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London, England, 1832-05-12 00:00:00

BUNGAY.

REFOR)4—The following address to Sir Henry Sunbury
Bart., and Charles Tyrell, Esq., M. P. for Suffolk, has been this
day signed by nearly all the freeholders in the town of Bungay,
and forwarded to thoe gentlemen :

" Gentlemen—We, the undersigned freeholders of the
county of Suffolk, inhabitants of Bungay, having, at the last
election, tendered you our votes on the express pledge of your
active support of the Reform Bill brought into Parliament by
Lord Grey's administration, beg earnestly to request that you
will, by the refusal of supplies, and by every other constitu.
tional means in your power, oppose your mast strenuous ex-
ertions to any Ministry which may not offer `the Bill, the
whole Bill; and nothing but the Bill.'
Bungay, May 10."

CANTERBURY, MAY 11.

The news of the defeat of the Reform Bill in the House of

Lords, and conseqUent resignation of Ministers, was received
in Canterbury with the utmost indignation and astonishment,

and the political pulse has continued ever since considerably
above fever heat. Numerous bills have been issued ; and a
Reform Union established to watch the progress of events. A
public meeting was held this evening in the Court Hall, in
consequence of a requisition to that etrect to the Mayor, (.1.
Brent, Esq,), who took the chair on the occasion. The meet.
ing was most numerous, and but one feeling seemed to animate
the whole. Very strong resolutions were passed as to the re.
:,istance of the payment of taxes, stopping the supplies, &c., and
petitions to the King and Commons unanimously agreed to,

—To his Majesty, praying him to reinstate those liberal and en_
lightened Ministers, who introduced the Reform Bill, and to
take such immediate and necessary measures as can alone
rescue the country from anarchy. The petition to the House
of Commons strongly urges the necessity of refusing to grant
Birther suppies to any Administration not pledged to carry
Reform to an equal extent to that recently proposed by Earl
Grey and his colleagues. The freedom of the City, it was re.
solved, should be purchased, and presented to the Lord Chan-
cellor and Earl Grey. Many of the most respectable inhabitants
addressed the AssfErn4ly in forcible language suitable to the
signs of the times. After which the meeting adjourned to
the King's Head, to enter their names as members of the
Canterbury Reform Union. •

TO HIS MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY WILLIAM TILE
FOVRTH, KING OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRE-
LAND, THE hump, AND LOYAL ADDRESS
OF THE FREEMEN AND OTHER INABITANrs
OF THE ANCIENT CITY OF CANTERBURY.

We your Majesty's loyal and dutiful subjects of the City of
Canterbury, hasten to address the throne at this awful crisis,
when the base intrigues of interested men have succeeded in
arresting the progress of that great measure on which the hopes
of the nation have long been fixed, and we earnestly implore
your Ma;esty to restore your confidence to these liberal and
enlightened illnisieg: 1,4 p introduced the Bill, and under
whose administration the country May yet tire frcrn ',.ts ',resent
d-pression to the enjoyment of all those blessings' which
a continuance of peace ought to bestow on the most industrious
nation upon earth.

We implore your Majesty, by that love which you have ever
manifested towards the people of these realms, by your hopes
that the British Throne may long be filled from the House of
Brunswick, c.J-id try x.ll that we hold dear as men and Britons, to
take without delay; thosfi meai;;:rgs which alone can rascue our
country from the verge of anarchy, veserve it: ;nternal peace,
and restore prosperity to the British empire.
On behalf of the meeting,

J. BRENT, Mayor.

The Petition of the Freemen and Inhabitants of the City of
Canterbury, assembled in guildhall, llth 3fay, lEO'4,
"TO TIIE lIONOIJR44LE THE COMMONS IN PA R.
LIA M ENT ASSEMBLEP.

the Freemen and inhabitants of the City of Canterbury,
viewing, as we do, the lac rejection of the Beform Bill as the
~ct of a faction inimical to the best interestj• of the community,
d at variance with the true principle of constitutional lE erly;
do implore your Honourable House to exeit its legal and con.
,titutional authority to prevent the catastrophe that such re.
jection, without the timely intervention of
must inevitably create. your Hon. House

We, therefore, implore your Hon. House to carry the wishec

of the people into effect, by refusing to gran' furkber t,
any administration not pledged to carry Reforneto at least as
equal extent to that recently proposed by Earl Grey and liii
colleagues, and which has received the complete sanction of
nation.

