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

FRAUD PREVENTED.
TO counteract the many attempts that are daily
made to impose on thr nnw:uvx sperbiuscompositinn in-
stead of the GENUINE BLACKING prepared by DAY and
MARTIN, they have adapted u new Label, in which their
signature and address,

97, HIGH HOLBORN,
is 90 canspienarshi placed io the centre of the Label. that !hes
moat no inieniinn to this. and the ditrerenee or the Rye, whieit
it 4 an ike all letter-prat:, will amble purchasers at once to de-
tect the imposition.

The Real Japrsn BLACK I NG, made and sold wholesale by
DAY and MARTIN. 97, High Holborn, and retailed by the
principal Grocers, Druggists. Roolt,eller- iroasomageb, Per.
Comers, Buot-mokers, Ac. su the United Kingdom.

In Bottles ai 6d., Is., and Is. 6d. each.

ATKINSON'S AMBROiIAL SOAP, ped
by a new process. which frees it of all laid:Woe go..lities,
is recommended as the most mild, pure, and effectual article of
the kind ever invented. It reinoves freckles, redness, umd
hardness front the skin; prevents it chapping, awl makes it
luxuriously soft, white, and even; price Is. the square, for
wa-hiug; and in shaving-cakes, price 9d. Is. and Is. tid. each.
ATKINSON'S VEGETABLE DYE
changes red or grey hair on the head ..r a eskers to a beautiful
and perinaornt hrnwn or blnek, warr trued in completely iin-
giier the purpose, or will forfeit One Hundred Pounds ; price
ss. 1U:. Cal. and one guinea.

ATKINSON'S FLUID
far restoring the erusvii, the hair where it has fallen off
from illness, perspiration, elinisac of climate, &c. dre. ; it also
freci it from t=curf, and makes it sat and glossy AO silk. and
keep: it in (nil &rine exercise in dancing, walking, or io
dotty ;itemiser s price 3s. 64. a brittle.
C r-r o a ,—Ait a guard against Comanrfrits, the genuine has
the Proprietor's signature and address on the label.
Sold by James Atkiwn, Perfumer, No. 43, Gerrard-street,
Soba-scplare, London; and by most Perfumers and Huii.dsess.
era in town and country.

Dr. WATSON took off his hat, which was a signal
for commencing the business. Ile then addressed
the populace, who hod flocked from the fields
right and left, in the following manner :—" Friends
and Fellow-citizens !—A duty is devolved upon me,
in consequence of the absence of Mr. Hunt, which
lam very incomi etent to perform. Before I pro-
ceed to the subject on which we are assembled, I
shall take leave to read two letters which I received
from Mr. leant, one of which was in answer to a
letter from toe disfranchised Inhabitants of the
County of Middlesex, requesting that he would take
the Chair at this Meeting, his inability to do which
has plated me in this situation."—(Bravo, bravo !)
—The letter was dated 23d of Aptil, and directed
from Middleton Cottage. It stated his spprolsa.
lion of the abject of the Meeting, which was to Pe.
titian the Prince Regent upon the subject of the dis-
tresses of the People. Ile expressed his regret at being
obliged to go to Cork upon bossiness which admitted
of no delay, and mentioned that the Meeting pro-
posed deserved the most serious consideration ; that
if it was managed with prudence, it might be pro-
ductive of the most beneficial effects. Upon such
view of the subject, he could have no possible objec-
' floe to attend the Meeting, hut feared he should not
anise time enough in town to do so. His absence,
however, could he nosily supplyed by a more eligible
person. The object of Petition being to represent
j the distresses of the poor and those approximating to
(poverty, and to beg his Royal Highness to alleviate
their condition, it would be necessery to consi-
der that the only means by which that could be
etlected, would be a Reform its Parliament, by which
the People would have the power of annually electing
Members to represent them. It should be recollected
that the Prince Regent had no power in grantilg the
desired Reform, except merely that of giving his as-
sent to it. The letter further stated that the Meeting
' were already possessed of his opinions upon that
question ; recommended that the Resolutiotssahould
he short and to the point, and that care should be
taken net to suffer any crafty spy, or any one likely
to turn spy, to lead the assembly astray, or incite
them to do any thing which might be converted
into a pretext for further acts agvinst the liberty of
the subject. It concluded wish advising that the
signatures of seven householders should be obtainel
to the Petition, its order that no objection might be'
made to it au that ACCO9Di.

