Star. — London, England, 1826-06-30 00:00:00

. . I 3 P.• . j, I 1 a mss- r —,.........-............ , .... • a nisle—S:r James Shaw. Colonel 6faxwell,and William M ,itlind,X.m. of Auchlavie. • As Mr. Valera. of 13arnelesch, was in the act of retiring. the Chairman begged that he would not leave the room until hit health' ;Am proposed—a toast heovras certain would be drank with the utmost cordiality. :Mr. Maxwart returned thanks. The next toast was. " Prosost M`Kinnell and the Magistrates of Kirkcudbright,* body from whom he had received every civility." 1 "The health of the Rev. Mr. Hamilton, who has come from a' g vat distance. and contributed materially to the success of 04 day**—frmn the Chair. Mr. HAMILTON maned thank', and proposed as a toast, " Ma* party spirit always yield to the public good." The healths of Major Calton, who had come from Frankton an the Main—Captain Gordon, from Paris—and Major Kennedy Clark, from Ireland. The toast was, " Major Colton, and Me trusty compeers." Mr. Cocron returned thanks for the honour done him and tba other Gentlemen named. The Coenobite gave—" The health of Colonel Gordon, and Oa Yeomanry of the Stewartry."—Three times three. • Alt. Nunn returned thanks. . in the course of the evening a number of spirited speeches were delivered, as well as a number of excellent songs sung. But space' would fail us were we to attempt to give even an outline of the former. The company were all iu the highest spirits, and froni' the time they met and sat down so dinner, it could not be expected that they would rise till an early hour next morning. • The candles were removed before the meeting broke up, and it was amusing to see the sun shining opus such a goodly array of glasses and bottles. On retiring from the room, the populace, who were still on the alert. compelled Mr. Fergusson to go through the ceremony of chairing .a second time, and. after drawing his carriage to the lon, quietly dispersed to their several homes. GENERAL DUNLOP'S DINNER. The friends of the Geoeral assembled to dinner in one of the rooms of the Academy. On the removal of the cloth, General Duxt.op remarked, th it before he proceeded to give any toasts, he would briefly observe, that. though unsuccessful to-day, they might not be so on another occasion ; and that he hoped they would shew, by their mirth and conviviality that evening, that, though beaten to-day. they had pluck enough to anticipate victory for to-morrow. He then gave— " The King," " The Duke of York," " The Duke of Clarence," and " The Royal Family." Sir DAVID MAXWXLL, of Cardoness, who acted as croupier, nest proposed a bumper. He said he rose to propose the health of a Gentleman who had for three successive Parliaments sat as their Representative in the House of Commons, and who had honestly and faith fully paid the greatest attention to the interests of the country in general, and to the Stewartry of Kirkcud bright in particular. Drank with great applause. • General DUN Lop , in returning thanks, said, he rose with those feelings Oat he had already experienced when he had occasion to address them—those of ereem and respect towards them, anti of gratitude for the favour and partiality they had so often shewn him, and that lie:entenained a sanguine hope to meet with them ..at no-very distant'period under other and more Hater- A' •• nI tls4 g VrtuttanCti; In the meantime, be earnestly r4omMerldW that. they should study to increase the •prospect 0/success, by drawing closer and closer the bonds of friendly intercours.. ' ' •Gerterit DoniAi tlien - gave " Ilia Majerty's Government, and may the prosperity u 1 the Country be the polar star by which to 'nide its course." " Tile Navy and Army," from the Chair. " Lord Exmouth," 0 1 he Lord Chancellor," " Sir James Shaw, and the City of London," Were successively given. " May the liberty of the people be supported and preserved by respect for the-laws. " • :" The Earl of Selkirk, and may he emulate the virtues of his rather," three times three. , • ' " The bonny Lanes of Galloway." ' The General next proposed " The health of the Member for the Stoviaktry, who had this day given them no indifferent proofs of his talents; there was no doubt of his abilities, and they may be of advantage to the Stewartrj." • • -.. _, • A Wig by Mr: Blair, whose