The National Register.
London, England, 1822-01-20 00:00:00

.NORFOLK AGRICULTURAL MEETING.

A meeting of the Proprietura and Occupiu is of Land in
the county of Not folk, ass held on Saturday last, its the
Shire-house at the Castle of Norm ich, for the purpose of
taking, into considt patron the ;install depressed stale of agri•
culture. The hum axed by the Iligh Sheriff, Sir J. Aat
tor the commencement of the business of the day. was 12
o'clock at nowt. A g the indivithil, pi esent were the Earl
of Albemarle and Lund Sudield ; T. W. Coke and E. Wilde-
house, Esquires, members for the county ; the Reverends
Archdeacon Mahon!, G. Glover, J Presto'', J. I). !t0rt,,,,,
and many other gentlemen of fortune and respectability.
At a quarter pa.t 12 the high Sheriff rose, and stated that
he bad deemed it his dot), in coma (mener of the tolliciail situ-
anon which be Own held, to call a niceinig of the county
impost • requisillimt whWli he hod received from a au eraus
and respectable body of the ktudholders within it. Ile Bleu e-
tare Caine forward to declare that the meeting Wall nom le-
gaily cons cutest for the porpose stated in the requisii
be should not take up more thee than was sutficieut to
express A hope that gentlemen mould confine their otsser-
vhtion, to the objects for which the meeting had been
called.
After the Under Sheriff had read the requisition, and the
• Mich Sheriff's answer to it,
The Earl of A LIMM AK CE moved, and Lord SUFFIELD
ieeoOded the proposition, that the High Sherilido take the
chair. It was carried unanimously.
After the Well She. sir had taken the cha
Mr. THURTELL tose and said, that having been one of the
Italixidwala who had signed the remosition which had been
transmitted to the High Sheriff, he felt it incumbent upon
him, in the discharge of his public duly, to make a few ob-
servations explanatory of the (111154.4 atelth led to the pre-
sent alarmitig and dig resaing state of tlw agricultural interest
He had given, as was its duty, his best cousideimtinti to that
subject ; and he did slut hesitate to declare, after such con-
sideration, that the injection:l cause of the existing distress
mus the etiornious mid ovens het g taxation oldie country.
(Loud applause.) It was said that the landholders had the
remedy in their oho hands—they could reduce their rents,
and the clergy their lanes. lie would, liou ever. take tit
himself to insert that, even if resits and tithes should he te•
duet d to what they mete in 1792, the cubit atom of the land
mould find it impossible to gut on. (Cheers.) But would any
tuna be bold enough to say that, if the landlords mete to re-
duce their rents to what they mere in 1192, that they could
support themselves its the Fervid Mute of thing- ( ertainly
they could not. Clula the clergy live m till their tithes
reduced in a similar proportion ? Certaii.ly not. Could the
labouring man, who received 10s. is meek, live now upon it
as he had done in 1192 ? Certainly not. Then they ought
to inquire 4110 the cause .11 this great and ilogresaing
and it they did so inquire, they %%Milt; lied cause in the
great and oppressive taxation of the u wintry . The horthy
gentleman concluded by submitiutg taw follow leg reeolutious:
" I. That the present alarming mid dem ewed state of api-
culture in this kittgd ttttt must inevitably and speedily lead to
the utter ruin of the occupiers of diet:toll, and a dl eventually
be most injurious to the um suers of land, unless ellectu::l
measures be immediately adopted by Parliament to arrest
its destructive ptogress.
" 2. That it la the opinion of this inectin::. that 01011100 pre.
balite, and therefore most pi oper, uucans of alfording relief,
is 10 restore the concise y lit the standard of unglue in exist-
ence, previously to and nt the time of pawing the Cash
Resumption ()avocet Act (cominualy called Mr. Peers
11.110 as in reference to that standard of value ;mutely all she
existing contracts were made, aud debts incurred, and the
deparlale from whit 10, it longer peniged in, must inevitably
involve Ibe ss hole sigricultural community in the common

Rio.
