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,Moved by W. S. LILLINGTON, Esq., seconded 'by T.
WEELDON, Esq., and resolved unanimously,
7. That Lords Hood and Dormer be requested to pre-
sent and support the Petition to the House of Lords.
Moved by S. TERTIDS GALTON, Esq., seconded by
and resolved unanimously,
S. That the Petition to the House of Commons be pre-
sented by the Members for the County, who arc requested
to give it their most strenuous support.
Moved by the Hon. C. CLIFFORD, seconded by BOLTON
KING, Esq., and resolved unanimously,
9. That the grateful thanks of this Meeting be given
to his Majesty's Ministers, for their redemption of their
pledged to the people, and for their firm determination to
persevere in the accomplishment of their measures of Par-
liamentary Reform.

Moved by ROBERT KNIGHT, Esq., seconded by JOSHUA
SCHOLEFIELD, Esq., and resolved unanimously,
10. That the best thanks of this Meeting are due, and
are hereby given to those patriotic :individuals, who have
so disinterestedly expressed their willingness to sacrifice
their private interests to the public welfare, in promoting
the Bills now before the House of Commons, for a Reform
in the Representation of the People.
Moved by the Rev. T. M‘DoxistELL, seconded by Mr. T.

- W. flux, and resolved unanimously,
11. That the High Sheriff be requested officially to sign
the Address to his Majesty, and the Petitions to Parlia-
ment, on behalf of this Meeting.
Moved by the Rev. H. BELLAIRS, seconded by M. D.

Hitt, E. 1., and resolved unanimously,
12. That these Resolutions be advertised in The Sun,
Times, Morning Chronicle, Courier, Globe, and County
Newspapers.

(Signed) GEORGE LUCY, Sheriff.
-
Lord HOOD in the Chair;
Moved by the Rev. I. C. ROBERTS, seconded by A. F.
GREGORY, Esq., and resolved unanimously,
IS. That the best thanks of this Meeting be given to
the High Sheriff, for his prompt attention to the Requi_
sitions, and for his able and impartial conduct in the Chair

TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN,
We, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the so.
bility, Gentry, Clergy, Freeholders, and Inhabitant House-
holders of the County of Warwick, at a Public Meeting, con-
vened by the High Sheriff, humbly beg leave to approach your
Throne with the mo.t heartfelt assurances of attachment to your
Majesty's person and Government.
We think ourselves bound in duty to express our humble and
grateful acknowledgments of your Majesty's paternal anxiety and
unceasing exertions to secure the peace and promote the welfare
and happiness of your subjects ; more especially we entreat your
Majesty to permit us to express our admiration and entire ap-
proval of the Bills which have been introduced into the Com-
mons House of Parliament, by your Majesty's Ministers, for
amending the Representation of your People,--a measure which
we consider well calculated to secure the stability of your
Throne, and to promote the liberty, prosperity, and happiness
of your subjects.
We implore your Majesty, in the event of the House of Com-
mons refusing to sanction the great principles of those measure,,,
to be graciously pleased to put in force your Royal Prerogative
to Dissolve the present Parliament, in order that your faithful
subjects may exercise their best endeavours to return a House of
Commons that will better accord with the opinions and feelings
of your Majesty, and of your People.
with a lon
We fervently pray that the Almighty will bless your Majesty
and fairl g, prosperous, and peaceful reign, over a loyal, united,
y represented people.

. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORDS SPI-
, RITUAL AND TEMPORAL OF THE UNITED
KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRF—
LAND, IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED.
THE HUMBLE PETITION OF THE NOBILITY,
GENTRY, CLERGY, FREEHOLDERS, AND IN-
HABITANT HOUSEHOLDERS OF THE COUNTY
OF WARWICK,
Su EWETII.
That your Petitioners, fully sensible of the original excellency
of the Constitution under which they have the happiness to live,
most ardently wish to maintain the genuine principles upon
which it was founded. Impressed with these sentiments, your
Petitioners hail with the most heartfelt satisfaction the Bills re-
cently introduced into the Commons House of Parliament, to
amend the Representation of the People, which, in the opinion 1
of your Petitioners, are admirably adapted to ensure an uninflu-
enced and equal representation,—to revive that union and confi-
dence which ought to exist between Constituents and their Re-
Presentatives,—and to extirpate that system of corruption sub-
versive of the constitutional rights and liberties of your Peti-
tioner: and their fellow subjects, and which prevent the existing
House of Commons from being considered as the genuine voice
of the people. That, in the opinion of your Petitioners, the pre-
tent disproportioned and corrupt state of the representation of
and people, is a most alarming grievance, demanding immediate
effectual redress.
Your Petitioners therefore most humbly pray that the Bills now
before the Commons House of Parliament, to amend the repre-
sentation of the people, may meet with your Lordships' concur-
rence,—.Adyour Petitioners will ever pray, &c.

