The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-01-02 00:00:00

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that man is ;" and when he saw, as he did, Mr. Morris intro-
duced on 'Change yesterday, arm-in-arm with Mr. Rathbone,
the freeman's friend, (loud cheers,) he had not much difficulty
in knowing Mr. Morris's principles, (cheers,) principles which,
he believedewere calculated to destroy everything that was dear
or valuable in the institutions of their country. (Cheers.) It
Was to meet and to overthrow such principles as these that he
would beg that each of them would place himself in the position
of that sentinel who, when on duty, was attacked by a most fu-
rious :mastiff, and was compelled,- in self-defeuce, to shoot the
animal dead upon the spot. The owner of the mastiff soon ap-
peared and asked the sentinel why he had killed his dog ?
" Because,"` replied he, "he flew at •me in the most furious
tnan.ner, and would have deVoured me if he could." The owner
deManded of lihn why he did not take the butt-end of his mus-
ket? The sentinel replied, "So I would, sir, if the dog had
flown at me. tail-foremost." (Loud laughter, and continued
cheers.) Just so, gentlemen, (continued Mr. H.) would I have
you to risk the principles of radicalism which now assail us.
Do not take the butt-end of your muskets. , (Laughter.) Now
is the time to strike the blow, and the principles of radicalism
will be laid prostrate before you. (Loud cheers.) If you wish
to standby your King and your country, put forth ever}, energy
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you have to secure the return of Lord Sandon and Sir Howard
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sincerity. In returning Sir Howard Douglas you will be doing
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English-
men, be doing your duty. Stand firm then, brother freemen
be true to yourselves, and you must conquer. As Sir Howard
Douglas is waiting to receive us at the Waterloo Hotel I will
not trespass upon your time, but content myself with seconding
the resolution.
The resolution was then put and carried with loud cheers.
' Captain DOUGLAS, the son of Sir Howard Douglas, here
begged permission to address a few words to the meeting.
(Loud cheering.) The gallant officer said the spirit of the
cheers which I have just heard will reach the ear of his Majesty,
and will, in its passage, help to cleanse parliament of some of
the impure vapours which have been permitted to pollute it.
(Cheers.) You will not, I hope, feel it improper in me, as a
ebn",--lbear testimony to the anxiety of my father to support
the ca se he has espoused. (Loud cheeriug.) Such indee4,
.is elta .anxiety; that the slight accident wine!, --...4ct to him
qter ois.nnse.L.-ernay say, 'bows rergottera,-is not already, cured.
My fa her IS noweraiting to receive you-at the Waterloo Hotel.
.---[ll. e the call for an adjournment to that place became
general.] .
Sir TneickS 13RANCKER then moved the thanks of the meet-
"es w 44.•' -".;."'s".••us • whiph. haviue twep geensuiPcl he Mr
Duncan Gibb, was put aria carried, anu the meeting was au :
jOurned tathe front of .
THE WATERLOO HOTEL.
At two o!clock, pursuant to notice given, Sir Howard, at-
tended-bvilie principal supporters and committee, proceeded to
the Waterloo Hotel, Ranelagh-street, where an immense
assemblage of electors had congregated to receive him. JOHN
Witiony, lkiq., prior to the honourable baronet's appearance,
came forward at one of the windows, and said that he was de-
puted to say,. that in consequence of Sir Howard Douglas
having met with an accident on the previous day, he would not
be enabled to address them at that length which they might
anticipate. He bad no doubt, however, but they would lend a
willing and patient ear to him.--(Load cheers.)
