The Sun.
London, England, 1831-11-09 00:00:00

TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN,—We, your Majesty's
most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Nobility Gentry, Clergy,
Freeholders, and Inhabitant Householders in the County of
Warwick, assembled at a public meeting convened by the
High Sheriff, desire most respectfully to approach your Ma-
jesty at this important crisis, to express our sincere, ardent, and
devoted attachment to your Royal person, and our unshaken
resolution to support your Majesty's present Government by
every constitutional means in our power.
We deeply lament the refusal of the House of Lords to
sanction the Bill for a Reform of the Commons House of Par-
liament, upon which the hopes and expectations of the nation
were intensely fixed. .

We beg to express our unfeigned gratitude to your Majesty
for continuing your confidence in an Administration distin-
guished by its enlightened zeal to promote the public welfare,
and to secure the constitutional rights and liberties of your
people.
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We place implicit confidence in your Majesty's determined
exercise of all those royal prerogatives invested in your Ma-
jesty by the constitution, for the maintenance of your Royal
authority, and the preservation of the liberties of the subject,
as to your Majesty may now or hereafter seem wise and neces-
sary in such critical and eventful times ; and we implore your
Majesty, as the protector of the rights of your subjects, to give
such aid and sanction to the counsel of your Ministers as may
enable them to carry into speedy effect the great measure of
Parliamentary Refurin—a measure calculated to produce and
ensure the peace, happiness, and prosperity of your Majesty's
dominions.

.....
we entreat your Majesty to give a favourable reception to
this our humble petition, expressing, as it does, the sentiments
awaitof anwith immensedeepanxiety, i
majority
an xicof y,uotu r
withu
Majesty'srskhfaai faithful subjects,
confidence,Bubject
attainment of this great object of their wishes.
May your Majesty, in thus aiding the hopes and prayers of
your devoted and faithful subjects, cause them ever to regard
you as the Father of your Country, and may you long live the
Patriot King of a grateful and happy people.
He (Sir George Chetwynd) could not anticipate any ob-
jections whatever to the address. Ministers were highly
deserving the confidence of his Majesty ; he agreed with
them in their measure of Reform, and their principles of
economy, with which they had set out, especially
in those taxes which pressed heavily on society,
and in the reduction of their own salaries. But
at the same time he could not help lamenting when
they had gone so far to curtail their own income, they had
not at the same time squeezed a little out of the pension
list, in which he could not see the name of one who had
rendered any services to his country.—(Loud cheers.)
He trusted that a Reformed Parliament would put
a complete end to all such abominable sinecures. He
was thankful to Government for the repeal of the same
laws. He was quite astonished at the labour of Lord
Brougham, who, although he had not sat twelve months
on the Woolsack, had done more than all his pre-
decessors combined to make that Court what it
ought to be, a Court of Equity..—(Loud (glee .)
In conclusion he called upon the people of Englandoas
their friend, and as the friend of Reform, not to give way
to disappointment. He would tell them that the Bill
must and should pass. He would exhort them in the
words of Lord Brougham not to break the King's peace,
and they might be assured ere long of obtaining all that
they wished for.—(Loud cheers.) Reform would be a
blessing to the country, and, so far from injuring its insti-
tutions, it would redouble their splendour, and hand down
the name of England with honour to future ages.
The Hon. T. C. CLIFFORD seconded the resolution.
When last he had the honour of addressing himself to the
freeholders of that important county, it was for the pur-
pose of moving a vote of thanks to Esrl Grey and his
Majesty's Ministers, for having introduced into Parliament
one of the most competent measures of Reform that could
by possibility have been introduced. He did so un-
der every conviction that a question which emanated
from a patriotic King, and which was introduced into
the House of Parliament by an intelligent Ministry, would
long ere this have received the fiat of law —(Loud
cheers.) The tree of Reform, however, had for a time
been nipped by the antumnal blast,
.but he trusted that it
would shoot forth with renewed vigour in the spring.
He declared his entire concurrence in the present system
of Reform, which he had no doubt would have the best
effects throughout the country. He thought the
present system of election was the means of creating rui-
nous expense, and the system of borough nomination, he
maintained, was no part of the British Constitution—
was no part of that Constitution that was established in
the time of Alfred, or that which was wrested by the Ba-

runs of Runnymede from the tyrant John. Be trusted that
his present Majesty would lung live to wear that tiara which
be so much adorned, in which was one of the proudest
gems of which England could boast,—(Cheers.) And
when it pleased a more than earthly power to take him to
himself he would unite his voice to his country in hoping—
". That o'er his grave might ever waive
The patriot banner—Freedom."
—(f remendom cheering. )
Mr. JAMES CRUM?, in an able spee'2li, refuted the cry
of a reaction having taken plac'e.
Sir E. E. WmiiikoT, Bart. moved the presentation of
the following addresi to Earl Grey :
TO THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL GREY.

THE ADDRESS OF THE NOBILITY, GENTRY,
CLERGY, FREEHOLDERS, AND INHABITANT
, HOUSEHOLDERS OF THE COUNTY OF WAR-
WICK, IN COUNTY MEETING ASSEMBLED, ON
THE BTH NOVEMBER, 1831.