" 3- That no measure of relief can he per:mown. and
effectual, unless the most rigid rcu hcsln be enforced to every
del,: novelle of the stale, motel the eeps.talitioe theleof, :Is
well naval as military, IF 000 the head of the executive down
to the lowest tankers of tr nef ttttt he very materially
reduced—measures, the adopti tttt of which, a ill 'elite we all
classes from the civet w helloing burden of taxation which
now oppresses them, enable landlinels to lower their rent, the
clergy their tithes, and lessen the enormous puor's rate 111111
other heavy expenses iw ideutul to the occupancy and ems
ti vation of the
" 4. That 'he present heavy and oppressive duty on malt
operates greatly to the disadvantage of the roamer, by re-
dating the cumumistion,lind cows quently the Nice of barley;
and that the total annilidatiun of that tax is sit vital import-
ance to the agricultural inter e 4.
" 5. That a petltion. entbi;icin4 ail the foreg • g objects,
be addressed to each I louse of l'adounent as early as pews
sible in the next session, and that the Earl of Albemarle,
mid the Lail of Haunt lie I l'4lllesli`ll it present the same 10
the Iluuse tif Lords, ;111d she county Meltlhelb to the (louse
of Commons."
Mr. WATSON Seconded the resolutions at considerable
lemth.
The Undcr di then 'cad the resolutions. After
they had been read,
'Tire Eatl of A bfilial thba came foe ward, amid loud and
long combated clam.' mg, to adds ess the meeting. He
commenced his speech by subset tog, that ilie first tic,
hicli to should make of the opportunity Oleo afforded
Mail to address the county of Not sulk, would he to return
his sincere (batiks to the respectable gentlemen who had
signed the requisition for calling it together—thereby
enabling him and lila Limiter freeltublers to exercise their
aueleist wholesome stud constitutional rights, of fairly,
openly, and fearlessly, discussing ally mutters which they
considered public giicvances.—(Loud cheeriog.) His
heat thanks were due to lilt! Hugh .sheriff of the county
too die traelitiess which lie had shown to meet the Maim
at the requisitientists, and len the handsome manner in
hich he had allot del the sanction of his high office to
the objects which they pooh ssed to have in view.—
lk had also to i violin hit 11141140 to the gentle-
the n of the county for hut haviog allowed Themselves to
be iiitlitent ed by theeee petsuits, out, naked, of their
owls County, but or 0111141 S, who writ• desirous of prevent-
ing, by else, y mraus 111 Ilat•If power, the exercise of the.
soya 111, a bule.utor, stud coustitutiunal eight* of Euglish.
so. it- -k(:twe is.) lour could lie yet us tram lions rem' ll ioo
las illaules to the gentleman who tool noised the
setulu-
ions', and to whom lie load out the I 00000 4411 f of being know us,
lot the 116411 y 111411114 1 111 %Well I.e heal expressed Isis svii-
tinieuts segaitlisse slit so; wn would lie leave out of the
list of O, 110111 us. this u• casou 1114 gratitude
Miii• Otte, lit sla WWI W4ls 0000 who had so ably seconded
the geittlesmat a 1..) had hi unght rut wail' the blislisess
tit
the day. lie would ucxl to) Shot he admitted tile prestiii
got cling wain pule sail ti,1•11 htlij, and hot lets rthigi
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make a distinction, and to inform the 'fleeting that he
addressed it more from ditty than inclination. To speak
the honest truth, lie was unwilling to address them upon
the present subject, because lie found it to be too intricate
for Mill. lf, in the privacy of his own retirement, lie
could himself scarcely understand it, how much inure
difficult would it be for hem to make himself to be under-
stood upon it amidst the bustle and confusion which all
ways naturally attend at a public meeting. This was
only one of the ;difficulties a Melt he felt on the present
occasion ; lie had also another of rather a ilitl'erent
titre. It had been stated by his worthy liiend (Mr. W.)
that politics were totally irrelevant to the purposes for
which they were assembled; and with the strung feelings
Inch Ise ( Lot d Albemarle) possessed :won Ciat subject,
lie would put it to the lion. gent, who stood near Into (Mr.
