The Sun. — London, England, 1832-05-16 00:00:00

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'lila ~1 1 0-, - ler, the education, and the Arse end of forty year., broug more complete, and more be did in 1792 or 179: knew the time had arri' longer be deceived and ins' presentation.—(Cheers.) end to those foul ulcers had alluded. —(Applause.) come when the intelligence of the people of England demanded a more enlarged and powerful voice in the choice of their rettresentativ,s.— (And will have it! exclaimed the multi , ade.) Mr. Currie then gave a detail of date views and actions of 'eve• ral of the leading anti-Reformers. He wonld now add a few words by way of caul - air. It must never be for• gotten, in thinking of that qeestion, that the anti-Re formers would have stood still, with their hands folded before them, to all eternity, and never stirred one step ex cept against their will. What they had conceded they conceded because they could not help it.—(Cheers and hisses.) This was and alw 'vs had been their plan, to give nothing till they could not ,ovoid it, and then to let it he as little as possilole.—(Cheers.) There were some who said they were for a large measure, but why were they for it? Because, will lie, ni. l l he, they must give • it.— (Loud cheers.) He would, therefore, ask them, who they •• ould have, men who had all along teen friends to 'hat measure, or men who had been reluetaotly lot red to yield it by the voice, or should he say the which they could no longer withstand ?__(Laugher and cheers.) Mr. BROCKLEBANK, in seconding the motion, said the people ought to be grateful to Lord Grey for bringing for ward the Reform Bill so early in its present share, and most particularly for the disfranchisement clause, the most important part of the Bill, to compare witli which the en " NOTICE. " No taxes paid here until the Bill be passed unrnutilated. Ito peaceable, but be determined." Numbers of others, who do not make this public an nouncement, have a firm and settled determination to resist payrraelit of taxes for the present, and the resolution to have Reform is expressed in the mos t unequivocal manner. Immedi itchy after the news of the defett of the Grey Ad ministration, placards, e manating from some of the most respectable of what is termed the radical class in this town, appeared upon the walls, calling a meeting to be held this day on the ever-memotalile plains of Peterloo. The announcement of the resignation of Ministers caused such a display of political feeling as was never before witnessed in this or in any other Owl , . In the apace of a few hours, a highly respectable meeting of merchants, manufacturers, and others, was he'd in the Town-hall. A petition to the House of Commons to stop the supplies was resolved upon. This petition received 25,000 signatures, and in little more than 24. hours from the receipt of the news of the t esignation of Ministers in Mancl ester, a deputation was in London bearing this all-important petition. What took place ota the presentation of the petition, the readers of The Sun will be familiar with, having appeared in the report of Friday night's debate. In the mean time, active measures were being taken in the town to strengthen the prayer of that petition, by securing a great attendance at the meet ing of to-day. The following placard. were plentifully posted upon the walls of the to.vn. " MEETING ON REFORM. (N 0.12.379.) LONDON, NVEDNESDAY EVEN 1N(;, MAY 16, 183°2. ( PRICE 7D.) which would be propo , ed to the meeting. He next served, th , t, on the last occasion when he had the honoto , if meeting the people in that square, he had asked them simple question : that question went to their hearts, .and he never should forget the unanimous voice in which they answered it. That question was, " Had we not then al, honest Minister ?" He now asked them, whether th , -!. wished to change that Minister?—(Loud cries of We do not !) He further asked them, whether they wished to see the Duke of Wellington at the head of the Govern went ?—(No, no; followed by hisses and groans ) But I am going to open all your eyes wider than they were opened before.—(A laugh.) If the Duke of Wel lington takes office, and, for my part, I have no doubt he has taken it already, as I have a letter from a par ticular frii.nd of yours, my father,—(Cheers,)—in which he states, that the Duke has kissed the King's hand on his acceptance of office.—(Great indignation and hissing.) But I have still further to open your eye,. If the Duke of Wellington takes office, it is my firm belief, that it is his intention to bring forward a new Reform Bill, and to pass it.—(Hissing.) Now if you can trust a man who, but a short time ago, publicly de clared that he would oppose all Reform, it is more than I can do. I was censured for some observations I made, the last time I met you here, on the Noble Doke, and, perhaps, I was not justified in then going so far as I Rut, now, there is not a word of which I repent.—(Loud cheers.) 1 then told you, that the Duke's object, in a speech which he had recently delivt red, was to get himself and his friends into place again. And I now say, if that Noble Duke, as he is called, should, after having ejected the present Ministry, take office and carry Reform, such political ♦enality and hasenPet never were acted bA,re in the living world.—(Cheers.) The Noble Lnrd con cluded by requesting the attention of the meeting to the speakers who wou:d address them.—(Loud cheers followed his Lordship's speech.) Captain CoLguirr then stood forward to move the first 7ranchisement clauses can !:e deenee I of se.: or4sry consi deration only. It would be better to have 400 repress - - •atives, honest and unalloyed, than 5 or 600, with so base an alloy as is infused into the reiiresentation means of nomination boroughs, or, more properly sp. eking, rotten bornuehe. I have, from local and other circumstances, been led, since capable of ri fl..ction, to pay a ime attention to politics, and to the public char , cter of those who hews) been constantly presenting themselves on the stage, and know of none who stead higher in elm...arr. than Lord Grey, always the ads 'mate rit the Wei tiee and the rights of the people, and, at the battle time, curefol to preserve the just prerogative of the crown awl eie aristorracv, neither of which cart be held for other purposes ti en the public benefi , . Than Lord Althnrp, Lori' Gootrielt, and the rest of hue colleagues, honest or leezer m n, I lielieve, .to not exist, and they want hut a Refornod l'arliament ,o be able to arrange around them men of basineise aid of practical knowledge, from all parts of the unite-it kieg.lonn to condu-t the affairs of the piih ic,. witb er , oit to lierne serve and benefit the Coutreat is i ll the Duke of Wellington the glaring inconsisteeeira of hie coneuct. Can he be interested with the coni!net of the 11.1 . .ern Bill who, avowedly arid directly, has ale:, vs beeu opposed to all Reform ? How long it it tao since tie nearly turned out of office the honour bile, the inealuebie reprce nt.tive of this borough, his only crime that or . ao honest and consistent vote for the disfrenchieertient of Eat Ret ford, and transferring the franchise to Birmingham e How long is it ago since his memorable decta:aeeri that the present corrupt state of representation was the best that could possibly be devised? lie, co doubt, meant, Inc the vile and detestable oligarchy, who have so lone fattened on the public. How keg is it ago since the same faction virtually