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MEETING OF
THE PARISH OF ST. MARY-LE-WNW.

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It was a .
this am xtvy
sad partlug
sad Sicily,
wore rising
tnaiotoioed
of measures
profligacy of the public empenditnre,..,_
...
addition of three millions of taxes sod of twelve
thoeund troops to the hardens of the country since
'the peace The conduct of half • million of people.
assembled iii the capital on the glorious 29th of last
month, proved how unseeemary any addition to the
Military force must have been. Troops were only
necessary fLr the ordinary routine of duty, the
Yesterday a very noniernos meeting of the PA-
'piotection of the colonies, aid nothing more. There
ri'llworm took plaice at Mr' Cale's enitch-yaattu• were eleven millions voted annually for the mili•
factory, Great Portleurl.street, for the purpose of
ter y establishments. In 1'791 or 1792, when there
considering of no Address of Congratulation to the
i. was grent clinger apprehended of the spread of
Queen, and of a Petition to the King to pray 'or
sedition and treason, from the dissemination of
tLe dismi.sol of Ministers.
French politics, the whole force kept on foot
01) the motion of Mr. Bellevue did net cost more 'than 1,600,000/. All the ether
RALPII BERNAL. Esq. Member of Parliament departmesas were managed with simil.ir economy.
for the coy of Rochester, took the Chair. he Toe
obey
in 179-2, a period when Holland mod
supposed the met/nog to be informed iif the objects
France had eeele a powerful navy, and Spain was
el aceosite of which it had been convened. The .in
nihouce
with Fiance, at that time 2,200,0001.
par- , h rich and constquenteol se it was, hid net I were enough for the expellees of all the men
till i otely taken any part in political discussions—
met ships. At present, during the last three years,
tee weiget acid dignity of their proceedings, great I the amount for each year, which would he the same
as :het hail hitherto been, could only be preserved
next year for the same eetablishinesits, was biz mil-
by persevering in a course of conduct marked by
limn and a half, although there were only 15,000
es 'ciliate firmness, and moderation. He begged.
scene', kept in pay, a number less thin had breu
teem to li-ten attentively to all arguments whicn !kept after the. American war. It was not the
seoold lie offered to their consideration, and he re- i sailors who were thole expensive ; it was rearing up
e• meat-meet that
stickine Admiralty Lords, sod the establishimiest i.f
silossrtl to address theme He read the requisition, 10 ,nary Boards, where ten or twelve Commissioners
sietied by upwards of three hundred respectable were kept iii, at exorbitant salaries, where two Or
rarlbillOtivrs, and pant Or Ihe answer which was three, at much less !Rey, would enjoy plocei suffi-
etureed to it by L'rd Kenvolto our or the citvd.- eieoity easy and profitable. Nu wonder there were
ar.itqlets.. The pus port of the passage easeas, that some found eenlons in professing loyalty, amid averse
his Leedship had experienced mach gratificieion
so any change. There were paid in pensions. Maud.
in "I'l**l"es' she Bill of P•titt. and Penult." iug those of the Civil List, two millious and a half.
egailist her .11.1jesty the Queen, which he coeste Four millions and a hall* were paid to tex-gatherers.
erred 4S an odious, unjust, aid unchristian wee- Three millions and a half (elsic!i were deserved, but
sore—lost that he considered SI unnecessary for liutt . which, on e
course, tended to fix the minds of the re-
is, ieterfere not of Parlisinent. Had the sanction
velvet.. in favour of existing circumstances) were fr-
o' the Churchwarden been necessary to the holding
csived by hulfspay officers of the *ring and navy.
of the massi=ng, his Lordship would have felt him- Five mill rod a half were received by the
self bound to comply with the wishes of the pa- clergy. After this statement. they would nut be
rishimiers. surprised at the passing of loyal Addresses, when
Mr. Hume advanced to submit the first Rotolo- they perceived that these were upwaids of 900,000
tem, which be read to the assembly. A great persons who were pritsioned by them. Ile con.
deal was COIOIIIIOI in il, and the Committeeil, hurl eluded his speech by moving a Resulution, which
le•eis reenessly anxious to exclude from it every ex- after rehearsing the general misconduct of his Ma.
eressesit which might he construed as offensive to jetty's filfinists, comeloiderl by asserting the see-
the legal and committees! authorities. The peace celery. of petitioning theKing to minis them
etid happiness of the rineimunity, especially in a from his Counsels for ever.
