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ruisance would be abated. and this would,. in its

consequences of a change of measures, be productive
of better times. Another effect cf such Resolutions
rks the present would be, that if any other set of men
came iato power, they tumid find that they could not
act without the support of the People, and conse-
quently would adopt such measures as would be for
the benefit of the People ; for in the present day, no
men could gain or keep the confidence of the People,
without a total change of tie present system. The
Noble Lord (Ellenborough) had said, that the Meet-
ing should treat their Sovereign as they would treat any
private Gentleman. Now, he did not see how the ob-
servation bore upon any part of the present proceed-
ings. He did not know the Sovereign in any of the late
proceedings, in his personal character. He was the
only person in the kingdom who was not responsible.'
To Ministers, and to them alone, he looked for the re-
sponsibility attached to this measure—(Near, hear).
But he would meet the wish of the Noble Lord by

another ; and when he (Lord Ellenborough) said that
• Ise wished the King should be treated as a private
Gentleman, he (Mr. Bennett) would reply, that he
would wish the Queen &mould be treated as any other
Lady—(Hear, hear).—The Noble Lord had asked
'what had been done this Session ? He (Mr. Bennett)
wqutd tell him, and he was glad that the country
knew what was done. The House of Commons were
occupied, day after day, for four or five hours, in
reading and discussing the Petitions of the People,
from every part of the countty-Petitions to which
no attention whatevei had been' paid. On the con-
trary, a majority of one hundred Members voted
ith Ministers, the other evening, on the question,
which had been, be might say, in full accordance
with those Petitions, which was, that the omission
of her Majesty's name from the Liturgy was ill-ad-
vised and inexpedient; but, with all their majority,
Ministers had not ventured to meet the question.
fairly. They had not ventured to say that the mea-
sure was well-advised or expedient (even the Hon.
Member for the County would not, he thought, go
so far as to assert this): they bad not even met thel
proposition with what was customary, where a direct
negative was not intended, that was, by moving "the
previous question," which was as much as to say—
" Let us hear no mm e of this matter now"—(Hear,
hear)—but they met the proposition with the ques-
tion of adjournment, which they at length carried,
when it ..as almost full time to adjourn, at seven
o'clock in the morning—(Lead nits pf Hear, hear).
The Noble Lord who introduced the Resolutions, had
very properly remarked on the want of economy and
retrenchment in the present Ministers. That was a
subject most iorportant for ;he consideration of the,
country ; but ti.e prospect which they had of obtain-
ing it from the House of Commons might be judged
of f orn this circumstance—that there were 72 or 73
of these Hun. Members who were kind enough to
take office under Ministers, or in other words, to live
upon the revenue of the country. From some docu-
ments to which he had referred, it appeared that there
was divided between this number of Memt.ers a suns
of mint le,s than from £170,000 to £lBO,OOO yearly.
This, he thought, was about the sum; and what was
the effect ? Why, that these 72 or 73 Members were
dead votes to Government. They attended daily in
the House, and gave their votes whenever they were
asked by Ministers. Then, if a tax were proposed
on malt, these 70 Gentlemen voted for it, because
they were paid beforehand —( fkar; hear).—And
thus it was that Minis ers carried their influence into
every measure to such a degree, that unless there was
almost a popular disturbance at the doors of the House,
it was nearly hopeless that they would do their duty.
Another fact which proved the immense influence of
Ministers Was, the expense to which the country was
put for the collection of the Revenue—an expense of
£4,500,000, which was about as much as the whole
of the Revenue in the commencement of the late
reign. Who appointed the Collectors of the Reve-
nue? Why the House of Commons, in fact. Every
man who gave his support to Ministers expected to
have his shame in the nomination to such trusts in bis
County. He remembered on one occasion, Mr. Can-
ning expressed his surprise that Mr. Wilberforce did
not vote more frequently with Ministers, for that he
was as frequent a solicitor of favours at the Treasury
as any of those who were the constant supporters of
Ministers. It was plain in short that the support thus
given was not given for nothing, and no doubt those
seventy Gentlemen of whom he had spoken were
fully aware of this fact. They each had a share of
the , atronage in the distribution of these £4,500,000.
This secured their constant attendance, and what
with this attendence and their constant visits to the
Trea ury, he had no doubt that the other supporters
of ti.e Government had hard work of it—(Hear and
laughter). Was it then wonderful that their nume-
rous dependants should be afraid of, and of course
opposed to, any change in the present system? The
system " worked well" for them, but did it work well
for the People? It worked thus for them for nearly
fifty years; and if he were disposed to go into
detail, he could shew who they were, that had been
the plunderers of the People—(Hear, hear, hear).—
Now, he asked, who could put an end to this system?
He would say, it was the People, who, by Addresses
and Petitions from their several counties, might at
length succeed in turning out those men by whom
this system was carried on, and who in turn rooked
to it for their support. The Noble Lord (Ellenbo-
rough) had objected to the attention paid by Parlia-
ment to the subject of the Queen. He (Mr. Bennett)
maintained that this was their duty. It was their
duty to consider it first ; for, in doing so, they were
only attending so tar to the prayers and wishes of
the People of the whole country. It was their duty,
as an act of justice to an accused individual. It was
their duty to bring content where there was discon-
tent, to produce ease where there had only been
heartburnings, to bring comfort to every man's fire-
side, which had been disturbed on this subject. He
thought that the attention of Parliameut ought to be
given to it as an act of justice; as a legal act, he
would not now discuss it, but as a question of
policy, he was prepared to contend that the case of
her 'Majesty ought Co have been more attentively
considered. She was a woman who had almost the
whole of her life since she came to this country
been the subject of .periecutiou—(Hear, hear).—
He was old enough to renleniber the first coming
of her Majesty to this country; 'full *of youth, and
beauty, and grace. He remembered how she was
received with the fond Admiration of the whole king-
. . . .

