Star.
London, England, 1810-06-09 00:00:00

dressed the assembly in a very etequeett oration... Mori
though he concurred with the sentiments expressed by •
Gentlemen' 'Who rpolce on the same side, he differed
from them as to the propriety of petitioning such 4.
House of Commons. He had done so before ; but
if he felt his objections founded then, how infinitely
more fortified• were they since, by the conduct of this
House in committing to prison his Majesty's subjects
contrary to all law, in refusing alt inquiry into public
abuses, and in proteeting the Ministers who advised
• the late most disgraceful" and detractive expedition to
the Scheldt ; .an 4 this, ton; at the moment when our
' shores were strewed with the wrecks of the ships em-
lilnyed on'an occasion, when the flower of the British
youth, the pride and strength of the land, were sent,
not to cotobat the arms of the enemy, but the decrees
of.GoD—to encounter" not the legions of Bonaparte,
' but to struggle with pestilence—when nothing was
seen upon our coasts but the funerals of the young
and the brave ; and nothing heard, but the plaints of -
youthful commanders, east down by disasters, not
• inipucable to them. 1-10 could not agree to petiti.m
sudh a House, after its unblushing protection of such
• Miniiters. Nothing but reform c?uld rescue the coim-
try from ruin, under such men and such measures.—
Those who imagined that reform and the restoration
of Constitutional right were to be purchased at the
mere expeuce of talking or writinr, were wc). full y
rnlstaker, When any bra::ch et tle State saLYCcif:
tbe rights of t'..e people, the sacred pilfdge by ‘%hich the
crown was placed upon the head of the Monarch, and
when remonstrance failed, -- became our first ,
duty. Nothing could save the country but the pulling
down of corruption, that Monster with two mouths,
who preyed upon the vit..ls of the state.
The question upon. the Petition wasthen put and car-
ried upon a spew of hands, with very few negatives.
Mr. CLIFFORD then proposed the thanksof the Meet-
inz to the Sheriffs, which was carried unanimously.
IMr. WHITE moved the Thanks of the Meeting to the
Ilonourable l'hotras Brand, for bringing forward the
}lotion for Parliamentpry Reform this Session ; also
to. Sii JOhe 'Newport, Mr. Whitbread, Mr. Wardle,
and Mr,' Norl, fir their able support of the Motion.
GIBI)0518 then rose, and expressed his
Petition now voted,
of Commons could
the grossest insult :
iding of the Petition
House, who, in re-
lulled by the nose and
d in a former petition.
he had not intended
; hat the assembly
language they had
im one of those ad-
lathy, who was the
taus meeting at the
libelled the Freeleil-
!dog, as a rabble of
design was tti over-
idering too that the
Qoyernment.
ASSEFtIOII was false,
;flan.]
,)0,.t corrected ; for ha
him, that the pen-
received by the father.,
lt some length, and
the conduct of the
man's relation pre-
he mark of a dispo.
to declare that seats
like stalls for oxen,
the House of Com-
of so flagrant an
Constitution ? He
:he Administration, in
the lowest alehouses
;'s Bench and Fleet
last the sense of the
people of England,
lore evidently mark
ch a procedure.
Mellish'i conduct, in
the Lae. meeting,
'ere not freeholders.
I: was untrue ; and
as not respectable.
then voted to Mr,
in parliament.
...I expressed his firm
Reform ; but wished.
resolved on again pre-
;ich was already re-
expected would be
:allowed the example
iging the obnoxious
that any, respectable
to whom they held
ye grounds to think
Objectionable.
the assembly, and
deceived them

depe .6:nce on you]
nes conducteLthitn-
complaisance to the
ier as to.tbe Gentle-:
had fairly ackzlow,
not think himself
ker of Parliament,
of his constitnent;,
although fie
and voted for.its

.
int mean to tinprach
fionont4ble Gentle.
tLer inclined to call
did ..he think that
like cli.ldren ? to be
add sr .iled :tt, when
rtes fr t representa-
itleman's c. ntcience,

the case t,f the Duke

.try upon the conduct
reagh, Tor selling scats
'heron enquiry. It so
indticed him to vote

it his conscience that
. for Gnat Grimsby,
man believe that so
lA, and so studious of
,e £5OOO Ma of his
disinterested service to
ring returned thanks,
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eolcitel GIBTIONS then rose, a
IttOngcst disapprobation of the VI
. end •U:hich, he sail, the Hottot of
• not iecL•ve withou't submit:42g to t
emphasis used in the read
rif,, I. eel it .as sarcasm 03 the F.
-ed-ging it. would submit to be pull
. would deserve all the insult offered i
-Mr. War/us:an declared, that
• to say any thing on this occasion
would not be -stirprised when•the
just beard was known to come frot
vacates for good order and regul:
- chairman of:that most tumukua
Freemason's Tavern, and iitieh li
der; of Middlesex at the last meets
Jacobins and pickpockets, whose
throw the Constitution; and conti4
gentleman was a pensioner of the I
[Colonel GIIPONS here said the
eta d shook his stick at Mr. Waithti
Mr. WAITIMAIC replied, he st,)o
understood from a friend behind
sion thus denied by the son was rec
• Mr. Waithman Own continued at
with much force, to reprobate th
late meeting, at which the Gulch
sided. He asked whether it was th
,Ilion to subvert the cons itution, o
Pailia'rnent were publicly sold
a fact openly acknowledged in the
mons; and to pray the reform
abuse of the principles of the I
alluded to a late pitiful trick of the
circulating a paper amongst the
about town, and even in die king'
prisons, to obtaia signatures again
freeholders of Middlesex and the p
• and observed that nothing could net
the weakness of Ministers than sucl
. A gentleman adverted to Mr N
the House of Commons, in libellin;
by saying, that 9-tenths.uf theta we
Mr. Mtuxisw said the statemeat
• that he never spoke of the meeting a
The thanks of the meeting were
lip for hit indepeadent,conduct i
Mr. Brko returned thaiiks; and
attachment to Parliamentary Rei
• the freeholders had .not now resal
seating their former petition, whit
jetted, and which it could not be
. received. He wished they had fol
of Major Cartwright in expungb
• words, because he did- not wish th
body of the people of England, ti
cut a leading example, should haul
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their petition c ntatned any thing
Mr. Meuotsti then addressed ;
,aprealect.svhether he had ever
• [No ! No !. we never placed any. d
whether he had not at all tint
ppelf• in his canvas- with as snitch cc
..ihastublest 'freeho;der
- num of the highest fortune ?• He
lejTed his opinion, that he
bound, as' an independent Meml
implicitly to obey the instructions
when they were against his own of
had presented their last petition,
• lyieg on the table.
Mr. WAITIINAN said, he did no
• the smiling complaisance of the
man on his canvas. He was rat
it a sneaking complaisance. Bat
Englishmen were to be neated L
dandled bn his knee, and smii ked ;
' they were Asked to give their vat
five ? As to ttie Honourable Gent
• be would'appeal to his vote in th
of Yolk; in the case of the enquil
of Mr. re. rce vial 4'l4' lArd Casen re
inr.rliament ; and on the Watch
heikened that his conic imee had
fT. OW ildatinhirAtion. Was
Witte him to pmehase feat
, Aloe
,t And' would any m
lkin'asactehant as Mr.' Mellish,
his' owg advantagt, would
his
.potket for it •seal, to give bps dis
)04 'ectsiftry Eutaiaes havi
tbt Meet.intbtolie up 'atvlble o'clo
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