The Sun.
London, England, 1830-10-01 00:00:00

STATE OF THE NETHER

,KDS,

(From the Private Coikteapondent of the Times

MALINES, SEPT. 27.
I have to communicate the important news that
Brussels was totally evacuated by the Royal troops
this morning at four o'clock. It was found utterly
unavailing to keep up the contest beyond last night,
against the desperate bands who for days had de-
fended the city. The kit attempt of any moment
was made yesterday by the military, to force the
Hotel de Bellevue. Two pieces of cannon were
placed within fifty yards of its walls, and it was lite-
rally battered to pieces; but the rebels attacked the
troops in the Park, which was gallantly defended
by the grenadiers with success, but with a loss of
full 100 men.

The army is at this moment in position on the
heights about a league from Brussels, Prince Fre-
derick's head-quarters being at the village of Dieg-
hem. He has sustained a loss little short of 3,000,
in killed and wounded, including many officers.
Persons who have this day quitted Brussels describe
the joy of the victorious people as unbounded. A
proclamation has been issued by the Provisional Go-
vernment in the most inspiring terms. The chiefs
who have most contributed to this extraordinary and
successful resistance are Don Juan Van Halen, a
Spaniard, known by his published Memoirs, and
Colonel Mellenet, a French officer, who has for seve-
ral years been an inhabitant of Brussels. Count
Vandermeeren also has taken a most active part.
Baron d'Hoogvoorst has long lost all authority, or
even nominal command. Mr. Pletincks was made
prisoner at the Porte de Louvain, on the evening
of the 25th, in his capacity of ambassador from the
rebels, and as a measure of reprisal for the deten-
tion of Col. Goumaens, who is still in their hands.

I must leave you to speculate on the probable
consequence of these events. What is now to be
done by the Royal army I know not. It consists
of 13,000 men, with about 30 pieces of cannon;
and General Curt Heiliger has been summoned by
the Prince to join him with all speed with his corps
d'armee, consisting of about the same number. It
is said that a body of near 1,000 men marched from
Liege to attack the military post of Tongres, and
succeeded in making some prisoners. But as yet
the chief towns of Belgium have made no strong
demonstration in support of the capital.
It is supposed that Prince Frederick will either
proceed immediately to bombard Brussels, or com-
pletely encircle it with troops, and so starve it into
submission. His measures must be dictated by the
chances for or against a general rising throughout
the country; but he will risk the total loss of the
southern provinces, should he hesitate in the former
desperate, but now imperiously necessary, measure.
TUESDAY EVENING, SEPT. 26.
Nothing of importance has occurred since yester-
day. About 600 of the people sallied out from
Brussels this morning, and some sharp skirmishing
took place with the advanced posts of the Royal
army. Reinforcements are coming up from all
quarters in small bodies; no desertions are taking
place, and the soldiery seem one and all animated
with a determination to wipe away the disgrace of
their retreat. Such is now the posture of affairs,
and as soon as any thing important occure. I will
again write to you.

have heard of no Englishman killed at Brussels,
except Lord Blantyre, whose death was quite acci-
dental. It was at first stated that the musket-ball
which proved fatal to his life had passed through
the street-door of hie house, behind which he was
said to 'be standing. But the fact is, that he was
killed while in the act of looking from one of the
upper windows, from which he had an instant before
removed a maid-servant. I am sorry to have to
state that the soldiers committed considetable ex-
cesses, as far as pillage was concerned. Several
houses in the Rue Royal, from which they forced
the people, were plundered of money and valuables.
One lady, it is said, lost jewels to the value of
2,0004; other persons had their watches forced
from them, and all species of coin within the grasp
of the pillagers. The officers made vain efforts to
restrain the men.

Numbers of wounded passed through this town
for the hospitals of Antwerp, and I understand
seven carts full were yesterday sent from thence to
Breda.

THE lIAGVB, SEPT. 27.
The proceedings here are reduced now to perfect
nothingness. The Second Chamber is to-day deli-
berating in sections on a proposed address to the
King, relative to the questions offered for considers-
don in his message of the 13th instant. When the
address is agreed to, it is intended to send it up to
the First Chamber for its assent. It would be a
long business to explain to you how totally out of all
order of regular proceeding this projected measure
is ; and it only proves that at this crisis, neither the
Ministers nor the Deputies pay uny respect to forms,
or "stand on the order of their going." Nothing
can be more cruel than the situation of the Belgian
members, held here by a strong feeling of duty, and
a lingering hope of saving their country, while their
families and property are exposed to all the chances
of civil war, and the worst passions of a people
which has thrown off all restraint.
The King and the Prince of Orange are plunged
in the most sincere distress at the horrid necessity
of the measures which the Brussels rebels have
forced on them. I need not add, that news from
that point of overwhelming interest is looked for
with indescribable anxiety.

