The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-12-07 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1820:

Henry Grey Bennett, M.P. Hobert Gordon, F..q. M.P.
Edward Ellice, Eaq. M.P. and Sir Gera►d Noel, But. M.P.
fur their attendance Ws day.

That the Address to her Majesty not► adopts J. be signed
by the High Bailiff, on behalf of this* keetiug, irnJ be by
ban preseu led to her Majesty.
That his Grace the Duke of Bedford, the Tart of Cimar-
ron, Earl Grosvenor, and Lord F.rshioe, be requesieJ to
present the Priitior to his Majesty on en eddy Jae.
That the Thanks of this Mretinz be given to Arthur
Morris, Esq. High Bailiff, fur his impartial conduct iu the
Chair.

Mr. Fisit, in seconding the Resolution of Thanks
to the Representatives, said, that he could not sutler
it to pass without making an observation or two
upon it. lie would not detain there long, for if he
did it would shew that he was indifferent to their
health nr comfort, esperiallv 119 they would have
au immediate opportunity of bearing the npiniona
of two Geotlemen, whom he might very truly end
Properly call their beloved Representatives. They
were surrounded by many brill end stairs of the po-
litaeil imprison ; but if there wee any two whirls
statue remarkably respletuterftganWit bust benignant
ipfluesice was more peculiarly felt by the intim:
!maids of Westimuster„ they were John Cam hob-
house, Eset. and Sir F. llordett.—(Applause.)-
I.llimy of those whom he was addressing were old
enough to have witnessed (he was not, toeing young
in the school of politics,) the life of that excellent
Baronet, and could testily how unremitting had
been las exertions, and how oitilautit.ri end Unfired
his efforts and spirit to defending the liberties of
the people. lie was ton surly to say that the mal-
administration of justice, among tom r error, of the
system. Wa 9 likely to visa an unjust sentence ott his
devoted head, if the public did not interpose thei::
powerful voice to prevent it ; nod this sentence,
tinjustifiable as It was in other respects, wa% to be
the reward of their Representative, merely for pro-
nouncing nil English like, a British-like rebuke on
the authors and instigators or the brutal massacre
of Msneliester—a transaction which could never
be removed from their memories; and wit It respect to
which die minds of the people could never be satis-
fied until the whole of the ii:,tigators ond perpetrl.
Ims shnnLl lie brought to condign punishment.
Ile wished them to preserve and keep nwake the re-
collection of those atrocities, bee tuNe it ‘vastlw com-
mon policy of their enemies to draw off their atten-
tion as speedily as possible front an inspection into
any glaring arts of mal-admitnstratimi, by placing
a new subject before them. lie would ant detain
them longer than to say that the Resolution had his
most hearty concurrence.

The Resolution bong C3ItIVI filth loud acelima-
tlons

Sir FRANCIS B!JRDETT stood forward to return
thanks, and was cheered with still louder applauses.
Attending there as he was iu duty bound to do,
being one of their Representatives. to assist them
in carrying. into effect whateaer decision• they might
come to on the Prop orotions or Resolutions which
were proposed to them, he would have confined
himself to the expression of a very few words. but
for the peculiarly flattering manlier in which the Re-
solution had been supported by the speaker alio
last addressed them. It was ipiiitt unnecessary for
him, at this time of day, to repeat those aeon-
slicer which he had so often made to them, that
he was proud of being one of the people of Eng-
land. That in his mind was, and always had been,
a more estimable title than any particular distinc-
tion which I ever been in the power of Princes
to bestow! and if he had been proud of that elm.
racier, because he was of a country renowned for
ages past fir its high enthusiasm in the rause of
freedom, which was even now struggling ardently
and wisely in that MIN', how must that proud
feeling have been increased, idler the example of
imtritsliain and wise conduct lately eiirwed by the
people. Ile wished particularly to congratulate
the country on that triumphant spectacle which lend
been held out to the kingdom and the whole would,
in the conduct of the inhabitants of the metropolis,
when the Qtteeit went forth amongst theta, after she
had reaped that conquest which had been prepared
for her by the spirit of the people of England.
The conduct of that day, when the Ministers
and all the numerous adherents of corruption
were in ewer hope of the occurrence of some scene
of riot and tumult—when the populace were I-ft
to themselves, mid Government had withdrawn all
the supposed means of preserving the peace, means
at least which they habitually employed for that
purpose—that conduct, presenting as it did the
mighty spectacle of a great people enjoying the
triumph of public principle without one act of in-
subordination having been committed, proved how
capahle the people were of lightly valuing good
govi silt, bow much they abhorred bad conduct,
either among themselves or their rulers. The light
of knowledge which had gone forth from this country
had stiesm that its nifluence was advancing in many
parts of Europe. In speaking of the conduct of the
people of England, he thought that it was not at all
improper—that it was perfectly relevant to allude
to the conduct of Spain, where the natives, led by
example, had wisely, moderately, and re-
solutely effected a change in the tyrannic rule of
their governors. Similar things had occurred in
Naples and Puitugsi ; and however 'such it might
be the interest of Ministers and their adherents to
renew the itelosions which were practised at the pe-
ewit of the French Revolution, it was now out of
their power, and the !line was fully come when, for a
nation to be free. it would be sufficient that she willed
it. As to the objects of the meeting, so touch had
been said as to the ease of the Queen, he had so fre-
queri!:y expressed his opinions on that subject, that
it was not necessary to recur to it at present—
it was not necessary for him to rep's' what hail
beets so often and so ably mated by his Hon. Col-
league. Mr. Ilobhouse—it was not necessary to go
into the discussion of the dark accusations from
which the Queen had escaped, through circum-
stances which oo human foresight could have pre.
pared—it was not for him to state all the means, or
the infamous character of any of them, which had
bereft resorted td fir proving the Quietus's guilt.—
Though her enemies had tiukd in establishing her

