The Sun.
London, England, 1833-01-26 00:00:00

UXBRIDGE.

PUBLIC DINNER TO MR. HUME, AT

Yesterday Mr. Home's political friends celebrated h,-
triumphant return to Parliament by a public dinner, given
at the White Horse Tavern. At three o'clock Mr. Hume
arrived, accompanied by Sir John Scott Lillie, and w,oi
received with cheers. In half an hour dinner wis an-
nounced, and abut '7O gentlemen sat down to tal,le. The
fare was excellent, and in great abundance. The tables
were tastefully arranged, and the room was beautifully de-
corated with banners and festooned with laurel. The
chair was taken by Thomas Murray, Esq., Mr. Hume
supporting him on the right, and Sir J. Scott Li:lie on
the left. Amongst the company we observed C. F. Bark-
ley, Esq., John Bailey, Esq., Henry Hull, E.g., of the
Society of Friends; Charles Riches, Esq., - Austin,
Esq., and several other public characters in the neigh-
bourhood.

After the cloth was removed, the Chairman gave the
usual preliminary toasts, " The King," " The Queen,
and the other branches of the Royal Family," " The
Duke of Sussex" was drank with applause.
The Chairman then rose, and, after a few observation•
on the merit of the toast which he was about to give, and
to which he was sure they would all vie with him in doing
honour, proposed, " The health of an honest, consistent,
and worthy Member, Joseph Hume, Esq." A burst 01
applause from every part of the room followed the an
nouncement, and the toast was drank with an enthusiasm:
which manifested the pleasure with which the Reformers
of Uxbridge hailed the presence of Mr. Hume.

Mr. HumE rose and addressed the company. He said
that nothing could be more agreeable to a public man than
to find his sentiments approved of by the public. He took
it for granted that his public conduct had met their ap-
probation and that of the electors of Middlesex ; and he
trusted that should the day arrive when he might swerve
from his duty, the electors would show as much spirit is
rejecting him as they did in coming forward to support
him.—(Cheers.) There were two great parties in the
State, who divided all the power among themselves—thi
Whigs and Tories, and be could show them t!,at these par-
ties were not in reality so different from each other as was
generally supposed.—(Hear.) These parties had each
professed to be the best friends of the people, for
whatever was done by either was said to be for the public
good. When he entered Parliament, he was under the im-
pression Chit one or other of these mast be right, and that
both acted from principle. But he had dared to
think for himself, and be soon found that it

