The Sun.
London, England, 1836-06-23 00:00:00

DEVIZES.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Stu—Our Town Council, remembering with gratitude
the assistance. of the Irish Liberals, when the English
Municipal Reform Bill was under discussion, and desirous
that their brethren and. fellow-subjects in Ireland should be
treated as men capable and worthy of being entrusted with
the management of their own Corporate affairs, at a
Council hell'yesterday, voted, by a majority of 13 to 3, an
address
the House of Lords, praying them in the most
:s7
resfictqfttl langu47, to pass the very moderate measure of
Irish Municipal Reform, just
approved Commons have
approved of by a large majority.
One of the three Councillors who thus w: !led to brand
the Irish fellows unworthy of British priaeges, 'nd as
idiots inco:npctent to local government, anxious to humor-
taliz3 his name as an opponent of equal rights, claimed to
have his protest recorded, in order that the Lords might
know that there was one man in Devizes, daring enough to
them on in their course of dangerous folly and
injustice ; and that the Irish people might know who has
insulted them in the Town Council of Devizes ; nor will
he be disappointed of his fame
This gentleman finding that his wrathful ravings only
excited the smile of pity from his fellow-Councillors, an-
nounced that a counter-petition would be got up in the

town.
This counter-petition has accordingly been hawked
through the town, and obtained the signatures of the
Tories, the ex-members of the Corporation, and their
creatures, and will no doubt be vaunted in the House of
Lords, by Lord Lyndhurst, or some equally veracious Peer,
as the addres# of the Town, versus the address of the
Council.
This paltry manoeuvre, worthy of the heart and
intellect of the party it emanates from, will fail
of its object ; for it is well known, and it was made a
charge against them by this very party, that the Town
Council of Devizes were elected, not only because
the burgesses thought them the most efficient men,
but also because their political sentiments harmonized with
the opinions of the burgesses, and upon no subject is there
greater unity of feeling than on this question of Municipal
Reform ; the address of the Council is therefore in effect,
and is so considered here, as the address of the town,
minus the small minority in the Council, and the faction
in the town, whose Council petition, signed but by a few
burgesses, will be appreciated accordingly.
The counter-petition, originating. as it does from de-
funct and would-be corporators, is an amusing specimen of
confession of past sins, and is rich in Tory argument, &e•
It prays the Lords not to give corporative powers and
privileges to the Irish, because they worked ill in Devizes!
The confession is a true one, but instead of being an argu-
ment against, is an argument for, popularly-elected Corpo-
rations. The Devizes Corporation were self-elected and
irresponsible, and therefore worked ill—a strange reason
why a body elected by, and irresponsible to the burgesses
should work ill also ! So much for Tory wisdom and truth
in Devizes!
June 21, 1836.

AN OBSERVER.

MR. D. W. HARVEY AND HIS CO

STITUENTS.

Yesterday evening a meeting of electors and inhabitants
of the borough of Southwark was held in Lieutenant Law.
son's Riding Academy, Bruns-wick-street, Blackfriars-road,
for the purpose of hearing Mr. D. W. Harvey's justification
of his conduct in not voting with Ministers when the
House of Commons divided on the second reading of the
Irish Tithe Bill, on the 3d instant. The riding circus was
nearly filled with respectable persons, but the proportion of
electors was not large. About a quarter after seven Mr-
Harvey and his friends appeared in the gallery, and Mr.
Anderson, of St. George's parish, being called to the Chair,
letters were read from the Secretary of the Southwark Re-
form Association, and the parish of Christchurfth,
calling
upon the Hon. Member to explain ; in compliance with
which requisitions the meeting was convened.
Mr. HARVEY then came forward and was received with
cheers, mingled with considerable disapprobation. He went
at great length into a statement of his opinions on the Irish
Tithe Bill and tithes in general, and stated that in not voting
with Ministers he had acted in conformity with the senti-
ments that had two years before gained him the honour of
being chosen representative of Southwark, namely, that
tithes ought to be altogether abolished. His notions on
the law Church Establishment, relieving Bishops from
temporalities in the House of Lords, and the Pension
List, were and should be still the same. While he thus
persevered in consistency, other gentlemen who had got
itno Parliament on the strength of promisees to carry
organic changes did nothing, unless indeed to put notices
of motions on the books at the end of the session for p 1
for annual Parliaments, vote by ballot, abolition of the
Peers, and paying the King his wages every Saturday
night, like another industrious workman.—(Cheers and
laughter.) But on the interference of Cabinet Ministers
they postponed their measures ad infinitum, lest they
should endanger the Cabinet, as if, indeed, the disper-
sion of the Whigs could be any thing but a blessing to this
country.—(Cheers and laughter.) He (Mr. Harvey)
cared as little about the Lords as the Lords did about him ;
but he thought it idle in the Whigs to talk of reforming
the Peers, while they, by retaining the 501. and 101. fran-
chise, left the selection of 304 Members of Parliament still
in the hands of the Tories. He did not vote the night
before for or against the Chancellor of the Exchequers
motion for the reduction of the duty on newspapers, be-
cause he thought that the press would be more shackled
under the new system than the old.—(Hear.) During
25 years no man in the House of Commons had sacrifice
in the popular cause more of prospect and of fortune than
he ; yet while he respected the opinions of his constituents,
all he asked was the free exercise of his own judgme°t'
and if they would not allow him that they might move
a new writ for the borough of Southwark to-morrow.---
(Cheers.) With respect to his rupture with
O'Connell he begged to say one word. no 1e
most grateful to the Hon. and Learned Mew-
ber for Kilkenny for the trouble had taken
the committee which reported on his (Mr. Harvey s)
case ; but he could not forgive that gentleman for saying
that he differed from him from motives of personal Ma%
nity. He (Mr. Harvey), much as he had suffered, tv°ll
never try to supply his private wants by public subscriptio.n.
Sooner than so degrade himself he would take a broom °
his hand, and, with a board at his breast, inscribed' `
,
" Daniel Whittle Harvey, formerly Member of ParlianiV,,
for Colchester, and late for the borough of Southwark'
sweep the crossings at Westminster Hall for the othe!:
Members of the House of Commons.—(Loud cheers and
hisses, which lasted several minutes.)
Mr. PARR, of Blackfriars'-road, moved resolutions oaf
thanks, approbation and confidence in the Hon. and Learnej,
Gentleman, which were seconded in a most laughable spe€7
by Mr. Good, poulterer, of Hatfield-street, and after son'
°
disorder, agreed to by a majority.
The uproarious but very good-humoured meetingsePa-
rated about nine o'clock.

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