The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-06-05 00:00:00

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Lord'cosnuAsie Ml* entented the table, and when
the plaohlts.4 she Mretiog bad subsided., he said—
,l6 Genllemen--We are 'petite understand, that pro.
NM" .in p very few days theta will devolve on the
People that tight which .should always rest with .the
People7-tharight of giving their votes for these who
gni #mpirwered to dispose of Altair property. I speak
„psetic.derlf of the Electors of Westesioster—of these;
who wed their own Representatives tato 011*11100'
of Commons—and are not content to retire Mee
-Who are the tools and instruments of °then.- I Will
not trespiss long upon your time, -bet shall give a
brief sketch of matters with which you must all be
acquainted: Upwards of eleven• years' ezperience
proves to me, that the Iloope of Commons never will
• !peak the...sense of the Pebple, until it is reformed,
and And Reform can be broeglit aboothy the People
1f,., et the Entitling General . Election, the
4 reiTi. sent men of talent, of 'Seal, of integrity,
_into
the Linos., Mire would be some belie that their
caotawotsid be Soccessfel ; bat h is my fized and
• tiret.emprespion,' thst such will not bathe result of
• the approachiag Election. On the contray, I ,
tat, elk..rib tome. few populous places, the same
" sale of torreption and wickedness will be acted,
• hei so Inngtisgritoid the country......-Thatime
*ben a chertge Is likely to be brought sOlst fiery.
problematic; but I think it never wilf CO* untie Mi..
sisters and their frieods bring Ake) Nellie to 'seek a
'Weer distress and degradation, as will o. longer be
• einlarable.—(4pplause.)-Them is one glorious pre-
• ardent-4s prededent of days long gone by-4 Reform
• In that Boole. It ewes its existence to a person
• -who is said to hate usurped the reins of Government.
He reformed the House of Commons, and, perhaps,
the course be• took wee the °only one by which a
roßeferm could be effected. Whether a Reform, in
• illfr present time, will be accompanied with the same
t,..lll4llllrders which: marked tbat•periad, it is impossi.
"-Ma to• solve--but,. unless the House of Commons
• be Reformed firm without, there is little hope that the
' wishes of the People can he realised•—(4lpplortse.)-
1 Froth within they have nothieg to expect—all de.
pelvis at their exertions from without. In but one
'2,4lTieettWo instances !nitre I •egreed with majorities of
Flouse—firtunately or anfortonately I Will not
. pretend to determine. Whether I have voted right'
or wrong, it is for you to decide—but this I will
"Odor, 10 say, that I aiweys voted according to the
- diem!" of-Amy conscience.—(Applause.)--For
' WOW time -tight,. I base determined on leaving this
."Ileantry, fat purposes which will hereafter be better
• known to you—but which purposes I consider to
." be intimately blended with those principles I have
tnit along 4111tertelsed.—(Applause.)—When I had
forated.thattletetdtinition, even if there had been no
dimetution of Parliament, I should have felt it to be
my: duty,to•resign into your hands that sacred trust
--fifth ye, had reposed in ste.--(Applause.)—How-
evet great the weight and importance I should have
• derived le•gning where I am aboutto go, feeling my-
- i self•the Representative of so' numerous and respect.
44ble s body-whatever consideration that circom-
rwtance might have given to me, in whatever place I
• height proceed tae-still I should have surrendered into ,
'• lett heaths trust which my absence would not permit
-Any to execute.—(H 0 his Lordship was much of.
S jected.)-u*As thitit probably tlie last time, for a con.
"slderable peritrd, atieast, dist I shall have the ho•
• "'nest of iddretileg-you, I shall use the freedom of
- shaking, with respect to myself, a few observations.
and very great, have been the misrepresents-
‘isiltis of my comfact. In what source those misre-
milltiMentations .oriltinated, it is difficult for me to de.
'lllloentine: l•havelnot yet folly been ablb to lay be-
. foe* you an explanation on'this subject—i hoped to
s have done so tete Wore this—bat I pledge myself,
• that althoigh'ivie nit already effected, it shall ter.
• seinly be itene:,,i4There is ••ehain of circumstances,
*kith leads awe to to think, that those who are en.
*lilted in Ilifealohrepreaentations, are persons not at
f4ll suspected" by the Public.--(Great applause.)—
--141dividuelse ibiough their rnathinetione, bare been
neVrayed against me, who were unworthy of credit,
Dint' had notoriously committed perjory-..who bad
:asworn to matterrolost contradictory to their know.
ledge.—( .4,ploare.)-11t most appear a sttange
cir-
`lttimstaneeo.-it is one I never before disclosed—that,
sot the time: when I was a prisoner in the King's
Bench, anci.!Wished to coin. out to lay my grievances
afore a corrupt 'House .of Commons, I received a
• esei•sage from the highest authority in this country,
Mating, that if I chose to leery it, I was at liberty to
' do ite. 'My answer was, ' That I would see all the
!weirs descendants in this kingdom out of it, before
I would depart clantlestittely.'—( Loud cheering.)—
. I shall say little more. •All I hare in life I owe to
pro. If it hid, not been .for your protection,
I. ehmild have been destroyed. I know well,
,tbati when the power of the Court is exerted
••:fes• the' deetrectien-•of 'any individual—when the
• Coverte'of• haw are inastate of degradation—when
•blinistirshringlorward perjured evidence, and when
that weidetros ,calved by corrupt Judges—it Is'
• aaprelniatri escape from the conspiracy..
.Butastill-all these arts may be overcome if the Peo.
• •pleespoose isiistaese.,(Appiause )—Wino we look
beck to fire period at witiolt those charges wesemsda
tsgaittstee, it will be secollected, it. was then. said,
, '6 what interstit csaa -Judge on the Bench, or a Jury
of the country, or the. Ministers of the Crown, have
in procuring Liar' enjoit verdict?' - But, since that
• time, you have earn perjured evidence brought for.
ward to deprive, men of their lives—you base seen
Irltipiea hired to entrap men into illegal acts, that their
.1 lives might be:taken away—their bowels tore out—
their heads cut off—in order .to justify the arbitrary
t.llllleasuses ablisaisters..—(Applause.)—l hope,Son my
*),vetuts to find somewhat more spirit throughout the
- •031Prispie of this coaster than now appears to actuate
I fear there lean apathy, that ought to be re.
Lemma as speedily as possible. I fear the People do
etiot thief!. the. House•of Commons so corrupt as it
**batty is.• They da not believe it to be a sink of
Vierreption -and • infamy—but think that they may
?Ira hope .sofbething • better from it. How else can
!Atte accenut for the- number of Petitions daily
*presented to that Boom ? And yet, I will ask, has
-soy one Petition of the People been attended to ?
.(tio:tise-i)•••-That delusion ought to cease. Go.
mieransiost would encouragethe,Peeple to present Pe.
titioas, whicteasse be leacisti-its,the oella.ei the llouso
of Commons, unknown and unregar'ded, rather than
they should cease from pursuing that system, and by
their silence chew that they felt their tree situation—