The Sun.
London, England, 1819-02-16 00:00:00

ME THEATRE.

IjatinY-LANe.—We are under the painful neces-
sity of recording an event highly disgraceful to the
audience who attended this Theatre last night.—A
.."1-agedy, entitled Switzerland, the first dramatic
production of Miss PoaTaa, to whom the public
are indebted for the following interesting Novels,
viz. Thaddeus of ti-arsaw, The Scottish Chiefs, and
The Past Or's Fireside, was brought forward ; but
though the moral influence, as well as interesting
nature, of the fair Author's former works, gave her
a claim to attention and respect, her Play was
treated savage severity. It Was evidently
the intention of the Author to compose a
simple and affecting story, founded upon
hiStorical truth .5 and if the public taste
had not been debased by Tragediea of extravagant
fiction, bombast, and horror, there can be little
doubt that the Drama of last night would have
excited interest anri applanse.—We shOuld injure
the Author by attempting to detail the fable of
a piece which was interrupted by the most brutal
Outrage in its most critical situations. As far as
the Play was permitted to be heard, it dis-
played noble and striking sentiments, conveyed
in simple, elegant, and impressive langVage.—
We sincerely hOpe that the Lady will print her
work and shaMe the rogues," or rather brutes,
who treated it With such unrelenting
Some of the Morning Papers lay the blame on the
Actors, but parti'cularly on M-r. I' RAN, Whom they
accuse of coldness and sloVenfy
Perhaps the part asS'ipined to him did lint gibe
stripe for those towering burst's of passion, and
abrupt'transitions, in which the merit of hisacting
chiefly consists. But we may urge in his faVour
that, finding lie bad so brutal an audience to deal
with, he might naturally conceive that exertions
of More energy might only expose him to ridi-
cule, and consequently injure his professional,
character. The rest of the Performers Might na-
turally tall into CoMparaiiie languor from the
same feeling, though for our part we saw no want
of requisite animation, considering the turbulence
which must unavoidably have impeded their exer-
tions. Though we do not attempt to give the fable,
yet we must correct one Mistake into which; the diur-
nal Critics have fallen, in supposing that Eugene
(Mr. KERN) died by his own hand. The
Author did not offer Stich a reprehensible sanc-
tion to suicide, 'but with a better conception
Of the heroic character, represented the con-
duct of Epanzinondas, who having been wounded,
concealed his suffering, and did not draw the fatal
shaft from his side, till he heard that his country
had been triumphant. The Prologue, an admir
able effusion of poetical enthusiasm, was well de-
livered by Mr. Ilia, and the Epilogue, as far as
it could be heard amidst turbulence and contusion,
not less so by Mrs. WEST. We need only men-
tion whit followed the dropping of the Curtain,
to prove to our Readers the nature of the audience
front their conduct, Mr. H. JoHNSToN came for-
ward to learn the decision of the audience, but not
a syllable could be heard, and he retired. After
some time, the new farce of High Notions com-
menced, and then also began the reign of Levellers,
Jacobins, UniverSal Suffrage and Annual Parliament
Patriots, for as their conduct exactly resembled
that of sue. Reformers before the Hustings in Co-
Vent-garden, when they savagely assaulted, and at-
tempted to murder, Sir M.Maxwam.,we'cannot but
consider them as Critics of the same description.
Orange peals were thrown at Mrs. BLAND, and
in due progress also oranges at all the rest of the
Performers, 'till they were absolutely driven off the
stage. The call for the Manager then became gene--
ral; and Mr. STEFIIRN KEtvt..6l.l:, as we hear, hav-
ing consulted with the Author, who was reluctant
to occasion any future disturbance in the Theatre,
and therefore requested that her play might be,
withdrawn, came on the stage for that ptirpose,
!Art was immediately assailed with a shower 'of
oranges. He bore this insulting treatment with
a dignilied patience, and expressed himself in the
following mariner

" Ladies—and Gentlernent is fer yott to presCribe laws,
and it is our duty to obey them : I cannot but regret the
failure of this p►ece: we have brought forward several novel
ties this season, all of which have been honoured with your
approbation; We cannot, therefore, for an instant doubt of
your kind disposition towards us: this Tragedy, since it has
not proved equally fortunate, shall certainly be withdrawn."
He then retired, amidst acclamations of applause,
as if in atonement tor the previous outrage ; the
Force was permitted to proceed, and thus ended
a tumult very disgraceful to an English Public on
the score of gallantry, as well as of every humane
and generous feeling.

