The Sun.
London, England, 1818-06-17 00:00:00

DUNT'S„ CANVASS.

Mr. HUNT haying given notice to his friends.
that lie would nitet them yesterday at Palace-yard;
Waterton-pl.ipe, and 1-Lan;)ver'svaJe• a s',l4l'
number 6.1 the 1,-,west rabble began to make their.
appearance at Palace-yaid about t‘velve- o'clock:
tneetin2 at first consisted. of about a dozen
wretched lookingmn, who rvi;lently attendea
ratficr from id!eness Or want. Of employ-mew, than
from .any interest they felt in the affairi of their.

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apostle.
About half-past' twelve; Mr. 11ind made his
appearance.—The 'cavalcade co:lsis' ed of two,
backlit!), coaches, the first of which contained
Ihter persons apparently of .the lowest class of
life One of then:, upon_ whose apparel time
licensed to have made considerable ins-oasis, and.
sure his linen was not -eery clean," bate in his
.listud a red flig, upon one side of which were in-
scribed the words " Hunt and Liberty," upon the
other side " truiver,al Suffrage.'' llhe Candi-:
date Followed in another coach, attended by hisl
son, and having pulled his hat, began:
Ito address the persons assembled. He said,•
that not being able t,t, employ churchwardeus
and beadles, police-Usen, or excise-nlticers,
'go about canvassing for hint from hoUse to
.isoose, he was obliged to adopt this method of
c‘illiog upon his blends for their support.
He knew very well that the public press, the
tired and con opted press, would say to-morrow
that he was (Ally attended by a parcel of t
lowest rabble ; alad that such meetings, -AI rebel-.
• ittg 10 distus h the public peace, were not allow-.
.o.ble by law. It was uot ha wish to causc.,stiy riot
car distutbance Ile castle there as an its:depend-
•eut man for to ofl'er himself to the tat the
Eleetors of 11'eStosinster. He wished to see theili.
tanly face to face, to tell the;ss his settiiinentl.
This lie would, continue to do every clay for neat fy
41 re weeks upon the hustings. The otlser Cait-
tlidases for We.tionts!er, should follow Isis
11:111 1104, lie would tudq4vour to force
loess, to it.

(A person from the crowil.) Success
my gay boy. 1 like a fellow that has pins.* iu.
HuNT proceeded. Were the peoPle of
IVestminster, the most enlightened, the most in-
oependent, the most liberal, and thittking City in,
the whole world, were they to permit their candi-
dates to act by the assistance of a mere esffigy
.Plhey should limit atiow Sir Satiltiel ItomiPy nor
any other mail to do so. The ..y make toein
collie forward themselves, and Nee tl,e, Electors
without skulking in links or corners. Ile remem-
bered that at au eleciion some year! back, Mi•
Fox, being oklige4 to go into Surrey_to vote for a
tiieutl, lett Mr. Sheridan. to act forbint at lVest-
toinster. Mr, Horne Tooke perceiviw,; this said,_
that the great Harlequinshad disappeared, and left
Merry-audrew to do the business for
The consequence was,, that-the people of West:
ositister woold hear no more of Mr. Sheiri,laWs
,spetches ; 'and he hoped they woidd act in the same
to:tuner at the urxt V.lection, if any person ail
tempted for to come tOrward as t he puppet ofanothert
:Every Candidate should pledge himself to the.
principles upon which he meant' to act. lihe did
ttot swear, he should at any rate inake a rro'roise.
They knew Isis principles. Ile• to sup-
port them, and though his word eras as_ good os.
thoiglit it Neuter. to
snake an atlidavit, fur to set the matter at rest all
yr once. Ile wished for nothing but Liberty and:
Uoiversal Suffrage, that every ntao whit Conlii-1
buted to the taxes should have a share in ttulking
pf the laws, and be able at the end of the week to
lay up sotnething, or else to spend it itt a emu_
fortable manner. The public press went
ing of the people, and abusing of him, becitiqe
be was their friend; bitst whatever they neigh-t say,
be would still continue to support their-lights.
The Londoo Newspapers were always his ene-
mies. At the time he stood Candidate.for
tol, one of them (wen went so far as• to-recom-
mend that be should be poisoned. He hart „„e,
Pl4l not only in that yLarter voiny others.
They would muffler hint if they could, and they
%.vottld attempt it, only they well knew that if
bloodshed once commenced, it tvoi,hl not
with him. What did he care about life ? He
would speak the 11;tth at the point of die bayonet,
and if there were a 'thousand pieces of cannon
plieed before him.
(One of the Candidate's friends:)—That we
mightn't lose you, my darling ? 1 wish I had
thousand of your kind.
Mr. Hut 4t was proceeding, when he ivai it-des-7
rup,'ed again by a person itt a seaman's jacket, who
said "- that'sall boastiatg Mr. now. WhY didn't
'von meet the publican iitter yotrehallenged trim
tell you wltaj I'll do, just to pais atVity.tirric.
I'll he d—d if I don't fight 3 ou ,for a pound
Dote."
...The Candidate: received this challenge with a
peevish kind of dignity, and seeming not to hear
it, went on with his harangue. It they were, to
srpsi. him into that' 'cntrupt and profligate:Howe,
opposite, they wonld then he able to judg:e.ot.hi
conduct. No Corn Bill, or any other Bill that
-went'• to crush and starve the peoplt!, lioutd;
pass without opposition. , He would divitreiglra
House upon it in every, stage 1:ont ,begitinit44
to end. Not like Sir, Samuel Romilly, and Mr';-,
Brougham and Mr. Helmer, who itiereal,tviti-4:
'thrratening'oppositioo to every uteasiii•e, hetrei444),i
drew,* it in' compliment to their leatiter.l hiends-op4
posite. It may lie „asked why .he
to get a place in so. corrupt an .4-1,;:')-e'Inbiay. -It wos:
tint for his own sidle. •It was tne'relt7 to. serve
co-nutty. He could gltin.nniliing
„b?'it. He had
taken his oath not to accefit. .of any place, neither
ti.id he desire any: Ile liatd,a iiatfiniony snflicient
to support hint; theltalf:(;f
..tvgjell had- been ext.
roded for .ntriny N,eT4tord,t4,!te interest -anti:all
of ft hys pr(iperty were smaller he
coutrree upon, kr-, and he had-brought
up his fancily in the samstid'elas. There wits one
(?: hi; boys-sic ting.pear him, (here he pointed to, a
ta;r haired chubl.):,y yo .114 'Yet'son, who was, itt the
coach, :mil seemed: verii-careLcss I.6.unt OK whole
matter). ;UV nored‘ucatg, ern ill oe. fANTliei y
or•thVtuil4ns•sW. ths.presenfday, ttncl,he hope()
they would always aetoio .4,4m,anne-r ws.,rrthy
prisiriplts their fa:hi:r maintained.. The, Coontr'

