Star.
London, England, 1821-01-09 00:00:00

ter in the counts*, complaining of general distress
and most pressing difficulties, and praying the atten-
tion of Parliament m a consideration of the several
interests of the State ; yet no attentiop was paid by
Ministers to these pressing Petitions ; no measure
was originated by them which had either inquiry or
redress for its object. The evil was seen, but no at-
tempt was made to investigate its cause, or the ex-
tent of its operation. It would be detaining this
Meeting too long to enter at large into the numerous
and complicated details of the grievances affecting
the country. They knew all the heavy distress which
prevailed during the last five or six years: they had
felt it, and were still feeling it, in all its progressive
action. The war had ceased, without bringing Fhb the
peace any adequate reduction of the public burdens—
( Hear, hear ! )—and by leaving a wide-spreading
evil, which was not to be accounted for by any sud-
den transition from a state of war to a state of peace

—( Hear, hear!).—These evils had gone on pro-
gressively increasing, until they had now become
almost insupportable. From such a series of facts,
the country, had a right to infer that their distresses
were not temporary, but more deeply rooted; that
they were not deducible from the change of a period
of war to one of peace; that they were not lightly
caused, or to be remedied by self-action ; that they
were not to be left as Ministers seemed 'disposed to
leave them—that is, dependent upon accidental or
casual recovery ; but chat, on the contrary, they
called far serious and immediate investigation, as,
evils, which were as deep-seated as they were gene.
ral, and respecting which not a moment's time should
be lost by the Administration of the country—(Loud
cries of hear!)—At a period of so much public and
general difficulty, it was imperatively necessary that'
the Administration of the country should be placed
in the hands of persons willing to face the difficulty,
and avow their sense. of its arduous nature, bold
enough to grapple with it as became men—not only
ready and prepared to encounter the difficulty in all
its bearings, but also able to apply some prospective
remedy—(Load cheers).—Such were the men noW
wanted by the country. Were the present Ministers of
such a character? (Cries of No ! ) Were they willing
to meet the difficulty—or, if willing, were they able?
—( Cries of No ! )—They had not even manifested
a disposition to face the danger, much less to com-
bat the evils attendant upon it—(Hear, hear, Mar!)
It was true, that a Committee had been instituted
into the Poor Laws, the source of much evil, and of
serious consideration. The Committee had made an
able Report, setting forth both the cause and the ex-
tent of the grievance ; but they had not the courage
to meet the evil, and they left the remedy to chance,
contenting themselves with the useless expression of
hope—(Hear, hear). Was that the course which
either the Administration or Parliament ought to
pursue ?--(Hear, hear). Was that what ought to be
the conduct of statesmen, in times of great public
emergency ? Surely not !—(Chcers). There was ano-
ther subject, into the consideration of which Parlia-
ment had entered ; and it was one, he apprehended,
not a little connected with the interests of the Pub-
lic—he alluded to the Resumption of Cash Payments
by the Bank. That was a subject not well adapted
'for detailed consideration at a General Political
Meeting; but it was one which had its operation
upon the public distresses. Payment in specie, with-
out lowering the standard of gold, was a great de-
sideratum ; it was one which must in its operation
affect every class in society—inasmuch as cash pay-
ments were the medium of transacting every sort of
general business, and the Bill passed three years ago
was one which had a more close connexion, accord-
ing to his opinion, with the existing distresses, than
was observable at first view by an ordinary observer.
Under these circumstances, which pressed in every
point of view upon the country, it was melancholy
to have seen the attention of Parliament, of the Mi-
nisters, and of the whole Country, called from such
weighty considerations, and at such a moment, to a
matter totally needless in itself, and necessarily pro-
ductive of the greatest agitation in the public mind.
'khat the matter respecting the Queen was needless
for discussion, lie thought must be admitted. It
could only be necessary in a case of its having an in-
evitable operation upon the public interest. That
ought to have been clear before the country was called
upon to embark in the consideration—(Hear, hear).
