The Sun.
London, England, 1816-06-15 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL ELECTION.

The Alit)Utsi delivered froMt the Rouse of Cotoilet
Bovron by Mr. CANNING, after haring Leer!
Chaired ctt Liuerpool on Wednesday. r

"Gt.NTLEHEN,—If I could forget all the trou'ile and in-
eonveniynce which have been occasiOned to you, and could
contemplate the result of thiS flay Only ,ai • it afletts myself)
What t'uasou Should I nut have to pour forth my gratitude to
those men who hair laboured against Me tvith so vexatious art
opposition? For, with whatcvei spirit and design they may
have acted, I will venture to affirm, that never did the most
anxious and active friendship procure fur any individual such
fetriumpli as their hostility has i.sarned fur sue this day.-- •
(Load applans'e.)---Tbey laboured tr, separaste Am from each
other, nod they hare united at more clusuly than before
They hoped to efface the memory of that vittoiy whiMr-
crowned,your former exertions in my favour;, and they have.,
if nut effaced, yet thrown it into the shade; by the triul,c.tn-
dant spletuhiur of this diry's triumph; by the increawd
overpowering demonttratimis of your unweatled kindness
and regard. Indebted to my opponents for the excitement
which has called forth these demonstrations, what a heart
must I have, Gentlemen, if I did nut ()less their tenvicent
enmity t—(Applause and laughter.)

" But, Gentlemen, proud as I naturally, tuttA he of what I
have experienced this day, and exalted as 1 canuot but feel
myself by the contemplation of the maguittee,nt scene, which
is no'w beftne Me,—hy the view of those ,:odotless Luoititadrs
satuong which every eye is turned upon me with aim expression
of benignity; yet I du asset: e yeti, •GVIIreIIIOI4 irtiLi tberu tern
those around ure who can vouvls .tor the truth ut ::hit I say.
that I was most anxious,, that it 'tvitty ii,xtl tut use and
`determination, 10 entreat you to spar irselves the trots.
hie of this tizty's,vereumoy... I did not thin!; that the
occasion of returning- your Representative' no a rte-election
called for any peculiar expression of triumph; pot. did I
think that a victory over a non-existing, or mot-appeal log,
46.0'334,, justßicd the same •niarhs of exultation us when
able, substantial antagonists had bet4i driven from the
But, Gentlemen, my mind was changed, 'and I yielded In
the wishes of myfriendr, upon
.information which I have
received to-day. The nature of that information I will
state to yon I ant astrtred,lrom London, and upon tewitnu;ii
from which it is impossible for me to withhold my belief, that
there were among cur antagonists some alma reel toted upon, •
intimidation as an instrument of sucves. In titr first sot).
Inuits of transport, at the promising commence's:lent of the
riots, they cniumunicated this 'veto their friends iu the me.
tropulis. They fondly battered themselves that you, Gen,
tlernen, could be scared from my side, and that I should be.
forced to retire. Intimidation,!---how lit Lie du they &now
either me or you!—(Applause.)—After ttiiy inform:dim*,
felt that it woyld be false delicacy to absta n from any expi
sious of exultation, and that• our-conduct might be Wile to
misconstruction, if svc abridged, by a-single. formality, tha
triumph of ibis day.---!Applause,)

4( Gentlemen, with the, election, let the 10-al topics, the
local enmities; the local disagreements, of the cleetiotreense.
Bet custse nut with the election the principles upcitl whielt
your choice has been founded, on whomever, at any time
hereafter, your choice uSay fall, whutlier on myself, or on rx
worthier object. For, Gentletnen, I know how lit tl' • i

to consider myself 'as' cuutributin to the glorium:
contyst. Much less iniportaut is it to whom
you coinmieyour representation in Parll',iiie tit, thin that you
sbouldfix steadily in your minds the stituditid by which Mt
representative shall be tried, Lei him be a man' true to' the.
principles of the Cmstitution, nut us understood the 'n
TangleAlottrities of the slay; but us transmitted to us from
older times, before the pure current of British freedom had
been contaminated by tbe influx of foreign theories.—A.
plause.)

" Gentlemen, We all kuow'that'on the former occasion, in
191st, the eyes of England were in a great measure fixed upon
Liverpool, as the arena in which the contest between two
seta of political principles was to be decided. But on that
occasion, Gentlemen, though you occupied a great space in
the public attention, you could nut completely. monfipolize
it. There was then a general election. The interest ekeited,
indeed, by the Liverpool contest was pretty widely diffused;
but the actual warfare was among ourselves: no stranger ltird
leisure to mingle in our battle. Atnuog other conseijiieneei
of this state of things, one was, that we were tolerably free,
from imported calumny; and that, sonsi tiering the vehemence
of the contest, there was, so far'es I kn.,w, littfe of persoirtl
nialignity.saixed with it. In the present instance, Liverpool
alone has fixed the undistracted attention of both parties,
au,l npontee, in particular, have the Mt phials of svhiggislt
wrath been discharged...7(4ounit.)

" Standing tints exposed, I have had what some would colt
the mit:fortune, hilt what. I -must now esteem the siogular
happine4, of I:eing it marl( fur thetattardis of every politiol
Enetny that 1 haVe io the world. Ido Liverpool the justico
to trekrrowle,d,;e, Gt. titioners, that the grossest and funks%
cstionmes are not of native produce., km!. have been rolled
down in one tide of filth from the footit«lin head of whiggish
detraction in London. MI the opprovett Practices of the b-
tu:llms of former periods have 'beenresorted to; my private'
history ransacked for topics of ohuse; every action, every in-
considerate word of earlier life raked up, and recorded with
malignant indu‘try; and invention called in aid where re •
could find no theme of invective;---

The lie, so O 1 Wed

Tle imputed trash and nonsense not iny own ;"

—all, all has been exhausted :—and wh►ut tliu result ?--
that: here I iitimit.—(Rapt urousr applause.)

fleutlernen, uniongst other cbargesi.one of fair, hoistility,
but sehilosicallyehoterr, considering the quarter treats which
it colnes, is, that of my living about to net in public life 4
rut n (rout whom Iha re newtsi+,molly 1.1 i tTu rola in op i ri
Gentlemen, the char re is substainiallrlinintiltded. It
foittided, because, though tits Porticular questions I may
. bare ditrered front many, of illy present- colleagiictv (as what
two turn way not oceasionally ditrer, if each lots an opinion
of his own,) yet, upon all tile great outlines of our political
system, and upon every.maia pthielple, aft.iling• the foreign
policy of England, our opinions }face generally concurt ed.

' Those opinions I have, to the best- of my 'uovver, support,.
ed, in vhatever-imndi the Goverumunt of thy. Cuantry 13415.
been' phsecd,—(Applanse.)--f hare supporter! them, oot less
otrenuonsty when Myself out of office, than a hen I formed a
part of the Adroini*t tat ion.

" Gettihumus, I mu real))• ularmedat the state of pressure
la which lae grrat putt of the multitude below. Mid I not
potter Ulm leave of you, 4114 sutra:if. yot
,to.ilisptrse