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• otionrom Hall met in the Guildhall of London, to
c Oder the ifoup*ti of an Address to his Majesty on his accession
\": "111.14..ratfair-ple country. At the opening of the doors, at
litiftektlN persons only were collected in front of the hue.
111erfs,tartl istiO near one the constables formed aln net all the
• At one o'clock the Lord Mayor. attended by the Sheriffs, &c.
(—erred, shortly before which Cobbett hod arrived, attended by two
of his sons. Hum next appeared. hut he and Cobbett kept at a
most respectful distance.
The Loan MAYOR read the requisition, and said. he doubted
'me that the discussion would he conducted with that temper which
would give weight to their proceedings.
Mr. Howe. then stepped forward, and
Mr. CONSETT immediately started to the front of the hustings.
(The Hail rung with trip.' of " no Cobbett," "no Hunt," followed
by loud shouts of laughter.)
The Loon MAYOR seemed puzzled.
Mr. Ilroo.—Let any of the requisitionists step forward, and
I, give way ; but not to Mr. Cobbett, for he is not one.
air. Wmatrzsow claimed a hearing for Mr. Cobbett, as he and
ether requisitionists had desired hint to prepare an address.
Mr. HUNT.-1 will not give way ; when did I ever give way ?
( laugh.)
The LORD MAYOR eventually decided that Mr. Cobbett ought
to be heard.
Mr. Connto T said he did not come forward to gratify any vanity;
he was ready to give wit, if they wished it ; he did not want to be
• • ilun?n here, Moor there, and Mungo every where."—(Laughter.)
Ile only wished to perform a duty ; not to prevent any other Gen.
driven tiom addressing them.
Mr. HUNT.—It is not in your power.
Mr. Corisevr said, if' his addresses were adopted, he should be
rejoiced ; if not, be should bow with resignation and modesty.—
(Laughter.) Ile then read the address, congratulating the King
on his accession, and on his declaration that there should he re-
trenchment ; and adding, that all were approaching to ruin.—(Loud
cries of No, no.) It also spoke of the increase of crime, the in.
tolerable load of taxation, and the necessity of reform. &e. The
late accession induced a hope of a change for the better. It was
the accession of a man who had had considerable expetience, and
hn.e judgment had not been led astray by adulation ; and if
rte Livery adopted the address he was about to propose, his
Majesty would hear some strong truths which he could never
hear from those by whom he was surrounded. The great thing
to impress upon the King was, that he could not know the state
of his people except from the people themselves. if his Majesty
but knew the actual extent of the miseries of his subjects, the
disposition he had shown to do good would be greatly increas-
ed. His Majesty had spoken of his intention to abridge the ex-
pose* of the sovereignty, hut the expense of the Crown did not
form one-hundreth part of the prodigality of which the people had
reason to complain. The enormous sum of 620,0001. a year was
the plunder of 113 of the King's Privy Council, a set of cormo-
rants whom it was impossible to satisfy ; and how could it be ex-
pected that the King would be advised by those cormorants to
give up any portion of the taxes?—(laughter.) Ile would not
detain the meeting by going into particulars, but he would ask
what did a ship want of two Admirals, or a regiment of throe
Generals, when we were content, at a time when we were sweep.
tog away our enemies, with one Admiral to a whole fleet, and one
General to a whole army. America, which was able to do won-
der, never yet had an Admiral. After some strong denunciations
of the uniform system of Government in this country, he ridi-
culed the idea of supposing that any advantage arose from the
most celebrated victories gained by the British army. A body
would think that a conquest was a gain, and not a loss, but Wa-
terloo was what might be called gaining a loss, The French war
was undertaken to prevent the people of England from following
the example of a t'reo people. The King of France and the whole
ration were always treated with contempt and ridicule, until dm
piomle took it into their heads to decapitate their sovereign, and
then the English government took the knaves who had fled from
the popular fury under their protection. The Clergy, who had by
the English government been condemned and execrated as Atheists,
or worse than Atheists, were at once embraced. Mr. Cobbett pro-
ceeded to describe the conduct of the English aristocracy as base in
the extreme, and dictated wholly by the love of plunder ; and he
concluded by moving the address which very much resembled one of
his Registers.
Mr. 11'ir.krwson seconded the motion, and retailed some of Al-
derman Waithman's ideas on free trade, in doing which, he took
care to speak with contempt of Bly. Iluskisson and Mr. Canning.
Mr. HUNT stood forward amidst cheers and laughter. The man-
ner in which he looked at Mr. Cobbett, who stood by his seat, was
peculiarly amusing. The Hall was frequently in &roar of laughter.
Mr. littoo stated why he had taken the liberty to interrupt
the modest gentleman who stood next to him, because upon
looking over the requisition. he did not snd the name of that
gentleman, and he thought it rather extraordinary to admit
a tomes frowns for a requisitionist. He had, however, at once
withdrawn his objection, and the livery had been obliged
with a speech. Ile had not the most distant idea of the per-
son who was to come forward with the address, until he saw Mr.