health was drank. " 'The Representative of one of the historical families of the &ewartry, Viscount Kentnure." . . " The health of Alt. Colville, of Ochiltree, and the .mercantile interest of Great Britain," by Dr. Blair. • . Mr. Colville returned thanks, and gave, " Prosperity to the. &ewanry of K:rkerdbrighti" General Dunlop begged :o give the health of a Nobleman of the roost extensive influence, whom it was desiraLle that they and all the country gonad know; and who, from all be had heard, would realise every expectation that bad bees formed. He gave _ " the rale of Buedessigh." ' General Dunlop said they bad not yet drank the country that gave cheat birth and maintenance ; be gave "The Land of Cakes," in a Maw. ..... .. =m A of other toasts and ientiments were given, and after bar ilnest happy evening, the company separated at an early ,MAlHNlM4llkirest glee sod spirits. ••• •• ' • . :i I • ; InIRB ELECTION. Itturrna, WZONESDAT e Jun 25.. . _ The'poll booths were opened at ten o'clock. but only 2'2 fre-holJers voted during the day. 'I he fact that Sir Thomai Lethbridge and Mr. Dickinson knoA ing their return to be sure, incur (lather espense by hringingap voters. . ...tr the course of the morning the High Sheriff ad dressed Mr. Hunt, saying, that if he had pledged him self, as.blr. Hunt had. dose, to the freeholders of this County, be should (eel as he did—anxious to fulfil his eagagements to the very letter. Whit he said he would do, that he would du, and theref. re he could not dis commend Alr. .Ilrrnt ; but still, in a candid °lsaacs., he would submit to him whither, when the freeholders did not come ti his suppo: 4—and they were • all waiting about doing nothing—e nether, as a man and a Gentle mane Mr. Hunt would not feel himself released from the obligation by the freeholJers not coming to the poll? Mx. Hume arisen red, that he really felt much obliged to the Sheriff for making the suggestion; and if.it were atade as advice, he should receive it wen, and reall feel obliged to the Sher ff for offering it; but having pled _ed himself. notwithstaneing the freeholders were t4ckward, and though to them he might fairly stand excused, and even justifie J, in withdrawing from the huszings, since his pledge was only to rema n at his post so long as they chose to come to the poll, yet to himself he could not feel justified. It was a matter of feeling, and lie should sink in his own estimation if he were to sesi4n. Yet he th , tight the Sheriff, in the exercise of an bluest discretion, might safely close the poll; and he would engage that neither by himself nor his Irie.ids. nor bl.' is in any way whatever to any other perspits,.would he take advantage of his having done so. It was quite clear that a va.t majority of the frr ehelifers hast oat polled; he knew of 2, 000 voters who could come u p for hies at once, if he w:siild send conveyances r them ; but he had made up his mind not to spend a tingle shillinsz. and he believed they would not come %sellout it. 'there a ere. however, some persons who' had declared their intention of coming to the poll w imp-row. arid that in considerable numbers. If they ismkg lo•day, their votes c Mild not be refused—nor to eisorrow, unless the Sheriff should, as the exercise of a see, d andlionest discretion, close- the poll Me. Tot.sta a,ked Mr. Hunt if he would consent to %vitt...haw r And the High Sheriff and other-Gentlemen jsetind.-in fJte solfgestit.n; but blr.llunt said, oco;. they r o s in he.vionld. not •forfeit his own . self-estrem; sbinsle Mee no ftirther pails ; and incur uet a shilling of expellee i,r bringing up si tab, but he would not selin quish his engagements, nor be the cause of closing' the poll. • At five o'clock the poll-clerks came hi, endihe day's falling was thus dedare6— . • . %h. Dickinson r , . . le Sr T. Letidirtfge 4: ".. a ' . . 16 lair. aunt • ..- . • , . 4 The Sumnrr then proclaimed big intentioti to close the poll at three to-morrow, if the freeholders who had not polled did not come is the mesa time. Mr. HUNT Shortly addreksed the Sheriff and free holders. Such a contest as•the present had never been known in this. or apy ; other ententy. Seven or eight thousand freeholders temained unturned. He under. stood the Sheriff intended to closetihe poll to-day; but as he gave him credit for every thing that was fair, and just, and wise, he could not doubt the correctness of that course which he had adopted. So long as the poll. was open he would stay; but, as he had before said, he would not expend one shilling in bringing up voters. or be might soon be at the head of the poll.