commoners, and the clergy: the speeches of some of the latter, reported in pages 152 and 188, do them great credit, as the true friends of liberty and wholesome subordi nation.

These Reverend Gentlemen certainly oppose Ministers upon a new ground ; viz. as very dangerous enemies to Religion. The sentiments interspersed throughout this volume have the very same foundation.

Such open violations of the moral and civil duties as we have lately witnessed, may lead numbers of thinking and welldisposed people to oppose the measures of ministers upon the score of religion and morality, who, upon grounds merely political, would otherwise have been totally indifferent.

Some persons may have gone back; and we have now to apologize for using the name of Mr. Curwen in page 3; as that gentleman has since declared, that he does not approve of what are termed "Tavern Meetings."

Firmness and moderation have all along enabled the friends of Reform to answer

entrusted to him while Treasurer of the Navy, and when he was charged with the crime, he defended himself against the practices of which he was accused, upon the ground that the Act did not apply to his particular case. It was a mockery upon justice to depend upon the protection of such Bills. From the highest subject in the realm to the gaoler of Cold-Bath Fields, delinquency had been shewn. While he was talking of Bills, there was a Bill which formerly came home to the feelings of every Englishman-which was their birthright-he meant the Bill of Rights. That Bill, unfortunately, was now rendered almost a dead letter, and Magna Charta was become obsolete. If the Government had attended to those two Bills--if they had evinced a love for the Constitution in its antient purity, then indeed Bills of Prevention would not have been requisite. What was it that led to the downfal of some of our Monarchs ?-—A disregard to the rights of their subjects. Happy he was that now that danger did not exist. What was it, he would ask, that cost the Stuarts their abdication?-Want of management. If those unfortunate monarchs had known how to manage their Parliaments, they never would have been expelled. The honourable Baronet then adverted to the adoption of standing armies, as being dangerous to the libertics of the country, inimical to its interests, and

subversive of the Constitution. From these topics, he glanced to the present improved state of agriculture in the country. He regretted that young Noblemen of large estates should have turned themselves into farmers, cultivating their estates to the injury of the farming interest; for, after fattening their beef and mutton, if the times -were not changed, the Duke of Abrantes might eat it. He deprecated the adoption of the Board of Agriculture, and wished that instead of adopting such ruinous projects, they had endeavoured to mend the Constitution, to improve it, and restore it to its pristine splendour. In the course of his observations, when contending that corruption had been shewn to exist in a very great degree, he compared it to the monster represented as feeding on the liver of Promotheus, which, as he gnawed, the larger it grew; so the monster corruption fattened and grew upon the heart of the people, which he was continually gnawing, With respect to the delicacy which some persons had thought was due to the Duke of York, as so nearly related to the monarch upon the throne, he declared he saw no such delicacy. The People's feelings were to be attended to. Many Members participated in the feelings of the people, out of doors, but he was afraid they were disregarded in the House. Was such conduct decent? Could it have happened if the Constitution had been

pure? Upon the grand subject of parliamentary Reform, he again noticed the necessity for a thorough reform, in order to preserve the country from the yoke of a foreign enemy. If that was not attended to, no good to the people could arise. He did not care who Ministers were-from them the public could reap no benefit. It was only by a salutary adherence to the grand principles of the Constitution-to the original formation of representatives' franchises, that corruption could be put down. Having descanted at some length on this topic, he concluded with expressing his thanks to the Electors for the patient hearing with which they had honoured him.

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The resolution of thanks to Mr. Whitbread being read, that gentleman rose, and, among other things, observed, that there was not one of the 658 representatives of the people, who would have undertaken the arduous task, except his friend Colonel Wardle, or who could have carried it into effect so soon, or with so little noise. had known him in early life, and the promise which he then gave, had since been fulfilledIndependence of mind, and integrity of character, had marked his conduct in his parliamentary duties. It must be a great gratification to all to find, that there was nothing so low, nothing so poor, nothing that could be oppressed, but it would meet with protection. Colonel Wardle

would have been entitled to their thanks, if unsuccessful in his endeavours to correct those great and grievous abuses; but now they voted him. their thanks with the most heartfelt pleasure, because he had carried on the Inquiry to a successful termination.

It was computed that about 4000 persons were present, and the Resolutions, admitting of gross and scandalous practices in the Administration, expressed that Gwillim Lloyd Wardle, by persevering in his Inquiry, in spite of the greatest difficulties and the most formidable opposition, had rendered important services to his country,. and merited the thanks of the meeting. Besides Lord Folkstone, Sir Francis Burdett, and Sir Samuel Romilly, Major-General Ferguson, Henry Martin, Esq. Sir Thomas Turton, Bart Thomas William Coke, Esq. John Christian Curwen, Esq. the Hon. Thomas Brand, the Hon. W. Lyttleton, Lord Viscount Milton, Lord Viscount Althorpe, Charles Watkins, W. Wynne, Esq. Lord Stanley, were included with the minority of 125, who voted in favour of Colonel Wardle's motion; as were also the minorities who supported Sir Thomas Turton, and the motion of Henry Bankes, Esq. And it was added, that any pe-son hereafter advising his Majesty to reinstate the Duke of York, would, by such advice, prove himself an enemy to his country; and that the

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