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selves and injurious to the public, as they induced
them to withhold those efforts which in
outh the caus
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freedom were particularly due from y
country. But the Majors was attacked b
thyos varwho
ious
descriptions of persons, nd chiefly by e
boasted of belonging to a party--3 term which, it
must be acknowledged, seemed very properly adopted
by persons who churned to take for part what was due
to the whole. Whether the Majors views were too ex •
tensive, too liberal, or too bold, his opponents had
not endeavoured to demonstrate by any thing
he like
er
argument ; but whatevppinion mightidered t beheld upm,
on
them, surely nobody, who fairly cons
could honestly call them old womanish. They were
manly in their nature and their object. They were
peculiarly the feelings and sentiments of a man—the
feelings and sentiments of a true born Englishman.
His prescription was not a little but a big nostrem.
It could never be described in terms of
contempt,
though in some pusillanimous minds it might excite
apprehension. He was however happy to state, that
a great change had been operated in public opinion
on the subject of Reform. He could state from good
information, that the delusions which had so long
prevailed were fast wearing away. There was now,
he believed, scarcely an honest man in any part of
the country, of sound mind, who was not sensible of
the extent of public corruption, and was not per-
fectly convinced of the necessity of applying a re-
medy. But with respect to Reform, it was to be ex-,
pected that men's judgments should he different.—,
There were various shades of opinion, and no one
had a right to hold out that the mode he proposed
must have a preference—that his plan, and his plan
only, should be adopted. He must with all humi-
lity say, that this was.a sort of dictation to which no
public man could submit. The resolutions which he
had moved in the last Session of Parliament had not
been proposed by him without due consideration. By
these resolutions he conceived himself bound to stand
or fall in the public opinion. On them he was wil-
ling to place all pretensions to future character. If
he should ever depart from them, he begged that he
might not be allowed to say that he had grown
Viiier. If his countrymen thought he had endea-
voured to promote the public good, they might be
kind enough to wish to throw a veil over his weak-
ness; hut he certainly should never have the hardi-
hood to look Englishmen in the face, and on aban-
doning his principles, to tell them that lie was wiser
to-day than he had been a few years ago. Finding
that the spit it of Reform was spreading, every thing
weals' be done by those who were its enemies to mis-
lead the people. Various measures, it was probable,
would be proposed to the public es the means of Re-
forui. It was possible, however, that some measure
short of that which he might think right, would be
proposed in Parliament. if that should be the case,
he should think it no impeachment ofhis consistency
to support such a measure ; for something must be
sacrificed to the opinions or even the prejudices of
others. Whatever might become of abstract prin-
ciples, tilt great object was to obtain the advantages
of practical Reform. He had always maintained that
every person (ight to have a vote in the maLing of
the laws which. dispose of his liberty and his pro-
perty; and, for the lite of him, he could not see how
elections founded on that principle should lead to
anarchy. Suppose the country divided into sections
for voting, however large the population, be could
rot understand how there should be more confusion
in all voting, than there would be in any single pa-
rish or district. Could there be greater anarchy than
on the present system of election, which every seven
years disclosed such horrid scenes of bribery, per-
jury, and every vice? The scenes which occurred
during our elections had made many good men,
though, in his opinion, not wise men, wish that the
country had no rep:csentation. It had been said that
he objected that the term univel sal suffrage was
not sufficiently definite.. His objection, however, was
not to the term, it was that those who used it, with
the exceptioa of Mr. Bentham, really did not mean
u-uversal suffrage. What he whiled was, that uni-
versal interests should be represented, and that, be
thought, would be sufficiently accomplished, if the
beads of families were to vote. He had been charged
with inconsistency; because he had declared that he
took his opinions from Milton, Locke, and Ma-
chiavel. It had been observed, on this, " that
l'slilton was a Republican—Locke a Constitutional.
Monarchist—and, that Machiavel had become the
Minister of a wily Prince ; aad it was inferred, that
he might pass through all these stages." The prin-
ciples of these men, however, were essentially the
same, though apparently differing, from the situa-
tions in which they were placed. They were all
iliereis of freedom. But it had been insinuated that
lie would act the part of each—that, after bein; a
reaublican with Milton, he had become a constitu-
tional monarchist with Locke, and would terminate
by being the Minister of some wily Prince. He won.
d; red what wily Prince in Europe would wish to
mike him his Ministsr? But the fact was, that Eng-
land was not a monarchy ; for that meant the govern-
ment of one individual—a government vested in a
particular family; for its interests. Our ancestors
acknowledged no such system. The government of
the constitution of England bad an hereditary King,
but that power was balanced by a representation of
the people. There might be in Governments many
things which, besides being ornamental, had their
utility ; but the essence and test of a free constitution
was a represeetation of• the people. He was there-
fore always willing to support the Crown and the
Aristocracy, provided they were not opposed to the
right of the people to choose their representatives.—
Those who were pleased to endeavour to find out his
inconsistencies, had reminded him of Mr. Burke, who
said, that wislsing his whiggism to stick by him, he
had taken it vet y low at first. Mr. Burke, he be-1
licved, did take his whiggism low enough ; but how-
ever low he took it, he certainly left it )lower than he'
found it ; but he trusted he should never leave the
principles of English liberty lower than he found them.
The next toast was to the memory of Dr. Jebb, Sir
William Jones, and Grenville Sharpe.
The health of Mr. GEORGE KINLOCH and the Re-
formers of Scotland was the next toast.
Mr. KisitocH returned thanks, and professed him-
self partial to what had been called great big blun-
ders and little nostrums. He remarked, that while
the press remained free, as it was now, we had nothing
to fear—we ran no risk—we were, in fact, invulner-
able. This, he added, was the only country iu Eu-

