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Resolution, was received with loud cheers, which continued
or sonic minutes :
" That the warmest thanks of this meeting are pre-eminently
due, and are hereby most cordially voted, to the Earl of Durham,
f r his late manly and virtuous advocacy of those popular rights,
Triennial Parliaments, Household Suffrage, and Vote by Ballot,—
the only means of securing to the people good and cheap gcvern-
ment.'
He stood before them as an old Radical Reformer—( Cheers)
and was glad to see that Whigs, Reformers, and Radicals all
joined hand and heart together for the purpose of keeping
out the Tories. He detested the Tory faction, and he wished
' they would quarrel among themselves, as the Kilkenny cats did,
who fought till they had nothing left but their tails.—.
( Laughter.) It was the duty of the people, knowing their
rights, to take the best course for securing them, taking for
their guidance those principles which would work for their
benefit and improvement. Generally speaking, when Lords
came forward as Reformers, he did not believe them to bq
sincere ; but he did believe the Noble Earl who was the sub-
ject of the Resolution was sincere. —( Cheers.) He could
easily picture to himself how that Noble Earl would be met
in the House of Lords if be was to bring forward mea=urcs
for shortening the duration of Parliaments, or the vote by
ballot.--(Cheers.) When the House came to divide on
the subject, there would be Contents 1, and against the
Motion all the hereditary rubbish of which that Hou=e
was composed.—(Great cheering.) The country had boen
placed in a most awkward situation, because Lord Althorp,
who was called an old woman, chose to take up his petticoats
and carry himself from the House of Commons to the House
of Lords-4 Cheers.) He trusted the people would art man-
fully, and if they did, they would have nothing tr! fear from
the Tories.--( Cheers.)
Dr. CAarus seconded the resolution; He believed Lord
Durham to be a most honest and t onscientious man and en-
titled to the best thanks of 1.'..!s country. ,
Mr. SMITH had rb doubt that meetings like the present, and
those which Were continually taking place in all parts of the
country, would soon put an end to the gallopirgs of the Duke
of Wellington.—( Cheers.) How had the public treated the
Times newspaper, which wanted to be something more than even
Dictator ?—( Cheers.) Why, they had pursued that course:
which would effectually put a stop to its doing any mischiet..—
( Cheers.) Such had been, and such, he hoped, always would
be the reward of turn-coats.—( Cheers.)
The resolution was carried unanimously.
Three cheers were then given for the Earl of Durham.
Dr. BOWRING moved an address to the li;:ag, which was an
echo of the resolutions.
Mr. NORMAN seconded the moticr,, which was unanimously
carried.
Mr. WEBB moved a reaokition, that the Members for West-
minster should be rt:P:,..ested to present the address to the
which King,
e, waa
'carried unanimously.
of
iIIa"....FORD moved, and Mr. WADE seconded, a vote
)°cl"1"'"s to the High-Bailiff, which was carried amid loud
amations.
The HIGH-BAILIFF returned thanks, and the meeting dis.
persed in the most quiet and orderly manner.

FINSBURY.
A meeting of the electors of the borough of Pinsbury
was held last night, at the White Conduit-house Tavern,
for the purpose of addressing his Majesty on the present
eventful crisis. The great room of the White Conduit-
house, as well as the stairs and passages leading to it, were
crowded with anxious spectators, who, until the time of
taking the chair, amused themselves with playful but cutting
sallies on " His Highness," as well as on his expected aid-
de-camp, Sir Robert. Other illustrious persons were also
included in the jests which were bandied about, but Mr.
Spankie was the standing butt, at whom most of their sallies
were levelled. The chair was taken about a quarter past
six, and Mr. Duncombe, who entered with the committee,
was received with most morked and cordial enthusiasm,
NICHOLSON, Esq., on taking the chair, observed that
at this important juncture, when the people had not the op-
portunity of expressing their opinion through the proper
channel, their representatives in Parliament, it became their
bounden duty to lay before their patriotic Monarch—(laugh-
ter)—their hopes and wishes. There never was a period
when this country was placed in a situation which had more
upon its issue. It was strange that a Ministry untried, as
was Lord Melbourne's, a Ministry on which the country
relied, should be so unceremoniously dissolved—dismissed
untried. Who would succeed him ?—(" Durham, Durham I"
"No Queen," "No Petticoat Government!") It was to
be feared that the wishes of the subject were prevented
from reaching the ears of the Monarch ; that instead of a
pure English political atmosphere, he was breathing a
ToTT-English German one, which would subject them to
the tender mercies of the Duke, who was ever the uncom-
promising enemy of Reform—who was ready to call to his
assistance the Ellenboroughs and the Maryboroughs, and
all the other scions of old Rottenborough—( Hear and
laughter)--whose principal aim it was to live on the labour
of others, and devour the substancs of the useful and in-
dustrious portion of the community. He would not press
further upon their time, more especially as one of their
members was present who would better express the object
of the meeting—(Loud cheering)—the other member was
not—(Hissing for several minutes)—but had sent a letter,
which, as well as one from Mr. Hume, and another from
Mr. Dtmnnrrehr.. •
Mr. CorrocK then proceeded.to read the letter. There
was at first a strong disinclination exhibited by the meeting
to the reading of Mr. Spankie's letter, which was at length
allowed. It was as follows :

