The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-03-07 00:00:00

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Mar n-7 Hi h•P!"*.twfAir• aft•Vialliteleaddifbfealbi4) that. porpose:-Ltlierie 1:-*A- OM* 4 foiCe was ifter
pee the countenance of his Agee .to, a compluiat ! wards front iteceisity celled out, and he held himself
'itrairist . the 'renplernent ofte" ofdlitary,. •that he' respeosliblit fe.r.,iihat he• had done ia that respect.-r
;•peattl*.be asisisied. the/. had been • milted One in en an- [Mete, hear l]
soitstitutional ntatteer, and trot foi,tbe deeeetspert of Mr.-Wittell:READ said, after this statement, the
the Civil Power, arid the protection of the inde.i. Muse fneat-be Whiffed that a military forte had not
pentleincit of I' eribtetent. ' beiesaesdied in without sufficient cause. An lion.
. •TS CIiA4M4N-tbetCptst .11se question for tho Gentlaplan opposite (Mt Croker), however, having
adipernnteet of Ike, Committee. • • • I stated,".stiist the.Civil,Powea.liad iieglected• to- per-
.
• Mr. LAM Dim 14r immediately rose and said, in ;.form their duty, hothoeght it was essential that the
reply eothi -Nettle Lord e(astlttreagh), that in cotn.. House should examine into tint circumstance. He
inz to perform his duty in the,liettewhe.fteind liii. i should, therefore,• propose that the High Bailiff'
self menaced by a military force, and, as he said be- : should be called to the Bar,- to render an account of
fore, considering this highly unconstitutional, he 'pie protection which he hud.given to the Members on
thought some explanation was den to l'arlientent.
,'tlicieltpitroacli Jo the House.
Lord CASTLEILEAGII—" The force was culled ; ThE SPEA10:11 said, the Magistrates on duty, as
out in aid of the Civil Magistrates, and not with a • welt as the High Bailiff, were within calls and-
view to menace the Members of Parliament." I ought to be examined to the same point.
Mr. W. I'LTZfil ERA LD said,. that he was also . Mr. CROK ER.said, although he hid seen re eon-
coming to attend his duty in the Ziuse, although stables without the .doors of the House, Uteri) were
not to vote on the same side of .the question under *Everitt in the avenues within.
' discussion as the Honourable Gentleman. lie did I Mr. FITZGERALD said,. he considered. the at-
not, however, find aity military force, but a tumid- . tempts of the Police Officer's to repel thp crowd,'
tuous menacing mob, whose outrageous. conduct en- ••`o4eilltewitrieseed,eitit•which had attacked his Hon.
dangered the lives of the Members oft that Ifoisse,ap- now, would have bee, unavailing. .
proaching it to perform their duty.. Their carriages : W....WHITHILEAD,-.--" It al4PearethP Poiles.
were followed—their names demauilkil and they 'errs were placed where they ought tang to have
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were.called upon, not alone to tell thi votes which ell, instead of the place in which they, could have
ill
they had given, but the votes which they meant to teen of service." ' . .
give. An Honourable Gentleman .who had accom. : Mr. PONSONBY apprehended the first step to
ponied him was placed in the most serious petit. betaken was to ascertain what had been done by the'
(Mr. Croker.) These occurrences he had deemed it eivil power which had the charge of the avenues with.
his duty to communicate to the .Speaker, "them he. det)the Hesse, and what degree of .gisil force. was.
believed had properly issued his mandate to the'Civii 'celled lato 'action. •.,
Magistrates to call in such force toltheiraid as was the ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, it 10 flip.
necessary to protect the Members of the• House in • gelid that he ias one of-thir'ittet-Witelid entered
their approach to the avenues..-[hear, hear!] . thepilonse by its mull avenues; • -Ilieeireve direct to 3
Mr. WHITBREAD was not at all surprited that ihlyteet gate of Westminster-hall, and-sisair witted
his Hon. Friend (Mr. Lambton), on discovering a ki a largeanob. IVheit he alighted be was suretren& I
military force in the neighbourhood of. the Meuse, 'hid, and euquiries were made as to whodie was. . Ile ±
shooldhase takes the earliest opportuuity of stating dittoed disguise its name, end did not hesitate to state I
that fact in his place; and if, he .had done ao.attfl'ehe opinions he entertained with respect to the Bill i
warmth; he considered that warmth was_ vesiiel, Wei fore the !loose.. Some persons who -were. ie the 1
asmuch he was ignorant of the menet.r in which they:nowt, heaver, mild• they knew him, and eiset-be I
had come there.—Ulear, lacer 1 --He concurred ;,was.,a friend.to the people... Although thit.wes not la ,
with the Noble Lord (Castlereagh). ind the Right :,co *client which lie expected from such company,
lion. Gentleman (Mr.-.W: Fitzgerald) that if t ti.. ye he felt sorne.eatisfaction.ie hinting that he had.a
multuous mob had insulted the Members 'of thet let friends• among them. They entered into a de- 1
House on their approach to their. duty,
.and that the , bete as to What they i'citild do with him, but he con. I
civil power was incompetent to repel those insoles, Irked to reach the steps between the Court of King's i
that it was proper the aid of the military should-be -Bench and Court of Chancery with safety, and in the
;called in.--Weas, hearll-4int he !bought it was coerseof his walk *as entertaiued with a variety of
due ta the dignity of the Howes he hemmed what , uments against the:corn •Lawt—such as the great
had taken pleas :is order to induce .the Speaker to ttrdens which had already been suffered, and the
issue the Mandate •to which allusiuu had been made. invlship of being offered op, as they termed it, to :
ft
With this view of the case, be thought the,best courektthe Irish Members. These arguments he endeavour-
to he puasued.seuild be for the Chairman to, reportc*lto combat, and
,finally, by great good• fortune, 1
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/progress,:.o4 ask lame to sit again. The frpeaker taped into thaeobtly of the Mouse. • From 'what he i
would then have an opportnitity of taking the Chaiej er, he had **difficulty in situ ink, that he:cedsidered
and explaining, no doubt to the satisfaction of ilk %civil force.was terusfecieut to repel such a eon..
