The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1832-12-14 00:00:00

48 Zbe Eibtrpooi gotobarb. FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 14, 1831 THE election has so absorbed all other considerations these few days past, that we can merely refer to our extracts from the London papers, and our correspondent's letters for the news of the day: The s i ege o f the Citadel of Antwerp, seems to be a more difficult matter than was expected—and it is doubtful whether it will not be aban doned until the approach of more favourable weather. The Mowing letter on this subject from the correspon dent of the. London Standard, appeared in a second edi tion of that Journal on Tuesday evening :—=- BRUSSELS, MONDAY MORNING, DEC. 10.—“ Defeated and dissatisfied—perceiving nothing before him but weeks or months of useless fighting and of certain slaughter—dreading the loss of thOnsancjs of men—fearing that General Chasse will direct the gun boats to cut the dyke near Fort Lillo—seeing that he may b reduced. to the necessity of carrying on an attack against the citadel from a small portion of ground situate between the Fart Montebello and the Lunette St. Laurent—jhe Marshal Gerard has at length posititively required the permission of be ing allowed, to attack the citadel from the side of the town . This demand has been made six times during the last 48 hours by the Marshal to King Leopold, and. the latter has endea voured as. long as possible to reply by evasive answers. At length the. Marshal became so importunate, and so represented that the French army would be exposed to fevers, agues, and gradual er,tinetion by the bombs and firing of General Chasse SO admirab:y directed, that the King of the Belgians yielded, and consented. to an attack being made on the gallant foices of brava Chasse from the side of the Esplanade ; on condition that the government of Louis Philip should' first demand this con sent as a sort of sine qua non. Immediately couriers were set in motion, the telegraph to work, and it is expected that in the course of this morning, the reply of the French Cabinet will be procured. Should the French government, in consequence of the protest of the. Ambassadors of Berlin, of Austria, and of Great Britain, who would. be first consulted at Paris,. not require the attack from the city, Marshal Gerard will propose to take up winter quarters in the environs of Antwerp, and will not expose the lives of all his troops to death by disease,. as well as from the bombs and cannon of the gallant Dutch. To. take the citadel,. except from. the side of the city, Marshal Gerard now eepresents as impossible in. this weather; and as the inhabitants of Antwerp who. remain there are in a state of incipient insur rection, it is feared by the government of Leopold, that if an attempt be madk in that quarter, there will soon be an open revolt,'" THE LIVERPOOL POLL.. HENCZWORWARD the lath of December, 18324 will be a day memorable' in the annals of Liverpool, as that on which. the electi,;.), of members to represent her in the first Reformed Parliament of Great Britain was concluded. Oa Tuesday the nomination of the several candidates to,ok place ui front of the Town-hall, of which, the pro ceedings on. that occasion; we published in a second edi tion the same afternoon, and we now republish them, in cluding the speeches of the candidates, as well as those of the proposers and. seconders of each. The meeting was adjourned. until Wednesday morning, when the poll ing commencedat nine o'clock, and continued with great spirit until four, when. the number for the respective e.anbilafes were— effects of the unceasing and unsparing calumnies which have been directed against Lord San - don have been pro ductive of more effect, amongst the ignorantly prejudiced, than we could have anticipated ; but he cannot fail to de , rive infinite satisfaction from a critical examination of the description of persons by whom he was supported. We had been better pleased if his lordship had had Sir How ard Douglas as his colleague, but, as already remarked, there was an insurmountable barrier to this on the pre sent, which we are mistaken if he finds existing upon any future occasion. It would be hypocrisy in us to deny, that we are re joiced at the defeat of Mr. Thornely, on public grounds, and on public grounds alone. As an individual member of the community we respect him highly, and we can appre ciate the depth of his own mortification, from the confi dence with which he looked upon success as certain, at the close of the first day's polling. We look upon this to have been his only chance of ever succeeding in the object of his ambition, and we hope this conviction, acting on his own mind, will prevent his again making a similar attempt. Ea Mr. Ewart t ..... 