— He had that day polled himself ; and though for t'te last 15 years he had been a liveryman of London, and &freeholder of five or six comities, he had never given erne to any one, because t iere was no one whom he Could fully trust. Himself, however, he thought he could confide in ; and having a right so to do, he had taken the bribery oath, and polled for Fulmer. Mr. STALLARD, of Rath, endeavoured to persuade Mr. Hunt to resign, and complimented Men as being a man of the best judgment and sense in the county of Somerset: Mr. HUNT smiled, but said, he would not resign so long as the poU was kept open ; nor, as it was not closed to-day, would he be answerable for what might turn up to-morrow. The Court was then adjourned. • This is, indeed, a most singular election. NORTHUMBERLAND, TUZIDAT Nicur. After the S serif had declared the numbers (given in the S re R of yesterday), Mr. LIDDELL returned thanks to his friends for their. efforts, in his behalf—efforts which he implored them to continue, while yet the prize was only half won, so that a few days mote would ensure them triumphant success. —( Applause.) Mr. BELL also returned thanks, and remarked, that yesterday Mr. Beaumont pronounced a warm philippic against his Majesty's Government. Now, though he (Mr. B.) was little disposed to quarrel with any man for his opinions, yet there was at least one among them on the hustings (alluding to Mr. Liddell) who must have felt singularly uncomfortable during the delivery of that philippic, from the nature of the electioneering alliance into which he had fallen. He (Mr. Bell) had always approved of the policy of Ails Majesty's Government, and believed he should continue to support them. Mr. Liddell had professed the same principles, and yet his colleague came there to denounce them. What, then, must have been h's (Mr. Liddell's) sensations under the torture of his new alliance, which doomed him to hear his own principles derided by his friend? He did not envy Mr. Liddell his feelings on that occasion.: he had brought them upon himself by the monstrous and un natural coalition which he had formed. It was a dis grace to the parties who bad entered into it, and would be an eternal disgrace.to the county, were it successful. Mr. BEAUMONT next stepped forward, and ordered one of his men in front of the hustings to fold his flag round the pole, to prevent its fluttering. This was in. tended for the foundation of a pun, but was, in fact, a blunder, for he immediately cried out, H Though my colours are lowered, my -cause is not." (His colours were merely folded,. not lowered—a - - distinction well known to fightiag ritetT.lSe I id , ce illy, ai Mr. Bell *Aid, pronounced. yeatertfur &Philippic.agaiiist the Go ' vernnsent, and the' moon why he-Ond - done 1113'was, that, lan :point . of fait, le ,Recd tics Ilking for :them...But tow was it that Mr. Bell was so anxious to lecture the other candidates for their inconsistency—be who, though himself an old Tory, had suddenly becbtne a Whig of two days standing? He wis'yesteiday ineogurated a, Whig—this day Sir C..Montk, the Old Whig candidate and member for the county, Epee bin, (Mr. Bell) a plum per. In fact, were it. riot for the itiPporrof has newly acquired consistent Whig Irielids, - Mr. bell could not have retained his station on the poll ;:it was.these-action of the county against dictation which bed ptoduced what his opponents were pleased to call a. coalition. Well, then, as to Mr. Bell, what would he vote for? Reform?, No. A reduction of taxes?—No. .The Catholics?— Not exactly that either.