The Sun.
London, England, 1820-04-07 00:00:00

DINNER AT THE CROWN AND ANCHOR.

On arriving at the Crown and Anchor, those
wLo were supplied with tickets proceeded to the
dining-room, expecting that dinner, as the tickets
announced, would be o❑ the table at five. It was
not served up, however, till a► quarter past six,
and great numbers of those who attended not be•
int; aware that the hour was changed, expressed
their disappointment in every variety of noise that
could be produced by hands and feet, knives,
forks, plates, &c. &c —At a quarter past six, Sir
F. Burdett and Mr. Hobhonse entered the room,
accompanied by their respective Committees.—
They were received with great applause, and the
Chair was taken by Mr. Roundthwaite.L—On the
removal of the cloth, the first toast was—
" The People, the only source of legitimate power;" three
tiines three—Tune, Rule Britannia. . .

Toast, " The King, and the principles which seated the
present Family on the Throne;" three times three—Tune,
Hearts of Oak. . .

TheChinn.an then proposed the health of Sir
F. Burdett, which was dtaiik with three times
►hree.

Sir F, thIRDETT then got upon the table, and
thanked the company for the manner in which
the toast was received. To merit the approba-
lion of the enlightened Electors of-iVestminster
was the first wish of his heart. Nothing could,
therefore, be more grw ifying than the manner in
Whirl) his healdi was drank, and the testimonies
of regal d manifested in the course of the day must
be fi,oteriog to any person who had a heart to
ympiabize with the feelings of his countrymen.

. -
!IT° merit the • approbstron of such an assembly,
of a body of men so enlightened, so disinterested,
so far temoved -from all the mean and vulgar it"
ducements that usually operated—
[When the Hon. Baronet• came to this part 0
his speerh, some. interruption -arose from tlta
Ladies in the gallery, Mild) -contitmed for a ftt'ir
minutes. It arose, apparently, from a es.,iih tv
press forward, with a view of hearing more dies
tincily the speech of the Hon. Baronet. He con"
tinned silent, while many of the Gentlemen insists
ed, in a tone rather harsh and indelicate, that the
Ladies should be turned out. " Turn out the
Ladies, turn out the Ladies," was beard from va•
lions parts of the room. This cry being put (low!,
by that of " Shame, shame !" the Ladies were
allowed to retain their plicesi
till F. BURDETT then proceeded. The present meeting, so
large and so respectable, would he a subject of satisfaction to
all, not only the Electors of IVestminster, but the peOple oat
England at large. . Westminster never, upon any former ear
casion, attained to that eminence it now occupied. The eon.-
duct they displayed on the last election would hold the besf
example to the country at large. It was the most effectual
way to forward the cause of Reform." Since be last bad the
pleasure of meeting them many events of great public ittr
purtance occurred. Among others he would beg leave to a!'•
hide to one which more immediately concerned himself. Hf
had the honour of being brought under an ca-officio prosecie
tion,the cans, of which he should never regrets-(:applause)-t'
for he could riot consider that he had done his duty had be
acted in any other way. The reports of the trial at Leicestee
in which he was defendant, were most itnieenrate in the daily
Papers. At this he was not surprised, Considering that there
was a much, more iniportant trial pending atalre same time if
York. It was innessible to compasi in two or three columns
what occupied perhaps five hours in the delivery; and, thew
fore, it was not surprising that grounds were afforded for
commenting on his defence. His letter, which had bees
made the subject of prosecution, was addressed,"to the Gen..
tiemen of England," with no other view than to tetra
71,n, the usual pretence of actions for libel, namely,
adoressing puhrceion to what were called the lower
ordr rs, who were supposed more liable than others
to breaches of the peace. Mr. Cobbett was wrong, io sop-
posing that he blamed him fur addressing himself to the
weaver boys, lint in speaking to a Jury, he thought it fair to
make use of this allusion to Mr. Cobbett's Address by way of
argumeot. In the same Address he was blamed for supportins
the Corn Bils He did not support it, hut he thought the*Pute
lie were under delusion upon th it subject. He told them so,
and said that it would only tend to withdraw their attention
from the great object of Parliamentary Reform. While the
present enormous taxation existed, the only remedy against
its -evil effects were high prices. This was his opinioit
when .the Corn Bill was under consideration, and the Gentle.
Mail, the Farmer, and the Mechanic appeared then to be
equally in error upon the subject. Reform had made a rapid
progress, and it must ultimately be successful. He alluded
to the trial at York, and upon this occasion he could not but
. say that the Gentleman (Mr. Hoot) who conducted it with so
much talent, should not he left to bear the expences.—(Ap-
plause.)—lt was managed with temper, and the evidence
brought forward. proved beyond contradiction the utter Mee
ality of the proceedings at Manchester, and the want of any
ground for those unconstitutional and despotic laws passed by
the infamous House of Commons which sanctioned thein.--.
There could be no stronger proof of the necessity of Reform:
No one ever dreamed that the Manchester meeting was illegal
until it was dispersed, and so little was the matter understood,
that the Magistrates themselves did not know what charge hi/
should bring against those who were arrested. 'I be object
of the Borough-mongers was, to take away from the peo-
ple all moral and physical means of enforcing their opinionie
and this they effected by the laws passed last Session. It was
said, that reform meetings were too numerous, that the mides
titudes who attended them were calculated to inspire terror.
When he stood for Middlesex, he was often present'at Meet.
inks more numerous than any lately held for the purpose of
reform, and meetings, too, which carried hammers more an.
flannuatory. It was tit that the public mind should be ins
Hawed, that they should be roused to a sense and feeling of
their injuries when they were suffering under them.—(GreaS
applause.)—How else could they hope for redress-?
The Hon. Baronet now proceeded to read various passages
from Mr. Canning's celebrated speech to his coustituents iri
Liverpool, and spent much time in endeavouring to refute
them. He coucluded by proposing the follewing toast:--
" The only remedy of our grievances, a full, fair, and free
representation of the people in the Commons House of Par-
liament,"
This was drank with three times three.

