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AT a MEETING of the INHABITANTS and
FREEHOLDERS of the Town and County of the Town
et POOLE. careened by Public Notice, and held iu the Guild-
hall In the said Town and County, on Ttrzsnar, the ald of Ja-
nuary, Mel ;
WILLIAM ADEY, Fat High Sheriff, in the Chair,
Reiolved,• That the very perilous and awful state of tee Coun-
try claims the solemn attention of eVery man who is properly
impressed with the real character and dismaying circumstances
of times, and that every suck individual is bound promptly,
freely, and strongly, to express his sentiments at so eventful a
moment, for the purpose of contributing his humble endeavours
to arrest and prevent the mischiefs and the miseries which now
threaten.to overwhelm the great body of the People.
Resoled!, That in common with the rest of the Nation, the
Merchants and other Inhabitants of this Town confidently ex-
pected, that the termination of the late war would be naturally
followed by some of the advantages and benefits of peace; viz.
in the opening of fresh channels, by commercial treaties, to the
Capital, the enterprize and the ingenuity of the Country, as well
as in the practicable and attainable measure of a proportionate
relief from the e • nting and ruinous pressure of our general taxa-
tion; thus gradually restoring the Country to a state of compara-
tive ease, prosperity, and content : whereas, to our great dismay,
the alarming amount of our National Debt and National Expen-
diture, with the decayed and still further decaying condition of •
the Agriculture, the Commerce, and the Manufactures of the
Contry, threaten to involve all in one general embarrassment,
distress, and bankruptcy.
Resolved, That in the diminished demand for the products of
British industry by foreign countries, whether the result of pro-
hibition by their respective Governments, or of the inability of
the people to purchase them, we have a strong additional in-
ducement to reduce the expenses of our enormous Civil and Mi-
litary Establishments to the lowest possible point; while such a
system of practicable and now indispensable economy would go
far towards reconciling the minds of the People to the remaining
unavoidable burdens upon the industry of the Country, and
would also proportionably augment the means of every man for
consuming the general produce of the soil and labour of the United
Kingdoms: that,while Ministers continue to introduce into the
Speech from the Throne, expressions of regret that the burdens
of the People should be so great and se severe, we do not per-
ceive that any effectual attempt has hitherto been made by those
Ministers to accomplish any substantial reduction or retrench-
ment, such is should correspond to the exigency of the times,
and the distress of the Country.
Resolved, That we cannot hope for any change or improve•
ment in our situation, so long as the administration of public
affairs is confided to the hands of any set of Ministers, who shall
not prove to be really and practically responsible to Parliament
for all the measures of their government ; nor can we conceal
from ourselves that there does not exist, in fact and in truth, that
wholesome and constitutional corrective and controul over, the
acts of the King's Servants, which must ever principally eluci-
date the vital distinction between an absolute Monarchy and a
limited one, such as ours profesees to be : and that, finally, we
cannot expect to see the liberty of the subject adequately pro-
tected, and an end put to the scandalous expenditure of the
public money, without an effectual Reform of the Commons
House of Parliament, to whose defective Constitution it, is we
lament that we should be compelled to attribute our greatest na-
tional calamities and sufferings.
Resolved, That the enormous amount of our National Debt,
and the system of unmerited jealousy almost uniformly pursued
by the King's Niuisters, as evinced in their repeated suspension
of the habeas Corpus Act, with other frequent encroachments
on the Liberty of the Subject and the Liberty of the Press, thus
exhibiting a People at variance with their Government, cannot
have failed to weaken the power and influence of British inter-
ference, where otherwise is could perhaps have been successfully
exerted, to restrain the ambitious view., or to thwart the des-
potic attempts of foreign Potentates; and that, we ardently
hope, a British Parliament would not only withdraw its coat-
dence from, but proceed severely to censure, any Ministry who
should dare to afford even an indirect co-operation in the threat-
ened %iwa' rantable attacks upon the dawning liberty and free-
dom of thONeapolitan Nation.
Resolved, That, highly gratified as we the Inhabitants and
Freeholdere of his Town were with the decision of the House
of Commons against entertaining the pi-elided measure of inquiry
into the alleged conduct of her Majesty the Queen, we were no
