The Sun.
London, England, 1837-12-02 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1837.

ing.) God in heaven ! Are there not eight millions of
people in Ireland who will willingly be sent to their graves,
but who will not be the slaves of any man.—(Cheering.)
You perceive this is a great crisis. The Tories are for-
midable, and nothing but the voice of the people can save Ire-
land. And therefore it is that I offer advice. Agitate—look
to your counties, your towns, and your boroughs. Agitate, ex-
claim, cry out, insist. Back the Ministry by petitions, and
support reform. If you slumber, you sleep in perpetual sub-
jection.—( Greet cheering.) Pardon me in thus addressing
you—if I succeed in making you talk over this to morrow—if I
succeed in making you support peaceful agitation, I shall re-
turn satisfied. My anxiety to address you is too vouch for my
frame—l yesterday addressed two meetings for two hours—
since that time, I have had no sleep, and scarcely any
food—more than sixty winters have passed over my
head, but believe me, nevertheless, your kindness has
not sunk the less deep into my heart. This re-
ception from you, will stimulate me more strongly to place my
name in every division in which your rights are involved,
your liberty is attempted to be diminished, or on any question
in which your interests are involved. If it be true as to this
shameless bribery in your city, Oh how delighted I should be
to see the delinquents punished ! You would then be free for
a time at least from the control of those wretched beings who
sell themselves to the highest bidder. It is expected and due
to the country that you should bring the subject before the
Parliament. Petitioned against myself, I cannot be on your
Committee, but if the things which I have heard since I came
into this room be true, you are bound, and the nation will call
upon you to expose those delinquencies in such a manner that
neither rank in the delinquent nor judicial partiality shall pro-
tect the offspring of the great and good from deserved punish-
ment. Be assured that I shall ever remember your kindness. I
was born on the verge of the Atlantic, where the waves
come rushing in with continuuous roll from that bound-
less waste of waters. I admire the gentle flow of river, but
Oh how my heart delights in the rushing sounds of the moun-
tain torrent. Coming from these scenes, Ido the more ad-
mire in the moral world that species of love which, in moments
unexpected, warrants and renders more solemn a welcome re-
ception—a reception which all the studiedness of the heart
could never make half so grateful to my feelings.—(lmmense
cheering followed the close of Mr. O'Connell's speech.)
The PRESIDENT—I now have to propose to you the health
of a personage whom the more we know the more we respect
---I give you " The health of the enlightened Bishop of Nor-
wich."—( Applause.)
The Rev. Mr. SELBY said, that some gentlemen might
think it singular that be, a rigid Dissenter, should be called
upon to return thanks for the health of the Lord Bishop.
However they might differ upon doctrinal points and on the
ordinances of the Church, yet whoever believed in the great
truths of Christianity, would willingly give praise to a good
man, of whatever Church he might be. —( Hear, hear.)
He came to that meeting intending to be a quiet auditor,
but Mr. O'Connell bad transferred the principle of agi-
tation to him. He came to the dinnerto weloom esilently Daniel
O'Connell, Esq., the independent advocate of his country—be-
cause he was an advocate of the Ballot—because he was for an
extended, if not universal suffrage ; because he was for shorten-
ing the duration of Parliaments, and thus bringing Members to
an account with their constituents in a shorter period. This was
his object in coming to the meeting, and he begged Mr.
O'Connell to accept this public homage to his extraordinary
talents—(Cheers)—and he hoped that individual would yet
live to see his views carried out. As citizens of Norwich, the
meeting was highly favoured by having such an individual as
the Bishop of Norwich on the Bench.
Mr. O'CONNELL next proposed the health of the President
in a brief and complimentary address.
The PRESIDENT' in rising to return thanks, referred at some
length to the part be had pursued in politics through life and
in the Corporation, and to the extension of the charities to the
poor through his instrumentality ; and concluded by stating,
that through evil and good report he had fought by the side of
his friends for twenty years, and if he was spared for thirty
years longer, he hoped to serve the cause with increased zeal.
The CDAIRMAN proposed the health of a Nobleman who was
the pride of Norfolk, who had always done his duty both in
the Senate and the country, and who, though no longer a
representative, would do honour to the station to which it had
pleased his Sovereign to call him. He gave " The Earl of
Leicester."—( Great cheering, and three times three.)

