The National Register.
London, England, 1818-06-29 00:00:00

S %VTR DAY.

At eenclu.irr. nftb, i';;;:‘.7:l2,;rs were,
Sir Sarim. I ,itv I :-,: ?:array Maxwell —3.361
Sir Burdett Hain

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

31.111DLESEX ELECT! uN.

BRENTFORD, FRIDAV, June zr;

A great number of electors end others, friends to Mr. Bung and
Mr. Mellish, asstanbled at the usual place for the pure,.: of electing
two members for the county. The sheriffs arnvett a few minutes
betbre ten o'; lock. and took their station in the hustings, constructed
with all the necessary apparatus for a contested election, and the
business of the day fume, diately commenced. Just as the necessary
preliminaries were reading, the crowd became mist vociferous in
abuse of Nfr. Mellish. They to last called so pertinaciously for his
appearance, that h.• felt it nece.sary to
.present himself: In return
he received *ltch a volley of abuse as induced him instinctively to
withdraw :shwa from view. ..Why don't you show to the corn bill,
the suspension bill. the indemnity bill, as pivot"; of your character
was the mole cateellising adopted on the occasion. The previous
formalities Wing finisiti...'
Mr. Whitlin,id (when his name was announced. it was received
with the min enthusiastic applause) spoke to this. effect Gentle-
men, electors. and freeholders of Middlesex, we are a.ewnibled to
exercise one of the noblest privileges of kinglishinen. It is evident
that the duty we `.tar- to perturm ought nut to be performed lightly.
for our dearest iiitinests are :.t stake. In making th'r selection of
gentlemen to in-nresent us ;it l'arliament, ws hav-_, to : for men of
honest, free, and independent principhs. who will not forsake their
duty for any selfish momes. I felt difthient—loung, and unknott n
as I am—to addresi you or. this occasion ; I rely, howe...ir, upon my
name. to which I know I owe tin mind= which you have given
me. and come betine you W timpose one for yssur cleeticn, wiluse
name speaks for it..elf. When I propose George Itylig, Esq. I need
not say that your interests are safe in his hands. Fo7 eightjata. twenty
years his honour, integrity, and independent conduct, have been
under your observation; brUasevttheen watchfit lof rot interest.;;
and he never will fez--et his constituents t.." :ierve himself. I should
not have spoken so ,! .„ecideely, if I did ,tot know that Mr. Byng was
most highly valued by one, whom luty, atfeetim sn t prmctpla coin•
pet me to honour and love. Fe rlO years went. hand-in-
hand with my father, in the cause of civil and reiigions liberty--a
cause which he never can forsake but with his existene!." _

Mr. Trapand felt great plegsure in seconding the proposal of a
matt whom they knew and app 7 7 cd.
Mr. Wood (ot' I.ntleton) u.,-.:rd his brother net:holders, that he
could not prevent the sin of being old. hut As ith th.tr bilulgence he
coax to nominate Wi!limn NlAllish, Er.q to be one of th-ir retire.
sentatives (the yell lure set up was furious in the extreme: ve.-.e: the
uproar seetr.cd inextingui.d.ahle without special intcroofition. Mr.
Sl.critf I)esangrs come forward, and called uz.on tts. electors to hear
esery body au I afterwards, not to decide in the first place ;
but all was 1:1 yam; th.: dig increased. and •• 1100, oft oft" :nine
thJ air ria„- again). Ile nominated (vociferating with his utmost
might) William :Mellish, Eh+ to represent this great coolly in Par-
_ . . . .

