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stitution were at an end to-morrow, we owe it to his princi-
ples that, with all its blessings, it has bean preserved to us so
long.—(Renewed plaudits.)—The sanguine but groundless
anticipation of our opponents, Gentlemen, is satisfactorily an•
swercd by the Tiresent meeting, and I trust the respectability of
so numerous an assemblage will effectually serve to mark that
basis of mature deliberation on which our political sentiments
are founded, and which secures us from being seduced into the
levity of changing our opinions .on account of any difficulties
and embarrassments to which the mixed interests of our country
are liable. I confidently trust, therefore, that the honest and
sound part of Mr. Pitt's supporters will remain undiminished ;
and with this impression I submit the toast, not doubting but
that you will do justice to their real merits, and give them your
support as long as the general tenour of their conduct shall de-
serve it, whatever may be the difficulties with which they arc
surrounded."—(Great applause.)—Mr. Elwin then gave, " His
Majesty's Ministers, and may they ever be guided by the prin-
ciples of Pitt."—Three times three.
The Mayor of Norwich (R. HAWSES, Esq.) then rose and
proposed " The health of our Worthy President, Mr. Edmond
Wodehouse." It were needless to observe that this toast was
drank with the warmest enthusiasm, and that the plaudits
which ensued were as spirited as they were abundantly reite-
rated, from all quarters of the room.
Mr. WODEROUSE then rose and addressed, the company
nearly as follows :—I rise, Gentlemen, to return you ,my
warmest acknowledgments for the honour that you have just
conferred upon me; and I trust I shall not misinterpret your
intentions, if I apply this cordial expression of your friendship,
not so much to the situation which I this day hold, but rather
to the station of public responsibility in which by your favour
I have been- placed. To have ever been-thought worthy of
your confidence will eversemain the source of the proudest re-
collections ; and often as I have before had occasion to express
to you my gratitude for your support, I can with truth assure
you, that I never rose with greater satisfaction than at this mo-
ment, which conveys to .me at least somg portion of what is
,commonly called the sense of the country, unchanged by sea-
son, and untired by time.—(Great applause.)—Gentlemen, it
has been my lot to sit in Parliament in a time of the greatest
difficulty and distress—distress which I can never for one mo-
ment shut out from my mind. Still, Gentlemen, let me de-
cure to you, that was our political connection at this instant to
cease, lamenting as I must do, not merely the feebleness of
him in whom you have placed your trust, but lamenting still
more the singular character of the times in which it has been'
reposed, and cherishing, as I must, the warmest attachment
to the county, an attachment planted by my birth, and
which has been so far strengthened by my political situa-
tion, that it can cease only with my life ; yet I can, with per-
fect ease, declare, that I look back' on the part which I have
conceived it to be my duty to act, and say at once, that I
am free from every feeling of remorse. As to the present state
of the country, it is my misfortune to differ with men whose
judgments I most highly value, and from whom I never do
differ in Parliament without sentiments of serious regret. Still,
Gentlemen, in justice to my own opinions, or rather let me say,
in justice to that station in which you have placed me, I never
can believe that our present case is such as to justify men in sit-
ting quietly upon their chairs, and saying, things will come to
rights. If this is supposed to apply to Government, I acknow-
ledge it, and use the term not merely as applicable to the
Executive alone, but using it, in its most extended sense,
as including both Houses of Parliament; and, Gentlemen,
let me add, that I cannot conceive this expression to be
altogether irrelevant upon the present occasion, because I
never can bring myself to think otherwise, than that, look-
ing to the memory of him we this day.celelilte, had that great
man's life been spared to the termination of the contest in
which we had been engaged, that then constantly bearingin mind
the imperious necessity of the measures which he had originally
adopted, the imperious necessity also of their continuance, and
the entire revolution in the value of every thing which must of
necessity also have resulted from them ; that he who never for
one moment sought to uphold one interest to the injury of
another, but regarding all essentially necessary to the stability
of the Monarchy under which we live, would have formed a
juste; estimate of: the state of difficulty into which that portion of
the community, the landed interest, which perhaps may not be
improperly called the settled inheritance of the Country, would
of necessity also be reduced, and in some way or other would
have obtained for us a more equitable adjustment. In this opi-
nion I may perhaps be ruiSiaa.oa, ana hr. 1.,11 in
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a just estimation of the value of those friends by whom I have
been supported.—(Loud and prolonged Applause.)
Colonel WODELIOUSE begged to propose the health of
" Lady Suffield, of Balding," which was drank with marked
respect.
" The Mayor, and Prosperity to the City of Norwich." -
" The Mayor, with Prosperity to the Town and Borough of
Great Yarmouth."