THE HAGUE, SEPT. 28.
The Second Chamber of the States-General as-
sembled yesterday in a general committee.
We hear that the central section made its report
on the two questions contained in the Royal message
of the 13th of September last. It appears that
there was a great diversity of opinions on this sub-
ject in the sections. No decision was come to, and
the discussion will b• renewed to-day. It will be
endeavoured to answer the questions proposed, so
that the Government may learn the real opinion of
the States-General on the subject, in order then to
take such measures as may be judged the beat cal-
culated to attain the end in view.

In the General Committee of to-day it was re-
solved, after a very long debate, that the two ques-
tions contained in the Royal Message of the 13th of
September should be answered positively, and with-
out any reserve.

Till's evening, at six o'clock, the Chamber will
again assemble in a General Committee, to deter-
mine the answer to be given to the two questions.
The position in which the Royal troops had been
in Brussels for some days sufficiently indicated that,
notwithstanding the great bravery which they dis-
played, it would be difficult fur them to tnaintain
themselves there without great sacrifices, and with-
out incurring very great danger. It was therefore
expected that they would shortly retreat, as they
have done, according to the following official ac-
counts published to-day in an extraordinary Sinai:
Courant
OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE RETIREMENT OF
THE DUTCH TROOPS TO DIEGHEM.
" His Majesty has received accounts from the
headquarters of his Royal Highness Prince Frede-
rick, of the Netherlands, to the following effect:—
" The troops also, as stated in preceding re-
ports, had made themselves masters of part of the
►ipper town (the Park, the Palaces, the Hertog-
street (Duke-street), and some of the adjoining
streets), after having maintained themselves in their
positions with distinguished bravery ever since
Tinifiday, were attacked on the 20th September, in
the evening, by a body of insurgents, who, at the
same time, set fire to the States-General, as they
had before done to the Palace of the States-General.
" In consequence of this, it was necessary to
evacuate the Palace, so that the defence was con-
fined to the Ilertogstraat, in a position extremely
dangerous to the troops, for which reason it was re-
solved to leave the city for the present to its fate,

The troops marched out in the night In the hes
order, and without being interrupted.
" The Prince is in good health, and dist:bull
,
quarters are at Dieghern, where tne troops itor
taken a position.'
OFFICIAL REPORT OF OFFICERS KILLED;
WOUNDED, AND MISSING.

Killed—Major C. F. Kramer Bichin, and Lissiteno
A. Berkhoff.
Wounded—Baron J. V. de Constant, Lieut.-Oenerali
A. Sell nu rm an, Major-General; J. C. de Normandie Jstob
J. W. Schmeti; L. N. Perot; F. Hardy; A, L. Ak'
bol Van loosen ; R. Sandberg ; J. A. de Schepper; 1.
J. Van Slingelandt; A. Daelman ; M. A. Capraotardd;
F. L. Demmer.
Missing—Lieut.-Colonel Gumoeus,Lient.-Colonliret-
noffsky, Major F. Van Borsule, Lieutenants G. Vali Gor-
kum and Doffignies, Adjutant W. A. Van Uchelen; i•
Arderch, M. Berger', H J. Testa*, P. P. Morn, J. P.
Tessot Van Palot, W. de Ravallet, K. H. Wimmen, /140
C. J. E. de Thiary, P. Kemens, Major L. J. Gaut*** L
C. Van Ryneveldt. <
With respect to the number of killed ttod woundiut
soldiers, no accurate lists have yet been.receivee:
from the reports it seems that it may be reckoned st
500 or 600, of whom 278 wounded had arrived st
Antwerp yesterday.
19etthTt
edrhie‘vvirrseiitoptnoernat srbeyc uvarertrieynoteffixhacegergreerraoefsipeatehc.stitnir the
diecordinrisiolonsgosnotoftihhaee
26th of September, the number of the killed.isp,
and that of the wound 72.
We hear that a body of 600 voleniefil;Pe
were coming from Louvain to the aid of
was met by a division of the troops onder,Ptutr..
nant-General Hort Heiligers, and the grotto' 1*
cut to pieces and made prisoners.
(Here follows an account of the fermentation at
Bruges, up to Sunday morning.) to At Ghent and Antwerp also, ocemuul '-
latest accounte, there was great fermentattok,and
fears were entertained in the first city that too
would proceed to excesses. In ordor,
to
tranquilize the people at Antwerp, who ban
inflamed by all kinds of reports, the city M.
trates had, on Sunday last, at the instance 1:
Chasse, issued a notice, positively contridiedoi r
report that Brussels had been set on fire. 10Z,
daring that it was an absolute (1111.110°1 oder
Brussels was to be given up to the troops to pro
I.
for two hours, and adding, thit'"if the city of nil
eels had not already been laid in ashes, this wsl
solely to be ascribed to the noble aerator
the humanity of his Royal Highness Po'
Frederick.
during
TT hhee tsrbieetpumeartttiootnhraeotbfeßlmiriouainssienless
sitosobertil:l.agedainot:hcb;
been spread in the city and the adjacent Pill
been
is
for the purpose of inflaming.people's mina')
According to a letter dated yesterdsil r„,,-10 to
been busy for three days in exciting Lain' .the
riot, and attempts had been nts4o
troops. 'With this view liquor and money area.k
distributed among the people. The troops
day and night under arms. OW°
It is also affirmed that there heroism! ,of
at Tirlemont. It is said that die Burgs rig:
that place has been murdered in the wolkAr"",
I
manner. , 104011,4
The accounts from Liege are very ow __het
The populace are complete masters, anfl
anarchy prevails. M. Sandberg, the governor
.„A
the province, left the city on Sunday 1100701,
provincial commission has been appoiMeOt 11.1*,.
ing of Count C. Von Barlaymont, comnYlut.ll" j
the armed citizens; Jemmies for the
.prosrrld'
Hayet for the maintenance of order; 40
for the military police.—Hague •
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Actual Debt, 2% per cent ;,•• 46$W 4r7
Deferred Debt
Atnort Syndic, 4; per cent.... .......... t 9,
Ditto, ditto, 9 per cent. OO _lO "
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ihnsterglans Courant, Sept. 29.

