The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-05-05 00:00:00

ney Meeting, with respect to's dissoluum. _
liament. lie discountenanced this idea. 'He was
-Convinced that some of the Honourable *at
Independent Representatives of -the City of
London, well knew what would be the woe-
queuce of a dissolution of. Parliament—that
they would have nothing more to do thaw to canvass
the Bank, the Excise Office, the Stamp Office,
and the East.lndia House, fur the purpose of
bringing up recruits, who,- like lambs going to the
slaughter, would be obliged to' sign their names
and give their votes iu favour- of Men with respect
to whom -they would be sere could have no other
object in view bet that of destroying their liner.
ties. He hoped that the Livery of London would
set their face against a system of this kind, and
that upon a dissolution of Parliament they would
elect more men of the description and character i
of their worthy representative, Harvey Christian
Combe, a representative not only disposed to
act right of his own accord, but ever willing to
obey the instructions of his constituents—a retire.
sentative who would not sit smiling on the Treasury
Bench at the sufferings endured by the people. He
was persuaded that nothingshort of a radical reform.
could redresstbe miseries under which the eoun t ry lap
bowed; that alone would prove the true shield and
palladium under which the people could regain thAr
rights. lie wattled nothing bat the ancient Con.
stitution of the kingdom, and he trusted those
Who sought it would not be branded with the odi.
otts imputation of Jacubinismths real jacobins
were those who were alienating the affections of
the King from his people, and exciting a jealousy
on the part-of the people against the King, Ifs
calling upon the Crown to enforce the ills-gal=
warrant of the Speaker of the House of Com-
mons. He adverted to what he described the
base-and cruel murders which hail been committed
by the King's Guards during the 'late disturbances,s,
observinglhat these men, uneurthy of the uatne
of soldiers, had never achieved any honourable
exploit—fought a battle, or even drawn their
swords, except against the unarmed and defence-
less inhabitants of the metropolis who paid theta,,
and those old women and children, %to had ahoy
Misfortune to fall its their way, and from these
redoubted heroes were conscioni they hail nothing,
to fear. He trusted that the-Report of the Ma.
gistrates of the City of London upon the subject
of the late disturbances and murders would be sa-
tisfactory sad that as Ministers had uttered a re-
ward for those who had shota ballet through the
hit of Ensign Cowell, stia reward would be of.
fereel for the apprehension of the miscreants who
hail shot bullets through the hearts of the Citi-
zens of London. The orator then matte a variety
of remarks, which it is intpossibleto do justice
tti...:rhe scope and object of them was to ex.
press his utter contempt of that particular party,
heretofore denominated the Whigs. He attributed
to them the establishment of the odious and op-
pressiee Income .I'ax ; and having somewhat •
enlarged, 011 this subject he recommended
that there should be not Only geuoral County,
Meetings, but also Meetings in every wswel,
garish, villagvand hatttlet its the kingdo.A.;--.
He attributed not only to Miniities*".llitsi 14-IKe.
Whigs, a principle of action, which • urged both-
the. one and. Or other to plunder the public ; and
of the two evils -he preferred seeing the -present
Ministers where they were, rtither than to have,
them.replaced by 'the o:pposition. He censured
the House of Cumitionstor their conduct in send-
ing the most virtuous of the Representatives of
the People. to the Tower, at that particular period,
when an inquiry was going forward alth regard to
the scandalous conduct of Ministers, and when that-
Member had given notice of Isis intention of bringing
forwards motion on the subject of Parliamentary
Reform, and then ho eancluded•by mentioning au
anecdote respecting Dr. Parr, who had accent-
• pattied hiuk.to the hustings at Brentford, during
the Middiesex.Election, and who had observed to
him, that. see Francis Burdett might base rode over
the course on that occasion,..if, without pledging
himself to .support Ministers, he hail only given
an assurance that he would not oppose them.
Mr. THOMPSON was heard throughout with
mud) applausC.

The
,Resolutions were then put anti carried al.
most unaninsously. The only hands we saw held
up against them were those of Mr. Deputy Kern.
ble, Mr. Samuel Dion, and about six or seven
more' whose names we did nut hear. Mr. Kem.
ble and Mr. Dixon were very much hooted.
