Star.
London, England, 1817-05-31 00:00:00

FOR COUGHS. ROARSENESSES, &e.

MR. GREENOUG H's PECTORAL
GIS of TOLD ; the great demsad fbr which, after
sixty years trial, proves them a superior remedy for all Coughs,
Nuaneuesses, sore Throats, Asthmatic mad Consumptive
Complasto. The gamine may have R. Hayward printed ors
the searp„ by wham they are prepared, as successor to Mr.,
Olgrallf* the Investor.
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The Requisition having been read,
Mr. nivitu. addressed the Meeting. The question
which they were assembled to take into consideration
was one of great importance to the Citizens of Lon-1
el.m, and to the country at large. He trusted they
aould prove, by their exertions this day, that they
err! animated by the spirit of their forefathers, and
temilu:e to defend their rights and their 'liberties
acain.t every inroad that might be attempted. The
Suspension of the Habeas Corpus was a measure that
might,• with some thew of reason, be resorted to, it
an invading army threatened our shores; if the ad.
ministr.dion of justice were obstructed ; or if the Ma.
gistrat"s of the country neglected their duty. None
of those evils were now to be deplored ; for the Niia
gisttates of Lcndon, the recent disturbances bad
,erred but to prove their vigilance and resolution.—
iTheentidoet of Sir James Shaw on that occasion,
and indeed ever since, had done him high honour,
and the declaration he had yesterday made in the
Court ut Common Council, that he should by every
means in his power resist the further Suspension of
the Act, did certainly *entitle him to the warmest
:•ratitude his fellow, citizens could possibly bestow
on him. The love which we bad. for our Habeas•
Corpus Act, WAS coeval with our natural feelings,
and had indeed been always felt by men wilt) knew
how to value freedom. The same love had ani-
mated the great Apostle of the Gentiles, at a petiod
when he was unjustly deprived of freedom and cruelly
punished for performing an act of Mercy. 66 They
have beat us," exclaimed that admirable man, "they
have brat us openly and uncondemtied, being Ru.
mans," and might not liritons cry in the same spirit,
" they have robbed us of our liberty which is better
than life, while we were uncundemned and even un-
heard."—(Lendifjohniser ) The real object of Mi-
nisters, however plausible the pretext might be, was,
in fact, to make the people afraid ut asking their
rights, and to make them tremble at the very name
of Reform. They might thus indeed procure a calm,
but it was the solitude of death, and the calm of set-
tled despair. But he trusted the 'country, as one,
would (mite to resist inch an unwarrantable invasion
or its privileges. lie trusted the spirit of English-
men would be awakened, that the British Lion'would
exert his wonted fire, and then might we bid defiancr
to Ministers and all their measures. He concluded
amidst much applause, by reading the following Re-
solutions:

N• That the.pauW of the Habeas Corpus Act, which took
il,l4o4oiatsiiewtin the trimmical Niglio( Charles tlioSeemd, couferred
oryhd--411•4011111011, ajaaan
arbitrary sod illegal imprisonment having heat the ancient and
combs law of she wasassertodb Mapra'ebarta, since
coalface by numerous Statutes, and nolo cfahaed and asserted
by the Petition of Right.
i" That frequent and arbitrary via/alma of this right, whereby
innocent men were depnved of their liberty, and often of their
lifts—awl more iiiimediately the illegal and arbitrary imprison-
, ascot of a Citizen of Loudon, for proposing to his Fellow Ciii.
sew, at a Common Hall, the petitionuig tor a redress of
atlas—led our ancestors to pass that celebrated Act, justly dam-
' minated the great Bulwark of Personal Security, not fur the pur.
pose of creating or conferring a new right, but for maintaining
in prank( that right, which had been frequently and tyrannically
Invaded; and effectually, as they thought, to erect a barrier
against Suture acts of oppression.
•• That although no period of our history has been more fruit-
ful In plots, alarms of sedition, disaffectioo, and treason; yet so
fa were our ancestors from thinking them just grounds for sus•
pending the privileges of Englishmen, that it was the moment
theypedged it necessary thus to shad them ageism oppression.
" That the Livery of London are of opluicin, that the real
object of Ministers iu proposing the Suspension of the said Act,
and other innovations upon the Laws of the Itealm,at a moment
of unparalleled distress and suffering, when Petitions were crowd-
lug from all pans of the United Empire,was to stiffs Complaints,
prevent Inquiry into Abuses, and the Itedress of Utterances, and
to enable them to carry on the same system of Corruption and
Prodigality which has so causpiciously marked their destructive
cantor.

