The National Register.
London, England, 1820-12-10 00:00:00

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The address was pot and carried, Mr. Williams only
holding up his hand against it, amidst the jeeriugs and
hootings of the meeting.
Mr. PEA ItBON moved, that Noblemen he directed to
present the Address to the King, to his Majesty in per-
, son—he named the Dukes of Bedford and Leinster,
and Lords Grey and Grosvenor, proposing that they be
requested to present the Address to the King—(.Cheers.)
They might direct the King's attention to the language
of the address, and say—" These were once your Ma-
jesty's sentiments."—(Applanse).
The Committee returned witlt the " settled" Address
topic King, and it was read by Mr. Mills amidst the
cheers of the meeting.
Mr. Hume moved, that the address, as now prepared,
be adopted by the meeting.--Agreed to.
Mr. Pearson's motion was then adopted, several other
Peers being added to the list.
The Sheriffs were requested to attend on the Noble
Lords with the Resolutions and Address. Mr. Sheriff
Waithman observing, that they would attend on the
Noblemen as early as possible.
Thanks were voted to Alderman Wood, who returned
his acknowledgment for the honour conferred on him.
' Thanks of the meeting were voted to her Majesty's
Counsel—to Lady Ann Hamilton—to the Members of
Parliament present—and to Messrs. Pearson, &c. for
the activity displayed by them in exposing the placard
conspiracy.
Mr. PLARPON, in making his acknowledgments,
observed, that the conspiracy was of a more extensive
character than the public at present imagined ; to allude
to the full extent of it indeed would hardly be safe.
(Hear, hear.) This however he might say, that in the
event of the Bill pas,ing the Lords, a placard was pre-
pared to be issued, calling on the people to rise in defence
of the Queen. Had that taken place, the country
might have been involved in the most appalling con•
aims; and knowing what intentions existed, he was
anxious, possibly prematurely so, to check soobaneful a
conspiracy. He added, that three different indictments
had been found—one for sedition, the second for conspi-
I racy, and a third for treason ; and that the Grand Junes
which returned those Bills " true Bills," did so on the
same evidence 'hit was adduced in the House of Coin-
mons by Mr. Hume, and which evidence Lord Castle-
reagh pretended to think so little ol.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. Alderman WAITHMAN returned his acknowledg-
ments for thanks voted to him, and the meeting was
then dissolved, but it was not till after five o'clock. The
room continued crowded to the last.

WESTMINSTER MEETING.

