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

SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

We beim our readers nisv consider it certain that the
Duke of Wellington is to be once more the First Lord of
the Treasury. We have elsetiliere given one of the lists
of his Ministry ; but we must observe, that with the ex-
ception perhaps of Mr. Baring, who is to be Chancellor of
the Exchequer, little reliance is to be placed on it. S r
R. Peel, without whom an Administration could not well

be formed, in answer to a question put to hi n by Mr. T.
Duncornbe, last night stated that no communication from
Dia Majesty bad as yet been made to him. It is not likely
that his Grace the Duke of Wellington would think of
making any arrangement without concert with the Right
Honourable Baronet, the only man who could give any
character to his Ministry. The stand made by Mr. Baring
is opposision to Lord Ebrington's motion, was, it seem•,
to he taken as a demonstration of his fitness for a promi-
neat part is the management of the House of Commons.
The country is in a perfect ferment. At no period since
164.2, has there been any demonstration of feeling at all
al preaching to that which now prevails. It may truly be
said that the whole population are ready for any resolves,
any sacrifice', which the emergency may demand. Yes-
terday, Deputations, consisting of gentlemen of the highest
respectability from Birmingham and Manchester, appeared
at the different Meetings in the Metropolis. The intelli-
gence of the resignation of Ministers reached Manchester
at t.o o'clock, and by five o'clock of the saute day, a Pe-
tition to the House of Commons had already been signed
by 25,000 persons. A public Meeting of the inhabitants
44 to take place in the open air on Monday next. The
King, so much beloved till recent events cast doubts on
his good faith, was spoken of in language which we care not
to repeat ; and such was the feeling, that the Municipal
authorities of Saltord were obliged to countermand the
orders which had been given for his Birthday Dinner;
and it was expected that the Manchester Birthday
Dinner would also be countermanded. We live,
;need, in eventful time,. The people, confident
in their union and strength, laugh at the idea of any set
of men attempting to wrest- from them the Reform Bill.
They have no fear of -the borouehmoragera, or their naa-
ehitiations. But likaugisk persuaded of the inability of the
boroughmongers, and their man, the Duke of Welington,
ra coerce them, they are perfectly aware that it is in the
oorrer of bad men, with the resources of office at their
command, to throw the country into great confusion.
Hence the anxiety everywhere manifested to arrest the evil
its commencement. The people, we have said, are
toady for any resolution which may be proposed by those
in whose wisdom and virtue they can place confidence at
this crisis. At a meeting of the inhabitants of West-
minster, and the Common Hall, strong resolutions were
voted, end addresses to the House of Commons, calling on
that body to stop the supplies. Several speakers declared
that, as far as in them lay, as individuals, they would do
what they could to stop the supplies, as they would pay
no further tax-s till the Reform Bill was ease. d. Indeed
we hold it quite impossible to form an Administration,
which shall receive the support of the House of Com-
mons, and the belief is, therefore, pretty general that a
:soup d'etett is intended on Monday next. It is given out
by the partisans of tine Duke of Wellington, that he has
pledged himself to a Bill equally effective with that
which he so perseveringly opposed. No one, however,
bslieves, that if he were to declare to-morrow that he
was ready to conic forward with such a Bill, that he would
keep his word. It is not in the least doubted that his
Grace, in order to gain time for the execution of his plans
sgsiast the people, would scruple at present at no declare
tion. He would condemn the nomination boroughs as
readily as he extolled them a year and a half ago, to serve
his purposes. One object to be gained by a fraudulent de-.
e'aration of readiness to grant Reform, would be, to divide
the people in the approaching election, to which he must
he driven. In our conscience we believe be would scruple
nothing. We are not, however, of the number of those
who deem him a rash, fool-hardy man, who would run
bis 11, ad against a post, a/a Polignoc. No man is better
aware than his Grace, of the propriety of avoiding unequal
conflicts. If he find that he cannot, by deceiving, divide
the people, he will not throw himself away in any rash
attempt. We observe that Colonel Evans, in the House
ot Commons last night, said, with reference to his Grace's
-assuming the guidance of public (dairy, " that he could
not but recollect that one of the lest acts of that Illustrious
Personage, while in power, was to place troops in readiness
for action in London ; and that he trusted, that the
first act of his new administration might not be of a similar
nature." Plans of coercion, of a much more extensive
nature, were, we believe, entertained, and partly acted on
by his Grace—witness the preparations in a certain Scotch
girrison ; but it had not then been demonstrated that the
cation, as one man, called out for Reform. We give his
Grace credit fur more prudence than to think now of
ce"rcing the Reformers. He is not the dupe of the silly
tales which the Duke of Buccleuch has been prevailed Da
utter, as to the paucity of Reformers in Scotland. He
;ioows that all the force he can command would be uu-
equal to the coercion—we will not say of England, be-
cease the idea is ludicrous—but to a single district of Scot-
woof. Besides, he knows that troops never can be depended
no in a contest between a separate order and a whole

