The Sun.
London, England, 1832-05-12 00:00:00

RESIGNATION OF MINISTERS.

ADDRESS AND REMONSTRANCE TO THE KING.
(Abridged from a Second Edition of the Sheffield courant o:

Friday,)

Rumours of the resignation of the Cabinet reached this phci
by the Courier coach, about eleven o'clock in the morning of
yesterday. The leading articles of the Times and Chronicle had
previously excited very anxious feelings as to the extreme
jeopardy in which the Reform Bill was placed by the events of
Monday night. The arrival of the Express coach, a few hours
afterwards, all but confirmed the melancholy event. At length
the Evening Papers left no doubt as to the worst. Measures
were immediately taken to call iogether the inhabitants, to con-
sult as to the proper measures to be adopted in such an extraor-
dinary crisis.
A dumb peal was rung on the parish church bells, the town
crier, with his bell covered with crape, sounded the tocsin, and
in a few brief words summoned the inhabitants to meet at six
o'clock. In little more than two hours and a half after we had
received intelligence of the fate of the Ministry, there was a.,
sembled in Paradise-square, as numerous a meeting as the one
held on Monday. A more active and patriotic display of feeling
never before took place in Sheffield.
I'. A. WARD, Esq., the Town Collector, was called to the
chair. _ _

Mr. WARD addressed the meeting as follows —Our determi-
nation is to petition the King and the Commons only.—(" Keep
the King out, and petition the Commons only.") We do not
propose to address the House of Lords—(Hear, hear,
hear.) We had hoped that the Lords were corrigible, but we
have now arrived at an opinion, which has been expressed
twenty or thirty years ago, that the House consists of incor-
rigibles • we, therefore; propose not to address them—(Bravo.)Mr. iltAlMLEY—Gentlemen, the Reform Bill, we are told,
is lost, and Earl Grey and his,colleagues have resigned. Arp
not these words sufficient to recall the dead from their graves?
If there is a latent spark slumberiug in the bosom of any man,
I think this circumstance if sufficient to call it forth. The time
is arrived when we must act ; and if any one hesitates, or de-
spairs, or looks back, he is unworthy the name of Englishman.
In emergencies r f this magnitude, our forefathers have set us a
noble and a glorious example. Shall we, then, prove cowards,
and unworthy of such sires ? Shall we bow down and cringe at
the feet of a polluted—nay, I would rather call it a damnable
oligarchy ? Now we will approabh the King of England in this
language; we will say to him " You have done wrong," and
we will say, " if you do not recall Earl Grey and his colleagues,
the peril, the danger, and the consequences must he upon your
head.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, if it be required, I will, and I
know that you will sacrifice your heart's blood rather than sub-
mit to this oligarchy.—(Deafening cheers.) Gentlemen, we will
tell the King that the monarch who listens to the voice of a
foreign woman, and disappoints the hopes of the people, is un-
worthy the affections of a free people.—(Cheers.) When the
King;pledged himself to his Ministers, he said " Stand by the
people, and I will stand by you." I ask you, has he done this
It only proves to you, and confirms an opinion which I have
long entertained, that there is no virtue in the upper classes.
Gentlemen, in the people rests the government, and the King,
his Ministers, and the Houses of Parliament, are only trustees
for us. As trustees, we have a right to call them to account,
and, what is more, we will call them to account.—(Cheers.)
Although the King may have lowered his flag, yet we have not
lowered ours—we have' ailed our flag to the mast, and we will
fight the faction to thelast —(Cheers.) If the Birmingham Po-
litical Union will but call upon us we will join them.—(Cheers.)
I care not for the consequences which may result from what I
am now saying,-_I am an Englisman ready to perish in a dun-
geon. I conceive that the•best plan that we can adopt is to dis-
patch by this night's snail, a pctiiion to the House of Commons,
praying them to remonstrate with the King in a similar spirit to
ourselves, and that if the Reform measure is not passed, not to
grant the supplies.—(Loud cheering.)
Mr. PALFREY'MAN.—GentIemen, we find from the news
which has travelled through the means of that powerful engine,
--more powerful even than Lords, and which experience has
told us is even greater than Kings,—namely, the press, that
those noble Peers who had pledged themselves to carry through
the great measure of Reform, and who had identified their ex-
istence as Ministers, with the success or non-success of the Bill,
the whole Bill, and nothing but the Bill, have been after all
compelled to resign their situation, because, as it was emphati-
cally expressed by Earl Grey, the King declined to accede to the
advice which they thought it their duty to give, in. order to
insure the success of that important measure. The time is now
past when we shall humble ourselves to the slavish and nn-
English.like form of tinie,serving petitions.--(cheers). The time
is not, however, past, when recourse should be had to the consti-
tutional mode of remonstrating with the King---(loud cheers.)
Gentlemen, the occasion now requires deeds not words, our
language has been sent up in countless thousands, and I shall
now do little more than read my resolution. That a remonstrance
be sent to the King, a Monarch who, I fearlesly say, has deceived
the just expectations of the people. This is no time for mealy
mouthed language. I say the spirit of the English language (a
distinction which it possesses above all others) is to express
forcibly what the person speaking means to say; this we have
done in the resolution which I beseech you -to pass with one
unanimous voice, for now is the time when our enemies, the
enemies of Reform, are ready and willing to throw amongst us
the torch of discord and the seeds of disunion; but I know their
efforts will be in vain.—(Cheers.) Mr. Palfreyman then read the
first resolution.

