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DURHAM COUNTY MEETING.
•
UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. --
Wednesiay, pursuant to Requilition, a Public
Meeting of the Freeholders of this County was held
in the County Courts in this City, " to take into con-1
sideration the measures that have been pursued for ,
the degradation of the Queen, and the propriety of '
presenting Petitions to both Houses'of Parliament,
praying that they will take such steps as will effec-
tually prevent the recurrence of proceedings alike
unconstitutional in their nature, disgusting and per-
nicious in their tendency?
The HIGH SHERIFF took the Chair a few minutes
after twelve o'clock, at which time that part of the
Courts in which the Meeting was held.was crowded
to excess, and many persons were excluded for want
of space. Among those present were many Gentle-
men of property and respectability, who, from acci-
dental causes, had not signed the Requisition ; and
the numerous attendance of the principal inhabitants
of the County, as well as the rank and character of
the individuals who took a prominent part in the
proceedings; stamp the Meeting, as, perhaps, the most
important ever held in Durham.
The Ilion SHERIFF opened the business by stating,
that as they had heard the Requisition read, there
was no occasion for him to explain the purpose for
which the Meeting had been called : and as he had
before witnessed their good conduct and order at
similar Meetings, he could renew his appeal to them
with conFidence to maintain the same conduct on the
present occasion. Should any Gentleman wish to
address them, who might differ from them in opi-
nion, he trusted they would give him a fair and im-
partial hearing; and, he hoped that those who ad-
dressed them, would confine themselves as much as
possible to the object of the Meeting.
Mr. Lesieros then rose amidst repeated cheerings,
and spoke to the following effect :—lt was now nearly
one year since he had the honour of meeting them'
to discuss matters connected with the situation of thp
country; and he believed he had then said, that often
as he had met them, he had never done so upon an
occasion more important, or more pregnant with
' danger to the liberties of the country—he meant the
Manchester outrage. -But six months had scarcely
elapsed before the Ministers Ousged headlong into
a measure which had the effect of obliterating from
the public mind all recollection of that detestable
proceeding. It was indeed a melancholy sign of the
times, and of the corruption of the Administration,
which for our sins ruled over us, that every year the
nation had to complain of some additional act of op-
pression—each successive act still more dangerous to
the rights of the People than that by which it was,
preceded—( Loud appamse).—What might follow',
this he trembled to think. I: was that the principles
of justice might be vindicated, and that the conse-
quences which threatened us might be averted, that
lie had been induced to become instrumental in call-
ing that Meeting. It devolved upon him to propose
a series of Resolutions, and an Address to the King,
founded upon the first part of those Resolutions ; in
so doing, it was not necessary to detain them long,
because the subject had been air early' so amply, and
particularly so ably, nobly, and fully discussed by
his noble relative (Earl Gr?y), whom he was happy
and proud to ste present on that occasion—( Long
and loud acclamations) ;—it had, he said, been so
ably exposed by the Noble Earl, that he need not,
he dared not attempt to follow him through the same
course. After, however, the most mature delibera-
tion, he felt himself bound to declare, that nothing
had been proved to authorise the degradation of her
Majesty from her rights and privileges as Queen
Consort—( Vehement applause).—ln thus stating his
opinion, he must also express his conviction that the
charges against the Queen had originated in a con-
spiracy,which had been matured by years of treachery,
fostered by hands which ought to have spurned such
dirty work, and connived at and encouraged by the
Ministers, and those who ought to pave supported
her when she was deprived of that protector who,
though smitten by the hand of GOD, and powerless
through his own personal agency, yet had thrown a
shield over her, by the effect of his character, arid
the remembrance of his unshaken, though often tried,
confidence in her virtue and innocence—( Cheers).—
lie trusted they would suffer him to allude to the
situation of the Princess of Wales for some years
past. Induced by treacherous advice to leave Eng-
land, she sought refuge from persecution in foreign
climes. From the moment of her setting foot in
Italy, boatmen, chamber Maids, discarded servants,
Hanoverian Ministers, and even English Ambassa-
dors—( Loud cheers)—seemed to have vied with each
other as to which had the best claim to their salaries
for tale-bearing and slander—(Laughter and applause).
Rumours of the most calumnious nature were spread
against the Queen, which had the effect of driving
away her English attendants. • Foreign Courts were
instructed or suffered to treat her with marked- con-
,
tempt and insult. Even the intelligence of an event
which must be in all cases most interesting—he meant
the death of a daughter—was not communicated to
the mother of the Princess Charlotte. To such an
extent was the inhuman conduct of her enemies car-
ried, that not content with separating the mother
and daughter while the latter was -living, their
malignant feelings forbade the union of their names
upon the coffin which contained the remains of her
last stay, her only hope—(Cries of Shame! shame!)
It was, indeed, shame; no action in the career of
the present Ministers had struck him with so much
horror as this conduct towards a childless, forlorn,
and unprotected mother—(Applause).--Again, when
the death of the late King took place, no communi-
cation of that event was made to her present Ma-
jesty, though by it she became exalted to the rank of
Queen ; but- there was one Government, the most
contemptible, the most corrupt, and the most under
the influence of corruption and superstition which
availed itself of this change in her situation to insult
her—this decayed, this paralytic Government, as-
sumed, to itself a power which even the mighty cor-
mptionists of England have been unable to wield—.
and degraded her from the rank of Queen by re-
fusing to acknowledge her under ny other title than
that of Princess Caroline of Brunswick—(Applause).
Under these circumstances, subject to these persecu-
tions, but with an unbroken spirit, she returned to
England, refusing the proffered bribe of £.50,000 a
year, tendered to induce her to stay away--(Applause).
She threw herself upon the justice of the People of
this cotintry ; they received Raid protected her ; they
deceived her not; they insulted her not; but tram-

OXFORD, DECEMBER 16.

