The Sun.
London, England, 1832-12-10 00:00:00

THE GENERAL ELECTION.

(Meetings Concluded from THE SUN of Saturday and

which appeared in uur Second Edition.)

THE CITY.

Mr. Alderman Wooy's speech continued—He promised
them that if they could find any man who would give up
more of his time, and more of his attendance in the House
of Commons, who would be more ready to remove those
taxes that bore heaviest on the people, or who was more
eager to promote economy in the public expenditure than
himself, he would at that moment give up his seat—(Lottd
cheers)—for he never would hold his seat one hour beyond
his having fulfilled his duty ; and let but the majority of such a
meeting as was nosy present, tell him that he had not done his
duty, and he would instantly resign.—(Cheers.)
Mr. Alderman WAytliNtAN came forward amidst loud
cheers. He had frequently, from their hustings, requested the
electors to give their attention to every individual who wished to
address them, and he regretted exceedingly the interruptions
:given tO One or two gentlemen. It would be idle for him to
go Into a history of his past life. He had been before the
11kiblic forty years, twenty of which passed away before he con.
templated reeelving any honour that was in the gift of the
electors, and therefore he could have no motive for the course
he then pursued. During that period, he would defy
iany one to put a finger on any part of his public conduct,
anti accuse him of having forfeited their confidence by any
neglect of his duty. The electors had now the opportu-
nity of exercising a new right, and it was for them to
sly w in what manner they would use it. They had
thanked the Government for the Reform Bill, and it re-
mained for them to say whether they would affurd
his Majesty's Government the nece,sary support
to enable them to give effect to that 13111.—(Cheers.) He was
hot one to put a blind confidence in any Government. On the
contrary, he conceived it the duty of a Member of Parliament
to act independently of any Government, and protect the rights
and privileges of his fellow-citizens. With regard to himself,
he had made no exertions to secure his reelection, though he
was aware that some other candidates had. He had not asked
for a single vote, because he considered that he could not
show more respect towards the electors of London, than by
leaving it to their quiet and calm consideration as to how they
should give their votes, without being influenced by any
one. He would not then particularly allude to what had
been said at other places; but he regretted that any-
thing should have been started to divide the friends
for Reform, and to set them at war with each other
when they had no enemy ih the field to combat.—(Cheers.)
He only now begged to state that, although he had not
canvassed them, if they thought him entitled to a conti-
nuance of their confidence, he hoped they would use in.
creased exertions at the poll on his behalf.—(Cheers.)
Sir JOHN KEY came rot-Ward amidst loud cheering. He
appeared before them with feelings of the deepest gratitude
for the kindness Which he had received since he had become a
candidate to represent them in the first Reformed Parliament.
No individual felt more deeply than himself the responsi-
bility Which devolved on individuals who were called upon
ho represent the people; but the conviction that he had no
personal gratification to aspire to, no private object to gain,
and his determination, in every station to which he might be
called, to support their rights and privileges, and to advocate
those principles of liberty, freedom, and independence, by the
success of which alone the country could be relieved from the
distresses in which it had so long been placed; and it was that
conviction that led him to throw himself on the electors in full
confidence of their support.—(Cheers.) It was the prosperity
and the independence of the people alone that he desired
to secure ; and if, through their means, he should
be returned to Parliament, he should feel that he was sent
there, not to represent his own interests—n,,t to represent
any party or body of men, but the interests of the whole
British people.—(Cheers.) They were called on to exer-
cise a great and important privilege which many of them
now, for the first time, possessed, of returning represen-
tatives, who might fairly be said to represent the people ;
those representatives who might have it in their power
either to prosnote the increase or the decrease o
taxation, according to their own views and prin.

Odes, and on whose conduct, as legislators, depend

ed the future happiness and prosperity of the
country--(Cheers)—those who would have to examine those
institutions under which, even in bad times, this country had
nourished, and either to strengthen them and reform them,
or, by not reforming them, to suffer them to fall into decay
and disuse.—(Cheers.) He sought not to destroy the institu-
tions of the country, but, as expressed by Earl Grey, he sought,

by reforming them, to adopt the only :means by which they.
could be strengthened, and their continuance secured to pos-
terity.—(Loud cheers.) The eyes of the country were
now on the electors of London : they had on all occasions
in which public principle, or the liberties of the country,
were concerned, nobly stood forward with a determina-
tion, z al, and an energy A% hich proved them to be pa-
triots, and conferred an honour on tbemselve., and a last:
ing benefit on their country.—(Cheers.) He called on
them now to prove true to themselves, true to the prin-

ciples they professed, and worthy of the victory they
had achieved, and the privileges which they had, recovered.

—(Loud cheers.) He asked them, would they suffer a return to
that lavish and wanton expenditure, and that misgovernment,

which, in times past, had prevailed under the domination of
an oligarchy, which had nearly brought about the ruin of our
merchants and traders, and produced the greatest misery
to the intelligent mechanics, and to all the honest and indus-
trious classes.—(Cheers.) The Hon. Baronet concluded by
stating that he should rely on their support, and added that

he had nothing to do with the course pursued by any other
candidate, and that he should coalesce with no one.—(Cheers.)

