The Sun.
London, England, 1820-03-21 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL ELECTION.

The following is the Speech of the Right Hon.
George Canning, atter haviug been chaired, on
Thursday, March 16, 1820 :
" Gentlemen—Upon this the fourth occasion
en which you have done me the honour to re-
turn me as your Representative to Parliament,.
conferring upon me thereby the highest honour
and the dearest trust which any body of men can
confer• upon an individual, I can only return the
same ackuowledgments, in nearly the same terms
which I have employed thrice before. Senti-
Vents in their nature invariable, could only lose
their force by any attempt at variety in the ex-
ression of them. Gentlemen, I most cordially.
hank you for this new proof of your confidence
.end kindness.
Gentlemen, although the victory which has
.this time been achieved hardly deserves that name,
end certainly diA not appear to me to merit the
splendour of the triumph with which it has been
this day celebrated, I yielded my own individual
judgment, in that respect, to the consideration,
that in such a celebration there is nothing of a
personal triumph. In following the chair in
which 1 have hem borne, and accompanying its
progress with the expressions of your exultation
and good will, I well know, that it was not to the
individual, but to your own principles, embodied
and represented in him, that you rendered a vo-
statary homage.
" Get:denten, the elections in swhich 1 shave
had the honour to he chosen by you are of two
distinct characters. lu the first and in the third
of them, you have had real and vigorous combats
•to sustain ; you have had to repel the attempt to
impose tip') you Representatives, the choice of
%hum would have inferred a change in political
sentiments, and an abandonment of constitutional
pinciples. In that of 1816, and in that of the
resew day, your object loot been not so much
to repel any such serious danger, as to maintain,
with a high hand, the ascendancy which you al-
teady enjoyed.
" Ott the pre‘ettt occasion, indeed, the pre-
sumption of your antagonists appears R, have been
equalled only by the weakness tvith which they
Came into the field ; and in proportion a• their
means of 41.1CCeSS were diutittished. they seem to

have aimed at the achievement of greater objects.
k‘'hether it %vas that they imagined their princi-

plcs of reform to have wade greater progress in
Liverpool than in any oilier part of the country
I cantieot say. 11,it it wds, surely, no small pre-
suniption, especially on the part of those who are
continually (It claiming against the undue inter-
ference of po,vvrf ttl indi% idnals, and against the
servile snit ender of the freedom of elcction
it wesA uu Sai.+ll prellltllptic)ll, I say, for any such
party to rhiult that they wilt one hand
gra.p t is trpresentation of Liverpool, and with
'he other indicate the representative of the