On Wednesi!ay last there was a numerously attended
Meeting (notwithstanding the unfavourable state of the
weather) of the Inhabitants of Westminster, convened
on Requisition, to take into t unsideeation the propriety
of an Address to the Queen. Hustings were raised in
Covent-garden Mnket at the end of King-street; and
at one o'clock the business was begun. The High
Bailiff (Arthur Morris, Esq.) appeared, and he was at-
tended by Sir F. Burdett, Mr. Hohhouse, Sir Gerald
Nod, Mr. Bennet, Mr. Ellice, Mr. Gordon, &cc.
Sir F. Bustriver looked uncommonly well, and he
was greeted with the heartiest applause.
Tue Requisthou having been read, and the Meeting
regularly opened,
Mr. GARDNER moved a series of Resolutions expres-
sive of the opinions of the Meeting respecting the late
Bill, the triumph of the Queen, and the necessity of
dismissing Ministers, and granting Reform.
They wereagreed to, as was an Address to the Queen.
Mr. GARDNER then read an Address to the King,
praying his Majesty to dismiss his present Ministers ;
and it was moved, that it should be presented by Lords
Carnarvon, Erskine, and Grovesnor.
Thanks were next voted to Westminster's worthy Re-
preseutatives, Sir F. Burdett and Mr. Hubhouse, aunt:st
loud applause.
Sir F. ButtnErr stepped forward amidst loud huzaas.
He had attended, as it was his duty to do ; and he was
thankful for the attention with which they had noticed
him Ile was still proud of deeming himself " one of
the people." Ile had boasted of that, and he continued
to do so ; it gave him far greater satisfaction than could
be derived from any distinctions that it was in the power
of Princes to bestow. If any thing could increase the
satisfaction which he felt in considering himself " one
of the people," it won'd be the proud triumph which
they had recently achieved in their able anti wise
defence of the Itherties of the country, attacked in the
person of her Majesty. Their conduct also, on the day
when her Majesty went to St. Paul's presented a glint-
speciaole. When the Ministers had hope'l fur sortie
scenes of riot or of folly, and when they had withdran at
all those sectunies against tumult which they were
sometimes so Mild of displaying, the people of this
great metropolis displayed that iinilo,lll4 Sight of a peo-
ple who knew bow to triumph without committing acts
of insubordination, of load conduct. But in all parts
of the world, •tht re were now arri% tog daily, proofs of
the enliAtened state of the public ni.ind, of the success
of that cause for which the people of England hail been
so long struggling. Attempts might he made to ruIICW
tow: scenes and delusions which had been so success-
fully practised at the commencement of the French Re-
volution ; but they would he made in %Jill :-•••••tic time
had now arrived when, " for a people to lie fret., it was
sufficient that they willed it." (Loud cheers.)—As to
that great question which had of late so strongly and
properly agitated the public mind—the nelartous hill
levelled at the Queen, it would be tuu.ecessary for him
to repeat what had been so often awl so ably urged by
his Honourable Colleague. Ile exulted, in common
with them all, in its (Idea. Bill though the NI Misters
had faik.l ill establishing die i,2iierti's guilt, they hail
yroved her to hake been in the constant exercise of the
most hnnuu able %tunes—to have had a hand as open as
day to "ri is charity." her , itawever, ae-
culdi.tg to Ma ai;cusets, seemed to had. ia.tat ;Ai " holy

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traitors" to her, for they were made the groundwork o '
continued persecution ; and had it been Coant Bergami
instead of another individual who was visited by the
Queen, with that magnanimity which was so peculiar
to her, when afflicted with the plague, what inferences
wouldmean, base, cowardly, and malignant minds have
drawn from so noble au act 1 The Address to the King
had his approbation. Ile believed that the King had
been as much abused as the Queen had been traduced,
and the people disgusted; anti he feared that the people
would be heavily burthened for those scenes and pro.
ceedings with which they had been so disgusted. There
were many ways in which the King might have been
abused—the creatures about a Court worked in such a
variety of forms ; and if the event did not prove this,
the Ministers had at least proved that they all deserved
to be " hanged"—(laughter and applause.)—This was
his film opinion—that no act had happened since the
Revolution which was so deserving of impeachment
as the recent proceedings of Ministers.--(Cheers.)-alt
was difficult to determine which was the inure to be ad.
mired—the exceeding folly or the exceeding wickedness
of their acts; but whether sport or pain had been the
result to them, the public sufferings, he apprehended,
would he increased by them. He, however, would pro.
test against one larthnig being taken front the pockets
of the poor distressed people of England to pay the ex.
pences of the receut nefarious proceeding...o Lear, hear.)
He hoped the address to the King would have effect-s.
for so long as the men at present in office remained it
was impossible that any alteration of the people's sufler-
ings could take place. The whole country, in one voice
as it were, as far as he had been enabled to observe it,
demanded investigation—a change of m en, and a change
of system.—(Loud cheers.)—The dismission of the
Ministers was demanded—but a change of system under
which they had thriven was also required.—(Continued
cheers.)—All classes were of opinion that the recent
proceedings were of the most nefarious character--pros
ceedings that had done much to expose a still more ne-
farious system ; and he was persuaded that if the people
would lend an assisting hand—would give what was
called " a long pull, and a pull altogether," they would
get what would soon set all things to rights, namely, a
Reform of the Commons Houst. of Parliament.
_ _

