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

When Sir Satnuel rtoMilly tiioliess6a apthiure -tor the suspen.
gon tits the criminal cede, Where 1;c-ere they ?On every occasion
en which an' liberal measure had been brought forward,
• we're the Pisnops found to be against the rneaseresei-Jl4ear,
tiear.) The King had said rotten ~oro'nglis ought no
Linger to exist. The Pl,Lote bY Commons had said the
came thing—the ratite had sent firth a similar cry, and
hould it not be so ?--(Cries of " It shall be so, it shall
.;ti, so.") We only sought the recovery of those, privileges, -which had been usurped by the oligarchy, a kit repre
sentation in Parliament, The dotrattion 'of the noini-
nation boroughs end the tofranchisement of large ez•Ni:tny
and populous tetvos.—(theers.) Iltit the 'people of Eng-
land were told that Old -SaOstn. and Gatton must be pre..
. served; that they Vrtre, in truth, like the Siamese twins,
of whom it had been said separation would be e destrticten
---,-(Cheers and much laughter.) It hed been mid that Re-
form would be a death-blow to the Cionstitution. The
truth was, that it totild not be a death-blow to the Con-
stitution, but it Weilild be a death-blow to Toryism—to hi.
secures ) and to appointments to offices that were svWry
tistless.—(Cheers. ) A paper had been put into bils hand, pub-
lished yesterday in Bodmin, 039. V:ilda in some respects was
like the place that h:k'Ll given it birth. As usual, it was
An appeni re the passions and to the basest feeling. It
stated that if Reform took place, the corn laws would be
aholished.—(Hear, hear.) Did tl- e meeting believe that?
—(Cries of " No, no.") Conti) those who we're asSembltd
tl.ink that his Majesty's Ministers Were not as likely, or
more likely) to protect their interests than a parcel of men
who acted Without prire.:ilfle, and without any regard to
the peldie weal 7—( Hear, hear.) The paper he held in
`his tvattd he supposed was not worth reading, therefore he
Iwould not trouble the meeting with it. In contusion, he
hoped that nothing which had taketi place Would cause
them to rush into violenCe, bi- to adopt any course that
might be calculated to freattate rather than to forward the
object in view, OA he moved that the following address be
titesented to his Majesty
TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELDPST MAJESTY.
We, your Majesty's faithffil subjects; the freeholders and in-
habitants
of Cornwall in leCtffity meeting assembled, beg
humbly to arViiat7h file Throne with this our grateful
tribte of relea for the laws and of attachment to
the gracioie4 Sovereign, who, by the blessing of Providence,
ha I.leen called forth at this momentous crisis to administer
• and defend them. Assured of your Majesty's devoted teal
and solicitude for the public good--of your generous sympathy
with the hopes, fears, and wisheS of your 1441 people, we ven-
ture to pour forth our Rill !Veal's ill supplication to the Throne,
and to express in firm; but tbSpectful, language the bitter feel-
ings of disappOintifient and regret with which, in connection
with nfilteil millions, we have witnessed the attempted death-
blow and Momentary defeat of a whole nation's wishes by one
htlndred and ninety-nine Members of the House of Lords. That a
measure, emanating from the Throne, sanctioned by the Houseof
Commons, and calculated in the estimation of disinteretcd and re-
flecting minds, no less to uphold the true dignity of the Crown,
than to promote the peace, liberty, and happiness of all orders and
classes of society. That a measure so long and ardently sought
after and eXperted by the people, so peculiarly relating to their
own House of Parliament, and in no ways affecting the rights
or prii,'ileges of the other branches of the Legislature, should at
once, and almost without the form of enquiry, have been re-
fected by the majority of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, be-
trays on the part of their Lordships, either an ignorance of the
interests, or an indiffbrence to the wishes, of the people, for
which we were little prepared in the advancing light and know-
ledge.of the 111th century.
lint, however grieved or excited by this open contempt of
public feeling and o, inion, thus manifested by their Lord-
ships, it would ill become us, either as Englishmen or Re-
formers, to rush into violence and despair. On the paternal
care and goodness of your Majesty so eminently displayed in
every act of your benignant reign, or the tried wisdom, firm-
ness, and integrity of your Majesty's chosen friends and advisers,
the Ministers of our present liberal and enlightened Adminis-
tration, we still continue, with unabating confidence, to rely,
not doubting I ut that those prerogatives which have been en-
trusted to your Majesty for the welfare of the State, will, if
found necsssary, be so exercised as to confound its enemies, and
to ensure to your faithful people the blessings of that wise, effi-
cient, and constitutional Reform, of which they have been for a
while defrauded by the arts of a corrupt and factious oligarchy.
Sir Wm. MoLrswoaTae said, it was with sincere satis-

fiction that he came forward to second the resolut;on.
After the observations with which the introduction of it
',ad been received, he felt it would be idle in him to ad-
dress the meeting at any great length. There has been
a period when flattery and falsehood were alike unreason-
able, and to be objected to. As regarded the rights
.1 Cie people of England that time bad now ar-

