The Sun.
London, England, 1818-07-03 00:00:00

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Ind: Wry sbonld lte. i?) !tire et' te+ltrl, talents of their cidr
ascentlancy,Uttil virtue of the icemen-0 esteem.-•-((heess.) • '
• " The theories of pretertintoral purity are follildettilii a
notion of doing away with all these accustomed relations, of
breaking all the ties by which socivty :13 held togethtt. Pro-
Petty is to have no influence—talents no respect--virtue no
huiour.among their neighbourhood: naked, abstract public:it
rights:-re to be get up against the authorities of nature and
of reason ; alid•the result of suffrages thui freed limn all the
ordinary i 11m:tiers which letVe operuted upon mankind front
the li-ginning of the world, is to he the erection of sunlit
tint ried 4v..11.411 of politics, of which it may be'• sufficient to
say, that it could not -last aalay--‘that, if it rose with the
Mists of the 'mulling, it would elissulve in the tioun-tide sun.
(bold cheering.) .
•Gentlenuen, one ill ,conserptetice of these brilliant
schemes, even where they are the visions of unsound
teuisiii rot her than the suggestions of crafty mischief, is, that
they terse! to detsati•ly the Willi!. of Ille UalatUrnlrti with the
actual constitution of their country.
• been the unvarying
,mject of toy political life: asof.the .nunitutetuance of it, iis
these !attar days, has, I have said, exposed use to obltupsy
;end to hatred ; to the hatred of those -who believe either
their own reputation for sag ucity, or their own means of suc-
cess, to lie connected with a cha uge in the present lastitti•
thins of the colintry.
t. tic have heard something of numbers in the course of
the present election; and there is in uttionbers, I confesq,
coincidence which gratifies and ,fetus me. The number
three Item/red wilt timt of the majority which assured my
return. It is the number, I am informed, ut those who ore
assenthled here to greet me this day. The last time that I had •
heard the windier awry, /dirndl-rd. ill a way at all interesting
to myself, was in an intimation publicly conveyed to rue,
that precisely that number of heroes hail bound theinselets,
by oath to each other, to assassinate me. Geatleillea, against
my.three hundred assassins I putt my three hundred friends,
and I feel neither my life nor my popularity in danger.—
(Rapturous and unbounded cheering for several minutes.)
Mr. CANNING concluded by expressing his ac-
knowledenlents for ilre honour done him in drink-
ing his health, and proposing that of the worthy
Chairman.

The CHAIRMAN felt highly honoured by such
a mark of their attention. He thanked them
most heartily for the distinction they had confer-
red upon him by drinking his health ; and to have
it proposed by e.► gieat a man as their Right Hon.
Representative wku truly fl►tteringg. 'lke con►-
p-+ny could nut but have been both delighted and
instructed by the splendid and argumentative
speech which he had delivered to them that even-
ing.—(Apl►lause.)
[We are obliged to defer the remainder of . this
patriotic festival till to-morrow]

SECOND EDITiON.

CLOSE OF THE POLL THIS DAY.

WESTMINS FER.

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IVESTMO it ELAN D _ ELECTION.

O Tuesday the ‘Vr:stmoreland contest, bt•gan,
and, promises to be long and strenuously
.Mr Flt NRY kilicalGliAls7 has been travel—
!lug the whirl, Ct,unt y over, and making speeches
in every bole, and corner ; with the effect, cer-
aioly, of bringing all the mob to Appleby nt his
invitatiou. if mites, hist end of rota, carried the
Election, his return would be inevi.able ; but for-
tpoately fot Westmor, lAnd, and it the whole
Ertpir,e4 the Unice/sat Sfifiagists are not yet' en-
banchised. 1-113 mob got ratty possession Of the
booths, (he haying, for special rensobl, refused to
V9i,e by tallies), and. ,thelehy kept the. I..OwTnelt
voters behind. His mairrrity,howeecr,which he hall
promised the mob. should be decisive, was n mere
nothing. At the close of the nay's Poll, the num-
bers were declared to be—
Mr Brougham,,, "7O
Lord Lowther 262
Cutuuei Lowther.... • 252
When the tricks to which the 41eformers had re-
eoorse are ......;desert, tilts •101ern.pint E.,r ;,.
surprise only at die weakness of Mr. 13ROUGHAM.11
strongest effort. It is tk happy event that the day
and night passed quietly ; thanks to a powerful
body of Constables which the Magistracy had ap-
pointed. We expect to announce a large majo-
rity in the cause of the LOwTHEAS and of good
older on every succeeding day.
Mr. fhloyouam has bawled himself hoarse with
his half-hundred s.peeches; he is in a violent
passion, which very fortunately has not yet
itto-
culnted the mob. Among these, he has a pretty
large body of friends ; but scarcely a Gentleman
has joined his standard.—Lord Lon-TnER and the
Colonel spoke very briefly, but firmly and to the
purpose. They were highly applauded by the re-
spectable part of the Electors.