Dr. WATSON then proeeeded —" I beg leave, io ob-
servation of What ha, bones written, tie sit I ,arrived
another letter from Mr. Hunt from Cork. reqeelting
me to take the Chair. In the twit of his letter, yoti
will observe, my friends, that he alledes to some•
thing ghoul the Spencean principles. l• it necessary
itl sohta, .lirripget a saysulrdsstysomthing of those Speeetsans, fur
appeared in the Aetv Tines
Paper, that a detiaration was made of those forming
the St:ciety. It is in the recollection of these pre-
sent, that Mr. Hint was at the first Spa.fielria Meet.
log. I ass one of those who called that Meeting
together. Mr. Rent was the ionic inns, at his post
f duty on that day whets the cells of the poor people
required hiss to he there. Ile, and he only, attend.
ed to the request of the Committee on that occasion.
Previous to his arrival, lie considered the resolutions
proposed for a length of lime, Ne /Minted out AS
grievance, that palsied, stated the calcmities and suf.
feting, tooter which the poor were oppressed, sod
finding that the resolutions embodied many of the
Spencean principles, he declared they were contrary
to the general feeling of the country, and the pritici.
pies expressed by Jeremy Bentham. After reading
the memorial, he said, here are some good sentiments,
but thole are others, for instance, that of throwing
the land of the country into national domains, which
forined an objection to the adoption of it. He ob.
served, that till this principle was unanimously on•
detstood and consented to, it would be only, making •
Englishmen rise against Englishmen, and inciting
them to cut each other's throats. Mr. Hunt ea this,
as upon all other orcasionsopuke the language of truth.
Upon hearing what he had to say, I withdrew the
resolutions, and requested that Mr. Hunt would
draw oat such as would be likely to be acceptable ;
Ibis he set shoot, and you are io possession
the Resolutions and the Petition drawn upon them.
I now inform you, that this Meeting is coshed parseant to Ile-.
quiAtion to toe Clerk of the Peace of the County of Middlesex.
sad by adeeniseinent. It is it Meeting by law, as directed by
the last mentinaed Act of Parliament. We are met under the
Art. Parliament has drawn a line for our proceedings, and we
area legalised assembly." He would now proceed to read the
Requisition. according to which the Meeting was ewnvened.-
He hoped no interruption would take place so disturb the peat*
of ihrussembly. Their motto mm, •• Pence and good ts
all men."-t A pprobotion.)-Under the present law they were
obliged to proceed in a methodical manner. Here Mr. Watson
read the Requisition, signed by seven resident bousehokiers of
the parish of St, Matthew. Middlesex, and directed to the Clerk
of the Peace. Mr. Watson then proceeded:-They who heard
him would not be compelled to do or so agree to any thin' of
which they did net approve. If there were any baagittralell
present, he hoped they would not consider it illegal not to omit
reading what they had now heard. It was the substance of the
Aver itement. fie would beg again to impress upon them the
necessity c•f peaceable and orderly conduct. The successor their
cause very much, depended upon it. They were called together as
labourers and mechanics. a elan of people from whom all tbe
g-ed that men enj •yed was derived.- ( A pplause.)-They
would, he hoped, convince their enfin,l4 aka they were deo
serving of Mr rights which they were going Its defeatist Lord
w•s rep tried to have charged the Opoositiost
Menthes, with attempts to carry all their meastors by alarm.
The. would •ot subject themselves to such a 'barge. They
would endeavour to carry their measures by Festoon-I:Apo
plhuos.J-The- present pions Minist rs observed the ituoetiono
of the'pacred record ; they pot bridl sin their mouths, and them
mounted Magistrate. Nam their shoulders, giving them the reins
rn bold.-[Applause.)-There had been much talent displayed
mom the subject which they were met that day In coosider.-.
The first pet.b n he should mention wa the Doke"( R.cluenad.
Ne w:.s a blend to Parliamentary Reform. The next wait Mr.
Pitt; but, conburytohisjuvenil u; )i )) inns. when he came hoe
power he was the tiro to put a gag into the People's mouths.--.
He then anode(' to the conduct of Lord Erskine. Earl Grey.
and Sir J. Macintosh, who, lie said, had alutiVoned the cave a(
Iteorm, offer coming to their titles; he also armed Sir
