The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-11-22 00:00:00

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WEST RIDIIIa.
[MOM 'rat LtED4
Lest Th•istley, • fIuNIIMOIIII t
log at the Magistracy, Dopey
Gorary, end of kyr Inhrbitar•
Om county of Yetis, was '

Wakefield, to consider of .
testifying she groaned* of the
•nd eolooble 'rime. of Esd'

typo et his removal from

never Morons irleaesood so

seta of rook. prolAwy, and
sad, is It o'clock. 11 soon
only red of shot 'specious f•
which wsll deneele frost

1111•4 to owerlowiso. Ili Goasiry,
Ihnekeleivis; it'd oilier

frost eating, mit of the

hooded to this division of the v.soty.
Os the motion of Mr. Ssot•rt 4uoar, of %mei.
brook. seeonde4l be Mr DtUARY,—
Iloom l'Amosst, Esti. sots c.ited to the Chair, sod
said—'• Cestlemenottere is n.. period alibis my re-
collection, whereto the West Rifts' otobe enmity of
Yntk bus been worn tel ass hod) distioct from tbo

county et luxe; bet this was norosstry, In the pre-
sent InVence, fens the %asp nature of our Meeting,
which, being convened for the express pupse .f
deliberatiog upon the propriety of making ear WY
kelowledgenen to ke red F.tswilliant. for Milan ado
winistration, as Lend Deatenent .the Riding, toos4
of Coarse, be enn6o^J to as! (horde. es., which hih
jurisdiction 'vended. Ilesi-g thus, Gentler/ow,
operted to you tie Went, sod explained the precise
object of the Meetiog, I tress 1 may indulge the hope
that in disco -sing our Vote of Thinks, we shall!
strictly c 0,41.10 oorselves to that win+, and mil di-
gests to any other topic, more especially any petty
p ter, which v disturb that Alimony and unanimity
of settlement which it is so desirable to preserve. if
such vote be determined open. Whittler may bode
opinions entertrioe-1 is the riding. with regard ,• the
remora, of F.-el Foloilliam from the high and ie.
pnr•aelt se3.itin be held, I mod deprecate all discuel
doe upon this riots, as foreign to the declared hie
leadsw of the 111. genie. We are not, Gentlemen,
out hem as a party, bet as a riding; and our objeet.l
sod only object, in it Is view is, to fluids. whether
the services nt our late hovel Lieutenant have or have
out any clams upon our ark nooletigmenos, seed if
they have, then to determine upon what may lose to
us
the proper way of expressing them.
Mr. VULLESTiell.—Gentloools, I SO perfectly COS.
limed tint all of yin know he. to appreciate the
vaned* services of Lrd Fitz Advent. Too period
dories which he has acted as Lord Lieutnant has
been a most *motel nor. At the time when be was
at ponied, it was eventful indeed ; and he was weir.
thy of the high sense is which his services wefts esti-
mated by the country. In every single actin* which
he pest/weed as Lord•Liemont, during the whole
tone of his centi its rdice, be bas aerated to
himself the regard, the e.teem. the love, and the ve-
neration of she West Klaling.—((:heere )—Lord
Fitseilliam entered on his Age greatly esteemed soil
perfectly independent ; he retires from his Are more
than esteemed—beloved, decidedly and deservedly he-
intlepoodeut es when he lest took it
—(Lend cheering)--sod deeply end generally re.
vetted. I ought to spotlight to you for spans
on this occasion ; bet I eel, took this vesolotio•
front my Mends' espreesly on the condition that I
should he eaceeed detaining yea for any length of
time. I will read the Resolution, which lem sure
you most be ansioss to bear.
The lire Resolution was then read, mod smiled
with lead applause.
Jaws C. RAIODIII, E.q.--Gentleoneo, it is le-
weenie, with the feelings which I have. Cot to con-
sider why it is that the West Riding of Yorkshire
has been deprived of the services of Lnrd Pitswilliam.
—(Cheers.)- That Is to me a mystery ; end that se-
cret I want to eorstel.—(Cleers.)—lt is well
known to you all. Gertlemeo. that Lord Fitswilliam
was appointed to that office at a time when a neigh-
bourly' country was to a state of ferment, as • it
permits to hold it in those ding times. That
was ;Tweeds oft•enty years ago ; and he has held
it op to this time; and I appeal to you, Gentlemen,
whether he lies not held it oonstitetioaally, and in a
way which has tended to the happiness end peace of
the coroty.—(Cieers.)—Alikoogh I should be
sorry to do any thing which could disunite these
Graduate' whom I es stoned me; sad I em happy
that, in the one greet point, our sentiments are ell
nearly alike; yet, Gentlemen, I teasel help eking
myself why Lord Fitswillien has been removed free!
his situation? Is it that the Prince Regent's MAY
torthate thought that Earl Fitsoilliest—that a mot
of his not, situation, and above all his charectort!
ass net to be trusted in any way by any Ministate!!
ffet,Crentlemen, I thick that this is not the case ;lot It
metes ma suppose that ninnies are shoat to be
adopted, which it was considered Lord Fitc•illiam
Mold not he a party to,—(Cheers.)—Gontlomen,
are keno what has passed, not only in this county,
bet throve the *hole constry, end that our aimed,
etormotas military establisher's! is to he ieeressed bP
S* Wes that, 11,000 snee.—(flecrs—one voice called
Order, and immediately exclynalions of hear bies-.1,
Go on, bent frosts ell parts of the disseinbly.)-1
Crudest., if measure. are shoot to be adopted
Which law would not acknowledge, it it vouch better
that she from of this Mwty should be Placed I.
other hoods then those of Esti Fitzwillism: for
know, fall well, he would be the last man to sp.!
prove of soy power, or to acknowledge soy power, !
pommelled to that of the lAns.—(Load dines.)
—Ti. isms of the land we have long lived under,
god happily ; but we ere- Nene of as yet prepared!
to-believe, net the law will not be strong enough
to couotersct the evil designs of its ettrudes.
believe it will; I trust it wills it is the duty Of

