The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-04-21 00:00:00

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Mr. Alamo in 11,000 -.)!ectra t • that- cia•tso which ga•e
Wm-r. to is parrihne re tieriardine to hit rate of asiamMters.. stud
b nped the 'rig y tl! LI11114!011 „Mild be excepted fraud tt. Bill.
Mr. S. BOURNE dereallei Vie general principle of the
.elitise.
•Stime.ronver.4l.)..n took plaee on the start of Mr. Alderman
s nutt,p; Mr. i., littraPlE, Mr. ELLISON, and Mr. IL Stillman.
'when AMerinan V. too brought up a dame, the object of whirb
was tie exempt ihr City of London from the °pennies') of the Bilt2
Theclati.e was is •reed to, and the iluie.e having reyanted, the
Helmet arts entered to he received to morrow.
The ilome non. apon the motion of Mr. S. 'lnt/FINE, went
el,lO Oi ( IPTITIlile•e *won the Poor 1.:.w.. Aotteuedment Bill. After
Juno* 11i...1*A iiii It dilute. art. agreed It,. flint it V r,.; ry 6hti111411418
IMI.e, in a loves Si. or a Ition-e kept M it ficemed . ictualler.
elfina deviatory ditc.u..ion. the -Chairman, at law, ',ported
proton. to the Douse, and obtained irate to 'Wagons tO•ighir.
TUN.
COTTON F A CTOR I ',..:5.
Lord STANLEY gave sisitife. that be would. tomteriew.
muse fur the appointment of a . 'Mime to enquire into the ,
Viegeni state or the Comm Vacuities.
. Ou ille sisolion of Mr. )) i• NS. a Committee vitt• nominated
ost ruglike .ass' tiles opt right Act, add Idi Rooms mud reddens
lii rektli 0000 to site Act o ere referred. to the same.
•‘' The ferther contiiteration of the Churches' fluAding Bill Mai
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liipostito rd ill Wild/1y 11•10.
Mr. BRAM' ) Ls g nought op the Report of she Comminittee of
' 9111)0., is hen the Res •Its ions welt read it scion I time, and the
'faultier riin.itlnatiiiit tinseled for.to-morrow.
t Wish the Innkeepers' nod Mats Own.' Kills went thrung ha.
Committee, sad the Reports were ordered so be received to-
morrow . .. .
•• Alderman WOOD brought is a Bill tit earodrage the yds-
, ointment . (the Poor in the Manufactories of Great Britain alli
Ireland. which ii.ll was immediately. read, ordered to be printed,
. llitit read a seutsed shoe on Monday nest.
ft4SYtil I. M %Dill AOSIC /RI/VISION.-
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Mr. HItI,MiIO4N brought in dn. , Mills for settling eertwics
Imlay .amt opun the Duke of Carilb , the PO en* of Ili-pie-
• ilumburg. Hid the I/itches§ of Cut They were re-.
Lopretive iy, MO a *Alive*, and ordered fur a &cooed reading ina
morrow,
L'" In move for a f4lOl
MI man AT4CINg 'Was prneeediog
1: ntifieetiti MAIL Avelino, t• but, apun the sepresentaiiinesof
4-
• . Losaßitrroo, be coareeted to defer kis motion tin' st•
Ellk
,rrnw. . :
Ihr remnlnine Orden of the Day were disposed of, and the
. Moose adjouraird it 1,4 day) at ease O'clock.

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BOROUGH or SOUTHWARK MEETING.
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moodily. at one o'rlock, a very numerous and respectable
liming of the Electors of the Borough of Southwark 'trek place
at the 'L'brre Tuns Tavern. in the Borough, fur the purpose of
• proposing Soo)'minas in support of the retina of Sir Robert
'Wilson to Parliataimat.
. Al a few o hime. pest nor Sir Robert Wilmot entered the room,
accompanied by Mr. Bennett, Mr. lombion. Mr. Honey stood,
!fir:Brace, Cap sin Ilatchiasun, &c. They were all cheered
. be the wstreitiv
.Ul,Olll the :it unit of Mr. HALL, Mr. ALLEN %mutate. was
tailed to the Chair. Thai 6e:ideals'', declared that he oar much
too yoticg a Joan, anti 'if too little consequence, to preside upon
.40 important an occasion. tie was, however, induced to take the
Chair by 0:- cheers of the Meeting.
Mr. Maas:tam, then rose, amidst applause!, and slated that
'they had met for the purpose of supporting the election of an
honest and independent Represent* lye fur • the Borough of
Southwark. The Subject was one on which a great deal might to
•be said, but. unprepared as he was, it would be hut all im-
, pinaiaeot trifling with their time to make many observetiona.—
They felt to the fullest extent the necessity of returning to Par-
Hameln. a man of. indepa admit
,spirit and ability. ir Robert
-AVilson appe4ied to him a person whn answered this description.
Nis principles were well known to the country, mid it was no
tilight recommendation that he nits wholly ituconsiecied with bit.
ohiess of ally kiwi —a cireniuslaure of ;;reat importance; for,.by
being neenpird in trade, a man must be supposed to he unable
aitemi to she interests &Willow! who had such serious claims
upon his time am' exertions. There appeared to him to tie an
41mo:ter:Rale objection to the appointment of brewers to do the
duties of Representatives; and it was a fart which went no
Jelin. way towards ,00ving this case, that our of those who at
resent represented Me Borough had paid into the hands of Go-
-ternmetit tio less than one million in Stich all intercourse
6114 this would be highly injurious to the interest of the Public,
by establishing it private interest, is hick seldom failed to be
'paraniount. (Applause.)— lie should direct the Resolutions to
be read to the hireling, and lie had no doubt of the expression
Odin unanimous feeling *Ton the subject.
