The Sun.
London, England, 1829-05-26 00:00:00

HAMBURGH MARKE.TS,

13oasEN-TIALLE, MAy 23.--.Abboegh considerable
purchases of Wheat continue to, be made for French and
English account they do ncA I.ecp pace with the arrivals ;
our warehouses contiau.e to fill, and it is calculated there
are in the rive; afi. present 1600 to 2,000 lasts afloat and un-
sold. Our own consumers purchase sparingly.
Of Rye the arrivals continue to be small, and, conse-
quently, of easy sate. Some has even been purchased on
foreign account.,

With respect to Barley, those who have any on hand are
beginning to ask higher prices, which, however, they can-
not yet obtain.

From the 7th to the 12th inst, inehasive DS cargoes of
corn p.tssed through the Sounii; of these, 39 were bound
for British, 24 for Du,to4, 27 for French, and seven for
Swedish and Nomegiian ports ; the destination of the re.
mainina !..,;,:it woe% unknown.
Weight. Rix dollars.
De.atsio Wheat 122 to 126 152 to 170
Pomeranian 124 to 128 142 to 1f Ai
Anhalt, white
red 12-2 to 128.- . 148 to 160
Danish -
Dantzic Rye llB to 122 ^4l La 78
slagdeburgh 14rtey .. 98 to 104 ,50 to 55
Anliajt,
. . - 9 B 9B to 10-1......,. 55 to 62
UplW. oats ..
1-442teixt Rapeseed

The uncertainty, pfecailing with respect to the po.
licy likely,fo be adoptecliiigiussia and England has infused
a degree of-i!Ullnes.s iuto c4r stock market. The approach-
ing seticing day for the eml of the monthil.ailxiously ex-
pected, t,Ve eFigagetnenis• then to be liqqaated being un.
u wally great.
Discount has risen flirt 2.)s to *.pir cent. Funds for
time are sellers.

End of May.
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cent..
Anglo-Russian Loan 93ii
lla.nburgli-Russian Loan
Polish Bonds
Austrian Bank Shares 1103
Mists ian Metalliquei
Exchange upon London at sight ... l3 91y
at two months, "13 1/4_
Amsterd m, at two mouths, 35 50-10 U
Paris ........, at two months, 19814. •

'TRIUMPH OP WESpIINSTER, AND

PURITY OF ELECTION.

The 22d anniversary of the Election of Sir F. Bur-
dett, as one of the representatives for the city of West-
minster, was yesterday celebrated at the Crown and An-
eller Tavern, in the Strand. At half-past font o'clock,
Messrs. Hunt, French. and Cobbett, made their appear-
ance, and were welcomed with some slight applause tom
the gentlemen who were then present. Mr. Hunt and
Ir.
Cobbett afterwards separated from Mr. French, and
placed themselves at the cross-table. Jack Lawless shortly
afterwards went up to them, and, as we were informed,
requeeted them to leave their seats and go with him into
a private room, where Mr. O'Connell was waiting to see
them. They left the great room accordingly, and during
their absence a reconciliation was effected between " the
great 0" and Mr. Cobbett.
At a quarter-past five o'clock the stewards ushered Mr.
Hobhouse into the loom. Among the gentlemen who
fol:owed in his train we noticed Mr. D. W. Harvey, M.P. ;
Mr. Otway Cave, MP. ; Mr. A. Dawson, M.P. ; and
Mr. Monck, 3LP. Lord Nugent entered at a later hour
in the evening, and took his seat on the right of the
Chairman.

