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and defend his principles,and give some reason for the faith
he has in him. That was a meeting of the inhabitants of
the town, fairly, openly, and honestly called together. If
the Orange Union possessed- the power and popularity so
much vaunted, let them be shown this day ; and if neither
the one nor the other could be exhibited, he thought it
must appear quite clear that they had no existence, except
at No. 5, at Dee's Hotel, and in their Orange organ, the
Birmingham Advertiser. He concluded by seconding the
resolution.

The CHAIRMAN then put the resolution to the meeting,
which was unanimously carried amidst low cheers.
Mr. G. El:morals, in moving the next resolution, said
he should not go back to tthe period when the Political
Union was first established, without entertaining feelings
something similar to those which Moses must have expe-
rienced when before the burning bush. It was indeed an
imposing sight when he looked around and saw the thou-
sands which surrounded him. It wasindeed an awful sight,
operating on the destinies of this country, and exposing to
the whole world a burning-bush of liberty to the British
Isles.—(Cheers.) Without the aid of the great body of
, the people, the Political Unions, the Reform Ministry could
not have kept in office—then the Reform Bill would not
have passed, and the Municipal Reform Bill could not
have passed. The Union was the terror of the Tories.
The Tories were the enemies of freedom, and to the pro-
gressive improvement of men. They were servile in the
extreme, and bowed down and licked the dust before those
they hoped to gain any thing from. They talked of patri-
otism and reverence for the King, but if the Duke of
Cumberland were on the throne to-morrow with a razor
in his band, they would bow down and worship him.—
(Cheers.) He said that unlike those of the Tories, all
their proceedings were open. There were ten thousand
persons present to hear him ; met for patriotic pur-
poses, and not for individual benefit. The Tories said
that the advocates for the removal of the abuses in
the Irish Church were anxious to bring Popery to Ire-
land. Poor miserable fools they must be who compose
this faction, to suppose that such a numerous assembly of
Protestants, like those who met there that day, were anxious
to bring Popery to Ireland. But let the fools go on. Hoiv
do these professors of the Christian religion act—of that re-
ligion which teaches peace and goodwill to all men—not to
Bishops and Lords, but to the people without distinction—
peace and goodwill to all men ?--(Loud cheers.) Is it pos-
sible that God !should send them who are now murdering
their fellow-men for their tithes, to preach peace and good-
will to all men.—(Cheers.) The Tories with their hypocrisy
can praise his Majesty because he has subscribed to the re-
lief of the Irish clergy. He objected to it, not from any
feeling of hostility to the individuals themselves. He could
feel for them ; some of them might be good and pious men,
but they were part of that system—that hierarchy that lived
like an incubus upon Ireland.--(Cheers.) He called their
attention to a speech of a Noble Lord ; there were about
600 of these men who dared to put themselves in the 'scale
against the great bulk of the nation—let them beware—
this Herculus Lord (Dartmouth) talked about their being
ready to die for the independence of the Constitution.
What Constitution ? That in the reign of Henry the
Eighth, of Elizabeth, or of George the Third, who deluged
Europe with blood—or that of the debauched reign of George
the Fourth. The Noble Lord then proceeds to eulogise
the great man-murderer the Duke of Wellington, and calls
upon the Conservatives to rally round and fight under the
banner of the Duke, and says, " God grant that it may
be a bloodless war." A bloodless war ! Would be
have the audacity to come into contact with the majesty of
the people of England 2—(Cheers.) What did the hero
do ? Did he not yield Catholic emancipation to his fears,
and would he now dare the British people? Why, the
very glance of their eyes would terrify this "hero of a
hundred battles."—(Cheers.) His eulogist, Lord Dart-
mouth, praised him for his magnanimity and disinterested-
ness. Magnanimity—greatest of minds—why did he
allow his mother to be a State pauper ? Where was his
magnanimity in allowing his parent, who it was his duty to
support, to become a dependent on the bounty of the people
of England—a bounty upon which she had not the slight-
est claim ? Where was his magnanimity or disinterested-
ness in his receiving the 14,0001., and his never-to-be-
forgotten treatment of that brave man Ney—Marshal
Ney?—(Cheers.) The hero of a hundred battles, with
his magnanimity, thus treated a noble foe, broke his word,
and suffered him to be murdered.—(Groans.) Let him
take his pelf ; he also takes with it the contempt of every
upright mind. Lord Dartmouth said, at the Tory dinner,
that it was gratifying to see that Hall, which had upon
previous occasions been filled with men of revolutionary
principles, then filled with men who would support the
Throne. He wished he (Lord Dartmouth) had been
there that day—he would then have seen a body of men,
actuated by a holy, pure, and religious feeling, who were
striving to benefit millions of their fellow beings—of
those beings upon whom God looked with equal eve, as
God of all, as upon a Lord. If he were there that day
he would lay down the factious dignity 'of a Lord,
and take up the nobler one of a man.—(Cheers.) The pe-
tition he then proposed could not fail to have an effect .on
the House of Commons when it appeared there. He agreed
with it, because it proposed to effect an organic change in
the House of Lords.—(Cheers.) They were as much in the
hands of the House of Lords as before the passing of the
Reform Bill. He would rather have the Autocrat of Rus-
sia—one despot to lord it over the land, than six hundred
of these despotic Peers scattered throughout the country—
one'tyrant rather than many.—(Loud cheers.) The people
of Birmingham carried one reform, they must carry another.
—(Cheers.) He asked, would they stand firm ?—(" We
will," and cheers.) Then they would carry another reform,
and meet these six hundred Herculean Lords with harness
on their backs ?—(Cheers.) Either the Reform Bill must
be repealed, or the House of Lords reformed. The Lords
were the obstructions to all improvements—they must be
re-modelled—the days of the Aristocracy were numbered.
The petition gloriously states that it placed the supreme
legislative power in the hands of the people's representatives.
He told them that the way to secure a reform in the House

