The Sun. — London, England, 1820-03-16 00:00:00

11 7 EtTNIINSTElt. ELECTION, SIXTH DAY. Immediately . hcfore Mr. LAMB'S appearance at 4 o'clock, a pole Was hoisted, which afforded great diversion : on the top of it was a lamb's toll, 'ant ically dressed up with a la‘vyer's tt ig ; a paper foolscap, ortramented with bows of yellow a(i blue holdin o between the teetl i i, a rat, to whose tail was luting an imitation of a co, k's-comh. Underneath the aeatl was a placard, bearing, on one side, the words—" Be hold ratting; Lamb, witb a coxcomb bung to his tail :" and, on the other,— " If silly Lambs go a ratting, fit' key get this s , irt of hattilq.'' • The state tit Ita 1 ) (0i, at the close of the clay's bosihesi, teas as S Sir Francis Il,trdi•t; 'AS r. I ;01 , 11(w.d: ...... ~.s 2.7.71 .. '2lll ... 1551 Sir F. l'itianuTT, alter the e-xhihition of these, rownhers, said, the state of the 1 u as they all saw, continued to be as satisfaeory ns it had hi- - titer o beet, to all parties. Ile had no doubt it was quite so to Mr. Lamb, who hail agnio to hail, in the r,-stilt it .that (I,y'+ polling, all that pros p(iity to wet i, it be was so errinently entitled ; and which he had so manifes.ly obtai:ted in the eoorse of the present contest --(L,, u o, fer .)—l t 'was remarkable that the More that Honourable Gentleman became depressed in his station on'the poll, the more were his hopes exalted, an the more strenuously did he persist in maintaining that he-had good grounds of conclitsion that the oHmate issue would be favonrable to him.— (Laughter )—A great many 'of the friends of their rause were so persuaded of the cettaiwy ot triumph that nothing could stove them in their (Vitriol' that there was no occasion for them to come forward, or to give themselves any F -, rt of trouble in pro meeiii e it, lierteise they would have polled a great • nasty more on that day than they had. Never theless,when the great injority they had already polled was considered, and that'they still conti nued to place themselves at the head of the daily poll, he believed such s,ccess would be found to be unexampled in the history of elections; and, under the circumstances he had mentioned, it w as not to be anticipated that there would be any very heavy day's polling during the remainder of the contest. If they continued, however, as they at present were, is would be amply sufficient for their • purpose.—(Cheers.)— He had yesterday mentioned the race of the tortoise and the hare, as applicable to the present contest : Mr. Lamb had dl , o allowed it to . he applicable ; but, brut interpreted it in his own favour. inasmuch as the tortoise lint! eventually •heeo the victor. But When he had compared his owo and his Hoo. Ftiend's superiority over their opponent to that of the hare's over the tortoise, he had only meant with refereuce to the superior speed of that ao,i mat. It certainly waa not to he supposed, that having got so much a-head of Mr Lamb, they meant to imitate the. itopr;ukot sluggishness of the -hare—(Laughter)‘—reat they meant to fall asleep, and so let Mt Lamb creep unobserved n p,; ll thent.—(Moch laughter )—No, if by any vet y great exertion on die paft of that Gentle mat), tie should happer: to get one vote io-advauce of them, then, by following the suggestion of his honest friend, whom, as tic had mentioned, he met in the street the other day, he thought they could, without dinch tl , fficulty, bring down such a body of voters as would " pull him back again." --(Continued laughter )---Be that, however, as it might, it was gratifying to reflect that they had not attained their present high station on the poll from any one day's exertion ; but they had from the beginning been carried on by a well filled poll.— He confessed that Mr. Lamb had that day polled better than he had expected. Still, however, in his opinion, his best hope was despair.—(Ap- Plause.)—Setting that aside', however, the cause they were fighting 'was of much more consequence to theta—the Elettors of i',Vestminster—than it would he to any individual who might happen to stand in that place before them.—(Applause.)