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CHATTER 1.
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ELECTION MO VEMENTS.

Messrs. Blake and Gisborne are expected here to ad-
dress the electors this evening at the Green Dragon Inn ;
their Parliamentary business detained them in town, which
the enemy have taken advantage of, and canvassed both
this town and Cowes ; they report they have a majority of
22, that is, if the Chartists (about 40) do not vote. It is to
be seen if these misguided men have taken such a fancy
to Tory rule as to remain neuter—whether they will
travel with their friends the-three parts of the road which
they go together, or join the enemy and journey in -a
contrary direction. " The farthest way round is the
nearest way home," is their motto—they forget they may
stick in the mud on their way ; the straight road is the
surest.

The Reformers, we hear, have not moved at Cowes—
no committee, no canvass, not even a list of voters ob-
tained ; they forget that though the Tories are not so
strong there as at former elections, every vote should be
secured, nothing left to chance or those madmen the
Chartists, who must be considered Tory allies.
how many curious answers did we not get on Satur-
day to the question What is the majority ? A terrible
one—a miserable one—a disgraceful one—an unaccount-
able one—a dishonourable one. Well, but how many ?
Why one—an odd fellow—it was a sort of match with
311 of a side, and an odd man—a disgraceful one—Wal-
ter bewitched, and Nottingham run mad.

WEST COWES; ISLE OF WIGHT.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—A report, which is -totally void of foundation, has
been circulated, and if not contradicted is likely to occasion
consiiierable loss to the owners of the numerous lodging-houses
in my charge, as well as to the town generally. 'I he report is
" that a fever rages here, of which numbers die daily." lam
authorised by all the medical gentlemen residing here to state
that there neither is nor has been one case of fever in this
town for months ; and, on the authority of the resident clergy-
man, to say " that there was not one funeral in the month of
March, but two in April. and only two deaths in May, Robert
Anthony, aged fifty-eight, and Robert Mitchell, aged sixty•
four, making only four in three months in a population of five
thou.and souls; indeed the town never was more free from
sickness of every kind.
I am, Sir, your humble servant,
June 4, 1841. J. AIOOIIE, House Agent.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, J UNE 9, 1841

BATH ELECTION.
MR. ROEBUCK‘AND LORD DUNCAN.
A numerous and highly respectable meeting of the most in-
fluential ana Liberal electors of Bath took place yesterday in
the Guildhall of that city, for the purpose of selecting two
Liberal candidates to represent the city in Parliament. At
one o'clock, SinoN BARROW, Esq., took the Chair; but long
before the hour appointed for the commencement of the pro-
ceedings, the Hall was filled almost to suffocation, the meeting
haring been looked to by the Liberal party in Bath with the
greatest anxiety and impatience, because they Mt convinced
that its proceedings would show to the country that though
Bath had been for a time under Tory domination, it was deter-
mined to remain so no longer, but to exert itself to the utmost
to cast oil the shackles by which it had latterly been bound,
and redeem its character as a Liberal constituency. Such
were the desperate shifts to which the Tory party were re-
duced, that, tearing no other means were likely to give thien
the least chance of returning men to Parliament of their own
political principles, they have been obliged to resort to their
usual expedient of loosening their purse-strings, and to pro-
claim aloud, from one end of Bath to the other, that they were
determined to expend 20,0001. sooner than allow that city to
be reprebonted by those men who were the real friends of the
people. Judging, however, from the feeling that seems to per-
vade ad classes in this city, we should say that this bait is not
likcly to secure many lish. he Liberal principle seems onceagain
to be in the ascendant at Bath, and everything is to be hoped fur
from the exertions of its electors in the cau-e of freedom.
Unity seems to be the order of the day here, and never, per-
haps, was there a meeting is this city in which so much
harmony prevailed as in that of this day. The Tories, know-
itig• the tearful odds which they have to contend with have
nut been idle; almost every in in the city which they could
they have secured for the meetings of their committees, and
handbills have been most plent.fuily distributed, stating that it
was toe p sitive intention of Lord Powerseourt and Mr.
Ui uges to solicit again the auffaages of the eleetors at the next
election.

Lord Duncan, in answer to tte requisition expressing a hope
that he woad allow the Lil*i'4 Otsctors of Bath to put him in
nomination at the next election, has issued the following spi-
rited antOasanlyAuldrm,:-- •
" GbYliTLE3lEN,—Connet4e.(Gi,i am with one of the oldest
' residents in your city, I should deem it a derelict ion of duty at
this momentous crisis, if I did not at once accept the wry flat-
tering requisition you have done me the honour to sen 4 me.
'4 Aly political principles are in favour especially of a re-
vision of the Corn-laws, and generally in favour of a Govern-
ment which has had the boldness to pledge itself to itiqaire
into, and du its utmost to ameliorate the at present depressed
condition of the commercial, manufacturing, and working
classes of this great empire.