After the dinner kad been despatched,
Mr. HoBHOUS2, who had been placed in the chair,
raw, and iafermed the company that Sir F. Burdett was I
prevented from being present by very severe indisposition.
The first toast given was " The people, the only source
of legitimate power."—(Three times three.) Tune, Bri-
tons strike home.
The next toast was " The King, and may he confirm
his owu declaration that the Crown is held in trust for the
benefit of his people."—(Three times three.) Tune, God
save the King.
While this tune was playing, the company all stood, with
the exception of Cobbett, who sat and smiled.
The next toast was " A full, fair, and free representation
of the people in the Commons House of Parliament, the
only efficient remedy for our national grievances," with
three times three.
Mr. Sotrectr, in a complimentary speech, proposed the
nest toast,—" The great and consistent Advocate of the
rights and freedom of the people,—Sir F. Burdett."
This toast was received with great applause mingled
with some hisses. After the uproar had a little subsided,
Mr. Hurf rose to object to the toast, but for some time
the noise prevented him from being heard. It was a rule
at these meetings, and always had been a rule since he had
attended them, that no one's health should be drank who
was not present.—(Loud cries of " No.")—That is not,
however, my object in rising. My object is to put the
same questions to our representative who is present, which
should have put to our representative oho is absent, had
he been present.—(Outcry.).--I will as ate first, that the
House of Commons hare, within the last five years, passed '
votes of public money amounting to little short of
2,000,0001. for the building of palaces and other such
purpose's Did Sir Francis Burdett or Mr. Hot:rouse
oppose any of these votes? The same House has passed a
Bill to dietranchise the 40s. freeholders of Ireland ? Did
Francis Burdett or Mr. Hobhouse oppose that 13:11?
'The same House has passed a Bill to authorise overseers,
hospital-keepers, and keepers of debtor prisons, to sell our
dead bodies of the most unfortunate of the poor. Did Sir
F. Burdett or Mr. flobliouse oppose that Bill? I Lave
no doubt that our Hon. Chairman will give an answer to
these questions. [A voice in the room—" Old Bonegrub-
bee can answer the last question ; what has he done with
l'itine'* bones ?"-.1 No doubt our Hon. Representa-
tive will give us satisfactory reasons, if lie did not oppose
afrese measures, why lie did not. If the explanation be
given fully and fairly, I hope that we shall act us fairly by
him as we shall act consistently by ourselves --(Cheers )-
1 have isle word more to say. The passing of the late
nteasuie for the relief of the Roman Catholics has been
hai!ed with delight by Mr. Starch, aho has taken great
pride to himself on account of the share which Sir F.
Borden had in passing it. Now what in the name of
oonemon sense has the Hou. Baronet done by it? Just
5i1i&,..4.1e has disfranchised Ireland...--(Cries of " No, no,"
amid crLiett the voice of Cobbett was heard braying " Yes ;
I say yea,'')—Perhaps Mr. O'Connell will tell you the
same story as Ido before the evening is closed. Sir F.
:Burdett, I say, has assisted in disfranchising the forty,
freeholders. Gentlemen, I have now done an act
A duty to myself, to you, and to your Chairman ; and F
sow/ ask for as answer to nay question before the toast is
Olt .nit.
Cosarrt then rose ; but as soon as he left his chair to
take a position in the middle of the room, a storm of
hisses arose which would have silenced any other political
Merry Audrey,. It has been proposed to drink the health
of Sir F. Burdett. Gentlemen, the title of this meeting
is " Triumph of Westminster--Purity' of Election." The
triumph of Westminster ! Yee, it was a triumph origin-
4111' in caryiag Sir F. Burdett, in despite of al:a accursed
eristorracy, by whom he was now surrounded, on tlie
shoulders of the poeple, without expense, into Parlia-
ment. At that time what did he pledge himself to us to
ale? To carry Parliamentary reform—(cheers),—to fight
oar battles against the encroaching a(:d villainous borough-
stroslgere, and never to give up the hattie except with his
Life.--Gentlemen, you. who were beds at the
time, cannot remember this : but I appeal to your fathers,
whether that was nut the compact between us and Sir F.
kesraleat? Has he kept his compact with us? Has lit'
protected our' rights as ought ? Hits he protected the
rights of the forty shilling freeholders of Ireland ?
.(ffeso, bear.) Gentlemen, there is Mr. O'Connell
sreseot. If he let this opportunity Apses-1 I have to-
day .laden hand. again with Mr. O'Connell. (Cheers.)
Mr. O'Connell had disavowed some expressions svhieh
ha-I been impeded to him, and which I conceived bins
to Inv, ea,d, very derogatory to my charact, r. I told
Ur. O'Connell that I would shake hands with him
if he disavowed those expressions. He has disavowed
them; and I now say, that I would not have shaken
hands wish him, even upon the retraction of these ex-
pressions, if he had not been discarded by the gonourable
House.—("'nut's strange, Cobbett : you begged and
prayed hard enough to get into it.")—lf the Hon. House
had not done Mr. O'Connell gross injustice, I woull pot
have condescended to shake hands with him.—(A loud
Buret of laughter.)—Cobbett then proceeded to describe
she conduct of Sir F. Burdett on Warburtou's Ana •
tinny Bill as cruel and inhuman ; but hie iovective on this
siilicet were cut very short by the repeated cries of " Who
dog up Paine's bones ?" Who was a re,urreetioioist ip
America?"
The Co/ululate—l put it to the meeting whether the
toast ellen be drank. Is it the opinion of this meeting that
we drink the health of Sir F. Burdett?
Immense cheering, and cries of " Yes" from nearly all
the room, followed this question.
Mr. Ilormouset—l fairly say that this question has been
carried by a large majority.
Mr. lILINT requested the Chairman to put the otherside
of the question.
lion:louse complied with. the request, and then tire
hande, or at must six, were raised in behalf of Cohbett's
objection-
The discovery of the trifling numbers of this noisy mi-
nority created roars of laughter throughout the room.
Mr. Hoanousa, in putting the toast from the Chair,
thanked the meeting for the support which they had al-
ready given him, and assured them, that if they continued
to give it hint in the same way, every one of them would
go away satisfied. He would now read to them a letter
which ibs Stewards had just received fr an re.3it Francis
Burden, cad wilitia was accompanied by another Letter
from Sir henry Halford, stating the inability of S. F:ancia
se attend. The Hon. Gas:Oman then read the following
letter from Sir Francis Burden ;
" St. Jomes'oplace, May a 5.
fientletaen,—lt is very mortifying to use, ~rosteact of having
the honour of atending you in person, to transmit you the encic;ed.
" I had datte act myself, up to the present momiau, :wit b the
hope of being able to preside as usual at our anniversary. A pairst::.d
disease, however, quite incapacitates me, and leaves me no choice
sat submit; ion to inevitable necessity. I feel this the snore, as it
is the first opportunity which 11,44 ever presented itself to me of
honestly praising a Minister and of.cos.gratulating my constituents
..n the vaccessful issue of a great public pleasure, establi,hing for
over the great and paramount principle of Kr4ligious liberty, re-
trieving that eternal stumbling block out of the of public im-
pmvercent, And ey.ening a fair prospect to the public of went future
advantageF. The .arr4ly of principles are on their march ;op pi.4er
1471 earth will long: e able to withstand their progress, until they
,tismo reached their noturni termination in the establishment of
• And liberty all over the ;v9rld.
" I remain, Geritin, you"' r
.fpiest obedient servant,
Fst4I2IS ."