pr.piii..ua festoon. like Englaud, depended on their Me. FITZSIERALD, in an elocinent speech, se-
suleedniatiom and obriliesice to the laws of the corded the Its solution. In imitation of a great
! eid, lie chimed as much credit for loyalty on Senator of old, they ought to finish every thing
I. half of limirelf amid his friends, *lto stood for- they might hive occasion to say, by declaring, that
weed in osobellemie 11
stion of the 12111 of Ministers, as minimela must go
out. They .w .
ought to teach root
I hose who went into corners end passed loyal ad- only their %Ives amid children, but their jays and
oliesei., as If they were exclusively the friends and parrots, to repeat," Atinisters most go omit!" other-
yeses vers of sociel order. He called their attention wise those Aliiiisees would work a convulsion,
i... the Munition of the country under 'boos Mints. which would shiver the Thome to atoms, ingulph
t-r., who had for a lung tissue managed its affsirs. the Constitution, and make England molting but
's
-e, !!: te..uld go nu further bick than to the cuticle'. a name.
sei of the long war in which we hail been rolgeg. The Resolution was carried unanimously.
•:!, and lit would confine himself to a consideration
!Ur. P. NIOORK was hippy to meet his fellow-
re tee measures adopted by those Ministers, after
pateshioners aeons. Ile regretted they were not so
I-, Is: nesiation, awl during the subsequent period
tuinerous as before, because the Indies were not
price. The responiblity of the messieurs
pr
resent. The perish bud been separated from its
b I ~,tad by the Shoe, rested on the shoulders of the
wife. They wanted the influence of blue eyes,
Asi -Imo stretion. There were certain rights a hie,'
black eves, smiling couutenances, and all that
s. : ereetiv helengetl to tacit class in the COllllllll.
which allured them to do their duty, and without
i e •. end whether they were those of the Crowe,
~whicli he had ofi en seen duty altogether neglected.
is ; ti elitists. or the Coininoneloy, it was alike eaten-
Les:retie to the meeting as they had done, to
t.e to the ha...rests of the community that the rights
tic ~or to bring man and uite together, lie was
cu-
o!' rash should he vigilantly prutected and preserved.
'I.,- Resolution in Isis band deprecated time general song the wife of the parish was not preseet. He
wished sonic of those este lovely oiler, *limn he had
t.-.:urns of the present Ministers. Ile proposed
the honour of iiitiodueing after the lest perish meet-
t.l. she: titt what "'net" the ertit"lre was itie"rv. Mg, haul
hootedanima the ineelisig by their presence.
re, sod bow reasumeee were tile giourstes upon
The Ladies oe their duty—let the Gentle-
weitl. they had a right to expect his Majesty to
men present du theirs. The scups of time last
rent the main of el si
ject sought, nely, the dismiss.
s.ii ob• those ministers from his counsels. in 1815 strpre,esctlitoloeinxlplreeftcs.liiin no sentiment of uovelty or in-
His Hon. Friend had turned the
a el I eI6, • change in the political relations of tee
whisk inside our. There was another out to per-
t emery had oppressed it with time ingot appalling
Germ. which must be stone by the people, and
ce ,at distressing difficulties. Even in that rich
which could hot be done without them. They
perish, there weie in the interinedstoe winter. be-
, might say of the Ministers as time Imperial General
u.seen 4 and 5,000 Pm"' who iwert.ilitilitg %11,11ilas raid to the Geolorse in 1746: "If you do not
guard yourselves, your enemies will leave you no-
is
:s'ieittlisti.'OelYil cfeorrtalfnotoyr of
m ousithis',7ll:l:Crivi:gcluwaitsi.ch t.i.:ii.ies
Ileitis but your eyes to behold the misery which
relief had been applied with the best limiter
they will inflct upon you."—He was no peusiouer
effect. He did not charge Waste's with these
or place-holder. They were not to suppose that it
terrible effects of their own policy ; eto human
was out of his putter to become one. He might
wisdom could have foreseen or prevented them
enmeeletely, though it was evident that their have shared of the loaves and fishes, us well as the
drones of the establishments; but lie wits one of
measures during the war had that direct
else the people—lie belonged to the people—and that
delay ; but he reprehended their conduct on toie
was his home. Among the crimes of llinioters,
reinonstralices winch had been matte to them,
tie considered the passing of the Core' Bill us one
praying them to apply some present remedy. and ,
re, the most flaereie, worse than the deprivation of
do semething to prevent the recurrence of those ca.
