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Members to ..erve in l'arlistneut ; as..ts,ll as their fordwr
rigid tea. cute protection Ity the aitpNeita inn "Penal ballot,
arptiod Weary or oppression; for havnag freely exereimd that
uilieria frattebise..--(Carrit4ll oteMnmously.)
,Tne next-
-14. That smee more repeating to our redeemed Repre.
itentanses. §ir FIIIIM if Burdett sod furl Cochrane, our
warmest thinks for past exertions in ParlOusieut, we tiow

dessiee then. to toe sartareol. that ***eerie, which at this time
they can render their country, can in oar judgment be an
important, sir would to their Constituents be so acceptable,
as their it...diving to the House of Gammons n 8111 for cf.
feetesally speuriag to this people; fairly distributed steroid-
lug to population, in all time to mate, the- self-evislettl sight
of universal fseedons, with I elections; and, its those
elections, the protectisin of a ballot ; it being certain, •hat
no individual member of -the erinsinaaity can be rirhtfoill
snide linluk to taxes, or amenable to laws..to which be halls
nut•bled the Sarum of assenting through the agency of a ►e-
presentative, in whose eleetiou be had a perfectly free and
independtat
Oil this being proposed by Major Cartwright, a
person in the crowd addreawd the Isostiods, and
widted to know the reason why the name of Lord
Cochrane had not appeared in the hats of thie
mi-
nority on the laden ttt it y LitH.

Lord Cocuitsww replied, dist he Ind continued
in the House until he was sick of it. The fumes
of that (louse were enoCgli to !Jolson the devil—
(Roars of luaghter)—And it would be only a delu-
sion on tl►e public to go -on any longer with mock
and sham debuts, end sham diV1,4011%. It was his
opinion that there should be no division in that
lion•e until it was reformed.
The Itrsolution was then carried.
Out the motion—

15. That in former periods, when the Commons House
was Arealorgan of the nation's will, it was then the dutiful
practice of that House. when asked fur extraordinary sup-
plies, to answer, that without previous conference with its
constituents, and receiving from them the necessary amain-
My, it could not gragt any such extraordinary supplies :
end in thole slays it was likewise a antifiil and intuit salutary
peed iee, to refuse melte withhold supplies until grievances
were first redressed.
Mr. HUNT told the people. that if their claims
were not acceded to, they had a right to resist the
payment of taxes, not by force, hut as the Quakers
did, by starring the tax-gatherers In take their
goods.—( Load cries of " No taxes !")—They
should wait quietly till their goods were taken
■way ; then, if all the people of England acted in
this way, there would be no tuxes. and the Right
Honourable Nichollit Vaui'dtart would not like to
have his salary pond him in chair* and tables.—
He described that an atrear of Property Toe had
been brought against him on his removal from the
county where he previously resided, but that he re-
sisted it; and on being threatened with en appeal
to fort*, beet rime told the Commissioners to bring
the military force, for to nothing lees than to an
overwhelming force would he yield. Ile turned
nothing of the matter since.*.(Greiti applause.)
—He then stated that a tenant of his hail his oxen
seized on the same account, but when brought to
market for public oak for the armee, the owner pro-
claimed for what the seizure had been made; no
butcher would buy them, they were returned to the
owner, and the mall was politely told to play the tax
as soon e% he could make it convenient. The wor-
thy Gentleman, alter referring to the glorious resist-
ance of Hampden, and imploring the people to look
to the practice of the Quakers, auiroideerted upon
Mr. Canning's attempt at treating with coritc mot
the luwer dosses of society. and 'abided. as be h•ad
often Ohne before, to the Right Hon. Gentleinait's
patronage, in a manner which excited considerable
laughter.
Mr. WooLvdt, at the close of the day, congest*.
hated the Alerting at their fir,' formal recognition
of short Parliaments and Soffrage, commensurate
'built the calls of the State on the subject. He
hoped the public voice would echo this sentiment
throughout the kingdom. He proposed the Thanks
of the Meeting to Major Cartwright. This pro-
position was received with acclamation, and the
venerable Major returned thanks.

The following Resolution was then unanimously
adopted : •
16 That as a recovery of public liberty womit rest with tbs
people themselves, became all Geverineeist depends on
public opinion; as antioaal petition are the public voice;
and as en this voice threads oat political salvation, su this
Meetiag nonlideuily treats that the people will, by the nisrl-
titude of their petitions trues every quarter of the United
Kimiduat, make manifest their detersamatiois to be five..

Sir FRANCIS BURDETT said, that, as the regular
business of the day was now over. be would brit lly
address the Alerting, in return for the honour they
bad done him. In the long string of Resolutions
which. in his official duty as Chairman, he had
Ibis slay put, and the different opinions that they
bad beard upon them, it insist be obvious that the
whole could not have had his full coneurrence.—
On the subject of his political conduct or views it
was not necessary for him now to make profession's
of faith. If his mist conduct did not sway the
Electors of Westminster, no declaration he could
make now could possibly influence their opiniosis.—
(Applaase.)—Against professions that might now
be called for, he would set up the tenor of Ins life,
110 f would he make any. test they should appear to
be ia compliance with the wishes of others, and font
lois owm voluutory adoistion.—( A pp/ouse.l—•Hre
would contiuue to struggle to obtain for the glee-
tors those rights and privileges which bud been
wrested from them as Englishmen ; he would pursue
the recovery of those rights in the manner his own
mind pointed out as that most likely to i.e e%ctisve
iu the situation in which he found himself, and un-
der all the circumstances of the case. Need lie tell
the Meeting what his opinion was of the conduct of
Alinisters in the late wicked and unconstitutional
suspension of the liberties of the people, and the
cruelties consequent thereon ?—(Great applause.)
Need he tell the people what opinion ht enter-
tained of that man, who, ill his place in Parlia-
ment, descended from the rank of • Legislator.
and become a mere buffoon to try awl crack jokes
on the sufferings, infirmities, and oppression of one
of the victims under the late suspension ?—(Crrat
applause.)—He need loot describe the horror, die-
gust, and indignation with which he had witioreseci,
on such occasions, that which would not have been
tolerated in aolyothersociety of Faigliglimen through.
out the land, still less did he ftel it oreesultry to ex-
press his abhorrence at the infamous and *trot:low
acts of hired sines who were aentamong the suffering
part of the cotatiminty to excite them to acts of
violence, for the purpose of throwing (idiom en thnt
loud call for Reform which Ministers wow
from every part of the country. It was this appre-
heo.imi that compelled them to drag•Euglislioneis
from their homes and families, expose them to crll.