Mr. Hobhouse hoped that he had redeemed those
pledges which he gave when, he became a candidate,...
(Applause).—He did not consider the late great struggle
as affecting the Queen alone—he considered it as alike
interesting to the people. The cause was as much the
people's as the Queen's, and the result had shown how
much reason they had to congratulate the Queen. The
most powerful eugines had been exerted against her—
but hitherto they had been defeated. The Queen was
now indeed the Queen—not of grace and favour—but of
the people's affections. The people ou,ht not only to
call for die dismission, but for the impeachment of
nisters.—(Applause)-11 that were not the result, the
work would be hut half done.—(Cheers.)—Hitherto
Addresses had been presented in vain; complaints had
been silenced, and grievances confirmed. So far front
grievances being redressed, " Six" more restrictions were
imposed on their liberties. If the people did toot exert
themselves, more death•blows would be levelled at their
liberties; anti he conjured them to be on the alert, and
never to forget to demand a Reform, which alone would
extricate them from their present difficulties.
It was agreed that the Address should be signed by
the High Bailiff.
Thanks were then voted to Mr. Bennet, Mr. Gordon,
Mr. Ellice, and Sir G. Noel, all Members of Parliament.
Mr. Benbow then proposed an instruction to Sir F.
Burdett and Mr. Holahouse to move the impeachment of
Ministers ; but it was not seconded, and was withdrawn,
on Sir F. Burdett and Mr. llobhouse expressing the
hope that if such' instruction were proposed at all, it
would not be without the amplest consideration.
Thanks ILving been voted to the High Bailiff, the
meeting was dissolved.

FROM TrESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.

J. Leonard, Little Hampton. Worcestershire, ieedanam.
iLt N R YTS.
J. Green, Notion, York, merchant. Solicitors, Meson. Eyro
and Coverdale, Gray's Inn.
E. Oldaker. Ipswich, grocer. Sol. Mr. Taylor, John Street,
Bedford Row.

J. Williams, Biiliopsgate Street Within, linen draper. SoL
Mr. James, Iluckleretiry.
J. Page, Lipton upon Severn, Worcestershise, tanner. SoL
Mr. Plait, New Court.

W. and 11. Webb, Brisrul, linen drapers. Sols. Messrs.
Jenkins and Co. New Inn.

.1. Buckley, Uppertnill, Satkliewortli, Yorkshire, dyer. Sol,
Mr. Ibuye, Chancery Lane.
M. Abraliani and Daniel (otherwise David) Levi, Bath, gold.
smiths. :Ads. 31e,sis. and White, Lincoln's Inn.
J. B. Itudgett, Stoke Lane, Snowmen-hire, dealer. Sols.
W.llianis and IVltite. Lincoln's Inn.
W. Byrne, Fludycr Street, ‘Vestininster, broker. Sol. Mr.
Hannan'. Piazza Chamber:, Covent Garden.
IL Fox, Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Finds.
merchant. Sol. :%Ir. Hunt. Surrey Street, Strand.
k:. Edmunds, Oswestry, Salop, scrivener. Sol. Mr. Edmunds,
Exchequer (Mice, Littco.u's
W. Wilson, Liverpool, merchant. Soh. ,icesrs. Milne and
Parry, Tt mple.
.1. Bramwell, junior, Liverpool, ship clarnaler. Sol. Mr.
Mason, New Bridge Street.
CERTIFICATES to be granted Dec. e 6.
J. Dawson, Mclthuni, York, clothier.—H. Nash, Chatham,
Bucks, draper--W. Stonhill, Ftew kley, Bucks, butcher—H.
Newton, Boss Alley. Hursleydown, victualler.

Lord N'iscount Kirkwall, heir presumptive to the
Earldom of Orkncv, died on Wednesday lust, at his
residence in North Wales, in the 42d year of his age.
His Lordship's memory will be long cherished by
the poor of that putt of the principality, to whom he
was a liberal benefactor.

On the night of the 2.'2a of November, Mrs. Cos.
well, of Ilygrave, nour lost thirty sheer,
thitnili king turned into runic LiC3h U./ICU:Ca