Star.
London, England, 1821-01-17 00:00:00

EAST-INDIES.

By accounts from Bombay to the enl o' Ar,
it appears that his Excellency, Gov tttor F,Lin,
sroNE, had been obliged. in order t step •
predations committed on British prope ty by
rates in the Arabian Gulf, to dispatc t a al
for the purpose. The following Proc Amation
issued at Bombay :
". Whereas it has been deemed expedient by the •
the Governor in Council of Bombay, acting is pursuance
press orders from his Excellency the Most Nob .f the
General in Council at Fort Wi [ham, to detach lnc
to the Gulf of Arabia, to obtain reparation and ate
outrages committed by the Dola of Mocha on British
and for the plunder of property belonging to the if
Company at the Factory at that place, and of indit
siding under the protection of the British Fag at the
aforesaid; his Excellency, Rear-Admiral Sir Henry lilacksaj
Bart. and K.C.B. his Majesty's Naval Conamander-it.ce,:,.,
India, has dispatched a squadron of his Majesty's ship
Gulf of Arabia for that purpose; and whereas the 110
the Governor in Council is compelled, for the more
enforcement of those demands, to declare the port el ),,
and all other ports and places belonging to the 1-Haunt of 8-n-,
in the Arabian Gulf, to be in a state of blockade; the snit.:
and places are hereby declared to be in a state of " '
cordingly, until further orders.—ily order of the
the Governor in Council, " F. WARDEN,

A more serious disturbance has arisen, u
the exertions of the Most Noble the Gore
ral and the Governor of Bombay, to settle anii
have failed to accomplish. Some time in the Inkth
of June last, a Vakeel (or Ambassador), from theF
dians, a nation situated en the Indus, was proceedit,
to treat with the Government of Bombay, on
point, and who had a body of armed men with
they were taken to be marauders, so common in
part of our territories (as a body of men called
sacs and Justs had just plundered in the district!
a scuffle took place, in which the Vakeel was
tunately killed. It was entirely a mistake, as'
• ent no account of his advance. The Ile
Mr. am! NSTONE lost no time in explaining t.
ter. and the Sindians appeared to be satisfied,
with the treachery that is their characteristic,
invaded Kutch, plundered a village, and wrote
most impudent dispatch to the Government of
bay. In consequence of this, a force of 4,000 troops
was assembled in Kutch, under the command oft►
Honourable Colonel LINCOLN STANHOPE. Mr.
PHINSTONE then sent an agent to meet the Vakeelsi
the Emirs of the Sindians, in the hope of an
termination, and stated to them the force with which
he was resolved to prevent their further hostilities;
but they thought lightly of our preparations, &lied
our power, and called in the aid of their nei) •
ing allies, and they stepped all commerci
course with the British Government.

The affair now assumed a serious complexion.
Sindians can muster a force of between 30 ar
men, chiefly horse, and they threaten us with an,
vision by the Baloochies, whose country lies toils,
west of the Indus, and who are a terror to their nngh.
bourn. Lord HASTINGS is most anxious to presort
peace. The whole of the British territory underl
command had assumed the most tranquil and fib,
ing appearance. The sense of security whi
natives enjoy had everywhere given a spur ,
try, and cultivation was making rapid strides. _
Company's paper was at a premium, and everything
promised a continuance of prosperity and happints
before unknown in the Peninsula. Mr. &minium
cordially concurred with the Governor-General
desire of conciliating all ranks of the new cousins
of which we had gained possession, and it was
lying- to see the Pindarees and retired soldiers
ploying themselves in cultivating the fields. 'flat.
became impossible tamely to submit Co this wants.
aggression, and accordingly an Army of 14,000.
was forthwith to be assembled, and by the month.
October was expected to be in Kutch. The Coo
mander in Chief was to be Sir CHARLES COLVILIA
G.C.B. and the second in command Major-Gened
Lioxer. SMITH—two most gallant Officers, who pss.
sess the entire confidence of the Bombay Army.
Such are the particulars which we derived yesto
day from different letters received by (Minima
from Bombay. It is not easy to foretel the coma
quences of such a war.

