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LONDON, SATURDAY, DICEMBER 9, 1820.

patriotic Sheriff, who ima dme more for popular
rights then almost any other man of his acquaint-
ance, who had changed thspolitics of the City from
almost every thing spinet the people. to almost
every thing for the people. iievensiuded Ilse meet-
ing or his expewition of the rytleni of green bags at
their List meeting, and congratlllated them on the ruin
and exposure or the coespirmig•gaiust the Queen.
all of which had been effect lior the public voice
alone. Green bags were rist:, old system. The
Cato.street cou.pirmey was a gegen bag out of dorms
—that against thetaosen lease green bag in-rloors,
and there was no other difference between them.
The Manchester massacre and the proceedings which
followed it belonged to the grams bag system. lle
knew of a hundred filthy emu bags, oleclt he
wished nut to repeat, but if soy Gentleman wish-
ed for information upon so lootissome a suliect, he
was reedy to) irkd it. fleeas *boot to propose en
Address to the Qmress. whitish* Masted 'mold
be on emrilleple of the spirit of the country to the
country and to posterity. lie complained, however,
thut there was one omisigon in the recital of the
sources of public grievances. lie alluded to the
gambling of the Stork Exchange. Without the
aid of the brokers. Ministers could not have run
such a career. The establishment of the Sinking
Fund. that grand bubble, had robbed the 'anion of
350 millions of money. The Act established cer-
tain low rates, by which the ustional debt was to
be bought up; brit the lifter-policy of Moulders
and their brokers had been to raise up the price of
the funds, so that instead of paying off the debt at
the rate of GO, which was par, and under, they had
been paying at the rate of 100 fur every 70.
After many other severe and humorous remarks on
the misconduct of Ministeri, the Floe. Gentlemen
concluded by moving a Resolution, which slated
the necessity fur addressing the King, the finishing
words or which were, and that the following
Address be mlopted." Upon the latter words lie
meant to found the Address, which lie would
reed to the assembly before the Resolution should
be put.

A stunt conversation 'arose upon the point of
form.

Atdermso WOOO said, that the Revolution must
be altered by leaving •ut the term., which, if agreed
to, would pl,dge the meetiug to the adoption of
a partietair Address. It was necessary liNt to dis-
cover if the meeting were disposed to agree to any
Address, whatsoever.

Thr Retolution was altered accordingly, and the
consitlernt. of the 'tots altogether postponed
till the former sk..uld be disposed of.
Mr. P. Mooits then moved the Resolution by
itself as follows:
I. Thal it is the opinion of Ibis meeting that a loyal and
dutiful Adder,' be prt seated to his Majesty the prsy-
ing bins to dismiss fur ever from his aliaislen who
ester swot oily involved the esiuntr# tea a ie of unparal-
leled distress, lint have sought, by their odious measures, to
bring into contempt the dignity of the Crows; and to take
to his Councils men whose talents, integrity, and firm at-
tachtneut to the glorious principles of the Coostitaition may
justly entitle them alike to the confidence of the Sovertings
and the people.

Mr. MILLs proposed an amendment to the Re-
solution. He wished for measures to he taken to
secure the declarations of Lords Grey and Holland,
pledging these Noble Lords, or any others who
should be called to administration, to a reforma-
tion of abuses and the improvement in the repre-
sentation. He wished also for an amendment of the
Address to his Majesty. Ile would have the Ad-
dress to convey, iii coojtinction with their humble
and loyal declaration, a distinct uriderstaiiiling that
the station would no longer submit to the misrule
of the present A dministratimi.—(Appkosrp, hisses,
and cries of " Order, order.")—He isished, there-
fore, to move all Address which he had prepared, by
way of amendment, and the adoption of which, in
preference to the one which was about to be soh-
mited to them, he strongly recommeinled.—(Ap-
pleases, hisses, and cries rf " Order, order.")
Mr. Sheriff WAITUM AN called the speaker to
order. The question before the meeting was not
an Address. but a Resolution, upon which an
Address was to be founded.
Mr. Mit.rs, after the confusion which had en-
sued upon his proposition had subsides!, defended
himself front ally charge or imputation as to the
disorder of his conduct, which, in his own opinion,
did not warrant Po marked a rebuke as had been ap-
plied to is by some of the gentlemen present. Ills
object was to have ass Address, which would reveal
the evils under which the nation groaned to his
Majesty with more candour sod firmness than that
which had been presented to them was calculated
to convey. Ile wished that there had Is-all a similar
spirit at work among those who had been guiding
the people in their proceeding' for the last 30 years.
Ile wished that some of the gentlemen who were
present were only as bold and determined in Par-
liament, as their speeches arid behaviour out of
doors would bold the people to expect.
11r. Sheriff WAITIIM A"i expressed his reluctance
to interrupt any gentlemair in his remarks, but he
conceived that those which were then addressed to
the meeting had 'milting to do with the question.
Ile hoped that if his opinion were right they would
assist him ill maintaining order.
31e. Alderman Wool) spoke to order, and
strongly eilfrorced the necessity of each geritlens in
enrifining himself to the question before the meet-
ing. which, ia the present inutanre. was simply
whether or not an Address should be presented to
the King.

