The Sun.
London, England, 1826-06-30 00:00:00

PRESTON—TuP.stmv NIGHT.

About eight o'clock Mr. Cubbett presented himself at the win-
dow of .114 hotel, and addressed the multitude to the following
effect

Gentlemen,----I am extremely happy to see you all—l am so
happy that I believe any one would wish to he an unsuccessful
candidate to enjoy the same state of happiness that I do at this mo-
meta. Indeed, I have not been so happy since the day of my
marriage.—(Laughter.)-:--This is not the case, I suspect• with
some of those who have opposed me ; and their feelings are very
different from mine. But whatever they may think of the busi
nese, I can assure them that I will not let it rest SO—they shall
both he ousted as sure as I stand before you, depend upon. that.
A new election will take place in the month of March: shall be
again at my post, but I am quite sure Mr. Stanley will never ven-
ture to show his fare among you again. As soon as I reach
London I will write out an account of this unjust and sham
election. I will state all the particulars in such a manner
that any one may understand them, and may see at • once
the injustice which has been dons, not only to me, but to
you. I will have it printed in the form of a little book,
and send copies to Preston: A copy will be delivered at
earls house, anti you shall have nothing to pay for it.—
(Braso.)—l int4nd to present a petition to the House of
Cormnons as soon as that Ilonse meets. I will conduct the busi-
nese entirely at my own expense, and have no doubt that I shall
be successful. In the man time, gentlemen, I beg to return
you my warmest thanks for the kindness you have shown me
hitherto. The remembrance of it shall never ha effaced from my
memory, and I trust, and believe, when we meet again, that I
shall experience the same kindness and the same attachment on
your part, to the honourable cause in which we are embarked.—
I shall pray for your prosperity and the prosperity of your Wives
and children ; and believe me, that your interests shall continue,
as heretofore, to occupy my thoughts. I bid you, most affec-
tionately, farewell.--(Loud cheers.)
My. Cobbett then took his departure from this town in •an
open carriage; accompanied by Mr. Clerk (of Norfolk), and two
of his sons. The carriage seas preceded out of town by a. band
and moo flags. A large concourse followed the carriage, and a
number of the persons, particularly females, pressed round him,
and emulously strove to shake hands with him. The multitude
followed him about half a mile out Of town. Some of them were
,heard to say, Boor Cobbett ! I tlitre say he is shedding tears
now."

WESTMORLAND, JiTtg 27 (Firm DAY).
The polling recorninenced this morning, though it did not cow
tinge throiigh the day with so much briskness as heretofore. It
was said that as early ea one o'clock in the morning the polling
booths were occupied by the Yellows, who are certainly as-inde-
fatigable ar tlikyare confident of eucceita. It is generally said that
Mr. Brougham has not the slightest prospect of samosa ; and it is
wick], that lie. knows that to his the case himself, but that still lie
is !anxious to ascertain the extent of his own as well as of his solver-
sari"' strengti4 with,* to a future contest. It it also said
that his sole object is tu.cormael Load Lonedele, by contesting testy
election, to compromise.
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_Ulm, and to allow them 4) return
out Newlin.. At all events, 14 defeat Hew, to be Almost beyond

the possibility of a doubt. There have been no disturbances to-
day that are at all worth mentioning.
About five o'clock the Under-I.4mill' appeatVl upon the huht-
ings, followed by. the Candidates, who itnntediaNely proceeded to
their respective places. The Untier.Bltetiti then announced the
state of 4he poll as fialows
hay's poll. Aggregate.
Lord Lowther 27e, - - 1,189
• Colonel Lowther • - • 2'7*', - 1,099
Mr. 13rongliam 189.! _ 929
Majority for. Colonel 'Lowther on that-day', poll, -83; total
majority, 170. •

