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Westmorland; they were the advocates, and their opponents were
the antagonists of the liberal and sound policy which ought to pre.
vail both in Church and State—in matters foreign and domestic.
Their opponents belonged to that part of the Administration whose
narrow-minded and confined views led to erron which were now
nearly exploded they (the Blues) to that other portion which
by its steady and constant support of sound principle, which it
they had not been recognised leis country must have been per-
petually misgoverned, had a strong claim upon the gratitude of the
country. He rejoiced that then principles had at length found as
with the enlightened and popular portion of the Govern.
tnent,and that they weresupported by great majorities of boo It !louses
of Parliament. (Cheers.) We sincerely hoped, that in this our
limited sphere they would be encouraged and comforted by so
grow and signal a triumph. If the advocates of these doctrines of
liberality, who had resisted bigotry and oppression in all their
noxious forms, year atter year, had been disheartened by tern-
pantry defeat, they would never have lived to see the day when
the Acta of 11113, which those powers bad resisted, and which
they by their resistance had reduced almost to a dead letter,
they would never have seen the day when those Acts would
have expired. They would still have them tearing up the Con-
stitution by the roots, for instead of expiring as they had done,
they would have been, as originally intended, but for the
resistance he spoke of, rendered into a perpetual night.
mare upon the liberties of England. (Tremendous cheering.)
It they had been cast down by repeated defeats, or disheartened by
disasters, the advocates of liberal policy abroad, as well as at home,
would have laid themselves down in the first ditch, instead of main-
brining to the last the NUM of their country : the worst forms of
Gireernment would have prevailed, commercial restrictions and
taxes would oppress the country at home, and the name of England
would have been disgraced abroad, by a continuance of that vile po.
hey by which it was yoked to the Holy Alliance. The emancipa-
tion of the people of England from arbitrary power, and insup-
portable taxation, was owing to the steadiness of those who had
fought the battles of the Constitution at home, and of liberty, and
of the character of the country, in every part of the world. ( loud
cheering.) Let then such an example of success following defeat
give them fresh courage. Let not present defeat dispirit or relax
their exertions in a good cause : hut let them persevere, and re.
new the battle in At es:morland. (Cheers, and reiterated cries of
" We will.") Let not the example merely cheer, but bind, con.
wand, and compel them to continue the contest, until their exertions
shetild be crowned with success. Their friends all over the country
had been successfully fighting the same battle in which they had
?fist Veen engaged. Ile would dirt et them to turn their eyes to the
capital, where two etc idy and tried friends to the country, after a
Severe contest, hail been returned—he meant Aldermen Wood
and Waiihninn. If they kinked to NVoreester„ they would see
that Colonel Davis had triumphed. 31r. Thompson had tri.
tinseled at Dover, and Mr. feinnard had secceetled at 31:titbit':
and In-t, though net Last, a great victory had been gained by
his excellent ttiends Fir Robert ‘rilson and 3lr. C.lvert,i in
the Itorotigh of Southwark. (Cheers.) Ile hoped these sue-
ces:as would cheer them under their defeat; and when. in
tinir temporary defeat, they found such companions as Lord
.1 em Russell and the M aqui% of Tavistoek—such coin.
onions us Mr. Ellice and Mr. Evans, than whom there was
rn abler or truer friends to civil and religious libcry in England.
he Impel they would nut be cast down by temporary defeat, but
remember that sue!, men as those he had mentioned wire com-
panions in their di...million. Our motto, said the Honourable
Gentleman, is—again oral again. (Tremendous cheering.) This
is our motto—this cur rallying cry, our watchword, as it has been
the rdbying city And the watchword of freemen in all ages when
sotiering umber oppression—as it is at present the rallying cry of
the noble-minded Greeks, and the persecuted rlperiards, and :l it
proved to be the vre:ch .sort. rot of fighting only, but of victory to
Washington ant to Itohvar in the New World. (Great ap.
plau,c. ) The came in which you are embarked. has but one pe-
t-da characteristic—its suet, as ain not only bring happiness to
yourselves but to your adversaries also. 'lke great body of the
r. 4.:e will owe you n d. lit of rratitude, when your triumph has
ban achieved- They must be the better for your success, for
you cannot contribute to their subjugation without working their
conversion also. lie you well assured, that though for a short
time, in the conflict of political elements, the day be overcast.
yet those et:owls which darkened its brilliancy would break anu
disperse, and the sun of freedom and independence would shine
for:h on all alike, to warm a: :1 enlighten not oti'y its own wor.
shippers. but the cold-blooded and obscure beings who had hitherto
reviled it. The Hon. lientleman then re:ircel, amidst continued
ch.tcra.