3460' Mr-Thornely ..... .. . 3U53 ' Lord. Sandon 2144 Sir El-D0ug1a5......... 2077 Our Contemporary of Tuesday has a pretty lengthy article upon the election, and the respective candidates, whose merits he, iu some points, contrasts, giving, as we naturally expected he would, the palm of superiority to Messrs. Thornely and Ewart. We have no intention of following him through the whole of his observations, butthere is one passage so particularly ingenuous, ;that we cannot resist the desire to quote it.. He says, "If Sir H. Douglas and Lord Sandon are returned, they, will owe their seats to the West India interest, and will be equally urged by the sense of past and the hope of future favours, to advance their views, support their opinions, and fight the battle of the Planters against the people of England. They, of course, will deny this, and talk highly of their independence ; but the electors know as much of human nature as they do, and will judge for themselves. As for Mr. Thornely and Mr. Ewart, they certainly owe nothing to the West Indians, who are their bitter and implacable enemies, and they have, therefore, no motives to prevent them pursuing the course which justice, humanity, and the true interests of all parties con cerned, imperiously dictate." The plain logical inference from this paragraph is—that if Mr. Thornely and Mr. Ewart had motives of private interest or ambition to sway them, they would, for such paltry consideration, sacrifice the cause of justice and humanity.. We would not have ven tured, Tories as we are, to predicate such things of virtuous reformers but friends can take liberties with friends—and we do not doubt that our Contemporary knows his men. Before these observations which we now pen, shall meet the public eye, the election for members to repre, sent this ancient and loyal Borough in parliament will have terminated; but whatever the result may be, we think we shall only be discharging our duty towards the electors of Liverpool, to put upon record our opinion of the pretensions of the several candidates, as they are displayed in their respective addresses on. the hustings, at the time of their nomination.. Tile-friends of Mr. Ewart and Mr. Thornely came for ward with great activity early in the day, and. thus gave base: gentlemen a majority,. which was diminished but shglitly at the close of the poll. - Their adherents were, vonseopently„ in. high spirits, and the addresses of the gentlemen themselves breathed_ nothing but confidence. It was evident, is the course of the day„ that Sir How azd.ljouglas' chance was gone,,,from the immense num ber- of pledges which had been given to Mr. Ewart„ un ;ier the, belief, that no fourth candidate would be brought luiward.;, still, however, the gallant baronet resolved. to sqnew the. contest with vigour, and not to throw away a ebqrkce.„ however remote. The, position. of Lord Sandon. es, the poll was somewhat discouraging, and not what "'Lis. friends bad a. right to calculate upon ; but they knew their bad a strong reserve,. and,, 'therefore, shewed no, symptoms, of despondency.. Yoterday worming the polling was resumed at eight *Vogt, and it soon became evident that Lord Sandon. would rapid y . reduce- the majority which had been ob- tainea ov.er him. on the preceding day.. No. sooner was, tea; ascertained, than, as we are informed; every engine . Q.ialy and annoyance. Was put in motion ;--the admi aistzateWn. of the oath against bribery was demanded, by width. the must dangerous delay in taking the, votes was lzoduied and the friends of his lordship,. as they came. ap. to; the booths„ were assailed with hisses, groans, and lints. of injurious epithets, and, we •believe, a- tale xabk Z. application of mud.. Was not withheld; in spite, of these. disgracefurpractiCe§; success continued to Adm.