Lord ,LOWTHEIt then addressed the freeholders, and begged tb
return them his most sincere thanks for the gratifying position in
which they had placed 'him upon that dity'spoT---a position which
was doubly gratifying, after the prediction which had been made
by their opponent on the prereiliiig eveniitg.,—(Great cheers.
After that prediction he co old indeed, expect to have
pre-
served even his majority of,2b ; lint now he considered that they
had weathered the"en:m.l,-114mile had se far favoured them that
except' a German nib:tele, one of Prince l-folieniove own, were tb
take place, he must cOnehitle that the contest was tiniehed.—(lm-
uiliketi) the (read a
lythatdieGentle-
man
get
that his friend Capt. Parry should, in' hits next voyage, discover
the supposed passage near the North pule, having already failed 3
times in the attempt to do em—(Clieers and laughter.)—Much
had been said of those votes, Which laud been so much condemned
—inushroom votes,. or, us they were sometimes called, faggots;
and, indeed, lie entertaineul‘no doubt but that they were extremely'
hard of digestion—(loud cheers and a laugh)—aud that, when ad-
ministered in large quantities, were found to be sometimes fatal.—
( A laugh and cheering. )—lt was had to criminate and recriminate,
but after all that had .been said, he could not avoid reminding the
freeholders of what had taken place at Appleby Cattle.—(Cheers
and laughter.)—•-lint speaking of mushrooms, he could see from
where lie stood a bow-window, (that of Mr. Thompson, a
grocer: and banker) belonging to a house where there were as
many of. these mushroom voters made as in all Westmorland
put together—(e laugh)--.-at least, quite as many us in the
West Ward ; so many, that he might he termed a vote dealer-e-e
vote Inickster.—(Grest laughter.)—When the gentlemen of or
long robe examined those who thus came up, and asked them of
whom they purchased their freehold, it was all " Monsieur Tonson
coins again.”—(Great laughter and eheers,)—There Win.e, how-
ever, other votes of a more perishable quality; whether it was the
hot weather or an article in which he dealt, sugar-candy, which
melted in the mouth, then he could not say, but great number'
had come over to them. (Lard ..Lowther and the Colonel.) He
repeated that lie looked upon that day as the conclusion of the con-
tort.. He did not expect to make very great way to-morrow, as his
opponent's forcee—(Cries of hear, hear ! from the Blues.)—lt was
evident that those who ~were winning spoke with much more ilif-
, tidence than those. who were losing--(Cheers and a laugh.)—lf,
however, they should make no great way against the threatened
exertions of their opponents, he fully expected, notwithstanding,
to be enabled.to keep hie ground---(Chtere)—even though the Ken-
'dal Ward should should produce its 60 or 70 customary tenants of
Peat Mess, who could scarcely rank above the mushroom voters,
even though their deeds were made and signed a year beforehand.
(Cheers.)—lie had not, as yet, brought up. his strength front the
West Ward, and had no doubt on Thursday and Friday his ma-
jority would be still. more decisive. He then sincerely thanked
them for the attention with which,they had heard him, and re.
tired amid very general cheering. • ,
Colonel LOWTHIR said, that it being his turn next to address
them; lie begged to return them his most unfeigned thanks, for
the support they had given him. He assured them that it was
particularly flattering to him When he found that the numbers
against them,'. upon that day had been rather reduced than in-
creased, notwithstanding the obstacles which had been thrown
in the way of his voters in the Kendal booth. The longer the
contest was continued, the, gfeater, he felt convinced, would be
his majority. (Cheers,) He did not care how long the contest
lasted, as he should be • happy that every freeholder • should have
the opportunity of exercising his elective franchise. (Great
cheering.)—lie begged to repeat to them his. thanks, for the sup-
port they, had given him, which he had no doubt they would con-
tinue, until he was returned by a large majority of this free-
holders of Westmorland. (Cheers, mingled with some Marks of
disapprobation.) • •
Mr. Beouonali then came forward, and was greeted. -with
loud cheering. lie thought, he said, that they must be not a
little comforted wider their atilictioe at being upwards of eighty
behind upon that day's poll, by what the Noble Lord had stated at
the conclusion of his speech. Although the Nibble Lord was in a
very gOlSinitilhkl4lll. tbe I,lllllleliveutrut iii' his SoWeas, sod ka.
titouglt lie was emis wiety-ee- to the new mush-
tooth*, Wilt the Stlaillitififfyl latigli) —yet towards its close he
bee.ante somewhat itailiniilioly• at the prospect for to-morrow.—
(A latigh)..lleitotd you that he did not expect to do so well to-
ninfrow: ai he hail done for' that they (the Blues)' intended,
as niost'undonbtedly they did, to make, upon that day a great
whip, and to do,' in fact,i great deli better than they had done
'hitherto. He sincerely hoped 'that the 'Noble Lord would turn
out to he a true prophet; erid,'ns' lie had taken the trouble to pro-
phecy, he felt that he (Mr. Brougham) would be wed the
trouble of prophesying, and would therefore mike no prediction,
-but merely tell them to wait till • the close of the poll to-morrow
night, and they would then be enabled to see whether the Noble
Lord's prediction we+ right or wrong.—(Cheers)....Neither the
Noble •Lord nor himself could. speak so accurately of that •which
would take place-to-morrow as they could of that which had hap-
pened on that day and at the last election, and therefore it was
that he felt it necessary to make a few observations to them
upon their comparative strength then,' and at the same
elotl of the contest -at the last election, •in the year
1820. There were no means so proper, nor could any be
devised, by which they could more accurately ascertain how far
they might rely upon their rail resources ; nor could any Me.;
thod be arrived at of estimating better the prospect of eventual
success or defeat, than by such a ibmparison. They were now ar-:
rived at, substantially, the close of the fourth day's poll; for on
the first day, there were polled only ten or twelve votes.—(A per-
son in the crowd called out that they were all inushrooms.).No,
that was not the ease neither, nor if' it had been, was it at all
material, as the other four days were really those • on which
the tug took place. He should then compare the state of the poll
in the different wards, during the first four days' of this last elec-
tion, with the four days polling upon the present occasion, and
then *see whether there, was any reason to complain of their
friend; holding back, or 'heimg at all remise in their exertions.
He hail now polled in the East Ward in the last fotir days
(for the first was quite unimportanq 404 votes,• whereas in'.
1820 they had only polled B4B in that ward, within the
saint space of time.—(Cheers.)—lle mentioned this fact to the
honour of the East Ward, heettuie it bad been said that the East
Ward heti buten disappointing, his friends, and that it was not.
doing its duty in the present contest, whereas they had actually