and successfully opposed Catholic Emancipation when attempted by the lamented Mr. Canning, but no sooner in power, than it was bound expedient to carry the measure ? Can we then, I say, desert our friends, or in trust this same Duke cf 'Welliiigtou and his party with the conduct of this Reform Bill, to whom all have sliown themselves so decidedly hostile, hitt will now, no doubt, in order to weaken opposition and divide the people, pro fess themselves ready to etant an eflici:nt Reform ? I have only to say, beware of stratagem ; for it is evident, that the present actcrs consider this as justifiable in politics as in war. If it were not en, why Lave they nest already passed the Bill? Take car we are not plunged into foreign war, or get rid of the question, as w .s the case in 1793. Colonel Wur.taats, in moving the next resolution, said it was difficult, from the rapidity with whirl. one event folleiwed another, to know what to say, or even what to think. However, they had enough to know that a most determined conflict impeuded, on one side of which were 10,000,000 of people, and on the other 150 men, a little lower than the angels to be sure,—(Great laughter and cheers)—but still having so much of the frailty of man hood about them as to deserve the reprobation of iiteir fellow -creatures.—(Cheers.) They nould not doubt, however, from the state of the wl.i!s, which way the struggle would terminate.—(Loud cheers.) The gallant Colonel then proceeded to enumerate a bl , ck list of peers and pensioners, which, he said, he had met with lately, and gave an account of their salaries and their merits. There was among the number that old baggage the Duchess of Newcastle, who had,—(The Chairman here rose abruptly, and called out to the meeting, that he gave up all his relations for them to say what they like! about them. )—(Cheers.) Colonel Williams continued, and said as their Noble Chairman had confessed that the Duchess of Newcastle was his aunt, he should no longer call her an old baggage.—(Cheers.) Whatever the s;-.s ,it the leinily might be, he maintained, that their Noble Chairman and his family bad redeemed them all.—(Loud applause.) Bat the Duchess of Newcastle was at that moment—there was a report abroad that she had given it up, hut he believed that to be a fallacy—in the receipt of 7001. a y-ar, which they contributed to pay.—(Cheers.) The resolution he had to propose embodied the most effectual way. They must recommend to the House of Commons to stop the supplies; and he had no doubt that, when once their sup port was removed from beneath them, they would fall from their _place as the sword of Ferdinand fell from his hand at the incantation of Prospero.—(Cheers.) He concluded by moving the resolution. Mr. AUXIN s-conded the motion. He said they were going to take the best possible steps to accomplish their object, and one which was pe , fectly conatitutional. If, however, that should not he sufficient, the Constitution afforded them another, which was to refuse their own taxes.—(Cheers, and cries of We will !) He attri buted the present position of the people of England to the unjust opposition they had met with, and ihistrated his opinion by the examples of the ancient Barons, and King John, iibinent of the Parliament he Church of of Scotland, the he Fir st, s t the e oe , s tra eftot rabld in our own history, mid of Polignac in that of France, and, finally, declared that the refusal to transfer the fran chise of East Retford and similar plum to Birmingham and other large towns, and other resistance to their legiti mate desire for the correction of abuses, had driven the people of England to take up a more determined position and bring them nearer to the achievement of a better sys tem than if they had at first been listened to with proper attention.—(Cheers.) If the occurrences he had men tioned had been lost upon their rulers, and their eyes had been blinded even to their own experience, it was time they were met by more rigorous rneasures.—(Chterin) Col. WILLIAMS informed the meeting that it was of the utmost importance that the petition should be sent off to night, and be presented in London to-morrow, as there was a rumour abroad that the House of Commons was to be dissolved and then prorogued. He then proposed that the Chairman should sign the petition and the address on the part of the Meeting. Mr. FITZSIMONS, a schoolmaster, who stood in the crowd, objected that in this case the petition ei,eild merely be considered as that of the person who signed it. " The Inhabitants of Manchester will meet in St. Peter's.fleld on Monday, at twelve o'clock, under the requisition already published, for the purpose of taking into consideration the best means of supporting the petition to the House of Commons, sent on Thursday night from Manchester, to stop the supplies till the Reform Bill be passed unmutilated." " ALL HANDS ALOFT.—THE CRY IS, EITHER NOW OR NEVER. " It is particularly requested, that the shopkeepers, manufac turers, and masters of Manchester, will close their shops, mills, and warehouses, on Monday the 14th of May, 1831, in order that every man may have an opportunity of attending the meet ing, which is to be held on Peterloo, for the purpose of devising the most judicious measures to he acted upon at the present mo mentous crisis, and the utility of withholding all supplies. "By order of the Council of the Political Uni o n o f the W o r k ing Classes." Some paltry knot of individuals, however, for, whether truly or not we cannot say, the Tories as a body disown any knowledge of the proceeding, have been endeavouring to stifle this intended expression of public feeling, and as a counterpoise to the preceding placard, have issued the following : " All hands at home. The cry is harmony, peace, and good will. Inhabitants of Manchester, Keep away from Pcterloo on Monday. The King, the patriotic King will call to his Counsel anre her Ministry, one who will bring forward and pass a Reform 811 l without delay, a Bill which will confer upon every man his just and natural rights. Keep therefore to your shops, your mills, your warehouses, and your families. Do not be deluded by either Whigs, Tories, or Demagogues, their only object being to create anarchy and confusion for the promotion of their own selfish ends." resolution. Gentlemen, and brother Reformers, your Com mittee, elected at the last meeting here by yourselves, hav ing done me the honour to place me in the chair in the absence of our excellent friend, Mr. James Braneker, I have to announce to you, that, from the rnoneent we heard the account of Lord Lyndhurst's trickery in the Lords to dee it the great principles of the Reairtn Bill, we assembled together, and determined upon calling this meeting, and prepared six resolutions, which will be submitted to you for your judgment and decision.—(Here Captain C. read the first resolution, and continued.)—lf you pledge your selves to this resolution, you will oppose every innovation of that Bill which was so gloriously carried in the House of Commons. As the Noble Lord, our chairman, has said, our enemies have dared to say. that there has been a reaction ; that, in fact, like themselves, you do net know your own minds, and care nothing about the passing of the Bill ! Is it so ?