The Sun.
London, England, 1819-09-09 00:00:00

NORWICH, SEPT. 7.

ELECTION OF SHERIFF.—At the election of
Freeiti,o's Sherd for Norwich, Tuesday last,
Thomas Staring Day, El was unexpectedly no-
minated fot that office, in opposition to I✓+'.lward
Taylor, Esq., an•! a poll took place, at the close
of which the numbers were—For Mr. Taylor,
807 ;' Mr.. Day, 530. After the numbers were de-
clared by the Mayor,.

Ali. 'fairLou addressed the Freemen. He stated
that Le had no expectation being called upon to
fill the office. of :She; iff, and anticipated that some
other hid; hind' woold have beet) the choice ~f
the F eemen. He alluded to tne late sanguinary
transactions at Manchester, which he io,.iguant-
ly reprobated. He observed, that, unfortunately
for the inhabitants of Manchester, they had no
voice in the election of their Magistrates. They
are spared the trouble of electing their municipal
officers, who are appointed by Ministers, and p,id
out of the taxes. lustend of those old and vent.rable constitutional officers, the Mayor, Aldermen,
and Sheriffs, whose very titles mark their high
antiquity, they are governed by men with the
modern, new fan-pled, and odious names of Stipen-
diary Police Magistrates. He afterward said, we
have reason to rejoii.e that we live under a dif-
ferent jurisdiction. All our local institutions
bespeak a constant reference to the will of tine
people, and thereby manifest their high antiquity,
and their entire contormity to the genius and spirit.
of our Constitution. Take, for instance, the
office to which you have now elected me. The
universal practice throughout the kingdom, in
those times which gave birth to the brightest and
noblest of our laws and institutions, was for the
people to elect their own Sheriffs. This custom
was of such remote antiquity, that though there
was a statpte ordaining that it should be so in the
reign of EA ward 1., yet prior to that time there
was no instance of any Sheriff having been other-
wise vlected. Now the right of electing their
Sheriffs is possessed by few places in this kingdom;
it is a right which you almost peculiarly enjoy.
Long may you hOld it, and may you show, by the
choice• which you makes the wisdom of those laws
and institutions which were made by our patriotic
ancestors.

•' Gentlemen, allow me now tit ihank you for
the warm, unsolicited, and active exertions which
you have this day made. I trust that I shall prove
myself not wholly unworthy of them. I feelanost
sensibly the high importance and the grave re-
sponsibility of the office to which I ant elected ;
l'shall enter upon it with au earnest desire to dis-
charge its duties with attention and fidelity. I
need not remind you, that one of those du-
ties is the preservation of the peace of the
city. This part .of my office, I. am confident,
will be a very easy one indeed. And here, Gen-
tlemen, I feel k my
,duty most distinctly to state,
that if it shall be your pleasure to meet in a legal
and constitutional way to petition for the redress
of our grievances, (and who will say that we have
not grievances which call -aloud for redress ?) I
shall feel it toy duty to be present—not indeed.to let
loose upon you a Military force, but to assist you
to the best of my ability in. the discharge cat so
important a duty.—(Shouts of applause.)--"The
right of petitioning is one of the most 'sacred of our
privileges as Englishme❑ ; and to protect the peo-
ple in the free and unimpaired exercise of thatright,
ought to be the care 6f those who have to adosiois-
ter the laws. 1 am very glad that this contest has
taken place. It is of great importance in the pre-
sent situation of the country, that the opinion of
the people should be clearly and decidedly ex-
pressed on those subjects which set deeply involve
our interests as a nation. The event of this elec-
tion has shewn what is your opinion. You know
what are my political sentiments ; and you have
now declared, by the decided
majority which ap-
pears on the poll, that you regard a friend 'to a
Radical Reform in the Commons House of Par-
liament as a fit and proper person to be-your She-
riti.—(Lood applause) —Thia contest has been
conducted in a way the 'most gratifying to all who
value the purity of election. Here. has been -no
bribing, no treating, no canvassing, no persuad-
ing, no threatening. All has,been fair and open.
Such, fellow citizens, ought to be all elections,
and such they wrill be when the people shall, in
deed and in truth, enjoy that share in the Legis-
lature which is now possessed by a faction► of
Boroughmongers.—(Applause.)—l have now only'
to thank you for the honour 'which you have con-
ferred 1111011 me, and to assure you, that if I shall,
be able, at the end of my year of office, to re-,
ceive the approbation of my fellow-citizens, it.
will be the highest reward I an experience.":

'ill L 'III I',l'l'llES.,.

Tice %School for Scandal was the' dramatic trev
held forth last night at Covent-Garden Theatre,
and it attracted a numerous audience.—Mrs. DA-
visoN, an Actress of well-merited public favour,
made her first appearance iii this Theatre, in the
part of Lady Iler excellence in that cha,-
racier is too well known to require any praise
front us. It is sufficient to say that she played with
her accustomed spirit, and received abundant ap-
plause On her entrance and throughout her perform
ance. Mr. C. KESIBLE, who is now indisputably the
best ChariesNutfaccon the Stage, had no want of his
usual animation last night. Vu account of the
absence of Mr. YOUNG, the part of Joseph was
allotted to Ir.- M ACRHADY . As it Was his first
appearance in what may he considered as a comic
part altogether, though covered by grave hypo-
crisy, much allowance ought to be made. It was
evident that he properly conceived the part, as
might he expected, but tinder the notion of ease
and natural famWarity, he has adopted a mode of
speaking it) such low tones, as render hin) at times
hardly audible. -We may advise him, with reference
to taste and effect, if we may use a word pro-
stituted by Democracy, " to reform it altoget her."
The rest of the Dramatis Persona found able re-
presentatives in TERRY, FARRENT, BLANCIIARD,
Mrs. GIBES, Mrs. CONNOR, &c. &c. The Picture
scene in which, on the sale, the Gentleman Auc-
tioneer was directed to '' knock down the Mayor
and Alderman," presented a bait for vulgar ap-
plause which-could not be resisted, and of course,
excited laughter in the upper regions.