The Inland Letter-men, belonging to the Generi
Post-Office, were this morning about two hours later
in their delivery than usual, owing to the unpv •,
cedented circumstance of upwards of 16,000 lento
having. arrived this morning from the List Indies.
Yesterday the Dispatches for Bengal by the skit
Atlas, Captain MAYNE, were closed at the Eastlnda
House, and delivered to the Purser of that ship.
Passengers per Atlas, for Bengal—Mr. J. C. Paterson, In
sistant-Surgeon ; Messrs. Kent and Sancitn, Free Mariner'
Misses Oldham, Hewett, Swinton, Christie, and two, Mimi
Taylor ; Mrs. C. Chapman and child ; Mrs. S. &WWII ; Mega
Oldham, Maclean, Charlton Weidman, Durk, Benson, DO'
ley, Clayton, and Carte, Cadets.
BETTING AT TATTERSALL'S YESTERDAY.

9 to 1 apt Reginidd
14 to 1 agst Gustavus
14 to 1 abet Charm

DWRZY.
15 to I apt Mord
14 to 1 agst Jock
to to 1 apt Paraool
OAKS.

9to 2 agst My Lady I 9to 1 apt Emily
is to 1 ag->t Sister to Steeltrap 10 to 1 agst Zeal

DONCAIMIIt ST. LLCM
9to 1 agst Jack Spiuot. 115 to apt Sandbeck
14 to 1 agst 14 to 1 apt My Lady

GREAT PEDESTRIAN MATCH COMPLETER
Mr. Also?, a Somerwtshire yeoman, it has been stud,
started on the North road, on Wednesday last, to go two lea►
dred and sixty-four miles in four days, which is far beyoodibe
power of a horse to perform. His first stage was Dorchester. is
Oxfordshire ; from thence he took a North-east route to Not..
tingham, next to Doncaster, and back to Lincolnshire,'wherek
completed the extraordinary undertaking at eleven o'clock 111
Saturday night, although the weather was muds against kiste"-'
He completed the
First day

Second day - -69 miles in 20 bows. ''
Third day
Fourth day - - - - $5 miles in $1 bows

Total - - - 264
The Pedestrian was much distressed on the third day. and
took much time to do the last day's work. His bl need fat
were relieved by worsted being drawn through cie blitz
which was left la. •
While Poets are paying their Addresys to the
Nine Muses, a wiser and more numerous class of
persons are invoking the Nine Tmenty-ene Tiouselek,
which the Contrectors for the New Lottery Wig
provided for the Public; and as Three of them are
sure to be drawn on the 23d Instant,. before the
King's Speech is delivered from the Throw, we nml '
guess the reason why the Lottery OfEces are so call
crowded with adventurers,.

I 0" An tit,. iitosi
nor EL. Plll%. Ohlllol Str,r, the
,!s •
ft b
ty by the 15. .
a squad;o4
A tryTrnatien
,s ist
the H0n0t...4 The
putsuance of tt. ljn
the Getee.e, t
licirnt•titiattel • 11101
atoneroret fehi
British subittv pair
I
...113P'thethYnInd'i.i:nair;eaifliteeChrtYt,utrnrdb‘ht-1111111:11illetev.1111o116T'inte":11:1i4cf°fIfj)(11:1:.1:4146:46t4cSE:1h:2114.441c(1344.:1:.:-;"is. rfa'arti.A.ll"lllePPll:2l:lll;;;ltic
gratit e
e
MO% efeami „ r
tle an iicably, ed
in the . Ds
from the Sir, salt
°4l3r. on some gene
ten with hie; al
rea
mmon the • ,
Ilil:eakannlsdeteilitncl,wills3sgatorfiaticliloesthellsiedodfcheeeduttißnaratitufma..443:4l4,....-'. Gl:orvea'ruticrtpc-h:trei',4
cteristic, they Cuu
and wrote a saiN
r 4,000 troops •
nmand of the IN
PE. Air. EL :;
the Vakeeis of lti
fan iunicahe .
ce with which • cn
ter hostilities; roil
atioas,
!ir neighbour..
mercial inter.. •
.tan
Qum
lie
30 and 40,001
is with an ie.
try lies to the 7;r,
to their neigh. .
us to pre ene
ory under his At
~2
it and flourish. * • "'
icy which the
spur to Wu. lax
strides. The
ad everythleg • I)°r
and happiness
_.!
ELPinstroez her!
General in tie pai
new Gonave
lit was grad an;
soldiers es. wa
ields. • But k set
io this wanes the
if 14,000 mes
the monad • .