dom. He saw her in that time of her prosperity.
He was present at her marriage; and he remembered
and that -scaicely had a year elapsed after thai seem-
ingly prosperous period, when she was driven from
home, with her infant at her breast—(gear' hear)—
bereft of that kind protection to which she had before
so much reason to look for support. She afterwards
became the object of a party, who sought, by her
means, to get into power; but as soon as the old
King, her revered protector, had ceased to exercise
the functions of Royalty, and that power was placed
in the hands of her husband, her old friends turned
roqpd upon her, and they who in 1806 had declared
the charges which had been brought against her to
be false and scandalous, sought out among the re-
cords of that same charge, and in 1813 produced a
Report founded upon extracts from it, on which they
attempted to ground the separation of the mother,
from the child. They all knew what followed; it was
unnecessary for him to describe it. A Bill of Pains
and Penalties was introduced against her, supported
on such testimony as had already disgusted the whole
country. In conclusion, the Honourable Gentleman
observed, that he fully concurred in the Resolutions,
even if they were to have only the effect of turning
out the present Ministers—a circumstance which he
doubted, as it had been somewhere not inaptly ob-
served, climbing was made in the attitude of crawling,
and he had little doubt that if thellouse of Commons
came to a vote that her Masty should be restored
to all her privileges, Lord Liverpool would be one
of the first to acquiesce in it—( termitudioie of the
Hon. Gentleman's speech was followed by loud cheers).
The HIGH SHERIF! said, that no man Lad less dis-
position than be to interrupt any Gentleman who was
addressing the Meeting. He had, in consequence,
abstained from remarking on an observation which
had fallen from the Hon. Gentleman who spoke last—
an observation that had, no doubt, escaped him in
the heat of discussion—but which it was his (the
High Sheriff's) duty, as presiding Officer, not to
allow to pass unnoticed. The Hon. Gentleman bad
said, that no hope of a remedy could be expected
from Ministers or Parliament, unless the People be-
came disorderly. Now these words be conceived to
be highly disorderly in themselves.
Mr. BENNETT replied, in explanation, that the
worthy High Sheriff must have mistaken his words.
The words he had used were, that it was necessary
that the People should be almost disorderly to pro-
duce the change to which he had alluded. So far was
he from countenancing anything like disorder or
tumult on the part of the People, that he hoped every
man who heard him, every man in the country who
valued what the Ministers had left of the Consti-
tution, would contrive to let all his actions be guided
by the strictest attention both to order and good
conduct—(Hear, hear).
The HIGH SHERIF! said, the disavowal of the
Hen. Gentleman of the words which he had mistaken
was fully sufficient.
Mr. MABERLY supported the Resolutions. The
Honourable Gentleman adverted to the financial em-
barrassments of the country, to the want of economy
which prevailed in the whole system of conducting
the Government, and expressed his conviction that
I.:3,000,000 might be annually saved to the country.
He concluded by congratulating the Meeting upon
the pledge given by the Noble Lord (EUenborough),
that he would bear testimony to the respectability,
and exemplary conduct of the Meeting, and assure
the House, that, at least, this County Meeting was
not a farce.