less painfully disappointed at witnessing the subsequent intro-
duction into the House of Peers of a Bill of Pains and Penalties,
founded on the Report of a Committee, consisting principally
of Ministers and their adherents, upon an investigation of that
Green Bag which the other House of Parliament had so wisely
and so properly refused to open; that in the progress of this
most untisessary inquiry we were utterly disgusted at the nu-
merous instances of contradiction, perjury, and villainy by which
the charges against her Majesty were attempted to be sup-
ported ; and that, in our conviction, the daily details of that
abominable proceeding will have inflicted a deep mak jncalcu-
lable injury on the morals of she People, without there having
ever existed the palliating chance of any rational expectation of
benefit or advantage for the Country, though the result of the
Inquiry had fully accorded with the hopes and wishes of those
who planned, abetted, and upheld, until happily they were
compelled to abandon this most odious and impolitic Investiga-
tion ; that we cannot too strongly express our detestation and
abhorrence of the meanness which dictated the offer of Fifty
Thousand Pounds a year to her Majesty to induce her to remain
abroad, any more than we can refrain from the expression of
our unmingled admiration at the noble maenanindiy at once,
evinced by her Majesty in her refusal, with its merited *corn
and indignation, the base and insidious proposal; and we can-
not too much applaud the resolution which her Majesty instantly
came to, of repairing to England, to face and to dely the Ca-
lumidous charges which were eventually brought forward
against her.
Resolved, That an humble Address be presented to the
Commons House of Parliament, recapitulating the substance of
the Resolutions now passefi, and praying that the Honourable
noose will exercise those great powers (with which the Consti-
tution has armed it, for the protection of the rights, the liberties,
and the property of the People, as well as for the due main-
tenance of their own just rights and privileges) in an endeavour
to close those numerous wounds, and'to allay that feeling of
irritation and discontent which the harsh, the cruel, and the un-
just conduct pursued by the .‘iini,ters of the King towards her
Alajesty the Queen, has been so welt calculated to engender;
and we hope the I lonourable House will lose no time upon its
meeting, in recommending the King immediately to cause the
insertion of the queen's name in the Liturgy, in conformity
with the laws of the land ; and that it will take such other de-
cisive steps with retard to her Majesty, as shall at mice put her
in possession of the income, the dignities, and the privileges
which may be suitable to her exalted rank and station as Queen
of Faigland. We cannot at this time suppress our astonishment
and indignation at the very indecorous mode in which the sit-
ting of the Honourable House was terminated on the recent
prorogation of Parliament, for the purpose of preventing all
discussion on the subject of the situation of her Majesty the
Queen; but we fervently hope that almost the first act of the
House of Commons will be to manifest its deep sense of the
affront and indignity thus offered to its character and functions,
to the British Constitution, and to every individual in the Empire.
Resolved, That the Address now read be adopteu as the Ad-
dress of the Inhabitants and Freeholders of this Town and
County.
Resolved, That BTSIAMIN Lessee LESTTZ, Esq. and Joust
DENT, Esq. the Representatives of this Town in Parliament, be
requested to present this Address; that a Copy of the Resolu-
tions passed at this Meeting be likewise transmitted to them;
that they be also urgently requested constantly and uniformly
to enforce the objects comprised in the said Resolutions and
Address; and that they be likewise earnestly requested to pro..
mote a strict investigation into the origin and proceedings of the
Milan Commission, and by their votes and influence to co-
operate in preventing the Nation from being burthened with
the expenses of that Commission.
Resolved, That these Resolutions and the Address be pub-
lished in the Sraa Paper.
The Chairman having is ft the Chair :
Resolved, that the thanks of this Meeting be given to WIL-
LIAM Army, Fao. the High Sheriff, for calling the Meeting, and
for his liberal and impartial conduct in the Chair.
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OF GREAT INUTAIN AND IILSZAND 1N FARLIANILN2 ASSZILIILID;
ens NUMB= Pb:TITSUN AND •DDILISS OP` TIM noulansestes AND
FREZHOLDEZA OF TIIN TOWN AND COUNT! or TUN TOWN Op POOLL
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That your Petitioners desire to approach your Honourable
House for the purpose of making known their sentiments and
opinions on the present alarming and perilous state of the coon.
try, which they are willing to hope may, by the timely and sac-

