The Sun.
London, England, 1832-05-15 00:00:00

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(No. 12,378.)

just and peaceable means., • their one common object.—
(Cheers.)
ROBERT Purteres, Esq. a wealthy merchant of th
town. then briefly moved the following resolution :
That this meeting has heard of the virtual loss of the Reform
Bill in the House of Lords, and the 'consequent resignation o.
Earl Grey and his colleague!, with such sentiments as it be-
comes Englishmen to entertain, when the best interests of the
country are being sacrificed to the selfish views of a faction.
Rosette HYDE GREG, Esq. rose amidst great cheer-
ing to second the resolution. He said that when h
beheld the living ocean that surrounded him, he felt the,
if he had a voice of thunder, it would not be more that,
sufficient to make himself properly heard. Little did he
expect to have met with them on an occasion like the pre-
sent. He had flattered himself when next they met
That the country would have shaken off a part of ite
bonds at least. Eighteen months of agitation and the ex-
pense and confusion of a general election, were not thought
too much for the attainment of this object—the " sickness
of the heart from hope deferred," was not thought too much
for the object, but still it was denied them. The Ton
faction had again wrested the power into their own hands,
but he trusted only with the convulsive strength of dying
men.—(Cheers.) They had thrown down the gauntlet; let
the people take it up, and " God defend the right."
Let the people continue to demand their rights by every
constitutional means, and let them tell those who de-
nied them those rights, that the Constitution afforded
them a means of obt titling another charter, at another
Runnymede —(Tremeedous cheers.) The ignorance of
the Tories was almost unspeakable, and of this he would
give them an instance. On Thursday last, a Tory gen-
tleman, of a neighbouring county, dining with a friend, said
that he had just returned from Macclesfield, where he had
seen the news of the resignation of Ministers received by
the people with perfect indifference. He also said that he
had just seen a friend from Manchester, who had informed
him that the people there received the news will,
pleasure, and this too at a moment when every eye was flash-
ing indignation, and when thousands and tens of thousands
were rushing to sign a petition, couched in no
very mild language—a petition which prayed to stop the
very mainsprings of all the motions of Government. It
was from the ignorance of the Tories th it they said there
was a reaction on the subject of Reform from one end of
the country to another. Complete, indeed, was their igno-
rance ! It was the duty of the people to throw out a ray of
light that should penetrate the profundity of their igno-
rance.—(Cheers.) He concluded by seconding the reso-
lution, which, being put from the chair, was carried
unanimously amidst great cheering.
Mr. JOSEM JOHNSON ruse to propose the second
resolution ; in doing which, he took occasion to observe
that there was no question of the right of the people to
have a full, fair, and equal share in the representation of
the country. It did not depend upon the passing of the
Reform Bill, it was the people's right by law. Black-
stone, an authority which even the Tories themselves would
not deny, said that every man who was a free agent ought to
be in some measure his own governor. Such was the
state of things in the petty kingdoms of Greece; but in this
country, where the people were more numerous, it was
wisely ordained to choose representatives ; but if the
choice of these representatives was left to the borough-
mongers, to the Lords who had rejected the prisent Bill,
how could it be said that the people of England had
any share in the representation of the country ?—(Cheers)
It was the representation of the borouglimongers alone ;
they were the sharers of that plunder, extracted from the
people by the laws which they themselves made.—(Cheers. )
Would this measure of Reform take from the Peers any
privilege which they ought to possess? No, but it would
give them their loaf. It would take nothing from the Peers
which they ought to have, or which they had a privilege
to maintain. Were the people to be deprived of their
rights by a faction of 151 buroughmongers?—No, never !
If the people of England were satisfied to give up a por-
tion of their claim to their rights—if they were satisfied
to try the measure of Reform which was about to be given
to them—if they were satisfied to do this, would they
submit to be deprived, without one struggle, of the little
they were willing to take.---(Cheers.) He (the speaker)
was for the whole, but he would try this Bill, and if it
did not do all they wanted, then he would go for the whole
Bin. He begged to conclude by earnestlq entreating
the people to go on steadfastly and unanimously in the
good work, and moved the following resolution :
That this Meeting, satisfied that the Ministerial plan of Reform