Wodeltotise) whether lie was nut putting a little restraint
upon himself when he determined not to penult himself
to titter even one single groan (laughter) against those
whom he believed to be the anthors of all the culemities
under which the country was at that moment sufferiug.—
(Loud cheering.)—On that subject, however, he would
say r o more at present. With the resolutions which had
had just ;imposed to then', as, f the respect 'ie
to Its not thy fractal Mr. Cake, both ns a large landed pm-
victor, and their long tried tepresentative, they had been
scut to him, he (Lord Albemarl-) was previously acquainted,
and he had therefore berm enabled to give them a inure at-
tentive considernt• hat lie should hare dime, had he now
beard theta for the first time. His anxiety to aura with
theta had in a great number of smuts been completely gra-
tified; but in some he mint say that it had been a little
it ',appointed. His disappointinent, however, was rather as
pintos of nmie-ion, than to points at a hick an oi was
wok expressed. lie rejoiced as a Norfolk man, that the
county :of Norfolk had been the first in which a comity
meeting had been (unveiled oil the distre-s of agricul-
ture ; and he further rejoiced that in that great agri-
cultural county, distressed as it was lemma' to be, they bud
not said taw w ord about a torus-bill, that they had ant sought
relief from restrictive dunce, null that they find tint dreamt
of supporting any measure that nett calculated to give an
artificial rise to the price of corn. Ile blt weal pleasure at
bueli an occurrence, because the measures to is Bich he had
alluded were in any shape unjust; and as nor c could be
more interested in them than the farmers of the county of
Norfolk, he trusted that in future they %timid not even he
considered beneficial. They were not practicable, they
write net politic, they were not just; but even if they were
it once mucticable, politic, and just, lie was convinced they
would not yield the agricultnrists any sensible relief. In
reminding them of the view which had bceu taken of this
subject by colitis, lie must beg also to remind them, that
while cola was geld at 40s. a coomb in Eileen I, and at 1110 s.
a cumuli elsewhere, it was impossible by any restrictive
duties to benefit the English agriculturist. It was tint to the
power of Parliament itself, Dime pi-tent us it was called, and
powerful as they all from sad experience knew it to be, to give
bun the slightest aid by the adoption of such a system. He had
English feeling enough about hen to condemn most severely the
conduct of such of his countrymen is, under the existing circum-
stances., soaped together the remnant of their property with the
intention of spending it among foreigners. If he was to be
reduced to the necessity of spending his last shilling, even then
he would not quit the country, but would still retain the melan-
choly satistaction of spending Ins last shilling in it. tCheers.)—
He must now allude to another topic, and here, again, he must
express his satisfaction that the tanners of Norfolk had not at
tributed their distress to the importation of foreign corn. How
that fallacy could continue so long to be credited, be was at a loss
to conceive, inasmuch as foreign corn had not been in competi-
tion with our corn for the last three years. There might have
been a little at market, but it eould not have amounted to any
such quantity as was calculated to affect the price of British corn.
Hittitn. thins alluded to the points omitted in the resolutions, he
should now proceed to M 0.,: contained in them. The first re-
medy which they proposed for raisin agriculture front its present
depressed state was the repeal of Mr. Peel's bill. Now, no ar-
guments had been advanced in favour of this measure, and he
must soy that he should like to hear whet arguments could be
advanced in favour of that repeal before he consented to make
tt. What he would ask, then, had been the great Louse of all
the calamities under which they were labouring? Was it not
the great circulation of paper which had formerly prevailed
What were they now proposinti as the remedy for those calami-
ties P The repeal of Mr. Peel ti bill, and a recurrence to a paper
cut rency. %Vita was the disease? A paper currency. What
was the remedy proposed to be applied for it? Why, the very
disease itself. The noble Earl then Tread his resolutions, of
which the first was the same as that proposed by Mr. Thurtell.
