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, by.‘ans of his Noble Colleague, succeeded, and fairly
succeeded, in maintaining the seat which you have 00...
rferrdet upon hitn.—(Contusion, amid which a number of
i' persons in fiver, or the buatio;gs reminded, perhaps of the
details of the electi.-tit, were simultaneously seized yrith
!
a fit of c:rweriatiori, which Was reJiently of a eery ani-
mated and rocking character.) Ido not wish to notice
some things which have taken place, and which do not,
' I think, rtflect credit on the public press. of this country.
It was stated in a public journal that Knottier :candidate
was coming forward to oppose and takathe seat of Lord
R. Grosvenor; and the effect of that statement appeared
to be that a coalition was immediately formed between
the former Members, in order that both their, seats
might ,be safe. I tell you, gentlemen, that this in en-
tirely a ails-statement. There is no truth whatever in
that assertion. There was no intention at. any, nolo of
tidrisetsuprnbtiautg ivethe seat of the N.,ble Lord
,your present re-
;• •and therefore I say when The _put, te I
press„
:of this country is made the vehicle of such rept*, wide-
tions as these it' is high time-e(Uproar)—that greater .
honesty should be found. I shall Ufa° answer. soave fur-
ther specimens of the public press.i.locosne before you
as an Eoglisti citizen, and in a conatituricinal manner:, to
ant]l have found that those
express my public Opinions;
opinions are very largely shared by this constituency.
I- Where is the offence of that? Yet I have been vilified
by the public press, and scarcely any abusive epithet has
-been spared by those advocates of liberty in speaking of
me when I have been in the coo
done
that,
but, finding
rojae.of the free and con-
stitutional power which the ltiws of this country imposeneopofinamwein
raTyhepyrih;tee
enhraoatoont
a finger, they have attacked me by means of those feel-
-tines which are the most sacred and intimate of the
mand have held them up as a mark foertubbo
opprobrium
and public insult.—(Renewed' uproar, and
cries of -" Fair play!")
huan heart,
which. may be made, at an
I repeat that I don't -object to
all the. .good-humouredjaokisehs these jokes may go on, but
..ere I see phooards
electioneering time. . h
Lost, supposed to
runningdesire fair a play.
ae h I
termsd on' t
asmitnhaese—w .
Those jokes which are
have strayed from Woodstock to Middlesex," &c. That
is all fair.—(More interruption.) . . ,
taken generally by the public in electioneering
.are, I
repeat, perfectly fair; I would rather encounter 59,000
of them than be subjected
to the educated and enve-
nomed bitterness of political hostility, as it too often
appears in the columns of the public press. -I !spa at-
tacked through the pension which s grateful country
conferred for his services on the Duke ot Marlborotigh
" •••-••••—• the man to distant nations known--
Wbo shook the Gant; fixed the Austrian throne."
Little did he think when he ecbieved those victories,
with the glory of which all Europe rang, that the time
would come when the benefits conferred by those vie*
tories would be cast as a reproach in the teeth of his
deaceudauta—thst the gratitude of the nation would be
contemned,—(Great uproar.) There was another great
public man in this country—one who had had the nations
'at his feet—one who restrained the insulting power and
ambitious designs of Fracce;cand that great man his
also received a national tribute of gratitude. What will
he think, what will he say, when be sees the opinions
expressed with reseeet to his great predeceesor? (A.
recall
Vi°
to— yourne mindshas
what be
enw
is the great well
paidf
. t.")l will just
question
between us. This a contest of Conservative, Liberal
Conservative, and extreme ultra-Liberal opinions.
