The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-09-22 00:00:00

Si. P.4.VeR.IN EL* 17.\,;

Yesterday a 3leetingtif the I r:b:.bi•:wt. of the pa riAli
of Si. Pancras WM% held at 11.0 Sou' i,.litirtori Arms,
l:.tuhden•tuwn, to take into r..t:sider.•tion the pro-
priety of presenting an Address to her Majesty. The
%letting was most numeronsly attended : as well as
ire could estimate, upwards of ten timusand persons
o ere prese:.t ; nu inconsiderable part of this number
nas cutupuw•.l of females ut a most elegant and re-
svri.tallk apprarruer, attended, as they 1,;,‘ e been at
other meetings, by their husbands, fathers, and
brothers. The Ladies occupied temporary lint spa-
, iota, hustings erected fur the 1.CC:1t14.11. Tlie pro-
, ee,iings throitgliout were conducted with the utmost
older sail decorum.

he Chair wa. u,,t taken until considerably after
ure o'clock, when Major Cartwright, Mr. Peter
Aluure, Sir Gerard Noel, and a number of persons ofd
resrctability made their appear-am r. The venerable
Majors and those pitriotic tientlemen who accom-
paniml him, were received iiith every testimony of
popular respell and approbation.
Jlrjur (.11,.10.1t1011T was unaninionsly voted to the
hair. On taking the Chair, he said that the 3leet-
i r was assembled fur the purpose of addressing her
Majesty, and that an Address, with certain Itesulu-
tiwo, would be submitted for the approbation of the
Ladies anti Hentlenten present. Ile hoped they
w,sulal excuse him fur not sating in or, he was but
livut ly able to address them, because he came out of
a sick chair to do his dutv—(l.outl applause')
Mr. PtTlk MOORE said, that in tilt' abarnee of an
lianostrahle Friend of his, who was absent through its-
crsposition, he was requested to move the lint anoin-
t:ass. He would not detain the Meeting longer than
negessary ; he was convinced that the Ladies and
lientlemen present were as well informed on the subject
as himself. Ile would therefore be very concise. The
j.euple, thank liod, were enlightened, and to what
were they indebted for that great blessing ? To the
Fs ess--to that Press which, should it ever be put down,
the liberty of the country would be no more : to that
Trans, without whose pun-triol aid tl.e Constitution
w.subt have been lung since destroyed ; the Quer.,
would have no chance of vindicating her innocence,
Lail the people would not hate the liberty of assent-
hliug to express their public sentiments. Ile recollect-
ed reading the transactions of former periods, when
that beastly Monarch, Henry the Eighth, wished to
extinguish the Press, his 31inister, Cardinal Wohsev,
hzid this language to Sir 'I homas Moore—“ If we du
nut get rid of this Pr. 4S, this liras will get rid of us."
Tl,e Ministers of the present day might well say, that if
they could g:t rid of the Press, they could get rid of the
Woes, they could get rid of the Constitution : and the
4essis of di, people could entertain but a foo horn hope
f.. liberties of their country—(Applause)...-The Press
Lai its terrors for the tuilty, who feared the Press;
Close stlio nese guilty of corruption and of crime, bnt
ro honest man feared the Press. Truth defied it—ho-
/testi? misted it ; corruption alone fled in terror from
its blue. 1.1 much slid he venerate the Press, that if
obliged lo do so, he would part with all other etsaisti-
tatlonal protections—be irriuld part with the Trial by
Jury itself.—Dive me, said he, but the Liberty of the
and I will keep Ilse world in order, for it inspires
courage—it avionics the mind of men in the cause of
tiutls and virtue. It was but too true. that attempts
.4re.hot too often wade to influence jurors anal they
had, on a late memorable occasion, the spectacle of a
ucn-fangled jury, under one Lost of political judges.
The people knew the character of a political judge. He
v as tied down by ito rule—restrained by no obligation
inbiertlo no law—bound by nothing but his own
This, nemsfasieled tribunal, to the disgrace of the
country, of themselves, and to the alarm of every ho-
nest loan, had lately presented itself before the empire.
Hence it was, that the cause of her Majesty was the na-
tior,.l rinse ; for if this arbitrary itiliuma should de-
ride aims' her Lite, what security would thereafter be
ter the lives, the liberty, or the humour of Englishmen
—(Applausu )? What ,as the conduct of her Majesty's
accuser' ? Thee lint subject her to this extraordinary
mode '4lll3h—they collect, as it were, all the filth of
&awe, and ronilliet a prom-elation, in itself so odious,
in a manner sushaineless and so scandalous, as to bring
blushes on lii' countenances of even the most abandoned
in the kingdom. 11/meter, that otibms prosecution
had closed—all was at an en.t ; and aka was the result?
There was no partirnlar crime attributed to her Majesty.
But who was Hex' to be put on trial ? 'rite matter could
not end there—the people mint look to the results—for
every insult and injury was offend to them. Many high per-
sous talk of iltepropleiti their houses of rooshinatiori, in a
matinee neither respectful or humane--but the people were
shesowrceofal! legal/who' sty and of all legitimate power.
Corning to the *object before thrust, it nes ditfiestit to m-
pronch it, but they should call things by their right
namec ; be knew the word was indelicate. lam he could
nos Imp it. Weil then, the Queers was asks-Ned with
having carried on an adulterous isiter.ljirse -w by did
110 i the wicnser• of her 11111)..sty impute t lir crime of Allot•
ter.. at mile • --ts.eause, it they should fail to prose the
triow, they wonid be guilts' or high treason ; that ti
the diatinetnos. 'Tara had the management of 1:13 vile
▪ itifartion mite.sioncy--lbeur had gut op this I
I,siniss.,us hat. *rosy firer-0 laugh).— I
He avid iu his pt,ce in t/ig, r t otrimons on M ••-!
day NM, and he ss out', Illy repeat it.-ItaTTTre
charges Iptiro her `l..jestvlAinstet! iss a foch and
aetsrie.ts ,unspiracy. and his Majesty's Min:stees are at
the taws's,' sit it. He avowed it, and hr would not
Minch from the assertion.—(Applause.) The charges
against the Qneen were of no recent data—she had
been assailed, in some shape or other, for Vi years. liar
enemies were now armed with greater powers than be-
fore—they bad Royal power, which they had not be-
fore; they had rummaged different parts ot the world
to bring forward those base accusations—they formed a
thirty thud which would be soon dispelled. On a for-
mer occasion they seamed her of having borne and
awned a And, curd that false and infamous charge was
attempted to be supported by witnesses, affidavits, and de.
positiosa, but one single question put an end to that 'e-
nmities. Who woe the father of the child ? No us
mold tall—no one over heard of the father; so that
fluent was a child. la that cue, without a father.—(A
laugh I) It was mid by a Noble Lord the other night,
that if the remelt was a conspiracy—lt was a coupi racy
without as morph ; bat be (Mr. N.) would say, that
it was reempspirorf. but that it was sot anegaaipled ;
then was a similar coemplucy in 1806.—oppiwe.)
The rant 11Imptrary, laud, was more diScult to
prove. bet.'as lat as It was possible to detect 11—sa far
as it won poesible t. h.W It up to the movies of the
world he. of his own Itmewledes could say, that it
w Aim tioacted sad upend.—(Applausee.) The
. levemils) add. that if t were a cow
%whor to join wittottertritillilativewo.
PluedilsWe tbrili! would toble Lord was eat dais
im the
way be wield jola with es such as secallia--say