The Sun.
London, England, 1831-03-18 00:00:00

DUTCH AND BRUSSELS-PAPERS.

BRUSSELS, MARCH 14.—The Regent, accompanied by
a very numerous Staff, yesterday reviewed a great part of
the Civic Guard of Brussels; there were between 8,000
and 9,000 men under arms, who made a fine appearance.
The Regent wore a blousse, with the epaulettes of a Co-
lonel of the Guard, and pa.sed along the whole lir.e ; and
though silence had been enjoined in all the battalions, it
was not possible wholly to prevent the acclamations of the
troops. In the evening the Regent visited the theatre,
where he was welcomed with enthusiasm by a crowded
audience.

A British Cabinet messenger, corning from Vienna with
despatches for London, passed through this city yester-
day.—Brussels Papers, March 16.

ANTWERP, MAncH 14.—The PoHague says, " Pri-
vate letters represent in gloomy colours the distress of Hol-
land." Would you know the truth of this assertion? It
is, that the distress is such that there has not been a single
bankruptcy of importance, in the northern counties, sine
our glorious revolution. An army of 100,000 men,
equipped in the most superior manner, is assembled on our
frontiers. Patriotic gifts are so abundant, that a single
subscription far erecting a monument to the brave Van
Speyk, already amounts to above 30,000 florins. All thee
are proofs of distress, in the eyes of the Politique ; and it
is at Liege that they have the impudence to prop igate such
nonsense : in truth we cannot understand it.—Journal du
Commerce d'..4nvers, March 14.

(The Brussels Papers contain the London Protocol of
27th February, relative to the debt.Tns )
HAGUE, ;'MARCH 13.—Wc learn that several
Dutch Professors, who have been obliged to abandon their
chairs in the southern provinces, have been since placed in
the Universities of the northern provinces.
We are informed by letters from Breda, that the garrison
of that fortress has been considerably augmented v. ithin a
few weeks, by detachments of militia.
The Breda Courant says that some considerable inha-
bitants of Brussels, Ghent, and Antwerp, had passed
through that town, on their way to the Hague, in order, it
was said, to .have an audience of the King. If we are
well informed, their only object was, in consequence of the
invitation of the Netherlands Commercial Association, to
attend the meeting of the Commissioners of that Society,
on Friday last.

The Second Chamber of the States-General is to meet
on the 22d instant.

The Belgi;rtGovernment seems to fear disturbances at
Liege and Antwerp, and on that account to bend as many
troops as it can to maintain order in those towns, and to
give a right to its authority.

AIiniRDAH, MARCH 14.—Actual Debt, 31 per Cents.
384 394—Autort Synd. 41 per Cent. 644 654—Ditto
per Cent. 51 51i.

A correspondent, who writes from Romney,
furnished us with the following strange story Some
little time since, the maid-servant in a family, bordering
on the Royal Military Canal, went out as usual to milk
her favourite Colly ;' and, having done so, was actually►
addressed by the cow in the following terms Mary
it will be a wet spring, dry summer—a plentiful harvest,
but nobody to get it in.' As soon as she bad recovered
from the surprise and alarm which was very naturally ex-
cited by so awful a prediction, and spoken, too, with so
much emphasis by a dumb animal, she immediately
made the circumstance known; and, in order to confirm
the wavering and convince the sceptical, she is said to
have actually made an affidavit of the fact btfore a Magi-
strate."—Kentish Gazette.

