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London, England, 1821-01-13 00:00:00

HAMPSHIRE MEETING.

WINCHESTER, JAN• 14

The QUEENITES of Hampshire held their pro- .
raised meeting this day at Winchester, and which,
'after all the different versions of the Requisition
that have been published, was properly confuted,
by reading the one delivered to the Sheriff, and
his authority for holding it, to the Freeholders and
other Gentlemen of the County ; but there was a
large portion of the mob in the crowd, who came
under the notice that had been given (but which
• is disavowed by the Sheriff) for a Meeting under
the convenient and comprehensive term " Inha-
" bitants." So thin a meeting of the County
wars never witnessed before. There were from
500 to 700 present, not 100 of whom, we venture
pledge ourselves, were of the description con-
vened, and-4 those who caused the Meeting to be
. ealled,.wouldjutve it believed!there were more, let
then i name them,,,and we.shall be satisfied, and will
insert their names. They were headed and tailed
', by one of the Bergami-Peers, Lord CARNARVON,
(for•no other Peer was present,) and after the
strictest search and observation, we could
,only learn the names of the following per-
.sons • of property and respectability in the
County : The Noble Lord • just named,
Sir C. MILL, and Sir W. DE CRESPIGNY, Barts.
Mr. ALEX. BARING, Mr. J. CARTER, Mr. E.
CARTER, Mr. DICK'INSON, FLEMING, Mr.
JErtvolsr, the two County Members, Mr. BECK-.'
FORD, Mr: MARSH, Mr. JAMES, Mr. ATLIERLEY,
...and the Rev. MAY, amongst whom were
:only 7 out of the 17 whose names were signed to
the Requisition, several of whom, we understand,
wished to have altOgether withdrawn them. The
business was opened by Mr. ALEX. BARING, in
a speech that was 'much too moderate for a large
portion, „of his hearers,. and which he ended by
moving .Resolutions according with the Requisi-
tion,sviz.—",To petition the House of Commons
" on the subject of the late proceedings against '
the QUEEN, and praying them to take mea-.
" sures to restore her name to the Liturgy,
and take such steps as to them may appear '
" wisest and most effectual to remove every ob-
" staele to a final and satisfactory arrangement,
" as well as to prevent the renewal of any mea-
" sures whatever against her MAs,ussr:'"fhis
was seconded, in a very short speech, by Sir C.
MiLL, who was followed by Sir WILLIAM DE
*, and who,-though inflated at the
outset, was soon b/orzn, as he himself expressed
it, and frequently paused to take breath, and he
went on with 'a tirade till he' soon came. to a
stand-still. The worthy Baronet was followed
by Mr. MARSH (who kindly divides his eminent
services between Berks and Hants), •and
whes„ practised all his usual drolleries, to
the • no small gratification -of the Rabble.—
Next followed Lord CARNARVON, who. was
very angry indeed at finding no one to oppose
the proposed measure, and with whom he
:nicht have grappled. Indeed the whole party
teemed to feel indignant at this decided contempt.
iitNxmAN (who occupies the farm late
Conseres, add has long been 'a disciple of his)
closed this notable." one sided debate" by a few
tropes and figures borrowed from Mr. MAasn's
speech at the Berkshire meeting last week,
.and by
reading an edifying extract from the Morning
Chronicle. He observed, that -he was a young
'man, and a young orator, as indeed his ora-1
tion proved. The Petition was then put to the
vote. by a shew of hands, the Sheriff having
tr,ken pity upon the hats, which were not all
fit to be shewn, though that is the most corn-
mon and hest criterion of judging of a Majority,
for it may, be, that some who have no hats, (as
was the case to day), have two hands, and thus
multiply the real number. A similar Petition was
then proposed, without preface, to the House of
Lords, and carried in a similar manner, when the
'Meeting • was dissolved, after voting thanks to
L9rd Carnarvon, and the High Sheriff. We are
sure that not more than 100 names could be sign-
ed at the Meeting, and none else ought to be
signed -; but it will remain to be seen, how many
will. be added afterwards. Mr. Fleming, who
attended as one of the County Members, said, that
he came to the Meeting to express his readiness
to present any Address that-the County should
cull upon him. to do, and . that was couched in
proper and respectful terms, as this was ; and he
wished that he could add his support thereto, but
he could not on the present occasion, for which
be. gave his reasons at large, and which we shall
hereafter insert.—Pis speech was energetic and
manly throughout, and heard with marked atten-
tion and general approbation, except in some few
particulars where he differed in' opinion with the
Meeting.—Mr Jervoise, the other Member, also
cause forward, and expressed his readiness to pre-
sent and support the. Petition, and his perfect
concurrence in the terms of it.

1' 'floe worthy Baronet acquired this little alteratiOn in Lis
name it um the way in which he first crept into his seat for
Southampton.

ci O YDON_ti 4 fiN G.

The Croydon Meeting on Thursday termi-
nated as might' have been expected from the la-
titude which was given to the formation of the
motley assemblage. instead of being confined to
the householders of Croydon, it was held to in-
clude under the terms " Croydon and its via-
wily" people of all descriptions, and from all
plaCes. Even THELWALL attended from Brix-
ton !—The great disgrace of the Meeting how-
*ver was the prominent part taken in it by
'Wow.'lt, the author of that most infamous,
aczndalous, and seditious publication the Black
,i)rearf. if men pretending to come together for
_purposes of loyalty will suffer such a wretch to
take a lead among them there is no absurdity of
-which they will not be guilty. WOOLER spoke
to (ecomrnend Mr. ‘gAnE)..ty's taking. the Chair.
Ci,a4tan, who tifst: .onposed the Loyal Ad-
-40489, tonstitted, with V,itockl:u—WOOLEß then
syokt and ,ToTe'd the arnendinent--CLARKE se-
conded Nitroo,t.ia--,Voikt4t. spoke to order—
WoOLER. • ag:4o pontoitded 'that inhabitants viol
AG:achy/der; should ~vote—VV"Oor.rit resisted the
motion that those who were not householders

should withdraw and, lastly, WOOLER moved
thanks to Mr. M A LIERLY.
That there should be at Croydon, or in its
vicinity, a number of low, worthless people, who
think-it no disgrace to listen to such a person as
Woor,En, and even to make him their leader, is'
not surprising ; but that a man of Mr.. MABER-
Ly's overgrown fortune should suffer his name
to be in any way mixed up with WooLpa's, can
hardly be accounted for on any principles very
consistent with that Hon. Gentleman's known
acuteness. Can auy man of. !ommon sense ima-.
gine that the tendency of every thing. that
Woof.rit has said and written for the last four or
five years is not to produce one general scene of
pillage throughout the land, and in the first place
to annihilate the whole property of the Fund-
holders ? The Stock-jobber would be the first
and the least pitied victim of a Revolution—
Woe to his soul, if once the rabble,
Begin in Five per Cents. to dabble.
However, so it was that Mr. MABERLY deigned
to take the Chair, after a laudatory speech of
Mr. AlrooLea's : and Mr. MABERLY, as Chair-
man, did not insist, which he undoubtedly might
and should have done, that the Non-House-
holders should withdraw ; or at least that Tel-
lers should be appointed to take the votes, by
which means the persons who did not fall within
the terms of the requisition would of course have
been distinguished, and their votes rejected.
The result of course was, that, WOOLER'S
Amendment was adopted—the loyal party were
outnumbered by a number of persons who had
no right whatever to be present ; ' and the sense
of " the Inhabitant Householders of Croydon and
its vicinity was never taken at all." Of course,
we presume, the loyal party will sign the origi-
nal Address, as conveying their own sentiments.
(New Tiinesp) _ .