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through the pariah. without taking the sense of the
parishioners upon it. He wished to know, whether
the expense of getting up stud publishing that
Address was to be liken from the f Is appro.
printed to the relief of the poor ? After some other
observetione to thus effect, be teemed to the objects
Of the Meeting. While the cosistituttal authorities
of the country supported the Constitution, lie was
ready and wilting to support them, but when they
violated that Couelitution, he considered them un-
worthy either of his confidence or support.
Bravo !)—Who, be wished to know, were the
worthy Inotherisiool of whom the Vestry spoke so
warmly ? Ile was not deeply reed its theology,
end del tint pretend to gaderstaild three :natters.
hot if by the worthy brotherhood were meant. Mr.
Etlielsoon and Mr. :Jay, :of filmichester, he de.
chord all association with ouch persoiss.—(Cheere.)
—They were not the brotherhood of that marling.
•He next adverted to part of the Vestry Address.
which condtustied seditious and irreligion* writings,
rr tritlillig In overthrow the Established Church,
aria whirls spoke severely of the writers of certain
'stoke. to there Gentleineo. remem-
ber the URtne tristarlite, " Judge not, least ye be
judged." Whet ! were they to be assailed by bigotry
ris the nineteenth crest ?It was time that all party
feelings elonge be forgotten; they were all the chil-
-1 the same parent, and it was highly imprudent
thu divide the public into sects still pettier. He
was serious in support of religion, without those mi-
nute distinctions of sectariaitism, and he would tell
those Gentlemeti, in the language of St. Paul, that
without charity all was hut 1111 l hog brass and
tinkling cymbals. He would also tell them what
Lord Littleton said—" He that persecutes a 511511
for mit being a Christiest,irs not himself • Chris-
tiro." Persecution is ieseonsisitent with the mild
spirit of Christianity. Ile next adverted to the
Maticherter business, which he condemited iu strong
terms. a. he dud also those Ministers who advised
the Prince to scud letters of thanks to the Megis.
trans, 4c. Its the language of Sls.iltopfare. "The
hearts ..f subjects were the best security dr the
Crogros"—(Lheers.)—He (lieu reed the letter of
Mr. Writ, to Lord Grantham—(See THS Bat-
TUB PRESS of Toesthillillosi.)—Arter seine other ob-
aerratiuns, M r. Corder repeated the following line*:
" Remember, oh! lay friend., the laws, the rights,
(be 'citreous plea of power, delivered down
From age to age by your resiowned forefathers
(io dearly Marcia with Ilse price of so 'ouch blood);
Oh' b-s it sever perish in year hands,
But piously transmit it to your childreu."
(Cheers ;r—He concluded by moving the Resolu-
tion..

Mr. DOIr Li remolded the Resolutions. They
Waft put sod carried.
Mr. NORTHHOIAZ, in moving the Declaration.
