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LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1841

THE ELECTIONS.

casion to make a long speech to them, neither did he appear
there from any feeling of bravado. He had no desire to un-
dervalue the great prize he had lost, he had played for a high
stake, and it was their pleasure he should lose. He was dis-
appointed, but not discouraged, for in despite of what had
fallen from his worthy friend, the Hon. Baronet, who was now
their representative, he could assure them that Tory feeling
might be quenched for a moment, but could not be perma-
nently extinguished.—(" Oh, oh," and confusion.) It would
rise again lie a phoenix`--it would come forth again like a
giant refreshed after a short interval.—(Laughter.) The result
had not verified their expectations, but this lie could say, that
no defeat, no discomfiture, no mistification, could ever quenca
his affection for the borough of Marylebone. To those throe
thousand foul' hundred electors who had hono urcd him with their
unbought support—(" Oh, and laughter)—he begged
to tender his most grateful thanks, and also to the electors ge-
nerally for their courtesy towards him. To his Hon. and
Gallant opponents, also, he begged, on the same
grounds, to
tender the tribute of his gratitude.—( Hear. ) Had he been
returned their representative, he would have studied to ad-
yance their interests, a be doubted not they would do.—( Con •
fusion.) He could not congratulate them on the issue, but he
congratulated them that the contest was over, and that it had
been conducted with courtesy and good humour.—(Cheers and
confusion.) He would say no more than that he thanked them
all for the patient attention they had given him.—( Laughter. )
Mr. CABBELL said he begged to assure them that when lie
had embarked in that contest, he did so with the most perfect
good feeling and respect towards those who were opposed to
him. He did not embark in it for the purpose of raising any
tumult or disturbance in the borough.—(Cheers.) He was
led to believe that the party 10 which he was attached
would prevail—(Confusion)—aid he was but the humble in-
strument in the hands of that party. He could, hoWever,
congratulate
with vic:ory that day, but they had held out to the
them on the glorious result. They had not met
world that there.. was such a preponderance of in-
telligence in thtat, great borough that at no distant
time would carry. 'thew triumphantly through a future
contest, Of the cankflatea lie, had but few remarks to make.
The Hon." Baro-ii flAtall) was well known to them,
and they had shown that they appreciated his services.—
s allantry,
( Hear, hear.) That they had returned the Hi Gallant Com-
modore he was not. astonished.—( Cheers:) g
his bravery, his achievements, with which the world still rung,
were such that it had justly led them to give him that support
they had done.—( Cr:es of " Hear, hear," and cheers.) It
was alike honourable•to their feelings and to him—lamentable
would it be when the day should arrive in this country when
the gallantry of our soldiers and sailors were not properly ap-
preciated —( Cheer& ) The Gallant Commodore was known
for his skill and bravery a'l over the world, and he (Mr. Cab-
bell) could only offer for him his prayers to heaven that he might
evince the same wisdom in council that he' had ever shown
in the field. There might he " read his history in a nation's
eyes."—( Cheers. ) With respect to the other gentleman,
(Mr. Sankey,) although he had not numbered many
vote, every one must bear testimony to the intelligence
and attainments he had manifested on that occasion. He (Mr.
Cabbell)had long known him in the world of science, and could
bear his humble testimony that every quality that did honour
to roan might be attributed to him.—(Cries of "Hear,
hear.") He would conclude by assuring them that
there could be no doubt if undue means had not been used, that
his Hon. and Gallant Friend and himself would have been
their representatives.—(" Oh, oh," and laughter.) In
the early part of the morning considerable interrup-
tion was given to their voters in coming to the
poll. He had no hesitation in asserting, that
undue influence had been used to prevent their voters coming
to the poll, but he could assure them that a scrutinizing in-
quiry would he made yet in the proceedings.—(Oh, wad
laughter.) Whatever might be the result he should
endeavour to act in a manner that would do honor
to the cause. He would conclude by assuring them
that he was always ready to stand forward in support of that
great and glorious cause, which lie believed was e7separably
connected with the prosperity of the country.—(Cheif" and
confusion.)
Mr. SANKEY said, although few votes had been recorded id
his favour he looked on them with pleasure, because he was sa-
tisfied that, like himself. they had come forward upon principle.
