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opinion of the people of thi• country has undriz..iie a
change miparalciled io the history of the world."—.Three
times dint loud cheers.

Me. CODNETT rose. and the applause configured
' for some women. He begged first to return ,bona
oilicere thaiiks for the great honour done him. lie
would not sty that he was entirely unworthy of it ;
every man must be C1111,C11104, 111 some degree, of
his own t•letor, or doe lie would be very *odd to
judge of other things—beside., it would tie a bad
compliment to the judgment of the meeting, to
tell thew that he did not deserve the &vont.
they were bestowing on liim.—(Apptause. /
They must not flatter themselves that hr, or eel
man, runlet du much in the Inesent state of thine-.
Ile felt proud, however. at liavdsh: imparted to 4:4
couittry melt principle* and it.foothatiutt which they
could never unlearn. lie plet:g.4l I elf, that he.
would
been 'poke!' and written with respect to lam is it,
aboence. A rffill% who had teen in the height that
he had reached. need not care much about any thing
that malice or calumny could utter against him.
The path of distitiction was rugged as well as steep.
and he who could not take the buffo, and cheeks,
and rebuffs that he will tenet with in passing ii, halt
much letter content himself with his present sta-
tion than go further on in it. He should therefore
not trouble himself with replying to the writings
which The Times, Courier, and other Papers had
published to his disadvantage. He had some site
of the same kind to answer for, which he had com-
mitted when he was younger and less experienced,
and as they were not very old. he hoped tat that
they might mend, and that he should live loser the
day when they would acknowledge that they had
done him injury. He could not but be struck
with the great difference iif the canoe of Re-
form now and before he left England, ten
years ago. The term Radical had been late ly
oddest to Reform, mid it was applied as if Ra-
dical Reform implied a destruction of the Con-
stitution. So far, the case was quite new. At
that time, to be a reformer at all was had enough ;
now, though reform by itself had become a We
more tolerable. Radical Reformer, were .‘ devil. sit
hell." l'his was very strange. The reformer.
had not altered; they used the same language
at the time the Dungeon Bills were passed. Ile
had marked the rise of the term Radical, while
he was in America, and he was cement that it
was proof of n great alteration its the state of the
question of Reform ; it was evidence of itself,
that one class of Boroughmongers were now incline (1
to grant something to the demands fur reform.—
Now he, for one, insisted on the necessity of ask-
ing for the whole until the Boroughmongers should
state what they were inclined to give. They kept
saying to the reformer% "You go so far—Hunt
goes so far." Why. surely, if a debt were doe would
they uot. demand the full amount ? If the debtor
could not pay, or thought the amount unreasonable,
why then a compromise might take !dace. but it
was his duty to propose it. Tie reformers lithl
laws and ancient usage, and constitutional decla-
rations, and grave and wise opinions on their side ;
yet the reply to all was, " You go too far."—(Ap-
ploose.)—He repeated, that the Borouohirionge(4
ought to make the proposal as to what they would
be disposed to surrender of the people's right% or
the people should continue to isastet on the re-
storation of the whole; whether they could take
leas or not. they should demand all. This woo
the only way by which they could have the sup-
!Hirt of the Nautili part of the people; he called
on the little junto who were inclined to conces-
sion, lie recommended Mr. iVaithman, sod others
like him, to take notice that the people could be
gained only by demanding the whole. What
but this had called up 40,000 Reformers in Lan-
cashire ? The Whigs were putting forth sonic pre-
tences to the confidence of the people by iirofeeiaiog
their willingness to concede. But they assumed that
all right must be vested in property, opposing it to
the people. The people had the majoirty ef numbers;
they had the grace to confess that; but they had the
majority of property—as if there could be 'so pro-
perty but trees and houses, fields and bricks and
mortar. Were they content to take the t.exis isi
thst way ? wan it any answer to a collector to say.
" There, go and ask my trees and homes for pay-
meat ?" He did not find it so; it was a mistake
altogether. Were the mete of property, as they
termed themselves, alone answerable for the charge+
of the State ? No; nine-tenths, nay, totiety-
nine hundredths of the expenditure were furnished
by the people, as they were debasingly termed.
Again, the State was upheld by two tneims—risoitty
and arms. He had shewn that the first was petit,
by the people; the burden also of the second fell
upon them ; they had to endanger their bodies to de-
fend the State, when it was said to be in danger.
It was not a little hard that they were compelled
to defetid a state, in which they were so dustily
told that they had no interest whatever, !le did
tint presume to inform the compaily by his obser-
vation.; he was only replying to the itupradent
avowals of their adversaries. As to the exact
duration of the public oppressious, or the proper
remedy for the people to apply to them, lie could
hardly determine. He was convinced. however,
that so lung as they could carry 041 the funding
system, and no longer, would Ministers be able to
lengthen out their grievances. He was afraid of
tirivg them.—(" No, no ' followed by loud op-
plause.)—lt was plait' how little Ministers them-
selves knew of what they wee about. That pm-
(timid Lord Castlereagh.—(A iough)--who had
said so much at the conclusium of the war about co .r
distresses, arising Iron, the sudden transition from
mar to peace (is if . transition front such in-
compatible states could be any other,, toe I 11..11
sudden !)—(4 laugh /—ilad said the other night

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(they were alway• ti tiding not sutseihing)—(Lavii-
ter)—thst the c meretal distret.es of England
Were owing to the commercial distresses a Anterier ;
he therefore prayed the Lord that Amities aright.
be restored to pruspeiety. hetause Own iirospr:iiv
would come away from America over to England.
—( Laughter.)—The &stresses. secordiug to Mat
Nobleman, were temporary; and )et they were
known to have existed for five )ears. lie said the
same at the beginning oldie five years. Whist did
he mean now Perhaps live yearb molt !-:-(141,e1k%
ter.)—Thire certainty had been diatetle is
tics, and Ministers ought to take fire thall'the,+,4 •
tresses of ether ronntries riot tie asl.#.o
influence Itogrand. Because a few shribbY fjoakeA,
had put out more paper tliau they koala ply ca*ll

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