requested thy meeting to give him a patient and
impartial hearing, as it was probable that his senti-
ments were not, in all respects. those of the in-
&victuala prrivent; but he wasted, as the meeting
Was so decidedly int aaa Wel to prejuslication in other
men sod meamurer, it would pot.igrejudge him with-
out permittiog him to replant. They were called
upon to subscribe one of two Declarations, and
the question was not, whether they would condemn
either, but whether the first was fully expressive of
their sentiments ? At this portentous period, when
all parties allowed that the State was in imminent
danger ('use cootettding that. incipient rebelliou
rtiisted enr•nget the lower orders—and another de-
claring that the aucoustitutional mea4ursos of Mini►-
ters alma destroy the country if not opposed), was
it not absolutely necessary that the nstetiog should
express its utpprehensiosis in a manly, firm, but
truly loyal snootier? fie u'rd the phrase loyal,
titaness • lowly, et present its power, had
emdea-
vonred to tuake it exclusively their own. But
what, he asked, dui they define loyalty to
?—Dell they mean a noble devotedness to
their country sod its constitution, or a slavish
servility to any Ministe►s and any measures, 6' at
all times and upon all occasions ?" Did they
not. instead of supporting the Prince they pretend
so much exclusive attachment to, goad bins on to
arbitrary and uescouseitutional measures, and by
slienatiog the hearts and affect' of his subjects,
conduce. in the greatest degree, to the insecurity of
his throne? Was not their loyalty the same in prin-
ciple as that of the adviscis of our Charles and our
James, and which terminated in the death of the
out and the dethrimenient of the other ? Was it nut
this " loyalty" which lint us America—America
that had fed so tong on the pelican bosons of its pa-
rent country. and was solely induced to rebel by
the arbitrasy acts of its natural protector? And is
it not this affected .• loyalty" which has led our mice
contented sod exalted country to it, present perilous
and ludf-revolutionary state ? Ye., (ientlesneus the
genies of our constitution is rapidly advancing iu
the narrow path elite dratiov. Noll a single false step
might plater it into the Charybdis of ministerial
corruption and despotism on our side, or shatter it
i ten thouwooti pieces nu the Scy Ila of revolution-
my madness on the other !--1 Vehement applause.)—
The loyalty of the Meeting would be different. not
the affected loyally of slavish and servile sycophassta,
but thee true attachment of tree and patriotic
subjects—the same feeling to a Prince as to
a parent, preventing either. by dutiful -remon-
►trances. from destroying themselves, mid pul-
ling down a ireinrodomi roils on all around
themes; not an exclusive loyalty to one portion of
the State. whether Priucts, Peen., or People. but a
detersninatiam to support " at sill times and upon
ali asee•sissos" the Constitution. the whole Consul-
tutioss, mid nothing hot the Constitution.—(Coto
tinned theers.)—He next ado-ried to the introdac.
tsar of theological matters in declarations and ed-
its:saes. This lie much approved of—not that he
was a friend to coercion is religious beliefs as man
is the habitable globe bring a great►r evenly tI it
than ltionself. These whet supported coercive sass-
sum wets inimical, not friendly to one holy relie
giem. Its prisciplm wore issiosprosi dossier end free..
dem to swam of faith. mod those who &iterated
coercion, made a tacit acknookiginem of its is.
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its opponents. Else why, he asked, make use of
the strong arm of power to support that which was
best defended by reason and nature ? Why ex-
press any fears from the present puny and paltry
efforts of a few illiterate infidels, poorming neither
mental talents nor acquired endowments ? Good
God ! when the sacred edifice of our holy religion
has stood for ages 'spotted to the vehement aud
covert attacks of the eminently-teamed Widows-
phers of Greece, that great Leviathan of intoterii
infidelity, the celebrated Hobbes. together with
Voltaire, Tindall. Shafteoltury. Cliesteetield, .-
lingbroke, end their several hoots of satellites—
when we behold it remaining isobly
acquiring additional strength from every cooflict,
end exalting its glorious head, surrointoed by at
Memo' halo of heavenly beatitude to the 'skim--
whets.mre kisow, too, that it is *either aswitted nor
supported by the passions sod prejudices, the feel-
ings and appetites of our nature, but, on the coo-
trary. obliges its believers to undertake that most
difficult ofall tasks, self-denial sad self-reproach—
when we are certain that the shafts which was
thrown at its venerable walls have recoiled on the
assailants with redoubled force—how, in the name of
common sense and consistency, can we entertain the
slightest apprehensions from the paltry and contemp-
tible scribblers who had recently dared to itiosil it ?