[Signed by the Mayor on behalf of the wadiug.,)

PUBLIC MEETING OF THE BRISTOL
GENERAL UNION.

(From the Bristol Mercury of this day.
The Council of the Bristol General Uniin, at their meeting
on Thursday se'nnight, having considered the near approach of
he consideration of the Reform Bill in a Committee of the
tHouse of Lor.'s, and also of the danger ether of the Pleasure
being so altered as to render it inethcient,or of its being alto-
gether rejected, resolved on a public meeting for the purpose of
addressing the .King to hasten the final accomplishment of their
wishes. It was at grit intended that the meeting should take
place on Monday next, but the intelligence of the defeat of the
Ministry and their subsequent resignation deterfnined the
Council in taking the opinions of their fellow members and
fellow-citizens, with respect to the prescre crisis, at the earliest
possible moment, and the meeting, therefore, took place on
Thursday morning, notice of the same laving been given on
the day preceding, by. placards posted aganst the walls.
. The Mayor having declined to grant the use of the Guildhall,
which a deputation from the Union had respectfully solicited,
the Assembly-Room, Prince's-street, was especially engaged for
the meeting, and the hour appointed for the chair to be taken
was one o'clock.

Oa no former occasion have we witnessed a greater display
of intense feeling than was visible throughout the proceedings
of this meeting. An hour before the appointed time of business
hundreds had assembled around the door of the room waiting
admission ; and, before one o'clock, the room was crowded to
suffocation, and thousands were in the streets unable to pro-
cure admission.

Previous to the chair being taken, a strong desire for an
adjournment was manifested, and which, though momentarily
checked, was ultimately conceded to. Just before the chair
was taken, a deputation from the Bath Political Union arrived
at the meeting, and, on reaching the platform, one of the gen-
tlemen composing it said they were come to their brethren of
Bristol to offer the right hand of fellowship.--(lmmense Zheer_
lug, which lasted several minutes."

The cry of " adjourn" was here again raised, when Mr.
Herepath, President of the Union, observed, that if such a
measure should be determined on, it was not advisable for the
meeting to adjourn to the Square, for, were they to do so,
their enemies would say that it was for the purpose of having
missiles to use. He had strong reasons for believing that the
military had been served with supplies of ammunition, and it
was necessary for them to act with caution. He thought that
it would be better for them, on the present occasion, to remain
where they were; especially as another opportunity would be
given to the Reformers of Bristol in a few days of expressing
their sentiments.---(Cheers.)
Mr. HEREPATH was then, on the motion of Mr. G. Powell,
called to the chair. It had been announced that two gentle-
men, well known patriots and reformers, had been invited to
attend, and he would read a letter from one of them, which
would explain the reason of his absence, and, he trusted, pre-
vent any feelings of disappointment. It was from Daniel
O'Connell. Esq.—(lmmense cheering.) The Chairman then
read as follows :

