The Sun.
London, England, 1818-06-29 00:00:00

? nes', 'idecauee th,t a;.c jost sreonllv, lierv,se
as we are. I trust, disposed its temper, so, in pradence we can
iiffard to trotter that justice. Be the antagnoist who he may,
rate his private character and personal liehavionr as hieh
-is any hi in can rate them ; still there is nothing its all this
t hat could reconcile the people of Liverpool to the p•inciples
ou which Lord Sefton rented his pretensions to their favour
1.1."116 ch"ring•)—The courtesies of private life, the civilities
of good neighbourhood, mac obtain for the individnal x place
iu yeir einem ; hat the titlegation of a public trust requires
confidence in approved public priticipies; and where that
coufidelice is se:oiling; the delegation Joust ever be solicited
iu vain.----,',Continued applause.)
Gentlemeu, one Word, i,0141 tidy one word more, with re-
spect to the Election. , ft doted, as you all kiiiiw, with the
following state of the, poll; 1t;54 for myself; 1444 fur Gesi:4
rah yiaseoyne ; .e9n foe Lord Sefton ; leaving to me, over Ll'ird.
,ellon, at majniity of 84. But, Gentlemen, I have already
stated to sot', that the recorded majority would he totly.an
unfair criterion of our relative strength.
,I should, perhaps,
hare passed Ibis topic over, had I led seen an adducts fi um
the Committee of Lord Sefton, is inch exhorts the defeated
party to tithe comfort- from the sinallhess of our majority at
the close of the poll. Geutlemen,,l have no obAcenion tip
their tatting coin fiirt from aity circumstance whatever which
they may think capable of affording it. But I object, in this
Case, to their taking a fallaeions view of your resources, and
of their own ; because such it view might provoke new trials
of strength, to the tine, cetc,,ary and unprofitable distutbutnce
of the peace of this community. It is fit that neilher thpy
tiotll,l he misled, nor you disheartened, by erroneous calcu-
lations.
Gentlemen, Lotd Sefton°s friends came forward yesterday
moroiny. (as in iny audress to you of the preceding evening I
hint Confidently Veiltored to anticipate) with a fair aehnow-
ledgment ;lost they •aw no chance of strccess remaining;. and
they.proposed iainienhately to withdraw their candidate, on
one condition only—that ee should not pet ...ISt in prosecuting
the poll for the stile of sN, elli fig our majority. Gentlemen,
it was, in unto sense., a great sacrifice to you to desist from thy
prosectition of the poll; the ircemen were at hand, they were
pressing eagerly forward to recto d their votes, and a few
short Jiimis would have swelled .your numbers to such an
amount as would have stifled fur ever all hope of a success-
ful co.itest against you. 'Bat the spirit in which the pro-
posal was made, the reasoriableinis of the expectation that
a voluntary abdication, however plavieut, should not he made
an occasion of .triuniph; anal this farther considerati in,
that it toy friends had persisted to poll after the third candi-
date hail withdrawn, tiiert would haVe betas exclusively an-
swerable for the peace of the town i-i-these considerations,
together with the recommendation of your Mit f Magistrate,
which it was the duty of all parties to obey, determitied us to
accept the emeditionannesed to the withdrawal of Lord Sef-
ton's name. We accordingly ceased to poll as snort as he
ceased to he t candidate for the representation of Liverpool.
But When I find an inference drawn frAin the positive num-
bers, which the propo•al and acceptance of this condition
have left opal) the pull-boot‘s, which inference i 9 totally at
variance suith the fact, I think it my duty to set right both
those who, infer thus rashly, and those who might be deceived
by this false inference, by stating, what. I all enabled to do
from the ienst authentic information, that the number of
freemen who were ready within call to be added to my ma-
jority, as fast as their names could be written (fossil, was, at
least, :Sien. I co..fess this is a greater number than I had
rechtmed upon, or could believe, till it was ascertained upon
authority not to he disputed ; anti I will add, that in naming
this number, I still deduct, for the sake of being sale, upwards
of 100 from tile lowest estimate that has been communicated
to me.