We, the Nobility, Gentry, Clergy, Freeholders, and In-
habitant Householders of the County of Warwick, offer our
grateful thanks to your Lordship and his Majesty's Ministers,
for your patriotism and firmness in support of the great measure
of Parliamentary Reform, and for your continuance in his Ma-
jesty's Councils after the rejection by the Lords Spiritual and
Temporal of the Bill for the amendment of the representation
in England am( Wales.
That your Lordship's distinCt and solemn public pledges to
reintroduce into the Legislature measures of equal efficiency in
restoring to the people their just rights in the Commons House
of Parliament, have maintained general order and tranquillity
in the country, and acquired for your Lordship and his Majesty's
Government the confidence and support of a united people.
That we have witnessed with increasing apprehension the
rejection of the English Bill of Reform by the Lords Spiritual
and Temporal, without the deliberation of a Committee, by
which act the House of Lords has endangered all the institu-
tions of Church and State, and hazarded the peace and pros-
perity of the nation.
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That the imputed reaction of public opinion is a gross mis.
representation ; that the people are determined to support your
Lordship's administration against the prejudices and interested
machinations of the opponents of Reform, and we implore your
Lordship, thus upheld by the nation, to place confidence in its
resolute support of your Lordship's enlightened and patriotic
measures.

That we observe with sleep regret the active opposition to his
Majesty's Councils and Government of persons holding official
situations ; and we respectfully implore your Lordship to termi-
nate the disgraceful exclusion of men of liberal opinions from
civil distinctions, and to recommend the constitutional exercise
of all those Royal prerogatives that may be now or hereafter
essential to the success of the Reform Bill—energy and deter-
mination being essential to the maintenance and success of your
Lordship's Administration.
After what had bcen said, he had very little to offer
to:the meeting, but there were two points which
he wished to mention. One relating to the Bill ,itself,
and the other to the conduct of the Reformers. With
respect to the Bill itself, the point which lie intended to
advert to had not been noticed to-day. The argument
against Schedule A, which destroyed all nomination
boroughs, was that it prevented men of talent getting in
the House of Commons. Without stopping to argue that
men of talents were better than plain and honest country
gentlemen, he would maintain that the Bill had increased the
possibility of men of talents getting into the House, for
this reason that a greater number of Members were given
to the counties and to the towns, consequently, instead of
going through a narrow dirty by-tray into the House of
Commons, which was generally done, they would go
through a broad, plain, open path, the door to the
by-way having been stoi ped: up.— (Loud cheers.)
The other point to which he had referred was one which
every Reformer should have at heart, being as the House
was at present constituted, taxed by the Anti-Reformer,
who had set his face against Reform..—(Cheers.) He
would assert that the measures taken at the beginning of
the late reign, for the purpose of taxing the country
without its being properly represented, had involved
it in a parijdal war, which ended in separating
this country from her colonies. —(Cheers.) The Catholic
emancipation had been granted from fear, and not from
affection. The flood-gates of Reform were now open, and
it was for the Anti-Re ormer to say whether that stream
should go through the land peaceable or not, cheering all
around it, and making the people happy.—(Loud and
long-continued cheering.) It was for him to say, whether
by the machinations of Anti-Reformers, it should be turned
into a dreadful torrent, carrying on its waves a broken ves-
sel, shorn of all its m fists.--(Loud cheering.) It was for
the purpose of bringing that vessel safe into the haven of
security, that he had risen to propose the present address
to Earl Grey, requesting him to still sit at the helm to guide
the vessel from the rocks and quicksands on which it might
founder but for his able guidance. On the Hon. Baro-
net's sitting down, three rounds of applause were given by
the immense multitude.

Mr. GREGORY, in an able speech, seconded the resolu-
tion. He thought that the petition which had been
presented by this great county to the House of
Lords ought to have been treated with respect, and
not to have been cast aside as if it had come from
the miners of Mexico.—(Loud cheers.) 199 indi-
viduals had usurped the power of England—the power of
the King, the people, the House of Commons, and the Go-
vernment, and had rejected a Bill which was calculated to
bring together all classes of society, which was met by the
people of England with rapture and joy, and who bad come
forward, forgetting and forgiving years of misrule and op-
pression, and offering the hand of friendship to the Aris-
tocracy, who had refused it with scorn.—(Loud cheers.)
Who, lie would ask, were those Lords ? Not the real
Aristocracy of England—not those whose names filled the
pages of history with glory and honour—not those
who had wrested from the hand of the tyrant John
the rights and charters of the liberties of England, hut it
was those men who had been created on the dunghill of cor-
ruption, who had dared to oppose the wishes of a patriotic
King, his Ministers, and the people. He (Mr. Gregory)
in expressing his abhorrence of such an Aristocracy could
not but admire the master-band which had selected them.
They had been created for the purposes of opposition, and
most admirably did they answer the end for which they
were designed.—(Loud cheers.) With respect to the
Lords Spiritual, those who were supposed to be the
followers of the Apostles, deserved a little attention of
the present meeting.— (Cries of " No, they don't,
no they don't," " Down with them.") He did not mean to
deny that every man had a right to exercise his opinion,
and the acts of the Bishops in voting against the Reform
Bill proved clearly a combination, and it was necessary,
therefore, for the people to combine against them.—
(Loud cheering.) They had, indeed, proved themselves
with a vengeance to be the meek and humble followers
of that religion which taught them to live in charity with
all men.—(Loud cheering.) In the arguments used by
them against the Bill, they expressed the greatest con-
tempt for the people of England.--(Cheers.) Arguments
of a similar nature had also been used by those who had
but lately sprung from the people themselves. The gill had
three greatobjects in view—disfranchisement—enfranchise-
ment, and the 101. franchise. The two first were great points
indeed, but lie considered the last as essentially necessary
to the interests of the country. In favour of that argu-
ment, he would read an extract from the work of Nicho-
las Machiavel, the President of the republic of Florence.
" The demands of a free people are seldom pernicious to
liberty, because they arise either from being oppressed, or
from a suspicion of being about to be oppressed. Even if
these opinions should be false, and there is the remedy of
open discussion, let any honest man point out to them
how they are dee, ived, and the people, although they may
be ignorant, can feel the truth, and easily give way when
they are told it by a man worthy of belief. As for prudence
and firmness, a people is more prudent, more firm, and of
better judgment than an Oligarchy (Prince). It is not
without reason that the voice of a people is assimilated to
that of God ; because, as if by some hidden virtue, it
foresees its own good and evil. As for judging of affairs,
it is very seldom seen, when a people hears two orators
who speak on different sides, and are of equal worth, that
it does not adopt the best opinion, and that it is not capable
of appreciating the truth that it hears. A people is also
seen in its election of Magistrates to make a far better choice
than an Oligarchy (a Prince). Never will you persuade
a people that it is right to raise to dignity a man of in-
famous and corrupt habits, to which it is easy, and by a
hundred ways, to persuade an Oligarchy (a Prince). The
cruelties of the multitude are exercised against those they
fear will usurp the public rights. The cruelties of an
Oligarchy are exercised against those they fear will invade
their private privileges. But the opinion against the
people arises, because every one speaks it of the people
without fear. Oligarchs (Prince), when in power, must
always be spoken of with a thousand fears and a thousand
respects.—(Cheers.) He would also read an extract
from the Prime Minister of an absolute King, who
flourished 100 years after Machiavel. He stated,
that " Whatever notions uaay be formed of the levity
and inconsiderateness of those whom we are pleased to
turn the vulgar, I have always found, that though they
may fix upon some particular aims, and follow them not
only with rashness, but with rapture, yet these aims are
always to a certain degree general: and directed to some
common interest; but that any private one's ends, such as
proceed from the anger or wishes of a particular man, or
of a small number, are never long or much regarded. I
will venture to say farther, that of general interests the
give the most certain judgment.
voice of the people will
Allowing this principle, I considered the seditious party
(similar to our oligarchs and borou4nongers) as formid-
able, only on account of the mischievous influence that it
might have in the provinces by mis-representations of the