Saturday, the Rev, William Jackson, M.A. of Queen's Col-
lege, was elected Fellow of that Society on the Old Foundation.
Tuesday the following Degrees were conferred :
nocros IN CIVIL LAW.
The Rev. Henry Parish, St. Edmund Hall.
NACNILOII IN DIVINITY.
The Rev. John Warren, Oriel College, Grand Compounder.

FROM SATURDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

(This Gazette contains Loyal Addresses to the King from the
Mayor, Burgesses, and Commonalty, and also from the Inhabit-
ants of the Parish of St. Paul, Bristol ; front the Mayor, She-
r.ffs, Cuizens,-and Commonalty, of the City of Norwich ; from
the Gentlemen, Clergy, and Householders of the City and Vi-
cinity of York; from tire Mayor, Aldermen, and Assistants of
the City of Rochester; from the Priwosr, Magistrates, and
Council of the City of Aberdeen; from the ',gayer, Aldermen,
and Burgesses of the Borough of Preston, Lancashire; from
the Mayor, Recorder, Clergy, Gentry, and Inhabitants of the
Borough of Shaftesbury; from the Inhabitants of Bath; from
the Males., Deputy Recorder, Aldermen, Minister, Freemen,
&c. of the Borough of Launceston, Cornwall ; from the States
of the Island of Jersey; from the Mayor, Burgesses, and In-
habitants of the Town of Christchurch ; from the Mayor, Bai-
liffs, Burgesses, and Commonalty of the Town and County of
the Town of Poole ; from the Inhabitants of the Town of Ex-
mouth and its Vicinity ; from the Mayor and AlJermen of the
Town of Kingston-upon-Hull; front the Inhabitants and Visitors
of Dawlish, in Devonshire; from the Magistrates and Town.
Council of the Royal Burgh of Newburgh, in Fife; from the
Minister, Churchwardens, Inhabitants, and Householders, of
Clifton, in Gloucestershire; from the Inhabitants of the Bo-
rough of New Shoreham; from the Lord Provost, Magistrates,
at.J Town Council of the City of Perth ; from the Gentlemen,
Clergy, Merchants, Ship-Owners. and other Inhabitants of the
Town and Neighbourhood of Kingston-upon-hull; from the
Inhabitants of the Town and Neighbourhood of Balton-le-
Moon; and from the Inhabitants of Devizes. The Gazette
also contains his. Majesty's appointment of Nicholas Nixon, Esq.
to the office of Warden of the Fleet, in the room of John Kyles,
Esq. decrease!).

had been scraped together by the Milantommission
—( Hear )—a tribunal, which would be detested as
long as its composition and character were under.
stood. Like the Inquisition of old, its proceedings
were conducted in darkness and mystery. One of
our Poets had furnished a description which would
apply to the Commission, its authors, and auxiliaries:
" Projectors, quacks, and lawyers, not a few,
And priests and party zeakits, numerous bands,
With home-born lies, and tales from foreign lands;
Scarce any tale was sooner heard than told,
And all who told It, added something new,
In ev'ry ear it spread—roil every tongue it grew."
The effect of this was to drive away her English at•
teadants, who were necessarily succeeded by fo-
reigners, whom it was easy to corrupt or seduce-
and how greedily the Ministers took advantage of
the facility thus afforded for their purposes, was ma.
nifest in the employnient of Berton Oniptedii, ot,
picklock notoriety, to obtain possession of her letters:
He then alluded to the money which had been la-
vished in prosecuting the object of the Milan Com-
mission ; and trusted that the House of Commons
would exact a strict account of the way in v..hich it
had been expended. Yet with all the asi,tatice ren-
dered to the Ministers by that Co
irineis,.,m, all the
power of Government, and all the influeace dot
money could give, the Ministers found, cm every
vision, that their majority decreased, until at len;:lr
they were obliged to abandon the Bill altogetkr.
But this was not all. They had not manliness to
meet. the reproof that awaited them in the House of
Commons, and they advised his Majesty to prorogue
Parliament in the most extraordinary and cowardly
manner—(Shame). He envied not their feelings upon
that day; hooted, reviled, disgracei, they slunk
away to enjoy the notable triumph of being enabled
to insult the Queen still further, and to treat her re-
monstrances with contempt for two months longer!
—(Great applause). Was there no honest man to lt.
found to tell their Royal Master that the example of
an insult to royalty was but too readily followed—
that the impulse, once given, was not easily checked ?
Did history afford no solemn and important wan=-
ing ? Did not Ministers recollect that the precedent
furnished by the execution of Mary Queen of Scots,
by the order of Elizabeth, was, after the lapse of a
few years, renewed and acted upon in the case of
Charles the First? Were they not aware, that by
degrading royalty they were en.langering the fowl-
., dation of monarchy itself ?—(Applause). From these
' considerations, he was impelled to believe that the
King had been betrayed by his Ministers, who
; seemed alike careless of the honour of the Crown
and the interests of the country, so that they retaine.
their places and patronage : men

