The Sun.
London, England, 1832-05-14 00:00:00

THE SUPPLIES.

MEETING AT BOLTON-LE-MOORS.
FROM OUR OWN REPORTER.)

The news of the resignation of his Majesty's Ministers has
created in this populous district as great a sensation of regret
and abhorrence at the conduct of the Peers opposed to the Bill
which led to the resignation, as in any part of the country.
The Reformers were early in the field, and no time was lost
in calling a meeting of the inhabitants, for the purpose of pe-
titioning the House of Commons to stop granting the necessary
supplies for carrying on the Government. Accordingly a
meeting was called for Saturday by the following placard, to
be held in the open air :

REFORM.—PUBLIC MEETING.
" A Public Meeting of the Inhabitants of Great and Little
Bolton, will be held on Bradford-square, this day, to petition the
House of Commons to withhold any further supplies to the King's
Government, until an effective measure of Reform in the repre-
sentation of the country be passed into a law ; and also to consi-
der the propriety of resisting, under existing cirumstances, the
payment of taxes. _ _ _

The chair will be taken at half-past five o'clock.in the after-
noon precisely.
" Bolton, May 12."

Towards the time appointed for tho meeting the streets were
much crowded, and a band of music, headed by a concourse of
persons bearing tri.coloured flags and banners, proceeded to the
place of meeting.

The Chair was taken at half-past five o'clock by Mr. JOHN
TREVOR, the Editor of the Bolton Chronicle.
Mr. TREVOR opened the business by reading the placard
calling the meeting, and said that the events of the past week
had plunged the nation into the utmost state of alarm and con-
sternation, a damp had been thrown upon the prospects of the
people. It was hoped that the House of Peers, commonlytermed
the House of Incurables, would have passed the Reform Bill,
but they had virtually rejected it, and the advice of the Minis-
ters had been set at nought; it consequently became the duty of
the people to take the management of that great question in their
own hands; and the best means to adopt in the present crisis was
to embarrass the Government as much as possible,which would be
only really effected by stopping the supplies. They had not
gone to the authorities in form to call this meeting, for the
press of time did not allow of it, but he nevertheless held it to
be a constitutional right of the people to congregate in this
way. He, as an individual, intended to resist the payment of
taxes, and he hoped that the meeting would follow in the same
principle, for he saw nothing in the English law against the
passive resistance to the -payment of taxes, either direct or
otherwise. He thought that Lord Grey had proved faithful to
the people. Sometime ago he had a doubt in his own mind of
his Lordship's integrity, but the course his Lordship had taken
on finding that he could not carry the Government measure of
Reform had dissipated such idea, and his Lordship would, he
had no doubt, be more high in the estimation of his country-
men than ever. He regretted only that Lord Grey had placed
so much confidence in such men as Dudley Ryder, now Lord
liarrowby, and Lord Wharncliffc. Mr. Trevor severely anim.
adverted upon the evident intrigue which had been going on
in the Court to ruin the liberties of the people, and said if there
was any thing more disgraceful than another in the recent
affairs of the country, it was his Majesty's sending
for such a man as Lord Lyndhurst to form an Administration.
He had been a Whig, and an advocate for Catholic eman-
cipation, and recanted his opinions on both points. lie (Mr.
Trevor) was of opinion, that the conduct of the King and the
Peers, in rejecting the measure of Reform, was a fortunate
thing rather than otherwise for the people of England, for they
would now be determined to have more than that Bill could
give them. But although the King and Peers had done the
people that service, they were not entitled to thanks, as the
motives were what he looked to. The King had promised to
the people that measure for which Lord Grey had made himself
responsible, even to the block ; and when on the point of carrying
it into effect, the King had discharged him and his colleagues. He
did not quarrel with the King's right to appoint what Minislef s
he thought proper, but it was the people who ought to ratify
that appointment.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. Trevor concluded a
long and eloquent speech, for a sketch of which we can barely
spare room, by reading the following petition, which he should
wish to be presented to the House by Colonel R. Torrens.

