The Sun.
London, England, 1826-06-14 00:00:00

kisson's object was not to attack the sacred fund devoted to
~ ;.,,
cha-
rity, but to put down combinatnins, tbr which, in Scotland; Men
had had their ears cut off, anti in Ireland persons were proscribed.
General Gaseoyne's chief claim to their support rested on his op-
position to this supposed measure. He (Mr. Rushton) applauded
their generosity towards the General, evell supposing it to be under
mistaken feelings. He had been already elected their representa-
tive in six Parliaments—he had been their representative by
a chapter of acoidents ; but what votes had he ever given which
had had a tendency to elevate the people in the political scare of
the country ? By one act they should know it : when '7OO freemen,
ofth C e os tholie shrine for the purpose of
tendering
Liverpool approachediCatholictle and Protestant God the devotion pre-'
det
scribed to them, the General preclaimed that the portals e the
British constitution should not he opened to the Catholic. Did this
look like a theoretic desire to benefit the country ? (APplause.)
For full SO years he had voted for ministers, except during ashort
interregnum, during which he wrote :doter to say that a ntil some-
thing about the administration wassettled, be should vote accord-
ing to his conscience. (Laughter and applause.) On a late occa-
sion, during the motion of Lord John Russell's, in the Mouse
of t..;0 the General had said it did not cost 'Wm a sixpence
for
athmeilziis,
snlents
now
he
(Mr. Rushton) •would inform the
or hit hien& had done: Places in
tre nr3illistuofinw-latustehge w"leilite•hralought to be given only to persona
whose loug services entitled them to that distinction, were made
the subject of barter and sale? He would not say General Gas-
coyne sold them, because he had, in the moat indignant manner,
said lie was ignorant of it; but be should instantly, on bearing
of the system, have informed. Ws legal advisers of it,. and have
sifted the charge to the bottom. Ile (Mr. Rushton) again pro-
claimed, that offices in the cnstoins had been disgracefully and.,
sold. by the agents of General Gascoyne, for the purpose
venally
of paying the expences of his election. In looking round him,
he (Mr. Rnshton) could see twilling but contempt in every per-
soO'ti face at this practice. This charge was first made five
years ago, and the General should instantly have investigated
These plea . had been sold for varions sums. 400/., NU,
Stc„ and he (Mr. Bilshton)`. bail a gentleman in. his eye, one of
the General's personal friends—

Captain cor.uu rrr requested 'Air. Rushton not to allude to in-
,tlividuale; at it had nothing to do with General Gateoyne.
Mr. IllniliTON proceeded, and begged not to be interrupted.
He gave an instance ore person who, some time ago, war de-
sirous of having a place of profit.
Here cries of " NitOn4,:maine," from a gentleman, interrupted
the orator, who informed the; pet son that he was alluding to a
friend of his, but declined Mentioning hie name.
Mr. ItustiroN said, the person got appointed, or was to be
aimointed, and a sum of money was paid. It so happened,
however, that before the individual got into the situation he died,
and upon looking among him papers, the receipt for the money he
had paid for the situation was found, expressing on it for what
purpose it woo received.
Captain COLQUIII.L—That has nothing to do with General
Gascoyne.
_ _

Mr. ItesuroN said, he did not mean to charge the tit:neval
with a knowledge of all these facts, because, if it were so, it
would be a most gross ease of corruption, and he would be ineligible
to sit in Parliament. The individual's brother,- on finding the
receipt, applied to get the money back, and he had since received
a portion of it. •

Two or three individuals, whose names we could not collect,
spoke a tew words, but of on moment.

