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Mr. P*INCEP, the High Bailiff; declared the
Meeting open for the deliberation of the Electors
upon the matters contented in it.
Mr. MOULDING addressed his fellow...electors et
some length on the stature of the bosioess which
had brought them together. He concluded by pro-
posing a string of Resolutions, consonant with the
first object expressed in the regnit.ition, that of an
Address to the Quern.

Mr. ELLIS seconded the Resolution•. He pro.
(raged to have depended mainly se to his conviction
of the Queen's innocence, before the beginning of the
examinations in the House of Lords. on the conduct
of Alderman Wood. whom he now more than over
considered as an efficient man, •s one who hail given
• more effectual imposition to Ministers than Mr.
Fox had given to the measures of Mr. Pitt. None
but those who were very obstinate would doubt the
defeat of Ministers, and the triumph of the people.
The Queen and the public voice were victorious.
He had observed that no attempt had been made at
recrimination ; he was pleased with this circum-
stance. lie understood the political and constitu-
tional M2llllll. that Ike King could do no wrong;
he submitted to it, he could rejoice at it : no law
ought to reach the King. But they had a Lord
Chancellor, who was rich in property, and doubt-
ing in intellect. He did like his Lordship's
firmness in deciding on the religious merits of the
question as to the divorce 'tart of the Bill of
Pains and Penalties ; nor could he understand
the exposition of the political maxim, that the
King call do no wrong, given by the Bishop of
Logo! ttttt who told them that, therefore, the King
could not commit u fully, mach less a crime. His
Reverend Lordship went further still, mid declared
that in ' g for a divorce the purity of the party
was not necessary to be proved. He knew nothing.
nor hail he before heard of this inviolability of Kings,
as to the next world as well as this. The public
were unable to conceive what advantages of hope
the death-bed could yield to Kings more than to
poor men. Si. Peler gave them some reason to
doubt the doctrine, fur he said, " Of a troth. God
is on respecter of persons." He remarked nit the
ve,y bate character of the evidence, which had not
weight ei.ough to convict a pickpocket, and must
have put a stop to any process in the Court of
King's Bench. Considering the immense MMUS
ti uence which Nlinisters could exercise, it was
• wonder that there was ►o large a minority as 99
of the most respectable Peers upon the third read-
ing of the Rill. All things considered, a minority
of 66 would have been a virtual acquittal of the
Queen. He li writ the blaze of joy which shone
utmost all over the country would illuminate the
understairdiritts of Ministers, and make them repent
and retire, Unless Ministers either retiled, or were
driven one, there would be no *Arty for the Queen
or the people.

. .
The first series of Revolutions was then put, and
carried naanienously.
Mr. 31out:nisto then moved a vote of Thanks
to Mr. Alderman Wood, for the devoted and loyal
attachment which he had evinced, sod the valu-
able as,sioatice which be had yielded to her Ma.
jests the Queen.
The Resolution was seconded. and carried with
loud acclamations', whiih continued for some time
after.

Mr: Alderman Wenn rose to return thanks. He
had formerly considered it' right to abstain from
the tueetiug•, even of the 'ravish in which lie
lived, but psi the present case he felt it his duty
, to attend, as he had a double claim fur so doing.
As • M igistrate lie had a right to preside; se-
condly, he owned considerable propetty, which
gave him II vote is the borough of Southwark, be-
sides bring a freeholder of the county. He still
did not (smolder himself at liberty to go far into
the discussion of a question, in which he himself
h•id been mixed up so far, as had been said of him
by the Gentleman who proposed these thank•, as
was Becoming in en honest man and an Englishman.
Ile would not go iota circumstantial details. Ile
would only observe. that there were still important
matters, which might be adduced on the part of
the Queen. Ile was in possession of the knowledge
of facts of a character most important, upon which
he could nut yet speak. Very mater a! witnesses
had even just now arrived ; whether their ev►dence
would lie made useful to the Queen or not, depend-
ed nit her Majesty's legal :advisees. All he hail
looked for had come to pass. lie had before known
the facts sod the substance of the case which had
been produced, and he bawl felt certain of the con-
sequences. He had a thorough knowledge of the
bribing and peijury which had been practised loug
Lodure it was prove,l; he knew of the original cou-

