The Sun.
London, England, 1817-05-27 00:00:00

THE NORFOLK ELLCTION.

t Prernt the " 21.foraiag Post" of yesterday.]
Toe NoepoLx ELECTION has been more Fie-

cisive of principle than tiny contest that perhaps
e'er took• plaee in this conntry. In its result was
desepty iovolved the desideratum of confounding
the ratiOual public with the multitude. 13y •its
termivation have been settled all the localities
which refer to the present posture of British po-
lities, The Norfolk County Meeting of the last
month, out-herocled tiered. Excepting in the
grand commodity of personal libels (a display,
V.'144:11 cat hardly be apprehended from such men
es Lord ALBEMARLE, and Mr. CO E), nothing of
Spa fields and its chiefs was wanting at the Nor-
wich A,sembly. Every other county and town
uteeting was tame and. cold in comparison with
that. The most eloquent mouthing of Doctor
PARR, could scarcely sitslain the flaming senti-
ments of the Norfolk Petition ; hid] ;in its pas-
to the PISINCH ItHGENT, almost scorched the
courtly train at C,111t01: notise. What was there
m amity; to mark the victorious superiority of what,
was modestly called the popular side of the ques-
tiool—a county Election. A county Election came,
exactly as if by shin in epic poetry is termed a.
machete; and, as the dignns rindice nudes could
not be the woik of a mortal hand, the hand-of
God supplied a vacancy, by calling away the late
lamented-representative—as if purposely to prove
the disaffection to the present Ministry, and the
strength of Mr. COKE, iii Norlok.
When, about half a doien weeks since, at the
aisenssion of that precious doctouent (so specially
presented to the Sovereign) which was to drive
• for erer' front the Royal presence that driveller
Lord Li reit Not, and his gang—whose plan of go-
vernment gained all the ghillies front Salamanca to
Algiers; caged IIooNAPARTE at St. Helena : and,
in the face of a scheme for robbery and.Turder
such as never spewed its front upon this earth
since the servile wars of ancient times, • enables
every maissin England to enjoy his family and fire-
side in confidence and comfore-s-to repeat the
words, of that same Lord LIVERPOOL upon the
s,o•Ond reading of the habeas Corpus suspension
Bill (in a speech which, if it had been heard by
the English nation, would in the. English nation
net have left, out of the pale of party end clear of
the faith of
,Spa-jields, a second opinion upon the
current system of administration)—when that de-
em:Jots docoment was upon the table of the late
Norfolk County Meeting, a gentleman, its a moos
derateetott. manly tone, said, that '• the Address
and Petition did not express the real' feeling of
the Norfolk freeholders,' the yell against Jtim
coehl oet have been exceeded by the war•whoop
of so itroly cannibals. The gentlenrm who upon
that lierasioil vindicated bis county in the face of
clamour. I ;think , was the very Mr. Worm-muss in
whose own portion is verified his opinion of the
sentitnents of Norfolk; and who, about the mo,
ment that the reader is perusing this article, is in
the Het of being chaired through the city of Nor-
tacit as.the County Member; chosen on Friday
last by. a majority of 587. Does not the ,whole
pi acceding look more. like a dramatic fable than
the indubiteble fact, which it is
What say you, Mr. Once. L What say those ve-
hement, quotidian blenders of the rational, real,
people of England' with its rattle—those who, in
and iv,t of Parriamept, in Chronic/e,' ' Times,'
and other oracles, not Deiphic, play what they
call ' the people' upon the government, as if they
held that • People' pent in a bug, in the manner
Ulysses is. storied to hale kept the winds ? The
eO'tuty of Norfolk, on Friday last, has given an
empliatical memorable decisive judgment against
all these frauds, falsehoods, and impostures.
It appears that the popular Side at Norwich has
teen drenched in popularity. However the ultra-
.Whiggism of .Mr. Cotta may justify the retaliation
upon that Gentleman of the proper progeny of
his own Occasional violence, far from me be the
palliation of popular excesses upon whomsoever
inflicted, Excrescences these are, upon the march
of intr civil sySteni, the adherence of which is
prelernAe, as a choice of evils, to the danger of
shedding. its life-blood by their excision. But is
Mr. Costa the most consistent plaiotiff in a suit
of this complexion ? Dashing, indeed, would be
the adventurer who would give one year's pur-
,.. chase for Mr. Cotta's Principality of Holltham
(of whom no man in this island is personally more
worthy than Mr, Coto) if the stability of its to•
mire depended upon the owner's MAXilltil of Go.
veto, mem, Fortunately for him,floThharn has safer
goardians,; Several of Mr. COKE'S friends have, as
appears from Saturday's newspapers, surrounded
Sir FaAN(tIS BuHDETT as their tutelary genius, ou
the anniversary of the litinottrable Baronet's elec-
tion for Wrstmius.er. Assuredly, no election
could have been more honourable to a Mitaber of
Parliament than that of Sirl4l4Ncts for this city;
but the noble and honourable 'youngsters who
worshipped the itheonian star on Friday last' at
the Crown and Anchor Trivern,ln truth, descant-
ed upon that of which their knowledge was a
11:11e srant... Sir FRANCIS BURDETT never was se.
ri.rtotly opposed in iVestminnter. The Committee
-wi.o affected to return him- would, in a real
himggle, be only subjects for derision. There
hos been nothing d'eserving..the name of a con.
test for Westminster for near thirty years
..told no friend to its .tranquillity would wish
ever to see another. It 'cannot, be denied
that Sir- FRANCIS', had very respectable asso-
ciates on Friday last. Those Gentlemen, like Mr.
Cote of Norfolk, have nr..ch at stake in this
country. Whatever their religion, the noble and
losnottroble persons alluded •to are too moral to
wail,. piety. Now, in my 'lmitable opinion, their
devotion never coo be, morelitly directed than in
letnrniog thanks to their comics's Maker, that
their yi,ti ii rights and hereditary possessions have
either-votoct<too ,than the principles which they
hose propounded during the present session of par-
room:tit. I.

f),) floy ptecaing that which termina,ted the
("44" EleonOnt COlOlll4 WODEBOUSE thus tid-
e!) 4..ssoi theLfs'reclioisfers

" I 'congratulate you on she state
titht.'PAt.,"-%frpt look forward with confidence to
041.orions result, Utir•blifinnenti have, at, usual,
attempted to delude and niutk the ptior, by assert-