; Noose, how it was the military had been called into},. he of peseonaseGieer,kettr, !]
L action.--I Hear i—The Hoo.-Gentleminn :conelnderl • 'Mr. FINLAY- was also insetted by-the mob, and
by moving, that the Chairmail.shoul repert.progress, considered the assistance of -the military absolutely
and ask leave to sit soils.. . steeelthtry• • •
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CASTLEREAGH. concurred in the the- , 4 * ROBERT HERON showed the skirt of his
Lord . . ...
..peety of this soggestion',- bad said it would certainly foot; which hoed `
nearly torn frpm the,o4, 114 i
';be proper for the Muse tabstiluformed of the facts Oilitkrilekt •beeiddlahla. be vas abll *aka attiir vi lhjie i
r: *tech kad.eccurred,,ltem,,peopeessetkosity-- - glailkeths• of .-the treatment he ititi 'received.-{Lead' • The ettestiett whit.then pot and carried, and the taught:T.] —lnstend of finding tfre mob as patient
Speaker tonic. the: Chair. ' i and mild as the Unnottrable and •Learned Gentfe-
Mr. LAM wroN then spoke as followst-14 .1 il man who had lately.spoken (the Attorney-General),
have to acestaint the House that as I was coming to ihe had experienced nothing• but the most brutal
the House this evening to do my duty in Parliament, : treatment, and after baying, been hutfetted about
I was nearly rode over by a squadron of Horse: like a shuttlecock betweost two battledores, he
Guards, who halted opposite the doors of this : escaped, with great difficulty to tell his tale.—
lliapse. • 1 conceived it my duty to Lehrer the House ; [Laughter.]—Ho • had •riotas•yet declared 'his opi=
of this, circemstance, as I had never before witness- nion upon the Billbefore the' Heine, 'but Ite.hild now
eat similar scene, awl as I well knew the constitu- i no hesitation in stating, thatJte should vote its its fa- .1
done/ jealousy with which a military force, acting in • your.
this way. nits regarded.
... Such a. force might A rst,he I . Sir F. FLOOD said, lie had nearly been tote in !I

called out to protect Parliament, but it might after-
wards be used to overawe it. [Cries of Order I]
I do not rann to say.such has been the object in the

four qttarters.--[ Load laughter.]
The question was then put 'for chitin; in the High
Builitf, end !lomat 'called in,arcordingly.

present iu lance; but to ',resod the establishment of lie was examined by the SPEAKE.IC, and the re.
such a precedent, I thought it my-duty to mention i suk of his evidettca wos, that he had received orders
the fact in my place." [llene!] to call out the civil power in Westminster. That
Mr. CHOKER %feted, that as he approached the! he had issued orders to the High Constable to that
Howse a short time before .the Honourable Member t-effect, and that they assembled at the House. that
(Mr. ',embroil) his carriage had beets beset by a mob, i day at two o'clock. He remained with them till O
some of whom deroarulecrhis name, while others re- : few moments before he was called in. -There were'
quired him to state the vote which he .meant to .give.:.about fifty in number. They. were dispersed in the'
all the Corn cptestitus. It was . needless to say hocavenues of the House, in the. lobby.and outside in
had refused to gnawer these enquiries. On his ar. the street.7-Pound the force under him, aided by the
rival at the °door of the House, the doors of his ear. Bon.street r Officers, who were all in attendance,
ringe were forced open en birth skies, and. on ster.. ineatlicient to resist the mob—did not take steps to
ping out, he was seized by the.oollar,.and .received ;obtain additional force—that was done by the Ma.
several blows. The questions itefore•put were re-,l gistrates who . were on the-spot. Saw the military'
pealed, and the
_mob, said they would never let him 1 within the last lialfi hour. .Returns were *Jadeite.
enter the House alive if he did npt tell his name and .1 writing of the peace officers, who were called on by
his sentiments oo the Core Laws ;,as before he would • his direction—would...,go and . look fur theletorn.of
not satisfy iluir curiosity, and, at length, .escaped,i that day.-.was net' aware that any person had been
with great difficulty, into the c.rffec.liouse of the token Into custody fora breich of the peace.-.-[Here
House of Lords, which was the only avenue that, was he was.ordered to Wkhdraw.]