TO THE CANDIDATF.S WHO ARE ENGAGED IN DI:Fr
KITED ELECTIONS.

It
may not have occurred to many of sou, particularly the
young nisei inexperienced, bow great is the danger you sigma
incur, if you employ the means of Bribery to obtain rotes.—
What the Law of the Land lay, upon this occasion you arse
supposed to know; but that is not the only rule by wfAch
you are to steer, or whose precepts you are to obey. Who-
ever tempts a poor wretch to perjure himself,•ile, in a motal
and religions sense, at least, es guilty as the aufort ninety cre,;.
tore whose necessities 'yield to the aceurked thirst of gala.
' The Canaidate who Will, either by himself or his agent, io-
trodoce such a depravation of morals., can be neither a friend
to his country nor to human nature, and prove, himself the
very worst member of a corrupted society. The consequences
of trilling with the awful sanctions of an oath are must fatal
and most deplorable. The people immediately become de-
moralized. when once they have lust all regard for the must
sacred duty of Religion, and :ire taught presumptuously to
invoke their Maker restraint is then taken away,
except What Can be retained by means of the sanguinary
sword of the executioner, for then crimes naulfiply and :es-
sume every disgusting form of depravity; and with such cri-
minality Must every Candidate, who spurts Witb Religion and
its sanctions, charge himself.
The Bribery Oath is this—" I do swear I have not receireel,,
or had, by myself ur any person whatsoever, in trust for inc
or fur my use and benefit, directly or indirectly, any Sinn or
sums of money, office, place, or employment, gift or rewards
or any promise or see urny for any money, office, employment
or gift, in order tea give my Vote at this Election."
The several contrivances to evade this oath, such as tbil
Elector's accepting money under colour of borrowing, anti
giving a promissory note or other security fur it, which is tee
be cancelled after the Election; 'eerie* money from a
stranger or person in disguise, or out of a drawer or purse•
left open fur the purpose; promises of money to he paid after
the Election ; or stipulating fur a Place, Living, or other seri.
rate advantage of any kind, if they escape the legal penalties
of perjury, incur the moral guilt—for they are nninifestly
within the niisehief and design of the Statute which imposes
the oath. and within the terms indeed of the tall) itself; the
word s" indirectly" is inserted on purpose to comprehend
such cases as these. Now, let every man who suborns ant,
ther consider, whether (when he prevails upon him to din-
late such an ,wful teat) he deset yes to be ranked amongst
Christians, or whether he deserves to be trusted upon any
uceasion. To he stigmatized as ;minting up to the principles
of a Gentleman, is, indeed, too mild a remark upon such eons
duct; it is baseness, depravity, infidelity, atheism, to perpe-.
trate u: countenance such proceedings;—nor can any flints.
who scuffs at the scruples which morality and religion raise
against such an enormity he considered a safe person to be
entrusted with any thing sacred ear honourable.
There are some very young and inexperienced men, of the
most excellent dispositions, and the must generous and ho-
nourable minds, now embarked in all the bustle of Elec-
tioneering ; they are but, perhaps, aware of the enormity of
bribery and its effects: they are nut probably acquainted with
the immoral expedients to which their Agents may resort
yet, if they will Isut consider and reflect, no doubt they will,
not permit the base,'dishonourable, and irreligious practice
of corn/lain; the ignorant and necessitous to the ways of
eternal destruction to be employed in their behalf.
Every, friend to his country, and to the welfare of the human
race, ought, KS much ay in him lies, to stem the torrent that
must overwhelm us, if the violation of oaths b-
to pass wit Man teprunation anti punishment; and whenever
such practices are discovered, they ought to be made pub-
licly known, end every mark of ignominy and contempt
branded upon the accessary as well as upon the principal.--.
Nor let any Ma presume to attempt to impose upon our
reason ur understanding by alleging, that an agreement
between the Candidates not to take advantage of the law
against bribery Can ever dispense with this sacred institns
tiuu : such would he to add insult to the nuijeste of the Deity,
as it is injury done to the murals of the people. Upon no
aceoUnt, then, my Countrymen, either -abet or encourage
such vile profanation of every thing honourable, sacred, awl
religious. C. P.
(Dublin Corretpundrnt)

A‘i FUL IN,TANCE, SVDDItY DP
evening a little atter six o'clock, when the (loom
of Covent-Vatdeil Theatre *ereopened for the ad-
mi sion of the audience, Mr. Rows, the Nriucipnl
check-taktr at the tno•ahillittg gallery, whilg
3tationefl in his place, suddenly dropped from hi*
seat, and insiantly expired. The body was taken
to the Gartick's Head Tavern, Buw•vreet, oppo-
sire the Theatre.

NICLANCHULY ACCID'RNT.—On Thursday last;
as t. 1,0 young Gentlemen, at a seminary in the
vicinity. of town, were amusing themselves with
lontled fire.oirtus, Otte of the pieces tinfortu.
nattily went off, and the contents lodged in the
head of one of the parties nutl killed him on the
spot. 'nit deceased was only simeen years of age.