. .
rived.—(Tremendous cheering.) A King we had
disposed to listen to the voice of the people—an administra-
tion we had alike open to the sound of their cries, but how
astonishing was it, and how indignantly must it not be felt,
that there should be a few in power, and among those few,
the shepherds forsooth of the Christian flock, who had
taken their stand against it, and declared that Reform
should not be granted.—(Hear.) As however the King was
true—as the Members of the Government were firm—it
bacame the people to assist Ministers in every possible
way in their power—to be sincere, urgent, yet temperate
in imploring his Majesty to retain his present Ministers in
their offices, to t ike steps of overcoming the power
of the 199 in favour of the rights and liberties of
lie people, and the Ministers to go on with the
splendid wot they had undertaken—(Hear, hear,)—
and upon which millions had expressed one undivided
opinion. The House of Lords would do well to listen to
the voice of the people before their rejected supplication
compelled them to prove even to that obstinate oligarchy
that the people of England were not and would not con-
tent to be slaves, and slaves for ever. He had great
pleasure in seconding the resolution.
Here the appearance of Lords Valletort and Elliot mak-
ing their way to the hustings through the crowd, drew
forth hisses and shouts of disapprobation from every put
of the dense assembly.
The limit SHERIFF having at length obtained a cessa-
tion of these marks of feeling with which the two noble
persons were received,
Sir COLEMAN Astray next came forward to

the front of the hustings, and shortly addressed the
meeting. He hailed with infinite delight the highly
respectable appearance of the meeting over which
he glanced his eyes. It would have been a source
of great regret to him to have found that the freemen and
inhabitants of Cornwall had, by any apparent indifference
at this most important period, in any way countenanced
the vile aspersions which had been thrown on the people
throughout the country, that they had slackened in their
zeal in the cause of Reform, or that they were not as anxious
for it now as at any previous moment they had ever been—
(Loud cheers)—that what they had exhibited at the last general
elections was only transitory— that they had aban-
doned their pursuit in a course, and in that course
which was calculated to procure and to secure their liberty, and
which was atone likely to obtain for them a cheap Go-
vernment, and to establish a safeguard against statutory
plunder and lawful speculation.—(Loud and continued
cheers.) This, however, could not be obtained while the
House of Commons was only the delegates of an odious
and unconstitutional oligarchy.—(Hear, hear.) It would
have been indeed wonderful if those assembled at this the
eleventh hour had been found to have abandoned the cause
to which they had been so firmly attached. He trusted they
never would.—(Cries of "Never.") It was not his intention
nor wish to speak in terms of disrespect of the Members of
the House of Peers. He had no wish to raise a clamour
against them, nor a hatred towards any other part of the peo-
ple. Though an hereditary House of Peers was an anomaly,
yet it had often been useful to the country when it had pro-
perly acted. He admitted that such a House had been often
usefuL In the vote too they gave on the Reform Bill, they
might not have exceeded their rights ; yet the exercise of ex-
treme rights might become a greivous burthen—(Hear, hear)—
and it was one thing to stand between the Crown and the pco.
pie, and another thing to oppose them both. (Hear, hear-)
He could net but suppose the Peers had been guilty of a great
indiscretion on this occasion, and that they had acted highly
injurious to their own characters.—(Hear, hear, hear.)
He wished not to speak disrespectfully of the Bench of
Bishops—(Laughter)—but he would put it to them to
consider whether they had not taken the very course to
increase that hostility of feeling that existed against then),
and whether it must not appear to all that in their votes
against the Bill they held up an inroad upon the Constitu-
tion as a pretext, and that they had ot.ly their own sordid
and interested feelings in view. On the subject of the
" reaction" which was said to have taken place he had
to assure those who heard him that things had now been
brought to such a pitch, that upon the people, and the
people alone, hung the hopes of the nation...-(lle.ir.)
It was not to Parliament, but to the power and energies of
public feeling the people could now only look.—(Cheers.) He
knew that by this statement he was subjecting himself to the
imputation of being guilty of holding out intimidation; but he
denied that such a conclusion of guilt on his part could he fairly
laid to his charge by any impartial mind, and it was most im-
proper in any one to bring forward this argument. The
people had a right to raise their voices when their
claims were rejected, and rejected even without being
fully heard. I,ook back to what had taken place with regard
to Catholic Emancipation. What said Wellington and
Peel on that occasion, the two staunch opposers of Catho-
lic Emancipation. They each said at the time the mea-
sure passed, their feelings were then as decidedly opposed
to it as ever they had been, but that they at last acceded to
the passing of the Act, under the conviction, that if it did
not pass, a civil war would be the consequence.—(Hear.)
But was it therefore to be said that Wellington and Peel
were on that occasion intimidated ? No, but they con-
sented at last magnanimously to sacrifice their character
of consistency on the altar of the wishes of the
people of the country.—(Cheers.) And if the House of
Lords mould now but be wise, they would allow them-
selves to be persuaded that the pe,ice of the country could
alone be preserved by now conceding to the people what
'bey' had raised their voices in favour of. It they did not
'dent, they might have occasion to regret thy course they
had taken. It would be well for them, without delay, to
let a fallacious point of honour give place to generous and
kind feelings. Union on the part of the people at
!his momentous crisis was of vital importance. The
People ought not to be divided, that being divided they
•