ANECriOTE OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.—
The following curious circumstance occurred to
the above Noble Duke during a late visit at Hat-
field House :—A farmer, who had been much an•
noyed by the hunters rifling across his corn, di•
reeted hts shepherd to stake up and make fast all
his gates that adjoin the roads. It so happened
that the Duke rode up to one of these gates,
which the shepherd was lolling over, and who
was directed by the Duke to Open the gate for
him. The shepherd refused complying with the
request, and desired him to go round, for he should
not tide over-his master's corn. The Duke there-
fore rode off. When the man went home, his
master enquired of him if be had stepped the
hunters " Aye, master," the shepherd answeied,
!• that I have—and not only them, but also that
Soldier Man that Buonaparte could not stop."
The farmer took an early opportunity of apolo-
gizing to Lady Salisbury for the rudeness of his
servant, and stated that had he been aware that
the Noble Duke would have been out that day,
his gates should not have been fastened, and et
the same time mentioned what his man had said,
which, on being related to the Duke; caused; as
may be expected, a hearty laugh.
BANK TOKENS.—It may be necessary to re-
mind the public, the period limited (by the Act of
Parl,ament passed last
,Session) for permitting
the receipt at Bank dollars and tokens in pay:-
ment for taxes, duties, stamps, &c. will expire on
Ole sth of April next ; and that the Receiver
General will not accept them in payment from
the Collectors of Taxes after that period.
CoUET OF KING'S BENCH.—The Court was
occupied ithe whole of !yesterday in t rying unde-
fended and other causes of no public imporrance.
The Adjourned Sittings etnitmeuce to-morrow -at
Westalinster.

f
POETRY.

moLoctE TO THE TRACiEDY OF "SWITZERLAND

WRITTEN BY EDMUND L. SWIFT, ESQ.

;.;'POKEN: EY :4 R. RAE.
Oh for the mOnfithin breeze ; whose murmurs sweep
Midway to Heaven 'around the Alpine steep ;
Whose airs, etherial and unearthly, play*.
While night is here, above the beam of day !
Come, mountain breeze, I woo thee to my breast ;
Not for the flowers that fill thy flowing vest;
Not for the dropping odours of thy wing,.
That pOur on Winter's brow the breath of Spring;
But, that thou bearest on thy cour,e from high,
Stirring Man's heart, the voice of Liberty.—

There is a charmed power, a shielding spell,
That hallows every-spot where Freemen dwell;
Unfetter'd as their winds, their spirits rise,
Firm as their cliffs, and upward As their shies.
The life-blood of their sires enrich'd their soil;
The faulchion was their plough, the war their toil;
In victory their " Iron harvest" rose;
And valour won their long and lov'd

Yet their's no silken slumber :—FREEriom's ground?
the wizard PLEASURE waves no wand around.
View the deep silence, where, the lightest tread
Would shake a tempest from yon glacier's head ;
Where, even the whisper of a.wOrtl would launch
From its poisld height!) ',he expecting avalanche;—
And ask—Will LuxurY wreathe her gailands there?
Or, Despots fierce a Freeman's vetigearfce dare ?

Yes—Despots,so have dared :--the elder time,
And later trays, have Seen' the desperate crime;
When the high mountain breeze o'erswept their path,
And smote their,fiag.in mockery or in wrath;
When the larch, nodding down Abe.catnract's
Shew'd like the armed Hillstean's.plumy pride;
When that:sweet strain, Which never Swias could heat
On foreign shores without an homefelt tear,
Sung the Invader's death-song :---Such hath been
Helvetia's canse.---and such to-night out scene

It is the story of a kindred soil
The Tyrant's hate—thank Heaven l—no more bis spol
Since Fate decreed the mountain and the wave,
Thy cradle, FREEDOM ! and OpPftekstos's grave.
A woman's 'hand—but with no woman's fear—
Tells the proud triumph of Helvetia here;,
And Ocean's conqu'rors will mit blirsh to see,'
And praise, the strife of Mountain Liberty;
That blooni'd as brightly, as hei Alpine Ruse
Shoots through the darken'd waste of wildering snot's.
BRITONS be just !-shall .the for favour plead,
Whose scene presents Tilt Stvr7rzEa's Ri/NNUMEIDE
Like your own Barons, strove,that glorious Band:—
Sit then—and hear the Talc of SWITZERLAND.

EPILOGUE;.
WRITTEN BY JOHN TAYLOR, ESQ.

SPOBENT BY MRS. W. WEST.
No longer now Camilla, I appear
In humble guise to court your favoUr heie;
Contented to become a Peasant dame,
Yet still I glow with Freedom's halloW'd flame,
That hallow'd flame which; fann'd by fost'ring Time,
Will spread its light o'erleery age and clime.
But must I new dull CUstoin's rule obey,
To sport on topics of the passing day?
Degrade the lofty Muse, whose power supplies
The moral theme that warns us to be wise !
No !:e'en a Peasant's heart must proudly swell,
Born on the land that boasts her WILLIAM TELL!
He who, disdainful of despotic ire,
Blending the Patriot's with the Patent's fire,
Roused his indignant countrymen, and broke
With virtuous energy a foreign yoke;
'Till SWITZERLAND no more with tyrants strove;
Free as the winds that o'er her mountains rove.