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

rstnet of a letter from Lloyd's Agent at Trieste, dated the
logo •—" It is now blowing a heavy pie from the N.K.
Oth •
As ;onion brig has cut away her roasts; two Austrian brigs
been driven out to sea; and a Turkish sacedwa, from
Ivdra iegged towards the Old Lazaretto, and is in danger."
Iv Barr, 130 ms, from Swansea to Youghal, is totally
Tramore Bay.
as &taw, bound to Sligo, put back to Quebec, 24th
Ilse '
Noon ber with damage, having been on shore on Red Island.
,
The Concord, RALE% arrived at Dartmouth, spoke the Dove,
aloarpord, from Newfoundland, disinasted, and part of her
ads drown overboard.
,The Flora, Ogres, from London, arrived In the Texel on the
isnot, with loss of ambers and cables, and leaky.
permeate, Jam. 15.—Arrived the Lord Wellington, Hn.x,
pax Madras for London, sailed 15th August, and from the
ear llth November. The Perseverance and Ocean had left
cape sonw days previous. She &poke, on theist Septem-
kg-- 54. N. long. 82. 50. W. the Comet, from Liver-
to Calcutta; on the 2d ditto, the Hope, Etta?, from Lon-
daa far Madras; on the 14th ditto, in Lit. 4. 19. S. long. H. E.
,k Lady Kenaway, from London for Madras ; and on the 20th
Thamber, In lat. 12. 49. N. long. 26. 12. the Medway, from
SailaDd*
POIISHOCTII,Jaw.I6.—Arrived the following outward-bound
gips:--11ie Janus, Ilercirinsow ; George, Deana; Mariana,
glom; Clifton, Smut ; William and Alfred, DRYSDALE ;
Ca
ardoide, Caner; Castlereagh, VIDAL ; Essex, ROBERTSON ;
p
RISSIXI, JONSSON; Jane, Gs/toots; Neptune, Amor.ost ; Mar-
aret, JOES ; Preston, RICHARDSON; Nottingham, BROZER;
Ou-
&roaming, limn; Ada, Waal); Britannia, Ramo; and Con.
Dad, RAANDfORD.—Put back, the Royal George, Tortior.—Ar-
rind hi; Majesty's ship Him, from a cruize.—Wind
DIAL, JAS. i W.N. W.—Arrived and remain the
DitZbeth, SWINSURN, from Buenos Ayres; Mohawk, Tlow-
gums, from Virginia; Ds Vryheid, Roams, from Amsterdam
Cr Surinam • and Jan Cornelis, Dtivr, from ditto for Batavia.
Came down and
the River and remain, the General Kyd,
NAIRSI. for *nal and China ; Lady Lushington, Scow for
madras ; Moffatt, ALDHAM, for ditto and Calcutta • Mary,
Bsicch for Jamaica ; John, Povet.rwEtt, for ditto; Calcutta;
Guwysa, and Spring, --, for the South Seas ; Benjamin,
Ames, for New York ; Starling, Douotas, for Rio Janeiro;
Harriet, Hosswiu.i, for Genoa; Titus, Neu., for Malta; and
wren' others, names not known.
Hammen, JAS. 16:—Arrived the Princess Charlotte packet,
with a Mail from Holland. She brings intelligence that the
River is full of ice, but ships may reach Cuxhaven with the wind
it west. The buoys in the Elbe are all gone.
Cow* JAN. 16....itrrived yesterday, 'the Farquharson,
Cstacesuaes ; Inglis, Boa...note; and Marquis Camden, Las-
sso, from London for Bombay and China.
Doviorru, Lutuaar ls.—arrived-the Lady Ridley, Weis,
ham London for New South Wales.
Dons, JANUARY 16.—The Dutch ship Providencia, DERREAYs
from Croirett, went on shore hut night, near Dungeness, and
went to pieces: crew saved.
Riaaoass, houses 16.—Arrived the Ilindostan' WILLIAM•
$ll4 from the East Indies for London. She has landed her
poisengers here.
GCSINSEY, JAYCARY I.s.—Arrived the Williams, Wuxiams,
bin Trieste, with part of her cargo thrown overboard.
Craton-house, Jaw. 16.—Ships Entered Inwards: The Julie,
fern Calais; la Caroline, from Caen; Lively, from Memel;
Marinette, from Dublin ; Hardy, from Havre ; Adele, from
Dyke; Trelawnty, from Demerara; Triton, from New.
fousdbnd ; Aurora, from Sligo; Vestal, from Qottenburgh ;
aid Europa, from Jamaica.—Entered Outwards: The Joseph
ad Ann, for ,Flushing; George, for Lisbon; William, for
Aitnable, for Rouen; Berbiee, for Leghorn; and
Bice of Waterloo, for Ostend.—Cleared Outwards: The John,
fir Belfast ; Hors, for Antwerp; Thomas, for Dublin ;
Mar-
fee Charleston ; Perseverance, for Bilbou ; Roger, for Cork.
dasiven--At Gibraltar, the Union, De Gruchy, from Jersey.
At Rt. Michael's, Naiad, --, from Cork Henry, CundY. from
Plymouth; Flying Fish, from London; and Elizabeth and Grace,
him Bristol. At Fayal (leaky), Martha, Swadland, from Li.
verpooL At the Mauritius, Ward, Brown, from London. At
lismbef, Camden, Johnson, from London. At the Cape of
Cased Hope, Scotia and British Colony, from London; and
Borah, Edwards, from Bengal, after being on shore.