Those principles were Universal Suffrage, Vote by Ballot, and
animosity to the New Poor-law. He was delighted to hear
the pledges that had been given by the Gallant Commo-
dore, that. he would apply a pressure to force the Administration
tocarry out the principles of the Reform Bill. He rejoiced the
contest had been conducted with good feeling, and he was satis-
fied that the cause he had come forward to uphold would ulti-
mately triumph in the borough.
Mr. YOUNG, who was received with much cheering, said
that he had been condemned for entering into the Ballot
with Sir Charles Napier,• but he did rot regret it,
but on the contrary he rejoiced at the glorious result, since it
had united and would unite the Reform party in Marylebone.
—( Cheers.) Experience had shown them that a divided
party was not strong enough to defeat their political opponents,
and experience MA shown that as a united party their
opponents had note the slightest chance against the Re-
formers of Marylebone.—( Cheers. ) With respect to their
local affairs they bad heard Sir B. Hall say that he
would defend their local rights in the House of Commons, and
he (Mr. Young) :4 could only say that in the
nurnbler position of one of their parochial representatives, he
should pursue the same course he had adopted a few months
ago, when he brought forward a resolution by which the at-
tempt to do away with their Vestry Act had been defeated.
On the motion of Sir B. HALL, seconded by Sir C. NA..
etee, the thanks of the meeting were unanimously given to the
Returning Officer.
Mr. SA Lomosts said it was very gratifying to him to receive
that mark of tbeir approja.aierri of hie. eondueircluying the rams
test which was now s& .happily ended, and he could not but
congratulate them upon their conduct throughout the whole
election—it was markedly different from the scenes they were
used to some ten or twelve years ago—it proved the spread of
education • and, now that the election was over, he might say
the spread of Liberal opinions.
The meeting then separated.

afforded to him, and by assuring them that he would redouble
his efforts to serve them in his place in Parliament.
Colonel Fox was received with loud cheers, mingled with
groans and uproar. He said that after the most excellent
speech they had heard from Mr. Clay, whom he now could call
colleague, he could not expect to fasten their attenti, n as he
had done, nor could he come forward with the claims on their
attention which he did. But he hoped that in returning them
his best thanks for the honor they had done him they would believe
them from the deepest recesses of his heart, he felt that gra-
titude which he ought in being returned as the represcnta
Live of such an influential constituency. As he had before
said, it was owing to the humble support he had given to that
measure which brought them into existence that he was there
as he was.—(Cheers.) It was the attachment he had
always shown to those principles of civil, commercial,
and religious liherty.—( Great cheering.) He would take that
opportunity of alluding to the goad humour in which that elec-
tion had been conducted. With the exception perhaps of the
Hon. Candidate, Mr. Robinson's allusion to placeman, nothing
could have been in greater good humour. With respect to that
attack upon him as a placeman, he would state that he was proud
of being a placeman under the present Government.
As long as they stuck to the principles which he approved he
would be found to be under them.—(Cheers.) As Mr. Clay
had said, it was unpleasant to speak of one's self,butin the event
of the Government continuing in their present principles, it
would not be the first time he (Colonel Fox) had re-
signed a place under Government. (Loud cheering,).
With regard to the very great and important* subjects
now before the country, he thought they well knew from - his
past conduct how he should account.—(Great cheering.) He
should ever be found a firm supporter of commercial freedom,
and of bringing corn into this country all the lowest possible
charge—( Great cheering)—in order to enable the poor to
enjoy what he thought they seldom had done—a bellyful.
His Hon. Colleague had put to them, in an admirable
manner the case of the Poor. law. It was their interest to be
placed above the reach of any Poor-law—be meant to get
chealefood—(Great cheering)—and with that object he was a
• friend of free trade, especially in the articles of sugar, timber,
and rather necessaries t - and also extended to articles of luxury,
which were now se eltigkly taxed.—(Great cheering.) With
regard to the Poor-laws, he would just add, that he
always considered they were not intended to coerce, they were
intended to soothe. But he believed that in some places they
had had a contrary effect —( hear, hear.) It would be his
duty to smooth down the asperity that existed in the present
law, and give punishment to the parties who had injured those
it was their duty to cherish and protect.—( Great cheering. )
Mr. Clay had with such ability addressed them that he ((-01.