The remainder were as follows :
" 2d. That the amount of public expenditure, and conse•
qucntly of public demands by direct and indirect taxation, is :he
plain unquestionable cause of our present sufferings; and That
the only ba'se and practicable remedy is to be found in such a di-
minution of those demands as may enable the fanner to grow his
produce at a reasonable rate, and thus equally spread the benefit
of its influence through every class of society throughout the

kingdom.
3d. That the diminution is to a very great extent capable of
being in.stsuitly made without any public detriment whatever,
by a rigid economy enforced in every department of the state,
naval, military, and civil, from the executive down to the lowest
offices of Government, relieving all classes from the overwhelm.
ing burden of taxation that at heavily oppresses them, enabling
lancllords to lower their rents, and clergymen and impropriators
their tithes, and by improving the situation of the poor, lessening
the amount levied for their subsistence; in short, reducing all
the heavy and intolerable expences now incidental to the occu-
pancy and cultivation of the soil.
" 4111, That though this meeting, disavowing all selfish mo-
tives, and anxious only lot the metal welfitre and prosperity, is
willing to leave to the wisdom of l'ailiament the particular items
upon which a reduction of taxation may be best made, yet it
feels dust the repeal of the malt duties, together with the heavy
imposts upon soap, candles, salt, and leather, amounting to-
gether to live millions and upwards, levied upon articles closely
connected with agriculture, and ranking among the indispensa.
blc necessaries of life, must especially call fur the most attentive
consideration.
5111. That this meeting feels itself compelled to urge its re-
re,olutions with the greater earnestness, train reflecting that six
years of peace, the usual anti only season in all countries for the
relluction of these burdens which war imposes. and the nourish-
ment of public prosperity and individual wealth, have now passed
away, nut only without Inducing in this country any atleipiate
relief, but that during this long period commerce has languished
and agriculture declined from one degree of depression to
another, till at last it has reached a crisis, in which either some
very important amelioration must take place, oa total derange.
milt of the whole order and relations of bociety must ensue."
Whilst the 4111 irmilati MI was reading, an individual
exclainted—" flow, th, it, is the national creditor to he
paid i"
Alto Lund ALULM A lILE had read the resolutions, and
before they were put by chic High Sheriff,
General WALPOLE observed, that a gesillt man bad just
tidied a question towhat' tt was proper that au auswcr

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should be given. The question was, " How is the 111116011 a
creditor to be paid r' He t eplied that he ought not to be
paid at the sole expense of the land. (Cheers.) The
fisnelholder ought also to bear sonic part of the pressisie
which was now weighing down all the rest of the empire.
The first resolution was then put, and rattled ottani-
niously.
On the second resolution being put, Mr. TlitlaTELL
rose, and In telly explained the reasons which had induced
him to propose it. lie like wise added, that he had no
wish to oppose that which had been joint proposed in its
stead by Lard Albemarle. (Ilear.)
'the Earl of Akuxuattia replied, that his objection to
the resolution was simply this— that it dill not follow that,
as the enactment of :111. Peel's bill had done harm, the
repeal of it would produce a contrary effect.