was merely a struggle for place and power. He
soon found that in such an assembly individual exer-
tion must be lost if applied to principle only, and therefore
his labours wore directed to the pockets of the people.__
(Cheers and laughter.) He knew that every man could
be soonest awakened by arguments which related to his
purse, and therefore fe directed his most extrenuous efforts
to expose the lavish expenditure of the public revenue.—
(Hear, hear.) He was, however, not long in discovering
that the mere exposure of the extravagance was all that ha
had the power of doing. He saw that until the House of
Commons was purified of the presence of the nominees of
tioroughmongers, no wholesome measure could be pissed.
It was, therefore, with heartfelt pleasure that he supported
the Reform Bill as introduced by Lord John Russell,
though he declared, the day it win first introduced into the
House of Commons, that it was by no means sufficiently
wensive.—(Hear, hear.) Nevertheless it was the per
fecting of the machinery by which reforms of vital
iai-
portance to the State would be p oeured.—f Loud cheers.)
With the right of voting, it was evident the power of voting
freely and uncontrolled by the influence of others was abso-
lutely necessary; and as it was best to extend the basis of the
Constitution, in order that it might rest the more securely,
he was of opinion that the extension of the suffrage, and
vote by ballot, were absolutely necessary to complete the
Reform that had been begun.—(Great cheering.) Then
there was the whole system of jurisprudence requiring
speedy and radical alteration and simplification. If any or
them had ever had the happiness to be engaged in a Chancery
suit, they would not require to be told that some changes,
in a Court established to put an end to useless litigation,
were wanted.—(Cheers anti laughter.) For these, and a
countless number of other evils, he blamed no man. The
fault was not in the men, but in the system under which
they grew up. We had given up our affairs into the hands
of others, to act as they thought proper. The money wa
voted out of our rickets by factions, to be expended
pensions, and to support places created by this Minster
or that Minister not to serve the country, but to serve some
creature of his own, or of his party. Pensions were
squandered away in the same manlier to give thousands to
the support of the mother of this Duke and the
wife of that East, for services which, with all his attenti,.n
to the suhject, he could never disc,iver.—(Cizeets. ) He
never cou d understand the nature of those services which
the wives and sisters of Earls and Dukes, who had them
selves properties to the amount of 12,0001. and 20,0001.
a-year, performed, which entitled them to be quartered on
the public purse.—(Laughter.) Out of 1,200 names on
the pension list, he did not i elieve that, on examination,
more than twelve could substantiate claims to the exten-
sion of the public bounty.— (Hear, hear.) Thete was
another object to which he would call their attention, and
which he had always considered injurious to us, namely,
our interference with the internal policy of other States.
--(Hear, hear.) He had always deprecatt d our conti-
nual intermeddling with the internal policy of foreign na
tiuns.—(Hear.) With every wish to appreciate the mo-
tives of Ministers as they wished them to he appreciated,
he could never conceive what benefit we derived Iron,
attending to other people's affairs anti neglecting our owe.
He wanted words to express his detestation of the conduct
of those who thought it necessary to plunge this country into
ruinous and expensive wars, and burden her with a debt
from which she could hardly ever hope to be able to ex.
tricate herself, merely that we might enjoy the empty
honours of being one of the five great Powers.—(Loud
cheers.) It seas such a system of policy that led to our
engaging in the late war, at the close of which, the nation,
without receiving one substantial benefit, was saddled witu
six hundred millions of debt, the interest of which we
were now unable, in our present stare of trade and com-
merce to pay. He was, moreover, well informed, that
this fondness for regulating the management of Continental
countries, in addition to the expense it was to us, exposed
UN to be laughed at as the dupes of every intriguing knave
that thought it worth his while to make us expose our,
selves.—(Hear.) We had no right to assume such
swaggering importance, playing the bully on every oc-
casion.—(Laughter.) In the best and brightest days of
England's glory—in the days of Cromwell—had nations
dared to interfere with us, we would have told them to
take care of themselves, and bad they not attended to us,
we would have taken measures to compel them to desist.
On the same principle he would ask, what was it to us
if other nations thought proper to change their Govern..
ment ? For his own part, be valued more highly the
comfort of a poor family at home, than all the high-sound-
ing empty honours we could gain by our interference
abroad. What were we to gain by the setting up cola boy-
King in Greece, that the people of England should give
eight hundred thousand pounds for such a purpose?
Why should we have troubled our heads with
looking through the German States for such a stripling,
or why was not Greece left to manage the matter as she
pleased herself ?—(Loud cries of "Hear," and cheers.)
Against this system of interference he had always pro-
tested, and though he had nut given the Ministry any de-
cided opposition in passing many of the grants which he
thought useless or mischievous tow irds the close of the
last Session, it was because he wished to put no obstacle
in the way of carrying the Reform Bill.—(Loud cheers.)
He knew that if they were defeated, they must go out, and
the Bill was lost.—(Hear.) He had observed them night
after night wearying the house with discussions on Belgium,
Holland, and Russia, and in short every place, and about
everything but the affairs of the people of England, Scot-
land, and Ireland. Towards Ireland they had acted worse
than any Administration for many years, for to use au
Irish expression, they went at the rate of one step forward
and two back in legislating for that country.—(Hear,
hear.) The Reform Bill was now passed, and unless the
Ministry came forward to redeem their pledges, he cer-
tainly should feel it his duty in the ensuing Parliament to
act in concert with them. He felt grateful to them for
the Reform Bill, and would be sorry to oppose them, un-
less he could not in oonscience do otherwise.—(Loud
cheers.)• He thanked the company for the honour they
had done him, and begsed to assure them that the same
honest exertions which first recommended him to their
notice, should not be wanting at the fitting time. He
was grateful fur the attention with which he was heard..—
proposing( C heers,a nad
to criesjstt{ of .s Go ons") He would conclude by
The health of the 3,238 by whom
he had been placed at the bead of the pull." Drank
with enthusiasm. : -
tai with
lveE—o N Kf pleasure
beloveda
uuLLre in
he E9qtl' Member of the Society of Friends,
rosetie presence of his beloved represen-
certainly was—to propose a toast
which had been just put into his hand_" The health of
his Majesty's Ministers." This was a toast which he had
great pleasure in proposing, so long as the Ministers wept
from chapter to verse, and from schedule to schedule in
fighting the battles of the people. There were many
questions to come under the consideration of Parliament of
great importance on which the decisions of the Ministry
would do much to perpetuate their claims to such au
honour, and of these the first in hie opinion was a Radical