The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-11-06 00:00:00

wereluore to t1;e• food of mind thau the food of lo%;y:

Ahem 139 persons w. re present, md fir. THELW ALL SW:I3 una-
nimously celled to the chair.
lheeer, being over, the Cowin MAN' said he would promote no
reticular form of grace. as he wished to allew every tuan to thank
Ids God fee the blessings he hail received from hint.
After a pantie of a few minute..
The lin AIRMAN observed, that hr had little title to the hnnour
conk:Ted upo i him. Ile was, however, grateful fer the honour,
and I:c would do all he could to evince his gratitude. "Gentlemen,
met as we are, the first toast put can all anti: Mate. ll'e are a
portion of the people: from the people ail power is derived ; end
with ahl tine reepect to the opinions of other men, I shall give mite
as a toast—" The Sovereignty of the Pumice" (Applause.)
The CHAIR MAN —'ll:e next toast, Gentlemen, I shall premise
to you is, `• 'Tied by Jere." Gentlemen. if you knew Trial by
Jury in its old and original state. pm would duly appeeciate it. for
it deserves all that it. warmest advocates can nay of it. The Jury
was chosen by ballot ; the names acre drawn out by ballot; and
well it might be said, that a man could say. he wait " tried by God
and by hie country.'"Ptilly, in such a mule of aeilecting a Jury,
Provihenee, or God. did interfere, and mikes they adinittiel the
strange idea of a world govemed by accident. &Jury so selected was
one of the country, chosen by Providence, and still preserved in the
forms of the words themselves. now coastituting.luriee. With such
a Jury injustice could not be done. and we ought now to pro for
its restoration, and not knee it to the Master of the Crawo OffiZe.
(St indieg, and three tunes three.)
Volunteer sung, Mr. Dudley—" Mime= my fate, where'er I
roam."
Tile CHAIRMAN.—In giving you this toast, after which 1 shall
conelothe I shall not billow the usual course of presenting to you
LIT health of the opulent. for some there are who think the yellow
dirt of the earth the noble.' pan or our =Mg. Neither shall I
offer to you the titled or the powerfill. who are often the depression
wet overtop, of their fellow-men. I shall give you the health of
one who is, and has been, a man of virtue—the proper attribute of
num- -a man of eotind integrity, and wherever its waters touch, the
verdure 1:10.111111 and the flowers blossom; integrity is of hitter
teem., when exercised by the humble, and in a cause which at once
eigniliee and adores human nature. The plain honesty of Thomas
Handy (shouts. of appleuse), over the united wealth of this realm,
and despite all the arts attempted against hint--and the sword of the
lea made an aseesein's dagger, still did the leme.ty oh Hardy break
down the powerful combitiation opposed to him. Right, in his cause.
had trampled over might, and lie hoped it would long continue. I
pinclude by giving you the unadorned epithet, " Thomas lhrdy."
(A tiplewie.)
Mr. 11 AHOY (evidently overcome by his feelings) observed, that
lie had tot words sufficient to thank them, and he would merely
return then. his best thanks for the honour conferred upon him.
lie nest entered upon a history of die origin and object of the
Correspondieg Society, which he declared pi have been only in-
t meted for the purpose of procuriog a Reform in Parliament. The
Sotee:v first met on the 2.ith January, 1792. Eight persons signed
the rule, and he was appointed Secretary and Treasurer, but the
first week the whole euteteriptions amounted only to 3d. In three
weeks 2 persons were enrolled ; and, on the 2d April, 1791 the
principles of the Society were published to the world ; and, before
the mil of the year. the Society was in correspondence with every
Society throughout; E :lel •id for Reform. (Applause.)
'l'lm CHAIRMAN here read to the 3leeetng a letter tram Mr. F.
Place, Charing-cross, in which he requested him to state to the
Meeting that he was engaged in writing a History of the Come-
spending Society. (Applause.)
Mr. IIALLOWAY begged to impress on the Society the necessity
of affording to 3lr. Place every information, for the purpose of
completing tile important work, and one so useful to set the public
nand right with 'exert' to a Society whose views and objects had
been so long abused and calumniated. Ile himself had many
papers which would have been of use; but the Government had
seized some, the timidity of friends destroyed more, therefore all
his wishes to aid him were in vain. However, the members of the
Society could do something, and that something he hoped they
woultlenter upon with ardour and enthusiasm.
Volunteer song by Mr. Taylor—" Fall, tyrants, fall."
Mr. GALLOWAY, efts r a very handsome eulogium on the con-
duct end talents of the worthy Chairman, proposed his health, with
three times three. (I.oud applause.) lie had known John Tbelwsll
for thirty years, and a inure conemtent and upright individusl he
• bad never been mimed tied with.
fir. Tilt Lw ALL returned thanks foe this mark of respect from
so numerous and respectable an aseenthly of his fellow-amens.
The worthy Gentleman then entered into an epitome of the various
public transsetinns in which helmet been engaged, as well as that
period of his life in which family considerations precluded the pro-
priety of his joining h:s former political friends. He bad never,
however, forgotten the: i. He was forced into retirement ; der no
lees than seven times was his life assailed, and after that, though
