The Sun.
London, England, 1834-12-12 00:00:00

of the death of Charles the First, and they
tried to put an end to the Hanoverian succession, for tne
purpose of bringing forward the despotic Stuarts. They had
erected the triangle in the Castle-yard, at Dublin, and they,
were the aiders and abettors of the perpetrators of the infa-
mous Manchester massacre.—( Great cheering.) They were
the men who had transported, as felons, the greatest patriots
that Scotland ever knew.--(Great cheering).
Mr. CuLLeze seconded the resolution.
Mr. WHITE moved the next resolution, that an address, an
echo of the resolutions, be presented to his Majesty.
Mr. COHEN seconded the resolution. The Duke of Wel-
lington had never shown any disposition to encourage Reform.
and as an instance of that, he would advert to his conduct on
the East Retford Disfranchisement Bill.—( Cheers.) But it
had been said that he had carried the Catholic Emancipation
Bill--true he had done so, but in doing that he had ratted from
his former principles. All the Tories, in that instance, had
ratted, and was there any faith to be placed in such men ?
No. He trusted that the people would stand forward
boldly—putting aside all paltry and petty differences, and
make one strong and long pull together against the Tories—if
they did so, they might depend that this would be the last time
that the Tories would have the remotest possibility of doing
any harm.—(Great laughter.) The. resolution was then put
and agreed to.
Mr. J. SIMPSON moved the address, which was an echo of
the resolutions. The national debt and all its consequences
was the work of the Tories. The Duke of Wellington had
declared more than once that the reduction of taxation could
go no further ; but he had gone further—and this was the man
who was in future to govern this country. He had gone so far
as to state, that if the military in Ireland did their duty,
the tithes could be levied.—( Very great disapprobation. )
Was it for this the people were to be taxed? Were they to
be taxed to maintain in Ireland one vast camp ? Yet such
was the opinion of the Noble Duke who was in future to
govern this country. He trusted that the people to a man
would rise up against him ; it was a duty they owed to them-
selves, their country, and their King, to discountenance men
who would uphold such abominable taxation.—( Cheering.)
Mr. SAVAGE seconded the address, which was carried
amidst great cheering.
Mr. HATCH moved the next resolution, requesting the Mem-
bers to present the Address to his Majesty. The people of
England lived in a land of liberty. They had the public press
to advocate their cause, and that public press had done so
manfully.---( Cries of " Not the Times.") No, that was true,
for some portion of the public press had expressed itself with
regard to the meeting held at Shme-diteb, and had stisted-that
it was attended by brawlers and mob orators. He was con-
tented to be one of those mob orators, and should have con-
sidered himself wanting in his duty to his country if he
had not come forward at the present most important
crisis.—( Hear.) The time bad not yet arrived when the
people of this country were to be trampled under foot.—
( Great cheering.) The Tories and liberty could never
amalgamate. It was impossible for a Tory to be a liberal or
a reformer ; but it was said, " wait and see what the Tories
will do for you ;" but if the people were of the same opinion as
himself, they would say we want no reform at the hands of the
Tories, nor will we accept it from them.--( Immense cheering. )
Mr. PAINE seconded the resolution. It was said that the
Tories had not been tried. Not tried I Why, surely the
longest reign which ever existed in this country was suffi-
cient to try them.—( Hear, hear, hear.) That reign bad
shown to the world what the Tories were, and no Englishman
with the feelings of one would support them for a moment.
He trusted that the people would unite in petitioning the
King to dismiss the Duke of Wellington and all the Tories
from his service. If he did uot do so the people had the
power in their own hands ; they could withhold the supplies ;
and if they only did that, the Tories would soon give up the
reins of Government.—( Cheers.) He trusted that this meet-
ing would exact a pledge from their Members that they would
support annual Parliaments, universal suffrage, and vote by
ballot.—( Cheers. )
Dr. LUSHINGTON then came forward amidst great cheering,
hissing, and much confusion, it was some time before the
Hon. Member could gain a hearing. He said that he was
prepared to avow and support, and he did so, the whole of his
political conduct since he had the honour of being a Member
for the Tower Hamlets. He had adhered inviolably to all
the great principles he professed when first he addressed
the electors of that borough.—( Great confusion.) He had
told the electors that he was in favour of the ballot, and his
conduct in Parliament had shown he was so, for he had voted
in support of it. He had told the electors that he was
in favour of triennial parliaments, and he had spoken and voted
in favour of them.—(Great cheering.) He had stated he was
hostile to the empressment system, and he had voted for its
abolition.—( Great cheering.) He had stated that he was
hostile to the Corn Laws, and lie had voted for the motion of
his Hon. Friend for its abolition.—( Great cheering, and cries
of " The Irish Coercion Bill.) A man was to be judged by
the whole tenor of his conduct, and he defied any person
Present to state that his conduct had not been what
he professed it should be when first he addressed the
Tower Hamlets.—(Great cheering, and cries " it is
not.") The Electors had sent him into the House of Com-
mons, he hoped with a conscience, and lie was answerable to
his God, for what lie did under the dictates of that conscience.