tiles, days, to iiiMeh she &slags of
' see that the aro peolsbed as.
law, sod According to so Akar.
iblakiws that Lard
frost hie WWI botaesosttoptges
. a haodoptod—for .at rev'sows
post& nose Soossio to be pissed 14
rboimi duty It is to contrast ibwao
ensaissalschief. It is well boor" shot
is sweaty woold sever be wriffled
way this It always Is. Soso by
1 s. cooed'.', led•sda—way, I
rialf—iliat, IP Ma Moods it has pow
bold bit separated as ferny, if la
Taft to Massif to ropoisot It. Bet
as, pow 411011 s to bares swijoieya
--uwar, ewe we Awl boob the

, titat 'nisi/ will prebably be snide.
enoegb of glees begs ;—(cliders)—we
.
knew eke comfits/len and foreseeing of thew—,
( !leer !)—We kilos that the cements of them eft
seek sod Indy as the &stoney of Slate chianti ib
pet in.—(Neer, Ater I)—Wis feign, Imo., tilet
certain Wen have bees left oat of then beak, vein
preen:oaf Wiles misplaced ;sad to speak morepidbh
Iy—letters from the Lord Limseesseet of ibis WAWA
-P(Ckeers.)—Gieileasee, I wish to know, wbetberi
einneity of that sort will satisfy the coentri? I '
;teepwet; beeves* enquiries of tins Were should
ee that
as tt entry wag might perceive the mei.
e:
, sod decide en the fact. I hive takes up tee
mooch of the linif of Ibis Meeling; bet I felt it would
ant be honest is me got to fawn those feelings
which base brag winked forcibly is my oiled.—
(Cicero.)
1.14 CMAIRSIMI thee pet the Resolution, whisk,
was carried without coo dissentient voice.
Lord Swanton —Gentlemen, in proposing the
wood Resolution, which has been jest pet into my
hyoids, I embrace this oppostenity, in the face of this
Meeting and of the coiner?, to teseify my personal
attachment to Lard Ei.swilline, end et the same lime
my profound veneratio• for his private virtues and
his public coadect.—(Gbeere )—Gentlemen, after
the rebate which teeny of es have received is the per.
see of the late Lord Ileetenaset, it might to some
peewee appear were becalming in es, his accomplices,
LI le neon. oith becoming humility the chasti‘ement
wbich his Majesty's Ministers base lhooght it to in.
liet.—(Chem.)—Bet, Gentlemen, these are sot my
lifelines; I conceive, on else roguery, that those Mi.
miners who have so beefily approved of the events
erbkit took place et Westchester, have hoovered us,
by shrn•ing on Lord Fitaisilliase and em ourselves
the lean of their dieeppeobetioo.—(Gieere.)—l
most, for myself, soy, that I think, in the parses of
their defender they have trampled • snood time on
the libartiel of the earn! sf,(Ckeers.) —Were I
to sheer eel of Peery clan of society the pelts. most
hoonotable sod most honoured— wets I to select him
from that Hoes, of which boa..; is the ~see—that
bidividitleal is Lord Fitswillisse. From the base to the
pianarle of our pantheon of henner,its int ornament
I ie the same of Fitswilliass.—(Cheers.)--Bet though
they base Dot bees abbe to dkgrace their Aker, they 1
have disgraced their ollice.—(Cketes.)—lteiss beset-
