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London, England, 1816-08-22 00:00:00

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CROOK aid ti:;()S Li SG's ALA fiLBOROUGH
Elegant Pti,t Coach. thionf.ol l-tungerford, Newbury,
Reading Maideoli,td, seti oat from the Saracen's Head,
Snowhill,•at Seven o'clock in t' e Nlortang,.geis to Martini,
vouch by ditiner,thtit• ; a conifOrtaiile conveyance for Travel-
lers on the IVestern !toad. ' • „ -
The PM:`111.8, a Netw LIVEKPOOL Light Coach, tinl/tote
tho !toad, curving Font Insides and FourOtitsiclei,
out trey). Day ;it One o'clock, -arrives at Liverdool next
Aft 'ran nat o'clock,•throligh 1)1;1)st:dile. Wohors,,Lath-
wiry, Nort'i !ninon, Welton!,
,;lthel-
.ton: „lon -,-, Stone, Itugely,Neweastle,'Kutthtfutd, War.
riv:.;lon and Pteticnt.
• sovrILVAIKON, Lyinington, Winchester, and tlasing-
stoic Net" Four Inside Coach at Right o'clotk in t Ito Mot n-
itig, atAirts at the George, Inn,-Southatapt on, by Six o'clock.
This isl)t unlit delightful Canceyantio to the Isle of Wight,
j„„oy, thwrusety, Saint talons, Ilitvre de Grace, (Awe,.
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Ti,,.. WAI•Ent,OO New Light Fonr Inside Coach to Lcees
I litlifax. Bradford, and all Parts °Utile. North, sets ant at 'rwo.
o Clock in the Afternoon, and arrives at the Golden Lion Inn
Leeds, next .Eveninic at Six o'clock, through Stain'. ii.,l, Gi..io-'.
!halo? IS twat k and Doncaster. 'l' his Coach is iiit,!eiled to ao-
conimoilate I he Towns of Leeds, Halifax' ,Itra ei.}o and Vi-
cinity. it. will • leafe Leeds at three o'clock in the Aneroooo
Passengers may conveniently Come to r•,• I f • • h 1 .Lt.c s tom . uie n.a.:e3
,
an,, .n. ;n Lnitchin qarly the next Evening.
.'"'E....v:":l(:) 1'1? 1, P.._--r c...J.A1tr..Hh.....„..„-if—iwe',-Ait,41,..,,,,, ni Flirce
-T-7--1,4:k• r'ri... cc*ormonth Ihick.,, ,„ Guernsey, Jersey, Cher-
burycl, ;St . Malues, Ste. Front Glierborgh k a most delightful
r0.,i1 to Paris. •
EXETER, -PI younst li, Wi•younith, Dorchester, Falmouth,
Dartnin. h, 804 salittary, Ne, tit Coach, evi.ry Nl(?rniiig,
at half- . st Siss o'clock, throngli I loaltott, Axminster, Britt-
p
port, B endford, Basingsuilic, and Bagshot.
BOSTON, .Spaltling, Petethorough, Stilton apil t-Intilin.,:-
den, new Ito),) Mail, Coach; sets nut every Erellim; to spils-
bk. Lentil, Grimsby, and Hull. • ~
BATH & IIitIS'IOL, Flying Poast-Coaches, threm:l.l ( Ino-
penhase, Caine, and Marlborough, every Afternoon ; "",',7
at Mr. 'May's, the Greyhound_ tun, Bath, 'anti the I. nid,,ii-
Tavern, Thomas-street, and the Swan, Bristol, next ‘l,rn-
ing.—t'oal-:lies to Welts, Bridgewater, Tanitinit, Exeter, Ply
.nniutli -' &e.
LF.F.D•.S new lightemsch,.called The Rockingham. .cis out
erciy ~orninrt at Ei4llt v'cloCkl c trrit... font. In,itle,, 011 Y,
nnil gii,3 remarkablv easy, witYS'a Gil int thriolighout... Passes
through Stamford, fs:ewark, Belford, Doneastsr,' and Frrry-
hridge, to the Golden Liao, Lsed., 11,...0 '..l•ornitt;:. Notwith-
standing the micomnion Expudition of this Coach,- it. is al-
lowed to he the most mri erable and connotete • Pahlic.Con-
vevance 011 the North avail, being unequalled in Advinutuo-
dalion by iiiiv other..
• GLASCA)* - .1,0110,,,vii, Gretna-green, Annan, Dlnifries,
Browrillill, 'Ft:anthill, Saiiituliat-Killi, ('anitiock, Kinpwall,
and'all parts of Schtlmitl,:a Post-Coach (I).,iiy).
'-. %YORii. Scarborough, Whitby, Shields, Suoilerland, New.
Castle; and Edinburgh, New Coach, perfouned witls a Guaril
tifrot.igliont, sets - out • every Marnia 4 at hail-trait Six
&Clock, by way of Newark, tit:1110;4n, Tw. adcter, Ilarlin4ton,
•Northallerton, Darliarn, Ain petit, quid ilerwiLL, p,,,,eily
'Kers. tinditr.; themsclvc. Cili4in,il from tlti length of• the
journey,: may vest what tint, I Iley pleivie,' and then proceed
on without any additional Fare,
ItRIDGENORTRand Waisal new Post-Coach, evety.Ere,
(.:AlttAsLE, Penrith, Mid Miitettiiren, -I"ii.ft-Coireli,'gnes
with Four tiorses-, and a Qom d all 'the way. Passes through
'llro4ll, Appleby, Cireatabridge,, .11.,rUivon,l, Gat teriek,
'3nrunglibri4e, Wetlierby, :Iberlurd, Doncaster, and Gran-
tham. Set, ont,every Nturnirig, and perfrirpas the journey
with the neatest larility.' Passengers detained oo the Road
by business or uleasitre, have the paciiliar-advatititge of their
Seats being piesiired its the next.Cootti. • ~
KEND.U.,, Lancaster, ,Preston, .Kirby-Lonsdate, Bolton-
Chinley, Oimslark. and Garstang Post-Coaches, every After-
noon, at Five o'clock. Utundssil. ..
LIVEItPt)OL, Warrington, Kruts.ford, Stone, and Litch-
:field, Piil-t Coach, called The Expedition, every EVCIIIJI:4 ;It
Fire o'clock,•to the' Saracen's-Head Inn, Pale street, Lieer-
pool. (inarded throughout. •
WAKEFIELD r Post-Coach. every Morning, at half past
Six o'clock. •
C.IIESTEIt, Newport, Whitchurch, Tarporfey, Nantwich,
Northwich, and Middiewielt, Vint-Coach, every Evening, at
Five o'clock. _ __

