The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-05-06 00:00:00

whore elute head. Taxation wit 14e cause
lie Petits. Whieplice they might for
of public griurseces,-thie was the seared of evil s.
mast et last be grappled with. All their ingent
distinctions—all. the State sophistry which s
hroueht into exercise for the purpose of -disliking
the truth, might be reseired into the aimed* seeplea,
thet.a standing army .wu oecessary to a House Of'
Commons, and a MAW of Commons was necessary to
a standing array... - He wee ant wearqueinted with the
'Until of ithreeatine a certain live of politics in
private life ; bet no ohstaeles, he etittld assure them,
weeldprereet MS from pursuing that path which
ressehn, truth, sod justice pointed out to him. He
was *troy to observe the apathy of the land-owners of
. ibis great comity on the merit occasion. If it wai
their disposition to act with indifference
.on the pre-
seat crisis, and act up to the letter of their former
pledge, let them take the consequence of their coodact.
Taxation, it war evident to all, was the great evil, and
the remedy. reduction. How was the remedy to be
obtained? Ay Parliament; and • oily by a reformed
House, because no other bad the iodisation to do
. it. The enemies of Reform complaieedlliat they
wtre without aplan; to which he would say, would.
they adept a plan of:Reform if it etas proposed ? lie
for one could not he put off with thit objection. His
• pian was reedy. In the drat place he would shorten
the duration of Purlian4ats ; and next, would throw
open the boroughs to all iebabilaut householders pay.
•iug. scot and lot. This was the old constitutional aye.
tee, sad every charter against it wit in Aikidos of
tow, ana_theeefore.aull. It was said ghat ehesitsform-
:sus bad no odor object than to pull deign the fabric of
:the Gesseitatiee. He would vindicate:the Reformers
-Dom such a cherge. He begged to ask, If the foul-
!unsex were removed, and the rubbish cleared away,
witsicbof our iestitatioes would be the worm? 'Let
. them. look at Westminster Abbey: a skirt time elaht
it was eleaned•aed purified from the dust "Ala bed ael
lung deferred its veserabli monuments. Was that so-
cleat Oh rendered less firm, or had it become* lent*,
tered4 &eject to mankind, by the process ?. If, thee;
•Iselnitstf, the cobwebs and fool accumulations dot de:
:filedhosse of oar most valuable .4 astitethas were ew;
esoitelthas there sot rues to lope that the eslitiN
woad be seeb as all good :men would approve? 'Of
'theses Institutions, Ise, as a lawyer, was ready to admit
that the most oppressive engine ever employed over a
.peopie was the power Invested in the hands of the
Cituseellor. The object of the Reformers (to use the
simple leeguage of his Grace the Duke of Bedford; hi
.the *bonsai speech alluded to by the worthy aide;
man) was to secure to the King his prerogative; to eW
Peers their privileges, but to the 'people also thole
rights. Every man he thought bound to woo fere
ward at this moment; sad he considered that, to libel
rational man, there could be no greater inducement' to'
demand a Reform of the House of Commons than the
simple answer to this question .—Why am 1 not able
to live on the (rails of my own industry?—(Great ap-
. planar.)

" Dlr. Western and the Friends of Liberty in Essex."
Sir Wm. Mtontssex proposed that this toast be
drunk with three times three.

The CSAIIRUAN observed that the company would

• no dnulst recollect hew muds the county of Suffolk was
indebted to Jr. Amer. fM `is obasrvatious is the

liaise a Cow.. upon the presentation of their late
County petidon.
The Una's& tan said he bad now to propose the
health of a Gentleman whom he was then happy to see
present, whose exertions in behalf of those nefortu-
nate Wichita's subjected to the ex °pie lash of the
Attorney-General, emitted him to the approbation of
his country. With respect to the merits of those par-
ties it was not his intention to say any thipg, but the
company oronla agree with him is considering that, In
common with the rest of the country, they owed much
to the individual who had vindicated the Constitution
and the Law with so much energy and success. He
then proposed the " Health of Mr. Henry Cooper, and
the tedepesdence of the Bar."—Three times three.
Mr. Hexer Coorce expressed his thanks in the
wannest terms. He bad come there without at all
an.icipating the Opal compliment with which be
Lad jest been honoured, otherwise he shouNl base en
deavonred to have prepared himself to odic his thanks
in a more suitable manner. lint though he bad not a
speech by heart. he would assure them that what be
worth' say should come from his heart. The compli-
ment was the more welcome, homes he hoped he
might knee himself with the belief. that they thought
be was one who belonged to a professions, which,
though stained by the characters of some whom he
bad is his mind. he should ever think it an honour to
belong. The Chairman had done him hut justice in
saying. that the exertions which he bad made in fa-
vour of the unfortunate persons alluded to, arose ex.
elusively out of as anxiety for the maietenanee of con-
stitutional law. lie eared sot who the person was
that demanded his advocacy ; he would ever be ready
to come forward mud use ids best eudtavoems In favour
of the individual through whose sides the Constitution
was endeavoured to be attacked. Ile held asnougbt

the hireling efforts of those who dealt oat their abuse
without any other provocation than this, that the ob-
jects of their slanders had laboured in the cause of
justice and humanity, and sacrificed their time and
attention to the care of unprotected property. The
hostility of such persons---may, even the most 'ices-
does expression of their hatred, should never tarn
. him to the right or the left. It was impossible for
him to forget the great subject that had called them
together. viz. a Reform of Parliament. He begged
also to say for himself, as his Learned Friend had
done, that he was exempted at least from the chug.'
of not knowing what he mast when be asked for Re-
forms. He would be contest to take any thing in the
shape of a boos—lie would eves accept triennial Par
-
denims, if so other *sedition would do; be would
endeavour to bring about the great object by degrees,
and begin at the lowest grade. Their enemies spoke
of the horrors of revolution—he would say that at that
instant they were is the horrors of • revolutimt He
would s2y that they were experiencing the horrible of-
frcl* of a res'Alllios fro* die &stein; t constitution of the
country ;and he took pride that it sag be---such an hum-
ble individual as hinsself—aad those who, like him. were
anxious for reform, that now sought to check the pro-
gress of i tioa. and made oar institutioas in
their ancient state. If it were in his power to carry
into effect • plata of Reform, it would embrace t►e
following three points—First, he would exclude from