London, May 9, 182.
had the honour to receive the invitation which you
were authorized by the Bristol General Union to transmit to me
to attend their next meeting. I sin much gratified by the kind
and flattering terms in which you have been pleased to commu-
nicate to me that invitation. lam exceedingly proud of the in-
vitation itself; and I should be most happy to chew my sense of
the compliment thus paid me, by attending the meeting ; but
you and my brother Reformers of Bristol will do me the justice
to recollect, that, as the real representative of one of the most
populous counties in Ireland, I have important duties imposed
on :ne, not admit of my absence from Parliament at
the present most avid crisis.—(Cheers.) Every hour may make
the single vote and humble voice of so ungifted an individual as
myself of value to the liberty and peace of the people of these
realms. The question is now, thanks to the intrigues and follies
as w,ll as the vices, of the Tory faction, brought to an issue. It
is now to be decided whether Englishmen and Scotchmen will
tamely submit to be trod under foot, plundered, and insulted by
a sordid aristocracy of boroughmongers, who have already loaded
the country with a debt of one thousand millions, and inflicted
pauperism and decay upon the most industrious, the most eco-
nomic, and the most skilful people on the face of the globe.—
(Immense cheering.) These are the times to try nien's souls.
Britons! will you be the slaves of an untalented and peculating
f iction ?—(No, to; never, and cheers )—creatures whose stunted
intellects would disable them from earning an honest livelihood
at any ordinary trade, and therefore deem themselves entitled to
riot on the treasure, and indeed in the blood, of the British peo-
ple. I repeat my question—Britons! will you be slaves, and
slaves to the most degraded faction that ever dared to trifle with
human liberty ?—(No, never.)
I can answer for the sympathy and support of the people of
Ireland—the insulted and long calumniated, hut the moral, the
patient, and the brave people of Ireland.—(Cheers.) Brave as
you are yonrselves—they could not be more so--but trained in
the school of lengthened oppression, they have been taught, and
they easily learned the lesson, that there is no prospect of political
amelioration through the paths of turbulence and violence ; nor
any other route to freedom save through the road of constitu. '
tional, legal, moral, and persevering exertion.—(Cheers.) Chilled '
by no defeat--subdued by no resistance—they (the Irish people)
persevered in their legal course until they obtained the triumph
of the principle.of freedom of conscience—powerfully contributed
to obtain civil rights for the Protestant Dissenters of England,
before they achieved political equality (it was all they desired) for
themselves.
Allow me then to recommend the example, as I respectfully
do, of the people of Ireland to you. Let your conduct be legal—
but let it be determined ' • let it be peaceable—but let it also be
bold and resolute; let the display of your natural strength be
tranquil—but let it be Irresistible. Combine Every good and ho-
nest man with you in the present glorious struggle for the res.
cuing of the rights of Englishmen from the fangs of the corrupt,
sordid, peculating, boroughmongering aristocracy.--L (Cheers )
Shame on them and on their supporters ! Leta civil excommu-
nication surround the slaves—let no man salute them—let no
virtuous woman speak to them—may they become the outcasts of
their own sex and the contempt of the other.—(lmmense cheer-
ing.) But let every honest Reformer now rally round the con-
stitutional standard of just and salutary Reform. I have the ho.
nour to be, Sir, your obedient Servant,
Mr. 'l'. W. liawle, Bristol. DANIEL O'CONNELL.
At the conclusion of the letter, the meeting gave three times
three cheers in honour of the writer, after which the cry of
" adjourn" was again vociferated.
Several voices.—" There are thousands waiting outside."

Mr. F. CLARKE then moved an adjournment to Brandon
HilL—(lmmense applause.)
The Chairman then quitted his place, and the assembly re-
tired into I'rince's-street, where the Council of the Union
having placed themselves at their head, they proceeded in the
most orderly and peaceable manner to
BRANDON HILL.
_ . . .

