The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-12-01 00:00:00

* TM tame of Civil qad Meliaises Liberty all owe As
World."
" early. tealpet;ste, sad Akins' Reform% 111 Repro.
seasstim of the potpie.'
" Lord Mulley, Member for Ms Dimly; way Imrea mett.
woe to eseslate she suable of his Noble Esther." •
" The Earl of Sefton." • •
"'Oar Mem] anil fellew-itrannertn, Joseph Bird, PAL
send theiodepeadent Electors or fitiutitieham.".
" Ow intrepid ia.tlllllll3, MUMS Creevey, E.q 411.1'."
" The Worshipful the Mayor, and the Town riot Trail
of Liverpool."'
" Calomel Williams, the setiveased iadepesdeatrMlgt-
Meaer."
" Economy sail Retrenchment. virtues which one Ishii
have forfeit upon the people, but have steWr prartheitlibew.
Myer "
" Tbe amir.liora Liberties of Simla, Palatial; aittl4a.
plea; may they nut be mashed by (amigo ioltifememe, err
Merited by internal discard."
" TM Lam-whirr Cinches:"
After the Inset of " The cliffs* hstl'istereArtut
with the most vehement plaudits...-
Mr. Hume BOOTH spoke nearly as followv:--:
" I rejoice to perceive the lively euthunasm with.
which this tout has been drunk ; it is calculated,
however, not only to excite a feeling of exultation.
its the breast of every free subject, hut to afford
instruction to Rulers and Princes, by reminding,
them, that upon any great crisis in n itional af-
fries, the people are able to throw the liend
shield of their protection trier Royalty itself. Wide
reference to tit:: object of our present alerting, I
shell venture to trespass upon the indulgence of the
company with a few oliservatiatis. Tho.e systematic
opposers of liberty sod law, his Alajerty's Ilthistens
encouraged and supported by their holy a'abev, have
so long held sway io this kingdom, and lawn ester-
cites! that sway with such st perverse and mischiev-
ous vigour, that, of lace years, very few °pour.
tunnies have been afforded to the friends of li-
berty to meet together Nem occasions of congratu-
lation. At length, however, we are assembled (uo
thairks to our opponents) to celebrate a day of
triumph—to congratulate each other upon the tame
of• battle whirl' has been nobly 1.1/night amid glo-
riously won ; a coolest in which those who have
fought the gimil light have earned for themselves
ustrading honours iu the high estimation of their
country. in the Court phraseology of the day, we
may now rejoice at having witnessed a great moral
krscur read (nut to it people, whom the. Govern-
ment is ever ready to read leeeono to,. but) to Minis.
ten themselves, teaching them to beware how they
wantonly attempt to trample upon the dean st iii-
terests of the nation, or to trait. with time beat feel-
ings of the people: The late proceedings in the
House of Lords, which have riveted the country
from ooe end of the land to the oilier. liven been
cesspit:Al (very manually) to the enormities which
took place in the, reign of Henry VIIL Its both
eons the great erefiue of sew. power Mat employed
to crush • defeat:elves woman. the results; how.
ever. have been widely dittereist. for Henry VIII.'
divorced or beheaded Ins wives with very little sim-
ple or ceremony. To what eircinnstauces stud' we
ascribe .0 opposite en 'inns, wt the present occa-
sion Is the personal character of royelty com-
pletely eltatiged ? Henry 'VIII., was vein, lustful,
sod tyrannical; sad if 'we look abroad into the
World, do we discover that the Sovereigns of our
own age are' adorned wills characters diametrically
opposite to such description ? Shall we ascribe the
present favourable issue to the influence of any
superior sanctity, or mond feeling. for which our
learned isistitutt ,es, civil and recl•itianteal, are
dig-
tinguirhed lam afraid not. Henry Viii. when
he was weary of his first wife, applied to the varieus
Universities of Christendom fur their formal .auc-
tion to his divorce ; nor was he disappointed in the
reliance which he pieced upon those august and
very legitimate bodies. And can any out doubt
for a moment what would have beets the fate if
our own generour and high-spirited Queen. if
the decision upon her case had been left to the
University of Vienna, to the Colleges of Hanover.
or the Bench or Bishops in London? Shall we
ascribe our success to the unsuspected purilt
of the present Members of Adininistration ?
