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sought all who heard him not to molest any inhabitants
of the town, who, differing from them in opinion, did not
choose to illaminate. The breaking of one pane of glass
would do immense mischief to the cause of Reform. Mr.
3lunts, after a few more observations to the same effect,
concluded by seconding the resolution.
Mr. SALT, before the motion was put, intimated that
hail a resolution to submit which did not come within
the terms of the requisition. He should, however, re-
serve it until the close of the business more immediately
before the meeting.
The motion was then put and carried amidst loud accla-
mations.
Mr. BENJAMIN HADLEY, in proposing the second
resolution, rose and said, he held in his hand a resolution
which, if he knew any thing of their opinions, they would
support most cordially; it was that Earl Grey, that dis-
tinguished friend and ornament of his country, should be
requested to present the address then read, to his Majesty
at the next Levee.—(Cheers•) He (Mr. H.) was aware
how unnecessary it was to dilate on the merit of a man
who had " bought golden opinions from all sorts of people,"
yet he could not suffer that opportunity to escape without
expressing, not only his admiration of that great man, but
of acknowledging the deep debt of gratitude which he (Mr
IL) and a great mass of his fellow-countrymen owed him
for the display of principle and patriotism which he had
exhibited in the glorious measure of Parliamentary Reform
he had brought forward, and for subsequently advising his
Majesty to dissolve the late corrupt and wicked Parliament.
He knew not what praise other men might think Lord
Grey entitled to ; but, in his judgment, the measures of Re-
form which he had concocted would, if passed into a law,
prevent all the horrors of a civil war in the country, and restore
it to happiness and prosperity. He implored the meeting
to consider for a moment what endless years of oppression,
tyranny, and misrule, were in store for them and their suf-
fering country, if Lord Grey and his illustrious colleagues
were defeated on that measure; and that the only chance
they had of ultimate success was, by a firm, resolute, and
unshaken determination to support the King and his Mi-
nisters. Considering the great cause which Lord Grey
had undertaken ; considering the n awe of the opposition
which he had encountered, and had still to encounter. but
which he had, to his immortal honour, 'withstood with
such admirable firmness of purpose—it became their im-
perative duty to support him in every just and legal way;
to cheer him on in the glorious path he had chalked out
for himself ;..and by those means, and those only, could
they render themselves worthy of the great benefits which
he was anxious to confer upon them and their beloved
country. Mr. Had'ey then proposed the second resolution.
That the address now read be adopted, and that it be
forwarded by the Chairman to Earl Grey, and that his
Lordship he respectfully requested to present it to his
Majesty at the next Levee.
The Rev. T. M. 111'1)ot-sweet rose, and was received
with much applause. He said that it was impossible to
hear the flattering token of reception with which
the meeting then honoured him, and not think on
the odium which was sometimes cast on clergymen
for advocating such principles as the meeting be-
fore him professed, and for attending its proceedings.
But when be was surrounded with men who bad his re-
spect—and such bad the meeting before him—it amply
compensated for any reproaches that could be merle.
Against the system to which he bad alluded, he had
always lifted up his voice, both in private and in public,
and he ever would. The Rev. Gentleman then proceeded
to say that if there was ever a time in the annals of the
country when it was the duty of all to be firm and to do
their duty, it was the present. On the decision to which
they should that day come, depended not only the peace
and prosperity of themselves, but of the whole world.—
Aptly had it been said by their noble Chairman that it was
impossible for England to feel convulsion without the
whole world being thrown into the same state of evil.—
Sometime since he had felt distrust, as it regarded his
Majesty's Ministers ; but now he had seen their views and
measures, he had thought it right to retract, and to avow
his cordiality with them in the full sincerity cf profession.
They were not met in that place for the mere purpose of
idle conference ; it was there that they were fighting the
battles of England, and it became them to exhibit to the vir-
tuous part of the aristocracyand to the vicious, to the strong
part of the Court, and to the weak part, the determination
and the unanimity of the people of England. An orator
of antiquity had said that the first excellence of oratorf
was delivery, that the second was also delivery, and that
the third was still delivery. Saints had promulgated that
the first virtue was humility, the second humility, and
the third humility. He would say to the meeting, that
their first virtue should be determination, their second
determination, and the third determination. The time
was corns when the people of England were called upon to
act. He was astonished to find that there were men in
the nation who had determined to oppose the people of
England; and it had been said by the Marquis of Lon-
donderry, that by boroughmongers uniting, they would
easily gain a victory over the people. It was worthy of
remembrance, that the Marquis who spoke thus was, but
a short time since, nothing but a piper—and dearly would
he say had the people of England paid that piper. He
could tell that individual, that nature, who had bestowed
on other men brains and wisdom, hail made him nothing
but a fool. Talk of the people being subdued by such
men as the Marquis and his friends (said Mr. 111‘D.), as
well might thejlea lift up its voice against the comb of the
virgin, or the mole-hills of the earth attempt to stop in their
headlong course the falls of Niagara ;—(Laughter. ) [The
speaker here madea clever and whimsical remark on the sub-
ject of the late remark of the Editor of the Times news-
paper, "that certain Lords were things with human preten-
sions," and made use of some very forcible arguments to
prove that the Times had not departed from the truth on
the subject.) The speaker then proceeded to observe, that
he could tell the Marquis of Londonderry that in opposi-
tion to such principles as were held by him and his party,
there were Noblemen in the land—men whose very names
beamed as a constellation of greatness—who so far from
valuing the right which they possessed through the for-
tuitous circumstances of birth and the quarterings on their
escutcheons, looked upon such rights as disgrace rather
than honour. He would laugh at Londonderry and his
tribe. The coming thunder of the people would soon
frighten them out of the possession of their little wits. The
Cato-streetconspiracy sunk into insignificance in comparison
with that which was then affecting the liberty of the people,
and, in prospective, of their very lives. Referring to the late
struggle in the House of Commons, he said, that out of all the
Catholic Members of Parliament,there had been only one who
voted in opposition to the Bill. The remainder had given it
their sanction and support. Ireland had thus nobly
fought the battle for them. English Members bad been
far in the majority against the Bill, and Scotland's repre-
sentatives were two to one against it. This had atisen
from no sectarian feeling, but because Ireland, thirty years
ago, had been deprived of her rotten boroughs ; and bad
England shared the same fate, she would not have stood
in the predicament she was now in. Sir R. Peel had said