—(No, no !) I thought act. Falsehood is not the only vie. they have to answer for : to preset-%e their usurpations they have been guilty of almost every species of delusion. Reaction, indeed ! Does this presence of the thousands here prove it ? No, no. It is the free action of the people which, like the waves of the ocean, have gone on with a continuous roll, until it has become irresistible. Brother Freemen ! I address myself particularly to you. By the first Reform Bill which passed the Commons, and so unceremoniously kicked out of the Lords, the franchise, as now enjo3ted, was to cease with your own lives and those f your children born at the time the Bill should have passed into a law, so that, when your wives shall have rejoiced that a man is born into the world," you may rejoice that lie is born a freeman. This right being reserved to you, will you not assist your fellow-townsmen in obtaining the object of their wishz4,—their inalienable rights as Britons ? Brother Reformers! the boasted freedom of Englishmen is but a name; nor will you ever enjoy your liberty until the Reform Bill, with its provisions and principles, as passed by the Commons, shall have passed both Houses, and received the signature of your Sovereign. I have, in other countries, made use of language and freedom of conduct, for which, had I done so in this, I should have been referred to some gagging-bill and put into prison. Gentlemen, the language of the Reformers has been decried as intemperate, and some words uttered from this place have given great offence to the delicate feelings of Anti-Reformers; but what think you of the language of that man whom Mr. O'Connell so happily designated by a quotation from Shakspeare, As this Meeting, though originating from respectable individuals, was avowedly intended to be joined by the class of Radicals who have hitherto not been very mild in their conduct and derneanout, the authorities of this town were rather apprehensive tbat the exasperated feelings of the multitude might boil over, and some injury to the par sons and property of those individuals who were known to be adverse' to their rime, might possibly take place. They, therefore, took every necessary precaution to pre serve the peace of the town, by calling out all the specisl constable* and military, stationing them in convenient flocks, to act in case of need. Almost immediately before the time of the Meeting to commence, individuals were found to be plentifully circulating the following insidious placard amongst the people in the principal streets of the town : " MEN OF MAN - CHESTER, Do not let the King, whom you have idolized, suspect you to ' be a headstrong, ungovernable, and worthless race of beings— Let him see that you are peaceable, deliberate, and judicious. Do not let him compare you to a ripe and ready bridegroom, who would sun amuck at all he meets, because, forsooth, he cannot get what he wants the first time of asking ; but let him see that you can act dispassionately and discreetly, AS VrISE AND coop MEN ; that you are not weak enough to suffer your senses to be stolen away by any party or faction, be it Whig, Tory. or Radical. Compel his Majesty, by your conduct, to respect and rank you amongst the rational and thinking part of the community.—Show to him, in this most trying moment, that your judgment can rein your passions. Be quiet for a time, and all will yet be well. Be otherwise, and you will retard that Which you seek to get. Recollect Rome was not built in a day." During the morning a conference took place in the Committee-room of the Town hall, between the gentle men who had called the meting and delegates from the ♦arious bodies of working people in the town, as to the course to he pursued at the meeting. Many were for going to the full extent of universal suffrage, annual PAr liaments, and vote by by ballot, but the more moderate party, by strong argument., as to the necessity of only endeavouring to obtain at piesent what there was a proba bility of being got, and by consenting to the introduc tion of an address to the King, in which the right of all " The prince of darkness is a gentleman, Wetherall by name and BotheralL"— That man, whom you cannot mistake, and whom the great bard, who knew all strange characters, must have had in his eye, is reported to have said, on the people's wish and Lord Grey's proposal to the King, to create Peers and insure the passing of the Bill, that it was " concealed vil lany under the insidious pretext of liberality." Now, I ask, did you ever hear language more insulting than that, or any thing more offensive, as used to the advocates of the people's rights ? Edmund Burke, no great lover of the people's freedom and rights, said, " Let us break the cords and snap the chains that tie us to an ungrateful shore, and enter the friendly harbour that shoots out its moles and jetties to receive us !" And what were these moles and jetties but the arms of the people ?—(Cheers.) Though the Lords have dismasted, they have not sunk us : it is not, in the service I belong to, a natural consequence, that the dismasted ship is cap•ured ; and shall we suffer ourselves to be taken? No.—(Cheers.) Our Commander in-Chief is wounded, but not mortally; not by the sword of the enemy, but, alas ! by the bodkin of his bosom friend ! —I will not entertain any other opinion of my Sovereign than that he will return to the deck and continue the fight with all hie officers, and remain with us until victory shall bave crowned our efforts and made us free. You will all, I am sure, make allowances for the influence of a fond wife, though I by no means recommend to you to submit to petticoat governruent.—(Laughter.) Gentlemen, I have told you before, that Lord Wellington's declaration made me a Reformer, and I am sure his conduct will continue me one to the end of my life.—(Cheers.) Men will triumph over systematical slavery, if they determinedly oppose themselves to it. Gentlemen, you must be firm, resolute, and determined, and never cease to address the King and petition the Commons, but not the Lords : no, after the manner they have trampled upon your rights, you will not petition them. Adhere to the provisions and principles of the Bill ; let nothing deter you from obtaining it ; " Do this and tread upon the Greek and Roman name." I now apologize for the time I have detained you, and, thanking you for your patience, take my leave. Mr. Jessie Evewar seconded the resolution. He ob served, that the late Ministry were justly popular because they had brought forward a measure of Reform. The Duke of Wellington was once more in office, and, it was said, be would concede Reform. But did men gather grapes from thorns ?—(cheers.) He had no personal attachment te Earl Grey, nor any personal hostility to the Duke of Wellington ; he merely retarded them in their public capacity. But when he reflected that Earl Grey was an honest reformer, and that the Duke of Wellington had made a public declaration against all Reform—a decla ration which caused his downfall, he never wished to see the Duke minister again.—(Cheers.) It might be said that the Duke would now carry Reform. He carry Reform ! It is the people that will carry Reform, in spite of him—(cheers.) Much had been said about a creation of Peers; but when it was considered that above two hundred Tory Peers hid been created within the last firty years, it was high time that the balance of parties should be redressed, and by the creation of a large number 01 liberal Peers--(Applause.) The Chairman then put the resolution, which was carried by an unanimous show of bands. Mr. W. W. CURRIE, in moving the second resolution, said, with great deference and submission, be would state, that their Noble Chairman had not spoken of the extent of the meeting with his usual accuracy. lie ha I been in formed, by a person who was well qualified to judge, that there were not fewer than from 14 000 to 15,000 persons assembled before them.