county.
" Gentlemen, the process by which this two-
fold operation was to be brought about was one
of a curious kind. .It reminds me of what 1 have
read in some of the political parophlets of, I be-
lieve, the reign of Queen Ann, of an empiric, who
not liking to sound his awn praises, but wishing
them tube sounded, Lit upon a notable expedient
of obtaining the benefi:, without incurring the
reproa‘h of such a Proclamation. A youth pre-
ceded him in do: crowd, cryOrg, with a loud
voice, " My father eons all sorts of diseases."—
The Doctor matched behind him, with a sedate
and solemn step, simply declaring, " The youth
says true." Now Colonel Williams appears to
have acted, on our hustings, the part of the in-
genious youth, wt en he proposed Dr. Crompton
as a healer of all the diseases of the political con-
Vitiation. Dr. Cruicptou followed, with a mo-
dest and measured pace, not singing his own
praises, but admitting the truth of the praises
which had been sting.
" But one good tarn deserves another ; and
the operation in hand was, as 1 have described it,
twofold. rhe peculiar inducement held out to
you to receive Dr. Crompton as your Represen-
tative was, that he was in possession of some
great specific, which would enable him to restore
peace to the commOnity, and to heal the differ-
ences by which the nation is unfortunately dis-
tracted. What this panacea was we could never
extract from the Doctor on the hustings. Thu,'
notch only we could learn, that it was some ca-
balistic name which he was to pronounce on the
hustings at Lancaster, which would still the po-
pular storm, and diffuse liberty and contentment
throughout the country. Well, when the time
arrived, and Dr. Crompton departed for Lancas-
ter, we found that the scene, exhibited a few days
before at Liverpool, was to he acted over again
at the county town, with a change only in the order
of the dramatis persouz. Dr.Crompton was now to
he herald of the praises of his proposer ; and the
name of Williams, pronounced in the Shire Hall,
was the charm by which the county was to be
lulled into peace and exalted in:o glory. Colonel
Williams's election fur the County wits the pre-
scription by which all diseases were to be healed.
Pity that the county should reject the dose! but
natural encsogh that, after the rejection, you
should, upon his return to you, dismiss the
Doctor !
" Gentlemen, this, though a ludicrous proceed-
ing enough, is, after all, but a fair specimen of
that easy confidence with which those who preach.
the doctrines of indefinite reform already look on
their triumph as secure, and count on the people
of England as their prey. In a town containing
thousands of freemen and tens of thousands of in-
habitants ; in a county containing tens of thou-
sands of freeholders and hundreds of thousandirof
inhabitants, is it not almost incredible to any
person, not a Radical Reformer, that two men
(however individually respectable), without either
that station, that property, or that influence, na-
tural or acquired, which could give authority to
their recommendation among a vestry of their fel-
low-citizens, should have cherished the prepos-
terous design of reciprocally complimenting each
other into the representation,of the county and of
the town ?
" 1 have said, Gentlemen, this was only a spe-
cimen, and no unfair one, of the confidence with
which, if not now, some short four months ago,
persons professing principles such as are professed
by those two worthy brother Candidates, each, in
his turn, the other's nominator and nominees
reckoned on this fair land of Litgland as at their
feet, and almost in their clutches. Nor did' they
reason far amiss ; for, depend upon it, if ever
their schemes of unlimited suffrage and annual
elections should find that favour in the eyes of the
nation, which the misled and inflamed judgment
of a part—a small part, 1 trust—of the nation
appeared ready to bestow upon them, the progress
would not be long, through the storms of popular
commotion, to that state of things to which po-
polar commotions always tend, and in which they.
are filially merged. and extinguished—the arbi-
trary dictatorship of unfit and overweening indi-
viduals. These sagacious enthusiasts may, in
their sanguineness, have a little anticipated the
time ; they may have a little shortened the course
by which such results would be arrived at from
Inch beginnings ; but let the day come when a
change in the constitution of Parliament, upon
th• principles of the Reformers, shall be effected,
and the day will not be far off when Englaud may
resign—l will not say to a Williams or a Cromp-
ton, but to some name quite as fitted to the sta-
tion—the supreme direction of her destinies. This,
Gentlemen, is not the language of theory—it is the
doctrine of experience. The history of your own
country is sufficient to teach it to you, without
looking abroad for wore pregnant and still more
terrible exaniplss.
" Gentlemen,.under one or other of the classes
into which I have divided our past Elections every
future contest will necessarily fall. It will arise
either from the attempt of your antagonists to,
impose upon you a choice implying the adoption
of principles which you disclaim, or from the at-
tempt, equally unsuccessful, I truism, to deter you
from giving effect, by such a choice as you have
this day made, to the principles which you cherish
and approve. In the one case you will have, as
in 1812 and io 1818, occasion for all your re
sources of activity and zeal—in the other fur all
your firmness and perseverance.
Meantime, and to prepare you for these me-
ditated attacks, you will hear daily enough of all
that is amiss in the State. Hear, and judge ; hut
before you decide, weigh well the characters and
qualifications of those who preach changes to you,
and who recommend themselves as the persons to
operate them; and ‘‘cl what it is you- lave

THE SUN.

,104 QUI% UteEl66 FALSUM AtIVEAT ?