King and his Government." It was urged against the es'
tension of the 101. franchise, that the people were ignorant'
if they were so, he would ask, was it net a scandal t‘
those men who had ruled the country for half a cent
end who had done all they could to keep the people ig°''
rant, and who threw it in their teeth that they *ere
and were not deserving of the rights which the r''
intended to hive them.—(Loud and continued cheer:
ing.) He really was at a loss to imagine why tu:
great county of Warwick, which had alwaye conducted';o
:wife peaceably; should not be allowed. to Kaye the pre
meeting without having soldiers I,laze:l aC 'cliettino's
quell disturbance.—(Cheers.) He trusted the MernlYe0;
of the county would make some motion in the Hou'e
Commons that they might know who put that disgrsc
upon them.—(Loud cheers.)
The Rev. A. G. Wane, D.D. in moving the follovM
resii!ution
That this meeting implores the Right Rev. Prelates to ctT,i
sider maturely whether their future votes in support of a
King, the Ministry, and the People, on the re.introductiollo
the Reform Bill, would nut conduce to the interests of religi
.and the Established Church ;"
S iid, when I put my name to the requisition for this IneeLett'
ing, I hoped we should have to congratulate each et'd
upon the peaceable conduct of all the people of Engla4
tinder the sore disappointment at the rejection of the Pi,
form Bill ; but, although our hearts are agoni‘eed cretth.tii
row and dismay, by the d,strtareion of property and hn'o
life at Bristol, we must at the same time deny that 0
fault is justly chargeable to the Reformers. "If evil 00
needs come, woe be to them by whom it comes,"--it 'co
the denial of justice by tl e Lord., and above all by
Bishops, that furnished the combustibles of discontent
tie orderly, and the opportunity of mischief to the disflet
derly, and Sir Charles Wetherell fired the train.,'
conduct of our political Quixote was more 'nisei:6o°l;oo
than that of the Knight of the Rueful Countenancer 'etoo e
when the keepers advised him not to provoke the lin° If I
fir, retired o ith honour ; but Sir Charles, misehievel`o,
intent upon " a re-action," raised the riot, and was '4,1041
compelled to sneak away in disguise and disgrace ; „ t
it not been for the noble exertions of the Political Untn'he
Bristol, the western capital of England would, throught,
f dly and temerity of Sir Charles Wetherell, have norbe!„,o
a heap of ruins The best weapons we can use to aha
a more glorious and bloodless victory over the oligarebt..,,',
fiction, are those of frequent meetings, sound arre
ments, urged in a firm, uncompromising, legal, And rot
stitutional mintier, not suffering the despicable art,' Iv
of the late Reformers about '° re-action" and uele
sions"—to goad our reason from her seat. Letiorf
tell the Bishops in a voice of thunder that they
crucified their Christian flocks between two sets of 11,evit
vz. the boroughmongers who have robbed us, and 'bell
rabble friends who wish to do so. Yes, gentlemen, %eve
we lament that discontent or disloyalty should any
be written in blood, or lighted by fire, let us, by our Pe 0f
able conduct, put to silence the foolish talking tl MM
Tories, by rallying round the King and his Alin': ee
and enable them to wrest from the griping hand
borough tyrants the long lost rights of an oppressedtl:6,
stilted, and degraded people. Let us put the utmost tht
dense in Ministers, and implore them to tranquilltreftht
country by t_king steps for the immediate passing 0/10
Bill with schedule A and B, and the 101. suffrage, lc, al'
alone can prevent a national convulsion. I will Justjof
vert to a scandalous assertion, reported to have been 'Ol
by Lord Valletort at a meeting in Cornwall, " T°,:tseft,
Reformers wish to set the lower classes against the "'"
and that attempts have been made at BirmingbaTv'
other places to spread abroad fallacies and dele°
Now, having the honour to be a member of the Billll,3jetn
him Union, I inquired of several gentlemen in Le'"cerft
who frequent the mercantile parts of London and the Loo'
end of town, what opinion was entertained by theii
apd
dopers of the Birmingham meeting at Newhall 11""Aelft
of the petition; they said it was considered to he , tee,
wisely, and judiciously drawn up, and the result '1;00
meeting tranquillized the minds of the Londoner' viet
than any other circumstance—the opinions of the fed'
doners being very much influenced by the sound pea cc thrM
views of the Birmingham people. So much then efrg
alleged Birminehain fallacies and delusions--as to tn.eherl*
f 'toners wishing to set the lower classes against the 1,11).dt
and, although I ant called by the John Bull, a 13',e
as':'
double democrat, I fling bick the reproach with innIVI
tiun, as best suiting the Tories, who would set all he„talt
men by the ears, in order that the boroughmongers rdel
plunder us with impunity. I say, the industrious I,a;
are not hostile to the higher classes; but they are hOr.Poibit
1;1 a tth learbtuere.,l6:l:
and properly so, to the close system of sin, of sivern
pensioners, placemen, noble and ignoble paupers, to
tfohceto
tyrantss s that
odietvhoeu fruitchica ofl
f industryaetion
t
upon them too heavy to lie borne, and who will not "'°eat`
a finger to assist them. While the productive classes re'l:,er4
the person and property of every mau,they abominate tl'e
tom of the cerruptionists. lam happy to say that °lb,
county of Warwick there is an honourable rivalry, 011;
among the farmers and among the landlords, Wl's'ooolol
most benefit the labouring classes ; but the greatest to
lice,
was in the Cambridgeshire farmers and freeholder',olols;,f
ing that they were not to be gulled by the Tory isadFi)
skins and fallacy," that the Bill is hostile to the did,ts
interests, by their actually driving away the Tory cam tb
backed as he was by the purse of Lord Hardwickeerrork
influence of the Duke of Rutland, and the clerical e.;.eerr;it
tionists of the University of Cambridge. Still, ht' "deed,
ti e industrious classes may continue to grind at theoeeem
of labour till they are blin_l, and the ,agricultural, °°oolSet
cial, and manufacturing interests will be oppressed, refeee
the industrious classes obtain their just share in the Ott,
sentation by means of the Reform Bill. GentlenlV
political part of the subject of Reform has lier°6loolle
discussed here, and so learnedly treated by Mr' bel* e
Parkes at Birmingham, and here I am proud,
Birmingham is the scene of his, Parkes's gl'if se, t
sly that this town of Warwick claims him a, "'esti' t
for he is a native of this city,—that I shall $
from going over the political ground, and ca°6losil
remarks to the ecclesiastical part of the subjecte'ded t
new question of political prelacy. While we e°'ires° t
the conduct of the Ili-hops, we ought to give the teer,ll
praise to the Bishops of Norwich and Chichester, tart" 1
on the brink of the grave, sent up his vote in sulkalill t
our new Magna Charta of civil liberty ; and the 010,
Milton's Alidiel among the revolting an rd.. stood