TO THE HONOURABLE THE COMMONS OF THE
UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND
IRELAND IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED.
THE PETITION OF THE NOBILITY, GENTRY,
CLERGY, FREEHOLDERS, ANI) INHABITANT
HOUSEHOLDERS, OF THE COUNTY OF WAR-
WICK,
SnEWETII,
That your Petitioners, fully sensible of the original excellency
of the Constitution under which they have the happiness to live,
most ardently wish to maintain the general principles upon
which it was founded. Impressed with these sentiments, your
Petitioners hail with the most heartfelt satisfaction the Bills
recently introduced into your Honourable House, to amend the
Representation of the People ; which, in the opinion of your
retitioners, are admirably adapted to insure an uninfluenced
snd
equal preßersentation ; to revive that union and confidence
whicoght exist between constituents and their Represen-
wives ; and to extirpate tyste of corruption, subversive
orthe Constitutional rights and liberties of your Petitioners and
their fellow subjects, and which prevent the existing House of
Commons from being considered es the genuine voice of the
People,
That, in the opinion of your Petitioners the present dispro-
11ortional and corrupt state of the Representation of the People
• o moat alarming grievance, demanding immediate and eke-
wal redress. • - - ,
' Your Petitioners, therefore, most humbly pray, that the Bills
Ooow before your Honourable House, to amend the Representa-
n of the People, may pass into Laws.
0,
And your Petitioners will ever pray,

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A public meeting of the freeholders of this county
was held at the Shire-hall, at Lewes, on Thursday,
for the purpose of taking into consideration an ads
dregs to his Majesty, and petitions to both Houses
of Parliament in favour of the Reform Bill now
pending in the House of Commons.
The meeting was convened for twelve, but the
proceedings did not commence until nearly one.'
Some short time before the business of the day
commenced, a coach and four came in from Brighton,
crowded inside and out with some of the reformers
Of that town. On the coach-top were displayed two
very handsome flags, with the Brighton Arms, the
staff of each flag surmounted by a Royal Crown.
A trumpeter in front played " God save the King"
as the carriage drove op to the hustings, where it
was received with loud cheering.
At one o'clock the High Sheriff came on the
hustings, on which were previously assembled a con-
siderable number of the most respectable landed pro-
prietors and members of the first fatnilies in the county.
We noticed Lord George Cavendish ; Lord George,'
Lord Sussex, Lord Robert and Lord Wm. Lennox;
Sir G. Webster, Sir C. Blunt, Mr. Kemp, M.P.
for the town of Lewes, Mr. Shelley, M.P. for Gat-
ton; Mr. A. Donovan, Major Beauclerk, Mr. Shir-
ley, B.:c.
On the motion of Lord GEORGE CAVENDISH, se-
conded by Mr. SHELLEY, the High Sheriff was
cal!ed to the Chair, and opened the business of the
day by reading the requisition. The Hon. Gentleman
then proceeded to say, that he had received a letter
from the medical attendant of their excellent Mem-
ber (Mr. Burrell), stating that very severe indispo-
sition prevented him from attending the meeting, and
he regretted to add that since he (the High Sheriff)
had come to the County Hall that morning, he had
received intelligence that the illness of their re-
spected Member had had a fatal result, and that the
county had to deplore the loss of a most excellent
Member of Parliament, and an amiable member of
society.—(Hear, hear.) He now called on the Noble
Lord who he understood was to propose the address
to his Majesty.

