, that this was not he practice of the Comnion Couneil, and that the additional eXpeitsc ought to he dtfrayed hY some other way ihati that of the•city Afr„ MKT said. it was l'or the Common flo e , mine ktrialker or not (hey would obey the insttuctiona ut their coiLlithencs. 'Ehltilk '4 were Asa) voted the to4ver and sew colidcri ate( obicis the nail bt icn i rAIf . IF, Fit ENi.ll MY. ItnuisEt.s, 14.--LLetters from Lille of 111‘ , ..: 12th contain the ftillowihg partiralars respecting the gratinal angineniaiinh of the F'rtnch rtny It is reckoned that the timnber of militaryof all ranks who are p i ts 300,000 { and that those who have been discharged with unlimited furloughs may he estimated at 100,000. Ity order to draw as mach adeantage as possible from this mase, which is x constant burden npdri the 'Treasury; the French Governnierit has restilireti to increase the army in active service to 200,00(1 :men, and ti this end to make •a chOice from the two above-mentioned classes, and a levy of meri. •who have•never served. The Minister at War, whO in his former siittationa has hid an opportu _ nity to knnw and app'reciate all the principal Gc- nerals who have served tinder gnOnoParte, has laid before his Majesty a choice of persons from among them, who at all events arc Yinown ro the old army ; and it is hoped thatt , tbe onion of these dif- fercut elements will have a favourabl e intkeuce on the dispositions of the..6oop, atut render thc Army a true support of the Monarchy," Between the Bth and II lb there have arrived at Calais a great many En , ..Hish Generals and sign. , Offiei•rs, going partly to P a ri s an d portly to, CambraY: couriers also have again landed at that port, going to Vienisa and VI3IISAILLF:S, AUG. i o.—The same stagnatio in trade prevails as before ;'lme remarks also ;a l the n general way of thinking, an indifference and en uncertainty, which will probably not sr ffle itsel till it shall appear, on the opening of the Com hers, whether the influence of the Alinh t " . will prevail against the influence of the Owl" Royalists, supported by, some very cousiderir ble persons, and perhaps by the change d a' Gt . Ell of the Chamber of Dcpwici. relTe, fancy they perceive that the Ministry grg ,l l o4 give the severer Pork Pap(..rs more iiherry. Nata 4 withstanding the general constraint one could b e " fore easily '4listinguidi those which pretvirel ex ~t o rd t lib rat i e v l !v ii ' l c:l 3. t t l o iii t ik b it;, P t r i: l l ) a te t :e t : 444" to speak their sepiiments more phLioly, c4:y to reibark t!,at by f ar ibe Kr e t r Part of 11'6 Natioir fAvourc the latter sentiments. They are now entployetliu receiving a nd Cc' ainioing sever,.!o a f finance, tint! if . fcg * ' l '' Int:eyed that t 1 it L A ri ve he o .l "*'' 1. • `Otrre ranch tilk of a pl a n pi ' 1 by ill: Aliniter Finaliec to 5)1110 rr i oc ip3l .erl, to create a cert a i n filnintitv of certiti: of the French Funds iu tfitir to put them in titculaticin out of the 11011), it) order opon a new issue of (reMes) to make it easy to place them, and in tl"'"c measure Pie Vent the fall of the Funds on 11 '° change at Paris. lloWever tliis Le, .it is hol'C it the Government will Jiarrn be relicied from necessity of selling stock every day iir orarr IG raise money for the discharge of the military cOO - for the 'support of the toruiria troops.—(liaartem Courant, dug. 17) FRENCIi PAPERS. PARIS, 'AUG. 19.—Nfter Mass, yesterday, the ' King and all the Royal Family appeared in the great balcony over the garden. The a cclamation s were very loud, as .it was the first time the penl )l4 had seen the whole of the Royal Fautilitog ilicr for a long period. In several Communes religious prejudices °P i , pose the p ro p agat i on ,of vaccination. Sect", persons th oug h t t h at to have recourse to sit" means was tempting God, and that we aught to submit with resignatif,O . to the evil, provid ence m A Y send upon us. The Bishop of Arras hila'ad dressed a circitl ar l etter to the. Curate; awl °fria elati ng Mi n i sters of the Diocese, t o . eogage tb e " ) to dest ro y in the minds of thei r parishioners q au opinion s o cOntra to the good of humittiq 311 d even of religion. SAI TS N:CROIX, TN TITNEVIrrr, juLY II —.Jr' is very cet fain that 1: . 10 same meo who ei „f e avota to excite the spirit of revolt in sp i raisb A:Petit:4 have agents here, lint they have little s lic"94. The people live in great abundance of ovary and agricohltre employs all those Who have [ u ntil": else to do. Lately some straoget s arrived arida pretence, of commerce, and spread theut‘-'.".1 over the country ; but Avbett % 6/iIC4 to examine them they had d;sAp,Vtared. Tt . le In' denendAnts of tie eolooies sail nboo "1"411 e ( "rsiAir I:#pautinond Is ha, captured t VL"' 15 P a4' Safied altm,st ill {114: road ler thv E. OA fm,4,, I)4t ttt the f)t " I. 4t httistA the thg lit I e s. he shjiss, 11 bur cargo, was toilik, the othe r s the crew; of biph. in'i4 Spain perhapti, be, ffi le °f • _ likk