Among the—faithless faithful only he,
His loyalty he kept, his zeal,
Though single."
pa, e
These two Bishops appeared to have the same
the same courage to declare them, as the late Dean re
who was the advocate of thorough Reform in tbeazget
sentation, of a cheap Government, and of meant, t° Ysll6
the Government from ever being profligate in theirlooo
diture. Ile would have advocated just such a Pilig 111
Reform Bill. Gentlemen, the Bill (if passed) VbrAi
to a Reform in the abuses of the Church as well or tosr
the State—such as a Bishop having 30,0001. per snu°'lfirel
a respectable clergyman, with a wife and six cl,'",ll,sr
having between 301. and 40/, per annun''.l,llll
about twopence-halfpenny a day each indivll oir
subsist on ; such as a respectable clergYal lei
in poverty, and a Bishop leaving belriu, csri%
100,000/, for his own family. Such shirts a'f• f6,`
the best writer and friend of the Church °
laud to say, " The Church of Christ is worse 'l°,l if:
of thieves ; it is the very dwelling,-place of foul ,o',;
who have climbed up into the seats of Epise°,llio
barter." I think we shall not be at a loss to find I, 10
our day one instance, at least, of a man who hat,
tered" his principles more than once to obtain tiler I,gl
Episcopacy. Such was the fault of the tribe :00
viz.:—pride of life—covetousness--more
secular than to spiritual affairs; and here iv' 61;r1
have much difficulty in finding parallel case& rd
Bishops will say that they sit in Parliament to gu-, crol
temporal interests of the Church. This is n°,llle
and such faithful guardians they are that they Reel) e°
dint share of the good things for themselves and tbeiitle
nexions. Such abuses as we may infer from the
,/e
" Prelacy."
Itdy signifies tthheemersetirveems,e ohfuthuirsniltir4
(erring every bo else to
perverted by the Bishops in preferring thernselve! :er
body else—struggling after " translations" to ric or
shoprics. Well might Hroker say the " blernisbfe;!
rof
I' Church is the insatiable panting after spiritual ed'
ou
without care or conscience for the public g 10
Bishop Jewel, " 0, what would a prophet s'lsiieg
who build houses, and leave the House of God for'cbti!
Such abuses as we may infer do exist from tbei.isisr°
prayer for " Bishops and Curates." It is an 'l,O
tb
teviinony how much these Prelates have outgrly s°,
primitive slenderness. The Bishops were origin'. coil
of parochial Ministers, having their assistants r?,l to
to do the parish duty ; but, le,t they should pick year
tof corn that fell from the Bishop's abundant sbeo,4lsPi
stepped a troop of soldiers, like what you se' oil,
overawe your proceedings—a sort of lumber t! oaf
cause they are of no use amongst us. No ; but Itei ctor''''
a troop of Deans, Prebends, Pluralists, and 00'1
take the great and small tithes, and left the ntiellt.,
Clergy or Curates little besides the prayers.
a Reformed Parliament will reform these abuses ,fori• oj
nopolies. A Reformed Parliament will also
tithe system, cud will probably consider that if o• f,
rif the land who, after a life of labour, gint, r• °1:1
b
emoluments for a seat of toil, with only toile I
per annum ; that surely a Bishop, wh° olghoil
little, and never gives up any thing he can keel7llo,o
be satisfied with the same income, and not to have

