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should rally round the formers of Reform---( Hear, hear,)
with that happy rapture of calmness, prudence, and determina-
tion, which, in trying circurnstane'es, is ever the harbinger of
triumph.--( Cheers.) They 'seed been told that there was
nothing extraordinary in tke 'present state of affairs—that no-
thing had occurred Loft the ordinary exercise of the King's
prerogative, and tht:.z it was rather indecent--( Loud laughter)
.—.for such vi:is the phrase—to express any apprehension,
and that the-1 had nothing to do but to wait the course of
events. iJut was there nothing extraordinary in such an
exereis of his Majesty's prerogative, at a moment
of profound peace abroad, and tranquillity at home,
When the means of the country were improving, when taxes
had been taken off, and there were hopes of a further remis-
sion of the burthens of the people—at a moment when Par-
liament was not sitting, and when Ministers had no opposi-
tion to embarrass them, and above all, when the Monarch bad
not the means of applying to the great Council of the nation,
was that a time to startle the nation as if by a thunder
clap ? The Ministry had not resigned, but had been
dismissed ; and some of its members first learned their
dismissal from their acquaintance in the streets--so
little ceremony was there in turning them out. The conse-
quence of such a step at such a time was, that there was no
person to take office, and on one man was deposited the whole
responsibility of the Crown.—(Cheers.) During this time,
the negotiations going on with France, for the purpose of en larging beneficial intercourse with this country,must have neces-
sarily been put a stop to. The state of our colonies, more espe-
cially those in North America, required at the present moment a
most delicate and watchful attention, and all the preparations
which were necessary to meet the Legislature in the ensuing
Session must have been suspended.--( Cheers.) No great
difficulty existed. Such might have been the case if the
Emperor of Russia had his Cossacks at their doors, or if
a civil war had been raging in Ireland • but in the
present ordinary circumstances he must deprecate such
a measure. Whatever the prerogealves of the Monarch might
be, the present was an occasion when they had met to exer-
cise their indubitable right, as Englishmen, to express their
opinion on the preseei posture of affairs—( Hear, hear,
hear)—and in respc.-ctful, humble, but firm, language to
represent to his Majesty their opinion upon past events, and
what conseqw...nces they may lead to.---( Cheers.) It was
their duty, if the monarch was misled, to set him right.—
( Cheers.) There breathed not a man who would dare
to taunt him (Mr. Clay) with being a partizan or ad-
vocate of the Whigs--( Cheers)—but ho would ask, was
it for their misdeeds they had been dismissed from
office ?---(Cheers.) Was it for their dalliance with the Tories,
or for their complaisance to what in the House of. Commons
they called " another place ?" The Whigs had mutilated all
their measures to please the Peers, like, the tyrant, who
tvished to make all men of the same size—those who were too
long he cut a piece off, and those who were too short he drew
them out.---(Laughter.) In this manner the Whigs bad
mutilated all their measures--from some they had cut
off all that was good, and others they had drawn
out to such perfect tenuity, that all that was valuable was out
of them.—( Laughter.) Was it for the Coercion Bill they
had been dismissed ? For none of those things. The Cabinet
had been twice reconstructed, and each time had been more
approved of by the people. The- resolution brought forward
in the House of Commons on the 27th of May, relative
to the Established Church of Ireland, had induced some
of the Members of the Administration to resign, and
its new members were more decided reformers than those
that were left.---( Cheers,) Did they believe that the
late Cabinet had been dismissed because it had done
too little, or that the present would do more ?
There was not a man among them who was not steeped to the
very lips in pledges against all those very questions on which
they and the nation took so deep an interest. They had been
told to wait; and that perhaps the Duke and his party would
turn out very good Reformers after all.--( Cheers and laugh-
ter.) If they declared themselves Reformers, his ( Mr: Clay's)
personal respect would be less for them ; he should never believe
them, and he should fear that their measures were only in-
tended to make the treacherous or timid desert the banners
cf Reform.—( Great cheering,) The Hon. Member then alluded
to the Duke of Wellington's conduct with respect to Catho-
lic Emancipation, and contended that the sagacity attributed
to the Noble Duke had completely failed him in that instance,
because he had declared that he never would concede it. If
flu:: claims of the Catholics were founded on right and based
on the immutable principles of justice, where was his
vaunted sagacity ? and if they were wrong he never should
have 'granted Hear.) He had taught the people a
dangerous lesson, for he said, that to right and reason
we will grant nothing • but, to intimidation every-
thing.--(Loud cheers.). They should recollect that inti-
midation might be used to a bad as well as to a good pur:
pose. If the same spirit was roused, the present Adminis-
tration could not refuse the repeal of the Union, or the confis-
cation of half the estates of the absentees of Ireland.._.( Cheers. )
Were those the men to whom the destinies of the country
should be confided ? If the people would arise in their might
they would shatter into fragments ten-fold the power of the
Duke and his party.—(Tremendous cheering.) Men should
concede while concession would be taken as a grace, and not
wait till measures were forced from them.---( Cheers.) He was
sure that those whom he addressed were the lovers of order as
well as the friends of liberty. They were not, he trusted, as
they had been described, in an address to the electors of Fins-
bury, the components of sedition and rebellion in: all ages.