not similarly beset. Re was sorry. to say..thet, at I ..Mr.dioluer. was next milled, trerthe•ber.-..;Hvis '
that time, there was no soldier .pr,cott%table to he Magistrate belonging to •the • Merthorouglpetervelti
seen. There seemed, in ,fect,.te be a cemplete neg. Pc ice Office. In consequeoce of .the. orders Whieb
lect upon the Part of thesivii force. cfr these. ac-. he had received, he attended the house at two.,
'currences he had informed the, Speaker, and he.shen o'clock, with fifty constables. The particular duties.
learnt that other Members had been.lreaterl in Wilke assigned to him were to keep clear the avenues sp.:
manner. The Speaker,
.to protect the Civil Magi.- ! preaching .the House. • Stationed his. men both out
trews, ordered the military to be '
sent for, so Abet.' aide awl inside of. the Houso4ots that purpose. • Sir'
• every Member might be Serisred a free ingress and j Nothaniel,Conantivas also present. Saw mockdis-
egress to and from the ilotere.-7-[ikurs 'earl] 1 Whew and waa.:satisfied the civil force was in..
The SPEAKER now addressed the jlouse, and; mailicient to tepol.the mob. ;lad determined Xs send
said he should feel it a dereliction from his duty if he for the military, 'When he received an order from Om,
did not inform them of what he knew upon the sub. ! Speaker .to the same effect. Went 'himself-to the
ject before them. Anterior to his coming to the Horse Guards, and .brought- Ahern- Op to the Rebid.
House that day, imagining the Possibility of a fracas, .
ho sent the Serjeant at Arms to the High Bailiff of I Mr. W. WYNN. asokid, whether. any assistance
Westminster, to direct him to take measures to keep :luid been sent frotwthe avenues. within the. Heusev.to
the avenues leading to the House free from all inter- f the constables without ?
ruction. Having done this .by,wey -of precaution,' Mr. Baker answered that Tome wire ser..
he directed the Messengers of .the House to take ~did not know- that any person had been take& lido
charge of the lobby, epd to.perferm a similar duty custody for a breach of-the peace. There 'was 'no
there.—About au .heur, bark, after he,had ,left the actual asmolt cometieted,..bot there, was tsgreat.deal
chair, he was informed that a Noble: Lord (Hunting. I. Of hooting and hallooing. • Relieved thainesseof the
field) had heee gros'd) irsselted by ,a.mob. collectesliti.lSersons hooting sad hallooirst mere tuktenitnesi. cos.
the avenues of tho-House, and had esooped-with tdif.:•tittly.—Sir- 'Nathaniel ;Conant, ,wps j"'eray:ste
ficulty from their hands, pot through the usual spa :katne other part of this lat4ll 4heiirdisilirbencee rat.
proaches to the House, but through 'lsis (the Speak. ieted. There wawa peityaf.phath offleikei °idle Mr':
er's) house. Ile immediately sent for the Civil Ma- Einstetrd. Did laot-Ishasetf take nieriesimettcetsplwer.
gistrate on duty, and directed hire„ if
:the strength bend any. of. the gxesemmaibann hoarse iiiieteesVllii
which he had was not sufficient to Seeisre.adtiOegress . Members in their passage to the 11/wee. r, • • . .
and ingress to.Memberkcotplpg to Parliament to per. , M r..lEsastossto exuarrapcd.
form their duty, to call• is further strength to effect ' Is a Magistrate- belonging to the Thiiiei rusks

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OtEre;=4orlced illeniple..ottr in the .aternitsti at
ten o'clock, 'with fifty *a • fre at , theirCe ca.ne. to
the 'Holm of .430mmons. Sit'li the dlstorbinee stilt:
side bf the Ilisite,.and an anxiety evinced 4git he
mob to get in. 'Saw nothing beyond this. 1144 ne
knowledge that Sir Nithaniel,Conkrit hedges! am:4i
Saw no Member obstructed Cir initiated. t.
Mr. Ili RNIE, a i!fagisirate of Do;o-streel, eat/milted:
Attended the House. at three Welock with sixty
constables, to keep the peace, and distributed them
in different direction, for that purpose. Saw ieve..
rat Members insulted, hustled, hissed, and hooted.
Did not apprehend any person in the Milk,. there
being no ringleader, and considering it hits irstdlity
to protect the Members.—[Hear!--A wankel.),
force became absolutely.necessary to prevent farther
violence.—( Witness. Withdrew.) , • .
Mr. W. WYNN here observed, that -timeettleece
which had been sebmittall was quite 7106c1/ilk to
prove, that i military force became noceasitry. (a/4W
preservation of the peace.7-(//carl-Hettisotaght
it was a fit subject for enquiry, hiteltitsw,llll*liter
the Magistrates bad exerted•thensselveni. . ik.seartp,
ner as they ought to have done. It 00
itifillen •
°pa few persons in the early part Millie .4
flerestiti.fieliing•put tht'liqilitery,.r. , ..,;,,,:514% v 6
itistti&Tßeseia.-: . ..- .n •: ,
! . ThitPEArkiitiroPosed that tlitidientos taken
let this tiubj ect should bit 'priitted.7-,Ordered. ' '
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Mr. LAMBTON now,expreased himself Wttisfiett
that the :sidlitaiy bad akot been call*. out. withoot
jolt. '' ' .fkaill . .„ .• - , , . •
'Emil c beggAlla yip irliTlititi 0.01149.