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with tlese feelings that he had been instrumental in
calling them, his friencli and constituents, together,
and he hoped their voice would be re-echoed through-
out the country. It was difficult to enter into the
various topics of complaint that might be brought
forward against the Ministers ; he knew not what
point in the conduct of the Administration was most
unjust; for all their measures appeared to him to bear
the stamp of tyranny—(Applause). They had seen'
the Ministers convict her Majesty before inquiry, by
striking her name out of the Liturgy , and they had
seen them offer her a bribe of £50,000 a-year, to
continue her alleged debaucheries in another coun-
try. They knew, too, the hypocritical motives by
which it was attempted to justify the offer of this
premium on immorality. They were aware also, that
her Majesty had rejected the proffered bribe. She
landed at Dover. Then it was that the prosecution,
was commenced, which, as they all knew, had pro-
duced the effect of suspending all other public con-
siderations, however important, and of keeping the
Country ever since in a state of complete agitation—
(Applanse). The Ministers, finding the House of
Commons not so tractable as they expected, applied
to the House of Lords, in the hope of finding a judg-
ment more favourable to their views. He need not
remind them of the.nature of Bills of Pains and Pe-
nalties. The precedent for their introduction in the
case of Lord Strafford, served only to accelerate the
ruin of those by whom it was promoted, conspired to
throw a veil over his faults, and made him appear a
martyr when he should have been considered only as
a criminal—(Applause). This example ought to have
some weight with the present time. The very na-
ture of proceeding by Bills of Pains and Penalties—
the power. of condemnation without law—the sitting
of the accusers as Judges—the presence and controul
of the prosecutors during trial for the avowed pur-
pose of denouncing guilt, where the law has declared
no crime—all these marks of tyranny had rendered
the principles on which Bills of Pains and Penalties
had been supported, odious and dangerous—(Ap..
plause). Lord Stratford, when pleading at the Bar
of the House of Lords,'so forcibly and eloquently ob-
served upon the iniquitous nature of such proceed-
ings, that he was induced to read an extract from the
speech of that Nobleman Hard it is that a
punishment should precede the. promulgaion of a
law—that men should suffer by a law subsequent to
the deed—if this be admitted, who shall account him-
self secure in his innocence? and in what is law pre-
ferable to the will of an arbitrary master? If I sail
on the Thames, and split my vessel um an anchor,
should there be no buoy to give me warning, the
owner shall pay me damages; but if it be marked
out, then I pass it at my own peril. Where is the
mark set on this crime? Where is the token by
which I should discover it? If iLbe hid—if it lie
concealed under water, no human foresight or pru-
dence could have prevented my sudden destruction.
If we are thus to be beset, let us lay aside all human
wisdom, let us rely solely on Divine Revelation ; for
surely nothing less than Revelation can save us from
these hidden snares!" He contended, upon these
principles, that the rule of Civil Liberty was, that
the laws should not be made against individuals, but
should be prospective in their operation. The Queen
had had to contend with every species of difficulty.
A list of witnesses, and a specification of the places
included in the charges, were refused her ; witnesses
had been compelled by German despots to come
over on the side of the prosecution, while witnesses
on behalf of her Majesty had been induced to air
stain from coming to this country—(Applause).--
With regard to the evidence in support of the
charges, he would only observe, that it consisted enal
tirely of the slanders of discarded servants; and it
was curious to observe, that the charges commenced
at the time those servants were engaged as part of
her household, and not a whisper was heard against
her after they quitted her- service—(Applause).—
Those wretches appeared to have distorted every act
of kindness on the part of the Queen, so as to bear'
the semblance of guilt. Her good qualities and
amiable character were turned to her disadvantage.
They had heard much of the indecencies attributed
to the games and plays exhibited before her,Majes4.
—Upon this part of the subject he could state an
anecdote upon an authority of some weight, with
which anecdote, perhaps, the Meeting were not ac-
quainted. They would probably be surprised to
hear that the pious. Mr. Nicholas Vansittart, the
patron of Bible Societies and Lotteries, who propa-
gated religion abroad and promoted gambling at
home, had been guilty of the gross indecency of
playing at blindman's buff with her Majesty, when
Princess of Wales !—( Loughter).—lndeed, he had
heard that the present Lord Chancellor, -and Lord
Redesdale, had committed a similar crime. He did
not know whether Mr. Wilberforce, who had been
christened the other day Dr. Cantwell, had been one
of the party, but he had heard from good authority
that the'other worthies were; and he knew also, that
if the Bill of Pains and Penalties bad come down to
the House of Commons, it was intended to have sum-
moned those frolicsome statesmen to bear testimony
to the innocent character of those amusements !
( Shouts f laughter).—But to return to the evidence.
It was of such a nature that Lord Lauderdale and
other Noble Lords admitted that the case for the
prosecution had failed to substantiate any of the
charges; and they rested their professions of belief
of her Majesty's guilt upon the alleged prevarication
and inconsistency of her own witnesses. Good GOD !
what an appearance must England have exhibited in
the eyes of Europe during the late investigation !—'
While the people of Naples and Portugal were en-
gaged in asserting their rights and overthrowing the
corruption of ages; while Spain was busied in fra,
rning a Constitution founded upon the principles of
enlightened policy, and wisely appropriating the
enormous revenues of the Church to national pur-
poses, how was. this country employed ? Why, the
Supreme Council of the Nation—the highest Court
of Judicature—the hereditary Counsellors of, the
Crown—the House of Peers, was occupied in inqui-
ring into the state of linen and tumbled beds (Hear)
—in raking up and poring into all the scandal which

" Wlmm no faith can fix,
Of crooked councils and dark politics,
Of those a gloomy tribe surrour.d the Throne !"