Fox) could hardly find words to address them, but he would
state that in the principles expressed by his Honourable
Friend Mr. Clay he fully and wholly agreed.—(Cheering. )
He considered that the aspersions that had been thrown upon
Mr. Clay had been most unjust.--( Hear, hear.) Though not
in Parliament he (Col. Fox) had seen and watched his career,
and he need not say how he approved of it.—( Cheers. A
person in the creed here stepped forward, and said, "In the
event of your being appointed to a situation abroad, how should
you act 7.5" Loud cries of " Don't answer him—it is too
late.") With regard to his principles he hoped
they would find that the next time he met them
he would not be charged with a dereliction of duty.—(Loud
cheers.) He had not come before them with pledges, and
they would not be able to say he had promised and had not
performed; but he would support the local interests of the
Tower Hamlets, and the great interests of the country. And
whenever he was asked for an interview he should be most
happy to grant it.—( Cheers. ) He should give his attention to
all the great questions of that great constituency. He had only
to thank them over and over again for the honour they had
done him, and if he had not been elected he should have re.
tired proud of the confidence of those who had supported him.
—( The Gallant Colonel retired amidst great cheering.)
Mr. ROBINSON then presented himself. The contest in
which they had been engaged was at an end, and his
first duty was to return his hearty thanks to the
2,183 electors of that borough who had consi-
dered him worthy of their support as one of
the candidates for the representation of the Tower Hamlets.—
Cheers.) Whatever differences may exist between him and
the rLon. Gentlemen who were opposed to him, there was one
thing
in ~hicu they all agreed—this contest was one of princi-
ple, and not of persons.—( Great cheers.) With a degree of
gooel temper an.. good feeling, that contest had been con-
er seen exceeded, engaged as he had
ducted, which he ha ' l never
been in many contests.—(Loud cheers.) Therefore,
to all and every one o them he returned his most
heartfelt thanks, and to the Hon Gentleman by whom he was op-
:-
posed. With regard to the opineer!
mhe held of a subordinate
situation in the Government being held by a Member of Par-
liament, he still persisted in, as they c,ld not go into Parlia-
ment with such independent feelings as hr could. —( Uproar. )
But he thought that Messrs. Clay and Fox had v
right in attempting an explanation.—(Cheers. But to that
explanation he must ask their attention in reply, ;rho are the
real friends of the people ?—(Loud cries of " Not thelories.")
It was exceedingly difficult for the people to determine them-
selves who were their friends, es at elections all parties pro-
fessed to be the friends of the people. Gentlemen who talked
so much of the repeal of the Corn-laws knew very well that
under present circumstances that repeal could never take place.
Mr. Cobbett, an enlightened man and a friend cf the people,
declared that of all the delusions that ever misled human
nature the question of free-trade was the greatest humbug.—
What had free-trade, as far as it had been adopted, done far the
Spitalfield weavers, or his former constituency in Worcester?
It had only tended to place them in Union Worhouses. Free
trade, in his opinion, would only expose their taxed labourers
to a competition with the serfs of Russia. Mr. Clay had
thought proper to attack his constituency. But Mr. Clay
himself had shrunk, upon that occasion, from stat-
ing his views upon' the' New Poprelawe although
he and his party had supported it.—(Cries of "So did Sir
Robert Peel and the Duke of Wellington.") He admitted
that Sir R. Peel, and the Duke of Wellington did support
that law, and that the Whigs alone were not answerable for
the measure; but he had nothing to do with either
Whigs or Toriea,—( Uproar.) He would tell them,
that if Sir Robert Peel supported that law hereafter
he would meet with his meet decided opposition. What were
the features of that law ? It ;Tea& no distinction between vice
and misfortune—( Uproar, and erLes of " No.")—and:it sepa-
rated the wife from her husband, and the child from its mother;
while cold-hearted political economists made it a matter of compu-
tation what was the minimum upon which life could be supported.
He knew that Mr. Clay and Col. Fox had tgken their course
upon that questton from conscientious motives, and that they
were men of principle and honour—(Cheers)—but he thought
that they would have best represented the feelings of their con-
stituents by opposing a law so atrocious. Mr. Robinson then
referred to some severity sanctioned in Worcester by
the Poor-law Commissioners ; but the guardians resisted
their mandates, and obtained a mitigation of those rigours.
