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bottom of die well. Pity him for once, and
just give him a be.,rung.—(slNeh disapprobation )
—The more he apelike the more he'll manna tom-
sell—l tell yogi that before band. You hear a great
sisal of Whigs and Tortes, but Mr. floblinisse does
not tell you what he is. API we can leer,, is,
that he is sionsething between bo h, and you know
the old story about tlw two stools—he n' between
the twos stools, mod he'll fall to the ground.—
(Applause agd disapprobation I-1 hold in my
hand a book tool si •Petition.—(fireat uproar.l—
How, do hear this—it is an excellent thing,
and sou most hew it ; it is good, abort, sweet—are
not three recnininendations to you ?—(Uproar.)—
Mr. hunt root Coding it likely to srpoease the
storm, r• sorted to the old expedient, of giving
" three ch—r• for the old Major," and found it
eflecti.e. Well now, don't you see that the old
111 ojor's friends are strong and sound, ni,cl if they
please can make jii-t as much noise as Mr. Hub.
house's friends.—(Uproar.)—Caine now, this little
story must lw heard—it relates to Sir Francis
Burdett, end when you hear it, you'll see what
a pretty condition your Representative is in.—
Before yin take his advice, which I dare say he
is a in: to give you, let us look at how he fol.
lows it livioself. This is a Petitinii from Jolla
Hudson, of aot, Long-acre, who polled it plum Per
for the Baronet last Election, and the cores-tn.
stances of it ire these—(Great wprear.)—Well.
XII wait a little ; perhaps as you !cave not dined
you'd, wish to digest a little of Mr. Ilobhotow's
speech. I'll wait,,but yoo Inuit hear me. [lad.
son took a forged 81. note, and he eioileavoured to
recover hack the amount of it. This endeavour
coat him 641. laughter.)—Hr could
get ion recite-a atom it, and lie prepared to Parlia-
anent a Petition upon the subject. Ile called on
the Baronet once, and left a letter about this buoi.
ace's—no answer ; he called a second tone—no an-
swer; lie called a third time, but old John, the 'sor-
ters said his master left him no answer. This was
the way the Baronet served his plumper friends
Well, now we will see how lie was served by such of
man earls as Lord Castlereagits—(The !Valk
Lord's name met with a very vneourteous reeep.
tion.)—Well, but give the devil loos due; let us see
what he did. Hudson took his Petition to Lord
Castlereagh, who gave him an answer at the first
call, for be told him lie vault! nut do any thing for
him.—(Laughter.)—What was the !Imo. Baronet
doing its Parliament Where was hr last night,
whet, Mr. Bennett brought forward his motion?
Wily, 1w was canvassing with Mr. Floblinsure owl
the Committee of the Rump.—Wisopprobalion.)
—He woold go, indeed, to a tavern and make
long aperchea about the cruelney practised upou
chininey-.weeps, but there was no *Sgn of him in
Paillanient when Mr. Bennett brought in his Bill
to do away with these cruelties. Now let us hear
him say wind he is at.—(Greet uproar, and again
the sueresyi,l expedient resorted to of eree eliters
for the al .11a jor.)—lf the Baronet won't hear sew,
I'll hear hitn, with the blessing of Gail. I'll
stick to him wherever he is. He boa abandoned
his principles, and 811• W .1
Ii ye abilioloned Liao fur
Ilia cmoluct.—(Uproar.)—The people have atom.
doused " No, as!")—Fes, yea,
th.y- have. ' Let him try a meeting in Palate-yard,
and then he'll tee wheifor the people are wills him.
I am his evenly, I avow it to his face, because I see
1 • herr. As the Bare .et is food airing spetclici,
and a. I Ike to liweit to him, to see how he cam get
nut of be scrape, I won't take up more of your
time to-nog; ht. Mr. floolrouse, iitcked, entertained
yon with questions Aunt the Whigs., instead
oil exio;utiiing what brought down Sir Christopher
/law k tos, the great borosiglos ins:tiger, to vote for him
3 r•triday. He talks of a Ntolrlernan's steward go-
ing about carivassnig. A siietty fellow this to talk
of ii:twarda, with the old borough-inotiger down
upon loin, and he himself the protege: of that
arch-humbug, Sir F,aucue Burdett.—( //se uproar
weir here very great.)
