The Sun.
London, England, 1826-05-05 00:00:00

burnan .pride. can ascend high enough, to suppoie that the en-
thusiastic manner in which yow have been pleased to drink
my health can he' ascribed to me. It is to the cause in which
I have embarked—it is to the °cense of the liberty of Eng-
land that you paid respect in the way in which you have just
dime the titC Honour to propose my health. The cause which
you sopporti Fon mityiaieLli interwoven with the interests of the'
country at large': It is when a county exerts intelf for its own
Indepeodelice,. *hen it promotes the cattle of the independent
Man, Who titters himsel' to its choice us a representative, that it
moat efficiently promotes the liberty of the country at large. I
assure you, if I have the honour of being again returned ua your
representative, it shall be my primdest and most constant en-
thiavottr, to fill up that slo.tell, and carry into execution those
principle'', which so lat:ty secured ow your approbation.-
141 y ilituation points out the few sentences which my feelingi
told my duty regnire the to address to yob. We are met here to
celebrate the imecess of my cattvasa. I unlit allude, thereMre, to
dieumatatices by which the independence of the county was ;Lai
tailed, Ewa to the Arts that have beeti Made by supporting tni its
tender those attempts unavailing. When 1 returned to the county
at the late election, the state of Alia appeared truly appalling,
not that I tl.ought my friends were not to be depended upon. I
relied Upon the heart. of 'British oak ; thttAireaent avert of the
county, and this meeting, attic that I was jirlitified ittuty reliance.
A very short .progress in my canvass cotrelnets/ me that my greatest
enemies Were iiiy hest friends,--it way by them that the spirit of
the freeholder's was to be roused, and their own itr4olence was to
be COpfotOoltsi....-Nreat appla ihond that from Nerreaatle
to the very utterttiost limit of North Tyne, there was but one
feeling, a determination to %opium the independence of the'coutity.
There has not been one single day Which lies allowed flee to de- '
spout!) and I feel convinced that yeti and our value Insist he
victorunis. It scent* alttust nemasary that I should slmeak of
the odious coalition against me. Retire I proceed to notice
it, I think ,it proper td declare that I do not say any thing
against Lord Iluwick and Mr. Bell. I never have said any
thing, and never. shall say any thing, agniust any of the other
candidates. There is not a person, there is not a child In the
comity, Who did not. know that at this election, at any rate, I
Was to be ousted, I call this then by its only proper wpm., un
odious conspiracy=---(Great applause.)-1 hart defined the term ;
and when I speak of the coalition, therefore, do not mean to
silk a word personally against any of the candidates. That coati-
don Was raised against all principle, against the views of all men
who had the interests of the comity at heart. There has not been
a charge hruught against toe for forsaking any political principle*.
I have never been accused of showing a, mercenary disposition in
the discharge of my duty. A charge Was brought ziguiust lute by
an anowinunis writer, which I hate once answer,7l in toy awn
nante ; bat why should I continuo to answer merely for the plea-
sure of this or any anonymous writer, who dares not Make his
eluirges openly? I took the most proper time on the Inviting* to
demand whether Oily charges cduld,be brought against me, but nut
an individual had the manliness to come Mrwaril and prefer tillt.•
wm4hl ask any gentleman here who hag any experience of the
world, how it is possible to get through life it every anonytootia
alatiderer is to he attended to? All he can do is to jillhet altelpier
hi the most pubic manner, and if he will not tome forward, we
have a right to conclude that he is an intliodeot
This, it Was nut necessary that I sloothl repeat, hut I should be
wooing in my duty VI had not alluded to it, to thank them fur
ilteir efforts to serve me by their caluoutiea.—(Applause.:),-Thosc
who hate $ll3/4!wp tinop:elveis my bitterest etietuiea have heunu per-
suns whose names were heretofore autniated with freedom, The
Whigs ofNorthumberland will fur the future