The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-07 00:00:00

NOMINATION OF CAN DIDATES

FOR EAST CORNWALL.

(Abridged from the Supplement to the Devouport Inde-
pendent of Saturday.)
The Nomination fur Candidates to represent the Eastern
division of Cesnwall, took place at Bodmin yesterday
(Friday the 4th of August). Very convenient and com-
modious hustings were erected near the new Assize Hall,
and every accommodation was given to the public press.
The three candidates, Sir Hussey Vivian, Lord Eliot, and
Sir William Trelawney, were escorted into the town by an
immense cavalcade of gentlemen, yeomanry, &c., on horse-
back imd on foot, accompanied by banners, music, &c.,
each cheering their favourite candidate vociferously as they
approached and made their appearance on the hustings.
Sir WILLIAM NloLeswonve then presented himself to
the electors. He was most warmly welcomed by `his old
constituents, the sheets with which he was greeted lasting
for some minutes. When they had in some degree sub-
sided, he said--both in Parliament and out of Parliament
he had acted Ike a free independent gentleman, anxious to
promote the cause of Reform, for which purpose he had
always supported those measures calculated to improve the
condition of the people, to diminish all lavish expenditure
in the State, and to disseminate education among all
classes ; he had therefore given a free and independent
suerort to the Melbourne Administration.—(Cheers.) He
had likewise voted for those constitutional changes, the
ballot, and a shorter duration of Parliatnents—(Cheers,
mixed with hisses from the Blues.) Now was the time
that all sections of Reformers should unite, and he
bo'ped the intelligent electors of East Cornwall would
be animated with that feeling, that they would not
forget Their ancient fame as Reformers.—(Cheers and
groans.) Nall—much remained yet to be done by the
legislators of the nation for the good of the people, which
never would be accomplished, if they promoted men among
whom opinions so different prevailed. If they would allow
him, there was one topic to which he would allude—that
topic was Ireland ; and in so doing, he could not ref ra'n
from paying a aribute of well-merited praise to the Hon.
Baronet, Sir Hussey Vivian, for the liberal principles with
which he had ever aueocated the cause of that country,
both in Parliament and in that country itself, when holding
a station in it of great puls;:e trust. His conduct had won
him the esteem of the whole trig) nation. But much re--
!stained to be done in that country, in amends for centu-
ries of Tory oppression. He would ask his brother electors
if they sympathized with their fellow-citizens, if they
would not wish to see similar institutions given to both
countries?—(Yes.) Then, if they did, must they not be
indignant at the means used to refuse the granting them
municipal institutions? Must they not kindle at that
bigotry which led the Tories to assert that the Catho-
lics were unfit for emancipation ? And, if they had one
spark of generous feeling, they must refuse to receive, as
their representative, a member of that party which has
again and again refused to redress the wrongs of Ireland,
under the plea that that country is under the domination
of O'Connell. The Tories were ever making a stalking
horse and a political bugbear of that man.—( Hear, hear.)
They might perhaps by this succeed in leading away a
few ignorant and unthinking men, hut they could not
affect by such means the great mass of the intelligent elec-
tors of East Cornwall. It was nothing but the conduct of
the Tories themselves which had made O'Connell great ;
and, by pursuing that conduct, they would render him still
more powerful. The time was not far distant when the
electors would obtain the ballot, and that would effectually
strip these gentlemen of the undue influence of their pro-
perty—that would reduce them to their real insignificance,
for they then would have to depend on their understandings
only.—(Hear.) Then Hon. Gentlemen may support their
relations in one division of a county in direct contradiction
of the principles maintained by them in another division,
without being able to compel whole bands of their te-
nantry to act in a similar manner.—(Loud cheers.) The
last time he had the honour of addressing a multitude of his
fellow citizens, he spoke to sixty thousand men, who then
by their voice proclaimed him their representative, and the
electors had confirmed their choice. He then told the
electors of Leeds, he should bear from them a greeting to
the electors of Cornwall, exhorting them to act in a similar
manner ; that as they had acted in Leeds, so they should act
in East Cornwall—that they should give a signal defeat to
tho Tories.—(Loud and continued cheering.) He con-
cluded by proposing Sir William Trelawney.
GEORGE CALL, Esq., seconded the nomination. If Sir
W. Trelawny was to be sent to Parliament with Lord
Eliot, it would be the best way to sign a requisition for him
to rental': at home, since there was no public question on
which they could agree.—(Cheers.) In the canvass which
had been made of the county during the present contest, it
was painful to see the parish priest converted into a poli-
tical partizan. He denied that the Church was in danger
at all, except it was from the neglect of its own ministers.
He trusted the Noble Lord would not take amiss the
little friendly advice he would give him, to disband his corps