& his cause ) , and, about three o'clock; he had a ma utity over Mr. Thornely.. The moment this fact w'as announced, in. the Exchange news -room, a shout of faxadtation: was set up, such as, we believe, was never be floze Beard .4 - ithin its precincts, and mutual corigratula ii. weve exchanged with. a warmth . which proved, ih -the feelings_of the merchants . of 'Liverpool %sum weasion. Up to the final close, of the poll, his continuea to g'ain upon his. opponents. - - . ... The statements of the. numbers at the conclusion, is svicA b :Axe committees of the Sevpral candidates, vary' itu.:;Sidarably from each other, and as we, of course, can- azik 43,6ze access to. the, only means .of 'verifying them,— e- aflicial which will be. publiely, declared this ably, al. clew= o'clock, we insert them all In the van stands our townsman, Mr. Ewart, who having prudently kept himself aloof from all ex'plana dons, in the presence of a. body of intelligent merchants, comes manfully forward, when he is sure of having the " most sweet voices" of an infatuated multitude to applau,d him to the echo. Throughout his effort we look, but :look in vain, for something more clear and definite, with regard to his opinions upon the leading topics of popu lar excitement, than were to be found in his first address. We have the same magniloquent phrases—the same am plification of expression-.-combined with the same po verty of sense and meaning, which in his address to the electors defiedallattempts.to comprehend—like two grains of wheat in a bushel of chaff, when found;they were not worth the trouble of searching for them - . He begins with the necessity of reformi ng • cor p orat i ons — an d th i s i s to be accomplished by a measure, which would give "addi tional influence to thd people; arid increased stability to our corporate institutions." What sorrof reform it will be which is to give increased stability to things which are declared to be, in theinseives, abuses or nuisances, we leave Mr. Ewdrt.to define. • • . . . On the subject. of Church Reform -he enters, by declar ing„ that he had long considered_ titheS and phiralities as evils in his mind, " Ambition should form little or no portion of the spiritual character,"—and when we were all attention, expecting some lucid exposition- of the mode intended to be. puriued, to " Purify and dise4ral religion," we are • sudden!) , transported to our distant colonies, the excesses practised towards other chu r ch es , which proved,. " if pro o f were necessary, the decision of the great question of negro' emancipation, must be taken out of the hands of the planters !" On the sub ject. of negro emancipation, • and • compensation, he is somewhat more intelligible than usual . --".ile held it ne farious in principle, that man: should hale property in man; and, so soon as he could emancipate with safety. he. would not let the groat moral duty of abolition wait upon the lesser duty, of indiViduai compensation." Thus summarily does this . legal luminary 4eclarp. the laws of his country, which have existed •for centuries, " nefa rious," and avow his disposition .to rob hundreds of thousands of his fellow ; subjects, of fhat,pioperty which they hold by as good a tenure as any nobleman in Eng land holds his estate," giving, " in his great merry, " to those who really Should suffer. by the change, (i. e. in the opinion of the Abolition Society) the most effectual conz penicitlon i his .power." What the amount of such compensation would be, after the negroes were emanci pated; we presume it _is needless for us to gi ve any opi nion •about. • • - • • Sir H.. • Lard •• • •Mr. • . Mr. .• Douglas's- Sandotes. • . Ewart's: Thornely;rs IP: - E w /vex _.,.......4820 4733, : . :485 . 1. :: ' 4854 lot.. S &UPON , ...,.415.7- - . 414 • . •4154. 4170 . • • • lif=.7l..ttarai.E.ltY, .. "4''x's 3236, 401.3' 4042. "The minopoly of the trade to. China, and the mono- Etn• l l. l DcurAtit.as....:...3lSl,l - 3160 , - • 3192. 3216 poly of the trade in corn" are, " earth-horn giants of a Ik. , least favourahle to Lord -Sandon, giving to his , m o nsii o us race''--how grand and poetical ! "Let us give lbaAb.ip. a majority iJf '1&- over Mr. Thornely, and the cheap subsistence: to our people.. Let us give them, if =lett 34a C.ll.loiing, it as high, as 15f- possible, unlimited commerce.'' "These are the sources 11:41. tuaaivatell this long anticipated, and eagerly , o f t h e we alth of'nations ; for these . at once supply and coalditedelet;tiork the result of which Is iil be viewed b Y increase the artili . cial wants and luxuries of mankind." /trA.. , • isifACi.sta. each caillikiate 4orae.wiLat differentli,.: Tha : P. is. Apparent thlit M. End has yet talearu, that," high ..: . - THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. and low " prices are not synonymous with " dear and cheap." When the corn monopoly, as he calls it, is abo: lished, he will, perchance, discover that there is a cliffer ence, and that the quartern loaf may, at one time, be cheaper to the labourer at 18d., than it is, under other cir cumstances, at 12d. Whether