The Sun.
London, England, 1819-11-01 00:00:00

THE MM(KErS.

CottN-EXcHANtot, Nov. 1 —Our Market was well suppliert
with Wheat thi. 'horning front Elsex, Kent, and Suffolk, ant
sales of fine quality were made on the same terms as last
Nlanday; but picked samples of Wheat obtained an advance:
of gs. per quarter: although the go:tinny of Bailey at Mai het
was far from large, yet the trade wits heavy, except for supe-
' ricr parcels, v. hich sold at es. per quarter higher th2n on this
day week, hut the middling qualities are nearly wnsaleable at
395. and SZ-.s. er quarter Oars a, is. per qii4rt,r cheap, r:
Beans support last• weeks pikes, but the deo.and for them
was nut near so hriak as last week. In Pease and otitis
articles there is no alteration.

SM THEM ELD MAnNT, Nov. I.—This day's Market was
more fully si pplied with all binds of Cattle than fur this six
months past". in coasequence of which the prices arg lower
than last Market-day ; Veal, Mutton, and Pork. have also
fallen in price.—ln the !lay Market there is nu difference is
Hay since our last qu.itation; Stray and Clover rens*iu in
price as Ivo- last Ftidal's Market.

NORFOLK COUNTY 'IEETING.

FRIDAY, OCT. 29.

In porsnance of a Requisition most numerously
and respectably signed by the Noblemen, Gen-
tlemen, Clergy, and Freeholders of the County
of Norfolk, to the High Sheriff, Sir WILLIAM
WYNDHAM DALLING, Bart. to call a Meeting of
the County, to take into consideration the ocs
entrences at Manchester, this day was appointed.
At t tselve o'clock the Shire Hail was so corn-
trie filled, that an adjournment was moved to
Andrew's Hall. The number present could.
oot be less than five thousand. The High Sheriff
Rasing; taken the Chair,
The Earl of ALBEMARLE claimed the atten-
tion of the Meeting. He set out with thank-
ing the High Sheriff, in the name of the Requi-
sitionists, for the promptitude-with which he had
afforded an opportunity of thus lawfully and
openly declaring the opinion of the County of
Norfolk, at a crisis of great public danger and im-
portance. It was in this mode only that-the sen-
timents of the County could be collected ; and
not by a declaration got up in a corner, though
it should be signed. as that of the City of
Norwich had beet), by the whole of the staff of
the Norfolk militia, down to the fife-major and
junior drummers. lie had no wish to say any
thing of an inflammatory tendency. But what
was.more calculated to rouse every feeling inhe-
rent in the breast of an Englishman, than the
bare statement of the question which they were
that day. assembled to take into consideration ?
That question was simply, whether Englishmen,
lawfully and peaceably meeting to consider of their
grievances, and to exercise their undoubted right
of petition, were to be so subjected to the caprice
of a misguided oPsycophantic magistracy, as that
the latter should, oith impunity, authorize an
armed force to charge into the midst of them, and
madly sabre and cut down all in their way, even
_defenceless women and children. ISuri,tg the 26
years of his public lire, never did he see a crisis
so pregnant with danger to the rights and liberties
of the country, vever dill he see a revolution so
.near at baud. When he witnessed the misrule
anti miscomtuct of Ministers—when he beheld the
venerable Fitz.silliam, after a long life of fidelity
and loyalty to his King and country, dismissed
front his office of Lord-Lieutenant, because he
thought intioiry necessary when a great breach of
the Constitution It'd been committed—when he
saw 10,000 men added to the standing army, for
the almost avowed reason of cutting down the
people—when he saw Ministers disposed to com-
bat public opinion, no by argument, conciliation,
and good government, but by the' sworsl and bay-
onet, it required- little penetration- to jostily his
saying, that this state of things could not last long,
and that revolution was at hand; whethen it pro-
ceeded from the encroachmentsof despotism, or the
moodiness of the people, revolution was cepially to
be deprecated. Nothing. could prevent it but that
men of rank and property, in and out of Pasha-
meta, should throw themselves in the gap „be-
tween impending tyranny and the rising flood of
popular indignation—that they should show them-
selves ready to check the abuses of power, and
to obtain for the people a reOress of grievances,
and even, as far as was consistent with the secu-
rity of the State, pay attention to the wisheg of
the people. He had done his pest to make him-
self master of the real state of the melancholy
transactions of the 16th of August last; but in
vain bad he sought for one single tact or argu-
ment which could justify 'or extenuate the sangui-
nary character by ivhich they were 'distinguished.
In vain did be look to the notable Declaration of
toe City of Norwich : lie did not therein find any
averment as to the illegality of the Meeting at
Manchester; any assertion that the people were
tunoiltuons ; any justification or excuse for the
conduct of the Magistrates. Surely it most be a
very bad cause in whose defence nothing could be
said. But then, some gentleman of lively ima-
gination had hit on the word prejudge. Pre-
judge ! In the name of common sense, or of
double-refined sophistry, how could inquiry be
tortured into prejudgment ? The fact was, that
there was no case pending—justice had been ask-
ed for, but had been denied—the Tribunals had
been appealed to, but they had been shut against
the injured. ‘Ve might say of, ustice in this case,
in the words of the. poet—
" The Spanish fleet thou cant not see,
" For 'ha not yet in sight !"
The inquest at Oldttam had been postponed to so
remote a period, that it might as well have been
put off altogether. Toe prosecution of Hunt and
others, for a conspiracy, had nothing to do with
the question. Their being found guilty; wool()
not n ace the persons who were killed and wound