—(Cheers.) One of the moot grr.te ful duties which a grateful heart had ever te perform, was to express gratitude to those to whom it was due. if ever there were men who deserved the thanks, the heartfelt gratitude of the British people, they were due to the late Ministry and to those Members of the House of Commons and the House of Peers who had so nobly done their duty and stood firmly by the people and their rights.—(Loud applause.) Among the firmest friends whom they thought of, it was impossible, from his pre-eminent station, not to single out, without casting any reflections upon the rest, the noble, the illustrious Lord Grey.—(Cheers.) He was an old man ; he could say his whole life had been •pent in the service of the cause of Reform, and be was sorry that he was compelled to see, even for a moment, the cup of promised happiness which be offered to the people dashed from their lips.—(Cheers.) It had been urged against him, and against those who bad at different periods brought the subject forward, that now they went ten times further than they once did. If Lill Grey, at the men to a share in the choice of the representatives was admitted, secceeded in inducing the ultra-radicals to con sent to the mild language of the resolutions subsequently passed at the meetine. At twe've o'clock, the time appointed for the meet ing, there were assembled on the plain and its approaches, from 60 to 70,008 individuals, which number would have been doubled perhaps, but from the per . tinacity of some individuals who would not per mit their workmen to cease labour. As had been previously arranged on at the private meeting at the Town-hall, Charles Walker, Esq. the son of the late eminent Reformer of that name, took the Chair, amidst tremendous cheering, the hustings being sur rounded by bands of music and emblematical flags. Amongst the latter were some bearing the following in scriptions :—" We will not live upon potatoes—those that will not work shall not eat." " The Reform Bill or no !applies." " The King, his Ministers, and Reform," with a black line struck across " the King his Ministers." Another flag bore a representation of the Peterloo Mas sacre, supported on the hustings by Mrs. Fades, of Peterloo celebrity ; and another, the portrait of the King with his head downwards. After the dense multitude had stationed themselves in something like order, and silsnce was partially obtained, the Chairman opened the ' business of the meeting by apologizing for his in capacity to fill the arduous office they had nailed him to, from his being totally unaccustomed to it. After reading the placard convening the meeting, the Chairman continued, that he had to request that in their proceedings tl cy would be firm and unanimous, but temperate and moderate in their language. Nothing had ever been gained in this country by intemperance either of language or conduct ; and it would be a disgrace to this . town if they could-not carry on their proceedings with the came unanimity as the people of Birmingham and London, and other places had done. He entreated the meeting to imitate their example, and avoid elf petty jealousies. Let Reformers of every does and grade unite to obtain, by just and peaceable means, their one common object.— (Cheers. ) ROBICAT PHILLIPS, Esq. a wealthy merchant of the town, then briefly moved the following resolution : That this meeting has heard of the virtual loss of t h e Reform Rill in th e H ouse o f L or d s , a n d the consequ ent resignation of tarl Grey and his colleagues, with such sentiments as it be comes Englishmen to entertain, when the best interests of the co untry are bein g sacr ifi ce d to the selfish views of a faction. ROIEXT HYDE Gain, Esq. rose amidst great cheer jag to second the resolution. He said that when he beheld the living ocean that surrounded him, he felt that if he had a voice of thunder, it would not be more than sufficient to make himself properly heard. Little did he Sip-et to have met with them on an occasion like the pre sent. lie had flattered himself when next they met that the country would have shaken off a part of its bonds at least. Eighteen months of agitation and the ex pense and confusion of a general election, were not thought too vouch for the attainment of this object—the " sickness of the heart from hope deferred," was not thought too much for the object, but still it was denied them. The Tory faction had again wrested the power into their own hands, but be trusted only with the convulsive strength of dying men.—(Cheers.) They had thrown down the gauntlet; let the people take it up, and " God defend the right." Let the people continue to demand their rights by every constitutional means, and let them tell those who de nied them those rights, that the Constitution afforded them a means of obtaining another charter, at another Runnymede —(Tremendous cheers.) The ignorance of the Tories was almost unspeakable, and of this he would give them an instance. On Thursday last, a Tory gen tleman, of a neighbouring county, dining with a friend, said that he had just returned from Macclesfield, where he had seen the news of the resignation of Ministers received by the people with perfect indifference. He also said that he had just sten a friend from Manchester, who had informed him that the people there received the news with pleasure, and this too at a moment when every eye was flash ing indignation, and when thousands and tens of thousands Were rushing to sign a petition, couched in no va r y mild language —a petition which prayed to atop the very mainsprings of all the motions of Government. It *at from the igoorarce of the Tories that they said there a reaction on the subje c t o f Reform from one end of t he'couotry to another. Complete, indeed, was their igno- Nice ! It was the duty of the people to throw out a ray of profundity of their igno 'iWitt that should penetrate the Colonel WILLIAMS said that he knets , that there was no time to be boat, and Lord Molyneux ezerd state this, although it was signed by himself alone, it had obtained tee concurrence of nearly 20 000 people. That was enough to choke Lords Lyndhurst and Wellington. Mr. T. THOKNLEY, candidate for Liverpool at the at the last election, moved the address to his Majesty. They could recollect that at the meeting of Reformers, held at the Music Hall, in the spring of of last year, he suggested, looking forward to the hope that the Reform Bill would soon be the law of the land, that they should erect a statue in honour •f King William. 'We shall postpone that for the present — and instead of which, transmit to his Majes y an address to express our grief at the situation in which the country is placed by the resignation of Earl Grey and his colleagues, and that no Reform Bill less efficient than the present will satisfy the country; and let s us petitionhluli large ryPggwesaepdar in sue m ,ttn,h e c; n en, iso t aitunt e g isxg r fe a t tet n oohn t feah n yti o n,ohng e r : d4, : tv ) i p ahl nael what against af thing absurd n t iai i nt l cgh t t h i itis i oee s bßrßtoete:i Reform r 11: on b 7l,: e f hpß votersaai passed . lme.l; been i They it was large constituency. Liverpool, which was not ve'Y long ago a mere fishing village, was now the second town in the country, and if they had a large eonstituency it was their pride and their boast—if they had 10 or 20,000 voters, so much the better. They talked of al owing en franchisement, but not disfranchisement. What ! was Manchester to send two representatives, and was the little borough of Newton to destroy the votes of !Ilanchever I y sending two also? The thing was absurd. The present was the greatest meeting-ever held in Liverpool ;it did tl.em great honour, and it would have a great effect in carrying forward the Reform Bill—they might have to meet ag +in, to meet frequently, but they saust make up tle it minds to do so as often as they might be required. He trusted that the success of the Reform Bill was . cettain ; but the House of Lords was losing ground in the tstim i tion of the people very noels..