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.to render evevything which fell frost him pearly
intelligible. Hs deelered hisisself grateful for lite
handsome support Which had been given hiai en
•slie day'. poll ; requested is continual t of it. lid
'mooned a hope that the proceedings would be at.
tended to the cad with-the mar - wad bussour, re•
plenty, a.sil quiet, which marked them hitherto.
Alderman WAITeII AN was loudly and repeated.
ly cheered from the H.ill, but souse mounds of tan.
sure prooteding from the hooting., he coat.
meowed by obsessing. that there were two or three
individuals on the hustings who endeavoured to
prevent him from silitressing the Livery by noise.
—(Cries of " Tarn them oaf."/—He thee insisted
not our of the persons in question. which, after a
little time. had•the effect of producing edam., and
he proceeded. There was soothing so COMIIIIOIII Fs
•Candidates holding out false expectations to their
friends; but he looped they would do hits the jai.
tice to admit that lie had not wafted teeny each
artifice. either during this or the last election. He
had staved to thesis, on Saturday last, that there
was a great body of friends lit reserve for bins, and
they had this day come forward. • He issd before
said. that above 4.000 votes had been polled for
him during the two last cloys or she lest election.
He sow uu reason why he should not reckon on the
same votes now, end he ventnred to predict,
that if the other eleven hundred came up so-sour-
row they would not despair of ultimate success.
His adversaries hod polled all their eusumittees, but
his committee. numerous as it was, be had the rat is.
faction to say. was yet
..eutouched —(" Bravo!"
Some interruption was here spin perceptible.)—
" Gentlemen." said the worthy Alderman, " here
is•one troublesome animal. but I wish you to (tear
what he has to say presently. 1 ageism you that he
shell cot disconcert me ; 1 know him well. Gen-
tlemen. I must be somewhat fatigued after going
through en election such as this : 1 shall therefore
not contend with him, but let the Gentleman con-
tinue his . noise as long as he pleased, sod I shall
writ till he is done.—(" Bravo!") After the
motions 1 have been obliged to make, this at-
tempt to stifle my sentiment. is a most dastardly
said unmanly thing on his part.—(Cries of ' Hand
hiss out.—tarn hiss out of the Heal —Parhata it
is impossible for any man to express himself with
accuracy, while lie is subject to frequent interrup-
tion; but 1 am not to be turned from my purpose.
I wits stating that my Committee was yet un-
touched ; and if you wish for remedy for what has
yet (okra plaorefou can easily apply it yourselves."
It woe plain to him. he said, that for these few days
past the contest was between him and the Lord
Mayor. Against that Gentleman personally he
entertained no objection whatever; as • private
character he tolerated and respected him—(Hear)
—but speaking of him as a public man, aiming to
represent the City of London in Parliament, he
must be permitted to say, that as yet lie had given
no means to judge what his conduct would be—
lie had not yet unfolded himself. He esteemed
him, however, as an individual, and he should always
hold it sliflisient to encounter hint on public
grounds.— (flear.)—But that has not been thought
stifAcit+ut by his adversaries to put him (Mr.Watitha
man) deco. He had not suffered from a coalition
aloue, but had beets besides assailed with every spe-
cies of obloquy and calumny. One thing he
could say, that neither during the last nor the pre-
sent election, lied he or his committee published
one thing which he should be ashamed to avow on
the hustings.—(/tear.)—But he paned by these
'things ; indeed he was inclined to think. that the
effect of them was the opire.ite to that intended,
especially when he recoll;eted through what a foul
and polluted cht I they pasted--u channel which
was employed every day its -traducing every pub.
he character which differed in opinion from them.
He besought them in continue their earl tious.
1 he Lord Mayor had been 150 above him ou the
morning at eleven o'clock, but since that his friends
had pulled up so as to bring their numbers nearer
to an equality. One caner of his low station on the
pg4l.was, that owing to the nearness of numbers
between him and Alderman Thorp, an idea hid
gone out among their friends that there was a jea-
lousy between them, and it was obvious to easy
one on the hustings that this erroneous nit.
Ines • had eecasioned much cross-polling, which
hash injured both of them, perhaps to the extent of
the majorities over them. It was almost utitiec.es.
miry for hint to disclaim the existence of any such
feeling. His Hon. Friend and lie felt towards each
other et perilous embarked in a common came. If
they exerted themselves, mid came op to the hur-
ting, tu-tuorrow with all their friends. it was yet in
their power to give him a majority. Whatever
might be the result of the contest, hr should have
nothing to reproach himself with, conscious as he
was of having done his duty fearlessly, though per-
haps nut ably. Though it might have the appear-
luxe of vanity, he could nut help saying that it
might again happen that an Income Tax, or a
Clergy Bull, should be proposed in the House of
Comutour, and when theme former friends, who had
instigated him to oppose the latter, end voted for
him who supported it. might think his services
again useful.--(Hear.i—Wsth respect to the re-
sult of this election. one thing was plain. that an
influence before uokitown in the metropolis and the
kingdom had been employed at it—and if ever
there was n strong argument for altering the mode
of exercisitig the electite fralichise. the state of the
poll furnished one. 'Flury knew that many indivi-
duals could out be brought up to the poll from au
apprelleusiou of the consequences. If many indi-
viduals, respectable, but redirced to distress from
the pressure of the times. mod incapable sometimes
of exercising their ham:lnge indepeirdently, should
yen retain ii, critaittly the great body of the house-
holders might not to be exchried from the seine
right.—(llear.) —I f defeated, he should retire from
the coolest willow any slime on his own account ;
but feeling deep dome fur Ilia fellow-citizens. and
the degradation to which the City of London wee
reduced, when her freemen dare tint exercise their
own fratrelAses. If defeated, he should be defeated
eelotiouslv. He again thanked them.
Mr. Alderman Thome was gsseted with the
strongest demoostrations of attachment. He its-
saved them that lie appeared before them with
pride and gratitude, ter the honourable supper'
o.ey lied given ham doting dor day. It *reined
to itejd out the assurance that the glorious victory
they had obtained at the last election would not
now be tarnished. but that they 'timid vigorously
cume forward and oppose the undue tufluentte at.