Lord 6E0.116.E CAVENDISH then presented him-
self, and was received by the meeting in a very
flattering manner. The business of the day had
been already opened by their worthy High Sheriff,
and he thought it could not be commenced with
more propriety than by a consideration of the ad-
dress to his Majesty, which he should have the ho-
nour to move. After that should have been disposed
of, the question of Reform would be submitted for
their consideration. The Bill now before the House
of Commons went to the correction of those abuses
which had for a long time been complained of in
the country. It would in his firm opinion be pro-
ductive of the greatest advantage to the country,
and he sincerely trusted it would be successful.—
(Cheers.)—As there were several other gentlemen
disposed to address the meeting, he would not delay
them by any farther observations, but read the ad-
dress
to his Majesty. The Noble Lord then read
the address, which began by an expression of du-
tiful and loyal attachment to his Majesty, his crown
and dignity, and the gratitude of the freeholders to
his Majesty for the many favours he had conferred
on the county during his residence amongst them;
also their deep sense of the goodness of his Ma-
jesty in having at.a momentous period like the pre-
sent, selected for his advisers men who wood
pledged to Reform in Parliament, and who now,
under the sanction of his Majesty, had so nobly
redeemed that pledge; and they expressed an
earnest hope that the Bill might pass into a law, and
that his Majesty might long live to enjoy the gra-
titude and affection of his loving subjects.
Lord GEORGE LENNOX said that he had been
requested to second the address which his Noble
Friend had just moved, and he assured the free-
holders of the county, that in doing so he felt
very sincere pleasure, for he was convinced that the
Bill was calculated to entail the greatest benefits on
the country.—(Some persons in the crowd cried
" No, no.")—The only objections which had been,
and which he supposed would be made to the Bill,
were the old story over again—that it was a revolu-
tionary measure, and would destroy the institutions
of the country. A revolutionary measure ! He
would ask any of those whom he had the honour of
addressing, to look at the men who were found in
the ranks of the supporters of the Bill, and say
whether they were men likely to support a revolu-
tionary measure ? Was the Noble Lord (Caven-
dish) near him, who possessed an immense stake in
the country,—was he a man likely to engage in a
measure of a revolutionary character ? Had he and
others of great wealth and influence in the country,
not as much interest in guarding against revolu-
tionary measures as those who were opposed to the
Bill ?—(Cries of " Yes.")—Away, then, with the
talk of revolution. It was used only by those who
either did not understand the subject, or who, if
they did, were desirous of misleading others. He
trusted that the Bill would pass as a whole, for he
would have the whole measure or none.

Mr. SHELLEY—Gentlemen, I do not rise to offer
any opposition to this address to his Majesty; I
merely wish to say that I shall reserve myself for
toy objections to the principle of the Reform Bill—
not to the principle of Reform—till the petitions to
►he House of Parliament come before us.

The question on the address to the King was then
put and carried unanimou'ly.
Mr. PARTINGTON next presented himself, and
said that it fell to his lot to propose for their adop-
tion a petition to the House of Lords in favour of
the Bill, founded on those principles which they had
already heard expres,ecl by those who preceded him.
Lord War. LENNOX came forward to second the
petition. It was unnecessary for him to detain the
meeting by going over the old and hacknied objec-
tions which had been urged against the Bill, and
the defences whieh had been set up for the present
system. But he could not avoid noticing, in pass-
ing, that old argument, that the present system,
though theoretically bad, worked well in practice.
He begged to deny the truth of this argument. It
did not work well. Could that system be said to
work well under which the petitions of the people
were disregarded? What had happened during the
distress which prevailed in the country last year ?
Petitions poured in from all parts of the kingdom
complaining of that distress, and praying for relief,
and with what result ? The petitions were disre-
garded, because the existence of the distress was
denied—( Cheers)—and what had been the effect of
all this ? What was the state of the country after-

