The National Register.
London, England, 1818-06-22 00:00:00

MR. HUN'.I".S' ELECTION.

Tuesday morning, in consequence of the placards on the
welts ot Westminster, indicating ;Ir. Hunt's intention to +vied
tut• waggons pails of the city, " that he might hate the honor
of paying his personal respects to as many of his friendeas
possibly, betore the day of election," an assemblage of people
at the appe int eil hour was reflect' din (7114 Palace's ; they
were of the haute class as those wilt. usually attend Mr. Hunt
upon public occasions. Pies ions to the arrival of the condi.
data there was mach, commenting among the worthy citizens
upon the moils and demerits of the candidates for the i epics
seetation of the city, wild among the prittriptil holders-forth
weie a Jew soil • fish-woman, both of %linen were very vette.
• most in their praises for Mr. Hunt, and were not too spat leg
of their ;Ouse of Sir F. Burdett. At length Mr. Hunt, at
ahem. half past twelve o'clock, made lths eppearatteein an
tipea carriage, drawn by two horses, anti preceded by a
hackney cheviot, 0111 of the front windows of which was
throe: e very tinge crimson coloured •tlaa, leaving the in-
scription on one side of it. of " Hunt and Ninny," and oil
the oilier, '" liiiivenal Suffrage." Mr. Hunt was attended
in tie open carriage by two of his ems, both of whom wore
very lot ge crimson. cuckades. The carriage stopped °pito.
site to the place V. her to the hooting are usually erected, anti the
people having *cofounded it, to the number of more than front
130 to :MO persona,
Mr. Hurt unmet:el the avid of the carriage, anti addressed
• the surroueiding mob. lie offered It i 11l self, he said, to their
notice -as a candidate•hir the representation of the city of
Westminster, in eider to Iwe a seat in the Ifunse of Cow-
molts. • lie did rot say Out he shonid be able no make an
improasion upon those in power, but he would at least make
the attempt; if he should have the honettr to lie refereed, he
would not do as etkers had done, compromise the rights of
the people; he would not go te ttat House as the pretended
friend of the people, nor would' ht supinely sit still labile Mi-
nisters were abusing and vilifying the people, while at the
same tieneent they were robbing them, and filching money
out of their pockets by way of tar.. s. What line ot emaluto
he intended to adopt if he shouldobtain a scat in that House,
he believed, was already well ',noon to the citizens of West-
minster : he had made an affidavit which he intended toad-
here to, and he only hoped that other candidates fur the ie-
preseistatton wnn(d imitate his example in this respect. Au
Infamous report, he said, was afloat and spread through the
inea:.a at the public prints, that his intention was only to
create a riot and distui bance, and that he did not mean to
stand the election. The report was as false as it was calum-
nious; and he now openly declared, that he would keep the
poll open to the last tla the law would allow. It was indeed
true that he had Iwo the power of bringing tip his enters in the
531111 e inaimer as opponents hut he should have the op•
portitnity of meeting them face to face on the Intstings in
Covent iiartien. (Cry of, " They will run awiry."a No, he did
nut think they would have the cowardice to do that ; but he
had had len twilit:satin that it was the intention of smuc of the
candidates to semi their deputies to appear on the hustings in
their stroll, lie earnestly hoped that the free and thilepen.
(len t eitizetts of Westiniooter would not stiffer this to be dune.
