The Sun.
London, England, 1835-06-18 00:00:00

MEETING AT IPSWICH.

IPSWICH, WEDNESDAY EVENING.—Last evening about
5,000 persons assembled on the hill opposite the Corn Ex-
change, Mr. Wason having promised to address the multitude
from a temporary platform.
Mr. WAsoN and his friends were received in the most en-
thusfl,:tic manner. The Hon. Gentleman observed that he
was sure that the meeting would be pleased to learn that as
far as the cazivess had proceeded, which he believed extended
to nine-tenths me
the electors, no doubt of the return of his
Honourable Friend
and himself could be entertained; and
there could be no doebe of their return unless the Opposition
intended to imitate the ce.a.olPle of those who were engaged
in the last election by bribing the electors. He was confi-
dent of a large majority in his faeeeur unless more bribery was
practised than was used at the last eition•—(Hear.) It was
the duty of the electors to watch the ho;ises of those voters
who were well known to every honest man the town, and
to watch the movements of those who were iestrumental in
bribing the electors. He wished every man to watch those
individuals. Let every man abstain from speaking to them
during the election. If they saw them bring up votes to the
poll they might feel satisfied that such votes had been bribed.
Let every honest man cease to hold communion with such
persons, and let them be branded with the mark of public in-
dignation. The citizens of that borough thee had an oppor-
tunity of showing what they thought of the system of bribery
and corruption, which had characterized the proceedings of
the ether party at the last election. They knew what the
Blues thought of those practices. He called upon the meet-
ing to watch the clergymen of the town, and it would be seen
that they all polled in favour of bribery and corruption.—
( Confusion.) If, however, his prognostications, as regarded
that reverend body, were falsified by absolute proof to the
contrary given at the approaching election, then should he be
instantly ready and willing to offer his apology for having
unjustly suspected them. He feared at the same time that,
from the course they bad pursued on the recent occasion,
his apprehensions were too well grounded. A certain gen-
tleman, in his address to the electors a few days since,
had told them that if they adopted the same method at the
ensuing as they had followed at the last election, they would
be sure of success. Did that individual want another forty
days of sitting of a Committee of the House of Commons?
If so, he hoped they might meet with it, and have to pay
again all the expenses arising therefrom. He could tell that
party, that such practices would not be tolerated by the
citizens of the borough of Ipswich any longer. The Hon.
Candidate then commented in severe terms upon the con-
duct pursued by Mr. Kelly before the Committee—conduct
which made every one of its members blush for an individual
who had pushed forward his supporters to bear all the punish-
ment, even to imprisonment in Newgate, accruing to his own
delinquency, instead of endeavouring to screen them by a re-
signation of his seat. The Hon. Gentlemen then pressed upon
the electors the absolute necessity for an early attendance at
the poll, by which a triumphant victory was certain of being
gained.
Mr. DILLON then addressed the meeting on the part of
eft.. Morrison, and urged the duty which devolved on them to
make every exertion to return Mr. Morrison and Mr. Wason,
who had so nobly fought the battle for the preservation of the
independence of the borough before a Committee of the
House of Common., during the protracted period of forty-one
days. They should remember, too, that that was not a con-
test of Whig and Tory, of Reformer and Auti-Reformer, of
Blue and Yellow, or of personal consideration, but of pure
principle alone.
Mr. WHITE then addressed the meeting ; after which the
crowd dispersed, having previously given three loud and en-
thusiastic cheers for the reform interest.