Ile trampled the foul imputation under his feet.—( Here
the Hon. Member flung the address from which he had been
reading under his feet amid tremendous cheering.) He knew
the men of the Tower Hamlets well, and he could boldly re-
fute the calumny. It had been said that these meetings had been
got up for the purpose of restoring the Whigs to power,
but they knew him (Mr. Clay) too well to suppose that he
would become the partizan of the Whigs, and if the Tories
had become such zealous Reformers; they must be delighted
with those meetings. The Hon. Gentleman concluded amid
loud cheers.
The cries for Mr. Hutis becoming very general, the Hon.
Gentleman came forward and congratulated the meeting upon
its unanimity upon one point, namely that they would have
nothing to do with the Tories.--( Cheers and laughter.) Every
act oftheir Government had been characterised by extravagance,
corruption and misrule, and he agreed with Mr. Clay that they
would be treated as apostates, if they now professed them-
selves reformers. On a previous occasion, when there were 200
nominees in the House of Commons lie had defied
the Tories to/ take office ; and were they not much stronger
now, when they had a reformed Parliament ?—( Cheers. )
The Honourable Member proceeded at some lengh to
arraign, the conduct of the Tories when in power, and con-
tended that they had forfeited all claim to the confidence of
the people. He also maintained, that if all the Members of
all the counties in England, Ireland, and Scotland were
favourable to the Tories at the next election, there would still
be a tremendous majority against them in the House of Com-
mons. Mr. Hume concluded amid loud cheers.
Mr. Hume having concluded,
A GENTLEMAN, whose name we could not ascertain, pro-
posed a resolution, to the effect, " That in the event of a dis-
solution, the Constituency of the Tower Hamlets pledge
themselves to oppose the Tories by every means in their
power."—( Loud cheering.)
The resolution having been seconded, was put from the
chair, and passed amidst the most enthusiastic applause.
Mr. CLAY, in moving the thanks of the meeting to the
Chairman, took occasion to observe in reply to his worthy and
excellent friend, the Member for Middlesex, that although he
might appear to be mealy-mouthed that day, he was not so in
the House of Commons, where the cause of the people demand-
et I a bold and fearless advocate.—( Loud cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN having returned thanks, the meeting sepa.
rated.

MAR YLEB ONE.
Last evening, a public meeting of the electors of the
Eastern Division of this Borough was held at the Silver Cup
'Tavern' Cromer-street, Gray's Inn-road, at which several
spirited resolutions, in opposition to the Tories, were agreed
to. In the course of the evening the Chairman read the fol-
lowing letter, which had been received from Sir William
Horne, in answer to an invitation to attend the meeting:--
" SIR-I have just received your letter upon my retnrn from
chambers, and am sorry that a professional engagement which
I cannot put off, will make it impossible for me to attend to-
morrow evening. I regret it, however, the less, as I hardly
feel I ought to attend such a meeting, having the intention of
again offering myself as a candidate for the borough ; in the
meantime let me entreat of you, and of the other gentlemen
who may be present at the meeting, to believe that I am as
firmly and honestly determined to promote the cause of Re-
form, and to resist all encroachments on the liberties of the
people, as any man in the borough.
" I am, Sir, yours, &e.,
" W. Hanshaw, Esq." ‘, WILLIAM HORNE.

LONDON AS IT WAS.—.The` following letter,
written by Ann Boleyn to a lady of her acquaintance previous
to her nuptials with Henry VIII., now in the possession of a ce-
lebrated antiquarian, may perhaps lead many of our readers, in
a leisure hour, to compare the past and present manners of the
British nation. We have modernized the spelling and the
idiom :—" Dear Mary--I have been in town almost a month ;
I cannot say I have found anything in London extremely agree-
-able, we rise so late in the morning, seldom before 6 o'clock,
and sit up so late at night, being scarcely in bed before 10, that
I am quite sick of it, and was it not for the abundance of
fine things I am every day getting, I should be impatient for
returning into the country. My indulgent mother bought me
yesterday, at a merchant's in Cheapside, three new shifts, that
cost fourteen pence an ell, and I am to have a pair of stuff
shoes for my Lord of Norfolk's ball, which will come to three
shillings. The irregular life I have led since my coming to
this place has quite destroyed my appetite ; you know I could
manage a pound of bacon, and a tankard of good ale for my
breakfast in the country, but in London I find it difficult to get
through half the quantity, though I must own that I am gene-
rally eager enough for the dinner hour, which is here delayed
till twelve, in your polite families. I played at hotcockles last
night at my Lord of Leicester's : the Lord of Surrey was there, a
very elegant young man, who sung us a song of his own com-
position, on the Lord of Kildare's daughter ; it was very much
approved; and my brother whispered me, that 'the fair Geral-
dine' (for so the Lord of Surrey calls his mistress) is the finest
of the age. I should be glad to see her, for I hear she as
good as she is beautiful. Pray take care of the poultry during
my absence; poor things! I always fed them myself; and if
Margery has knitted me the crimson worsted mittings, I should
be glad if they were sent up the first opportunity. Adieu,
dear Mary, I am just going to mass, and you shall speedily
have the prayers, as you now have the kindest love of your
own—Anne Boleyn."—How different from this would be the
language of a modern beauty upon her first appearance in the
metropolis.