On arriving at the summit of this hill, the Chairman and
the Members of the Council took their station on that part of
the old wall which looks towards the Hotwells, and the multi.
tude (in number certainly not less than 7000), arranged them_
selves in the most orderly manner around and beneath. It was
then suggested that, as there were many persons present who
had not the opportunity of hearing Mr. O'Connell's letter read
to them at the Assembly Ronnie, it should be again read : this
suggestion was complied with, and the reading of the letter
was greeted with the cheers of the meeting. Upon their sub-
siding the Chairman proceeded to say that the letter which
they had just heard offered a very justifiable reason for the
absence, not only of Mr. O'Connell from the meeting, but
also of Mr, Hume; it was their imperative duty to be elsewhere.
CA voice—" Why are not our own representatives here P"]
The CHAIRMAN hoped the same excuse might be offered
and accepted for them also ; they were more wanted where
they were .(Several voices—" True, true; they are doing their
duty.") If was his most anxious wish to urge on them all the
necessity of conforming to the spirit of Mr. O'Cohnell's advice
in their conduct of that day. Let them be at once firm, con_
ciliatory, and determined ;—(.4 wc will")—let them show
their strength, but not use it;—(Applause)—and they would
ultimately triumph ; but in triumphing they must remember
the duties they owed to their neighbours and friends, and not
outrage social rights. Upon that day, perhaps, upon that very
hour of their meeting, depended the question of whether they
should be free; or continue the slaves of a boroughmongering
faction.—(Tremendous and long continued coeeFitit)
Mr. J. G. PO WELL said, they had met to deliberate
on one of the most awful occasions that had ever called them
together—on a crisis yet unparalleled.—(Cheers.,) The coun-
try now stood on the edge of a precipice; they were called on
to save it, but it must be done by order, and not by riot—by
those means against which brpte force weighed but as a feather
in the scale.—(Cheers.) The House of Lords had twice set
itself up as a barrier between the people and their liberties.
—(" Down with it.") Was that fitting for those who had de-
nominated themselves the noblest aristocracy in the world ?
(" Turn them out.") But to whom did they owe .their
disappointment ? Not to the ancient aristocracy of the
country, for they, with five exceptions, were favour-
able to the measure. No : they owed it to the poli-
tical Peers of Mr.. Pitt—the creations of the reign
of George the Third—the great augrnentators of the debt.
They owed it to those who now say, " We have taken what we
have by might, and by might we will keep it." There was one
circumstance which Pained him deeply—one man had coin.
mitted an error; a man whom till that day lie had loved, ho.
noured, anti revered—he :Boded to William the Fourth. (A
marked silence attended tioe ‘'innott:icement,) Ile was sorry that
the Kinghad not acceeded to the wishes of his 'Ministers, by
creating Peers ; he would not, however, impute unworthy mo-
tives to his Sovereign ; he would hope that he had been badly
counselled; he trusted that the veil would 50011 be removed
from his eyes. With regard to the Lords, lie was not surprised
at their conduct; he was only surprised that they had not
thrown off the mask much sooner. In reference to their con-
duct, he ovoid 4pea'f: 4rongly and boldly—he was disgusted
with it. He would tharefCre move ti.e fol,owidg resolution :
That this meeting considers it would be affeettiOss to assert its
surprise at the course pursued by the majority of the Lords :
their Lordships' known ignorance and contempt
of public feeling
having justified an expectation of such a course of proceeding;
but, at the same time, it declares its deep disgust at the conduct
which so comparatively insignificant a portion of the Legislature
has thought fit in its wisdom to pursue, and it is determined to
refuse its confidence and support to any Ministry which may be
formed from such materials.
Mr. POIA LLL ttion :e1:!; he had one snore observation to
make; 'Earr Grey I;adresigiiCd.—CWe'll have bim its again.)---
If the country did but shotv that rte was their' choice they would
have him in again in less than a fortnight.--(Cheers.)
Mr. J. W. HALL, in seconding the motion, said—One of
the Peers who was violmtly opposed t 0 the Bill was Lord Eldon.
Now, Lord Eldon, when plain Mr. Scott, was employed as one
of the counsel for the Crown in the prosecution of Horn Tooke,
Hardy, and others, for making the same attempt which they
were now making for the recovery of the rights of the people ;
the consequence was that he soon became Lord Eldon _(A
laugh.) • Thi;;:s t/iC;7: 79 the Duke of Newcastle, and everybody
knows that he had a illtht to do what he 1;1c,:d with his own.—
(A laugh.) But, then he had no right to d: awlh,:tchheeleirksed.) with
their own.—(Cries of " We won't let him," He
had his nominee in the House of Corrnnont—one for whom the