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The toast was then drank with enthusia.sti,c applause.
.Mr. JonEs Buunarr returned thanks.
Alr. A. Dawson propeed the health of " The strenuous
**poser of public abns2s, our ether able, enlightened, and
indefatigable representative, Johu 4":;:rn Hoblionse, Esq."
The toast haring been drunk with great applause,
Mr. HOEHOUSX mounted the table to return thanks.
Since he had had the honour to represent the city of West-
minster in Parliament, on his conscience and honour
lie
protested he thOught he had done his duty, and he appealed
new to his constituents, as it had beau his custom at these
annual meetings, in order to ascertain whether or not it
Was their pleasure to set the seal of their approbation on
his public conduct. He slid not wish to conceal from him.
self that, in the performance of his duty, it was not with
common men, or men of ordinary intellects, that a repre-
sentative of the city of Westminster had to deal : they
were men experienced in public affairs, and more than
ordinarily acute, who knew what their representatives bad
premised, and who were orally aware of wh..t they ought

to perform ;. they were persons who had been observant of
public events for many years. He knew—and this was not
an affectation of mock modesty, which would ill become
them or him to adopt—that a better man than himself
could scarcely come up to the test or criticism which might
be applied under these circumstances to a representative of
the city of Westminster. However, his conduct was he-
lium them. If they were dissatisfied, they had their redress.
They had chosen him without any peculiar qualification.
To what could he pretend ? To nothing except a desire
to do what he thought was right. And as he had come to
that point, he trusted they would allow him to answer, if
he could, the first of jeetiota of the Hon. Gent. (Mr. Hunt)
to the conduct of the Hon. cork-ague and himself with re-
spect to that great question, in order to procure the accom-
plishment of which be hell been sent into Parliament. It
was objected to hint that in giving the toast " a full, fair,
and free representation of the people in the Commons House
of Parliament, the only efficient remedy for all our national
grievances," he had not done it with the usual honoure: He
was not much of a formalist, but the eleven times he had
attended here the toast was given by '-the chairman without
a single comment. And why? Because it was thought to
be a toast that needed no comment,—that was calculated to
recommend itself to public approbationa and so was left on
its own basis. A contrary line of conduct—the proposal of
this toast with honours—would have been thought at best
unnecessary, and calculated to do credit to the heart rather
than to the head of the individual proposing it. Sir F.
Burdett had always declined proposing the toast in that
way,—Sir F. Burdett who had been cradled in " Parlia-
mentary reform,"—Sir F. Burdett, of whom it might be
said that the very pillow on which his head had rested
cried " Parliamentary reform,"—whose whole career
had had that tendency, and who, when he died, would
have " Parliamentary reform" engraved on hie bosom.—
(Hear, and laughter from Mr. Cobbett.)—The question
had been put whether Sir F. Burdett had recently proposed
his sunned motion of Parliamentary reform. Persons then
present well knew the taunts, outcries, and laughter di-
rected against his Hon. Colleague, when lie had brought
forward this subject, and not from the opposite side of the
House, but by the friends of Parliamentary reform itself,
wits said, in the expressive language of a et ntleman (Mr.
G. Lamb) once opposed to hint in his attempt to repres nt
the city of Westminster,—thet is making those annual
motions, Sir F. Burdett and those about him (with the
exception of Lord Cochrane) were, in military language,
merely keeping time, making much dust and little progress.
Were they to suppose that, because we did not make
annual mailing on the subject of reform, we were less
friends of it than ever ? Let any man put his finger on
the occasion which offered, where he or his Hon. Friend
had not stood forward as the ativecetes of the cause, and
he would confess himself guilty. But they could not do
this—he appealed to what had passed on this subject, re-
specting which some men could nut etnily lie, though
sonie men did lie. (The Hon. Gentleman here directed
his eyes towards Mr. Cobbett).—(Loud cheering. )--These
matters appertained not to the future, but the past ;
therefore there was no room for prophecy.--( Hear.)_
If you found a man standing honestly and truly before the
public for more than a quarter of a century, sever fluc-
tuating, or undecided in any matter that concerned the ge-
neral good of his coust:tueuts,—if you found a man of un-
blemished private chat acter, against whom not the finger
of scandal, or even of scorn, could be raised,—you might
predict, without any pretensions to the character of a pro-
phet, that such an individual would stand true, not only in
his public, but in his private capacity. If, on the con-
trary, there were any individual in the world (such he
was happy to say was not a common character) who was
never known to le true to any public or private trust,—if
an individual, who, after having been only half trusted,
thought proper to appear before the public as if he had
been wholly ousted, and played not a sitael,e• but a double
villainy of deceit—(Cheery)—if there shoull be any man
who, in order to convince the people ash it care he
would have taken of the public purse, had shown the con-
sideration he 41 for the private prop, cry of hie friend—
(Hear, hear.)--illere Colaiett grinned like a hymnal—
If there ehotthl be such a trem—(Cheeree leughttr, and
some confusion, occasioned by an attempt of Mr. Preneh
interrupt the speaker)—and now, Gentlemen (continued
Mr. Hobhouse) if the gentleman who has interrupted me
