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dress of his friend, Mr. G. Junes, in his behalf, he
hail but little to add, but to assure them of his best
intentions towards the high-spirited eleetuit•ef %Vest.
inittster, and of his beio*- a plain, sterling, holiest
Englishmen. The electors hail no doolut already
discovered. that in fact they had only twur raiidadates
stow presented for their choice, the gellant Captain,
Sir Murray Maxwell, and himaelf.—(('lwering.)—
It was a most extraordinary sight to see in the tree
city of Westminster, that the rest of the I 'ambulates
we.e uslerined to thew their frees to the electors,
when, in the very rottenest of all rotten borough.,
the Candidates lead the (emerge to present them-
selves before those whom they were show to home',
—(A burst of applause.) —Th...., could be lout one
reason for it, which might possibly reflect any cre-
dit on these robsteiteer, mod that was, that thrir
conscience would not let them sippear to face the
indignation of those whom they had oecrelunl.
(Laughing. and cries of " Give it to them
!lune .1")—lie should, after hailing said thus much,
desist from saying any snore of absent !aerobes, es a
matter of merry. Of Sir Murray Al rime,' lie
would speak, as he was present, and tell theist that
he abhorred as much as any Will h a politics. whirls
ISM_ 1114_11. were avowedly iii support of despniiarn. I i
tallied by corrupt inflreence.—/Apptorse.)-11' Sir
Samuel Romilly would accept &Aster of midi. a
person a. himself, lie would advise hint io go down
to Arundel again, that rotten borough of the Duke
of Norfolk, where he might hope hot better success
than at ‘Vestiniiister. lir fart, the Eteesors meta
rest content, that Sir Samuel would be sure to cone
into Parlintnento hat den of' coiroptiots, wlt tier he
was elected by them or ant.—(Laud opp/ause.)—
Of Sir Francis Burdett he woutl.l sac—(June
persons in the crowd hissisow.)—' Bat I perceive 3 ou
appeal' to know anoUgh of hum, and totiderstend hum
well."—Cries " Yes. roc do. Ilient."l—n,i,
hero of the Tower, but who, unfortunately fur
himself, had skulked away out at the hack door,
was altogetli, r h,st nth his noti e.—(Latighlag,
mingled in many p/ lees with in ~ked expressions of
disapprobation. ) 'W hat on4lit tlie Electors of
IVestiumister to thick of :a Man whose language to
them hail so often intimated that lie should be glad
to serve them ; but if he retort-twitted their 4‘4111' 111
fit and manly terms to such a corrupt House es that
of St. Stephen's, they would send 1. to she
Tower.—(4 hiegh.)-.-Was this an admission be-
vomit% a firm Representative of the boldest city +at
England? If they dual Ilion the honour to cirri
ham to Parliament, he should engage to speak his
mind freely, whether they sent him to t!,e
Tower or rio.—(( ries of "Bravo, bravo P')
This rower had no terrors fur him. Ile should mere
skulk out of it at the hack door, cud avoid the cor-
dial reception intended for him by les comentreels,
as Sir rtiIICIS had done.—( Shunt is if oppl arse front
the populace. toidgled with s)nre expressions if dis-
pleasure )—Eleven years ago this sante wore Ly
Baronet had ink' the people that he Iniee d to tear
the accursed burrs out of the Red I; ink, winch
contained such a I.st of I,uf,lic bilftlets‘ ; but h:d
lie torts one of these leuves out ? or had lie helped
to uliburdrir the people of one of thuwe nuisances?
—(Hear, hear.)-11,, himself had, with the assist-
unce of the people, turn part of' one of those Imes
of the accursed hook aunt, and nit a emelt part
either, when they petitioned, at
against the serecurists and placemen, which had
such on effect on the Marquis of Camden, that
his terror, he haul resigned ;36,000/. a year—
' (Great applause)—and lie would tell them that he
should go on, step by step, in caw of his heing re-
turned their reore•entative, to *bolts!, tit se sine-
cures, one by one, or, by a great effort, toar m all
out by wholerale.—( Vociferous dire: in.r.).—With
such friends as he saw retinal hum, uu. tiro de-
spair of even effecting this great
to the cap of liberty at the head of the fla_estalf,
on which his colours were fixed, he oirserre.l,
that his friend"; had chosen to du e rate his co-
lour, by placing on the fl.rt; waif the cap of
liberty. Ile hail no objectiou to the esidskss, it
funned a promitient oreament nutmegs,. the arm 'nal
bearings of a ceitaiii wortNy patriotic Noble I, .r.l.
[Hece lie asked Mr. G. Joeys what t!) it I. au
came was ? who replied, he did out ki10.... tie
laughed, and continued.] It w•as nu wonder he
should not know his untie, these people s.)
often eh:sneer' their ermine that they remolded hen
of those pick-pockets who often us•titsred another
name, nod tuned nut to rob on a grand scale ou
Ilouuslow II atle—(l.oud loughin nod eheerio..; )
—However, he recollected it f untried a eremite la
feature in the monument erected 1.1 110111.111 of I:
telents of the great Lerd Chatham in Godulaal..
Nothing had given him greater concern and sur,ntz
than to see the great extent to which the litouteugs
been extended, so as to lake up the place ((pen )I'l'!b
the electors ought to stand and he 11.-costlslia.l.l.ed.
Formerly it was otherwise, whilst now there was but
a few feet of ground, where sternly till 11011111 rd 111.,11-
sand people might have been collected to he it tee
Candidates. lie sliuu!d reinonstra,e with the Ili
cud suggest either to push back tire
logs, or remove hack the scalf,ldings, alma, imw
prevented the electors hitaring or wi totem% lir
proceedings of the
When lie had fiteehed his address Ise apprised
theta the pulling; would commesiee innate !idyl!,
and he then retrimuled them it would be thirst tithe
to come forward firmly, and contri,iute their si4i•l-
sauce in the great cause, by vutiaag ill their own (11114 e
and his, with as much expedition us possible, The
High Bailiff would also call upon thrui, an the first
instance, in declare by a strew of hands who
be considered u tit person to trpreisesit t'sein I I
Parliament, and begged airy emu's! br atietti*e
*lien the slice( of hands was ittoposed, and
his nomination.—[This epecult was billoeu a by
three several rowels of cliteui:og and the must tu-
multuous applause ]
The High Bailifl 's Crier then provost(' the Can-
ditittes severally ; and (you the show tit hood. she
High Bailiff pro:some-ell them to be 111 1.414./tlr alt
Sir Samuel Rotuilly and Mr. hunt.—((.cheering.)
A poll being demanded, the friend, of the its
spective parties proceeded to give their votes. At
four o'clock the poll closed, of which due reek-
matiou was made by the Crier. It.tween the time
at which the crew:ion of the poll was 111111r11, 11111
that in which the result was remounted, liir WM+ st
confusion !neva:led. Two or thirst set-to's tack
place amongst the fi lends of the rival Ca...fuddles—
aud, as the crowd wets too closely 'reek. (I toeeilir r
to enable the combatants to recede from each uttit 1,
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