Star.
London, England, 1821-01-26 00:00:00

PUBLIC MEETING AT DERBY.

Tuesday, agreeably to the convocation of the
MAYOR of this Borough, by public advertisement, a
'Meeting of the Burgesses, Householders, and Inha-
bitants was held in the Guildhall, " to take into con-
sideration the propriety of petitioning ParliaMent to
take the most effectual steps to reinstate ber Majesty
in all her political rights—to cause strict inquiry to
be made into the late unconstitutional proceedings
against her Majesty, and to prevent a recurrence of
measures equally dangerous to public morals, and to
the peace of the country."
No Meeting held in this Borough within the me-
mory of man had so great a claim to respect as that
which was this day assembled. The whole of the
interior hall, the outer hall, and the spacious stair-
case, were completely filled, and numbers who were
anxious, but unable, to gain admission, crowded
around the hall steps in the Market-place. The doors
were opened a few minutes before eleven, and the
31avon opened the business cf the day at the ap-
pointed time, by stating the object for which the
Meeting was assembled, and he inculcated the neces-
sity of allowing to all parties an impartial hearing.
J. STRUTT, Esq. rose to propose to the Meeting
the.firit fOur Resolutions, which fivmed the•basis of
the Petitions. He stated the object of. them, and
then proceeded as follows :—" It is, Gentlemen, by
the noble and manly stand which the People have
made in her favour, that the Queen has been able to
avert all the infamous attacks which have been made
upon her ; but the nation is her friend, and the Teo-
ple will not forsake her. I need not tell intelligent
' men like you, that Ministers are the cause of all this
ferment—Minisers who have daringly violated the
rights and liberties of their country—Ministers who
have lost the confidence of the great body of the
people, and loaded them with an intolerable and op-
pressive weight of taxes—Ministers who protected,
and, oh! shame! rewarded the perpetrators of the
never to be forgotten massacre at. Manchester—Mi-
nisters who have betrayed their Country and their
King, by promoting one -of the vilest conspiracies 1,
against a noble-minded but defenceless, and, in my
conscience, I believe an innocent woman, that ever
disgraced the annals of the world. I hope to GOD I
shall live to see these men impeached at the bar of
their country, for it is only by their removal—by a
total change of their measures—and, above all, by
as effectual reform in the Representation of the Pro•
ple, that this country can be saved."
The Rev. C. E. BIRT seconded the Resolutions in
an elegant and argumentative speech. dr
Mr: Fox rose, after the Resolutions were passed, to
move the Petitions to the two Houses of Parliament.

On rising to second the Petitions, theraev. Mr.
Htoomos; observed, lilt further justice to her Ma-
jesty was not to be expected, without'the expression
of- popular opinion, and that-this was the great ob-
ject of the present Meeting. •Ile then commented on
the conduct observed by the friends of the Ministry.
Who ire the greatest blasphemers ? those whe im-
piously polluted the sanctity of .the public offices of
Religion, I,y making them instrumental to the in-
dulgence of political animosities, and pervert what
should be pure and holy to the purposes of hatred
and malice, and all manner.of uncharitableness ?
Who are the seditious? those who, by their daily
invectives against the highest characters in the nation,
endeavour to excite animo:.ity against all that is vet.