The Sun.
London, England, 1816-11-16 00:00:00

'‘tai !Wine foreigire r, With-ever ate _she
was a pen.sioncr on the Politic. While persons
were tons enriclred-fve 4loing nothing, those who
rc4lly served tli'e;e. comitiy %eere inaticonately.it-
wattled. The poor sailors were forced to travel
op bai.efooted from the sea-ports to the metropolis
to receive their scanty pittance ; halt of them al-
most died for want on the road, and the other
half were lodged in his Majesty's gall!' for rob.
hing the turnip fields on their way. He had seen
thousands of them pass his house in the greatest
distress, but robbed as he was by the tax-ga-
therer, he tad only been Able to give them a
tear, and lament that he could not relieve them.—
He proceeded at great length on a variety of topics.
He persisted in the profligate and unprincipled
conduct of the Whigs while in office. He ani-
madverted on the cm rupt state of the Press, and
personally attacked the conduct of the Proprietors
of two Morning Papers. Ile ridiculed the Stib-
veription at the London Tavern for the Labouring
POett ; and arraigned the Hampden Club as worth-
less, as having no claim to respect but for the
possebsion of two such Members as Sir F. Bur-
dett and Major Cartwright. in speaking of those
%%110 had most served the cause of Reform, he
said there was one man who lied dune inure than
all the rest, be meant Mr. Cobbett.—(Hisses and
cries of " No, no'.")--He concluded a very
long speech by reading to string of Resolutions.
setting forth the distresses of the nation, and call-
ing for a Purliamentary Reform.
A Mr. WATsoN seconded the Resolutions.
WATSONMr. .1. said, the people of this coun-
try had no right to expect or desire that the peo-
ple of other commies should not get into the way
of Manufacturing for the twelves. it was neees-
,sary, therefore, that we should turn to agricul-
ture, as iT was from the earth that the ,sustenance
of man must be raised ; and l)e, would assert we
bad land encore!), allowing earls man a joint of
meat anti a pudding on his table every day, to
sustain'a populatiiin of one hundred.tuillions. One
of the Resolutions, be understand, proposed that
the present Meeting should adjourn, to meet again
in Palace-yard on the day when the Parliament
next assembled. lie shonld propoSe at en
dttaentl-
uncut, that it should adjourn only for a fortnight,
or till the Monday after an answer had been ob-
tained it uul thc_l'ritice Regent to the Petition it
was in contemplation to present.
A Mr. Quits, a'young man, urged the Meeting
f9,per.severe, ;toil aistard.thttuo that Lisul WASS with
them,
After some further discussion on this snhjeet, it
Was finally reiolved- tO adjourn to Monday fort-
night.
The resolutions were read and agretd.to. The
petition was then read .and (wiled ; and it was
resolved, that Sir Francis Burdett shottlit be
quested to 'give the petition into the Prince Re•
genes own bands,
It was moved, that Mr. Hunt should secant:
piny Sir-Francis to present 11:e petition.
Mr. Iltityr said, that lie hail never been et
cgiurt ; he never wished to I.to, and therefore
rayed the meeting nut to send hint there.
tesolut.ion was put and. carried.
Mr. HUNT assured the Meeting; though tie h:td
wished the Reodui ion not to be carried, he would
cheerfully comply with their Wishco,4l-Ja was not
one of those Milk op Patr!ots who could not walk
up Cheapsitie to serve their nountryinen, and he
shoold propose to Sir F. Burdett to endeavoor to
present the Petition to the Regent to-morrow,
and to find hints, whether he was at Carbon-house,
or the Stull-house, at Brighton, or at. Manalies-
ier-tiquare.
After about 20 more speeches from the same
Gentleman, he challenged every Whig or indivi-
dual connected with the press who hail heard hint
to come forward, and answer him, if he could.—
If they did not, let them confess themselves to be
a disgrace to their country, awl the greatest
cowards upon earth. .The Chairman re-echoed
the challenge, asking aloud if there Was any Whig
present. The mob, being at length wearied out,
began to disperse as darkness fell, and Mr,llunt
lien suffered himself. to be carried off' in a' hack.
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