Lord SLEFIELD then came forward to address the meet-
ing, and was received with loud cheering. He COllltliellecil
his observations by slating that he kit considerable em-
barrassment in addressieg them, enact he es as
to public speaking. He had to follow the Earl of Atti
Mei le, whose speeches never failed to 811111se and insiiiict
all who heard them. It appeared to him, that there were
only tee° remedies for the present depressed state ulagii-
cultelie. Of these, one was to increase the price of coin
by iespective duties, until it became a remunerative
pike ; and the other to remove the causes which pre-
vented corn from reirchitig that puce at pi email: and
lucre lie must be permitted to j with the noble land
Who had preceded him, in rejoicing in nut having heard
any thing at that time of that stupid and ridiculous doc-
trine, that selling coin at high prices would relieve the
cultivator of the soil flout the difficulties by which he ads
at resew surrounded. What, lie would ask, would be
the effect of raising corn to a high price? Why, that
his friends in the north—fur lie had ft lends in Lancashire
as well as in Norfolk—would alisolutely starve. Did they
recollect the state of eltsti ese, to which the 11111a1111fACtIlVi.13
Of Lancashire had been reduced by the high price of pi u-
visions? He was sure Mat they did; he was stile that
they could out have forgottee how how those mansilactii-
rers had met to consider of the best 'Mall* of relieving
their distress, and how they hail had their throats cut foe
so meeting. (Loud cheee ilia, accompanied with some few
hisses.) Between the onetime to which lie was alluding
and the present, the only date' mice was, that the forint r
took place iii a more populous district. In the county of
Norfolk, it was easy to apply to the High Sheriff, and to
obtain a public nieetiag, at which grievances could be
discussed (clime) ; but in Lancashire, where there were
ten thousand inhabitants ter every ten inhabitants in
Norfolk, and where they were certainly less enlightened,
the same facilities were wanted fur the exercise of that
ancient constitutional right of all English men—l he right
of discussing public grievances. (Cheers.) He trusted
that lie should be forgiven fur the digression into which lie
had entered, whilst he had wished to say a few wends in
behalf of the manufacturers of Lancashire, who issue
quite as much his country men as the fainters of Nut folk.
But to proceed : he hail, he trusted, shown that one of the
two remedies which he had mentioned fur the distress of
the country—namely, the obta. g a remunerative price
for the agricultmer by artificial means—wouLl be quite
ineffectual. What, then, would be the other remedy
which lie thought might be applied with sonic hopes of
success? He would tell them—they must reduce the
expenditure by the amount of 5,000,0001. per a 1111 l nia or
they would do absolutely nothing. (Cheers.) Though
he lamented as much as man could do the individual ills.
tress which at present prevailed—it had removed a film
from the eyes of many who lieretutere had been blind to
the iniseries of the exiating spice'. As their pockets had
become lighter, their sight had become clearer (great ap-
plause and laughter), and lie had little doubt that if things
did nut speedily improve, they would, before lung, be-
come even lynx-eyed observers of the abuses of Govern-
meeit.—The noble Lord then proceeded to state, that
when lie was discussiag the propriety and necessity of a
reform, lie ought to have observed, that milees they intro-
duced into their petition a prayer for reform, they would
absolutely lie doing nothing. (Loud sheets.) Those who
were for postponing it now, would not be for postponing
it long.—He then proceeded to advert to the expense of
collecting the revenue, and stated, that at present it cost
halt' the amount of the revenue in 179 e. One point
above every other surprised I • : he heard gentlemen
egaiu and again complainiag in Parliameut of the bur-
densome pressure of taxation, and yet be saw them alneys
voting fur the fullest establishments. Then the) eerie
found voting against the supplies necessary for the pay
ment of those establishments; ar.d then again voting, it
present at the discusaiun of the estimates, against the
anieueinients proposed by Mr. Hume to tedium them, then
again they were found, at the end of the Session, thank-
ing Mr. Hume fur the very exertions which they had done
every thing in their power to counteract. (Cheers).---
There was an ineunststency in all this well worthy of
public notice. Even the noble Marquis of Londondeiry
—that manager of time House of Commons (cheers)—that
great Leviathan, lied owned that floe country was much
indebted to Mr. Hume ; and lie trusted that the present
meeting would tor once credit the noble Marquis, and
give to Mr. Hume that approbation which the AlillibtLr
had not withheld. The noble Lord, after some Obilel Va.•
tions upon the saving which Mr. atonic had elketed by
his inquiry into the emoluments of the Receiver-Ocueial,
and which lie stated to amount to 75,6 a h. out of 1170001.,
concluded his speech by heartily seconding the resole-
Oohs which the Eatl of Albemarle had proposed to the
meeting.—(Loud cheering.)
