The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-08-12 00:00:00

MR. LAWSON.

We lately pre au extract front the speech of this
Ortitiries.iii in his Cimoitoirtils. The firlkirtiirg,
in al.htiuu, art copird fri.sti The Dtdbhu Eet hiog
Post :

Mr. I.xitsost is but twenty-five years of age tool,
we uorlet.htiiil, Imad jwit glutted the logl.rst hosionr
in the Univrisay. From is Scholarship he Ilttb
1.711W41 51.10 Mil /. litit we 0;411 piceeril to
give our extracts, prscesled by is little of the
previous mate of the place which he put np for,
taken isl•4o frump the pamphlet :
lisssoughbrillge is a small market end borough
town no York,l.ire, in the p Irish of Alelhoroligls, is
large rtllage. which also trends two Member% to Pa.-
lotasesit. The whole four hove heels for some ears
ttt itt ate.' by the Duke of NI.A1!31111e, who 1:04.•
IWhill.f. Is large 1114/110y t,l the A Islburnsigli houses,
awl as small one. at liiironglihridge. A week pre-
violas to Ilit• Eletlloll. 111=. Lvw.ml mnuouu(-rtt his
ilstent/oU of oistoo•inri the two new Mensbyr,
noted by the Dukr,Geor;,:e NI lay, Esq. Captain
It. N. a feints tttt of the thickets ; mod Thomas
Murdoch. E-q. las it is believed), a Barrister.
Owing to i.e tprirt way iii which Elections have
been conducted there for some time, mulch is. the
same way us Vestry Meetings, a Alemiter ILIA Wit
11 Olt It iireerairy to bhew his face for ta•versl Elrc-
tionv ; General+ Sir H. mod Sir W. Clinton, the
two late Members, hid never heels neur the place.
On the mount' of opposition, ill feXprt!!4ll wan sent
ro Clamber, Notbsigliamslurc, the spot of • his
GrAie. to fetch dowel tell lite lour Mt-130mm The
100 Memlieev It.r Aldhcieriugh. \'r son of
the Archbo.hop of York, and Air. Fyne+, tom of
Doctor Fyiir, late Prebendary of lVestiniii-tur,
cite down, as slicl Captaiis Air. Mur-
doch never uppeared, *ad Mr. Vernon pleaded his

At ?even o'clock precisely, on Saturday, June
.2001, ISlst, a Hissitaigi haviii2 been erected, and aii
•ioinieose concoltr•r of People bring present, it
ben% the Fair at Boroughluidge, the three Candi-
d...sea were severally p:opu•rd and secondad„ after
wind, Coptaiu .tt ittlak shortly oilelreoird tlir Elec-
tors. Alter OUP Mr. Vernon spoke in behalf of his
friend, Mr. Murdoch, and slated his absence NJ
quite owing to ur•foreseen eireotessioncec. He sts-
pure,' them he was of oil rises time Mull fit to rein...-
tent thew.

Snow other proceedings Nisil g taken place, the
new Coniiiiiiite nilillemirit the Electors ; lie staid—,
"t; vat,' nits —1 rime: not as army 'nets du, seeking the
favour of 11* iv Cuuatilisenta, as !he Kingdom of Wesel;
should I e sought, by humility of profescom ; I e.. e nut
1.1011111i114' of say 555 11 S. oomme thirty.' ine you or my
idler iocipacity to art vr you. Nor coo I litre avoid ex-
preuilig my utter astoitieliment at the confident hardihood
of those many weirdos., of public fsvottr, alto ground their
Ime jog, nu prtle111110N)1 at *ll ; who euh,r
beim( fouls speak the hulls, or being wise tors speak
(*holy ."
. . . .