Upwards of fifty Addresses will be presented to
kr MAJESTY on Monday next, from various Towns,

Parishes, Trades, &c. &c.
The LORD MAYOR and the Sheriffs will go in state,
attended by a large Deputation of the Livery. There
will also be a Deputation from Westminster, and se-
'feral others from the country, all anxious to testify
their attachment to the Qt./Ent by waiting upon her
MAJESTY in person.
The Brassfounders of the Metropolis are preparing
a more splendid procession than that which accom:
parried their forme Address to her MAJESTY. The
Deputation will consist of about 700 persons, headed
by six men in complete suits of armour, the others
clad in half-armour, each individual bearing some
emblematical device.
A Deputation of the Coopers will also wait upon
her MAJESTY on Monday, with an Address from that
body. They will carry in procession a handsome
gilt cask with suitable inscriptions: on one hoop
there will be the figures 108—the never to be for-
gotten minority that voted in favour of her MaJearr.
Deputations will also present Addresses from the
Parish of St. Mary-la-bonne, Kensington, the Lon-
don industrious classes, Glass-blowers, Carpenters, and
Tin-plate-workers—the latter four carrying emblems
of their several trades.
Sir Humemon and Lady DAVY entertained a bril-
liant circle on Sunday evening, at their house in
Lower Grosvenor-street.
Mr. BAKER, Chairman to the Buckingham Aga.
cultural Association, has replied, at some length, to
the letter addressed to him by Lord NUGENT. He
agrees with Lord NuGzar, that a revision of the
Poor Laws is necessary, but on the subject of the
Taxes, Mr. BAKER is at issue with his Lordship, re-
fusing his assent to the proposition, that any adequate
reduction can be made consistently with an ability of
discharging the National Debt. He defends the Ad-
ministration from the very serious charges made
against them by Lord NUGENT. To the argument
of his Lordship, grounded on the fact that no foreign
corn (oats excepted), had arrived within the last 12
months, Mr. BAKER reports, that our granaries are,
nevertheless, overloaded, and should prices arise to
ever so small a degree of remuneration to the British
POKE'', they would be instantly again depressed by
the immense quantities, both under look in this coun-
try, and those on the other side, always in readiness
for the occasion, with which our markets would be
deluged. Mr. BAKER finally insists, that the right to
legislative protection is perfectly equal between the
manufacturer and the farmer. Thus it is, that the
foolish " Protecting System," as it is called, is to be
adhered to. When will our wise ones open their eyes
to understand a self-evident proposition,—that the
People can spend no more than they earn ? Make
the price of living as high as you will, you cannot
let a shilling more. If their wages fall short of this,
you must yourselves pay the difference in Poor Rates.
Coss Recluses% Me a K.LANS, JAN. 17.—We have had but few
Wink since Monday, and although the quantity of Wheat at
Market is but small, the sales were heavy, except for prime
simples. which support Monday's prices, but there was little or
so demand for the inferior descriptions. Fine Barley being
scarce, what few samples appeared this morning were readily
disposed of, en as good terms as on Monday. Oats are rather
dearer, in consequence of the scantiness of the supply. In
Beam and Peas no akeration in prices, but the sale of each was
very heavy.