Mr. Ewart means by "unlimited commerce " the same thing as " commerce free and universal "—or whether he knows what he means by either expression, we do not pretend to conjec ture, but this we can tell him, that free trade is all a farce—that it never did, and never can exist—all trade and commerce, in all countries, ever have been, and ever must be, subject to restrictions, and all modifications are merely questions of degree, not of principle. Free trade, if it mean any thing, must mean trade unrestricted, upon the practicabilility of establishing which, in this country, we need not say one word. On the important subject of national education, Mr. Ewart, as usual, leaves to grope our way-to-his meaning. He would have it " founded on the soundest principles of truth." Chris tians—Protestant Christians at least, of all denomina tions, would say that the bible contained the "soundest principles of truth," and, therefore, that in all systems of national education, the bible, as is the case in Scotland, should be read as a school-book. Does Mr. Ewart ap prove of this system of education ? And when it was a question in the House of Commons whether the bible should or should not be excluded from the Irish national schools, which side did he espouse? Finally, Mr. Ewart declares himself an advocate for reducing greatly the duration of parliaments, and for the vote by ballot. These are, of course, subjects upon the discussidn of which we cannot now enter—we merely record his opinions, and leave our readers, such of them at least, as have turned their attention to these points to draw their own con clusion, strengthened with our strength—he would carefully d er tab, whether the prospective advantages are comme° se ; rate with the positive suffering by whi c h th e i r destruen ° ' must neccessarily be accompanied.—l s there no injus tiel ed done, we would ask of any man, in withdrawing, e s : c) after considerable notice; that protecti on un der w lll OO great interests have been fostered and mat ure d, and the faith of which vast amounts of capit a l h a ve be e , invested ? It is very easy for those who h ave notbl e t' embarked in such concerns, to say " abolish all m° 11 ; polies"—but like the boys and the frogs in -the fa b ir what is sport to one party is death t o the,other. O f f u t Howard Douglas' addr ess we h ave l e f t ourse lves ",. little space to remark at length—and like Lord 501d°,,, 1 ", it must be read in extensa to be duly appreciated. , if gallant officer's professional reput a ti on , s t an d s too hig i b l ie prominent in his country's an na l s t o nee d o ur fe e ile meed of applause, but we are warranted, from the de ta ng into which he has entered, since his appearance ao e us, in saying, that his acute and comprehensive n iiii ty has been applied, diligently a n d success f u lly, to attainment of a thorough acquaintance with ulai l i A the great commercial interests o f th e coun t r y; h ad ta , been returned to Parliament as on e o f our represe ° , Lives, we make no doubt he could ha ve c onvinced.' ect most sceptical of his opponents, th a t u p on every subthe which might come before the deliberative wisdom °f A to di e legislature, his splendid talent s , zea l ous l y a pplie d consideration of each, in its various bearings, would Jj a io i enabled him most ably to represent this great comme rc o community, whilst his intimate acquaintance with °de state policy, both foreign and domestic, would have nla ri , him shine, in comparison with his radical comPet it° 10 as the noon-day sun t o th e f ee bl es t star . That be e j not succeeded on the prese n t occas i on i s to b e a ttribu ted solely to the lateness of his being brought forward es. candidate. Many who would have g l a dl y suppor ted but t ; were previously pledged to others, and we have to that, on the first opportunity which may offer, if he again come forward, his return will be as honourabl e to him, as we are convinced his services-Will be valuableitil us. We trust the acquaintance which he has made 11 _, a large body of the inhabitants of Liverpool, wills, into an attachment which will become mutual and during. Defeated he now is ; but it is such a defeat o gives assurance of future victory; and we are mist al ‘ o r in our view of the signs of th e ti mes, if t h e day be in , distant when he will have an opportunity o f regaill-; those laurels whi c h a f or t unate c h ance alone has °- snatched from his grasp. Having thus glanced over Mr. Ewart's political creed, we may as well now turn - to Mr. Thornely, although