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Oar Wednesday afternoonar meeting-of the inha-
• bitants of -Edinburgh was held in Queen-street Hall,
there, called by, Mr. Cowan .and Mr. Black, the city
meriaberS; to afford these gentlemen an opportunity
of giving an account- of their stewardship during
the last session. - The Lard Provost presided: The
meeting was crowded to excess: .
My. COWAN first addreised the meeting:
He said,—During . the short eighteen months
which have elapsed since-I-last addressed my eoh-
stituents, three events, unprecedented in their mag-
_
nitude—l should rather say three crimes of un-
paralleled. atrocity..--hive occurred, Whiehiirill long
stand out in broad relief iii the,history of our land:
I refer,-in, the first place, to the Indian mutiny,.
with. its black train Of indescribable horrors ;
Secondly, to that system so long carried on in vari-
ous commercial an.stlanking establishment .this
,oduntry, and in therthree kingdoms—for no one of
them, 1 think, had any great advantage over the
others—whereby, through a long-continued, in some
cases, system of deception and violence multitudes
of-our fellow-countrymen and countrywomen have,
been reduced 'from what they considered a short
time before a condition of entire independence to
hapless'and deplorable.penury. (Hear.) It would
be well if these calamitous events were regarded, as
beacons for the future—(hear)—by which every,
possible security,might be . obtained to prevent the
recurrence of such dreadful distress. The .third
atrocious crime to-whiclr I refer is that fohl conspi-
racy against our ally the Emperor of the French:—
(hisses, laughter, anduproar)—our tried and faithful
ally. (Renewed hisses, " Oh, oh !" and some applause.)
Whatever any of . you may think of the state of
liberty in France, or. the means byWhich its present
ruler reached his throne, at all events he is the
choice of the French people—(cheers and hisses)—
and as such is entitled- to our respect. I fervently
thank Almighty God that that foul design was
happily not successful; and that its only effect on
this side of the Channel was the destruction of the
Government then -in • office. (Hear, hear.) Mr.
Cowan proceeded to say that he had felt it to be
his thity to vote for the. motion of -Milner
Gibson against that of the Government on the
question Ail which they were then divided: (Cheers
and -hisses.) lie thought that the -French Govein-:
ment was perfectly, eirtited- to Make the re-'
presentations they did at that time, to Lord . Pal-
merston, and he could never see any ground for
the charge of attempted dictation in their doing
,W _thought Lord .Palmerston was not to.
blame for introducing a Conspiraey.l3ill, but he
thought the bill that .seas introduced was very-
unfit for its_ object, which was to give secu-
rity in time-to come against similar. attempts: on
the- life Of the French Emperor. After vindicating,.
that Vote at some length he alluded.to'Mr. Bright's
speeches at l3irmingham, deprecating in particular
the attacks he had made on the . House of Lords..
The tendency of these speeches was, he feared, to •
incite the humbler, against the upper classes of so-
ciety. (A voice—"-No.") tiVell, he sincerely hoped
they would not ; but it appeared to him that Mr.
Bright, when talking of the: £200,000,000 which
certain wars had cost the nation, had forgot to put
into the opposite scale the inestimable blessings
which we enjoyed of security from foreign inva-
sion, and the priceless rights and liberties which
we had inherited from"our ancestors, and which he
hoped we should be .enabled to transmit unim-
'paired to our posterity. (Cheers.) Mr. Cowan,
after making explanations as to his conduct in re-
ference to. the University Bill, the Annuity-tax
Bill, and other Scottish measures, expressed his
willingness to acrree-to an impartial inquiry into
the working of the Forbes Mackenzie Act and his
desire-to have the billetting grievance removed.
Mr.- BLACK followed, and was- received with loud
applause. • After a few introductory remarks, he
Said,—When I first offered myself for your suffrages
I professed myself favourable to the general,policy
of Lord Palinerston's• 'Government—(hisses and
applause)_-_-.Land consequently on entering the House
of Colignons I took
.my seat behind the Treasury
benches with- the. attention .of . supporting that
Government, though taking•leave• to • N ote against
them when I thought-them-manifestly wrong. The
night of the 'l9th Of .Febthary.'btoke up the Pal-
merstOn Government •, dexterously drawn
amendment to the second reading. of the Conspiracy
Bill, to-the surprise-not only of the nation, but of
Parliament- itself. •I. say -surprise,- for I- know that
many members who voted for the amendment had
no intention that their votes should be interpreted
as a vote of want _of confidence in the Ministry.