SUNDP,.U.ANP, Itocliten, and Yana, new Coach oyez)
Mooting., to the Geofge Inn; Sunderland. 4
istANctiEsTEtt, Winslow, CongletOn-, Newcastle, Withal,
and ,Wolvernlnuptop, Post-Coach, every Afternoon. Gua rued,
.Sl-11tp.AVSBURY, WellingWn and Shifitial, rost.toach.,
every Evening at Five•otelnelc, Guar4ed.

SHEFFIELD and Rotloirlatin Post-Coach, called the Bock-
every Morning.
BIRMINGHAM Mercury Post C'oach, with a Guard, sets
out every Afternoon, and retches thrininghani next day at
Noen. Passes by Oxford, Enston and Shipstone, to the
Saracen's Head, Bull-street, Birmingham.
HULL, Northcave, Huwdeit, Thorn, arid Doncaster, Post-
Coach, every lilorning at half-past Six o'clock, to the Cross
Keys, Market=place„ Hull.
DOVER, Peal, Margate, Sandwich, Ranitgate' Canter
bury, Fevershani, Chatham, Rochester, and Stroud new POst
Coaehr4, Morning, Noon, and Night.
Ware,_ Hoddestlon, and Cheskunt Coach,

every -Morning.
, TOTT.ENII AM and Edmonton Coach,Paily, at Half-pas
Ten, Half-past Two, Halt-past Four, and Flag-past Sere(
oieloa. • • •
B, MOUNTAIN and Co: respeethlly acquaint

their Friend,' atid Ulu %bat theyttt l not he in:count.
41)1c fur any Writing, Parcels, Qr Luggage, rke. armors thin
tics Pound% Wive, it lost, stolen, or damaged, toles.' entered
a, itich and paid for acc,prdins'y, at the SatACettel Mad Inn,
LOuJOIL."

COMMON HALL

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Yesterday a Meeting of the Liviry of London
ivas held at
,Guildhall,,for.the purpose of electing
a Sheriff, an4.also for taking:into consideration
the Diskressed State of, the.Coontry. The Meet-
ing was !cry numerously attenth,4l.
The Loin MAYOR Ca Me forward rind stated,

that the first bnsibess:Of i Hall was to elect a
person to St rye the Oilke of 'Sheriff for the ensu-

ing year, together with Mr. Kirby, already elect-
ed. With -regard to the second object of their
Meeting, he had only to make it his particular re-
quett, that the Livery would afford a patient
hearing to every speaker, whAtever 'side be might
take.—(Applause.)
George Bridges, 3ssq. aldCrman and wheel-
Wright., was then put in nomination to sere the
ottke`of Sheaf{', and un►imously elected. There
being no other candidate put in no ui oat ion, • his
eleetinn rekt immediat4ly.confirtted by the Court
of A Wei mei'l