and

'at the e/'
ignortifit

' '1' and 30,0007, per annum. In 1641, when the
estefr " riPelled "in
Parliament, the Bishop of
allowed that they deserved their fate, on account
intolerable abuse of their privilege.. Bishops
3,!•nd,Atlrew, Drs. Hammond and Cohere have also
"O the civil and political usurpations of the epic.
ut7l_)'•then, shall we think of the conduct
711430 f 1831, who have evinced an utter diere-
`"e Morals o_ the people, by throwing. out the
hieh ~, • f b
of „..- ~._,..16 to Ott ae,the,.iiieis Of perjury; eWry, stiliornaa
th'l'Clur'f; derintenneris' venality, and corruption?
le4l,:itnit resembled that great agitator of the Col-
ofhiir i Priests, Sheitiaiah, the Nehelemite, who.ne
. ;•!:,..", rebuked by the mouth of the Prophet Jete-
.:e-,," l' malice in punishing the people without a
~ "'", when they did not interfere with the priestly
Ice ti,:n,"°'l, I consider a religious establishment to
fe to,- "'lbath, which was made for man, and not
rel:r ,„-"e ibbatli The political jurisdiction of Bi-
t --t1::.;IY B.)ate. policy., and- only
.to be. admitted when
not the' against the State, of which it is thev servant,burton
stole h.'n.ere ally—in opposition to ash. o.p
e'o,e,t' 'dee 'icon a country parson—au! contraryar
to
6 th:lteetlrae of Jewish precedents,
to C.h. les! s etermell,
phispt, etching of the Apostles. Political
jurisdiction
%,,,' )%iitmli custom, adopted in subsequent times,
lie virtue Were in fashion, anti when Bishops possessed
'hi the lui:'' bot,s it not tl:en follow, that, since lawyers
Ith „, 'eolsack, and there is political rottenness in t
.e 0 ju'
r',,ietiti th.e most legitimate ground of the Bishops' pr())l'..-
49 est. "'an-sof their voting in Parliament upon p,1.1
lk,Uof ri, is taken away. They do usually withdraw in
ktuted '44)(1) I ask, then, why they should remain i
ll4les `vtallie' to judge political questions " contrary
the
it blood Loslislimen which are dearer to them than
' Ch -, I hope his 111. sty, who is the " Head of
red titre 2'
a, well as 'of) the state, will. be graciously
Inliast.° create new Peers, enough to withstand these
else 0f.444 three-deckers who sail so proudly in, the
tiOd their!"'°4l4, and have like the mutineers at the lore,
to / episcopal honour against their country's free-
t.,4,i 0,4.':°." them, as honest Clergymen in former olays
i'att '''' Prelatical predecessors, to look well to their
sot
net the the next meeting of Parliament, lest they e -
tgcl, hot 4Y their own political and Parliamentary p.ri-
:lQt°,,t what is of infinitely more importance—the in-
."tli nr"e,resPectahility—and even the existence of the
Iki._ Pil-,.ht.?giatad—and above all, less they give such an
:4di 'Lk to the feelings of thousands, as may make
,(ot,',,!•ued with religion itself of every denomina"ion
.stt,'' lead on account of the uncharitable behaviour
itoiHtlY aadner a" professors of Christianity. I must
' bee d, r"Peetfully entreat the Bishops to codnstuhlet
'''' e,tignitY—the feelings of the people—an
lh:'/.0- °I. Church and State, if they will not sup-
is h 41---to Withdraw from their seats when the ques-
'"oght forward.
. v
17,
ili,,ldeseerseaw Esq seconded the resolution, but
ift esor'cithitel.!_
voice:yo:as to-. render it totally impossible to
:he rAil4' d ,
it
(/A. l'in was carried unanimous,).
'IR r sr-Es THS.OOKMORTOs:, Bart., moved the fol-
Thate:°4ltion ....._
tj,hi-:'„,.' ince;e thanks be given to the follow_ipg.sN_opeblne-
rktilibie,'l,lv, the Marquis of Northampton, Earls s -
Hood Lords
.rt ti Clift4`cirayennd rendon, V s
hie. the i.c_11,9 Wenlock for
readingttieirihcoonuestand patriotic
of the Re-
-444 ie the tieoeursecumiridrsea, the second
jeli tv S4UeXtuitoGli, isq, seconded the resolution,
4,.. 4 carried unanimously with three cheers.
krt'w
the °OD at this moment came upon the hustings,
sn, assembled crowd instantly gave him three
ye 4 :the worthy gentleman then proceeded. to
t tehr, '°,s of thanks to the honourable and upright
hth rePreeented that county in Parliament. It was
lyi,i),',g.reatest pleasure that he had had the opportunity
h't,lithe'lLthie.
,p.ublie spirit and unweari.ed.ind,ustrymwenittl.)
t'tihre!ae3rtion‘sisehliarged their. arduous duties nil ania i
ad operated as a sort of retaining fee
st, thlr future services, and they had pledged themselves
ititith,7ll,vo.uld not desert the country in its hour of need,
t°04)14 he :(,,,, given
t,n ti
it hhei r thvolred,oftlitahte whole
Sthiellirof re
had
'4)4 ltl't iitte of thteelawnd.o Ile (Mr. A.
would take
11.4tbel'r's''f t° assert, that the whole of the Bill of Reform
Illlueof become the law of the land—(Cheers)—as
,h)feetrhs)e—iatiosd.a g(rcerotn_
tvel,b ehe,rBrolnust. become t
not retreat. A nation
hie retreated) , They could
14,:. „,il,e,uand he wasnseure that the present nation
~-,W.,uld ..
ti,
retreattnadiv)efore for upwards of 2,000
I y:,,,,,,end.7.:s
ch,e; ) two hundred old women.
When he retreated, it should
thll,,,re,the Youn r ni' the old, women.—(CoPti-
e wagoter.,
11, and not
tee ' Perf,; e was perfectly satisfied. with the Bill,
~q the i. y satisfied that it would shot tly be.come_the
' it ',lid) hut lie, notwithstanding, entertained fears
