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‘shat is daily m aimed by nearly 600 poor labourers I With one voice, as it were, they decided that the
of Htublersfield, and sends supperless to bed every Rev. Gentleman was out of order.
night 300 honest Englishmen.—(Hear, and a great The Rev. F. H. MABERLY still persisted in being
uproar.) heard, amidst the loud cries of " Turn him out
The HIGH SHERIFF called the Learned Gent. to The Rev. Gentleman at last sat down.
order. Mr. WELLS next rose, but the general clamour
II Mr. WELTS con:inued—He (lid not wish to de- still prevailed.
part from the order of the day; but he thought it The Rev. Mr. MABERLY made another attempt.
necessary to revert to the persons the poor people He said he would confine himself to the object of
had to go for relief. The first Magistrate on his the Meeting, and Went most cordially with them for
list was the Rev..T. H. Sparke, the eldest son of the repeal of the Malt and Beer Duties. He was
the Bishop of the Diocese.—(Hear.) ready to sacrifice his life for the benefit of his coun-
The SHERIFF again called to order. try. Some months ago he had presented a Requi-
Mr. Wur,Ls would not further revert to that sub- sition to the High Sheriff to call a County Meeting.
ject, but would look to where the petition was to It was signed by one hundred individuals, but the
go to. The House of Commons consisted of twenty- Sheriff had refused to call a Meeting to consider the
nine Generals, forty-nine Colonels, eight Majors, question of Catholic Emanciption.—(The mention
five Captains, four Lieutenants, semen Admirals, of the term Catholic Emancipation was a signal for
fifteen Captains (navy), eighty Placemen, a majority increased clamour.)
of whom were returned by one hundred and fifty At the end of another half hour,
persons. He would only further detain the Meeting Mr. WELTS said that it was his (Mr. W.'s) firm
to rend the petition he held in his hand, which he belief that Mr. Maberly was paid by the Duke of
should like to he moved, but would not do so Wellington to come and disturb the meeting in or-
himself:— der to defeat the grand object—the petitioning for
"To the Honourable the Commons of the United the Repeal of the Malt and Beer Duties.
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parlia- The Rev. Mr. MABERLY promised to confine him-
ment assembled : self to a ten-minute speech, if the meeting would
" The Petition of the Men of Cambridgeshire and but hear him. He then proceeded to state to the
the Isle of Ely, assembled this 224 day of Ja- meeting the power the Pope of Rome had over all
nuary, 1830, in full County Meeting, under the Roman Catholic subjects, which, he said, was the
sanction of the High Sheriff, determined to same as that of the King of England over the
separate no more (except by adjournment from people of this country; and concluded by propos-
time to time and place to place) until a redress ing that the Duke of Wellington and Mr. Peel be
of grievances is obtained for themselves and impeached, and that the petition be adopted and
their fellow-countrymen. signed by all present.
Counsellor PRIME then informed the meeting,
Sheweth—That your Petitioners approach your
Honourable House with extreme reluctance, well remelts- that, during the time they had been engaged by the
bering the indifference and neglect (to use the mildest observations which had fallen from the last speaker,
terms) with which the Petitions of the people have been he and the movers of the petition and resolutions
invariably treated. had been engaged in embodying the whole of time
" That your Petitioners would have abstained from topics embraced in one general petition, which, he
proaching your Honourable House, but from the know- trusted, would meet with their unanimous appro-
ledge that the overwhelming distresses that now rage baton.
throughout the kingdom have already, or soon will he Lord MILTON differed from the opinion enter-
tion of the country.
felt, by all those Members who do not live upon the taxa- .
tamed by some of the preceding speakers, because
" That time distresses of the kingdom and the grievances he thought it would be more beneficial to the pub-
of the people are too apparent to require any procrastina- lie to take off the tax on malt. All beer did not
tion, any inquiry, or any Committee on the part of your pay a tax, but all malt did. It had been said that
Honourable House—the causes arc before you and upon the labourers in this county consumed brewer's
your table ; namely, overwhelming taxation, an enormous beer. He much regretted that such was the case ;
and unconstitutional standing army, bands of useless and but it ought to he remembered that there are large
unmerited placemen and pensioners, profligate expenditure districts in England where the poor man used beer
of the public money, an ill-regulated Established Church, brewed at home. Therefore the taking beer tax would only act locally in relieving the pre-
off of the
and an arbitrary change in the value of money, compelling
your petitioners to pay two bushels of wheat instead of one,
sent distress, while, in all probability, a new tax
and thus in effect doubling the taxation of the country.
" That the redress of these grievances, and the mitiga- would be laid upon the people to make up the fic-
tion of this distress are equally apparent, and within the crease in the revenue which the beer-tax reduction
immediate power of your Honourable House, by forthwith would occasion ;in his opinion, a too heavy burthen