LONDON,
TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 1820.

We received this morning the Paris Papers of
Saturday last. The Chamber of Peers assembled
on Friday, when the Minister of the Interior pre-
sented the projet respecting individual liberty
as adopted by the Chamber of Deputies. The
projet was referred to the Bureaux, and
the next day the Chamber were either to com-
mence the discussion, or refer it to a Special
Committee. The Chamber of Deputies, after go-
ing through some ordinary business, adjourned
till Monday. These Papers contain the follow-
lowing news from Spain :--
(From Mc Moni(cur.)

BOURDBAIII, MARCH 14.—We were led into

an error respecting an important circumstance,
relative to the resolu►ion adopted by his Catholic
Majesty, Ferdinand VII., to accept the Constitu-
tion of the Cortes. The King was not at the
Palace of Aranjuez, but at his Palace at Madrid.
His Majesty decided of his own motion, and ac-
cording to the information which be had received
respecting the gmetal situation of the Kingdom,
and not in consequence of the presence of a
tumultuous mob. It was not till after the
determination of the King was known in the
City that the people flocked around the Palace,
shouting Long live the King r Long live the
Constitution !' and Long live Religion P The
King spewed himself twice to the people, and
in consequence of his presence the acclamations
and enthusiastn were redoubled.

" In Arragon, the Constitution was proclaim-
ed on the. sth March. The Captain• General, the
Marquess de Laras, continues in the exercise of
his functions. Amongst the functionaries who
have been employed by the Governor of the
Kingdom of Arragon, may be ci!ed Don --
Garay, formerly Minister of Finance of his Ca-
tholic Majesty.

'• The priucipality of Asturias, and the City of
Segovia appear to have followed the same course.
These events, which occurred in the Provinces
previous to the Bth March, produced the deter-
mination of the King.•—(Memorial Bordelais )

(From the Journal de Paris.)

" A Russian Courier, who left Madrid the 9th
inst. has brought fresh details respectirg the af-
fairs of Spain. It is stated, that the King him-
self announced to the Grand Inquisitor, and to
the Council of Castile, that the new Constitution
abrogated their functions. It is wider!, that seve-
r 4 prisoners, amongst others the Count sly Mon-

11.11 been Set at litielty, anti tlist tti the dr•
p3rture of the Coot ier there was a talk of a gene*

rai amnesty.

" It appears that the Count de I'Abisbal
sell proclaimed ti►e Constitution its the Town of
°calla., an►! it was currently reported that GC&
neral Frere 144 dune ale tante in his corp.
d'arinee.

" The Constitution has been proclaimed at Sa'
ragossa and Carthagena, as r‘ell as at Segovia'
In the latter City, a Canon 'AID) had the itripro-
denee to tear down one of the notices posted (IP
on the occasion, was, it it said, massacred by 1"
people.

" Mina, who assumes the title of Genera!•iv'
Chief of the Constitutional National Army of

the North, published, on the 2,1 March, at 50
Estevan, a very hostile Proclamation against thg
Kitig of Spain ; but all the other Insurrectionad
Chiefs had not omitted, in claiming the Constitu"
tion of the Cortes, to testify the greatest respeJ
for the King, and after the determination of had
Catholic Majesty it may be hoped that this gr='►t
crisis will terminate without any disaster.

(From 7'lle Journal des Deliais.)
The prisons of the inquisition, as well
the others in Spain, have been opened, and tb
State Prisoners released.

" The Deputy Mune Torrero, one of ttig
authors of the Constitution, now at Curuo°'
has been appointed a Member of the Governing°
of that Province.

