The Sun.
London, England, 1835-06-19 00:00:00

MR. KELLY'S ADDRESS.

After the nomination proceedings yesterday, a numerous
body of the electors in the Blue interest met at the Assem-
bly Rooms, where Colonel Broke again shortly addressed
the electors, and amidst loud calls for Mr. Kelly, was im-
mediately succeeded by that gentleman.
Mr. KELLY, who was most enthusiastically received,
began by assuring his late constituents, that in appearing
once again before them, it was with pride and pleasure that
he had to recommend to their suffrages his Hon. and Gal-
lant Friend Col. Broke, and his Hon. Friend Mr. Holmes.
Of the former, who, as well as his whole distinguished family,
had long been well known to the people of Ipswich, and
whose name was identified with the military and naval glory
of the age in which he lived, it was unnecessary to say any
more than that they could not choose a more able, worthy,
or patriotic representative. Of Mr. Holmes he could only
observe, that throughout an active and honourable political
life, through good report and evil report, in times of triumph
and times of adversity, he had ever stood firm and faithful
to those public principles which he (Mr. Kelly), and
those whom he addressed, were proud to acknowledge and
support, and upon which the safety and welfare of their
country depended. It might be expected that he (Mr. Kelly)
should now say something of himself, and of the eventful
occurrences which had deprived him and his friend Mr.
Dundas of the honour of representing them for the remain-
der of the present. Parliament. He had learned that his
political oppbnents, in his absence, had made him the sub-
ject of strong animadversion. He should not follow their
example, but should wait till he could meet his adversaries
face to face, and that would be all he should desire ; and
be should be always ready to meet all who might have any
charges to prefer against him. He complained with much
energy of the numerous calumnies which had gone forth
against him publicly or privately where he had no opportu-
nity of answering for himself, and at times when those who
uttered them, and those to whom they were addressed, were
in total ignorance of the real facts, and evidence, and merits
of the complicated case upon which the accusations were
grounded. He then called the attention of the electors to
the subject of the late Report of the Election Committee,
bat it was only for the purpose of declaring that no provo-
cation, no slander, however bitter and unmerited, should in-
duce him to depart from his determination not to enter upon
the merits of that case, either to justify himself, or to de-
fend or to criminate others, until the whole truth of the
whole evidence should be fully brought before the House
of Commons and the world. Never did an imprisoned
captive more long for liberty than he did to see the day
when that case, being completely before the public, he
should have the opportunity, in the face of the world, of
meeting his accusers, and of showing in its true light the
whole nature and character of the transactions, even from the
beginning to the end. It was, indeed, to him a novel spectacle,
that, after six weeks spent upon an inquiry, into the vali •
dity of an election, in the course of which many individuals,
not parties to the proceeding, had been tried upon various
charges, and on which a report had been made to the
House of Commons, the public newspapers during the
greatest and most intense political excitement which he re-
membered ever to have existed, should, in this country,
whose love of calm and impartial justice had so long been
is pride and boast, have borne down the characters and
conduct of so many persons in an irresistible torrent of pre-
judice, while the accused could not be heard to defend
themselves, and the facts on which so many accusations
were founded, were absolutely unknown, or known only by
selected and partial statements. Mr. Kelly then exhorted
the electors to stand true to their cause and to their prin-
ciples ; to resist with courage the current which ran so
strong against them, and to await with dignity and fortitude
the moment, not far distant, when truth must at last pre-
vail. And let not, added the Learned Gentleman, your
enemies imagine, that this undue excitement, so destruc-
tive of justice, of fair play. of fair dealing between man and
man, can last for ever. Even in the House of Commons,
where party feeling had run so high, there would be found
even in the ranks of their political opponents, many and
many a true-bore British Gentleman, who, when the time
for calm consideration and judgment should arrive, would
scorn to sacrifice to party zeal that high sense of honour,
of purity in the Administration of justice, and even whore
indiscretion and misconduct might appear, that merciful
indulgence to the frailties of their fellow-creatures which dis-
tinguish and adorn the characters of the truly good and great.
Mr. Kelly then adverted to his own public conduct during
the time that he bad been their representative. He had

