The Sun.
London, England, 1810-06-09 00:00:00

HACKNEY MEEI is\ G.

The meeting of Freeholder., of Middlesex, which
bad been called-by lequisitton to toe Shet If, took
place yesterday, at the Merin.iid, Hackney. its
soon as this requisition hail heels read by the Sheriff,
there was a • 4enei.:11.1:,11 for the discussion to take
Place on the Green, to winch, atter some objections
IA hie!) wer. oyet-rued, the 'Meeting adjourned. The
business was then opened by Mi. CLIFYLIILo, who
wen at length into the grounds on •wlitcii the last
Petition was rejected, winch he thought were not
such as a Peiniun ought to be rejected on: The
Petition which it tas their iniettithu now to submit
to the Meeting, set forth the grounds upon watch
their foimer allegations were made, and concluded
paying that they would take the subject into consi-
deration, and that th,ir last Petition might be- re-
etived. There were those who professed to be ad.
vocates fora temperate Reform. For his own part
be ttiolgv Reform could tint be too complete. Any
thing short of a radical Reform could not be satis-
factory. The til‘olition of sinecure places without a -
Reform in Parliament would do no good. Ministers
would have so patch more money to give away
among- their friends. Without a full Refoim, such
hie sores were but delusiods and insults to the people,
as they were not intended to redness the grievances.
complained of, but rather to perpetuate existing
abuse,. Feeling hi•liself exhausted; he proceeded
-without any farther prelace Cu read to tlitna certain
resolutions which had oeen drawn up lor- their ap-
probation. • 0.
The first. Resolution way, " that a complaint, re-
monstrilice, and Peittidn should be presented • to
Partialtient , pray ing that their- last Petition st.ould
be tum received."

The st-coad Resolution that the: Petition
should be brglied by 2u Freeholders."
The Fe .it oo aS* then seA.. It. set forth .the
grounds on which -the—Petition Was rejected, of
M 'hzy complained, as hehtg antinitritigernerit of
the Bitl tlt Rights. It spoke of t4l,corninit.ial of
Sir Viancts Burdett, and that of Mr. Gale Jones,.
b-ing orrirary to iheslaw of-thelaild,.atici a 'vio-
lin ion of Muo,nu Giza, p)ci .coutt-ndcd that. they
were justinea in presl/441 tug their last Petition, as,
the"). knew-not bow to express their sena:l-lents, Out.
in thellain hon6t ionguage they had used. It
Litt forth the necessity of d the usual
tern's, and concluded the saute as the last Petition,
-with the addinutilil prayer, that the rejected. Pe-
tition s' ..uld now be tattered to lie on tine tattle of
the Hou,eot O.LIIMOUS.

The Petition being read, Mt. Clifford proceeded.
Adverting to the recent conuiLl of Mr. Tierney, he
stated htin tounerly to'llave said he had received a
retaiiith tee from the Public to fight their.batiles
against i,.e Nlinister of the day. He then could
value popubri y, out sub,,enuetrily taking his seat
for a r:Ateiii b,,rotigh, be had changed his way of
thinking. He not value popular applause;
lie was 010! soncitouS to merit Vie. approbation of.
few. • He did not doubt *but the judi-
cious Jew ,t hose applause he valued, lived in Corf
Castle. After some tam mlir ten-larks., and a few ob-
servations on !he sentiments ot.Mr. Windhatn, Lord
Milton, Cai!niug, and Mr. Yorke, he concluded
strongly censuring the borough system, and thence
, interring the necessity ot a Aelortn.
Mr. BENTLEV denied the existence of privileges
of Parliament. They,enjoyed the right of freettim
of •p!7.t ot fran king letters, &c. but ncihing
like what they had chuhred as their irivilege4. Par-
liam tit King, . Lords, and Commons.
A 8.11 that !cad pas4ed. the Commons, m as not an Act
ot P,tt tiaitient.till it had gone through the Lords, and
re,eised the assent of the King. Any• thing that
was done :by the King, Lords, anJ Curnmons,
theretore 4as not a matter
_of privilege, but an
Act Pa.li.,ment. He would explain to them the
midi! y aivatinigetiesulting.to the Public Iroin the
Si..king Fund, ot which so mucts hien said. In
1843, wileilll:e pr.sent war broke out, the . whole
amount of the expense of the ,Na!ion.l.Debt was
24,163,0001. aA in hiluali-last it amounted to no
34,199,882. hos, notwithstanding the
boasted effect ot the Sinking twit!, the public ex-
penditure had iticteased by itn w it the
pet iod of let ,n years. Such was the state of things
at present. N., hostility (ac te;t toward, the House
/of Commons by those who vi isited fur a change. If
ey would rtiorm the.abuses of which Jlie people
cow, l tined, the country would readily bear the bur-
dens which might be necessalily imposed.
Mr. BLAKE defended the condut of the House of
Commons.. Wi h great deference to
.the authority of
the Learned (Jent.etnan who spoke firs!, he must say,
that his opinions were alike contrary to the spirit and
to the !citer of our law. The Learned• Gentleman
bad said, that meetings held in vestry-chainbers or in
private rooms were unconstitutional; but against
such an idea Jr. Blake would'enter hit protest.
'!'he Eli of- iliglrs gave the, people of England the
power of Petitioning the sling or both Houses of
Parliament,- and they .were entitled.to exercise that
right as they thought proper. He gave a preference
to meetings convened by -public Magistrates; but if
an arbitrary .Sherilf or Mayor refused to convene a
meeting or if when *lob .meeting was, assembled,
the Freeholders were prevented from speaking•their
t-euttuients by noise or tumult, they had a right to
it and p..blish their opinions as they thought
proper, and this, lie repeated, according to the pro
visions. of the Bill of Rights. There was another

opinion of the Learned Genoernan equally. in-
com'ect, he had-stated that only twenty signatures
could be added to. a Petition presented to the
Liou-e of Commons, and ' this
.position' he had

embodied in the Petition 'now 133t0,re them; but
he would tell that Learned Gentleman, that the

Ad he referred to, viz. the At passed in the reign
of Charles IL to, prevent tumultuous Petition , only
limited the numberof signatures to.a Petition not

approved of by Two Magiiirates; or the major part of
the Grand Jury; and was jt creditable to the Free-

. -
holders of Mtddlesex to lelit go forth to the'public,
that their Petition, was of such a nature that no two
Justices of tlic Peade could be found to approve of
He would leavp it to the Learned Gentleman to

exp!ain his conduOr and to support, if possible, the
law doctrines he had stated. In cornrnittin& Sir F.
Burdett and Mr. Gale Jones, the House had not act-