The Sun.
London, England, 1832-12-08 00:00:00

SECOND EDITION.

SUN-OFFICE, Seven v'Clock

GENERAL ELECTION

GENERAL ELECTION MEETINGS

Concluded from our First Edition.

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Mr. Ahlerman Woon's speech conflate'',
than himself, he would at that moment gitc Up his seat —(Loud
cheers.) For he never would hold his seat one how* beyond
his having fulfilled his duty, and let but the rria'Mrity of such a
meeting as was now present, tell him that he had not &rise biki
duty and he would instantly resign.—(Cheers.)
Mr. Alderman WA ITHM AN came forwahl amidst loud
cheers. He had frequently, from their tnistings, requested the
electors to give their attention to every individual who wished to
address them, and he regretttd exceedingly the interruption's
given to one or two Gentlemen. It would be idle for him to
go into a history of his past life. lie hlsd been before the
public forty years, twenty of which passed away before he Co.',-
ternplated receiving any honn`ar that was in the r,•ll`c of the
electors, and therefore ise could have no motfrv'e for the course
he then pursued. boring that petrod, he would defy
any one to put t finger on any part of his public conduc.,
and 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
allow in what manner they would use it. They had
thanked the Government for the Reform Bill, and it re-
rattited for them to say whether they would offird
isis Maje.ty's Government the nece-nary support
to enable them to.give effect to that Bill. —(Cheers.) lie was
not one to put a blind confidence in any Government. On the
contrary, he coerceived it the duty of a Member of Parliament
to act independently of any Governlnent, and protect the rights
and privileges of his fellow,tilizens. With regard to himself,
he had made no exertions to secure his re-election, though he
was aware that ponce other candidates had. He had not asked
for a single vote, because he considered that he could not
show snort respect towards the electors hf 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 more particularly allude to what had
been said at other places; but he regretted that any-
thing should have been started to divide the friends
of Reform, and also to set them at war with each
other when they had no enemy in 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 'Nati.
nuance of their confidence, he begged they would use in-
creased exertions at the poll on his behalf.—(Cheers.)
Sir JOHN KEY came forward amidst loud cheering. He
appeared before them with feelings of the deepest gratitude
for kindness which he had received since he had become a can-
didate 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
to represent the Parliament, 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 county 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, nut to represent his own interests—not to represent
any party or body of men, but the interests of the whole
B. itisli people—(Cheers). They were called on to exer-
cise a great and important privilege which many of them
now, Mr 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 proatote the increase or the decrease of
taxation, according to their own views and prin-
ciples, and on whose conduct, as legislators, depend,
ed the future happiness and prosperity of the
country,—(Cheers) Those who would have to support those
institutions under which, even in bad times, this country had
flourished, and either to strengthen them and reform them,
or by not reforming them, to suffer them to fall into decay
ant 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 l'utelic principle, or the liberties of the country,
were concerned, nobly stood forward with a determina-
tion, z al and an energy which proved them to be pa-
triots, and conferred an honour on•themselves, and a last-
ing benefit on their country. (Cheers.) He called on
them now to prose 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.
lie 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 coalesed 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 representatives 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
forf it d.—(A laugh.) He pledged his word and honour
that he firmly believed he should go there at the head of
the poll.—(Laughter.) But no matter, the bottom would
do as well, if it was their pleasure ; at all events, he
would go there an independent member, and not by cor-
poration influence. Ile pledged himself to redress their
wrongs, to 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
or 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
snore 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 fender his services
'as their representative in the first Reformed Parliament.—
(Cheer.) 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 reserue, if ever there was one in the history of
the history of mankind.—Continued cheers.) A share fepre-
sentation had been a phenomenon in the history of this countfy,
but there was now a real representation, the vendors of
which were the " elite " of all classes. He had recognized
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 extrovagance away, and
to substitute such a frugal expenditure as would satisfy the
wants of an oppressed and impoverisher naton.—(Cheers.)
He sought for a righteous education anti for an improved
legislation in every department of the state.—(Cheers.) At the
meetings which he had attempted in various parts of the city,
he had stated explicitly th'.., measures which he intended 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
now with reading it. They would also think it was unneces-
sary for him to state that he regarded the ballot and triennial
Parliament, as the first wants of the nation, and that lie
condemned the present system of tithes and corn laws,
He would merely state that alle he had advocated at those
meetings, and all that he had recorded in that advertisement,
were his own sincere conclusions, at a time when he could not
have hoped to see so long 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 befje lie was chosen, would act faith-
fully aftermards —(Cheers.) He now committed his
ease to their judgment, fully trusting that they would
do justice by all the candidates, and choose those best
fitted to promote both the national welfare in general, and
the prosperity of the city of London in particular.
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that no ei was moAt _ Azagr‘. Ell ith a sense of the im-
portant GA and . oriilt'entightnti i . • figations and duties
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