The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-04-05 00:00:00

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Stieweilolu That Tune petitioners, by the depression of
11.:Agricaltural and Landed Interest. are reduced to a
etate•of great distress. 'heving for aerofoil years past
• le en wog ttiew produce; not only writtiont a remount-
rsting..pficia, Met at a price km than the ripense at
which it is tossed, In this, alarming state of thincv.l
your pe.itiohera eon appreoesid nothiug hot certain ruin
to themselves, to their families, and to the community
at largi, unless an effectual remedy he speedily applle,d.
That, conceiving the distress .so arise from 'Verdict.'
taxatinti, a taxation greater than the.roantry is• able to
bear, your petitioner" humbly pray fur a reduction of
terra, a retrenchment in the expenses ofevery department
of the state, awl a strict economy in the expenditure Of
the .p. blic mosey, as the moat effeftiial and certain
steam of affording them sobitantial relief.
ruottcrutorr.that to prevent the same distress for the
lime to come, your petitioners earnestly entreat your
Hon. House to take into its most serioue consideratien
urgesit necessity fdr a reform its Parliament, for a
mon: full, fait;, and.equal representation of the pimple,
tunably conceiving that it is to the imperfect end on.
bepal state of Parliamentary representation that the
Illihralint national debt, the overwhehning taxation, 5.114
• Mitscensequent evils which afflict the country, and whicas
more particularly affect the agricultural and landed iu-
terrir's•are primarily awipexcipally to be ascribed: -lied
row Petitioners will ever pray.. . •
AIpNIIII6IITTS (from upder She gallery) said be bad
not heard the resolotioos read, he had only heard the
isetitlon. He expressed his opinion that mentioning
r form in the petition did much more harm than good
the cause which it leas intended to remedy.—(Disap-
peoliation, with cries of," come forward,' and room
was made for him in the jury box.) Mr. M. continued ;
be was fully awareof the existing distresses of the coun-
try, particularly alit respected the farmer, he was sorry
that the more respectable part of the agriculturists* were
nut in attendan..e to express their opinion upon the rub.
ject.; he however thought that their petition might not
ro mention reform —(Much hissing.)—They were in
need of parliamentary aid, and therefore they ought
merely to state their grievances, and leave it to the wit
anto of the Honourable Dense to apply the remedy.—
(Bursts of laughter and hissing.) Mr. M. continued ;
lie expected to hare a fair hearing, hot it seemed that all
were on one site.—(Applause) He considered that it
was owing to a seditious and discontented spirit which
11 id shoo n itself amongst many persons, that we are in-
volved in the present distresses—(Disapprobation); it
Atli through that discontented and seditious spirit the
late war was prolonged, and Bonaparte's. power—by
which nil lilt arils were entailed on the country. He
again expressed his disapproba:ioo of the introduction
of the word reform in the petition; he considered that a
graduated duty on the importation of foreign corn, and
on the exportation of British corn, were the
only means likely to afford disappro-
b .Pon.)

The .lucittrr observed, if the learned gentleman in-
t tided to Make an ateeadment be must tusks a distinct
sia.tion on the ',Neil.
Mr. Strome-I-vs said that he had just put his ideas on
r.per, bat they were i's.too crude • state to be laid he-
ture the meeting. He should therefore move, that a
CO1:l uitecehr appointed to draw up a petition expressive
tf the eanfid.n se of the meeting in Parliament, stating
the general distress. and praying fur a bounty OD the
exportation of IL itish grain, and a duty ou the impor-
teihn or foreign.
The Simentr.r wired if any holly seconded the amend-
ment, anti on one aoswerlng, the original resolutions
were carried ; Mr. Margetta alone holding up his baud
against them.
Mr. S: Watts said, the elan lie entered the 11.111 be
was fully aware of the full exposition Which would be
melt% and therefore did not intend making any observe-
lions, as he was sure it would be well treated ; but after
time extraordinary assertions that had fallen front the
Worthy Alderman, his Learued Friend, be would trouble
the meeting with a few remarks. The Worthy Alder-
/UM& had stated that all the evils now pressing upon the
people were occasioned by a seditious spirit. Ile Imo*
misfit his Learned Friend the Worthy Alderman meant ;
it wan the terrible Reformers, who, because they op-
pasedkorreption, were stigmatized with the appellation
of the seditious. Bat it was nothing new at different
pariods to be called by different names; indeed the very
dictionary segued exhautted. For installer., 16 years
ago, when he (Mr. W.) first came to fluntiagden, be
was designated a democrat, soon after he was called a
jacohin ; then for about four years he was a lervller,
and a referrner; till at length they invented the word
" Radical," *ail here, said Mr. W., I now stand a con•
firmed radical.—(Cheers, tea laughter.)—They all
knew, that spe.mlmiug of county meetings a Noble Duke
bad staid that they were mere farces ; but had he, its the
plenitntle of his aplendour, been present that day, aid
1)..d is itemised the mirth, the extraordinary exhibition
of his Learned Friend the Worthy Alderman, he would
havir.vaalted this higher on the stage by designating it
a ;.....)usedy.—(Maeh laughter.) The Learned Gentleman
then went on to point out the defects in the rel%resenta-
live system. Sixteen years ago the two Members for the
town, and the two for the county, were regularly mot
by the family of Montague (Mr. Margetts—miereptions)
stithont ever consulting the people they were scut to me-
resent, and for thus pending the four Members, that
House bid teetfred 20040110/. (Mr. Margetts--.. Quite
deceptions.") The Learned Gentleman might say de
reptions, but if be would wait a little, be would prove it,
from 1807 to 1817 the Eatl of Sandwich received 2,5001.
a-year as Postmaster 0 three years previous he
had annually a pretty round stun per annum for • snug
pees. called the Keeper of the Buck Hound.. The
Sable Earl was now gone, he (Mr. W.) wombed td
say nothing ill of the dead, hut he was draw into the
disressian by his injudicious friend. The meeting
would, however, see that the Earl had drawn a very
considerable sum Of the public money, setting aside time
snug little patronage. Now it was generally known
that the Earl, though a very good sort of man, was by
no means a man of talents, at least of stick' talents as
qualified him to become a mi.mister. He would asir.thea,
if there had been a refer:a in radians's% would the
country for so many years have been harshened with a
minister without talents, who would rather encumber
Glam. expedite public badness. In fine, it was for the
service the Noble Lird's Totes rendered the minister,
and not for the aid of his talents, that he received so
m ich money. The Duke of Manchester, a branch of
tto family of MoWague, rewired from ItsoB to 16241
10,011til. a year as Governor of Jashaies, which ought,ont
*fits own proceeds, to have paid its owe Governor—his
brothers. soon as he was burn, (ao, be had aline t
before he was born, for the place was got natty tor hint) said'
had a birth in the customs at 10 or 12 hundred a year.
—(Applause.)—lle(74r. Wells) thought that was the
'editions spirit which had brought ruin upon the .cout -
try, and be wculd again ask, would these sums have
been paid to this or any other family for doing Next to
notiming.l at for the venal and corrupt boroughtnoager-
lag system? His learned relent had said that he wish-
ed to see a redaction in lhe.expenditsre. Mr. W. wish,
ad Wawa Reform ; fee he walld skew that no remise-

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