Alas! is there any measure, however arbitrary,
is there any task, however degrading, which they
would not ittelertoke, au please their master, or
retain their places! To what then shall we ascribe
the triumph of p •iple. on the preseet oreasinti ?
It is to the inerett•rti ititrlligetice, and firm iturgrity
or the cation ; to that enlightened spine of ilsdr..
pendence, to that determined enmity to oppress on,
which, in 'par of dangers or corruption, noire or
less, pervades every rank and degree miler state,
both Lords and Commous. If we review the late
eveistful transections. one consideration proutioesilly
forces itself upon our attention. It is the inigfey
advantage to be derived. in any political struggle,
from cordial co-operation and wincs. We Wye
seen the friends of liberty, of justice. of decency,
uniting heart and hand. and forgetting or dine-
gardiug all minor distinctions in political sew
(unit, making common cause together, in the Krell
work which they had' to do. We hove seen them
stuanimoue—we have seen them trioissphant. The
dicitement indeed was strong—invaded laws. and a
persecuted Queey, Let us, however. profit by the
lesson ; and us farms tee can tla it without compro.
Anise of piiticiple or of character. let us be dispo•rd
behold out the right hand of ft;llirwslup to eve/
sae whose political, object we believe to be the
liberty and happiness of his cottony.. A necessity
may anon arise for political tiaanimity among the
friends of justice. The .present feeling of the
(votary is that of nitisfoesiou, at the defeat of hit-
sisters in one of the. u:oat.shistaeful•attampts which •
have. disg hiced even their own sdnairustrut ion ; lout
thisterliog nvey.be eyeteeth° give plane to tedige
tannin, whine, a whole people .shall all with one
voice foe panieltmesit tel the loathers sod Deems.
pikes is the hate isitgeitous proceedings. Whom
Nab ,eccalkes, or bey 'meet Atecaelea sigellatrive.
Goy, every WNW sat %haggled taws he ;goad at his
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that shy thing which 1 may have toffe P.....—rirN.
soder 14 very disadvantageous comparime :- Wile .so
we am met tsfeelebrate a rigout coortitillOtWini.„, .ttl°
' itni. I cannot rise at sew" appropriate bide WOK
when the health of that Noblest** has foto peril
from' the Chair, whose public life Pot beea pow di
is supporting the Coostitosion. as edeblisbeiil ms
the Revoltiftou of 161311, mid 'whose csadict• ift•
consistent, and directed t i stqfpoet Ithe riolsts Of
the people, renders hiss wort hy •su ;ems* Of Itsliffo
illostrious mei;' who distingotiliert theatigidm tau'
that occasion. The meeting of Alt day its to Cele.
haste a double triumph ; the triumph °first-ice Msd
stfidstahlie opinion. ()or oppoueatit iaderdasry es-
press their doulop as to the forme", list as is the
latter tbllliteau be ire no douht.-fo.
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titiosesii•tis *MOW PASO fititiMCklihstit the. Isi
wiirstirevr the obnoxious Bill. because lim'seuelit of
the satiou was decidedly against -1: - lfoill au
avowal, from such a quarter. is toe ittihrloot to be
forgotten. ft is the permit, rtitclitirela% stosislits-
tional triumph gained within a few yews; and I
trust that there will always be found A *hailer tieirit,
to resinevery encroachment on the Constitetioe. so
that we may yet return frl the send polities! priii-
emirs established at the Revolution. Alislet all
the baseness of the I lie transictioos, let us wit rde
fuse to allow inert where it is due. It was *toted
by Lord Castlereogh, when the toranatioa was pot
rift, that this was done solely beeesse the weremary.
preparations could Hot be gut -rowdy by the ap-
pointed day. I think that Lord C. himself was the.
truly person who believed this to be the frame, awl
that the universal colonctiou is, that the real cease
of the postponement was, that Ministers did Pot
deem it proper to display the Met in Bageitml to
the country, when the trial of the (Nees woreP•
prosching. Now coutrast this conduct with that of
Lunt Liverpool on the Isle occasion, and let -aft .
give that credit which is due to him for -de,.