conceives himself to Le the person I have been describing, I
can only say he is mistaken. That man, of course,
if he imagines my observations to apply to him,
will afterwards be entitled to a hearing; but I
know nothing of him ; I dp not direct myself to
hits,-1 direct my observations to you. If there be a
man such as I have described—a person who lies been
scouted, not by parties, for that an honest men well may
le, but by society at large—any person whose character
is thus declared l.y his conduct, that individual may well
read his history in a nation's eyes, and it is not difficult to
tell what is to he predicted of his future fame. Those
who acknowledge his talents, even hie beet friends, must
sigh for his baseness—(cheers, laughter, all eyes turned
upon Cobbett)—and be sorry, gentlemen, that a mind
qualified to illustrate the days in which he lived—a mind
qualified to shell lustre over the great stage of his contein-
poraries—should hay; be.en disgraced only by the misfor-
tune of casting its own blacker, deepest, and moat dis-
graceful shade on the era to which it Lelonzed,,—(Cheer-
ing.)—Now, gentlemen, passing from this point, I hag
your attention to the questions put to tee by Mr. Hunt, as
1 see by 44: paper which he has had the goodness to piece
in my hand, the questions apply not merely to my Han.
Colleague but to nay elf; we ride in the same coach on
this occasion, laid the first queetipn to which I owe a
categorical answer is this—" Did Sir F, Burdett nr Mi.
Hobhouse vote against the grant of 2,000,0001. for build-
ing new palaces?" This question was intended for Sir
F. Burdett, but it also applies to me. As far as I am
concerted I have a short answer to it. I voted against it.
-,-(Cieers.)ne-The second question is, did we oppose the
disfranchisement of the forty -shillingefreeholders ? Now,
gentleman, with respect to this I have only to see I shall
not answer for any Hon. Colleague : he, I trust; will be
able to answer for himacif pp a future occasion ; but I
must say for myself, that I voted againet that proposition
in 1825, when it was first brought forward and supported
hy my Hon. Colleague, and I w,ll add with an equal sense
of duty, i did not oppose it on a recent occasion, and I
will tell you why--I against the dis!'ranchisement in
1825, hi2cause I knew fleet ther. was not then the least
chance of carryit the Catholic question,-(ea;-, and
hisses)—and I objected to disfianchietng any hotly', as
informed toy Hon. Colleague, under pit cumatanegs,
although he himself was the father of the Bill-4 told him
could not support it notwithstanding, and I did not.
Why pot oppose it now? I will tell you. I have no secrets
on the sithject, I thank God the press of this country pre-
vents me from having apy eeerets on each a subjecn
(Hear, hear. )---Tito question was p,t-,40;.it is to be
done? And when I found gentlemen like Mr. V.
Mr. M. Fitzgerald, Sir J. Newport, and many others
epuld mention, whose love for Ireland and the Constitu-
tion is nridoubtel, saying that the disfranchisement was a
great sacrifice, hut not too great for the boon to be re-
ceived, I confess that say, as my Noble Friend near
me (Lord Nugent) can bear sir cy Plirdett and I,
in point of reform, have more to sacrifice that-, all of you
in agreeing to this measure, and in consenting to it
have OW more to sacrifice than Sir F. Burdett, for he
supported the Disfranchisement Bill in 1825, and I op.
posed it. Yet, for the mike of the good which accom-
panied it, anti as a guarantee of the other measure (the Re-
lief Bill), I took the disfranchisenignt of ttie ;r tv-shilling
freeholders, and egreed to it. j say I turdi tile -pod up
found it—let the evil that batenee'eil it lie upon the con-
sciences of those who made this a coadition. 4.4 the other
nteatsure.—(Hear, hear.)—lf this be not setittactory to
souse indieideals, and if they are not willing to look at the
general tensna q. man's life, in reference to his political
acts, I cermet help it. if my constimente have any rea-
son to think th it I g-cvc this v.A.2 any dirty, shabby,
mean, interested !waive, let them cendeinn tne en-
crude me from their confi,!ence and il.e honour of repie:.
vnti• g them in future. Accept again the seat with which
you leave home:xi:el ; if on think rue unworthy to
hold it I,IIOC, of stico enpei 4ce iip;;l it. If you think I
have been actuated by base or unworthy emtinee, judge rue
by the test applicable to ail public men, end mart accord-
ingly. An accusation has been brought against me. I
defy my accuser to the proof. If lie can approasit to
proof, rat me tell him, I would more regret to labour un-
der your auspice e than the condemnation of others. The
next question put to me lid the Hon. Gentle:nen redly al-
most involves a step from the sebaneg to titer ridiculous. I
am asked if I have supported a Bill to sell the noti;ea of the
most unfortunate of the poor ? So, after being charged
with coldness and disrespect towards the great (Festion of
Parliamentary raopn, with voting 2,000,0001. for palaces
which no architect will ti ewe!, and which no king will
ever live im—with sopprth!:,-; disicanckivment of the
Irish forty-shilling freeholders, it reerns, as we come to
file
glo.r of the charge, sat there is a sort of further sting its
the tail cf the epigram directed against nie—a sting which
I do not call ail 44tely ridiculon,, for those gentlemen are
too clever to be ever thliiqilolts.—(Cheers and laughter.)
But certainly it is rather antu:ing, vilvn in the same
breath we are accused of selling the dead hotline of site most
riathetepate of the poor.—(Laugliter, and cries of !Sone-
grubber, whet dp you say to that ?')—Now I beg leave to
quarrel with the teems of the proposition : the most un-
forninate of the poor are not e1:1.12.i t'!ose who are lodged
in poor-hot -es ; I should say the most untoetu:-.:a•• of the
poor are those wlio cannot get into pour houses.—(Hear,