wards ? How did the system work then ? Was the
country pacified by this denial ? On the contrary.
He regretted much that the motion made in the
House of Peer by his brother (the Duke of Rich-
mond) for an inquiry into, the state of the country
as far as related to dis'ress, particularly that
which affected the labouring poor, had not been at-
tended to. It would have shown, if it had no other
effect, that the nobility had a sympathy for the
people—(Cheers)—that the sufferings of the people
were not matters of indifference to those who were
placed in higher ranks in society; but that motion
was refused. Was that a part of the well working
of the system ? Could it be said that a system
worked well which still burthened the country with
such a load of taxation, pressing down the national
industry, and cramping its resources ? Call them
by what name you pleased, Members chosen as
some were under the present system, were not the
representatives of the people. It was a gross fal-
lacy to assert that they were. That system of re-
presentation was a fallacy from beginning to end. It
outraged public morals, and
.gave encouragement to
the worst kind of imposture.—(Cheers.) Earnestly
he called .on his brother freeholders to come forward
and support their excellent Monarch and his honest
Ministers, in their upright endeavours to remove the
evils which had crept into our systems He called
on them to support a measure which would eradi-
cate the evils they had so long complained of, which
would rescue the country from the pernicious in-
fluence of a purse-proud oligarchy, and would place
our free institutions once more upon that extended
and firm basis which was the best guarantee for the
enjoyment of civil liberty.—(Cheers.)
Mr. SHELLEY next presented himself, and was
received with much disapprobation, mixed with some
loud cries of " Hear him !" There were several
persons in the crowd in front, most vociferous in
calling upon the Hon. Member to come forward, and
insist on his right to be heard, while others as loudly
cried out " Gatton"—" No rotten boroughs."
These cries the Hon. Gentleman bore with great
composure and good humour, observing, that gen-
tlemen need not give themselves such trouble, he
would wait till they were disposed to hear him.
Silence was at length obtained, and Mr. Shelley
proceeded to address the meeting. It now, he
observed, became his duty to raise his voice against
the proposition before the meeting, and to state why
it was he dissented from the presentation of any
petition in favour of the Bill now before Parliament.
At first it was not his intention to take any part in
the proceedings of a meeting where he knew the
advocates of Reform would be in a large majority; but
on cons;deration,he thought that though he could not
hope to carry the meeting with him in his opinions,
it would be the more manly course to come forward
and state what those opinions were. One reason
why he did not wish at first to come forward was a
fear that his objection to the Reform Bill might, as.
he was the represeritative of a close borough—(A
person in the crowd, "A rotten borough—Old
(3atton.") He would not call it so, but the gen-
tleman who called out might give it any name he
pleased. He repeated that the fear of having per-
sonal motives attributed to his opposition made
him at first think of nst taking any part in the meet-
ing. However, he had altered his mind, and
thought it better to come forward and fairly state
what were his honest convictions relative to this
Bill. He begged in the first instance to state, that
he was not opposed to the principle of Reform.—
He did not object to that part of the Bill which
extended the franchise to what were called close
t
boroughs; but he did, and ever ihould, object to:hat sweeping measure which went to disfranchise
half the constituency of the country, and that half
the poorer classes, which had not the same means
of protecting their interests which were enjoyed by
other classes of the community.—(" No, no.") He
said, "
Yes, yes." —Let those who dissented from
him only look at the effect of the Bill in that very
)
He was well acquainted with the bo-
rough, borough.
and with every vote in it, and he would
assert that the ultimate effect of the Bill would be
to disfranchise the inhabitants of above 300 houses.
Why, he asked, should those persons be cut off in
this manlier from the exercise of a right they had so
long enjoyed ?—(A person in the crowd, " It will
not affect the present voters.")—No, but it would
affect their children, and it would affect the present
patties in this way,--that they would be deprived
of the power of leaving to their children an inheri-
tance which they themselves had derived from their
fathers. The most sanguine reformer in the country
had not expected such a sweeping measure; and
why, he asked, had this extensive measure been in-
troduced ? He would tell the meeting. It was be-
cause his Majesty's Ministers felt that they (lid not
possess the confidence of the country in their other
measures.--(Loud dis approbation.)—Gentlemen did
not like to hear such unpalatable truths; but he
could not help that. He would state what he firmly
e on .
believed to be the fact. The present Ministry had
made themselves the laughing-stock of the country
by their financial blunders, and they thought to re-
(teem themselves with the public by this measure.--
)_—What course had Ministers pursued?
'They htsl drirectly
(Loud and continued disapprobation, which pre-
vented the lion. Gentleman from proceeding for a
time.
ged the ry rased hi the
When silence was in some degree restored,
he went o
Radicalencoura Reform. Incsteadi of endea-
passive obedience " to the mercy of a
e
11, he
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overwhelming pcheem'il'ors'f%eis), iniaistiggaonaioft:sx:Raostrehtei Reform
olsopi rrrmpoe supporters, country
the
vouring to stem this cry, they had submitted them-
would
selves
ai
be
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which must for ever hide them ;" for
hat
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from the
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ssoat
fleas, in one undistinguished mass.—(Disapproba-
those who deemed that this measure was revolu-
tionary. To him it made no
difference whether a
revolution was brought about by a mob, headed
by his Majesty's Ministers, or by mob •
a
mustdgpepfbnoodyr.
out them ; and so long as he hada voice in the
Legislature, he would oppose to the utmost of his
power a measure which he considered of a cha-
racter directly revolutionary.—(Much
—(Much disapproba-
tion.) He should considerimself disgraced if he
did not oppose a measure which he believed to be
un-English, unjust, and • •
unprincipled. It was un-
English, because the fixing
the tight of voting at u
small money standard was borrowedfions France.
It was unjust, because it took away half the co:I4C-
Wiley of the country, and that, too, thepoorer
half; and it was unprincipled, because'(H.)? }tad'
d itno one
principle in it.--
disapproly t on.) As
yet, yea
however, those an
opposed the Bill had the
jaw at their side; aridllo. it ever came to a fight, he
with was ready to fight the law at his side, and a
good conscience to support him. On all occasions
he should be prepared
to give his most determined
opposition to a
measure which he regarded as most
uticoestitutional. He
e would now come to a subject
on which he had not yet touched; and though he
saw many before Idle seedy to express their disap-
proval in the usual manner, he
e would even venture
to say a word or two for the poor close boroughs.—
(Hear, and laughter.)
He did not mean to contend
that those boroughs should be so numerous as they
were at present; but he
must state his opinion, that
the Government
of the country could not go on well
without such boroughs, as they afforded an easy in-
let to men of
t
difficult, if not alent who might otherwise find it
impossible, to obtain a seat in the
Legislature, and of whose s •
ervices the count's, could
not otherwise avail itself. He
could give many in-

