The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-27 00:00:00

MONDAY, Nov. 25, 1839.
It having been announced that at the conclusion of this
day's canvass, Mr. Sergeant Wilde, the new Solicitor-
General, would address the electors publicly from the
balcony of the Castle and Falcon Inn, a very considerable
number had assembled. Shortly before five o'clock, his
eppearance was most loudly greeted, and when silence was
obtained, be addressed them as follows :
" Gentlemen—l now appear before you for the eighth
time to solicit your suffrages as a candidate for the honour
of representing you in Parliament. When first I was by
your choice elected Member for this borough, I was then
only a man of professions; but I trust I now stand before
you in a different character, [laving had the honour of serving
you in three distinct Parliaments. You have now known the
tor ten years, and before I again solicit to be entrusted watt
your service, I must render you an account of those talents
which have been committed to my keeping ; if they have
been buried, or hove been unprofitably used, or what is
still worse, if they have been abused, then I am no longer
worthy of your countenance arid support, but I shall justly
be subject to sour censure and your dismissal. I trust,how-
ever. that I appear before you in a totally difft,ront cheeaC-
ter, that I may look you all in the face with confidence and
with boldness, that the little which has been committed to
my charge has been duly improved, and that I may safely
esk for your coutidence still more. Goiniernen, 1 app at
before you not un:y as your repieseroative, but also one
who has been nominated .0 office under the Cruell—l have
teen notnutated by her most Gracious Majesty the Queen
as Solicitor-General,—(A voice in the crowd, " God bless
her.") Gentlemen, I echo that " God bless her," with
all my heart.—(Loud cheers.) It is fit that I should ac.
count to you as to the manner in which I have been ap.
pointed to that office, for office is not always attained by
fair and honourable means; but I approach it without tear,
for I have courted no man, I have hawed to no Go-
vernment, I have pursued an open and independent
course in Parliament.—(" You have.") You sent
• me to the House of Commons accredited by your opinion
that I was competent to render the public some service; it
is now for you to judge how far I am justified in accepting
office upon such recommendation. Without the patronage
of a ingle friend, without influence at Court or
with the Government, the office has been conferred
on me, not by the voice of the Ministry alone,
but by the almost unanimous opinion of the
of
of London, including Members of both sides theCity
Houses in Parliament. You could not fail to have heard
during the last month, the statements that had been made
in various quarters of my having been appointed Solicitor.
General, for which there was not then the slightest foun-
dation, and this was said not only by men connected
with the Government, but aleo by those who deem it
their duty to oppose them, by the Tories, or Conser-
vatives as they now choose to call themselves. They were
loudest in their acelainetions for my appoiettoe.at„ and
they said how mean and disgraceful would be the
conduct of the Government, if they were deterred
from appointing me, through fear of losing my
seat for Newat it, Gentlemen, the sole foundation of that
report then was the universal opinion that by the Course I
hid pursued, it wes a matter of duty on the part or the
!. Government, and for the public benefit, that I ehould be so
• appointed; you, gentlemen, in the first instance, gave me
the sanction of your opinion in my favour, and her ftldjesty's
Government have confirmed your choice. I have said that
office is not always attained by honourable means, but yet
how could the Government be parried on, if rues of the
sane opinions as themselves, and returned by oon,tituenc.es
eeterteinieg the same opinions, were to flinch front the
post of respossibility and of duty. But lam not the
only new officer of the Government, there are others of
the most Liberal opinions; the principles which they
will advocate will not be retrograde, and I take otfice
as no changeling in politics, but ready to maintain every
principle which I have previously adveceted. You
know that when I first had the honour of appearing
amongst you, Newark was a nomination borough, its wieert
a large proportion of the el, ctors were insulted, and the
ground was proudly held by those whose views were Utica-.
sive to a very large body of the inhabitants. I came not
among you under the patronage of any great man, I did not
come as the nominee of any party, but I came in the cause
of the 'people. To you I appealed, I tendered to you tee
mead of my humble assistance to redesm you from that
thraldom in which I found you, you accepted my services,
and you know that ultimately victoty was ours; a victory
that was not limited in its effects, but which resounded
from one end of the kingdom to the other, and one which
had a material influence in the cause of It, fora; througn-
nut the kingdom generally. After an arduous slruggle,
in which we have been etteaged together for yedt6,
we
we Y., NUCC(!;i6IUi. But row it tinter! effuse.; te Le
asia
unities~, if vial are to return
again to those sieve ot
ge, it le of I.ttie consequence weelhee you coneS
unctur the eotnrol of one iud:viduel oe of a few. The
question is, see you now to be deprived of that share
111 the representation, ishich
you have attained, and be
degraded again into the character
of a norrsinattetn rough ? I stated that when you first elooleel me, you
knew me only by my professions ; now that I have been
in your service, have I forfeited the claim to your es.
teem or approbation
of my constituents, that there is no public ewse fp-o,
?---(No, no.) I can state, in the voce
which I have shrunk, there is no local interest ea. indivi-
dual claim on which I have not emintked P7',th a willing
and industrious hand.—(Cheers,) I 'Seise now been re-
turned at two electiene witheue opposition, and I boldly
ask whether there itt any nno, red or blue, high or low,
licit or foe wll-o,,ii I could discharge the duties
of eepresentative, or efferd the assistance and advice of
a friend, that has ever been denied ? There may some
Ilia dozen of letters, have escaped my individual attention,
give the most reseect-
rtteedntioton which it was my
but ley the employment of other persons to aid
me,
i4aly..e
and 41w4iymstzdndiaetaeraua
pgwer to bestow and to procure. Let us note
House in the
feed from private services to ley
House of Commons. That I have been called to office,
and the manner in which it has been done, shows how
I have disebargei my duties there. I would ask, have I
en,sgraced the name of Newark in any one act as her re-
Fe'tentative ?—(" No, no.") It is always painful to
have to speak of one's self, but ees3essity requires it. I
n fees'ierg,s, that I feel called upon;
urn so far vain of my ow
has done eo discredit to Newaele. If, then,
oc9.l.:iu4iiication, my character in the House
itc:ore i(stiy7ri '7inc'mtl4iye discharge of
vale intercourse with emy [JOU; duty, nor in my pri-
, c•Aigituents Ivan be charged with
negligence, on vet my
' -d
is • • stirred ?
. grout') this opposition. up
sot semembe I h h ; a the bitter
, em ember t heart--eurroge an
ins Mit existed before I Appeared amongst you, and
secured your independenese—ere these to be revived Now
let us
that mark the sincerity of our opponents; they urged
;is the fovea consisted of two parties nearly evenly
balanced, the Members ought to 1110 named by the re I

man ; yet I will to the utmost of my power. do my best U)
,rye 3 ou. I can only express my heartfelt thanks for the
kindness you have shown me on former occasions, and to i
request a renewal on the present; lam deeply sensible or
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