" That the precipitancy with which these measures so deeply '
affecting the Rights of the Subject, were hurried thruugb: Parlia-
mem, upon vague, incoodusive, es-pane evidence, offered to be
disproved in its most material parts at the liar of both Houses,
while the numerous complaints of the people yet remained un-
enquired into, and their grievances unredressed, afford* a lamen-
table proof et the corrupt, inadequate, and degenerate state of
the Representation of the People : and we cannot bet view the
conduct of-Ministers, in proposing sash measures, with the main-
trusses of au enormous standing army, and all the means of
corrupt Influence in their hands, as part of a sLstegir destroy
she Liberties of the People, and to establish a Govern-
bias two the reins of the British Constitution.
" Time this Common Hall cannot but regard the nomination
of a Committee, composed chiefly of Placensto, Pensioners, and
the Adherents of Minisers, as merely tending, like former ex-
I podienteot the kind, to public delusion—tie good baring yet
I arisen from such expedleats—and the proposed abulitiosi of a few
Places tea neither lessen the public burdens, nor diminish undue
idisenee—it being prorised to invest the Crown, as an equiva-
lent, with the power of granting to those Ministers who have
remained in oaks a Certain ante compensations amounting to
Xes,ooo per annum bolding thereby the ine.t powerful induce-
ment to unprincapied men to cling to lance; and rewards will
*odour, when, it is to be leered, their conduct wdald too often
call for impeachment.
• That Pen:loos be therefore presented to both Houses of
Parliament, praying them to take into consideration the tempe-
rance fortitude, and tranquillity which has been manifested
loge; this most trying distresses and privations, and .that they
will reject all attempts again to deprive the People of the Great
Diener of personal bccusity, or any other encroachment upon
their ceastitialonal Rights; and that they will be further pleased
to institute Inquiry intonational grievances, and redress the same,
as the surest means of calming the public mind, and promoting
the peace, liberty, and security of the Crown and the People."
Mr. Hrrcruns seconded the resolutions. He ob.
served that Parliament bad :hewn itself to be deaf,
blind, and dumb...-deaf to the prayers of the people,
blind to the distresses of the country, and dumb with
respect to its being the public voice. Ile ought rather'
to say it was dead, for it exhibited all the symptoms
of death in a hideous mass of corruption. .
• M. HOST presented himself to the Livery. He
laid he was happy to have it in his power to come
from a great distance, and to enter his protest along
With that of his fellow-citizens against the continu-
ance of the:obnoxious measure so often alluded to.—
He assented most cordially to ail the Resolutions
which he had heard restd against enslaving the pco-