(Applause). They had seen them plunging from one
act of absurdity to another ; fiorn secret but detected
corruption to avowed jobbing. From the sanction
of the massacre of unoffending men, to the slander
of- an unprotected woman—notoriously purchasing
a precarious existence by the meanest compliances ;
under circumstances the most degrading, they had
instituted measures in Parliament, against which one
of their own body had remonqrateci. in Council, and
from which he fled as from a pestilence—(Applause).
Yet, notwithstanding Mr. Canning's flight, his col-
leagues forced their Bill, in opposition to the senti-
ments of the country, and to the warnings of their
more scrupulous friends ; regardless of the character
of their adherents, and calling even on the Reve-
rend Bench to crave public odium and contempt in
their behalf (and GOD knew how effectually they
bad incurred both), until at length having succeeded
in clearing themselves, as they termed it, they basely
abandoned the Bill ana their supporters, trom a
mere fear of popular indignation. Such was the si-
tuation in which they stood, that they might be com-
pared to Mahornees coffin, suspended between the
Crown and the People, despised by the one, and de-
tested by the other—(Applause). With respect to
their other acts, they all bore an uniform character.
Look at the crusade of the Holy Alliance against the
liberties of the South of Europe; he should not be
surprised to hear of this country actively co-operating
in the deliberations of the confederated tyrants at
Troppau ; or if not, our Ministers were only restrained
by the power of public opinion, now so much roused.
We had seen enough of their disposition, as Norway,
Saxony, Genba, and Parga could certify, to the eter-
nal disgrace of this country, to warrant these asser-
tions. At home, the effects of their military system
were obvious. The people could not now enjoy the
sight of an illumination without the appearance of
the military at the corners of every street, at the
command of any-foolish drunken Magistrate who
might choose to fancy the State in danger, when
the only ground for his apprehension existed in the
fumes of that liquor which had stolen away the small
portion of brains given him by PROVIDENCE! (Loud
and long applause). If such acts had occurred in
any town in England, he thought they must be
ascribed to the spirit that predominated in the Ad-
ministration of the country, for he (Mr. Lambton)
could not consider the King as acquainted with them.
Our. Constitution said that the Ki ig could do no
wrong ; and he thought people had been a little too
hard upon the Bishop of London, who had urged that
maxim in a case of morals ; for, after all, the senti-
ment was not worse than that expressed by a Bishop
of " olden time" to James the First. A courtly Bi-
shop (Neil) of that day, when he was asked by the
Monarch whether the latter could not take his sub-
jects' money, without the formation of an Act of Par-
liament ? replied, " GOD forbid but your Majesty
should do so, for you are the breath of our nostrils!'
-.-(Laughter).—Let them be thankful, therefore, that
' the Bishop of London went no farther than he did•
The Honourable Member then expressed his hope
that Ministers would be made to feel that they were
responsible for their measures, an€ that the Repre-
sentatives of the People would br,ing them to punish-
ment for their notorious misdeeds—(Applause).--He
ought to apologise for occupying their attention so
long ; but the question was of so much importance,
both in ita nature and consequences, that he consi-
dered it his duty to state his opinion upon it as openly
and as clearly as he could. Having been instrumen-
tal in calling them together, he might, perhaps, he
again attacked as before by libellers of all sorts, lay
•and clerical ; be that as it might, he cared not ; he
• should continue to discharge his public duty, and he
felt amply recompensed by seeing this among the
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from a state of • bondage and detrading'servility to'
clerical dominion—(Shouts of applause).—They had,
indeed, upon a late occasion, raised such a spirit of
liberty and independence in the North, as would, at
no distant day. he trusted, shake to the very founda-
tion the gross and unwieldy edifice of Ministerial
pcwer—Pipplause).—lf there were a man who, in
times like the present, would shrink from his public
duty into the privacy of domestic retirement, he was
not one of that description; he had devoted himself
heart and soul to their sevvice; and he should always
be found among the foremost to express his send-
;nem whenever the existence of liberty, the rinciples
of justice, and the purity of the Constitution were
•.!ndangered—(Applesse).—Mr. Lambton concludes
!:is speech by proposing the Resolutions and Address.
Mr. BAaasrr presented himself to the attention
st. the Meeting to second the Resolutions and Address.
;.; .t Freeholder of this County, and as an English.
in, Le was anxious to record his opinion of the vir-
-. :e, , i.his Monarch, and enter his protest against the.
•.: j Act of his Majesty's Advisers. If the King were
answerable for the measures which had been recently
pursued by his Ministers, he knew not how he could
speak of him, without compromising that loyalty and
that respect to which the Monarch was constima
ticnally entitled. The happiness of the King . and
the People were so blended, that it must ever be the
wish of his Majesty, as well as his duty, to regu-
late his conduct agreeably to the wishes of his Pec.-
pie. Put a distinction between the King and his Mi-
nisters was proper. Whilst he must refrain from
speaking disrespectfully of the fornier, he could not
but express his unmingled. disgust
.and unqualified
disapprobation of the. latter—conduct marked by
everything mean in. principle and monstrous in in-
jib:ice—without any plea to urge in their behalf
but that of expediency, or any motive except their
vile and mercenary attachment to their :places, to
which they he,itated not sacrificing all law, all jus-
tice, and even humanity. If conduct like that of
the Ministers were to go unpunished, the People would
make themselves parties to their guilt. No law, no
justice, would prevail, and the thief would not be
worthy of the halter—(Laugh(er).—Let the Meeting
look to the long period during which these men had
pessissed power, and point out to him (Mr. Barrett)
one solitary act of theirs which conferred dignity
upon the Throne, or alleviated the distresses of the
People. Look back to the Manchester massacre, and
what was no slight feature of that transaction, look
to the letter of thanks conveyed to the Magistrates,
1::ose protectors of the peace, for their specialbreach
of it. Look to the passing of the five Acts, by which
the liberties of the People were curtailed, and their
moue is gAgged to prevent the expression of their
feelings. Let them look to the present state of the
conistry—of its National Debt, which hung like a
millstone on their necks. Look to the lavish expen-