—Then what were the Whigs to do with him ? Why, they were to. do this—Mr. Bell gave and took good dinners; he was a hospitable, so cial, good humoured man; and on all the knotty ques tions the good dinners wool.] come into play; and the real fact was, that he was not then to vote at all. For himself, he was determined, beaten or not; to keep the poll open to the last hour allowed by law. Timi would shew who would be beaten, but at least he would afford the freeholders an opportunity of doing.their duty. Lord Howick said he was again placed at the bottom of the poll, nor did he yesterday expect to have held a more enviable situation. Though his chance was more discouraging than he hoped it would ultimately prove, Ail he would remain on the hustings as long as a single freeholder did him the honour of polling for him, to mark his sense of that single freetolder's worth, and of his own treatment. The present coalition, Mr. Beaumont had told them, was the re-action of opinion against a two years' old combination of which he complained.— Was he (Lord Howick) a party to .any such combina tion, if it ever esisted? Certainly not?—Was Mr. Bell? No. He then would tell Mr. Beaumont, that whatever objections ha been raised to his fitness to represent that county in Parliament, vette raised by the independent freeh-lders---hy those who had a due sense of his aban donment of his Parliamentary duties, and his strange in consistency in proclaiming his own disqualification until he offered explanations respecting certain transactions which he still thou ..ht proper to withhold. The coalition into which Mr. Beaumont had fallen was anything but a re-action of principle. He (Mr. B )knew it was regularly got up for the occasion by his agents and those of Mr. Liddell. Of that fact he had given repeated and irrefra gable woofs—Dir. LIDDELL : " I deny your proofs"] You may : but he (Lord Howick) could not discredit them, arid he hoped that when his turn for speaking came, Mr. Liddell, who had already had .his, would not interrupt him. Mr. Beaumont had taunted Mr. Bell with being a Whig of 'two days old—if the date were even correct, it was a most creditable conversion • r Mr. Bell; for it was only within that short space of ' time, that. this detestable coalition (between Beaumont and Liddell) had become quite apparent. On the last day of election he (Lord Howick) meant to eater snore fully into the circumstances of this base coalition— EMr. LIDDELL " I . aguia &Fly a coalition '1 Well, toe Hon. Gentleman nasty deny it, but he was the only man upon the hustings who entertained' a doubt upon the nirtter-1-(Applause and hisses). m'l • kr. LIDDELL said, vie Noble Lied hia yesterday read a leiter he had received, which contained the. following statein:nt " A Northumberland freeholder of the name of Hallewood has just .returned here from Alnwick, and says he intended to , have given Mr. Liddell a plumper. but Mr. Liddell's Committee per suaded him aseptic on Beaumont. If ibis is not a coalition, Iknow not what to call it." Mr. LIDDELL said, that when any individual case was brought forward, as had been yestesday, it was not too much for.him to ask a short delay, to enable him to intitlite into particulars. 01 this opportunity he had av ailed him-elf since yesterday, and his reply to Hads wood's case was th's, that he had since seen his brother, who had told him (Mr. Liddell) that he had long sine made a promise to split with Mr. Beaumont, if he did not give him (Mr. Liddell) a plump-r; so that with respect to Mr. Hasleworid, he had only fulfilled a pre. arranged intention. He knew not why the Noble Lord wished him but a short-lived triumph; for all his (Mr. Liddell'.) desire was to serve the county to the best of his power.— (Applause and murnturs.) JOHN GREY. Esq. (of Nlillfield) said, Mr. Liddell denied any personal knowledge of the coalition with Mr. Beaumoot, and tie only explanation of this mystery then was, that Mr. Liddell had i n trusted the whole of his cause to the management of trustees, noon condition that he was to be kept in ignorance of all its important details. Mr. Grey ptoceeJed, notwi hstanding te peated inter' options, to relate anecd and conver sations which he said he held with Mr. Beaton nt after tie late election, wh:n th t Gentleman declated that his only reason for sanosting Mr. Liddell, at the last elect on, was because he thougl t lie would he 'the easiest Member to get rid of at the next. Mr. Grey n-at went to a relation of anecdotes of the Liddell family, at the tine that Baron Ravenssvorth ( %Ir. Lid ' dell's father) locked up his house, and put a garrison 'to defend it against the Radicals, a few years ago-••••a body of poor people, who frightened the old women and