But why declaim I thus on FREEDOM here?
For BRITAIN long has been her fav'rite sphere
BRITAIN, by her inspired, who led the way,
And rescued Europe from Oppression's Sway;
BRITAIN, WhOID AERIE'S claim with zeal incites,
Nor deems that colour cancels human:rights.

Now to our Drama.—Need I smiles implore
For her whose Muse has charmed you oft before ?
THADDEUS Of WA RSAVll—does not ev'ry soul
Slow at the name of that heroic Pole ?
Dues not your sympathy with her retire
To rural quiet at the PASTort's intE ?
'Twai she who rous'tl you with the martial strife--:."
'Twas she who south'd you with sequester'd life—
lier's too the SCOTTISH CHIEFS, who nobly stand
To grace and to protect their hOtiourid land.

Must she then dread the Critic's frown ur sneer,
And see her bid-ming laurels blighted here ?
No—all who FREEDOM love will aid her cause,
In gen'rous rivalry of just applause ;
Aild VIRTUE, to reward her moral page,
Hail with delight her triumph on the Stage.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BETTING ROO.
There was considerable varii
as 1011,

rS4, FEB. 15, 1819.
atiot yesterday in the Betting,

BY.

to 1 agst Edphrates
15 to I agst Pledge
20, to 1 agst Iris

'2O te 1 agst Dwaine
20 to 1 agst Etapeioi
to 1 agst Brbsh.

oALs.

12 to 1 agst Vanity filly

6 to 1 asst Blue Stockings I
6X to 1 agst Baroisa
•RIIVLESWORTH STAKES.
4i to 1 agst Treasurer 10 to I agst Emperor.
6 to 1 agst Blue Stockings 13 to 1 agst Dodona.
10 to 1 asst Soothsayer c:

DOtICASTER ST. LEGER.
7 to 1 Apt Laird 1 19 to 1 agit Magistrate.
Eti to 1 agst Mandane
The three Classes of the Oatlands remain a§ before•, Pen-
Borifice, and Magistfate keeping the favourites.

he followi►►g tact took place lately in West-
morland :—A hound whelp and a cur dog, be-
longing to the Rev. Robert Sandford, of Crook,
started hare from that place, which tliey
ran all night ; the next tnoi•ning they were found
by one of Mr. Bolton's labourers, not far from
Storrs Hall, quite exhausted, One iyifig On each
side of the hare, which was quite dead, and not the
leest torn by them. After ,the hare Was taken
fron► them, they remained upon the spot a consi-
derable time before they recovered sufikient
strength.to enable them to !warn to their mattin's
house.

EMANCIPATION EXPLAINED;
OR, POPISH ASCENDANCY IN IRELAND.

By a CHURCH of ENGLAND CATHCLIC:

[No. 11.]

(Continued from yesterday's SUN.)

The grand pursuit of Priests in particular, is
power, and their peculiar object is power over
the belief of men; the more unbounded that power
can be rendered, the More they become what is
the grand delight of human nature, objects of
coniequettee, for ambition is man's hereditary
sin ; and in no class of society has it ever beet►
exercised with so bold and oppressive a hand as
in-the Popish Hierarchy. A power over the belief
of men obviously carries with it every other sort
of power, and renders those who possess it ob-
jects of greciter consequence to the rest of their
species than any .other sort of power co,ild do ;
the ambition of the Priest is therefore the
highest of all sorts of ambition, and must neces••
sarily give birth to-a proportional ardour of pur-
suit. There is, however, a principle in human na~
tore, by which the establishment of power is en•
deavoored to be resisted ; with this of course the
Priesthood finds it neceSwy.to contend ; atul
curious it is. indeed to contemplate the expedients
to which, in thedifferent ages; they have had re-
course for sttbditing it. If things are any where so
happily situated, that, in subduing the resistance
to their power, they can also obtain a license for
pleasure, or:even render the pleasure itself an in-
strument of the power, every body must perceive
how stiarig the temptation is to unite the plea-
sore trod the power; but if things are not so hap-
pily situated, and if, in order to secure the

power, the pleasure must 'be sacrificed, it
will of course. be' ostentatiously renounced, he.
cause the power is the prime object, and
generally brings Witir: it the means of plea-
sure, if not openly, at least under a slight
.concealment, So.that scarcely any thing is lost in
the end. But it is necessary ,to consider a little
the nature of the means by which the Priesthood
-is led to seek for power, and here we must oh-;.
serve, that considered
.merely as a separate
order of men, they Must always have an in-
terest in tendering teligion, not. as rational
as possible, but on the contrary ; to render
it rational there is one course, and no
,other;
that is, to form as accurate a conception as
possible of perfect wisdom in the Deity,- joined
with perfect goodness, and to reason accurately
from these dates. But the slightest reflection it
sufficient to show, that the moment a man can so
reason, the power of the Priest with regard to
him iTs at an end. The Priest has an interest