The High Sheriff of the county of Hants, in-
compliance with a requisition- signed by 400 free-
holders, convened a public meeting of the county
this dly (Thursday), for the purpose of addressing
the King and petitioning the Parliament on the sub-
ject of the measure of Reform. The meeting was
held upon the Castle-hill, in Winchester, where
soon after twelve o'clock, as many, we should think,
as 5,000 persons, at least, were assembled. The
meeting was. at, remarkable for its respectability as
for its numbers. Among the more distinguished,
we noticed Sir Charles Mill,.Bart., Sir Thomas Ber-
ing, Bart., the Hon. Mr. Pelham (son of Lord Yar-
borough), Mr. Shaw Lefevre, Sir James M'amald,
Mr. Francis Baring, Mr. Carter (Member for Ports-
mouth), the Hon_ Mr. Cage, Mr. Baring Wall
(Member for Guildford), Sir Win. Heathcote and
Mr. Fleming tie two county Members), Mr. Night-
ingale, Mr. Devereil, &c.
The proceedings were commenced by Mr. DuNN,
the Under-sheriff, reading the requisition.,
Sir H. TictilloßNE, the High-Sheriff, then en-
treated that the meeting would give to every one a
fair and impartial hearing. r.
Mr. JEnvinsL said, that it was :now eleven years
ssnce he had first received the gratification of pos-
sessing the good opinion and ejoying the
.confi-
deuce of the freeholders of Hampshire,—confidence
and good opinion which he was proud to say he hp.d
never forfeited for a moment.—(Cheers.)—They
knew that he had always advocated Refo:in in the -
House of Commons, and they might imagine, there-
fore, what pleasure it would give him to bestow
his vote, if he had a vote to bestow, upon the ad-
mirable measure of Reform which the present Go-
vernment had introduced.—(Chiers.). •
The Hon. Gentleman then moved the following •
resolutions

- -
" 1. That the three great branches of power which
.;
form the Constitution of these kingdoms, as handed down
to us by our ancestors, consist of King, Lords, and Com-
mons, and that the latter ought, according to the spirit
and meaning of that Constitution, to comprise those 31ent-
hers only who are sent there by the voice of the people."
" 2. That this meeting views with cordial pleasure the
Bill which has lately been brought into the 1-he se of
Commons, under the sanction of his_ ALjesty's Govern-
ment, which, if passed into a law, cannot fail to destroy
that undue and unconstitutional influence in the election
of Members of Parliament, which has proved alike pre
judicial to the best interests of the Crown and the people."
These - resolutions were received with cries of
" three cheers for Jervoise," which were immgdiat ely
acted upon.

Sir C. MILL seconded the resolutions.
Mr. ITINCKSMAN said the meeting was as fine as
the day. He never beheld a more numerous or a
more respectable one. This way a subject of con-
gratulation. The chief subject of congratuyi6n,
however, was the bright prospect that now, 6pc ed
to them of the near success and triumph of Parlia-
mentary Reform.—(Cheers.)—How had this been
effected ? Why, first, by their having now got a
patriotic King, who entered into the.wants, and
wishes, -and feelings of his people—(Cheers)—and
who could refuse .50,000/. when put into his hands,
which was something rather new in the annals of
Kings.—(Cheers.)—Next, they had got a patriotic
Ministry, who were doing in office what they had
promised out of office that they would do ; and this
was something new in the annals of Minister,;,—
(Cheers.)—Formerly it had been found very difficult
to find advocates for Reform,—now it was more
difficult to find opponents to Reform. This was
new in the history of parties. How the change had
been effected it was not for him to determine.
Some might like to be on the strongest side, and
that side was now the Reformers; others might
like the loaves and fishes, and these had now gone
into a new channel.—(Cheers.)— The first resolu-
tion he had to propose to them, which, coming after
those of Mr. Jervoise, would form the third of
those resolutions which would be submitted to them,
and which therefore he eattd the 'third rtsolution,
was as follows:

"3. That it, therefore, becomes necessaryand expedient
that this and every county in the United Kingdom should
use. its utmost exertion to strengthen the hands of his Ma-
jesty's Ministers, and to support, by all legal and consti-
tutional means, their full and etficienr measure of Reform,
which appears to have given general satisfaction and de-
light to all the country at large."—(Cheers.)
The fourth resolution was as follows :

" 4. That an humble address be presented to our most
gracious Sovereign, expressive of our thanks and grati-
tude to his Majesty, for his kiwi and paternal interest in
the welfare of his people, and assuring his Majesty of the
zeal and affection with which we are at all times ready to.
rally round his throne; and that this meeting views, with
the most heartfelt satisfacti,m, t!:e Bill which has lately
been proposed to Parliament by Isis Majesty's Government
for the effectual improvement and Reform of the represen-
tation of the people."—(Cheers.)
Had he not always told them that the radicals were
loyal men ?—(Cheers and laughter.)—The fifth re-
solution was—

" 5. That petitions founded upon the foregoing resolu-
tions he adopted by this meeting, and be presented as
speedily as possible to both Houses of Parliament, by such
Members as may be most likely to give them effect.;"
" 6. That this meeting earnestly recommends and en-
treats the two representatives of the county, as well as all
those Members connected with the county, to support this
constitutional Bill for reforming the representation of the
people in Parliament."