''''le ; it4ii 'gilt again be rejected by the House of
ti it', 'tt,,',4l-Ild, a treat and trying crisis would arrive,
f-ket ::-': behove f'all' to be extremely cautious with
a
ille,uret ,:e...ket Was now doing, for they might be assured
so ludi it“eral commotion broke out in the country,
1,1 lied was certain that the enemies of the people
'ft
-'
oomet"''Yell, yet it NV,I4 equally certain that the I
would'lidotisrtvii Y would stiffer unmerited misery. He woo
kick , Ybe thought the House of Lords would again
in'i' tO l'•,t, the Bill. Uni,„ would their be wanted.
order ra
it,. Lilite''',lls-1-.-lie begged the Sheriff's pardon—in.
itintt"4litit:,e'", 'louse of Lords to pass the Bill. Unarm-
tl,, ter mi,„, 'aary every where. if there was not the greatest
dung,'ill te°'it haPpen to the people. He did not say that
h, t Iv niehl le. lost for ever, that was impossible, but the
pi.'4, bi abl that the people might be precipitated into an
that they (csi and tear (Tremendous cheering.) At
ee':s kibgth`tele impreg.—.they—they bad along with them
i'''t,ll:it a '"4lide ollianri:thejr-.'—' and the whole of the people,
Iglit„4o doub ( Loud cheers.) The enemy
t, h -..0d ki t endo•avour to harden the heart of our en-
ttr'doet ,p, and disturbances would be • din order
treirr'estiu Isreurd among the people. He would say to
1,0 'to, ' 'or evidence of that were the Morning Post
'4;:h1411, faideuti7'd payers, those two great instruments of the
the het "e which tell the most enormous lies dia.
N0Y1,114 se tf°l',l by mortal tnan—(Loud cheering)—and
144 i"; th °L the purpose of raising discoid amongi the
t,
r'iteentey tell them that the King, the people, and the
tie"bitit: 're joining; together to hand the nation over.t
to) eaest---(Loutf cheers.) They tell the King, that l
litl!Mlit,
read Morrierit we have got 10,000 organized men
he
14144(1,,,....rrY to act. Why, it was too ridiculous to ie
'tij /:,,,,Itetta'"ng and continued cheering.) They
iti ‘,.,',1, ;
~ also tlia.t they had 1,000 down at
,''iali ,-°'' there was one house in London
if it their' ere 2QO ready for revolution—(Loud cheering)
lase, a 4 fear was that by these doings the King's heart,
(I. ei,,, That firm firm as a rock, would be unseated from its
lti'' el e"` was one of the tuts of the enemy.—
'.itnlikti:'ai' Zis(i) The fact was, that the men of Bit.-
4iot to th only joined themselves together to re-tore
qFd:.4. ti), '''' who had been deprived of them, and to
g, 64reci eNntry to happiness. These publications en-
i'ithr‘i it° i 'ow discord among the people. 'They
6f Jr,- tne country telling them that the great
ii Pew 'eefoi e which" just been offered by
-tel •eiii, 2 has
uth4eity to,lteliXing to his people, they had the
'4 '''-(1..0 the People that the Bill was not worth
wasa
°tie /.trtli I'd cheers.) If he (Mr. A.) thought it
It',! to ~, rush—if be thought it was not of greater
th„Ill ~„`ue working classes than any other, be
1,4d-ers),...:r" Rupport it for a moment-- (Loud
thh' l'esell,"°r bis Opinion was that the working classet!
Peeq' ) I,mre injured than that of any other.—(Loud
Ple
,41'e gre-at boon which was now offered, the
111,11%3,4'4 by unanimity secure. But if one was to run
if
the " another another, if they were to throw
ilea bee 41341 to the King and say, " We won't have
'tite 4114 el, it does not fulfil our bopes"—(Hear,
dre,da kil,•e,eer')--if such conduct was pursued, nothing
that eem •,41,
e :' rimier, despotism would pervade England.
.He
tali 't te, gse much as military despotism, knowing
,t ehri old lead to anarchy and confusion. He would
I; l'urk downthe meeting to have no discord. The King bad
~::1, it Onl all the standards of the boroughinongering fac-
t e'' li„,'ld, "Ole forward heart and band in this great rnea-
4iattwolic`, t'hua,tej the fleeting would support him in that
bi.r "a old `'iney would support the House of Commons
~ led
the aristocracy of England who had sup-
!re stire Ileforrn Bill, and if they did so, they
,i,4.ritea, shurtly to succeed in obtaining all that they
lki'',4o, isrt(l,l-'41(1 cheers.): Let all be firm—let all be
ti,'"Y of 0 eY split into 'factions they would be all lost.
the lieas eo) probably remembered the old fable of the
ni:, hulls iti lion wanted, if lie could, to eat them, . but
iiit:h foe ai:viaYs kept together, and they eveie a
iiq tile
,tn• A sly fox, however, whispered
Ilii, '''' it „„ eV' of one and into the other,
t'll, thi!*-- tnrough the whole, that they were all ene-
-I,el ty one'o'l_leceedeil in disuniting them, and the lion eat
int'Ple Of tf tlietti : such too, would be the fate of the
i') All t'gland, unless they were united.—(Loud cheer-
'li':" 1 lind„t,heet tvss wanted now was, to compel the middle
ir, 'OC against"r° or property to separate themselves, to raise
andNisi, the other, and :hen they would succo ed
hy Itgt, that
discord which'
would answer' their ends,
aVe
' at
tneans they Would • ,I, •ecou . ey either compel the people to
ii,',erutleilrutt,......l'lLoo_an, archy and confusion, or grind them to
ti,,t eed, he
.o.c:cheers.) The Bill of Reform, as now
of
ts),..b admitted might not be perfect—(Loud
tht tit he sought the liberty of the great mass
People, and if it permitted that he should

