The Sun.
London, England, 1834-11-26 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL, Nos. 24.

NG TO ADDRESS HIS MAJESTY
bell this
day in Clayton-square, Viscount
MINISTERIAL CHANGES.
The meeting
GREonAtThe ARIEEEjE.;:r
i'vlolyneux in the chair, to: the purpose of voting an address
to his Majesty on the recap!Ministerial changes, was un-
questionably one of the most I.:unierous and most respecta-
ble, whether as regards wealth of numbers, ever witnessed
in the town of Liverpool. The gre:;test possible unanimity
prevailed from the commencement to the close of the p:o-
--ceedings, and the enthusiastic acclamatioes with which sea-
timents favourable to reform were receiveJ, and the hiseas
and execrations which accompanied every mention of our

new military Dictator, show stronger than words the disgust
which the recent Ministerial changes have excited in this
town and neighbourhood. The meeting has been declared
to be the largest assembly ever held in Clayton-square. It
has been so pronounced by those best capable of judging—
men who have attended all the public meetings held hero
during the last thirty years. The number of persons could
not be less than 15,000, though some asserted that there
were 20,000 present. All classes of Reformers united on
this great occasion. Radicals and Whigs, acting on the
excellent advice of Lord Durham, forgot their temporary
differences, and determined to oppose the common enemy.
Lord Viscount Molyneux made an admirable chairman,.
'and his announcement that he was a " radical reformer,'
and would from this time forward continue so, was received
with deafening acclamations. The reception also which
our excellent representative William Ewart, Esq., expe-
rienced, was most enthusiastic.
Before the proceeding' terminated, a vote of thanks to
Lord Durham was unanimously agreed to, and three hearty
cheers were also given for that distinguished and patriotiP
nobleman, in which the immense multitude joined ",;:th the-
greatest good-will.
Among the many other highl.; respectable individuals
present, we noticed WilliP2n Ewart, Esq., M.P., John
Ewart, Esq., Colonel Williams, M.P., S. Hope, Esq., J. B.
Yates, Esq., .W. Currie, Esq., L. Heyworth, Esq.,
W. P. Elhvner, Esq., Dr. Carson, Dr. Collins, W. P.
Freme, 'Esq., T. Rashhone, Esq., J. D. Thornley, Esq..
F. Jordan, Esq., T. Jevons, Esq., W. Earl, Esq., W,
Wyberg, Esq., John Crapper, Esq., 0. Wood, Esq., 11.
Earl, Esq. T. Ryley, Esq., T. B. Barclay, Esq., J. Aiken.
Esq., W. Tayleure, Esq., R. Preston, Esq., T. Rodick,
Esq., T. Harvey, Esq., and many other leading and influ.
ential men on the liberal side, who have been long accus-
tomed to take part in the proceedings of public meetings.
The leading shop-keepers of the town have also been
extremely active, and contributed much by their spirited
and patriotic exertions to the success and harmony of the
proceedings.
Lord Viscount MoLYsEus., M.P., having been called to
the Chair, proceeded to address the meeting as follows :
Brother Freemen and Gentlemen, the clap of thunder that
has broken over us has been so sudden and so awful, that
it is hardly necessary to allude to it ; but the thing itself

is so incre',ible, that it needs to be repeated. It requires
us to rut, our eyes and quicken our ears in order to believe
the staggering fact; that Wellington—( A burst of hisses
ond execration here stopped the speaker for some seconds)
. —that Wellington, the man who has been twice ejected by
the people of England from the situation of Prime Minister
—(Hisse, groans, and shouts of " No Wellington !")—the
man who has no sympathy with the feelings, nor respect for
the opinions of the people—(Cheers and hisses)—the man
who has openly declared himself the friend of abuse and the
enemy of reform—( Hisses and groans)—who has told yo'i
that no reform was needed—that this man should now, with
his followers, the wretched tools of corruption—(Loud
cheers and hisses)—he drawn forth from the stagnant ken-
nels of Toryism—(lmmense cheering)—and should again
be called to hold the first place in the councils of the nation.
—(Lout cheers, and cries of " Ile shall not bold it long 1" )
This, gentlemen, is the astounding cause t'nat has called
you together. The steps we propose you to take are
these=that you will declare with one manly, respectful,
but firm and uncompromising voice, jour determined pro-
test against so dangerous a proceeding.—(A unanimous
shout of "We will !") I ask you, if you wish to see
abuse, corruption, and monopoly, in every branch of Go
vcrnment ?—if you wish to s,i.e rebellion in Ireland ?—if
you wish to see a continental war ?—if you wish to see
corruption in Church and S'Aate again established ?—(" No,
no, no !") I call upon :;ou here, then, to join your voices
to the millions that will be raised in England in the course
of the week, and to eAter your stern remonstrance against
so dangerous and awful a change.—(Great cheering.)
His Lordship :nen took his post amidst many hearty
cheers, and—
Mr. W. W, CURRIE stepped forward and said—Gen-
tlemen, I ar.i a Radical ; and when I avow myself so, I
do not mean that 1 am one of those whom our opponents
choose 1;0 call Destructives. No ; I say a Radical
the most perfect Conservative sense the country ceuld
desire.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) With this qualification
of tkie word, I have no hesitation in proclaiming myself
a Radical. Am I a friend of the monarchy? I wish to
'support it by improving those institutions which are the
. pride and glory of the Sovereign.—(Loud applause.) Am I
a friend of the Church ? I wish to cut away those abuses
which neither Conservatives nor any man living can deny.
Am I a Radical ? I wish to lop off abuses—to restore to
the Church that purity which ought to characterise rergion.
(Hear, hear, and much applaun.) I wish to abolish sine-
, cures—(Cheers)—to do away with pluralities—(Cheers,—
to pay the industrious clergyman more in proportion to their
deserts—(Loud applause)—We ought to lose no time in
expressing our opinion.--(Cheers.) We ought to lost no
time in expressing our alarm at the return of the Duke of
Wellington, and that ruinous syatem of policy which for
twenty-five years beggared the country with places, pen-
- sions, and sinecures.—(" Mark that 1" and loud cheers.)
He then read the resolution :