—{Chests.) He teall nit ranee.—(Cheers.) He conc'uded by seconding the res , . lution, which, being put from the chair, was carried unanimously amidst great cheering. Mr. Joserir JoltNaos; rose to propose the secon ! resolution ; in doing which, he took occasion to raisers, that there was no question of the right of the people to have a full, fair, and equal share in the representation of the country. It did not depend upon the passing of ti Reform Bill, it was the people's right by law. Black stone, an authority which even the Tories themselves would not deny, said that every man who was a free agent ought to be in some measure his own governor. Such was the state of things in the petty kingdoms of Greece ; but in this country, where the people were more numerous, it w a s wisely ordained to choose representatives ; but if the choice of these representatives was left to the borough mongers, to the Lord* who bad rejected the present Bill, how could it be said that the people of England tr.el any share in the representation of the country ?—(Cheer.) It was the representation of the boroughmongers alone ; th y were the sharers of that plunder, extracted from the people by the laws which they themselves made.—(Cheers. ) Would this measure of Reform take from the Peers any privilege which they ought to possess? No, but it would give them their loaf. It would take nothing from the Peers which they ought to have, or which they had a privilege to maintain. Were the people to be deprived of their rights by a faction of 151 boroughtnongers ?—No, never! lithe people of England were satisfied to give up a por tion of their claim to their rights—if they were satisfied to try the measure of Reform which was about to be given to them—if they were satisfied to do this, would they submit to be deprived, without one struggle, of the little they were willing to take?—(Cheers.) He (the speaker) was for the whole, but he would try this Bill, and if it did not do all they wanted, then he would go for the whole Bill. He begged to conclude by earnestly entreating the people to go on steadfastly and unanimously in the good w..rk. and moved the following resolution : That this Meeting, satisfied that the Ministerial plan of Reform was no more than a partial restoration to the people of their constitutional tights, of which they have too long been unjustly deprived, and well knowing that no part of the Bill could directly or indirectly interfere with any legal and honest possession or privilege of that body by which it has been defeated, is unable to find language sufficiently strong to express the indignation with which it has witnessed this second refusal of an acknowledged right. Mr. TIIO7,IAS POTTER seconded the resolution. It was known, he said, that he was no orator ; but if he were, such was his indignation at the conduct of the Peers that he could not trust oimself to speak of them.—(Cheers.) Mr. PRENTICE, observing some little misapprehension of the resolution, ruse to read it over again, remarking that it was as well it should be read by a person with a strong voice. It was true, he said, that it atatid that the plan of Rectum only gave them a partial restoration of their rights ; but, partial as it was, the boroughmongers had rejected it. He hoped that every one was determined not to accept any such measure of Reform from a Wel lington or Polignac Administration.—(Cheers.) They might take it from a Ministry that they had confidence in; but he trusted that the people of England would take nothing but a full and just measure of Reform from a Wellington or a Peel.—(Loud cheering.) The object of the present meeting was to obtain a hither degree of sup port to those parties who were now fighting their battles in the House of Commons. He hoped this would be done, that the Reformers would reject minor differences, and confine -themselves to one objet', namely, that of stopping the supplies. But if they did not get their ob ject by stopping the supplies, there was another resource, that having lifted up their hands here in favour of resolu tions to maintain their rights, if this last resource was thrust upon them—if all legal, constitutional, and peace able means bad been tried in vain, then let them lift up their hands with something in them.—(Tremendous cheering, which lasted several minutes.) He (Mr. Pun. tice) had always advocated peaceable measures, and though he had sometimes made himself unpopular by it, he had always held out that if peaceable means were in vain, he know what to recommend afterwards. He would recommend now, that if there were any more attempts to coerce the people, any attesnpta to cry down such a meeting as this, that then the people would exer cise the privilege of bracing arms, and of using them.— He said this, that they might look to the ultimate re medy after all others had failed, but it had not come to that yet, there was yet a good deal to be done. There was the petition to stop supplies—there was the abstaining from using taxed articles; and if the Duke of Wellington should dissolve the House of Commons, he hoped they would heed him not, hut continue to sit and act for the people.--(Loud cheers.) Mr. Prentice then referred at some length to the acts of some of his ances tors, who b id not scrupled to raise their hands against the tyranny of Charles the First and Second, and he trussed if the time should come which should be needed, that he would not be the last to raise his hand against the op pressors of his country.—(Cheers.) After some further observations as to the propriety of unanimity in their pro ceedings, Mr. Prentice concluded amidst great cheering. Mr. ELIJAH DIXON appeared as the representative of the working classes of the tow❑ and the neighbourhood, and expressed his entire concurrence in every sentiment of the resolution, inasmuch as the gentleman who had pre pared the resolution had agreed •o admit that every man had a right to a share in the choice of representatives in the House of Commons. These rig hog were acknowledged, and if they were denied to them, they had the remedy in their own hands. He would not say how they were to apply that remedy, but he would repeat the words of the great Lord Chatham, " if the House of Commons is not reformed from within, it will be reformed from without with a vengeance." Mr. JOHNSON, an operative, said that he agreed with Lord Lyndhurst, that it would have been better to have gone first to the consideration of the enfranchisement clause ; because if they had done so, it would have been found that every man having a right to the elective fran chise, the disfranchisement clause would not need to have been considered at all. After some further remarks on the necessity of radical reform, the speaker concluded, and the Chairman putting the resolution from the chair, it was carried unanimously. Mr. HARVEY said the resolution which I have to pro pose will, lam sure, meet with your unanimous vote. It is to withhold the supplies—(Cheers) —u n til an effec tive measure of Reform is passed: I ask will you suffer, the boreughmongers to continue to tax you to the tune of fifty millions annually ? Are they to fatten on the spoils of your industry for ever? Are you eternally to submit to the extraction of 9i. out of every 16s. you earn in the way of taxation to support men who never did nor ever will do the state any service?