THE PETITION OF THE UNDERSIGNED INHABIT-
ANTS OF THE TOWNS OF GREAT AND LITTLE
BOLTON, AND THEIR VICINITY, IN THE COUNTY
OF LANCASTER,
Sheweth,—That the dissolution of a Government pledged to
carry the great question of Reform, being affected (as it undoubt•
edly was), under circumstances threatening the greatest danger
to that question, and involving a total denial of political rights
to the people, has filled your petitioners with surprise, astonish.
ment, and indignation, and that in the opinion of your peti-
tioners, • uch dissolution having been effected by base intriguing
on the part of an oligarchical faction, a crisis i. thereby created
which cannot be averted except by your Honourable (louse for
the protection of your own dignity, and the rights of the people,
acting with the strongest constitutional firmness and fixed de-
cision.

That a.; the measure of Reform, recently approved of by your
Honourable House, was a measure merely restoring to the
people a portion of the rights which by the constitution of the
country, and every principle of justice, are their common pro-
perty, and which had been treacherously alienated by an oligar-
chical faction ; and as the principle of that measure had been
twice approved of by your Honouraisle House, your petitioners
beg to record their decided opinion that such measure has been
defeated by the most despicable intrigues of a faction of the
most base and treacherous character. _

That as your Hon. House is generally understood to be the
guardian of the rights of the people, your petitioners avail
themselves of their undoubted and constitutional right, most
respectfully to request your Hon. House to refuse to the King's
Government, the usual supplies of revenue until a measure of
Reform has been passed into a law, giving the people, without
reference to any previous measure, the full possession of their
rights to a free and unlimited representation, extending equal
rights to all classes of the community, and uncontaminated by,
and unmixed with, the unconstitutional practices of borough-
mongering and oligarchical influence.
And your petitioners will ever pray.
The petition elicited loud cheers.

Mr. WALTER O'CARROLL said that in his opinion the
Ministers had done their beet for the good of the country, and
no one was to blame but the King and the Peers. His Majesty,
at the same time that the Poles, the Belgians, and the French,
were struggling and fighting for liberty, to appease the distressed
Englishmen, promised them this Reform Bill ; but as soon as
he saw the patriotic Poles banished to Siberia, he denied the
people their just right, which he had promised they should
enjoy, and called for the seals of office.--(Cries of --- with
:) He (Mr. Carroll) had in that place, at the last meeting,
extolled the King to the skies, but now, like Billy Cobbett, he
would recant all that he had previously said.—(A laugh.) And
if the Houso of Commons would but exert their prerogative
and deny the supplies, his Majesty might go to Hanover and
seek for pinmoney for his wife, instead of receiving 100,0001.
a year from the coffers of England.—:Cheers.) Charles the
First and his Peers had given the House of Commons such a
slap in the face as William the Fourth and his Peers had done,
hut Oliver Cromwell had shown that they were not invulner.
able.--;Loud cheers.) Mr. O'Carroll concluded by moving
the following resolution :
Resolved, That the causes of the dissolution of the Grey Ad-
ministration (an Administration which came into office pledged
to Reform) having emanated from a party composed of the
enemies of the people, and the foes of liberty, and which may
with justice be characterized as a base oligarchy and a despotic
faction, this meeting conceives that it is its duty to express the
deeo indignation it feels at such haze, treacherous, and tyrannous
conduct ; and further this meeting records its settled conviction
that a crisis has arrived at which it is the incumbent duty of the
Commons of England to withhold the usual supplies of revenue
and the means of providing for the exigencies of the state from
any government formed out of the faction which ha, virtually
defeated the Ministerial measure of Reform, or which will not

THEUNIONREFORM COMMITTEE
of the LIVERY of LONDON will re-assemble at
the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, this evening, at
Six o'clock precisely.
GEORGE GROTE, Chairman.
May 14, 1832.