diture of the public money, as tliough it were ob-
tained from an inexhaustible source. Look at die
immense standing army, which bespoke of war, 'not
of peace, in this country. Look at the distresses of
the People, at the accumulation of paupers, and the
increase of poor-rates. Look at the distresses in the
Convneicial, Agri'cultural, and Manufacturing Dis-
tricts, and what was the cause of the failures in all
these? Look at the Bill of Pains and Penalties.—
Look at the origin of it, and at the conduct of those
who had deviated from all law and justice, by con-
victing the Queen before she was accused, and per-
secuting her after acquittal. He trusted the King
was no f arty to these proceedings. So long as the
)liaisters kept their places, they cared not what befel
the country. He trusted that the House of Corn-
nion,, if they were indeed the Representatives of the
People, and not the Representatives of themselves
would upon this occasion prove to the country that
they had the power, as well as the inclination, to act
and think like men impelled by a sense Qf justice, and
actuated by the general feeling, that they would
adopt measures to restore to the Queen all the rights
tind privileges of which she had been wantonly de-
prived, and to prevent the recurrence of such pro-
ceedings, which were not only, as they themselves
had described them, " derogatory to the dignity of
v.e Crown, and injurious to the best interests of the
Country," but subversive of all law and justice, and
destructive both to the Throne and the Empire.
Mr. LIDDELL rose to address the Meeting. He
totally differed from the Address to his Majesty, as
•;:t•ll as the advice given him of restoring to the.
Queen all the rights and dignities belonging to her
sta:iun—(Groans and hisses)—for, laying aside the
c'; ages as well as all the evidence brought in sup-
psi of them, still he considered, after the celebrated
letter v:hich she had addressed to his Majesty, that
had forfeited her claim to those rights—( Hisses).
i ire List resource of a notorious criminal, was to re-
vle the Court by which he was to be tried.—(Mr.
Lizid'!'s voice was here completely drcrumed by cries
" !")-41e had come prepared to meet with
opposition ; but if he, because he differed in opi-
nion from the generality of the Meeting, was to be
prevented from expressing his sentiments, then there
would be an end to discussion, and it could not be
I.:id that public opinion had been expressed at that
'Meeting—(Hear, hear).—He would contend that
,er Majesty, in the letter alluded to had reviled the
:-ghest Court of Judicature in the kingdom, and ap-
,-73uchccl very nearly to high treason, in a great
many respects—(Groans and hisses).—He was willing
to incur the risk of displeasing them on the present
occasion, by the hope of gaining their esteem for at
lou=t rronouncin4 his opinions sincerely—(Hear,
—(.4 voice an the gallery cried out, " You did'
'!o! I.t.'d up your hand against the Resolutions !")
Lisideil, with some warmth, said, " I did, Sir.",
:he conduct of Ministers with regard to the Queen
oe to,: to be this :—lf they had heard reports inju-
?us to the character and dignity of her Majesty,
were justifiable in instituting inquiry, but they
:,tylit to have been well informed as to the nature of
the evidence, having had an awful warning in the
farmer accusations, in which her Majesty had justi-
fied herself—(Hear, hear).—Ministers should have
btought forward witnesses in support of the charges,
,•fitiii!.:ipeAcliable character, and respectable in their
station, if they could find them, such as could have
stood the test of that scrutiny to which the witnesses
in such ea:.es arc likely to be exposed—(linear, hear).
Mot.t tc,io: Innately fur the Ministry, and must for:ti-
ll:110y for h.r Maje,ty, the characters of the witnesses
\yule not unimpeachable, and could not stand the
test of severe scrutiny. Many measures, he thought,
might have had a better chaace of success, and been

adopted with more confidence .by Minister's I but, as
it was, he did not see how the business could have
been managed much worse—(Loud cheers).—Tn say-
ing this, he did not admit that the innocence of the'
Queen had been established —(lfisses).—The greatest
charges, of the indelicacies against her character, had
not been disproved— (Cries of " No, no ! a lie!").—
They had heard a violent harangde by the seconder
of the Resolutions, that the thief was not worthy of
his halter. If he were not worthy of his 11 alter, he
was not a thief—(Laughter). Having briefly told
them his sentiments, which he should never neglect
to do as long as he stood in the character of a private
Gentleman, he would conclude by stating, that he
should always attend County Meetings, and when he
conceived the measures of Ministers to be adopted
for the good of the country, he would support them ;
but when the contrary, he would censure them, be-
cause he thought by such means the country would
be most benefitted.