ed god, y. The only men who had prejudged the
question were his Majesty's Ministers, who had
prostituted the name of the sovereicn to express
approbation of meAsures which were a di*grace
to humanity. It was barely Possible, with fleet
horses and active riders, with the wind and tide
favouring, (for the Prince, he it remembered, was
at sea) to have obtained his approval on the 21st of
what happened Many hunched miles distant on the
Ifith. It Wiiß possible, but his Lordship could not
believe it. The Noble Lord then entered into a
detailed review of the conduct of Ministera with
respect to the recent public meetings in the cow,-
try, horn which he deduced the conclusion, that
they were proceeding on a systematic plan of
putting down ail opposition to their measures by
the power of the sword, and that the massacre at
Manchester was only a part of that system.—
" When," he .continued, " the human mind is
shoelted and disgusted, it naturally torus round
in quest of some circumstances of alleviition
or justification. 'f he minds of Englishmen

have done so On this occasion, and consolm-
t ion they have found none. The coorde of justice
has hero interrupted—and it is. inquiry into the
cause that we demand. Let political feelings
once mingle themselves with the administration of
the laws, and there will be an end to all security

to our lives and propeolies—t he Word liberty must
ne blotted out of our language, and no 'pole shall

we ho4st of the proud so,,oding name of free-horn

'I he Nonie Lord- concluded with
reading a series of six Resolutions, the tenor of
which may be inferred from, the. Address founded

thereon, ohich
,Is given in the sepel. The first
Resolution was then put.
Mr. SIGISMUND TRAFFORD SOUTH WELL second-
ed the Resolutions. Ile considered it a very high
honour that his name should be in any way con-
nected with that of a Nobleman so eminently
distinguished by his public and private virtues.
lie knew his own abilities to be very inferior to
those of the Noble Lord, and therefore it would
be bad taste in him to detain- the Meeting
long. He contended that where protection
•was not afforded by a Government, obedience
was no longer a duty, but merely a matter of cold
calculation. He extolled the happituess enjoyed
in the reign of Elizabeth, and maintained, that
if an ioquiry weie not demanded and obtained
out the present occasion, the liberties of English•
men might he said to have been destrOyed in one
day. The country Members must be urged to
call, not only for Parliaineniary inquiry, hot for
impeachkuent. The character of the Sovereign
must he protected against the wicked Ministers
who had impiously and 'treasonably dared to use his
name in the approbation of measures which his
soul must and does abhor. Since the revolution,
the personal character of the Sovereign had been
little inquired into, bur it had often been exer-
cised for the protection of the rights of the sub-
ject. When the Earl of Albemarle, the grand-
father of the present represeniative of that noble
house, was Ambassador in France, he found an op-
pressed Englishman in the Bastile, that neces-
sary appendage of a Military Government. The
worthy Representative of his Sovereign knew he
could do nothing more grateful to his Royal
Master, and he would not quit Paris until he haul
obtained the release, of his countryman. Those
times were better that; the present. The Minis-
ters were good men, and not Bete those of our day,
whose talents were even below their character.
Mr. In %Vonsuouse, M. P. then came forward,
and, amid repeated interruptions, exprkssed his
objections to the proceedings of the day, as ap-
peariug to him, in some degree, to ;Anticipate the
verdict of a Court of Justice, and to imply
doubt of the competency of Trial by July—that
' most peculiar—that grandest feature of British
Jarisprodenae-....“ Believe me," he said, '' I am
norfliat wretch so infatuated by prejudice, as to
charge any of the Gentlemen opposed to nie (ho-
nouring them as I do in private life) with favour-
ing any project which they do not sincerely be-
lieve to be for the benefit of the people. Nor am
that fool to be so insensible to the blessings of
civil liberty, as to view the interfet ence of the
larger and better half of in 9' fellow-creatures, who
move in the humbler walks of life, as only calcu-
lated to favour anarchy and irreligion. But still,
disdaining .as I do, an appeal to the passions, 1
will state it to he the settled and solemn
conviction of My soul., that 'a faction, of which
Satan himself is :the leader, has risen among
its to destroy oar happiness; anxious that
justice should be bearded in her seat, and that her
. .