Sir Hoween npUGLAS• then presented himself, and was re-
ceived with deafening cheers and waving of hats and handker-
chiefs. He said that having been disabled, by an untoward
accident which occurred to him at the ship launch, from pay itig
his respects to the electors at their own residences, he had con-
sidered it his duty to come forward and address them at large
from the hotel window.—(Cheers.) He had hoped to have
mixed amongst them in their domestic circles, to give them au
opportunity of questioning him more closely on his political
sentiments, but the accident to which he had alluded must plead
his excuse for his not doing so. He would now, however,
address a few wordeto them on the present crisis.—(Cheers.) His
mostgracious Majesthaving, in accordance withtbe true spirit of
the constitution, exercised his kingly prerogative by lately chang-
ing his ministerialadviseis, those in whom he had now placed his
confidence had deemed it proper to relieve the late members from
their parliamentary duties.--s(Cheers.) And the King now ap-
pealed to his people to concede that support to his ministers which
was due to them as persons in whom he had placed his utmost
confidence. (Loud cheers.) He (Sir Howard) believed that
the measures of the new administration would be such as to en-
title them to the confidence to which they aspired, as being cal-
culated to benefit the 'whole community. (Cheers.) In cense-
qiierice of the exercise of the royal prerogative he now appeared
before-them as a candidate for their suffrages to represent the
interests of this borough in parliament. He had come forward
in obedience to a-requisition from the electors, which for respect-
ability and the number of signatures was beyond all precedent,
and he felt that he should have been dead to every sense of
duty and of feeling hid he not accepted their
.gratifying propo-
sition. (Cheers.) However he might feel an inward conscious-
ness of his inability in this great and important crisis, when
duties of such paramount importance devolved on the repre-
sentative of a community like the one he addressed, his objec-
tions were overruled by a requisition signed by .1000 electors.
(Loud cheers.) He could assure them that although he might
inwardly doubt his capacity in some respects to serve them,
they should never feel the effects of it, as all his energies,
information, and influence should be at their command, if they
thought him entitled to their suffrages. (Cheers). His political
sentiments were well known to them all' he had on many occa-
sions expressed them, and they appeared in placards upon the
walls. Before he entered again into an exposition of them he
would just allude to those events which probably might have
ldcl his Majesty to resort to these acts of his prerogative. When
his Majesty called Earl Grey to his councils, and conceded to
that ruinister a measure of parliamentary reform, the principle
upati Which he took office, he received an assurance from that
noble loreLthat he had renounced all those dangerous principles
ieebibed in the intemperance of youth, and that he would iutro-
'Alice no reform inconsistent with the inaintenaace of our insti-
tutions in church and state. From this assurance the cabinet of
Loyd Grey received the support of moderate men of all classes in
phlitics, some taking the measure as an end, and others as a
Means. Those who accented of it as an end were desirous of
maintaining inviolate the glorious institutions of the country,
while on the other hand it was received as a means to effect the
most dangerous alterations in the constitution of parliament and
this country, (hear,) such as the vote by ballot, universal suf-
frage, and reform in the House of Peers. When such dan-
gerous and destroyiug principles were entertained it behoved
every good subject to merge their minor differences in the com-
mon cause and become the conservatives of their institutions.
(Cheers.) In declining the services of Lord Grey and his
cabinet his Majesty violated no pledge and broke no promise ;
he supported his administration to the last, even after.it was
deserted by those whose loyalty- dictated their secession. He
alluded to the four distinguished individuals who retired from
the:cabinet from a feeling that it was unsafe for the interests of
the countr to remn. (Cheers) Being deprived of the
services ofy those ministers .G
Lord followed, and
many reasons were adduced to account for his retirement, but
he (sir Howard) intended to show to what that was owing. It
had been said that treason against his ministry in the cabinet
was the cause; but was it credible that a high-minded nobleman,
whose intelligence mastbe considerable to have gained the con-
fidence of his Sovereign, could have been blind to that treason
if it did exist. If indeed there was any truth in its existence it
wasdhe duty of that noble lord to have represented it to his
Sovereign, and to have put down treason ; but the real cause of
his retirement was that he was impelled by impulses he tout('
not resist. (Cheers.), His Majesty could not be blamed, as he
stood by the late administration even to the wreck. It was then
that the King found he hakplaced in jeopardy the chief and
best institutions of the country, and, like a constitutional King,
he sought for advisers who would prove the supporters of those
institutions. ,It was under these circumstances that his Ma-
jesty now uppealed to his people, and how where the people now
placed ? Why, in a situation to bid agitation cease, and com-
merce and agriculture flourish—neither of which interests' could
prosper under political agitation. (Loud cheers.) He (Sir
Howard) appeared before them now the same man as when he
ieft,:thein two years ago, when, under similar circumstances,
abiding the penalties of his opposition to the late government.