The 'requisition to the Lord MaYor, accom-
panied by a number of signatures, was then read,
recpiesting hint to convene a CO11111)0[1 - hail for the
purpose pl taking into conAlleration the distressed
and Blanding state of the country at the present
tittle, and of recommending such meaSllteS to the
Government and the people as might seem best
valeulated to afford relief..
-Mr. FLOWER came for Ward.--it might seem
presumPtion in WM, he said, to intrude upon the
Liverpool of London, accustomed as they were
to be utidtssedon public occasions by respecta-
ble and elnynent men whose absence at this im-
portant peri,4l they mist tat unite in lamenting ;
but-he could assure the Livery that the hearts of
those gentlemen were with them in this business,
ittitl that:they were only prevented from :mend-
ing by Ale State of, their health Tne contrast
which those .who heard would naturally draw be-
tween 1/iMselt and the gentlemen ,e alluded
was one Ivhieh claimed their candour, parti-
e6tarly as the situat ion in Which he' now mite for-

ward -was one unlopked and unsought 'for by him,
his only qualifications for which were a deep
feeling of the importance of the snbieet which had
called them together,. and a sincere regard for the
hest interbsts of our common Country. The pub-
iic.4istress which the. Livery of London were now
called upon to consider was as manifest us it we's
*exampled-I'U came hope to the persona./ know-
leclge,t he hitsinesl,and the bosoms of all who hermit
The extent of our agricultural distresses
had been acknowledged) in the tpeeclies of every
Member of the House of•Confinons. How

pholv that situation Wag, \VHS proved fruit-) the.
mlibbernt 4etterted farms ; the farmers lii many iil

wilkocetthiess frOtutheirleasrA, and Wlinle 'tar
other parochial boott4. WIS the east: of
the• 1113ritt*ttlITCS, merchants, and trolOttsmen
all parts ; who all joined in declaring., that the
distretmes under which they sullied were unpa-
ralleled. It was proclaimed -by the number of
bankrupts who appeared in every Gazette k.xtld
fois number, great as it was; they well "knew,
was small when compared with th.l,e who silently,
coniOmintled with their creditors. on those like
hiiuself,'who, in A middle rank of life, were wont to
glory in their independence, would soon he reduced.
so low, if nuttteri went on as
.at present, as trt,
Wsk that alms which matt of spirit would rather

die than re.ort to. The public distress indeed
waS so Om ing and incontrovertible; that it Karl
heen neknoveledged at a Meeting by royithv,
by eniseultary, and even by overgrown sinceurists
and ..ettsioriert themselves: In Ireland the di4tl CS4
was ~,tll greater ; and n letter which he had're.
eeived frmn Dublin. informed him; that in the city
of Cork olone 8000 families were relieved by soup-

shops. 4: We were toll, indeed, in at pamphlet
writteU,4, by ti Right tionouritble Placental, and
SioeenOst (George Rose), that the w►n'; with Its
taxes and burdens, • was to secure to us the

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blessed comforts of onr holy religion." liere
would remark, by the bye, that a man who
knew tiny thing of,what rclig'on was, would never
thick of resorting ti) Cr....urge Rose-for any infor-
mation upon it. But let us see whether there titas
any truth iu the aqsertion. Why, in Staffordshire,
we woe now told, that numbers of people were
actually prevented from going to any place of re-
ligious worship, because they had not gar-ments
left to cover their nakedness and thus were the
.blessed,coMforts of .religion secured by the war.
Wit:defer might be the amonnt of the distress un-
der which the country laboured; if we lost sight

of the trueSeS of it, no real good whatere
could he done : and he had the sanction of the
Livery of London on many occasions for stating,
tha: the system of unjust warfare which bad been
carried on for more than 20 years was the main
cause. In that war we had spetit more than 1,000
millions of money, in taxes raised and in debt
contracted, which was more than had been spent
in all the wars in which the country had been
engaged for two centuries preceding it. Since
the commencement of the last war, our debts,
our expenses, our poor-rates bad been
plied fourfold. The result bad been an enormous
and overwhelming taxation, showing that au un-
just war, however prosperous it might bra, was the
reproach,and would ulttmately he Olefin'', of every
people. One thing connected with that war bad
men the enormous 'subsidies lavished on foreign
Bowers. He was speaking Witilit) compass, when
he stated these subsidies as at least amounting to
GO millions, torn from the sweat and industry of
the people of this conntty. Here Mr. Flower
told a story of the late learned lawyer Seriefiut
Hill, who had the strongest abhotrenee of ell fo-
reign snbsidies, and-who was wont to observe,
that be wished a pair of loaded pistols should be
placed on the table of the liostps of Commons)

