The Sun.
London, England, 1817-10-01 00:00:00

'ELECTION OF A LORD MAYOR.

doriog the whole of '.7es-
'tertlay, :211i1 'close d at Have o'cloCk, when, the
I,eir.g Crowded to excess, the state of the pdtl
`o S titchirtql s

Aldf.rma Smith 606
Alderman Atkins
!Flit erlynr. . 371
2,1 r. Alder: an Goodbelleie

, When the 'name. of Mr. ,Akderatan Smith was
;pot up first upon'the list, there was a great deal of
hissing, • and. senclemerritnent was excited Irons
•1 he circutost ce, 1-tiat:t he 'value of the Alderman
twee spelt eietiht inset:et! tif Smith.
Mr. Oef-viee stood hieweeiel to :address the Meet-
eing, and-observed,- that from toe result of the poll
at eppeared that theeLiveey. were pursuing 'the
-course Which best became their liberality, consis-
eney and judginentee, 1t .was declared distisectly
-rat the last elect Ma, theolrjeot of those who
tought the,re-clecr ion ()le/lie...Lord Mayer was by
me means 'political e this ivas the stun• and sub-
stance of-the, statements of. thOs*- who Were 'th'e
prominent• advocates of- his Lordship upon that
occesioneand according to the principle thus pub-
licly be was happy to perceive the•
-very•disposed to act) for very little of party feel.
Ing had been manifested in the course of this days.
poll. The• Livery had thus, while they must
be -aware of their etrength, felt the pro,'
• pricey. of making a liberal- and moderate use
'of .. it—they_ had. considered that ,the . duties
-of a Chief Magistrate of this City had no refer-
ence to politics, but to otherobjects, and especially
• ttejudicial functions, for the performance of which
-be was satisfied that Mr. Alderman Smith would
be found folly competent.—( Hisses amid some.ap-
pleuses.)—Much bad been said about liberty yes-
terday, but liberty was, in his conception,
-of generous views, and the power which belong-
td to. it- would never be exercised by any
judicious advocate in such a manner as to
endanger the principle itself. Every tyran-
nical dispositiou was inconsistent with that
principle, but it was VVidCilt from the result of
:the poll that this disposition was not so.prevalent
• n 3, some persons appeared to wish—((neneral hisses
end some applauses.)—He expressed,his readiness
•to bow to the decision of the Meeting, and his
disinclination unnecessarily to take up their t hoe.—
• (The hisses still contined amidst cries of " who
has been the best bidder for the. auctioneer ?"
• who has knocked down the quondam reformer ?"
he is gone—gone—gone.")—The Honourable
-Ceative:lair retired from the hussings amidst loud
laeghterand general hisses.
Mr. livrerrENS began by expressing his surprize
that Mr. Alderman Smith had tort come forward
to thank the Livery for the suppine they had been
pleased to give him. He had always understood
that gratitude -was a virtue which ought. to belong
to every individual nho had obtained time support
rted approbation of his fellow-creatures. Oil the
part of those gentlemen • who hail no argument
rotetion to sepport their. cause, but who could
-appeal only to the • plain I/ oderstandin!:s
.of tire
'people brutelisguised language; no tricks or con-
• trivances had been used, while no pains had been
spared by the advocates of Mr. Alderman Smith
to advance his cause. Committees had heels some
-nenetl, awl every exertion had been made forehis
7-sopport. So extremely anxious were the Alder=
`into who had nut yet passed the Chair to sup-
port that custom of rotation, which ooght long ago
to hare been scouted, that they bad, he understood,
even themselves formed a Committee to support
ethe tweeting cause.—(Cries of shatne.)—lt hail
-.been said that this-was not a political question.,. He
denied the assertion: it wi:s a most important
quest on. -The Only point at issue was, whe-
ther the Livery would have Lord Castlereagh or
(.tannin;; for their Lord Mayor.—(Cries
no,. no.)—lt that were then the sense of the
meeting, he would , venture to declare that Mr.
Aldermen Smith and -Air. Alderman Atkins were
the true representatives of them both. Every
measure which they had brought forward had been
supported by then); and they were only the -etii-
. gies of those two execrable men. Did be now 'ad-
, dress any of the Gentlemen of the Livery who were
advocatt.se for the income-tax) Vol not Mr. Al-
. derman Atk inS support that inionitous meashre with
all his iothience "i—e(Hear 1)-It was well ItooWn
that it, was time intention ot government again to
impose that accursed tax, and thus deprive the peo-
ple of the last property tlnit remained in tilde hands.
It W3S only the cringing courtier, and the pam-
pered attendant upon the Throne, oho were en-
' tumbled to eojey their. luxuries, while the poor
peasant and ;starving mechanic were beggars, de-
pendent softly upon parochial support. After
haring touched opon the private character of Mr.
Alderman Smith in terms of the highest enco-
miums, he celled the attention of the Lively
to the- state of the poll. It did not, lie said,
amount in all to miner more than one thou-
sam! voters; and it was-to be recollected, that
this was only the second day of polling, and-that
there were inure titan ten thousand voters in
time City of London, typo could at any time come
forward anti. support the advocates of freedom.—
He did, not, therefore,. feel extremely melancholy
upon the occasion,
.and he'trusted that the Gen-
tlemen of the Livery would show that 'the hopes
of the other party were visionary.
Wooernt said, that there teas-not much ne-
cessity for. eritering into any minute observations,
atter what had already been said by the preced-
ing speaker. If.all the exertions and endeavours
which had been made by .the friehds of Mr. Al-
derman Smith and Mr. Alderman Atkins to
trd-
vartce their cause were taken into considelation,
the state of the poll presented nothing discourag-
ing to the cause of freedom. Ernharked in a cause
to be so vitally im-
which teas on alt bands agreed
',meant, it was the duty of every
who was tree to -his country to pursue the course,
wider all circumstances, -and in all seasons, stead-

