The Sun.
London, England, 1829-03-04 00:00:00

BOROUGIT OF NEWARK.

MoNDAY, Al A rtutt '.—At an early hour this morn-
ing, the town was in a complete bustle, crowds of
inhabitants parading the street opposite the head-
quarters of the respective candidates, Michael Thos.
Sadler, Esq. and Mr. Serjeant Wilde. Between
nine and ten o'clock the latter gentleman addressed
a large assembly of Ow inll,l;itants in the market-
place, from his carriage, and shortly afterwards Mr.
Sadler spoke from a room over the town-hall. The
spacious ball was then opened, and all the portion
of it unoccupied by the hustings was almost imme-
diately filled, the crowd extending nearly halfway
down the market-place. The Town-clerk, after
reading the precept for the election of a new Mem-
ber, in the room of Gen. Sir Wm. Henry Clinton, .
who had accepted the Chiltern Hundreds, and the
Act against bribery and corruption, administered the
oath to the MayOf, Fillingham, Esq.
After which the vicar, the Rev. Mr. BAItTLETT,
addressed the meeting, ,observing that he stood in a
situation in which many might think he ought not
to be, and he was aware that it was not a place that
best became a clergyman. But he considered the
Gospel to be in danger : he intended to propose a
gentleman with whom his personal acquaintance had
been long. He had long been acquainted with his
character, and had read his works, which were both
eloquent and prophetic. He concluded with pro-
posing Mr. Sadler. -
Mr. NORTON seconded the nomination.

Mr. KELK mid, they were now met to exercise
their free right of choosing a fit and proper person
to represent them in Parliament. He concluded by
proposing Mr. Sergeant Wilde.
Mr. SDINELL seconded this nomination.

Mr. SADLER then addressed the meeting. I pre-
sent myself before you for the honour of your votes
to represent you truly and faithfully in Parliament,
or, in a word, to give you an opportunity of fulfil-
ling those promises you have so generally made to
me during my canvass. Whatever may be the ge-
neral practice of elections, I shall open to you my
heart and my principles without reservation. In my
firm opinion it is a stain to the present generation,
that they demand an apology for the Revolution in
1688, founded, as it was, upon the glorious prin-
ciple of Protestant ascendancy, and that an altera-
tion was now being proposed in that Constitution.
(Hissing.) lam friendly to the fullest exercise of
the Catholic religion, but I object to the ramparts
of the Constitution being thrown down that the cita-
del may be garrisoned by Popery. This is the sole
principle on which I come forward. Much had been
said of the misery of Ireland. I sincerely commise-
rate its state, but I do not agree with those who
think that the best mode of administering relief is
by the grant of Catholic Emancipation. Mr. Sadler
then denied that he was the nominee of 'any indivi-
dual: he was no placeman, as his competitor was;
and he concluded with repeating his observations re-
specting Catholic Emancipation and the state .of
Ireland.
Mr. KELP begged to ask Mr. Sadler two questions.
When he first knew of the resignation of Sir W. H.
Clinton ? And when he first intended to become a can
didate?