2ilr. Howard, of areystock, and the Hey. Mr. Adamthwaite,
present td themstlyes at the %VIM nionieut ; but, after some time,
Ile. Howard politely gave way.
Mr. ADAM Tlms t rt addressed the Meeting, and said that he
did not stand there to advocate the cause of the house of Loather,
but he felt himself compelled to come forward, or labour under all
the odium which was sougla to be cast Tint, him. . .

Here the uproar was tremeitilons, Anil, Mr. Brougham besought
the people to listen to the lYotthy Clergymen, as it was much
easier to do so, though perhaps not quite so agree.side as disputing.
Mr. A DaltTelwA I T c then said, that if he was disposed to shrink
from his late friend Mr. Brougham in paint of talent, he was not
disposed to do so in p.'int of isitegri.y. Ile fuel knked upon Mr.
Brougham as the private adviser of the Queen long before she
cane the last time to England. He thought that he was the
oracle to whom she Inked for advice as to her conduct ; and
therefore it was that he sapported bins. He then contended
that Mr. Brougham was nn better prophet than himself,
fur he had prophesied the destination of this country years
ago, and yet she bed one thousand ships upon the seas.
It is sufficient here to say, that the Reverend Gentleman re.
plated his speech of Saturday last, with respect to oar naval
and military force, reducing the numbers engaged in each ser-
vice, however, from four millions to four hundred thousand.
He was then allotting to the banditti. which he said the Sheriff
kert at the lodge. when a movement took place in the crowd, for
which I could not in any way account, but which was evidently
of a hank, nature. The Blues end Yellows separated, and hosti.
lilies commenced ; the Yellows first retreated to get bludgeons,
and upon their return the Blues, who were least numerous, and
in a great measure unarmed, fled in all directions. By the AA.
atiOnS of several gentlemen belonging to each party order was
at length restored, and Mr. Adamthwaite pursued his speech for
about a minute, when a similar movement to the former took
place; by this time some blows were struck, and one or two in-
dividstats were severely hurt. The Yellows being in possession
of their bludgeons, the Blues fled, and emight shelter within
Idle (4.117 gates; and, to the credit of the Blue Committee, they
did not furnish them wit:: the bludgeons. which I every moment
expected to have seen distributed amengmt them. The Blue Com.
mittee.room was immediately behind the hustings; and as many
of the Blues sought protection there, stance were flung at the win.
does between the floor and the roof of the hustings. The hustings,
from the very commencement of the election, had been respected
until stew, but it wax soon found to be untenable by those who had
to ao.hition to earn the weed of fame in a combat between the
Lin—. anti Yellows of Applzhy, and all accordinglj retreated. The
rot In able to procure arms, and being exhorted by Mr.
I!:o34linnt to keep the peace, did not return to the combat, and
was teonnlingly restored. The speaking, however, was not
renewrel, it being. of course, considered imprudent to bring large
bodies of men in cobtact while their blood was so fevered with pas.
eior.. The etheriff, therefore, ennui after appeared, and read the in.
denture, by which Lord Lowther and his brother were returned as
Men.bers for the county, and then declared that the Court was ad.
jaunted.

About five o'clock, when men's minds had in some measure
resumed their e;ilmness, two handsome chairs, covered with yellow
silk, and adorned with sprigs of laurel, were brought nut, and Lord
Lowther irld the C•donel were chaired through the town. All
the Hags which had been paraded during the contest were
row borre in triumph before the successful candidates, while
their respective bands played "Hearts of Oak," " See the Con.
queting Hero comes,' and other appropriate tunes. After hay-
pasual in procession found the crosses at the top and bottom
of tie male street, they were chaired over the bridge as far as
the 'County Gaol, and thence back again to the King's Head.
Nothing was to be seen but Yellow, the Blues seemed to have co-
wshed to a man. It was extremely gratifying to perceive that,
atter so severe a contest, the chairing was suffered to proceed with-
out the slightest mi.leatation ; and during the evening, though all
was jay and exhiliration, not the slightest disturbance presented
itself.
'flans hat terminated this the third contest for the county of
Westmorland ; and it is now tolerably apparent, although Ale.
Brolztlatn dill not wear exhaust his strength, he has little chance
stair... the wealth and extensive influence of his opponents. Of
thin I rather imagine he is himself convinced ; but he and his sup-
porters scented resolved, if possible, to wear them out by the Nine-
rum* expznres of each contest, vowing their determination to per-
severe, ur id Lord bonsdale gives way as regards the return of one
tit the Representatives of the county. Whether they will succeed
in dui; so remains yet to be determined.