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Owners of the River Thames, the Inhabitants of
Hammersmith, and the Parishioners of St. Matthew,
Bethnal-greei n—they were all ordered to be printed.
Sir ROBERT WILSON.—.. I hold in my hand
a similar Petition, signed by 2097 persons, of a very
respectable class of artisans, denominated The Spa-
nish Morocco Leather-dr essers'—(A laugh).—They
may excite the contempt, possibly, of some Gentle-
men—they are poor, but they are loyal—(Hear,
hear).—They pay taxes, and they are as much en-
titled to be heard in this house as Gentlemen who
represent Aldermen, or any class of men whatever'
—(Hear, hear).—Their Petition deserves peculiar
attention on account of the temper and the tone of
intelligence which it manifests. - They concur in the
uniform sentiment which is kindled throughout the
country with reference to the Queen; they agree in
the detestation which is everywhere expressed of the
proceedings against her Majesty ; they think that '1
the omission of her name from the Liturgy was an
outrage to justice—(Hear, hear)—calculated to brand
her with infamy, in order either to constrain her to
live in exile, or, if she returned to this country, to
facilitate her condemnation—(/kar, hear). They
express their regret that private malignity has been
introduced into the Temple where Religion, with
her kindred Charities, should alone have presided—
( Hear, hear).—Since the Parliament met, an argu-
ment had been made use of with respect to the
prayer of the Petitioners. The Chancellor of the
Exchequer stated, on a former evening, that the
question of the restoration of her Majesty's name
to the Liturgy is one which ought to be argued
not as a party question, but as a legal and constitus
tional question. But the Noble Lord clear him, to use
a common phrase, let the cat out of the bag: For
the Noble Lord has said, if the House should agree
to carry up an Address to the Throne upon this
subject, Ministers would not be a patty to such a
proceeding ; thus making it a party question, and in
direct terms calling on his dependent officers and
squires—(A laugh on the Ministerial Benches)—to
support him and themselves in their respective situa-
tions. The Petitioners prayed that her Majesty's
name might be restored to the Liturgy, and they did
so not merely because she had a right to have her
name so restored, nor because in law she was justifi•
able in claiming that right, but also because theresto-
ration of her name to the Liturgy would be a measure
calculated to tranquillize the country. They wished
to see the sword of dissension returned to the scab-
bard, and the torch of discord entirely extinguished
(Hear, hear). They state their belief that tranquillity
will not be restored to this country until her Ma-
jesty's name is inserted in the Liturgy. I say more,
that tranquillity ought not to be restored unless
act of justice shall be done!—(Cheersfrom the Minis-
terial Benches). I repeat the words, although I may
•be accused in this House. But in this House I can-
not be accused without a formal charge—(Laughter)
—but, although I be accused elsewhere, I say again
that tranquillity ought not to be restored until her
Majesty's name is inserted in the Liturgy. And I
say so because, if, without that tranquillity were re-
stored, we would be acquiescing in an act of flagrant
injustice—(Cheers from the Opposition). We might
have peace, but it would be the peace not of freemen
but of slaves ! (No, no !,from the Ministerial Benches).
I say it would be so. I know of no free Govern-
ment unless the voice of the People have an influence
over it. It this were a Government where no such
influence was recognized, I would as soon live under
the Sophi of Persia or the Dey of Algiers, as tinder
the King of England! I detest and despise that
odious and servile doctrine—
' Iniqui quam pacem vellem atque bello justisslino anteferro.'
(Hear, hear).— Peace, with liberty, is alone desirable;
public discord, without it, is to me pi eferable to such
a species of tranquillity. Discord is the disease of a
free Stare; despotism is death to it!"—(bear, hear).
The hollow able and gallant General concluded with
moving that the Petition be brought up.
It was bri.nght up, read, and ordered to be printed;
as was also a similar Petition from Bolton, in Lanca-
shire. 11 ith reference to the latter, the honourable
and gallant General said that it was signed by a large
number of the inhabitants; that it was sent about for
signatures, but not agreed to at a Public Meeting—
because the inhabitants living, as he said, so near to
a town (Manchester) where 600 persons had been
wounded in exercising their right of assembling, on
a former occasion, they did not wish to expose them-
selsks to the danger of a similar outrage.—(Hear.)
Mr. S. C. WHITBREAD presented two similar
Petitions from the operative Sawyers of London and
Westminster, and from the parish of Edmonton.
Ordered to be printed.
Mr. R. BOUGH TON presented a similar Petition
from Evesham, in Worcestershire. Ile said he ob-
served among the signatui es those of several respect-
able Clergymen, Protestants and Dissenters. The
Petitioners prayed that Parliament would refrain from
all future hostilities against her Majesty; they deeply
deplored the measures which had been already insti-
tuted against her ; and they prayed the restoration of
her name to the Liturgy. Having stated the opinion
of the Petitioners, he would avail himself of this op-
portunity to express his own opinion of those mea-
sures, and he could not but think them in their ori-
gin most unwise, most unfair, and highly inexpedient
—(Hear, hear). It was his decided conviction that
the Ministers could not now do better than retrace
their steps—(Cheers)—and he was persuaded that the
restoration of her Majesty's name to the Liturgy was
the only means of allaying the discontent which was
raised from one end of the kingdom to the other by
those impolitic counsels—(Hear, hear).
The Petition was ordered to be printed.
The Marquis of TAVISTOCK presented a similar
Petition from the Nobility, Gentry, Clergy, and Frees
holders of the County of Bedford, which was agreed
to at a County Meeting, the first that had been held
there for a number of years, and one of the most
respectable Meetings he ever saw. It was regularly
convened, and the proceedings were carried on in
the true old spirit of the British Constitution. The
Petition was signed by 2.400 freeholders. It stated
several grievances, prayed a Reform in Parliament,
but, above all, it reprobated the late proceedings
against her Majesty and prayed this House not to
countenance them. The petitioners were, like many
others of their fellow-subjects, jealous of those new
proceedings, which had shaken the tranquillity of
the country. It might perhaps meet. the views of
his Majesty's Ministers to say that such a Meeting as