natured mann( r to him.)—The Hon. Gentleman
(who is very young, apparently not more than 23)
bore all these allusions and taunts with the most
perfect good humour, so much so, that towards the
close of the business, he seemed to have worked
himself into the good graces of the crowd in front.
Sir G. WEBSTER next addressed the meeting,
and was received with loud cheering. He observed,
that if the meeting gave pleasure to those who haJ
recently become friendly to Reform, what pleasure
must it not be to him who was an old and staunch
radical reformer ? He could not express the plea-
sure he felt at this incipient dawning of freedom in
the breasts of the gentry of this county. In those
of the yeomanry it had long existed; but he re-
joiced to find that it now extended to the upper
classes, and he hoped that the little lame would
soon be blown into a full blaze.—(Cheers.)—The
Hon. Gentleman diverging from the subject before
him, had stated that the Ministers were the laugh-
ing stock of the country for their financial mea-
sures. He could tell him that they would not be
so long, but the laugh would be turned the other
way.—(Cheers.)—He had also stated that they had
not the confidence of the country. There was no
doubt that the country would not have given them
its confidence if they had not brought forward this
measure. But seeing the state of the country, they
felt as honest men that it could not go on as it was,
and that some measure of Reform was necessary.
They brought forward certainly a strong one, but,
so far from objecting to it on that ground, all he re-
gretted was that it was not stronger. Ministers felt
it necessary to introduce that as an aiti-revolu-
tionary measure; and in his heart he believed that
it was the only measure by which a revolution could
be prevent:d.—(Cheers.)—The Hon. Gentleman
said he would not object to some Reform, some-
thing very moderate, but what that was he had
not told them. A moderate Reform would be
wholly inefficient for the necessity of the country.
Nothing less than a sweeping measure of Reform,
and that no slight sweeping ether, would be
sufficient. When they had such an Augean stable
to cleanse, it would riot be sufficient to turn a river
into it, nothing less than a whole arm of the sea
would be adequate to its thorough cleansing. On these
grounds he gave his most hearty consent to the
measures which Ministers had introduced into Par-

liament. He was satisfied with them as they stood,
but he would not have objected to them had they
been still stronger.—(Cheers.)
Mr. KEMP (Member for Lewes) next presented
himself, and was warmly greeted by the meeting.
The Hon. Member for Gatton (Mr. J. Shelley)
seemed to think that the feeling in favour of this
measure was not so general throughout the country
as it had been described to be. Did the Hon. Gen-
tleman forget the meetings which had taken place in
every part of the country on this subject ? Vas
he not aware that in every county from Cumberland
to Cornwall the cry of Reform had been raised—
that in almost every county the assembled free-
holders had expressed their gratitude to his Ma-
jesty for having selected as his advisers the honest
men who had proposed this measure, and had at the
same time declared their firm determination to sup-
port the Bill by all constitutional means ? He (Mr.
Kemp) weald repeat then what he had stated in his
place in the House of Commons, that the country
was in favour of the measure from one end to the
other.

