Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1816-11-28

skill and activity in his ministers: and, a.
boye all, to the precepts of an immortal
statesman, now no more, that the country
is indebted for the high situation which
she holds among the nations ofthc world
We oug;t, then, rs Individuals, TO suffer
our small portion of evil forall this good !;
and five have the means, we ought also
to assist those who are not able TO help
themselves. The Latin Poet has said
+" i'rorim,s iectis igsiis defcqditw rsgre."
| Twill say the same; yet the difficulty has
been accomplished, and We have come out
of the fire purified and more valuable
Mr.. Chambcrlaine concluded speech
of some length, by proposing, That a
subscription be entered into, 10 alleviate
the distress"s likely 70 increase during the
attributed to the rapid change from Z
state ofwar TO that of peace"
Mr.. Samuel Burroughs seconded tie
notion But he did not see any reason
for all that gloom which the wicked were
attempting Ia throw over the country
1t was only The idle ard the dissolute, the
heirs apparent 10 the galiows, from whom
all these .orebot,ingS sprang.
Mr.. Cotton strongly recommended the
establishment OF soap -Skcps during the en-
suing five months. Pork was now cheap
enough, and lie had 70 doubt would be
still cheaper. If the product of the sub
scriptions was given in money, they would
only tend TO enrich the pocketS OF the pub
lican.
MIR. T. White shortly addressed TIE
meeting He entirely differed with all
those who had expressed their sentiments
before him.-lt was to the extravaganza
of the head ofthe staie-lo ,hcmachiapel-
ism and wicked waste of treasure and
principle in his ministers, that all the mis-
cry which the nation now endured, and
which 1t was threatened with, owed IFS o.
rlgin. The only measure likely to save
the country, was a reform in Parliament
without which all the horrors of revo-
luton and civil war were to be looked TO
the chair. Lord cries If "hear lin ont
he speaks rery srwe ," j;ljom the poptlace.
The mayor said if such ciamor was
suffered to prevail, he would not sit in the
chair.
MIR. Chamberlaine observed, that the
meeting was not for the purpose of dis
cussing politics, but TO relieve the poor.
Such remarks and behaviour rs he he'd ;;,.t
Witnessed might well sanction Burke in
his epithet To the lower classes, whom he
called the Swiaish Muititude.-( Shouts Of
g turn him out 3! hes a ministerial Aack ri
Silence being at last obtained
The Rev. Mr.. Reynolds came forw ard.
He could not forbear smiling at the at
tempt made by an eloquent speaker to
quote an author ofwhom he (Mr. r. was
very fopd. But if he had been as well
acquainted with the Latin Classics Us he
pretended, that speaker would have re-
collected line in Horace, where the poet
saws, "Deiiyam reyes, plect,u,tuy- achiui."-
The people ofEngland had suiiered-they
had bent under the yoke of ministerial
servility for the last thirty years, and they
were now required, like the Isracltes of
old, to make bricks without straw
{ Cheering His Friend, MIR. White,
had well expressed himself i'll ascribing
the existing evils 10 the improvidemce of
our rulers-to the wicked waste of trea-
sure and principle by the ministers. He
(Nr. ReyDolds) could not see the slight
est ground for calling the meeting
Werean abused people TO be answerable
for the errors and tmpitude of Il corrupt
government! Those who had caused dis
tress should remedy 1.-THE trainers of an
intoierab!e debt of 900 millions should be
made TO assist III It's red elton. But
what was the fact Had ministers re-
deemed their pledge OF economy? Did
they carry itin;o effect by increasing the
list OF pensions BY pauperizins the
house OF commons BY throwing more
otial to what had accumulated from the
disease and weakness Of filthy land lSy
claiming more slaves 10 the charrotwheels
OF the Premier, or my lord Castlereagh,
both OF whom were dealers and Co-paTi-
ners III accomplishing the rum OF Great
Britain ? He supposed all tbe happiness
OF the country was TO be derived from
these blessed means, for what lie had
Imperiectly described was the sole and
only employ Of the servants Of the crown.
# the general stagnation which they had
created was 70 be annually remedied by
the people, they would go on adhGnituns
III the career Interruption. The people,
or, as Mr.. Chamberlain had humaneiy
quoted them, the swi1;iM multitude, should
speak Tor themselves-Dot weakly. for II
would imply intiinidation-bm IL, a uoice
ofMunder, for it would denote strength
and unanimity He objected intototo the
object Of the requisition; and would
therefore move, that the meeting having
duly considered the cause of the present
distress, is of opinion, that it is not so
much owing TO the change from war 10
peace, as 10 the wiciedness OF ministers.
and the weakness of parIament-ibattb the
only remedies which must be speedily
applied-are reform in parliament-th
abolition of slnecures-the appropriation
OF the droits of the admiralty 10 their
constitutional purpose, Tie interests OF
the country. These were the considcra-
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