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sourHytom BLieTtioir. STATR OF THE rot". WRDNESDAY, MARCH s. SECOND DAY. Mr. Gamma - $7l Sir Rouse Wassit - Sir Taunus Tunes - 210 Various Placards and Papers were exhibited during the day at the Hustings, and in several parts of the Boronich, such as—" No Brewer— Porter at 4d."— " Consistency—did not Mr. Calvert vote for Sir Wil liam Curtis To the Ladies of Southwark—the Turn-coat Baronet's Proverb: " A woman, a spaniel. a walnut-tree, " The more you beat them the better they be. " See Sir T. Turtoe's Speech," kr- • Mr..CALURT was greeted with loud and general cheers. He thanked them most sincerely for the thuation in which they placed him on the poll. It was no more than he had expected from their pro mises now, and their exertions formerly. He had prophesied yesterday, and the poll proved him a true prophet. The Baronet had been beaten every hour to-day as much as for one hour yesterday: It would be the same to-morrow—(Applause).—The Honour able Baronet would find him a bit of blood; he would shew him his heels, and the devil would not overtake him I—(Cheers).—He observedt wo pla cards, one entitled 44 Consistency ;" the other, " No Brewer, and Beer for 4cf.` Now was this con sistency? How could they have beer at any price,. if there were no brewer?—(Applause). But he could tell them how they could have beer at 3 1 ,6 d. fourpence was too high a price. Let them go to the Ministers, the grinders of the poor, and let them oblige them to take off the duty, and beer would be sold at 3 1 ,4d.—(Great Applause).—The saddle ought to be placed on the right horse. He had only row to entreat the continuance of their exertions, that he might continue a true prophet. But he was afraid the Honourable Baronet would not allow him the continuance of this gratification : for, if he did not withdraw this evening, he would to-morrow. Sir ROBERT WILSON was received with rapturous hnzzas, which continued for a considerable time.— When he had rested his hopes on their zeal, as well as on their principles, he had rested them on a sure foundation. Their exertions, and the state of the poll, fully authorized his hopes. He offered his best acknowledgments, and assured them that their exer ticais would be ample encouragement to him for dis charging his duty. This was a contract not only be oveen him and them, but between them all and the Public. When good was to be done to the commu nity, they owed it to GOD to exert all the powers and faculties he gave them, for the improvement of humanity—(Repeated chcers).—The Honourable Ba ronet had returned to the contest, notwithstanding the result of one hour yesterday; but he had done well if he bad taken the advice of his worthy col league, and made that his last hour—(Laud cheer i77g).—His first loss would have been his least. He was surprised to hear the Honourable Baronet, in his speech yesterday, say, that notwithstanding his vigour in entering, and his energy and talent in conducting this contest—he was surprised to hear him represent himsclf,notwithstanding, asan old,broken-down,worn out, dying veteraa in their service!—(Laughter).— He had, therefore, thrown himself on their compas sion, and solicited their protection. Ile thought they would have been quite overpowered by this appeal. He did not think that they could have resisted one of the two greatest of temptations, according to the Chinese proverb. The one was, love and opportu nity ; the other, the voice of an enemy in distress— (Much applause).—lle observed, however, that the Honourable Barcnet solicited their votes, not because Ile Was afraid of any of the opposing Candidates, but that they might put :t gag in his mouth, in order that be should not ausw er what he called painful, but they considered Constitutional, interrogatories— ( ifppiause).—The Baronet had told them that he was attached to the King and the Constitution. So wcie they all—(Cries (f " .411, all:C)—Who was there that was not ?-L.(4 , None, none r)—But the same words meant different things is the mouths of different persons. His personal attachment to the King was unbounded ; but his political attachment was connected with the authority of the laws—(Ap plause).—ln France, it had formerly been said, that the King's thoughts were laws ; and Itapin, the best of English historians, stated, in the reign of Henry VIII. the nobility and clergy yielded such submission to the King, that he might do what he would. This was not the obedience of freemen. Then there was a Constitution, there were rights, there were sacred laws—there were dear and invaluable privileges, purchased by the blood of our ancestors ; this was the Constitution—not a nonentity, a shadow, a name, a phantom which never existed when the People re quired itH.Shouts of applause).