he did not immediately follow his leader, for the sentiments of the two gentlemen on most subjects, are so similar, as far as we can guess at M r . E wart ' s mean i ng, that they may fairly be classed together ---and we are th e more Mi . ; pelled to do this, because Mr. Thornely, in his sp eec h on the hustings refers to his published address, which we had under review in a former number of our publication. The only new matter which we find brought forward is an opinion of Sir Edward Coke, who lived 200 years ago, that "all monopolies and restrictions of trade, do over throw trade." Hence it would appear, that the "wisdom of our ancestors" is not to be derided, when we find it in accordance with the new-fangled theories of our mo dern reformers. Again, " Sir H. Parnell has shown that the people lose annually seventeen millions by these mo nopolies "—namely the East India and corn monopolies. Nobody of coure,, would think of doubting Sir. H. Par. nell's authority. A paragraph which appeared in our journal 01.- day last, respecting some alleged proceedings in mr, Thornely's committee, has produced a l ette r from - 00 1 F. Cearns, jun. which is published in the Live r P e j, Courier of Wednesday. Had no suc h l et t e r aPP ear o we should have disavowed, as we now d o, the Par a g', r3 of in question. The facts are simpl y t h ese — a t a late n. on Monday evening, it was brotight to the printing 0 ' 0 and upon the known respectability of the-quarter w 1191 1 , 1,1 it came, it was incautiously ad m itt e d, w ith ou t the edi ta , o ' sanction, and without statin g th a t it was a conolu a , l oo Lion. We have since com m u n i ca t e d w ith th e pail ' t t o Which it proceeded, and are assured that it was me all convey what was therein stated, as a report onlyL , which would have been,' obviously, the only cen sP ;a:; tion which could have been put upon it, had the ° I A "it is said," been inserted after the word " that 5 ° before the words " the expediency," &c. Mr. C eao letter sets the question of fact at rest, and we are 9 0 thorised' to express the regret of the party,' t hat the r incautious expression should have given hineor any (3ii`•,4, individual ground of complaint. For ourselves , sv-'t e - t i we express our sorrow that our pages should have be ll., made the vehicle of such- remark, we beg to assure Pt ' r Cearns, that no difference of political sentiment, °t unworthy feeling of any kind, shall ever indu ce 11- o t '. i prostitute our journal, by making it the med ium o rtl circulating wilful untruth cr of seeking to gain suPP I ., f by any means inconsist en t w ith th e principles of Inursi l `' and religion. On the subject of negro slavery Mr. Thornely "can say a great deal "—for he has seen it at Charleston—he has absolutely seen the negro bought and sold. Hear thisye unbelievers ! In that country whose declaration of In dependence (a copy of which, if we are not misinformed framed and glazed, adorns the mansion of the worthy gentleman) thus commences, "We hold it to he indis pitiable, that all men are born free, equal, and independ ent !" Did Mr. Thornely, when he saw such abominations at Charleston, raise his voice against them? Did he ex hort the Planters to emancipate their black fellow-citi zens ? Did he abhor the commissions to be derived from the sale of cotton and rice, raised by the hands of these oppressed men and brothers ? Or did he quietly wait un til he had realized a fortune out of the produce of this much injured and ill-treated race, and then vent his vir tuous indignation against his own countrymen, from whom no commissions are to be had? Let his friends answer these questions. We now turn to the speech of Lord Sandon, which is as replete with sound views of constitutional reform, as it is distinguished by good sense and manly indepen dence. It is throughout so argumentative, so united as a whole, that we cannot do justice to it by partial ex tracts,—we wish our readers to peruse it, and judge for themselves, assured that it will amply repay them for the trouble. One or two points, however, prominently present themselves to our notice—speaking of the charges which have not ceased to be urged against his conduct in the - last parliament, notwithstanding the clearest proof of their futility or absolute falsehood, he says,—" What is it I have been guilty of that requires so much explanation ? It is, gentlemen, that ' T have scorned to be the slave of a party—because I have despised the servility of party and ehosen to follow my own independent judgment." " As long as I