fa-stly and manfully., • however discottr;►ging the
• prciNpect might appear. There were, it was to be
tecollected, four or Eve regular barracks in this
great city, from whence the Commander in Chief
'could march any number of, men according as it
SinigUt.shit hislporpusts: from these -barracks the
troops might proceed in detachments-ifs' they were
required ; and lie had no doubt but that if the-
friends of Air. Alderman Smith exerted themselves,

. • •
(hey Could hilve compelieti all 111(.2 Men 'ender their
. orders to have conie forward and given their votes
on the first day of the election.—(Hear !)—One
reason indeed might be assigned why the voters
on the popular side did not come forward, that it
Was not expected after the success of the former
struggle that any Gentlelll4ll would presume to
place himself on that list front whence he had
last year been driven with so much shame. It
had (seen remarked by the Gentleman who pre-
ceded hint, that Mr. Alderman Smith Ought to
have remained- upon the hustings, and returned
thanks fur the support the Livery had given him.
Mr. Alderman Smith kitear his interest better than
to retort., tilankS to those who had rendered him
nu service, and had gone from the Hall to dis-
charge his debt of gratitude to those to whom it
was really owing. Mr. W. next adverted to what
- had fallen from the Gentleman (Air, Oliver) who
had first addressed the Livery. That Gentleman,
he said, had been once a staunch Reformer, but
had-now changed sides, and had become an aris-
!tocrat, though advocate of another aristocrat
(Mi.. Alderman Smith), who was also in 'his
younger days a Reformer, but who had hi his
older and his wiser.years become a decided Tory.
These two Gentlemen had changed sides, and ap-
peared determined to support each other. through
all dangers and difficulties. With this specimen
of-treason, 'what could be expected 1. The friends
- of liberty bad no places, pensions, or salaries. to
- give away, they could only speak the plain
language of truth ; but these Gentlemen were not
to be persuaded by such language, they replied-
-that they knew all that could be urged on that
side of the question ; they had tried it, and found
-that it had not answered their expectations. 'These
Gentlemen knew their interests better than to re-
turn to that side of the, question which they had
so honourably deserted, and to leave all their
hopes of preferment for what they called outward
show of honesty. It had been remarked by the
Gentleman he alluded to, that no reason could be
assigned for opposiug Mr. Alderman Smith. The
Aldetman professed, that if he should he elected
to the Civic Chair, he would serve his felloav-citi-
act's with integrity, independence,and talent, and
relers back to his career for the last 30 years as a
proof of his possessing all these good qualities.
What taleat, integrity, or independence that Gen-
tleman had shown, he would leave the Livery to
decide : but, for himself, he was vet y lunch inclined
to think, that the sum total of all his talents, in-
tegu ity, and independence for the last 3) years,
would be exhibited in the next 30 hours alter his
election to the office for which he was a candi-
date:—(Laughter.)—'f he argument which the
ft iettds of the worthy Alderman should have used,
if they wished to support his cause, ought to have
been, that Mr. Alderman Smith had not, in his
preceding-career of lite, shown his independence,
integrity, or talent, because lie had reserved it fur
a more important occasion, and that lie had now
a stock in hand of 30 years' accumulation to de-