He admitted, however, that the old Poor-law was defective ;
but the new measure was so harsh in some respects, that it
could only be enforced in mane' parts of the country by vio-
lence and force. To such a law he was decidedly opposed.
—( Hear, and cheers.) Their WoOhY Member, Colonel
very countenance.—(Loud and continued C.;;!'
Fox, who carried benevolence and geod nature in his
belly-full." Now he ( Mr. Robinson) could only say
Fox had told them he wished that " every man enight get a
crs.)—Colonel
ee wished
they might get it.—(Laughter.) But the question was,
whether the advocates of the Government were favouralle
to measures which would as much as possible ensure universal
employment, without which there could be no possibility
of procuring general comfort. The price of food was not the
only matter to be considered, and they should also look to the
price of wages and the means of purchasing the necessaries of
life.—( Uproar.) He acknowledged that Mr. Clay and Mr.
Fox had reason to be proud of their position ; but lie would
ask, without offence, what claims they had to the suffrages of
the constituency which he (Mr. Robinson) did not equally
possess ?—( Laughter, and cries of " Honesty," " Consistency,"
sec.) They could not from their opportunities be better ac-
quainted than he was with the varied interests of a commercial
community. —( Uproar. )—Personally he did not, he could assure
them, regret his defeat—(Laughter)—and few knew the
labours of serving a vast constituency in Parliament;
and he felt that nothing but a desire to serve
the public could induce a reasonable man to subject himself to
such inconvenience. There was an additional embarrassment
for a man of principle in the conflicting struggle of parties ;
and he acknowledged that he blamed them both, and that be
could not say which of them was the less honest.—(Laughter
and uproar, and cheers.) The Tories had found it necessary
to take the new name of Conservatives, and the Whigs, let
him tell them, were but the degenerate representatives of the
old and respectable Whig party.—(Uproar.) He (Mr. Ro-
binson) was not a Whig, in the modern sense of that term.
He was not, he would tell them, an advocate for the Ballot.—
( Loud and continued uproar.) Mr. Robinson concluded by
expressing his belief that a foundation had been laid upon that
occasion in the borough for a future Conservative triumph,
and by thanking his friends for the support they had given him.
Mr. Herenisox thanked the electors who had favoured him
with ,their votes, and the more so as the greatest part of them
were plumpers. From information he had received from his
Committee he was under the impression that he was sure
of a majority, but he found that many of the electors
had been previously engaged to Col. Fox and Mr. Clay, and
he therefore felt bound to say it was their duty to perform their
promise. He should not inflict a long speech upon them, but
only observe that upon the next occasion when the electors of
the Tower Hamlets were called upon to choose their Repre-
sentatives he should again solicit their suffrages with more cer-
tain prospects, he felt assured, of success.
Mr. P. THOMPSON then came forward, and said he would
not weary the electors by stating his own virtues.—( Cheers
and laughter.) He had been beaten on that occasion, but he
did not despair of success in future. The cause of his defeat
on that occasion was the timidity of some of his friends,
and the daring boldness of others. One part of
his friends voted for the Whigs to keep out the Tories, and an-
other gave a plumper to the Tories to keep out the Whigs.
Some had objected to him on the ground of his youth. If he
was a good working machine, what mattered it how recently
he was built ? (Great cheering and laughter.) He
was not of the opinion of that eminent man,
Mr. Tony Weller, who thought that wit and wisdom always
went together. He did not wish to oppose another Liberal
member, but only to act with spirit to keep him up to the
mark. He had no wish to introduce a nuisance instead.—
( Great laughter.) He would not fail, on another occasion, to
ask them for their suffrages. There had been some misap-
prehension on the subject of his reported resignation.—
(Hear.) He begged the electors to understand that there
could be no such thing as a resignation. When a member hat.
been proposed and seconded he had no power of resigning.
Having had 10,000 hands held up for him he thought he was
entitled to some share of honour. He returned his sincere
thanks to the working men who had supported him, for their in-
defatigable exertions. The present contest had been one of purse
against principle. Though principle with purse had been success-
ful he was happy to see that purse without principle had not
been successful. He should reserve his election speech until
the next dissolution, which he thought would be with-
in a few months, and in the mean time work hard
to make himself more worthy of their support.