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there to remain, and if, arty MeaWer what.
(f'fi'terig,titit;')l.l,l%! t h risefeon flist.94tsl)o4Uldt-bse" IstiedYs'ttoontlai tilt;
Order of the louse, that the.oulv „autver,to
be given was, that the Speaker should. take
up the pistols and Noir hiS brains ont.---(Larpgbter
and applause.)---11e :night be told, however, of
'the glory which the country Irnl,gained
history would shOw, and that of the lizolittna its
particadar, that. any nation that, pl,q;c-J tts ha.ppl-•
" 'less in military..glory. would eventually. be de-
strciyed. After all, what were these glorious re:-
surts. of the ‘var ? They were Sob%ersi‘c of the
best principles of society in regard to Ft once,
the people
.of which had bad a Go‘eraonent im-
posed upon them contrary to. I heir own, consent
and Wishes , Our Govertim'ent haddeclartd, they
only wished to get rid of one man,. end vet
they had forced the Bourbons on the ,
people
of France. lie was not a friend to ,litionaparte,
though often 'Charged with being so, nor to
the tyranny , which lie frequeotly
It Viab his. daily prayer, that tyranny in ever,
indivfdual, whether assuming the _shile of king*
craft or priest-craft, might ,fie atmlisbed alt
over the world. . Brit .though he detested the
tyranny of Buottaparte, yet this Ire rnu.st bay of
him, that he was a uniform ft tend. to religions
berty. He contended, that the late war was chiefly
directed against the freedoni of Fr;,lnce3 and as a
proof of this; he mentionetl•the rejection, by the
allied pd wcrs, of the overtures made by the Fiends
representatives in 1815, andlheir determination to
impose Louis on the throne.
.would our
ancestors, he asked, have felt, %viten thercashiered
the Stuart family, and drove Them from Ilie,thron e,
had thepowers of Europe attempted to re-seat thetn
with an army of 100,0011 then'? Olel dynasties were
restored, but he saw no instance of freedom being
restored. Here be adverted to the cession of tie
republic of Genoa to the
,bigotted King. of Sat.-
/little, and remarked, that the language in- Which
that transfer was clothed by the Coogrcss must,
e.xeite .the indignation of every Mats wirlii hart the
least, seute of i,!dvretidenet : the states of Genoa.
were thereby-'conveyed to the King of
as leis hereditary possession from father to sour,
for ever. Again, .would tisk, what glory had,
the war gainedrto us in regard to religion
we had -restored Co.! religious do a,ination of , .
the .Poi)e' of 'Rome; and so sensihl y did his .
llolittess feel his. obligations„ that it was ere.
dibly repinted he meant to, erect. a.colintin of
membrance, on which the name of the Pi ince 13,e-
-gen; would have rveompicuous
Agaiti,.the restoration (.4 Ferdinand. in. Spriitiliad:
11;een accompanied ‘rit.b cdects,.both as to religion.
and liberty, that would mal:e any utan's heart;
'bleed. 'O)t: irul.9iSit 'Aksy JaLinita„syg.
.mt dnugeons. Again, if we looker! to, .
t be• Lae of the ProteF.tants in France., he had sees.
a fetter which, stated, that in some p.itts of that
:conntry,.eveu at Kt.-pi:eat, the Frotest.!nts were lull .
daily
traiof
n;:btehillitiftzntitall:srevac3L7eil.
tl6.
t.,Wtobat preserve
ourhte
PrOtestants from tr.Asacre,,birt to kee(s..tLi' ,Butte
,house on the threhe. •(tlere conside-rable impatience
Was ruatrite.ted ; and a voice from the Crowd Jx-:
" What have. we to do with massacres
—Tell us .how to relieve the people.at.home.:)--
that thy,isiNery.tlionght
he wandered front the subject, sa tl he st►oul+l now.:
remedies which Weut In thei pnii t-at once. First,
eVe 5110111 d ',resort
,to our holflers at sinecures
and useless pensions., and make theta disgorge •
their pamphlet which Ate
ireltl il
itl-arteislan,el;itdsgiaititsht.)seiti:etalotts wvte very pro—
. I()Aerliyittliteglitilnipfailt:tclotlrtree'c'ttitite)tslsii(t:fg t
t,iite7tli
litli,ge7tlu
iseprtoevn,e:i
by the examination of some of.those gentry otifore
atieCo(rmg":iltttienee,off the
orinstialt9icilte,c .hoefinCug.an n by tbe,
ske‘)"til

C;innit tee whether be apprehended that any pub,
tic inconveuience, would resent from -the abolition
of his 4inecure of Clerk of te.liamoa, B.ld, " he -
felt a ciitiletalty, in answering. ,the.qtreStion."
laugh.) Again, Mr. Thomas 'Steele, who held
another
,sinecure of 1.,7001. 0-year, on being asked
a, similar question, candidly replied, that he
was not. aware of :any inconvenience the iniblie
would stistain" from73he uliniitioryof his,odice.•
As to that Prince of.Sittectwists,.Lord Arden, he
stood MU high-on \Olathe called,his sestet rights,
that he refused to givc.,-irny answer tO the Com-
mittee whatever, though it appeared, from , the-
evidence of his• Deputies, that be was in the habit,
of receiving between 20 and 30,0001. a-year from
-his sinecure. , Otte remedy would 'therefore be to
abolish ail useless &aces. and peniinos t the next
to be recommended was ri-gid, economy in every
.branch of the 'public service.
here Mr. Flower began to 'lase hiS voice, anti
,13eccitning inandible,.the andienee expresSed unnAt
impatience, for tbi,:erose 'of his 'slieeelt.
Mr. Ttior.isoti then came forwArd-, and begged
' that the Livery would hear the'fitlit Resolution.
His friend was an'old mau, and hail 'exhausted his
yoke.