therefote in. preventing religion from coming to
this state :of perfection. There is not a single
Histotian among the many, whose opinions are
worthy of any regard, who ascribeS that perver-
sion of Christianity which took place during the
dark ages, and converted it into a mass of mis-

chievous superstitions, such as still exist in the

Churee of Rome, to any other cause than the
interests of the Priests, working upon a state
of the human Mind which fitted it for their pur-
pose, a state of ignorance and credulity, and
therefore prepared tor the reception of delusion ;
and so powerful is early impressions on the human
mind in matters of religion, particularly that re.
ligion most encumbered with Hies, ceremonies;
and doctrines, thatiew can escape the effects, even
minds highly susceptible of demonstration.--:.
But Priest craft does not stop here ; it has found

the .way to the recesses of the heart, and chang:
ed the open and public confession of the sinner,
as originally. performed, into the auricular and.
secret avowal that must now be made to the priest
Only. This passage to the human heart was disco-
vered in 1215, during the Papacy of INNOCENT
the 3d, and the key; being committed to the care
of the Priesthood only, has become the most pow..
erful engine of Popery, and fully confirmed its
dominion Over its votaries, for the purpose of
more effectually enslaving the consciences and
minds of the people. The Romish Clergy them-
selves paid the most implicit obedience to theie
own superiors or Prelates; and they in their turns
were as blindlydevoted to the will of the Sovereign
Pontiff, and continue to be so ; whose decisions
they hold to be infallible, and his authority co:
extensive with the Christian world. But as some-

thing still was wanting besides this spiritual au-
thority, which only operated on conscientious.
minds', to establish dominion ; and the Court of
Rome being fully apprised that power could not
be maintained nor exercised for any long time,
and to any great extent, without property ;
therefore to the acquisition of this its at-
tention was very sedulously directed, for
which purpose doctrines and practices were
enjoined that were likely to secure pecuniary ad-
vantages. The doctrine of Purgatory was of this
kind, for it was accompanied with the purchase.:
of Masses to redeem the souls of the deceased—
new (angled offences were created, and indul.
gences were sold to the wealthy for liberty to siaL
without danger. The Canon Law took cogni-
zance of crimes, enjoined penance, pro salute
anima, and commuted that penance for money:
This doctrine of Pusgatory,which some derive front
the platonic fancies of ORIGENi the monatism of

'I'ERTULLIAN, pretended visions, and pagan stories,
rhetorical flourishes, and doubtful expressions of
the later Fathers, and in which we may discern tux
obvious resemblance to
,the tntrious Pagan doc-
trine concerning the purification of departed souls,
by means of a certain kind of fire, .was partly in-
troduced, at least the spirit of it, towards the closd
of the fifth century, and by GREGORY in the sixth
century, but not, however, positively confirmed
till about the year 1140, nor made an article of
faith till by the Council of Trent, Sess. 25,
/.

Wrret de Purgat. The discovery of this, tilt
hen terra incognita, has, by attentive CC,-;
onization, brought in large revenues to
lie Church of Rome. At SOCM as a than has a

just conception of the Divine Being, as a being
of perfect wisdom and goodness, what possible
hold can the Priest have upon Lis mind ? The
advantage of the Priest consists in being able to
persuade the rest of his tel:ow-treataires, that
they do not understand what is the wilrof the Di-
vine Being, but that he does. If he tail establistt
this belief in its greatest possible extent, it is evi-
dent that his hover is unbounded; and exactly irt
the degree, in which he can establish it, is the exe.