brought upwards of 30 more to the poll than they bed done st the
last election.,
a noise:}electionb, the West Ward. (Here a person in the crowd
n
He "posed that the person• who made that
noise was a West 'Ward man, end that he was anxious to bear
something of his own ward.. What he was going to say was,
that in 1820 he bud polled in that ward 181, while the Yellowy
had, polled 226; but this time that ward had already sent up
168, which was within 13 of the number that had been polled at
the same period of the contest in 1820. (Hear.) In the Ken-
dal Ward there had been a inure material falling off, but that he
thought nothing of. In that ward, 'on the fourth day of the last
election, 110 haul polled 325,, and now lie hail polled 304, making
a difference of 21 ; so that there was no material difference upon
the whole of the polling between the two periods. He wished to
call their attention particularly to this statement, beaus*, when
lie added a etatement which lie should presently mention, they
would perceive how highly important this tounparison was upon
the question of the probable result of the contest. The Blues
had • not made , the same exertions on the present occasion
as they had done upon the lest; for the purpose of bring-
ing, up the distant voters, nor had they resorted to the
fume method of bringing those voters to the poll. 'the
Noble Lord who, had first addressed them seemed altogether
afraid of the exertions about to be adopted, to bring up those
taut enters, and to induce others, particularly from Kendal, to
come up within the, next two or three day.. The Noble Lord
had also talked of the odds-and-rude voters, who were to be
brought forward from that part of the country; for the purpose of
keeping up the poll in the Kuit went; He supposed the noble
Lord had alluded to those odds-and ande-itith who had that day.
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those who had not yet polled, now that the weather was not so
sultry as it had been fur the last four days, that they would not
give their-adversaries the same advantage' as they had given them
that morning, -by suffering them to fill the booths, and afterwards
by going away fatigued ; suffering them to get a-head, while the
Blues had men enough to feed the poll arid gain a majority which
he was confident, under better management, would have been the
case. He would not 'styli* he would have had a majority in the west
Ward, but he certainly should have bad in the East and Kendal
Wards ; and even in the Lonsdale Ward the balance might have
turned in their favour,: for it was dear that their adversaries. had
polled out all their strength in that Ward ; since instead of 206,-
which number they had polled on the three preceding days, they
had polled on that day only 26, from which he naturally in-
ferred that they had exhausted all their strength in. that Ward,
except a very few voters. Before he concluded he should say a
word as to the mushrooms. The Noble Lord had talked of the
manufacture of Blue mushrooin votes having gone on to a consi-
derable extent. He could only say that he, was extremely sorry
that it had riot been so. lie sincerely wished that such had been
' the case, but he knew of no manufactory such as that of Colonel
Bolton's, or of the parson who had been so notoriously making
mushrooms on the Yellow side. He must say, however, that
when such means were begun, and he had not begun them, yet
when they were resorted to by their opponents, he thought it per-
fectly fair in their own defence for the Blues to make such rotes
also, though he did not believe that any such manufacture had taken
place on their side, and it would have been rather singular if it
had taken place that he should have known nothing about it. He
had no reason to doubt but that some would come to vote for him
whose titles were derived from a conveyance of the same estate
divided into different parcels, and made nearly at the same time.
But how was this done? Was it dune by one gentleman, such as
Mr. Bolton, the parson, or me.' Atkinson ? Was it one person
of extensive property who had great means of making mushroom*
that would do it? No such thing. It was done by a great num-
ber of persons who were friends to the cause, and who purchased
estates for the purpose of making.them. Those 47 mushrooms of
Cultinel Bolton were not of that description, for if the Colonel con-
scientiously believed that the Lord Lieutenant ought to return his
two sons to Parliament for the county, he should no longer call
them mushrooms, but good men, anxious to rush forward to sup-
port what they conceived to be the welfare and the independence
of their county.---(Cheers and a laugh.)—He was glad that at
least one of the batteries of their opponents had been silenced.—
There watsno longer any mention of the Pope or of "NoPopery."
--(Cheers and laughter.)—lt was two or three days, including
Sunday, since be heard even the name of his Holiness mentioned
—(a laugh)--and but for a circumstance which he had almost en-
tirely forgotten to allude to, and u wish to relieve those from their
terrors who might still imagine that there was danger to the
Church in granting concessions to the English and Irish Catholics,
he would not have then intruded it. But could they, or any roan
in his senses, believe that any respectable Catholic, such as his Grace
the Duke of Norfolk, who was the first man in rank and posses-
sions in the kingdom, and second to none in character; intelligence,
and all that could constitute respectability—could it be believed,
that the Church of this country could be endangered by enabling
him, the first Peer,of the land, to enjoy his Parliamentary privileges
—(cheers)..--4 map, who in rank had no equal, and scarcely an equal
in respectability ; when he told them that within a few weeks, he,
all Catholic as he wits, had given of his own liberality, for the endow-
ment of a Protesfant church, a piece of land which was valued at
lOW guineas?--(Great cheering.)—He Ind also assisted at lay-
ing the foundation stone, arid had added 500/. as a subscription to-
wards its erection—(lmmense cheering. )—lle would not ask whether
one of those who were so loud in their pretences of seal, and of
attachment to the Protestant church had done so much for that
church, but he would ask whether they had, ever dope any thing
to show their liberality, not by endowing, but merely by tolerat-
ing places of worship for their Catholic or Dissenting brethren ?
He would not ask whether they had given a thousand pounds or
five hundred pounds, or ,one hundred pounds, or one thousand or
one hundred farthings, to endow Catholic chapels; but he would
assert, that that most signal; illustrious, and he believed not single
instance of liberality on the pert of those oppressed and persecuted
Catholics, oppressed as they were, proved that the Protestant
Church was in no danger, from them. He should now, for the
present election, take his leave altogether of the Pope and sense-
less cry of " No Popery," which had been tried in Westmorland
after it bad failed everywhere else, and which would fail there
also, as it had already done in Southwark-, 'Westminster, and
Middlesex.