and a laugh.)—Allow me to ask whether this objection,
brought forward by men of ability against Sir Francis
Burdett, and so humble an individual as myself, does not
partake of something exquisitely ludicrous ? Is it not
strange that the serious charges previously brought against us
should have degenerated into this " most lame and impo-
tent conclusion ?"—(flear, and a laugh.)—lf I thought
those very intelligent and able individuals sincere, I confess
I should be somewhat surprised that they had so much care
for the bodies of the dead, particularly as one of them (lees
not appear to have cared much for the bodies of the living.
Certainly 1 have not found in the public career of one of
these gentlemen evidence of any very tender regard of
those who walk about above ground, though he takes the
persons of those under ground under his special protec-
tion.—(Laughter, and exclamations of ' Poor Tum Paine.')
I was not aware that this gentleman cared much for the
persons of those living to whom he is so kind after they
are dead. His conduct reminds me of the lines—
" But still the great bath kinnne,s in reserve,
They help to bury whom they help to starve.'--( Laughter.)
Having taken cote of his living contemporaries, Mr. Cob-
bett thinks his care should descend to the, dead; this his
own conduct proves—(Cries of Ay, hore-grubker, it
does')—and not finding charges enough against the Mem-
bers for Westminster with respect to their conduct towards
those who walk above ground, he accuses them of not re-
garding the tombs of those who are beneath it.—(Cheers
and laughter.)-1 say the Hon. Gentleman thinks it tie-
cesaary to bring a grave charge against Sir F. Burdett
and myself, because, not having thought enough of the
living, our neglect has also (according to Mr. Cobbett)
extended to the dead. Allow :ne to make a contrast be-
tween our conduct and that of Mr. Cobbett in this re-
spect, who, having made as much as be can of the living,
wishes also to make as much as he can of the dead.—
(Cheers and laughter.)— However, gentlemen, having
met for higher purposes than the dissection of base and
infamous characters, I shall presently pass from this sub-
ject. I think I have answered Mr. Hunt's questions
pretty fairly, whether I opposed or supported the selling of
the dead bodies of the poor, as Mr. Cobbett teams it, and
upon what grounds you will hardly think a fit subject for
present discussion. Passing by the case of the poor, I •
may say there are a great 'natty individuals who,
though they have done no good in their life-time, perhaps '
might be found serviceable in their death.—(Hear, and
laughter. )—When we hang up these gentlemen in Sur-
geons'-hall, being well-limbed men, stout men—(' Ah
Cobbett')—they may do credit to a scientific dissec-
tion, and afford an example calculated to enlighten and
ilhoarate us in a physical, if not in a moral, point of view.
-(Cheers and laughter.) When they come to be shown
hereafter,—when the tongue of falsehood is silenced,—and
more bitter still, the tongue of slander which can never ac-
knowledge or forgive a benefit—(hear)—these individuals,
who have been a disgrace to life, will afford an illustration
of how black a soul might lodge in a human body.—
(Cheers. Mr. French again attempted to interrupt the
speaker.) I challenge any man—be lie who he will—to
confute what I gay. I don't address this to the electors of
Westminster. Let any individual who thinks himself
authorised to put the question, ask me why, in my capa-
city of his representative, I have done this thing or omitted
that—to such a person I shall give, with the utmost respect
and fairness, the best answer I can. If in thus delaying
the assembly while glancing upon topics perhaps of too
personal a nature, I have overstepped my strict line of
duty, let it be recollected that the subject was not of my
own choosing, it has been imposed upon me. Questions
were put to me, which I have endeavoured to answer. In
one respect I make no complaint. Mr. Hunt, as an elec-
t r of Westminster, had a right to put these questions;
but as my public conduct has been a topic of, I will say,
no fair censure,--of no criticism which eves the talents of
that individual (Cobbett) entitles him to make, I could
not refrain ftom seizing this opportunity of replv-
ing to ;t. call on Mr. Cobbett, who has repeatedly
oh:Feted tither to what I have done or to that
which I have not done, to establish his charges. He has
nothing personally to accuse me of; but that powerful
writer has chosen to make me the butt of charges, my
only answers to which have been directed, not to him, but
to you. I heartily congratulate you on the Roman Ca-
tholic Relief Bill. I beheld the smiles, and sneers, and
few murmurs which prevailed when this subject was al-
.uded to in the earlier part of the eveniu ; but I disdain
such feelings. You disdain them, and I congratulate you
on th•it triumph.—(Hear.)—lf there be any cause in
which lam deeply interested—l had almost said in which
I ant engrossed—it is the cause of Parliamentary Reform.
As long as you do me the honour to send me to Parlia
meat, i shall conlinug to do what I have hitherto done,
with all due respect for what I beiiev r to ha yo4r fair and
just opinions. If I s%ould unfortunately differ from you,
I shall readily afford you an opportunity to place in other
bands the hononr which you have so frequently,bestowed
upon me." The Hon. Gentleman concluded, .amid loud
demonstrations of approbation, by thanking the meeting for
the Lini;lici4 an;; atlenti9n with which they had listened
to his observation;.