tent of his power hut nothing is more sireph.
than to know what is the will of a Being of p.!;•-
fect• wisdom and goodness,, which must be in sub-
stance—that each individual should do what he
can to make himself and every other being happy.
But if, on the other hand, the Priest can persuaik
the people that the will of Goy is something vet y
on-accountable, guided by no principles of wisdom
and goodness (for then all men would understand
it), but subject to the influence of all manner of
weak and wicked passions, with unbounded power
for their 'gratification ; among other things, that
Ise isssubject in a great degree to the infloence of
the malignant passions, and very apt when not
pleased with men to bring evil upon them to tic
101 l extent of his power ; that the mode of pleas-
ing kiln is not that which woold please a very
wise and good Man, but that which is best cairn,.
Wed to please a weak and wicked one, not wise
and good conduct, but excessive courtship to him,
self, it is easy in that case for the hiest to
frighten the people with an idea that they can',
not know the will of Gots, and that infinite evil
tnay fall upon them in consequence, hut that the
Priest does know it, .and that they can, there-
fore, do nothing better than throw themselves
upon the Priest, and follow implicitly his direc-
tions ; nor is the belief of their superior know-
ledge the only advantage which the Priests in this
situation enjoy. It is easy for them to persuade
the people that they, are peculiar favourites with
the Deity, for the people know that
.favourites
have great influence with. Beings of great power
and strong passions on earth. They easily, there-.
fore, believe that :they have a like power with si-
milar Beings:in !leaven. The Priests, :in conse,
(pence, becomes species of intercessors; if a man
has offended the Divinity,• they alone can intere
fere to mollify l,itn ; their prayers only are of any
value ; and they invent a system of Sacrifices and.
other rites, for the sameporpose. It is evident, that
as soon as these points are established, the. Priests
alone know the will of the Divine Being ;. next,.
that they can intercede with-him and save mat-
kind from the effects of his wrath, There is no-
thing which they may not accomplish. :Their:
-dominion over the minds of.men is complete.
They have then only to invent a sufficient•nom-
bar of modes in whirls the .Divine Being may he'
offended, and to propagate the that he is,
so, to a suffitieut degree of malignity to maintain
their fellow-creatures in a perpetual state of ap-
prehension, and, from the idea of their: powers of
intercession, in a state of absolute depeodance
on themselves• In the course which they pursue
to make a number of modes. of offending, the
Deity sufficiently great to keep.the minds of men
in a continual state of aPprehension, audoeonse-
quent depeodance on themselves, is found the
motive for multiplying excessively ceremonies and
rites. If these are so :numerous and intricate
that a man is every moment of his life in danger
of neglecting or misperforming some of them,.on
such days and hours as are appointed for them,
and in such quantities and proportions as are laid
down, and thereby of incurring the dreadful dis-
pleasure of an Infinite Being, his need of the
Priest as an intercessor is incessant, and his de-

pendance extreme.
When it was found difficult or impossible to
convert absolute frivolities, nonsensical and un-
meaning acts, into modes of offending the Deity,
another exneditnt remained. :If the people could
be .made to believe that the Divine Being was an
enemy to human pleasures, the same end might
he spill attained ; for men are so strongly impelled
by the love of pleasure, that if this could be con-
verted into a mode of offending the Deity, it was
certain that there could be no want or offences,
consequently no want of apprehension, or of sub-
jection to the Priests.
Now it appears from the history of all ages and
nations to:be no difficult thing to persuade man-
kind that the Deity is so far malignant, as not only
to hate human pleasures, but to: take. delight in
human sufferings and privations. .Hence the va-
rieties of monasteries, those .dorMitories of the
human faculties, where that unprofitable steward,-
the lazy Monk, vegetate's, a useless member of
society., The Priests themselves wish to appear
as submitting to certain privations, in order to
keep up the opinion of. their being the favostrites'
of the Deity, and therefore in a situation to act
as intercessors with him for his constantly offend-
ing creatures ; so that nothing is left undone to
establish their power,
I have hitherto spoken of Popery and the in-
fluence and power of its Priests over its votaries
in a general way, as,warping .the human mind
from that rational liberty it should. enjoy, and, as
far as .it affects these realms,, unfitting the fol-
lowers of that sect from being sound and loyal
subjects to a Protestant State. I shall now con-
sider it more particularly as affecting the political
relation of Ireland with her sister kingdom, Great
Britain ; and I hesitate not to assert;• that Ca-
tholic Emancipation, as, it is termed,lt admitted,
will infallibly produce Popiih Ascendancy in fret .
land. I found this assertion on the avowed hos-
tility of the Church of Rome to. all other modes
of worship whatever, and its persecuting spirit
when and wheresoever it can shew itself—on the
rapid increase of Popery in Ireland, and the um-
remitting and persevering character of its Priests
hood in proselyting—on the supineness of the
Ministers of the Established Church in a matter
of such importance to the State as the preserving
its Protestant subjects fromPopish influence—and
on the frequent and open insinuations made at all
the-aggregate meetings of Roman Catholics, of
using their physical strength, if necessary, to
obtain the full and unqualified measure of their
demands.
lit order to shew more clearly the calamity that
would inevitably befitl this valuable branch of the
British Empire, evert to the hazard of its sepa-
ration from Great Britain, should the barriers of
our excellent Constitution in Church or State
be any more weakened by further concessions to
the Roman Catholics, it is necessary to bring the
present state of Ireland under one, general point
of view, as so many of our fellow-subjects in and
out of Parliament seem really in total ignorance
of it. In this description I shall endeavour to
shew things as they are ; and if I have in any
point deviated from tooth, I shall most readily
and gladly be open to conviction ; but I shall no-
thing ex:ornate that I can fairly bring forward.
[To be continued.]

