The Sun.
London, England, 1831-10-26 00:00:00

GLASGOW

(Abridged from the Glasgow Free Press of Saturday.)
In consequence of a requisition respectably signed, ad-
dressed to the Lord Provost, a great meeting was held in
this city on Wednesday, for the purpose of addressing the
King. to continue his confidence in his present Ministry,
and to exercise his royal prerogative, so as to ensure the
speedy passing of the Reform Bill. The meeting was to
have taken place in the Justiciary Court ; tint, owing to
the numerous attendance, the Lord Provost having been
unanimously chosen Chairman, amid tries of " Adjourn," his
Loril•hip stated that the Committee had exprecsed it as the
wish of some gentlemen to meet in the open air.
The meeting then adjourned to the front of the public
offices, tinder the portico of which a chair was placed for
his Lordship.
After Mr. THOMAS ATKINSON, jun., had read tl.e
requisition,
Mr. JOHN DOUGLAS, of Birloch, rose amid much
cheering, and said—The Lords who own the rotten bo-
roughs ought to have abstained from voting, on the same
principle that made Lord Castlereagh walk out of the
House of Commons when Lord Archibald Hamilton, so
much endeared to Scottish Reformers, brought forward his
charge for swapping a writership in India for a seat in the
Commons for Lord Clancarty.—(Loud cheers.) Of the
' Bishops, we Scotsmen were quits with them for ever by
the favour of William 111. Their conduct unavoidably
reeds the contrast of the Bishops, who were committed by
James 11. to the Tower, aid the tyrant's remark to Lord
Fevershani, when he asked the cause of Ciat shouting, and
being told it was nothing hut the army shouting for the
acquittal of the Bishops—Gall you that nothing ? said the
tyrant.—(Cheers.) We have Mr. Coke of Norfolk's
authority, that Wellington granted Catholic Emancipation
because he thirst not trust the array. For the same reason
lie should support the Reform Bill, sinless he expects the
army to shout, in approbation of the Bishop's votes
against the liberty of the people.—(Loud cheering./
James 11. was expelled for dispensing with the laws, and
selling for support to his own tyranny the true policy of
England to despotic France. Bet the ilitt-ienee is small
betwixt this, and a system which taxes the people without
representation, and renders the policy of England subser-
vient to that of Metternich : which countenances the
tyranny of Austria ii Italy—Ferdinand in Spain—DoPe
Miguel in Portugal—and last of shames—the third irtva-
sion of brave Poland, for the crime of asserting her aneierlk
freedom.—(Loud cheers.) The very imputation ~t being-
an enemy to Reform, is now a reproach sufficient to justify
the Tory Member for Forfar in calling the Lord Advocate
to account for it.—(Cheers and laughter.) Mr. Douglas
then read the address to the King, and sit down amid pi °-
longed cheering.
Sir D. K. SANDFORD rose with much pleasure to K.corid
the motion, and said—Let it never he forgotten that , hen
the nation fur a moment stood appalled, wheit pat, iiiiiern
for a moment seemed banished from the bivoi!.. ot I'd ii.sll
Nobles, she only struck upward with a proud, r ai il a
holder tying to find her refuge on the thione. ".1 he K.l g !
(Loud and eonti • __nue-il chi eriFll,:)—ltld 1105' (Int II ill sue
course of recria event, hint they been ieitt.iied S. name

rim with blessings on his name—the King was as a rock,
which all the billows of faction might fret and foam
againat in vain.—(Cheers.) And in one qearter at least,
the was nobly seconded. Let them glance at their own
'Home of Representatives—their own House for once it
might he called, as not so much tire copy of past Patlit-
ezients, as the forerunner acrd foretaste of those to 'come,
:and count with him the triumphant numbers of the last
great majority. In that was the tower and bulwark of
'heir strength, their sure defence, their mighty shield,
behind which the spirit, and prudence, and wisdom or the!
country stands arrayed—Minerva doing battle with the 1
aegis of Jove. Was there so little left of- their reso..
'titian, their inbred and constituticittl hardihood—was I
there, in this land of glorious veemories, so little remain. ,1
ing of that spirit with winch their royal Briess. Once
watched his insect ronnitor, and learned the tesaon, trans-
mitted to his rte, that patient perserzrance must finally
surmount all difficulties ?—(Citers.) Only patience,
patience, and peace.--(centinued cheering.) Patience
was the admonition of their faithful champions in the 19e-
slate, patience was responded from millions of true nboish
heArtit, and with patience and peaceful resolution, they
would abide their time, in full assistance that the day--
not of vt ngeance—not of violence—but of a constitu-
tional vietory, and a magnanimous forbearance mould
arrive,—(Loud cheers.)
Mr. Tnoatas DAVIDSON, jun. prorrAeil " That the
'address which has just been mores! and seconded, be signed
1w the Chairman of this meeting, and forwardtd Me
Ifight Hon. Earl Grey, to be presented by hies Vo his Ma-
jesty on the earliest opportunity." He proceeded to ad-
vert to the narrow escape which eim have just bad from
the horrors of civil convulsion, and remarked that note
would contradict him, when he said that hail the Ministry
resigned upon their Meat in the Lords, we e;-•,-„pi scarcely
have escaped so terrible a catastrophe. T:-:at we have just
escaped this, one of the greatest or social calamities, has
been, under Providence, owing to the patriotic firmness of
our gracious Sovereign, to the clear-sighted decision and
',enlightened wisdom of the Ministry, and the wise mode-
ration and temperate energy of ,the people. The Ministers
are pledged, solemnly pledged to the Bill, and the whole
Bill, and if they desert not the people in this matter, the
people will not desert them.
Mr. ATKINSON seconded the motion.

Mr. JOHN FXRG USON proposed that the proceedings and
resolutions & the meeting be published in the Glasgow
Newspapers. The periodical Press had throughout, but
snore especially in the recent discussion of thi, great ques-
tion, been at once the dread and the scourge or the ho-
roughmongers. Hence they perceived them writhing, as in
an agony of despair, under the well met ite I castigations of
that independent Press ; hence did they hear them stigma-
tizing as venal that Press which bad been so useful in tear-
ing off the mask from their own venality, and in exposing,
in all its hideousness, their unrighteous traffic in construct-
ing legislators for a free people. It is not in the nature
of things to suppose, that nearly an entire people should
conspire to influence, or, in plain terms, should unite to
hire the Press to promote their cause; or will it, for a
!moment, be credited that the whole conductors of the
PreSs, with comparatively few exceptions, are capable of
b•:ing seduced from supporting a right order of thing, to
the advocacy of a scheme fraught with danger and destruc.
tints to the State ? The calumny is as entirely ground'ess
as it is utterly impotent. The people have not been goade I
on by the Press to demand their tang-hut rights, but the
independent portion of it has nobly echoed the loud expres-
sion of the people's desire, and amply reflected their deep-
rooted conviction of the necessity of the renovation of our
Constitution, and their long-cherished hopes of its accom-
plishment.
Mr. JAMEs CHRISTIE seconded the motion,

Three cheers were then given for the King, three for
Earl Grey, and three for the Comniittee, and the meeting
broke up.

Had it been known st first, that the meeting would
adjourn to the open air, the assemblage would have been
immense; but thousands staid away under the impres•imi
that the Justiciary Hall would be too crowded even with..
oit them.