Cobbett on the hustings, who certainly might have refrained with a
good grace from alluding to him as Mungo, here and there, and
every where. But although the allusion was not at all adapted to
him, it was not without its application ; and the worthy gentleman
who had mentioned it had shown that he had a very perfect notion
of its meaning. That worthy gentleman had been indeed Mungo
here, and Mungo there, arid Mungo every where.—(Loud laughter.)
Mr. NICHOLSON very loudly denounced Mr. Hunt when he
Tittered this opinion.
Mr. HUNT, to Mr. Nicholson—lf you are opposed to my views,
you had better stand here and speak. You were my bull-dog some
years ago, and I ask you whether I ever abandoned a single princi-
ple in my life; and what will you say it 1 ask you the same ques-
tion about the person whose bull-dog you now are? (Laughter.)
Mr. Hunt then adverted to the spirited conduct of the Livery in
1775, when they addressed the King ainst the American war, and
his Majesty refused to receive the address, whereupon they voted
!ionic very strong resolutions, expressive of their feeling at the
refusal of the King. This address and those resolutions having
been read, he stated, that it was hie intention to move that the
Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Sheriffs, should present the amend-
ment he held in his hand to his Majesty if the Livery should think
proper to adopt it. Ile spoke in terms of great derision of the
Court of Common Council, whom he designated as the scavengers
of the City, and not at all recognized as a political body. and he
every now and then drew the attention of the Livery to Mr. Cob-
bett in a comical way. He concluded by moving a very long and
strong address as an amendment.
The Amendment was carried by a very large majority, and Mr.
Cobbett retired, evidently much annoyed at hue defeat.
Mr. HUNT then came forward to move a vote of thanks to the Lord
Mayor, for his readiness in calling the meeting, and the impartiality
with which he acted in the chair. In doing this, he took the oppor-
tunity to say, that he had been invited to stand for the representa-
tion of Preston in &moat urgent manner. He had twice declined, but
ea that day be had received a moat pressing request to permit him-
self to be returned. He, however, determined to persevere in
bin selection of the honour, except the Livery recommended the
tbing.—(Cries from the Hall of " (30, Hunt, get into TParila.
went.") He should certainly go as the Livery desired him, but
without their consent he would not think of ito(Loud cheers.)
Ile had been solicited to stand for three other plane, lately, inde-
pendently of the county of Somerset; requisitions had been sent
to him from the city of London, the city of Westminster, and
another place, but be had declined in all the instances.--(Cries of
•••go to Preston, and you certainly will be returned.")
Mr. H ttwo.—l shall go off to-night or to-morrow morning.
The Loan MAYOR then dissolved the Hall.

DREADFUL OUTRAGE IN MANCHESTER.
We are extremely concerned to have to state to our readers
that a moot daring and almost murderous outrage was on Sunday
inotning committed by a party of Irish Catholics on a poor
family. on some ground connected with the late Orange riots.
As far as we can understand the matter, the first indication of
this tumult was about five o'clock in the morning, when a party
of *dme eight or ten men disturbed the whole neighbourhood of
Cropper.street, by running through the streets, armed with
bludgeons, and yelling out '• The lives of the Protestants ;"
The lives of No. 61 (we believe.) They at length stopped at
the door of a house, where one of them, a man named P. itittesan,
caned nut. " Will you follow me ?" and on receiving a reply in
the affirmative front leas companions, broke all the windows, and
leaped through one of them, followed by the teat. Their
unrortunate victims, three in number, were conveyed to the In-
firmary, where their wounds were at first thought likely to have
a fatal termination; but subsequently they were found not to
be so dangerous. About eleven o'clock, the lioeoughreeve and
Constables, the Churchwardens, Mr. Lavender, moat of the
and a large body of special constables, went up to Crop.
per-street, and there succeeded in apprehendlug five men, of
whom they had information as being of the rioters. This great
force was considered absolutely necessary, from the known dui.
positton or the Irish in that neighbourhood to resist all law of
smthority where practicable. These men were brougnt before
the Magistrates yesterday, when some of the neighbours de-
posed to what they had seen, the victims of this outrage being
quite unable to leave the Ipfirmary ; and three of them, Wil.
harp Am:strong. Patrick Neersoni, and John Lawler, were corn.
mitred in default of hail, to answer the charge at the Sessions.
n tilsl n an, named Edward iagnell. was remanded tor further
inquiry at.d young men, ranbel Loftus Burn. was discharged.
ere eu.rsges ate intoning a most deadly chsracter. We under.
sinful th.it the • iraogemen in this town are providing themselves
soh arms. expecting a general attack from the Catholica.—Nets-
cheater Nero TI.