forward, in my espied°, st least, they have pet open !
it their badge of Ministerial sonitude.Whoever holds
, it forfeits the right of an Indepeodest Freeholder.—
(cfscers.)—l shall acknowledge, led be the first see
toeckno•ledge, that the Sevety% is the feentais of
h ,• bet them is • still ambler honour for the
earn, who in dificult times does Model to his cotto-
ny. The Sovereign is the fowled' of mercy too •
but it appears to so bat the i•deceet aid iodine's;
—I will sot yet say the guilty harry—with whisk hie
Ministers approved certain events, has done more Ise
hostile those Royal foreteine of mercy and honour,
Nee has bete dose by the worst of his predecessors
for a cemetery preceding.—(Lewd edger..)—lt seems
es if they were instigated that the morel sheet/'
sympathise with the physical world, sad that tbe 1
salutary streams of Royal fawner should fail with the
general drought of the wastee.—(Cieers.)—But they
tell as, though the medium of their public prints,!
that they can no longer confide its Lord Fite.'
willies. Whoa they have found a man of mote
disinterested patriotism ; of more unblemished MP'
tegrity ; move attached to the liberties mid Ike
happiness of the reentry ; more devoted, if they
like the Orin better, to the real interests of tin
Crown—for, is my hatable opinion, the rest iete.l
tests of the Crewe and the people are bleetiledlgo
when they kayo foaled sech • wise, let his be flea.;
dared woethy to soppiest Lord Fitteilliellh.
(Chem )—For his soccener, I am bore to say that'
I bops I share le his frieedskip; for his private fin.
lees I have perfect esteem ; for his character it may
be compered-..end I rennet say mere for the charac-
ter of agy was--with Lord Iritawillism's. Bet,
Godliest., I certainly diler with hies in polities.-
i &geld like to en some seers iodated for the pee. '
Se, es well as trophies of fidgety in the service if
,the Cross.—(Cheering.)—ls the *seeks of the
people (I think, bet I de net speak with certain,.
end therefore wish Mildewy) his maiden swnrd itl
yet endts•e.—(Cheers.)—But, Gentlemen, I ens.
'foss ir,ll believe his motives to be es patens ley owe.
Gentlemen, let us net deceive ourselves; we certain-
ly bass lived is chilliestt limes; we haw. seen in our
day anarchy and atheism, is ohs language •of ens
of their popular and favourite sits, absolutely steep-
Ing the soil of their native coontry with the best
the purest, and the most patriotic blood of Fence;
sad I think then caresses have predersti some.
thing like a re.actio• at home. It has made
people, whose breasts were formed in the British
mould, IN iadelgent to the reercise of power, sad
too apprehensive of the energies of the people. The
madness of an imposters liberty abroad has made them
wish to canine their people at home In a stint waist.
cost. But, Gentlemen, our business en the present
occasion is to ssisrlas,l t' • conduct, the long-tried
Merits of lord Vile est:ism, cot to prejo,l;c the coo-