most sacred forms should be brought iuto hatred

and contempt. When see a systematic effort to
revile and' calumniate all that is good, 1 Inuit
raise my voice in support of the existing institu-

thins of u►y country, to rescue myself fro►n hatred
in private, and to escape the charge of insanity
in public life." Having noticed, in terms of
strong reprobation, the advocates for profaneness,_
and the demagogues of the day, he declared that
for himself, he preferred adhering calmly to the
laws 01 his country, to embarking with those who
differed from him on a sea of peril and absurdity,
which he thought must end in the ruin of the
country,

Mr. Cogs addressed the meeting .at consider-
able length. He condemned the condoct of Mi-
nisters in strong terms, and imputed to them the
disturbances which had taken place at different
periods, and in various parts of the kingdom. He
reprobated the proceedings at Manchester—spoke
with much respect of Mr. Wodehouse—complained
of time dismissal of Earl Fitzwilliatn, and most so-
lemnly declared that he desired to live no longer
than he could be free; and assured the meeting,
that he would neverscease to exert himself to the
utmost in defence of the rights of the people.
Mr..E. Hansom) declared himself of no party ;
butt gave it as his opinion, that the pending trial of
Mr. Hunt had nothing.to do with the question be-
fore that Meeting. If that person were to be con-
victed of high treason, that, he was of opinion,
would-not appear to any Judge on -the Bench to
affect the case of the Mag,istrates of Manchester.
Ott the subject of prejudging, be would say, that
it appeared to him that, Ministers alone were
guilty of prejudging the merits of the case, by
the thanks they had given. He then gave a his-
tory of the meeting of the IGtb of August, and
of the events which immediately preceded it ;
and from the course pursued by Mr. hunt and the
Magistrateq, between the 9th and the 16th, hence
inferred, that the Meeting was_ not illegal, or
surely the Magistrates erwild have preferred pre-
vention to pnnishnienr. He _disapproved of the
arrest of Harrison in Smitkiehl ; but if tit,: arrest
of Hunt were necessary, why was not the civil
power resorted to in his case, as ,in the case of
Harrison. He then commented on the conduct
of the Magistrates in proceeding to disperse the
Meeting on such. uffidavits as had been made on
that occasion. He censured the following placard,
which was thrown on the hustings

NO CORN BILL;—NO WOOF, TAX !
Who wahied a (mat ?
Mr. C and hi, Tenants.

Who wanted a Wool 'Fax. to starve the Weavers of Norfolk

and Yorkshire?
Mr. and his Friends.

min voted Rgdinst a PROPERTY TAX .that MI upon the
'RICH—who could pny ?—Tbat Taxrs might he put upon
Tet, S..igac, Coffee, Salt, Tobacco, Beer, and other Neces-
saries used by the POOR—who could nut pay?

Mr. and his Friends '..-

Called upon to read it by the crowd, he an-
swered the call by tearing the paper, and tramp-
ling on it.

