The National Register.
London, England, 1820-03-05 00:00:00

ELECTIONS.

A very small, very cheap, and very opportune
Pamphlet has just been published on the above
subject—had we nu we should like to give the
whole of it, but for the present our limits restrict us
to the following extracts :

The authr of this sensible little flannel, proceeds at
once to the root of all Wit esil—the misapplication of the
politic money to the corrupting Members of the House of
I.:minnow, and makes it esident to the meanest capacity,
that while this system continues, it is iiiitios.i!de that that
House can be an efßeient controut on the Executive. We
could rain hope, that at a 1110111CIII like the pi esent, when
the weight of taxation is operating with such malignant
influenee on every branch of the Ilaiimial industry, the
faithful picture drawn in this pamphlet, of the shameless
prolligat•y of the House of Co iiiiii otis•(or rattier of a wet y
great proportion of its members) ar:l not be altogether
lust on the honest Electors of the canonry. Detective as
the stale of our Representation is, much might yet be
Jone by the sturdy determination of all imbiassed Else-•
tors to give their votes to no one of those connected with
the system of wasteful expenditure of the public money,
and who a ill not subscribe to the economical tests pointed•
' !At in this tract.
The connection between the increase of our hoidens
and tire profligacy of the. Noose of Commons, is pointed
out in the fellow ing bunt tttt ur 111:::::be: :
" Let us es: ttttt ne, then, tile causes, a Lich base produced

this ehaur,e in the characters of our Representatives, which
have converted them fr bring the real itilkxilne guard-
ians of the public purse, into. the wining servants of the
Crown; the brat and great cause of thi:4 'evolutin, I pro-
nounce to be uur enormous-Natiohal Debt, and the money
paid in the collection of the taxes. In 11w 11l i ll ,; tit the
reign of his late Majesty, the annual interest of the National
Debt, ancl other charges 'sayable for the same tear
3,302,67 M. (see the Jason:lls of the House of Continuum s)
at the piesent day, the collecting only of the taxes coots
Great Ltritaiu 3,392,i'i61. and for Great Britain and Ireland
4,Vtia,boo. (see Annual Finance Accounts) that is to say,.
at the close of the reign of his lute Nlajesty, and at pit:bent,
there was and isi► much greatrr •um paid among tax-gat her-
rn of all descriptions, than a ae paid for the mulleu of the
National Debt at the beg' ' g. Who then is it that dis.
pubes of this enormous bum of four paid in the col-
lection of taxes? who puesesses the patronage, toe appoint-
ment, to the collectorstrips ? Nominally it i • the Crown;
hut in truth it is the House of C 011111101.6. Does any limn
doubt this fact I If a gent learnt F.•lsre:aloe a tow it of auy
commercial importance, and seem,' is ti.e government by
his vote iii Parliament, dues lie not attend regularly at the
Treasur), amid demand as a matter tit the tilling of all
vacant appliiiallientli m the Customs, Larson., Stamp ()dice,.
&c. of the tosea lie represents with his ow is rclamions,lilends,
or l oh Kcal supporters ? In the like manner, if lie repre-
sents a county amid supportb tine Mini stet. is not the valua-•
ble appuiiitinent of Collector of the Land Tax, with other.
such things, considered immediately as his °Wu private pro-
per() ; and du not we invariably see these appointments
come snot pusseseion of his brother, or his sou, Or some
family or political COMO.
ago that Mr. 11 Oberlin-cc was reproved in the House of
Cu 1111 l was by Mr. Canning, who taxed hum, as it west., with
mugs atitude in opposiug the Government on that occasion,.
on the sole ground that Mr. Vs inset force was as, regular a
suitor at the 'Treasury fur the disposal of offices mu the
revenue in fovutir of his II itods, as :oil other Ministerial
Member, gaud Oil that ateUlllll urat 110.), the Ministers, had
ass ilea I right to his vote and ,u 1 pui L."
The author proceeds to notice the enormous patronage
which has arisen out of our Ludt.. a Empire. and which
(as in the case of Lord CastlereaJi, for instance) is bar-
tered tor seats in the house of Commune. Ile next no-
tices, on the authority of the Pwauce Committee, the
possession of ()tlices, yielding a profit of 1,-)6.6061. by it;
bleisibeib of the House of Commons, the application of
the proceeds of the Droits of the Admiralty, the almost
exclusive possession by the Members of the House of
Cu 11111 l ous, in the shape of pensions of the four and a half
per rem. Leeward Island duties i and having illustrated
the all these and other menus of cournp's
lion are applied, lie calls upon the nate 111 l to exact from
all Candidates a ph tlge, that in the approaching settle-
ment of the Civil List, they will vote for precluding his
M.iiesty from granting any lit usi 111 l out of asoy other fund
than huetlteCitii last Revenue; that they will vote for the
abolition or the present expensive system of collection u
the public revenue ; ilia t they will support a Bill fur the
exclusion of piact•ulru irons the House of COllllllllllß, par-
ly tire Boards of Ticamary, Admiralty, the throve
Its ot• State, the Board of Cuiettiail, as also the
Chief Justice of Chester, file Welsh Judge-, and the
Masters to Chaticery.
Whatever ditimence of opinion may arise as to the ex-
tent oh which Rrfmw in the Cuiestiititimi of the Douse
might to lie carried, there can, we should think, lie no
difference of opinion among honest men, that all these
pract►cal Ittforius would be attended with the utmost Le.