Sir W. Da CRESPIONT, in able and energetic
language, supported the Resolutions. In the course
of his speech he remarked strongly on the conduct of
the Duke of Wellington, in having called County
Meetings afarce, and appealed for the best refutation
of such a calumny to the good sense and manly pro-
priety of the Meeting before him. i
I
Lord ELLINEOROUGH rose to explain the language
of the Noble Duke : he said, that it had been mis-
stated ; that his expressions did not apply to County
Meetings in general, nor yet to the Meeting of Hamp-
shire atter it had taken place, but only to what teas
expected to occur at that Meeting, when it was sup-
posed that only one side would be heard !—(Loud
laughter).
Sir T. TURTON spoke against the Resolutions ; but
though occasional disapprobation was expressed, he
was heard throughout with patience, if not with good
humour. He followed nearly the same line of argu-
ment as that pursued by Lord Ellen borough. He sat
down without having apparently convinced one of the
Freeholders of the propriety of adopting his opinions.
Mr. DENISON commented with much severity upon
the injustice to which her Majesty had been ex-
posed, by being brought to trial by an ex post facto
law, which was contrary to every principle of the
British Constitution. The Noble Lord had asked how
the restoration of her Majesty's name to the Liturgy
could operate to the benefit of the country ; whether
it would enable the farmer to pay his rent, or the ma-
nufacturer to set his looms at work ? He would tell
the Noble Lord how it would operate to the benefit
of the country. It would restore tranquillity to the
country, and enable the House of Commons to enter
Upon the consideration of its great interests, and take
such measures as were calculated to give activity to
commerce, and revive the agriculture of the country.
Mr. HOLME SUMNER congratulated the Meeting
upon the order with which its proceedings had been
conducted. It was matter of extreme gratification to
him, that, with a single exception, his public con-
duct had uniformly met with the approbation of his
constituents. It had been said, that the opinion of
Pailiament did not, upon a late occasion, coincide
with the opinion of the People, but he (Mr. H. Sum-
ner) conscientiouly believed that it did—(Cris of No).
He then proceeded to explain his conduct with re-
spect to his observations on the Queen. He acknow-
ledged that he did, in the House of Commons the
other night, express his belief, that the Queen had
been found guilty—(Loud groans). He proceeded
to speak of the 123 Lords who had voted for the se-
cond reading of the Bill, and asked, if the witnesses
against her Majesty had been perjured, why Majoc-
chi and the rest had not been detained in the coun-
try and prosecuted for perjury? He said, that when
he moved £30,000 as an Amendment to the £50,000
proposed to the Queen, he did so under the convic
tion that a greet part of her income was diverted, by
those who surrounded her •to the support of clamour
and sedition—(Cries ofdhanse, shame). He said, he
thought it his duty to state so, though he knew be
should staid there condemned—(Cries 9j" You pre-I

LONDON.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1821.
PRICE or STOCKS THIS DAY AT OHS O'CLOCK
Bank Stock 229 4-3 per Cent. Reduced 73*
3 per Cent. Cons. 72i I 173i-3i per Cent. 82 I
4 per Cent. 90i 9111-3 per Cent. Navy 106 i
Long Annuities 18 13-18 19—Imperial 3 per Cent. —.
Exchequer Bills 6s. ss. 7s. pre.—Onutium 61.
Cons. for Account 72f 73i.

The report gains much strength in the City, that
the Kiwo has graciously declared his intention of
complying with the wishes of his People, for the
restoration of her MAJErry's name to the Liturgy.

Yesterday there was an exhibition of a Wellington
farce at Epsom, in consequence of a Requisition to
the Mott SHERIFF. The company, including the
performers and audience, composed of the Nobility,
Clergy, and Freeholders of Surrey, was the greatest
ever witnessed in that county, and the finale such as
will long be remembered by the supporters of the
present Ministers, especially in their measures against
the Qunmr. Mr. HOLM& SUMNER will be able to
bear testimony, if necessary, that these farces, how.
ever much Ministers may dislike them, may be yet
very instructive. It would have been long, probably,
before he learned as much in the House of Commons,
as he did from an honest Surrey Freeholder, who said
he should be very sorry to follow the example set by
the Hon. Gentleman in judging of the Quaaw, for he
had often heard' many reports by no means to his
advantage. We hope this display of generosity will
not be thrown away on the Honourable Gentleman,
and that he will now allow that all reports are not
necessarily true.

The Paris Papers of Wednesday arrived at a late
lour this forenoon. Three more petards have been
secretly exploded in different- parts of Paris, but
nobody has been arrested, nor any one hurt. This
can-scarcely' now be regarded as news, and there
is no other.—The per Cents. Tuesday, 82 fr. 15 c.

