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nut fundholit•rs or landowners, but human beings who
wanted to be represented.—(Cheers.) What was the use
of 20 000 inhabitants of Westminster, supposing they
returned two honest men, having the two votes, if they
were to he neutralised by two votes sent from the ploughed
fields of Garton or Old Sarum ? All admitted the English
to Possess common sense: some said they were not quite
',I acute as the Scotch, the matter was a sort of disputable
point ; others said they had not so ranch Latin as the
Irish, and could not live so sparingly as a Frenchman, who
enuld make a good breakfast upon rt frog ; but all admitted
that the English had common sense ; then could anything
lie so insulting to that summon sense as such a system of
voting, or such principles of defence ? There was not com-
mon sense in it, no, nor common honesty. Why bad it lasted?
Because they had never had public men adequately to es-
Pause their cause. Those who had appeared hid either got
eonfounded amongst the Whigs, or sold the cause they pro-
fessed to support. ; but he thought better days and better
Prospects for the people were approaching. He trusted that
they should see the days of " merry old England" again.
lie also contended for universal suffrage.—(Cheers.) Man,
not Property, woe to be represented. All hooks laid it
dmvn as a principle that taxes were justly enforced, be-
-40.5 they were assented to by the people through their
Representatives. And where was the man not subject to
t" ? He must be without his nose and eyes, and have his
mouth sewed up ; that was the only kind of Englishmen
not taxed ; and when they found a fellow of that kiwi,
he would cement that " virtual" representation should do
for him. But if the assent of the people were required
far a tax, to impose the tax without such assent would
he a robbery. On the like principle the people were
liable to be called out for the defence of the country—and
that was just; but it was not right to call them out with-
out the demand was made by their Representative.. The
principle of universal suffrage was the only rational, just,
and honest principle. Of the grades of society in repre-
sentation he knew nothing; he trampled upon the distinc-
tions. Man was a man every. where; a Lord was no
more than a man, and often much less ; but while he
respected those distinctions which must arise in society
from virtuous, intelligent, or industrious conduct, he must
contend for the eternal equality of man and his equal right
to be represented. He should contend for th vote by
ballot. It was the most important of all. Without it,
extension of suffrage would be an evil; voters would be
Conveyed in droves; but, with the ballot, the bribe, the
wimmand, the frown of the landlord—all would be
Powerless. He should stoutly contend for the ballot.
He had been 30 years in achieving one object. His
fk'unily had a trick of living to be about 96—so that
e lead about 42 years to perform the work which
he was now undertaking. The ballot he wanted, and
he never would be satisfied without it. The duration
of Parliaments, too, must be shortened. As to the
Septennial Act, as they who had been elected for three
years voted that they should sit seven years; they might
as well have voted that they should sit for the terms of
their natural lives. That Act was a great evil. As to
the duration now to be proposed, he differed from some
person. The experiment of electing for two years had
been tried in America, and had succeeded ; and he was,
therefore, for adhering to what had been successfully tried,
in preference to the proposition of annual Parliaments.
But on this point he would not differ from those who
honestly sought universal suffrage and vote by ballot.—
(Cheers.)—Having these advantages, there were no bene-
fits which the people might not expect to result. The
Parliament would then be the people's servants, not their
masters. The taxes would be taken off. Parliament would
not expect 60,000,000/. of taxes to be collected in gold-
-8,000,0001. or 10,000,0001. would be cheerfully paid ;
and that amount would be large enough. But, to obtain
the advantage now sought, he would not have them resort
to brutal violence or physical force; that course would
only increase the strength of their enemies ; and would pre-
vent good men from joining them. The Duke of Welling-
ton had found the peaceable resistance of Ireland too
strong for him.—(Hear, hear.)—He would ask of Eng-
lishmen to frown their enemies into submission, not to
strike—to look them into annihilation. He would have
them exert all Constitutional force--no more. But in
law as in war, nothing was done without a treasury.
If they paid a penny a week, or a shilling a month,
where Ireland had raised fifty thousand pounds, England
would raise .a million ; and how such a sum would
enable them to break down the Aristocracy, and to
compel the boroughs to he defended by 20,0001. at a time,
were little or nothing was now expended. He recom-
mended them to continue petitioning, for every petition
would cause discussion, and the sentiments would gef
into the newspapers, and cause conversation. The news-
paper reports were things that no Attorney-General had
yet the audacity to prosecute.—(Hear.) To attack through
the medium of Parliamentary debate was the safest way of
attack. He, however, as long as he lived, would set his
face against prosecutions for libel. He stood up the
other night in the House of Commons in defence of the
Press of his enemies against prosecution. In conclusion,
he would call on them with clear hearts and clear heads
to support him in beating down the Oligarchy ; in ob-
taining legal reform, whereby he should rescue the people
from the harpes of the law ; and in procuring Constitu-
tional Reform, whereby all might be represented: He
contended for, liberty ! dear liberty ! which first took its
station in this country, and which was dear to English-
men. And where liberty was oppressed, whether trampled
on by the gilded spur of Nobility, or borne down by an
Oligarchy, those who crushed liberty were his foes.—
For a thousand years it had triumphed in England; and
England was yet too good to be trampled on by an
Oligarchy. Let all unite, and England would be what
it onght'to