the Magistrates, and Lord Strathmore, and the late Par son Blackburne. It was the neighbourhood of Ravens worth that its fact filled a good space of Lord Sid mou:h's famous Green Bag. (Mr. Grey became so tremendously assailed in this part of his speech, that all further attempts to obtain a hearing were impossible). The Hon. Thom ts Liddell, the brother of the Candi date, here became foremost in the interruption, which was soon general enough to engage the friends of the Candidates in a pitched battle in the street, which, after some Auctuattons, was rather in favour of Howick and Bell, whose bands of music joined in the row, with blows on heads as well as drums. In the midst of this violent tumult, the High Seriff, while Mr. Grey was still on his legs endeavouring to gain a hearing, whip pered to his Under Sheriff, and then to Mr. Liddell, and dissolved the Meeting. Several voices cried out as shame; why dissolve the Meeting for Liddell ?" Others applauded the High Sheriff's act. Lord Howzce firmly, and with great energy, protested against it, and declared he would not be driven from the Hustings in so scan dalous a manner. The Htma Sumer said, " I have dissolved the Meeting, that ts enough; I will clear the place." Lord Howsce....—•• I will not quit It except by force—l will not yield to partial and arbitrary acts." The Noble Lord then ap pealed to the Meeting against the injustice of the High Sheriff, and particularly when that slicer appeared•to act under the instigation of Mr. Liddell. The High Sheriff first quitted the Hustings, after which some of the crowd rushed up, and carried off Lord Howick in triumph upon their shoulders. Mr. Grey (of Milineld) had the same honour, and both were hedged by the crowd, amidst loud acclamations, at their hotels, from . Irides they respectively addressed the populace. The street was cr owded, and the violence of the electioneering throng was very Irak; but up to a late hour in the evening was confined fouler. noise, add some scuffling amongst idle drunkards. Egresses ere gone•off in all directions to bring up fresh voters; and Mr. Liddell and Mr. Bell are still said to have large reserves. • .. ...triaXe Of MI rots. Liddell : /,•:! • lsos B i n . 11E6 BrIEIDOOt . • • • 1056 ..Howiet • • • 901 WESTMORELAND ELECTION.—Fmat Ammar, .11788 27. It is a curious fact, that at this busy time. when wine is carried about in pails and when gin is flowing in rivers in the county of Westmoreland, an elector abso lutely died - of drinking water. I came to the knowledge 'of thisitrost extraordinary fact in the history of elections in consequence of a report having reached me that a blue voter had died of the wounds he had received in the scuffle of Saturday last. I found, upon inquiry, that a blue voter, upwards of 70 years old, had died ; but that the cause of his death had been entirely misrepre sented. He had walked from his home into Appleby, a diseance of SO miles, for the purpose of giving Mr. Brougham a plumper, and had taken a glass of cold water to relieve his thirst, whilst he was in a state of great fever and exhaustion. The consequence was, that the sudden cold had struck to his heart. and that the poor man was shortly afterwards a corpse. The only epicatiume which I have head bestowed upon his me• mory was very short, but at the same time very pilSy. It was uttered by one of the crowd :---" D—n the fellow—why did lie mot poll before he died?" I have this day been informed that Lord Lowther was very indignant at the magistrates who sent the requisition to Carlisle, requesting the presence of the military in the neighbourhood of Appleby. His Lord ship is said to have stated to th .se magistrates, that he would rather resign the contest and lose his election than see the military brought to act against the people in the town-of Appleby. He considered the civil power of the county, if properly directed, to be sufficient to preserve its tranquillity, and he therefore dtprecatei any introduction of the military as an unnecessary in• terference of the freedom of electi'n. The business of this day went on, without any of those scenes of riot and tumult which we have been doomed to *linen at an earlier period of the election. Some little irritation has been caused at the different polling booths, by the anxiety, of the freeholders to p‘,ll, and ha' dun wi it," as they say, but no serious riot took pace. At four o'clock the poll closed, and the numbers, - were soon after declared as follow : Lord Hr. Col. Wards. Lowther. Brougham. Lowther. East Ward 107 90 102 West Ward 69 19 611 Kendal Ward . 