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do the same with less than twelve millions.—(Cheers.)
As one of themselves—as a citizen of the world, and
living amongst them—sympathising with them, and get-
ting his living like them by his labour—he would brave
all danger in support of their rights. The Hon. Gentle-
man sat down amidst loud cheering.
Mr. W. WILLIAMS said the character of these odious
taxes had been so frequently discussed in every part of the
country. and their injustice, inequality, and oppressiveness
so deeply felt, that it would be unnecessary for him to en-
deavour to convince the meeting of the necessity of their
abolition.—(Cheers.) The whole of their amount was
less than 2 millions, and yet the expense of their collec-
tion was not less than 300,000/.—(Loud cries of shame. )
• Two surveyors had been paid for surcharges 30,000/.,
and 10,0001. had been paid to the lawyers. Was it
too much to expect the Chancellor of the Exchequer to
take off two millions and a half from an amount of forty-
six millions, while the whole amount of the expenditure
in 1793, when the situation of the country was most
imposing, was only six millions, independent of the inte-
rest of the debt ? The whole expenditure, independent
of the interest of the debt, was nearly eighteen millions.
It was admitted on all hands that the country never stood
stronger in the eyes of the people and the world than it did
in 1793. Why then should the people not have as cheap
a government now as it had at that period ? Did the
people of Scotland, Ireland, and England, he would ask, as
one !non, make the extiaordinary sacrifices and exertions
they did for a change of Parliament, for the purpose of
obtaining the miserable reduction proposed by the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer.—(Cheers.) If the Chencellor of
the Exchequer was weak enough to believe that the
people had made the great effort to which he had
adverted for the purpose of obtaining the paltry reductions
he had proposed, he would find himself much mistaken;
and if the House of Commons would support him in that
opinion, which he did not believe, then it was time for the
people to set to work again, to obtain a more extended
reform—(Cheers)—such a reform as would give the
people as cheap a Government as they had in 1793. He
had already stated the amount of taxes to be two millions
and a half. He wished now to show the unjust manner
in which the taxes were levied_( Hear, hear)—and the
insults which the aristocracy had given to the trading
community on which they • had thrown all the burdens.
Now to show this, he would just state how the great were
rated. In Berkshire there were only two houses rated at
150/. a year, and in that county no less than eleven titled
lords resided, and one bishop. In Durham there was net
one house rated at more than 1001. a year, and still in that
great county there were not less tha❑ six mansions of the
nobility, there was Ruby Castle, in which history told that
700 knights were entertained at one time, that was the
seat of the Duke of Cleveland, one of the richest noble-
men in the country. There was the castle of the
Bishop of Durhara, which was only rated at 1001.
a year. There was the Marquis of Londonderry, with
all his great property in that county, who only paid
1001. a year, just about one•half as much as he (Mr.
W.) w s rated.—(Cries of " Shame.") in Northampton
only one house was rated so high as 120/. a year, and in
that county resided Dukes, Earls, and Bishops, to a great
number. In Suffolk, only one house was rated so high as
1101. a year ; yet in that county resided three Dukes,
eleven Marquises, Earls, and Lords, only one of whom
paid so much as 1101. a year._( Hear.) The meeting
might imagine that he was telling them romance,
or bad selected the counties least rated. No such thing.
In thirty counties there were only fifty houses rated as '
high as 1101. a year. In fifty-one counties only nineteen
houses were rated at 100/. The castle of the Duke of
Rutland was only rated at 2001. a year. Stowe, the
magnificent seat of the Duke of Buckingham, was only
rated at 3001. a year. Blenheim, the seat of the Duke of
Marlborough, only paid 300/. a year. Eaton Hall, the
property of the Marquis of Westminster, only paid 3001.
a year. Godolphin Park the seat of the Duke of Leeds,
only paid 1501. a year. Tay House, the property of the
Duke of B aufort, only 100/. a year, and Alnwick Castle,
the magnificent seat of the Duke of Northumtierlaud, which
covered, within its walls, five acres of ground, only paid
2001. a year.—(Shaine, shame !) This was a state of
things which should not be continued. Taking the road
from Charing-cross to Cornhill, he would venture to
assert that the whole number of noblemen's houses, in
different parts of the country, did not pay half so much
taxes as the inhabitants of that district did. The worthy
Gentleman concluded by expressing the great pleasure he
felt in aecanding the resolution.
Sir FRANCIS BURDETT rose to put the resolution to the
meeting, but was received with such a shout of disappro-
bation, mingled with a portion of applause, that it was
impossible to hear his observations.
The resolution was, however, put, and carried
unanimously.
Dr. LusurslGToN said he had rise❑ to move the second
resolution. He was interrupted frequently by exclama-
tions at the lower part of the hall.
Sir FRANCIS BURDETT rose to entreat a patient hear-
ing ; but his address only tended to increase the noise and
confusion.

