The Sun.
London, England, 1830-11-17 00:00:00

CUPAR REFORM MEETING.

In compliance with a requisition, signed by 36 of
the members of Guildry, ra meeting of the incorpo,.
ration of Cupur was summoned by the Dean of Guild
for Fridaystennight last, to consider the propriety of
petitioning Parliament on the Subject of Burgh Re-
form. The meeting was held in the Council Cham-
ber, and was attended by tkbottt 60 members of Guild,
persons in general of the greatest respectability
within the burgh. A se:km of resoiutions were
agreed to, which were given in our lost. In the
course of his address, Mr. Thomson, sett., said it was
no difficult matter to give examples of the necessity
of burgh reform. Take Edinburgh, for instance,---
a city so famed for its science, for its taste, for its
splendour,--the seat of our courts of law,-..one of
the first schools of medicine in'Europe,—a city con-
taining a wealthy population of 130,000 souls:
what is the state of its representation ? About fifty
yearg ago Mr. L. bundeg, after a hard struggle,
obtained the ascendancy, and brought it under
his influence; the consequence was, that ever since
that time it has remained as much at the disposal of
the bandits family as if all v, ho possessed its elec-
tive franchise had been felons on their property of
Lass wade, That family have, in fact, the nomina-
tion of the whole of its magistrecy, maim admit or
reject whom they please. At a late election, 'Mr.
Trotter, of Bullindean, Wna a candidate for the
Provostship, and had a hard struggle in oppc-
sition to Mr. Alltut. Mr. booties elated him,
" If I
.give you my 'support, will you assist
in geuttui me returned to Pitrliatnent whets
an election occurs ?" Mr. • Trotter answered
that he would give no such pledge; and the conse-
quence watt, that he' found he could net expect to
be successful, and retired from the contest. Such
Was the situation of Edinburgh. Look next at
Glasgow : if the elective franchise in this city had
not been at the.dispoiai of a junto regardless of the
wishes of their fellow citizens, would it ever have
chosen as its representative Mr. Campbell ofillyths-
woad, in preference to Kirkman Finlay ? Thi
occurred at a time wheri the assistance of such
a man as Kirkman Finlay would have been
peculiarly valuable in Parliament, on account of
the agitation next Session of the great coMmer-
cial question cotter!, ning the renewal of the trust
India Company's Charter. But Mr. Finlay only
supported Ministers' when he thought them in the
right. Mr. Campbell voted withthem always; end
this diltetvace was sufficient to decide the choice of
the town of Glasgow. Would the inhabitants ge-
aerally have made such a choice? it was done in
defiance of their wishes; was he not therefore cor-
rect in saying, that Glasgow was under the ma-
nugemout of a sulf-netted junta? Aft rr adducing
the instances of Glasgow and Edinburgh, it.wus un-
necessary to go over the smatter burghs,.....„yeohnian„

JOHN PIIII.POT 1.;17.111tAN AND MU.
CilltitAS, toting ptc,onally unknown to
bad visited Mr. AsunNwritv severs! times, wit' oast
having had an opportunity of fully explaining (as (.0
thought) the nature of beta malady: at hat, ileterntinoilt,
hatvea hearing] l'tlen interrupted in hip coryi he fixed his
dark britht eye on the" doctor," anti sai4—" Mr. Ansa..
altte, I have been here ovieight different days,
hare paid you aright differetiquineas ; but you have never
yet listened to the symptoms of my nomplaint. 1 ant
resolved, Sir, not to kvtve this roust till you sai;sli toe
by doing ao," iitrack by his manner, Mr. Artautsxviiv
threw bitutoilf brick in his chair, and, assuming the 1)04.,
Ik4ve of ;moo imlefAtigable listener, exclaimed, itt a, tone
of half surprise, half butrieure.... Oh, very well,. Air,
am ready to hear you out. Go on, give taut the Whole;
your birth, parruturs awl education. I wait youv
pleasure; get, tipoll which Cea,AAN, not a whit
diktimgoaaci, gravely began—" My name is JOHN Pall,
NIT etlita.At4. My parents were poor, but I believe
honest people, of the province of Munster, where al o I
was born, 'icing H native of Newinurk”t, wooly of dote,
in the y'ut
141141otyhr‘t)lutsohle%1111e"ctuqhls"Irneitti" of 111 fifth,
ItTCYt
g.iikiasocii, of 'anion fortune, in that neighliourliorel, ob-
tained my entrance into one m the Protestant Frre-
schools, where I obtained the fiat rudiments of my educa-
tion. wn* next enabled tq enter Trinity College,
the humble sphere of a aia",
tvo
tu
coutitthol for several tniikuilve, giving his taint-144A bearer
t true, hut laughable account of his "
1)41. en tti gel nod .illostion," as deuired, fill he catr.e to
ilineat soul sufferings, the detail of which wiot not 1,21 it
intnerttlitini. It is hardly necessary to add that Mr-
AttesNETitv's attetitiou to his gifted patine ivas, huts,,
that hour to the Ouse of his life, In.sititioult, unremitting,
and t1ev0tt4,..../trotioani Porlroii Oallery Iliststrio4s
a,,cl 14',/tioamt l'ersanas6,