— The great principle for which they were contend ing was, as he had already said, whether the House of Commons should have the right of send ing people to prison.without giving them a hear ing--a monk of proceeding, which, if it were al lowed, would certainly give that new direction to the Temple of Honour mentioned by Mr. Lamb. Indeed the road to honour, in all times of tyranny, bad always been thrOugh a prison. Political per secution had often exacted that as a penalty to the attainment of virtuous distinction —(Cheering.)— His Honourable Friend, who stood next to him (Nlr. Hohhouse) never dreamt of mentioning the circumstance at all, because he was sore it would be borne in mind by them. The only hope of re ward that public men had to look to, was the ap plause of the nation, whenever they suffered, uu dc4•ervedly, in the public cause.—(Great ap plause )—The principle they had to contend for was, that there should be no power of arbitrary imprisonment ; and if the King did not possess that flames., hr t houghs nsib.siy smis,itcvt, ought t,, exercise it ; still less the House of Commons, • which, as the House of Representatives of the people, ought to be the asserter and guardian of their rightsanrl privileges.—(Great applause.)—As the time was drawing so near when he would be Compelled to go into the country, in order to go to his own trial, that would be the last time he would have the honour of addressing them on the present occasion.- He assured them that be con templated the present appearance of success with great satisfaction, and anticipated a recurrence of the same feelings .whenever he should learn the result of the contest.—(Applause.)—He should employ the few remaining days in preparing his defence, which he hoped would pi event what would otherwise take place, a conviction for the Attorney-General; and he assured them that he went to trial with as calm a mind, a,m4 with as much confidence of a favourable termination of it, as he po,“essed in coining to those hustings, --(Loud cheering )—Of one thing he would as- • Bute them, that whatever might be the result, 'rocking which depeoded on his exertion should tie left ondone to pronwte the cause of public and the. impreseriptib'e rights of the , eoole.—((;heering.)—ln the Hies 11 time, it w left to client, before the conclusion of the elee • , to do all in their power to do justice to.that tri t ein notion which Was entertained of their hide pendent character. Thy were before the eyes of thtCoutory, and had an opportunity of plac ing themselves on.such high ground as there was every reason to suppose would prevent any one from attempting to displace or disturb them.— (Great applause.)—Under these circumstances, he strongly exhorted them. not to slacken their exertions ; and having said tions much, he would take his leave of them.—(Long continued ap plause.) - Mr. L A lI'S after waiting the usual time for a hearing, spoke as folloe's :—ft was yesterday stated of him, that he had said he felt satisfaction in replying 10 the Hon. Baronet. He had, how ever, never expressed himself to that effect ; for he knew too well the' value and authority of that trausceudcot eloquence with which the Hon. Ba ronet was so emorently gifted, not to be aware of his ow n disability to reply to him.—(Bravo.) — What he had slid was, that he always felt -satis faction in speaking after him ; and one great source of that satistection was from the art the Horrourahle Baronet had of always leaving his auditors in good humoeir.—(Expressions of ap probation from different quarters ) He in tended to tremble them with very few words, and if they would grant him a patient hearing, he 'should titbit; himself more than usually un lucky it he did not succeed its potting them also in good humour. Whether he felt satisfaction or not, in speaking after the Hon. Baronet, he certainly had heard with pain that this was the last time they were to hear him on tn i pse hust ings. He trusted, however, that he might return in time to appear before them again, ere the con clusion of the contest and he could assure him, that no one would welcome him with more plea sloe than lie woidd.