action. He knows, that though the Aristocrat may hold
the soldier in obedience by the cat-o'-nine-tails, the first
anferling of a national banner, with a declaration that the
brave British soldiers should no longer remain under the
.old shade of the Aristoc7crey, and that the same talent
which in the arts raises the humble Englishman to wealth
~.nd distinction, would in the army be sure of equal reward
and diatinction, would leave him without a soldier. Who
la short, can loeli,ve that the soldier, who describes so
well what he felt when he was obliged to break biscuits
for the Duke's hounds when he awl many other brave
men were without bread, did nut often ruminate on the
fate of the brave British soldier, for whom merit brings
at honourable advancement, and who may esteem himself
fortunate if, on closing his career, his back do not exhibit
very different scare from those left by an enemy ? The
Duke of Wellington knows all this, and be is aware thst
the English soldier has discernment to make comparisons
as well as his neighbours. We may observe, by the way,
that Sir Robert Peel endeavoured to explain the circum-
stance of the military preparation, alluded to by Colonel
Evans. He said,
lie must take the liberty of complaining of the unfairness of
the allusion made to the Duke of Wellington by the Gallant
Colonel opposite. The Gallant Colonel had said that the last
set of the Duke "of Wellington was to call together a military
force to act in the city of Lon4on, which was the fact. His Ma-
jesty was going to the City for the first time after his accession,
to visit his subjects. There were great apprehensions enter.
rained of danger to the public peace. It was necessary, there-
fore, to take precautions that the property and the lives of indi.
viduals might be protected ; and it was no doubt true that. for
the purpose of aiding the civil power, he (Sir R. Peel,) as Home
Secretary, desired the Commander-in-Chief to be prepared, if he
should be called upon—(Hear, hear, hear)—and God forbid that
any man, on a lawful occasion such as that was, should not be
esdy, at any hazard, to maintain the public peace. But it was
set the Duke of Wellington, but he (Sir R. Peel,) who was to be
held responsible for-the. collection of the military force on that
occasion, What was the danger r There was danger from an
immense assemble of people at that period of the year, when the
day soon closed in; and, lest the danger should be realized, what
was the course that the Ministry had pursued? They advised
the King not to go into the City, and they were then told by the
Oppcwitictl, that the giving that advice proved them to be weak
zud inconsistent men ;. and, so far were they from being charged
with being desirous to overawe the people by a military force,
dad airy were-charged with being unduly alarmed. The charge
then made, and that- now preferred, could not possibly stand.
toot h er.” . • ,
In fairnewsp,tlat Right MM. Baronet, we give his con-
tiadiction ; hut arvhsve nevertheless our own thouihts re-
spectiq milittay preparations,. and the objects. for which
they Wire nade. - Sir Robert is notorious for candour,
•ed we kiao* how far his explanation goes. We believe
the Anti-Reformers are beyond measure embarrassed at
this time. They certainly did not calculate on the prema-
ture stand made by Etrl Grey, but thought that by draw-
ing him on as it were, extorting something heteand some-
thing there, and playing on Lord Grey's wish to conciliate,
they slight damage the Ministry in the estimation of the
people, and that then, having produced a coolness be-
tween the Ministry and the people, they might trample
on the former and cheat the latter with some chance of

success. Through the Queen, and the brood by whom the
King wis incessantly surrounded, they knew all that he
thought, all that he said, and all that he would do; sad
hence they deemed themselves sure of their game. Lord
Grey has disconcerted them. and they now see themselves
placed between a House of Commons which they cannot
isornmand, and the people who will return a still more de-
termined House, should a dissolution take place ; they see
themselves under the necessity of disgracing themselves by
deelarations of readiness to grant all that they have ♦ex-
atiaualy opposed fur a year and a half, for the sake of ini-
posioe Do a people, disgusted with such open and prcfligate
mockery of all principle, and therefore not to be imposed
en. 'I hey will have to encounter the degradation of
uttering falaebood without the consolation of knowing
that the falsehood answers its purpose. To lie is always
contemptible; but to lie without being believed is morti-
fying as well as contemptible. What, the nation believe

the pledge of these mean, hol'ow intriguers—these pan-
derers tO .Gerwran women, and the rapacious crew who
have dared to insult that people at whose expense their
cupidity has been fed ! No, never. The attempt
will assuredly- WI. People of Eugland, do your
46tY a little while longer, and these tricksters
must fail. Hold out but a little while longer,
and the eternal defeat of the Loroughmongers is secured.
Believe none of the professions which in their desperation
they maY oOw make to you. You will have all to do over
agsin if you now relac in your effort., confiding in the
most unprincipled of rnen. The Devil himself sometimes

