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DINNSR TO LORD Horror
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A dinette was given to Lord Hetrick and Mr. Lambton at North
'Melds, on Monday last. After the customary loyal toasts,
The Calmest** proposed the " Health of Lord Howick ; may
be take the lead, keep it, and win' easy!" (('heers.)
Lard Howie' rose, and spoke as follows :_Gentlemen, for
the, honour you have conferred upon me by the as-sembly
of such • company as I see around me, and for the very flat-
loving manner in which you have just drank my health, I return
yaw my moat sincere and hearty dislike. 1 regret that I have it
not in my power to offer some more substantial proof of my grati-
tude than mere words can affiad ; but I trust that the issue of
the present contest will raise use to a situation in which I may
brenabled, by my public conduct, to show myself not altogether
endestrying of the repeated and disinguished marks of yourtonti.
dance anti approbation, which since I hest came forward to solicit
she honour of your puppet, I have continued to receive. tap.
.please.) Even should the result of the contest be different to
that which I anticipate—should 1, contrary, I may say, to every
seasonable calculation, experience the bitter motti6cation of • de-
feati--the impression which your kindness has made upon my
:mind will never be obliterated ; and I shall ever continue to take
the deepest in the welfare of the county of Northumberland,
end more especially of North Shields. (Cheers.) It is therefore,
Gentlemen, with the deepest concern that I have Izarnt that the
shipping interest, on which the prosperity of this town mainly de.
petti, has been for some time put in a state of extreme de-
pression. Nor is this to be regretted solely on account of the
distress which it immediately occasions. It is only by the prospe-
rity of oar commercial marine that our navy can be maintained.
It is ors) in the mercantile service that those skilful and hardy
meanies have been trained, whose valour has hitherto enabled the
Brttish flag to ride in triumph over the o.:ean. If this supply be
eat off, it our commercial marine be suffered to fall into decay, we
must bid farewell for ever to that naval superiority which has
been for years the boast of Britain, and the envy of her ene-
mies ; we may still be unri called for the number and the excellence
of oar ships, but they will be mere useless masses of wood and
ivoo, like thehuge frame of a giant, deprived of the animating spirit
which should have given energy to its mighty limbs. (Cheers.)
Hence, Gentlemen, the new regulations with regard to the admin.
aion of foreign shipping to our pone inspires me not only with
concern for the numerous and important elms who are the imme.
(Blue sufferers, but with the utmost anxiety and alarm for the to.
tare honour and safety of the kingdom. (Loud cheers.) The
principle that perfect freedom of trade would be most conducive to
the national interest, may in irself be undeniable ; but this is not
bee trade—this is not admitting the fair competition of foreigner,.
It is compelling our countrymen, tied and bound with the chain of
taxation and restrictions, and borne down by the weight of their
fetters, to contend with the untaxed and unrestricted foreigner.—
(Cheers.) From a fair competition, the intelligence of the British
capitalist. seconded by the mechanical skill and industry of our
artisans, leaves him nothing to air ; but he is now doomed to a
bootlegs struggle, of tallith defeat and ruin are the certain conse-
quence.. (Cheery.) At the same time, Gentlemen. I don't believe
that • recurrence to the old system would be sufficient to enable
our commercial marine to arrive at the highest point of prosperity
to which it is capable of attaining. %When I see the distress which
has lately been so generally felt. I am con winced that some gene-
ral timed must be applied. The true cause of our difficulties is,
In any ion, to he found in the heavy demands of the State upon
the of the national intlustty ; and it is only by diminish.
posie
beglebiletionand, by taking off the load of taxes by which we are
Clr, that we :tan hope to be effectually relieved. tCheert.)
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can Dever hope to see accomplished until our expenditure
Is put upon a very different footing. Every useless place and pen.
eien GUls* be abolished, and the most strict and unsparing economy
introduced into every department of the State. That no effort of
mine shall ever be wanting to bring about so desirable a change, I '
treat I need sot assure you ; and I also trust that is no less need-
less Its me. on the present occasion, to enter into any explanation
of my political sentiments. (Cheers.) I have already had more
than one opportunity of fully declaring them, and I hope I have
done se in a manner so explicit that no freeholder can accuse one of
haying deceived him, or of having left him in doubt of my real
opinion upon any important question. Nor will 1 make any ani-
madversions upon any of the other candidates for the honour of
representing you. -I trust it is not necessary for me to do
so in order to raise my own cause, and an occasion will soon
occur when we shall all meet face to face in the presence of
the freeholders, and whatever complaints any of the patties have to
to ike of me, may then be openly and fairly discussed. His Lord.
ship, after expressing his gratitude for the support he had received,
end driuking the hcalths of the company, sat down amid much
applause.

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The health of Mr. Limit oN being proposed, that Gentleman II
rose and addressed the company in nearly the following terms : I
Gentlemen and Brother-Freeholders of Northumberland,—l beg to
offkr you my sincere and heartfelt thanks for the very kind and
cordial manner in which you have been pleased to drink the toast
which our worthy Chairman has proposed for your consideration ;
and I can assure you that every exertion which the state of my
health will allow me to use, will be cheerfully made, in conjunc-
tion with the Committee which has done me the honour of appoint.
tog one its Chairman, and with the freeholders. At large, and that I '
will never rest until we have placed the cause of Lord Ilowick in
that Marion of proud preeminence to which it never should have
Wan doubted for one instant it would teach. If any assurance were
Wanted to convince myself and others, who have not as yet mixed
re Chia contest, of the soundness of the freeholders of Northumber.