There is no abuse which, if it can be shown to me to
exist, can ever find favour in my eyes, and there are no
improvements in the government of the country you can
possibly show me that I will not do all in my power to
support,—improvements which may be cuuducive to
the happiness and prosperity of the people. But there
is a certain course of political conduct which Bounds
very plausibly iu the mouth of a practised speaker, of a
nail of great power and ingenuity, of great researeb,
-end posseesed of a vast fund of diction; but at the same
plrmt necii 0 lbegess to
oe
stahystatahtertellisees abnebeuhaatvhethreeflaeica tedon those
dangerous
element, and that it is their duty to do all in their
power to prevent the further progress of that element,
lest the very institutions on which happiness ' based
should be rent and destroyed. As regards
is
of the suffrage, listen to me on feighaartds an extensionld
not at all say, provided education be increased,
o
provided men's minds become sobered by li
—('` Oh," and uproar),—that we should not see an extension of the franchise, because i believe this
country, as occurs in • the case of an individual,
must have a measure of progress, must go on from
one stage to another, and may very likely before
ong arrive at such a state that it would be proper to
confer on the people an extension of the elective power.
What I say is this,_ that while I' look to the•
interests of the lower orders, I must not forget. the inte-
rests of the middle classes, who are is a minority, so tar
as numbers are concerned, while the lower classes are in
a major' • ; so that if you were to give too large an
majority
extension of the suflrage to the lower orders you would
place at . disadvantage the middle classes., What I desire
is that intelligence, property, and opinion should be re-
presented in the great council of the nation. Now I
proceed to the Protestant religion. I utterly repel those
accusations made against me of intolerance. I desire
that every class of my fellow-countrymen, and that
every religion, shell find this land the region of liberty.
But. gielemen, I know that in consistency with those
principles the population have grown up, and been fos-
tered and nourished in the Protestant faith 'ot this
country ; and it is therefore I desire to preserve tne
Protestant faith from every aggression that may be
made upon it, and 'against every itisiduous attempt that
may be made to endanger its security. I sib)),
as much are the Hun. Gentleman who so elo-
quently addressed you, to live on terms of concord
and amity with our Irish brethren ; and I believe it
will be by showing them how to keep their proper
places in the political economy of this country, and let-
ting them see that it they do nut they will be resttained
by the power and strong arm of the law, that we shall
most effectually conduce to the carrying out of the pro-
position put before: you. The opinion held by the ex-
tr,we Liberal parrot the Rouse of Commons is, that
.toought to sb.tract the property from the Church and
Ave that property to the Roman Catholics. I would
not do that, but I would make the property of the
Courch.usetul to all who belong to the Church or join
tneniselves to it. fee Church of England has, as the
Church of the nation. an open door wh. reoy all may
enter sun partake her ministratiotte. I believe she Is a
great instrument in' the hand of God for the maintenance
of Protestantism, of national • liberty, and of public se-
curity : and therefore it is I should wish to see her
treed from every' abuse, and so the better fitted
for that work by .which she has rivetted every insti-
nion ot this realtn. I have to thank all the gentlemen
who have given me their zealous. support. I believe,
gentlemen, we haie put our left foot foremost.. We
shall next put our right foot forward. We shall yet
-see those colours Luting in the breeze to mark the
triumph of the Conservative causte and our hearts shall
.yet swell with joy in victory. By these opinions, which
I have avowed, I shall be guided in my beat in Parlia-
ment; and betieve me- it is no ligbt.enenuragt,ment to a
public than to be cheered in his public lite by the united
estimony aid verdic-. of 4,258 ot my .11.1 tow country men.
filet is a sufficient reeiod to me, for all the toil and
anicit ty I hues had. Eli eters of Middlesex, I thank
you ell: I leave ytm now without one bitter thought.
I desire your sou;; and your good, according to the
dictates of my c 41.c:wince, I shalt endeavour to promote
in the legislative assembly of toss country. You shall
s, auy my pubic life that hereditary distiuctiens, ducal •
honours, moo. public pensions are but as dro,s in my
eyes unless life auel character sustain them --(Cheers')
Mr. limn, ou advancing to the front ot the plat-
form, wets received with the warmest manifestations of
popular approbation. He expressed his grauficetiou at
witnessing the triumph of pro.ciple in the greatw co wasounty
It
of Middlesex in the person of his Hon.