" Gentlemen, 1 beg leave, for your satisfaction, to refer to
the votes 1 have given since 1 have had the honour of a scat in
Parliainent; you will find that, as the friend of the Establi,hed
Church, 1 have invariably supported such measures as I be-
lieved calculated to endear it to the community, by extending
the benefits of civil and religious liberty to all cia.sses of m
fellow subjects; I am a determined enemy to pluralities; lam
the advocate of education in its widest sense ; I have voted for
the Ballot; 1 have voted for cheap, sugar; 1 have voted for the
revision of the Cornlaws, both before and since it became a
Government measure.

'• If further explanation is needed, I trust it will soon he in
my power w give it in a personal . canvass ; I shall take the
earliest opportunity et waiting upon each elector ; in the mean-.
time I hope, while I am detained in London, endeavouring to
support the Government against the banded monopolists of the
kingdom, the Liberals at Bath will not be wanting to them-
selves and to the cause for which they have fought so conspi-
cuously on more than one trying occasion.
" Gentlemen, relying for success, more on your activity,
zeal, and wonted energy, than on any merits of my own, I
remain, your faithful servant, " DUNCAN."
Among those present on the platform we noticed, Simon
Barrow, Esq., Chairman ; Colonel Napier, Colonel Bailey,
Admiral Gordon, W. 'l'. B air, Esq., W. H. Bruen, Esq.,
Hon. H. Duncan, T. Hough, Esq., T. Gill, Esq., Dr. Barlow,
F. Ellis, Esq., Robert Ellis, Esq., H. A. Barry, Esq., John
Allents,; J. Barrow, Esq., . Barrow, Esq., Honorary Secre-
tary ; D. Harvey, J. C. Spender, Esq , Edward Jay, Esq.,
J. Edridge, Esq., Vice• Chairman ; H. E. Goodridge, Esq.,
S. Batchelor, Esq., R. W. Brown, Esq., Dr. Sandon Watson,
Richard Eckley, Esq., T. Evered, Esq.
Mr. Roebuck and Lord Duncan, on presenting themselves
to the meeting, wore most enthusiastically cheered.
SIMON Baaaow, Esq., upon taking the Chair, stated that
he should have been much more gratified if some gentleman
far more competent than himself had been called upon to fulfil
the duties of Chairman. He felt that the time had now arrived
when it had become imperative upon every Liberal in Bath
not only to do his duty. to that city, but to the country at large,
by supporting her Majesty's present Ministers, and enabling
them to carry into full effect those patriotic measures which
were so eminently calculated to benefit the country, and.to se-
cure the high position which it held among the rations
of Europe.—(Cheers.) He felt convinced that the two gen
tlemen who were to be proposed to the Electors of Bath that
day would meet with the hearty and cordial support of every
right minded man in Bath—(Cheering)—inasmuch as
they were tried men, whose principles were, known,
and who had ever been found to be the true supporters
of Liberal measures and the real friends of the people. For
his own part he would venture to say that whenever any Liberal
measures were brought forward in Parliament—measures that
were calculated to increase the happiness of the people, and to
raise this country in the scale of nations, they would never be
found skulking or wanting in giving their support to the cause
of the people.—( Cheers. ) Nothing could be done without
union, and he calico therefore upon the Whigs, the Radicals,
and the Chartists to unite together as one man, in the great
cause of liberty and good government in which they were en-
gaged.--(Cheers.) If union was -only preserved, he would
venture to predict that their two Conservative Members would
feel that their day had gone by, and that the only course
they had left was to give up the contest.—(Cheers.) The
whole country was looking with great interest to the proceed-
ing of the Electors of Bath that day, and he felt convinced that
whatever might be the result the termination of the election
at Bath would have the greatest influence on the other con-
stituencies of the country. He was much mistaken, indeed,
if Bath did not set before those constituencies the most noble
and glorious example.—(Cheers.) He was sure, if the elec-
tors of Bath did their duty to those gentlemen who were to be
proposed to them that day, that they would do theirs, and that
the electors would never hive cause to repent of returning
such men as Roebuck and Lord Duncan as their representa-
tives in the British House of Commons. He was happy to see
that all differences among the Liberal electors were settled,
and he trusted that in the present contest their watchword
would be—Union, union, tAniop.—( Great cheering.)