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First flower of the Great earthglorious, first ge ofthe sea!
(Loud and long•continued cheering.)
Mr. HENRI- IIuNT then addressed the meeting, and
said, this was the fifteenth year of peace, and the distress
was greater than ever: did not that demonstrate that
something must be done? With the leave of the meeting
he would get the Secretary to read the proposed resolutions.
Mr. HA No, the Secretary pro tem., then read the reso-
lutions, objects, rules, and duties, of the Metropolitan
Union, which chiefly pointed to the necessity of Radical
Reform.

Mr. llcxr again stepped forward, and spoke of the im-
mensity of the pt.ople. Besides the thousands present, be
understood there were about 10,000 who could not get•ad-
mission. He was informed that it was the intention of a
gentleman to move an amendment. The Committee had
selected from amongst the friends of Reform 36 names, to
be submitted to the Meeting, for the purpose of forming a
Political Council, with power to increase their number up
to 50. He had received a letter from Mr. Carlile, stating
that it was his intention to move an amendment, which
was, he understood, that two persons of his selection
should be placed on the Political Council. Those persons
were Mr. W. Cobbett and Mr. R. Owen, the first of whom
he characterised as a strong bad man, and the second as a
weak good man.—(A laugh.)--This was a curious way to
promote anion._ (A laugh.)—Mr. Hunt then proposed
the first Resolution, and retired amidst loud cheers.
Mr. Faexcit seconded the resolution.
Mr. O'Coalsam. trusted that the meeting would listen
with attention to the gentleman who was about to pro-
pose to them an addition to the resolutions. Ile implored
them to hear Mr. Carlile, and if he gave any reasons for
what he taro
Pute, d, someof them would answer him as well
as they were able.—(Cheers.)
Mr. CARLILE hoped they would bear in mind that it
was not his intention to supersede any thing done by Mr.
Runt and his friends, but rather to strengthen what they
bad taken up.—(Cheers.)—He waived all opposition to
the resolutions, which he looked upon as less faulty than
those of the Birmingham Union, his intention being to
I,:tove only an addition to them, and not any amendment.
Carlile then concluded by proposing a resolution to
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t„he effect, that in the reign of Charles the Second, success-
efforts had been made to corrupt the House of Com-
mons, and that since then the influence of the Peers had
aop'eted what was then begun ; that this led to distress ;
not n d that as Ministers had acknowledged that they could
at
remedially, the present proposed Union be-
came necessary.
!Ir. ELLIOTT seconded the Resolution.
to PM:. lint'T, as mover of the original resolution, begged
That y a few words. What was it 111 r. Carlile proposed ?
t the }louse of Commons was corrupt. Why he (Mr.
Hnn)
was cor-r-uoutght• it was an admitted fact that that House
and .iswithout going back to the reigns of Charles
at this ea to find it out.—(Cheers and laughter.)—(Just
rn°rneat a Pick -pocket was seized in the crowd, and
brought, without any disturbance,
where he leas beneath the hustings,
given into custody.) Gentlemen, said Mr.
Hunt, we have found a pickpocket, and we have secured
him, and if you will only do your duty we shall eventually
, secure all the pickpockets.—(Great laughter.)
tioAnir. O'CoNtszu, now came forward to put the Resolu-
'• M thti;bone;,Aleating. He said, that Mr. Carlile appeared
called ',it.' a great evil that a foreign Prince had been
upon it
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s'iould propose to them the previous question, namely,
whether Mr. Caelile's amendment should be put.
The-previous question was then put and carried by an
immense majority, after which the original resolution was
put and carried by acclamation.
Mr. GRADY, in rising to propose the next resolution.
said he would not usher it in by any observations on the
advantages to be derived from it. He would ask them,
when they read the debates in the newspapers, if they
were not a ttisfiel that no good was to be expected from
that House'—(Cheers.)—He would ask them to look at
the division of the House, when millions of the money of
the people was being voted away. The 79 placemen were
then sure to be in attendance, though it sometimes hap-
pened, that if a set were made at a person holding some
2001. a-year, that the policy was then to let him be
crushed, by w.-y of throwing a tub to the whale.—(Cheers
and Itughter.)—Their object at present was to get a rent,
as well to recover lost rights as to preserve those which
they still retained—to protect the liberty of the. Press from
the fangs of an Attorney-General, whether Whig or Tory.
—(Cheers. )—The liberty of the Press was the only vestige
of liberty remaining in the country, and:even that was pre-
carious, when it depended upon the will of a Crown
lawyer.—(Cheers.)—lf the liberty of abusing the Govern-
ment were to be taken away from John Bull he would be
deprived of the only one he had left him. People talked
of the censorship of the Press in France; but they
should remember that the people in France were
well fed, and that they had not an Aristocracy grasping
the whole property of the kingdom, in order to transmit it
to their first-born, while the rest were to be portioned out
upon the people.—(lmmense cheering.) It would be un-
fair, at that late hour, to take up more of their time, as
other gentlemen bad to claim their attention, and he would
therefore conclude by moving the second resolution.