land in favour of Liberty and Howiek, I find that assurance in the
reception we have met with this day. I should have been astonished
if that noble river the Tyne, which flows beneath your walls, and
separates you from South Shields, should separate you in princi-
ple, in feeling, from that body of men whom I have always found '
the glorious and determined supporters of liberty. I knew you
were the same. It was said this was the strong hold of our oppo-
nents, and that we should torte only a feeble reception ; but I said,
if I know any thing of the brave anti hardy seamen of the North, I
tab sues you have only to show yourself to meet with the reception
which ought always to attend the son of Charles Grey. (Much
&tiering.) I appeal to you all, did I deceive Lord Howick and
the Committee ? Was I not right in saying so ? Look at the im-
itatives population who came out to receive us—look at the windows
filled with all its fair end beautiful inhabitants, their eyes beaming
welcome on us, and cheering us in the arduous contest in which we
are engaged; and can we for a moment doubt that we shall be
where we ought is be—at the head of the poll ? Gentlemen, you
are now called upon to exercise a most important duty, and you
must weigh well the dirties imposed upon you. If you expect to
be served well and faithfully, you must elect men who will give up
all corrupt allurements and advocate only the rights and liberties of
the people; you must confer upon them that reward and distinction
to which they ate entitled ; and I now say that opportunity is
affertled you, when, after a long life of forty years of
inibllo seeviee, spurning all the allurements of Courts, and
Knags, and Ministers, shrinking not from the greatest per-
seettil naaffiees. refusing, as he has done, to my know-
lease, repeated temptations of entering Administration, be.
craw not allowed to go into them without the enforcement of his
priseiplea, having spurned all these having adopted this line of
anodise,. Lord Grey is now presented to you,- asking oily this re-
wad, asking you to place his eon in that proud and noble situation
---Me Meet glorious an Englishman an fill—the representation of
the county in Parliament. (Loud applause.) Gentlemen, Ido not
suspect that you will prove to the wield deficient in gratitude. I
never bed such a thought. If I had, I should blush for the name
of a Northumberland freeholder. I will not suppose such degene-
racy—l will not anticipate such a result., it uses always been my
doeirine, that a roan entering into public life should present himself
oa all proper and consututional opportunities before the public, and
those whole suffrages he solicits. It has been my counsel to my
noble 'relation, who is now before you, to take this rule for the
at dance of Lis conduct; and as long us I shall hold the respond-
tputuan which 1 now fill in his Committee. I shall always so
ad • him. Acting on that principle, at has been determined to
patient a rerluisalon wale High Sheriff, to call the freeholders of
the county together, to declare who are fit to represent noes in
Parliament. 'I he e Sheriff has, I am informed, acceded to the re.
qiiiiiiien, but a day has nut yet been appointed. I believe, how-
ever, ft will take place in the early part of next week. The propri-
et of this measure must be apparent to every one, for it is mopes.itai that the freeholders can weigh well the merits of the different
al,
ates without it. Many of sour votes °tight otherwise be
(gaged foe private reaeuna, and without reference to the public
merits of the candidates, and their pretensions on public grounds to
represent you In the Senate. Now, any noble te'ati• ais most. anxi-
ous to meet them. He would, indeed, be a degenerate scion of
the house of (hey if be were afraid of meeting the free-
karma. But if there bo any candidates who are averse to such a
I know not what their friends may say in theitlexcuse, but
than will say, that it must appear extremely suspicious. (Loud
app tiateei) (bough the measure of exiling the freeholders together
WI cause gruniblings in private, and repinings amongst those who
knew that public discussions must prove unfavourable to their
they dare not deny drat it is the only true and constitu-
mode of proeeediog, that has been observed and sanctioned
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lIL time, in Northumberland and in every county in England.
(Applause.) Lad •Howick has very properly said that, as far
as hoe wee ceoesnild, he would not animadvert upon the conduct
of was if the ether centlidatek or notice the accusations they
beintgin eying hint until the day of nomination. Ile is perfectly
right la se dolng,but as the mote time you will allow me, as a free-
bidder to make some observations which the state of the contest de-
cidedly eakkaior.. I fled that although there are four candidates for
the Immo/ etrepreaeuting you in Parliament, two of them are not,
at let DI 1,4111 judge, personally opposed to Lord Hulick ; but,
OS illildle hand, the greatest. animosity has been displayed, the
sod *kph smitsghavebeen directed against an important party
la il• nub. so4aseigstions made entirely without foundation, and
whin dean who made than must have been convinced, and must
ban kawws in their 'beam, were utterly false. (Applsuse.) To
one of 4 will take, the liberty of alluding, not because it has
am& say es eur winds, noa that the ri ht thinking
pert of dew at
any.credlt to it, but they
loses bon *on oars from week to week, from Tuesday
es Teeedey%-.41 hews that of Lord Hoyle:lt having entered trite a
eitillideit With NILSEN!. I think the beat way would be to treat it
veldt ridicule, if it true not doservimg of scorn (applasee); but I
swig 1•7 64 it lailllerly.and gronalytalse, and I would tut ledge
wsloalf to On if 1 iiiget.know it as be untrue. (Cheers) I know
MK den coalition we hove entered into—.we have coalesced with
ill den gunk all the tree .son gt lioebbembnismds wisn.wesk well
to eke nog of their onnstry. (Imenring Asson.) I *IA tam
Ls le *mow dui ems sis saw to venni the
I might de is ow allestwally, by relieving to
no pegoondiwgamt lb* own diner :wed by themselves).
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