The Sun.
London, England, 1833-05-30 00:00:00

Crown and Anchor Tavern.—(Hear, hear.) By a small -
majority it was carried that they should come to that place,
by which they bad been deprived of the attendance of many
friends ; hut lie dare say another occasion would, ere long,
arise oil en he could meet those respectable individuals in
heir own chcsen spot —(Cheers.) He so ould almost wisp
not to recur to what had lately taken place ; for it was
never any pleasure to him, and he was sure it was not
to those whom he had the honour to address, to keep up
bitter or unplea-ant feeling.—(Bravo ! H-ar, hear.) But
as he considers d they were met more for business—more
to avow and to vindicate certain great public principles,
than for the mere exchange of reciprocal civilities—he felt
it his duty to submit to them a few remarks.—( Hear.
hear.) It had excited some astonishment, he believed,
that a greater number of voters had not come forward
duting the last and the preceding election. The fact was,
that there were in Westminster 17,690 persons who have
qualifications from house., and one or two thousand snore
could be brought up from the scot and lot voters, hut in
consequence of the abrupt termination of the Reform 8,11,
and the irregularity as to the registration, there were not
above 6,000 persons qualified to vote. Of these 4,500
had voted in December, and 4,600 at the last election, and
this number, awl en he deducted those who were out of town,
and those who dare not vote—(Cheers )—he looked upon as
very considerable.—(Cheers.) In fact, the only chance
their opponents ever had was in the circumstance of two-
thirds of the voters being disfranchised.—(Cheers.) He tnen-
tioned these things that they might think of the registration
and be prepared for it, by the payment of their poor rates
which should be done in the middle of July, and thus
would they, public spirited individuela, be prepared for a
future occasion, which future occasion he earnestly and
fervently hoped might recur as soon as possible.—(Vehe-
ment cheers, and cries of " Poor Burdett.") He felt it
now his duty to say a word or two with all possible good
humour, on the conduct of the metropolitan press—
( Hear, hear, hear)—a portion of which, at all events, had
not treated him fairly or justly.—(Cheers.) He was
willing to make every allowance for partisanship and so on,
hut he certainly expected that the metropolitan press
would not condescend to twcome the mere tools of elec-
tioneering squib writers, in preference to being the great
organs of pubic opinion throughout the country. A part
of the press had grossly and shamefully misrepreaorred him
and his supporters. Were it not for that circumstance,
they would no doubt have obtained a more decided triumph
in December last.—(Hear, hear.) But as it had hap-
pened, it was, perhaps, fortunate that they did not succeed
in December—fur by the delay they had been enabled to
inflict it blow—a castigation which they might not
otherwise have obtained.—(Cheers.) He hoped that
the press would be warned by the result, and that
the conductors of it would see that the public was
not at present in a state to be dictated to either by a
public man, of whatever colour his print plea might be,
or by the public prints.—(Hear, heir.) Among the
other misrepresentations of which he (Colonel Evans) had
to complain, there was one to which be wished to allude.
It had been said by the press, that his (Colonel Evana's)
opponent had asserted at one of his meetings his power
to strike him (Colonel Evans) from the list of the army.
He confessed that he was both surprised and annoyed that
such should have been said, but he slid not mention it
then in order to cast any imputation on his opponent, who,
he believed, had be, n misrepresented, but in order that
they, the electors of Westminster, might know whether or
not they had an independent man to represent them.—
(Hear, hec.r.) He had put it to the Alin.sters in the
House of Commons since be took his seat, whether or
not it was in the power of any Secretary at War to de-
prive him of his pension, or, more properly speaking, of
his half pay, for it was not strictly a pension—it was the
very stnallest halfspay which an officer of his rank could
hold, and he did not care particularly if he did not re-
ceive it at all—(Hear, he o)—he had put it to the Mi-
nisters to say it bet; er the Secretary at War could deprive
Ilan of that half-pay. He certainly had asserted that
Ministers would repudiate so horrible an idea as th at an
officer of the Clown holding a situation of such responsi
bility, could so violate justice and the freedom of election
as to use, or even to threat,n to use, this power in
vest, d in him for electioneering principled. He had
thought that in justice to themselves they would have
tepoeiated it ; but no, they merely denied it in the
coldest and most evasive terms—a mode of answering
characteristic (he was sorry to say) of the present
Go-
vernment. He (Colonel Evans) was convinced, however,
that ne Secretory at War had any such power.—(Hear,
hear.) He had received his commission from the King,
and the King alone could deprive him of it—(Hear)—
nut still - lie felt that his duty to the people was para-
mount to hi- duty to the King bitaself.—(Cheers.) He
heliived that in saying so be bad spoken the law of the
land—(Hear)—and he would always be ready to execute
his dunes to the people.—(Cheers.) Another misrepre-
sentation of which he had much to complain—because be
considered it unfair, and it had done him a great deal
more harm than almost any circumstance which bad hap-
p-ned in the course of the election—was this :—An elec-
tor, a worthy, respectable, and talented man, had done
him (Colonel Evans) the favour to mike a very able
speech' in his behalf on the day of nomination ; but that
elector had thought proper to speak of hint (Col. Evans)
not in his capacity of a candidate for the honour of being
their representative, but in Lis military capacity. Now
he (Co oriel Evans) had come among them merely as a
representative, and in no way as a soldier, excepting so far
as it was no doubt the duty of every citizen to become
a soldier when the liberties of his country were
endangered. He had, bower r, no de-ire to perform
any duties for them in his military capacity. He had
thought, indeed, a year and a half ago, :viten the Duke of
Wellington returned for a few days to the Covet nment,
that there was then a chance of convulsion and revolu-
tion; but that time was now past, and he (Col. Evans)
felt convinced that the same bold countenance in the
people which they had then shown, and which had over-
thrown the hold and daring Tory party, would in the same
manner, when similar ly exercised, cause the overthrow
of the less bold Whig party, or in fact any party which
might in future aim at the suppression of popular liberty.
