Star.
London, England, 1821-12-07 00:00:00

•

-daily become more general. There were certain dill
ficulties opposed to their progress, but by a madly I
and steady perseverance those difficulties might and
would be overcome ; as by such perseverance in ;dim
lines:it-conduct. that Club had conquered thoseobstacles
with which it had had to encounter. It was vain to
conceal that they were contending against fearful
odds. The spirit of Toryism had so many ramifica-
tions—so many holds on the follies, vices, and, pas-
sions of mankind—so .:any temptations to the cupi-
dity of the selfish—it held forth so many prospects of
advantage to the corrupt—its power had been so con-
solidated by the length of time it had predominated,
and every fresh instance of corruption so added to its
strength, and every fresh instance of profligacy so
increased its means, that it Must be owned it had be-
come extremely formidable; yet he did not despair
of crushing it by a fi'm and manly perseverance...-.
That monster of corruption, the National Debt, had
enormously increased during the present Administra-
tion, and the collection of the Revenue now exceeded
the amount of the interest of the Debt when the pre-
sent Ministry came into office. It was vain, there-
fore, to attempt to conceal the magnitude of the
power which they had to oppose, the various wind-
ings and intricate operations of the system through
all its parts, seen as its influence was in the dead
vote of the daily pe:itioner at the Treasury, the un-
principled servility of hungry expectancy, and the
arbitrary measures of the actual possessors of official
power and emolument. Yet, not content with all
these sources of power, the supporters of Administra-
tion had endeavoured to prop their cause by othei
and still mote disieputable means. They had esta- I
blished a system of misrepresentation and I ca.umny.
alty and sedition, in their mouths and G on] their
pens, had become cant words, applied at random to
all who opposed the will of the Minis•et. They strove
to mix up the safety and I ermaneuce ~f all those isi•
stitutions which the country esteemed as valuable
and sacred, with the preservation of their own—he
hoped temporary—usurpations. All-ve all, they en-
deavoured to connect loyalty to the Sovereign with
servile adulation of themselves. B.it he trusted that
his Majesty would see through their arts, aid that,
by going more among his people, he ould be better
able to judge of their feelings and of Minns; and,
though his Majesty might not experience that warmth
and volatility from his English subjects that he had
witnessed in a sister part of the kingdom, he doubted
not that the people of this country were as loyal and
a. much attached to the King And the Jaws, as any
other portion of his Majesty's subjects, however they
might disapprove the acts of his Ministers—(Ap-
planse).—lt was not surprising that, ;sassessed of these
various sources of power, almost unlimited, the sys-
tematic violation of public opinion had been pro
gressive; and, accordingly, they had seen each suc-
cessive year fertile in encroachments on popular
right. The daring attack on the Meeting at Man-
chester was followed by the birth of the monstrous
Bill of Pain and Penalties; and, again this year they
had seen some prominent traits of a similar descrip-
tion. It remained for the 14th of August to strew
that the petty malice of power could extend even to
the grave ; and that, in furtherance of the policy ma-
nifested towards the late Queen in her lifetime, the
Authorities of the country, after her death, were
placed in opposition to the best feelings of the People.
He should have hoped, that the spirit in which the
proceedings to which he alluded had been commenced
would have ceased when life was extinct in the ob-
ject cf ;heir persecution ; and that they would not
have carried it to a point which, he thought, Must
have startled some of Breit roost devoted adherent..
This led him to the case of Sir R. Wilson, who had
been dismissed from the Army without trial, with-
out hearing, and, he might add, without accusation
—(44pplause).—He agreed with his Hon. Friend (Mr.
Lambton), that the Ministers, in this instance, had
acted under a fearful responsibility. They should re-
collect, that the odious and forced exercise of dor-
mant prerogative had, ere now, led to consequences
which no man could wish to see recur--(Applause).
The evils which he had mentioned, he considered,
were to be traced to the defective state of the Repre-
sentation of the People—(Lord and repealed cheering).
It had been justly remarked, that without a properly
constituted House of Commons, the liberties of the
country were written in sand. The House of Com-
mons had reversed its natural and proper character,
and, instead'of being the Representative of the People,
and a check upon the Government, it was the repre-
sentative of the Government, and a check upon the
People—(Cheers).—But under all these circumstances
of discouragement, it was consoling to reflect that
we were fighting with the spirit of the age on our
side; and, if the People were united, firm, and per-
severing, he confidently anticipated that, sooner or
later, they would accomplish that change.which was
so essential for the respectability of the Sovereign,
the independence and purity of Parliament, and the
liberties and prosperity of the People.—His Lordship
concluded amidst long and continuea cheering.
4. Sir Robert Wilson; and may every (Meer in the British
Army and Navy be equally attached to the liberties and best
interests of the People."

Mr. LAMBTON returned thanks, and apologised
for Sir Robert Wilson's absence.

The lion. T. DUNDAS, M.P. returned thanks On
his health being drank, and was greeted, on rising
and sitting down, with reiterated cheers.
Mr. HARGROVIt prefaced, with a few appropriate
remarks, the health: of the City Members, which
toast was greeted with the warmest acclamations,
and drank with three times three.
", D. Sykes, Esq. IL P. and the Independent Electors of Hull"
Mr. birsLas returned thanks.

J. S. Dormouse, Esq. on his health being drank,
begged to acknowledge the honour conferred upon
him. He assured them it was-with pride and satis-
faction he felt that he was a Member of the York
Whig Club—a Society equalled by few and sur-
passed by none, for its independence, importance,
and utility! After the able and eloquent speeches
which bad been delivered, in the sentiments of which
he entirely concurred, he would not trespass at much
length on their attention. The principle on which
that Association was founded would, he trusted, one
day triumph over the malice of its opponents—that
malice which could pursue-2 broken-hearted woman
even beyond the grave. Lord Normanby had well
said, that disloyally and sedition had become cant
words iu the same iu which they were too frequently

used. • For himself he subscribed tcraite sentiments of
the Poet, who said—
" We love
The King who loves the law, respects his bounds
And reigns content within them: him we serve
Freely', and with delight' who leaves us free
But, recollecting still that he is man,
We trust him not too far. King though he be,
, And King in England too, he may be weak,
And vain enough to be ambitious still—
, Slay exercise amiss his proper powers,
Or covet more than freemen choose to grant;
Beyond that mark is treason. He is ours,
To administer, to guard, to adorn the State,
But nut to warp or change it. We are his,
To serve him nobly in the common caese,
True to the death, but not to be his slaves!"
" A. Witham, Est. and may an end be speedily put to all
civil and political disabilities, on account of religious opinions."

Mr. WITHAM thanked the company, in a long and
able speech on the policy and justice of placing the
Catholics on a level with their fellow-subjects.
On the health of Earl Grey being given, Mr.
LAMSTON b. icily returned thanks.
That of Lai FITZWILLIAM, the Vice-Chairman,
and various other toasts followed.
Mr. LAMITON lett the room about ten o'clock ; the
CHAIRMAN soon after quitted, and the whole com-
pany broke up and dispersed with the most amicable
feelings and apparent satisfaction.

of it distributed, and that it be Men into considers■
rim on some future day was then put and carried.

!tourist BEISINIMIL
The same Committee then presented a Report in
relation to the Court of Requests, when it was or-
dered that the said Court should, from and after the
19th instant, be held in Aldermanbury, instead of
Staining-lane, until the further order of the Court.
Twenty Coal-market Bonds of ;100, numbered
from 141 to 160, both inclusive, were ordered to be
paid off and discharged.—The COUI t then adjourned.

THE EVENING STAR.