GERMAN PAPERS. '

that GENEVA, SEPT. 18.—At .the moment We,
were shaking our heads at the bad imitation of the
three days of July at Paris, which have taken plal
at Brussels, Aix-la-Chapelle, Hamburg, Sims ;If
were wondering how it happened the,t?:nien
treating public affairs with dignity at ° Vera M?,
had not been found in Germany.ag.Well 21,2,- the
and that in the former wintry perseatur."'cull
Jews, pillage, destruction of property, htf
occur, calling to mind the middle ages, •
w
the Government does not give she
extolled there; at that moment similar sans.' „ere
preparing here, in our great city Of Geneve,
__„,wl•lo4
for dissatisfaction; there may be marl Petwrlnary,
who have a hankering after gold watches,
gold and silver bars, not indeed citizens of 0017;
but a great many foreigners are emPloYed,tieris.
the Atelier,. Though our watchmakeriertar,,,ae.
slightest Co
and goldsmiths employ no machinery, yet loote,
tent and agitation appeared among th"a r";ith
manifested at first cautiously, then loudly, and wr,
menaces, the alleged object being an increase of waltiv
1
To this is added the dearness of bread, which i
costs 6 sols a pound; and also the
Savoy, Piedmont, and Friburg. All this best;
it
escaped the observation of the Governor of the
therefore, yesterday, convoked all the Offieeriiivele
Burgher Guard, in order to give them •66r.
structions, in case of any disturbances br",„,u-rtuous
Should the workmen assemble I tu-rj oral ill
manner, they will find in this national guar ' which
every well-disposed citizen, a resistance on
they prbbably have not contemplated.
hsee brokin,
AUGSBURG, SEPT. 23.--Disturbance` well
out at Gera, the cause of which is notLYt, the
known. It is said that his Royal -11iftlln—,,,reets,
Prince of nous Ebersdorff rode through tta,"o-leises
and restored order for the present, by his
to remedy some abuses. Several peri°"' 11 fart,
who were obnoxious to the people, have, pence's'
been since dismissed. On the 17th, the
trop left Ebersdorff, to march to Gem
ceptlN
V lENNA, SEPT. Five p.• sloth •
agitationot,
not quoted ; Four per Cents., 89/ ; lilliat
1,157.
counts
B • EIR.RADE, SEPT. 0.----According— vizier,
from Janina, Emir Pacha, son of the aren"„icetinl(
had also succeeded by a stratagem 11l et-arrival
himself from his critical situation. After t"'0,00- ts
of the Grand Vizier at Bitoglia, with 'o re cow
force, was made known, his son suceau,B%-ed hIM
eluding with the insurgents, who had was
in the fort of Janina, an armistice, bf-vm) votioes
restored to his rights ; confiding in this Weeents
and lulled into security by the favourable at o'er
received from Bitoglia orthe commencer :000
gociations between their countryrnets seuttle greater
Vizier, the Albanian Chiefs dismissed Lire of the
part of their troops, and awaited the to to be
negociations, when the Pacha cause' rely be
suddenly arrested by night and ;milieu.% oil the
headed. But scarcely was the flews Weil leet°
following morning, when the flames of irr? chiefs,
kindled by the adherents of the-murdered
broke out with increased fury ; baud' w° re
where assembled, which attacked, P-ufre to
and ravaged the houses. They set "a all
the shops in the market-place, which vv,°,l the
consumed with the goods in them, ti:l
flames spreading, reduced athe city to a,h ges. The Bge
reat part o dam
cha how"
is
said to amount to several millions. The
ling-houses in
ever, having succeeded in driving about 45'1"
Sill
caused them to be pursued, so that as tare
Vizier has ordered troops to Janina, they
to get between two fires.
CARLSRUIIE, SEPT. L-- hie dip.
nister of France to our Court, has obtaineuape_le
charge. He will continue to reside here as
he Iv"
Began
individual. M. de Bussiere, Secretary to t
lion, acts as Charge d'Affaires.
..,,'he Government
HESSE-DARMSTADT, SEPT.
o.has ordered a reduction of the salaries o_tatiltr 'The
belonging to, or it, the service of, the
mr:,__,es
reduction is to be 20 per cent. on all the _„f
cent. on those
2,000 furies and above; It) per c
Montlezun,