follovtia
es to cl;
,rt of of
duct!?l,lo

the B``op
, tbe i
rolii
oehlr",,C

he satisfied.—(Loud cheers.) But if it left the
people unhappy he would have nothing to do with it.
The people had a King and Ministers, whose only hope
and w'sh was their happiness.—(Loud cheering.) The
Union of Birmingham had thought it desirable not to attend
the present meeting to-day, not because they (lid not join
with the wishes of the meeting—be could assure them it
had its most fervent prayers, but because those trhci had
raised the reaction grymWht say, "Oh it was a meeting
of £he people Birmingham, and net the, county of
Warwick," and for those reasons they had determined to
keep away, leaving it for the people of the county to show
the borouglimongers that their opinions remained un-
changed. Mr. Attwood concluded by moving the follow-
ing resolution :
" That the grateful thanks of this meeting be given to the
County Members, F Lawley, Esq., and Sir G. Skipwith, Bart.,
to John Tomes, Esq. and Bolton King, Esq., Members for the
borough of Warwick, to Edward Ellice and -- Bulwer, Esq.,
Members for the city of Coventry; to Robert Knight, Esq. and
G. R. Phillips, Esq., inhabitants of this county, for their arduous
and never-failing exertions and votes in the House of Commons
during the late protracted and harrassing debates."
Sir GEMWE Crtetsfetien seconded the resolutione which
was c trried unanimously. Three cheers *ere then given
for the county MemberS, three fdr the borough Members;
ana three groans for the teiroughalengerii.
Mr. Lawley, Sir G. Skipwith, Mr. Tomes, and Mr.
Bolton King returned thanks.
Sir Gao. Pmettes moved the fAlowing resolution :
" That this meeting, legally holden on the requisition of
Magistrates and freeholders, and convened by the sanction of the
High Sheriff, for the exercise of the great constitutional privi-
lege of petition, views with surprise and indignation the dispo-
sition of troops in the vicinity of the county town. That the
extra civil authority sworn in by the Mayor and Magistrates
of Warwick, ' for the preservation of the peace, and the pro-
tection of their persons and property in the event of any tumult'
was unnecessary and unprecedented, and can only have origi-
nated in a gross misapprehension of the public opinion of the
county of Warwick. That this meeting cannot believe that the
object of these military and constabulory precautions is to create
alarm or provoke tumult; but if such purposes were meditated,
no measures more likely to attain their end could have been
resorted to."
Mr. Josern PARKES seconded the resolution. He had
not intended to have taken any part in their proceedings,
having so fiequently and recently expressed his opinions
on the momentous question now agitating the country ;
but having been requested to second the resolution charac-
terising the folly and absurd fright of those alarmists who
had invested the country town with troops of the line,
yeomanry and speeial constables, he cordially did so. The
people of Birmingham had intentionally abstained from
attending this meeting, and he (Mr. Parkes) was most
glad to see the array of the county aristocracy in their
proper pl ices, heading the public feeling of the county,
and shelving a great majority of intellect, character, and
property in favour of the King, the Government, and the
people. He bad, wishing to see the leading men of the
county take their proper rank, studiously avoided, there-
fore, any early or prominent part in the meeting. In Bir-
mingham the people of all ranks had loudly and repeatedly
proclaimed their opinion and determination. This day
was for the distinct expression of county feeling. He
could not content himself with simply seconding the reso-
lution without explessin,4 his disgust and ridicule of the
ludicrous exhibition of fear displayed by those wise and
gaping municipal authorities who had encircled the town,
at Kenilworth, Leamington, and the Black Dog, with a
cordon sanitaire of troops of the line, yeomanry, and ape-
cial-constahles.—(Cheers.) Now, he would tell the Lord
Lieutenant, the Magistracy, and the sagacious Corporation
of Warwick, that never were military preparations made
more unnecessarily or in vain. It was notorious that in
no instance for many years had an extraordinary force
been necessary to keep the peace in Birmingham or War-
wick—never since the expulsion of Tory mobs. He
would illustrate the ends of the Reform Bill by refer-
ence to the close and corrupt state of the lieutenancy and
corporate system. The Lou! Lieutenants and their staff,
the magistracy, were not the choice of the people ; the
people reposed no confidence in them. Corporations had
become close, rotten, and corrupt. They were not trustees
of power for the people, but of power for the exclusive
Ind sinister benefit of themselves. Among the first bene-
fits of the Renrm Bill he (Mr. Parkes) expected and
hoped that these antiquated and self-elected bodies would
be thrown open, and restored in choice and responsibility
to the people, for whom their power was originally vested
in trust. The fact was, that these municipal authorities
were by late events proved to be quite inefficient. The
corporation of Bristol omitted to do every thing they ought
to do; the corporation of Warwick did every thing they
ought not to do.—(Cheers.) Could a more absurd meal-