Sir FRANCIS BURDETT came forward, and was
received with great applause. Ile suislressed•the
Meeting as follows:—" Gentlemen, Electors of
Illestinniaters I casoirot but congratulate you on
the result of this day's poll—(Applause,)—and
whets we recollect that every sootier, every excite-
ment, every iiiflueoce, which the corruption of
;sower, and delusion' of trick could being into play
ugaiii•l you—whets we recollect that every meal's
have becra remitted to, to isitionthite, to seduce, to
sweep out all the scouring* of the public offices,
and of all the other Gower iiiii ent departments—
when we recollect, as we most do, all dila, and see
nee decline of our strength as compared with yes-
terday, but still-see the spring of liberty fresh and
clear. and the friends of tiodependence ready and
wuHing to cause forward to reinstate Weatinisister
iii the proud state she was in before this con•
test—when we ewe all OW, we have, I say,
reason to be gratified --t Loud tipplausel—We
know we have no moron to despair, for our
is the cause of the liberty of the country—•
never to be despaired of by a patriotic fill
(4pplause.)—Experience tells us that the _
of Westminster are out Pawls brought into act
it i• not the work of a moment to get them
ward. We know that they are staunch friends
liberty, and that the entlinsiwin which that sac'
principle imparts, is struck among diens by r•
rum, and by the appearatice of men animus
whom they know to be opposed to the chore
freedom, and to their best interest. We all
that it takes more trouble to rouse a lion than
start or loare.—(Applause.;—The venal and
loess has yon, that when a lion was ,
t,, be e„ss-.11, 11.01,11. g 141.14-nt.rd but use bray
ail ate. I tell lon the loon of Westmisoaer
to fling. I inn set f.—(Greoi applause.) —T he
efforts of low aristocracy, the low and pitiful
of the possessors of Noble Hamra. and of
rank and influence, who have degraded 1
by snooping on the previa occaaion to
their views by miserable stratagem and r
than unnatural cotillion) between the Court

they are, you will in the end see them overcome.—
(Great uppleuse.)-1 am sorry that you did tint
give the prosper attention to the persons who had
previously addressed you, because the twine of
truth must prevail when it is heard. I am sorry
Mr. Lamb was not heard ; first, because he may
complain of the treatment you gave him ; and,
secondly, because it would be touch better to have
his observations heard, that they might, if it at.-
peered necessary, he answered on the spot. He
told you that my friend, Mr. Hobhouse, was a great
jester, and he himself proved that he would be the
same if hi. wit were willing, and if not willing
when it ought, he would attempt it when he Celli.
Notwithstanding what Mr. Lamb had said about
Mr. Clarke, whom he discovered to be a barber,
and the sneer he made at the man's trade—as if be-
cause of his being a barber, the whole fraternity of
barbers must be his enemies—l must say that the
punning upon Whig and trig did not throw aside
the man's question. But putting away the 'qui-
vogue, I think I may say, that the Barber shaved the
Lamb', bead very closely.— f Loud laughter.)—lf
the Lali►h'P head is often presented before you,
shoold not wonder if the Barber in the end would
cu• off his ears.—/ Laughter—a voice in the crowd,
" Be more serious. Sir Fruncis.")—gut to become
more serious, an I am properly admonished to Ire,
and if I have been betrayed on this occasion lido
the error of levity, I hope it will be attributed to
sir. Lamb, who set me the example. The great
question before you, Gentlemen, is not whether
this mall or that nom shall be returned—it is not
whether the Whig or the Tiny is the bearer man.
Nn. but whether the great principle of Radical
Reform shall or shall not receive your support--
that is the question.—(Applause.)—And 1 soy, Mr.
Lamb and the Whigs delude you when they talk
of Reform, and avow themselves Reformers. Mr.
Lamb conies here clothed in the disguise of Re-
form—he will not speak out, and declare his
principles in the plain and intelligible instiller in
which Mr. Hobliouse does, and yet he talks of Re-
form and the Constitution, and all this at the time
when in answer to a plain question he says, he does
not understand the history of the rotten boroughs.