vote-to-the set vice of his fellow-citizens.—(Ap-
plause alit! laughter.)--41. this plea had beet) ad-
vanced, there might have been some•reason for
the support of the Livery, as the magnitude of
the price "night be supposed to excite the languil
and lateat •virtues -of the wortlyy Alderman. But,
in - fact, the- only species of independence that
could possibly he expected from hint was an incle-
&ittlence of •the people. It required no exertion
to obtain• this spirit of indepeadence, no talents,
and no integrity. . It was not rotation which in
such-a:ease at this ought to be attended to; the
-authority rests& entirely with the Livery, and be
exhorted them by all-the means in thehapower -to
guard against the ellCloachmcws tafaasthority.
if, indeed, it were admitted that• no important
duties were to be performed by•the Lord Mayor,
then he would gladly agree that Mr. Alderman
Smith was a fit anti proper person to fill the of-
, lice. if it could he said that the Vessel of State
, was lying in a calm, with the sails furled, and the
sailors with nothiug to do but drink, then the
worthy Alderman might. in safety command the
crew. In short, if there was not hiug to do, none
was so fit as• Mr. Alderman Smith to fill the chair,
But the contrary was the actual case, and the in-
fluence the Lord Mayor had in the city of London
was a matter of cottsiderable importance. The
iends to Freedom had to contend against a weak
bat formidable Administration, at the head of
which that arch-fiend (pointii,g to the statue of
Mr. Pitt in the Hall) mice presided.—(Here the
tumult in the Hall was so great that Mr. W. was
prevented front speaking for a considerable time.
-A few hisses were heard, but they were overcome
by the clapping, and other Masks of approbation.
After the lapse of a few miatnes he continue(l.)
The cause must be weak indeed that could not
venture to hear facts stated. Vie people might
as • well attempt to hiss that statue (pointing to
that of Mr. Pitt) front its base as shake him front
his purpose, He repeated, that the weakness of
the present Administration hail driven it-to acts
of desperation, and it was the duty of every true
linglishnian to endeavour to repress them. Ile
would not .disguise. it front -any one that the task
undertake!) was arduous in the extreme. They bad
not only to oppose their enemies, but to.encoura
age their Ittkewarm. friends.- However peat
might be their exertions, and however much they
might labour in the advancement of the noble
cause, one thing should never be forgotten, and
it would crown their bold endeavours with Ito-
nour,—that it was more glotious to fail in the
cdase they advocated, than to steered in the cause
they opposed.
The Hall-was then adjourned until.to-morrow,
(this (lay.).

A voting man of •Keadby, in Lincolnstire, bar.
ing b-eeti:in a poor state of health for a consider-
able time, -and nothing hat• he took appearing' to
relieve hinr,:Stated his arse to one Matthias Pep-
'per, of Crowle„- Lanier of some note ; the lat-
ter advised him to drink in. a -morning a quantity
of rate dyke-seater, i. c. water wherein:green
flax has-undergone the putt•efying proeess,.for.the
• Space of about ten days ; he did so, and in a short
titne•passed a worm -ot the species called ttenia, or
tape-worm, -which measured eight and ,a half feet
in length. •

Sunday night the back.promises of .-Mr. Large,
en.aclk-intiker- in Long-acre, were feloniously en-,
tered and robbed 91 a pair of curricle harness and'
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