Cobbett, as soon as the Chairman had finished, came
forward to reply, but his demeanour was not so outrage-
ously insolent a' it was on his first appearance. He evi-
dently quailed under the laceration which he had received,
and would have slunk, if he could, from the withering
glanciei of copt3npt with which nearly the whole of the
assembly eyed hith. There Was the utinzist tplitotatip to
hear him ; and many persons with whom he came in con-
tact. shrunk away from him with as much disgust as if
he had just been fresh from his loathsome task of disin-
terring the body of his crony, Paine.
In com;qquence of Mr. Hunt's anxiety to have Cobbett
heard in .eply, s disppte attended with considerable vine
knee took place between him and one of the stewards.
It was proceeding with eousiderable violence when
Lord Nrc ENT interposol.—He said that it was the in-
tention of the (- hairman to propose the health of Mr.
O'Connell the next toast. After that had been done, it
Wtg the intention of the Chairman to give Mr. Cobbett a
bearing:
Mr. HUNT.—It will be most unfair, if my friend eph-
bett is not heard immediately, after the Violent personal
altseL has been made upon
Lord NUGENT-Well, then, if you think it unfair, I
will ask the Chairman to allow your friend to be heard
first.

The CHAIRMAN requested the meeting to bear Cobbett,
7---ht he might as well have talked to the winds.
2tlr: O'CoNlst<4l, interposed,—l am anxious to address
an assembly of F.',oglWamei3, but 1 cannot speak till you
hear Mr. Cobbett.

A temporary calm was obtained. Cohbett then pro-
ceeded—" 1 made no objection to hear the Chairman ;
hope nn objection will be made to hear me."—(Outcry.)
COBEETT (almost crying).—l can't be heard.
The Cumama N..—(.enth.men, gentlemen, it is but
stir t) bear Mr. f)olibett.
Air. O'CpNNEt.t. made a gepud application on behalf
of Cobbett, which again carried 4 temporary cetisation pf
the tumult.