There were two circumstances which ought, how-
erer, to have prevented Ministers from committing
the country in such a question. In the first place,
such a proceeding was very inconsistent with that re-
spect for the Monarchical form of Government in this
country, which ought always to be inculcated in the
mindi of the People. It was utterly inconsistent
with that feeling to open an inquisition into the pri-
vate life or domestic conduct of one so near the
Throne, unless the succession was in danger, or tll2-
less some other equally powerful public cause called
for the proceeding. But in the case of her Majesty,
no such justificatory cause existed—(Hear, hear).—
There was no disputed succession; nothing of the
kind could have possibly been contemplated ; there
was nothing in the subject, as even Ministers them-
selves put it, which could call for Parliamentlry in-
terposition, on the ground of affecting the righ s and
liberties of the country, which Parliament were b
to protect and uphold—(Hear, hear). None of these
public reasons called for the agitation of such a
question ; while, on the contrary, every public inte-
rest of the country called for the serious and undi-
vided attention of Parliament. The whole proceed-
ing of Ministers was, therefore, unjustifiable in every
way in which it could be presented to the minds of
statesmen—(Hear, hear). Ministers, indeed, entirely
failed, according even to their own shewing, in jus-
tifying the perilous step which they had taken against
the Queen. But they said that her conduct abroad
was calculated to bring disgrace upon this country.
Well, how did.they propose to abate that grievance?
Why, by augmenting the means of her Majesty,
that is, according to -Ministers, supposing her to be
guilty of the acts they imputed to her—(Hear! and
a laus)—to commit all those moral offences which
Administration thought were calculated to produce
so baneful an example !—(Hear, hear). Every act
of Ministers stigmatized them still more with inca-
pacity. Besides complaining of her Majesty's con-
duct abroad, they said her example at home could
never be tolerated; and yet by striking her Majesty's
name out of the Liturgy, they compelled her to take
the step which they, considered pregnant with dan.
gerous example to-tbe country, that is, to tape up
her residence here without dalay. —Nothing Wald

Tequal the inipolicy of their conduct towards the
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Majesty, they took care that their judicial proceedings
should correspond with their previous acts--(Hear).
They proceeded by an es post Ado Bill—that is, a
Bill creating the offence and imposing the penalty—
(Hear, hear).—They then refused her Majesty a list
of witnesses—(Hear, hear).—They adapted all their
details to their previous conduct, in defiance to the
feelings of the People and the ordinary principles
which regulated the administration of common justice.
Much as the People had reason to complain of the
conduct of Ministers in the first instance, they had
still more reason to complain of Ministers having
embarked subsequentlyin charges against the Queen,
which they had precluded themselves from making
matter of judicial investigation by the steps they
had taken to promote them, if they even had the
tendency which they ascribed to them—(Hear).—
Reverting first to the abandonment by Ministers of
the considerations which the state of the country re-
quired, and secondly to the needless and impolitic
introduction of the Queen's case, he thought the
country was called upon to pronounce a sentence of
condemnation upon them for their want of ability,
and departure from that public duty which they
owed both to their Sovereign and Parliament. They
were, therefore, utterly unworthy of confidence, and
the country ought not to lose a moment in laying
that opinion berore the Sovereign, whose dignity these
Ministers had so unhappily compromised—(Hear,
hear).—lt was not the duty of a Meeting like the
present to recommend successors to such an Admi-
nistration; it was enottgh to shew that the present
were unworthy of the situations which they filled, to
authorise that Meeting to call for a change of Minis-
ters as well as a change of system—(Hear).—Having
said so much upon the incapacity of those Ministers,
he would now advert to the state of the Represen-
tation in Parliament; for unless the House of Com-
mons were made to act in unison with the general
feeling of the People, it were vain for the country to
look for a redress of grievances by any change which
merely embraced the substitution of one set of men
for another in the affairs of the conntry—( Hear).—
A Reform in the Representation of the People was,
therefore, indispensable—(Load cheers). No good
could be effected by any set of men, however well-
disposed, without. If this healing remedy were not
applied, the country most go on from bad to worse—
(Elear, hear). And even were it applied, the country
must see that much of patience would still remain to
be endured under any alteration of political senti-
ments in the Government. The People would still
have to call in all their patience; for no change could
work an immediate remedy. But if he knew the
People of England well, they would submit with pa-
tience, if they saw a chance in the ability or conduct
of Ministers of obtaining any eventual relief—(Hear).