Mr. BAILEY said—Gentlemen, it is but half an hour ago,
that I received the intelligence which has arrived from London,
but immediately on my obtaining information I set out to join
you—(Cheers.) • I confess that when I first heard that dumb
peal at sounded at-my heart like the knell of liberty. lam not
yet given up to despair, and I think there is, no reason for it.
Let us be united, tirm, peaceable, and determined, and we shall
carry our point,--(Cheers.)
It was afterwards put and unanimously carticd.
Dr. 110 LL A N D.—Gentlemen, I beg to second the petition
Mr. BRAMNIALL proposed .the next resolution, which. was
briefly seconded by Mr. Dunn.
Mr. FISHER should briefly propose the next resolution,which
was seconded by qr. Aleock, who made a few remarks.
Dr. PHILLIPS proposed the next resolution, which was se-
conded by Mr. Charles Congreve.
Thanks were voted to the Chairman Three cheers were given
for Reform and the late Ministers, and three deep groans for the
King. The meeting then separated. •
The following are the resolutions, which were passed unani-
mously :
Resolved—That an address to the King be sent from this
meeting, remonstrating with him on the danger diSmissing
his Ministers at this eventful crisis, and praying him, as he values
the peace of the country, the 4aplAnesspf his subjects, and the
stability of tho Crown, so recall Earl Grey and his colleagues to
his Royal Council, and enable them, by an immediate creation
of Peers to carry the Reform Bill unimpaired through the House
of Lords.

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ResoVeed—That a petition be sent to the House of Commons,
praying them to address the King in a similar manner, and to
grant no further supplies until the Reform Bill be passed by the
House of Lords, in all its efficiency.
That the address and petition now read be adopted • and that
the address be sent to the Duke of Norfolk, and th4tktiori to
Mr. Strickland.
TO THE lIONOURABL-; Tkl OMMONS OF 'THE
UNITED KIN(',.DOM. (IRE AT BRITAIN A 1•11.)
IRELAND'IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED. THE
tHiMBLE.UTITION o I,‘ THE INHABITANTS OF
THE TOWN OF SHEFFIELD,
Sheweth,—Your petitioners have received, with poignant grief
the melancholy tidings of the resignation of Ministers,
.in conse-
quence of their not being duly supported by their Royal Master.
Your petitioners humbly hops, that at this great crisis your
Honourable House will not be deficient in energy suited to the
occasion, but that you will speedily address a strong remon-
strance to his Majesty, expressive of the dissatisfactio:i) y rtt raitst
certainly feel ; and urging him to recall his late-1'4145,M Minis.
ters to his Royal Councils, and enable thor'.., by a large creation
of Peers, to overturn a factLiy Pay of interested and unpa.
triotic men.
`lout pctitiouers forther pray, that should his Majesty not lend
a gtaci,ais ear to your wholoome advice, you will exercise your
undoubted privilege of withholding all supplies till a redress of
grievances can be procured.
TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
The Humble Address and Remonstrance of the inhabitants of
the town and neighbourhood of Sheffield, .i.i the eclunty of
York, in public meeting assembled, this44.y o,f' May,
1K312, and consisting of upwaids•of 2_5900 persOn,s,
yo-oar iGN zald thltifdi stiNee,.ts, CU. people of Shef-
field. hurnbly,apprOa'ol )'our Majesty's throne, to represent. the
inexiiretsSlbledisapp,olotwent we nave experienced at the resig.
ri;ttioli of Ministers iu consequence of the want of support they •
have experienced from your Majesty in the non-creation of Peels.
The measure of Reform, in the opinion of petitioners, is in,
despensable- for the peace and happiness of the nation and the
preservation of the fights of every class in the itin-diern No
confidence can be placed in a Minkatry disinciiintlf-tO cOiiapleto
_Reform, and we therefera humbly -praytiiiit, y`ovi-t•
esty
values the pea, GI the courstiV•tlyelosOuess ',our subjects,
and ti.e stabikity. of the •CeoAti, yul, Majesty • will reed' your
late Mintstey'td ye'Or Itoval and by an immediat
two of PeerS e ifietn to secure the Success of a t'onserea-
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