decreasing this overwhelming taxation, reducing the enor- of taxes, which admited of material reduction, was
mons and unconstitutional standing army, abolishing all the real cause of distress.
useless and unmerited pensions and places, regulating the Counsellor PRIME withdrew his Resolutions,
enormous resources of the Established Church, and, as and in lieu thereof substituted a short sentence,
your Honourable House have determined upon establish-
embodying the whole which he wished to have
ing the currency of 1791, by reducing the public expendi-
added to the petition.
ture to the amount paid at that period, namely, sixteen
millions instead of sixty millions per annum. The HIGH SHERIFF then put the original petition
" That your Petitioners beg to remind your Honourable in its amended form, which was carried by a large
House that your duty, upon assembling in Parliament, is to majority.
redress the grievances of the people previous to voting the It was afterwards Resolved,
money out of their pockets. " That the Petition be presented to both Houses of Par-
" Your Petitioners therefore pray, that you will vote liament ; that the Lieutenant of the County be requested
no Estimates, no Supplies, or any Mutiny Bill, until some to present and support the one intended to the Lords, and
steps are taken to redress the grievances of the people and that the Members for the County be requested to present
better their forlorn condition ; especially that you will and support the other intended for the House of Commons,
forthwith repeal all the taxes upon malt or beer, thereby in- and to press upon the House the imperious necessity for
stantly, in some degree, relieving the distresses of the la- taking the same and the other Petitions relating to the die-
bourers and cultivators of that soil which gave them birth, tressed state of the country into immediate consideration."
and ought to give them bread." The thanks of the meeting were then voted to the
Counsellor PRIME, of Cambridge, wished that Mayor and Corporation of Cambridge, for the great
the petition moved by Sir St. Vincent Cotton, accommodation afforded to the meeting by the use of
Bart., would have gone to a much greater extent. the Town-hall, in consequence of the inclement season.
He hoped to see the Hop Duty removed; for, al- After a vote of thanks to the Chairman, the meet-
though the farmers of this county were not growers, ing was dissolved.
still they were large consumers of that useful article. The meeting was composed of near two thousand
After passing some warm eulogiums on Sir C. most respectable farmers.
Wale, Bart., who served the country during the late
war, when invasion was threatened, he (Counsellor
Prime) stated that he was an advocate for support-
ing the Ministers in reducing places and pensions,
notwithstanding the injury such a measure would
inflict on some private individuals; and he therefore
came prepared with Resolutions, which he begged
to move and submit to the consideration of the
Meeting, viz.—
" That, in petitioning for a Repeal of these Taxes, this
Meeting is not actuated by the selfish wish of relieving
themselves by throwing fresh burthens upon other classes
of the community.
" That, for the last four years, a system of wasteful
expenditure has been steadily pursued ; officers with large
salaries, but with little or no duties of real utility to the
public, have been created : that we have late'y witnessed
with satisfaction some disposition to economy and retrench-
ment in his Majesty's Government, and trust that, by the
rigid extension of these to every department, foreign, do-
mestic, and colonial, such a reduction of expenditure will
take place as will enable these taxes to be abolished without
the substitution of any others : that it is far from the wish
of this Meeting to withhold what is suitable to the Royal
office and dignity, but that they have witnessed with re-
gret, during the distresses and pm ivations of every class, agri-
cultural, manufacturing, and commercial, an immense ex-
penditure in the construction ofnew palaces, and in the de-
coration of those old ones which had been deemed suffi-
cient for the predecessors of his present Majesty."
The Rev. Mr. BROWN, of Trinity College, se-
corded the Resolutions proposed by Mr. Prime. It
was with deep regret that he had heard such Meet-
ings as the present denominated farces ; if they
were, he was much more pleased with them than
the tragedies acted under an Aristocratic Govern-
ment. He was highly pleased with the sight of the
names attached to the requisition for calling the
Meeting. If such men had before come for*ard,
the country would not be reduced to its present
state. He was favourable to the original petition,
but the one he had the honour to second went much
farther, and was the petition which such a county
ought to send forth. It was the duty of the people
to instruct their Representatives, and tell them what
they ought to do to alleviate the present distress.—
He had had the honour to support, arid in a mea-
sure procure, the return of one of their Representa-
tives, who, he regretted, was not now present; but
if he were, he was sure the Meeting would receive
him in a manner highly flattering to that honourable
individual. He most cordially and sincerely se-
conded and supported the last amendment.
The HIGH SHERIFF was about to take the opinion
of the Meeting on the petition and resolutions be-
fore him, when