Mr. MEE seconded the resolution.
The resolution was then put from the Chair, and carried
unanimously.
Mr. HUNT now came forward to move that the 36
gentlemen named by the Committee should be appointed
as a Political Council, with the power to increase their
numbers to 50, and to act until the 6th of July, 1830, at
which time a new Council would be elected by the people.
Amongst the names were those of Mr. Hunt, Mr. O'Con-
nell, Mr. John Wood, Mr. Joseph Hume, and Mr. Otway
Cave.
Mr. HEATHERII46TON seconded the resolution.

The resolution was then put and carried.
Mr. GRADY proposed that Mr. Hunt should be ap-
pointed Treasurer of the Union.
Mr. CLEAVER seconded the resolution.
Mr. SAVAGE proposed the next resolution, which Mr.
Warden seconded.

Mr. HUNT now came forward to propose that a petition
should be presented to the House of Commons. In 1815
he had taken some trouble about getting up a Meeting in
the county of Wilts against the Corn Laws. Upon
the occasion a petition was agreed to, which was signed
by 30,000 persons. The House of Commons was in too
great a hurry, however, for they passed the Bill ; and Mr.
Cobbett said that it was all over, for the Bill was passed.
He (Mr. Hunt,) however, said, " Let us petition the
House of Incurables."—(A .laugh.)—He wished to peti-
tion the House of Incurables, to save them from the House
of Commons.—(Cheers.)—The late Lord Stanhope pre-
sented the petition. He had spent 501 upon this petition,
in which there was an immense quantity of parchment,
but, years afterwards, be had been offered this identical
petition for one shilling,.—(Cheers.)—lt had; no doubt,
been on the table of the Noble House, and kicked about
under it—hut at last he was offered it for a shilling, as an
original document. (Cheers and laughter.) From
thenceforth he resolved never to spend 501. on parchment
upon a petition to Parliament. A piece of clean paper
would answer the purpose quite as well.—(A laugh.)—
Mr. Hunt then read the petition, after which be said that,
by adopting it, they would give to their Hon. Chairman
an opportunity to introduce an interlude to the great ques-
tion of Reform, which he had already fixed for discussion
upon the 6th of May.—(Cheers.)—The law prevented him
from saying any thing that would bring the lion. House
into contempt, but he would just suppose that the King or
the Duke of Wellington was to become a sort of Oliver
Cromwell, and should go down to the House and throw
all the Members into the Thames, would any of the pre-
sent meeting weep at such an event?—(Cries of " No,
no, no.")—Mr. Hunt then moved the adoption of the pe-
tition.