—(Cheers, and cries of No, no !) They take from you twenty millions annually in taxes on your drink, sugar, and tobacco. In order to explain to you how you are affected by the taxes, I have a diagram here. The circle imports the whole of the taxes, which in 1819 amounted to 54 millions, one-half of which is laid upon beer, sugar, tea, and tobacco. The other half of the circle represents the imposts upon stamps and customs. In order to let you see bow the taxes are expended, I have another circle, the half of which is comprised of the debt called national. How long are we to continne to pay the inte rest of that debt ? The other half of the circle represents the sums paid to useless placemen, pensioners, sinecu fists, &c. If we had a reformed Parliament, would they not abridge the Boronghmongers of their ill-gotten plun der ? Would they not cut down the expenses of the army and navy, and abolish all useless places and pensions? If a reformed Parliament would not do these things, it would be useless..—(Cheers.) I am satisfied with the present Government because I believe it would, after the question had been settled, have proved a cheap Govern ment; and as it is my opinion the boroughmongering faction will not give us a cheap Government, I will support a petition to the House of Commons, not to vote any more supplies—(Loud cheers.)--and I have a belief that the House will adhere to the recommendation. We cannot legally pass a resolution to pay no more taxes, but we can resolve amongst ourselves not to consume those ar ticles which are so heavily taxed.—(Hear, hear.) —There is tea, which is so very common a beverage, costs 6s. per pound, is taxed 3s. per pound, and Is. per pound of a monopoly tax. Sugar costs about 271. or 281. per cwt. and is taxed 275. per cwt. Malt pays a tax of 21. 7d. per bushel. and, as for spirits, I am unable to say to what amount they are taxed, but it is very serious. Tobacco costs 4d. per lb. at first hand, yet taxa tion increases the price to the consumer to 4s. per lb. and you will find that these boroughmongers always take care to throw the weight of taxation upon your shoulders, by laying the heaviest imposts upon the poor man's necessaries. —(Cheers.) Mr. Harvey then moved the third resolution : That this meeting concurs entirely with the petition that has already been sent from Manchester to the House of Commons on this subject, and does hereby solemnly call upon this House to adhere with steadfast and unyielding determination to the Bill, and atom all, to vote no supplies whatever until tht Bill, or r. measure in every particular at least equally favourable to the rights of the people, shall have been passed into a law. Mr. WieerTLE (Editor of the Manchester and Salford Advertiser) then ruse, and begged ti offer a few obser vations. He said the resolution just moved was the main object of the meeting th it was to support the petition al ready presented to the House of Commons from so liege a body of the inhabitants of this town. to stop the supplis s until an effective measure of Reform is passed into a law. From the eat best period of English history, it had always been a question betwixt the oppressors and the oppressed, whether the people had a right to expend their own money. Time was when a King of this country, instigated by a foreign wife, attempted to take the money out of the pockets of the people of England without their consent, and what was his fate ?—(Cheers.) It always was a principle of British law, that property was sacred, and the re estahliah ment of the Bill of Rights confirmed this principle; but the boroughmongers, finding that they could not get at our pockets constitutionally, had recourse to cor:upt and tyrannical means, and the object of this meeting was to overthrow that tyranny and corruption—(Loud cheers) —by n ithholding the supplies, and the most wealthy men in Manchester had publicly declared that they would not voluntarily pay any more taxes until a Reform Bill was passed equally efficient with that proposed by Earl Grey.—(Loud cheets, and cries of No Taxes—No Supplies !) Events, big with importance, were passing by, and he (Mr. Whittle) should not be surprised if the Habeas Corpus Act was suspended and the throats of the people exposed to the swords of the dragoons.—(Cheers.) Forty years since, similar scenes tack place, and the Duke of Wellington was then a cornet of dragoons. That man new enjoys the highest officer and places in the empire. He has had a princely fortune bestowed upon him, every shilling of which has been wrung from your sweat and infinatry.—(Loud cheers.) He has wasted myriads of life and shed oceans of blood to put down the liberties of the people ; and it now remains to be seen whether a dragoon like this is any fonger to be permitted to trample upon the rights of humanity.—(Tremendous cheers). He cordially seconded the resolution. Mr. BROOKES (an operative) then rose. He said, that before he gave his consent to the resolution, some explanation was necessary, or it would seem inexplicable why those who had so long contended strenuously for Ra dical Reform should have compromised their principles. This resolution pledged them to support a petition for the Bill of Earl Grey—the whole Bill, and nothing but the Bill.—(Loud cries of No, no.) The CHAIRMAN read the resolution. Mr. BRI , OKES resumed. He would not deceive the meet ing, nor be himself deceived. He could have wished the resolution had gone so far as to call for a full and free re presentation of the people, but it did not. However, he was not wishful to throw any difficulties in the way of the tneeting—(Cheers)—he would give the resolution his sup port, in the hope that it would tend to unite the two con flicting interests which had so long divided the town. He felt great ss tisfaction at hearing gentlemen, who had been considered the enemies of the working classes, de clare this day that they would have a Bill of Reform which would benefit all classes ; and if they should by some mystery get such a Bill as the one which had been rejected, he hoped they would not desert the people, when they attempted to procure a full restitution of their rights.—( Loud cheeta from the gentlemen on the hustings, and cries of We will support you !) He had not for gotten the promises made by the King on Reform, and he also remembered the immense price that had been paid for those promises in grants of 100 000/. a-year, and others of a similar nature. The people would go on with the higher orders as tar as they went, and if they chose to lag behind, the people would travel on without them. —(Tremendous cheering ) He hoped, too, that after what had passed to-day, the public press would demean itself towards the poorer classes with more kindness, and that its conductors would not step out of the way, as had often been the case, to ridicule them.—(Cheers.) He trusted the people would still keep their eye on the great question of Radical Reform, and con sider that this Bill, if gained, was but a step towards the main object.