The Sun.
London, England, 1818-12-23 00:00:00

WESTMINSTEIt ELECTION.

/ A 'Meeting of, the inhabitants, of Ilia palish of
{St. George,. tlanover-stmate, 'was held at the
! .
Gun t at seven clock on Mon-
tray e.venitvg: Mr:PuLtElt, iil the absence of I.llr.
!Bruce, ts,ho wits preyento,
,t:roip,pksiftipck 0 he
had promised, by at severe.dotn.estic afiliction (the
death of his wife), was called toAle Chair; and,
after the Resolutions had been lead Over and put
to the Assembly.. Mr. HbilliOLl3E came torWatd
tid spoke to the following effect
lie began by observing, that it was its that
room that lie firtt,had the happy opportunity of
meeting the rilectors of ‘Vestminster, atter lie had
been ont in nomination ; and that it' was with
great pleasure. he saw in it on the present occa•
alai) many of the same faces which he had then
seen, together with *a- vast accumulation of new

and honourable ones. Since that time, many
momentous events for the Electors of Westmin-
ster had happened. The first was, that the. pros-
pee( of dkision among the friends of freedom,
which appeared on the day of nomination, was
no longer the object of alarm and apprehension
Ihe noble name which had then been biougAt for-
ward w 44 110 %If prudently and wisely w' ithdra
Had it been his fate to have contended With Sc)
amiable, honest, and accomplished a man as the,
individual who possessed it, he should have bad,
one con-ii eration with which to satisfy hiinself in
ca4e of Victory, and that wai, that he'slionlel htrt
have driven Lord Idin Rona into retreat and
retirement ; Lord Itussell was already in Parlia-
ment, and hail distinguished himself there in de-
fence of the people ; and, by retiring front the
present contest, had ,acted with Ii is usual good
sense, and, had continued those favours which
England and Eti glis h men have a right to expect
Irmil the house of-tto;sell.—The second event (if
that mijit be called an event which was only a
rumour) to which lie alluded was, that another
Gentlemati, vvhose name was truly illustrious, had
also declined to interrupt the general !mho). It tv as
hard to say that he had withdrawn teho had never
come forward ; but still he (Mr. flobilouse) must
torLratulate the Meeting that they had not to be-
hold in array against them the name of ‘‘'hithread,
a name which never could be mentioned without
exciting esteem and gratitude in the mind and
bosom of every honest Englishman. At the sante
time that he would not compromise the cause
which tie had undertaken to support, neither
would he ever resign it unless it were into better
hands. One objection against him ispis, that
Westminster wanted a more rational reformer;
it was hard to say what was irrational in such a
subject :`for laimielf, he was a moderate reformer,
because he would not step beyond moderation
in any thing. They too were moderate reformers,
because, when they had found the remedy for
their ;,trievmuCC9, they were willing to apply it.
Sir F. Burdett had told a meeting at Liverpool,
that the Whigs hail promised to 'do every thing
needful in the case of reform; they were willing
to make Parliaments triennial, and to extend the
right of 1(41'1 age to householders; and that being
the case, he called the reformers united, an ex-
pression which had been much cavilled at,
sort of manifesto of their opponents had appear-
ed the other day in a Public Paper, under the title
of Westrniosteriana, which was a very long hard
unintelligible word. It began, "It is not. gig
least of modern wood, is to have seen that the
currull (he ineaos eurule)- chair of C. Fox shOuld
be aspired to by Candidates advertising their pre-
tensions in broken English." lie scat cely knew
what the writer this paragraph _meant, unless
it were a sarcasin on whoSt
atx-
swer to the requisition lately addressed to him
was false, incorrect, and broken The
writer then went on to say, that," it 55:05 his duel
with Nlr. Paul, and not his politics, which first
made Sir F. Burdett Member for Westminster."
This was, eo absolute ;it was his long-nied
services in defence of their rights that made the
Electors of Westminster return the best of Men as
one of their NepreSentatiees. lie then proceed-
ed—'"rhey but offend their lungs in vaunting
their Weight in Westiainster, unaccompanied by
that something whiCh in the 4th, day of the caw=
filet made manifest the impotence It 3acolsinisn,
when left to itself; eve! in its supposed empo-
rium." The hireling means that you were bribed
to do your duty; it was hardly requisite to con-
tradict .so base, so foolish, and so insidious
assertion. Catherine de Medicis had said, that
" a lie for 3 weeks was as good as truth," and
their adversaries "acted upon such 3 principle ;
but he would not allow this lie to rim for more
tban three days, but would give it an early and
positive contradiction. It is then hinted, that
" before Candlemas, he, Mr. Hobbouse, would
be better instructed in election proceedings." Un-
fortunately, if it -was meant that by that time he
should learn to employ hribery,he must answer, that
he bad neither the power nor the-inclioation to do
it ; besides, if he bad, no Elector of Westminster
would allow him to exert either the one or the other.
The last paragraph of this notable writer on
which be should comment, contained this extra-
ordinary and impotent assertion—that " his elec-
flop for Westminster, under all the circumstances
of the present
,juncture, woohl lee SiOt a 'step
merely, but a Soide"—to what ?—to revolution.
(Laughter.),—lf by revolution were meant change,
he hoped that it would ; that it would lead to. 11
change of a man like Sir M. Maxwell, for one
who would act and speak according to their di-
rections ; but by revolution were meant the
disorganization of civil society. the hireling scribe
has said that which is not merely false, but that
which he Isnew to be'so : if there were any awn
friends to social order, it was the meeting which
he was addressing ; they were desirous of correct-
ing the abuses, of the present system., which, an-
less they were corrected, would end in a total dil-
loco ion of the system, amid that ruin, and bi,„a-
simi, and carnage, which was witnessed in
land: for he recollected that the blood-stained
orange rihand was hoisted, in London durins the
last election ; and he ki‘eav that there was one
individual who wished to see it dtippiog with
blcrod in this country also. tie then quitted this
subject, and resumed his attack on bir Murray
who, lie said, was determined that the
electors
of Westminster should have him. "1t
would indeed be a forced marriage ; hut he seems
resolved, notwithstanding, to drag you to the

