The Sun.
London, England, 1837-07-22 00:00:00

GENERAL ELECTIONS.

CITY OF LONDON ELECTION.
(THIS DAY.)

The Nomination of Candidates for the representation of the
City of London took place this day at the Guildhall, and
long before the hour appointed fer commencing the proceed-
ings, the great has airl all the avenues bolonging to it
were completely blocked up. At 12 o'clock precisely the
late Members, Messrs. Wood, Grote, Crawford, and Patti.
son appeared on the hustings, and were greeted with vehe-
ment cheering fur several minutes. The Sheriffs and other
city officers having taken their places, the precept was read,
and the other preliminaries having been gone through,
Sir JAMES DUKE, one of the Sheriffs, came forward, and
said—Gentlemen of the Livery, I trust you will allow me to
make one or two observations before you proceed to the nomi-
nation cal the gentlemen who .gill be put forward as candidates
to represent this city. I need not nettled you that this im,
portant constituency, distinguished for its-wealth anal inte-
grity, and, as I trust it always will be, distinguished for its in,
dependence and impartiality—it is unnecessary, I say, to
remind you of the importance of gieing each of the gentlemen
who will be called upon to speak a fait' and impartial hearing.
As Englishmen, I know you love fair play, and there would not
he that fair play without strict impartiality.—( Great cheering.)
I shall only add that it is the most anxious desire of the
Sheriffs to discharge their very important functions with the
greatest strictness and impartiality towards all their fellow-
citizens. I now beg leave -to introduce to you Charles Per-
kins, Esq., to propose the first candidate.—( Cheers.)
Mr. PERKINS then came forward, and was loudly cheered.
He had the honour of openine the proceedings of this
day by proposing to them their well-tried and grateful
friend, Mr. Alderman Wood, as a fit and proper person to re-
present the City of London in Parliament. The worthy Al-
derman appeared before them fur the tenth time, on these
hustings, and he could assure them that daring the long time
he had held that sacred deposit in his hands, he had at no
time nor in any instance, defeated those expectations they had
been led to look for, nor had he receded from the advocacy
of those great principles of amelioration and reform which they
and the great majority, of the reflecting people of that country
were so deeply interested, and which were so indispensable for
its peaceable and well governed condition.—( Hear.) They
were all aware that they had made great progress in obtaining
the Reform of their institutions. He was sorry to say that
these Reforms had been obtained when they were not quite so
confident of the manner in which these measures would be re.
ceived in high places as they were now, in consequence of the
gracious declaration, and the deeds which haVollowed that de-
claration, emanating from the very highest authority in that
kingdom.—( Loud and reiterated cheering.) They wanted
the co-operation of men in whom they could trust, and they
could not do better than to return Alderman Wood and the
three other gentlemen, who had so faithfully and so
efficiently represented them.—( Tremendous cheering.) These
three gentlemen would be introduced to theta seriatim by per-
sons who would do more justice to their merits than ho could.
Before he proceeded farther be would take tho liberty of
making a few remarks upon the circumstances connected
with the present election. He had taken a good deal of
trouble in canvassing the district in which he resided, and he
could assure them that he jpsd not witnessed any thing of that
feeling which the Tory party looked to as their justification in
the present contest.—(Great hissing.) He, for his part, had
not witnessed the smallest symptom of what that party
called reaction.—(Great cheering.) He was quite confident
that their four late Members would be again returned to Par-
liament triumphantly, and it would be a source of regret to
that party which had certainly become out of habit, out of use,
and out of esteem in that country, should have thought it ne-
cessary to interfere in the'present contest.--( Great cheering.)
He would not make any remarks upon the conduct of that
party, for they all knew what the Tories as a party had
done for themselves.—( Cries of " Hear, hear," and cheers.)
Why, their very placards belied them ; they were rallying
round the Queen.—( Cheers.) 'What, he would ask, would
be Mr. Palmer's first act ? Why, to vote against the Queen.
—( Cheers.) What the Tories wanted was to pull her Ma-
jesty down from the high eminence in which she was placed
by birth, to which her education fitted, and which her disposi-
tion enabled her so admirably to fill.—( Cheers.) It was
high time that the Sovereign of England should be in reality
the Queen, not of a party, but the people.—(Tremendous
cheering.) If the electors wished the subjects of the Queen
to look up to her, they would support her and her Reform
Ministry. The lion. Gentleman concluded by proposing Mr.
Alderman Wood, amid much cheering.
Mr. JOHN CILLON seconded the nomination of Mr. Alder-
man Wood. He had asked the worthy Alderman that morn-
ing how many elections he had stood for in that Hall ? The
answer was—ten !—( Cheers.) He had then asked him how
many years he had sat in Parliament ? To which he added—.
22 1--(Great cheering)—and during that period he had advo-
cated the cause of the people, and had supported Liberal
principles.—(Cheers.) This was not the first time in which
he had supported and advocated the cause of a Queen.
He had supported improvement in the State, and improve-
ment in the City.—(Cheers.) He would call upon his bro-
