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not mean to make any allusion to the political con duct of his two worthy.friends. The Livery were the proper judges of that, and in their hands he would leave it; but he surely might be allowed to say, that no two Gentlemen could have been more aezentive, or more persevering, than they had been. Having personally witne.sed this, it was his duty, in justice to. them, to mention it. For himself, he thought it almost unnecessary to make any profes sions ; and he would assure them, no threats or in 7 daceinents •of any kind should ever operate on his mild to lead him to neglect his public duties. If at an/ time he should happen to give a vote contrary to the wishes of the Livery, he would, on being satis fied that he had so voted, instantly resign his seat, because he valued that seat no mote than merely as holding it for the public good (Applauses). Mr. CURTIS came forward, but, as usual, could not obtain a hearing. Ile turned round and ad dresse' Mr. Alderman Waithmanovlio immediately came to the front of the hustings, aid stated that he had been requested by Mr. Ceetts to obtain a hear ing. 11e earnestly hoped they would do so for their own sakes, as well as to hear what the son of the . worthy Baronet would say to them. Mr. Curtis, on this made another effort, but in vain, and then point ing to the state of the poll, and joining his friends in three cheers, he retired. The LORD MAYOR came forward amidst much clamour, with some applause. It was nearly impos sible to hear him at all, from the tsemendous noise in the Hall. He was understood to cypress his thanks for the high honour done him, and his as surance that every attention should be shewn to the duties of that situation he now filled. He highly eulogized Mr. Wilson, whom he had known for upwards of twenty years, and quite concurred with the observations he had made on the importance of mercantile characters being Representatives of the City of London. Mr. Alderman WAITHMAN said, if he had been defeated by any folly of his own, or by any loss of esteem on the part of his fellow-citizens, it would much have affected him ; but as it was, lie never was in a more calm state of mind than at present. — In the course rat - his canvass, he found a great increase of friends—he had not lost any, and had a much greater number of promises; and when nominated, he believed he had seven out of eight hands held up in his favour—( Applause). He was most sorry they would licit hear the Gentleman who went before him. All that Gentleman could do was to look up at the poll. lie had that action hereditarily—( A laugh). He also could look at the poll, and say, if dissected, it would be seen that the triumph had been purchased at a sacrifice of public principle and private friend ship—(Disapprobetion). What he had said was true,l as would be seen if the poll was dissected—(And it shall be detected !). It was strange, that although the Livery had increased in numbers since the last Election, much fewer in member had polled now than on that occasion. lie had this day polled '2BO more than his opponent, though he had polled 400 and upwards less than last Election ; and if it were examined into, it would be found, that if his private friends were struck off from the poll of his opponents, where they had been forced to inscribe their names, notwithstanding all the influence of the Lord Mayor, his Committees, and his gold chain into the bargain, which it must be acknowledged had some weight, lie should now have a majority. Many of his friends had this day come forward, but some had been de terred by fears horn doing so ; to the first his obli gations were unbounded, to the latter he should say,' ] if their Representatives should be found in the rank supporting Ministerial influence, and an increase of the Civil List, they would have no right to complain. Mr. Waithman then adverted to the libels and slan ders which had been circulated, reflecting on his pri vate character, during the Election. He could con scientiously say, he had never set his hand to any election squib, or authorised or consented to any in dividual of his party doing so ; but libels reflecting esis his character had been industriously circulated even amongst his own family—Way/JO—and in the course of his life, his property had suffered by these base slanders to the amount of thousands. It had been represented that he was the friend of Carlile, and that Thistlewood had been the Chairman done of his Committees : he gave a flat denial to both as sertions. He never saw Carlile hut once, and that was by mere chance whilst on his trial ; lie had never read his works, and no man in the kingdom held the opinions cf that person in more abhorrence than he did. As to Thistlewood, he had never seen him that be eras aware of. Ii his sentiments were not already known, he would resiv state them : it was the duty of every wise and good man to defend the Constitu tion, and to resist its invasions either by coritption or violence. But this was not to be done by rejecting the Petitions of the People, or by defending acknow ledged abuses. Let the voice of the People be but attended to, their Petitions regarded, and the Con stitution would have nothing to fear from the attempts of desperadoes. With respect to the present contest and its results, lie must repeat (and many gentlemen present knew