—(General applause )—fie would take permission to remark, with respect to th e nt. Berooet's addreic, that, in proportion as he represented him to be buoyed up with hopes of prosperity, as he was declining on the Poll, he (Sir F. Burdett) seemed gradually to sink in epi lets as the names of himself and his protege were rising ; for certainly, in his address to them that day, whilst he strenuously exhorted them to come down to poll with all dispatch, he acknowledged that he had not 'expected that he (Mr. Lamb) would have presented so full a day's poll.—(Dis approbation.)—lndeed, to horrow a phrase from one of the Honourable Baronet's earliest speeches, he thought his discourse to them that day was poor, spiritless, and woe-begoue.-44- platne tnid disapprobation.)—With regard to his friends and the state of tine Poll, it could not well be worse, and if he was not mistaken, it would soon be better. His friends were now awakened to the necessity of exertion—their activity had spread over the whole city ; so that his hopes were trow greater than ever. It was a remarkable thing, that the friends of his opponents were deterred front coming to poll by being too sanguine, and that his friends were also deterred trout precisely the same cause.—(Laughter and disepproba tion.)—ln the present stage of the contest, any man who judged of its issue from the numbers already polled would come to a false conclusion. He would advise him to lank at the numbers re tnaining if he wished to torus a cot tee , estimate.—(Clamorous disapprobation ) He claimed their silence only for one moment longer ; and he was sure they would readily grant his request, when he informed them that moment would be employed in doing an act of justice and courtesy to Mr. Hohhouse. When lie had com mitted an error, whether from indiscretion or otherwise, he was never unwilling to acknow ledge it amid make any reparation in his power.— (Applause.)—ln his speech yesterday, lie regret ted having charged Mr. Hobbouse with writing his pamphlet, and hiS subsequent conduct in pri son, as proceeding from a view to an electioneer ing manoeuvre.—(Genere e l applause.)—Having said this, be was sure that in throwing himself upon their liberality and candour, he should be well received; and having obtained this, he thought he could not do better than leave them in the en joyment of that good humonr which he had pledged himself to call torth.—(Applause with some dis approbation.) - Mr. HoaHousa then stepped forward, and was greeted as usual with every clamorous demonstra tion of joy. Before he would say a word in re spect to the state of the poll, he begged to state, most explicitly, that Mr. Lamb having retracted the charge he had made upon bins respecting an elec tioneering manoeuvre, and expressed his regret for the same, he wished it to be understood that he also was sorry that he had been tempted to an swer hint in such terms as he found set down to hint. Mr. Lamb having now recalled that charge, he also begged leave to recall the expressions lie had used in repelling it.—(Applause.)—He would now turn to the poll, He believed he was that day 860 a-head of Mr. Lamb, and this majority he had obtained in the course of five days and one hour—a success, which he believed, was unex ampled in tine Elections at Westminster.—(Ap plause.)--He did think, therefore, that lie had some claim of affinity with a character to whom Mr. Lamb had yesterday compared .him. Having been abroad at the time of this personage's ex ploits, he was yesterday unprepared to meet this allusion ; but having since then looked into the history of this fortunate youth,' he was r eady to acknowledge the similarity of their fortunes, wirb this exception, chat though all the noTes of the for tunate yduth' turned out to be forgeries, his Votes would not turn nut to be false ones.—(Laughter.)— Whatever Mr. Lamb's feelings were on their re lative situations, he could assure them that he telt perfectly contented—a contentment which no sud den change of fortune could - bestow. Whether he should gain his election, as it appeared to him he should ; or whether he should lose it, as appeared to Mr. Lamb would be the case—(Laughter.)— he should still be contented. Haviug adverted to the state of the poll, lie had now something to sly respecting his adversary's advertisement which he had that mornieg noticed. It certainly was a very short one—so short, ineleed, as simply to state that there were etrtain Committees ap pointed in different parts of the town for the purpose of re-electing Mr. Limb. That was the exprcseioe—his re-eler.ntioe,—(Clarnour and laughter.)