The Sun.
London, England, 1818-06-25 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL ELECTION.

[RECEIVED TIIIS MORNING.]
The following Speech was delivered from the
house of JOHN BOLTON, Esq. by the Right 1100.
GEORGE CANNING, at die close of the FOURT:i
DAY'S POLL :

GENTLEiSEN,—If I bare been longer than usual this even-
ing in reaching the place from which I am to address you,
you are to attribute it to the accident of my being, according
to an arrangeniefit agreed to by all the Caudidates, the last
to leave the Hustings this day. And, wider these circum-
stances, you will be rather surprised that I am not later
still—when I tell you, that the no nbrr of candidates for the
honour of representing you in Parliament has been, in the
course of this day, not less tllairtamentis-sue!—(A loud laugh.)
m Gentlemen, you baie ali read,. no doubt, the letters of
Lord Chesterfield. It is upon the authority of that polite
writer, I thiak, that it has been laid down as a Maxim, that,
fur the perfect enjoyment of social comfort, a company ought
not to be less numerous than the Graces, nor more numerous
than the Muses. Gentlemen, your Candidates, when We set
out, were equal in innutier to the Graces only ; and, so lung as
that analogy was"preserred, we went on most COUlleiniSly to-
gether. Ou Saturday that analogy' was abandoned by the
addition. of two candidates. Disordei- immediately ensued.:
hit we had no sootier reached the bustinis this looming,
than an attempt was oat to repair it by raising our number
to !doe. Bars were actually opened fur candidates equal its
rounber,to the Muses; but not, that I could s,e, with am",
great increase of harmony from that association.--(Laughter.)
Gentlemen, having tried that mystical number' fur one
round, -(jast time enough to indoec Lord Sefton's friends to
inscribe t• Harmony am/ Seib/11"o un: their Nag,) it was
found, that the Misses were any thing but a seem ity for liar -
mossy. The harmony which followed the adoption of their
number was,• indeed; of that species for which certain con-
. eerts, called, I' know not how justly, after our neighh-mil- the
Dutch, are celebrated, where every Ulan is said to play his
.own tune uponhis.own instrument l—(Much Laughter.)
Unluckily, the effort to escape from this confusion was not
as -well' !a:Mph/ere(' as • irwas, nu doubt, well intended. By
' 'adding-to the number -nine, nine- more, and three more to
that, till, by regular progression, we rose to the windier !list
r have stated, twenty-one,—l cannot held thinking, that we
rather augmented than. dianuisbed the complication •of oar
• atfairs,—(Laughter.)
The list, however, of twenty-one, which I hold in my hand,
but which the excessive" state of pressure in which I see you
prevents me from reading to you, contains many names of
individuals which you would hear with kindness and respect.
(Cries of Read, read.)---But, then, Gentlemen, there are
others of a different deseription.—,Cries of Read, read')-...
No, Gentlemen. The concert which I bare described is hap-
pily terminated : and, as in:lily of the performers were ad-
vertised without their own consent, and were never persuad-
ed to take a vocal part in it, I should do unfairly in'bringing
their names before . you for criticism and comparison.—
(A loud laugh.)
But, Gentlemen, I say s2rionsly and sincerely, it was a great
satisfaction to ore to find, that,in case of real necessity, there
were so many men in this town, of the principles which you
approve, who could have been brought forward to put down
any combiriatioo against your interests and freedom. Alai);
these names, as I told you on Saturday, my respected host
(who now stands near me) was one; illal,llS 1 then announced
to you tuts fact, and the motive of his allowing himself to be
put in nomilimoion, I owe it to him to say, that, that motive
haring ceased, he has lost no time in relinquishing his short
trial of public life; and, giving up all claim to your suffrage.,
.has gladly withdrawn again into that privacy which he lures,
and which, you all know, he adorns.—(Applause.)
Gentlemen, I was for some time at a loss to conceive, what
could possibly have put it into the head of that venerable Ma-
gistrate, Colonel Williams; (for he it. was who started this
extraordinary arithmetical progressioo to-day, by preselitioss
himself as an additional Candidate ;)—I was at a loss, I mi,,
to ciSnerive, what could have suggested it to his inragination,
that, amongst all the things that were wanting in this contest,
and on his owd side, Candidates were the materials its which
they were must deficient.—(il laash.)--From all I had benne
heard, I had reason to • suppose that of candidates they had
enough, and that voters were principally waating.-ILood
laughter.)—But, it seems, it was reserved for this sa-
gacious politician, not only to discover where the want
really pinched, but who wag the fittest person to sup-
ply it.—(Continued laughter.)—My difficulty, however,
was in, a great measure soloed, when I recollected the
worthy Coroners paision- for Parreimentaly Refurin.—The
fashions of London travel, down to the couotry, and are
sometimes mistaken and disfigured in rural imitation. • I ado
persuaded, that, something in this way, Colonel virilliams
baring learned, from Major Cartwrig,ht, that Universaf
Suffrage was the one thing necessary in politics, bas only
made a small Mistake in the application of that doctrine, tutdl
has conceived time Major to intend, not that every smut should.
vote, but that every man shoal(' be a candidate —(Mudd
Lalighter.)—Under such a coneeptioo (however misappre-
hended), within could be 'moire praiseworthy than Colonel
Ll'illiatos's lender of his services. Of this plao of Reform it
may, at least, be said, that, as it is the newest, so it is the
must simple and most innocent that Colonel IVilliains could
possibly-pursue.—(Laughters)
The expedient, however, having been tried, we have all, by
common consent, grown weary of it ; and, alter having in-
dulged a little 01 that ill-humour which will break out iii the
hest regulated controversies, we have found, haimpily nut too
late, that we had better return towards the point front which
we set out:- We have so returned; not, indeed, precisely to
the original windier of the' Graces, but to that number with
the, ornamental addition only of Mr. Heywood, as a sort .of
master of cerenionies.—(Laughter.)-ssYou have now again
three real Candidafes, offeriog themselves to your choice's
mid Mr.. Heywoo- is so good as to stand by to see fair play.—
(Continued laughter.)
Under these circumstances, you will not he surprised that'
our progress to-day bas beeisconsiolerahly Wattled. hi point ••
of fact, the number of• freemen polled this morning does not .
atimunt to one half of that polled on any preceding" of:1y. It
is not above 230. ~But this4liminution of, total nufuhers hay-
not diminished the majority which, by your- fayoursl alreadys
enjoyed. Lord Seflou's numbers are 035; mine 1007; .(in-
creasing the 'majority 'of Saturday by 4-2) ; General' Gas-
coyne stands between us with tili9.• We still deny," soot
truly, the existence of a coalition ; bin Lord Seftyn and Mr.,
-Heywood are professedly united; two and two are a fairer
matell than- two and one won'd have hem ;• and itis for you.
nut .for me,.to dr:swains inference which you may•thinV right
from•this conjlinainij.—(Applause and Litu,ht tr.' -•
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*.-A•flag, with this inscri)ttioq, was, disprayed during the
day.:
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