WESTAI I NSTER. ELECTION.

SECOND DAY.

At four o'clock yesterday the poll closed, when
ti►e nuu►hers V' re as

For Mr. Hothouse 217
Mr. Lam!,
Major tjartNi right
Mr. HoBHOUSE returned thanks for the fresh
proof which the Electors had this day given him
of their confidence. Their cause was seventy-six
a-head on that day's poll. This aeoss a very con-
siderable majoriv for the first day, and he had
no doubt that their superiority would he much
greater to-mort ; tor perhaps those he ad-
dressed would he pleased to hear, that the in.
hahit anti .0f the large and populous parish of St.
Jaen S :were coining up to-morrow, Mil with them
heir worthy Representative., Sir Francis Burdett.
—He thou proceeded to remark on the language
hell by the proposer and seconder of Mr. Lamb,
as %yell us on the speech of .that Gentleman him-
self. The propos.er had spoke much of Sir Samuel
Roindly ; but while he spoke with the utmost
respect of that name, he thought' it would have
betti more to the purpose had the proposer said
less Of-Sir Samuel Romilly and more'of Mr. Lamb;
as that Geortleman required some introduction to
the Electors, who at present 'knew nothing of
him. In all- his advettisements anti addresses, his
name was industriously coupled with that of Sir
S. Romilly. This he was afraid was an artifice—,
if he might use such language in connexion with
that great name-7-a paltry artifice ; but the cou-
pling of Mr-Linab's. name with that of Sir S.
would not 'be sufficient to satisfy the,
Electors of ‘Vestfohaster..The Seconder had made
an attack on Majni.'Carterright,-an'd on the Ra-
diral Reformers,:t6 'which he coald tiotllisten'with
pleasure, as the latiguage whichhe had n'sed, if he
had heard him- right, or the- Newspapers bad cor-1
reedy reported him, 'was such as might have been;
,:pared, He bad- called him. (Mr.. Hobhouse) a
Revolutionist. "The head acid. trout of his of-
' fending " was this, that he bad written,a; book to
show, that in 18,16' England hid no right to im-'
pose a loathed anti d'espised SoVereigra on France.,
The Whig's ought' not to complain of Revolu-
tionists, -*as' they were for 'eVer-taking credit to
themselves for'rlielood which their ancestors had.
procured for the nation by the Revolution of
1683. i.t was.odd' that the seconder. oldie Whig
Candidate should commence his task in misrepre-
sentation. had,said that he (Mr. Hobhouse)
had disgraced himaell by calling the battle of Wa-
terloo the carnage of. Mount,St. John. He de-
nied that he used such words. They had been
(pked as'from his work in the Quarterly Review
—the Coact Review, published once in every three
months, to tell -lies in favour of the Court.—
(Cries of " They are quoted in the preface to the
Chide fittrold;")—He knew, -100, that they had
appeared in a work which a Nobleman had done
him the honour to dedicate to him, but be never
wrote them, or. he.woidd defend them, as, with all
respect for 'the valour of our soldiers, be regret eel
they had engaged in so onfortnnate a cause as
that in which they bad fought the battle of Wa-
terloo. It was stringe_that the Whigs who came
forward on Saturday had not better learnt their
lesson than they had done, for they seemed not
Ito know that one of their party, Earl Grey, had
pronounced one of the finest speeches ever heard
in Parliament, against the fighting of the battle
of Waterloo. From the moment he, had heard
what, was said on Saturday, he could not but
suspect that the Whig now brought, before ,the
Electors of Westminster was not ate Whig of
1797, but a modern Whig, or covered Courtier.
'But Mr. Lamb gloried in his being"a Wig. *his
reminded hint of a character in one of Sliakspeare's
Plays. islits being reproached .as a slut, makes
answer; " I thank God for my sluttishness."—
It was with similar feelings that Mr. Lamb re-
joiced that he was a Whig. But. to say that be
was a 'Whig was to say nothing. One .Whig,
whose name was very similar to that of the ;new
Candidate,
.had voted for the ,Suspension of the
Habeas Corpts /Net; and several Whigi lead, fa-
voured that measure. While some had spoken
with great bitterness against a radical Reform,
others had acted a different part; not because they
were Whigs, but because they were honest men;
and he was not unwilling to admit that a rem-
nant of the Whigs could be saved. Several Whigs
had voted for him to-day, and be hoped more
would vote for him to-morrow.., He -(Mr. Hob--
house) was disliked because be was no party. matt,
and this had caused the Whig Candidate to start
against hini It was objected to'birOthat he bad
been nominated in a room containing not more
than 1500-persons, but Mr. Lamb had only been
nominated by a, cabal, of. which all they knew
was, that, Mr. Macdonald bad been in the_Chair. ,
He (Mr. Lamb) had appealed to the people, and
they all knew what the result bad been on the
show of hands, when, he declared to God, he bad
seen but seven held up in his favour. It was then ,
complained that 'at the Hustings he had been put
in nomination by Sir Francis Burdett,' and this
was ,said to be such' a thing' that nothing like it
had ever been seen before. But they fOrgot that
the same thing had been done by Sir Francis Bur-
dett, who had put Lord Cochrane in nomination
in 1814. It was a pity these Whigs had not some
regard for truth. He then read from two News-
papers certain paragraphs, which described him
to be a Jacobin, and recommended Mr. Lamb to
the Electors. He thence 'contended that Mr.•
Lamb, supported by, several Newspapers, anti 'by
the late Canvassers for Sir M./Maxwell, was the
representative of the 'aristocratical intentions of
tie people: at the West end of the town, who
were determined that the .people should not
choose their representatives. For his own part,
he was content to be canes! the Jacobin Candi-
date—but Mr. Lamb must bear tlivame of the
Coalition Candidate. T;
ford WM. RUSSELL wa's not going tr) follow Mr.
Hobhouse through his long and onmeting speech.
—He came forward to recommend to them hii
friend Mr. Lamb, as the advocate of those prin-
ciples for which, if called upon, he (Lord Win.
Russell) would be ready to lay down his life.—
[The tumult among the crowd beeaMe so great,
that his Lordship could not be beard further, and
he retired.]
Mr. LAMB' said, after a'canvass of three months,
his opponent seas but 76 a-head on the Poll this
day. Ha would not change situations with him ; '

