The Sun. — London, England, 1820-03-14 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER ELECTION. FOURTH DAY. The numbers as exhibited yesterday at the usual titne, were— Sir Francis Mir(lett Mr. Hubbowie Mr. Lamb Sir F. BourseTa's appearance on the Hustings was greeted io an unusually warm manner ; and as sooti as the ordinary demonstrations of satisfac tion at the favourable look of the popular Candi dates' cause had subsided, he spoke to the tellowing effect :—He congratulated them on the state of the poll for that day ; which, be said, when compared with its appearance on every day since the com mencement, reminded him of a competition on a rece-course, wherein one horse, very superior to the rest, took the lead at the beginning, end main tained it till the end of the heat,—(Laughter and applause.)—From the spirit which hed been ma nitested on the part of the Electors on the present occasion, he was convinced they would not only triumph in the contest they were then engaged in, but in every other which combo; events might call on them to exert themselves in. —(Cries of " We will t")—Under all the circumstances of the pt e sent Electio wherein not only the particoler feelings and inteve,es of the City of Westminster were at stake, but in which it was looked up to by the cone ry at large as an example, he should not be satisfied by their merely obtaining a tri• umph after a well contested stroegle, unless, io dependently of final success, they continued to poll with such decided 'majorities as they had hitherto dope ; in order to show how futile were all those attempts to stem that torrent of opinioo and sentiment which was engaged in the support of the cause.—(Applause.)—What be said oil that subject was principelly because of the litany odd notions which were ahead, su that, a lthotigli one had friends, it was difficult to know whether they could be depended on for affording that hind of support which was best calculated for success. Ou his way to the Hustings !ha'. day, he had met with an elector, who came up to him and said, " I have riot voted for you yet ; but I mean to come (fowl, to-morrow, or next day, for that purpose." Ile (Si; F. Burdett) recommend ed hint to come down that day and vote, observing 'het there was nothing like " to-day." His friend, however, replied, that there was himself Bed thirty or forty more, who meant to conic to gether to-morrow or next day, when, it their op ponent should have got a-head, they would pull him (fowl) again. These honest people, no doubt, thooght it very good amusement to let Mr. Lamb get a-head just for the sake of pulling hint down again, as they called it ;—(Laugh ter)—hut he had represented "to him the mis chievous tendency of this mode of proceeding, which not only tended to make that appear doubtful to the rest of the na jOll, which they ad knew to be beyond expression cerosie ; but it was also unfair towards their opponent, as it would be the meatis of buoying him up with false hopes.—(Applause and hiughier.)—His friend informed him, that he knew of sonic fifty mote who were actuated by the same vices as himself in another parish, and parted front him with an assurance that he would conic up to-morrow and vote ; and he (Sir F. Burdett) hoped they would all come up as quick as they possibly could, anti show bow little they regarded any of those male volent attacks and sneers which were attempted to be cast on that great city.—(Cheers.)—He under stood that Mr. Lamb had said, that he wished by " legal means " only to see the Constitution reformed. This be thought a very unfair way of stating the argument, tor, in his opinion, Mr. Lamb meant by that to say that his opponents wished to bring about reform by illegal and un constitutional means. According to his own de claration, however, lie would say that Mr. Lamb Bras more of a Radical Reformer than he was himself—(laughter) ;—for lie declared himself to be an advocate for a reform of the Constitution, which wifs going a greater length than he (sir F.) had ever veottited to go. No : all that he asked for was, the Constitution entire. Ile did not want any reform of that—he only said, as a fa vourite toast expressed it, " Give us the Consti tution ; all the Constitution ; and nothing but the Constitution."—(Cheers and laughter.)—lt was scarcely possible to mention any uncorrupt man of talent who did not think there was an absolute necessity for a Radical Reform of Perlia relent, as the only remedy for the unexampled griev emcee and oppression of the nation.