Mr. Sanr.Ert would answer those questions, if Mr. Ser-
geant Wilde would answer certain questions he desired to I
propose to him ; one question might have reference to pri-
vate
correspondence.
Mr. Sergeant WILDE would unreservedly answer all
questions, whether relating to public or private corre- •
spondence.
Mr. SADLER—If I were to say that one individual alone
had communicated with me before I offered myself, it
would be erroneous. Individuals who had been long my
friends had previously corresponded with me. I did not
receive notice of Sir W. H. Clinton's resignation until I
believe it was known in London. Before I put my ques-
tions to Mr. Sergeant Wilde, I will consult with a friend
upon their propriety.
Mr. Sergeant WILM—The Hon. Gentleman who has
been proposed to you has been pleased to use some compli-
mentary expressions towards me ; be has talked of my
talents. I envy the talent that he himself has displayed—
a talent I should have thought of more use to me than to
himself—the talent of dexterously evading to answer a
plain question. The Hon. Gentleman expressed a warm
desire to be catechised. It has been said that discretion is
the better part of valour. He should have loOked into his
own mind, and have considered whether questions might
not be asked which he could not or would not answer.
When a plain honest man, taken from the middle classes
of society, puts a question, instead of making a direct
reply, lie attempts to evade the question by putting
another. He says he is no placeman ; he is worthy
to become one, since he has already acquired the
dexterity of a Minister in ;residing questions. When
I expressed my readiness to answer any he might ask
me, he desired to know if I would produce pm ivate corres-
pondence, hoping that I would decline to do so. I will,
bowever, relieve you from all perplexity, by acquainting
him that I have no private correspondence. I: was well
known among my friends that it has been my intention for
some time past to offer myself to any borough desirous of
a candidate, coming forward upon worthy grouede, for I
mean not to sell my constituents,—l never will buy theta.
I was engaged at my chambers on Tuesday night, when
Mr. Pearson was introdaced to me by Mr. Hill, a member
of this Circuit, and I then heard that this borough was
idiom to be insulted in too gross a manner to be patiently
submitted to. I inquired if any proper gentleman having
• local connections meant to offer himself, as in such event I
would not disturb the harmony of the town. 3lr. Pearson,
unfortunately for me, said he believed Mr. Handly intended
to come forward. I say unfortunately, because as in case that
had been really so, I should not have offered myself. I in con-
sequence of this mistake lost much valuable time, for it was
not until last Friday that I threw up my briefs, and left
London to present myself to your notice. I have antici-
pated all questions that might be put to me, and am now
puzzled to seek for Mr. Sadler's answer to the questions
that have been pat to him. The questions were too plain
to be misunderstood. " When (lid you become a candi-
date? From whom (lid you learn that there was a va-
cancy ?" I ask if any of you understood the answer ?
Was the date given or the person named ? . Time was
wanted to manufacture his answer. No man thinks more
highly than 1 do of honest manufacturers ; they are the
bulwarks of their country, but the manufacturers of
answers, though I have seen them dismissed with disgrace,
have never excited in my mind any other feeling than that
of pity. Mr. Sadler has laid before you his pretensions.
He stands upon the revolution of 1688. Does he love that
revolution? I love it more; I love the principles on
which it was founded, and hope from those principles to be
instrumental in causing the revolution of 1829, a revolu-
tion in this borough, which I trust will cease to be the
political property of any man, and will henceforth send
Members of its own choosing. I did not, indeed, expect
that the Duke of Newcastle would have become the tyrant
of Newark—would have expelled the poor from their cot-
tages for having voted according to their consciences. I
love the Revolution of 1688 for the sake of civil ►iberty.—
It has been said that I am a placemau. I have the honour,
as one of his Majesty's Sergeants, to be summoned to
attend the House of Lords—a duty without salary ; the
places with which Mr. Sadler and his patron are best ac-
quainted are where there is salary without duty. There
are dirties to the rich and to the poor, of a different kind,
but each equally claiming our attention. My proposer and
seconder have both been turned out of their homes for having
voted according to their conscience. This, (holding up a
paper) is one of the notices to quit, it is signed by the agent
of the Duke. His Grace has heraldic muniments which
he will hand down to his successors ; my unfortunate friend
will leave to his children this document, as a memorial
of the integrity and courage of their parent, of his prefer-
ence of conscience to interest, and of his reliance on that
Providence which always succours the distressed • whose
misfortunes are owing to their own magnanimity and
virtue. The Duke holds his property under a lease from
the crown. Would Government be justified in renewing
the lease of crown lands that had been used in this reran-
tier? But the Duke is now an oppaser of Government,
and uses this crown property to that end. Whether he
has or has nut as many good things of late as he used to
have, that he now opposes Government, I do not know;
whether the worthy vicar who was appointed by the crown
at the recommendation of the Duke—whether the middle
landlord is any longer to dictate to you what members yqu
are to retuni, depends upon yourselves. It is denied that
my opponent is to be elected by the Duke. Will his
Grace's agent, who is now standing near me, give a pledge
that no Individual shall suffer for the vote he may give ?
A Roman Emperor once caused his horse to be elected
Consul. If this system ba continued, the borough of
Newcastle may be represented by uny person whom the
Duke will send, even though he might bear a nearer
resemblance to a more ignoble animal than that which the
Emperor had chosen. The Learned Sergeant made seve-
-1 ral other remarks upon the Duke's dictation, all of which

were received with the greatest applause, and then pro-
ceeded to state that he Was as-sincere a Protestant as Mr.
Sadler could be, and as sincerely attached to the Church
establishment; that he would resist all attacks .upon it, if
any should be made, and in answer to a question from an
elector, lie said, that he approved of t'ur exclusion of the
Catholics at the Revolution of 1688, but that circum-
stances were now greatly altered ; the. Pope's power had
materially diminished ; be was now in his swaddling
clothes ; and, let the Catholics dandle their baby as
they liked, they were no longer dangerous, and their
admission into Parliament, he thought, . would be
attended with the effect, not of converting Pro-
testants to Catholicism, but Catholics to Protestant-
ism. The Duke of Wellington, Mr. Peel, Mr.
Goulburn, and other Gentlemen .of the greatest abi-
lity and attachment to the Church Establishment,
were placed in situations best adapted for correct and full
information on the subject, and they were of opinion that a
revision of the penal laws affecting the Reman Catholics
was necessary. In that opinion he coincided, but were he
chosen he would watch most sedulously, that in any measure
that might be proposed, no clause should, through inad-
vertence (by design he was sure it would not), creep in,
that could in the slightest degree affect the security, in-
terest, or property of the church.
The show of hands was then
.taken, which was greatly
in favour of the Serjeant. Mr. Sadler then demanded a
poll, at the close of which the numbers were—
For Mr: Serjeant Wilde
For Mr. Sadler
SECOND DAY-TUESDAT.
Mr. Serjeant Wilde
Mr. Sadler 361

