The Sun.
London, England, 1817-02-24 00:00:00

DECLARATION.

" Resolved, That this Meeting, having se-
riously reviewed anti considered the alarming si-
tuation to which this country has been reduced,
by a lavish expenditure of the public money, and
by an uncontrolled and corrupt administration of
public affairs, and believing that continued apathy
and supineness on the part of the higher and
middle orders of the community, at such a mo
meta, omit ultimately engender distrust and yin..
lance in the minds of the people, have determined
to promote, to the utmost of our power, a COIISti.
Naomi! reform of the Commons House of Parlia-
ment, as the most effectual means. of correcting
those abuses of which the nation so justly com-
plains, and of securing that sy,tem of economy,
moderation, and good Government, Kt essential
to tic freedom, the tranquillity, and the happi-
ness of the country.

" To this attainment of this great object, a
steady and cordial co-operation among the real
friends of constitutional liberty has become in•
dispensahly necessary; but this union can only
.be accomplished, or at least rendered eilicient,.-4
an unity of object, awl by the mutual sacrifice of
all snbordinate

" Waring, therefore, the discussion of all par-
tienlar tenet and details of reform ; resisting
corleption on the one hand, and violence on the
oilier.; this Alerting pledges itself to lease ~o
legal and constitutional tucatis totexerted, for in-
ducing the Legislature to tike the go ievances of
the people iiito its early and serious considera-
ti•in, and (by amending the stets! of the reproten7
tation,) to teholer thy House of Colon:nos, in fact
as it is of right, a controul upon the Executive
Government, end en express image of the 'feel-
ings of the nation."
Sir FRANCTS Ikinners' said, that as he should
he obliged to leave the assembly soon, he took an
early opportunity to address them. lie could not
conceive it possible for any man who wished well
to the cause of Reform to disagree with the de-
claration they lied heard, As to that cause itself,
be was, like Si, " All things to all meni"
and this from a coevictiou that, in the present
state of things, it was the temper that became
wise man. lie was sw,isfied that, in our state of
any, or rattler no represeotuthin, any change was
preferable to going on in the' usual round :
in fact, lie had much 'rather'` there Wits no.
Douse of Commons at all, 'and that the pen-
pie of pogland were intreted to the mercy of.
the Crowth than carry on an expensive inset:leery
for no evadable end. The Crown dare at the
present time tur more elxcreise its rights than the
people their's, so that 'be Win the truest friend of
the Severielol nut! People who endeavoured to
deliver both from the most frightful tyranny. lint
be felt no hesitation io saying, that the right of
swift age ought to be extended to the great bulk of
the coinnumnlity of the realm. lie disliked the
epithets of " wild and visionary," as' applied to
the Reformers ; and he must protest agatiot the
division of the people into classes, as if we lived
ontlerthe olespotism of the East, while every. one
knew that the people were eveiy thing here,
every thing hut the House of iliords.. They them.
sdrei a e!' the people, and. irtil hing else ; the Fitt -
eipies of the Constitution were eternally and indif.
ler, to ly the saute :and if by a It lifd Of courtesy they
%%Pyre divide() iuto the wealthiest:od poorest, the dis-
-tine: ion IVII4 ‘A 1111 to!I a diffeVence, the shadow of
e shade, Power sva4, however, rittite another
thing ; end wherever there was a standing army,
and an ovntrined population, there was an enslaved
country : lint still, if such a power was willing to
give up something, be should say, as they said in
cases of charity, that the smallest donations would
,he thaohNlly received, and be beggar enough to
dial It them for them. lie was fearful, at' the,
lonic time, that economy would do them but little
go;jci, flout Paoltametotary Reform must be looked
.to as the recheld source of relief; and he hoped
that Reformers woohl in futnre discuss where they
dis,ogteed, leaving it to the Mittitters and (Alger-.
ts to abuse one another,. They must take their I
stand at the Revolution Of 1(18.; and resist all
attempts, whether at presentt,UP no future, intended
to subvert the constitution of the country, The
lion. Baronet, having concluded his speech, re-
tired.

1 he Cunt lIMAN read a letter from Mr. Brougham,
,ulo4ising fur Ihe non attendance of himself and
At! Benuet, which WWI received with a mixture
tit Applause and hissing.

" The Constitution, ns asserted in 1688," was
thym drank, %%lib three times three. " The tried
Friend of Parliamentary Reform, the lion. Tito-
mts was the next toast, with three times
lift,AND returned thanks.

The health of Sir F. Bortlett, of the Chairman,
and of Mr. Waithinan antkt4,l,?riends of Reform
the City of London, wer,cotkilk drank.
Ale IVAITIIMAN said, he4eared it ti•ouhl be
enns.der ed as barely sufficientifiha were merely to
return hib thanks on the occasion. Iles felt much
eminormstnent on all public occasions, long as he
had been itectotomed to meet the public eye; but
ti,ifficolty; now conbibted in having nothing to
0pp„6,,, could only concur inmost of the
9Cittilllellts he -bad heard. Here Mr. Waithman
Went into the nature of the recent plots, coupling
them with the precedent of 1794-; and contemn('
that, it that precedettl bud never been put in force,
bl.oald not have apprehended the tiusptnsion
of one liberties no

'PI 11011 1.)0001.As KINNAIRD 12C
linl,ololl expre6sive of their tli,approbation of the
intentl44l snsprnsion of the Ilabeas Corinii Act,
nffer smne tlitaenition.'‘vaB wit"ru"l"
()ii the bosh b,OltheAslon. 4olin Curran,
svith' tire Vrienthi.of'flitiorin,,in trehml, being
thoac, with three tinteg thivevAir, CultltAN, in 4ti
loot! speech, rvttoned
The companv then tiep.tro,ted with the toast of
" Religions Liberty to all I.l4aultintl."