No, he added, a full, free, and fair discussions is
favourable to the cause of Christianity, for Ise kite.,
that when the sun of our holy ndigi !!!! shed t.s
conviucing and isieffable beams upon the snow..
built and isicle-colunoned edifice of the intidtl, it
soon dissolved, " and, like the baseless fabric of a
vision, left not a rack behind."--(4pplamse.)—
The weapons of Christian di4cuseioo, like the spear
of lthuriel, were ever victorious, and consequelitly
proved the itupolicy as well as the injustice of using
any of a more snottily kind. He concluded this part
of the subject by saying. that he trusted the Meet-
ing would adopt that admirable declaration of one of
the first defenders of Christianity " If this rell.
gloss be of God, it will stand ; if not. without lin-
mail interference, it must eventually full." lie next
animadverted very strongly upon the exclusive
loyalists, for declaring. that their ionlitic:ll oppo-
nents were enemies to the Constitution. What, he
asked, but the bed administration of the Tories. hat
almost destroyed the great principles of our law"
"You found the Constitution," he exclaimed with
energy, an Atlas, blooming in all the might and
majesty of ruanhood,,tind what have yuu mode it ?
Is it not now more like a Prometheus, chained by
links of taxation to • mount of corruption, with the
vultures of the Ministry feeding on its vitals ?
(Vehement bursts of opplause.)—tßut beware. he
said, of violent principles and proctices—oothing
delighted their oppressors more; they thus could
obtain suspensions of their liberties, Bills prohibit-
ing free discussion, enormous 'toolbox armies. sod
continue to delude many good but weak men to
rapport their arbitrary acts, from the terror excited
by any chew of violence amongst the peeitle ; for
this purpose they employed spies to inflame than.
seized Harrison in Smithfield, sod Hoist on the
ever-memorable field of Peterloo. But. he added,
be moderate from a better principle thou that of fear,
a conviction that violence invariably injures the
cause it pretends to advocate,and to adopt au ides of
the immortal Bacon's, from • conviction that tie-
hence produces revolutions, revolutions, both physical
and mental, firod uce cony pillions, and every bentertai
alteration ought to be as imperceptible as the march
of time, felt in its effects, but not discovered in its
progress.--(C/seers.) —lt remained for the people
of England to decide whether they should by vio-
lent conduct assist their destroyers ; or whether, by
temperate, moderate, but firm and energetic men.
sures, defeat their insidious designs? The canal-
tutioti is in their hands—would they suffer that
venerable fabric, the work of the collected wisdom
sod worth of ages, which, like an Egyptian pyramid,
with a base of political liberty, pillars of impartial
law. ornaments the valiant hertws and virtuous
statesman—the Hatiapdens, the Sydney'. and the
Russells of their country ; and hosing a pintnicle
of political glory and public prosperity, *mild
they suffer it to perish by either violent or
artful men ? He was convinced that the good
sense of the people at large would be values,-
ed by calling open the illustrious followers of
the immortal Fox to save this noble and glori.
ous edifice from the open attacks of anarchists
and revolutionists. and the mappings and tniaings of
a week sod violent Ailtuinistrotiou.—ltleercf
He next adverted to the disinissil of Earl Fitzoil.
ham, awl took a review of the men, who. he
had dared to advise such a measure—a measure
which shed the honour and approbation of the coon.
try upon the Noble Earl. while it only reflected
Arnie and disgrace upon its contemptible advisers.
—(Cleers.)—Who was it, he asked, whom the
Ministers thus attempted to degrade in the eyes of
the country ? He was a man distinguished not more
by his, ancient and dignified family, than by his
mail great virtues. public and private. Ile was
one who would not descend to servile adulation, one
crouch for Court smiles—who would nut sell hiss
birthright fur a mess of Ministerial pottage—who
was an upright magistrate. a benevolent
and ou every occasion the friend of the poor assd
the oppressed. And who were they who lord dared
to advise what they thought would Orgiastie him ?,
One of thew was a man who Intl raised himself
from a very low situistion to his present high state.
by having no fixed principle, awl by making the
SUfferior and sfilictious of Ins fellow-creatures the
object of his wit and sarcasm.—(Hear, burr.)_.
Could Lord Ftivitilliam be disgraced by ost being
associated with such a mats? Another of these Ms.
sisters was said to Ls* • wry pious Mao. vibe spoke •
long speeches in femur of Bibles ' • -
sod who in the neat brs-,"- -
lottorica, or any other
ere tortipoo might bb
,willioss ho disgraced _
sorb a moo ? Another
been recently raised t
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