The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-03-18 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1820.

'eat of borough-owner.—./Crest applause.)—
Again the Commons, House ought speedily to he
resolved into the mass from whence it arose. Now,
could any two things Ise more opposite than this
description, end the preseot state of Septennial Par.
bylaws ? There was no more resemblance between
this State and that which Burke descrihed, then
between the son at noon-day in meridian blaze,
and the sombre rays of an offensively smelling
farthing rush.fight.--(Pluedits.)—He rationed
them to keep up their spirits. mot to be deterred at
the transient success. of Mr. Lamb. soul notwith.
standing any momentary preenerity gained by him,
to persevere and carry Mr. Hohholise. with • high
hind. as their Representative into the House of
Commons.—(appleese.)
Mr. lairs repeatedly 'attempted to speak. and
repeatedly desisted in consequence of the tremens
dous storm of interroption which regularly asseiled
him on opening his lips. After braving the tem.
pest for a length of time with great patience and
good iturnourf Some trigtar " Go on, Mr. Lease,
go ex !")—heproireeded.77l, as the Gentleman
who had just addressed them thought, Mr. Hob.
house had no reason too be discouraged at the state
of the poll, he thought that neither had he—(ap-
plause)—and he was glad that the state of the poll
wave source of so much satisfaction to both mirrors.
—(a laugh.)—Mr. Burdett had talked of jockey-
sitip, I said that he (Mr. Lamb) had been out.
juckied, but lie seemed to have forgotten dist its •
race it • imposailitle to say who was outjockied
till on 1.0 hor'se4 got to the winseing.post.—(4
q laugh.) ut 114 Y-had heard of *kir* whipping
i
and spiking cacti a high.mettled racer (In use the
Gentleatireiti own- term) too soon—(a Myth).—
mod .it 'uow- turned out that this terrible high-bred
anim%l in Newmarket phrase, was in such • jaded
condition thaethey were obliged to get • parcel of
wret err hackney coaches to draw him op.—.
( ' er.)—He, on the contrary, had gone on
from Ise beginning in aft even regular pace, not
making a great splash perhaps—(a laugh) —but he
assured them it worthd be continued to the end.
Perhaps its this election the old saying would be
verified that they stumbled who ran bat.—(m
laugh )—The friends of Isis opponent perhaps want.
ed a little more breathing time, or perhaps the
morning wars little too cloudy fur them, for his op.
ponent bad told them that the reason he had polled
so few yesterday morning was that there were a few
clouds in the sky. Certainly those friends must
have been of a very delicate constitution. and rather
cold feelings in the cause whom a few clouds,
without • drop of rain, had kept beck from the
hustings.—(applause.)—He was surprised that the
Memory of his opponent, who was so familiar with.
Sitakspeare, did riot suggest the passage to him—

" The self-same heaven
That frowns on me looks tinily upon Aim."

Mr. Burdett had told them that brevity was the .
soul of wit; hoverer. it woo possible to be short
aid not witty.—(4 laugh.)—Of that he feared he
should himself afford a specimen. His opponent
had put • number of questions to him yesterday.
which. he said, he expected he (Mr. Lamb) would
answer another time. Now. as he thought that 110
candidate had • right to question soutlwr, end as
he inferred that he intended some good to himself
in having them replied to, he bad given no answer
to them then, mud he believed he should give no
ewer to them now.—(Laughter and applause.)—
It seemed he expected he (Mr. Lamb) should lay
before him all his grounds of success and plane
regarding the election. This was a very different
tone from that assumed at the last election, be-
cause then Mr. Hobhouse and his friends had told
them that they knew all the secrets of his Com-
mittees as well as themselves. He called upon the
electors of Westminster to resist the dictation of
an active minority. Whatever might be said of
influence, he should maintain that those electors
who voted for him were as free, ,independent, and
uninfluenced. as any of those who supported him
could pos►ibly be. having said so much. he had
only toinform them, that he had quite enough of
friends remaining to return him to Parliament, and
to wish them a good evening.—(applause.)
Mr. Honnouss said he was glad to find that his
Hon. opponent had exulted with so little success.
But the majority of tg, which he had this day, if
continued through every day to the end of the
election, would not he sufficient to put him above
himself. Mr. Lamb had told them in his silver-
. tisement, that the tide of success lied changed in
his favour; bat it had not dianged, there was no
turn of the tide, it was only • little back-water. or
• whirlpool. which whisked about fur half a minute
and then was down again.—(4pphaere.)—He sup-
posed it was the frieurie of his opponent who had
raised those laurels on the standing opposite to the
place he occupied; at least he had nut observed
them yesterday. Bat they were but a short time
there, and were withered, ■utl he thought they
were a fair type of that success with which his
opponent would finally be crowned.—(Great op-
pionse.)..4le found that he was now further ad-
vanced than on the eleventh day of the last electing),
and this woe but the seventh day and one hour of
►thic poll. The only dictation exercised over the
people of Westminster by the Gentlemen of his
Committee was that they stated what this it own
political opinions were, whist they atomised ought
to be those of the person who sought to represent
the city of Westminster in Parliament, and that his
sentiments appeared to square with their standard.
This was • thing of which every individuall could
judge for himself. Dictation implied some sort of
control; but the only control imputable to the Gen-
tlemen who took an active part in supporting him was,
that since 1807 they had taken every opportunity
of expressing their opiniou of the necessity of re-
form. As Mr. Lamb said, and no doubt thought.
that no undue influence was exercised over the
electors who voted fur him, he should beg leave to
emumonicate to him one fiict •that had come with-
in his own observation in this mom of that day.
Ton persons who had row tip to kote for Mr.
Lamb, were refused me sititualified, upon which

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