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party which had hitherto distraineil the country would
anon expire if Parliament would maintain its present fe m
tone of determination. It unglit to support the existing
government in end' • • lied honour and character, or at
once to extinguish the present cabinet as ministers. If
arty resolution were brettelit forward on the ether side
he trusted that it would appear in a diatinci, tangible, anti
manly shape. Ministers would them be fairly pat upon
their trial, and lie (Lord CAstlereagli)pledged himself that
if there were a chalice of its sneer's, it should be resisted
by uu influence of the crown, whose screen!. waidd r.e.r
their claim to public confitleitee 0u the reputation they
had acquired tiering en nrdie!li and glorious war, and a
subsequent interval of peaec, during which they had
never lost an opportunity by their best exec dons to pro-
mote the interests and welfare of the empire. (Hear.)
Mr. iIIiOUGH.A M said he should Kaye. taken no
putt in I'd- debato lint•for some expressions in the speech.
of the Noble Lord, the whole of which was calculated to
give new life to the agitations in the country, and seemed
to have for its object to place the royal parties iu this pain-
ful discusrion in inter 11l ill Able opposition. For the sake
of casting new stigmas even her 'Majesty, and fixing upon
her the charges ministers had abandoned iu their evidence
—lie had not only left:need all bonds of demerit. lint all
firms of debate, and with the artful sedulousness of the
;teener of a paragraph fir a party uewspsper had entered
into a I:limited anal. sin of the votes in the Lords, to whose
proceedings in ortli?sat y casts a hare reference only wee
allowed. ( Hear, hear.) If the House would allow him.
lie could show in whet way the majority for the Queen
had been composed t lie could show how many of that
majority owed their places, their patronage, their honours
and their revenues to the patient of the bill ; lie could
prove that while the minority could not in the slightest
degree be influenced by the party who was to be the vic.
thn, the illustrious personage who was the avowed prose-
cutor was represented by his household, anti slate officers
and dependents of all ranks, and his power extended as
well over those who waited for the highest rewards, eking
could bestow, as those who accepted erre the lowest
they could confer upon their adherents. Was not Onset'
itself an array that might strike terror into the most inno-
cent i Was not this an influence greater than had ever
before been employed upon any individuals presuming to
veil themselves judges I (Continued cheers). If it were
true that the Ministers bad not made this a pasty question,
it could not s• appear epos the Lords* journals, but it was
well known to be directly contrary to the fact. On do
question in the history ofParliament had more party spirit
been shown ; and sa bile 'Meister' under pretence of im-
partiality and with the cunning that belonged to weakness.
kept in the back ground, quietly but industriously en-
trapping and securing votes, they left three or four of his
(Mr. Brougham's) noble friends to bear the hrnist and
odium of the debate. In the outset of his speech the noble
lord, with* charity peculiarly his own, uutlertook to de-
fend the Queen from the noble lord who introduced this
motion and the rest of her friends. He had maintained
that her Majesty was degrade d before her trial—degraded
by the confession of her advocates. The House would
know how to make allowance fur the delicacies and diffi-
culties with which he (Mr. Brougham,) in the instance re.
ferried to had to contends lie was at that time as powerless
to resent as resist imputation ; and the noble herd. with an
ingenuity in which few would be proud to be hie rival,
well knew how to heap together a few adjectives and
sounding epithets, sod 11111 s 10 CO3lll 1111 l Ild a sentence dif-
ficialt of comprelieesion, but as far as it was intelligible,
calculated to till the ear and to delude the mind.. It was
not for him (Mr. Brougham) then to saw, that his royal
mist/ear wet degraded; she was on the brink of an hives.
ligation where intiOceticis was uo security, where perjury
and bribery were 'tett to accomplish one object, where
the lung stn of power, and the long purse of
joined their influence over Italian hands and hearts,ready
to crunch under the one, and greedily to snatch at the
other. (Hear.) From such a trial—horn such a threat-
ened persecution—the must guilty might shrink unbent
for a moment incurring the imputation of co eue.—Tlie
boo. and learned gentleman concluded a most powerful
speech, by calling on the House to . restore the
Qnccu to all her tights, as they valued justice and the
safety of lieu count' ; for if she was not treated now as
if she had never been tried, there was 110 justice, no hes
estray in the land. Th :t question the Queen rottai never
give sip, and the ;inutile would never give it up.
