Star.
London, England, 1820-11-28 00:00:00

-MEETING OF Si:JAMES'S,IC

A very numerous and respectable Meeting of the
I.ihabitants of St. James's v. a. held yesterday, in the
•Pulteney Assen.birroom.
J. T. B. BitAIMONT, Esq. was called to the Chair,
amid loud and general cheers. lie stated, that the
Mernherss for the County and the Membersfor \Vest-
eninster had beim invited to attend this Meeting.
One valuable Member (Mr. Hobhouse) he was happy
to see i resent—(Great applause). Mr.Whitbread had
written an 4115 er, regretting that his absence from
town prevented him from attending, but expressing
Isis hearty concurrence in the object of the Meeting,
stnd his confident hope that their example would be
followed; for the People of England were loudly
called on to expiess their sentiments respecting the
proceedings in the Lords, and particularly respect-
ing
sthe arbitrary proceeding in the House of Com-
mons—(t hcers)..—'There was no letter from Sir F.
Burdett; but, from the distance at which he lived
from town, it was probable he had not received the
letter—(Seyeral voices expressed a hope that lie was
_recovered).
• Mr. Hosuouse said, he was so far recovered, that
he was able to ride, bin not to walk. He knew he
was particularly anxious to take the first opportu-
nity of meeting his Constituents—(Applause).
Mr. llsausioxr proceeded.—Mr. Byng had de-
clined to attend, in the hope of having an early op-
portunit of attending a County Meeting. Ile would
now call their attention shortly to the object of their
meeting 'The last time they met, it had been to
offer their condolence to her Majesty, and to declare
their conviction of her innocence, and of the injustice
of the proceedings against her Majesty. Now they
were met to congratulate her Majesty upon her ac-
tual triumph over all the power and infamy arrayed
against her—(Cheers).—Throughout this great and
enlightened country, 99 out of every 100 were con
vinced of her Majesty's innocence—(Cheers).—Not
(sae man or woman was there who was not convinced
of the cruelty with which she was treated (Applause).
Her persecutors, after having exhausted all the re-
sources which malignity aid money could supply,
had retreated, with groans and hisses, from the seat
of their power (Great applause); but their defeat only
increased their venom. They retreated like the tiger,'
who, having made an unsuccessful spring, slunk away,
meditating more mischief Is--(Loud cheers).
Mr.A' BECKETT then moved, among the other Reso-
lutions," That an Address of Congratulation be pre-
sented to the Queen, and another to the King ; and
that his Majesty be entreated to dismiss his present
Mi-isters from his Councils for ever ; and to bring
the authors of the late base conspiracy against our
magnanimous, virtuous, and innocent Queen, to con-
dign punishment."
Mr. YOUNG moved, that an Address of Congra-
tulation be presented to the Queen, and another to
the King, which should also beseech his Majesty to
dismiss his Ministers, and bring the authors of the
foul charges against the Queen to punishment—
( Great Applause).
They were read, and unanimously agreed to.
it was moved, and unanimously agreed, that Sir
Francis Burdett and J. C. Hobhouse, Esq. the pa-
triotic Members for Westminster, shouldbe requested
to present or transmit the Address to the King.
Mr. Hoariouse now came forward, and was re-
ceived with the most clamorous shouts of applause.
—The Hon. Gentleman proceeded to observe, that
one of the complaints against Members of Parlia-
ment who were in the habit of attending Meetings
of the people was. that instead of speaking their opi-
nion in what was called their proper place, the House
of Commons, they preferred addressing the people
at once. But if this had been the complaint against
himself and others formerly, there was no reason for
making it now, for they had no opportunity of ad-1
dressing the House of Commons—(Applause). He was
one of those who resolved to lose no opportunity of
decrying the measures which agitated the country,
and would continue to agitate it till justice should
be done to the Queen—(Loud applause). With this
view he had presented himself at the earliest possible
hour, At ten. o'clock in the morning, at the door of
the House, resolving not to omit an opportunity of
decrying the conduct of men who degraded the cha-
racter of the country, and who brought the nation to
the brink of anarchy and desolation—(Great ap-
plause). But his effort, as, well as the efforts of many
independent Members, was frustrated. Ministers
would not let the House of Commons sit for two mi-
nutes to hear a message from their established Queen,
notwithstanding that they were prepared to occupy
them for two years in bedaubing and bemiring their
hands in the filthy Green Bag—(Shouts of applause).
Goo knew what became of the Commons green bag.
He supposed the authors of it had got it privately
conveyed away, and got it nicely stitched, and a
copy of it laid up in a neat corner of that pure and
precious part of their dwellings, the library. He
supposed it would appear served up with the next
edition of the Woman of Pleasure r—(4aarghter
and applause).—But be thanked Gou that they had
an opportunity of expressing.their opinion by one
word. Those who laboured on their vocation—the
Ministerial writers—had expressed a hope that the
Eve or six who cried "Shames would be deserted.
Me, for one, whether in company with others, or de-
serted, would do his duty. But he appealed to Sir
Gerard Noel. whether those who cried " Shame,"
were not nearer sixty —( Hear, hear fro* Sir Gerard
.Noe ).—The better way of stating it was, that there
were not six who' did not cry "Shame" at the das-
tardly, mean, unhandsome, ungentlemanlike manner
of getting rid of the message of the Queen—( Hear,
hear ).—The Black Rod was introduced—by whom ?
13y the Secretary of the Tieasury—( Shane, seam )!
A little whifiline fellow--( Applause )—to be brought
in to tell them lat their presence was instantly com-
manded before the Lords! He knew very well that
it was the prerogative of the King to prorogue Par-
lianseot ; but this prerogative, and every other, was
to be exercised with discretion—( Applause ).—lt
ought to be exercised only for the benefit of the
People. Then they had been called together to in-
quire into a dirty and nefarious transaction, they
ought at least to have heard the Message of her Ma.-
jesty, and to have learnt whether she was satisfied—
whether be had a house, a purse, and every proper
provision for the nearest to the Sovereign of that
busily which the People of England placed on the
introue—( aierioase).—He had lived, however, to