ple. He had ao hesitatiiin in saying, that if the
measure now complained of war passed, it email be
the first rivet in the chains of Englishmen. If its the
time of peace and tranquillity such laws were suf-
fered to be passed, when. he would ask, would they
be repealed ? A Liveryman, who spoke in favour of
the Resolutions, had asked. who wauld dare to op-
pose the Ministetial Candidate, with the Act hanging
over his head ? " I would dare," said Mr. Hine,
" and will continue to speak the truth, although the
hews were a thousand times more severe against it than
they are." He deceereJ it to be his opinion that so core
scious were Ministers of their unpopilleri*ne weak.
ness, they dared nor to venture on a new elftiellbwithe
out suspending the Hsheas Corpus Act. He said, the
death of the Property Tax had been alluded to as ate
good action that the Parletment had done. For his
pan he thought re) thanks were dee on that account,
when it was considered hoe, much the Members were
themselves gainers be it. Reverting to the period, of
the Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act a few
months since, he would remind the Livers that they
passed the bill surrounded by a military force, and
theretore their deliberations were not free. Twelve
months ego he hail predicted, when the loaf was
about 9J. that the Corn Bill would make it is 6.1.
and so it happened. Since th • passing of that Bill,
misery, poverty, and wretchedness, were stalking
about the country ; and in the rotten borough of
Andover, near which he resided, the poor-rates, which
were a twelvemonth ago 433 per week, were now
upe anis et iiloo. IS was the fashion of late, he
observed, to cry out treason, sedition, and hlesplienee,
against the people; but their only treason was Nee
attack they made on sii.ecures ; their only sedition
was directed against pletemen ; and their only blas-
phemy was, the attempt they made to unveil the hy-
pocrisy of their oppressors—(.4er/slaw )
Mr. WAIIIIMAY :Wel, that on a subject so well
known as the present, it was unnecessary for him to
say much, for indeed it was impossible to say one
thing new. Bat though we could say nothing neWi
still this should nut pievent us from repeating our
complaints, always remembering the old • proverb,
that hard bodies yield only to the repeated strokes of
the hammer. In the cause of freedom he had uni-
fiiimiy struggled for the last twenty-four years, and
he wie well aware he had done so amidst much per-
' secution and reproach, but the more he was attacked
' the more he persevered. It had also been his study
at all times to unite the friends of Retrofit in one cause,
1,40 d to make them-forget their (rutty differences, and if
ever there was a period when union should be effected,
timely it was at present, when our liberties, our right!,
and even our existence itself, were placed at the ar-
bitrary will of a Ministry, who, on the most frivolous
grounds, had suspended our dearest privilege, anal
bad done evtry thing they crania to prevent our
competintibeiag attended' to. He had foreseen that
such acts would tare place, 'in consequence of the
very injudicious proceedings of some eiefent indivi-
duals, and he had even stated in writing that this
would be the case, but he had not been attended to.
It was ludicrous to bear Ministers complain of forms
of Petitions being sent down for signatures to the
country, especially when the public knew, that solely
finder the pattonegeof Ministers had the celebrated
declarations of John Reeve s been scut down free of
postage, to Parsons and Magistrates, who, by these
declarations, were taught first to alarm the people,
and then they would be sure of procuring signatures.
Even the Acts which Ministers had pasted were un-
intelligible to the Seeretery of State, who had to
make application to the Law Officers of the Crown;
and they were equally unintelligible to the City Ma-
gistrates and the Learned Recorder, none of whom
knew what philosophy meant; and he believed that, as
a worthy Gentleman bad observed, if they were
asked " What do you mean by liberty i" they would
answer, 44 Really, it was so frittered away, that no-
body knew what it was— (Load .Ipplause:)." While
Clubs composed of young men destined tor the Bar
were prohibited from meeting to discuss those im.
portant subjects which were essential to their improve-
ment, it was extraordinary to witness the number of
meetings held in memory of that " Statesman now no
more," of whose reputation (to use a mercantile
phrase) but a small remnant was left—(Tear, hear).
In a public paper he had seen no less than thirty.
three advertisements for the Pitt Club, all expressed
in nearly the same terms, and, as he had no delve,
inserted at the expense of Goveinnurist, he ought
rather to say, at the public expense. But, in tilt
name of wonder, why could Ministers expect that
they should be honoured with public confidence,
when they were divided among themselves about
measures essential to the salvation of the state ?
Why could they hope for public esteem or approba-
tion, when even at this Club—this Pitt Club (which,
by the bye, was not licensed, as the Act of Parliament
recently passed required), they did not all attend, in
consequence of a toast which was, if report spoke
true, not congenial to them ? Besides, how could
they rationally huge for the public putting any confi-
dence in them, when the people saw an immense
standing army established to crush popular feeling,
while on the contrary they had not attended to a single
Petition, and done nothing for the public tranquillity ?
He fully agreed with the able opinion of that truly
excellent Statesman, Lord Chathein, (and, oh, that
it were the opinion of every one in the country !)
al better that England should perish in a glorious
contest for liberty, than that Englishmen should SA.
orifice one iota of the Constitution,"—(4Ndeea).—
He had been foolishly asked, why did be complaie
when he had liberty to walk about ? He thanked GCD
heGo liberty,hadthakvi;tnea
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to-morrow,but
how long he might have it
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nay to-night r any
thing he was aware of, he might be hurried to a pri-
son and immured there without knowing his crime,
and when brought to trial might be accused and tried
hired spies. Thant
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restraint, but
.how long it might be so no person could tell, as they
were now at the mercy of the Minister. *lc look at

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