—(Cheers.) The press had likewise said much of the
(Welto:et between ihe talents of the present and the for•
iner representatives of Westminster. It bad alluded to
Fox, Sheridan, and others, and had drawn a comparison
between those men and him (Colonel Evans). He ad-
mitted the transcendent talents and splendid eloquence of
those persons, and could not think of bringing himself
into competition with them ; but still he (Col. Evans)
thought that in the present tunes those great qualities
were not so much wanted as good sense and honesty ;
and he (Colonel Evans) having a reasonable share of those
qualities, he hoped that he should not disappoint the
hopes of his constituents.—(Hear, hear.) He could
say that he veinal,' yield neitl er to Fox nor Sheridan in
anxiety to perform those duties which, as their (the
electors') representative, devolved upon him.—(Loud
cheers.) lie would now allude to a matter of more
importance to the electors—he meant the duties which
the people bad exaected that the reformed Parliament
would perform for them. Very little had been done of
what was expected.—(Hear.) Muicb, indeed, had been
done in voting estimates and supplies ; and all such too-
tams had passed with very little discussion.—(H,ar,
hear.) The estimates for the military departments the
Ministers had managed to get voted just the night pre-
vious to his (Col. Evans) takieg his seat.—(Hear, hear.)
Those estimates had been arranged with little or no dis-
cussion. Such was the conduct of the reformed Parlia-
ment, which was nut a whit better than the unteformol,
and, as it would now appear, much calumniated Parlia-
ment. There were other measures on which lie wished
to remark. The Jews had indeed been, or were about to
be emancipated. By that measure, twenty or thirty
thousand persons had obtained justice; but that was
riot the view in which he considered the subject im-
portant. It was important because it admitted a sound
principle, and, as such, they owed the reformed Par-
liament their need of applause for having admitted it.
—(Hear, beat.) The Jews, besides, were as respect-
able as any class of persons in the kingdom.—(Hear,
hear.) But then there were the house and window
taxes, the repeal of which they had twice refused.—
(Hear, bear.) The coupling of the house and window
taxes with the malt tax was a species of hocus pocus
beneath contetnpt.—(Hear, hear, hear.) He would
h,g the meeting to ITRIalk the conduct of the metropolitan
Members on the subject. On the first rejection of time
motion for the repeal of the house and window taxes,
those gentlemen said that they would have voted for the
repeal if the malt duty haul not been mixed up with the
question. But since then, they bad not scrupled to vote
for the continuance of those I ',Les, although a motion was
tit-ought forward for their repeal unemba-rassed with the
ques;ioe of the malt duties. In giving that vote, they
had voted against their conscences, against the interests of
their constituents, and against good sense.—(Cheers. )
But he would beg them to observe who those persons were
i.vritto thus violated their faith with their constituent-.
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one of
them
in
wast the in
hereceiipitlatrcmfuhti: Dr.
incomes
Luslmington, who he (Colonel Evans) understood meant
to vote for the continuance on the same
principles,
per-
haps, as he Was HOW induced to agree with th
Govern-
ment in their iniquitous plan far the abolition of slave
--(Hear.) And there was Sir W. Horne, the Attorney_
Lienieral, who, it was said, was on the look-out for a seat
H the Bench ; and a third was a Master in Chancery,
with an income of 4,0001. a year from the people. To that

last gentleman he wished to allude particularly, as he (Mr.
