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those illiciplis and opinions whiCh e comfit
woul live been rip ee sa e d with intim. viic4r, env
ii and a ility, if the health of his ttitre Mend '
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mitered bins to attend.--(Applanse).
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ntotild hi heard wit li more favour by the meeting, #
he reininded them of a sort of claim be had on ihrit:
indtlgenie, fut having, some years ago, appeared Ite-
fork them for the pnrpoae of recommending to their
euppori that representative, whose manly, indeptila-
dent, and patriotic spirit, had poi idm, consisteittrft
inviliiibti-, steadily, and zealiktati, to watch over and
voted the best intere•ts of the people of England.-s—"
(CliCera). lie haul marked his conduct in parliament,
and he had seen him invariably opposed to those un-
happy nteastares tvhich had driven this country to its
present distressed and disastrous condition. (Applause.
!flit- were, on the present occasion, to go tbrongh
ai
the various instances which be was in a satiation tii
*Owe, in which the ministers of the crown had re:
jected the advice of their tonvitnents, had disregarded
the petitions and neglected tteltaterents of the people.
he should weary their patience and exhaust theif
time. Ministers were hitt little aware of the situation
in which they stood, when, in a ipirit of extravagant
profusion, they were indulging in an excessive expen-
diture. When they voted, anti brought the lions' of
Commons to agree in the decision that that 'deteria-
rated paper was equivalent to sterling gold ; and when
they did not hesitate to bring forward a bill, enact-
ing that that paper should cirt nice in it, deteriorated
state, they little imagined that they were working Milo
chief, the end and termination of which it was iinpus-
Sible to ealculate.---( Applunse.)--Perliaps that might
be ••ne of the mast important engines now at work, by
which the distress and iniaery under which all rank.
and orders throughout the country were now suffering.
had been produced. The agrieultnral int -rent was dis-
tressed :it was suffering beyond calculation. Tini
manufacturing interest also Was distressed ; it I.4vas
cramped and impoverished throughout the en ntrys
All this was the ctiert of the pernieir m i s syste th a bad
been so long pursued ; and he woad, he was st , ex-
hauat their patience, if he entuired into a detail 1 f the
various measures prejudicial to the happiness tittil in•
terest of the empire, fur ,chirp Ministers wet-e.wholly
responsible.--(Apylause.)- -Natuie was bountiful—the.
couinfry was rich in pro./nee, hat the population of
the country, on the contrary, was poor and inieerable.
---(Applatise.)--The people, the suffering andsigoaded
people of England, iv!io had gallantly and patiently
entorea all privations. who had submitted to a long
series of evils, in the hope of a better alid more
peaceful time, were wholly neglected and de,
spised. They had honestly. temper:oely, and loyally
state I their grievances w Parliament and Minister;.
The Minister, hod itiJimil resoived their pelitioncand .
heard their complaints ; but they hail disregarded
them, they hail rejected them, esey had despised them.
This total disregard of the petitions of the people had
led the people to discontent—to, he would say, josti-
fiable discontent.—(applause.)—That discontent Mi-
nisters were linable or unwilling to control by concili-
atory methods, and they met it aid. the instrument usC
tyranny, an increased military establishment.-41:11e; ra
anti hisatot.)--Ile was not one who thought that Ow
government of the country could exist wit liont a strong
controlling power; but every object of controllina-
powee mild he effected by gaining the hearta 411 a 1, ea
• and willing people. There was no need of incurring
a heavy expense in order to support a military power
to control a friendly and willing people. This was
one of the greet casiwa of the present distress. With
respect to Ministers, they appeared not to have been
unmindful of their own interests, however careles:
they might be of those of the people. W /letterer the
I,,neetion of reform in Parliamettt (to which he had
ever been attached) tv.i. wctilione.i in Parliament,
they bad rejected it with disdain. Whenever they.
hail been detected in practices subversive of freedom
of election, they hail sheltered themselves under the
notoriety of such practices ; and their friends and aii•
herente, if they could nut si.yr them from all censure,
at all events shielded them from the punishment which
I they deserved.--(Cheers and hisses.)--If thole geri.
Omen who did him the boaour of directing their at-
tention towards him by their hisses, would have the
goodness hereafter to answer what he haul asserted;
to deny the beta which he bad stated, to disprove, fur
instance, that Lord Castlereagh was, on the motion of
Mr. Madocks, absoluely convicted of selling seats in'
Parliament ; if they would deny the fact, and contras
teat his conclusion, he would hear them with great.
patience, and treat thesis in a manner very different
from that which they had manifested towards him...—
(Cheers.)---He was stating that Ministers were Ihls
regardless of their own interests. They knew
whence they derived their power; they knew that it
emanated from the Crown ; and, therefore, they
showed that they were constantly ready tudend theta-
selves to the Crown, particularly on a late occasion,
which had excited the indignation of the people, and
I drawn forth the strongest expression of national iten-
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Aiment and feeling from every part of England.--
(Cheers.)—They well knew that the Queen was not a.
pleasnrable object to the King ; and, knowing this,
they conceived that the best way of gaining favour in.
the eyes of his Majesty, was, to receive information
furnished by Hanoverian at cuts, by Italian spies, and•
unknown traducers.--(Applanae.)--They adopted the
Communications of those persons as their own, anti,
acted on them as theirs.—(Applause.)—lle did nut
think it proper or necessary to give any distinct opi-
nion on the matter they had brought before Portia-.
went ; hut this be would say, that a Bill of Pains
and Penalties was contrary to the principles of jus-
tice. contrary to all legal analogies, and contrary to
the fundamental principles of the British Constitution.,
He knew of no instance in history where a Bill of
Pains and Penalties was resorted to, which ought nut,
to he holdout rather as a light to enable others tta.
avoid danger in future, than as an example which
ought td he looked up to aid followed.—(Cboeis.)..