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. 'l•* ' against her—(Crier ef fitowesehentel. :He felt.
!see was. e pur,the country oil its guard against the vinced, when, hey Majettli-firgsbilnolgitd.,Wri A
-eaper'eneets that were now making, by ,feclarations communications frorn,,,Marseilles.-Avhen he saors
of loyal.) —exclusive 10, silty, at once to delude the proofi.anti docsurnenat that Were Produted to bit
People and mislead the Icing. That experiment seas that thouih her Hasty SeesspestfectlfinnocMe; ye
put in practice, too, toe the intro" -e of perpa...Ainetthatiaothhig could:lave her-tat- the strong atter-
the existence of a degraded and infamous Ministry in- lerente ofathSeople of Fantlistat&.(tleari, heer).-s-
- stations for which they were wholly unfit, against the
'Theivorthy Alderinaticontluded, that though there
• decided voice ol,the whole People of England. These were upwards of forty Addresses to be presented to 1
... -arceeskotaiey; tricksy: with the experience-of twenty- her Majesty on Monday next, yet her Majesty, he'
Bee years' 'public
_eXittion, lie had often witnessed had no doubt, would on that day receive the Ad-
•' their-teem-fence. It was part of the Ministerial tactic, dress from the Common Hall—(Applause).
when their own•erimes were exposed to public view, Mr. WOOLER nest addressed the Livery. He obi!
. to turn round withahe hope of alarming the timid served, that the enemies of the People reproached'
• ,and carapping the unwary, and proclaim that sedis them for not loving the Constitution of their coun:
• - Lion was 'extending,. had' that 'disaffection had per. try ; but the ancient Constitution, the * Constitution
waded the• great body of the People. That Was a 'Whith•theirfathers maintaieed at the expense of their
• • • ." Cross deception, and he alluded teit, in order to earn bidet:kW* prostrated by Ministers, and they had set
- yqunger rueit,' who.hadnot; perhao; seen the effects up a system of their own on its ruins.. What they
1 '.• .: .or sod) deletions,. from being led awe*, from theit called Loyalty, our ancestors would have called treas.
'', a. duty.: Indeeds• a 'stew attempt vies introduced in son7,(Appleuse). ,AO4 with respect to theiirnoralitys
• thesWard -of, Cheap, by acting.. uptat, a: principle, they deemed it morality for a man to put away the
• that the Majority had.the power to prevent the ml- Wife, whom, at the altar of Goo, he had sworn tos
el relay. even. front the right oaf discussion—(Herr, protect. One of the high guardians of religion•had
: hear).—And • theie were Ali men %•bo had at least openly declared, that what was guilt in one malt
• one hundred times complained •of Commen Wits, would not. be guilt in another ; but that vice lost all'
because they sail-they could only get there an im- ifs 0000 and disgusting qualities if committed Itys
• perfect hearing. - These Loyal Addresses,, he apiireLlOCWhis doctrine, he supposedovas founded on
• hended,s ventured to:kat:ice th,it Which they knew to atV•• a •Of die late Lord Ellenborough, who (Ito'
be false—Wear', kear).—b% disaffection' had made elated from thebeinch of justice, that circumstances
. such rapid strides.,aif -sedition was so extensively rendered adiltore o venal offence. Doctrines like.