of Lords would be to stop the supplies—shut them up, like

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Jurymen, without anything to eat. They might talk about
re-action as much as they pleased, but they would find that
there was no change in public opinion. He begged, in con-
clusion, to propose the second resolution, that a petition be
presented to the House of Commons.—(Cheers.)
This was seconded by Mr. P. H. MuNTz, and carried
unanimously.
Mr. T. C. SALT proposed the third resolution. He
mentioned a circumstance connected with the protest made
by the Tories respecting that meeting. Some of the party
going round for signatures met a gentleman from West
Bromwich ; they asked him for his signature, which when
they had obtained, they asked him if he had not three
brothers ; and upon his replying in the affirmative, they
asked him to sign for them. This, however, he declined to
do. The echo from that city would ever vibrate through
every part of the kingdom. He prayed for a reform in the
House of Lords, not in the spirit of hostility to that body.
They want to purify the ancient body from that of the
factious creation of seventy years, The House of Lords
was composed partly of the ancient nobility, and of others
who were made Peers for selling their country, having their
hands ever in the public purse, and deluging the country
in blood.—{Cheers.) Mr. Salt, after a few observations,
eulogising the Marquis of Westminster, concluded by
moving the resolution, " That the most Noble the Marquis
of Westminster be respectfully requested to present the
address to the King."
This was seconded by Mr. BLAXLAND, and carried una-
nimously.
Mr. PIERCE proposed, and Mr. M'LINTOCJ seconded
the next resolution " That Messrs. Attwood and Schole-
field, the Members for the Borough, be requested to pre-
sent the petition to the House of Commons."

Messrs. JENNINGS and HARLAND moved and seconded
the fifth resolution, that Mr. Churchwarden Winfield, Mr.
Ernes, Mr. Portlock, Mr. Bourne, and Mr. Pierce, be re-
quested to take the necessary measures for obtaining the
signatures to the address and petition.
A vote of thanks was then given to the Chairman, after
which the meeting quietly dispersed.

~ ADDRESS TO HIS MAJESTY.
" TO TIIE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

" Sire,—We, your Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the
inhabitants of the town of Birmingham, in town's meeting
assembled, humbly beg leave to express to your Majesty our
deep and sincere gratitude for the great and patriotic mea-
sure of Corporation Reform, to which your Majesty has been
pleased to give your Royal sanction. We see in this another
proof of your Majesty's courage and fortitude, and unlimited
devotion to the rights, liberties, and interests of your faithful
and loyal people. We humbly and dutifully implore your
Majesty to stand firm in the prosecution of this great and
glorious work, until the measures lately brought forward by
your Majesty's Government are carried into full and com-
plete effect, and until all the Corporations of the United
Kingdom arc restored to that healthy and efficient state for
which they were originally intended by the founders of our
excellent Constitution.
" Sire,—We should be deficient in the duty which we owe'to
your Majesty and to our country, if we did not dutifully and
humbly represent to your Majesty, that artful and designing
men, disaffected to your Majesty's Government, and enemies
to the rights and liberties of the people, have latterly been busy
in misrepresenting the state of the public mind. It is pre-
tended and asserted that the public mind is changed, that it is
grown cool in the cause of Reform, and that your Majesty's
loyal and dutiful subjects no longer desire a correction of the
abuses in the Irish Church, or such a Reform in the House of
Lords as may bring that Right Honourable House into a con-
formity of views and objects with your Majesty's Government,
with the House of Commons, with the spirit of the age, and
the irresistible force oublic opinion. Nothing can be more
false. The public minis not changed. The desire of cor-
recting acknowledged abuses in the Church of Ireland, and
also in the Church of England, continually increases, 4nd the