Mr. Alderman SCALES was received with great uproar.
ilc had longed for this day as a girl of 17 longed for her sweet.

heart, and he knew that the time never would arrive when he
should be afraid of meeting the electors. He had been accused
of coalescing, but he declared that he had only coalesced with
the electors. He offered himself, independently of all fac-
tions ; he would not be the nominee of any corporation or any
faction, but solely the representative of the citizens of Lon_

don.—(Great uproar.) His conduct and his principles were
before them; to those principles, and those pledges, he should
adhere in Parliament, for to that plain, he should most
assuredly go, unless the promise made to him should be
forfeited.--(A laugh.) He pledged his woad and honour
that he firmly believed he should go there at the head of
the poll.—(Laughter.) But no matta, the bottom would

do as well, if it was their pleasure ; at all events, he
wt ulfl go there an indepenth nt Member, and not by cor-

poration influence. He pledgtd himself to redress their
wrongs, t ) advocate their opinions, and either to
mend the corporation or end it, and every

corporation in the kingdom.—(A laugh.) He was not afraid to
attack corporations; he knew that many persons looked to the
good things in them, but they must learn, as he had done, to
do without them. Any person who went into the House of
Commons, and did not abolish the taxes, would be of no service,

for the abolition of taxes alone could benefit the country. The
taxes on all the necessaries of life should be removed' from the
labouring class, and put on such men as the Dukes of Bedford
and Devonshire. He had lived by the labour of that
class, and he would do all he could to relieve them. He
only asked their suffrages for one year, for he declared that
he would not be elected for three years, and he pledged him-

self to resign at the end of the year. After some further ob-
servations, which could not be heard from the uproar that pre-
vailed, the Worthy Alderman thanked the electors, and retired.
Mr. GROTE came forward amidst loud cheers. If at the
numerous partial meetings which he had already attended in
various parts of the city, he had felt any diffidence, how much

more must he feel on finding himself at last in the presence of a
full constituency ? Encouraged, as he had been, by the kind

welcome with which his name had been received, he felt his

heart elevated when he approached them to tender his services
as their representative in the first Reformed Parliament.—
(Cheers.) He was a new and untried man, and he came before

them as a Legislator in an improved era—as the offspring, the
progeny of the Reform Bill, and as the champion of that great
measure, which he believed to be a measure of help, of salva-
tion, and of reserve, if ever there was one in the history of
mankind.—(Loud and continued cheers.) A sham represen-

tation had been a phenomenon in the history of this country,
but there was now a real representation, the vendors of

which were the " elite " of all daises. He had recognised
the great evils under which the country had so long groaned,
in the wasteful expenditure of the national wealth ; and he

now sought to turn the current of extravagance away, and
to substitute such a frugal expenditure as would satisfy the
wants of an oppressed and impoverished nation.—(Cheers.)
He sought for a righteous education and for an improved

legislation in every department of the state.—(Cheers.) At the

meetings which he had attended in various parts of the city,
he had stated explicitly the measures which he intended to press
on the Reformed Parliament; and he had published an ad-
vertisement, in which he had stated what he regarded as the
political desiderata. But he would not trouble the meeting
DOW with reading it. They would also think it was unneces-
sary for him to state that he regarded the ballot and triennial
Parliaments, as the first wants of the nation, and that he
condemned the present system of tithes and corn laws.
He would merely state that all he had advocated at those
meetings, and all that he had recorded in that advertisement,
were his own sincere conclusions, at a time when lie could not
have hoped to see so large an audience approve of, and take
them up.—(Cheers.) In a Reformed Parliament his wish
would be to carry them through without diminution, yet with
all the prudence and caution which their importance demanded.
He had endeavoured at all those meetings to be as frank
and explicit as possible, for he thought that the man
who spoke plainly before lie was chosen, would act faith-
fully He now committed his
case to their judgment, fully trusting that they would
do justice to all flit candidates, and choose those best
fitted to promote the national welfare in general, and

the prosperity of the city of London in particular.
Mr. LYALL then came forward, but such was the
throughout the whole time he was speaking, that
he could not be heard, except by those just be-

side him. In offering himself as a candidate to re-
present their great city in Parliament, he assured them
that no one was more deeply impressed with a sense of the im-
poitant trust, and of the extent of the obligations and duties

than he was, He had been invited to represent the city

by a respectable body of the merchants and traders, and
as a mercantile man, he offered himself to their notice,
and if they thought him a fit and proper person to
be sent to Parliament, it should be his earnest and
anxious wish to promote the commercial interests of the
country in all their various, extensive, and complicated
relations.—(Cheers.) With respect to the carious sub-
jects connected with foreign and domestic policy,
which must necessarily press themselves on the new
Parliament, he pledged himself to bestow great atten-
tion on them, when he should lie in possession
of sufficient information to enable him to form a proper judg-
ment on them. The subject of taxation was intimately con-
nected with the commercial prosperity; and he would repeat
what he had often said before, that he should be anxious to
remove all those taxes which pressed heavily on the
labouring classes, and on the productive industry of
the country; and if, after every practicable retrenchment,
consistent with good faith and the public service, had been
made, it was necessary that some substitute should be
made, he would support such a substitute as would be less
injurious to the labouring classes. As to pledges and pro-
mises, he knew well how little they were regarded. But if he
were elected, he would act conscientiously to the best of
his abilities.

Mr. Sheriff FIUMPHEICY inquired if any other candidate
was to be propsed, and no one answering, the six candi-
dates were proposed to the meeting.
The show of hands for Mr. Grote, Sir John
Key, and Aldermen Waithman and Wood, was
immense, particularly for the two former, but very
few were held up for Alderman Scales and Mr. Lyall.
The Sheriffs declared the election to have fallen on George
Grote, Esq., Sir J. Key, Bart., R. Waithman, Esq., and M.
Wood, Esq.
A poll was demanded on behalf of Mr. Lyall and Mr. Alder-
man Scales, and the Sheriffs appointed the polling to take
place on Monday morning, to be continued for two days.
The Court of Hustings was then adjourned.