Mr. PALMER proposed the health of Mr. Cozens, who had
protected the rights of the subject and the purity of election.
The Learned Gentleman then referred to the proceedings on
the petition of Lord Stormont and Sir James Scarlett, and
stated that Mr. Cozens had again come forward and petitioned
against the present Members. Mr. Palmer spoke very strongly
against the Spottistvoode conspiracy. He referred to the great
benefits for which the country were indebted to Mr. O'Con-
nell, who had given up his enormous professional emolu-
ments for the benefit of his country, and asked if Lord
Abi,ger would have resigned his for such an object. He
hoped the next election would not exhibit the disgraceful
scenes of the last. He alluded to a letters said to have been
received from the Duke of Wellington by his son, saving
" Norwich must not be lost—money must be found," and also
charged Mr. Scarlett with having broken the peace at the
election; and with having hired persons to aid. The Learned
Gentleman concluded by proposing " the health of Mr. Cozens
and thanks to him for his exertions."—(Cheers.)
Mr. COZENS briefly returned thanks.
" R. H. Gurney, Esq."—(Great cheering.)
The CHAIRMAN then gave, "Justice to Ireland and Ex-
tended Suffrage to the Empire."—(Cheering.)
Mr. O'CONNELL immediately rose and was loudly and
vehemently cheered. He said, permit me to express my gra-
titude for your having drank justice to Ireland and an ex-
tended suffrage to the empire. Let us take the last put, and
then I say if we had enlarged suffrage, England would soon do
justice to Ireland—the votes would then be dependent on the
people, instead of on the power and influence of the Aris-
tocracy.—( Hear.) The eloquent Protestant D:s,enter who
had addressed them, had done him no more than justice in
saying that he was a friend to universal freedom; and he did
him also no more than justice when he said that he was for
an extension of the suffrage. Not, however, to tenants-at-
will—and the old freemen—which would only open more
widely the door to bribery ; that's net the ext,oision of suf-
frage I should require, and which you would not get. I
have heard so many statements of depravity since I came
into this room, as to make my very flesh creep ; and I am
told that some of my brother-religionists have sold themselves
to the enemies of those through whoie means they obtained
their vote. For the Irish got them their vote; and if they
have turned round and taken a bribe from the enemies of those
to whom they were deeply indebted, human depravity can scarce
go further. The Rev. Gent. had also done him justice in saying,
that his principle of Christian charity extended towards all,
of whatever creed. The Tories united against them on ac-
count of their difference of religion. But if he did assist to
obtain emancipation, he did not force himself into the House
on the superiority of his creed. But lie did stand upon the
same principle as the Dissenters. It was on that ground that
he sought it, and it was a melancholy reflection that for that
which the people of Ireland suffered, and which they ob-
tained, it was a melancholy reflection for him to be told that
in Norwich there were some Catholics who, not feeling the
debt of gratitude which they owed to their brethren in Ire-
land, and to the honest Englishmen who had supported them,
had sold their votes to those people who had united against
their endeavours for freedom. If the franchise were ex-
tended, all the money of the people of England and Ireland
could not bribe the electors. But there was a point not in-
cluded in the words, though it was in the spirit of the toast.
Oh I if they had the Ballot—( Very great cheering)—bribery
would be avoided. He knew it was the opinion of many that
it would not prevent bribery. No man in his senses surely
would bribe if he could not know how the man would vote ;
and every rascal who would take a bribe, they would know
would be rascal enough not to earn it. It is said that there
were many in Norwich who took a bribe from each party, and
thus making themselves a perfect neutrality, offered them-
selves again to the highest bidder. When the forty-shilling
franchise existed, he knew a gentleman in Ireland, at least
so he called himself, who first sold his forty-shilling men to
Mr. James Daly, the next day he sold them to Mr. Martin,
and the third day he turned them loose to sell themselves.
—( Hear, and great laughter.) This gentleman's name was
Blake Foster; and his excuse was, that now he was bribed
on both sides, he felt bound in honour to vote for neither
—(Laughter)—and being thus disengaged, why should he not
let the poor men make the most of themselves. Now if
neither parties knew for whom a man voted, none would bribe,
and if a man attempted to bribe another, he perhaps would take
it and then say to himself, that scoundrel has infringed upon
my conscience, and therefore I am bound to vote against him.—
( Laughter and cheers.) It had been said that voters would
be bribed in quantities, five hundred head at a time. Why
Norwich had proved the impossibility of it. For with ex-
tended suffrage no one would ever advance cash oft a credit
that was never likely to be realized, no not :even the revenues
of the Marquis of Douro, drawn from his province of Douro,
or of Mr. Scarlett, from his ,crowded chambers in the Old
Baily, would be able to produce sufficient for such an
expenditure.—(Hear, hear.) Whetever might be thought
of bribery, he was quite sure the Ballot would be found
proof against it ; that at any rate it would be a pre-
ventative against intimidation ; it would enable the 501.
occupier to sow his crop in quiet, would prevent the land-
lords from driving their tenants to the poll, and put an end to
their speculating one day on their oxen and the next on their
50/. voters.—( Hear.) The Ballot was a protection against
the infringement of civil liberty. The Ballot was the first
step to extended suffrage. Ail election by Ballot would be
as peaceable as the tea table of old ladies. He was certainly
an advocate for Universal Suffrage, but at the present mo-
ment, and under the present circumstances of the people, he
should shrink from it unless they had the Ballot.—(Very great
cheering.)
Mr. BARWELL, after a few remarks on the honour of Mr.
O'Connell's company, and the petition which had been sent
that day against Lord Douro and Mr. Scarlett, proposed the
health of " Mr. Smith and Mr. Nurse," which was received
with great cheering.
Mr. O'CONNELL then retired amid repeated cheers.

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The accounts received this morning from Quebec
mention a veay heavy failure in that city—the house of Le
Mesurier and Co. They were closely connected with the
house of George Wildes and Co., of London, to which they
are largely indebted. The heavy expense of getting timber
last winter in consequence of the scarcity and very high prias
of provisions and foragel and the stoppage of several parties to
whom they were under large advances, are said to be the onuses
of this failure.