Mr. BLAIR, then came forward to propose Lord Duncan as
a fit and proper candidate to 'represent the City of Bath in
the House of Commons. Having been requested to propose
Lord Duncan to the Electors as one of the Candidates for the
representation of the City of Bath in Parliament at the next
election, he did so with the greatest pleasure, though with
more brevity than he could wish, on account of the state of his
voice. He had consented to do this in the first place as the
best proof and pledge he could give that that Noble Lo-d
should have his support and interest—(Cheers)—and in the
next place, because he believed he was warmlyattached to thus.
great principles of civil and religious liberty which were
dearer to him than his life.—(Hear, and cheers.) And,
lastly, because he had declared himself friendly to
those measures of sound policy and real humanity, had been
lately proposed by her Majesty's Ministers, and upon the pass-
ing of which he considered that the prosperity and even the
safety of the country depended.—(Great cheering.) But
these was a charm its the very name of Duncan that must
prove a passport to the heart of any Englishman.—(Cheers. )
No doubt all present had heard of the great victory of Camper-
down--a victory, he would unhesitatingly say, that was one of
the most glorious that was ever recorded in the annals of the
British navy.—( Great cheering.) That victory was achieved
by the grandfather of the Noble Lord who now tendered his
services to the Electors of Bath—(Contnued cheering)—and
that circumstance, in his mind, ought alone to secure him a
warm and grateful reception by any British audience.
—( Loud cheers.) But beyond the honour of a name
they had the hope that the mantle of his noble relative would
descend upon the Noble Lord, and that he would always dis-
plas the same talent and patriotism in the Senate that his great
and glorious ancestor did in the field.—( Cheers. )The'state of his
(Mr. Blair's) voice warned him to hasten to express the few
words that he more particularly wished to address to the
meeting. He would say, then, if there were any electors in
Bath with whom he had the slightest interest, whether they
were his personal or political friegis, whether they were
Churchmen or Dissenters—if there *ere any who would have
given him a voteisad he been able to present himself to their
notice, he would entreat of them to do the same for Lord
Duncan, and to put him in the very same position in which
their kindness might have placed himself.—(Much cheer-
ing.) He would Fe further and sayand when he
did so he did it with perfect consistency with his own
course of aetffin—that he hoped his friends, in the present
important crisis of the country would waive all differences,
prejudices, and personal antipathies—that they would bury the
hatchet, and for the purpose of breaking a strong Conservative
confederacy on the other side—that they would give their
second vote to Lord Duncan'; highly gifted colleague.—( Great
cheering.) Divided, they were powerless—(Cheers) but
united, by God's blessing, they might do everything—( Great
cheering)—but they might depend upon it that success was
only to be obtained by a strong pull, a long pull, and a pul
altogether.—(Great cheering.) If the meeting would permit
him, before he retired, heawcoeudl.d4suayreoante weohredertiongt.h)em rela-
tionany to himself; he would not have done so on such occasion
If
but for the peculiar, nay, embarrassinssr,• circumstances in
which he had been
.placed.—(Brest
of his friends thought that he had lately made
a political blunder, it would become him to bow to
thcr judgments, hut others who had since changed their
opinions (and for which he did not blame them), should
remember in justice to him, thit it was very much under the
influence of the sentiments they expressed that he had acted.—
(Cheers.) He would therefore entreat his friends who might
have been forward to blame him, to consider that the blun-
der, if it was one, was attributable. to the circumstances in
which he was placed, and, if they pleased, to one of those
errors in judgment to which the most wakeful intellect was
liable, and not to any defection or vacillation of principle ;
he would only say now that but for obstacles which he found
it impossible to surmount in the few hours allotted to him (but
which he was happy, truly happy to find, were fast giving way
under the genial influence of the Noble Lord) he should
have been proud and happy to have obeyed the call with
which his fellow-citizens hail honoured him.—(Hear, and
Cheers.) If in retiring as he had done he had given
unintentional offence to any one he would take that public
opportunity of expressing his unfeigned regret that he should
ntleman who
have done so, and
a particularlysinglteo
humanthe Hbeoina.g,Ghe
might have been his colleague.—(Cheers.) Those who knew
him best would acquit him of deliberately doing anything that
would give umbrage to
(Great cheering.) In conclusion he had only to say, that it
afforded him ihe highest gratification to propose Lord Duncan
as a candidate to represent the City of Bath in the ensuing
Parliament.—(Cheers.)
Mr. JOLLY t'elt great pleasure in seconding the proposition
of the Hon. Gentleman who had just sat down. He felt that
on an occasion like the present it was most desirable
that the trading classes should show to the world
that they were determined to uphold the cause
with which their hest interests were identified—(Cheers)—and
that they would do al( in, their power to forward the great
cause of which the Noble Lord had shown himself to be the
strenuous advocate,--(Cheers.) When a member of the aris-
tocracy, when ore holding a high station in life identifiOdhims
self with the trading and industrious classes, what was the
course that those classes ought to pursue ? Why to hold -Out,
with the greatest warmth and cordiality, the right hand of
friendship, and to join heart and band with him in the great
cause which had for its object the liberties of the people.