" That this assembly cannot contemplate without the utmost
alarm, the recal to his Majesty's councils of that party which
has been constantly opposed to improvement and reform, ar.d
which cannot conduct the business of the Government without
a resolute support of all existing abuses, or a total abandon-
- ment of their own avowed principles."
Colonel WILLIAMS, in seconding the motion, said—Gen-
' tlemen, I, who have been a spectator and an auditor of what
has been going on in the House of Commons, am satisfied
that no men could have done more during the period that
they were in office than those men who have been lately
expelled from it.—(Applause.) I look upon it as one of
the greatest calamities that could have befallen the nation
that they have lost the services of those honest and sincere
men.--(Hear, hear.) In looking back upon the condition
of the country, you will remember that it is not many years
since I addressed a meeting immediately after the infamous
transaction at Manchester.--(Hear, hear, and hisses)—and
when a ruffian who was one of the Liverpool voluntee' g
"gloried in the hope that his first action would be to lay his
sabre over my head.—(Hisses, and cheers.) Recollect this,
when I ask you to say whether we are not liable to 'a repe-
tition of such outrages under a military government—
( Hear, hear, and much cheering.)
The resolution having been carried unanirrirusly, with
loud acclamations,
Mr. HENRY BOOTH said—What have people done
to deserve this at the King's hand ?—(ll',ar, hear.) Have
they not been faithful, loyal, true?—(Cheers and cries of
Yes, yes !") Nay, have they not .t,,een patient—patient
in waiting for these reforms in abuses—those amendments
in institutions, to which they knew( they were entitled
(Applause.) But the King hasl-ieen deceived—(Cheers)—
or else he has been wantonly Alarmed.—(Renewed cheer-
ing.) But it has been said that Wellington will turn Re-
former.—( Never, never.) " Can the Ethiopian change his
skin, or the leopard his spots ?"—(Cheers, and shouts of
laughter.) We will new-Jr cease our endeavours till every
abuse in Church and. State has been rooted out of the
land.--(Great apply use.) The second resolution, with your
permission, I will, now read :
" That at Us momentous crisis of public affairs, it is the
solemn dut7 of the peaceful subjects of this great common-
wealth to avail themselves of their constitutional privileges of
laying 'heir sentiments at the foot of the throne ; and that the
following address be presented on behalf of this meeting to his
Majesty."

ADDRESS.
" TO THE KING'S MGT EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

" We, your Majesty's mast faithful subjects, inhabitants of
Liverpool and vicinity, in public meeting convened, approach
your Majesty with ser.'ciments of duty and respect, which are
du• to the sovereign of a free people.
" We are anxious to make known to your Majesty the asto-
nishment and disappointment which we in common, as we ap-
prehend, -with the large majority of your subjects throughout
the nation, have experienced on learning that your Majesty
appears to have withdrawn your support from that course of
enlightened policy which is identified with the wishes and in-
terests of the nation, and the great objects which it had la-
boured to accomplish—the reform of abuses in every depart-
ment of the State—economy in the administration of public
affairs—peace with foreign states, if consistent with honour
and sincerity—and that freedom and extension of commerce,
from the dawn of which had already arisen renewed vigour and
prosperity to the country—and that your Majesty had been
pleased to call to your Councils, or to encourage with the
prospeet of your Hoyal favour, men who have impeded, to
their utmost, the great work of National Reform, and have
striven to perpetuate the most glaring abuses both in Church
and State—especially that your Majesty, Sovereign over an
enlightened commercial nation, should have selected as the
depository of your gracious confidence, a military chief, igno-
rant of the feelings of the people, and having no sympathy,
with the sentiments, pursuits, and occupations of the grey t
body of his fellow-countrymen--a man who, when the natir,n,
as with one voice, determined a reform of the representatie,n of
the people, emphatically declared that, in his opinion, nor eform
was necessary.
" Under these circumstances of surprise and regret., we arc
compelled to the conviction that your Majesty has frit-gotten at
the moment under the influence of evil advisers, o.e great con-
stitutional truth which experience has recently tierifled, that a
Government, though differing amongst its w embers on minor
points, becomes strong and efficient in the': approbation and
support of a whole people ; whilst, on thy, other hand, an Ad
ministration, though in character unite?, and determined, be-
comes weak, if it possesses not, becanse it deserves not, the
confidence of the nation.

