The Sun.
London, England, 1832-12-13 00:00:00

TOWER-HAMLETS.

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At ten o'clock Mr. Hanunick (the Returning-officer for
this borough), along with his deputies, arrived upon the
hustings, on Stepney-green, with the poll-books, and pro-
ceeded to cast up the official account of the numbers
polled for each candidate. A considerable number of per-
sons had then assembled, but they kept very quiet till
near 12 o'clock, when the various committees of the
different candidates began to arrive on the green, preceded
by bands of music, and carrying a great many flags. Mr.
Clay drove through the crowd, accompani,ql by Mrs.
Clay, and proceeded to the committee-room. He was much
cheered. Dr. Lushington arrived soon after, arid was
also very well received. Order among the crowd was well
kept by a strong party of the new police, and we have to
make our public acknowledgments to Mr. Hammick, for
the attention shown us in providing proper accommodation
for the press--we have not met with such attention at
many of the hustings which it has been our duty to attend.
At one o'clock the poll-books having been cast up, Mr.
Hamm'ck declared the numbers as follow :
Lushington 3978 I Stanhope 2952
Clay
The two first were accordingly declared the duly elected
Members.
Mr. HAMMICK then returned thanks to the people for
their conduct during the election. They had completely falsi-
fied the predictions of their opponents, who, before the Bill
passed, said the election would be one constant scene of confu-
sion and riot. He had the pleasure of informing them that at
no one of the polling-booths had one person been sent before a
Magistrate.—(Cheers.) He had also to return his most sin-
cere thanks to the gentlemen who had acted so efficiently as
his deputies. So well had they exerted themselves at the close
of the poll yesterday, that they deserved the electors' thanks.
To the police also he must return his thanks, for their con-
duet during the contest bad been most admirable.—

(Cheers.)
D. LUSHINGTON then came forward, and was so much
cheered that he could not be heard for some moments.
When the noise in part had subsided, the Worthy Member
said he had been many times returned to Parliament on
former occasions, but that was the time when be felt
most proud, for he was then returned upon the pure
and honest principles of Reform, and as the first
Member to a Reformed Parliament by the new
borough of the Tower Hamlets. It was impossible for him to
express the feelings which pressed upon him. The gra- ,
titude which he felt to his friends and the electors generally,
could not find vent in words. This was a pure triumph of the
great principles which he held in common with the great ma-
jority of the inhabitants of the Tower Hamlets. He did not
consider that such a great and commercial borough sent him
as their representative to support this or that Ministry, but
to support the great principles of good government—to be
carried on without regard to the interests of any party or body
of men, and one who took for its motto, " Equal justice to all."
The greatest reward which he expected, and which he hoped
to claim as his due, was, that when his duty was finished the
electors of the Tower Hamlets would say that he had done his
duty. He had resorted to no system, to no act which he would
blush to own to the assembled electors and the public at large.
He had entreated his friends, at the outset of the contest,
to use intimidation to no one.—(Cheers.) Success was the
only motive that actuated him, but a success that should be
honourable to the electors, for otherwise it could not be
honourable to him. He would not have his election secured
by the abandonment of a single principle, and one of those
which he cherished most was that every elector should be free
as the wind. He would confidently appeal to the 4,000 voters
who had honoured him with their support, to say whether
their votes were not given honestly and willingly. At
the outset he had said that he would stand alone, that
he would coalesce with no one ; but would stand
upon those principles which he had acted upon for the
last twenty.five years. Having made this statement,
he now most solemnly assured the electors, that, so help him
God, he had to the last moment acted upon that principle, and
not one of his friends had been advised how a second vote should
be given. He begged leave to thank them all. His gratitude
could not find vent in words, but would be shown by his con-
duct in the place to which they had sent him.—(Cheers.)
Mr. CLAY then stepped forward and was received with great
cheering.
He thanked the electors for the honour they had
done him. He felt it was an arduous, as well as an honourable
task which was imposed upon him. He felt the almost awful re-
sponsibility which they had placed upon him by sending him to be
one of the makers of those laws by which they were to
be governed. Feeling all this, still he trusted he should
go through his Parliamentary career with satisfaction to
them and to his own conscience. Tue principles which
, he had so frequently avowed before the electors would
guide his conduct throughout that career. He would not