for after tile boasting they had beard of what

they would do on the first day, the result was a
disappointment to Mr. Hobhouse, and a gratifi-
cation to him. It often happened that he who
started first was soonest out of breath,
,and pass-
ed with ease by his rival, and so he trusted it
would be on this occasion. Mr. Hobhouse had
been in regular training—had been dieted and
kept up for the last three months, whilst he (Mr.
Lamb) had been brriught suddenly before them,
arid, therefore, though Mr. Hobhouse had gained
a little, advantage in the first tonna, he should
come tip to him again, and his opponent would
find that he hail got more of a glutton to deal
with than he had at first suspected. It had been
said that he had been put forward by a
cabal, but whoever had brought him before
them, if, now he was there, he received the

votes of id majority of
.the Electors, , be should
feel satisfied. In proceeding to notice the ob-
ervations which hail been made on what
passed on Saturday, he reminded the popu-
lace that he had not had a day and a half to, read
over his antagonist's speech, and to prepare his
own. This he mentioned to account for his omit-
ring to answer any thing that bad been urged
against him, as he was able to give satisfactory
answers to all that had been said, and any omission
that might occur would be merely the result of
inadvertency on hiS part.. It had been imputed
to him by Mr. Flubbouse, as a [ilea!) or paltry
artifice, that his name had been coupled with tl►at
of Sir Samuel Romilly. Had. the name of Mr.'
lioblionse been coupled with no othei ? FIB d lie
ever been mentioned"but as the friend of Sir F.
Burdett. That Honourable Basconet; not con-

tent with the favonr shown to himself, now
came there to force on them another eapdidate
in the person of hiS friend, It Was said. that he,
telling them that he was a Whig, had told them
.
nothing. Now it was remarkable that Mr. Hob-
house, after going, among the ElectorOos;Oree
months,' kid had., .P). explain what he meant by
Parliamentary IterOrin at the Hustings. If on
that point he bad not' explained himself befOre,
he -w,ondered what he had been talkiog 'abOut in
the:three months. Mr. liobhouse boasted much