rape, in ithich that blessing, a free Press, was en-
joyed. He concluded by giving the health of Mr.
D. Kinnaird, the spirited advocate of popular rights.
144.. D. KIN)i•AIRD, in returning thanks, exhorted
the Reformers, now that they had nearly won the
fortress, t 9 do every thing in their power to conciliate
those who stilt opposed a feeble resistance, and whom
at no distant period they might expect would join
them. He had to notice two regular attacks that
had lately been made on the Reformers. One of these
low
was by Mr. Canning, who, though formerly so
in estimation, had been recently complimented into
reputation. Mr. Brougham had in Westmorland
been employed in celebrating the greatness of Mr.
Canning's mind. By him the Right Honourable
Gentleman had been described to be one to whom
it was an honour to be opposed, and by whom it was I
no disgrace to be beaten. The attacks which had
been made on the Reformers, to which he had allu-
ded, by Mr. Canning, was found in a speech which
he had made at Liverpool, where, addressing the
Ladies, he bad said—" One pledge I will give, I will
never consent to the adoption of any plan of Univer-
sal Suffrage in which they are not included."--(A
laugh.) He then commented at considerable length
on that littleness of mind which could lead Mr. Can-
ning to think so meanly of female intellect as to think
the proposition to ineude them in the plan GI Uni-
versal Suffrage would at °lee cause the scheme to
be laughed at, and put it down. In 1643 he shewed
women were not thus meanly thought of by the llouse
of •Commons. The wives of the _dtizens had that
year petitioned for peace. Though fired on by the
trained bands, they had stood their ground; had pre-
sented their petition ; and it was not till Mr. Pym and
another Member had brought them a satisfactory
answer from the House that they retired. Ile then
proceeded to notice the other attack which he had
mentioned, and which, he said, was contained in an
article of the Edinburgh &vire. This he criticised
with some severity, and concluded by vindicating
the Reformers from the charges of fickleness and
caprice.—The b2altli of Mr. WOOLTR being drank,
I Mr. WooLEn addressed the Meeting, and noticed
I what had been sail of the conduct of Mr. Canning
land Mr. Brougham, designating the former a jester,
and the latter a renegado, and considering both of
I too little importance to be reasoned with, and not
sufficiently honest to make their opinions worth tak-
ing into account. He defended the Reformers, who,
he contended, had only incurred censure by raising
a hue and cry after their stolen goods. He gave as
a toast—" A red hot hue and cry after the thieves
who had stolen our liberties, and a sharp eye on
these who would be satisfied with less than complete
restitution."—The toast was drank with three times
three, after which Sir Fnascis BURDETT and the
Honourable DOUGLAE KINNAIRD retired, and the
company began rapidly to disperse.

Monday evening Mr. Jacobs, of Tottenham Court
Road, was stopped, whi c driving a one-horse chaise,
within a mile of Enfield, by so:ne footpath, who rob-
bed him of- £lO and his watch.
Monday night, about half--past eleven o'clock, Mr.
Keneth and his daughter, of Denmark-court, in the
strand, returning fr‘in Eigeware Rood, were Toblled
by some villains in Park-lane. They threatened their
lives, but did them no actual.violee.
Mr. Wacocas, the butcher, of Putney, who was
robbed on Monday morning early, on the Wands-
worth Road, lies dangerously ill, from the blows he
received. Yesterday SIT. Conan)Ens, the Magistrate,
visited the unfortunate man, but he was unable to
go through his deposition, from extreme debility ; he
was able, however, to give some description of the
robbers, and the Officers of Union Hall are w pus-

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