The National Register.
London, England, 1821-10-08 00:00:00

MEETING IN SOUTH7VARIC.
On Friday, in plummre of public notice, and of a
notification that the Hight Hon. the Lord Mayor had
grunted the requisitionists the use of the Town-hall, in
the borough of Southwark, a considerable number of
the electors assembled in that Imiklmg between twelve
and one o'clock. The object of the mee:itig being to
take into consideration such measures as might he deemed
most expedient for the purpose of remunerating Sir It.
Wilson Mr any pectiniary loss that he may have become
liable to, in consequense of his dismissal from his Ma•
jesty's service: applicatiou had been made in the first
instauce to the /I igli Bailiff to convene and preside at it.
Our readers are aware that that gentleman declined to do
so, and stated the grounds laixot which he had thonght
tit to adopt that course. The Lord Mayor hat ilia sub-
sequently allowed the electors to assemble in the Town-
hall, it was nit Friday completely filled by one o'clock,
the hour named in the notice.
Mr. Alderman %Vood, M.P. accompanied by Mr.
Weatherstone and other gentlemen, entered the room
amidst the cordial cheeriugs of the company ',resew.
Mr. BLACK obseived that, prep tratory to commencing
business, it was necessary that they shratid elect a chair-
man, and he begged to propose Mr. Weatherstone.
The motion was si'colided and carried ; and this gen-
tleman havitig accordingly taken the chair, addressed the
meeting :
lit calling him to that situation they had called him
to a 'most of extreme (11111i:idly. Knowilig who the men
in Authority were that they had to deal with, he could
not but look maul it more as a post of peril than of ho-
noor. The ineetitie,, however, having made their call,
be should most undoubtedly comply with it, a.t lie did
tint wish by any inittece.sary delay to protract the time
for which they were likely to he occupied. Ile could
haye wished inat the requitouin whicii was first agreed
to, and sent to the I ligh 11 idiff, calling upon him to con-
vene a meeting, had been complied with; hut unfortu-
nately it haul been refused. Ii was necessary, however,
that tiermission to assemble somewhere, in the proper
form, should lw procured ; and application being made
to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor tor the Ilse of the
Town-hall, his landship, with his withal condeseensiott,
signified his assert. They were met to-clay to consider
of Illle propriety of entering into a subscription, which
was proposed to he raised, with a view to indlt•tnitife their
worthy representative, Sir It. Wilsoo, fur any pecuniary
Ins; which he might sustain in consequence of his being
recently dismissed from his Alaj,•sty's sets ice. In doing
this, he had earm s:ly to beg that they %void(' strictly
confine themselves to the letter of the requisition under
which they were now assembled, ail(' tint depart (rout it.
liad they met under the first requisition addressed to
their Hitch Ratliff, it would not have Itc, it necessary to
observe the terms quite so strictly; but 11;s refusal had
put them to the painful necessity of looking- cloAdy and
carefully to the late six acts of Parliament, which had
had the effect that was intended; for they had tongue.
tied anti shackled meetings like the present. For him-
self, lie had but very little to say oil the present occasion;
but he should leave the sohject to other gentlemen who
did intend to deliver their opinions. He would observe
before he sat down, that several rom 11111 l ',canons con-
nected with the matter now before them had been re-
ceived by himself and other gentlemen, and two of them
he should proceed to bring under their notice; one, a
letter which lie received front Sir It. %V ikon that morn-
ing (hear, hear); the other, a comnstinication front
Ci-
rencester, which Mr. Alderman Wood would nuke i
known to them. lle sit down expressing his readiness
to hear any thing which gentlemen might have to say.—
(Cheers.)
Mr. Antenna!) WOOD felt it to be of very great im-
portance that he should introduce to the notice of the
meeting a letter which he had last night received from
Sir H. Wilson—a letter which, when Ili, y had heard, he
was sore woad(' render them quite proud in the possession
of such a representative as theirs was, (hear, hear) ; and
and they would think with him, that it did the writer,
considering the circumstances he was now placed in, the
highest possible honour. He (Mr. Ald. Wood) hid felt
it to be his duty, mein the first suggestion of such a
meeting as the presets:, to attend it; and lie was happy
to attend one now, :irking out ni the late very extraor-
dinary dismissal of Sir ltubert Wilson from the service.
Attendance he should have considered a duty, even if he
hail not received those letters witch had reached him.—
lle begged to be understood as appearing there, not as a
magistrate, though vested with that capacity, butt as an
elector, a voter of Southwark (bear), and occupying a
considerable 'miserly in the borough. Ile had, there-
hire, a right to appe ir on the present occasion, and to
exercise (as he 'upped to do as long as he lived) the right
of speech.—(('heers.) Ile moreover telt it to be a duty
so to appear, simply as a constituent of Sir It. Wilson ;
but as a magistrate he had II glut proper to decline the
request made to him by several Wends, that be would
moue the Festal which were intended presently to
be submitted to them. T 111,51: resolutions, gentlemen
would feel, would come with • propriety from others.
It was unquestionably the right as well as the duty of
constituents, carefully In Wdirh over the conduct of their
representatives; and by the result of that day's 'netting,
it would b, fur them to prove whether they were satisfied
with the COOlifit't of Ills honourable friend Sir Rather'
Wilson in Parliament. Liam this point lie dill not
nit•an to speak with any pt raonal vanity, our to say ally
thing that might se, in intetidecl to 3pplaud Itionselt ; but
he did hope that he might be considered as a good wit-
ness in the Malltr.—(Hear, hear.) It certainly had hap-
pened, that either from the arrangenteuts he always ad.
hered to, or front the good health he was so fortunate to
eivoy, or Irmo some oilier circumstances, he (Mr. Ald.
‘V 'toil) was himself most regular in his parliamentary
atteialitice, scarcely missing, as he believed he might
SAV, an'houar of that Wile which properly was at the <lts-
pOsal of his own conatinieutr. (Cheer.) This being the
case, Ise could speak 111./111 pOSIOVeIy to the good conduct
winch had been pursued by Sir Robert Wilson in Par.
11.1511C10, namely, constant attendance there.—(Hear,