altuett
teittieioiri ' . ni,*tothit:iiotite fpr Ake coarse teltido
be Ead piirsiteditme. thiltieStielantlq whict 011gbt.t9
be entert lined [
...eflhe entiopsetrissf Is-Military forge,
where the *eitertion-et-theearil. power .might •Its
Aeented inatillicient."-EffearA.._ . • • . ;
IA .conversation .thin .ensued as to 'whether. it
would be proper to (oar the Magistrates thin, to tba
bar and admonish them' to be more at naive to the
'duties assig* thetni-or to paitpong tai
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[thou of their.evideticat !RP Monday nexi: .*:` ! •' . •
. The last- propotttiosi lies finally agreed kt,,figa the,
i &
Magistrates wertVered to be in attentSW on that
c . -
I - Ddring the kirloile"Of t'h Intfreattng Proliigng,,
, the House was ernitdett to 'aim* 4401:119sitiit.
1 The House then' re-Teimisied into thi.oiiiiiiiiisit,
1 when Mr: Baring hose, and. *eke in favostitif the
amendment.' ' Ile was folieweti by the Chanceihre.of
the Exchequer, who stgriffyiled the original. widen.
Mr. Marryatt and MrrAldermati Atkins_ litfitoirtad
the amendment, lind lArcl."CiiilreFeliA6i'lhat 9.1i4
'motion After some forther'obsetratlene teens r.
'Bating, 'division took place,' when iblis ors.,
For I be nreendturtu .•
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For the OtiO4:412101x, 04 .a: . .. T. i fibi
• Malts ity niiihnt the agiendiami • .....-131 •
Mr.' YORKE proposed .275. as the protecting
price for oatsbat!, /after setae discus?lsseis 14talagoit.
Gentleman withdrew Isis amenthitent. *. •
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:The [louse then resumed and tare 11.041tal.'ef1
(leiea to be received on We readily. ; •., • .
'the other Differs of t * misei,`
a, and thi H 9256 ' , ligliiiii
bout,
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CORN. BIG •.....f4.:*;!104144t17r. _, • •
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• WARD OF FARRIFNAOOR WITROU -T. ..
A Meeting was yesteralay.held in the eho.reh of St.
Sepulchre, for the purpose of tatting into consideraa
don the propriety of 'petitiniting Parliament against
any alteration in the Corn Laws. .
At twelve o'clock Mr. W. lottm.Rtawr the De-
puty of the North side of the Ward, was called, to •
the Chair. He addressed . the Meeting, and 'stated,
Cat the object fpr which they hid assembled was to, .
express their disapprobation."( a Bill then hurrying ..
through Parliament, a Alitl-7which was intended to
be forced down their throats instead of liread.:--- •
[flear!]-11e trusted their'Resolutioos would have .
the effect ofiehecking that inischieeons,llll4:und he •
bad no doubt but they would give apettent and*at-
tentire hearing to every Gentleman who might de.
fiver his opinion on the question before them. The
Requisition was then read ; after which.—
. Mr. TIIOMPSON came forward. lie aid' not ltd•
dress the Meeting for the purpose of -offering 'ant
thing new Son the subject ; but he wished that jug..
ticelhould be done to this Wahl; which had at 'ill
times been foremost in asserting the rights and 'Mei. '
ties of the country. "If we look Isaid Mr. 'l'4' •
toother Meetings on .the present subject, puttee:
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lady that held in the Egyptian Hall,' we find them,
it is true, opposing the present Bill ; but it erns the
corruption of such men as had assembled in the

Egyptian Hall which had _been the primary "cause'
of. tlris Bill; but for their degeneracy .we 'shointd-
eat now have ..to petition : they had' come for.
ward because the present measure pressed en them.'
selves, and sorry am I to have perceived my friend'
Mr. lirakhte among 'them. He 'should' have'
loft them to =heir own bitttlesi altdltelp them..
selves from .si. situation in whieh• their ,own' de.
generacy had . placed them. lie was—cotribicied,
that .tbe a "'Ale
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--nasiiisa.s-7:1.671-r —---r - -- - - "''' --An -...._ —_ _ s. _.. • THE ST AI'ESMAN• .
ItIOT IN PALACE YARD.
uslaw .
• ,STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONK (MU:Malin. The dseellingshouse of Mr. RoateSOfe, the in •
and the great landowners say, if you permit us to -, PRICE (IV
1 Lette.Ami. —.olo.—_.
Batik
starve the people into one prices, and to keep up 3 per Cent. Ned. India Bonds 5 6 p traducer of the Bill, in Burlington-street, was et-
_s.
w e lament to state, that several outrages were co
of
you to pick their -t per Cent. C0a5..631 useti.eesser bins 1 4 p
tour high rents, ne will suffertacked with the utmost fury, and every thing Yalu.
milted last night at the entrance of the House of
cents. • I Ornate=
pockets as much as vou please:'—[Loud cries of 1 I I Consuls for Ace. 6•ls 4 able in it destroyed. The Earl of Dinette's house •
Commons against those Members who hare .