The first Resolution was then rcoii, U the effect,
." hat the Distress it; vehiCh the Agtietilture, the
Comtnerec, and Manufaetinesofthe country ‘vere'
involved, was unparalleled in the' history of,ottr
country, and 'mai deeply alarming to all who had
at heart its true greatness, its happiness, and last..
ing freedom !*"
Mr.'irnostsox seconded the ilesolntio, Ire
could riot btit regret the ab,..enee, on the present
occasion) at one man; Mr. Watithrum, whose
voice had often thundered in that plaeeattaintC
abuses of any description. HO absence was at:t
incalculable lossi for there was not a plan lea tht

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`city of 'London to %lam country WAS Mare
'deeply indebted. A't ti.lies he had thought, pe
Imps errooeotti_;lek .tfiat Vv ait Immo did
'far enough ; but lie was niwnys nit hare
fender of the tiglit liherties of the peopio
`aud he (Yl.r. T.) did hope that he would soon see
fito to stored to !Width fts to be able to
*ag,4l•l) (In those boards. Besides the Rese
'which were to be proposed, ITe had also to soon
a Petition In the Prince Regent to the approba
`tion of tile ifall ; tor as to the noose of Com
moos, he declared that he would rather cut off
'his right hand than sign a Petition to that body,
corruptly tonstituted as it was, and regardless of
the ho erests of the people. For his part, lie
thought it quite inconsistent to style the house
of Commons, at the commencement of a Petition,
" Your Honourable House,'' while, id the body of
the Petition, you charged them with every thing
that was hese, corrupt, and bad. (Hear!) The par-
tisans of corruption, indeed, adduced the rejection
'of the income-talc last session, as a proof of the
iodependence of the House of Commong : but this
tidmitted of et) easy explanation. The war was
an end, and with it ended the expectation of loads
and jobs ; nothing farther was to be got by it ;
' • tool theretere, to SHVC their own pockets, they left
The people to pay the public expellees as they
•loigirt. The same House of Commons that rejected
the locorne-tax voted the !tote establishments pro.
posed by iniesisters, which teluired large stuns to
support then ; anti Obey threw the payment on the
fun dholder,or on an illawof,(Shouts of laughter
`and applause.);---But withnitt• thanking she House
of Commons, lie rejoiced that the detestable in-
tome-tax was at au raid. Had Mioisters been
able to get it even at the rate of five per cent., a
inilitarydespotisnt would have been for ever ri vet led
about the necks of the people. He Implied much
good front the piesent meeting. lie was happy
that ever) the liiends of corruption were compelled
to acknowledge, that it was no longer a faction
who dwelt on ' the distresses of the country, but
were resliteet! to confess it themselves. He con-
.
ceived that this meeting would not only do great
good Isere, *but was even of importance to the
unfortimate people of Flauce. The petition 01
the Livery of London would carry to the eat
of royalty those wholesome truths which would
nirt approach it from the mouth of Mini-
sters. 'the truths proclaimed at
,this Meet-
ing' would tend to put down those disgrace-
.
fill riots which had existed in various parts of
the country. The mahufacturers would cease to
deStroy tlse property of their employers ; they
would see that' their masters were suffering as
much 31s theniselves, that the Govcrnment alone
was responsible for the distresseS Which they en-
tlurett, and that to it alone we owed all our griev-
ances. (Hear !) Here be would cell the atteit-
-tion of the Livery to the late meeting at the Lon-
doO Tavern, and at which Lord Cochretieghat
persecuted individual—(bear, hear !)-,--haul come
forward and conferred the greatest benefit on
• his country.- Ict us look at it for a little. A
confession had been extorted from it,- that what
seas celled the glorious terminations of the war
Is*d 'tusk us into a state of almost irretrievable
bankruptcy. The primary objett of this meet-
ing, composed of Rslyeity, Nobility, Bishop 3,
b.r.Si-P.fOlt. ftilitpwale it Kali
was to tell me, said Mr. T.,. that my house ryas
out fire, Roil brought only a single bucket of water
to titiench it, I should think that be catue to rob
instead of assisting use. Let us see, then, wise-
ther the design of relief was real from the extent of
the vintributions. ft certain highleniale personage,
'whom yon all knew to be as rich as a Jew (a laugh).
gave °illy 3001., while, in such ChTlintStßllCeii she
Might have given 300,0001, The Prince Regent
gave 50014 • but here he would beg to tell them a se-
cret, that whers the Royal Dukes set down their
names for sums, it was sometimes merely a decoy-
duck to imluee others to do the same. He recol-
lected that the Prince Regent oubscribed 1,000/.
to the Russian seferers, and it might be well to
remind people that charity should begin at home.
The Doke of Wellington, who bad received such
large sums from the country, had given only 2001.;
end the pious Wilberforce, it thousand prayers, a
flood of tears, arid 501. !—(Lond laugh'.) Again,
the Archbishop of Canterbury, With his immense
salary of 20,0001. a year,' only gave lOW. An-
either proof of what he had asserted might be
drawn tram this—ghat while •an addition of
2450,000/. was made to the Civil List in the
last Session of Parliament, only 5001. of it came
back to the people in the shape of subscription !
Was it' possible,_ t hat such subscribers could
believe the distresses to be real ? He for one did not
begrudge the grant of 60,0001. a-year to the Prin-
cess Charlotte; but be could not help remarking,
that every private Gentleman felt it his stilly to
give his tl,nigliter a dowry : and when all this was
to be taken trout the pockets of a distressed pro-
pie, it showed that, they either knew nothing et
all about the:.distress, or cared nothing about it.
It was. uontestesery for hint to sty much about
the, causes of the distress which prevailed--it was
tiwing to the war 'which had helm waged for 20
Years against the liberties of mankied, and to
the swarms of placemen and pensioners who Hon-
. tidied and fatteued on the miseries of the people.
Before the war, the . whole animal expenditure
of the couutry did mit amount to inure their
,3:,,000,00(31.:
now, the interest of the National
Debt alone Misen to 40,000,0001• and the
current expences of the Government required
40,000,0901. more, Ministers had subverted:
k constitution by ati immense standing army
and
While they were rigidly exacting the last
tar-
;
thing from the pockets of the people, they neglect:-
eti to demand back.those loans which Austria haul
solemnly eogaged to repay. He now came to
what lie corssioered a remedy: and here he would
say to oor riders asol placemen, '' give up a little
that you may save the rest." This doctriue they
ought to listen to, for they lied taught it tattle
people .doting the wart' who Ina given up their
$4)l. lie Would remark, that there were about 20
B;shops in Parliametst, who enjoyed salaries va•
lying troin gOOl. to the immense SUM of 24,0001.
a'.yriir; and he could not help noticing, by the
14,1, what an. influence this gave the Minister,
who had'. the power of shoving the Bishops
so?) theme various steps of preferment. (A laugh.)
Nuts, if you took one hundred and twenty