auks of al:sirreieseer ; aed I lave oily one moo ob.
seleailetS ;ids shish to trouble yea. In wheleeer
alisoem, tp. asiy.thish it to testify your greliterle fir
' the gin iervfees of Led Filiwillises, or ;mot respect,
iserritims, nod foie for his perm. sod chpeneterw I
plink, in rbelity, yes are treitobliag yeerielies. Pere
haps I speeklbe feelings of massy, thoesh not of all
the Gentle Mere eilatintsled, *hen I NJ, the. wimp
we tote meet mobilises of polthoesoes or Arouse
repetatisio, I sir no higher limos to orld# 11,00
aspire, than that in the battles ettdch the Igobio teed
has Night for the Ilbertiel of the ceeetry, wit shield
be fined lighting by. his side.—((heert.)— I return
you thanks fir themermay with eisich you have beard
U., and eseciede with gapeolog the Remission whisk .
I WM% fey blood. (Ills Coidohip then read the mend
Reselatioei IA ceedided amidst essibusiaaffe sp.
plume.]
J. 11. ffiseta, Esq. M. P. for Camitridge.—
Gentienew, I cone for ward to mated the Revelation
le.t reel to yee. This Resoled's appetite a ammo
vary cossequeeei of the hut I that espressos the
(ranged Wean of the hireling for the 'Valiant of the
Lord.Lheetentet, tad the present taprooms oer deep
sod anfrissed regret for his removal. In addressio.
you on this occasion, I feel some di/levity—met
widest from a fear of not obtaining yew consent to
this Resolution, bet from a fear of 'not being alga
pertly t • restrain the thpressits. of my feelings se
the traosactiese which is the occasion of this Miele&
—(Cheers.)-1 tele, highly the advestage of sago
shy en this occasion : far belt from me to disturb that
asininity. At the new tier, I trest,l may Wallowed
to repress my feelings on the gees:ion. I Ira heard
of the dismissal of Earl Fitt Allem with nefeigeed
'tupelo and regret; and is ell my subsequent the
lectiorta so It, those feelings hive not abated. When
I think on Lord FilsWilliern, daring the long eel
eventful period in which he hes held tbs Mice of
Lord Lieutenant for this (tiding; when I think
on the affability of his manners to all el f per-
sons, on hie indefstlable teal in the 'secedes of
the order§ of di Crown, in the business of this
Riding, to which on many occasions be has secriffeed
his time, his cloaks', asd teen hk health, I cannot
het regret his dismissal exceediogly. Bet I like.
take revel It as a pettlic measure. What, I would
ilk With Mr. Beastly's, are shoe wiesseres:whlch
rote of the firmest independence aril the highest
honour are not fit to esemite? IL cs.onnt kelp.
wondering and being amszed, that soy Minister
should be Nand Mho email take an espression et
the Necessity of a public enquiry into soy events, as et
lift• proceedies free a No sigma. ie. a *natio. of
high tree, mewls* hie suit foe the service of lbw
Crews, and worthy • mark of its displeaerre.---.
The conduct of Lord Fitzsillions is not a matter
of @gestation, either to es or to Ministers. Froe
his past conduct, we say judge what Lis sobseqeent
conduct, if be had remained in shier, 'meld hies
been.—(Cheers )—For my •ern part, I thiek,
if any one indisideal was more it than smother
for that office, it was Earl Fitzwiltiam.—(Ckeers.)
—Veined by peptise clamour, ..seduced by the
smiles of a Court, he was the man to form a link of
onion and coonectien —if I may so 'sprees my.
. self, to be the Minister of poses between the gee
ple and their governors.--( Lord cheering.)--
For while his tweets loyalty sad frames of character
would have afforded security to the Crows, would
hate been seicient to repress leseberdinatioe, est,