of black-coated partizans, with an admonition to leave po-
litics to others. There was another question alluded to in
the Noble Lord's address, that question was the Ballot ;
lie is also strongly opposed to this. He should not pretend
to fellow Sir William Molesworth oh this subject—he had
neither the lungs nor the abilities to do so—but he thought
that a Tory ought to be a friend of the Ballot, for if the
re-action of which they spoke had really taken place, the
Ballot would be an excellent screen for them.
J. H. TREMAYNE, Esq., proposed Lord Eliot as a fit
and proper person to represent them in Parliament.
The Hon. GEORGE Foal's:scree came forward to second
the nomination. The instant he appeared he was greeted
with hisses, groans, and noises of all descriptions, accom-
panied with loud and frequent repetitions of the expressive
soubriquet" Jim Crow." For any opinion he had ever held,
for that opinion he was responsible. He had voted for the
Reform Bill, for he was a Reformer once, and he was a
Reformer then—(hear, hear, hear)—but not in the sense in
which the Hon. Baronet who had just addressed them
considered it. He was a conservator of all those institu-
tions of the country which had placed them where they were.
Sir C. RASHLEIGH then appeared in front of the hustings
and was received with three hearty cheers from the Liberal
party. He spoke not to any one person there, he was now
speaking to both parties—whether intimidation had been
used either by Whig or Tory, he could speak from the in-
tercourse which he had with the people during the last few
weeks, an universal impression seemed to prevail among
them, that without the Ballot, or something equivalent to
it, they could not freely exercise their right of suffrage. He
would say that he could go the same length as his Hon.
Friend, and that if a majority of his constituents called on
him to support the Ballot, he would do it.—(Hear, hear,
and applause.) There was another question, that of an exten-
sion of the right of suffrage ; lie should not at that time
state what his express opinions were upon it, but lie would
say that nothing could be more nonsensical than what they
so frequently heard of the Reform Bill being a final mea-
sure, and when the blessings of education were more widely
disseminated among the people, he thought there might be
advantage in a more extended right of suffrage. Sir Colman
then made some strong remarks on the Hon. Gentleman
bringing- forward Lord Eliot as the exclusive advocate of
the rights of the agricultural -part of the community, as if
that party were the only friends of the farmers of Cornwall.
He considered this was only brought forward as a kind of
claptrap for catching votes. He proposed his Hon. Friend
Sir Hussey Vivian as a candidate for the suffrages of the
electors ; which was received by the electors with the most
enthusiastic cheers.
HUMPHRY WYWAMS, Esq., seconded the nomination
of his Right Hon. Friend.
Sir WILLIAM TRELAWNY rose to address the assembly,
and was most warmly received said he had heard
his address called revolutionary. He had intended to have
finished his address to them in a very few words, but having
been called a revolutionist, and an enemy of the Church,
he wou'e! say the worst revolutionists were those friends of
the Church who upheld all its abuses ; those were the ene-
mies of the Church who resisted the reformation of those
worst abuses of all, who resisted that reform which would
keep the hands of the Clergy out of the pockets of the
Dissenters.—(Hear, hear.) He was of opinion that the
people was the source of all power, and that the Govern-
ment was for the benefit. of the people, and not the people
for the Government.—(Cheers.) He maintained that the
mistaken friends of the Peers were those who upheld them
in their continued opposition to every necessary Reform.
—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") Because he had supported
Nr. O'Connell, he was said to be a Catholic : he would
openly say that he had been happy in rocking the ac-
quaintance of Mr. O'Connell—in private life he was an
estimable man, a good father, and a pleasant and convi-
yiel friend ; but there was one of his votes against Mr.
O'Connell which he had often regretted giving, that was
the vote which he gave against him on the Irish Coercion
Bali ; he regretted that he did not on that occasion concur
with his Hon. Friend, the Member for Leeds, who was
AL le to see through the errors of the Ministry of the day.
Fur their opponents, who called themselves the farmers
friends, he would ask now they voted on the Malt Tax ?
They were pledged on the hustings, on the preceding elec-
tion, to vote tea' the repeal of that tax, but they afterwards
voted directly apeinst it. He had voted for the repeal of
but as a farmer. As to
that tax, not mil,: Radical,
being a friend of the farincr, why he had passed his whole
life—all his amusements had been among them. He would
answer for it, he paid more wages for labour in one week,
than Lord Eliot had in the whole eourse of his life. On the
the Tithe Bill he bad done all his power to abolish tithe
from labour, from fish, and from coppice wood. There was
another subject on which he would touch, that was the
New Poor Law. He approved of its principle generally,
and thought that in the space of ten years people would
think it calculated to do much good.—(Hear,) He had
voted against the abolition of Cora LBWS, and within A ftW