F.ien ' h
liberty, of
oistinguished advocate of civil and rthige
ts d
Lord iewas the
u
retorm, and of letrenclim hit.
The
?lob
victim ot hi.. party,
while
Mr.
°ah
Noble Marquis bad
was the trium.
ph.nt champion et their cause. The
been put forward by those who saw further and Dad other
and deeper objects than himself. He had seen enough of
the Noble Marquis not to de: pair of his coming to his
be hop.-d to see him a
(Mr.good reformer, and, -ct
Hume's) 8000 at last,
.at and more, a consistent man.
kits father had once been" a retormer, and had sat next
him (Mr. Hume) to
the Bouse, but be was afraid, from
by h,„ bee, the Noble Duke bad gone over
the line falit'nk --1,- ,t him, then, show his opinions in
to the close .hoer
the not meddle with the repreaenta-
the other /louse.
1 -'(Cheers) He (Mr. /fume) was not
nt the peofna.. A A,. ' .1... .... -1 .1. doll -• 7 i.„, .„,,k, ,C1A11../111,1y Osss •.. r...„... r„ „
"^7,-- ri,"- He bold it was an advantage on many oeca-
tideu we-- • necessity to have a clams to stand
f flinching
stuns f'ee Crown and the people, and therefore he
he;,weee ofthose who cried down the Peerage ;
, h„ enemy
was ea prepared to prevent their meddling with the
but tie 1, Commons.—(Loud cheers.) He • believed the
Howie ° „is would yet turn out an
N„ble Marquis excellent Church
reformer. The title he inherited and the property he
held would be best protested by his becoming a Plane-
tary reformer. There was no= country viho
wee te insti-
tutions were better calculated to prOniota the interests of
all cL„Boa—high, low, and middling—than our own, if
they were purified ; and, when men talked to him of
France, he told them it was absurd to compare a coun-
try whose institution& had been despotic from Sim '
memorial with a country whose institutions
hid la.
always
been free.—(Cheers.) He wanted to see the people pl in
the possessien of those Parlielnentary privileges, which
constitutional authorities agreed belonged. to theta of
right.; arid, if they would only keep quiet and work on
'steadily and peactiably--not being led &Way,. as they
had once been, by a set of men called Chartifits, who
-sought to effect changes. by violence and uproar, they-
would soon see those desirable changes efEected.--.• -
(Cheers.) They wanted an adequate representation
of this country,. and if they wished to have
the Parliamentary structure secure, they must widen
its bases. If eier the Crown and the. arialeerirl
were in danger it would be from the want of is oitues"e.
'. basis sufficiently extensive. He would give Ttaburgh,
holder—every owner of a separate flat, solar°.
jilt,
of that
a vote; and he would protect him in tha!,:era be would
vote by the ballet. Init..ari of 14,000eecl'.rt_u_tcheem)
' give aliddlesex 40;000 or 50,000 elveitoems, k
eat? Why
Who were must interested in gooci,tie was not cue of
the working classes, to be sure. There
daily bread who was not
tne min there' vola6 earned bill:moot
and crier than the.
most, interested iu goon
government
Let the pi plc be
richest amongst
theill'etcation—not education by the
taught their Tights by h w do, perhaps, as it was,
eergy, who had, teer_Ft), them—but by she iocielsing
teougn there were pl •at.l,Yon
blow,. Neither their social
class devoted 50 eflucriy were safe when depeucient on a
• Institutions nor puro,neopulation;
end, if'he Noble le)rd
' brute end ig","%ol,:td give the educated man a vote,
and his friesus work and educate him at once. He
le‘ them EA:. to the 'MI4IIOII ut Parttaments. Short ate.
wished to limit . friends, and as Members of Par"' !wig
count* made
only the trustees of :the people,they might'
.
. meat were .
• an account
every-
- eh4ore them. -three years to give
with the
. e°al they had"done .Re wished to cIO,WBY,
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