The Sun.
London, England, 1821-01-26 00:00:00

PROTVST
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liomNsr.THE PROcEHDINGs OF WEDNESDAY`.

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TO THE Titr. itAVOR•
My LORD—I take the liberty of transmitting
your Lordship, "as Chairinan of the. Public
Meking Of Merchants, Bankers., and Traders,
held yesterday in the Mansion-house, my res-
pectful,PrbteSt against certain of the Proceedings
Nl:hich:then and there took place, and it will be
for the Pliblic to judge how far -those proceedings
can be taken to have been regular, and. whether
the Itelutions and Petition to the Honourable
the House of Commons can, under such cireum-
stzwes," be considered as having received, as
thry%purport to have done, the sanction of the
majority *Of the very numerous and highly re.sped-
table persons who were assembled upon that oc-
casion, 1- remain, my Lord,
Your Lordship's most obedient Servant,
London, ?sth Jan.-1321. JOHN HALL.

PIIOTEST of the untie' sigr 'cl JOHN HALL, •of Loodor,

gainst certain Proceedings which took place at a Public
'Neeting of the Alerchatits, Bankers, and Traders, held in
Alie Egyptian Hall at the Mansion .House, in the City of

'London, on Wednesday, the 24th day of Jranuary, 1821 ; at
•ty inch,the Hight lion. the Lord Mayor piesided. •
" I confirm the verbal Protest which I made upon the
Z'l;ngs to the Lord•Mayur, as Chairman, against putting any
9lntions tot he decision of the Meeting in its then disturbed
i'd clamorous state ; my reasons for such protest being as fol-
-p"s:—That the declared object o /the Meeting was to consider,
s~lr;c and deliberate—that no fly consideration, discussion,
4,07.'1" Cation on any one Itesulut ton had taken place, or could
1,,,,,111)4c'1, OD at:coma of the clamour- anel disturbance in the
1' tr ft rlliam
hat the motion firit to he disposed of was that made
Qurtis, of whose speech in support thereof no
Ball5:1)e-"ce had been distinctly heard by, any person in the
I .--Rehi.,:`'ecoUtit of the said clamour and disturbances—snd
the" the rro iriet of the earliest request which
IccS airto I I
the Lord Mayor to dissolve the Meeting, un-
vi'„joill?Kollunity should be afro' ded for the expression of

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protest against the..mode in which the said motion
s Curtis- was put by the Lord 'Mayor ; fur these
that his iLordship adopted the terms whirls, as I am
„1-,'eo, are itsual in the House of Commons, viz.—
heri,/,'" the 745e..b1if)21 be now ; whereas I humbly appre-
Icc Ns 'uch terms ate not usually employed' in great Pub-
, seetisp,s Out of
"1/11 hi, Parliament ; t hat helm e potting t
. sourdship.was • repeatedly appiisest that was in-
Li, ai a _ , wored by Mr.
upon toe' Rest, es I
liul the Slith, 'he was tiler •f d -sited by myself and others, to
4tlan_in the. ftolll'Oesvin'g terms :
Lis toe lie:obi:tun be not now pot that I then urged to
tirdillo.l that the nature and pus port of the motion, if
5,,,,tt.}1 thy former of those two modes, would certainly be
u"..
•J,''".rhended by the majority of the.-persons present, that his
rdshiP hating, nevertheless, put the motion in the midst of
eo,fusion, wit bout any e splassati.io on Isis own part, or
statement to the Meeting sit the mode in which he had
tt vet nested to put it, the majority undoubtedly considered
r. be that for which it was•reatly jute tided, namely, a nega-
V "e'snort Mr. Smith's Resolution, and under this delusion,
se e occasioned by his Lordship's mode- of proceeding, they
itdopted a motion which has since been made use of to sane-
' tl?e, eery Resolution it was intended to oppose.
b„", Plotest against the 2,1, 3d, 4th, sth, fit li, 7th, lith and
.le4 a-es"htlitms, and against the Petition purporting to have
e" adopted in virtue of the 6th Resolution, nut one of the
swa,oid ReSolutions, nor the said pet it ion having been, as I believe,
• "d °r "coaded-, much less considered, deliberates! upon, or
(11 'rd
I nul "nfirni'd iii this belief. by the striking- cir-
i,tioinstanye that the course usually adopted in the case of
11,13,1117 ee,tings of so much importance, 'of vouching some
es-haus-name as Mover and Seesinder of each Resolution
i'ethe advertisements of the saine has in the present instance
i." "Patted from, nor hive I seen in any report of the
I tlecedings, a' Mover or Seco/islet mentioned to any Itesolts-
i:.'" except the first ; and I `lserefore protest that the said
~,,solutions and Pet ition.not haing been moved and seconded
sir not to have been put to the Meeting, and were and
and void. •
I protest that ntither the Pesolutions, as ad-
in the -Public Papers of this day, nor_the Petition
euntiP'4 for signature at the 'latision Houk, ought to be
/14,ike'e,ed as agreed to by tie Nleeting of Merchants,
eiptess,
4nd Traders of Londoi, which took place- in the
that tiih because emisciestiously and firmly believe
"t 4, we rersiols composing the nujority of the said Meet-
, and Panditi are against the 'adoption of tile said Resofu-
eton.
Los,
don, 20th Jan. 1321."

"JOHN HAW,.