° speaks truth, and thews miserable tools of the horoughmen-
gera may not deceive you in all that they promise. But it
is a good rule to place reliance on unprincipled men,
the vague supposition that some part of their statements
may be true. These men will deceive you if they can,
There is nothing they would not do to prevent sacriticio,t,
their nomination boroughs. Nothing was ever more feli-
citously expressed than what fell from Mr. Strutt on
Thursday night :—" If,iadeed, the time should ever come
when we are willing to intrust our victorious armies to
the command of the officers of the enemy—if we should
ever call the culprits from the bar to the judgment-seat
—then, and not till then, will I consent to intrust the
construction and management of this Bill to those who
have shown themselves its avowed enemies, or its reluctant
and wavering supporters." They laugh at the honesty of
Earl Grey. Do not you be led to punish those whose
crime, in the eyes of a sordid oligarchy, is their excess of
honesty, in order to enable the artificers of fraud to triumph
at the same time over yourselves.—Morning Chronicle.
Amidst the wreck of a nation's hopes, which has just
taken place, and under the heavy dispensations with which
it has pleased Providence to afflict this devoted land, it is
curious to trace, and to develop to the public, even though
no ultimate good may result from it, the low and dirty
tricks by which the people's enemies in the House of
Lords have accomplished their ends. The prime movers
of the plot were the high-principled Lord Lyndhurst, who
considers political intrigue consistent with the duties of a
criminal judge, and the popular and respected Lord Ellen-
borough. To these were joined Lord Rosalyn, and the
Noble Eirl in whom disappointed ambition has caused
the abandonment of the principles professed, and the friends
cherished, during a long life, and whose unwearied abuse
and hostility have pursued the late Ministry from the
dawn of their career down to the scene which closed it on
Wednesday last. The Duke of Wellington, though joined
with these worthies, prudently kept himself in the back
ground. By these men the plan of the postponement
.of schedule A was concocted, and they lured the
too-confiding and now indignant Waverers, by
promising them . their support in the alterations
which. it was their wish and intention to . make
in the 8i11..., The ultra-Tories--the Newcastle, and
Mansfield", &c,...-tnen who, however mistakes in their
principles, are at least honest is the possessing of them,—
were yet more grossly and unworthily deceived ; for they
were induced to join in the vote for postponement, without
being told a syllsble of the intended declaration of Lord
Ellenborough in favour of " soot and lot" Reform. Indeed,
the Noble Earl to whoa we have before alluded has, since
the debate, taken great credit to himself and his co-con-
spirators for having delayed the Elephant Lord's declara-
tion till after the division. " That," said he, was admi-
rably managed, for had the declaration in favour of Reform
taken place early in the evening, we, instead of the Mi-
nisters, should have been left in a minority." What a spe-
cimen of unworthy trickery does this one sentence open to
us! And yet it is to men capable of such conduct that the
deluded Sovereign of this country is willing to intrust the
destinies of his people. So much for the intrigues of the
House of Lords ; those of the Court are still less creditable.
What shall we say to the eldest born of the Sovereign—to
him whom Ministers, at the risk almost of their popularity
with the country, elevated to a high rank in the peerage?
What shall we say to his gratitude to his creator, when
we hear that he has been among the foremost intriguers
against him and his Government, arid that he has effected
a reconciliation with his father (who, worn out with his
unreasonable demands, had forbid him his presence) upon
the pretext of his anxiety to assist in delivering him from
the thraldom of his liberal Ministry? It is now a noto-
rious fact, and in truth a most curious one, that at the
audience of leave which the Ministers had of their Sove-
reign on Wednesday last, the latter pressed the Duke of
Richmond to desert his colleagues, and continue in his
service; which that high-minded Nobleman at once re-
fused. " Nay, 3 greater far" than even the Duke was
subjected to the like blandishments and entreaties, urged,
too, with a force and pertinacity, which, coming from
a Monarch, are difficult to be refused. The Chancellor
was pressed again and again to continue in his high
office, and at once, and peremptorily (though most respect.
fully) refused. Surely his Majesty must, when he made
these attempts, have forgotten that bloody record in the
House of Brunswick,—that awful moment, when the too
seductive persuasions of his induced the amiable but
too yielding Charles Yorke to abandon his principles and
his colleagues, and to accept of the Great Seal. That ill-
fated man, as it is well known, retired full of remorse from
his Sovereign'e presence, and put an end to his own
existence. Fortunately for themselves and for the country,
the persuasions of the son were tri d upon tempers and
minds of firmer mould and firmer principles. Of those
who for a length of time, have worked upon the mind of
our unhappy Monarch, and have induced him, after
having promised a creation of Peers whenever they might
be necessary far the success of the Reform Bill, to with-
draw that promise, and in fact to betray his Ministers, we
wish not to speak. They are persons whose situations, if
nut their minds, ought to have made them above such mean
trickery, while their affection to his Majesty shou'd have
prevented their offering such fatal, such ruinous advice.
Verily they have their reward, in the contempt and
abhorrence of a free yet loyal people. It iv, however.
impossible not to draw a parallel to these times, and these
ream, from history. When the popular Necker was
called to the Administration in France, he was hailed by
the applause of the people, and by the hopes of all those
who wished for the good of the country. But his pro-
jected Reforms—his ameliorations of the state of the
people—above alt, his economies and retrenchments were
viewed with a jealous eye by the Court. The female
cabal who ruled over Louis XVI. effected his overthrow
by calumnies, dexterously and unceasingly poured into the
ears of the King ; and the bold, the reckless, the disre-
putable Calonne was put in his place. The consequences
of this disastrous change are well known. May the
omen be far from us, and may the example of history
prove a lamp to guide us in our path, and not an ignis
faluus to lure us to our destruction ! Time&

