The Sun.
London, England, 1836-07-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 4, 1836.

MEETING TO ESTABLISH A RE-
FORM ASSOCIATION AT WORCESTER.

A Meeting, duly convened by public notice, was held on
Thursday morning, at the Guildhall, for the purpose of
establishing a Reform Association. One o'clock was an-
nounced as the hour of meeting, and, shortly after that
time, the principal promoters of the meeting, accompanied
by Colonel Davies, entered the Crown Court, and were re-
ceived with the loud acclamations of those assembled. The
Court was much ,crowded, and numbers could not obtain
admittance ; in consequence of which there was a general
cry of" adjourn into the body of the Hall," which request
was immediately complied with.
Mr. HARDY was called to the chair. Having directed
the attention of the Meeting to the Requisition calling
them together, he proceeded to remark, that they had
assembled on that occasion to establish an Association, the
object of' which would be to counteract the plans and ma-
chinations of the Tories, whose design at all times was to
defeat the ends of justice with regard to the people. • More
especially had they used the Registration as a means of
doing so, and placed upon the list numbers who had no
right to be there. One of the principal objects of the pro-
posed Association would be to prevent the recurrence 01
such proceedings.
Captain CoaLEs proposed the first resolution. He ob-
served that it was with much pleasure that he came before
them to advocate the establishment of a Reform Associa-
tion. He was induced to do so for many reasons. He
had acted with them for twenty years, and it should not
said of him that in the hour of danger lie had turned tail
upon them, and left them when they were in difficulties.
—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) The preparation they were
now making was not very unusual at the approach of an
election, as they had been in the habit of forming parochial
committees on such occasions. He was not much
gifted with the power of oratory or the flow of elo-
quence, nor was he in the habit of speech-making ; he
considered , that in speech-making there was a kind of
knack, which was obtained chiefly by practice.—(A
laugh.) However he would rather address them in a
plain manner as their friend and fellow-citizen.—
(Cheers.) They were met that day for the purpose of
forming a Society to obtain a just and fair registration of
votes, and to afford a rallying-point for the Reformers.
It was necessary that such a Society should lie formed in
Worcester, for he trusted that they would not again be
found in a similar situation to that they were in at the last
contest. He had witnessed a great difference in that city
within the last twenty years. He remembered that at that
time to be considered something like a Reformer was to be
considered something like a rogue.—(A laugh.) He recol-
lected what they (the Reformers) had done in that Hall
some eighteen years ago, when they began to bestir them-
selves and determined to be free.—(Hear, hear.) They
then proved that they' only willed to be free, and they had
the power to be so.—(Cheers.) If he did not think that
an Association was necessary, lie would not support it ; or
if •he imagined that it would be diverted to unlawful pur-
poses, lie would take his hat and leave them.--(Hear,
hear.) But he considered the due registration of votes
to be of the greatest importance, and it only required,
to be satisfied on that subject, that they should refresh
their memories with a recollection of, what occurred
within those walls at the revision of the lists in 1834.
(Hear, hear.) He (Mr. C.) would inquire what was the
method adopted by their opponents then—it was a mere
calling over the names upon the lists. "0! (said they) lie
is dead," and off came his name ; with regard to another—
'° 0, he has left the town," and that shared the same fate—
(A laugh)—and there was no one there to contradict it.
He would give them a most cunning proof that the regis-
tration was the very pivot upon which the issue of the battle
depended. It was the opinion of a great man—a man of
great authority among the Tories—he meant Sir Robert
Peel. It was after he had been sent for from Italy to take
the helm of affairs in this country, and after he had pub-
lished that strange epistle from Tamworth, called by some
a " manifesto," but which the French would call " mystifi-
cation," and their Irish neighbours across the water would
call botheration"--(A laugh)—it was after this that a
dinner given to him at the Merchant Tailors' Hall, he told
them that it was in the House of Commons where the
battle was to be fought.—(Hear, hear.) Registration, he
told them, must be the point which they must guard against,
and without they did so, they (the Tories) would he van-
quished. Now, this was the point he wished them to ob-
serve—take the advice of the enemy. It would, in a poli-
tical point of view, be—" A light unto their feet, and a
lamp unto their path."—(Cheers and laughter.) In this
respect it was clear they must tread in the path which their
opponents had marked out. He thought it too bad when
these great men, the Tories, assumed to themselves all the
wealth and intelligence, and influence, and respectability,
&c., in the place ; that they could not avoid, at the same
time, calling them (the Reformers) all the hard names they
could speak of.—(A laugh.) Now, lie would bet them a
trifle, that it would not be long before they should hear that
they were designated as the "mob"—(Cheers)—an ig-
norant rabble. However, he knew better ;he would tell
them that knowledge had made not a little progress among
them. He had been subject to their dressings fur the last
twenty years, and in that Hall had been pretty well
schooled, and he was not now going to be put down and
walked over by them.—(Cheers.) However, it was one
consolation to know that their ink could not poison, and
that their pens could not murder.—(Laughter and cheers.)
Acting upon upright and conscientious motives, lie did
