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DISMISSAL OF SIR ROBERT WILSON
FROM THE ARMY.

(FURTHER PARTICULARS).
A Public Meeting was held yesterday, at the City
of London Tavern, Bishopsgateltreet, " to take into
consideration the.conduct of his Majesty's Ministers
towards Sir ROBERT WILSON, and the propriety of
promoting a Subscription, already opened, to in-
demnify him, and to place that gallant individual
above the reach of Ministerial malice and vengeance."
At one o'clock the Marquis of TAVISTOCK, the Hon.
H. G. BENNETT, M. P. J. G. La NtsroN, Esq. M. P.
J. RUNIC, Esq. M. P. Dr. LUSHINUTON, M. P. the ,
lion. W. POWLETT, M.P. E. ELLICE, Esq• M.P. Mr.
FAVELL, Mr. WEATHERSTONE, and Mr. ROWCROFT,
appeared in the space allotted to tho-e Gentlemen
who meant to take an active part in the proceedings
of the day. At this time the body of the room was
crowded to excess. Had it been three times as ex-
tensive, it would still have been crowded ; hundreds
having retired from the house who had in vain en-
deavoured to obtain admission to the immediate
scene of action. The Meeting was pet sonally as re-
spectable, as it was numerically extensive.
It was moved by Mr. FAVELL, that Mr. Lambton
should be requested-to take the Chair.
The-motion was carried by acclamation ; and
Mr. LAUBTON immediately proceeded to address
the assembly. He said he had felt it to be a most
sacred and imperious duty to obey the invitation
which had been forwarded to him by the Southwark
Committee, to attend the Meeting which was this day
held in the city of Lortion; and he could assure
those whom he had the honour of addressing, that
no circumstances of personal inconvenience should
ever weigh with him, when he was called on to lend
his aid in supporting the cause of justice, .or in up-
holding the interests of so enlightened a body as the
inhabitants of this great metropolis. Before he en-
tered
more immediately into the business of the day,
he wished to account, in a few words, fur the part
he had taker. • the Subscription which had been re•
cently set . toot. He had taken the course with
which ti:_y v..ete all acquainted, not from a wish
that his name should not be known to the People of
England in a plain and open way ; but because he
was a near and intimate friend of Sir Robert Wilson,
• he was desirous that the Subscription should origi-
I nate with that Gentleman's constituents. While he

was most anxious io stand forward to state his senti-
ments and feelings with respect to the atrocious
transaction which occasioned the present Meeting,
he was sensible that he had no right to call on the
People of England to follow him. He felt that he
had no right to assume to himself the honour of
moving first on an occasion so interesting and so im-
portant. Impelled by these feelings, and by these
alone, he. acted as he had done; and en this account
he felt still more strongly that it was his duty to at-
tend the Meeting this day, in order to explain to his
countrymen the motives that had influenced his con•
duct—(App/ause).--He hoped that he should be
allowed to say that this was not the cause of an
indi-
vidoal—(Applause).—No: It was not the cause of
Sir Robert Wilson, it was an important national
cause—(Applause).—For if this precedent were not
resisted—if it were allowed that a soldiery should be
set on foot to overawe the People—if the• soldiery
were to act blindly and implicitly, at the nod and
belt of the Crown—then would he say, there was an
end, and utter extinction of the liberties of-the Peo-
ple—(Applause).—lf no other qualification were ne-
cessary for holding rank in that army, which was
once composed, and he hoped was still composed of
Gentlemen, but an unlimited obedience to the Mini-
sters of the Crown—if Officers were to forego their
constitutional feelings—then this was no longer the
boasted land of liberty and of law—(Applause).—
But he trusted that, even amongst the most blind
supporters of Government—even amongst the most
bigotted and determined Tories, such a doctrine
would not be established. He hoped there were
amongst them those who would not allow their sons
to wear the avowed badge of despotism, to wear that
livery which, if the system were suffered to exist,
must be considered as a proof that they were in the
service of Ministers, rather than of their country—
(Applause) —He had been at some pains to discover
what the grounds were on which Ministers had acted
in this transaction. They had given to the Public no
reason for their conduct.—(A Gentkman exclaimed,
"They cannot give a reason.")—He (Mr. Lambton)
was aware, as had been said by his Honourable
Friend in the centre of the room, that they could not
adduce any reason; and he pledged his character,
knowing as he did every act of Sir Robert Wilson,
and, he believed, his every thought, on the day
when his conduct gave such mortal offence to Mini-
sters, that the reports circulated against him were
false and unfounded calumnies--(Cheers).--He
pledged his honour, that on the eventful day to
which he alluded, not only did Sir Robert Wilson
act as a man of humanity, anxious to prevent the
blood of his fellow-citizens from being shed, but
that he conducted himself altogether in a manner
every way worthy of the character of that army of
which he formed so distinguished an ornament—
(Applause).—And he knew Magistrates (he wished
he could summon them to come forward) who could
state that they were indebted to him for the good order
which prevailed on that day—who could declare that
it was owing to him that more lives were not lost
on that disgraceful day, when two innocent men were
murdered in the face of their country—(Cheers).—
In the absence of any good grounds for the conduct
of Ministers, they might, however, look to the motives
which had really actuated them. The fact then was,
that Sir R. Wilson had too long been known as a
man of independent principles, as one who was of
opinion that war ought not to be waged for the pur-
pose of satisfying the ambition of rulers, but to insole
the happiness and prosperity of the People. He had,
besides, stood forward as the protector of a woman
whom he considered to have been injured, and there-
fore he became obnoxious to a set of Ministers who,
through all posterity, would be held degraded and
disgraced, in consequence of their conduct on that
memorable occasion—(Cheers).—He begged of the
Meeting to remark the regular gradation of the mili-
tary system—to observe the slow but steady march
of those proceedings which threatened the country
with a military government. Soldiers were now shut
up from their fellow-citizens in inland fortresses ;
they were excluded from communication with them,
and taught that their rights and liberties were dis-
tinct from those of the People.. Not only was the
system directed against all Constitutional, but, as far
as he could judge, against all moral feeling ; for 'the
Chairman of the Middlesex Sessions declared, the
other day, that one half the culprits tried were sol-
diers ; and he expressed his astonishment that those
who were supported in idleness and profusion, should
turn against the Public, by whom they were fostered
and protected ( Applause).—W hen the soldiery
acted with vigour they were praised ; when they at-
tacked a defenceless multitude they were thanked, as
in the case of the Manchester massacre; but, when-
ever an Officer of high rank, and higher character,
interfered to allay irritation, to prevent the shedding
of human blood, he was dismissed, as Sir Robert
Wilson had been, who was dismissed in a manner
the most cruel, because he was supposed to be in the
power, and at the n:ercy of those who inflicted the
punishment—(Applause).—Let them produce to him
an instance where even the Inquisition of Spain had
acted in a way so contrary to the dictates of huma-
nity—let them produce to him an instance in the
history of the most despotic German Prince, in
which he had exercised over his slaves the right basely
to confiscate their property. And when no instance
of the kind could be produced, was it not monstrous
that such a course should be pursued by the Minis-
ters of a Constitutional King? It would indeed have
been astonishing if they did not recollect that these
very men had employed Oliver, and Edwards, and
Castles ; that they had dismissed Earl Fitzwilliam,
and had thanked the Manchester Magistrates, with
as little cause and as little deliberation as they had
manife.aed on the present occasion, for conduct the
very reverse of Sir Robert Wilson's—(Loud cheers).
He had before asserted, and he would again assert,
that this was a-national cause ; and, having so deig-
: noted it, he conceived it would not be amiss to recoI-

