The National Register.
London, England, 1812-12-20 00:00:00

p EC. 20.

We rejoice to find by Mr. BRAHAM'S re-appearance in
Aluhonso, in « The Castle of Andalusia" last Thursday, that
the 'qua (Ibis having no engagement at Drury-lane, is un-
founiled. He was received in the most rapturous manner.
imigic powers of his voice are the same, and the brilli
;Inn' of his execution is heightened by the occasional mix •
tare of pure anti elegant simplicity in which he breathes his
Liel(Alics. He was encored with particular applau,T in a new
baad written by Mr. Nagy, which we regret the press of
impoiaor foreign matter prevents us from inserting, as its
poetical merits are not inconsiderable.

WESTMINSTER ELECTORS.

The friends of Sir Francis Burdett and Lord Cochrane dined last
Month% at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, to celebrate the election of
the present Representatives of Westminster.
The Chair was filled by Mr. Wishart, who, the cloth being re!•
moped, stated the object of the meeting, and in the course of hi-
speech insisted on the tecessity of a Retbrm in the House of Com-
mas. " The Sovereignty of t lie People," was theft drunk with thre!:
timeq three, and followed by " he Prince Regent, and may he re-
member the declaration of the Prince of Wales, that the Crown is held
in trust for the benefit of the People."—" May the People set ct
their own Repre;entatives, instead of permitting their Candhlaics to
eafile them." After a suitable song by Mr. Besborough, the Chair-
nun proposed " The constitutional asset ter of the Nation's Rights,
Sit franc's Burdett," which was received with rapturous applause.
The Hon. Baronet then rose at.d returned thanks for the honour
dote him. So far as a consciousness of having persevered in endea-
vaios to promote, or rather to recover the lo,t rights of the people of
coitntry, could entitle him to that approbation, he thought he
miat fairly, however in other respects deficient, consider it as de-
scrvel (arplatie ) At the same time, however, he could not but
that his ability fill so far short of his wishes in promoting the
success of that great cause for which they were that day assembled
nanicly, the purity of election. In the late appeal, so fiilse-
h :!ppeal to the people, the ex mple which they had former-
ly set, and then repeated, stoc.d single and alone throughout the coun-
try. Though this undoubtedly had a tendency to cast some damp or
dat ht on the cause ct Reform, which they had so ably supported, it
hoot have convinced every person who was at all open to conviction,
not the fault lay not in the people themselves, but in the system of
oot apt election, which left no choice to the public at large in the
returning of their Representatives (applause.) An example had been
set by them, which it was said there was hopes would be imitated
t:lrcoghout the c.,untry. Ile entertained no such hopes. The whole
of eieetion was, at present, a mere farce, and in that election the body
r,frhe people had no choice whatever. It was a great argument in
ocur of popular elections, that in the city of Westminster, the capi-
tal of the empire, the seat of the Government, where the prevalence
of luxury might be supposed to bring along with it the prevalence of
corruption, where the election was in the hands of the great body of
the prop!: the event had shown, that corruption was impossible (ap.
Phhse.) 'Compliments had hen paid to the efforts made in the town
et Liverpool, in time cause of liberty. Though great credit was un-
tiountely due. to the individuals who had made those efforts, he was
not slue but the :ejection of an individual with such claims on the
PINK! gratitude as Mr. Brougham, from his high talents, and also
gtcat efFirrs made by him in the cause of the public, would not rather
;ore a tendency to open more the eyes of the people at large, than it
Brouelutm had been actually returned to Parliament (applause.)
11! u-dastood that the highest candidate, Mr. Canning, had not more
t!ati It;t10 votes, while there were above 50,000 householders who paid
six's in the town of Liverpool. Had not the election been in the
liands of persons who were notoriously open to the influence of corrup-
t on, Viete could be little doubt but that the election would have fallen
on Mr. Broogham, and not on the other candidate, who had ever
.hewn himself hostile to popular rights' and to the interests of the
(applause.) The Sovereignty of the People, which had been
drank that night, and which ha I formerly given gteat ofllance to a cer-
t,ir description of individuals, it ought ro be borne in mind, was that
s,•vereignty on wich the soverignty of the House of Hanover was
dei (applause.) The corollary which was to be deciuzed from
tits was, that as :111 power necessarily flowed from the people, it could
" Le honestly ex-. rted but for the benefit or that pcJple. (applause )
expressing sentiments like these, he vas aware that he v:as h'g
Itamelt open to tit. m ilictous interpretations which hoed so often been
past ou his conduct.; but he was firm in the conviction that he was
fqusbing nuthibg but the dciCtrlliC of this countr;•.--