The Resolution of Thanks to Sir Francii
deft was passed with the loudest acclantatiens 'of,
applause.
Mr. WADDINGTON spoke shortly In favour of
the Resolutions.
Mr. qUIN then came forward to read the Pail.
tion. After the very able arguments which he had
heard this day, and when he ,considered how clear
the case was, and hew perfectly well it was tinder.
stood, he did not think it necessary to add any
thing to what had already been said. He believed
that it was perfectly understood that this inonst roes
and undefined privilege 'which was claimed by
the House of Commons, weekd be absolutely.
destructive 'of the whole system of our jorispee:.
deuce. [Applctusej He new came forward at the re.
'quest of his manly, able, and Honourable Fariend
(Mt.Favetl), who moved the Resolutions, to
read:a Petition -which was prepared to be sub.
mitted tit the ,Honourable House of Commons. If
the Petitioiskitered .in some deg!ec from the
solutions, the 'maim was, that the Honourable
House of Cominons had last night rejected the
Petition of the County of Middleton. It ap.
peared to them, that.in the Petition the truth had
not been stated to them with all. tke gentler:lady
polish that it was susmitible of.. [A laugh]. As
the Middlesex Petition had there ore been reject.
ed on those grounds, it became necessary to re-
vise the Petition intended for the City of London,
to trick' It Out in such dress as might please the
fancy of that Ilonourablp House [is leugh3i and
to give it a sort of Corinthian pace. Hating
been one of 'those who sere employed for that
purpose, he had been now applied to, to read the
humble Address, Remonstrance and and Petition,
of the City of London -to the Honoureble the
House of Caimans.
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TUB sfrAtz-MAN.

-Mr.' Qtrinlieitieletriffictoitoiting Petition I
with great elePileeies: !ma, tScOlVed loud applause.
'ia Bat NONOURASLC THE COMMONS OW TIER UNIT-
. ED Et WISDOM OT GREAT BRITAI2f4II4I
IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED.'
The hambie Address, Remoretrance, antPetltioo, of
the Lard Mayor, Alums', asel.Livery of the City
of Loaders, -is Common Hall assembled, this .4th day
dt May, 1810.
We, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Livery of the City
Of London, in Common Hall assembled, beg leave, with feel-
lap of the most anxious concern, to present this our humble
Address, Petition, ant Remonstrance; and we earnestly en-
, treat your iloomsroble House to give to it &favourable recep-
tion; for how can we hope for redress and relief, if the bare
statement of the wrongs and grievances of which we com-
plain, be rejected ? We also beg your Honourable House to
believe, that in the language we may have occasion, and are
indeed compelled to employ, no offence is intended to your
Hoortrable House.
The circumstance which most deeply afflicts us, and which
nowt strongly Impels us at this time to approach your Honour-
able House, is what appears to us to have been, on your part,
a violation of the personal security of the people of the land.
We humbly conceive, that, without law, and against law,
I you have imprisoned two of your fellow subjects, and that,
withiiut a trial, without a hearing, you have condemned them.
Law requires legal process and trial by Jury of our equals.
afettice demands that no person shall .be Prosecutor, Juror,
*Judge, and Esecationer,ln his own cause. We beg leave to
Impress ourcipavieti on that this eternal principle of linnsatabk
justice cannot for annulled by any House of i•oromous--:by any
-King—by any Parliament—by any Legislature upon earth. But
It appeases to us that your iipetoorable Haase haveria the. ine
manors of Mr. J ohn Gale Josses and Sir Francis Burdett, as-
sumed, accumulated. and esereised.all these °Sees.
We feel it A duty which we owe to you, to nueselve4 to
Our posterity, to 'cite, that, in our conception; lois lark-
diction is out iiiuded ; and we humbly. bat firmly declare
our opines .ignlnst the existence of this power' assay beads; •
jurisdiction uoknoss a to as, a power abos(ealle law, 1
and which could be enforced only by military 414,61 a
violence 'node manifest by the breaking open of an English-
mwes castle,
_and by the preceding and subsequent murder of
peaceable sad naoffending citizens.