Mr. Irving uttered at intsrvala, a* he could be bawd, that he
arced in opinion with the gentleman who had first addressed them,
Mat the men wborn they eleci. .1 oicfot to he fre2 and independent.
In this opinion he screed with the gentleman whose father he
hail respected. and w:io had that day offered a tliir presage
of eminence wit, a has talents, now juvenile, should come to ma-
turity. It was a great and important duty to elect a man to represent
their rights aid liaerdein au.. he whom they should elect ought
to be himself indepi.adent and incapable of betraying or neglecting
their interests t..r any minister. for no clam of men whatever, or to
forward his or I. private interests. There were different :pears of
independence. 'True intiependuice they were to seek in the ellaracter,
the conduct, the life. and ab we all. in the free and independent
exercise of a sound and discriminating judgment. It was a great
many yea's since he had last had the honour of addressing them
in that place. At that time they had hen engaged in a great and
expensive war, of which the result could not then he foreseen. They
were now iii the enjoyment of a peace which had placed the country
in a li.,:her rank than the pageof history had described. This was
owing prin:ipally to his Majeaty's armies by sea end lanai; but it
wa.salso owing. in a great meuure,toGovernniant.which denied itself
anti itIICIA the int. rots of the people. Will am Mellish. I•Cta. was
a gentleman of this nalepende.ace he had described. IleaeconsLal his
nomination.
Mr. Clarke came forwerd and said he had to thank thew for the
distinguished honour of having so much as Miaowed it thought upon
him as a tit and wordly ptison to reprtse.,t this great wad populotu
county. When he said this, nu man was more 'sure e'en he that it
was no merit of his which lied nem ioned so elei rued a distinc-
tion. lie was perfectly aware mat he owed every thing to that high
quarter from which the invitatian came. Reform had waned so
elated with what he had dune with the election of Wool,Waithinan.
and Thorp (treat). bravo. brawn) and the tritirop't she was about to
sustain in Wetuninster, by the election of her favourite child and
champion. gir Francis Burdett. she scented so elated with these
triumphs. that in a frolic, in a playful mood, she said, • Let us make
ma espetitnent to elect poor, humble, honest 'I on Citiece tin Mid-
dlesex.' lie could now only thank them for their intention toaanis
him. He should now say something of the two eaodidates proposed.
One of them seemed to him to have arrived at this acme of
unpopularity. No two men could differ more than that respectable
gentleman and he. There we; not a single vote that gemleman had
given in Parliament lint be should have given the direct opposite.
Mr. Mellish W 4.4 a jolly, conaely. hereditary Proteitatit. It was not
quite unaccountable, t'-iat bur ahould nender why t Catholic, poor or
elavated.shoul.l entertain principles opposite to libber:lust lie wanted
emenci;vtiaii. Mr. :Mellish lived instiluenee and at his ease. When
he wanted any money he hail only ta draw a cheek apart his
&tanker, and he was supplied. It was not tin..ceountable that a
gentltatan of his heart and nndertanding. and lie did not think he
warted either. should wonder at en: discontent el the tier mar who
showed iv hnt i.e ennui cal: •• an ignmetat impatience and taxation."
Ile should now sari, a few words of Mr. I. That gentleman be-
longs:l to what Cary 1-.11;Iit perhaps call one of the great factionr. or
pat ties (for li. .etittl liar 1.0 hard tiantral in the elate ; be-
longed ta the great Mit I: al deaornination called the Whigs
of Faiglano, The Whigs had ott acted so ii en as he could
wish. wale It• en both side s; lint he wished that
every gentleman in Ingland were nut mils .1 Milo, hot such
aVr hig aa Mr I;yits. ilie Whigs were as dear and friendly
to liberty as and eons:try could boast. They agreed with
them, reforint;rs, . for he was not ashamed to avow himself a
(ormet ) rush. r in their oliieet than in the mode of stemma.
'dishing it. 1 hey, the it formers. wanted not so much are
faint of, as a yawns in, the House of Commona. The Whigs
would be content if they timid onst !heir opponents from the
treasury bench. They, reformeis, here at it.stie ti ith them on
that point. He egret d with the meat and illustrious jactibin
of (hinter tunes, the high( lion. Win. Pitt, that `• No Nlir is"
ter eft Mt: tig) aity zonfl, and taat no limiest Man Colll,lrenttilltle
M 'Ayr without a reform." 1n the letter which lie had
written to the freetioldera, he had shown the erects of the flail
and low apirits which he then ltdt. Events t't hick had since
taken ;date had inspired a confide:tee and entilltsi4,oll
Melt made him litelieve• that reformers could be planted an