Mr. Elm It II TA YLOil returned his sincere thanks to
the t wu ruble Lords who had stated the real causes of our
dish esa, and had pointed oft the fallacy of attributing it
to the opciatiun of Mr. Peel's bill. Mr. flume liail
tempted to show how fill retrenchment could be made in
the civil, military, and naval establishments of the state,
and how had his arguments been answered ? IS as it by
facts ? No. But by repeated majorities of a commit
House of Co 11111 l mos. (Incessant applause.) Theis was
the souks of all their distresses; berreuseof the
public lied been fairly represented in the House of Cour-
onnes, their constituents comb! have made their rept esen-
tatives support Mr. Hume. He bad hoped that ()neer
othei of the noble Lords who had addressed the ineetiug
would have proposed a resolution declaratoiy of the de-
fective state oh the lepieseetation. As neither 01 dom
.
lied done it lie should proceed to fulfil the object lin
which he had attended thigh day, aud should piupUSe the
hollowing resolinion :
Gib. '!'hat it appeared in the course of the lest session,
ftoni dueeine'limS 1t oil aced by the lileuitoriutts labours ot
Mi . Haw , that them is out a branch of the pnbltc

penditure, foreign or domestic, in which retrenchments
to a large amount might not be effected ; but that all the
propositions made by him to attain such desirable ends
were negatived by a large majority of the Horace of Coin
mons. 'rlierefore it is our decided conviction, that the

corrupt and defective state of our tepresentatiim is the
true amerce of our present distresses; and that until the
the people are fully and lairiy represented in the House
of Parliament, no permanent or adequate relief can be
expected."
The second resolution proposed by Lord Albemarle was
carried unanimously.
On the motion of the Earl of Albemarle, the third re-
solittion was then put, and likewise carried unanimously.
On the fourth resolution being proposed, a discuasiun
took place whether they did ask of Parliament to repeal
all the malt dottier., or only a part of them.
Lord SLIFFI ELI) and Mr. COOLIE recommended that they
should only ask for part. as it was not likely that if they
asked for all, the prayers of the petition would be grant-
ed. Mr. C ke added, that Itu had received a letter from
Mr. I loamy, in Atich that gentleman said, that if any
'little* wee e to be repealed, it ought to be those mentioned
in this resolution. The honorable gentleman also cone'
lamented the noble Lord (Suffield) for the constant sup-
port which he had given to Mr. flame whilst be was a
member of the Lower Muse. He (Mr. Coke), from Isis
advanced age, had not been able to attend as often as he
wished at the divisions on the estimates ; but he knew
that the noble lord had sometimes divided with Mr. H.
upon them 10 or 12 times in a night. (hood applause.)
The Earl of ALBEMARLE said, that perhaps it would
be better to say half the malt duties, to prevent any
midet standing of the object the meeting had in view.
The alteration being made the resolution was citified
unanimousiy.
The Earl of A LBEM ABU!, in moving the fifth resolution,
apologized to al east Thurtell and Walcott fur his apparent
wain of respect in !canting to the High Sheriff the maim ions
which they le.a piopuacd. This resolution was then carried
tinananoissly. .
Mr. TA V MIR then proposed his resolution in favour of
reform, winch was can ned in the alkutative, wall only about
thizen dissenting voices.
The following was then pot and carried:—
" That a petition embracing the objects above-mentioned be
addressed to both Houses of Parliameat as early as passible in
the approaching session of Parliament, and that the Lad of Al-
bemarle, the Karl of Orford, and Lord SulHeld he requested to
present the same to the House of Lords, and the Nleuibers fur
the county to the House of Commons."
The Rev. GEORGE LILOT ER then read a petition, em-
bracing the objects of the resolutions. It was unanimously
adopted as the petition of the meeting.
The Earl of Acunat s liar MOILA that the Ifigh Sheriff
sign the petition on behalf of tar morning, st hick was like-
wise carried unanimously.