it) that, when he was put in nomination, he had seven hands out of eight in his favour, and if all the Livery who had polled could now be collected, he had no doubt he should have the voices of three I out of four of the whole number polled. He had great pleasure in reflecting, that through the whole of his canvass he had never been told that he gave a single bad vote, that he had neglected the interests of Isis country, or on any occasion been absent from his duty. The Livery had now deserted him, he was unc onscious for what cause, but though defeated he was not depressed ; he should continue to cherish the pi inciples of liberty, but be should, at the same time, retire and consult his own case ; he should not push himself forward, but he should always bar ready to obey the call of his fellow-citiaens whenever they required his services. He could say with the Poet— "'Tis not in mortals to command success, flut we'll do more---.We will deserve it !" The Independent Livery had done more, they had, by their esertioos deserved success. Why they had not obtained it, remained for those who had deserted them to explaiu. He should now take his leave, by observing, that to those who had so nobly come far ward to support him, he was indeed under the greatest obligation, but to those who had formerly gone far ther than he had done—to those who had now, with out any reason assigned, deseited him, he had only to say—" Faremeell, I owe you nothing!"—The worthy Alderman withdrew amidst reiterated acclamations. Mr. Alderman THORP was 'received with the loudest applause, and, in a short address, returned his grateful acknowledgthents fOr the station to which he had been raised on the 'poll, though it was not such as to crown his ambition with success. He at ttibuted the failure of the popular cause to the jea lousy of the popular Candidates of each other, who, by their voles, had 13c - en divided. He once more Thanked his fellow-citizens for their kindness towards him, and adverted, in appropriate terms, to the praise-worthy conduct of the Sheriffs. Mr. 'Alderman WOOD again presented himself to bear his testimony likewise to the attention paid by the Sheriffs, and their subordinate Officers, to the business of the Election ; and dwelt particularly en the - convenience of some arrangements which they had made on the precedilg day. In this he was oined by the Lord Mayor ; and a p erson near the hustings called out for a vote of thanks, to which the worthy Alderman replied, that such a vote would come more properly when the Candidates were duly declared; and he advised those who had large wagers pending on the issue of the contest, to wait till then before they paid such of them as appeared to have lost by the state of the poll—(A laugh). The Election having thus terminated, the Meeting left the hail with as much regularity as the immense numbers which were crowded within it would admit. Mr. Alderman Thorp entered his chariot, and was loudly cheered by the populace, who were collected in immense crowds in King-street, and the places ad jacent. Mr. Alderman Wood next set out from the Guildhall in his landau, which was decorated by branches of laurel ; the moment he was recognized by die populace out of doors, he was received by them with universal shouts of acclamation, the horses were taken florh the carriage, and he was drawn triumphantly along the streets. Mr. Wilson, on coming away from the Hall, was cheered by the applauses of many of his friends, while several others among Me crowd assailed him with sounds of dis- approbation. WESTMINSTER ELECTION. FIFTII D.Y. • The numbers at the close of the poll this day were as follows : Sir FRAxcts Ilmuntrr - - - itl7g Mr. Ilomicouse - - - - - 2051 Mr. I.Ams - - -124 S Sir FRANCIS BtranETT then came forward, and ivas greeted, as usual, with loud applause. He com menced his speech by observing, that he addressed them on that day with still more satisfaction than he did yesterday, notwithstanding that their advantage on the poll did not go to the extent which he had then anticipated. However, they had nothing to do but continue the same course, in order to ensure that triumphant success to which he looked forward with confidence. Mr. Lamb seemed yesterday to suppose, that they were disappointed at the result of the poll, as he had good reason for believing that they calcu lated on a majority of one thousand. He (Sir F. Burdett) was far from wishing to hold out false hopes either to friends or opkionents, but they must all be aware bow difficult it was in a large City such as that, to calculate with any degree of accuracy on the probable resultof any one day's polling. The Elec tors must naturally consult their own convenience, ' 1 according to the opportunities of their different trades; but he would fairly confess, that he had entertained expectations with respect to the probable exertions of the present day, which the present state of the poll did not realise. But still there was one circum stance which afforded him great satisfaction. When he addressed them yesterday, he felt something like compunction, in making remarks upon a Gentleman engaged in what he considered a falling cause, and overwhelmed with circumstances peculiarly unfortu nate and embarrassing. He found, however, that Mr. Lamb himself was of a different opinion—that he thought (to use his own language) he had obtained prosperity—he should