tub plot have been got up than the hand-bill beheld in his
hand, swearing in special constables " for the preservati.in
of the peace and the protection of their persons and pro-
perty in the event of any tumult taking place."—(Loud
laughing.) But Town clerk, Mayors, and Aldermen, wet e
never celebrated for sagacity, nor was he notorious for
affection toward them. Never till the civil authority re-
presented the opinion and confidence of the people would
life, property, or liberty be sate.—(Mr. Parkes then read
and commented on the hand-bill signed by the Town-
clerk.) He would now briefly allude to the great subject
of their meeting—the Bill. He cordially concurred in all
the proceedings of the day ; be had confidence in the Mi-
nisters, but would to God he could see his way to a consti-
tutional and peaceable result of their great contest. He
did not see his way ; hut he had confidence in the Ministry,
and simply because he felt confident that no men of their
integrity and wisdom, no men so identified with the public
opinion of the county, could be blind themselves to the
state of the House of Lords, with scarcely a third of that
House really intending to support the principles of the Bill
in Committee. He was confident that Ministers must.see
the direful consequences of anarchy and confusion which
would result from a second rejection of the Bill in the
Upper House ? He, therefore, sincerely trusted to the
Ministers that—aware of the crisis—they were taking those
measures essential to the success of the Bill. It must, and
would be carried constitutionally or uticoustitutionally. It
was delusion to blink the alternative —(Loud cheers.)
Government he sincerely and fervently believed were
alive to the crisis. He would now only second Mr.
Attwood in those humane and admirable observations made
by Mr. Attwood on the deep interest of the people in
avoiding chaos and confusion. Tumult and national
anarchy would drown all in a common deluge. That was
the consummation of the evils of the boroughmongering
system. God forbid that the passions of the people should
be let loose, anti that all men's fortunes and stations
should be hurried into a gulph of confusion and destruc-
tion. He solemnly warned every labouring man that he
above all others was interested in order, or scenes would
occur Jiggering all former revolutions in general ruin and
suffering.—(Cheers.) Mr. Parkes concluded by second-
ing the resolution.
Which, after a few observations from Mr. CRUMP, was
carried unanimously.
THOMAS COTTON, Esq. and IL Jaa, seconded the fol-
lowing resolution, which was carried unanimously.
" That these resolutions be advertised in the County Papers,
and in the Times, Morning Chronicle, Morning Herald, Sun,
Globe, Courier, and London Journals."
G. F. MuNTz, Esq. moved
" That the High Sheriff, George Lucy, Esq., be requested offi-
cially to sign the above resolutions and addresses on behalf of
the meeting."
A. F. GREGORY, Esq. seconded the resolution, which
was carried unanimously.
The HIGH SHICR/FF having left the chair, and the
same having been. taken by Sir G. Pnit.mrs, it was
moved by Sir G. SKIPWITH, Bart., and seconded by S.
LAWLEY. Esq. and carried unanimously.
" That the best thanks of the meeting be given to the High
Sheriff' for his immediate attention to the requisition, and for his
able and impartial conduct in the chair."
The HIGH SHERIFF, in a neat speech, returned thanks.
Three cheers were then given for the King, three for
the Ministers, three groans for the Bishops, and one groan
more and three groans for the Mayor and Magistrates, after
which the immense assembly departed peaceably, ren-
dering the precautions which had been taken by the
authorities of the town totally unnecessary. Altogether,
we will venture to say, that a more unanimous or effective
meeting was never held.

A meeting of the Board of Health was held
at the Council Chamber this forenoon.

Despatches were received this morning at the
Foreign-office, from Paris.
A.LNwicK.--On Sunday the 30th ult. a shark
which measured eleven feet in length, was towed ashore by
some fishermen of Craster. It had got entangled in their
nets, and seemed weak, apparently from its having been
previously hooked at sea. It has been exhibited in this
neighbourhood. At the monthly meeting of the Mechanics'
Institution, on Tuesday evening last, preparatory to the
annual meeting, notice of a motion was given by Mr. T.
TATE, that those Vice-Presidents who for the last two
years have not paid their subset iptions should no longer fill
that office. And also, by Mr. W. H. A. CLARK, that the
rule which excludes books on moral philosophy and po-
litics should be rescinded, and party politics substi'uted.
It is gratifying to observe such a march of liberalism in
this institution ; but we much doubt, if there be a Sufi_
tint number of liberals in that society to carry the motion
of Mr. CLARK. There is, however, nothing like freedom
or unrestricted admission of books, for though such a reso-
lution may run the risk of losing a patron, if carried, it
would probably cause them to join, and a few to re-join,
who now refrain from the consideration that no institution
oa such a .restricted foundation is deserving of their support.
Lord PRUDHOE arrived here on Wednesday evening about
eight o'clock.— Tyne Mercury.