Majority -.. 89

THE PROTESTANT DECLARATION.

(From the Times.)

We have much pleasure in publishing a copy of
the celebrated and important declaration in favour
" of a final and conciliatory adjustment of the Ca-
tholic Question," which was adopted at the Pro-
testant Meeting of the Friends of Civil and Reli-
gious Liberty, held in College-green, Dublin, on
the 23d January, 1829.
This striking and valuable public document, issued
in Ireland at such a time, and explanatory of the
grounds of that " state necessity" on which the
King's Ministers have since with honesty and
wisdom rested their recommendation of such an

adjustment" to the Legislature, has been signed
by Protestants only—not one Catholic name to be
found on the whole paper. Perhaps these Pro-
testants are ignorant, insignificant, and deluded men,
of no education, of no property, who have never
heard of the Revolution of 1688, and care nothing
for Protestant religion or establishments ! Who are
they, then, and bow many ? Read the annexed list
of Protestant Noblemen, Baronets, and Members of
Parliament—all hating property in Ireland—all
deeply interested in her peace, prosperity, and happi-
ness—all exposed, beyond any class of Englishmen,
to whatever dangers the unread fanatics of this
country have conjured up as derivable from, or con-
tingent on, the adjustment of Catholic grievances—
and then say what have the Brunswick dupes to
plead for their own stupidity ?
Two Dukes, seven Marquisses, 28 Earls, 11
Viscounts, 21 Barons, Lords, and Counts, 22 Va-
ronets, and 36 Members of. Parliament, most of
them for counties ; besides 10 or 11 County Mem-
bers who are among the list of Lords.
In addition to the above, there are signatures of
private gentlemen, of the highest fortune and re-
spectability in Ireland—(Protestants to a nurn)—to
the number of 2,700, for which we unfortunately
have not room within our columns.
" PROTESTANT DECLARATION.

" At a meeting of the Committee of the Friends of
Civil and Religious Liberty, held at the Royal Hotel, Col-
lege-street; Dublin, on the 23d of January, 1829, for the
purpose of promoting the objects expressed in the Pro-
testant Declaration, it -was

" Resolved, That copies of the Declaration be forwarded
to each of the Members of the Houses of Lords and Com-
mons. (By order) " EDW. GROVES, Sec.
" Royal Hotel, College-green, Dublin, Feb. 7.

DECLARATION OF TILE UNDERSIGNED PROTESTANTS, IN
FAVOUR OF A FINAL AND CONCILIATORY ADJUSTMENT

OF THE CATHOLIC QUESTION.

" We, the undersigned, being personally interested in
the condition, and sincerely' anxious for the happiness, of
Ireland, feel ourselves called upon at the present juncture,
to declare the conviction we entertain, that the disqualify-
ing laws which affect his Majesty's Roman Catholic sub-
jects are productive of consequences prejudicial in the
highest &pee to the interests of Ireland and the empire to
which she is united. With respect to Ireland in parti-
cular, they arc a primary cause of her poverty and wretch-
edness, and the source of those political discontents and
religious animosities that distract the country, endanger the
safety of its institutions, and are destructive alike of so-
cial happiness and natienal prosperity.
" ' We are further of opinion, that unless the wisdom of
the, Legislature shall speedily apply a remedy to these evils,
they must in their rapid progress assume, at no distant pe-
riod, such a character as must render their ultimate re-
moval still more difficult, if not impossible.
" We therefhre deem it of paramount importance to
the welfare of the empire at large, and of Ireland espe-
cially, that the whole subject should be taken into imme-
diate consideration by Parliament, with a view to such a
final and conciliatory adjustment as may be conducive to
the peace and strength of the United Kingdom, to the
stability of our national institutions, and to the general
satisfaction and concord of all classes of his Majesty's
subjects.' "

0 NOB
Duke of Devonshire

EMEN.
:viscount CliMet'
llarberton

Leinster
Marquis of Lansdowne
Downshire
• ----- Sligo
-- Westmeath
Ormonde
Hastings
Clanricarde
Earl of Essex
-- Jersey
- Fortescue
- Meath •
- Granard
- Albemarle
- Wentworth litzwillitun
- Darnley
- Egmont
- Ludlow
- Milltown
- Charlemont
flowth
-- King-ton
- Portarlington
- Annesley
Mountnorris
- Wicklow
- Clare
-- Leitrim
- Lucan
- Llandaff
---- Caledon
- Gosford
Blessinglon
Gleng, It
Dunraven
Bective, M.P. co. Meath
Viscount Dillon
Bangor
Boyne

Lismore
Ebrington, M.P. Ta.