spreai, would not these Men be the very Pint, from
.t.ltese were M o t 417 of. such apostles as Oliver, Castles,
• a time cf safety anti prudence, to Conceal . theirepi- Reynolds, Edwards; and Franklin; but, whatever
-.Mon of its inCrease? .4, was because they knew that doctrines might go forth, he might say with confi-
there was no disaffection, but much dissatisfaction— dence, that no King of England would be allowed
that there was no disloyalty to the Throne, but much to wash his' Coronation robes in the blood of his
disloyalty to an execrated Ministry—that these loyal Queen. Nor would the People ever lend themselves,
declarers made a false imputation on the steady and to the subversion of their own liberties. It was in
constitutional loyalty of the People—(Applause).— evidence that Franklin endeavoured, by every art, to
That dissatisfaction prevailed , through every part of aggravate the discontent of the People. It was found,
' the country; that the People felt many grievances, that the Queen stood upon a rock, from which per,:
was most true, and those men were the firmest friends jury and power could not remove her ' • and it was
of the Monarchy,. who took the most proper means hoped that some persons, wi more zeal than pru-I
to expose the real state of the country to the King., dence, would have been bete tyed into some acts of
The Address to her Miaast, was then carried resistance; if it had been so-,ref even ten men had
• amidst continued cheers. , been mad enough to exceed thelimits of legal resist-
VOTE or CENSURE ON •THE LATE LORD MAYOR. once—many who now congratulates her Majesty,
Mr. GALLOWAY prefaced hisinotion of a VOte of would have been sighing in the bottomtsof distaio
Censure on the late Loki Mayor, fox the introduction dungeons. It was the common observation Of Minis-
of a military force into the. City. ficheethe Livery of terial men, that more blood should be let—that it
Loedon were assembled on the 30th of Jute last, to was necessary, 14' the same means, to make the
• . Address her. Majesty, by, adverting to the speedy dis- people as submissive as they were in Ireland—(Cries
solution of that Assembly by Alderman Bridges. At of Shame). He had himseliheard a man declare that
first; the worthy Alderman fartcied it was a Vote of the country would never be tranquil until twenty
Thanks, to that he had no objection rbut 'when he thousand throats were cut; but perhaps if they pro-
found
the 'thanks were converted into a Voteof Cert. seeded to throat-cutting, throats would be cut that
~.- • sure, then at once the worthy Alderman thought it were never marked out. Mr. Wooler concluded by pro-
s ' his duty to dissolve the Meeting. Mr. Alderman posing a Resolution of thanks to Mr. Charles Pearson.
-.. Bridges was a most excellent private character, but The Resolution having been carried unanimously, 1
it•was only in his public capacity that the Livery had Mr. Peansoir returned thanks. He stated, that he
. to deal with him. Despotism made its progress by had prepared a full statement of the, case of Franklin,
means insignificant in the beginning, but eventually with copies of all the inflammatory placards he got
decisive, -unless checked in the commencement. If printed, and also the observations that had been made
the appearance of the Army had been relished by on them, from time to time, by the Government Press,
tie Livery, the effect would be, that the Livery would • and by Gentlemen in Parliament. It-now appeared,
. be speedily overawed, and that Hall would scarcely upon unimpeachable testimony, that Franklin was the
ever be opened but to elect Lord Mayors and Sheriffs. author of the Smithfield Placard. He was traced, the
lie had only to contrast such conduct with tharof night before the Smithfield Meeting, to Lard Castle-
their excellent and patriotic Chief Magistrate on. the reaglis Office, with copies of that, infamous paper in
triumphal procession of her Majesty to St. Paul's— his possession—(Lond wormer; throughout tke Hall).
-- (Loud applause)—The same sense elkluty which led It Was in the public recollection, that.* worthy Alders
him to censure Alderman Bridges, made it impera. man, at that time Lord Mayor of London, he meant,
tive on him to propose a Resolution of Thanks to the Mr. Alderman Atkins-4 Laughter and hisses).-haill
present Lord Mayor—(A ). stated, that there was a Conspiracy on foot to burn
Mr. TIPPER seconded the Resolutibn, and consi- the City of London, and to murder its inhabitants ;
dered the introductionof the-Military as a part of that and in order to give a colour to this assertion, this•
system which an incapable and an unpopular Ministry plot-hunting, sedition-catching Magistrate assured
were endeavouring to introduce into the country. the Common Council, that the conspirators engaged
The Resolutions were o-
, then carried unanimously ;in this horrible-plot, were also the authors of this vi
that of Thanks to the Lord Mayor was received lent and treasonable hand-bill. As, therefore, it ap-
with cheers, which, for some minutes, resounded geared, upon the worthy Alderman's authority (and
through the Hall. in such a case who could doubt his word ?), that the
Mr. Toone spoke in support of the Resolutions, plot and the hand-bill proceeded from one and the
and hoped that the example the Lord May& had same individual ; and as the author of the hand-bill
given would operate through the country, and, in in question had been proved, to the satisfaction of
the end, relieve the Army from that irksome and two Grand Juries, to be Fletcher, to him must be-
galling duty which no persons more disliked than long the merit of plot to destroy the Metropolis
the gallant bob itself, of being brought into an ap- by fire, and to deluge the streets with blood.--a
parently hostile contact with the great body of their But what would the Hall think of this Alderman,
fellow-citizens ; for, though soldiers, he trusted the when they learned that the copies of the placard,
- day would never arrive when they should cease to which were taken from the walls by the Police, were
recollect they were also citizens. . not, as is usual, lodged amongst the Police papers in
The LORD Matto then came forward, and was the Mansion-house ; but that, though they were mate-
received with acclamations. He expressed himself rial evidence for the prosecution of the traitor, they
highly gratified at the expression of their thanks for had been removed by Mr. Alderman Atkins, and he
,the manner in which he discharged the duty of that had never since returned them? He (Mr. Pearson)
office to which they had raised him. The most &ra- made the charge thus publicly against Alderman
• tifying reward to him wu the attention and applause Atkins, in order that he might hear and answer it.
