Star.
London, England, 1816-11-30 00:00:00

44tichaft.).—All the exertion of the wbok Mani-
' Press aoWd scot &edge his sentiMetiti on these mat-.
tans ear affacn that which waslcieven oet hisheari:
.--(o/p/./aure.—He wished for... • t reform which
would brinaik:dhe nation back to t •
:79iialitutionl—
litt some t of a mOditiate'riforM. What 'would
.be thought of si man Who %ono said to be moderately
honest; He most be an honest man or a rogue, and
if he was not the former, it follaviel of course that
he Must be the latter. %Vhat would one of those
young Gentlemen now present, and who were court-
ink,think, if tom that his sWeetbeirt.was. moderately
honest ?—(o/m/ause.) He saw by their rubbing their,
bends, that they would be ready to knock any one
down who should • tell 1114111 11i111. What they felt
with respect to. aheir sweetheetter he felt when the
,character of., the Constitution was io question, and
toil & beittiilied with no retains Which would not:
restore' to the people that Constitution WhiCh had
been [rafted for there by- the wisdom of their ances.,
t4na• A reform was necessary to relieve the nation ,
tram the overwhelming teaatien which now.pressed
heavy on its industrf. At present every thing was
Gazed, and • :he poorest person! in the comotunity
were forced to psy to the taxes. Even those who
were in the most destitute situation, and compelled
to feed on the refuse of the dunghill, might be said
to contribute to them, as less was thrown out for
their sustenance than would be cast away under
other circumstances. Notwithstanding the present
state of things, he did notitesitate to say, he was of
op Ilion no reform nould take place, if Ministers
could prevent it. lie was setistied they, like the
torno-r Government of France,. would drive the
people to desperation, and subject the country to the
horrors of a bloody revolution, rather than 'consent in
time to that reform which was required. (dpitlavie.)l.
To-morrow the public would be told that a turious
ruffian had stepped torward to urge the populace to
bloodshed, slaughter, • and murder. But who. he
would ask, hall done this today He had not, nor
did he ever.—(ditiblam.)-•-He was not Afraid of
strolding to what Ite had wally said, even if what fell
from liim were misrepresented.—His conduct at the
last Common Hall kid given offence to some per
60111. He had submitted certain resolutions to his
ielloi-citizens, to be approved or rejected, as they
thought proper, and they were rejected. It was,
therefore. supposed that he was put down, and one
of the leading moon, as lie went out of the Hall with
another Gentleman under his arm, had been heard
to say of him (Mr. Hunt), " D.-11 him,. we've done
for him t he'll not come here again." The mover
of the Resolutions had heard this, and he had been
principsdle induced to take up his livery in conse•
quence of it, that he might have an opportunity of
coming forward to state his sentiments to his fellow.
citizens. He ridiculed she conduct of certain polit;cal
opponents who had been disposed to go out to fisti.
cuffs. He had neverohought of supportine his opi-
nions by engaging in a boxing match. He would
tell those who were opposed"to him how they might
write him Clown—Let them prove that he had ever
cringed to a great man, or oppressed a poor cne. and
they mould put him down at once. Sotbscriptioos
set afloat he contended Was a deceptive eipedient,
and inadequate to the existiog evil, and noticed the
450 given by a worthy Alderman, for the relict of
the 6..itaifields District., as"bring much less than ;
might have been expected from'him, alter the profit-
able conrtacts. which heiutd had during the war.
Mr. Got:town, said,* 4904$ true Return) was iieces. ,
&WY, and therefore all chivies should forget their '
petty qtesriels ind party animosities, and unite in the
prosecution of the mean object. TFe City, in ;Nati-
cola?, the como.unity .ind country in general, were
under the deepest obligations to his worthy friend
Mr. Waithman, who for the last 20 years had la.
boureei incessantly to promote their interests, had
sacrificed even his pervical and domestic comforts to
the greatest extent, counting northing too much to he
done for the public good.—(Clssers.)—Yes, he had
'come forward as the champion of their rights wl:en
altnest• alone, and when exposed to obloquy from
sorely quarter. Nor were the mertoruois exertions
of the. worthy Lord Mayor to be lotgotten. No man
ever did* no wan ever could do the duty of a Magi-
strate 'better than he diJ, with luinour to 'liaised and
credit to the City.—(Lsed cheers.)-rThree or four
hundred paupers, abandoned and neglected by Go-
vernment, after fighting for• the country, daily came
to his Lordshiplor aid. knowing he had a heart to
feel for, And a desire to relieve all that calamity
which came under his notice. His Lordship's bene-
volence embraced the whole catalogue of human
loces.—(Cheery.)—He (the -speak, r) had gone along
the bridges last week for the purpose of seeing the
actual state of the wretched ; and on London bridge,
Alter nine o'clock at night, he found from 4.0 to 50
wretches huddled together t on Blackfriats 60, and
last night on the same bridge 58.—(Hear, /seer.)—
Let such a picture of calamity instigate the public to
do their duty. Englishmen did not wish to live on
,charity, but by their industry. He, however, sp.
' proved of charitable donations, and trusted they
' would go head in hand with efforts for Reform.—
Moderation combined with firmness, loyalty united
with patriotic exertions, charity to,their brethren with
independence of spirit, and resolution with mildness,
were qualities indispensible to all who stept forward
in the cause. England had ever been the patropess
of good order—let her not now, in the struggle she
must make for her rights and privileges, forget that
44 to do ail things well, is to do them decently and in
order:"
Mr. WAITHMAN had never seen a Hall so thinly
intended on so important an occasion, and thought,
had there not been some mismanagetiaent on the part
of these who had called it, that it would, at such a
time, have been quite full. He'and his friends were
slisposed to exult when new meet came forivard in the
cause of Reform, and no feeliags of envy or jealousy
would lead hint to detract from the merit of their ez-1
ertions. It was, however,. worthy of remark, th.*
one of the 'Preceding speakers had lately, at a publid,
meeting, indulged in reniarks oa the conduct et,cer-.
tain City Orators, who dared not show themselves'
but before their own Myrmidons. He 'hot:l;h' it
rather singular, that the person Who bed recently Gait
those base and intamotta aspersions on those Who at:
tended Comnioti Halls, shotild this day come there
to address theta as his fellow-citizens. Myrmidons
meant, according to Johnson, 4, rude ruffians." Yet
the person who fled this day affected to espouse their-
cause, while resenting the application, of the term
44 rabble" to the populace out of doom shad hail the