only wish him a continuance of the same prosperity to the end of the poll (Laughter). It was peculiarly fortunate for Mr. Lamb, that he had an imagination of this sanguine and agreeable kind—that he lived in a Paradise of his own ; and where others observed disappointment and despair, he could discover nothing but hope, and joy, and consolation. But the Gentleman was unfortunate in other respects : he was unfortunate in speaking, unfortunate in writ ing, unfortunate in acting, - unfortunate in himself, un fortunate in hi'ffriends, and unfortunate in his enemies, as he had the great body of the Electors against him. He was unfortunate: he was unfortunate in being the author of a Farce which was damned, not long ago, at one of the*Theatres ; and he was not less unfortu nate in now coming forward again to perform the same farce in Coventgarden' where the perform ance was likely to meet with the same fate; it would be what was called doubly dawned (Ltiughter and applause). He bad begun with a Farce, and prbba bly would end with a Tragedy, reversing the usual succession of dramatic exhibitions, an encroachment for which he was responsible. But probably Mr. Lamb "could see.nothing of tragedy in the perform ance; he was always surrounded with rainbow co lours, which appeared beautiful and luminous to his eyes, in proportion as they were dark and offensive in the eyes of others. Mr. Lamb had stated of him, (he did not mean to lay much stress on it, as that Gentleman acknowledged that he often said • things which he did not mean) —he had stated, however, that he (Sir Francis Burdett) had declared himself in favour of the Constitution as it is. The last three little words were added by Mr. Lamb himself, and \ ,those few words made all the.difference; they altered his Meaning, and misrepresented his opinion. The Constitution which he declared himself in favour of / was that Constitution which was founded ()lithe great , basis of public liberty—that Constitution which was founded on the .Charters that were obtained when the People refused to submit to the arbitrary exertions of Charles the First, and on the principles that were established at the Revolution. So that Mr. Lamb was as unfortunate in that as in his other allusions. His conduct and situation throughout reminded him of a correspondent of his, and he believed of many others, who commenced all his letters with the words " An unfortunate Gentleman," and always con cluded with stating, that " the smallest donatiou would be thankfully received !" (Loud laughter).— For a long time he was puzzled to think who this unfortunate Gentleman could be ; perhaps he wa not yet successful in his guess, but if ever there wa a man who deserved to be called the nnfortitnate Gentleman, his opponent was the person !—(Laughter ski app/auu).—The Constitution mrilit be compared to a nosegay, consisting of various flowers, but WI the flowers were displated, and, a bundle of stinging ' nettles put in their place, it 'was hardly fair to expect ' a man to praise the beauty of their appearance, or the delicacy of their odour! But Mr, Lamb would probaLly consider this distinction as wild, visionary, and unintelligible. He did not mean, in alluding to the Constitution, to refer to that immense pile of Sta tutes which neither Mr. Lamb, not Lawyers of greater experience than Mr. Lamb, could pretend to com prehend with accuracy, but to the common law of the land, which was founded on common sense...-. One principle of the Constitution wai, that the People had a right to their own property. Ano ther was, that' they had a right, in cases a charge, to be tried by a Grand Jury in the first instance, and not to be finally punished without the inter vention of another Jury of their own equals.— These were 'the principles of the Constitution. It was true. that the wicked Bills, which Mr. Lamb had accused him of defending, infringed the.princi • pies of the Constitution, and that the People ought not, and could not, be content until such infamous enactments were repealed. Mr. Lamb had also in formed them, that the moment Mr. Ilobhouse was returned to Parliament he must necessarily become a Whig ; and extending the remark to him (Sir F. Burdett), he had added, that he was always abusing the Whigs and voting with them. In that, as in every thing else, Mr. Lamb was unfortunate. Tire Whigs were out of place, by the very locality of their 'Government; but were opposed to the measures o f but suppose that, by any accident, the Whigs were to get into place, what would become - of hilt ?—(Laughter).—A Whig was of all things the most like a Tory when in place, and a Tory was of all things the most like a Whig when out of place I Mr. lamb was a most unfortunate associate for his friends the Whigs. He did not mean, but for him, to have alluded to that party cn the hustings—he had never done them the injustice to deny that among them were to be found many of the most indepen dent and upright Men in the country ; but when Mr. Lamb informed ,them that 'Mr. Ilobhouse must be- . come a Whig, there were so many links to be sup plied in the chain of reasoning from which such an inference was drawn, that he was certain they could not understand It without further explanation. As the shortest way of informing them, he would put a case. Suppose an honest man was passing by a neighbour hood where there was a house on ire. Suppose a gang of thieves were passing 'the same way at the same period, and that all joined heartily together in their efforts to extinguish the fire and save the lives of the inhabitants, Mr. LaMb would have it that the honest man was one of the gang—( Laughter and applause).