The accounts from every quarter of the metropolis and
of England are awful. The anti-Reform faction have
raised the storm, and by them, at least, its fury will not
be appeased. Birmingham refuses to pay taxes, Man-
chester refuses to pay taxes, Westminster and London,
there is reason to believe, will not pay taxes until the
Reform Bill—the unmutilated Bill shall have passed. But
will this dry-rot in the foundation of all Govern•
rent—this famine of the State—be confined to the above
three spots, however great and populous? No, unques-
tionably ; fur the sentiment is every where—the obliga-
tion to lien-payment, except only of those rates by with-
holding which the poor might suffer, is, throughout the
United Kingdom, felt by a large majority of men of all
ranks to be the most sacred of political duties. " What,
then," icy the Conservatives, " will you resist ?" "By
no means" is tie answer ; " like the Society of Friends,
the most peaceable of mankind, we cut render our property
to the bailiffs." This, again, is accompanied by a further
determination, easeutisl to the full success of the former
one— namely, against the purchase of any description of
goods seized in execution for arrear of taxes. Now what can
be opposed. to a negative system of warfare such as this?
The " Blues," gallant as they are, could make nothing
of a:a:barge against unbought feather-beds in front of
a broker's warehouse; nor could the Araillery, with
their slitapnells; no, nor the Grenadier Guarda themselves,•
though headed by the new Rime Minister ; nor the other
high-capped, regiment, led on by that great man, the
Duke. of Gloucester, between whose disappointed views
upon the. " Horse Guards " and the " Conservative " ea-
gerness of his iUuatrious Duchess and himself, we do not
insinuate that there is the most distant connexion. How
then, .00ce more, could an anti-Reform Government be at
this moment carried on ? The people, we trust in God,
will not fight. If they do, they will be as crazy as those
who seek to rule them by the sabre. Their game is sure,
if they but play it steadily. Every petition now presented
to the House of Commons enjoins that assembly to pass no
money-bills for a non-Reforming Administration. We see
what a majority supports the cause of Reform. Is there a
chance that a majority of 80 Members, excluding all who
had been reputed of the waveriug party, can he so reduced
lby defection, in the face of their unchanged constituents,
las to afford to a, Wellington Government any reasonable
hope of maintaining office on principles adverse to the
present Bill? It is not as in other times, when Par-
iliarnenrary majerities hi.d no support in the nation. The
anti-Reform partisans threaten us with a dissolution.
Threaten us ! Heaven grant it. If they want further speci.
mess of such reaction as has been exhibited within the last 12
mouths,they shall have them. The electors are at their posts,
the election committees are organizing again throughout the
kingdom ; they are in the act of preparing for the con-
servative candidates a reception which might warn them
to all future times, if such men were susceptible of in-
struction. With the Parliament against him, and the na-
tion in a state which would deter any Tory who was not
moon-stricken from so much as dreaming of an appeal to
the people, what remains then to the Duke of Welling-
ton ? The. army ! - " The army is with us," cry the
conservative cut-throats=of whom beyond all question
the Duke of Wellington is far from being one. We do
not believe that a snore flagrant injustice could be offered
to any man, than by imputing to the Duke of Welling.
ton the cruel speculation of governing this free country at
the point of the soldier's bayonet. His Grace's under-
standing would revolt at such an experiment, even if his
principle, did not ; and we remember, that ea no remote