—(Applause.) —Mr. Lamb had asked if he (Sir F. Burdett) could expect, by the force of his eloquence, to per suade the House of Commons to reform itself ? He answered, " No !" No man was so foolish as to entertain such a delusive expectation. If Mr. Fox, with all his transcendent eloquence, had de clared himselt incapable of making any impression on the House of Commons, he knew of no one in whom it would not he presumption to have such an expectation. In au address which Mr. Fox had made to the Electors of Westminster, for which by the way he ought to have had an ex 'officio information tiled against him—(Laugh ter)—he had said that he could not but think it unfit, inhume'', and unconstitutional, as well as subversive of the English laws, and of every principle of religion, to put suspected persons to the torture for the purpose of extorting confes sion —(Applause.)—He thought it was impos sible to put Bey thing stronger against the House /of Commons then that they were willing to coun tenance the torture. He did not wish to misre preseet filet Assembly any more than any other, but when they failed to express their disapproba tion of a measure, he thought it a fair conclusion thet they were favourable to it, anti the moving a pteviotis order—a method which 034 House had of getting rid of any questiou without discussing it—he looked upon as a sufficient manifestation of their sentiments. With respect to Mr.Lernh, he must observe, that there were 10111 e circumstances attending his recent situation which were rather unfortunate ; for, independent of his not meeting with even tolerable sepport from the Electors, that Right lion. Gentleman was trot even sup ported by himself on this occasion. —(Cries of Bravo !)—Be gave sometbiog like meaning to that j iron so frequently used iu the House of Continuos, viz." be turned his back upon him seft." If theme was aoy thiog that could give to appearance of meaning to such jargon, it was Nlr. Lamb', condect.—(Cheers.)—Even among his professed friends, one of those Gentlemen v'. ho were standing at that moment behind hitn when he (Sir F. Burdett) NrYAS talking about Reform in Parliament, had called out " No Ceto•st reet conspiracies !" (Disapprobation.) He could not conceive any thing more unfit to serve the purpose intended than such an explessiou ; and if the worst of Mr. Lamb's ene mies had come froward in order to say that which he about(' conceive most detrimental to his cause, he woull have fixed upon precisely what the Gen dense() near Mr. Lamb hail said.—(Disapproba tion.)—le his opinion it ill became any man, of any party, when persons were in confinement tin der teriotts charges, to make any allusion what ever to their case ; and in pluportioa as those charges were of a grave natore,would a candid and liberal mind be careful to abstain from allusion.— He sincerely trusted and hoped, that no tnan, be cause he was struck by the atrocity of the charges would be tempted to say a word either one way or the other.—(Cheers.) —But what was still worse than this was to throw out insinuations against those whom no one dared to charge.- -He begged leave, in conclusion, to request the Electors would continue their exertions, and to be sure and avoid the example of his honest friend, whom he had met that day in the street—to bring tip their votes with all possible dispatch, and by that means make the result ten tidies more desir able, and the triumph ten times more perfect. — The character of tie City of Westminster would . be tarnished, it for a moment the victory should be doubtful. He exhorted them, therefore, to bring their friends to poll as early as possible, and to impress on their minds, that one vote to morrow was worth two given on Wednesday, and that two on Wednesday were worth four given on the following day, and so OD, till the close of the poll.—(Continued cheers.) Mr. Lame then presented himself, and having patiently waited for a bearing in the midst of every species of vocal disapprobation, was at length permitted to proceed. Oppressed and dis heartened as he had been stated to be, it might, perhaps, appear wonderful that he was. in spirits sufficient to be able to address them at all— (" Bravo, Lamb") ;—hit' he could assure them, as he did tint feel the weight of his misfortunes, he was as much in spirits as ever he was, as to the result of the Election.—(Applause.)—He was inclined to say something conciliatory to his op ponents, particularly as it appeared that the exer tions they had made to bring voters to the poll were not, as he had erroneously supposed, from any hostile intention towards him, but merely to save him the mortification of being buoyed up with false hopes. Their kind intentions, how ever, bad tint succeeded ; for he was buoyed up with hopes as much as ever.—(Laughter.)—Ex perience ahowed that Monday was always a pros perous day for his opponents to poll ; (" Why then was it the same on Saturday ?")—and looking at the pi ogress his opponents haul made on the poll of that day, and knowing what were their expectations, he knew that they were disappoint ed ; foe tie knew that their friends had expected that they wool(' be at least one thousand a-head. —(Cries of " No, no !")