THII ARMY.

The following compose the staff, &c., of the districts in
reland

NORTHERN-Consisting of the counties of Antrim
Armagh, Cavan, Down, Donegal, Fermanagh, London-
derry, Monaghan, Tyrone.

_ .
General Officer—Major-General W. Thornton ; station,
Armagh. Aide-de-Camp, Captain Lord Wallacourt, half.
pay.

EASTERN--Consisting of the counties of Carlow, Dub-
lin, Kildare, Kilkenny, Louth, Meath, Queen's County,
Wexfoid, Wicklow.

General Officers—Major-General Dalhrae ; station,
Dublin. Aide-de-Camp, Captain Sullivan, 3d D. G.
Major of Brigade, Brevet Major Smith, half-pay 61st
Foot. Major-General Smith, Royal Artillery ; station,
Dublin. Aide-de- Camp, Lieut. Smith, Royal Engineers•
WESTERN—Consisting of the counties of Galway, King's
county, Leitriin, Longford, Mayo, Roscommon, Sligo,
Westmeath.

General' Officer—Major-General Sir Thomas Arbuth-
not, K. C. B. ; station, Athlone, Aide-de. Camp, Captain
Cockran, 8:h Foot.

SOUTHERN-Consisting of the counties of Cork, Wa-
terford, Kerry.

General Officer—Major-General Sir G. R. Bingham,
K.C.B ; station, Cork. Aide-dc-Camp, Lieut.-Colonel
R. C. Mansel, half-pay.
SOUTII-WESTERN—Consisting of the counties of Clare
Limerick, Tipperary.
General Officer—Major-General Sir Edward Blakesay,
K.C.B. ; station, Limerick. Aide-de-Camp, Lieutenant-
Colonel Cuylor, half-pay. Major of Brigade, Captain
Forster, 85th Foot.

The Rev. F. H. MABERIX rose and spoke at some
length. After reverting to the petition and resolu-
tions which had been submitted to the meeting, he
proceeded to contend that the expenccs of the
country ought not to be reduced below 60 millions,
therefore the remedy for the present agricultural
distress was only to be obtained by the exclusion
of foreign corn. The people, he said, were now
reduced to such a state, that if the present system
of things were suffered to go on much longer, they
(the people) would be reduced to a set of thieves
and vagabonds.—(Hear, hear.) It was the system
according to which the foreign corn was allowed to
be imported that he had principally to object against;
if the foreigner were compelled to take our manu-
factures out of England instead of our gold, that
would be an efficient duty. The Hon. Gentleman
next proceeded to comment on the effects produced
by the passing of the Roman Catholic Relief Bill.
He had not gone to any great length, when
The HIGH SHERIFF said that the question was
quite irrelevant to the business of the day.
The Rev. F. 11. MABERLY was sorry to act in
ally way discordant to the wish of the High Sheriff,
but nothing, save actual force, should put him
down.—(Loud hisses.)—Nurnbers might prevent
his being heard, but clamour could not—(cries of
" Turn him out !" and tremendous noise.)
Se►jeant FRERE rose to order, amidst loud calls
of " Question !" " Order, order!" from some hun-
dred voices.

Counsellor PRIME also rose, but did not succeed
in obtaining► a hearing.
After the lapse of half an hour the SHERIFF
took the sense of the Netting by a show of hands.