of his fellow-citizens---(Hear, hear). With regard to He (Mr. Pearson) -would have long since made it in
the present subject, he could not conceive how any his place in the Common Ci•uncil, but Mr. Alderman
man, informed of the public feelings, could fear a Atkins had not favoured that Court with his corn-
public assembly of. Englishmen, convened to discuss Pan,' since the affair of Franklin had been brought
questions essential to their rights and to the public to light.—( Hear).—He would, state one fact more.
interest. For his own part, whether he was free from It was in evidence, that. Franklin got five bundr
the nervousness that affected others, or was mina. cards printed, with a motto of a violent nature, which
ficenced by those fears that too often vibrated from were to be distributed to the crowd assembled in the
the Treasury to the Mansion-House, he never could City upon, one cccasion, during Alderman Atkins's
apprehend any danger from an assembly of his Mayoralty, when the foresight of that active Magis-
countrymen, constitutionally assembled to discuss trate had favoured the Meeting With military protec-
public grievances—(" Bravo" and applause from die tiou=these were to be worn in men's bats; and Fran-
k On a late memorable occasion, under that lin, at. the time, had himself declared, that his object
impression, he had confided in the uniform respect- in getting those cards printed was, that they might
of law and order which characterised his fellow-citi- serve-as a badge to mark out the unfortunate persons
tens. It was to their honour, and he spoke it with who might happen to wear them, as the first victims,
an inexpressible gratification, that they responded to of military execution, in case any tumultuary feeling
that confidence in a manner that fully justified his had unfortunately appeared, to afford a pretext for.
hopes, and gave the best refutation to the calumnies the Oldier y to be called upon to act—(lndignant
• of their enemies—(Cheers). cries of " .Vuone !").—Mr. Pearson remarked, that
Alderman Woon next stood forward, and was these were only a small part of 'the facts which ;en-
greeted with repeated cheers. The thanks of his dered this last one of the Most dangerous mid diabo-I
Constituents was, he said, very grateful to histi; he heal conspiracies, that had ever disgraced the blood-
had received from many parts the thanks of his fel- stained annals of the worst of tyrants; and, after
low-countrymen, but the thanks of his Ccentittients thanking the Livery, retired amid the applause of the;
were naturally near and dear to him, he would re- Hall.— the Loan Movontben dissolved the meeting.
member them to the latest hour of his life—of course. Sir Ilictreeo Pier wee has this month completed
it was to him a great source of happiness to find that
the Fiftieth Volume of the Monthly Magazine, being
the opinion which he formed from the very begin-1 above twice as many as were published of the Gen-
ning, on the case of her Majesty, was sanctioned by /stems*, Magazine, by
celebrated EDWARD CAVE.
the universal voice of the country...4ler Majesty had I Like Cave:too, hehas lived to see his Journal be
been placed in the most dangeretts situation—she' come the most celebrated and prosperous of its-time.
had been exposed to treachery and to a conspiracy, :It is worthy of note, that during this long period he
such as was never experienced in this tountry, or in I has never been prevented by ill health from superin.
any other—(Hear, hear). It was a disgraceful, but ktendin every Number tinting its publication ; and,
an undOubted fact, that persons had been employed ! being still tin h • of life,- •is said
eprime it
annually ; they received grants, "al likselt for 4he ' tains the hope of being • • eing Able to extend hii superintend-
life of a mull& indtvidual, to sorted calumnies .en -
Ce eithe series CV= rE k CelttgarY of TOltnCei. ..