The Sun.
London, England, 1819-02-22 00:00:00

SMITHFIELD, FEB. 22.

Our Market was tolerably well 'supplied with prime Beasts
this morning, but the },rice of Beef was not cheaper, .and
fully supported last week's prices. The show of Sheep was
large, and what little business was doing was cheaper than
oust last. Pork was also cheaper; and Veal remains nominally
as per last —The business in the flay Market was bi isk
thi ; morning, and the prices of that article were rather
chewier; Clover was also cheaper, and Straw maintains last
week's prices,

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Never was contempt from a Constituent Body
to Election ,Candidates so manifested as in the
Present contest for Westminster. A Whig Can-
didate, not opposed by Goveroment—rather wish-
ed well to, as a choice of evils, by some of its
friends—having Jacobins only for his adversaries,
exults that, at the end of the sixth day of the Elec-
tion, he has polled what P—less than one seventh of
the Electors—a [JUN in which he might be out-
stripped to-morrow ; in a single day by a totally
fresh Candidate. Is Mr. GEORGE LAMB, indeed,
to he, at this period of his struggle, informed, that
the medium poll of any strife deserving the name
of a real Westminster contest has been about
nineteen hundred rotes per diem for the first week
—that is to say, till about 8000 Electors had
given -their suffrages ; and does he, ushered under
the shadow of Mr. Fox's name, rejoice, that, with
such advantages, egaios, such antagonists, his poll
had yesterday reached 1824 votes ?
It is wholesomer for the political health of the
nation that Mt. GEollon [Asia, or Mr. any thing
like hint, shook be returned for lVeattninster, than
to admit at inference to go abroad implying any
iirigmentation of Jacobinicm in this great seat of
empire. Why the Government have so resolutely
declined, what from the first moment of the va-
cancy was predicted, and is proved by every suc-
cessive day of the list six .days, would have been
an " easy victory," the Government best know.
Fear of failure it could not be. At ercn THIS
;moment the prize is in their power. The unac-
countable fatuity or Mr. GPottGE LAMB and
of his advisers leaves that Candidate exposed,
in the very middle of the Election, to the in-
terposition of that divinity, for waich, undoubt-
edly, the present plight ot Mr. LIOBHnuiE:
is a &gnus !indict, nodes- If Sir FRANCIS BUR.
DETT opens the sluices of his purity upon the
courts and alleys ot Westminster, the Whigs
may find themselves involved in a straggle the
like moo which has not been seen in Westminster
for upwatds of 30 years.. It is worth their while
too, to be aware, that concentrated power is of
much mare force than power made up of contin-
gents. That Sir FRANCIS BURDETT (with his
numerous and charming young Ladies growing
up into women, the whole of whom the Hollow-
able Baronet's polity of election in London and
Westminster might portion, even to amplitude,
for the noblest husbands in the land),—that Sir
FRANCIS, iu order to raise up '' a brother near the
throne," after all the past election drains upon
his exchequer, world come forth with " ail the
pomp and circumstance " of the ever-memorable
fourth doy of last year's contest —t his was not
likely ; but what is it now P What is it since the
day before yesterday ) Is the lnmerrof last Fri-
day on the hustings—is the metaphor of the ass-
trod lion a false portent Is the Baronet's Own in-
tore fate in Westminster wholty out of the question?
Well ; but where was the remedy ? The remedy
lay in such a vigorous poll for the last six clays as
might frustrate even the wonder•woi king purse of
the greatest master in the science of pure election
" that ever lived in the tide of times,"—which
" vigorous poll " appears to the writer of this ar-
ticle to have been frothily obstructed by certain
quackeries on the side of Mr. GEORGE L 4,1111 upon
and air the hustings.
With staring, striking demonstration. before
his eyes, a well in the poll of Mr. Hots-
HoUSB, as of Major CARTWRIGHT, that in no
part of this empire are the setrones of the Parlia-.
mentary, Reformers so derided, scoffed arid
scorned, as in this superiorly enlightened city of
WeStrlllOSter-Mr• GEORGE LAMB oratorites upon
Parliamentary Reform as a bonus to his presumed
Constituents ; specially directing the promise of
his future blessings to that calm, livening, well-
ordered assemblage which fronts and affronts the
hustings at Covent-Garden, and with that hust-
ings all the decencies of a non-savage state; as if
any Elector of Westminster, even of the humblest
class, were ever seen in such a place, unless by
the chance of pressure. 'Tis true, in all free
States the custom has prevailed of addressing the
people ; but what type of " the people" disco-
vers itself in that roaring rabble which is about as
amenable to reason as so wavy wolves % In what
jtmqt ure of the many centuries during which- free
habits prevailed in (3:Tete and Rome, have such
incidents taken place, or when before in England,
as knocking clown a Candidate, like Sir AIuRRAY
MAXWELL or pursuing an Elector for giving his
suffrage, like Lord CASTLEREAGH on the 20th of
last June.