Mr. MARSH was received with loud and continued
cheering. He thought that the Ministers had ex-
hibited great tact in giving the .measure to Lord
John Russell. The name of another Lord Russell
was embalmed in the hearts of the people, and it
was in the highest degree delightful and gratifying
to s,.e the spirit of the former Lord shining through
his illustrious descendants.—(Cheers.) Next to
Lord John Russell's speech on the Reform measure
he thought that that of i‘lr. O'Connell was the beet.
The speeches on the other side were the most amus-
ing rubbish in the world. In discussing the ques-
tion of Parliamentary Reform, and its necessary
connection wirh the rotten boroughs, he felt it ne-
cessary to call their attention to one fact. In this
country there were two species of aristocracy,—the
old and the landed aristocracy, and the new and the
monied aristocracy. If there were any perty aggrieved
by this plan of Reform,—and it was unquestionable
that some parties would be aggrieved in a pecuniary
way,—it was the old landed aristocracy, who were
the proprietors of boroughs, which, having descended
for generations from father to son, had been consi-
dered us property, and had been treated as such in
various family settlements. He said that more mag-
nanimity and disinterestedness had never been dis-
played than was displayed by that lateied aristocracy
on this occasion. Need he mention to them the
names of the Duke of Norfolk, the Duke of Devon-
shire, the Duke of Bedford, the Marquis of Cleve-
land, Earl Grosvenor, and of another nobleman,whosc
name was synonymous with liberal principles—the
Earl of Radnor? When he saw such men giv-
ing up the advantages which they derived from
birth, and offering them up voluntarily on the shrine
of their country to their country's good, he could
not despair of the happiness and prosperity of aat
country.—(Cheers.) There was, however, another
species of aristocracy, and they were not inclined to
die with the same resolution as the other. They
wished the old system to be ke?t up, and their
object was this—that they might have the power of
purchasing the right of imposing laws and taxes oa
us as they would purcln,se, the right of fishing or
shooting. The Hon. Member then proceeded to
read a petition, founded on the resolutions, stating
that he had omitted all mention of tithes and taxes
in it, as he conceived that it would be more advisable
to talk of them on another day.—(Hear.) The
present was a hulyday for reformers of all classes, end
he was glad for once to see Whigs, and Tories, and
Radicals, all united.
Mr. NIGIITINGALE seconded the resolution, which
was carried unanimously.
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For twenty-one years, should be admitted to vote at
,county elections.
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Mr. CORBETT approved of this resolution. He
then proceeded to congratulate the meeting that the
reformers, after being persecuted and stigmatized for
years, had at last got upon the throne a reforming
King, and in the Government a reforming Ministry.
They owed deep gratitude to the King for his firmness
in abiding by his Ministers in spite of the monstrous
intrigues which were carried on daily for the sae of
diverting him from his honest and glorious purpose.
(Great cheering.) They had, however, still greater
cause for gratitude to the Ministers, for the extensive
measure of Reform which they had produced. He
gave his hearty approbation to the resolution arid to
the petition.
Mr. FLEMING then came forward amidst mingled
approbation and disapprobation. He was right in
saying that the borough system was a part of that
Constitution which had made England the wonder
and the envy of the civilized world.--(Hoots and
hisses.) He was sorry to hear such a body of men
as that which he was now addressing deer: the glo-
rious British Constitution.—(Hissese And laughter.)
Englishmen ought to be more sensible of, and more
thankful for, the blessings they now possessed.—
(Hisses.) He devoutly prayed that the time might
never arrive when they would regret the loss of such
a Constitution,---a Constitution which, whatever
might be its theoretical effects, had in its practical
working produced a greater sum of liberty and hap-
piness, and glory, than had fallen to the lot of anv
other country in the world.—(Latighter and hisses...)
Other countries had been visited with the scourge
of despotism, and had been laid waste lee the fire
and sword of invading foes; but t nglishmen had
always preserved their freedom, and their glory, and
their happiness, under that Constitution which too
maey were now ready to discard.—(Here the up-
roar became so great, that, notwithstanding the ex-
ertions of the High Sheriff and of Mr. Marsh, who
laboured to quiet the meeting, the Member
was for a long time unable to proceed.) If defects
had crept into the Constitution, let them be reme-
died, but let not the Constitution be destroyed ; and,
above all, let them not adopt a new Constitution
without any experience of its mariner of working.
(Hisses.) He was persuaded that the people could
not have considered the consequences of that prin.
ciple of spoliation which was introduced new, for
the first time, into an Act of Parliament._(" Oh,
oh.") The Hon. Gentleman then proceeded to
argue, amidst interruption of hisses and groans,
against the measure, which he designated as a revo®
lutionary measure,-:--as subversive of Monarchy and
of the Constitution, and he concluded with quoting
a passage from a speech of Lord John Russell's, in
1819.