Francis Burdett of lukewarotoess hat. ly, but he (Dr. W.) was
willing. to hope better things from him in future. His heart
was good ; :sod the principles once supported by him, would.
he hoped, soon bring hint hack again to virtue.--(A persou from
the crowd cried out that Sir Francis did not wish ill be made a,
puppet of.)-lie could name many others who had apostatised
from the principles of Major Cartwright. If the people therea
fote wished now to obtain privileges, they should depend upon
their owu exertions. detenomation and fortitude.-(Applause.)
-Thooseh many of their friends bad forsaken them, there wan
still talent e ttttt igh to support the cause of Reform. They were
still classed with the old veteran, Major Vartwright-(Applame.)
-with that able and zealous advocate. Jenny Bentham. They
had still Mr. Hum to support them-mid tie could odd the
muses of Lobblo Wouler. "It is now (continued Dr. W.)
at this lute period, when so much knowledge is pot turn. that
we should bege to use it to our owls inteic.t. 'there can be Ma
doubt that, it this Alembic is conducted aoh temper, it will be
a precedent throughout the three ktogdoms ; they will catch thd
lire that glows in your breasts at this moment; they will join
with you, in petitioning for their t ighti ; and I do toter myself.
there are many right.. erelitti se .if property. that ure necessary
to be protected. He then read the placard mid said. ss In
consequence of this placard, we base been loaded with an
imme, se quantity of abase by the Alinimeiial Papers. I could
rend a tissue of this kind of language through many pages. L
observe another paper. speaking of this placard, observes that
this audacious plarard has been What ! is it am
audacity to tell the truth ? Have we lived to that state of civi-
lization that our nerves shake at speaking the inn h? I tatter mya
self that she labouring People will not shake at hearing the truth.
tV hen I say labours:la People. I take an e :ten-lye range in using
the *old. 1 donut mean by labouring Pent le. 'hat ore bowed
down by. taxes. I cannot go into a baker's shop to be served
yet, bread, withoot the gnats who serves me being a labourer.
cannot go into a linen-draper's shop, and lay out two or three
pounds, without taking up ids time, and without putting him tit
a-certain degree of labour. I cannot go to a tavern for ii dasoi uf
a ioe.or a public-1 itt fora poi or pint of beer.without the met
being it labourer durin4 the time he is per. ing me. Now I visit
make one observation on the word franchise. It is a word cast
out by some of the Miuisterial others. They have told us toet
we never were enfranchised-they would tell ns that we
were nt,er franchised-that we never bad the r ght of repre-
sentation-they travelled back five or six hundred years to tiod
out that we had on such right. But I will direct yogic attention
to a more remote period than that-if you look hack to a dis-
tance of nine hundred years since. and then you will end we
have that right. I will only refer you to that able nod majestic
writer. Mr. Cobbett, who has said ,but the rights of the People
never could die.. So far that learssed writer was correct, for the
rights of the People were unalienable. and yield never die.-s
(Applause.)- I will refer you, my fellow-countrymen, to the
peritol of the immortal Alfr-ed, anti the Saxon times, when it was
the custom of the People to assemble, and to befit, great council
of the country ; they did business for themselves, until they foiled
out the mode of representation-they consulted the People
at large. This was the manner in which they conducted their
affairs; if it was not so, I will forfeit tuy character as an histo-
rian. Gemlemen, unhappily for our forefathers, an ambitious
tyrant made h.o appearance in this country. and invaded those
rights in one battle-in the memorable baffle of passings those
rights weredestrosed web the lives of thousands of our forefa-
thers. From that the ty taut matte his way up to the Metropolis;
and your forefathers. us litiorst as they were brave, little sm.
peeled that a roan alit. wished to sake the pie of them could
have torn from Melts their sacr. d rights. It was at that lime you
were disfolochised of your risks. and up to this muscat
you hate not icretined thins.-7o return then in the pla-
card : I say, Grittletneo, it watt, the language of truth; aad
where the
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