The Sun.
London, England, 1807-05-02 00:00:00

MEETING CI tkeST. ALI:L.:M.'s TAPTR A'.

,A numerous attendance of Lord C6tenr‘Asm'i
il'iendi; ;pursuant to public netice, took place; cst
clAy at' the St. 1-4txui's T#eril; ahout*x
to
When Mr. WreeOcK. (of Golden-Squarej haying
taken the Chair,
Lord .Cesentvis:E said, he felt it hiS eaat:e, in conse-
quence of having offered himself a Candidate for ti :e
City- of Westminster, e to state his prineiples' to this
Ele'Clors. He'ehad done so already; throws!)
-medium of the. Public Prints ; girt as some pc:
present Might not have attended sufileientlY to t het:
statemenf,, lie heped for the indulgence
eef
• Meeting, while he should endeavour to me:
briefly the grounds on which -had made re
rnind to 4a,. if he should have the honour of re-
':presenting the first City in the Entire. Os first
leading principle was, to support any Measure its
Parliamenti.o6*svr might bring it forward, that
tended tortornotee the stibstantial interest of
Country. He' Wertlif be always ready in the sai'nu
manner, to oppose the machihations of party and,t
intrigues of.l4oionie elc was 013 thi's ground he gave
his vote on anl,i.Aioirant ~question, brouo-ht liar-
. ward by the late Ministers, he meant the abstract
proposition; the King could do no wrong :"
but, that still, as wrong may be done, the King
must have responsible advisers. .Though he acknow-
ledged the principle, .yet he saw inisdhid in its CI
feas," if the question were carried on that`cceasion
he observed„ that the intention of the party was to 4
Press- fdajes7 on tot a. shier stvd point, with a view
of accomplishing a lattiouS purpose.; and not from
,any motive of maintaining the purity of the -Con-
stitution. Under such circumstances he felt him- _
self called on-to vote_with the ,present AdMinistre-
iion, on that single point. It was the only vote he
gave du.ring the short titne.'he had 'the ho our
of a Seat in Parliament, and he hoped he shouki •
never have cause to regret the part he had taken.
—He had made up his • mind, after Matur4
considering the subjeB, and upon; ‘cOnviaion- jhat ' -
the King had ;Led constitutionally in dismissing
Ministers, who had sent in a declaration which made
their professions of giving tip the Catholic question
extremely. suspicious. His Majesty was justified
therefore inrequiring from them a pledge, as a kind
of security against their declaration. This was hiS
view of, that tranSaaion, and he voted accordinly,
Some persons objected that naval Men were not? tit;
from their situations, to hold seats in Ritliansert ;
but he was,conviticed that naval men ought to have
Seats, because they were more capable than others' of
stating the abuses and grievances which might exist
in their department. He bad no hesitation to Say;
that more important service might be rendered in
three hours by a naval man on naval affairs its the •
House of Commons., tln by a person of another
calling during a whole SesSion. But he might be
asked why he stood for Westminster ? his answer
was, that, by representhig. such a city, lie would
be more independent. The fad was, that ans.,
man coming in for a rotten borough could not
feel himself of equal conseqUence u ith a Member
for a County or City; a person standing up in
The House of Commons, from such a dirty placed.
looked like a man rising with a dirty shirt out
of what. he could not well mention. He wished
therefore not, to put himself into such an un
pleasant situation, and- conseqeently took the li-
berty of soliciting the suffrages of the Eledora
of Westminster. From his last observations,' it ,
may be, easily inferred, that he was a friend
to reform in Parliament. He- would state un-
equivocally, that, in his opinion, all rotten bo-
roughs ought to be disfranchised e fot'. to Their bane-
fuhnfinence he attributed the• peculation, corrup-
tion,-and other evils 'which afflicted the conntre-.
He &fired Widely,. however, from Sir FaANcts
BuRISETT,. whe.Thought that corruption would ithi-
mately lead to the regeneration of the Courtry,
What ! was corr,npti'on to 'destroy every thing at pre-
sent, in the hope-that, when it exhausted its means, a
new order of things would arise, which must wise
up all those blessingi in.praClice which only ceested
theoretieally tit present ? Was of opinion, on the
contrary, that Theugh the torrent could not be stem-
med, yet that we may turn it, and thus check, In
first instance, if We could not effednallystop,
tatien 4nd ruin. The Noble Lord then entered"inte a
detail of abuses which existed in the dock-yards nuder .
the late Lords.of the Admiralty, and stated griev-
ances in the Naval Hospitals, which he meant to •
bring before Parliament. He had it also in con-
templation to propoSe a measure, the ohjed'of which
should be -to attach responsibility to some person or
persons 'whenever ad Officer of the Army might
be diSmissedTheesorvice of his 'MAJESTY without a
charge exhibited against him, or, being tried by Iris
Military Peers. As his Lordship-was ptocceding-to,
enlarge on this ;topic,' a Gentleman (whose name
we did not learn) reminded his Lordship, that he
would probably have Opportunities enough,: before ,
the close of the Election, for further detail and ex-
planation. He recommended, Therefore, that they
should
,proceed to business.
A conversation then ensued between IVir.s..,l`C,.;a-
Tin' and Lord COCHRANE, after which the Chair-
man proposed the Noble Lord as a fit per Son to re-
present the City of Westminster in ParliaMent.
Mr. RICIIIRDS2N concurred with the Chaistnap„
that his Lordship's independent character entitled
him to the support of the Eledors; he begged leave,
therefore, to second the Motion.
After a few:words froM Mr. SMYTH, Barrister, to
the same effed, 'Several Resolutions were put and
agreed fa, for tlie`arrangeinent of the canvass and,
election. - • -

His Lordship then thanked the Electors for their
attendance; after which the meeting broke up.

The Address which Mr. 'WHITBREAD publiSbed
in the London Papers to his late Constituents; and
,which was so very similar,- both in style and sub-
stance, to that Which was issued by Lord How'icx,
was, we presume, the opinion of the Gentleman,
only calculated for the meridian of London,- for
real Address to the Electors of Bedford does not
contain the slightest allusion to politics.
We have authority to say that the EleEtio. n'fir the
University ofCambridge has been fixed by the Vice
Chancellor for Friday, the sib of May, aod not for
Thursday the 7th, as some accounts from..Camb:iege
have qtvneously stated.

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