—He begged pardon of the NN big; for making such an unsavoury comparison, but they should thank their unfortunate friend. Mr. Lamb would recommend, that if they sent Mr. Hobhouse into Parliament, a little place should be made for him in the middle of the House, he should have a seat and a voting box to himself. These things were too ludicrous to be stated to the enlightened minds of the Electors of Westminster, or, nt fact, to any assembly but the House of Commons, where some interest required that sham arguments ;la absurd conclusions should be attended to. With regard to the great subject of Reform itself, it never stood so high as at the present moment. No . man could now presume to stand upon the hustings without making some professions in favour of it. Mr. Lamb had brought up the names of Whig and Tory, names which he abhorred, because they kept up a spirit of needless animosity, by the mere force. of words unconnected with any public principle.— While he admitted that there were many honest and honourable men among the Whigs, he admitted the same of the Tories, and all he wanted was that they should unite together in the great cause of Reform. Let them do so, and then the country would divide upon a fair principle, and it would soon be seen what the wishes of the country were. He would now leave Mr. Lamb in the possession of those buoyant hopes which, happily for himself, sustained him. The con test would prove, in the end, like the race between. the tortoise and the hare, for the tortoise was as full of hope as the hare in the beginning, but the further they travelled the greater was the distance between him and hiocompentor. He did not wish to detract from that " sunshine of the breast," which was now Mr. Lamb's only possession, but he would -again con gratulate the Electors of Westminster• on the daily advance of' their cause, which he was confident that the result of this contest would place upon. a rock that would not easily be removed or shaken (Loud and continued applause). Mr. LAMB next offered himself to the attention of the Meeting, and was received with cheers and marks of disapprobation. Upon the termination of the noise, the Honourable Gentleman observed, that the Honourable Baronet appeared fortunately to have quite got rid of the cold of which he complained some days ago, and he (Mr. Lamb) had the misfor tune to catch it, and that was a misfortune which he much more sensibly felt than any of the mi sfortunes ascribed ascribed to him by the Honourable Baronet—(Suite applause and laughter)—for he could assure the Ho nourable Baronet and the Meeting, that he neither conceived himself so unfortunate, nor Mr. Ilobhouse so fortunate, as the Honourable Baronet seemed to suppose. The situation of Mr. l'lobhouse, indeed, with reference to the result of this contest, might, in his view, not inaptly be compared to that of a per son not long since much talked of, and denominated " the kortunate Youth That youth made such an imposing appearance at the outset.of his career, ass) excite a general belief that he was quite the favourite of fortune, but in the end he proved to be extremely unfortunate, and such he anticipated would be the fate of Mr. Hobhouse—(Some, applause mixed with laughter and hisses). For himself, he could declare, that the state of the poll did not in any degree abate his hopes of ultimate success. lie thanked the llo nourable Baronet for his allusion to the fable of the hare and the tortoise, for those who rerpenibered that fable must be aware, that although the tortoke was so slow in his movements, he still won tire r ace, as he had no doubt he should—(Applause and hisses) He, therefore, felt no degree of orsappOintrient at the state of the poll-; but it was evident that his op ponents were disappointed; the Honourable Baronet himself having confessed it. Fur hint, lrowevor, there was no ground for dismay, as he had this day olled more votes than on the same day at the last Election, in which he was ultimately victorious. But his confidence in the result was encouraged from what he himself knew, as well as from the report of all his friends, which fully assured him that the ma jority of the Electors of this great City were decidedly in his fiviour:—(Hisses and applause:). • The tempo rary success, therefore, of his opponent, by no means damped his expectation of victory ; for with that degree of exertion which he was promised by - his friends, he.could not doubt of being enabled to over whelm his opponent. From various reasons ids friends had been heretofore rather slack, but now those reatoas having ceased, the time was come for such exettions as they were resolved to make, and as Could not fail to be effective ; for they' felt, n-s they ought, that they should not allow a Candidate - to be returned for this City against the wish of a majority of the Electors—(Hies end applauses).