CAMBRIDGESIIIR7 MEETING.

Yesterday, pursuant to Pahlic Requisition,
pre-
sented to the High Sheriff, THOMAS BURGESS, Esq.
a Meeting of the Freeholders and Inhabitants of this
County was held in the Market-place, to consider
the propriety of addressing his Majesty to dismiss
his present Ministers from his presence and Councils
for ever. The Shire-hall was the place originally
fixed for the Meeting, and long before twelve o'clock
kit was crowded in every part. As it was found not
sufficiently large to contain even the one-fourth of
those who wished to be present, an adjournment to
the Market-place (where a temporary platform had
been erected in front of one of the houses, for the
convenience of the speakers) was proposed, and im-
mediately agreed to.
The Under Sheriff, Mr:Watts, (the High Sheriff
being unable to attend), then proceeded to the tem-
porary balcony, and opened the business of the day
by reading the Requisition which had been directed
to his principal, calling on him "to convene a Meet-
of the Freeholders and Inhabitants of the County
of Cambridge, for the purpose of considering of the
propriety of presenting an Address to his Majesty,
praying him to remove his present Ministers, who
had, by various acts, and more especially by their
late conduct in the proceedings against the Queen,
which were contrary to every principle of justice,
lost all claim to the confidence of the People."—
" Gentlemen," said Mr. Wells, " before we proceed
to the business of the day, it is my duty to read to
yon a letter which has been received from your Noble
Representative, Lord Francis Godolphin Osborne,
apologizing for his absence.—Eln this letter the Noble
Lord expresses the extreme reluctance with which he
had given up all hopes of being able to attend the
Meeting ; but severe illness rendered him totally in-
capable of appearing. He hoped, however, that the
Address which, had he been present, he would have
proposed, would be ably supported by others. He
was of opinion that it was by a legal and constitu-
tional expression of popular feeling and sentiment at
great public meetings, that the country could alone
be saved. He had applied for the Town-hall, as a
proper place for holding the Meeting, but the Mayor
had refused to comply with the request, without the
consent of the Corporationl—Since that letter was
received (continued the Under Sheriff) the Earl of
Hardwicke has notified, that illness alone has pre-
vented his attendance. With respect to the refusal
of the Town-hall, I have only to observe, that we
have a Shire-hall, over which the Mayor has no
power, but it is too small for the purposes of the
Meeting : application was consequently made for the
use of the Town-hall, but the Mayor had thought fit
to deny the Requisitionists that boon."—(Groans).
Lord Mote presented himself to the Meeting
amidst loud cheers. He said be rose to address them
under circumstances of considerable embarrassment.
He was aware that, not being a resident at present
in that county, he might be accused of presumption
in venturing to address the Freeholders and Inhabi-
tants, on the present occasion—(No, no).—But, as he
was present, the substitute, if they would allow him
to say so, of their Noble Representative, whose pre-
sence was denied them in consequence of severe ill-
ness, he trusted they would hear him with patience,
however inadequate he might be to the task, while
he expressed those principles and opinions which he
was confident would have been expressed with more
vigour, energy, and ability, if the health of his
Noble Friend had suffered him to attend—(Applause}
Peshaps he would be heard with more favour by the
Meeting, if he reminded them of a sort of claim he
had on their indulgence, for having, some years ago,
appeared before them for the purpose of recom-
mending to their support that Representative, whose
manly, independent, and patriotic spiot, had led
him, consistently, invariably, steadily, ald zealously
to watch over and protect the best iifterests of the
People of England—(Cheers—He had marked his
conduct in Parliament, ande had seen him inva-
riably opposed to these unhappy measures which
had driven this country to its present distressed and
disastrous condition—( Applause). His Noble Friend
had opposed, invariably, those mischievous measures,
which, instead of leading to economy and retrench-
ment, supported a system of extravagance and pro-
fusion, and which necessarily led, as he and his
friends had anticipated, to the present situation of
the country, which all good men so deeply deplored
—(Applause).—lf he were, on the present occasion,
to go through all the various instances which he war
in a situation to adduce, in which the Ministers of
the Crown had rejected the advice of their COnsti-
tuents, had disregarded the Petitions, and neglected
the interests of the People, he should weary their
patience and exhaust their time. Ministers were but
little aware of the situation in which they stood,
when, in a spirit of extravagant profusion, they were
indulging in an excessive expenditure, the ultimate re-
sult of which they could not anticipate. When they
voted, and brought the House of Commons to agree
in the decision that deteriorated paper was equivalent
to sterling gold; and when they did not hesitate to
bring forward a Bill, enacting that that paper should
circulate in its deteriorated state, they little imagined
that they were working mischief, the end and termi-
nation of which it was impossible to calculate.—
Perhaps that might
_be one of the most important
engines now at work, by which the distress and
misery under which all ranks and orders throughout
the country were now suffering, had been produced.
The agricultural interest was distressed—it was suf-
fering beyond calculation. The manufacturing in-
terest was also distressed—it was cramped and impo-
verished throughout the country. All this was the
effect of the pernicious system that had been so long
pursued ; and he would, he was sure, exhaust their
patience, if he entered into a detail of the various
measures, prejudicial to the happiness and interest
of the empire, for which Ministers were wholly re-
sponsible—(Applause).—Nature was bountiful ; the
country was rich in produce; but the population of
the country, on the contrary, was poor and miserable
—(Applause).—The People, the suffering and goaded
People of England. who had gallantly and patiently
enduied all privations? who had submitted to a long
series of evils, in the hope of a better and more
peaceful time, were wholly neglected and despised.
They had honestly. temperately, and loyally stated
their grievances to Parliament and Ministers. The
Ministers had indeed received their Petitions, and
heard their complaints; but they had disregarded
them, they had rejected tbent, they bad despised