They. simply • voted that .they - regretted Lord
Clarendon had not sent a written despatch to
Count WaleWski. Had an open and distinctive vote of
want of confidence been proposed, it would have been
rejected by a large majority. (Hisses and applause.)
'As far as Y am myself concerned, I do not regret
the change .of my seat from the Treasury to the
Opposition. benches. I rather like it. Opposition
is more congenial to my 'disposition, and more in
accordance with my previous political life.
(Laughter- and cheers.) To the great bulk of the
House of Commons it is personally of no conse-
quence who are the party in power ; but -it cannot
fail to be a matter of interest to every right-
thinking man that those who are intrusted with
the management of our affairs should be men in
whose intellg,ence, heneSty, patriotism, sound poli-
tical opinions, and administrative powers the
country may have confidence. But lately, who
held so highly- the eonfidenc of the public a's Lord
Palmerston ? At the last election almost every
Liberal candidate professed his confidence in him,
and the Country. unequivocally xesponded to these
professions. (Hisses.) Now that something like an
accident has- hurled him from his high estate, it
seems to be looked on as an evidence of great
liberality and independence to speak -slightingly
and reproachfully of the man to whom this coun-
try owes an inextinguishable 'debt •of gratitude—
(hisses and cheers)-for the _true British' courage
and sound political wisdom he displayed in bring-
ing his country safely and honourably out of one
of the most fearful struggles in which she ever was
engaged—(cheers and hissing)—and not less for
the honourable peace by _which he procured for his'
country all the objects for which the contest was
entered on, in . spite, of the crooked diplomacy of
Russia and the adverse interests and designs of
France. (Cheers.) The present Ministry attained to
power under the pretence that their predecessors
were disposed to truckle to France, and that they
themselves had a superior regard for the honour,
dignity,-and reputation of England. It is, however,
obvious, from his recent outrage on Portugal in the
case of the Charles and Georges, that the Emperorof
France forms no such exalted estimate of their regard
for national honour. ("Hear;" and hissing.)- Had
Lord Palmerston been at the head of the English
Government, the Emperor would have thought twice
—(loud and prolonged applause, and some hisses)—
before he would, have insulted and wronged the
oldest and firmest ally of England, and before he
would have contemptuously thwarted the people of
this country in 'their long-continued and philan-
thropic efforts to abolish the, accursed slave trade.
(Cheers.) The Ethperor. would have hardly ven-
tured-to violato,international law, and thus give an
example and encouragement to the greater despots
of 4irope, which they_ will be too ready to avail
thethselves 0f,.t0 set justice at defiance, and. insult
and trample on the weak. (Voices—" Lord Pal-
merston and Naples," " Hungary, Hungary.") The
Emperor is 'a shrewd politician, and knows the men
he has to deal with. Will any of those who were
so sensitive to their country's honour in the case of
Lord Clarendon's blunder in sending an oral rather
than a written answer to Count Walewski move as an
amendment 'to the addreis, or some other Minis-
terial motion, that it is to be regretted that the
English Government entered no public protest
_against this tyrannical, conduct of France, this out-
rage on public justice . and on our ancient ally ?
We have mist installed in -the place of a Whig, a
Tory Government—(A voice, "Six and half-a-
dozen");---and we sometimes 'hear even Liberals,'
say, even men who rejoice in the name of advanced
Liberals, speak of this turn of the wheel as a
national blessing. (Hear, hear.) No doubt, good
often comes out of evil, and I hope it will be so in
this case.. (Hear, hear.) The ministry have been
praised for one or two good measures passed during
last session, but we should never forget that those
were gained in spite of them, and that their weak-
ness, not their will, consented—(hear, cheers, and
hisses),—and that these are the men who most