COBBETT then proceeded to address the meeting, and if
we heard him correctly amid the wild uproar which the
distraction of his behavious excited, spoke to this
effect z —The Chairman, he said, has made a direct at-
tack upon tile.-,--(4iot.),Well, if you don't hear me,
you shall Lear nobody Ilse, that I cap tell you.,(llisses.)
The Chairman, in one part of his speech, mid you that
he was ready, when he displeased you, to' resign into
your hands the power with which you entrusted him.
yes, he said that he would resign :it into your
bands lint it is not into your hand that he ought to re-
sign it, but iuto the hand* of the people of Westminster.
liiifortunately, of late year() Alr. Ilobhouis and Sit F.
Burdett never meet us out of doors now a-days; and they
have taken measures, in conjunction with the laws which
have been pas,ed, never to meet us out of doors again.—
(" It won't do, Colibett ; that's one of yi
Every thing that Mr. lloblontse ln,s said about his own
reit:A:pets end about Sir F. Burdett's readiness to throw
Vietnselv'esl on the of tl,e people is not true.
They have not met the people for two yifitys,
I think I
may say for three years ; and I venture to sily,ln spirit
of the prophecy, that they never will dare to meet the
Deoik again,—(" Tell us something else, old bone grub-
her; you've said that lial4-do7en tunes already.")—An
Oppoitunitv will uccav foi them, 1;! days, to meet
'he rcorie of Middlesex at llaeltirey. 7444,1 qer of therp
dare meet rue and Mr. Mut out of doors before the
people—mind that. As to the attacks %strict. Mr. Hob-
house has made upon me, one is that I have cheated
semebtolv, he dare not say whom, o,it of money ;
in;ct!:_er is, that I starve the poor u hilst alive, and unly
take:Careos vheo dead; and a third, that I take up
bones, and dispose of 'eui liar a oia, in7,cr a mail is dead.
As to the charge of cheating s:inieb,,dy out el mow.), I
have only to say that Mr. Ilobliouse (late not ,ay whom I
hire cheated ; no, nor the orglity. Den, his master.—(A
voice, hambouz!eil h...r.")—That is one of
the most barn sued and 'anpndeitt hea that was ever st ited
by man, ur ret :fled by ti,e dirty rump of Weatminster.—
Let the letters come into a Court of Justice, and I'll prove
Fine words,
s to starving
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the ix-IT, hoe had great delight, during all the course of
any lire in being bowmen,' t..; :Ea 1,,00r.—.4A loud laugh,
minglal with hisses. )--I have, I say, with my slender
means, thaw &nonc for the poor than Burdett with all his
tlinusand,:. Then as to the boa,4—(Cries of " !or
ttie mingled with laughtei-.)!---A dead lacily sold to

be cut up.--(Cries of " What's became of your rings
with Tom Paine's hair.")—Yes, there's a mighty differ-
ence between selling a dead body to be cut up by sur-
geons, and bringing the bones of a great man home which
were lying in neglected obscurity, for the purpose of bury-
ing them in his native land.—(" Where have you buried
them you old lesurrectionist ?")—Who blames me for doing
that which the very Govern:trent of this country was then
doing ? At that very time, I say, the Government was
sending for the bones of an Officer who perished in the
American war, for time purpose of burying them in West-
minster Abi,ey.—(lmmense uproar.)—Well, I see there is
no such thing as getting a fair hearing in this place, and
thoref :le I shall conclude.—(Loud hisses.)
The CHAIRMAN then proposed as a toast—" Daniel
O'Connell, Esq., and the Catholics of the British empire,
and may their emancipation limn civil disabilities prove a
source of strength to the country, and seem e the prosperity
and happiness of the empire."
_ _