Glaring (which probably he alone, of all tits CO..
leagues, wools' have done), aped L and manfully,
that the notion was against the DOI of Palos mol
Peoaltwa. It is impostible not to advert tai lloi
conduct of our Right Ilooostable Rekesjootto
tire. We rettnii.ly dad not expect much goo
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and I believe we loose not been dtaappaiiste4. • Tso
absent, however. should net he judged unkind:
and I rejoice at his return" as he will now have ilia)
opportunity of explaining his conduct. It isi vs'i. . „ '. ,•!
mowed that the Right Ides. Oealleistais has Wide: :,%, .. ..
under the displrasitre of the Canatog Claim. Theis' ' -
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concentrated discernment cannot ouslevetimit MS.
To them he will therefiree Oro mite exilwaiiiil/4 , • •
or when next he presents himself to his collitioselig • ..... . -
out the hustings, as opportriitiss4AT wilt liMitosilli'alii
given him. %ire all felt to him fojAsflest* 4.
' tribute or applause whit% Is. beatrwed osi, the ' - ‘
Queen. and this imbitteted OW,' disappeiwlllt r ••
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when he left her in the tomb. It is said. Owl y ,_ . , .
here with troth. that he did leader his resirektei‘
but was urged to remain at the Cabinet, and til-t.
sented to do so on condition of bring allowed to 'go
abroad ; but Mr. Canning should not have consetio:
ed. however reluctantly, to remain a Member of lit,
Administration whose measures he disavowed. I
beg to be understood as sneakier g of Mr. Canning
solely as a public man. When I looked fOrward, a
few days ago, to this day, it was with feelings of us.-
mixed vatiefaction, bat within the last day or ids
it is rumoured that the prorogation of Parlioatettla
which line perhaps before this take., ',lace, is to rod
lime for a reaction in public opinion. Mit the
lilitii.ters expect, sod that in the next two mouth.
public enthusiasm will have abated, or chativetEits
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object. I trust that they will find thriller's,* nate-
taken. Seven-aid-twenty years ago, an orator, Am
blue of whore eloquence dazzled rather than con-
vinced, said, that "the age of chivalry was gone."
Were lie now alive, he would find his opinion erro-
neous, for ten thousand thousand voices have been
raised to protect the cause of injured ionocence.
Before the late adjournment of the !louse of Lord.,
it was in contemplation to address the House of
Cominons to stay the odious measure. The fate
of the Bill, however, made that unnecessary; hut we
must be on the watch. and if the uncenstitutimial
attempt is revived under any other folio. let us
hope th it petitions will be pirseiitrd front tress'
quarter of the kingdom against such new dud unjust
proceedings."
After the health of Lord Grey had been given,
Mr. MARTIN rose.—" It gives me the grapiest
pleasure and satisfaction to /look this toast, a wait
which I am iwrsuuded will give the some pleitaseo
and satisfaction to every true Englishman. Earl
Grey is indeed an honour to his country. Desolet•
aid oppreosed as her Majesty was, when Princes! of
Vi'ales., and ilbadvired as she MIN to leave th:s
country for one of comparative levity in mounds,
such laxity in morals ; if she had been mewl,
guilty tat the vice which has been laid to her charge.
would EMI Grey, or would any other man of inge-
nuous and 'Honourable mind, have considered ifis
woof a cause of triumph ? Would he not vatherloar.
listriorti to it reluctantly, and have beard it,.if hear it
lie mug, with pain and sorrow? I believe thiltwidi
the iniligoistios, which he might justly feel, at thew.
servants of the Crown, who, is such Reese vs that of
the Queen, constituted themselves at once accuser-.
Jury. stud Judges, it would have been quite possible
Cm him to quash the proceedilogiio humane, supporters
as he was by•the voice of the country. 'But as the
charge was pre ferred,it became him utot to shrialt front
hearing it ; and it is well knowu to us bow largely
lie has contributed by hearing it. to hurt silicon the
' accusers of tier Mije.ty, the hammy of the petjory
which has beatinburited, which had been misshape.
I' Imlay countenauced and upheld ; wily, which it hits
been attempted to pea. upon as as up perjury at all !
Long will his speech he retnetnbeeed as is model of
correct priticiple mid geld rfeeling 4 and if Oar-
lila like there bre in, it: they lee. partiiktim osofy Ar
truth and jiiisitea lit the cilutve. or iither Ilk!,
close, of dishes proceithisgtf,' cl -circtioiserodOoc-
-cit trie. 'Setviagito mist* "the "r:10 'jliftipreht -b1
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