The Sun.
London, England, 1832-12-14 00:00:00

GENERAL ELECTION.

CANPEREURI7, DEC. 11.
If, in addition to the already existing examples of the
extremity to which the Tories are driven, and how tai-
-1 scrupulous they are of attaining their factious ends by the
I vilest means, any further evidence should be required, the
following accounts of the proceedings of the Canterbury
election may not be uninteresting :
The attempt to set up Const3rvativ:: Members two or
three weeks ago ha•fing no completely failed, that the can-
vass was left unfinished, every one expected that things
Would pass off quietly, and the former Members he returned
without coming to a poll. A mad man, however, who
has been lodging at the Rose for some months, under the
name of Count Rothschild, but who nos' takes the name
of Sir William Percy Iloneywood Courtenay, and who is,
by his ot./h aUb'unt, brother to the Duke of Northumber-
I land, son of Lord Courtenay, King of Jerusalem, Knight
OF Malta, and Prince of iEthiopia, laying claim, more-
over, to many estates in the neighbourhood, a day or two
before the time. of election suddenly proposed himself as a
candidate in a placard bearing evident marks of light-
' headedness of the writer, and setting forth political tenets
of the most opposing nature, as that he was the ardent ad-
mirer of Mr. Pitt, the stanch friend of the King of Hol-
land, the leveller of Bishops, the hater of tithes, and the
enemy of all taxation. Could it he believed that party
rage has so infatuated the senses of men that partisans of
any denomination could become supporters of such a Bed-
, latnite ? Could it be believed, had we not already seen
some instances of the noble spirit which actuates that party,
they would he Tories ?—the supporters of the Established
Church.—the friends of places and pensions. Yet so it was,
a Tory proposed the new candidate, who appeared in the
Hall in a crimson velvet dress, attended by a servant in
yellow and sky-blue. A Tory seconded the nomination,
and respectable Tory tradesmen have joined this lunatic,
for the avowed laudable purpose of annoying the Whigs
and forcing them to spend money. Truly the Conserva-
tives are friends of their country, when they wish to see
madmen and levellers sitting in the House of Commons—
yet we must allow they have found the true and proper
representative of their party. Never was there a more
just representative of the character and views of the Tories
than when the demented Count Rothschild, raving in his
yellow dressing gown, urged on, at imminent danger of
his neck, a deluded multitude at his carriage pole and
wheels, to rush with him in imaginary triumph through
the streets of Canterbury.
The sum of all is that the town, by the agency of these
gentlemen, has been thrown into commotion ; the Com-
mon-hall, assembled for the nomination of candidates and
to hear their explanations and intentions, converted into a
scene of absurdity and tumult ; the Members subjec'ed to
unnecessary expenses, the people deceived and degraded—
because a desperate sect will not tamely and generously
submit to the improved conviction of the majority, in
conduct resembling the animal called a skunk, who, when
driven to extremity, overtaken, and impotent beneath the
power of his pursuers, takes his poor revenge by a feetid
discharge on his unwary conqueror.