His prospects were now more cheering, and he was prompted
by a desire to serve them. (Cheers.) He had always been
coneisteut in his politics, having turned neither to the right
hand nor tothe left, and he was ready to fight their battles un-.
compromisingly, as a determined supporter of the institutions
of his country. (Loud,cheers.) He wished it, when making
this declaration,- to be distinctly uuderstood that he was anxious
and 'Willing to remove every real and proved abuse in those
institutions. (Cheers.) It was very familiar amongst certain
classes continually to talk about the reform of abuses where
they Aid not exist; but there were many real abuses upon which
they were silent, but with which it was highly necessary that
the representative of a community like Liverpool should be
thoroughly acquainted, and properly understand. (Cheers.)
The very -first rules of political science had been abused, which
was one cause of this miseries of Ireland. (Cheers.) It was 1
ludiesous to see the effrontery with which the organs of the late'
goirahment, asserted that the whig ministers had left the inte-
restri of .thi country in a wholesome state. Were, he would
atsk, tthe
_populous districts in the country left in a prosperous
state? The agricultural,- the manufacturing interests, were
they in a Wholesome state ? He would say, ask the question
froirt the Quventry ribbon weaver whether ,he could compete
with. the foreign markets? The truth was, that the most nn-
pertant interests of the country were left in a most unsatisfac-
tory state, such as the British channel fisheries, the British
North-American fisheries, the Canada.s, and West India trade.
There were many other interests in an equally unwholesome
state which demanded that serious consideration of the govern-
ment, which political agitation at home had hitherto prevented.
Thig had also been the case where other interests were con-
cerned. • (Hear.) When speaking of foreign policy, he (Sir
Howard) was.the last man to say or do anything that might
endanger a rupl...re with foreign states, as it was the best policy
of thiscountry to keep on terms of amity with foreigners.
(Hear.) lie would break no compact, violate no treaty ; but
he would have them consider well whether the commercial in-
fercourse between foreign states, as at present existing, was
conducive to their interest, and, if not, to tell them in a straight-
forward manner that they knew their interests and would main.
Lain them. (Cheers.) No political alliances, he was con-
vinced,' coald .be maintained unless commercial advantages
were the consequences. The government, for political reasons,
formed'an alliance with France, but it had never proved benefi-
cial to England, and never would under existing circumstances,
England having removed the prohibition against the imports-
lieu of French articles without substituting a sufficiently pro-
tective duty. (Hear, hear.) France had not made any similar
alteration in favour of the exportation of English manufactures`
with one exception—the raw material of twist, by means of
which -they were enabled to manufacture for themselves and
compete with England. They would not admit manufactured
cotton, woollens, earthenware, saddlery, silver plate, copper or
iron articles. There were thousands of other articles whict
were prohibited by the French, and yet their productions were
imported to the great detriment of British industry. (Hear.)
He hoped he should not tire theta with these details, but he
considered he was only doing his duty by putting them in pos-
session of such facts. He held in his hand a book containing
an official statement of the most accurate information respecting
the quantity of goods imported into France from .England,
which plainly showed the ruinous competition of foreign industry
with the industry of Great Britain. The work was entitled
Le Tableaui Generale du Commerce de la France, pendent l'an-
née 1833," from which it appeared, and he wished all printers
to notice the fact, that the number of printed books imported
from France into England in 1833, compared with those ex-
ported•from England to France. was as compared
to 17 !! and the
comparative values as £5Bl to £132. (Hear, hear.) The to-
tal valne•of exports from France to this country in 1833 appeared
to be 116,195,858 francs, whilst the importations from England
into Frinae was 39,7.11,659 francs, and Great Britain exported
to France in that year, 1833, for the payment of French pro-
ductions no less than 115,264,800 in specie. (Hear, hear.) He
was exceedingly anxious to cultivate a commercial understand-