Dr. LUSIUNGTON claimed to 119 heard, as a representa-
tive of one of the metropolitan districts.
At this moment Mr. Hume entered the room, and was
received with the most hearty applause, and cries of
" Hume to the chair."

Mr. Hu3lE presented himself to the meeting, and ex-
pressed his sorrow at not havin4 had the power of j ‘ining
it at the commencement of the proceedings. He en-
treated a patient hearing for the Hon. and Learned
Doctor.—(Cries of " Yes, if you'll take the chair.") He
would, he said, take an opportunity of addressing them,
but be must now confine himself to an earnest request
that the meeting would hear every speaker patiently, if
it was their desire that the petition should have any ef-
fect with Parliament.--(Cries of " Hear," and " Hume

to the chair.")
Mr. SAvAcix said it was stated that persons were sent
there from Somerset-house, and hoped they would be
prevented from disturbing the meeting.
Dr. LUSHINGTON handed the resolution he intended to
have spoken..ypon to the Chairman, finding that he could
not obtain a hearing, and said he begged leave to pro.
pose it.
" 2. That nothing short of the entire and irwediatem
epeal of the House and Window Taxes can insure peace
o the disappointed hope and excited feeling of that nume-
out and important class of society upon whom these and
other oppressive burdens, comparatively unfelt by other
portions of the people, have long been placed ; and, as a
proof of their inability to meet these demands, it is well
known that, at the first General Election since the passing
of that important measure for amending the representation
of the people, thousands, and tens of thousands, were
obliged to expose their poverty to the world, by nonpay-
ment of these imposts, to the injury of then credit, and
were thereby cruelly deprived of the exercise of that valu-
able franchise, for which they had so long and ardently
struggled."

Mr. SAVAGE presented himself to the meeting to se-
cond the resolution, but could not obtain a hearing.
Mr. O'CONNELL was received with shouts of applause.
He said he came trl the meeting well influenced by a single
sentiment, and that was the pledge he had given, that
whatever might be the wretched state of his

(" c"antrYs he should be always ready to use
his efforts to lessen the burdens—to ameliorate the
c,onditiun of Englishmen.—(Cheers.) For he did not
blame the people of England for the miseries inflicted
upon his own unhappy country.—(Cheers.) But be was
now actuated by another sentiment, that of gratitude
for the overpowering mannPr in which he had been re-
ceived by the meeting.—(Cheers.) He would offer his
honest advice to them in return—he would urge them not
to confide in his Majesty's Ministers.—(Cheers.) He
would advise them, instead of confiding in them to mis-
trust them.—(Hear, hear.) What boon bad they eff,!red
to the country ? Why out of 50 millions they consent
to relieve the people of the payment of one. They answered
or tried to answer the people with vulgar arithmetic--
hut the people wanted relief.—(Hear. ) He asked them,
do you want relief?—(Cries of, " We will have it.")
You will have it," said he; " aye, you shall have it,"—
(Loud cheers.) The people want to get off the assessed
taxes, but the Ministers had a double reason for keeping
them on ; they wanted them to fill the Treasury, and they
wanted to prevent the people from having the amount of
those taxes in their own pockets, lest it might be applied
to the purchase of their liberty.—(Cheers.) The Hon.
Member for Colchester, who was always exerting himself
for the public good, had put some of the transactions of
Government in a strong point of view. He wanted the
army to be reduced—why should seven or eight millions
brave enough to de•end themselves?—(Cheers.) They
pay a military force—were not Englishmen
bh'adapppolliied police toto protect them by night, and they had excise-