The Sun.
London, England, 1819-03-01 00:00:00

WESTMINS'rERIANA.

At the end of the twelfth day of the present
contest,. to wit,
.yesterday, Saturday, the 27th of
February, 1819, only 6807 Electors of Westmin-
ster have given their suffrages towards *supplying
the present vacaiii:Y:— This .small number, cons-
pired with former lElections, leaves about five
j thousand nnpolled Voters in this greatest of cities.
As ther'atio of polling in past times, while such
a mass remained unrolled, has been proved by
f' the evidence of facts' to have been Front 250 to
300 votes per hour, it follows, that Mr. GEORGE
-Loee's miserable nsujority of 616 may be out-
, stripped in less than three hours of to-morrow,
Monday, the first of March, or of the two suc-
eeediug days. Hence the Committee of Mr.
GEORGE LAME, unless doltishness prevail where
shrewdness should preside, must see on what velvet
their cause reposes.
That the reiterated assertion from the Hustings,
of a Coalition between Government and Opposi-
tion, in favour of Mr. G: LAMD, should have hi-
ther:to been' a mere Jacobin fact, that is to say, a
sheer lie, is deeply to be deplored. Let it be such
4io longer, in the name of common sense. A single
-vote in the House of Commons is a mere.nothing
to the power and popularity of the present Go-
vernment—not their' popularity with the biped
hounds of Covent-Garden, but with the mass of
society in every pare of the Empire; with the in-
telligent, respectable, teflecting people of Eng-
land. V, ry different would be the pressure upon
-the public mite! of all Europe, it Jacobinism
should triumph ie this Congest. at the head-quar-
ters of all tthe eon: titutional parties that torso the
tiit silty of our civil system.
It is, however, true that, without the existence
of 41,11 y understanding -between Government and
Opposition upon the sehject ot this Election,
Mr. G. LAMB incontestibly owes his :pre-
. •
seet .auspicious position to the -iitesistible re-
probatioe of Jacobin atitleeity wlach pervades
the friends of Administration in tl.is''City. But
why sheidd so landsble a spirit • be resisted ?,
There has been great self-deniei in• the tlovern-
merles- not allowing any Candidate to start upon
its own-interest. In addition to whatever motives
of prudence determined their stsnditig aloof, th
tasie;:end chariiy in witleedding' Si' MURRAY
MAILWELL, or any other Gentleman, from the
daily defilements of Covert Garden; are indeed
:.010st,pSaiseworthy. The strength of (34,veyereeet
'in Westminster is molter of demonstration: ,Whilst
the a single votes of Sir SAMurtL ItObllLLy were
.014572, those of Sir MURRAY MAXWELL' were
2676 Yet the friends Of overnment would di-
vide foil 2000 of 'their votes ; and so, with in-
eemperable judgment, destroyed then' 'own ob-
ject All the powers of sopilis!ry. ca,inot over.
_threw such facts. Arithmetic never yields to *r-
elents-tent,
It will not, however, now he blundering—it
wilthe clear, plain, sound•gooall sense to redeem
Westmitsetre Irons ignonsinious bondage, even In
the Tarrson ot Mr. GeORGE LAMS. What the
'ci?orse Of 'Sir Fttgeets ButtneTT nsy;be, in this
'Crisis, to-morrow will: show. .Althotekle,blihsv=
defitged this county with corruptions is mat--
ter of jtiridicsi eecord—althatigh-miserable meg
have suffered the last penalties of flegrant bri-
bery from. the Horiourable Baronet's exche-
quer, yet would the writer of this article
• rather he hie dupe than his disfruster;
in
• refusing to him all credit for the .sincerity 'of
that solemn declaration on Monday last, wheiein
• he iustly stigmatized the corrupted Elector as
Plate of treason to his country and- perjury to
his God.' Notwithstanding the
general theology
of the Jacobin world, the writer hereof • is
not endowed with seten intrepidity of disbelief to
keep his mind wholly essimeressed by that em-
scobi
Iphatic sentence, even frown
n. It is not
however in
.the English language—it conic not
J
be its the genius of even that same SHAKSPEARE,
sob:ninsillrla übe yr, t
lYnetobis preference, is the -idol
of Sir' Fstec o clesracteriee; it living
,these times, the flegitiousness of se/chug hands
of wretches to votefor Mr. Hoanouss with ropes
round -their consciences, after the (lesemit upon
venal voting so plausibly delivered from the
Hustings on the 22d iest.
However, it behoves the supporters of Mr. G.
Luxe to be impost their gland its more than one
jetty. Throughout the Westminster contest of
last summer there was nut, on any side, a ray
—a glimpse of Election genius, but upon one oc-
casion--arid that, uedeniably, was on the pert of
Sir FRANCIS BustpeTr. Whoever the planner was
of the measure on Sunday the 21st of last June,
which, its the Address of sortie supposed Eke.
toll to. Sir FRANCIS and in Sir FRANCIS'S An-
swer to that Address, seslocked the springs of the
Baronet's Election purity, and produced sixteen ,
hundred votes, good men and true, in two days,
for him who in the three preceding days had only
reached 454 votes—that planner, whoever be May
be, should never be out of the apprehensions' of
Mr. k;E-ORGR LAMB or of Mr. GRoRGE LAMB'S
Election Managers, or Manglers, till three o'clock
on Wednesday next. The beauty of that ma-
noeuvre was, that not one Elector's name ever
once appeared in it—though no doubt the sup-
posed sigeers were not Electors in buckram, but
clear realities—all—all in Kendal green.' Now,
what is to prevent that very planner Irons helping
Mr. Geotta a ',Area's voters to the poll to.morro
by art impenetrable blockade of both ends cif the
Hastings, with _1 clear passage for the voters'
impriured on the hats ? To whom so likely
as to that planner is doe the imPartial hearing of.
Mr. GEoRGE LAMB'S vote-making eloquence at the
daily close of the Poll. That branch, however,
of Jacobin tactics admits.of improvement. The
systematic interruption of all but one side, would
tell mach better with cards audi alter= par- .
tem,' (which being in the Cherokee tongue, could
not fail to be as intelligible ie front of the Hest-
ings as Mr. LIOSHoUSE'S Reform') whilst the
principle may be enforced by gagging the Whit;
Aloother with the offals of the Garden. To a man,
the professionals are for universal suffrage ; only
.place of animal monthly elections (magni menses)
would better bind Members to Constituents. One
of these public functionaries, it appears, made
himself Cushos' of Lurch FOLEY's woe!' and
pitese, though perhaps only to prevent the rob-
her y, by any other person, of the Noble Lord,
who really seems to have been so batty in prose- I