Mr. LAWSON then proceeds to speak of the old
Representing .s, uurl gives it good orthodox itertuoist
wf l'.aliamentary laii
" I will mew aelvert a Mile more minutely to the con.
duet of your late Itepeesentatisrs, because by 1111111 we moat
est notate. my Kest sit Opponents, since they spring from the
011111: stollte, mud are u sssss i. 114114 by the 101111 C 1111111e111"C.
Well, Sliest, they were butte, I believe, 3lisper-Generals, awl I
am pee reedy willow to be bore tail., in his profsr.siiiii, not
mily major but irmritres. I sefl give each of Ibsen coedit for
being very foie fellows in their way; and I deere vay, though
you lease Ise'ver had ocular demonstration of it, you %yid die
the same. For we are told, blessed is he that leclie•vetb,
though lee truth nut area?'
After noticing the impossibility of r military
in iii's doing his duly r t mice both at home and
abroad, Mr. I.uivsiiii continues in the following very
pleiciatit mid promising strain :
" They 11lay also possibly be exereslingly grateful for your
long-roininsied favours, for passing their septennial ac-
counts so often, without evils the alight ceremony of a reck-
oning or audit-day ; hot their grstetuek•, if any thing of the
kind has every existed, has been so great as to be, It/ we
sometimes send, sos ing to the over.pueveriag force of feeling,
quite inaudible. And among all our ►erperabrsetanee of
zeal and loyally, or have always been under the snostifying
necessity of toasting •• Tier absevt Members!" A9ll rt,
to state the matter fairly, their absence say, perhaps, be
owing to their iiiihiaey ideas, wrote& though well 111t010.
For as they kiwis, that a General's business is out to go
tatu the heat of Ilieb,glll4., but to remain afar off in distalet
security, they easy possibly hays applied this 111011 e of ►ea-
soning to Elvel si and instead of going themselves into
the bustle, may have imagined, the right way was to semi
their Aides.de-Causp herr, their stewards and agents, with
orders, which (hey 10111CCIelli 111 get obeyed with all the
promptitude of martial subordination. I wish most sin-
cerely, that maxim of Cosionui Law was made pool of the
Law of Elections, • de was apporeviribess et wog existestibus
...cedars eat rating these is, those 0111 furilientnim; are (meet-
demi as not existing If so, all the four Mcseibrrs that
hove represented this parish (thr wily parish is &glared. I
believe. that sends limo would have lung since bees iseligo-
Lie. For on one who bestows even the most curvy'', glance
on the map of Britaiii, can help being automated at the
brilliant asteniblage of suns, n :itch ore part of the country

priaesta; pliers wading two Member. being typified, ai
Lprrhsp• know, by two little star, S. Fur though pro-
b', all would allow Cornwall to be Ilse milky way, shiu-
ing with a continued stream of light, late one of Its own
putriJ parlood hours gleaming 111 Ili., dark from iisrultra•
MCP*, they maid grant thi• parish to he al least some bill-
hant little somittllatioli—lhe Bull's Eye, fur instance, ur
thicos's lirls , nudes' it reminded them, of what is perhaps
a nii.re appropriaie idea, mime of those decayed and cur-
oplyi paiiwagra io old manuscripts and legend., where
11w sit iii•lemity of gruisine text is supplied by a multitude of
asterisks.

" And yet some of you will say, i4Ve don't like chsuge.
we'll gu av we have door.' And lem aware that there is
a provtiti, when the old ones go, there seldom comes a
better.' This, huweter, your old Members have taken good
ewe vha!l in nu ways make in their favour; l*r, hew eau the
uhl one. he viid to go, when they Dever came

After telling. the Electors that he has not made
up him 'mod rleettleitly ut EIYOU r of Reform, but
that he is willioK to be guided oil that point by the
tri-lers 'AI the tuition and his. Constituents, he says—
" Sitter, itrecrr, I non as yet nut a Reformer, yon will
easily perceive how unfortunate that lircusisstarce is for toy
irr. sent hacidigne; by this untoward event, how mauy glit-
tering Hopsa ace denied nic ! how much appropriate invec-
tive is rut off! Ity what maul tweite star dues it happen,
that, *hen nuthiug would have better suited soy purpose,
than to have told you, that all the taxstiou we have endured,
all the misery t which we arc now happily beginning to
recover, was to be trace.' to the corruplitm of nu overhear-
ing Aristocracy, I find it 'Loa bold air assertion? 0! why is
1101 man foinishell a ills lan sets of ideas, a duplicate of con-
science, n refortsaime ma es we:l ow an anti-reforming our,
to be employed alternately us way ►uit convenience ?--Why
Haunt 1, Lice the Bishops, preach up peace in the Lout's
noun, mill vote tOr war in the Moos of Lords Why, alas!
is not my interest adapted to my cuurcuieuce; or why am I
au I at and CoMeirtitious man ?"

