The Sun.
London, England, 1820-03-17 00:00:00

LI VERFOOL ELECTION.

(From the Liverpool Courier, fl'ednesday, March 15,

SECOND EDITION.

Courie;.9fice, Four o'Clock.
The Election for this Borough has just termi•
nated. Dr. Crompton was unable to bring up
another voter in time. The Town Clerk then
fl made the proclamation, and Mr. CANNING and
General GASCOYNE were declared duly elected.
The MAYOR now rose, and congratulated the
Candidates and their friends on the harmony,
order, and good humour which had prevailed
throughout the contest. He and his Assessor
had endeavoured to act with the utmost impar-
tiality. He hoped they had succeeded in their
endeavour ; but if they had inadvertently given
any Freeman, or any other person, the slightest
offence or cause of complaint, they were sorry for
ir, and they hoped that such individual tvould par-
don the unintentional offence.
Dr. CROMPTON bore his sincere testimony to
the impartiality of the Returning Officers during
the Elect iota, and expressed his acknowledgments
for the kindness and the attention which he had
experienced at the hands of the Mayor.
General GA!COYNE also expressed his acknow-
ledgments for the kindness and the attention
which be had received !rout all the parties which
bad been engaged in the contest; and bore his
testimony to the impartiality of the Returning
Officers.

Mr. Canning was not on the Hustings when
he poll closed. He was sent for, and arri‘ed there
n a short time.

General Gaseoyne, accompanied by his friends,
moved from the Hustingc first. Dr. Crompton
and his friends followed,
The numbers at the final close of the poll stood
as follow :-
Mr. Canning
General Gascoyne -
Dr. Crompton
Mr. Leylam!
The total number of votes is 3637.
The total number of Freemen who have polled is 2162.
The Chairing of the successful candidates
lake place to-morrow forenoon, at eleven o'clock.
The processions will move from the front of the
Town-hall.

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SPEECH OF THE RIGHT HON. GEORGE CANNING,
ON SATURDAY, MARCH 11.
GENTLEMEN-1 thank you for this kind visit to
a sick man ; and I lament only that I can hardly
expect to make my acknowledgments to you au-
dible. I thank you particularly for the care which
you have had the goodness to take of my son,
whom, in my unavoidable absence, I deputed to
represent rue on the hustings. In my present
inability to address you, I should he very glad to
devolve upon him the task of offering his own
thanks as well as [nine ; but he, Gentlemen, is of
a profession much better than any of those whose
business it is to make speeches—he is of the pro-
fession of Ntlson ; and I shall be better pleased
hereafter that be should achieve actions which
may be the subject of speeches, than that be
should make them, bow ably suever, himself.
Gentlemen—The poll, as it is reported to me
to-day, stands thus :—Commencing from the
lowest, Mr. Leyland has 99 votes ; Dr. Cromp-
ton, 234 , General Cascoyne, 708 ; myself, 767.
The total number of freemen who have polled is
1096 ; which, compared with 2876, the amount
of the total poll in 1818, and the largest, I be-
lieve, that has ever been known at a Liverpool
Election, 3bows, that even with all the obstiuc-
tion which has been thrown i❑ the way of our
progress, more than one-third of our work is
done.

Gentlemen, what possible advantage our anta-
gonists can imagine they derive from a protraction
which evidently has no reasonable object, it
is not for me to conjecture. But I trust, that a
few days more of a calm and steady perseverance
on your part will prove to them, that whatever
game they are playing, they are playing it in vain;
that they may increase their unpopularity, but can
never augment their numbers by it.
Gentlemen, it has sometimes occurred to me,
to consider whether this mode of conducting an
election can have been devised with the view of
exhibiting a practical specimen of the benefits
which would be itnposed upon the country
by that wild Parliamentary Reform which our an-
tagonists are in the habit of recommending.
It will probably appear, if they persist at
the rate at which they are now going and at
which they are, unfortunately, enabled to force
us to go with them, that a contest hopeless from
the beginning, and without the excuse, thertfore,
of expectations rationally entertained, and after-
wards unexpectedly disappointed ; without any
of those vicissitudes of success which raise alter-
nately the spirits of either side, and tempt to
continual exertion, may be so carried on as to
absorb the full time allowed by the law for ex-
hausting all the resources of conflicting parties,
in the must vehement struggle of
.balanced in-
terests.
Fifteen days of industry,,fifteen days of busi-
ness, fifteen days of that which, to a populous
town, is invaluable, the useful application of ta-
lents and of time, will have been lust to this com-
munity, in a strife which, after all, is, from be-
ginning to end, a mere sham fight, and which
might have been ended in half an hour. Couple
with this waste of fifteen days the project for mak-
ing elections annual, and 1 would desire political
arithme►icians to consider what would be the loss
to this great commercial country, if such a system
were established, and acted upon, as it is now
against you, in every part oldie United Kingdom.
Gentlemen, though in this town, more than in
any other, the general opulence and prosperity.of
its inhabitants, the generosity of the wealthy, and
the.regular habits of the labouring classes, may
make such a temporary suspension of business an ,
evil of comparatively less fatal infliction, yet even
to you it must be a matter of no light inconveni-
ence in its pressure and in its example. Let it be
our satisfaction that we have no share in produc-
ing this unnecessary and prodigal waste of time.
And if we must lose our time, let us keep our
temper, in the assurance that the period cauttot be