'l (:ere was trio rotten. herough, uo town or country, where the
caudidate had the impudence to say to his electors, " pay
my representative respect ;" and should it be said of the no-
ble minded independent citizens of ‘t.estininster, that they
suffered this indignity with impunity? (Cries of no, no.) No,
he would toting these sneaking fellows flout their slinking
boles, and lie woual put such questions to them on the hust-
ings as none el them should be »We to answer. lie then sig-
nified Ws illirlltioll of proceeding to Waterloo-place, before
Carlton House; and observed, that if vile and corrupt papers
chose to any that lie went there to insult royally, his reply
%geoid he, " No, the Wall who lives there is one of the people,
god I call fur all the people." He subsequently coutinued ;
" If his !toyed Highness wail enndesceild to put Ms bead out
efts: e 'tie crevices in the building, he would hear nothing
insulting to himself, bid some plain wallet, which ought to be
listened to by every Tall." Alter having made some re-
marks upon his own Illness and capacity to represent *e city
of Westminster, lie neat called the attention (Attie 'fleeing to
the present Mirasters at the head of Crovernment, to whom lie
gave the appellation of blood suckers. They were quite full
of Mood, nut rittlike other leeches, they did not drop off; they
coutimied suckine, mid God only knew when they would
leave off, The N pigs or the Tories were equally arbitrary
in edit'. He Vv.ts fur no party, but as an individual lie wish.
(A fur a Seta It was far trails his wish to excite
the people to riot—quite the teverse ; he only wished to allow
that the 1. eople were capable of enjoying their liberty. It
would br Aa.il that lie hail nii 1111 l ted the revolutionary dug, but
lie should base p.euty of time to answer all the calumnies'
against him at the ensuing election. He should be on the
hustings en Thursday our g a trw minutes be.fore nine
o'clock, and he hoped he should he areentramed by all the
friends of liberty, sit that it could not be said that a small
majority held up their hands in favour of Hunt. He then
pruce.•ded to deal out invectives against the late Parliament,
vi loch, he said, petite nu he,ue, aligat he abused in any way;
but I.e vroteett it that nothing lee coulti say would tie loot
enough for it. 'flue leas-led lawyers, Messrs. Iliusinhans and
Romany, hail pi ofesseil ilirai intentions to tin snitch, Lrut had iii
fact done clothing t nu, they halt tam much respect fur then
learnea iii. m'a oil 1111: oh.er safe ot the ilosite. Neither the
bullying of Lord. Castlereagh, the iosulemet! or Mr. Canning,
or the quitobliug ill iwir. Vausntahl, should ever prevent huh
IrOin hi. illi4t,let put loin to death he eyelid die
but once, and sleuth had lia i..sitora for him. 'the public
print • liad ~tared at potem, .aaed %Molter there was no
dageei to pot lulu to d'a'is? hey Ail, and
WO•titl otit him to 'lean', hilt the toward• led that %shut they
once neaan they did taut know IAIIIII 10 ICA‘i. „f.hush
lett, a, in Isis insekt t, which he had reeeis ed. Ili: cattail ht; that
it'll., offered to cultist' omit ibis .lay in. ait ()p.m c,,r,eiag,,
in ' .nil he shot. lint he felt censcinus the be came fur nn
bad porposr, but toe the good of his collet ry, and Me traleo
notlit lA. lie concluded with thine's that twantis roe, it we.
his in.ention to stint flute tosser parishes in the c.ty. sig. Ss,
tin's at Chaste' Cross, Si. :toter itt WaJuat..rent, dud
St. Cloao lira. at S. Clciou 's church, in the :Walla.
'flit ai slur sites, irroceeded In the carriage up Parliament-
street, I...tided. Waterloo-place, toe hackney chat sot with the
flag taltiou one frati,aalt was 10110 wets by about 'a%) ;.1. S ref •
"HI • ti 1.4 :.1.• House Lidarilt, he putt
of hi, hat, and as, eti it in die .us, altS,•ts some or tile lA..
Onaird• at .tie AC, Ilia Mira :laid& Oar a instil lillaa4.--
Pis' V 3 Islet le then as a:rested. seal site COW
1". • Syr it.e .dr. 100 k A•littir retteit..•
meet. A bat past tine, Ile al rivet, al Vita ierlan ;mew.
111.1 la, Allil s. me eJdo iaus, Ith ',perch he had
proisiou,d g sr.. at Palace-yard. Ile wain ,ollaci Vt.', dial
Ile attains tie toneds the rei‘o.lage ; lint it h.,
Royal 11140unw. )+OOlll condescend to cutue oat and give bit