Permit as humbly to observe, that the construction of
your Wm.-Home prevents our surprise at this conduct of
your Hon. Home. We atilt not eater into the details, so
often and so atilt gusted fo your Hoo. House, by which it ap-
pears. that upwards of 30(1 Members of your Hon. House,
ra FAO:LW steal-Wales only, are not elected by the People,
' io any honest sense of the word PEOPLE; but are sent to
soar. Hon. Souse by the absolute menituttion or powerful in-
, Euenee of about 154 Peers and others' as averred in a Peti-
. dots to your Hon. Heine in the year 1791, ant which remains
On sour Journals uacentroverted, This is the great constitu-
tional disease of oar country. Th 6 is the true root of all
evils, corruptions, and oppressions, tinder which we labour.
If it be not onteitlatod, the Nation must perish.
In support of this our sincere coovictisio, we Deed only re-
fee to the never-to-lie-forgotten Vote of your lion. Haim,
refusing to examine evidence ou a charge against Lord Castle-
reagh awl Mr. Perceval, then twieof the King's Ministers,
for tralacking at seats at year Hon. House.
. We remember well, that when It MO gravely averred, and
proof neared, in a Petition which sto•id ua your Journals„
and the complaints thereof unredresied for snore than twenty
years, " That seats for Legislation in the House of Commons
mere as tinfoil/nisi', rented and bought as the standings. for
•entlle at a fair," time then Honourable House treated the as-
sertion with effected indignation, and the Minister Iterate-vied
to pettish the Petitioner, 'for presenting a scandalous sod
bilious Petitiop. But we have lived_ to see a House of Cum-
moos avow the traffic, andthine accused of thilluvach
of law and tight, because it has equally committed by
aft parties„ raid was a practice " as notorious as the Son at
-Ipools day." Al this vote, an lat these practices, we feel as
our-aneemeet would have felt,"•asid causal rem the CZ.
passion of ..our iodignationaad disgust."
.s Under these eirettinstances, may we not bepermated toast,
*item 6 your justice, where your dignity t Me,. John Gale
..41tiees is confined within the walls of alesviate, foe oe alleged •
.eitace swans% yourselves which, if committed agaiiwt any
other subjects of these realms, or even against the Rinse ban-
'orjf, must have beep adjudjted ay the established Rides and,
Laws of the Land! Lord Castlereagh continued to be &pejo- 1
ti pal Miniiter of the Crowe and is now a free Member of
cur Honourable House 1 Sir Francis Barden, drag dby
a military force from the bosom of his family, is committed
to the Tower for'exereising the right of coostitutional diricutO.
estiamon, and. larked, undeniable to. see, to us, to all ! •
Aldirsgennteef Perce.val continues a Member of your Humours-
-11. eirg asking a lead iwyour deliberations,, the Mil '
ulster of the Crown, and the chief adviser uf. the Royal
• Councils.
Under the agonizing feelings excited by the Lite imprigta7
,tuent of our fellow collects, can it be memory for us re- .
capitulate the massy instaiiiia, as thus appears to us, of refusals „
to tiotitute just and necessary inquiry, to purritrito condign.
punishment public•delintments and peculaturr, to economize
the means mil resources 'of theltate, to adtaiuluer to peo-
ple relief end redress foe the various disgraces which . the na-
tion it honour has sustaisteil, for the lavish pinsfusion of Sri- •
4611 blood and treasure„eetravogantly stalled its ill connived
and fruitless casuipaigin. sad more particularly • in the
ating and ignonnitious ex pedithia 4o she Coast Qr saapo, is
which the greatest armament that ever left par sh4res,.. was •
exposed to the score, contempt, and ridicule of the ettensyTt 1
and the-Bower of the British.Arnte left ingloriously to 'perish
In the pestilential marshes of Wei n, without sucsourl•
witnaat necessity ! without oh 11 t hope ! •
These-mid sanitise proceedings • Haauurable Home.
require on coalmen* ; hut we earn y our, silence, become
accomplices the ruin armor cosaltau and 'dam put conceal
from you the wholesome. thougb oppleasant truth, that they
appear to us to have • sh,aken what remained of the
eatettlence of the subjects, uf . realms in the wisdom
your Huntim•able Hpuse.