Itolist of Commons thick as hors. lie should he Collll'lll
Stith s. meshing short of th.it. If they could have one to
twenty thrre, tin y wr.10.1 ti.ht the ....nrotOnnostgers on their
"snit dunghill. It they would pot tumble their ill-eonstrUrted
fabric 4110111 their tars, let tile reformers of Euglauti never
tru.ti
Mr. II) tig and Mr. Mellish were now declarcdto be dilly
ell ctrd.
Mr. Deng sail, th.tt agreeably with his principles be felt
nlwdys ih gr• :blest FillisfieetiC :1 to meeting with the freehold-
ern of Miti(l:esex. lie felt the greatest satisfaction in seeing
so tawny frieuJs at Breutford that da) to place bin afoul it

the high and distinguished situation which he had filled for so
many years. Ht. felt highly gratified in hi' long and arduous
canvass to find that his coutluct tool been every where approve
ed of This principally arose trout the honest and consistent
conduct which he had exhibited since he had been in Parlia-
ment. In co 1111 l ion with all the friends of freedom he would
ever maintain those pi inciples which lead been asserted at the
revolution--priaciples which, although 1101 always most pre-
valent in this country, as a gentemilt hail justly seirtarked,
were most lasting and mast conducive to the It berty and hap-
piness of the people. He could at the same time most cow
scientiously as-oir them, that if a great pat t of his life had
been passed in opposition to Ministers, be had bevel- given .1
tote from factions or disloyal motives. The 'mei ties of the
people were inst ratably interwoven with the stability of the
Crown ; and the people, while their t ight and liberties were
respecti d, would Ire ever ready to support the eonstitation of
King, Lards, anti Commons. The people were sincerely and
steadily attnchi d lo the ronstitution for which our Ihrefatliet a
bled—to the government under which their tot etathets lived
happy at home, and were glori 111 l • litettatl,—to the well ha-
lanced constitution, which had re lid -red this eountry,although
small in s:.onyarison with n nil other countries, grea• .until
glorious beyond ali comparison. Hut it' this country should
he deprived of :therty, it would soon return to its original
insieniticance. Let who will be Minister, if he (Mr. Ilyito
shivnltl ever s 'entice their interetts to his own dirty ambition,
he should expect and ,lescrve their abhorrence and excel-whin ; but
while he conscientious!) priom.et: his duty, he was sure to lire, !wit
only in their voices, but in their hears. If he should desert them.
they weolii turn the backs upon him, ant i treat 'Urn wits the abhor-
rence and contempt which !•.e shoal,' peculiarly dervt.. Ile bid
said pectaliarlc, 'recluse be ;hid. from the earliest period of his lin:, at
his father's err. !de, heave the people spoken of with reverence and
affectitm. Ile had only further to thank theta most cordially for
their votes and :-.•dfrages.

Me6l:sllrt ,lue;tetl to be heard. lle called upon them as En-
glishmen to g!vc Inns an cipportstity of speaking for himself; his
conduct hail been tiilircd t he knew his friends approval °lbis cm-
duct, but be wished to make a few explanations. He had never had
o contract to hi, life iron Government. It was in to ex-
plain independelive. Ile had acted from conseinnit, and i.C.lred not
t. be aiked any gurAarls. A. long as they reposed so much trust in
biro. I.e should never tnuu,;rv.s h. duty.
The confusion and upwar was so ve:icment during the whole time
of Mr. address, thit we could hear hint, though quite close
to biro. but col- indistinely.
e return was then aniwimeed : at Mr. Millish's name the
c: twd vociferated " No, no." The than ks af the meeting were next
uttanitnou,ly voted to Sir Fiimeis Clestnges. and to Sir George Al-
thnon, Sheriffs, for their imparted conduct. The assembly was
much roar, r,:spectable than might Le expected at the hustings of
county ehsition. The new member* were then chaired, but without
any parts ular mark of distinction.
At the end of Brentiord. mitt Landon. a large party of boys and
r girls arrayed themselves int both Fide, at the street, armed with large
vantittet of mud, and roust plentifully bespattered all who wore die
light Woe riband (Mr. NlellisL's badge) with mud.