eitiaens of Bristol would ever have cadge to mourn---;"Sif
Charles Wetherell," and groans;—sod having voted through
him by proxy in the Lower House, he had no right to vote
again in the Upper. Another opposition Member to whom be
would allude was Lord Ellenborougb ; lie, too, wss a lawyer
(Laughter)--and his reasons Alight be sought in the Court iu
which he enjoyed a sinecure worth 10,0001. a-year.---e(Shame,)
A very important resolution had been come to at a meeting in
Westminster, and it had been adopted prior to the resignationot
Earl Grey; it pledged the meeting to pay no taxes until the Re.
form Bill had passed. Now there was one description of tales
which they could very easily refuse to pay—the indirect taxes :
. they amounted to:15,000,0001; the direct taxes only to 4,(00,000/.
By refraining altogether from the use of exciseable articles for
t'nreeinonths, any Governmeot might be brought to its senses.
—(Cheers.) It had been said that the tories would then rule
. them by the army; but.where would they get it from, and who
would command it—the Duke of Wellington ? His barricaded
house showed what little confidence he had in the people. Be.
sides; he must have an army in Bristol, another in Glasgow,
another in Edinburgh, another in Birmingham, another if,
Ireland, and in many other places. It was easy to talk of
putting the people down, but they knew too much to be intimi.
dated by that threat.—(Let them try it.)
The resolution was then put and carried unanimously.
Mr. J. P. VENN regretted that it had fallen to the lot of so
very indifferent a speaker to move a resolution at that meeting;
the subject, however, of the resolution was a very indifferent
one, in which opinion he had no doubt they would concur when
he told them that it concerned the Bishops.—(Hear hear, he: r.)
It contained a strong censure of their conduct, and was to this
effect :
That as a great majority of the Bishops have pertinaciously-
placed themselves in opposition to the people, supporting the
Lords in their injustice, it becomes necessary that the people
shout,' use every constitutional means to confine them to the
performance of religious duties, and thereby to reduce ther
power of doing such mischief in future.
He (the Speaker) need not inform them that the Bill had
been previously lost almost wholly in consequence of these mmi
who were found invariably supporting that party which pm.
mised them the greatest share of loaves and flshes.—(Hear.) It
might be asked how this evil could be avoided ? The answer
was, by compelling them to attend to their religious duties
alone.—(Cheers.) There was an old saying, that no man could
serve two masters—one of the Bishops' masters was Mammon;
the other Him, whom they ought especially to serve, but a
Bishop would never be found to shrink from any thing by
which money could be obtained.—(Cheers and " True, true.")
The party which had been so long in power had filled up the
bench of Bishops, from among their own creatures, with such
as were most willing to do their dirty work.--(True, true.)
He should not enlarge further against them, because he did not
consider that any thing could be said in their favour. He was
no admirer of Bishops, and, at all events, he would much rather
wish them to feed their flocks than to shear them.—(lmmense
cheering.)
Mr. F. CLARKE thought that the Bishops should not be
allowed to legislate in temporal concerns.—(" They ought not.")
They had been invariably found to apportion to themselves and
their connexions a very large part of the good things of this
life, and he should like to see them brought a step lower, and
sent neck and crop from the House of Lords.—(Cheers.) They
had no business there, and the best way was to thrust them out
altogether. Hewould be one of the first supporters of such a
measure.—(Cheers.)
The resolution was then put and carried.
Mr. YOUNG, one of the Deputation from Bath, then came