" Most respectfully, therefore, but earnestly, with feelings
which alone should animate ene hearts of a faithful and free
people--we implore your Majesty to dismiss from your confi-
dence those who, when 'declared enemies of reform, are sepa-
rated as by a wall of brass from the sympathy and affections of
the people, and in t'ileir place to call to your councils such only
as by their public acts, or avowed principles, stand pledged to
the country to Complete the great work of reform, and to earn

for your Majesty golden opinions amongst all classes of your
Majesty's loyal and affectionate subjects."
Mr. SHILL seconded the motion.
The Noble CHAIRMAN put this resolution also to the
meeting. A forest of hands were held up in its favour,
and only three against it.
Mr. BRANCKIII proposed three times three cheers for the
address, which were accordingly given with due spirit.
Mr. BLACKBURN said, I beg to propose the following re-
solution :

" That the glorious Act for the Reform of the House of
Commons, the modern Magna Charta, places in the hands of
the great body of the people the power of determining the cha-
racter of the Government ; and therefore it is the imperative
duty of every constituency, in the event of a dissolution of
Parliament, to use every possible exertion to secure the return
of such Representatives as are pledged to the great princi-
ples of peace, economy, and r'zform."
Gentlemen, the pro
„ -
;ent changes are only temporary.
(Astounding applause.) All monopolies, both secular and
"447:iastical, are doomed to certain and speedy destruction.
The decree of the people has gone forth, and their days
are numbered.
' Mr. JOHN CROPPER seconded the motion without remark.
The resolution was then put to the meeting, and car-
ried, as the others, unanimously.
Mr. T. B. BARCLAY proposed the nest resolution,
namely—
" That the Address to the King be signed by the Chairman,
Lord Molyneux, on behalf of the meeting ; and that Lord
Derby and Lord Sefton be respectfully requested to present it

to his Majesty."
Mr. CIIALMER, surgeon, seconded the resolution, which:
was carried unanimously.
Mr. THOMAS BOLTON proposed a vote of thanks to
W. Ewart, Esq., Member for their borough, on whose con-
duct he pronounced a warm eulogium.—(Enthusiastic ap-
plause.)
Mr. BROCKLEBANK seconded the motion.
Mr. EWART, on coming forward, was saluted with over-
whelming acclamations, the shouting and waving of hats
continuing several minutes. After thanking the meeting
warmly, he said—Gentlemen, I have no confidence in the
Government that has been just appointed—(no, nor have
they in London either)—because my reason cannot con-
vince me that these are the men, or that they profess prin-
ciples, which can safely or long be adopted as the govern-
i.ig principles of this country. Can we hope that the
rights of the poople will he properly conceded—(never)—
when we have the Prime Minister Chancellor of one of
the Universities, and two other Ministers representatives
of the other.—( Hear, hear, and cheers.) What hope
is there that free trade will be maintained or extended
—that free trade which is of the utmost importance
to every inhabitant of this community, including, of
course, if they knew their true interests, the bur-
gesses themselves ?—( Hear, hear.) What hope is
there of the concession of free trade from men
who opposed the alteration of the timber-duties, and who
are in principle, if not in person, opposed to free trade in
corn ?—(Cheers.) We are told, Gentlemen, that the Duke
of Wellington will act as he acted in the case of the Ca-
tholics.—( Hear, hisses and groans.) But the cases are not
at all parallel.—(Cheers.) There he, maintained his original
principles, but changed his measures ; now it will be nece-..
sary, in order to satisfy the people, that he must. 7iot only
change his measures, but his principles likewise.—(Loud
applause.) Can you believe that the Duke of Wellington
has changed all the principles that actuated him in the
short space of three months ?—(" No, no," and much ap-
plause.) Gentlemen, if the Duke of Wellington succeed
in forming an Administration, we must look for a change of
measures, not only in this country, but all over Europe.—
( Hear, hear.) Let our motto be, " Union ! Union !
Union!"—(Cheers.) Let us make one resolution, that
there shall be no compromise with the enemy.—(Loud
cheers.) We will talk of compromise only when we have
proved that we are invincible.
Three cheers were given to Mr. Ewart on his retiring,
and a cry was raised for Mr. Thornely. He (lid not, how-
ever, make his appearance, having sent a note to the Com-
mittee, to the effect that he was prevented attending the
meeting by sickness.
Mr. Was. EARLE proposed a vote of thanks to the
Chairman.
Mr. EWART seconded the motion. The honourable gen-
tleman was going on, when
Dr. COLLINS interposed with a vote of thanks, not in the
regular course of the proceeding, to Lord Durham, the pa-
triot and friend of the people.
The vote of thanks to the Chairman was carried by ac-
clamation.
The CHAIRMAN acknowledged the honour.
His Lordship concluded amidst much cheering, and nine
times nine cheers having been given, on the proposition of
Mr. BRANCKER, for " William the Reformer," the meeting
quietly dispersed.