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thou:and a year frof the hisli'rtp, anti equa•
lize:l their :.alaries, they would still etch of them
be A tboti:kan:l tittles bcttci* t:iCir Master
was.! wonlil say to the " Give up
all yofir unmeritol pensions to th'e Prince
gent, " Give up half your civil list, mitt save the
rest :—(a laugh)—but don't give it at an Kilns—
that will only pauperise the people: give it in the
shape of a reducthoi of taxes, which would en-
able the manufacturers stud farmerS again 19 ehi-
oloy their ItSeful bands.'' lie would remind Mi-
nisters also of the I)roits of Admiralty, which
might enable them to give 70,0001. to supply
the t'xpenccs of a profligate Prince, butt wliic
Should now be applied to relieve the
of the people. ThOllgh Some of these droits
Were- basely obtained, yet as they could hard-
ly be returned to their proper owner, the next
,best thing was to give it to the people. The
next thing he should propose was, that Ministers
should' immediately withdraw their, army from
Fristice.;-•--(Cries of hear !)—Would you like, he
asked, to have a lot aign army foisted upon you,
in order to force upon you a Government you de,
spised and detested ? would tell the Duke o
Wellington, that however distinguished had beet
his victories, lie was tarnishing them all by con.
settling to beCome the gaoler of France. To de•
seems to lower persons, he would call tipott the
Intoriotts John Bowles, who had helped to stimu•
atc the country in its mad career, to refund his
,miscounted thousands under the Dwell Commis-
lie Should call upon the citizens of Lott-
(oo to cast down that disgraceful monument
pointing to the Statue of Mr. Pitt) erected to the
itooory‘of a man who had been the destroyer of
is country,—(lmmense applause, mixed with
isappi obation.)----fie would nut approach the
louse of Commoes with petitions ; lie mthd re-
ionstrate, and demapil «Constit ntional Parliament
as the people's right. This was the only remedy to be
depended upon. It wut only necessary to look at
the list of places and pensions, and thee ask whet
could be expected front Stich a House as it was,
where, when the cold-blooded Castlereagh was
detected itt trafficking' for seats, the practice was
declared to be as notorious ttS the sun at noon-
day, and where seats were es openly bought and
xofd as cattle in Smithfield ? it was high time
that all this should be reformed, The people
should now recollect that Lord Grenvilles Gag-
ging Act was no longer it force ; they should
meet and unite constitutionally to demand a IT-
dress of grievances., Unless they formed them-
selves into meetings in every county, town, and
parish in the kingdom,, and presented their peti-
tions :old remonstrances, they would never be re-
lieved from their listresses. Nothing would be
done but by union, and, that pitted by wisdom
and prudence. If the people did not act in this
!loonier, he ventured to foretcl that the conse-
quences would be either et bloody revolution or a
military despotism. (Load and general applause.)
Mr. Ilutet (late caudidate for the city of Bris-
tol) commenced by observing, that after the abi-
lity and eloquence displayed by the teover mid se-
conder of the resoletions, it might appear presump-
tuous in hint to attempt to add.t• single word to
what had been already said. Ilk object, how-
tver, he could assure them, was neither to
it
imr ix apojausa,e,,ealti.„lsseasee
y o e
uric r stating
,tew acts, of which no men-
tion had yet been made. Lie desired only to make
is statement of a few plain facts, and should Sithlnit
it to their judgment to decide whether they were re-
lative orlon. They were nosy assembled to telte into
consideration the most important subject which
they had ever been called upon to disetiss—the
subject of that unparalleled mid universaldistress
that was now neither denied nor doubted, bu
admitted to exist on all sides. It was with respec
to the remedy that the difference of sentimen
prevailed ; and here,' there was abundenee o
quackery in the prescriptions of the statephysi.
cians. This variety of opinion proceeded from
false pretences and incorrect views of the came of
the distemper—wllich was excessive taliajOil, and
that alone.--(Applause;)- This system of tax-
ation, it was equally true, had been created
by a long and unjust war, waged against the
liberties of all mankind.—(Mixed applause and