*racy. and redly it trot am fait to biome Übe I.
bum for every thing; The mislaid eaeopiebt, eta
Welted at hose. sod by the meaty of it
They ought pot to blame the holism aluteetill
cooing the neottey ; they hod on ineeemee m OGINMP
that the highest perneusges were ime blies* Meats
Isolity to bantr bribed. They had, so wen Ire hints
self the failwre not ably of the evidence plarbesee.
but of that inquiry which went fir berm NW
prodection of evidence—which led he Slav OM.
donne of fins hoeing notating to do 'lab tint
cbargra. Ho would roily ray that win* he
knew from facts, which he defies' all the mold to
contradict, that there were person stationed ie tba
*enrol (owers of the Coatinent, bearing titles
and Orders of Knighthood, receiving (frees what
funds he would not soy, though lie ewspeineal from
their pocket.) about eOOl. a year each—wine Maid
their time chiefly in the coffee-buries sad toulluse.
and were momently employed in filliog the ears
of all persona of distinction who *ship he to
Hee their &ferns& annals 40.11 y
English traveller.) with the fillidest
groundless slanders spinal her Majestr—itisamoeli.
that many individuals who had cantle lion abroad
lead felt themselves unable to believe, until the Hose
of the proceedings In the innocence of the Queen.
He had actually met Individuals who had evoked him
before the trial, how. in Ond's tissue! he could ven-
ture to take mach steps as he had done on behalf of
• woman whom they Mnsidered so guilty ! Bat he
hail before known the facts—he had nett the docu-
ments by which they *ere attested, and he had oh.
served that those doeuments a ere signed by people
of the first class abroad. Those proofs, and the
declaration of the Queen, that nothing should op..
pose her jungrese to England. where she was deter.
mined to establish the conviction of her innocence.
had confirmed him ois his purpose ; and he would
have been undeserving the name of an Englisheish
had he not lotted just in the thinner in which he
load done, by refusing to hesitate a moment its
going to meet her. and give her such protection
as was in his power. Had lie ever been known to
slip in his tiens—had Ise eve+ in any instance
deluded the public, lie would have thooglit it ne-
cessary to have used some stronger declarations
to induce them to believe in the extraorili.
nary statements which he had advanced. But
he stood before God, who hest knew that the love
of justice. end the conviction of her ltlajesto isino-
crone and unjust persetutions were the only motives
which had influenced him to do as he had done,
and that iii doing it he was entirely free from inte.
rest or political bias. He owed them theisks for
their kindness. The chief wish of his life was to
deserve and acquire the esteem of bir fellow-Pub-
jects citixens.—(Long and loud applauses.)
Mr. hloti.oixo in proposing the next Resolu-
tion. which conveyed the thanks of the meeting to
Lady Ann Hamilton fur her constant attention and
faithful attachment to the Queen during the long
and ardunua struggle in which she had been en-
gaged, amid, that he believed it was known in the
circle of society to which that Lady belonged that
she possessed the milk of humus kindness in a very
high degree.
Mr. Alderman WOOD, in seconding the Resolu-
tion, observed, that he felt himself called upon to
ray one word iii justice to that Lady. It was um-
possible for any character, high or low, to deserve
the thanks of the meeting or the country more
than that Lady, for her fidelity and unshaken attach-
ment to her Majesty ; that Lady, being convinced
of the innocence of her 'Majesty. as he was, for lie
had talked the matter over with her before leaving
this country too meet her Majesty, had said to him
that no matter if her own brothers, the Duke of
Hamilton or Lord A. Hamilton, should say to her,
" you most not go," still she would resist them
social! the friends she had in the world, and would
on to devote her services to her Majesty.—(Gene-
ral applause.)
The Resolution was then read and carried by
acclamation.

Mr. DoltAr.nsois proposed the next Resolution,
purporting that the Address should he presented
by the High Bailiff, Sir Robert Wilson, Mr. Cal-
vert, Mr. Moulding. and Mr. Ellis ; which having
been daily seconded, was carried
Mr. CALM'? then rose, and said, that it was
with some reluctance he ventured to enter on the
discussion of a subject which had (wen already
treated with so much ability ; but before catering
on that subject. lit felt that he owed tin apology
to the assembly for not having been ',traria at
their last meeting. Ile wits sorry to be at
any time absent from the meetiti,gs of his consti.
ttsents. Living within a gan-shot of them. and
being at his house tea months out of the year, and
five days out of the week, yet it sometimes did
happen that meetings took place dont% those two
months, and such had been the case when their last
meeting had taken place. The subject before
them was a very long and ample one, and he
feared that 'hey had been tired with it, lor it
was a very filthy one also.—/Near, hear. hear.)—
He was confident that the Queen was an innocent
and an infitred woman, and he believed that the
woof of' that was as strong as could be given by
any individual accused of an offence.—llkar.)
The fact had brought bill conviction to his mind
that her Majesty had refused a bribe of zio,ooo/. a
year to remain on the Continent, suffering her
character to coot tone aspersed.—(Hear.)—But fur-
ther. the evidence adduced, all went to the first
three years of her alleged criminality, in the course
of which they did not attempt to prove one single
instance of adultery ; and in the last three years
they had not ventured to charge her with tin com-
mix of one net derogatory to her character.
(Near )—lint there was another circumstance
which established the same inference in the strongest
possible way—lie meant the sentiments of the mi-
nority, as it was called, in the House of Peers, but
which he conceived to be a virtual majnrity, sill
the strongest authority against the belief of guilt
in her Majesty. For it should always be recollected
how the majority satinet her Majesty had beta