The. Hon. Gentleman then withdrew amidst loud cher' e, after
which the Meeting separated.
About nine o'clock in the evening,. a Carlitte weaver, named
Dutty, appeared on the hustings, with nothing on but his truw-
set 4, the upper part of his body blackened with burnt corkr 15
to repre,ent a negro. Ile had a tin collar round hie nec►, and
chains upon his hands. Ili, appearance Was loudly greeted, and
he immediately proceeded to harangue the mob. In allusion to
what_Lord Lowther had said of Prince Hohenlohe, he talked of
Prince Ileneloo's miracles, and with the must theatrical-air al-
ways preserving the character of a slave, endeavoured to make a
deep impression upon his auditors. - Lousing the chain from one
hand, he called out " Henry :Brougham looses the other," and cast
away the chain 3 ; then exclaiming, " Am I free? I can scarce be-
lieve it; and yet I ato too." Just at this moment a Yellow made
some interruption. He was immediately followed by the Blues;
knocked down, kicked, and struck ; upon which Duffy called out,
" Let him alone, he is a poor slave like myself." I merely men-
tion this to show that pains are taken to work upon the feelings of
the people, and not fairly taken, because this man uttered the most
false and atrocious libels on Colonel Lowther, which I rather
think be has been tutored to do, by whom, of course, I cannot
pretend to say. He has a good deal of fluency, and is, I under-
stand, an Irishman, and, upon the whole, makes a very good
mob orator—talks by the hour, and sticks at nothing that may
produce an effect.

The opposition which was made to Lord Molyneux' vote has
been so much talked of here, and the objection is really in some
Measure so ludicrous, being no other than a doubt as to his free-
hold being worth forty shillings, that I send it you. His Lordship
purchased a freehold in Ravenstonedale, which his agent, the
Under Sheriff, let for hint to a tenant for V. ss. per annum.
During the lust three years it had been untenanted, and had gone
out of repair, and the highest offer for it was thirty-five shillings.
It was therefore contended that, it being worth only that sum, his
Lordship was not, consequently entitled to a vote from that estate.
After hearing the arguments of Counsel, the Assessor decided
that it had been let for 121. BE, and although only Str shillings
had been offered for it, that offer had not been accepted, and it was
therefore to be presumed that it was worth more. It had also
been recently put into repair, and its not being let did not invali-
date his title to vote for it. His Lordship's vote was therefore re-
ceived• Some persons talked of administering the freeholder's
oath to Lord Molyneux, which his Lordship said he should take.
as a personal insult. The oath was not administered: •
It has been reported that a man, who had come a considerable
distance to vote for the Blues, died suddenly, in consequence of
taking a draught of cold water while in a state of perspiration,
and that l►e was buried this morning.