The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-01-05 00:00:00

PARISH OF LAMBETH.
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A Pnblie Meeting of the Inhabitants of this P.srish
was held yesterday, in the spacious Assembly It ,
at the Horns Tavern, Kennington, for the purpose,
the Requisition to the Churchwardens stated, of pn
seining an Address to her Majesty, cutograeulating h. e
on the failure of the late Conspiracy against her ; ar, I
an Address to the King, praying him to dismiss fro a
his counsels the Ministers who instituted arts' sup-
ported the late proceedings against the Queen, so de-
rogatory to the honour of the Crown, and so injue.sr..ts
to the interests of the country.
Mr. Nont.r, the Senior• Churchwarden, hat...tg
taken the Chair.

Mr. St.sni: came forward to open the business of
the meeting. Ile held in his hand, he said, a number
of resolutions, which would now be read, in turd...-
that every gentleman present might have an opporti-
nity of considering their full scope and weaning, so
as to enable him to form a judgment of the propriety
of the proposed Addresses. Their object -Was to cot:rt
publicity, and invite discussion. lie world not c:-
copy the time of the meeting, as the topics emnbraogi
in the resolutions would, he doubted not, be ittne.r
and ably discussed by the Honourable Gentleman w ►
would propose to them the first resointion.—After the
resolutions and addresses had been read,
Mr. W. Int.t.tams came forward, amidst the zp-
platise of the Meeting, He had been requested he
said, by the Gentlemen who had signed the Requi-
sition for calling the present Meeting, to propose the
first of the series of Resolutions which haul been just
read to them. lie wished, however, before making tit.•
few observations which he was about to address
to them in his own name, and in that of those
Gentlemen, to thank the Chairman and his re-
.peetahle colleagues for their conduct, in enabling the
inhabitants of this parish to discus!, fairly and
openly, souse of the most importditt questions which
could interest the country at the present tio"tnent, an I
to carry to the foot of the Throne their firm alai
decided convict' that his Majesty's Ministers were
incapable of conducting the affair, of the nation.
Antong the haul feature, of the titers, there were no::e
more stsiking than the attempts which were made t p
stifle the expression of public opinion. Every I'l%l-
- was resorted to, either to prevent public meet-
ings, or to counteract Om effect of public opinion ex-
pressed at those meetings. Small bodies of men were
meeting in a clandestine manner, in all parts of the
country, with a view of deceiving the Sovereign ms
the slate of public opinion, and putting forth
sentiments of the interested few as the sentiments ut
the great body of the people. %V hatever opinioas
those persons might entertain of the st•ute of
affairs, the very fact, of their meeting clanclestineli.
betrayed a consciousness that the 5111.4 ares of his 1
jesty's Ministers were nut founded upon pithlie
ciple; for, if they were really convinced that those
measures were rumpled upon public principle, they
would court discussion instead of declining it, and
boldly appeal to popular feeling and popular senti-
ments, instead of retreating into corners to avoid
them. Its stigmatising the conduct of persons who
gust up clandestine Addresses, he trusted that hut
si Id not have to include any parishioners of Lao,-
heti' in this censure. If there were any gentletnan who
haul met in a corner of their parish, he hoped they
were present at thin meeting, and that they wool
favour them with their sentitnents. With respect to
one of the objects for whi :It this meeting was called,
the dismissal of his illajr4ty's 31inisters, though he
concurred in time prayer of the Address, lie was at time
same time free ut confess, that if the present systent
were to be continued, he would as soon gee Lord Liver-
pool as aay other loan, at the head of .Administratioo.
Ile was no pa ry wan ; in his opinion, attachment
to party was a saerifire of public principle to priv
advantage; and unless every loan acted n?on public
principle, little good ....Wit result from the united
efforts of a party. 'I lie treatment which her Nlajestv
'sad received from his Majesty's Ministers had, indeed,
justly excited the indignation 'if the people. lie had MI
desire to inflame the passions of his eon ntrynirst ; it was
his wish rather to allay awl tranquillize the irritated
state of public feeling, but it was impossible to lose
sight of the, conduct of Ministers, nut only in kcepin_;
her Majesty in ignorance of the WO4 station to which
,he hai acceded by the death of the late King. but