The Hon. F. W. PRIMHOSEI disclaimed all party
feeling, whilst he stood forward to condemn the
proceedings at Manchester, and to insist on the
necessity of calling for inquiry. The Manchester
!Meeting having produced the death, as he be-
lieved, of mpny, and the wounding of hundreds,
'hi' Majesty's Ministers had, ,without inquiry, de-
cided for one party against the other. Au in-
quiry ought to take place, and, if it did, he hop-
ed the Magistrates would be able to prove
that they had acted right; bat lost, indeed,

would England be, if they did not stand up for
law—'or the administration of impartial justice.
Mr. N. B. PALMER appealed to an Honourable
Gentleman near hint (Mr. IVodehonse) if the
country were not at present in a most alarming
state, and Assuming this to be the tact, he con-
tended that meetings to petition had in conse-
quence become necessary.
The question was then put on the first Resolu-
tion, which was carried by a very great majority.
The second, thitd, fourth, fifth, and sixth •Re.
solutions, wet e then severally put and agreed to.
Those who held their hands up against them were
vehemently hissed by the crowd.
Mr. E. LONIBB then moved an Address, which lie
introduced with a few remarks, on the necessity
of inquiry.
Mr. is;lawcomntt seconded the Address, in a
speech in which he declared that those who had
-signed the Requisition were in no way connected
with the advocates of irreligion. If he could once
support the cause of Atheism, he hoped his voice
would thenceforward for ever be mute. He main-
tained that all that was wanted was inquiry and
impartial justice.
The UNDER-SHERIFF then read the Address,
which was in the following terms, and on being
put to the vote, it was adopted unanimously :
" We, the Noblemen, Gentlemen, Clergy, and Freeholders
of the County of Norfolk, firmly attached to the Government
of Law under which we live, and to the Family called by the
People to the Throne, for the preservation of their liberties,
presume to submit to your Royal Highness this their Peti-
tion, with the humility becoming dutiful subjects, yet with
all the confidence of freemen.
" Painful as it must ever be to us to approach your Royal
Highness with any other language than that of congratula-
tion, we feel that we neglect a paramount duty to
your Royal Highness, ourselves, and our posterity, if we he-
sitated longer to represent to you the ferment which recent
domestic events have created iii the public mind, and which,
we are conscientiously persuaded, that counsels the most
conciliatory, just, and patriotic, are alone calculated to allay.
Under these impressions, we venture to state to your Royal
Highness, that the transactions at Manchester, of'the i6th of
August last, and not less the various extraordinary proceed-
ings that have grewn out of them, call aloud for investigation
the most solemn end effectual ; for, Sir, to.whateeer appre-
hensions the times in which we live May hare given rise in
the breasts of meu, However they may differ as to the true
character and causes of the existing discontents, in this, at
least, the great mass of the nation is agrees!, that the reality
of public danger mast augment, rather than diminish the
necessity of adhering rigidly to the spirit of the Constitution,
and of respecting scrupulously the People's rights. The
sharpened edge of the sword of authority, arbitrarily or wan-
tonly raised against the citizen, can never lie the means of
protectine the Constitution, which, in the very act, it vio-
lates, nor of preserving the legal institutions of a free coun-
try, which it supersedes.
" For, as far as thee public arc hitherto informed, a great
outrage appears to have been committed on a large body of
people, assembled in the exercise of a right (which the law
indeed is competent to reeulate, but which power cannot
abrogate) to petition the Throne for the redress of a sup-
posed public. grievance. How far such assembly may have
been indiscreetly brought together, or llow far the redress

it sought was in itself reasonable, are serious questions ; but
not such as we can stop to examine, while it yet remains un-
explained; to the satisfaction of the nation, why the blood of
the people so assembled was shed ; no overt acts of riot or
illegal violence on their parts, have hitherto been made
manifest, nor even if such acts had been committed, does it
appear that the people were bona fide allowed the benefit of
that warning which the tenderness of British law provides
on such occasions.