Under this impression, that at the
He did not ask them to send men of opposite opinions to Par-
!lemma, but let the different shades of Liberal opinions
find their Representatives in the House of Commons.—
iefixetaerl'ectihoenalt.h. ere would be a Whig and a
hewadical returned
for the Tower Hamlets, he trusted that would have the
honour of sitting in the House of Commons as the Radical re-
except it was to the extreme kindness
presentative of this borough in a very short ti(Cheers.)
son, and an appreciation of his humble buz
A loud call having been made for Colonel Thompsor, who
sat next 51r. Clay on the hustings,
The GALLANT COLONEL rose and said he knew not to
what cause to attribute this ebullition of kind feeling on the
the cause of free trade. ;They had been de-
feated in their endeavours to teach the poor man what ought to be
the rightsof a maritime nation like Fugland ; still there was many
a shipwright who had teamed it ; but beefsteaks and strong
ale peottailed over their convictioni—that part of the glorious
ituhaneic.yt, hadao,f
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unceasing
heeof I:nrettesot his meeting,

MARYLEBONE.
The Returning Officer having fixed yesterday for the de-
claration of the candidates returned to represent this borough
in Parliament by the poll of yesterday, the space in front of the
hustings was densely crowded long before that hour by the
friends of the several candidates, who arrived early in
procession and great state, with bands of music,
banners flying, and a profuse display of pink and
blue, the colours of the opposing parties. The trr-
race of Park-crescent, and the balconies, were filled with la-
dies, who were dressed from head to foot in the colours of their
respective parties, and presented a very gay and brilliant exhi-
bition of those agreeable colours. Pink arid blue dresses, fa-
vours, bouquets, and bonnets, sparkled on either side, and to
carry out the manifestation of female sympathy to the utmost,
we observed amongst the fair partisans a number of blue and
pink parasols, evidently made for the occasion.
Commodore Sir Charles Napier arrived about one
o'clock, attended by a large body of his constituents, who were
preceded by some noble-looking seamen, who had served with
him on board the Bellerophon and the Powerful, bearing
standards which had been taken at Syria, and waving over the
head of their Gallant Commander the pennant which floated at
his mast-head before the walls of Acre,where it was perforated in
two places by cannon shit from the forts. The Gallant Com-
modore was received with the most enthusiastic cheering, as was
also his Hon. Colleague Sir Benjamin Hall, who arrived
shortly afterwards. ,
Their appearance on the hustings was the signal for re-
newed and tumultuous cheering, which lasted several minutes.
About a quarter before two o'oleck, Mr. Salomon, the Return-
ing Officer, announced thefiumber of electors who polled to be—
For Sir B. Hall
For Sir C. Napier .. 4,587
For J. Hamilton ...
• For Mr. Cabbe 11...
The announcement was followed .by the most enthusiastic
cheering, applause, and waving of hats and handkerchiefs.
Mr. S.a.Loaton then declared Sir B. Hall and Sir Charles
Napier duly elected, and expressed his hope that they would
support the local interests of the borough, and maintain the
rights and privileges of the people.—( Cheers.)
Sir B. HALL then came forward, and when the enthusiastic
cheering with which he was greeted had subsided, said, it now
became his duty to thank the electors of this great metropolitan
borough for returning him a second time as their representa-
tive.—( Cheers.) And he assured them that he felt amply re-
warded by their kindness for any pains which he might have
taken during the last four years. For that kindness he was
most grateful. (Cheers.) He begged leave to advert to the
position in which he had been placed during the contest, which
had just been so happily concluded.—(Cheers.) He wished,'
to advert to it in reference to his Gallant
Friend who was now, he was proud to say, his
colieague—(lmmense cheering)—and in reference to another
gallant friend of his, whom he much honoured and esteemed,
and whom he was sorry to see opposed to him on that occasion.