—lf they were, or if they should he 1000 a-head to-morrow, hi s h o p es would he as good as ever.—(Laughter.)—He un deretood that many of them had come to the vomitl that day, in the expectation of hearing hint make his farewell speech. He was sorry to disappoint them all, (" Not all," from the crowd.) —Not all, then, but a great part—certainly, a majority of them ; but he could assure them, that he had not vet began to think of his farewell speech. The Honourable Baronet bad stated one thing which had astonished bins. He said, that lie (Mr. Lamb) was a more Radical Reformer tau himself ; that be (Mr. Lamb) wished to re form the Constitution, whilst he entertained no such wish himself. In reply to this, he should only say, that his friend and colleague beside him had the other day declared the seven bills, which were so mulch the object of their animadversion, a part of the Constitution, and he did not think they were prepared to say, they did not wish to reform that part of the Constitution at least.— (Applause and disapprobation.) — Mr. Hobboase said, respecting his pamphlet, that be did not in tend to incite the people against the House of Commons, and therefore, that it was not fair, nor candid on his part, to repeat on the bustioge what was the general opinion respecting it. He did not know to what extent candour might go in its demands, but he must say, that if a publication was not to be judged by the words contained, he did not know by what rule it was to be judged. He certainly did not think that that Gentleman could be allowed to put a con struction on his words contrary to the opinion of hundreds, by sitting at home and pointing out a snug note of interrogation.—(Great clamour ) —They were very noisy, toad, as lie was very hoarse, he assured them that it was ribt possible for him to make himself hearth. Ile had butt one word more to say. Many of them were very noisy against the Whigs, but, HS soon as Mr. Hothouse should set his toot in the House of Commons, from that moment he became a Whig. (Disapprobation.)—With what party would he rote but the Whigs ? Whose measures would he support but the tVhigs ? The Hon. Baronet in Parliantent was always a Whig. Front the ex perience which lie had had of the worthy Baronet he had always voted with the Whigs, excepting on the occasion of the Penryn question —(Here there was an increased uproar, and some indica tions having been sliewn of en intention to inter rupt the speaker by personal outrage, Mr. Lamb observed, that if they should attempt to spit at hint, or pelt him, he never would make his ap pearance on the hustings again during the Elec tion.)--It bad been urged against hint that its some part of his speeches he supported the Hon. Baronet, whilst in other parts he opposed hint. What did the Hon. Baronet himself do with respect to the Whigs ? Did he not always speak ageitist them, and at the same time always vote with them i—(Continned uproar ) Ile wished to make a bargain with them. Mr. Hob• house was that day a=head of him : the y would all allow, he hoped, that he bore it good-bit mooredly. kVben, therefore, he should leave Mr. llobhoute behind, which in the course of a few days he should do---(Never!)—he hoped they would bear it with equal good humour. — __..(uproar.) Mr. LAMB then retired, and Mr. Hoastouse was proceeding to address the multitude, when the former Gentleman begged permission to say one word more. He had forgot to mention, that with respect to the remarks of the Hon. Baronet, as to an expression which had been made use of front a Gentleman behind him, that lie perfectly coincided with the Hon. Baronet in all lie had said on that subject—that it was not from any suggestion from him that it had been uttered, and he was autho rised to say, that the Gentleman who had made use of it, had done so on his own authority.— (Cries of " Let him come forward," and " No, no, stop where you are I") Mr. Host-rouse. then came forward. Mr. Lamb, he observed, had told them, that being only 300 a-bead of hits on the day's poll, he was disap pointed. He hoped he should be disappointed in that way every day during the contest. — (Cheering.)—As Mr. Lamb bad told them what it was had disappointed him (Mr. Hothouse), he hoped be would permit him to tell them what it was bad disappointed Mr. Lamb. He was disap pointed because public men, who had acted so meritoriously as he had, should meet with such small encouragement. In his first speech he had told them, that it he should not happen to be returned, it would be pretty encouragement for public men. He could tell Mr. Lamb, that in his conduct to wards him lie did not evince much knowledge of what encouragement was due to public men — to men who were ready to vindicate popular rights an dprivileges, by submitting to unwarrantable pri vation and punishment.