Mr. HALL then came foi.ward to propose a series of Resolu-
lions ; and haring regretted his want of ability to introduce a
matter of so attach importance to the Meeting, be represented the
necessity existing fur the return of a Member to Parliament by
the Independent Electors, if it were for no other purpose than
that of showing their disapprobation of the conduct of those who
at p (-sew occupied the seats in the House of Commons. The
Electors of Southwark knew that there were two leading parties
in that House, anti •hose Electors should prove that they were
determined*, nom,. one of their own choice, with whom neither
of those teal had any rely ' —one of whom the great mass
of the t maple if provrii.---(Applatv.e )-1) hen the proceedings
of Parliament for the tart 25 ya ars were looked at, the necessity
of fixing upon a system independent of either of those two lead-
ing ladies would tie observable; and if the Borough adopted
such a lean, there app tired to be a spirit throegh the country
which only resiiiired to he celled upon to follow tile
The Meetiug would tom themselves against the pretext• of the
hleanaers of the liouse. They should consider that tomaiwrs :.f
the Geetlemen of that llouse had begun to adopt potinlar tura-
aud hart shown a disposition to economy upon the gees-
tiun reearatue the Members of the Royal Family; and that an
opportunity um thus afforded to their eunstituents of thinkiag
favourabl. of their general views on the state of affairs. This
trick was too palpable.—(Great applanse.)— It was too evident
that they wished in make friends with their constituents because
a General Eire t i 111 l was near at hand. If, indeed, the inclina-
tion to economy had exhibited itself in the first year of a Pav-
ia?. :met instead of the last, there might he reason to Impe—(Ap-
'auto.) t —but no coedit could be given to men who were put to
such shifts to gain popularity. limier the direction of seen men
there could be on security to the liberty oi the sahject—rias hope
of leaving any of the blessing: of the Constitution to posterity.
From all that had taken plate within the iime he had mentioned,
and front the velocity with which Ministers passed from One
desperate innovation to another, it was evident their intention
was nothing short of despotism.— (A pplause.)—That oas the
state of the People. If an aggregate of the !amnion by which
they were overburden( d were taken, they would find that where
the expenditure of an iadivi mai amounted to 3501. a year, hit
lazes were ..041.: so hat nn expretati 111 l could remain will him
of seeming arty happiness or independence in his old age. Thee
was no remedy except in the return of honest intrepid Members
to Parliament.—(Applause.)—Thirty er forty such men would
Ito ineateulable good. He held in his hand a vote which had
been 1. ris,sed by the Peanut tea in the time of Charles It., and if
it had teat been an honest and an intrepid Parliament, the Stuart
fauaily might el have been ill the Thome. This vo:e re.
'ordeal the excellent plan which, in some enmities, cities, and
boroughs. USN' ed
it rexistedturned, of senthe ••
ding
hanks At the inhers of PHome to arliament free
of expense: anHor eb-
cities, and borouths which had behaved
in&aleseta sit counties,
to so liberal and upright a manner. In the :rid of Charles 11.
hloti•o omelette by one of the Members of the House of
Commons to the effect he had stated, and be conceived that this
was no example which ought to by imitated by every inde-
pendent normigh in the kingdom. Ile trusted, therefore, that
the Borough of Southwark would not he backward on the pre-
sent ocwsion in reeding air Robert Wilson to Parliament free
of expense. The example, he hoped, would he followed in
every part of the country.
When the Resolution alluding to the return of Sir Robert
iVilson was read from the Chair,
Sir ItapErer WILSON no: amidst loud cheering', and spoke
nearly as follows :—Gentlemen, to tell you the honest truth,
reser was so eir...h..rralssed in the presence of reclines as I am oo
the present occasouti Wheat sum., tied by such kind friends,
flattered Its the honour you have done me, grafefril for the con
Vence soil repose in me. and ambitions not to weaken the
good opinion pot baveexpiessed to omits me, 1 find myself tin-
able to frame any laugatmee expressive of the feelings by which
lam actuated ou the present occasion. I must, therefOre, en-
treat you to extend you inriolgeoce towards me, and give me
credit fur entertainie, a due sense of Ole distrugnis:ted position
in which l am placed by your favour; but while I acknow-
ledge these emotions of personal poide, gratitude, and honest
ambition, I also share. as it patriot and a fellow-citizen, in all
Cie triumphs of this scene; tor it is a triumphal scene in these
times of nektiootedged eerruption ore the one hand, and re;
toned etnruptibility on the other, to see FO sonny persons HS*
SellAbit'd to discharge their duties. laying aside alt contracted
views of self-interest to elevate the hamler of independence, and
by n gene, oas and noble effort aSsod in she re.estahlishmeat of
the fund:uncut:ll principles of the Constitution. I trust tro one
• befe present will do me the injustice to suppose L presume to
intrude on the Electors of this Bnrongh.—(" No. no !" ex-
claimed many.)-10s-ore yoo I was invited at a time when I
that • g ht myself elsewlitere engaged ;
.mlll whoa released from that
engagement, I still dee.ford the hohonr,conceiviog some per-
son tarter qualified than myself might offer himself to your
' Moue. :E.neourriged .by 'your preference of me, nod assured
that I shoo d he guaranteed from those expenses whack would
eipberrasi uses sad be Irtjerions to the iaterests of my family,