Sir W. HEATIICOTE rose amidst loud hisses. He
'.would tell them openly, and at once, that he was op-
posed to the Bill.—(Hisses.)— He thought that
the Bill was a fatal blow to the interests of the
farmers, whatever the farmers themselves might
think of it.—(Cries of " That won't do.") He had
always thought that the number of the represen-
tatives of the agricultural interest would be found
too few, if it had not been for those towns which,
situated in agricultural counties, returned members
who were altogether attached to the landed interest.
—(Cries of "So they will now.") The towns
would now have another interest.

Mr. CoBBETT defended him:elf from the charge
of incrnsistency.

Sir J. M‘Dos.-aw held in his hand the noblest
Bill that had ever found its way into Parliament
since the days of the Bill of Rights—he meant
Earl Grey's Bill of Reform.—(Cheers.) The Bill
was short and simple, and he should have thought,
but for what he had heard that day, comprehensible
to the meanest capacity.—(Laughter.) It was
likewise comprehensive and efficacious; if it had
been otherwise, it would have been unworthy of the
Monarch who had sanctioned it, of the Ministers
who had introduced it, and of the people for whose
welfare it was intended. He was present when this
measure was first ushered into life in the House of
Commons, and it was received, he could assure them
with curses loud and deep by half the Ilouse of
Commons. He put it to them whether there could
be found any other assembly of 600 Englishmen in
which such a measure, with such an object, would
have met with such a return. They were told,
that this Bill was revolutionary. Revolutionary'
Rather say, counter-revolutionary.—(Cheers). Our
opponents are too blind to see that a great revolu-
tion has been long begun and is still in progress.
That revolution must be met, and how ? By vio-
lence ? Ridiculous T. No, by a great healing mea-
sure which will pour balm into the wounds of so-
ciety, and which will restore that confidence which
has long ceased to exist between the rulers and the
ruled.—(Cheers.)
Mr. BARING WALL could not support this mea-
sure of Reform, because he looked upon it as an
anomalous, ungracious, unjust, unconstitutional, and
revolutionary measure.—(lmmense outcry, and
shouts of " It won't do :" and " Give us some-
thing new 1") The Hon. Member then proceeded
in the same strain for some time, but the interrup-
tion prevented us from hearing a word he said.
Mr. PELHAM moved the address to the King, ob-
serving, that although he should lose his seat in
Parliament if the Bill passed, yet he should be
happy to make any sacrifice for the success of so li
great a measure.--(Cheer:;.)
Mr. KNIGHT seconded the address, arid moved
that it be presented to the King by Lord Yarmouth.
The petition and the address was then put, and
carried unanimously, amidst loud cheering.
Mr. MARSH moved, that Sir Thomas Baring be
requested to present the petition, and to support it
in the House of Commons.—Carried unanimously.
The meeting dispersed at half-past five o'clock.
There are, we understand, no less than three Re-
form dinners in Winchester.

CUMBERLAND.