—Who was not at tached to his country ? Who would not fight for it ? He hoped he should be thought no boaster, but he believed he had. proved his devotion to his coun try : but country meant different things with diffe rent persons—country was not the soil en which they stood. A soldier will say the camp is his country ; a courtier the palace. Sir Robert Walpole said, that every man's country was in his purse. He had heard of a man who had a very confined view of his country. V: hen the Bastile had been thrown open, a poor old man, ivlio had been confined in one of its dungeons, asked the National Convention to send him back to his dungeon, because he had no other country ! Thus they who avowed their attachment to their coun try had voted for the Suspension of the Habeas Cor pus, for the Indemnity Bill, and for similar measures. They had, therefore, a very different view of country from what he had, and what he thought they would wish-their Representatives to have (Immense applause). Those who voted for taxes, found their country in these taxes. In order to shew them the value of such a country, he would state to them the increase of taxes during the late reign. At its close, one million was paid for the collection of taxes, more than the whole revenue amounted to at its com mencement! They who voted for those taxes de rived great profit from them : it was not so with the' People. In the year 1785, bread was sold for six pence the quartern loaf—beer, for two-pence thel quart—beef and mutton, for two-pence a pound— and veal cutlets, that delicious dish! . (An. uproar of applause)—" Veal cutlets!" continued Sir Robert— " think of that Gentlemen, for four-pence-halfpenny! butter, four-pence or six-pence a pound. At that time, many would be seen round may-poles with sil ver tankards in their hands. What A diraseneenow . existed! and this difference was occasioned by the taxes. They saw also that Are taxes 4.1 d. to il duceri a total change in the character of the Engr people, One of the greatest men in a foreign country had said, that of a German he would ask, what number of quarters he had in his shield? of. a •Frenchmany what place he held in Court? of a Spaniard, whether he wasiGrandes? but of an Englishman , what sort of a man he was? (Applause). BUt now the character of Englishmen abroad was quite changed. He would shew them what the Frenchmen thought of the Eng lish character. He had received by the Post yester. .clay what was called a French caricature; but they would judge whether it was a caricature or a true portrait—(Herehe exhibited a Parisian print). The person represented was styled " , a free-born English man." He was heavily ironed. Near him was a town in flames: it was Parga—a Christian town, de livered up to the Turks, contrary to the principles of humanity, and the faith of treaties. They knew the story, for they read the Newspapers. Next was re presented a prison, which contained as many in mates as would fill a town, all for political offences and libels. They might look at them through the iron bars. There they saw Mrs. Bull with her chil dren, whom she was carrying out of the house (Loud cheers). In one part were represented Taxes, in ano ther Political Publications, in a third, " Liberty" trampled on. Then came the outrage at Manchester, still uninquireJ into (Cries of Shame! shame!) The free-born Englishman had a gag in his mouth ; not that which the Honourable Baronet wished to have, :but such a gag as the Bills which the Baronet ap proved had put upon their mouths! (Great applause). He meant the Bills against Public Meetings and the Liberty of the Press. If the Honourable Baronet dis approved of the Seizure of Arms' Bill, there were four others equally obnoxious, of which he had ex pressed his. approbation. Under the present system, the very best man—the Chancellor of the Exchequer, a very good man, as he certainly was—the very best man was obliged to att in a harsh and cruel man ner, and to levy taxes, not as the People could bear, but as the Revenue required. It was so in France before the Revolution, where a Minister had said in irony, when the People were talked of as unfortu nate—" What! unfortunate!—is that all? Then we must have a great deal more from them." Out sys tem, if continued, would in like manner produce a Revolution. In Parliament, he had heard men pro- , pose that the People should be kept in ignorance! Ignorance, they knew, begot idleness, idleness begot' vice, and vice a halter! (Applause).* Such was the mode in which this country wai made to resemble what a foreign country, Naples, had been represented. King Robert, he was proud of his namesake, had gone to a picture shop, and asked the painter for an allegorical description of his kingdom? Next day he returned, and got such a representation, in which the painter, in consequence of boys and girls being prohibited primers and horn-books, and the People being kept in darkness, as they were proposed to be kept, had represented the kingdom under the alle gory of a—what? a dying jack-ass!-,(Blost Glamour ous applause). They were agreed, then, as to the meaning of. country. It was not the soil, but the happiness, the honour, and welfare of the society ip which they lived. Since Government existed for the many, and not for the few, they had all a eight to see how this society was regulated and protected. Accordingly, they thought that no redress of present grievances, even if redress could he obtained, was sufficient without the restoration of confidence be tween the governors and the governed (Applause).