—There was nothing said on the score of principles—it was net now " on the principles of Sir Samuel iturnilly," of .Lord Somers, or of any other person ; nor sbouid he have noticed it in any of these accounts, had it not been for another short notification at the end, wherein it was signified that there was "free and open access to the poll." And pray, who ever doubted it ) And what was the occasion of such a statement, unless it was meant to imply that there once had existed an interruption on his (Mr. Hobbouse's) part, or on the part of his tai-ends ? He might as. well have said, that, whereas a report being in circulation that ten men had their throats cut, the other day, in coming up to vote for Mr. Lamb, this was to certify that it was no such thing—(Laughter.)—He therefore contended that it was meant by this to insinuate, that no friends of Mr. Lamb could ap proach the hustings withont meeting with ob struction and ill usage.—(Groans and hisses.) — And from whom did this insinuation come ? From those who in the last election employed iron) seven to eight hundred bludgeon-men ! (Cries of " No, no !" mingled with groans, and cries of " That's true !")—The truth of this assertion had, at all events, been sworn to, and he could not offer better evidence than that.—(Continued applause and uproar.)—Al though no impediment bad been offered by him to Mr. Lamb's voters, there still, however, did exist an impediment which would prevent them ever coming up to poll ; and that was, they had rather , not I—(Laughter.)—He had rather reason to complain of an impediment offered to his friends, who, from the course which had been pursued against many of those known to nave voted for him at :he last Election, were terrified from giving him their support en the present occasion. What, he would ask, was the inten tion in leavi4g cards to solicit votes at the Electors' houses, of putting on them the names of persons of power, as it the Honourable this, or my Lord that, bad any thing to do with the unbiassed vote of an Elector ? It would have been better, in his opinion, to'have put at the bottom of the advertisement, that the boarnaker and other tradesmen of such and such Hollow Ales, were at fiber y to go to poll and vote according to their consciences. These, he thought, look ed some►hing like impediments.— (Cries of " Shame!")—He felt convinced, however, that the Electors of Westmioster would shew on the preeeot occasion that they were not to he swayed by this or that name, but that they would record by their votes their imprescriplible partiality for independent principles.—(Continued The Candidates then retired. THEATRICAL RIOT.—Mr. YOUNG concluded his ~ngagen►ent at the Norwich Theatre on Saturday se'nnight ; and on Monday Miss BRUNTON ap peared in the character of Rosalind, and on Tues day in that of Miss Dorillon ; but, notwithstanding the excellence of her performance, the house was but thinly attended. After the play on the latter evening, much confusion arose in consequence of part of the audience calling for ", God Save the King," which was sung, whilst others vociferatrl c' God Sace the Queen." At length two reg.::..t• battles took place, the combatants in one of which actually stripped. At the commencement of the farce, on Miss BRUNTON'S appearance, loud ap plauses superseded the tones of displeasure, bust nothing was suffered to proceed. Mr. BELLAMY led her off, and on his return obtained a hearing ; be stated, that '' as the servants of the public, they were of no party, and could scarcely be asked to do an act to oblige a'few, which could not fail to be disagreeable to many of the au dience. A parody, be said, had been handed to him, so ill constructed, indeed, that his own taste would compel him to reject it." Here the yells were again resumed and continued ; the actors were driven tom the stage, which was occupied by some of the rioters, and the respectable part of the audience immediately left the house. Sonic of the ringleaders were taken into custody. Mr. YOUNG is gone to Manchester where be was a distinguished favourite before he appeared on the Loudon Stage. •His engagement there is to pet form eight of his principal characters. DRSTRUCTIVE FIRE AT COVENNEY, BLICKS.