-- Mr. Lamb then promised the Meeting that lie would ' detain them but a short time, as they did not appear disposed to hear him—(Here there was a general cry of !hear him, hear him !" accompanied with" . Pitt o>ti , your hat, Mr. Lamb!"). The Hon. Gentleman• said, that he had only a few observations to offer at pre sent, but they were such as he felt it his duly to make. It was painful to him to allude to persons who were not present, and who, through the allusion, might be subj !toed to animadversions which they had o not an opportunity of answering, but the necessity of making that allusion was fotced upon him by the language of Mr. Hobhou se. That Gentleman had alleged, that he was committed by the House of Com , • mons without having been Itzard ; and also, that that House had bad no legal evidence before It of his having been the author of the pamphlet. Upon these allegations Mr. llobhouse complained of the conduct of the House. of Cot-Onions. Now, as to the first alle gation, it was known thara friend of Mr. Hobhouse had, by his. own authority, declared to the House, that that Gentleman was the author of the pamphlet alluded to ; and as to the second allegation, he un derstood that Mr. Hobhouse had no wish whatever to address an oration to the House, from an impres sion, as it was said, that that would be only 4‘ throw ing pearls before swine !"—(Applause and hissing).— But of the declaration made to the House of Ccm mons, that Mr. Hobhouse was the author of the pam phlet referred to, why was not that declaration con tradieted by the other friends of that Gentleman who were present at the time, among whom was the Ho nourable Baronet beside him ? Or, if this Gentleman had any wish to address the House, why was not that wish expressed by some one of his friends? If such a wish were expressed, he (Mr. Lamb) had no doubt that it would have been complied with—(Applauses and hisses). He (Mr. Lamb) would. certainly ha"e been one of those most for Ward to vote for a compli ance with such. a wish. But no such Wish was ex pressed in the House, or even understood to exist, or perhaps felt, because the Honourable Gentleman had ' got the grievance, which he wanted for the purpose of obtaining popular eclat, and ingratiating . himsclf • into the favour of the Electors of Westminster,— (Hisses and some applause). The Honourable Gentle man had indeed, through this case, exactly hit upon the incident which suited his views of personal am bition, and the House of Commons unwittingly for warded those views by giving him that imoriSonment, which he desired. as a stepping-stone to the represen tation of Westminster—(Hinses, with some applausc). Mr. Hobhouse, from his classical. leaning, was no doubt aware. that in ancient Home the avenue to tit'e - Temple of Honour was through the Temple of Vir tue, but that Gentleman appeared to think that a prison was the best road to the distinction of repre senting Westminster !—(Hisses, and cries of " o f !" with some applause). Mr. LANIB retired ; but Mr. HOBNOUSE stood for ward, and begged the people to hear the Hon. Gen ' demon, as nothing could be better calculated to ad vance their views, than the very candid, fair, manly, land independent manner, in which that Hon. Gentle 1, man explained his sentiments--(Laughter and an plause). The Hon. Gentleman then called upon Mr. I..otoin to finish the observations which lie meant to make. • Mr. LAMB resumed, and observed, that he himself voted against the committal of Mr. Hobhouse by the House of Commons, but he certainly did not antici pate that the Hon. Gentleman meant to make an I. electioneering use of that committal. He did not, indeed, suspect that Mr. Hobhouse had any such in tention, or that he would remain in prison without making any complaint to the House, determined to muse up his imprisonment for a political use at these hustings. But whatever the conduct or view of the Hon. Gentleman might be, he (Mr. Lamb) felt it .his duty to vote as he had done against that Gentle. man's confinement, although he certainly disapproves 6f the publication complained of. Mr. 110/3110USE stood forward, and was receive, with cheers. He began by saying, that he was gla, the Meeting had allowed Mr. Lamb to dwell so lor,! as he thought fit on his prison topic, which he (M: Lamb) bad himself intioduced to the Electors fir: by his famous Letter; a topic which he (Mr. Hol house) would not have obtruded on their -notice.— Mr. Lamb had accused him of quietly submitting the treatment he had received from the• House• Commons, in order to make an electioneering 71r ruzuvre of that imprisonment. It was unfair in NI Lamb to say so—that was not the way in which who advocated their cause, and that of firedog ought to be treated. He would, besides, tell IV Lamb, that it was . false that he (Mr. Hobhou: meant to make, or had made of that imprisoniner an-electioneering trick ; and he did not think tl Mr. Lamb himself believed what he had assern —How was he (Mr. Hobhouse) to know that King would die, and a new Parliament be called. How could he tell that at the time of his imprio... mcnt by the House of Commons? So far was Irons intending any electioneering trick, that, wl certain of the Electors of Westthinster met to pc. 'tion Parliament against the passing olthe obnoxi Bills, and did him the honour to send for him draw ups their Address and ResolUtiOns, he (! kloblostese) of his own accord, inserted a Resoluf of Thanks to Mr. Lamb for his opposition to t' measures. After such things, what did they Os of Mr. Lamb's Temple of Virtue? Did they child.: Mr. Lamb. had been t there? 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