Mr. %i'tt.t.tAses, an inhabitant of 11:whitey, ad.
dressed the Chair from the further end of the twin.
Reface the question should be put, he hoped fur the
indulgence of the meeting wink he offered it few
remarks on it. If he understood the Resolution
rightly, he conceived that after his exposition it
would be difficult for the meeting to agree to
The Resolution, an he believed, went to declare
the dismissal of Ministers necessary oil account of
their misconduct and incapacity.—( Larskier, and
mark cingwrion.)
Sheriff WAITUMAN earnestly begged a hearing
for the worthy parishioner. If he stood forward as

the advocate of Ministers lie had a double claim ois
their Iliff.ntiagt,
Mr. WILLIAM.. again proceeded. He hoped
that Ministers would nerve be terlucesi so law, as
to nerd the assistance of so humble an iodividasl
us himself to defend them.--(Loughter.l—llot
now suppose a care: IT rheas roes were discharged
—(Load larghirrj—where Would they look for
such another lady °—( Loud laright#r.)-11, had
braid some obserrabuirs 'woo the system of gyre.
bags. lie had tio Mamba) to defend greets bags
as a system ; but be thought that in the Qween's
case no more delicate and proper a method of in-
-instigation could have been adripted, than a secret
bigotry of that nitute,(Zeughter and cries cf
dismiss./
Sheriff Waimea,' and Alderman
.Wocto mein
spoke to order, mud recossioseuskd to the
au imileerepce hie qwetion.
Mr. WH.Liaos resumed. He woe only molest-
souring to reply 14/ the objection: urged against
green bags, by a preceding speaker—a .iiymetu
which, so far from being iww and uncoustito-
lions!, was founded upon precedents of practice
in our politics reaching down from the time of
Alfred. (The remainingobriervetions of the speaker
were lost in the interruption of laughter sated dissent
which succeeded.]
Sheriff Virowimax put the question, and the
Resolution was carried unanimously. Mr.ll'illianis
himself declined holding up his hand against the
motion, to the no small merriment of the assem-
bly, who were anxiously looking fur this tukeu of
solitaryoppontion.

Mr. P. then proposed the following R.
solution:—

2. That the following Addrcis he adopted as the Address
of this meeting.
The loyal and dutiful Address of the Freeholders of the
County of Middlesex to his Mod Gracious Majesty
the King.
May if please your Mojaly,
We, your 31sjesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the
Freeholders of the County of Middlesex in county meeting
assembled, beg lease to approach your Majesty with as-
annum of our Arm attachment its your Royal Persia,
sad in common others of your Majesty.** subjects,
to O'er our sentiment. at this most importaisi nail recast.
fad crisis; having viewed fur a series of years the me&
sures adopted by your present Aolusiniatratioe, we ran.
out but consider Mena as noblirary, and Mimicsl to that
spirit of good government ohich should ever elides: the
Mousach to his people. We feel it an imperative and psis-
ful duty to elate to your Majesty, that your Ministers have
(Seen and are still misruling the nation, by a perversiou of
the laws and of the Constitution. That they involved as in
the late unnatural wars on pretence. deceitful, false, and
treaeherous. The sums of mow; which they drew forth fres
the nation to support theme pretences have exceeded in value
all the known coins in circulation throughout the civilised
world (yet, pressing us as they did, and divesting us of the
means of supporting our reepective families, we made our
sacrifice. in idlest?, becalm we were asoored that it beams