nefit. We conclude, then, atilt addivenng ElectifiS in the
words of the author. " It you vAtte your prone* lie. and
libvrliea—if yen wish to preserve thin, by mente: hirh our
Constitution still happily supplies o, with, now is the time
Drake your stand."
Thursday morning, John l'rinsep, Esq. the High
Bailiff, proclaimed the Election fiir the Borough of
Southwark, after which Mr. Lin.lsay, the Deputy,
together with Mr. Law, the Keeper of the Compter,
and Messrs Reeve and Wise, the Marsh:dollen,
On horseback, went round to the corners of the
live parishes, and repeated the same proclamation.
111 r. Calvert and fir It. Wilson have commenced an
active canvass, althongh it was rumoured that Mr.
Barclay, Mr. Potts, or Mr. Turton, would be
proposed.
The Election for the City of London, where there
are six Candidates, commences on Tuesday next ;
that for Middlesex, where a younger son of the
late Mr. Whitbread is talked of as a third Candi-
date, is fixed for Friday, the 17th instant ; but that
tbr Westminster is not yet determined upon :—it
is expected to commence in about ten days.
It may not be amiss, on the eve of a General
Election, to caution persons to beware bow they
lend qualifications to Candidates who arc in want of
such, as there have been instances where they have
been never returned.

It is expected that a pledge will be required from
all Candidates who come forward at the General
Election and aspire to represent free and indepen-
dent Electors, as to their political principles, and
the line of conduct which they mean to pursue,
particularly with respect to the important question
of Parliamensury Reform.

Extract of a letter published in a ministerial pa-
per, dated Stockton, .March I.—Mr. Wharton, one
.of the candidates for this county, accompanied by a
numerous and respectable party of gentlemen,
attempted to commence a canvass yesterday in Sun-
derland, but they were so violently attacked, and so
grossly insulted by. the mob, that they were com-
pelled to take refuge in a solicitor's house, where
the windows were broken, and the house would
most probably have been destroyed, had not the mi.
litary arrived from the barracks and quelled the riot.
Mr. Lambtan is canvassing here to-day, accompa-
nied by " Agrimony Tom's" crew, and all the
awbility of the town.

FROM TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

BY THE KING.-A I'llo' LAMATION.

FOR DIiIsOLVINO THE PRESENT PARLIAMENT, AND DE.

manna. 111 E etLLIM. ut ANolltLit.

GEOROE R.

Whereas we have thought fit, by and with the advice of our
Privy Council, to dissolve this present Parliament, which stands
prorogued to Monday, the 13th day of March next : we do, for
that end, publish this our Royal Proclamation, and do hereby
dissolve the said Parliament accordingly ; and the Lords spiritual
and temporal, and the knights, citizens and burgesses, and the
commissioners for shires and burghs, of the I louse of Commons,
are discharged from their meeting and attendance on the said
Monday, the 15th day of March next. And we being desirous
and resolved, as soon as may be, to meet our people, and to have
their advice in Parliament, du hereby Crake known to all our
loving subjects our royal will and pleasure to call a new Parlia-
ment ; and do hereby further declare, that, with the advice of
our l'tivy Council, we have order that our Chancellor of
that part of our United Kingdom called Great Britain, and our
Chancellor of Ireland, do respectively, upon notice thereof,
forthwith issue wri.s in due form, and according to law, for
calling a new Pailitmient. And we do hereby also, by this our
-Royal Proclamation under our Great Seal of our United King-
dom, require writs forthwith to be issued aecordnigly by our said
Chancellors reipectisely, for causing the Lords spiritual and tem-
poral, and Comaieus, who are to serve in the said Parliament,
to be duly returned to, and give their attendance in, our said
Parliament; whirl writs are to Le returnable all Friday, the
. twenty-first day of April next.
Given at our Court at Codicil-house, this twenty-ninth day
of February, one thouarat eight hundred and twenty, in
the first year of our reign.
GOD SAVE THE KING.

A similar Proclamation was issued for the Scotch Peers to
• meet at Ilolyrood-liouse„ Edinburgh, on Tuesday the 11th
day of Aptil, for the election of it, Pcers of Scotland. to sit in
the House of Nets in the new Parliament.

At the Court nt Carlton-house. the 22d February, I 1120 ;
Preient—The King's Most Excellent Nlajesty in Council,
His Majesty, in Council. was chi: day pleased to appoint
Charles Barnett. of Stratton Park, Esq. to be Slicntl of the
county of Bedford, in the room of Sir John Burgoyne, of Sut-
ton, Ban.

And his Majesty vim also pleased to make the following
imendm:nts mon the roll:
County of Southampton. -James Scotts, Esq. matt James
Seota, Esq.
llenbigh,John Lloyd Salisbury, El. made John Lloyd
Salusbury, Esq.