—A most alarming fire broke out in this village at midnight, on Monday, on the tarm of Mr. SHOR TER, which was occasioned by the negligence of a boy in setting fire to some straw in the stable, on the return home of his master. In less than ten minutes the stable was consumed, and seven pigs were burnt in a stye at the back. The flames communicated to two barns, which were also con sumed in a very short time. A strong wind com municated the flames to the timber root of the dwelling-house, and at this time the fire was seen many miles off. A range of houses, seven in num ber, fell a prey to the devouring element, but most of the furniture was saved. A Watt of the name of Bartholomew was dangerously hurt by some timber falling upon him. Tuesday last, a large diving-bell, weighing five tons, cast at the. Irou-foundry here, and intended for France, was let down to the bottom of our river several times, with different gentlemen un der under it, who remained at the bottom a con siderable time without the least inconvenience.— (Liverpool Advertiser, March 13.) On Thuridy a novel species of imposition was attempted in Glasgow. A person of rather a gen teel appearance called upon an eograser, wishing hint to execute a copper-plate of the diploma granted by the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons. At the same time he produced a pretty exact '1 written copy of the diploma in a varied style of penmanship, somwhat like the original. The en graver gave iuforutation to a member of faculty, and promised to send for one of the office-bearers when his employer returned. The Candidate for the surgical degree was rather abashed at the in terview. He pretended to have been an as sistant surgeon of the 7th Dragoon Guards, and that he wanted the diploma only to satisfy his fat her, who had promised to bestow an estate upon him, if he obtained one. lie never intended to . practise, and said he meant to destroy the plate and diploma as soon as he had gained his object with his father. Engravers %sill be aware, that iu executing any thing of this kind, they would be abettors in a scheme which would impose on the public in a very material point, and woulri be very iniutions to the interest of the Faculty,— Glos.goie Chronicle.) YORKSHIRE ASSIZES, Mitaca 13. DEWSBTJRY RIOTERS. This morning the Judges proceeded as us94 l "i their respective Courts, when l-G persons tver .. placed at the bar charged with committing a 4.11 P t l at Dewsbury a few weeks back. When the • 8 1 . : raignment was read, they were asked to plead, 41 °r they severally pleaded - Guilty. Mr. Justice PARK then addressed thetn.'" 4e a observed, they bad all been connected with i*'" o pleaded guilty to the same charge, and were dal., receive the judgment of the C ou rt. Th e chief 4 ", jeer in the punishment of offenders was by inak l " examples of the guilty, to prevent a further 0111 ; mission of the saute crime. There was, howev e ,,: another and a most important object—an attettivr to the welfare of the community. It was Del; sary, in order to preserve peace and tranquilliti the realm, that ail rioting and -tumultuous,ita 6 , l , blies should be put down. He un d o stood Uter i soners bad been charged with creating riot, for the purpose of raising their wog; and of procuring work. This was in ill an unlawful act, and he wished, thew understand that such assemblies could not II; cure the redress of anitr, , rieVances they might ito te give, nor even of those of which they might .4l. , reason to complain. In a ssisting'at such,talli° l ful meetings they not only n e gl ec ted t h e c lisa „, ..; of employment, but injured those who looked to them for protection, brought on th e ru i n o f 4 1 ' 4 ,- family, and became a. scandal to their friellie Their prosecutors had informed him that general conduct was good, and that no speQ i , mischief had resulted front their meetings. though violence bad been threatened to el; Individuals. They bad, therefore, reque s t that the mildest pu n i s hM en t m i g ht be is flicted on them. Lie trusted, then, that t $ leniency which they might experience wotail ' I , • only make an impr ess i on on t h e i r m i n d s , 80(1' t 4 gulate their future conduct, but