them ; for they never deigned to notice them
(Cheers).—This total disregard of the Petitions of
the People, had led them to discontent—to, he would
say, justifiable discontent —( A pplairse ).—That dis-
content Ministers were unable or unwilling to con-
troul by conciliatory methods, and they met it with
the iron hand of power, with the instrument of ty-
ranny—he meant an increased military establishment
—( Veers and hisse s ).—He was not one who thought
that-the Government of the country could exist with-
out trigrongcontrouling power; but every object of
controlling power could be effected by gaining the
hearts of a free and willing People. When their af-
fections were gained, there was no need of harsh
measures—there was no need of incurring a heavy
expense in order to contronl a friendly and willing
People. This was one of the great causes of the
present distress, aggravated and increased, instead of
decreasing expenditure—that expenditure might, per-
haps, have been rendered necessary by the measures
of Ministers; but it would be totally unnecessary
and nugatery, if they attended to the fair, manly,
and honest demand of\the People of England—
(Cheers).—With respect to Ministers, they appeared
not to have been unmindful of their own interests,
however careless they might be of those of the People.
Whenever the question of Reform in Parliament (to
which he had ever been attached) was mentioned in
Parliament, they had rejected it with disdain. When-
ever they had been detected in practices subversive
of.freedom of election, they had sheltered themselves
under the notoriety of such practices; and their
friends and adherents, if they could not save them
from all censure, at all events shielded them from
the punishment which they deserved—(Cheers and
hisses).—lf those Gentlemen who did him the honour
of directing their attention towards him by their
hisses, would have the goodness hereafter to answer
,what he had asserted, to deny the facts which he had
stated, to disprove, for instance, that Lord Castle-
reagh was, on the motion of Mr. Madocks, abso-
lutely convicted of selling seats in Parliament ; if
they would deny the fact, and controvert his conclu-
sion, he would hear them with great patience, and
treat them in a manner vet:), different from that
which they had manifested towards him—(Cheers).
—He was stating that Ministers were not regardless
of their own interests. They knew whence they
derived their power—they knew it emanated from
the Crown ; and, therefore, they spewed that they
were constantly ready to lend themselves to the will
of the Crown, particularly on a late occasion, which
had excited the indignation of the People, and drawn
forth the strongest expression of national sentiment
and feeling from every part of England—(Cheers).—
They well knew that the Queen was not a pleasur-
able object to the King ; and, knowing this, they con-
ceived that the best way of gaining favour in the
eyes of his Majesty, was, to receive information fur-
nished by Hanoverian agents, by Italian spies, and
unknown traducers--(Applause).—They adopted the
communications of those persons as their own, and
acted on them as theirs—( Applause).—He did not
think it proper or necessary to gize any distinct opi-
nion on the matter they had brought before Parlia-
ment ; but this he would say, that a Bill of Pains
and Penalties was contrary to the principles of justice,
contrary to all legal analogies, and contrary to the
fundamental principles of the British Constitution.
He knew of no instance in history where a Bill of
Pains and Penalties was resorted to, which ought not
to be held out rather as a light to enable others
to avoid danger in future, than as an example
which ought to be looked up to and followed—
(Cheers).—These were, however, the precedents on
which Ministers relied—those very precedents which
they ought most sedulously to have avoided. There-
fore he would contend, that the proceeding of Mi-
nisters, founded on such base evidence, their lending
themselves to German diplomatists, their lending
themselves with so much promptitude to the will of
a Sovereign who had separated from his Consort,
rendered them wholly unfit to continue in the situ-
ations which they at present held—(Cheers).—They
ought not to be permitted henceforth to move in the
same path of danger and of mischief in which they
had been travelling for so many years—(Applause).
Ministers who felt themselves under the necessity of
resorting to the agency of Italian accusers and Ger-
man diplomatists, were unfit to guide the affairs of
this country. They had beard, to their utter asto-
nishment, how far Ministers were now under—not
the will of the people of England—but how far they
were under the controul and despotism of foreign Go-
vernments--(Cheers and hisses).—They must surely
have heard of combinations of Sovereigns against the
liberties of the People of Europe—(Cheers).—Now,
though it was not mentioned in the Address which
had been placed in his hand (for, as he had before
stated, he was only the substitute for their Noble Re-
presentative), and which he was about to move; still
he regretted that the foreign relations of this country
had not been alluded to. He regretted it on account
of the doctrine maintained by the Holy Alliance. It
was true the British. Ministers had not placed their
signatures to that alliance; but they knew how inti-
mately connected, how nearly blended they were, with
all the bad actions of that Alliance—(Cheers).—lf he
entered into a detail, it would be painful for him to
express the disgust and abhorrence he felt towardi
many of the measures of the present Administration—
especially their lending themselves to the prosecu-
tion, he might more properly say, the pei secution
of her Majesty—(Cheers and hissing).—After doing
that, he thought they had no right to hold a public
and responsible situation in the Government of the
' country. On these grounds, added to the private
affection he entertained for their Noble Representa-
tive, he stood forward to propose an Address to his
Majesty; and, as he had before said, if there were
any individuals in that Meeting who would boldly,
manfully, and energetically state opposite opinions,
and prove that his were wrong, he would most cheer-
, fully confess his error—(Applause). But he enter-
tained a confident hope that the Meeting, with the
exception of those few individuals who had expressed
their dissent, would carry, with acclamations, the
Address which he now had the honour to propose.
The UNDER SHERIFF read the Address, which,
after pointing out the demerits of Ministers, prayed
for their dismissal.
Earl FITSWILLIAM next came forward, and was
received with long-continued plaudits. His Lordship
said he felt great pleasure in seconding the Address,
which contained no sentiment that did not appear to
him to be perfectly correct. The conduct of Minis-