To calculate, therefore,the value of our majority, you must
add to the 574 which appeared on the close of the poll, at
least the nuttier of SOU, as that by whieh it would have been
augmented within a few boors.- It is important that this
fact should he known, because, during three successive elec-
tions, a 'contest has been maintained against your choice, on
the belief (I in willing to soppose) that there was strength
enough in the opposite principles to entitle those who held
them to dictate the representat on of the town. It Is mate-
rial• that, on this point, you should be convinced, because on
the perfect understandiog of it—not the certaintyof tciumph,
lint the chance of escaping contest hereafter may depend.—
(Loud cheering.)
Gentlemen, in other places, at this moment, contests are
carrying on with excesses which disgrace the name of Liberty.
The lihe excesses were confidently predicted here But when
it is known, that the vast population of this town has been,
nor; for eight days, in perpetual concourse and fei mental ion,
without prodocing, as far as I know, any one serious tumult,
or any thing like a combat of blood, your town will exhibit,
to all the populous towns and cities of the kingdom, au ex-
ample which, I hype, it may not he .too late for theta to ion-
tate.—(Applause.)
'fhere it another consideration arising out of these circum-
stances, and out of the new-fangled doctrines of the re,
formeis, which I ►will take this occasion of suggesting to you.
The spirit of popular cies tions, Gentlemen, is the spirit which
keeps alive the frame of the ('onstitution, which gives it
strength, and motion, anti activity. But, Gentlemen, e•ve•n
after our own good conduct. to which I allot its foil ►alue ;-
after the experience of this election, so different from the lest,
I would ask any sober man among you, whether that project,
which is now the favourite with the reformers, of indefinitely
multiplying the numbers.ol.v,ters, and multiplying. sevenfold
the occasions of exercising that franchise, would bear the
test sif experiment? whether the election which we have
seen—rand it is the best specimen of popular election that
I es er 4aw or ever beard of)—whet her this election itself could
recur annually, accompanied with an. exter►sion of the suf-
frage to half a million of persons more than now enjoy it,
wit bout infinite and -intolerable mischief ?—(('ries'of No, no I)
If these silly doctrines of Annual Pailiaments and Uni-
versal Suffrage could be inculcated into the people by their
demaogues, is there'any doubt, that the kffect of them would
be to derange and destroy the orderly, regulated play of the
British Coostitut ion ?—t hat Constitution which works:swell
because it is orderly, because it is regplaird, because its
movements are calculated and known you Gentlemen
would, by these boasted improvements, he disfranchised at
one sweeping blow; and ilium your disfranchisement would
be raised a system—if systent it can be called that has no-
thing hut wild and-untried theories for its basis—which, if
attempted to he carried practically into effect, would lead to
boundless anarchy awl cheering:)
If, therefore, Gentlemen, there he t hose who think, that
freedom cannot be sufficiently infused into due government,
unless the right of suffrage be universally extended, I appeal
to your ow❑ good' sense for a refutation of their absurd pro-
position: But if there should be others, who, contemplating
the disgust ing and disgraceful violences'whi. h are now prac-
tising under the pretence of free election iii other places,
could almost make up their minds to think that the evil in-
hering, in the system of popular election was greater than the
benefit,—to those rrasimers I would triumphantly hold up
the light of your example; proving yourselves worthy, as
you do, of the franchises which you enjoy, by the manner
in which you exercise them.—(Applause.):
Gentlemen, I hare hot hing now to add, but my sincere and
fervent acknowledgments for all that you have mixed i❑ this
contest of personal kindness and unvarying• 'attachment to
myself. I have no personal claim to your partiality. You
chose lime for My pliblic Principles. You called me iii to your
aid six years ago to tight your battle against a presumptuous
attempt to usurp the whole mepresentation of the town,—to
do that which it has now been falsely imputed to yo:i that yokt
intended. The atteMpted usurpation seas d-feared. It was
not -yonr fault that your antagonists, bey grasping at too much,
lost all.—(Cheering.)—lt is for them to acquiesce in the coo-
sequence—which could not be unforeseen—of their o►wn in-
considerate ambition. It is for you to use discreetly and tern•
perately the advantage-which their indiScretion and intem-
perance in 1812 put into your hands;--and, in using it, to
remember, above all things, that the question at issue he-,
tweet.' you ;mil your antagonists is—not on wham you slr• II
confer the representation of Liverpool (for the individual to
be selected is of comparatively little-conseqnence); hut what
arc the public peiticiplciwhich that represecitation shall ma-
nifest a • 10E611.

Gentlemen, I now take my leave of you with the expression
of my warmest gratitude'and affection : hut without any other
professions than those which I have already made, df your
local and particular interests you have had opportunities to
judge whether lam a faithful guardian. My public princi-
ples are what they were when you first chose me. Those
principles are yours as they are imine. I think you are not
likely to change them; and I am sure I ant nut.---(Loud and
lung-continued cheering.)

Sift' NEWS.

The East India Company's ship London, bound to Madras
and China, was in Lat. 15 South, Long. .91 West, all well, on
the ad April.

DEAL, JUNE 28.—The brig Clrirles of Aberdeen is detained
at Orataea, in Teneriti, on account of the Pilot halving jumped
overboard ; an►l the Master, Mr. Brodie, is confined in Jail,
illid no Englishmen allowed to go near him.
I.ivt:at•no►,, JUNE 27.—.\rrivt•ct the Duke of Wellington,
Kerr, from Bahia; sailed -24th April. On the Ist May, in
f;. 53. long. 31.31. siioke the Martha, —, from the
South Seas, for New Bedford, with 2(0 tons of vil, and re--
rqrtud that the Bt itish fillips bad beta euecessful itl fishing.