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restful irterference of your Honourable House, be yet preserved
from the impending calamiW of bankruptcy and anarchy.
" That, with the cessation el hostilities throughout Europe,
your Petitioners, in common with the rest of their fellow-sub-
jects, hoped to experience some of the advantages and benefits
of peace, from the opening of fresh channels, by commercial
treaties, to the capital and skill of the country, as well as from
the no less but Inure practicable source of relief in a propor
tionate reduction of the annual amount of the public burthens;
that in both these particulars, however, your Petitioners have
been painfully and grievously disappointed ; that now, in the
fifth year of peace, the general commerce of the kingdom con-
tinues to be in a condition most deplorable and ruinous, too
forcibly, alas, exemplified in the present state of every branch
of foreign and domesticstrade ; that while Blinisters have con-
tinually introduced into the Speech from the Throne, expres-
sions of regret that the burthens of the nation should be an
great, they yet have not hitherto made any effectual endeavour
to afford any alleviation adequate to the grinding pressure, ope-
rating on a population possessing yearly less and less means to
answer the unwelcome calls of the Tax-gatherer.

"That until your Honourable House shall compel Inisters
to curtail their enormous Civil and Military Establishments, and
will likewise enforce a system of the most severe and inflexible
economy, your Petitioners cannot even hope for any change or
improvement in the situation of the great body of the People,
who cannot be reasonably expected to feel otherwise than uneasy
and discontented under the pressure of a system of such palpa-
ble waste and profusion; preventing alike the Agriculturist, the
Merchant, the Manufacturer, and the Labourer, from receiving
the proper reward of his toils and capital.
"That the want of employment for the population of the
United Kingdoms, owing principally, as your Petitioners humbly
conceive, to the destructive weight of the public burthens, but
partly also to a culpable neglect on the part of the King's
kii-
ttisters to foster and cherish the various commercial interests of
the country, will naturally account for much of the dissatisfac-
tion and sliscontent now existing in the community ; of late woe-
fully inflamed at witnessing the cruel and unjust conduct pur-
sued by those Ministers towards her Majesty the Queen, which
your Honourable House, though ineffectually it has since proved,
had exerted itself to prevent ; but which your Petitioners fer-
vently trust may yet be speedily and satisfactorily remedied
through the decisive interposition and proceedings of your Ho-
nourable House, that so much at least of the public irritation
and angry feeling as can be attributable to this cause, may be
quickly allayed and finally removed.

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• That, while upon the subject of her Majesty the Queen,
your Petitioners implore your Honourable House to take such
further steps as shall lead to the instant insertion of her name in
the Liturgy (front which your Petitioners humbly think it was
an act of the greatest injury and injustice ever to have withheld
it) and that your Honourable House will also be pleased to adopt
such other steps as may prove effectual• towards providing her
Majesty with an income Suitable to her high and-exalted station,
and that she may likewise be no longer denied the use of one of
the many unoccupied Royal Palaces, accompanied with the full
enjoyment of all those rights, privileges, and dignities, which
have heretofore usually appertained to the Consort of the King.
' That your Petitioners cannot ton pointedly express their
alarm and indignation at the indecorous mode in which the
sitting of your Honourable House was terminated on the recent
prorogation of Parliament, and they doubt not your I lonourable
/louse will promptly manifest your deep sense of the affront and
indignity thus offered to your character and functions, to the
British Constitutiou, and to every individual in the United King-
doms. Your Petitioners are compelled to trace this insulting
conduct of Ministers towards your Honourable House, and the
offer of fifty thousand pounds a-year which they tendered to her
Majesty, as the price of her sacrifice of honour and character to
one and the sante source, viz. to an overweening belief, as your
Petitioners confidently trust will prove groundless, that they ran
no tisk of being held responsible to Parliament for those acts of
almost unparalleled outrage and defiance boils of its constitutional
power. and of its obligations of duty to the People. Your Petition-
ers, though far from intending it, would be almost offering an insult
to your Honourable House were they, under present circum-
stances, to deem it necessary to implote you henceforward to
withhold your confidence from a Ministry which has so long
mismanaged the affairs, derided the sufferings, and neglected the
just complaiuts of this once flourishing, contented, and happy
People.
" Your Petitioners humbly conceive that a system of liber-
ality, co:sal:filo:4 and kindness substituted for one cif jealousy,
restraint, and severity, combined with a truly honest expendi-
toren( the public money, and effecting all the requisite redue-
duns in our present preposterously large Civil and Military E.-
tablishments, would go far towards reconciling the minds of the
People to the remaining unavoidable burthens ; and of restor-
ing much of that good understanding and cordiality which it is
always so desirable to see subsisting between the governed and
the governing ; and without which indeed, the energies of this
country can never be so effectually exerted, either its the due
protection of its own more Immediate interests, or in the whole-
some interposition of its Government, how urgently soever
fur, to oppose the ambitious designs of such eireign Powers as
may at any time threaten to subvert the nascent institutions of
freedom in weaker States ; but your Petitioners cannot suppress
the expression of a confident hope and reliance that your Ilo-
mound& House will nut fail to render abortive any attempt that
may be made to lend t ven the indirect co-operation of the powers
r or influence of this country to further the threatened unwarrant-
able attack upon the opening liberties of the Neapolitan People.
" Your Petitioners, in conclusion, trust that your Honour-
able House, duly appreciating the magnitude of the objects to
which they have ventured to solicit the attention of your Ho-
nourable House, will inquire into and speedily proceed to redress
all those grievances, and to reform all those abuss which have
so long defaced and deformed the administration of the Eng-

Government, and which have apparently excited the con-
current expressiou of a People's condemnation and reprobation:
but your Petitioners, however, have been long fully impressed
with a conviction that the only permanent security against a
continuing maladministration of the affairs of the nation is to
he sought in an effectual Reform in the Representation of the
People in Parliament.
" And your Petitioners will ever pray."

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