(Cheers. ) The Nobleman whose nomination he had the
honour that day to second was, like their late worthy Rerre-
, tentative, not an untried man—(Cheers)—he had ever been

found to be the advocate of civil and religious liberty, and had
always opposed to the utmost that monster monopoly, the
Corn-laws.-_( Great cheering.) He had supported the voce
by 13allot—( Increased cheering)—and he had also done
his best to forward and support those measures of liberal
and commercial policy -which were intended to be , and woull
be, if acted upon and carried out with vigour, productive of the
best results to the country.—(Cheers.) 71 he Noble Lord
hid also done his bestro ca-ry out those measures which would
tend to the prosperity of the community.—(Cheers.) And if
he might be allowed for one moment to place out of view
these gsneral interests, and come to those with which Beth
was more intimately connected, he thought that in diiing so
the conduct of" the Noble Lord whose nomination he had the
honour to second, would bear comparison with the absentee
Lord who was now one of their representatives.'—(Cheers. )
The electors of Bath ought also to recollect that the family of
the Noble Lord had done all in their power to support the
trading community io Bath.—(Cheers.) They had done
more than any resident citizens, and upon those grounds alone
he thought the Noble Lord -was entitle.l to the votes and interests
of the Liberal electors of 13ath.—(Cheers. ) He was sure
that in an assembly of the citizens of Bath, he ought to apolo-
gise for making such an appeal, as he felt convinced that that
constituency to a man was operated upon by on personal consi-
derations ; but that the lofty feeling of the pats tot, and those
alone urged them onward in the course they were pursuing.
They had now two powerful interests opposed to each other—
on tile one side they had the enemies of freedom, and on the
other the friends of the rights of conscience. The Liberal
party were prepared manfully to battle for their cause, and by
the blessing of God they would be sure to succeed.—(Cheers. )
On the one side they had Pewerscourt and Bruges, who were
ready to support scarcity and monopoly, while, on the other
side, they had Duncan and Roebuck—(Great cheering)—men
who were ready to gird up their loins on the behalf of religious
freedom, liberty, and plenty.---( Cheers. ) When such was the
ease no man ought to be neuter.—(Cheers.) Let all recol-
lect that there was no middle course to take.—( Cheers.) Lord
Duncan had come forward for the purpose of giving to the
constituency of Bath an opportunity of fighting the battle
fairly and equally—(Cheers)--and he was prepared to stand
side by side with their 'old representative. He came there to
put down monepoly.—( Cheers.) Hp came there to carry
two votes for ,she -citer-lan,zlone.—( Loud cheering.) Ile
trusted that those,whcbtsemssf his opinion would be inspired
with the same spirits--(geers)--and that all ill feeling would
be laid aside, and every exertion used by the electors of Bath
4p return two honest and trustworthy men as their Represen-
tatives in Parliament. In conclusion he had only to say that
he most cordiall seconded the proposition that Lord Dunces)
was a fit and proper Representative for the City of Bath in Par-
liament.—( Cheers. )
Admiral Go entre then came forward for the purpose of pro-
posing Mr. Roebuck as a fit and proper person to represent
the city of Bath in Parliament, and was most enthusiastieq.
cheered. He thought it a most wonderful thing that the ctiv
ct! Bath should ever have such Members as those that they had
at present ; and having carefully considered and looked into
the matter, he had discovered that the only reason why the
had such Members, was because the constituency was divided.

—(Cheers.) He had no hesitation in saying that if they were
united they would succeed —(Cheers.) With respect to Mr.
Roebuck much had been said against him, but he (Admiral
Gordon), thought that he was much more sinned against
than sinning.—( Loud cheers.) He was delighted to know that
that gentleman intended to pursue the course he had uni-
formly adopted.—(Cheering.) Mr. Roebuck had been stated
to be a man of no principle. Now with respect to that he
would let facts speak for themselves.—(Cheers.) In the first
place he was supposed to be hostile to religion, and why? Be-
case he was hostile to the abuse of it.—(Cheers.) Again, it
was said that he was hostile to the Dissenters. He was no
such thing. He had done all in his power to remove their re-
ligious disabilities—(Cheers)—and he had done more for the
removal of that odious impost, Church-rates, than perhaps any
man of his day.—(Cheers. ) - He had been proved to be a reli-
gious man, and one that was friendly to religious liberty
throughout the world, and looking at his former conduct no
one could doubt that he would do all in his power to unite
every shade of difference.—( Hear, hear, and cheers.) He
trusted the people of Bath would immortalise themselves by
electing Lord Duncan and Mr. Roebuck, as thereby they
would declare that Bath was still Liberal, and thet she was de-
termined to take her leave for ever of her present unworthy
representatives.—(Cheers.) He trusted that the electors
would not relax in their exertions until the names of Lord
Duncan and Roebuck resounded through every street in Bath.
—( Cheers.) •
Mr. Enatode seconded the nomination of Mr. Roebuck.
