Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1816-10-05

Crease from year 10 year, to its present ter.
rible amount, which was the cause of all the
evils ot thu cnuntiy at this moment. (Hear,
hear !. This proportion and extravaganza,
for which the country is now suffering, was
supported and sanctioned by those who de-
rived. AMI still derive, large EN- luments
from them. Applause x Misrepresentation
h dehcien"y III the revenue occasioned
by the rnor;ncus interest of the National
dcbt, wh,ch Ministers would have tn sup
ply, would, ACCORDING To the present dis
h"sem~nt and receipts amount to .57s-
Ocol. Here the meeting was again thrown
INTO considerable disorder by the conflict
iiS crcs Of Hear, hear Down down T.
Lpfk Cochrdhe endvavoreu sever 1 times
tn address the chair, but the noise was
great, h,s vci e Was not heard by those
VINO were neoNrest - nun. At length n gen
tieman appealed 70 ne chair, * observed
that the noble lord lCochrane1 was under
ITS pr lection, h ought to be heard, aud
not husted down by Glamour.
Fhc duke OF Kent then begged leave to
say word. He said. that it the meeting
should permit the noble lord ICochrane,1
t. go On. it would tken rest with themselves
to approve OF what he should say OF not.
Lord Cochrane then proceeded, and OBJ.
served, that il ministers we're unable to
have to psy it. in add ton to what they al
ready paid. The civil government of the
preseot year was 10 600 0oOl. If next year
1t should be S,0o0,0o0 more, how was the
deficiency to be supplied BY no means,
except the army and navy were to he put
down, or by the extinction of half the nat
ional debt. The deficiency of the last or
amounted to 2,l97 ,600l., If the ensuing
Gu irters were to be equally deficient, the
whole deficiency would exceed 5000, OOOi.
which was to be supplied from the peck
cts OF the people. 1t was worse thaa
mocSery to talk of applying d remedy to
the national distress, unless radical rem
ely were proposed. He would ask the
meeting were they ready to make good de-
fciencies of 80 or 20 millions He belle
we'd they were willing, and he was certain
they were MT able to make h sacri"
fee. Yet that these deficiencies would ac-
cu,nulate, while the proper remedy was de-
layed. could not be denied. What he had
said OF the deficiency of the revenue, was
on record 1T he were wrong he hoped the
chancellor OF thc exchequer would rise &
contradict him. 1t was not in the house of
commons. unfortunately, that his majesty's
ministers could learn the real sentiments of
the people, loud cheers]-but he trusted
that the people On the present occasion,
would make them. Che Minsters) hear
such truths as should give them an idea
OF the public distress, and of its real cause.
The Noble Lord concluded, by NOV
ing an amendment. which he hoped would
receive the unanimous appreciation of the
merting. The amendment was that after
the word =. that" first resolution, there
should be added these words. the enor-
nous Dad of national debt. together with
the nigh military establi shmcnt, and the
profuse expenditure uf the pubic money,
are the real causes of the present general
distress"
Mr.. Lowe seconded the amendment
He said it was a fact. however rcpugnant
it might be to the feelings Of some persons
70 hear it, that the people of England
thought and felt as the noble lord did. The
distre SIS was universal; it pervaded not
merely the metropolis, but every County
in the Kingdom, and its source the immense
taXatioa on the price of labour.
Mr.. Wiiberforce wasnot at all surpris-
ed that on any public meeting. an English
man should feel warm when stating those
views of the situation of his county, which
had i'm ressed his mind. H., iowev +,
thought the object of the noble lord not in
unison with the purpose for which the
meeting was held,ec wished that the atten-
ton of the meeting should be exclusively
confined to the means most likely to be-
nefit their poorer brethren. Alarming in
deed was the STATE of the country, but
still more alarming would it become, were
the meeting TO waste their valuable tine in
discussing the causes of tn ir present dis
tress, rather than in seeing what remedies
could possibly be supplied.
Lord Cochrine declared he would with
draw his amendment, if MIR. Wilberforce
would say that what he Oord c. had stat
ed was hot founded in truth.
Mr.. Coates said, he had never spoken to
lord Ccchrane but he admired the cour-
age of the noble lord, and the amendment
he had proposed harmonized with his feel
ings, though Mr.. Wilbertorce had, by a
kind of side wind, endeavoured to throw
slur on the nable lord--Loud cries of no,
no !)-at least to prove that he had brought
forward irrelevant matter.
The duke of Kent observed, that the rec
solution hid been put into his hands as he
entered the room. and he had certainly no
wisl, to pr IS for the insertion of the words
which had caused 81 much agitation. L orn
early life he had known the good heart of
the noble lord, and as the object Of the
meeting was unanImity, he was confident
when the Objectionable clause was expung-
ed, the noble lord would not refuse to with
draw his amendment. He naver intended
to have come to political NEE ting. He
would never enter the arena of pot cs with
the noble lord, but h begged leave to 81,
he considered himself as competent to plead
the Cause OF humanity to advocate the in
s la go. ~.