The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-06-06 00:00:00

POOR LAWS' .4MRNINIIRATT BILL.

country, respectfully sot
It be applied to thine evils,
truly powerful by reigning
Over , hearts subjects. They state bow mulch
their grittily. the 'ligation of Portugal was augmented,
at dating that the King, who possessed the disposi-
tion to make them all happy sad contented, *as yet
defierred the power. They wish, however. to draw a
veil over the past, and to tare to the bright prospects
of the future-4 Ring adored by his people, and both
untied under a fret constitution, by the lease:ice of
disinterested hesitate bn one side, and a sincere sense
of gratitude an the other.
After the business for which the meeting Ohs con-
vened had terminated. addresses of thanks were Teo-
posed by A. N. Peaks Esq., to the Editors of the ben%
tido Bras:Mesas, PortlfflteS, and Campote, for
their writings in support of constitutional 'disciples,
and carried amidst loud acclamations. The Editors
severally acknowledged the honours conferred on
them ; and the meeting, after voting thanks to the
Chairman, dissolved.

ELECTION OF:4COMiIiarCOCNCILMAIN
I4)R ALDERIBOATR WARD.

of the inhabitants of the ward
purpose of electing a
tn of D. Kay, Esq. de-
Chair, and opened the
speeds,
!r. IYalton as a can-
ward, took the occa-
, pay the memory of their
late esteemed representative, Mr. Kay, who had been
cut off by an apopletic fit. The speaker represented
Mr. Walton ass gentleman of constitutional principles,
and one who, as an advocate of retrenchment, was highly
tit for the situation. The speaker called upon the ward
to give the gentleman a trial until the nest St. Thomas's
Day, when Ise would render up his accounts.
Alr.Smyrit seconded the nomination.
Mr. WELLS said, he felt himself imperiously called
upon to make a stand for the independence of the ward,
by putting in nomination a man who was known as a
friend to freedom and of genuine constitutional princi-
ples. les the course of his speech he took occasion to
Animadvert upon the monstrous combination v.hich, he
4sitl, was forming to destroy the liberty of the press.
The e‘istenee of such an inquisitorial rombination, he
considered a disgrace to the country. Ile was led into
these observations by seeing one of their fellow inha-
bitants present, un whom this mushroom society had en-
deavoured to lay their fangs. Ile concluded by putting
Mr. J. Diggens in nomination, as a man well worthy of
their choice.
Mr. C. Coanott.o said he should not perform his duty
as a citizen, and as a friend to the independence of the
warsl, if he were to abstain from supporting Mr. Diggens
wbbsis he bad known intimately fur the last *22 years as a
man of independent principles. Such men were valna-
able In ibises like these, when ultra-loyalists were com-
bining to destroy every thing that was dear to them as
men and citizens.
The show of bands being taken, was declared to be in
favour of Mr. Digger's.
Upon this declaration Mr. WALTON said, that he had
been put forward by his friends, and after the show
which hail been made, he would not agitate the Ward
by entering into a contest, therefore he would decline
opening the poll.
Several friends of Mr. Walton resisted Isis resigna-
tion, and by their advice Ise waa inrlnced to rescind
Isis sleclaratoilsel .•
For Mr. Walton, fies-4tr. Diggen* 42—Majority for
Mr. Walton, 21.

BRIDGE-STREET' ASSOCIATION.

MassioN-Hocsa.—Yesterday Mr. PARKINS, the Ex-
Sheriff, waited upon the Loan Mavon at the Justice
Room, as his Lordship was perforating the public choirs
of the day, and stated that lie had an application to niake
to hini of the most serious nature. Mr. PARKINS stated,
that himself and other citizens had obtained the know-
ledge, and had seen at ith alarm, the growth of a mon-
strous Association, which he had from it.: origin con-
ceived to be illegal; and petceiving its growth to as-
snow a most dangerous character, he had sonic days
since taken the opinion of Mr. Thrackrav, a barrister of
considerable research, who at once declaied it to be an
Association contrary to the Statutes, and in fact con-
trary to the Common law of the land. Two lawyers of
great learning had since this spoken of the Association
in question in the House of Commons, but it was not
until Monday last that one of them had described it as
an illegal combination within the Statute. Seeing that
the combination was increasing, he thought it his duty,
as a subject and as a citizen, to apply to his Lordship
for warrants to apprehend the most active Members of
the Confederacy, that the penalty of the law might be
visited upon them, and that by the examples made of the
ring-leaders, ignorant persons might be eantioned against
being entrapped into an Association, which they would
tind to their surprise to be both illegal and unconstitu-
tional. He farther stated, that it was for the want of
mature arrangement, and not from any doubt as
to the illegality of the combination, that he bad
not made a ntoch earlier application to his Lord-
ship to put the law is force in a summary man-
ner agaiust the Confederacy, which bad assumed
the name of the " Constitutional Association." lie had,
he said, upon the present occasion, retained the Learned
Counsel, who would state to his Lordship the grounds
of the applicatioa.
Mr. Titles's! said. Ise grounded the application for
warrants to apprehend the individuals as being Mem-
bers of an Association under the Act of the 39th of
Om the 3d, cap. 69, sec. 2, against illegal associations.
There were three points upon which he founded the
application against the body complained of. The
first was as being contrary to the Act, in setting forth,
subscribing to, and publishing a declaration not re-
quired by law, and which had not been registered at the
office of the Clerk of the Peace in the manner or form
required or directed by that statute. The second point
upon Which the application was founded was, that the
Association formed part of a branch Society as for-
bidden by, and within the intent of the Act. Upon
this point lie cited the declaration of. the Society, to
which it was stated that it had been determined "to
I adopt a system of correspondence with those members
I who live at a distance, and with such Associations as
I may be willing to co-operate in promoting the same ob-
jects,"lke. The third point upon which he proceeded
was, that the parties against whom they applied for'
I warrants, formed a portion of a Society, the whole of
whose names are not known to the Society at large. He
read over the names of several anonymous correspon-
dents—Nil desperandinos pro liege et Lee. P.J.P. r.
Sic. kc. He argued upou the above points, and com-
ments' epos the Section of the Act, which is to the
following eifect:—" And every Society, the members
whereof shall take, or in any manner bind themselves by
say oath or engagement, on becoming, and in consequence
of being members of such Society, and every Society. the
members whereof shall take, subscribe, or smut to, any.
test or declaration, not required by law, or not authorised
is any manner herein after mentioned, and every Society,
of which the names of the members, or any of them,
shall be kept secret from the Society at large, or which
shill bate any Consopittee, so chosen or appointed, that

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preriste the fall value of inculcating among the and the Sovereign bosom*
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