' Bravo, bravo !]—Mr. Thompson contended, that 5ppeerr'er
Cent. Navy
there was no necessity for the proposed alterations, !
for if free importation reduced the rents it would l' HE STATESMAN.-- they also assailed with equal violence, and the Lord ported the Corn Bill. The crowd in old Palace.
, CHANCELLOR'S and Lord Etteenoneuett's were like yard, which in the early part of the night did „t .1„..
ill
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every thing else in proportion ; but there should he
also a public reduction of our expences. Ile did 1 --e - -
• wiseconsiderably injured bytheir fury. This we under- exceed six or seven hundred in number, increased
to several thousands about ten o'clock, andstop,
not speak of a trifling reduction, but a great one :
LONDON: stand was the case in every other part of the town
pedl.-------
the Members as they approached in their car.
• he hoped, too, that his Royal Highness the Prince
• Regent would now come forward and reduce his TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1815. *here the assailants appeared.
riages, for the purpose of ascertaining wilieser
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income, which bad been so much increased in --me-- We are SO pressed for room, in order to give place i they were the friends or opponents of the
consequence of the former dearness of provisions : Westminster has been in motion all this day, and
his debts had been paid over and over, but now to the particulars of these proceedings, that we can. 1 The former were hooted, hissed, and iii sever!!
• • crowds have been pressing from all quarters towards not eater into a recapitulation of what occurred in 'instances prevented by violence from entering the I
that bread and cheese were cheap,—[a laugh]—he
hoped we should have no more such debts to pay.— ; Palace-yard
since morning. The whole of the-arena
the Houses of Parliament, beyond saying, that this house of Commons. Some were exposed to the
•t
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Ile had the same hopes from the Queen, and the in front of the houses of parliament, and theadjaceet grossest indignities, and the populace, not cost,4
other branches of the Royal Family, who received
,streets were filled before twelve o'clock. At one the much deprecated Bill was read a third time ' after a ,
I with reviling them in the most abusive Linguagel
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large incomes from the country. These had also long discussion, and after Petitions had been pre- t
the business of the Meeting to considet the subject attempted by threats to compel them to vote as they ,The
been much increased. aid be hoped they would now
of the Corn Bill, and the necessity of petitioning sented against it (in one night), bearing signatures to
1 The doors of three caress were forced The
• • s be reduced. Mr. Thompson then spoke at con- .
it 1
ia ul
the number of above three hundred thousand.— in, and one was completely wrested from
• h against commenced.Nei.
' wished.
i ' Rio
it 1 siderable length on the mysterious manlier in whic
• this Bill teas hurried through the House, and then I Mr. k were .
&ream stated its object, and proposed the. Among those which held a conspicuous ran I Mr. Croker, the 'Secretary to the Admiralty, was
one of the Members who prinripilly suffered •; Ng t• rire,
laer
adverted tow hat he termed the . greet cause of all Resolutions. In doing this, he descanted largely and Petitions from the Merchants, Bankers, arid Traders 1
1 carriage door was burst open, he was seized by the _
- the mils of the country, the want of a radical re- forcibly on the ruinous, unjust, and dangerous ten- • of the City of London, from Manchester, Glasgow,
collar, and commanded to tell ass name, anti the
fo.rn is Parliament ;if this did not take place, he
•• dency of the proposed measure; and in the course Birmingham, Chatham, Rochester, Leicester, Not- I
, side on which he Wended. to vote. Tt.is, however,
. niuhiteined that evils would flow on them until the ,
of his observations that as a. roof of the light tiugham, Derby, Southampton, Newcastle, Bolton,', he refused to do, and was only preserved from farther
. Constitution was destroyed ; that reform alone' stated, P . It I • I - le
Plymouth, Wakefield, Northampton, Soutliwnr , , eioletice ty lice aggressorequerre ing among latest.
Mild save it from destruction. He concluded, lin which many of the farmers themselves regarded it,
Wards
amidst the acclamations of the Meeting, by moving, I and the little relief they exPected from it, he would and a long list of other places, and several . , 9
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selves when he succeeded in effecting his e,capp,„:. T.
. I I •The rallying ery of the populace was—" No Cora
• a strifes of Resolutions: The Resolutions expressedl read to the Meeting the copy of a petition against it, and Parishes in the Metropolis and the vicinity.— Bill it and the disturbances at one torte threatened
great sorrow at seeing the.extraorditsary hurry with
. r signed by four thousand farmers in the county of That from Manchester and its neighbourhood was
'the most serious consequenses, %Shia were, however, Salt
which the Bill was cart ied. through the House of '
Commons; the apprehension of the many evils which Essex. stated in the House of Lords to have 52,000 names I appily pre,e„sea by the arrival of two strong de. Bei
•dre,
would result from it, and the determination of the Major V —ARTWRioitT seconded the Resolutions, affixed to it. achments of the Horse-Gourds.
