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London, England, 1819-02-26 00:00:00

Bated In. cheek. that lie became quite exhausted,
and was obliged for a %hart petiod uo lifrallot from
its •rat • I efforts. Alt that could be collected
from the orator respecting the carouse 111! 111,1415 t to
e910411W was, that t.e was •• Burilett's trieuitl."
A little before four o'clock Sir Francis Burdett
appeared at the hustings, accompanied by Mr.
lioblionse. and Mr. T. D. Clarke, of Nbitilleset.—
Mr. Lamb. Mr. biathlon, soil Mr. Winker', made
their appearance about the same time. The Can-
didates were applauded by their respective friends.
Mr. Hunt was also present—lre was received with
mingled ruarks of applause and disapprithrititrii.—
As semi as the poll war announced,
Mr. 1100.1311U4K c: furwnrrl ali,l wit received
with great applause. He litlibtsseil the Electut• ma
follows :
" Celitlemen—lVe are, I understaiiil, only forty-
four below our oppoirrot on the day's pull, awl
believe that, nu rXlMillatilatt, it be faunal Ins
greatest majority has been in the p Irish of St.
George, and that in two or three tidor parishes
we have had the majority, and its the met au *lira-
lity, or nearly an, with imps. It 14 easy to account
for his majority this day. You know that the ex-
traordinary exertions ol our alstagnuist still cow issue
with inothoted fervour, and that the greatest effort*
are likely to be matle by his friends the end
of the poll. I hope, by degrees, Gentlemen, his
meatus will diminish. stud that his friends will at
length become ashamed of the measures t.. which
they resort to cosine his success. I have bee 11 this
day assured by a must respectable trader that lie
had made up his wind to give me ins rote, butt
that a customer, a man of rank, a Nlember
of Parliament, came to him, and, before he
could say Nay to Ins soliciation„ forced Ii into
his coach, and dragged him up to the poll to
vote for my reotegonist.—(Crier Nl•mne," stns!
" Name the matt."/—t cutout liallle 111111, Gelltle.
men, for it would be his ruin.—(" We!!, flame the
Alember."l—l cannot do that, for it would be 1411
equal a designation es the other, arid would expose
lion to the same corisequences. But this trader,
Gentlemen, pledged himself to me that, for the
purpose of trying in some degree ter repair the vio-
lence he haul otfrred to his owri conscience, and the
injury he had done to our cause, lie was now d, ter-
mined to make every exertion, arid use every isifiri-
cure among his friends to secure for me their votes.
—(applause.)—Phis is not the only course that
his been resorted to by our enemies. It is ac-
knowledged that the reign of terror Isms how cum-
menced its Westminster, tool that efforts are 111 M
making fur our oppolient which far exceed any
ever before made at a contested Election in this
city. lam sorry that you did out heel- Mr. Lamb
yesterday ; I am elan •nrry that he shook' have said,
as f !Lid by the Papers he did say, that my appeal
to you to hear him vas a mockery ; and still more
sorry that he should have rend. Perhaps it was
better to be thus overwhelmed with noise.
than to accept an audience front the people of
We•tatiuster as a boon from any one.' I told
you yesterday, when I made the request of you
to hear him, that from nay experience of the re-
ception a similar request met with at the
last elestiou, I expected little credit for soy candour.
But what dues lie mean whets lie says my appeal
was a mockery I Dots he mean to say that I have
placed any of you there to interrupt his speeches t
I ask soy of you who hear me whether this is or is
not a fact. If it be not a fact, why did lie designate
my appeal to you es a mockery ? I risk Limn,
why lie designates that which I think to he the
ebullition of popular feeling as an act Induced by
any arrangement of mine ? To send forth this as-
persion he had of course his object, it told for lam
at a disturice, by disseminating the notion VI it he
did not receive fair play. In loukiui at the record
of his speech in the public Papers, I find that he
charges me with beilig the trumpeter of my own
praise. Have I made use of ally expression to
you which entitled me to this reproof ? —have
I wade use of any unbecoming expression nn
any of my speeches to you ? I am not ca-
pable of such indelicacy—if I have been, it was
quite unintentional. Mr. Lamb also said that
I was not satisfied with being my own eulogist.
He says that some old instruments have beers drag-
ged forth to complete the concert of his praises; one,
its particular, had played its old turret over and over
with unusual vehemence ; but, though its turner, were
formerly highly approved here, the metal has now
been thought unsound, mud many of the notes false.
This old instrument that is brought into play, this
instrument) the metal of which is so unsootrel, tool
tones false, is no other than Sir Frauds Burden.
1 told you from the beginning what was the object
of this Coalition, and that it was to pull dawn the
character of Sir Francis Burdett. I told you so
yesterday, and in consequence of what 1 said, Mr.
Lamb, instead of giving you a denial of that fact,
gives you die most striking proof that my currjec-
lure wits right, and that the object of their hos-
tility la Sir Francis Burden.—(Applause.)—Mr.
Limb has also told you that I have made due poi'.
tics! emmence of Sir Francis Burdett depend on
my success in this cause. I never said this, fur
knew that the high character of your distinguished
Representative was superior to ihe attacks of petty
malignity, and Iltit the early panty which could
suffer from such attacks was the party 1.10111 Who))
they emanated—that party who made themselsts
the panders of the greatest falsehood and inaligutts..
Mr. Lamb has also charged me with reviling all
that has for years been acknowledged to be patriotic
and praiseworthy among the livnig and the dead:
Whom have I reviled ? Nobod). The extent of
my offestultog is inertly that 1 said the great chum-
pion of the Whigs, Mr. Fox, was the advocate of
that Radical Reform—ale, sod the inventor elf the
term •' Radical Reform"—that very plan of Re.
form which the Whigs of the preheat day wrre
inclined to follow. When I quoted Mr. Foe!
sentiments, an attempt was made to deny them;
but this attempt *es Isom) dropped, for Ihts words
wreirvem of the ity
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