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criminality, they Itki sucCeeded in proving that
she pussi-issed the :brightest-awl the ptreg or vir-
tues. It was tieffbetiessary far him to rri•istro; the
various insiaisrete •;r magnaniinity and beileeolence,
displayed by the Queen; suffice it, that her ene-
mies bad provi4 slut she had a hand

• , Open as day to melting Charity;'
thlt'in her travels her benerolence• had left. its
trecisbobAind iu every region and count'y throng}!
o Itich she had travelled. One Maumee of her belie-
'volence there was, so extraordinary, on extravagsnt.
that he would not be doing justice to the Queen,
or Iris coon feeliugs, if he did wt notice it. Her
Majesiy had, in many iustanees. hrooght her vita-
racter within teach of the malevolence of het ene-
mies, by the exercise of the most {audible and be.
litiviiint qualities. tier virtues had in reality
proved .• holy traitors" to their possesscr. and
from the exercise of her kindness. condeocen.
'ion, and benevolence. they were called upon to
fare guilt ; tricrely because she possessed those
qualities eminently, and without our other tes-
timony being produced, without any er.dilde
seotinsony, without any testimony upon %tech
they could. reasonuhly hang • dog, they were to
'tact' guilt. lier Majesty- was said to have been
an extremely kind and affable mistress.bv some,
though not by him, she Ives einitidereif to have
corrhol the exercise of those qualities too fur. Far
was such an inference from Ins own opinion. The
uio:t
.exalitli the station of the personage, as he
conctr the greater and the more acceptable
a:Za the condeticetision which ought to distill-
..
otos!' it. tier Nlojesty was in the habit of
lisiting the rick hells of her attendante„ nail
from this charitable and benign disposition, had
they been furnished eith many proffered proof. of
criminality. Otte of her attendants was ill of the
10;iLiie, or visa supposed to be so: -the Queen visit-
e.l this man, who was thought to have been ill of the
plague. !lad this chroinstence happened with re-
spect to :me supposed favourite. Illttrail of an °oli-
o:try attendant—hail the pAierit been ('oust Ber-
gonii, and the same (lie might justly call it)
thom;litleiis and inconsiderate magnanimity induced
her to visit his bed-side. lie winced to know what
sort of inference Mr. Attorney General would have
drawn from that circninsottice ?—/ Lung/seer and
applauses. " lie it sick of the plovie."')—lgnorant,
Luse, and cowardly minds, could contrive to draw
from such an act complete and conclusive proofs of
guilt. As to the Kiug. something might be said on
his behalf. Plain enough it was that the King was
abused, the Queen traduced, and the public this.
gusted ; sod that in consequence of the foul pray.
tiers of Alinioters the station would be cruelly bur.
tested with expense. No one could tell how fir
tale.carriers had influeoced the mind of the King.
Every body knew how plentiful were the abettors
of scandal and calumny in other places. There was
never any scarcity of stick characters about Court,.
wreiches who were willing wretch and carry rumours
to varitioh taleo, so as to make them the more easily of
oilinission into the willing ears of their employers.
No one could tell how far the King, his passions
once excited, might here been betrayed, and his
understanding clouded by false representiitions,
although the only conviction which had resulted
from the investigation was, that Ministers deserved
to lie hanged.—(l-ery long and load opplauset.)—
But whatever reasons might be urged on brltalt of
the King, there was no palliation for his advisers;
they could have no it isaiono to mislead them. It
was their business to have decided with cool dis-
cretion and sound judgment, what was most
fitting to be done for the interests of the King,
the Koval Family, and the country. If they
averred, as they had often very imprudently
and foolishly done before, that they were brought
into the measure with reluctance, their guilt
was so much the greater; become they ought
on every occasion, and inure especially in this case,
refuse to act in a measure which they professed their
reluctance to adopt. As it was, no act had occurred
since the Revolution which so richly deserved line
petchrnefor. Their choice of character in regard to
the proceeding, against the Queen, lay in the ex-
tremes of wickedness or of fully. Whatever they
intended or did, .1 be it sport or be it play,"
it was destructive to the people at large ; they
would have to pay, at least he supposed so,
though he protested against paying one shilling of
the expenses from the exhausted pockets of the
people.--(Cheers.)—The Address to the King, if
followed up by the voice of the whole country,
must succeed in its object. It was the first practical
step to a practical remedy. What but the most
unreasonable folly was it to suppose that any good
could take place from the continuance of a Mi-
nistry against whom the general feeling was op.
posed ? Subtract • small body and that portion of
the population which lived upon the taxes, and he
might say that the country with one voice called for
a chauge of Administration. and an investigation of
that conduct which had led to such confused aid
alarming results. in the country he had au oppor-
tunity of observing the spirit of the people. Ile
had been asked to attend a public meeting at Lei-
cester—he meant to a large public dinner, and had
therefore some opportunity for observation as to the
feelings of that part of the country. Leicester was
• county not easily ealkd on or excited to political
action ; but no more enthusiasm of public spirit
existed iii the metropolis than he had witnessed at
Leicester. And as he knew, because he was always
lietringot it. that the cast was the same in other
parts of the country, he was per/moiled that this was
the time in which, it' all classes, enemies to corruption
and despotism, were agreed to make a long pull,
and pull all together. all matters might be set
right by causing the dismissal of Ministers, and the
enforcing of Reform in the Representation of the
People. Ile begged leave to express his fselitigs of
gratitude fur the kindness which they bad manifest-
ed to him on all °mai ms. and begged• thim to re•
ceive his thanks for the. honour Moab ht these%
they had done him on this occesion.—(Lard
chars./

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