He was always happy to look an assembly of Englishmen in
their faces.—(Cheer..) They were met there that day in a
most noble cause.—( Great cheering.) He believed that all
present would agree with him, that for some years past trade
had been on the decline ; that there had not been full employ •
ment for the industrious population of the country.—( Cheers )
He had hitherto been unable to discover how relief was to be
obtained ; but now he saw it in the declaration of her Ala-
jetty's Ministers in favour of flee trade.—(Cheers.) The people
of England had had immense difficulties to struggle agai ist ;
but of this he felt confident, that if they endeieourek to
retrieve the condition of the country by establishing commerce
on a firm and solid basis they would go a great way to effect
the great object they had in view—(Cheering)—and in carry-
ing out that object he was sure they would have the hearty
support of Mr. Roebuck.—(Cheering.) The assistance of that
gentleman at the present crisis was of the utmost iniortance,
for without freedom of commerce it would be utterly im-
possible that the people should have the comforts and happi-
ness of life.—(Cheering.) The Tories had acted a most in-
coesiseent part—they wanted to get fifty millions of taxes from
the people, and yet they bound up their hands, thereby
making it impossible for them to get the money.—( Cheering. )
Feeling convinced that all who were then present were ac-
quainted with the fearless manner in which Mr Roebuck had
advocated Free-trade, he was sure that they would all to a
man support his nomination, and return him triumphantly to
Parliamentasthe representative of the City of Bath.—(l heers. )
Lord DUNCAN then come forward to address the Electors,
and was received with the most enthusiastic cheering which
lasted several minutes. After the cheeringhad somewhat subsided
his Lordship proceeded with his address. He was sure that
they would believe him when he stated it was with feelings of
no ordinary embarrassment that. he rose to address them on the
present occasion ; those feelings of embarrassment were caused
by knowing that lie was incapable of giving utterance in suffi-
ciently strong language to his thanks to them for the enthu-
siastic reception that lie had met with in Bath. Those feelings
of embarrassment were increased when be looked around him
and saw so many gentlemen—so many old tried and con-
sistent. Liberals, who were far more able than himself, and far
better qualified in every respect to occupy the station to which
he that day proudly aspired.—(Loud cheering.) But if he
entertained feelings of embarrassment he must own that these
feelings were somewhat alleviated when he considered the cause
which he had come forward that day to advocate. Their cause
was the cause of the people, or it was no cause at all.—( Cheers. )
In what he was about to say he trusted that they would make
allowances for his weakness in consideration of the strength of
the cause.—( Cheers.) He had come to Bath prepared to
contest the two seats for that city.—(Loud cheers.) There was
no mistake about that.—(Cheers.) He had met his Noble
opponent the other day, and he had told him that he would be
opposed with spirit, but with perfect good humour—(Cheers)
—and at the same time he had also stated that he hoped that
he would use his influence with his friends to gain the same
advantage for them.—( Cheers.) If they had fair play there
could be no doubt of their success, for they had numbers and
arguments also on their side.—(Cheers.) Of this be was
certain that there was one mat] of as hom the Tories were in
dread, and that was the worthy gentleman who was to be put
in nomination with himself.—(Great cheering.) He had
taken upon himself the responsibility of pledging Isis triends
to discuss the different questions fairly and openly, at the same
time expressing a hope that the same pledge would be given
on the other side, and if such were the case, if they were al-
lowed to meet and discuss the different questions in dispute fairly
and openly, so help him God they would not be afraid. Be
wished at the beginning to leave no question unanswered; he
would state his principles, and he trusted that the meeting
world hear him patieetly to the end. The first thing that he
would discuss was the question which had been repeatedly
asked him, which was—Why did Lord Duncan leave South-
ampton ; and why did he come to Bath ?—(Laughter.) That
question was raised by no friend of his ; still it was a question,
and it should be answered. He would tell the person, who-
ever he might be, who had raised that question, that he would
not shrink from it. He had been received most kindly by the
liberal electors of Southampton, and he confessed that he owed
to them aneternal debt of gratitude.—( Cheers.) It was true
that he had left that constituency, but les was happy to say he
had left it in good hands.---( Cheers. ) 'f he free trade prin-
ciple had gone down there; and there was every prospect of
Captain Mangles and Mr. Hutchins securing their seats there,
in the Liberal interest.—(Cheers.) He now came to the
reasons which had induced him to 'present himself before the
worthy electors of Bath. He had long felt that he ought not
to interfere with the representation of that city. Three or
four candidates had hitherto been in the field—Mr. Hoblionse,
and other Hon. Gentlemen professing Liberal principles • and
feeling as he had always done that the Liberal peaty ought not
to be divided, he had refrained from asking the suffrages of the
electors of Bath. He invariably saw the opposite party
united. Unity was strength, and he felt no hesitation in say-
•

inn that if the Liberals were united they would be sure to be
successful. —( Cheers. ) Application after application had been
made to him to allow himself to be put in nomination, which
he had as frequently refused, until it was stated to him that it
he would come down upon the present occasion there was a
chance of securing both the seats.—( Hear, hear, and loud
cheers.) As soon as that was stated to him he felt that
he should be wanting in his duty to those whom he
would call his fellow-toerrismen in *Bath, if he did no'
come manfully forward, and he felt also that he should be
wanting in his duty to Mr. Roebuck if he did not stand by him.