" Russell-square, Dec. 1.
" SIR--I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of
your letter of the 28th of November, informing me that a
meeting of the electors of the borough of Finsbury will bo
held at the White Conduit House Tavern, Pentonville, on
Tuesday evening next, at five for six precisely, for the purpose
of taking into consideration the sudden dismissal of his Ma-
jesty's late Ministers—the calamities which a Tory Adminis-
tration is calculated to inflict upon the country, and the mea-
sures which it behoves us to adopt, in order to preserve the
rights and privileges which have been conferred upon us by
the Reform Act, and to secure the improvement Church
and State, which we have just reason to expect from its ope-
ration.'

" I beg leave to thank you for the invitation to uttend the
meeting, and for the copy of 'the v:solutions which a sub►
committee, appointed at a preliminary meeting, have prepared
to submit to the meeting.

" As a general answer t'7, your letter, I have the honour to
forward a printed copy of a letter addressed by me to the elec-
tors of Finsbury—_(nisses, and scornful laughter), and pub-
lished in the T imes a few days ago.--(Renewed hisses.)
" The approbation of that letter communicated to me, in
the nost unequivocal manner, not only from every part of the
borough of Finsbury—(oh, oh ! laughter, and hisses), but of
the metropolis and of the Bounty, leave me no doubt whatever
of the real opinion of my constituents--(oh, oh! and cries of
We'll let him know it I'), whose sentiments must always re-
ceive the greatest attention from me, even when I have tho
misfortune to differ from any part of them, as I may now do
from you and the promoters of the meeting.--( Hisses. )
" It would be impossible for me to attend on this occasion,
which I agree with vou is (in regard to the subject of it) ' in-
teresting alike to th.e constituency of Finsbury, and the re-
presentatives of that constituency ;' but I rely, as the justifi-
cation of the course I pursue, on the grounds which are stated
in my printed address.

" it possible that you and the promoters of this meeting
can so far deceive yourselves as to imagine that the public can
be induced to accept any resolutions of a meeting at White
Conduit House, at six o'clock in the evening of the 2d of De-
cembcr, as the sense of the borough of Finsbury, containing a
population of 230,000 inhabitants—( Cries of We'll show him
they are !")—and comprehending so much property, respecta-
bility, and intelligence ? It is my duty to my constituents to
rescue them, by every exertion in my power, from the suspi-
cion of being parties to proceedings about to be taken in their
name.---( Hisses.) _ _

" I have the honour to be Sir,
" Your most obedient servant
" R. SPANKIE.
" To Mr. James Coppock, non. Sec., &c.
There was an immediate demand from all parts of the
meeting to have the letter burned—_but the Secretary
suggested that it would be more adv.isable to preserve it, as
it might be hereafter useful OP the hustings. The hint was
immediately taken.

Mr. Hume's lotto! was also read. It commended the
course adopted }V the electors of Finsbury, in at once
rising up to resist a Tory Administration, and giving a
practical 'reply to the letter of Mr. Spankie, and his favourite
sta. bnman the Duke, which showed that no reaction had
taken place in favour of the Tories. It further added that
Mr. Spankie's making the assertion be had made of the
change of opinion, could only be accounted for by his not
mixinc, with the people to know their sentiments, and ex-
pressed a hope that his constituents would convince him of
his mistake.

Mr. ROGERS then came forward to speak, but the meet-
ing would not listen to him, the calls for " Mr. Dun-
combe"—" Tom Duncombe first," being very general.
Order being restored, the CHAIRMAN called on
Mr. DeNcousE, who came forward amidst the most
hearty cheers. The Hon. Gentleman spoke newly as fol-
lows :—I feel convinced that since the people of England
honoured the Brunswick family by calling it to the throne
of these realms, there never has been a period when they
were so imperatively called upon to express to the Monarch
plainly and openly, firmly and strongly, their opinions and
their sentiments, as at the present crisis.—(Cheers.) There
has been a new doctrine promulgated within these few days,
that the people of this country, in expressing their senti-
ments, are interfering with the prerogative of the Crown-_
at least, so says the Lord Mayor--(" Poor fellow," and
laughter)—and so says Mr. Sergeant Spankie--(groans and
hisses)—in his address to the electors of Finsbury ;in
which address, by the way, the Learned Gentleman spares
neither friend nor foe, colleague nor constituent, so sweep-
irig and so general is his censure.—(Applause.) It is well
known to you that in a certain honourable profession you
hear nothing but conflicting onimons, when a multitude of
counsellors are gathered together. How much easier is it,
however, to have an unanimity of opinion, when, the same
counsel drs-,,,s up the case and gives the opinion—(laughter)
---J!..lat counsel being retained for the Crown—(loud cheers)
—and, as a matter of course, adverse to the people.--
(Hear.) But with regard to that singular address, which
some, perhaps, have had the indomitable perseverance to

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