done his best, and not in vain, to procure that advantage to
the town so long withheld, of the removal of the Assizes.
He defended his vote upon the malt-tax question, and ex-
plained the principles on which he had acted on every
public question that had arisen during his short Parliamen-
tary career. The Learned Gentleman then concluded a
speech of nearly two hours' length by exhorting the assem-
bled electors to be true to themselves and their own cause,
undiscouraged by the temporary adversity which had fallen
upon it, and undaunted alike by the threats and the calum-
nies of their enemies, to maintain the honour and character
of their town by the purity and energy of their own con-
duct on.this trying occasion, and to stand firm and fast
upon those principles with which he and they were identi-
fied, and upon which he believed the honour and welfare of
the country mainly depended. The Hon. and Learned
Gentleman retired amidst loud cheers.

The following speech was delivered by Mr. Dundas, at a
meeting of the electors, a day or two since, at Ipswich :
" Mr. DUNDAS appeared," he said, " to vindicate his own
character, and the character of his Hon. Colleague, Mr.
Kelly, against the foul aspersions which had been thrown
out against them. It had been said that a system of
bribery prevailed at the last election, and it was by that
means his Colleague and himself were elected. No candi-
dates had ever come forward with purer intentions to solicit
the suffrages of the electors of Ipswich than his Colleague
and himself. The evidence taken before the Committee

ter;-ly-te before the. public, when it would appear
that the whole case proved against them was that four
persons had been bribed ; and yet, upon e.r parte evi-
dence, the respectable constituency of Ipswich aidlieeie'
branded with the same infamy as Grampound'and Old
Sarum, and had been stigmatized as the MOSCJ•eOertit:
borough in the kingdom. He would state a few faeti
with regard tkMr. Pilgrim's introduction into the borough.
A short period' before the election, the respectable firm
of Sewell and Blake had business with Mr. Kelly in the -
Court of King's Bench. Mr. Blake finding that Mr.. Kelly
was a candidate to represent Ipswich, wrote to that gen-
tleman, offering Mr. Pilgrim's services as a clerk, and he •
(Mr. Kelly) was induced to accept them. He would pledge
himself that beyond writing letters and taking checks, nei-
ther he nor his colleague (Mr. Dundas) were cognizant of
Mr. Pilgrim's acts. A short time after ele election, Pil-
grim goes to his employers in a state of alarm, stating that
he wished to leave the co'intry on his own account. He
applied to a solicitor in Norwich to interest himself with
the solicitor who was employed to conduct the petition to
send him out of the country ; but that was refused. Aftei-
wards Pilgrim went abroad, and whi he was abroad,
Messrs. Sewell and Blake discovered ertain acts had
been done, which, if proved, would 'c a charge of
felony against. Pilgrim. Then what next course
pursued ? Mr. Pilgrim begged of his citor to intercede
with the sitting Members to use their influepce with his
employers, and to get him out of the scrape. • goes to
London as a suppliant to Mr. Clipperton ana?Mr"." Kelly,
to induce them to ask his employers to forego the.eharge.
Mr. Kelly would not do any thing to compound a c ge of
felony ; and what did Mr. Pilgrim ? He goes to Nlrwich
to his employers, places himself in a position to be arrested
by the Speaker's warrant ; he then places the letter of Mr.
Clipperton and Mr. Kelly into the hands of a Radical bar-
rister, who, out of friendship to his client, puts them into
the hands of Mr. Wason, to make what use of them he
thought fit. This was the state of the case from beginning
to end. The Hon. Gentleman went on to say, Mr. Kelly
and himself were desirous of the most complete investiga-
tion of the proceedings at the late election, and they begged
the electors of Ipswich to suspend their judgment until the
whole of the evidence should be laid before the public.
Mr. Dundas congratulated his friends upon having two
such Hon. Gentlemen as Colonel Broke and Mr. Holmes
as candidates to represent them, and as a private
indivi-
dual, a freeman of the borough, he would do all% his power
to promote their success."

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