—(Great cheering). With the permission of the meeting, he
would state generally what his principles were since he had
been in Parliament ; he had ever supported the Liberal party—
Ise had done his utmost to support that Government which,
when it first came into office, conferred that great boon
upon the country, the Reform Bill—(Cheers)—by which the
constituency of Rath was raised from 30 to 3,ooo.—(Loud
cheers.) Another reason why he supported the Government
was, because they had brought forward the Municipal Reform
Bill.—( Loud cheers.) Another reason why he supported them
was, because they had brought in and cart red a measure for the
registration of Births arid Marriages, by which a great. boon
was conferred upon Al classes of society.—(Cheers.) He was
called upon also to support them when they proposed the aboli-
tion of Negro Slavery. It was true that that. proposition was
carried at great cost, but the people of this cote try, look ine a. '
the benefits that were to be derived, did not grudge the money.
lie supported them, because when an opportunity was attirden
they always reduced taxation. They had done so to a very
great extent, and he had nu doubt that they would carry that
principle out much farther. Among the many reductions in
taxation which the present Ministry had made was that of the
Postage. As far as that was concerned, perhaps, the exist',
cracy did not feel mach benefit from it, but the majority "f ties
people of the country, he would unhesitatingly say, had deisiee,i
the greatest benefit from it. Lastly, he had supported her
Majesty's Ministers, because they had endeavoured to do what
they could to effect a satisfactory adjustment. of tithes. He
had been educated by a man who had during his whol
life been attached to the Established Church. He had been
brought up in one of the universities of this country. lie was,
therefore, a friend to the Established Church. Ilut at the
same time lie must say he was an enemy to pluralities, an,'
also to the Ecclesiastical Courts.—( Great cheering.) 11,
wished to see men, if they were to be confined in prison,
placed there by a Jury of their countrymen, but he never
wished to see them placed there because their sentiments on
religion did not coincide with those who were considered the
dominant party in the St ate. —( Cheers.) He would vote for
the abolition of Church-rates.—( hear, hear, and great cheer
ing.) No one could doubt that the people had a nigh•
to patronise what sects they pleased, but there was no
right whatever, • in his opinion, for any particular sect to cal
upon another to support the house in which they,. worshipped
God, —( Loud elteers. ) Us had voted in fa,our of the Ballots

(Cheers.) He regretted that the Ballot should be necessary,
but seeing that it was so, he should at all times support it.—
(Cheers.) In America property was much more equally
divided than it was in this country, and yet there the Ballot
had been established. There was not a single Union in that
State in which the Ballot had not been introduced, and if it
was necessary there, looking at the state of property in that
country, how much more necessary, he would al, was it in
this country ?—(Great cheering.) He would not shrink from
any question that might. be put to him. He was prepared to
edvoeate education in its vs idest sense. No one had come
snore consistently forward than his worthy friend Mr. Roe-
buck to support it. Why did he (Lord Duncan) suppor.
education ? Because that the present franchise was no
in a satisfactory state.—( Loud cheers.) He should like
to sec the franchise better defined, and stripped of
those legal subtleties with which it was at present clothed.
(Cheers.) He did not like to see a man who had acted con-
sistently. brought up and bullied and badgered in the Regis-
tration" Court, in order that he might assert his rights.—(great
&eerie* ) Then, with respect to the question of the Poor-
laws—he was prepared to discuss that question fairly and
openly. He had never voted for the Poor-laws as they at pre-
sent existed, but he wished those who oppoied the present
.Poor-laws to reflect upon the evils of the old system. He
(lid not say that the new Poor-law had answered all the ob-
jects intended. It was brought. iu as an • experiment for the
purpose of trying a new system. It might or it might not
nave answered the purposes intended ; but if he were returned
as their representative, he should go into Parliament
prepared to discuss the question and prepared also to
vote against every clause in the Poor-iaw Bill which
r thought unnecessarily harsh and severe. He now came to
he question upon which he felt that he sho'uld be more readily
heard—he alluded to the finances of the country. The Go-
vernment had been very much attacked on this subject, but it
should be recol eeted that for the good of the people Minis-
'tern had sacrificed millions.—(Cheers.) As En instance of
that he might refer to the Post-office; and then the expenses
of our conquests in Stria were not to be kept out of view. In
these circumstances what did the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer do ? Did he, come down to the House of Commons
and state that he was prepared to propose a property tai?—
(Cheers.) Did he come down and state that it was his inten-
tion to place fresh burdens upon the people? No such thing.