lect who the person was through whose breast Minis-
ters attempted to wound the Con titution. Sir R.
Wilson had served his country for twenty-nine years,
having purchased all his Commissions except the first. •
He had served in the North, in the South, in the East,
and in the %Vest ; in Europe, in Asia, in Africa ; in
Portugal, in Spain, in Flanders, in Holland, in Italy,
in Ru_sia. To enumerate the places in which he had
served, would be to name every part of Europe. He
raised the forsitanian legion, the origin of that force
ss hich finally drove the French beyond the Pyrennees.
It was so recognized by all the Potentates of Europe;
and he had himself seen letters from the Commander-
in-Chief in Spain, in which it was admitted that this
force, composed of native Portuguese. had been the
salvation of the Peninsula. Prom the command of that
legion he was driven by the meanest and basest jealousy.
But he allowed not any feeling of indignation to in-
terfere with what he conceived to be his duty. lie
transfen•ed his services to another part of the world,
where he supposed that mean jealousy would not fol-
low him. They found him always in the advance
guard, except in retreat. They found him always dis-
tinguishedly his humanity as well as his gallantry—
they found his services so zealous and so important,
that the Emperor of Ifirssia thought it ro disgrace to
invest him with a Military Order in the presence of
his army. But amidst the prolasion of rewards which
he had received, amidst the Orders with which he
was decorated, amidst the various stars that sparkled
on his breast, there was not one that had been con-
ferred by the hand of Great Britain !—(Applause.)_
Were they not to look for sonic secret source in
which such conduct originated, the more especially
when, by the extension of the Order of the Bath, ho-
nouns and rewards were showered on all sides ? It
was explained by the words which the Emperor of
Russia used at Frankfort, when he said, " You hive
told me the real truth !" And though speaking the
truth did not excite the disapprobation of one v. horn
they had been in the habit of calling a barbarian, it
WUS not, it appeared, fit for Ministers to hear—(.4p-
plause).—He knew that Sir Robert %Vilson had told
the truth too often, in the Senate and in the camp,
to be friendly with the present Ministers of this coun-
try; and now they had selected him as a victim to
be immolated at the shrine of their vengeance. He
need not speak of Sir Robert Wilson's conduct, of
his noble conduct, in his glorious nieliverance of La-
valette—(Cheering).--Tliat action, he was convinced,
now gave as much sa..i,ltction to the King Of Fa-ance,
as at the time it imparted pleasure to the whole world.
It was the gallant action of a soldier, as well as of a
love of justicer. (App!ause).—All these circumstances
pointed out Sir Robert Wilson as a man whom the
people ought not to desert. A blow had been struck
at him—the hand of poser wa' sili uplifted; but if
he knew the reople.of this coun:ri well, they would
not suffer one of i.s bravest and noblest sons, as well
as one of their most constitutional advocates, to be
overwhelmed by the oppressive hand of power !
(Cheers).—He had stated thus much, previously to
his calling on some Gentleman to move a series of
Resolutions. It was not necessary to enter more at
large into the disgraceful occurrences of the day
which occasioned the present Meeting.—(An indivi-
dual, " No, they speak for themselves." This inter-
ruption occasioned some disapplobation.)—On an oc-
casion like the present, it was natural that every per-
son should wish to declare his sentiments; and'he
would not object to it, even though it militated
against the regularity of their proceedings. He
agreed with the Gentleman who had just mare the
remark, that those proceedings did, indeed, speak
for themselves; and he hoped a day would speedily
arrive, when they would undergo a solemn investi-
gation in Parliament. Ile,-and otheis, would not
fail to speak their sentiments oh the occasion ; and if
-they could not obtain justice, of which he certainly
despaired, they would at least leave on record the
conduct of Ministers, to their eternal ' disgrace—
(Cheers).—They would now permit those who meant
to move and second the Resolutions to address them;
and he hoped the Meeting would be as remarkable
for its order, as it appmently was for its respecta-
bility—(Lond Cheering).
• Mr. FA VELL rose to propose the Resolutions: The
excellent and cmotitutional address of their Honour-
able Chairman had rendered his (Mr. Favelri) task a
very easy one. He was obliged in candour to ob-
serve, that it was only two hotlrs since he had been
asked to do himself the honour t•f seconding the Re-
solutions. Ile felt, however, as an old citizen, that this
Meeting was worthy of tlie honour and character of the
first city in the world—(!Lear). He felt also, as an elec-
tor of Southwark, much interested in what concerned
its Representative. He felt much pleasure at finding
this cause in such great and honourable hands as
those of the House of Bedford, and those Gentlemen
whom he saw present on that occasion. They sup•
ported the cause of the People, turd were worthy the
People's support. lie had much pride in recollect-
ing that when their Honourable Chairman, then a
very young man, had given promise of mach fervent
zeal in support of the Constitution, lie (Mr. Favell)
had the honour of cooperating with his father in
promoting and supporting the }eople's rights. Their
worthy Chairman had so eihatisted the subject, that
little was left for him to say. Much as he respected
Sir Robert Wilson-, he man say, tlmrt this was not so
much his cause as the cause of ow People; or in other
words, the cause of the if. itish Army—f)r where
could they expect to find hotartrable and independent
I Officers, where could they look for such high and
generous characters as those who performed such
feats on dr! Continent, if it was found that they
i must become tools 'and sycophants on their retina
home?—(Applause.)—This would be equivalent to
saying to every Officer who held a seat in Parlia-
I lieta, " You must vote with and support Ministers,
or we will do our_utrno•t to disg i-tce and destroy
your—The People ought to he alive to this great
question, as nothing was of more importance to their
rights and liberties. Should it go firth to the Bove-