• We tberetore humbly, bet Grady, entreat You to reeonsidbr •
tens evaded, to retrace. your steps, and to expunge from
cur .1 *womb all your orders', deckirations, and resolutions,
pecthia Mr. Gale Jones and -ir Foods Barden, and that
as Sir Francis Burdett Mu out been expelled from your Hu-
i awtrable,*loase, be be no longer prewaned from exercising
Ibirein .41 Pm eludes of a Member of the sidle.
weasarnestly pray your lionosirable House, in
ealljunetista with Sir Francis Burditt, nod In conformity to
the notice he has given, to devise and adopt such Measures as
1 will effect an immediate and radical Reform in' the Clint-
mops Housed Yarliaineot, and to insure to the People a full,
fair, and substamist Represeutetion, without which they must
' lees evilly cease to esist a great, a frees semi**, sad ludo-
pendent nation. • •
trite Petition' was adopted unanimously, with
the exception of the votes of Mr. Deputy Kt:foible,
Mr. Samuel Dixon, anal another.
A Resolution was then passed, that this Petition
sh'ould he presented to 'the House of Commons by,
Aldertnart Harvey Coady and the other Represen.
tativei of the City.
Sir WILLIAM CURTIS came forward,
apps-
really in considerable agitation, and said, that he
held it his dutis its their Representative, to pre.
sent any Pedtiun that he was ordered to present.
As to the rest, he would always do, as, he had done,
what appestat° him to be his 'duty. Etbed cries,
Will you support it 7"] The Alderman gave no
answer.
Aldermin COMBE said, that he should be
happy not only to obey their instructions in psi-
sends% it, but in an pportinK it. (Bravo! Bicatio I)
His opinion respecting Parliamentary Fluters bad
always been the seine as it is at present, and he
would always lend every ulfbrt In his power totlie
'success .uf that cause. (Applause.) He would
also conceive himself at all times bound .te obqy
the instructions of his Constituents, or,-resign Ids
place.
Sir C. PRlCEslkidt , that he *as ready to ob
the instnictleas.eff his COnstituenti as ,to Weleg.4"
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itig the' Petition. (" tapperf OP') The
'Alderman made no reply, aid was much hooted.
Sir JAMES SHAW then expressed himself
nearly in the same manner, mad was also mutts.
hooted.
• Mr. WAITIIMAN moved the thanks of
the Common Hall to Alderman COmbe, one of
their Representatives. Ile then stated, that one of
their Representatives, who had pleaded illness
through the early part of the Session, found him.
self on a sudden well enough to sit up till seven
o'clock in the morning, when the question was to
hermit Ministers fur their Walcheren Expedition.
,He was informed of this by report, and he should
put it as a question to the Mn. Member.
Sir W.ICURTIS came forward, and, with evi.
dent tokens of displeasure, declared he had at.
tended his duty during the whole of the investiga.
tient and the deliberate.copclosion he camC to was
that the Expeditiou .wafizoise and politic, and that
Lord CHATHAM Was a mot able Commander.-6
(Laughter and disapprobution,)
Mr. WALTMAN replied. that it *U not to
him he alluded, but to Sir Charles Price;
•
After the resolution had been agreed to,
Alderman COMB! returued thanks for the ho.
Dour he bad received.
Sir C. PRICE stated that to he the first time
thit ever als 'individual had come forward to call
alum &Member of Parliament to account for his
evnttect...[lfere the continued cries of Of, 0,,
ftc. rendered it isiplssibk for hiss to proceed.]
The LORD MAYOR reminded oho Mreting4
that their own credit and the honour of the City
reqUireit of them a. patient hearing for all:
Sir C. PRICE. thought, as a Member of Par.
liaintint, he-ought to be heard. [Marks of divot).
probation). He Would state the With and toothiest'
but the, truth [disapprobation]. A 66 dark
assetesiu'i -had come forivard and endearobred to
'Stab bite id his character [disapprobation]: 11.
did not pet himself in competition with Mr.