" His Majesty's Lieutenant of Norfolk."
" The Magistrates of the County of Norfolk."
" Lord Bayning and the Stewards of the day."
By the PRESIDENT*" The British Constitution as by an-
cient laws established and modern laws defended."
" Mr. John Harvey, the President for the ensuing year."
"The Bishop and Clergy of the Diocese."
The Rev. Dr. HAY., in rising to express his ,acknowledg-
ments for the honour paid to the worthy Bishop, together with
the whole body of the Clergy, said that he felt convinced of
the strict connection that must subsist between the clerical body
and the civil constitution of the kingdom. It was impossible,
the Learned Doctor observed, not to revere the memory of that
Statesman, who upheld and perpetuated to his country a frame
of government which extended happiness and comfort to all,
while it protected the liberties and honour of each individual,
and provided for the security of his life and character. The
connection of Church and State was distinctly recognized by
Mr. Pitt, and in the present times, which systematic effort's
were making to disparage religion, and to vilify the establish-
ment, in order to undermine and destroy the union of the eccle-
siastical and political bodies, that recognition was of special
moment. They were united on principles of expediency and
wise policy ; and it might be relied on, that the fall of one
must involve the ruin of the other.
The PRESIDENT then rose and said, Gentlemen, there is still
another class..of men whom should I ever forget, I ought to be
banished from the country ; it is the yeomanry of this country, a
body of men to whom I must feel myself to be under the highest
obligations. It isimpossible for me to introduce this toast with-
out connecting it with an anxious desire for the revival of the
drooping agriculural of the country. Believing, Gentlemen, as
I do, that the distresses under which we labour upon this head,
are both unprecedented in their nature and unparalleled in their
extent, 1 shall never cease to deplore that the subject should
ever have been associated with the wild and visionary phrenzies
of Parliamentary reform. Gentlemen, allusion has been made
to a late county meeting, and I cannot but now express the re-
gret I felt at the conduct of certain gentlemen of high rank and
consideration who attended that meeting. It was called express-
ly as I supposed to take into consideration. the alarming distress
of the agricultural interest. There came to the meeting gentle-
men of the highest rank and connections in the county, who
were understood to have pledged themselves to take no active
part in its proceedings, but to leave it to the yeomanry with
whom it originated. When, however, the resolutions were
brought forward, every subject was introduced except that
for which the meeting was convened. We began, as by im-
memorial usage, with the American war, proceeding by
easy stages to the conduct of the Manchester Magistrates, the
Queen, the Turks, the Greeks, all immediately connected with
the distress of the farmers, and all of them strictly referable to
the mischiefs of the Tory system. Conduct such as this, Gen-
tlemen, savours, in my opinion, of minds that are more adapted
to the wretched level of an election squabble, than for calm and
serious contemplation. We are told that there is no good to be
effected but through the medium of Parliamentary Reform.
Gentlemen, I hold in my hand an extract from an author, whose
opinions must ever command respect, upon that subject. Mr.
Burke says, "if ever the body of this compound Constitution of
ours is subverted either in favour of unlimited Monarchy, or of
wild Democracy, that ruin will most certainly be the result of
this very sort of machinations against the House of Commons."
This is my firm conviction. Gentlemen, there are reformers of
every kind, not merely Parliamentary Reformers, but we have
Reformers under the title of Philosophers, men who are per-
petually obtruding upon us their flimsy theories, regarding
things as, under a different state they might be rather than as
they are presented to our view by the circumstances of real life.
You may easily imagine that this subject is hardly for one mo-
ment absent from my thouglits, and will enter readily into the
feelings of one whose fate it is to sit perhaps for months brood-
ing over the sunken fortunes of our bankrupt tenantry, and.then
pass thence into the House of Commons, and hear their wrongs
extenuated by a set of prating preachers of paradoxical philoso-
phy, or obliterated by bablers for reform.—(Laughter and ap-

PRICE SEVENPEN LE.

clause.--.(Mr. Wodehouse concluded by proposing as a toast,
" The Yeomanry of the County."
The following toasts were afterwards drank :
" The memory of Lord Nelson."
"'The Mayor and Members of the Castle Corporation."
Mr. BECKWITH returned thanks.
" The President and Members of the King and Constitution
Club."

" The Land we live in and the Hearts of Oak that guard it."
About ten o'clock the President left the Chair; but the con-
vivial pleasures of the occasion were prolonged by " the choice
spirits" of the company, who retired at a late hour, highly
gratified as well as the rest with the tone of sentiment which
pervaded the proceedings of this celebration.

From the LONDON GAZETTE of Oct. 19.

Whitehall, Oct. 17, 1822.
The King has been pleated to recommend the Rev. `William
Cockburn, Clerk, Master of Arts, to be chosen into the place of
Dean of the Metropolitical Church of York, the same being
void by the death of Dr. George Markham.