tees was wholly unjustifiable in many instances, and
in none more so than, in the manner in which they
treated the complaints of the People. Their miscon-
duct had produced considerable discontent through—
out the country ; but, instead of endeavouring to
allay it, by alleviating the burdens of the People, they
bad recourse to a great additional military force, by
which the public expenditure was increased when it.
ought to be diminished. The charge of disloyalty
and sedition, which had been so confidently made
against the People, was founded on calumny, and
calumny alone—(aseers).—The People of England
had repeatedly petitioned—their Petitions had been
neglected, and that this might generate discontent,
he asimitted ; but he maintained it to be completely
proved that there never was such discontent in exist-
ence as could justify a standing army of 30,000 men
in time of peace. These were his sentiments : he
spoke them fairly to his friends and fellow-country-
men, and feeling them to be well•founded, he would,
acting under their influence, support the proposition
of his Noble Friend—(Cheers).
Mr. FORDHAM inveighed against the injustice of,
the proceedings in the case of the Queen, and pointed
out the absurdity, as well as cruelty, of delegating
the anomalous powers of prosecutors, judges, and ju-
rors, to the same body. Still, however, assisted by
the generous People of England, their noble Queen
had triumphed !—she covered herself with glory,
and her enemies with shame!--(Loud applause).—
The speaker then proceeded to call the attention of
the Meeting to the enormous standing army which
was at present kept up, on which Ministers depended
for support, be their actions what they might. If
they had not been conscious that they had a large
armed force in the neighbourhood of the Metropolis, •
they would not have dared to institute proceedings
against the Queen.
Mr. MEREST said, there never was, at any period of
their history, a greater necessity for the People of this
country to meet and speak their sentiments than at
the present moment, threatened as they were by a
total subversion of that Constitution which their fore-
fathers had purchased with their blood ! Ministers
had, for the last fifteen months, been abridging that
Constitution with mischievous activity. If they did
not know it to be the fact, would any man have ima-
gined it possible that any set of Ministers could have
proposed to the Commons House of Parliament to
curtail the right of petitioning, that great palladium
of our liberties—to contract the liberty of the Press ;
and, in the fifth year of peace, to add 5,000 men to a
great Standing Army? From all their actions, it ap-
peared, that the policy of the present Ministers was to
govern the People of this country by military des-
potism and arbitrary power—(Cheers). Instead of
endeavouring to put down any disaffection which
might have existed in the country, by wise and libe-
ral measures, what had they done? They had agi-
tated the country from one end to the other and
brought it to the brink of revolution, by introduc-
ing a Bill of Pains and Penalties, a proceeding en-
tirely unknown to the Constitution of this country.
They directed that engine against a woman, and that
woman a Queen, a descendant of the House of Bruns-
wick, and a relation of that family which was now
seated on the Throne. When they reflected on this