A meeting of the freeholders of Cumberland, convened
by the High Sheriff of the county, was held at Wigton, on
Tuesday. There was much enthusiasm amongst the free-
holders upon the subject ; and had the day proved favour-
able, there is no doubt but it would have been the most
numerously attended meeting ever held in Cumberland.
But, unfortunately, the day was most unfavourable. The
rain began to fall early in the morning, and at one o'clock,
the hour appointed for the meeting, it poured 'down in
torrents. Still, as good Reformers, the people assembled
numerously, and about two thousand persons were present.
Soon after one o'clock, the High Sheriff, accompanied
by a numerous body of the principal gentlemen of the
county, ascended the I listings, and proceeded to open the
business of the meeting by reading the requisition.
W. JAMES, Esq., of Barrack, formerly M.P. fur this
city), stood forward, and was received with three times
three cheers by the crowd. When silence had been ob-
tained, he said—" Notwithstanding the ' pelting of the
pitiless storm,' it was with no small degree of pleasure
that he came forward once more to address the freeholders
in support of that great and spirit-stirring question—
Parliamentary Reform ; and that pleasure was increased
by finding himself surrounded by so many gentlemen of
the that rank and character in the county, who were then
assembled to discuss a measure so momentous to the best
interests of the country. The meeting would do him the
justice to recollect, that when the county was last assem-
bled, in the early part of last year, he (Mr. James) had
then expressed his conviction that it was only through Re-
form that the distress under which the country was suffer-
ing so severely, and under which, he lamented to say, it
still continued to suffer, wag likely to experience any snitiga-
gation. The opinion he then expressed, apppeared now to
be that of the whole coinrounity—ultra Tory, bigots, and
boroughmongers only excepted.—(4, Aye, we're all Re-
formers now!") From one end of the kingdsm to
the other there appeared to be hut one wish and determi-
nation—that of supporting the King and his Ministers,
in carrying into effect the wise, just, and constitutional
plan of Reform they had proposed.—(Much cheering.)__
True friend of his country as our present King was__
fearless in the discharge of their duty to the country, and
honest as his Ministers had now beyond all doubt or ques-
. t
ion proved themselves to be, it was clear to every one who
;-e" watched the political features of the times, that it was not
C in their power, however desirous they might be, hampered
as they now were by the boroughmongers, to afford any
very material relief to the distresses of the people
.
, (Applause)—therefore it was that he rejoiced that we
were at last to have our Reform—(Cheers)—at last to