live and breathe, and can take a part in public affairs, mine shall be a free and independent course. Is it indeed fit that your representative should surrender himself to the leading strings of any one party ?" Compare this noble and manly independence, with the fawning mob popularity-seeking professions of others, and then say—. • The vote by Ballot being now the watchword of t , , modern reformers, a s " th e Bill" ere w hite was svon t t i i e be, we deem it a duty incumbent upon us to show practical operation of this so much lauded system, in t country, where, if we may believe its admirers, tree liberty alone exists—we gave, in a late numb o er' d , extract from a New York paper, detailin g so me pN eee tP .t ings of the Hickory Men., during the election thel l i i t io terminated—we now give two more specimens , manifold benefits arising from vote by B a ll o t and 0 11ivr versal suffrage—extracted font the New York StaTh da rf r e e . We regret to state, that the bullies, of whose intention to 1 0 , t ea with our election we advised our readers some days yesterday to take possession of the ballot-boxes at the poll et . the T ri fle! ward, and actually prevented the depositin g o f man y votes' se attacked the hotel in which the poll was held, and compelle d t ; since, Pe ll:11 . 0 0 specters to retreat with their boxes. to an upper room, and , te „,b ° ll l , pone the election until the morning. A party of the opposi“." - ,llo' lies broke into the inspectors' room of the seventh wart' I) ° , f ' night, and endeavoured to get possession of the ballot-boxes' , ynd were foiled, but n o t w ith out some sad injuries to themsel v : others. The s o n o f a respecta b le c i tizen was carried home s in' bruised. " Have you eyes ? - Could you on this fair mountain cease to feed., And batten on this moor ?" On the subject of church reform his Lcirdship is frank and explicit ; he wishes to remedy any existing abuses without destroying his own creed —or, overthrowing those barriers which have .made that creed the national religion of his country. And on the important *object of national education be avows that,, whilst he is eager for its general diffusion, it is only in union with religion, which he most truly says, ought to be the first principle of the education of a responsible and immortal being. These sentiments may not give his Lordship favour iu the eyes of our liberal modern philOsophers, who would educate children and leave them to choose a re ligion for themselves, excluding from' public. schools that Book, which alone, i s a bl e to mak e us " Wise unto salvation,"—a scheme about as wise, a s sen di ng a ship to sea, without compass or quadrant, in the expecta tion that the Captain; without them, would 'find his way to 'the farthest part of the globe.: Of monopolies, • his -,, ___ -,.-....---.....___---<;e. , ,i 4e r , Lordship admits that' they Are,. in, principle,' wrong ; but I._;--Pri . nted in Union Cotirt, Castle-street an u " Eta,ti v rr:' of No. 7, Anson- street Orders' and Adiertisc:nvnts are .4A I; at E . No, P° illgh- , Areet, Exe,i9nge, by SAYR , EI.. rit AN C BY " 3 ' - ', before he. will join- iii the .attempt to abolish those which. . , • .. . • . ceived in London by Messrs. New—ov & er, Warviit Newjate—street ;: ancilar-BAJIIC . E - It: .'6,.thea-sire — et.. .40 exist—which have gro'Wn. with: our growth,. and. 1 Extract from a New Orleans letter of the Bth ult. .1 have nothing to comm un i ca t e , except t h at w i t h t he co at o x ther more confide nc e h as appeared, anal it; is. report $ 1)/ deaths have been grea tly l ess yester d ay and to-day, ‘"iijea`e previous day since the epidemic appeared, More con in business also seems to show itseif.!' roa" COURT-MA LIT IA L.—Last wee k a general district coll .t- - 1 00 . ' er was held in the tower ofloncion, iv - hen Peter Dunn, a" 1 ea .1, of the secomi battalion of the Grenadier Guards, statiolloce, that torti . es, was tried for de, eitien ; it was his second nes‘k nt eJ. and he had been for some time absent from the regiment' ing a very dissolute-course of life. He was found - 6'9, l ''''be e f ," sentenceu to 1d years' transportation.. Dunn has E , 706 1; removed from the Tower, and is now on kis voyage 194 ment mony with other convicts to undergo his sentence TO CORRESPONDENTS• ANTI-RADICAL is received, but his ground is too deba!ea bl6 our columns. W. " a , day after the fair" with , his sugyestidn. ot el THE ELECTION must be our excuse for not at yr . e'e nt n j several communrcations with whi c h we h ave b een j.dvoure ' I