most atrocious conspiracy, founded in infamy, nur-
tured in corruption, and supported by perjury, there
could be but one opinion with respect to those who
countenanced it—namely, that they were unfit for
power—(Applattse). When they saw ruin and deso-
lation staring them in the face ; when they saw
the Manufacturer and the Agriculturist involved is
one common ruin, they naturally asked to whom all
this was owing? The answer must be, to his Majes-,
ty's Ministers, who seemed to be as dead to the dan-
gers that surrounded the country, as they were to
those that threatened the Crown—(Cheers). In loyalty
to the Constitution, and attachment to the House of
Brunswick, he would yield to no man. He would
sacrifice everything that was dear to him in their de-
fence; but he should consider himself unworthy of
the name of Englishman if he did not come boldly
forward, on an occasion like the present, as far as he
could, to shield his Sovereign from farther insult,
and his country from inevitable ruin—(Cheers).
The Rev. Mr. MABERLY said, he admired the purity
of the female character, and he loved his Sovereign,
and would sacrifice his life and property in his defence,
and he prized liberty as highly as he did his life.—
But though he loved his Sovereign, he could not at
present express affection and attachment to him,
when he knew that he had degraded the female cha-
racter. After expatiating on his Majesty's treatment
of the Queen, and on several other topics, the Be,.
Gentleman proceeded to read an Amended Address,
the first line of which stated that the parties address-
ing " view with the_ greatest regret and abhorrence
the conduct of your Majesty."—(Here a violent storm
of disapprobation prevented the Rev. Gentleman
from proceeding).
The UNDER SHERIFF.—There never was a man
more favourable to free discussion than the High She-
riff of Cambridge; but he is commissioned by the
King, and he would disgrace his office and himself
if he allowed any offensive language to be used to-
wards his Sovereign--(General C) eering).—Gentle-
men, you are quite conscious that the High Sheriff
has an awful duty to perform towards his Sovereign,
and I trust he will be protected in protecting that So-
vereign from insult—(Cheers).
Mr. LITTLE opposed the Address. He defended
Ithe conduct of Ministers, who, he affirmed, had never
done anything since they came into power pi ejudicial
to the interests of the King or of the People. They
had terminated the late war most gloriously—they
had raised the British name all over the world—they
had given freedom to Europe, and had transported
to a rock in the Atlantic, the Despot who would hive
enslaved her for ever. In conclusion, the worthy Gen-
tleman said, " In holding up your hands for the Ad-
dress, you are literally holding them up against your
Sovereign"—(Mach disapprobation).
The UNDER SHERIFF.—" The High Sheriff of this
County will never hear it said in his presence that
any individual is hostile to his Sovereign. The
Honourable Gentleman ought to explain words so
offensive to us all."
Mr. LITTLE said he did not mean the expression
in the strict sense in which it was taken.
The question was. then put, and carried affirma-
tively by an immense majority, not more than a
dozen hands being held up against it.
Ttbe Meeting, which consisted of about 2,000
persons, was then dissolved.

I