The National Register.
London, England, 1823-01-27 00:00:00

there is atm influence exercised at thi moment in the
House of Commons which hat not been exercised in a
similar manneroloritez, the last 400 years, both by the
CfOWII and the Artstocrary.—(No emit ince
yips ton this is the fac:, I tunik• I .1,01 mumd and
ask if the country is Is no enjoyed tiny privileges and
blesshigs Manua lie p •nrio---(oo, no, and
and wit,ther we liave
must hate arise., solely (hit of a state of good Govero-
metsi-s-(No, no!)—lo the care of the ihnottgli New.
too also, lie toitutu toe meilili-rs were lied fly
the Steward 1,1 tile the Brrutp,."—H: was aware
that such dry details were leilhous,. nut how WJS to
answer the statements of Ms hum friend but by facts ?
Here, then %Sala proof Oral any of the alleged abuses
existing in the 'loose uI Gothiii 0116 were, at the least, of
400 years sianding.—(A person in the ciuwil said "Tell
us no: whits it is, but what it ought to be.")-isThe Hon.
Gentleman, after a variety of other observations in de-
knee of the existing order of things, mid Jganist reform,
in the course of which he was !resiliently interrupted,
Was at length so loudly assailed, that notwithstanding
the repeated exertions of the High Siterd, Mr. Fawkes,
Mr Petre„ kc. he WAS obliged Hs retire from the front of
the hustings.

Lord NIILTox next addressed the meeting. He was
sure, he said. that it was for the interest of them all that
they had heard the speech which had just been delivered,
as well as the speeches which had preceded it from his
hon. friends the mover and sec ler of the resolutions ,
because he apprehended, the main object which they
wished to attain was truth, and the attainment of truth
Was illliPuSSible unless they had the means of balancing
the arguments on one side against the arguments which
might be urged •on the other. In 1819, whet' Parlia-
ment were attempting the great experintein of returning
to cash payments—au experiment of the difficulty of
which ministers, if they were fit to govern this country,
must have bent convinced—the choice of this period for
the imposition of three millions of fresh taxes, and tile
facility with which the Moue of C agreed to
this measure, when the whole country was crying aloud
for reduction and retrenchment, increased his suspicious.
—The memorable transactimis at Manchester, on► the
16th of August, and every thing that grew out of
those tratisections--alxive all, the passing of the six
acts, in the Session of 1819, converted the.first year
of his Majesty's reign, winch ought to have been
a year of jubilee, lino one of disgrace and discredit to
the country ; and destroyed, he would say it boldly, iu
many material points, the col ttt i t Intuit of the country.
(Applause.) The facility with which the House of
Commons lent itself to the passing of acts by which the
personal liberty of the subject was restrained, and ma-
gistrates were empowered to search for arms in the
dwellings of EitglishittenaCts which still remained
utirepealed, though even the pretended necessity for
them had ceased to exist—cotifirined his siespicions.—
Last of all, he desired them to bear in mind those
transactions which, above all others, hail excited
the feelings of the people of England—he alluded to
the proceedings against tier late Majesty. Although
those proceedings had neves been directly agitated in the
House of Goniasons, yet a 1110(1011 was mane mile be-
ginning of the year 18.1, after the rejection of• the bill
of Pants and Penalties. by Mr. J. Smith, one of tile
lutist respectable members of mat Howie, tor the resto-
ration of her Majesty's 113111 C to the Liturgy. II that
question had been debated in the Castle Yard, how
many ul• then►, he would ask, would have lilted up his
hand against it?—(Cries of " not one I" a voice ex-
claitned—" Yes, one—Smart Wortley would have Op-
posed it.)—He would ask, whether, if such a propo-
sition had been made to them, it would ton hare been
received with 0.. e universal burst of applause? What
was the case, however, in the House of GH►►111011i?
There the motion made not the slightest 11111ifeSS11111.
The history of the world would hear him inn iii saying.
that a state of anarchy was in all times said in all coon-
tries succeeded by a sate of tyranny. It' the middle of
the 17th century, when the remains of the Long Par-
hamlet.' declared the Kingly 'Mice useless, the House
of Peers a ituisance, and usurped the functions of the
wive ttttt -., these violent measures were succeeded by
the predominance of the army, and tyr: of Oliver
C tttttt well. In their own times the saute effects hollow-
ed the same causes itt a neighbouring country, and they
might depend upon it, that if the same experiment
ss re repeated here they would witness the same results.
—Fur there reasons, lie 'et:unintended them to temper
their zeal with moderation, awl not to aim at objects
which they had not .he istessiis of twosome. fie (Lord
Al ) would du all in his power in lortheratice of the
cause ; Mr he conscientiously believed Mat its the ',ream(
state of the country. Ito other measure could prevrin
the eslahlishmeot or ttttt tag very like an arbitrary
government. It was 11111/(111Silde to establish a iyiaimy
more Odlf/US tar 1110 re ►ecure to the tyrant, Mao whe❑ the
Curios of a free constitutiosi were become useless lor the
purposes of freedom, warped away from then original
design, and made the isoirostients of despotic power—
This was a species of tyranny which had nothing in it
to excite resistance. In ausoline tyrannies there Was St
least the hope that the people would be driven to de-
spair, bin m a tyranny disguised under the forms of
liberty there was not even a desponding hope, ii he
might be allowed such an expression. Fur these reasons
lie had become a convert to the cause of Parliamentary
Reform, and li►r the other reasons he had rutted to
went, he trusted they would pur►ue this to jest. with
great modera•ion, but not without seal He belieted
lie had now nothing further to add, except to thank
them for the great attention with which they had lit.
oiled to observatimis which, he feared, most hate al
ready fatigued thrum. The Noble Lord cmiclualed an
able speech amidst the 1011 d .111111 ell(1111111.15111; applause
of rite meeting.

Wirvit.t.s3itl, it was not his intention to hove
occupied any poriloo of their aitetilion, hail it
for sonic of the Jra iiiii ems which had heel, used ty toe
blotrtha for Yorkthire. Tire liorrourairle Aletalwr lied!

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