The National Register.
London, England, 1818-06-21 00:00:00

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Tombs- morning. in consequence of the Oar:trill en the
walk tot Westiiiiiisict. intlitatieg Mr. tilit'g inlynlitni 10 visit
tee Cation% parts of the coy, o that he might have the honor
of paying his personal respects to its many of his fi ieuils as
possilile, before the day of election." an assemblage of people
nt the spi ((( i ( lied lottor was collected in Old Palace-yard ; they
were of the balm cnoai 114 th.it.t NIIC. usually attend Mr. Hunt
tpon public occasions. es ions to the art ival of the caddis
date there was ~ouch amosig the worthy citizt ns
upon lice merits and demerits ut the eat:did:oes for the reprc-
selitation et' the city, and among the principal holders-forth
were a Jew and a tislovoimen, both of whom u ere very vehe-
ment in 'heat 'noises for Mr. Hunt, and were not too sparing
of their aettse uf Stir F. Buidett. At length 31r. Hunt, at
about half past twelve o'clock, nettle his appeittance in an
open tentage, drawn by two horse's, anti preceded by a
hackney chariot, out of. the front windows of which seas
thrust a very huge crimson coloured flag, having the in-
scription on one side of it, cf " Hunt and Liberty,' and on
the other, ti Universal Suffrage." Mr. Hunt was atteirled
in the open carriage by two of his sous, both of %ilium wore
very large crimson cockades. The carringe etc plied oppo-
site to the place where the Wasting are ustialla erected, and the
people having lief rotemled it, to the number (remota: titan from
1•700 to eel) periam!.
Mr. Hiatt mounted the teat of the earring e, and addressed
the surrounding mob. He offered himself, he said, to their
notice as a candidate fOr the representation of the city of
Westminster. in order to leave a seat in the House of Com-
mons. lie did not say that lie shall he able to make an
impression opoi: those in pewits., bat Oa woe'd at least make
the attempt ; if let' should have the honour to he rem oed, he
would not do as others had done, etimpromise the rights of
the people; li.• won't] not go to that Haase as the pretended
friend of the people, nor would he supinely sit still while Mi-
nis:tos were abusino and vilifying the people, while at the
same mainent they were robbing them, aed filching money
out of their pockets by way of taxes. What line of conduct
he intended to adapt if he should obtain a seat in that House,
he believed, was already well known to the citizens of West-
minster : he had matte an affidavit which lie intended toad.
here to, add he only loped that other candidates fur the re-
presentation would imitate his cr.-ample in this respect. An
infamous report, he said, was afloat and spread through ti.e
Wean* of the politic prints, that his intention was only to
'Create a riot and thsturbaoce, and that he did nit mean to
stand the election. The report was as false as it was caluin-
Lions; and he now openly declared, that he would keep the
oil open to the last day the law would allow. It was indeed
true that lie had nut tit.' power of hritioing up his voters in the
same manner as his opponents: hut he should 'lave the op.
portunity of Meeting thcot face to face on the litistiegs in
Covcid 0 irdea. (Cry of, "'hey will rim away.") Ni', he d d
not they 'stlid have the cowardice to do that ; bitt lie
bad Intl an intimation that it was the intention of some of the
candidates to aeon their deputies to appeiren the hustings in
their stew.', Ile earnestly hoped that the free and itelepen.
dent citizen, of W:st: ter would not settler this to be done.
There was tie rotten borough• no town o. country, where the
candidate hail the impede:nee to say to his electors, " pay
soy represeutative respect ;" and should it be said of dot no-
ble 'moded iiidependent totizeits of Westminster, that they
.autfert d this indignity with topunity ? (Cries of no. tot.) Nu,
he would bring these sneaking fellows flout their slinking
boles, and he world pot *this questions to them on tic hust-
ings%) sense of thein aluoild be able to answer. He then sig-
nified his intention of proceeiline to IVaterloo-place, before
Carlo' House; anti observed, that if vile and corrupt papers
chose to say that he went there to insult royalty, his reply
wotdd " NJ, the nem who lives there is one of the people,
and I airs for all the people." lie subsequently cortinued ;
" If his Royal Highness will condescend to put his head out
of one plain: crevices in the bedding, he would hear nothing
iiitultiog to himself, but emote plain truths, which ought to be
listened to by every man." After leaving made some re-
marks upon hos own fitness and capacity to represent the city
of %Vests:tinder, he neat called the attention of Ow meeting to
the present Minister, at the head of Goveriinieut,N) whom he
gave the appueation of blood suckers. They were quite full
of blood, but unlike totter leeches, they did not drop ott; they
continued aucking, and Gail may knew when they would
leave ott. 'flue Whigs or the Tories were equally arbitrary
id nurse. He was for no parts, lint as an individual he ish•
ed far a seat se l'aelianicia. It tuns tar from his w isle to excite
the people to riot—wilte the reverse; he only wished to show
that the people teeter capaltie et' enjoying their libe: iy. It
"mold be said that he had inotinte,l lice rrvaluheceaav dug, hat
Ile should hese plenty of limy to answer all the caluntioes
against hint at the ensuing election. Ile should he on the
hustings on Thursday morning a tow befot e tune
o'cloch, am! he hoped tic should he a ccompaiiied by all the
!needs of liberty, so that it could not he said that a setall
majority held up their hauls in favour of Hunt. He then
proceeded to deal out invectives against the late Parliament,
which, he mid, being no more, ought lie ablated in any way
but he protested that nothing be could say would be bad
enough for it. The learned lawyers, Messrs. Brougham and
Hominy, had prefessed their itoentioes to do much, lent had in
tact done nothing; no, they had too mach respect fur their
learned friends on the ot'ser side of the House. Neither the
bullying of Lord Castlereagh, the 111.01clii•C of Mr. Calming,
or the quibbling of air. Vaiisittort, should ever pre:vent him
from Ms duty. They might put hits to death ; he could die
but once, and death had nu hos rers for him. The public
!whits had hinted at porno, asked whether there was he.
dagger to too him to te.ittli ? 'they wished him dead, and
wink! pet !ilia to death, hut the cowards telt that wheel they
once Megan they did not know when to leave ott. lie had
letters in his pocket, which he had rcoeived, threatening that
if lie *Geed to come wit this day in an optic r d nage, that
lie should be shut. Bat he felt couscions that kat t acne fur tin
hail purpose, bat for the good of his moistly, and lie leased
nothing. Ile coneluded with stotteig that to-iisairow it was
his intention to visit three other parishes in the viz. St.
Martin's at Cloning Cross, el. Ann's in Wartluni.strect, and
St. Clements, at St. Clements church, in the e trawl.
The orator then proceeded in the cortiage up Parliament-
street, towards Waterloo-pi-ate, the hackney chariot with toe
Bag ta:otig the lead, and *II3 #111111)%01 by about 70 or ea per.
sues. Worn tot arrive it Opposite the hoc (guards, he putted
oft la, hat, and wetted it in the air,eitesert tug some of the Luc
Lietols at tie gate. His outlet:tuts give a load
Okla pr.,ceeded, and at Farronee's, thee Can'
fee' l'Hiet, Clardelig, took a little refresh-
meat. AI halt past use% lie arrived at Waterloesplace.
and Ilito is delis ett.,l, well, s.inie additions, the speech lie hats
previously given sit Palace-yard. He again übstrved, that
be meant no insult towards tile royal pee ,91iitne ; but if' his
Royal Highne..,i, ceould cismacectusl to Lorne cut isad give his