vale,
• The Speaker being hammed by the Members who A I
R ' Meeting, that if the Bill should pass both Houses, Riad Mr. Alderman Woon followed. They warTlitY Pressed as we are for room, we cannot refrain from
entered the House from time to time of the riotous Brass
they would address the Printe Regent, and My inveighed against the Bill, and recommended a perse- directing particular attention to the admirable speech I doors, ant of the personal insults
conduct withont I •
i that lie might not give his satiction to it. verance in petitioning—if this should fail, the whole of Sir GILBERT IIEATIICOTE, which we are enabled I they hnd sustained, made a formal' application for '
11It.Taniten seconded the Resolutions. He was
1111
( country ought to exert its constitutional privilege of (from personal attendance) to give more' correctly I the interference of the military. The first detach:
- eery, sorry that the task of seconding and supporting
reeresentinz to his R
Royal Highne.s the necessity of than the Morning Prints. The causes of the evils : meat reached the spot about- a gnarter-past ten, at
I thenidiffSiot fall on some gentleman more competent • •-•
' than We has to perform-it ; he; however, should not dissolving Parliament, and of withholding his . which now afflict and menace this country, and the 'lilac
which time the multitude was little short of 10 000
, •
. Guards iminediatioy proceeded to disperse Oen,
1 seriek from it, as he was convinced that it required Royal assent to the intended law. This proceed- only remedy of which they will now admit, a
ars iandwith the ' fthe second •
no great eloquence or argument to prole the evil ten- log, on the part of the persons who were called there set forth with the discrimination of a States- ' shortly afterwards arrived, Old Palace-yard and
drucy ortheltlill, to petition against which they had the Representatives of the people showed mote man, and the fearless ardour of a Patriot.
the line *of ground from the said cif : Whitehall Zvi
• nssf-mbled. The people of -this country had been than any thing else • the necessity of 'lt Reform ai-i,
through Parliament-street were completely cleared
• taxed beyond measure or precedent, their blood and Lord Csorteter tau appeared in his place, and , e,ree.
in parliament.
The speakers earnestly entreated the . before eleven o'clock. Daring this task, in the axe- Isla
-1. , treasure had been exhausted to supiffirt a
hornet,estructive ,spoke and voted in favour of 80sf being the pro- I
i cation of which the difficulty of distinguishing the ha-
and untietewary war, hut they had all this in e their opposition to res tful but poputaue to confin pee . tecting
pots. On the subject of his mission to ' • Gen
guilty from the'innocelit must have been very great,
I') the expectation that peace and its attendant plenty firm remonstrances. We observed-a oeiversal mani-
Vienna, his Lordship showed.as much unwillingness I it i 5 to be feared that several mast have severely se& toill
tihar
It would at length put an end to the burdens ;but scarce- festation of a strong feeling of detestation and in-
to answer questions as any of his dumb Colleagues. ' fared. Clll
ly had the din of war ceased, while }et the fields of dignation at the mention of this obnoxious 834.;
A regular motion must be made before his Lordship i The alarm spread through the interior of the
• the Continent were moist with oar blood, and fo- and though there is much reason to apprehend such a House was at one period extreme. It was reported
, reigners were enjoying the fruits of oar mss-spent will condescend to enter into detail.
multitude will not disperse to their respective homes that the population was 20,000 strong, and that
treasure, than the Minister hinted his intention of
' without committing some outrage, considerable order
.
continuing the Property Tax.. The paple assembling
in every. part • of, the kingdom raised their voices reigned at the time we left the scene. - We shall get the rest of the ballad some day or multitude vies so great that it was apprehendmithe
• i against this, and he was obliged to give it up. Next Sir FRANCIS BURDETT was on the hustings, and other,
iron gates, which had been closed about eight o'clock:,
1 the'great landowner came forth, and making a tool we were assured would deliver his sentiments against - it 4a-: admitted in all hands, that
the Speaker manifested a dignity and coltili tie
%., 1 of the farmer, endeavoured to lay on us the worst
of all taxes—a • tat en the.bread of the poor man.— the Bill before the meeting broke up. (2 o'clock.)
•
Yesterday, at 12 o'clock. Viscount r ....Atrt.tREAGII • worthy in every respect of the high shuttle',
WILT:
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[Loud applause.]—But lie earnestly hoped that the had a long audience of the PRINCE REGENT. • IDESTRUCTION OF MR. ROBINSON'S HOUSE. •
' people would also raise their voice against that All power of description is now insufficient to The QUEEN, Princesses ELIZABETH and MARY, I While the riot was quelled steer ' the House of
i
measure,
and he hail no doubt but it would be
at- convey an adequate idea of the effects of that -un- are espected in town to-morrow, for a few days. --Commons, it broke out ra another quieter with e •
tended with the same success.—[(tear, hear, hear!) I d'ff in • • between the people and iappy i erence opinion - fury the greater as it found no resistance. it op.
Mr. Parker then went on to prove that it was idle. • pears that aparty finding every attempt-to ittsult and
t Y the Legislature of this country to which the Corn hirers of Birmingham, attended Lord MULGRAYE at ,
• to suppose that it e could grow so much corn as : intimidate the Members rendered unavailing by the
it' , would render us completely independent of foreign Bill has given rise. Never was the necessity on the the _gourd of Ordnance to remonstrate against the
prophsed new establishment of an Armorial Foundery ; ,
' exertions of the Horse separated f the
Guards,
' countries, and that if we 440%, shut our markets part of the Government of attending to the respect-
at Waltham Abbey, in Esser, which, in their opi- ' body a 4, Iproceededquietly and i s small mult-
i main ( 1
, against-fareivi corn, we should not be able to pro- ful representations of the subjects more apparent than . i hers to Burtingtouestreet, for the purpose of at-
.