—(Cheers.) Mr. Brookes concluded by observing that at some future period, although, perhaps, not in his time, this country might have another old woman, with a petticoat over her head, for a King— (Loud langhter)—but they would not harm him. For his own part, he would not—he would take especial care of him—(Loud laughter)—he would provide for him comfortably; he should live well—(Roars of laughter)— but he hoped the votes of the coun , less thousands of his fellow -townsmen assembled here to-day, would show that they were determined not to live under petticoat Govern ment.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. Ltiacax, another operative, expressed his satisfac tion at seeing the merchant, manufacturer, and trades man, united with the artisan in demanding his rights ; and advising him how to regain those rights. He hoped to see them united, should it be necessary, in contending for the salvatifin of the country—(cheers)—and if they could lay aside all animosity, and travel toge ther in the same path, they would soon obtain genuine liberty.—(Cheers.) lie hoped from this time they would be one body, joined together for one common object, and i. this were the case they would have reform next week, for no faction could withstand the united wishes of twenty millions of people.—(Cheers.) The King had been lauded to the skies as a patriot, but lie had suffered himself to be cajoled by a woman, and, Sampson like, he had been shorn of his strength. It had been said that " the King's name was a tower of strength," and a pretty tower it was, which suffered itself to be gulled by the petticoat ideas of a foreign woman.—(Loud laughter.) The speaker concluded by expressing his satisfaction at the onion which had taken place this day, and he emphatically remarked, that if the middle classes stood by the resolutions which they had supported at this meeting, the woiking classes would de serve to be slaves all their lives if they did not support them. The resolution was then put, and carried unanimously with three cheers. Mr. JOHNSON moved that a petition to the House of Commons, founded on the resolutions, and also an Address to his Alajesty, be adopted by the meeting. This being seconded, was put and carried unanimously. Mr. FICLDEN then moved the adoption of the following Address to the King. TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. The Address and Petition of the people in Manchester in Pub lic Meeting assembled this 14th day of May, 1832. May it please your Majesty, weyour Majesty's dutiful peo ple of the Town of Manchester, yieldin g to no part of your sub jects in Mystic towards your Majesty's person, and in respect for your Royal office and functions ; but, at the same time, not un mindful of our own undoubted ri g ht, beg leave to represent to your Majesty, that your Majesty having graciously declared to the Parliament on the sth of December last, "that a speedy and satis factory settlement of the question of Parliamentary Reform was of pressing importance to the security of the state, and to the content and welfare of your people,"have learned with surprise and with sorrow that your Majesty, yielding to the advice of evil counsellors, has been prevailed upon to withdraw from Earl they and his colleagues the only possible means by which, under the present circumstances, such Reform could be effected. That we deem it our unquestionable right that every man of sane mind, and untainted by infamous cthne, should have a voice in choosing those who make the laws affecting his property and his life. But that for the sake of harmony we are willing to try the effect of a more limited suffrage and to forego for the pre sent a part of that right: our oppressors, however, resolved still to despoil us of the fruits of our industry and toil, have resolved that they will continue to nominate those whom they insultingly call our Representatives. To your Majesty, therefore, we appeal for protection against their tyrannical and perfidious designs, and humbly pray your Majesty to be graciously pleaded to recall to your councils those Ministers under whose influence alone we can hope to see tran quillity restored to the country, and to see continued to exist that constitution which is the foundation of your Majesty's throne, as well at the guarantee of the rights of the people. Which was seconded by Mr. Seed, and carried amidst the cheers of the vast multitude. Mr. HETHERINGTON, the Editor of the Poor Man'a Guardian, complimented the meeting on the unanimity displayed, and felt highly gratified at seeing the wealthy come forward in support of the rights of the work ing man. The meeting had been called upon to stop the supplies, and he hoped they would take the means into their own hands—(Loud cheers) —and stop the supplies which they furnished. He recommended them to buy unstamped publications, not to pay any more fourpenny duty ; to set a good example; to show a bold front, and victory was inevitable.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. PRENTICE explained, that as they had so lately sent up a petition numerously signed, he should move that the petition and address be signed by the Chairman, on behalf of the meeting. He was sure a more honour able name than that of Walker could not be attached to it, for he was the son of that very Thomas Walker who was tried for high treason in 1794, for doing the very thing which they had done this very day. He should move that the honourable son of so honourable a sire attach his name to the documents on behalf of the meeting.—(Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN expressed his gratitude for the honour done him ; he had always been the advocate of Reforni he was born a Reformer; he had lived a Reformer, mad if it pleased God he would die a Reformer. He was con fideot there wet, a moral force in the country which would supersede the neceKsity of appealing to physical fire. After th inking the meetin for thtir conduct this day, I sat down amidst loud cheering. The motion was seconded, and carried unanimously. Mr. GREIG moved a vote of thanks to the Chairman, which was seconded by Mr. WHITTLE, who expressed hi , conviction that the Union formed this day would be pro ductive of a Political Union of all classes to carry forward the great question of Reform.—(Cheers.) Mr. Tilos. POTTER concurred with Mr. Whittle in hoping that a general Political Union would result from this day's proceedings. Mr. littooxEs proposed a vote of thanks to Mr. Hunt. S ,me disapprobation being expressed, Mr. PRENTicE hoped that the apple of discord would not be thrown amongst them. Mr. BoooKss then proposed three cheers to Mr. Hunt, which were given by the crowd. Three tremendous groans were given for the Duke of Wellington, three fa the Bishops, and one groan more for the Duke of Welling ton. Three groans fur the petticoat government. Three cheers for Radic d Reform, and three for Henry Hether ington. After which the immense multitude separated peaceably. As one step towards the promotion of the great object, we may mention that in the office of the Advertiser news. paper is placed a document pledging; the signers not to purchase the goods of any person distrained for taxes, and which is being rapidly signed. Silk handkerchiefs have also been printed, hearing the inscription, " Pay no taxes until the Reform Bill is pooled," wit►, s star in the centre, surrounded by the motto, " Vox Populi, vox Dei," and which are selling rapidly. GREAT REFORM MEETING