disapprobation.) Those who were the authors
of this war bad undoubtedly succeeded in all their
objects to is miracle. They had succeeded in re-
establishing the Bourbons in France, the Pope in
andahe beloved Ferdinand in Spain. They
had succeeded in another point of no less import-
ance.to them—that of imposing taxes on the peo-
ple of England.without the consent of their true.
representatives. 'But these triumphs over the
rights 'of other nationkas well as tills Matt beer
perehased at the expellee of all that calamity am
suffering which had that day assembled them loge.
User, and which there WAS 110 t a man who heard hint
who burl clot witnessed and commiserated. lie
might assert, without arrogating too much to him-
self, that he had frequently predicted the arrival of
this state of things : but now that every melancholy
prediction had been verified!, it became the duty 01
the fist city in the empire to show an example of
decision to their countrymen, and to tear away that
mask Which was employed to cover our actual con-
dition, in representing the distress as temporary,
amid as arising trout a transient came. At the as-
sembly recently held at the City of London Ta-
vern, a powerful effort wits Made to proclaim a
hilSchaftd as the basis of their proceedings. It
seemed as it' all expectation was entertained that
a deception might be practised upon the•natiou
by a fallacions deseriptimi of the cause, and by
subscribing 1001. or 2001. each, to remedy the-
,
effects. Among these munificent aftliscribers
he
observed his old friend the Marquis Camden.—
(A loud Muth.) This Nobleman had set his
name down for the suns of one hundred pounds
slid be would tell them what he had taken - from
he public in his ('haracter of the Exche-
quer—ail office in which he,hed nothing on earth
to do in the course of the last year. The Noble
Lord's receipts for the last year emodinted to
38,4001.; and he fnunil, upon u little examination,
that his .donation of 1001. was just three farthings
in the pinata mit of this CUOTMOUS Simi extracted
from a distressed and impoverished people. .(Ap-
plause.) The Prince and Princess of Cubit( Owl
-given 4001., but they bid received 120,01)01. This
was the comparative rate at which the great pite..
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Sllniort of the lit,le paupei.s. (A laugh.) It reMiml•
hut or the story of Bolton, a eelehra•ed high
way robber, whb, aftUr rolthinniQ geotlentarr of
10001.; took treat credit hitbself tlir leavi.et;
him is tt pay the turupitte. It
coniemplatiolli oe..the present occasion), to. sub-
mit a Resolution to their coesideratiou for yeti-
tioniog_the I'riuee Regeut iennedia!ely
.a
_o call
Parliament together for the purpoie of abolishing
all sinecures and all Useless offices, as one means
of relieViiig that public (listless. lie slioiiltl li the
last, and indeed it wits not the tharatter of Eng-
lishmen to grudge real Merit arid eminent Services
theirdue reward; bet what did they kneiw,be begged
tct ask, ,of the Merits of Lord Camden ? ivhat did
they know of the services of George Rose, or of the
mother of Mr. Canning? The flame question st'as
equallyappllcable to the allowances made out of the
public purse to Lady Grenville, Lady Paget, and
a long list. of lady-pensioners as well as Sinecure
gentlemen. He had looked at the subscription
list of the gentry of the London Tavern, and found
it amounted that day to the sum of 33;0001.; so
that it appeared Lord Camden received, in the
course of a year, front the public, much indre than
was subscribed in a month by all the rich paupers
to its distresses.—(Applause.)—And, oh ! that
Englishmen Should live to see the day, when,
after speeding hundreds of millions to reinstate
the Bourbons on the throne of France, they
should accept as a relief two hundred potinds
from a Frenchman, and front such a Frenchman a!
the Dec tie Berri ! (Loud and continued applause)
It. was intended to submit. to them,. on thiS occa,
sion, resolutions of the same nature as those witieL
he had unsuccessfully recommended to their adop.
don on the consideration of the corn-bill, amd
which, he trusted would be more acceptable now
that bitter experience had proved the necessity of
speaking the language of boldness and sincerity.
When it teas .notorious that a slim of 8,000,0001
was annually raised in the shape of poor•rates,wlsici
was still inadequate for the sustenance of the poor,