—(Applause.)—Alt bough Mr. Lamb spoke fair with regard to him in public, he used every species of detraction towards hint in private.—(Disapprobation.) —This was the species of encouragement Mr. Lamb thought fit to show towards those who were ready to tome forward and sacrifice themselves on the shrine of liberty. He imputed to him as a crime, that which (if it was not saying too much of himself) the public at large imputed to hint as a virtue. — (Applause.)—Mr. Lamb said, he (Mr. Hobbouse) would become a complete Whig I It was a good thing to become a complete any thing ; but Mr. Lamb was not likely to become that thing.— (Laughter, and " Give it him, Hobhonse.")— Mr. Lamb applauded in the House of Com mons that Act which the Whig Oracle—" The Morning Chronicle "—admitted to be illegal and unconstitutional in the case of his im prisonment. That Right Honourable Gen tleman also not only differed with him on the subject of Radical Reform, but he differed with the Whig leader under whose banners he came forward to fight—Mr. Tierney. With re spect to Universal Suffrage, he would like to give it it trial ; and if it did not answer, why, they could then try something else.—(Cheers.) —Mr. Lamb had been idle enough, on Saturday last, to ask hint, why be wished for a seat in Parliament ? He world tell him, that because, as he intended always to speak his sentiments freely, and as be did not wish to spend his life-time in Newgate, on that account he wished for a seat in Parliament, so that, if the worst came to the worst, he might at all events go to the Tower (laughter and cheer ing) ; and also that lie might, for the future, not be committed to prison without a citation, a hear ing, and even without being seen.—(Cheers.) — As Mr. Lamb had given his opinion that the House of Commons should continue to exercise its arbi trary power, tempered with mercy, he confessed that he should rather prefer spending his time in that House even, than in Newgate. It a better place could be bound between the two, he should certainly give the preference to it.—(Some one from the crowd here called out, " Act like a man —beg his pardon for giving him so much trouble.") He would now take his leave of them for many reasons. One of them was, that Mr. Sturch would address a few words to them. He concluded by expressing a hope that they would disappoint him to-morrow in the same manner as they had done that day.—(Applause ) Mr. STuectt begged permission, as a fellow Elector, to address them for a few minutes. He wished simply to explain to them why he had voted as he had done in the present Election, lest it should be thought he had been influenced by a feeling of partiality towards a Representative who had served the City of Westminster so faithfully for so great a length of time. He had remained neutral in the last Election, and he should have done the same in the present, had it not been from what had occurred since its commencement. Ra dical Reform of Parliament he considered to he necessary to the political salvation of the country, and Mr. Lamb, so far front being friendly to that, appeared to be averse to it. He thought it, therefore, his duty not ouly not to countenance hint, but to do all in his power to prevent his Election —(Applause.)—lie had therefore divided his votes between Sir F. Burdett and Mr. flub house.—(Applause.) The different Candidates then left the Hustings. Yesterday, was brought to Bow-street Office, Martin Merricke, charged with sending a number of threatening letters to Sir Ledford Harvey, pur porting to do him a bodily injury, and even to mutder hitn. It appeared that the prisoner had been a servant to Sir Ledford Harvey, in the ca pticity of a footman, and on account of his mis conduct Sir Ledford discharged him from his ser vice.—The prisoner was ordered to tind bail or be committed. M UTE RIOUS CT RCUM ITANCE .—Yesterday morn ing a bundle was found lying in the area of the house of Nelson, Eq. of Russel-square. On the servant's opening it, he found a film male ;n -fan!, together with a variety of surgical instru ments, necessary tor an accouchement. The child was quite dead and the circumstance bring made known to the parish officers, the bony was cat tied to the workhouse. Gilbett Macleod, Author of The Spirit of the Union, was put to the bxr of the Justiciary Court, Edinburgh, on Wednesday, to receive sentence, when the LORD JUSTICE CLERK Sentenced him to five years' transpottation beyond seas, with the usual certification. The term of his transporta tion to commence from that day. CITY OF LONDON ELECTION. SIXTH DAY. The poll this day was unusually brisk, and the poptflar Candidates seemed to pull up cousiderably% At the close of the poll the following were the numbers : Mr. Wilson 4656 Alderman Wood. . Sir William Curtis 4339 The Lord Mayor .3769 Alderman Waithmau . 