forward to propose the third resolution. Should Englishmen,
who had driven from their shores the common enemy, be
branded with cowardice ?—(" No.") As Englishmen, then,
living, as he trusted he did, in the fear of God—in a conscious-
ness of a superior Being, which elevated his feelings, and put
metal in him, he could not refrain from coming forward to im-
plore them not to relax in their endeavours to obtain an ame-
lioration of their condition, but to be firm and diligent in the
prosecution of every honest purpse. Mr. Young then moved—
That his Majesty's patriotic brother, the Duke of Sussex, be
requested to present the following address, signed by the Chair-
man in behalf of the meeting, to his Most Gracious Majesty the
King
We, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, re,ident
in Bristol and its vicinity in public meeting assembled, are de-
sirous of obtaining, by constitutional means alone, a restitution
of those rights so long unjustly usurped and withheld from us by
a portion of the aristocracy. Although we are aware that the
power of a Monarch, a Government, and a united People, is
sufficient to crush a party, so insignitic int in number and mental
power, into dust from whence they sprang, we are painfully
alive to the dangerous situation in which all social relations have
been placed by the continued obstinacy of this factious portion of
your Majesty's subjects, and the consequent resignation of your
Ministers ; and we most humbly, but in the most energetic lan.
;;cage we are capable of, implore your Majesty to reinstate your
Patriotic Ministers, and to exercise your royal prerogative, and
create as many Peers as may be necessary to ensure the passing
of the Reform Bill, which has been twice approsel of by the Com.
mons House of Parliament • upon which Bill alone we depend
for preservation from the evils of anarchy and civ.l war, usually
the last resource of an injured and insulted people."
Mr. 3IATTIIIAS seconded the resolution and address. in
reflecting on the conduct of the Lords, he had been led to in.
quire what was the difference between the Peers and the people,
Were they patterns of honesty, of integrity, of virtue ?—(No.)
Were their wives patterns of modesty and chastity ?—(A
laugh, and " No.") Seeing, then, that there was nothing In
the Peers to distinguish them from the commonalty, and see-
ing that their conduct tended wholly to prejudice the interests
of the people, he had come to the conclusion that the Peers
were altogether au useless body, and that it was high time for
the nation to do without them.
The CHAIRMAN, in putting the resolution and address to
the meeting, asked if there was any individual present who
dissented from them, and would come forward and endeavour
to enlighten 10,000 poor deluded people ?—No one answering,
they were carried unanimously. ,
Mr. HAM then moved the next resolution. At a crisis like
the present, no one could hold himself excused if he remained
neuter. Our Reform Bill is the sybil's leaves. We would
have been content for the Lords to pass it on the terms pro.
posed; but, if they refuse to do so, we must withdraw its most
objectionable clauses, and, if they will not at least cone to oi?I'
terms, we must withdraw them all in favour of a more ex,
tended suffrage.—(Cheers.) He had always been for universal
suffrage, tut he differed froM many in the mode in which it
was to be obtained. Ile had contended privately, and in the
public prints, that poverty ought not to exist. He thought
every man in this country ought tb be in a condition to pay'a
rent of 10/. a year. He could wish to see the mass of the people
raised to that state in which universal suffrage would be ob.
tamed under the Bill. The Government was always behind
the people. He should wish to see universal suffrage preceded
by universal education, which would enable the people to ap-
preciate universal liberty. Mr. Ham then moved the following
resolution :