83 62 79 Lansdale Ward . 26 18 25 ;71 111 Preceding Day's Poll 861 740 827 - Orem state of the Poll 1,139 929 1,099 Lord Lowman then came forward to addle.* the freeholders, and begged to return them his most sincere thanks for the gratifyin position in which their exer tions had placed him on that day's poll. After the predictions which the Learned Gentleman had made yesterday. be d d not at all expect that he should have had a greater majority than twenty-five cf that day's poll. They had now. he said. weathered the storm— fortune had favoured them—and their adversary's chance was just as hopeless as that of his friend Cap tale Parry, who had failed, arter these tr'als, !o the Pole at all. He would not boast about t om orro ... perhaps he might not keep up the majori y m pea : hut of the final result he had no doubt. Th..y h ad bead a great deal said yesterday about mushroom votes ; he admitted that mirshrooms were rather hard is digestion, arrd reminded his audience that if they Were administer eJ in large quantities, they' wet egenerally fatal. It was a bad course of argument for candidates to b e criminating and recriminating each other in the c lase of a contested election ; but if charges about mudiroorn votes were brought against him, he must put his ono. tient in mind of those who first resorted to them in Appleby Castle. Besides, speaking of mushrooms, he thought that he could point to a bow-window over the way, %%bete as many votes had ben manufactured as in any part of Westmoreland. There was a vote ma. nufacturer, or rather a vote huckster, there, who wo u ld make electors as well as'sugar-candy (Lord I • ow. ide; alludvd to a Quaker grocer, of the name of Thomol l , who is very active on Mr. thoughant's side); hut, ! . k, that commodity. they, in consequence, perhaps, of ;:le heat of tie wencher, every now and they melted awa.:, In plain English, the electors made by the v.OT thy groce'r had, in a good many instances, voted for the Lowther/. Rut that was no fault of the grocer's —who It id won no inconsiderable fame as far as electioneering \ k e nt:ne f eorr so indefatigable had he been in bringing up Iris factures that even the poll clerks recognised him with the old cry of Ha by gad here be Monsieur Tons ai come again4--(Lond Laughter.) Nothing short of one of Prince Hohenlohe's miracles, or of Cr mi rao L s of that church which Mr. Brougham had taken, his patronage, would get him to the head of the l A. This had been the critic day—they all saw how it had been decided, and he had nothing to do but to retur n them his sincere thanks for what they had done for hum. Colonel Lownsea assured the freehold:els that he considered himself much flattered by the position in which they had placed him on the poll, notwithstanding the denunciation which had been made against him.— In spite of the obstacles which had been opposed to him in the Kendal Ward, lie had now obtained a majority in each ward. He would only repeat what he had before told them, the longer the poll was kept open, the greater would be the majority which he and his noble brother would possess. Fur his own part, he did not care how long the contest lasted, as he should be happy to see every free Man who had a vote coming forward to, ex ercise his elective franchise. He would merely repeat to the freeholders, the cordial thanks which he felt to them for the support which they had given him upon this occasion. —(Cries of"Castlereadt," and uproar ) Mr. BROUGHAM next presented himself, and was, re ceived with loud and repeated cheering. He thong: t the freeholders must have been not a little comforted under the afßiction of being some 80 behind upon s .c poll, by o hat had been stated by the Noble Lord in the latter part of his speech. For though he was re,lty merry, nay, even witty, upon bow windows, mushrooms, and sugar-candy, yet he got a little melancholy he spoke of what his (Mr. Brougham's) friends intended to do to-morrow, when, according to the Noble Lord, they were to make a great whip, and retrieve their de ficiency of to-day. He hoped the Noble Lord would turn out to be a true prophet upon this occasion. Ile I ad beard his friends had not made the same eieri ions,u pon this as upon former occasions, to bring •up their voters, they had not hitherto made in: of the same conveyances to bring them to the poll. But .theit . ittmost ta• stioos were still required,, and he must en'ireat . of thOse'tree .holders who had not polled, that they' would not .again give their opponents the advantage of filling the booths in the morning, and then, tired of waiting for a few hours, allow• them to continue their advantige.