not care two-pence what they said.—(Hear, hear,. hear.)
The Registration was the Reformer's Magazine, in which
they should keep their powder—not, however, for the pur-
pose of murder. There was one personage who had spoken
in terms not to be misunderstood of powder ; and he could
not help alluding to him. He was as queer a devil as ever
wore a head.—(A laugh.) He was a commander of their
Orange forces, and was, to boot, a reverend parson, and he
had given the Orangemen the following advice i—“Tsegt ip
God, and keep your powder dry." He trusted that in
battle they would discharge their duty faithfully ; that they
would level their guns at their enemy, and fire their 'bullets
effectually, by coming forward and givipg an honest vote.
—(Much cheering.) Capt. Corles then proposed the first
resolution, which was as follows :
" That it is expedient to form in this City an Association,
having for its object the procuring a full, fair, and honest Re-
gistration of all persons qualified by law to be Electors of this
City, arid, at the same time, to counteract the corrupt practices
of the enemies of neform,.to uphold the free and pure exercise
of the right of suffrage, and to convince the ignorant and pre,
judiced that the correction of abuses, and the amendment and
consequent preservation of our national institutions, are the sole
objects to which the views of' Reformers are directed."
Mr. COATES, in seconding the motion, briefly spoke in
recommendatory terms of the objects it had in view.
Mr. F. ELGIE proposed the second resolution, in doing
which lie congratulated them on the manner in which they
had that day assembled to answer a call so suddenly made
upon them. It convinced him that however the Reformers
of Worcester had on other occasions been blamed for their
apathy, that there existed within their breasts a flame which
required but the trumpet to be sounded in their ears, and
they were the first to come forward in the grand struggle
of freedom.—(Cheers.) It was a fact, which experience
had proved to be too true, that the great evil among those
who professed liberal principles in the city of Worcester,
was a want of unity.—(Hear, bear.) He would inquire
from what that want of unity among them arose? Wag it
because there were not among them individuals, Reformers,
as strong and ardent as ever deserved that name ? Was
it, be would ask, that they did not compose a body of nu-
merical strength sufficient to return two Liberal Members
to Parliament ? No ; it arose from this. They had no
plans arranged before hand upon which to act—no sys-
tem to keep them joined 'together—no directing hand to
guide the vast rimehine.—(Loud cheers.) And thus the
Tories, by their plans, their arrangement, their discipline,
became the victors. That bad been the cause, in a great
degree, of many of their defeats ; and he thought he might
say with safety, that had it not been fur that reason, they
should not at that time have been blessed with Mr. Bailey
as their representative.—(A laugh.) But the film was now
being cleared away from their eyes. A blow from the
heavy hand of experience had aroused their latent energies,
and that it was to prevent a recurrence of so great an evil
that they were that day assembled to form themselves into
one common band, having one common cause at heart. So
that whether opposed by time indefatigable exertions of' the
Tories, joined with those means which at the last election
were so unsparingly used, they may be enabled to set up
against them a fi:or!t, which their exertions, their arrange-
Ce' nor even their bribery, can ever pull
heers.) thPre over was ft period
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when the supporters of liberal principles were called upon
to come forward and unite themselves, it was at the present
time.—(Hear, %Vhon ho saw that a large body of
" irresponsible" individuals were opposing and thwarting
every measure which a liberal Administration brought for,
ward, he Could not imagine that such a state of things could
long continue, lie Wanld inytire, then, what wag to be
done ? He would not allude to the many speculations
which were abroad as to what may be the conduct pursued
at this crisis by the present Government ; he would merely
refer to one course which by probability might he adopted,
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then referred to the sit4aticfll 110 11.eloriiiers wire
at the close of the year 1834, and the necessity For. making
proper arrangements for the liberal candidates at the next
election. The first object of the Association was to obtain
a full, fair, and honest registration of all persons qualified
(iy !O." q vote for lllenlbors pf rarliameet, From his ex-
pokepec et the ate registratipp? he had wilnc yhe 4144
advant4ge§ to be ciPriVe4 &QM Pear4ing into the registry
of votes. He felt milli-iced that the Tories could not for',
get the 192 votes that the Reformers had succeeded in
erasing from the register, remembering at the same time
that the majority by which Mr. Bailey was returned was but

RAXALL'S POSTHUMOUS IVIEMOIRS OF n4A
OWN TIME.--The great problem in the W 4 E(..inurAc.ll
Burke, namely, his political apc,..‘y( is Nit), splye4"ill tlae
above admirable work, whoyein v.vh,ele.ea,req of Op.o cpk,
bratedslate~nia~fcora bi aippeArant e. m wapt-w,eut of
tlikt .eni„ineiatioo of his party atl the licao ui the Vrench
)pct;elutiprl, is 1"0,44;te1y, traced, i,..e.hitting, or course, a record
Af lei; P.Vc,,:dingis the memorable trial of Warren Hastings.
Wraxall's Memoirs, just published, embrace, indeed, a dis-
closure of the secret motives out of which originated all the
great public events of this country during the last half v.potitiry.
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kiln-MOO, as that contained ill The lloW VioVei of " Mrs.
Armytiicqe,” by the able authoress of " Mothers and Daugh-
ters," From the rougher sex, great thanks arc due to Mrs.
'Gore;—but what does she expect from hor own ?—There are,
at least,'a dozer, female characters of decided originality iu this
work,