,
General GASCOTNE thought that the charge a selling situ-
ations in the Custom-house, which WAS' first made in 1818, af-
terwards in 1820, and 'HOW again in 182(1, • would never have
been revived again. Applications for situations had been sent to
him, and he had looked only at the respectable names attached to
the recommendations, without any knowledge that the situations
were made the subject of profit. He expressed his, thanks to the
shipwrights, who had, in his opinion, so greatly overrated his
services; but he felt grateful for their partiality. In again allu-
ding to the charge made against him, he declared, " So help me
God, I never got a person into any situation with a knowledge of
any circumstances, except through the respectability of the names
attached to the recommendation." With respect to the combina-
tion lam,. he was assisted by Mr. Sheridan, about the year 1798,
in bringing in u bill for the prevention of combinatioas among
workmen ; and on showing it to Mr. Pitt, that Minister said,
that if there war! a bill to prevent combinations among work-
men, therit Anal also be one, to pt-event them among 'neu-
ters. With respect to tbe Catholics, lie bad no opposition 'to
that body, for if his' ain were to marry a Romeo Catholic, he
would not attempt to pre% ent it. -7( Applettae.)
Mr. II ti ssissow chats n,.4 74 1/3144444 WO impertial hearing. Ile
prueeeded let the tiratasitiee,actesply,to some enaereatlons which
had been resale 4'a:freeman on his conduct respecting the Ceti.-
lie qqestimi. There was only one point in the freeman's speech on
which lie %tidied to say a word, and it was on ,II subject of far
greater importance and of far greater magnitude, than whether he
(Mt. Ifuskisson) or any other Ulan, be he who he might, should
be the representative for' Liverpool,- - Ile meant that great ques-
tion on which. be Mill the misfortune to differ with many of his
friends in Liverpool, but On which he had uniformly voted in a
mullet' whichhe than& would be., utnet„troducive to the Pro-
sperity of the eau' ntr ..and to ilkfree enjoyment. or the.eiviLand
relil2:iausliterty, stilitc
,It:nglislonen prized so highly. The worthy
freeman stiya,,,,that
st clt (;:ahulic i, notante opt of the pale.
,d• the coratithdim than' he is 11:1111 Ill'OfttiV.4 11111.4011 a Disseliter.
lint is the t)i,,ieliter out of the pale of the Constitution ? Is he ex-.
eluded flout sotittt for a Member of l'alrlisnelit, as it, is in the
power of soy our 11,,,totin of tiik burough to object to and anni-
hilate the vote of a man prolessiog tile Homan Catholic religion?
Is that worthy fret :map, if he we're pieced in the situation, god
he (Mr. liuskiasou), wished he , were in meth a situation, to be
a candidate, for a ,seat among the, reprisentatives 'of this great
country, would he um be precluded from offering himaell on
the ground of his boil% It Boman Catholic ? Therefore, it' the
worthy freeman felt as a Diasenter from the Established
Church ought to tivl, ,he will readily Admit that no MD ought
to suffer for the conscientious opinions which he entertains on
religions subjects. He would now pass ti) the speed, the moat
able, eloquent, and most ingenious :speech of Mr. Rushton. He
should be welding its justice, if he did not pay that just compli-
ment to such talents and mull eloquence as that gentleman had
displayed, however much lie might differ front sonic of hia twain...
sious, and dissent from some of hie statetnenta. : Mr. Rushton had
touched on so Many topics,. in respect to time: of which, person-
ally, could lie (Mr. Huskisson) him reason to complain, though
perhaps, with respect to some of the compliments which lie had
pas* over as many of those topics am possible,done him the honour to pay hint, he must beg' leave to diaclaim
point on which he knew the free Men
i‘teill'et'orre'r'd;aetrilx"titottittlasierr‘tliolti•lea(ctietilti:texplanation, Foregoing, therefore, for
the present at least, in order not to dentin the freemen of the
hustings during such sultryweather, reference to other tapirs, he
would peso at -once to that which was the substanee and thef
d foundition oie only real charge whickbed been brought against
him—namely, the charge which he was astonished to find pre-
vailed When he arrived in Liverpool, that he was friendly to
mouopoly and the coinbination laws, lie knew not in what
manner be was to meet such a charge. If there were mitt feature
of his public] life for which he elaimed credit more dam for any'
other, it was that he had unifiirmly objected to all system!' of Mo.'
noisily, and .to all privileges which were injurious to the com-
merce, to the industry, ilid to the fiiir exertion of labour in thin
country. It was easy to' tom WOrds Which implied nn 011ioliS
meaning, and all experience had proved, to all who bad attended
to popular prejudice, that half of the evils in the world arose from
the want of definite or right ideate on. important subject*, and from
words being bandied about. Now, what can he trit'ailt by mono-
poly? ' He took it to be some privilege given to individeele to
deal in any particular article, to the exclusion of all others who
are nut included in the privilege. Show him the. instance in
which be liaitheen fiwourable to such a system as that. ' Show
hint the case where he had upheld a law which gave a right to
one class of community, to demand front their fellow-subject,
that which wtp, not the result of' their use industry and of the
fairest competition. But what had been the course, in the House'
of Commons, he had felt it his ditty to take in respect to the Nal-
. bination Laws? In the year 1824 a station was made by Mr.
Hollle*ils, they all knew, a ;unlit active, a ,most industrious, a
toast indefatigable Member a parliament, and in respect to
whom, differing frequently as hue did from that Hon. Gentleman
on questions of great public importance, it waajtistice to say, that
even though Ida views may be mistaken, hia 14(44'ex:have never
been ing 1 i and i
iearaeo, tout ins has Own* been anxious to promote
the ionic* of the working claw, t....-a motion hail been Made by
that Hot,.
,t-ieatkoon to ingidaeinto the-combination laws, aim
to the laws which „now. the free emigration of artisans
.from
thi,,oootry. witi4l my.. Hone made his motion, he (Mt. Hus-
kisaini) wait present, es a Mioiater of the Crown, to take that part
which, front the official tiititation be held, it becalm, hi, ant)
either to support or, to oppose that mall"' He (Aft°' 111"4-
'")rg"e.titgi inntion hi* cordial IMPltmt; - He status) _O, that 64.
castouu, and he referred the freemeu of Liverpool to the Sentimeott"
ha then avowed,. that he-, was anxiout for inquiry, because be
luta always this, opinion of the' "Anhination lawi—that they
were particularly unequal in their °Petlitioln ' for they preten&
sd to .mete out to, tiler:workmen and the mauls quid justice;
that Roue of Motto laws were ao harsh that it would be itit-
possible to put thetn in execution ; that they were the legis-
lation 'of ages gone by ;. that it became the object of Par"'
nlent at 1044 tit institute an ' inquiry into the subject, and