Mr. O'Coxxv.Lt. said there was only one part of the
speech of Mr. Hunt to which he was disposed to offer any
opposition,—he meant that part which referred to throw-
ing all the Members of the House of Commons into the
Thames.—(Laughter.)—llis objection, however, was only
fractional.—(Great laughter.)—lt was confined to the
658th part of the House.—(Cheers.)—He should wrong
other Hon. Members, however, if.he did not say that
there were in the House several independent men, m ho-
neat and as zealous as there were others whom he would
not vouch for.

The Resolution was carried amidst enthusiastic cheering.
Mr. HUNT said that they would find in him no feeling
of petty jealousy, for he would be as anxious to work
under Mr. O'Connell as he was ever anxious that others
would work under him ; and as long as he had health he
would never cease to advocate ►he rights of the people.—
(Cheers.)—There was one little thing which was worth
noticing as a sign of the times. On Friday the Age
newspaper refused to inser', the advertisement for
the purpose of calling this Meeting, because they
(the proprietors of the Age), were not Radicals ; hut
on Sunday they declared themselves to he Radicals,
by crying out against a long list of rotten boroughs.—
(Cheers.)—Another sign of the times—who did the
meet ng think was anxious for inquiry into the state of
the public distress ? Why, Lord Eldon !—(Great
laughter.)—He wished to have a Committee appointed
for that purpose, to which he (Mr. Hunt) would say
Amen with all his heart.—(Cheers.)—He then concluded
by moving a vote of thanks to Mr. O'Connell, for his able
conduct in the Chair.
Mr. Guanv seconded the resolution.
Mr. O'CONNELL, as soon as the resolution was carried,
once more presented himself to the meeting. He had, he
said, received letters from Mr. Hume, and from Mr. Ot-
way Cave, regretting their inability to attend the meeting.
Mr. Hume, he said, deserved the warmest gratitude of the
people ; for although he was continually overpowered in
the divisions, yet he, by his perseverance, gave to the coun-
try the benefit of the argument and of the struggle.—
(Cheers.)—For himself, he would say that his Irish heart
throbbed with gratitude for the honour they had done
him—a heart which, he might ray, as regarded its prin-
ciples and feelings, was baptized in Ireland, but confirmed
in England.—(A laugh. )—With regard to what he had
done in Ireland, it was said that he had a kind of magic
with the people of Ireland. He admitted that he did
conjure a little—(A laugh)—but his conjuration was
this:—He looked at what was right, and did it, without
caring for any influence whatever ; and, in the next place,
he resolved never to submit, but to struggle to the
last against what appeared to him to be oppressive.—
He was a barrister and could give good advice when pro-
perly feed—( A laugh)—and he could assure them that the
Holy Alliance, in Congress assembled, could not bestow
such a fee upon him as had been done by them on that oc-
casion.—(Cheers.)—He desired no other title than that
which they had given hint in Ireland—the man of the
people—(Cheers)—and he desired no other epitaph on his
tomb than " here lies the man of the people."—(Cheers.)
Mr. O'Coultxt.r. then declared the meeting to be dis-
solved, and the assembled multitude peaceably dispersed
itself.

We could not avoid noticing (for it was the subject of
general observation on the hustings) how very clean and
white the hands of the multitude were when held up in
support of the Resolutions. Some persons might imagine
that this was attributable to the increased cleanliness of
the people; but perhaps it would be nearer the mark to
attribute it to the fact (melancholy, if it be a fact) of their
having had no work to do for some time to make them
otherwise.

On Wednesday the 17th ult. was committed
to the House of Correction, in Canterbury, under a war-
rant granted to the constable of the parish of Smarden,
Mr. DANIEL. DOBELL, of that place, farmer. This indi-
vidual, notwithstanding his frugality and industry, being
borne down by the pressure of the times and severe losses,
was compelled, on the sth instant, to assign over his
effects for the benefit of his creditors. His Trustees pro-
posed to the Overseer and Select Vestry, the immediate
payment of half their demand for Poor-rates, as a com-
promise for the debt—or admit them to an equal share
with the creditors on making up their accounts. Both of
which were refused, and a body warrant obtained to com-
mit the insolvent to prison, to hard labour for cue month,
or till the expences were paid ; and by another warrant to
remain in the said House of Correction until the full
amount of the rates shall have been paid. Under the pre-
sent state of the times, it may be well for every insolvent
to know that non-payment of his rates will subject him to
imprisonment with felons, (provided any Overseer wish to
exercise his " brief authority,") and for care to be taken
that befere an assignment of his effects to trustees, all such
rates arc duly paid.—Kesit Herald;

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