— The only means of restoring such confidence was the. admission cf such improvement into the Commons House of Parliament as would purify the sources of legislation. The Honourable Baronet would not say whether he was a Reformer or not. The Baronet, he confessed, stood in. a difficult situation ; for if he thought Reform necessary, and should say so, al though a great objection would be removed, the Ba ronet's friends would, as they had done once before, not turn their backs upon the Baronet, but, a; Lord Castlereagh expressed it, turn their backs upon them selves, which was the greatest miracle ever performed. —His. (Sir Robert's) object was, not to have it said that he had been so. many years Member for ,Southwark, but to have it inscribed upon his tomb, that he had served the Electors of Southwark in the most useful manner, and consulted the good of his country while he gratified their feelings (Shouts of applause). It should never be said of him, as in the parable, that he was a bramble occupying ground better adapted for the vine, the Olive, or the fig-tree. If he could not pay them the attention which ought to be paid to them at this time, and if he were not so active as he had. been before, he trusted they would not ascribe it to any presumption of success, but pardon him, as his dearestrelative in the world was now for five months on a bed of sickness.—The gallant General retired amidst enthusiastic applauses. Sir THOMAS TURTON was received with an im mense uproar of applause and hisses. It wits, he said, impossible for him to contend with the flowing speech they had just heard; He could not at once let off so many tricks and so much charlatanry. The. Electors ought to . have paid sixpence each for the print, of which he had only seen the back, as was done on similar stages (Hussar and kisses). He thought he had seen a mountebank prepared to collect the six pences (Cries of " That's ungeekmanlj ; Mat's inso lent; sff, ef"). He would not attend to the flies that were buzzing behind him; but he would an swer such questions as were asked by the electors before him (You are not a Catholic, Sir Thomas), No, he never would pledge himself to support Ca tholic Emancipation (Hisses). They who lived in glass houses ought not to throw stones. What he had said thirteen years ago had been,stuck up against him ; but he never did say anything like what was represented. As to the state of the poll, he was frightened at it, when he considered that no sooner bad the candidates yesterday stuck their knives into the fish, than they .ran down stairs, exclaiming— " Good Goan! Sir Thomas will beat us if we don't canvass immediately."—(" No, I drank a good bottle of sire oiler dinner, " apemen in th e crowd cried.)--. He had itfrom one f the candidates that he had can vassed after dinner, which was not pleasant; and he ventured to add, t hat he canvassed in great fear.— He entreated a hearing, for the other Candidates made their speeches out of his. (By this time the pa per containing the proverb had been handed to Sir Thomas). He appealed' to them as Englishmen Insbeaser attacks as were made upon him •werel ITV:?.bat he was as littleafraid ofthem as of those made them. • But he had been speaking of the state of the Pell. It was evident front the state of the nunshars that there was a coalition between the withouteould th oth ey er be part lie ?s e.tha te t m th a e ke nu th in a b t e a rs cl w o e se m ßo so ro el ug u h al . a coalition to keep out one Candidate ? (Here he amuains It complained ab il u th t e hi n tn i . se made by g- Ecigliskrnen that any Candidate should be treated h v y ery such di a sg set disgraceful ra to l with insult, or even with disrespect. The indigna tion se generally and pertinaciously expressed at the t use of the term " raggamuffm," obliged Sir Thomaso say that he never forgot a kindness, but that he at once forgot injuries. If he had used any expres sions which were improper, or offensive to any per son, he was-very sorryfor it—(Bravo! that's fair).— A 'great deal of allowance ought to be made for a man in his - situation, having, in the first instance, large numbers against him on the poll, and supposed to feel very sore. He disclaimed, from his heart, any intention of using any disrespectful terms. The gal lant General had charged him with having never declared his political principles. He had yesterday declared that he would support the Constitution in Church and State—that was his political creed. As to pledges, he never would give any--(" What ! not for IlsArnt?") He had voted for it, and that was better than any pledge. There never had been a motion for making the Representation co extensive With property, as it was in that Borough, which he had not supported. There might be a wild system of Reform, such as Uaiveral Suffrage, which he would. not support—(Cries of , g We don't want it :) He would vote for the abolition of rotten Boroughs.- -The gallant General had alluded to the term "country," and quoted the saying of foreigners, and an observation of Sir Robert Walpole. He had not lived in Sir Robert's time, and therefore it could not have been applied to him. Sir Robert Walpole had said, that every man had his price ; and, if that were true, the gallant General must have his price. If Sir Robert Walpole had attempted to buy him, and the General had said, " You are mistaken," Sir Robert Walpole could say, 4 , I have always found it otherwise !" Beer had been sold at the same p. ice be fore the late tar, and therefore the worthy Candi date bad no right to ascribe the high mice to that tax. He disapproved of all such sq . stibs, but they were justifiable in self-defence. Ile would tell them, therefore, the prices of the several ingredients from which beer was made. Barley was from thirty to forty shillings.