"1,000 florins and above ; and 5 per cent. on all below
1,000. „ The Officers of the Court, who were pen-
t sioned,under the late Grand Duke, will continue to
• retirvi their. pensions.

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LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENIIkto OCTOBER 1, 1830.
We have by Express the Gazette de France,
dated yesterday, Ida Papers • and Letters of
VVedfiesday evening. The following are ex-
tracts

• LATEST INTELLIGENCE.
' an ordonnance, published in the Moniteur,
the•Kingi desirous. of signalsing his accession to the
by 'acts.of clemency, grams full and entire
amnesty for all offences of simple police, committed
anterior to the 27th July, 1830. All condemnations
will therefore cease to have effect, and prosecutions
librnMeneed'will be abandoned. This measure is to
biptittireed without prejudice to private interests,
and the Treasury will not be bound to restore costs
oribirlatetidy incurred.
Atiotheeordotinance fills tip the numerous
places
of publleldnetionaries in the administration and ju-
dich4 d*Plifiments, become vacant by refusal to take
the oath* within the term prescribed.
The Wuretaberg: Correspondent has intelligence
from Thttiingitt' oF3he 21st instant, from which it
appeere that the 'spirit of insurrection has spread from
Awitlnbirg tunfaira to the Grand Duchy of Saxe
""liat;"..ChotlifilBth and 19th several malcon-
ents'e..Zeited,a at Jena, by burning the house of
a funectottfry,. on the ground that he was guilty of
rniamanagetntnt in the administration of the town.
A. commission' has been sent to Jena by the Go-
vernment to re-establish *Wet, and receive the com-
Plaints against grievances which might be made.
(From the journal de la lielgique.)
CThe Provisional Government, on 'the petition of
enseveral respectable merchante, have resolved that
y.five days extra time shall be granted for the
Payment of money bills, to reckon from the time of
!heir beoctinieg doe. This.miasure applies only to
Qs bearing a date anterior to Sept. gq-
Extra& of * private* 'letter from Brussels :--The
*omen of Seharbeck arrived* With long pikes, joined
the men and fought with them. The Prince of
Weimar demanded admission by theFlanders-
hte with the troops, who according to his engage-
-144 were to lay down their arms, no sooner liow.
Ili hid they passed, than he gave the soldiers
"re to put the people to the sword. The latter
',id not allow them to do this; the passage was again
e'lled, end the Prince very roughly treated.
The following is from Antwerp :—About ninety
°eighth prisoners entered Antwerp yesterday under
strong escort. • Many of them presented a must
etched appearance and the age of several scarcely
tdmits ereidea of their having taken part in the
'01164. - They were taken to the citadel.

The French Papers contain no news of any
'latrticular importance. The Messager des
Chambres, in an article dated Madrid, states
that FERDINAND is at length becoming sensible
or the necessity of giving something like a con-
ttitution to his people. This new light is said
to have been occasioned by a letter written to
the Queen of SPAIN by the Queen of FRANCE,
earnestly requesting that she should exert her
ofluence with her husband to procure some part
or freedom for Spain.