I understand lie said he had not studied the question
so well as the Gentleman who put it to bins--
Mr. Lama—si I never said that."

Sir FRANCIS BuRDETT observing that Mr. Larch
Woo anxious to explain, stopped to give him that
oppurtuuity.

Mr. LAMB said---" I never said what has been
imputed to me. I did say when the person elm-
*iterated a long list of boroughs, and described
what he represented to be the particular state of
each, that I was not so well versed as he seemed to
be in such a mass of details; but I agreed with
him iii saying, that if the abuses lie pointed out
existed, they were great grievances, and ought to
be removed. I have since found that the infor-
mation given me by the person who put the ques-
tions respecting the boroughs he enumerated, was
iii marry parts erroneous.'•
Sir FRANCIS BURDETT resumed.—" I told you
just now, that it was more difficult to rouse a ilOll
than to stint a hare ; but the gentle Lamb, it seems,
has got angry at last, and has become a roaring lion.
—(Laughter and applause )—I should be sorry not
to take any man's words but as he says he uttered
their', or interpret them differently from what hr
interprets them himself ; but this I will say, that if
Mr. Lamb never uttered the expressions attributed
to him, let him now, for it is not an improper
let him now speak out on the great and vital still-
ject of Reform.--/Applause./—Let him speak
plainly and intelligibly to the people of Weston°.
Ater, what are his sesitinteirto upon that subject.--
(Applause.)—lt requires no time, nor labour, nor
reflection, to ponder upon the bearings of the sub-
ject. Every body has heard of and read the I'rti•
lion from the Friends of the People, in 1793—
every body knows it was demonstrated in that Pe.
lotion, that 150 borough proprietors returned a Ina-
join), iii the Commoi.s House of Parliament.—
(Cries of • Shame !')—Does it require cousidera.
lira', knowledge, or information, or any thing but the
plainest tordeisterahrie mid ordinary integrity, fur a
man to say whether this is or is not an infamy which
ought to be any longer endured ?—(Applause.)—
I beg most pointedly to impress upon your winds,
the necessity there exists ou the present occasion
of openly exerting yourselves, and using every
meal's in your power, to maintain out wily your
own independence, but to chew the coalition of
Whigs and A ristocracy, that you are nut such unprin-
cipled dolts as to suffer yourselves to be held out as
the spectacle you are represented to be in the daily
venal press, as persons in whom uo lasting coo&
deuce our be placed—(Cries of s Shame P)—as
persons whose support is not at any time of any Im-
portance, from its feebleness and uncertainty.—
Shew now by your acts, that you are not only at-
Wired to the great principle of Reform, but that
you are sensible of the necessity of upholding that
reputation you have gained, and preserving it. ex-
ample fur the benefit of the people of England—
that you are not these fickle, shallow, end uncertain
beings you are so falsely represented to 11...
Whoever reads the public papers will see how Use
the particular statemerits are which relate to the oc-
currences of this place. the Morning Chronicle,
or rather the lying Chronicle, fur that is its proper
name, that Paper which goes beyond all other
Papers in its falsehood and rualiguite, has pub-
lished a hand-hill of a ludicrous kind, asserting
that ■ triumphant chair was prepared for Mr.
H .bhouse ; now, this has no foundation whatever
in point of fact—it is absolutely false from begin.
Ping to end, and yet The Chronick, in a cote of
the Editor's, asserts that the story was true, and
founded upon a fact. There is a hired parry here,
it is said, to stifle Mr. Lem'''s voice—now, from
all 1 hare been able to hear, and I believe I have
heard every thing, tilts charge is utterly false—
it is entirely destitute of a scintilla of truth.—
But that which is here of the first, of the greatest
importance, is, the securiiy of the election. Be-
stir yourselves then, Electors, and thew your enemies
that you are determined to maintain the reputation
you have so honourably acquired; and frotwith-
weeding the compassion of The t varier at any
situation, as deserted by you, and notwithstanding
the piety of the Courier (for it is a pious paper)—
(A laugh)--windi was shocked at thy quotatton
from Ralph, the historirso, that between these two
thieves (the IVhige and Tories) the Constitution
was crucilied—notwithstanding all this, do you per-
form your duty. The Courier, indeed, in igno.