—Dlr. CALVERT, " That's not true rj— Perhaps the price.had risen since the Election com menced, in consequence of the Honourable Brewer's lavish use of beer ! His speech, thirteen years old, had been called forth against him. Another squib, nineteen years old, was now attempted to be used against him. All who knew him would laugh at a squib which charged him with not loving women.— CHere the worthy Baronet entered into the history of his youthful adventures a little more eiplicitly than we can decently report.)—He was conscious of no thing in this respect which afFected his honour, how ever prudence may have been violated. The chief happiness of malt depended entirely on lovely, de lightful woman. GOD grant that he might never bow but to woman and to the laws of his country— (Applanse).—The gallant General had ti ave}led through Arabia, China, Ttirkey, France, Spain, and England, in order to exhibit the degraded character, of an Englishman. But if such a representation were true, there was nut a man of those who-were said to have oppressed them that would not feel it as keenly as themselves--(Great confusion). th —They ought to hear him without interruption, oerwise it would be said that the other Candidates were clever fellows, but that he was an ass ! He would give no pledge, either to those who now supported him, or to the Electors of Southw ar k, if th e y .. electe d him.— , He would go into Parliament unshackled, or nut at all. He would not, like the other Candidates , pledge himself to support Catholic Emancipation. A foreign Sovereign had been employed, very improperly in a political view, but very creditably for Religion, in making a petticoat for the Virgin Mary, He would rather be . subject to a Mini s ter who might be some times right, than to a Priest whose - bigotry must make him always wrong. lie then again adverted to the charge .of beating women. He was not a turn coat, but the espression imputed to him he bad used when a Magistrate was vary active in supporting a Treasury Candidate, Mr. Tierney, who was himself a turncoat. He had upon that occasion told the Ma gistrate, that he would take personal notice of his conduct. The Magistrate was afterwards civil to him; but it was in allusion to him that he had quoted the couplet, " A woman, a spaniel," &c. This was now brought against him for lack of better wit. Mr. Cal vert had then gone back 19 years for such a sqltib " There are wham Haves, has giten great store of wit, " That want as much again to manage it !" As to his prophesies, prophets, soothsayers, and wo men, were all alike. He recollected to have formerly polled 3000. He was not, therefore, dismayed, al though the other Candidates were 300 a-head at the expense of their dinner. No one liked to be told that Ire had lost his dinner, as he could not recover it by eating two dinners next day—( A laugh). Mr. Cal vert would chew his heels, not by outrunning him, but by running out of the Borough. He would exer cise his own judgment if they returned him to Par liament, but the other Candidates' voted on every question against Government, which could not be right, as every man was sometimes right and some times wrong. They were obliged to him for giving them an opportunity of choosing their Candidates— (Much laughter). How could they know that their Representatives would be steady in their principles for seven years, if he had not put them to this trial? —(Hisees and applause.) Sir RORERT Wilson said, that two charges had been brought against him, which he pledged himself , to refute to-morrow, or to withdraw from the bust- 1 1 ifigs. The first was, that he had pledged himself to Catholic Emancipation; the second, that he would vote against Ministers, whatever measures they pro. posed. He was now told that the latter charge had been matte, not by the Baronet, but by Mr. Allan Shutter ; but he pledged himself to vindicate himself from both charges. He had formerly declared, and he could' do so still, that he never would go into Par liament ,but as an honest and independent man.— (Great applause). Us. CALvaar said, that the assertion that he had pledged himself to support Catholic trretnciraeol was not true. Those measures of Governruent which were good had never been opposed at all. 4:he..0 pobitton only suggested Ametio thews that Appeared to them beneficial ; and he never supported an measures which he did not consider important to th , i interests of the People—(Applause). The Candidates then lett the hustings, ar,d the crowd dispersed. BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE. SIIERIFFS COURT, I..:RWCASTLE, FEBRUARY 23. WILSON V. ARUNDALE, JEW. The defendant in this very inteiesting case, havirg allowed judgment to go by default, thereby admit ting the promise of marriage, and that some damages were requisite, the parties now appeared by COunteh Serjeant CROSS and Mr. WILLIAMS for the plaintiff ; Mr. Losn and Mr..Garx for the defendant. Dme mages laid at 13000. Serjeant Otos:: detailed the cause of acticn, bt which it appeared, that Miss Elizabeth Wilson rived in Newcastle in the latter end of 1814., on a visit to her uncle, Mr. Macnay, a grocer ; sho , after her arrival, she became acquainted with the de fendant. The family in which Miss Wil. m resided, were what are called religious people, and the Lhz fendant having shewn some desire to become oue of the Methodist connexion (his family being Quakersi, was received on intimate terms in the