The most ludicrous feature, however, in the
probation creed of Mr. GEORGE LAMB is the im-
plication of his treading in the footsteps of Mr.
Fox. Certainly not of the renowned person, so
called. lie never dealt in quackeries either at the
hustings or in election meetings. The Mr. Fox
to whom Mr. GEORGE LAMB professes being a

votary, is a person seemingly known to i;irn
only by the version of Mx. HoBHOUSE.—Sir, if
Mr. Fox were alive, twenty vindicators, and if
in Government, two hundred, would have assail-

ed. this 11ir. HoßnousE for his profligate misre-
presentations and sacrilegious profanations of
Mr. Fox. Let A-Ir. lioisnousa, however, not

hullow, till lie finds himself entirely out of dun.

ger, for hal ieg
.invie it the cardinal principle

of his Election poli►ics, to peck like a vulture at

the memory of Mr. Fox.

toily too of such

a course exceeds its immorality. What a strange

set is the handful pit egotists that pamper and de-
bilitate Sir FRANCIS B2JRDETT ! Mixing only in

their own silly circles, they seem entirely uncon-
scious of the contempt in which they and nil their
theories are held by the rest of the world.—

Though directly opposed to each other, Mr.
Huanouse's Election system is, in fact, full bro-

titer to the systcm of !fir. GEORGE LAMB, Who,

since the first moment,of his starting for West-
minster, has _ scarcely propounded a pi inciple
which has not retarded his triumph in the present

Contest.

It would, however, be lamentable were Jaco-
binisni to prevail against him. If, recurring, in
right'earnest, to his purity of Elect ion, btr

CI3 BURDETT should return his nominee, ?dr.
Hostiousa, in the present contest, such a result

would be very like he surrender of Westminster,
bound band and foot, as an appendage to the BA-

rouet's purse tor the next quarter ot•rt century—

towArdswhich Lonclusioh, by the way, Mr. Cos-

,t es-

nicre•
reeela 1153(11i01:, if weil-for;;:clt wry,_ _
sentially contribute; viz. that the respective con-
tests of Lord COCLIRANR and Alr. PAULL, in the
years 6 and 7, cost those Can:iidates 12,000/ ;
and 15,0001. " Fifteen thousand pounds paid by
poor Paull," whom his Jacobin compatriots, with
that fondness and friendship which distinguish the
contending `Jacobins in the present Elect ion, con-
soled with a vaticination of the " King's Bench
Prison," in six months after this supposed sacri-
fice of a fortune in their cause. The
however, of such an expenditure Cat) hardly be
other than a mistake; but, oh if true, what a
commendation would not such facts present, in.
favour of that " moderate Whig Rebrm " an-
nounced at Liverpool by that special Whig
mouth-piece Sir FRANCIS BußDETT—wl,ich nota-
ble scheme of " moderate Whig Reform" would,
do—what 7—only \Vestn►ittsterise the whole frame
of Parliamentary Representation—en:wing, at
the sane time, a triennial return of all its cheap
and chaste delights !
February 2!'t, 1919.

THEATRICAL REGISTER.
Performed on Satnrdon
TWEATIZE nnYAL, DaURY-LANE.-(4.itit time), Brutus: Lu-
cius Junius, Mr. Kean ; Targninia, Mrs. W. West. Atter
which (Ith time), High `rations.
THEATRE Royu,, Co,ENT-GAnDgm'.—(6th time), Evadne
Principal Characters by DI r. Young and Miss O'Neill.
After which, Lore, Law, and Physic.

PRICE OF STOCKS
ruts nay AT TwELve. o'cl.ncm:
Bank Stock 2681 I 5 per Cent. Nary Ann. 10611
3 pet Cent. Red. 77,i,}1 Bank Long Ann.... 20 5 Ifi:111
3 i.el Cent. Cons. TGli India Bonds... ti7s. pr.
31 per Cent
4 per Cents .•..951 91 Cons. tor Account. 76. iii