ther electors and his brother Reformers to be united—not
to be deceived by representations—(Cheers)—and not to let
their enemies put in the narrow end of the wedge. What
was their language? Why—Give us one candidate only, and
then you may elect three other candidates, of what politics
you please !—(Cheers.) Their only chance was, by splitting
the votes of the electors of London, to return a man who
did not represent the City of London—(Cheers and hisses.)
He would implore his brother electors again to be united.—
( Cheers and hisses.) He did not ask those who hissed to
join them—(Cheers)—they might vote for the Tories if they
pleased—(Laughter)---but he trusted that his brother Re-
formers would not be deceived, and that they would vote
for none but the four Reformers.—(Loud cheers.) The
Tories were afraid to own themselves such.—(Cheers.)
They were ashamed of their colours.—(Great cheering.)
They said they were not Tories, but he hoped his brother Re-
formers would not believe them ; he would again say, be
united, and recollect the tale of the man who let out the genie
who destroyed him.—(Cheers.) If they allowed one Tory
to get in the citizens of London would give their sanction to
the infamous conduct of Ernest, King of Hanover, who had
abrogated the Constitution of the country over which he was
unfortunately called to govern.—( Cheers.) The Tories were
out now, and he trusted that they ever would be.—( Great
cheering.) Ie conclusion, he would only say to his brother
electors support your country, support the laws, and support
your Queen.—(Tremendous cheering.) The Hon. Gentle-
man concluded by seconding the nomination of Mr. Alderman
Wood.
SAMUEL JONES LLOYD, Esq., then came forward amid
great cheering to propose Mr. Grote. Although he had a
most important duty to perform it would require but a few
words from him to explain it. He came forward for the pur-
pose of proposing no new man.—(Cheers.) lie did not ask
them for any blind vote of confidence in a person of whom
they knew nothing. He asked them to give their votes upon
past experience of the conduct of one of their former
City
representatives who had done honour to the of
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tified him in demanding a renewal of their confidence.—
(Cheers.) With this view he now submitted, for the appro-
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never be received by his fellow citizens without sentiments of
admiration for his honesty and his talent, and with gratitude for
his conduct.—(Cheers.) The majority by which he had first
been returned to Parliament gave a noble proof of the confi-
dence which the citizens of London placed in his integrity,
and the determination he had shown to advocate that con-
fidence he would venture to say had not been misplaced.
Asperity itself would not venture to cast the stigma of doubt
on his spotless purity, nor would any fair or candid man dis-
pute the abundant evidence he had given them of his high
attainments. In the debates in which he had taken part his
conduct had been nobly marked.—( Interruptions front a cor-
ner, followed by cheers.) It would 'have been a gratifying task
, had time permitted to have reverted to those great measures
which had characterised the period during which Mr. Grote
had sat in Parliament. A retrospect of that period was a
pride and glory to Englishmen—(Cheers)—for it was charac-
terised by measures that would do honour to the age in which
they had been adopted, and to the men by whom they had
been supported.—(Cheers.) Among these men none had
been more true, none more steady, none more consistent, none
more honest, than Mr. Grote.—(Loul cheers.) Every elector
of the City of Loadon must be conscious that Mr. Grote had
done his duty—that he had maintained their rights, and faith-
fully consulted his country's welfare—that he had discharged the
duty and the trust they had reposed in him, and that he now
returned it in their hands pure and unsullied as he at first re-
ceived it.—( Loud cheers.) Ile ( Mr. Jones Lloyd) was fully
conscious of the heavy responsibility that rested on any man
who ventured, as he then did, to recommend a candidate to
their confidence ; but fully appreciating that responsibility he
felt neither doubt nor hesitation on the present occasion. It
had been his good lot to have known Mr. Grote in the daily.
discharge of his private duties, and he had watched with no
little attention to his public conduct; and having done so he
could with a pure conscience and honest feeling, recommendh
him to their renewed confidence.—( Loud cheers.) y re-
electing him they would do honour to themselves would;they
confer the highest and the only substantial reward which in a
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ought to be, foremost on Monday's poll.—(Cries of " Hoar,
hear," and loud cheers.) It was unnecessary for him to
trespass further on their attention. The character and the
past conduct of Mr. Grote were his best and proper recom-
mendations, and they were his surest title to their admiration
and confidence.—( Cheers.) Referring the electors, then, to
Mr. Grote's conduct, and not to any feeble words lie could
offer, he would again place that name in their hands, and pro-
pose George Grote, Esq., as a fit and proper person to be
again returned to Parliament.---( Loud and long cheering.)
Mr. TIIOMAS HENRY HALL then came forward to second
the nomination of Mr. Grote, who was one of the best repre-
sentatives a constitrieuey had ever returned to Parliament.
lie had never deceived the constituents who had so kindly
placed their confidence in him.—( Cries of ‘• View-, bear.")
He never would deceive them; he was t 4 very man that
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