-- This they 'had done, and it was the more to be re gretted that the? had done so, whets it was known, that they had in town freeholders enough to command in all the booths but one, a majority upon that day's poll. He wished now to say a word or two in answer to what had been said by the Noble Lord and his Gallant Brother, relative to the mushrooms—(4 laugh„and hisses).—The Noble Lord talked of a manufactory of blue votes having gone on in different parts of the county.. For his own part, he regreted that such. was not the case. He was, however, ignorant of such votes having been made; and if they had been made, it WAS something odd that he should know nothing about it. He entertained no manner of doubt that some men had corn! up to vote for him velose titles to vote were of the same date, and who had w 1 urp3se qualified themselves to vote, in order to assert Mr own independence of the county. But was this done by him and his friends, asihe votes of Mr. Bolton and the Parson were created on the other side? No; the men who had thus qualified themselves, felt it a duty to step forward and tree the county from the influence of 'a Lord Liestenant, who returned his two sons for it; as though it were a close borough. He was glad to find that one of the enemy had been silenced. it was now two or three days since he bad heard a single word about his Holiness the Pope —(Applause, and cries of "No Popery!") Ile was glad now to introduce that name, in order to la awe an opportunity of mentioning a circumstance calculated to quiet the alarm of those who thought the Chorch I would be endangered by a lurther concession to the E sglish and the Irish Roman Catholics. D'd they believe—did any man in his senses imagine that danger could arise to the Church, from the admission to Pada (neat of such men as his Grace the Duke of Norfolk, the first Peer of the realm—a man who was in ti le and dignity, as well as in honour. and respectahiiiry of character, second to no. man in the kingdom ? But would not such an alarm, if it really did exist, be quieted, when they were told that that Noble Duke — all Catholic, nay, if they wished to have it, all Papist, as he was—hid, within the last few days, granted, of his own free will, a piece of land in the neighbourhood of Sheffield!, valued at 1,0001. upon . which to build a Pro testant Church, and had given towards its erection a,,d endowment a subscription of 5001.—(cheers) lie (Mr. Brougham) did not mean to ask whether any of those who had been so zealous in their protestations in favour of the Protestant Church had done as much ; still less did he wish to inquire whethei they bad acted simila ly towards their Catholic or other Dissenting brethren.— ' He would not stop to inquire whether they had given a subscription of 5001. or '5OO pence, or 500 farthings for such a purpose. All he Asked was, that after acts on the part of oppressed and persecuted Catholic:, no danger should be entertained to the Pro tStA t Church trom their admission to an equal patticipat in the privileges and blessings of the Constitution. — (Cheers, and" No Popery.") And now he t )0k his lease of the Church alarmists, and of the No Popery cry altogether; that cry had, he 'trusted, failed here .14 rt had in Southwark, in Westminster, in Loadon, arid "1 the other districts where k had b cu raised.—(App.roo and cries of " Mary.") I l i 1 t i il i r $ ~ r t : f it: I I N rj l i 41, ,• 1 . I 4 A ' rj . ' , P ?', :' 1 ..... F i . . i 1 '' f, .1 ; f •1 . . I. . . 1 . ; . e i .. l ;i : f f 4: ;'• ..• i! .i.., - l• , I.! v 't 'i i ! . t/- • ti., 1 , i ll , . • . I i . . . .... ....' I . ' • I .. . ' , ' fe an If Wi UV all on dc in re 1 ut C'