—(Great cheering.) No man dared openly to calumniate
him for what he had done—( Cheers)—if there was any per-
son present that did, he feared it not—(Great cheering)—he
repented not of a single step that he had taken or a single act
that he had done—( Great cheering)--he apologised not for it,
and was ready to defend before his God and his country every
act of his life.—( Cheers). He asked the meeting to try him,
as they would try the Tories—(Great cheering)—to try him
by the tenor of the uniform principles he had ever practised for
the last 28 years; during that time he had been the unremit-
ting friend of all that was calculated to do good for his country,
and the eternal foe of every thing that was calculated to create
abuse. He had been fighting the battles of the Reformers when
their leaders were sent to the hulks or transported. He was then
only 24 years old, but he did not forsake his standard. He
did not seek to be tried by any individual act, but by the whole
tenor of his political life. When he heard people say, for
God's sake trust the Duke, for heaven's sake listen to Sir
Robert Peel, and remember Catholic Emancipation, he could
not help exclaiming, " What folly, what absurdity I" The
man who believed in them was an idiot— the man who avows
his belief in them is a traitor.—( Cheers.) How' did men
act in private life ? Did they confide in convicted swindlers ?
If they wanted a wife or a mother to their families, did they take
a prostitute from the streets ?—(No, no.) If, then, men were
governed in private life by such feelings, should not they feel
equally jealous of the purity of character of those by whom
they were governed ?—( Cheers.) What was their true ob-
ject—what did they seek for ? To obtain reform at home, and
in all the branches of Church and State—they sought to re-
pair the evils of rast times, and the neglect of a corrupt anis-
tocracy—th procure for the people of England cheap and
speedy justice, and an extirpation of all the abuses they had
been so long grieved under.—(Cheers.) They sought re-
dress to their Dissenting brethren—a measure which he had
advocated from the earliest period of his life. He could not
forget the second election he stood, when, because he had ad-
vocated Catholic Emancipation, lie had been stripped of his
clothes, and left almost naked by these very Tories.—( Cheers. )
They sought to maintain peace abroad, and for England on
the Continent her proper name as the supporter of liberal prin-
ciples.--( Cheers.) Let them go to the Duke.—( Cries of
" No, no.") The friend of Don Miguel, and the friend of the
Earl of Aberdeen and Lord Beresford,whose intercepted letters
had shewn them to be engaged in a correspondence traitorous
to the freedom of their ,country and their fellowmen. Who
was the supporter of Don Carlos in Spain ? Why, the Duke ;
and if they only looked at the Court circular of last night they,
would find that his boon companions were the veritable Secre-
tary of State, Lord Aberdeen, and the immaculate patriot, M.
.
Herries.—( Cheers.) Who else 2 That most liberal of all
men to -Dissenters, the Right Honourable Mr. Goulbure.
Could any man in his senses expect good from such
men ?—( Cries of " No, no.") They had the means in their
own hands, for' the venerable father of Reform, Earl Grey,
had declared, that after the passing of the Reform Bill, Eng-
lishmen could not be misgoverned. The present was a great
struggle, and should not be treated with contempt or negli-
gence. They had against them first the King--( Hear.) It
was false delicacy—it was utterly absurd to say, that in dis-
cussing these matters he was infringing upon the prerogatives
of the Crown. The people also had their prerogatives, acid
the King must wait for the people.—(Loud cheering.) If ho
chooses to appoint Ministers the people will not trust, the
people can make him change them again.--(Applause. )
What was the state of their country ? For ten years
they had a Monarch who was insane for ten
more he was succeeded by a cold-blooded volup-
tuary--a change came which had excited hopes; and
these were now to be blasted. He warned all the lovers of
monarchy, that if such a course was pursued, monarchy itself
was in danger.—( Loud cheers.) The Tories had on their
side all those who had any expectation of place or pensioa,
and when to these were added the ignorant, who believed that
because the Tories were a long time connected with' the go-
vernment it could not go on well without them, they com-
posed a very large and formidable body.—( Hear, hear. )
He should feel the highest honour in being the organ .of
their address to his Majesty, and he would tell them how far
his colleague and himself could carry that into effect. He
had inquired and had ascertained that there would be no levee ;
and all they could do, was to present it to the Secretary of
State, whoever he might be.—( Cries of " No, no, and LoA
Durham.) It was for them to determine whether the address
of the most important and powerful borough in the kingdom
should be presented to the King in person or not. ' If they
thought proper to confide it to a Peer of Parliament, he coup
demand an audience of his Majesty, to present it to hint
in person. He had thus stated his opinion and feelings upon
one of the most important questions that had ever' come befdrs
them—namely, the best mode of displacing from the 'Govern:
ment those who were their bitter political enemies. Whatever
mode they might suggest, either by stopping the supplies, or
otherwise, he should be most ready to give his hearty concur.
reucc•—( Cheers.)
Air. CLAY then came forward, and expressed the pleasu-e
which he felt in addressing and interchanging opinions wins
his constituents. His Hon. Colleague had alluded to topics,
which he was, perhaps, forced to enter upon; but as that
necessity did not devolve upon him, he should confine himself
to the more important subject they were met to discuss. Those
who heard him were aware he was not frequently in the habit
of attending public meetings, or of stepping beyond the
strict line of his Parliamentary duties. He thought that
within the walls of St. Stephens, a representatative of the
people could best advocate their interests. He should have
considered himself unworthy of the honourable station to which
their suffrages had raised him if he had felt any pussillanimiti,
and taken the earliest opportunity fully and frankly to declare
his sentiments on the present state of affairs. He should be'
ashamed of himself if he had not been among the foremost to
warn the people of England, and more particularly his fellow
citizens, that the time was come once more when they