The Sun.
London, England, 1819-03-04 00:00:00

" 1910CLANIATIoN.

" FRANCIS, by the Grace of the Rump, of the Borough
of Westminster,-Patron. Invader of the Rights, &c. To our
worthy and obsequioul Vassals, Electors of our said Borough,
greeting. Whereas, it having been represented to us at our
holden at the Crown and Anchor, on the 17th day of
November, in the 12th year of our Sovereignly, that the
oaminotioN of a minion to serve us in our above named
Borough bad reverted to us by the decease of Sir Samuel
Romilly, whose defeat of our patronage is never to be
forgiven : We were of our most gra,: will avid plea-
sure, and by and . with the advice of Our Priv Com .
mittre of the Rump, moved tp n ypoint our •trnstv
and well-beloved cousin, John Cain Hubliouse, as such
minion proper to serve as aforesaid. And we did thereupiin
Teyuire and comma-lid our said obsequious' Electors to give
their support to him. And whereas, it bath since beer] re-
presented to us and onr said Privy Committee of the Rump,
that oar said Electors have not unanimously supported out
said cousin, but that divers contumacious, n:ielted and evil-
disposed persons have unlawfully, rebelliously, traitorously,
and diaindically, and contrary to the tenour of our express
command aforesaid, presumed to give their votes and
support to one George Lamb, who bath been represented
to us to be an adherent .to the principles of the said•
Sir Samuel Romiily, and inimical to our said pa tronage.
Now, We are hereby most graciously pleased •to order and
direct, that all those, the Electors of our said Borough, who
have not yet polled, and especially such whose/mar-rates we
have discharged, do forthwith pr. teed to the hustings and
vote for our said Cousin : And IVe do further command, that
they, and those Gentlemen who were hired for that purpose
do so keep possession of the said hustings, that no friends of
the said George Lamb be allowed to approach the same.—
And for greater encouragement hereto, and in order to pre-
vent the exposure,of our corrupt machinations, and to pre-
serve our patronage aforesaid, We do hereby offer the re-
ward of 2s. 6d. to any person or persons who shall gag or.
otherwise effectuallg prevenfthe said George Lamb, and his
friends from speaking mt the 'hustings aforesai.l. Given•un-
der our hand, at our Court in King-street, this 27th day of
February, in the 12th year of our sovereignty aforesaid.
(Signed) " FRANCIS, Patron."

Sir Bea and JAreh Cam.
" To gain a place by purcbas'dseat,
" Wa Ben the patriot's case:
" Jack chang'd the plan, and Jack is beat,
He'll gain no seat by Place."