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DA MEETING.
assembled on' Monday night
at the Rotunda as of it very mixed kind several
respectable gentleMeri were oft he company.
Mr. HUNT, upon entering the,)arge apertmenr,
was much cheered. He was not,llp said, yet in
gaol, althugh some of the newspapers predicts d
that such 'a fate was awaiting him, Ho ,lid told
the meeting that spies and. informers UhAtinded
there; but be thought that they must be very cinver
if they could detect a secret plot in that place whjre
no secrets could be kept. lie knew and had stated
that the expected row of the 9th would be a nine
days' wonder, and not withstionlieg the sagacity of
the spies and ,officers, and Magistrates, their last
meeting concluded with nothing but a subscription
for a poor man, whose case was is signal instance of
parish oppression.--(Cheers and laughter.)--Liar
in the present state of things, justice was not to hy
expected for the majority. They had heard of Mr.
St. John Long, who had been convicted of man.
slaughter, for having sported with the life of a
fellow-creature. The Judges. who had it in their
power to punish for that offence, with a penalty
frem Is. to transportation for life, thought proper to
fine that man, who had been wallowing in wealth
rived from nefarious practices of the kind, the sum
of 2501., and turned him out upon the public again,
where he had not been long when he repeated his
offence by the destruction of another unfortunate
victim.—(Cries of " Shame, shame.") Now, if by
any accident he, Hemy Hunt, happened to kill a
man, would their Lordships treat him with similar
kindness ?—(Laughter, and cries of " No, no.")—
No, no, indeed ; there were lime for the rich, and laws
fordie poor; there was justice for the rich, and no
justice for the poor. But what could be expected from
men like those who had the sovereign controul ?
(Eleer.) Report had sent him and Mr.O'Connell
to the Tower, and also a, Siate-warrant rifler him.
He bad called upon the Lord Mayor on the subject;
his Lordship knew nothing about it. He then went
to the Secretary of State's office to inquire whether
they " wanted" him there. He asked fur Sir Robert
Peel, but was told that, that gentleman was not in
the way, but that he could see Mr. Phillips, the
Under-Secretary. No, no, he would not have any
thing, todo with underlings.—(Laughter.) A mes.
Nettie:l', however; immediately afterwards entered,
and told him that Sir Robert, who heel perceived him
from the door of the Treasury, would see him in a
moment. Sir Robert accordingly made his appearance
old they entered
.into conversation. . He told Sir
Robert that having heard a report that a state-war-
runt had been issued against him, he culled at the
office to save the Secretary the trouble of for
him, if his pow,' was wanted. (Laughter.)—
" Oh," said Sir Robert, ".it is all an idle story. I
never issued any warrant, nor ever had any idea of
encls a thing; and I never beers' of any report of the
kind until a little while ago." ,He (Mr. Hunt)
thee made some allusion to the Magistrates at
Union-hall, upon which Sir Robert observed,
" Why, yes, there are a set of busy, intermeddling
fellows over the water."—(Loud laughter.)—Sir
Robert Peel and he then had whet might be culled a
" confidential" conversation together—(Excessive
laughter)--and it naturally turned to the celebrated
hoax in the city. He told Sir Robert he was con-
vineed that the King and Queen would, if they burl'
gone to the gorge in the city, be received by the
populace with cheers and blessings, but that they
were sight nut to go under the circumstances, for
without doubt the Duke of Wellington .would inset
with nothing but hooting and execrations. He
thee referred .to the fires in Kent, and asked who
employed the incendiaries and spies, and who paid
for the inflammatory hand.bills ? How happened
it that none .of the villains had been detected?
were told that a gentleman or two were to be
two alighting from a post-chaise wherever a fire
was to take place, and in the night on came the fire.
Who the devil found the money IL4Laughter.)—
Akre operations of spiels and informers, he had
been long in the habit of knowing them. He had
met Casale., and Oliver, and Edwards, and not is
day passed that he did not receive some commis'-
eistien flow correspondents of that class, sonic of
whom proposed to him to lay siege to the Tower,
and some ito attack the Bank—(Leughter)--and
.he had the other night an interview with a gerule.
meat with one eye, who introduced himself as a
great tactician in fortiticetions.—(Loed laughter.)
lie would nor say by any means that the Govern•
merit were instrumental to the incendiary -move-
meets; which were striking such terror into all, but
he suspected the agents of Government, The
object was to frighten all the old women in breeches,
lord thus to prejudice the cause of reform. The old
women in teeeches. in the city !were all radical re-
formers the other day, when, suddenly, ors came a
bit of a dirty tow, and destroyed all their radical
*peculation&
The meeting separated, after some further
speeches, without the slightest disposition to tumult
or ill-humour,