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breaking open of his castle, and 

 so fatally preceded and followed 

 by the murder of peaceable and 

 unoft'ending citizens. 



VII. " Resolved, That this re- 

 solution be communicated to sir 

 Francis Burdett by the sheriffs, 

 and a deputation of the livery, 

 who are desired at the same time 

 to assure him, that, however grate- 

 ful his release from arbitrary con- 

 finement would prove to the citi- 

 zens of London, his liberation 

 would be no jubilee to the British 

 people, unless obtained by the 

 triumph of those grand principles 

 which in his person have been so 

 shamefully and flagrantly violated. 



VIII. ""Resolved, that this 

 meeting would become accom- 

 plices in the ruin of their constitu- 

 tion and countrj', were they to de- 

 cline stating, what appears to them 

 to be the fact, that the House of 

 Commons, which has repeatedly 

 rejected just and necessary in- 

 quiry, screened public delinquents 

 and speculators from punishment, 

 encouraged the scandalous traffic 

 of seats in their own house, a traf- 

 fic, ' at the mention of which their 

 ancestors would have started with 

 indignation' — sanctioned the most 

 profligate waste of the public 

 money, and approved and justified 

 an expedition the most numerous, 

 formidable, and expensive that 

 ever left the shores of England, 

 but the most degraded, disgraced, 

 and ruinous that ever returned ; 

 alike destructive of the genuine 

 energies of the empire, and hold- 

 ing out to the contempt and ridi- 

 cule of the enemy the folly and 

 imbecility of corrupt and wicked 

 ministers. 



IX. " Resolved, That under all 

 the evils and calamities, these ac- 

 cumulated and accumulating griev- 



ances, it appears to this meeting, 

 that the only means left to save 

 the constitution and the country 

 from impending ruin, is a reform 

 in the representation of the people 

 in the Commons House of Parlia- 

 ment, which, to be efficient, must 

 be speedy and radical. 



X. <' Resolved, That the people 

 of the united kingdom are hereby 

 entreated to co-operate by peti- 

 tion, remonstrance, and all con- 

 stitutional means in the attainment 

 of this salutary and indispensable 

 object. 



XI. " Resolved, That a peti- 

 tion, founded on these resolutions, 

 be presented to the honourable the 

 House of Commons. 



XII. " Resolved, That the pe- 

 tition now read be fairly transcrib- 

 ed, and signed by two aldermen 

 and twelve liverymen, and pre- 

 sented to the honourable the 

 House of Commons, by H. C. 

 Combe, esq., sir VV. Curtis, sir C. 

 Price, and sir J. Shaw, bart, ; and 

 they are hereby instructed, as re- 

 presentatives of this city to sup- 

 port the same. 



" To the Honourable the Commons 

 of the United Kingdom of Great 

 Britain and Ireland, in pnrlia- 

 ment assembled, the humble ad- 

 dress, remonstrance, and petition 

 of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, 

 and Livery of the City of Lon- 

 don, in Common Hall assembled, 

 this Uh of May, 1810. 

 " We, the lord mayor, alder- 

 men, and livery of the city of Lon- 

 don, in common hall assembled, 

 beg leave, with feelings of the 

 most anxious concern, to present 

 this our humble address, petition, 

 and remonstrance; and we earn- 

 estly entreat your honourable 

 House to give to it a favourable re- 

 ception ; for how can we hope for 