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reigns of Europe thastbllshuthwtiotti they had honour-
ed and rewarded bad been degraded by Government,
at4d teAertedsby•the P le of this country?
is- dkl; they' woad r call us Great Britain,
but Little Britain. We should no longer be consi-
dered as the magnanimous descendants of those he-
roes who obtained Magna Charta, and who brought
ablut the glorious Revolution of 1688—(Hear).,—
He would not now enter more largely into this sb-
jk ct, as their Honourable Chairman had pledged
himself to a Padiamentary inquiry on the subject.
Bat he could not help expressing his regret at the
at,empts made to degrade the British soldier into a
police officer. This was one of those sad symooms
which shewed that unless the People were feelingly
alive to their interests, the spirit of the Constitution
would be endangered. The sad results of the pro-
ce*dings on the 14th of August were owing to some
petty advice given to prevent the Lord Mayor and
Corporation of the City of London from paying those
last honours which they conceived due to the remains
of an injured Queen. He need not say more upon
this subject, as the Meeting would be addressed by
the Honourable Gentleman who ought to have moved
them, which honour was conferred on him as an old
citizen. It would be sufficient for him to inform the
Meeting, that the Gentleman to whom he alluded'
was the Hon. H. G. Bennett—(Cheers).—He con-
cluded by reading the following Resolutions:
" That the dismissal of Sir Robert Wilson from the Army,
without inquiry, trial, or even the statement of any charge
against him, is a wanton act of arbitrary power, under the plea
of prerogative—a daring inroad on the principles of the Consti-
tution, and a cruel injustice to a brave, humane, and m..ritorious
Officer, whose distinguished services to this country and her al-
lies have bv.n repeatedly and solemnly recognised by every

Power in Europe.
" That this Meeting, as friends of Public Liberty and the
Constitution of their country, as established at the Revolution,
willingly embrace this opportunity of avowing their disapproba-
tion of any Administratien maintaining a large standing Army
in time of peace, and endeavouring to make its Officers thentere
ereatutes ot the Minister for the time being.
" That this Meeting views with great satisfaction the manly
and liberal manner in which so many cm the best and truest sup-
port.; of the liberties of the country have conic forward to
unite with their fellow-citizens in marking their indignation at
such an attempt, as equally dangerous to the Constitution and
&grading to the Army—threatenirg the one with subversion by
a military force, and depriving the other of the noblest birth-
right of Englishmen, that of freely discussing the measures of
*the Government under which they live.
" That the Subscription set on foot by Sir Robert Wilson's
Constituents shall have the best support of this Meeting, It
having for its object to protect Sir Robert Wilson against the
effects of Ministerial vengeance, and to shew to the world, that
as often as the Advisers of the Crown shall contrive the means
of oppressing those public men who support the cause of the
People, the People will stand forward to frustrate all such un-
worthy attempts.
" That the whole of the Subscription already raised, and to
be raised, shall be vested in five Trustees, to be by them dis-
of in the way most beneficial to Si; Robert Wilson and
is family."
The Hon. H. G. BENNETT then rose to second the
Resolutions, and was received with the warmest gra-
tulations by the whole assembly. He said, he was
conscious that he had little claim to their attention,
and indeed had very little right to be there at all, as
the Meeting was one composed of the Inhabitants of
a City of which he was not a resident ; but he came
upon the invitation of the Committee to meet his
fellow-countrymen, and however small the claims he
might have to be heard on his own account, yet
having known fur a long period of his life the gallant
Officer who had just met with such treatment from
the Ministers of the Crown, as that which had been
the ground 01 their assembling on the present occa-
sion, he was anxious to support, by his limited means,
by his opinion and his purse, the principle whiff% had
been violated in the person of that Gentleman, and
to shew his sense of the robbery and injustice which
bad deprived him of his property, and attempted to
ruin his character—f Loud chrcrs).—lt was now
about 27 years since, being himself in the Army, he
bad the happiness of becoming acquainted with that
excellent Officer. He was an eye-witness of that
early triumph of his which did him so much credit,
when he rescued, or, rather, prevented the Emperor
ot Germany from being taken by the enemy, on which
occasion he received at his hands the first honour and
fist medal that he bestowed on an English Officer—
(Applaese).—He could state this with pleasure and
pride, but he regretted to be obliged to say, that his
friend's merits and successes had obtained for him
honours and rewards in every country but his own—
(llear, kcar, and cries caf" Sham !").—He had, in-
deed, met with some honours in England, but they
were not from the Government, but from the People
—(Cheers).—The People of Southwark had elected
him as their Representative. They had looked to
Civitians and to the Army, and they found him to be
one whom they must admire as a distinguished leader,
renowned for talent and character and covered with
honours, and whom they knew to possess the prin-
ciples and the heart of an Englishman—(Loud ap-
plause).—He (Mr. Bennett) had sat night after night
beside him in his place in Parliament, and, with the
exception of a single vote, had agreed with him in
every instance, and received the uniform impression
from his conduct that be was a friend to the People
—;Applause).—He took that decisive and honourable
part which was worthy of the cause and the advocate
or the People, but had not found in his adversaries
the sense of justice and honour upon which he acted.
He (Mr. Bennett) told him, when he stood forward
t.) interpose between the injured Queen and her op-
piessors, that he was heaping coals of fire on his own
head, that he was exciting a spirit of malignity which
would never cool, and raising a storm which was not
to be laid. But he knew that there was but one line
for an honest man to take, and he took it—(Cheers):
the consequences were such as he (Mr. H. G. Bennett;
need not further explain. He was not to be dis-
suaded from paying the last honours to the remains
of an injured and insulted woman; he had stood by
her in her misfortunes with the honesty of a patriot,
and the chivalry of a soldier, and in the same spirit
he followed her to the grave—(Loud approbstion).—
He (Mr. Bennett) joined him in that mournful pro-
cession, and though he was not himself as active in
his humanity as his Hon. Friend, who put himself in
the trout of the battle to stay the effusion of blood,
he could say, from his own knowledge, that he did
no more than his duty—(Applause). Government
had not put forth their case, although one of their
agents had promised it; but the fact was, that they
had no case to shew. They might, indeed, have
some such tale as that which had been deposed to
beture a Police Magistrate; they might have affida-
vits, such as had been made before Sir lt. Birnie,