Earl GREY rose to address the Meeting, and was
received with several distinct rounds of applause.
When it had subsided, he assured the Meeting that

the manner in which he had been received on pre-
senting himself to their notice that day, really over-
powered him. Ile had wished to make a few oh-

servations—many were not necessary, because the
Resolutions and Address so fully and distinctly ex-
pressed all that was required, that even had they not
been so ably and powerfully- supported by his two
Honourable Friends, it would be unnecessary and

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perhaps presumptuous in him to trespass on their at-
tention for more than a few moments. But he could

not help exptissing the high satisfaction which he
had that day experienced ; and next, a very few 're-
marks, and few they should be upon the occasion,
and the circumstances connected with it, which had

brought them together. In the Resolutions which
had been read, and almost unanimously adopted
(with the single exception, he believed, of his Friend
Mr. Liddell) the Bill of Pains and Penalties, which
had been so long under discussion in the House of
Lords, had been properly described as impolitic, un-
necessary, and unjust—(Bravo and loud applause).
Every word of that description of the Bill of Pains
and Penalties in the case of the Queen, and as a ge-
neral description of Bills of Pains-and Penalties, he
subscribed to ; but that Bills of Pains and Penalties
have been 'known in the best and purest periods of
the history of our Constitution was a position which
he was not prepared to deny—(Hear). All he con-
tended for, as a lover of liberty and sincerely at-
tached to the Constitution, was, that so extraordi-
nary an extension of power could never be justified
except in cases when considerations for the public
safety imperiously required that such proceedings
should be adopted, and when to other measures
would do—( Applause). Why, then, he asked, was
that proceeding resorted to in the question of her
Majesty ? Was there such a necessity existing when
'the Bill of Pains and Penalties against the Queen
was introduced into the House of Lords ? His Friend
(Mr. Liddell) had told them that the Ministers were
justified in their conduct, because, forsooth, rumours
had been circulated against the Queen's reputation.—
There were two things to be considered with regard
to that subject ; the first was the truth of the rumours.
It was the duty of Ministers to have ascertained the
truth of those reports in the first instance, to have
satisfied themselves that they could prove them to
be true, and not to have neglected any opportunity
in their power of procuring unimpeachable evidence,
instead of relying upon witnesses who were consi-
dered by Mr. Liddell himself as unworthy of credit;
whereas, had justice been their object, they would
have been first certain of the truth of that testimony
upon which they were about to advance such grave
and important charges. He charged Ministers,
therefore, with a-disregard of the principles of jus-
tice and of the honour of the Crown. But there was
this also to be considered ; was there any public ne-
cessity requiring .that such a measure should be
brought forward ? -Could it be asserted that there-
was any •danger to the succession ? Could it be
said That the conduct of the Queen on the Lake of
Como affected the morals or the character of this
country in a degree which could render such pro-
ceedings against her necessary? Least of all could
this be alleged by those who offered her -E50,000
a-year out of the public purse, to enable her to give
full scope to those vicious propensities with which
they had since charged her— ( Immen'se applause ).—I
Knowing all these circumstances, they yet offered
her an additional inducement—namely, to use their
influence in both Houses of Parliament (and it was
well known that that influence was seldom exerted
in vain) to procure congratulatory Addresses to be
presented to her from those Houses as a sort of peace
offering, or testimonial of character, if she would
only go into a state of banishment—(Applause).---
Could any unprejudiced man then say that the pro-
ceedings against her were necessary ? His friend,
Mr. Liddell, had said, that althOugh the witnesses
against the Queen had failed to prove her guilt, yet
he still did not think her innocent. The only direct
proofs that had been produced on behalf of the pro-
secution, rested on the testimony of discarded ser-
vants ; and it was curious, as Mr. Lambton had re-
marked, that after they had quitted her service, not
a single charge, not even a whisper, was beard against
her conduct. The character of those witnesses, Inde-
pendently of the inconsistency and 'prevarication in
their evidence, was such as to render them unworthy
of credit—(Applause).—So positively had the evi-
dence in favour of the Bill been overthrown, that
'even its supporters acknowledged it ought not to
pass upon the unsupported allegations of those wit-
nesses, whose testimony, it was admitted, could not
be relied on. Then, what was resorted to next ?
They were told, that though much of the evidence
against her Majesty had been disproved, and though
the witnesses were not to be credited, there was still
so much of the evidence uncontradicted, and which
might have been contradicted, as to justify a pre-
sumption of guilt. And was this the principle of
British law? Were they to be told that the accuser
should not be bound to prove his charges, but that
the accused, it unable to rebut every particular that
perjured witnesses might swear against her, this in-'
ability on the part of the accused should be ground
for a presumption of guilt ?—( Hear, hear, hear l ).
No principle could be more repugnant to law and
justice, and to all good practice, than this,. which
was never before attempted to be acted upon (Ap-
plause). But this was not all. Though direct proof
faileA suspicion remained. The, were told, that al-

though the chiles ag*inst her Majesty, iF taken
singly, did not lead to conclusion of her guilt, yet
when those individual charges were taken collec-
tively, it was urged that such a conclusion must be
admitted; a principle well worthy of those who had
attempted to oiierthrow the liberties of the country
by the doctrine of constructive treason, and w:lo
would now introduce a new law in order to dethrone
a Queen (Applause). His Lordship, therefore, taking
this view of the question, arrived at a very dif-
ferent conclusion from that which Mr. Liddell seemed

to have approved ; and as his Lordship said in the.
House of Lords, upon his honour as a Peer, had it
been a judicial inquiry, he would equally have pro-

nounced, Not Guilty. If justice, therefore, required
this decision, was it fair, was it right, was it prudent,
was it consistent with the honour of the Crown, or

