The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-12-08 00:00:00

MEETING 47' gIAIikkLAND.

On Friday last • ammareevind highly.respect:
able meeting of the -inhabitants of Sunderland,
BishoPtirearmoutli, Monkintrmontlt, and the vi-
cinity, alai h•ld in the Assembly-roma, Sunder-
land, to Ad 11.'4 her Majesty the Queen 00 the
happy termination of the late proceettiugs against
her. •

JOHN NESHAW, E•q. was called to the Chair.
He briefly stated the object nT the meeting, and re-
qu.sted they would give a lair and candid hearing
to all parties. . .

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Mr.IIawNACD OGDEN rose and spoke nearly as fol.
laws:—" Mr. Clisirma.D. Gentlemen, in rising to Orl-
i:tress you on the subject for which we are assembled,
I fear I shall be eery inadequate to the task I have
inilinseil on inylielf, but 1 will do my he.t. The
proceedings inmost her Majesty have now occupied
for several months the attention not only of Peril
went. hot of the people. At the consinencement
of the inquiry we were told that one of the objects
contouplated was the preservation of the public
morals, but I think you will agree with nte, tl.at
whatever was the professed intrusion*, the coatrary
has beets the effect produced. the public morals have
been much injured, not benefited.--(dAphosse.)—.
I shall root dilate on the evidence of such witnesses
as the perjured Nlrjneclii, tow on the testimony of
discarded servants and aaiters, nor 0:1 the sasps.
cions removal of Rustelli, but I shall come to the
striking out of her 11.:jesty's name from the Li.
turgy. I thick it is a proceeding on which the
people should tires, the most decided disapsoo.
batiom. They have deviated front thst well-kanwn
piii.ciple of the established laws, which considers
every one innocent till proved guilty; they have
held a different doctrtue—they have declared
that her Alajesty was guilty till her friends
could prove her innocent. I will not deny
to you that 1 consider many of the Clergy who
have left the Queerer mune out of the Liturgy,
men of virtuous and religious education. The
parochial clergy have boners in the ►sterns of their
countrymen; l regret it, because I sun convinced
they were constrained to adopt the direction of their
superiors when massy were averse to it. This prat
lice, however, 1 am happy to' know, is not it'll.
venal, for the Dissenters have not omitted her :Ma-
jesty its their 'prayer+. In Scotland also the picture
is more exhilarating, the clergy 'have despised the
base injunction, because they are leis under eiri•co-
pulian domination.
" From one side of the kingdom to the other,
from Cornwall to the Orkneys. a generous sympa-
thy had hero. expressed aganot the unprecedent-
ed proceedings against the Queen. I know the
an accusation hos beets raised against `he people for
this enthusiasm, 1 know that it has bests confidently
said that those who were so decidedly in favour of
the Queers must be hostile to the King—hut I deny
the truth of the assertion. 1 can never believe the
insinnatam to be founded in tint,' when I consider
that many men, far removed abuve suspicion, are to
he found among the friesidsof it couch-injured Queen.
We have seen that in Ireland the people have been
stigmatised as %Visite Boys, Peep-o'-dey-lioyo, usel
Croppies....and in this country, as Republicans and
Revels:it:norm.. We have seen, within twelve
months, the cry has beers raised aspirin the Radi-
cals—the Queenlier, we have beers told, were to
overturn the established order of things. But the
Qum) is on irmlated woman—she has lost her fa-
ther, her brother, her father-in•low, our late venera-
ble Sovereign, and a daughter whom we all deplore.
Can such then, I would ask you. be consider.
ell as a folcrunt cor which to rest a lever to de-
stroy the established order of things ? We are
told they have obstalued from the attempt _hi-
therca, only because they wanted the oppor-
tunity. To this I cats never /wee, %%lieu 1 re•
collect, and it must be in the recollection of
all present, that a hostile array, proudly denorni.
stated the array of &glom!, was paraded ors the
opposite snores by the first General of his time—
then was the period to exhibit patriotism—their
every man, every buy, that could bear a musket,
noxiously pressed forward in defence of his country,
and every British sword lunged to leap from its
scabbard to repel a foreign eneenv.—(
Every attempt has been made to degrade her
Majesty. Alissioters persevered in their mea-
sures, regarille.s of the warning gelivered to
them by the House of Common., through Mr.
Wilberforce. that to persevere in the inquiry would
be derogatory to the dignity of the Crown. and in-
jorious to the best interest, of the people. Still
they continued, adducing evidence that would have
halo rejected at the pettiest sessions in the kingdom,
lira they room' their accusations so untenable that
they were obliged to abandon them. But to con-
clude : Gentlemen, in what I have said, I have
been influenced by no motives but a desire to sup-
port the honour of toy country and the cause of a
grossly-insulted Queen."
Mr. OGDEN triers proposed the Resolutions,
which were carried inisitimonoly.