occAtulon Lid fileact and luta cane/pie, Sr: Henry HPr.
dinge, deprecated in terms the most forcible and pointtii
the Irish practice of calling in the army to tr.
Indy the supineness or incompetency of the rnagistelia
power.— Times.

THIRD EDITION.
SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock.

GREAT MEETING

LINCOLN.

YESTERDAY evening our of the largest meetings that
ever assembled on any previous occasion, was held at the
Guildhall, Lincoln. All the wealth, respectability, and in-
telligence of the city were present, together with nearly
all the Members of the Corporate body.
The Mayor (W. WIGGLESWORTH, Esq.) being called
to the chair, explained the object of the meeting, which
was to consider the present awful situation of the country,
in consequence of his Majesty having refused to adopt the
necessary means for securing the triumph of the great
measure of Reform ; and of Earl Grey and his patriotic
co-adjutors having resigned office.
After a few words from R MASON, Esq. explaining
more at length the purpose for which the meeting was
convened,
Dr. Boor rose. He was proud to observe that the
citizens of Lincoln had so nobly responded to the call of
their worthy Chief Magistrate, at a period when the
liberties of all classes of Englishmen were placed in
Jeopardy by an intriguing faction. They were -met
to express their sentiments honestly and firmly, and it wars
a melancholy fact that the cup of bliss, which was-
lated to tranquillize the nation, and to restore peace and
• trangnillity thioughout all classes, had been dashed
-from their lip,. He, as an old man, would rather die a
freeman than live a slave.—(immense cheering.) By
the present position of affairs, it appeared that no lest than
24 millions of souls were to be ►ubjugated by a majority of
35.Paersi.—(Cries of "No, we shall not.") The House
of Commons, which represented the voice of the 'people,
had been set at nought, and henceforth it would be non-
sense, sheer nonsense, to go through the forms of election,
when the people were to be governed solely by an usurp..
ing and overweening aristocracy.—(Loud cheers.) Were
we living in the 19th century—were we se degenerate as
not to possess some noble minded, some pats iotic Brutus to
rally us to the breach—to take the citadel, and to obtain
the repossession of our long-lost political privileges.—
(Loud cheers.) We were entitled to nothing more than
what was recognized by the British Constitution, and it
was bard indeed upon an industrious and loyal people
to have these rights withheld by a small and utterly in-
significant majority of the Peerage. We were rallying
round the Ministry, and by so doing, we should con►ince the
Peers that we were not to be deft auded of our rights.—
(Loud cheers.) He then concluded with moving the fol-
lowing resolution for the adoption of the meeting, viz
" That the attempt to mutilate the great measure of
Reform, and the consequent resignation of the Ministry
are not attributable to Earl Grey, but to those who are
enemies to the liberties of the people."—(Load cheers.)
Mr. Alderman CARTLEDGE seconded the resolution,
in doing which he had great pleasure. He hoped they
would all keep united, and employ every legitimate means
for securing the triumph of the great question of Reform.
The resolution was carried unanimously amidst Brat ac-
clamations.