how absurd was it to suppose that a paltrysobscrip•
tiop of 30,0001. or 40;0001. could he oldie Slightest
national impottauce ? The true cause of the ex-
isting misery, he woold repeat it, was, dial the
:middle order of proprietors paid so mach to Go.
:vernment that they had not wherewithal to givif
employment to the poor, TheSe were the fruits
of a long, bloody, and unjust war, which had
'enabled sineeurists to nourish, surrounded by the
agonizing groans of a starving multitude, eating
up the filt and happiness of the kingdom, and sup-
ported by a profligate system of Borough dealing,
which robbed the people of England of their
elective franchise. Here Will the origin of a
system that took the wages of industry to give
them away to idleness, and 11;e, rewards of ge.
nius to lavish them on profligacy and stitl&ity
(Applause) ;—a system which was.fiust geovi.tteo
in the corrupt bosun' of one of the greatest villains
that ever existed—he meant Sir Robin Walpole;
and had been !nought to maturity by anothei.
Minister, Mr. Pitt, who was as corrupt as the
other. The progress of that system had irldeed,
of late years, been SO rapid as to have at length
brought it to a premattire old age : it wag evidcntil
stingglinq in the of lie cavocvit
!mind that the wtirolog voice of our iiioni& Livery,
admobit ion to theme !tire
longer delay to restore to• Englishmen their;igtit-;
lie hoped, too, that this meeting would alp re %%ii!,
him ill the occessify olpetitioning the Prince Regent
to convene Parliameet, even in its present cor-
rupt shape ; to recall the British army from France
(applause) V and to secure a reform in the Go-
vernment, before the people, `goaded to madness,
should demand it in' a tone and slimmer which
might involve the whole frame of it in a common
destruction. (Applause.) Let them be Warned
by one who predicted the present calamity ten
years ago, nor suffer themselves to he deceived
either by the delasions of one part* or the other.
Errors were easily propagated : and in the Mori
Chronitle of that day there was a paragraph,
containing as glaring a falsehood as was eVer
formedub-
kisite(!; o the wld.b; roirt c njl trusrtaaliceod;ret islpaot !leerth); t:lt'letaretp the
ensuing liorvest was likely to prove most "abun-
dant. Ile pledged to them his character as a
gfarrollisset.Lca;it I;namtt'llityltaast,raalcrieaonr;lititiga that
htilBl:;,:ett...
aH18:4111:
a‘ivalletillvspoeesiraltdirbijaeettiti.oiil6ll. ceorit:telttetilli :the Cekcri oloooti:wsn;ntors.
you (;sgle3raiet:aon:Pt air!
icsiteijet"ii'nli theac;Yt)
daye h
t
t itit
eti
harvest iu the
letter received a
from
t City, no toe an el
isienet Int et as
gt
artiec 'lot;
for that the consequence
would be, that ntriele.diialtoerltys
toordiewr
tolte restriction Alillehri,eernsiowveotti
t!danimd
opened. Such statements could not be very
agreeable; but whenever he had the houtiur to
address them, they should find that he would al.
ways tell them the plain truth, without tear, ant
without reward. (Applause.)
The Resolutions were then pat severalty., and
retried in the uffinhtstiee unanimously. A Yeti
Lion lion founded upon them was also read, and agreed
to, It was afterWardi resolved, that the Petition
should be presented by the Lord Mayor and the
Sheriffs to the Prince Regent on' the Throne.
the ..raeogritilisltiltiitoyloi Qeiifocnttohpielniiiinflijocivieleirsiyviitittjo
Mr. IIuNT moved the thanks
rite
for sunimonint;
slid for his impartial conchict in the chair, wide
was received with waving of hats and, shouts
approbation..

• Ile LO.lin 'MAYOR expressed his grateful' ac
knowledgmeuts for the honour he had received
lie WAS at all.titnes anxious to conduct Ithnsell it
he office of their Chief Magistrate so as to merii
heir approbation ; and if he succeeded in
niu-
ig it, it constituted his highest reward'.
't'was,thenmoved, that the resolutions be in-
in the mood morning and evenlng newspa-
,s; to which ant amendatent was moved and
,cried, viz, tbra thershould he published in all.
n answer to an observation, that this was not
he practice of the Comnion Couneil, and that
the additional eXpeitsc ought to he dtfrayed hY
some other way ihati that of the•city Afr„
MKT said. it was l'or the Common
floe, mine ktrialker or not (hey would obey the
insttuctiona ut their coiLlithencs.
'Ehltilk '4 were Asa) voted the to4ver and sew
colidcri ate( obicis the nail