In the private correspondence of the Times,
*ll4 Will be found in another column, there is
4114 interesting matter respecting the state of
the Netherlands. These for the present are
dearly lost to the KING. The whole country
;14 dis 114Ing in favour of the popular cause, and if
Plays only the same energy that the capital
has already done, not the King of the NETH ER-
-1""bs, nor a hundrell Kings, can effectually
Put it down. The flame, indeed, may for a
tine be
,Ytr kePt under, but it will burst forth at
el'Portunity, and extinguish all before it.
tp
teems allowed on all hands, that the Dutch
40Op behaved with very great and needless bar.
tity. This, under existing circumstances, was
t merely crim'e, but as TA L !AYR A ND observed,
141 Scow other 44 occasion in an apothegm that
tnln the man, " it was worse than a crime, it r blunder."
NtEr•P fly the bye, where was Prince
.I.tICX during the attack on Brussels ?
:tiow is it that we do not have long and ani-
ilatetl yarticulars respecting his bravery and de-
etion,to his father's cause ? The silence of the
butd.
Papers on this point can originate only
01 their consciousness of the Royal diffidence.

tl!',, I esterday morning, at ail early li our, despatches
received frotn hie AfAJEKTY at Brighton, addressed to
-, Reeretary of State for the [Tome Department.
L:l'6 buchess DE 13ER It 1, accompanied by a
Nil .
'voil Were in Bath a few days ago ; they put up at the
4,44-lioteke note', but they proceeded so completely incog.
tv,..theY Were unknown ; they niterveat de visited the Mar-
i,-"4445, lit. goultftev. a resident in %tit) mid eonte rela-
" W the you
Royal Family.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.

DEAL, SEPT. SO.—Arrived the Indeinnity, Woodhall,
from Demerara; Brothers, Motley, and Asia, White,
from Quebec.
POATIMOUTIf, SErr. 30.—Arrived off the Wight, the
Anna Louisa, De Jong, from Demerara. Arrived off the
Start, the Maria, Wakefield, from the Mauritius, sailed
the 10th of May.
CLYDE, SEPT. 29.—Arrived the James M‘Queen,
M'Coll, from Tortola ' • George Canning, Callender, from
Quebec; and Bolden, Ledam, from St. Peteraburgb.
DUNDEE, SErr. 29.—Arrived the Molson, Law, from
Quebec.

SosnERLA ND, Seri. 29.—Arrived the Orion, Craggs,
from Quebec. . _ .

GREENOCK. SEPT. 27.—The Elizabeth, arrived from
Demerara, sailed the 12th ult. ; on the 20th, spoke a
French ship, bound to Havre, which had been dismasted
on the 19th between Antigua and Guadaloupe.

The William, Manning, from St. Kitt's, was spoken
with the 19th of August, between Sombrero and St.
Merlin's. _ . •

---EXtract from the Agent to Lloyd's, at St. Croix, dated
Aug. 13 :—" A severe gale of wind was experienced here
last night, but has now abated. No injury to any Euro-
pean vessel. I dread its effects at St. Thomas's and the
windward islands."

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY).

CORN EXCHANGE.

There are moderate arrivals this week of foreign Corn,
and small of English. The return of Flour is tolerably
good. The Wheat trade continues firm at Monday's
prices. Barley, Beans, and Pease, are as last reported.
There is a good demand far fresh Oats, at improving rates.
Flour unaltered.

LEEDS DINNER TO LORD MORPETH

AND MR. BROUGHAM.

On Tuesday evening the Leeds festival, to cele-
brate the return of Lord Morpeth and Mr. Brougham
as Representatives for the great county of York,
took place at the Commercial Buildings.
Soon after five o'clock about 220 persons, being
as many as the room, the largest in the town, could
accommodate, sat down to a very excellent dinner,
consisting of all the luxuries of the season ;
T. W. TOTTIE, Esq., in the Chair.

Amongst the persona present on the occasion, we
noticed Lord Milton, the Hon. Edward Petre, Mr.
Marshall, the late Member for the County, Mr.
Wrighton, M.P., Mr. Sykes, Mr. J. Wood,
M.P. for Preston, Mr. C. Wood, M.P. for Grimsby,
and Sir J. Johnson.

As soon as the cloth was removed, Non nal:
Domino was sung by the professional gentlemen in
attendance.

The CIIAIRMA24I, gave " His Majesty's health—
may he live long, and reign in the affections of a
free, prosperous, and grateful people."
The toast was drunk with four times four, after
which " God save the King" was sung by the vo-
calists, the greater Iportion of the company joining
in the chorus.

The CHAIRMAN said, that they had another cir-
cumstance at which now to rejoice—they had a
Queen—(Cheers)--and he trusted they might long
have such a Queen as Adelaide to grace the throne
of England.—(Cheers.)—He then gave " The
Queen," which was drunk with great enthusiasm.
The CHAIRMAN then gave—" The Royal Family,
and may they never forget the principles which
placed the House of Brunswick on the Throne."