G. HEBB, Esq. proposed the following resolution,
viz :

' That this meeting feels in common with the great ma-
jority' of the nation, that the House of Lords have
placed themselves in opposition to the inters es of the
people, and that opposition is of a factious character, and'
unless effectually repelled, will endanger the safety and
liberties of the people."—(Loud cheers.) The rights- and
interests of the people of England had never been in more
imsuinent danger than at the present crisis, through the
Obstinacy of a small majority of the House of Peers
(Cheers, and cries of " Burke them !")—and it was of
paramount importance that every individual exei ted his
utmost energies to maintain the rights and interests of the
great body of the people.—(Cheers.) If the King had
abused his prerogative—if he had overstretched his power,
it would have been tyranny, and the people would have
put it down ; if the people bad arrogated too much to
themselves--if they had dictated to the other two Estates
of the realm, they might have likewise been put down :
but of all Oppositions that of the Aristocracy—a mere
handful—putting themselves forward against twenty-four
millions of people was most ridiculous, and he might
very properly designate it as factious and improper
—(Loud cheering)—as stated in the resolution, which
he had already introduced. The liberties of the people
were dear to them—their rights ought to be sustained it
preference to those of the other estates of the realm : for in
was from the people that the other estates has rose. The
King and the Lords could not exist without the people—
the people formed the foundation of the whole superstruc-
ture of civil Government. He did not wish to be mis-
taken in these remarks ; he was sincerely attached to the
three estates of the realm which constituted the best form
of Government ; but when one trespassed upon the rights
of the other, it was incumbent on the invaded interest, to
render a tirin and strenuous resistance.—(Cheering.)
Mr. Jotter HALL rose to second the resolution, which
he did with the greatest possible sincerity. He did not
wish unnecessarily to trespass upon the time arid attention
of the meeting, but on his own part he felt it due for him
to say that he was a member of that class of the people.

" Who had felt oppression's force,"

—(Cheers.)—and who as a necessary consequence was
disposed to resist the encroachments of power.—(Cheers.)
He yielded to no man in love of his King, his country,
and the constitution, and it was only when one attempted
to tyrrauize ever the other that he would raise his voice
against usurpation.—(Loud cheers.) He fully agreed
with the poet when he said—

" A fairer isle tban Britain never sun
Viewed in his wide career: a lively spot
For all that life can ask, salubrious mild.
• Its hills are green, its woods and prospects fair;
Its meadows fertile, and to crown the whole, .
in one delightful word, it is our home,
Our native land."-
But however fertile its valleys, and rich with every thing
that eould tend to the enjoyment of man, who was there
amongst the poorer classes who could partake of its lux-
xuies ?—(Cheers.) They were all engaged by those who
. were the least entitled to them --(Cries of " nye the
Bishops,"—and be could state it feellinglv, that a man
might labour until the sweat might drop from his brow
and for what ? To pay taxes to a large ove-
grown and encroaching aristocracy.—(Loud
.cheering.)
who took every possible opportunity for crushing the
liberties of the people, and of which we had just had a
very lamentable example.—(Loud cheers.) He would
repeat that he seconded the 'resolution with considerable
pleasure : he felt it to be his duty as a man, as a-citizen,
as a freeman, for he was well convinced that his fellow-
townsmen ought to possess an equal right with himself in
7,a voice in the Parliamentary representation of this country.
-It wax a privilege to which he had no more exclosive right
than they, who did not possess the franchise.—(Cheery.`)
Mr. JAMES HITCHINS addressed the meeting at consi-
derable length. . He assured the meeting—and he was not
iu the habit of dealing in the language of affectation—that
he approached the task before him with a considerable de
gree of difficulty. They had lately indulged in anticipa
tions of liberty ; but now we had a Alinistry Whir bad
been defeated, and a King who had turned his back upon
us.—(Cheers.) Was-not this calculated to dismay the
stoutest heart, and to destroy the peace of Eng-
land ? The Duke of Wellington had been compelled
to resign, because of his famous Anti-Reform
declaration,.and Earl Grey had succeeded him in his office,
having pledged himself to Reform the representation.
What had been the conduct of the late Ministry ? They
had brought forward an efficient measure; twice had it re-
ceived the sanction of the House of Commons, and the
House of Lords had dared to reject it. Earl Grey and his
Minis'ry had been ironsistant; why, then, had not the
measure been carried ? The people were for it ; it was
said the King was for it—he had declared he was fur it,
then u by the reverse ?—(Cheers.) Why thus throw off
his chameleon habit ? The King himself in his speech,
not delivered by commission, but with his own breath,
said he was anxious fur a speedy and effectual settlement
of the question.—(Cries of " He did.") Can we heliev.e
all this, and then on the eve of
othued mebeeuau.r)e. bneiengobirro.uigih.;
to a conclusion he dashes the cup of promise from our
lips and blasts our hopes !_(
was not fond of the pomp and ceremony usually attendant
upon coronations, but he did respect an oath whether made
before a magistrate or by a King.—(Cheers.) What, when
Lord Grey as premier presented to the King the sword
of State.—(Cheers.) What oath did he utter—what
but this, that " he was anxious to repair any thing
wrong in the Constitution, and to retain every thing that
was right." These were the words of the King, and he
(Mr. H.) would ask whether these words did not allude
to the question of Reform? Whether the King had not
violated that oath--whether, in fact, his Majesty bad not
been ?—(Hisses, and cries of " That lan-
guage is too strong.") Well, then, be (Mr. H.) was