" The bare statement of an occurrence so deplorable, we
doubted not would have spontaneously called forth from
your Royal Highness's paternal feelings a prompt • expres7
sion of regret, and a pledge to your people of a satisfactory
inquiry; but, to the astonishment of the country, no sooner
had the sad tidings reached the Ministers of the Crown,
than, with a strange precipitation, they at once prejudged
the conduct of the parties concerned, by thanking, in your
Royal Highness's name, the military force so employed;
thus bringing in question your Royal Highness's well-
known regard for the 'lives and liberties of %your people, and
encouraging a‘strong suspicion, that what. had been done
was not without their privity, or even direction. For if the
Magistrates and Yeomanry Cavalry had done no more than
their duty, a step so unusual was altogether uncalled for; if
they had done any thing rather than their duty, it was a pal-
pable interference with the eonrse of justice.
" Usipropitious as this appeared to any real inquiry, we
were still led to hope that the expression of the public senti•
meat would at length produce its due effect; when again, in
answer to an Address of the Corporation of the City of Lon-
don, your Royal Highness's advisers, declining all explana-
tion, were pleased to rebuke those who desired information
with being uninformed; and, lastly, they have counselled
your Royal Highness to remove from the Lieutenancy of the
West Riding of York, a Nobleman, venerable for his virtues,
of approved public integrity, and of long-tried loyalty and
fidelity to his King, only because he had concurred with the
Freeholders of the great and opnlent County in which he re- '
sides, in deeming inquiry into proceedings so novel and equi-
vocal, to be but justice to the people, and essential to the
security of the State.
" Whether in these, their measures, the Ministers of the
Crown have promoted or have compromised its honour and
its interests, and the permanent tranquillity of the kingdom,
the Parliament now convened will have to decide. With
Parlianient it rests to approve, to censure, or impeach; with-
in its walls alone, therefore, we conceive, can questions of
the highest import, touching the constitutional Administra-
tion of the Government, be practically determined. To the
Courts of Late, Isle are aware, exclusively belongs the cog-
nizance of all alleged offences against the Statute or Com-
mon Law; and God forbid that we should desire of your
• Royal Highness a departure front this grand principle In
the system of Trial by Jury, and in the integrity of the
Judges of the Land, our confidence is unlionted ; but it is he-
cause we price so highly the pure admictistration of justice,
that we canuot dissemble front your Royal Highness our
astonishment at scenes that have recently passed in some of
the inferior tribunals of the country.
We humbly thank your Ithyal Highness for having, in
this most critical conjuncture, called together the great
Council of the Nation. To their deliberations the attention
of the public will be directed with an awful anxiety, and it
remains for us only most earnestly to supplicate your Royal
Highness to recommend to their adoption such healing Inca-
sures as may reunite the Crown and the people in the bonds
of concord and of peace."

Mr. J. J:GURNEY congratulated the Assembly
on the result of the present Meeting, and on the
whole of the proceedings, and lie especially ex-
ulted in the proofs that bad been given, that the
Requisitionists weretinconnected with the enemies
.of religion. He eulogised the manly manner in
which his friend (Mr. Wodehonse) had come
forWa-rd to state his sentiments before his con-
stituents, though he differed irons those senti-
ments. He moved the thanks of the Meeting to.
both the county Members.
Mr. Loatzg moved that the Sheriff sign the
Address on behalf and as the act of the County
of Norfolk in Public Meeting assembled.
The Mayor of NORWICH moved the Thanks of
the Meeting to the Noblemen and Gentlemen who
signed the Requisition.
_

Air. THOMAS 13Eavou seconded the Mayor's
motion.

Mr. Cofut then spoke nearly as follows :—ln
order, Gentlemen, that the Prince Regent may see
und hear what has passed at this Meeting, I beg to
move, that the Ezirl of Albemarle may be re-
-1111(:sted to demand an audience ()Phis Royal High-
(t) let him know what has psitti at this

Meeting. To the Eiirl of Albemarle yott
confide; and as he has been formerly intimately
acquainted with him, and having a great rebre
bath for the Prince Regent and We. Ctotl7o, be
will demand that audience which his right 94 6
Nobleman gives him, and use it to make the Re-
gent acquainted with the feelings of the Cuuutl'
of Norfolk.

The Earl of ALBEMARLE accepted- with Pride
the office. He was proud and gratified, becsnse,
it enabled him to assist and support the rights 0
the People.

The Rev. G. GLOVER spoke at great length.
Mr. Archdeacon BATHURST proposed n 111011"1
of Thanks to Air. Coke, by observing, that ta
him the County were indebted upon every ocer
sion for the expressions. of the independence she
had so often asserted.
Lord BURY moved Thanks to the High Sher.lll
for his readiness in calling the Meeting, and foC
his npright 'and impartial conduct in he Chair;
which was seconded by
N. MICKLETH wAIT, Esq , who said, that ht.
object in signing the Requisition was for engulf.
and not to prejudge the question ; and the A"
sembly dissolved.

From the LONDON GAZETTh of Oct. 30.

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This Gazette notifies the Prince Regent's approbationl
the (.;;3d Regiment being permitted to bear on their colour
and appointments the words " Martinique" and ‘f Guiv—
loupe. '