In speaking of the conduct of the Duke of New-
castle to the Electors, he addressed them thus:—
" You will vaulty recollect another point. in which his be.
111411011 r ss.l/4 111/1 the lettl,4lll 11w 1.1114110101/-11( the annual races
lure. 11 i0.1.1141'111411110,1 as good us' p •ard by I,la agents,
that thy 1111 l y given to the teem should by transferred to the
soptriwt of a 114'111./11 1;11' the education of the taut. Well, how
a. this fultillril % Why his Grave at UNIV- readily cstue mule
the pinionnal for withdrawing him subscription, but nut quite
su easily to the to an•tur of it. After all, considering himself
nut any way: Limed by his agent's winds, he has actually
peel'. tc.l inure than bait that paltry sum. Aud he even
threatened to pm ket all, modem the children of the Dm.
1.-Moll' 11/I,e exchtdril, though here he might perhaps
be guided by equitable consultsM.4i.. Fur as he well
knew that Nletliirdist• 'unreal' 11111 111 11111'1111 races, and
no derived no benefit bout his money whin bestowed
ue ripiesteilit prizes, he probably thought they had
sto more right 111 share in the advanterts of his contribution
when transtererd lu ilie purposes of education, in which they
were bsritt whose and wiAdul to participate. Another in..
stance. of his gralmiz spit it wan visible •t the enclosure,
when, afltt hat imiz come in for, what must 'people would con-
r, a %cry hisiolsoute dividend, lie wished also to etieluse
(hoge pus r t..it nr chwoutlell. of continua udjoiniug the south
road, and which WA been so eminently serviceable to the
purr of the place, and in which he was opposed by a lamented
relative uf smite. 'Elms resembling that inanoofwliuni it was
said, if pin gave loin England, treland,Scuilatid, and Wales
fur hie iodate, be would yet want the Isle of Mau for a po-
taluirstileu. Vi•ii complaint heavily of these things at the
link. late it he wen, you are not exactly like the brutes,
that only growl and grumble when molested, sod afterwards
forget. la tit be men, you have wit only the power uf
flcl-
ing injury, Mat 11. e capacity of recollecting it. Unless, per-
haps, you are induced to bear the yoke more lightly, and to
console yourselves, as the bully in Tuns /frown did for his
kicking; first, that it was Mote with a shoe of the fluent
Morocco, and next, that it was done by a Lord."
And
I do think it shameful, that having so long enjoyed the
uninterrupted 1141111i11111i4111 aunt- Representatives, he should
have sent us ammeh inefficient ItlenaLcis, such montwebstif log.
1:111i ell, 1 begin to swim el, that his Grace is a Reformer at
beast ; fur, although lie way nut for prudent reasons like to
avow it in theory, yet be carries its wildest schemes of ilia.
fmauchisement practically into cam. By stomivating Mem-
bro. Ike our last, win, su rarely attended the House, he has
dune s hat the Rr bunters wish to nee done, he has made the
Itepresentation of the place nuii and void.. lie has thus
• frectoally provided natio. any accusation, of our being ac-
cess., to the votes of corrupt majorities, or the lavish ex-
penditure"( public atuitey. Anil yet, I imagine, one of the
must crying sista of time day, i. the very slender atteutlaucc of
11emh, is of Parlisment on invariant questions. Its all very
well fur them Wallin M. P. to their names, and to frank bi-
ters; but it me mt. 1111 l detrimental to the Nation, to have
eriestions all lIIIIN.r 1,111 thY Poor Laws and General
Liln-
ratiuu,attended 11 about a fourth of the Mouse. It may be
very well for theist to be taking their pastime abroad, ur iu
the country ; but, as the cattle says, c though it is sport fur
the boys, it kills the fume."
• Wien the !take of Newcastle got a Mae Miami, it was
observed by a disappoluted eupeclaut," He might thank his
stare for it."

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