ipoallng the worth of Lord Bingham, who had quoted
very words, and asked whether it could be lees than per-
jury to violate it ?—(Loud cheers.) He (Mr. H.) loved
his King.—(Cries of " You want a place.") He believed
lie was still attached to his people ; but he would say that
he had violated the sanctity of that coronation oath—he
had not acted up to his words contained in the speech
which be delivered to Parliament. Where were they inow 1.,
look ? To the House of Lords ? Lord help them if they
did.—(Loud laughter, and cheers.) Were they to look
to the King ? Yes, in some measure, they were. No
Government could exist an hour without the support of
the people, therefore it mattered little whether Lord
Lyndhurst took the seals of office or not, for he would ven-
. .

ture to tell him, that, if not backed by the people, he
could not stand a month, nor a week.—(Loud cheers.)
Mr. Hitchins, after some further remarks, concluded with
moving the following resolution:—
" That the thanks of this meeting and of the country,
are eminently due to the late Ministry, for having i►ttto-
duced the Bill to amend that evil state of representation
so long a disgrace to the nation, and for their unflinching
honesty in resigning power and office when they were not
supported."—( Tremendous cheers.)
Mr. Lute TROTTER seconded the resolution.

R. Masow, Esq., the Town-clerk, wished to make a
few observations upon the former part of Mr. Hitchins's
speech, merely for the purpose of preventing a misimpres-
sion going abroad that every person present agreed in all
that had been advanced in that speech. He a luded to the
Coronation Oath. He thought Mr. Hitchins's language
on that topic ought to have been avoided. He could not
sit there to hear a King—the first Magistrate of this
kingdom—our Monarch—who was as gracious a Monarch
as ever held the sceptre, charged with perjury, because he
had withdrawn his sanction to the Reform Bill, inasmuch
as he had not sanctioned the creation of Peers. These
were his sentiments, in which the Mayor and other
gent!emen participated.—(Cheers and hisses.)

- Mr. HricurNsreplied. He did not wish Mr. Mason
to be responsible for any thing that bad fallen from him.
He was in the habit of calling things by their right names,
and he would refer Mr. Mason to the remark made by the
Duke of Cumberland, that his father Wopid commit per-
jury if be allowed the Catholicll-to 'pairs. As he (Mr.
H.) did not wish to promote disunion, he would say, that
if the King had committed perjury, he could then only
say that he had not fulfilled his oath. He would ring the
changes in any way they pleased to promote unanimity.—
(Cheers and hisses.)
The iesdution was then passed unanimously, amid vehe-
ment cheering.
(Here the outcry for adjournment to some larger place
became overpowering, and, as it proved, with good rea-
son, neatly ten times more being standing outside than
were admitted ; and it was wonderful that this dispropor-
tion between the number accommodated and those who
were not, had not excited much greater uproar. At
length the meeting adjourned to the noble piazzas which
form the Butter-market, and with the aid of hogsheads
and planks a tolerable good platform was raised.
Bes.r. HART THORODD, Esq., said he had to move a
resolution which would suit the alarming position of the
people. He knew how great was the disappointment
which had been experienced, but he also knew that the
people had shown resolution and energy equal to every
extremity ; it was characteristic of Englishmen to
bring to the struggle a stubborn spirit, which it
was net very easy ro overcome, -and his Grace the
Duke of Wellingeon had perhaps his share of this national
character. Pity he had not shown it in a more worthy
manner, instead of acting with such ingratitude to the
people who had stood by him in the hour of danger, and to
whose nerve he had not trusted in rain, when the issue
rested in the power of endurance of the British soldier.
It was to a people so highly gifted with strength of cha-
racter that he owed his glory and perhaps his life—it was
also to the people 'last he owed the enormous reward with
which he was favoured—and for a- man thus dealt with,
and so amply overloaded with the good things, the fruits
of the labour of the people—for such a man to set him-
self in opposition to the people, was the basest -ingratitude.
The people sought for their own, their birth-right—
filched from them by /In audacious encroaching aristo-
cracy—and it now was left for the people to decide whe-
ther they were to contribute their money, to pay for steel
lozenges, gunpowder and bullets to be be at the
disposal of this beggarly faction, and to
continue the system of base control of an upstart
nobility.—( Hear.) For 30 years this Tory cabal had
been growing into strength, until it actually assumed the
disposal of life and property. It was not so well known
20 years hence, that the Minister was every year forced
to apply, cap in hand, to the House of Commons, for leave
to keep an army of 60 or 80,000 men, to control and keep
down the people. Unless the House of Commons granted
the-Mutiny Bill, not a single soldier would be kept at their
command ; and we have now a House of Commons, re-
turned in a popular manner, and we are justified in calling
tin that House to protect the people, by refusing to let our
Money be paid to keep soldiers to cut down the people at
the instance of a Tory Government.—(" The soldiers
won't do it.") The soldiers must do it if you create
scenes of violence , but if you are firm and peaceable, no
fear of final success.