After some r1.11141'10 floor Mr. Alderman Heygete, who
purported ministers, Lin 41 H4llllllOl/ replied.
rhe House then divided... • •
For tile amendment SIO
• Agaitist it '

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.1. Saunders, nuk... Street, Sc. surgeon. Solicitor.
Mr. littittai, New Nona S.reet, lied Lion Square.
11. Reeve, 111401. Nurloik, dealer.: 3lr..Newhank,
North it tulley S.reet, Githvenor s.,nare.
E. Bushell, stn. Bath, cabinet lita,fer. Sol. Mr. Makinsoa.
Temple.
W. Cooper, Nottingham, grocer. Sul. Mr. Walston, Gray's
Inn.
C. Bayly, Eastalcan, Sussex, fanner. Sol. Mr. Ellis, Gray's
Inn.
W. Almond, junior, New Bridge, Cornwall, brewer. Sol.
Ma. Itaitye, Chancery I.ane.
J. liar:Mani. HsvetluU, Suftialk, common brewer. Sol. Mr;
Stevuos. Gray's Inn Square.
Fisher, Etigeware Road. nurseryman. Suh. Mears.
Fielder and Co. Da s Street, Grosvenor squ.vc.
T. C. 11. Pryer, •oirchin Lane, saddler. Sols. 'Messrs. Jones
and Co.. Mi „mg Lane.
It. l'hilpots, Banbury, Oxford, draper. Solt Messrs. Sweet
and Co. Basinglaall Street.
G. W. H. Tutage, East India Chambers, Leadenhall Street.
naere!u•nt. Sub. Reardon ar.d Mons, Corbel Court,
Girt:et:ll=li Street. _ .

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Sudlow, ThavitA
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Fcla. 26, J. Bosh, Bishop Sonia/RI, Ilerts, money ce: ivencr-
-16, 11. Exatil, Ilrenttur.i, carpento-13, W. Iluor,
butcher-13, J. Wtna, Little Ncapott, Street. habyrJa-ner-17,
J. Armitage, Shatl Ttiaint's, Sort, y. carpenter 13,
Broad street, nwrehant-13, J. 11,titivy and J. lict.k, .
watchmakers-16,J. Budden, Dribtol,liquorm. reitaint-1..i, 'l'.
N. Sloggatt, Boacastle, Cornwall, (trap:v-17, ii. :%.I.ling..‘l•l !lig
ICtc arluo rlsec, am:re k nit-20, T. F. and J Gmotou, Nottn.b.
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.ME.677NG OF AIMICHAN 11.4NKERS,
AT THE EGYPTIAN HALL.

One of the most extraordinary meatings we hare, ever
witnessed took place on Wednesday in the Egyptian
Hall, which the Lord Mayor consented to lend to the
respectable body of Merchants and Bankers who stetted
the late requisition for calling a meeting upon the sub-
ject of the Declaration which lately issued from a few
persons denominating themselves loyal.
Long before the gates of. the Mansion House were
open, a great multitude of the friends of the snug party
blocked up the way, and at twelve the rush Into all the
avenues was most overpowering. The Hall was filled
in half an hour. There was every appearance of conflict
lung previously to the entrance or the Lord Mayor.
At a quarter before one Sir W.Curns appeared on the
hustings, and immediately a number of hats waved in
she air, and a powerful opposition was set up.
At mie precisely the Emil Mayor entered amidst loud
cheers. He was followed by Alexander Baring, Esq.
J. Smith, Esq. (brother to Lord Carrington), Aldermen
Wood and W aithman, and a great number of respectable
persons.
The LORD MAYOR stated to the meeting she occasion
',lion which the requisition, signed by several of the most
respectable men in the City of London, had been pre-
seined. A ttttt ngst such a multitude there most necessa-
rily be difference of opinion, and he therefore entreated
that an impartial hearing would be given to may gt:Dile-
DUD who presented himself.