that he was no party man.. If to be :a+ party. man
nreent'tO be blindly obedient to.the calls of party,,
anti regardless of the interests of the country, he
would repeat_thedeelaration of
and,eSsert that Ire (M r. Lamb`) iv `aanopart,mtian.
He, was not vain
.enntrgi to think that alone he
COuld'essentially
.serve the people of We'Sititin
ster.; 'and where, be would ask, must Mr. Hob-
house vote if returned to Parliament, which he
confidently trusted he would not be on this
occasion ? He must vote in the ranks of the
Whigs„ if true to his, professions ; and therefore,
in that case, between himself and Mr. :Hobhouse
there would be 'lrti practiCal difference. There
was, be sure, a means he might take, and he
had known other "no party Men" do it,—that of
submitting to the Elaine propositions so absurd
that
,they could not.find a
,seconder, no one caring
to, insult . his " no party " principles, even by
agreeing with him, Mr. Hobliouse had spoken of
him as being the Court or the Coalition Candi-
date. It, was only on Saturday that his friend
the Honourable Baronet had said be was a
Whig Candidate, and that his being put in no-
mination would cause. a - Court Candidate to
start. He,took the title then assigned to hint,
but he,would not be new christened every day of
the Election,. , Mr. Hohhouse had said that'a per-
son of his name bad voted for the suspension of
the Habeas
,Corpus Act. On Saturday, when
some observation was made on the conduct of a
member of Mr. Ijobbouse's family, there was a
cry of "No family reflections." Was it fair,
after that, for Mr. Hohlionse to take the course
he had
,taken ? The Suspension of the Habeas
Corpas Act bad ever had his decided reprobation.
In conclusion, he declared himself friendly to the
shorter duration of Parliaments, and friendly to
economy and retrenchment. He was the friend of
civil. and religious liberty, and he considered that
he bad therefore a claim to the conjoined title of
Whig Candidate and the Friend of the People. _
Mr. EVANS attempted to speak, but was op-
posed by Mr. Hunt. The former gave way.
• Mr. HUNT took a view of the contest between
Mr, Hobhouse and,Mr. Lamb, and deicribed the
result to he, that Lard; was as good as mutton.
All he knew was, that it was attempted to bring
in Mr. Hobhouse under the wing of Sir F. Bar 7
dett, and he would raise his voice, so long 'as he
had a voice to raise, against thus converting
Westminster into .a rotten borough. He recom-
mended Major .Cartwright to the Electors, as. the
only Candidate who was friendly to Annual Far-
liantents and Universal Suffrage. .
- Mr. EvANs again. came forward. Sir Charles
Wolsely presented himself at the same time, and
after an ineffectual effort to obtain a hearing, the
former ;again withdrew. Mr.,Thelwall, at the
other,end of the Hustings,. was speaking while
the contest was going on between Mr. Evans and
Sir C. Wolsely, but could -only obtain a pattl'al
hearing. He vindicated his. political character,
and went over the. history of the early scenes of
his life, to show that be had suffered in the cause
of liberty from unjust persecution.
Sir C. \Vol-nut said, five minutes ago be had
been in a d—d funk, to use an old Westminster
phrase, but be was now warm in the cause, and no
longer afraid. lie came forward to prove that
Mr. Hobhouse was apolitical humbug, and that
Sir F. Burdett was thesame. Sir F. Burdett had on
Saturday denied having: been an advocate for An-
nual Parliaments and Universal Suffrage.. To con-

tradiet this denial he read the first Resolution
submitted by the Hon. Baronet to the. House of
Commons, on. the 2d of last June, which was de-
cidedly in favour of Universal Suffrage, From
this be contended, the . Hon. Baronet was one

thing to-day and another, to-morrow. He had
shut his eyes to the failings of Sir F. Burdett till
within the last six weeks, when the conduct of the
Hon.. Baronet,. of Mr. Hobbouse., and of the
Rump, had become so shameful that he could
seem blind .to it no longer. He produced the de-
claration of George Wilton, a boot-maker of
Little Windmill-street,. who had been canvassed
a month ago by the friends of Mr. Hob:muse and
Sir Francis Burdett. He had understood them
to be. friendly to Universal Suffrage, but subse-
quently learning that Major CartwrighLwoultf be
put in nomination, and underbtauding what were

1,
g°l4
the real piliciples or Mr. Hohhouse, he 43(„bt
to his Committee and desired that his Hanle 7.3:$
be blotted .out of !heir " darkened page.::' • Id.
a
MAU), on vwiog that, moiniug, h d ,left•
ments on a paper, which he wished to b,e re,a
not ote
He in this declared, " TlFit he world
Sir F. Burden's man, as liked not a iinak4litc
the grass., He
.had given Sir Francls a Prifj)
at the last election, but he was siirri fa* a.' • .4 ,
(Sir C. %Volsely) liked not stsake thdg"o
and while recc-lumendin lij or -CariwrAbt,,ics
the electors, he advised them to give their 0,,
to Mr. Lamb rather than to.Mr:•Hobbo"e*
ya
Mr. WooLatt then addressed the Aleetitig„it
favour of Major Cartwright, and stated; t'ill-t\st
was utterly impossible for any man to n'iit'lte„die'
what were the real sentiments of Mr. Han",—,,t:
from the mystical creed Which he bad "4,,l'fiss
Saturday. He, thought that his conduct, 809:t„,
of Sir F. Burdett, towards Major Cartwris
were totally
,indefensible. He went ott
strain for some time, at the close of wliicaGije
Hunt desired a five minutes' audience for 'rth'
Jones, which, however, he was. not, able to Po.
lain. He promised them, however that
Jones should be in attendance to•morr,olvo,l7:r
that he should then exhibit his performance'
their diversion.
After this annunciation the blob broke•
.°
about six o'clock.