' care it at a time when a dearth at home might snake it has now become. Members may well say, that if •
nion, must prove ruinous to thousands of workmen T
tacking the house of the Right Honourable F. J. tr,tr
us most in want of it. lit the extensive rennofacturing districts, in and around
tart
once the respect due to the House should cease or bewithout producing any national all: Birmingham, Robinson, the • proposer of .the Corn Bill.—i
Lot
Mr. GIIIYIITH then begged leave to say a few Uterine mustered about the centre of the street, • diminished, the Houses themselves would soon de- vantage to compensate for the deprivation of so large
, n,
words. lie should not have obtruded himself on the The / and not amounting -at their arrival to
.attere than
generate into a part of the mob. who impugn their a class of people of their customary employ.
fleeting, hut to remark on what he conceived fifty or sixy, one (we understand a persim well
Gentlemen thus deputed were accompanied on this ' QV
thegreat inconsistency between the Petition of the decisions. This respect, however, let us say, can • Y I occasion ry the Members for the counties of Warrcick . dressed) was selected to ascertain the residence of
, City of Loudon and the conduct of its Represen. only be obtained by corresponding respectful atten- d S and /afford. Mr, Robinson. He knocked at the door, and being
Olives. The Petition prayed that no alteration Owls on the part of those claiming it to the parties
On Thursday last, a most respectable and numer- informed [het Mr. Robinson was not at home,
C
it whatever should be made in the Corn Laws, while who think it is their doe and that it is withheld from he continued for a short time in conversation le
A ons Meeting of the inhabitants of Newcastle-upon-their Representatives in the House of Commons them.with the servant
The deliberative ' fPa t o the Legislature, we
wanted to insist on 725. Ile conceived that in this , ,- r Tyne, was held nt the Town-hall, to consider of the concerted signet being I
bluish to say, is now arive,n to the desperate necessity projected Corn Bill, a. given, the others rushed in
the Members did not speak the sense of their Con- B. Sensate, Esq. the Mayor, in i and proceeded to the work of devestatteete The Ilf
stituents tier any part of them. [Hear!] The of calling in the aid of military forte to protect its the Chair, who stated the object of the Meeting in a t demolition of the furniture- occupied Mitt mere t
Coin Bill tended (he observed) to benefit a few iti. Members from insult, and its sanctuaries, which very concise and impartial manner., WM. AIM. 93,.,
. than an hour. Glasses, tebles, chain bedsteads,
elividuals %hike materially injured the great majority ought ever to be held sacred to order, from outrage rreotee, Esq. moved a Whig of Resolutions I
' bedding, china, books, and papers of every de- via
eel
of the people.—Nlear, hear.]—lt was an effort on and confusion. Those decisions, which ought ever against any alterations in the existing Corn : scription were all sacrificed to the ravages of the tat
their part to put the nation on short allowance, that LAWS, in a speech, replete with argument and Ln,ol). T P.
hey bad in that short Alme at to inspire confidence and beget esteem, now unhapo sr
they, the landowners, might enrich themselves.—good sense, and he was seconded by A. EASTER. their number to seven or eight hundred' and they
9
t lie had conversed with several farmers on the sub- pity require the assistance of armed power toobtain By, Esq. both of whom were received with loud and exercised their rage w' h st.. t the slightest iteteerup- a
I int, who all agreed that it was immaterial to them for them that respect and obedience which their nature reiterated acclainations. The Rev. Mr. BENSON lion, without du; ' Ilest 'cheek and by their con. .b
I 1 whether importation were restricted or not, if their should command, and a loyal people readily give. moved an amendment to the effect of moderating the fidence they seem convinced that they should have I'l
rents were lowered, and yet landowners said that the This was and the policy' orthose measures 'restricting price, which was seconded by T. 9
BATES, no resistance to enconeter. The windows were forced
foreseen,
i- lowering of the rents would not relieve the farmer.— which have Esq. but it appearing that the latter Gentleman was
occasioned this desperate recourse, so into the street and the doors broken. This horrible i
—Bear, be Griffith concluded by recom- not an inhabitant of the town, lie was objected ter, a
l'el in unison with the t 1 e naure of our Constitution scene lasted,for nearly an hour and a half, and der.
mending to the Meeting, if the Bill should be passed I and the Mayor decided against him. Mr. JOSEPH Mg the perpetration of these deplorable excesses ncr
by the Lords and Commons, to apply in a respect- and that harmony and confidence which ought ever Ca sax then addressed the Meeting, and called upon - attempt was made either by the civil or mi,itary
.4
ful manner to the Prince Regent. They should to subsist between the people and the Legislature, is any Gentleman present, who was disposed to second 1
• power•to repress them.