have a real, substantial, honest Reform—and which un-
doubtedly would ere long be accomplished ; for what
power, he should like to knew, could contend for any
length of time, successfully against the King, the
Government, and an united people.—(Loud and con-
tinued cheering.)—He would, tlaelsefes'ea impress upon the
meeting, that if any Mitt listre likely to retard the mea-
sure it wonld rte t want of union amongst themselves.—(A
voice in the crowd----" We are united to a 14!Aill.')—Hows
ever some might Wish for t !asger extension of the fran-
chise, for a shortes duration of Parliament, or even ,
the ballet-,sure he was that it was the true interest of
all honest Reformers to join heart, hand, and voice in
support of the great And a•siSe plan of Reform now pro-
posed.—(Cheers,)--Souse thought Reform would not
prove ss panacea for all the evils which afflicted tl,e
coo„ try ; but the people would soon find that it, would
prove a panacea for a considerabte portion of them—
(Cheers)—but it rreatlss depended on the conduct of the
people, how fsr they exerted themselves in support of
the Nin,re and his Ministers at the present crisis. They
might rely upon it tkat every opposition and resistance
were making and would continue to be made by that
faction, who, from the long possession and enjoyment of
privileges which they had naurped, now dared to consider
them as constitutioisal rights—(Cheers)--but lot the people
he trne ho themselvet, and victory would be certain.—
(Much cheering.)—The boroughmongers would make a
struggle ; they would die hard ; but their death was cer-
tain, and that at no distant period—(Cheers)—their po-
litical death of course he meant. " Poor fellows, it was
all over with Thom."—(Loud laughter.) Their doom
was teaa!el; some of them had already made their last
dying'speechea and confessions--(Cheers and laughter)—
and for his own part he hoped there would he a funeral
sermon on the occasion—(laughter)--and that Dr. Phil-
potts would he sent for to preach it.—(Roars of laughter.)
He was cunlident that when the clerk came to the close,
with his usual " amen," the people would all join chorus.
—(Continued laughter, and much cheering.)—lle really
felt ashamed to detain the meeting amidst such a severe
storm.—(Several voices "go on ; we'll stop all day ;
never mind the rain.")---He was an old Reformer.—(A
voict its the crowd—" Ayr, the most honest there.)—
Reform Was his favourite hobby ; upon which he had
now ridden for some yeara, and which he hoped had nearly
brought him to his journey's end. He had been an ad-
advocate of this great cause, when it was not quite so
fashionable as he rejoiced to fled it at present—when the
Reformers were designated, " a low, degraded crew,"
branded as disloyal and disaffected, and as enemies of their ,
tountry.—(Cheers.)—But the tables were turned. It
was the Tories who were now seditious and disaffected.—
(Much laughter and cheers.)—They are now the enemies
of the King and the Government.—(Cheers.)—For his part
enemy to the country as he had been called, he did not,
no: never had wished to see a change in the form of the
Government : he desired no alteration or remodelling of
the British Constitution. That Constitution, as they all
knew, consisted of three estates, King, Lords, and Com-
mons. But the Tory Constitution consisted of King,
Lords, and Boroughmongers.—(lmmense cheering.) That
was the Constitution he wanted to see altered. Timid
people were taunted and terrified with the word " revolu-
tion ;" but that was precisely the word he applied to the
proposed change : he, too, called it a revolution—a
glorious revolution,—a revolution from had to good—
from decay to purity.—(Great cheering.) It was a re-
volution, of the necessity of which he had been long
convinced. During the six years he had represented
Carlisle, he had ample opportunities of remarking,
that under the present corrupt borough system, the
Ministers of the (lay did not care what infringements
were made upon popular rights—nor what wounds
were inflicted upon public liberty.—(Cheers.) The old
story was that the system was a good one and
worked well ; and some people had the impudent folly to
say so to this day ; but he fancied the meeting would
agree with him it was only good for the chosen few who
prospered upon the ruin and misery of the many.—
(Cheers.) The real sore place, where the shoe pinches,
was an inordinate overwhelming taxation—this was the
great hank of the country.—(Applause.) He did not think
any individual in the kingdom would object to a handsome
provision for the Sovereign, and any resonable sum to
meet the just and reasonable demands of the State ; but
in such a condition as the nation now was, when the
people were actually pressed to the very ground by cruel
and unequivocal taxation—when merchants, manufac-
turers, farmers, and tradespeople, in return for the use of
their capital and skill, were conducting their respective busi-
nesses with little, and in many cases no profit—surely in
such a state of things—and he did not think the picture
was at all overdrawn—the people's money should not he
lavished, and squandered away as it had been amongst
pensioners and sinecurists, and public officers, whose
services were not really required.—(Much cheering.)—
These, as had been well said, were the birds that preyed
upon the vitals of the country, and exhausted its best
energies. The six hundred thousand and odd pounds,
thick were annually divided amongst 131 Privy' Coun-
sellors, if left in the pockets from whence it was
taken, would afford regular employment, at half-
a-crown a day, to upwards of thirteen thousand honest
labourers.—(Much cheering.) Speaking of birds of
prey, don't let them forget another bird of prey—a
foreign bird, who was sucking out the very heart's
blood out of the country. Throwing aside the me-
taphor—this gentleman, Prince Leopold, was actually
receiving no less than 136/. 17s. a-day—a complete sine-
cure—(Much cheering)—for if any services in the country
had been performed, they must have been far over paid al-
ready, as he had received considerably above half a million
nut of the impoverished pockets of the people.--(A cry of
" Shame, shame," and much cheering.)—Such extrava-
gances and abuses as this could not exist with a reformed
Parliament, which could alone extricate us from all our
difflcultiera—(Cheers.)—He did not believe that the great
Henry Brougham—the wonder of the age, with all his
Herculean powers of mind—that even he, with his
gigantic besom, could sweep out that Augean
stable, the Court of Chancery, without the aid
of a reformed Parliament.—(Very great cheering,)
He did not think that our present distinguished repre-
sentative could eradicate the abuses which he had so ably
and honestly exposed in the department over which he
presided, without the aid of a reformed Parliament. Did
any one think, that this single extravagance with regard
to Prince Leopold, for instance, would be permitted by
a House of Commons really chosen by and responsible
to the people ? In fact, it could not exist under a good
Government.—(lmmense and long-continued cheering.)
And what more did the formerly calumniated reformers
ever wish or ever ask for but good Government ?
But they knew, that in order to obtain it, and what
was more, to secure its continuance, some adequate
checks upon the conduct of the governors were really
required.—(Cheers.) Mr. James then went on at some
length, d welling upon the necessity of cheap Govern-
ment—upon having the supplies dependent upon the
people themselves, through a House of Commons chosen
by themselves, which, he contended, would prevent all
further plunder—that his Majesty and the Government
would be amply supplied, for the proper conduct of the
affairs of the country—but that the issues from the Trea-
sury would be scrupulously examined into; and the great
paupers of the state no longer permitted to luxuriate upon
the spoils of an oppressed people.—(Cheers.) In fact, the
consequences of Parliaments chosen by boroughmongers
were appalling—their deeds were written in blood—
(Cheers)—their crest was a figure of 8 with eight cyphers
to the end of it.—(lmmense cheering.) This debt—this
monstrous debt, contracted partly to put down Reform
at home, to place the Bourbons on the throne of France,
and to enable certain monarchs, at the time impi-
ously calling themselves Hay, to trample upon the liber-
ties of mankind.—(Cheers.) But this was a fruitful
topic; and he would not detain them longer upon such a
disagreeable day.--(Cries of " go on, go on," " we're
not tired," "we care nothing for the rain.") The bo-
roughmongers must be got rid of, the country is resolved
no longer to tolerate them.—(A cry of, " No, we won't
—down with them.") He thanked the meeting for the
attention with which they had heard him ; but as other
gentlemen would be desirous of addressing them, he
would conclude by once more offering them his most
hearty congratulations on the cheering prospect now before
the country. They had at length arrived at a happier and
brighter era in their history. A truly excellent and pa-
' triotie Monarch—a wise and honest Ministry, resolved no
longer to withhold from the people their just but long-lost
rights ; and he was sure that all who heard him would
consider them entitled not only to the regard and esteem
of every true friend and well-wisher of his country, but
to the lasting gratitude of countless generations yet unborn.
The Hon. Gentleman concluded by moving the petition,
praying the House of Commons to pass the Bill now be-
fore it. The petition, he said, had his hearty concurrence,
and he trusted it would meet the unanimous support of all
present. Mr. James's speech was followed by cheering,
which lasted for several minutes; and, indeed, throughout
he was received in the most enthusiastic manner.
WtLFRFD LAWSON, Esq., of Brayton-hall, seconded
the motion, in a short but energetic speech.
The meeting was then addressed by the Rev. E. Stan-
ley, W. Wybergh, Esq. of Isell Hall, W. Crackanthorpe,
Esq., of Newbiggin Hall, W. P. Johnson, Esq., of Wal-
ton House, W. R. Walker, Eeq., of Whitehaven,