The CHAIRMAN, 111 proposing the next toast—
" The Constitution in its purity," said it might
not be useless to put upon record what " the Con-
stitution in its purity" meant. He meant by it a
Protestant and a Patriot King—(Cheers)—a liberal,
enlightened, and virtuous House of Peers; and a
Commons freely and fairly chosen by the people.
The toast was then drunk with enthusiasm.

The CHAIRMAN then gave " The healths of Lord
Morpeth and Mr. Brougham, their freelpehosen
Represent atives."

The toast was drunk amidst the most deafening
plaudits, which were unceasingly continued for
several minutes.

Lord MORPETII now presented himself to return
thanks, and was received in the most enthusiastic
manner. After silence was obtained he addressed
the meeting, and said that when he presented him-
self befure them two short months ago, it was for
the purpose of requesting their countenance and
support to effect his return as one of the repre-
sentatives in Parliament of the great county of
York. He now appeared before them as the repre-
sentative of York—(Cheers)--and for the purpose
of expressing his own deep sense of gratitude, not
only to them but to all his generous fellow-country-
men.—(Cheers.)—He well knew that mere phrases
would neither satisfy their expectations nor his own
conscience.—(Cheering.)—His gratitude should ap-
pear, it should be his endeavour, in a more tangible
and practical shape. Their unexampled kindness
should stimulate him to exertion, and be well knew
there was no person, however humble, who might
not be of use, if he only devoted his time and his
attention to an object, and watched and waited the
opportunity for its attainment.—(Cheers.)—They
should recollect that all persons were not gifted with
the extraordinary endowments of Mr. 13rougham,
who was the object of their spontaneous choice;
endowments so large, and so varied, that their com-
bination in one individual was not an ordinary pro-
duction, but the exception and the marvel of the
uge.—(Great cheering.)—They bad paid to his
great talents that homage which was their due, and
he hoped they would add weight to them by sup-
porting him in his future Parliamentary exertions.—
As they had four Members they could not look to
have prodigies in all of them—(A laugh)—they must
have a graduated scale of abilities, and in the hope
that they were content with this, he then ventured
to address them.—(Much laughter.)—He felt that
his position in the scale was indeed unbounded, when
he looked to that which was so fur above him, but
be felt boundless gratitude to them for occupying
such a position at all.—( Much cheering.)--There
was no one thing more truly gratifying, either in the
recent election or in that meeting, than the union
of those two influential classes, which could flourish
only together—the agricultural and the commercial.
—(Cheers.)—They were well acquainted with his
principles, for it was his principles only which won
him their favour, and it was by his adherence to
those principles that he hoped to retain it. That
was not the place to expatiate upon them—enough
was understood—enough was felt on that head,
when they perceived him there at the festive board
among liberals, and in Leeds.—(Cheers.)—Those
principles are daily spreading wider, and taking
deeper root throughout the world, and lie felt satis-
fied that the example of York would give a spirit of
emulation to all England, and he trusted that from
the example of England other nations would profit
in supplying themselves with a lesson of freedom.--
(Cheers.)—And lie might be allowed to say that if in
their application for the lesson, England had much to
teach, so also had it something to learn. With re-
spect to the late disturbances in France, he could
not harbour a thought that an English Minister had
given a sanction to the proceedings of Polignac;
but lie would say that were England under another
administration—for instance, were Mr. Canning still
living—(Loud cheers)—it would never have oc-
curred to a foreign Minister to adept such arbitrary
measures. Although commerce and agriculture
might, in the first instance, be thought to have se-
parate provinces, yet, on examination,it would be
found that they tended to protect and promote each
other. Thus liberty well understood was the pro-
moter of good order, and knowledge widely diffused
was the best guarantee for subordination and good
government. It was for the interests of commerce
that peace should be maintained amongst the whole
family of man, and here he must say that be could
not allude to unrestricted commerce without remem-
bering the premature stroke which had deprived the
world of its ablest udvccate. It was not in a festi-
val like that that he could dwell upon the melan-
choly accident which had befallen that illustrious
man; but this comfort might at all events be de-
rived from it—that however Providence may deal
with its instruments, it will always, in its own way,
work out the welfare of empires.—(Cheers.)—lle
would detain them no longer than to assure them
that his gratitude to them should be cheerfully ex-
hibited whenever they called him to active end
practical service.—(Much cheering.)