. ,
'stock
Ennismorc, M. P.
co. Cork

Forbe M.P. co. Lo ng-
ford ,
Duncannon, M.P. co.
Kilkenny
- Kingsborough
Baron Sherborne
- It i v ersdale
- Cloncurry
Waterpark
- Rossmorc
---- Crofton
- De Blaquiere
Vcntry
- Wal ls con rt
- Du n mal I y
- Clanmorris
- Asht ow n
- Cilentworth
Perceval
- Oxmantow M. P. King's

county
1-- Clements, M.P. co. Lei_

trim
- Clifton, M.P. Cantnbury
13,ngham, M.P. co. Mayo
- Brabazon
Arthur Hill, M.P. co.

Down
-- William C. 0. Fitzgerald,
M.P. co. Kildare
- Robt. Stephen Fitzgerald
-De Roebeck
Count de Salis
,NETS.
J. Newport, Bart., H P. Water.
ford
Fdward O'Brien, Bart. co. Clare
H. Parnell, Bart. M.P. Queen's
county
G. Shec, Bart. M.P. co. Galway
el. Somerville Bart. M.P. co.
Meath
W. J. Homan, Bart. co. West-
meath
J. C. Coghill, Bart. Surrey
J. M. Swinge, Bart. (co. Ar-
magh
F. W. Macnaghten. Bart. co.
Antrim
Richard Relict, Bart. co. Cork
PARLIAMENT.
Wm. S. O'Brien, M.P. Ennis
James O'Hara, M.P. Galway
James Daly, H.P. co. Galway
lA'ex. Dawson, M.P. co. Louth
lArthui French, M.P. co. Ros-
, common
Henry V. Stuart, M.P. co. Wa-
terford
H. M. Tuite, M.P. co, West.
meath
!Richard Power, M.P. co. Wa-
terford
Thos. S. Rice, M.P. Limerick
Thos. Lloyd, M.P. co. Limerick
Henry Grattan, M.P. city of
Dubl n
J. S. Lambert, M.P. co. Galway
Robert S. Carew, M.l'. co. Wex-
ford
Richard W. Talbot, M.l'. co.
Dublin
James Browne, M.P. co. Mayo
Henry White, M.P. co. Dublin
Robert Latouche, M.P. co. Kil-
dare
Peter Van llomrigh, M. P.
Drogheda
J. Fitzgerald, M. P. Seaford,
Susses

BARD:
Thomas C. Style, Bart., Kent
.F. L. Blosse, Bart. co. Mayo
Thos. Butler, Bart. co. Callow
N. C. Colthurst, Bart. M.P. Cork
C. Coote, hart. M.P. Queen's co.
William R. de Montmorency,
Bart. co. Kilkenny
John Bart.,
Bart., co. Kerry
Aubrey de Vere Hunt, Bart.,
co. Limerick
Nicholas Loftus, Bart., cA. Kil-

kenny
C. Molyncux, Bart , co. Armagh
Eman lid Moore, Bart., cu. Cavan
It. Musgrave, Bart., co. Water-
ford

MEMBERS OF I
Right Hon. Maurice Fitzgerald,
M.P. co. Kerry
Hon. Henry Caulfield, M.P..
co. Armagh
Hon. H It. Westenra, H.P. .
co. Monaghan
Hon. F. Ponsonby, M. P.
Hignam Ferrers
Finn. G. Ponsonby, M. P..
Youghal
Hon. F. A. Prittic, M.P. co.
Tipperary
Hon. R. Fitz,/libon, M.P. co. '
Limerick
Hon. C. H. Butler Clarke, M.P.
co. Kilkenny
Hon. Thomas It: King, M.P.
co. Cork
Ho' G. I. W. Agar Ellis,
M.P. Ludgershall
Charles Brownlow, M.P. co. Ar-
magh •
Thos. Bernard, M.P. King's co.
J. H. North, M.P. Milborne
Port
Samuel White, M.P. co. Leitrim:
Jas. Grattan, M.P. co. Wicklow
C. D. 0. Jephson, M.P. Mallow
Lucius O'Brien, M.P. co. Clare