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London, England, 1832-12-17 00:00:00

nary pride in doing that which he was now about to do,
and he was sure all present would join with him in the
grounds on which he did so, namely, nominating Mr.
Hume.—(Loud cheering.) It would be superfluous in
him to attempt to travel over all that that patriot had
done—(Loud cheering)—during the last 14 years.
(Cheers.) He was quite satisfied that there was no put
of his conduct that could be blamed, and he was sure all
present would feel the most heartfelt gratitude to
the man who had done so much.—(Loud cheers.)
If he abstained from stating that which Mr. Hume had done,
it was because he felt confidence in calling upon all present to '
state what he had not done.--(Loud cheering.) Every person,
let his sentiments be what they might, had always found in
him an adviser and an advocate.—(Cheers.) He had never
flinched or held back from obtaining redress for those who
were oppressed.—(Cheers.) But all the actions that he had done,
great and splendid as they were, sunk in the conduct he had
pursued to procure for all the people of England the proud
charter of 1832.—(Loud cheering.) Who would deny to him
that that spirit of inquiry into the expenditure of the country,
and public abuses, which Mr. Hume had pursued, prepared
the people to support the Reform Bill— (Cheers)—that mea-
sure which one of the greatest men in ancient or modern
times brought forward, 30 or 40 years ago. At that time the
support he received was feeble; there was not at the period the
spirit of Reform abroad which existed now.—(Cheers.) The
people, through the inquiries that had been instituted, found that
the Reform Bill would be their salvation, and were deter-
mined to have it.—(Cheers.) They had now obtained
that bless;ng. He would not impute the Reform Bill to
the works of Mr. Hume, because he felt confident if he •
did that gentleman would himself immediately contradict
him without assertion, and would say the man who stands
by you had done as much as himself, and had proved himself
a true soldier and the friend of Reform.—Cheers.)
It was nearly two years ago since he addressed his brother
freeholders of the county of Surrey on this subject, and
he then said in the language of the Bill of Rights, that
they demanded, insisted upon, and required the Bill, the
whole Bill, and nothing but the Bill.—(Cheers.) He then
told them that the Bill gave them every part of their consti- •
tution, with one exception—it did not give them that
which they had a right to, namely—triennial Parlia-
ments.—(Lond cheers.) He reminded them, as he
would certainly do the electors of this county to-day,
that that was a condition on which the Royal Family was
fixed on the Throne. William and Anne were obliged to
sign the Bill of Rights before the Crown was presented to
them; and in that Bill was the prominent proposition of
triennial Parliaments.—(Cries of " Bravo, bravo.") He ad-
mitted that that in one of the darker days of our history, it
was afterwards repealed by an Act, transcending all other Acts
in infamy and disaster, called the Septennial Act. All who
were acquainted with the history of their country, well knew
that all the historians of that day united in saying it was
a Bill founded in fraud and maintained by oppression—that it
was the parent of the greater part of the disasters that had
fallen on the country since 1715—that that Bill was the parent
of much ofthe national debt, and of a great part of the distress
in support of them all. He advised the freeholders of the
county of Surrey, on that occasion, to refrain from over
exertion, for fear that they might lose the Bill altogether;
but to-day he would most earnestly exhort his brother
freeholders now to maintain that proposition, and to
demand it not as a thing to be conceded, not as some-
thing that they were to receive as a grace at the 'hands of
any future Government, but that to which they had an
undoubted right, as that Royal and Illustrious Patriot,
to whom they owed so much, to whom they were
indebted for this very Bill—they had as much
right to trieninal Parliaments as that envied Mo-
narch had to the Crown he wore.—(Great cheering.) And
when he (Mr. Jackson) was about to propose Mr. Hume, it
was in the full confidence that he was proposing a man that
would never falter in his march till he had obtained for the
people the whole of the British Constitution—he meant the Con.
stitution founded on national andßritish liberty,Magna Charts ;
in the first place the Petition of Right, and in the second place
the Bill of Rights in the third place; and in the fourth place,
thanks to a gracious and overruling Providence, the charter
of'lB32—(Loud cheers). He was about to present to them one
that was disposed to consecrate to the public all the energies
he possessed, and that would devote the remainder of his ex-
istence to the cause of the people. He proposed to them, with
the most heartfelt satisfaction, and the most perfect confidence,
their old and well-tried representative, Joseph Hume, Esq.—
(Vehement cheering).
Mr. CHARLES FREDERICK BERKELEY then came forwa.4, and
said he appeared before the electors for the first time, but v•
must say, in a very excellent cause. He appeared to sanction
the nomination that had been made by Mr. Randell of Mr.
Hume. He would, in the first place, draw their attention to
the eminent qualifications of Mr. Hume, which fitted him to
represent the freeholders of the county of Middlesex. Mr.