(The above Journal gives 3,lina's Floclsev

tion, but as it is dated several days before the sc°
ceptance of the Constitution by the King, it I°,
inapplicable to the present state of affairs, and al

no interest.)
" PAnts, MARC!! IB.—The King yestertial
transacted business with the Minister of the W
terior, and afterwards took an airing.,
" Letters from Italy state, that the Queen
Englund, who was still at Rome, was every Of
expected at her villa at Pesaro, where her Msje
ty proposed to remain some time.
It is said the triul of Louvel will take 0'44

13 the course of next we,k.
" The King gave a ptivate audience yester-'l4
.o the Count de Saint Aulaire.

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There is something at length decisive in t
news from Spain, and happy should we be to °I
that such a Constitution will be formed as °t%
contribute to the security of the Throne and to
welfare of the People. But the new Cortes iljdr,
be formed of different materials from the form
in order to produce any sound system of Lieg,'tt,
lative wisdom.—The former Cortes were, 11/1,
very few exceptions, a band of Republican slrile ft
turers, who, as we have said, pretended to dePiael
the absence of the KING, but anxiously b°lloo
that he never might return, in order to bale
parcelling of the Kingdom upon the model 0- of
French Revolution. The Old Times of (°-
gives an outline of the Constitution peopo4c4v
the year 1812, as if the new Cortes, likely t°
formed under better auspices, and compoicjof
better materials, were to be implicitly adopicti
the latter. But the Old Times is not so 01140
minded a Politician as intending merely (004
to Spain. It takes a broader view of things' I{/
obviously aims its shafts at Monarchy its
As a strong indication of its feelings and reit
plea in this respect, we shall only copy the
14
following Articles of the Constitution of 1-
911
the exact manner in which they appear ill the 0(
Times, and leave the Public to judge whet°

not, by that mode of printing,
i
" Jlore is meant than meets the ear?' t,i
" Att. 2. The Spanish nation is free and indepco€‘3/1,1
is not, ner cannot he, the patrimony of any rrsonot,f4,4/
" S. The sovereignty resides essentially in the 0464,104341
the right of enacting its fundamental laws belongs
ly to it by this same principle." d

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It may be said of the Times Newspaper,
band is raised against every man and ever, tfri
band is raised against it. Notwithstandite,
very extraordinary success which has ot(
that Paper, a success not to be accounted 1°„/f.i;
there is no peculiar degree of ability or st/coi
rity of intelligence ever to be found in ;tie tt
is no Paper, we firmly believe, throng" pi4e
country, that is so generally detested and 'lei
It has thought proper this day, under
of a Letter, signed " A Friend to Lil3erfj;i:
attack The Sun, because it recently CO
tollowing paragraph, viz.
" Tlie accounts of the state of Spain ane:soc°lltl:;lt.
that at present it is difficult to trace any clue qu
ceedings of Ow Royalists or Rebels. The pc°b°'itlor't
thcli arc exaggerations an suppresFivo

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•"''"; Lut 'lvo rely on the
*roil in these revolutionary times, if it be possible fur any
7'.•0;.1e, oiler the succi.ss of French Regicides, to resist the
contagion of Radicalism."

IJj►hn tl►is simple par:1;41.30, •tlie pretended
fiIEND OF LIBERTY concludes with the follow-

