The Sun.
London, England, 1812-10-24 00:00:00

MR. CANNING.

The following are the Speeches of: this Gentle-
man on the coneinsion,of 'the Sixth and Seventh
PaST3 Poll, at Liverpool.

SIXTH DAY.

GENTLEMEtZ,

"The lateness of the hour to which the,poll has-
been protracted, and the necessity under Nyhich
you must well know I am of attending in the
course of this evening upon several meetings Of ex-
cellent and worthy freemen, will induce me not
to.. detain you long. 'This day has been a day of,
great exertion on the,part of my opponents,rtia;
of exertion which has shewa the dihiculties finder
which they latbour, and has satisfied me that they
are nearly exhausted of their strength. I men-
tion it as matter of blame to no man, and should
be sorry if it should be so construed, that the poll,
which had hitherto gone on with • little interrup
tion, has in the course of this day been much in-
terrupted and delayed-; so much so that we have
polled about 120 less than any of the preceding:.
days. The result, however, is to me more favour-
able than on any day that has yet.passed.' You
will be glad to '_fear that it is also more favourable
to General Gascoyne, and that he has been en-
abled to repair the accidental and trifling mino-
rity in Which he was placed on Saturday.
On the three-preceding days the number polled
in the cOurse.of each day was about-400 ; butto-
day we • have-only polled 270, or thereabouts.. I
will now present you with the numbers of\each
Mr. Cceevey 994, General Gascovue 1003,
Brougham 1030; and myself 1076, being 46 above
Mr. Broughdm.
Gentlemen, • I am deeply concerned to have
to 'state to you, that the affray to which I
alluded list night, has ended fatally to one mdi-
vidnal. From all the accounts that I have been
able to collect of:the transaction, I earnestlyhOpe
that it is more to be attributed to accident than
to any irritation prodUced by party' feeling. But
I trust, Gentlemen, that you will consider this un,
happy and distressing event -as au additional mo-
tive for using every exertion and--interest-with
.•
your friends to preserve tranquility and•good'hu-
mour. •

Gentlemen, I will detain you no longer than
while -I advert to one topic which my opponthits
have studiously'endeavoured to impress upon your
Minds by the circulation of hand-b:lls, and by em-
blematical devices ; a topic as unfounded in fact as
it is mischievous in tendency. They have exhi-
bited a large loaf as the.loaf of Pea-ce-, atni
one as the loaf of war; intending by these eni-
blems to shew a necessaryconnexibn between war
and scarcity ; and they have held out to y6u the
return of :Messrs. Brougham and Creerey_to Par-
liament as the certain safeguard for the plentiful
subsistence of the people.
If, Gentlemen, the imaginers of these devices
can prove to you that their favourite Candidates
have power to direct the course of the seasons;
and thereby to render more abundant fife means
of subsistence for the great body of the people, I
should exhort you to pass me by, and return_men
who arc possessed of so. wonderful and so super-
natural a secret. •

But; Gentlemen, my habits of discussion: have
taught me to look for some connexion between
ef-
fect and cause, and never to acquiesce in the con-
elusion until I have attempted to trace it to its'
premises. After the most serious investigation, I
confess I am a loss to discover the natural and ne-
cessary connexion between the bountiful blessings
of Providence and the return of Messrs.BroughaM
and Cree-vey.. Many of you hare, read a talc Whrch
is in the hands of most of your children, 'I mean
Dr. Johnson's Rasselas, in, which there is an
ac-
count of a philosopher who fancied himself to
have a control over the sunshine and the shoWers,
and who busied himself in distributing .the proper
proportion of these favours, as he thought fit, to
the different countries of the eartlr. Whether my
competitors have a power like this I have not. been
able to ascertain. I do not mean to impute to
,
my competitors that they arrogate it to themselves.
"They are too manly and upright to. attempt the
practice of •so gross- a delusion. But their pane-
gyrists, who couple plenty with their name, and
scarcity with mine, are as absurd as the philoso-
pher in Rasselas ; and they have not the excuse
which he had for his folly :—for, Gentlemen, the
philosopher was mad, but these reasoner can only
'be mischievous. -

Gentlemen, there is, in point of fact, no neces-
sary connexion between thc question of war and
the question of scarcity. I suppose any man will
allow that the present year is a year of as extend-
ed war as ever Europe witnessed. We have seen,
in the southern pait of Europe, the city of Ma-
drid entered by the victorious troops-of Great Bri-
tain, and we have heard with -horror, how the
Imperial city of the North has escaped from the
ravages of the rnqueror only by being consumed
in flames of her own
But, Gentlemen, the same stm which gilded the
triumphal entry of Lord- Wellington into Madrid,
and turned pale at the conflagration of .Moscow,
has ripened, during the present.year, both in. the
North and in the SOuth, the most luxuriant har-
vest that ever blesSed mankind. Before the war-
loat is paraded again, let the' philosophers who
support my-untagonists bring me the solution of
this phcenomenot.
Gentlemen, I will detain you no longer. I trust
you will have the goodness, for your oym sake, as
well as mine, to use- every exetition to bring the
contest to a happy and speedy conclusion.

ADDREES OF NA. CANNING, ON TIDE CLOSE OF

THE SEVENTH DAN'S 'POLL,... DELIVERED :FROM
ONE OF TIIE BOOM WINDOW/S. OF THE HOUSE

OF MR. GLADSTO:TE.

Gentlemen,---I congratulate you on the success
of this day ; the straggle • which has -been so
long continued is happily drawing to a conclusion,
and it will be decided, I have no doubt, in the
course of twenty-four hours from this time,
that the principles, of the loyal Freemen of Li-
verpool shall hca represented_ according to their
choice.

Gentlemen, the majority, trifling as it was,
which I have enjoyed, and which, for some days