Mr. BROUGHAM now presented himself, and was
received with the warmest -cheers. He trusted, be
said, that he need hardly assure them that it was
with heartfelt pleasure he met them on that occa-
sion, because they must know that he could not feel
otherwise than gratified when he recollected the ex-
traordinary events which had recently taken place,
and when he reflected on the exalted station to
which they had raised him, in doing which they
were assisted by the whole people of York, and he
might say, without presumption, that what they had
done had not been disapproved of by the rest of their
admiring fellow-countrymen. Though York, how-
ever, had done its duty, and though its conduct had
been approved of by the rest of the kingdom, yet it
was in Leeds that the plan had been first formed of
returning his Noble Friend (Lord Mo and him-
self constitutionally to Parliament.—(Cheers.)—lf
then there had been a grand triumph for the cause
of reform, effected without the leave of the House
of Commons, for which he had .a great respect—
(A laugh)---and without the sanction of the Upper
House, for which he had about an equal reverence--
(Great laughter)--that practical benefit owed its
origin to the great town of Leeds.—(Great cheering.)
He did not mean by this to undervalue the services
of the whole county of Yolk. No man could travel
the county as he had done, In his short canvass,
whether visiting its mountainous districts or re-
sorting to the right good men o; Dewsbury and

other places, and feel the slightest desire of ex-
alting Leeds at the expense of the others; but he
would say, that accidentally:the torch had been lighted
at Leeds which created a blaze which had sacrificed
antiquated abuses on the altar of liberty, and which
burned on until it shed its light over all England,
sanctifying and enlightening the people, and he him•
self cheered onward in his course by the help of its
rays, and warmed and vivified by its intensity, did
feel himself excited when he found himself on that
spot where that fire and that light were first kindled.
—(Great cheering.)—lt had been well observed by
his Noble Colleague and dear friend (Lord Mor-
peth), that the time for professions had gone by,
and that they were now nearer the point of act-
ing than of speaking. Indeed, as the time of acting
was so very near, it would be as well to consider
how they could best fulfil the expectations of their
constituents—(Cheers)—and after talking so much,
to see if they could not do a little. For himself, he
would endeavour by his acts to return the benefits
which he had received at their hands. In doing
this, he felt that he ought to look to the circum-
stances of his benefactor, in order to see what it was
that he most stood in need of, that being the want
which his gratitude ought to teach him to supply.—
When he looked at Leeds, the greatest commercial
city in Yorkshire, and the most wealthy also, and
still more distinguished for its skill and in-
dustry—when he found that Leeds, abounding
with people, and carrying on vast transactions,
in which were involved the most compli-
cated interests, utterly without a representa-
tive, while other towns, such as Old Sarum, without
half a dozen houses, and equally, of course, desti-
tute of population, represented, nay, twice as much
represented, he could not help saying that if, instead
of having 70,000 inhabitants and no representatives,
it would be happy for them to be Old Sarum, with
two Members and no inhabitants.—(Cheers and
laughter.)—This was a monstrous state of things—
it was unnatural and intolerable, and imperiously
called for instant redress.—(Loud cheers.)—This
was not the first time he had been connected with
Leeds, for they had been long known to each other.
By the aid of the people of Leeds, it was—aided
also by Manchester, and Birmingham, and Liver-
pool, which was not much better represented than
those towns, for there freemen alone could vote, so
that many highly respectable gentlemen found
themselves in the same situation as his worthy
friend, Mr. Roscoe, of whose family but one person
could vote at the election, and that was the gar-
dener—(Cheers and laughter)—by their aid, how-
ever, it was that he had resisted and was enabled
to destroy that system of commercial restraint
known and despised under the name of the Orders
in Council.—(Great cheering.)—When a rotten
borough was disfranchised, he bad proposed to
transfer the franchise to Leeds instead of to the
county of York, and they succeeded in getting the
Bill through the House of Commons, but they were
defeated in the House of Lords, whom their worthy
Chairman had, after great patience and long suffer.
ing, spoken of with so much Christian charity.—
(A laugh.)—ln the Christian benevolence of his
feelings he had called them the protectors
and ornaments of the Constitution.—(A laugh.)—
Now, he never went to church that he did not pray
to the Almighty that he would endue not only the
Lords of the Council, but all the Nobility—(A
laugh)—with grace and wisdom, and with under-
standing—(Great laughter and cheering)—and he
felt rejoiced to find, by what had fallen from the
Chairman—he was more than rejoiced—he was
delighted, to find that his long put-up petitions had
been heard and found acceptance.--(Much laugh-
ter.) All the Lords, however, were not thus
blessed, for it seemed to them in their wisdom that
Leeds ought not to have Members to represent it,
at which, perhaps, he (Mr. Brougham) had no
reason to complain—(A laugh)—for it, at all events,
tended to shorten the struggle for the victory which
they had obtained. As the measure which he in.