—( Hear, hear.) Bust he knew that his gallant opponent had
come forward on public principle—( Hear, hear)—and in dis-
missing that part of the subject he felt it his duty to return
thanks to his opponents for the manner in which the contest had
been conducted.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) He knew
Sir James Hamilton for more than twenty years, and he had
so mach confidence in his honour as to believe that if he did
not think from the returns made to him that there was a moral
certainty of his success, he would not have persevered in car-
rying on the contest.—(Hear.) In doing that act of justice to
his Gallant Friend he would ask, did not this hold out a gold
lesson to those who represented the Tory party in that
borough not to place too much reliance upon the re-
turns which were made to them by their Conservative agents,
who imposed upon them, and led ;hem to believe that it was
possible to thrust one of their party upon the electors of Ma-
rylebone.—( Tremendous cheering.) For his own part he
would always be prepared for a contest, for the more the
feelings of the borough were tested, the greater would be the
Liberal majority.—(Loud cheering.) The majority upon the
present occasion would have been much larger if it had not
been for the course which the Committee of his Gallant Friend
and himself had taken in holding back many electors who were
pledged to support them. He knew that many tradesmen had
promised their votes conditionally, • being willing to come up
and vote for the Liberal candidates, if it should be necessary,
but beirgafraid that their doing so would involve them in serious
losses.—( Hear. ) He therefore told his Committee two days ago
that as they were already certain of a sufficient majority to
render the Liberal cause triumphant, and to vindicate the
character of the Borough, those tradesmen who had been me-
naced and coerced should be told that no further sacrifice would
ba required of them.—(Tremendous cheering. ). Thus it was that
the majority for his Gallant Friend and himself was no
more than one thousand five hundred, when it might
have been a vast deal more but for that prudential
conduct on the part of his Committee, at his suggestion.—
(Renewed cheering.) The Hon. Baronet then read an ex-
tract from the Morning Herald, in which it was stated that
the election was lost in consequence of the effeminacy and
apathy of the Tories, who could not come out in the
morning to vote because it was rainy, nor in the
afternoon, because it was :too late. In this way the
Morning Herald said they had lost some fifteen hundred votes.
—( Cheers and laughter.) The reporter threatened in the same
paper to publish a list of those Tory recreants.—(Laughter.)
If he did so, he (Sir B. Hall) would put down his name as
a subscriber for five hundretlpapers.—(Cheers and laughter. )
1 t was his intention again in the House of Commons, without
reference as to whether he should sit on the Ministerial side
or the other side of the House—because that was to him per-
sonally a matter of perfect indifference—to carry out those,
principles to the best of his ability and judgment, on which he
had ever acted, with a view to give to them more extended
rights than they already possessed. Above all things, each
election convinced him of ;the necessity of endeavouring
to obtain for them thatpowerof voting which should prevent inti-
midation, and stop coercion ; and whatever might be the pros-
pect with regard to the ensuing Parliament, of this he was quite
sure, that the voice of the people would be heard there ; and ho
trusted also, that notwithstanding any threats that might be
held out in reference to future elections, if the ensuing Parlia-
ment did not carry out the wishes, and did not advance the in-
terests of the great community of the k ngdom, that they (the
Parliament) should be again sent back to their constituents, in
order that the country might again determine for itself. And
whenever that day should!come he (Sir B. Hall) would again be
present on those hustings, regardless of opposition, come from
what quarter it might, but, relying as he should, solely on the
affection, kind feelings, and votes of the independent constituent
of Marylebone. He would next merely advert to the subject
of the local affairs of that perils, a subject on which lie
thought it right to give that public notice after what had
transpired publicly, in order that, to use a common phrase,
there might be no mistake on the subject.—(Hear. )
He would not be trapped into supporting any Bill which should
in any way tend to interfere with the local rights of the inha-
bitants of that district,. He hoped if any proposition en the
subject was to be brmight forward, it would not be kept back
to the latest possible period of the Session at which
private Bills could be introduced. At all events he would
support the local interests of the parish as he had hitherto
done. Whatever duties respecting them had hitherto devolved
on the Representatives of the borough' fell solely upon himself.
