The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-05-13 00:00:00

CIiVAV TY tie NiMPOLK MRRTING FUR
RRFORM.—MA r • El..

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It having been known for several days that a Comity
Meeting, en thesobject of Parliamentary Reform, was to
be holden in the Coanty Hall this day, considerable ins
term was excited in the town of Norwich.in which it is
known Party politics run to an extreme height. Several
. attempts sere made by the Ultra Loyal Party to excite
a frodiag hi the working classes of society against the
Meeting. 'Among them we noticed the followingpla-
- eats*, which was posted on the walls, and freely circu-
lated through the streets:a-
LARGE- LOAN'.
" A PROCiR3IATION.—NotfoIk Fleeting of Reform,
Mac I I, 11524.
.; What is the purpose of the Meeting?—To keep op
High Rents, and raise the Price of Bread.
" What is the greatest benefit to the people of Eng-
land ?—What the Poor now enjoy—a large Loaf, which
needs no Reform.
" God save the King."
At an early hoer a considerable member of persons
bail assembled in the Castle Yard. At half-past eleven
o'clock the tipper part of the Hall was crowded by land-
holders and farmers of the most respectable appearance,
who had made their way through the Castle. At twelve
o'clock the High Sheriff (Si.' R. P. Joddrell, Hart) en-
tered the Court, trail was received with loud applause.
The body of the Mall was then thrown open, and was
immediately filled in every part. •
%Vomit's:tuts, Esq. M.P. far the Coma.. hewing
made his appearance in the side gallery, was eeceived by
a mixture of grease, hisses, and cheers, the former,
however, were mach mom getters' them tbe•latter. 't'he
. Ilonoaraisle Genthemait received this salutation with the
utinnat good humour, bowing and nodding occasionally
to different persona in the crowd. There bad for several.
minutes before twit been a cry of " Adjourn into the
open air, adjouro into the open air." This cry
came so lond as to prevent any thing else from.'
heard la the Halls
The Hunt tincture said. a wialr was expressed by
prunes present to adjourn to the Castle Hill. All hi
. hail to say, as far aw regarded himself, was, that be Wee
really to inert thi wi,bes of the freeholders as far att•
eeimisiently. with Ids duty.—(Applanse.)-7
should theeeftret leave It to the Meeting to decide w
titer they Weald Odjogrowe ,not. Bet if they dill, Ise
trusted the same pa ' order and regularity worild rj
preserved without as withie the walla el.tbat Court ,e 4
(Loud cries of " adjenres adjourn,' mixed with widen
lie/rend groaning.) • • I
Mr. 0. Wertiox said, from the conduct Ribes, pee}
sent, one would be led to imagine, that ipstead of maim
bling to discos, with caltnaess and intportfellt, the qua..
lien of Reform, they bad met together.foc PhiPme
only Of ilifermapting tbe Meeting. and abeeing certaia
ndi viduale.;—(tiroans.) —lle called open Bonet* act Hie
rational meo, like freeholders, con:mu:nu of the valise of
their Illiasiies, and &axiom to sappert• them.—(lle
nisi was still anitioned.)
The Amu Beitatre said he understood It to be the
wish 'if the Meeting that no adjmirentent should take
*re, he there twat not such a crowded 'esseinblage as to
reader it necessary.—(C ries of no, ap!)- 4
• A general cry of " Mr. Coke," Jas now *ova
•• it having been at length seed this. that Awl.
plan was approaching. lead cheering leek .pleree. Mr
.olce at length made his appearauffes salmi abli cheerio*
, mid clippie & of heeds bevy.. lomter, sod were tope
imaltemed than those we remember to have witaessed eit
• wiry M.d (missies' there were aloe one or two Ideas%
The errierd -was so 'eery dense that Mr. Coke. notwities
etaltiling the enxiely or all present to make way for U,
ex perieseid gnat difficulty in taking his place gear the
cliair: 'Loin' cries of " adjourn" werexbill kept ap iq
tLe holly of the Hdl.
111r.,Coxi esilioyOureitto obtaia p btpryp lank Bei
shouts and gr."l4, q(the meeting, mingle/ terWt trine!
" adjourn,"-- dereurpes the lise.assiiimmis't
voice.
The liter Ssmatre.nlmermiditthat if didb, war net
maintained; it would be inspeMlble to proceed I. Mss
business of the day. finless Atom was molehills' be
should fret it his ditty to order the Court to be cleared
of all therm who were not freeholders of the connty.
Mr. Come here handed to the -High Sheriff a letter
from herd Suffield. accounting. as the Hon. Geodesist',
Mated, for'the absence of that Noble Lord.
• Alderman THURTELL endeavoored to obtain shearing,
• but the climour continuing in the body of the Court, he
was obliged to give up the attempt.
Mr. Coxa (after consulting for a moment with the
High Sheriff) again came forward. If the Meeting
would only attend to Line for two minutes, they would
find that their wishes were about to be complied with.
Their Worthy thigh Sheriff hail obligingly determined
111 adjouru the Meeting into the open air, and it would,
therefore, be held on the Cattle 11111.—(Cheers )
The Hiatt SHERIFF then declared the meeting ad-
journed for half an hour, for the purpose of riving time
for making the necessary arrangements for holding the'
°reefing out of doors.
At half-past one o'clock, two carts having bees pro-
vided for the accommodation of the speakers— •
The Hiatt Sesame addressed the meeting as follows :
—A requisition, o:ntlemen, having been addressed to
one by inch a numerous body of freeholders, among
whom are the names of those so pre-eminent for rank,
uobility, and talent—the names also of these not less,
pre-eminent for respectability of character is private life,
rind equally devoted to the best principles of the Consti-
union, to take into consideration the propriety of peti-
tioning Parliament for %Reform in the representation
of the people, I have felt it a duty incumbent epee as.
and, indeed, have with much pleasure come from newel
expressly Mr that object, to meet the wishes of do vs.
quisitionnds. by convening a meeting of the county apse
a suljert of such great importance—a subject. Gentles
met:, which opens so large a field of dissertation, toot.',
though a friend myself to freedom of debate in popular,
assemblies like the present, when constitutionally met
together, sod constitutionally conducted; h it la'
by the voice and consent of the people only: that the
higher authorities can he upheld and maintained; yet I
am sore that in this instance. I need not remind yoe of
the expediency. and indeed necessity, of strictly 401.1
tiering to time letter of the requisition ; and, after tits
numerous meetings that have been so lately, so generally, ,
and, I truer, so beneficially held in the respective Has- I
deeds of this extensive county, under the sanction of the
31agistrary, upon another subject which equally affects •
you all, bat irrelevant to the present phrport, I hope
that no extraneous topics of discussion, as l must ob-
serve at some of those meetings has been the ease, will,'
in this instance, be so introduced; because were that to
/wallowed, I believe I should be the first to transgress, by
taking this opp6ttilnity of making a few ob ions
upon the situation in which I now stand plated. I am
sure also I need not remind you to conduct the proceed-
ings of the day temperately, candidly, and dispassion-
ately, which will be the best and the only mode to pro-
mote the object of the meeting, and to secure a fair and
impartial hearing to those gentlemen who now wish to
come forward to offer their sentiments, of whatsoever
political tendency they may be, upon a question of such
vital import to the liberty of the subject, sad the general
welfare of the country. But I really feel that I have al-
ready been trespassing too much upon your time, being
fully sensible that it is my province rather to listen than
to speak ; I shall not therefore detain this meeting for a
moment longer, than to request that the terms of the re-
quisition be now read by the Sub-Sheriff.
Tb. Unlit& &tuner (tiro. Wymer, Eq.) read the