Another exhibited by one of the friends of Mr.
Hohhouse, who rode on the back of his compa-
nions, was, in the then temper of the crowd, of so
iuflammatory a nature, that it appeared to us that
the Constables werle, wanting in their duty in not
seizing the offender. The placard was as fol-
lows Ekctors, give Lamb a public roasting,
and send him to grass till Easter."
I'Ve have ekewhere given the speeches (see our
Last Page) which were addressed to the" enlight-
ened body" ho wet e assembled before the
Ilustiogs; and therefore refer the curious in those
matters to that part of our Paper in which they
are to be found. When these were at an
end (and they ended earlier than usual, ow-
ing to the absence of Hunt, Jones, Wooler, &c.)
the hustings, lost their attraction, and the crowd
began to disperse fraien befGre them. But a new
scene of action now presented itself ; a large end.
dis Orderly group had followed 111.. Lamb and some
of his friends, as webefore stated, from the hust-
ings to the Committee-room in Henrietta street.
These, hating stationed themselves opposite the
door, vented their disappointment in various ways,:
according to the taste of the different speakers.
Some attacked Lord Castlereagh, as the cause of:
their failure ; others . shared the blame of it be-
tween the whole of the Ministers ; hut all seemed
agreed in reprobating the Whigs, whom they tle-
signated the " rvinaters of the country." The
noise and' tumult occasioned by these caught the'
attention of those who were leaving the hustings,'
and in a short time Henrietta-street became so'
thronged, as to be utterly impassable to foot passen-
gers. The shouts of " Hobhoose for ever," " Bur-
dett for ever," " No Lamb, he is nut our Re-
presentative," were now set up, and contk
tined, mixed with various others which we,
cannot recollect, until the lungs of the par-
ties became nearly' exhausted. They. then had
recourse to another method of expressing their
opinions—by a show of hands; but they were
hands filled wilh mud and every other filthy"mis-
sile the neighbourhood afforded, which they cast'
unsparingly either towards the door and 'windows
of the Committee-room, or upon the Constables
who were stationed there for its protection.: After
ii was known that Mr. Lamb had departed in the
manner before described,' the violence, of the
crowd increased, and stones, where they could be
procured, sapplied the place of mud against a he
windows of the Committee-room, and the conse-
quence was, a great number of panes which
a prior attack bad left untouched were now
broken to pieces. The constables used their ut-
most exertions to repress the crowd, but for awhile
their efforts were ineffectual. At length, alter re-
peated acts of aggression on the part of the mob,
they(the constables) having collected in aconsider-
able number in the Committee-room, sallied forth,
and after a short struggle succeeded in (hiving the
crowd into Bedford-street ; not, however, before
they had given striking proofs of their own exer-
tions, and. of their adversaries' resistance. Some
persons were much hurt, and bled profusely, from
blows on the head and face ; and others seemed
to suffer still more severely :tom having fallen in
their retreat, and being trampled on by those who
pressed behind. The sight of their comrades,who
where thus injured, stimulated the crowd to a re-
newal of .their attack ; and accordingly, the con-
stables and some private individuals who very laird-
ably assisted to keep the peace, were pelted front the
end of the street, and partly oh iven back to the Com-
, Mittee-400111., Ageine how ever, they rushed tor-

ward, awl again the crowd retreated, anti in this
manner they continued occasionally advancing and
retreating, as the resistance to their became more
or less active (the 'usual —ral)yiitg try being
" Hobhouse for ever- I") until about six o'clock,
when a party of the Horse Guards arrived. Their
appearance, though. they marched at a 5.10,w pace,
had an instantaneous effect, and the crowd, for
the greater part, began to fly in every direction.
There were, however, some who remained, and
who contented themselves with hissing and crying
" The Guardiwere drawn up in the centre
of Henrietta-street, and a few were detached to
parade at both ends of it. After. remaining there
for about half au hour, order being restored, they
were withdrawn. Iu the course of these proceed-
ings, and before the arrival of the military, the
constables succeeded in taking a few of the prin •
cipal rioters into custody. It is but justice to re-
niaA, that the whole of the persons engaged in
these disgraceful scenes wet e persons of the very
lowest description, and most of them lads cer-
tainly under the age of O.
After the guards had departed, a few groups. of
persons, the remniant of the former crowd, remain-
ed colt, c•ed in Henrietta-street ; but at half past
7 o'clock the whole had separated.
We had abinst forgotten to state, that after the
mob hart broken the windows of Lamb's Com-
mittee-toum, in Covent-garden, they proceeded
to vent their rage against the windows of the
honses in which the business of his Election
had been managed so much to their disown-.
attire: A .detachment from the great body
rn Henrietta•street and CuVenr-garden, proceed-
ed, about a quarter-past five, along York-street,
Catherine-street, the .Strand, and. up New-,
castle-street, where they broke the windows of a
eotiee-house in which one of Mr. L2mb'sCom-
tniveis had sat. We have not heard that they
cumMitted any other devastations or ontrages-,
except hustling and knocking down such passen-
gers as would not join their cry of " Hotritouse
fur ever !" An elderly Gentleman, who persisted
in wearing Lamb's 'colours,- was so beat and
knocked about as to be obliged to be carried
away.
_ _ _

I ims terminated the whole of the public pro-
ceedings connected with this Election, in . the
course of which the advocates , Annual Parlia-
ments (we speak chiefly of the crowd before the
Hustings) have, by their turbulent conditcf,given
the strongest proof of the Mischievous tendency
of that absurd principle. .