JOHN SNITH, El. stood forward and said, that it
fell to him to have the honour of introducing to the
notice of die meeting certain resolutions, and to
state the reasons that induced hint and the gentlemen
with whom he was acting to submit them to their con-
sideration. The first resolution, which asserted the
custom of Aletchants, ike. to hold public meetings on
questions of importance, was of great tiro eat. A de-
claration from such a body, by public advertisement,
must always be considered ofgreat weight in Parliament.
Discussion was ever favourable to the interests of truth,
and he maintained that discussion could not be held in
any close assembly unconvetied by public advertisement.
The second resolution expressed that there could of course
be no objection to—loyalty to the King—abhorrence of
blasphemy and sedition, and love of the Constitution,on
the pure adrainistrati 111 l of which the interests of society
depended.—(Clicers.)--The third resolution alluded to
the fact, that notwithstanding the great agitations of the
the prevailing disposition of the people wasattach-
swot to the Constitution, and that whatever instances
of disatiet don had appeared, or were likely to appear,
the laws were quite sufiicietit to put them down. He
had heard with great concern that the laws had not been
put in effect against certain indit ideals who had publicly
stated opinions Inconsistent with the nature of coil soci-
ety, who had advised, that after a certain day no taxes
Should be paid, and DO laws should be obeyed, and who
hail promoted the melancholy scenes that had taken
place at Manchester.—(Here there were roars of disap-
probation from the VIM Loyalists, and great applause
and waving of hats from the great bony of the Hall.)—
Those who voted with him (Mr. Smith) were friends to
law and order, and were most anxious that the laws
should be judiciously administered for the benefit of all.
(Hisses and groans mingled with applause.)—The fourth
resolution had reference to the Press, the freedom of
which was inseparable from the very existence of the
British Constitution. He regretted much to see any
attempts further to restra'u that invaluable
Bliglautl owed the refOrntation of her religion, the esta-
blishment of civil liberty, and her most valuable insti-
tutions, to the efforts of a free press. (Cheers and hissts.)
—The fifth resolution was also one of great importance
to a nation so much interested in the maintenance of
th, public credit, and treated of the existence of dilli-
eulties and grievances which were aggravated by the pro-
ceedings adopted against her Majesty.—(Loud cheers
and great tutnult for some minutes.)--As soon as the
noise subsided, Mr. S. said, the ianguage of the resolu-
tion was no other than that which was adopted by the
House of Commons, a body who had declared that thie,e
proceedings were derogatory to the principles of the
Crisis us and injurious to the best interests of the people.
Tile last resolution included a petition to the House of
Commons, praying that that House would adopt some
immediate measures to restore the nation to a slate of
tr &c.—(The Hall was in a complete uproar
when the last resolution was read, and Mr. Smith's en-
ileavotirs to be heard were all itteil'ectual.)—The
Gentleman them moved the first resolution.
BODDINGTON, Esq. seconded the resolution.
He said lie would not tr utile the meeting with any
observations, as if lie were to address them he should
merely repeat the observations of his worthy friend who
had just sat down.
Sir W. Cu elle stood forward, end was received with
flue most Imisterous applause by a uuother of the Ultra
Royalists who were in from of the hustitigs. The worthy
Alderman said he had the utmost respect for many of
tae gentlemen us ho %%lied the requisition, and ill many
things he completely agreed with them, but he dillered
from them ni tterially mum time subject of polities, As
Hines were Collnecsed with the name of it Vomit.
lle concluded by moving, the previous question.
The LORD MAYOR had interposed to procure a herr-
ing for Sir William, butt the applause is as of so mood
toots a nature, that all hopes were given up of au)
further quietness during the tidy.
Mr. litisaNQUET stood forward to second the amend-
ment.
A. BARI sio,liei. then stood 1;1 ward, and immediatelt
the Ultra Loyal party set tip a yell, which ilie interte-
JCSICC of the Lord NI ayt)r cot:id ;,set for a 11110:11clit repress.
—Mr. B. said lie hoped the persons who were thins pre.
relating Ireedom of discussion, would cease to tdiend the
meeting by conduct calculated to throw disgrace upon a
Spali •Itts Assembly. A meeting as the Alereitants of
the City of London should be couthicted with some
order amid solemnity, and utut.lu.rd those around hint to

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