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I never knew city Ministry so little suppoited IT
strength of party as the present.. Was there any
d►fiiculty in paatahn►g the King's son! aye, and
perhaps his favourite son too ?" /Now did you
rote, Mr. Mot:lapse. on Mar oeentiou ? said a free-
holder.—Nn answer.) lle exhorted the freeliolders
to suspend the exurc.. of their senti►aents until
they in. shat Parliantent would do ; and con-
cluded with moving the previous question.
.Ir. H.tr.t.r:•r ruse, and said, he signed the requi-
sitiou, and the Address had his full concurrence,
He war. distinctly of opinion, the couutry could not
he saved without a reform iu Parliament, and he
would prove the necessity of it. and why the
present Parliament could not redress tutor griev-
otters. They declared, on the late investigation
into the conduct of his Royal Highness the Duke
of York, that he had not been guilty of corrupt
c lint the country thought otherwise.
Although Lord Castlereagh, a Miniskirt, had at-
tempted to biller a Writership for a seat in Par-
liament, and stoo I convicted by confession, yet
he was acquitted ; still the country thought that
acquittal not just. It had been offered to be
proved at the bar of the House of Commons,
that a Member, brought in by the influence of
Administratiou, and whose co. li•eucti pricked
him, having intruded to vote against them, ass
told his services were no longer require a, and
actually t. algae•( his wet. 'no. evidence was rr-
fu,ed by the 11,,n•e ; yet the country thou_ht it
ought to hays hi ell received. This had been the
conduct of the Parliament, which he mist listed.
—The of the House of Coin mars of
England had Gaol, in his official saintlier, its a.
representative of the people, that it h ii.l been
proved, that seats had been bought a■ I sold ;
yet there was rio dissolution of Parham! .t. lie
did not want them to take the power of Par ismeet
into heir own' hands, he only wanted to see the
Parliament a uta c body, such as the Co• sailtuou
intended they should he, The Bill of Hi.hts grave
him, and every subject a right to petition. He
was iiut of any party. He would nut take soy place
in His Majciaj's gut. Still he altniresl the Nobi-
lity of the touniry, he looked njt to theta with awe
ainl reverence, mid considered them as ii must
essential part of the system. Yet he would not ac-
cept of a Peerage ; for he knew it never had been in
his power to do ha country such a benefit that &-
mimed so great a reward ; fur a mita, the moment
he was bun► in the country, incurred a debt which
he never can repay.
Mr. CRAFT wordily supported the Adtiress. lie
did not believe there was a man in the country who
wished to .leers• the G.•ecrnm- lit. If there was
such, he must be a rogue and a- fool.

Mr. ,11su-H prelac.4l his Speech by ivayitig, thst
he would not leant the meeting *t hew • . 11r.
Itlontague, or the Her. Gentleman wi o followed.
whom he exptlcted soon to see in a more high and
dignified situation, where he world lie able to dif-
fuse his ideas of religious toleration. wiih mute
weight and effect. It was the conduct of Coverimietit
that made Ireland a weak arm of tile Itriti-h Em-
pire. instead of an arm of strength—g ve h. r vival
rights and 'hr would participate in all the, r fie hogs.
What was the conduct at the present &liiiistiy
their coining in? They raised the cry of •• No
Popery," to keep themselves in place. Won this the
le to eng«,;,• the hearts of the pro le of In land ?It
No ; but behave liberally to t iein thes
would return the donation tenfold. Ile then took
a comprehensive VIEW id the rape aeon to Capeu-
hageo. Spain. Pori ugal. Sicily. and •-• •i lilt, witi
reprobated the folly tb..t cosiceived them. the
incapacity evinced in earryiog tle'lei into elects ion.
Their expeditious to Spain and Seily.were re ti.e
play of a child wish a gingerbread giant, au con,
metiers with eating its angers and toes o,f chain'
Miuisteis were told by their friends and t i•• Hypo-
anion. tt Ghat have what money y u please.
so as you ..e.14 that ghat mud glorious spirit of
liberty who h has arisen in Span.: What hail ',evil
their intermit conduct three ha ago The)
gave the Jubilee for the people to entertain thesis-
selves with ; and new they have the audacity to
tell the people of London that His Majesty's
Royal pleasure was. that their Petition must be
received through the Secretary of State. giving
their own tango ige slid conduct to His Map-sty.
Their M•istcr, Pitt, would Hot have door this; lie
had vigour and strength to support hiliewn
mea-
sanes, lie was far from wing the people haul not
liberty they heti ; aid be looped they would
fend it against exttrial and internal
Such meetings as the present tended to the greatest
good. evilt if the Address should lie for ever dor-
mant in the Ministfr's pigeon-holm. The Address
had his hearty coacurrenee.
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Mr. DRAKE. of Waltham, said, he had the ho.
none of ksiowing all the persons who signed the re-
quisition; they were worthy aid respectable men,
and no motive could have induced them to apply
for the alerting, tilt was sit for the public good.
He might be charged by some with disloyalty and
disaffection. He had the homier of 13..1114 brought
op under the immediate eye and care of His Ma-
jesty, and there was not a taro in his doi ll ll lona
that had a higher respect and love for him Had his
private virtues than he (Mr. Deane) entertained,
yet he could not approve of the conduct of his pre-
sent Ministers. He was not accustomed to speak at
public meetings, and would not now have obtruded
hut for the distresses the people laboured ander,
in consequence of the Assessed Taxes Act. H..
bud reed many acts with pleasure, bat that a ith
horror. He did not complain of the taxes them-
selves, but the unjust mode of enforcing them:
The surveyor or assessor had the power of examin-
ing persons au ratth, which g.:ve riot the honest man
a chance with the wicked ; those assessors were
like cormorants, devouring all before them. He
thee related several imitances of peculierhardship,
that had come to his knowledge, end contended
that instead of the person snrcharged being oblig-
ed to appeal to the Cominis•ioners, that the cit.m
P hould be heard iu opeuCourt, before a Judge and
J tare.
Mr. Gootmatit said, he had been a Commis-
nether, and resigned on att:otutt of the harsh, severe,
opitp•onve me ...um. of the Inlioeetors.
Ale. Si 'poke in fsvoor of the
Lord lot.arruts if replied in a short but eloquent
spec* h.
The 111,41-Snuttes pat the qnestinn, an the
original motion, which w.. carried by a barge
m„lnr;ty_.
Mr. Diana moved, that their representatives in