They would, he had no doubt, place their fullest
confidence in an Administration which they felt
identified with themselves in promoting one common
object, namely, the general prosperity of the country
—(Loud cheers). The topics to which he had now
alluded were those comprised in the Resolutions he
had to submit to the Meeting. There was only one
other matter to which he felt it necessary now to al-
lude, and that was the conduct of those persons who
designated themselves " Loyal Addressers"—( Near,
and much laughter). He feared that that Meeting
was not likely to have the assistance of such men ;
but if they were here, he would call upon them to
point out one word either in the Resolutions or the
Addresses which could bear any other construction
than that of the most perfect duty and loyalty to all
the Constituted Authorities. If there were in ;hem
any such word, he was willing to have it immediately
altered—(Hear). The Noble Lord concluded by
moving a series of Resolutions condemning the whole
conduct of Ministers, and by afterwards proposing
an Address to the King for their dismissal, and a Pe-
tition to the House of Commons for a Reform of Par-
liament. There was also a Congratulatory Address
to the Queen upon her triumph over her enemies.
Mr. JASIRS Wusaut seconded all the motions, ex-
cept that which prayed the immediate restoration of
the Queen's name to the Liturgy, that being a subject
in which he felt a delicacy to embark. Not that he
dissented from the necessity of doing her Majesty
that justice, for he entirely and heartily concurred in
every syllable contained in the motions already so
ably enforced upon the Meeting by the Noble Lord
who had preceded, him. He deplored the lamentable
situation of the affairs of this once happy country,
and joined his voice with that of the thousands of his
fellow-countrymen who now came forward to call
for the dismissal of Ministers, as an indispensable
preliminary to any change of system which might
afford the country some chance of relief—(Hear).
Mr. ADAM BLANDY rose to second the motion for
roesiottoiorionglirh.ewr Mheabjelestwy'assnparmoveetootetdhethLroituugrghyd.
eliThcacayt
from seconding, as he was of the Catholic persuasion,
and could not therefore suggest any alteration in the
Protestant Liturgy—(Hear, hear).
Before the question was put upon these motions,
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Sir FRA NEM BURDETT came forward amid the
loudest cheers. He would have been well content to
have joined his suffrage to the general suffrages of the
Meeting, by holding up his hand in support of the
Resolutions, Petitions, and Addresses which had been
read ; but since they were deiirous of hearing his
opinions, he would not fail more than on other occa-
sions to declare, when so called on, his sentiments
and most decided opinions--(Applause).—He would
not have intruded any observations of his if he had
not been particularly called on, because the able and
eloquent speech of the Noble Lord, so plain and easy,
and so level to the understancfing •of all, made any
observation from him, if not intrusive, perfectly un-
necessary. He entirely concurred in all that the
Noble Lord had said, and he heartily agreed with a
Gentleman near him, that they were all under the
'greatest obligations to the Noble Lord for calling
the Meeting ; and he would add, that they were
much indebted to the independent Magistrates who
sanctioned this County Meeting, in spite of the un-
constitutional and, be thought, insulting conduct of
the Sheriff, who attempted to set up a barrier against
the constitutional expression of their sentiment, with-
out any coloUr or pretence for . such conduct:—
With respect to the Queen, there was tlo occasioa for

saying anything. Not only were
on that subject well known, but all •
had been so much discussed in various
liament and out of Parliament, that noth•
left to be said. Earl Grey, the Mar,
down, Lords Holland, Erskine, and
distinguished themselves so much by ,
to the late prosecution, and who, as f;
lilies and integrity could contribute to
held the estimation of the House of
which they belonged, not only exhat
jest, but set every part of it in the cl
view—(Applause).—At the same time,
do justice to his own feelings, if he dii
never were such means used to truth
means that were bate, disreputable, ai
means which disgraced the country
Europe and of the whole world —(Great
Yet these means, unetampled as they
not the Queen, but exposed her prow,
selves, and the power by which alone
tors were kept in office— ( Great applal
situation of the Illustrious Lady, ar
tunes which had overwhelmed her,
softened the severest heart, even if she
all the crimes laid to her charge; bt
nocence. was established as clearly
made, and when her enemies themsel
drawn with shame and disgrace from
tion, it was too much to see her treated,
who called themselves the loyal, as if
proved guilty of worse offences than I
alleged against her—(Grcat applause)
they in fact proved against the Queen
proved that she was in the constant
practice of many Virtues which the el
known, and for which the Queen had
credit—(ta/tense applause). Her vi
I had been made kno‘sn, not by herself.