-Weidman ; -['6 No, yea are uneorthy of that,"]
ho held 'himself above him [disapprobation and
-laughter.] Mr. Waithman had put himself above •
the Lord•olayor, in comitig forward and calling
on them for silence. Ile would. ask.a.Was Mr.
Waithman the greatest man in the City ? [" Yes!
and much your superior, .at all events."] Ho
had never absented himself from the House of
Commies. but when his health or necessity com.
yelled him to do so. If the Walcherets Inquiry
could come over again, he would vote as he did.
before. The lion. Baronet was not' allowed• to
proceed further.•
Sir J. SHAW spoke, but could not be heard oft
account of a loud hissing anti shouts of disappro.
hation.
Mr. QUIN observed, a difference of °pinks%
had existed with respect to, two Gentlemen whits
I had been introduced to the notice of the Livery—
he would introduce a 'third to restore harmony...—.
He then, after a• very elegant panegyric on the, •
Lord Mayor, moved--That the Thanks of .this
Meeting should he given to the Lord Mayor, for
his conduct as Chief Magistrate, and for his etudes.
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tours to preserve theapeace of the City witbuut the •
akin rice of th'e
The LORD MAYOR, returned thanks fur the
honour that had been dune him, and declared that
not only through his Mayoralty, but through his
,whole life, he should persevere in those principles
which had obtained their applause. •
Mr. QUIN then' peop•ised the Resolution of
Thanks to the Sheriffs., which was carried upsni.
mouslyess to Sheriff Wood, but with many dissent.
tug voices as to Sheriff Atkins.- • : , -
• Mr. Sheriff WOOD, in returning
,ilheOks, said
that he hoped he had given already art account of
conduct, with respect to the removal ,of the
.military. *which would be satisfactory to the Pets.
isle of England. [Perfectly so, front many].
There was 'molter circumstance .which bethought
it necessary to state, as he knew that improper
eoestrections had been put upon it. When he
was altered to wait upon Sir Francis Burdett, -at
Ow-tower, by the County of Middlesex, he
[tbelegist it. was proper to go, as Sheriff, to steam
li[ildgii! right! from numbers]. He considered
theuet,uf carrying the' Address of the Cuuuty
Meeting to the Tower, 'as-a
continuation of the
Meeting ; -and he knew it as his duty. to•attead
*the Mooing IN STATE. intended in the same
'Manner, and on 'the same reasoning; to go to
wrstez to present the Address to Sir F. Burdett
that was now resolved on by the Livery. [Braeot]
in so doing, he thought he was discharging the
'-duties attached to his ministerial situation. [Loud
applause).
Mr. Sheriff ATKINS had ever endeavoured ho. •
lady to discharge his duly.. Ile tobb.no merit
io himself-for his endeavours to preserve the peace
without- the assistance of the military all the
'praise was duo to the Chief Magistrate. Though,
In some instances, he might -be' so 'unfortunate as
'to differ from them ;- yet, considering himself as
their Minister, he had never stepped either to this
right or to the left, but had uniformly eudeavoured
to:act fairly between man and Man. Ile would
never betray his trust ; but, as he admitted, that
others who differed from him might be right, he .
hoped they would think with him, that every man
ought to be permitted to enjoy his own Opitilohs.
Whatever his • storthy colleague might think he -
could not see the propriety of going inState to carry.
an* address to any individual, however highly
hissight be respected. Ile did not think any in.
dividual could be in titled to 'the same respect they.
were accustomed to pay to the assembled Hem. .
seatatives of the. Country and, site. einereign on.
the Throne. [" Burdett
,desertale every ho.
no.ur!"] Ile should- be haperiste-ohey, their
wishes in presenting their"..Address to Sir Francini
Burdett; but he wished to deeliee riga in State.
[Here was a loud cry of. s##o4-amedr—Wilt
you. go or not P" . Mr. titeriti: *kites, we
understood, in the end, to decline•laing at
all." • •
It was than moved that tie Itesolutionti,. ite. 4
the Meeting should be inserted its all the Morning
and Evening Papers, when there vss a general'
cry of "No Post, not in • the Morns* fast!"
The Motlue was Carried, ma the MuisMag iwolkil
up. •
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