Brougham) had thought fit to go out of his way during
the last election, in order to denounce every voter who
would support him (Colonel Evans). That gentleman
had said that he knew that the only reason for which the
electors of the borough could have chosen him (Mr.
Brougham) as their representative, was on account of his
name. He (Colonel Evans) cordial!), agreed with the '
Hon. Member, that there could have been no other good
cause for the choice—(Hear, and a laugh)—and the only
manner in which he (Colonel Evans) would retaliate
upon him now for having run him down to the West-
minster electors, was to point out the humiliating manner
in which he now appeared before his own constituents.—
(Hear, hear.) With regard to the house and window
taxes, he would always consider it his duty to use his ut-
most endeavour to compel the Government to repeal them.
—(Hear.) There had been delegates (90 in number) of
the householders of Westmin-ter appointed '0 remonstrate
with Government on the subject of the house and window
taxes. Although many of these were, no doubt, excellent
men, the majority were more in the character of an elec-
tion committee than of delegates, and the consequence had
been that they did nothing. The public had, indeed.
been amused with accounts of their interviews with
Lord Althnrp, who received them aiways with the
greatest poitteness, urbanity, and deference, and who as-
cured them that the subject would be taken into serious
consideration—(Hear, and a laugh)—and the accounts
of those interviews were regularly published next morning
in the columns of the Times aid Morning Chronicle ;
but what was the result? Merely that it was taken into
consideration; and the electors were, therefore, to vote
fur the Government candidate.—(Hear.) The next sub
yet to which he wished to allude was the corn law
taxes ; and sorry he was that they still continued to be
exacted; fur, grievous as was the house and window tax,
the tax upon corn was still more so. It was a tax upon
food ; and it plundered the people, in order to fill the
pockets of the great landlords.—( Hear, hear.) Nor did
the landlords themselves profit so much by the monopoly
as they supposed. He felt that the ex action of that duty
was a great national loss; and he was borne out in that
opinion by many Alembers of Rirliament, and airtime
others by Sir Henry Parnell, who had estimated the loss
to the nation by the twitiapoly of corn at twenty millions
sterling a year. He hoped that the putilic would take up
the question ; and that not only the inhabitants of towns,
but the farmers themselves, who would ultimately fin t the
benefit of the repeal as much as any class of men, would
exert ti euaselves to obtain that object.—( Hear. ) When that
toast hail been proposed, he felt that it ought to have been
preceded by another toast ; for the same reason that cuss
should always take the preci derive of effect. The previous
toast ought to have been " The El, ctoi a of Westminster"
hear, hear)—for they, and they only, had
gained the triumph which they were then celebrating. It
was not, however, the triumph of Westminster alone. It
was the triumph of Britain, and was felt in its remotest
parts. At the time when he first caine forward as can.li•
daie for the honour of being their representative, lie had
told his Committee, that if they cow,' get a more fitting
man for the aiffi,e, lie would not only retire, but serve on
the Committee of the roan whom they might think most
fit. They decided that they had no more fitting man at
their disposal, and he was happy to accept th-ir invita-
tion. At the last election, having previously pledged
himself to come torwaid iin any future vacancy, tie felt
himself bound to come to the poll, if there were not ten
electors to support him, fur he thought it right to give the
electors a fair chance rf relieving themselves timid the
thraldom under which they were placed.—(Cheers.)
The triumph which they had achieved was grew, but
it was a mere a'oni, when compared with the great
principles which were promoted by that triumph.
—Ctieers.) The eye of t; e Court, and of the most pow-
erful aristocracy, had been upo❑ thetn—they were within
the very verge of the Court—the power of Government had
been exerted, and tiie weight and wealth of those two
Baronets, between whom it had been well said, that the
Coast whin had been et ucified—the power of all th se
hid been used to the uttermost; hut, notwithstanding
everything, the electors of Westminster had oar,cl to do
themselves justice.—(Cheers.) Th. y had achieved their
own triumph, and the triumph of the empire ~t large
He h ped that the Stsfford electors would show ti.e same
spirit, and do their duty in the same manner.—(Hear,
hear.) The Hon. Mernb-r, after thanking the elector, for
the honour done him, and assuring the e'ectors that ins
utmost wish was to act up to his du'y to them, concluded
by proposing "The Electors of Westminster."--(Loud
cheering.
Mr. CAKPLIE, on the part of the electors, returned
thanks. He said that the electors of Westminster, who
had suppor ed the Gallant Colonel, were called by their
opponents Destructivel, Radicals, and other hard names.