New York Papers arrived this morning to the 16th
January.—An article, quoted froms Philadelphia Paper of the
9th of January, states, that the Spanish Treaty had been that
day received there by the Spanish Consul, and was to be ins-
mediately forwarded to Washington.
The latest accounts in then Papers rezpecting the Chilian Ex-
pedition only come down to the landing at Pisco, and, of coune,
throw no light on the report of Lima having fallen.
The following Is the Mcial Report of the captures made by
the Patriots

“ At Cuenca, Santa Martha, and the different forts on the
road leading from the former to the latter, in the ae7l6tWon the
10th of November, fought by the division of the Republican
army :-18 batteries, 173 pieces of cannon, S cannonades, 6
howitzers, 8,942 cannon-balls, 821 grenades, 4,881 charges of,
grape-shot, 1,571 charges of powder, 887 muskets, 21,530 bail-
cartridges, 116,300 balls, 40,000 flints, 60 pair of pistols, 2.501
lances, 7 quintals of powder, 37 quintals of lead, 5 gun-boats,'
47 merebant-boats. (Slimed)
BURDETT O'CONNER, Chief of the General &at”

COURT OF KING'S BENCH.

THZ KING 10. SIR FRANC!:
The Lord Chief Justice Aaaorr
siderable length, the opinion of
Scarlea's motion for an arrest of
case, and applying the precedent
Horne, and quoting Lord Chief
able argument in that case, which
stated applied strongly to the
Mr. Scarlett's argument, and declares
forded no ground for arresting judi
being sufficient as it stood to prove
ant wrote the libel of attd concerning
went, as charged in the information.
The Court then proceeded with
(For further proceedings, see below)
SASH LIBEL AGAINST THZ NOSE
QUEEN.

Mr. SCARLEIT rose to move for
mation against three persons,named'
and Arrowsmith, who ate the

Publishers of a Paper called
The Learned Counsel said that
thing but what his affidavits contained,
suppress his feelings of indignation
them. The first affidavit was from
Lesley, Bart. of the County of
that, in the year 1795, he married
Caroline Bennet, daughter of the -
of Tankerville, by whom he had
Ave sons and five daughters of whom
In 1818, to his deep anguish, his'
six weeks after being in child-bed,:
by affliction at her loss, followed .
grave, attended by his three elder
participated in his affliction. Sir
his full confidence in the honour,
fidelity of his departed wife, and
ear with which he heard that her
basely assailed in a public Newspaper,
which he well knew was without the
tion. The nest affidavit was from
kerville, which reiterated all the ,
which she, in common with her son..
entertained for her lamented dangly
she equally considered as above rei
family were equally shocked at the
tations cast on her memory. The
that Lady Caroline was born in 1
Sir John Wrottesley in 1795.
Mr. SCARLILTT also read affil
Ossulston and the Hon. H. G. Bennett
in Court), the brothers of the Lady. -
their astonishment at this base cal
mented sister. The Learned Cow
affidavits, stating that the Newl
was industriously thrown in the
ketville and Wrottesley families,
gratuitously circulated at W:
where Lady Tankerville lived ; in
where her Lord lived ; and in
Sir John Wrottesley lived.—Mr. ,
state to the Court, that he had a coi
made before the Lord Mayer, by
ants, which stated that 10,000 col
containing this libel had been
the country.
Chief Justice ASZOTTYOtI ha \
terms of the libel.

Mr. SCARLET? replied, that the
most base and unfounded.calumny
sued from a perverted and slanderous
or thinking it was acting, under
authority. It was contained in '
Paper, called John Bull, under the
Visitors: The libel was full
cious and inveterate imputations
jesty the Queen ; but of that, bowery
him to complain ; that was rather
King's Attorney-General to take
trey-General, who sat next to Mr.
his bead, and a general smile spread
Mr. Scarlet then read she libel,
staoce, that Lady Tankerville and
Hon. H. G. Bennett were amongst
tors, which Lady Tankerville was
which Mr. Bennett was the brother
tesley, who had been detected in
with her menial servant ! Mr. '
needed no argument to chew the
famous and slanderous libel mil
against the dead as well as the live
• The CHIEF JUSTICE perfectly
Scarlet on that point, and said
motion, he need not say one word
his Rule.

• LIEEL AGAINST TUE
Mr. BROS/GUAM rose to move f(
cause why a criminal information
against the Rev. R. Blacow, M.A.
ing circumstances. He 'noted it
A. Miller, of Liverpool, who swore
Pamphlet from a Bookseller in thP
" A Sermon, preached at the Cht.
Liverpool, on Sunday Roening, the
with additional Notes, and an Append:
the Radical Question." Mr. Baum
passages from the Sermon, which
disgusting character, and spoke ofher, ,
nut directly by name, but in such terms
application in the closest mariner)
sive and indelicate, that we cannot
lumns with the expressions.
The Court instantly granted the
vented Mr. BROUGMAM from midi
extracts from the Pamphlet.
JUDGMENT ON SIR FRANCIS
At a quarter before two o'clock
GENERAL prayed the judgment of
Francis Burdett, who had just then
Mr. SCARLETT then put in a 'oh.
affidavits, in mitigation of punishment.
of those affidavits are read, and
for the Crown heard in reply,
judgment may not be propounced

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