and which all knew to be false, but which went near'
depriving an honest man of his' bread and his license:
--(Cries of" Shame!") No doubt the police offices
were crowded with snch affidavits, but it was evident
that Ministers themselves did not believe 'them, as
they struck the blow before they heard the evidence.
(Cheers). They had. punished Sir R. Wilson, lie
would not say on anonymous evidence, but certainly
on evidence the next to anonymous, as they dared
not bring it before the Public, which step they were
bound to take on every principle cf justice. The
victim of their oppression was a soldier, covered with
honours, of character untouched and unsullied—one
whom PROVIDENCE in its wisdom had not made rich,
who had but little but the profession i►► which he
vested his property, and who was by this act turned
out of his profession, and robbed of his property—
(Loud C'heeringl. And in whose cause did that hap-
pen? Was it in his own? No, it was in that of the
People—( Acclamation );—it was in the cause of the
hundreds and thousands who might have perished
like the unfortunate men Honey and Francis—(Hear,
hear)—when the military, losing all coutroul, fired
on the People, and be interfered to check the sol-
diers, to .hew then► the duty which they owed to
their Commanders and their country, with the honest

and glorious object of preventing the wanton waste
of innocent blood. If any one doubted that his
punishment arose from his having checked the abuse
of military power, let him couple it with another act
that would give it a complete explanation—he meant
the dismissal of Sir Robert Baker, that Magistrate,
who, it might be fairly stated, had been deprived of
office, because he would not carry the funeral of
the Queen over the dead bodies of his countrymen
(Repented cheering). Now, there was but one part
for Englishmen to act—let every person, accord.
ing to his
.zneans, lend his aid and support to keep
Government and the Court in subordination to the
wisdom of the country, and the honest and just
feeling of the People, and then they would not deprive
a man of his property who did not deserve to lose it.
The People should, on this occasion, in the first instance,
open their purses, to make up the property unjustly
taken away ; and in the next, they should unite to
resist, by every lawful means, the incroachments of
Ministerial oppression. A subscription such as the
present carried nothing discreditable with it to him
who received it, and they should be the last to call
it discreditable, who always had their hands in the
public purse-,-(Cheers and laughter).—He did think
that great Meeting would shew to the disingenuous
and grovelling persons in power—for however high
their stations, they were of low minds—they would
shew that they had a spirit which would not brook
military tyranny, or allow one of their best friends
to be oppressed, without giving their aid to succour'
and defend him—(Cries of " Bravo!" and 66 We
will!").—Having said so much on the immediate ob-
ject of the Meeting, he would beg leave to add one
word, as an appeal to their benevolence, on another
subject. They all knew that there were .11ree or four
persons, the relicts and families of the men who were
slaughtered on the 14th of August—(Che.rs)—and
the same might have been the lot of the person who
was then speaking, or of any who heard him. Those
' unhappy persons of whom he now spoke had lost,'
under PROVIDENCE, their best, and perhaps only sup-
port, and were left in a state of beggary and destitution.
A subscription had been entered into by a few per-
sons for their support, which amounted but to a small
sum, and it was not too much to ask them to com-
bine this object with their great work; and while
they gave their honourable aid to an injured country.
man of their's, as great as his Hon. Friend, they
would not forget the poor and humble, whom the
public calamity,which they all deplored, had brought
to that condition—(Cheers).—Had they witnessed
what he (Mr. Bennett) saw on that day, they would
not think it required any apology for bringing
this subject under their notice. He had now to thank
them for the attention with which they had heard
him, and would conclude by requesting them to bear
steadily in mind, that they lived in an order of things
in which Government was ever ready to pounce on
its prey; he requested them to be temperate,vigilant, ,
and disciplined, but zealous, and never to lose sight
of the main object, which was to do justice to them-
selves, to force Government to do substantial justice,
and to defend the freedom of their country with the
last drop of their blood. The lion. Gentleman then
sat down amid loud and continued cheering.
The CHAIRMAN then read the first Resolution, and
was proceeding to collect the sense of the Meeting
upon it, when two claimants upon the attention of
the Meeting suddenly presented themselves, one of
these was the celebrated Mr. Gale Jones, who had
contrived to make his svay into the midst of this re-
spectable assembly, and actually succeeded in getting
upon the table before any one was aware of his pre-
sence. It is needless to say that the moment he was
recognized, he was compelled to retire, though he
afterwards made some impotent attempts to obtain a
hearing. The other was a meek looking elderly
Quaker Gentleman, who wished to lay before the
Meeting some chimerical plans respecting the slaves
at Algiers. He was, however, easily dissuaded from
persevering to distill b the proceedings. On the shew of
hands, it appealed, that the Resolution was carried
unanimously, as were the next four in succession.
The following Resolution having been moved and
carried:

