The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-12-27 00:00:00

DIVITIENI,9I.

Feb. 13, J. Peaeock, Ball-alley, Lomhard-street, Mer-
chant, at Guildhall—Jan. 16. T. Clarke and C. Gray. Kes-
wick, Cumberland, nurserymen, at Gnil,llllll -Jan. Ilk 1.7..
Cane, Battle, Sussex. saddler. at Guildhall—J 13, J. 3114
J. Silver, Size-lane, merchants, at Goil.thall—Jun. IS, W.
Blackburn, Illarkhern, Lances:tire, sh.,,:kerper, at the New
Inn. Markham—Feb. 8. W. Johnson. liinuinghon, tarpsu-
ling-maker, at the Royal Hotel, Birmingham—Jan. 117. W.
Lunghurst, Tonbridge. Kent, ironmonger. at Githiltall—
Jan. 23, J. Collier, Gosport. painter, at the olllce of Mr.
Weddell. Cold {!arbour, Gosport—Feb. I, T. ClarLe, West
Pennant. Somersetshire, cheese-dealer, at tl:c So:nerset
Hotel, Wells—Jan. 16, C. Battye and T. Pilvitti Lawrence
Pounlnev-hill, brokers, at Guildhall—Feb. 0, J. J. Watt,
ROHM-highway. surgeon. at Guildhall—Jan. 30, S. Am-
hara, Market-street, Westminster, brewer, at Guildhall—
Jan. 20, J. Hardwick, Lambeth, engineer, at
Guiltlhall—
Jan. 6, C. A. Ansel!. Cars:talton. Surrey. paper manufactu-
rer, at Guildhall—Jan. 10, W. Aleck, Berwick-upon-,
Tweed. grocer. at Uuildhall—Jan. IS. IL Cottons. Maid-
stone, dealer in hops, •t Guildhall—Jan. 13. L. Williams,
Nicholas-lane, Louthard-street, merchant, at Guildhali,-Feb.
6. C. Hunt. NLak-tane, merchant, at Guildhall—Feb. 6, B.
Cohen, Rishopsgate-street, merchant, at Guildhall—Jan. 20..
W. Hancock, Flury St. Edmund's, cabinet-maker, Guildhall
Jan. 17, C. Reynolds, Norwich, woollen-draper, at the
Maid's Head Inn. Norwich—Jan. 27, W. Duties, Birming
ham. brass-founder, at the Royal Hotel, Rinninglisin—Jak,
V. T. Warwick, Ilitchin, !fern', draper, at Guildhall.

gIITIVICATCS.--.JAN.

R. Lincoln. St. James's-street, hatter—T. Burden. Ro-
chester. Kent, grocer—J. Ratters, Southampton, grocer—J.
bird, Kiev:on-upon-Hull, coratnetor.
l'A ItTN 111:4111 PS DISSOLVED.

E. Donald and E. Steelton, Osfonl-street, dress-makers—
C. Ullmann and P. Hughes, New Kent-road. glasiers—K
Soare. and J. Cherry, Coventry. painters—R. V. and J.
Christ. Swaine, Weimar. Saxony, woolstaplers—R. and M.
Appleton, J. Fisher. andJ. Pinta, Alanchester, (no trade.)—
W. Howard and Ste.ens, James-street Manchester-
square, bricklayers—J. and T. ll.nires. Moselle.. (no
trade.)—J. H. Bennett and T. Titus, Woburn, Bedfordshire,
watch-makers.

Wootinaince, StFrom-4 ultra-loyaliats have
gut up an address to the King here without any
meeting, and have taken great pains to persuade the
people that it does not express ally approoation of the
conduct of his Majesty's Ministers ; hot the us ire sen-
sible part were not to be deceived by this well-known
artifice. One clergyman, highly to his honour, re-
fused to sign it. Whilst the Address lay at the book-
seller's for signatures, some wag carried it off : ano-
ther -Address was drawn up ; and we understand that
some who hail 'ivied the former were too wise to be a
second time deceived, and refused to sign again.
The Minden, which has nrsele three voyages be-
tween this country and the East Indies, and which
was built of teak wood, ten years since, having been
lately examined, is found wholly free from injury,
and without a symptom in any of her tlinbegs, of
that t'eoilfill naval I.:ottrge, tik dry
litlegraph.) •

