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London, England, 1816-11-30 00:00:00

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TinnM tttp klittery.of the City'
.adoti abaft ".... tulCins."--(Atftlawe
.drltinei.) Re ~ unt) tinci decried all who had
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been mcistoactive in the edam! of the people. Ac•
cording to him, he (Mr. W.ithman) was sold, the
.H.impden Club was acid. and besides one individual.
flldr. Hunt) - there.,were bat dime persons really fa-
vourable to a Parliarnentary Reform in All the (~ring's
, dominions. This was the sort of language I c had
, used, and' that too at the vety moment when he was
*unplaining of the abuse of the vile press. He then
explained his own ideas on the siihject of Reform, and
asserted, that whatever ridicule Mr. Hunt might
throw on " moderate itelorm,'." the phrase had Leen
'Used, and not in derision, a hundred rimes by Major
Cartwright, from whom he (Mr. Hum) professed
never to differ. Toe person he had mentioned took
upon himself to attack All who did ssot agree eractly
. with him. He (Mr. Waithman) had been taunte.d
for not having addressed a Westminster Meeting--
13e had not gone to Palace-yard, because he thought
they had talent enough there id his absence, and
vented not the aid of his humble abilities. At the
Middlesex !sleeting he had been treated in the same
way, and at a time when he lay on a sick bed
44 Where's Mr. Waitliman ?" bad tauntingly been
asked, and censure for absence, when he was unable
to Attend, WAS tISC solace he had received from this
friend to Reform. He (Mr. Waithman) proceeded
to explain his reasons for not going about like an
itinerant pedlar with his wares to every meeting that
might be held.—On the subject of the Resolutions
before the Court, he had to say be could not disagreei
' with the principle of them generally ; but one of the
1 Resolutions, he contended, involved an abandonment
, of the right to petition the Sovereign on the Throne.
: Did• they mean to give up this right, which they had
' at the last Commoa Hall declared they would never
abandon?—(Cunt -of " No, sio I") Then he would
maintain, the Petition they were now called upon to
vote would he a dead letter, and that one or two
Common Halls would be called only to register a
repetition of their former declaration. He concluded
by proposing that the Common Hall should go hand
m hand with the Common Council, and by this.means
the r sentiments might find their way to the Throne.
He then moved a set of Resolutions, setting forth
the general diatress, and the necessity of a Parliamen-
tary Reform, which he described as doing all that
the others could do, and as being in various respects
mo,e comprehensive, and better calculated to accom-
plish the object in view. . _
blr. Ot.DHANt sect:m.l:A the intendment.

Mr. GGIF/ThIS, in proof of the extent of corrup-
tion in Parliament, instanced the admission of Lord
Castlereagh of a seat having been sold, and the Heine
:Hosing to go into a Committee on the fact. WAS
a matt who could make such An avowal a. fit person
to have a seat in that limit? He ought to have
been taken by the collar and turned out of it. He
would say, shame on such men I It was time to
lt,tve a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull altogether.
Alluding to the interference of Mr. Hunt, he ex,
pressed his dosaporoval of intetlopers. 6, Too many
,cooks would spoil tile hroth"—(Lehoghter.)
Mr. MITCHELL attempted to reply, but his ',lite
was drowned in hives and clamour. He reprehended
Mr. Waithman for protessiog to be glad of new-
comers, and then running
.them down. As to- the
amendment, it was like any thing but the first Res°•
lotions, and at:rib-sited them merely to an effort of
the Mover to make use of the little popularity he pos.
sessed—(Lend crier of Of, er!) He would admit,
however, that there was nottiing in the amendment
that be «nuld not lend his feeble efforts to support
but lie disliked such personalities as diey had been
accompanied with, which only tended to create mis.
chkf, schism," and division, where all shook! be Una.
nimity
Mr. HUNT came forward to explain, amidst laugh.
ter and applause. He had more respect for the
time of the Liverymen than to enter into any defence
of the personal attack that had been made upon him.
He had been represented to say what he never uttered,
and the vilifying press had teen the drat calumnia-
tars—( Loa cries of False. false l Tuts did ray so.) He
never, on any occasion in his life, used a single ex-
pression that could be Coosu tied into disresp..ct for
the Lively of London. When he eroposed to meet
the Livery before, he had -been advised to recollect
that he could not come there to lead them by the
nose—they were a different sort ot beast (Laughter.)
He never wished to take on himself to witrp their,
judgment. What sort of consistency tens it for
Gentlemen to complain that the Hall was to thiuly
attended, and in the same krea:h to regret 'that 'the
doors had been bursted open by people orilto liad no,
right to attend ? (Cries of Liter, leer.)
.The Gen. tle-
mtn who had called that Meeting had no means of
making their intentions public by spending the money
of the City. For his part, he had never been a mem.i
ber of any of their Committees, and nt.ver wished to
be. :The fact was, thete was a history of ilicriity in
city politics, which he should some day or another
ha ve .to expose—(Lead bents of kreg4ter, apd ilimorr:
for the question.)
Mr. Harem ;aid, the worst returit that people
could make to those who ioterested themselves onl
their behalf, was to attribute to thentimpure.motivesa
if they did so, they could not expect, nor ought they
to have public advocates. He regretted that so le*
perkons had assembled, but the" aet Was, that as
meat pains had been taken to prevent the Hall being
numerous, as there had been to bring it torther. it
WAS absurd for people of ,the countyy or the City to
utges Complainti against the Government, when they.
Whittled the Government ouch 'elldent proofs of their':
awb internal Aisiensions. It Was the bounden duty
of all who were posiesied of this Simons, to appro.'
.priate some portion of what they.had to relieve the
geoeraldistressi which was beating down all-clossein'
the tiler to the grave; isid the middle Orders to the
state of the. poor. He severely reproached Mr. Hunt
for cAling on the Worthy Mclennan, whom he lc-
'citied of hailing Mode two or three hundred thousand
pounds by the plunder of the public, to disgorge hie
ill-gotten Vrealdi. Such bold illiberality might be
justly retorted by the Worthy person attacked, by
replying, " If pita wish me to be robbed of my
fortune, I Will not part with alit of it, but with
trY to keep it as Icing as I tan"...(Lood Alegotoe.)—
He reprehended the personalities thrown out against
Mr. Waithrnati, who bad been the omens adirocate of
the public gaols for the look iiiriod of 20 years. fie,
was sorry that this Gentleman &Mild have felrit ne.
,ct Mart to age foiSatd to defend-12;4 M, iti nothing