his bean never failed hint, it would have been madness to have
larger Mewed the enemy. But he did not retreat till his antago.
Inlets first left the f.eld. Even Ma brother-in-law could not dare to
keep I:ii portrait; and those who walked with him were pointed
1 out as suspected persons. lle then went to Wales, where he suf-
fered great calamities, and then he eunnuenceu as • lecturer, to
provide for the subsistence of his family, and to mitigate the evils
mot:ding many of the dearest of his eeveral relatives. Them
causes produced his retirement; but a second time he entered the
field. never having bowed to wealth or succumbed to power. lle
lived by his =croons, which, though severe, NM still sweetened
by the reflection. that they enabled hint to maintain his Vide-
pendenee. (loud applause.)
The CllAlumA a; proposed the heelthe of John Bsster and John
Hitcher, the survivors of the State prosecution in 1794.
Mr. BAXTER returned thanks, and =premed a hope that the
Meeting would never lose sight of the necessity of annual parlia-
ments, and voting by ballot. It was well known that the people of
England had a constitutional right to those things, and it was also
as well known, that the Common Council of London, the East
Lelia Company, and other public bodies, resorted to votes by
ballot when they visited to hnve justice done, and U161)720=
voting to be freed from censure for their votes. Property. it was
true, should be represented ; but ingenuity and labour were as
much property as the lands and money of other persons. Wealth
would be of little value, if there were out labour and ingenuity to
direct and improve it. (Applause.)
The CHAIRMAN gave " The Memory of John Home Tooke,
Thomas Holcroft, Stewart Kidd. J. A. Bonney, Jeremiah Joyce,
Matthew flare, and Thomas 11'arthell, and t&e other patriots of
1724." ((hank in solemn silence.)
The CHAIRMAN next gave "The three independent Juries,
who acquitted Hardy, Thelwall, aLd Tooke, in 1791." (In solemn
silence )
The next toast was " The Memory of Muir and his companions,
who were the victim% of Scotch Law, in 1793."
Volutteer Song, Mr. Evans—" The Standard of Freedom."
(Loud applause.)
Toest.-" The Memory of Thomas Erskine, the supporter of
truth, and the unbending advocate of the People's Rights, and
Trial by Jury."
The Clime MAN pronounced a glowing panegyric upon the yell,
the ability, the honesty, and independence of the Noble Lord, and ,
contrasted his coietuct at the tone of the trials of 1794, with that ;
of the yielding of the barristers of the present dsy. \Vito, in
looking at the contrast. could help glorying in such a 111311 ?
Volunteer Song, Mr. Dudley." 'Pis love, 'tis love." (Loud
applause.)
The CHAIRMAN next gave, with a suitable commentary, the
" Memory of the I.ot:don Corresponding Society ;" and in doing I
se. centeeded for the right of Annual le•eliaments. He insisted ;
' feet Parliaments, in imposing taxes, had been gainers. and the
people only sufferers. It was wrong to say that tax-payers only
smodil be repreeentee, for it often happened that those who im-
p seal the taxes increased their own rent-rolls, whilst the wages of
Labour remained little altered for the better. The worthy gentle-
men then entered into a biographical history of the more distin-
guishedntenthere of the Society, and concluded by recommending
1 the toast to the cordial appmhatton of the tneeting. (Applause.)
Toast—" The memory of Major Cartwright and Richard Hay-
ward." (Drank in solemn silence.)
Mr. FEARON proposed the health% of Sir F. Burdett and Mr.
Alderman Waithinan, as the :nitride of liberty, and the advocates
of the rihts it their fellow-then. Neither of these gentlemen were
wholly faultless. but generally their services were for the improve-
ment of the human species. (Applause.)
Toast. by Mr. GALLOWAY—" Washington, and the Patriots of
Ainerius"
" The Liberty of the Press"—propoted by Mr. BeLL, of the
IVeekly lkspitch. 'l'he worthy pentlemsn dcientitd the purity of
the press generally, and observed, that wh In portions of it acted
erruiteously, the grew. mejeray ac ed in fareur of the liberties of
the people.
Several other toasts w re proposed and drank with enthusiasm,
and aLout eleven eicleck the miming teparated.

" Too bite for tie wedding,
Tco soon with the Istddieg "
This burden of a very old song was fairly exemplified Ira
Tuesday. A jolly brisk young tradesman, raiding not an
hundred miles from the village of Ilalnaker, wad observed
gaily mounted on his nag, " all in the morning so early,"
entering the parish of Berated. '• Where so fast," brawls
nn ii.quisitive friend, who at the same t ime presented his un-
welcome front to our trarelL.r —who, it liectes,was bound on
what he►u ppo sl• d a seen t matrimonial trip—"where so fast,
my hey, it d'ye sea, you are for the church, why you may
es will tutu your horse's head homewards. because as how
the lady can't came, d'ye see, she having, half an hour
back, been put to bed of a main fine girl, so can't come
to-day." " 'Bout ship, helm-a-lee," was the action of the
intended bra,uroom. who, together with the lady, are not
unsiesnrving teprelansion, as the parties art' respectable,
and tin re teas nothing in their ages or otherwise, to have
remind an rarly tutiun, (he being 20, and she years
of r.ge ; j the father and brother of the laity, we understand,
are much butt at die utfair, but let us how, that though
at present the fair one's fame is sumer. hat of a dingy hue.
yet the will noon i.e made wii:r.--874',1c1 Gl7:ette.