He did not wish to disparage the conduct of the Noble Lord
who sat with him in the late Parliament, but he thought he
might say that he was, in local matters, their only representa-
tive, because gentlemen of all politics called upon him
and consulted, taking my advice with reference to them, and
as to the manner of conducting them. Ile had only to return
them his most sincere thanks for placing him in the proud po-
sition of representative of the most important constituency in
the empire. It was a source of satisfaction to him to feel that
this honour should be conferred upon him because
he had acted up to a course of political consistency, therefore
he would continue in that course, for he felt within him, and
could predict that the slay would never come when he should
be ashamed to meet the constituency of Marylebone.
Sir CHARLES NAPIER next came forward amidst deafening
cheers ;on the restoration of order, he said—lt was on this
very day eight years that he left Lagos bay, in order to support
the liberties of one of the greatest and oldest allies of this
country—he meant Portugal ; and it was on this day that by
a large majority of their votes they were going to send him
to support the right , liberties, and privileges of the
largest part of the inhabitants of this large and great metro-
polis.—(Cheers.) When lie first came home he was requested
to stand for several places in the United Kingdom, but on
matare deliberation he thought it much better to select a
large and important borough, such as Marylebone, in prefer-
ence to other places in England.--(Hear, hear.) They had
given him much reason to be satisfied with the
course of conduct which he thought it right to adopt, and he
only regretted that the election of Marylebone slid not occur on
Monday instead of Wednesday, because he thought that the ex-
ample shown by that borough: would not only influence the
electors in Westminster, but also those in the city of London, and
in every borough and city throughout Great Britain and Ireland.
He was not able to look back to his former conduct, because ha
never had the honour of a seat in the House of Commons,
but he felt satisfied,' and convinced, unless a most extraordi-
nary change came over his nature that he would endeavour to
accomplish everything he promised them, and even more
,hag he had promised them. It now became them to look
round the country at large, and see what would be consequent
on the next Parliament meeting. If the Tories came into
office he should tell them that they must pursue a course of
conduct very different from what they had hitherto
adopted, if they meant to remain in office one Session
of Parliament. The Tories must turn their minds to and take into
consideration, for he would give them some little time for con-
sideration—whether it was riot right that commerce should be
free in this country, and by that means taxes very much re-
duced..—(Hear.) If the Whigs came into office he hoped they
would take a lesson from what he saw going on throughout
the country. He trusted it would induce them to lean more
towards the Reform party, who want them to go a little furtiur,
and carry out the Reform Bill to its utmost extent. All he
could say was that he found that the Whigs would not carry it
out properly, he for one would give them a little gentle pressui e
so as to force them to go on. Relative to the local interests,
it was impossible for him to be so well acquainted with them
as his Hon. Colleague, for he had not resided so long among
them, nor had he ever represented them, but ix time he
would have an excellent instructor, and he trusted
that the Honourable Baronet would find I.im an
apt scholar. As to his Hon. Friends, if they would allow him
to call them 20, hit opponents, that throughout the whole of
the great contest, because a great one it had been, he was
bound to say that he had seen nothing but the greatest good
humour and gentlemanly conduct, not only from them, but
also from the party who supported them.—(Cheers.)
He hoped, now the elections were over, that if any animosity
existed among parties, when they returned home they would
indulge in nothing but brotherly love and affection towards
each other, and that they would endeavour that the indivi-
duals in their neighbourhood should follow their politics
instead of their being led by the opposite party.
—(Loud cheers.) With respect to one of the candidates
who was on the same side with himself—he meant Itlr. Young
—he (Sir C. Napier) was bound to say, that had it not been
for that gentleman's conduct with respect to the ballot which
had taken place, the Liberal party might have lost the
borough. Should he (Sir C. Napier) be called into
active service, and he hoped he would not, because he
detested war, though he had been .brought up to it his whole
life—if, however, he should be forced to leave them, and ho
was certain there was not an elector who voted for him
that would wish him to stay at home if his ser-
vices were wanted abroad—in that case, however, he
thoughi that Mr. Young had great claims on his
(Sir C. Napier's) friends for the support whtch he had re-
ceived from Mr. Young's friends. He now took leave to thank
them for their great zeal and enthusiasm on the present occa-
sion, which he never saw equalled in the course of his life.
The triumph we obtained at islarylebone, gave him mord satis-
faction than any triump he had ever gained in the long course
of his serviees.--(Loud cheers. )
Sir J. 'Locum said it was not his intention en that pc.