Hume was not the man who would go down to the House of
Commons to make a flashy speech on any one subject, but
was always prepared to speak on every subject that came before
him. Another of his qualifications was, that he was always
easy of access. If ever they had any county business to
settle with him they would immediately find him in his*
place, and his courteous, pleasant manner made it
extremely agreeable to go to him on any business what.
ever. Another qualification Mr. Hume possessed was,
that he was a man of independent fortune, and it
must be gratifying to the electors to be able to return a
roan to Parliament of independent fortune, and who tear
not likely to be bought by any Minister—.but they would
never be able to give Mr. Hume, his pride..—(Laughter
and cries of "Bravo.") He begged them to recollect that
Mr. Hume's fortune was of his own making. He (Mr. B.)
would now draw their attention to Mr. Hume's claims as
he had stated his qualifications. The nature of those
claims were his past services—services which, he had ne
doubt, they would think the thousand times better than all the
pledges that could possibly be given. They had heard a claim
put forward for their votes on the score of long service, counted
in years. He did not mean in any way to undervalne those
services ; he thought they had. been great, and rendered by one
was a Reformer when Reformers were very rare ; but be
laid Mr. Hume'a claim not on the score of 14 years, but
the number of hours.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. Hume sat
not only in the House of Commons, and reported daily
in the newspapers, but also in a place called the Coal*
mittee..morn,up stairs from 7 o'clock in the morning till about
four o'clock on the next morning. He (Mr. Berkeley) had
been in the habit of stopping out late, and had happened to
stray in there, when he always saw a pillar on the right; and
a certain gentleman encamped at the foot of that pillar, as tuff
as the oak of which it was composed.—(Loud laughter.)
One of the most prominent claims Mr. Hulse had
on them, in his opinion, was the extreme atten-
tion he had always paid to the public expendi-
ture. Mr. Hume had always watched the budget carefully.
and when it came before them in another form he always at-
tached the items, He had done this at a time when the
Whigs would not do it—they always said it was ungen-
tlemanly—they said it was unfashionable—(Loud laughter)--
to trouble such Gentlemen as his Majesty's Ministers on
the subject of pounds, shillings, and pence.—(Cheers and
laughter.) Mr. Hume was the first person who upset the
mystification of the public accounts. That was another
very great obligation they laboured under to him. When
he first began this rigid course of attention to the public
accounts, even the Whigs did not like it, for they thought
it was establishing a bad precedent for themselves, for they
then contemplated a turn in Fortune's wheel. Their only
support was based on their own popularity, and when that
failed they would tumble to the ground, and remain in that
despicable state in which they had stood for many years, He
trusted they would not forget from whom they derived their
support. He had to claim their sal-ages fgr Mr. Hume,
in consequence of his advocacy of the 'cause of civil and
religious liberty.—(Cheers.) If there were any Dissenters
present, they would not forget that till the year 18A
they could not hold any office without first taking
a filthy oath, and they must all be sensible of the efforts
of Mr. Hume to remedy that grievance, The repeal of
the combination laws was also to be attributed very
mainly to his indefatigable exertions, There again the
electors could not overlook his efforts not only to remodel
absutptoossibe n he shoulders of th
reducele havetatxation,andtoe people. it to
osit as lightly
those
exertions would, no doubt, be continued in the House of
Commons by the Hon, Gentleman; and he (Mr. BO
was sure he only joined the electors in their hope that gr.
Ifume would soon effect a repeal of the tax on prudence, "
knowledge, and on light,—(Cheers.) Every person must b°
sensible of the injurious manner in which taxation on prudence
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anything like the extent to which it would otherwise be.
prevented the people from having even the Penny
Magazine," and other such resources from which they rnigh,,,
derive most useful information. He hoped the electors would
desire Mr. Hume to pledge himself to obtain the repeal Of
that tax, as well as many others almost, if not quite, 4!
obnoxious to the public.—(Cheers.) There were other thing'
to be expected from sending Mr. Hume into Parliament, and
among those, not of the least importance, was Church Re"
forrn.—(Hear, hear.) Not such a Reform as Lord Henley Po"
posed—(Hear)—not such a Reform as that Noble Lord could
spare sufficient time from his Chancery labours to bring
about.—(Cheers.) Not a Reform that would decide (a 5
Lord Henley proposed) 163,0001. among 27 Bishops
(6,0(10/. to each), but a Reform that would give to ever):
clergyman a salary equal, and equal only to the extent of
his labours. He bad no doulat that they would re urn
the Hon. Gentleman, and that when they met again in
seven years hence—(Cries of " No, no," three years)--le
said seven years, because that was the longest period to
which the continuance of the next Parliament could by
possibility extend—when they met again he had no doubt that
their Member would be received with the same marks of re-
spect that were demonstrated on ;he present occasion, and that
he would be found fully entitled even to a lengthened con rL.
dence.—(Loud cheers.) He begged to second the nomination.
of Mr, H., not only as a fit and proper but as the most ti