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this the people were ko tinily • crinvinced, that::
for many yearj,.they seenied quite indifferent who
were in or wit of office. Like leeches, they all
sucked their blood with the sitne greediness, hut:
they.were not like leeclics, to F>rll off; when
they were filled. It was in tact cheaper to keep
the same per-onset; gace, because %vhctilew
ones came in they were inure eager to devour the:
public money, and to bestow,' places upon their
frientls• There was a kery vulgar story, but
malty of (hoce whom he stew riot iii hint would
unierstand lott*langli and disauprobalion
from the ragged part ot audience.)—The
story ‘CBS about a, pig in a. sty. Every fattncr
knew that if a rig. was Well U il, it soon, got tat,
and cost but little alterwards to keep it in a plump
condition. But let a hungry sow he put into the
same sty, and sett what a quantity of food it would
coostime, Suits was the case ‘eitb Ministers.
Indeed at present there was 110 ronuil for place-
hunters.. They were, as Mr. Fox said, already
as tide* as three in a bed.
At this point ot the speech, the driver of the
hackney-coach in which Mr. Mint sat began to
about sonic cards, when he received an in-
timation that it was not yet the time fur this pelt
ot the ceremony. The orator accompanied this
hint with a ton!: which, under other circum-
stances, lie would doubtless pace followed up by a
cuff in the face.

Mr. Ilontwent on. For the putpos.e of can-
vaisiirg friend,: in person he had called this
Meeting. •Fitont ralace-yard he would proceed to
Waterloo-Iddee. and thence to Hanover-square.
On ttie.slay he would meet them at
and :St. Clement's. In
going to Wateiloo-place, he did nOt'nreati to in-
still the l't ince 4egcenr. The Prince. Itegeta him-
self wits but one of the Foyle, &111,1 if he wished
to put his ear to a chink of Carlton- I-louse ,and
listen to what Was 1.7,01t1L: on, he should hear
nothing unbecoming an EiigU11)111,10 to speak, or
an Pnglisli Prince to hear. If %lie lace acted
properly, he sitonid,inowit his white charger and
come otitleinselfto addie,s the people. This was
the ancient ttiode 'of Canvassing new revived.
Romaus in forsnier days, the very best of them,
used tosolirit -the votes of the people under the
canopy of Heaven. In this he followed their ex-.
ample, awl if lie was not deceived by- his friends
in their promises of support, lie had no doubt but
they would see Ilmit at the head of the poll by
Thursday '.next. The last • infamous; profligate,.
and most, corrupt house oleommons was now
dead. They might say what they pleased of
it without a libel, 410. nothing they could say
was bad enough. Yorhaps the next. wpild not be
hei ter.; hut better or worse, he should not be afraid
to face the best of thew; neither the great shew-
man, Cas!letvagh, nor the buffoon, Canning, nor
the trickster, Vaniittart. This was a time of li-
betty. They might- say what they pleased. It
was like the dies Bdifirnalite among the Romans,
when all. the slaveS could talk 'as they liked.
(Ilene some genteel person remarked, that fir.
Hunt's Latin had• given him the slip.) Ile thank-
ed them'for their attention, and would proceed
foitliwith to Ntraterloo-place.
The cavalcade then moved on. There was not
a single man at the it above the appearance
of a beggar, or, a pickpocket, who did not make:
-both the cauditbste.and bit oration a subject of
laughter. lle.stopped opposite the Horse-Guards,,
sod in 'the true spirit of the Saturnalia, when a
slave might assume the airs of a master, and a
coward those of abrave man, he took oft his hat,
and having given three eticers of defiluce,
,passed
urn to a pastry-cook's, shop. at Spring-gartieus,
where be rfr:grded. himself wirk a, hull.

The
.Ora,tor•s. tollowers incr.eased, and. the ca-
valeade.Rweettted along Pall-it-lid!, St.ia 110!5'.5 -
stre(J, along (II) Park-lace, down px-
ford -st reel , rect and into I'a ver-
Nuare, where he addressed the popiditce in a
sivtilar'strain to that NI which he Addiessed them
in Palace-yard and Wale' 100-viace. At the ter-.
initiation othis address, the.specGoors cried aloud,
" Hunt' fot,' ever—ltravo, 11119(!" I(i.e. and big
• horses being taken from the chariot, he was drawn
by the- plod ice to kis. house in Noifolk-siren,
the most discordant vociterations. He
gave those. who sticronoded him to understand,
that he' would visit St. Anne's tid.other'palishes
in a similar wa.y to-morrow (this day, )

From the LONDON E, RUNE 16.