the subjects' libtotv, and proving a burden of ca-
lamities. whir h had gone on ihereusing from that
cuitom meeration espial to three tunes the amount
day to this. Petitions had been poured into Par-
, of the annual sums *fish had be stated to them
Insistent and the public autlenit
by bit Hotiouralele Friend. fie had formerly
fiusiicial authorities. Instead oil.2;lteasgeaialipstplictsme-
moved an amendment to it in the House of Cons-
thous being attended to. they were answered by an
mouse he said, s. If vou will have the Corn Bill,
'nib osition of three mullions of fresh taxes. A green
Pass it as a public moteasure. end relieve the lieu-
beg led the way to the suspension of the Ha-
ple from all the other Loxes." 'Fite Bill was a bribe
hem Corpus Act in 1816 ; Cooke and Oliver
for the Ended interest, to secure their concurrence
were let loose upon the country ; and Franklin,
in the war. They were told, as they were in the
who bad been lately traced out, from whom had
American war, th a their cones should out staler
o igittated the Smithfield bill, exciting the people
in the least—that the war should cost thew nothiug.
to °take arms. The tragedies of Derby and Glas-
Th. cry was, "We'll lay such a hurdeti on Americo,
chief privilege of the subject gno were to be traced to the same source. The
idvon
shall
out have a tnrthime to poy.subject lay in this, that the '"
For a !belay tax on point they pressea on the Attie-
law* alone could abridge his liberty. But upon
rerun our, until Lord North cattle down to the Par.
these wonted., furnished, as be believed, by their
own a ents, did Minister.% sus p end the laws noel
!lament, and sail that it was 110 longer a question
g
of revenue, but of sovereignty. " lot it so ?" said
ter..lot:erste 60 individuals, without charge or trial,
the landholders, " turnwe've nothing to do with
stiZue of them having terminated their mint-
it." SO. if the Cure' lull lied been stepped, the
able existence ill that state. He went into a ree
late war would leave heels stopped. But the recall
slew of the proceedings of Ministers since that
was that the poor Gamer, alter being thus deluded,
period; and among the swooshing acts of their r
like the manufactuter, lied bees, rubbed, snipped,
misrule he enumerated Lord Sidmeuth's Circular,
and beaten as effectually as if they bed been suet
the Bill of loid,inisity. the proceedings upon the ,_ inghuuyanni. ./,,,,, Suspension
of the Habeas
attack of the Nlaischteter alerting. the denial of any "v
Corpus Act was followed be at Bill of ludentuity.
Lavery sou that shocking traunactiou. the promo-,..,.1e
I I Bill of gas
and Prn-ultirs woe brought in by
lion of its witchrietien agitator. stool the addition of
Ministers u • justification of their ill-treatment of
insult to these complicated injuries by the parsing
of the six Bills. lie scrutinized the character of the Quer') in tiering left her llamas- out of the Li-
„. tority. The %soles• of the people lad rescued her
similar Bulk tie in,rtiregil liana Ministerstitele and envious Mejesty bum a malicious, inalevoleut. perjured
similar measures a usalsontoma in to muse
, cull piracy. Without that voice lie suuid give lust
•Ardstll4lenCto*Chlllellls On the rights of the people,
credit to either the Courted or the 99 Peers who
Lou! the country should be reduced to a state
voted against that Bill. Ile *mild serer -allow time
.4 orgemLitioti and despotism equal to that of
people to be sttipped of their great merit in the de•
to.. devisee :us with whieh they were surroutied.

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s ; ii lad been sleeted %khan the es.
*billies or a
.gjech of_ rep Let
. persevere as they bed began, end carry
- lincebtrons, and is, mast sewed so
restoration of those rights which God and
nature mud the Constitirtiern gave them. The
meeting et Hackney last week had been called
by • 'ministate' scribe a crowd of " unaltamd
raechouics, ragged women. and dirty children."
This was the Ascription d a respectable county
meeting given by The Centrum He wished them
to observe the numbers and respectability of the
meeting then assembled, tied look at the descrip-
tion which would be given of them by that tool of
infamy, that instrument of oultornation and deceit.
He had discovered hew it was that that piper gave
its descriptions. There were persons employed
es respectable perhaps as those who were engaged
near him for the independent Papers. Bet the
Editor 'of that Johns, was in the habit of taking
up his pen and treating the true accounts de-
livered to him as Mahomet did the Christian
system, and falsifying every sentence of them.
lie resented, on behalf of the meeting. the treat-
ment of the Requisition lry a reptile of an agent-
a stipendiary tuol, paid out of those means of
eorrnption which they were seeking to put down.
This man had a copy of the Requisition present
ed to him. He threw it down in the passage, and
said indignantly. " Let me hear no more of you."