calculated to add to its stability, to endeavour to af-
fix upon her a stigma which the 13111 of Pains and
Penalties had failed to accomplish ? nut Mr. Lid-
dell had stated a new ground upon which lie had
withheld his sanction from the applications of that
Meeting to the Throne and Parliament. He alluded
to the letter addies,ed by the Queen, sonic time since,
to his Majesty. His Lordship had before expressed
his opinion respecting that letter. He certainly dis-
approved of it in the highest degree; and he consi-
dered. her Majesty's interests 111 served by those who
advised her to that publication. But he thought, at
the same time, that much allowance should be made
for that act, on account of the singular situation in
which her Majesty was placed. But if she had erred
in writing and publishing that letter, he thought it
was a little too- much to say, that on this account
alone her Majesty should be deprived of those ap-
pendakes to which she was entitled as Queen.—
Thus much he had said, in order to shew that the
reasons assigned by Mr. Liddell ought not to prevent
them from acting in the manner they had intended.
His Lordship/hen observed, that the House of Lords
had been induced to carry the Bill through a third
reading, but the majority they had obtained sVas only
a nominal one, and was composed, firstly, of the
Queen's accusers; secondly, of their numerous con-
nections and dependents ; and, thirdly, of some per-
sons who had not heard a syllable of the evidence for
the defence—(Hear). Yet the majority was at last'
so much reduced, that it exceeded only by one the
number of the Cabinet Ministers who voted. Under.
these circumstances, with the strength of public opi-
nion against the measure, it was impossible it could.
be carried. Accordingly, after:the third reading,
they had seen the very Minister who had brought
forward the charges, the framer of the accusation, a
Member of the Secret Committee, come forward in
his four-fold capacity of accuser, prosecutor, judge,
and juror ;—and he did not sink into the earth with
shame at his wicked attempt to degrade the Queen ;
they had seen that very man propose to terminate
the proceedings on the Bill which he had introduced.
Here it might have been hoped that an end would
have been put to all proceedings against her Majesty;
but the measure of injustice was not yet full. When,
as the Resolutions stated, it was expected that the
agitation in which the country had been so long in-
volved would be suffered to subside, the Parliamect
—the first Parliament of a new Reign, a Parliament
which, as it had been obsei-ved by Mr. Lambton,
had entitled itself, by its liberal grants, to the appro-
bation of the Monarch—grants dictated rather by a
desire to support the splendour of the Crown, than
by a due consideration of the hardships under which
the country was suffering—this Parliament, at a
moment too when alarm and apprehension prevailed
both in respect to our internal and our external situa-
tion, and when something ought to have been done
to tranquillize those feelings—this Parliament *as
prorogued without one expression of grace or favour,
and in a manner which had no precedent in the his-
tory of this country, except in the unhappy time in
-which an unfortunate Stuart, amidst the civil com-
motions he had raised, suffered under a sentence
legally but not morally unjust—(Loud applause.)—
This being the case, were not the People called
upon to-take some steps with a view to repress the
fears and compose the agitation of the public mind?
He knew not whether any further proceedings were
meditated against her Majesty—(Hear, hear, hear).
But when he adverted to the language used, and
the calumnies and insults directed towards her in
those prints which were devoted and subservient to
the Ministry, he could not but admit that there was
strong ground for .suspicion and apprehension—
( Hear ).—The act of striking her Majesty's name
out of the Liturgy had not yet been atoned ; and,
instead of a provision being made for her by Par-
liament suitable to her rank and dignity, and which
Parliament would no doubt have cheerfully granted,
she had only an uncertain dependence on Ministers,
who doled out to her that which it was their duty
to have applied to Parliament to bestow. Contrary
to the opinion of Mr. Liddell, his Lordship thought
that this was a case, above all others, that called
upoa the People of England to approach the throne
in language that could not be misunderstood, pray-
ing, as a means of calming the public agitation, that
the Queen's name might be restored to the Liturgy,
and that an establishment might be provided for her,
suitable to her rank and station—( Loud applause.)—
Elis Lordship then said, he would briefly allude to
I topics of a more general nature ; he thought he could
do so without infringing that reconimendatien SQ
properly given by the High Sheriff, to confine the.
attention of the Meeting to the object for which k
bad been convened; lie could not indeed help very
shortly adverting to some topics which had been so
ably and emphatically treated by Mr. Lambton. It
was impossible to view without feelings of great
alarm and sorrow, the internal state of the country,
particularly the distress of the manufacturing and
commercial classes. Our external situation. we's.
equal.y fearful. The desire of liberty, which had
been encouraged by the Sovereigns of Europe when
they wished to combat and put down their common
enemy, Napoleon, was now counteracted by a base
conspiracy under the false,hypocritical, and blasphe-
mous title of the Holy Alliance—(Loud cheering).—
Wiym he looked back at these circumstances, and re-.
garded them in conjunction with the past -and with
probably yet contemplatedpeoceedings against the
Queen, H ea VEN seethedbf speak in signs and omens
and he could. not better describe the times than by
cinoLing a passage from an inspired writer.:
" And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and
in the stars i and upon the earth distress of nations, with per-
plexity ; the sea and the waves roaring—men's hearts failing

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than for rrar, and to !kiting aftei atOio &iris iikticlt ale eek
on eartb." •
—This was the true state of the anxiety felt by thi
country; sorrow :Intl shame for the past, fear sing
apprehension for the time to come. Under such cif.
cumstances, his only hope and their best resource ways
to be found in the principle% cf the Constitution and
in the spirit of the People. That hope was confirmed
by the conduct that day of the Assembly he was ad-
dressing. Let all England follow the example they
were setting ; let them approach the Throne like men
" who knew their rights, and kticwing, dare mains
tain," against the threats of power and the blandish-
meat kof corruption, sober but entlmsi,tstic, firm but
prudent, moderate but resolute and fearless, and the
country might yet be saved.—llis Lordship, on sits
ting down, was greeted with three cheers.