3:324 Alderman Thorp . . 327 E; Mr. WILSON, in a very few words, returned thanks, and observed, that to him it was peculiar .- ly gratifying that his position on the poll had not been altered, but that he was much better (soy , ' than he was on Saturday's poll. It was utterly' impossible for him to express his feelings, but he was much obliged to them for the very high dig' tinction they had given him, and fOr which be desired to be highly thankful. He confessed biro self unworthy of the high situation he now ()cc , '" pied, as he had no pretensions to it, on account of talents ; but he sincerely hoped that, flattering as the present state of the poll might appear, the exertions of his friends would continue hilts where he was, at the head of the poll. Alderman WOOD said, so kind had the Liver,' been to him this day, that he was nearly exhausted by the exertion he had been obliged to make ja returning thanks to the electors who had give' him their soffrages. He had this day polled 1,47'2 , being 400 more than he hail numbered on 11 4 sixth day of the former election. He had also this day polled more than any of his friends, 80 4 , he trusted, as they had placed him at the top 01 the poll on the first day, they were now deter' mined to enable him to resume his situation 00 the last, and in this idea he was particularly borne out by the " good-humoured" faces he saw about him.—(Laughter and applause.) Mr. T. CURTIS appeared, and for some time at" tempted to obtain a hearing, in which, however, b e fail e d. He then bowed to the Livery, thank e d them for the support they had given to his father , and stated that be had not the least doubt of th e final result. The LORD MAYOR also came forward a midit much clamour, and thanked his friends for til e support they had given him. He had no doub t that they would place him in a situation to occiv sion no fear of his final triumph. Mr. WAITHMAN censured the interference some persons oo the hustings, who bad expresse d their feelings against bins. Ile had not held 0 4 any false hopes to the Livery on Saturday, as usual at Elections, and he had no doubt, it WY mote voters were to come up to-morrow (t O , day), he should still be returned. lie regrett" that a misunderstanding had taken place hetwee ° his friends and those of another Candidate (M r ' Thorp,) to which he ascribed the majority of dt: Lord Mayor over him. He declared that 0 , whole of the other Commit tees were polled, w hits : that of his was untouched.—(Here lie w a s coo tradicted, and considerable feeling was evinced 0° both sides, which endtal in the Gentleman wii ° bad contradicted him handing up his name to Alt , Sheriff Parkins.) Mr. Alderman TguRP said, that he apPesl i ej , before them with pride and thankfulness. 0' agreed with what his worthy Friend (Mr. Woicr man) had just stated to them, because he firrol believed that no man was better deserving of thel., confidence. Whatever the fate of the Ele ctio ; might be, he had certainly endeavoured to do l i d duty, and lie could only say that any vote he ba c given was dictated by nothing except a since' wish for the good of the City of Loudon and t ut public at large. Yesterday 2411 Liverymen polled ; a ciceu °l : i stance unprecedented in Election Contests in tb City of London. IMPORTANT INFORMATION.—From calculatl by the College of Physicians, no less than 40,0° di e annually in Great Britain of Consumpti an ; and at least 10,000 in London. The late Willi.; 'Turnbull, Esq. a very ingenious Surgeon, a lce/ ,/ , tained that every 20111 person was ruptured' These complaints are truly alarming to every dividual who uses the least exertion. It is o °, incredible the number that suffer twin a c ertg lo o Disease, by being improperly treated. It re f those circumstances induced Dr. COOPER to so Sil eminent Physicians and Surgeons, of at least 0 4 years' experience, to form a Medical Board; oy since the establishment upwards of 30,000 tients have been cured without confinemen t many of them after hospitals had failed. st Messrs. CnorEtz and Co. are consultCd Woodstock-street, Oxford-street ; and at C i l i o lotte House, Great Charlotre•street, opposite it, Rev. Rowland Hill's, daily, from eight till ei cof t Meeliauics have advice gratis every evening, crj; six till eight ; and on Sunday mornings anti' o'clock. *** RUPTURRS of 30 years standing tt-- cured without confinement. sS ij *4.* There are private doors at each Lange , pi ivate rooms for Females. e d, -(1 - Id d well to r e' N. B. The Athlete, won :0 . • Messrs. COOPIIR and Co's Lectures on IWO C s if , vailitig Diseases, published at one shilling, by ii ! O flarvcy, 22, Blackfriars-road. They will prove uefol to young Pr ac titioners. BIRTH. 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