A voice in the crowd—" No, no." Another
voice—" It is John Kibbs, here, as is making all
this rout about it.—(Laughter.) Another person,
whom we took to be the said John Kibbs, called
out, " It is I, and I paid so because I thinks it."
Mr. KEMP proceeded—Reform, in his firm opi-
nion, was become essential to the salvation of the
empire. Instead of being revolutionary, or tending
to weaken the power of the Crown, it would tend to
fix the Crown more firmly on the head of the King,
for it would get rid of that pernicious influence be.,
hind the throne,-7-that illegitimate oligarchical influ-
ence,--which formed a power above the Govern-
ment, and controlled that and the people. He did
not say that the measure was the most perfect that
could be devised,—no human measure could be com-
pletely perfect,—but considering the evils which
were to be remedied, he looked upon the Bill as a
great boon to the country. A Bill which would
add 500,000 persons to its constituency must be
looked upon as a boor; of the utmost value.
The Hw,li SiiiMIFF then put the question on
the petition, when the show of hands in its favour
was immense. The only hand held up against the
motion on the hustings (as far as wa could perceive)
was that of Mr. Shelley. There were about a dozen
hands held up against it in the crowd, in the front
of the hustings.
Thkee cheers followed the decision on the petition.
Mr. A. DoNoyAN cattle forward to propose the
petition to, the House of Commons, and was cheered
by the meeting. After adverting to the abusas of
corporate influence which this Bill would remove,
the immense saving of expense which would accrue
by the disfranchisement of non,resident voters of
towns, and the taking the Vollip, counties in several
places on the salve 4.y, the Hon. Gentleman con-
cluded by expressing his belief that the support
s which Otis measure had received in the country, and
r the firm hold it had taken on the minds of the
people, would render Lail opposition to it utterly
unavailing, and the measure itsel€ irresistible and
triumphant.--(Cheers.)) He then read the petition
to the House Of Commons, in support of the Bill.
Sir C. BLUNT came forward to second the petition,
and was received with cheers. He said that he was
selected to perform that duty, because he was known
to be an old and staunch friend to Reform. He
concurred with his Hon. Friend who preceded him
in regretting that the county of Sussex. had not
senti-
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then, than not at all. After poliilagel-iinitpnoragto,erlaoretgligeser
advantages which might 'be expected from' the mea-
sure, and congratulating the meeting on the fact of
the general feeling of the country being so strongly
expressed in its favour, the Hon. Gentleman con-
cluded by observing, that this Bill might bs likene I
to -x safety valve in the great machine of a national
Government, by which the danger of any violent
explosion would be completely removed.—(Cheera.)
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amongst all classes. The landlord, the tenant,
the manufacturer, the labourer, the professional,—
in fact all classes, the tax-eaters only excepted—felt
the pressure of distress. In the sister kingdom, the
as
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sum tray to be added very soon.- Let them see how
the thing stood. Ministers took office on a pledge
to Reform, and he bel eyed they were sincere in
what they had done; but let the meeting consider
how far what they had done and proposed to do
would go to the relief of the country. They had all
seen what had been done for years by the monster
of corruption which had reared its head and been
cradled, and fondled, and petted by the borough-
mongering system. If he should find that the effect
of the Reform Bill would be. to extract the fangs
from that - monster, he would be disposed to give
Ministers his thanks for the measure as a great boon
ro the country; but looking at this Bill as a Re-
former—a; one who desired a Reform which would
relieve the cowry, and as one who did not offer
any opposition to the Bill—he must in his conscience
express what he felt, that it would not have the
proposed effect. He knew that it knocked the
rotten boroughs on the head; but they would have
been knocked on the head long ago had the same
distress existed as did at present. He wished to be
understood not as opposing. the measure; it had
many defects, which he was anxious to point out
with a view to their being remedied. He then pro-
ceeded into the details of the Bill, and contended
that those parts which gave votes to 501. lease-
holders, who might have no beneficial interest,
and refused it to the owner of a lease of 99 pars,
who might have a much greater interest, was a partial
and unjust application of the franchise. He also
contended that giving two members to a town with
a populatiOn of 4,000, and only one to a large town
that had 50,000, was unjust and inconsistent. He
next went on to urge, that depriving the owner of
a freehold, in a town which sent members, of his
vote for that freehold for the county, was throwing
a preponderauce of power into the hands of these
who had already too much—he meant the landed
aristocracy. They might talk of disfranchising the
rotten boroughs, but this Bill would make others in
a few years, for its direct operation would be to re-
duce almost every county in England to the con-
dition of a rotten borough.— (Cries of" No, no.")
He contended that it would. Only let the meeting
consider how the Bill would operate in that county.
It would take from those who held freeholds in
the power
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Sussex. See what a large body of freeholders that
would cut off at once, and
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already
sup-
port of the Bill, and contended that its effect would
be to bring back the Constitution to its original state.
Major BEAUCLERK said that he concurred in most
of the sentiments which had been expressed in
favour of Reform, but he did not think that the ad-
dress or the petitions were couched in terms suf-
ficiently to express what he conceived were the feel-
ings of the county on this important subject. He
therefore proposed the following amendment should
be added by way of rider to the petition to the
House of Commons :—" That we, the freeholders
of Sussex, viewing with real sorrow and indignation
the base attempts of a small corrupt faction to defeat
the wishes of a generous Monarch and his upright
Ministers, in restoring the people to their just and
undoubted rights, feel ourselves bound in duty to
declare, that should that attempt succeed by means
of borough influence, we are ready to support our
beloved Sovereign and his Minister. in doing justice
to the country with our fortunes and our lives."
Mr. SHIRLEY (of Newick-park) seconded the
amendment.

