The Sun.
London, England, 1818-07-17 00:00:00

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glee of "The ting and the Church " was then
sung, after'whieb .
The CHAIRMAN gave the health of Sir M. Mat.
well, and thanks to him for having come for+vard
as lie had recently done in the good cause.—(Ap
pi.4o,se.)
The toast having been drank with three- times
three— .
Sir M. MAXWELL said, were it possible on•so
proud an, occasion for him to begaided by his
medical advisers, or by the admonitions of his
other triends, he should have abstained trim) at.
tempting to, express, at any !cowl), the high gra•
tification he experienaed at that moment. But
there was that in the spirit of that service to
which he belonged which taught men to spurn at
all medical controul—to forget es ery sense of hc-
thly weakness, acid to think of nothine but the
paramount mandate, of duty.. -lie rejoiced at
hiving met a company so distinguished,by noble
birth, by talents, and independence, assembled to
celebrate that struggle in the good 'cause of the
Constitution, to which the i,unthle individual who
bad then the honour to address them had given a
nante. He had been called on by some indepen-
dent Electors of that City tb stand forward and
endeavour to rescue the City of Westminster from
the grasp of men, who had been already accu-
.rately described by the Noble Chairman, and
whose real character might be known from the
.circumstance of their having. presumed to call
.themselves the ‘Vest-minster Committee. They be-
lieved they had got such a hold of this City that
it could never be wrenched from them ;: hut they
had now seen their error, since they had found
there were 4SQBElectors who would vote for any
.thing but
,their side of the question. This. had
proved that they had not the power which they
diad supposed they possessed, but which they
would never possess again, for the lute struggle
'had shaken their influence to the centre. He who
had been so long celebrated as their pride had now
sunk to be the mere instrument of their will. He
was again returned to Parliament, it was true, but
he was not returned as they had promised that be
should be. They had said they .would rather
lose his Election altogether, than see him
returned, if they could . not place biro in
situation in which be did - not stand at OAS
moment, atter all.the efforts they had made.—..
Another Candidate had started whose private elm•
racter secured him universal esteem, and, yeti/in
professional talents might justify-him in looking
forward to fill the important office of Lord High
Chancellor. of Englild ; and this Ger.tleintio it
was intended to bring in under their idOL The
Westminster Electors had sheaved the Commirtee
that .they were wrong in their calculations, by
placing Sir S. Roundly at the bead of the Poll
There had. been other Candidates, one of ,%ho,u

had hoisted the red fl.ig, and the; bonnet de
rouge. They all knew 14%1at bad been the resalr,
of this experiment. Anather Candidate, was re-
commended to them as a person who had devoted
forty years of his life to tire service of that' city as
a latmurer iu the cause of Liberty and. Retinl];
and this Gentleman, after standing the Poll three
days, had obtained 23 votes. Another individurd
had presented himself, whom the friends of Sir
Francis Burdett had themselves designated "
lie (Sir M. Maxwell),•till this name
was bestowed upon hint, had no idea of his pon-
derosity ; he had considered him to he merely a
Scotch pebble, glossy and staring, but of no in- •
frinsie: value.—(Laughter and •.applause.)—.'Phis
Gentleman, with the veteran ite had. before .no=
deed, might be• viewed as the Nestor and Pollux
of'..the new system of Anglo-Gallicisms, but the
efforts Made in their behalf had failed, as they
necessarily must, where they bad to encounter
sound principles and good -old English feeling.—
These were the parties against whom he and his
friends had entered the lists, and he wished theta
to look at the situation in which they had placed.
him at the close of the fifteen days' poll. He was
supported by numbers which would have placed
him at the head of the poll, but for the exttaordi-
, nary means resorted to by their opponents. At all
events be was sure they would agree with him,
That the event had proved, in offering himself, he
had not beet) guilty of presumption. It had been
most painful to him to witness the insults which
had been offered to the high•minded and indepen. •
tient Electors who went to support him in Co..
vent-Garden during the five days he appeared on
the Hustings. He had grieved to see them co. •
vered with every species of filth, and loaded with
abuse for daring to exercise the Englishman's
proudest and most important rights. To what
had befallen himself he wished not to allude,
but he lamented having been so soon removed
from the scene. The attack male upon him
he could only regard as an attack made upon
those principles which be had stood forward

to defend. And what were the principles which
had been thus assailed ? They were princi-
ples founded on the broad and immutable basis
of those institutions which were established at
that memorable period when the Peers and Com-

mans of this laud found it necessary to assemble
and exercise their natural rights as men, on the
awful occasion of the Throne being kit vacitnt.—.
'What those who were then called togetner had
done at that time had .embaltned their memories
in the hearts of all their descendants. They had
with a bold and unsparing hand rooted np,weeded
out, and cast away, all that had banes. been bad
in the Aristocracy, and whatever b?.d been bane-
ful in the:Democracy of.the Country. They had
possessed the wisdom and-the virtue to secure the
interests of their posterity, by placing a constitu-
tional Monarch, with limited powers, on the
Throne-r-(Applause)—The principles on which
they had *Ct.Ovi'exe those which ate hu&sdpported,
and these, he hoped, would endure as-long us the