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ranee that my expression was a (violation front
Ralph, becaine shock.{l at my iiivraition of the
image—they were chocked at toy using it. Not.
withstanding these deep EXiirel44lollll of piety
and compassion from Vie Courier, I hope you'll
prove yourselves, as vi,u hitherto have door, to he
the steady friends and rhaminims of the principles
of English libei Iy-I,4pp/erase) —and that in long
as I inanition those principles, which have made Ole
the object of your choice, and which it has been
If the practice. I may say the bitsiiir•a of my life to
assert and earner—that so lung as I continue to
maintain those great principles, and I trust I ever
shall be found to maintain them, I shall have hoot
you, the people •f Westminster, the advantage of
your countenance mod steady support, and that the
people of England will also have from you the be.
ncht of )our glorious example."—(Loud cheers.)
Mr. FftaNcts Aitsts-ritoNti came forward, and
made a harangue, which he ace 1111 l patti•it with the
most violent gestures. Ills voice seemed occasion-
ally choked with rage. The noise winch pre-
vailed durifig his address prevented us from
hearing any more from the orator than, that he
had been the supporter of the immortal William
Pitt. for whom he had often wielded his pen. tie
had again, lie said, fought by the side of the
Whigs, whir bad changed stiles.—(('ries Irlio
are you, nay buy r.) --" l am," sand the orator,
"Si. Gra:ge (he had a label round his hat, on
which Si. George was written), mid, ley the --
w riooic air, ueeithrow the dragon." Altar
gueng ou a little longer Pi this extravagant strain,
lie was coirivelled to desist by the tociferatom of the
crowd.
Air. GALE JONES then addressed the sleeting;
but the liras, was sir loud and continued, that
at the distance we were at it was impossible to
hear what he raid. We understand liim to com-
plain, in the strongest terms, of what lie described
to he the organized system of interruption, pre-
pared and earned 1111 by Air. iloblionse'• friends,
against their opi 1111 l ents—die denounced it :IS nu-
mistily and unfair. lie could only account 14 it,
he said, by the consciousness of turpitude which
rendered it necessary for than to prevent the ad-
dress of any man, who meant to open the eyes of
I the people to their conduct, ia the ultimate hope
to extinguish die pretensions of the undeserving
object of their iitolatra.
Notwithstanding that the usual hour of separation
(six o'clock) had arrived, one ur two other orators
put in their claims to public attention, but the
multitude mettiblril rejected their damn., and
separated after giving sonar cheers.
The crowd was the greatest we remember in
front of the hustings.

know we have no reason to despair, for our cause
is the cause of the liberty of the country—a cause
never to lw despaired of by a patriotic imolai--
.
(Opluuse.)—Experielice tells us that the Electors
of Wesiontomer are nut east!) brought into action;
r • it i• tau the work of a moment to get them for.
ward. We know thut they are staunch friends of
liberty, and that the enthosiorin which that sat-red
I.! principle imparts, is struck among them by mill•
moo, and by the °wormier of turn among them,
whom they know to be imposed to the come of
freedom, and to their best interest. We all know
that it takes more trouble to rouse a lion to
mart a hare.—(App/acre.;—The venal aid corrupt
peers lias toll! you, that whets a bon Was expected
to hr 141.14-mt•rd but the braying or
an ass. I tell fon the him of Westminster begins
to rouse himself.—(Crew uppluuse.)—The puny
efforts of low aristocracy, the low anti pitiful tricks
of the posse...sax of Noble names, and of :sigh
rank mid itifitteisre, who have degraded themselves
by stooping on the present occasion to promote
their views by miserable stratagem and artifice, rod
Mu unnatural coalition between the Court and the
'limn friends of the people out the spot where pre.
viausly the 111iiititerial Camlidate Hod the people
were alone opposed—add to this that monstrous
addition which they, have reeeived by the advoc-
..
ealey of the last speaker, have shocked and dis-
gusted all good tuitids..(Great applause.)—You
bre in this monstrous combination, art, titallgtoty„
wickedness, corttsFilott, and power—all trotted
to destroy the umlerstautliiip of the people of
•Weistrotiester ; and nntwuhstoudiug their muted
effults, I promise you, that after steins :hem'•sa
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