The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-12-06 00:00:00

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the acknowledgment and support of these very
Members were transferred to successors, al. hough
the tenure of their office was upon gronnils of
policy which their previuns favourites contra.
dieted and opposet‘. Many were the illestra-
tines of such conduct. They wore visible in
the discussions upon the Test and Corporation
Oaths-- a question upon which their love of the
Court politics made theme very men to surrender
their own private opinions and attachments.—
They were above all manifested in their coliduct
upon the Catholic Emancipation question, why!.
they even surrendered their darling Pitt, the avo.
cd, the determined supporter of the thin., of the
Irish Catholics, and without regard to the object
of their adoration, transferred the same sincerity.
the same loyalty to his successors, who now hoht
the reins of Government, when the very pledge of
treating such claims with disregard and denial !
[Mar ! hear!] Bit forsooth, the interference of
the people appears unnecessary. Parliament in
its wisduns will provide for every popular
and national want. In its hands are Weis-
committed the honour and the wishes of the
country. The experience of the past has con-
vinced the people that there exists in that
body an itiquisitive spirit to detect abuses and
to punish public delinquents. The activity of that
feeling is toot a matter of doubt, it has been prov.
ell to an attentive aid admiring country in the
discussion open the Duke of York, and in the
d-grading. bargains a Lords Castlereagh and
Claticarty [cries of hear! hear !] It was not
true, that the prerogative of Royalty was a just
right ; it was equally true, that the Aristocracy
of the Country had their movements all regulated
by constitutional limitations. VVith their just
and proper exercise he never wished to interfere,
but he begged the Cutlet to recollect, that the peri-
-1 ple of England hail alto their rights orientally Mtn.-
' rent and constitutionally recognized. The most im-
portant of those, was the right to petition—to in_
sist upon Inquiry into the disposal of seat tree..
sure and that bloodshed, the cotitroul et which
they committed to the care of the coaidential
Servants of the Cruwit ; and fur which such ser-
vants ought, and are responsible to those who, by
their industry and labour, supply the means of
public expenditure [Hear ! hcar !] The City of
Lundou had a dubt to discharge to society ; it was
expected from its citizens to give, upon important
questions, a fair tone to every part of the em-
pire. That the present subject waspne of disas-
trous magnitude, there was not a man hardy
enough to deity ; the only benefit which could re.
suit from such a cause, was a determined feeling
upon the part of the people to express their npi.
nioes open the calamity, and to demand such an
investigotion as would 'lead to the conviction
and punishment of the delinquents. Let then
the Corporation manfnlly, upon that day,
discharge the obligation it owed its Constituents
and its country, and even should they fail in the
object of their prayer to the Crown, they will
have the consolatory feeling of being exculpated
• from any participation in the vices, which, if con-
tinued, must ultimately end in the subjugation of
the country.
Mr. Sheriff WOOD fully coincided in the
opinions of the worthy Mover. Be trusted
that the great duty that Corporation owed the
country would not be overlooked at times of
such awful importance as the present. It was
idle to tell the country, when it expected the ex.
ercise of a duty from those entrusted with a se.
crud deposit, that there wits no necessity of the
subject interfering because Parliament was speedily
to be assembled, and that, consequently, (stresses
consequence!) they would institute inquiry. No
begged boldly to say, that he had a distrust of
Parliament. No note could deny that the Corpo-
ration of London had a right to interfere with
their Address upon all occasions of public no-
toriety. The importance, the disasters, and.
the degradation, of late political events,
matt who had spoken had ventured to quesliblll:.
Why then was that right, so universally allowed,,
and so proper to he exercised, to remain unused
by that Corporation ?—Was k that the response
which the present Ministers advised their Sovereign.
to sive them on the Ceirvention of Cintra, an 'an.
merited rebuke, that therefore they had not now
the firmness to exercise, and a reaognised right,
namely, to insist upon inquiry [fear! hear!] ?
Had he the talents of the worthy Mayor, upon
that . iehjeet even fur hours would ar-
gue, convinced that in. calli.og npon the Court
' tee adopt the motion he was giving a stimulus to
thoc:2 feeling of firmness and itidepen4ence which
cot.ld alone eventually save the country.
Mr. Alderman SCIIOLEY and Sir CHARLES PRICK
rupported the previous question, upon the grouted that Pot-
; liainent wn.ld imtitute the necessary inquiries; at the slime
time pledging theuiselves to call for invastigntion, should Par-
liament neglect such a positive duty.
Alderman-WON/TR tolloited its the Avis sage; and ex-
horted thepublie, whom he saw in such numbers below the
Bar, mot to believe that, even if the osntioo was enrrkil it
Mont Court, it thereto,* was the deliberate conviction of the
Corporation of Lonclou.—(Crkr aJ Order! Order!]

Mr. WA ITHSIAN, with murk anitruoitm, called the Wor-
thy Alderman to order. In the propriety of which call, the
Lord Mayor concurred.

Mr. JACKS professed himself a friend to rigid iaquiry:
but thought Parliament was the proper place where such a
feeling should orighwde. He considered it indecent and hide-
corons to go op to the Throne with the proposed Aden'''.
intrenching, as it were, upon the King's Prerogative, IDS'
after Oat Court had nddress►d their Sovereign with all the
feelings of personal respect and gratitude.

Kr. Dep. PII 'LIPS consihsred rretjillr4ll:ol tq of 'V,
oppilionalhe motional as; MOOR 41W: an Oki 4<lriCe, Mich, t•
the Inst righteri )aap, dig y4...tmants of the (Men in tie.l
Aecmhly—those men who came there to propene Of oppose
any meo4ure at the mandate of the Minister. LCrles N hear:
hear ! and order ! order !] There were min who tall!6
loudly of the prosperity of the comm,. Where ons
prod rrity to he traced ? Was it in the Oeini•lF. and V. 4011,
!sus workhouses of the country ? Was it to Ite froM
the incresnot appVcationsqf the 1,4-vithen:r who'd:is .ear,
....Ter from their doors ! Yea I ?heir ProofF,ltY Oil"
rrtb.
dent with their noested delirerasce eiibiw, %hell
first introdpeed, found this ramie, Ay iabfeet le a strut of
201 ei tinm and has stoic chiselled ipaa it, illartmeet
owe security, the intolerable itit'4ltilsraant of 500Milliuhls.
Alderman ATILISS kit that 414411 was 4100 flit