They were itaulcals, lie adulated it. He was a Radical,
and when the mould had clued over his head, he wished
for no other imicription on his tomb than—" Here lie the
remains of a Radical."—(Loud cheers.) And from
whom had they learned their radicalism ?—from Horn
Tooke—(Elear)—from Major Cartwright—(Hear, hear)
—from Sir Francis Burdett—(Cries of no !)—and from a
person once known as Juhn Cain 1101):10L1Se.-( Hear, and
a laugh.) .

Colonel EVANS then proposed " Daniel O'Connell, and
a speedy red, egb co the wrongs of Irel ind.—(Loud cheert4 )

Mr. O'CONNELL felt deeply sensible of the manner to
which his humble name h been received ; but lie hail
felt a more thrilling sensation when he heard the addition
made to the toast, of wishing a speedy redress to the
wrongs of Ireland.—(Hear.) It almost drove hint mad
whet] he thought of the wrongs inflicted upon unhappy
Ireland, anti that by a reformed Pat li imeot.—(Hear,
hear.) Had the Irish deserved it ?—(Cheers, and No, no.)
When a majority of English and Scotch Members had voted
against r. form, a majority of Irish members had voted in
its hiveur—(Cheers)—and yet at that time there were
thirty-nine rotten boroughs in Ire! ord. And for this
g.aid ac, Ireland was deprived of Trial by Jury, the Habeas
Corpus Act was suspended within its boundaries, and the
people of Irel rod were even deprived of t e poor right of
petition.—(Shame, and cheers.) He had not meant when
he came to that meeting to allude to Ireland ; lie had come
there to conerattilote them and Europe on the triumph
achieved in Westminster.--(Cheers.) He had not come
merely out of respect to his Ga lant Friend near him—by
whose aide, by the bye, a position would he good in any
fight—he had come as a friend of frfadorn, and a roan of
honest and independent spirit, to thank them that they
had thrown off the al ackles of Toryism on the one hand,
and of Whigiam on the other—(Loud elite rs)—and
more especially for having shaken off one of the couple of
Baronets who had been so long fixed together, one on
each side of Westminster, that they almost reduced West-
minster to the state of an overloaded ass.—(Laught-r.)
He thanked them for the rejection of the Baronet, more
than it they had rejected all the other Whigs, for he recol-
lected the magic which wa- once attached to the name of
one at least of them. The Burdett of those days was the
Evans of the present.—(Hear, hear.) At that time
Burdett was the child of democratic principles—he was
an outlaw for his democracy, and they had put him into
Parliament for those p.inciples.—(Cheers.) He was not,
as now, the aristocratic Member of Parliament to-day—
perhaps the Lord to-morrow. No, he was a democrat,
anti it was that principle, not himself, which tiitimphed.
—(Loud cheers.) It was very well to advocate those
princip'es till reform actually came ; but when it did
arrive, great was the dismay which it created in the hearts
of Its previous firm supporters.—(Hear ) Many seem-
ing democrats were sorry for the triumph of demo-
cratic principles, and consequently the democrat of
! eighteen years ago had become the aristocrat of the
present day.—(Hear.) The consequence was, that
the d.onocrats now had surrounded his Gallant Friend,
and brought him in triumphantly. And he could tell
then, when it had become known in the glens of his
(Mr. O'Connell!s) native country, that the electors of
Westminster had rejected the Irish Secretary, and chosen li
the Gallant Soldier, the news created many a shout of
joy. He had, therefore, come to thank them, and be need
hardly say, to request them to persevere.—(Cheers, arid
"We will.") They had not gained their object entirely
yet. What change had they obtained in tie institutions
of the country ?—(" None, none.") What ameliorations
in the laws ?—(" Node, none," and cheers.) What tax
had been abolished?—(" None, none.") Yes; the duty
had been taken off tile.—(Loud laughter.) What did
reform in Parliament signify without reform in the insti-
unions of the country ? It the sinecures and useless
pensions were not abolished—if economy were not fol-
lowed, even by the highest servant of the state—(Cheers)
—it would not do to go to the lowest and nibble there.
They did not want the saving of candle ends and cheese
parings.—(Cheers, and ,a laugh.) They wanted real
economy. He had heard, that at one of the dock-
yards a halfpenny a day had been lately taken from the pit-
tance of the labourer in order to save the public money,
and that at the same time the salary of an in-
-pector had been considerably increased. That was the
very sort of economy to which he objected. He would
add a penny to the wages of the poor man, and take 1001.
from the salary of the rich inspector.—( Hear, hear, hear.)
In the four months during which the reformed Parliament
had sat, what had they obtained—what had Engaand got ?
—(Hear, hear ; and " What aid Ireland get ?") lie
would tell them what Ireland had got—Despotism !
(Loud (Loud cheers.) The reformed Parliament had delivered
the lives and properties of the whole of the people of Ire-
:and to a few pcor creatures to deal with them as they ,