" That the Marquis of Tavistock, M.P. Sir Francis Burdett,
M.P. John George Lambton, Esq. M.P. Edward Ellice, Esq.
M.P. and George Weatherstone, Esq. be requested to act as
such Trustees"—
Mr. LAMBTON, being one of the few Trustees who
were present, begged leave to thank them for the ho-
nour done him, and to state that he would undertake
the office with the greatest pDssible pleasure; and he
would take that opportunity of stating that it was
intended to appropriate the sum raised to the pro-
curing an honourable provision for Sir Robert Wil-
son, and after him for his children—(Applause)—and
he considered it not the least part of the honour of
this donation, that it was not given by Kings or Mi-
nisters, but by his grateful countrymen (Loud chars).
The following Re:olution was then put by Mr.
FAVKLL, and carried by acclimation:
" That the Thanks of this Meeting are eminently due to John
George Lanibton, Esq. U.Y. [or having originated this Sub-
scription, anti for his utiwertird zeal in this cause; particularly
for having attended the Meeting of this day."
Mr. LAMB row again rose and said, he felt it neces-
sary to prevent himself once more to the Meeting, to
thank them for this additional proof of their kindness,
and to assure them that he was amply repaid by the

honour which they did him, for any trifling imam-
niencewhich his attendance there that day might have
occasioned him. lie would be always glad to meet
his fellow-citizens on subjects of such public interest,
and to express his attachn.ent to that cause, of which
he could only claim the merit of being an ardent and
zealous supporter—(Grent applause).
The following itesoltniutis were then put and car-
ried unanimously :
" That the Thinks of this Meeting be given to the Marquis
of Tavistock, M. I'. to Sir Francis Burdett, L'art. M. P. to John
George Lanibton, Esq. M.P. to Edward Ellice, Esq. MP. and
to George Weatherstone, Esq. for having accepted the °Me:
of Trustees to the Subscription Fund for indemnifying Sr tto.

bert Wilson.
" That the Thanks of this Meeting be given to James Bar-
nett, Esq. for having kindly accepted the Office of Treasurer to
the said Fund.
"That the Thanks of this Meeting be given to the lion. Grey
Bennett, M.P. to Edward Ellice, kisq. M.P. Joseph Ilume, Esq.
M.P. 11r. Lushington, M.P. the lion. William Powlat, M.P.
T. S. Buncombe, Esq. J. B. Monck, Esq. M.P. Janice Barnett,
Esq. and T. B. Beaumont, Faq. for their very liberal support of
this Subscription, and fur their attendance this day."
Mr. Hume, being loudly called for, came forward
to return thanks for his being appointed one of the
Committee. He had hoped, he said, that the busi-
ness of the day, which had gone on so well hitherto,
would have ended without his being called upon to
address them. This Resolution, however, had made
it imperative upon him to come forward and return
his thanks. He assured them that no man was morel
anxious than he was to support, to the full extent of
his abilities, all the rights of Englishmen—(Cheers).
—No man in a public situation was more desirous
of discharging his duty to the People with fide-
lity, for he must .consider himself an exception to
Scotch returns!—(cheering and continued knitter).—
He would feel it a disgrace, if, on such an occasion,
lie was wanting in zeal to give the object in view his
humble support. lie fully concurred in what had
been stated by their worthy Chair man, arid by those
who moved and seconded the ,Resolutions ; but he
hoped the time was not far distant when the country
would, from one end to the other, testify its abhor-
rence of an act, which was nor merely an act of in-
justice to one person, but an outrage to the civil rights
of Englishmen—(Loud applause). He could not look
back upon the events of Manchester—(Hear, hear)—
and those of the 14th of last August, without coupling
them as acts of that one spirit which animated an
arbitrary Ministry—(Cheers).—He could not, in this
point of view, separate the proceedings at Manchester
from those at Cumberland-gate; but the latter in-
volved a question of the greatest importance, and
they were about to determine whether the Crown
could exert a despotic authority over the interests and
property of one individual, who was one of 50,000
Officers, for he (Mr. Hume) had taken the trouble to
ascertain the number—(Cries of Bravo ! and laughter).
He knew not to what to attribute that expression of
approbation; but one .thing was certain, that he
wished, whenever he could, to prove his positions by
figures, and to rest all his positions on facts, instead)
or vague evidence—(Hear, hear)—and he would nowt
put it to them, whether thei plea of prerogative onl
which the disinissal of Sir R. Wilson was defended,
could be upheld ? To ascertain this, they should see
how England stood in this respect in former times.
He had taken much pains to inform himself on the
subject, and he could assure them there was but one
case at all similar to the present, relative to the dis-
missal of Officers on half-pay, and which formed the
only exception to the general rule in the last 20 years.
He alluded to the case of three individuals of the 55th
Regiment of a Garrison Battalion, who were dis-
missed without trial, and without any opportunity
being afforded them of shewing their innocence. Sir
R. Wilson was another instance, and he (Mr. Hume)
was prepared to shew, that the prerogative claimed
by the King was one which he did not possess—(4
kuse). This was not the time for entering at large
into the discussion of this question, nor was he pre-
pared to argue a point of great national importance,
as a mere lawyer might be disposed to view it; but
upon the principles of common sense and common
reason, the foundation of all Government was the
of the many. This was the definition adopted
good Locke, Blackstone, and other constitutional wri-
ters, and hence it followed that the King possessed no
prerogative but for the public good, and only to be
exercised when the laws of the land were silent. In
this case the King had been advised by unprincipled
Ministers, for he must call those men unprincipled,
whether Whigs or Tories, who could support such
outrages against the liberties of the People, as those
which had been committed at Manchester and at
Cumberland-gate. The profession of a soldier was
one which he could not but look upon as one of the
most honourable character. It should never be for-
gotten, that soldiers were men who risked their lives
and embarked their property in the public service;
who were ever ready to defend those whose local
interests kept them at home, and to support the
honour of the country abroad. This was a class
of men, therefore, which the people of England
were more especially bound to protect. Was it
not monstrous, that a body .of nineteen thousand
men, for that was the number of Officers on half
pay, including the half-pay list of the navy, which
amounted to 7,500, should, as soon as they had re-
tired from the arduous duties of their profession, and
recurred, according to the constitutional doctrine,
to their rights, as citizens, be rendered the dependent
slaves of Ministerial caprice, and degraded from their
rank, if they presumed, like Sir Robert Wilson, to
act the part of a good soldier, and to defend the In-
Istitutions of the country as by law established? If
the half-pay Officers, amounting to a body of 19,000
men, were to be made slaves to the Minister of the
day, what an engine would be at once established
against every attempt to support those principles of
liberty and independence which all good citizens
were interested in maintaining. Oa this most im-
portant occasion, the present Meeting had very pro-,
peily taken the lead. The blood of their unfortunate
fellow-countrymen, Honey and Francis, cailed upon
them in a more especial manner to take such mea•
sures as might have the effect of hurling the au-
thors of these detestable proceedings from the power
of doing further mischief—(Hear, hear, hear)
We could no longer be said to live in a country which
tiof istoowde reouitis enjoyed odyteedmaticivil
ocof nstituti
duty on,at hset apnodivn7
aaromd y, w
totiatlsecret
ki
e oi,
oordersthemselves
to disregard
the
charge the civil power,keeping
:he peace, in oppo.ition to the laws of the land, winch
compelled them to act in subordination to the civil.
magistrate. What would our Legislators, what would