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Altar,
and to And 6 pandit when be bets 10
!there. Von, however, think that you have, nd
!neetof him, and as he is Very kind, Wank trite,
as. much as if you had."---(Latigh ) te'r.-1-Mr, Hobe
hot se then observed-, tiiist lie had that day red'
!eeiVed A letter from a naval officer, for the troth
of whose conteula he could not himself speak.t.
stating that "Sir M. Maiwell had held a Was.'
tive sinecure 'during the whiile war, viz. the Ho'
boor MastdrshiP tit Surinam, which, OW Tiaymenc
of a deputy and other expences, %vas estimated A
1,500 t. a-yeat-. His friends say that it was given
him as a reward; for his services in the capture of
'that colony ; but in reply it ought to be stated?
that many older and dktinguished officers wil6
were theft there got nothing of the sort, whilst
he was shortly afterwards appointed to the corn'
[nand of a very fine frigate." This intelligence
was sent to (Mr. flobhouse) as a positive
fact; whether it was so, he hail not yet had time
to inquire ; they might look into that most fa'
moos of all fatuous books to know more aceu-
rately, and if they found it there, he would not
forget to tell that truth also on the hostingi.
is also intittpted, that the gallant Captain has an
hereditary claim on a sinecure place, his father'
having held One Of 5001. a-year ; even if that,
were the case, tie did not wish to visit the siol
of the father uprin the child, hut only desired that,
he would be content 'vial his 15.001. a-year, With',;,
nut endeavouring to gaio four or 5000 of their
votes. Sir M. Maxwell may have mistaken rite
applause of a drawing room for the applaue
the people of Westmiuster ; but the
he received at the last election ought to hav't.,
euled him of such folly. If, %vlivo he started under
such favourable circionstatices_ as :disunion among.
the friends of the people, he was still unable'
With all the. Government influence, to get himself
returned ; what can be expect now,. whet) the
friends of freedom are milted, and not one voice
can be expected for him tvhich is tint extorted hY
force amid violence ? Mr. lioblionse then con'
chided by exhorting them to eterliOn, and sa•
Vis (kern to employ that activity, which, if it
didinot secure them victory, would at least, show
that they were deserving of it.
The Thanks of the Meeting carte then voted,
to the Chairman, atter %Odd) the Assembly &V'.
persed in a quiet and orderly manner.

MORDb:II OF Mn. TATLott —Yesterday an i 17.1
yestigation took place beim e Mr. 13IHN1E,
Bow-street, respecting two men who were iti
custody, and erroneously stared in some Sun of
Papers to have been discharged ; the result of.
which was, that there was no ground of suspicibd
againit them but their being in the neighbour
hood the night of the murder, and which they
clearly provel to have been in the course of 'their
necessary avocations. They ware in Conzequeocli
discharged.
MURDF.R.—It will he recollected, that a bar.i.
batoirs murder was committed oti the 4th of No'
vember last, near Broxbourne, liertfordshirc,
the hotly of John Cooper, a carrier. Sus .
has fallen upon two men, who formerly wort:o
with Mr. Worthy, of Spiralfields, as market pot•
tors. They absconded immediately afire 00
murder, and hacee not three been heard of Wig
the officers are on the alert tot their apprehen'
lion.

Sacatt.saa—On Sunday NV a vast nwmbet
of boo4i were stolen hour the parish chotelt of,
Christchurch, immediately after the conelosion'Or
the morning set vice. Almost every pew iras
Wondered. The robbery was effected while the
Palish OtHeers were engaged in the vestry-roof)), •
in distrilioting bread to the poor.

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BIRTHS'.
Yesterday morning, in Red Lion-square, the Lady of iot*
ridges, Esq. of a .1111.
Uii the 3d 'July last, at Fort Marlhoroulth, oh the i•lan't of
Skltuatra, the Lady Of Nl.tior Thomas Otho Francis, of 4.
daughter.