The health of Mr. HObhouse being drank, as tlie Advocate
of Reform, and the victim of arbitrary imprisen.ment, the
Gentleman returned thanks in a long speech, which he con-
cluded by professing himself still a Radical Reformer, the
character under which he first introduced himself to the
Electors of %Vest►►iinster.

After 4: few other toasts awl speeches of Minor importance,
the Meeting broke rip.

DREADFUL ACCIDENT..--. 011 Saturday last a fatal
accident betel Mrs. Cash, wife of Mr. Cash, coal
merchant, Beverley, Yorkshire. She had beer;
left alone in the louse by her husband and sec-
vant, and was found by the former, on his retorts
from market, on the floor near the front 'door,
nearly burnt to a cirider, and reduced to a spec-
tacle too dreadful to behold ; she survived in this
state a few minutrs, without being able to art'+
culare one word. It is supposed she caught fire
while airing some linen, and fell betere eke was
able to reach the outer door.

A Gentleman named Beaumont was hustled by
a daring szt of pickpockets at the end of Clarges•
street during the procession yesterday, and robbed
of property to the amount of 3001. but mostly its
bills of Exchange. He had no chance of securing
any of the ruffians.

A wretch, named James Hardy, a wateratan, of
Sheerness, was a few days since conveyed to the
County Gaol, charged with having violated the
person of his daughter-in-law, a girl only 12 years
of age. The villain had, bat a few weeks previ•
ous to the perpetration of the crime, married the
mother of the unfortunate gill.
An Inquisition was taken yesterday at the Dover
Coffee-house, Hammersmith, before Thomas Stir
ling, Esq. Coroner, on the body of a new bars
male infant, found wrapped up in an old blanket,
in a ditch.—Verdict, " The death of the decease
ed was caused, by the infamous and scandalous
neglect of the mother."
CONFESSION OF MURDER —On the night of the
14th of June, 1814, Mr. Flower, of Chew Magna'
whilst upon his return home from Bristol market,
was murdered ou Dundry-hill. It is reported that
a prisoner, now in Fisherton Gaol, charged with
highway robbery, has confessed the horrid crime•

s~
r~
• /~/