so 
Incidents in and near London, [Aug. 1, 
vcrsary of the obtaining an Act to abolish a 
Select VestrV) and to promote Parochial 
'ImpTovements. The meeting was numerously 
and respectably attended.. Mr. George J3yng, 
the member for the county, presided. After 
the cloth, was withdrawn, the following toasts 
were given. 
“ The king,'’ with three times three. 
** The prince regent, and may he always 
support those principles he has professed.” 
“ The queen, and the rest of the royal 
family.” 
The navy.” 
** Lord Wellington, Marshal Beresford, 
General Graham, and the army.” 
*• A speedy, but honourable and lasting, 
peace.” 
The cause of religious liberty all over 
the world.” 
The national anchor in these tempestuous 
limes—parliamentary and parochial reform.” 
“ The parish of St. Luke, and increasing 
prosperity to its real friends.” 
Mr. Wilks then proposed the health of 
Mr. George Byng, our worthy chairman 
and independent representative.” 
Samuel Whitbread, esq.—an indefatiga- 
EIs enemy to peculation and abuse.” 
** The late and present church wardens.” 
** Mr. Wilks, the vestrv clerk of the 
parish,” which was received with l-oud and 
leiterated applause. 
Mr. Wilks in returning thanks, stated 
tliat the contributions for the relief of the 
.poor had arrived from 200,0001. per annum, 
distributed in the reign of Elizabeth, to 
6,000,0001. ifi the year 1802. The number 
of the poor amounted, in 1802, to one million 
three hundred thousand persons, or to one- 
seventh part of the national population; and 
that number, by the operation of moral 
causes and national distress, is increasing with 
the taxation, in a ratio perpetually progres¬ 
sive. The rates had increased from 200,0001. 
on a population of 5,000,000 of people ; in 
1801 l® 4,300,0001. on a population of 
8,700,000 ; in 1803, at the celebration of 
the late jubilee, more than half of the in¬ 
habitants of the opulent contiguous village of 
Hampstead, applied to receive the donations 
of the liberal minority, and in many parishes 
nine tenths of the inhabitants are relieved by 
the remaining tenth. 
“ The independent magistrates of the 
county, who ordered the publication of the 
accompts of the expenditure.” 
“ The past and present overseers of the 
parish of St. Luke.” 
‘‘ The parish of Cripplegate—and may 
the parent be benefited by the example of 
the child.” 
“ The Stewards, and grateful acknowledg¬ 
ments for their liberal attention.” 
“ The female patriots of the parish of St. 
Luke,” by Mr. Wilks. 
Mr, Storks, and success to hisexertians 
in attempting a parochial reform in the ward 
of Aldersgate.” 
” May every successive anniversary witness 
continued perseverance, augmented union, 
and increasing success. 
On Monday, June 18, a respectable meet^ 
ing of the friends of parliamentary refrom 
was held at Freemason’s Hall. Sir J. 
Th®ckmorton was called to the chair. Mr. 
Trevanion, of Cornwall, submitted and car¬ 
ried the following resolutions : 
1. —Resolved, That the much quoted 
petition presented by Mr. Grey (nOAv Earl 
Grey) on the 6th of May, 1793, to the 
Commons’ house of parliament, and then 
entered on the journals, affords a demonstra¬ 
tion that the said house doth not represent 
the people—That it hath been the perpe¬ 
tual theme of the despised prayers and re¬ 
monstrances of innumerable petitioners, that 
the said House doth not speak the sense of 
tlic nation.—That it hath been a subject not 
only of national complaint, but of parlia¬ 
mentary protest, that parliaments have had an 
unconstitutional duration.—That these fatal 
corruptions in that assembly, which ought to 
be the guardians of our liberties, are the radi¬ 
cal and true causes of national wrong and 
calamity in all their forms and varieties, 
whether of intemperate quarrels with other 
ttates, or of ruinous debt, and the pauperism 
of millions ; or the oppressive, relentless, 
and inquisitorial, character of taxation, or of 
repeated restrictions on the freedom of the 
press, or of the complicated evils and dangers 
of the present conflict, or of encroachments 
on the independence of the crown ; or, to sunv 
up all, of a systematic tendency to subvert the 
constitution.—Wherefore it is the conviction 
of this Meeting, that a reform in the Com¬ 
mons’ house of parliament is equally essential 
to the independence of the crown, and to the 
liberties of the people. 
2. —Resolved, That it being highly ex¬ 
pedient that the nation in all its divisions 
should on the subject of the delay of repre¬ 
sentation, proclaim its opinions both as to the 
wrong and to the remedy, this Meeting for 
itself declares.-That the aggregate of usurpa¬ 
tions which have taken from the people a 
majority of the seats in the. Commons’House 
of Parliament, has established that most per¬ 
nicious of all species of governments—an oli¬ 
garchy.—That the king with prerogatives 
balanced by the independence of a parliament 
holding the national purse, would have no 
more than a wholesome degree of authority 
essential to good government, but yet per¬ 
fectly congenial with freedom, whereas an 
oligarchy that usurps legislation and the pub¬ 
lic purse, hath unbounded means of oppres¬ 
sion; 
3. —Resolved, That this parliamentary 
oli garchy became powerful, only because the 
nation was supine—rash and intemperate 
eafy, because the nation, misled byimpostors, 
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