The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-16 00:00:00

(From the Western Luminary.)
MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 13.—This day Mr. Barry
Baldwin, the Conservative candidate, made his public
entry into the town. lie arrived from Torquay in a car-
riage and four, accompanied by his son and Mr. Stewart
(one of his Counsel on the late petition befo.a: the House
of Commons), and was received at the entrance of the
town by a numerous and highly respectable body of elec-
tors, with bands of music, banners, ribbons, &c. He then
proceeded through the town, accompanied by several car-
riages and four, and a long procession of the most respect-
able inhabitants. He was everywhere received with the
greatest enthusiasm. The writ for the election was directed
to be issued on Wednesday last, but the returning officer,
although he arrived in London on Thursday morning, and
knew the fact, only returned to the borough last night. This
is a Whig trick to delay the election, and give time to that
party to find a candidate, but none has yet appeared. It may,
however, lead to the most serious results, and the return-
ing officer may have to repent of his conduct in thus al-
lowing his official duties to be turned to party purposes.
Mr. Jardine, a great opium dealer, has refused to conic
forward, and Mr. Gibson, the rejected of Ipswich and
Cambridge, is spoken of. If he comes, we shall add ano-
ther place to his titles. The Conservative party are in the
highest spirits, and unless through the most determined
bribery, must be triumphant.
The procession baying returned to the Seven Stars Inn,
Mr. CHARLES MICIIELMORE, before Mr. Barry Baldwin
presented himself, requested the electors to give three
cheers for Mr. Richard Soper, who had kindly promised
his support on the present occasion.—( Loud cheers.)
Mr. BARRY BALDWIN then addressed the assembled
meeting from one of the windows of the inn, when he was
received with the most enthusiastic cheers. He said he
must be pardoned for noticing the ladies first, but he
should be ungrateful indeed, after their condescend-
ing smiles, if he did not take that opportunity of
thanking them for this kind reception..—(Loud and con-
tinued cheers.) He congratulated himself on being
amongst them on the present occasion, and although he had
incurred considerable expense in the late struggle, and.before
the House of Comnions, he was determined to fight to the
last in their cause.—(Long-continued cheering ) No
notice had yet been given of the day of election. The
Whig party were at the last gasp, if not actually dead.
They applied to an opium merchant with a great purse,
but he after a few days' reflection refused to make his ap-
pearance. His late opponent did not dare to present him.
self on this occasion.—( Cheers.) A dissolution was al-
most certain, and he must soon expect again to be obliged
to solicit their suffrages. Mr. Baldwin then alluded to
the administration with their majority of nine composed of
the Cabinet Ministers. The country was too apathetic,
otherwise they would not have been so long in power, but
they (the Ministers) must soon go into that oblivion from
which they sprung.—( Loud cheers.) He (Mr. Baldwin)
avowed himself a Conservative. He spoke out ; did the
Ministers do so ? Were they Whigs, or were they Ra-
dicals ? He for one could not tell.—( Cheers.) The
electors had no notion of the exertions made by the Minis-
ters to get up thi it last majority—their paltry majority of
nine I And if Totnes, Ludlow, and Fermanagh, had been
represented, as no doubt they would be,by true Conservatives,
how contemptible would ties Ministers have looked on that
occasion ? They talked of their friends being absent on the
late division, but he could assure the electors that they were
so absentees because they refused their support to the
Ministers. The Whigs could get no man to come for-
ward for Totnes.—(Loud cheering.) He (Mr. Baldwin)
would explain to the electors at a proper time what had
conic to his knowledge on this subject. The town, after
so much excitement, now wanted quiet and tranquillity
Formerly, when a victory like the last was gained, the
victor was allowed to reap the fruits of his conquest ; but
he (Mr. Baldwin) was prosecuted to the last by the
Whigs. Was this like Englishmen ? There was no
paltry trick to which that party would not always resent.
They would, however, now be defeated.—( Loud cheer-
ing.) He would assure the electors that his principles
were unchanged and unchangeable—everything had made
him more steadfast in those principles, which he had held
from his youth upwards. The day was most propitious,
and he had no doubt the result would end in a glorious
victory.—( Loud cheers.) Let them all now give their
anxious exertions to secure that result. Mr. Baldwin
again thanked the electors in the warmest manner, and
said he would immediately commence his canvass.—
( Great cheering.)
Mr. J. G. TEED, being loudly called for, came forward
and addressed the electors very shortly. He said he could
not but express the gratification he felt on being again
there, and at being witness to the approaching triumph of
the Conservative cause in Totnes by the election of Mr.
Baldwin.--(Loud cheers.) That Mr. Baldwin would be
elected he felt certain, and the unwarrantable manner in
which the proceedings towards an election have, since the
writ was issued, been kept in suspense by the Mayor, is in
itself proof that the Radical party can make no substantial
opposition to Mr. Baldwin, and that they know it.—(Loud
cheers.) Last year the election was hastened most un-
warrantably to take the borough by surprise, and thereby
procure the return of Mr. I3lount. That unwarrantable
conduct has for a time deprived the country of Mr. Bald-
win's vote in the House of Commons. Now evasion and
delay were resorted to ; for this evasion, and this delay,
the parties to it may have to answer at the bar of the
House of Commons, but that cause which for the last
eight years has been steadil:' increasing amongst them,
would suffer nothing by it, Mr. Blount had withdrawn
from any further contest—( Cheers)—he well knew the
weakness of his party and the utter hopelessness of his
cause ; and even if his party should, by delaying the elec-
tion, procure any other person to become a candidate in
his stead, the independent electors indignant at their pur-
poses would be only more earnest in their support of Mr.
Baldwin, and would show to their odponents, that though
they may retard his election, to defeat it is impossible.
(Great cheering )
Mr. CIIARLES MICIIELMORE was loudly called for, and
forward, said be addressed thorn as brother
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prepared to meet any antagonist that might come into the
field; he had opposed Mr. Blount at the last election,