Mr. THOROLD read the resolution,: seconded by Mr.
\Vat. RUDYARD, merchant. The resolution was to the
effect, to address the House of Commons, praying them to
withdraw the supplies. The address to the House of
Cemmons, founded on the resolutions, was then voted and
carried unanimously.
Mr. E. B. DRURY stated, that when he saw the im-
mense concourse assembled in this spacious marke place,
that it was crowded not only on its level, but thronged in
all parts to the roof itself, he could not help thinking
how kindly and forbearingly the numbers who had been
excluded front the Guildhall, had endured contrast of their
situation compared with those inside. Here we were all
alike, and be rejoiced in having to propose a resolution.
The seconder who had been first thought of was probaly
jammed into a mummy at some extreme corner of the
place, and he should have to be seconded by some good
natured hearer who might approve of the sentiment
expressed in the resolution ; which was to address his
Majesty in thinking that the country would not be satisfied
with any other Administration than Lord Grey's or such
another as should be equally favourable to the claims of
the people. There had been some strong language used
already, which might seem to be dictation to the King.—
whether there was any dictation in this resolution he would
not decide. Some time ago a steam-boat was wrecked in
the Irish channel, and horrible loss of life and property
ensued. At the Coroner's Inquest, it appeared that the
Captain was a man of irresolute conduct, ane it was said
that the passengers ought to hare interfered, and one and
all united to prevent the calamity which had happened.
It was true that the King could do no wrong, and
his right to dismiso his Ministry was absolute, but
self-preservation was a prior principle; and, although
a Captain of a ship is absolute in his conduct of his
ship, yet when all is at stake, who dare say that
there is not an inherent right to interfere, that it is
absolutely a duty to interfere, and to urge his Majesty to
recover his better judgment, and not to be led astray?—
(Cheering.) This, then, was the object of the resolution.
It is the Reform in the representation which alone can
bring forth good things ; five years hence distress was felt,
and petitions presented to gain relief—very little was
gained; and the manner of taking off taxes showed a much
greater wish to ease the Aristocracy and after a long in-
terval, only lately the worlang• man 'got his beer relieved
from the most shameful and degrading impost which
could be imposed on a people. Even this small gain to
the working man seemed to be grudged, and many sinister
hints are afloat of interfering with this concession. Find-
ing that all prayers were nearly useless, or that the modicum
of relief front taxes was small, and of no value, at length
the people caught fire, and kindled into a burning desire
for a reformation of that atrocious system which has bound
the people in servile chain.. Why there Was hardly a
single act which to this free country, a man could
perform, without paying to be allowed to do it. If you
trade, you have heaps of licenses to be allowed to do what
is a natural right. You cannot walk, ride, marry, nor
charged for such indulgences. Is it
burywonderful w t h
otuhtatbing Reform should be wanted, when we Eng-
lishmen are brought to such a state as this? What for?
To keep in power and lavish splendour some 200 families,
who have usurped the control of Kings, Lords, and Com-
mons !—(True ! true ! and cheering). We will therefore
stand fast to our demand for Reform—it is the door by
which we eater into the Temple of Liberty, from which we
rboalvde been,
which
so long excluded.
h takes
usineo I
the
land
is the n
dof right
promise,
theid short l a
nd o t
equal rights, and a fair field, and no favor to every man !
—(Cheers).
Mr. ARNOLD seconded the address.
The address to the King was read and clinical, and the
meeting dissolved after tremendous cheers for the late Mi-
nisters, for the Mayor, and deep groans t.vu others.

We understand that the above Meeting did not
certainly dissolve itself—but adjourn to meet
any
ex i
exigency to act n concert with the country. Tins
,tiould be the rule and co•iduct of all meetings—
watch, but fear not. The People only want justice
—and that they will have. The people have only
to be true to themselves to obtain their rights.