Hume
went °nbtec;t'aliiTecitize
our Judges say, if the military were thin • ed
to take the law into their own hands? He was.
pared to prove, upon a proper occasion, thou the 0%;
rages of the 14th of August were committed no.
otdy
without the sanction, but against the express •
and opinions of the civil magistrate-4A pee 7141."
the room said, I'll prove that they acted agat,-;:tnthem
trSeirmlibl°eertd.:
civil magistrate. ]—Mr.
he was at the Queen's funeral, acioulwthae
Wilson was not out of his sight ten minutes Burin
that day. Sir Robert N 1 ilson was entirely innotent-
of all the attempts which Ministers insinuated againt-
him, and there would be an inquiry after all, far i 6
People would have it, if they spoke but togeth
Litalteeolyuldwbheetailt‘lll.eayPse:op.leHsepohkoep,ed
thirdsletting would
be followed by similar ones throughout England. k
behoved the Officers on half-pay especially to i„k
this affair; because henceforth they will
slaves of the Minister. In the case of General/kr,
it was declared that Officers on halt:pay wen
not"'
subject to martial law. A half.pay Wirer was ash
tizen, and ooplit not to he deprived of his right,.._.
II re was a great violation of private rights, which
ought not to be overlooked. He had felt it his duty
to make these observations; and with regard to rhe
present subscription, he trusted that if there wereany
surplus, it would not be confined to the object of in.
demnifying Sir Robert Wilson, but extended to t
relief of those miserable objects, who, though humble,
did not the less call upon them for their protedoe
and support—(Hear, hear). He trusted their fuse
would be found amply sufficient for carrying
whole of these objects into effect. The Honourable
Member then alluded to the decay of the old miry
power, and noticed the attack upon Mr. Shnii
Waithinan. In other times such an outrage word/
have brought the Ministers to the block—(Cries
Question ! question !") He begged pardon for ix.
traducing other topics; he did not allude to A. or B,
but to the office only. Having again expressed hit
thanks, the Honourable Member withdrew maids
loud cheering.
Dr. LosiiiNorox assured the Meeting that it ve
not his hitention to have trespassed upon them by any
observations that day, had he not been called tipro
by the Resolution which was last put from the Chain
for he conceived that the statement which they hat
heard from his Honourable Friend had embraced all
the topics for which the Meeting was particalarlyco
vened. His Honourable Friend had stated, with grey
eloquence, and with great warmth of feeling, that tie
case of Sir Robert NV ilson was the case of the haply
and that to support him, therefore, was the bounties
duty of every one who wished to uphold the Cost.
tution of the country, and to save from oppressie
and destruction those who were the friends of the Pea
pie. Most cordially did he(Dr. Lushington)uria in
that sentiment; for, when he considered the arts(
which his Majesty's Government had been guilty, it
dismissing Sir Robert Wilson without trial, %titbit
any avowed accusation, and without daring tomb
any public authenticated statement of the lan;
he could not but regard it as an act of pure do
potism and unmixed tyranny—(Cries of Hear, heart
To what a state would the country be reduced, ifil
the Officers who now composed our numerous am
—an army more numerous than had ever been knots
during a time of peace—were liable, arithoatcharge,
without accusation, without trial, to forfeit all those
claims which they had acquired upon the Gouts..
ment and upon the nation, at the mere lire dint ci
the Minister of the day. The consequences we mai
important to them all, in a politiCal pointuf view ,as
to Sir Robert Wilson, who had been made the rims
of Ministerial vengeance; for, if once this comfy
were to view such an act in silence, without t.
strongest expressions of disgust and
the consequence—the example wou)
fear of similar treatment would -
upon the minds of all who now coin
and they would either become the
ment, or at least shrink from the
of their political sentiments to sat
ruin and disgrace—(Loud applause,
.which was the greater evil, or wh
avowal of sentiments hostile to the
more desirable for the good of the
then they would have open and as
contend with, instead of that sect.
cence—that abstinence from all exert
us doubtful as to the opinions of
gives the strongest and best support
tration—the support of silent consent
It was, therefore, their bounden tit
they owed to themselves, to restore
son to that state of independence,
stitution of Britain were sound, be ,
a General Officer in the King's serv,
the Constitution were sound, for
say, in England at least, that Officers
ought not to be as independent as any .
living upon property of any description, their 14*
cal sentiments ought to be as free; in thormilital
capacity alone they were bound to pay inipfatohe
dience to the Crown; is their civil catactr! dg
ought to be free from all controuL Why a~
Robert Wilson selected for this sacrif
Lushington) felt the strongest indignat
lection, but he confessed that in his mind.,
surprise. They had selected an individv-
had extended to every quarter of the
who had shewn himself in battle bold,
himself the kindest friend even to a r
Through all the extensive warfare in
been engaged, he had ever raised
tect the fallen, and shared his purse
enemies in the depth of their affliction
more particularly, to his exertions to
lease of Destiouettes, the Physiciat
French forces, and to the donation
the enemy in the extremity of their di
conduct which he hailed with admix-
conduct worthy of a man and a
those who opposed him, and mercif
his prowess had subdued. Let them
other parts of his conduct. With(
the Government of his country, w
of favour than the liberty of pure!
missions, unadorned by any of those inat
tinction which were due to his extraordinary isfert:
be returns in a period of peace to the boselo,l%
t
country, and is elected into Parliament by the
bought suffrages of the Electors of Southwath.:
them view Min in his Parliamentary capaoltU
where, he would ask, was an individual to be'