jog guest ion
" Now; Sir, give me leave to ask those who read the above
pragtarh, and who possess the sentiments a;id feelings of
tuglishmen, whether they could possibly have imagined a
•Vrson base enough to propagate doctrines so degrading, in
'qty newspaper published throughout the united kingdom, if
The fact itself was not indisputable'"
We submit to the Public whether the above
Paragraph deserves the impudent abuse which the
`Writer in the Times affects to cast upon
lqieht pee not state that, before the last intelligence
arrived from Spain, the accounts were coutredic-
tury ? that it was difficult to trace the real pro-
ceedings of the Royalists or Rebels ? Is it not
Probable that there were exaggerations and sup
Pressions of facts / and could we be more candid
Allan to say, that it was probable that these exag-
terations, &c. were on " both sides ?"—Might we
t jus:ifiably rely on the " loyalty of the Spanish
character 7" and is it not natural to suppose that, ,
after the success of French Regicides, it would be
difficelc for any people " to resist the contagion
of Radicalism i" But the Times is as absurd as
it is rancorous. What " degrading doctrines "
does the foregoing paragraph in the Sun propa- '
sate and in what consists the baseness of the
Writer of it I—We have no more to say on this
subject at present, consigning the Times to toter
contempt and abhorrence for the general baseness
of its owls conduct.—The same despicable Paper
this day falls foul of .Mr. CREW, of the Ordnance
Office, on the authority of a note stated by Mr.
WHITBREAD, on the Hustings at Brentford, to
have been written by that Gentleman in recom-
zoeudation of Mr. Mseetso. Is a Person, be-
cause he is in Office, to be denied the gratificati
of his feelings in favour of a loyal Candidate,
agest a Candidate who inherits an hosti-
lity towards the Government of the Country
reading this said note, which was of course
intended to be private, Mr. WHITBREAD followed
the example of Mr, Iloalooss, Who read a pri-
vate letter from Mr. LAMB, upon the Hustings,
at Covent Garden. Will either of these Gentle-
tnen say, that, in thus availing themselves of a
breach of conhtlence they are only practising the
allowable tricks of an electioneering contest ?
What would be thought of such conduct among
Gentlemen in private life ? Is a man, because he
bolds an office under Government, to be a mere
passive slave, and not to support a loyal and in-
dependent Candidate ? The Proprietor of the
Times has a brother in an office under Government
ee--bow he came there ?—how he deserved to pos.-
-less it, or bow well qualified he is to retain it, may
be the subject of future inquiry. Perhaps we may
state the opinion of the late Mr.CHARLES Mooßa,
one of the heads of that office, on the competency
of that person, as ,given to the Conductor of
this Paper. Perhaps this Place-bolder is still, as
be formerly was, a Proprietor of the Times. At
all events it is base ingratitude in the Times to be
constantly- reviling that Government which ex-
tends its bounty to a part of the family who,
from all we have ever beard, bas no kind of rea-
sonable claim upon its favour.—We shall take
leave of the Times for the present, just observing,
that we have little doubt that, proceeding upon the
system to which that Paper in a great degree, at
11 former period, owed its unmerited success, it
11,u attacked Mr. CREW, because that Gentleman
led not sent to it the Orslnance Advertisements.
a neglect is, we are persuaded, fully suf-
ficient to account for all its rancour, under the
*task of public spirit, anti its eagerness to avail it-
Self of any opportunity to vent its spleen, disap-
pointment, and malevolence.

HIS NIASHSTY.—The constitution of our be-
-I"ed Monarch continues in the happiest condi-
tion, and he hourly improves in strength and spi-
rits• His NIAYBSTY took a pedestrian airing again
4111 the enclosed lawn yesterday.(Brighloll,
''larch 19.)

The present General Election exhibits, it the
country newspapers speak truly, a total disregard
of a Resolution of the House of Commons against
the interference of Peers in Elections, by the Coil-
4IUCt of the Earl GiIEY at the Durham Election,
and of Lord HARROA BY at Southampton.
The Lord Sidmouth packet has brought letters
from Rio Janeiro, of the 12th of January, which
state that intelligence had reached that port of the
defeat of the squadron under Lord COCHRANE, in
IWO separate attacks on Callao and Lima. The
advices received from thence in the Brazils were
of the 12th of November.
The Spartan, 46, Captain W. F. Wisa, C. 8.,
at PIPHOUth, is under orders to proceed to Lis-
"", and take on bciard Field-Marshal Lord BE-
se" OHD fo'r Rio Janeiro. Medicines and neces-
sari!s for the squadron an the South American
tst""in, (2000 men), for twelve months, are to
be shipped on board. The Liffey, 46, Captain
EIRMalf DUNCAN, is to supply the place of
the Spartan, at Plymouth, until her return.