friends—they had been dragged into
the malignity of her enemies—(Great a
humane attention to those about her
was singularly generous and magnani
been proved against her that she Imo
vant supposed to be infected with
Greater humanity—greater magnant
philanthropy could not be found in
of any man or woman.—(Great applai
put it to the feelings and good sense
sent to suppose that this had happened •
that individual, with respect to whom
accusations had been brought forward ,
vidual had been supposed to be infect
plague, and if her Majesty, in the con
innocence, and following the impul,
benevolence, had visited him as she hat
servant, with what forcewould that circ
been urged against her by the Attornei
Was it not enough to establish, bey(
versy, the perfect innocence of the Queen
withstanding so many years were inch
charge—notwithstanding that six y(
period stated at the commencement of
tion—not one act was mentioned with;
years, to which even a suspicion could
.—What would any person of common
that circumstance ? No man alive woi
it was not enough to knock up any
Court in the world. Was it ever km
man or woman, after a long course of
price, all at once ceased from that cou
came perfectly innocent in their subseqt
The evidence, in short, was not evidence
any man in England would hang a dog.
stronger and much more gratifying was t
innocence afforded by the Queen herself.
—those who ought to be the best judges
of England—had evidently entertained
the. Queen would have been so strenum
by the People. The Queen herself couli
have any other reason for expecting
the People of England but her own cot
innocence. The support which the Q•
ceived, he would say, was not more
than it was unexpected. Yet the Queen,
pearances against her, knowing that the.
of the State was armed against her, seek
sible danger opposed to her, relied upon
of the People, because she was conscious'
—(Great applause).—he very act of
over to this country brought a conviction
which a legion of Italians could not
applause).--The Petition to the King he
ticularly proper. He would call it a Loyal
stitutional Petition : it was a Petition
Englishmen to present, and worthy -
King to receive—(Applause).—To present
tition at the time when every trick and ;
used to keep the King ignorant of the
of his People; was particularly necessary,
Lord Sidmouth would not present it
appear in the Gazette ; the. attention .
ship, as well as the columns of the Gazette,
voted to other purposes. They were al., _
imposture and deceit, to the paltry pretence
alty of the " Hole and Corner
This practice of going in to holes and cc
hoped, a good omen ; they knew that a
dog's dying hole !—.(lmmense applause
Francis) would not have been at this M•
the hope that some of the " Hole and
would have shewn themselves. He It;
Public Prints some statements of facts
to him-to be the prelusions to a battle;
fore, come in order to see this class of
hear what they had to say--(Great applause
Chairman seemed to have been in a similar
he had very prudently cautioned them
much warmth in their debate; but it was
that there should be any warmth on account
opposition of." Hole and Corner Men,"
should fall into any error on that so
most important part of the subject
their Petition was the melancholy distress
not long since happy and flourishing
That distress was universal: it therefore
no alleviation, for all classes being distressed.
could spare anything to relieve another,
tress was felt after six years of peace. _
of it had been a transition, as Lord Cistlereat
lsged, it was a very long transition: t
nearly as long as his Lordship's speeches, .
to have no termination but in his Lordship
tion from life to death !—(Great applause).
causes of the &Stress were now known --
neat ; but, notwithstanding that the sulkily)

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