The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-01-12 00:00:00

LOT.-IL .11 E EVNG .17' CROYDON.

A meeting of the inhal,itatit househollers of Croy-
don and its vicinity was yesterday lield in the
hall of Croydon, in order to consider of tioy prooriety
of an address to his 31ajcsty, .` expr,ssive of attach-
tuent to his Royal person and government, awl also
of a firm iktertnia.ition to support our Ire.. and invalu-
able concitution."

The meeting was called fur 12 o't lock precisely,
and at half-past 11 the doors of the hall were thrown
open for the admission of the inhabitants. In a few
minutes afterwards the hall was completely ocettnied,
and the gallery filled by a considerable camber of well
dressed and elegant females.
At 12 o'clock, Mr. Maberly, M. P. was proposed by
the iddependent part of the inhabitants ; and Mr.
Courtelay, )1. P. by the ultra-loyal party, to take the
chair. After some discussion, Mr.Uotirtenay extreme
ed his acquiescence in the appoint•rleat of Mr. AK-
berly, and Mr. M. convnte'l to preside.
It. R. WAIIKIN tvrox, Esq. then came forward, and with
a preface of the usual kind, proposed a loyal address.
aittlresss was subsequently read. After many
expressions of attachment to his 31aiesty's mild and
paternal government, it praceed d to assure him of
the deep regret felt by the nreetirg, that artful and
tricked men, and aided by a blast hem 'us and sedi-
tious press, should be busied in a iena ing from his
Majesty the affections of his snbje. ts, and in under-
mining their respect for the excel ent insltutintis of
their ancestors. The alders.' Con lu.lt.d by pledeing
the meeting to oppose every attempt made tip inflame
or delude the public mind, and also to maintain in-
violate the respect due to the Government of the
country.
Josern REID seconded the motion for the
adoption of this address.---(Cries of No, no.)
Mr. Wootadt opposed the Address which hail been
offered to the meeting, becanse he was convinced that
the country was as moral and relight is as it ever had
been, and that the horrible chaige: advanced in it
against the people of England were font and malig-
nant libels upon thous.---(Cheers.)--After many re-
marks on the ridiculous falsehood of those accusation*,
and also on the shameful purpose which they were in-
tended to effect, he concluded his speech by proposing
that'all the words of the original address should be
%thick out, and that, in lieu of them should be inserted as

Mr. TIIELIVALI. commented with consit!erahle force
',pot' the effects which the i.yal addrcsses were i n;elo.-
es! to produce, and after a srvore censure upon Miri•
stern for their comlnet duri!tz the inverigation of th
charges against her Majesty, and upon the der's- ftr
repeatiw, front their pu!pits the ca:untosies which the
Attorney General had uttered ag.kins: her in his open •
ing couid,ided hi, support to the
atio.n.lnietit, and his opposition to the address oriLi-
Rally proposed. •

A s!►ort pause then ensued, and Mr. Mannat.v was
about to put the question upon the anu•nd►nent, when
a Wog altercation toolc place relative to the perso►w
who had a right of ►oting, and the proper method of
proceeding on th.• occasion. At length the hall %I:14
cleared of those who were not householders, and the
amended address put first. when it apptared on a sliew
of hands that this Address was tarried ht• a majorit
of three to one. A di►•ision was then demanded and
exhibited a similar result.

Mr. r.EN then proposes!, and Mr. JA NI E$ seconded
the motion, that tellers should be a,spointed to count
the numbers on each side. This motion, after cousin.,
groat tumult, was negatived. Every time that the
amendment was declared to be carried. three cheer:
wile given in honour of the Queen, uith which the
ladies in the gallery sbewcd their sympatLv, by waving-
their handkerchiefs. Thanks were then voted to 31r.
Moberly, for his impartial and dignified conduct. in,
the Chair, aft • r which he returned thanks in a brief
bat appropriate speech, and declared the business of
the Meeting to be over.
Before leaving the room, the Rev J xx (017RTUN: A T
gore notice that a es tinter declaration nould be ph:roil
in the Coact below for the signature of those Wt.,
chose to sign it.—((pries of "Nliaine, shame ;
can that be awl Isool hisses.)

lIP.REPORD AtinnEss!:s.---The Inhabitants and Frre.
meu of Hereford, ha.e cured no less than lice A
dresses on the political subjects which now agitat4
this country. The first was one of Congratulation t
thy Q.seenm and signed by nearly twelve hundred per-
cons. The set.. .nil was the Address of the Ultra-
Loyalists to the King, which was rejected by a larg e
majority at a publie meeting convened by the Maymmr,
hut timmani sly agreed to aftermiXrds, in a 1)../.*l
WWI nu person was permitted to enter who did nit
promise to support it, liter great exertions in ft•in
meagre set-oti against the first Address acquired '247
signatures. The third was effected and signed by a
detachment of about nineteen only of the individuals
who hail preciously signed the' second Address, bat
Who now appeared in the third, in time new characters
of Members of time Corpouttion and Common council
of the City. The fourth was nrlnnfactured and signed
hr another detachment, of about twenty tno only,
who had also signed the Ultra Loyalist declaration,
but who signed another, as Members of the Cathedral
Church. The fifth was a loyal and Constitutional
Address to the King, assuring his Majesty of their
attachment to his person and to the principles which
seared his Majesty on the Throne, but deprecating
the general policy of his Ministers, as injurious to tl.,e
best interests of the Throne and the peop:e, and cr ri-
de-tuning particularly their proceedings against the
t,tneen, as unfounded in fact and arbitrary in prin-
ciple. This address is now in a course of signet are,
and has already received near Gut) names.
The Sheriff of Rreconshire has complied with the
wishes expressed in a Requisition, most numerously
and respectably signed, by convening a meeting of time
County, for the purpose of voting an Address to his
Majesty, condemning the conduct of his Minister,,
and urging- that no further proceedings way be taken
against the Queen.
On the 28th of Deremher last, the Incarporateli
Trades of the Bergh of Selkirk met in the Town-hat!
Clem, tool unanimously voted a congratulatory Address
to her Majesty, on the signal discomfiture of the
atrocious conspiracy against her honour and dignity ;
anti they, at the same time, unanimously voted a duti-
ful and loyal Address to his Majesty, praying hi= to
dismiss from his presence anti cosncils those hileisters,
to whose nowise and impolitic measure the ptesent
traeted situation of the eenntry is to be • attribated,--
(Svutrotga.)

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