The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-10-05 00:00:00

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pion of constitutional freedom,_ who has passe -
through his Parliamentry duties with undeviating re(
titude,--negiebtful of his own emolument, but .
strenuous and constant detector and prosecutor of a;'
public delinquents. From his etoi tions to obtain ,
free trade to the East Indies, and his extensive know
ledge of the intricate and involved atiairs of the Ras-
India Company, he is well entitled to your support
Ills attachment to the interests of his native town 116
has evinced on every opportunity, by his resistanc•
to the unjust claims of the corporation,—by his sac.
cesaful opposition to the building of barracks iu
flu
neighbourhood of T
and a true statement t .
Parliament, during the last winter, of the distress*.
conditiou of this once flourisi ing, town. These are me
that will serve you with fidelity, for they are devote
to their country. Both meil of unblemished publi
and private reputation;—iu then- past consistency.
you have a pledge for their future conduct.
Gentlemen, 1 will dare to say, that if you retur
Mr. Brougham and Mr. Creevey, as your Repres,..l
tatives in Parliament, your choice will have the aN
probation of every wise and good man in the nation
and you will have the satisfaction of reflecting, the
you have done all that lay in your power for the re
storation of the trade of thin towns and the prosperit
of the country at large.

Mr. CAM' was calledby the Meeting, whe
himself
he immediately presented upon the cops!
for
would make ever
effort
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tn,
not is
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ed
be was confident i
man long to sostai
thecheitear:t hard,
etrthhagotru gahi tney
the exertion it required. Ile continuedspeaking
sintll he *eye so hoarse as to be scarcely au•
dible. He told the Meeting that freedom of elec
Lion Ras first to be asserted ; but that was not al
They were the Friends of Peace, o. f unrestrictet,
commerce, and, above all, they were to contend fo:
a complete restitution of their Constitutional Litter
ties. in the great contest in which we were so lone.
engaged, the defenders of their Country had don..
their duty, particularly in a recent brilliant affair.-
The troops made it honourable, but it was the peopi
alone (he expected nothing from the Ouvernnacni,
who.could make it useful to England. When were w
to loot for peace: In defeat or in victory—when w
would, or whets we must 21 It would be nonsense t
deny that difficulties stood in the way of the accom
plishment of all great objects, but these difficulties wer,:
not of an insuperable natures—they would all quicker
disappear, before the fixes determination, and th•
earnest e demurs of an upright Administration. Th
i state of the country it was urmecessary to describ,
to tiiem--tiley had witnessed it. The sufferings t
1 the people last spring and winter ne language could
describe—but they had felt them. Such a desciip.
Lion would be idle, even if it was possible. Theic
own sagacity, sharpened by their suffering, must pour
upon the mind a flood of light that dimmed all other
explanations. There were no sufferings beyond what
had been endtired and much longer he thought the-
could not be endured. Nature gave them scant!,
and the Constitution gave them power. That power
was exerted upon the Orders in Council, and ha
constrained n re' slant and !;t.ratious Mutistet
one act of : ;ti --perhaps of imperfect justice
if so, on 4, ~1 head of the guilty Minister, to wher
W r re open the course and tendencies of site negoris
,A0*,..._0a hist 1.0.41 ....•••6 reill th, •••••.411040 evetpllets,•:i•MC,
of this new scene (mere frightful, snore armature'
more wanton, than all others) of carnage, of horrors
and consuming misery. Its effects upon the gem.-
condition of the country were not to he described
If this American war were to go on, the evils
and miseries that awaited them must b., imagined--r
the mind must paint to itself; for, in his conception,
the most fantastic language would fall very far short
of the terrible appalling reality ! But he did not
despair of their spirit—it was impossible to despair
of the spirit, which, at that moment, he witnessed,
or of the effects it must produce when properly and
stoutly exerted. Who could do justice to the inces-
sant, the laborious diligence, or toe splendid talents,
by - `rich the signal victory over the Orders in Court',
cif was ollained ? The fruits of it were not lost.—
I they were all, i..t that moment, within the grasp of
the electors of England. The repeal of the Oaks
• in Council would still assist them in the great work
of a general pacification. That, alo contended, was
I the paramount as well as final object ; am!, indeed,
1 the great importance of what had already been done,
could only be fairly estimated by considering the
`dreadful, the almost hopeless situation, in which this
country would now be placed, if Mr. Broughatn
Ihad not inflicted a death-blow upon those mcnstrous
proclamations—the Orders in Council. The French
I Ruler had .subdued, and destroyed other nations by
the mere force or agency of a proclamation ; but it
was reserved for the sagacity and patriotism of a
British Minister, for the " p'c d.d talents," and
' the " sound Constitutional principles" of Mr. Can.
! ning, not only to invade the rights of other nations,
but to• oeneesse she resources, and to disgrace the
character of his own country, by resorting to procla-
mations, to paper schemes, destructive and despotic,
repugnant to common sense, and to every sense of
justice, as well as to the free, the mild, and protect-
ing spirit of the law of England. They had removed
the Orders in Council; but only half the work was
done, until they effected the complete political ex-
tinction of the parents of those monsters. Mr. Can-
ning was the chief mover of them. They had killed
the snake, but the had only scotched the Minister.
Ac a body, the Orders hi Council were no more ;
but, it would be downwright nonsense to talk of the
safety of the country, until they had driven away the
evil and malignant spirit. That done, they gave a
joint and kindred interest to America and England,
in interest which would assist them to obtain, what
it must be the common advantage of all nations, and
whet, in his soul, he believed it was the vehement,
the breathless desire of millions upon both the Con-
tinents and in Eiigland to possess—the blessings of
universal peace. He put it to their understanding,
he would pot it to the understanding of a child—
' could any one say that the power or force, which
urged us into our present situation, was communi•
cated by our own interests, or could be communi-
cated by any thing but the grossest ignorance of
those interests, " gross as ignorance made drunk,"
or by the most contemptuous disregard of the rights
as well as a callous, a shameless insensthil,ty to the
sufferings, and even to the subsistence of the British
people 1 But they had buten down the hot-brained