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Mr. Jastra llvanorit addressed the Meeting in
nearly the following words i—lienflenten, I be .r leave
to, solicit your attention for a few moments, while I
propose a Preses for this meeting. IVe are now assent-
Wed in the exercise of a high toonstitational p►ivilege,
and it appears tome of the utmost consequence that
the chair Muthd be ably onol respectably filled, as we
thereby give consistency. regularity, and effect to the
whole of our proceedings. There are many gentle-
:urn w:ioni I noon' see aroun I me, well qualified for
the situation ; but there is one among thee► in par-
ticular whom I think eminently littril for the duty,
both hecau;•• I believe you ar.f acquainted with Ilion
personally, or train character, and that his political
creed is pure and constitutional, his opinions being
formed from reading- and rilection, and uninelierwed
by any selfish motive. I, therefore, without further
preface or apology, propose, that Mr. James Oswald
be requested to take !het; oair ; and if tliis proposal
meets with your approliation, I have n•) do iht he n-ill
fully justify your choice, by performing his duty with
the utmost impartiality.
Mr. Murdoch's proposal having been carried by ac-
clamation,

Mr. Oswat.n to ok the Chair, and basing called for
gid read to the Meeting the Requisition under which
they were convened, then stated that it would have
been more agreeable if the honour which had been
conferred upon bin' had been bestowed upon swine
one of the many gentlemen present who was no ire
able to discharge its duties; but that he had under-
taken tl.e task, knowing the assingu which would
be 'lorded him ; at the same time. lie most anxiously
solicited the indulgence of the Alerting for any errors
that he might unintentionally commit. Mr. Oswald
then proceeded to observe, that the Requisition
which be had read generally, expressed the purposes
for which the Meeting had been assembled'; bur milt
might be expected that he should detail these a little
more fully, he would endeavour to do so as shortly as
he could. The first part of the Requisition regarded
a subject upon which, Mr. 0. said, tloe Meeting were
all agreed, and about which there was only one see•
timent—thit the Meeting should take this opportu-
nity of expressing their loyalty and election to his
Majesty, and hie Family anal tioveroment. He said,
they had been anticipated in this expression of their
loyalty by several gentlemen of the city holding dif-
ferent political opinions from those which he believed
to be entertained by the gentlemen composing this
Meeting, whose loyalty, he presumed, did not cousin
in a mere profession of attachment to his Majesty's
person and tiovernment, and of a resolution to obey
the laws, but was of that charartrr which be-
came the subjects of a free state, who, while
exercising and manifesting the most sineere loyalty
to the King, di,l not hesitate, at the same time, to
represent to his Majesty, with the humility which be-
came them, the grievances under which the (-pantry
laboured, the injuries to which it had been exposeril,
and to pray for a removal of those councillors by whoitu
those evils bad been occasioned. It was quits untie-'
e sssss y, Mr. Oswald said, in each a respectable a 9.1
intelligent meeting as was then assembled, hail he
even the ability to do so, to state at length the many
wrongs to which the nation had been subjected for a
series of yeses past, from the unconstitutional noes-
, tures of his Majesty's Ministers, se I which, in the
better times of our Constitution, would not have b• en
permitted. But it had been the po:icy of his Ms-
jesty's Ministers to divide, anal not to unite the coun-
try—to create discord among the different el
society, and upon the least appearance of discontent
in those cl most materially affected by the owe-
' sures of the Ministers, to get ep false and imaginary
alarms of the existence of disaffection and disloryalty ;
and, in the agitation of the public nsinel, to Introduce
and obtain the enactment of laws hostile to the first
principles of the British Constitution, and while going
on with such proceedings, they had indulged and
I maintained the most extravagant establishments -and '
the most wanton expenditure. They had rejected
and despised every plan of economy and retrenchment
which had been offered, and unfortun .tely they had
!imposed no such plans of their own. While the
various classes of society had been enduring the must
aggravated sufferings, the higher class of Lours', in a
very diminished proportion, his Majesty's Ministers
bad not sought art earonrgeol any means of relief, but
had costumed to ineteene the military force of the
country for !oting down tbediscontent (it wasaot dim
affection) which their oww.awasares bad created. It was"
to tbescincounitui lanai proceedings, be said, the mini—