,ce, or without ct a
abhonence,sal
'ould take root;de
necessarily ocee
composed the and,
le slaves of Com
e public mirk's'
ive themselves
tsse).—He knew
whether the pea a
he People weted
se country, hems e
avowed enemies . 2
cret, silent acq
tertion—which I
the individual,
nt to a bad Ad •
isent and adheres
duty, a duty w
:ore Sir Robert
e, which, if thee •
e had enjoyed, sy
service. He will •
✓ no man oughts
fficers in the All
as any indiridwl

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in which he
his hand to r. ,
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which he galO
distress. ThIS2.4 c
liration—this ""
Briton, brawl
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pore constant in his attendance, more indefatigable
ju his exertions, more addicted to the great principles
d Reny and justice, than Sir Robert Wilson?---
And last of all, upon that memorable question which
agitated the country, arisaig front the persecution of,
the departed Queen, who came forward with greater
portliness, and stood in the breach with greater firm-
ttm and constancy?—(Applause)— Alas! all might
ba,e been pardoned but this !--EThis exclamation
was delivered in a most impressive and pathetic man-
, and produced a strong sensation in the Meeting.
ir was followed by loud and continued applause.]—
All might have been forgiven (resumed Dr. Lushi ng-
ton), and buried in everlasting oblivion, but this !
Ibis it was which spurred the dark spirit of malignity,
and lighted the fire which was afterwards to consume
him! Unmoved by all considerations of public prin.
ciple_..regardless of all public justice, honour, or
s Government proceeded to award
truth—his Majesty
what they conceived to be a punishment ; to degrade,
if degradation were in their power; and to ruin, if
their malevolence could have effected it. GOD be
nuked it had precisely the coati ai y effect—(Loud
praised
Against the tyranny of the Government
!Turd arisen the strong arm of the People—against the
persecution of the King and his Ministers had arisen
support of the nation—against their degradation,
the honour of the land—against their depredations,
a subscription, which, he trusted, would place Sir
Robert Wilson and his family above the reach of
wont, and enable him still to discharge his duties
as a Representative of Southwark—(Applause).--
Be trusted the Electors of Southwark would never
fold what he had suffered in their cause, and that,
Thayer an opportunity should again occur, they
would again return him by their unanimous suffrages
as their Representative in Parliament, so as to laugh
at the threats of the Government, while they supported
to the end a faithful servant of the People. It only
remained for him to thank the Meeting for the man-
ner in which his name had been mentioned, and to
asure them that, although he had on the present oc-
casion studiously abstained from all other topics, he
looked forward to the hour, with an earnest anxiety
for its rapid approach, whew the transactions of the
14th of August, and those which followed them,
might be brought before the Public, and silted to the
bran in their true and proper colours. He would not
advert to these topics now, because he wished to ad-
vert to them when he had an opponent to combat,
and an enemy to. face, The Hon. and Learned Gen-
tleman retired, amid acclamations of applause.
Mr. Ewa said, that after what had been urged
).y his Honourable Friends around him, which so
completely coincided with his own feelings, little re-
mained for him but to express his thanks, which he
should have done before, for the honour they had
done him in choosing him one of the Trustees. He
assured the Meeting that he should do his utmost to
apply properly the produce of the subscription and
he should do this not only from his prier:ate feelings
of affection for Sir R. Wilson, but from his !Leine of
the public principle drat- -was involved in their pro-
ceedings. If any persons had been credulous as to
the vague rumours propagated respecting the con-
duct of Sir R. Wilson, on the 14th of August, they
had now heard the positive assertions of his Ho-
nourable Friends, that Sir R. Wilson was not absent
from their sides ten minutes during the whole of
that day. He (Mr. Ellice) could assure them, that
for four days before the 14th, Sir R. Wilson was in
his company on the road from Paris—(Applause).—
Affidavits, it was said, had been sworn that Sir Ro-
byn bad attended Meetings at Kensington and else-
ahem previously to the 14th of August. Now, at
the time of the alleged Meetings, Sir Robert was in
a post-chaise with him (Mr. Ellice) on the real from
Paris, whence he only arrived at five o'clock the
netting before the day of the Queen's funeial —(Ap-
plasm. On as good evidence, the word of an honest
am, he believed, that there was as much truth in
ire affidavits as in the rest of the lying stories re-
electing Sir Robert Wilson's conduct—(llear, hear).
&had now only to add, that, in the name of this
rat City, he felt grateful to his Hon. Friend who
hd taken the Chair. This was the first great Public
Meeting not confined to classes or districts, that was
idd for the promotion of this cause, and he was most
happy to see his Hon. Friend present, as to his exer-
tions they must mainly attribute its great success.
Mr. EWELL then moved, that the following Gen-
tlemen be added to the Committee of the Electors
of Southwark :
The Hen. IL G. Bennett, M.P. lion. W. Powlett, M.P. J.
..Clawkon, Fag. M.P. Sir Francis Burdett, Bart. M. P. Dr.
""1011,11. )t.P. F. Fllice, Esq. M.l'. J. Hume, Esq. M.P.
liobhouse, Est M.P. J. B. Beaumont, Esq. S. Favell,
L Marshal, hsq. F. Place' Esq. J. Tennant, F.sq. J.
Esq. T. Wishart, Esq. J. Barnett, Esq. G. Fitch,T. Esq.
e'll'er, Esq. Martineau,Esq. R. Taylor, Esq. C.
Ibraciell4 .1. Wihon, Esq. J. Todd, Esq. R. Lilwall, Esq.
J. FA+ A. Thorpe, Esq. Marquis of Tavistock, A.
W. Items, Esq. J. B. Mond, gsq.
Mr. LAMBTON moved the Thanks of the Meeting
to the Hon. Mr. Bennett and Mr. Favell, for their
Mention to the business of the day.
Mr.Faveureturnedthanks. He said he was amply
awarded, with full pay and good wages, in the ap-
pobation of honest men.
Mr. LARIBTON said he had received a letter from a
Gentleman, complaining that he could not be heard.
"Who is he?" was the general
M. LASTON !A question.
replied, it was Mr. Gale Jones.
A great tumult was then commenced, which lasted
*some minutes, but, at the close, the unanimous
vice was that he should not be heard.
Mr. WEATHERSTONZ moved the 'Thanks of the
Meeting to Mr. Lambton ; after which that Gentleman
Marna thanks.
A subscription was opened, at which a consider-
able sum was collected, and the Meeting dispersed.
11ie following letter has been addressed by the Earl
of DARLINGTON to the Chairman of the Committee
for receinn
g Subscriptions:
. a Raby Castle, October 21, 1121.
11-1 have received your letter by the post this evening.
am tit-Urals of availing myself of the first moment toicknow-
Mgr its receipt, and to assure you, for the information of the
Caualillte, that no person can entertain a more sincere desire
"'Promote the highly desirable object that they have so laudably
,
sidertaken than a proof of which, I trust that you
4k as
already received my subscription of SOO guineas, and the
litter Which I had already addressed to you to notify it.
Thentremedistance of 255 miles from London, I trust that
I wad plead as my apology for not attending the Meeting at the
*1 London 'raven', one the 25th instant, which would also
this moment subject me to much personal inconvenience.
" I shall very anxiously wish for the success of the measure,
aid trust that the necessary means will not be wanting to pro.
itt which I request to know. t' I remain, ace.
(Sigased) "DARLINGTON."