He had afterwards sent a very insolent answer, writ-
ten on a dirty piece of paper, in which he impugned
the motives of those who originated the iueetiug,
and stigniatired its proceedings. The creatures of
corruption felt towards the people as James 1. to
the Duke of Northumberland, oho, on passitig
through his Gracr'e fine estate, observed, it He
will make a bonny rebel if we donna put him
down."—That Monarch, however, lotal spoken some
wise Clings. He observed that there was great
struggling for offices and honours. Many of the
courtiers offered him speeches to pronounce to Par-
liament. He was skilled in Scripture learning, re-
puted the Solomon of his day, and not a little
proud of his own stile in composition. One of his
ventences was well worthy the serious observation
of Mini•ters. In one of his addresses to Perhas
omit, after miking several sage remarks as to what
gardens required watering, what to be kept dry.
when the trees ought to be clipt, and so on—the
Kiwi went on—" Above all, preserve to sue the
affections of the people—let me be on good
terms with, and live iu the hearts of my people.
1 know full well that a people may do without
a King, but a King can never do without a
people." Ile was remiuded, by the conduct of
Ministers at present, of an anecdote of a
Turkish Prince, Selitu the Second. He had lost
a battle sgsinst the Greeks, was very angry at
it, and rembred to put to death all the surviving
officers. Ilis fool found the way into his preseticr.
and questioned him as to Iris intentions. The
Prince replied, that he would strangle the surviving
officers fur having, like cowards, betrayed the in-
terests of their Sovereign. The fool asked if he
hail gathered all of theta together ? Ile had not.
The fool recommended, that the execution should
be stayed until they were all collected, because, he
observed. 4. if you kill them all now, and there
should lie a fresh battle to fight soon, yon must
carry the colours and I must best the drum."
That government was founded in injinoice where
the government was any thing and the people no-
thing. That government was ill f led which
rested tint in the affections and confidence of the
people. Ile went into a retie* of the policy winch
had been pursued during the two l.st wars, iis the
course 14 winch two tlionsind millions of motley
had been expended. Ile descanted on a 'mother
of green begs which had been brought in during
the same period, under the most shallow and dis-
honest pretences. As to Pio liameniary R. form, he
would use the words of Mr. Pitt in 1782, 'kith which
he was afterwards upbraided in 1797. " iVithout a
reform iu the Parliament this nation cannot be safe.
As certainly as the spirit which eiwirdered the pre-
sent war actuates the secret Counsels of the Crown,
under the influence of a defective representation, the
nation will be involved in new wars and similar ca-
lamities. Parliamentary Reform can only be accom-
plished by the applications of the people, acting on
the prudence of the House ; and the 'people ought
to expect nothing from the House of Commons
in its present defective state of representation."
Ile concluded a luminous and argumentative
epoee(h by moving a Petition to the King, founded
on the Resolution ; which, being duly seconded,
was adopted noatrianously.
Mr. CHURCHMAN moved, and Mr. BEAUCHAMP
seconded an Address of Congratulation to her Ma-
jesty the Queen, which was adopted unanimously.
The Address was directed to be presented to her
Majesty by the Chairman, the Committee, and the
Members of Parliament pretest.
The Petition to the King was to be presented by
several Peers. whose names were offered for that
purpose.

Mr. POTTER moved the thanks of the meeting to
the independent part of the press, for their patriotic
exertions on behalf of the Quern.
Mr. CUURCIINAN seconded the motion, and re-
peated the declaration of the late Mr. Sheridan—
Give me the liberty of the press, on& I will give
you a venal House of Peers, r corrupt majority in
the House of COM sssssss will give you all the
plscvs and 'minions which you will detnand—l will
give you whatever Ministers the Crown may choose
to appoint—give me, I say, the liberty of the press,
and I will batter down those walls which you have
erected in your defence.and bary you in the ruins."
Mr. BEANCRAMP moved a vote of thanks to Sir
Gerard Noel, who was prevented from settendiug.
Thanks were voted to IL Bernal. Esq. fur his.
conduct in the Chair. •
Mr. BEEtaL returned thanks, and expressed
Isis gratification at the order of the meeting and the
regularity of its proceedings.
Thanks were also voted to P. Moore, Esq. and
Joseph Hume. Esq. fur their attendance this day.
These Gentlenivn severally returned thanks.
The thanks of the meeting were voted to Mr.
Cole.the owner of the premises, for the accommo-
dation with which he had furnished lima.
The meeting then dispersed.

j 1/ It Or
rye eny AI
, iii, k a that
wee ' p lea 'l;sawed
ig witls her riiihn; . Ns , len otso.
r, lase the mast abject States is that tea' ' 'to Peel's ;
g abase as isi Abe political logisca. Ms tam oft Ai
d the necessity that there was for a ebonite tbe
it
pe
ma and of ntett. Pie complained of the OS t ir past
I of the public expenditure,
_sod of the i the restorati,