that he could not look upon the Bill, becmse it took away
the rotten boroughs without giving compensation. Such

a feeling was hypocritical. He had forgotten the paltry
objec.c o, keeping up England above Scotland and Ireland,
and for such an object rubbing Ireland without mercy—
that Sir R. Peel did not mind. Rotten boroughs were of
no sect, and of no country ; yet if he (Mr. 3PD.) were
able to purchase a borough, whether he was a Turk or of
any other nation, he would he thought a fit person to
legislate. It was money, in the present day, that made
the legislator. But let them rally round the King and
his Ministers, and such things would end. Their most
gracious Monarch might come among them, and where,
he would ask, was the Russian or the Turk who would
dare to molest him ? Mr. M'Donnell was much cheered
during his speech, and concluded by seconding the reso-
lution, which was passed unanimously.
It was then moved by Mr. W. WEsroN, that the thanks
of this meeting he given to Mr. Beardsworth, fur the use
of his splendid Repository on that day, and on so many
other important occasions. Mr. Weston passed a high
encomium on the public spirit at all times manifested by
Mr. Beardsworth.

Mr. Arrwoou observed that had it not been for the
public spirit of their worthy host, that meeting now within
its walls could not have been held, and the good which
hid arisen from other meetings of the like nature, assem-
bled in the same place, would have been entirely unfelt by
ecountry.

A str.nger here made it known to the meeting' that in
consequence of a refusal being made to permit the tin."bln
of the church bells of St. Martin's, the ringers had made
an entry through the belfry window. He recommended,
therefore, that a subscription should be entered into by the
meeting, to reward the spirited conduct of the ringers.
lie also informed them that a placard had been exhibited
upon the walls of the town, in some measure prohlbitory
of the intended illumination.
Mr. Arrwoov recommended every one to illuminate or
not, just as they thought proper. He would trouble
them with one more remark. The writings of Mr.
Cobbett on the great Bill of Reform during the last three
months, lead been invaluable. But in his Register of
List Saturday, be had stated that the people of England
hai been err,nious in the expression of their gratitude to-
wards the Aristocrcy of the country, in thanking them for
their voluntary surrender of their borough-patronage,
when such patronage, as be stated, ought to have been
surrendered thirty years ago. Here Mr. Cobbett was him-
self id error, The illustrious Noblemen in question bad