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

ts,- NEXT TUESDAY LOTTERY BEGINS.—ALL
MONEY.—THREE or X.30;000!!! NOT TWO BLANKS
TO A PRIZE.-830,000 FOR THE FIRST-DRAWN
PRIZE.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, IS2I.
THE FUNDS.

PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAT AT ONI O'CLOCK :
Bank Stock 240 25914-3 per Ct. Redu. 771/4 Vs
3 per Cent. Cons. 781/4 78 1/8-31,e2 per Ct. 873/4 %
4 per Cent. 96 s/g 314-5 per Cent. I l 13/g 1/2
Long Anns. 19% 9-16—India Bonds 70 pre.
Exch. Bills 4s. Gs. ss. pr.—Do. (Small) 7s. pre.
Cons. for Account 78 %a 1/4 $/4•

We are happy to learn that accounts have reached
the Admiralty of the safe return to the coast where
they disembarked, of the Northern over•land Expe-
dition, under the command of Lieutenant FRANKLIN,
who, with Dr. RICHARDSON and the two Midshipmen
that accompanied the party, were in perfect health.
The discoveries which they have made are, we under-
stand, highly gratifying and important.

The Paris Papers of Tuesday arrived this forenoon.
According to additional accounts from Spain, re-
. ceived in Paris on Sunday night, the contagion had
not made any farther progress in Arragon, but it
committed the greatest ravages in the town of Mequi- '
nenza. Almost the whole population have quitted
the place, and thrown themselves into the neighbour-
ing woods, where they are a prey to the most fright-
ful calamities; they ate surrounded by numerous
cordons, who fire upon all that approach them.
A letter from Leghorn of the 9th inst. announces
that the sanatory state of that city had not experi-
enced any alteration, which proves the falseness of
the reports transmitted by the Marseilles journals
respecting the appearance of the yellow fever, or
cholera nrorbits, at Leghorn.
An article from Vienna of the 12th of October says,
We are this moment informed that the Russian Am-
bassador has made a new communication to our Ca-
binet, of the highest importance, and Mat it is believed
to be decisive."

French Five per Cents. Monday, 89 f. 9.5 c.

A Hamburgh Mail arrived this forenoon with
Papers to the 10th inst. The following are extracts :

ST. PETERSBURGII, SEPTEMBER 28.

The Petersburgh Gazette says :—" The most per-
fect tranquillity prevailed at Constantinople. The
embargo on all ships laden with corn had been taken
off, by an order from the Sultan ; and the naviga-
tion of the Channel has resumed its regular uninter-
rupted course."

Regulations for the limits of navigation and the
commercial relations along the East Coast of Siberia,
the North west Coast of America, the Aleutian, Ku-
tile, &c. Islands, have been published here, with the
'lowing Ukase to the Senate:

" As we have perceived by the statements laid before us, that
the trade of our subjects in the Aleutian Islands and in the Rus-
sian possessions on the north-west coast of America, is exposed
to various hardships and disadvantages from the practice of
smuggling, and u we find that the main cause of these disad-
vantages lies in the want of regulations for the limits of navigation
along those coasts, and of a rule for the commercial relations as
well in the above places as in general on the east coast of 'Sibe-
ria, we have judged it necessary to determine these relations by
the following special regulations."—[flambstres Exhange List,
Octobe► 15. The Regulations are not given in this Paper.]

In an Imperial Ukase, dated the 4th inst. the fol-
lowing, among other regulations, are laid down for
the trade of the Aleutian Islands, and in the Russian
possessions on the North-west coast of America:

I. All trade, wkale-fisbiug, fishing in general, and every
branch of business in the ports and bays, and in general along
the whole North-west coast of America, from /3ehring's Strait
to 51g North latitude; as also along the Aleutian Islands and
on the Rost coast of Siberia; and likewise along the Kurile
Islands; that is to say, from Bebring's Straits to the South Cape
of the Island of Ooroop, in 45° 511 North latitude, are permitted
to Russian subjects exclusively.
_

I. Every foreign vessel is consequently prohibited, not only
from loading on any of the coasts and islands specified in the
foregoing section, but also from approaching them within a
less distance than 100 Italian miles. Whoever shall violate this
prohibition is liable to confiscation of ship and cargo, &c.