also convi is t/ others, that, while violence was certain to ol e o with punishment, and the authority of the O le was vindicated from _outrage,,_ be great peina ce of the English Law was mercy, when it eoaki i i, extended with safety to the public. , His Lo L ef ship then advised them to return t o their brit i j and families, and t o at t en d t o t h e i r bu s i nes s, Ifre ordered that they should enter into their own r i d cognizance of 501. each, to appear when cs l on ; which being d one , th e y w ere a ll discharged' , James Newton and Ed war d Rothey were c olio; ed of highway robbery, arid sentenced to Deal' EXECUTION OF 1100Til FOR MURDER. , c to This morning, Samuel ;tooth, who was co,“ 1 ed an Friday of the murder of William rio l4 l o gamekeeper to Mr. Stuart Wortley, underwent, e l sentence of the law.• At half past 12 .the 11 01 7 0 1 imitate man was conducted to the platform bet! io the chapel. He was accompanied by the chaPl:4 to the gaol, with whom he joined in pr- y•:' , thont 10 nti!lu'.e , , ing wt!ich time, thous ll he et intervals to attend seriously to lieverend Gentleman, he occaii,Nially 1 0 " ° ,4 about with an air of composure, almost border' upon indifference. When placed upon the drolit; he looked towards the immense crowd which W e ft assembled, and said, with the utmost coolse!.• " Good bye, lads Uie innocent !" The d .( immediately fell, an d h e di e d apparen tly witt", a struggle. The two young men who were 1 09 0 , tenced to death for the same crime have h g respited. • EXECUTION AT AYR.—O n Friday, it 7 / 1 " ill'Gheer and Charles Britton were executed Ayr, for housebreaking and stouthrief at the O re , of Borland, on the 18th of December last, in 1 7 _ 4? senceof a great crowd of people, who had ass's bled very early in the,day, from the surrouoil l , country, to witness the melancholy spectgl ij In order to render the scene as striking and i posing as possible, the Civil Authorities orde r o out a more numerous guard of military tbl i lt usual in such cases, consisting of a party of the 1 1 ;: e Hussars stationed there, the 4th Veteran Bo v i lion, and the Ayr Armed A s s oc i a ti on , am our)°, in all to about 500. The unhappy criminals attended to the place of execution by the 1 0 0 7; t i strates and other authorities of the place. 014 ton was accompa n i e d b y t h e R ev . M r . Gog- 9 0 0 and M'Gheer by th e R ev . M r . C AVAN , , bOlll man Catholic Clergymen, the former from 6 1 ' e ; ock, and the latter from Paisley, who bad c l y to administer to them the last offices of relig i : o o M‘Gneer addressed the spectators in a speech. Owing to some blunder of the 4 0 , toner, it was about a minute after M'Gheer s e k the signal before the platform was droPPoif M'Gheer had got rather a good education 10r 1 , station in life, and it is said had once beet l e? tended for the office of the priesthood in the ) tholic Church.—(Edinburglz Courant, March COAL MARKET, Mnacu 15. Shipsat Market. Ships sold. ISi Newcastle R 10•-• to 40 ,4 : di 0 14 Sunderland lj lig Gal to 4 BIRTHS. 9 4' On Tuesday morning, the Lady of Sandford Gral l3 , ll3 ' M.P. of a daughter (still born.) OP On Wednesday morning, the Lady o f David D. Dav-b of George-street, Hanover-square, of a son. ...:- MARRIED. - On Tuesday, Dec. 28th, 1819, was married at St. Church, Kingston, in Upper Canada, Lient.-Coloa el ,, foot, C. B. A. Q. M.G. to Miss Cornelia 7 00 ! daughter of Capt. Edward Williams, Royal Nary. V • At Taunton, on the 14th instant, Robert - Grant, Esq'c, 4l oPA 44th Light Dragoons, youngest son of Sir Archibal d 0 0‘, 4 Bart., of Money Musk, Aberdeenshire, to Charlotte, Y Q , i 1 , 1,V 4 daughter of the late tVw. Walter Yea, Esq. of Pysl'u! • in the County of Somerset. DIED. Yesterday morning, in Long-acre, in the 'B2d Yea r °' age, the mother of Mr. Abbott, auctioneer, Strand• s , e ;arf , Lately, at Demerara, John Emperor ‘Vi ennimander of vessels trading to that and the adjac e l )og' airs ; and, about the same time, his two eldest and .hiseph, of the ages of 17 and 1. •• • r On Saturday, March 11, at his 6 house at 1 . 10 1 . u, 1,0- Itybert Thome, in his 67th year; oue of the oh•W s ` founders in London. 61 ) LONDON: Minted by.). B. 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