Mr. COs' then came forward to address a ft•w words to
the meeting. lie said that he should he deficient lit grati-
tude, if lie did nut return his siiicere thanks to the requi-
sitionists fur having called on the Simian to convene the
present 'netting, tied if he slid not cart ss his pleasure that
the requisition had i • I a tinily Of men is lock he hid
always praised as the first in the world--whoin he always
epithetic' ed its the defence and glory of (neat Britain, and
the representing a limn lie had always deemed his highest
1141110U1'• lle had now represented them for 46 years; and
lie was confident he hail always executed with fidelity the
trust they bad reposed in his hands. He must say, that if
lie hail 1111114411 i that lie should have sat in Such a ti ickin4
Idolise of C fat 46 years, he would have washed Ida
hands of it un the very day Oil w hick he entered it.
Mr. E. WODEIWEISB then came forward, and was re-
ceived with considerable applause. lie observed that lie
Meanie himself to their nutlet., he should begin by observing
Iliai he WWI fully sensible that their only hope of relief was
to lie found in the shape of mitigated taxation.—(Cheers.—
Ile was also equally aware that thissteel,,ramion CAMP rather
late (ruin a man alto had advocated every measure that had
made taxation necessary. lie thought that a temperate re-
monstrance, as to the gramd state of the empire, and the
particular pressure on agriculture, must be beneficial ; hut
he feared that the present reitionstrauce was much ton violent
to do any good. The bon. gentleman declared that he had
Hat (as had not been asserted by a reverend gentleman) voted
far the three million of additional taxes : that, on the con
trary, he had voted against them. (Cheers.) Aftei stating
that;lie agt eed ait h the resolution for remedies the malt
duties, and also those ou salt.leather, soap, and candles, be
proceeded to observe, that be cuuld not agree with the reso-
lutions relative to the necessity of a reform in Pal lialliellie—
For his own part, he could say as well as Mr. Coke. that he
had never deceived his constituents. (Cries of YOll have,
you have: Coke sieves. did.") " Show me the 1111111." con.
Boiled Mr. Woilehouae, " that dares come from the croad,
and say I have deceived my constituents."
Mr. N. H. PA Laeu, of I' at mouth, then stepped forward
and said," 1 any ;Ott batve deceived them : and I well prove
it, if yam will aligner ate one qui ation honestly. You told
us (here an interruptiun front \hi. 11'odeltouse's liiends)-1
ask you, whether, though yon •isted against the malt thaws,
you did not vote for the establishments which those malt
duties were lit support? was a di ception ; anti 1 W.II
tell ,IIU tt your face--if, our representatives come and
beard its to our laces, we ate nut unite ed to catechise them
as to thou conduct, we has e notliiiig to do but qnietly bend
slur act k. to the yoke. (Immense applause.) One reason
tor the disti ess *MI tett in the colltitr) W a., that for the last
20 yeilts the VOUOItY gentlemen bud, lost, ad of dl,loCithlllg
blessings to the tenants un their estates, been II:111611.: attend..
:invent levees, and playing the pail of aycopli ads at Court.
(Loud cheers.)
Mr. Wooetioest then combined, and observed that he
hind eve tainly voted for the estalslisbutems alluded to by Mr.
Intl it ras OU a IllitrOUgh t tine lel inn of their necessity:
and he had thought the taxes lur their suppott might have
been raised en other articles than malt and stem.
Lord Se IFIELD, just before the meeting concluded,
reminded the freeholder that they had all been horn free,
and enjoiuid them never to forget that the ti certain which
had been gained by the vigour, activity, and deterininatiou
of their ancestors, might be lost by their supineness.—
( Immense applause.)
After a sot,' of thanks to the High Sheriff, who courteously
acknon !edged it, the meeting was dissolved tit five is'elikk

On Wednesday, the uth instant, Peer Heatr.an and
Francis Gannet utre executed on the Santis of Leith,
pursuant to the sentence of the High Court of Admi-
ralty, for piratically seizing the brig Jane, of Gibraltar,
righted with specie, and barbarously uturdenti3 the
maskr mid one of the crtve.

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