The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-01-17 00:00:00

LONDON.

WEDRESOAV; JANUARY 17. 1111111.

The Week •*I the Develet Steeling was en
importaut in its nature aird'conseqtterrees. and dealt
so
sentation and calumny in which the Ministers and
their partisans have endeavoured to indulge, that
no one can be surprised at the efforts made by
them to throw discredit upon the constitution of the
meeting. To this meeting ull the retainers of the
Treasury had been looking anxiously from lie-t
intim 'lion of the Requisition that e.0.m.-a to an-
nounce a Ministeii I Address, amid IA own t to.
of course, were their dismsy aii.l anguish at the
triumph obtained by the truly loyal majority of the
freeholders. Not being immediately provided with
topics for censure, the writers of the Treasury
Journals, with their customary contempt of facts.
set about what might be called fishing. fur the
means of calumniating the character of the
assembly, while they took care to impute, by im-
plication, the severest censures upon the High
Sheriff of the County, the Duke of Dfixox-
SHIRE, and the other Noblemen and Gentlemen
who flung out the mock loyalty Ministerial Address.
firer. however, the shaft prepared for others re-
bounded upon themsrlier. Among several saga-
cirrus questions proposed et random It WAS naked—

Were not the leaders of the itadieal4, and the Puke'.
.Rents and tenantry, let prientety two the Hall, and .0
placed as to show a front of about six or eight deep in that
fowl of the Hall where the Sheriff took his seat?" A 1..,
" In consequence of this monomer', i 4 it hot 31 fact, that
when the Committee of Reyui ei e Waists entered the Hall.
tier Neareely found roan, to stow! i"

To these questions Sir Gsonce CoEwc, the
highly respectable Gentleman who appeared in the
Town Doll of Derby to represent the Reqiii-
ritiotiistv, and who moved the original, or Minisie-
rial Address, gives a elear mid honest Ammer. It
certainly sus somewhat unlucky that Sir GEORG 6
should, in the simplicity of his heart, have con-.
crived that the qoestions were pot forward for the
purpose of being answered. But, however. the
worthy Baronet, in a letter addressed to the Editor
of the Paper in which the questions were so pom-
pously put forth, says—
" As ■n Englishman, sod a Christian, I feel it my duty
ant to permit any statement, which, being incorrect, may
tend unjustly to injure t►e character of those who opposed
as, to go forth to the world aacontradieted; more parties.
laity do I owe it to the High Sherif, Mr. Mandy, for whom
I have great respect, to refute a statement, the stigma or
which, if true, would fall upon him. As regard. your
Imre questioa, quoted above, I her leave to slate, that sr,
the Reeptisitionists, sire afforded equal facility *dent the
Noble Morer of the amended Address to enter the Count 3,
Hall. As regards your former question, 1 bey leave to
stale, that the doors of the Hall were opened, fairly and
equally, to all parties collected to the yard. I trust•yo■
will give this account the earliest possible insertion.
" GEORGE CREWE."

The risme of Sir GEoREE CREWS, independent
of the circumstance that his testimony is given in
favour of his immediate opponents, gives such an.
thenticity to this statement as must command even
the unwilling assent of the pat•tissos of the Minis-
ters. No pretence, therefore, can now be set up
by any man in the empire, that the real sense of
the Freeholder, of the county of Derby was not
fairly collected at the late meeting. The county
was put in motion not by the opponents of the
Ministers; the assembly was convened by the Mi-
nisterial party for a purpose which must have
roused all the activity and energies of the faction
in . very quarter of the county. Accordingly the
hlinisterials entt in their full strength, and, ac-
cording to Sir GEORGE CaewE's evidence, foie
;day was bileo,ll to both parties. No priority of
admission, DO facility of entrance was granted to
one class of persons more than to another—the
gates were thrown open to all, and the people,
without distinction of party, indiscriminately filled
the Hall. There was therefore a fair trial of strength
on that occasion ; and although the tninisterialists.
to obtain a momentary triumph, and to throw a veil
of delusion over the real purpose of their Address.
disclaimed all connexion with the present unpo-
pular Cabinet, and hoped to secure their Address
by making " 11w Kitta's name" their " tower of
strength," the freeholders saw through the un-
nceurrr, despised the purpose for which it was
attempted to be practised, and voted the Duke of
DevoNsHlßE's amended Address with emulots
enthusiasm'. Such has been the fate of every mi-
nisterial Address that has been submitted in any
part of England to the test of I.ublic discussion its
/111 assembly fairly and constitutionally convened_
'nicker, and misrepresentation have in a inter G.,
instances, as at Shrewsbury, given a storainal in.
umph in the missisterialists, but even to Ouse eras.
the real sentiments of the people were felt by can-
did and impartial observers to be decidedly op-
posed to the measures recently pursued by the pre-
mist Ministers.

The Pork Papers of the 12111 and 19th hart
arrived. The Report of the iwojet of the la*
for the perception the six lirpt twelfths of tlw
taxes of 18511, was inkwell ill the Chamblee of
!'errs on the lido, without a division. A nsiniste-
rigl cotriniuniestion was expected its the Chamber
of Deputies on tl►e following (lay.

Ministers are now actively employed in muster-
ing WI their Parliamentary friends. They will
have • meeting out Saturday, at winch a return
will be made of their strength. Their future pro-
ceedings will be regulated by the result.