tended to bring forward might have enemies under
the name of Parliamentary Reform, for mere names
prejudiced many people, he cared not if it was to
be termed only Parliamentary Improvement. His
plan was to effect a practical good, and he had
almost bronght it to a maturity a long time
ago. He did some years back expose the tenour of
it in a private letter to a friend, which found its
way, as most private letters do, into the public pa-
pers.—(A laugh.) He did not then bring it for-
ward, because, sitting in the House as he did us
a Member without constituents, he feared that he
would do more harm than good to the cause
if he stood forward to promote it. Now, how-
ever, he would rise up, and armed as he was
with such constituents—feeling himself as the
representative of the great county of York, he
would leave in no man's hands the honour
of such an important duty.—(l.oud cheers.)—
tie had assisted others heretofore in such plans as
he thought likely to be beneficial, but he now stood
forth the Champion of Reform—(Tremendous
cheering)—and as he had rallied round others in
the cause, so he expected that they would now
rally round him.—(Cheers.)—His first proposition
was to give representatives to Leeds, Manchester,
sumo
and the other great unrepresented towns of the
kingdom,
to have the poll taken at
the
tailde,hisargurLd' the same day in every part
of the country, in order to put an end to the struggle
as to who was rich enough to destroy his opponent
by expences, or who was profligate enough to
beggar his family for generations, by squandering
his property, to become a representative of the
people, in order that he may subsequently sell them
with more than commensurate advantage. He
could not see why copyholders should not have a
vote as well as freeholders, and neither could he see
why non-resident freemen should be allowed to vote
at all, for such permission only enabled them to stir
tip contests in places where they no longer possessed
any interest, and whose only object in doing •.o was
to have an opportunity of going to see their friends.
—(Cheers.)—lt was also a necessary part of his
plan that the system of election in Scotland should
be changed, for of what use was it to return four
independent Members for York--peradventure only
three—but he hoped four, when the whole rotten bo-
rough of Scotland sent in its 39 members out of 45,
there being six independent of the Treasury, to
overwhelm them with their venal voice. He was
resolved to broach his plan on the very first
oc-
casion after the meeting of Parliament.—(Cheers.)
—What might_ be its reception in an unreformed
House of Commons, he was not prepared to say—
neither could he predict as to its reception in the
other House, should it succeed so far as to go there;
but it gave him great pleasure and satisfaction to be
enabled to join their worthy Prmses in his eulogium
on the throne.—(Cheers.) Under the present reign
lie felt confident that no Minister dare ever exercise
an undue bias in the House of Commons, and by
such conduct our present Sovereign will make the
people more devoted to the throne he fills.—
(Cheers.) He believed his present Majesty loved
the people, and that he aimed at popularity only
because he loved them.—(Cheers.) Ile did not
shut himself up like an Eastern despot, visible only
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siastic applause.) God grant that order might fol-
low in the train of freedom.—(Cheers.) The
French people had not only conquered their enemies,
but they had achieved a greater triumph in conquer-
jag themselves.—(Loud cheers.) They had shown
throughout a degree of temperance and prudence in
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which to say a few words; but in the presence of
his Noble Friend (Lord Milton) he felt he could only
iay how inadequate he was to replace him. He
begged to say that that Noble Lord was far from
thinking that the connection between him and them
was now severed. On the contrary, they had knit
him to themselves. He might cease to be a Mem-
ber for the county of York; but still he had their
interests at heart, and he (Mr. Brougham) confessed
that it was upon his Noble Friend he mainly relied
for doing the business of the county. He had now
only to thank them for the reception they had given
hint. Were he to say he was surprised, he would
speak untruly ; for after the honours they had
showered on him, he could feel surprised at no bene•
tits they could confer • but he would indeed be asto-
nished could he ever live to see the day when the
recollection of those benefits could be obliterated
from his mind. Mr. Brougham then sat down
amidst the most enthusiastic cheers of the company.
The CHAIRMAN now passed a high eulogium upon
the public conduct of Lord Milton, and gave as a
toast--

Lord Milton—the long tried friend of civil and
religious liberty, and the bold asserter of the people's
rights."
The toast was drunk with great enthusiasm.
Lord MILTON then rose to return thanks, and
was very warmly received.
The great ambition of his life had been to advance
the cause of civil and religious liberty, and defend
the rights of the people, and not merely to defend,
but to extend and improve them.—(Cheers.)—He
could assure them that he still felt that he was as
strongly connected with them as ever, and should
endeavour in another station to follow up the prin-
ciples he had advocated as their representative.
Several other toasts were afterwards drunk,
though rather of a local character, and it was late
before the festivities of the evening were brought
to a close.