en the ether heed, his tried attachment to the eighth
of the people *mold have afforded them also a
security that they were safe eider his care—
(Cheer.)—(rots any invasion of their coestitetienal
sights and prieileges.—( Repealed cheering )—Alike
attached to the Croon and this People, he was
equally indegisdent of both. Lord Stoorton has
justly mid, that the attires!, of the two were ideetio
led, and weebe to him who would &seeks them !
(Cheers.) Oar Constitution Is Needed en the bread
basis of common rights; sod three men cannot be
, other than ~isles of the cause they would main.
tains who woold seek to dieenite the Crown and the
I people, tad who would endeavour to advance the
Iretell of the one to the reclusion of them of the
ether. Oar Constitution is formed epee the basis of
toot common fluids, end eesseqeerstly every class of
society most feel so Interest and fell•w.fectling is the
wrongs of every ether class in society.—(Cheer..)--
Therefore, Lord Fitzwilliees, in *sing his inhume
Ito promote an enquiry into the transections of IM
pith of Attlee, at Manchester, discharged his defy
to the Crown, and so lass to the Sovereign then to
the potpie. It was by so mesas my intention to
trespen aktonj nw year vileibie time; bet I could
sot timber Isieepuessany eadisgeised sentiments of a
1 traeseedon of ehith the Reeeletioo expresses deep
regret. I trust, in this.Remietion, there will be the
same unanimity as in the others end I thank you for
I eLi potence aercendoor With which you have boatel
ate.—(Conlinned cheering.) „
The second Resolotiog was the. pat by the Chair.
men, and passed seanieseesly. .
Lord Altlionr.—Gentlemen, I hovel. spologize
to you for offering myself here to year notice. My
tonne ion wiih yea is but smell, and in &distant part
of the Riding. Bet I feel so stettegly ea this apes-
don, and is contrite. with my flonoorable Friend
/be tail ad.irosiost 'so, I heard nit,' •urti regret end
I sorprim, with •...h esiouisbenent end di,belief, of
the re/horst of Earl Kusaiiii.... the* I hope my
lihellogi oill be My eaca•• for addressitor sr... It is
eatarcessary for me' in addressing a Meeting of the
West local( g of Yorkshire, to 'spoliate on his
virtues. Tina bums hie as cell or better thus I do.
Toe hare teen him alea's leading in every thing
ankh is hooornahle, plait...rattily, and good. Pro •
eidruce has blessed Ltd Fittoilliata wire ample
pomessinos, high rank, and great atatitiss. Ili'
possessions have (wen used is clirtriri..4 ...,,Its s
charity; Lis rank, in wry thi•tg gas bid 44,11 joaltiOti.
and his abilities, ire the dig:hare n; ie ir eon
schkh be on calm, on ia 11. 1,. at .4 . , e f...,

zaimizztialarilliiiiiaaiiiliilll
'G 31 E Rrtsa. i new, amok Is thee
..-- the midi., sod I
tent wintettltT i I cortliog 4 that la
roes and rwsp•etahle Meets s+l oteibre beip
Pputy -Lin tea son. Clergy., ha. ligsi itroNed
tatszi
nts of oho Wool Riding of awes are shoot
held in the Coort.hostee In Rotel be prow
of the propriety of pohlleit Perlis ' 1, *hoes
f the Ri ling. for art 101 l etoeld edsh to eree
Earerits•illieen, sad their, the tropl'etate of it
oat the Lanoteneney. We In p ore correct
nereeroes so assemblage of tarliniswilltstu.
td iellreore lo ibis Riding; irate Osage myst
son as the doors acre tepee, !Wei into,. it woo
e building, the Ceert•itottep, ,Noble Leal were 1
800 to 1000 rm.... list
.110,06 p that "111
r the Gooier, Voitoory. hood fogy treelovit
Is; lied ether Inhebliaote, einnoer to which I
P pepsins. district cosine- We 011ee had tau
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