was no more than a partial restoration to the people of their
constitutional tights, of which they have too long been unjustly
deprived, and well knowing that no part of the Bill could directly
or indirectly interfere with any legal and honest possession or
privilege of that body by which it has been defeated, is unable to
find language sufficiently strong to express the indignation with
which it has witnessed this second refusal of an acknowledged
right.
Mr. THOMAS Parrett seconded the resolution. It was
known, he said, that he was no orator; but if he were,
such was his indignation at the conduct of the Peers that
he could not trust qimself to speak of them.—(Cheers.)
Mr. PRENTICE, observing some little misapprehension
of the resolution, rose to read it over again, observing
that it was as well it should be read by a person with a
strong voice. It was true, he said, that it stated that the
plan of Reform only gave them a partial restoration of
their rights ; but, partial as it was, the borouglunoisgers
had rejected it. He hoped that every one was determined
not to accept any such measure of Reform from a Wel-
lington or Polignac Administration.--(Cheers.) They
might take it from a Ministry that they had confidence
in ; but he trusted that the people of England would take
nothing but a full and just measure of Reform from a
Wellington or a Peel.—(Loud cheering.) The object of
the present meeting was to obtain a higher degree of sup-
port to those parties who were now fighting their battles
in the House of Common,. He hoped this would be
done, that the Reformers would reject minor differences,
and confine themselves to one object, namely, that of
stopping the supplies. But if they did not get their ob-
ject by stopping the supplies, there was another resource,
that having lifted up their hands here in favour of resolu-
tions to maintain their rights, if this last resource was
thrust upon them—if all legal, constitutional, and peace-
able means had been tried in vain, then let them lift up
their hands with something in them.—(Tremendous
cheering, which lasted several minutes.) He (Mr. Pren-
tice) had always advocated peaceable measures, and
though he had sometimes made himself unpopular by
it, he had always held out that if peaceable means
were in vain, lie knew what to recommend afterwards.
He would recommend now, that if there were any more
attempts to coerce the people, any attempts to cry down
such a meeting as this, that then the people would exer-
cise the privilege of bearing arms, and of using them.—
He said this, that they might look to the ultimate re-
medy after all others had failed, but it bad not come
to that yet, there was yet a pod deal to he done
done. There was the petition to stop supplies—there was
the abstaining from using taxed articles; and if the Duke
of Wellington should dissolve the House of Commons, he
hoped they would heed him not, but continue to sit and
act for the people.--(Loud cheers.) Mr. Prentice then
referred at some length to the acts of some of his ances-
tors, who had not scrupled to raise their hands against the
tyranny of Charles the First and Second, and he trusted
if the time should come which should be needed, that he
would not be the last to raise his hand against the op-
pressers of his country.—(Cheers.) After some further
observations as to the propriety of unanimity in their pro-
ceedings, Mr. Prentice concluded amidst great great
cheering.
Mr. ELIJAH DIXON appeared as the representative of
the working classes of the town and the neighbourhood,
and expressed his entire concurrence in every sentiment of
the resolution, inasmuch as the gentleman who had pre- '
pared the resolution had agreed to admit that every man
had a right to a share in the choice of representatives in the
House of Commons. These rig ht. were acknowledged, and if
they were denied to them, they had the remedy in their
own hands. He would not say how they were to apply
that remedy, but he would repeat the words of the great
Lord Chatham, " if the House of Commons is not reformed
from within, it will be reformed from without with a
vengeance."
Mr. JOHNSON, an operative, said that he agreed with
Lord Lyndhurst, that it would have been better to have
gone first to the consideration of the enfranchisement
clause ; because if they had done so, it would have been
found that every man having a right to the elective fran-
chise, the disfranchisement clause would not need to have
been considered at all. After some further remarks on the
necessity of radical reform, the speaker concluded, and the
Chairman putting the resolution from the chair, it was
carried unanimously.
Mr. HAevar said the resolution which I have to pro-
pose will, lam sure, meet with your unanimous vote. It
is to withhold the supplies—(Cheers)—until an effec-
tive measure of Reform is passed. I ask will you suffer
the borsughmongets to continue to tax you to
the tune o
fifty millions annually? Are they to fatten on the spoil.

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