4 , ketosis at his door and implere his interference. hence made evidelit beyond the power or necessity of the amendment, to come forward *tad do so. No The Earl of Den.
y' tome they assailed with
I
A young Gentleman, whose name we could not words to express. The scenes which took place last person, however, coming forward, Mr. Cr.ear con- . equal violence; and, strange to say, those of the •t,
s
tinned, and, in n speech -of considerable
team coma forward, and in au able speech supported night in the n • neighbourhood, and ..within the very length, Lord Chancellor and Lord Ellenborough,• the i
argued in favour of the Resolutions, which were car.l the Resolutions ; he contended, that it was the true walls of Parliament, as well as in various quarters of viedunanimously I q acclamation, the usual votes of former in Bedford- square, the latter in St. James's-
.t 1 interest of the landowners themselves to oppose thesquare (although neither of those Noblemen
the
town, are sufficiently indicative of the popularity thanks were then
, Bill, for it would. reduce their expences in a greaterpassed, and the meeting adjourned. have yet spoken upon the of II Corn
subjectte
proportion than it would their rents. . of the measure now- in progress to raise the price of Yesterday the crowds pressing to the Mansion- La
ws) were also attacked, and considerably .
I : Mr. PATTENT supported the Resolutions, and bread. As early- as three o'clock all the avenues to house were/such as to baffle description. Thousands injured. Soon after they had commenced their
argued against the Bill on the grounds, that if our the Houses were filled up by people brought to. who could not hear the press were obliged to retire assault upon the house of Lord Ellenborough, his
without signing. At one o'clock the signatures j
manufacturers were obliged (as they would be be 1 get( on the occasion of the
Cora Bill, who took .ordship, in the most intrepid manner, presented
this Bill) to pay double for bread, they would never amounted to GO 000.
r himself at the door, and enquired the cause of the
occasion to express their opinion of the measere,
be able to stand the foreign market against those DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—Last night some consi- outrages thus committing open his deviling' The
supporters, t
. countries which were endeavouring to rival them in
and the conduct of its in terms very dir-
derable disappointment was experienced at this reply was, " No Corn Bill, no corn Bill!' on 4
trade. ferent from those used in the respectful language of Theatre. The Tragedy of Richardthe Second, which which his Lordship addressed them in a few words,
I
, The Resolutioes were then put and carried anani- Petitioners to Parliament. Their numbers soon in- has not been performed for so many years, was an. the purport of which we have not heard, but the er- a
mously. creased to a formidable assembly, where order and flounced with considerable promise, both with re- fect was that the mob soon departed. w
1 Mt. Penaen then read a Petition founded on the g
Resolutions, after which good behaviour could not well be expected to coati- earl to the cast and the accompaniments. The part
of Richard was allotted to Mr. K cur
nue long. The most alarming tumults then began to •
broke was to have beets sustained b N
, and Boling- The lamented death of the young .
Doke of Down`
y .Ir. Lt.eisroe ; is the third fatal loss which has been sustained by
... Mr. Le Mntree said, he could not give his entire prevail. The manner in which many Of the Members •
t I assent to the Petition as it did not go the lengths which I
' of Parliament were treated will be found described
this Gentleman, booster, was suddenly taken ill, three illustrious families from hooding within ft few
and, its
I the Resolutions did in praying for Reform in Perl- consequence, the performance was postponed years, viz. the Marquis r I o. 'fAYISTOCK, Lord 11Ioes-r-
-1 ment, which he contended at some length was (lie by themselves in the report of the business of the —Macbeth was substituted, and went off well. STUART, and the promising yeast Nobleman whose s,.
t
great cause of all our burdens.
:After a short speech from Mr. Weithman in sup- : Houses. —They were stopped, questioned. as COVENT GARDEN THEATRE.—Last night the play
to their votes, maltreated, and bandied about like of the Virgin of the Sun was revived at this theatre. existence was so unfortunately terminated a
days since in the chats near Dublin. • few
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. port of the Resolutions,- and a few words in reply' shuttle-cocks between battle-dores. Some et them, No alteration has taken place with respect to the ___
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from Mr. Thompson, the Petition was adopted. '
t who are no great favourites with the public, but for. characters, with the exception of the part of Amatili, The • MARRIED.
\ 4th inst. at West num, Essex, Thomas Fossils, Em. of ~
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i Thanks were then voted to the Chairman and the ' tunately-for themselves were not personally known, which was performed for the first time by Miss STE- Basinghall-street, Lontlo,t, to Miss Ettphein Fair, the youngeft 't • ,
Churchwardens. I tress. Both she and Mr. SINCLAIR were very sac- ran imminent risks of their lives. The peace officers daughter of tate late Mr. Fail, or Colinshurgh, Flit-shire. $
I cessful in the execution of the fine songs with which '1
. I being unable tO quell the rioters, the were men.
• -,‘ A duel was fought on Friday morning in Ken- i rolled to the spot. While disorderly military
the piece is interspersed. Mr. Youen sustained the The 3rl inst. at her stephew's, Richard Hem*, Esq. Bit- •
1, ..... gingen Gardens, between Captain MAYNE and 8
Mr. FLETCHER. A dispute, respecting a female,' ings were going on in the neighbourhood of par. crowded. the itev..lo:,n Mapleton.
Feb. YB, Robert, the infant son ofinhn Power, Esq. Muck- , i
led to the rencontre. Happily no blood was shed liament, divisions of infuriated men proceeded to ley, surgeon to the Dukes of Kent and Combrifise.
9 BREAD.—The LORD MAYOR, after inspecting the /
end the parties afterwards breakfasted together at the different parts of the town to assail the houses of mealweighers returns
ordered m price • of breAti •o - '
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