That this meeting declares solemnly, that the House of Peers
having virtually rejected the Bill upon which has been based the
hopes of the prosperity and happiness of the people of these king-
doms, it will use every legal and constitutional means in its
power to obtain a more extensive restoration of the rights of the
people, than the present Bill is calculated to give.
Mr. HAM regretted that the King of yesterday yeas the
King of today. It was evident, from what bad ifanspirod, that
the King of England was ruled by a power behind the throne
greater than that of the throne itself, and which prevented him
from proving that he was the King of his people.

_ . .
The resolution was seconded by Mr. RA WLE ; after which
' Mr. LOWE addressed the meeting. The moment, he
had arrived, when not only the gentle, but als4 the simple pea.
sessed of tbonght, should begin to think. The present moment
was big with important events. Their King—their patriotic
King, as they were tempted to believe him,--had now deserted
his loyal and suffering people. Let the people join heart and
hand ; and let them, in giving utterance to their sentiments;
speak with a voice of thunder that should scare away those
snakes and serpents which coiled themselves around the throne.
And who were these reptiles ? Could they suppose any portion
of them to be the high-minded aristocracy, the representatives
of the people, the honest country gentry, or the great merchants
of the nation ? : that could not be. Were they dis.
senters ? No: for they could not get there. Who were they
then ? They were the Bishops of the Church of England.—
(Groans, hisses, and cheers mingled.) This was the scarlet
whore—Lthese the false prOphets-L:who, while millions of t?eir
countrymen were pining in silent want, were living in luxtgy
drawn from their necessities. How should they root them out
Ile would give them his humble opinion ; never while jargon
and discord reigned in the land—it must be done by a union of
hand and heart.
Mr. 6. rowELL observed that Mr. Hail ih.d tecola-
mended them to refrain from contributing to th'e eXigericies'of
the state, by refusing to ' Pay indirect taxes ; the resolution
which he held, offered a much more efficient means of de-
fending their rights. The Duke of Wellington had said, that, .
give him the army, and, its two months he would put down
the people; but, if the people-ceased to pay the army, cc:"
cartridge would sleep in Their cs.rtouhh affcr th,eir
swords rest in their •Sheatlfs';"foilhe soldiers would' not be
found to fight for the mere pleasure and gratification of so
doing. It was in their power to deprive the army of its sting,
by witholding their support from it; and it was his opinun
that, turning the arms of that body against the people who
supported it, was not an act of duty, but a piece of deliberate
murder.—(Cheers.) The time was now come for them to
say whether they would sit down by the Rivers of Babylon, end
weep for their hist fre:-.dorn, coni.inue the,strufigle.
it.—( We will not.) It was no small gratification to find that,
in the midst of it all, they had an honest House of Commons,
which had registered its devotion to the cause of liberty. It
was in the power of that House, not only to ptomote, but also
to enforce, the measure of Reform. That House had the
power of stopping the supplies, and he would hope that it would
stop them. It was true the supplies were voted for the present
year, but the authority of the House was almost unlimite,l
money inati.cn, 2,n4 it 4a4 poveT te;cindi2g-ii;s-y4'ic,ifi •
pleased. Supposing it did "not he' sup Pissed they (the
meeting) were none of them very rich, and, if the tax gatherer
came, they might tell hint to call after the Reform Bill was
passed.—(Great Laughter.) He did not recommend them to
adopt this course—(" No, no," and a laugh)--but if they
found it inconvenient to pay of course they could not be ex.
Pected to put themselves to any inconvenience.—(" To be sure
not," and renewed laughter.) Besides the Mutiny Bill wan
• not passed, :aid unless that INi were nafeed :n a :LW days, Chi
army would 'be virtualky disbanded, Mr,-Powell then read the
following resolution "
Th.e in the present unparalled state of the country, on the
rsignation of :Nrinisters, this meeting is desirous of expressing
its entire confidence in the CoOmons House of Parliament; and
that it most earnestly and decidedly intreats that House to die.
c:nitinue all supplies, of whatever nature or description, and to
refuse the passing of the Mutiny Bill ; and that instructions be•
transmitted to our Members to this effect.
Mr. NOTT, in seconding the resolution, said that all wealth
c one from the productive classes; a sovereign, on an uninha-
bited island, possesses no value of itself, but the industry of the
working man gave value to it.—(Cheers.) It appeared to him
that the cholera had pitched in 'the brains of the aristocracy,
instead of in their bowels--!Exceisivelaughter—they appeared