oar loyerlay se S. de). Pune Neese bwiaens; however, we
expected to be relieved by the Messier. of peace, bat
stead thereof new taxes have bee. laid on us, and • steed-
lag army of ao alarming magnitude bas beets continued at •
time wben we are at peace with all the world, au that we
feel all the miseries of continued wet. Wear, compelled to
slate to your bfajrsty, that this excessive oppression war-
rants trs se toweled, dint your Ministers have eel), diverted
the war from the common teensy to your Majesty's peaceful,
loyal, and attached subjects.
They have destroyed the rights of your loyal subjects
by excessive tax/sties, to aeswer their extravagant schemes;
they have deprived them of the ordinary sripports of life,
and have been unrelenting witnesses of their perishing by
thousands.

They have erected barracks throughout the kingdom to
overawe the people.

They have ilk's, our poor.lsonsts with able, willing, aid in-
dnatrious panic., slid reduced them to the level of the aged,
the helpless, awl the imbrue; they have tarnished the na-
tional honour sad glory ' • they have gone far to deem, the
national character (*bah we are straggling to redeem); they
have poisoned the IWllferll of private life; they have given a
fatal blow both to private ail to public credit; aid, its fact,
thee hive subverted the Caestitatiee.

Again, Sire, the eocooragenseut and protection which
they have afforded to iudtvidmals, fur the purpose of dine-
Wonting disaffected doctrines amongst your loyal people
tending criminally to separate the iwere.ts of the Motearcl:
from those of his subjects, and give a false colouring to
their various arbitrary and illegal designs.
The refuse! of Ministers at all times to inquire into or
redress the grimaces of your Majesty's subject., their con-
niving at mod abetting the masasere of your loyal and iodise-
trious people at Manchester—these efford must satiefoetory
proofs of their misrule. But in me instance has the cooduct
of these Mightier, been more derogatory to the best interests
of the Crown, and degrading to your Majesty's throne mad
dignity, or more disgusting to the teatime at large, than the
life unparalleled, malevolent, and wicked persecution of
your Royal Consort, in which bribery, suboesistion, and per-
jury, have been shear instruments of operation.
In got, they have dissipated the wealth of the nstiom—
they have destroyed it. cummieree—they have raised its
agriculture—they have heaped misery memo us—they have
hazarded your Majesty's throw...they have prohibited all
intercourse between your Majesty sod your loyal people—
they have deprived us of all the blessings of a limited mo-
narchy sal a free Cansistituiton—and dwelt eroded has been
calculated to subetitsle releelliud for loyalty.
These are no common errors; they are greet crimes, sod
of these crimes, before God and our coontry, we charge your
Majesty's Ministers.
We, therefore, implore your Majesty, as the father of
your people, to relieve them from these nobearable oppres-
stone, by dismissing fur ever from rile peewee. thew Mi-
nisters, and calling to year future councils sten who, by
their integrity, ability, arid Arm attachment to the tuisciplrs
of that Constitution that seated the Bromwich Family on
the throne, will restore . that wide fabric to its original
splendour, sad at once seal the interests of the Moment% in
the affections of the people.
Mr. EDOBT eeceuded the emotion.

Mr. MILLS 130 W stepped forward, to move his
own Address as an amendment. Ile considered the
only one thing needful, which ought to be the ob-
ject of their thoughts by day and by night, the at-
taint:tent of Parliamentary Reform. Without
securing that object any Address which migin be
agreed upon could be of no more importance than
those which they had been sending up for thirty
years past, and which had been thrown under the
table of the Secretary of the House Office. lle
then reed the Address which he meant to propose.
The most remarkable passage in it was an assertion,
that more mobile money had been spent since the
beginning of the lest reign than in the whole
coarse of one thousand years before, under all the
several families which had reigned during that
period.

Major CARTWIRGIF seconded the Address of