The Sun.
London, England, 1831-10-27 00:00:00

ELGIN.

(Abridged from the Elgin Courier of Friday.)
A meeting of the inhabitants of Elgin was held in the
Trades' Hall on Wednesday, to consider the propriety of
addressing his Majesty on the present crisis.
. . . _

Colonel A. L. HAY, on the motion of Mr. FORTEATII
of Newton, was called to the cha;r.
Captain DUFF, 11. N., then ruse and said, what infa-
tuation possesses some two hundred Lords, titled and
mitred usurpers of the empire and the realm, to dream of
opposing the demands of millions of men determined to be
substantially free, which consists in the right of taxing
ourselves for the purposes of general security, and not of
being taxed by others for selfish and sinister ends, as has
hitherto been the case.—(Cheers.) As well might the
puissant Lords attempt to beard the angry surge which
lashes the sea beach in a storm, as to frustrate a great
nation's, wish so unanimously expressed.—(Loud cheers.)
If it be allowed to mortals at nn awful distance, and with
the utmost humility, to contemplate and descant on the
ways of Providence to man (the thought will obtrude
it,elf), then a judicial blindness has been allowed to fall on
these infatuated Peers as a punishment for their long mis-
rule. Yes, I say their misrule ; for is it not evident to
the veriest driveller ? is it not open to demonstration ?
nay, has it not often been offered to be proved at the bar
of the Commons House of Parliament, that although we
live under the name of being governed by King, Lords,
and Commons, yet in reality we are subject to a knot of
rapacious oligarchs, who, with matchless effrontery, dip
their hands deeply and constantly into oar pockets, and
share our money amongst themselves, their children, and
the satellites of their power, whilst a great portion of the
labouring population are in a state bordering on starva-
tion.—(Cheers.) It would be a waste of time, and a
tax upo❑ your patience, to dwell longer on a subject which
has received so many and such able discussions, and which
you all more fully comprehend than I can pretend to elu-
cidate. It behoves us to offer our humble duty in this
sacred cause to our magnanimous Monarch, than whom,
since the days of Alfred, a better or a braver Prince has
not arisen to sway the sceptre of this great empire.—(lm-
mense applause.) The speaker then moved an address to
his Majesty.

A. ROBERTSON, Esq., in seconding the motion, said,
there are two circumstances in the decision of this case
which must have struck you all. First, then the majority
of Peers who voted on this measure bad a direct interest
in the vote they gave—the other parties were the Bishops.
As to the first, by the Constitution of this country they
hare the power to exercise their privileges in the 'canner
which may appear to them best ; and although it may be
our duty to obey that decision, yet can we not respect it.
But what shall we say to the Bishops? the ministers of
peace ! It surely ill accorded with the sacred duties they
profess to discharge, and the maxims they pretend to teach,
to stand as they have done, in the face of a nation's prayer
and a nation's peace, and with one fell stroke strive to sink
a nation's hopes.—(Loud cheers.) But, gentlemen, the
King has a prerogative, and all I shall say is, that I have
the most perfect confidence that he will exercise it for the
benefit of his people.
The address was then put and carried with acclamation ;
as was also a motion of thanks to the chairman moved by
Mr. Young, of Mary Hill.

ERRATA.—In our Staffordshire meeting of yes-
terday—for GEORGE WEBII, Esq. read JOHN
WEBB, Esq. of Barton Park and Tut bury.
He who writes badly thinks badly. Confused-
nen in words can proceed from nothing but confusedness
in the thoughts which give rise to them.— Cobbett.
BIRTH-PLACE Or LORD BROUGHAM.—
Sir JOHN SINCLAIR has just published an analysis of his
" Statistical Account of Scotland," and in the preface are
inserted two short letters from Lord BROUGHAM, one of
which sets at rest the question whether his Lordship was
horn on this or the other side of the Tweed :—" You ask
(says Lord BROUGHAM) after my birth-place, and rela-
tionship to Dr. ROBERTSON. I was born in St. An-
drew's-square, Edinburgh ; and Dr. ROBERTSON was my
mother's uncle." The house in St. Andrew's-square re-
ferred to by Lord BROUGHAM is now occupied by Mr.
J. F. WILLIAMS, the artist. The family afterwards re-
moved to the house in George-street, now occupied by the
Wine Company of Scotland.— Caledonian Mercury.
The cholera is still advancing upon two points
—from Vienna upon the Bavarian frontier; and, again,
on the Hamburg line. On the 12th, at Vienna, there
wer
number,
were
tmerseven
bnte,w2,ls 7, of v
cases in
Ihthe,t,orn 9wn7, nd 41 in the suburbs:
total had died ; still sick,
284. No material change had taken place by the latest
accounts from Berlin.—Paris Corresponhot of the Times.