On the motion of Mr. Lastaros, seconded by Mr.
BA RR ETT, it was resolved, that the Address to the
king be signed by the High Sheriff.
Dr. FENWICK rose amid considerable theering,.
and in a speech of some length, highly complimen-
tary to Earl Go EY, proposed the Thanks of the Meet::
ing to his Lordship, for his strenuous and able op-
position to t...e proceedings against the QUEEN.
Earl GREY said, it was impossible for him not to.
endeavour to express (however inadequate all expres-
sion must be) his sense of the high honour conferred.
upon him, not only by the terms of the Resolution
itself, but also by the manner in which it was pro-
posed by Dr. Fenwick. It made him look back on
himself, and• compare his conduct with the partial
encomium of his Honourable Friend, and a sense of
what he was checked those feelings to which such a
mark of distinction naturally gave rise. Thus much,
however, he hoped he might be allowed to say with-
out egotism or vanity, that in zeal for the liberties of
his country, in a regard for the just prerogatives of
the Crown, and in a desire to maintain the principles
of the Constitution, he yielded to no man. His
Lot dship had not attended a Meeting of the Free-
holders of the County of Durham since the year 1792.
He had then the honour of standing by the side of
the late Mr. Lambton, a man whom he esteemed and
lamented for his virtues in private life, and for his
talent, independence, and spirit, in public life; but it
was a-source of consolation, that in his son and re-.
presentative there was found the same disinterested-
ness, the same zeal for the service of the Public,
and the same ability to support it—(App/Ruse).—
The occasion to which his Lordship alluded, was the.
publishing a Proclamation ostensibly against Seditious
Societies, but which was, in fact, aimed at public li-
berty. Those who lived at that time, and who still
survived, must be aware of the change which had.
since takers place in the public mind. So unpopular
then were measures favourable to freedom, owing to:
the delusion which prevailed, that though an Address
was carried within the Court, had another decision,
been taken outside, it was doubtful whether the for.
mer decision would not have been reversed. The.
Noble Lord then expressed his satisfaction at the pro-,
gress which had since been made in the character of
the County for intellect and independence; and, after.
a few more words, sat down amidst loud applause.
Mr. LAMBTON proposed the Thanks of the Meeting
to the Earl of Darlington, for his manly opposition
to the Bill of Pains and Penalties against her Ma-
jesty, which was seconded by Mr. BAKER.
A letter was read from the Noble Earl, apolo-.
gising for his absence.
Mr. PowLETT begged to return the Meeting, On
behalf of his father, his most grateful thanks; being• •
confident that when his father should be acquainted
with the vote they had passed upon him, he would,
duly appreciate the honour. He could inform them;
that he was confident his Noble Relative went to the
House of Lords ss ith an unbiassed mind to discharge ,
his duty ; and that, after hearing all the evidence
against her Majesty, his full conviction was, that
she was innocent. No man attended more closely,
or gave his opinion more conscientiously than his fa-
ther had done.
Mr. HOAR next addressed the Meeting in a forcible•• ,
speech, and concluded with moving the Thanks of
the County, assembled, to their Representatives
John G. Lambton, Esq. and the Hon. William
Powlett, for their upright, independent, and consti
tutional discharge of their public duties, both in and
out cf Parliament (Great applause).
Mr. LAMBTON and Mr. FOWLETT returned thanksi
Earl GREY, in proposing a vote of thinks •to the
High Sheriff, observed, that no one could have seen
the conduct of the High Sheriff, that day, without
observing the strict impartiality with which he had
discharged his duty.
Mr. LAMBTON having seconded this motion, which'
was carried unanimously, the High Sheriff returned
thanks, and the Meeting dissolved.

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Monday a meeting was held at the Qtteen''s Head
Inn, at Hawkhurst, when a loyal Address to his MA.
JESTY was agreed to, and numerously signed by the
inhabitants of that Parish.

At Lewes two hundred' and upwards of the Free=
holders have signed a Requisition to convene a Public.
Meeting to address the KINO and QUEEN on her MAA.
hesty's escape from the conspiracy formed to deprive
er of her rights; and to pray his MAJESTT.to dis-
Miss his Ministers from his Counsels.
A Meeting of a number of Gentlemen of the United
IP:wishes of St. Andrew, Holborn, and St. Chorge,the
Ilfeartyr, took place on Saturday, at Gray's Inn Coffee-
,house, for the purpose of considering the propriety,
of adopting a dutiful, loyal, and affectionate Ad-.
dies; to his MAJEsTr, The Rev. Mr. BERRSFORTI
was called to the Chair. The Rev. Gentleman stated.
the purpose of the Meeting in striking and hums,
sive terms. He was followed by Mr. MOWER) Mr*
WALTON, Mr. MURRAY, the Rev. Dr. WILSON, and
other Gentlemen, when the Address was unanimously*
agreed to.

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A loyal Address is in progress for "tipsiness
through the County of Slants. It is said Hatt.-ati.t..
reasou it was not moved at a Connty"meetingi.intilit.- ••••-•.:
regular way, was, because there are no Aiingiz*lab ~.*•..;•1!.5.
in the County who can make a apecch !
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oratoricalQueeN's men would have made an Asebsedko,!:
ment,'and no doubt carried it. One of 'tile fog C. .
•which this loyal Address expressesi :is, Utak we siona-.
be led through anarchy to a. !rotilitary usurpatissy
and the tyranny of the sword r - This is. something
new. As both parties seem to-anticipate a Military
Government, we shall have a coalition, peelsaps !

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