in favour of the measure. The petition was received most
unanimously, and carried amidst much cheering.

IPS iv_telf.

Pursuant to a requisition, very numerously signed, ad-
dressed to the Bailiffs of this borough, a public meeting of
the inhabitants was held on Wednesday, at the Town-hall,
for the purpose of addressing his Majesty and the House
of Commons in favour of the Ministerial plan of Reform.
The object of the meeting eteiterl the most lively interest,
hills were placa-dcd rotund the town, calling upon the in-
habitants to come forward " to support the King in his
struggle with the boraughmongers," and the attendance
of the inhabitants was very numerous. Several gentlemen
addressed the meeting, urging strongly the necessity for
strengthening the hands of Ministers in their endeavours
to effect thb lung-required plan of Reform, and resolutions,
upon which an address to the King and a petition to the
House of Commons were founded, were unanimously
agreed to, expressive of the concurrence of the inhabitants
of this town in the proposed measure of relief, and pray-
ing that it might be allowed to pass into a law. The i n-
bitants of Halesworth, also, in the county of Suffolk, met
upon the same subject on Tuesday last, and various other
towns in the same county, are following the like examples.

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been guilty of, to entitle him to such an ho-
nour, and are compelled, after a long and painful in-
vestigation, to report him wholly innocent.

We understand that at the meeting held yester-
day, at Lord ALTUORP'S, on the subject of Reform,
his Lordship was so well satisfied with the result of
the deliberation, that he said,with much animation,
" Gentlemen, I feel persuaded that the Bill is carried
already, and that by a great majority.

In another part of The Sun will be found Refoim
meetings of the three great counties of Cumberland,
Suffalk, and Hampshire. The spirit manifested at
these is in the highest degree satisfactory. At the
one held in Suffolk it ►vas formally announced that
the Duke of GRAFTON highly appproved of the
Ministerial Reform Bill.