house of ti.e plaintiff's uncle ;—in about six months after the a:- rival of the young Lady, her intimacy with the de fendant became notorious to all their acquaintance; it continued in the same way until 1817, when Miss Wilson became pregnant, and, to conceal her mi-for tune from the world, retired to the West of Englane, where she was safely delivered of a child ; from t!::.s time forward the warmth of the defendant's love seemed to abate, as appeared by a letter which W 23 read, dated in Leeds, August 1817, which contai:led little but wishes for the recovery of her health, and advice by which that desirable object was to be ac complished, and concluded by stating that he; mis fortune was but little known in Newcastle, and hopes that it would soon be forgotten. —Here Serjeant CROSS appealed to the feelings of the Jury, ac fa thers of families, on the cold neglect which he con tended shone through this letter, Farticula: ly the latter part. Two witnesses were then called to prove the hand-writing of the defendant, and the intimate terms on which he lived with the plaintiff, which was generally kown ; one of these, Mr. Grant, a local preacher of the Methodist sect, was a very intimate friend of the plaintiff's uncle, and knew the parties from the time the young Lady first came to New castle, in 1814.; he stated that iliss IVihon was the picture of health when she first arrived in this town, and that she was now directly the contrary. He was examined as to Lovelea.sts, which he described as meetings of the admitted for the purpose of prayer and psalm-singing, _ and perfectly free from all im proper conduct; he proved the hard writing of a letter from the defendant to the plaintiff while in London, with the sister of the defendant, which being written in the style of a Quaker, caused considerable laughter in the Court. In this epistle, he compl a i ns -of her not having written to him immediately on her era rival in London, after many expressiong .of a loving nature, and an anxious desire that she would be careful of herself in the great place of temptation ; at the same time, admitting that it was hardly probable she would be put to so much hazard in this respect as he had been ! he then informed her of se veral places in London, a visit to which he thought would gratify her curiosity, amongst them the Jews' Synagogue and the British Museum ; hese, after many pious ejaculations, he informs her may be sees stones, brought from afar, which retain the impression of fishes, &c. which he conceives a strong proof of that part of _Scripture which treats of the great flood; and ends the letter with a wish that he could call himself her husband.—Mr. WILLIAMS assisted in the examination of the witnesses, who were cross-exa.. mined by Mr. GRRY (Mr. Ldsst being engaged in the County Court), who elicited little from them in favour of his client, except that they were totally unac quainted with any communication having been made to the father of the defendant, as to the probable con nection between his son and the plaintiff. The case here closed for the plaintiff; and Mr. Gana rose to , speak in mitigation of damages, which be did with great ability and argument ; a 5: 4 contended that his Learned Friend had drawn and highly cofoured a pic ture for the purpose of carryin g with him the feelings of the Jury, when, in reality, the case was one of the lightest description he had ever met with of the same nature; he then drew parallel case to the one amt.. ally before them, in the course of which he shewed that the defendant was of a superior rank in life, and that the friends of the plaintiff had never intimated, in the slightest manner, to the father or friends of the de fendant, the connection which would probably take place between the young persons, a n d on this grornd he contended the friends of. the plaintiff were ex tremely culpable, and in fact, much more to blame, in the unfortunate calamity which befel the young lady at a subsequent period. That, as the defendant was under age at the time he had promised the mt . • riage, it was still mere the duty of the plaintiff's friends to have enquired whether such a marriage was at all agreeable to the connections of the defend ant ; he maintained that such conduct was highly re• prehensible, and only shewed their overweening desire for the marriage, which they were willing to go any lengths-to obtain; that they had it in their power to have required his client to produce her letters to the . defendant, which they had thought proper to omit, the inference from which to be drawn was, that they would have proved detrimental to-their cause. Ha* , ing been several times interrupted in the course of his speech, he was compelled to recapitulate the prink pal arguments he had used, which he did in an e n e r , getic and forcible manner, which seemed to make considerable impression on he Court. The evidence was then read over by the Under Sheriff, and the Jtiry, after a deliberation of about twenty minutes, returned a verdict of Damages to the amount of £soo.—Darkam'ammick. IIRTHS. On Friday, the 3d instaat, ioßutland-oguare, Dublin, the Countess of Longford, of a son. At Gibraltar, the Lady of Major This Fier% of the Royal Engineers, of a son. LONDON; Prune& and published by 1.41111. Knes, Plskete - : Mate, Tenspk-lisr, \ ~. P. 1 1 i -,.. I T 1 .‘ ~., i , -4 1 I I I I la p 1 DT .~ .et ;Ca of re lb ‘a• . .116.