He came down prepared to propose the reduction of taxation.
—(Cheers.) Was tha. proposition hailed with' joy in the
House of Commons ? No! it met with the most tremendous
J pposition. The first part of the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer's project was to take off some part of the duty on sugar.
de told the House that the people of Brazils and Cuba
were harshly used, and that they had expressed their deter-
mination that if this country laid a duty of 150 per cent. on
their sugar, that they would lay a similar impost upon all
manufactures of this country. As to the timber duties he had
only a few words to say. He was prepared to reduce the
tunes on timber to the Canadian level.—(Cheers.) He now
lame to the question of the Corn-laws, and upon that subject it
was hardly necessary for him to state that • he. had voted with
Mr. Villiers in every motion he had made on that subject.—
(Cheers.) Corn-laws were introduced into England in the
lays of Edward the Third ; and looking back at those times it
could be found that the price of corn in this country was much
less than it was on the Continent, and in order to prevent
oreigners from taking the corn of this country the Parlia-
ment, in the reign of Edward the Third, passed the Act to
which he had referred. From that time down to the present
various legislative enactments had been introduced until they
came down to the time of George the Third, and during that
reign it was stated by the agriculturalists that the low price of
corn was leading to their ruin, and then Ministers of that day in-
troduced a proposition into Parliament of the most unexampled
character. He came to Parliament and proposed by an Act of
the Legislature to stear.y the prices of corn. Such an Act of
folly was met, as it ought to have been, by the results which
followed. The Act was passed iu 1791, and between 1791 and
1801 there was the greatest fluctuation in the price of
corn, which was at one time 505., and at another 1555.
a quarter. --(Cheers. ) Then came the principle of the sliding
scale, upon which the leader of the Tory party had declared
he would take his stand. It was an odd thing for such a man
to say that he would take a sliding and slippery thing to stand
upon.—(Cheers and laughter.) He would now come to a
point with respect to the Corn-laws which was more nearly
connected with that city. There was a time when there was
a much greater influx of strangers into that city than there
was at present. How, he would ask, had they been driven away
from it ? Why because they found that the price of provisims
on the Continent was but half what it was in this country.
Did any one think that a man would leeve the land of his na-
tivity to go to distant climes, except he was forced to do so from
endue; his income was not sufficient to procure the necessaries
of life in this country? The Tories and the Conservatives of
late had shown great anxiety to do- good for the working
classes. They had told them, and it was one of the most im-
pudent assertions he had ever heard, that if the price of corn
was reduced, wages would be reduced also. Was that the
fact?—(Cries of " Yes, yes," and "No, no.") He would
unhesitatingly assert that wages were not dependent on the
price of corn ; all that they were dependent on was the demand
of labour.—( Great cheering.) It was not denied, even by
the Conservatives, that the manufactures of the couptry would
be considerably increased, and that increase could not take
place without an additional demand for• labour.—(Cheers. )
the agriculturalist said_ he was placed in a different situation
from other men ; that he was not dependent on the people of
any country for his food. Was such the case ? Follow
the man who made such an assertion to his breakfast, and
there you would see him with his coffee and sugar—follow him
to his dinner; and there you will find a nice linen cloth on the
table—you will find him shaking his pepper-box—(Laughter)—
*and probably you would see him wind up the good things of
this life with„perhapselAttm-pudding, and a glass of sherry to
' boot.—( Great laughter.) He believed that he had now'nearly
stated all that was necessary for him. lie had no doubt that
be shoal be told he was an agitator, and his Hon. Friend Mr.
Roebuck, whom he had heard state that he believed the Con-
stitution of this country to be the best in the world. He had
heard him attacked, and called; a revolutionist. It had been
stated by the Tories that they must disunite the Liberal party
He was sure that such would not be the case in Bath, because
he felt convinced that the enlightened electors of that city
were well aware that union was strength. Such as he had
stated were his sentiments upon the diffese-nt questions nhich
he had brought before the electors. He had been born and
bred a Whig ; he had been educated in Liberal principles, and
his opinions were before the public. He had during the short
course of his political life been engaged in more than one con-
test, but he had never yet been beaten either in Perthshire or
Southampton.—( Great cheering.) In those contests he was
engaged alone—in the present he had the advantage of having a
gentleman associated wi h him whose abilities no one could deny.
There was no man whom the Tories were so much afraid of meet-
ing inthe House of Commons ashis Hon. Friend whom it was in-
tended to put in nomination with him. In the present contest
they were engaged hand in hand, and he could only say, as far
as he was concerned, that the more equal the numbers were
on both sides on the day of the poll, the more honestly should
he think that the people had voted.—( Great cheering.) He
had now only to thank them for the kindness with which•
they had heard him, and to assure the electors of Bath, that if
they did him the honour of returning him to Parliament, they •
would always find in him a steady friend.—( Great cheering.)