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Mtion related,and they cerranlv afforded a very fruitful
field of discussion. Hut it was not in consequence of
what his Majestes 111inisters had done, but of what
they had not done, that they had much to answer fur.
If,. Oswald observed, that the defective state of the
Representation of the People in the Hons. of Coto-
mons had been nuiveriallv acknowledged : vet no at•
tempt to remedy this defect had ever met with the
cordial concurrence of Ministers. They knew, and
admitted, that, by the corruption and the sale of bo-
roughs, the business of the House of Commons was
carried on ; and yet they uniformly rejected every
suggestion to improve the system, or to correct these
practices with scorn. As to the Proceedings agaimi.t
the Queen, Mr. Oswald characterised them as being a
disgraceful to the country. They exhibited a spectc-
ele of jurisprudence unknown almost in every age—
Prosecutors and Judges identified in :he same indivi-
duals. And-timse proceedings had beer pneersiect by
a enmtuission, organised at a most enormous et-
pence in a foreign country, for the purpose, as Brat
said, of collecting evidence agaiast the Queen, bait
rather, as he believed, for the purpose of purchasing
that evidence. The Ministers had laid bcfore tl sr
public the obscene and foil details which they
had gathered f r the Commission with ex-
pressions of great regret. The Wert of toe
publication was very obvious, and yet no consi
ration of regard for the morals of the people mull
stay their plans—the whole of wl.ich 'este urx.iid
for, unnecessary, and redected disgrace upon thr.;
autimrs. It was surely, Mr. Oswald cent:lined, not
tit that the affairs of this nation should he con-
ducted by Nlinisters such at these, and he I..:Fed
meeting would entertain a corresponding fmling•whets
they came to discuss the subjects upon which he h.td
so slightly touched. It was of great importance that
the proceedings of the Meeting should be co:id:let-4
in a manner becoming its respectability. it might tie
raid to be in some measure a meeting of evperiioe
to see how far the city of tilasgow, large and pol:-
i•lus as it was, could, with propriety. be called to as-
semble for the discussion t.f a public 'political ti ea-
sure. lie lied always thought this could be d ne
witli safety, and from what he now saw, lee was per-
fectly convinced that the Meeting, although formiGg
no part of a self-elected magistracy, woul i itiaitif-.1
that due and proper spirit of loyalty which was Wit.-
rent in the citizens, while, at the same time. they wo:.. I
openly ioaintain and defend the principles of ;fro
Constitution.
A OINTLEMAN said, that he mislerstood some Reso-
lutions, adapted to the objects of the Meeting, wo:til
be proposed for their consideration._

After Mr. Oswald had concluded,
Mr. ROHEICT GRAHAMC ruse and stated, that whist
,istoeuesnoo with all these who were there present, Le
moat elosetsily regretted the causes of the Meeting, lie
could not refrain from congratulating them, Chit in
spite of the many attempts to prevent it, such a nuit.e-
rous anti respectable body of the city of Glasgow had
then assembled, to exercise one of the most imp .rta'tt
And valuable privileges secured to the people hr tit-
British Constitution, publicly and peareably to IIIttl:
and to express tiwir sentiments on public Akira, tir.l
to make known their grievances to bis Majesty tile
ring. lint however legally 'or peaceably, and n ;•is
Whatever good intentions they might exercise ti,:s
their just right and privilege, they knew, that tenets.
Ornately there was a party in this country who were
disposed, or rather determined, to misrepresent tire'r
Motives and to censure their rondnet, and who netts
ceased to•vilify and abuse every man who prey:med to
attend any public meeting, called for any other pus-
*isose than to flatter their political patrons. The tioai-
per, the feelings, and the principles of some of the
parry, appeared front the base anti treasonable motives
which some of them had imputed to the gentlemen
atteitiliog the public meeting lately held at Edinburgh
for addressing his Majesty—a meeting certainly -s
respectable (if learning and talents, and private worth
and public honour, can confer r,•spectability) as any
public meeting ever held in that city. Mr. Grahame
then said, that it would be doing great injustice to the
'alert of this country, to suppose that they could sp-
pone or give credit to slanders so groundless and
serociols. lie would as soon believe that they ..u-
-ori ed and employed the misereant Franklin to Frith
and tircu:ate the treasonable letters, hand-bilk, aol
placards, for which true bills had lately boen futv.d
against him by the Grand Jury of bis country. He
eon'') not believe that Ministers were ever guilty' of
Outplaying this miscreant, notwithstanding a timber
If sagpirio.ts circumstances not hitherto esplainrJ.
Bat he thought the meeting would all concur with
him in thinking, that the employers of Franklin, ..r
Fletcher, are not worse than those persons who cal.
oar cilium:date the gentlemen who composed the Vie-
'burgh Public Meeting, as to accuse them of any bate
er treasonable motives or intentions. To vetch pri-
sons, he said, the present meeting could have trothilig
to say ; but to any of their felloweitizens, who, :.s
'well as themselves, are friends to the British Con%ti-
tuition, and who feel the same loyalty and attachment
to the Crown, and the same good will to the people
as the gentlemen preseat, but who from nsisea',...6
view., alarms, ut apprehensions, Might disapprove lit
this meeting ; h:: would say their interest and objet
were one and the same with this* 4 the meelln2
that the gentlemen present yielded to no class of men
in seal for the support of Migietratee and of legit an-
thorities, and fur the security of property and perse, -•
lllliteld of laws anti good order. Lkeze had no views or
ited-poor of any private or pe hesselite from any
dhoti*? of his Majeety's Mini/ten. 1 Wilily Ittoefits the x
had in view were those of a reline astsiett.; 'mid 14ei:
Belli arilliets I. calling the seating, were to pruning
lie plisce, prosperity, and bagpipes, of their goon fp.
all classes of its inhabitants, MO 'lad low. mit
...
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oi an.!
Ile Iris, be said, an firtaoately list obriass. r in.
tread/ea of pears past, the situation had iiiisiasiani S