Mr. OTONNFLI: came forward, amid the loud cheers of
the meeting, and addressed it in a speech of great power
and eloquence, of which want of time and room prevent us
from giving any thing but a very imperfect abridgment.
He fully concurred in the wish of this toast—that the
emancipation of the British Catholics might prove a source
of strength to the country, and of security and prosperity
to the empire at large. It was because he conceived that it
would produce that salutary effect that he bad so long
struggled for it, and not because it would give some eleva-
tion to the persons of his religious persuasion. Others who
had embarked with him in the cause of the people, had
prospered for themselves as well as for their country ; but
he had succeeded for his country, and had suffered a penalty
for himself.—(Cheers.)—lt was due to the disinterested
perseverance of his struggle that such a compliment should
be paid to him; but it was undignified in the Lords and
Commons of England concentrating all their vengeance
against him.—(Hear.)—He rejoiced exceedingly that the
measure of emancipation was passed ; for it put
an end to the period of the oppression of one country,
and of the plundering of another. Theological controversy
was now at an end : religion was free,—conscience was
free; and if any man now proclaimed a change of his re-
ligion, as he was free from penalty, you could not doubt
his sincerity in abandoning his opinions.—(Hear, bear.)_
We were now commencing upon a new era; we were now
proceeding from a new starting point, and therefore he
would trespass for a short time on their attention whilst
he explained for the first time to an English auditory his
political opinions and views. " First, then, Englishmen,"
said Mr. O'Connell, "I appear before you as a reformer,
as a radical reformer."—(Loud and long cheering-, in
which Cohbett joined with heart and voice.)—To the
first question which I have been asked by you, my feliew-
countrymen, I ray that lam a friend of radical reform,—
not of !evolution, but of that reform which will render a
revolution unnecessary. That was the reform to which
he was devoted. His principles should not be torpid sir
idtvebering principles; but, in dome, or out of doors, he
cal'ed upan the people to second him in the expression
of them. He had heard that the people of England were
a people of common sense, and yet he found that the
possessor rf a ruined tower on a hill, like Old Sarum,
commanded two votes in the House of Commons,
which was all that fell to the share of a large, and
epult nt, and intelligent city like Westminster. After
several other observatioes to the same effect, and after
passing a glowing eulogiom oa the transcendent skid',
energy, courage, and bravely of the people of England, he
adverted to the condition of Ireland. The forty-shilling
freeholders, he laid, had been spoken of that night. He
had formerly been of opinion that a part of them might be
saerificed for the advantage of the rest of the community,—
he meant smelt of them as were possessed of a short term.
Since th time, he had enjoyed the advantaee a knowing
them mere intimately. lle bad himself had the honour of
bringing them to tri :1; and he had found in them a de-
seoednetes to time cause ~I civil and religious liberty, which
was worthy of the hi ightest periods of history, He wished
that the higher classes of the country would imitate the
virtuous independence of the poor but honest forty-shilling
freeholders. The disfranchisement of those heroic and
magnanimous freeholders would work on the Relief Bill as
a canker and gang: em', until the people cut away from it
that eitert.pt god imoeund part. Ministers might think
that by passing that measure they had put down the cause
of freedom in Ireland ; but they would find themselves de-
: caved. In the county of Clare there were 6,000 forty-shilling
freeholders, in a fortnight's time there would be 3,000 101.
freeholders ready to set an example to the rest of Ireland,
which the rent of Ireland would be ready to follow.
If the people of England bore with tranquillity the dis-
franchisement of the fort--Chilling freeholders in Ireland,
thy eveuld before long witness the same disfranchising ex-
periment m3de on the forty-shilling freeholders of England.
After they had struck off the forty-shilling freeholders,
they would then attack the teen-pound freeholders, then
the twenty-pound freeholders, and then the fifty- pound
freeholders, till at last the Lords would not go through
:brim present form of &feting Members for the Commons
lombr. tit Parliainent, Lot would send down a warrant
under their sign manual to Mr. Speaker, desiring hint to
a limit Mr. So-unirso as their Represeutative into the
House of Commons.—(Cheery.)—Alter making several
severe remarks on the conduct of Lord Eldon, whom he
described as a person who looked at his conscience and
wept- and at hie purse. and doubted,—(A laugh,)—beturned!, by way of 'contrast, to the contemplation of the
conduct and character of his friend the illustrious Bur-
dett —(Cheers.)—He recollected that that illustrious man
was once convinced that the Catholics of Ireland ought not
to be emancipated. He went over, however, to the green
fields of that country, saw the desolation and oppression
which paralysed the exertions of its inbabibsnts, and turn-
ed all that watt meant for biestings into cum's, and he be-
came enlisted at outT into their catlse. His exertions, his
patriotic exertions, had rendered him dear to all the na-
tives of Leland. Her matrons and her maids sent up
tt.eir prayers for his happiness ; and her streams poured
forth in a voice of thunder, echoed back again from her
mountains, " Long life to the illustrious Bortleto"--
(Cheera.),-Mr. cobbett had that day conde-cended to
shake hands is ith him—(a laugh) ; but when he got into
the House of Continuos, no hottest man should shake
hanis with hint if he did not contend tor frecdom of con-
seience for nien of every "Oaten description, and colour._
(A voice in the crowd. " dews and he did not
oppose monopoly both in small corporations and in the ac-
cused system of the East indi t Company—it he did not
oppose that bastaid species of free trade which, whilst it
gave coirontali!iea free to the rich, gave bread dear to the
p00r.,-(Cheers.)
The health of Lord Nugent and the Electors of Ayles-
bury havieg been
His Lordship retuned thank., and corrected a mistake
into which the lion. Gent. (Mr. O'Connell) had fallen,
with respect to Sir F, Burdett's original opinion op the
Cat! odic question. Ile could say, that the Hon. Baronet
had htnn always upon principle a supporter of Catholic
en.aneipation, ay examivation of the votes of Parliament
for the last St) years would prove.
Several other toasts were drank amidst much eonfueion,
which prevailed, with little ov no intermission, tip to the
close of the meeting.