Mr. GILLUM expressed his approbeAion of the
general principle of the Bill.
Mr. LONG, the barrister, thought it would he
extremely itinpolitic to imply a doubt as to the
success of a measure on which, if all the members of
Reform were united, none could be entertained.—
(Cheers, and cries of" We will have the addition.")
Mr. DoNovazsi said, that in effect the amendmet t
did not go too far, but there were one or two words
in it which might be found objectionable to " ears
polite." He would propose that it should be shaped
in this way—" We, the freeholders of Su-sex, view-
ing with real horror and indignation, the at tempts of
those whose interests in,y be affected by this Bill,"
&c. The amendment might then go on to say, that
should the measure be defeated by borough influence,
see will support our beloved Monarch and his
Ministers by every legal means in our power. This
he thought would be much better than the use of
the words " fortunes and lives," wl.ich might seem
to imply a threat of a resort to arms if the Bill were
defeated. He would earnestly beg to impress this
on the consideration of the Hun. Gentleman who
had brought forward the amendment.
Mr. BLACKMAN said, that the necessity for the
measure might be seen by its influence on the House
of Lords itself, for it was well known that by
borough influence a road was open through the
House of Commons to a seat in the House of Peers,
and circumstances which had lately transpired respect-
ing the Weymouth case showed how things of that
kind might be managed. The Hon. Member for
Gatton, Mr. Shelley, bad laid great stress on what
he termed the financial blunders of Ministers. Now,
even admitting those objections to be well founded,
he was disposed to leek over fifty such blunders in
men who had given the nation so great a boon as
this Bill would bestow. lie would say of them,
transposing a few words of the poet—
" If to their share some fiscal errors fall,
" Look in the Bill, and you'll forget them all."
—(Cheers and laughter.)—He then proceeded to
point out somo of the many advantages which were
to be expected from a reformed House of Commonp.
Of such a House, he would say—
" absint fraudesque dolusque,
" Insidimque, ex cis et amor sceleratus habentli."
For the benefit of the county, he would attempt a
translation of those words, as applicable to some
fernier Parliaments. The "fraudesque" he would
call a declaration of a House of Commons, which
stated that a pound note and one shilling were equi-
valent in value to a guinea; the " ddusque" he
would intepret as a sham debate, which was some-
times got up to turn aside the attention of the public.
The " he would call those practices which
were tesorted to at elections. The " via" might
be translated by the Piccadillyexpedition and t he Man-
c't ester:massacre; and a literaltranslation of the "rano,
seeleratus habendi" might be found in the pension-
list, and the miilions which were found to maintain
it.—(Cheers and laughter.)
MARTIN, a: ember of the Society of Friend,'
recommended to the meeting that no alteration
should be made in the original petition.
The HIGH &mewl, would now earrieStly depre-
cate any division of the friends of Reform on thifi::
important occasion, and he would earnestly
biers
now,
the meeting to put sufficient confidence. in
to allow him to ask them to put the origin,cial
iffice,.
tion without this amendment,'
.whicth.ecr.
would tend greatly to defeat 'rbetVed sinc(erely
" We will, we e • Thdidence, which
ked upon us the greatest cps:et:mil favour they
him. He then put the question
could confer upon
to the meeting on the petition without the amends
fillet them for this proof oft h