didate got. Under these elrellinbtanceb, ou'ria.6 stoiy
that his would be a very short one.—(A laugh.) Though he I
had lost his election, he could assure them lie had
not lost his good temper, nor he trusted, their good opinion.
He could not agree with the other losing candidate, that un-
due influence had been used. The very argument
brought forward to prove it actually disproved it.
Who, lie would ask, had more influence at the East and West
India Docks than lie had ?—(Cheers.) The fact was, it had
been a fair fight—two won and two lost, and that was all that
could be said about it. With regard to himself, he had come
too late; otherwise, if the electors had known him better,
they would have liked him better. His politics deemed
not to have been understood there. He was one day charged
with being a Tory ; another day it was stated he had joined a
Political Union ; the fact was, he had joined neither. He had
his own principles, and would yield them to no man alive. He
cared not what opinions or principles were advocated by one
party or another. Whether a measure was supported by
Whig, Tory, or Conservative, if it was for the good of
the people it would have his support.—(Cheers.)
It was upon his practical knowledge of commerce that he
had offered himself to the great trading borough of the
Tower Hamlets. He candidly acknowledged, that in every
thing else they had made a proper choice. He was very
much obliged to those who had voted for him, and to the
electors generally for the hearing they had given him. He
wished them all farewell ; he was going down to Norfolk,
and if they had any commands, be would be very glad to
execute them for them.—(Great cheers and laughter. )
Mr. CoKres s lid he was sorry that the Gallant Colonel
felt so sore at the present time. He had only exercised
the right of an Englishman, and criticised the opinions
and principles of a candidate. He was glad the Gallant
Colonel bad declared him a Radical. He was Chairman of
Mr. Clay's Committee, and had given him no mean support ;
and yet the Gallant Colonel said Mr. Clay was a Tory. At the
meeting alluded to he had stated that Mr. Clay would not say
how many millions, whether 20 or 27, would be taken off the
expenditure of the country in the first Session of Parliament,
though he would not promise yet to do all in his power towards
getting a cheap Government, cheap bread, and a cheap army.
He hoped the Gallant Colonel would be satisfied at this expla-
nation, if not the people would.—(Loud cheers.)
Mr. LAWLESS then came forward awl prepared to ad-
dress the electors, which created loud cries of "No elector,
no elector."
Mr. HAMMICK said he wished in every thing to con-
tinue that line of conduct be had formerly pursued, and
act with impartiality thoughout. He therefore put it
to the meeting. whether he could allow any one
not an elector of the borough to address them. This was
decided in the negative, and Mr. Lawless retired, apparently in
high dudgeon.
Dr. LusitiNuToN then proposed a vote. of thanks to Mr.
Hammick, for his highly impartial conduct during the whole
of the contest.

Mr. CLAY said it would have given him pleasure to have se-
conded the motion, had he not been requested by the Gallant
Captain near him, that he might have that honour.
Captain MARRY AT said, that as one of the losing can-
didates, even he had great pleasure in seconding the motion
of Dr. Lushington. The motion was then put to the meet-
ing, and carried unanimously.
Mr. HAMMICK returned thanks, and said it was
one of the proudest days of his life that his conduct
should have deserved that mark of approbation then given
to it. It was a story that would descend from his children to his
grand-children that he had had the honour to preside over the
electors of the Tower Hamlets, on the first occasion of their
having the power of sending their own Member to Parliament.
Mr. Hit)imicx then declared the meeting to be dissolved.
The Members then retired amidst immense cheering. The
assemblage, during' the whole time, was much greater than on
the nomination day, and of a more respectable class. In front
of the hustings sat Mr. Clay, sen., no doubt much pleased and
gratified at the honourable situation in which his son was
placed, and the manner in which he was treated by the
electors.