Mr. Hoenuen then came forward to address the meeting,
and was received with loud and enthusiastic cheering. It had
often been said that the people were fickle, but he would ask
those who had had personal experience of the people of Bath
to say whether they had ever seen any fickleness among them ?
He had known the electors of Bath now for about nine years,
and after the lapse of that time, he would confess that he had
seen nothing approaching to fickleness in them.—(Hear.)
The people were not fickle, but they were often deceived.--
( Hear, hear;) The people of Bath were still his friends—.
(Cheers, and cries of " Yes")--and the reception he had met
eith since he hail lately come among them, was highly gratify-
ing to his feelings. He was sure that so long as the
people were dealt fairly and honourably by, they would
never be unjust to their true friends. He was proud to call
the people of Bath his friends, and he was equally proud on
the present occasion to show that he deserved their confidence.
On the present occasion he stood in a peculiar position.
Bath, at the present time, he might almost say repre-
sented the liberal state of England. All the Liberals
were tending to the same end—they had differences
sometimes, but they had all the same noble object in view.
He was there representing one of those opinions, and his Noble
Friend represented the other. Such was the state of the libe-
ral population of England; for he was not going to make it a
elinisteral measure. All he wanted to do was to work out the
cause of the people.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) He would
now ask the meeting for a moment to run back with
him a few years, and then they would understand• the
condition in which he was placed. He thought he should be
able to conciliate some whom he believed to be mistaken, but
who, no doubt, thought him so. A liberal Administration
had given them the Re form Bill, and for that alone they owed
them a debt of gratitude. But it had been said that they were
going too fast. Now. for Isis own part, he did not believe that
he could go too fast • tor in England they had the most dan-
gerous aristocracy that ever ruled a country. Therefore it
was that he thought they could not go too fast. He had been
thought to be crazy, and it had been stated of him that he wa.
a revolutionist ;. but Ile had said that the day would come when
it would be said that he was right. That day had come—that
banded power had reared up its erested front, and
They were banded together. to oppose it. They were
there fighting the battle they had fought before.—
(Cheers.) They must fight as a united body, and there must
be no quarrelling between them. Bath must fight for Bath.—
(Cheers.) There must be no compliance; there must be a
thorough understanding on both sides. No fixing upon any
man's forehead that he is a had fellow ; onlylet him b
Liberal, desiring all that you desire, responsibleGovenmee a
nt
and then you must join heart and hand. Government
A '
emanating from the people is responsible to the people, and
would look to the interests of the people, Such being the
present condition of England, here and everyilere he would
ask ef all who called themselves thorough Reformers, whether
they thought they would be best able to &Weill a liberal and ee-
sponsible Government by union or by separation. The peo-
ple of Bath had, in large masses, welcomed the Noble Lord,
who, he was happy to say, was to be put in nomination with'
himself, with voices high and hats in the air. He had no
elcubt that that Noble Lord had not forgotten Saturday night,
and it would be long' ere he did so. If disunion "did not
lake place in their ranks—they were certain to gain the vic-
tory ; but if separation did take place among them, let it be on
the heads of those who sowed dissension, and they, he would
venture to say, would not be found among the masses, for they
were with him and the. Noble Lord. If disunion did take
place the result . would be that enthusiasm would be
put down and discord raised in its place. They were ready
as ono man to hold out the hand of fellowship to all, and there
could be no doubt whatever about either his friend or himself.
They had come forward to fight the people's cause. If they
were beaten, the people were beaten, and if the Tories sue.).
ceeded, the people of Bath would suffer.—( Great u
He was sure that he need say but very little as to his cheering.own
opinions. The eL-ctors of Bath hnew them, all—all the world
knew them. He came there again after nine years' knowledge
of him, on the part of the electors of Bath. Nine years ago
hey liked him, and they told him that they liked him now.
He trusted that the present contest would be carried on with
perfect good humour. He was sure that. it would be on the
part of his Noble colleague and himself. He was sure that, on
their part, it would be carried on with truth and sincerity ; and
he could assure the electors that wherever he found an un-
fair proceeding during the election, he would denounce it.
If they bad the Ballot, as the Noble Lord had stated,
.they
could not be terrified out of their votes ;
upon,
there nut being
er!
that safeguard, tradesmen were imposed pon'andnot. cum ell
hat
to give their votes where they otherwise would
he wished the electors to recollect was, that the Tories
were not content with employing intimidation, but
they were trying to work upon the baser pas-
sions of the. people.; by their wants ad their very ignorance
they have created a snare to degrade them. They were about
to open, from one end of Bath to the other, the beer shops.—
( Cheers.) You will find many of the names of the parties
who c=all themselves Blues, or Torii*, or Comervatives, et the