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as scarcely to allow his rotary,
may be out upon mottgage, the means of °_
ranging his defence or dying like a Gentletrou:i
But though this member of the corps diSP(." of
of, the main body, faithful to the good cause
Universal Suffrage, is still at their diurnal Pot
fr.
a powerful body ; and never supine at an eiecti
• Mr. GEORGE LAMB'S Committee must be I)°'°'
and bred and educated for losing an
deed their wisdoms ought to have a patent fot:blie
if they are, at this time, unaware of the possible
interception of the polling passage, in sucl!,,
crisis as. at present, by dicers methods ; aoilww;t,
out any collusion in any quarter. Nut ping
is J►c
insinuated against the IReturning Otlicer--"%t
face the writer never
.saw ; but, in the Plait-14%z
words that can convey meaning, he declares,"..
election
it,
Elect,,
it any evil happens to Mr. G. LAMB'S
through any stratagems, defeatable by pr"I)e,r:„:
gilance in the Head of that Court of th'st'n'ti‘
who is possessed of unstinted power of poliee---540'
conduct ought to be submitted to the judgulto
of fifteen Members of Parliament deciding IJPA
their oatbs.—Sir FRANCIS BURDBTT has bre:/11/1,
•fatal favourite of some Returning Officers•
zanship in his cause has laid two of theca bi A
heels in Newgate, before now. Before PISto,
High Bailiff of Westminster has been mulctio
Lawyers i,.
the tune of 20001. for malve'rsation ° of
bold—that what happened' once „ '
happen twice.
February 28, 1819. - •