AT LIVER POOL. On Monday last, one of the largest meetings of merchants, nianufaeurers, and inhabitants of Liver pool, was held in Clayton-squire, than is recollecied to have taken place on any similar occasion in that port. Long before the hour appointed for the meeting, the square was crowded to excess, and numbers were, during the mee , ing, flocking to the square, but unable to obtain either sight of the orators, or to take any part in the proceedings of the day. The large balcony in front of the Ball Hotel, was converted into hustings, which were densely filled by merchants and by gentlemen. The houses around the square, both the tops and the windows, were also filled. At the latter a number of fashionably dressed females were apparently watching the proceedings with intense interest. Though the weather was rather inauspicious, yet, such is the enthusiasm of the people of Liverpool in the great cause of Parliinientsry Reform, the multitude who assent l.led on this occasion was extremely numerous. There could not, at the lowest computation, have been less than twelve thousand present, among whom were numbers of the most respectable inhabitants of the town and its neigh bourhood. The Committee who had arranged the pro ceedings of the (lay, took their stations on the balcony of the Bull Inn, whence the speakers addressed the dense multitude c •ngregated in the square. Mr. JOSEPH LANGTON proposed that a young nobleman who was known to the people of Liverpool as a stanch Reformer, should take the chair. He meant Lord Viscount M.dyneux.—(Cheers.) Mr. T. B. BARCLAY seconded the motion. He was satisfied that his Lordship's conduct in the chair would justify the choke. Lord MotrxEux was then called to the chair by the ac clamations of the multitude. The Noble CHAIRMAN, as soon as the applause had subsided, said, that at this most momentous and unparal leled crisis, on this most transcendently important occasion, he felt how utterly unfit he was to discharge the duties of Chairman in the presence of the immense multitude he had the pleasure to see before him. At the same time, he felt, that no man, however humble his abilities, could hold back, and not come forward in defence of the rights and the liberties of his fellow-countrymen.—(Cheers.) He did live in hopes, that we never should have been assembled again to discuss the subject of Reform. He had hoped, that the very name of Reform and of Reformer would never again be heard, except in a vote of thanks to the honest Government by whom a measure of Reform had been passed, and a patriot King who had sanctioned it with his approbation.—(Cheers.) To the indulgence of •uch hopes the people of England were led by a train of circumstances, by promises and professions from very high quarters,—pro mises and professions which, as they raised their expecta tions and brightened their prospects, had, now that they were broken, plunged the country into the depths of dis appointment and desperation.—(Great cheering.) When last the people of Live' pool met in that square, the House of Commons—a House of Commons better selected and more strictly the representatives of the people than any on record, bad most triumphantly, most gloriously passed the Bill, for the completion of which the country were looking. They passed that Bill, and sent it to the Upper House, as it is called, but, as he now contended, to the House of the people's enemies. —(Loud cheers.) In that House it was read once, it was read twice, and the Government and all England looked on quietly and contentedly, but not, as the enemies of the measure unblushingly said, with spiritless apathy.—(Loud shouts of No, no !) Reaction indeed ! Where was the reaction? The people looked on quietly, but they knew that there was yet a trial to come. They knew that the men who were not averse to the Bill going into the committee, would not allow it to go through the House in its integrity and its efficiency. But they never expected, that the first thing which its enemies would do would be, that Lord Lyndhurst, one of the greatest foes, one of the greatest enemies of the liberties of the people, would propose that the vital principle, the essential clause of the Bill should be, as he hypocritically proposed," post poned." The people demanded that the rotten parts—the foul ulcers on the face of the consti tution, should he removed, to afford the patient a chance of recovery ; but the state physicians thought the nation's health would be improved if the fifty-six horrid and loathsome ulcers were allowed to remain. On that occasion those honest men, Lord Grey and Lord Brougham —(Cheers)—went to their Sovereign—that Sovereign, most of the acts of whose Government had been to lead the people to believe that he was a firm friend to Consti tutional Reform—they went to him, expecting that be would redeem his promises, for promises he had certainly given, if not in his own person, at least in the acts of his Government. Well, what was his Majesty's answer? It was, that the only means by which the rights and liberties of the people could be secured he could not grant —(Tre mendous hissing and groaning.) Honest men, like Lord Grey and Lord Brougham, had no alternative but to re sign the seals of office. Honest men he (Lord Molyneux) had always thought them, and honest men they Lad proved themselves.—(Loud cheers.) Such was a brief outline of the history of recent events. The people of Liverpool were now met, that the opinion of this great and en lightened town might be expressed on those events, and, once expressed, that it might reach the highest quarter, as affording one more evidence of the feelings of indig nation which pervade this great and mighty nation.— (Cheers)—to prove, in short, that there is neither spiritless apathy nor reaction—(Great laughter)—to prove that the people only want their rights, and that their rights they will have.—(Tremendous cheers.) When last he had the honour of addressing the people of Liverpool, they considered themselves almost sure of their object. And what was the reason of that security? It was because there were then three parties arrayed against one. There were the King, the House of Commons, and the people against the House of Lords.—(Cneers.) But the King has deserted us !—(Tremendous groaning and hissing.) We have also lost the Minister, and an honest one he was; but we have a strong, a powerful assistant in the House of Commons.—(Great cheering.) He knew no words which could better express his opinion on this subject than those used by Mr. Strutt, the Member for Derby, in the House of Commons, on Thursday night. " Happily," said that Hon. Gentleman, " happily there was one resource by which all danger to the country might he avoided, and that existed in the wisdom, firm ness, and decision of that House. Let that House only come forward and place itself at the head of the people__ let it show itself determined to be true to its former professions let it show the people, that as long as they were true to themselves, that House would not desert them —let that House teach the people to look to it as their natural leader, and not elsewhere ; he should then feel the greatest confidence that all might still be safe, and that the great measure of Reform would be carried to a triumphant termination."—(Tbree cheers were here given fur Mr. Strum) With the assistance of such a House of Commons, firmly and patriotically determined t 4; do its duty, the people must triumph.—(Cheers.) His Lordship then alluded to the nature of *a resolution